David Seaman and Joe Rogan critique bureaucratic overreach—like LAX VIN checks and Reddit’s volunteer censors banning terms like "Bitcoin" or "NSA"—while exposing healthcare fraud (e.g., Vioxx, $300M Mt. Gox theft) and pharmaceutical greed. They debate Bitcoin’s disruptive potential, comparing it to Mesopotamia’s ledgers, but warn corrupt systems may co-opt it. Rogan mocks DMV inefficiency, praising crows’ tool-based intelligence over human overthinking, before shifting to space conflicts (asteroid mining, Mars wars) and genetic divides ("mods vs. regs"). Ultimately, they argue tech-driven solutions—like decentralized finance or AI transparency—could reshape governance but risk new power struggles unless rooted in accountability. [Automatically generated summary]
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Apparently, it has something to do with using land to graze cattle on, and that this guy's been doing this forever.
And he says that he's just using the land the way God intended, and it's all private, or it's all public land.
And the government wants grazing fees from this guy, and they say that he owes the American taxpayers millions of dollars for grazing fees.
So I don't know who's right or who's wrong.
But what I do know is what they're trying to do is not handling court.
They're not trying to even make a public plea for why this guy owes money.
They're going there with guns and dogs and tasers, and people are freaking out.
And people are rising up and they're saying, hey, listen, you assholes, when you wonder why we want to keep the Second Amendment, when you wonder why we're worried about hostile takeovers in police states, it's shit like this.
You're talking about grass, you fuckheads.
You're talking about cows eating grass.
And how are you responding?
You're responding with snipers and dogs and tasers.
I got a new, doesn't really matter what I got, but a new Corolla.
And she's like, since it's new and you don't have plates on the back, I've got to take photos of your car and get your VIN number.
And I was like, are you fucking serious?
Like, how long is it going to take to write down my VIN number?
Like, it's dark.
You can barely see through the windshield.
I was like, just let me go.
And here's the funny thing.
Like, I'm not a racist.
I'm not an Islamophobe.
But she was wearing one of the headscarves, the fucking Burqa things.
And I'm like, all right, if we're going to be very crass as a civilization and very cold and calculating, how many young white guys driving Toyota Corollas with their fucking mom in the car, how many of them have been responsible for terrorist attacks over the last 10, 20, or 100 years?
And she's like, oh, it's homeland security policy.
I was like, well, it's bullshit.
Like, I think we have to, we don't want to go overboard with being too adversarial or too like unaccepting of the fact that nothing is going to be perfect ever.
We have to acknowledge that.
But I think if we don't put our foot down at some point and say like, enough of this bureaucratic bullshit, then it's only a matter of time before that's the situation in a grocery store parking lot.
You know, and like people say that's ridiculous, but that is how Mission Creep happens.
It'd be like, oh, well, the TSA needs to keep our grocery store parking lots safe because you could be shot by a psychopath and you don't want that.
And it's like, where do we draw the line?
Like, life is unsafe.
Everybody dies, guaranteed.
And that's that.
And then like we should try to keep airports safe.
We should try to profile people beforehand, you know, kind of filter out the threats before they even get there.
All that stuff I'm in favor of.
But we got to have common sense and we're lacking that today.
Yeah, who knows what kind of stringent safety standards they have to go through, but I'm not comfortable With all those fucking dudes.
I've seen too many of them that it just, some of them are really cool for sure, but I've seen too many of them where I'm like, this guy did not go through a tight filter to get here.
He just didn't.
He's not that bright.
The way they're interacting with people is clunky.
It's rude.
You know, you see a lot of people that have this authoritative way of talking where they don't recognize the fact that, hey, man, you're just a person.
You're a person.
I'm a person.
You don't own me.
You're not better than me.
You know, you don't get to talk down to me because I forgot to take my belt off.
Why don't you lighten the fuck up?
I'm not a terrorist.
I'm a human being who's going through your job.
Just because you have power doesn't mean you should exercise it.
In all fairness, most of the people I run into at TSA are very pleasant and very nice.
We're a country of 300 million people, so unless we put everybody under house arrest and like, you know, padded, bubble-wrapped rooms to keep us safe, some people are going to do crazy shit.
And that's what happens when you have a society where people have rights and people can have guns and people can drive cars.
Like you're going to have car accidents.
You're going to have people shooting people.
And if you don't have that, you'll still have crazy people.
The other day, there was a headline story on CNN.
Some school, I forget where it was, Wisconsin maybe.
There was a fucking knife thing where this guy went in in a rampage and knifed like a crazy amount of people.
We definitely have a lot of problems, but I think they're behavioral problems.
It's what would cause a person to do any of those things.
It's the same thing that what would cause a person to have no environmental concerns if they could profit from it.
What could cause a person to release something on the market that may have potential horrific side effects without doing the kind of screening that they should do?
Every time something like Vioxx slips through or these pharmaceutical drugs that give you strokes, they find out years later.
Like I knew a dude who's like 30 years old, who's an MMA fighter, had a fucking stroke from taking Viox.
I mean, that stuff, they pulled it, you know, they yanked it.
But there's been a bunch of those things where they just said, fuck it, let it roll.
Let's find out later.
You know, maybe weird shit will happen to people, but we've got enough data.
It's not super common, but it's also from what I, again, I'm not a doctor or anything, so this is just Googling around.
It's not super uncommon either.
It's not like you saw the ads for mesothelioma and nobody actually has it.
This is something where like you get prescribed this instead of the one that's tried and true and that hospitals have been using for decades with very known risk profile.
This one replaces that and because it's under patent, they make more money and they claim it's more efficient, which it may be, but it also has this small chance of really fucking you over.
No, but my point is, like, you see those ads online.
Like, are you suffering from mesothelioma?
Contact our law firm.
And I've never met anybody who's suffered from that.
But this is something where if you Google it, there actually are cases of people having adverse side effects.
And it's because it's a new drug.
They're trying to make money and push aside this extremely cheap drug that costs like nothing, like a dollar, and has been used in hospitals for 100 years.
And they want to replace that blood thinner with this new one, which is not all that tried and true.
and it's just, you know, it's gone through the FDA process, but then shit happens.
And I don't know how I got off on this tangent, It's a thinking and behavior problem that people are willing to put money over humanity or that people are willing to commit horrific crimes.
Like, what is it that causes someone to be able to Run through a school and stab a bunch of kids.
I mean, what is it?
Is he on drugs?
Is it antidepressants?
Is it childhood abuse?
Is it trauma when he was young that just ruined his mind, ruined the connections that his mind makes forever?
What are those answers?
Because that's not what we ever hear.
All we ever hear is tighten down on security, take away the guns, lock the gates, install guards.
But is that really the answer?
Shouldn't we be trying to figure out, at least making an attempt?
Because I don't hear a fucking peep out of anybody to examine the motivations and the possibilities.
Like, what are the possibilities that could cause someone to become a monster?
I don't think that when they add more security guards and more checkpoints, I really don't think it's about making us safer.
And it's not that they don't want us to be safer.
I'm not like super cynical about this, but what it is, is pretty much a jobs program.
It's like, this is a way to give people jobs and keep the employment rate a decent range.
And if we don't give people these jobs, basically they're just standing around.
Like, what is the abbreviation for TSA that people use?
Thousands standing around.
It's a fucking jobs program.
And so I would much rather see us, you know, why don't those people do something that actually helps the community, plant trees instead of harassing people at an airport?
Or, you know, we don't want to militarize our schools because then every day you're going into school and subconsciously you're like, am I a fucking prisoner?
Like, why are there guards around here?
It's supposed to be a voluntary thing where I'm coming for knowledge and to interact with other people my age and learn something about the world and then go home.
Yeah, it is a weird thing that you have to even think about that, to even worry about going to a school and there's guards there.
Like protecting what?
It's like, is it going to get to a point where it's just the only thing that's different is that people haven't figured out that they can attack people at stadiums or figured out that they can attack people at the mall?
I mean, once those things start happening on a regular basis, there really will be some sort of a lockdown in the parking lot where you're going to have to show your VIN number and they're going to have to read your DNA.
Yeah, it was really when somebody says, I need your VIN number, it just feels so invasive because they're like, we own you.
That's like the message that I get.
I realize that they need to do it because they don't want somebody putting an explosive device in a car that doesn't have a license plate.
Like, I totally understand the logic, but just as an individual who goes to airports fairly often, it's dehumanizing, and there's no proof that this makes us safer.
And the actual numbers of terrorist attacks, like not taking anything away from the horrific nature of 9-11 or the Boston bombings or anything.
The numbers of those things taking place in comparison to the numbers of human beings is quite staggering.
I mean, there are very few terrorist attacks, and goddamn, there's a lot of people.
There's 300 million fucking people in this country, not including transients, not including vacationers from other countries, not including illegal aliens.
We really don't know what the full number is because many Mexicans are good at crossing that border.
LA's a joke.
Like when they try to figure out the census of LA, yeah, you get it.
Yeah.
20 million people in LA and approximately 100,000 undocumented workers.
But speaking of Mexican immigrants, this is one of my issues with the media is right now, they would have us believe that the two biggest problems facing all of us, gay marriage and illegal immigration.
But the illegal immigration thing, it's like, if we want to solve this, instead of putting all these Judge Dredd Border Patrol people along the border, which I don't think is a terrible idea because we do need some border protection, but it's enormously expensive.
It's dehumanizing.
We're rounding these people up like animals.
Why don't we start by making it so that American corporations stop fucking promoting them coming over here?
If we were not giving them any kind of jobs, the immigration would to a large extent stop.
They're coming over here because it sucks in Mexico and they can get jobs here and send money.
because I think as long as you're not on the Interpol list and you're not wanted for something, you should just be able to go wherever you want.
As long as it's an allied country, you shouldn't need a passport that's valid because it's like...
Yeah, I mean, I guess you need some kind of system, but I think it can be done with what they have already.
Like they know what you're doing at every second of the day.
This is what's so Orwellian and fucked up.
It's like yesterday was tax day and we saw all this stuff like make sure you file your taxes on time.
And it's like, what is this?
Like what kind of mind bender is this?
We know that the NSA is sharing data with agencies like the IRS, giving them, you know, we know that they're sharing financial data with those kinds of agencies.
And the IRS knows exactly how much you owe because they get the 1099s every year from the people who pay you more than $600.
So they know everything.
Why don't they just send you a fucking bill?
And then if there's a problem, you can dispute it the same as a credit card bill.
Instead of like, I've got a guess to make sure that I'm paying the right amount.
And if I don't match their number, they go, uh-uh-uh, we have right here.
Even Donald Rumsfeld, who I consider to be the closest thing to like the man that's out there, tweeted out the other day about how the IRS is just out of control.
I still think Obama, the other day I was in Venice Beach getting lunch and I got a beer and a burger and enjoyed something that's known to the state of California to have medicinal benefit.
And I looked up in the, whatever this place was, this restaurant, and right over the door was a picture of Obama from his Hawaii days.
He had the hat on and he was smoking a doobie.
And for like a half a second, I thought, that's my guy right there.
That's 2008 campaign trail Obama.
And then, of course, that's not what we got.
We got Smart Bush instead.
We got somebody who can come onto the tonight show or the view or something and just have the hosts eating out of his hand by the end of the interview.
So he's much smarter and more eloquent, but is still doing a lot of the crazy shit that Bush was doing.
And I think that he could still kind of like, what's the word I'm looking for?
Like come out ahead and like still come across as a good president if you were to just legalize weed at the federal level.
I think most people be like, oh, okay, he actually did something meaningful that will be around 50 years from now.
And it's not just like, I'm going to find the shit out of you if you don't sign up for my healthcare website.
And I've done more drone strikes than any other president in history.
I've allowed NSA programs to expand and said almost nothing in response.
Even with all that shit, which I think is awful, legalize weed at the federal level.
Yeah, I don't think anybody can be a good president.
I think the machine behind government is too fucking big.
It's like what we were talking about, about corporations and the constant need for, These corporations need to constantly keep growing.
And that's really not possible.
It's really not possible.
And that they, when a corporation starts acting like that sort of money generating machine, and that's the bottom line, is it always has to continue to generate money no matter what, they come up with all sorts of compromises, compromise of ethics, compromises of morals, just so that they can figure out a way to continue to raise that bottom line, keep that money coming in.
And I think essentially the government at a certain point becomes that.
I mean, it's what Eisenhower warned about when he was leaving office, the military-industrial complex taking over.
And even if it's not the direct reason why something happens, even if it wasn't a financial reason why there is a military action and why we go to war, once we're there and the money is pouring in to these contractors, the money's pouring into weapons manufacturers, the money's pouring in.
Cutting that money off and having a justification, you're going to get resistance.
And you're going to get resistance from incredibly powerful people with incredibly influential ties that have a lot of fucking money.
And that's why I'm excited about digital money because I honestly agree with you.
The structure is not going to change.
And it's because of what you just said that these powerful people want their budgets to remain at least where they are and probably much larger in the future because they have people on their payroll and they want to keep those TSA jobs.
And all this shit is funded because the government is printing its own money.
And then that's what we use as currency.
And I really don't think that, so if the issue is structural and not personality, in other words, like Obama is not responsible for all the problems in this country because a lot of this shit started under Bush.
A lot of it started under Clinton.
A lot of it started under Reagan.
A lot of it started 30 years ago.
So if it's not personality driven, the problem, and it's just structure-driven, the only way you'll see change is to change the structure itself.
Do you think that it's even necessary to have a government that's established and set up the way we have it today with representatives when the access to communication is so instantaneous?
It's like the whole idea of having a senator or having a congressman or having a representative is like there was no way for the people to just go and individually talk and give their opinions on things.
There was no way.
There's too many fucking people.
And they're too far apart from each other.
It would take, you know, when the country was established, you had to literally ride an animal across the country.
I mean, that's the dumbest fucking idea.
Could you imagine if today everyone outlawed cars, we ought to ride horses.
And there was no more internet.
How the fuck would you ever pass a law?
How would you ever, you know, state laws?
How would you ever deal with the federal government's influence?
But I think the founding fathers, we always assumed that a representative democracy was put into place because of the technical limitations.
Like you just said, it's impossible to get everybody to D.C. to tally up where their votes would lie.
So instead we use representatives and we send them.
And we assume that that's the only reason why they chose this structure.
And I don't think it is.
I think part of it is that they were terrified of dumb people.
They were actually worried about mob rule because they'd seen that happen in other governments.
And you see it happen today.
Like Reddit, 95% of the time is on top of its shit and is a great source of information.
What about the 5% of the time where they find the wrong fucking suspect for the Boston bombing?
That shit goes to the front page and some guy's life is ruined for the next six months or possibly forever.
You know, he's never going to be able to get a job because you Google that name.
First thing you see is Boston bombing suspect.
Even if he's cleared, you don't want to hire that person.
And that's a case where the crowd mind fucks up.
And if we give everybody instant access to real say in government, first of all, I think it's a good idea because I think overall the good wins out over the bullshit.
But I'm just trying to give an example of, I think, why they chose that representative system.
I think that's definitely a valid point is that there are dumb people and they can gather together and it gets fucking terrifying when you're just dealing with a one person, one vote sort of a paradigm.
Did you see what's going on in Reddit where people are being outed as being paid posters and paid shills to post in these conspiracy theory sites?
We don't, like, honestly, like, how do we know that a technology mod is not some shill for the fossil fuel industry who just doesn't want to see Tesla rise to the top?
I think it's important to have guys like that who are willing to speak out for things that are really important instead of just taking the money and being like, I'm just going to go fuck hot models and live on...
Well, he's a young idealist who's really smart and he figured out a way to make a shitload of money, came up with a cool thing, and he's kind of continuing along that same trajectory.
I'm sure in 10 years, he's going to be doing even bigger stuff.
And I think we'll respect the fact that he spoke out when a lot of cowards at companies like, well, I don't need to alienate myself, but companies, like big tech companies, they're not saying shit.
Not only that, we find out that they cooperated with the NSA and gave them backdoors to technology and software.
And it's very, very frustrating because you want to think about, I think that one of the unique aspects of technology is the morality that sort of inherently goes with super intelligent people.
That there's so much goddamn money in technology that people, well, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Let's not be as greedy.
We don't have to be as greedy.
We make so much goddamn money.
But think about how much money Google makes.
What's their motto?
Don't be evil.
I mean, that's like a really good model for a giant multi-billion dollar corporation.
And that's not something that existed anywhere else.
Like, it didn't exist with clothing, it didn't exist with giant corporations that were involved in natural resources.
You never hear that.
You never hear that kind of a motto attached to a gas company.
Meanwhile, gas companies make more money than anybody.
This new technology and the new money that's coming out of technology is generated by intensely creative and intelligent people.
And I think what we're seeing from those people, as opposed to just money grubbers, people that try to, like, something that's not as complex as technology, sort of doesn't have the same thought process behind it.
There's not as much introspective thinking.
There's not as much ethical calculations.
It's a different way of looking at the world that I think is being presented by tech companies that, in my opinion, is very promising.
Because I think it gives you a lot of hope for the future when you see, like, this is a trend.
It's a very obvious trend, in my opinion, that these guys are more ethical and more moral and more conscious.
And I think if you're a recent person entering the workforce for the first time and you're looking at jobs online, really hold out and don't go for the shitty defense contractor that you know is doing evil stuff.
Go instead for the company that is creating cool apps or creating new efficiencies and payments or whatever it is that you're interested in.
Do that instead because technology can go in so many different directions.
You don't want to be the person creating the marketing for the next fucking range of drones.
You want to be the person working at Google or even Microsoft and just creating better search because even things like that create more of a positive impact on humanity than I think almost anything else.
Well, we agree as a society to play this game where the individual can be enriched if you're smart.
And that game is capitalism.
And we continue to play it because it's more efficient than anything else.
But I think you do need to have referees who say, okay, so we're playing this game where you can make a lot of money if you do something that's more efficient than anybody else.
Or you do it cooler, or you do it faster.
But if you're fucking up a shared resource, then that's where the government steps in and tells you you can't do this and you have to pay this and you have to fix this because the environment is not owned by corporations.
It's actually owned by citizens of the United States and it's owned by citizens of whatever country you happen to be in.
Like your land is your land and we all have the shared air.
We all have shared oceans.
Like what happens in Japan with their fucked up nuclear reactors affects the sushi here in Los Angeles, at least in theory.
So we have to have a more global mindset.
I know right now, just by saying global mindset, there are at least 10 people saying that I'm like a Bilderberg one world order shill or something.
But really it's fucking stupid to not go more global when everything already is.
It's like right now we're already a global society, but we allow corporations to take advantage of the loopholes and pretend like we're not global.
Well, I think that if the internet continues its path right now, the path that we're on right now of the distribution of information, of connecting everybody together, it's going to seem more and more ridiculous that there's nations.
It's going to seem more and more ridiculous that there's places that are lines in the dirt that you can't cross through.
I mean, it's just weird.
It's weird.
It's a weird concept.
It's weird if there was fences over each state.
That would be intolerable, right?
But that's not much different than fences over countries.
We just decide that it's different.
And I think that as we connect with each other more and more and the idea of nations become more and more ridiculous, then the ideas of, oh, like this place owns the resources, like if Ohio, we had to all pay Ohio because that's where all the water came from.
It's like a disgusting, like sort of a twist on that system.
Like the idea that the government or that the people's taxes, like all the money that we pay in California, this 10% tax thing, state tax, if that went to free health care, I would be super supportive of it.
If we found out that the reason why California pays state taxes is that everybody who lives in state tax, in California rather, has free health care.
I'd be like, that's fantastic.
I would be happy to give up a sizable chunk of my income if I knew that people were being taken care of.
I mean, I think the idea isn't that it would necessarily keep people from interacting with each other.
What it would do is keep people from being forced to be slaves to a system, stuck in a box, learning 50 in a class, one unmotivated teacher, totally ineffective way of going about it.
But the big thing about school is that social interaction.
It's where you learn how to talk to girls.
It's where you learn clicks.
It's where you learn how to deal with negative and positive influences.
There's a lot to be learned in school other than just the stuff that they cheat you.
Just interacting with each other, it forms the basis, like the framework of how we interact when we get into the workplace.
Yeah, I read the article, and it was like he had been saying for a while, like, I want to kill Jews.
And if somebody is literally thinking the same things as Hitler, like, maybe, maybe somebody should take note of that and bring that guy in for a psychological evaluation.
If you look at your own history, you ever try to look at your own history because you're trying to look for a website that you saw that you forgot to bookmark and you go through your own history like, oh, so much.
The amount of shit that we're exposed to today as opposed to our grandparents is just unbelievable.
It's unbelievable for the mind.
I would love to see if they could go back in time and take a guy from the 1900s, like 1919, take him and put electrodes on his brain and find out like what kind of, what gets stimulated during a regular day, a regular eight-hour day.
And then take a guy from 2014 in Manhattan.
Same program, run it on his brain and find out what's going on in his brain.
I bet one of them looks like a firefly buzzing around a campfire and the other one looks like a fireworks display, like the grand finale of Disneyland.
The amount of information just slamming into your fucking synapses.
It's just, we're not designed for this, man.
We're not designed.
So I think part of what we're doing when we're trying to manage civilization is we're trying to catch up to all this shit that's happened that's been erupting all around us.
We're like, that, and then there's this, and then fucking, that's what I'm saying.
That's how the government's been responding to Bitcoin recently.
It's like if you look at an internet meme of a dumb dog, like some dumb, oblivious dog, governments and like some of these big vested banks that have been around forever are on the railroad tracks, this dumbass dog looking at a train coming in their direction.
And they're like, is this something that's going to affect me?
It's like, and it's not just any train.
It's a fucking bullet train moving at 350 miles an hour.
And whenever that train hits the dog, it's not even going to feel it.
It's going to be just an explosion of disgusting flesh and fur.
But that's what they're at right now is a combination of curiosity, a bit of animosity, and like, how is this going to affect us?
It's like, it'd be like record companies looking at Napster and going, this is interesting.
Well, it's also just the sheer amount of different things that you would have to pay attention to to truly manage.
Like the idea of being a president in 1919 was a really rational idea.
You could have a guy who would manage our budget and the military and this guy's assigned to do defense and this is, you know.
But in 2014, good goddamn luck.
There's too many things.
There's no way any one person has their finger on the pulse of all these things.
It's like someone says to you, hey man, what do you think about what's going on at the Bundy Ranch?
You're like, I don't fucking know.
Like, what's going on at the Bundy Ranch?
I can't know.
It doesn't, oh, you fucking shill.
You know, like, you can't know everything.
Every day, there's a hundred new stories that have huge implications to our society, to our world, to the way we progress.
Like, where are we going in the future?
Is it going to be affected by these events, by these decisions, by these technologies?
Every day, there's a hundred of them.
And every day, everyone has to try to pay attention to as many of them as you can, and there's a new hundred tomorrow.
Good luck.
And it's exponential.
So a year from now, 10 years from now, it's going to be unrecognizable.
There's going to be so much information coming at you on a daily basis, and the changes will be so rapid.
It's almost unpredictable.
When we try to look at the idea of exponential growth, like I talked to Ray Kurzweil about that, and he was talking to me about the criticisms that he's been given about this idea of the singularity, about technological singularity, that there's going to be some sort of technology that's so groundbreaking that it changes humanity and reality as we know it.
I agree with it, too, and I'm too stupid to understand all of it.
But when he describes it, when he describes exponential growth, then you really wrap your head around it.
Like that it doesn't matter that it took 100 years to make this machine after that machine was made.
What matters is once a technology is born, then technologies branch off of that at an Incredibly rapid rate.
And as new technologies come in, it makes it easier for new innovation to be established as well.
And then it just swarms and it gets this incredible frenzy where it's unpredictable as far as how fast it's going to go.
And he thinks it's like 2049.
That's what his opinion is.
His opinion is studying all of these different graphs and looking at the exponential growth of technologies, trying to figure out like when it's all going to come to a head.
But even he's just guessing.
No one really knows.
There might be some new thing that comes out next month out of Finland that no one saw coming that changes a whole fucking ball of wax.
The problem, the real issue with artificial intelligence is if someone is so compelled to create an artificial human being and gives us all of the components that a human being has, all the flaws as well.
Well, if they don't have that, then are they not a psychopath?
That's the problem.
I mean, are you creating a complete psycho with no remorse and no compassion if you create an artificial person that's ruthlessly intelligent but is not concerned whatsoever about pain and suffering?
And what if it's so smart that it recognizes, hey, look, people don't live forever anyway.
Like, this is a moot point.
Like, they're going to die of old age, which is one of the worst ways to go.
The last few years of your life, your body's going to break down to the point you're ready to die because it sucks to be alive.
Like, what's better, that?
Or we just eat them and use them for fuel to make a much better race of robot, artificial intelligent things that don't get jealous.
If that, I mean, you know, I think that we're probably at least on the verge of a new member of our world that we're going to have to consider.
At the least, if not our overlords.
I think this idea of artificial intelligence is completely unavoidable.
It's just as unavoidable as the moment that the guy figured out a wagon wheel and the other guy figured out an engine and they started going, huh, huh, huh?
If we put that in there and get something to make those things, how would you get the wheels to spin?
We need like a thing that connects to the end.
Was the engine making fire?
Yeah, it burns shit.
We got to get it burned.
Okay, it burns gas.
So we've got to get a tank that holds the gas.
It's inevitable.
It was just a matter of time before someone pieced all those things together.
When you're dealing with artificial intelligence, like, you know, I mean, even the simplistic form of it, like Siri.
Siri is a form of artificial intelligence.
It's a database.
It asks, you ask it questions.
It provides you with answers.
That's a form of something doing some calculations.
When that starts becoming more and more complex, and then they decide, hey, we want to recreate a human being.
Let's recreate memories.
We're going to program memories.
We're going to take someone's, you know, we're going to take, what we did is we decided to take memories, generic memories, from happy people ages one through 60 and just create a 60-year-old professor, an artificial guy who's lived a long life of wisdom, and we're going to have him interact with people just to blow their fucking minds.
And meanwhile, you know, someone tells him, you know, that they made you just a week ago.
And he starts crying.
What about my children?
They don't exist.
What?
My daughter was at her wedding.
It didn't happen.
It never happened.
You're a week old.
We watched some fake 60-year-old cry and then cut his throat.
He reaches and grabs one of those straight razors from dollarshave.com and fucking it's pointless because he realizes it and sparks come flying out and then he really freaks out because he knows there's no blood.
And it also might eliminate us because it goes, okay, if humans are allowed to continue surviving, there's a non-zero chance that they will eventually wipe us out.
They'll either destroy the Earth or they will for some reason decide to turn us off at some point.
And so because there's that non-zero chance that they will eliminate us, we have to eliminate them first.
And then you get like a Battlestar Galactica kind of thing where they actually want to kill humans just because they essentially live forever.
You know, there's no time constraint.
So they don't want a situation where in 500 years we're so advanced that we're advanced and we decide that artificial intelligence is evil for some reason.
Maybe we have some new religious leader and we turn it off.
It's going to be the Unibomber followers who said he's ahead of his time.
I mean, that's what Kaczynski thought.
He thought that technology was our enemy.
He was the enemy of the human race and he was trying to actively stop technology by attacking and killing the people that were responsible for innovation.
I mean, it's a really crazy thought that maybe in his wacky LSD mind that he had a point, that he really saw it all coming.
And he saw, he extrapolated the future and he said, oh my God, we keep Going along at this same rate, there's not going to be any apple pie.
There's not going to be any Norman Rockwell paintings.
But it's all documenting Ted Kaczynski's part in the Harvard LSD studies where they just dosed the shit out of kids and found out what it did for them.
He went to Berkeley after that, taught at Berkeley, and used all of his money to fucking build this cabin in the woods and then plot his war against civilization and innovation.
Don't put that up.
Don't put that up.
You can't put any more videos up unless I ask you to because these videos are getting us pulled off YouTube.
They go through YouTube videos and they'll tag stuff as being their copyright, their property.
Even if it's just a video that I made in my apartment where the background is my couch, all of the words are my own words coming out of my own mouth recorded by me.
And this is what I send to YouTube every time I get one of these complaints from these content troll companies.
I go, how is it physically possible that they own any of this content?
Yeah, I'm always fascinated by when you go to a website and you're entering in information, they give you that weird scrambled letter thing that you have to decipher.
Yeah, but if you're a Google-type database, or you can have the algorithm go to Google and answer the question, like if you say something into Google, it has it in a tenth of a second.
So if you have a direct connection.
And so it could just get the answer and answer for you.
Do you remember when there were cheesy infomercials on about that software product where you put on the microphone and instead of typing, it would read your words and you'd be able to type a document that way?
Yeah, well, I have a friend who used to write all of his books with that.
He used to, yeah, he used to put headphones on and walk around his apartment years ago.
And he actually used Windows because the Windows version of Dragon was way better than the Mac version.
That was the very reason why he did it.
He did all of his writing through rants.
And then he would go back over it and then edit it and try to figure it out.
But he was like, to capture my words as accurately with my fingers.
I can't type that fast.
There's no way.
It felt like there was something missing in the flow of his ideas.
I've always had the opposite opinion.
I think that I write better because when I actually physically use the keyboard, it's because I'm giving a lot of thought and consideration to each one of these words.
Because it takes me a lot longer to type out the word consideration than it does to have that concept in my mind.
That concept in my mind goes in and out.
And there's both, like the rants that you would come up with on a podcast, you probably would never write that way because you're in sort of this frantic flowing thing where one idea feeds into the next and there's steam behind them.
But when you're writing and you're really considering every single sentence and going back over it and going back over the, is that the best way to phrase this?
One is that they make a tremendous amount of money from saving your credit card info, and then every time you decide you want to buy a song or you want to buy an app, it goes through their system.
And I think they're worried that if they open up the floodgates to Bitcoin, they lose that 30% that they're making.
I didn't even think of that, but I bet you're dead right.
With their iTunes store for movies, the iTunes store for music, that's probably a considerable chunk of revenue that could very well be swept away with Bitcoin.
If someone came up with an application that allowed artists to sell their music directly with Bitcoin, no iTunes, and then someone manages another application that ports it into iTunes.
We're going to see some really weird stuff in the next couple of years.
We're going to see banks where it's just a bunch of Bitcoin users funding the bank, and then the bank decides who to loan money to.
So then you'll have a situation where instead of going to Chase or Wells Fargo, you'll just go to the guy down the street who owns his own community bank and it'll be run by Bitcoin so you know that the money he claims he has is actually there because you can verify it.
The picture in five years is going to look so weird compared to today.
The idea of driving up to an ATM machine in five years is going to be the same as walking in a blockbuster and picking up a VHS tape.
It's just not going to be something people need to do.
I think, and I realize it's kind of a bold prediction, but you get to a point where there's no turning back.
And it's the same with how many people own analog TVs still?
For a while, it was kind of like 20% owned flat screen HD TVs.
80% still had the old tubes.
Yeah.
And then slowly over time, more and more of your friends got the flat screens until eventually even your friends who don't have any money and are not up on tech trends, you walk into their house and it's a brand new Samsung.
Yeah, I mean, I can't guarantee that Bitcoin will be the first one.
In fact, it's possible that it won't be the one that takes off finally because if you look at operating systems, it was Xerox Labs created one of the first visual operating systems.
And Steve Jobs was taking a tour of the Xerox park because they had told him, like, you got to check this out.
It's really cool.
It's up your alley.
He saw that, took one look at it, and was like, this is what I should be doing at Apple.
Took that idea, made the visual Apple Macintosh, whatever the fuck it was.
Right, the trash bin and dragging files instead of a command line.
But even Apple wasn't.
So that was the second generation.
Even that wasn't the one that took off because Apple for a long time was only used by a subset of designers and writers and stuff.
It was actually Windows.
It was the third one where Bill Gates saw what Steve Jobs had done.
And he goes, we got to make Windows.
We'll make it a little bit cheaper, make it a little bit simpler for people to use.
Doesn't have to be as beautiful, but we're going for the mass market.
And that's the one that took off.
And I think it could be the same situation with this where Bitcoin blazed the trail and maybe it'll always have a place in the same way that Apple has always had a place and now it's a very big place.
You're going to have like three or four currencies and you're going to use them for different things.
Like if you're tipping, if you're tipping a podcast, you might use Bitcoin, but if you're at a strip club, you might use some other coin for some other reason.
Someone's got to make it treason if you interfere with this.
Like if you try to sabotage these digital currencies and stop innovation because you're worried that whatever company you're doing or whatever thing you're doing is going to somehow or another be impacted by it, it should be treasonous.
The idea that you could come in, like they're going to have government agents that are coming in and sabotaging Bitcoin, buying and selling and stealing and collecting into it.
That was a fat dumbass who programmed his site in the wrong language and got a lot of market share because he was one of the first people there.
And if you look at just traditional money, U.S. dollars and Euros, it attracts a lot of criminals.
Surprise when you're dealing with billions of dollars, the kinds of people who are attracted to that, some of them are honest, some of them are not.
And how many failures have we had within the dollar?
We had, what was it, Lehman Brothers went under.
Bear Stearns had to be bought out by Chase for like pennies on the dollar or like two bucks a share or something.
And we had Bernie Madoff.
Like scams related to money are nothing new.
And that's not going to go away with Bitcoin.
It's just that now we're going to have a little bit more accountability.
And I personally just like to see these old fucks in Davos.
I like to see them sweat a little bit for the first time because they have given my generation more than a trillion dollars of student loan debt that we can't pay off.
And when I say we, I'm just talking about like everybody.
I don't have any student loan debt, but they've done that.
We're all pretty much indentured servants to these zombie banks, which if you look into them as people like Matt Taebi have done, they're semi-insolvent.
They're corrupt to the core.
They are politically entrenched.
And they're not efficient.
That's what bothers me.
Like all the other shit is all well and good.
It's just not efficient.
Like I used to be in credit cards.
I had a credit card website where it would rank deals for people.
And I honestly believed at the time that plastic is the best way to buy things.
More efficient than cash.
You have a record of it so you know come tax time, what you spent on business stuff.
When this came around, I instantly realized, oh, okay, credit cards days are numbered.
And so if you ignore all the political implications and that's all you focus on, do you want to have a technology where there's a really good chance of chargeback fraud, which is the case with credit cards, or a rubber check with checks?
Do you want that?
Or do you want the thing where there's zero chance of that?
Consumers eventually, I don't know when it's going to happen.
It might not even be this year.
Consumers over time, once they tire of the propaganda they're seeing on TV, will go, well, yeah, I want the one where it's 100% certain.
I don't want the one where I don't know what the fuck's happening for two or three days.
I think that he's going to be one of the examples that the government makes.
It's like, you can't do this.
This is fucked up.
You can't do it.
Because there's actually a lot of money that's supposed to go into Bitcoin over the summer, institutional money, when Second Market comes online, which is supposed to be like the first really credible exchange that big banks would be comfortable using.
By the way, all my kind of political rabble-rousing about how Bitcoin will change the landscape, I just want to put in a kind of disclaimer that in five years, you might still see a chase in Bank of America because there's a chance that if they see it taking off fast enough, they'll adopt it.
Because for them, it's just a new payment technology.
Like they use Visa and MasterCard.
They could just as easily issue a Bitcoin debit card and base it off of that network and find a way to make money off of it by providing people the security of you're not dealing with some fat ass in Japan.
You're dealing with Bank of America.
You're dealing with Chase.
That's possible.
But one thing that's very clear is that it's going to be completely different in a couple of years.
This is such an interesting time to be alive because there's so much going on and there's so much change and there's so many people that are wondering like, which way is it going to go and people that are looking at it in a negative way and people that are looking at it promising.
Well, what's really cool to think about, if you look at where a lot of the money came from in Silicon Valley for these really innovative companies we're seeing today, it started with PayPal where Peter Thiel and Elon Musk, I think a couple of other guys, Max something, made billions of dollars off of their PayPal venture because PayPal was at the time a challenge to the status quo.
It was you don't need an expensive merchant, whatever that thing was that merchants had to have, to process credit cards, a merchant account.
You don't need that.
All you need is an email address and we verify some stuff, link it to your bank account.
And now you have a form of digital money.
And that was 15 years ago.
So we're overdue for kind of a new challenge to the status quo.
And my point is that when PayPal happened, it made a lot of people rich.
And that money ended up getting invested in things that have nothing to do with currency.
It was invested in Tesla and SpaceX and all these next generation companies.
And we'll probably see the same thing now.
We'll see people get rich off of this.
And then that money, since they're young and not compromised old people, will go into really bizarre things where the dividend is just going to be massive.
What I was getting at is that there's a lot of folks that look at the possibilities in the future and look at it all, and they see only negative.
And that's very unfortunate.
And that was our friend Michael Rupert, who he somehow or another, a couple days ago, committed suicide by a gunshot, allegedly.
I'm sure there's a lot of people out there that think he was murdered.
There always is going to be on those things, but I know he wasn't a happy guy.
And if you look at the way he looked at the world, I mean, everything he saw, if you saw that movie collapse, it's him sitting there chain smoking, talking about the end.
And it's incredibly compelling because he was a very articulate guy.
He was very believable.
He was charismatic.
He was passionate, and he knew a lot of things.
His version was the sky is falling.
And he was wrong about a lot of things.
He was wrong about a lot of predictions.
He was wrong about a lot of his thoughts on peak oil and a lot of other things that he thought were going to come to a conclusion in our, you know, just the last decade and just fuck everything up.
And it didn't happen.
I found out about him from a book that he had put out, Crossing the Rubicon.
It's a long time ago.
And it was all about the same sort of thing.
Just it was always negative.
It was always doom and it was always gloom.
And he wasn't well the last few years of his life and apparently decided to end it on his own terms.
So it's unfortunate.
I really liked that guy.
He was a sweetie.
He was a really cool guy to be around.
He was fun.
He was warm.
He was friendly.
Liked to hug people.
It was a real nice guy to be around.
I mean, I enjoyed doing podcasts with him, too.
I enjoyed talking to him.
I didn't see the doom and gloom.
I didn't see that side the way he did.
I didn't agree with him on things, but he was a very pleasant guy to be around.
A lot of his issue, I think, was physical pain, and that's different.
That's one of the not that I have any say over what people do or really even care, but that's one of, for me, morally, it's where I think that suicide is okay.
Like, if you're in so much pain and you've pursued every avenue and modern medicine can't help you reduce that pain, and it's physical pain rather than just mental pain, then I don't really have a problem with it.
I think even in Switzerland now, there's some kind of assisted suicide program.
And I think we got to be humane.
Like, if we put down an animal because it's in a lot of pain, why can't we let an old guy do the same thing?
And it's another thing where why should someone be able to tell you what to do?
I mean, the idea that it's illegal is hilarious anyway.
You're going to lock him in jail after he kills himself?
I mean, it's stupid.
It's stupid to make suicide illegal.
We need way more mental health counseling everywhere.
We need a lot more thought into whatever it is that's wrong with people that causes them to be massively depressed.
A lot more thought into, is it just the way we live our lives?
Is it just the idea of sitting in some fucking office doing some mundane job that you hate, being stuck in this traffic where you feel completely out of control?
You don't have any control over your environment.
You're just stuck in this mass of people who are also doing the same thing, and you look around and no one seems to be happy.
Is it just that?
I mean, is that something we need to fix?
Is the idea of cities, are these ridiculous ideas that we should abandon condensed humans into a neatly packed area?
Does that make us crazy?
Are we even designed for it?
There's all these things that needs to be considered.
There's a lot of what we're doing is not well thought out.
There's a lot of what we're doing in society that's not the most intelligent, innovative, creative way to go about it.
Yeah, I agree, but I think that a lot of these problems have always been a part of the human experience, and we just have to learn how to deal with it and get each other through it.
Because I don't think the, I used to think like, oh, if I want to be happier, I have to just reduce the amount of stress in my life.
But the things I'm doing, I enjoy doing.
And as a byproduct, there's stress.
Like, you know, like I enjoy putting out controversial articles that make people think about things.
The result of that is somebody in the comment section calls me a cocksucker.
You know, like that's how it goes.
And I'm not willing to not write the article because of the stress.
So I think that instead of eliminating all the problems, we just have to be there for each other.
And a lot of people feel isolated.
And that's where you get these tragedies: people no longer have anybody else to do the feedback loop.
Because a lot of shit is like, if that guy, I don't know anything about that guy, so I don't want to speak as if I do.
But if he had somebody who could tell him, you know, yeah, that's terrible what you're saying about the government, but 2,000 years ago, they were crucifying people, and now they just drag activists through the court system.
And I'm not saying that's a good thing.
You don't want to put people in jail on bullshit charges.
It's a little bit better than crucifying people you don't like.
And if you look at the trend that humanity's on, it's an improving trend.
It's impossible not to see that.
Like the Malthusian model of human behavior and human existence has been proven false.
Like when you get higher population, you don't get people starving and destruction.
You get more innovation because there are more minds coming together and you get things that you didn't even think were possible.
Like right now, we don't have a serious food crisis in the first world anyways, because we've always been able to scale the technology.
We have more people and then we get better at farming.
And then we have more people and they create more innovation, which leads to better farming and so on.
I think it was on one of your podcasts recently where you said that the Fukushima response, they covered it up like a little child who had done something wrong.
Well, there's also like, there are all these beautiful parts of the world that have been irradiated from our nuclear tests back when we didn't know what we were doing.
It's like the French military and the U.S. military were just picking beautiful deserted islands, which today would be worth, you know, today would be the places that Richard Branson hangs out in.
But instead, they're just these desolate test sites.
It's so gross and dumb that we did that in the first place.
And the lack of nuclear radiation that they have in New Jersey is what's a real problem.
They need to detonate a couple of nukes in New Jersey and fucking straighten everybody out.
I'm like, oh, now we get it.
We just need a little bit of radiation in the air.
I used to think that maybe cigarettes were probably, when I was competing, I used to think that cigarettes may be like a workout for your lungs.
That if you could lift a little weights with your lungs, like if you smoked cigarettes, that your lungs would have to fight against the cigarette smoke and it'd be like lifting weights.
The dumbest idea I've ever had.
But it's not too far off from those air trainers, like those oxygen things where you're supposed to suck on those, like boss routines had that air trainer, H2O trainer.
I mean, this is something they've attributed to this reason why grizzly bears and polar bears are so big.
As you get north, the same species of animal tends to be larger.
Pretty fascinating stuff, man.
Pretty fascinating.
And completely makes sense with these Canadian wolves because they're big as fuck, whereas the American wolves were smaller.
They just were always like, you know, 60, 70 pounds, whatever.
So when they brought over these big-ass fucking wolves from Canada and they have that DNA in them, the big ass wolf DNA, these just decimating elk and deer populations in areas where they're at.
And they've reinstituted hunting on them now.
So they brought them in, and now they've got hunting and trapping, and people in Alaska and a lot of parts of North America where they have a lot of wolves, they have wolf season now.
Listen, man, if you were a rancher and you watched a super PAC like they've had in Siberia, you know, Siberia has a legitimate wolf problem.
And Siberia at one point in time, you know the story of World War I, the wolf thing with the Germans and the Russians?
They call it the ceasefire.
Wolves cause a ceasefire.
Because so many of the soldiers were getting killed by wolves that they said, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
They ran into a super PAC.
And while they were, the two armies were connecting with each other, while they were exchanging, they would send out like scouts.
Scouts get eaten by wolves.
And so they would find like these bodies, like, you know, with their boots on and a foot and their boot, you know, and everything else just smashed and destroyed.
Of any animal, spiders are the only one where I got curious and researched them online.
And the more I read, the less I liked them.
Because normally no matter what it is, you're like, oh, shit, they can do that.
That's amazing.
And I got to the point where it was a video and it was the mating ritual of jumping spiders.
And at first I was like, oh, shit, I am going to like spiders because what they do to attract each other is the male like pounds his legs on the ground and the sound vibrations, I guess, stimulate the female in some way.
Yeah, so what happened in the video though is like, if I'm remembering correctly, the male jumping spider looks like he's going to get some and they zoom in on his eyes and you're like, oh, if a spider could be happy, this spider is probably happy, right?
And then it looks like the female is about to get mounted.
She takes a big fucking bite out and like and then just jumps off and he jumps off in the other direction and you can see the guts and like you know what fuck spiders zero respect because I was starting to think like I shouldn't kill spiders if I see them in my apartment.
I should either leave them alone or let them take the time to let them out.
I don't know if this is the one that I saw because I don't remember there being captions, but it's the same idea.
Because this is what they do to attract each other, but there's a good chance whenever they do this ritual that the female will choose to eat the male.
Well, the matriarchal society is like common in bugs.
It's in ants.
You know, in ants, there's a lot of female ants that they kill the males, and the way they breed with him, they cut his wings off, they cut his legs off, and they take him into the hive and breed with him.
Yeah, they don't even have teeth, but they just dash onto a fucking rattlesnake, get a hold of that bitch, screw him up tight, and start swallowing them whole headfirst.
They get a hold of him so fast that the rattlesnake doesn't even have a chance to bite him, clamp a hold of his head and just stretch their mouth out.
I mean, the difference being like Joey Diaz eating you.
Like not that much difference in size.
Like not enough where you would go, how is Joey get David Seaman in his whole body?
Like look, but this is like a choice meal for the kingsnake.
While we're on the topic of snakes, have you seen that YouTube video where the snake charmer is charming the cobra and then gets right up to it and kisses it on the head and then backs away?
There's cool videos of like these really dangerous, scary snakes with babies and it's just like wrapping around the baby and trying to bite the baby's face.
But I want it to be biologically related to me because I think that this sounds really selfish and like full of shit, but I think that one of the only ways that we gain immortality is the fact that we're allowing part of us to carry on.
And I think it's really cool to think about, like, oh, I'm part my dad, and he's part his grandfather, and that this is the way that we communicate through thousands of years.
When you get to that point, and then you get to the point where you are able to manipulate genetics and you say, you know, hey, you know, I'm just going to stick with the genetics I've got.
I mean, I'm not, I'm not, I don't need to make anything any better.
And everyone around you is he-man.
Everyone around you is goddamn Adonis.
Everyone around you is Michael Jordan in his prime.
Everyone around you is his giant super athlete.
And you just decide, I just like being me, normal me.
And our society breaks down between mods and regs.
The Truman show was the fact that he didn't know about the Truman Show.
But that a real show was based on this guy's life, just him living his life.
And everybody wanted to know what he was going to do.
You're going to marry the girl?
Are you going to get the job?
And they're following him around with the camera and he becomes famous for no reason.
And then he realizes how crazy it is.
in the end there's supposed to be some sort of a lesson that we learned nobody thought Why?
Because that movie is just a reality show.
And no one's going to buy a movie about a reality show.
That's stupid.
Like it's some strange thing.
No, you've got Kim Kardashian, who's the most famous woman on the planet Earth.
She is Ed TV.
I mean, now it's real.
So things like Gattaca, science fiction, wow, craziness, genetically modified human beings, the modified ones versus the non-modified ones, and the elitism of the separation because of resources, of people that can afford to be perfect, and then the rest of the dregs of society, they're out there banging at the door, trying to get into the fucking spaceship.
If you don't have enough Bitcoins, you don't get into the spaceship to Mars.
It's interesting how the founding fathers didn't address stuff like digital privacy or where your metadata should be stored because they could not picture it.
Like if they found that there was an asteroid or something and it has, you know, fucking $100 trillion worth of oil in it or diamonds or what have you, and you could get there in a day's time.
And then Russia says, we're going.
And the United States says, fuck you, we're going.
And they try to duke it out over who they have space wars.
They're flying around shooting rockets at each other in space.
Laser beams and shit.
Death rays.
Star Wars.
The actual military program being used like satellites shooting at space shuttles where they're on their way to this asteroid to get diamonds.
I think Ridley Scott has the most accurate picture of what the future will look like.
It's not going to be utopian.
It's not going to be completely awful.
It's just going to be powerful space mining companies give us the motivation to create really fast spaceships because we've got to get out there faster to beat other companies.
And once you have the same competitive drive that makes your phone so good and makes all this shit possible, get that in space.
And it's, I don't know if he actually believes this or if it was like something he wrote in a science fiction book, but it's a really cool idea.
And it's that at some point, we're going to look to other species on the earth that we find to be interesting, probably dogs and dolphins and stuff.
And we're like, we're going to upgrade you.
We're going to figure out a way for us to communicate directly because you're very similar to us and you probably have a perspective that's different from the human perspective.
So we're going to elevate them to our level.
Whereas right now they're kind of like savages.
We're going to bring them into modern society and kind of coexist with these other species in a way that we've never done before.
Well, that is what they, when you get to the real nutty people that think that human beings were engineered by aliens, that's essentially the premise of the last one.
I think it's every three or four years there's an eclipse, but I'm not sure about the blood moon part.
But the weird thing is when it got to that orange-ish, reddish phase, it literally looked like somebody just threw a ball and it was just floating there.
Like it didn't look like the moon because the lighting, especially when it started hitting the left side, really made, you never saw lighting come from the bottom like that.
Yeah, there's a cool thing on CNN where they have all the various images of it and they have some people did like time lapses.
And it's interesting in the time lapse, you see like when it's in certain parts of the sky, it's totally white.
And then it gets to one small segment of the sky where there's some sort of a reflection or something.
And that is what's causing it.
If rain clouds, rain or clouds obscured your lunar experience, don't fret.
This episode is one of the first four consecutive total lunar eclipses known as a tetrad that will occur in a six-month interval until September of 2015.
Wow.
Unlike solar eclipses, lunar eclipses are safe to view with the naked eye and don't require special filters.
Now, if you want what Discovery used to be, you got to head over to Science Channel and then you get How It's Made is one of my favorite shows to watch while I'm enjoying certain substances because it gives you an appreciation for everything.
Like something boring, like this bottle of water becomes fascinating.
You heard too many people just getting the fuck suit out of them for seating.
You have it up there and you're having people and then they fucking send software that infects your computer and now you don't even know that you're hacked.
It's just crazy the fees that some people, like some housewife, you owe us a million dollars.
If somebody called me in for a meeting like that, it all comes down to game theory, and it's like we have this thing in the middle of the table that everybody wants and that the earliest adopters would benefit from.
So, you as Bank of America or you as Chase, you want to be the first one to adopt this because you're going to gain so much market share so fast that it's going to fuck all your competitors.
And people right now are desperate for a Bitcoin service they can trust.
And as shitty as these banks are, the Bank of America brand name has a lot more trust than that guy, Karpalis, right?
So, like, between those two organizations, who would I prefer to have my Bitcoin with?
Or rather, who would I prefer to buy it with?
Definitely the bank that's down the street and that I know has, you know, whatever market cap they have.
They have a lot of money and I know they're not going under tomorrow.
So I would say ignore all the political rabble rousing and all the bold predictions people like me are making, which will probably not come true.
And instead, look at this as just a better technology.
And you as a bank, you want to implement better technologies because it means lower fraud, less expense, more possibility for profit and innovation.
Like you didn't decide it and maybe it's to your short-term disadvantage, but people want something and that's a good thing.
It's almost like you remember the social network where the one guy wanted him to put ads all over the site and he's like, no, like we don't know what this is, but we know it's cool right now.
And banks have not done anything cool in a very long time.
And the young people are really disenfranchised.
I hate most banks.
And it's because they've been so bad and they just do a bad job with what they do.
If you modernize a little bit, you might get the 20 and 30 somethings to put their money back in your bank.
And it's also about addressing the inevitability of what's going on.
But they would look at it in terms of maybe they have their finger on the trigger of that, but they don't want to press it too soon and fuck themselves.
It's like when you heard that R.J. Reynolds had the patents for several different strains of marijuana and they had labels printed up ready to go.
That was always one of those urban myths.
But the idea was that they don't want to come out with it too soon because if marijuana does become legal, they want to be able to jump on it and be able to sell gold.
That's weakness right there because we never control when things happen, but we control how we respond.
And I think Amazon is run by a brilliant guy, and I think their failure to accept Bitcoin is one of their first really big fuck-ups because Overstock is a big company too, and they're going to get a lot bigger because now there's that loyalty there.
Before I didn't care about Overstock at all, I would never mention them on a show like yours.
Overstock, it's like some bullshit e-commerce site.
I've had this conversation with friends of mine who still live on the East Coast, and they're like, you don't, like, dude, you're just dealing with superficial chicks, and you think they're friendly.
I'm like, I like the superficiality.
What's wrong with manners?
What's wrong with giving me your phone number and saying, yeah, I'd love to go out next week instead of like, fuck you.
Maybe it's a reflection of David Seaman getting a little bit of internet celebrity, getting some pussy, and starting to judge a patch of dirt differently.
Fucking California's where it's at.
People are blowing me.
Back in Florida, they're just angry, walk away hot and screaming at me.
Here's the thing about Bohemian Grove, not knowing much about it, but if you're a billionaire, there are very few people that you can relate to who aren't immediately like, here's my job resume.
What can you do for me?
It's a very weird situation to be in.
So you don't want people scamming you, and you want to talk business, and you want to also relax.
Aren't you going to meet somewhere and talk some shit out in a non-public place?
I know you've seen some of those videos where crows problem solve and use tools and not just use tools, but use multiple step tools, like one tool to get to another tool.
They use that tool to get to a third tool, then use that tool to get to meet.
So it took one twig to get to a second twig and then took that second twig and went, I mean, it couldn't reach the first twig without using, or the second twig without using the first twig.
As far as problem solving, if you got Cheryl Crowe and the Crow and neither one of them had any idea what was going on, that you made them do those two things.
I wonder what steps, we'll ask Antonopoulos next week, what steps they've taken to ensure that the same jackals that have gotten a hold of the financial system and twisted it into this weird cryptic world of derivatives and unexplainable things, if they've done anything to prevent that from happening to things like Bitcoin.