What would you do if you were a guy and could stop everything and figure out how to make the world a better place? What would you change about the way things are currently run in the United States? What kind of government would you like to see and what kind of taxes and benefits would you want to get rid of? How much money would you be willing to give away and how much would you get back in taxes? What sort of health care system would you favor and how would you try to fix it? What's the ideal amount of money you would like to get back? What type of infrastructure would you put in place to make things a little bit more fair for the poor and the middle class? And what would you name your ideal government program or program that you would want to see in order to get the country back on track and get things running the way we want them to be run? All of these questions, and more, answered in this episode of the podcast by me and my good friend, John Rocha. I hope you enjoy this episode and tweet me what you think! Timestamps: 1:00 - How would you fix the world? 4:30 - What would I change? 5:00 6:20 - What is the ideal government plan? 8:15 - How should the U.S. government be structured? 9:40 - Who would you give the world more money? 11:00- What would a guy like me? 12:30- How would I like to be a smart guy? 15:00 Would you like a flat tax? 16:50 - What do you pay 30% of your income? 17:20- How much do you want the world be fair? 18:40- What's your favorite thing? 19:50- How do you think the world need to be better? 21:00 What's a free market system? 22:00 Do you have a plan for the economy? 23:00 How do I think I would do it? 25:00 Is there a better country? 26:00 Should the world run better than the market? 27: What are you running out of business? 29: What do I want? 30:00 Who do you need to get out of the marketplace? 35:00 Does the market run out of competition? 32:00 Are you a smart dude who thinks out the box?
00:00:27.000There's a whole cottage industry going on.
00:00:29.000Let's step outside of the boundaries because I tire of these questions and these things.
00:00:36.000And one of the reasons why I tire of it is because everyone seems to have some sort of a position in this machine and everyone is describing all the varieties of issues within You know, these positions of these different statements and different belief systems that everybody has subscribed to when it comes to this world and how everything runs.
00:01:03.000If you were a guy, and I know that you've thought of this, if you were a guy that could stop everything and figure out how to make an even system, what would you do?
00:01:53.000So instead of having 6,000 pages of taxes, I know there are problems with it, but for the most part, I'd make it as fair as possible.
00:02:00.000It may not be as fair to, you know, rich people pay more, they're going to pay more ultimately, but, you know, poor people still have to pay 30%.
00:02:05.000Right now, a lot of poor people don't pay any taxes at all.
00:02:42.000I don't believe that any large bureaucracy, I don't care if it's a corporation, especially not the U.S. government because there's no accountability and you don't have to have a bottom line.
00:02:53.000There's no marketplace telling you you go out of business.
00:02:57.000Since, what was it, 1960, fucking That is a problem.
00:03:01.000It's a business and there's no competition.
00:03:03.000How many Fortune 500s of the 500 companies that were in existence when they started tracking the Fortune 500, how many are in existence since 1967?
00:03:58.000You don't have a market system anymore, especially not in the banking industry.
00:04:01.000It's been regulated since fucking 1900. So what I would do, very simply, is I'd have a flat tax and I would ultimately get rid of all subsidies.
00:05:05.000They act as people who don't care about the repercussions because there's a diffusion of responsibility because there's a million people in the corporation.
00:05:14.000I think when I look at what's going on right now, I see a bunch of different factors.
00:05:20.000And the big factor that I think is not being paid as much attention to in all of this is that...
00:05:28.000The whole problem is the access to information, and that the system has always been corrupt, and the system has always been run unfairly, but we didn't know it.
00:05:36.000We didn't know it the way we know it now, and the access to information is unprecedented now, and because of that, people are starting to exchange information, and because of this access to information and social networking, they're allowed to do it in real time.
00:05:59.000Eventually, there's going to be something that allows people to know whether something or not is true.
00:06:03.000And that's when things are going to get really strange.
00:06:05.000And it's really not that big of a deal.
00:06:06.000To be able to exclude disinformation and incorrect information, to have some way of proving things to be factually correct, It's incredible.
00:06:36.000There's going to eventually be a very clear system of finding out what is true and what is not true.
00:06:43.000It's going to be very easy to detect what is propaganda, what is actual fact, and you're going to be able to know it in real time.
00:06:50.000And when that happens, then it's going to be way harder to pull off corruption.
00:06:54.000Well, that's what I just keep wondering.
00:06:56.000I always find myself asking, are things going to get better in 20 years, worse?
00:07:20.000It's just right now, I think we are in the process of a birth.
00:07:24.000We're in the process of another stage, and it's really close to bottlenecking.
00:07:30.000The influx of technology and information into the world of the monkey is so complete right now and we are biologically struggling to keep up with all this new shit that's going on around us all the time and all this new information and all these new challenges and all this...
00:07:45.000You know, these new issues that are presenting themselves to us and it's happening because of technology.
00:07:52.000Yeah, it almost feels like, you know, they're talking about the planet and it's warming and all that stuff.
00:07:56.000I always feel like, is that essentially like the idea that we keep growing as like literally an organism where we're going to have to mesh with machines just to survive in an environment?
00:08:07.000It's all kind of part of it, you know?
00:08:09.000Well, there's also the idea that machines are a life form in and of itself.
00:08:30.000Those are things that they're predecessors, or rather they are the predecessors from today's sleek laptops.
00:08:39.000They're old, shitty, they're clunky, they make weird noises when you turn them on.
00:08:44.000They are essentially the monkeys in comparison to us.
00:08:49.000I think it's real possible that if we do have some sort of an artificial intelligence and we do create a life form out of computers that is able to recreate other life forms, I think that's probably the next stage.
00:09:02.000We personally think that it's so important that we continue this animal struggle with emotions and sperm and eggs.
00:09:16.000We might be much more comfortable inside of a robot body.
00:09:19.000I was going to say, but human beings, it seems, are on the verge of actually creating a whole new kind of synthetic biology that we're going to be able to mesh with.
00:09:29.000Who's to say that that synthetic biology can't be just as...
00:09:48.000If you have ears that can hear a mile away, I'll take it.
00:09:50.000The problem is it keeps raining and our fucking cardboard house is slowly falling apart.
00:09:54.000We're like, Jesus Christ, hurry up, fix this cardboard car.
00:09:57.000The cardboard car is all fucked up and the new car is not ready yet.
00:10:01.000It's a matter of whether or not we can complete our cycle of technology and artificial intelligence and then combine with it before we blow ourselves up.
00:10:10.000Very, very smart people are re-engineering, reverse engineering the brain, the eardrum, the eye, the red blood cell.
00:10:17.000We just reverse engineered the red blood cell of a dog.
00:10:21.000And that means that if you reverse engineer it and you know exactly how it works, you can make a replica of it with synthetic material, which would be a nanobot because it's about that big.
00:10:31.000So nanotechnology and then re-replicating what you just reverse engineered, if you can do that.
00:11:48.000But that's the biggest question with a lot of computer scientists who are saying, when these robots develop will...
00:11:54.000Which means when you say that, when they develop consciousness, meaning they are conscious of their own existence, the nature of anything that is conscious of its own existence, or even just having its own existence, whether it's a cancer cell, an ant, or a human being, is that you want to replicate and stay alive forever.
00:12:13.000Right, but those are biological instincts because they're programmed into the world that we operate in.
00:13:18.000When you start talking about computers being this advanced, you're talking about human beings because I'm going to tell you right now, as soon as I got a biocompatible machine that I can download information into, etc., You're going to have it in your body.
00:13:33.000Well, I'm attached already to my fucking phone.
00:13:37.000When I leave my house and I don't have my iPhone, I feel like I'm missing a part of my body.
00:13:41.000And, you know, if you read Tim Ferriss' book, did you read the part about having a cell phone in your pocket, how it cooks your fucking balls?
00:13:47.000Well, one of the things that he did was he did a test on his sperm count, and he did a test...
00:13:52.000And he found out that his sperm count was fairly low, and he's in really good shape, and he's young, and he was like, what the fuck is going on?
00:13:57.000So then he starts doing all this reading on different studies, and one of the things he comes to is studies about cell phone usage and keeping your cell phone in your front pocket and how it affects your sperm count.
00:14:08.000The radiation from your fucking cell phone diminishes your sperm count.
00:14:12.000Yeah, he doesn't even carry it on him anymore.
00:14:14.000He shuts it off and puts it in his pocket.
00:14:49.000So either way, take zinc supplements or do whatever the fuck Ferris did, and by taking the phone out of his pocket, he radically increased his sperm count.
00:15:07.000And since I've been eating so well, my toilet trips have been shorter and shorter.
00:15:11.000I used to, you know, when I was just eating straight meat, Brock Lesnar style, I would take these giant dinosaur shits that would take 20 minutes.
00:15:18.000And just like R.H. Fierce Jug, my legs would go numb, my feet would go numb, I'd have a hard time standing up.
00:15:24.000But I've been drinking this kale shake I make every morning now.
00:16:27.000I think certain people with certain demands have higher demands, especially if you're an athlete.
00:16:32.000If you're doing a lot of jujitsu, when people say what you need for your recommended daily requirement of vitamins and protein and all that stuff, I always look at them and I go, okay, but what are you doing physically?
00:16:53.000They did this whole thing on my kettlebell workout and Steve Maxwell's in town and we're working out this weekend together too.
00:16:59.000I'm super excited about that this week.
00:17:01.000I'm going to do some hardcore kettlebell drills.
00:17:03.000People don't fucking realize how hard some people work out.
00:17:06.000And I don't work out nearly as hard as a guy like Cain Velasquez does or a guy like George St. Pierre does.
00:17:11.000I just simply don't put in the amount of sessions in a week that they do.
00:17:14.000But when I do do it, I go fucking all out and you can't do that and just eat spaghetti.
00:17:20.000You can't do that and not have vitamins and not have protein.
00:17:25.000One of the things that I've done over the course of being involved in combat sports since I was literally a child I haven't had a moment since I was 14 years old that I wasn't learning or practicing some type of martial art.
00:17:38.000It became an obsession super early in my life.
00:17:41.000There's a direct correlation to me with good performance, good movement, healthy body, mind, spirit, and diet.
00:17:52.000He said food is a drug, and the way you combine it, the kind of food you take in, it will react within your body exactly the way a drug will.
00:18:00.000Either it will have a positive hormonal effect, a negative hormonal effect.
00:18:32.000I always feel like I got harpooned, like I got shot with some animal tranquilizer.
00:18:36.000I think that the way to start eating better is, first of all, to educate yourself and start eating better, but then just start noticing the difference.
00:18:43.000Because what happens is you start getting a pleasurable response when you eat well and what's good for your body, and a negative response when you go out and eat a whole pizza at pizza or whatever.
00:18:53.000You won't feel as good as if you have a shake I was just talking about.
00:19:33.000Yes That's Brian Cowan's favorite Hey guys I was just kidding about Making out with the transvestite And my friends Somebody needs to Create a guide for life And have all these different Ideas in there And one of them is going to be the importance of diet and exercise.
00:19:55.000And even though I know a lot of smart fucking people, I know so many intelligent people who are really super creative and really interesting.
00:20:02.000They don't take care of their fucking shell.
00:20:33.000They say a certain percentage of people have chimpanzee DNA. I have chimpanzee DNA. I mean, not just chimpanzee DNA, rather, Neanderthal DNA. There's no question about it.
00:21:25.000Yeah, there was another part of that Zeitgeist thing that was really interesting.
00:21:29.000A lot of that Zeitgeist, the part that I watched, I only watched the first 15 minutes or so, and what was really interesting about it was all the different things they were talking about, about health and cancer.
00:22:46.000Some people have a certain genetic structure where they can utilize oxygen better, but a lot of it's also repetition and practice, and your body is incredibly adaptive.
00:22:59.000Yeah, he wouldn't have that kind of cardio if he didn't train.
00:23:01.000Definitely, he's got some freak genetics.
00:27:10.000It also helps you realize how many times you repeat the same things over and over again, how many subjects you obsess on, and it becomes a normal part of your everyday life.
00:27:19.000But when you start trying to pump that out of the podcast, people are like, bitch, I heard that already.
00:27:23.000Stop fucking freaking out about the same thing every goddamn week.
00:27:28.000Well, we talked about Occupy Wall Street three times in a row now, but I think...
00:27:32.000We're also doing it with different people just to sort of get their different reactions because I think this is a pretty important part of human history right now.
00:27:38.000I think it's funny that you both said that you really like Daniel Day...
00:29:08.000How about, oh, whoops, I washed my toe and I actually had a hangnail and some shit got inside of it and it camped out of my body and grew and made a chain all the way to my brain and started sucking brain juice out of my big toe.
00:29:52.000You don't have a dog in your backyard in Africa, for example.
00:29:55.000We've been banging around the idea of cell phones, how when you buy a cell phone, you don't realize how much fucking slave labor is involved.
00:31:08.000That civil war has seen that Sierra Leone, Liberia to a small extent, and Rwanda has seen some of the most concentrated and ferocious killing in the history of the fucking world.
00:31:22.000Whoever you guys are that do that vice guy to travel, all you guys are bad motherfuckers, and I would love to have you guys on the podcast.
00:31:29.000If someone knows anybody that knows those guys, somebody knows one of the guys on our message board, but fucking holler at me on Twitter.
00:31:36.000Those guys, they've done some wild fucking trips, man.
00:31:52.000I was with Zach Galifianakis and Brody Stevens, and we were watching the Lady Boys, and some of them are as good-looking as the girl I was making out with from my earlier story, my friend, or better.
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