Seth Rogen says he's glad he didn't have kids, and why it's a good thing. Plus, a story about how Seth and his wife get more enjoyment out of not having kids than most other people do.
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00:01:19.000You know, what's interesting to me is that You hear a lot of celebrities now, and it's become this sort of like popular thing to say, oh, we're glad we didn't have kids.
00:01:31.000We're successful because we didn't have kids.
00:02:25.000Don't get me wrong, people vent, right?
00:02:27.000People are gonna vent here and there, but to put out a statement about that, where it's like, I'm glad I never had children, or on the flip side, I wish I had never had children, it just doesn't happen.
00:02:39.000I feel like it's so much more a political statement than a statement about reality.
00:02:54.000They say, oh, you know, I don't have children and that's why I have all of these things and that's why I'm successful and it's like, there are...
00:03:04.000An infinite amount of people that have children and that have done amazing things.
00:03:10.000So to think that you can't do, you can't have a successful life because of your children is completely ridiculous and totally detached from reality.
00:04:06.000We're planning a West coast trip to see, um, I have two brothers.
00:04:09.000One of my brothers moved out to San Francisco.
00:04:11.000We're planning a West coast trip to go see her brother and you were, you were alluding to family and.
00:04:18.000Look, I guess I was thinking as long as you're not like not seeing them 30 days and then seeing them one or two days.
00:04:24.000You were thinking the good times outweigh the amount of time you got to be away from that when you actually are there with your kids.
00:04:29.000It's so much better than being there with no kids.
00:04:32.000You were thinking more of like if you were like on tour as a musician, right?
00:04:36.000Yeah, or having to fly to Sweden to talk to for some two day thing.
00:04:40.000Yeah, for sure on traveling like that. It is hard when you have my kid with me
00:04:45.000Yeah when you have to leave for like so
00:04:47.000For my experience like that it is a really tough thing to be like I have to leave for you know, six weeks
00:04:53.000You know if we go on tour like we go we're not going for a weekend
00:04:57.000Especially if you're starting out if you're because we're talking about young people having kids when they're young
00:05:02.000If you're looking to start as a touring artist and you're going to be on tour for a month, six weeks, 10 weeks or whatever, it is really, really difficult.
00:06:38.000That's one of the reasons, man, when it comes to, you know, this, we never show videos.
00:06:44.000They always show those videos of a soldier coming home to their kids.
00:06:47.000And they're all so happy, but they never show the video of the front end of that where, you know, daddy's got to go off to get shot at.
00:06:53.000Mommy has got to go off to get shot at.
00:06:56.000And you sit there and you go, I mean, you think of like a Joe Kent situation and he's, you know, I'll talk about it because he's open about it, that about what happened to his wife, you know, two little boys and she's killed in Syria.
00:07:07.000And then Matt Gaetz goes up yesterday and tries to explain, tries to get someone to just answer the question.
00:07:12.000Why do we have these troops over there doing all this?
00:08:14.000You know, this dude that I've been in a band with for 20 years, you know, I've heard all the jokes you can imagine that dudes would make, you know, in a metal tube, and then watching him just be miserable, crying, because he's gotta leave his kid.
00:08:27.000And it's like, you know, you've had like this awesome situation where he's been at home for the first year of the kid, you know, it's like, it's... It's almost like there's a biological, spiritual, natural imperative to raising children.
00:08:39.000But let's just think about this from a logical standpoint, not an emotional one.
00:08:43.000People like Seth Rogen, A beach trip turned breakdown is a drag.
00:08:48.000Summer can really take a toll on your car with broken A.C., overheating, and electrical issues.
00:11:11.000And I came in, I came back on like Sunday night or Monday morning, whatever it was, and was like, hey man, somebody was like dragging you on Twitter and this thing went on and that thing.
00:12:36.000Do you guys think Neuralink is inevitable or their species will just divide or bifurcate and people will and people won't and there'll be conflict or something?
00:12:47.000I think there'll be a species that, so there'll be divisions, but I also think that there's something immutable to humanity that no amount of sophistication, whether it be Neuralink or anything like that, will ever be able to compensate for. Yeah, you're saying
00:13:04.000counting turtles with that depth perception of reality, like you're supposed to look into the horizon
00:13:07.000for 15 minutes a day. So when we went to when we went to Davos with Tanya, I guess two years ago now,
00:13:20.000So, we went to the Metaverse, had like a kiosk set up there on the street, and so Tanya goes in, and the Metaverse, you know, this like Swedish girl comes up to her and says, she's like, oh this is wonderful, then your children, they will not need to go to the zoo, they will not need to go to the forest, they can just go to the forest in the Metaverse.
00:13:42.000And so Tanya is looking at her going, so you want my...
00:13:46.000kids to sit in their room with the screen, not just on the screen, but with the screen attached to their face and be in, not interacting with, with real nature or going to a zoo and seeing real animals, but you want them to see fake animals on a screen.
00:14:00.000And it just, as a mom, you know, and kind of like a half normie, she was like, absolutely not.
00:16:32.000Yeah, like I don't even have to think about it.
00:16:34.000Of course I would take a bull for that.
00:16:35.000So if you were the neural net thing if it was like optional like the kid didn't have to you weren't reading his mind It was just like when you guys want to talk you can and it's like you can just trade thoughts really quick You can see what he's seeing so you can like see what he's up to if you want if he wants to Would you take that opportunity?
00:16:50.000I think independence is too essential for a human being to be able to survive and to feel good and to be confident.
00:16:57.000I don't, I won't, I would not want that.
00:17:31.000You don't want to go into someone else's head and you don't want someone else actually inside your head.
00:17:37.000What if the government held you down and plugged a Neuralink into you and then started downloading your thoughts and you're like, nah.
00:17:45.000I think you'd just have to be like, no.
00:17:47.000That's actually what happens to Ian after every show.
00:17:50.000If it's just like a VR that you can put on in a room with your kid and you can have a normal conversation, as opposed to injecting something into your neck.
00:18:00.000I think people have a big problem with the injectable thing.
00:18:01.000Did you guys hear the story about the 20-something-year-old daughter who gave her kidney to her 60-year-old dad?
00:18:08.000I heard about that, but it was anonymous, yeah.
00:18:10.000Yeah, he was like, absolutely do not do this.
00:18:12.000Right, and I feel like he probably felt immense pain at learning that his daughter is gonna live 10 more years so he can live five, that she'll be 35 and in a hospital.
00:18:51.000She thinks she's doing the right thing because she loves her dad, but I feel like that's probably the most painful thing you've ever heard.
00:19:42.000I don't know, like once you get to that point of... Because like when you look at someone's eyes, you're kind of brain to brain vibrating, like bouncing light brain to brain directly because of the eyeball brain stem.
00:19:52.000But isn't that part of the beauty of communication though, is being able to attain that level of closeness without actually penetrating the other person's mind?
00:20:07.000I think that I mean Neuralink is going to be a Pandora's box of opening up things that we're never going to be able to fully predict because keep in mind that at any given time you have a Running stream of consciousness, we all do.
00:20:28.000We're already seeing the effects of the world with Twitter, where Twitter is almost like we're being exposed to everyone else's stream of consciousness.
00:20:37.000Whereas as before, it's like, oh, hey, that's my neighbor, you know, I know my neighbor, that's what's up, Bob, you know, Bob usually goes to work around this time, Bob puts his trash out, you know, in the morning, I put my trash out in the evening.
00:21:19.000To the point where you can't even control the thoughts that you... Think about this algorithmic thought distribution.
00:21:27.000You'll be sitting there being like, I'm gonna think something really nice and send it to my family.
00:21:31.000And then your family never hears the nice thoughts, only the angry thoughts.
00:21:34.000Well, the other thing too that happens is if you think about it, sometimes you have thoughts That are like totally wacky thoughts and you didn't even mean to have them.
00:22:21.000And like, I don't think about, like, I just, I never think, like, I never had that feeling of like, oh, I want to drink.
00:22:26.000But every once in a while, just randomly, I could be driving, I could play music, whatever, and it'll just hit me like, man, I go for a cigarette.
00:22:33.000It's like, whoa, where did that come from?
00:22:36.000I haven't had a drink in five years, and I haven't had a cigarette in three.
00:22:40.000I never, thank you, I never think about drinking ever.
00:22:44.000Cigarettes, man, if I walk by someone smoking, I'm like...
00:22:47.000Man, I'm gonna kick your ass and take that, you know?
00:22:50.000In South America, this dude was telling me they would boil the tobacco and then drink it and puke and have these psychedelic experiences and they would, the natives would call it like... I mean, that's similar to how I like it.
00:23:12.000I didn't know they had tobacco fasts, but they were like tobacco ceremonies and stuff.
00:23:15.000So there's this frequency called the Schumann resonance.
00:23:17.000It's in the ELF band, the extremely low frequency band of our, I don't know if it's in the outer atmosphere or inner atmosphere or something.
00:37:12.000I've recreated songs, but... No, look, I haven't... How do you play... Have you ever... Someone told me long ago... Yeah, that one's great.
00:40:20.000But you have to have good relative pitch, so you have to hear the other notes that are going on around you in the song, and you have to know where you're going to.
00:40:27.000So once you know, then when you're singing it, I used to be all technical.
00:40:31.000I'm like, I gotta hit the note how I think it sounds, and then I realized, no, I gotta say the words like I think they mean, and when you do that in the notes, It's two different, well you got, there's three things that, when I'm in the box and I'm doing stuff, there's three things that producers tell me.
00:40:46.000They're gonna tell me I don't believe it, which means I'm not performing it well, my timing, or my notes.
00:40:53.000So either I don't believe it, pitch, or timing.