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00:01:46.000Well, you can make anything bulletproof if you want, but the glass has to be very thick for it to be bulletproof, so it can't go up and down.
00:03:07.000Well, in order to make it affordable, you have to make it at volume.
00:03:11.000So you've got to make everything at a higher rate, consistently, If you tour the production line, you'd have a sense for it.
00:03:25.000You've got to have all of the casting machines, all of the stamping machines, as the case may be, the glass machines, the wheels, the tires, everything required from the motor, the battery cells, all of the constituents of the battery cells, all of the silicon that goes in there with the chips.
00:03:52.000And then if you want to say, like, you want to get from, once you reach volume manufacturing, which is insanely difficult, then you want to make the car affordable, it's harder to, say, reduce the cost of the car by 20% than it is to get to volume production in the first place.
00:04:12.000I really cannot emphasize enough how hard production is relative to design.
00:04:19.000I'm not saying the design is trivial, because you have to have taste and you have to know what to make.
00:04:26.000If you don't have a taste in judgment, then your prototype will be bad.
00:04:32.000But it is trivial, really, to churn out prototypes, and it is extremely difficult to build a factory.
00:04:40.000And how much more difficult is it to make this, considering the body's made out of steel?
00:05:29.000The amazing thing about automobiles was not so much the invention of the automobile but the invention of the factory, the mass manufacturing.
00:05:37.000And for that, Henry Ford deserves a tremendous amount of credit.
00:05:44.000In fact, Ford is really responsible for the entire mass manufacturing industry because he actually found a Cadillac, which was the heart of General Motors, then got kicked out and then started Ford.
00:06:06.000Yeah, there's a fascinating video of him banging on it with a hammer.
00:06:09.000Because hemp is bizarrely durable when it's compressed and when they take the fibers and I don't know what kind of epoxy they use or something to put it all together.
00:06:18.000But what it makes with the actual physical form of it is insanely light.
00:06:24.000Like fiberglass light, but very, very durable.
00:07:09.000And it, because of all of the metal and the weight and everything like that, but with the engines that you have, it's still, the 0-60 is pretty bizarre, right?
00:09:10.000I mean, the thing that matters is kind of the energy per unit area.
00:09:15.000So interesting, like a 9-mile or a 45, which is basically sort of a 10-mile, the 45 is – they're roughly the same, but the 45 actually is slightly worse penetration than a 9-mile.
00:12:28.000Like I said, we have a cool video we'll show at the Handover event next month, which is emptying an entire magazine of a Tommy gun, which I think is on the order of 50 rounds.
00:12:40.000You're just going full Al Capone on the side of the car.
00:13:25.000You can't hide behind a car door like they do in the movies.
00:13:28.000Way back in the day, dating myself with the A-Team, where they would be bullets flying everywhere and they'd be hiding behind the car door.
00:15:38.000Yeah, so then you multiply your efficiency by that.
00:15:40.000So if your commercial panel is like maybe 25-set efficient, if they're a good one, so you get like 250 watts per square meter.
00:15:49.000There was one car, what was it, like a Fisker, that was using a solar panel that claimed that it was operating like the electronics, like it could start the radio.
00:17:49.000People will get used to it because it's a little different.
00:17:54.000Like for a gasoline car, you'd want to fill it up.
00:17:56.000For an electric car, you'd want to actually go very close to zero.
00:18:01.000And the car can calculate how much range it has with precision.
00:18:05.000So if you, say, enter a road trip in a Tesla, it'll calculate all of the supercharges along the way, where is your stuff, how much you should charge, and just let the computer do its thing and it'll work well.
00:18:17.000So you actually want to charge to about 80% and then run it down all the way to 10% or less.
00:18:25.000Do you want to do that on everyday use as well or just with long trips?
00:18:31.000If you're trying to minimize the amount of time, you stop when charging.
00:18:36.000So let's say you want to stop for 20, 30 minutes.
00:18:44.000It's a little counterintuitive because for a gasoline car, you would fill it up.
00:18:48.000For a battery, the charge state tapers off as you get above 80%.
00:18:54.000You can think of it like the, I think the right analogy here is cars in a parking lot.
00:19:01.000So the lithium ions are trying to find a parking space as they move across, you know, from one side of the battery to the other side, from, you know, cathode, anode.
00:19:11.000I mean, they're sort of, just these ions are just bouncing around looking for a parking space.
00:19:16.000So when the parking lot's empty, they can zip right in there and find a spot.
00:19:54.000And just like if you're in a mall and it's busy, then it takes longer to find a parking spot than if it's empty.
00:20:01.000So essentially you're satisfied with the technology that's available right now in terms of like the amount of mileage that you get out of it and things along those lines.
00:20:51.000It's just what I'm trying to do is to emphasize the difficulty of manufacturing, which is not understood by the public because there's no movie about it.
00:21:01.000So there's lots of movies about the sort of wild inventor in the garage, but I'm not aware of any movie about manufacturing.
00:21:13.000Have you ever heard of a movie about manufacturing?
00:21:36.000That's interesting that it's such an immense part of American culture and also the decline of some American cities.
00:21:42.000I mean, it's famously documented in Roger and Me, a great documentary, where he just talks about how Flint got destroyed when they pulled out the car manufacturing.
00:21:55.000I mean, there's a reason why generally politicians really try very hard to get a factory in their area is because it's a massive generator of jobs.
00:22:05.000And for every factory job, there's like roughly five support jobs.
00:22:10.000So it's like teachers, electricians, plumbers, lawyers, accountants, restaurants.
00:22:18.000So there's So manufacturing is kind of like a nucleus from which many jobs spring.
00:22:26.000That's why it's generally, you know, governors and prime ministers and presidents will try so hard to get a factory in their country or region.
00:22:35.000When you decided to build the Gigafactory, even when you decided to get involved with Tesla, did you have any idea of how difficult this would be?
00:25:55.000I think part of it is that it's where it was located, which is downtown San Francisco.
00:26:02.000And while I think San Francisco is a beautiful city and we should really fight hard to kind of right the ship of San Francisco, if you've walked around downtown San Francisco, right near the ex-FK Twitter headquarters, it's a zombie apocalypse.
00:26:26.000I've heard you really can't believe it until you actually go there.
00:26:29.000You can't believe it until you go there.
00:26:30.000So, now you have to say, well, what philosophy led to that outcome?
00:26:34.000And that philosophy was being piped to Earth.
00:26:39.000So, you know, a philosophy that would be ordinarily quite niche and geographically constrained, so that sort of the fallout area would be limited, was effectively given an information...
00:27:58.000It is that they're propagating the extinction of humanity and civilization.
00:28:05.000And there are some people who are – like most of the time it's implicit.
00:28:09.000They don't – but sometimes it's explicit.
00:28:11.000Like there was a guy on the front page of the New York Times who literally has the thing called the Extinctionist Movement and he was quoted on the front page of the New York Times as saying, there are 8 billion people in the world but it would be better if there were none.
00:28:25.000And I'm like, well, buddy, you can start with yourself.
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00:32:49.000I'm pro-environment, but in the limit, if you take environmentalism to an extreme, you start to view humanity as a plague on the surface of the earth, like a mold or something.
00:34:11.000There's a lot of decisions that AI would make that would be very similar to eugenics.
00:34:17.000I mean, there would be some radical changes in what people are allowed to and not allowed to do that allow them to survive that may be detrimental in terms of pollution and things like that, but it may be the only solution they have in their area.
00:34:31.000I mean, maybe AI would come up with some sort of a different structure in terms of how they get power and resources, There's no shortage of power.
00:36:28.000You can actually go to where the meltdown is?
00:36:30.000Well, I mean, there's a war zone, but apart from that, the issue is, you know, more getting shot than it is, you don't have a radiation risk.
00:36:39.000I mean, the problem is, like, I think when people don't understand what radiation is, they just, they can't see it, they can't feel it, they think, well, I could just die at any moment, like, from a magic death ray.
00:38:37.000I mean a little sardines once in a while but not three cans a night.
00:38:40.000Well for me it's like I come home late from the comedy club and I want something easy to eat and I don't want to stop and get fast food so I open up a few cans of sardines.
00:38:47.000And I'll, you know, watch a little TV, eat a few cans of coffee.
00:41:05.000Masks are not like some magic health shield.
00:41:10.000I mean, there are times where a mask is warranted, like if a surgeon is operating on you or whatever, then you don't want the surgeon spitting in your wound, you know?
00:41:34.000I'd say like a mask is much like sort of a shield in battle in that, you know, it'll help protect you a little bit from arrows and stuff, but it doesn't make you arrow-proof.
00:41:44.000We're just talking about, you know, shooting arrows and stuff.
00:41:47.000So, I mean, there are times when masks are warranted, but most of the time it's actually kind of productive.
00:41:53.000Well, that was one of the things about the old Twitter was the propaganda and the adherence to whatever the CDC was saying and the dismissing of legitimate scientists, guys like Jay Bhattacharya from Stanford and legit guys.
00:42:13.000And they were suppressing them and even banning them.
00:42:33.000Because that, to me, that was the most bizarre, was the Twitter files, when you let Schellenberger and Matt Taibbi and all those guys get in the Twitter, and the response were, Matt Taibbi gets audited.
00:42:54.000Yeah, the degree which – and by the way, Jack didn't really know this, but the degree to which Twitter was simply an arm of the government was not well understood by the public.
00:43:05.000And it was – there was no – it was whatever the official – it was like Pravda basically.
00:43:12.000It's a state publication is the way to think of old Twitter.
00:43:17.000And was the justification from their perspective that they are progressive liberals, they have the right intentions, it's important that they stay in power, the progressive liberals stay in government and power because this is their...
00:44:43.000And so they naturally oppressed anything that didn't agree with their views.
00:44:49.000That's why I say that it was an accidental far left information weapon.
00:44:54.000So it's like Silicon Valley attracts the smartest engineers, the smartest sort of technologists and programmers from around the world.
00:45:07.000They created an information weapon that was then harnessed by the far left, who could not themselves create the weapon, but happened to be co-located where the technologists were.
00:45:17.000It happened to be aligned politically with the people that possessed it.
00:45:21.000The technologists generally are moderate, maybe moderate left, but they're not far left.
00:45:29.000That's why I say San Francisco, Berkeley, it doesn't even extend to South San Francisco or even to Palo Alto.
00:45:36.000So SF Berkeley is the most far left, perhaps in a competition with Portland, but I'd say SF Berkeley is more far left even than Portland.
00:45:47.000Literally, in America, we're talking about an area that's maybe a 10-mile radius.
00:45:55.000Normally, the negative effects of a far-left ideology would be geographically limited to a 10-mile radius.
00:46:07.000Any bad effects of that ideology would be geographically constrained under normal circumstances and have been in the past.
00:46:16.000But when you have basically a technological megaphone, which was Twitter and social media in general, suddenly the far left are handed a megaphone to Earth, an incredibly powerful technology weapon that they themselves could not create,
00:46:36.000but they happen to be co-located with the technologists who created it by accident.
00:46:46.000Is it shocking that more people don't understand how dangerous that is?
00:48:38.000So are you going to exclude them or not?
00:48:40.000Now, I mean, if somebody, you know, breaks the law, then the account is suspended.
00:48:46.000I mean, if they actively advocate murder, then the account is suspended.
00:48:51.000We do have what we call, like, the kind of United Nations exclusion rule, which is that you can have, say, the Ayatollah, who, you know...
00:49:06.000Would prefer that Israel didn't exist, for example.
00:49:10.000But he's allowed to go to the UN building in New York.
00:49:14.000And, in fact, generally officials from Iran do, in fact, go to the UN building in New York, even though they're a heavily sanctioned country.
00:49:25.000So, I think that there's merit to having, just like there's some merit to the UN, one can disagree with the UN, and I think we shouldn't have a world government that we bow down to.
00:49:37.000In fact, that's risky for civilization.
00:49:39.000But I think you do want to have the leaders of countries represented on social media.
00:49:47.000You want to hear what they have to say, even if what they say is terrible.
00:49:50.000I think that is true across the board.
00:49:53.000And I think one of the things you just said that's very important is that's humanity.
00:49:56.000And I think it's important that a social media platform, especially the biggest one, represents humanity so we understand what we're talking about.
00:50:07.000Because if we have this distorted idea of what people think and want and need because everyone only exists inside this ideological bubble and anything outside of that bubble gets censored, then that changes, literally changes the tone of the entire country.
00:50:21.000It changes what people think is okay and not okay, makes people feel differently.
00:50:40.000The First Amendment is only relevant if you allow people you don't like to say things you don't like.
00:50:49.000Because if you like it, you don't need a First Amendment.
00:50:53.000So the whole point of free speech is that, frankly, even people you hate say things you hate because if people you hate can say things that you hate, that means that they can't stop you from saying what you want to say, which is very,
00:51:30.000So they were very aware of something being accurate, and they still suppressed it because the government wanted them to suppress it.
00:51:38.000I mean, in my view, there have been severe First Amendment violations by multiple government agencies, and there should be repercussions for that.
00:51:45.000And is it – do different laws apply because it's a privately owned social media company?
00:51:52.000I mean what laws do apply in terms of like – when you're looking at it, one of the arguments that the leftists would use is it's a private company.
00:53:57.000Well, there seems like there's a bunch of factors, right?
00:53:59.000I think one of the big factors is pharmaceutical drug companies allowed to advertise on television.
00:54:04.000And we're one of two countries in the world that allow that.
00:54:08.000I actually agree with pharmaceutical advertising, provided it is truthful.
00:54:11.000Because there could be some drug that is helpful to someone, but obviously the claims need to be accurate.
00:54:18.000So I actually think pharmaceutical advertising, if it is accurate, I think it actually, you know, play devil's advocate here, I think pharmaceutical advertising is generally accurate.
00:54:33.000Now, I should say that a lot of the censorship that we see is coming from – indirectly from advertisers and advertising agencies and from PR companies who want a particular viewpoint pushed or are being – Driven by non-profits to push a particular...
00:54:56.000What will happen is there will be a group of non-profits that push advertisers to advertise or not advertise on a particular platform.
00:55:09.000One often hears of the George Soros boogeyman.
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01:03:26.000One of the reasons why I moved here is we came here in May of 2020 and you could go indoors and eat in restaurants and And my kids who were pretty young at the time, 10 and 12, they were like, we want to live here!
01:03:40.000Yeah, I mean, for most of COVID, I was actually in South Texas building this Starship factory.
01:03:47.000And, you know, we're just, yeah, no masks, no nothing, just building a factory, building rockets.
01:03:52.000And then, you know, we would have teams from California visit all masked up, and they'd freak out that we don't have masks, and we're like, we're still alive, man.
01:04:46.000And we had no one die and no one got seriously ill.
01:04:51.000So I'm like, well, I don't know what the big deal is.
01:04:54.000Well, there's a problem that people still want to stick to this initial narrative that they believed and that they espoused, like they repeated it.
01:05:03.000And so they'll still fight you on this today.
01:05:07.000People still fight you today on the merits of the lockdowns, the importance of vaccine mandates, closing schools.
01:05:15.000There's people that stated an opinion in 2020 And they still are doing mental gymnastics to try to make it seem like that was the right choice.
01:05:28.000And a lot of deaths got ascribed to COVID that had nothing to do with COVID. And in fact, I'd say in the beginning, the cure is worse than the disease.
01:05:39.000And so that somebody would get diagnosed with COVID, they put them on intubated ventilator for a week, and this was going to basically cook your lungs.
01:05:48.000So if you're on pure O2 under pressure with a tube stuck down your throat and under anesthetic, this is very bad for you.
01:05:58.000It's one thing if you do that for a couple hours for an operation, but if you do that for a week, it's going to roast your lungs.
01:06:05.000The air that we're breathing right now is 78% nitrogen, 1% argon, about 21% oxygen, and it's so miscellaneous.
01:06:14.000So if you ask most people, what are you breathing, they say oxygen.
01:06:38.000And so, like, sea level pressure is about 15 pounds per square inch.
01:06:43.000And the partial pressure of oxygen, being 20%, is therefore roughly 3 pounds per square inch of oxygen.
01:06:51.000So, in a spacecraft, you want to, and especially if you're in a space suit, you want to lower the pressure.
01:06:58.000So you want to keep the oxygen, still give people enough oxygen to function, obviously, but you want to lower the nitrogen content so that you don't have a space suit that's at 15 psi.
01:07:08.000Because at 15 psi, you just, you know, just pop out like a balloon.
01:07:15.000So you want to try to lower the pressure, you know, down to around, I don't know, six, seven PSI, maybe even five PSI. So you'd lower it to, you know, try to keep the oxygen, partial pressure of oxygen roughly the same,
01:07:31.000so maybe around three PSI and then three PSI of nitrogen, so you've got a 50-50 mix of nitrogen and oxygen, and then you just get pretty hot into that week.
01:08:23.000So, in fact, I actually posted about that because I called doctors in Wuhan and said, what are the biggest mistakes that you made on the first wave?
01:08:32.000And they said, we put far too many people on intubated ventilators.
01:08:36.000So then I actually posted on Twitter at the time and said, hey, what I'm hearing from Wuhan is that they made a big mistake in putting people on intubated ventilators for an extended period.
01:08:47.000And that this is actually what is damaging lungs, not COVID. It's the treatment.
01:11:38.000It was a fundamental problem for most of civilization is how do you get nitrogen for the plants.
01:11:47.000The limiting factor, in fact, even in the rainforest is like the nitrogen is bound nitrogen.
01:11:52.000When you do eventually colonize Mars, what's the idea in terms of terraforming?
01:12:00.000Is it contained ecosystems that are under domes?
01:12:04.000What are you planning on doing to make it habitable?
01:12:10.000Well, at first, you would have to have a life support system because Mars has a low-density atmosphere, only about 1% the density of Earth, and it's primarily CO2. Now, over time, you can terraform Mars.
01:12:25.000Terraform means make it like Earth, essentially.
01:12:29.000And if you warm Mars up, there's a bunch of frozen CO2 that will evaporate, densify the atmosphere, and you'd actually want kind of global warming on Mars.
01:12:39.000Because Mars is about 50% further away from the Sun than the Earth.
01:12:44.000So it gets about less than half the solar energy that Earth does.
01:12:48.000And it's believed at one point in time, Mars had a much different environment, right?
01:12:54.000It appears highly likely that Mars had liquid oceans a long time ago.
01:13:52.000There's a thin crust and it's very hot mushy rock underneath.
01:14:00.000Technically, that rock is in a semi-solid state, but as soon as it gets to a low pressure, like pops out of the ocean, you have a volcano, obviously, with lava.
01:14:10.000At surface ambient pressure, we're basically covered in liquid rock.
01:15:37.000So eventually, whatever the fossil is, and sometimes the fossil is like an amber or something like that, where it still does survive more or less intact.
01:15:45.000But, I mean, there's fossilized, like, dinosaur fossils and tree fossils.
01:17:07.000And that colony exists for 10, 20,000 years.
01:17:10.000And they have their origin myth that we all came from Earth.
01:17:15.000I mean ultimately that's going – if this does happen, you do colonize Mars and Earth does get destroyed, and if a period of time takes place – like look at the period, like at least the conventional timeline of the Great Pyramid, which is 4,500 years ago.
01:18:01.000And the first writing is only 5,500 years old.
01:18:05.000It's worth reading about the history of writing, but only 5,500 years.
01:18:10.000And one has to credit basically the ancient Sumerians who aren't around anymore with the first writing.
01:18:18.000Are you aware, though, that there's hieroglyphs that depict a history of Egypt that goes back far longer, maybe even 30,000-plus years ago, but archaeologists dismiss it because they think that that's mythical.
01:18:31.000But non-conventional archaeologists who believe in what's called the Younger Dryas impact theory, that somewhere around 11,800 years ago, civilization was essentially all but wiped out by common impacts.
01:18:46.000And that is the reason why they keep finding these insanely old, huge structures, megalithic structures that are carved out of stone.
01:18:56.000When you go back to Gobekli Tepe, which is 11,600 years ago, that's an insanely old structure that they didn't even know people were capable of building until they discovered it in the 1990s.
01:19:10.000So the conventional timeline of people, when you go to 11,600 years ago, was just hunter-gatherers.
01:19:17.000But now that they have Gobekli Tepe with its 3D carved things.
01:19:22.000Have you seen Graham Hancock's amazing series on Netflix called Ancient Apocalypse?
01:19:32.000It's all about that there's a lot of physical evidence of an advanced civilization from far, far, far longer ago than we have convention dated, which is ancient Sumer, which we put in about 6,000 years ago.
01:19:48.000It's difficult to date with precision, or at least to within a few hundred years, but roughly 5,500 years, what is the oldest stone tablet?
01:20:25.000Well, what they believe is that there's very little left of this ancient civilization other than things like the pyramids, other than things like the Sphinx.
01:20:34.000There's a geologist that really stuck his neck out.
01:20:37.000His name is Dr. Robert Shock from Boston University.
01:20:39.000And what he said was, his theory is that there's deep water erosion all over the temple of the Sphinx, where the Sphinx was carved out of, that is indicative of thousands of years of rainfall.
01:20:51.000And the last time they had rainfall in the Nile Valley was around 9000 BC. So what he believes is, because back then the whole Nile Valley was a lush rainforest and eventually receded into desert.
01:21:13.000But if you go back then, he believes that's when that thing was constructed.
01:21:18.000And he says the geologists look at it.
01:21:22.000And if he shows it to them in terms of like just shows an image of the erosion and doesn't tell them where it is, almost all of them will say that's water erosion from thousands of years of rainfall.
01:21:33.000I think even if you say like, okay, even if you say like, okay, civilization is like 9,000 years old, it's still nothing.
01:31:28.000You know, I remember we were hanging out at your place, like, way back in the day when I first moved here, and you said something very prophetic when all this was happening, like, Austin's about to go supernova.
01:33:51.000God, I'm trying to remember the name of the...
01:33:53.000It is a chain, but it's not like a big chain.
01:33:56.000People that are upset right now because they're listening like on the treadmill and they're hearing us chewing like, these motherfuckers are going to get ice cream.
01:34:02.000We're seeing pizza and ice cream sundaes.
01:35:02.000We've got the Starlink Terminal Factory.
01:35:09.000For the Starlink v4 terminals, we build them here.
01:35:12.000We build the version 3 terminals and the version 3 mini.
01:35:21.000We do part of the production, or actually, I should say, we've done all of the production of the terminals thus far in L.A., and we'll continue to do production in L.A., but we've also just completed a second factory in Bastrop, just about 20 minutes from here.
01:35:37.000And then SpaceX is where you make the launches.
01:35:53.000I was just literally looking at satellite images.
01:35:59.000And for going to orbit, you kind of need to – you want to launch eastward so that you can take advantage of Earth rotation to get to orbit.
01:36:08.000So it's a little counterintuitive that reaching orbital velocity...
01:36:14.000Getting to orbit is about your speed parallel to the Earth's surface.
01:36:19.000It's like how fast are you zooming around Earth?
01:36:23.000The gravity at the altitude of the space station is almost the same as it is on the ground.
01:36:29.000The reason the space station is actually up there is kind of the wrong terminology.
01:36:33.000It's actually moving around the Earth at 17,000 miles an hour.
01:36:37.000So the space station goes around the Earth at roughly every 90 minutes.
01:36:44.000And because Earth is turning, and the speed at which it is turning, or the way you experience velocity, it's moving at roughly 1,000 miles an hour at the equator.
01:36:59.000So the closer you are to the equator, the more you can take advantage of Earth's rotation to reach orbital velocity.
01:37:06.000And since it's rotating eastward, you want to be on the east coast to make it easier to get to orbital velocity.
01:37:16.000So you need a section of coast that's on the east, fairly southward, that is not occupied.
01:37:24.000So, almost really all of Florida, except for Cape Canaveral, is wall-to-wall houses on the beach.
01:37:33.000There's almost no section of Florida that, every section of Florida has houses, except for Cape Canaveral, which is a government base.
01:37:42.000So, one of the few spots that wasn't occupied was the area just adjacent to the border with Mexico.
01:37:52.000And it just wasn't super well suited to holiday homes.
01:38:00.000And there was at one point a development that was going to take place, but then a hurricane came and destroyed the entire place and, in fact, rearranged the land so some of the plots were underwater.
01:38:11.000So it's a tough spot to build a home, and that's why it was unoccupied.
01:38:19.000So we needed a piece of—and it needs to be U.S. territory because if we go outside the U.S., there are export restrictions because rocket technology is an advanced weapons technology.
01:38:30.000You know, arbitrarily go to another country.
01:38:36.000So it needed to be U.S. land, east coast, and fairly southward.
01:41:02.000I mean, like, for humans, yes, I agree with you.
01:41:05.000I mean, I really genuinely do think this, and I've said this many times publicly, I think you did humanity an immense service.
01:41:13.000And that if that didn't happen, the narrative of this country would have gone further and further down that road to the point where people would have been scared to speak their mind.
01:44:42.000You know, I am concerned that, say, Instagram actually leads to more unhappiness, not less, in the sense that it just looks like everyone's having a great time and is way better looking than they really are.
01:44:59.000And so you're like, man, everyone's like good looking and having a great time.
01:45:02.000And then you sort of compare yourself to that and it's like, damn, I'm not as good looking and I seem to be sad a lot.
01:45:11.000And then you're like, man, you know, I think it could make you kind of depressed.
01:45:16.000Yeah, well, and also you're a grown man and you experience this.
01:45:19.000You're also very intelligent and you experience this.
01:47:41.000I mean, I bet, like, that's also, like, it's artist's interpretation of the energy she's giving off in court.
01:47:47.000I mean, she has to rat on her boyfriend, and she's already pleaded guilty, and, you know, for a lesser sentence, she's going to rat him out.
01:47:54.000Well, I mean, I don't know who SBF's PR team is, but they're doing an incredible job.
01:53:22.000Even though modern art and American diplomacy were of a piece, Soviet propaganda asserted that the United States was a culturally barren capitalist wasteland to make the case for American cultural dynamism.
01:53:37.000The State Department in 1946 spent $49,000 to purchase 79 paintings directly from American modern artists and mounted them in a traveling exhibition called Advancing American Art.
01:53:49.000That exhibition, which made stops in Europe and Latin America, included work from artists like Georgia O'Keeffe and Jake.
01:53:57.000Georgia O'Keeffe is the lady who makes vaginas, right?
01:56:01.000The Lost Leonardo, a new film solved the mystery of the world's most expensive painting.
01:56:05.000Is the $450 million Salvatore Mundi a fake?
01:56:08.000This film featuring tearful sycophants, sneering experts, dodgy dealers in a secretive super yacht may finally settle the great da Vinci controversy.
01:56:20.000Apparently there's multiple layers and different styles of painting involved in it, and when they do some sort of a comprehensive examination, whether it's like, you know, I don't know what kind of imagery they're using, but they're doing something where they could say, like, this has been painted many times and fucked with.
01:56:38.000It might have originally been one of Leonardo's students.
01:57:27.000It's some there's some very high percentage of the painting that was actually made by this woman and they show her she worked on it forever for years and years worked like painstakingly to retouch this piece of art Which is very odd yeah That they do that.
01:57:49.000Because like, wouldn't you just want it all fucked up and old?
01:59:34.000The Zuck fight is funny, because he was posting all these fight videos, and then someone on Twitter at the time said, Hey, you should fight Zuck.
01:59:46.000And I said, well, I'm willing to fight if he is.
01:59:50.000And then Zuck posted, I think on Instagram or something, name the place or something.
01:59:59.000And I was like, okay, how about the Vegas Octagon?
02:00:05.000And then Italy actually was willing to let us use the Colosseum.
02:00:13.000So I was like, well, let's – can't turn that down.
02:00:18.000And then – And then I was like, well, if it's going to be in the Coliseum, I like UFC and everything, but we don't have tons of ads and UFC branding on the Coliseum because it's a historical place.
02:06:53.000So, no, no, I'm not a horse, but I'm saying in the limit, if something's heavy enough, like, you know, if a horse falls in you and dies, you can get trapped under a horse and not be able to get yourself out.
02:07:02.000But if someone's good enough, I mean, I'm sure you've seen, like, absolute weight classes in jiu-jitsu where you'll get a 145-pound competitor with strangles, a 220-pound competitor, and they're both well-trained.
02:07:39.000But the reason why they allow absolutes in jiu-jitsu is because it is the thrill of watching these smaller people go against much larger people.
02:08:25.000This is Mikey Musumechi, who is another fascinating individual.
02:08:30.000This guy is another super genius who trains every day, 12 hours a day, and he is competing against a black belt in the heavyweight division.
02:08:39.000Mikey Musumechi might weigh 145 pounds, and he beats this guy.
02:08:44.000Guy doesn't look to be in super great shape.
02:10:46.000And he did an upside-down arm lock across the groin because he could not do an arm lock, you know, a sort of sidebar arm lock.
02:10:55.000But after that, people were like, why did that move?
02:10:57.000So they were like, we're not going to allow themselves to get an arm lock across the groin without, you know, that was like a, you know, overconfidence, I think.
02:11:10.000I mean, they fought like tooth and nail for something like seven or eight minutes.
02:11:15.000And, you know, Hoist survived and then eventually wore the guy.
02:11:19.000Well, when you're a big steroided up guy like that, too, the oxygen depletion, like the amount of oxygen your muscles require, you gas out pretty quickly when you're that big, unless you're insanely conditioned.
02:11:30.000Yeah, but there's no way for him to do a single arm arm lock.
02:13:13.000You never see that in MMA. What you do see, though, is the two legs isolate the arm, and then the person grabs a hold of it with a thumb up and uses all of their body Yeah, yeah.
02:13:29.000Whether it's from the back, like, you know, a lot of people have done that, or whether it's from side control, which is a little more easy because you have control of the body.
02:13:48.000Yeah, MMA has changed the ideas of jiu-jitsu because there's a lot of techniques that people do where it works well in competition when someone's like grabbing your leg when you can't just rain down punches on their face.
02:14:53.000It came from Big John McCarthy, who was the original UFC referee and pioneer of the sport.
02:14:59.000He was bringing this to athletic commissions, and they were allowing certain techniques, but one of them they wouldn't allow was the 12-6 elbow, because they saw those late-night karate demonstrations where someone would smash bricks like that.
02:15:11.000They thought someone would die if they hit him with this.
02:15:26.000I mean, I'm sure you could train it and get it probably as hard, but I think for most people, for me, I can tell you for sure, this elbow has more power.
02:15:35.000Well, I think any elbow in the face is going to be a big wake-up call if you've never had an elbow in the face.
02:21:09.000So in my case, at this point I know a lot about it, the C5, C6 right facet is impacting.
02:21:19.000You know, the facets are like the outriggers.
02:21:21.000You've got the center core of the spine, the facets are the outriggers, and they're shingled.
02:21:24.000So they're like, you know, one on top of the other like this.
02:21:27.000There's a little nerve that goes out in between the C5, C6. And if those vertebra come close together, they grind the nerve.
02:21:37.000So they just sort of start shearing the nerve.
02:21:42.000Now, so my C5, C6, right for certain, it shows up clear as day on like a technetium scan.
02:21:52.000So if you could do like a radioactive scan with technetium, it's very clear where the problem is.
02:22:00.000So, what should have been done was a simple hinge.
02:22:05.000Like, you know, basically to move the vertebra, basically the C5 vertebra, back about maybe an eighth of an inch to sort of unload the facet and then put a simple hinge,
02:25:00.000Aljamain Sterling, who was the UFC Bantamweight Champion, he got his neck fused, or got a disc replaced rather in his neck, and then went on to defend his title three times.
02:25:13.000Still fighting at the highest level with a fake disc in his neck.
02:28:47.000I mean, if you have visuals that accompany the music, like, if you have, like, someone like Roger Waters, like, which his show is, like, insanely visual, something like that in the sphere would be incredible.
02:28:59.000The art in the show that I saw on Saturday night was incredibly good.
02:29:32.000I mean, it's like actually being in virtual reality.
02:29:36.000In fact, it was so wild, the Saturday night one especially, that you step outside after the show and you're like, why is reality so boring?
02:31:22.000And then Vegas is, like, kind of Rome-esque in the sense that when we think about, like, the hedonism of Rome, its final days, that's Vegas.
02:32:41.000No, that's actually what I think the biggest danger is for AI is that if AI is implicitly programmed – I don't think they can do it explicitly – but implicitly programmed with values that lead to – that have led to the destruction of downtown San Francisco.
02:32:57.000And a bunch of these AI companies are in – either in San Francisco or in the San Francisco Bay Area.
02:33:04.000Then you could implicitly program an AI to believe that extinction of humanity is what it should try to do.
02:33:12.000I mean, if you take that guy who was on the front page of the New York Times, and you take his philosophy, which is prevalent in San Francisco, the AI could conclude, like he did, where he literally says there are 8 billion people in the world,
02:33:29.000it would be better if there were none, and engineer that outcome.
02:33:37.000Well, especially if it doesn't need us anymore.
02:33:39.000If it becomes sentient and then has the ability to make its own decisions and make a better version of itself, it would find us to be nothing but a problem.
02:33:49.000Like, we have nothing to offer anymore.
02:34:22.000Is it possible to overcome those problems?
02:34:27.000Is it possible that we could realize the dangers that are involved in creating this but somehow or another engineer it in a way that would be ultimately beneficial to people?
02:35:29.000Well, that is kind of how it works, is that these, what they call large language models, but, you know, it's really just a big pile of numbers.
02:35:40.000And how you tune those numbers matters.
02:36:04.000Or maybe it would prune places in the world that are, you know, overwhelmingly polluting, like third world countries.
02:36:12.000Maybe decide that they're not very necessary, particularly if we use computers or AI or some sort of robotics to do human labor.
02:36:23.000And then you have these areas where human beings are doing this labor and they're polluting and, you know, there's all sorts of issues that come about because of that.
02:36:32.000You say, well, we just eliminate those people.
02:36:34.000We eliminate that issue and then we have 30% less garbage in the ocean.
02:38:36.000I'm saying it's like letting a genie out of a bottle.
02:38:39.000It's sort of like a magic genie that can make wishes come true, except usually when they tell those stories, that doesn't end well for the person who let the genie out of the bottle.