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00:00:21.000Yeah, I found out about this guy, this company called Tristero, or it's a guy, and he just roasts all these beans from all over the world and drops them off at this one bicycle cafe.
00:02:14.000He was explaining to us that the reason why they all have these different complex flavors and how they would take care of the beans, because Ethiopia is a very dry climate, whereas South America is very hot.
00:02:27.000So they developed all these problems with coffee rust.
00:02:41.000Did he talk about the illegality of coffee in its kind of earlier stages when it would go out into different regions and cultures and religious areas?
00:02:48.000Well, Bourdain actually was the first person to tell me that, that they were outlawing coffee shops and coffee houses back in the day.
00:02:56.000There's a clip somewhere online of Bourdain explaining to us how coffee shops were being outlawed.
00:03:03.000Because at the time, everyone basically was drunk all day.
00:03:44.000I was just thinking about life expectancy and how now I feel like we're going to see people living well into their hundreds and stuff, and our generation and younger.
00:03:53.000But back then, you're just like, you're 30?
00:03:55.000All right, you should make a whale, man.
00:05:07.000You're a warrior philosopher, so you know what that is.
00:05:10.000But yeah, that's probably what you just go into a trance, and you're just killing everything in sight, and you're basically like an insect on cocaine that's just chopping everything down around you.
00:05:19.000Yeah, you remember when we were talking about that new Viking show that's on Netflix?
00:05:27.000There's another one that's a serious Viking show on Netflix that's supposed to be like the show Vikings, but way better, which I kind of like, the show Vikings.
00:06:57.000This is the day my clan gets wiped out.
00:06:59.000Or that thing where to save lives, they'd be like, our champion fights your champion, and then that person wins, and then that guy comes out, and you're like, ah.
00:09:16.000Yeah, and then he said, fuck this, get me out of here, and he wound up dying at home.
00:09:20.000He wound up dying at home rather than die in the hospital because a guy tried to eat him.
00:09:24.000Imagine, like, your last couple days of life are escaping a schizophrenic guy who got out of his room and tried to eat you.
00:09:31.000This is why I worked so hard all my life and raised a family and now I'm here.
00:09:34.000I mean, that's already your worst fear is to die away from your loved ones just around strangers, to be back at the first day of high school, basically, but you're old and everyone's old, but then someone's trying to kill you.
00:09:54.000I got to tell my mother that because she works with this group called The Village, which creates a network in any given neighborhood where if you're young or you're old, you register it and cause anything.
00:10:04.000And basically, this person can live out their final years in their home because they have a network of neighbors who check on them.
00:10:18.000Because it's like, I think people deserve to, you know, as long as they're not eating people and killing them, they can die in their homes, you know?
00:10:25.000Yeah, that's a concern that you really don't ever want to address until it's too late.
00:10:40.000Even deep into their old age, when they're just decrepit and they can't make it anymore, they just can't handle the fact that it's all going to end.
00:12:04.000There are times where we've all come close to not necessarily putting a gun in our mouths or a rope around our necks, but where you just feel like there's no point.
00:12:11.000You know, but someone can just come in.
00:12:12.000I say, like, coming up in the crew that I came up with in Chicago, you know, Kinane and Hannibal and people like, we never let each other get away with shit.
00:12:24.000Or it's just like, yeah, you're saying that.
00:12:26.000Like, you need those people in your life.
00:12:28.000I'll never forget, I went through a horrible breakup, and I went, I was in my apartment for like a week, only leaving to wait tables and bartend, and then I finally came to a show, and Kinane's like, hey, look who pushed us out of all the clumps of used Kleenex to be with us.
00:14:15.000Like, Dad, you gotta tell me more than this.
00:14:17.000So now we're kind of, he's opening up more, but long story long, he was like, you know when you're waking up in the middle of the night and there's that voice in your head that's telling you you're useless and you haven't done enough with your life and things like that?
00:14:30.000He's like, I don't know if there is a devil.
00:15:03.000Yeah, but there's something good about feeling very disappointed in yourself because then it makes you work harder and recognize or at least try to realize your potential better and you get more done and you feel better about yourself.
00:15:19.000Yeah, there's definitely something there, especially if you're in competitive sports or something like that, where there's nothing you hate more than losing.
00:17:01.000Especially like your tech billionaires or stuff like that.
00:17:05.000It's like after a while you'd be like, you know, I'm going to go to the comedy store and we're going to break each other's balls for a while because this is weird, man.
00:17:14.000Right, like Steve Jobs, known by everyone as an extreme cunt.
00:19:50.000Your dad, the whole reason why you're getting by so smoothly and the walls are so greased for you in this life is your dad was a human scumbag.
00:20:37.000And the thing that gets me is that they always dump on those people, the public figures, the people like sports, especially biggest example are like sports figures where like, I mean, should he get that much for a fight?
00:20:48.000It's like, do people want to watch you fight?
00:20:59.000People would say that, oh, I'd fucking get punched by Mike Tyson for a million dollars.
00:21:03.000First of all, you'd have to get enough people that want to pay to see you get knocked out to make it worth a million dollars.
00:21:09.000To see you lose your life, quite frankly.
00:21:11.000Richard Lewis had that joke about his uncle, I remember when I was a kid, and I was watching on TV and laughing until I cried, where he said, oh yeah, I think it was Tyson actually.
00:21:18.000He was like, yeah, I'd fight him for a million.
00:21:20.000He was like, yeah, anyone would pay $300 a seat at Madison Square Garden to see an old Jewish guy get punched once in the face and cry.
00:22:09.000It was just like, he would just run right through everybody to the point where you're like, oh, he's not from here.
00:22:15.000You know, kind of like those comic books where aliens, like, they're on a planet that has way more gravity or something, so they just punch their fist right through your chest.
00:23:32.000No, I don't think that's ever happened.
00:23:35.000The best theory would probably be Godzilla, like some monster was born of it that came out of the ocean.
00:23:41.000Well, there was a time where Vice went to Chernobyl, and this was back when Vice was really Vice, when Shane Smith was going on all these journeys and shit.
00:26:10.000They just stare at you and enter your mind.
00:26:13.000Fukushima, they were doing something where they dug this giant swimming pool and all around this giant swimming pool that they dug, they put like ice cores.
00:26:23.000They put like some sort of cooling element so they could freeze all the nuclear waste to an insanely cold temperature.
00:26:49.000Well, they're already—do you know, like, I had a friend who I used to live with who was kind of new-agey but also conspiracy theory-ish, and he was convinced that our planet was the off-limits zone for the entire universe, where every other planet was much more advanced,
00:27:04.000and they were just like, don't go down there.
00:27:06.000All they do is fight and blow things up, and they don't share with each other and stuff.
00:27:24.000There's a bunch of things that have to be in place for us to get to the point where we're going to war with each other, people that are over there.
00:30:04.000You know, the DNA and RNA of octopus are so different than every other animal in the fossil record.
00:30:13.000That there was a consideration that they might have actually been an alien species.
00:30:18.000Because you know what panspermia means?
00:30:21.000Panspermia is a theory that is pretty widely accepted in the scientific community that some life is transferred through asteroidal collisions.
00:30:31.000So, like, say if a chunk of rock slams into our planet and knocks a chunk of rock loose, and that chunk has DNA on it, and amino acids, and all the building blocks for life, bacteria, whatever it is.
00:30:46.000Some things, you know, little things can survive in space, like tardigrades, little life forms can survive in space, that they slam into a planet eventually, and then when they do, that life is transferred onto that planet.
00:30:58.000Science news, octopuses came to Earth from space as frozen eggs millions of years ago.
00:31:34.000The extraordinary claims made in a report entitled The Case of Cambrian Explosion, Terrestrial or Cosmic, which co-authored by a group of 33 scientists and published in the Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology journal.
00:31:47.000And the paper suggests that the explanation for the sudden flourishing of life during the Cambrian era, often referred to as the Cambrian explosion, lies in the stars as a result of Earth being bombarded by clouds of organic molecules.
00:32:25.000But they think that about mushrooms as well.
00:32:28.000They think that spores can survive in a vacuum.
00:32:32.000So if something, like say if some spores were attached to a rover and we shot it off to the moon or something like that, and it got there somehow or another, if there was the right conditions for that thing to grow, that they could actually survive the trip.
00:32:47.000And then grow on the moon or on Mars or anywhere where there would be water and sunlight and atmosphere.
00:34:40.000I landed in Las Vegas with my wife, and she loves Vegas, and we went to the cab line, and just standing there is Ron White smoking a cigar, as if the city put him there.
00:34:49.000Like he's waiting for a limo, but he was just there.
00:37:13.000He's one of those guys that, like, back when no one knew who he was, you know, three years ago or so, like, I would make a point to stick around and watch him at the store, because he's so fun to watch.
00:38:57.000You ever have those people you start out around and you just look at them and you never say it, but you're like, I never want to be you, man.
00:39:26.000We've talked about this on the podcast, and I think what that came from was there was a famine mentality that existed in the 80s and the 90s, because the only way you could become successful is if you got on The Tonight Show, and there was only one slot a night, and there's only five nights a week, and then they don't always have comics on either.
00:39:44.000And then the only other way you could get successful is if you got a sitcom.
00:40:18.000I kind of thought of it as an organic thing from, you know, because the comedy boom happened because disco died and you could basically fill a huge room with just a spotlight and a mic and one dude, you know?
00:40:30.000And these guys still had that space and they were just raking in hand over fist because people just, they didn't want to disco dance anymore and it just died a horrible death.
00:42:06.000And had a message board and fucked around on the message board.
00:42:08.000But what he did was use it as a business vehicle, like a way to actively promote himself.
00:42:14.000So then somewhere in the mid-2000s, comics started doing internet things, like little internet shows, like Crackle was a thing, and they were doing little online things, and then people were working with each other more.
00:42:39.000And you don't have to use – I feel like in between there, one thing you left out was the amount of – the rise of what you call the internet comedian, which – where they just kind of would make blogs and they had people that would edit them so they would be funny.
00:42:53.000You and I have come up over 20-odd years doing stand-up where you learn timing, you learn how to read an audience, the ebb and the flow, your brainwaves, and how to pick when to say something and how, because timing is everything.
00:43:06.000With an internet video, you can have an editor just go, nope, here, here, here, here, he should have said that faster.
00:43:12.000And it's this thing that kind of vaunted these kids into YouTube millionaires, if they were lucky, But sometimes they'd go on the road and people were like, what's going on?
00:43:24.000Every single time they'd eat plates of shit.
00:43:28.000That's like learning karate in your basement, practicing in the mirror, and then going to fight in a tournament.
00:43:34.000It's like those guys, I saw that thing you put up online of those tutorials, horrible tutorials.
00:43:41.000It's like that guy entering the square circle with someone who knows what he's doing.
00:43:47.000Are they still doing that style of video where they edit constantly and make those YouTube videos where it's constant edit, edit, edit, edit, where they cut out all the pauses?
00:44:11.000And it would cut to, it's almost like watching Family Guy, where, you know, Peter would be like, that's the time I was into disco, and it cuts to him, and he's like jacking off on a disco floor, then cuts back.
00:44:20.000You know, it was like that, because you could just do that.
00:44:31.000I've watched a couple people recently try to transfer that, doing stuff in front of a microphone, in front of a video camera, to going on stage for the first time.
00:44:44.000It's terrifying, and it kind of breaks the covenant of an audience, because anytime I have an opener who's like, they're like, I'm actually fucking nervous and blah, blah, blah, you know, do you Do you still get nervous?
00:46:48.000My favorite, or probably one of my top five onion headlines was the trucker guy that's like, why do those homosexuals keep sucking my cock?
00:50:09.000I mean, I don't go to the second location.
00:50:13.000You know, I'll hang out at the club a little bit and take pictures of stuff with people and have a beer, but people are like, hey, you should go to our bar!
00:54:26.000If you're not fully obsessed, you're probably not going to put the thought process and the effort into it, and you're not going to survive the bombings.
00:55:57.000I remember because he talks about leaving the hotel and a friend who was at the hotel was like, yeah, man, when you left, your luggage was sweating, like said at the mirror.
00:58:30.000There's a show that a guy, Andy Haynes, had called Midnight Run, where you'd smoke right before you got on stage, and you just hit this big joint.
00:59:19.000I mean, I think about people that were like from very regimented backgrounds and went into the military, you know, in the 60s and then hit their first joint and went, this is dumb.
01:00:49.000This progress that we're exhibiting right now that keeps going in the same direction.
01:00:54.000I think we're living in a level of anxiety as a human race that probably four or five years ago I would have been like, we can't handle that.
01:01:01.000But we're somehow handling it, you know?
01:01:34.000It's so much more fun, and it's so honest, and it's so in the moment.
01:01:39.000I've said this a lot here and there, but when you're on stage and you're going through a bit you've done 50 times, and you just drop it and go, you know what?
01:01:48.000Fucking, I had the worst diarrhea together today or whatever.
01:01:50.000Something that you just share, and the crowd goes, oh, because a defense attorney wrote this book, and one line in it was, the truth just sounds different in court.
01:02:25.000But stand-up comedy is the moment, like Buddhism, like saying the moment.
01:02:31.000In comedy, if you stay out of the moment, you're no longer in the pole position.
01:02:34.000Your car is going to drive off the road because the ultimate bullshit detector is a crowd.
01:02:40.000They know far more than they know they know.
01:02:43.000I've been reading these articles written by these angry women about Louis C.K.'s comeback, and some of them have been going to his shows and writing about the show.
01:02:52.000And one of them that I read today was from this woman in Pittsburgh.
01:02:56.000What I thought was fascinating, she said that he has...
01:02:59.000He doesn't allow people to bring cell phones.
01:03:06.000Her rationalization of this was, and she included me and Dave Chappelle in this, that we use those because we know that words offend, but we don't want the consequences.
01:03:44.000But if you have a bit about diapers, and there's a very specific punchline about a diaper, and then they already know it.
01:03:50.000They know that punchline, and you're working out how to get to that punchline and how to set up the bit, but someone leaked the audio already.
01:03:58.000Louis is touring right now with that leaked set.
01:04:38.000I feel like he's quite obviously a special case because of his behavior.
01:04:44.000But it's almost like, I will say, that aside, I have my problems with Louis and what he's done and everything.
01:04:53.000But overall, I'm on the side of free speech.
01:04:56.000And in terms of being comedians, we can't allow you to come in and film our shit or to record it, no matter who it is, because it's...
01:05:06.000The larger thing is like everyone – one thing with comedy is everyone thinks they're an expert.
01:05:11.000There's no other art form where someone's like, I know what the best shit is or I got a friend funnier than you.
01:05:16.000Right, but in all fairness, if I go to see a movie – I'm not a movie maker, but if I go to see a movie and I think it sucks, I should be able to say, oh, that movie blew.
01:05:23.000True, but you're not allowed to go on set and film it yourself while they're filming it.
01:05:42.000Yeah, and Chappelle has that thing, like the Comedy Works has, where you come in with your cell phone, they put it in a locked pouch.
01:05:49.000You get the combo, you get it when you leave.
01:05:51.000I was doing that before I did my Netflix special, but I was only doing it because I was tightening up my set, and I didn't want any of it getting leaked right before the Netflix special.
01:06:02.000But once I filmed it, then I stopped doing it.
01:07:14.000You mentioned Chappelle, and we were talking about Bourdain before, and I will not say what the joke is, but that guy is such an alchemist.
01:07:21.000Like, he can just make gold out of lead in terms of material.
01:07:25.000He had a Bourdain joke that made me double over laughing about the suicide that wasn't talking about Bourdain per se, but about his own family member.
01:07:38.000I don't want to blow the joke, but it was that thing where, apologies to people who are listening to this.
01:07:43.000I know you want me to say what it is, but he's probably going to do it in a special, so I don't want to do that.
01:07:47.000But it's testament to how with comedy there's always a mission impossible.
01:07:53.000There's always a topic like, you cannot make fun of this.
01:07:57.000And someone found a way, and it wasn't disrespectful.
01:10:00.000John Roy writes stuff online that I think is really illuminating, that teaches you what the business is really like and what the best comedy is from a comedian's perspective.
01:12:53.000But when we worked with Bobby, when he didn't have his dick and balls out eating a salad, he would watch playback and would just watch himself and be like, ha, ha, ha, ha.
01:13:04.000To the point where Keegan-Michael Key, me, and Eric would just point at him and go like, me!
01:14:15.000And I met Bobby Lee down there at the La Jolla Comedy Store, and then we went out after the show.
01:14:20.000This was probably like late 90s somewhere.
01:14:23.000And we went out afterwards, went out to the strip club, and there was this Mexican gentleman with a tattoo on his face in the 90s, which is rare.
01:23:06.000I used to work with a business manager who used to work with high-end sports, high-end athletes, and she's like, can we set this up or some transfer?
01:23:15.000She's like, listen, you'll never make my job as hard as trying to get a Lamborghini dealer to open at midnight in Las Vegas.
01:26:10.000But like, if you dated someone for a couple years, and then you married them, and then while you're married, you made a million dollars, they didn't make anything, and you're like, hey, I want half that money.
01:27:11.000But I know people that if they have to sit in front, like I remember when during the recession or something, there was some video of Puff Daddy getting on a plane and he was like, your boy isn't flying private.
01:27:34.000I was worried about the government shutdown.
01:27:36.000Well, and yelling at, and this was like 10 years ago, but like yelling at whoever's filming him on TMZ, and I think about the person that's in like Group D for that plane, where they call you and it's just like you and like a stray dog that gets let on the plane.
01:27:49.000Was he saying he wasn't flying private because the money wasn't flowing in?
01:28:34.000Got to fix his problems for Puff Daddy or P. Diddy or whatever it is.
01:28:38.000If I was playing stadiums or something like that in 2008 and I got on a plane and yelled at it like a TMZ thing and someone just creased my brow with a brick, like just hit me in the face.
01:28:54.000I'm speaking dramatically, but, you know, it's almost like that guy, you ever been in line waiting to play and someone just starts playing music?
01:38:51.000They should have a padded area that they set aside.
01:38:54.000There's a great line from a Bukowski novel where these guys are all gathering after like a night out or something and this guy's hungover and he's just like, He's like, I heard you got in a fight.
01:39:04.000And he's just like, oh man, that guy had to be a pro.
01:40:53.000I know people saw us screaming, and I might have slapped her a couple times, but boy, I love her, and her disappearing.
01:40:59.000And what's fucked up, I learned from a buddy of mine who was on, he was with the Second City Touring Company, or Turco, and they were on a cruise ship, and he was telling me that they found out that, like, all the food you don't eat, they grind it all up and just shoot it out in the water.
01:41:14.000So that attracts game fish, and the game fish attracts sharks.
01:41:17.000So anytime there's a cruise ship, there's just sharks all the time.
01:42:38.000I never knew I could have been dueling all this on my whole childhood.
01:42:41.000Well, no, they're trying to scrap the ban.
01:42:45.000So they're trying to reinstate bans to let people know how stupid these old laws are that are still in the books.
01:42:50.000They decided it would not be very civil if two members of this legislature disagreed and then shot each other on the front steps of the provisional capital.
01:43:29.000Apparently, that Native American guy, though, they did an interview with him, and it was a disaster because he said a bunch of things that just absolutely weren't true, and they're questioning whether or not he actually was in Vietnam.
01:43:39.000He definitely didn't serve in Vietnam, but he wasn't in combat.
01:43:49.000None of these people were prepared for this kind of attention.
01:43:52.000You know, it's like I was offended as hell by those kids, and I'm a fucking big old bleeding heart lefty for sure, and I hate those fucking hats, but like...
01:44:02.000At the same time, every teenage boy is a fucking idiot.
01:45:05.000And again, by the way, there's 40 kids.
01:45:08.000If you have one asshole kid, it doesn't mean everybody should be beat up because one of your stupid fucking classmates says something really dumb because he thinks he's funny and he's 15. I sat in an assembly once where a friend of mine was in Chicago, and a friend of mine was doing a play,
01:45:23.000and they were doing a scene from the play on stage, and a woman would come on stage, and these boys, I'm behind them, and they're saying the worst shit I can imagine.
01:46:31.000It's really—well, we're—I mean, back to what I said about anxiety.
01:46:34.000It's just we're at each other's fucking throats.
01:46:37.000I mean, I have a bit in my act about how, like, I feel like the internet was built for us to tear each other apart because we're just throwing darts and running away.
01:46:46.000And if you put us in a room together and talk it out, I think we would, mano a mano.
01:46:53.000We all want the same thing deep down inside.
01:48:07.000I do understand the double standard we have had with, like, black youth, though, where it's kind of like, you know, this kid gets strangled to death for selling cigarettes.
01:55:56.000It's really a sign of the times that people took clips of that and they made it out like this little kid's a cunt and even Reza Aslan had on his...
01:56:03.000Have you ever seen a more punchable face?
01:56:14.000And again, you know, those kids, like, even when you were pulling that clip up, I could feel my stomach make a fist from like, oh, this just...
01:56:25.000It's like that kid at the Cub game who had the game in his earphones and he caught the ball, which the outfielder was definitely not going to catch anyway, and they blamed him for the Cubs' loss of the series and they had to squirt that kid out.
01:56:40.000I thought the kid reached forward, though.
01:56:42.000He did, but if you look at the tape, I don't think that outfielder had it.
01:56:46.000The outfielder was pointing like, you fucked up, kid.
01:56:49.000And it was kind of this, well, I understand, when you're playing Major League ball, one mistake could mean the end of your career and your family's out.
01:57:02.000Yeah, but that's like, you're saying it's blaming one tiny play on the entire game and you can't do that.
01:57:07.000And the fact that, back to your point of punch the kid in the face, that kid had to be escorted out of Wrigley Field because people were going to kill him.
01:57:15.000There were drunk people that were going to throw that kid into traffic.
01:57:18.000Can we see that video of the guy catching that ball?
02:01:31.000Yeah, the level of honor that it was had to be so high that you're like, my family will never want for anything ever again, so I'm just going to...
02:01:40.000Or the level of drugs that you were taking to play that game that way.
02:01:45.000It's like, you know, an assassin comes from Hashishin, you know, where this guy would just...
02:02:30.000So it's kind of like, it's probably the same thing where that level of drugs where you're like, if I win, they cut my head off, but I go to Valhalla or whatever their version of heaven is.
02:02:40.000Human sacrifice is always such a strange thing.
02:03:23.000They would kill like and this guy who had killed a few of his aunts and all the old women were terrified of him because he would sneak up behind them when they got too old because they were, you know, they were gatherers.
02:04:15.000And when the Aztecs constructed this, when it was finally completed, they essentially sacrificed all the slaves that were used to build it.
02:05:25.000They would just chop a head off and roll down the fucking stairs.
02:05:29.000Probably like a little head slide kind of thing.
02:05:32.000What do you think the fascination with that is?
02:05:35.000This idea of killing someone to appease the gods.
02:05:40.000Was it because everyone was afraid to die so that when you could force someone to do it in front of everyone, force someone to die in front of everyone and sacrifice them, as long as there was enough distance between you and them, there would be this charge of excitement and Very Machiavellian,
02:06:38.000The numbers disputed, however, some say as few as 4,000 were sacrificed in what was actually a re-consecration of the Templo Mayor in 1487. Nevertheless, scores were killed.
02:06:51.000So, one thought is, 1487 the Aztecs recorded that 84,000 people were slaughtered in four days.
02:06:59.000Self-sacrifice was common and individuals would pierce their ears, tongues, and genitals to nourish the floors of the temples with their blood.
02:07:06.000Unsurprisingly, there is evidence that Mexico was already suffering from a demographic crisis before the Spanish arrived.
02:07:14.000Yeah, the Spanish probably came in at the perfect time.
02:08:25.000It is weird that all cultures agree that one of the best ways to appease the mass is to have these large sporting events where people gather around to watch this mock warfare take place.
02:09:16.000As much as I have my problems with concussions and football and stuff, it's just, yeah, I guess that's a good, like, what would be the next thing?
02:09:25.000You can kind of get away with playing football if you get out early enough.
02:13:43.000There was some article that I read today where they were talking about the letter that Elon Musk sent to all the people that worked for him saying that you're going to have to work harder, but our goal is to try to save the world.
02:15:07.000Yeah, when you really hear about natural disasters and solar flares and asteroid impacts, you just realize how fucking fragile this weird system that we have of a power grid and satellites to distribute information and the internet is actually a bunch of wires on the ocean floor that connect us to Europe.
02:15:52.000Like, I've watched a video of a guy who was in a high-speed chase with the cops, and he had a Corvette, and he flipped a Corvette, and literally went flying out of it like he was a doll.