Joe Rogan Experience #1287 - Rich Benoit
Episode Stats
Length
2 hours and 51 minutes
Words per Minute
219.94374
Summary
Rich, a fellow Boston native, buys a broken Tesla and can't get any parts to fix it, so he decides to drive it through the storm to get the parts. The problem is, the water is too high for him to drive through it, and he can't even get the car back to the dock in time to get it back on the road. This is a story you don't want to miss. Also, the Fiskers that were brought off a ship to a dock during Hurricane Sandy are all now gone, and the company is trying to figure out what happened to them and what they could have done to make them stand up to the storm. This is an interesting story, and I think you're going to like Rich's perspective on the situation. We also talk about the Tesla Model Y, the Tesla Lightning, and why Justin Bieber should have an all-chrome one. If you like the show, please HIT SUBSCRIBE and leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts. I'll be listening to your favorite streaming platform so I can keep bringing you quality, high-quality content. Thank you so much love and support the show. Timestamps: 1:00 - Rich's story 4:30 - The Fisker explosion 6:15 - The Tesla Lightning 7:00 8:20 - Lightning Network 9:40 - What's next? 10:15 11: What's the worst electric car you've ever owned? 12:30 15:00 -- What's your favorite electric car? 16:30 -- What kind of car you like? 17: What car do you drive? 18:40 -- What do you like about it? 19:20 -- Is it good enough? 21:40 22:50 -- Why Justin Bieber has an all chrome one? 23:00 | What car would you drive it better? 26:00 // Is it a good car you'd like to see it in a better than mine? 27:10 -- Does he drive it in the future? 29:30 What car does he like it better than yours? 32:30 // Does he still drive it like that's good? 35: Does he have a car like that? 36:20 37:10 38:30 | Is it still a driver s seat? 39:10 | Does he need it?
Transcript
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Dude, thank you for having me on this show, man.
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Well, I read about you, a fellow Boston native, and I read about your Tesla journey, and I was like, this is a fucking interesting story.
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This guy buys a broken Tesla, and then you couldn't get parts for it anywhere.
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No, so I met the previous owner and he actually, I think it was during Hurricane Sandy.
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He thought that, he goes, wait a minute, that water level seems low enough for me to drive through it.
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I think it got up to like the, almost like the B pillar.
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And I'm like, you know what, I got to try this thing.
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If he wanted to bring it back to them, they would have to rebuild the entire car?
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They wouldn't even do it because at that point, once anything liquid, you know, any kind of like water intrusion happens in an EV, they just write the whole car off.
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Insurance companies just like, we're not going to deal with this.
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Were you aware of the Fisker dilemma at Hurricane Sandy when they had the Fiskers that were parked at some sort of a dock where they brought them off the ship?
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The water level rose and the water got into them and they just went off like fucking fireworks.
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You can watch the video of them fucking blowing up.
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So as the water level rose, you can see the water breaching.
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Well, the water gets to the cars, and when it gets to the cars, they just start going off like fucking fireworks.
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I mean, those are big-ass fucking batteries just blowing the fuck up.
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And the company essentially went, they went radioed silent for like a year.
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Once people realized their car could just explode.
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It popped up when I typed in the Fisker explosion, but this was the explosion of the Con Ed plant.
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But there is a video of the actual Fiskers exploding, isn't there?
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I have a feeling the second video won't be as exciting now.
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Fisker did a great job of making a car that looks really good.
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When you drive one, you'll be like, ah, I get why this didn't work out.
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You know, the amount of money that dude must have?
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It's a 2 plus 2. The center console is super wide.
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You know, styling-wise, I'm like, oh, there we go.
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They pulled him over and it compounded his car because he had a gold shiny wrap on it.
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You know, they're like harsh, cold, stoic folk.
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They don't want you flexing too much over there.
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I bet they reluctantly are making cars super flashy for American markets and shit.
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I mean, I wonder how much of an influence it has, like, if you could leave them to themselves.
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Because I feel like so much of it is, like, market-driven.
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But they, when it comes to, like, engineering and handling, like, goddamn German cars have it nailed.
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The Americans are, they were trying to sneak up and get close for a while.
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But, I mean, like, the Germans are just the standard.
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The only weird place where the Americans fuck with it is like, have you ever driven a Camaro Z01? I have, yeah.
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By today's standards, it only has like 505 horsepower.
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The car will put you on your ass really quick, man.
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Our friend Taylor out there was telling us that they put a Tesla in ludicrous mode on a dyno.
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And somewhere in the neighborhood of 1,000 horsepower.
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A lot of dinos don't even go that high in a lot of cases.
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I think it's interesting that, you know, people don't realize this when they see a Tesla.
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They're just like, oh, it's probably something like, you know, German or like Japanese car.
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I'm going to take this Tesla up here and try to figure out how fast she goes.
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Yeah, no, I think it even almost jumps off the dyno at this point.
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When I try to describe it to people, especially people that have never driven an electric car, I'm like, it doesn't even seem real.
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I know that Elon Musk came here and bamboozled you into buying one, pretty much.
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I love the fact that you took this car that was fucked up and you refused to let it go.
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You're like, I'm going to figure out how to fix this fucking thing.
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Just to be clear on something, I'm not some evil genius or brainiac.
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Because I didn't want to spend the kind of money they were asking for one.
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And the whole story started when my friend came over.
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And he's like, buddy, listen, do these crazy cars.
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I know you have a Z06, but this car is faster than that.
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I was like, that electric crap box, I don't want anything to do with that, whatever.
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I said, all right, and I'll take it for a drive or whatever.
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So I was in tech and I'm just like, listen, like, you know what?
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He's like, listen, this will cost you about 120. I said, you know what?
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And then he, so he left, and I thought to myself, like, every night I was like, you know what, I gotta get my hands on one of these cars, man.
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I gotta get one, like, you know, sell a kidney, whatever, sell a testicle, whatever I can do.
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And it, I was searching online, and, you know, what happens is whenever a car gets messed up, Whenever a car gets, as they say, totaled in a way and it's a total loss, an insurance company will take it and they'll kind of auction it off to like the highest bidder.
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So I went to an auction site and I saw one for sale.
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They said it didn't run or drive and it was in a flood.
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You stick it in a bag of rice, and then you tie it up.
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You know when you drop your iPhone in the toilet?
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You do it in a bag of rice, and you're good to go.
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So I figured all I'd do was just buy more rice for this thing.
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And I got it home, and I was like, you know what?
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I got myself into some shit here, because it was a lot...
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So this begins this project, which takes how long to completion?
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I think it took me about maybe six or seven months or so.
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No, so I was working at the time, and I think only between the hours of like 7pm and like 11pm.
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And then weekends for a few hours until I figured it out.
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So I was freaking out because my wife was just like, how much was that thing?
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Yeah, she had the divorce papers ready pretty much.
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It's the battery technology and the motor technology that Tesla's using.
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Do people take those and put them in like old cars or anything yet?
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Because I saw something like that about a Mustang.
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It was like a 65, 66 Mustang that was electric, but I didn't know what train it used.
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Everyone is swapping a Tesla motor into Volkswagen Bugs, into Audis, into Porsches, into everything.
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Well, I know people are doing LS swaps into 911s, and Porsche people are losing their fucking minds.
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Because they're taking old, air-cooled cars, which are really notoriously difficult to get to a high horsepower rate.
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Because those air-cooled cars, you can only get them around 400 plus horsepower.
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Well, they've got that insanely engineered new one.
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Either way, it's going to cost you damn near $100,000.
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It's the most gorgeous looking of those Porsches I've ever seen, ever.
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And they built that one up to 500 plus horsepower.
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That's one of the best-looking rear ends of any car ever.
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It's going to cost you a ton of money to recreate that same look.
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That's so weird, though, to not shift a muscle car.
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There's a company that does, it's a company called Revology that makes old, like 1966 to like 68 Mustangs, but they do it with all new parts and modern technology.
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They buy the full, that's actually a brand new car that's never existed.
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The way that these Mustangs are constructed, the bodies built into the frame.
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Like, completed versions of the body kit that are perfect, with perfect tolerances.
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So, like, that's one, the 67 Shelby GT500. What's the price?
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If you look at, like, what it looks like, go down, see some pictures of it, Jamie.
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I've been following their stuff for quite a while.
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Everything's new, but it has killer brakes, and it has a modern Coyote Mustang engine in it.
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So it's a 460 horsepower engine in these old, badass muscle cars.
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And that one's the GT500. That one's actually supercharged.
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So what would you think about someone dropping an electric motor on one of these things?
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Look, I love people doing crazy shit, but it's not for me.
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If I'm driving that thing, I gotta pretend I'm Steve McQueen.
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So what do you think about the new, you've seen the new Tesla Roadster, right?
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That thing seems like it's going to literally punch a hole through space time.
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I think they're looking at it like 0 to 60 in like 1 point something seconds.
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When you feel it in the P100D mind, everybody that I get in the car and I stomp on the gas, they're like, what the fuck?
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People that just leap to the top of buildings and they're walking around looking regular until some shit goes down.
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Yeah, no, they're absolutely amazing cars, man.
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And I think that's the main reason why I was like, I gotta get one of these, man.
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You have the car, you take it apart, and what did you see?
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So pretty much I was kind of taking my time because I knew there was a point where I couldn't fix the damn thing and I was just kind of wasting everyone's time.
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And So there's a certain point where I took everything apart and I was like, alright, cool.
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I found a dead fish in the back of the car, by the way.
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So actually, you know what the turning point of this whole thing was?
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The turning point was I realized it was salt water and not fresh water.
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So you know what salt water does to stuff, right?
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And I said to myself, all right, I'm going to call Tesla up, you know, buy a motor, buy a battery pack.
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Maybe I'll spend like 20 grand for a battery and like maybe 10 for a motor.
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I'll be like for 40. It's still cheaper than 100, right?
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So I called them up and, you know, they were like, hey, you know, how's it going, man?
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So I bought this Tesla's underwater, and I need a couple of things.
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They're like, well, we're not going to sell it to you.
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Because you have no capability of fixing the car yourself.
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They're like, no, that car's listed as salvaged.
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So this is the crazy part, too, is that they know...
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So pretty much when you give them the VIN number, the cars are always connected back to the mothership to give you the status in the car.
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So if you try to hide from them, you just can't do it.
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So I had the car and I said to myself, you know what, this isn't going to work.
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So the other one that you bought for $15,000, everything worked?
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And I just took all the electronics from one to the other.
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How do you check to make sure that everything isn't damaged?
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A lot of the wiring harnesses were cut in the front-end collision car, but the interesting part was that in the flooded car, the wiring harnesses were still good for the most part in the front.
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So what I did was, meaning not broken or torn or having bent connectors, I just took those connectors off and actually cleaned them because I couldn't get parts from Tesla.
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I took the wet wiring harnesses that were all corroded, pulled them out, got a Q-tip, toothbrush, and all that stuff.
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So I clean them with baking soda and a wire brush.
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And I got a toothpick, too, to really get in there and clean the contacts and stuff.
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By this time, your wife's probably like, what the fuck?
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She goes, I noticed we're missing $30,000 from our bank account.
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It was just, it was painstaking, but eventually, you know, I got the job done, man.
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So what I ended up doing was, so, 30 grand, right?
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I told my friends, hey, listen, you know, I'm in a mess here.
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And they're just like, you know, you're an idiot.
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This is when the cars were still kind of coming onto the scene and they weren't as popular as they are now.
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Yeah, so after a while, I took all the parts from one to the other, got one running, And then the parts I didn't need anymore, like the old battery pack.
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So there were some parts of the battery that were still good.
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So I actually sold those parts online and on eBay and stuff like that.
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Someone gave me five grand for a motor that had water in it.
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So was he planning on doing the same thing, cleaning it out?
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And so after all that, sold all the parts, I ended up getting the car I have now for about six grand.
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So you take the engine, and is that one of the four-wheel drive ones, the ones you have?
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And so you take those out, you put it all back in, you replace the wires, and then it's good to go?
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So pretty much, the computer thing was interesting because...
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I was like, hey buddy, this car is like 99% of the way there.
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But did you say, hey man, remember you hung up on me like four months ago?
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And they were like, well, are you the same idiot that called?
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They're like, we can't, as I stated before, we can't help you because, you know, this is a salvage car, so you're on your own.
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So what I did was I actually, in the GPS screen, because the screen turned on, the guy still had the home location.
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So I pushed home on the GPS screen, found the guy's address.
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I found the guy's address and I was like, hey, you know, can we...
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I was like, hey, did you own a white Tesla by chance?
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I'm putting the electronics from your car into another.
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And, you know, I really kind of gave him the sob story.
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Like, you know, if you could really look for it and help me out, it'd be good.
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And he's like, you know, I know you're a car guy.
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That same car or car like it, like two years ago, to a guy in Florida.
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I was like, I bought the car from a guy in Florida.
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So we started bonding, so it turns out I actually owned his old Z06. That's insane.
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What are the odds that two human beings on the planet, you own both of this guy's cars?
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So he's like, listen, he goes, awesome, you know, I'll see if I could find the key.
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Well, number one, it was super creepy for me to call the guy.
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Number two, when I went kind of silent for a week, he called me back and said, buddy, I found the key.
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I'm going to send you an envelope to your address so you could kind of give me the key.
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And he's like, yeah, yeah, great, great, great.
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And I was like, Broheim, we just bonded over the fact that I own both of your cars.
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And remember, to a lot of people, that's nothing.
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But to me, I was trying to be cheap and scrappy.
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The key didn't exist to you as of like a week ago.
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I would have rubbed that money on my balls, put it in an envelope, and go, here you go, bro.
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Does the phone work, like your app, does it work on the car?
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You can park like literally with an inch on each side.
00:24:51.000
That's the problem is that I feel like with the Tesla, because I have a Model X now.
00:24:59.000
Tiffany Haddish had one, and she had it in the parking lot of the comedy store, and she had it dancing, and we were filming it.
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Yeah, to the music, and she's out in front of the car dancing, and her and I are dancing, and everybody's dancing, and they're filming it.
00:25:18.000
I'm a typically pretty humble person, but having a Tesla, the fact that you could push a button, and the car comes to you...
00:25:26.000
It's a douchebag move because honestly, we were getting into our cars like peasants for years.
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And one day I was at the gym and I was looking at my car from a distance and I was like, you know what?
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I really don't feel like walking all the way to my car today.
00:25:43.000
It was probably like the distance from you to me.
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Everyone's like, whoa, that car's driving itself.
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Yeah, when I take it and I put it in auto drive, that's when it really freaks me out.
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It scares me, but I keep my hands right there, but it is freaky.
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The one thing I'm concerned with is that I think I'm lowering my guard.
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Because when you drive, one of the reasons for road rage is when we're driving around, we don't know who the fuck's next to us.
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And we're going very fast, and it requires the ability to think really quickly, so your brain is in a heightened state of awareness.
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And then someone does something stupid like, this motherfucker!
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Because I think you do need to be at least aware that some shit could happen at any moment when cars are flying by you going 75 miles an hour.
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But if you do, you can only do it for so long and it'll start to warn you.
00:27:03.000
It's not to complain like, hey, what's going on here, buddy?
00:27:08.000
I talked to one of those dudes who did that experiment.
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I think what does work better is they said a lightweight.
00:27:20.000
If you take a lightweight and put it on a rubber band and you hang it...
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It was basically like a weight that went around the steering wheel, and it actually had the perfect amount of weight balance to make you think that your hand was still on the wheel.
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And then, you know, they were like, that's illegal.
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You're bypassing like a safety device of the car.
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So then what he did was he came back again with a vengeance and made it a phone mount.
00:28:02.000
That's a smart move, although I'm not sure I support it.
00:28:10.000
It weirds me out because the other thing is the other people are not...
00:28:14.000
Going with auto-drive so you're around you're going auto-drive and all these other people are just driving yeah, and I think when everyone's driving together You kind of in tune with each other.
00:28:23.000
Yeah, right get the fuck I'm gonna overtake this guy, right?
00:28:26.000
Yeah, let me pass this guy you're aware of when you're just when you're auto-driving it's like you're like a like a assist right in this moving yeah Like, ecosystem of thinking.
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Like, all these people be calculating each other.
00:28:39.000
But it's probably, ultimately, like, if you talk to Elon, he says it's way safer, and that it's the future.
00:28:55.000
And he still has a Jaguar E-Type, one of those really old ones, like a 69 with the long shark nose.
00:29:05.000
He didn't make that car that fast for a practicality.
00:29:14.000
At least it's not a flamethrower, we know that.
00:29:29.000
No, honestly, and I always agree, I get a lot of crap from people online saying I'm an Elon Musk hater, I'm a Tesla hater.
00:29:36.000
I could be critical sometimes, you know what I mean?
00:29:45.000
It's very important to hear what other people think if it's reasoned and intelligent.
00:29:51.000
Like, it helps you even if you don't like hearing it.
00:29:53.000
Right, so I gotta keep, I mean, he's a genius, but sometimes you gotta keep the company in check.
00:30:03.000
Yeah, and what they were when they first came out, like, were you aware of the whole thing with Top Gear?
00:30:13.000
They wanted to bash the car as much as they could, but for stuff like that, I'll stick up and say, yo, hey, you can't keep doing that.
00:30:23.000
Because I think the way their show is structured...
00:30:29.000
But it's incredibly damaging to the company because it made it look like...
00:30:35.000
There's a couple things that Top Gear did, but I was like, why would you do that?
00:30:39.000
But some people remember, their focus is on petrol or gas-powered cars.
00:31:13.000
In order to get masked from the Tesla system, so there's a certain system that Tesla knows where all their cars are, and they could disable whatever they want.
00:31:24.000
So I had to reach out to this Tesla black hat hacker pretty much.
00:31:34.000
And he was able to mask Tesla from seeing the car, which is why I can't have the Tesla app.
00:31:47.000
He flipped the bit, and then it was able to be, the car could supercharge, the car could do everything.
00:32:03.000
And here's the problem with that is that people love these cars a lot, man.
00:32:14.000
So a lot of the times it's in their best interest, I believe, to help people out a little bit.
00:32:22.000
But no, the things that people go through for these cars is insane, man.
00:32:27.000
My take on it is that what they have is this ingenious company with this mad genius scientist who's running it who does a million other things at the same time.
00:32:37.000
And they don't have enough people to deal with someone like you.
00:32:43.000
They don't have a section of the company to deal with someone like you.
00:32:47.000
You remember when he was working, when they were trying to put out the Model 3 and he was working 16 hours a day and sleeping on the floor of the factory?
00:32:57.000
It doesn't make any sense, but people love the company.
00:33:00.000
So, speaking of that, when he was working 16 hours a day and he was sleeping on the floor in the factory, right?
00:33:07.000
It was a big sob story, a billionaire sleeping on the floor in the factory.
00:33:10.000
A bunch of Tesla owners rallied together and they purchased a couch for him to sleep on.
00:33:22.000
Yeah, but either way, like they rallied and they purchased a couch for him.
00:33:24.000
And like, I made a video on it and I said to myself, you know what?
00:33:30.000
But the fact that everyone rallied together to help this guy, to show that there's support.
00:33:36.000
People are hands over fists for this company, man.
00:33:42.000
You know, I remember there was a guy, God bless his heart, who was one of the editors on news radio, the sitcom that I was on in the 90s, and he was such an apple head that he was like, he was talking about it like it was a sports team.
00:33:57.000
He was talking about it, well, I think we're really going to get those PC guys when the new MacBooks come out.
00:34:06.000
Along those lines, I think we're really going to pull ahead.
00:34:17.000
Picture the Apple fanboys, the Tesla fanboys, times 10. Yeah, they live in it.
00:34:33.000
But for Teslas, you're talking about technology.
00:34:37.000
You're talking about sustainability as well for the green people.
00:34:44.000
And once they join forces, so the scariest force on the earth, right?
00:34:50.000
It's actually a Mac-owning Tesla vegan owner, pretty much.
00:34:59.000
Because they'll tell you all about it at a party.
00:35:04.000
And I've struggled with that in a lot of cases because whenever I say something remotely negative about Tesla, like, hey, I think Tesla could do a better job here.
00:35:34.000
First of all, before people would realize it, all of a sudden you're walking around with diamond chains on and shit.
00:35:43.000
Do you work Well, uh, you know, I got another thing going on.
00:35:50.000
I don't understand how people think that whole shill thing works.
00:35:56.000
Like, hey, Rich, say something negative about Tesla every once in a while.
00:36:01.000
I suspect that what it is is similar to what my friend who was really addicted to Apple.
00:36:05.000
I think you just get on your tribe and that's my thing.
00:36:13.000
What are you going to fuck with the config files?
00:36:19.000
But it's interesting because people like us are very different because...
00:36:27.000
And then you threw a Tesla in there, but you love both.
00:36:34.000
You love the silence and the 0-60 of your Tesla, too.
00:36:38.000
We could be part of both camps, but in a lot of cases, it's Camp Tesla, and if you're not with us, you're against us.
00:36:45.000
Yeah, I have a Windows laptop, and I have an Apple laptop.
00:36:52.000
Because Windows has more options, and when you have more options, you get better configurations.
00:37:03.000
Like, the tactile feedback and the travel distance and the keys is so much longer.
00:37:09.000
And for me, as a writer, when I'm writing, like I'm writing stand-up or something like that, it requires less thinking.
00:37:23.000
I bought a 2015, a refurbished one, because their keyboards were superior.
00:37:31.000
It's the shittiest fucking keyboard of any computer that you can buy today is a new MacBook Pro.
00:37:36.000
And they got busted for that because now, because their keyboards are so shitty, you have to take them back now.
00:37:42.000
Well, they do have a new patent that they put out for a variable height keyboard where the key travel will vary and the key resistance will vary.
00:37:52.000
Yeah, there's a new patent that they filed for.
00:37:54.000
It doesn't necessarily mean they even have the technology for it.
00:37:58.000
Well, I mean, if it's something you could press with a button that just raises the keys up, that would be like a solution.
00:38:04.000
Because if you think about the flatness of the key, the idea is they want to keep a low profile to this laptop or make it thin and sexy, which is like fucking weird.
00:38:13.000
I don't have the ThinkPad with me, but I have the X1 Carbon.
00:38:28.000
And the problem with that one company only selling laptops is you just don't have enough variety.
00:38:33.000
There's not enough people that are offering challenges to it.
00:38:38.000
In fact, their biggest challenge is the Huawei MateBook.
00:38:42.000
Huawei basically stole their idea, but made it way better.
00:38:53.000
We're going to have no bezels on the side of the screen.
00:38:55.000
And you know, everyone's concerned about security.
00:38:57.000
Well, we're just going to have the webcam pop up as a key.
00:39:16.000
Which, if you're a person who writes all the time, I need to get my thoughts out.
00:39:24.000
And I just write things and I extract stand up from them.
00:39:27.000
But when I write, I don't need to be fucking with the keys, man.
00:39:33.000
You list all these pros about the PC, but why do you buy a Mac?
00:39:36.000
I use that when I travel, because I don't write as much when I travel, but I like to watch movies and shit.
00:39:48.000
No, but that's good because the biggest thing is like when you're, you probably have like a Skype meetings or whatever, or Google Hangouts.
00:39:56.000
The worst thing in the world is like the camera turning on automatically.
00:40:14.000
So that's the thing, because it looks just like a Mac.
00:40:17.000
Yep, it looks just like a Mac, except it has more key travel, more comfortable, and that upper right-hand corner, that power button, is also a fingerprint reader.
00:40:39.000
The only difference is Windows is not as good as Mac OS. But it's not that much worse.
00:40:55.000
It would have to be one of those Chromebooks if it was going to run Android, which apparently is very good, too.
00:41:01.000
But the Chromebook designs are really nice, too.
00:41:04.000
Right, and the battery lasts like three months.
00:41:07.000
And if you're just putting documents, you put them in your Google Docs in the cloud, you pull it up instantaneously.
00:41:16.000
I'm buying into all this government propaganda about the Chinese spying on us.
00:41:22.000
Well, dude, I've had my credit card stolen, my number stolen three times this year.
00:41:29.000
I think the more money you have, the more stuff you get stolen.
00:41:35.000
Like, I got a charge, but I have an app on my phone that shows me the charge, and it was during a podcast.
00:41:40.000
Well, I'm like, well, that definitely wasn't me.
00:41:47.000
Quad microphones accurately pick up sound from four meters away with a Huawei.
00:41:55.000
What they're not telling you is the microphones are always active.
00:42:07.000
You hear about the LG TVs that were constantly listening to conversations.
00:42:12.000
And they told you, if you want to have a private, confidential conversation, don't have it in front of the TV. That's what they were basically saying.
00:42:19.000
What if you bang your wife in front of the TV? That's interesting.
00:42:28.000
After a while, everyone's just going to watch everybody do everything.
00:42:30.000
I really think within a hundred years, that's going to be the case.
00:42:38.000
Everyone wants to see, oh, what are you doing now?
00:42:46.000
But what we accept is way different than what our parents accepted or what their parents accepted.
00:42:51.000
And I think what our children accept is going to be way different.
00:42:53.000
And then what their children accept is going to be...
00:42:55.000
We're like two, three generations from it just being ridiculous, where there's no privacy.
00:43:04.000
Where do you draw the line for privacy, I guess you could say?
00:43:09.000
When people, like, come up to you while you have, like, I'll have a kid in my lap, and I'll be eating food and talking to the kid, and someone will literally come up to me and try to take a picture with me, ask me to take a picture with me.
00:43:27.000
And I always tell people, when I'm done, I'm leaving, I'll take a picture with you.
00:43:34.000
But it's just people think like if they don't get a picture with you right now, I've got to get it right now.
00:43:42.000
I mean, and then they'll say, hey, that's the price you pay for being famous.
00:43:50.000
The deal is someone provides something that you enjoy, whether it's stand-up or a thing, and I appreciate that you enjoy it.
00:44:01.000
It's like meeting me at a restaurant and shit when I'm eating with my kid.
00:44:09.000
What kind of restaurants do you eat at where people feel they need to come up to you?
00:44:31.000
Most people are cool, but it's every now and then people just have this idea that somehow or another you have to, if you are a famous person, you have to abandon everything.
00:44:39.000
That's the other thing, that you're not a person anymore.
00:44:44.000
It's like the regular rules of meeting someone don't apply.
00:44:48.000
You would never just barge in on a regular person that you didn't know.
00:44:52.000
But if it's a regular famous person, people, they don't give a fuck.
00:44:56.000
You could be having a conversation where you and your friend are both crying and talking about someone that died.
00:45:08.000
So what's the weirdest interaction you've had with someone?
00:45:12.000
The weirdest shit is people that tell me that they're going to give me secrets.
00:45:16.000
Like UFO-type stuff, Bigfoot, and I know where the bases are.
00:45:32.000
You're always either driving, you're going somewhere.
00:45:42.000
Nobody walks in L.A. There's like pockets of walking in L.A. Okay, so time out real quick.
00:45:54.000
So I landed and a buddy of mine picked me up from the airport and I got to where I was staying.
00:46:01.000
And you're like, look at all the sun, first of all.
00:46:17.000
Literally, so I went to the gym in the morning, and I was like at 7 a.m., and I saw probably just as many homeless people living in tents next to buildings as there were people commuting to work.
00:46:36.000
You should go while you're here because it's like the Grand Canyon.
00:46:56.000
Remember when all the fucking crazy zombie people are running at once?
00:47:16.000
For the most part, you know, Downtown Crossing, Area Park Street, whatever.
00:47:19.000
They're like the junkies that like have that, the whole gangster lean.
00:47:26.000
I don't know where they go, but you don't really see them that much.
00:47:30.000
But like, in Sanford, they're in your face, man.
00:47:38.000
So like, honestly, and I know one of my friends, he said, listen, you know, come to my house, you know, whatever, we're going to hang out for a bit, school, no problem.
00:47:45.000
Went to his house, like, you know, small place, not about a thousand square feet.
00:47:51.000
He goes, yeah, you know, I'm kind of, you know, things are a little tough.
00:47:57.000
This is, you live in, you know, you're doing okay.
00:48:00.000
He's like, yeah, I live in paycheck to paycheck.
00:48:03.000
I'm like, this is a, this is like, you know, you got a decent place.
00:48:06.000
The house that we were in was a $1.6 million house and it was this big.
00:48:18.000
And then another friend of mine said, listen, hey, come to my house, you know, and I pull up to the house.
00:48:37.000
When you have kids, living in a warehouse isn't that great.
00:48:41.000
It's a common thing, I've noticed, for people to live in either abandoned buildings, warehouses, and cars.
00:48:49.000
You know how people that live in cars, and the amount of smashed windows that I've seen here, it's...
00:48:55.000
Well, most of those people living in cars are actually stand-up comedians.
00:49:02.000
So many comics come here, and when they first settle in, they live in their car.
00:49:09.000
Maybe like 10 of my friends lived in their car.
00:49:13.000
Or used to, at least, and then got an apartment eventually.
00:49:16.000
Well, that's an issue we're having around here.
00:49:18.000
We're having around here with these people that live in caravans.
00:49:24.000
If you drive around this community, you go down certain streets and you just see these mobile homes.
00:49:36.000
Bro, these are dirty people, some of these fuckers.
00:49:40.000
Again, in Boston, we just kind of say, hey, there's no likely no loitering.
00:49:43.000
Well, they're kicking people out now because businesses are complaining because there was one business where this guy had parked his caravan right in front of it.
00:49:53.000
And this dude had laid out his blanket on their front lawn and was sunning himself in front of his caravan.
00:50:01.000
So the front of his building became this guy's lawn.
00:50:06.000
So this guy in this caravan was literally using...
00:50:11.000
So he's got this multi-million dollar building, and he's sharing it with a homeless guy who's cooking meth.
00:50:16.000
Or I don't know if it's meth, but it's some white, noxious smoke that comes out of the fucking place.
00:50:26.000
The weather's awesome, but that was a big thing.
00:50:27.000
And I feel like, as I'm walking around more, if I see a large standing body of water, I'm like, there's a homeless guy living there, too?
00:50:58.000
Most of those people, they just put all, like, gates and locks and shit and deal with it.
00:51:10.000
But the interesting thing is this area is getting, air quotes, gentrified.
00:51:14.000
So this is where a lot of businesses are going now.
00:51:22.000
My friend Magnus, Magnus Walker, he's a famous car guy too.
00:51:29.000
He's got these crazy dreadlocks and beard and crazy Englishmen.
00:51:35.000
And he has this warehouse where he has it set up where his living space is one part of the warehouse and then down below he has these cars.
00:51:45.000
But if you drive down some of these roads, you'll see these super expensive apartment buildings that are going up now.
00:51:53.000
And then a block over, you'll see these homeless encampments.
00:51:56.000
And people think it's cute to be around all this dirt.
00:52:05.000
They just set up tents, and then the cops kick them out, and they just come back, and they move, and then they come back.
00:52:10.000
But they make these encampments, and you just have to deal with it.
00:52:15.000
So it's like, if you live in that area, you just have to jump over needles and try to figure your way through it.
00:52:21.000
I feel terrible, because most of this is either drug addiction or mental illness.
00:52:29.000
Do you guys have no drug addiction or mental illness, like, places that you could go to for help here?
00:52:40.000
I know that if you talk to people that work in the field, that work with these folks, they say that it all really started to happen.
00:52:54.000
Honestly, if you were to take a screenshot of what you just showed me, I'd be like, okay, that's some third world country.
00:52:59.000
This is LA. People can't even afford to live in LA. I know.
00:53:02.000
It might as well be a third world country, though.
00:53:08.000
I mean, at least they're around all these cars and shit, but I mean, there are thousands of homeless people in that whole Skid Row area.
00:53:16.000
Yes, that's one of the things that keeps them there, I guess.
00:53:19.000
Well, they have like four beds or like three beds in the whole thing?
00:53:26.000
I don't know how often they break it up and make people move, but the numbers are so high, there's not much they can do.
00:53:44.000
He went and spent three days down there undercover in quotes where he had people filming him, experiencing it, and then he'd come back and do an interview of what he just went through and It came out 10 years ago, so it's different.
00:53:56.000
I'm assuming it's worse now, but it's definitely not good in this documentary.
00:54:12.000
And after watching you scoot around effortlessly, I was like, how hard could it be?
00:54:27.000
I'll show you this hip and glute machine from Rogue where you put your ankles in this thing and you lean all the way back and go all the way up.
00:54:34.000
You have some next level shit here, by the way.
00:54:48.000
But yeah, so I was riding my one wheel past this kind of overpass.
00:54:55.000
And like a lady sticks her hand out and she offers me a chocolate, what was it?
00:55:04.000
It was a ladybug wrapped in like that tin that makes it look like chocolate or whatever.
00:55:07.000
I'm like, oh, I'm like, no, thank you, no, thank you.
00:55:09.000
Right back in the next day, offers it to me again.
00:55:12.000
I'm going to like, you know, do something nice, right?
00:55:17.000
And I was like, I'll give it to her, you know, nice gesture.
00:55:21.000
I write up, you know, I give her, you know, I hand her the five bucks.
00:55:24.000
As I start slowing down on the one wheel, other people started popping their heads out of the tents and they actually saw me give her the money and immediately a guy runs out and like snatches it directly out of her hand.
00:55:45.000
I'm just like, I've never seen anything like that before.
00:55:51.000
I know I'm really passionate about that, but I just can't stop thinking about it.
00:55:58.000
And everyone comes to LA, California to get their big break.
00:56:04.000
Like, oh, I'm going to be like a famous whatever, famous actor, singer, exotic dancer, porn star, whatever.
00:56:13.000
It's real everywhere, but whenever you get giant groups of people, you're going to get a higher percentage of people that are out here that are homeless or struggling.
00:56:23.000
Again, I don't know what the – what's the solution?
00:56:29.000
Whatever the solution is, that's one of the arguments that – who was it?
00:56:37.000
Someone unlikely – I had a really good argument that everybody is so concerned about illegal aliens getting into this country and so not concerned about our homeless problem.
00:56:49.000
There's people right here, right now, that we're not taken care of.
00:56:53.000
And you're like, but these people from other countries, they're trying to...
00:56:57.000
My take on that, though, is, but those people are trying to do better.
00:57:26.000
She's capitalizing all of them, and then afterwards, she's capitalizing the first letter.
00:57:32.000
If, capital, M-Y, capital, S-T-A-T-E. Does she have someone to write this for her?
00:57:41.000
She's like, I'm subtly going to make this bitch look stupid.
00:57:45.000
I'm tired of her and her fake pictures and her Photoshop filters.
00:57:54.000
She's 150. I would say she's 65. How old do you think she is?
00:58:09.000
She's actually about to turn 73 in a couple weeks.
00:58:37.000
But that's what they sound like when they get to that age.
00:58:54.000
Well, the move is, like, you know, really get her to sign no prenup, you know, and how much time she got left.
00:59:00.000
I mean, if you could hang in there for 20 years, what are the odds that she can, too?
00:59:09.000
This is announced on our tour this year, this picture.
00:59:20.000
If you find that picture of me against a brick wall, we took that shit back at the old studio.
00:59:31.000
We were talking about vampire facials that some ladies, Jeff told us, this lady, two people got HIV. They got AIDS, right?
00:59:42.000
But it's more fun to say AIDS than HIV. I apologize for him with HIV. AIDS is like, it feels like you're not even supposed to say AIDS. Yeah, like you can't say AIDS. It's like if you say AIDS, you're like, whoa, you insensitive asshole.
00:59:52.000
Two tests positive for HIV after vampire facial.
00:59:55.000
It says vampire facial is girls get jabbed in the face with some...
01:00:22.000
I don't know if they use other people's blood for the facial.
01:00:31.000
I think it's that they're using someone else's blood.
01:00:36.000
No, because I would think that if you drew blood, you would draw it from yourself.
01:00:47.000
Right, so that is basically platelet-rich plasma.
01:00:50.000
But why would anybody get HIV unless you're giving it to yourself?
01:01:03.000
She did it on every part of her body but her nose.
01:01:18.000
They probably already had AIDS. That's what it is.
01:01:27.000
I took an AIDS test before and after my facial.
01:01:29.000
And then I didn't even have AIDS until after my facial.
01:01:37.000
They found footprints of what they think is Bigfoot in India.
01:01:43.000
And people saying, hey, asshole, this is an animal hopping.
01:01:48.000
If there's a Bigfoot, it's a one-legged Bigfoot, like some Dr. Seuss creature.
01:02:10.000
Like, look at that one picture where, like, one of those footprints is actually two separate marks in the snow.
01:02:25.000
Like a whole-body rabbit, you mean like the butt?
01:02:32.000
If this isn't the Himalayas, what is your animal it could be?
01:02:36.000
Well, one of the things, this is very interesting about animals, is that when they go further north, contrary to logic, like what you would think, they actually get larger.
01:02:48.000
But no, they preserve their body temperature by being larger.
01:02:53.000
They're the furthest north of all the cow species.
01:03:03.000
There's a deer called a coos deer, and a really big one.
01:03:09.000
C-O-U-S. But it's a variation of the white-tailed deer that's really small.
01:03:18.000
And then there's other ones that are in Saskatchewan, the same species, that are 300 pounds.
01:03:34.000
You don't go to the supermarket like everyone else?
01:03:36.000
But most of the meat that I eat, I try to eat from animals that I kill.
01:03:43.000
The tents get in the way of your line of sight.
01:03:47.000
But you can get a lot of coyote hunting in L.A. if you want.
01:03:50.000
There's fucking coyotes everywhere out here, man.
01:03:52.000
Would you eat a coyote from L.A.? I don't think I'd eat a coyote, period.
01:04:05.000
You'd have to cook it really, really well, but when you cut away all the fur and mange and all the shit on the outside, you're just getting a tissue.
01:04:31.000
Oh, what they call, with all due respect, what we call Yeti.
01:04:38.000
Okay, it's not like they call the Himalayan bear a Yeti.
01:04:41.000
It's like they're saying that it was probably a bear that was making those marks.
01:04:45.000
If those are big marks that the bear is hopping through the snow.
01:04:50.000
That guy, Kunal, he's a nice guy with all due respect to everyone.
01:04:54.000
The single footprints are when the bear walks on four feet.
01:05:06.000
You know, you go and essentially you go where you know that the elk are going to be in the area and when they're in the rut, which is when you hunt, that's when it's legal, which means they're mating and breeding and smashing heads together and shit.
01:05:22.000
Well, they are definitely ready to be killed then.
01:05:26.000
Then you've got to figure out how to sneak in on them.
01:05:31.000
So they're always like screaming at each other and smashing heads.
01:05:34.000
And occasionally you'll find one that's dead that was killed by another bull.
01:05:40.000
I mean, you certainly could if it was like a recent kill.
01:05:46.000
Yeah, the blood was still coming out of its body.
01:05:52.000
Yeah, I mean, that's the whole reason why those antlers exist.
01:05:57.000
They don't even use it to defend against other animals, like wolves and shit.
01:06:05.000
Yeah, you have to do what's called quartering it, which is you take the legs off, and you take the front legs off, and then you take the meat off the carcass, and then you take the heart and the liver and the edible organs, and you have to pack it out.
01:06:28.000
I'm like, if hunting was a martial art, I'd be a blue belt.
01:06:32.000
A blue belt is like your white belt, blue belt, purple belt, brown belt, black belt.
01:06:38.000
Maybe I could get my purple belt if I work real hard this year.
01:06:41.000
But I go with a guide who's going to take me to the places that I need to go and show me and a guy who's an experienced outdoorsman who basically teaches you.
01:07:03.000
But then it's your job to execute the shot, your job to get close, your job to stalk in, your job to make sure that you don't get what's called winded.
01:07:12.000
It means the animal smells you, the wind's at your back, and the wind carries your scent towards the animal.
01:07:33.000
There's a release when that arrow finds its target.
01:07:38.000
It's probably some primitive shit from back when we used to rely on killing things with bows and arrows.
01:07:46.000
When you're shooting something at a target and it hits it, it's very, very satisfying.
01:07:51.000
And when you do that with a bow and arrow, it's very difficult.
01:07:57.000
I mean, I have, like, a couple of times, but I've never really tried to shoot with, like, a traditional bow or a recurve bow.
01:08:01.000
Oh, you have the kind of gun, but they also, like that.
01:08:06.000
I mean, you have to pull it back, but it's a compound bow.
01:08:08.000
It relies on these mechanical, these gears that, these, what do they call it, cams.
01:08:26.000
First of all, he doesn't even have a broadhead on that stupid thing.
01:08:29.000
He's shooting them with little pencil holes, and he's killing them instantly.
01:08:42.000
I actually did see a few Bass Pro Shops in Walking Dead.
01:08:51.000
And that's a very controversial weapon amongst outdoorsmen.
01:09:03.000
If you looked at statistics across the board, if you have what's called a tag, like say if you wanted to go deer hunting, you'd have to get a license and then you'd get a tag.
01:09:12.000
And if the tag was available for the area you wanted, you'd pay a certain amount for that tag.
01:09:16.000
Now, if you get a bow tag, they make the bow season earlier, you have a much higher likelihood of failure with a bow than you do with a gun.
01:09:28.000
So I could say like 50% of the people that got a tag, it's usually not that high, but if 50% of the people that got a tag for a rifle were successful, it might be 10% with a bow.
01:09:39.000
It might be even less in some places, depending on how rugged the landscape is, how hard it is to get to where the animals are.
01:09:45.000
And you have to be able to shoot far accurately.
01:09:48.000
So do you do most of the shooting when you go up there?
01:10:05.000
I noticed that the whole MMA stand-up, making everyone laugh, and then I didn't know you hunted as well.
01:10:13.000
So because I don't have anybody telling me what to do, I gravitate towards things that I'm really interested, which is why you're here.
01:10:26.000
I mean, to have that kind of freedom in your life is a beautiful thing.
01:10:31.000
And I feel incredibly fortunate that I have that kind of freedom.
01:10:39.000
I just gravitate towards things that I like to do.
01:10:41.000
And people could say it's stereotypically toxic masculinity or whatever.
01:10:58.000
I mean, what am I going to pretend that I don't like them to make other people feel happy?
01:11:04.000
That's the problem is you don't want to look like an asshole, which I've experienced.
01:11:13.000
I'm sure I look like an asshole to other people.
01:11:17.000
This guy looks like a decent guy coming out of that fancy Tesla of his.
01:11:22.000
Actually, I would think you're an environmentalist.
01:11:35.000
Yeah, doing the shit you want to do, that's definitely a big deal, man.
01:11:42.000
I think one of the things that we have a problem with people doing what they want to do is because we don't get to do what we want to do.
01:11:48.000
So when we see other people, they're like, yeah, that's bullshit.
01:11:51.000
We get mad or we're like, he doesn't even really like that stuff.
01:11:54.000
Or he's, you know, oh yeah, you're just falling into the typical, stereotypical masculine behavior.
01:12:12.000
So speaking of that, so interesting story for you.
01:12:15.000
So I was kind of talking back to your guy back and forth about being on the show.
01:12:20.000
And the craziest thing happened where I was out here to actually work on a Tesla-related project.
01:12:27.000
And the top secret is going to come out in a couple months.
01:12:34.000
And then I was like, hey, listen, I gotta take a week off to go out to California and work on this project.
01:12:39.000
And then I was talking to your guy, and they're like, hey, listen, if you're going to be out here, come back the next week as well.
01:12:44.000
You know, you could say, hey, listen, you have two weeks out here.
01:12:47.000
I told my boss, and he's like, listen, man, like, two weeks is kind of a long time.
01:12:53.000
Like, you know, I know you're going to be on Joe Rogan.
01:12:54.000
It's really cool, but I'm not sure if I can let you do that or not.
01:13:00.000
Following in your light, I said, you know what?
01:13:14.000
It was a big thing because I had this whole meme thing going on my YouTube channel.
01:14:00.000
You're rushing to get somewhere that you don't really want to be.
01:14:04.000
You're rushing there to work for eight hours for someone else doing something that you don't want to do.
01:14:13.000
And you're not going to do your best with the things you do afterwards.
01:14:16.000
If you've been doing this thing for eight hours, the four hours that you have before you really have to go to bed when you get home at night, you're not going to have the same kind of energy that you had at noon or at 10 a.m.
01:14:25.000
or whatever it was when you woke up or when you got to work.
01:14:28.000
What you're dealing with is this crossroads, right?
01:14:34.000
Where you can decide to either not take a chance and just slowly take little incremental steps towards what you really want to do or take a risk.
01:14:46.000
And when you take a risk, yeah, you don't have health insurance.
01:14:57.000
Because if you think like that, you're going to fail.
01:15:03.000
And if you continue to just fail and do it again, one day you'll figure out why you were failing, if you're paying attention, and if you're doing your work.
01:15:12.000
And then you'll find something that you can do that you're successful at.
01:15:14.000
If somebody wants to hire you, if you're good at your job, if you go to a place and you're valuable to that employer, you could be valuable to yourself.
01:15:22.000
You just got to figure out how to do it or what it is that you want to do that you could do without having a boss, something that feels natural, something that you gravitate towards.
01:15:33.000
When you get up in the morning and go, I'm fucking pumped.
01:15:39.000
There's not a time where I ever come here to do a podcast where I go, fuck, I can't believe I have to do this.
01:15:48.000
I mean, there's times where I leave and I was like, what the fuck was that about?
01:15:53.000
In a thousand whatever podcasts I've done, there's only been like a small handful of those that have been like, what the fuck was that?
01:15:59.000
If you can do that, man, if you can find that thing that you love to do, whether it's making furniture or fucking painting or whatever it is, if you can make a living doing that, god damn!
01:16:16.000
So, again, I took some cues from some inspiration from you when you left Boston.
01:16:25.000
So when did you make the determination to say, hey, you know what?
01:16:29.000
You know, this isn't the thing that I want to do.
01:16:40.000
Yeah, 24. And I was doing stand-up and I was driving limos during the day and doing a bunch of different odd jobs and shit.
01:16:48.000
And then I got seen by a manager who was coming from New York to Boston to scout for new talent.
01:16:59.000
And he asked me to go to New York and do some spots in New York.
01:17:04.000
And then, next thing you know, I was living in New York.
01:17:07.000
I signed a contract with him, and I just packed up my shit.
01:17:11.000
And my grandparents were still living in New Jersey.
01:17:13.000
They live on North 9th Street, which is like...
01:17:16.000
When the time, when they first moved there, it was a pretty nice neighborhood, middle class.
01:17:25.000
It was the next door neighbor while I was living with him.
01:17:29.000
They broke down his house door because he was selling crack.
01:17:31.000
He had a dope Audi parked in his driveway and they smashed his door with a battering ram.
01:17:45.000
I didn't know if it was going to work out at all, but I knew this was a chance.
01:17:53.000
I didn't have health insurance for a long time.
01:18:11.000
Because the tough thing is that it's, you know, I have my little shitty YouTube channel.
01:18:19.000
You're saying it's a shitty YouTube channel, but you've got a lot of views.
01:18:22.000
I say that, but it's hard because I don't want to be...
01:18:35.000
For a guy who fixes cars, rebuilds Teslas and shit.
01:18:40.000
And to think that I've amassed that kind of falling, only fixing really one car.
01:18:44.000
Now, imagine if you put all your time into that.
01:19:10.000
You're really good at it, and you're really good at explaining things, and you have a good sense of humor when you're doing it, and it's interesting.
01:19:17.000
I try to be – it's funny because there's – I'm not a super genius.
01:19:20.000
There's other people building Teslas left and right.
01:19:23.000
Is there a lot of other people that are getting involved in this?
01:19:25.000
They're getting more involved in it, and they're starting their own little channels and stuff.
01:19:28.000
But my thing is I want to be a little bit different.
01:19:30.000
I want to add some kind of humor and comedy to it to make it interesting.
01:19:34.000
Because quite frankly, not everyone thinks building a Tesla is really that funny or interesting or fun.
01:19:39.000
So adding a humorous spin to it makes it more interesting.
01:19:42.000
And when you look at any other kind of car, like if you buy a Chevy or if you buy even a Porsche or something like that, you can find these little mom-and-pop fix-it shops.
01:20:00.000
Hey, there's something wrong with my transmission.
01:20:12.000
They don't want a bunch of people monkeying around with their shit.
01:20:18.000
Like, you can go to the Genius Store, which is gross.
01:20:29.000
I met some of them people that are not geniuses.
01:20:33.000
So, you can either go there, or you can go to these little mom and pop Mac stores.
01:20:39.000
And they're not approved, but they can fix your computer.
01:20:47.000
I'm starting a shop called the Electrified Garage.
01:20:53.000
And that's the biggest thing, is because there's no mom-and-pop shop to fix Teslas.
01:21:04.000
Which doesn't seem like much, but for a small company, it's insane.
01:21:25.000
So right now, you know, there's only two places to fix Tesla's in my state.
01:21:29.000
So when someone's like, hey, I want to get my car fixed, you call Tesla, they're like, yeah, it'll be about, you know, maybe a week.
01:21:43.000
So I'm opening it up and it should be open probably another month or so.
01:21:54.000
For some reason, but you have a whole bunch of cars.
01:22:05.000
Yeah, I had all the problems fixed, but it was more designed to look really good.
01:22:29.000
That Barracuda is like, anytime you want, and you stomp the gas, if you're taking a turn, the ass end would go totally sideways.
01:22:37.000
But it's so front heavy, like it had a giant ass engine, and it was a beautiful, beautiful car.
01:22:44.000
It also wasn't a stick shift, and that annoyed the fuck out of me.
01:22:54.000
Oh, that I have a fantasy of building a car to spend the time and actually put it together.
01:23:00.000
Because I would imagine that the way you feel when you drive that Tesla is like this crazy feeling of satisfaction.
01:23:07.000
Much like the way you feel if you hunt and you eat the steak from an animal that you shot yourself.
01:23:19.000
Because now that the car's built, I'm kind of like, alright, now what?
01:23:23.000
Like, after you hunt, after you, you know, you take that kill shot, you want to do it again.
01:23:30.000
You want to kill an elephant next time when I'm an elephant.
01:23:31.000
But, like, you know, definitely not an elephant.
01:23:42.000
Well, the thing is, when they do kill them and the villagers get to eat the food, they get very excited about it.
01:23:54.000
It's one thing that we don't want to ever think about when it comes to conservation, these animals.
01:24:04.000
To kill an elephant goes towards making sure that the elephant population is healthy and pays for all these game wardens, or what they call PHs in Africa.
01:24:14.000
And then the money also goes to some of these villages, and then the food, the meat from the animal, goes to these villages.
01:24:25.000
It's weird how you feel bad for killing an elephant, but other animals...
01:24:35.000
Yeah, we're totally biased towards certain types of animals, for sure.
01:24:41.000
It's like why we, how do they say it, why we feed pigeons, but we shoot bald eagles.
01:24:48.000
Do you see that beluga whale that they caught that had a net?
01:24:52.000
It had a harness on it and they think that the Russians were using it.
01:24:55.000
No, they think they were using it as a bioweapon.
01:24:58.000
Like, they would strap a missile to this thing and then tell the whale to go to boats.
01:25:09.000
And they think that what they did was they trained this thing to go towards boats.
01:25:16.000
Well, you could use something like that to hold a bomb.
01:25:20.000
So you would train it to go towards the boat, and then when it would hit the boat, it would detonate the bomb and explode.
01:25:26.000
So they must have given this whale some sort of food reward for banging into the boat.
01:25:38.000
They don't know where the harness came from, but...
01:25:41.000
I'm hoping someone was trying to ride it and they weren't...
01:25:48.000
Whale found off Norway coast believed to be spying from Russia.
01:25:50.000
Oh, maybe it had a bunch of cameras and stuff, too?
01:25:52.000
But that might just be click-baity bullshit, too, right?
01:26:00.000
Like, how often do whales and harnesses show up, the fact that you're an expert and can speak intelligently about it?
01:26:04.000
I think that the U.S. government read equipment of St. Petersburg on the strap.
01:26:12.000
Yeah, but if I wanted to trick people into thinking that the Russians were involved...
01:26:18.000
So you've got to fake train a whale and then send it over and be like, look what they're doing.
01:26:51.000
We basically trained dolphins to be jihadists, but they didn't know it.
01:26:58.000
I mean, you tricked them into going for 72 virgins and blowing up.
01:27:03.000
But the dolphin doesn't even know it's going to die.
01:27:09.000
He just thinks he's going to get fish if he bumps into the boat.
01:27:25.000
Those stories are coming from like 2005. Is that true?
01:27:31.000
But then in 2015, it says that the U.S. Navy's combat dolphins are serious military assets.
01:27:36.000
So maybe they just started it, stopped it, and started it back up.
01:27:48.000
They can't go through the water the way a dolphin can.
01:27:55.000
So if you can get something that's an organic part of the environment, and they're not going to kill every dolphin that comes near the boat.
01:28:01.000
So they see a dolphin, they think it's just a dolphin.
01:28:04.000
Why don't they have a missile painted like a dolphin?
01:28:10.000
Ukrainian killer dolphins escape naval training base in search of love.
01:28:14.000
Yeah, this doesn't seem like it's accurate for some reason.
01:28:33.000
Ukrainian military dolphins not actually on the loose.
01:28:41.000
Speaking of dolphins, my fun dolphin fact is that dolphins are one of the few animals that have sex for pleasure.
01:29:02.000
Alright, let me ask you this because you're all into technology.
01:29:18.000
But when we visit primitive tribes, we don't destroy them necessarily.
01:29:25.000
But we end up destroying them one way or the other anyways.
01:29:37.000
Yeah, there's always that image, a famous image of these tribespeople in Brazil, an uncontacted tribe, and they're painted, they're body paint, and then they have arrows drawn at the helicopter.
01:29:56.000
Can you imagine if you were an uncontacted tribe and all of a sudden a fucking helicopter shows up?
01:30:00.000
Whenever I see a helicopter show up, I freak out in general.
01:30:11.000
Just flying around like, okay, we're in the sky.
01:30:24.000
You go to the chimpanzee exhibit and you watch them swing around and shit.
01:30:29.000
It's probably one of the most popular parts of the exhibit.
01:30:35.000
And if you could go someplace where you could watch them in the wild.
01:30:38.000
Like, if there was, like, a webcam where you could tune in to the Congo right now.
01:30:44.000
How do we know they're not watching us right now, though?
01:30:55.000
I mean, I would imagine that if there was a civilization that's on the cusp of some major breakthrough as far as artificial intelligence goes, which is where we are.
01:31:04.000
In many ways, I think that we're all super fortunate to be alive right now.
01:31:09.000
Because even though this is a time of incredible turmoil, it's also a time of amazing potential and change.
01:31:28.000
And I want there to be this super advanced AI robot just to take over and start shooting shit.
01:31:43.000
That's what I want to see because it's like Terminator shit.
01:31:48.000
I want to see the aliens come in and stop us right when we're about to hit the green switch to turn on artificial intelligence.
01:31:55.000
I want the aliens to come down with their little legs and go, hey, hey, hey.
01:32:11.000
But the thing is, what's stopping that from not wrapping around his neck and just crushing it?
01:32:16.000
If you get hacked, think about the same people that helped you make your Tesla work.
01:32:26.000
They have them on trapezes like Cirque du Soleil.
01:32:29.000
Actually, have you seen the part where they actually beat the robots?
01:32:34.000
Well, they beat the robots to find out if the robots fall over.
01:32:39.000
PETA released a statement saying it's not cool to kick robots.
01:32:43.000
Shut up, PETA. What are you getting involved in everything for?
01:32:52.000
We stand with robots to say, listen, we built these things, but we can't hit them like that.
01:32:59.000
If you're 90 years old, and you're still lucid, but your body's failing, your knees are gone, and your hips bad, and your back hurts all the time, and your shoulders are all torn apart, you can't pick things up, and they say, Rich, we can download your consciousness.
01:33:17.000
Into this artificial body that's like you if you were Anderson Silva when he was 30 years old.
01:33:29.000
You're going to feel it just like that, but now you're going to be like a super elite athlete.
01:33:36.000
Or you can just go to black and see what happens in the afterlife.
01:33:54.000
I'm not even 90. I think that's how they're going to get us.
01:33:56.000
I think slowly but surely they're going to replace parts.
01:33:59.000
There's already amazing artificial hands that they're creating and limbs that are articulating limbs.
01:34:07.000
Would you want one of the limbs that looks like a human limb or would you want a robotic limb like in Terminator?
01:34:23.000
They're probably going to do that with soldiers and shit.
01:34:37.000
The one in the middle, I put my hat on it and it started freaking out.
01:34:43.000
Yeah, it just started spinning around in circles.
01:34:50.000
Well, that's the worry about those dog things, those dog-like robots that they just put guns on those motherfuckers.
01:35:01.000
Spoiler alert, this lady's running from these robots.
01:35:08.000
Yeah, and it has potential, like, actual real technology that it's using.
01:35:15.000
Yeah, the thing is about Black Mirror, everything is, like, that could happen.
01:35:20.000
Yeah, even the whole thing where they implant memories and you live this crazy fake life, that's on the horizon.
01:35:26.000
So you know the interesting part about Black Mirror is that there's a pro and a con to everything.
01:35:30.000
So there was an episode where a woman wanted to keep better track of her daughter.
01:35:34.000
So she implanted that ship so she could see whatever her daughter sees.
01:35:39.000
Then her daughter got older and older and she started to see some wild shit that the kid was doing.
01:35:45.000
To your example, what would be the downside of putting my consciousness in someone with a jacked and ripped body?
01:35:53.000
Well, the downside would be, would you even really be a human anymore, or would you be some sort of a thing that we've created that keeps your brain alive?
01:36:09.000
Like, how much time do you want in this fake body?
01:36:17.000
You know, there's an old story about that, about a guy, goddammit, it's like an old legend, about a man who kept killing his sons in order to live longer.
01:36:29.000
Like, that God came to him and told him if you kill his son, and he lived to be like thousands of years old, but he just had no one around him that cared about him and loved him.
01:36:35.000
Isn't that the story of Job in the Bible or something like that?
01:36:40.000
But the point is, like, when you got to 200 years, if you said, okay, I'm going to take this body and I'm going to live in it for 200 years, but in 200 years, I'll be done, that's it.
01:36:49.000
198 years comes along and you're still like a 30-year-old Anderson Silva.
01:36:58.000
If you think of how smart a person is, they keep their shit together and they become like a mature older man who's just wise and understands the way the world works.
01:37:07.000
Someone who's well-read and really has taken the time to do the work on themselves personally.
01:37:12.000
They know themselves better than they did when they were a young foolish man.
01:37:21.000
My biggest concern isn't necessarily about being wise.
01:37:34.000
But as they pass, you have your kids, and your kid will live to be 80 years old, and you're just like, hey, you know.
01:37:43.000
I don't want to go on forever, though, because I feel like, what's the world going to look like in 300 years?
01:37:52.000
You know, the most fascinating thing I keep thinking about is us going to Mars.
01:38:03.000
I don't want to go anywhere where people can't live.
01:38:05.000
We go to Utah in the woods and shoot deers and stuff.
01:38:11.000
But you were just saying that you don't like when people come up to you at a restaurant and harass you.
01:38:19.000
I'm not, like, in a cave somewhere trying to eat.
01:38:25.000
I feel like with all this manly shit that you do, like, men want to just go and just, like, light fires and caves and shit and just, like, beat up animals.
01:38:35.000
That's like going to the shittiest neighborhood in the known universe you can get to on a one-way ticket.
01:38:54.000
That's like living in Barstow for the rest of your life.
01:38:58.000
If you get trapped in Barstow in a glass bubble, like halfway to Vegas.
01:39:22.000
They don't want to be locked together with each other.
01:39:24.000
It's not normal for everybody to be just stuck in some bubble with each other.
01:39:30.000
Since eight scientists sealed themselves in a Biosphere for two whole years.
01:39:37.000
It took more than three months just to make pizza.
01:39:42.000
They probably had to grow the ingredients from scratch or something.
01:39:47.000
Oh yeah, they had to live, they had to be sustainable inside that little ecosystem.
01:40:06.000
Do you think that if people, if we didn't have laws, we're in a lawless society, no police, would we just kill each other?
01:40:20.000
Nevertheless, the team completed the mission to merge you from the outside world after two years of solitude.
01:40:26.000
I think most of the time you don't need the law.
01:40:29.000
But is that because we know the law exists and people have formulated society in the sense that you could always count on the law so that keeps people in check?
01:40:42.000
Like, if you live in a poverty-stricken, crime-ridden neighborhood, do you need the law there more, or do you need the law there less?
01:40:51.000
Is maybe people being arrested a lot causing some of the problems that you're seeing in that neighborhood, and there's some of those arrests because of non-violent drug offenses?
01:41:02.000
Because there is a certain percentage of people that get turned into criminals once they get introduced into the judicial system as a non-violent person who's just selling drugs.
01:41:12.000
You're stuck in a fucking full penitentiary with criminals, like real criminals, like violent people.
01:41:26.000
This is why we need to analyze those isolated...
01:42:05.000
Yeah, and this one guy was talking about, I think it was that book.
01:42:10.000
I read a bunch of books, or listened to, I should say, I don't want to lie, listened to them on tape, a bunch of them back-to-back on runs that were dealing with this very same issue.
01:42:17.000
And they were talking about this guy who was like, he killed a few of his aunts.
01:42:23.000
Yeah, and they were like, all the old ladies are scared of him because he was the guy that they hired to kill them when they weren't pulling their own weight.
01:42:33.000
Because if you're part of— It's bad if you're that old lady.
01:42:36.000
If you're part of an older tribe—if you're part of a tribe, right?
01:42:39.000
And you guys have to keep moving and keeping things going because you're going to get killed by another tribe.
01:42:44.000
And then you have weaker members of that tribe that are holding the entire tribe back.
01:42:49.000
Do you risk—I mean, do you— That's the real question, right?
01:42:51.000
Would you put a bullet in— You know, your friend's mom, because she wasn't pulling her weight, and because that depends on the entire tribe itself.
01:43:01.000
See, that's the thing that you do when you don't have much, right?
01:43:06.000
When you have surplus, like we have, we value our older people.
01:43:12.000
Yeah, there's a famous video of these two comedians.
01:43:16.000
There's two comedians that find this lady who's trying to buy gas with pennies and shit, and they give her money, and she starts crying.
01:43:27.000
Yeah, these two young guys get out and give this lady money, and she starts crying.
01:43:39.000
And so they give her some money and she's like weeping.
01:44:01.000
Like, if someone does something really amazing, I'll start crying.
01:44:16.000
I'm not into dudes who cry about, like, stupid shit.
01:44:28.000
Well, that's what happens when you drive and it says, empty, you dumb fuck.
01:44:33.000
Should have bought an EV. When do you think it's going to happen that EVs are all electrical?
01:44:46.000
Well, out here, I think a lot of people are rocking it that way in two steps.
01:44:50.000
They get the solar from the roof or from the panels, and then it goes into the battery, and the battery, and then they charge it.
01:44:55.000
So a lot of people, what they do is they just, it's cheaper.
01:44:58.000
They just get a whole bunch of panels, and they reduce their electricity bill by not having, you need the battery pack itself to store the electricity.
01:45:06.000
And a lot of the times people don't have a large enough battery pack in their homes to store that energy to charge their cars.
01:45:12.000
A lot of people just have the panels to offset the price of electricity that feeds back into the grid.
01:45:18.000
Like Fisker had that for a while where their roof had a solar powered thing that was powering the radio.
01:45:27.000
It kind of is because you're very limited in size, the amount of panels that you could put on the roof.
01:45:33.000
It's really only enough to, like, trickle charge, like, a couple things.
01:45:41.000
And that's coming, but, like, there's not enough to really, like, power the car from it.
01:45:45.000
Maybe there's an alternative way to gather the sun.
01:45:52.000
Because that would be the most amazing thing ever.
01:45:54.000
If we all had cars that were electric that just ran in the sun.
01:46:02.000
So that solar array on the rooftop, I think it powers the radio.
01:46:06.000
So you only have so much room on the roof, and all it powers is the radio.
01:46:17.000
In the future, it seems like it could be possible.
01:46:21.000
You could figure out a way to make it efficient, especially out here.
01:46:53.000
Speaking of reliance, what do you think about people no longer relying on driving their own cars?
01:46:58.000
What do you think if everyone owned a Tesla, right?
01:47:01.000
Everyone put in autopilot when they went somewhere.
01:47:05.000
Because you've used autopilot, but you keep your hand on the wheel because you're nervous.
01:47:11.000
If you bought Windows 95. If you bought a computer in 95 and you had Windows, it would crash all the time.
01:47:24.000
I think that that's what it's going to be like with a Tesla.
01:47:29.000
If everyone's driving these things, there's going to be hiccups, errors, software problems, glitches.
01:47:36.000
But then after a while, it's just going to work.
01:47:41.000
We were talking about Windows or Android versus Apple.
01:47:47.000
But I have a new Note 9, a Galaxy Note 9. You're an Android guy?
01:48:07.000
You know, I'll turn it on every now and then and check text and go, Jesus, this fucking guy.
01:48:17.000
If you get a green text from me, you know you're on the squirrely list.
01:48:23.000
Everyone text Joe right now and be like, hey, listen, what's this bubble showing up as?
01:48:26.000
I like the idea of supporting alternative platforms.
01:48:30.000
That's one of the reasons why I appreciate Windows and I appreciate Android.
01:48:39.000
I despise their lack of options with their laptops.
01:48:47.000
It's unfathomable how such an enormous company can have such shit things to type on when they cater to creative people.
01:48:57.000
But when I have one at home, I have a mechanical keyboard.
01:49:13.000
As a tech guy, I'm embarrassed to admit I've never used one.
01:49:26.000
And the same reason why I like a manual transmission.
01:49:31.000
Maybe you should get a phone that has buttons on it.
01:49:42.000
What about people that can still type with just the keypad when they have to do four presses to get an S? Yes.
01:49:49.000
There's a lot of people out there still rocking that.
01:49:51.000
But the old Nokia is like you press like three, eight times to get to the E and stuff like that.
01:50:11.000
This is from like 1996. T-Mobile still has sidekicks?
01:50:33.000
So that's like a Twitter feed that someone's looking at on their sidekick.
01:50:36.000
I will admit, it was a struggle for me to go from the physical typing keyboard.
01:51:00.000
Well, they have the ones that have the physical keyboard attached to a big screen.
01:51:08.000
Those are all Android powered now, I think, right?
01:51:19.000
That they clicked it and the mouthpiece slid down and everyone was super pumped.
01:51:27.000
They made a couple of them just because people, they were like 5,000 bucks or something.
01:51:30.000
Windows phones, it's weird that that didn't take off.
01:51:36.000
Yeah, the tiles, like Windows 10. Right, exactly.
01:51:43.000
So, if you have a Windows phone now, what are you doing?
01:51:51.000
You're kind of just stuck in 1996. It's like 8-track.
01:52:04.000
You think you'd look cool or stupid with that thing?
01:52:13.000
But it does have the keypad where you have to do that shit.
01:52:20.000
I feel like you're a cocky prick if you do that.
01:52:44.000
I have avoided games on my phone for a very specific reason.
01:52:53.000
The game room, the LAN, but that's all for first person shooters while we're here.
01:53:05.000
If I have a fucking awesome game that's on my phone, that's my life.
01:53:09.000
My life's gone now because I've got that game on me everywhere I go.
01:53:15.000
I have a bunch of normal apps like Instagram and Twitter.
01:53:20.000
But I have a bunch of cool ones like some Star Map shit.
01:53:24.000
I've never looked for this, but I just found someone playing Quake on their phone.
01:53:33.000
It's a controller you can connect via this shit, but they have Quake 3 ported on there.
01:53:53.000
I had chess on my phone for a little while, and I didn't even like that.
01:53:56.000
Because I started going, hmm, how do I get better at this?
01:54:02.000
So you have to pick and choose what you want to devote your time and energy to.
01:54:33.000
People watch my videos like, well, you're kind of funny.
01:54:42.000
What I suggest, go to an open mic night and see how terrible everybody is.
01:55:06.000
And then you'll figure it out, and you'll get better at it.
01:55:23.000
JK, JK. But if you're a person who can make people laugh and you are willing to dedicate yourself to it, it's not like you have to have a certain amount of flexibility or a certain amount of physical strength.
01:55:47.000
I think you have to be what I would call a professional.
01:55:51.000
And I've gotten this from Stephen Pressfield, who wrote The War of Art, which is a great book.
01:55:57.000
And I've also got it from reading Stephen King on writing and talking to a lot of different writers about how they handle things.
01:56:05.000
If you just waited to be inspired, and that's the only time you wrote...
01:56:26.000
And a lot of the first 20 minutes might be total horseshit that doesn't get me anywhere.
01:56:40.000
And then maybe I'll find out what the real fact is and see if I can argue that way.
01:56:47.000
I'll get to like 1700 words or something and then I'll shut the laptop and go, what the fuck am I doing?
01:56:52.000
A common thing is when comedians steal jokes and material.
01:56:56.000
So when you're writing and you're like, yeah, I'm going to do this.
01:57:01.000
That that content already hasn't been discussed.
01:57:07.000
You could absolutely write something and have parallel thinking.
01:57:11.000
Write something and not even know that someone's already written it.
01:57:13.000
But there's a difference between that and stealing.
01:57:43.000
They probably didn't hear anybody do it, they thought it was funny, they thought it up themselves, and they did it.
01:57:48.000
Or maybe it even happened to them, and they did it.
01:57:53.000
And then there's other people that did hear someone do it and they stole it.
01:57:58.000
But you could get both of those things from that same subject.
01:58:01.000
That same really common, easy to think of subject.
01:58:06.000
There's a lot of things that are like a part of the lexicon.
01:58:13.000
And you could think you thought them up, but you didn't.
01:58:23.000
Like, if you did a whole bit about how you built a Tesla.
01:58:31.000
And you thought Elon Musk is plotting against you.
01:58:37.000
And that would be something that's wholly unique to you.
01:58:40.000
I mean, how many fucking people have built a Tesla?
01:58:49.000
Let's pretend that out of a 7 billion plus population of human beings, maybe 20 people have done what you've done.
01:59:04.000
Look, you could talk about anything that you find interesting.
01:59:08.000
Personal shit, technology, world events, worrying about the environment, you know, all this shit.
01:59:14.000
Yeah, did that whale really have a bomb strapped to it?
01:59:16.000
I keep thinking about that over and over again.
01:59:21.000
Someone from CNN that fucking hates the Russians and wanted to blame everything on the Russians.
01:59:26.000
Yeah, they got duped for two years saying that there was collusion and that Trump was going down and they colluded with Russia.
01:59:34.000
And then it turns out that the Mueller report doesn't really necessarily say that.
01:59:38.000
And then they're like, fuck, we've got to do something about these goddamn Russians.
01:59:41.000
So they hired this whale and they put a strap on him.
01:59:57.000
I write it down, and then I take it, and I extract it.
02:00:05.000
That's one of the reasons why I like the iPhone is because when I write something in notes, They all show up automatically.
02:00:21.000
So one goes into Evernote and then one copy of it goes into Notes.
02:00:26.000
Like right now I'm a little behind on Evernote because I've been using just the Mac laptop for the last couple weeks.
02:00:34.000
And you keep reading it and then you memorize it.
02:00:38.000
The write it out on paper part is really more just to highlight it so I remember what the key points are.
02:00:47.000
I look at what I wrote out And then I say, okay, I know where I'm trying to go.
02:00:54.000
So this one time I did a speech in front of about maybe like 160 people or so.
02:00:59.000
I threw some jokes in there, which is actually pretty good.
02:01:01.000
You ever get that weird thing where you're explaining a story and you didn't even get to the joke yet and you start talking, people are already laughing?
02:01:09.000
I'm like, wait a minute, that wasn't supposed to be funny.
02:01:15.000
Sometimes people see where it's going and they plan ahead and they start laughing like, oh my god, I know where this is going.
02:01:21.000
They see where you go, like, oh god, is this going, oh shit, where is this going?
02:01:28.000
It's kind of one of those crazy things, but no, I think I I want to try it.
02:01:33.000
The most terrifying thing is going up on stage and not getting a laugh.
02:01:37.000
Because I'm that same prick that's in the audience.
02:01:48.000
Some guy goes up right in front of you and says some shit.
02:02:00.000
You're going to have jokes that don't work, and then you're going to have jokes that work a lot better than you thought.
02:02:05.000
But I can tell you're thinking about it, so you should do it.
02:02:08.000
But you're also thinking about it in terms of the right way to think about it, like that your setups are going to get laughs.
02:02:15.000
It's one of the weirder things about comedy is that it kind of comes to life on stage.
02:02:22.000
On the paper, all I'm doing is looking for seeds.
02:02:25.000
Like, I'm looking for points and seeds and things that make me chuckle while I'm writing it.
02:02:30.000
And then I'm taking it, and I'm like, okay, am I just fucked up, or is this going to be funny?
02:02:33.000
And then I try to bring it out on stage and water it in front of all these people.
02:02:38.000
You have to really develop it in front of people.
02:02:52.000
When I'm in my Tesla, I type in Comedy Stations.
02:02:59.000
I type in Patrice O'Neill, and then you come up all the time in terms of your skits, Bill Burr's skits, and stuff like that.
02:03:06.000
Patrice is one of the greatest of all time, for sure.
02:03:16.000
There's a few guys you just wish you could get to that could just clean their health up.
02:03:25.000
I think all the time I sit around like, man, he'd have some cool shit to say about that.
02:03:29.000
The closest we have to him today is really Bill Burr in terms of ballsy stance against political correctness.
02:03:36.000
But he gets away with it in a way that other people can't get away with.
02:03:43.000
Yeah, it sucks, man, because it was a diabetes thing.
02:03:55.000
If I knew him, man, I would have tried to talk to him.
02:04:03.000
Especially comics is the thing about someone who's that free, like Patrice O'Neill.
02:04:12.000
He didn't give a fuck what he said about anything.
02:04:21.000
That indulgent translated to brilliant comedy, but it also translated into him not taking care of his body.
02:04:34.000
Everyone has that one thing that they can't stop talking about.
02:04:44.000
What's the one thing that you can't stop talking about?
02:04:47.000
I luckily don't have one because I don't really go to parties.
02:04:57.000
Or they want to ask me about, what's Elon Musk like?
02:05:00.000
Or they want to ask me, when are you going to get Kanye on?
02:05:05.000
What's that weird thing feel like where you actually go out in public?
02:05:11.000
What are the most frequently questions they ask you?
02:05:22.000
The vast majority of people are like, hey, what's up?
02:05:28.000
If you put that out there, like what I put out there, I'm pretty nice.
02:05:48.000
Legitimately, I'm telling you, there's no next.
02:06:06.000
I mean, what your path is going to be, I assume you're going to be doing more YouTube videos.
02:06:12.000
And I'm assuming you're probably going to try stand-up comedy.
02:06:26.000
Seriously, what's this black thing in front of me?
02:06:33.000
But see, that's how this comfortable, easy nature that you have totally translates into all these things we talked about.
02:06:47.000
You ever have, like, a new stand-up person, you have to name your names, and they just suck, and you're just like, why is this guy, this guy shouldn't be?
02:06:53.000
Yeah, there's a few that you go, ooh, I gotta get out of here.
02:06:58.000
If you watch someone that's really bad, it's one thing.
02:07:05.000
But if I watch someone who's bombing, I've got to get the fuck out of the room because I start thinking there's nothing that's funny.
02:07:13.000
Because certain people, if you go to open mic nights, there are certain people that are just insane.
02:07:19.000
If I'm in the neighborhood, and if I know, I want to peek in once a year and watch a little bit.
02:07:30.000
It's the fucking wanting to get on stage and seeing the list of people.
02:07:35.000
And in the open mic night at the Comedy Store in particular, the room is well lit.
02:07:38.000
Because they have all the, there's these signatures on the wall of like Robin Williams and famous comedians and Sam Kinison.
02:07:49.000
So that when the comedians are on stage during open mic night, all that neon is on, and the room is kind of fairly well lit.
02:07:55.000
And then at the end of the stand-up, they're like, okay, no more open mic night, boom.
02:07:59.000
Those lights go off, the room gets dark, and then the pros go up.
02:08:03.000
And then you see this marked difference in skill and quality of material.
02:08:07.000
And you see, like, real professionals, you know, like Chris D'Aleel, Bill Burr, Chappelle stops in all the time on open mic nights.
02:08:22.000
You get to see people that have no idea what the fuck they're doing.
02:08:27.000
You get to see crazy people that are just insane.
02:08:30.000
And then you get to see world-class comedians in the same night.
02:08:33.000
It's a cool experience at the Comedy Store, like Monday nights.
02:08:41.000
But then this place started getting too successful.
02:08:43.000
And they cut back on the Sunday night open mic night.
02:08:49.000
So you live in a good spot because you're in Boston, and that's like one of the best spots in the world for starting out.
02:08:56.000
It's weird because I feel weird because I have a following, and it's like, hey, listen, check me out for comedy.
02:09:05.000
If I'm a fan of your videos, and I am a fan of your videos, so if I was a fan of your videos and I wanted to go see you live at a club, hey, Rich is going to be at this place.
02:09:20.000
For people to get a chance to see you the first time you ever go on stage, too.
02:09:26.000
If you do eat shit, have some stuff to say about eating shit.
02:09:38.000
Look, I encourage everyone who thinks they could do it to do it because there's not enough of us and there's only, you know...
02:09:48.000
I think it's on the upswing quite a bit because I think there's more avenues.
02:09:56.000
Like, if you go to the Comedy Store tonight, it's sold out.
02:10:04.000
I work almost every night, except Sunday and Monday.
02:10:23.000
I can't keep doing that, though, forever, can I? It's not bad for you.
02:10:29.000
Getting a sauna before you go to bed, it'll make you feel good.
02:10:43.000
So I just go in like a, it's like a water bed, but it's like a bag that I kind of sit in?
02:10:54.000
I think I'll be too scared of, you know, like a turkey when I get out of that thing.
02:11:03.000
You have that chamber here that's like a water.
02:11:14.000
So as you lie down in that salty water, your body floats.
02:11:19.000
Half of your body is above the water, half is under the water.
02:11:21.000
So your ears are underwater, but everything above your ear is forward on your face.
02:11:26.000
And then the water's heated to 94 degrees, which is the same temperature as the surface of your skin.
02:11:31.000
And then you shut the door, and you're in total silence and total darkness.
02:11:39.000
It's not, because you can just open the door anytime you want.
02:11:45.000
It feels like, first of all, it feels like you're flying.
02:11:47.000
So you lean your arms back, and once you kind of bump into the walls a little bit, you've got to center yourself.
02:11:51.000
And once you center yourself, and then the water stops rippling.
02:11:54.000
Then you just let your arms relax and you just float and it feels like you're flying.
02:12:01.000
It's only 11 inches of water and you're floating.
02:12:04.000
Unless you flip over face first and you start breathing the water in until you stop.
02:12:18.000
So the concentration of salt is what keeps you afloat.
02:12:21.000
There's a thousand pounds of Epsom salts in that tank.
02:12:27.000
I found out about it first through the movie Altered States.
02:12:33.000
It was a movie that was based loosely, very, very loosely, on the legend of this guy named John Lilly.
02:12:39.000
John Lilly is the guy who created this sensory deprivation tank.
02:12:43.000
Well, he also was a pioneer in interspecies communication with dolphins.
02:12:52.000
He was a part of LSD. Who allows you to do that?
02:12:56.000
In the 50s and 60s, you can do whatever the fuck you wanted.
02:12:59.000
Well, they actually shut his program down because the woman that he had, he had this woman who was living with a dolphin, and she essentially, half of her apartment was underwater.
02:13:08.000
Like, her house was half submerged, so the dolphin would come in and out of the house and sleep with her and then go into a tank.
02:13:19.000
Because the dolphin, like, would be distracted all the time.
02:13:29.000
So they were trying to teach the dolphin English words.
02:13:35.000
Yeah, their vocal cords can't make the sounds what we do.
02:13:40.000
A lot of work for this a lot of work for hello But it was really obvious that they have some sort of language right and so Lily who is obsessed with it He would set up a sensory deprivation tank right outside the dolphin tank and take acid and Give acid to the dolphins and he was trying to communicate with them.
02:13:56.000
He was trying to communicate with them like in some sort of a Like neighboring dimension, right?
02:14:02.000
I mean that guy he would take intramuscular ketamine and Shoot it into his meat of his body and then lie in the tank and have these crazy ketamine trips while he's in the tank.
02:14:12.000
Well, I don't know because I've never experienced ketamine.
02:14:15.000
But apparently there's something about that particular drug that lends itself very well to the sensory deprivation experience.
02:14:32.000
I think that one even had instruction on how to build a tank.
02:14:37.000
He actually had set up all these plans for how you...
02:14:44.000
Like a blueprint for how to build your own tank.
02:15:01.000
Yeah, because the one that I have is, it's a company called the Float Lab, and the Float Lab is, like, the best, they make the best tanks.
02:15:08.000
And the guy who makes it is my friend Crash, and he's, like, a super scientist dude who's, like, a mad genius when it comes to tanks.
02:15:15.000
He's, like, over-engineering everything and making everything, like, as complicated as he can.
02:15:23.000
It's like all that stuff that's in the back of it is essentially from a public water purification system.
02:15:34.000
So what do you do when, so let's just say someone were to go in there, right?
02:15:40.000
When the person comes out, does the water change or is it just a filtered system?
02:15:46.000
But nobody – the only people that have been in that thing are Dan Harris from Good Morning America and me.
02:15:53.000
He's the only one that ever took me up on the offer to climb in there.
02:15:57.000
And then they go, oh, what the fuck am I doing?
02:16:03.000
Take all your clothes off and climb into my little tank.
02:16:14.000
But Google sensory deprivation tanks in Boston.
02:16:21.000
There's a lot of places where you go and you rent them and it's like, you know, 50 bucks for an hour or something like that.
02:16:40.000
What if I come out and someone steals my clothes?
02:16:46.000
Usually, like, you're in a room and you get to lock it.
02:16:53.000
My kids are scared of it, but, yeah, they could do it.
02:16:56.000
That's where, like, they draw the line with Daddy.
02:17:07.000
And it's also a great way for your body to absorb magnesium.
02:17:10.000
Because, you know, Epsom salt baths are great when you have sore muscles.
02:17:13.000
Well, when you get into this, this is so much Epsom salt.
02:17:18.000
You float in it, and your muscles loosen up, and it kind of like...
02:17:36.000
If your wife wanted to go, come on, what should we talk about?
02:17:43.000
Okay, before we go into the next dimension, I have to know about the curtains.
02:17:54.000
Samadhi is the company that I bought my first tank from.
02:18:00.000
What if someone's sitting on it and you can't get out?
02:18:06.000
Like a fat dude gets drunk and falls asleep on the lid.
02:18:21.000
There's actually a variable speed fan in the one that I have that pumps in oxygen.
02:18:32.000
That one right there, the daybed one, could be a real issue if you had said drunk fat guy.
02:18:45.000
This is what yours looks like, but it has lights.
02:19:01.000
I had one of these in 2002, so I've had one forever.
02:19:07.000
I think they're one of the best tools ever for thinking.
02:19:20.000
So, because I'm on a budget, I lit my job and everything.
02:19:49.000
I walked in, and there's a giant bag of marijuana on the table.
02:19:53.000
And I was like, I'm sorry, is someone selling this?
02:20:16.000
Anyway, they gave me a bag of weed that every time I open up the trunk of my Tesla, it's like, whoa!
02:20:38.000
So they offered me this big bag of weed, and I was, like, terrified.
02:20:42.000
Because the thing is, like, if I try it, I want to be where I'm somewhere safe.
02:21:07.000
We got high before we got into the smoke box, too.
02:21:27.000
It looks like your freaking great-grandfather or something.
02:21:35.000
What Be Real does is he gets you in that car, and then everybody has a fat tube, like a big giant joint of the most ridiculous weed on the planet Earth.
02:21:54.000
When I got out of there, my inside of my mouth was cooked.
02:21:56.000
If he's never smoked weed, he doesn't understand the hotbox concept.
02:22:03.000
So you're smoking it, so you're getting high from that.
02:22:05.000
And then you're breathing in other people's smoke.
02:22:09.000
So why not just go in there and just be like, hey, you know what?
02:22:11.000
I'm just going to sit in here for five minutes and get high and then get out.
02:22:23.000
It's a DMT? This is CBD with THC. It's 10 milligrams of THC and 10 milligrams of CBD. So it's not a lot of THC, but it's enough.
02:22:34.000
So you just put those pills in your coffee or something?
02:22:39.000
Well, isn't that not fun because you're not smoking it?
02:23:06.000
And I was just like, eh, wore off and went to sleep and it was fine.
02:23:14.000
This is dumb to have like five more pieces of chocolate.
02:23:17.000
The worst thing that anybody could ever say when they eat pot is, man, I don't feel shit.
02:23:23.000
And then it gets in your DNA. And you're like, oh no.
02:23:31.000
I have a friend who ate too many edibles and he was high for 27 or 28 hours.
02:23:37.000
A full day later he was still high and it took like four hours after that.
02:23:44.000
He's making a giant hotbox out of his tent, but I was just showing you the biggest idea of what it gets and why you would want to do that.
02:23:50.000
See, some stoners like that girl right there, they just get too high.
02:24:07.000
You think about people you fingered in high school.
02:24:11.000
You fucking, you comb over everything you've ever done ever that might be even remotely questionable.
02:24:17.000
Well, I think there's a lot of, first of all, that's too high.
02:24:23.000
But I think it gives you like a self-examination that I think is probably critical for people to just examine.
02:24:30.000
Like maybe you would be thinking about your life.
02:24:33.000
Like, if you got high and you started thinking about this job you're quitting, like, why the fuck would I stay with this job?
02:24:39.000
You can start getting paranoid and think about what it's going to be like if I'm 60 years old, I'm still here, and I wish I took a chance, but now it's too late, and I'm tired, and I don't have the energy to do it anymore.
02:24:55.000
Yeah, I think if negative shit happens, like, you should be aware that it can, but to dwell on it, I think, is not empowering at all.
02:25:03.000
I think what's empowering is, like, if you were a person who was 90 years old and you lived a boring-ass, stupid life working at a shitty job, but then someone gave you a chance and said, How would you like to be...
02:25:20.000
With vitality and youth and energy and ambition.
02:25:26.000
You've already got a YouTube channel with like 450,000 subscribers.
02:25:34.000
I want to live a fulfilled life, a life that I enjoy.
02:25:41.000
I look at things like, what would I like to be?
02:25:43.000
If I was someone who was broken down and beaten by life and exhausted and I never took any chances, what would I do now?
02:25:52.000
I would say, if I could be that guy that is willing to just try, to just take risks and carve a path for yourself, I would want to be that guy.
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It's dangerous, there's risks, but that's why it's good.
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If you knew you could, like if you ever play a video game in god mode and just run around shooting everything and you can't die, it's boring.
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You don't want to be that guy who's just barely alive, but alive.
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All I want to do right now is just smoke marijuana and then go hand-gliding.
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Hand-gliding is how one of the greatest jiu-jitsu artists of all time holds Gracie.
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You told me about this uplifting thing and dying.
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But wait a minute, but you just said that it's an exciting thing.
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If you quit your job and then you take a path that you may or may not succeed on, if you do succeed, you're going to feel invigorated.
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See what you think is wrong here in the first 10 seconds.
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Do you have any idea how hard it is to hold on...
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He couldn't wait until he got to the actual ground.
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Well, I don't even think the guy even really landed.
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Upon impact, my right wrist suffered a fragmented distal radius fracture, which required surgery.
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So, like, he took a risk, but, like, there's a reward.
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People go hand gliding and stuff, like hand gliding, parasailing, all the water sports.
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Yeah, you get a little bit of an adrenaline rush.
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I mean, if you want to live for that little drug, the little adrenaline drug, go ahead.
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Oh, he also tore his bicep tending from holding on as long as he did.
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So, it's the thought that you might catch something.
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Well, if you run and water it down, they call it harvest.
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But if you do, that's one of the reasons why when you do do it, it feels like you accomplished something.
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The positive aspect of it is that there's a reward if you can pull it off.
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Yeah, I guess that's a good point to think about it.
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But you like them because of your- My kids like it.
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They like roller coasters because it's like an adrenaline rush.
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I feel uncomfortable because I feel like if I die, this would be so stupid.
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But I did this for a cheap thrill and it broke and I went flying off into the fucking street.
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You know those weird carnivals that pull up in your neighborhood?
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You pull up in six trucks, and it unfolds as a checker's board.
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Dude, one of them came to my neighborhood, and they had this fucking thing where you spin around really fast, you stick to the wall.
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I took pictures, this was like years ago, of the way this thing was on five or six different two-by-fours.
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And people were climbing in there, oh boy, this is great!
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I feel like your chances of dying at those things are like 98% higher.
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They have to do that to balance it out because they put that fucking thing on a hill.
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But, you know, you squirt the fucking gun, the clown face, and the balloon pops, and you win a stupid prize.
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Yeah, neither am I. It's said to be against you.
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If the aliens came to you and said, Rich, we're going to give you this technology and information, but you can't tell anyone else, would you be willing to?
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What if the government brings you to Area 51 like Bob Lazar?
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And they show you an alien spacecraft and they go, we're going to let you examine this.
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We know that you love to tinker and back-engineer things, but you can't tell anybody.
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Like these fucking assholes in the government, they're going to keep you from telling us the truth?
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Don't you think it would affect the whole world if we knew the truth?
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Honestly, I'd probably tell everyone anyways, because the fact that they called the Tesla guy to go down there, of course you're going to rat them out.
02:32:49.000
If I was the government, I wouldn't call some respectable scientist from Stanford.
02:32:53.000
I would call some dude who would be easily discredited.
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Some guy who maybe is a little fudgy with his science reports.
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Maybe plagiarized a little bit in college, but he knows his shit.
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No, I would go with some guy who's, what is that, autodactic?
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There's a lot of geniuses out there that just don't have the credentials.
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If the government wants to tell me some secrets, let me tell you something.
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I would definitely tell them I'm telling everybody.
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But that's not progressing the human race forward.
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Because the goal is for you to see it and confirm it.
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You want to see it, confirm it, and tell everyone.
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Maybe people have died already and we don't know.
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It would be a thing where, in all honesty, it depends on what stage of my life.
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If I was 30 years old and they said, I'm going to show you this, but you can't show anybody, are you willing?
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I don't want to make a deal where you tell me that I can't tell anybody about something.
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I mean, it's one thing if it's a business thing.
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Like, hey, Apple's going to show you the new iPhone, don't tell anybody.
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This is something that can affect the human race.
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How would the confirmation of aliens affect the human race, you think?
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Realistically, you would have to have confirmation that was undeniable.
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And your own eyewitness testimony is not good enough.
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And it would actually probably help their cause.
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And no one would take aliens seriously after that.
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Which is one of the arguments for what they actually did with Project Blue Book.
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There was a guy named Philip Corso, and J. Allen Hynek was the guy who was running Project Blue Book.
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And one of the things they famously said after it was over, that they would just try to debunk things and make these things look foolish.
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And then anything they found that they couldn't explain, they just tucked away.
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But the things that they could explain, even if the explanation didn't jive, they came up with an explanation just to make people realize that aliens were bullshit.
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But he, through the course of Project Blue Book, studying...
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Through the end of it, he decided that aliens were real and that we had been contacted.
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However, you always have to question whether someone is doing that because this is a new avenue for them to make money.
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I mean, if you're a guy who worked for Project Blue Book and then they shut Project Blue Book down, you don't have any more money.
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And you decide, well, I don't want to work for the government anymore.
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I mean, J. Allen Hynek died a long time ago, I believe, right?
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I'm pretty sure there's interviews where afterwards he said he is sure, after all of his time studying, that there is and has been some contact with extraterrestrials.
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See, me personally, I have zero experience, right?
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This guy worked at that company I've told you about.
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He also is a teacher of physics and astronomy at Ohio State in 1936. So you think there's some real shit going down?
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I don't know about all the alien technologies or beings or aliens or something.
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There's something going on, and it has to do with that company, and it has to do with everything you're talking about in Project Blue Book.
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I can't, because to me it doesn't seem fair to just go with the big conspiracy, but there are facts that you can look up and find.
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So once you get to the bottom of your investigation, you'll have a report for it?
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I'm not ready to, because it sounds a little too crazy right now.
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Yeah, it's one of those subjects that inherently starts looking crazy until aliens show up.
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What was the recent movie where they spoke in smoke?
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Then, all of a sudden, our perceptions completely change.
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There's, like, some giant Los Angeles-sized thing floating over the continental U.S. Yeah.
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Like, what if they came over to us and they'll go, oh, look at these fucking dumb chimps.
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Do you think any foreign or alien species would think we're idiots?
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A hundred percent of them would think we're idiots.
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Yeah, if they're advanced to the point where they've gotten control of their emotions and anger.
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I mean, just think about how much tribal warfare goes on still in America, in the world.
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They'd be aware of our polluting of the environment.
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They'd be aware of our depleting the ocean of its fish.
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They're just pulling in giant nets filled with fish.
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They'd be looking at coal plants and the President of the United States, the greatest superpower the world has ever known, saying things like, clean coal.
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What's the dumbest thing that they're going to notice the first?
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They can say, oh wow, this is the dumbest thing I've ever seen.
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You visit our planet, the number one dumbest thing they're going to see and be like...
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They're probably going to think pollution is the number one dumbest.
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Like, you guys are shitting in the environment that you need to sustain you.
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It's not like you don't have the resources to fix that.
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Yeah, we have incredible amounts of money, but yet the money's not going towards that.
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Massive resources should be going to removing carbon from the atmosphere, removing particulates from the atmosphere.
02:40:08.000
Yeah, like brake dust and all the shit that's in these cities.
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These cars are constantly slamming on their brakes.
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That dust that you have to clean off your wheels, that shit's everywhere.
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They would go, why aren't they looking at that?
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Why don't they have some sort of system in place to mitigate all the problems they've created in terms of like, oh, they got rid of plastic straws.
02:40:43.000
What do you think of those new disintegrating straws, by the way?
02:40:52.000
You can just stab somebody if somebody attacks you.
02:40:57.000
Just punch a hole through them like that Walking Dead crossbow bolt.
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I think that's the big one that they would get.
02:41:08.000
The other thing they would say is the nuclear power thing.
02:41:10.000
When you find out things like the Fukushima plant, they didn't have any sort of backup plan to shut it down.
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You don't know what happens if your generator goes out.
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Now it's a nuclear meltdown and everything dies forever.
02:41:26.000
Like, the fact that they built these plants and they have no idea how to shut them off.
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The aliens are probably like, these people are out of their fucking mind.
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They're smart enough to figure out how to harness nuclear power.
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Let's just say things are going to shit really quickly.
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There's a nuclear power plant that's going to blow up any second.
02:42:03.000
How long do you think you could survive if things went to shit really quickly?
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If you had to survive, you have all the money you want, right?
02:42:11.000
But how long do you think you could survive in the wilderness?
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And not only that, you've got to get through the winter.
02:42:19.000
So you're going to have to build some sort of a shelter.
02:42:24.000
I mean, not in LA, but in Big Bear, which is only a couple hours north of here.
02:42:30.000
I mean, there's plenty of places where you could drive in a couple hours.
02:42:32.000
You could go to Big Bear, and then you can go down to the beach.
02:42:37.000
You could experience a lot of different climates.
02:42:39.000
It would really depend upon where you were stuck and what you would eat.
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So the thing is, if you want to stay in the L.A. area, you're dead.
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Because you're not going to be able to eat shit.
02:43:03.000
I have a Toyota Land Cruiser with a 40-gallon gas tank.
02:43:14.000
I was like, listen, in an oh shit situation, I would leave the Tesla behind.
02:43:26.000
Well, you know, in an emergency crisis situation, you don't have access to the gas.
02:43:33.000
You go to the liquor store, you fill it up with alcohol.
02:43:35.000
Remember we had the hurricane in Florida a while back?
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Now, everyone was saying, like, yeah, the gas pumps wouldn't work because the electricity was shut off.
02:43:44.000
But the superchargers still work, and you can get to your destination still, and Tesla's used less energy.
02:43:49.000
It's like, at the end of the day, I happen to pick up a truck with two shotguns and five things of gasoline and be fine.
02:43:55.000
Yeah, they also make tanks that you can put in your gas tank, in the bed of your truck, rather, that are like these survival tanks.
02:44:07.000
There's a guy who actually, there was a podcast that I was listening to, this guy who is like an extreme prepper.
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And he actually made a trip with one tank of gas from Arizona to Canada.
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He drove all the way up to Canada, all the way across, with one tank of gas.
02:44:26.000
Because this massive tank in the back of his pickup truck...
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And, you know, they'll host like hundreds of gallons of fuel.
02:45:01.000
Well, you would have to bring things to start a fire and things to kill animals.
02:45:06.000
Those are the things that would be very important.
02:45:14.000
But I would realistically realize that, first of all, I'm not going to make more bullets and I'm not going to make more arrows.
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What am I going to do and how long am I going to last?
02:45:27.000
But you'd also be trying to stay alive for a long period of time.
02:45:34.000
I mean, marijuana for pain relief, I mean, I guess it works.
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Maybe, I mean, I just, there's no, there's not room.
02:45:54.000
I'd probably bring food in the form of heavy-duty bars that don't take up a lot of space but are dense and nutrient-rich like those green belly bars.
02:46:05.000
Yeah, something that has a lot of calories, high calories, in a small package, a small size.
02:46:14.000
Yeah, you gotta go somewhere where there's animals.
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And even then, you're not gonna make it, and your kids are probably not gonna make it.
02:46:21.000
The idea that you're gonna live off of animals, this isn't the Serengeti, man.
02:46:26.000
Unless you're somewhere where you can find a lot of fucking animals.
02:46:31.000
Yeah, and you gotta keep them, like, you're gonna have to kill them every other day, because they're not gonna last with the heat.
02:46:36.000
And your kids aren't going to eat a dead rabbit for sure.
02:46:47.000
If you have a string and a bow and two pieces of dried wood and, you know, hardwood and a softer wood, you can do it.
02:47:05.000
If you have a flint and a piece of metal, you can start a fire pretty easy.
02:47:08.000
And also, you want to bring with you some tinder.
02:47:12.000
If you have some dry tinder, you should bring that with you, too.
02:47:28.000
This YouTube kind of fed this to me the other day.
02:47:32.000
He made a self-documentary of him spending 300 days on an island by himself.
02:47:36.000
He got dropped off with a satellite phone because he ends up getting hurt at some point during it.
02:47:43.000
I'm not showing it on here because there's lots of views.
02:47:47.000
At the very end of it, his friend meets him and he shows him what he's been doing for the last two weeks all alone.
02:47:56.000
He's basically cast away at the end of this fucking documentary.
02:47:59.000
Look, that's a fucking hard thing to do just for your mind.
02:48:07.000
If they put you on an island, how long do you think you'd last?
02:48:11.000
Depends on if I knew that my family was still alive.
02:48:22.000
He kept it as a pet and it ended up running away.
02:48:31.000
Well, it means he's on a very animal-rich environment if he's on an island with pigs.
02:48:45.000
I didn't watch the whole thing because it's an hour long.
02:48:49.000
It was just really cool when you started talking about that.
02:49:08.000
He had some guys drop him off and he just said, don't come back for 300 days.
02:49:12.000
So wait, how does he charge the batteries for this footage?
02:49:15.000
You have cell phone chargers that use solar power.
02:49:21.000
Yeah, my friend Adam Greentree, he lives in Australia, and every year he comes to America, and he's a bow hunter, and he'd do a one-month trek solo in the mountains hunting for elk, and he uses these solar panels that he lays out, and they charge battery packs, and that's how he charges his phone.
02:49:37.000
And so he got very famous on Instagram for documenting all this in his Instagram stories.
02:49:43.000
He got in an altercation with a grizzly bear, and he was documenting it.
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You could see in the Instagram story, the bear standing up, No shit.
02:49:50.000
He's looking at him and coming towards him, and he's got a pistol out.
02:49:57.000
He didn't have to, but he had it pointed at the...
02:50:01.000
It wasn't his pistol, so he let him borrow it for personal safety in the forest.
02:50:05.000
And the bullet was the wrong size for the pistol.
02:50:08.000
It could have blew up in his hand if you're not careful.
02:50:23.000
The British people who, back then, when everybody was a criminal, were like, you guys are too crazy.
02:50:57.000
Staying at that hostel really brought things into perspective.
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People just standing in front of me butt-naked.
02:51:15.000
I had a feeling it was going to work out this way.
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R-I-C-H-I-E-B-K-I-D-D. And my YouTube channel, Rich Rebuilds.
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And I want you to come back a year from now saying you're doing stand-up.