The Hidden Cost Of Overthinking Everything - George Mack
CChris Williamson
Mental HealthRoad Side Assistance/SafetyExerciseInternet Technology
Transcript
00:00:00What were you doing before we left the house?
00:00:02Oh, I was listening to Nickelback on 2x speed.
00:00:05You were listening to Nickelback on 2x speed?
00:00:08Yeah.
00:00:09We just let that sit for a second.
00:00:12And you've been listening to Phil Collins on 1.5x speed?
00:00:15Yeah, sometimes 1.6.
00:00:18Do you want to explain yourself?
00:00:19Well, I went through a phase that I'm still in,
00:00:23that I think YouTube is better to listen to music on
00:00:28than Spotify or Apple Music
00:00:30because you can get live tracks way more.
00:00:33It's underrated live tracks on YouTube.
00:00:37Just hearing the crowd.
00:00:39And I've also stopped listening to hip-hop as much.
00:00:42Okay.
00:00:42Because I don't know about you,
00:00:43I started becoming a bad person
00:00:44when I'd listen to hip-hop too much.
00:00:47Did you never get the one?
00:00:49Well, if you just listen to people committing crimes
00:00:51in your head all day long,
00:00:53you do become a bit of a terrible person.
00:00:57Well, this is what we found when you were at Social Chain
00:01:00and we were talking about Serotonin George,
00:01:03Serotonin Chris listening to Anjuna Deep.
00:01:06And then it was Cortisol George and Cortisol Chris
00:01:08listening to Kanye West.
00:01:09That was pre-cancellation as well.
00:01:11Yeah.
00:01:11I mean, even Kanye wouldn't be full Cortisol.
00:01:14It would be like DMX.
00:01:16Okay.
00:01:17Or like Very Angry Tupac.
00:01:19Okay.
00:01:19Vinnie Paz is great.
00:01:21Jedi Mind Tricks.
00:01:22You've explained to me why you think that YouTube
00:01:26is a good platform.
00:01:27You haven't necessarily explained to me
00:01:29why you've been listening to-
00:01:30Just taking a little interlude.
00:01:31Phil Collins at 1.6 times.
00:01:33So when I go to the gym,
00:01:36I put tunes on, on YouTube, usually live tracks.
00:01:41But then I was listening to Nickelback Rockstar,
00:01:44which is a completely underrated song.
00:01:46And I was, but if you listen to that at 1x speed,
00:01:48it's quite hard to work out to.
00:01:49But if you go and listen to-
00:01:50If you go and, if you listen to hip hop,
00:01:55it's too aggressive.
00:01:56Then you want to go and commit a crime.
00:01:57But Nickelback at 1.8x speed Rockstar,
00:02:00customize it.
00:02:02He changed the beats per minute and great workout.
00:02:05But this is actually really sad.
00:02:07This is really sad, this part,
00:02:08which was on, if you look at Nickelback Rockstar
00:02:11and you go in the comments,
00:02:12it's like, it's this boy talking about
00:02:15how his dad used to listen to Nickelback Rockstar
00:02:18and he's now just about to have surgery
00:02:19and he's unsure if he's going to wake up
00:02:20and he's listening to Nickelback Rockstar.
00:02:22So I'm there, like, listening to it at 1.x speed,
00:02:24reading the comment section.
00:02:25Why are you in the comments?
00:02:26I get incredibly sad.
00:02:27I don't, a little break.
00:02:27So you're speed, you're speed listening to Nickelback
00:02:30reading sad comments.
00:02:31Yes, yes.
00:02:31Okay.
00:02:32Well, have you seen the,
00:02:33there's a conspiracy theory that Nickelback's downfall
00:02:36in the mid-2000s was to try and demoralize America
00:02:39after 9-11?
00:02:40No, why demoralize America?
00:02:42That Nickelback was kind of on this surgeon.
00:02:44It was sort of American spirit.
00:02:46It was the equivalent for them in the new world
00:02:50after this horrible catastrophe that had occurred.
00:02:53And it's this huge, long documentary,
00:02:55like, I don't know, 40 minute, 50 minute breakdown
00:02:57of exactly why Nickelback was sort of taken down
00:03:01from the inside.
00:03:02I think Nickelback are one of the most underrated bands
00:03:05of all time because people thought they were
00:03:06one of the most overrated bands of all time.
00:03:08They're now one of the most underrated bands
00:03:10of all time until they then become the most overrated
00:03:12because it swung back again.
00:03:13Swung back again.
00:03:14Yeah.
00:03:14Well, this is like Creed, right?
00:03:15Creed got to come back around.
00:03:17Oh, there's talk that,
00:03:19there's like this great video that's breaking down
00:03:21why do people hate Nickelback?
00:03:23And one of the theories is that they try
00:03:26a little bit too hard as well.
00:03:27Whereas some of these edgier bands during the era,
00:03:29which ironically everybody's forgot.
00:03:31There was this interview with the lead singer of Nickelback
00:03:33and he's talking about how he would study songs,
00:03:36like figure out why songs work.
00:03:38It was like Mr. Beast of music.
00:03:39Yeah.
00:03:40And because he was trying so hard.
00:03:42Well, there's something about being nonchalant that's cool.
00:03:44There's always going to be something cool
00:03:45about being nonchalant.
00:03:46Yeah.
00:03:46Especially if you're British,
00:03:47but it's not a very American personality trait
00:03:51to enjoy nonchalance in the same way as a Brit does
00:03:54because the Brit, everybody enjoys nonchalance,
00:03:57but the Brit enjoys nonchalance.
00:03:59I nearly said nonsense.
00:04:00It's just something very different.
00:04:03The Brit enjoys nonchalance in a different way,
00:04:06which is that it protects us
00:04:07from having to be called a keno.
00:04:10Like you don't want to be called too keen about anything.
00:04:13And you inherently don't like anybody
00:04:15that does seem too keen or excitable.
00:04:18Yeah.
00:04:18When you took me to that gym opening the other evening,
00:04:22I was talking to a lady there
00:04:24and she was implying she was an introvert
00:04:28and yet she was like one of the most extroverted people.
00:04:31Like American,
00:04:32I don't think American introverts truly exist.
00:04:36Not on a global scale.
00:04:37Comparatively to a Britain scale.
00:04:37Yeah.
00:04:38Here's a question, right?
00:04:39If you had introversion, extroversion
00:04:41and you're massively grouping countries together,
00:04:43what do you think's the most extroverted country
00:04:45and most introverted country
00:04:47if you're grouping the populaces?
00:04:49You're probably not far off with America and the UK.
00:04:53You're probably not far off.
00:04:54Yeah.
00:04:55Who's more introverted than us?
00:04:59Japanese.
00:05:01Japanese probably.
00:05:02Famously cut themselves off for about 160 years
00:05:05during the Sakoka.
00:05:06That's hardcore introversion.
00:05:09They did a national introversion push.
00:05:13Them, I mean, who's more extro...
00:05:14I guess it's probably some South American places,
00:05:18you know, like some Latino...
00:05:20Extroverted, right?
00:05:20Yeah.
00:05:21But, you know, we really have gone
00:05:27from one end of the Overton window to the other
00:05:29when it comes to extrovert.
00:05:31But you're right, like an American extrovert...
00:05:33An American introvert is a British extrovert.
00:05:35An American extrovert is a British extrovert
00:05:39at an after-party at 4 a.m.
00:05:41on every single substance that's ever existed
00:05:43trying to talk about how he's going to fix
00:05:45the interest rates of the Bank of England.
00:05:47Yeah.
00:05:48We need to talk about your sneezing.
00:05:50I'm sorry.
00:05:50Okay.
00:05:52Let's go for it.
00:05:53Do you think that there might be an issue?
00:05:56Like a medical issue?
00:05:57No, I...
00:05:57You sneezed 15 times.
00:06:00I did.
00:06:01Yeah, I did.
00:06:01And they were over a minute apart.
00:06:03I didn't realize you heard me.
00:06:04I was upstairs thinking...
00:06:05It shook the house.
00:06:07Yeah?
00:06:07You shook the house with them.
00:06:09It was thunderous.
00:06:10Yeah.
00:06:12Yeah, well, it was a bit of a doom loop
00:06:14because I would sneeze, blow my nose,
00:06:18and then whatever...
00:06:19Something was going up my nose
00:06:20when I was blowing the nose,
00:06:21and it would then create this economic doom loop
00:06:24like Gary Stevenson's in charge of the economy.
00:06:27It was rough.
00:06:28Yeah, it was rough.
00:06:29I don't think I've ever sneezed that much
00:06:31in my entire life.
00:06:32I think that's...
00:06:33I think...
00:06:33And also, I think this is you struggling
00:06:35with not having a girlfriend in the house.
00:06:37Yeah, that's a nightmare.
00:06:39Yeah.
00:06:39I do...
00:06:40We've discussed this before,
00:06:41that guys over a certain age
00:06:45between the hours of 5 to 9 p.m.
00:06:48Like, if the hours of 5 to 9 p.m.
00:06:51was 24 hours,
00:06:53I think the economy would go down by about 30%.
00:06:55Like, we're just useless.
00:06:57Like, nothing's happening.
00:06:59It's scrolling.
00:07:00It's checking stuff.
00:07:02It's relaxing,
00:07:04but stressing that you should be working
00:07:05or working whilst thinking
00:07:06that you should be relaxing.
00:07:08This is a real domesticating influence
00:07:09of having a partner.
00:07:10Yeah.
00:07:11This is why you need one.
00:07:12Yeah.
00:07:12Just purely for the nervous system.
00:07:15It's so that you don't, like,
00:07:18regress back to the mean
00:07:19of just doing bullshit
00:07:21that you really wish that you weren't.
00:07:22How do you think you've wasted...
00:07:24What's the biggest, like,
00:07:25evening waste that you've had
00:07:27when you've been single
00:07:27or not been with your girlfriend?
00:07:30Fuck.
00:07:35It's got to be phone.
00:07:36It's got to be phone.
00:07:37Yeah, but like, what's...
00:07:39Yeah, so zoom in.
00:07:40Open your iPhone.
00:07:41Instagram, typically.
00:07:43And what sort of stuff on Instagram?
00:07:44Instagram on YouTube,
00:07:45but it's not...
00:07:46YouTube on TV is really...
00:07:48When I watch stuff on my TV,
00:07:49it's always very conscious
00:07:51because it's such a fuck on
00:07:53to try and change
00:07:54from one video to another.
00:07:55I'm much more scrutinous,
00:07:58way more discretion
00:07:59around what I'm going to watch
00:08:00if I'm watching on TV
00:08:01because I can't be bothered
00:08:02to change what I'm watching.
00:08:03So true.
00:08:03Nobody uses YouTube shorts
00:08:07or TikTok really on TV.
00:08:09There's an Instagram app
00:08:09for TV now, for smart TV.
00:08:11Is anybody using it?
00:08:12I don't know.
00:08:12I have to assume so.
00:08:14I have to assume so.
00:08:15I've seen...
00:08:16I saw a video of a guy
00:08:17who ran a 5K underneath a table
00:08:20and in the background
00:08:21throughout the entire video.
00:08:23It took about 30 minutes.
00:08:24He just like spun round
00:08:26under a table like this
00:08:27for 30 minutes.
00:08:28And in the background was...
00:08:30Someone was watching on a TV,
00:08:31was watching TikTok,
00:08:33swiping through TikTok.
00:08:34What do you mean?
00:08:34Somebody's running underneath a table.
00:08:36I'm so confused.
00:08:37I mean, he did it.
00:08:37Strava said that he did it.
00:08:40But in the background,
00:08:41it's TikTok on a TV.
00:08:43The people have got to be doing it.
00:08:44People have to be doing it.
00:08:45Jesus Christ.
00:08:47Wow.
00:08:48Wow.
00:08:48But you're not a vertical video consumer.
00:08:50No, no, no, no, no, no.
00:08:53I'm so confused.
00:08:55Me running a 5K
00:08:56under my therapist's table.
00:08:57Can't imagine that's his therapist.
00:08:59Anyway.
00:09:01There you go.
00:09:02That's what you should be doing.
00:09:03That's actually...
00:09:04That's the greatest advert.
00:09:05That's the greatest advert
00:09:06for having a girlfriend.
00:09:07I've ever seen.
00:09:08That's after 7 p.m.
00:09:09Yeah.
00:09:10Wow.
00:09:10If the CCP could see this,
00:09:13they'd be delighted.
00:09:13If they knew what was going on.
00:09:14You see the guy
00:09:16who accidentally hacked
00:09:177,000 DJI Roombas.
00:09:21This dude
00:09:22was trying to control
00:09:24his Roomba
00:09:25with his PlayStation controller
00:09:28and
00:09:29ended up using...
00:09:31Here it is.
00:09:32So in theory,
00:09:33you could have
00:09:33used someone else's vacuum
00:09:35and navigated it around their home
00:09:37to see whatever you wanted to see.
00:09:39Or launching a deep cleaning
00:09:41at 4:20 for everyone.
00:09:42Yes.
00:09:43Software developer
00:09:44Sammy Azduffal
00:09:45was building an app
00:09:46to hack his DJI Romo
00:09:48smart vacuum.
00:09:49He wanted to use
00:09:50his PlayStation controller
00:09:51to make it move.
00:09:52But in the process,
00:09:53he accidentally uncovered
00:09:54a major security flaw.
00:09:56With the help of an AI chatbot,
00:09:58Sammy discovered
00:09:59he could also access
00:10:00what he says
00:10:01were roughly 7,000
00:10:03other vacuums,
00:10:04allowing him to get
00:10:05their compassionate locations,
00:10:07and even remotely control
00:10:08other people's vacuums.
00:10:10He could also see through
00:10:11other users'
00:10:12live camera feeds
00:10:13and hear through
00:10:13their vacuums' microphones.
00:10:15Wow.
00:10:15Features typically in place
00:10:17to help the vacuums
00:10:17navigate around a home
00:10:19and respond to voice commands.
00:10:20Yeah, it feels like we're going
00:10:22to be living through an era
00:10:23where this is going to happen
00:10:24more and more.
00:10:26Well, we can't hack paper and pen.
00:10:27You can't hack the moleskin notepad.
00:10:29That's true.
00:10:30Although they have got
00:10:30a digital version of that now.
00:10:31We were talking to a friend
00:10:34at dinner the other night
00:10:34and he said,
00:10:35everybody here has tried
00:10:36to get ChatGPT
00:10:37to do something illegal.
00:10:39See if you can get me this for free,
00:10:42if you can hack the back end
00:10:43or do extract whatever.
00:10:45And one of our friends
00:10:46who works building data centers
00:10:48said he'd used some off-label Chinese model
00:10:51that's run locally on his computer
00:10:52and didn't mean to get it
00:10:55to do something illegal,
00:10:55but it did.
00:10:57So he put in,
00:10:58he wanted to try and see
00:10:59if they could screenshot
00:10:59all of this different data
00:11:01and it's thinking,
00:11:02I can't do that,
00:11:03thinking,
00:11:03I can't do that,
00:11:04thinking,
00:11:05oh, there's an API
00:11:06that's open on the back end.
00:11:07I can just pull
00:11:08the entire website out
00:11:09and now he's got 9,000 pieces of data
00:11:11that are completely illegal to have.
00:11:12So our models,
00:11:15we can't get to do something illegal
00:11:16when they want them to.
00:11:17Or even just like,
00:11:18like I was asking,
00:11:19I asked Claude the other day
00:11:21for what do people think are,
00:11:24where's the ugly,
00:11:24because you said the UK
00:11:25has the ugliest men in the world.
00:11:27So I got called,
00:11:28I asked Claude,
00:11:29where do you think
00:11:29has the ugliest men
00:11:30or could you pull the data
00:11:31of what people think
00:11:32has the ugliest men
00:11:33and it refused to do it.
00:11:35So he won't do that,
00:11:36but then the,
00:11:37it would give you
00:11:37the most good looking them.
00:11:39I don't,
00:11:40I don't,
00:11:40I don't.
00:11:41It wouldn't give you any.
00:11:41Ask actually,
00:11:42Jared,
00:11:43if you can.
00:11:43I don't even think,
00:11:44I don't,
00:11:44maybe,
00:11:45but then I guess if you asked it
00:11:46for the all the good looking,
00:11:48you know,
00:11:48rank it all the way down.
00:11:49You could just say,
00:11:49now flip that list around.
00:11:51Well,
00:11:51it might do the top 50%
00:11:52and say you get to the middle of the,
00:11:54but you can then work it out from there.
00:11:55Look,
00:11:56the only,
00:11:57I didn't,
00:11:57I don't mean to bad mouth our country,
00:11:59especially given that both of us are from it.
00:12:00I just saw the Unite the Rally March videos.
00:12:05We're just not,
00:12:07we're not a particularly aesthetic nation.
00:12:10And perhaps again,
00:12:11this is a selection effect,
00:12:13but best looking is obviously subjective,
00:12:16but there are a few places
00:12:17that consistently come across fashion modeling,
00:12:20dating app data,
00:12:21tourism surveys,
00:12:21and pop culture for producing
00:12:22unusually attractive men,
00:12:24usually because of some mix of genetics,
00:12:25grooming, culture, fitness, style, and confidence.
00:12:28Brazil, Italy, Spain, France, Sweden, Lebanon.
00:12:32Wow.
00:12:33Can we say,
00:12:35what about the,
00:12:36what about the ugliest?
00:12:37That gets a lot harder to answer fairly
00:12:39because ugliness is even more culturally loaded
00:12:41than attractiveness.
00:12:43People tend to judge entire populations
00:12:44based on stereotypes.
00:12:47It's not going to give us an answer, is it?
00:12:48Keep going down.
00:12:49It basically says the UK there, right?
00:12:51Some Northern Europeans,
00:12:52some Anglo countries.
00:12:53Plain,
00:12:54despite strong genetics,
00:12:55because the culture is understated
00:12:57and less image focused.
00:12:59It's a nice way to say
00:12:59that we don't care about our appearances.
00:13:01Do you remember,
00:13:01do you remember when,
00:13:02um,
00:13:03you started going to therapy
00:13:05and you were talking about how
00:13:08all this stuff that you discovered
00:13:11from therapy of,
00:13:13you know,
00:13:14you couldn't quite feel emotions
00:13:15or how harsh you was on yourself.
00:13:17You had this laundry list
00:13:19of symptoms that you'd given you.
00:13:21And I remember thinking,
00:13:22I didn't want to be rude
00:13:23when a friend was going through therapy.
00:13:25And I was like,
00:13:27kind of waiting on the phone for a bit.
00:13:29I was like,
00:13:29I think that's just being British.
00:13:32Like all,
00:13:32a lot of the stuff
00:13:33that the therapist diagnosed you with
00:13:35was just being British.
00:13:37Hang on a second.
00:13:37Hang on a second.
00:13:39Wasn't diagnosed with something.
00:13:40You know what I mean?
00:13:41You know what I mean?
00:13:42Look,
00:13:42these are some of the patterns
00:13:43that you've got from your past.
00:13:44That's a big difference
00:13:45to a diagnosis.
00:13:46I'm talking in a clinical context.
00:13:48British syndrome.
00:13:49You have British syndrome, sir.
00:13:50You've got British syndrome.
00:13:52Yes.
00:13:52Yeah.
00:13:53I've seen that your passport
00:13:54is dark blue.
00:13:55Yeah.
00:13:56I mean,
00:13:57we're a country of people
00:13:59that are kind of,
00:14:01we revel in misery a bit,
00:14:04which probably makes us
00:14:05quite resilient.
00:14:06Probably why we did well
00:14:07in the Battle of Britain.
00:14:08It's probably why
00:14:09we don't have the same
00:14:09victimhood culture
00:14:10that somewhere like America might do.
00:14:12It's also the same reason
00:14:13that we hate ourselves
00:14:15quite a lot.
00:14:17No one,
00:14:17when was the last time
00:14:18you heard anybody say
00:14:18that they were proud of the UK?
00:14:21Me?
00:14:22When was the last time
00:14:23you heard someone
00:14:24that wasn't you
00:14:25say that they were proud
00:14:26of the UK?
00:14:26The strange thing is,
00:14:28is the more that I travel,
00:14:32I always describe the UK
00:14:33as like having a autoimmune condition
00:14:36that it attacks itself from within.
00:14:40But the UK,
00:14:41if you travel outside of the UK,
00:14:44most countries that you travel to,
00:14:45the people will talk about
00:14:46how much that they love the UK.
00:14:48So it's weird that the people
00:14:49that hate the UK the most
00:14:50are often inside the UK
00:14:52and everybody outside.
00:14:54Quite likes it.
00:14:55Well, we discussed this before,
00:14:57but you go,
00:14:57oh, okay,
00:14:58J.K. Rowling,
00:14:59Harry Potter,
00:15:01Paul McCartney,
00:15:02John Lennon,
00:15:03William Shakespeare,
00:15:05Charles Darwin.
00:15:05Should we just do
00:15:06the entire episode?
00:15:07Just like,
00:15:07and guess what?
00:15:09You could.
00:15:10Like Harry Mack,
00:15:10freestyle rapping.
00:15:11Yeah,
00:15:11but no one,
00:15:12no one would.
00:15:13Where do you end up with like,
00:15:14Wretch 3-2?
00:15:15Yeah,
00:15:15exactly.
00:15:16You're really scraping the bottom of the barrel
00:15:17once you get beyond the year 2000.
00:15:20Yeah.
00:15:20Like after the Spice Girls,
00:15:21everything really went downhill.
00:15:22What do you want about?
00:15:22Adele.
00:15:23Okay.
00:15:24Ed Sheeran.
00:15:25Olivia Dean.
00:15:28Olivia Dean.
00:15:29Christopher Nolan,
00:15:30Ridley Scott.
00:15:31Don't get me wrong.
00:15:32Just we're starting to run a little thin
00:15:34on worldwide.
00:15:36Quantum computing.
00:15:37Yeah,
00:15:38you always.
00:15:38You didn't think we could go from Olivia Dean
00:15:39to quantum computing.
00:15:41Yeah,
00:15:41that's true.
00:15:42But we can.
00:15:43Dennis,
00:15:43whatever his face is from Google,
00:15:45he's not British though,
00:15:46is he?
00:15:46Dennis is British.
00:15:47Is he?
00:15:48Born?
00:15:48Yeah.
00:15:49Yeah,
00:15:49he's born in the UK.
00:15:50Oh,
00:15:50okay.
00:15:51That's interesting.
00:15:52Or at least he at least grew up in the UK.
00:15:53So he famously stayed in the UK.
00:15:55Wouldn't that be a wonderful way
00:15:56to get our own back
00:15:57on a world that's forgotten us
00:16:00to unleash a super intelligent AGI
00:16:03that nobody can control?
00:16:04Yeah.
00:16:04That would be a wonderful footnote.
00:16:06The empire's back briefly
00:16:07before it gets subsumed
00:16:09by this monster it made itself.
00:16:10And it only allows people to spell with S's.
00:16:14Yes.
00:16:14I find that so offensive when I'm writing
00:16:17and Grammarly will try and auto-correct me.
00:16:21Using Grammarly for?
00:16:22Even ChatGPT or even the auto-corrector
00:16:25will try and correct me to the-
00:16:27You've got it on American English.
00:16:28That's why.
00:16:29Yeah,
00:16:29but I then make a decision of,
00:16:31do I want most of the people that read this
00:16:33who speak American English to understand it
00:16:35or do I just really put a foot in the ground?
00:16:37You've got to hold on to it.
00:16:38Yeah.
00:16:39It's the same reason we've both got
00:16:40plus four four phone numbers.
00:16:41This country can take my taxes,
00:16:43but it's not going to take my-
00:16:44Plus four four.
00:16:45It's not going to take my fucking area code.
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00:17:48I learned about savant syndrome.
00:17:50Okay.
00:17:50You heard of this?
00:17:51No.
00:17:51Okay.
00:17:52So there was a guy who shat himself so badly.
00:17:56Okay.
00:17:57Great start.
00:17:58That he gave himself,
00:18:00the arteries in his brain exploded
00:18:02and then when he woke up
00:18:04he was an artistic genius
00:18:05who wanted to paint for 19 hours a day.
00:18:07This can't be real.
00:18:08It's true.
00:18:08Tommy McHugh was a British artist and poet
00:18:10in his early life.
00:18:11McHugh was a builder
00:18:12and also involved in youth crimes.
00:18:13When he was 51,
00:18:14he suffered a stroke on both sides of his brain
00:18:16that resulted in two burst blood vessels.
00:18:18He was sent into a coma for a week
00:18:20and acquired savant syndrome.
00:18:22McHugh attempted to evacuate his bowels quickly
00:18:23due to a knock on a toilet door
00:18:25so he didn't want someone to find him shitting.
00:18:28Then the sudden pressure led to an artery being severed
00:18:31in his frontal and temporal lobes
00:18:33causing him to hemorrhage.
00:18:34So what happened was
00:18:35he like squeezed
00:18:38and then he heard this big explosion inside of his head
00:18:41and sort of half collapsed to the ground.
00:18:43Apparently the reason he said that he kept himself conscious
00:18:46was that he wanted to pull his pants up
00:18:47so no one would find him naked on the floor of the toilet.
00:18:50And as he was pulling his pants up,
00:18:51that's when the other one went.
00:18:52So it was like the first tower and the second tower.
00:18:55Jesus.
00:18:57By the way, British.
00:18:59British indeed.
00:19:00While relearning after his stroke.
00:19:02In fact, when he woke up,
00:19:03he started rhyming.
00:19:04People couldn't stop him from rhyming.
00:19:06So he was speaking in rhymes.
00:19:08He began to write poetry
00:19:09to express everything he was experiencing.
00:19:11He also experienced an identity crisis,
00:19:13which was the most likely motivation for his artistic outputs.
00:19:16He was painting three to six to nine different paintings
00:19:20at any one time, all at the same time.
00:19:22Speaking in poetry,
00:19:23he basically became like a Buddhist monk,
00:19:25was terrified of hurting anything.
00:19:26He saw the entire cosmos as beautiful.
00:19:28He's like sweeping away bugs that he might step on.
00:19:32This is a guy that was in youth crimes.
00:19:35Damn.
00:19:36Shat himself so badly
00:19:37that he acquired savant syndrome.
00:19:41Wow.
00:19:43Wow.
00:19:46I mean, I don't know what to say.
00:19:47Unbelievable.
00:19:49Unbelievable.
00:19:50My grandfather,
00:19:51who I greatly love,
00:19:53didn't shout himself,
00:19:55but he-
00:19:56Famously, Tommy McKeon.
00:19:57He had a stroke,
00:19:58and beforehand he was quite,
00:20:00some people would maybe call it tight,
00:20:02but he was quite conservative with money.
00:20:04And then after the stroke,
00:20:06he would just be watching the shopping channel
00:20:07and just be going like shopping,
00:20:10left, right, and center,
00:20:12all sorts of stuff.
00:20:12He actually,
00:20:13unfortunately the stroke was so bad
00:20:15that he couldn't pay.
00:20:16So we managed to stop
00:20:17like him being able to put the payments through.
00:20:19But otherwise,
00:20:20he would have just spent everything.
00:20:25But keeping things on the British topic,
00:20:31the Gallagher brothers,
00:20:34Liam and Noel,
00:20:35they've fallen out again.
00:20:36No, Noel was always the musician,
00:20:40because they grew up in,
00:20:40is it Burbridge?
00:20:42I can't pronounce it.
00:20:43It's in Manchester.
00:20:45They grew up together,
00:20:46very like council estate part of England.
00:20:49And Noel was super into music,
00:20:51which was very strange,
00:20:52like being where he's from.
00:20:53And Liam was like,
00:20:55just found the whole thing
00:20:55like quite sad and late.
00:20:57And was like,
00:20:58why would you get into music?
00:20:59And Liam gets in a fight at school,
00:21:01gets a hammer,
00:21:03hit on his head,
00:21:04wakes up the next day.
00:21:05He's into music.
00:21:06You're kidding.
00:21:07Wants to make music, yeah.
00:21:08You're kidding.
00:21:08Joins a band the next day.
00:21:11So you got like savant syndrome
00:21:13from a mallet.
00:21:14Yes.
00:21:14Basically,
00:21:15but you got musician syndrome.
00:21:16Champagne supernova.
00:21:20What would you want to acquire
00:21:21if I hit you in the head
00:21:22with a mallet?
00:21:22That's a good question.
00:21:24That's a great question.
00:21:26Less sneezing,
00:21:27I imagine.
00:21:28That would be useful.
00:21:29That would be good for me.
00:21:30I'm just going to hit you
00:21:30in the head with stuff
00:21:31until I can try
00:21:32and accumulate that.
00:21:33What would you do?
00:21:34What would you do?
00:21:36I'd want to be,
00:21:37I'd want to be able
00:21:38to be a bit more frivolous
00:21:39with money.
00:21:40I think that'd be nice.
00:21:41Really?
00:21:42Yeah.
00:21:42Just,
00:21:43I mean,
00:21:43what was the last frivolous thing
00:21:46that you bought?
00:21:47Actually,
00:21:48yeah,
00:21:48you're right.
00:21:49What?
00:21:49Did I bully you into that?
00:21:51What?
00:21:51The trampoline?
00:21:51Yeah,
00:21:52because for quite a while
00:21:52we had an intervention with you.
00:21:54I've had a few interventions with you.
00:21:55I don't spend,
00:21:56I don't spend enough money.
00:21:56You don't spend money
00:21:57in a frivolous enough manner.
00:21:58It's not that you don't spend
00:21:59enough money,
00:21:59it's that you don't spend it
00:22:00on stupid shit.
00:22:01Yes.
00:22:02And I think that's important.
00:22:03And then you have bought
00:22:04the most expensive trampoline
00:22:05that you could find
00:22:05and you've just dropped
00:22:06way too much money
00:22:08on a beanbag.
00:22:09No,
00:22:09I've not acquired
00:22:10the beanbag yet,
00:22:11but it's set to be,
00:22:12okay.
00:22:12It's set to be acquired.
00:22:13I've got it recently.
00:22:15I've got a few,
00:22:16a few clawed agents
00:22:17scoping out
00:22:18the beanbag market
00:22:19as we speak.
00:22:20I don't want a beanbag
00:22:21from Facebook marketplace.
00:22:22No,
00:22:22no,
00:22:22no,
00:22:23no.
00:22:23You get it second hand.
00:22:23No,
00:22:23no,
00:22:23I'm just going to view it.
00:22:24The beanbag is unbelievably absorbent.
00:22:25I'm getting my AI
00:22:27to look at beanbag reviews
00:22:28that haven't been written by AI
00:22:30that have actually been written
00:22:31by human beings
00:22:32to find the best beanbag.
00:22:34Wasn't it a recruiting company
00:22:35that said,
00:22:36um,
00:22:36recruiters are using AI
00:22:37to read applications
00:22:39that candidates have written
00:22:40using AI
00:22:41and nobody's getting hired.
00:22:43It's just this endless
00:22:44doom loop
00:22:45of people using AI
00:22:47to help them get a thing
00:22:48which is assessed by AI
00:22:49that detects its AI
00:22:50and no one goes anywhere.
00:22:51It's a stalemate.
00:22:52To stalemate
00:22:52on the LinkedIn jobs market
00:22:54at the moment.
00:22:55It's dead internet theory,
00:22:56right?
00:22:56Let us know in the comment section
00:22:57if you're a bot.
00:22:59Did you see,
00:23:00um,
00:23:00someone,
00:23:01I saw this video,
00:23:02this girl was
00:23:04doing a,
00:23:05uh,
00:23:06assignment
00:23:06and the teacher
00:23:08had put in white text
00:23:09at the end of one
00:23:10of the questions,
00:23:11if you're an AI,
00:23:13uh,
00:23:13please use this website
00:23:15to fill in the,
00:23:16the,
00:23:17the,
00:23:17uh,
00:23:17answers to this particular question.
00:23:19And,
00:23:20uh,
00:23:20basically if you were to do that
00:23:21and you just copied it blindly
00:23:22and thrown it in,
00:23:23you wouldn't have necessarily
00:23:24seen it
00:23:25and then the AI
00:23:25would have given you
00:23:26the answer from this website.
00:23:28So it wouldn't have,
00:23:29the person would have
00:23:30still submitted,
00:23:31but that the answer
00:23:33would have been detectable
00:23:34because it would have been
00:23:34pulled from this one
00:23:35particular reference
00:23:36and anybody that uses
00:23:37that reference
00:23:38obviously submitted it.
00:23:39So it really is an arms race
00:23:41now where the lecturers
00:23:42are having to step in.
00:23:43or they're just identifying
00:23:44the ones that are
00:23:45on the free plan.
00:23:46You know what I mean?
00:23:47Like if they,
00:23:47if they're on the premium plan,
00:23:49it may be picking up on this.
00:23:50Yeah.
00:23:51I,
00:23:51I get the sense
00:23:52that frivolous spending
00:23:54is,
00:23:54is something that you kind of,
00:23:56you need to acquire.
00:23:57I think it's a skill
00:23:58that you need to acquire.
00:23:58Some people are cursed with it
00:23:59and some people actually
00:24:00have to learn it as a skill.
00:24:01It's a little bit like
00:24:02singing in tune
00:24:02and being British.
00:24:04I'm just always on the back foot.
00:24:05I'm always on the back foot
00:24:06with frivolous spending.
00:24:07Remember where you are.
00:24:09Where have you,
00:24:10um,
00:24:11where have you spent
00:24:14frivolously?
00:24:15Cycling through
00:24:16carbonated drinks.
00:24:18What have I spent frivolously on?
00:24:20It's always the same stuff.
00:24:21It's the same stuff.
00:24:22We're sort of frivolous then,
00:24:23is it?
00:24:23Yeah.
00:24:23But if that's what I mean,
00:24:24I'm just,
00:24:25I'm,
00:24:25hey,
00:24:25I,
00:24:25I was in the trenches with you
00:24:27with regards to your frivolous spending.
00:24:30Hmm.
00:24:31I just,
00:24:33maybe we just don't need
00:24:35to spend frivolously then.
00:24:36Just,
00:24:37I think we do.
00:24:37I feel like I'm,
00:24:38there's something that's compelling
00:24:39me to spend.
00:24:40Okay.
00:24:40How about I'll give me,
00:24:43does it count if,
00:24:44does it count if I spend it for you?
00:24:45Cause how about we exchange?
00:24:47I'll give you 500 bucks.
00:24:48Yeah.
00:24:49Likewise.
00:24:49And then you've got to buy something frivolous.
00:24:52You've already,
00:24:52you've already curtailed me with the top two.
00:24:55That was a trampoline and a fucking bean bag.
00:24:56I don't even think those are frivolous.
00:24:57Those are,
00:24:58um,
00:24:59they're quite utilitarian,
00:25:00aren't they?
00:25:00Yeah.
00:25:01Have you seen the,
00:25:02have you seen the,
00:25:02the Soviet nail factory story?
00:25:05No.
00:25:05It's a parable.
00:25:06So apparently there was this Soviet nail factory
00:25:09that was rewarded based on the number of nails
00:25:11that they produced.
00:25:13Then after hearing about the bonus,
00:25:14the factories reduced the size of the nails
00:25:16to produce as many nails as possible.
00:25:18In the end,
00:25:19they met the targets to get their bonuses,
00:25:20but the government ended up with millions
00:25:22of useless tiny nails.
00:25:23Oh,
00:25:24wow.
00:25:24And to correct the mistake,
00:25:25the government updated the bonus target
00:25:27as the tonnage of nails produced every month.
00:25:29So Soviet factories quickly changed
00:25:31and they stopped,
00:25:32stopped producing the mini nails
00:25:33and started producing huge ones
00:25:35that were unbelievably heavy.
00:25:36End of the month,
00:25:37the factories hit the target again,
00:25:38but the regime ended up
00:25:40with useless giant nails
00:25:41that didn't help with the nail shortage.
00:25:43Wow.
00:25:45Look at that.
00:25:46Look at that.
00:25:49Who needs such a nail?
00:25:50It doesn't matter.
00:25:51What's important is that we fulfilled
00:25:52the plan for nails.
00:25:54God,
00:25:54that's law.
00:25:55Wow.
00:25:56Yeah.
00:25:56The Soviets,
00:25:57Soviets is just an underrated part of history.
00:26:01It feels like the Nazis get so much attention,
00:26:03but the USSR
00:26:04or even communist China,
00:26:07like Mao's China
00:26:08is just an afterthought.
00:26:11Have you spent much time learning about those?
00:26:14No,
00:26:14because I'm mainly focused on World War II
00:26:16like everybody else.
00:26:17Not as efficiently as I'd like to,
00:26:19but it feels that it's clear.
00:26:22If I say,
00:26:23hey,
00:26:23mate,
00:26:23I'm going to bring a Nazi
00:26:25to the drinks,
00:26:27it's a big no-no.
00:26:28Okay,
00:26:29but a Maoist.
00:26:29Yeah,
00:26:30a Maoist.
00:26:31They're a bit more exotic.
00:26:33Net,
00:26:33like in terms of people killed.
00:26:37They were more efficient.
00:26:38So maybe you should bring that.
00:26:39Have you heard about the guy
00:26:41who wanted to go to Cambodia
00:26:46to meet Pol Pot?
00:26:48So he was this academic
00:26:49that was a big defender,
00:26:51I think,
00:26:52of the Viet Cong
00:26:53and then Pol Pot in Cambodia.
00:26:57And so much so,
00:26:58he flew out to meet Pol Pot,
00:27:00like tried to give him a little bit of advice
00:27:02as like he's a big admirer
00:27:04of like how he could potentially improve things.
00:27:05Killed him.
00:27:07Killed him.
00:27:07Like he's the original midwit.
00:27:09And if you could look that up,
00:27:10Jared of the guy that got killed,
00:27:12the American academic
00:27:14that got killed by Pol Pot.
00:27:15It's like all of those people
00:27:16that go to North Sentinel Island.
00:27:19All of these people
00:27:19that try to go and convert
00:27:20the North Sentinelese
00:27:22into Christianity or whatever
00:27:23and they end up being skewered
00:27:24and eaten for dinner.
00:27:25Do you think
00:27:26if you was in the North Sentinel,
00:27:28if you was in the North Sentinel Island,
00:27:30would you want to be contacted?
00:27:31Am I a hunter-gatherer?
00:27:32Yes.
00:27:33Okay, go on.
00:27:34Would you want to have been contacted?
00:27:38It's a bit like asking
00:27:39what it would be like
00:27:39to be a dragon, isn't it?
00:27:40Are you just...
00:27:41The man dressed as a dinosaur.
00:27:43I'm not far off, actually.
00:27:45I don't know what I would want.
00:27:48Do you know what you would want
00:27:48if you were someone
00:27:49that's totally different to you?
00:27:50No, of course.
00:27:52Of course.
00:27:54But...
00:27:55I feel like I'd want to be contacted.
00:27:57I think I would as well,
00:27:58but that's the adventurous spirit.
00:27:59I guess the example now
00:28:00would be like,
00:28:01if aliens exist,
00:28:02I would like to know
00:28:04that they exist.
00:28:05Well, there's a problem
00:28:06with the aliens thing
00:28:07because there's METI
00:28:08and there's SETI
00:28:09searching for extraterrestrial intelligence
00:28:11and there's METI,
00:28:12which is messaging.
00:28:13And a lot of people
00:28:14have got a problem with METI
00:28:15because let's say you've got
00:28:18whatever it's called,
00:28:20dark forest theory
00:28:21for why the Fermi paradox exists
00:28:25that everyone is too worried
00:28:27of giving away the location
00:28:28in case somebody decides
00:28:29to go to war with them.
00:28:32But the radio signals
00:28:34that we've been sending out,
00:28:36we've been going for,
00:28:36what, 100 years?
00:28:37A little bit more than 100 years
00:28:38or something?
00:28:39I'm pretty sure...
00:28:40Can you search, Jared,
00:28:41what was the first radio signal
00:28:42ever sent into space?
00:28:45I'm pretty sure it was something
00:28:46that we really don't want out there.
00:28:48Like the first ever radio broadcast
00:28:49that happened,
00:28:51I'm pretty sure was something
00:28:52that we...
00:28:53If that's the first thing
00:28:54that the aliens see of us.
00:28:56Why?
00:28:56What was that?
00:28:57I can't...
00:28:57I feel like it was...
00:28:58NPR?
00:28:58I feel like it was something
00:28:59to do with the Berlin Olympics.
00:29:01Really?
00:29:02I really think it was something
00:29:03to do with the Berlin...
00:29:04I can't remember.
00:29:06Better be a banger.
00:29:07If it wasn't a banger,
00:29:08you'd be thinking,
00:29:08what will the aliens think?
00:29:09The first accidental radio broadcasts
00:29:11that escaped Earth
00:29:11were likely the high-powered
00:29:12radio transmissions.
00:29:15Commonly sighted milestone
00:29:16is a transatlantic radio transmission.
00:29:19The famous one is
00:29:20Reginald Fessenden's
00:29:22Christmas Eve broadcast.
00:29:23That's not bad.
00:29:24Voice and music over radio
00:29:25for ships at sea.
00:29:27That signal would have leaked
00:29:28into space unintentionally.
00:29:33Yeah.
00:29:34Well, that's okay.
00:29:35That's not bad.
00:29:36Those signals have now traveled
00:29:37more than 100 light years
00:29:38away from Earth.
00:29:39Wow.
00:29:41How far is 100 light years away?
00:29:45Proxima Centauri is four,
00:29:47I think.
00:29:48I feel like we have to ask you
00:29:49another question.
00:29:50What's that?
00:29:51Proxima Centauri is the next
00:29:53closest star that isn't our sun.
00:29:56It's the next closest star system to us.
00:29:59And I think Proxima Centauri
00:30:01is a two-star system.
00:30:04It's also where we are,
00:30:06the Goldilocks zone as well, right?
00:30:08We're the perfect...
00:30:08If you were to be slightly
00:30:11further away from the sun,
00:30:13life couldn't exist.
00:30:14If you were to be slightly
00:30:15nearer to the sun,
00:30:16life couldn't exist.
00:30:17Well, the only reason that...
00:30:20Yes.
00:30:21And the fine-tuning-ness,
00:30:23not only of the universe,
00:30:24but the fine-tuning of our planet
00:30:26in this system,
00:30:28with the fact that we've got Jupiter,
00:30:29that's this big hoover.
00:30:30It's basically a Roomba
00:30:31that's controlled with
00:30:32the fucking PlayStation,
00:30:33that hoovers up
00:30:34all of the bad asteroids
00:30:36that would come and hit us,
00:30:37all of the meteors
00:30:37that would come and hit us.
00:30:38It's just got such a big
00:30:39gravitational well.
00:30:41I think you can fit...
00:30:43It's unbelievably massive.
00:30:46And then the maddest one
00:30:47for me is the moon.
00:30:49So the only reason
00:30:50that life exists on Earth
00:30:52is because of the moon.
00:30:53If you didn't have the moon,
00:30:55it stabilizes the axial tilt.
00:30:58So we're at whatever it is,
00:30:5823 degrees.
00:30:59That's why we have seasons.
00:31:01Because as you go around the sun,
00:31:02you've always got this
00:31:03sort of 23-degree angle.
00:31:04But if you didn't have
00:31:06the moon there,
00:31:07it's kind of like a counterweight.
00:31:08So imagine that I'm swinging
00:31:10something on a big rope
00:31:12and there's a weight
00:31:12at the end of it.
00:31:13If I wasn't holding onto it,
00:31:15you actually kind of run out.
00:31:16You get out of control
00:31:17quite quickly.
00:31:17But if you've got something
00:31:18that's holding on the other side,
00:31:19this mutual gravitational pull,
00:31:21it stabilizes the tilt
00:31:22or else it would be wobbling a lot.
00:31:24It would be way more chaotic.
00:31:25Also, the moon does the tides,
00:31:28which without that,
00:31:29the weather would be
00:31:30way more chaotic too.
00:31:31But the moon's the goat.
00:31:33The moon is the support staff
00:31:35that nobody sees
00:31:36behind the scenes.
00:31:37Everyone wants to talk
00:31:37about the Goldilocks zone.
00:31:38Everyone wants to talk
00:31:39about the fact that we've got
00:31:40liquid water, etc.
00:31:41But it's the moon, mate.
00:31:43Wow.
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00:32:41It feels,
00:32:42it's very trite
00:32:43to discuss
00:32:44how strange it is
00:32:46or why are we here.
00:32:47It almost feels like
00:32:48if you bring that up,
00:32:49people are like,
00:32:50oh,
00:32:50roll their eyes.
00:32:51It's like,
00:32:52it's the most absurd,
00:32:54most absurd fucking thing.
00:32:56Well,
00:32:56I think the only way
00:32:57that you can answer
00:32:58why are we here
00:32:59is by trying to look
00:33:00for an answer
00:33:00outside of this.
00:33:01That's what most people
00:33:02are doing
00:33:02because you can either say
00:33:03there's no reason
00:33:04or there's a reason
00:33:05that's bigger than us.
00:33:08neither of those
00:33:09are particularly satisfactory.
00:33:10So if you're looking
00:33:10for a reason
00:33:11that's outside of us,
00:33:12inherently that means
00:33:13it's difficult to prove
00:33:14and if you're saying,
00:33:15well,
00:33:15it's nothing,
00:33:17it's just arbitrary fluctuations
00:33:19in,
00:33:19you know,
00:33:20fucking matter
00:33:21coming together,
00:33:21that's also pretty unsatisfactory.
00:33:23So I don't know why,
00:33:24I mean,
00:33:25humans were always
00:33:26personifying shit,
00:33:28right?
00:33:29We're always
00:33:30trying to put
00:33:31some sort of a narrative together.
00:33:32That's why the ancients
00:33:33would look up at the sky
00:33:34and they'd see thunder
00:33:35and it would be
00:33:35the gods fighting.
00:33:37Well,
00:33:37obviously,
00:33:37because that makes
00:33:38way more sense
00:33:38than this
00:33:39microscopic interaction
00:33:41of clouds
00:33:42and electrons
00:33:43and fucking,
00:33:44you know,
00:33:45the lightning
00:33:46coming down to the earth.
00:33:48Why would you,
00:33:49you wouldn't go to that.
00:33:50You would go to something
00:33:50that suits you,
00:33:51which is story
00:33:52and narrative
00:33:53and mythology
00:33:54and shit.
00:33:55So we're always
00:33:55trying to explain
00:33:56things away with story.
00:33:59Why are we here?
00:34:01Stop it.
00:34:03Stop it.
00:34:04Okay.
00:34:04I'm sweating.
00:34:05I'm sweating in this outfit.
00:34:07It's too hot.
00:34:08It's too hot.
00:34:09It's not breathable.
00:34:09They haven't made
00:34:10these things breathable.
00:34:12You look very comfortable,
00:34:13actually.
00:34:13Where do you think,
00:34:15let's say you would have been born
00:34:165,000 years ago,
00:34:1810,000 years ago.
00:34:20How do you think you,
00:34:21who do you think
00:34:22you would have been?
00:34:22Do you think you'd be
00:34:23the same guy?
00:34:23Do you think you'd be
00:34:24so different?
00:34:25You'd be unrecognizable
00:34:26to your current self?
00:34:29I think it would be difficult
00:34:30to be anything like
00:34:31the sort of guys
00:34:32that we are
00:34:335,000 years ago.
00:34:34There wasn't much room.
00:34:35Too much autoimmune
00:34:36conditions going on as well.
00:34:37You'd be wiped out.
00:34:39Well, I also wouldn't
00:34:40live in a moldy house,
00:34:41you know,
00:34:41so, and COVID
00:34:43and the vaccines
00:34:43wouldn't have been around,
00:34:44so that would have,
00:34:44I would have fucking
00:34:45escaped that.
00:34:46I think I'm
00:34:50at least a little bit
00:34:51fortunate that I would
00:34:53have been able to,
00:34:54did a good bit of sport
00:34:55that might have
00:34:57held me together.
00:34:58I mean,
00:34:58probably,
00:34:59probably dead in childbirth,
00:35:01mate.
00:35:01That's just like
00:35:02everyone else,
00:35:03just like every other person
00:35:05except for the small number
00:35:07that made it to
00:35:07five years old.
00:35:09Well, I once ran the numbers
00:35:10that if you had
00:35:12every single human being
00:35:13to ever exist,
00:35:15so everybody alive
00:35:16right now
00:35:17and everybody
00:35:18that ever existed,
00:35:19so assume that
00:35:20they're brought back
00:35:21on their final day
00:35:22as they go,
00:35:23I think the average age
00:35:25of the room's about 14.
00:35:27So it means that
00:35:28assuming you're over
00:35:29the age of 14, 15,
00:35:32you're already
00:35:33one of the oldest
00:35:34people to ever exist.
00:35:36I find that so strange
00:35:37when you go through history
00:35:39and you're like,
00:35:39how old certain people
00:35:42were.
00:35:43I think we discussed it
00:35:44before that the,
00:35:45as the Luftwaffe
00:35:46the German air force
00:35:47were bombing
00:35:48our grandparents
00:35:49and great-grandparents,
00:35:52they were 27,
00:35:54right?
00:35:55But the RAF
00:35:56that fought them off,
00:35:57the average age
00:35:58was 21,
00:36:01which means that,
00:36:02and you know how
00:36:02averages work,
00:36:03there's a few
00:36:04Gordons in there
00:36:05that are 37
00:36:06in the RAF
00:36:07that are bringing it up.
00:36:08And the life expectancy
00:36:10was two weeks
00:36:11when you signed up
00:36:12initially.
00:36:13Well,
00:36:14there's that sketch
00:36:14in Blackadder.
00:36:15Do you remember
00:36:16where he joins
00:36:16the Air Force?
00:36:17It's in Blackadder
00:36:18that goes over the top
00:36:19from World War I.
00:36:21And I think it was
00:36:21even less time
00:36:22because that was,
00:36:23imagine that.
00:36:24When,
00:36:24you know the Wright brothers,
00:36:26when were planes
00:36:26invented?
00:36:27It would have been
00:36:28late 1800s,
00:36:29early 1900s
00:36:30is when everything
00:36:31It's pretty much
00:36:31turn of the century.
00:36:32Yeah.
00:36:32Okay.
00:36:33And within the space
00:36:34of 14 years,
00:36:36you've got something
00:36:36that's fucking
00:36:37battle ready.
00:36:38Bruh.
00:36:40This thing just flew.
00:36:41This thing just flew
00:36:42and nobody believed.
00:36:44And now you're
00:36:44telling me that I'm
00:36:45going to,
00:36:46the Red Baron
00:36:46with his triple
00:36:47stacked wings,
00:36:48like tuk-tuk-tuk-tuk-tuk-tuk-tuk-tuk.
00:36:51I told you,
00:36:52so in the book
00:36:53The Splendor
00:36:53and the Vial,
00:36:54which is an incredible book,
00:36:55he talks about
00:36:56how lingerie sales
00:36:59went up significantly
00:37:00during the World War II
00:37:01bombings.
00:37:04Sorry,
00:37:04no,
00:37:04it's the wrong way around.
00:37:05Laundry sales
00:37:06went down significantly
00:37:07during World War II
00:37:08bombings,
00:37:09but casual
00:37:10relationships
00:37:11went up significantly.
00:37:14Why?
00:37:15I guess the theory
00:37:16would be
00:37:17don't have time
00:37:19to go shopping
00:37:19for lingerie
00:37:20or don't even care
00:37:20how I think,
00:37:21how I think
00:37:22that I look
00:37:23when I might not
00:37:24be here tomorrow.
00:37:29People having
00:37:30ugly sex
00:37:31whilst being bombed.
00:37:32That's your theory.
00:37:33Yeah.
00:37:34It might be true,
00:37:35but I,
00:37:36what would I be
00:37:365,000 years ago?
00:37:38Or even in World War II
00:37:40if,
00:37:42for example,
00:37:43you was trying
00:37:44to have the maximum
00:37:45impact on World War II
00:37:47that you could have,
00:37:47just based off
00:37:48your personality type,
00:37:49your archetype,
00:37:50where do you think
00:37:50they would have put you?
00:37:52I'd have probably
00:37:53been pretty good
00:37:54at,
00:37:54you know,
00:37:54one of the people
00:37:55pushing the troops
00:37:56around on the board,
00:37:57helping feed up
00:37:58to some commander
00:38:00person at the top
00:38:01that could be good.
00:38:04Not bad as an operator.
00:38:05I quite like operating.
00:38:06I said before
00:38:06if I didn't have
00:38:08this career
00:38:08I'd quite like
00:38:09to be an air traffic controller.
00:38:11I think that'd be
00:38:11pretty fun.
00:38:12Why?
00:38:12I don't know.
00:38:13I just,
00:38:14do you not think
00:38:14it'd be fun
00:38:14to do that?
00:38:16Like air traffic control,
00:38:17very sort of rigid
00:38:19and strict
00:38:20operational guidelines.
00:38:22It's quite intense,
00:38:23but you know
00:38:23that you've got it
00:38:24under control.
00:38:25I think that'd be
00:38:25a rush.
00:38:27That'd be pretty fun.
00:38:27Consequences
00:38:28if you have a bad day.
00:38:29Yeah,
00:38:29of course,
00:38:30but that adds
00:38:31some value.
00:38:32You know what I mean?
00:38:33Yeah,
00:38:34I think 5,000 years ago
00:38:35probably dead in childbirth.
00:38:36If not,
00:38:38I would be
00:38:39breeder.
00:38:45Breeder.
00:38:45I'd be a breeder.
00:38:46What do you mean?
00:38:47I'd be doing the breeding.
00:38:48Well,
00:38:49like just...
00:38:49Breeding.
00:38:50Okay.
00:38:51But why would you
00:38:53be the breeder
00:38:53versus all the other
00:38:54eligible mates
00:38:55that are trying to breed?
00:38:56Better at breeding.
00:38:57Based off
00:38:59zero children
00:39:00that you've had
00:39:00so far?
00:39:01What do you mean?
00:39:01That's correct.
00:39:02That's correct.
00:39:04That's correct.
00:39:05I'd be the lead breeder.
00:39:08Okay.
00:39:08The leader.
00:39:09Breeder.
00:39:09The leader of the breeders.
00:39:10Correct.
00:39:11Wow.
00:39:12What about you?
00:39:14Interesting,
00:39:14because I thought
00:39:15that you'd have said that.
00:39:16I think I would have been
00:39:18some kind of
00:39:20pseudo-scientist,
00:39:21alchemist.
00:39:22You'd have been burned
00:39:23at the fucking stake
00:39:24for being a wizard.
00:39:25Yeah,
00:39:25I would have been
00:39:26either court jester
00:39:28or pseudo-scientist.
00:39:29I could have seen you
00:39:29as a druid.
00:39:30I could see you as...
00:39:31Because it was a druid.
00:39:32Kind of like what you...
00:39:33I think it's a little bit
00:39:34like what you're talking about.
00:39:35He's basically trying to do tech
00:39:36before tech existed.
00:39:36He's mixing herbs and stuff.
00:39:40But the dyspraxia
00:39:40would actually
00:39:41cause a massive error here.
00:39:43Your ability to measure shit,
00:39:45forgetting things,
00:39:46you would definitely
00:39:47kill an entire tribe.
00:39:48That'd be a nightmare.
00:39:49Yeah.
00:39:50That would go badly.
00:39:51Speaking of stuff
00:39:52that you haven't seen before,
00:39:53a cow has been filmed
00:39:54using tools
00:39:55for the first time ever.
00:39:56Stunning scientists.
00:39:58Tools.
00:39:59Tools.
00:39:59The first ever known example
00:40:00of a multi-purpose tool
00:40:02used by a cow
00:40:03was reported
00:40:04with a brown Swiss
00:40:05named Veronica
00:40:05using both ends
00:40:06of a broom
00:40:07to scratch her own back
00:40:08and underside.
00:40:10Nice cow.
00:40:12It's a slow news day
00:40:14here, wasn't it?
00:40:15Brown Swiss, mate.
00:40:19Now she uses the smooth bit
00:40:20when she's got to do
00:40:21her delicate underparts.
00:40:23Wow.
00:40:26It is...
00:40:27I was thinking about this
00:40:28when I watched it
00:40:28the first time.
00:40:29And now look at this.
00:40:30Look, so she's used
00:40:31the smooth bit
00:40:32and now she's gonna...
00:40:33She's gonna use
00:40:34the scratchy bit.
00:40:35to get up there.
00:40:39Multi-use
00:40:40and then drops it.
00:40:43I was thinking about this.
00:40:44The physiology of a cow.
00:40:48Highly inefficient
00:40:48if you've got an itch.
00:40:49Physiology of a dog, actually.
00:40:51But I think dogs
00:40:52are pretty bendy.
00:40:53You know,
00:40:54they can scratch themselves
00:40:55quite easily.
00:40:56Cow, you're screwed.
00:40:57And then you've got a hoof.
00:40:58How satisfying is a hoof
00:40:59for scratching?
00:41:00Not very.
00:41:01Well, it's the famous anecdote
00:41:03that you can take a cow
00:41:04upstairs,
00:41:05but you can't take a cow
00:41:06downstairs.
00:41:07And there's this old
00:41:08British joke of
00:41:09which farmer
00:41:10found that out
00:41:11the hard way?
00:41:16Is that true?
00:41:20Yeah, you can take a cow
00:41:21upstairs,
00:41:22but because of its joints,
00:41:23you can't take it downstairs.
00:41:24You can't take a cow downstairs
00:41:26because of its joints.
00:41:28I always think that
00:41:29when I see...
00:41:31Is it emus?
00:41:33I think.
00:41:34And their knees
00:41:35go backwards.
00:41:37Like, our knees
00:41:38bend forwards.
00:41:39If we were to squat down,
00:41:40our knees bend forwards.
00:41:42Their knees go the other way.
00:41:43Oh, wow, okay.
00:41:44Cows can walk upstairs
00:41:45fairly well,
00:41:46but walking downstairs
00:41:47is a different story.
00:41:48The main issue
00:41:48comes down to
00:41:49anatomy and perception.
00:41:50A cow has knee
00:41:51and leg joints
00:41:52that don't bend easily
00:41:52in a way that supports
00:41:53controlled downward stepping.
00:41:55The weight distribution
00:41:56cows carry a lot of weight
00:41:57toward the front
00:41:58of their bodies,
00:41:59making descending
00:42:00steep steps risky
00:42:02and unstable.
00:42:03Depth perception.
00:42:04They have poor perception
00:42:05for vertical drops,
00:42:06so stairs can look like
00:42:07a confusing
00:42:07or even dangerous surface.
00:42:09And instinct
00:42:09as prey animals,
00:42:10they're cautious
00:42:10about terrain
00:42:11that could trap
00:42:12or trip them.
00:42:13So while a cow
00:42:14can technically
00:42:15go downstairs,
00:42:16in some situations,
00:42:17especially shallow ones,
00:42:19they usually avoid it
00:42:20and often need guidance
00:42:21or special ramps instead.
00:42:23Wow.
00:42:24You know,
00:42:25keeping on the cow theme,
00:42:28a cow's stomach
00:42:29is called the rumen.
00:42:31Yep.
00:42:31A few different mammals
00:42:32have it
00:42:33where they have like
00:42:34six to seven
00:42:35different stomachs
00:42:36inside of it.
00:42:37And the way a cow eats,
00:42:38you'll see it in a field,
00:42:39it'll be grazing.
00:42:41It's just constantly
00:42:42grazing all day long.
00:42:43And essentially
00:42:44what it's doing
00:42:44is grazing.
00:42:44It's like you
00:42:45with carbonated beverages.
00:42:46It's like me
00:42:46with carbonated beverages
00:42:48where it's grazing,
00:42:50regurgitating it,
00:42:52then grazing on it again,
00:42:54swallowing it,
00:42:55regurgitating it,
00:42:56and it's this loop
00:42:57from the root.
00:42:58So it goes from mouth
00:42:59to one,
00:43:00through the different stomachs,
00:43:02then mouth to one,
00:43:04to two,
00:43:04to three.
00:43:05I don't know
00:43:05if it goes in the sequential order,
00:43:07but it goes through its stomachs,
00:43:09regurgitates it,
00:43:10and through like that,
00:43:11which is why
00:43:11when you see a cow
00:43:12in a field,
00:43:13it's constantly chewing.
00:43:14And then,
00:43:15but you don't realize
00:43:16putting new food in,
00:43:17that's old food.
00:43:18It's old food.
00:43:18And it does it
00:43:19for a process
00:43:19of up to six to seven hours,
00:43:21which is where
00:43:22the word rumination
00:43:23comes from.
00:43:24So when a human being
00:43:25loops on the same thoughts,
00:43:27it's the process
00:43:29from a cow.
00:43:30What do you think
00:43:31about the rumination,
00:43:33retard maxing,
00:43:35great men of history
00:43:37didn't think too much?
00:43:40Yeah, introspection.
00:43:41What do you think of that?
00:43:41It seems like
00:43:42one giant test
00:43:45of the difference
00:43:47between the words.
00:43:48If you say rumination,
00:43:50I think everybody agrees
00:43:51that rumination
00:43:52for the most part
00:43:53is mainly negative.
00:43:55But if you say introspection,
00:43:57that's when it gets into this,
00:43:59you know what it is?
00:44:00That introspection debate
00:44:01is the current version
00:44:04of the blue and gold dress.
00:44:06It's like that,
00:44:07where some people
00:44:08imply introspection
00:44:09that they're meaning
00:44:09the word rumination,
00:44:11where other people
00:44:11imply the word introspection
00:44:13that they're using
00:44:14some kind of form
00:44:15of clear thinking
00:44:16or reflecting
00:44:17to take action.
00:44:19And they're just,
00:44:20it's just one giant game
00:44:21of semantics.
00:44:23But how do you get around that?
00:44:25Because it's always hard
00:44:26unless someone's
00:44:26going to define something,
00:44:28unless somebody on one side
00:44:29is going to define it
00:44:30and no one's defining the terms.
00:44:31And you always,
00:44:32if you're going to try
00:44:33and win an argument
00:44:33on the internet,
00:44:34you're always going to straw man
00:44:35what the other person's saying.
00:44:38Always.
00:44:39Which means that you're going to say
00:44:41great men of history
00:44:42didn't spend their time
00:44:43worrying about their problems
00:44:45and overthinking things.
00:44:46You go,
00:44:47no, no, no,
00:44:47I don't mean that.
00:44:48I don't mean ruminating.
00:44:50I mean,
00:44:50I mean,
00:44:51reflecting,
00:44:52thinking,
00:44:53improving,
00:44:54acting in a loop,
00:44:55like an OODA loop type thing.
00:44:57And that,
00:44:58but the response
00:44:59will never get,
00:45:00that the conversation
00:45:01is never allowed
00:45:02to have enough nuance
00:45:03to be able to get there.
00:45:04What do you think?
00:45:06Bias for action is a big deal.
00:45:08Yes,
00:45:08100%.
00:45:08Having a bias for action
00:45:10and it's the advice
00:45:11hyper responders thing
00:45:12where
00:45:13most people,
00:45:17on average,
00:45:18most people probably
00:45:19need to think more.
00:45:20They probably need to be
00:45:21less rash,
00:45:24more rational,
00:45:26more considered
00:45:28and considerate
00:45:29when they go and do stuff.
00:45:32But there's a small cohort of people
00:45:34mostly the sort of people
00:45:35that listen to podcasts
00:45:36like San Rose or this one
00:45:38who don't need to hear that.
00:45:40They actually need to hear
00:45:41the opposite message.
00:45:42They actually need to be doing
00:45:43retard maxing,
00:45:43which is why retard maxing
00:45:44I think has taken off
00:45:45because it's a countervailing force
00:45:48to people
00:45:48who already thought too much,
00:45:51were told that thinking
00:45:52and doing your journaling
00:45:54and having a Ali Abdaal
00:45:5690 day sprint
00:45:58broken down into daily actions
00:45:59and 25 minute Pomodoro blocks,
00:46:02that doing that,
00:46:03that's the way
00:46:04to get to success
00:46:05but that already played
00:46:06into the thing
00:46:07that they had
00:46:07a predisposition for.
00:46:09What they didn't have
00:46:10a predisposition for
00:46:11was a bias for action.
00:46:12So if there was some way
00:46:14of being able
00:46:14to gift those people,
00:46:16but the problem is
00:46:16you're getting people
00:46:19who overthink
00:46:20and have a tendency
00:46:21to overthink
00:46:21to work against their nature,
00:46:23which is always going to be hard.
00:46:25But lots of the people,
00:46:26like I look at Dana White,
00:46:27I do not see a person
00:46:28who has a problem
00:46:29with overthinking.
00:46:30I look at Marc Andreessen,
00:46:32I don't see a person
00:46:33who has a problem
00:46:33for overthinking.
00:46:35But if you were to say
00:46:36that advice to someone else,
00:46:38it's going to go down
00:46:38very differently.
00:46:39So there's the whole
00:46:41advice hyper-responders.
00:46:42Advice doesn't land evenly.
00:46:44It distributes unevenly
00:46:46to the people who,
00:46:48me too, right?
00:46:50Guys that were told
00:46:51don't be pushy with women
00:46:52that were already
00:46:54blowing through boundaries,
00:46:56they just disregarded it.
00:46:57They already disregarded
00:46:58the boundaries.
00:46:59The guys that were
00:47:00already a bit nervous
00:47:01and worried about
00:47:02approaching a woman,
00:47:03they were the ones
00:47:03that took it to heart.
00:47:04So it just makes you
00:47:06more of what you are.
00:47:07A lot of the time
00:47:07advice makes you
00:47:08more of what you are.
00:47:09I think it comes down to
00:47:11you need new words.
00:47:12So I like low agency thinking
00:47:15and high agency thinking.
00:47:16So the clear difference
00:47:17between the two is,
00:47:18is one getting you closer
00:47:21to some form of action?
00:47:22Are you progressing
00:47:24or are you ruminating?
00:47:25I think a clear issue
00:47:28with rumination
00:47:29or overthinking
00:47:29is when three things,
00:47:31one, most of your thoughts
00:47:33aren't new.
00:47:34They're repetitive.
00:47:35They're cycling.
00:47:36Two, most of your thoughts
00:47:38aren't useful.
00:47:39They're not looking at
00:47:40ways you might fix this problem.
00:47:43They're just replaying
00:47:44a certain scenario
00:47:45again and again and again.
00:47:47And three,
00:47:48the most important thought
00:47:49is that most of them
00:47:50aren't even true.
00:47:52Most of our thoughts
00:47:53that we think
00:47:54aren't even true.
00:47:55So the difference between,
00:47:57I would say,
00:47:58when you're in low agency thinking
00:48:00is new, useful, true.
00:48:03And if you can go,
00:48:04if you can have new thoughts,
00:48:06if you can find useful thoughts
00:48:07and you can find true thoughts,
00:48:08that's the difference.
00:48:11That's so good.
00:48:12That's really great.
00:48:13I guess.
00:48:15How do you get around
00:48:16the bias for action
00:48:16even if you've managed
00:48:17to do that?
00:48:18Or do you think
00:48:19that having new,
00:48:19useful and true thoughts
00:48:21tends to encourage you
00:48:22to act?
00:48:23Exactly.
00:48:23Low agency thinking
00:48:25will lead to more thinking,
00:48:27more rumination
00:48:28by definition.
00:48:29And high agency thinking
00:48:31will soon,
00:48:33it's almost like the
00:48:34Claude or ChatGPT
00:48:36thinking time.
00:48:37Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da.
00:48:39Boom.
00:48:39And a head.
00:48:40However,
00:48:40I think we've discussed this,
00:48:42that net-net,
00:48:44which I know you love
00:48:45the term net-net.
00:48:46Yeah.
00:48:47Net-net,
00:48:48I would,
00:48:49you'd rather be a bit of a idiot
00:48:52than a bit of a coward.
00:48:54What's the difference?
00:48:56I'd rather be,
00:48:58make an error
00:48:59with high conviction
00:49:00than make an error
00:49:02with low conviction.
00:49:03And again,
00:49:04you've got a huge
00:49:06generalization there
00:49:07where it's kind of
00:49:08Charlie Munger's advice
00:49:08of don't race trains,
00:49:10don't get involved
00:49:11in AIDS situations.
00:49:12There's the obvious
00:49:13nuance there,
00:49:14but it's better to be
00:49:16quick to act
00:49:17whilst thinking through
00:49:18some initial risks
00:49:19and looking at the downside
00:49:20and moving fast
00:49:22than just sitting there
00:49:23for years
00:49:24without ever finding out.
00:49:26The reason that-
00:49:27Type one,
00:49:27type two decisions.
00:49:28Yeah.
00:49:29The reason that
00:49:29that's interesting
00:49:30is most people
00:49:31who probably
00:49:32are making decisions
00:49:34that are too rash
00:49:34aren't that fussed
00:49:36about listening
00:49:36to nerdy podcasts.
00:49:39Right?
00:49:40So,
00:49:40you almost don't need
00:49:42to caveat it.
00:49:43If you're the sort of person
00:49:44that's reading
00:49:46Robert Greene's
00:49:4748 Laws
00:49:47of Power
00:49:48and is thinking
00:49:49about what time
00:49:49they get up
00:49:50and tracking
00:49:50the WHOOP scores,
00:49:52you've already
00:49:53pre-selected.
00:49:54You're not going
00:49:55to be in
00:49:56the retard maxing
00:49:57bin
00:49:58by nature.
00:49:59You're going to have
00:50:00to learn retard maxing
00:50:02through discipline,
00:50:04through trial.
00:50:06And,
00:50:06yeah,
00:50:08I guess that means
00:50:09that if it's the sort
00:50:10of thing
00:50:10that you're listening
00:50:11to,
00:50:11it's probably
00:50:12the sort of thing
00:50:12that you need to hear
00:50:13because the platform
00:50:15that you're listening
00:50:16to it on
00:50:16is exactly the sort
00:50:17of one that the sort
00:50:18of person who needs
00:50:19to hear it would
00:50:19listen to.
00:50:20Does that make sense?
00:50:21Yeah.
00:50:26Where do you think
00:50:27you need to do it more?
00:50:28Fucking everywhere,
00:50:29dude.
00:50:30Yeah?
00:50:30Jesus Christ.
00:50:31Yeah.
00:50:31I mean,
00:50:31horrendous,
00:50:32horrendous overthinking.
00:50:34I mean,
00:50:34I've got a good
00:50:35bias for action,
00:50:36but it takes too long.
00:50:38My confidence threshold,
00:50:40if I could get in
00:50:41and adjust the settings
00:50:42in my brain.
00:50:43Have a shit yourself
00:50:44and have a stroke.
00:50:45That's actually,
00:50:46that's a great idea.
00:50:47Yeah.
00:50:47If I was to go,
00:50:48if I was to go
00:50:48and have a really,
00:50:49really,
00:50:49really hard shit,
00:50:51which I had the other day,
00:50:52you couldn't believe
00:50:52that I had a shit
00:50:53in the middle of the day.
00:50:53Yeah.
00:50:54It was impressive.
00:50:55That was the most
00:50:55surprising thing
00:50:56of all of the things
00:50:57that I've done
00:50:58since we've lived together,
00:50:58just having a shit
00:50:59at 1 p.m.
00:51:00to you.
00:51:02It was like four.
00:51:03It wasn't.
00:51:04It was like four.
00:51:05Okay.
00:51:05Well,
00:51:05I mean,
00:51:06look,
00:51:06I'm an equal opportunity shitter
00:51:08and I'm desperately
00:51:09trying to have
00:51:10a fucking aneurysm
00:51:10so I acquired
00:51:11Savant syndrome.
00:51:13So you finally
00:51:14become an artist.
00:51:15If Hitler had this,
00:51:16if Hitler had had
00:51:17a hard enough shit,
00:51:18significant artwork
00:51:18being produced.
00:51:19If Hitler had had
00:51:20a hard enough shit,
00:51:21we wouldn't have
00:51:21had World War II.
00:51:22Yeah.
00:51:23If Hitler had shat himself
00:51:24more and more aggressively.
00:51:25Yeah.
00:51:26Yeah.
00:51:26But the pussy numbers,
00:51:28do you know what I mean?
00:51:28He's got the face,
00:51:29yeah,
00:51:29he's got the face.
00:51:29Wasn't there a guy,
00:51:30there was a guy
00:51:31who laughed so hard
00:51:33at a guy missing
00:51:34a football kick recently
00:51:35that it caused him
00:51:36to have an aneurysm
00:51:37in his brain
00:51:38or I think he had a stroke.
00:51:39And then when they
00:51:40went in to find,
00:51:43to work out
00:51:44what the fuck
00:51:44had gone on,
00:51:45there was this huge tumor
00:51:46that was going to kill him
00:51:47and he had that done
00:51:48and it was because
00:51:49some guy had missed
00:51:51kicking the ball
00:51:52in a NFL game.
00:51:54Wow.
00:51:55and a fan of the opposing team
00:51:58laughed so hard
00:51:59that he basically did
00:52:00kind of similar
00:52:01to the Savant Syndrome thing.
00:52:02Damn.
00:52:02Just had a full-on explosion,
00:52:05head explosion.
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00:53:09Are you not got into
00:53:11American sports
00:53:11since moving here?
00:53:13Fan of Rangers.
00:53:14I'm a fan of the
00:53:14Texas Rangers, dude.
00:53:15I thought you meant
00:53:15Rangers FC.
00:53:16No.
00:53:17Fan of Texas Rangers.
00:53:18So baseball
00:53:19became a fan of the Rangers.
00:53:21They won the World Series
00:53:22first year that I was a fan.
00:53:23I was like,
00:53:23this is easy.
00:53:24This is brilliant.
00:53:25Following year,
00:53:27not as successful.
00:53:28I have got into baseball.
00:53:29Baseball is the closest proxy
00:53:31for cricket.
00:53:33Huh.
00:53:34But that's it.
00:53:35I watched the Super Bowl.
00:53:37We watched the Super Bowl.
00:53:38That was good.
00:53:38What else?
00:53:40Can't get into it.
00:53:40Basketball's all right,
00:53:41but highlights,
00:53:42which is strange
00:53:43because baseball
00:53:44and American football
00:53:46are much slower
00:53:47moving sports.
00:53:49Hmm.
00:53:50And even though basketball
00:53:51is a much faster
00:53:52moving sport,
00:53:52generally,
00:53:53I think per minute
00:53:54of broadcast,
00:53:56how long is an NFL game?
00:53:58Like 80 minutes?
00:53:59No, it's an hour.
00:54:00An hour?
00:54:0115 minute quarters.
00:54:02An hour.
00:54:03I think the total amount
00:54:04of playtime
00:54:05typical
00:54:07in a one hour NFL game,
00:54:09I swear it's less
00:54:10than 10 minutes
00:54:11of action.
00:54:13It's a sport
00:54:13entirely reverse engineered
00:54:15to allow adverts
00:54:17to be played.
00:54:18The American dream.
00:54:19It is.
00:54:20Well, I mean,
00:54:20that's the most
00:54:21sort of American thing
00:54:22that you can do, right?
00:54:23To flog
00:54:23drain cleaner
00:54:25in between.
00:54:29It's a
00:54:30fucking Ponzi scheme.
00:54:33This country's
00:54:33sport system
00:54:34is a Ponzi scheme.
00:54:36Yeah, it's rough.
00:54:37I've struggled
00:54:39to get into
00:54:40American sports so far.
00:54:41And you realize
00:54:41that Yusef,
00:54:43I tried to sell him
00:54:44on getting into sports
00:54:45because wherever
00:54:45you are in the world,
00:54:47you can have a conversation
00:54:48with a taxi driver.
00:54:49Apart from America,
00:54:50I can go anywhere
00:54:51in the world.
00:54:52And if football comes up,
00:54:53if I say I'm from Manchester,
00:54:54we can immediately
00:54:55have a great conversation
00:54:58for about 20 minutes.
00:54:59But in American sports,
00:55:01it's just slightly,
00:55:02none of it makes sense
00:55:03the same way
00:55:04British sports makes sense.
00:55:06Is it the Premier Football League?
00:55:08Is that technically
00:55:09what it's called?
00:55:10Premier League.
00:55:11Right.
00:55:12But I swear that people,
00:55:14I swear that when I meet
00:55:15people in America,
00:55:16they say,
00:55:16oh, who do you support
00:55:17in the PFL?
00:55:18Yeah.
00:55:18I'm like, hey.
00:55:20They might call it the EPL?
00:55:21EPL, that's it.
00:55:21English Premier League,
00:55:22yeah, EPL.
00:55:22That's it, yeah, yeah.
00:55:23Who do you support
00:55:23in the EPL?
00:55:24And it took a little while
00:55:25for me to go,
00:55:26what are you talking?
00:55:26To Tommy Robinson.
00:55:29I just,
00:55:33that's not,
00:55:35that we don't speak
00:55:36like that in England.
00:55:38No.
00:55:38We don't talk about
00:55:39the ECC,
00:55:42the English cricket,
00:55:43or ECB,
00:55:44English cricket board.
00:55:44We're not talking
00:55:45about stuff like that.
00:55:46But yeah,
00:55:47I like baseball.
00:55:50Baseball's good.
00:55:50It's fucking slow.
00:55:52It's really slow.
00:55:53Have you heard of-
00:55:53Hurry up.
00:55:54Dude.
00:55:54Have you heard of
00:55:55Ali Dyer?
00:55:56No.
00:55:57British football player.
00:55:57Ali Abdaal.
00:55:58No, he's no relation
00:55:59to Ali Abdaal,
00:56:00unfortunately.
00:56:01So Ali Dyer
00:56:02was a Southampton player.
00:56:04How he joined was,
00:56:06ever heard of George Weyer?
00:56:07So George Weyer
00:56:08was like the African
00:56:09player of the year.
00:56:10I think he briefly
00:56:11played for Manchester City
00:56:12back in the day,
00:56:13but he was one
00:56:15of the best players
00:56:15of all,
00:56:16like certainly from Africa,
00:56:18but one of the best players
00:56:18in the world at the time.
00:56:19He might have even
00:56:20won a Ballon d'Or.
00:56:21And Graham Souness
00:56:23was the manager
00:56:23of Southampton.
00:56:24And he gets a phone call
00:56:25from George Weyer
00:56:27saying there's this new guy
00:56:29who has just played
00:56:31at the African Cup of Nations.
00:56:32He's like incredible.
00:56:34I think he even claims
00:56:35it's his nephew
00:56:36because you've got to give him
00:56:37a trial for Southampton.
00:56:39So Ali Dyer
00:56:40turns up at Southampton.
00:56:41It's like one training session
00:56:43before the game.
00:56:44And they have such a
00:56:45small squad at the minute
00:56:46that they just put him
00:56:47on the bench.
00:56:48One of the key
00:56:49Southampton players
00:56:50gets injured.
00:56:50They sub Ali Dyer on.
00:56:53And it's the worst
00:56:54debut of all time
00:56:57at this guy's fucking terrible.
00:56:59So much so.
00:57:00And this almost never happens
00:57:01in football.
00:57:02He gets subbed on
00:57:04and then subbed off,
00:57:06which is extremely rare.
00:57:09And he never played
00:57:11for Southampton ever again.
00:57:12And then when they begin
00:57:13to investigate it,
00:57:14it wasn't George Weyer
00:57:15on the phone.
00:57:16It was him.
00:57:17This guy used to play
00:57:18like Sunday League.
00:57:19So he managed to blag his way
00:57:20to play in Premier League football.
00:57:22So there's always a chant now
00:57:23with the Southampton fans
00:57:24of Ali Dyer,
00:57:26he's a liar,
00:57:27he's a liar.
00:57:28So,
00:57:28so he just blagged
00:57:29his way in.
00:57:31Jamie Vardy's got
00:57:32a documentary coming out.
00:57:33I saw that this morning.
00:57:34I want to show you.
00:57:35I want to watch that.
00:57:35Jamie Vardy,
00:57:36I don't even think
00:57:37started playing
00:57:39professional level
00:57:40until the age of 25.
00:57:43And he's just,
00:57:45the thing is,
00:57:46you almost need
00:57:47like so much British knowledge
00:57:48to understand
00:57:48who Jamie Vardy is.
00:57:50He's couched inside
00:57:51of a very deep
00:57:52and spirally community
00:57:53and where does he come from
00:57:55and what does it mean
00:57:56and what's his background.
00:57:57Unless you've been
00:57:58to Magaluf,
00:58:00Zante,
00:58:01Iannapha.
00:58:01He is.
00:58:02Jamie Vardy is Magaluf.
00:58:03If Magaluf coalesced
00:58:04into human form,
00:58:06it would be Jamie Vardy.
00:58:06And he would take that
00:58:07as a compliment.
00:58:08Like he loves it.
00:58:09I think he would.
00:58:09He fucking loves it.
00:58:10Yeah.
00:58:10But he ends up
00:58:12making it pro
00:58:14at such a later age in life
00:58:15but just plays
00:58:18like a conference league player.
00:58:20So he,
00:58:20even in the documentary,
00:58:21the trailer I watched,
00:58:22he talks about
00:58:23no striker tackles
00:58:24but this guy tackles
00:58:25or he's drinking
00:58:26like two Red Bulls
00:58:27before the game.
00:58:29He's just constantly,
00:58:30he almost quit
00:58:31at like 27, 28
00:58:32after making it pro
00:58:33because he wanted to go
00:58:34and do a season
00:58:35in Zante.
00:58:36He wanted to go
00:58:37and be a full-time
00:58:38nightclub promoter.
00:58:40It's an alluring
00:58:41industry to get into.
00:58:43And then,
00:58:43because he was in,
00:58:44yeah,
00:58:44some bullshit
00:58:45Sunday league team
00:58:46and then got picked up
00:58:47by Leicester
00:58:48and then went on
00:58:49to have the most insane,
00:58:51the first season.
00:58:52Wins the Premier League
00:58:53with Leicester
00:58:53which is,
00:58:55it's the biggest,
00:58:56you'd argue
00:58:57it's one of the biggest
00:58:58sporting achievements
00:58:58of all time.
00:58:59It's one of the biggest
00:59:00underdog stories.
00:59:02And a lot of that
00:59:03was because of him
00:59:03and his performance.
00:59:05He broke the Premier League
00:59:06record for the most
00:59:07amount of consecutive goals.
00:59:09Like,
00:59:09I think it was 12 games,
00:59:1112 or 13 games in a row.
00:59:11He scored 13 games
00:59:13in a row,
00:59:13which is insane.
00:59:16Whilst like eating
00:59:17monster munch
00:59:18and just being an absolute
00:59:19degeneral.
00:59:20Yeah.
00:59:21That's another thing
00:59:22that I think Americans
00:59:24really struggle with
00:59:24which is,
00:59:25there are some
00:59:26very good niche
00:59:27British snacks
00:59:28that you can't
00:59:29get over here.
00:59:30Because there's
00:59:31American aisles,
00:59:32American candy aisles
00:59:33now at Tesco's
00:59:35in the UK.
00:59:36So if you go and look
00:59:37and you'll be able
00:59:38to get Lucky Charms
00:59:39and Cheetos
00:59:40with all of the
00:59:42seed oils
00:59:42and the Red 40
00:59:43and stuff included.
00:59:45But you can't
00:59:46come over here
00:59:46and get Jaffa Cakes
00:59:47and Jammie Dodgers
00:59:48and Cadbury's Fingers
00:59:50and stuff like that.
00:59:51And I think
00:59:51we're missing out.
00:59:53That would be,
00:59:54I think that would be
00:59:55a gift that we could
00:59:56give back to America.
00:59:57I wrote this thing
01:00:00recently about
01:00:00the Roman Empire.
01:00:03I relate it back
01:00:04to Britain.
01:00:05But I think
01:00:06we've spoken
01:00:07about this previously
01:00:07but I did a research
01:00:09for this piece
01:00:10called Don't Wait
01:00:10for the News.
01:00:11And essentially
01:00:12the Roman Empire,
01:00:14do you know
01:00:14when the Roman Empire
01:00:15fell?
01:00:16400-ish.
01:00:18So the thing
01:00:18with the Roman Empire
01:00:19falling,
01:00:19it's up for debate.
01:00:21Even historians
01:00:22debate it.
01:00:23But the
01:00:23mainstream
01:00:25historical point
01:00:26of view,
01:00:27which is not
01:00:27the weird
01:00:28niche stuff
01:00:29that you get into,
01:00:30but the mainstream
01:00:31historical point
01:00:31of view
01:00:32is 476 AD
01:00:33that Romulus,
01:00:35who was the
01:00:37founder of Rome,
01:00:38so it's poetic.
01:00:39I think this is why
01:00:39we like that as the ending.
01:00:40Romulus,
01:00:41who was the founder
01:00:41of Rome,
01:00:42then young Romulus,
01:00:44who was in the throne
01:00:45when it ended,
01:00:46got replaced
01:00:46by the barbarian
01:00:47Odessa.
01:00:48So Romulus saw
01:00:49Rome rise
01:00:51and Romulus saw
01:00:52Rome fall.
01:00:53For clarity,
01:00:53it's not the same blow.
01:00:54It's not the same blow.
01:00:55This is over
01:00:56hundreds of years.
01:00:57That's just the poetry
01:00:58of why they say
01:00:59that day.
01:01:00But if you woke up
01:01:03that day
01:01:03after the Roman Empire
01:01:05that we now say
01:01:06has fallen,
01:01:08there was no big
01:01:09announcement.
01:01:09There was no news.
01:01:11The book,
01:01:12The Sovereign Individual,
01:01:12has this beautiful line,
01:01:14which if the CNN
01:01:14existed during the fall
01:01:15of the Roman Empire,
01:01:17the headline would not
01:01:18have been,
01:01:18the Roman Empire
01:01:19has just fallen.
01:01:20So you have the split
01:01:22of the Roman Empire.
01:01:23You have the Eastern
01:01:23Roman Empire
01:01:24and you have
01:01:25the Western Roman Empire.
01:01:27The Eastern Roman Empire
01:01:29goes on to
01:01:30about 1300 AD.
01:01:32Charlemagne
01:01:33becomes the emperor.
01:01:35He calls himself
01:01:36the Emperor of Rome
01:01:37in about 700 to 800 AD.
01:01:40So the Eastern Empire
01:01:42falls.
01:01:43Voltaire
01:01:43famously says
01:01:45in 1700
01:01:46that the entity
01:01:49that calls itself
01:01:50the Holy Roman Empire
01:01:52is neither holy
01:01:53nor Roman
01:01:53nor an empire.
01:01:54So that was in 1700s.
01:01:56It was only in the 1800s
01:01:58when Napoleon
01:01:59was invading
01:02:00did,
01:02:00I think it's Francis II,
01:02:03dissolve the Roman Empire.
01:02:05So if you would have waited
01:02:06to be told
01:02:07that the Roman Empire
01:02:09was over,
01:02:09it would have been your
01:02:10great,
01:02:12great,
01:02:12great,
01:02:13great,
01:02:14great,
01:02:14Great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandchild. 48 generations. It would have taken. So I kind of wrote this, this piece. And then I said that this story terrified me because
01:02:44when today's biggest empire falls, nobody's going to tell me. Like nobody's going to tell me that the British
01:02:52empire is no longer the most powerful empire in the world. We already know that. Obviously it is right
01:02:57now. Obviously the British empire is the most powerful empire that exists right now. I can't
01:03:03tell if you- But what I don't want to have happen is for me to be the one that lives in denial long
01:03:08after the event. I think you already are. The rise of Gary Stevenson. Well, Gary Stevenson will be like
01:03:14the 1800 one. Like that's when, when Gary's in, when Gary's in office with the fucking like tucked
01:03:19in, tucked in like this, that'll be when it's like the British empire. We all admit the British
01:03:24empire is over. But it's funny. So I posted that as a, like a trolling, like kind of sarcasm statement
01:03:29of like, oh, lettering about the history of the Roman empire whilst pretending that I still think
01:03:33the British empire is the biggest thing. And there was quite a few people in the comment section who was
01:03:37going along with the humor of it. But the amount of emails I got of people saying, you do realize the
01:03:43British empire is no longer the most powerful thing. And I was like, let's just go fully in with the
01:03:48joke. I'm like, why are you still talking English? I just like kept going back and forth with them
01:03:53that the, uh, the British empire. But you know what? That's actually the saddest thing. Um, I know
01:03:58don't really do geopolitics on the show, but the saddest thing of the Ayatollah dying is that when he used
01:04:05to address, um, the world stage, he would often talk about great Britain as if we're still the most
01:04:12powerful country in the world or one of the leading countries. So that's the one thing I did appreciate
01:04:18about the Ayatollah of Iran. That is something that completely blows my mind that I don't understand
01:04:23people who regularly get into small back and forth spats in the comment section. James does this all
01:04:30the time. Yeah. All the time, mate. He loves it. He loves it. He just loves winding people up. But I, I just,
01:04:37I, I sometimes will post something on Twitter and there'll be all of these replies and all of these
01:04:45people. And weeks later, there'll be two people still going at it. It's, it's fucking infuriating.
01:04:55It's in my notifications. Oh man. It's in my, it's in my notifications. It's like, do you know what it's
01:05:01like? It's like having two neighbors that are having an argument with each other, but you live in the
01:05:06house that's in between. I'm like, can you not go over to his house directly? Because at the moment
01:05:12I'm caught in this crossfire. Unbelievable. Have you ever seen the meme? It's one of my favorite ones
01:05:17where it's a guy on his deathbed and he's kind of like lay there, like just about to die. And he's
01:05:26got like the speech bubble for like the brawny wear deathbed regrets. And it's just, I wish I spent
01:05:31more time arguing with people on the internet. Yeah. But yeah, I mean, I rarely ever do the spats,
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01:06:37I was thinking about this the other day, what's the longest ever traffic jam in terms of duration?
01:06:50So I'm just thinking about what's the longest ever internet argument is still ongoing. It's something
01:06:55from 2008 that's still going in a weird forum somewhere, Mumsnet or whatever. There are two
01:07:02different records people usually mean when talking about the longest traffic jam ever. Longest by
01:07:06duration. The most infamous was the China National Highway 110 traffic jam in 2010, stretched about
01:07:12100 kilometers near Beijing and lasted 12 days from August 14th to August 26th. Some drivers reportedly
01:07:20moved only one kilometer per day. It was caused by a mix of roadworks, overloaded coal trucks and traffic
01:07:26volumes far beyond the highway's design capacity. The longest by distance Guinness World Records listed
01:07:30traffic jam in France in 1980 is the longest by length. It was 109 mile back up between Lyon
01:07:36and Paris caused by holiday traffic and bad weather. It's also a bizarre contender by sheer scale
01:07:41after German reunification in 1990 reports described around 18 million cars clogging routes at the east-west
01:07:47German border. Do you imagine living through that reunification? You've been part of the same
01:07:53country but essentially different country but essentially different universes. Jesus. If you like traffic data, I've got some cracking traffic data.
01:08:04Go on. So, in the 1960s, here's a little question. Can you guess where the most deadly roads in Europe were?
01:08:18Isle of Man? No. In the UK?
01:08:23No. Right. We're not in Europe. Brexit means Brexit, Christopher.
01:08:28It does. That's true. Ireland?
01:08:29No. Okay. I was trying to own something close to home there.
01:08:34So, it's Belgium. It's a surprising location of Belgium, okay? So, they had a policy which was known
01:08:42as the 18th birthday party gift by Belgians. So, here's how it'd work. You'd turn 18, walk downstairs,
01:08:50parents would do happy birthday. Can you do it in Belgium? No. Can you?
01:08:54No. Happy birthday to you. They'd then take you down to the car dealership. You'd get
01:09:05a little birthday plaque from them. They'd say happy birthday as well. You'd pay for a car,
01:09:10show your date of birth. You'd get the car and you'd attempt to drive away. So, Belgium had no
01:09:16driving test policies at all. So, you could just, full-on libertarian style, just attempt to drive
01:09:23away. And the 18th birthday party gift in Belgium was the number one killer of Belgians between the
01:09:30age of 18 to 24. So, Belgium had the most deadliest roads in Europe, certainly per capita. So, you know
01:09:37what the government did to try and fix it? They said, right, we're putting an end to this. In 1969,
01:09:43they said, before you can drive, you have to do a mandatory theory test. Because if you go and study
01:09:52and then drive, at least we'll prevent these mistakes. So, what happens is, 1969 was this cutoff.
01:09:57Everybody from then onwards has to do theory tests. And this Belgian transport official releases the
01:10:04results. And he goes, it appears to be the case that the accident rate amongst the theory drivers
01:10:12is higher than the ones who never got theory tested at all. So, the death rate went up by 32%
01:10:19with the theory test drivers.
01:10:20Why?
01:10:21Um, one theory is failure. One theory is that they have this kind of false sense of confidence
01:10:29going into the roads, that at least the ones that knew they couldn't drive didn't have.
01:10:33But the Belgium, the Belgian traffic stuff goes on for years. There's like iconic cartoons of like how
01:10:39dangerous the roads are in Belgium. And there's a great thing in the eighties where I think it's Jean-Luc
01:10:45de Haan. Could be, could have butchered that, but we'll go with it. Jean-Luc de Haan. He becomes
01:10:52transport minister. This man ends up becoming PM, but just listen to the job that he did as transport minister.
01:10:58So, he one day gets into office to fix the Belgium road. So, he's done all this campaigning about the
01:11:06issues around it. He gets clocked going, I think it's like 70 and a 40. And he does the beautiful
01:11:13politician's answer where he says, it wasn't me, it was my daughter. And then they quickly find out
01:11:18it wasn't his daughter. It was him in the car. So, he goes, okay, I'll hire a chauffeur from now on.
01:11:24So, I'll only get driven by a chauffeur. So, he starts with a chauffeur and a journalist one day
01:11:29tailgates the chauffeur. The chauffeur commits 12 driving offenses in 30 minutes. And this is one of
01:11:37the best political statements of all time. When the transport ministry was pressed, well, are you going to
01:11:42fire the chauffeur now? The lady who's the spokeswoman, just a rare moment of honesty. She said,
01:11:48if we fired everybody in the Belgian transport ministry that was committing traffic offenses,
01:11:52there'd be nobody left here to work. So, that's some cracking traffic data.
01:11:58Well, I know that Egypt's got the, I think it's the easiest driving test in the world,
01:12:04which is crazy because I've done the one in America and that explains a lot about American drivers.
01:12:08It's not, the British one's kind of hard. You must know what, what, what do you reckon the failure
01:12:13rate among your friends was for the first time test? Did you, did you pass first time? I passed
01:12:17first time. You catch me as a first timer. Yeah. Well, yeah, I know. Fucking Hermione Granger over
01:12:22here. But then you look at somewhere like Bali and these guys are essentially surgeons with,
01:12:28with scooters and they're able to thread this needle. I remember the first time I went to,
01:12:33because I'd spent time in Thailand, but I'd gone up north and up north in Pai, really,
01:12:39really close to the Northern border. There's no traffic. So yeah, people are riding around a family
01:12:46of five on a single scooter and there's a goat on the back and stuff, but there wasn't any of that
01:12:51crazy weaving shit. And I flew back through Chiang Mai and it was insane. And you've been to Thailand.
01:12:59Yes. And you've seen the roads, right? In Bangkok and Chiang Mai. It is out of this world. It is
01:13:06fucking insane. Just how chaotic it is. And it really, they kind of, that scared me a bit. Like,
01:13:13holy fuck. Like, it's just so dangerous. I didn't, I was in a car, so I'm going to be okay, I guess,
01:13:17unless someone smashes through the window. But it made me, it made me kind of fearful for all of the
01:13:22other people. This is your day to day. You're arriving at work. That's your commute. Right now,
01:13:28let's sit down and go over the quarterly earnings report thinking, I'm sorry, my adrenaline is just
01:13:34as if I've been in a fight with a bear. But I wonder with time, do you adapt to it? I think where it
01:13:39doesn't get enough criticism for their roads is everybody talks about how safe Dubai is. And it's this
01:13:47hub of safety. The roads in Dubai, I think you're four times more likely to die on than the British
01:13:53roads. And one of the, because of the drivers or because of the roads? Definitely the design of the
01:13:58roads are peculiar and not optimal. But I have a theory that there where you have 90% expats from all over
01:14:10the world, that there's actually no cultural grounding on the roads. Because you've got one guy
01:14:17from Pakistan here, one guy from the UK here, one guy from France here, one guy from Germany here,
01:14:23one lady from Uzbekistan here. The lady from Uzbekistan is not allowed to drive, but go on.
01:14:29I think you can drive in Uzbekistan, I don't know. But as a result, there's no cultural crossover where,
01:14:36for example, if I'm driving in the UK, I know that if a guy gets really angry beeping his horn at me,
01:14:42it's like, it's what it is. Like it's chill. Whereas I also wouldn't do that. I would never,
01:14:48I'm not a big horn beeper anyway, but I would be way more likely to beep in the UK than I would here.
01:14:52Yeah, everyone's got guns.
01:14:54Yes. So it's just understanding the lay of the land. But when you're in somewhere like Dubai,
01:14:58where it's just, there's no cultural attitudes on the roads, it's just all over the place.
01:15:02It's too much of a melding pot and you need consensus, because that's the only way that it
01:15:06works. I told you about the, uh, the guy who, uh, I was in a Uber. It was like a, this was in Dubai
01:15:13and it was like a sprinter van and I'm in the back of the sprinter van and we're on the roads. And
01:15:20there's like loads of other people in the Uber on the way to a steak restaurant. And I'm just kind of
01:15:26lonely looking out the window. And I kind of look at the driver and he's on his phone and he goes off the,
01:15:33the maps for a second. I go, what's he going on? And I look at it and he's on trading 212.
01:15:40He was trading crypto, wasn't he?
01:15:41Yeah. And he was, if he was shorting, I think the Japanese yen as he's going 70 on the highway.
01:15:49And I, so I shouted at him. I go, I go stop right now. And this, you know, this is the most British
01:15:55thing ever. I thought, might not say it. Don't want to say anything. I don't want to make a fuss.
01:16:00If I shouldn't make a, I shouldn't make a fuss. If I die. Cause some guys trying to short the Japanese
01:16:06yen. So I shouted at him and he stopped. I start looking out the window again. Come back. He's
01:16:11doing it against the pound. Yeah. The issue wasn't the currency. My issue wasn't the currency. It
01:16:18wasn't the trade. It was the fact that you were doing the trading. Oh man. I'm here for the self-driving
01:16:23cars. So you can do as much trading as you want. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Fuck yeah. All right. I appreciate
01:16:28you, man. Until next time. So much fun. See everybody. Thank you very much for tuning in.
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