Scroobius Pip joins Joe Rogan to dissect his unconventional art—like Intradiction, a spoken-word rap burned in an envelope and filmed secretly in a rented container—while debating hip-hop’s diversity, from Scarface to D-A-I-K-A-J-U. They clash over policing accountability, citing body cameras reducing misconduct claims by 80% but Pip’s skepticism of systemic trust, comparing it to Australia’s post-massacre reforms. Rogan questions meritocratic voting, while Pip mocks blind religious adherence, linking biblical translations to memes. The duo speculates on lost ancient knowledge—like Sumerian astronomy—and risks of MMA refereeing, praising Herb Dean’s intervention in a fight where Frank Mir broke his arm. Concluding with cultural contrasts, Pip’s European tours, and Rogan’s sponsor plugs, the episode blends creativity, skepticism, and societal critique. [Automatically generated summary]
This guy's invented this pack that you put a phone in if it's got wet, and you put it in more liquid, which sounds crazy, but it counteracts what the water's doing.
Hello my name is Pip and I would like to speak some lyrics Into this microphone that's amplified so you can hear it This piece of diction is the intro to distraction pieces That's all the shit that flies around my head and keeps me sleepless Such little food for full my fucking brain feels anorexic So many typos when I write, oh I'll claim I'm dyslexic I've got your poem here, I've put it in this envelope I'm setting fire to it, hope you all can read the smoke Most people where I live don't know me and I fucking like it.
Some people where I live don't like me and I fucking know it.
Some heads won't know my name or give me a look since I flow kinda strange like Spina Bifida footprints.
I said "Cum strange" But I find a place that's obsessed with me Shhhhhh Nothing's original, I stole this flow from the creator And from some others too, can't think right now I'll name 'em later If I say "Fuck a lot" well then I'll gain more attention If I say "Cunt" well then with some of you there will be tension I find this interesting 'cause in the end they are just words You give them power when you cower, man
man, it's so absurd But all that was covered by Lily Bruce back in the day Nothing's original, now I'm repeating what I say Paralysis through analysis could stop me here I'll brandish the blindest man's anguish with a ram fist Directed at the throat of any man that can withstand I'll brandish the blindest man's anguish with a ram fist I
see these rappers that say things like no homo and such It always seems maybe the lady duff protests too much I'm really speechless but I speak less than you might imagine Sometimes I snutter and I sputter like I'm known to write about the shit most people won't discuss.
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Sometimes my music's too intrusive with their words and such.
You see a mousetrap, I see free cheese and a fucking challenge.
But you stay quiet, the fear of ticking the balance.
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When it's horses for courses, my horse is distorted.
I bought it for four quid, then forced it through horseshit.
We walk through these morbid, remorseless discourses And discuss these disgusting new sources When it's roasted from orbit, my horse is distorted That's badass, that is great That's really fun, man.
It's crazy because we We filmed that in just a metal container, and the guy, we'd rented it off, we didn't tell him what the fuck we were doing, because I figured we can only do it in one take, because I've got to shave my head and shit, so I thought, if we ask him, he can say no.
If we do it, he can just tell us off afterwards, and that's that.
So as it finished, obviously, there's tons of fire, we're setting shit on fire, and we had to have the doors closed because of lighting.
So we're in a metal container, just burning everything, and then I piled out with smoke bellowing, and the guy just walked past and just went...
Pip, I don't even want to know.
And walked on, I was like, good man, good man, you've saved the day.
I mean, I started off in spoken word, so I started off just kind of with no beats, but I was into hip-hop, and again, a lot of people hear spoken word and think that sounds...
Shit, basically, in poetry and that, but I was exactly the same.
I started doing it because I was in some punk bands and shit like that, and I got sick of relying on drummers, their mum giving them a lift to practice, and the bassist can't make it because he's working a night shift and shit like that.
So I was looking at what I could do and succeed or fail on my own.
I loved the buzz of the fact that if it went well, it's my fault.
If I fail, I can't say, oh, it's this other guy's fault.
Eddie Bravo was trying to explain to me like the trials and tribulations that the average band goes through and I was thinking about it when we had the conversation like I never even thought about that before but dealing with all those egos together and and then also some people that are just undisciplined yeah completely some people aren't as passionate about it as you are or it's just a fun thing for them and equally accepting gigs and shit like that you have to ring through like four or five other people to say can we accept this gig it's like Yeah.
There's certain subjects that guys will cover when you can tell they're covering it because they think that the audience wants to hear that, and it's not what's actually interesting to them.
See, I understand that, because they're writing that for someone else to have to perform and sell their sold every night to kind of sing and get through.
I can understand that, because they're just going, I'm going to write this and make a fuck ton of money and then hand this over to some other guy to jump up there and...
Yeah, as opposed to there's certain songs where you don't even know why you like it.
There's this...
There's this old Leonard Skinner song, The Battle of Curtis Lowe, and it's one of those songs, the ballad of Curtis Lowe, and it's one of those songs where you hear it, you don't even know what is going on that this song is just...
Captivating me in such a unique way, like making me emotional, like making me feel that moment.
But people didn't notice that because they were kind of captivated and into it and didn't think about, all right, you're meant to kind of go verse, chorus, verse, bridge, you know, this kind of shit.
So it's kind of nice when that works and you can tell it's just...
Yeah, it's all completely written before I get to the stage.
The stage, a lot of that song in particular, I mean, I'm noting stuff on my phone all the time and just, yeah, I'm making note of just good lines or good ideas or topics or subjects.
So then on a song like that, because a lot of my songs are stories as well, though.
But one like that, it's easy to go through all these kind of weird little ideas or phrases or even like bits of philosophy and shit like that just to go, right, I'll put that in there.
There's a lot of great lyrics in that, but yeah, that's definitely a standout part of it.
That's really cool, man.
I love anything like that where it's like one guy piecing something together, whether it's music or whether it's a book, like talking to an author about creating a book, or whether it's a stand-up comedian creating an act or a guy writing a movie or anything.
And there's so much more now where that's so much more acceptable and doable because of the internet and because of Being able to get whatever your one passion is out there that you can kind of just be it doesn't have to be a team of right as a team of people doing this and that you can find a lot more people have got that just One vision.
Yeah Yeah, and when you like have this one thing that comes out of your own mind and You put it together and you it's like We were talking about this with comedy.
When somebody becomes a Pip fan, you're the only one that can give them that stuff.
It's crazy.
They're looking to see what comes out of your head.
All of it, as much as you put into it, it's just what you think at the time.
But then it's committed to record, and that's that.
So five years down the line, my opinions or views, or I'd hope my opinions and views would change in general.
Not on everything, but I think it's important to develop ideas and philosophies constantly.
So it's then that weird thing that people will have got that first record and have listened to that one phrase or thing over and over, and it's become their kind of mantra.
And then you're like, yeah, I kind of...
I'm not into that as much anymore.
I'm into this shit now.
This is what's going on now.
It's weird how that, yeah, that can be the thing that you can either give them what they need or you can't, if you know what I mean.
Comedy, hip-hop, and so, you know, I've got my specifics I like.
So, yeah, it's another one that a guy I work with sometimes, Sage Francis, was saying in an interview recently, it's got to the point now where when people talk about hip-hop, you can't assume that they're talking about the same thing as him.
Again, when I first started off and I was touring about and trying to get my name out there, I'd struggle to describe what I do, because...
If I said hip-hop and people instantly thought of 50 Cent, or came because of 50 Cent, or can you, it's like, you're not going to be happy with what you get.
Or equally, they might be put off because they're not into that.
And it's key, the entertainment part is key as well, because I think a lot of people who do the more conscious stuff, it's just like, yeah, it's a lecture.
You know what I mean?
You're kind of just being fed this, and it feels like they're trying to get across just how intelligent they are and all this.
I'm kind of, in all my stuff, it's trying to open up...
Discussion, rather than say, here's the beginning and end of this subject.
It's kind of saying, look, here's some shit that we should maybe all think about a bit more or discuss in music or culture in general more, but not trying to say, I've got all the answers, here's my shit, I think.
And then in Jacksonville, I went to this Burrow bar in There was a band that was about to start in the next room, and out of nowhere, this band jumps off stage and goes into the room, the bar area that we're at, and starts playing right into the crowd, jumping on the tables of the bar and stuff.
And then at the end, they caught the cymbals on fire, and the place was on fire.
It was the most intense, amazing band I've ever seen.
And it was just like a band.
I just popped into a bar and saw this They're an amazing band.
Imagine if you couldn't hear, and you didn't hear sound, and you were trying to figure out what the fuck...
Make this totally silent.
Imagine if you didn't hear sound, and you see all this moving around, and see all these people staring at these guys just playing with these sticks in their hands.
You'd be like, what the fuck is going on on that stage?
Why is everybody watching that?
It's a weird gig, man.
You're creating cool sounds with a stick.
And you get this big piece of wood, and you're creating wild sounds with it.
And it's good to see that he's learned and moved up to wireless, because clearly the cord was restricting him in the first one as he wanted to go and run around.
Like, if The Doors is a good name or it's a good name because of The Doors.
Do you know what I mean?
Right.
If you were at some shitty gig in the local band and The Doors never happened and they were called The Doors, it probably wouldn't be as awesome as it is, right?
And you've got to think more about it now because of the internet, because if you pick a name that's too familiar, then when you Google it, you're going to get, you know, some crazy...
Well, no one wants to be, so I bet they would just let you.
Yeah, if you tried to be Milli Vanilli.
But I bet not.
I bet someone owns that shit.
Say if you and Jamie decided to go on tour as Milli and Vanilli, and you would lip-sync, and other people would sing the songs, you'd get your ass sued.
And he's got a fascinating story, if you're interested.
His story is, he was the connection between the Iran-Contra affair and selling drugs in Los Angeles.
He was one of the connections.
He was being supplied by a guy who was channeling that money that he made from Rick Ross directly into foreign operations.
It's crazy.
The whole story is crazy.
And the dude, when he went to jail, didn't even know how to read, okay, and in jail, taught himself how to read, then became a fucking legal expert and found the loopholes in his prosecution where they fucked up, found holes in the prosecution's angle, and got himself off, got himself out.
They had him in like a three-strike situation and he got out of that because it has to be three sentences.
The real Rick Ross knew about the entertainer's stage name since 2006. Oh!
The case originally began in 2010 and later appealed to a higher court after the lawsuit was ruled untimely since the real Rick Ross knew about the entertainer's stage name since 2006. So the idea was that the first time it was ruled untimely because he didn't act quick enough.
But the real Rick Ross, the original drug dealer Rick Ross, is benefiting substantially, publicity-wise, to being connected with this.
I mean, he has an amazing story on his own, but the reality is that this story is made more compelling by the fact that there's a guy running around stealing his name.
I wonder if what the cool thinking of the time of it was, that When he probably first heard of this rapper Rick Ross, he probably didn't think it was that huge a deal.
The Oliver North situation, these guys on trial in front of the fucking entire country.
No one's ever seen that shit before.
You know, and Reagan, they're asking him if he sold arms to other countries and shit.
This was all, like, part of that same era.
You know, the same era of all this crazy shit going on that we're finding out the government's involved with.
And one of the things was selling drugs in the Los Angeles neighborhoods, the poor neighborhoods, and taking that money like the CIA was selling drugs.
And our late, great friend, Michael Rupert, who passed away recently, Michael Rupert, who was a narcotics investigator for the Los Angeles Police Department, he uncovered that shit.
They did that thing where he stood out in front of that press conference, they have this press conference, and he yells out, like, in the middle of this conference, that he knows that the CIA has been selling drugs in Los Angeles communities, and that he's caught them.
I mean, this guy says this on television.
And the whole crowd filled with black people.
They start cheering.
They're all excited about it.
And it's like he's just standing up and like, what a fucking crazy prick he was.
And that's the problem with this society that we have, when people, you know, you give them guns and you put them in situations where if they make a bad call, someone dies.
Yeah.
If they make a bad call, if they freak out, someone dies.
And particularly, I mean, it seems for every, on a yearly basis, for every huge story there is of a member of the public going out and killing people, doing a shooting, there's then a police story of it as well.
So it kind of fuels them both.
I was tweeting.
That whole thing of, well, if we don't trust the police, then we need to be armed.
And the police, exactly the same as you've said, if they're policing an area where everyone's got guns, it's kind of...
And, you know, you also used to, I mean, especially if you had to have active, you've actually been in combat.
You know, if you've been in combat, you've definitely shot people.
If you definitely shot people, it'd be easier to shoot somebody again.
And you also probably, your senses, your whole sense of, like, what's on the line would probably be much easier.
Much more, like, sharp than a person that's never seen people killed.
Like, you're like, this could happen in any second.
You better stop this before it happens.
You have, like, a much shorter, like, line of bullshit that you'll tolerate.
And that's, you know, that's...
If you're in a war zone, that's to be expected.
But that...
Warzone becomes the streets if you have the same attitude, but it's just going to happen that way.
When you have people and they hate each other and there's a group here and a group there, the cops and the citizens, and you have a situation like this, things will be flared up for years now.
It should be a revered position of noble people, you know, martial artists, people who are, you know, they actually want to do good, have a code and an ethic.
I mean, it's just with the whole politics thing, you need...
I don't know.
I kind of argue with people online about this all the time because I think the way your democracy is currently set up and our democracy is currently set up, there's no chance of any real change anytime soon because it's a gradual, slight change is either way, but nothing else is discussed.
We need to protect the ideals of democracy and it's like, well...
I think there's, I mean, there's, I'm going completely off on tangent now, but there's hundreds of different kinds ofocracy and kinds of ways to run a society.
Number one, our democracies we've got aren't real democracies.
There's loads of, I mean, I was just discussing recently, and it pisses people off because it kind of shows a level of elitism that people are scared of, but I think going on stuff based on a meritocracy and stuff like that, where, say, your vote would be worth more than the guy who's sitting at home in a trailer and doesn't know anything about politics.
So, for example, my theory on it being, if when you go to vote, there's a short questionnaire on politics or on social or on society or something, and that ranks...
On policies and on what's actually valid at the moment.
because then even if people then just bone up on it to try and cheat the system that's good they're reading about what the policies are they're learning it rather than just going and ticking a box that their family have always supported republicans therefore that's that that's a good point forcing people to have some level of education in it to make their vote worth Yeah, maybe I'm hanging on to the idea that everyone should have an equal vote and that it shouldn't be like an earned thing, and you earn it by having an education about the system.
There's some issues where it's just a subjective judgment.
One person would agree, one person would disagree.
There's certain issues that people are very, very passionate about that You have polar opposite people absolutely dedicated to their opinion and won't budge.
Or the Bible's the key example of that, where people are just blindly, well, that's my belief, and therefore I will fight any arguments against it, despite any logic and theories and reality.
That's a common one because, you know, that's one that has been used for so many years by so many people and it's become just a well-paved path that everybody can walk on.
Our first song that got big, like when I was working with a guy, Daniel Sack, I'm not religious, but the reason I think it hit through with people is it's a simple structure that you all know and are familiar with.
And that's why it works for religion as well as in a spoken word hip-hop song.
It's that simplicity of you know the stories and the structures.
Therefore, you can get a point across that isn't about a religion, but by using those, that's more about society and people, but using that template of what religion people have laid down for us.
Yeah, what religious people have laid down and, you know, the variance in, like, how much they vary from one to the next, like, how much Judaism varies from Islam, varies from Christianity, how much they borrow from each other.
Like, somebody's wrong.
Somebody's wrong.
Well, let's just break down, like, what you guys are actually, what are we supporting here?
Are we supporting the idea That there's a guy, and this guy watches over everything, and he made everything.
He's allowing all this crazy chaos.
And he told us once, a few thousand years ago, how to live your life.
And if you don't pay attention to what the fuck he said back then, you're on your own.
And so you're forced to be led by a bunch of people.
He sees these people.
He sees their hypocritical actions.
He does nothing.
He allows them to distort his message and relay it in his most fucked up way that's ruining the earth itself.
And still, he doesn't come down and correct anybody.
Faith has got to be the most, not dangerous word ever made, but that's the thing.
The argument would always be, well, we were left here and we've got to have faith that God's going to do this and do that, and it's all tests, but I've got my faith.
That's a massive get-out clause for any argument.
Well, you can't see this person, you can't prove it.
If you have conversations with hardcore Christians about whether or not Christianity is ludicrous, they'll argue with you about why it's not, and what these stories really represent, and how the message of God comes through these stories.
There's people that just believe in God and they feel like the Bible is sort of a framework for good behavior that was laid down by this holy entity at one point in the past.
And that although the stories have been twisted and weird and, you know, that a lot of these stories, they probably represented something.
Something important a long time ago.
And so you're getting this connection to God through a game of telephone.
I don't know if you've played it in England.
But you would tell a friend something, and then he would tell a friend something, and then he would tell a friend something.
By the time it got down to Brian, the story was dog shit.
But that whole idea is that at the end of that is God.
At the end of that is God.
Yeah, the story got fucked up.
But the story did get fucked up.
But that story has a direct connection to God.
And the way that direct connection works is that at one point in time, there was...
There was something where someone was explained the very nature of the universe.
And then, whether it was through psychedelic drugs, whether it was through an actual religious experience with a divine entity, and then from that point, what happened is that person told another person, that person told another person, they did their best to remember everything that the people before them told them.
But if you got through all that goofy shit, all that Adam and Eve stuff, and all that fucking...
The more weird and ridiculous and preposterous stories in any religion, if you got through all that and went back to the source, you almost are still connected in some sort of a weird, bizarre, and maybe like a...
Like, almost like a mathematical way, you're connected to the original story.
You know, there's the original story, the original story turns into this, his memory fucks it up, it turns into that.
The oldest version that they found is the stuff that's in Qumran.
That's the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Some of the same stories that are in the Bible.
So these are the oldest versions by like a thousand years.
And I think they're the only ones that are in Aramaic.
It's in Aramaic, and it's written on animal skins.
It's fucking crazy.
They pieced together the Dead Sea Scrolls with DNA. They made sure that they got the DNA of the same cow, so they knew if it was the same cow, it most likely was the same piece of paper, because they were all different cows and different pieces of paper, and they had to figure out which animal skins, because they had all these crumbs and pieces, and they had to piece them together over decades, man.
It was in like 1947. Again, there's that old, I think it was in a TV series in the UK, there was a joke thing of they found the original first page of the Bible just saying that any resemblance to people in real life is purely coincidental and so on and so forth and that it's just a book of fiction.
Was discovered between 46 and 56. It took some 10 years in this area in the West Bank called Qumran.
And they were found inside caves about a mile inland north of the northwest shore of the Dead Sea.
Really interesting shit, man.
Nine of the scrolls.
We're rediscovered at the Israeli Antiquities Authority in 2014 after they had been stored unopened for six decades following their excavation in 1952. The texts are of great historical, religious, and linguistic significance because they include the earliest known surviving manuscripts of works later included in the Hebrew Bible canon along with Deuterocanonical Deuteronomy.
It's interesting when you're raising kids and you're teaching them how to say words and, you know, you have to spell it and you see how it's difficult.
Well, when you learn a new word like this, like, you know, if that was deuteronomy, I could just say it and it would be easy.
But I'm trying to figure it out as I'm saying it like a little kid.
Imagine if you can go back to those dudes who wrote the Bible way back then and you could bring them in a time machine to 2014 and show them the havoc that they've created.
Well, it's so weird that it gets translated into different languages.
Like, have you ever done one of those things where you take Russian and you translate it to English and you try to, like, explain what the fuck they mean?
Their language is so different than ours that it always comes out like, he gives to a country but fails not.
You know, there's a weird interpretation of languages to English.
So you've got to think you're going from a weird language like ancient Hebrew, which was, they used to have, like, their numbers were embedded in their words.
The fact that they've got that translation and the original thing they're reading is just so old and they're using DNA to kind of piece it in the right order and all that kind of thing.
But when they have stories that are, like, when they translate part of the story and the story is, like, very similar to, like, Book of Genesis or something along those lines, they can sort of make those correlations.
If they have enough similarities, you know?
But there's a lot of those stories that are like that, man.
Like, when you go back to the oldest shit, that cuneiform that the Sumerians used to write in...
Oh, it's so weird looking, man.
There was no variation in the way their letters were.
And you can see these things that they used to do where they used to lay this clay down and roll their message out onto the clay.
And I guess if you probably wanted to get a message to somebody, you would send a seal, you'd send one of these cylinders, and then they would lay the clay out, and they would roll the cylinder on the clay, and it would read out what you had to say to them.
Most likely, what they think is, you know, when I've listened to many people give their opinions on these kind of things and how do these people know what they knew and what...
I'm...
I'm of an opinion that most likely at one point in time, people were really fucking smart.
And they had gotten really far, and they had learned a lot of shit, and they had lived for a long time, and then cataclysms happened.
They got hit by asteroids, they got hit by, you know, super volcanoes, whatever it is.
And whatever was learned was forgotten, and they started all over again.
And people who kind of argue against that will say, just, yeah, would they have, like, why aren't there cameras or whatever?
But I think the very nature of that theory is there's no chance at all that their intelligence would have developed in the same way as did.
The technology wouldn't have developed in the same way.
way they could have been far superior yet never invented petrol or use electronics electronics any of that but so that kind of yeah it makes sense of it's our own arrogance now of going but you know they didn't have TVs so that's so true it's so that's such a good point and you know I think that people from England have a bit of a better perspective of time than people in
I drove through Transylvania on our last tour and it just feels like the most underused, like, they should put a Dracula Disneyland or some shit there.
An amusement park for adults in Transylvania that's all horror.
And then they set up the entire location like they have fucking speakers in the woods where you hear horrible howls in the middle of the night while you're sleeping.
There's a big thing in the UK now where they have kind of these zombie tour things or whatever, and it'll be in an old shopping center or something, and you'll pay to go and be part of it, and it will be all actors kind of just jumping out and chasing you as zombies, and you'll be living out the zombie apocalypse.
But again, all of that just feels, how many of those actors get punched in the face, or someone just reacting in panic and hurting people.
A lot of my ideas, especially my more poorly thought out ones, a lot of them require, like, some sort of a demise of civilization for them to be valid.
And this is one of them.
We would have to have some serious casualties.
We'd have to devalue life in a way where, like, today...
I like it as the answer, though, when people are against cloning and the dangers of it and they're not a real person and the risks of playing God, it's like, well, no, we...
They're zombies.
We're only going to make them...
We're not going to have them thinking and acting.
Cloning's alright as long as we're making brain-dead zombies, essentially.
What if they got a hold of your DNA and they made a bunch of them and you didn't even realize they did that until they were like 15 or 16 and then you made them?
And you're an older man and you're meeting yourself at 15. There's like 20 of you and you're like, what the fuck?
I'm not even responsible for my own self growing up.
I don't get it, but if it came about, surely you'd have the rights to your own DNA. Surely that'd be a key thing, rather than me finding out and bumping into a script.
But you would find out that when you signed your terms of use, when you got your iPhone, that you gave up your right to clone yourself, and that they own you.
So every time you use your phone, a little bit of your DNA gets in you from your earwax, gets into the speaker, and then you turn them in, and then they just make copies of you.
It'll be some scam that they expose on CNN or something.
They're making iPhones.
They're taking iPhones and then using them as DNA collectors.
Well, I think we're going to wonder at one point in time, we're going to wonder what is an acceptable way to consider how to engineer our civilization both as our society, like how we govern ourselves, how we have laws, how we distribute money, and then also how we breed.
There's going to come a point in time when people become super, super intelligent, far removed from this weird sort of ape-like situation we find ourselves in today.
And if they get to that point one day, they'll be like, look, how much should we be investing our intellectual time into actively breeding people the way we do every other animal that we have under our control?
I mean, the way we breed cows, the way we breed dogs, should we just keep doing this whole thing on love, or should we just love everybody and breed according to the best way possible to enhance the human race?
But surely that would, in turn, just involve cutting down breeding hugely, because surely the biggest problem of the human race is that there's far too many of us to fit on this silly planet.
With that boiling pot of having far too many of us, it sort of highlights the reason why that would be a terrible idea, because there's so many variables that make society awesome, and all of them come from completely different realities.
The variable of the computer geek is a very different reality than the variable of a pro football player.
And all these variables, and biological variables too, as far as the way your body works, might lead you in one direction or another.
Lead your desires.
And that's what makes this whole world so fucking cool and crazy in the first place.
So could you imagine if we got so far advanced that we decided to start genetically engineering?
Well, it'll eventually become three-dimensional, and then one day, it'll be immersive.
One day you'll be able to record and not just record a single image, like this is the baby steps.
One day, you know, this is like when people first started to figure out a fire, you know, and what that led to is the combustion engine.
I mean, think about that, all the way up to plane travel.
It was figure out fire, all the other shit comes up after it.
What we're seeing now, by being able to take a photograph with the glasses, we're capturing time in a very rudimentary way, but really For us, amazing.
Well, one day, we're going to be able to capture everything about it.
The way your seat feels, the way your hands are sweaty, the way your beard itches, the way your clothes fit.
You're going to be in that life.
So you'll be able to take someone's memory and just run whatever it is, you know, an hour program, a two-hour program.
People will be able to upload their sexual exploits.
I think the first thing that's going to happen is there's going to be a search of your memory starting from a certain period of time where you're going to be able to access what you had said in the past or did in the past.
And it's going to be more searchable to the point where I go, what did I say last night around 10 o'clock?
You said at 10.01, blah, blah, blah, while standing at this location.
In baseball, it's so boring, but they love to argue when someone's safe or out, and they'll fucking play that foot touching that bag a hundred times, and the guy catching the ball and the foot touching the bag, they'll play that shit over and over and over again.
That's a terrible call by the referee.
I disagree.
From my point of view, I think it was the right call.
Do you think there's then an intentional thing in sports?
Like, I mean, in MMA, everyone talks about, is the 10-point must system the right system?
Do you think there's an active thing of, well, yeah, because everyone's having this discussion and talking about it and engaging about this fight, rather than, oh, you know, it'd be best if we actually knew who won and who won.
I agree with you in some ways, but I also think that it's just not a comprehensive enough system to have 10 points.
Because MMA is not one sport.
See, if it's boxing, the thing about boxing is, did this guy use his hands better or did that guy use his hands better?
This guy did.
Well, then he wins.
Look, he scored 100 punches.
Five of them were this, and 10 were that, and 30 were that.
And you go over these statistics, and it's kind of clear who got the round.
It's not hard to figure out.
But when you start factoring in things like takedowns, and then things like leg kicks, and things like submission attempts, and you have it quantify...
What's more important?
Whether it's the strike or the takedown, what's more important?
Is it more important this guy landed five punches, or is it more important that that guy took the other guy down and held onto him and did nothing?
And different people are going to have different opinions.
It's very subjective.
And when you're dealing with something like a 10-point system, one guy's going to get 10, one guy's going to get 9. It's very screwy.
I just think that if a judge is properly educated on it, then they'll be able to come closer and take all that into account and know that that takedown, there were three takedowns, but he didn't do anything while he was down, or they got up straight away.
And I think if there's a greater education on the judges, they'd be able to work that system.
So why is it that they bring Herb Dean and all these great refs into each of these places, yet it tends to be the judges are more a local thing and local...
Why couldn't they have the same they have with the judges, a kind of elite, here's the 10 best judges who are specialist MMA, not doing boxing one weekend and kickboxing or wrestling another weekend, only do MMA and therefore be more...
Well, that's the local athletic commissions have the say on who gets to referee, who gets to judge.
And it's an issue that we deal with when we fight, when we have events in certain places that don't have a lot of high-level fights.
And so you'll have local judges that were appointed by the commissions, and they're on television, and they're doing a terrible fucking job.
And they do things like they get too involved, they have two big egos, so they get in the way of the action, they tell guys to fight, and the guys are fighting.
What I do is tricky, but it's not nearly as hard as being a referee.
I think that's way harder.
Those guys, people get mad at them, man.
They stop fights too soon.
Dudes push them.
Guys fucking scream at them.
And they have to be able to control shit too, you know?
Like when things are going down and if guys won't get off of each other and they won't stop hitting each other, that's why I get nervous when I see female referees and big men.
And one day they're going to look back and they're going to realize how unbelievably stupid we were when it came to our drug policies.
Unbelievably stupid.
Like we took the most beneficial, the least harmful ones and we made them the most illegal and put people in jail for the longest amount of time for those.
It's kind of, yeah, I loved that the first time I read that of the small-mindedness of the way we approach it when there's millions of ways to approach the legalisation of every drug.
Well, it's also very strange when we arbitrarily decide that one drug, regardless of its impact on people's health and well-being and crimes committed under the influence of it, which is like one of the most devastating ones, alcohol, and we make that our primary drug.
If you're going to do that, if you're dealing with a sophisticated, intelligent civilization like the UK, like the United States of America, like the Western world in the year 2014, you're dealing with people that have just previously impossible levels of access to information.
It's unparalleled access to information.
It's never in human history.
And yet, in the face of this, in the face of this overwhelming evidence, you're choosing to To put people in cages for plants.
The best shit is when we get the people in Iowa high.
That's going to make the world a way better place.
All those tense dudes who are out there deer hunting.
Get those guys high.
It's a perspective-enhancing moment.
That's what's going on here, folks.
Do I mean that everybody needs to get high?
No, I don't really mean that everyone needs to get high.
You don't.
If you're a happy person the way you are, keep on keeping on, son.
But the idea that people can't benefit from something that people have clearly benefited from, not just benefited from, but have stated over and over again that they've benefited from it.
You don't hear that about a lot of other drugs.
This is a great drug.
I benefit from several different drugs.
Like caffeine.
I benefit from caffeine.
We don't like to think of it as a drug, but that's a drug.
And if they had chosen the same sort of ideas that they have on like marijuana addiction, this is one that they love to throw around, marijuana addiction.
I would like to put marijuana addiction next to shellfish allergy and see which one is more common.
Because I bet shellfish allergy is way more fucking common than marijuana.
And so the idea of making it illegal because one tiny percentage of the population gets physically addicted to it.
Well, I don't know what's going on in their body.
They might be physically addicted.
But for me, I know I can stop and not have weed for weeks and I don't feel any physical pain.
Maybe just shut off avatars instead of killing the party.
If you didn't know that you were going to see something and if you saw it, it would black you out, you'd have to be really careful about your viewing habits.
Did you see that video that somebody shared it to me on Twitter where they can take sound waves off video of like a plant and Like map it out and it will recreate what the sound was when that video is recorded.
So if you're in a room and say like you're talking and you have like a Doritos bag there, like a light piece of paper, they can focus on that and the impact of your voice on that Doritos bag, they can detect what you were saying.
Anybody that can figure that out, when I think about my potential for figuring things out and their potential for figuring things out, The tools that they have, the steps that they are ahead, I could live a hundred lives and never even catch up to where they are.
Never even get close.
It's amazing.
When people want to pretend that all people are created equal, why don't you pay attention?
There's some motherfuckers out there that are getting sound off Doritos bags.
And guess what, fuckface?
They're smarter than you.
Their brains work better.
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When sound hits an object, it causes that object to vibrate.
The motion of this vibration creates a subtle visual signal that's usually invisible to the naked eye.
In our work, we show how using only a video of the object and a suitable processing algorithm, we can extract these minute vibrations and partially recover the sounds that produced them, letting us turn everyday visible objects into visual microphones.
In the silent high-speed video shown here on the left, we see the leaves of a potted plant shown on the right.
The video was recorded while a nearby loudspeaker played the notes to Mary had a little lamb.
So now what they're gonna do, they record it with the sound and they're gonna play it back using- Even when we play the video in slow motion here, the vibrations caused by the music are so subtle that they move the plants leaves by less than a hundredth of a pixel, making the plant appear still to the naked eye.
But by combining and filtering all the tiny motion happening across the image that you see, we are able to recover this sound.
What that's going to happen is we're going to be able to take old home movies, especially like the 8mm kind that's like no sound that you used to have in the 70s.
We're going to be able to eventually probably take that and actually recreate the sound of everything that was going on.
We can sometimes actually recover sound at frequencies several times higher than the frame rate of our video, letting us recover audio from video captured on regular consumer cameras.
Whoa!
Here we see a 60 frames per second video of a bag of candy captured on a regular consumer DSLR while our Mary had a little land music played through a nearby loudspeaker.
By using a variation of our technique on the rows of the recorded video, we were able to recover this audio, which includes frequencies more than five times higher than the frame rate of our camera.
The speed we went from the invention of the internet, which is putting everyone in the world in touch with everyone else, and then the speed we went from that to turning it into something that we just look at tits on and tweet people and talk shit.
The speed which we've just become comfortable with is amazing...
Piece of technology that we should be using to find out amazing things constantly, but 90% of the time, we've got so comfortable with it because it's just on your phone now.
Well, we take it for granted while it's doing its work.
And it's doing its work, and its work is connecting all of us.
I mean, we're connected in some really bizarre ways now, man.
That's uh, I mean what we're seeing on this the screen we're watching this video.
That's a Fascinating new thing an amazing new thing But it's probably one of like a million new things that are coming out that are gonna freak us the fuck out You know all this stuff is essentially magic It's crazy how they'll freak us out for like a minute.
It's creating time travel but using it like a weird like old VCR type kind of technology where we're going to be recreating everything that's ever happened.
Yeah, you're going to be Be able to watch an outdoor video and stare at the trees and listen to the actual voices that the people were saying while they were near those trees.
Well, not only that, they'll probably be able to do things digitally to change the resolution of things.
Probably some sort of an algorithm where they'll be able to analyze each individual pixel and enhance in post the camera's reaction to the image and change it and enhance it.
Imagine if they figure out a way to recreate old historical videos and actually make them, like a part of the Oculus Rift, make them like super high resolution, calculate them based on all that, like say if they took the Kennedy assassination.
And they calculated it on all known photographs of the area.
They did a very comprehensive analysis.
They, in detail, every photo of Kennedy's face ever taken, every photo of Jackie O ever taken, every inch of one of those crazy limousines that Kennedy was driving in, the convertible limousines, every inch of it.
And then they put you in a virtual reality where you're at the scene.
But the recreations of historical events in three dimension in virtual reality is inevitable.
Like, I mean, if people are making paintings of Nixon, they're definitely going to make like a virtual reality scenario where he gets shot at the theater.
I'm writing a story or song or whatever at the moment about a guy that gets a chance, meets some kind of god or whatever, but gets told you can have one truth and you've got to pick everything throughout history.
Like, you could pick to know what happened with JFK or to know if Jesus was real or whatever.
and just what what would that one I mean in this story he ends up going through all of that and then asking if his girlfriend cheated on him because that's the reality that's the reality that's the truth that you'd ask and need to know but what what the fuck would you it's weird because jfk is one that i always come to and i'm not american i've got no i think it's just because it's such a conspiracy theory that i want to know the actual truth yeah amazing I think the actual truth would be interesting, but I'm pretty convinced of a conspiracy when it came to JFK.
I've seen the evidence that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone, and one of the things that I don't find compelling is that there was obviously some, the Warren Commission had a predetermined conclusion that they wanted to reach, and that was that there was a lone gunman.
And they wanted to reach it so badly that they ignored evidence to the contrary and even concocted crazy stories like the magic bullet theory.
The either-or thing is a problem as well, because everybody wants to say, Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.
No, he didn't.
It was a conspiracy.
Could be Lee Harvey Oswald was a part of the conspiracy.
That's possible, too.
He could have been their patsy, like he said I was a patsy, but he also could have been involved in it, which would account for the slaying of the officer, like a police officer was shot, and they attributed that to Lee Harvey Oswald.
He might have shot a cop because he was a guilty fuck.
He might have been one of the gunmen.
There might have been several gunmen.
They might have just had that guy set up as a patsy from the jump because he had a wife that was Russian, he was from Russia.
Either way, they killed Kennedy.
I wouldn't go back to see that.
I'd go back to Roswell.
I'd want to see if a UFO crashed or if it was just a fucking air balloon.
So if people are just having these episodes where they start telling you about UFO abductions and seeing ships that are invisible and move faster than time, it's also possible they're crazy and full of shit.
That's...
So I would love to go back.
And if I went back to Roswell and I found an actual UFO, I would fucking change my tune.
But if I went back to Roswell and I just saw a bunch of people standing around a weather balloon...
Like, look, no one would like it more than me if I went back and I actually saw a spaceship from another planet.
Like, if you go to Area 51 and they could take you to the Bob Lazar place where they have this fucking gigantic hangar and you go inside and you see an actual alien UFO. Holy shit, I would love that.
But it's way more likely to me that you get there and you see a bunch of remote control shit that the government's been working on, and you see some aircraft technology that led to the stealth bomber, which they know they built out of there.
So I think you're dealing with a lot of dull-minded people that can't even comprehend the intelligence level of the people that can conceive something like a stealth bomber.
So they're seeing this technology arising, they're attributing it to back-engineering UFOs, when it really could just be people that are so smart, so much smarter than them, they're not even the same species, essentially.
They're just super fucking smart and they figured out a gang of shit.
In a sense, he's an alien in that he's something that we can't even imagine.
We can't even imagine what's going on inside of his mind.
He's so goddamn smart.
He's so advanced that his concepts and the levels that he's operating on and thinking on might as well be alien to some guy who works at Krispy Kreme and keeps fucking up and doesn't figure out which button to press.
Ryan J. Riley and the Washington Post's Wesley Lowry were arrested Wednesday while covering the protests in Ferguson, Missouri surrounding the death of Of unarmed African-American teenager Michael Brown, who was shot to death by a police officer last week.
Riley tweeted that around 8 p.m., the SWAT officers invaded the McDonald's at which he was working, requested information after he took a photo of them.
Lowry was also working at the fast food restaurant.
Whoa!
Wait a minute.
How are Huffington Post reporters arrested?
Oh, HuffPost caused the Ferguson status of Riley after tweets that he had been arrested.
The person who picked up the phone identified himself as George, said he couldn't give any information at this time.
So they came in while they were working and they asked for their ID and when they took a photo.
Holy shit.
Like, that's, like, beyond overstepping bounds.
There was also a video that someone put up online of some people filming cops, and the cop points the gun on them and tells them to get the fuck out of here.
And they all start screaming.
It's really crazy shit.
Like, the cop says, get the fuck out of here!
And he points the gun at them.
You know, it's some dark shit, man.
This is all what everyone was terrified of when that Occupy Wall Street shit was going on.
What they were worried most is that at one point in time, the United States is going to have something that just wakes people up to shit like this, and they actually start rioting.
And that's a terrifying thing for police.
It's a terrifying thing for law enforcement, for any form of government.
When you have this happen, these types of things, they build momentum.
It gets real scary when people feel like the police is doing them wrong and there's a battle between people and the police.
They start shooting rubber bullets at crowds like they're doing here.
They're just hitting random people in the crowds, trying to disperse them.
One of the reasons why they rose up against him is because he was starting to say that they were going to attack people if they were in any sort of formation.
If more than two or three people were together and they formed any sort of a group, they were going to arrest them all, shoot them on sight.
And the next day there was like two million people.
It's just tough because there's always going to be a load of smaller breaking points along the way that don't cause the change but cause a lot of bad, bad results and actions.
I think when shit hits the fan, when you have a situation like this and people from the police and civilians are fighting, it's like things get real hairy.
And there's a lot of huge, huge, huge mistakes that get made.
And there's a lot of stress and a lot of pressure.
It's going to be real tough to calm this fucking thing down.
There is, again, as everywhere, there are guns, there are knives, like there is crime going on, but yeah, it's nowhere near as regular a thing.
And I'd say even proportionately, obviously there's millions and millions more people in the US, but I'd still say percentage-wise, it's far more regular.
Our whole history is running so much of the world, and then we're on this tiny little island, still claiming that we're the mighty England, but we're just scrapping in the streets amongst ourselves.
In Britain, our history and our arrogance, in a way, 90% of the stuff that we got that was good was from the Romans.
The Romans came and showed us.
And the reason a lot of our society crumbled after the Romans left was because we had all these amazing roads and everything, but we didn't know how to rebuild them or to maintain them or anything like that.
So we kind of had this big boom when the Romans came over.
And then plummeted for ages because we're like, oh shit, we've got all this technology and whatnot and we don't really know how to fix it.
Some other guys made it and then they went broke and had to go home because they got overthrown and we were there like, ah, fuck.
And then years later it's then turned into our great history and our great advances in technology and Yeah, it comes in waves, right?
It's an amazing thing to discover the remnants of the past and try to piece together what happened and then really try to put it into perspective what has happened that brought us to 2014. All the different lives that had to be lived, all the events that had to take place.
And all the different things that we're trying to still piece together today and try to figure out, well, what was going on?
What did they believe?
Why were they worshiping cows?
And what were they doing on top of this hill?
And why they set this up to align it with constellations?
Look, when you think about Columbus in 1492, sailing off, finding the Americas, landing here, seeing the Native people, trying to communicate with them, what that must have been like, not even knowing where the fuck you landed.
You get there, and you see some people...
And they're all brown and shit, and they got feathers on their head, and you're like, what is going on?
How do I tell this guy that I'm from Spain?
What is he saying?
You had to decipher a language that no one even knew existed, and there's a gang of them.
You know, 400, 500 years or whatever it was, from 1492 to 2012. I mean, think about, like, when they came here, the amount of time between 1492, the less than 600 years, 500 plus years, to today.
That's nothing in terms of the world.
Nothing.
But in that time, this one spot with a bunch of people on horses just hanging out, just...
It erupted, became New York City, San Francisco, California.
It was crazy because obviously it's quite lyric based.
We assumed when we first started going out there that they wouldn't really get that side of it.
But it's crazy how in Europe a lot of people seem to get it more because they read the translations of it and are paying attention more, if you know what I mean.
So if you're hearing it and you speak English, You're going to miss tons of it, but you're picking up enough.
Whereas because they're not picking up any, they'll then go and read it word for word and understand it far more than half the British people who come to our shows and stuff like that.
That kills me now that people will openly just tweet again, yeah, I stole that.
It's like, cool, I understand that that happens, but don't come to my face and tell me that, because particularly as I've released most of it on my own label now and stuff like that, it's just like, you're not ripping anyone off other than me.
But do you feel like there's a balance with people finding out about your stuff, because someone will take it and download it, and then they'll distribute it, and then other people find out about it, and then more people come to your shows?
It's just like, if you're going to do it, yeah, you might have some new listeners, because he told somebody, but don't go to your, like you say, go to your faces.
To try and just make it engaging and make people want to pay.
On my solo album, I released a fake torrent that was all the instrumentals, but me just talking and just chatting and doing kind of DVD extras, kind of, oh, the drummer on this track was Travis Barker and shit like that and going through stuff, just so that the torrent that was first out there and everyone grabbed wasn't at the album.
But then it also kind of, not in a preachy way, kind of said...
If you're stealing it, you're stealing it from me, from the artist that you're into and supporting.
And that kind of works.
A lot of people say, oh shit, I got caught on the fake torrent.
I like to try and make things interesting in that way.
Because again, if people are going to steal, they're going to steal.
But we get an awful lot of people who say, I've not paid for an album in ages, but I paid for your album because of the way it's all coming from a personal perspective.
I did a spoken word show at Edinburgh Fringe, so it's kind of spoken word, but there's some stand-up in there as well kind of thing.
And it stunned me that the comedy world, Louis and yourself and everyone, have found that thing of putting it out for $5 and being direct to the customer.
$5 is enough for you to not want to go on a torrent site and hunt it down.
It seems to be that sweet spot that people will be happy to pay, yet the music industry hasn't done that.
For my Edinburgh show, I've done that and released it in that way.
Well, I think that definitely makes it a better relationship, that if everything you do is just for sale, I think when you give people stuff for free, certainly like a podcast.
Have you ever thought about doing something like a podcast?
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