Super Hippie and his friend Joe Rogan take a deep dive into the life of a NYC cab driver. They talk about the rise and fall of New York City cabs, the rise of Uber, and the dark side of the taxi industry. They also discuss the infamous Ice Pick Killer, a serial killer who shot people in the back of the head and made millions of dollars off of it. This episode was brought to you by SeatGeek and the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. To find a list of our sponsors and show-related promo codes, go to gimlet.fm/sponsors and enter promo code SWEETHEAVY at checkout to receive 10% off your first purchase when you enter the discount code: SWEARING10 at checkout. We are working on transcribing this episode and putting it on a website, so stay tuned for that! Thanks for listening and share it with your friends and family! Timestamps: 1:00 - What's up? 4:30 - What s up, brozz? 6:15 - How do you feel about Uber? 7:00 8:30 9:40 - What do you think about the Uber vs. Taxi Driver debate? 11:20 - What would you do in a cab? 12:00- What are your thoughts on the Uber driver stereotype? 13:30- What is the difference between a gypsy cab driver? 15: What are you looking for? 16:20- What kind of cab driver would you like to drive a cab driver in a city? 17:40 18:50 - Who would you shoot someone in the head with a gun? 19:40- What s your favorite kind of car? 21:00 Is it a good day? 22:00 What s the worst cab driver you would kill? 23:00 Do you want to drive in a taxi driver in NYC? 24:00 How much money? 25:00 Are you hungry? 26:00 Can you get in a car with your head? 27: What is your favorite type of vehicle? 29: What s a good night? 30:00 Should you drive a car or truck? 35:00 Who do you need a driver s cap? 36:00 Would you need to be in a cabbie? 31:00
00:01:05.000I've been guests on people's shows where they do it, too, and I don't want to do it.
00:01:08.000You know, you don't want to sit there where someone's reading off their commercials, even if they're really good at it.
00:01:12.000Also, yeah, I mean, that's kind of the problem, is that it forces you to do like a read-read when someone's there, because you want to get it done with, and then that makes you sound like a robot.
00:01:20.000And it's much more interesting to talk about...
00:02:09.000You know, they've got that fucking TV in the back where it's commercials are like blaring into your face the whole time.
00:02:15.000And you're just sort of like, you feel like you're in a traveling prison because they've got the plexiglass in between you and the driver.
00:02:23.000Because we live in such a crazy dimension where people who drive other people around have to treat them like pythons or something and put them behind glass just because that one guy with the ice pick.
00:03:43.000You have to be so hungry to decide that you're going to get in a cab and go through the trouble of blasting someone in the back of the head.
00:03:51.000How much money are they going to have maximum in a cab?
00:04:44.000If I'm going to kill somebody, and I think it's obviously a terrible thing to do, I want to have enough money to live on it for at least a couple of months.
00:04:54.000Not enough to go bowling that night and that's it.
00:05:07.000Yeah, from getting robbed and things along those lines.
00:05:09.000Is it harder because of phones, right?
00:05:11.000Yeah, well I guess the people are being tracked, but I mean obviously the ultimate frightening scenario is someone like steals someone's phone, uses their uber app, and summons the uber, and then they're completely untraceable.
00:05:25.000So I think that's probably a danger that the Uber drivers think about.
00:05:29.000I'm sure they teach them, you know, what to do.
00:05:32.000I'm sure they've been, like, tutored or there's got to be safety courses they're taking for the inevitable situation where somebody gets in there and thinks they're the reincarnation of Christ and wants to taste blood on a full moon.
00:05:46.000I think the harder situation would be for the young women who are by themselves, who get in a car with a guy they don't know, and they don't know whether or not he's been screened properly.
00:06:42.000It was so strange to think of how there are still predators existing in our ecosystem, even though I think it's much less than it used to be.
00:06:51.000It's just a fascinating thing to think that there's people out there whose heads are just filled with psychic bees and for whatever reason they're being driven out into the streets and they do awful fucking shit.
00:07:03.000Still, it just becomes more shocking the more technology accelerates.
00:07:09.000Those acts of violence, they stand out more.
00:07:16.000I mean, and that's really what's fueling like the furthest most fringe left-wing ideas That's like one of my number one problems that I have with like super progressive people is that I agree with them on almost everything but sometimes the way they go about Expressing themselves is so ridiculously over the top that they become annoying They become bad for the cause or bad for whatever idea they have But ultimately,
00:08:14.000But to think that that's not the norm, you know, to think that in some way gender-specific roles for people aren't sort of carved out in some ways by biology...
00:08:23.000Man, I gotta tell you, though, that is a thing that...
00:08:26.000That idea will be an antiquated idea within 200 years, I think.
00:08:34.000Your genetic gender assignment is the gender you got to stick with will be like thinking the avatar that you pick in GTA is the avatar that you've got to run around with permanently.
00:08:46.000Because it's going to get easier and easier to modify the body.
00:08:53.000What's coming down the tubes when it comes to the new stuff that they're learning about how to alter DNA? We have no idea what's coming down the tubes when it comes to futuristic plastic surgery and the ease of it.
00:09:09.000So when that happens, it's kind of like the reason this stuff seems really weird to us is because mostly we've grown up in a time where you and I, especially, have grown up in a time where the words they're using right now is not the words that they used to use.
00:09:26.000The word tranny was not an offensive word.
00:09:31.000So, the general idea was, if you're growing up back in the 70s or the early 80s, it's not like everybody was a complete horrible bigot, but at least, I grew up in North Carolina, so the public opinion on transsexual people is not what you would consider to be rosy.
00:09:52.000It's not like people are like, they deserve rights, they should get married.
00:09:55.000Well, they were in a topic of discussion.
00:11:04.000All the new high-tech stuff was there.
00:11:05.000They had the new Valve VR prototype, which makes my Oculus Rift look like shit.
00:11:11.000But one of the things they had, which was so incredible, was software that scans your face, And then turns that into the mask of some other thing.
00:11:21.000So if you're playing a video game, theoretically, your face would be sort of being scanned and it would look completely different.
00:11:29.000The expressions you were making in the real world would translate into the avatar.
00:11:34.000And that's pretty badass, man, to be able to play an online role-playing game with avatars that are making real human facial expressions.
00:11:44.000Not just one function of it, but Doesn't that freak you out?
00:12:18.000Elon Musk could take his clothes off, climb on the top of the Empire State Building, and hold a banner that says AI is going to destroy all humanity and nobody would pay attention.
00:12:29.000Because you're talking about something that seems to be more of a Something deeper than just human innovation.
00:12:35.000It seems to be something like more of a kind of momentum, an inexorable momentum in the direction of us having 100% control over the way we express ourselves and the things we create and not being limited by our current meat bodies in any way at all.
00:13:02.000Go outside and look around and enjoy a world where people aren't wearing visors and a world where all the clouds of data surrounding you aren't being visualized in a variety of ways that have been created by programmers.
00:13:33.000I think whatever you are as a human being, you're gonna eventually accept as being a digital form because it's gonna be more exciting than the flesh.
00:13:41.000You're gonna get to a point where it's gonna be better.
00:13:44.000The idea of you downloading your brain to a computer right now is horrific.
00:13:48.000Like, oh my god, why would I want to do that?
00:14:51.000If you accept growing old, you accept whatever your particular physical disabilities or talents have to be, the idea that these could be enhanced in such profound ways With exoskeletons or with some kind of new cybernetic red blood cells.
00:15:13.000It's crazy, but it really does mirror a video game.
00:15:16.000You know in a video game when the character levels up and it becomes a whole new game, the game gets interesting again?
00:15:27.000It's about to become an entirely new thing.
00:15:31.000And it's a few specific technologies that are all converging, that are forming this thing.
00:15:37.000And those technologies are 3D printing, robotics and AI, the legalization of psychedelics, And psychopharmacology that's happening right now, the exploration into psychedelics,
00:15:53.000and all forms of life extension therapy.
00:16:02.000They're all appendages that are growing out of this sentient Life form that seems to be, that we seem to be headed towards on our temporal spaceship that we call planet Earth.
00:16:15.000And the appendages are sort of, right now we're beginning to see the first budding growths of them and the rudimentary VR, the rudimentary AI, or the rudimentary 3D printing.
00:16:26.000But the idea that you can go into an artificial, into a virtual space created by an artificial intelligence that is a Replication of something that you have stored in your memory that's been downloaded and scanned so that you could go and live inside a memory in 3D space and then within that memory Have some piece of it printed out in a 3D printer.
00:16:52.000Like, holy shit, I'm hanging out at my grandmother's house when I was six, because they were able to scan my memories and trans-digitize it and put it in VR space.
00:17:02.000Oh look, there's that pendant that my grandmother liked.
00:17:06.000Computer, print that out, and then boom, now you've got a 3D representation of something inside your memories.
00:17:46.000Now, the memory downloading stuff, I don't know of any kind of...
00:17:51.000I think that's a little bit of a stretch.
00:17:53.000I don't know exactly where we're headed with that stuff, but I do know that they're learning a lot about memory.
00:18:00.000I just heard that they think that they figured out a way to restore memory in people with Alzheimer's disease using some kind of sonic technology to...
00:18:09.000To remove the plaque that's in there and the memories come back.
00:18:15.000And the more we learn about memories and the more we learn about what you were talking about, which is this hyper-realistic, detailed, super ultra HD scan of the human brain, then if that is possible to recreate consciousness,
00:18:31.000then it makes sense that you would also be able to recreate the memories encoded inside the neurology that you're duplicating.
00:18:38.000I think that's where I was getting at when I was talking about this idea that we're in this weird space right now where this is all happening, where we're like caterpillars that are giving birth to a butterfly, or transforming into a butterfly, and it's all happening right in front of us.
00:18:55.000That's why these violent acts are so repulsive today.
00:18:59.000I mean, I think they were always repulsive, but now they seem particularly repulsive because you're like, God, Look what's going on.
00:19:23.000Like being met with more more people are looking at these disruptions now than ever before and you're getting extremes on that end I think you and I are kind of moderate in our progressiveness, right?
00:19:34.000We're both like totally pro gay marriage totally pro Abortion rights, please do whatever the fuck you want to do as long as you're not harming other people right, but be responsible for your actions, too And I think more and more people are,
00:19:49.000at least in my opinion, what I'm running into, kind and aware than I think ever in my lifetime.
00:20:20.000But what we're learning from all this...
00:20:24.000Is that we know more about what's going on, and we know more about where we're headed than we've ever known before, but yet we're still completely in the dark as to where this thing could go.
00:20:36.000We don't know where it could go, but we are the midwives of the thing, and that's the frustration, is here we are All of us are either via our attention or some people like Rick Doblin and the work they're actually doing or Kurzweil or Musk or any of the luminaries who are actively transforming society with their technological innovation.
00:20:59.000These are midwives and they're drawing this thing out.
00:21:03.000They're letting this thing be born and while they're letting this thing be born and what is being born is you can call it whatever you want.
00:21:15.000You can call it whatever you want to call it, but this thing being born has not existed, as far as we're aware, on this planet.
00:21:22.000And if it did, it was before one of those meteor impacts you talk about sometime.
00:21:27.000But here we are delivering this thing, and in the fucking delivery room, in this incredible period in human history, where we're looking at Complete control over our genetics, solving some of the world's greatest problems, curing diseases that we thought we never could cure.
00:21:46.000There's like assholes throwing firecrackers in the fucking delivery room, yapping about some invisible angry guy that hates gay people.
00:21:57.000And that's really frustrating because you're You're witnessing the most radical form of violence, which is not just violence human to human, but violence in the sense of trying to destroy the potentiality of our species by clinging to an antiquated and ridiculous notion of what God looks like.
00:22:20.000And if there is anything more violent than that, I can't imagine what it could be.
00:22:26.000No, it's the most archaic of all beliefs.
00:22:30.000The most archaic of all beliefs is this magic man that you've never met wants you to kill people who don't believe in him.
00:23:17.000And they wrote this stuff down back then, and we just passed it down from generation to generation, and then this is God's Word, and that's that.
00:23:25.000Sounds like something, if it didn't exist, like if you were on the bus with someone and they started saying it, you'd switch seats?
00:23:30.000Because you're like, shit, man, I sat next to the fucking crazy person.
00:23:46.000In the same way you've got Elon Musk, in the same way you've got luminaries now, I think back then you had luminaries who were looking around at a world where people were...
00:23:56.000Barbaric and getting crucified, and they were like, okay, look what they had to work with, man.
00:24:00.000You have to start with, like, hold on, maybe...
00:24:03.000Love your enemy as you love yourself or these ideas that are unifying these ideas that could create real peace because you need the peace if you are looking at what's coming is the formation of a baby then whatever early religion is Propagating any kind of Diminishment in war any kind of or even the attempt to reduce violence then you're looking at this it's kind of like trying to create the pod within which this thing can grow because we need peace
00:24:33.000we need stability in whatever way we can get get to now I'm not saying that the creators of the buy of the New Testament the the Gospels were like shit man we better come up with this ridiculous idea so that there can be robots in the future Yeah,
00:24:53.000It's part of the process, which is why it's so ironic that the people saying there's an invisible God who wants them to kill other people, while they're doing all this, the actual God is in the birthing process in the laboratories and universities and think tanks of the planet.
00:25:11.000It's oozing through the human imagination And manifesting is all these high-tech technologies that have, as one of their by-products, the tendency to heal.
00:25:22.000You're talking about people 3D printing their fucking artificial limbs now?
00:25:37.000He went around healing people, and you're seeing the very same thing.
00:25:42.000The cancer prognosis, at least in a lot of cases, is much better than it ever has been.
00:25:50.000Not to mention the treatment of all the varieties of maladies that we have.
00:25:53.000I'm not saying Western medicine is the ultimate thing, but it is Helping people live longer and healing people, and it can be a very beautiful force.
00:26:05.000It also is an incredibly destructive force, too, but it has a lot of wonderful byproducts.
00:26:10.000So I think that it's incredibly ironic that those folks can't see it.
00:26:15.000They're looking for a god that was invented.
00:26:19.000When the actual God is right in front of them in all the high-tech shit that we see scattered around this planet.
00:26:30.000Well, it exists in the universe wanting us to create it.
00:26:34.000Whatever the fuck is inside of people that makes us want to breed and make buildings and keep pushing forward It's also the same thing that gives us almost universally a desire for better shit all the time Yeah, almost universally people are starting to be so entrenched into this idea of technological innovation that All the new shit,
00:27:23.000And this idea that that's success, and that's based on not happiness, no, not the amount of positive interactions you have between loved ones, nope, not that, no.
00:27:35.000How much shit you got, how many zeros and ones, how much of a What boost are you giving to this system that's trying to give birth to an artificial intelligence?
00:28:24.000It's using every little bit of nutrients that's floating around our paradigm as being absorbed into this being.
00:28:33.000And, you know, sometimes like bees, right?
00:28:36.000Bees, they're working fucking hard, right?
00:28:38.000They're out there getting pollen and And I know this is dumb because I don't know how a bee might think, but I bet that the bee isn't thinking, fuck man, I've got to get more pollen for the fucking hive.
00:28:53.000I think it's thinking, God, flowers feel I feel so good to roll around inside of.
00:28:58.000I just love rolling around inside of flowers.
00:29:01.000And I think in the same way, humans, when they're doing all these things that seem like recreation and leisure and hedonism, they don't realize it, but they're building the machine, too.
00:29:13.000They're building the machine by their desire for more heightened levels of hedonism, for heightened levels of sense gratification, for heightened ability to express themselves or to bring what's in their mind out into the world.
00:29:25.000They're all worker bees that are helping to push forward the birth of whatever this thing is that is currently fermenting in the womb of time.
00:30:36.000The description of what's happening as we approach this event, he compares it to an airplane accelerating.
00:30:44.000And the more you accelerate, the more turbulence you get.
00:30:48.000And so, as we exit whatever the atmosphere is of the current time period that we're existing in and move into this next place that they're calling the Singularity, there's going to be some turbulence.
00:31:01.000There's going to be some serious fucking bumps, man.
00:31:06.000There's going to be bumps no matter what.
00:31:08.000If we don't do this, there's going to be bumps.
00:31:10.000If every scientist on earth was like, you know what?
00:31:13.000Let's not work on AI. Let's not try to harness this power.
00:31:17.000Let's keep technology exactly where it is right now.
00:31:26.000Like if all technology stopped advancing right now, how would we be fucked?
00:31:30.000Because the problems that are emerging right now are so fucking severe that The idea that a human being or human intelligence is going to be able to solve a lot of them, that's an optimistic idea.
00:31:46.000We're looking at ice caps fucking melting.
00:31:48.000We're looking at people all over the world just out of control humping.
00:31:55.000Like people, they're just, they're just, they're filling up Pussies with babies left and right.
00:32:13.000Whatever that means, guaranteed, right now, there's 50,000 people in California with their sprinklers on full blast, watching their sweet green yard.
00:32:24.000They know there's one year of water left in California.
00:33:03.000But, you know, my point is we've got some serious difficulties facing us.
00:33:10.000A lot of the stuff that we need to fix some of these problems is that technology doesn't quite exist yet, but we do know that it's coming based on the very predictable acceleration that's happening that they call Moore's Law.
00:33:26.000So we know, okay, well, we can kind of guesstimate how fast computers are going to be in 10 years based on that concept, and we can look at The problems that simulators currently are capable of solving, what kind of problems can a simulator that has the power of every human brain on the planet solve?
00:33:46.000If you ask that, how to deal with the ice caps melting or overpopulation or some disease running rampant...
00:33:56.000What would you think would be move number one?
00:34:31.000Like, nobody wants to look at that huge fucking patch of garbage that's floating around the Pacific Ocean that all these scientists are terrified of.
00:35:08.000See, that's part of what technology can do is it can connect people.
00:35:12.000I mean, look at how great it is at raising money.
00:35:16.000Look at how powerful it is when it comes to...
00:35:19.000Any kind of goal that you want as a society, just what you were saying is like, a lot of us are so brainwashed that we think, well, I hope the government handles this problem.
00:35:29.000But the governments aren't the ones who are going to be transforming the earth.
00:35:33.000It's going to be the super-connected citizens who are using technology to manifest their will in hopefully positive ways.
00:36:00.000I mean, everyone might as well just give up the idea that in some way this thing is being stopped and everyone just has to accept the fact that this stuff is coming and also accept the fact that the world is a fuckload better than a lot of people think.
00:36:16.000And that's a big, big shift that needs to happen.
00:36:19.000I mean, I think, you know, even as we figure out how to deal with the oceans or any great problem facing us, there also needs to be a deep and prolonged inner work that people need to be having with themselves.
00:36:36.000Because our amygdalas are going fucking nuts right now.
00:39:21.000But you see, you're talking about this.
00:39:25.000It's very similar to a lot of mystical conceptualizations of the way human life is, which is that human beings are antennas for a transcendent intelligence that tunes into the specific genetic...
00:39:40.000Code that is inside of every person, that unique code is like a radio station that the vast, supernatural, undiscovered, transcendent cloud of consciousness that they used to call God tunes into or is channeled through.
00:40:47.000Do you think there's really a conscious effort, like people love what's going on, like they actually enjoy it?
00:40:53.000Or do you think that it's just this inevitable thing that people are trying to profit off of in one way or another, be a part of it, benefit from, just ride this wave, just stay on the board as long as you can?
00:41:03.000Do you think it's more of that than it is like they love it because it's good for business?
00:41:09.000That's how we would like to look at the government.
00:41:19.000I just interviewed Doblin, and he's talking about going into the Pentagon to talk about using MDMA to treat PTSD with these high-level people, and they're not like you, Doblin.
00:41:52.000But also in there, there's great people who really want the world to be better and to think that just because you end up with a government job therefore means you're evil is the most ridiculous, stupid idea of all time.
00:42:11.000We enjoy telling jokes, and we have a podcast, and I think we both have our own desire to help the world.
00:42:16.000But some people, they want to help the world so fucking bad that through high school they volunteer, they get out of high school, go to fucking college, join the Peace Corps, and they give their entire lives up Making very little money to try to help people.
00:42:33.000And those people, sometimes they get into the military and sometimes they get into the government because they see that as the most efficient, obvious way of helping the world.
00:42:42.000And so, yeah, we can't do the whole black and white thing anymore.
00:42:44.000But some of those people are not, oh, let's have AI. Some of those people are just like us.
00:44:12.000The kind of guy who's not trying to fuck you over, just wants to have fun with his friends, is very creative, very intelligent, and very considerate.
00:44:54.000Realize if they're gone, if like all that criminal corrupt bullshit that we think of when we think of the worst aspects of government, if all that shit goes away, then you know what we're left with?
00:45:20.000Like, we all take turns running the government.
00:45:23.000Like, everybody gets a week, you know?
00:45:25.000And it's a fucking very, you know, It's a very prestigious job.
00:45:29.000Everybody gets very excited about the possibility of representing our country for a week.
00:45:33.000And you go there, and you do your best to do the will of the people, you make rational choices, you all try to talk it through, and everybody knows it's very possible one day you're gonna get called, man.
00:45:43.000You're gonna get called, and they're gonna ask you to be the president for a week.
00:45:46.000And you gotta step in, because you're a I'm a fucking American, and that's what we do.
00:45:49.000And I go, Duncan Trussell, you are our president for the week.
00:45:52.000And you'll go on TV, and you go, I am so not prepared, but I promise, as an American, I am going to do my best to do what's right, to do what's ethical, and to do what benefits the greater humanity of the world.
00:46:04.000And I'm going to do it day after tomorrow, because I procrastinate everything.
00:46:08.000But my trainer's coming over, and I have to beat off.
00:46:14.000But if that was what happened, everybody got to be the president for a week.
00:46:22.000What you're talking about is a beautiful idea, and I think that it's possible.
00:46:26.000I think that's another crazy thing about this time, Warren, is it's possible.
00:46:30.000When people hear that, you know, and obviously you're...
00:46:34.000We're not talking about that literally, but with ideas like, when people hear what you're saying, any kind of optimism right now, in general, in the world, is met with a pretty severe eye roll.
00:46:59.000Their pockets are loaded with so much fucking dough and they have been so conditioned by a game that dehumanizes people to the point where they no longer see giant swaths of humans in other countries as people.
00:47:15.000It is important to realize that these wolves that you're talking about, we're talking about a different species here, friend.
00:47:20.000If you look at, like, what's going on in the UK with these organized pedophile rings that seem to consist of people in the highest level of government.
00:47:50.000And that's horrifying to imagine because you know this we hear it.
00:47:52.000It's so funny to hear with the UK government and people are like, what?
00:47:56.000But now you hear about a priest doing it and people are like, yeah, that just happens.
00:48:01.000It's like you're looking at, you know, an organized System that has as part of the destructive result that it reaps on the planet also psychically wounding children in the worst way possible.
00:48:20.000That the reason that that isn't as grim and horrible as it sounds is because the difference today as opposed to 30 years ago is that we get to say it in front of however many zillions of people listen to your podcast and that info instantly travels around the world.
00:48:38.000Thirty years ago, if you think that if there truly is an organized group of pedophiles that have as their membership high-ranking government officials, not just probably in the UK, but in the United States too, if that really does exist,
00:48:54.000it didn't just start Today, or last week, or two years ago, that's been around for a long, long time.
00:49:02.000So the difference between back then and now is that shit is getting everywhere.
00:49:08.000Everyone on planet Earth is aware of this investigation.
00:49:12.000You can't get that genie back in the bottle, even though I think a lot of people are trying.
00:49:16.000They're saying that the whistleblowers for this are not going to have immunity.
00:49:21.000That's one thing that the government has said.
00:49:22.000If you're a whistleblower for this weird ring of pedophiles, no immunity.
00:49:30.000There seems to be an element that is trying to push this shit down, of course, because if it's true, that some speculate that even members of the royal family could be involved in this shit.
00:49:59.000A deep, dark, David Lynch-level shitcoaster.
00:50:05.000Twin Peaks style, worms deep in the ground.
00:50:10.000But the positive thing is they're getting exposed in a way that they could never have been exposed before.
00:50:16.000So, yeah, I think that any kind of darkness that is Existing on the world, it's very good to use the example of wolves being driven up a hill with torches.
00:50:26.000It's just in this case, the torches are Edwards, the torchbearers are Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, all the whistleblowers who have the fucking guts to reveal and illuminate this probably pretty built-in old system of humans that have Victimized children.
00:50:48.000Victimized children and the world and the planet and seem to take a lot of pleasure from victimizing other human beings.
00:50:56.000Do you think that the reason why this stuff exists more in the older countries, the reason why this system might be in place in somewhere like the UK, I mean, there's this horrible reality, like that Jimmy Seville guy,
00:51:11.000that guy that was the presenter, On television.
00:51:48.000And the people that are trapped there, it might take them longer to shake that shit out.
00:51:52.000Yeah, well, especially if you look at the epigenetic research coming out, the idea that phobias get passed down genetically from one generation to the next, then you're also kind of looking at...
00:52:05.000It's a really curious thing, and this is pure woo-woo hippie ramble, so I get it.
00:52:10.000Everybody out there is going to tweet something how wrong this is, but I was thinking like these countries where war has been going on forever.
00:52:19.000If what they're saying about epigenetics is correct and that phobias get passed down somehow chromosomally, then if there's a place where war has been happening long enough, then there is the potential that...
00:52:34.000Encoded genetically into the people who've been living there is like all the phobias and fears and terror that comes from living in a war zone for hundreds and hundreds of years.
00:52:54.000That the problem that we are experiencing is not just our own inner turmoil that comes from all the loss and catastrophe that is inevitable in human life, but that we're also dealing with all the turmoil and catastrophe of our ancestors.
00:53:07.000And that, you know, the United States, it's been, you know, our wars are happening elsewhere.
00:53:13.000That's one of the spoiled brat aspects of our war-like country, is that we don't experience what it's like to hear the hum of a drone and suddenly have the incineration of a landmark that we have grown up around.
00:53:31.000That's why the motto of the Weather Underground, that terrorist organization that was trying, the Homeland Terror organization that was trying to protest Vietnam, their motto was bring the war back home.
00:53:41.000They wanted to blow up buildings in the United States to demonstrate to people, this is what it looks like when bombs go off.
00:53:51.000So if this epigenetic shit is correct, a lot of people living in the United States, they're not going to have the same kind of phobias in their chromosomes that people living in countries that have been exposed to war for hundreds of years would have.
00:54:05.000Yeah, there's no getting around it, right?
00:54:08.000If you look at, like, bees, like you look at a bee that makes a beehive, We were talking about bees earlier today, like what it would be like to be a bee, right?
00:54:24.000How do they figure out that they're supposed to go get the nectar, and then they're covered with pollen, and then they fly over to the other flower?
00:54:35.000I think it's a frequency that their structure is tuning into.
00:54:41.000Like if you saw a remote control car, a tiny little remote control car, zipping around on the table, and it was like avoiding obstacles and going to exactly where it would go.
00:54:51.000If you were like, let me look inside the car to find the way that it's able to figure all this shit out, you would be missing what was really happening, which is that the car is tuning in to a frequency that is...
00:55:48.000Well, and you get into like, you know, dimensional stuff where it's like, okay, if it's epigenetics and if information is being transferred, not just in writing, And not just in the teachings of the parents to the kids, but chromosomally,
00:56:04.000then that means that every living entity is the very tip of a temporal appendage that stretches all the way back to the Big Bang.
00:56:15.000So it's not just an ant, it's the end of the genetic line of that particular entity.
00:56:20.000Ant's family tree that goes all the way back through time, and it's transferring information via chromosomes.
00:56:29.000You're looking at the very tip of a...
00:56:31.000It's like what Douglas Adams said about mice in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, that mice were actually the very tip of the appendages of a super intelligent creature that likes to study scientists.
00:56:53.000But in the same way, it's like every single one of us is just the tip of this temporal appendage erupting into this fucking dimension connected to us, theoretically, by the way.
00:57:05.000Don't ever fucking show some of us stoner one internet article on epigenetics or you won't suddenly become a doctor of epigenetics.
00:57:17.000But if that stuff is true, man, and memories are being transferred chromosomally, then that means that we are the very end of a telephone wire that goes back through all our ancestors all the way down to proto-hominids and before that to whatever fucking shit we were in the beginning.
00:57:34.000And that information is like zinging up through time and is determining, possibly determining, what we like and what we don't like.
00:58:15.000Everybody who's left is still believing shit that was written down on tablets because they never got a fresh influx of DNA. They're still dealing with the old operating system.
00:58:24.000They have Windows 95 on their machines.
00:59:00.000Listen, man, if you live in a country where war is happening all the time, you got a lot to work with, man.
00:59:05.000There's a lot of shit that you've seen and a lot of fear that you've seen, that you've witnessed.
00:59:11.000This interview I did with Doblin was really cool.
00:59:14.000He's talking about how one of the folks that helps out at MAPS is one of the Rockefeller descendants, and I can't remember his name now, but who...
00:59:26.000He's recognized that in these war-torn parts of the world, if you really want to heal the psychic damage that has been done to these people, it's going to require MDMA-assisted psychotherapy or some kind of psychotropic substance where you could get in there and Help deal with these traumatic memories that people have over there.
00:59:48.000That has to be a part of reconstruction, is not just going and building, not just blowing a place up and then flying in and being like, alright, we'll help you build it back up, guys.
01:00:53.000There's one part of me that's like, I know that the combination of these technologies along with a shift towards the positive or the concerted effort by a certain number of people to turn their attention to the potentiality of our species can create an incredible change in the planet.
01:01:10.000And then there's another part of me That's like, no, friend, no.
01:01:15.000Nuclear proliferation, biological weapons, there's no fucking way to like...
01:01:26.000Because if we look at life right now, no nuclear war, no biological war, why would we think that's inevitable?
01:01:33.000If we're smart enough to avoid that right now, with all the conflicts over mineral rights and oil in the fucking Antarctic region and the Soviet Union's planting flags and new spots near Greenland or wherever the fuck they are, we're still not blowing each other up.
01:01:47.000Why do we have to think that that shit's inevitable?
01:01:53.000Human beings are not tolerating the shit like overall that we did before people are more aware of what we're talking about before Yeah, it's one of the reason why it's so horrific when you see acts of violence today When you see someone blowing up a mosque today when you see someone gunning down people at a synagogue any crazy religious motivated things Especially innocent people that you don't even know but they were the wrong religion So you gunned them down like this is the worst representation of the human mindset.
01:02:17.000Yes When you're seeing that and you're seeing the potential, you're seeing this potential for oneness, almost like a DMT trip.
01:02:28.000You're almost seeing like a living, breathing DMT trip that is around it.
01:02:34.000It's got these organic, frustrated souls trapped in terrible scenarios without any of it being their doing.
01:05:05.000That if we're really gonna, like, make this a better planet, then more and more and more and more and more, we have to abandon these antiquated symbol structures.
01:05:13.000We have to turn our eyes away from our addiction to the past and, like, focus on the now.
01:06:51.000The fucking guns that are coming, man.
01:06:53.000The shit that's coming down the pipes.
01:06:56.000The fact that you're going to be able to have some wet works bio lab in your basement and harvest some kind of weird shit, the weaponry that's going to be accessible to people in the future is going to be way more powerful than what we have now, and that's the scary part.
01:07:11.000Don't you think that's kind of built into this system?
01:07:13.000That in order for us to progress to this next level, the only thing that's holding us back is that there's going to be a certain amount of people that are left behind.
01:07:25.000So the idea is this system is almost ensuring by providing almost everyone with the same technological capabilities to destroy the world that we all have to get it together.
01:07:36.000Like you have to force people to take care of all the fucked up spots.
01:07:40.000We have to literally embrace the idea of us as a super organism.
01:07:45.000And any spot we see that's sick, we have to heal it immediately.
01:07:49.000We can't look at some cancerous thing and go, I'm not even going to get that checked out.
01:08:00.000Skid Row is a, if you haven't been and you go to LA, you really should go through downtown and see Skid Row because it's shocking.
01:08:07.000It's one of the most densely packed representations Of people with mental health issues, people despondent, drug addicts, all these, all jammed into this area and they're all living out of boxes.
01:08:20.000And it's like, it's one of those things where you just go, okay, what is, is anyone going to do anything?
01:09:24.000But that's where you get into real interesting terrain, which is that, okay, because the thing that you're talking about, I'm pretty sure, going in and cleaning up the cancer...
01:11:16.000I don't think those kids should have to pull themselves up by their bootstraps.
01:11:19.000I think there should be a way that we prevent these people that live in the worst spots in the world From continuing with that horrible state of living, that horrible quality of life, where you're getting sick all the time.
01:11:35.000Justin Wren, who's a friend of mine from the UFC, he used to fight in the UFC, and now he's been working with the Kongos and the Pygmies.
01:11:42.000And these pygmies in the Congo are like the sweetest people and he helps them.
01:11:49.000Yeah, and we get people to donate money on Bitcoin and I matched the money and then we bought wells.
01:11:56.000Dude, this guy's the coolest, but these people, they didn't ask to be born there, man.
01:12:01.000And they have these bulging stomachs because these little kids have all these parasites inside of them and they have bad water and it's one of the reasons why so many of them get sick.
01:12:25.000What we have to do is make sure that all those spots where there's people, all those spots where there's people, they get brought up to the normal way of living.
01:13:36.000You can instantaneously, right now, by calling the number on your screen, you can instantaneously, right now, no doubt about it, within the next hour, regardless of your economic situation, Give some percentage of what you have in a way that's probably barely going to affect your life to some cause that in mass would create what you're talking about.
01:14:00.000The healing beam, the transformation, the shift.
01:15:27.000Anyway, very, very cool and interesting guy.
01:15:30.000And he was talking about this very thing.
01:15:33.000Well, you know, this very thing is, this is a lot, you know about Singularity University, Kurzweil, and I think his name's Diamandes, you wrote this book Abundance, I can never get his name right, but, so basically the idea is, What are the world's big problems?
01:15:52.000How do we fix them using the law of accelerating returns?
01:15:57.000The thing you're doing right now is almost as important as fixing the problem.
01:16:03.000It's like what Tim Ferriss told me when he was interviewing super wealthy people.
01:16:34.000And how do we use this new technology, this new emergent technology to get that to people?
01:16:40.000Well, this is what this guy's specialty is.
01:16:42.000One of his specialties is using neurofeedback to cure people of ADHD, to cure people of all sorts of issues by figuring out a way to give them, to empower them how to manipulate their brainwaves.
01:17:16.000Some of the stuff that they've created, they've been able to eliminate seizures in people who are epileptic by giving them the ability to manipulate the way their mind works.
01:17:25.000Like changing the gears in your mind, teaching you how to manipulate it and move it and train it.
01:18:10.000So this guy is talking about it from a neuroscientist standpoint, so it's really interesting to get a guy who really knows what the fuck he's talking about kind of affirm what your suspicions might be in some sort of a vague way.
01:18:25.000You mean your suspicions being like the reset that comes from a super-duper psychedelic trip?
01:18:52.000Like, everybody's playing these roles in it, and everyone's really committed to the game in the most intense way possible.
01:18:58.000And you get so committed to the particular role that you're playing, whatever it may be, that you forget that that's just one role out of an infinite number of possible ways that you could be.
01:19:10.000You don't have to be stuck in In your current system of predilections, or to really break it down, people are either attracted to certain, people tend to be attracted to things or repelled by things.
01:19:58.000Meditation is another way to figure it out.
01:20:00.000It seems like whoever we are, whoever we are, we are operating on some sort of an operating system.
01:20:07.000And that operating system is your personality.
01:20:09.000It's like it allows you to go through this life with some sort of a weird semblance of how things are going to be because you know how they just were.
01:20:38.000Or the death of a loved one could have a similar effect, you know.
01:20:43.000Obviously much more tragic and much more difficult to get out of but if you know you talk to someone and they lost a loved one Regular trivial bullshit is really not gonna affect them the same way It's gonna affect someone who's living a bored life who wants to gossip about shit if someone loses their mom They don't want to gossip about nothing man You know,
01:21:01.000it's like there's just this reality of things that's totally different.
01:21:04.000People can go, and when they go, you're gonna miss them.
01:21:29.000You're gonna die too, and everyone's gonna die, and everyone's already died.
01:21:33.000There's so many people died before you.
01:21:35.000And then somewhere in there, cause you know man, that thing you're talking about there, the waking up that happens from a death that involves grief.
01:21:46.000That's like the very beginning part of the thing that you're given when a parent dies.
01:21:52.000But then the next thing you're given after that is pretty fucking incredible, which is that you realize that they don't seem to be gone.
01:22:02.000Even though their physical body isn't here anymore, you really do...
01:22:08.000Feel them in certain ways inside of you not in a delusional way like oh the spirit of my mom is following me around but it feels like you can feel your mom and your heart all the time always there all the love that they give you all this thing behind all the bullshit everyone's got bullshit because we're human beings but the thing behind all that that's what sticks around inside of you and it's really it's really beautiful and I think you know whenever I take a DMT trip because my tendency is for my attention to go to the grief
01:22:38.000for my attention to go to the oh God I don't want to die and I don't want to lose anybody else and I can't believe how many people are gonna die and everyone's gonna that my attention habitually goes to there but whenever you like smoke DMT one thing that I've noticed when I've done it outside of whatever the statute of limitations is is that You're immediately given this view of one of the most beautiful things you've ever seen in your life.
01:23:23.000And you're like somebody you just had a hard day at work and just walked into the ultimate surprise party where everyone's like And it's like, oh god, it's beautiful, but I'm so fucking tired.
01:24:06.000And that's the identity reset that I think they're talking about.
01:24:10.000And it's so possible, because that's a game.
01:24:12.000The game of the hunched-over businessman with the briefcase and the weary face and the big sighs and the depressed tweets and the, oh man, this fucking world is...
01:25:39.000It's the best to come home and put the fucking briefcase down and take the sigh and sink down into your couch and now you've got an excuse to slurp back that fucking whiskey that you've been trying to pour all over your happiness that's frozen under the fucking ice of the role that you're playing.
01:25:56.000It's fun to be like that, but the psychedelic, the mushroom, the psychedelic reminds you.
01:26:34.000And whenever you're ready to accept that, we're right here for you.
01:26:36.000And that sucks, because if you're really hooked on being Elliott Smith, and you're really getting off on that fucking dark hell that you're in, it's a little annoying to realize, like, you're fucking giving away the thing, man!
01:26:53.000He had to get carried around during My Left Foot by the Crew, because he committed so much to the role of being a paraplegic that they had to carry him from one place to the next, because the way he acts, it's incredibly disruptive to him if people talk to him as Daniel Day-Lewis,
01:27:10.000that he wants to be the role that he's in.
01:27:12.000So in the same way, when DMT comes along and is like, Mr. Lewis, no!
01:28:07.000But, you know, if you're a business, it's not being a businessman is any better or worse than any other role that you're playing.
01:28:12.000It's what's bad is when you forget that you're playing the role.
01:28:15.000Well, the realization that you've come to while on a psychedelic trip That'll have to be almost the realization that everybody comes to when technology and information, like, they meet head-on.
01:28:31.000When we hit the fork in the road, the tip of the spear.
01:28:35.000If you get to the part where both sides are moving in, like, an unstoppable pace.
01:28:48.000If more people don't know about it, if more people don't experience this pause in history where people across the entire planet are waking up and saying, wait a minute, this thing, this whole thing might not be what we think it is.
01:29:05.000This whole thing might not be what we think it is.
01:29:08.000This crazy desire that we have is finite life forms to build a nest egg and put together some fucking structure somewhere that you're gonna stuff with shit.
01:29:17.000And doing so, in doing so, feed this weird machine.
01:29:21.000You're throwing money into it and it's chewing the money out.
01:29:26.000It's got its robot legs in the air, and its robot pussies quivering, and it's just throwing money into its robot tits, and it's just chewing that robot money up, and it's ready to give birth.
01:29:38.000It's ready to give birth to some sentient, super intelligent thing that will then give birth to other sentient, super intelligent things that will figure out a way to completely rewire the entire Earth.
01:29:50.000All of our waste will then be converted into a positive Everything that's negative, all pollution will be engineered out of commission and into some sort of oxygen cleaning machine that fuels itself on pollution to the point where it gets to a certain point and when it runs out it just spits flowers.
01:30:09.000When it runs out it takes whatever remnants and shoots flowers into the sky and that's where you walk.
01:30:15.000You're gonna have rose petals falling from the street because the sky is gonna be perfectly clear.
01:31:52.000The amount it would have cost to light your house prior to electricity with wax candles or lanterns is so much more expensive than the amount it costs to light your house now.
01:32:54.000So that's something we've got to figure out.
01:32:56.000And then there's a few other biggies like that.
01:32:58.000And people like him are of the opinion that these are very solvable problems based on current predictions involving the direction that technology is going in.
01:33:09.000And Kurzweil's Fucking predictions are coming true, man.
01:33:12.000There's a lot of people who roll their eyes at him.
01:33:15.000Wozniak recently came out and said, you know, he used to think that stuff was crap, but now he's realizing it's true.
01:33:57.000That's gonna be so bizarre if that really does happen if they can figure out a way to Download your consciousness into a computer if that really becomes right now It's like it's it's one of those things that they're working on but it seems like a pipe dream right doesn't it to you still what Consciousness downloading consciousness into a computer that seems like a pipe dream It seems like a pipe dream until okay,
01:34:39.000It's in some exact configuration, or maybe in the deepest levels, it's kind of like harmonic vibrations or weird resonances that are happening in the nanotubules of your dendrites or something.
01:34:51.000But regardless, this thing in front of me right now, the idea is if I duplicate it exactly, Is it going to be you?
01:35:01.000Is it going to be exactly you as you are right now?
01:35:04.000And if we really are antenna, then yeah, it's going to tune in the thing that you're tuning in.
01:35:09.000And maybe both of you will be tuning in at the same time.
01:35:13.000Maybe there'll be this weird sense of being stretched into two different forms.
01:35:19.000Maybe you will actually have to extinguish one form to experience the other one.
01:35:25.000Well, that would be the ultimate pull, right?
01:35:26.000If they can prove that that form, the form of...
01:35:30.000Virtual life is more rewarding more powerful more beautiful I mean if you went into a virtual life if you plugged into the matrix and you were in avatar and you're in love with that blue chick Yeah, you're just flying around dragons together.
01:35:46.000I mean it might feel amazing It might feel just wonderful, right?
01:35:50.000I mean, okay, so it's like okay Let's imagine that we could do this.
01:35:55.000Just because we've gotten to the point in history where through some form of analysis we can scan the human body and tune consciousness in in a virtual land, right?
01:36:10.000It's just temporarily your consciousness has been transferred into Avatar world where you're flying dragons, making love to these Amazonian blue-skinned women.
01:36:20.000Imagine Like an hour and a half of living in this planet when you knew you had to come back.
01:36:44.000And you realize you have to earn your keep, even in the virtual world.
01:36:48.000They don't tell you that until you sign up.
01:36:50.000Nobody would sign up if we told them that.
01:36:51.000But you have to be our virtual slave to pay for your virtual account so you can keep riding virtual dragons.
01:36:57.000And here, I want to show you something really funny.
01:36:59.000And then it goes to the webcam or the computer you're body sitting in front of, and it's just some guy's mouth-fucking your paralyzed meat body.
01:38:15.000We think he had some sort of a seizure, and when he returned, he thought that he'd lived for seven years in the clouds with giant blue people.
01:40:01.000And you told me about this video that you saw.
01:40:03.000Like, explain the video of going up to that piano.
01:40:06.000Oh yeah, the video, this is like, you know, and shit's gotten like five, probably ten times better since this, by the way, but this was, it's a demo of Oculus Rift, and you put this on, and suddenly you're like in a loft in New York,
01:40:22.000and you're Watching this guy who's like looking at you like he knows you and he's smoking a cigarette and he starts playing piano and you look around you're in a fucking loft man it looks like it's like tracked perfectly it was it looks you're just suddenly in this other place and it feels really intimate like it feels like you know the guy this is before I tried VR porn by the way which I must have told you made me stumble I must have told you about that.
01:41:31.000Yeah, you're going to put some kind of sleeve on your cock that is going to perfectly replicate exactly what's happening inside the VR. Do you think you'd be a one-pump chump under those circumstances?
01:43:26.000And it's already incredibly engrossing just in 2D space.
01:43:29.000So when suddenly you find yourself in a room that's not your room with a girl that you've never seen in your life riding you and looking at you like she really loves you and then you look down and it's not your body anymore and that's not your cock and you look back up at this beautiful girl who seems to really like she's known you for a long time it seems like you're in a really good part of your relationship you know what I mean like that's
01:44:00.000the one that I saw but it's like for a lot of people I think that's going to be real hard to come back from.
01:44:08.000It's going to be real hard to peel those goggles off and walk into your living room where your wife is passed out on the sofa and maybe your blanket falls down and all the farts that have been held in there from the...
01:44:24.000Campbell's chunky soup that she ate earlier come wafting up into your face.
01:44:31.000And you look down at your body and it's just a normal body.
01:44:35.000It's not the ripped, tattooed dude who was fucking whoever that girl was and You're gonna, like, have this strange kind of virtual jet lag where you have to accept that the paradigm that you're existing in is not a perfect paradigm.
01:44:51.000That's gonna be hard for a lot of people to deal with, I think.
01:45:07.000They're going to figure out a way to tap those ideas directly into your brain.
01:45:12.000You're going to be able to experience it.
01:45:13.000You're going to be able to experience it.
01:45:14.000I think it's probably going to come in the form, obviously I have no idea what the fuck I'm talking about.
01:45:19.000But if I had a guess, like if I had just random speculation on the future, I think we're gonna find a way to record memories on a device in HD. They're gonna find a way to either do something with the eyes or figure out a way through something you wear to tune in To the reality that you're experiencing from head to toe.
01:45:46.000Record it on some sort of a hard drive, a little tiny flash thing, and we'll have a little flash thing in the back of our head, or who knows, man.
01:45:55.000Maybe it'll even all just be in the cloud all around you all the time.
01:46:16.000And when I start with it, Jimi Hendrix's manic depression is playing.
01:46:20.000You wake up snowboarding in your body, listening to Jimi Hendrix, and I'm living your life for the next Hour, two hours that you recorded this and put it up on YouTube.
01:48:15.000That's going to be weird to think that we're going to be able to resurrect anyone whose DNA still exists and drop them into video games and torture them just for fun.
01:48:25.000Well that, when you were talking about porn being a real problem, the other thing that's gonna be a real problem is that, video games.
01:48:32.000Video games are gonna be a crazy problem.
01:48:34.000Because as awesome as they are now, dude, I get jealous.
01:48:44.000He's the guy who runs Mega Upload, and they took all of his money.
01:48:49.000It's like this crazy thing with America.
01:48:52.000They're saying he's fleeing justice because he won't come to America, stays in New Zealand.
01:48:57.000And reports are he's the coolest guy ever.
01:48:59.000He seems very very very very very cool and For whatever reason anyway, the point is they should they had this tour of his house and You know he's kind of going over the details of his case But I was watching like his video game rooms got like a room where he plays this fucking game I can't even watch it for a few minutes.
01:50:02.000It was one of the coolest things ever, dude.
01:50:04.000He's right about indoctrinated, too, because it is an indoctrination.
01:50:07.000And the people who, like, indoctrinate you, like my pal Johnny Ross, when he brought me to this special room to try this VR shit out, he's like, get ready.
01:50:58.000So this magic leap, it lets holograms appear in front of you and they're spinning, this person in this video is spinning these holograms and moving them around and stretching them and touching them as if they're the interface on a computer.
01:51:16.000So he's about to play a video game right now in his head.
01:52:11.000We're going to develop super warriors because they're going to be constantly running around playing video games on one of those omnidirectional treadmills.
01:53:31.000But the idea of, like, you know, just cool shit, like, as you're driving, your tweets, or any tweets that you come flying into your car, or, you know, tweets will become 3D things floating around people, or My friend Pemberton says it's all going to be...
01:53:50.000He says that it's going to be like credit is going to become the new form of elitism and that in your augmented reality land your credit score can float around you.
01:54:21.000The number of Twitter followers you have is some kind of indication of your fame.
01:54:26.000So that kind of shit, people are going to figure out ways to To wear it in augmented reality space in kind of subtle ways, but ways that people can see it.
01:54:34.000It used to be if you wanted to brag about your success, the way you would visualize it was by wearing gold.
01:57:32.000I'd say 10 years and we're all using some form of augmented reality technology.
01:57:38.000But all these people, man, when you ask them, the people who are really in the know about this, when you ask them, what do you predict in 10 years, they're like, forget it, man.
01:57:50.000You want me to tell you What things are gonna look like when they're five times as fast as they are now?
01:57:58.000You want me to predict what kind of innovations come from an Apple computer five times as fast as the fastest Apple computer on planet Earth?
01:59:36.000He was running from the cops, but it was more important to him to continue broadcasting shitty music over the forbidden skies to fight the power that it was to stay free.
02:02:39.000That's one of the funniest people ever.
02:02:41.000If he did a real, if they did the exact same script, exactly the way it happened, I bet it would be one of the funniest movies of all time.
02:03:54.000Because he's a guy that gets jacked, and then, I don't want to, spoiler alert, Roadhouse, but he's a guy that gets jacked, and then the Patrick Swayze guy has to go in and kick some ass.
02:05:37.000Because I had a point, but we were both so energetic and so energized to say, but I had a point about super left-wing people, and I totally lost it in mid-thought.
02:05:49.000I think you did a pretty good job talking about how they disguise their aggression in the clothes of whatever the thing is they're doing.
02:05:58.000Some people are going to use symbol structures to try to make the world a better place, and some people are going to use symbol structures to punch you with.
02:06:05.000It's like somebody who's putting on a boxing glove that's like...
02:06:39.000The only way to fix this thing is if we all really do have some sort of ultimate power, like if technology continues to exponentially increase to the point where the average person can just hit the universe reset switch, there's too much power.
02:06:56.000Singularity moment where the average person has weight you mean the power that you have on your phone is so Indescribable to someone who lives in ancient Rome.
02:07:04.000It's all it's indescribable And if it continues that way and somehow or another the cat gets out of the bag and they invent some way To literally everybody has the power to stop life as we know it at any given time.
02:07:16.000Yeah, and That's the only way everybody looks at everybody as just as important as them.
02:07:22.000It's really almost the only way to cure the disease that is the craziness of humanity.
02:07:26.000The craziness of humanity is like this weird thing where...
02:07:31.000Two human beings can either be madly in love or the best of friends or so appreciative of each other or at each other's throats trying to kill each other with their fingers.
02:07:45.000Like trying to hit each other in the head with rocks fighting.
02:07:48.000It could easily happen one way or the other.
02:07:52.000And the amount of times that it happens the right way is incredible.
02:07:56.000If you look at the numbers that we're dealing with, 300-plus million people in this country, the amount of kindness and the amount of happiness is off the charts.
02:08:09.000It doesn't scare us so we don't focus on it.
02:08:12.000And by not focusing on it and instead focusing on fear or focusing on hate or focusing on blame, we sort of perpetrate it.
02:08:21.000And the more people could focus on figuring out a way to just interface as nicely with all the people around you as possible, as friendly and easily with all the people around you as possible, the more you can figure out a way to do that,