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00:01:25.000But I also think that it's one of those things, if your life is healthy, if you have a good balance and you're enjoying your time and you're being creative and you have good friends and you have fun, you're not looking for something to fuck your life up.
00:01:35.000I think many of the times when you're dealing with people that have severe debilitating addictions that are really just taking over their life, there's something else going on.
00:03:36.000But then it kind of morphed into Club Hop, where it just was all about bitches and cars and all that shit.
00:03:41.000And it was really the lyrics, the beats I loved.
00:03:43.000I thought it was cool, but I just got tired of it.
00:03:46.000I mean, because I left in 95. Wow, really?
00:03:50.000I left hip-hop in 95, 96. And then I know there's plenty of hip-hop heads that'll be like, dude, you gotta check out Sony, you gotta check out Sony.
00:04:24.000It made you look like, I saw that and I was like, that was actually a moment where I was like, oh, am I going to start getting back into this shit?
00:05:06.000But at the same time, if it just sounds like basically the three things that everyone talks about, which is women, cars of some sort, and money, or the things you can buy with money, after a while, it just all bleeds together.
00:08:06.000I think if you, you know, if you wedge it in, if you held it tight in your fist, you know, with your thumb over it, I think if you hit at...
00:08:11.000It's more about velocity, I think, rather than strength.
00:12:17.000I think that's the big thing with food, too, with cooking.
00:12:20.000You know, I never really thought of food as an art form until I started watching No Reservations, which was Anthony Bourdain's original show.
00:12:59.000It only exists for a short window in time.
00:13:02.000But now that we have film of it, and now that we have photographs of it, like things on Instagram, now you start to appreciate that, oh, it looks amazing, too.
00:16:16.000Like you leave a podcast with her and your fucking face hurts.
00:16:19.000Someone said that if you get John Witherspoon, Joey Diaz, and Miss Pat on a podcast together, we would like break the space-time continuum.
00:19:16.000It's, like, also, like, what you tend to view, what's the first cue that generally will set you off, whatever that is.
00:19:24.000Experience as you were a kid or, you know, someone, your aunt or whatever was really cool and your cousin wasn't really sexy and those two, a combination of those two elements are, like, something that you hit.
00:25:18.000I guess that's where they're coming from.
00:25:20.000But to me, that's why someone described the NS10s, the classic studio monitors, like when you're switching between different types of speakers.
00:25:38.000Yeah, well, they're like this classic mixing, like Auratone, and they're just like speaker systems that have kind of become standards to a certain degree.
00:25:47.000And the weird thing about NS10s, it's like in the 80s when they were using them, I believe that's the right name for it, but in the 80s when they were using them, It was really...
00:26:49.000I mean, it's one of those subtleties that you may never think about, but then when you hear about it and you learn about it, it blows open a whole new way of thinking about things.
00:26:58.000Well, I don't know this, but that's what everybody's always said about the dead and LSD. Exactly.
00:27:05.000Yeah, that if you, like the people that don't get the dead, and I'm guilty of being one of those people.
00:27:10.000Yeah, I'm not a huge fan, but I respect them.
00:27:12.000It's because you haven't listened on LSD. Apparently, according to people that I know, you listen to the dead on LSD and you're like, oh my god, I get it.
00:28:43.000Once you've experienced music that really ignites your imagination, if you hear music that sounds amazing on LSD, it should also sound amazing to you, personally.
00:29:05.000To me, quality is like it exists in all states.
00:29:08.000So like it's just – anyways, that's kind of how I look at it.
00:29:13.000It's an interesting perspective, but you would think – Definitely the people see things differently when they're under the influence of certain things.
00:31:32.000How many people got busted at those concerts?
00:31:35.000Did Feds or the DEA ever crack down on those concerts?
00:31:39.000You said you worked security at Amphitheater.
00:31:42.000I did two for a summer, and one of the concerts we did was for Phil Leschies, the bass player of the Grateful Dead.
00:31:48.000My job for that day was to walk around the parking lot, and they would just yell, me and my buddy were 19 years old, six up, six up.
00:31:54.000They thought we were going to arrest everyone.
00:31:56.000And they would try to give us the goo balls, which have a bunch of drugs in them already, to sort of dose us so that we'd leave everybody alone.
00:32:27.000Mushrooms had to have been relearned at some point in time.
00:32:30.000There had to be some people that lived in an environment where there was no mushrooms, where people didn't get them, and then someone found them somewhere, but they didn't have any personal knowledge of what it was and tried it and ate it and tripped.
00:32:42.000I mean, I think, you know, it could also be like, hey, I'm foraging for blah, blah, blahs.
00:32:48.000And because, you know, arguably they would say mushrooms are around like way, way, way.
00:32:51.000Some people, you know, not so scientific, perhaps, I don't know, or maybe scientific, have surmised that maybe consciousness or self-awareness came from our species running into some kind of a psychedelic event.
00:33:36.000The people that have had psychedelic experiences that tend to be skeptical or more rational, they're not going to have a definitive position on it.
00:34:12.000If all these people are saying that it's amazing, and that it might be literally the source of religion itself, and so many people, when they've had it, they have these complete life changes, where they just rethink things and want to be kinder to people and nicer to people and want to just have more of a sense of community.
00:34:50.000I mean, I guess if your job is to take in as many angles as possible to a problem or a situation or a concern or whatever, weigh all of the things about all of it and then come up with a solution based off of that.
00:35:06.000And this isn't even encouraging anyone to do it, but this is just saying to dismiss it as being not important when you've never done it is nonsense.
00:35:16.000I know a lot of people that birth to grave have done no psychedelics, and they're great, and they're wonderful people, and they have a great life, and they had a wonderful experience.
00:36:02.000But I would say that most people, they would understand at least—maybe they didn't have a great time, but they would at least understand— The power of that experience.
00:36:15.000I think some people have the burden of intelligence.
00:36:19.000And what I mean by that is that they're really smart and they see a lot of people around them that are silly.
00:36:24.000And they experience that so often that they get weary and they get rigid in their belief that their opinions are correct because they dismiss most of the people that are around them.
00:36:37.000Because you're around a bunch of dummies if you're a really smart guy or a smart girl.
00:36:52.000And also, yes, and also believing that you are, in a way, excludes you from including other people who are also smarter than everybody in the room.
00:37:10.000They see things clearly, which is, I think, one of the most underrated forms of intelligence.
00:37:14.000Like, there's all this intelligence in solving mathematical problems and social intelligence, but there's a bunch of different kinds of intelligence.
00:37:28.000And I think that, you know, at the same time, wanting to help someone see that angle is also an important thing.
00:37:35.000So if you're someone who's like, oh shit, let's say it's this, maybe you're trained in tactical awareness and you just have a different way of being in a room where you sit, what you think about, all that stuff.
00:37:49.000And a situation arises where you're like, And potentially something dangerous could happen or whatever.
00:37:55.000Then being able to explain that idea and that type of awareness so that someone can see that is also possible.
00:38:02.000Like sharing it, they may not get it to the extent that you do, but they at least you've included it in their viewpoint.
00:38:41.000I think one of the things that's super important for people to recognize and helps them open their mind up to other opinions is that even if they favor themselves very highly, that competitive thing of comparing your intellect and your reason to other people, it's very limiting.
00:38:56.000Instead of worrying about yourself, if you're smart, just be smart.
00:38:59.000But just appreciate other intelligences.
00:39:25.000You should recognize that it's awesome to have cool people around you that are really smart and interested in weird shit and intelligent and inspiring.
00:40:46.000If you're stuck in some fucking shithole city and it's just your whole neighborhood's filled with dummies and there's no prospects and there's fucking lead in the water, you got Flint, Michigan water you're drinking,
00:41:59.000And aren't we also going on the fucking momentum of decisions that were made a long time ago?
00:42:04.000Like a lot of this stuff, like a lot of these mines that pollute everywhere, pollute environments, wherever they are, they kind of made those when environmental laws were different, right?
00:42:18.000I mean, environmentalism wasn't really a thing until the mid-1900s, I guess.
00:42:26.000Roosevelt was a huge environmental groovy dude.
00:42:31.000But the idea of preserving swaths of land and considering the environment when growing an economy simultaneously, that just stopped.
00:42:40.000Like there's like some national parks stuff and maybe some things pass with like ozone, some lead stuff, some mercury stuff, you know, kind of common sense, really hardcore shit that should definitely – like no brainers.
00:47:16.000Have you ever seen some of the image of the mining that they do, the images of the mining they do in northern Canada, like northern Alberta?
00:48:19.000I mean, but there was nothing there anyway.
00:48:21.000The idea is like, hey, if it's just flat like that or it's ugly because we have holes in it and oils coming out of the holes, who gives a shit?
00:49:22.000I think a lot of managing has to be done because there's a lot of stuff that has unintended consequences and moving pieces affect all the moving pieces around them.
00:49:31.000I think that's one of the things that people are really bad at predicting.
00:49:34.000That's why I was saying, like, you know, how much is it worth to be able to get copper out of a hole in the ground if it's going to poison a river and kill a bunch of fish?
00:50:18.000Because they're just thinking there's a bunch of pedophiles out there, and a bunch of monsters, and a bunch of murderers, and a bunch of people pouring oil into the ocean.
00:50:37.000I try not to get overwhelmed by those things, but it's like really the best thing, at least in my life, that I try to do is make friends with as many technologists and designers and people of that ilk to be able to at least be a part of the conversation.
00:50:52.000Because they're like at the head of the wave.
00:50:55.000There's nothing really in front of them.
00:50:56.000They're just on that bleeding edge or whatever.
00:51:02.000Chaos is being ordered and the decisions are being made which ways we're going to do that.
00:51:07.000And if you can have good conversations with people like that, you can kind of, I believe, you can kind of help steer things, at least technologically, to allocate funds to different portions of technology that should be more prioritized than they are.
00:51:43.000If everyone had access to be able to level up To a point that's ridiculous, that can still happen, but not at the levels that they are.
00:51:51.000Well, isn't that interesting that instinct that people have to resist that idea that poor people shouldn't be somehow or another, we should engineer a way to have less poor people.
00:52:00.000That we should consider it as a problem.
00:52:02.000But people get really resistant to that, right?
00:52:28.000But recognizing that it's a problem and engineering it so that we have a better society where more people are doing good, that's great for everybody.
00:52:48.000If I'm in a room of people and I feel like someone's being kind of just looked over consistently, that's the person I'm going to engage with the most.
00:53:01.000I mean, that's a good way of looking at it.
00:53:03.000I mean, because it's – and also it's just like, well, thanks, but it's also just a practical thing, right?
00:53:08.000I mean, if you're sensitive to this, if that's part of your value system, is to feel like, you know, not everybody should be doing this or this or that or that, but everybody's entitled to be recognized and respected for that.
00:53:19.000And so that's kind of a cool place to operate from.
00:53:22.000But I guess what I'm relating to economically is Yeah, if more people are doing well, then you have a very productive society.
00:53:59.000Well, people are losing because they're stuck in a spot where they can almost never get out, and by the time they're 18, they've already been in jail twice, and they're kind of programmed by their environment to be hostile because the world around you is harsh and nasty and doesn't give a fuck about you.
00:56:44.000In one duel, he got shot, I think, in the chest, but he was such a badass, he stayed.
00:56:50.000He put his hand over it and held it, because his gun jammed when he was supposed to fire, so the other guy got him, and then he fixed his gun, shot the guy in the head, and that guy ended up dying.
00:56:59.000I'm pretty sure that's how the one guy he killed.
00:57:02.000You have a real motivation to kill a guy when he shoots you in the chest.
00:58:14.000Jackson was not prosecuted for murder, and the duel had very little effect on his successful campaign for the presidency in 1829. Many American men in the early 1800s, particularly in the South, viewed dueling as a time-honored tradition.
00:58:35.000200 years ago, people were so goddamn crazy that you could shoot someone in the fucking face in a duel, a street fight, and then run for president and win.
00:59:30.000Imagine hearing that we had slid so far down that Trump and Putin were engaging in a duel, and they were going to go back to back, and Trump cheated and shot him.
00:59:54.000Okay, so he married Rachel Jackson, who, this is part of the duel because the guy who killed Dickinson had publicly called her a bigamist because she married Jackson not knowing her first husband had not finalized the divorce or something like that, so that was a bigger scandal that he was married to some already married woman.
01:03:33.000I bet you some soldiers like figured out how they wrapped, you know, like took leather and wrapped layers, you know, around the foot so it created at least traction.
01:03:41.000Because if you think like you take like a trail running shoe...
01:03:45.000And do you ever wear like a Solomon Speed Cross trail?
01:07:27.000Human brain size, apparently, I was listening to a Terence McKenna lecture on this once, and he was talking about all the human brain size doubled over the period of two million years.
01:07:37.000It's one of the biggest mysteries in the fossil record.
01:07:39.000And his idea was that they discovered mushrooms.
01:07:42.000In that the chimps, over this period of time, or the monkey people, whatever the fuck they were, ancient hominids, had discovered mushrooms after the climate had shifted.
01:08:03.000We experienced climate change where the rainforest had receded in the grasslands and that this gave birth to the rise of undulates like cows and deer and things like that.
01:08:15.000And they would shit and these mushrooms would grow on their shit.
01:08:19.000And then they've observed a lot of these monkeys in the wild picking up cow patties and looking for grubs and beetles underneath it.
01:08:28.000And they think they might have experimented with the mushrooms.
01:08:30.000And that if they experimented with psilocybin mushrooms, a lot of things could take place once they realized that it was not just a viable food source, but also provided them with a bunch of different benefits.
01:08:52.000And all those things possibly could have given birth to language and to a lot of other things.
01:08:58.000They also think it's possible that that creativity could have enabled them to start hunting.
01:09:03.000They started using tools and thinking and trying to figure out ways around stuff and trying to figure out how to make an effective weapon to kill something at a distance.
01:09:13.000The more they're thinking and becoming creative, the more that stuff's enhancing them.
01:09:18.000And this period of two million years is like a pretty profound jump for the human brain size.
01:09:23.000They think some of that also came to do with our desire to kill things with weapons.
01:09:28.000That once we started hunting and eating meat, we got way more protein, more bioavailable protein.
01:09:34.000It was healthier for the animal, for the human animal.
01:09:36.000And then we also started to try to figure out other better ways to kill these animals, which made us even more creative and competitive.
01:10:36.000Utherian mammals was a small rat-like creature depicted in this illustration that lived 145 million years ago in the shadow of the dinosaurs.
01:10:44.000So that rat-like creature apparently survived the asteroid impact.
01:10:49.000I don't think that's the thing, though.
01:13:47.000If you mean the hot Big Bang, then there may be a period of rapid expansion known as inflation.
01:13:55.000This theory is able to account for the observed features of the universe, including the CMB power spectrum and the flatness and horizon problems.
01:14:25.000But he was talking about how people have, it might have been McKenna, have so much faith in science.
01:14:30.000And so little faith in mystical things, but yet science revolves on one initial theory where magic took place, where everything came out of nothing, that it was smaller than the head of a pin.
01:14:44.000So everything you see in the observable universe, including planes, trains, and automobiles, all of it had to have had an origin in the most spectacular sorcery the world has ever known.
01:14:59.000He wasn't saying that, you know, ridiculous ideological ideas of the start and birth and death of the universe are fact.
01:15:09.000But he was saying that, look, look, the fact, according to scientists, is that all evidence points to this whole thing coming out of nothing.
01:15:17.000This whole thing, this whole thing existing out of nowhere.
01:15:20.000And what Piers Morgan, I think, is saying is that that gives birth, that it gives proof that something superior to the human brain, which for sure it does.
01:15:51.000He's, you know, just saying, like, it's all nuts, man.
01:15:56.000Yeah, I mean, my thing is, like, I think, I like to think of it as in simulation terms, in the sense that if thinking of, like, reality and the way it's perceived and the way that we move through it is kind of a designed game of sorts.
01:16:12.000And so if I think of it in that way, Like, nothing and something.
01:17:05.000But I guess what I'm saying is that the idea that things are infinite, that reality is infinite, It's kind of a good way, but kind of can be scary, but a good way to think of it because it doesn't make any sense why it wouldn't be.
01:17:20.000It seems like we have a limited way of viewing what reality is, and I think we're limited by our binary thought processes.
01:17:28.000Well, it's also interesting that we want to put any sort of limitations on the universe and that its immense size isn't crazy enough for us.
01:17:43.000If we know that the universe has hundreds of billions of galaxies, like, there's a bunch of competing theories as to what happens, you know, with black holes and whether or not there's multiverses.
01:17:53.000There's a bunch of competing theories, right?
01:17:55.000But one of the most profound ones that it was ever explained to me is that there's a supermassive black hole in the center of every galaxy.
01:18:02.000And it's exactly, I think, one half of 1% of the mass of the entire galaxy.
01:18:16.000There's a real possibility that going through that black hole you would encounter an entirely different universe with hundreds of billions of galaxies.
01:18:25.000Each galaxy have a black hole in the center of it.
01:18:29.000Go through that black hole an entirely different universe.
01:18:31.000So each one Each universe, where you have hundreds of billions of galaxies, there's hundreds of billions of universes through those black holes, and each one of those galaxies, or each one of those universes, has also hundreds of billions of galaxies,
01:18:49.000and each one of those has a black hole, you go through that, hundreds of billions of galaxies, that the whole thing...
01:19:00.000There's a thing, like an instant reaction to resist that notion, as if the universe itself isn't already the most incredible thing of magic.
01:19:24.000But when you think of things in an abstract way, like, well, if something is just infinite, infinite, infinite, what does that mean about us?
01:24:20.000It's a great thing because that interaction right there is so genius because it tells you everything you need to know about both of those characters.
01:26:49.000They're really good for specific types of workouts and specific types of exercises where you're just trying to fatigue the muscles.
01:26:56.000A lot of strength and conditioning athletes like to use those to bang out reps because they feel like there's less factors going on in terms of whether or not you could drop the weight when you're losing coordination because you're super exhausted.
01:28:02.000I hope you're training and your reflexes and your intuition.
01:28:05.000It's really interesting to watch really skillful technical wrestlers because they go from one technique to another and they just chain wrestle.
01:28:13.000Watching a lot of those, particularly Russians, there's a lot of Russian, a lot of Soviet bloc athletes From years back even, we're really, really technical with their wrestling.
01:28:24.000Really beautiful to watch them chain these techniques together and do these different moves to try to achieve dominance.
01:31:33.000Because Askren went to shoot to try to get a hold of his legs, and Masvidal ran at him with a flying knee and hit him right in the face while he was trying to bend forward.
01:35:47.000Couldn't that have been like a biological weapon back in the day if you had some smallpox or some shit?
01:35:51.000Yeah, like, how dare you potentially infect me?
01:35:54.000Do you ever hear Damon Wayans' joke about when Magic Johnson came back to the NBA? Magic Johnson, after he had HIV and then came back to the NBA, he said, Damon Wayans, who's, in my opinion, one of the most underrated comedians of all time, still one of my all-time favorites,
01:36:11.000but in one of his HBO specials, he goes, everybody was avoiding Magic.
01:39:43.000And it's just about the modern, kind of modern generation high school experience through her drug addiction or trying to overcome drug addiction or kind of realizing what is going on with her at that stage in her life.
01:39:58.000And it's just the culture of all the things that kids deal with these days.
01:40:45.000Yeah, so there's like a great scene in the first, in the pilot.
01:40:49.000It doesn't really give away anything, but one of the characters, she's in a kitchen and there's like a big bully dude, popular guy, that's like getting in her face and being really threatening.
01:41:01.000And then she takes a knife and she just slices her arm and she's like, stay away from me, motherfucker.
01:44:57.000So me and McGuire, and I think there was like three of them that worked there, we all hung out and watched The Blair Witch together in a fucking empty movie theater.
01:46:58.000Even though now we see videos that are very literal from phones all the time, we see that kind of imagery, we still don't necessarily see...
01:47:05.000You wouldn't see that in a movie theater necessarily.
01:47:08.000You're too distracted by all the outside images.
01:47:12.000So if you're talking to a person, like you and I are talking, I'm focusing on you.
01:47:15.000I know there's some stuff over the left and some stuff over the right, but I'm not seeing it the same way I'm seeing you.
01:47:21.000That's one of the reasons why when you visually interpret video, it's a very weird distortion, even though it's the most accurate representation.
01:47:30.000Because you can't look at everything at the same time.
01:47:32.000So if you look at a photograph and everything is in focus, what are you using?
01:47:37.000What are you using to see things with?
01:48:45.000Like it's too literal or something too...
01:48:47.000The way everything moves just feels slightly off.
01:48:51.000Do you think that we're just accustomed to the way film looks?
01:48:55.000And then if we were accustomed to the way video looks...
01:48:59.000Then a film would be a little clunky to us.
01:49:01.000Like if everything started off as video and then they said, you know what?
01:49:05.000It's not really good to have everything in focus.
01:49:07.000It's only good to have some things in focus and then back away some things are blurry and then they come into focus and it actually enhances the filmmaking.
01:50:09.000The way that music sounded, they also had to consider the mix of car speakers.
01:50:15.000What does it sound like on car speakers?
01:50:16.000So going back to the Aura Tones and the NS10s and then the standardized car speakers that people test audio in.
01:50:24.000Right, and it's a different parameter, right?
01:50:26.000Because you're stuck in this little contained metal box.
01:50:29.000Yeah, so you've got to figure out how to mix the music.
01:50:32.000But generally, it's the sound system that has to be adjusted.
01:50:35.000The sound systems have to, but you mix.
01:50:37.000They kind of meet each other in the middle, but great hi-fi systems.
01:50:41.000Actually, it's a quick anecdote, but when I was in Seattle, I knew that I liked hi-fi systems, but I didn't know why they were so expensive.
01:50:52.000And so I went into this place, this guy named Leland, who was working there.
01:50:57.000I was kind of friends with him because I'd come in and I'd just scope gear all the time, just look at it like, oh, I love audio gear.
01:51:03.000And then one day, it was towards the end when they were closing, and he turns to me and says, hey man, do you want to get your brain fried?
01:51:19.000Went into the back room, smoked some marijuana, went into the showroom, the main room where they have all the speakers and all the different types of units.
01:51:28.000And he says, then he just kind of turns to us.
01:51:30.000We all sit down on the couch and he says, okay, you're going to listen to a, this is a system in total.
01:51:38.000And then he just goes, proceeds and goes through and explains all of the stages that, you know, that the current is going through and what the music is going through and what's being played on, all the cables that are being used, all this stuff.
01:51:50.000And then I heard all of that, crazy speakers, like, okay, cool.
01:51:54.000He lowers the lights and he puts on a Bill Evans trio record.
01:52:44.000What do you think, like in your description, what is different about vinyl?
01:52:50.000Well, I mean, supposedly, if you have a really nice quality piece of vinyl and it's cut really well, you get as close to the original mastered recording experience, like coming out of the studio, if you're talking about older tape.
01:53:07.000So whatever that final mix is, when someone plays it and they're like, it's been mastered, here's the stereo two-track, we're playing the stereo two-track, it's been mastered.
01:54:21.000There's kind of a digital mastering standard.
01:54:24.000And that standard is basically what that is, what a record is.
01:54:29.000So that's why you have sites like HD tracks that I really dig.
01:54:34.000You can get all your favorite—well, not all.
01:54:36.000It's not as big of a selection, but you can get full resolution from like stereo two-track master from the studio level quality in a digital format that you can buy and then put into a high-res player.
01:54:50.000So I have a high-res player, a hi-fi player, and it has really nice circuitry and all that stuff and then you use a really great pair of headphones, and you've got the closest thing to a record that's repeatable infinite times.
01:57:38.000Good sound system in a car is amazing, too, man, because, you know, you get like a Mark Levinson, like I have a Lexus that has a Mark Levinson system in it.
01:59:51.000You'll notice that the overall layout is mid-sinch mod.
01:59:55.000The only people I don't trust is when I go over to the house and they have a minimalist set up where they have plastic chairs that don't look like they have any cushion and a flat table with nothing on it and everything's small and there's nothing there.
02:00:36.000And he makes these, like, you've seen these chairs before, but the originals are just, it's such a great work of art.
02:00:43.000It's, like, sturdy, comfy, but light enough that there's, like, a bar in the back that's just made to grab and you can just throw it around.
02:00:50.000But when it's set up in a room, it looks substantial and it looks comfortable, but super lightweight.
02:00:55.000So their idea was, like, to be super modular and Really easy to move for company.
02:02:04.000Like that 109 chair, like that kind of stuff.
02:02:07.000So it's like normal chair height, but it's beautifully designed, but it's minimal.
02:02:12.000And for my living room, like I like the idea that I could just like move my furniture and if people want to dance or whatever, you can just do that.
02:02:19.000And you don't have to be, oh, fuck, you know.
02:02:59.000Well, things like Spotify and Pandora, Apple Music, these streaming services.
02:03:04.000I think they're convenient, but I don't quite trust the quality yet.
02:03:09.000And I have a lot invested in iTunes, but I started using Tidal only because it seems to be the least popular of all the streaming services.
02:03:44.000So, I mean, I guess the idea being as long as it's fair for the artist, you know, the deal for streaming and how streaming is calculated and how that turns into revenue on the revenue side of things, that's really important.
02:03:57.000That's the biggest concern is the revenue side of things.
02:03:58.000It seems like this whole thing was like the Wild Wild West when it got started and the way the parameters were established, it's not in favor of the artist.
02:04:35.000If you were a tomato store and you got your tomatoes from a farmer and the farmer would do all this fucking work to make the tomatoes and they sold them at your store but you got almost all the money.
02:05:15.000That's why I want to kind of do my own streaming stuff like that.
02:05:17.000I don't want to be tied up with another company that utilizes behavioral statistical data to increase their algorithms for targeted advertising.
02:05:28.000Like, that's not really interesting to me.
02:05:31.000Yeah, I think with a guy like you too, just build it and they will come.
02:05:34.000And then advertisers who resonate with your sort of mindset, they'll find you.
02:05:40.000There's plenty of cool CBD brands and fill in the blank of cool companies that'd be more than happy to advertise on something that you'd have a guaranteed audience of a certain kind of people.
02:06:10.000You can work with a bunch of wonderful people, or it can be a disaster.
02:06:14.000You got some time suck in the middle of the fucking mix, and they just demand too much attention, there's too much conflict and nonsense, and interpersonal drama, and sometimes people start...
02:06:28.000People that work together start fucking, and then you have to hear the opinions of both of them while you pretend that you don't know that they're fucking, that this is weighing heavily on the way they're communicating with everybody else.
02:06:41.000Supporting each other, and you're supposed to support them, too.
02:06:43.000Now their relationship has become center stage in your office.
02:06:46.000That's one of the reasons why people don't want office romances.
02:06:49.000Not even just because women don't want to be harassed by men that are trying to fuck them all the time, so just say no one can do it.
02:06:56.000But also because once a relationship does happen, one of two things, either it'll go great...
02:07:02.000Yeah, either it'll go great and everyone's going to be a part of it, so your relationship becomes a part of the whole ecosystem of the office.
02:07:09.000Or it'll go terrible and people have to pick sides and or one of you has to leave.
02:07:18.000Or if you're amongst the most miraculous people, you have an amicable split and you become really good friends afterwards, you still work together with no problems, you even like each other's spouses.
02:08:39.000If you had the dream job, but you met a girl there, she was single and she was into you, and you're both into each other, and you're like, God damn it.
02:09:47.000Well, especially in the corporate world, right?
02:09:48.000You're forced to present a, air quotes, professional image, and this enhances your ability to earn a living.
02:09:56.000It enhances your ability to be successful inside that corporate structure.
02:09:59.000So you literally have to play a role all the time, which is why if you talk to women who are dominatrixes, one of the things that they say is that the guys who really like to get kicked in the balls and shit on are the guys who run businesses.
02:11:40.000Theoretically, the positive side of that is if societies organize themselves in a way that ensures that people remain productive aside from these automations because it's taking away the menial tasks, the repetitive tasks, then we're able to allocate more brainpower to the economy,
02:12:19.000Because that's what people are going to need if we get to a point where millions of jobs vanish overnight because of automation, which could happen.
02:12:26.000You're looking at a, I mean, I don't know what I'm talking about, but if I did, I would say you'd look at a nationwide version of what happened in Detroit when the auto industry backed out.
02:12:39.000I mean, I don't know, like, the universal...
02:12:41.000I mean, it kind of makes sense, but I also don't know about the successful models and the non-successful implementations because, obviously, with societies, it becomes a lot more complicated because it's people and people are complicated.
02:12:56.000And so when you say, there's universal income for...
02:13:00.000There's a base amount that everybody will have.
02:13:02.000You don't have to worry about certain things, right?
02:13:19.000So people can only get the value that they're guaranteed as – You know, rent being paid, actual food, you know, actual things, so they don't have access to the money.
02:13:30.000The problem is, if you don't give them access to the money, you don't give them adequate choices in terms of where they can get their food.
02:13:35.000Like, I'm not in favor of that, because if you had, like, a government place where they had groceries, you can go get your groceries for free, that place is going to be disgusting.
02:13:42.000It's not going to be whole food, because there's no competition, you know what I'm saying?
02:14:23.000I do like the everything thing, because as soon as you make something specifically for a certain population, especially when you're talking about that type of thing...
02:15:08.000Particularly if you're thinking about natural resources.
02:15:11.000When you imagine the enormous profits that someone gets from natural resources, like the idea that you own the oil that's under the ground, who's decided that?
02:15:22.000Why have we decided that you can go a mile off the ocean, stick a fucking tube in the ground, suck out all the oil and make a trillion dollars?
02:16:01.000So the idea would be that we would all profit from it, and they would make substantially less than they make now.
02:16:08.000And then instead of these people making billions and billions of dollars for something that's not even theirs, that profit would be split evenly around the country in terms of infrastructure and replenishing impoverished communities and community centers and trying to figure out a way to engineer out all the horrific neighborhoods.