#118 - Algorithms are Muting the World

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Welcome to another free idea podcast with your host, Ford Focus.
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And today's topic is the internet bubble that we live in.
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Can you believe the World Cup is happening and I'm not even aware of because
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I'm not interested in sports, so YouTube doesn't show me anything related to sports.
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And the only reason I know the World Cup is going on It's because my streamer,
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my entertainer, the content I consume, it's a burned peanut,
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play minigames.
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And he mentioned the World Cup happening only because his chat was talking about
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how the USA was playing against someone. I don't even remember against whom.
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And that's the only reason I know why the World Cup is happening But I bet you
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if I watched sports And I was recommended sports In YouTube or anything related to that,
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I would have known way, way long time ago,
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So I think it's really, really.
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Scary or dangerous or something, something, something Powerful tool that is
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the internet advertisement,
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Um, the only way that I know about the World Cup, the world anything,
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is because of my streamer that plays video games. That is bad.
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That is bad. Back in my day, back in my day, when I was youngster,
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I had, um, we had the TV to show commercials about it.
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We had the Coca-Cola making bottles about it, every soda out there.
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They had so many promos advertising it Then they had the chips I remember the
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chips also had like a little advertisement Plastic in front of it Remember that? I used to love that,
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The commercials were all about it It was pretty interesting how so much stuff,
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Would advertise the World Cup.
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And then the adults Wouldn't stop talking about it And like sometimes the adults
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Would get the holiday just to To watch it I was like wow Wow,
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And now My favorite streamer Mr.
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Peanut Just playing I don't know Fortnite or like a chameleon Just Casually
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saying oh yeah the US is playing right now The World Cup The World Cup.
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See I even feel like it's a lie I feel like I could have been lied Because that's
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the only place I've seen it And since then I haven't bothered To even search
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it on YouTube I haven't even gotten a single commercial About the World Cup,
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It'll be very interesting if after this podcast My phone is listening to me
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and I start getting Advertisements about it That'll be very interesting Isn't
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that right my FBI agent Isn't that right, Gerald?
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So, that is the life that we live in. That is the life. That is the life.
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We live in an internet bubble, and we only get advertised what we get advertised.
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Hey, who that? Who that? Nice.
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Yeah, so we only get advertised what we get advertised, all right?
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That's it. That's it. We only get advertised what we get advertised.
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Let me get behind this little car, Woody.
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Um, so yeah, that's the life, that's the life, that's the life.
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As the traffic life of Austin in the 21st century.
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But it is what it is. Kind of like, anyways, anyways.
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Um, so I know that YouTube has like an explore button, but I don't press it.
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Nobody ever does because when I press the explore button, it just shows me what's
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trendy around the world and it's often a bunch of.
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Stuff that I'm not interested. Who would have thought? Wow, big news,
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big news. It shows me something I'm not interested.
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But before, I used to find stuff like that by accident.
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Now I have to find it on purpose. Who's out there finding this stuff on purpose is what I wonder.
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All I do is I just refresh and then now I know that we have the Olympics in
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the US somewhere and I know that we also have the 250,
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year of the US which is the lamest I've ever seen,
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is the lamest again in terms of advertisement 250 anniversary of the US independence
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which sounds pretty cool Like it's a 2, it's a 5, and it's a 0 Sounds pretty
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cool It's one of those numbers that ends with a 0,
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It's pretty lame For having such a cool number Again, I haven't seen a single
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advertisement Not a single funny video on it.
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Not a stampede of history YouTubers Know a bunch of video games With American
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skins Or advertising 4th of July Nothing is weird It's weird Thank you.
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I know that I guess Trump is doing some crazy stuff in the White House,
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but I only know that because of its haters.
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Its haters are the biggest form of advertisement. I would have not known about what he's doing.
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If it wasn't for his haters all the time, posting it on social media,
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being like, I can't believe Trump is building this thing.
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And then comparing him to Camacho, President Camacho from Idiocracy, the movie.
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So thank you haters Because of you I know What he doing I know what he doing
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The thing you didn't want me to know I know Because of you,
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So that's backfiring for them That's backfiring.
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Talking about the news and haters I've come to the realization And this may
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be pretty Pretty young realization That will evolve to semi-mature But,
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Holy shit, I just see Oh my god, I love that No way,
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Damn, I wish I could take a picture of that dangerous Shit this guy is doing
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So it's a Tesla And he has like a phone Um,
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Holder On his steering wheel Oh my god Never thought of that Safety last,
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you know what I mean, Osha?
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Safety last It's like a calzone Imagine a calzone On your steering wheel,
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And it has like An octopus Hugging your steering wheel And in the middle is
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a phone In landscape mode,
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Like to watch 4K movies And then Just imagine that And then imagine the guy
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driving at 50 miles an hour Just looking at his steering wheel,
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On his Tesla, wow. Well, I get it. They're self-driving, but that's the future
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right there. My mind is living in 2050.
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2050 right now and 2050 more reasons for your car insurance to go up this year.
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That's a good neighbor. That's a good neighbor right there. Good neighbor.
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Raising my insurance. So where was I?
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President Camacho and advertisement and the haters and the bubbles that we live in.
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And so the bubbles we live in, it's sad. It's very sad.
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So I've recently started getting off social media.
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But don't praise me because I didn't do it on purpose. Don't praise me. Don't praise me.
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I just found a trash. Somebody trashed a beautiful music box that I picked up.
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One of those where you carry your instruments. And I used to do that for a shoe
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box. Pretty cool. But when I opened it, it's like a chest.
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It had a turntable in there. One of those record players.
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It's on the cheap side It's like something you would buy for $30 But it's free
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And you can't beat free And so I hooked it up And it was missing a few pieces
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Nothing much It's not like I did a lot of.
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Repairing Oh but you know what I used AI I took a picture of it And I was like
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what model is this And what is missing from it And AI being the incredible Hulk That it is,
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immediately from its picture showed me links about it,
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and told me what it was missing and obviously told me more than it was missing
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but because of the pictures and links I was able to,
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look deeper into it and it did get it right at least one of those three things
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that it told me that it was missing it was that little flat thing that keeps the disc from,
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scratching at the bottom or being soft and it's like a little soft platform
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that you can buy And I just bought that thing And then I did a little bit of YouTubing with a needle,
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And I just had to move the needle from right to left And boom,
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that thing worked great And so I went to half book price And I bought like two
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random $4 records Records,
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records And it's pretty, I like it So So,
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I'm going to take my phone here. I'm waiting for that Tesla to pass me by.
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I'm going to snap a picture as soon as he does.
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What was I going to tell you? So the record player. Yeah, so I've been listening
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to that music. It's pretty cool.
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I've been trying to slowly get off the YouTube. I don't think I've been successful at all.
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Not at all as I wish I was.
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It's so tough So tough It's shameful to me If I were to look at my time screens
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Probably 8 hours a day, 6 hours a day And then I complain that,
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I don't have enough hours In the day on my weekend My weekend goes by rather
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fast I don't know what to do Hobbyless.
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Well there it is Shameful 6 hours of YouTube playback And that can be good That
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can be good Even if I'm not watching it directly and I just have it as noise
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in the background or even if I'm just having it in headphones, it just can't be good.
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There's no way that my brain, my little monkey brain was built to hear somebody
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speaking or intaking so much intellectual information.
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Or actually dumb information because I just watched Mr. Peanut for six hours.
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So that there's no way that's my brain is, you know, so I'm not really winning that challenge.
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But thanks to the record player, I figured something so crazy. That's so crazy.
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I'm playing music on the record player, and then I pull out my phone to play YouTube.
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And before the YouTube video plays, I stop myself for like half a second, and I go, wait a minute.
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The moment I play this YouTube video, my music is going to stop because it's
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connected through Bluetooth.
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Right? Because it's so ingrained in me That I play music on the speaker But
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then my monkey brain is like Ooh, YouTube video Let me take out my phone And
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just like play five seconds of YouTube video And then it interrupts my music,
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But lord behold I have a record player And the music keeps going Despite me
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watching a YouTube video,
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And then I go What kind of sorcery is this?
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My music just keeps playing It didn't get interrupted What kind of source?
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Where was this type of technology hiding?
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I know, I know, it's crazy, but it's an unfundomable, unfundomable,
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can't even think about it.
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Can't even believe it, that music keeps going while I'm watching a YouTube video.
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And then the strangest things happen after that.
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Then I have music playing while watching a video on my phone and it's too much
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noise going on that I go, So, hold on, none of this makes sense.
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I don't like the sound of this. Like, I literally don't like it.
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I can't hear my videos, so I turn up the video volume on my phone.
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And just the house sounds so loud now because I have a super loud video.
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And then I have music over here in the background that just doesn't make any
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coherent sense musically.
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Anyway, this is not good. Let me just turn up this phone or turn up the music.
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But it's so much easier for me to like swipe up and turn off the video than
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stand up and go remove the needle from the damn record player.
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So inconvenient in my life of convenience.
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So I just end up turning off the video.
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So don't praise me for staying out of technology because it's not on purpose.
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It's a godsend, that record player, the little touch of all technology into my life.
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It was meant to be on the chosen one and God's chosen.
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Imagine if I met a person in real life that was like that or believes that type
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of stuff so it's really teaching me a lot it really is it's pretty cool and it is what it is,
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so yeah our phone is like,
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It's dangerous, really dangerous.
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Today, more than ever, it's very powerful. The quote of, it was an old guy.
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More like, not an old guy, but like an old, old, old recording that I used to
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hear about your mind being a garden and whatever you plant in it, you will sow.
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And if you plant fruit, you get fruit. And if you plant poison ivy, you get poison ivy.
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Whatever you plant, you get.
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And the brain is like a farm that is very fertile. And it'll grow anything you put in it.
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Absolutely anything.
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So it's a good farmer. But you, like me I'm a bad master I'm a bad farmer My
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land is great My hand is bad It's terrible,
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Anyhow, that way A cooler way to say it You know, great servant Bad master,
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something like that Yeah, I think it was that Great servant Your mind is a great
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servant Your brain Yourself is a bad master whatever,
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So, yeah, I'm true more than ever now. Technology, but what can we do about it?
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We have self-driving Teslas. What are we going to do with all the time?
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What are we going to do with all the time that we save not driving and looking forward?
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Obviously, we're going to be on our phone. Oh, look at that car.
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That car looks gorgeously destroyed. I'm going to slam a picture of that.
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All right. I love my pictures.
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That car is destroyed.
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And all the metal is bent all over the place. And then the guy has his iPhone Ultra 24.
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Like big ass brick in his hand. And it tells me a story. I know how that car got into a wreck.
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And I know that that person didn't learn.
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Or maybe I'm jumping to conclusions. Or maybe I am. Maybe I am.
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Maybe he's just a kind fella.
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That's down his luck and he just had to buy whatever he could buy or lend it
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to a friend that crashed it for him.
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Yes, let's think about the world always with the best of intentions.
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There's nothing that he crashed it by using bad driving.
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Habits. How about that? Everybody's innocent. until proven guilty.
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And sometimes some people are guilty before being proven innocent. That's the way it goes.
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That's the way it goes in the justice system. Sometimes the punishment is the process.
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All right, I'm getting pretty deep in here. I was just talking about turntables
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and a bubble of the internet and the phone usage.
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And, hey, I speak to my phone while driving.
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I'm actually looking left and right I'm telling you about the drivers near me,
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I am obviously paying attention Obviously You know You've sung in a car Haven't you?
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Everybody has sung At least once in their life inside a car You still pay attention,
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You still pay attention, not a problem Unless you were reading the lyrics while
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driving That's something else That is something else But,
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do you know it from memory And just listening and tagging along You're a good
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driver You can still drive fine You can still drive fine.
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So what are we gonna do When all these cars drive themselves Like with all that
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free time Man so much free time,
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They don't call it the free way for nothing.
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So Changing topic Changing topic,
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Have you heard about trees These incredible green Bastions of power That survive years and years,
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And they just don't move.
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I was watching this peanut guy. Pretty hilarious. Oh, oh, oh,
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oh, the realization. Finally, I think I skipped it because I changed subjects.
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I've come to realization. I think that may be a young realization and it may
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change in the future. But, but hear me out.
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You know how women like celebrity updates?
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And there used to be those celebrity magazines with all that current gossip
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and all the pictures and all that boyfriend broke up with a girlfriend type of news.
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Well, I, I believe the news, especially nowadays in what is it now,
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2026, presidential news about the war,
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is the gossip of men.
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Is the equivalent of it, is the equivalent.
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And I've come to that realization because my YouTube throws me videos about
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the war and it's nothing new and like it's always like ceasefire, ceasefire.
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And they have like one hour worth of ceasefiring of the new update of the war.
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And then they go sober in depth for one hour.
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And why this time is going to happen or continue or whatever and not continue
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and every possible solution for one whole hour.
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And it's like every YouTuber on earth is doing it that does politics.
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And then the very next day, something completely unexpected happens that somebody
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made some move in the politics world or in the actual world of war,
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And that whole hour of hot air goes to nowhere. It becomes obsolete immediately.
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And then guess what? Another whole hour.
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Of the updates and what's going to happen and why it didn't happen as they thought it would happen.
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The content, it's infinite.
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And then guess what? Well, you won't believe this, but in a week from then,
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something I expect that is going to happen again and there's a whole other hour
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of content and it just never stops.
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And then some of those get forgotten into the past although they're still ongoing,
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maybe once in a while another video comes up again and,
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people go remember that one time and what about that other topic I wonder how
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they're doing I wonder how those two are doing those two countries So I wonder
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how they're doing It's the same thing as going I wonder what Rat Pit is doing with any of her,
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friends I wonder if they're still together Or broken up Are they still mad Are
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they still cheating I wonder,
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I wonder Is the ceasefire still ongoing Do they break the deal I wonder Who's winning I wonder,
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Although it's completely different Completely different scenarios One is gossip
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And the other one people actually die But,
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It's pretty Similar Big picture big picture Big picture Pretty similar.
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So, yeah, that might change.
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That may change.
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But that's currently my belief right now. And I stopped. Ever since I realized
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that not too long ago, I've been slowly getting off it.
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There's another thing that I realized. Well, actually, I'm not even going to
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take credit. We all know this. We all know this.
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The difference is we don't practice it. I would practice it for a day or two
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a week, just like a diet and then forget about it. But I stopped watching YouTube,
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in the mornings. My wife used to do that.
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And it's a very, in the beginning, it's like very sad and lonely to do it because
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you don't have that constant stuff going around in your head.
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But eventually, slowly, I get used to the fact that I'm not listening to anything in the morning.
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And I'm more present And the time goes slower I don't become as angrier and
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sad when I get to work And irritated or irritable Because,
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man I mean, I've been putting some of these videos once in a while,
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Like not in the morning, but maybe while I'm driving, I'm like,
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hey, you know, I'm not going to say the code work is going to stop my recording.
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But I talked to my trusty AI from Apple and I will play this video of this favorite YouTuber, right?
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And as soon as I put on the video, the title is so catchy that you won't believe
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what the UK is doing. They can't keep getting away with this.
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The first 10 seconds it's like Little girl was raped By a gang And I'm like oh alright Alright,
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I'm out Great guys great Yeah that's what I want to listen to at 7 in the morning,
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While going to my Job Where I'm just going to sit all day and walk around here
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and there That's what I need Uh huh.
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It's like ah That one is too much But there's others that are not as much as that About just,
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Protests And then when I get to work I'm all irritated I can't believe they're
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doing this I can't believe they're doing this in this part of the country I'm
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never going to visit I'm not going to visit over there Because they're always
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having protests Maybe that's not true,
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For like 24-7,
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Just the same way we're having a World Cup And I don't even know it's going on.
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That's crazy. But it's a, by the way, the start of the morning.
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So we all know that I just started practicing again.
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Later down the road, I'll stop doing it again.
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And we continue.
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We continue. But it will be the way it will be. It will be like that.
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Speak to me.
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Yeah, well, there's a lot of topics coming to my head right now.
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There's a lot of topics, but I'm going to keep it on the bright side.
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See, because I was thinking of the news and all this negative stuff,
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a lot of negative topics came to my head, and this is not that type of day right now.
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I'm not going to be talking about sad and dreadful stuff.
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At the free of the podcast. 7.30 in the morning.
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But see how much I have to fight it off? See how much I have to fight it off?
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Can't even think of anything else because I'm trying not to think of the pink
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elephant. And all I'm thinking about is the pink elephant.
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So that's how powerful it is. You just saw a real-time example of why it's bad
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to watch bad news And even start on that negativity,
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And I've done it so often That my brain just really quickly goes into that mode That's another thing,
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They call it, they call it Whoever they is,
00:27:26.977 --> 00:27:30.839
Neurons, the fire together Wire together,
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So the more your neurons do a thing The easier they become entangled And they
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can do the thing again More efficiently next time Same thing as a habit That's
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building an habit That's what it is,
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I think it's impressive How complicated we make life to be Even with all of
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our explanations It's incredible really A feat of humanity,
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Like, I always imagine, like, a mom going, you got to build healthy habits and do the healthy stuff.
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And exercise, eat, and sleep. That's that. That's all. That's all it boils down to.
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Exercise, eat, and sleep. It all boils down to that.
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Maybe half of you want to add that.
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Have good habits. And what is a good habit?
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Nobody can really tell you. There's some that are obviously not good Then there's
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others that They have to be good for you And they're not good for everybody
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So it's like up to you to decide If it's a good habit or not.
00:28:41.351 --> 00:28:44.689
But then we complicate it a lot And then we go,
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With exactly what I said Well a good habit is And a bad habit is the neurons that,
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Entangle together because the more you do it So what you want to do is you want
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to wake up In the morning and to raise your dopamine and you want to listen
00:28:57.144 --> 00:29:02.231
to some music that is cheerful and you want to stop looking at Instagram and a bad news,
00:29:03.374 --> 00:29:05.414
and that will lower your cortisol levels.
00:29:05.414 --> 00:29:08.014
But you don't want to exercise in the morning because it will raise your cortisol
00:29:08.014 --> 00:29:11.384
levels in your muscle film and you'll have trouble sleeping.
00:29:11.384 --> 00:29:15.993
And it's just like, oh, it's too much science, guys. Too much science.
00:29:16.440 --> 00:29:23.063
Can we just say stop listening to negative news in the morning to start your day? How about that?
00:29:24.654 --> 00:29:30.144
How about that? Can I just say, instead of eating a science experiment,
00:29:30.144 --> 00:29:36.281
when you look at the ingredient list with 15 ingredients for a simple peanut butter sandwich,
00:29:37.825 --> 00:29:40.577
it should be just like three ingredients. Um...
00:29:43.016 --> 00:29:48.467
How about we don't eat that chemistry project? How about we just eat.
00:29:52.826 --> 00:29:57.029
Some grapes and a slice of cheese or something? Two eggs, I don't know. Or a hard-boiled egg.
00:29:58.202 --> 00:30:01.017
How about we make some health decisions? Let's see how your day goes.
00:30:02.939 --> 00:30:09.636
I don't have to explore the signs of, well, shantan gum really doesn't have
00:30:09.636 --> 00:30:11.291
to mess with your mitochondria levels.
00:30:12.475 --> 00:30:15.616
And then your Philomingues And your filimion,
00:30:18.257 --> 00:30:26.192
I just got it Oh my god This car is truly going slow Damn What are they doing,
00:30:28.955 --> 00:30:29.797
The fuck.
00:30:32.971 --> 00:30:39.299
They stopped in the middle of the... What the hell are these two doing? They just took...
00:30:40.535 --> 00:30:43.119
I wish I had a camera in this car to record things like that.
00:30:43.513 --> 00:30:45.307
What the hell are they doing?
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I would have so much content, man. So much content.
00:30:52.650 --> 00:30:56.284
Two cars just... You know, that road that is next to the highway,
00:30:56.493 --> 00:31:00.679
like on the right side that also looks like a highway, and it's treated like a highway by many?
00:31:01.184 --> 00:31:08.247
Said two cars just stopped on the right lane because it's two cars, they took two lanes.
00:31:09.042 --> 00:31:12.694
And then they just lowered their windows and started talking to each other.
00:31:14.899 --> 00:31:18.458
One guy was the first one to do it, pointed down, like, come here.
00:31:19.230 --> 00:31:22.359
Then the other guy just, I bet just a little bit of road rage,
00:31:22.510 --> 00:31:23.889
misunderstanding going on in there.
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But guys, you guys are stopping on a road that is 55 miles an hour Of three
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lanes You're covering two lanes,
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And you know You are living in Austin Where absolutely nobody follows The speed
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limit So that 55 laner became a 70 laner,
00:31:46.177 --> 00:31:52.057
And you still decide To cover two lanes That's gonna go well My goodness.
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That is The pinnacle of humanity I was an MIT graduate right there,
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How angry do you have to be to do that? I don't know I haven't been that angry
00:32:08.969 --> 00:32:13.802
yet Maybe one day Maybe one day I'll understand it Maybe one day,
00:32:15.459 --> 00:32:21.737
Maybe I would understand it If I ate a chemistry project for breakfast Watched three hours of,
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Rape gangs in Europe And.
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Oh, my God. And then went to work.
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Maybe.
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Yeah, something about my humor is wrong. And I love it.
00:32:45.382 --> 00:32:48.097
And this is why I'm doing this podcast, because I know there's people out there
00:32:48.097 --> 00:32:50.187
that find my humor funny. And,
00:32:52.470 --> 00:32:57.683
I have been my bundle of joy when that happens. And I'm happy to share that
00:32:57.979 --> 00:33:02.857
type of humor With people out there That otherwise I would not be with right
00:33:02.857 --> 00:33:05.681
now Because I'm working Where I would never meet,
00:33:06.546 --> 00:33:10.092
But they deserve to have a little bit of me in their life A little bit of joy,
00:33:11.647 --> 00:33:13.423
Because then I go to these places,
00:33:15.433 --> 00:33:19.642
I go to these places physically With a tough crowd,
00:33:22.353 --> 00:33:24.582
Guys, like when something happens
00:33:25.011 --> 00:33:29.806
I make the joke the next second I don't wait For the body to get cold,
00:33:31.461 --> 00:33:38.387
I make the joke right there Straight shooter Fast shooter, quick draw Soon as
00:33:38.387 --> 00:33:43.157
it happens I make the joke Maybe five seconds afterwards Or in the moment In
00:33:43.157 --> 00:33:45.259
the moment In the very moment,
00:33:47.367 --> 00:33:51.067
And what I have in the studio I have a tough crowd Like, sir,
00:33:51.067 --> 00:33:54.251
this is a funeral This is not the place to make jokes Yes.
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And then I go,
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Damn, I'm at work already. Oh, snap. I'm at work already. What time it is.
00:34:11.703 --> 00:34:13.642
What time it is.
00:34:14.943 --> 00:34:17.601
Oh, I arrived pretty early today.
00:34:19.232 --> 00:34:23.987
Pretty early. Much earlier than I'm hired.
00:34:25.339 --> 00:34:28.811
But that's me. I'm an early guy. Hey, what can I tell you?
00:34:29.409 --> 00:34:33.826
I'm just gonna turn on this truck, do a little bit of humpy-dumpy.
00:34:35.243 --> 00:34:36.584
Ah, laid back.
00:34:39.265 --> 00:34:44.885
Lay back. Woo! Lay back. Chill. Oh!
00:34:48.437 --> 00:34:51.961
Nothing wrong with being early. But also,
00:34:54.472 --> 00:34:58.812
I have a really good podcast. We're going on right now. Oh, yes, sir.
00:34:59.686 --> 00:35:03.392
Oh, yes, sir. Yes, sir. Really good podcast going on right now.
00:35:03.392 --> 00:35:04.858
Really good podcast. Really good podcast.
00:35:06.762 --> 00:35:11.935
Ito boy. Ito bee. It would be a really good podcast It really do be a good one,
00:35:14.889 --> 00:35:20.909
Yeah, so that's what's going on in my life lately And I'd just like to explore these ideas with you,
00:35:22.924 --> 00:35:29.350
I can't always do ideas about new inventions Because there's so much going on in my adult life,
00:35:31.486 --> 00:35:39.452
That is It's taking over my mind And usually, when I used to have these ideas,
00:35:39.792 --> 00:35:42.283
that's when I was working with my muscles more than my head.
00:35:43.287 --> 00:35:46.486
And I had so much free time.
00:35:52.494 --> 00:35:59.902
But not anymore. So now what plagues me is the daily life of a modern family
00:35:59.902 --> 00:36:02.402
guy. At least one in my shoes.
00:36:03.238 --> 00:36:11.754
Because there's many types out there. Many types Never ending types That's my life,
00:36:14.221 --> 00:36:22.048
So, thank you for being with me on another episode of the Free Idea Podcast.
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Starting the day good. We're starting the day good.
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I'm going to leave it here. I'm going to work on editing this right now.
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Submit it. Have it ready. In like an hour, post it.
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And welcome to my world. Welcome to my head, my brain, the way I see things,
00:36:48.898 --> 00:36:52.445
the way I hear things, the way I understand things.
00:36:53.427 --> 00:37:00.664
I know I'm not really thinking anything new here, nothing special about it,
00:37:01.525 --> 00:37:05.460
but I may be one of the few people that voices it.
00:37:07.244 --> 00:37:18.250
Because I still, I'm still yet to hear Joe Rogan talking about the economics of the day-to-day.
00:37:19.259 --> 00:37:24.595
And how apparently, oh, and then right now that the current adult male gossip,
00:37:25.506 --> 00:37:30.963
is about how the war in somewhere already stopped.
00:37:32.792 --> 00:37:35.996
Like for realsies this time. We'll see.
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We'll have another one-hour episode on that, and then we'll see in a week more content.
00:37:43.768 --> 00:37:50.247
And my only thought after that was like, oh, okay, so gas is going to go down now, huh?
00:37:51.319 --> 00:37:55.376
And that is the wrong thought to have, by the way. That is the wrong thought.
00:37:55.661 --> 00:38:02.192
That's lives are being saved, and lives were lost, and bloodshed,
00:38:03.161 --> 00:38:05.251
and 7-Elevens were destroyed.
00:38:06.621 --> 00:38:11.772
You know and my thought was oh so gas is going to go down and that means my
00:38:11.772 --> 00:38:18.022
groceries are going to grow back to their original size maybe and maybe,
00:38:18.753 --> 00:38:22.306
it wouldn't be such a struggle to go to the grocery store in a world more, maybe,
00:38:23.292 --> 00:38:30.264
and again that's the wrong way to think about it but that's how that's how weird it is to,
00:38:31.466 --> 00:38:36.917
to know about what's going on around the world we are just thinking about ourselves.
00:38:38.909 --> 00:38:43.853
And I do give credit to Joe Roginski for saying that. Most average people out
00:38:43.853 --> 00:38:50.099
here with a job and a family, all we think about is our family and what's in front of our eyes.
00:38:50.575 --> 00:38:54.193
We don't really have the time or mental capacity to be thinking about what's
00:38:54.193 --> 00:38:58.417
going on out there or even worrying too much about what's going on out there.
00:38:58.963 --> 00:39:02.620
I just worry about what's going on in my world.
00:39:06.353 --> 00:39:13.483
And that is the life. That is the life. so with that said with that said I don't
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think we have special people in special jobs we just have people,
00:39:20.273 --> 00:39:26.363
in jobs that deal with this type of things closer and it affects them more than
00:39:26.363 --> 00:39:29.723
it affects other people who work other type of jobs that's also interesting
00:39:29.723 --> 00:39:34.629
too when you think about it sometimes your world only affects you,
00:39:37.154 --> 00:39:37.763
um
00:39:39.789 --> 00:39:44.242
I don't know, when you live in it, and then you change jobs,
00:39:44.491 --> 00:39:49.866
and then you have a whole other point of view for the other things that will affect you now.
00:39:52.791 --> 00:39:56.536
Like, you're super into this one thing, and then you change jobs completely,
00:39:56.890 --> 00:40:00.823
like industry-related, and now you're only worried about this other thing.
00:40:00.823 --> 00:40:08.140
Like, I remember, and I always think about, what are my previous jobs doing right now without me?
00:40:09.701 --> 00:40:12.393
Like what kind of life are they living without me right now,
00:40:12.393 --> 00:40:14.624
huh? What kind of life are they living?
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Well, I know when I used to work at those jobs,
00:40:21.909 --> 00:40:30.692
It was hell on earth It was like fire alarm going on every day And it still goes on without me,
00:40:32.730 --> 00:40:33.548
And I do wonder.
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And I'll leave you with that wonder.
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I will leave you with that wonder. Just live your life and think about number one.
00:40:47.276 --> 00:40:52.340
Think about number one. Because those jobs, same as everything else,
00:40:52.340 --> 00:40:54.578
will continue on without you.
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But I'm not saying that in a negative way, but more in a positive twist.
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Enjoy yourself.
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Enjoy yourself And your family And those people that do enjoy your company,
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And that appreciate it Thank you guys for listening to another Free Idea Podcast With your host Me.