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00:00:10.000LegalZoom is a way to handle a lot of shit that you would ordinarily have to go to an actual attorney and make an appointment and go into an office and pay an exorbitant fee per hour.
00:00:20.000Instead, you can handle a lot of that shit yourself from your house while naked and drunk.
00:00:27.000Yes, LegalZoom is not a law firm, but what they do is they provide you with self-help services, and if the shit hits the fan and you're panicking, they can also connect you with an independent third-party attorney.
00:00:42.000So what you can do on LegalZoom is a lot of stuff that you would have to go to a lawyer's office for.
00:00:48.000Like, you can create a last will for just $69.
00:00:51.000You can start a business, incorporate, and form an LLC for starting at just $99.
00:02:17.000It sounds pretentious, but the intentions are pure.
00:02:20.000What we're trying to do is sell you The best shit we can find, whether it's strength and conditioning equipment like kettlebells, whether it's foods like the new Warrior Bar, which is this really delicious and actually nutritious buffalo bar made the ancient Native American way.
00:02:57.000You know, we always think like, oh, I need a snack.
00:02:59.000And you just sort of sacrifice that you're just going to eat something that's just totally shitty for your body just to fill that hole and give you calories.
00:03:09.000Hemp Force Protein Bar is another one that we have.
00:03:11.000Hemp Force Protein is the stuff that we get from Canada because we still have retarded laws here in America, and you can buy hemp, and you can have hemp, but you can't grow hemp.
00:03:19.000And you can't sell it either, which is so fucking crazy, but you can sell it once you've already bought it.
00:06:41.000I've talked to Nicaraguans about this, and he got very involved politically after his fighting days, and there are a lot of people who believe there was more to that story than just a suicide.
00:08:17.000I mean, that's what everybody admired about Alexis Arguello was the same thing that anybody admires about anybody who is involved in the creation of something cool.
00:08:25.000And you're involved in the creation of the coolest fucking website on the internet.
00:08:42.000But other than that, I mean, the resource, if anything is going down anywhere in the world at any time, you can pretty much find it at Reddit.
00:09:56.000We were just some nerds with 12 grand in the bank total.
00:09:59.000We just worked with a couple of laptops, no connections, and, you know.
00:10:03.000Well, what's the American dream, right?
00:10:05.000I mean, the American dream where your parents, somewhere in their past, either their parents or their parents' parents, came over from Armenia.
00:10:55.000The reality was, leaving her life, she was on track to be like a pharmacist in Germany, but coming to the States, she was just an ignorant, like, degree-less immigrant, right?
00:11:07.000And so she worked jobs that she had to work just because it was paying the bills.
00:11:10.000Like, she worked as an au pair, she worked in...
00:11:11.000I'm so incredibly, like, I'm proud of what she did to leave a life behind, a comfortable, great life in Germany to start fresh here.
00:11:18.000And then obviously my father's family, like, you know, when you grow up with a bunch of Armenians, you know real quick how lucky you are to have that sort of genetic lottery of being born here instead of over there.
00:11:28.000Yeah, I was totally ignorant to the genocide until I was interviewing a fighter, Manny Gamburian, after one of his fights.
00:11:38.000And he was dedicating his victory to the victims of the Armenian genocide.
00:11:45.000And he was trying to bring awareness to it.
00:12:15.000Isn't it crazy how one event like that It's not that Armenians wouldn't have nationalistic pride or pride of origin before that, but that one event has everybody bonded together so much more.
00:12:31.000And especially because a lot of folks don't even know about the Armenian Genocide.
00:12:34.000It is, and I was a history major too in school, so I've thought a lot about this.
00:12:38.000And it's partially because it is unrecognized in Turkey and even here in the U.S. on a national level.
00:12:44.000But it's this, I think it's the fact that it's still this open wound.
00:14:02.000I think the internet, I mean the reason, in part I wrote the book, the reason I campaigned against SOPA PIPA was I really believe the internet can be a way for us to get the government that we deserve.
00:15:08.000I remember getting my first PC. It was a 486SX. My parents...
00:15:11.000I was lucky enough to get that when I got it in middle school, right?
00:15:13.000My parents didn't have a ton of money, and they didn't know shit about technology, but they knew enough, and I got that chance, and that has provided everything for me.
00:15:19.000But there are kids coming up today who, by and large, have known this technology from jump.
00:15:24.000And they've known, they don't even know what a dial-up sounds like.
00:15:27.000And so they think of knowledge as being something in real time.
00:15:31.000Like you were saying earlier, you know, we're sort of developing this attitude of like, oh, right, we can go seek out this information.
00:15:36.000We can squelch gossip on Snopes or we can go learn how to do, we can learn string theory on Khan Academy.
00:15:42.000But this generation coming up, they just, they take it for granted because they just know, oh, I have a problem or I need to figure something out or I want to create something and share it.
00:16:53.000Like, I was doing something about almond milk, and somebody let me know on the podcast that, what's his face, Louis Black has a great hunk on soy milk.
00:17:05.000And, like, you find that out because of the internet, too.
00:17:09.000But the good thing is, I wouldn't have known that unless that joke could have made it into my arsenal, and then I wouldn't have even known that Louis Black had it, and then it would be...
00:17:20.000I would be accused of plagiarism, and I would feel stupid.
00:17:22.000Can you change almond milk to something else?
00:17:32.000The speed with which you can learn shit, this brings everyone up.
00:17:37.000It forces us, and we see this in tech all the time, just because of the nature of writing code and creating applications, you know competition is as efficient as it gets.
00:17:45.000There's new stuff coming out every day.
00:17:47.000And it forces you to stay up and to be innovating and to be pushing.
00:17:50.000And now I think of it as there are so many more, in this instance, like comics who are connected, who are watching, who are seeing what someone is doing and they're like, alright, I'm not going to take that joke, but now I just got to, I have to push harder, faster.
00:18:02.000And on the whole, I think we all benefit because we'll get better content.
00:18:20.000But the difference between the mindset is what's really important.
00:18:24.000Like, the guy who's an actual writer, the guy or the girl who's an actual writer, the girl who's an actual comic, What they're trying to do is figure shit out.
00:18:32.000And they're trying to find ridiculous points in things and then make funny observations about those points.
00:18:38.000If you're just copying stuff, then you're not exercising whatever it is that tunes you into those ideas in the first place.
00:21:09.000We might have a certain audience, but what's going to make this work is if anyone who has a particular community or a following, whether you love My Little Pony and want to create a Reddit about that, a subreddit, which there are lots, or you want to create about your favorite team, or you want to create about your favorite TV show, or just about science, or asking questions about science.
00:22:24.000It was showing this leaked memo during the run-up to the Iraq War, the English government kind of saying like, hey, we're going to drum up some support here to support America going into this war.
00:23:10.000But this was the first submission to Reddit, and it wasn't that new at the time.
00:23:14.000But I was just thinking, like, hey, if this thing actually worked, like, what would we want Reddit to be a place to, like, find and have people link to?
00:23:22.000And this seemed like the perfect thing, right?
00:23:23.000The internet enabled some person to put this image of a leaked document online and shared the world, right?
00:23:30.000But what's crazy is we thought that's how it was going to always be.
00:23:34.000Maybe like three years in, some user, because users are fucking clever, linked to a comments page.
00:23:41.000Like they knew when they hit submit what the link would be, like the number, the random number, well not quite random, the sequential number we would generate.
00:23:49.000What they effectively did was create a self post, which is now a feature in the site.
00:23:52.000But basically Reddit only used to let people link out to other sites.
00:23:55.000One user hacked it and learned you could just link to itself and create this amazing comment thread.
00:24:01.000So you wouldn't, you know, when you click on it, when you do an AMA, right?
00:24:03.000You're not creating something that links somewhere else.
00:24:06.000You're creating something that just creates a Reddit comment page.
00:24:09.000And what that user did by hacking the site was show that there was a tremendous value in just saying, hey, people, have a discussion about whatever it is.
00:24:18.000And today, I believe it's a little less than half of our content is actually linking to Reddit.
00:24:24.000So it's actually an AMA, or it's an Ask Historians post, or it's just people talking about shit.
00:24:29.000It's not even linking to other content on the internet.
00:24:31.000And we never could have seen that coming.
00:25:49.000I'm talking OG hackers, like MIT, building the internet early, like Steve Wozniak being an example.
00:25:54.000And I think what's cool is there's that childlike wonder.
00:25:58.000I think a lot of that shit usually gets beaten out of us as we get older, especially in a lot of traditional industries and whatnot.
00:26:04.000And so I'd like to believe that that can even be an excuse for people to think about stuff a little differently and think about stuff a little more like, take things a lot seriously.
00:26:15.000As part of that broader cultural understanding.
00:27:23.000The amount of information that's available now, the world is so wired that it's like we're standing in this crazy river of ideas that are just constantly flying by us.
00:27:37.000And a few people are looking around, poking their head up out of the water and just looking at each other going, holy shit.
00:30:37.000That all came from that sort of old-school politician, those guys that had just been around and been a part of the system for just too long.
00:30:46.000I mean, I want to be hopeful enough to think that there is a chance for someone to get into it for the right reasons and then be able to stay in it for the right reasons.
00:31:15.000I don't know how much of it was a hustle, you know what I mean?
00:31:19.000I mean, whenever you have a story and the guy who, it's his life, it's based on a story, it's probably going to make him look a little bit nicer than he was, a little bit more innocent in the beginning of the movie, but it's that system where You see Leonardo DiCaprio.
00:33:29.000Yeah, so I think equal system, once you incorporate yourself into it, like a lot of these politicians who probably do go into it with good intentions, I think you find along the way that if you try to buck the system completely, you probably get blackballed.
00:33:44.000There's probably going to be a lot of blowback against you by your party, by competing parties.
00:33:49.000You're going to be in a tough situation, you against the world.
00:33:54.000They survive by sort of attacking each other like this, and then propping up these individual candidates that differ only slightly from each other, and all of them supported by the same giant hood of money that comes from corporations.
00:34:11.000So if you're a young guy and you're a senator from Delaware and you decide that I'm going to make some changes in this world and if you elect me, I'm going to blah, blah, blah and blah, blah, blah and then you get in there and you're like, oh, fuck.
00:34:24.000You're making me really optimistic right now, Joe.
00:34:26.000And I just got off my house a cards bender, which, you know, amazing.
00:34:31.000I think those systems are inherently corrupting.
00:34:33.000I just think that younger people have to...
00:34:37.000It almost has to be like transparency involved in your actions is going to reach such a tipping point that there will be no room for corruption.
00:35:04.000But the funny thing is, there's this kind of like, okay, at a certain point, there'll be mutually assured destruction where the president is going to have photos of herself from a party in high school.
00:35:35.000There are a few people who can put in a lot of money and have a lot of an effect.
00:35:38.000What I hope the internet can do, and we've started seeing this happen, is in the same way that it's given a voice to people through social media, we can start using small amounts of money and in aggregate start having a really big impact.
00:35:49.000We've seen these money bombs before in 08 and in 12, but I feel like the software is going to keep getting better and better with crowdfunding and with these models that are going to really inspire people to want to give to a candidate and know that there's actually going to be accountability to with How that's spent and who they are and whatnot.
00:36:05.000One of the big ones, one of the really big ones that people think is kind of frivolous, especially people who don't smoke marijuana, is the legalization of it.
00:36:14.000The legalization of marijuana in Washington State and Colorado is fucking gigantic.
00:36:20.000Those are the impacts that it's had on their economy.
00:36:23.000It's been so big that everyone's forced to step back and go, wait a minute, we'll...
00:36:31.000Sweaty hands, rubbing on their pants, and a lot of fucking late night meetings, and a lot of guys pacing back and forth, and a lot of people yelling, John, they're going to smoke pot, okay?
00:36:41.000They're going to fucking smoke it no matter what.
00:36:48.000Well, and that's right, if that money being used on the war against drugs were being used for more productive things, and we did legalize...
00:37:44.000I see the discrepancy between the federal law and the state laws, but if you're not having feds knocking down doors in the District of Columbia, I think maybe everyone's in agreement here.
00:37:54.000And you see so many ex-law enforcement, so many ex-DEA people come out in support of legalization because they realize if the goal...
00:38:02.000If we have a common goal here to actually make our streets safer and actually curb the criminal element that comes in with this, legalization is the way to do it and make a lot of money and help a lot of people live better lives because they don't have to be treated like criminals for a drug like marijuana.
00:38:18.000I've never seen a single person that I didn't think was just trolling say that they think that marijuana should stay illegal.
00:38:25.000Anyone worth having a conversation with?
00:38:28.000When I hear Ann Coulter say it, I'm like, this bitch is trolling.
00:39:04.000It, uh, and it's, it's, it's just, it's so interesting because now there are enough, basically, right, 10 years ago, the culture of people who were spending a lot of time communicating on forums online was pretty small.
00:39:16.000And now, right, everyone's taking their selfies.
00:39:18.000Like, it has reached a point where, uh, it's nearly a, it's so, so ubiquitous or so close to it that, yeah, these, these memes, these funny, interesting image, whatever they are, can catch hold and Literally millions of people can see it.
00:39:31.000I mean, it gets a little weird when you see, like, Rick Astley in the Thanksgiving Day Parade a couple years ago, Rickrolling everyone.
00:39:46.000It's a strange thing when something just catches on like a virus, like a real disease, and spreads across, I mean, or an organism, almost like a thing with a lifespan.
00:40:18.000And what's so wild is, you know, because of that hyper-connectivity, because of how fast these ideas now spread, right, these memes, like, humans are sort of naturally really good at this, but now we can spread this shit faster than ever before, right?
00:40:29.000Within hours, within minutes, millions of people can see an interesting photo of a cat or an interesting video or what have you.
00:40:36.000You know, Alexis, you can't do that on your own.
00:41:48.000That's one of the things that is changing right now in America because of the fact that the spread of this stuff...
00:41:55.000The spread that's starting out, first of all, information-wise, when people found out the real truth about the LD50 rates, you can't die from it.
00:42:36.000You want someone to get off their ass and get a job and get to work?
00:42:38.000Well, they just have to be excited about something.
00:42:41.000Most likely, they're more excited about sitting on the couch than whatever it is they're being exposed to in their life.
00:42:46.000It doesn't mean that marijuana removes motivation.
00:42:48.000It means that if you're one of those lazy bitches that doesn't think outside the box, and you're stuck in a spot, and you're discontent, and you like to get high and sit on the couch, you're probably going to be like that for the rest of your life.
00:43:11.000I mean, for real, they're the same people.
00:43:14.000And the idea that all the benefits reported by people like, I'm not saying you smoke a little weed, but I'm saying you probably smoke a little weed, or me, or anyone else who does, that's all discounted.
00:43:25.000Yeah, and not to mention, I mean, seriously, from a medical standpoint, I mean, you can't fight.
00:43:30.000Like, every day there's another story from another person who's using it to get through chemo or using it to get their app.
00:43:36.000Like, when you see that many people's lives being so positively affected by a thing that's naturally occurring, like, really?
00:43:46.000The fact that it's still around in 2014 is really a truly unbelievable story.
00:43:51.000Because if you looked at it logically and factually and said, could you imagine a culture in which information is sent instantaneously all over the globe to which the answer to virtually any question a person can come up with?
00:44:05.000Can be answered on your phone in a matter of seconds.
00:44:08.000That you truly have the information, the current information of the world at your disposal.
00:44:15.000Could you imagine that it would be one of the most beneficial plants that grows easily, contains essential amino acids, it's very high in protein, It can make you think about things differently.
00:47:10.000Or whatever the rule that you broke is.
00:47:12.000That they realize that they can do it so they do do it and they throw you in some fucking cage.
00:47:17.000In 2014, the fact that that's still going on and that people are actually profiting from it, these are more things that the internet has a huge fucking problem with because the internet has guys like you.
00:47:27.000There's young fellas that are very smart and unconventional and seeing the system and being like, you know what, I don't buy it.
00:47:33.000I think there's some shit that people I knew growing up that were adults, I knew they were fucking idiots, and I knew they made bad choices.
00:47:39.000And now I'm looking at the repercussions of this everywhere.
00:47:43.000I'm looking at it, and I'm saying, no, this is dumb.
00:47:46.000So this is one of the things, especially talking to college students, that I love bringing up, which is that, and I'm the first to admit it, like, I have no fucking clue what I'm doing.
00:47:55.00099% of the time, especially when I got started, I still don't now, and I've come to realize, like, And I've been lucky enough to meet some pretty successful, impressive people.
00:48:05.000But you dig onto the surface, we're all just hacking it.
00:48:23.000And if the reason why is, well, that's the way it is, well, that's a terrible reason.
00:48:28.000And when you see the world as being that hackable, so to speak, you start to realize, all right, let's actually question stuff.
00:48:36.000I remember I was a freshman at UVA when 9-11 happened.
00:48:40.000For this generation of millennials coming up, nearly all of us, one of our first really vivid memories of the world was 9-11, this awful tragedy.
00:48:48.000And then we get into these two wars, and then think of all the authority figures we've had in our life since that moment.
00:48:54.000They've all at one point or another either misled us, This sort of deceived us.
00:51:44.000I don't want to name any names because it's sort of like someone who got tricked by a guy who said he was in the military so they had sex with him and then it turns out he was just a liar.
00:52:22.000I mean, allegedly it was Mitzi's idea, but obviously we're not pals with that dude, so we probably shouldn't tell his life story without checking in with him.
00:52:29.000He probably doesn't even know at this point.
00:53:38.000Yeah, so the joke was that he was going out in style with this big fat Kentucky Fried Hooker, and it was just this horrendous old man, young buxom blonde bit that just was so disgusting.
00:53:53.000And Mitzi would go, it's disgusting, it's not funny.
00:53:57.000I'm like, but why is everybody laughing?
00:55:25.000It's the easiest, hardest thing you can do.
00:55:27.000Because if you do it right, it's easy.
00:55:29.000If you got it down, and not in the beginning, god damn, it takes a long fucking time to not be on shaky legs every time you go on stage.
00:55:36.000But, once you get good enough to where you kind of like, you understand yourself better, so he's not as insecure, you're not as concerned about acceptance, and you can kind of relax, and you're more comfortable in your own skin, and then you kind of understand the roots of humor better as you get older, and then you become a comic.
00:56:00.000But it's like once the train is moving downhill, it's going well.
00:56:03.000But if the train stops and you've got to get it uphill, oh, you're fucked.
00:56:07.000That's why guys, when they take time off, something weird happens to comedians when they take like three years off of comedy and then get back in because their prospects are slim.
00:56:17.000Those are some dark sets that you watch.
00:56:19.000You can see the bottom of a man's soul.
00:56:50.000But one way that I like is to sit down and listen with a notepad and write down shit that I shouldn't do anymore or write down shit that the front end is clunky and it works over here and I'll just keep doing that.
00:57:41.000So instead of using it like, instead of having a notepad, but I always still have a notepad anyway, because I still, for whatever reason, I haven't let go of the nipple.
00:57:49.000But the notes, like written notes on that are almost just as good.
01:02:34.000A tip on the iPhone is you turn it sideways so it's the wrong, you know, like when you have it pictured the wrong way, and then you take a screenshot of that so it keeps the black bars on the side, and then you add it.
01:03:36.000And they actually just had a bunch of press in the globe.
01:03:40.000They're building software specifically for industries.
01:03:43.000So they're working with doctors at Beth Israel who can use them to help check in folks, get their records, because they need both their hands free, right?
01:03:51.000They're working with energy companies so that people out in the field can...
01:03:55.000Have real-time data on what's going on at this random oil pump.
01:03:59.000Like, if they gotta, you know, check settings or updates.
01:04:01.000Like, basically, they're targeting specific industries where people need both their hands free.
01:04:05.000And so it's not the sort of obnoxious, like, walking around on the street, ordering a latte from your face.
01:04:11.000It's like, this is a very specific task where I need both my hands free and this is helpful.
01:04:16.000And so I think that's where it'll succeed.
01:04:17.000Kind of like how segues are just for mall cops.
01:04:20.000I think this will be next level useful.
01:07:45.000Cow tipping, at least as popularly imagined, does not exist.
01:07:49.000Drunk men do not on any regular basis sneak into cow pastures and put a hard shoulder to a cow taking a standing snooze, thus tipping the poor animal over.
01:07:58.000While in the history of the world, there have surely been a few unlucky cows shoved to their side by boozed-up morons, we feel confident in saying that this happens at a rate roughly equivalent to the Chicago Cubs winning the World Series.
01:08:27.000I've subscribed to Modern Farmer for a decade now, and they have never led me astray.
01:08:32.000YouTube, the largest clearinghouse of human stupidity the world has ever known, where you can watch hours of kids taking the cinnamon challenge, teens jumping off rooftops on the trampolines, and the explosive results of fireworks set off indoors, fails to deliver one single actual cow tipping video.
01:09:24.000And there would be cows that would sit there perched up on their legs, just sitting there sleeping.
01:09:31.000We would come over and just push them right over.
01:09:33.000I don't know if that's the cow tipping that you heard everybody doing, people saying that the cows tip over, but that's what we used to do because that's what we thought you were supposed to do.
01:09:41.000I don't understand what you just said.
01:10:31.000Well, I have a feeling the problem with calling bullshit, if you didn't grow up in that environment, you might truly believe that it is bullshit.
01:10:39.000But then if a guy like Brian actually grew up there and actually pushed over some cows...
01:10:45.000See, they would sit like this, and then you just go over there and just push them over, and they would roll over and wake up and freak out, and it would be scary, and you would run away.
01:10:54.000Now, cow tipping, what I think they're saying is not true, is actually tipping over a cow that's completely standing up, maybe.
01:11:02.000Well, maybe that's what people have in their head, but what it really is is what you're talking about.
01:11:07.000When we did it, we just did it because we heard people did it.
01:12:17.000And that's how you really cow tip because what everybody says is that cows are sleeping and you go up and push them.
01:12:21.000Well, obviously, if that's not true, if they only take a little nap standing up and usually they sleep lying down, then their whole premise sucks because they don't understand what cow tipping is.
01:14:09.000Did you ever find mushrooms on those cow patties?
01:14:12.000Yeah, but back then you just didn't think about that.
01:14:15.000Like, I didn't get into mushrooms until I was in college.
01:14:17.000Well, Duncan went to school in Asheville, North Carolina, and when I went up there, I understand Duncan so much more after visiting Asheville, because it's just a hippie mecca.
01:17:48.000Can't be more than like 1,500 pounds, right?
01:17:52.000I still flinch whenever I watch the YouTube videos of the crash tests and those things, because they are more resilient than you'd expect, but I would not want to be in one at a top speed.
01:18:05.000I wouldn't want to be in anything in a top speed.
01:18:09.000There's a guy who used to fight in the UFC, Matt Grice, and he got rear-ended.
01:18:12.000Someone was going like 60 miles an hour, and his car was parked, and he...
01:19:21.000But it was on the 5, which is kind of a sketchy freeway, and apparently it's just a giant collision, nine people dead, like one of those horrible fire situations.
01:19:30.000I am firmly in the self-driving car camp.
01:20:25.000I think that I'm very, very fortunate to have been born in a time where the internet didn't exist, to grow, to be a young man without it, and then experience it once I've kind of...
01:20:58.000It's going to be illegal to be in a fast car.
01:21:00.000It's going to be illegal to do anything that propels you on your own.
01:21:04.000But if you look at what's going on with technology, if you look at the idea of self-driving cars, at a certain point in time, what's the justification for letting someone drive their own car if their ratio of crashes is even 10% higher?
01:21:40.000There would be bits of that, but it's still not as bad as, like, if it's 1% of the people doing it, which I think is still pretty high, but, like, then you still have 99% of them being efficient robot cars.
01:21:50.000I think, without this sounding too, you know, into the future, the hope is, though, humans are resourceful.
01:21:56.000Even if you had it mandated where every car was just, it only knew how to self-drive, someone would hack it.
01:22:02.000Someone would figure out a way to get a wheel on there.
01:22:09.000The highway flooded with these self-driving cars and other people are standing up while they're driving their continental convertible screaming at the top of their lungs.
01:23:02.000We're already at a point now where we can better understand human DNA. It's the point where it's like, alright, it's not unreasonable to imagine a world where like, hey, if you don't want this genetic disorder, we can make sure your kid doesn't have that.
01:23:14.000Most people would probably be like, yeah.
01:26:14.000And people ask me, oh, well, because tech, there are some very good public speakers in tech, but the common stereotype is that they're not.
01:26:21.000And so a lot of people ask, oh, how'd you get good at this?
01:26:58.000Sometimes things will happen to you when you're young, when you think it's just a shit job, but it really is some weird life lesson.
01:27:06.000Dude, I always tell people, fuck getting an MBA. I got a job doing public speaking as a teenager, being embarrassed routinely, and then my next job was in the service industry, and I waited tables and cooked at Pizza Hut.
01:29:09.000But that is top flight advice for any, especially because, look, I know those of us especially getting into tech, it's a hot industry right now, right?
01:29:16.000There's more money than ever going into it, making a lot of people rich.
01:29:19.000There are a lot of kids coming out of college who want to be the next Zuck or the next whoever.
01:29:57.000I think for a lot, I think I'm just getting a sense, and I'm generalizing here, but I think a lot of the kids right now who are trying to get into that maybe never had that job, maybe never had that bit of perspective because Right.
01:30:08.000That I think has helped me a ton, tremendously.
01:30:10.000I think it's obviously helped lots of people over many, many centuries to just understand, get a bit of sense.
01:30:16.000I mean, I know I live in a bubble now.
01:30:18.000As much as I wish I didn't, I know I to some extent live in a bubble, but I still try to...
01:30:24.000Keep that perspective as best I can, which is hard, but it's the fact.
01:30:29.000And look, what you're talking about, that's skilled labor.
01:30:31.000Like, speaking of things like with the robots, skilled labor is something that still, like, when robots can do that, they will enslave us.
01:30:39.000So those jobs, or what I'm trying to say, are going to be really, they're fundamental already, but they're only going to continue to be important because humans have to do them.
01:30:48.000And they are shitty, hard work, but we don't have enough people.
01:30:52.000I know Mike Rowe has a really good campaign, actually, for getting more young people interested in the trades, because there's a huge demand for welders, for carpenters, for all these people, because we don't have a generation coming up now that knows how to do this stuff.
01:31:05.000I mean, I can barely put together IKEA furniture myself, and I'm lucky because I'm good with, like, a laptop, but...
01:31:10.000It's a real need, and it's hard to fucking work.
01:31:14.000Well, not only that, I mean, doing carpentry, like building a house, is really kind of fun.
01:31:22.000If you're a guy that has developed, like I grew up, my stepdad was an architect, and so I grew up around a lot of work developers and a lot of construction guys.
01:31:29.000I got to see the pride that they take when they've completed a job and built a building that they designed.
01:31:59.000Don't say it out loud unless you're affiliated.
01:32:02.000No, but like, and I hope, actually, I don't know, I can't remember what Mike Rowe's organization is called, but it's trying to push for that.
01:32:10.000And don't get me wrong, I am the guy who's also telling people, like, learn how to code.
01:32:13.000If you want the superpower for this century...
01:32:44.000When you look at the future, when you see what's happened just in the short amount of time that Reddit's been around, you see what happens in the time of your first computer when you were on...
01:33:23.000All the stuff you could download so much faster.
01:33:25.000But when you look at that and you look at the future, do you think the future is going to be in some sort of like an implant or some smaller and smaller device that lets you interface with the web?
01:34:37.000And there's been so much innovation on the last couple of decades to help with limb replacement, right?
01:34:42.000Where you can actually move digits on fingers based on impulses from your armpit.
01:34:46.000You obviously, there's the Blade Runner, and to see the improvements on feet where you can actually run faster on these artificial limbs than on the real ones.
01:34:57.000There are people who are living through this right now because of whether they were born this way or some injury that happened.
01:35:03.000But you're also seeing people who are deciding to enhance themselves through this technology.
01:35:10.000This bionic eye thing is freaking me the fuck out.
01:35:16.000Apparently, I don't think they have a completely bionic eye, but they have chips that they've installed in eyes.
01:36:21.000Colorblind artist becomes world's first iBorg.
01:36:24.000An artist is born literally colorblind, is able to hear different colors through an iBorg antenna that he has now had implanted into the back of his head.
01:38:00.000All this is to say, I think we are approaching a point where these technologies, basically the internet, have a much more seamless interaction with us.
01:38:16.000Enjoy this moment because when it hits, it's going to be so fucking weird.
01:38:20.000When the singularity does take place, which I personally think is going to be some sort of an artificial creation, whether it's artificial intelligence or a network that can think for itself, a sentient network.
01:39:31.000Is it just the standards that we've accepted because this is what we're accustomed to and this is our culture and so we don't want to change things?
01:39:38.000Or in the face of Some overwhelming, intelligent life that we've created ourselves that literally becomes gods around us.
01:39:45.000We're going to have some weird decisions to make as to what...
01:40:22.000The companies that come through there, like, I mean, yeah, me and Steve got through with Reddit, but if we'd applied today, we would have just been laughed at.
01:40:30.000If we'd applied today with what we did nine years ago, we would have been laughed out of the room because the applications, the quality, the richness, how much they've created and how far they've come is so much further along.
01:40:41.000And so we are, you know, companies like Airbnb and Dropbox, for instance, also went through Y Combinator.
01:40:47.000Multi-billion dollar companies that started the same way we did, just a couple of founders and pizza and working.
01:40:53.000And we're seeing companies now that are doing...
01:40:55.000Like, there's a self-driving car company that went through the last batch.
01:40:57.000There are a couple of engineers who have outfitted their Audi with a self-driving thing.
01:41:03.000It looks like the thing on top of the police car.
01:41:21.000You can just drop your jaw and be like, holy shit, this is a wild future that is being created right before our eyes by people just like me.
01:41:30.000And things like the Google Glass, which I think is just a step along the way.
01:41:37.000I mean, it's not going to be bridged in one instant application that's an injection of nanoparticles into your body that allows you to interface your retina and your visual cortex with the World Wide Web as distributed through government Wi-Fi.
01:41:51.000I mean, that's probably 100 years from now or whatever it is, 10 years from now, who knows how things get crazy?
01:45:13.000For sure, with everybody's phone, there's going to be a bump in the road.
01:45:17.000I'm still learning about this whole LA thing.
01:45:19.000The 405. Don't fuck around the 405. When you come over that hill, when you're going into the valley, if you're coming from Santa Monica and you're going over that hill, prepare for death.
01:45:27.000There's no cell phone coverage when you go over that hump.
01:47:02.000And people are not really into the idea of being in a car with a bunch of other people.
01:47:08.000Everybody's so self-important out here and so non-integrated.
01:47:12.000It's one of the things I was thinking of when I was starting to raise my kids.
01:47:18.000I was thinking, maybe my kids would probably do better if they lived somewhere like New York, where they kind of had to interface with people all the time on a regular basis, a bunch of different strangers all the time.
01:47:28.000Whereas California, where everybody's like, we go from one box into another box, and occasionally we see people that step out of their boxes, and then they go in their boxes, and we all go our separate way.
01:47:37.000Whereas in New York, everybody's sort of like meshing.
01:49:43.000Let's say if you go to Reddit, what, the climate control arguments?
01:49:46.000Actually, one of the subs, I don't remember, because every subreddit is its own forum, its own community with its own moderators.
01:49:52.000One of them actually banned climate deniers.
01:49:56.000Like, they basically said, we're not going to...
01:49:57.000And then, you know, what typically happens is, this is like any WordPress blog deciding, hey, we're no longer going to post stories about blah.
01:50:03.000So if people really want it, they go and create a new subreddit and they're like, fuck you guys, we're creating real politics or really real politics or whatever it is.
01:50:10.000So it's a robust enough system that new things rise.
01:50:15.000So they'll ban climate deniers from one forum, but the climate deniers can open up their own forum as well.
01:50:21.000Creating a subreddit is really like creating a WordPress blog, but you're part of a much larger network.
01:50:26.000And so every subreddit has its own moderation team, like Snoop, for instance, is a moderator of rtrees.
01:50:42.000But like, people can create these sort of forms in these communities and run them as they see fit, and if people don't like it, they create another one.
01:50:51.000But on the whole, we work really, really, really hard to mitigate sort of ring voting and cheating to try to goose up stories or goose down don'ts.
01:51:02.000I'm sure as soon as Reddit became as 200-whatever million people, as soon as it became as large as it was...
01:51:08.000Or at some point it tipped over and people realized it is in our best interest to be here.
01:51:13.000Now there are always there the social media douchebags who are upvoting all their garbage marketing content.
01:51:54.000There's just so many really smart people out there that can see through bullshit and that will post contradicting information and show what's wrong with this and then spend a lot of time to make you look stupid.
01:52:10.000There's some fucking awesome discussions, whether it's on Reddit or I have a message board that's been around since 1998. You're an OG, man.
01:53:26.000Now, how do you keep someone from, like, say, if someone was on Reddit and they were posting something about an ex-girlfriend or being rude about information or photos, how do you stop that stuff from happening?
01:53:40.000Well, I mean, it depends on the situation, right?
01:53:43.000Like, Reddit as a platform, like Twitter, doesn't actually...
01:53:52.000So I guess we host text, but we don't host images or video.
01:53:56.000So oftentimes those things will be on YouTube or Imgur, and we're kind of like a traffic sign or like a map to it.
01:54:03.000But we can't do anything about the actual content.
01:54:06.000And in the event of content that's posted, the generally accepted rule is if it is legal, then we will let it stand.
01:54:14.000And Like I said, every subreddit gets moderated.
01:54:19.000So the vast majority of them are moderated such that garbage content like that.
01:54:24.000On your forum, you wouldn't want a bunch of garbage content floating up like that that wasn't adding any value.
01:54:29.000And so you have the opportunity to, as a moderator, ban it.
01:54:33.000But as a general platform, the thinking is if it is legal, we're okay with it.
01:54:39.000Even if, you know, in some instances it is distasteful, the vast majority of the content is just harmless or good.
01:54:46.000It's also, I feel like with a lot of the distasteful stuff that people are getting really upset about, I think that it's one of those things that the human race is just going to have to go through.
01:54:54.000It's like a phase or a stage in this integration with information that we're going through.
01:55:33.000It's not going to be as simple as you're hiding behind DuckTuck69, you know, that's your name, and you're distributing all sorts of nasty, evil shit.
01:55:43.000And then, what did you think about, here's a good example, that one guy that he was on Reddit and he was like, apparently he was very rude and put a lot of nasty shit on, they found out who he was.
01:55:55.000And he got fired from his job and it turned out like this is a guy who's got a family and he had to support them and now he's like been publicly shamed.
01:56:28.000And so at the end of the day, we're not responsible for what Ultimately, someone does with a hammer or a printing press, the vast majority of which is good, sometimes cannot be.
01:56:38.000And he essentially paid the price for that.
01:56:48.000On the whole, the vast majority of people who pick up that hammer are, you know, like any random Twitter user or any random person, like just being reasonable, normal people.
01:57:00.000And, you know, it's a matter of saying, you know what, we want to have this be that open platform.
01:57:06.000There's no, fundamentally, there's no way to stop or police every single thing that gets done in real time.
01:57:13.000We make our best effort, and when on occasion there are things that are illegal, we Well, we do what we need to do.
01:57:18.000Well, apparently this guy was a real douchebag online, just a real asshole and rude.
01:57:24.000And so people sort of justified that he could be taken down because of that.
01:57:30.000But in his defense, and it's a sketchy defense, what I would say is that if the precedent's been set, and the precedent is anonymity, And there's some people that get a charge out of using that anonymity to poke at people and be rude and nasty,
01:57:48.000and they get some weird sort of sick charge out of it.
01:57:51.000Okay, yes, they definitely are causing discomfort.
01:57:54.000Yes, they are definitely probably quote-unquote cyber harassing.
01:57:58.000But that precedent of anonymity is very strange because...
01:58:03.000Once we've established sort of what we think is going to be the standard reaction to these things, people are going to get upset, they're going to ban screen names, but what they're not going to do is find out who you are and then go to your employer and expose all your shit.
01:58:15.000And once that does happen, it's like, whoa, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.
01:58:20.000He might have gotten out of hand, but he probably thought at least part of it was him playing this game that was afforded to him by anonymity and probably what we understand the laws to be.
01:58:44.000So this is pseudonymity, that he had a pseudonym.
01:58:48.000He did not, or any one of us who goes online to use a pseudonym, still has some kind of a persona online.
01:58:56.000And they probably use that account elsewhere, or maybe they don't.
01:59:00.000But there's some acceptance in this new world that like...
01:59:05.000All of, one can find out almost anything about sort of publicly available stuff about us with enough searching, with enough sleuthing, with enough phone calls, with enough tenacity, right?
01:59:15.000Every investigative journalist has been doing this forever.
01:59:16.000But like, there is this challenge that like, there is no, there is no easy answer for this because ultimately there is going to be, right?
02:00:40.000Just like I was saying that if Stan Hope was in the room and I was on stage talking shit, I might say something extra fucked up just to make him laugh.
02:00:46.000I think they do that with each other as well.
02:00:49.000And I'm not saying that it's all innocent.
02:00:50.000But I am saying that if you do look at it all...
02:00:54.000Honestly and objectively, you've got to leave room for the entertainment value of people fucking with people on the internet.
02:02:20.000Fucking thousands of people you never met calling you a cunt, saying they know where you live, saying they're going to find you and smack the shit out of you, saying they're going to shit in your mouth and hold it down.
02:02:34.000But then, of course, they get in trouble for violence and threats because that becomes non-anonymous as well.
02:02:39.000That's why you should make a real value on karma points so then people wouldn't be dicks and they could actually get something, you know...
02:04:12.000I think part of what makes people fun is our folly.
02:04:15.000I think if we were all beautiful and perfect and Dalai Lama-esque, come on, man, a bunch of people wearing orange everywhere and no one's getting their dick sucked.
02:07:25.000It is the thing, when you hear about Chinese dissidents who are looking at Tiananmen Square Massacre photos, right, even though there's the Great Firewall, it's because of Tor.
02:07:34.000And this is, I mean, it's been, like, it is, it really is one of those pure forms of, so it's open source software, right, so you can take a look at the source anytime for...
02:07:43.000You know, not only improving it, but also just sort of promoting that transparency.
02:07:47.000But it's the thing that lets us actually get through any of the states that want to try their hardest.
02:07:54.000I mean, China's spent a lot of money and a lot of time and a lot of smart people trying to keep the internet down.
02:07:58.000But thanks to Tor and Resourceful Humans, you know, they lose.
02:08:17.000Well, maybe not best, but I like explaining it as like Legos.
02:08:20.000And so a bunch of people through the internet with pseudonyms who maybe never even met each other in real life brought together their digital Lego kits to build something cool that no one had built before that now lets anyone, like I said, open...
02:08:31.000Openly surf the internet in spite of some of the most powerful and repressive states in the world.
02:08:36.000What did you think when that older Japanese gentleman who they credited with creating Bitcoin but apparently maybe didn't and they really hounded this fucking guy and Waited outside his house and knocked on his door.
02:09:07.000It's just some poor little man that you can fucking harass.
02:09:09.000Even if he did encrypt it or whatever, figure it out, code it, if he did create Bitcoin or was one of the people who created Bitcoin, you'd have no right to hound him like that.
02:09:37.000Yeah, what did the guy do that's so awful?
02:09:39.000The guy came up with some sort of an algorithm to make an alternative currency.
02:09:42.000So you think that you're okay to stick a fucking camera in his face and broadcast his image without his permission to the whole fucking world?
02:09:50.000And now that they're not sure whether or not they're correct or not...
02:10:14.000But the thing that freaked me out, though, was how in private, sort of, I guess, somebody gave me some Bitcoins just to show me how to do it.
02:10:22.000And then later that night, I just got...
02:11:41.000Is it safe to put your Bitcoin IP address out to accept Bitcoins?
02:11:45.000Meaning, like, I was thinking about doing it, but then I was like, wait, so then I have, people are like, no, you don't want to put your number out publicly.
02:11:52.000Not your encrypted, this is, well, there is one you definitely do not want to share publicly.
02:11:58.000But you can generate, so if you use Coinbase or use something else, you can generate a key that's free to distribute that people will use to give you currency.
02:12:20.000I mean, that is one of the most hilarious stories of all time.
02:12:23.000The fact that it's all Magic the Gathering online exchange and then from there it becomes one of the biggest Bitcoin exchanges on the internet and it's totally not coded correctly and people are just sticking knife holes into the bottom of the bag.
02:12:37.000It's stealing blood to the point where hundreds of millions of dollars in Bitcoin is missing.
02:14:53.000Yeah, but Doge is this satire that people are actually taking seriously.
02:15:00.000It's very clearly a joke that everyone's in on, but in that spirit, lots of people are like, yeah, Yeah, look, it's taking the piss out of cryptocurrency.
02:15:25.000Flatter was one, there was another one called TipJoy, where it was like, if you're a blogger, you're a podcaster, one of your users can come on and be like, that was cool, here's five cents.
02:15:34.000Saw a lot of pitches for this, none of them took off, for a variety of reasons.
02:15:38.000What Dogecoin has been able to do, and it exists on Reddit, it exists on Twitter, is developers have created these tip bots.
02:15:45.000So that if you say something cool on Reddit, you just type in a comment with this particular syntax, and it'll tell me, oh, look, Joe Rogan just tipped me 5,000 Dogecoins.
02:15:54.000Now, that's actually not a lot of USD, but it feels like, hey, it's 5,000 things.
02:16:00.000And, like, weirdly enough, it has gotten a lot of momentum, and so there are Twitter bots where people are routinely tipping each other in Doge.
02:17:24.000When you look at the potential that places like Reddit and these information sort of distribution networks have, does it kind of freak you out that you're a part of that?
02:17:35.000Like, you're a part of one of the biggest ones.
02:17:38.000It weighs me out a little bit, just because I still think of it as a project.
02:17:42.000My buddy and I just graduated from college.
02:18:12.000Does it feel weird to be a part of it?
02:18:15.000Do you feel like an obligation in any way?
02:18:18.000I mean, I think the biggest obligation I felt was during, was it two years ago, these SOPA PIPA bills, these two awful bills that were going to break the internet.
02:18:28.000What got me at the time, I was working on another startup called Hitmonk, a travel search website, and then the SOPA PIPA thing happened, and all my friends were like, Explain to people who don't know what Soba PIPA is, please.
02:18:41.000The Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act.
02:19:30.000I borrowed a tie from my dad and I started going and lobbying and meeting with senators and representatives and telling them, look, I'm an entrepreneur.
02:19:37.000I lived this amazing entrepreneurial life thanks to the open internet.
02:19:42.000And if you pass either of these bills, my story never would have happened.
02:19:45.000And so many others just like it never would have.
02:19:47.000And you're really screwing up one of the most viable technologies we have.
02:21:15.000We just have like an internet connection and some laptops.
02:21:18.000And we can build something that nine years later will have more traffic than the New York Times or CNN. And that works because all bits are created equal.
02:21:26.000You can get to my brand new website, reddit.com, you know, nine years ago, just as easily as newyorktimes.com.
02:21:31.000And you get to decide, do I want to go to Reddit or do I want to go to New York Times?
02:21:48.000They want you to have a basic package, right?
02:21:50.000Where you get Bing search for free, because they've made a deal with Microsoft.
02:21:53.000If you want Google, it's an extra $10 a month, but it's a really good search engine, so you'll pay for it, right?
02:21:59.000But then if you want Joe Sixpack's new search engine, well, that's going to be an extra $50, but you probably don't want that anyway.
02:22:05.000And so now, the entrepreneur, the upstart, the nobodies in the apartment, have a much smaller percentage of the market because they're not part of the default internet package anymore, right?
02:22:14.000So it'd be like trying to start your own cable company.
02:23:06.000It is the kind of thing where we all know we need it.
02:23:09.000We couldn't imagine a world without it.
02:23:11.000And every one of us should have the same open, flat internet no matter what.
02:23:16.000And we're at an interesting time because there was a time in America when kids in New York were playing by radios with electricity and kids in the South were still using candles.
02:23:27.000We've seen this disparity before, but we can change it.
02:23:32.000We just have to make sure the internet becomes a utility that we know it is.
02:23:35.000The last thing we want is the internet only to be available in its fullest form to people that pay for the premium subscription rate.
02:24:19.000We talked earlier about our uplifting discussion about the future of politics and politicians, but that's where we're at right now, unfortunately.
02:24:27.000You have to call the FCC. That's the only way to get something to happen.
02:24:32.000Here's the other thing I hope can come out of this.
02:24:35.000The first political thing I ever got involved with was SOPA PIPA. And that was a dangerous thing for a lot of us to get involved with because it worked out so well.
02:24:44.000Like, we actually did the thing democracy was supposed to do, which is let a bunch of informed citizens take action, phone calls, petitions, letters, all that stuff, and change people's minds in the face of millions of dollars in lobbying.
02:26:52.000And, you know, he, he did some very, he did some very unfairly punished things.
02:27:01.000Like, he, the entire thing, he broke into a storeroom in MIT, downloaded using MIT's credentials, a bunch of these documents, research papers, JSTOR, like these are academic articles.
02:28:23.000What it is, this is one of those really unjust things.
02:28:26.000There's a lot of research that's done, like federal research for instance, that's funded with our taxpayer dollars that end up getting locked up in these academic journals that you have to pay a subscription for.
02:28:37.000So in this case, MIT had paid the subscription for it.
02:28:42.000And he was able, anyone on the MIT network, anyone at probably any major university network or anyone who wanted to pay could view these research documents.
02:28:51.000He argued that, you know what, this is content we paid for, right?
02:28:55.000This research was funded by our tax dollars.
02:28:56.000Why should I have to pay a subscription to some random company who has the monopoly on access to this content?
02:29:18.000I'm pretty sure that's what the argument is.
02:29:20.000And then there were some really egregious...
02:29:23.000Like, there have been a handful of developers or hackers that have been sort of made examples of by the government where you have these instances of doing things that were not, like I said, the severity of the punishment did not even come close to the actual crime.
02:29:40.000Especially in this instance where, like I said, this was not actually distributed.
02:30:29.000And that takes us back to what we were talking about earlier about...
02:30:32.000Private prisons and about people making sure that there's jobs for wardens and prison guards and they're making sure that certain drug laws stay illegal or stay on the books.
02:31:05.000And some young guy's life is on the line.
02:31:09.000And I understand the role of laws and I understand the role of a justice system.
02:31:17.000And when you see things like that, that seem to go so far astray from the intent, from the point of having a justice system is really important, but to have it be so just fucked up like that is sad, is very, very sad.
02:31:32.000Yeah, it's another symptom of this mad, mad civilization that we're a part of.
02:31:40.000The good things and the bad things, they all come together.
02:31:44.000Law as it is and things, these really rigid ideas of what's legal and illegal, what the punishment can and can't be, those things are so goddamn archaic.
02:33:52.000Why don't you have a fucking bow and arrow, too, and shoot a flaming arrow through the sky to let us know that the games have begun and the guy next to you has a conch shell.
02:34:02.000And put your powdered wigs on, you fucking assholes.
02:34:05.000Get the fuck out of here with a mallet.
02:34:07.000You can't keep using a mallet, stupid.
02:34:38.000But you would run into the problem if there would be somebody that had a stutter or something like that, or if the joke turned on them, then everyone would vote just because of the wrong reason.
02:34:50.000Meaning, what if there was somebody that had a court case, and they were being voted on Reddit, and the guy maybe had a stutter or talked like he was gay or something like that, how that could turn and unfairly vote for the wrong reason on the internet.
02:35:04.000See, that's where the vote-ups and vote-downs come into play.
02:36:16.000It's from 2010, and it's by a guy named Charles Ferguson.
02:36:21.000And what's interesting is this Charles Ferguson guy is, I believe he's the guy that's doing all of...
02:36:27.000All of the questions, I shouldn't say that because I'm not really sure, but whoever the guy is that's the narrator, you don't see him always questioning people, but always questioning people, he's so knowledgeable about how the system actually works that he catches these mathematicians and these economics experts being really arrogant.
02:36:46.000And then he faces them with the truth, and you see them scramble and start to sweat.
02:36:51.000And I should have never agreed to this interview.
02:36:53.000You see them realize, do what you're going to do with this.
02:36:56.000And you see them fall apart and panic, and they fall into this really sort of aggressive state.
02:38:03.000We just added trending subreddits, which are pretty damn cool, to try to help people realize that there are these thousands of different communities they should dive into.
02:38:12.000But I wouldn't expect any big changes.
02:38:13.000I mean, for the reasons we were just joking about.
02:39:02.000Oh, I was in the library, EVA, Alderman Library, Wahoo Wah, and I was trying to come up with something that involved the word read, and I was like, Reddit, like I read it on Reddit.
02:39:14.000And then I tried different ways of spelling it and R-E-D-D-I-T worked because no one had it.
02:39:18.000And I also registered R-E-D-I-T-T. But then I asked my friend Melissa, I was like, which one of these makes more sense for a bastardization of Reddit?
02:39:25.000And she was like, I'll go with the two D's, idiot.
02:39:29.000Well, listen, what you guys did was nothing short of a cultural revolution, I think, in my opinion.
02:39:35.000I think it's one of the key components today online as far as like...
02:39:41.000Like an asset to distribute information, to spread cool shit, and to let people have intelligent discussions about it in a really rational way of filtering out the fuckheads.