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00:00:00   We waited so I remember when we were about to record the first episode of series one I said to introduce ourselves [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/0">TS</a>]

00:00:12   and like say who we are you know in case people have no idea who we are which is incredibly likely [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/12">TS</a>]

00:00:19   and you know you said no and you made a very compelling case for not introducing ourselves in episode one. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/19">TS</a>]

00:00:26   So we did so we did and now that episode nine tain you're saying we should introduce ourselves. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/26">TS</a>]

00:00:34   I am I am [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/34">TS</a>]

00:00:35   but I have a reason for that which is today we have been featured on the i Tunes store so there is a greater likelihood [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/35">TS</a>]

00:00:43   that there are people who are listening to this episode as their first episode who really have no idea who we are who [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/43">TS</a>]

00:00:50   just clicked on a gray high button at the top of i Tunes and I'm listening for the first time. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/50">TS</a>]

00:00:55   Hello welcome if that's you alone so I think that this is a this is a good chance to maybe do a little bit of an [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/55">TS</a>]

00:01:01   introduction. I guess how would you describe your job to people what is it that you do. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/61">TS</a>]

00:01:06   Brady nah nah I'm not falling for that. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/66">TS</a>]

00:01:09   When you when you said that way we had to introduce ourselves I specifically said that you have to go first. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/69">TS</a>]

00:01:15   Like I was trying to cut you off there trying to get rid of whatever your plan is nine and there is no plan. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/75">TS</a>]

00:01:21   There is just I just don't want to sit and either talk about myself for like twenty five minutes [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/81">TS</a>]

00:01:26   and I have you say I'm great I'm at You Tube videos or I don't want to talk about myself for like eight seconds [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/86">TS</a>]

00:01:32   and then have you talk for three hours about you know their childhood was like I want to use that line I want to know. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/92">TS</a>]

00:01:39   OK OK All right let me who you do you come here often. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/99">TS</a>]

00:01:43   Yes I do come to this corner of the Internet quite often I see to be great [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/103">TS</a>]

00:01:46   and I guess the most concise way to describe what I do now for a living is that I make informative youtube videos that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/106">TS</a>]

00:01:55   people watch is that the way I would describe what I do but I always find it a little bit. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/115">TS</a>]

00:02:00   Strange trying to describe what it is that I do [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/120">TS</a>]

00:02:03   and I find it very awkward in some social situations sometimes those kind of why I actually want to know how do you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/123">TS</a>]

00:02:09   handle this situation. What do you do. Describe describe your job for me now. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/129">TS</a>]

00:02:14   Like I'm a person who doesn't know you at all if it's a stranger like someone cutting my hair or something [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/134">TS</a>]

00:02:20   and they ask why I usually say I make You Tube videos because everyone knows what huge it is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/140">TS</a>]

00:02:26   and then if they ask what kind of You Tube videos I say kind of science the educational ones. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/146">TS</a>]

00:02:35   Sometimes they're about math so chemistry and stuff sometime in the just about cool stuff. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/155">TS</a>]

00:02:41   And then after that I kind of see where it goes from there but I just say I make You Tube videos [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/161">TS</a>]

00:02:46   and people people don't really care what other people. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/166">TS</a>]

00:02:50   People just not talk about themselves so I just give them the bare minimum [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/170">TS</a>]

00:02:55   and if they really care they can ask more questions [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/175">TS</a>]

00:02:58   and then you know like anyone I'll talk about myself for ever if they want me to I remember I was going through US [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/178">TS</a>]

00:03:05   Customs not that long ago and I like going to U.S. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/185">TS</a>]

00:03:09   Customs because they want immigration I should say because they always ask lots of questions about yourself [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/189">TS</a>]

00:03:15   and then like I have to and it's really nice like you know they're like What do you do You Tube videos [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/195">TS</a>]

00:03:19   or what kind of videos and they ask like where you've been and what you doing in the country [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/199">TS</a>]

00:03:23   and they're like they seem really interested buddies. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/203">TS</a>]

00:03:28   If it was like that sometimes and then and then it all ends very abruptly they like Ike [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/208">TS</a>]

00:03:32   and I just had to pass go back and show you a way. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/212">TS</a>]

00:03:34   But recently I was I was going through it and this guy was like What do you do on that You Tube videos [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/214">TS</a>]

00:03:41   and then he was putting like videos on You Tube and I'm not now it's pretty easy [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/221">TS</a>]

00:03:46   and then he starts asking me all these technical questions and then he asked me about like Go Pro cameras [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/226">TS</a>]

00:03:52   and it turns out he was really into like kayaking [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/232">TS</a>]

00:03:56   and then he got his i Phone it out this is at the desk in immigration. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/236">TS</a>]

00:04:00   My friend showing me all his kayaking videos and ask me for tips on how he was filming them [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/240">TS</a>]

00:04:05   and what he should do to put the minute we were led by these by the end of that I'm sure the people behind in the queue [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/245">TS</a>]

00:04:10   were pretty cheesed off [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/250">TS</a>]

00:04:11   but I musta been there for a good five ten minutes just watching videos on these I find this we are so different I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/251">TS</a>]

00:04:18   would find that both incredibly awkward and slightly terrifying. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/258">TS</a>]

00:04:24   I always want to get through that customs gate as fast as possible let me on the other side of this gate [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/264">TS</a>]

00:04:30   when I'm on the I'm on the airplane side I'm not on the you are in the countryside I feel like there's only one good [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/270">TS</a>]

00:04:36   outcome here which is walking through the gate [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/276">TS</a>]

00:04:38   and there are many ways this can go wrong if the customs guy doesn't like you or if they just you know they're bored [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/278">TS</a>]

00:04:44   and they want to send you to the special room right for interrogation. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/284">TS</a>]

00:04:47   I don't I don't like the situation at all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/287">TS</a>]

00:04:49   and if a guy was talking to me for it for a very long time I would just assume that he was stalling while the big beefy [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/289">TS</a>]

00:04:57   guys with guns are going to come out and take me away to some other place I thought I was in the to the special. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/297">TS</a>]

00:05:02   That's exactly it. No one's ever stuck with a show kayaking videos on their phone. These people are never chit chatty. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/302">TS</a>]

00:05:08   The only thing I can assume is they're just all like so I would be I would be very nervous I would be very sweaty [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/308">TS</a>]

00:05:14   and twitchy at a point like that and then of course they would feel the need to interrogate people [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/314">TS</a>]

00:05:18   and it was that was why I love talking to you because I know I think I'm a really paranoid wearing person [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/318">TS</a>]

00:05:22   and talk to you and I realize I'm pretty chilled out. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/322">TS</a>]

00:05:25   But I don't think that is paranoid [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/325">TS</a>]

00:05:27   and worrying I think that that is the appropriate response to the situation of going through customs. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/327">TS</a>]

00:05:31   Many bad things [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/331">TS</a>]

00:05:33   and only one good thing come out in that region the only time I was a little bit worried getting into the U.S. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/333">TS</a>]

00:05:39   Was not that long ago I made a video about how a lot mathematically how the N.S.A. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/339">TS</a>]

00:05:45   Was cracking into people's e-mails just about like the mathematics behind it was no political agenda it was just a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/345">TS</a>]

00:05:50   geeky video but that was the first time it occurred to me maybe making that video has put my name on some watch list [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/350">TS</a>]

00:05:56   and next time I go to the counter that is going to say. Now we don't want troublemakers like you a lot you know. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/356">TS</a>]

00:06:04   You're not patriotic or anything and that we're going to but nothing happen. Getting back to what you do. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/364">TS</a>]

00:06:09   So when you say I make in these informative videos where does conversation usually go from there. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/369">TS</a>]

00:06:15   Well I'm realizing that I might be taking the wrong strategy here because I know in person I don't really like to talk [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/375">TS</a>]

00:06:22   about what I do I feel like I would I would much rather move past this part of the conversation [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/382">TS</a>]

00:06:27   and maybe it is it's just like the customs situation. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/387">TS</a>]

00:06:30   Maybe people can sense that because it seems to me that people are always very interested in what I do [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/390">TS</a>]

00:06:35   and I end up trying to give the answers or answers that are sort of true but not exactly true [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/395">TS</a>]

00:06:42   and then trying to move the conversation right along with them people are much more interested the way I would actually [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/402">TS</a>]

00:06:46   describe it right now. I make informative You Tube videos for a living. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/406">TS</a>]

00:06:51   That's that's kind of what makes it sound like you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/411">TS</a>]

00:06:53   when you're like like safety videos like what should you do in an earthquake or how to have how to brush your teeth [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/413">TS</a>]

00:07:01   and things like that and like I don't want to pick you up or anything [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/421">TS</a>]

00:07:05   but I think if there are they are a bit better than that maybe [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/425">TS</a>]

00:07:09   but less helpful I would say my videos are definitely less helpful than that. I'm not conveying any useful advice. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/429">TS</a>]

00:07:19   I mean I guess I guess usually my videos are about I don't know geography I guess is a large part of what my videos are [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/439">TS</a>]

00:07:26   about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/446">TS</a>]

00:07:26   but they're not on any particular set topic they're just there to sort of explaining something that I think is interesting [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/446">TS</a>]

00:07:32   and that I hope other people will think I would I will go [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/452">TS</a>]

00:07:36   and then you couldn't do this because it would it would sound too much like bragging but I thought I was you. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/456">TS</a>]

00:07:43   If I was describing what you do I would probably add a few words to your description I would say he makes like like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/463">TS</a>]

00:07:49   quirky youtube videos about you know trivial but fun things unique it was quirky [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/469">TS</a>]

00:07:57   and trivia in there to to make it sound like. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/477">TS</a>]

00:08:00   It's like something that's worthy or something you have to watch in a workshop at your new job. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/480">TS</a>]

00:08:05   Yeah I guess it's funny as we're doing this this this little section here now I realize I've never just I've never been [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/485">TS</a>]

00:08:10   in a situation where I really want to big up what I do. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/490">TS</a>]

00:08:14   I haven't really given any public presentations [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/494">TS</a>]

00:08:16   or anything about what I'm doing so I haven't needed to write a formal interview. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/496">TS</a>]

00:08:20   I guess that most of the time I find myself that I like social gatherings is trying to avoid the issue which as you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/500">TS</a>]

00:08:25   mentioned people like to talk about themselves [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/505">TS</a>]

00:08:28   and my usual trick for getting around this in a conversation with somebody else. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/508">TS</a>]

00:08:33   Go for as long as you possibly can without asking the other person what it is they do. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/513">TS</a>]

00:08:41   And it's surprisingly hard to do that. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/521">TS</a>]

00:08:43   But I use this to my advantage in social situations where I don't really want to talk about my job [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/523">TS</a>]

00:08:48   and so I will refuse to ask what the other person does for a living. Forcing them to make the first move. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/528">TS</a>]

00:08:57   So they say oh what do you do for a living [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/537">TS</a>]

00:08:59   and then I can say I kind of stumbled through a terrible explanation that doesn't hopefully sound very interesting. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/539">TS</a>]

00:09:04   And then immediately end with. And what do you do for a living. And hopefully that avoids any follow up questions. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/544">TS</a>]

00:09:11   And often that works. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/551">TS</a>]

00:09:13   Why do you not want to tell people what you did you know you do a good thing and you're successful at it. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/553">TS</a>]

00:09:18   It's strange working on the Internet. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/558">TS</a>]

00:09:20   I feel like I'm a relatively private person and then [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/560">TS</a>]

00:09:24   when you do something that is on the Internet in public that everybody can see it sometimes leads to strange situations. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/564">TS</a>]

00:09:32   So I had a couple of times when I was starting in my You Tube career [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/572">TS</a>]

00:09:35   and I was much more upfront about what do you do while I make You Tube videos for a living. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/575">TS</a>]

00:09:40   There were a couple of well let's gather everybody around the computer and watch your youtube videos right now [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/580">TS</a>]

00:09:46   and I situations and that I find just horrifyingly awkward. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/586">TS</a>]

00:09:52   I dodged a bullet at a family reunion once with that there was a live Cather all of these people who you don't know. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/592">TS</a>]

00:10:00   Anything about yet you've just walked in the door [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/600">TS</a>]

00:10:02   but there are going to be maybe thirty people who want to watch now what you do for a living. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/602">TS</a>]

00:10:07   On the screen and we're all going to then talk about it so it's so uncomfortable. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/607">TS</a>]

00:10:12   Something like that so that's that's one reason why I think I have toned down necessarily talking about what I do with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/612">TS</a>]

00:10:18   with people that I don't know as I don't want this to be. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/618">TS</a>]

00:10:21   Oh really tell me your Web site let me let me look at at at your work life is it's very very strange I think being a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/621">TS</a>]

00:10:28   working on the Internet where everybody can see what you do. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/628">TS</a>]

00:10:31   It feels strange sometimes so that's kind of why I avoid it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/631">TS</a>]

00:10:35   but don't you don't you have sometimes if people ask to see your You Tube video I mean by then are probably are a shine [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/635">TS</a>]

00:10:41   about five videos of my greyhounds they're probably sick. Yeah but I'm going to spend it. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/641">TS</a>]

00:10:47   I think I think maybe I should try adopting your strategy which is to sound really into my own job [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/647">TS</a>]

00:10:54   and then people won't want to hear about it at all. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/654">TS</a>]

00:10:58   Oh let me show you some of my videos people will be like oh wait let me get a refill on my drink first [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/658">TS</a>]

00:11:02   or I wander off to the kitchen and then they won't want to see a lot maybe that's a better strategy of my own [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/662">TS</a>]

00:11:06   and I might want to try that. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/666">TS</a>]

00:11:07   I have caught one photo on my phone that I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/667">TS</a>]

00:11:10   and I have like in a folder that I can get to quickly because it comes in really handy when [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/670">TS</a>]

00:11:15   when you have to talk about your work because because the problem is you work doesn't you know you can say I'm a bit [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/675">TS</a>]

00:11:21   boring and geeky when you start talking about science and things about chemicals and mathematics [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/681">TS</a>]

00:11:26   and that so you make videos with explosion. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/686">TS</a>]

00:11:30   Yeah that's true but the picture on my phone is when we went and filmed inside the Bank of England gold bullion vote [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/690">TS</a>]

00:11:36   and the professor and I are standing in front of like all the billions and billions of pounds worth of gold. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/696">TS</a>]

00:11:42   So I say I do videos like about the elements in chemistry and things [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/702">TS</a>]

00:11:46   and people are like how can you make that interesting. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/706">TS</a>]

00:11:49   I put the picture and look at this I don't have that's not interesting. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/709">TS</a>]

00:11:55   You've got it all cued up on your phone you're ready to just flash it right in there. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/715">TS</a>]

00:11:58   I wouldn't say I had a I wouldn't say I have it. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/718">TS</a>]

00:12:00   Cued up but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/720">TS</a>]

00:12:02   and it's only if the conversation gets to a certain level of interrogation that I that I pull out the photo in my [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/722">TS</a>]

00:12:07   defense. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/727">TS</a>]

00:12:07   But but I certainly wouldn't show someone one of my videos at a party I think that would be pretty dull for them [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/727">TS</a>]

00:12:14   but I find that I find if I say handy What are the other things is that if we're running a podcast because on this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/734">TS</a>]

00:12:20   podcast one of the things that we often talk about is our work lives [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/740">TS</a>]

00:12:26   and so I do have this forum in a sense where I talk quite publicly about what I do [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/746">TS</a>]

00:12:32   or the behind the scenes of how videos went or what I was thinking about when making them [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/752">TS</a>]

00:12:36   and you do the same thing you talk about some stories behind your work so we have this hello internet podcast which is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/756">TS</a>]

00:12:42   sometimes about work sometimes it's about nothing very much at all sometimes we're just following up on things that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/762">TS</a>]

00:12:48   have happened before. We do seem I spent a lot of time talking about flags these days. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/768">TS</a>]

00:12:52   Well that was just one episode on a very surface that I might add it was that it was an episode and just a follow up [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/772">TS</a>]

00:12:59   but that wasn't a real episode we have to do some more flag future yet I think the four new listeners who have made it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/779">TS</a>]

00:13:06   this far. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/786">TS</a>]

00:13:07   If you haven't if you if you've made it this far you probably haven't figured out where the stop button is quite [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/787">TS</a>]

00:13:12   possible the show is called Hello Internet [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/792">TS</a>]

00:13:14   and it is a little bit I think of it as like a conversation with the listeners. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/794">TS</a>]

00:13:18   We talk about stuff and then we read all the comments and the feedback [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/798">TS</a>]

00:13:23   and is a very active forum where people participate and it's very much a back and forth with the audience [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/803">TS</a>]

00:13:29   but I do think that the little bit of a running joke is that the show is really really should be called to do the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/809">TS</a>]

00:13:36   talking. Subtitle. It's not waffling It's an amazing amount of content. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/816">TS</a>]

00:13:42   So sometimes we do wonder on a little bit but we do sometimes get to the actual topics at the show [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/822">TS</a>]

00:13:48   but that's that's what this part of I guess I don't know how would you describe the five years I feel like I just you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/828">TS</a>]

00:13:53   know I think it's just it is it's just take videos talking. But not necessarily about You Tube videos all the time. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/833">TS</a>]

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00:16:00   Yeah [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/960">TS</a>]

00:16:00   and I think we should break from tradition just because you know where is that maybe a couple of new people are listening. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/960">TS</a>]

00:16:05   Traditionally we start with a bit of follow up. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/965">TS</a>]

00:16:10   We haven't got a lot of follow up from previous episodes thankfully because we we cleared the decks with the last [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/970">TS</a>]

00:16:16   episode's epic follow up two hours of yellow up there is there is zero follow up now [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/976">TS</a>]

00:16:21   and I don't know if I just want you to know that the word humble brag which has been something we've talked about a bit [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/981">TS</a>]

00:16:26   lately has apparently made it into the dictionary the is the Oxford English Dictionary [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/986">TS</a>]

00:16:31   or one of those I was going to ask you which dictionary. Now who cares. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/991">TS</a>]

00:16:35   Once a year they have their they have their marketing stunt where they say here are five new words we put in the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/995">TS</a>]

00:16:40   dictionary. That's not a marketing stunt Brady that's that's them updating the language. Yeah whatever. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1000">TS</a>]

00:16:47   But how humble brick it did make it in. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1007">TS</a>]

00:16:49   Some people thought maybe it was because maybe they were reacting to it being on the podcast. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1009">TS</a>]

00:16:54   I'm sure I'm sure they were I'm sure they were. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1014">TS</a>]

00:16:56   We talked about it two weeks ago and then this week they decide it's time to put it in the dictionary. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1016">TS</a>]

00:17:01   I'm absolutely sure that's how that works. That's too much of a coincidence I think it must be us. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1021">TS</a>]

00:17:05   I think we can be much more much more confident about it when Brady typing the synonym for hunt [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1025">TS</a>]

00:17:11   and peck typing makes it into the Oxford English Dictionary. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1031">TS</a>]

00:17:14   Then I think we can claim much more credit but all in all because they at least all they at least update [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1034">TS</a>]

00:17:20   or add to the definition of free voting that will be that will be my crowning glory. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1040">TS</a>]

00:17:26   I will retire from trying to thrust new words upon the world [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1046">TS</a>]

00:17:29   when that happens I had a little thing on Twitter a couple of days ago where I was I was trying to get people to come [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1049">TS</a>]

00:17:35   up with two word humble breaks. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1055">TS</a>]

00:17:38   Could they make an entire humble brag into I'm not yeah I'm not going to harp on it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1058">TS</a>]

00:17:43   but what it did do is highlighted to me yet again that a lot of people haven't grasped what a humble brag is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1063">TS</a>]

00:17:52   and if you haven't go back [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1072">TS</a>]

00:17:53   and listen to the last episode where Gray complains for a little bit too long about people not understanding it. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1073">TS</a>]

00:18:00   You must understand the humble brag is there must be the self deprecation. Was it too long. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1080">TS</a>]

00:18:05   I'm not entirely sure it was too long. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1085">TS</a>]

00:18:07   There were no actually it was raised in the concise that was unfair it was concise. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1087">TS</a>]

00:18:11   I'm trying to look it up now to see what Oxford it was the Oxford English Dictionary I want to see what they wrote for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1091">TS</a>]

00:18:17   the humble brag definition. Yeah let me just because of quickly that's a good idea actually. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1097">TS</a>]

00:18:22   I'll look at this I like this already OK so according to the Oxford English Dictionary it is an ostensibly modest [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1102">TS</a>]

00:18:30   or self-deprecating statement whose actual purpose is to draw attention to something of which one is proud. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1110">TS</a>]

00:18:37   That's pretty much how we define that. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1117">TS</a>]

00:18:39   I think that is almost exactly our definition I do think that things are going from the show. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1119">TS</a>]

00:18:43   Yes there is a photo today. Yeah even. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1123">TS</a>]

00:18:48   Everybody even the use of ostensibly there which I think is is the real key word for yes right. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1128">TS</a>]

00:18:55   We didn't use that word does. I did use that word did I use that word. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1135">TS</a>]

00:18:59   That's why we can say that I used deprecating So together we joined forces to create that definition which was then [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1139">TS</a>]

00:19:06   just shamelessly stolen by the Oxford English Dictionary in the space of a few days [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1146">TS</a>]

00:19:11   and put into the dictionary Oxford English Dictionary. Thumbs up for me I like that a good definition yes. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1151">TS</a>]

00:19:16   Very good I was a little worried. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1156">TS</a>]

00:19:18   Thank you go into that dictionary thing for which I may be speaking of lists of words. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1158">TS</a>]

00:19:23   One other little piece of follow up last episode we talked about the list I was creating of swear words [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1163">TS</a>]

00:19:31   and flag words [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1171">TS</a>]

00:19:32   and words that cause problems problems in the You Tube comments that I was sort of using his watch words that I could [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1172">TS</a>]

00:19:40   you know make sure nothing inappropriate was happening. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1180">TS</a>]

00:19:44   You were you were making basically a blacklist for words that people can't say in the comments. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1184">TS</a>]

00:19:50   I don't want to call it a blacklist I want to call it more a flag list because if those those words can be used [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1190">TS</a>]

00:19:55   completely appropriately. I'll give you a very real example actually because. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1195">TS</a>]

00:20:00   Something I'm quite happy to talk about because the person involved has talked about it. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1200">TS</a>]

00:20:04   Professor Polly coffin my chemistry videos and parody videos has shaky hands [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1204">TS</a>]

00:20:09   and it's just a family trait he hasn't a medical problem or anything. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1209">TS</a>]

00:20:14   A lot of people put all has this guy got you know Parkinson's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1214">TS</a>]

00:20:17   or something like that making inappropriate comments about his medical condition. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1217">TS</a>]

00:20:21   Haiti Haiti has spoken in videos about he said Don't worry everyone I know got shaky hands. My health is fine. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1221">TS</a>]

00:20:27   Stop worrying about it. But sometimes people make really inappropriate comments about it. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1227">TS</a>]

00:20:33   So for example I have in some cases put the word like Parkinson's or shaky into the into the on to the list [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1233">TS</a>]

00:20:43   and that's not because I don't want people to use the word shaky [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1243">TS</a>]

00:20:46   but if they are using the word shaky I think maybe I should have a quick look to make sure they haven't said his hands [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1246">TS</a>]

00:20:53   are shaky and then go on into some diatribe about a bunch of inappropriate things. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1253">TS</a>]

00:20:59   So so it's not it's not blacklist it's you tell me what it is it's just a list of words for me to keep an eye on. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1259">TS</a>]

00:21:06   But also considering that you have thousands of videos [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1266">TS</a>]

00:21:09   and tons of comments it is probably the best name for it is the enormous amount of work for Brady list of checking over [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1269">TS</a>]

00:21:17   these coming. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1277">TS</a>]

00:21:18   You must have how many how many do you have a day to approve or check out how how much work is it for you. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1278">TS</a>]

00:21:24   I don't know because I don't go into every channel every day but it's no. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1284">TS</a>]

00:21:28   It's not it's not that because the list isn't that long. Which brings me to the follow up. Yeah. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1288">TS</a>]

00:21:33   Someone has him out in the list which I don't know if we're supposed to have this or not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1293">TS</a>]

00:21:39   but it's from a famous company and it's then a list of words that aren't allowed to be used in its kind of materials [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1299">TS</a>]

00:21:49   and codes and things like that it's a it's a technology company and and it was sent in as a spreadsheet [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1309">TS</a>]

00:21:55   and it's not just a list of words each word is apportioned. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1315">TS</a>]

00:22:00   Waiting of how bad it is and there's a big discussion of the word and there's actions to be taken if the word is found. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1320">TS</a>]

00:22:07   Under what circumstances is OK under what circumstances is it to be eliminated. And Anna is completely fascinating. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1327">TS</a>]

00:22:17   Yes So I've just opened up this spreadsheet that you sent me which is enormous. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1337">TS</a>]

00:22:24   The file sizes is one point four megabytes and it has a few thousand words on it. If I scroll down. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1344">TS</a>]

00:22:31   If I scroll down to the bottom of the spreadsheet on my computer here it's almost seven thousand words long words that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1351">TS</a>]

00:22:40   this company wants to check up on the last word on the list is the zipper sniffers which is offensive I guess it is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1360">TS</a>]

00:22:49   offensive [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1369">TS</a>]

00:22:49   but if it was funny because word studding was that funny looking through it was part part of this is boy I did not know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1369">TS</a>]

00:22:58   how many words are offensive [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1378">TS</a>]

00:23:00   and I'm learning so many new words from this list where there are not a lot of rude words [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1380">TS</a>]

00:23:05   but words I have no idea what they mean and then I have to scroll over to the side and it doesn't. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1385">TS</a>]

00:23:12   It's irritating because this company does not it does not tell you what the word means it just tells you the action to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1392">TS</a>]

00:23:19   be taken under particular context and I'm looking at some of these I think. I don't I don't know what that word means. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1399">TS</a>]

00:23:25   I would like to know. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1405">TS</a>]

00:23:27   Sometimes it tells you it doesn't tell you like the definition it would just say ah this word is a profanity we don't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1407">TS</a>]

00:23:32   we don't accept words of this but that's with words that are rude [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1412">TS</a>]

00:23:36   and that is a shame for us because we can't learn what these rude words mean [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1416">TS</a>]

00:23:40   but there are some words where there is a very very long discussion of the word [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1420">TS</a>]

00:23:46   and like like a C G P Great video scripts worth of discussion on the word for example. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1426">TS</a>]

00:23:54   Samoa is a word here on the list. So there's a lot of words that are to do with. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1434">TS</a>]

00:24:00   Politics or geography which I'm sure would take your fancy. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1440">TS</a>]

00:24:04   So you know regions or places where you know of the contentious places like the Falkland Islands and things. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1444">TS</a>]

00:24:12   But I've just I've just stumbled upon some out [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1452">TS</a>]

00:24:15   and there's a whole little description about what's on the list you know the Protectorate of Germany some of what was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1455">TS</a>]

00:24:19   known as German some out of nine hundred nineteen fourteen. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1459">TS</a>]

00:24:22   When you see an occupied the arms are not in fourteen they became commonly known as Western Samoa. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1462">TS</a>]

00:24:27   So this whole long and it continues. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1467">TS</a>]

00:24:30   So this is so for countries or places where people could be offended by what you call. These are on the list as well. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1470">TS</a>]

00:24:38   So and there are also lots of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1478">TS</a>]

00:24:40   when I first started looking at the list another thing I noticed where there were lots of numbers on the list [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1480">TS</a>]

00:24:45   and sometimes it was a number that like you know despair was a rude word like boobies or something like that. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1485">TS</a>]

00:24:54   But there are other ones that are to do with you know laws or codes that are used for drug use [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1494">TS</a>]

00:24:59   and things like that so this is clearly a list that has been made over a long time [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1499">TS</a>]

00:25:03   and a lot of thought has gone into it and it is interesting reading. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1503">TS</a>]

00:25:06   Yeah I would be I would be very curious to know how. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1506">TS</a>]

00:25:09   How many years worth of compilations of every possible piece of feedback they've ever gotten from any of their products [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1509">TS</a>]

00:25:17   where someone says oh I don't like your use of this word in this situation and then someone goes [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1517">TS</a>]

00:25:21   and adds another road to this enormous spreadsheet about what they should do under under particular circumstances. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1521">TS</a>]

00:25:27   Guess what I just found on the list was you find Holland Hollands How do you know about Holland it is to be left [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1527">TS</a>]

00:25:34   unchanged under most circumstances but it is to be replaced with Netherlands [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1534">TS</a>]

00:25:39   when is used to refer to the country of the Netherlands [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1539">TS</a>]

00:25:43   and that is all the commonly used to refer to the country of the Netherlands Holland is actually only refers to the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1543">TS</a>]

00:25:49   western region of the Netherlands. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1549">TS</a>]

00:25:51   The two provinces in this region are called North Holland and supplement the official names of the country [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1551">TS</a>]

00:25:55   and Netherlands short form and Kingdom of the Netherlands. Long form. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1555">TS</a>]

00:26:00   Say look at quickly they did that and you made a great big long video about it. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1560">TS</a>]

00:26:03   Yeah that's much better than my video that I should have just posted a video saying that you should have would have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1563">TS</a>]

00:26:11   gotten a million views. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1571">TS</a>]

00:26:16   Thank you thank you to the person who sent this to I won't name just in case we're not supposed to have it. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1576">TS</a>]

00:26:20   Yes but it is fascinating. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1580">TS</a>]

00:26:22   Yeah [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1582">TS</a>]

00:26:22   and just as a tease I would totally love to be able to post this so that everybody listening could look at it because [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1582">TS</a>]

00:26:27   it is very interesting but it has to be our little secret so that just for us [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1587">TS</a>]

00:26:32   but this thank you to whoever sent it in before we crack on can I can I have a Brady's paper cut this way. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1592">TS</a>]

00:26:39   Yeah yeah what you want to complain about this is this week's paper. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1599">TS</a>]

00:26:45   It's more of a paper grace because I don't want to I don't want to create the impression I get too upset about it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1605">TS</a>]

00:26:49   especially as you are one of the main offenders in this area. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1609">TS</a>]

00:26:53   Oh wow OK what do I do that annoys you here you know the world is not limited to me [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1613">TS</a>]

00:26:58   but I do that yeah I don't want to I don't want to come across and I want to come across the wrong way. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1618">TS</a>]

00:27:03   This is this is this week's paper for me I'm getting ready [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1623">TS</a>]

00:27:07   and I actually don't know what these things are code which probably adds is probably going to add to the grade A robot [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1627">TS</a>]

00:27:13   versus very the caveman element of this I don't like it when people send e-mails with these attachments and that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1633">TS</a>]

00:27:20   when you click on them they put something into your calendar. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1640">TS</a>]

00:27:25   Automatically Oh these are these appointment things that seems that seems inappropriate to me and I don't like it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1645">TS</a>]

00:27:33   but if you and I were it at you know you know fifteen years ago where we had a coffee shop [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1653">TS</a>]

00:27:40   or whatever they had fifteen years ago and we agreed that we were going to go [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1660">TS</a>]

00:27:44   and see a movie on Tuesday night you wouldn't then reach over and grab the my diary and turn to the page of Tuesday [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1664">TS</a>]

00:27:51   and hand write the appointment and that would be my responsibility. That's my My Space And my thing to write in. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1671">TS</a>]

00:27:59   But every. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1679">TS</a>]

00:28:00   No way Sensi when you agree to make them or do something they send you these attachments and it's like you click on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1680">TS</a>]

00:28:06   and then like some booty witchcraft happens [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1686">TS</a>]

00:28:08   and stuff being written in your calendar you can write after which graph I was thinking I've never done that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1688">TS</a>]

00:28:17   but as you were talking I realized of course very often when we schedule [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1697">TS</a>]

00:28:21   when we are going to record one of these episodes I get it in my calendar [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1701">TS</a>]

00:28:26   and then there's a little location on it to say who else is participating in this and I type in your name [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1706">TS</a>]

00:28:32   and I don't even think about it I don't even see it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1712">TS</a>]

00:28:34   but I guess the computer just emails you automatically because I realize you have complained about this before [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1714">TS</a>]

00:28:40   and I haven't paid much attention sorry it's OK I'm happy I'm happy I'm happy to ignore you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1720">TS</a>]

00:28:46   and you're not the only person who sends them and now I realize you didn't even realize you're sending them. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1726">TS</a>]

00:28:52   But and I do understand the usefulness of them [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1732">TS</a>]

00:28:54   and if I was you know you know I see the point of it I just don't like it. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1734">TS</a>]

00:29:00   Comfortable with can I ask you something you can't why do you click it I mean you must you must know that by now that a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1740">TS</a>]

00:29:06   little card icon I don't automatically I don't click them anymore I know of any of them once [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1746">TS</a>]

00:29:11   or twice in my life I don't click them but I still get it. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1751">TS</a>]

00:29:15   OK so you're not you're not complaining that it writes in your cat you're complaining that it exists. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1755">TS</a>]

00:29:20   That's what I say another reason I do sometimes click them and you're not guilty of this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1760">TS</a>]

00:29:24   but sometimes you have to click them to get the information that you made about the appointment. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1764">TS</a>]

00:29:28   Well that's just poor emailing skills on the part of the other person so you know if you need the phone number of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1768">TS</a>]

00:29:33   code for a conference call the where the meetings happening you've got to click on this thing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1773">TS</a>]

00:29:37   and then say as you click on it they've put an entry in my diary. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1777">TS</a>]

00:29:40   That's my space stay out of that as I would usually give footie which took root to witchcraft explicit computer [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1780">TS</a>]

00:29:49   instructions to do something on your own. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1789">TS</a>]

00:29:56   How do you feel about them like when you get sent them I have arranged my life. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1796">TS</a>]

00:30:00   If in such a way so that I very rarely have to take a meeting of any kind which I think is a big difference between [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1800">TS</a>]

00:30:07   your working life and my working life. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1807">TS</a>]

00:30:10   So this is not any kind of issue for me it is very very rare that I have to schedule some kind of meeting at a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1810">TS</a>]

00:30:17   particular time and that is on purpose. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1817">TS</a>]

00:30:19   So this is not a big issue for me I don't I don't see very many of those cards because I don't schedule very many I can [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1819">TS</a>]

00:30:25   vouch for that getting you to commit to make anyway would do many things buddy not true I'm sorry [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1825">TS</a>]

00:30:32   and I fully admit that I have a very difficult person to work with sometimes [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1832">TS</a>]

00:30:37   and I'm going to choose a word from this root list to describe you. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1837">TS</a>]

00:30:43   I'm going to take offense at that and then there will be another row in that spreadsheet of what to do. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1843">TS</a>]

00:30:48   You are a hunchback. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1848">TS</a>]

00:30:50   I'm going to shut this I'm going to shut this list down because it's too tempting for me just to drop in words from all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1850">TS</a>]

00:30:55   the way through the front. Fair enough you do you do would you want to have no control over your computer screen. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1855">TS</a>]

00:31:00   I have no voodoo witchcraft to force you to shut down the I don't know because you're so much more technically savvy [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1860">TS</a>]

00:31:05   than they are I don't know that even just making the Skype call hasn't given you access to things I don't want you. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1865">TS</a>]

00:31:10   Are you going through my files right now where you think it's magic when you leave the camera on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1870">TS</a>]

00:31:14   and I can still see what you're doing. Forget to turn it off. How do you see that. You left your camera on it. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1874">TS</a>]

00:31:24   That's just me not knowing I had intended off anyway. Can you see me now. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1884">TS</a>]

00:31:29   No I can see right now you are you remember to turn on a camera that starts good so I don't have to put my shirt back [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1889">TS</a>]

00:31:34   on that I am going to show you. Well you know it's been a busy week for C.D.P. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1894">TS</a>]

00:31:40   Gray when he lets me do the advertisement but here we go this week. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1900">TS</a>]

00:31:44   We'd like to thank the good people at Harry's now you probably know who Harry's are by now they're the people that make [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1904">TS</a>]

00:31:50   these razor sets with the replacement blades you can order online [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1910">TS</a>]

00:31:54   and they say they're all about giving you a great shaving experience and I'm one hundred percent on board with anyone. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1914">TS</a>]

00:32:00   Who wants to improve any experience I'm having. Now these races are much better than the ones I see on T.V. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1920">TS</a>]

00:32:04   Like in these ads for Gillette that look like these ridiculous props from a Transformers movie. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1924">TS</a>]

00:32:10   The Harry's race is a very very classy. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1930">TS</a>]

00:32:14   They come to this kind of understated elegant packaging and the handles for the races themselves a kind of nice [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1934">TS</a>]

00:32:20   and white he well balanced which I think it's important to raise a bit but what do I know. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1940">TS</a>]

00:32:26   Now if you go to Harry's website and checking them out I personally endorse [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1946">TS</a>]

00:32:31   and favor the Winston which is the one that has a sort of silvery alum in Him handle very nice matches my bathroom well [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1951">TS</a>]

00:32:38   although you're probably not trying to buy a razor to match my bathrobe anyway. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1958">TS</a>]

00:32:42   Go for the Winston if you want my advice. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1962">TS</a>]

00:32:44   Also with the Winston I think you can have your initials engraved into it which is a nice touch. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1964">TS</a>]

00:32:49   But luckily for me it comes by default with an eye for Harry's on the handle [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1969">TS</a>]

00:32:53   and my share names Heron so I'm sorted all of this aside the most important thing with Harry's I think is the cost. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1973">TS</a>]

00:32:59   They're all that keeping it affordable and the replacement blades come in at less than two dollars H. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1979">TS</a>]

00:33:05   and They're really good blades made in Germany you know they're good if they're made in Germany. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1985">TS</a>]

00:33:09   Check them out at Harry's dot com It's free just to go look at the website [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1989">TS</a>]

00:33:13   and if you said you used to buy the lovely products and decide to go ahead and buy one. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1993">TS</a>]

00:33:17   Enter the code H R I when you check out and you get a five dollar discount. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/1997">TS</a>]

00:33:22   Which with products this shape is a pretty big chunk of the process as far as I know they're only delivering in the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2002">TS</a>]

00:33:27   United States and Canada and U.S. Military locations if you're listening from there. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2007">TS</a>]

00:33:33   But hopefully that will be changing soon because I might be hitting Cymru fields here in the U.K. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2013">TS</a>]

00:33:37   The website again Harris dot com and the code H R I. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2017">TS</a>]

00:33:41   So you get that discount and the people Harry's know you came from here at our pod cast [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2021">TS</a>]

00:33:47   and by the way for people who are based on previous ads have already bought from Harry's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2027">TS</a>]

00:33:51   and sent me photos of their product. Thank you very much. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2031">TS</a>]

00:33:55   Who would've ever thought I'd end up doing a job where people send me photos from their bathrooms. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2035">TS</a>]

00:34:02   Let's talk about your video because it was really interesting. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2042">TS</a>]

00:34:05   It was excellent as always it's been hugely successful deservedly so congratulations. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2045">TS</a>]

00:34:10   Thanks [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2050">TS</a>]

00:34:11   but I was hoping maybe we talk some more about it I mean it's fifty minutes long though I mean you've you covered most [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2051">TS</a>]

00:34:18   of the bases I'd imagine but there are probably a few things I'm sure I'll have a few questions about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2058">TS</a>]

00:34:22   and I'd like to point out a few mistakes you made and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2062">TS</a>]

00:34:29   and I'm sure there are lots of things you'd like to say about it but for those who haven't seen it. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2069">TS</a>]

00:34:32   What was this really about. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2072">TS</a>]

00:34:33   This is a topic that is near and dear to my heart and has been on my mind for I was I was trying to place [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2073">TS</a>]

00:34:42   when this started and I can actually put it pretty consistently at about a decade ago when I was in college [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2082">TS</a>]

00:34:47   and came across a few things and the topic of the video is basically a bounce. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2087">TS</a>]

00:34:53   To what extent is automation and computer technology going to replace the need for human labor [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2093">TS</a>]

00:35:04   and the economy as that is the broadest way to put it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2104">TS</a>]

00:35:07   or in a more simple way you can say robots are they going to take your jobs. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2107">TS</a>]

00:35:12   That's that's kind of the more direct version of what the video is about. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2112">TS</a>]

00:35:19   You should sort of what you call I mean you can have an excellent auto humans need not apply. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2119">TS</a>]

00:35:23   But I like the robots taught him to throw but they took our jobs. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2123">TS</a>]

00:35:27   He should've Kota if you're going to be really click Baity should've put you should have called it eight ways that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2127">TS</a>]

00:35:32   robots will take your jobs. Yes yes I had a really Buzz Feed it up there. You missed a trick there. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2132">TS</a>]

00:35:38   It could have been a list video imagine how many more of you that would have gotten the sad thing is it almost [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2138">TS</a>]

00:35:43   certainly would have gotten more definite words it would have stood him pretty well I say I think of my area a million [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2143">TS</a>]

00:35:48   already I have to say I was pleasantly surprised I had no expectations for this one so I'm pretty happy about it. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2148">TS</a>]

00:35:55   So I mean it's a long video with lots of stuff in a mine. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2155">TS</a>]

00:36:00   Do we even start talking about what I wrote I don't completely agree. That's going to be my position. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2160">TS</a>]

00:36:06   OK Well let me let let's start with a start with my my position is basically that this is a really big deal coming down [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2166">TS</a>]

00:36:15   the road how much automation is going to be in place in the labor market [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2175">TS</a>]

00:36:20   and how much humans are going to be finding it very difficult to compete with machines. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2180">TS</a>]

00:36:26   That's that's my my basic thesis I think the most interesting place maybe to start this discussion is talking about the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2186">TS</a>]

00:36:37   self driving cars is that to me that is that is the one thing where I look at this and I really think. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2197">TS</a>]

00:36:45   A lot of things kind of hinge on the self driving cars [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2205">TS</a>]

00:36:49   and it really is a place where people are going to see this in their daily life in a way that lots of other kinds of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2209">TS</a>]

00:36:56   automation is hidden from view. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2216">TS</a>]

00:36:58   So I spent tons of time researching and looking up different kinds of automation and contacting companies [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2218">TS</a>]

00:37:04   and there is an enormous amount of stuff that is going on. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2224">TS</a>]

00:37:08   But it is all hidden from view in warehouses it's in labs [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2228">TS</a>]

00:37:13   and I've gotten some interesting anonymous e-mails from people who work in automating systems talking about what [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2233">TS</a>]

00:37:19   they're up to. It's all behind the scenes. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2239">TS</a>]

00:37:22   But the self driving car which I really think people should call an auto I'm going to try to make that a thing. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2242">TS</a>]

00:37:27   Speaking of Oxford English Dictionary are you listening I would very much like a lot of it to be your new word to mean [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2247">TS</a>]

00:37:33   a self driving car. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2253">TS</a>]

00:37:34   Was that your point was if you borrowed that from someone else you say using it calling out [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2254">TS</a>]

00:37:38   and calling it just an order. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2258">TS</a>]

00:37:40   As far as I know I'm I'm going to call myself coining this as we have discussed many times on the podcast. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2260">TS</a>]

00:37:47   It would not surprise me in the least if somebody else independently has has come up with this coinage [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2267">TS</a>]

00:37:53   but I really I really think that you need a different word to describe self driving cars and I spent. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2273">TS</a>]

00:38:00   Spent a while thinking about it and in my original version of the script I had it as automobiles. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2280">TS</a>]

00:38:05   I thought oh we should go back to the older term automobiles [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2285">TS</a>]

00:38:08   but I thought oh I don't like that because it's it just didn't it just didn't feel right [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2288">TS</a>]

00:38:14   and so I thought actually autos make alot more sense [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2294">TS</a>]

00:38:17   and it leaned into this whole notion of they are they are automatic transport machines they are fundamentally different [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2297">TS</a>]

00:38:24   from from cars so I don't know I don't know about that there are some it does feel right. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2304">TS</a>]

00:38:29   I think you've chosen a good word but I see problems with it. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2309">TS</a>]

00:38:32   First you know people you refer to their cars autos if they've got an automatic or a manual [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2312">TS</a>]

00:38:37   but I have never heard anyone use that phrase but I like it you know for example like if you buy you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2317">TS</a>]

00:38:44   when you buy a new car I say had people say oh did you get whatever menu and I am going to order it with me [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2324">TS</a>]

00:38:52   and say I've only heard Americans refer to them as as automatics I became me about be curious to hear from listeners [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2332">TS</a>]

00:38:58   and I mean you look in the last of our advertisement so often we don't. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2338">TS</a>]

00:39:01   Maybe it's just writing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2341">TS</a>]

00:39:02   but in classified advertisement set off in the called auto pilot has to say as you left I was going to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2342">TS</a>]

00:39:06   but that's you know you're trying to save a dollar a letter on that yeah but then [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2346">TS</a>]

00:39:10   but then that then becomes the word doesn't but that's how words sometimes abbreviations. Yes that's true that's true. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2350">TS</a>]

00:39:17   Anyway anyway that we're getting off. No you're going off track. It's a good name for it but I'm not. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2357">TS</a>]

00:39:24   I see problems with it as a code anyway. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2364">TS</a>]

00:39:26   Just because just because that's the most obvious place that we see this transition happening was that the most [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2366">TS</a>]

00:39:32   important. So I would what I think is important about autos coming into daily life. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2372">TS</a>]

00:39:44   So as we know right now self driving car it it works is is not a technical problem. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2384">TS</a>]

00:39:53   We're not imagining a future world where there will be self driving cars that work. We already have them. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2393">TS</a>]

00:40:00   Now it's very interesting I've read a lot of first hand accounts of people who have driven in them [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2400">TS</a>]

00:40:05   and in particular leave the Google cars which have more or less free rein up and down the California coast [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2405">TS</a>]

00:40:11   and throughout San Francisco and they totally work. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2411">TS</a>]

00:40:15   And the safety record now is better than human drivers over the equivalent distance. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2415">TS</a>]

00:40:20   It's really quite It's really quite impressive. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2420">TS</a>]

00:40:22   So my perspective on this is that the rollout of autos now is really much more of a legislative barrier it is no longer [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2422">TS</a>]

00:40:32   a technical barrier. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2432">TS</a>]

00:40:34   And interestingly there are a few states that already have legislation in place too I think next year make it legal for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2434">TS</a>]

00:40:43   there to be self driving cars on the road. Florida is one of those states. It was Florida. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2443">TS</a>]

00:40:49   I may have this wrong out of my head but I think the other one was Nevada. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2449">TS</a>]

00:40:52   So this is this is definitely this is definitely coming. And the reason why I think it's important is. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2452">TS</a>]

00:41:01   It's an undeniable place where human labor will just not be as necessary. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2461">TS</a>]

00:41:09   So once you have a fleet of autos in a city you don't need taxi drivers and there's lots of taxi drivers [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2469">TS</a>]

00:41:18   and they are going to be pushed out of this particular field of work. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2478">TS</a>]

00:41:22   Yeah [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2482">TS</a>]

00:41:23   and the other reason why I like to use autos because it's as a broader term is think about all of the kinds of machines [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2483">TS</a>]

00:41:30   in the world the need to move around and have human drivers. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2490">TS</a>]

00:41:34   So one of the other examples are tractors and ploughs in farm equipment [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2494">TS</a>]

00:41:39   and some very you know there are some very interesting videos I've seen again of automated farming equipment just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2499">TS</a>]

00:41:45   driving around harvesting corn. There happens to be a person in there but he is not driving. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2505">TS</a>]

00:41:51   Yeah [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2511">TS</a>]

00:41:51   and then the other one that was very very interesting is Caterpillar which is the mining manufacturing company they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2511">TS</a>]

00:41:58   and they are all. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2518">TS</a>]

00:42:00   All in on automated machines they have this whole system and you can go and watch their promo videos [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2520">TS</a>]

00:42:06   and they already have these enormous bulldozers and trucks [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2526">TS</a>]

00:42:09   and mining equipment none of which requires the humans to be in it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2529">TS</a>]

00:42:15   and the whole system requires the barest of oversight from humans. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2535">TS</a>]

00:42:20   You know that there are all of these different areas [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2540">TS</a>]

00:42:23   and to me the thing that's important about this is like this is the first wave where it's very concrete. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2543">TS</a>]

00:42:31   People can understand it. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2551">TS</a>]

00:42:33   And from my perspective the question that really needs answering is what are you going to do [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2553">TS</a>]

00:42:41   when the three million people who work in the transportation industry suddenly find themselves unemployed possibly over [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2561">TS</a>]

00:42:50   the space of five years. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2570">TS</a>]

00:42:53   You know when when cars come out I don't know how fast will actually be [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2573">TS</a>]

00:42:56   but I bet it will be pretty fast because it will be just so much cheaper they'll be a big incentive to use autos. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2576">TS</a>]

00:43:03   And I feel like that that is a moment where we as a society have to come to a question about what are you going to do [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2583">TS</a>]

00:43:10   with all of these people who are suddenly unemployed and this is not unprecedented. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2590">TS</a>]

00:43:16   You know new technologies have come along before that have that have done this. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2596">TS</a>]

00:43:22   You talk yourself about the transition from horses to the original autos the automobile. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2602">TS</a>]

00:43:28   And you know we've seen that transition. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2608">TS</a>]

00:43:31   We saw you know we've seen computers come along [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2611">TS</a>]

00:43:34   and really heavily automate things that used to be done in the ledges and by means of calculating people [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2614">TS</a>]

00:43:41   and bookkeepers you know we've seen wave after wave of this and it is up a level and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2621">TS</a>]

00:43:47   and is traumatic for millions of people but the world keeps spinning and and by and large people keep ating [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2627">TS</a>]

00:43:57   and adapting and. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2637">TS</a>]

00:44:00   But I know I mean you are arguing maybe descale is is greater than before [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2640">TS</a>]

00:44:06   but I don't know maybe they say that every time. Well we're never going to see change like this again. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2646">TS</a>]

00:44:10   Did the introduction of the computer or the introduction of you know the motor car. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2650">TS</a>]

00:44:15   Well this is this is the biggest change they could have a baby [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2655">TS</a>]

00:44:18   and then you look back twenty years later thirty years later and it's like yeah that was a big change [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2658">TS</a>]

00:44:24   and things changed and we're all still here and I could just see that happening again with the self driving cars. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2664">TS</a>]

00:44:31   Yeah I think actually the best the best comparison to make along these lines is actually the thing that I opened my [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2671">TS</a>]

00:44:36   video with very on purpose is talking about the transition from agricultural work into non agricultural work [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2676">TS</a>]

00:44:44   and so I went back. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2684">TS</a>]

00:44:46   Very helpful people at the Labor Statistics help me out with some of this stuff [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2686">TS</a>]

00:44:50   but if you go back to the eighteen hundreds I think it was about eighty percent of the population maybe was ninety [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2690">TS</a>]

00:44:57   percent of the population was directly involved in food production that that the number of people who did anything [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2697">TS</a>]

00:45:03   other than work on a farm or directly service farms was just a tiny portion of the population [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2703">TS</a>]

00:45:09   and I think you could totally make the same claim go back at that point in time and. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2709">TS</a>]

00:45:16   And tell people about OK what we're going to have improvements in farming technology which are going to allow fewer [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2716">TS</a>]

00:45:21   and fewer people to produce more and more food and people could say well you know what is everybody going to do. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2721">TS</a>]

00:45:27   And obviously we got through that transition just fine because we're here now. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2727">TS</a>]

00:45:30   Yep so I totally ignore all of that this has been a kind of rallying cry very many times throughout history. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2730">TS</a>]

00:45:40   And there is even a name for it the official name is the Luddite fallacy which is the position that are going to get [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2740">TS</a>]

00:45:49   this backwards [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2749">TS</a>]

00:45:50   but I think if you if you believe in the Luddite fallacy you believe that technology reduces the number of jobs. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2750">TS</a>]

00:45:58   I think that's the right crowd around. Very internet if it's the wrong way around. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2758">TS</a>]

00:46:01   I know what you meant but there's a name for this term [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2761">TS</a>]

00:46:05   and one of the reasons why I think that is fundamentally different this time is because I look at it this way. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2765">TS</a>]

00:46:13   You say all right we have we have all these different categories of work that humans can do [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2773">TS</a>]

00:46:19   and humans can sell their straight up physical labor you can have a guy dig a ditch just muscle power. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2779">TS</a>]

00:46:26   Yeah just straight up muscle power and you can it you can be barely cognitively functioning [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2786">TS</a>]

00:46:32   and you can still dig a ditch [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2792">TS</a>]

00:46:34   and then you move up that you keep moving up into things like white collar workers as you know OK well now this is a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2794">TS</a>]

00:46:40   thinking person's work and as a general statement the economy has has transitioned from in the first world anyway. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2800">TS</a>]

00:46:49   Physical labor jobs into more intellectual labor jobs jobs that require some kind of thinking [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2809">TS</a>]

00:46:56   and actually put driving a car in the category of jobs that require some kind of thinking. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2816">TS</a>]

00:47:01   We don't think of it that way but you need to have a mentally alert person to drive a car or an ambulance. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2821">TS</a>]

00:47:07   Yes it is like it's like the lowest kind of thinking job perhaps because I know I've I've driven quite a lot across the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2827">TS</a>]

00:47:13   country [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2833">TS</a>]

00:47:14   and you listen to audiobooks you know your mind you don't have to focus like you're a doctor for example I don't want [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2834">TS</a>]

00:47:19   the doctor listening to audiobooks while he's doing it so yeah like oh that was good. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2839">TS</a>]

00:47:24   If you're a doctor listening to this podcast please stop listening to the podcast if you are performing surgery at the. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2844">TS</a>]

00:47:29   Did not recommend that. Yeah. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2849">TS</a>]

00:47:32   Anyway with truck drivers you know they're going to be smart and know brilliance and laws [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2852">TS</a>]

00:47:36   and it's some kind of some kind of level of intellectual labor [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2856">TS</a>]

00:47:40   and so my perspective on this is that the Basically our machines for almost all of human history were just shockingly [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2860">TS</a>]

00:47:50   dumb they had no cognitive abilities whatsoever and that we are we are just getting to the point now where. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2870">TS</a>]

00:48:00   The machines are able to compete on a cognitive level with some humans and that's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2880">TS</a>]

00:48:07   and that's where you talk about a self driving car in very many ways it is a brain competition with humans which makes [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2887">TS</a>]

00:48:13   it fundamentally different from all kinds of machines that came before [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2893">TS</a>]

00:48:17   when you build a better plowed into that plow is not any smarter than the plow that was made of sticks. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2897">TS</a>]

00:48:23   If it's made of metal it's just physically stronger maybe yeah it's just physically stronger it's bigger. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2903">TS</a>]

00:48:29   I had this I had this whole bizarre section that I cut I think quite rightly which is hung on the progress of flower [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2909">TS</a>]

00:48:35   Mills over time and how like the production is like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2915">TS</a>]

00:48:38   and then I look at this later like what am I writing this for this whole thing sounds like a hell of a moment ago. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2918">TS</a>]

00:48:45   But there is a little a little clip of a flour mill that I still left in there anyway. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2925">TS</a>]

00:48:50   But if I get like a bigger better flour mill is not fundamentally different from a primitive flour mill. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2930">TS</a>]

00:48:56   Yeah and that's why I like people who say like oh I'm just engaging the Luddite fallacy when I talk about this stuff. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2936">TS</a>]

00:49:02   This to me is the real difference is like OK well humans have two kinds of labor to sell physical labor which we've [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2942">TS</a>]

00:49:09   been basically getting rid of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2949">TS</a>]

00:49:10   and we crossed that threshold I guess at the time of the lever almost in ways that that machine started being able to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2950">TS</a>]

00:49:17   outdo humans physically and then when all the cars [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2957">TS</a>]

00:49:20   and things came along so that threshold thing crossed you're saying there's another threshold now. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2960">TS</a>]

00:49:25   Nefesh oh I'm saying it's the intellectual threshold and. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2965">TS</a>]

00:49:30   And that to me is is the real difference and part part of the reason why I am I am concerned is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2970">TS</a>]

00:49:39   and I think this is this is a bit of a it is a bit of an uncomfortable conversation to have sometimes [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2979">TS</a>]

00:49:45   but I look at it another example of of a machine that is competing cognitively with humans on a low level are the self [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2985">TS</a>]

00:49:53   checkout machines that you see everywhere now in supermarkets and yours. I mean this is this is one. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/2993">TS</a>]

00:50:00   Things that really made me start thinking I need to make this video is i saw a bunch of stores around me transition to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3000">TS</a>]

00:50:06   self checkout machines. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3006">TS</a>]

00:50:07   Man I hate things that they can be sure annoying like Don't get me wrong there are there are there are troubles [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3007">TS</a>]

00:50:13   and problems with them but it doesn't matter that yeah they're more economically efficient [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3013">TS</a>]

00:50:17   and I did a tally of some of the places that I visit and in and one of the supermarkets in London alone. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3017">TS</a>]

00:50:26   I counted it up [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3026">TS</a>]

00:50:26   and I was like oh OK I just wrote these machines replaced about forty checkout registers in this one huge supermarket [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3026">TS</a>]

00:50:34   in London that I go to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3034">TS</a>]

00:50:35   and looking at all of the other places I'm like OK I know that there used to be five people at the desk over there [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3035">TS</a>]

00:50:41   and now there's one you know not not every place is doing this but enough places are doing it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3041">TS</a>]

00:50:47   and then I think OK well that's the self checkout machines are here. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3047">TS</a>]

00:50:50   We're going to have autos doing the same kind of thing start pushing people out of the labor market with taxis [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3050">TS</a>]

00:50:56   and all the rest of that. The uncomfortable thing to me is. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3056">TS</a>]

00:51:03   What is it that we're going to have these people do that a machine won't be able to do better. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3063">TS</a>]

00:51:12   Because if you take someone whose job is retail [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3072">TS</a>]

00:51:17   or you take someone whose job is long haul trucking What are you really going to do with millions of people who used to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3077">TS</a>]

00:51:26   do those jobs. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3086">TS</a>]

00:51:28   And how are you going to transition them to something else when all of this kind of work can be automated [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3088">TS</a>]

00:51:37   when the machines keep getting better and better and can compete with humans on different levels. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3097">TS</a>]

00:51:43   And I I sometimes get mad because I get into arguments with people who keep saying things like oh you know they'll [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3103">TS</a>]

00:51:50   these people they'll go get educated and go to college they'll learn how to become app developers for the App Store [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3110">TS</a>]

00:51:56   or they'll learn how to make web pages are you know they'll learn how to do. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3116">TS</a>]

00:52:00   All of these things and I and I always feel like that's a nice story to tell yourself [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3120">TS</a>]

00:52:05   and maybe some of those people will do that but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3125">TS</a>]

00:52:07   when you start talking about numbers in the millions of people you're not going to transition a million guys who were [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3127">TS</a>]

00:52:14   truck drivers into white collar work somewhere in an office I think we have to face the fact that that is that is not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3134">TS</a>]

00:52:23   practical and I mean yeah you know you make the case brilliantly if both now and in your video and quite possibly [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3143">TS</a>]

00:52:32   but I may very well be wrong I always want to be clear about this. I'm very open to the notion of being wrong. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3152">TS</a>]

00:52:37   Is it possible this is also a failure of your imagination. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3157">TS</a>]

00:52:42   I mean two hundred years ago if you'd gone to those people plowing the fields [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3162">TS</a>]

00:52:47   and said don't worry because in two hundred years will be working in call centers and this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3167">TS</a>]

00:52:53   and that that was a call center. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3173">TS</a>]

00:52:56   All this going to be this invention called the telephone and then this and then that and then this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3176">TS</a>]

00:52:59   and their heads would explode you know just like that person in the field two hundred years ago [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3179">TS</a>]

00:53:04   and in two hundred years you look at all the jobs people are doing and go Well I would never even thought of that. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3184">TS</a>]

00:53:10   Yes And of course a machine can't do that yet because you know I hadn't thought of it. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3190">TS</a>]

00:53:13   Yeah I mean this is maybe maybe I'm clinging on to a wispy thread of hope and there isn't going to be an invention [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3193">TS</a>]

00:53:21   or things that would do this but. It's always happened before. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3201">TS</a>]

00:53:25   Yes it has always happened before and it's funny because when [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3205">TS</a>]

00:53:28   when I first transition from being a teacher in to being a You Tube explainer person as I do now I guess I remember I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3208">TS</a>]

00:53:36   was very fascinated with the new economy [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3216">TS</a>]

00:53:40   and all these these kinds of jobs that have been coming up I think like wow I'm I'm making a full time living now on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3220">TS</a>]

00:53:47   You Tube and at the time that wasn't even five years old that the whole idea that there were ads on You Tube [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3227">TS</a>]

00:53:53   and You Tube would share the revenue with people who make the videos that didn't even exist for very long at the time [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3233">TS</a>]

00:53:59   that I started. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3239">TS</a>]

00:54:00   It's it was it was quite amazing to me that this is this new kind of work that could happen [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3240">TS</a>]

00:54:05   and I started looking around at all different kinds of look at all these new jobs isn't this interesting there are [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3245">TS</a>]

00:54:09   people who make apps for the i Phone and all the kind of stuff. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3249">TS</a>]

00:54:12   One of the things that I thought one day was ha I wonder how many people make a living on You Tube full time [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3252">TS</a>]

00:54:20   and how many people are like me around the world [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3260">TS</a>]

00:54:23   and if you're on the inside of You Tube you can do some ballpark numbers of heart that are harder to do on the outside [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3263">TS</a>]

00:54:29   but you know you can you can gather data about the views on channels and there's a whole bunch of stuff you can do. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3269">TS</a>]

00:54:36   The bottom line is my back of beyond the loop calculation was not talking about companies like Disney who happened to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3276">TS</a>]

00:54:43   be on You Tube and not talking about channels like vivo that happened to be on You Tube [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3283">TS</a>]

00:54:48   but people whose job is like mine making You Tube videos how many people like that can there be around the world. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3288">TS</a>]

00:54:55   My ballpark was maybe somewhere around two thousand people. And so that that was kind of my guess about that. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3295">TS</a>]

00:55:06   I feel really exclusive now. Yeah that's very very cool. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3306">TS</a>]

00:55:10   The other thing that that actually this is something that I talk about in a future podcast [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3310">TS</a>]

00:55:14   but there's been a bunch of interesting articles making their way around the Internet right now about how many people [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3314">TS</a>]

00:55:20   make a full time living developing applications for the i Phone an i O. S. On Apple. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3320">TS</a>]

00:55:25   Yes like the App Store is this huge market [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3325">TS</a>]

00:55:27   and they always have these comical numbers about you know there's twenty zillion apps in the App Store [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3327">TS</a>]

00:55:33   and then the question is OK but how many people make a full time living at that they get not companies but individuals. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3333">TS</a>]

00:55:40   And I haven't seen anybody try to ballpark it. I'd be really curious if somebody could. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3340">TS</a>]

00:55:46   But the clear thing from these articles is that the number of independent developers making a living on the App Store [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3346">TS</a>]

00:55:52   is a tiny number of people it is a very small number of people. So when I was thinking about realizing how. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3352">TS</a>]

00:56:00   A few people did You Tube I had this growing suspicion that while there are many new kinds of jobs I don't think that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3360">TS</a>]

00:56:07   those new kinds of jobs employ a significant amount of people. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3367">TS</a>]

00:56:13   And again through some people at the Bureau of Labor Statistics this information was confirmed to me that basically [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3373">TS</a>]

00:56:20   jobs that are new within the last hundred years are very small portions of the workforce [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3380">TS</a>]

00:56:26   and if you look at what people do they are jobs that have been around for a long time in one form or another. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3386">TS</a>]

00:56:34   And so that's why I worry that this this refrain of new jobs will come and save us. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3394">TS</a>]

00:56:41   Doesn't doesn't strike me as being borne out by the data it's actually there are very few jobs over time [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3401">TS</a>]

00:56:48   and a lot of the old jobs that make up about half the labor force seem to be easy targets for automation like within [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3408">TS</a>]

00:56:55   our grasp right now for stuff that works in the labs. So that's kind of my thoughts on the new the new jobs thing. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3415">TS</a>]

00:57:02   Something. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3422">TS</a>]

00:57:03   Apologies if this was covered in the video but I do know something I took away from the video [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3423">TS</a>]

00:57:07   and it might be a really naive question because I know you do your bit more if I was sort of economics [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3427">TS</a>]

00:57:13   and things like this than I But another thing that I thought might save our bacon was this you know I want things that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3433">TS</a>]

00:57:20   save our bacon simply go right ahead. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3440">TS</a>]

00:57:25   And I don't and I'm sure there's somebody you know normal word for this and you'll laugh at me for even saying it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3445">TS</a>]

00:57:30   but I am not stupid and I realize that companies will maximize their profits and automate and automate [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3450">TS</a>]

00:57:37   and cut down their labor force as much as they can to squeeze every last penny out of out of their business. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3457">TS</a>]

00:57:45   But does there come a point where they make so many people unemployed [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3465">TS</a>]

00:57:48   and society could fall into such ruin that they actually can no longer start hurting their customer base [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3468">TS</a>]

00:57:56   and therefore they start to employ. People just to sustain themselves. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3476">TS</a>]

00:58:02   For example if McDonald's could completely automate the cooking process completely and you just went to an A.T.M. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3482">TS</a>]

00:58:08   To get a cheeseburger. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3488">TS</a>]

00:58:10   If eventually there was just no one working anymore [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3490">TS</a>]

00:58:14   and no one had money there'd be no one left to buy the cheeseburgers. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3494">TS</a>]

00:58:17   Is that kind of a self correcting element to the economy as a whole where business went completely. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3497">TS</a>]

00:58:25   Suresh society into the ground because they need society to sustain their business. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3505">TS</a>]

00:58:30   OK So you've actually you've actually jump to the thing that I was going to talk about at the end [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3510">TS</a>]

00:58:34   but I think what let's do it now. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3514">TS</a>]

00:58:36   So this this comes right to the right to the point where I am on board with you that that was one of the reasons why I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3516">TS</a>]

00:58:44   made this video is I wanted to contribute to a general conversation of talking about what are we going to do with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3524">TS</a>]

00:58:53   masses of unemployed people [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3533">TS</a>]

00:58:55   and under the current system you are you are kind of right that you can't have a system where. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3535">TS</a>]

00:59:03   Almost nobody is employed but there are still massive companies. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3543">TS</a>]

00:59:07   It gets very strange economically very quickly that there are ways under which it can work [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3547">TS</a>]

00:59:12   but yes that there are there are certainly problems with very high unemployment rates. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3552">TS</a>]

00:59:18   But at some point I don't know what the time frame is going to be we will be in a world where technology is just so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3558">TS</a>]

00:59:27   advanced that basically all of human labor is almost irrelevant that that would be my prediction. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3567">TS</a>]

00:59:34   That might be a hundred year time frame a two hundred year time frame [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3574">TS</a>]

00:59:38   when we're talking about literally no humans need to work to do anything. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3578">TS</a>]

00:59:42   So for those who haven't seen Gray's videos Well I mean he talked about you know newspaper articles being written [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3582">TS</a>]

00:59:47   automatically in the end that things that we don't even things we think are ridiculous to be done automatically [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3587">TS</a>]

00:59:52   actually happening automatically already writing music doing doing legal work there's all kinds of terrifying stuff. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3592">TS</a>]

01:00:00   That's being done that way. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3600">TS</a>]

01:00:01   So OK But here's the thing if we could magically jump to that point I feel like well that's not really a problem. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3601">TS</a>]

01:00:08   If all human life is not required because then you're in what is called a post scarcity economy where our current [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3608">TS</a>]

01:00:16   economy is set up as a way to manage limited resources we have. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3616">TS</a>]

01:00:22   We exchange money for goods and services because you have a limited amount of time [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3622">TS</a>]

01:00:27   and there's a limited amount of production that can happen this is the story of all of human history. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3627">TS</a>]

01:00:31   But if you transition to a place where robots can you know they can grow your food [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3631">TS</a>]

01:00:35   and they can run the solar plants to generate the electricity to run the robots you know well then suddenly Why would [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3635">TS</a>]

01:00:41   people pay for anything. If you can have automation just one hundred percent of the way. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3641">TS</a>]

01:00:46   So that's that's like a nice fantasy land but the gist of the poll and drink cocktails. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3646">TS</a>]

01:00:52   Yes It's like the Wally World right the robots are taking charge of everything and we get nice [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3652">TS</a>]

01:00:57   and fat in our luxury spaceship but I'd love to be in that role by the way maybe not have had a treadmill [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3657">TS</a>]

01:01:03   but hopefully hopefully they'll be drugs to make me skinny. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3663">TS</a>]

01:01:06   But anyway that's what I want actually if you're on a treadmill if you want to do it. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3666">TS</a>]

01:01:11   But but but my concern [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3671">TS</a>]

01:01:13   and I have to say I am so I am that to be clear here I am very long term optimistic on humankind. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3673">TS</a>]

01:01:22   I am very short term worried for exactly the kinds of problems that you bring up which is. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3682">TS</a>]

01:01:29   What happens as the unemployment rate goes up because there's there are all of these incentives for companies to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3689">TS</a>]

01:01:39   automate work and to increase the unemployment rate. And any company that doesn't go along with this. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3699">TS</a>]

01:01:46   It's it's like a tragedy of the commons situation or it's the prisoner's dilemma [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3706">TS</a>]

01:01:51   but they've been the one company that doesn't go along with it just pushes itself out of business faster because of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3711">TS</a>]

01:01:57   impeding with cheaper companies. You can't hold back this tide. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3717">TS</a>]

01:02:03   And so I don't think that there is a self correcting factor [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3723">TS</a>]

01:02:07   and I think we're in an interesting position where OK we're standing in today's society [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3727">TS</a>]

01:02:12   and you can look at maybe a quasi utopian future but between us and there is a pit of doom. Yeah. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3732">TS</a>]

01:02:20   Of dangerous situations because you cannot have if you imagine particularly American society exactly as it is now [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3740">TS</a>]

01:02:29   but you turn the unemployment dial up to fifty percent. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3749">TS</a>]

01:02:33   Yeah that's riots in the streets level of unemployment right now. That is people can't get food this is a huge problem. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3753">TS</a>]

01:02:41   Levels of unemployment. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3761">TS</a>]

01:02:43   And so this is this is my concern about what are we going to do in the transition phase [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3763">TS</a>]

01:02:48   and I'm going to be very very conservatively say the transition phase is like the most like a twenty year phase that we [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3768">TS</a>]

01:02:56   need to be worried about. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3776">TS</a>]

01:02:57   I actually my gut feeling is this is more of like a ten year timeframe that we need to be worried about this stuff. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3777">TS</a>]

01:03:04   But there is there is definitely a human tendency to overestimate change in the short run [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3784">TS</a>]

01:03:09   and then to underestimate change in the long run. So I may be a little bit. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3789">TS</a>]

01:03:14   That number those numbers may be shorter than they really are [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3794">TS</a>]

01:03:16   but that's kind of what I mean by I'm short term worried which is a twenty year timeframe. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3796">TS</a>]

01:03:21   But long term very optimistic I think all of this stuff is good [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3801">TS</a>]

01:03:24   but there's a lot there's a lot of pubs that start you were going to ask me something. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3804">TS</a>]

01:03:31   I can hear you breathe and you're like my wife you can I'm watching like on the Skype right now. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3811">TS</a>]

01:03:37   I'm covering the cameras to get the feel of the whole time you're not my wife they are like she can just tell from the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3817">TS</a>]

01:03:45   way like I Google my name. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3825">TS</a>]

01:03:46   Exactly what about just getting into that this would be a very popular thing to suggest [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3826">TS</a>]

01:03:52   but I'm sure some think that you know is often talked about could there be could legislation or regulation. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3832">TS</a>]

01:04:00   They have a case here. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3840">TS</a>]

01:04:01   Is there a reason that governments couldn't come to our rescue [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3841">TS</a>]

01:04:04   and ban a certain level of automation just for the greater good. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3844">TS</a>]

01:04:09   Yes So this this is the reverse problem of the company situation. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3849">TS</a>]

01:04:13   And here here's my view on technology I think technology is almost a technological progress I should say is it's almost [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3853">TS</a>]

01:04:25   like like a nuclear reaction in that one once it gets started it is going to keep spiraling [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3865">TS</a>]

01:04:35   and there is nothing that you can do to kind of hold this back as long as you have groups of people anywhere in the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3875">TS</a>]

01:04:42   world this is the kind of reaction that is going to occur and it takes place faster [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3882">TS</a>]

01:04:47   and the situation with trying to to ban or limit technology [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3887">TS</a>]

01:04:52   or what I mentioned in the video is talking about unions try to do the same thing to hold back the progress. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3892">TS</a>]

01:04:59   Society in some ways it's like a terrible way for anything you need. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3899">TS</a>]

01:05:03   I don't mean that you can because I've always been told I hate these weekends [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3903">TS</a>]

01:05:06   and this forty hour work week is just terrible. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3906">TS</a>]

01:05:08   But I meant to say but you know what I mean trying to limit the amount of jobs being lost [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3908">TS</a>]

01:05:14   and even to say you know in America you convinced the country to to legally prohibit something like the thing that I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3914">TS</a>]

01:05:24   showed which is that the Baxter robot which is a very human like robot that can do a lot of very simple task in which [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3924">TS</a>]

01:05:31   they were just banning that kind of stuff. Yeah. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3931">TS</a>]

01:05:33   Well [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3933">TS</a>]

01:05:34   and in the United States through its tremendous political pressure convinces its NATO allies to all join on board [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3934">TS</a>]

01:05:40   and then it starts leaning on you know the world organization the more people that you get to sign on to technology ban [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3940">TS</a>]

01:05:47   the more valuable the technology is to the countries that don't sign on. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3947">TS</a>]

01:05:52   Yeah like that that's all you have done is make it more valuable for the people who don't want to participate in this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3952">TS</a>]

01:05:59   ban. And then we're going to quarantine ourselves situation. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3959">TS</a>]

01:06:04   Well now this is it is almost like you're talking about a totalitarian society is necessary to halt progress within its [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3964">TS</a>]

01:06:14   borders. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3974">TS</a>]

01:06:15   Yeah you just you cannot possibly do that especially if people are traveling you know you are leaving the country [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3975">TS</a>]

01:06:21   and you come back you know then it's almost like a North Korea situation where you leave [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3981">TS</a>]

01:06:26   and you won't believe all the robots [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3986">TS</a>]

01:06:28   and the technology outside of this country borders like what you know I got I got to get a message back to my family to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3988">TS</a>]

01:06:33   you know to make make a run for Mexico right. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3993">TS</a>]

01:06:36   If the United States is completed I mean you know you make a good you make a joke about that about like a North Korean [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/3996">TS</a>]

01:06:41   person being amazed by the technology outside their borders and at the moment that is a joke [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4001">TS</a>]

01:06:46   but the joke would turn the other way really quickly if in twenty years like you say they go from outside North Korea [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4006">TS</a>]

01:06:52   and all they see is riots in the Straits unemployed people in these wonderful technology. Yeah. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4012">TS</a>]

01:06:57   So could the shoe could be on the other foot very quickly. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4017">TS</a>]

01:07:00   Yes Yes And that is that is my concern and I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4020">TS</a>]

01:07:04   and I I I really do think that the unemployment situation from automation is. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4024">TS</a>]

01:07:15   I'm going to lay it out that I think this is one of the biggest challenges that humanity is going to face. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4035">TS</a>]

01:07:21   That's what I think this is I think this is a big big deal [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4041">TS</a>]

01:07:26   and we are we often talk about how I don't really follow the news for example. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4046">TS</a>]

01:07:31   It's because part of it is I think that the things that are talked about daily in the news like don't are not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4051">TS</a>]

01:07:36   necessarily big scale things to worry about and from. So it's like this is the thing to be discussing. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4056">TS</a>]

01:07:43   Now this you know this is this is a really big societal changing kind of thing that needs to be is this a bigger issue [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4063">TS</a>]

01:07:50   than like oil or like water supply and things like that. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4070">TS</a>]

01:07:54   I would say so because those are those are issues of resource management. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4074">TS</a>]

01:08:00   Which are all caught up in the nature of what is a level of technology available now. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4080">TS</a>]

01:08:06   Those are those are definitely issues I'm not denying that they are [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4086">TS</a>]

01:08:09   but they are they are like a byproduct of the central issue which is technology [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4089">TS</a>]

01:08:14   and I've always held the opinion that technology is really the driving force behind history [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4094">TS</a>]

01:08:19   and I think we're really at one of these moments now where we just we need to be. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4099">TS</a>]

01:08:25   I was saying on Twitter that people were taking my video as being very pessimistic [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4105">TS</a>]

01:08:30   and I didn't really mean it that way I was aiming for it to be quite neutral like to inform people about this issue. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4110">TS</a>]

01:08:37   But I was trying very consciously to not have it be a Isn't this the most terrible thing in the world it was more like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4117">TS</a>]

01:08:44   oh we need to talk about this kind of thing. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4124">TS</a>]

01:08:46   And my my position really is that if we play our cards right this could be humanity's greatest moment. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4126">TS</a>]

01:08:54   But my concern is that well we'll stuff it all up [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4134">TS</a>]

01:08:57   and end up with it like a riot in the streets situation so I want to see what just playing our cards right look like. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4137">TS</a>]

01:09:05   Yeah that's a that's a difficult question isn't it. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4145">TS</a>]

01:09:10   So here's here's here's the way I want to walk into this in the video I made a very conscious choice to not talk about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4150">TS</a>]

01:09:18   potential solutions. At the end of that video you know I depend on you for solutions. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4158">TS</a>]

01:09:23   That's what that's what it takes you all the time and if I don't put it off where should I go. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4163">TS</a>]

01:09:27   I Phone cover should I buy. If you haven't got the answer. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4167">TS</a>]

01:09:31   Well I mean this is this is a case where I'm going to I'm going to start before before I get to the end I might as well [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4171">TS</a>]

01:09:36   say right now that I don't have answers to this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4176">TS</a>]

01:09:38   but here's the way I want to log into this is I've been kind of talking about this topic with people in my life [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4178">TS</a>]

01:09:46   and co-workers [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4186">TS</a>]

01:09:48   and just people of interest for a decade because this is just this is really been a great interest of mine [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4188">TS</a>]

01:09:58   and I've noticed it work. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4198">TS</a>]

01:10:00   During a pattern in all of these conversations which is that getting people even on the on board the know this time is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4200">TS</a>]

01:10:10   really different technological change is different from the agricultural revolution. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4210">TS</a>]

01:10:15   Train is hard enough as it is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4215">TS</a>]

01:10:18   and I was always really aware that if it if it then if the conversation even if I got them on board part one if we [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4218">TS</a>]

01:10:26   immediately dove into part two of the conversation which is what do we do. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4226">TS</a>]

01:10:30   Suddenly what we're actually having is a conversation about contemporary politics. Yeah. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4230">TS</a>]

01:10:36   Oh well now I'm talking about what is this person's feelings about political situations right now [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4236">TS</a>]

01:10:43   and then I often saw people undo changing their mind about technological problems because it disagreed with their [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4243">TS</a>]

01:10:52   politics as well as relates to the current situation right now. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4252">TS</a>]

01:10:57   And so that's why I did not want to connect those two parts because I've seen people unconvinced themselves often [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4257">TS</a>]

01:11:03   enough [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4263">TS</a>]

01:11:05   when what you know so much out of denial like I say I suddenly they're confronted with something else they don't like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4265">TS</a>]

01:11:09   and that is the head in the sand. Yeah well you know every everybody does this which is you. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4269">TS</a>]

01:11:17   It is very much human nature when you're kind of forced to draw a conclusion that you don't like to then go back [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4277">TS</a>]

01:11:23   and try to change the premises that that brought you to this location [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4283">TS</a>]

01:11:27   and in my experience the way it has worked much better [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4287">TS</a>]

01:11:31   when talking to people is get them on board the automation train and just kind of leave it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4291">TS</a>]

01:11:38   and then it sinks in with people [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4298">TS</a>]

01:11:41   and then you can have a much better conversation about well what are we going to try to do for this sort of thing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4301">TS</a>]

01:11:47   and be a pain but what are we going to do. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4307">TS</a>]

01:11:51   Well I guess I think that maybe you haven't thought about it because you haven't had enough conversations out of those [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4311">TS</a>]

01:11:56   ten years long enough. I have definitely thought about it but. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4316">TS</a>]

01:12:00   Here here is the change that I think needs to happen in people's minds is we need to stigmatize particular feelings [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4320">TS</a>]

01:12:15   about the unemployed. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4335">TS</a>]

01:12:18   And that's that's a big issue because right now most people I talk to even [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4338">TS</a>]

01:12:25   when we were recording this it's the middle of a recession which let me circle back to later. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4345">TS</a>]

01:12:31   People have very negative feelings towards the unemployed that oh you know why why aren't they working. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4351">TS</a>]

01:12:38   Why don't they find a job why don't they try harder to find a job. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4358">TS</a>]

01:12:42   And those feelings can always be true for an individual. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4362">TS</a>]

01:12:48   Everybody has like a cousin Earl who's just you know never never tries very hard anything is a total bomb [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4368">TS</a>]

01:12:55   and isn't looking for work and is just like a total mooch on society. Everybody knows somebody like that. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4375">TS</a>]

01:13:01   Your cousin doesn't listen I don't think you listen. But there are always individuals like that. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4381">TS</a>]

01:13:08   I don't deny that that's the case. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4388">TS</a>]

01:13:09   Yeah but it's a very different case when you start looking structurally at the whole economy and I think we are we are. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4389">TS</a>]

01:13:17   The reason why in part the reason why I made this video now is I think we really are in the beginning phases of this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4397">TS</a>]

01:13:22   thing called structural unemployment where people just will not be able to find a job. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4402">TS</a>]

01:13:28   It doesn't matter how good the economy goes. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4408">TS</a>]

01:13:31   And under those circumstances I think we have to start viewing people not as unemployed with the implication that oh if [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4411">TS</a>]

01:13:40   they only tried harder they could find jobs that don't exist. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4420">TS</a>]

01:13:44   Given their set of skills [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4424">TS</a>]

01:13:47   and instead we have to look at them as almost as unemployable that there is there is nothing that this person can do to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4427">TS</a>]

01:13:57   support themselves given their. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4437">TS</a>]

01:14:00   Our ability [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4440">TS</a>]

01:14:00   and given the current level of technology that they cannot outcompete a machine in the things that they're able to do [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4440">TS</a>]

01:14:07   that are economically productive. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4447">TS</a>]

01:14:09   And so OK so like we're here we are we're walking towards this right [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4449">TS</a>]

01:14:13   and then at this stage if you come along to this point and agree that certain kinds of people are unemployable. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4453">TS</a>]

01:14:20   The question we have to ask ourselves is well are we going to help those people or are we going to say tough luck. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4460">TS</a>]

01:14:31   You get to starve to death on the streets because you are not economically viable. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4471">TS</a>]

01:14:35   And the way I have phrased that you might feel where which we have with that is I mean you know if society is anything [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4475">TS</a>]

01:14:42   society is about setting the minimum standards below which we will not let people fall. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4482">TS</a>]

01:14:49   If people are unemployable do we help them or do we leave them on their own and my position is that we help them. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4489">TS</a>]

01:14:56   But that that's what society is. You don't just you don't just abandon people because they're not economically viable. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4496">TS</a>]

01:15:05   They're still people. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4505">TS</a>]

01:15:07   So that like this is where we are this is where we walk into but then this not are not totally how capitalism works. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4507">TS</a>]

01:15:13   Yeah but see this is this is the moment [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4513">TS</a>]

01:15:15   when in many of these conversations it starts becoming like so are you a socialist boy feel like. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4515">TS</a>]

01:15:23   No I'm not a socialist I this is this is not my like I haven't been sneakily trying to turn it over into the Soviet [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4523">TS</a>]

01:15:32   States of America like this is not this is not my secret plan here but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4532">TS</a>]

01:15:36   but my my the reason why I think that happens is because people look at it with the current economic situation [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4536">TS</a>]

01:15:44   and they look at the current things. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4544">TS</a>]

01:15:46   So what do you want to do do you want to raise taxes right now to pay for all of these people [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4546">TS</a>]

01:15:51   and my position is I'm not talking about right now. What I'm talking about is as the unemployment rate rises. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4551">TS</a>]

01:16:00   What are we going to do. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4560">TS</a>]

01:16:02   Because my my thought on this is that the current level of technology that we are in it increases income inequality [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4562">TS</a>]

01:16:12   and so if you have increasing amounts of automation what you should find as a society is that there are fewer [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4572">TS</a>]

01:16:20   and fewer people who are collecting basically more and more of the resources of the society [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4580">TS</a>]

01:16:26   and I don't even mean that on an individual level. I even mean that on a company level. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4586">TS</a>]

01:16:31   Yes the one of the things that is very fascinating. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4591">TS</a>]

01:16:34   There's a book that people should should check I mean there are many books on the subject [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4594">TS</a>]

01:16:38   but one of which is particular interesting is called Average is over by Tyler Cowen I think is how you say his last [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4598">TS</a>]

01:16:44   name and he goes through and talks about what two new companies look like. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4604">TS</a>]

01:16:51   And one of the things that is very interesting is saying OK let's take a look at the companies on the Fortune five [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4611">TS</a>]

01:16:55   hundred list. And over the last twenty years in particular. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4615">TS</a>]

01:17:01   The number of employees per revenue dollar generated that ratio has just skyrocketed. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4621">TS</a>]

01:17:08   So you have companies like Apple which have relatively very very few employees [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4628">TS</a>]

01:17:13   but Apple is sitting on the world's most gigantic pile of money they have they have so much money [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4633">TS</a>]

01:17:19   but their company is very very few people. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4639">TS</a>]

01:17:22   Whereas when you go back in time [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4642">TS</a>]

01:17:23   and you look at the biggest companies in the world you know in the one nine hundred sixty S. I think it was G.E. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4643">TS</a>]

01:17:28   and It was Ford and they employed hundreds of thousands of people. But Apple is like two thousand people. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4648">TS</a>]

01:17:36   It's some comically small amount of people and it's hugely more profitable than those old companies were [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4656">TS</a>]

01:17:42   and it's the same with a just a ton of companies on the Fortune five hundred. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4662">TS</a>]

01:17:46   So this is what I mean by a kind of income inequality I don't even just mean particularly rich doods [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4666">TS</a>]

01:17:50   but just tiny companies can and UPS are absorbing an enormous amount of wealth. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4670">TS</a>]

01:17:56   So what's going to happen to Apple when there's only five people left on earth that can afford. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4676">TS</a>]

01:18:00   An i Phone because we're all starving in the streets [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4680">TS</a>]

01:18:02   and punching each other in the face as income inequality rises because of automation [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4682">TS</a>]

01:18:10   and because you have large numbers of unemployed. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4690">TS</a>]

01:18:13   The only way to avert the riots is that you have to start talking about providing a minimum level of security to the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4693">TS</a>]

01:18:24   people who are unemployed or the people who are unemployable. That is the like. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4704">TS</a>]

01:18:29   Let's keep the wheels on the cart solution because as I said before I think you can't you can't stop companies from [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4709">TS</a>]

01:18:36   becoming more efficient. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4716">TS</a>]

01:18:38   But if you leave that indefinitely you can end up in that giant pit of doom where there are riots in the streets. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4718">TS</a>]

01:18:43   So you need some kind of countervailing force to that. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4723">TS</a>]

01:18:47   So I know you're trying to sort of be you chew on the issue and you know you're not claiming to have all the answers [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4727">TS</a>]

01:18:52   but to push you a bit more make you president gray for just a little bit longer. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4732">TS</a>]

01:18:56   KING I need to be king in these situations I need unilateral control with military force behind me. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4736">TS</a>]

01:19:02   Because on one hand it feels a bit like you're saying this is happening people. Stop stop ignoring it. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4742">TS</a>]

01:19:07   You know these cars are driving in California right now. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4747">TS</a>]

01:19:10   But on the other hand you're using a lot of language like we need to start thinking about we need to think about the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4750">TS</a>]

01:19:15   future you know we don't need to do anything now but we need to start thinking about what we do. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4755">TS</a>]

01:19:20   It says to me that we need to be doing something now. I guess that's what we need to be doing now I guess. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4760">TS</a>]

01:19:25   I guess this is for for the historical record my need to be thinking about a time scale is basically between now [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4765">TS</a>]

01:19:33   and the point at which self driving cars are legal on the road not that quick that by the sounds of it yes that is what [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4773">TS</a>]

01:19:41   I mean by that we need to be thinking about. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4781">TS</a>]

01:19:43   I am not putting the we need to be thinking about this for five years kind of issue [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4783">TS</a>]

01:19:47   and I literally mean this like today. So what do we need to do do we need to. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4787">TS</a>]

01:19:52   Should we be connecting a huge pension pot of money for all these future unemployed over what I really think that the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4792">TS</a>]

01:19:59   starting. Point is the D. Stigmatization of of the unemployed. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4799">TS</a>]

01:20:04   Because I think if you can't get past that point you have no political capital to get anything done that is what it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4804">TS</a>]

01:20:11   where I see the most resistance comes from is people thinking oh I'm not going to support those lazy people who you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4811">TS</a>]

01:20:17   know who who aren't working and I have a job why can't they get a job and if you could you could pass a law [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4817">TS</a>]

01:20:23   or increase a tax rate or do something to change us. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4823">TS</a>]

01:20:26   No You know you can not at all and that's that's why you can't change people's opinions with a law [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4826">TS</a>]

01:20:33   but I think people who will listen to the show are aware that I am often very deeply cynical [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4833">TS</a>]

01:20:38   and pessimistic about making meaningful change in the world I am not very optimistic about lots of those things even [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4838">TS</a>]

01:20:45   though I am the guy who is known for making videos about how the voting system should be changed because I'm very much [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4845">TS</a>]

01:20:52   aware that you just don't have. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4852">TS</a>]

01:20:56   The people who control those leavers of power are few [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4856">TS</a>]

01:20:59   and so talking about a whole bunch of issues doesn't do anything to help those issues. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4859">TS</a>]

01:21:03   Yeah but this to me is much more like it's almost much more like a social issue and this is not the best comparison [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4863">TS</a>]

01:21:11   but the first of the popping to my mind it's like it's like gay marriage. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4871">TS</a>]

01:21:16   The public sentiment shift on gay marriage has been remarkably quick compared to changes that have happened in the past. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4876">TS</a>]

01:21:25   Yeah [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4885">TS</a>]

01:21:25   and I actually I would bet that that's also a side effect of of just like technology like the Internet allowing people [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4885">TS</a>]

01:21:33   to organize much better than they ever could have before [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4893">TS</a>]

01:21:36   and people being exposed much more easily to people who are different from them. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4896">TS</a>]

01:21:41   But the government couldn't pass a law that said everybody has to be OK with gay marriage [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4901">TS</a>]

01:21:46   but none the less because it has been talked about so much in the media. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4906">TS</a>]

01:21:51   We have moved to this position where people are much much more on board with what gay marriage is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4911">TS</a>]

01:21:57   and that was not a that was not a legal thing. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4917">TS</a>]

01:22:00   That was just let's be aware of this as an issue thing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4920">TS</a>]

01:22:05   and so that's why I feel like I can make a video that is about this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4925">TS</a>]

01:22:08   and in some little way like I'm trying to contribute to a conversation of being aware that people are not able to work [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4928">TS</a>]

01:22:17   not because they're lazy [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4937">TS</a>]

01:22:18   but through no fault of their own that it that I said that's a marriage thing only became such a talking point because [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4938">TS</a>]

01:22:26   people some people holding Laver's either started doing things [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4946">TS</a>]

01:22:30   or started coming under pressure today things like It's not like we just it's not like someone's decided let's talk [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4950">TS</a>]

01:22:36   about it on the Internet and then that happened for a year or two [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4956">TS</a>]

01:22:40   and then the politicians said oh OK now we can start changing the rose like it does it does start at the top in some [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4960">TS</a>]

01:22:47   ways and it feels like there does need to be. Some one somewhere. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4967">TS</a>]

01:22:51   Starting to pass laws or do things in this area for that conversation to stop or at least. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4971">TS</a>]

01:22:58   And they see people at the top saying we're thinking about changing the rules what do you all think. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4978">TS</a>]

01:23:03   Yeah I think social change is one of the few things that starts at the bottom. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4983">TS</a>]

01:23:07   The only reason anyone in power is even going to put that put that message out into the air of hey we're thinking about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4987">TS</a>]

01:23:14   doing the obviously right thing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4994">TS</a>]

01:23:16   and legalizing gay marriage would do you think about that my political base they would never even float that idea if it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMXV-PAo/4996">TS</a>]

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