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How's it going, man?
It's so good.
Yeah, so good.
Well, so happy.
You sound too good, funny.
When my sister brought up that she had listened
to the podcast accidentally,
she said, you have a very good broadcasting voice.
Oh, I get that all the time.
Yeah, yeah.
She was like, it's very steady and calm.
Now, and it's a good juxtaposition to my rant.
Okay, my madness.
So it kind of like brings it,
we're Ebony and Ivery essentially.
Which one's Ebony?
Well, you're obviously super black, so.
Thank you.
Yeah.
Now people can be able to identify you.
It's fucked up.
That's good feedback, though.
Yes.
Is this working?
I thought so.
I think overall, she had said that it was funny.
But then again, for the people listening now,
prior to jumping on here,
my sister seemed to have listened to it
and ran to an inappropriate part
where I was divulging some potentially sexual escapades.
I thought that you see beds, though.
That's what we like.
Yeah.
They typically line those places,
so you gotta be careful, especially when families listening.
But anyway, onto the topics,
where are we gonna start?
Oh, global greening data.
So I feel like the past couple of shows
we've started off with some darker topics.
So why not talk about some positives
and this rather...
In this bleak world we live in.
This extremely bleak first world country
with filled with opportunity.
I'm gonna try to sound extra unanswered
and now that you said that.
It's gonna go straight to my head, too.
Yeah, please don't.
And how do you feel about that?
It's gonna be way over the top.
Hey, man, you do what you gotta do.
I'm here for it.
Appreciate it.
So global greening data, I think the...
For, you know, there's been this climate,
global warming, climate change.
I feel like it's always...
The information we're getting is always like,
we're on the verge of total environmental collapse.
I feel like that's every message since like 1970.
Yeah.
It's always like, in the next five years.
One more degree.
Yep.
And we're all fucked.
And the whole ocean's dead.
There's fire tornadoes all across the country.
I feel like that's since I've been a kid at least,
it's always been the message of like,
we're gonna die soon.
Stop it.
Yeah.
And as I've gotten older,
I've become a little bit skeptical about the degree of knowing
our impact on what it's doing on the planet.
I think I'm in the same boat.
Yeah, which I think we have an impact, for sure.
But I think that people vastly overestimate.
It's only from my lived experience.
Like, what's gonna happen really soon?
To say you know if we hit this level of emissions
or temperature, rise, or whatever,
that like there's no returning,
I don't think that's possible for us to know.
For sure.
And also like, I think we started recording weather data
in 1850-ish.
And so we only have,
we have such a small set of data to go.
We know how the planets been warm and cold.
We're just taking a bit,
we're taking a guess of our limited experience on the planet.
So, I don't know.
I could all be wrong in 10 years.
Everything blows up and we fall into the sun
and God opens his asshole or something.
I don't fucking know.
What?
That's how it ends.
Can you go with the asshole?
I'll go with the asshole.
Well, I mean, it's gotta be great if it's God's ass.
Probably.
It's probably really clean.
Could be better than here.
Probably is.
Yeah.
Well, look at that climate scientists.
Fuck you.
God's ass wins.
All right.
Back to the point though.
I think with all this information,
there's been this idea that as we produce more CO2,
we're gonna get to this place where there's more,
as the world warms that there will be more desert areas.
More land will be more arid.
There will be less fertile land.
It'll be not livable.
And over the past, I think 50 years,
the entire world has gotten 20% greener.
And if you flip that down, it's heading you say,
20% of the world has become arid.
That is like Doomsday.
It's catastrophe.
Yeah.
But then you think about a lot of things.
20% is huge.
Yeah.
So sorry, over what period of time?
I think from like, either 80s to now or 70s to now.
We've gotten 20% greener.
Yeah.
So there's 20% more plant life on the planet.
And so that planting trees has worked?
Well, no.
If you follow the logic, I think it's that
we are producing more CO2 plants consume CO2.
That is how they live.
They suck that in, they produce the oxygen.
So the plant is just adjusting.
Correct.
Yeah, it's truly just adjusting that.
As it has done for all the millennia.
I think there's, yeah, I think there's this idea
that as humans, we can like better or best nature.
And I feel like we get wrapped up in this idea
that maybe we might have an effect,
but for the most part, if the world decides to like,
yeah, I'm fucking done with this shit,
it could just kill all of us.
In terms of like natural disaster,
what killing everything.
Yellowstone blows up.
Yeah, yeah, that would end to everything.
It would like cover half of the Western.
I think the Western time is for all of US would be gone.
Yeah.
The sun would be covered.
So that crazy scientists are also like,
it's long overdue to blow up.
Yeah, that's a very scary one.
You ever think about that just in the back of your mind?
I remember being told that like middle school,
I'll be like, wait, what?
Like there, we're just waiting for this thing to explode.
Yeah, then they just move on.
Yeah, like, I guess the point is, what can you do?
Yeah.
It's like we can't spend time on that.
Is there anything can we like try to plug it up?
Yeah.
Just put a big butt plug in it,
make one the size of like a state.
God's butt plug.
Oh man, now we're talking.
What realistically, can we release some of the pressure
or would that not help?
I don't know what the issue is.
Like if it's the gas under there, that would kill us.
I'm gonna be honest, I have no,
I don't know how mega,
mega volcanoes, mega volcanoes exist
and don't explode and what cause them to explode.
I know nothing about that topic.
Okay.
Like I don't know why would it, why would it fall?
Follow up.
Yeah, good follow up.
All right, I'm gonna write it down.
But like when someone, when a scientist goes,
here's a dormant volcano,
are they, how are they identifying that?
Are they like looking underground?
It's just some guy like that.
Totally should have blown up.
Yeah, just looking like a hill.
Like that's volcano right there.
Yeah.
But like how do you figure that stuff out?
Without, I guess obviously,
there's lava flowing out of somewhere.
But do you just look at something?
Or do they have like scans that can see under the ground
and see like massive pockets of magma?
I think they see the magma pockets.
I think.
Fucking like a true broadcaster.
Thank you for asking me because I know this stuff.
Very informed on volcano.
I bet they're like,
there's a bunch of pressure building up
and the pressure keeps going up.
I bet they can measure pressure.
I see.
That's probably a good assumption.
But again, one of those things that I've only ever heard
people be like, yeah, Yellowstone's gonna blow up
and if it does, there'd be enough ash to cover
like the western hemisphere and kill everybody.
But can we do anything?
So Yellowstone.
Because if it is truly a pressure problem,
I think your idea or suggestion would be like,
because couldn't you just poke holes?
Like systematically.
Yeah, like alleviate that.
A bunch of things around the area
to get some of the pressure out.
So I'm wondering if it's more complicated.
Like we don't want those gases coming out.
That could maybe that could mess up the environment.
True.
Like is it purely just the violent explosion
that would kill things or the gasses?
The ash is the biggest issue because it will be so much.
Right, that's what they say happen to the dinosaurs.
So you're like blocked out the sun.
Yeah, so like and then everything's no plans
continue to grow.
It's like you don't have access to the sun.
And that is due to the violent explosion.
I think.
Yeah, because it throws all into the air.
But also I don't get like,
I'm gonna go to Yellowstone.
He's gonna blow up water there.
I'm there.
I'm gonna start asking people.
Be like, when's this happening?
Why is no one doing?
Just running around.
Yeah.
What's going on?
What's happening?
Yeah, you just a freak a bunch of tourists out.
Just people on hikes don't trust it.
It's gonna blow up.
Yeah, who fucking knows?
I mean, if it happens Arla,
I also don't, here's part of me
that doesn't understand this though.
Say the ash comes out, it blows up.
Why would it stay in the air for longer than like,
when it just gravity, bring it down?
I think it's just so much ash.
Like, think about the wildfires a couple years ago?
Yeah.
Literally the whole sky was gray for a week.
True, but that's active burning though.
That's like, continue as gassy as stuff
as opposed to like an explosion happens.
I imagine that's-
I feel like things would keep burning for a while.
Sure.
That just, if it goes up in the air,
it has to come down, I would think.
But again, I might just be totally not understanding
what's going on with the volcano stuff.
But it is a scary thing.
It would end life as we know it.
Yeah.
We start off with global green.
Yeah, now we're back to fucking dying.
Don't get too positive on me.
We're all fucked.
I have finished up here.
Global, you're too.
I'm just missing the end wave to you.
Do your global green thing.
We'll get back to volcanoes.
So 20% of the world's greener,
suggesting that we're moving the direction of,
more plant life, more fertile land,
more things that are abundance of minerals and life
and more opportunities for us to spread into places
that potentially were deserts before,
as opposed to the opposite.
That's great news.
It is great news.
I mean, that's for someone who's like in Sub-Saharan Africa
and some place near them starts getting green,
that's life changing.
Yeah.
So it's like, if that's keep polluting,
we're gonna bring more fossil fuels.
Keep making plastic.
No, only the ocean.
This is like the one we don't.
It's like the one that's not coming.
Greening data.
Hey, I did hear that.
Where everyone talks about this like Texas-sized
plastic island in the middle of the ocean's converge.
Apparently it's like almost gump,
because there's been one company in Norway
that's been like going there and cleaning up,
but it's not even because of them.
They went there one time,
noticed they're like big chunks for missing.
They're starting to find this fungus.
That's just eating all of the plastic.
Nature has adapted to eating plastic.
That's awesome.
Yeah.
Is the fungus a problem?
We'll find out.
We have, it could be really bad.
Yeah.
It could be something that's,
it could be like a last of a situation
like the HBO show where like the fungus
just ends up infecting humans.
Fungus plus plastic sounds deadly.
Yeah.
But at the same time, hear me out.
Plastic is just petroleum.
It's all it's a petroleum-based-
At the end of the day, it's so organic.
So, you know, it's literally just like what fossilized,
or not fossilized,
but just what bones that have just like congealed into oil
over a long, long periods of time.
So it is just something from the earth
that maybe some fungus likes that specifically.
It'd be more probable that that exists out there
and this fungus like that.
Everything we have came from the earth.
So I guess it makes sense that we could
earth would adapt.
Yeah, yeah.
The life would adapt.
And not a nuanced thing,
but that's always mind blowing too of like,
we just like start with like a rock.
We're like, we're gonna make a car eventually
from what we have of different rocks.
And eventually we'll have electricity between rocks
and you can do a math.
Checking nuggets.
That's a crazy one too.
Yeah.
But it's like how someone essentially computers
or just electric rocks that can do math.
They're really fast rocks.
Yeah.
There's this there.
There's stupid fucking fast.
That makes no sense at all.
Yeah.
No, the fact, electricity's bullshit.
The fact that that exists.
That's a heavy cake.
That's a heavy cake.
It's literally a cheat code for us.
It makes no sense.
Which also, I never get this with the electricity thing
where people go, electricity is better than,
combustion energy or like fossil fuels,
but it doesn't it.
It comes from that.
Yeah, like, is it just that?
It's that's a stupid person who ever said that.
But a lot of people say that.
A lot of people go like, electric is better,
but it's like, well, was it take to create
the thing that needs electricity?
Right, electricity is not a raw resource.
Right, it's not like we find that in nature.
So if you get an electric car,
you may or may not be helping the world.
The take would be like, you could then get it
from a different energy source to power your car.
Got it.
But probably not.
Yeah, I mean, definitely not now.
You're like, all of our power plants are fueled by fossil fuels
that they are.
They are.
They are.
They are.
They are creating electricity.
Most of our energy is.
Yeah, that's where I never get this whole like.
And it actually is, it is worse.
If a fossil fuel was the original source
that's powering your electric car,
it is worse because there's so many,
there's energy lost along the way
during all those transitions.
Yeah.
There's inefficiencies introduced.
So at that point, you would rather just burn gas.
But it does, it allows the avenue
to eventually switch to different resources.
So true.
That's the pro of it.
But most people don't.
Yeah.
But yeah, and at the same time,
I feel like the other,
aside from like, Iceland using like geothermal energy
from like, because they are on top of a volcano,
speaking of volcanoes,
it seems like all the ones we've tried
don't really pan out as well.
Not nuclear.
Not nuclear.
Nuclear is the best.
Oh, yeah, that's true.
But that's a fuck so.
But the stigma behind it,
I don't know when that's gonna happen.
Speaking of, just watch that Chernobyl show.
So good.
Holy shit.
How did you watch the whole thing?
Yeah.
Dude, how about that guy?
Melting in the hospital.
Oh yeah.
Oh yeah.
The guy was like handling the reactor
at the fucking site.
And I looked up tons of stuff
as I was watching that.
Most, it's pretty accurate.
A lot of the show.
Got to imagine, because they were like,
I saw that show when it came out
of a wild gun.
It's like, all I know about Chernobyl
is that reactor fails.
And Russia's just like trying to deny
the whole thing essentially.
Like the government.
And they just send in like firefighters
and shit to like handle like a like
reactors without anything on them.
Well, most of them did, I mean,
you saw the show like even the main scientist
couldn't believe it.
Cause it was a failure mode
that no one had conceived of before.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, it's crazy man.
And then that event and you could make
the event Fukushima in a Japan.
That those two incidents kind of made
nuclear energy not a thing of our like
everyone thinks of nuclear is extremely
dangerous because of those two events.
Which they're kind of is, but like,
don't fuck up.
That's yeah.
And you can make your own.
And both those systems had a lot of extreme
negligence like those guys being like,
there's no way this is happening as opposed
to being like, oh shit, this is happening.
We should take the proper protocol.
Which would have prevented a ton of the mess.
Well, it's yeah, it was, it was malpractice
by the operators, but also the government had,
they don't want anyone to know that they're fucking up.
They, I think it was some regulation.
It was like the tips of the control rods
were made of a material that was cheaper,
but also incredibly reactive.
So in this one super weird scenario,
cosmic explosion, never should have happened.
Yeah, so and you know, I would put my money on it
if you go and look at the incidents around fossil fuel
extracting, you find a step, it's probably some stuff.
Some serious stuff or like explosions of fucking people
doing fracking, all those kinds of things.
Sure, that happens all the time,
but it doesn't make a dead zone for miles.
For sure.
That there are kills thousands of people.
Yeah, the radioactive part is definitely a uniqueness to it.
But other than that, it's like solar,
it doesn't seem that feasible wind.
You always hear about them killing like so many birds
and taking up so much land that it's not profitable
by any means, which is the energy output.
It's like, dude, just use fossil fuel
to figure something that's better out.
And then if we do figure something out,
nuclear, if we're all on board, then let's do it.
Let's not try to shove it down our throat
so we gotta be a let.
The electric one, like you just described,
it feels like it's been someone of a lie.
You're like, my car's electric, it's like,
well, that was made using...
It's somewhat, yeah.
Yeah, it's like the core of all of that
is fossil fuel driven.
So anyway, got a little off topic.
It comes down to batteries.
It's all very pro.
If we get better batteries, we could move away
from fossil fuels.
Yeah, and what required, what?
I don't know what that had.
I don't know.
Yeah, I don't know.
Because that feels like there has to be
a big innovation in battery science
because it feels like there's no one,
they're all around the same similar range
between like the Teslas and the Fords
and maybe Tesla's a little better,
but no one's like, we got this new way to store energy
that's mind blowing.
And maybe it'll happen, I'm just dumb.
Yeah, I don't know.
I think there's hope that it can happen.
I feel like scientists believe we could get to that point,
but yeah, we're probably pretty far off.
Anyway, anyway.
World's greener.
Good news.
Yeah, good news.
We'll just headwind on that one.
It's green, it's better, it's good.
More plants.
I have this, I don't know what this means,
but this note says, hallucinogenic strip,
empty from perception.
Oh, oh, I think I was reading about some science,
which I've done hallucinogens, so it makes sense,
but they're looking at like,
what is actually going on when you're taking
a psychedelic drug and they think at the core of it,
it is stripping up, stripping away your perceptions,
so your judgments, so that the trip feels so unique
because you're looking at something for the first time.
You're almost experiencing, not like you're wiping your memory,
but your preconceived notions about certain things
are just like taking away and you're looking at life
through that lens now of like,
oh, it's like you're a baby discovering stuff.
Yeah, yeah.
And so it allows you to restructure your brain away
because you look at something as it's true thing
without any of the years of things built up.
Yeah, and I can only speak for my experience.
Very true, in a sense.
The one thing I hear all the time is stuff starts breathing,
like things start pulsating.
Definitely does.
But there's no way that's not what you would see
the first time you see something, right?
Oh, yes, totally.
But I think that's separate from like,
like when you're tripping, you see that stuff is breathing.
Like I'm aware it's like,
oh, the drug creates some visual distortion.
Okay, so it also does some weird stuff.
Yeah, yeah, but it's not like,
if I look at the table and it's breathing,
I'm like the table now, please.
It's just like you kind of go,
well, this is a visual hallucination,
but the mindset, like, it depends how much you take,
but if you're taking like a standard dose,
it's gonna make you trip relatively hard.
Stuff will move around, but it's not gonna be like,
you wouldn't look at a table and go, that's not a table.
You're still, it's just stuff is kind of moving it.
Yeah.
And no, there's probably videos online,
you could look up that show exactly what it looks like,
but it doesn't take like my judgment about things like that.
What stuff is?
Yeah, my judgment doesn't get like twisted
in terms of like it moving in that way, if that makes sense.
Okay.
But also that might be just my limited experience.
It might be my opinion on I see those things
like, oh, yes, it's just tripping.
I don't, I've never done it so.
Well, next podcast.
Oh, we're gonna do a bunch of pieces.
Who knows what would happen then?
Either silence or madness.
Like we wouldn't say anything.
Yeah, just sitting here just staring
to walk like that table's breathing.
All right, one person at a time to help change the world.
I think that's a good goal.
I don't know how to expand on that one.
Yeah, be good.
Yeah, that's, I think being good and honest
will get you so far alive.
And you know, with the honesty one, the caveat being
that the goodness, maybe kindness is the right word,
but being those two things seems to do most of life well.
Good and honest.
Yeah, goods are pretty overarching term.
True.
Yeah, and it's relative to some degree.
So I just have to my head like the,
you know, you're, I don't know,
you're not lying about stuff
and you're also trying to be kind.
Maybe kind's a better word.
So I think about like if I have a child, all I want is for you.
What would you teach him?
Yeah, well, I'm more on the lines of like I want,
I'd want them to be a kind person.
That's more, mostly what I'm concerned about.
As long as they're a kind person,
I mean, I would, I would be great if they're not like a,
like they're not just doing not a matter of five.
No.
I mean, also yes, that would be a bonus.
But like, you know, as long as you're a nice person,
I'd be like, this is great.
I think I could be wrong.
I could have a kid and be like, you got to be so much better.
But, but nice guys finish last.
That's bullshit.
You may be argument that the opposite is true
and that those people just like tried to make that message.
Yeah.
Or like all of the stuff around us has mostly been
from like mutual nice interaction,
from collaboration and collaboration.
Not, not someone.
All the stuff around us?
Yeah, I think about like,
thinking about the early human,
if we go off Darwin's theory of like survival to finish.
If you're an asshole, you will be ostracized.
Yeah.
So if you're going the nice guys finish last
the opposite, kind of true.
Right.
So the people who are nice to each other
and mostly in masses do way better than people being like,
I must dominate the other.
Yeah.
I think that's a good, it's probably true.
I appreciate it.
Philosophy.
Be nice.
Scott, we're breaking new ground here.
Set up your life to be able to tell the truth.
I don't even know what that one means really.
Got all the virtues today.
Yeah.
I don't even know what that like means.
Set up your life to be able to tell the truth.
Were you tripping when you wrote these?
I don't think so.
It's been quite a while.
Is it like,
that sounds like don't lie
because then you don't have to keep lying.
Sure.
Yeah, that would make the most sense out of that one.
But that seems, yeah.
Okay.
Well, well,
I don't know the next thing.
I don't know.
We could tell by critical race theory.
You could tell about a good scientist
has to put Ron above being right.
Oh, I did put something on the list.
It's at the bottom.
But then I think it's worth talking about.
That's pretty funny.
That's very short.
But it was out on a walk recently
over by the lake near summer fest grounds.
And during this time when summer fest is not happening,
there's like a bunch of open parking lots
that like there's no cars in.
Actually, right by where you used to live.
And I'm walking around and I have music on.
And I see just like 200 cops
in one of these parking lots
and they're all on bicycles.
And there's,
there's a bunch of like orange cones
and they're doing bicycle drills.
That's hilarious.
And a lot of them are out of shape.
And the drills they're doing is like,
say there's a five foot diameter circle of cones
and that has like a lane in it.
And they're just trying to turn sharply
in a small circle.
And at the time I'm walking, I'm already laughing
because it makes so ridiculous.
But as I'm walking up the canteen of song
from Star Wars comes on.
The dent dent dent dent dent.
No dent dent.
And I was, dude, I was fucking dying at these cops.
It's like, he's fat cops on bikes while that's playing.
it's got to be one of the most disrespected professions,
just a fat cop on a bike.
Yeah, I mean,
yeah, it's just up there for just bike cops in general.
Yeah, but also is that,
I didn't realize that's like a stat.
I thought that I've never seen a bike cop in Milwaukee.
I haven't, I've seen him other place.
He's for sure, but they were training an entire like,
maybe multiple stations on how to be a bike cop.
Maybe that's just part of it.
To think that was like a wake up call for them,
like you guys are too out of shape.
We're gonna humiliate you in front of everyone.
All of the people, I mean, there was in shape people there,
but most of them was like,
you know, you're standard American looking person
on a bike in a cop, you know, forming a helmet.
Wow.
But man, it was, and it felt like I was walking in
on a private thing because they had clothes off.
You have, you have averted your eyes.
Yeah, because I mean, they all looked at me
because they closed off the road that led to those parts.
So like people couldn't drive that way.
And I'm just this guy walking down this clothes road.
You weren't meant to see this.
You gotta get out of here.
We're putting you in Guantanamo.
But yeah, it was truly hilarious.
I wish I could see more of stuff like that.
I wish I also had the balls to be like,
just say something.
Anything.
Oh yeah, something, something insulting.
I don't know if insulting, but just say be like,
so is everybody doing this?
Or are you gonna start deploying bike cops
and walking?
Where's the location?
What if we start seeing a ton of them?
They'd be crazy.
It's a new program.
Like hundreds of bike cops.
Can't Milwaukee back on track?
Dude, why would any, unless you're on, like,
you could easily outrun a bike cop.
Bikes can only go so many places.
Oh yeah, just like turn right.
Yeah, just like if you're not like this such,
like in a neighborhood.
If you're in a chase, there's gonna be a point
where they have to get off their bike and chase you.
Yeah, and probably from most of the chase,
they'd have to be off their bike.
So that's why I don't understand
like the advantage of having a bike.
Is it just you can deploy more cops and areas?
I mean, patrolling is easier.
Yeah.
Fuck, well, there goes my whole thing.
Oh well.
Um.
Hierarch is determined by play, not force.
I don't wanna talk about that.
Some of these are two, there's a lot of heady ones
on here today.
Let's talk about the scientist one.
Oh, good scientist.
He's the one.
Has to put being Ron above being right.
Yeah.
Now, what do you mean by that?
Um.
I think.
I don't know.
I think weirdly enough, I think of the Michael Jordan thing
where everyone always looks at him and they're like,
he's probably made the most mistakes on everyone.
That's what makes him so great.
Michael Jordan.
Yeah.
Like he failed a million times in order to be like going,
like fucking out.
But you know, I didn't make the high school.
Like he trained so much.
Yes.
And so the high school basketball things bullshit.
Is there really?
Yeah.
It's the story is he didn't make the varsity team
as a freshman.
Oh, I see.
He didn't get caught from any team.
All right.
Good to know.
Yeah.
But the point being.
Putting Ron above being.
Being right leads you to the truth, I think, as the scientist.
Because you're willing to fail until you find something
where the truth is.
Yeah, willing to fail is I think the big one.
Yeah, as opposed to scientists who muddy data
to make their conclusions, what happens?
They just I academic.
I heard on a podcast.
Oh, yeah.
Here we go.
Don't know if it's true or not, but there has been a study
conducted on studies to show that most of them just end up
like fulfilling the bias that the researcher came in with.
Anyway, OK, which I feel like people have been saying for a while.
Now you can find a study to support anything, which I think is kind of true.
Yeah, support whatever whenever you want.
To a degree.
Yeah, to a degree for sure.
But that that that's an interesting because I've seen the study on studies
that have conflicts of interest.
So like if a say McDonald's funds Estonia on like the health effects
of sausage McMuffins or whatever, which has been done,
you have a eight times higher chance of the data being incorrect
just from bias.
So and they have big sounds.
Yeah, but but the the point being also is that they're not always wrong.
You can't.
Right.
And and for maybe not even unfortunately, but then you can't know any like.
It could be right or wrong.
Well, here's the thing though.
If you go look, if you have any wherewithal in experimental design or statistics,
you can go look at a study and find out real quick if they muddy the data
because they you have to report the statistics accurately.
So you can maybe move things around and say things in the abstract
and the review and the discussion.
But if you look at the methods, you can find out if it's like like the McDonald's one.
There's a good example out there where they went.
A eggs are from the study they compiled.
It's that eggs are good for you.
And what they did is they took a sausage McMuffin and a sausage McMuffin
without sausage but egg in that one.
And because there's way more saturated fat in the sausage McMuffin,
they went look at eggs have a lesser effect on your your LDL.
That's just insane.
Yeah, but they don't say that in the abstract.
They just go from the studies when you include egg in this in diet two from the methods.
And a lot of studies will do that.
So, but again, it's just pure malpractice.
That's like not technically though.
But here's the thing.
Here's the silver line.
If even in average person, if you go look at the methods and they go,
well, the first diet is sausage McMuffin.
The second diet is egg McMuffin.
You go, oh, that's different.
And there's no control group.
So it doesn't take like too much.
Well, right.
That's not even science at that point.
Well, McDonald's would argue against that.
I guess.
But yeah, that's why I'm weary of almost everything I hear, honestly.
Yeah.
But there's good stuff out there.
I mean, and if you know, for the most part, you can make sense of most things.
Like if you take someone, you make them eat double big and cheese burgers for every meal,
they're probably going to get heart disease.
And like we know that smoking, if you smoke,
you're way more likely to die from stroke heart disease.
Sure.
There's certain things that I think there's been a lot of.
I think there's big irrefutable things.
And like no one's going to even try to overturn.
But it's like the gray areas where people.
Yeah.
And people try to do that though.
Like people will advocate that like you should be like eating bacon every day is probably good for it.
Like there was this whole thing I remember growing up in Time Magazine produced something that was like.
Butter and butter and bacon's actually good for you now.
And you can look at like every decade they go back and forth like bacon and butter's bad.
Bacon butter's good.
And it's like if you look at like the biochemical situation of like Century Fat makes cholesterol.
You're eating way more Century Fat.
It's a process red meat and it has tons of nitrates which are bad for your heart.
It's like that there's certain things that you can't deny.
You might be able to throw shitty signs at it.
But it's if you do it, you'll find out.
Yeah.
But yeah.
So bring it back to the failure piece.
Okay.
So if a scientist is willing to fail and be wrong, I think that makes for good science.
Which I think you can find good scientists out there.
So basically unbiased.
Like I don't care what the result of this is.
I just want to know the answer.
That's that's the best type of scientist.
Yeah. And I would make the argument that it's really hard to be that person.
Because think of being a scientist and like you have grant money.
You have things that you-
Fits your career.
You want to discover something.
Yeah.
And you have things depending on you to make your claim work.
That's kind of the fucked up part.
Is that typically scientists aren't funding their own research.
So they have someone that's like, you better give us results that we want.
Regardless of if it's McDonald's or if it's a research institute or a university.
And universities have their own bias.
Same with research institutes.
So it's like,
out of it comes some good science.
But there yeah, there's an infinite land of bias out there.
So that's good scientist.
So yeah.
It's like how do we get around that?
You need the funding and the motivation to be pure.
I just don't need to happen.
Like money incentivizes everyone.
Yeah.
But mostly for good I think.
Well, yeah, it's a weird one.
I think it's- you get down- when you drill into this topic really to its base level.
You look for this unbiased thing but then you look at it's all humans running it.
Yeah.
Like think of one person as biases and you multiply that times 10 times 100.
And how many people are involved in a research study?
It's like dude, there's so much bias involved from a lot of different ends.
And they put in certain controls to try to tease that out.
Can you argue that sort of like the more people involved that kind of like eliminates bias?
Because there's so much conflicting things like you need to average it out.
Yeah.
I think there's a law as it gets massive.
But if you have a hundred scientists in the field that are working on a study.
They'll work for a company.
Yeah. It's probably more likely they're going to be more aligned than not.
Yeah.
But if you open up to the general population I'd decide with you and be like yeah,
you're probably going to have an evening.
Hence why we have a half-repolic and half-democrat state typically.
Which is still mind blowing that like regardless of party and what they're saying for it,
that we would have a half and half split of anything at like 300 million people.
I think the party lines move though.
Yeah.
So like, I don't know.
Yeah.
But people feel strongly one way or another to vote that direction.
I mean like I'm this half and someone goes I'm this half.
But maybe it is just so blurred.
I think it just keeps adjusting to the general sentiment such that it finds a divide
to where it's half and half.
Gotcha.
Yeah, it makes sense.
I don't know.
Yeah, fuck my point I guess.
All right.
Let's find something else.
Oh, I forgot to ask you about any follow-ups from last time.
But I feel like it's been so long.
It's been slacking.
It's all good.
How about, well, when you talk about critical race theory,
when you talk about duplex donors exist,
talk about the document around El Salvadorian prison.
That's definitely not a happy thing.
I do black donors exist.
Okay.
What prompted this?
Hear me out.
This sounds like a bit, by the way.
Yeah, I think I might have heard on a podcast,
but I remember thinking of like growing up,
I've, you know, had a good amount of black friends.
And I've never, and when they smoke a ton of weed,
no one is ever referring to them as a stoner.
It's always like this is just like,
this is just part of black culture to some degree.
And like, but like if a white guy smokes weed,
they'll be like, fucking stoner.
Right?
I've never heard anyone like that.
That's the black stoner.
The furthest I would go with the,
I just, when you said, when someone says stoner,
I think of a white dude.
But like, there's totally black stoners, right?
Yeah, but like, but I think you're saying they don't get labeled that way.
Correct.
I think that,
there's definitely black people who smoke tons of weed,
but like, we need a dummy.
We should rehash this with thomba.
But like, think of like, we should Snoop Dogg.
No one has ever called him a stoner.
Whiz Khalifa, no one's ever called him a stoner.
And they are, their whole brand is weed.
Snoop Dogg is weed.
Yeah.
But if you had a,
maybe it wouldn't happen with a white rapper,
but like, I don't know.
It's an interesting like,
white people get the stoner one.
There is no white snoop dog.
I feel like Mac Miller was pretty pretty.
Yeah, but he was also like sipping lean and shit like that.
Yeah.
But I think of like Willie Nelson,
but he's like, he was like, the white weed guy for a long, long time.
But he wasn't like a rapper.
But no one was,
I don't know.
Willie Nelson.
Did people call him a stoner though?
I don't know.
Probably.
But I think of like,
what does it dug Benson,
the comedian?
He's like, no, never heard of him.
Smoking so much weed.
But like that whole white dude?
Yeah.
It's pretty funny.
But yeah, I don't know.
Just one of those things where it's like certain cultures get,
like almost like, like,
black weed culture seems like it's just like part of it.
Some degree where if a
this is starting to sound really racist.
I mean, yeah, you're basically saying,
oh, we just take it for granted.
Black people are stoners.
We don't even have to call them that.
Sounds pretty bad when you, when, when,
I don't like that.
But yeah, I got that.
Yeah, we're in the country.
We're in the country.
This whole thing.
But it is, it isn't,
not that it even matters when we're in other,
but it's just like weird.
Maybe it's just more,
right?
I don't know.
Let's do it for other races.
Are there Indian stoners?
No.
I've never, I don't think I've ever heard
applied to someone else
like what like stone.
A Japanese stoner.
Oh, I can't even, oh man.
That's gotta be tough.
What?
It really can't see.
Oh, Jesus.
I've always wondered this mic,
oh, because this is going to come off super racist.
Maybe not.
It's just a not, it's a curious thing.
Is there a vision different?
Because they have, they seem like our eyes
are more open, it seems.
Or does it, or is it,
yeah, not one of those?
It's open.
Because I guess it only matters
with the pupil, right?
So if it's not,
if it's, is long as the eye is open enough
to be the size of the...
If I squand my vision is different.
Thanks for,
thanks for playing that out.
This is the real science.
But that seems like...
Is that not carried?
This, yeah, this is pure racism.
Pure, viewed racism.
Oh, that's the name of the episode.
Well, that's, I just,
it's been a thing I've thought about.
And I, because I've also had friends who are Asian,
I've smoked with them and like...
Have you asked them?
No, I should have.
Or maybe I have, and I don't remember the answer.
But the friends I have,
I thought the two were Asian,
look, their eyes are entirely closed.
And it's been a running joke
where we're with them.
You're like,
can you see it all?
Oh, man.
But I, you know, it's,
I think I read this a while ago.
But, and I think it's true,
is that they have like...
Double the amount of eyelid skin.
That's what makes it more covered.
Okay.
So it's just like, it's not that it,
like, heinous lowers,
is that they have more skin up there.
That creates that like,
more pushed look.
Yeah.
All right, onto critical race theory.
Yeah, get right into it.
That was a good opening for critical race.
Yeah, it's a good little casual thing.
Which is here, what's your take on critical race?
That's pretty on top.
I'm going to be totally honest.
Total transparency.
This is the first time being honest with you about anything.
Ooh, everything up until now.
Open up.
Why?
I didn't know what critical.
I've only heard the term,
and people freaking out about it being in schools.
They didn't know what it was,
what it was even about.
Yeah.
And then I read it into it,
and it's,
it's from what I wrote down here.
Every relationship is oppressed and oppressor.
It's that there has always been a dominating race over somebody,
and that there's been the case across all humanity,
and that the group that has recently been oppressed,
I guess that's just the take.
Is that like it?
It just sounds like just standard, far left ideology.
Yeah, and I guess the counter of that,
it would be like,
it's a similar thing in economics when people talk about issues.
And they assume that in a market,
this is the wrong assumption that it's a zero sum game.
Meaning that when I say you're selling something,
and I go buy it from you,
and there's an assumption from the left side
that like one side is winning that transaction.
One side is getting one over the other.
Should tell Trump this.
Yeah, well,
dude, Jesus Christ,
yeah, he needs a fucking lesson.
But that the assumption that it's not a win win,
and that both parties are pro,
and doing the wrong, people can get scammed,
but for the most part parties approach,
and they go,
this is the best deal for me.
I want this right now.
Yeah.
Both parties.
And the argument against this whole oppressor and oppressed,
grand the slavery one is an extreme example.
But for most of humanity,
it's been the success of people doing better and better
is through win win relationships.
It's through someone offering something,
and someone else offering,
they go, okay, this is good.
And most of humanity is that.
Every once in a while, you get,
well, farther back you go,
you get something like slavery,
which is a terrible thing.
But the critical race theory at its core,
suggesting that every human relationship is a presser
and a press,
which is every race relationship,
or like every human relationship.
Human relationship is that someone is
dominating over the other,
and there's levels.
So the slave master one,
extreme level, right?
But then you can make the argument at a company.
I'm your boss.
And I have,
but I'm looking to dominate, not collaborate.
That's the assumption everywhere in every relationship.
If that's what it is, that's crazy.
Yeah.
Which I mean, my boss,
yeah, he's over me,
but he also provides me a benefit.
Like, I work under him.
We work together to make a company money,
which leads to me making money.
Yeah.
And that's,
you know,
let's take it to the race level too.
You can make the argument that
more than not,
again, the slavery example being the,
it's almost like,
taking the critical race theory
is taking the slavery relationship
and extrapolating that upon every relationship
between races,
where slavery is a,
is a rarity in terms of human
relationships across races,
where most of it is
cooperation and collaboration.
Of America is one of the best examples of that.
Of like,
you go to New York or Chicago,
there are so many different races
interacting in market transactions
and owning property
and living amongst each other
and relationships and friendships.
So many layers of that.
So if you apply a critical race theory to that,
you go,
well, yeah, the white people in all those neighborhoods
are pressing all the,
the agent in the Italians
and all those other people
that are in those different pockets.
When none of those people in those,
in Chicago,
would be like,
yeah, that makes sense.
No.
Yeah, that's not happening.
So,
but I guess I get if they're trying to push that
in schools,
it's just such a dark picture to paint.
Yeah, that's for children.
My sister was a teacher,
a great school teacher,
when this was kind of coming out,
like, I don't know, like five
years ago, Ish.
And a big result was a lot of white kids
were going home and being like,
my teacher told me I was evil.
Like, it was,
yeah.
Like, it's
from what I heard,
I'm sure this is an oversimplification.
I felt like heavy white guilt
and be like,
you should still feel bad for slavery.
Which,
that's another fuck conversation.
Which like,
you know,
we can talk about it,
but like for kids, that's tough.
Yeah.
It's, it falls in the same book for me as like,
the trans stuff.
We're like,
as adults, let's have a conversation.
But,
a five-year-old doesn't need to be talking about
people's genders and changing sex.
Like,
let them be kids and be,
be whatever.
Though,
it'll be fine for the time being.
If they have questions about things,
answer them then.
But don't like,
before any questions are asked,
be like,
well,
here's how trans stuff is.
they're going to read books to you.
That stuff, I'm like,
anytime we're like,
brain like,
and you can make the argument,
trans stuff and drag stuff,
isn't implicitly sexual,
but we're talking about
the changing of sexism,
fluidity of gender.
So it's like,
I just don't need young kids
need to be learning
about those things.
If they're curious,
answer questions,
but if they're not,
just let it be,
and then it'll be fine.
Anyway,
to the point of critical race theory, though,
it is
the question you brought up of
should people feel bad
about slavery in this lifetime?
It's an interesting question.
Because like this.
Because I hear the side,
there's arguments on both side of like,
if you're a white person,
and well,
there's a lot of layers to this.
Because like if you look at
the statistics around like slave owners
in the south and what the reality
of that situation was,
it was just mostly the most rich people
owned the most slaves by far.
Most families didn't.
And it's not like
a poor family who had a single slave,
again, slavery's wrong.
But in that out there,
it's not like generations later
10 generations or seven,
like someone would be benefiting
like somebody having that.
Not seeing the relationship was a long there.
As opposed to like,
my family comes from a long line of plantation
like owned hundreds of slaves.
Yeah, I could be as benefit.
Yeah, I can see.
That wealth has been passed.
I can see one there.
But just being white inherently,
I think is just a crazy thing to be like.
But the flip side though,
being black for sure,
leg down through the generations.
For sure.
Yeah.
I mean, that's,
yeah, not great.
There's, we might have to cut this,
but this is potentially,
I've heard this theory.
Well, actually, this isn't the theory.
This is how the history went down of
those, the slaves that we that ended up in America
were sold to us from black people in Africa.
Yeah.
They were like warring tribes that would have like,
you know,
I know you're going with us.
Slaves and then they sold.
And so if they don't come here,
they just exist in that area,
which you,
this is a terrible argument to make,
but I think it's slavery was a great benefit to all those black people.
Exactly.
It's such a,
there's always levels to it.
But if you're not over here being slaves,
your prisoners of war slaves in Africa.
And again, not saying it's right.
But saying that like white men are responsible,
it's like, well, yes,
but yes,
improv.
But it's like, it's also,
it was also happening originally in Africa.
So yeah, we bought them from someone.
Right.
Dude, there's this, well, there is,
I guess did, did we capture any?
That was way more rare because it was the,
the Danish who went over there were like,
oh, we'll buy these.
I don't like that.
I said, we, but yeah, anyway.
You and I buy some slaves,
but no, it is the high majority of slaves were purchased from Africans.
That had literally,
because this would happen all the time.
And like, you ever seen the movie,
oh my god, apocalyptic.
No.
So in war happens all the time,
the far you go back,
you always have like a dominating force,
a country, whatever you want to call it, tribe.
And then we go kill a bunch of smaller tribes or countries
and just take a bunch of prisoners.
And then slavery was just selling your prisoners to other people.
And that's, that's how a lot of the world worked for a long time.
It just so happened that the,
the whole,
buying them in a separate continent and going to another continent was less common.
So there's more of a jarring difference in terms of who the slavebirds to.
Yeah.
Well, I mean,
transportation is not going to be ideal either way.
But it's just the difference between,
because in that, if you say you just look at Africa in that time,
look at the amount of slavery,
it's just more monotone,
because it's just black people having black slaves that are typically prisoners of war.
Same with like all of Eastern Europe.
Used to have a lot of like the Slavic countries
or used as slaves a lot of the time.
But it was white people owning white people.
And it's, again, it's a bad thing.
But this idea that generation separated from that,
that most people should be responsible for it,
I don't know if that's true.
The issue though, to your point of
black people take it a leg down,
should there be some kind of...
That's like the reparations conversation.
Yeah, but then that gets tricky too,
because then you involve the government with orchestrating,
extracting money from one group and giving it to the other.
Based on skin color too.
Like everyone's situation is so unique.
So like to just flat take from white people and give
to black people, that's a tough policy.
This country would be some bad things that would happen if that happened, I think.
Because you got to remember that the majority of America's white people.
Right, yeah.
And if suddenly the government's like,
we're going to give you a 20% tax on top of everything and give it to
regardless of what where you come from, anything.
Yeah, we're just going to take your money.
White people in Appalachia, just like, yo.
People from Australia who came over here like anything.
And they're just like, yeah, we're just going to...
There's also tons of white immigrants here that like...
didn't have anything to do with.
Nothing.
I don't know, yeah, it's tough.
It's tough.
I genuinely feel bad that it does seem that
black people have had a leg down still from slavery.
That has just passed through the...
I think it's getting better, which is good.
I think it's gotten way better, but it's still there and that genuinely makes me sad.
But I don't know what to do about it.
I can only advocate for letting people be as free as possible
with slavery being the extra.
Because through time, then I always bring back to government stuff.
But back to the areas of kings and queens and rulers and all these people,
the freer people get with America being one of the best examples of people breaking away
from something and starting a free nation.
Then things change.
This should even out over time.
It should.
I think we're seeing it.
It's absolutely.
Compared to 50, 100 years ago.
Oh my god.
It entirely.
So the more you can just let people be free and the more they will prosper naturally.
I think if we try to force people into doing better,
the consequences way worse.
It might seem right in the moment to go, we got to move this money over to these people who...
I just don't think that's sustainable.
I think, again, it's a classic like a government policy where they go,
this is good right now.
But the consequence might be that now you have an entire nation of white people that hate black people
way more.
That stirs up resentment.
Yeah.
That's going backwards.
And it literally, and they don't even think about what happens in those situations of
now 85% of America is really against black people, which that would be bad for the record.
So yeah, let things be men.
Let people be free.
It'll work itself out.
People will find ways to be better to people.
And for the most part, when people have their needs met, people are good to people.
Just what happens.
Yeah.
So the more we can have that happen, the more everyone just wants to be good.
So anyway, what time we at?
That was beautiful, man.
Thanks, man.
We got eight minutes left.
Let's end on a somewhat of a positive note.
Okay, if I can find something in here that's...
If I can sift through it.
The drudgery, that is this list.
Festival wooks, sugar baby guys.
That's a brief one.
You know what I learned the other day?
What?
Defiberlators, don't restart your heart.
I saw at the bottom.
What do they do?
All those medical shows, bullshit.
And what do they, what do you mean?
They use those hospitals.
They do.
So defiberlators are used for when you have...
A trip.
A fib.
Okay.
So that's when your heart's like beating aratically.
Like in shows, they show someone flat lining
and then they pull out the defiberlator shock
of that would not.
Oh.
No, but...
The effect of a defibrillator is to stop your heart.
So then your natural,
electrical signal,
it's the signal takes over and like resets it.
So...
I've been CPR certified for...
Oh, fuck.
I mean, for probably 12,
because the personal trainer stuff,
I've had to be certified every time
when I retake my courses.
And the AED,
which is just essentially shock panels,
but in like little thing,
and it put patches on people,
is supposed to bring people back.
And they teach that in the course
that if someone is not responding,
you've tried CPR and they're not breathing,
you're supposed to put those on
and shock them back to life.
Okay.
So I...
It'd be...
In my head, you might be right,
but they go out of their way to make...
They say that that's way better than CPR.
Really?
Yeah, they say if you have an AED default to using that,
because that's way...
I mean, and you can look at the numbers too.
Doing CPR, like the manual pump work and breath work,
it has like a 2% effect of rate of breathing.
Okay.
All right, so I saw this on Reddit.
It was a thread.
What's something that happens in movies?
That's complete bullshit.
And that was the top answer.
Yeah.
Someone saying defibrillators don't restart your heart.
So I think the specific case they're talking about
is in shows when it's literally a flat line.
Okay.
And in that case, it probably wouldn't bring you back.
Gotcha.
But I think if you have some sort of electrical signal...
Yeah, yeah.
Fuckin' say that.
It would help.
And okay.
And it could make sense because in the CPR stuff,
I'm not listening for their heartbeat.
So you're looking for if they're breathing
and if they're responsive.
So it may very well be that it's more likely
that their heart is still doing something.
Sure.
But the whole point of CPR is trying to get their
heart moving again.
It's like manually pumping the blood.
Yeah, you're essentially doing what a heart does
through whatever you're doing.
And AED is supposed to like get it back there.
But it could be.
But yeah, CPR, they love that AED thing.
Quick story before I end, which I think is a funny thing.
During COVID, when I was headed to my CPR class,
they for some reason didn't offer...
They offered somebody online,
which I typically took.
And then this time they didn't.
So I had to go to a hi-it,
like a hotel,
and they rent out the space and some guy comes there
and teaches you CPR.
And it was during COVID times,
so all the restrictions are in place.
So everyone has to be six feet apart,
so you're spaced out in the desk
and everyone's wearing a mask.
It's all very high strung.
And the instructor is this hilarious guy.
He's just one of those guys that could have been doing
stand-up or improv somewhere.
Just a CPR teacher.
Just ripping off there.
And we're all dying.
And it gets to the point where,
because you have to do an adult one and a child one.
And it's literally like a baby doll.
And he can't come give the things to us
because of the spacing.
So at one point, he is just football hucking.
He's baby dolls.
Like, in the room's huge.
So like, yeah, it's like maybe,
I don't know, like 12 to 15 tables back.
And then you see this guy just like,
literally quarter-bashy.
He's not gonna make it.
Children just throwing them all the way back.
That's pure comedy, right?
It was so good.
The best CPR class I've ever taken.
But I won't always stick out to me.
God, we need more of that.
We need more of that.
One person at a time.
Make the world a better place.
That's right.
Hucking baby dolls.
Can't go wrong, man.
But all right.
Wrap it on that.
Yeah.
All right.
Well, until next time.
Bye.