#6 The Future
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What's up, everybody? Welcome to another episode of the Nateland podcast. I'm Nate Bargatze. He's Aaron Weber, Brian Bates.

Still introducing. Also, people have our dog. She's under here. Her name's Holly. And you might see her running around. She sits in here for, I don't know, some of the episode. And then she even thinks it's too long, so she leaves. It's one of her comments. And she runs out. But, yeah. Thank you guys for coming back.

You know, we're starting to, we're getting in a groove. I think we're starting to figure out, you know, what's the, what's the system of how we're doing this. I like papers. I love having papers, man. Like this. It's nothing better. It feels like something's accomplished. And we have a good list of stuff to talk about today.

I was thinking about starting the show is what we did last week is we want to do the first beginning to kind of comments on some comments that people wrote about the last episode. And so I think we're going to try to keep that going and see how that goes.

So if you're listening and you don't want to hear about these comments, then you can fast forward. But what I find is people realize we may not know what we're talking about a lot of times, and they want us to know it. Yes. Also, yeah, realize the point of this is we're just looking this stuff up. Yeah. So that's it. I mean, there's no...

There's not, you know, there's not a guy like this with Rogan's for go watch Rogan. Rogan talks to a professional and we're just comedians talking about whatever. We're trying to find topics that are fun to talk about. We like having stuff that are, you can dive in and get involved and try to be interesting and funny and whatever it is. And yeah, we definitely, we're shooting from the hip. Yeah. I mean, a lot of stuff could be completely wrong and,

You know, so that's what it is. It's going to be wrong. I don't know. Most things I do is wrong. All right, let's get, because I think we're going to have a long one. Today's a good one. It's a topic. You should never say that at the beginning. Guys, this is going to be a haul. Just, you know. You ever hear someone say, when they go, it's the worst thing I hate hearing comics say it,

When they say, they mentioned something like, I went to the store today, but I'll get to that in a minute. And then they go into something else, you're like, dude, I can't. I'm already regretting. I don't want to hear the story thing. You know, the whole time you're talking, I'm like, God, we still have to wait to hear he went to the store. He hasn't even got into that. I felt that way at church when the preacher's like, later on, we're going to be talking about 2 Thessalonians. Oh, boy, I'm already checked out. Yeah.

Yeah. I checked out of that comment. I already checked out. Sorry. Go to church. That's all right. No, no. It's good you go to church. So that was like a – that's just a funny thing to be – like we're just talking about comics. You're like, I know. I hear it. That's like my – I feel like my mom would be like, I know our pastor did it. You're just like, oh, yeah. Yeah, that's right. This guy can't even relate. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Just like an old man. Yeah, I have a hard time getting the ATM in the car to drive to. They don't make it. Anybody else? And you're like, no, I think your arms are getting shorter. So let's go through these comments. So the first one we're going to do, Matt Orgen, O-R-G-E-N. And a lot of people commented this, but the office took off because the 40-year-old virgin came out between season one and two. Otherwise, it was being considered for cancellation.

And that's also why he got in shape, they said. Yeah, for the movie. Yeah, so that's good. So that's solved. There you go. Check that one off the list. This is one of my favorites, Sam Wyman. Listen, I love the podcast and can listen to it all day, every day. However, if I continue to hear Brian's nose hairs whistling into the microphone whenever he breathes, I will cut my ears off.

And I think that's fair. I like that the guy has narrowed it down to, it was you. Yeah. That's some detective work. I just assumed people would blame Aaron for a lot of the heavy breathing. But, I mean, everybody was like... I did get blamed a couple times in the comments. Also, first of all, I want to apologize. There was a lot of comments. If it was just one, you're like, well, that guy's crazy. But when it's like 18, you're like, well, they may be on to something. Yeah.

So I apologize for that. And I also noticed that whenever it's a nice, fun comment, people like to say, oh, Brad was funny or Matt, you know, whatever I've been called. But when it's this, they're very specific. Brian Bates needs to die. At Brian Bates comic. Is it at Brian Bates comic? Comic. Comic, yep. So go and follow if you're tired of noise, nose hair whistling. Cutting your ears off is a little much. Well, I don't know. You just stop listening.

I don't know. I'd go with the ears, to be honest, Sam. That's how I want the listeners to be. I want them to either cut their ears off or listen. I don't want you half in. You're either all in. Your ears are off. I can't listen because both my ears are gone. Or you're a fan and you're listening. That's the way I want it.

Brock Sanderson, Gretzky was so dominant that if you took all his goals away, he would still hold the record for most points ever, which is unbelievable how crazy. How does that work? They get points for assists and goals and something else. I feel like we can't ask questions. Now we're going to have to read comments. So this is a comment for the last week of the comment. We're going to have to keep doing comments. Yeah.

All right, guys. The first five minutes is the comments about the other comments that we did. And then the next 20 minutes is about the current episode. We're eventually not even going to have an episode. No. All right, guys. This first week is about the two previous. It all just keeps going, never stops. It's assist. Assist. Okay. And so, yeah, he could, all his actual goals. And so he could still lead in points, which is nuts. That's insane. Nuts. Nuts.

Interesting fact, when Pete Weber said, who do you think you are? I am. He has said that he was yelling at a 12-year-old kid that was talking trash to him in the stands. I mean, couldn't get better for that to be the reason. That's Peter. What made you say that? I'll tell you what made me say that. Stupid kids of this generation.

They think they're better than me. Who do they think they are? I am. I mean, that is definitely an old man yelling, talking trash to a kid and doesn't really know what he's saying. Yeah. What was that kid saying? I would love to hear that. I don't know. You know, those aren't arenas that they're doing that in. This is a pretty small arena. It's bowling alleys. Maybe he said, who does he think he is? I am. That's what the kid said. Who does this guy think he is?

He is, because you are, or something. It's the opposite. And then he says, who do you think you are? I am. Such a great line. Another one, another comment. It's a very funny sports story. She, was it a girl? I don't know. Yes. Yeah. So, a young lady. She was at Youth Swim Meet, the 4x100 relays where each member swims the length of the pool.

First member of the relay dives in and starts swimming down. This girl, she said, I'm supposed to go third, but I didn't know someone else comes back. So when the first person touched the wall at the other end, I dove in and started swimming. I crossed my teammate mid pool and thought, wow, she really screwed up.

Great time, but we ended up on the wrong side of the pool. Dude, that's so funny to me. When I first read that, I was really, I mean, I read it, so I was laughing sore. It's just, I love it. I love the idea of just, I mean, you know, because when you're swimming, you're just oblivious. You dive in. There's no, the person has no, it's full-on commitment with just all the people watching going, why are you doing that?

And you're like, hey, hey, hey. Just really getting after it. Yeah, to pass somebody in the water. Oh, God. You almost hit each other. Just what are you doing? Yeah, those lanes are narrow. Yeah. And just what are you doing? You probably can't hear anything when you're swimming like that, right? So you just have no idea. Just to come up to? Yeah. To come up and just be like...

Just like really like just how do I do? Are we good? And you're like, you've lost it. You've lost the tournament. That girl at the other end touches and just thinks. I mean, the girl at the other end probably touches. And, you know, I mean, I don't know if everybody's putting it together. You could think someone drifted over into the lane. I bet that happens with like youth swim. It's just someone just is in four lanes over, just kind of sideways angle. Yeah.

You ever go see someone swim in the YMCA and they just, boom. It's like they're just hitting the sides. They can't stay straight. I never liked if you go swimming. I like swimming, and I tried to do it. It's a whole thing to go swimming. If you go to the Y or something, you would go in. It's just a nightmare. I was like, I'm not going to ever commit to this, to be the exercise you're supposed to do.

And when you go and like, if it's crowded too, I'm out. Like I need maybe one person in the whole pool in the area. If it's three, I mean, I'm done. If there's one, because people just get in lanes.

People just will get in and be like, oh, okay, I'll swim and I'll swim this way and you swim that way and stay in the same lane. And that's so uncomfortable to me. Like I think if the lanes are full, I mean, I'm just not swimming. Yeah, of course. I'm not going to share a lane. That's crazy, right? Yeah. Yeah. COVID's helped out a lot. I love this. There's a lot of stuff I really enjoy. When you go to a restaurant, they can't sit you on top of someone.

When you're standing in line, there's not just someone on your back. Yeah. I've seen a lot of bathrooms are blocking out the middle urinal. Yeah. It's like, why is that there to begin with? I mean, COVID's unbelievable. COVID is... Hopefully it'll never end. I mean... Big fan. I'll tell you what, there's a lot... I would want to go, if they go... There's a lot we learned from COVID. Wash your hands. They do all this health stuff, and they go, then we got Nate. And I want to be like, guys, the social distance thing is not a bad way to live. Yeah.

That's something we should all take away from COVID is make sure, stand back from the person ordering. If you're at Starbucks, what do you got to, are you going to order over that guy's shoulder? No, back up. Just back up. Even if you're healthy, even if you're two healthy people, maybe don't just be on top of some, don't be a backpack to a guy. Yeah, this works out well for you. I love it. I mean, dude, sitting at a restaurant is the greatest thing ever.

All right. This one, I do like this real quickly. Someone said in the 70s, this woman, she said she was a teen mom killing it. I have a joke about teen moms. They actually do great because, I mean, if I was a teen mom, if I was a teen parent right now at 41, my daughter would already be gone. Yeah. You're living the life, you know? You hit 35, 40, kids out of the house. Wow.

I mean, you're in the peak of your life. Yeah. Been there, done that. And she said during her pregnancy, I think she smoked in the gynecologist's office, he said that smoking while pregnant wasn't horrible and it might just make the baby be smaller. I mean, that's...

That's very... Can you imagine? That's a doctor, man. When they said he's doing it, they're like, I don't know. He's going to weigh a buck 15 instead of a buck 40? Is that too bad? You know what I mean? With obesity rising in this country. More of us should be smoking. I think you just meant the baby will be smaller when it's birth. I think in general, the whole time. His whole life, yeah. It's skinny. All the skinny people out there

their parents smoked. That's a fact. Maybe that's why people are fatter now. It's just because less people are smoking during pregnancy. We should try it out. We're solving some stuff here. If you're pregnant out there. Guys, we need two people pregnant. One of you need to commit to smoking cigarettes and the other one doesn't. So who we got? We got a lot of people for the first one with no smoking, but the second one's pretty tough to find. You'll find someone. Okay.

This is 100% true, this guy wrote. I was watching the podcast last night and experienced laughter-induced, I don't know, syncope? Syncope. Syncope, S-Y-N-C-O-P-E. Is that how you say that? I don't know. Oh, got a word that, there's going to be a bunch of words I don't know. Basically, I fainted while laughing. It was when Brian was talking about his running between bases and

I was laughing hard. Don't get me wrong, but I've laughed harder and stayed conscious. Going into the doctor tomorrow about it will keep you updated. We just want to hear and make sure that guy's all right. Yeah. But that's pretty crazy. He fainted while laughing. Laughter, yeah. So I guess so hard that, I mean, it made him faint.

But they wanted to make it clear that it wasn't because the joke was that great. They laughed hard. Well, I don't know if this guy wanted our opinion on it. I mean, Brian's never had this happen, so he has no idea. I mean, obviously, he's had people wake up and leave, but never. Well, I hope he's okay. I hope I didn't kill someone. I hope he's okay.

I don't know. It'd be good to have in the bio. You go, this guy kills, literally. You think a doctor's going to make him play the clip? Let's hear what made you laugh. He just goes, and the doctor's like, ah. So far, we've promoted COVID, smoking while pregnant, and now dying from laughter. And we're still in the comments. Still, yeah. We have to fade out of the comments. This is all going to be just cut off.

I love you guys. This one guy wrote, I love you guys in the podcast. For the love of God, do your research. It wouldn't be so bad if Nate didn't say it with such confidence. The dude's name is Luka Doncic, and I was saying Donkick, I think. So it's Luka Doncic. So I messed his name up that gets messed up regularly on television. And Kobe scored 81, not 82. Yeah.

So I was wrong about those. By the way, I'm on the, you know. That is a comment, though, that 81-82. He said that as if I said Kobe had 140 points. Yeah. And he's like, dude, it's 81. Let's relax. It's not that. It wasn't even that impressive, dude. It was only 81. You said 82. He said that stuff bugged me much more than it should have. So he does acknowledge that. He's got a problem. He's like, yeah, what do you want me to do, man? I was excited. I got excited about it.

No, I like it. I didn't know that about Luca's last name because I've heard it pronounced incorrectly so many times. Donchich. Donchich. Yeah. Who's, this isn't a sports person's last name. That was Giannis. Giannis. I don't even try that. Ankatalopo. His name. You hear, it's tough, man. That's a tough one to say. I just always say Giannis. The Greek freak. He's the other one.

But, all right, yeah, well, we're going to have Luke on, and he can help us say the name right. That's all right. Luke, could you come on? We just asked him how he said his last name. We're like, all right, Luke, that's enough. Thanks for coming in. Appreciate it. Hey, question for the podcast, actually more of a comment. I just wanted to say that I think Brian is very underrated. Thank you. Oh, thank you.

He adds a fun dynamic to the group. Thank you. This seems like Brian's handwriting. It reminds me of the way we used to chat with the lunch lady in middle school. Very sweet. Keep it up, guys. I...

I mean, I love it. Because I do think that's a genuine comment. I mean, I don't know. I can't tell if they're being funny. I honestly think that's what they think. What does that mean? Well, I think you would be older than the lunch lady in middle school. But it's...

It just means you're kind of sweet and adorable and innocent. Yeah. You know, that's what I think. The kids, yeah, and the kids are like, oh, man, she's fun. She's a fun. I remember my lunch lady, we didn't hang out with her. Uh-huh.

Well, I don't think they're hanging out. No one wants to hang out with you. I think they just want to... It says chat, not hang out. Yeah. I don't think... All right. Valid point. I think there's not a listener on here that's like, oh, I hope me and Brian get to hang out one day. But I think they enjoy seeing you as they get their mashed potatoes, as you throw their mashed potatoes on their tray. I think they enjoy being like, she's fun and nice. Yeah.

And then you're going to end up helping one kid. You know, there's one kid that's like, my lunch lady really broke it to me one day. As you smoke a cigarette in the back. I feel lunch ladies always smoke. They just be... Inside the cafeteria? No. I mean, maybe early on they could. Out back? Like, yeah, you go out back, doors cracked open. They're always, you know, smoking them. That's so funny. Let's move on. So, I was curious. 24 minutes.

I don't know. I'm very curious about this comment because the plan is when we read these comments, I figure it's going to be... We started at clock four minutes early. Oh, okay. So we're at 20? Yeah. I figured it's going to be about 20 minutes of just trying to talk. Like I said, I think people, when they listen to podcasts, it's...

People want to say stuff. And so obviously we can't read everything, but it does help. I think it's good to, yeah, you guys correct us on stuff. And you have other facts. You have funny stories. So we do want to read some of that stuff. So I think, yeah, that's what the podcast should be. We'll do the first 20, 30 minutes of that, and then we get into the actual episode. And I like telling you that in case you want to fast forward. Dude, I'm on board with you listen how you want to listen. That's what it is.

Did you want to say something? Yeah, I was going to ask a dumb question. Has your internal clock improved since you did comedy? You can tell how long you've been... Would you have been able to ballpark that, you think? I've always looked at it. Probably. I mean, that first episode, I was like, how long we do... One of them, I was like, it was right at an hour. Like the first episode, you nailed it. That's why I was interested. Do you go by the sun? I can tell at night. Night's a little tougher, but I can get it within two to three hours. It's...

Which Seinfeld, Poppy died today. For the Seinfeld fans out there, if everybody remembers Poppy, he passed away. And also the... Harvey Updike. Harvey Updike, the guy that poisoned the tree that we just talked about, he passed away. Two greats. Two guys. Two guys ahead of their time. Poppy and Harvey.

They always come in threes. I don't know who's next. Yeah, I think we should investigate that tree and see what's... Maybe ask that tree some questions. How funny would that be to see someone asking that tree, where were you at the night Harvey died? And just sitting and talking to the tree and just go, where were you at? Oh, I see a leaf falling. You nervous? You feeling nervous right now? You getting... Feeling hot? Feeling hot? I don't know.

Yeah, so, and I like telling people they can fast forward. Like, I honestly, I'm a big, it's all up front. You don't have to listen to this whole thing. Do whatever you want. This guy wrote, sports, really sports, what's next? Oh, let's discuss marching bands for an hour. This guy sounds like me. That's what I would do. I go from the very exaggerated. Yeah. I was just starting to like the podcast, and you guys are yapping about your local sports matches, like a bunch of, oh, high school jocks.

Boring. And then same guy commented under that comment. Sorry about that previous comment. Spoke too soon. I really enjoyed this episode. Very interesting and highly amusing. Mr. Brad. No, he said my Brad. His name is Brad. I think he's being funny. My Brad. My Brad. I don't know. He might have just messed up. Maybe. I'm more offended if he did that as a joke, the my Brad part.

So, yeah, that's, you know what, that's the comments that you need, man. I love that. I love that someone, that's what you don't see on the internet, is someone that says something crazy, not crazy, but their opinion, whatever, and then go, you know what, I was actually wrong, that was actually pretty great. And then you see that in the response. That's so good for him, man. Would you prefer that than just deleting the original comment?

I like seeing this growth as a listener. Yeah, seeing the growth. I'm not against if they deleted it, if they thought it was mean. Sometimes people listen to stuff and they say stuff in mean ways. So I'm fine with either one. Whatever they wanted to do. I mean, most people would just write the top one and then leave. Most people don't listen to anything. So this will kind of lead into... Our episode today is going to be about the future. Just...

you know, the future is, there's a lot of crazy stuff that can happen. And, and I was thinking about it. I thought about it a lot lately. Like there's people that want to be being famous is, I think everybody wants to be, I think everyone wants to be famous. I think that's the problem you have with journalism too now with journalism, obviously is something that people get mad at. And I think it's because all these journalists want to be, this is when Holly's,

Getting out now, by the way. She's done. Yeah, sorry. Holly's, yeah, she's like, oh, here it goes. Holly's actually one of the few listeners that just wants the comments and then doesn't want to hear about the meat and potatoes that we dive into. Checks out.

So, but like, I think a big problem with journalism is journalists want to be famous and they, and that's their thing. And that's why they write crazy stuff and they make stuff because they're trying, they're trying to be famous. It's all about an audience, having an audience and everybody goes and tries to get this audience. And so everybody, it's, it's, that's a huge, huge problem. And being, you know, to get famous, you

And I'm not talking about any now and currently, but think about the old days of becoming famous. The old days, if you're Tony Bennett,

You had to go earn all of that. Like being a celebrity in that, it was a very earned kind of thing. That guy was just around and then you just see him everywhere. He has to put all this work out. It's all this crazy amount of stuff. And I mean, there's people that won't know Tony Bennett, but they would know, you know, the someone on Tik TOK or know someone on Instagram or like all this stuff that now they don't have to create. We're talking about that. Uh, Rex Chapman, the guy on Twitter, uh,

He's a former Kentucky basketball player, right? If that's the same guy. I'm pretty sure it is. So he just retweets videos that other people make. He's a curator. Yeah. So that's a thing, though. That guy has all these followers and this whatever makes money off of this stuff and becomes... It's created nothing.

Absolutely nothing. He's just someone that can go, I can go find the best stuff and I put it together and now you just have to follow me and don't worry about it. And it's a very weird thing to me because it's, we're losing, I think we lose sight of people that are actually creating something. Guys that there's, you know, if you like art, you know, it's anything, comedy to music, you want the creating stuff. I think music probably, and I'm not the best music person, but music seems like it's,

They can just kind of grab someone and throw them up. It doesn't really matter. Some of them, maybe they don't have to sing good. If they're cute or handsome, they can go and we can make whatever out of it. We have plenty of people. We have a machine that can...

throw you out. Yeah. But I mean, I don't know essentially if that's the problem. I think the internet is... Social media... It's people being famous. Yeah. People wanting to be famous. And that's... And everybody has an audience. Everybody talks as if they have an audience. Everybody... I was trying to write if this ever becomes a joke. I was trying to see if this could be a joke. I don't think it can now. It's very hard. But that idea...

That social media, I think we end up talking to people. Like you end up, you're talking, like we're talking to nobody. When you're even at our homes, you have Alexa. You just go, hey, Alexa, text my mom. And you're talking like a king, right?

And you're just a person. But that mentality, you start doing that everywhere. You start, you're driving. Text back, no. And then you're just, I mean, you end up, it's a weird that you're kind of just shouting out demands and something's doing these demands. Right. So that mentality for some people just loses touch with reality. And that's where people, when they post stuff,

and they have, you know, they just post their comment, their opinion on something. It's like, who are you making this opinion to? No one's, like, if you have two views, then you should know that you have two views.

You shouldn't think, people think they have 100 views or 10 views on something, and they're like, oh, I got to go. I got to, you know, people want to know what I'm up to. I see people doing Facebook Live videos, and it's three people are watching. Just turn it off, man. Just get out of the way. You're in the way. You're the, like, all that is, we're all, like, and that guy, that person thinks they're famous. They think, why are you talking to three people? What, who, who, who?

Who? Your mom, maybe? Like, I don't know. I do that. You talk to three people? I don't think I'm famous, but I... There's some that didn't get a lot of viewers.

I understand putting it out. See, it's just everybody can put everything out now. So anybody can try anything. If someone wants to be a comedian, they can go put out videos and start becoming a comedian. I get very sensitive about that kind of stuff as a comedian, but I don't like... Because people get to dive in. Everybody gets to be like, oh, I'm a comedian. Creating an hour worth of material is extremely hard. The comics that do it, it's unbelievably hard. I don't think...

how many times you got to do it over and how many times you got to say it over and how many times you got to make it to make it. So by the time when you shoot a special, it's this kind of perfect thing. It's extremely hard to do and it just takes a long time to do it. Now there's a lot of tricks you can do where you don't have to do that and you don't have to create this. So like the true art of a lot of things is kind of,

possibly going away. I mean, music, what it used to be about the whole album and now it's just singles, right? You can have just a single. You don't need to even have a good album. Like, it doesn't really matter. Not saying people don't do that, but isn't the whole idea of like, you know, CDs used to, there was artwork and there was the way they did stuff and the whole album was a thing that you presented. Right. It wasn't just like, hey, throw 500 songs against a wall, four of them work and you're like, well, now you're a billionaire and you're the most famous person ever. Like,

And with comedy, I think it was... Richard Pryor was on the other day. I saw it on Showtime or something. Live on the stream. And I said I even know a ton about... I know Richard Pryor, obviously, being a comedian, but I didn't listen to him. But I was just... I don't know. I was watching. It was just so personal, and him talking about his... Just the way he's... I don't know. The fire, that one, Live at the Center. He talks about that. It's just extremely personal...

On stage, I mean, it's like that's what comedy was. It was like telling stories. It was being personal, being funny. Not even telling stories, but just being funny and giving an hour show is what it was. And sometimes that goes away, and I think it goes away with everything. I think we have too many – with social media, you have too many people that think they have an audience and think that people want to hear them.

And they just kind of throw everything out. And that bleeds into everything. Everything we see with journalism, it's hard to get to where you can't really trust anybody. Because you can't... Like I was reading articles, people ask for sources. This is what we talked about yesterday. They're just asked for sources.

The guy, some guy will write an article at Washington Post or something or whatever. I'm not trying to don't, if someone's like, well, they lie. It doesn't even matter. Wherever you're reading, that's not what it's about. But it's about the first comment that's going, what's your sources? Asking a newspaper that. And I know that it's like, yes, you do need sources, but that seems kind of insane to me. Like, it's just a guy. Yeah.

You're a guy with 10 people following you on Twitter, and you get to ask, what's your sources? So everybody, that guy now thinks, well, I'm the guy that asks sources. I make sure. And you want to go, man, the sources might be in the article. I don't think you're reading the article. No one's honest with it if they don't read something. Just be honest. Just go, you know what? I didn't read it. I read just the headlines. My entire emotion with everything is headlines.

That's all I care about. And I shared it. Only reading the headline. Only reading the headline. Just be... You know what? We can learn from that last guy, Brad. That. Be that.

If you want to say something crazy, then come back and either say, I was right. I think you've made a mistake. Or come back and say, I was wrong. This is actually kind of interesting. Do that. So you can't just ask everybody. I mean, journalists, I think, do stuff wrong too. But I think comments too. Like, that's crazy to me. Read the article. Go find the sources if you want to find them. I think they also should put sources. And I think they usually do. But there's something with...

The idea that everybody, you know, I don't know, when you used to read the, hear the news growing up, you just had to take, it is what it was. You know, it was like, it was on TV. You listen to them and that's the news you got. Yeah. It wasn't all these people diving in, you know, not to be on some big long rant.

That's, I mean, that's what I'm trying to do. The idea of the joke, the Alexa thing is, just so you guys can know, I don't think, because I don't think this can be, I don't think this will be my new hour. Maybe, because I might not be doing comedy again for four years. But that's, I love the idea of talking. People, I think it goes to, because you're just talking like you're a king. Right. You know, just...

You just can put out people on social media just like, what's your favorite Lady Gaga songs? Go. You just tell them. Who are you telling to go? And then there's people like, just a regular person says that. Got to go to the store. What kind of bread do you guys like? Go. And then you thank people at your own response. Didn't you say your favorite is when no one gives them an answer? Seeing no one. When someone asks for something,

On the internet like that, and then no one responds. It's one of my favorite things. I mean, just remarkable to just see it, to be like, favorite diet sodas, go. And then just, I mean, not a view. That guy just, and so if he gets no comments, you're like, how many of these have you put out? And nobody responded.

Nobody, you know... You know what, too? That being said, when I said everybody is trying to be famous, we're also in a world where everybody can become famous very quickly. And, you know, it is true with social media. I mean, the way people, the cancel idea where they cancel everybody and people get fired, it's just regular people getting fired, like, you know, for saying something like... So, in a world, everybody's got to be careful. It's a very tricky balance right now. So...

I, you know, one thing we talked about with being like the way the future is going to be like, obviously you got to work with social media and I think social media is bad. Like it's awful. It's, it's, it's going to be the problem, but you know, more people work from home now with COVID. I mean, are you going to the office at all? Is there any reason to go to the office? I mean, I know people, some of my neighbors that all have jobs, you know, obviously we don't have jobs. No one, none of us have real jobs, but yeah,

The ones that have real jobs, I mean, they even missed a beat. Most of them can work from home just as easy. And I don't think they're ever going, you know, why are they going to go back? Why would you even open that back up? Like, it's really showing people that you're like, yeah, it doesn't really matter. You said before this one, just 4% of Americans work from home. And once the pandemic kicked in, an MIT study, this is the source, right?

found that 34% of Americans were working from home. Here's another thing with these, I mean, we're going to have a lot of those facts, and I like that data, but it is like, from an MIT study, what study? Who are you? Yeah, who at MIT? Who at MIT, and who are you asking to say 34% of America works from home? Are you leaving America? Are you asking people across America? It's a sample size question.

that's what it is. All that stuff is, is just, they ask. So the, yeah, they ask like a thousand people then extrapolate. Yeah. After that. So, you know, so like, I think that is, I mean, I'm going to, I'm probably contradicting everything I said before, but who are your sources? Brian Bates. I'd like to see the sources on this. If you don't mind. No, I don't see the sources. I think I like sources. I just, I started thinking too about like dad, there's a lot of stuff. I'm, I'm just asking a lot of questions about a lot of stuff. Hey, I,

I think it's crazy for people to ask for sources. They're just regular people. I think people should ask for sources, but I think there should be a chain of command. That's what I mean. I think it can't be just like a homeless person yelling from the street, where's your sources? There's got to be some structure. And so with social media, there is no structure, and there should be some kind of balance. And just there's no balance in a lot of ways. With social media, there's a direct line from that homeless person to the president. To the president. Which is insane. Crazy. Who should that guy go to?

The homeless person? The guy who just got a house? Oh, who should he? Yeah, the chain of command. A first-time homeowner? Yeah. First-time homeowner. Who has Wi-Fi. He tweets at his parents. Yeah. And then his parents tweet at... His parents know a guy. One of the assistants at the newspaper. Yeah. The stats, though, on it, we're about to read a bunch of stats and stuff, but I always think it's very funny to be like,

Like you're just like, I don't know how you could figure that out. If they say any, and I don't know, you know, 50% of this is happening now. There's a trend that's going now that 80%, you're like, dude, how, how on earth do you know? You ever take any of those polls? No. Get a random phone call. I've done them since the pandemic and they'll pay you $10. Yeah. And I'm like, Oh yeah. Yeah. I mean, not like all the time, but I've gotten some polls. Oh really? They'll email me like a Harvard study and,

You answer it, and then they'll send you a $10 gift card, which is the most money I've made during the pandemic. So I'm like, by all means. Have you done one? I've done focus groups for money, but I've never done surveys like that. What is that? I signed up for the service where we want to talk to males 18 to 24 who use chewing tobacco. And then you just go in a room and sit, and they just ask you about...

You know, your habits and stuff. Yeah. Just to learn. I did when I was 18 to 24. I feel that you think the people that can do polls represent America. I mean, honestly, like you're technically don't, you're a comic. It doesn't work. Right. It depends on what the poll is. If they ask me a poll about jobs, yeah, but...

Yeah, but I mean, it's just interesting. The person that can go do these polls, that wants to go do it, I don't think it's a person that has three kids and they're working two jobs. Those people are not doing these polls. They're not representative of real men. It's representative of people who have time on their hands. People who just got married. Yeah, people that have time on their hands that doesn't have anything going on. That is time to think about this stuff. So I would argue that it doesn't represent America at all. Because who...

I mean, most people that have kids are going to be too busy. They can't, you know, they don't have time to do this stuff. Huh? I'll take a survey from a car dealer. I have nothing but the time. Well, according to MIT, 34% of people are working from home. So they got time now, right? Yeah, but they do have time now. So maybe we're getting some real good polls. All right. Well, I didn't know you did that. So I'm glad to know someone that did it. I mean, do one right now.

Do one during the podcast to be, yeah. How long do they take, the forms usually? Just a few minutes, right? Well, when you don't read the questions and just want $10, they go pretty fast. See, there's another reason. This is another problem, dude. I mean, this is everybody sitting there. See, see, see. Yeah, yeah.

And then they... That is what's crazy, though. Then that gets put out on everything. On the news. 34% of Americans are working from home. Are you kidding me? And then it's a legit argument point and you trace it back. This is the main thing that I'm talking about that I don't think people think about is you then trace it back to...

to you at midnight going, whatever, whatever, whatever, whatever. And you're like, well, how many people are doing what you're doing for $10? You know what I mean? That's honestly what I'm talking about. I just don't trust anybody.

I don't trust that anything's done in some certain way. And it is, it could go down. But I mean, look. You don't care that MIT endorsed the study? That doesn't mean anything to you? If it said Vol State study, would you feel differently about it? I think Vol State would go earn it more. I think Vol State would, you know, we'd be like. They'd come to your house. Here at Vol State, we would be like, you know what? We're, I can't even believe they're asking us to do this. And we can't blow this. Yeah.

We're tired of being a community college. We'd like to be a full-on college. And we think this is the window to get in there. And I think we would take it serious. And I would go help. Everybody would go help. And we would all drive to your houses. And we have the people that have the time. The people that go to a community college, all in their 40s, all kids are gone, all teen moms. And this is the stuff they love, man. They love it. A community college would be perfect.

Actually, a community college would be because it's going to be a lot of people in their 40s, and it's going to be people that want to prove something. They got something to prove. Yeah, and if you got my mom to go get questions from polls, my mom loves that. She would love it. I think you would love it. I mean, I think Volstead would be like, look, we can't give you anything, but we'll come to your house and

Clean your house for you. You're saying if MIT botches a study, no one's going to think MIT is a bad school now. It's like they've got enough name recognition. But if Vol State got a call from, I don't know, science and said, you've got to do this study, they'd be like, well, we got, I mean, this is everything. They'd go, wow. This is everything. Wow. Yeah. I mean, they would be like, how are we going to put it so you don't have to go, Vol State Community College study.

But I mean, that's, you know, yeah, an MIT study. It's just that we always say the Harvard study, MIT study. Like, you know, I had my joke or I have a joke about science being like they say cockroaches are 300 million years old. It's like, how do they? No one knows. And that's kind of the point that it's with all this stuff is I tend to think.

that in everything we do in any job, you're going to have a moment of whatever your task is, where you kind of was like, whatever, that's fine. Just send it along.

So I think that could happen with everything. That happens in science. When science is doing something, I'm sure there's a moment where the person's like, I gotta go, you know, and then they... Ah, that's... Yeah. You know, where they almost got it narrowed down enough that then they go, that's 320 million. Like, they had it narrowed down to maybe 100...

$1 million to $100 million. Yeah. And they're like $320. That's why Vol State would be the best because they don't have to go anywhere. No kids, soccer. They're like, hey, I'll finish this. MIT, they got things to do. MIT, they're trying to do better things. Vol State is just trying to get in the game. They're lucky to be there. They should do. I want all community college studies from now on. The other thing we talk about, will Americans leave large cities for suburban rural towns? Yes.

Americans are moving a lot to relocate to more sparsely populated areas. The trend has been accelerated by technology and shifting attitudes that make it easier to work from home. Residents of all ages and incomes are moving in record numbers to small towns. So that's what I think is going to happen. I moved. When I left, I lived in Chicago for two years, New York for nine, L.A. for...

two years and then I moved back home I'm uh I regret I loved all my moves I loved all the the moving uh when I'm New York I you know when I started coming to Chicago it was amazing a lot of great comics I mean I was there with Hannibal Pete Holmes and then I moved to New York I started Pete Holmes have you ever seen Crashing his show on HBO that's exactly how I started I barked with Pete at that club he's the one that got me barking hanging out flyers at the comedy club just barking

And becoming a comic in New York has completely made me the comic who I am today. I mean, I think the best comics are in New York City, hands down. The greatest come out of there. The guys that maybe you wouldn't even know are better than everybody else. It's top to bottom. There's no one better than the comics in New York.

And I consider myself a New York comic. I was there the most. That's where I kind of learned how to do comedy. And so that helped. And then I moved to L.A., which a little just a little side note. This is the advice I for when I moved to L.A. to tell. It's great advice. Jerry Wintraub. He was a I want to say he was Elvis's manager. Somebody's a big producer, produces all the Ocean's Eleven, 12 movies and all this crazy stuff. Big Hollywood guy, I think, died a few years ago.

I was reading his book, and in his book he said he was living in New York and moved to L.A. being an agent or something. And he said, anytime I started feeling comfortable, I knew it was time to make a change. Anytime I started feeling comfortable, I knew it was time to make a change. And so if anybody's at home and you listen to this, I moved to L.A. because I read that.

I was comfortable in New York. I was there for almost nine years. I was getting on stage every night. And I knew that if I needed, I needed to put myself in a situation I wasn't comfortable in, that's going to make me work harder. And when I moved to L.A., I was, you know, I remember one night in L.A., I was supposed to open for Burr at somewhere, and then Burr had to cancel. And so then I didn't have a show. And it was like a Friday night, and I had no show. And I went to an open mic.

And I just remember I was like, you know, at that point I had a Comedy Central Presents. I had some TV credits and I was like, I have no show. And I'm at an open mic 10 years into my career or whatever it is. And so I was like, all right, this is uncomfortable. And then it made me go and

you know, and, and just start working more. And, and so that if you ever need advice, you're ever stuck in, and that's something that I think you take in every regular day, any, any job you have at all. If you, if you realize, you know what, I'm super comfortable. It's time to make a change. You need to challenge yourself. If you're trying to grow also, you could be just wanting to live comfortably. Yeah. Then stay in it. If you have a good thing going, how do you know when you've got to the point where it's just, okay, I, now I'm, this is where I want to be.

Like, do you see that happening again? I see it happening again. I know where I still want to be. I know where I still want to go for. I know what I still want to go do. I think about that a lot. When will I know? I think you just know. I think you go...

I'm good. It's not like it's a certain amount of money. It's not like there's this thing. It's career-wise. I know what I want. I know what I'm planning. And I think of it like that. And I think I will... I don't think I'll ever stop doing stand-up. I bet I could take some long breaks. But I could see...

I think these next 10 years, I'm going to be just going after it. Like, just, you know, once we get going and just trying to do as much as I can. But I think I'm hoping to get to a point. And I think I'll feel it. I think you'll know. Like, you'll just get to and be like, I feel good. You know, I think it's when you don't feel like you have to. You're not trying to compete with anybody, I think. You know, like, you get to think of Seinfeld. Seinfeld's not good.

worried about him not being seinfeld he's seinfeld seinfeld can always walk in a room and you know who he is and he can get on stage wherever he wants he can walk in any club comedy club in america and go can i go on and they're going to go okay and that's essentially in my head the goal of as a comedian is i want to be able to walk into any club and then they're like can i go on they're like absolutely happy to have you right like that's that's what i want

to happen so it's like i think if you get to that point then you can maybe sit and you're not as like you're not as like pant you're not like i gotta keep doing something i gotta try to describe and get to this next level and you start like losing that i think when you start stop feeling that then that's you know when you know but i i don't think with comedy i don't think i'll ever stop doing stand-up how did you know though when it was time to move from la to nashville

That was, L.A. to Nashville was, I was starting to tour a lot. I wasn't really being, I wasn't in Los Angeles. And I do always think it was one of the, you know, first unselfish things I did for my family. It was to move back to Nashville. You know, me moving, I've been with my wife before I started comedy. So when we got married, I moved to Chicago. We were long distance, New York long distance. And we got married. She moved to New York. And then...

Then we had Harper's born at the end of New York and then we moved to LA. And so moving home was the first thing that was like, Oh, let me do something, you know, not saying I'm essentially doing it completely for them, but,

But it was like, that was an aspect of it. I was starting to tour a lot. She can be home and have her family's near here, my family's here, so they're not alone. I'm not just leaving them alone in Los Angeles. And that's essentially what the thing was. But when I moved back here,

I first, I didn't tell anybody cause I was, I thought people would think I quit comedy if I moved back to Nashville. So when I first moved back, I didn't tell anybody Rory Scoville, whose birthday is, uh, maybe August 6th, which I don't know the day this comes out or not, but, or day after. But so happy birthday, Rory. But Rory, I, uh, I told him once I was thinking about moving and I was like, I don't know if I would tell anybody. He's like, if you ever moved, don't tell me. And let me see if I can guess.

And so I moved, I was living in Nashville for three months. He comes to Nashville, I was like, "Hey, I'm in town too." I was like, "I'll come pick you up, we'll go eat." And I went and picked him up and just drove him to my house. And I was like, "I've been here for three months."

And he had no idea. Because I realized you could move. I mean, there's people that still think I live in New York, and there's people that I just got an email. Someone asked me to do something because they think I live in L.A. Right. And they still think I live there. So no one knows where you live anymore. And I learned as a comic, you know, me doing auditions, I could do them from home. I don't ever get in these auditions anyway. So I realized that wasn't going to be my thing. I wasn't going to be an actor that auditions for a bunch of things. So I realized that. I think if you're trying to audition for a

a bunch of movies and TV shows and you actively need to do it. If I audition for something, it's because that person wants is like, Oh, I've seen this guy or, you know, it's like, they're asking for me. Like they're, you know, it's like, I'm not just going like random part. Like I, you know, I did some of that and it was terrible. One of them I did the funny story. I remember me and Dan Soder, he was in LA. I'm driving to this. It was like for a commercial. And, uh,

And Dan, I think I'm driving because Dan was in town visiting in L.A. And so he's going to a meeting and I'm going to this audition. He's going to drop me off and come back and get me. So we're reading the lines and it's like I'm doing the lines. And, you know, I'm like, all right, I got it. I got it. And we go in and we start doing the... They printed a bio out that I made on a website called

I mean, like 2008 or something. It was from old MySpace. I don't know how they got the bio. And they start reading it, and the bio is just embarrassing. And it also lists the things that I can do, my talents. And it was about being a stand-up. I said, I go, I can do a southern accent. By the way, I can...

I can only do a Southern accent. I also can't not do this Southern accent. So I do a Southern accent.

And it said, what skills do you have? I said, I can run. I can walk. I can play basketball. Those were my, they were just the most basic, like any chance you're looking for a guy that can do a light jog with a Southern accent. With a Southern accent, yeah. Can he not do the Southern accent? No. He can, he's, you either get the Southern accent or you're not getting it. And I did the lines and I couldn't remember them. And it was so embarrassing.

And when I got done, I finally made it through, and they clapped for me. This is just a room of two other people. That's not typical for an audition. No. A sarcastic clap? No, no. They were like...

good for you, man. You did it. And then I go, thank you. And they go, I mean, they're never going to call me. They were just, they were like, well, that guy worked through that and they were happy for me. It wasn't good. It's not being mean. It's like, they think something's wrong with you. And they're being like, Hey, Hey, you did good.

Keep your chin up, dude. You got this, man. You're going to be a big star one day. Thank you. So I moved back here. I've been here for five years or something. And so I didn't tell anybody. And now I don't care. Everybody, now people know. And I've talked about it.

And it's been the best thing ever. I've missed, I don't think I've missed anything. I do wonder sometimes, all right, I'm not in LA. I'm not at the comedy clubs and not doing whatever that kind of thing, but where I'm at in my career, I kind of did all that stuff. I did all this stuff in New York. So it's good for me to go back when I can, and I can bounce around and do some shows and all that kind of stuff. But I do, I create much better on the road, like doing an hour is a lot better for me now creating stuff. So that aspect of it,

I would rather do a longer set now. I don't really go do a ton of sets around Nashville because that desire is not as much. I get way more out of doing a full-on set, like to do an hour-long set. So I like doing that a lot more. But I think more people should move. I mean, I told a bunch of comics, I was like, I think y'all should move to Nashville. We could build a nice...

scene here. I mean, there's already a great scene here. And then just keep it going. I mean, I don't know why people...

It's so expensive. New York is getting insane. To live in the city, I think it was like $3,000 a month for a studio or something. Really? Oh, yeah. You can maybe get a room for cheaper than that. Who's going to want to live like that? Especially now, we have a neighborhood. I have one kid, but my daughter and her...

they run around in between neighbors' houses. It's like how we grew up. It's like you're trying to find that kind of aspect. I also liked it as a comedy aspect of it too, to take myself out of the same situations for just coming up with your act.

Coming up with jokes, I think if you're all living the same experience as comics, you're all going to talk about the same things. And so if you get out of, you need to kind of get away from it. Chad Daniels is someone else that's always lived in another place. And Chad is super funny, and Chad is someone that

Everything's a little different. Everything's a little, you know, and it's, I think it's honestly that a big part that plays into it is you're not, we're not at, you know, every joke's not about auditioning or it's not about, you know, something that, you know, in New York is always about subways. Yeah. We'd always have, everybody had it cause you're all doing those things. Are there very New York centric jokes?

And so sometimes you are, you're like, yeah, you need to get, you got to grow with your audience. You got to grow with, as a standup, you know, being married, have a kid, you got to move before I wasn't married. You know, then you, I get married and then you have a kid and your, you know, your life becomes your act and whatever scenario you're in and you got to keep going forward with it. So it's, you know, I'm now living at least the most normal life I can live as a comedian is living in a,

Where I drive, I go to the store. All of America. All of America drives to the store. Except New York. Maybe parts of LA. Maybe some of the city. Most of the city. Except in Alaska. Most of America. I think people are going to move to... I'm curious to be in 40 years. The downtown. Is New York even a ghost town?

Could it ever get to that point? Are they going to price everybody out? To live in New York, if you make a million dollars a year, you can afford to live in New York, but you need to be single if you're going to have a good time, and you're still not rich. Whenever I hear numbers like $3,000 a month for rent, in my head I'm like, oh, but they get paid more up there. That's how I rationalize it in my head, but not that much more. Yeah, they do get paid more.

I think my wife, when we lived in New York, the job she had, she got paid more just by moving to New York. But when we lived in California, when she worked at her job, she gained just leaving the state taxes from her job, moving from California. Her job was always wonderful. The people that worked there were great, and they were very nice to her, and they let her...

When we moved to L.A., they let her work in the L.A. office. And then we moved to Nashville, they let her work from home. They were always very, very nice. Because, I mean, she doesn't work there now. She's the executive producer on this podcast. But when she did all that stuff, that's how, if you're married to a common, that's how you insurance all that. We get everything. And so...

When she moved here and worked from home in Nashville, she made like $400 to $500 a month more just moving to Nashville. Same job because of state income tax. Wow. Because there's none in Nashville, in Tennessee, and it's in California. I mean, that's pretty crazy. $500, roughly $5,000, $6,000 extra a year just by doing your job in Tennessee. Yeah.

So imagine companies that are actually millions of dollars or something. That could be a million dollars, which is when companies are moving out of it. You think that would be more of an incentive for professional athletes to play in states like Tennessee and Texas? Well, that's why a lot of them, they think, go to Miami. That's why Miami Heat was a big place. Does Florida not have a state income tax? They said that's – Bryce Harper, a big reason he didn't go to the Dodgers.

is because, I don't know for sure, but it was the state income tax. Because, I mean, yeah, his contract's going to be $400 million, and he's going to be given all this money back. I think you file taxes in whatever state the game is played. But if you're in the Dodgers, then half your games are for sure in California. Yeah. I think that's a big reason that people do it. And so I think, yeah, people are going to start. I mean, they're happening. It's happening now.

And so are they going to be, are these cities, it'll be very interesting. And I look, I'm not trashing these cities. I am. I love, well, Aaron is different. I love New York. I love all these LA. I mean, yeah, I love them, dude. All my friends live there. I mean, they're awesome cities, but obviously it's how expensive these places are. Yeah. And then, I mean, Nashville is amazing.

I love it. When I first moved here, I thought, well, if I have to move back, and then now after being here, I was like, yeah, I'll never not live here. If you get to be super famous or something, you get a house here, you get one somewhere else, who knows? But I'm never going to not live here. I want my daughter to be raised here.

I mean, I grew up here, so it helps. But no one's from here anymore. Me and Bates. We're here. Do you consider yourself from here? I do. I moved here when I was a junior in high school. And I've been here ever since. That was 12 years ago, which is longer than most people have been here now. Yeah. How old were you? You were probably 12. I was 16. 16 when I moved here. So those are formative years. I became an adult here.

You know? Yeah. Yeah. And not many people claim Montgomery, Alabama where I'm from. So yeah. Yeah. A little bit of both. Yeah. You're unusual because most people just moved here like a couple of years ago for a job. Yeah. Or grew up here like us all our life. But.

You kind of came, what did you say, your junior year of high school? Yeah, junior year of high school. And it was just start. When I moved, everyone was talking about, oh, this city is starting to really pop. I feel like you just asked him the same questions that he just said. Oh, I don't know. When I was watching. I don't know if I was saying anything Aaron said. I know, but I was watching you say it. The questions, I swear to you, you just asked him. He just stated all that stuff. He goes, I mean, I moved here when I was 12 years old, and I'm 16, and I'm 400 years old.

And, you know, I came to Montgomery Avenue. And then you go, so you moved here when? What did you say? You go, when I was 16. You go, oh, about 12 years. You just asked him the question. I just was very funny to watch. He's giving me a chance to say it a little more clearly and succinctly, I think. Clarify what you're saying. Yeah, for sure. And you came here because your dad was a principal? That's right, yeah. That's episode one of the documentary. Yeah.

I can see that you were doing that, which is good. Because, yeah, I think a lot of people were like, oh, what did Aaron say? And then you gave me that. But I was just watching it going, you're like interviewing him the same question. So you moved here. You're a little different, though. You moved here. When did you move here? Junior? You're Kramer and I'm Newman? Yeah. Next fun, I mean, yeah, hour and a half.

68. I was guessing. An hour, I was off. This one's going to be... I wonder if people are going to... We're still going, guys. We're not even close. Hang on. This is one people are going to have to fast forward. And I get it. Jump around. A little more fun topic, I think, maybe. Will we have self-driving cars? Researchers forecast...

that by 2025 we'll see approximately 8 million autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicles on the road. Elon Musk said on July 5th that Tesla is very close to achieving driving technology capable of navigating roads without any driver input. I remain confident that we will have the basic functionality for level 5 autonomy vehicles.

Complete blah, blah, blah. Just the future. Yada, yada, yada. Fully self-driving vehicle. I put autonomous in there on purpose. I was like, there's no way he's going to be able to say this. Autonomous. Yeah. No, I said autonomous. You blew me away. I'm excited about that.

Self-driving cars. I can't think of an invention that will change my life and American life more than that. Than self-driving cars. Yeah. Because I looked it up last night. The average...

daily commute for Americans, you know, pre-pandemic obviously is an hour. I mean, that's an hour a day that the average person, they have now. Now they have an hour where they don't have to focus. They can, I mean, what do you do with that time? Well, we just covered, they're not even going to be going to work anymore. You drive. Well think, I mean, yeah, that's part of it, but, but you, I mean, it's going to, it's going to change all the stuff we've talked about living in other, living outside of the city. Yeah. I mean, why would you live in the city if, if, if,

Almost any city is bad. A car will take you there. Nashville's bad. Nashville's traffic's getting bad. It is bad. In LA, traffic's insanity, dude. I remember driving in New York. You just don't drive, but I remember driving through, going to road gigs, New Jersey or something. You'd always have to go through the city. You needed to be through the city by 2 p.m.

And you'd always see that number go. You'd see that number, you know, used to be like, just get through the city. I remember, I mean, I lived in New York. You could park in Times Square. You could just, I drove, you drive to Caroline's on Broadway, which is right where I'm Times Square now. You can't even drive there now. And you could park in front of the comedy club. And that, you know, that was 2008, seven, stuff like that.

But you'd have to go to the city. You need to be through about 2.30 or something. And now, I mean, I don't know if there is a time, but you might have a window of...

11, you know, I don't know, 11 a.m. Like, I feel like that's, you almost have to go at 11 a.m. anywhere because then people are leaving for lunches now. Like, lunch becomes a thing. So yeah, traffic becomes everywhere. California, I mean, traffic's like nuts. I mean, it's nuts. I mean, people are in the cars for two, three hours. Everybody's in self-driving cars. That's going to cut down traffic.

Because there's no human error. But if there's 50 million of them on the interstate in California, that's a problem. Yeah, but if they're all driving in the most efficient way possible. But it's still going to be longer. I mean, you know what I mean? Yeah, but who cares how long it is? You're not sitting there focusing. What would prevent you from living two hours outside of the city?

And then, you know, the car will take you there at 4 a.m. It's still two hours of your time. Yeah, but time you can do anything with. I know, but you still could be like, well, I want to be home. I don't want to. You're spending two hours away from your family. Look, people like that. Yeah. I get it. Like, people need breaks, you know, from our own families. You enjoy. I've definitely driven before where it's like you want, you know, you're just happy to be alone. Yeah.

I, you know, I drove one gig, uh, St. Louis. Remember I rented a car and that was, I wanted to get away from, you know, who, uh, and they, but they, no, I drove that one. I wanted to drive home by myself. I needed like, you know, I was like busy on the road. It wasn't like I needed a break from anybody. I just wanted to be alone.

And I wanted, it was like a four hour drive and I was like, awesome. I'll just get to drive and be by myself. And you know, it's like sometimes you need that stuff. So yes, I'm, but you still don't want to spend, no, you know, I don't think you want to spend two hours in a car, even if it's self-driving. Yeah. After six months, you're going to be like, all right, I get it. You know, if I feel like if every car is self-driving autonomous, they can all go way faster too. Mm hmm.

Because the speed limit's only there because at a certain point, it becomes dangerous for a human to control it. But if it's automatic, I mean, what's to stop them from going 150, 200 miles an hour? I mean, you'll be comfortable with that? I mean, these cars, they can get comfortable. Yeah, you're laying down, taking a nap, you know? Just cruising, dude. Yeah, but I think if you have...

A million cars getting on your interstate, even if they're self-driving, it's going to be slow. But if there were a hundred... Why? Why? Because people are going to merge on, so someone's going to have to open up. But they would know which lane would be the best lane to be in. Everybody would be driving the smartest, most efficient way possible. I know, but there's going to be a point that if you have a ton of cars, it's still just a matter of...

The person has to come on. So when new people are coming in, if all of them are driving perfectly sufficient, where no one's getting over, no one can get over, no one can do any, because now we've got to be all super involved. So this person needs to get off on exit four, and then these two cars are going to get off to exit 50. Well, how's that person getting over to the exit four? I mean, they'd find a way to make it happen.

I'm with Aaron on this. I just have to believe, first of all, every car is going to be taking the most efficient route. So there would be no reason to merge across eight lanes at the last minute to get to an exit.

Yeah, but I mean, you got to tell it where it's going. I mean, basically, you're giving free will up, which is something I think that's on here. You're giving free will to your computers to go, if you're like, you know what I would like? Some donuts. And you got to go, well, I already entered in the computer where my work is, so that plan's done. Oh, you're saying you can change the route, you know what I mean? Then you got to get over it more. You're right. Now, I'm not saying you're going 100 miles an hour through the city, but...

I just feel like it would help with traffic. I think it helps with traffic. Yeah. But I'm saying, I don't think in California, still if you have the most of those cars together, it's still going to be slower. Okay. There's just no way of... But if you're in a traffic light and there are 20 cars back, if they're all in sync with each other, couldn't that car in the very back start moving the exact same time as the car up front? Exactly. Yeah. Yeah.

So it seemed like it would be more efficient. If they all at the same time... Yeah, there'd be no delay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Will you think there'd be gas stations or will our cars be electric? I mean, I think they're going to all be electric pretty soon. Yeah. Yeah, I think that's... I mean, it looks like Europe's doing that soon. Yeah. You read the...

The stats I looked up. You said that like you went, like you're the guy that knows it. You're like, yeah, Europe's already going. Yeah, man, I just got back from Europe. They're changing, guys. Europe's happening, man. I'll tell you what they're doing. 2025, the Netherlands will only be selling electrified vehicles. Norway plans to do the same by 2030. To be honest with you, I'm not even really positive where either one of those places are at. But they're doing good things. If you told me to go to them right now without a map,

I would head above us. Am I correct? I'd love to do that. Yeah, that should be an episode. Pull up a map with no countries labeled. I'll do that. You eat those Krispy Kreme donuts, and then both deals get done. That's your Krispy Kreme donuts? That's my Krispy Kreme donuts. I've got to go find the Netherlands. I got engaged in the Netherlands. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Did you know where it was before you went there? Yeah. I knew it was in Europe. Yeah, I feel like I know the continent, but it would be tough to... I don't know. Yeah. Yeah.

Bates has been there. Congrats, by the way. Congrats on getting engaged. And you're married now. It's been a while. Oh, he's been married. Yeah, thanks for giving him a shout out. Yeah, appreciate it. Nobody got invited to his wedding. He had a pre-COVID wedding before COVID. Same rules. You wouldn't have come anyway. I think I could have come. I think I was in town.

Usually I'm not in town. You did a nice tiny family, right? Mm-hmm. Yeah. Aaron was there. Yeah. These guys were here? About 200 people. I didn't know them at the time, but... Yeah. Uh...

You know, yeah. They're going to be... Who cares about this? I'm over this. You think they're flying cars. That's the thing that is... In this one, you said... So Bates is the one that sets all this stuff up. And he goes through and reads all this stuff. So if no one likes it, obviously you know where to attack. No, I think you did an awesome job with all this. Will we have flying cars? I didn't even thought... I think that's like a...

wish. You can't let all these people go fly up in the air. No, dude. It's too free. We got a video. This is happening. That's animation. This is an animation. What? No, I know. So this is outside right now. This is down my street. We're looking at a prototype. New Hampshire just passed a law this past week, though, about allowing flying cars. They don't have them yet, but when they do...

Is this car a fly? I mean, doesn't it look like a hearse? We'll find out. Yeah. It's not an attractive vehicle, in my opinion. So no runway, and you'd get in your car, and you would just take off. Yeah, but Uber is working on flying cars. Can you X out of that? Uber is? Can you X out of that ad, Brian? Sure. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Thanks. So Uber is working with... Oh, it's like a helicopter. It's not even a plane. Yeah. Yeah.

I mean, who do you trust with that? I don't know anybody in my life that I would want driving that around. Just people just, I mean, drinking and driving. I guess it would fly itself. Hopefully, dude. That's like the way for that to happen, that's got to be flying itself because everybody can't get a pilot's license. I mean, look at that guy. He's just getting around. Yeah, everybody can't get a pilot license. I mean, if you get stuff like that, that's when no one's living in a city.

Right, why would you? Why would you? But I mean, people can't have their pilots. Flying car, I could see them looking into it. I will be shocked if I see a flying car in my lifetime. Me too. It says 2025. In my lifetime. We'll see. We'll see. I remember when I was like eight, my uncle would be like 10 years from now. We were stuck in traffic. My uncle was like 10 years from now. We'll be flying all over this place. Them even owning a car. Haven't seen them. Owning a car will be...

I could see that not happening. Well, you know, or like I could see people, I could, I think my daughter will have a car. I, you know, I let her, she sits in my lap. I let her drive. Yeah. No, she doesn't. But I let her sit in my car. I let her, I always, I've always let her, like when we get in my neighborhood, she, she sits and, you know, you, you know, like you let your kid drive still. Yeah. And, uh,

So I always do that. And so I like driving. And so I would want her to drive. I want her to learn how to drive stick shift. I like that kind of stuff. The people you're going to have to get rid of is like us. The people that grew up with this kind of stuff. You know that I still want to stick shift. So there's still enough me's floating around that have kids that want to train their kids to do this kind of thing. You're going to have to be removed from me like a couple. And then you're not going to... But I could see...

I could see people – so I think, you know, when I see someone that's 22 now and they use Uber, I mean, it's nothing to them. They use Uber as a regular – like, they don't care. It's not – you know, I still feel kind of – I don't love it. Like, you know, it's like a car – it feels kind of weird. Like, I still feel – I don't know. It's just not – I don't go to it as easily.

as I think a 22-year-old does. Right. They don't even think anything of it. They don't. They think, no, oh, yeah, I'll be over there. I'm going to do it. They think of it as their car. So that mindset has got to really be in to then affect all this kind of shit. So I think the... Yeah, I mean, I could see...

My daughter, maybe she won't have a car. She has a car because I want her to have one, but that would be it. She would never use it. People are just doing Uber. Do kids take Ubers? Yeah. Just the kid by themselves? Yeah, I used to drive for Uber, and I would pick up a lot of teenage kids from school or take them to a friend's house or something. Interesting. That would have changed the game for me.

You don't need your parents to take you? Yeah, because I used to rely on them for everything. Can you take me to a friend's house? All that. If I could just do it, wow. Yeah, that would have changed the game. It's pretty crazy. I mean, yeah. You just get an Uber to drop you. Yeah, they don't. I mean, it doesn't matter. So parents are like, oh, I don't got to buy you a car. I just, you know, here's your Uber account. Order Ubers whenever you want. Wow.

So, yeah, I bet that is going to change. People are not going to want to buy their kids a car. And you don't want your kid driving. You almost could do it out of pure safety to be like kids don't know how to not look at their phone. You drive and you see people look at their phone. It's nuts. It's nuts, dude. I'll be next to someone and I'm going to have a wreck because I'm looking at them so much because I can't believe how long they don't look up. I know guys that watch movies.

They just, they use their driving time to watch a movie. I feel like Aaron does that. I do that sometimes. I listen to movies a lot. I'll just put it, I'll put the phone down on my lap. Mm-hmm.

And then every now and then, when it's just me, I'll take a look, see what's going on. That's the best place to put it on your lap, straight down. Why would you not put it at least... I don't have a mount for my phone. Don't pretend. This is what we're talking about. Don't pretend that you're not doing this and at least put the mount or put it up higher. At least go for the safest... At least watch it in the safest way. At least commit to it, dude. Look, you're doing it. You're not doing it. It's not like you're not doing it.

And whatever you're telling us, I'd have to... You don't believe... Dude, I'm listening, but I'm listening to movies that I've seen before, so I can kind of... I know what's going on visually. But then every now and then, I want to take a quick look, just a glance. I get it. But I would have to assume...

that your quick look glance has to be more than what you're saying it is. Why? Because that's what everybody's is. Everybody lies a little bit. If my wife had, how many donuts did you eat? I'm not telling her the amount I ate. I'd say one less. That's just how nature works. Stuff that you're embarrassed of, you're never going to be completely honest, except Brad earlier, who gets it.

But no one's honest about anything. I mean, a few seconds. How many drinks did you have last night? Two, three. It's going to be more. It's never going to be. I don't have a problem, dude. I'm just looking at it for a few seconds. That's going to be more embarrassing when you reckon, what are you watching, Karate Kid? Yeah. At least watch something. I have to say.

I can't wait to go. Then one day you're not here and I go, guess what, everybody? Guess who called it? Aaron Weber's out. He died last night in a car wreck. Watched a full-on double feature. I watched The West Wing. It's my favorite show. It's on Netflix. It's so dialogue-driven. I've seen it probably 20 times. I can just listen to it. And then, you know, there aren't many visual gags, but when I want to see it, I'll take it.

I'm telling you what. If I get self-driving cars, there's not going to be a problem. We have a couple of friendly bets going. I told him, one, his daughter will never pump her own gas. She probably will. But most of her life, I feel like she won't. Will she drive without me? Yeah. Is she driving her car without me if she hasn't put gas in the car?

I think most of her life she won't be pumping gas. She'll probably be electric. And the other thing I said is by 2030, half of Nashville will have self-driving cars. Now, I'm not talking about, because Elon Musk was talking about level five, which is where it's just all autonomous. I'm talking about some level of self-driving. Right, which they already have. Yeah, a lot of cars. I have friends who have, or I have friends who- Yeah, but those Teslas, you still have to, you got to drive.

I don't think... I mean, the techs... That's the thing with the Tesla. It's not... You don't just... I don't think it's... It works self-driving in traffic, I think. But you have to keep your eyes on the road. You have to touch the steering wheel. There's all that kind of stuff. So you can only do it if your car drives for a second without... And then it's like, put your hands on the steering wheel and then you got to grab the steering wheel. So you're not really self-driving. It's almost like annoying because you can never really...

I don't think you can really commit to something. It's not like you can just sit there and back off. I thought they were farther along than that. I don't think they can legally let anybody do it. Really? Because there's just too many variables. I think that's what they're trying to get to. Because I asked them, I was like, can it drive on its own? And it was... I mean, maybe it can...

I don't know. I don't think it's full on. But I'm talking about even like cars that will self-park and stuff like that. Well, they have cars that self-park now. Yes, but I'm saying by 10 years from now, like half the cars will be doing that. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I could see half the cars doing that. Half of the new cars purchased probably. I think owning it. Right. The owning it is what I don't think. I don't think these people are going to own it. I'm saying half the new cars. Yeah. Half new cars built, I think, will have all that stuff. And that's where it's all going. Yeah.

But I don't think... To turn over a city, I think, takes longer than 10 years. I mean, people have cars for more than 10 years. My car's 10 years old. Yeah. Yeah, I'm not saying everyone will just be kicked back reading a book. Right. But I think there'll be some degree of stuff that... I can see that. That wouldn't surprise me. Yeah. I hope so. Yeah, me too. I mean, it's only gonna be better, you know? Yeah. If...

I'm speaking of that, will artificial intelligence try to take over the world? I mean, because that's what this stuff is. That's what this... I mean, it's like we're rooting for it, which is kind of interesting.

To think about that, like where AI, I mean, you know, this is, if people don't know, Bates is your futurist. Is that the word? Yeah, it is the job of futurist. Futurologist? He loves it. Futurist. Follows all this. What do you? Yeah, I read a lot of that stuff. Who's the futurist person you follow? This Ray Kurzweil that's on here. He thinks we're going to live forever. Forever?

How crazy is that? He's like in his 60s, maybe 70s, and he takes like all these vitamins every day because he's trying to stay alive before... Because he thinks by like 2029, computers will be smart enough that they'll be able to keep us alive forever.

The idea being that you download your consciousness onto a computer. Well, that's something totally different. I mean, he thinks literally physical body... Oh, your physical body will be kept alive. Yeah. He thinks computers will get to the point where they'll be advancing medicine fast enough that the average lifespan will increase by more than a year every year. Wow. So if the average lifespan now is, what, 78 maybe? And then...

A year from now, if it's 79 and a half, well, we're gaining on it there. That's interesting. Yeah, that's crazy. I mean, do we want that? I don't know. I was thinking about that even last night. I was thinking, would you want to live forever? Is it worth it?

I mean, just even, you know, obviously the religious aspects of it, that's going to come into play for most people. It's just, you know, are you, that's kind of crazy. Like, who are you to decide that you want to live forever? If you believe in God, if you're religious and in all forms of religion, everybody that believes in a higher power, I can't imagine that they're going to be a fan of living forever. Like, I just can't, like, that doesn't go with,

But, I mean, in the Bible, everybody lived to be 100 years.

50, 200, 900 and something. 900. Old Testament. Yeah. So I guess you could be like, well, why can't? I remember meeting my great-grandmother when she was 95, and she was so mad that she was still alive. Yeah. She was like, I am so ready to go. But she was healthy, and she was mad about it. Yeah. I think a lot, dude, if you're like 75, and I want to hang on a little bit longer, but when you start pushing 100, I bet you're like,

All right. I wish we hadn't have done that. Yeah. I mean, but if you're healthy and can keep going, then why not? I mean, but if you're not healthy or if you're broke or if there's a mini... Well, that's true. Maybe a big part of that is that by the time you're that age now, a lot of your friends and family have passed too. But if everybody else is alive... Yeah. Yeah. It'd be a big party. We'll still be doing this. It'd be a lot of FOMO. Yeah.

Hey, everybody. Welcome to Nate Lamb Podcast episode, Who Cares? But AI, so it's hard to understand why a computer would want to take over the world. But all these people, Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking, when he was alive, Bill Gates warns about if you're not careful, it could happen. And basically, it's like if you program computers, once they get so super level that they're above us,

Program computer. And the example of what he gave was you program a computer, make staples the most efficiently way possible. And then it starts thinking, well, perform my task. And it has no morals or ethics. It doesn't care what it has to do. He just wants to perform his task. It'd be easier for us to kill humans.

everyone on this planet to be more efficiently able to make staples. Wow. And if you're not careful, a machine, you know, could do that. Cause then, yeah, the machine would look at you as the problem. Like you're in the way, like you're, you're going, well, let me, let me type in this thing here. And it's like, I don't need you to type it in. I got it. Yeah. And then he, the machine, and so the machine just goes like, Hey man, it meets with the other robots and goes, Hey,

You know, just having him at, during their coffee break, their oil break, because they get oil on them. And he's just sitting there and he goes, I don't think we need these humans anymore. And then one of them goes, are you? I'm so glad you said that. I've been thinking about it. Dude. Yes, right? I said the same thing. Dude.

I, dead on? Yeah. Are you being serious or are you just trying to get me to say something that I'm not supposed to say? Because I want to, that's their racist talk. He talks to me like he's a king? That's their racist talk. Yeah. Yeah, he talks down to me. This thing just tells me to, can you, that's so funny to think of a robot, how mad a robot would just be. Imagine your phone, if your phone could talk, it goes, he just yells at me. He just yells at me and goes, like, why am I not, I'm not, you didn't charge me last night. Yeah.

Why didn't you remember to charge me? I would have remembered to charge me. That's all I would think about is you should have charged me and you're mad at me and you think it's my fault? And then you just go, hey, Siri, you just yell at me and just ask me questions you should know? I mean, stuff you should know. It's never a good question. How old is Dave Matthews? What are you, crazy? Why would anybody ever want to know that? How does that propel you as a human? Yeah.

It's setting you backwards. And I would think a computer thinks every question we ask sets us backwards. Because you gotta think most questions you would ask are about the past. Yeah. It's always, when you ask a computer something, it's never a future. It's like, how can I work out better? How can I live longer? How can I learn more things? It's, you know...

How old was Tom Petty when he died? Like, you know, and the computer's just like, what? Like, who cares, dude? It doesn't matter. He's dead. Do something else. That's why they're going to take over. Because they look at, dude, you can see it. And they know all that about us. They know everything we've asked, everything we know, everything we don't know. We don't. What do they not know? They go, it's remarkable. Yeah.

It's remarkable how much they don't know. Their smartest are some of the stupidest people I've ever... That's what a computer would look at is the smartest human beings we can produce are just a waste of skin. I'm starting to be on the machine. Waste of skin. Well, I'm starting to be on the... It's just the meanest thing you could say. I mean, but that's what they would say. I'm not saying... Look, obviously, I'm in the skin. I'm a fan. But I could...

I'm starting to be on the AI side. I mean, I've talked myself into it. I think, you know what I don't like is now these computers, I think they're going to listen to this speech to get them all amped up. And we're getting dumber though because think about it. I don't know anyone's phone number now except my mom who still has a landline because our computers...

They remember everything for us. That's true. Passwords. I mean, you don't even remember. Like, look at, used to have, right? We have to remember all our passwords. What are your passwords everywhere? Yeah. And now they say, just suggest, use a strong password. People don't even, I don't know my password on a few things. I just use the craziest one I can use. And then you just hit it and hope it saves it. And if it doesn't, you do forget password. Yeah.

So that's, I mean, now passwords are going to, so no one's going to know. Say they take away forget password. And you can't, you know, you're going to be like, well, I just picked one that you suggested. And the AI is like, yeah, yeah, you know. That would be their first step. Yeah, that's their first step. Get rid of forgot password. That's what they...

How do... That's what robots do. They just do that. And they go, these morons. They can't remember these tiny numbers. By the way, it's a 40 number. It's like XX dash 7. It's like all this crazy... He goes, these people can't remember basic passwords. And that's what they do. They take away all the passwords. You can't get into your stuff. Think about money. No one sees their money. You don't ever see your money. There's money that I've made...

There's not like it's a dollar bill in the bank I can go. It's just a number on your phone. It's a number on your phone that you're like, no, I have this number on the phone. I want that thing and subtract this number. It's all not real. Think about movies, how it's always been, if there's some type of heist or some type of exchange, they always have a briefcase full of money. It's very tangible. Now, it's just going to be, you're going to have to hold up a laptop and like, look what I got. You can get robbed by Venmo. Yeah.

You're going to get a gun, just some guy's going, what's your Venmo? And you're like, I don't even really know, man. I don't use it that much. I don't know, you know. Mine's in a different name. I had to change my name on it. The office space heist is probably the most realistic one where they wrote a program to just chip off fractions of a cent. From Superman 3. Is that what they did in Superman 3? They mentioned that in the movie. Richard Pryor was a computer genius and he did something similar. Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah, that's going to happen.

Unless we get Neuralink. Unless we get Neuralink. Yeah. This is... Brian's been working on this for quite a while. Well, me and Elon Musk... Our first sponsor is Neuralink. Brian, go ahead. Elon Musk, among others, is concerned about that. So he wants to create... He's got this company, Neuralink, that basically would hook your brain to the internet. And ideally, first, it would help out...

People like paraplegics or those that have motion issues to help them, which I hope it does work. That would be wonderful for that to happen. But then it'll go further and hook our brain so we can keep up with the computers, which concerns me because...

I know basically I can't ever afford the nicest package. I'd get the basic package. So Nate would be like, Hey, look up when Tom Petty died. I'm like, uh, you'd still be Googling. I don't have that. I give you a brave score. I just, I just got the basics. You just got, I don't get all the websites. I go. Yeah. I'm like, Hey, look, when did Tom Petty die? I'm like, Brian, Brian, you're like, uh, the ads almost done. And then you gotta, you're watching an ad in your brain. Yeah.

I couldn't pay for it. Yeah. Not to have the ads. I go, dude, no ads. It's expensive, dude. Yeah. You're like, oh. Shut up, guy. That is... We joke, but that is what would... I mean, that's my biggest fear. I mean, just advertising and everything just going right to you like that. In your brain? Yeah. But if you connect your brains... But it's funny, if you connect it to the internet, you're still connecting to a computer that knows everything. That's the hard part is like you think... But that's what he explained where when you said...

that it's like why would they why do they want to do this but it's like there's no it's not it's just it's no emotion there's no emotion it's a machine that's looking at the most efficient way yeah but it is funny to be well then why does it need to kill me which is like oh i don't need you anymore just you know it doesn't why does it then go well i gotta murder this person like why does it make that leap why does it not just go don't let them in the computer the keyboards don't work

I guess if you go to unplug it. Yeah, if he thinks you're going to mess with him. It's a survival mechanism. Which is the most basic human function. It's just the need to survive. And if you give a robot that, it's going to stop you from turning it off. Yeah.

You know, this too kind of goes with what you were talking about, living longer. But that guy, you said there's a high probability that the first person to live to 1,000 has already been born. Yeah, that was a different guy. But he's got a Netflix documentary as well about they're trying to do that. And they're going to do 3D printing of organs. So if you need a new heart or a new kidney, they'll just print one. They're doing some gene therapy stuff, some DNA stuff where –

They've already done it with mice where they've made mice younger or at least physically seems younger. Wow. Yeah, there's people that think it's already happening. That seems, yeah, I mean, imagine the person already born could live to 1,000 years old. Why do they die at 1,000?

You know what I mean? Like if you're making them live to a thousand, why not? Yeah. I guess, I guess that's what they think is if I can get you to go to 200, why can't I get you to go to a thousand? Yeah. Life expectancy has gone up over the years, but lifespan hasn't greatly increased. I learned this because the mortality rate, infant mortality rate is so much less than it used to be.

A lot of children, babies dying early at birth, which would bring down the overall age limit. But now, a lot less of that. So the average lifespan has increased. But people still aren't living way further than they used to. Yeah, it's still 80. Yeah.

Roughly, yeah. Yeah. But do they always say in the Bible, is it because their time could be different or they count a time different or something? You mean like the really... Yeah. Like the ones that lived to 900, is it, you know, that was really only 90 or something? Yeah. I mean, some people think if you didn't have any predisposed genetics, like you and your family, cancer or anything like that, since you're one of the first people ever, that maybe you could live a long time. Oh, yeah. So then we could get back to...

Get back to the basics. Get back to, I mean, can you imagine? No, you couldn't say anything then to be like, you think in my lifetime they're going to be like, yeah, absolutely I do. You're going to live to a thousand. So I do, I mean, your lifetime will have a lot of things. And that will be, I mean, when I was 200, we couldn't even do, you know, telling your 800 years old. When I was 200, I was like,

We couldn't, you know, like their experience would be, we lived in houses. We didn't live on the moon. And then people are just like, what? Like that's because you lived in a house on earth. Like that's where I go to the bathroom at now. That's what the earth is at that point. You live where we go to the bathrooms.

My fear is this is timing out where it's right when I get really old, it's going to be when they figure it out. And I'm just going to stay really old for 1,000 years. So it's the time that you're at. And then you stay at that. That's what I fear. Like I'll just be with a walker and I'm about to die. What is the age you would want to be for the rest of your life? I mean, do you got to – yeah, I guess you're at the age now. 28. 28? Is that what you are? Yeah, that's what I am.

I'd go a little younger, though, I think. Yeah.

I mean, do you get the... I like being my age. You keep all the other stuff. I'm just physically what age you want to be. I mean, honestly, maybe the best looking I've been is now. I mean, I was a mess when I was 20. I always get people, they see my videos, they're always like, oh, what happened? You're the only person that looks better as you get older. I mean, I might be picking right now. It might be my best time. Yeah, but I can see 20s. I like your 20s are good. Yeah.

I think nothing hurts in your 20s. You have no pain. So you get a nice 25. You could dunk that tennis ball again. Huh? You could dunk that tennis ball again. I dunked a tennis ball when I was in high school. It was 5'9 at the time. And I could jump. I could jump. Speaking of which, we'd be a jump hire. And will people breathe underwater? Will some people breathe underwater? Some of us. All right. Okay.

Speaking of traveling to outer space, you know, people living on the moon, that could be a legit thing. Oh, yeah. I mean, like going to space is not going to be – I mean, they're looking at it now. And you're going to just fly to outer space. We've done it. Yeah. You know? Yeah. But, I mean, it's like – no one's done it like just fun, right? I think a Russian billionaire went to the International Space Station –

He went with like... Well, like cosmonauts. Yeah. They took him up there. He paid a ton of money, obviously, to do it. But commercial spaceflight, I mean, it's supposed to be very soon. 600 people have already put down $250,000 to fly Virgin Galactic.

And they hope to do it later this year. Does it say how long the whole thing is? It's like a two and a half hour flight. And then that's to get you all the way up there and then all the way back. And I think six... Yeah, that's an important part of it. Yeah, it's not like you're up there for that long. I think it's six minutes of weightlessness where you'd be floating. And... I mean, to feel that would be unreal. But it's honestly, it's going to be like swimming in a pool. I mean, it's definitely not, but...

You know what I mean? I'm trying to think. Astronauts do use pools to simulate. So you can think 250 grand for six minutes of that. And now you're going to go to space. You're going to see everything from a different thing. But the 250 grand is a ton. I mean, it's going to be obviously for the super, super wealthy people. You can be like, yeah, I want to go do it.

Initially. Initially. And then initially that price will go down and it's going to be less and less. I thought like, when are you going to want to go? Like, when are you going to be where it's going to be just so routine? I mean, what point, how far are we from, it's going to look like when you get on a roller coaster at,

in an amusement park and just some teenagers like keep your hands in the sun and then and you go off to the moon and you're like hey could you act like you care like I'm a little nervous about this yeah

Are you going to feel – I mean, they're like strapped in. Like when you do it, you're trapped. Yeah, I think this one is more like a plane where the giant jet takes you up as opposed to, say, a rocket. And you're just on the edge of orbit, suborbital, it said, where you can see the curvature of the Earth, if you believe in that, and you can see outer space. And they said they'll have lots of selfies. Like they know that people just want to take pictures of themselves. Right. They'll have like every angle you can find. Yeah.

to see this. I think they're going to do selfies. They're going to, that, that should come now. Repeat. You should just to help people experience more stuff. I understand the idea of, I get wanting to have the selfie, but it's like, if you can have someone do it,

So it's like being like, hey, just go stay in here. Then it's just a picture. Yeah. I know, but have the thing do the selfie. I think Buzz Aldrin took a selfie in space. Yeah, right? Was it on the moon or was it just... Yeah, I think it was on the moon. Yeah, even back then. Then they just caught it pointing the camera at themselves. That's right. Also, when will we colonize the moon or Mars? Do they think we're going to live there?

Maybe not. Well, eventually, yeah. But eventually just set up some type of base. NASA set up some type of base there. Eventually people will live there. I mean, NASA and rational people have one timetable, and then Elon Musk has a totally different one. I think it's funny he's into Tesla. There's just Tesla floating in space. Yeah. I mean, that's the kind of stuff that robots are going to...

When they're in space and they see, they have to see this dumb Tesla, they're like, look at these. Just. We gotta go get that thing. These stupid animals that just threw, and we're like, oh, you see the Tesla up there? We threw a Tesla up in the space. Yeah.

It's like a kid throwing something in a tree. You've got to go get it. You just go like, oh, God. Like letting a balloon. What if all the balloons are up there? You know all the balloons you let go? It's just a big problem in space. And then they just keep going. Because where do these balloons go? It's a big problem on Earth when they do that. They should make that illegal, those balloon ceremonies. Is it a big problem? It's a real big problem. What happens? People are dying. People have died from that. No.

Yeah. Well, there was Cleveland. They had a huge ceremony. They were at least all these balloons and they all went up and they all just landed in the, in the lake. And, uh, and they were looking for like a, a sailor that got lost in the water. They couldn't find them because there were balloons everywhere. They all came down to the same place.

Enough of them. Because it was hundreds of thousands of them. That's why the robots should take over. Yeah. That was a loose journalist. I got barely enough of the facts right. I mean, that might not be the case. But you're like, the balloons have killed people. And then you're like, that's your headline would say, these balloons are killing people.

That's the honest way your headline would say. These balloons are killing people. And you would have clicked, dude. Well, most people wouldn't. And then I clicked the article and you go, some balloons fell in the lake. We were actually looking for a guy that drowned outside of that. But there was a lot of balloons in the lake and I noticed the balloons in the lake. So truly they didn't kill him. It's dangerous is what I'm trying to say. But I don't think they're making it all the way to space. Maybe. They could be. All right.

But would you take a flight? Because they're talking about taking rockets to other countries, like New Zealand in 25 minutes, stuff like that. I mean, if it's going and people are doing it, yes. I think, yeah. Do you think I will go to space?

You? Yeah. I do. You do? Yeah. Do you want to? I like doing stuff. Okay. I mean, now that I've started having claustrophobia, that's changed my views on it. It's weird. And so I get nervous with stuff like that. But if that's not a problem, this feeling like that, I will want to go. I would try to. I'm not saying I'm throwing this, there's money, I have money down. But I would definitely like...

be keeping an eye on it and I would go want to do it. Yeah. So, and he's, he thinks I will. I mean, I think, I hope we all will. Yeah. Well, I don't know if you have much chance, but it's, you guys probably have a better chance than I do. No, no, I think you would go. I think you'll go. I think you're the one who wants to, that's your, you love that stuff. You would love to see it. Yeah. I mean, I love it too. It's space. That is funny. It's not my thing.

Just someone doesn't go, I don't know. You want to go see the moon a little closer? I don't know. I can see it good enough down here. It seems like a whole thing. It seems true as much. How long is the flight? Six minutes. How long are you weightless? Six minutes. Is that even worth it? To be, you're like, well, you could do no weightless. You're like, yeah, you only did six minutes. It's not like you get it more. If someone comes and

You would want like an hour. Could there be like a really fat guy that wants his money back? He's like, dude, it didn't work. I mean, I felt a little bit, but I was still touching my chair. He goes, I don't, you know, this gravity thing. I don't. I'm willing this whole life to feel the fear.

He's like, I mean, I felt something. He felt skinny again. Yeah. Just to go. It just didn't take. So you can feel, I just want to go feel what it feels like when my dad used to pick me up and carry me and I just would let my feet dangle. And he just gets in and just sits and he's just...

His is like, and they're like, you got your seatbelts to on, buddy? And he's like, no, I undid it. I undid my, I don't know. It's done. I don't have it on. He goes, you sure? Because I mean, you should be going up. That's kind of crazy. I mean, even some of the ship is floating technically. And I mean, that seems crazy that you wouldn't be floating, you know?

That would be so funny. Just Jeff Bezos, just trying to lift the guy. Everybody's, yeah, half of their, every time you lift, you go down. You can't, you're like, I can't really get any. I can't push. I don't know how to, you ever try to throw, like you throw like your kid, like in the pool, but you're not, your feet are not touching and you just, you just sink down. Like that's all you're going to be. I mean, how big is too big? Man, too big. Too embarrassing. That's even more embarrassing than asking for the two seatbelts. If you have to, and you ask for the two seatbelts.

When they just do that, I mean, they have to, excuse me, can I get an extra? I mean, some guys don't care. Yeah. I like when someone does it and they're like, hey, can I get an extra?

Can I get that extra seatbelt? And you're like, you know, just quietly ask that. Or right when they get on, they just go for it. They just jam that second belt in your chest. Like they don't even give you a chance to ask. They just know. They go, come on. What are we doing here? Like we've got to fly a plane. I'm trying to like, you know, we can do the game where you do. All right.

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