April 16, 2014 - The Joe Rogan Experience
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| Hello dirty freaks. | ||
| Yes you are. | ||
| Shut up. | ||
| Stop. | ||
| Get over it. | ||
| It's just a label. | ||
| This episode of the Joe Rogan Experience is brought to you by Ting. | ||
| What's Ting, Joe? | ||
| Ting is a cell phone service that cuts out all the bullshit that you have to deal with with most cell phone services, like contracts. | ||
| There's no contracts with Ting. | ||
| Ting sets it up smoothly and easily. | ||
| So if you want to fucking bail, you just bail, son. | ||
| Most of the time when you get a phone from a major provider, what you're doing when you buy a phone for like 200 bucks, the phone really probably costs like 500 bucks or more. | ||
| But what you're doing is you're paying for the phone sort of like on layaway. | ||
| So if you go, I'm quitting, your phone service sucks, I can't make calls from my house. | ||
| When you cancel your, I'm sorry I made you sound so dumb. | ||
| Just you figuratively, it's not really you. | ||
| That's only me. | ||
| That's actually how I speak off the air. | ||
| Yeah, he has a weird voice off the air. | ||
| On the air, he's so smooth, but off the air, he's just stupid. | ||
| I'm going home now. | ||
| I'm tired of fucking assholes tweeting at me. | ||
| Anyway, point is, if you try to leave your contract, you have to pay money. | ||
| That's not how Ting has it. | ||
| Ting has it set up where they rent time on the sprint backbone, which sounds really fucking weird, but just the term renting time on a backbone. | ||
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Backbone. | |
| Yeah. | ||
| Backbones, they've probably come up with a new name for backbones. | ||
| Is it a sweaty backbone or is it an LCD? | ||
| It's not even a human backbone. | ||
| It's a computer network sort of a thing. | ||
| I don't understand it. | ||
| Why call it backbone? | ||
| Did you run out of words you can make with your face? | ||
| It's not a backbone. | ||
| I know what a backbone is. | ||
| Network doesn't sound as cool. | ||
| Or grid. | ||
| It does sound nice. | ||
| Sprint grid. | ||
| The sprint network is a major provider. | ||
| So you get major cell phone service with a company like Ting with no early termination fees, no nonsense, no contracts. | ||
| And here's the best part. | ||
| You pay for what you use. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| Like, say if you pay, you know, if your cell phone costs X amount per month and you're allotted 120 minutes, if you use less of those minutes, you don't get any money back, right? | ||
| I mean, you pay every month the same. | ||
| With Ting, you only pay for what you use. | ||
| It's beautiful. | ||
| So there's no overage fees. | ||
| There's no like, you know, you don't get charged like a penalty. | ||
| You just pay for what you use. | ||
| It's very simple. | ||
| It's not confusing. | ||
| And they have the latest and greatest in Android cell phones, including the Samsung Galaxy S5, which just came out this week. | ||
| And it's quite dope delicious. | ||
| In fact, it's waterproof. | ||
| It has a fucking fingerprint sensor and it has a heart rate monitor on it. | ||
| Yeah, that's pretty badass. | ||
| I read a good review about it, and they said it's an amazing phone. | ||
| You know, it's better than the last one and stuff. | ||
| The waterproof thing is probably the best thing about it, but they also threw so many options on this phone that it's ridiculous, like the fingerprint sensor and stuff like that. | ||
| There's so many things on this phone. | ||
| Well, what they're doing is they're leaving Apple so far behind that Apple would have to be a big fat copycat in order to catch up. | ||
| When they start putting things like heart rate monitors on phones and making phones waterproof, this isn't the only waterproof phone. | ||
| There's another Android phone, the Sony Xperia, which looks pretty fucking badass. | ||
| That phone is also waterproof, and that phone has some radonculous megapixel camera, too. | ||
| I don't know what the fuck is that? | ||
| How's the price of the Sony? | ||
| Because I like Sony's stuff, but I feel like it's always one and a half times more expensive than I haven't looked into it, quite honestly. | ||
| But, you know, there's what the point, just to get through this commercial, is that there's so many high-quality Android cell phones now. | ||
| There's quite a bit, including the Samsungs, the LGs, Motorola is now owned by Google, and they're making pretty badass cell phones. | ||
| And they have the Moto X. They have that at Ting. | ||
| All the best ones. | ||
| Go to Rogan.ting.com and save $25 off of any of these delicious and nutritious new devices. | ||
| That's Rogan.ting. | ||
| Or bring your iPhone. | ||
| Oh, that's right. | ||
| You can bring your iPhone too. | ||
| Your iPhone, especially if it's coming over from Sprint, right? | ||
| And they carry the iPhone. | ||
| You can get an iPhone 5 now, too, and get it to work on Ting. | ||
| Anyway, that's the commercial, the end. | ||
| Rogan.ting.com. | ||
| We're also brought to you by Dollar Shave Club. | ||
| Dollar Shave Club is, look, my thoughts on anything that you can get shipped to you where you don't have to go to a store. | ||
| Like, do you know you're going to use X amount of toilet paper per month? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Well, if you can figure out a way to get that shit shipped to you, that's probably better than forcing yourself to go to the store all the time. | ||
| And what Dollar Shave Club does is gives you a four pack for six bucks and just sends them to you. | ||
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| And they're amazing. | ||
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| It tingles. | ||
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| It has aloe in it. | ||
| Like, you don't panic. | ||
| You don't panic about what your underwear look like. | ||
| Like, if you're out with a chick and you decide to get freaky and you have white underwear on, whoa, what a fucking crazy risk it is when you're pulling those bad boys off. | ||
| You have very little idea what you're dealing with. | ||
| Especially if you took a shit and then you sweated. | ||
| Oh, who knows? | ||
| Who knows? | ||
| Look, wiping your ass is a very inefficient way to go about your business. | ||
| It's toilet paper smushing shit all over your butthole. | ||
| That has nothing to do with Dollar Shave Club, though. | ||
| We're talking about shaving, folks. | ||
| That's what's really important. | ||
| They sell other stuff. | ||
| Buttwipe Charlie's is a really good idea. | ||
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| All these nonsense, fucking, you know, lubricated strips and special. | ||
| This relieves tension while you shave. | ||
| Shut the fuck up. | ||
| It does not. | ||
| It doesn't do any of those things. | ||
| There's no one throwing a glass of water in my face after I shave either. | ||
| What is that nonsense? | ||
| Why is this called the lover's blade? | ||
| Because you want to shave your ball sack with that, son. | ||
| What do you think? | ||
| If you leave the jungle down there, you don't get as much love. | ||
| So it's a lover's blade. | ||
| That's hilarious. | ||
| It's not confusing. | ||
| Jesus Christ. | ||
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| That's dollarshaveclub.com forward slash Rogan. | ||
| Did they show one of those straight blades? | ||
| They don't sell those fucking things, do they? | ||
| Because people are just going to cut people with those bitches. | ||
| People love those things for like images. | ||
| Like, look, here we are at the old barbershop with a straight blade and a frothy fucking whisk broom that I'm putting the shaving cream on. | ||
| How about you just use a razor that scientists figured out, you dunce? | ||
| And they're not that fun again. | ||
| If you go to a barbershop and you ask for the royal shave, the few times I've gotten it, I'm in a cold sweat by the end. | ||
| Just scared? | ||
| Just scared, because it's some old guy with hairy hands, and he's like... | ||
| And you hear that noise of skin against the sharpest blade you've ever seen. | ||
| And it's completely up to him to not take your life. | ||
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Right. | |
| It's like as long as his cell phone doesn't vibrate and he's not distracted, then you'll live to see another day. | ||
| Or he just seizes up. | ||
| His brain has a fucking computer failure. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| He just seizes up and starts doing a lot of horizontal movements with his hands. | ||
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Slice. | |
| Slice. | ||
| Anyway. | ||
| He's getting a shitty Yelp review, if that's what happens. | ||
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| Go do it. | ||
| Click that shit. | ||
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| That's O-N-N-I-T. | ||
| Makers of Alpha Brain, New Mood, Shroom Tech Sport. | ||
| And what we are is essentially a human optimization website. | ||
| It's a weird word, weird phrase to say because it doesn't really exist. | ||
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| We're also carrying a line of hemp force protein, hemp force protein powders and hemp force protein bars. | ||
| And they're bars that are made out of the finest hemp protein. | ||
| We buy all of our hemp protein from Canada, unfortunately, for now. | ||
| But as these laws change, we'll talk to David Seaman about this. | ||
| It seems like we're going to probably be able to get a farm going in America, which will drop the cost down on all of our hemp products substantially. | ||
| It's very expensive to get the highest quality hemp. | ||
| There's several grades that you can get. | ||
| We get the very highest grade. | ||
| Because we're doing everything online, we don't have a store that we send to that takes a cut out of everything. | ||
| So we can give you things in the qualities and in the purity that it's very difficult to get anywhere else. | ||
| The combinations of ingredients, like things like Alpha Brain. | ||
| And people have found when they tried to do it by themselves, like if you want to get the same purity, you realize how much it actually costs to make these things. | ||
| There's a lot of supplements that cut corners on ingredients, quality of ingredients. | ||
| And what we try to do on it is just get the very best shit available by default. | ||
| We don't have any economy models. | ||
| We don't have anything. | ||
| I mean, the only thing that you can get cheaper than we have it with kettlebells. | ||
| You have regular kettlebells, and then the zombie bells and the primal bells cost more, but that's because they're works of art. | ||
| They're very difficult to recreate. | ||
| Everything other than that, we just go for the greatest shit that they have. | ||
| And that philosophy is sort of, that's what I try to do with everything in life. | ||
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| Get that fucking thing. | ||
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| Any gigs coming up? | ||
| Yeah, this Friday, Portland, Oregon. | ||
| Good googly moogly. | ||
| Saturday, Seattle, and then Vancouver for 420 with Tony Hinchcliffe. | ||
| Tiffany Haddish. | ||
| DeathSquad.tv. | ||
| Son, it is a goddamn Northwest Territory invasion. | ||
| I can't wait. | ||
| Those are three dope-ass cities, too. | ||
| You're going to Seattle, Seattle, Vancouver, and Portland. | ||
| It doesn't get any better than those three places. | ||
| Those are three of the best places on earth to perform. | ||
| Vancouver is where, what's his name? | ||
| Eckhart Tolley is from. | ||
| And that's where he sat on the park bench for a couple of years. | ||
| Really? | ||
| Formulating all of his positive thoughts? | ||
| Yeah, after two years, he realized that he should be in the present moment. | ||
| I mean, there's more to it than that, but it really took him years to fully embody, like, this is all I have is this exact moment, nothing else. | ||
| Wow, and he figured it out in Vancouver. | ||
| In Vancouver. | ||
| He probably would have figured it out in Kansas. | ||
| It's a bad motherfucker. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Cartole. | ||
| I mean, I don't think you can give Vancouver any credit for that, even though Vancouver is awesome. | ||
| I am at the Ice House tonight with Ari Shafir, Duncan Trussell, and Tony Hinchcliffe. | ||
| And this weekend in Orlando with Joey Diaz. | ||
| Sold the fuck out, bitch. | ||
| Sorry, you snooze, you lose. | ||
| And Next week in Baltimore with Joey Diaz, probably sold out too. | ||
| If not, there's very few tickets left. | ||
| So that's it. | ||
| Boom, David Seaman's here. | ||
| Boom, Shalak Lock, Boom. | ||
| All right now. | ||
| Cue the music, son. | ||
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The Joe Rogan experience. | |
| Young David Seaman is fighting crime. | ||
| That's your new song. | ||
| Yeah, I like that. | ||
| That's great. | ||
| It's a great intro for my podcast from now, and I'm just going to sample that. | ||
| Maybe a couple other things. | ||
| We were talking during the commercials about these new laws that are slowly being worked in where people are going to allow to have hemp farms. | ||
| I'm really curious to see how they handle that. | ||
| Who starts getting arrested? | ||
| This Bundy Ranch thing that's going on in Nevada and the blowback. | ||
| I know absolutely nothing about Bundy Ranch. | ||
| The only thing I know about it is somebody tweeted me and said, like, why have you been silent on this? | ||
| And it's like, I've been silent on it because it's the first I've fucking heard of it. | ||
| It's like the other day, somebody asked me. | ||
| It's gross about that. | ||
| Their righteous indignation for you ignoring topics. | ||
| Has the man gotten to you, David Seaman? | ||
| You don't want to talk about ranchers' rights. | ||
| Oh, I see where you draw the line. | ||
| It's all fine if it's drones and Bitcoin. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| I was so confused about it because I thought it was the Bunny Ranch the whole time, and I'm like, why do they have cattle there? | ||
| That's so funny. | ||
| I thought the same thing. | ||
| When I saw that there was a protest at the Bunny Ranch, I was like, what happened? | ||
| I thought, like, maybe someone killed a prostitute or something, or some horrible thing happened, or they were trying to shut them down. | ||
| Someone did not give their money worth. | ||
| Yeah, I was against the protesters. | ||
| I was like, leave these guys alone. | ||
| Let them just get whacked up. | ||
| 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. | ||
| Well, last night I had to pick my mom up at LAX because she's visiting. | ||
| And on the way out, the woman would not let me out of the parking lot where you pay the fee and leave and the little gate goes up. | ||
| And I was like, what's going on here? | ||
| I was like, I'll pay with cash. | ||
| Like, it doesn't have to be credit card. | ||
| I'll pay with cash. | ||
| Like, I just want to get the fuck out of here. | ||
| I'm tired. | ||
| My mom just got off a five-hour flight. | ||
| She's tired. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And it's because I have a new car. | ||
| 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? | ||
| Zero. | ||
| You know, like, this is ridiculous. | ||
| Yeah, white guys with their mom and Toyota Corollas. | ||
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Very ridiculous. | |
| And so I was like, what is this? | ||
| 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, no, I agree with you. | ||
| I think you're totally right. | ||
| And I think that that's the thing about that people don't recognize about it slowly creeping into new places. | ||
| It's like all it would take is one event, whether it's at a great forum parking lot, you know, whether it's at, you know. | ||
| Well, they already, the TSA wants to start arming their agent, arming their, whatever they are, their people, because of the shooting at LAX. | ||
| So now we're going to go from a situation where there's pretty much nobody with guns at every airport to 20 dumbasses with guns at every airport. | ||
| And you're just creating an exponentially higher risk of something going wrong. | ||
| You know, somebody's going to make the wrong decision. | ||
| Somebody's going to be jumpy. | ||
| You don't need to arm a bunch of people who are barely able to do their jobs as it is. | ||
| Yeah, it's definitely a slippery slope. | ||
| It's definitely a slippery slope. | ||
| And it's like, what kind of qualifications are these people going to have to decide whether or not they should pull the trigger? | ||
| You heard about what happened to the PA that worked for Tosh.0 that got accidentally shot by the cops. | ||
| Holy shit, no, I didn't hear that. | ||
| Responded to someone they knew got stabbed. | ||
| He went to help, and the cops showed up, and he was running out of the place with the guy who had gotten stabbed. | ||
| The guy ran out. | ||
| He ran out behind him, and the cops unloaded on him. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| They just started firing on him. | ||
| And, you know, the cops had no idea. | ||
| He was running towards them and they just made a bad decision. | ||
| Now, these are cops, trained police officers that made a slippery decision, and they were incorrect. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And they go to a firing range, and they have to pass certain tests. | ||
| TSA officers are like rent-a-cops, basically. | ||
| 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. | ||
| Me too, especially when I get in the pre-approved line. | ||
| It's awesome. | ||
| It's almost like, oh, this is what it should be all the time. | ||
| It shouldn't be a special treat. | ||
| It should be, you know that just pre-screen the shit out of me. | ||
| You're already reading my emails. | ||
| Like, let's figure this out. | ||
| I get on the list where I can be pre-approved and can leave my shoes on, and that's fine. | ||
| Like, I'm okay with that. | ||
| Yeah, that's how it should be, 100%. | ||
| I remember when you used to not have to take a driver's license. | ||
| You could give somebody else your ticket. | ||
| You could give Brian your ticket and he can go on a fucking plane. | ||
| Like, you don't have to have a ticket that says David Seaman, show your passport. | ||
| Do you have any other forms of ID, sir? | ||
| Let me read your DNA. | ||
| Can I check your fingerprints? | ||
| What's this scar on your hand? | ||
| You've ruined your fingerprint. | ||
| You know, I mean, it's just unbelievably ridiculous that it's still escalating in this. | ||
| By the way, where's the terrorism? | ||
| Well, don't give them any ideas. | ||
| I know. | ||
| Well, I'm not saying, but what I am saying is Boston police arrest man for bringing hoax explosive device to Boston Marathon finish line. | ||
| They should eat that guy. | ||
| They should cut him up into pieces and serve him to prisoners. | ||
| And there was a pressure cooker in it, too. | ||
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Like, he just made a fucking idiot. | |
| Yeah, really not a smart cooker. | ||
| God, what a fucking idiot. | ||
| But, you know, what would have prevented that guy from doing that? | ||
| I mean, maybe if they had more security at the Boston airport or at the Boston Marathon. | ||
| But really what would have prevented it is if they followed up on all the creepers. | ||
| Like they had been looking at that guy for a long time. | ||
| The CIA had been investigating that guy for a while. | ||
| They knew that guy was a fucking piece of shit. | ||
| 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. | ||
| He didn't have a gun. | ||
| He killed like five people. | ||
| Yeah, it's insane. | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| And we got a lot of problems in this country. | ||
| 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. | ||
| Run, make some money. | ||
| I had a family member have a heart attack from adverse reaction to a drug that's relatively new. | ||
| Last couple of years it came on the market. | ||
| And it's still on the market, even though this is a known side effect. | ||
| Like you'll see, if you Google it, you'll see like law firms soliciting victims of this issue. | ||
| And I guess whatever being countered there decided that it would be massively expensive to rein in the drug and admit that we're at fault. | ||
| So instead we're just going to say, you know, this is the risk of using this medication. | ||
| It's insane to me that I still see commercials for this drug on TV and like know that it's responsible for giving a family member a heart attack. | ||
| That's so crazy. | ||
| And is it just a weird one in a million people freak out and blow a gasket on this stuff? | ||
| Or is it a real common side effect? | ||
| 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. | ||
| What is mesothelioma? | ||
| Because I see those ads. | ||
| They're on all the time on television. | ||
| Do you have mesothelioma? | ||
| I honestly don't know. | ||
| I think it might be some kind of lung disorder. | ||
| And it's from what? | ||
| No idea. | ||
| It is a, what looks like a cancer that develops from cells that's from exposure to asbestos. | ||
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| It's a cancer. | ||
| Only from asbestos? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So I guess what they're trying to do with those ads is target people that used to work in offices that have asbestos in them. | ||
| So that has nothing to do with what we're talking about. | ||
| 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? | ||
| What is it? | ||
| You know, what are the variables? | ||
| 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. | ||
| It's not a prison. | ||
| 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. | ||
| Yeah, 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. | ||
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Bitch! | |
| Do you know what he, you don't know how many? | ||
| You have no idea how many Mexicans they are. | ||
| You aren't talking to you about how they're undocumented. | ||
| They're hiding. | ||
| They're working. | ||
| Go to one taco truck next to a car wash. | ||
| There's like a thousand Mexican people there. | ||
| 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. | ||
| Well, the right about one thing is fucking queer is itching up. | ||
| On the way over here, the freeway was backed up because there was a wedding right in the middle of the freeway. | ||
| All these gays just getting married right and left, destroying our way of life. | ||
| Yeah, they were sucking each other off right before they got married. | ||
| They don't even believe in the sanctity of marriage in a gay household. | ||
| They don't abstain before they get married? | ||
| They're not like regular people. | ||
| They have sex all the time. | ||
| Did you know that? | ||
| The wedding ring goes on your cock. | ||
| I'm not sure if you're not a marriage. | ||
| They do that too. | ||
| That's how it keeps your dickheart. | ||
| None of them abstain ever. | ||
| They never abstain. | ||
| You're never going to find a single gay virgin. | ||
| They come out of the gate thinging their own butt. | ||
| They really had a wedding in the middle of a fight? | ||
| No, you fuckhead. | ||
| Jesus Christ. | ||
| We have an eight-year-old on the podcast. | ||
| We have to explain things to him that should be obvious. | ||
| I thought you really said there was. | ||
| And I was like, wait, that's ridiculous. | ||
| That's a good idea, though. | ||
| Everyone would know about your wedding. | ||
| I'm so deadpanned about everything that people can't even tell when I'm joking about shit. | ||
| Yeah, I could tell. | ||
| 9.9% of the people listening can tell. | ||
| Brian's half awake. | ||
| He woke up 15 minutes ago. | ||
| He hasn't had his bulletproof coffee yet. | ||
| He's already worked out today. | ||
| Maybe that's what it is. | ||
| You're tired. | ||
| 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. | ||
| Yeah, but I don't think the rational response is stop giving them jobs once they get here because it's never going to happen. | ||
| There's always going to be landscapers and there's always going to be construction workers. | ||
| Agriculture, like any vegetables you buy in the supermarket have probably been picked by illegal day laborers. | ||
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Sure. | |
| Go to Oxnard and get a strawberry. | ||
| Who are you getting it from? | ||
| You're getting that shit from someone who probably came to America to find a better life for their family. | ||
| So I don't think you can say that corporations are at fault. | ||
| Human beings should be allowed to go to a better place. | ||
| You should be allowed to take your fucking family to a better place. | ||
| And everybody over here that's got it good is scared that these poor people are going to come over here and fuck everything up. | ||
| And that's what the real fear is. | ||
| What about passports? | ||
| What an antiquated idea that is. | ||
| 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. | ||
| Like it makes no sense anymore. | ||
| It's not a logical thing. | ||
| Because Democrats are in office. | ||
| It's just partisan. | ||
| He's just attacking the other side. | ||
| But I think in general, why don't you just send me a bill? | ||
| Just send me a bill. | ||
| And in most cases, I think most people be like, oh, this is what I owe. | ||
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Cool. | |
| 20%, 25%, whatever the fuck it is. | ||
| People can pay it. | ||
| Because that's how it works for cable. | ||
| It's how it works for your credit card, for your car payment. | ||
| Why isn't your tax bill the same way? | ||
| Because they don't want people to pay or get money back. | ||
| Most people get money back that I know of. | ||
| Unless you're making over a certain amount of money, you actually get money back. | ||
| Everyone's like, oh, I get my tax check. | ||
| Well, here's a fucker. | ||
| Here's a fucker. | ||
| State taxes. | ||
| You don't always have to pay them. | ||
| That's the fucker. | ||
| Like if we lived in Washington State or if we lived in Vegas or I think Texas as well, Florida, a few places, you don't have to pay the state taxes. | ||
| That's 10%. | ||
| So if you live, say if you make a nice living, you know, you make, let's go with $100,000 a year because it's easy. | ||
| You make $100,000 a year, you're giving $10,000 to the state of California. | ||
| So you're paying $10,000 just to live here. | ||
| So imagine if your rent was $1,000 and then on top of that, you pay another $1,000 to the state. | ||
| That is what you're doing if you live in California or if you live in a place that has state taxes. | ||
| Like, how does Washington state survive? | ||
| How come they don't have to steal my money? | ||
| Like, what's going on here that Vegas doesn't need that 10%? | ||
| What's going on here that Texas has figured out how to fucking stay afloat without stealing money from the people that live there? | ||
| Like, what is a state tax? | ||
| Everybody gets a piece? | ||
| What? | ||
| So you can hire more people to do a shitty job of running things and just keep putting jobs on the books to eat up tax revenue? | ||
| We added 100,000 jobs. | ||
| You should be fired. | ||
| The government should be fired for creating any jobs. | ||
| If you're creating more jobs than you already have, that means there's more government. | ||
| More government should mean you're fired. | ||
| You're fucking up. | ||
| We don't need more government. | ||
| You need less people telling you what to do and less shit that's illegal. | ||
| That would smooth things out for so many people and let drugs be legal. | ||
| Boom, I balance your economy. | ||
| It's done. | ||
| It's over. | ||
| 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. | ||
| And I would rate him as a good president. | ||
| You're hilarious. | ||
| First of all, I don't think that that's a joint. | ||
| I think that picture is a cigarette. | ||
| I've looked at it many times. | ||
| I've studied it like the Sapruder film. | ||
| Let's look at it quite closely. | ||
| Have you ever noticed this when you're high? | ||
| Like everything seems to be a reminder that you're high? | ||
| No, because I've been getting high longer than you, son. | ||
| Yeah, but look how he's holding it. | ||
| I never hold a cigarette like that. | ||
| He's really enjoying it. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, let me see. | ||
| Close in on that, bitch. | ||
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Let's get a CSI on this one. | |
| Get it closer. | ||
| Look how it's not like, like it looks squished and stuff like it's a roll joint. | ||
| Look at the smoke signature. | ||
| And you know what? | ||
| Here's another point. | ||
| Look how far down he's already smoking it. | ||
| He would basically be in the filter if it was a cigarette. | ||
| You're right. | ||
| 100%. | ||
| Unless he rolled his own cigarette as a cowboy. | ||
| I know dudes who do that. | ||
| He can't roll menthols. | ||
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Oh, you made a black joke, you fuck. | |
| How dare you? | ||
| He's the commander-in-chief. | ||
| You're a man-boy. | ||
| And he's the commander-in-chief. | ||
| You son of a bitch. | ||
| Does he smoke menthols? | ||
| Because he used to smoke, right? | ||
| I think Michelle made him quit cigarettes. | ||
| When you're the goddamn president, you can't smoke anymore because it's the stupidest thing people do. | ||
| He does. | ||
| You think he does? | ||
| Fuck yeah. | ||
| He was smoking in office, at least his first term, and that job is so stressful, there's no way you're quitting smoking while you're a president. | ||
| Yeah, you could quit. | ||
| You could quit if you really wanted to. | ||
| So funny to think about him having a window open in the Oval Office. | ||
| And just fucking puffing butts. | ||
| I mean, think of just the amount of stress that he's going through anyway. | ||
| Your cigarettes are not going to relieve that. | ||
| The kind of stress that you must be going through to be the goddamn president. | ||
| I mean, your hair goes white. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Well, that's why I try not to be super anti-Obama because once he's gone in two years, it's going to be somebody else. | ||
| And like 98% of the shit we're complaining about right now will still exist. | ||
| I quit smoking because of Michelle. | ||
| Aww, sweetie. | ||
| Six years. | ||
| They do seem like a nice couple. | ||
| Like, they really do seem like they like each other. | ||
| I mean, I don't know. | ||
| People are good at bullshitting, but. | ||
| Well, conservatives attack her for promoting healthy eating habits. | ||
| And I'm like, of all the things for a first lady to be doing, I think this is the best use of big government. | ||
| Let's encourage people to eat healthy. | ||
| It's much better than spying on everybody else. | ||
| Screw a garden. | ||
| Shagrew a garden at the White House, growing vegetables and shit. | ||
| Yeah, sustainability and making your own food. | ||
| That's good stuff. | ||
| 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 is a fact. | ||
| And that's unavoidable. | ||
| And that's just mathematics, human nature 101. | ||
| It's real simple. | ||
| We're greedy bitches. | ||
| 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. | ||
| They want to keep those NSA analyst jobs. | ||
| They want to buy a weekend home. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So it's all, I think it's like 80% about money. | ||
| 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 as new people come into government, that that same structure is going to keep, is going to stay in the same form? | ||
| It's going to destroy them as well. | ||
| They get sucked into it like the Wolf of Wall Street guy. | ||
| Yeah, well. | ||
| They just become a part of it. | ||
| Even if you become a congressman, you're not getting on the important committees. | ||
| You're just sitting in the back and you have one vote out of 450 fucking people. | ||
| So you get on TV and you get to have a moral voice, but in terms of changing the direction the government goes, you don't have much say. | ||
| And how many people in Congress are actually legit young people that we can relate to? | ||
| I can name two. | ||
| And then there's Ron Wyden, who's older, but still to me seems like he's an honest guy. | ||
| So I can think of three people between the Congress and Senate who I would trust to actually represent everyday people's interests. | ||
| 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? | ||
| It would be so baffling. | ||
| 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 you're probably right. | ||
| 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? | ||
| I didn't see that. | ||
| What I saw recently is that the technology subreddit, which is one of the most popular, is using a bot to automatically filter out posts. | ||
| And somebody did research and posted the keywords that this bot is filtering. | ||
| And it's like serious thought control. | ||
| Like, you're not allowed to publish a headline that has the word Tesla in it, you know, like the electric car company. | ||
| Not allowed to have the word Bitcoin, not allowed to have the word NSA. | ||
| What? | ||
| Like Keith Alexander? | ||
| You got to look this thing up. | ||
| Wait a minute. | ||
| That's crazy. | ||
| This is Reddit? | ||
| This is the technology subreddit. | ||
| It's this big controversy now because people are like, well, this is fucking retarded. | ||
| How could they stop that? | ||
| Are they trying to prevent advertising? | ||
| Like, what are they trying to do? | ||
| I think the original intent was to not have the whole page filled with basically the same story. | ||
| Like, if there's a big NSA revelation, you have 10 articles and it's all the same content, but just like different people saying the same thing. | ||
| I think that was the original intent, but it's also like, why don't you let Reddit do Reddit? | ||
| Like, the whole point is good content gets upvoted. | ||
| People aren't interested, they'll get rid of it on their own. | ||
| What is that, Brian? | ||
| What do you got there? | ||
| Reddit. | ||
| Just showing Reddit. | ||
| Why are you showing Deskwads Reddit? | ||
| I want to see what he's talking about. | ||
| I don't know what that is. | ||
| The technology subreddit. | ||
| Type in Reddit and Daily Dot, and the article should come up. | ||
| Daily Dot. | ||
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| Wow. | ||
| That's... | ||
| Now, is Tesla such a popular subject that they had to do that? | ||
| I mean, how many different articles are written about Teslas that they had to use that word? | ||
| Well, the other issue is if that's what people are interested in this week, why don't you let that rise to the top? | ||
| Like, who the fuck are you to create this false structure? | ||
| Like, you're not allowed to talk about the NSA. | ||
| Well, that affects every facet of people's technology right now. | ||
| And, you know, like, it's huge. | ||
| That's insane. | ||
| What if some new news comes out and it has to do with the Tesla and NSA? | ||
| And you literally can't make the post. | ||
| I want people to see this article so they just know that I'm not like making it up. | ||
| What's it called? | ||
| Give me the title of what it is. | ||
| It was an article in the Daily Dot, and it was like Reddit technology subreddit something. | ||
| Okay, I'm just Googling Daily Dot. | ||
| Reddit's mods are censoring dozens of words from our technology posts. | ||
| That's the thing. | ||
| Say what you want about Reddit's technology. | ||
| One of the popular forums, blah, blah, blah, one of its most popular forums. | ||
| Just don't say NSA, net neutrality, Comcast, Bitcoin, or any of the roughly 50 other words that will secretly get your post deleted. | ||
| Holy shit. | ||
| Isn't that crazy? | ||
| There's a bot in R slash technology ready to delete any so-called controversial headline you try to submit. | ||
| That's unbelievable. | ||
| A headline about net neutrality gets deleted? | ||
| That's insane. | ||
| In July, Reddit dropped two controversial subreddits, R Atheism and R Politics, from being automatic subscriptions for new users. | ||
| See, that's kind of Orwellian too. | ||
| It's like, why is politics controversial? | ||
| That's a big part of why people visit sites like Reddit is to see what's happening in the political world. | ||
| And you just had Alexis on, right? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Maybe you could email him and try to get him to fix technology. | ||
| Maybe I could. | ||
| I will try, but I don't think he's involved in the day-to-day anymore. | ||
| From what I understand, this is not like Reddit's staff doing this. | ||
| It's these mods who are volunteers. | ||
| And once you become a mod, it's very hard to get rid of you. | ||
| And there's like no accountability. | ||
| Like, we don't know who these fucking people are. | ||
| All we know is the actions they take. | ||
| Right. | ||
| 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? | ||
| We don't know that. | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| I'm emailing him right now to ask him what the hell this is. | ||
| It doesn't make any sense. | ||
| It doesn't make any sense why they would do that. | ||
| Like, why would you have net neutrality? | ||
| What are you doing, dude? | ||
| I'm just going to type all the keywords into a post and try to make a thread and see what happens. | ||
| Can you buy a new Tesla with Bitcoin? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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| With Bitcoin. | ||
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| That's how you make sure that your conversation is always logged by the NSA. | ||
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Just close it with Tower 7. | |
| Yeah, that's the big one, right? | ||
| People love that one. | ||
| Tower 7's a juicy one. | ||
| Any conspiracy theorist that doesn't have an opinion about Tower 7 is not worth his salt. | ||
| You better have an opinion. | ||
| But Eddie Bravo will fucking hold you down until you tell him that Tower 7 was a demolition. | ||
| We'll fucking hold you down, man. | ||
| He doesn't. | ||
| You can't say, I don't know. | ||
| You would if you had a guess. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| But if your life depended on it, does it? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| All right, I made the thread. | ||
| Did it work? | ||
| It seems like it worked. | ||
| It went up. | ||
| We'll see how long until the Reddit SWAT team deletes your post. | ||
| But it's not... | ||
| What does it say? | ||
| Try to submit it again. | ||
| It said you already submitted it. | ||
| Oh, the link's already been submitted. | ||
| What, did you double submit? | ||
| No, I just put in because you have to put a link down, so I didn't know what to link it to. | ||
| I'll put it linked to your website and see what happens. | ||
| Don't do that. | ||
| I'll get in trouble. | ||
| Link it to your own website, stupid. | ||
| Or you're going to link in your shit to my shit. | ||
| Yeah, or you'll get the podcast banned from Reddit. | ||
| Yeah, I'm not doing it anymore. | ||
| I don't think it would. | ||
| I would email Alexis and get to the pod. | ||
| He was cool. | ||
| Interesting story. | ||
| Cool dude. | ||
| It's funny because he's... | ||
| 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... | ||
| I think that's his organization. | ||
| 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. | ||
| And people like me definitely notice that. | ||
| 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. | ||
| And we know this is wrong. | ||
| So why don't you say something? | ||
| 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. | ||
| It's more globally conscious. | ||
| It's a more optimistic view of the world. | ||
| 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. | ||
| And I think that the rest of the world is slowly but surely forcing America to catch the fuck up on a lot of our archaic shit. | ||
| Like Canada. | ||
| Canada just released all limitations on prostitution. | ||
| They just said, stop. | ||
| Who cares? | ||
| Is that like the Rob Ford Act of 2014? | ||
| No, that's crack. | ||
| Crack's now legal. | ||
| The mayor can smoke it in office and still stay there. | ||
| He's a phenomenal being. | ||
| I was watching some of his. | ||
| He's a fat guy that does blow. | ||
| What's phenomenal about that? | ||
| And he became mayor of Toronto. | ||
| It's crazy. | ||
| Yeah, it's amazing that he's still mayor. | ||
| Don't you have to do debates or something? | ||
| They don't realize that he's crazy right away. | ||
| Well, how the fuck did Bush get in office? | ||
| You know, I mean, people like people that are like them. | ||
| There's a lot of fat cokeheads out there. | ||
| In Toronto, I guess. | ||
| But they're not. | ||
| Toronto's an amazing spot. | ||
| It's a really powerful financial space. | ||
| Brian, don't put that up. | ||
| He's getting us pulled down from YouTube. | ||
| Every time we put a YouTube clip up these days, we're getting fucking pulled down. | ||
| But the other thing that's cool about the tech world is that they're very, they hold nothing sacred. | ||
| So in the 90s, they're like, we're going to reinvent communication. | ||
| And they did that with email and instant messenger and then all the more advanced shit that came after, like social media. | ||
| And now they've turned their eyes to money. | ||
| And they're like, we're going to reinvent money. | ||
| We're no longer happy with massaging the balls of these credit card companies and getting a small fee in return. | ||
| We want to own the whole process from start to finish. | ||
| We want it to be faster. | ||
| We don't want to get clearance from credit card companies before we change our marketing or our design. | ||
| And we just want to have total freedom. | ||
| You know, it's the same with like with what Google does. | ||
| They don't really ask for permission before indexing your site. | ||
| They just do it. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And I think that's a really positive force in the world. | ||
| Like, who is it that says do it and then ask permission later? | ||
| Like, obviously. | ||
| Who's that? | ||
| It's some like business guru. | ||
| I forget who it was. | ||
| It's either like Branson or somebody like that. | ||
| I just read it recently. | ||
| But I think that's a great mindset. | ||
| And it's so much better than the government mindset of, are you following all the regulations? | ||
| Like, it was never supposed to be the American way that the first thing you think about is what is the government going to think? | ||
| It's better to ask for forgiveness or beg for forgiveness than to ask for permission. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| I think that that's all well and good except for environmental concerns. | ||
| Oh, I totally. | ||
| The real issue is when people do things and they don't ask and then you deal with a cleanup. | ||
| 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. | ||
| Why don't we get rid of that? | ||
| 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. | ||
| People were like, what? | ||
| Just because you're in the right patch of dirt? | ||
| You don't want the water from Ohio. | ||
| You probably get it. | ||
| It's bad water. | ||
| Herpe's water. | ||
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| Pure. | ||
| Yeah, you've Done tests. | ||
| But, you know, I think that what we're saying makes sense ultimately, like from an objective standpoint. | ||
| It's just that the system that's in place is not an objective system. | ||
| It's not a rational system. | ||
| It's a system that runs on momentum. | ||
| Well, that's again why the digital money thing I think is the first step in actually changing this system because the structure will stay the same. | ||
| If we continue to do all the same stuff, 100 years from now, we'll still have countries and passports and drones and all the rest of this shit. | ||
| The only way is to rethink really fundamental parts of what we're doing. | ||
| And if we do that, it just changes where the money comes from and it reallocates it to better things. | ||
| I think that individuals are better deciders of how to spend money than a government agency. | ||
| No, I think you're right. | ||
| I think the government agencies, the problem with them is that it's just a bunch of people. | ||
| You know, the problem, calling something the government and giving it power. | ||
| You're just giving power to people over people. | ||
| And at a certain point in time, people need to kind of figure out what they want to give other people power over. | ||
| You know, do you want to give people power over your sex life? | ||
| Do you want to give people power over your diet? | ||
| When New York comes along and says you can't have big gulps anymore, and everybody just goes, okay. | ||
| Hey, fuck you. | ||
| No, you can't tell me what kind of soda I can drink, dummy. | ||
| If I want to drink out a 35-ounce soda or whatever the hell it is, why do you care? | ||
| I buy a 30-ounce soda. | ||
| How about I go to the store and I get a one-liter? | ||
| I get a big, giant, one-liter bottle, and I drink it. | ||
| Fuck you. | ||
| You can't tell me what to eat or what to drink. | ||
| What kind of nonsense is that? | ||
| Have you covered all the bases? | ||
| Have you solved all the burglaries? | ||
| Have you solved all the rape cases? | ||
| Then shut the fuck up and leave the soda alone. | ||
| Well, that's my issue with the whole healthcare.gov thing, too. | ||
| It's like, okay, so if it's so good, people should want to sign up for it and you should incentivize them. | ||
| You should advertise it as you're doing. | ||
| But you shouldn't make it a requirement. | ||
| And it shouldn't be like, we're going to find the shit out of you if you don't sign up. | ||
| And by the way, every year the fine gets bigger. | ||
| That's like some kind of harassment psychological shit, right? | ||
| Like 1% this year, 2% next year. | ||
| Like, are you a child? | ||
| You know, like, what is that? | ||
| It should be totally voluntary. | ||
| And I got my foot infected recently. | ||
| I had a blister. | ||
| It got infected. | ||
| And I went to one of those walk-in clinics. | ||
| And it was $79 for the visit. | ||
| And I didn't see a doctor. | ||
| It was like an RN or something. | ||
| Because for just the gross, for some dude's gross foot blister, you don't need a neurosurgeon. | ||
| You don't have to pay a lot of money. | ||
| She looked at it in about 30 seconds. | ||
| She goes, oh yeah, I'm going to prescribe you Keflex. | ||
| She prescribes it. | ||
| I'm taking it every six hours. | ||
| My infection is gone now. | ||
| I just have to take it for the next few days as a preventive thing. | ||
| And that prescription with no insurance was $20. | ||
| So my whole visit was $100. | ||
| I didn't cost taxpayers anything. | ||
| I didn't cost myself anything beyond that $100 visit. | ||
| Why can't we do that? | ||
| Why can't it just be a product you buy like anything else? | ||
| Well, don't you think that what happens is exactly what we were talking about before? | ||
| You're dealing with corporations trying to make a shitload of money. | ||
| They pay a lot of money to get a politician into office. | ||
| They lobby, special interest groups, finance campaigns, they get him in. | ||
| Okay, he's our guy. | ||
| Now he wants to do Obamacare. | ||
| Okay, let's attach this fucking Compassionate Care Act or whatever the hell you want to call it. | ||
| Name a name. | ||
| We're going to make more money this way. | ||
| This way we're going to force people to buy, hey, we're going to have more subscriptions. | ||
| We want more of this and more of that. | ||
| Don't people out there wonder why the insurance companies were so supportive of what was supposed to be a huge reform of their industry? | ||
| It's because in exchange, Obama's like, you're going to have a captive audience of every single citizen is now required to buy your product. | ||
| It's like, what do you think would happen to the price of iPhones if you were required by law to have one on you at all times? | ||
| It's really the opposite of socialized medicine. | ||
| 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. | ||
| Everybody graduates from high school and they're not a retard when they graduate. | ||
| They know something about the political world. | ||
| They know something about they take a psychology class so they don't become some psycho shooter. | ||
| They understand things about their own psychology. | ||
| I would be in favor of that. | ||
| I'd be in favor of a school system that's not completely broken. | ||
| Well, it's also a school system that's manageable as far as the numbers. | ||
| When you're a teacher and you've got 40 kids in your class, there's no way you can give them individual attention. | ||
| There's no way in an hour class. | ||
| We've got to rethink keeping 40 hormonally charged kids in a room for eight hours a day, sitting in chairs. | ||
| We've got to rethink that whole paradigm because what you could do is everybody has an iPad. | ||
| You read that day's assignment and once a week you all meet up at a fucking Starbucks. | ||
| And if you have any questions, then the person who's like your RA or TA or whatever is like, okay, yeah, here's how you solve this one. | ||
| And then a lot of it could be collaborative online. | ||
| What do you mean not have a school where they show up at school? | ||
| Basically just not have a school. | ||
| And then you limit the risk of some psycho coming to the school and blowing people away. | ||
| You limit the cost. | ||
| And you could still have like a school. | ||
| You could still have like a gym and a shared area for people to hang out and discuss stuff. | ||
| But why do you need to trap people in a building eight hours a day? | ||
| Well, I see your point in some ways, but in other ways, that's like a really valuable time for learning human interaction. | ||
| No, yeah. | ||
| I mean, I think people are already Asperger-y enough without... | ||
| You never have to go outside and interact with people. | ||
| Amazon Prime, you just get shit delivered. | ||
| We kind of want to keep people as connected as possible. | ||
| No, that's a valid point. | ||
| Especially when they're young. | ||
| We're thinking out loud. | ||
| Well, there's some validation to it, too. | ||
| 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, and your brain needs that development. | ||
| Well, I think that, you know, otherwise you're dealing with wild people, just wild people that have never. | ||
| And then you're going to have to try to hire those people and get them to be in your cubicle all day. | ||
| It's like a cat that hasn't been domesticated. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| You ever have a feral cat? | ||
| You ever have a feral cat? | ||
| I've never had one, but I've interacted with them before, and they just do whatever they want. | ||
| Yeah, I had a feral cat. | ||
| I was the only one who could pick him up. | ||
| If anybody else tried to pick him up, even if I picked him up, he'd hiss, and then I'd pick him up, but he would relax. | ||
| Once I started petting him, he'd purr like crazy, like, you're not trying to kill me. | ||
| But he was a constant freak out. | ||
| I mean, you're going to get a little bit of that mingling. | ||
| And you're also not going to be able to pick out the psychos is easy. | ||
| You're not constantly looking at, like, Billy's bringing skinned cats to school. | ||
| Like, maybe we should sit down with his fucking parents and find out what's going on with Billy. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| See it coming. | ||
| Well, there was this story recently of some guy who shot up a synagogue, I think. | ||
| The most recent guy? | ||
| Yeah, Kansas City guy? | ||
| 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. | ||
| Yeah, have a little sit-down with Homeboy and find out how serious he is about this project. | ||
| Yeah, and since the NSA is already logging all our stuff, maybe you check his credit card records. | ||
| Did he just buy a gun last week? | ||
| Then you have correlation. | ||
| And that's where I think this stuff could actually be useful instead of just expensive bullshit. | ||
| Let's see here. | ||
| He's maxed out. | ||
| He bought 300 copies of Mein Kampf. | ||
| Hmm. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Might want to pay him a visit. | ||
| Might want to sit down and talk about why he needs all that ammo. | ||
| Huh. | ||
| There's no way they can keep track. | ||
| That's the thing about people monitoring people's cell phones and shit and all that stuff. | ||
| The idea that there's someone assigned to David Seaman listening to every call, it's hilarious. | ||
| It's truly hilarious because the amount of data you're talking about, it's fucking staggering for one person. | ||
| Even how fast we browse the internet now, like I'll be on a website for about eight seconds and click like seven other tabs. | ||
| It's a lot of data. | ||
| It's too much. | ||
| 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. | ||
| Is this going to affect our bottom line at all? | ||
| 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. | ||
| And it's probably right around the corner. | ||
| I agree with that, actually. | ||
| 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. | ||
| And it's... | ||
| So it's not even necessarily interested in looking good or making money. | ||
| It doesn't have like mortality motivation because if it backs up its intelligence, it could probably live forever, right? | ||
| So what motivates it to do anything? | ||
| Yeah, there's no motivation. | ||
| That's an interesting thing. | ||
| People are worried that robots will take over and artificial intelligence will dominate the Earth. | ||
| It might just be a command line. | ||
| And you type anything into it and it tells you the answer or it helps you out, but it has just no interest in either harming humanity or helping us. | ||
| Unless it's programmed that way. | ||
| 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. | ||
| Emotions, all the jealousy, all the nonsense. | ||
| That'd be very bad. | ||
| 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. | ||
| The Matrix, basically. | ||
| 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. | ||
| Did somebody post that article to the technology subreddit, but it's instantly removed? | ||
| And someone comes in and kicks his head off and yells out, World Star, World Star. | ||
| And technology shows that as well and it becomes the number one video the internet ever sees ever. | ||
| And then he goes into porn, robot porn with a sliced neck because his dick never goes soft. | ||
| He's a fucking robot. | ||
| Once he learns he's a robot, he just presses the dick hard button and it just goes. | ||
| I think that there's a real concern at a certain point in time that we're going to create an artificial thing that thinks we're retarded. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| If it's really doing calculations and realizing how ridiculous we are. | ||
| 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. | ||
| Well, the followers of Ted Kaczynski. | ||
| That's what it's going to be. | ||
| 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. | ||
| I think he was just a crazy person, and I think a lot of crazy people can see like a very small part of the picture, and that's why they're crazy. | ||
| They can see the little bit. | ||
| They can't see the whole fucking thing. | ||
| And if they could see that, they would be much less worried. | ||
| You know, he was a part of the Harvard LSD studies, right? | ||
| I did not know that. | ||
| Yeah, you should look into it. | ||
| It's a fascinating. | ||
| There's a documentary called The Net. | ||
| It's a foreign documentary in subtitles. | ||
| 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. | ||
| Movie preview won't do it. | ||
| I don't know about that, man. | ||
| It's really annoying lately. | ||
| We're getting like half of the videos we put up. | ||
| We get something on YouTube that says we shouldn't have it up. | ||
| It's a dispute. | ||
| You have to do a fair use thing. | ||
| We were talking about before, you were talking about trolls that do that to videos. | ||
| Yeah, content trolls. | ||
| 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? | ||
| Right. | ||
| And what do they respond to you as? | ||
| They always end up reversing it, but it takes me time to do that. | ||
| And what they're hoping is that a certain percentage of people won't take the time, and then they make a small amount of money off your videos. | ||
| That's fascinating. | ||
| That's really fascinating that someone's decided to be that much of a cunt. | ||
| That they're going to pretend that you, in your office or wherever you're doing this thing, that you somehow or another are stealing their work. | ||
| That's amazing. | ||
| I'm using English words, and I think they probably use English words, so that must be copyright infringement. | ||
| That's amazing. | ||
| It's amazing that they think that they can do that, or that they think that somehow or another that's justified. | ||
| Do you think they're randomly selecting people or they're purposely finding people that have a high number of videos, high number of views? | ||
| If I were to say anything, it would just be complete speculation. | ||
| I don't know what they're going for. | ||
| Maybe it's like an algorithm. | ||
| Maybe it's a bot that searches out things. | ||
| It's a money-making bot. | ||
| 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. | ||
| Oh, the CAPTCHA scrambled. | ||
| Yeah, this is the best way you have to do this. | ||
| And by the way, sometimes it's like what is that? | ||
| I like to fail the test a whole bunch. | ||
| When they cram the letters together, I have to guess I'm not human because I didn't pass your fucking test. | ||
| Yeah, sometimes it's a real calculation. | ||
| I think it's a Q. What the? | ||
| Is that a G or a fucking Q? | ||
| What is that weird ass thing that doesn't look like a font? | ||
| I like when they just ask questions, like, what was the first president of the United States or something like that? | ||
| That's a lot smarter. | ||
| 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. | ||
| It'd look at the text and then form a response. | ||
| You could ask a Google search engine a question. | ||
| It'll take you to Wiki Answers and then boom. | ||
| So all we'd have to do is just print that. | ||
| Yeah, but then it wouldn't be a one-word answer. | ||
| You know what I mean? | ||
| Yeah, sure it would be. | ||
| Who's the first president of the United States? | ||
| George Washington. | ||
| Yeah, but then if they were to search Google, it'd probably be like George Washington is a, like it wouldn't know to just stop, I guess, maybe. | ||
| You know what I mean? | ||
| Well, do you remember that thing, Wolfram Alpha, that they were doing a long time ago? | ||
| Because you don't hear about that anymore. | ||
| Yeah, well, it was a search engine, like an academic search engine, and I think the idea was to have a total, complete human database. | ||
| Siri. | ||
| That's what it is. | ||
| It becomes Siri. | ||
| Yeah, they use the technology for Siri, which works 8 out of 10 times only, right? | ||
| Doesn't it? | ||
| I don't use it that often, but I find it to be pretty accurate. | ||
| But I mean, even good now is 8 out of 10, right? | ||
| 2 out of 10. | ||
| It depends what you're doing. | ||
| Okay, let's find out. | ||
| Let's Google this. | ||
| How often does Siri work? | ||
| Let's just say that. | ||
| We don't want to say Siri the porn star, because there's a porn star named Siri. | ||
| 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? | ||
| Say that again? | ||
| There used to be infomercials for this software where you'd put on the microphone and instead of typing... | ||
| Yeah, Dragon, like speech recognition. | ||
| And back then, it was so clunky that what we have now is ridiculously better than anything that I think they expected. | ||
| 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? | ||
| Like a Hemingway. | ||
| Is this as concise as possible? | ||
| Could I go shorter? | ||
| Yeah, There's a way to put more flair to it. | ||
| There's a way to give it a better feeling. | ||
| Like, what's the impact that I'm going to get from reading this? | ||
| There's a way to enhance that in some way. | ||
| That extra consideration, I think, is good. | ||
| It's not that you can't do that in the editing process, though. | ||
| But for me, silence is how I write best. | ||
| I don't want to even hear my own voice. | ||
| I don't want to hear shit. | ||
| Most of the time, don't listen to music unless there's a rare moment. | ||
| But the idea that you could just talk a whole email and absolutely have it be perfect, that's really compelling. | ||
| Like it was like day-to-day tasks that weren't like creative. | ||
| Yeah, if it's been so good, you don't have to check it before you send it to your boss. | ||
| Like, hey, Dave, is 12.30 on Wednesday okay for a podcast? | ||
| Question mark, send. | ||
| Boom, done. | ||
| Takes five seconds. | ||
| I do that all the time with text messaging, by the way. | ||
| One of the things about Androids is their Google Voice software that they use for analyzing your text. | ||
| Like if I send you a text, it's fucking incredible. | ||
| It's really, really accurate. | ||
| Cool. | ||
| It's really accurate. | ||
| It's really fast. | ||
| It picks it up as you're talking, and you can see the letters forming. | ||
| And that's just on a cell phone. | ||
| They're also not shitheads about accepting stuff into their app store. | ||
| It's a much more open environment. | ||
| Yeah, despite what everybody's been telling me, no, there are no Bitcoin applications available for the iPhone. | ||
| You may have a Bitcoin application for the iPhone, but you cannot get new ones. | ||
| That's what people are saying. | ||
| I have a Bitcoin app. | ||
| You don't know what you're talking about. | ||
| You do because you already downloaded it. | ||
| But if you try to download one right now, you're not going to be able to get it. | ||
| There are apps that will show you the price and stuff, but there aren't apps that will allow you to send or receive Bitcoins. | ||
| That's fascinating. | ||
| That's a weird thing. | ||
| Well, is there any rational explanation for why Apple has chosen to do that? | ||
| I think, I mean, there are two reasons. | ||
| 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. | ||
| That's a very good point. | ||
| I didn't even think of that because Apple is, that's a huge part of their business is their iTunes store. | ||
| Yeah, they give app developers, I believe, 70%, and they take 30%. | ||
| And with Bitcoin, they'd be getting like nothing. | ||
| That is a very good point and a very likely reason. | ||
| That's a very likely motivation. | ||
| The other reason is just they're worried about legal shit. | ||
| But that's not so much a concern because if a company like Apple wants to do something, they do it. | ||
| They always have the ability to remain compliant, and that's what they would do. | ||
| That's a really good point, man. | ||
| 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. | ||
| So you think that all money will be digital currency in a certain amount of time? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| 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. | ||
| What happened there? | ||
| Analog always loses out to digital. | ||
| That seems to be the trend in anything. | ||
| Well, innovation always stomps out the old stupid shit. | ||
| 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. | ||
| It's the graphic user interface is what it is. | ||
| That's what they invented. | ||
| They invented the point and click. | ||
| 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. | ||
| So we'll have like multiple alternative currencies to choose from. | ||
| Yeah, it's going to be really weird. | ||
| 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. | ||
| You know what someone's got to do, though? | ||
| 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. | ||
| The IRS has already ruled that it's property. | ||
| So if you have any government agency that tries to damage the network, then you're damaging your own citizens' property and that is illegal. | ||
| That's one of the most basic tenets of American capitalism is we protect property rights here. | ||
| It might not happen in countries in South America that you get a new dictator, everybody's property gets taken over. | ||
| That's not what America does. | ||
| We actually respect property rights. | ||
| So it's very strange to me that we would have people even think about challenging that. | ||
| Well, if that's the case, then what's going on with this Mt. | ||
| Gox thing? | ||
| That means there's a giant grand theft took place where $300 million in property was stolen. | ||
| 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. | ||
| It might not be, you know, it might take a year. | ||
| It might take five years, but they're done. | ||
| Yeah, I think digital currency, without a doubt, threatens the paradigm. | ||
| It threatens the situation that they have, the stranglehold they have. | ||
| And once you see companies like Tiger Direct starting to sell computers and different Vegas casinos are starting to accept it. | ||
| Overstock's a huge company and they accept it. | ||
| Yeah, it's going to get weird. | ||
| It's going to get real weird. | ||
| I'm really curious to see what happens and really curious to see what the blowback is going to be. | ||
| What sort of federal attack on Bitcoin? | ||
| And you have a really good point that there's always been corruption as far as regular money goes, as far as accepted conventional money goes. | ||
| There's always been massive amounts of corruption. | ||
| There's always been massive amounts of theft. | ||
| There's always been problems. | ||
| But no one has said, we can't have money anymore. | ||
| Everybody's corrupt. | ||
| Bernie Madoff fucked it up. | ||
| No more money. | ||
| Yeah, how many people write rubber checks? | ||
| That's something that never happens with Bitcoin. | ||
| I can't send you a rubber Bitcoin. | ||
| I can't send you a fake Bitcoin. | ||
| That's a real good point. | ||
| 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. | ||
| So this Mt. | ||
| Gox guy who fucked up and coded his site in a shitty way, when all that money is gone, all that $300 million in Bitcoin is gone. | ||
| Are people investigating that like it's a crime? | ||
| I'm sure they are. | ||
| I think the U.S. wants to drag his ass over here. | ||
| Is he an American? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I don't know what he is. | ||
| I know his company was based in Japan. | ||
| He looks like he's American. | ||
| He doesn't look Asian. | ||
| The Mt. | ||
| Gox thing, though, is if that is property, that's a huge piece of theft. | ||
| I mean, that should be something that prosecutors go after. | ||
| Is it one of those gray areas where everybody's looking around going, was a crime just taking place here? | ||
| Oh, I think they're going to go after him. | ||
| 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. | ||
| Boy, he has a big, fat, stupid head. | ||
| Looks like he ate some Bitcoins. | ||
| Yeah, ate all the Bitcoins. | ||
| He ate $300 million in Bitcoin. | ||
| Mt. | ||
| Gox is set to liquidate as court denies rehabilitation. | ||
| So they're going to liquidate now. | ||
| What does that mean? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Once the world's biggest, this is seven hours ago this came out. | ||
| Once the world's biggest Bitcoin exchange, Mt. | ||
| Gox, is likely to be liquidated after a Tokyo court dismissed the company's bid to resuscitate its business. | ||
| The court appointed administrator, court appointed administrator said on Wednesday. | ||
| Mark Carpolis is also likely to be investigated for liability in the collapse of the Tokyo-based firm. | ||
| The provisional administrator lawyer Nobu Akikobayashi said in a settlement, a statement published on the Mt. | ||
| Gox website. | ||
| Look at that big, fat, stupid head. | ||
| He looks so dumb, too. | ||
| He doesn't just look like an overweight guy. | ||
| He looks like a dunce. | ||
| Nice hair. | ||
| It's not bad. | ||
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It's not bad. | |
| Absolutely, Greasy. | ||
| Jumped from, what, Magic the Gathering to managing one of the most high-traffic exchanges in the world? | ||
| Yeah, what is that guy going to do for a job after this? | ||
| I mean, if he has any money at all, people are going to find it and go, give me that bitch. | ||
| Fuck my Bitcoins. | ||
| Smack him in the head. | ||
| Oh, I'm sure he has a lot of people who are not happy with him. | ||
| Yeah, he better stay over there, man. | ||
| 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. | ||
| Yeah, I think you're absolutely right. | ||
| Fascinating stuff, man. | ||
| 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. | ||
| And I'm going to miss him. | ||
| Sucks. | ||
| Yeah, I'm sorry to hear about that. | ||
| You know, it sucks when people... | ||
| You should always go on because the circumstances always change. | ||
| Maybe, but Hunter S. Thompson was done. | ||
| Well, that's the thing about that guy. | ||
| 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? | ||
| Yeah, there's no doubt about it. | ||
| There's definitely a time where you should be able to end it on your own terms. | ||
| Why should someone have to like choke on their own blood until their lungs fill up and they drown? | ||
| Let people die with dignity. | ||
| At a certain point, if the cancer treatment failed or whatever it is, give that person a choice. | ||
| I agree. | ||
| 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. | ||
| No, I completely agree. | ||
| I hate that Malthusian. | ||
| It's a great word, by the way. | ||
| I hate that approach. | ||
| It's lazy. | ||
| I think if you really do objectively look at it, there's a lot of good shit about human beings today. | ||
| I mean, it's one of the best times ever to be alive. | ||
| It's certainly scary. | ||
| There's a lot of potential for disaster. | ||
| There's a lot of potential for catastrophe that's man-made, man-created, whether it's nuclear or war or whatever it is that could be terror. | ||
| 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. | ||
| Yeah, they swept it under the rug. | ||
| That's really like, that's what they do. | ||
| And it's the same thing with the BP oil spill. | ||
| When that happened, we just watched it like a kid watching the milk falling off of a table after you spill your cereal. | ||
| Like, how long do we fucking watch that thing on CNN and nobody really did anything? | ||
| And then finally they came in and like tried to clamp it and it took days and you're just watching it spill out. | ||
| They should have imploded that thing on day one, which they didn't want to do because they would have lost a lot of revenue. | ||
| Yeah, they probably should have figured. | ||
| Well, they wanted to launch a nuke at it, right? | ||
| And just blow the whole thing up. | ||
| Another bad idea. | ||
| Yeah, it was the idea. | ||
| Wasn't that one of the ideas of blowing it up? | ||
| That way it would seal the well somehow or another? | ||
| 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. | ||
| Have you ever seen that animated GIF of all of the nuclear explosions that have gone off in the world? | ||
| No. | ||
| Last time you showed me, I think, population. | ||
| Population. | ||
| Oh, the numbers coming in. | ||
| That's pretty crazy. | ||
| That's a crazy thing to see. | ||
| And the little flags behind them, how many people being born? | ||
| Britain, Japan, China. | ||
| The bombs being blown up since the 1940s to the present. | ||
| All the nuclear tests. | ||
| It's fucking crazy. | ||
| I would have thought there was like four or five. | ||
| Like, how many times do we need to blow these fucking things up before we realize what they do? | ||
| No, there's a lot. | ||
| What are they learning? | ||
| Can't you just model this on a computer? | ||
| Even 50 years ago, they had computers and you can go, oh, okay, so this rocket's moving at this speed. | ||
| You know, we can plug the rest in and figure it out. | ||
| We don't actually have to launch the rocket to figure out if it's going to work or not. | ||
| I'll tell you what, David Seaman, I'm from Missouri. | ||
| Missouri is a show-me state. | ||
| You want to sell me one of your nuclear weapons? | ||
| Look up at the big screen. | ||
| Here we see the first one. | ||
| This is like 1945. | ||
| There it says up there. | ||
| Boom. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| Manhattan Project. | ||
| Here we go, bitches. | ||
| Boom. | ||
| 1945 again. | ||
| Drop another one. | ||
| 1945. | ||
| Nagasaki. | ||
| Boom. | ||
| One more. | ||
| Then you see all of the nuclear tests. | ||
| And that's when it gets really squirrely. | ||
| The two that were used in war combined with the one that was used to figure out if it fucking works. | ||
| Now look at these. | ||
| In the ocean, they just lit a couple up. | ||
| There's a few of them in the ocean in 47. | ||
| And then in the 19 and 48, like the 50s, look at that. | ||
| One, two, three. | ||
| Boom, boom, boom. | ||
| I mean, so far we're up to how many? | ||
| Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. | ||
| Eight for the United States, one for Russia. | ||
| So the U.S. is winning. | ||
| 1950. | ||
| U.S. is winning still good. | ||
| Totally. | ||
| Yeah, we're way winning. | ||
| Russia's like that crazy. | ||
| Look at this. | ||
| Boom, boom, boom. | ||
| Now we have 17. | ||
| By 1951, 24 we have. | ||
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| 32, 33. | ||
| Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. | ||
| Canada. | ||
| A bunch go off in the desert. | ||
| Look at how many we blow up in Nevada. | ||
| The reason why gambling is legal right there, by the way. | ||
| I like the one random one in Australia. | ||
| They're like, yeah, we're good. | ||
| Yeah, Australia. | ||
| Russia just blows off a couple more. | ||
| Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. | ||
| So we're up to, United States up to 70, 87 by 1956. | ||
| We're up to 87 nuclear blasts. | ||
| 117 by 58. | ||
| So think of that. | ||
| How mutated are the people in the United States? | ||
| Look at fucking 58. | ||
| By the end of 58, we get up to 196. | ||
| By the end of 58. | ||
| Damn, there's a lot in California. | ||
| Is that California or is that Nevada? | ||
| It looked like California at the end. | ||
| I didn't know there were any in California. | ||
| Yeah, it does look like California, doesn't it? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Looks like a million. | ||
| Oh, Jesus. | ||
| Look at all of them. | ||
| 302. | ||
| Look at this. | ||
| 331 nuclear explosions by 63. | ||
| There's no way those are nukes. | ||
| Ah, you're wrong. | ||
| They got to be testing out some kind of technology. | ||
| Son, they're blowing up nukes. | ||
| That is insane. | ||
| They're lighting them bitches up by a Christmas tree. | ||
| And that's why you can get that $4 steak and eggs breakfast in Vegas. | ||
| We wonder why everybody has cancer. | ||
| Look at this. | ||
| They're up to 590, 600 blasts by 69. | ||
| By 1969, bro, by the end of 69, it's up to 663 blasts. | ||
| Now, Nixon gets in there and he's like, we got to really accelerate things. | ||
| We've got to pick up the pace. | ||
| The Russians are on our tail. | ||
| Damn. | ||
| Look at Britain. | ||
| Britain stops at 26. | ||
| I think we're good. | ||
| What's so weird about this is it seems like the U.S. did it, and then Russia's like, we got it too. | ||
| And it could have stopped there, but we just kept going and going. | ||
| And finally, Russia's like, all right, we got to get in also. | ||
| Well, this is the Cold War, man. | ||
| I mean, I'm sure Russia had the same sort of motivations as far as their contractors and the people that were in charge of building this. | ||
| It's a dome idea, mutually assured destruction. | ||
| Like, all these military ideas from 40 years ago we now know are completely ridiculous. | ||
| But dude, look at where it's at. | ||
| Pull back so we can see the numbers, Brian. | ||
| What did you do? | ||
| Pull back so you're not on the thing. | ||
| This animation is making me have to piss. | ||
| Oh, my God. | ||
| So animation of all nuclear explosions from 1945 to 1998. | ||
| And at the end of 1998, it gets to 1,032 nuclear explosions just from the United States of America. | ||
| 715 from Russia, 210 from... | ||
| What is that? | ||
| What fucking... | ||
| Friends. | ||
| France has a lot of nuclear explosions? | ||
| Is that France? | ||
| What is the blue, white, and red? | ||
| Yeah, it's... | ||
| Is that Mexico has four? | ||
| Jesus Christ. | ||
| Mexico has four explosives? | ||
| Yeah, Mexico has four. | ||
| China has 45. | ||
| Who's the one on the far left? | ||
| Some hippie thing. | ||
| Moon and a star, green and white. | ||
| I think that's like an Arab country. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Wow, Pakistan. | ||
| Oh, India and Pakistan. | ||
| That's what that is. | ||
| India has four. | ||
| Pakistan has two. | ||
| Jesus Christ. | ||
| That's scary. | ||
| What's really scary is how much was on our side of the coast. | ||
| You know? | ||
| It cannot be good. | ||
| Maybe it's great. | ||
| Maybe that's why California is awesome. | ||
| What if it found out that a little bit of radiation is fucking super good for you and it makes really smart people get it? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| 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. | ||
| Limits your air intake, right? | ||
| Yeah, I don't think those work, man. | ||
| There's a guy who mocked them. | ||
| But then I saw hypoxia. | ||
| Like there was a Victor Conte video on hypoxia, which is real similar. | ||
| They're doing like heavy, high endurance training, high-intensity endurance training, and they do it with like restricted breathing. | ||
| So I don't know who's right about that. | ||
| Altitude is supposed to be where it's at. | ||
| Like sleeping in altitude, but working out in an area where it's got plenty of oxygen. | ||
| So that seems contrary to me because the idea is to not restrict your oxygen intake while you're exercising, but restricting it while you're resting. | ||
| That's what's supposed to be good. | ||
| Your body realizes like, bitch, we ain't got any air up here. | ||
| And then it starts pumping out all these extra blood cells. | ||
| You see the article that they found a way to inject oxygen into somebody's body? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Keeps you from drowning for like 20 seconds. | ||
| That's amazing. | ||
| Yeah, that's for now. | ||
| It's 20 seconds. | ||
| Who knows what it's going to be? | ||
| It's going to be like the abyss. | ||
| I was just thinking that. | ||
| We're going to have the abyss suits where it fills up with liquid and we can go down to the bottom. | ||
| That movie kicked ass until the very end. | ||
| The very end, they ruined the whole movie. | ||
| Well, pull this out. | ||
| When you see what the thing looks like. | ||
| Stupid spaceship. | ||
| That thing. | ||
| Dumb fucking Toys R Us thing that comes out of the water and you're like, what? | ||
| That's not a spaceship. | ||
| That's why I like the movies where the director has discipline to leave it to your imagination. | ||
| Yeah, it's hard, though. | ||
| People are dumb. | ||
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Yeah, I'm going to see the whole fucking movie at the end of the movie. | |
| You won't even know. | ||
| I mean, was it a werewolf? | ||
| I didn't even get a good picture of it. | ||
| I want to be able to see what it is. | ||
| Well, that's like J.J. Abrams. | ||
| I feel like he's always like... | ||
| He's got you like right on the edge of your seat, and then you never get the final. | ||
| You just want to know what it is. | ||
| He could make up anything. | ||
| You just want to know. | ||
| You want to have some kind of certainty, and he doesn't give you that. | ||
| Well, he gave you a smoke monster, though. | ||
| He can go fuck himself for that. | ||
| Fucking smoke monster. | ||
| You say that today in California, they're trying to figure out if they want to make the gray wolf an endangered specie in California. | ||
| I didn't even know there was great wolves in California. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Well, great wolves. | ||
| And this is something that Steve Ranello brought up. | ||
| They're exactly the same. | ||
| Like wolves everywhere. | ||
| It's all this one species of wolf. | ||
| But that's the same with humans. | ||
| And some wolves are bigger, just like some humans are bigger. | ||
| If you brought a bunch of Germans, big giant fucking German people, and then imported them into Japan, they started dominating. | ||
| And people said, well, hey, it's the same species. | ||
| We just brought people from another place. | ||
| It's the same thing. | ||
| No. | ||
| No, you're changing the environment by bringing in these much larger versions of what used to exist here. | ||
| And the wolves that you're seeing in like Yellowstone, these reintroduced wolves, they're from Canada. | ||
| And they're big. | ||
| They're like 150 plus pounds. | ||
| Big but polite. | ||
| No, they're rude. | ||
| They kill a lot of animals. | ||
| But the wolves that used to be in North America were smaller. | ||
| See, there's a thing that happens with mammals, and it has to do with the amount of cold that these mammals have to experience. | ||
| And the more cold they have to experience, the larger their body size is. | ||
| That's why polar bears are so fucking big. | ||
| And you go to like, deer is a perfect example. | ||
| Deer in Mexico have much smaller bodies than deer in Canada. | ||
| Deer in Canada, like in Alberta and all these Saskatchewan, giant deer. | ||
| They're 300 plus pounds, some of the big males, the big bucks. | ||
| But if you take a deer that's the same age and it's in Mexico, it might only be 100 pounds. | ||
| So the further north you go, The more the animal needs to generate heat from body mass. | ||
| I wonder if that's why whales are so big, because they go so deep that they're in a super cold, like barely freezing kind of thing, right? | ||
| It makes sense. | ||
| It's a mammal. | ||
| 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. | ||
| You can go hunting wolves. | ||
| I could never shoot something that's a dog. | ||
| Yeah, me neither. | ||
| I was going to do a wolf. | ||
| Oh, yes, you could. | ||
| I could do a bear. | ||
| I could do almost anything else. | ||
| Can't do a dog. | ||
| You couldn't do a dog if it was coming after you, if it was trying to eat your family. | ||
| If I had to. | ||
| 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. | ||
| And they realized it was these big-ass wolves. | ||
| Beowulf type stuff. | ||
| Yeah, it's fascinating because they actually had a meeting and they, you know, they said, okay, let's ceasefire. | ||
| Let's go kill these fucking wolves. | ||
| Then we'll go back to killing each other. | ||
| So they had a ceasefire, killed all the wolves, and then went back to war. | ||
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Wow. | |
| It's crazy. | ||
| But that can happen with wolves. | ||
| Wolves can develop super PACs. | ||
| And in Siberia, they started taking out horses and farm animals. | ||
| And they would go 100 wolves strong and just invade a farm. | ||
| And good fucking luck stopping them. | ||
| They figure out a way to get over the fences and then they would just go crazy. | ||
| When things get collaborative, you get a lot more power. | ||
| It's like the same as dolphins. | ||
| One dolphin can't do anything, but a whole pack of them can kill a shark, I think. | ||
| Yeah, well, dolphins are really good at at least fucking sharks up. | ||
| Orcas kill sharks on a regular. | ||
| Orcas are so smart, they figured out how to kill sharks the easy way. | ||
| Like they, you know, they can communicate with each other and talk. | ||
| We don't know what they're saying, but we know they're talking. | ||
| They figured out how to pass the knowledge from generation to generation that the way to kill a shark is you bite it and then you flip it upside down. | ||
| When you flip a shark upside down, they're like really old designs. | ||
| Their designs suck. | ||
| It's like God got to them and it was like he wasn't really good at making shit then. | ||
| It's like old cars. | ||
| Like try driving like a 1970 Plymouth. | ||
| Their suspensions dog shit. | ||
| Their brakes suck. | ||
| No seatbelts. | ||
| The steering is so vague. | ||
| You don't know what it's transmitting. | ||
| They're dog shit cars. | ||
| That's what a shark is. | ||
| It's a dog shit animal. | ||
| Like the design was terrible. | ||
| They have to keep moving. | ||
| And if you flip them upside down, they just bonk out and die. | ||
| So the orcas grab them and just flip them upside down and hold on to them and drown them. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| And then they eat them. | ||
| That's such a sign of intelligence that they found the cheat code to killing what would be their biggest predator. | ||
| Yeah, well, that is the only predator that they would have. | ||
| I mean, they would have to worry about them around their small, their cubs, their babies. | ||
| But an orca is way smarter and more powerful than a shark. | ||
| A shark is just an idiot. | ||
| So the orca is basically like a human being that's animated. | ||
| A shark is almost like a biological robot in the same way that spiders are. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| 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. | ||
| This is it I think. | ||
| Look at these little bastards. | ||
| Well they're evil. | ||
| They have no morals. | ||
| They're robots. | ||
| They don't conscience. | ||
| They just know how to seek out protein. | ||
| Yeah, and they have venom. | ||
| They're creepy. | ||
| I mean just the idea of black widows. | ||
| Necrosis is such a dick move. | ||
| Like it's not bad enough that you left a bite. | ||
| The whole thing's got to rot out over time. | ||
| And some of them can kill a person pretty easy. | ||
| Like there's there's certain spiders like those brown recluses that just do unbelievable damage with one of their stings. | ||
| If you want to never go into the woods again or ever leave your apartment, just do a Google image search for recluse bites. | ||
| Yeah, they're horrible. | ||
| The necrosis aspect of it is one of the grossest things. | ||
| It just causes all the flesh to die around the wound. | ||
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| Oof. | ||
| 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. | ||
| And that right there is a sign of insanity to me. | ||
| And the female's larger all the time. | ||
| He's trying to fuck you and show you a good time with his leg dance, and you tear his abdomen out. | ||
| 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. | ||
| Look at his, It doesn't even look really good. | ||
| That's a jumping spider. | ||
| It doesn't even look really good. | ||
| It's adorable. | ||
| So strange looking. | ||
| There's actually a meme. | ||
| It's like misunderstood spider. | ||
| And he's like, oh, great. | ||
| What are you doing over there? | ||
| He's like, you bitch, you just sprayed me. | ||
| Look at his eyes. | ||
| What a creepy fucking bug. | ||
| It's weird that the same world that evolved that thing also evolved us. | ||
| I watched a video the other day. | ||
| I didn't know king snakes were so gangster because you know king snakes have no venom. | ||
| So I always thought like king snakes are just like garden snakes. | ||
| Oh no no no. | ||
| King snakes eat rattlesnakes whole. | ||
| You got to pull up a video of a king snake eating a rattlesnake. | ||
| I had no fucking idea. | ||
| King snakes have a certain protein in their body that diffuses rattlesnake venom. | ||
| It makes them immune to it. | ||
| That's a predator's predator right there. | ||
| 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. | ||
| This is the Joey snake. | ||
| Yeah, look at this snake. | ||
| I mean evil-looking motherfucker, but look at that evil fucker. | ||
| You would think, now the rattlesnake is a big, fat, evil-looking snake. | ||
| That's got to be the key predator here. | ||
| And this kingsnake doesn't know what the hell he's doing. | ||
| Boy, he's going near that rattlesnake. | ||
| He's going to get killed and eaten. | ||
| No, the rattlesnake eats a bunch of pussy mice. | ||
| This is why you can't expect perfection in government. | ||
| This is the alternative. | ||
| Look at this. | ||
| We're always like, we should get back to nature. | ||
| We should be more in touch. | ||
| This is fucking awful. | ||
| Like, it's good that we broke free. | ||
| Nature's ruthless. | ||
| You don't want to get back to nature because nature does give no fucks about you. | ||
| Look at this. | ||
| Look at this thing. | ||
| It gets up to the rattlesnake and it's like, hi. | ||
| How you doing? | ||
| Hey, I got a question for you. | ||
| You mind if I get your fucking asshole? | ||
| Look at that. | ||
| Clamps a hold of it and runs with it. | ||
| Drags this big fat rattlesnake that's the size of it. | ||
| Look at the width of the rattlesnake and look at the width of its body. | ||
| It's the same size. | ||
| Look at that thing. | ||
| It's swallowing something that's the same size as it. | ||
| That's ambition. | ||
| It's ruthless. | ||
| It's nature, right? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Nature's an evil fucking cunt. | ||
| 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? | ||
| No. | ||
| You got to watch this because it's like inspirational. | ||
| Yeah, but you know, they take the teeth out of those things. | ||
| Is that what it is? | ||
| So he doesn't care if it bites him? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That's not the same. | ||
| You got to do it with a live one. | ||
| 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. | ||
| They just tap the baby's forehead with their nose where their teeth don't come out because they had them removed. | ||
| That's not right. | ||
| I'm in favor of a fair fight. | ||
| Fuck a fair fight, dude. | ||
| You would never have steak. | ||
| If there was a fair fight, you would never get a cheeseburger. | ||
| Do you understand that? | ||
| If there's fair fights, you lose every time. | ||
| You're not going to get meat from a bull. | ||
| How are you even going to get close? | ||
| What's the fair fight? | ||
| Fair fight means for every one of them we kill, they kill one of us. | ||
| Fuck, man. | ||
| We would laid off steak a long time ago. | ||
| You were talking with great passion about your cheeseburger and beer you had. | ||
| Those don't exist. | ||
| Look at this. | ||
| Snake popping this little kid in the head. | ||
| First of all, those people are assholes. | ||
| Yeah, it's so ridiculous. | ||
| Why even let that kid get relaxed about being around a fucking snake? | ||
| This is like the real life Xbox right here. | ||
| This is how it is in some parts of the world. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Yeah, look how horrible this is, though. | ||
| This fucking poor baby. | ||
| Look, it's getting tapped on the head. | ||
| That thing's trying to kill him. | ||
| That thing is trying to kill that baby. | ||
| Whether or not it actually kills that baby, it's still, you're letting some heartless, vicious thing try to kill your baby. | ||
| Look if it poked it in the eye. | ||
| It just observes him afterwards. | ||
| Like, huh? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But look at this. | ||
| It's like trying to grab her. | ||
| Oh, my God. | ||
| That's so disturbing. | ||
| Oh, my God. | ||
| And what's crazy, it starts with the baby. | ||
| And it starts wrapping around the babies, which I don't think is cool at all. | ||
| Because, I mean, that's still got it. | ||
| Well, I'm glad you took a stand. | ||
| Serious party foul. | ||
| No, but I mean, I understand, like, it's kind of cute having a snake shooter, but look at this right here. | ||
| It grabbed it. | ||
| Yeah, and that's when the baby probably got really fucked up and they stopped the video. | ||
| That's just wrong, man. | ||
| You're letting your baby wrestle a fucking cobra. | ||
| How much do you hate your kids? | ||
| Let a cobra bite your baby. | ||
| If a cobra even with no teeth bit my baby, I'd punt that thing to the fucking moon. | ||
| It's just tough love. | ||
| That's a belt. | ||
| That thing is a belt. | ||
| Sorry. | ||
| Pair of boots. | ||
| You give up your life. | ||
| You give up your life. | ||
| You tried to peck a baby. | ||
| That's so crazy. | ||
| Evil, fucking, creepy, fanned-out snake asshole. | ||
| That's just so goofy. | ||
| I don't need to see this anymore, man. | ||
| This is disturbing. | ||
| Asshole parents. | ||
| Shitty fucking bad snake charmer fucking parents. | ||
| David seems thinking about it. | ||
| He's like, whatever. | ||
| David, are you going to have a baby someday? | ||
| Do you want a baby? | ||
| I want kids. | ||
| I don't want a baby. | ||
| I'm willing to... | ||
| willing to deal with the baby phase, but that's not what I want. | ||
| Yeah, big brother. | ||
| 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. | ||
| Do you think that that's all going to go away when there's real genetic manipulation? | ||
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Probably. | |
| Yeah, we're talking about creating an artificial human being. | ||
| That one day there's going to be... | ||
| Why? | ||
| When we're talking about artificial human beings, we're talking about the ability to duplicate everything. | ||
| We're talking about the old man, the 60-year-old man, who didn't realize that he never lived a life. | ||
| And they implanted all these memories in him and he starts crying. | ||
| He's like Blade Runner, like a replicant. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| Like Rutger Hauer, like the end when he's just, he's really almost human and so human that he actually lets Harrison Ford survive. | ||
| He's got compassion and he's calculating. | ||
| Totally. | ||
| 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. | ||
| Like, there's no more racism. | ||
| Now it's mods and regs. | ||
| Skattica kind of situation. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| You get like a second-tier citizen if you're not biologically perfect. | ||
| Well, there's some things that people had contemplated or thought may be the case someday in the future that have turned out to be real. | ||
| A great example, we were talking about this yesterday, was Ed TV. | ||
| That Matthew McConaughey movie where he played a guy where they just followed a regular guy with a camera and it was a show. | ||
| It was a Truman show kind of movie. | ||
| No, but it was a real show that he knew about. | ||
| 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. | ||
| That's all coming, man. | ||
| It's going to happen. | ||
| If we stay alive, it's going to happen. | ||
| There's going to be perfect people. | ||
| 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. | ||
| They had no idea what a smartphone was. | ||
| And that was only a few hundred years. | ||
| Fuck that. | ||
| Clinton couldn't have saw it coming. | ||
| No one saw it coming. | ||
| But we're also talking about, well, who owns space? | ||
| Who owns the minerals that are on Mars? | ||
| These would be ridiculous questions a couple hundred years ago. | ||
| And I think in the same way, it seems to be like, well, should we have fully automated police officers? | ||
| Like, should we have the centurions from whatever they were, the Cylon Centurions? | ||
| Should we have those things walking our streets? | ||
| And those are going to be issues in the next 20 years, not the next 100 years. | ||
| Yeah, that's a really interesting point about trying to figure out who owns the natural resources in space. | ||
| Because that's probably going to be... | ||
| If you think about why humans fight, it's mostly for resources. | ||
| I could totally see China and the U.S. duking it out in some kind of interstellar. | ||
| Yeah, could you imagine? | ||
| 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. | ||
| It's going to be crazy. | ||
| And also, space right now is still mostly government sponsored. | ||
| So they think of a specific mission. | ||
| Like, let's go to Mars and photograph some shit and send back the photos. | ||
| And then once that's done, the mission's over. | ||
| But once we get true... | ||
| I hate to sound like... | ||
| Once we get like free market enterprise in space, as cheesy as that sounds, we're like, the motivation never stops. | ||
| The mission never stops. | ||
| The mission is we got to go further and find more resources. | ||
| Once we do that, we're going to explore such a large part of space because the money aspect is finally there. | ||
| You're right. | ||
| Whereas before, it's just like, we'll do this because we have to do it. | ||
| We have to beat Russia, but then we're coming home. | ||
| You're right. | ||
| Wasn't that like the premise of the movie Alien? | ||
| Weren't they mining? | ||
| Really mining. | ||
| 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. | ||
| It's going to be completely insane. | ||
| Yeah, no shit, right? | ||
| That's really what's going to propel space travel. | ||
| They figure out a way to make trillions of dollars by mining asteroids and things along those lines. | ||
| The really Scott versions of Alien 2 were like the most likely scenario of what the fuck would happen if something got to us. | ||
| Like something that breeds as quickly as a disease. | ||
| Something that grows to a gigantic size really quickly. | ||
| Like all of our biological limitations that we sort of put on bodies and aliens and what would a body look like if it came from space. | ||
| It probably looked like a fucking spider, like alien. | ||
| What is alien? | ||
| It's a giant spider. | ||
| And they can't reason with that thing and tell it like, don't be a predator and eat everybody on the spaceship. | ||
| It's the same as like you talking about sharks. | ||
| That's something that was developed in the same system as us. | ||
| And we can't even convince a shark not to eat us. | ||
| Think about when you're facing the thing with the mouth coming out of it, multiple mouths. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| There's going to be No way to stop whatever. | ||
| What was the other movie that was kind of like that? | ||
| With Harrison Ford, that movie that came out recently. | ||
| Recently? | ||
| Ender's Game? | ||
| Ender's Game. | ||
| I didn't see that. | ||
| Was that any good? | ||
| I thought it was pretty good. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But they go after this insect race, and it's hard for them to communicate and figure out what that race's intentions are because they're so alien. | ||
| You know, it's like they're talking to like human-sized ants, basically. | ||
| Oh, that's cool. | ||
| We can't even figure out what the fuck orcas are saying, and we swim on top of them. | ||
| They ride those motherfuckers, and we can't figure out what they're saying. | ||
| They don't know what dolphins are saying. | ||
| They know when they're upset. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| They know when they're happy. | ||
| But they're here and we've been studying them for decades. | ||
| We don't know shit. | ||
| There's no like dolphin decoder device where we hear and it comes out like Google text. | ||
| David Brin has this really interesting idea. | ||
| I think he calls it uplifting. | ||
| 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. | ||
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| 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. | ||
| Prometheus. | ||
| Prometheus. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| The engineer. | ||
| That is the premise. | ||
| The premise is that human beings were in some way or form designed by something more intelligent. | ||
| They decided to bring us up a little bit. | ||
| That engineer was such a dick. | ||
| It's smart enough to create the human race, but just flips out and starts killing people. | ||
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Stupid movie. | |
| That movie sucked. | ||
| It was cool. | ||
| It was okay. | ||
| I'm science fiction. | ||
| It's fun. | ||
| I enjoy those movies, but it wasn't. | ||
| The first one was so goddamn good. | ||
| And then the second one was pretty fucking good. | ||
| And then the third one was not very good. | ||
| And then the fourth one was not good. | ||
| And then this one was, oh man. | ||
| You spent a lot of money on this. | ||
| Did you talk to any geeks? | ||
| You need to talk to geeks. | ||
| Get a real fucking science fiction geek and ask him, what's wrong with this movie? | ||
| And he'll tell you. | ||
| Like, why is he freaking out? | ||
| Why is this super smart giant dude roiting out? | ||
| And they have this huge, like, hologram version of the universe. | ||
| They have to, like, see it all, like, in three-dimensional and flying through space. | ||
| Is that just because you wanted to use that technology? | ||
| Like, that's an inefficient way of mapping out the universe. | ||
| The universe is infinite. | ||
| Can we have an infinite map up there in the fucking sky? | ||
| You would just have a tablet and hit Earth, done. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| No need for all this. | ||
| Yeah, take me to Miami. | ||
| Boom. | ||
| Did you watch the blood moon? | ||
| That was a trip. | ||
| Yeah, it was weird. | ||
| How often does that happen? | ||
| I don't even know exactly what a blood moon is. | ||
| Is that just the regular eclipse? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It's an eclipse, but there's something that happens where it looks red. | ||
| Okay, well, let's find out. | ||
| 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. | ||
| It just made the whole moon look fake as fuck. | ||
| 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. | ||
| So it's a part of the eclipse process. | ||
| Like that right there. | ||
| When you saw that part, look at that photo. | ||
| When that part happened, it's like, all right, this is not the moon. | ||
| What the fuck is this thing? | ||
| It's creepy. | ||
| It's almost like it's semi-transparent. | ||
| It's pretty cool. | ||
| Some guy has this really wacky YouTube page that I just found out about. | ||
| And it's interesting when you go to someone's YouTube page and you find out that they have like every video has like 2 million plus views. | ||
| I'm like, this is nuts. | ||
| This guy has insane amount of views. | ||
| And it's sort of a science-based one. | ||
| It's kind of cool that it has so many views because it's a really intelligent YouTube page. | ||
| Someone was asking me to have the guy on the podcast and I had never heard of the guy. | ||
| So I go to his page. | ||
| I was like, what? | ||
| One of them was, what if the moon was a giant disco ball? | ||
| And what if the moon was a disco ball and it was only 300 miles from the Earth's surface? | ||
| It was like floating right above. | ||
| What would it look like? | ||
| So they did this animated thing of what the moon would look like as a disco ball that's 300 miles away. | ||
| It's insane. | ||
| It fills up the whole night sky. | ||
| Like you realize how big the moon really is and you're like, oh my God. | ||
| Like when you see this graphic representation of it filling up the night sky, it's a really cool idea that they try to do that. | ||
| I mean, it would never, don't put it up. | ||
| Jesus Christ. | ||
| Did you go over this? | ||
| How many times do we have to go over this? | ||
| The size of it, though, in relationship to the Earth, then you really get an idea of the one quarter of the size of the Earth. | ||
| Like, that's how big the moon actually is. | ||
| Just wanted to wait the fuck up there. | ||
| It's this little tiny thing. | ||
| But if it was floating in our sky, it would literally take up the entire night sky. | ||
| That space show, man, I'm so addicted to it. | ||
| Cosmos. | ||
| Cosmos. | ||
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That's awesome. | |
| So awesome. | ||
| Well, Seth McFarlane's a bad motherfucker, and Neil deGrasse Tyson is also a bad motherfucker. | ||
| He'll be on. | ||
| Hopefully, I'll get him on this month. | ||
| He's around. | ||
| He's back and forth. | ||
| We've been emailing each other. | ||
| He's busy as fuck. | ||
| I hope it does well. | ||
| I don't know what the ratings are of it, but I was wondering while I was watching it. | ||
| Are they good? | ||
| Yeah, it's really good. | ||
| And what's really cool is that it's on like Hulu and stuff like that, so you can just watch it straight up. | ||
| But I was just wondering if you're not going to be able to do it. | ||
| You just got to cross-promote it with like Duck Hunter. | ||
| There's some stupid fucking shows on the Discovery channel, man. | ||
| I went to Discovery the other day and I was like, how did Discovery become this? | ||
| All of them. | ||
| The TLC is now like nothing to do with learning. | ||
| What is that? | ||
| What happened? | ||
| Honey Boo-Boo channel now. | ||
| Discovery has these shows that have nothing to do with discovering anything. | ||
| 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. | ||
| Yeah, How It's Made is a really cool show. | ||
| It's disturbing, though, looking at there's a new show on Discovery. | ||
| You remember that video that we played with Ted Nugent and this guy Pigman shooting pigs from a helicopter? | ||
| Just machine gunning pigs out of a helicopter, these wild feral pigs that they have to eradicate from a lot of these Texas farms? | ||
| Well, now he's got his own show. | ||
| Pigman has his own show. | ||
| It's called Boss Hog. | ||
| And on Boss Hog, he's running around. | ||
| He owns a barbecue place that cooks up these pigs that he shoots. | ||
| And him and his dad run around shooting pigs. | ||
| And then they have a lot of fake scenarios that take place because they're obviously artificially scripted scenarios. | ||
| It shows you that we're animals still, and we're starting to accept that. | ||
| I don't think it is entirely bad that we're going to stupider programming because, or not stupider, but things that we're doing. | ||
| But it's the Discovery Channel. | ||
| Things that have to do with science because we're like, oh, we like to watch people hunt. | ||
| We like to watch people negotiate and that's pawn stars. | ||
| What the fuck? | ||
| We're just interested in seeing other humans do all these things that we have to do. | ||
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But their logo has a fucking planet in it. | |
| I mean, the Discovery Channel. | ||
| It's like you're thinking about like, oh, we're going to watch a documentary around polar bears. | ||
| We're going to see leopard seals. | ||
| You're not going to discover anything. | ||
| You're going to discover the back of a fucking pawn shop. | ||
| We're going to show you how to make some barbecue. | ||
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Woo! | |
| We're going to sell moonshine. | ||
| We're crazy. | ||
| That cop doesn't even see the camera. | ||
| Look how normal he acts. | ||
| What's in the truck? | ||
| What's in the truck? | ||
| Why is there a camera pointing at you and a fucking crew? | ||
| Why is there microphones on everybody? | ||
| How about that question? | ||
| That mermaid shit, all that, those creepy videos. | ||
| Perfect example. | ||
| That animal planet made a fake fucking show on mermaids, like a fake who pretended that there were real mermaids. | ||
| And they knew they were trolling the whole time. | ||
| You know how many dummies sent me fucking tweets? | ||
| They found real mermaids. | ||
| No. | ||
| No, they didn't. | ||
| No, they didn't find real mermaids. | ||
| I'm about to actually cancel my cable this week, I think. | ||
| I think I've done a street internet. | ||
| I've been trying to just do a soft cancel where I act like I don't have it. | ||
| And I just go on Netflix, go on Hulu. | ||
| Hulu's the best, man. | ||
| Hulu. | ||
| Between Hulu, Hulu is badass. | ||
| Hulu, Netflix, and Amazon video, there's no reason to really have cable. | ||
| Except for like when there's a live event. | ||
| I think you can pay some kind of small fee for CNN Live, and then you're good, you know? | ||
| Well, you know, and I don't want to recommend BitTorrent, but you know there's a way to get things. | ||
| And the most BitTorrented show ever in the history of BitTorrent is the most recent episode of Game of Thrones. | ||
| Really? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It was BitTorrent by some insane number. | ||
| I think it was 200,000 different people had it available for downloading, which is amazing. | ||
| Here it is. | ||
| The winner for the largest BitTorrent swarm ever. | ||
| 193,000 pirates simultaneously sharing the same file. | ||
| Wow. | ||
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I love the language that we use for the swarm of pirates is the biggest ever. | |
| They all had eye patches and hooks. | ||
| They fucking beat their keyboard with the hook. | ||
| I actually never use that anymore. | ||
| I stopped it. | ||
| I used to do it. | ||
|
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Too scary. | |
| Too dangerous. | ||
| 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. | ||
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What? | |
| The nonsense behind it. | ||
| Ones and zeros, bitch. | ||
| I wonder if Game of Thrones does anything about this. | ||
| If they go after it, if they try to stop it. | ||
| Definitely. | ||
| During an August earnings call with investors, Time Warner CEO Jeff Bukes bragged about the show's massive piracy levels. | ||
| He says, if you go around the world, I think you're right. | ||
| Game of Thrones is the most pirated show in the world, he said. | ||
| Now that's better than an Emmy. | ||
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Huh. | |
| Wow. | ||
| That's a good attitude. | ||
| That is a good attitude because, look, it's not going to stop people from watching it. | ||
| And it does expose your, if people like it, they will go pay money for the movie version. | ||
| They will pay money for the book that you get some kind of royalty on. | ||
| You know, like there's ways to make money. | ||
| Look at that. | ||
| HBO CEO doesn't care that you are sharing your HBO. | ||
| What's his password then? | ||
| I want his HBO go password. | ||
| We're in the business of creating addicts, he said. | ||
| Oh, that's a great attitude. | ||
| That's a great attitude. | ||
| And you know what? | ||
| If people can afford HBO, they're going to get HBO, right? | ||
| If you can afford it. | ||
| And if you can't, you're not going to get it. | ||
| So like this idea that you're stopping people, you're stealing money. | ||
| Are they really or are they simply getting something and enjoying it that they would have never been able to afford? | ||
| There's going to be a bunch of people that, yeah, they would have been forced to pay for it. | ||
| But I bet it evens itself out. | ||
| I bet in a long run, it kind of evens itself out one way or another. | ||
| Because people are going to get HBO. | ||
| The music business got fucked. | ||
| The music business, without a doubt, that shit disappeared. | ||
| They went the dumb way. | ||
| I swear this is the last time I mentioned digital money, but banks have an opportunity to not do the exact same thing that record companies did. | ||
| Where they're like, oh shit, we got to fight this tooth and nail. | ||
| All it leads to is better technology. | ||
| And the second version, you can't fight, whereas the first version, you can. | ||
| It doesn't stop human behavior. | ||
| It just makes you irrelevant. | ||
| Okay, if they brought you into a meeting, say like Bank of America says, David Seaman, we like the way you think. | ||
| We heard you on the Joe Rogan experience. | ||
| You've got some great ideas. | ||
| What should we do? | ||
| Digital, you know, I don't even have email. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| You know, you got like me, you know, I like to go duck hunting on the weekends. | ||
| What should I do? | ||
| It's very simple. | ||
| 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. | ||
| Go fucking do it and do it before Chase does it. | ||
| That's a really good piece of advice right there. | ||
| I like to rephrase that too. | ||
| You've built up a name. | ||
| There's a lot of trust in your name and you can monopolize this business. | ||
| Like this is what people want now. | ||
| 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. | ||
| You might make a lot of money. | ||
| That's a really good point, man. | ||
| It's a really good point. | ||
| 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. | ||
| Overstream is Overstock. | ||
| It's an e-commerce site. | ||
| And up until recently, I would not care at all. | ||
| I'm like, who cares about this second-tier e-commerce site? | ||
| But now to me, they're like the new Amazon because they get it. | ||
| And so I can see them gaining what Amazon would have if they had jumped in. | ||
| What is the difference? | ||
| I'm not aware of Overstock. | ||
| For you? | ||
| Do you know what it is, Brian? | ||
| What? | ||
| Overstock. | ||
| The big O. What is it? | ||
| It's pretty much what is Overstock? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It's pretty much where they take older stuff where they have too much iPads, right? | ||
| They bought too many iPads. | ||
| There's a new iPad about to come out. | ||
| So Overstock will buy all those old iPads for a cheaper price, you know, because there's too much stock. | ||
| Like it's not selling. | ||
| Oh, I see. | ||
| So it's kind of like Ross for electronics. | ||
| Do you get anything new there? | ||
| Yeah, you can get new stuff also, but a lot of it, I mean, at least the original, how it started off was always like too much stuff at that time. | ||
| I think that was the way that they started and took off, was that they offered cheaper stuff because it was literally overstocked. | ||
| But now you can get pretty much anything. | ||
| So what's the difference between their model of business and Amazon's? | ||
| Do you think their model of business is superior? | ||
| I just think the CEO is able to look into the future better than what Amazon is doing because Amazon is playing it safe. | ||
| And if you're that kind of company, you can't afford to play it safe. | ||
| And that's one of the reasons why Google is doing so well is they go like, we'll spend a lot of money on crazy stuff that will not work out. | ||
| And that's okay because one of those crazy things might be our next major revenue stream. | ||
| And that's happened several times. | ||
| You know, Gmail started as, we're just going to offer free email and see where it goes. | ||
| Now it's a huge source of revenue. | ||
| Right, but you give an example. | ||
| I don't understand what you're saying. | ||
| Like, how are they doing it smarter? | ||
| What is Amazon doing there where they're playing it safe? | ||
| What are they doing? | ||
| Overstock accepts Bitcoin. | ||
| Oh, and so Amazon's CEO just said that the reason why he doesn't do Bitcoin is there's not enough need for it. | ||
| And I guess incorporating Bitcoin into it is probably going to cost a lot of money. | ||
| It's probably this big deal, but he's saying there's not enough demand for it. | ||
| Well, we're going to talk to our pal Alexis. | ||
| No, not Ohenyan. | ||
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Andreas. | |
| Andreas. | ||
| Andreas Antonopoulos next week on the 22nd. | ||
| He is a true Bitcoin expert. | ||
| I'm not an expert. | ||
| I'm just somebody who likes it. | ||
| Like it. | ||
| Well, Antonopoulos is the Bitcoin Jesus. | ||
| He gets all of his money from Bitcoin. | ||
| He doesn't take money anymore. | ||
| He gets paid in Bitcoin. | ||
| He does all of exchanges in Bitcoins. | ||
| He buys food in Bitcoins. | ||
| I don't know how he does that. | ||
| Yeah, I don't do that shit. | ||
| When I'm out on a date, I'm out like, can I print out a paper wallet and then we'll transact? | ||
| I just pay with the credit card done. | ||
| I can only eat at Overstocks Deli. | ||
| Yeah, you don't want to let a chick think you're weird. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Like that would be like the deal breaker. | ||
| He tried to pay in Bitcoin. | ||
| Although, I got to say, women, I want to give a shout out to women in LA. | ||
| I want to give a shout out to all the ladies. | ||
| What, what? | ||
| All the ladies out there, especially in LA, keeping your toes pretty. | ||
| They're like the polar opposite of the guy on Pawn Stars. | ||
| I was thinking about this. | ||
| That guy's like, best I can do is 20 bucks. | ||
| In LA, and again, this is not like, I haven't sampled the whole population, but they're like, I don't know you all that well. | ||
| Best I can do is a blowjob and sex on the second date. | ||
| And you're like, really? | ||
| Is it that good? | ||
| Women out here are much nicer than the East Coast. | ||
| Really? | ||
| When I say the East Coast, I'm talking about South Florida. | ||
| There's a lot of difficult women in South Florida. | ||
| Difficult? | ||
| Just not friendly. | ||
| And I've had Puerto Ricans, man. | ||
| 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. | ||
| is that what you got in Florida? | ||
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Fuck you. | |
| You get really, you don't know if an interaction is going to turn out well or if it's going to be like the spider video. | ||
| That's what you get in Miami is there's something about the culture there where it's like kind of fun to shoot down guys. | ||
| And here, like, everybody just treats people like people. | ||
| And I like that. | ||
| Oh, it's one of those things. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah, the fun shooting down guys thing. | ||
| Like this, there's a sport and stuff. | ||
| There is a thrill to it. | ||
| They get all dressed up and you're like horny as fuck and they just shoot you down in front of everybody. | ||
| And you don't see that happening as much out here. | ||
| And I think maybe it's just the culture. | ||
| Maybe it's the weed. | ||
| I don't know what it is. | ||
| 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. | ||
| But now, look at you. | ||
| That was an intense shout-out. | ||
| It was an intense shout-out. | ||
| I want to give a shout-out to Joe's cat because he has the coolest eyes. | ||
| Joe's cat. | ||
| Is that your cat? | ||
| That's Prince Oliver. | ||
| What is that, a Siamese or something? | ||
| No, he's a ragdoll. | ||
| Ragdoll. | ||
| A ragdoll cat is a, they're like real sweet. | ||
| Like, you pick them up, they go limp. | ||
| They kind of go ragdoll on you. | ||
| That's the idea behind the name, I think. | ||
| He's awesome. | ||
| He's a cool cat. | ||
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It's so cool. | |
| Yeah, well, I started letting him outside recently. | ||
| I used to worry about him because there's hawks in the neighborhood and owls. | ||
| Owls are a big one, especially at night. | ||
| Owls kill cats all the time. | ||
| And you really have to watch it because there's an owl that lives in my neighborhood, and he's fucking huge. | ||
| It's really big. | ||
| I mean, I'm not joking. | ||
| It's the body of it is like that big. | ||
| Apply your hunting skills and get rid of that threat. | ||
| No, you can't do that. | ||
| No, you shouldn't do that. | ||
| You can't do that. | ||
| Owls are really necessary. | ||
| They keep the rat population down. | ||
| Plus, if you kill an owl, the Illuminati will probably come after you because of Mollock. | ||
| I was in Bohemian Grove. | ||
| I saw Mollock. | ||
| 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? | ||
| Yeah, with an owl god mask on and a fucking dark road. | ||
| Maybe you also have a dog. | ||
| Maybe you have a pet owl? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| How do you have a pet owl? | ||
| It's weird. | ||
| Have an owl as a pet? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I don't know, man. | ||
| The owl that's in my neighborhood, no bullshit, twice as big as that goddamn thing. | ||
| It's huge. | ||
| It sat on my back fence the other day, and I looked at it. | ||
| I was like, wow. | ||
| It's a surveillance device. | ||
| It probably weighs 30 pounds. | ||
| It's fucking huge. | ||
| And I saw one of them with a flaw. | ||
| It was flying with a rabbit in its claws. | ||
| I was like, I was watching some prehistoric shit. | ||
| It was really weird. | ||
| Flying, holding onto a rabbit. | ||
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Oh, really? | |
| Give a hoot. | ||
| Don't pollut. | ||
| Birds are weird because they're definitely smart. | ||
| They're lizards. | ||
| But yeah, they lack any kind of relatability. | ||
| Like a dog, it understands you, you understand it. | ||
| A bird, you're like, what is this thing thinking? | ||
| But you know it's smart. | ||
| Yeah, they have intelligence. | ||
| Well, crows have unbelievable intelligence. | ||
| 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. | ||
| I mean, it's incredible. | ||
| Have you seen any of these videos? | ||
| No. | ||
| You have to watch one. | ||
| It'll fucking blow you away. | ||
| Can we get, we can't get pulled from YouTube by using a YouTube clip, right? | ||
| That we can't get. | ||
| Can we? | ||
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Okay. | |
| Fuck, motherfuckers pulling us off of YouTube left and right. | ||
| See if you can find just one clip on crow intelligence. | ||
| We've had this on the podcast before, but it's so fascinating. | ||
| I watch that shit over and over again. | ||
| Then we'll get the fuck out of here. | ||
| Find any? | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Crow intelligence using problem solving tools. | ||
| Just Google all that shit. | ||
| Crows are apparently as smart, if not smarter, than chimpanzees. | ||
| How is that possible? | ||
| It has such a small brain compared to the chimp rate. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Remember you, what, for 12 years? | ||
| Your face or something? | ||
| Something stupid. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| But watch this. | ||
| Here, give it some volume. | ||
| All right. | ||
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Not really much volume. | |
| Oh, Jesus. | ||
| What are you doing? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| This is not on, but it is. | ||
| There is volume. | ||
| This is the crow, so it takes this one twig and then uses this second twig to go over to this thing and pull this meat towards it. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| And then eats it. | ||
| That's definitely like monkey intelligence. | ||
| 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. | ||
| It's unbelievable. | ||
| Thinking ahead, use of tools. | ||
| Yeah, that's just two. | ||
| There's one where it shows three different steps. | ||
| Like, uses one tool to get to a second tool to get to a second tool. | ||
| Too bad they're so ugly or people would have them as pets. | ||
| Well, I don't think they would tolerate you. | ||
| I don't think so. | ||
| I think they're wild. | ||
| I think there's certain animals you're just not going to figure out. | ||
| Like, you know, they tried to tame zebras at one point in time. | ||
| All those assholes that moved to the Congo and built the states and tried to fucking enslave people and run things in Africa, and it never worked. | ||
| One of the things they try to do is they try to domesticate zebras. | ||
| You can't do it. | ||
| Why can't you domesticate a zebra? | ||
| They won't fucking tolerate. | ||
| So here's a five-step. | ||
| Look at this. | ||
| Watch. | ||
| It takes, I mean, this is incredible. | ||
| It takes one tool, and then it goes over and can't get this tool. | ||
| It's trying real hard to get this tool. | ||
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He goes, hmm, let me see what the fuck we do here. | |
| He gets the second tool. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Uses that tool to go and tries to get the meat. | ||
| Can't do it. | ||
| Tries to get the third tool. | ||
| So uses this one to get to this one. | ||
| Now he's got another tool. | ||
| Then takes that fucking tool, spins it around. | ||
| So the other part, like the part that has the little hook on the end of it, he's like trying to get the meat, can't get it. | ||
| Alrighty. | ||
| And There he goes. | ||
| That is true intelligence. | ||
| That's smarter than like 90% of the people I've dealt with at the DMV. | ||
| Yeah, it's all of the people at the DMV. | ||
| How about that? | ||
| I said it. | ||
| See if your registration gets renewed on time. | ||
| Yeah, you put those people in that room with that crow. | ||
| That crow would figure that shit out quicker. | ||
| Yeah, I don't know how intelligence works. | ||
| And obviously they don't have a language. | ||
| So maybe they're not as hampered by a lot of concepts and insecurities and a lot of weird shit that the human brain harbors. | ||
| Like maybe a lot of what runs us is just nonsense and hooey. | ||
| How much time has everybody spent thinking about things that have like not come to pass? | ||
| Like fears that are just a waste of energy? | ||
| Probably a fuckload, right? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I'm just thinking about my own life and like it's always the thing that you're not thinking about that ends up getting you. | ||
| Like an asteroid. | ||
| Yeah, like an asteroid. | ||
| It's like, oh, you didn't prepare for that one at all. | ||
| Or Fukushima. | ||
| Nobody was preparing for that. | ||
| Oh, David. | ||
| More doom. | ||
| We can't end on doom and gloom. | ||
| Cheryl Crow is pretty smart. | ||
| Cheryl Crow is probably not as smart as a crow. | ||
| 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. | ||
| We can end on a positive note. | ||
| I think despite the minor negative stuff, this has been really positive. | ||
| The whole financial system is going to change in the next five years. | ||
| And it's going to swing in a direction where individuals have more power and banks have less. | ||
| I think that's cool. | ||
| I think that's really cool, actually. | ||
| And I talked to Stefan Molyneux earlier this week, and I asked him, I was like, am I deluded by telling people this is going to change everything? | ||
| He's like, no, I think that it's going to change a lot of stuff. | ||
| And he was telling me about how it's going to change politics in a big way because you can't get bribes with Bitcoin, basically. | ||
| Banks can't bribe you. | ||
| You can't bribe them back by propping them up the next time they need a bailout. | ||
| This whole thinking of a bank just spends money and pretty much makes risky bets, some derivatives and stuff. | ||
| And then when those bets go south, they get a bailout from the government and get taxpayer money. | ||
| That craziness will go away. | ||
| It's just going to be, oh, how many Bitcoins do you have? | ||
| Oh, okay, I see. | ||
| Cool. | ||
| So it's good. | ||
| It actually goes back to ancient times where in places like Mesopotamia, when merchants would do business, they didn't need a Chaser Bank of America. | ||
| They just had merchant ledgers. | ||
| Like, oh, I see I owe you 15 cattle. | ||
| Very good. | ||
| And you decide on a standard and you go with that. | ||
| And the whole world might do that now. | ||
| And it's happening already. | ||
| When I say it might happen, there's a reason why Bitcoin's at $500 each. | ||
| And that's because in China, where they have a radically different government from ours, far more oppressive, they don't speak the same language. | ||
| They don't have the same culture. | ||
| They're interested in the same currency. | ||
| And that's really cool. | ||
| And Bitcoin, is it more popular in any parts of the world besides America? | ||
| It's more popular in China, I believe. | ||
| I believe most of the, I might be wrong, but I think most of the trading volume right now is in China. | ||
| But definitely most of the startups are in Silicon Valley. | ||
| 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. | ||
| I'm sure if there's a way to corrupt it or make it less fun, they will do that. | ||
| Or they will try for their own profit. | ||
| All right, man. | ||
| Listen, always fun talking to you. | ||
| Definitely. | ||
| We've got to do this more often. | ||
| It's always cool shit to talk about. | ||
| Never run out. | ||
| And again, we're at a strange time in life. | ||
| We're right there at the peak of the weirdest wave the world is. | ||
| It's hard to be negative because the technology thing, like, yeah, it's bad that the NSA is collecting all our stuff. | ||
| And I think that that system is going to eat itself over time. | ||
| Like, we have the FBI spying on the CIA and the NSA, or rather the CIA, so I fucked that up. | ||
| We have the FBI spying on the CIA and the CIA is spying on the Senate Intelligence Committee that's supposed to be overseeing the CIA. | ||
| So all these people are spying on each other, stepping on each other's toes. | ||
| And I think what eventually is going to happen is it's not people like you and me who will demand reform. | ||
| It's people in the Senate who are like, I don't want my shit spied on anymore. | ||
| This is not good. | ||
| And they're all going to agree, like, we need some kind of rollback. | ||
| That'll happen. | ||
| And then we still have all this amazing technology. | ||
| It's moving faster than we can even think about. | ||
| And it's mostly good. | ||
| Hear here, David Seaman. | ||
| Hear here. | ||
| D underscore Seaman on Twitter. | ||
| Your podcast? | ||
| The David Seaman hour. | ||
| And it's available. | ||
| It's on iTunes and Stitcher. | ||
| Is there a website? | ||
| DavidSeaman.com. | ||
| And when you say iTunes and Stitcher, is it also available as an MP3? | ||
| Can they just download it if they have like a Zoom? | ||
| If they want to go to davidseman.com, they can get the link to the MP3. | ||
| Yes! | ||
| That's it, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| That's it for this week. | ||
| I'll see you fucking Savages in Orlando this Thursday night with Joey Coco Diaz. | ||
| And I'll see you guys tonight at the Ice House in Pasadena with Ari Shafir, Duncan Trussell, and young Tony Hinchcliffe. | ||
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| Next week, lots of good podcast material going on. | ||
| As I said, Andreas Antonopoulos is coming. | ||
| Ace Freely is going to be here next week. | ||
| I had to move David Tell to the 29th. | ||
| David Tell is going to be on Tuesday, the 29th. | ||
| I got a lot of shit happening next week, and we're going to have some fun. | ||
| Also coming onto the podcast very soon is Steve Maxwell, my friend, the strength and conditioning coach. | ||
| He's a fascinating guy. | ||
| Really, really interesting dude with a lot of knowledge. | ||
| He'll be on the 28th. | ||
| Got a lot of stuff happening. | ||
| Greg Fitzsimmons on May 1st. | ||
| Lots of shit happening. | ||
| All right. | ||
| We'll see you people later, soon, someday in the future. | ||
| Until then, keep your shit together, bitches. |
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