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00:17:33.000And I think it's the closest thing that Brian does right now that I could see being like a television show.
00:17:38.000In fact, I think you're probably better off because it's so good.
00:17:42.000I think you're probably better off not doing it as a television show, just producing it for an online series sort of thing, and slowly but surely putting some money into it.
00:17:51.000Because I think it's like a show, dude.
00:17:53.000When I sat down in it, you know what I felt like?
00:17:56.000I was like, this could easily be a Comedy Central show.
00:18:46.000If you only knew how hard that is for someone who's just started to do comedy and has only been doing comedy while they've been on this show.
00:18:55.000So they've only been doing it for like a year, right?
00:19:40.000They start out in this weird way and they sort of morph and grow.
00:19:43.000Well, to be able to do that live on the internet in front of you know a live audience and do a new minute every week, those chicks have fucking some serious chutzpah.
00:19:55.000And what's really interesting is that the one girl who also is usually on dysentery with me, Sarah Weinshank, and then Kimberly quit college and she was about to graduate and quit college and started comedy on the show.
00:20:10.000So you saw the first set she did all the way up to a year later.
00:22:02.000You see somebody like Adam Levine or I'm only thinking of that because he was in a movie recently.
00:22:06.000You only think about that because he's beautiful.
00:22:10.000He locked down the voice and now he could say anything and people would be like, yeah.
00:22:13.000You know, like, I'll buy that for 99 cents.
00:22:15.000Somebody out there would, not necessarily me.
00:22:18.000Isn't it interesting that he sells Acne stuff even though he's on the voice?
00:22:21.000Like he's on this big show, but he's doing an infomercial.
00:22:24.000It's a contrast because usually someone has to be like sort of sliding when they pick up like a proactive or something type of commercial, right?
00:22:32.000But isn't it usually like someone who's not like people who are no longer in the prime?
00:22:38.000Yeah, and there's like there's a Shannon Doherty commercial for like some online course or something like that, online university course or something.
00:22:46.000I forget what it is, but it's her wearing a bunch of different outfits.
00:22:49.000And it's like, you know that she probably needed money and this is something that came along.
00:23:07.000That seems like kind of embarrassing for somebody that famous to do, but they must have just given him a shitload of money and it's a good card.
00:27:35.000She probably was definitely mercenary.
00:27:36.000But a guy like that, that's how it works.
00:27:39.000If you're fucking 60 years old and you're starting to get old looking and you have this unbelievably hot young Russian chick who's really into you, you should probably suspect something.
00:27:48.000You should probably suspect that she's not in love with the way you look.
00:27:51.000She's not as attracted to you as you are to her.
00:27:53.000You should probably suspect that she knows that you're an incredibly rich guy who made like $300 million or something on the Passion of the Christ, right?
00:31:48.000Did you see the video that I posted of the two women stealing some guy's furniture or whatever those things are on the beach when you have like a big tent and you know he caught him?
00:32:02.000Yeah, he walked up on him going, excuse me, hey, how are you guys doing today?
00:32:06.000And these older women in Florida took all his bags and stuff and they had them all in the middle and then they were taking down his thing and acting like it was theirs and caught him stealing it.
00:32:16.000The second he's like, get the fuck away from it, you know, they start coming at him like I'm attacking him.
00:32:22.000It's one of those videos like the drone video.
00:35:38.000But if it is real and they were stealing his stuff and then they were beating him up, at what point in time, like if you know those women are criminals, like Brian, let me ask you this.
00:35:48.000And if you were in a situation like that where your stuff was left out and you came up to it and these old ladies were stealing your stuff and then when you started talking about it, they say, put the camera down and they start hitting on you.
00:36:47.000But we are at this person's house, and we were just talking by my car, and the cop pulls up and just comes out and goes, Sirk, Sirk, I need to see your ID.
00:37:18.000He was just being like, why the fuck are you, I mean, bothering me.
00:37:22.000Was it possible, though, that they were looking for someone who looked like you who had done something fucked up that they were on foot looking for?
00:37:29.000What he says is he's like, I just find it peculiar that you're sitting outside this house at two o'clock with that book bag.
00:37:35.000And I'm like, yeah, it just got off work.
00:38:57.000But the ego of the cop gets in the way.
00:38:59.000That definitely can happen with the wrong personalities, even with good cops.
00:39:03.000There's also been a lot of incidences lately where I feel like, especially when I'm in my car, I'm like, man, I need to remember to just put my GoPro on in my car and just record everything I'm doing while I'm driving.
00:39:14.000Because, I mean, there's been so much crazy shit that's been happening.
00:39:17.000Like, I saw a guy jump into traffic the other day and get hit, and I'm like, why did he do that?
00:39:22.000Like, I watched him jump into it, like, and he was just a drug addict.
00:39:35.000But I also think, like, especially with these videos that have been coming up, just women attacking.
00:39:39.000And, like, Anthony saying that woman said that he was going to, that woman was going to, like, if he called the police, was going to say that he was rape.
00:39:45.000She was rape or, you know, attacking her or whatever.
00:39:47.000That's what he said that she said, that when she was hitting him, she was saying that she was going to say that he sexually assaulted her.
00:39:54.000And by the way, it's the Opie and Anthony thing that's going on.
00:39:56.000Yeah, the Opie and Anthony thing, if you don't know, our friends, Opie and Anthony, Anthony Kumia, was in New York City, and he was taking photographs, and he got a photograph of a woman.
00:40:07.000And this woman got very upset that he took a photograph of her.
00:40:10.000So some sort of an altercation took place.
00:40:13.000Some words were exchanged, and she started hitting him.
00:40:17.000And if you don't know Anthony, you don't know that he's a gun nut, like a legit gun nut who actually has a license to conceal carry in New York City, which is incredibly difficult to obtain.
00:40:28.000But here's one strike for people who want people to have guns.
00:40:37.000Never, I mean, he obviously felt threatened.
00:40:41.000He was getting hit by this one woman who Anthony's a nice guy, but he is, you know, 51 years old, loves his drinking, and I don't think he lifts weights that much.
00:40:52.000It's not like he's this like big, scary, you know, Quentin Jackson, Rampage Jackson looking dude.
00:41:14.000I've read very little about it other than he went on this rampage, calling her an animal and a cunt and all this different shit.
00:41:23.000But what's hilarious is everything that he said in this Twitter rampage that they're firing him for, he said on the radio show and they hired him for.
00:41:36.000The radio show, if you paid attention to what he said over the years and why he's entertaining and how he says it, he gets crazy about racial situations.
00:41:47.000He gets crazy about certain aspects of the African American community and he's done it forever.
00:41:52.000And so these things that he said after getting punched that they were surprising to Sirius who had heard him say these things and they gave him checks.
00:42:04.000And also like one of the things that people are pointing out all over all over the Twitter sphere is they're showing all these lyrics to rap songs that Sirius has aired since Anthony got fired for tweeting.
00:43:02.000Well, you know what, man, here's the thing.
00:43:04.000I think what happens is that these companies get really terrified of the Twitter storm that they get.
00:43:10.000Like you saw that with, well, you see it all the time with sponsors for Rush Limbaugh, but you see it with, or I believe conservative radio in general, you see it with like Donald Trump had a, I forget what it was, a tie collection or some shit at Macy's.
00:43:23.000Then there were all these people on Twitter like tweeting the Macy's account, like don't support him because I don't even remember what the issue was, but once it gets going, the company feels overwhelmed and they're like, we have to respond because a thousand people just retweeted this thing.
00:43:37.000And I think they just feel like the best route is the 48 Laws of Power thing where you just put a head on the chopping block and think later.
00:45:30.000But then you use iMovie, you switch out the background, and suddenly instead of being in your apartment, you have this subtle background, or maybe it's the city or whatever the fuck it is.
00:45:38.000You find something on Flickr, and then people take it a little bit more seriously.
00:45:41.000Because you're not just some crazy rambling in your kitchen.
00:45:44.000You're like, oh, I see somebody spent a little bit of time on this, and people will watch.
00:46:20.000Yeah, I mean, I think it's all changing.
00:46:22.000I think now people are kind of, I'm not even a big YouTuber.
00:46:25.000I just do it from time to time, but I think people are definitely intimidated by things like The Young Turks, where it's clear that it's more powerful than half the cable shows out there.
00:46:56.000Well, that's absolutely true, but it's also that it's a number that you could watch and see.
00:47:00.000I mean, like, you can't, you can tell me whatever you want about the Nielsen's, but the reality is you only have a certain amount of households.
00:48:03.000Every time you watch it at home or you watch it, maybe it's an app that we all wear on their fucking Google glasses or something like that that measures what you're watching so we can all figure it out.
00:48:13.000But until they do that, you don't really know.
00:48:15.000They should already have that, though, based on what cable companies know what channel you're watching.
00:48:20.000They say they do, but they don't share that information.
00:48:22.000They say they know how many people are watching what on satellite, but they can't use it as a ratings thing because it's probably like some NSA type shit.
00:48:29.000You're not even supposed to be doing that.
00:48:30.000You're not supposed to be monitoring people's viewing habits and find out that they've been ordering dirty debutantes over and over again and clearing their history.
00:48:49.000Did you hear about the, there was a thing about Tor where apparently one of the NSA programs actually flags you for further review if you're using Tor.
00:49:54.000I was like, ooh, let's hear about this.
00:49:57.000No, the Tor issue, it just goes to show you how fucked up things are that they consider that extreme.
00:50:03.000Yeah, it's kind of weird that preserving your anonymity would automatically put you in this weird bracket.
00:50:08.000But I guess if you thought about who are the extreme people that would use this that would be dangerous, and how many of the people— I would like to see activists networking out companies dumping pollution.
00:50:23.000I don't really give a shit about that.
00:50:37.000It's one of those situations where, yeah, if you did that and you looked at everybody's background when you found them using this and anonymizing.
00:50:50.000You'd go, well, you know, it's probably a good pool to look through.
00:50:54.000The thing is, like, could I accurately rely on them to look at a guy like David Seaman and go, oh, no, this is actually just a smart young guy who's looking at the world and doesn't like all the bullshit he sees, and he thinks that we can do better.
00:51:24.000So I'm just trying to like push the ball and, you know, talk about things that I think are actually helping while also reminding people that a lot of this stuff has not been fixed.
00:51:32.000I think you're also doing a great service in that you're doing it in this uncensored form through the Internet very courageously.
00:51:39.000And you're a part of what's now like this whole there's a and it's all connected in a lot of ways to the new corporations to like Google and these new technological corporations.
00:51:51.000They all seem to have an ethic about them that didn't exist in some of the other corporations that we think of, whether it's fossil fuel corporations or car manufacturers or anything along those lines.
00:52:01.000We don't think of them as being like professionals.
00:52:03.000particularly ethical particularly tolerant but you think about that when it comes to like tech companies like Google is trying and variety these companies like Google especially was uh they're very upset about all this net neutrality shit.
00:52:16.000They're very upset about all this possibility that the internet is going to be regulated by the government.
00:52:22.000They're going to be able to monitor and track streams and how fast those shit you get.
00:52:28.000I was just thinking about this earlier today because I was trying to figure out what is the problem?
00:52:31.000Like, how do we get to a place where a company can be...
00:52:36.000A company can take advantage of that capitalistic impulse towards constant progress, constant new products, refining, make it more addictive, make it easier to use.
00:52:47.000So Twitter, because they're profit focused, that's what they're doing.
00:52:51.000And because they're in the right kind of business where they make their money from giving small people a voice.
00:52:56.000That's obviously an oversimplification, but that's what Twitter does.
00:52:59.000And so that capitalistic thing, that machine works really well in making Twitter better and better, at least for the next couple of years until something better comes along and replaces it.
00:53:09.000But then you get companies like the big ISPs or the big cable companies where them getting more and more capitalistically efficient and more ruthless isn't actually helping the rest of us.
00:53:23.000It's dragging us down because they're in charge of this thing we all need, the internet.
00:53:27.000And if they're only thinking about, oh, we can fuck them over a little bit right here, and then we can implement this and we can have the fast lane for our preferred partners, they're applying that profit motive to something that is completely against the public interest and doing it in a very efficient, influential way.
00:53:43.000Like they have lobbyists working on this shit, but it's against the public interest to be like lobbying for polluted water and being like, well, we make more selling polluted water.
00:55:55.000Their whole company is essentially about the internet and now phones.
00:55:58.000But the phones are also connected to the internet.
00:56:00.000I mean, it's a big part of what they do.
00:56:02.000And the ethic of the internet, it seems to be, like the social ethic seems to be evolving way quicker and way stronger than at any time that I can ever remember in cultural history.
00:56:15.000I never remember these like big movements, shifts in how people talked and behaved and the words that were accepted and the words that weren't accepted and, you know, and just these giant trends that take place and just wash through culture.
00:56:32.000It's because we practice like thought mass correction, which I'm not entirely convinced is a good thing yet.
00:56:38.000I still haven't really decided if it's good or bad.
00:56:40.000But if you look at that woman who took the flight from London to South Africa and tweeted out that insensitive shit about like, you know, like I hope I don't get AIDS when I land in Africa or something.
00:59:49.000I don't know his personal experiences.
00:59:52.000I don't know what he's around, where he's formulated these ideas about certain black people, but I also know that he has a lot of black friends.
01:00:14.000I mean, he did get attacked, which is crazy.
01:00:16.000But he also, leading up to it, he also used to always talk about statistics about his city in New York and stuff like that, about how, you know, the race issues with that.
01:00:27.000And so I think that what he, because he didn't, when he went off, he didn't really say all blacks are this.
01:00:34.000You know, he was kind of just talking about the person that attacked him and was a savage, you know, is what he said.
01:00:42.000Yeah, he called her a cunt, an animal and all this different shit.
01:00:45.000If it was a white chick and he called her an animal, he would have been fine.
01:00:47.000Yeah, and he would have called her the same exact words.
01:01:03.000Sometimes one, a different person, like if you talked to this guy, it would have never turned into a violent altercation, and maybe you would have walked away shaking hands.
01:03:19.000And the problem is when it's a black person that's getting attacked by a white guy, you got to be real specific that it's that person that's a piece of shit.
01:03:28.000And if some other people jumped in, it's them that are pieces of shit.
01:03:55.000I forgot to look to see actually what time it occurred, but I think it was around 2 to 3 a.m. when the Twitter happened.
01:04:02.000But, you know, I understand he's, if you looked at his photos on Instagram, he was taking a lot of photos of the city, a lot of photos of cops and construction workers and stuff like that.
01:04:12.000I get having a great camera that you're playing, like New York's empty and you're downtown and you're taking photo and a woman's walking in the distance.
01:04:21.000Yeah, you're taking her because it's a photo.
01:04:25.000But, you know, I don't know what happened here, but what does seem to happen that she did attack him and he didn't have a police or deal with the police.
01:04:35.000No, he doesn't call 911 because he figured like they wouldn't do anything.
01:05:26.000And I would have loved for it to be avoided.
01:05:28.000But I think Sirius lost the potential opportunity to engage in a discussion about this, about violence in New York City, about violence in general, people interacting with each other, about interacting on social media, interacting when you're hot with fucking rage and you're just venting and ranting and calling someone a continent animal.
01:06:10.000I'm saying this is a very tricky situation where the company has to be real careful because part of what you do is you promote free speech and you have a radio show and you have this network that's uncensored.
01:06:26.000This network was the coolest thing about Sirius was you could get Howard Stern on it and he could swear.
01:06:31.000It was the greatest thing of all time.
01:06:33.000Like from now on, he's unchained and Opie and Anthony are unchained and comedy is unchained.
01:06:46.000So if all of a sudden you decide that you don't like what a guy says on Twitter, so his opinions, which are very similar, that he's voiced on the radio, very similar if not identical, will now be silenced, it gets a little squirrely.
01:07:02.000It's a backlash to the racism and or implied racism of his tweets.
01:07:07.000You know, look, do I wish that he just went on the radio and explained himself in more than 140 characters?
01:07:14.000Yes, because I bet he could have vented the exact same rage the next day with no Twitter thing and people would not have had a problem with it if he said it with his words, if he explained what happened.
01:07:25.000There's a real problem with fucking getting out anything super important where you don't want to have any mistakes in how you're being perceived with 140 characters.
01:07:41.000So are you mad that he's conveying those thoughts?
01:07:44.000Do you not think that he would have those thoughts after this chick hit him?
01:07:47.000Do you expect him to be angelic in his approach to violence?
01:07:52.000Like, I don't know what you're looking for here.
01:07:54.000Because if it's just that you think that what he said is racist, have you ever listened to that show?
01:07:59.000Because if you listen to that show, he says shit like that all the time.
01:08:03.000Also, if you have a job as a show host or a pundit, you really need to be allowed to say what you want on your social media, even if it kind of damages the nation.
01:08:32.000I think when you say something absolutely, totally awful like that, like all Jews should be, like, you can't be associated with my company.
01:08:44.000And it's a dangerous person, too, because who knows what percentage of the population that's listening that's unhinged that's been waiting for a guy like you to come along.
01:08:54.000You know, what he did is respond to a person who attacked him and then talk in very racial terms about the scenario and he has in the past on the radio show about what it's like to worry about black violence on white people.
01:09:11.000Yeah, and that's what like the Young Turks thing you saw.
01:09:15.000I don't know if you saw that or not, but that was.
01:09:18.000That was one of the worst things I've ever seen.
01:09:21.000I lost, I'm sorry, all respect for them just based off that one interview.
01:09:26.000Because it was completely, you can know that they don't know the backstory.
01:09:30.000They don't know, they don't listen to the show.
01:09:32.000Right, but it's an interesting thing, though, isn't it?
01:09:34.000When you're looking at someone who doesn't know Anthony, doesn't know the show, doesn't know the backstory, and is responding to, just deciding everything right there, you know, that he's perving, that he's taking a picture of this woman coming up the street and not knowing about all those other pictures that he had taken, and that he is an amateur photographer.
01:10:39.000It doesn't work for anything important.
01:10:40.000If you really had a situation where you thought your life was in danger or you thought, you know, you were, you know, you were going to go unconscious or you're going to lose your eyesight.
01:10:50.000Like apparently he had like spots on his eyes.
01:11:21.000I mean, to pretend it doesn't exist is pretty silly to me.
01:11:24.000To pretend there's not black people that will hit white people and rob them, just like to pretend there's not white people Who will hit black people and rob them?
01:11:34.000Violent racism from random people on both sides can and does exist.
01:11:40.000So, is he right in saying that it exists from them, or would he have to qualify it first by saying that there's a lot of piece of shit white people out there as well?
01:11:57.000If I'm in a position where I cross somebody who's carrying a gun and can defend themselves and hurt me, and their choice is to write angry stuff on Twitter instead of fighting me back, wonderful Gandhi.
01:12:46.000And this guy and this other guy got in this argument.
01:12:49.000And there was traffic going by, and they're right in front of the House of Blues, which is directly across the street from the comedy store.
01:12:56.000And in the middle of this argument, there's back and forth, and it's a white guy and a black guy.
01:13:01.000And you see them start to swing at each other.
01:13:04.000And the white guy goes into a full panic.
01:13:07.000All I remember is this guy, like, standing, like, wincing his eyes and flailing with his hands.
01:13:13.000Like, literally had, it was just in full panic.
01:13:16.000And this black guy is, I see him hit him, and I see cars go in front of it.
01:13:49.000A woman can do that to you, just like a man can do that to you.
01:13:52.000If you don't think that there's women out there that can punch you in the face and knock you unconscious, it's because you've never been punched by a woman.
01:13:58.000There's a lot of women that can punch really fucking hard.
01:17:19.000I saw him at Cobbs, Cobbs Comedy Club in Austin.
01:17:24.000Not Cobbs, Cap City, Cap City Comedy Club in Austin.
01:17:28.000Anthony's starting his compound show this week, though, so that's going to be interesting because I don't know if he has a lawyer, if he said he was going to lawyer up, but what if he can talk about and what he can't talk about?
01:17:57.000Imagine someone keeping you from talking about you being attacked, Like your own personal experience, how he expresses himself is entirely up to him.
01:18:05.000I think we'll probably get a more balanced view of it now than when it happened.
01:18:12.000You know, I think he's probably going to take into consideration all the heat and the bullshit and the time that's elapsed and the emotions that have relaxed and the tension that's relaxed, the sting of the punches, and he'll be able to look at it and give you a funny assessment of it.
01:18:27.000But the show will just be better if they go on the internet.
01:18:42.000It's like the amount of people that don't have iPods or iPhones or can't get their phone to stream through their radio, it's come almost everybody now.
01:18:53.000I mean, especially if you're commuting, if you're getting on subways and shit like that, it's actually better than having some sort of a satellite that sends it to you.
01:20:33.000But what if, would they still be as upset if he did all this Twitter rampage, if he just had a send-in show where they had their own staff, their own employees, their own sponsors, and they just send it in?
01:20:45.000Well, we're getting into a lot of what-ifs now.
01:22:07.000Imagine that was you and you were the commissioner of the NBA and you had to explain to people and you were like, look, on the bright side, he's allowing her to fuck black guys.
01:22:20.000I don't know what to make of that one either because it seems like this goes back to what you were saying about how, you know, to get into an altercation or something, both people kind of need to be involved.
01:22:30.000And you don't have to be an asshole and say those things.
01:22:33.000And if you're going to be an asshole and say those things, you have to be aware that if you're also prominent and you own a fucking sports team, people are going to listen to what you say more so than somebody in a trailer saying the same thing on YouTube, right?
01:22:45.000Like if you post that in the YouTube comment section, you're not going to see a national uproar, especially if you're not that dude.
01:22:51.000But if you're a billionaire and you own a sports team and you're always in the public eye, even if you're old, that's not an excuse for saying racist shit.
01:22:58.000You're absolutely right, and I agree with you 100%.
01:23:40.000Like, that to everybody is the kind of the character of the old billionaire who represents everything that the average working person kind of despises, right?
01:23:49.000This old white guy is saying this shit that really is insensitive at best.
01:23:53.000And I can, that's one of the situations where I can see that the media is just manipulating people and it's this like bullshit anger that we're being collectively drawn into.
01:25:47.000It seems to me that the intent of what you're saying, like the context and the intent are pretty critical when you release something like that and you get angry and fine someone for something like that.
01:25:58.000That was a knee-jerk reactionary response that they took.
01:26:01.000Regardless of whether the guy is an asshole, I've heard both ways.
01:26:05.000I've heard more that he is than he isn't.
01:28:03.000She takes pictures and my friends stick them in my face mocking me.
01:28:06.000So I told her, don't take pictures of black guys, please.
01:28:09.000Would you really freak out if someone said that?
01:28:11.000He'd be like, well, that's an unfortunate relationship for that poor old billionaire.
01:28:15.000And sort of an unfortunate, even more unfortunate relationship for that lovely young lady who has such low self-esteem that she needs this old man to pay for her sex and buy her things.
01:28:25.000And that's how she gets by by hustling.
01:28:27.000And in the meantime, she hangs out with all these black guys.
01:33:39.000Well, that's why I'm so against government overreach because it doesn't start all at once.
01:33:43.000And then at one point, that was a new thing for them.
01:33:46.000Like, oh, I guess we got this now, right?
01:33:48.000And then you grow up and that's just normalcy, even though it's completely insane to everybody else.
01:33:53.000That's what this surveillance stuff is, is complete insanity.
01:33:57.000And everybody in Europe is pissed off about it.
01:33:58.000And here, things have been kind of normalized.
01:34:00.000And it's like, well, it has kept us safe.
01:34:03.000And the new thing that came out, I think in the Washington Post or the Times, is about how nine out of 10 people that they're grabbing the photos and videos and stuff of are not even the targets.
01:34:13.000They're just people being incidentally sucked up.
01:34:16.000But when they say like, we're incidentally grabbing their data, it means like really intimate stuff.
01:34:20.000Like the video conversations that people have had with their partners are just being stored in databases.
01:34:27.000And that's the beginning of, and there was another report that they might be collecting baby photos.
01:34:34.000The NSA might be archiving people's baby photos.
01:34:37.000That's the beginning of not tomorrow, but maybe in 50 years for sure, some shit like that.
01:34:52.000And if things go bad, that's when you can justify stage two.
01:34:57.000Things are fine now, but look, what if a Katrina-type situation happened?
01:35:01.000One of the things that every leader, every great military leader knows is that you must capitalize on opportunities.
01:35:09.000And when a tragedy takes place, it's not just a tragedy, but it's also an opportunity for more control.
01:35:15.000And it's one of the things that classically people have done throughout time.
01:35:18.000And in U.S. history, it's very easy to map.
01:35:22.000And it's one of the reasons why conspiracy theories are so rampant when it comes to big crimes like Oklahoma City is because you see a ramp up of the laws afterwards and a lot of people think, well, this was a false flag event.
01:35:34.000It was used to justify the ramping off of the laws.
01:35:38.000Whether or not it was or wasn't, the point being, every time there is some sort of an incident where things go bad, whoever is a power-hungry fuckhead tries to take more control, as if it would have protected them from that situation.
01:35:51.000Whether it's the Oklahoma thing, whether it's 9-11, if 9-11 was just an attack and it wasn't just some nefarious plot, I mean it was just some nefarious plot from some overseas people.
01:36:02.000It had nothing to do with the United States government.
01:36:30.000Yeah, and introduced all these laws that really, I think, shut down a lot of the innovation we're seeing now, like people speaking freely, podcasts, you know, TV shows where people are really speaking their minds.
01:36:40.000All that shit kind of went on ice during the Bush administration.
01:36:43.000Like, I hate to be like a Bush hater, but I noticed because I was in high school at the time during the Bush administration.
01:36:49.000I was in high school when 9-11 happened, and I noticed the kind of death of vitality.
01:36:55.000And people were afraid to be, you don't want to sound like an asshole, right?
01:37:10.000And some people were saying the same thing, but the overriding thing was you don't want to be against the country at this important time.
01:37:18.000And that bullshit lasted for a decade where I'm sure a lot of terrible things happened that we don't even know about yet and might not know about for a while.
01:37:26.000And only now are we starting to see like kind of the flowering of independent thought That probably would have happened 10 fucking years ago if it weren't for 9-11 and if it weren't for that crackdown.
01:39:30.000And if you're the drone designer, I can see this.
01:39:34.000So from your little perspective, it's not all that bad.
01:39:37.000And you branch out, you zoom out far enough and you see that we're a society that is basically run by an avatar government that starts or at least provokes wars for its own benefit and for very cynical reasons that have nothing to do with what they tell us on TV.
01:39:51.000And from there, you go, I can't stop the conveyor belt.
01:39:56.000You know, you can send out 10,000 retweets or a million petitions.
01:40:00.000That does not stop the conveyor belt because at the end of the day, that person who's doing whatever they're doing, spying on you or frisking you, they're like, well, I'm not going to be unemployed.
01:40:10.000Like, I understand what you're saying, Seaman, on the podcast.
01:40:51.000Yeah, it's a strange time in that their ability to do what they're doing, their ability to spy on people, their ability to influence people, their ability to have control over the populace with these tools of surveillance is coinciding with people's ability to communicate their being upset about it.
01:41:13.000This is a weird time because in the 60s and 70s, when all that Watergate shit was going down, what voice did a regular person have?
01:41:21.000You would just hope that the Washington Post would publish an op-ed you agree with, and that's pretty much the extent of your power.
01:41:27.000When Kennedy was assassinated, what happened?
01:41:31.000How did the people get their thoughts?
01:41:32.000Can you imagine if there was an Alex Jones back then with the real platform, how insane that would have been?
01:42:51.000And it's the time to see that this old thing is luckily ending.
01:42:55.000Like, I think some people are still caught up in the police brutality outrages that you see on the homepage of Reddit every day and that people are always tweeting.
01:43:04.000That stuff's real, and I understand why people are pissed, and I 100% think it's the right move to shame the shit out of those people and always have that fire going.
01:43:14.000The solution is that economics are gradually shifting away from the military-industrial thing, and we're shifting into a different economic model.
01:43:25.000Like the spying and the drones and the police brutality, that's what ends it because you just don't have as many cops.
01:43:30.000And the cops you do have are more locally financed.
01:43:33.000And it's kind of the way it was in some kind of madman utopia that probably never existed, but was a hell of a lot better than what we have right now.
01:43:44.000Do you think, is this a war right now where technology and the access that the average person has to information is at odds with this gigantic Neolithic group of corporations that are sort of combining forces to try to slow down the internet?
01:44:49.000I mean, the reason why we're having this conversation is not because some Ben Franklin was like, within 200-something years, we will have podcasts.
01:44:57.000It's because gradual technological innovation comes along.
01:45:00.000And it took probably a million things before this to get to this point.
01:45:03.000And now that you're here, it doesn't take you any more effort to put out a podcast because it's all built.
01:45:09.000And it's the same thing with, if you look at the development of travel, people used to get around by foot.
01:45:15.000Then it was carriages, like Oregon Trail type shit, where if you had to go from New York to California, you might not make it.
01:45:21.000Now it's a flight that costs $250 and takes like five hours.
01:45:25.000And the same thing is happening with the economy, where we're getting away from old, kind of superstitious technology and entering the age of science.
01:45:35.000Like science is now being applied to economics and to money, and that's going to change some of the worst aspects of society.
01:50:01.000And so what might happen is some kind of weird feeding frenzy where everybody gets into it at once because increasing values create one of the strongest network effects that we know of as people.
01:50:10.000Like you think about how fast Facebook took off.
01:50:14.000That was just people like, oh, it's cool that I can casually spy on my friends that I'm in class with.
01:50:19.000This is, oh, I now have complete control over my own money and it's appreciating, you know, at a certain rate that beats anything that a traditional bank can offer.
01:50:28.000The problem is that these things come and go So frequently, that people don't want to dip their fingers or their feet in the water thinking that it might be the next AOL.
01:51:47.000Anyway, the point is that foundation I feel like has made some bad moves.
01:51:51.000And aside from that, it's the first one.
01:51:54.000So if you look at like CompuServe, they probably won a lot of battles.
01:51:58.000We're not using fucking CompuServe to connect to the internet.
01:52:00.000So I'm only convinced that the technology will win, not that Bitcoin will win.
01:52:04.000So what I do is I own a little bit of Bitcoin.
01:52:06.000And again, I'm not rich, so this is like reasonable person money.
01:52:09.000I own a little bit of Bitcoin, and I also own a little bit of the three or four currencies after Bitcoin that show the most promise.
01:52:15.000And I own enough of each one that should they come in and become the next Bitcoin or the next Litecoin, I'll be really satisfied.
01:52:22.000But if they don't come in, it's not the end of the world.
01:52:25.000And what I'm doing is when one currency doesn't do anything new for two months or something better comes out, I shift the money into that one.
01:52:32.000So my idea is however long this process takes of us going digital to new kinds of money, which is happening, I'll be in at least one of the ones that does well.
01:52:42.000And we'll just try to keep, I think at this point, there are already mature brands that will take off.
01:52:46.000Do you ever see a point where, you know how you go to the airport and you see the government currency exchange where it's like Australian dollars, Mexican pesos, and it has all the thing, like what the rates are, you know, those things they have at the airport where you can exchange your money.
01:53:00.000Do you ever think it's going to come a point where there's so many accepted currencies that we have that on everything?
01:53:05.000Like this is what every price is, like it's worth this much of that.
01:53:10.000It's on a, like a, like, you know, some sort of a stock market, sort of a ticker tape type of thing where it fluctuates, because it does fluctuate on a daily basis.
01:55:20.000Like whatever the number is, the value number, you enter it into an app and it'll read out what it is in whatever currency you choose to use.
01:55:27.000And since it's all going to be done online and it's all sort of, you know, in hard drives and in space, you could kind of like have as many of them as you wanted.
01:55:37.000It's not like if you had a cash register and you're at a store and some asshole comes in with Canadian money and he wants Australian change, you're like, bitch, get the fuck out of here.
01:55:47.000But if you are digitally connected and you service 20 major coin, you know, whatever you would call them, programs, what would you call them?
01:56:00.000I think actually, I mean, it's more software than currency, but everybody calls it a currency.
01:56:04.000And if you look at Hollywood Boulevard, they have some of those foreign exchange stands also.
01:56:09.000There are a couple of stores you walk in, you trade your, if you're a Chinese tourist, you trade your won for U.S. dollars, then you can shop at, you know, the shops there.
01:56:18.000That step is going to go away, not just on Hollywood Boulevard, all over the world.
01:56:22.000Think about how cool that is, that now you can travel to any country, walk into their malls, and just pay with a mutually agreed upon currency.
01:56:45.000Some of this stuff, you're like, Dogecoin, what the fuck is this?
01:56:48.000But out of that, you're starting to see the very beginnings of one of the companies I've been covering is a company that does this legitimately as a product.
01:56:58.000They have, I think, 16 or 17 employees, And they build currencies.
01:57:03.000And if they haven't built it, they find ones that are taking off and support them and mine them and make money off of them.
01:57:10.000And so you're starting to see like a more professional kind of environment where there's still a lot of experimentation, but it's starting to be like this is serious business.
01:57:19.000And I think it was Citibank said that digital currency by 2020 is going to be like a $10 trillion industry or something insane.
01:57:42.000It seems like the people that are all hedging their bets now, it's almost like they know something's going to happen.
01:57:48.000Like they see this bubbling on the surface, like a volcano is about to erupt, but they can't figure out which, where's the mainstream going to come out of?
01:58:44.000But somebody on the Reddit Bitcoin category, their subreddit, posted this thing about how if you really think about what's happening, people are making money from these coins because they have to mine them, which takes energy.
01:59:01.000Your utility bill goes up when you're mining these coins.
01:59:05.000And so what people are doing, regardless of language, is deciding that I can transfer some of my energy for money, for actual money that I can use to buy anything else in this physical world.
01:59:16.000So now you have a globally competitive market for energy that'll be created as a result.
01:59:22.000You'll have entrepreneurs who aren't interested in creating coins.
01:59:26.000They're interested in how do I get energy as cheaply as possible.
01:59:29.000So you'll see solar fields in the deserts in Africa maybe to fuel a mine for a cryptocurrency.
01:59:37.000So what it's going to do is incentivize a lot of us to find cheaper energy no matter what.
01:59:42.000So you're going to see all this innovation where the energy industry has to get cheaper and cheaper because we have to continue mining these currencies.
01:59:51.000So it's a technology that by design is going to make us, I'm using all these bullshit terms, like better, but we're going to care more about cheap energy than we do now, which I see as a good thing.
02:00:00.000And we're going to care more about what does my purchasing power mean?
02:00:03.000Did I really agree that this has value?
02:00:06.000That's what's so cool about all this stuff is that nobody's forcing anybody to do anything.
02:00:10.000And it's all happening while marijuana is becoming illegal or becoming legal, rather.
02:00:14.000It's all happening while marijuana is legal in Colorado.
02:00:17.000I just tweeted something today about the statistics from Colorado that they're getting back from, as far as crime and revenue, more revenue than ever before, more revenue than even projected, and less crime.
02:00:30.000Yep, because you were locking up poor tourists and college kids, and now it's no longer a crime, so you're making money off of them.
02:01:15.000I just got my license renewed yesterday, and it was the first time where it actually was a little bit harder than normal.
02:01:22.000And I don't know if it was just the doctor, because the doctor was like this old doctor, and you walk in, and he goes, all right, why do you need medical marijuana?
02:01:29.000I used to be able to just say, it eases me with stress.
02:02:53.000And even Amber Lyon, our mutual friend, has committed pretty much her professional time right now to promoting this idea of medical uses for psychedelics, which was recently in Slate.
02:03:07.000It seems like the whole kind of mainstream consciousness is coming around to this idea that, well, shit, if it works, and we're starting to have that attitude towards everything.
02:03:14.000Bitcoin sounds crazy, but if it works and the fees are lower, why not?
02:03:20.000If people can be more relaxed and maybe have some personal insights, why not?
02:03:24.000We should give out Amber's websites, reset.me, reset.me, and it's a new website that she created entirely Based on the idea of resetting consciousness through psychedelics and all the latest research and news on psychedelics.
02:03:36.000She wants it to be like the Huffington Post for psychedelics.
02:03:51.000I want to talk about Amber because this new website is very important for her.
02:03:57.000She kind of was really, she talked about it on the podcast.
02:04:00.000She was really down the dumps and very bummed out about her situation, leaving CNN and decided to just take a trip down to the jungle and went to the.
02:04:10.000She was working in the factory and finally saw how the sausage was made.
02:04:30.000I'm like oh these people are all fucked up but she got to see that from the inside Well, fascinating, but also depressing, because how hard do you have to work to get to CNN?
02:04:40.000I mean, look, and if they find out you're not playing ball, a lot of people have these idealized visions of what they're going to be able to accomplish as a journalist.
02:04:47.000You know, I'm going to be the next guy who breaks the big story, the next girl who takes down the evil regime.
02:04:52.000And then you get over and you film the evil regime and you have all this evidence and you risk your life and it gets really crazy and hairy.
02:04:58.000And you get back to the States and they put out an info piece, like an infotainment, infomercial piece on the city.
02:05:04.000And you're like, whoa, how come you didn't have the sniper footage?
02:09:13.000The way you handle one situation, like if that guy came up to you today or if that guy came up to you immediately after the DMV, four hours of the day.
02:10:58.000By the way, Jamie just showed me on Gawker right now, there's a whole story where they interviewed him, the guy, and he's completely wrote it out exactly what happened, what happened after.
02:11:09.000He thought he was still recording, but when she hit his camera, it turned it off, and he thought he was still recording.
02:12:29.000What happens is you go into this thing for two minutes, and what happens is your body thinks you just got dropped off at the top of the world.
02:12:38.000240 degrees below zero is insanely cold.
02:12:41.000And you do it for two minutes, and your body rushes all your blood to the surface of your skin to try to heat it up because it's freaking out.
02:13:41.000Get all the, you know, expand your skin and whatnot and get toxins out.
02:13:48.000In some ways, in some ways, it's kind of the opposite, but in other ways, it's just another way to get your body to do things that are, you know, better than just resting.
02:13:58.000You know, the sauna picks up your growth hormone.
02:14:02.000It picks up, like, Dr. Rhonda Patrick wrote a whole piece on the benefits of the sauna.
02:14:07.000Apparently, sauna has like some, like, that hyperheating environment, like the hot air for short periods of time, has a pretty significant effects on recovery and the body.
02:14:18.000So the Russians had it right all along, man.
02:14:20.000Have you seen that thing they do called the banya?
02:15:29.000Kobe Bryant was like one of the first guys to bring it back from Europe.
02:15:32.000In Europe, they've figured out quicker than America, and America's onto it now, that inflammation is one of the huge causes of all sorts of ailments in the body.
02:15:41.000Physical injuries, sicknesses, inflammation from your diet, inflammation from exercise, strain, stress, all sorts of different things that cause your body to have inflammation that fucks up a lot of systems of the body.
02:15:56.000And for recovery, reducing inflammation is really critical.
02:15:59.000They used to do these ice baths where guys would go into like a tub, like this big steel tub, and they would just pour buckets of ice in there and cold water and you would sit submerged inside this thing.
02:16:13.000And they would do a similar version of it, but it took far longer.
02:16:25.000You do it and you get out of there like, whoa, like, whoo, you know, like your whole body's like it just feels like as soon as you warm up, everything just like because it's only two minutes, everything just free flows, and it feels like you have like extra blood pumping through your body or something.
02:16:40.000You feel like you just got this charge of energy.
02:16:45.000I'm gonna look into that just out of curiosity because I do infrared saunas, and I get you feel good for the rest of that whole day.
02:16:53.000If you do the sauna at like 3 or 4 p.m., the rest of the day you're a little bit lighter, a little bit friendlier, and like everything's nicer.
02:20:19.000And I don't even know what kind of advances are going to happen in energy just within our lifetime.
02:20:24.000So I don't want to pretend I'm the FTL drive expert, but that scientist who's working on it came up with some kind of innovation where it would require far less energy than they originally thought to do this warp of the space-time fabric or whatever the fuck it does.
02:20:41.000And the fact that he figured that out means that now they can work on a proof of concept.
02:20:45.000They can do a very small version in a laboratory one day.
02:20:48.000And once they have that, that's all you need to get industry interested.
02:20:52.000You know, like, why should we build a faster-than-light spacecraft?
02:20:56.000It's kind of a self-explanatory thing.
02:20:59.000You can get resources anywhere in the galaxy.
02:21:01.000Of course, people are going to try to build it if it becomes reasonable.
02:21:04.000It's interesting if you look back on 1940, what was it, 45 when the atomic bomb was first detonated and think about 1945 to today, how long that is, 70 plus years.
02:21:26.000And now we have smartphones that are so good.
02:21:28.000I mean, I was thinking about how the year 2000, I had a palm pilot, and I was really psyched about it because it was the best you could have.
02:22:54.000I try to hit that because it's just good.
02:22:56.000Like if I look down and it's 8 p.m. and it says only 6,000 steps, I'm like, oh, I'll just go walk to the LA River is kind of close to where I live.
02:23:02.000It's like I'll just walk down there and back because I know it's about 4,000 steps.
02:23:06.000I do that, and then I feel like I've hit my quota for the day.
02:23:09.000So, you have a cell phone that's keeping me healthy, pretty much.
02:24:34.000It makes the whole trip so much more fun.
02:24:36.000When you're sitting down and just chilling out, waiting for your flight to take off, and you have some really good music, like you don't even mind.
02:25:49.000I get some of my best writing done on flights for whatever reason.
02:25:53.000Are you working on a book or something?
02:25:54.000Because I think you've mentioned before that you write.
02:25:56.000Yeah, well, I write shit down that I'll eventually probably put together as a book, but I'm not giving myself any, like especially right now, I'm concentrating almost entirely on writing stand-up.
02:26:38.000And right now it's changing, changing radically.
02:26:41.000It's like all this marijuana money is really transferring the consciousness of this entire city.
02:26:49.000A lot of people are concerned about it.
02:26:50.000They're worried about nefarious elements getting involved and all sorts of weirdos and biker gangs and who knows who's going to have money now.
02:26:59.000But the pros to me so severely outweigh the cons.
02:27:02.000It's like you're giving adults the ability to choose responsibly, whether they use it or don't use it.
02:27:08.000What you're doing is you're giving people freedom.
02:27:10.000And freedom always makes better people.
02:28:08.000We were talking about this right before the show.
02:28:10.000Like all that shit that's coming out, like all the corruption and anger and government incompetence, I'm starting to believe that it has to be there because that's what wakes us up to.
02:29:19.000And there's no doubt that these old systems, whether it's like afternoon, when you watch the news at 6 or 5 or whatever the fuck it is, it seems like you're watching a parody.
02:30:18.000We're going to go watch the local news.
02:30:20.000It's a new show where they just, they leave out like really important parts of historic events because they don't jive with the government plan.
02:32:38.000He used to be a great comic, and now he's this shill, this like guy who's just selling people's TV shows that he doesn't give a fuck about.
02:32:45.000But you know what he gives a fuck about?
02:34:54.000I don't have as much of an issue with the panel as that seems very like the way you should do a show almost.
02:34:59.000But the late night thing, I just don't see it existing because not only are people getting older, a lot of old people are liking podcasts now.
02:35:07.000I've got some older listeners, and I'm sure you do, because it's not that hard.
02:35:10.000We make it seem like it's this huge chasm.
02:35:24.000And the problem with something like podcasting as opposed to these other things is that, you know, if you have a show on NBC, you can't not be a shill.
02:35:36.000You're going to be the talk show host for the tonight show.
02:35:41.000I mean, you can have a certain amount of room for creative expression, but essentially what you're trying to do is you're trying to be entertaining while you're promoting people's projects.
02:35:49.000And that's how you get access to Tom Cruise.
02:36:18.000I don't know what kind of crazy shit he did when he was trying to get when Letterman and him were duking it out and they made those that TV show about.
02:36:35.000But apparently Jay Leno really did hide in the closet while this guy was having conversations about him and then used that information against him.
02:36:42.000The more I think about it, I think Leno has a bit of a spine though because I've seen him do some skits on surveillance type stuff and criticize various policies.
02:36:51.000He's not a complete company man, right?
02:36:55.000Like he does use that from time to time.
02:38:13.000If there's anything weird shit in the news, you're one of my favorite people to talk to because you usually have a, if there's anything really significant, you usually have a pretty detailed idea of what's going on.
02:39:51.000Yeah, I'm not convinced that it's a simulation, but I wouldn't be shocked if it was.
02:39:56.000I mean, I probably would be shocked, but logically speaking, if I looked at all the possibles and the variables, I would say that it being a simulation is definitely in the mix.
02:40:05.000But even if it's not a simulation, it's a simulation because you are born.
02:40:09.000Now you have this localized consciousness.
02:40:51.000When you say synchronicity, you mean thinking about things and they come true, having friends, you think about them and they call you, coincidental events that take place.
02:40:59.000Like what specifically do you think of when you think of synchronicity?
02:41:01.000Yeah, it's those moments where you're on a flight and at the last minute your seat changes and the person you sit next to is the agent who signs you and then your career takes off.
02:41:11.000And I talk to people where that happens all the time.
02:41:13.000And it seems like if life were just this Malthusian fucking thing that we all go through and grind through and there's no purpose whatsoever and no design at all and nothing to it aside from like just maybe reproduce and then die.
02:41:27.000If that were the case, I don't think all this cool stuff would be happening.
02:41:32.000Things are getting so much better so quickly that it seems almost like this is where we're supposed to be and it's leading towards something.
02:41:43.000I look at the whole, if you look at the big picture of the whole universe, everything starting from the Big Bang, spreading out, planets forming, stars giving, you know, solar, these solar nebulas, solar nurseries giving birth to stars.
02:41:59.000And you think about what is this whole process and what's it trying to do?
02:42:03.000It's constantly trying to make more complex shit.
02:42:13.000It starts like streaming things down, spinning things in the air above the planet in orbit, blowing nuclear bombs up in the atmosphere.
02:42:21.000And if you look at that, and it's trying to get off, it's trying to figure out a way to complicate itself, trying to figure out a way to get more biologically, more, more biologically advanced to the point where it's not going to die.
02:42:34.000It's trying to figure out how to kill diseases and spread information, faster than the speed of light.
02:42:40.000It's trying to figure out how to travel in space through warp drives.
02:42:44.000I mean, think about all the things it's trying to do.
02:42:46.000It's trying to populate other planets, in which case it'll continue to evolve its technology, continue to get smarter, continue to change its capacity to change the world, the environments, open up wormholes, start traveling to other dimensions.
02:42:58.000I mean, it's going to populate the whole Earth.
02:43:01.000It's going to populate the whole galaxy.
02:43:03.000It's going to populate the whole universe.
02:43:06.000It's a crazy little weird thing, and it's called consciousness.
02:43:10.000And we're bodies that carry consciousness around the same way a jug carries water around.
02:43:15.000And our consciousness figures out a way to evolve the body and the environment and changes things and moves things around and improves things.
02:43:24.000And right now, it's improving the very society that we live in.
02:43:28.000The very culture that we operate on is changing radically because of technology.
02:43:33.000Technology and human innovation, human creativity, changing the actual earth itself.
02:43:39.000Buildings would just pop up 30, 40 stories.
02:44:16.000So it makes you believe almost like we're these creativity engines or kind of chaos engines that are just churning out ideas.
02:44:23.000Because for sure, you don't need to be as smart as we are to survive on this planet.
02:44:27.000But you do if you want to survive, you know, for a long fucking time.
02:44:32.000Yeah, but what I wanted to add, what I kind of forgot to add in there was the capitalism thing, what I was saying, is that we've transferred it so that all these things that are essentially just art and creativity are now survival for us because we can make money from them.
02:44:47.000So if you're a rocket ship designer 300 years ago, that doesn't mean anything.
02:44:52.000If you're a great sculptor 300 years ago, you're still probably in the fields.
02:45:48.000Like, that's what people have to be aware of is, you know, I was saying different things in 2011 because it was a different world in 2011.
02:45:56.000And I'll be saying different things in 2017 because it'll be a different world.
02:46:00.000And if you're always saying the same thing, like there are financial experts who've been saying that the collapse is coming for the past 25 years, literally.
02:46:07.000Like, just put your money into gold now.
02:47:04.000Like, this telephone has no use whatsoever.
02:47:08.000It was about the telephone, and that was pretty much what it said.
02:47:10.000Like, this telephone is too novel to ever gain mainstream acceptance.
02:47:13.000We were talking about the War of Worlds the other day, the Orson Welles thing, the radio show, and about how they were talking about radio being a new medium and that radio is a new thing, and that we have to figure out how to control the broadcasts.
02:47:27.000That must have felt like telepathy for them for the first five or ten years.
02:47:31.000Because now you have FDR or whoever in your living room.
02:48:01.000But other than that, you had to pretend that you could imagine.
02:48:05.000Like you got to look at the newspaper stories and you'd get like a black and white photo and try to piece together what it was like to be there.
02:48:11.000I saw this great thing online that it was talking about how we assume that we're all rude now because we're all looking down at our phones the whole time.
02:48:20.000Well, it showed a photo of a subway in New York like sometime in the 40s and it's all newspapers.
02:51:13.000it's complicated it's one of those things I have to look at and figure out how I'm gonna um You write down on this notebook all your different notes.
02:51:23.000The camera on the pen takes a photograph of the note.
02:51:27.000Then when you go to the note, you go to the note, you put your pen on the note, and the audio recorder will play what you were talking about when you wrote that note.
02:51:58.000To have that ability to go back to that moment and know what you were thinking about when you wrote that down, you could save a lot of missed ideas that just sort of disappear out into the ether when you're having these long three-hour conversations.
02:52:14.000I mean, that's just another new application of technology that's incredibly fascinating.
02:52:19.000Think about how many ideas we've all probably had that would be like life-changing, but then you forget it because the phone rings or something and never comes back.
02:52:26.000Yeah, let me pull up whatever that fuck that pen is called.
02:53:30.000It's like they have this weird little shorthand language.
02:53:33.000You can write like 290 words a minute.
02:53:35.000If you're really good at it, you can whip through it.
02:53:37.000So when someone's talking to you, you could literally get everything they say, and then you can go back to it and realize by reading your chicken scratch.
02:53:51.000Most of the people now, they record things and then they write them down, then they fuck up everything you said because the conversation wasn't that clear and you make you go very dead.
02:54:01.000I don't like written interviews for that reason.
02:54:03.000Like, I don't like an article where it's just quoting that person.
02:54:38.000He's talking about losing weight, and he wrote something about how much weight he needs to lose.
02:54:42.000And he wrote thin spiration, like hashtag thinspiration.
02:54:45.000And he started getting attacked by all these people that are apparently, it's in the, that's in the anorexia movement, this idea of thin spiration, this hashtag.
02:54:55.000And he didn't know about this, so they started attacking him.
02:54:57.000So see, he starts responding to them attacking him.
02:55:00.000He tells this one guy to draw a bath and open your veins and do the society.
02:55:56.000I think a lot of these people just need to have in the contracts like, look, you're going to have a publicist that you have to send your tweets through if we're paying you this much money.
02:56:05.000Because I know I even have almost said a few things.
02:58:26.000No, that really is the only thing you have at the end of the day because shows and networks change a lot, especially for journalists, but definitely for entertainers too.