Roderick on the Line

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00:00:24 ◼   ► hello hi John hi Merlin as it going [TS]

00:00:31 ◼   ► Oh super super good tired [TS]

00:00:38 ◼   ► yeah I'm sorry I'm a little late it's [TS]

00:00:39 ◼   ► it's the tired season [TS]

00:00:42 ◼   ► yeah it is it is so you had a well we [TS]

00:00:45 ◼   ► shouldn't say what you had trouble [TS]

00:00:47 ◼   ► getting your kid somewhere today I you [TS]

00:00:49 ◼   ► know just normal stuff just normal human [TS]

00:00:51 ◼   ► adulthood stuff takes longer and longer [TS]

00:00:56 ◼   ► all the time [TS]

00:00:57 ◼   ► yeah you wake up in the morning and [TS]

00:00:59 ◼   ► you're like here it is [TS]

00:01:00 ◼   ► Here I am This Is It this is it the [TS]

00:01:03 ◼   ► nadir really well yeah because you know [TS]

00:01:09 ◼   ► when you're young you're like arts one [TS]

00:01:12 ◼   ► of these days it's all gonna make sense [TS]

00:01:16 ◼   ► it's all gonna come together [TS]

00:01:18 ◼   ► yeah and then when you're old you're [TS]

00:01:20 ◼   ► like I don't remember what that over its [TS]

00:01:23 ◼   ► the nadir for now I feel I feel amazing [TS]

00:01:26 ◼   ► i'm on medication i remember anything [TS]

00:01:28 ◼   ► before two days but you go but now right [TS]

00:01:32 ◼   ► here it's like oh this is it man right [TS]

00:01:37 ◼   ► idea and it I am Here I am in my forties [TS]

00:01:40 ◼   ► just right in the middle of it and it's [TS]

00:01:42 ◼   ► not gonna there's you know I'm not gonna [TS]

00:01:46 ◼   ► get any different [TS]

00:01:49 ◼   ► no I don't know I've been having fun [TS]

00:01:51 ◼   ► lately i'm enjoying kid stuff a lot [TS]

00:01:53 ◼   ► lately [TS]

00:01:54 ◼   ► mhm I mean you know it's a the work not [TS]

00:01:59 ◼   ► working is it a lot of its a lot of [TS]

00:02:01 ◼   ► grind but you don't want to grind [TS]

00:02:04 ◼   ► yeah Grist crist starting to think that [TS]

00:02:07 ◼   ► the basis for most midlife male mid life [TS]

00:02:11 ◼   ► crises na might come out of a lack of [TS]

00:02:14 ◼   ► gratitude or perceived lack of gratitude [TS]

00:02:17 ◼   ► from other people for all the hard work [TS]

00:02:19 ◼   ► that we do [TS]

00:02:20 ◼   ► yeah I mean it's not like I actually [TS]

00:02:21 ◼   ► deserve that but when i noticed myself [TS]

00:02:23 ◼   ► in my lower moments I'm like would do to [TS]

00:02:25 ◼   ► all these things you know you can see [TS]

00:02:29 ◼   ► the core [TS]

00:02:30 ◼   ► but you know I might never know I had a [TS]

00:02:34 ◼   ► lot of it has to do with getting sick [TS]

00:02:36 ◼   ► all the time may still sick or Yuri SiC [TS]

00:02:38 ◼   ► em again it I got a sick on top of a [TS]

00:02:43 ◼   ► sick i gotta sell getting sick and I got [TS]

00:02:46 ◼   ► better and then it was like a it was [TS]

00:02:48 ◼   ► like a it was like some kind of adjunct [TS]

00:02:51 ◼   ► to sick it was the same sickness but [TS]

00:02:55 ◼   ► it-it recalibrated itself and was like [TS]

00:03:01 ◼   ► you know what I want a second shot at [TS]

00:03:03 ◼   ► this and so a weekend i just got super [TS]

00:03:09 ◼   ► sick the same exact way that that's not [TS]

00:03:15 ◼   ► reasonable John that was that she was [TS]

00:03:17 ◼   ► completely unacceptable what the wood [TS]

00:03:20 ◼   ► it's like double jeopardy or something [TS]

00:03:21 ◼   ► exactly like twice for the same illness [TS]

00:03:24 ◼   ► yeah that's right now I met and so I [TS]

00:03:26 ◼   ► feel a little bit let me talk about [TS]

00:03:29 ◼   ► gratitude [TS]

00:03:30 ◼   ► yeah yeah I really think that the thing [TS]

00:03:31 ◼   ► i really ride you you know a lot of [TS]

00:03:34 ◼   ► gratitude for any God counts i'm blessed [TS]

00:03:37 ◼   ► you know what I mean any God who would [TS]

00:03:39 ◼   ► make the Holocaust sick twice in a row [TS]

00:03:43 ◼   ► oh i just read that Hitler book again [TS]

00:03:46 ◼   ► which one is that the meaning of Hitler [TS]

00:03:49 ◼   ► 00 i heard that fella on the public [TS]

00:03:55 ◼   ► radio and the thing it turns out it's [TS]

00:03:57 ◼   ► not actually about the meaning of Hitler [TS]

00:03:59 ◼   ► it's about people trying to find meaning [TS]

00:04:00 ◼   ► and Hitler as a widely misunderstood [TS]

00:04:01 ◼   ► book and Hitler's a baby on the cover [TS]

00:04:03 ◼   ► right at the book [TS]

00:04:05 ◼   ► oh no different book how even Hitler was [TS]

00:04:07 ◼   ► his x is it it was sent to me by a [TS]

00:04:10 ◼   ► German listener of our program and look [TS]

00:04:14 ◼   ► this up and it is a it's a book that was [TS]

00:04:16 ◼   ► originally published in German by a [TS]

00:04:18 ◼   ► German man it's a small book a thin book [TS]

00:04:23 ◼   ► but it is and it was a huge bestseller [TS]

00:04:26 ◼   ► when it came out in 1979 in Germany but [TS]

00:04:31 ◼   ► it is just so full of insight written in [TS]

00:04:36 ◼   ► a very chatty casual style so full of [TS]

00:04:40 ◼   ► inside and you you read it in the first [TS]

00:04:42 ◼   ► you know the first half of the book is [TS]

00:04:43 ◼   ► you just like oh my god this book is [TS]

00:04:46 ◼   ► explaining so much about the psychology [TS]

00:04:50 ◼   ► of Germany at the time and Hitler and [TS]

00:04:55 ◼   ► his appeal and you know you just you [TS]

00:04:57 ◼   ► just like inside inside inside and then [TS]

00:05:00 ◼   ► the second half of the book it's just [TS]

00:05:02 ◼   ► like oh my god this is so much worse [TS]

00:05:04 ◼   ► than I thought [TS]

00:05:05 ◼   ► even so much after a lifetime of [TS]

00:05:08 ◼   ► studying this guy this little thin book [TS]

00:05:12 ◼   ► is really instructing me on how much [TS]

00:05:15 ◼   ► worse it is than I ever imagined really [TS]

00:05:18 ◼   ► gonna cover my ass for a minute [TS]

00:05:20 ◼   ► the book i was thinking of the time we [TS]

00:05:22 ◼   ► mentioned on the public radio is called [TS]

00:05:23 ◼   ► explaining Hitler explaining Hitler i [TS]

00:05:26 ◼   ► colon the search for the origins of his [TS]

00:05:28 ◼   ► evil and this is a 1998 book by [TS]

00:05:31 ◼   ► journalists wrong rosenbaum it's got a [TS]

00:05:33 ◼   ► picture of Hitler's a baby on the cover [TS]

00:05:34 ◼   ► and book is kind of i'm giving believe [TS]

00:05:36 ◼   ► widely misunderstood because he's not [TS]

00:05:38 ◼   ► trying to actually explain Hitler he's [TS]

00:05:40 ◼   ► trying to understand the people who try [TS]

00:05:41 ◼   ► to explain this might be a nice young [TS]

00:05:45 ◼   ► complainers yeah if you've wrapped [TS]

00:05:46 ◼   ► around to reading that one twice you [TS]

00:05:48 ◼   ► might want to move back to the states [TS]

00:05:49 ◼   ► and have a look at explaining Hitler [TS]

00:05:50 ◼   ► explaining Hitler yeah i i'm not sure i [TS]

00:05:54 ◼   ► want to have to have the explainers of [TS]

00:05:56 ◼   ► excessive Hitler explained to me but [TS]

00:05:59 ◼   ► maybe you know maybe hey Hitler [TS]

00:06:01 ◼   ► explaining and explaining the book i'm [TS]

00:06:06 ◼   ► not you don't like it John you sound [TS]

00:06:08 ◼   ► terrible but you know what that's the [TS]

00:06:09 ◼   ► northwest I can have I'm on the mend the [TS]

00:06:12 ◼   ► book something that was by sebastian [TS]

00:06:14 ◼   ► Hafner that's a great and yes Sebastian [TS]

00:06:16 ◼   ► after and he's just he's so smart [TS]

00:06:19 ◼   ► anyway so that so I've been you know [TS]

00:06:20 ◼   ► think about Hitler and then and then and [TS]

00:06:24 ◼   ► then bombed like really bummed like that [TS]

00:06:27 ◼   ► the tail end of this book is I mean not [TS]

00:06:28 ◼   ► that I want to look about Hitler you're [TS]

00:06:30 ◼   ► in for the second I wouldn't believe [TS]

00:06:31 ◼   ► more you know what I mean look at us [TS]

00:06:33 ◼   ► like you would think you would think if [TS]

00:06:35 ◼   ► i walk out of the house with the spring [TS]

00:06:36 ◼   ► in my step [TS]

00:06:38 ◼   ► having experienced nearly you step you [TS]

00:06:40 ◼   ► know really jumped you losing your step [TS]

00:06:43 ◼   ► jump into this book a second time but [TS]

00:06:46 ◼   ► it's really it's the type of book I [TS]

00:06:47 ◼   ► don't usually read book multiple times [TS]

00:06:49 ◼   ► but this is one of those books you could [TS]

00:06:51 ◼   ► read every few years and a lot of books [TS]

00:06:53 ◼   ► and somehow you came back to that one [TS]

00:06:55 ◼   ► like I say like I say it's a it stands [TS]

00:07:01 ◼   ► just added and just as a as a book [TS]

00:07:04 ◼   ► because because how many books are there [TS]

00:07:07 ◼   ► and I'm and maybe with one of the [TS]

00:07:09 ◼   ► appeals of it is that i would like to [TS]

00:07:11 ◼   ► write books about things that everybody [TS]

00:07:13 ◼   ► thinks they already know everything [TS]

00:07:14 ◼   ► about you want to read it turns out book [TS]

00:07:16 ◼   ► right because it turns out as it turns [TS]

00:07:20 ◼   ► out dot you thought that toilet water in [TS]

00:07:23 ◼   ► the in the southern hemisphere went down [TS]

00:07:25 ◼   ► counterclockwise my parents out turns [TS]

00:07:28 ◼   ► out [TS]

00:07:29 ◼   ► yeah and and so this is one of those [TS]

00:07:32 ◼   ► books where it's like everybody thinks [TS]

00:07:34 ◼   ► they already know about everything there [TS]

00:07:36 ◼   ► is to know about this story and and it's [TS]

00:07:39 ◼   ► not really he doesn't really frame it [TS]

00:07:41 ◼   ► and it turns out way he's just like well [TS]

00:07:43 ◼   ► you know let me let me let me show let [TS]

00:07:45 ◼   ► me show you ever let me show you how we [TS]

00:07:48 ◼   ► got there let me show you why this [TS]

00:07:49 ◼   ► mattered [TS]

00:07:50 ◼   ► why this thing which we all just sort of [TS]

00:07:53 ◼   ► gloss over Hitler's evil for instance [TS]

00:07:55 ◼   ► you know we just sort of say that [TS]

00:07:57 ◼   ► Hitler's evil and matt and move on as [TS]

00:08:01 ◼   ► though we all agree but let's talk about [TS]

00:08:03 ◼   ► what that means right and i love that [TS]

00:08:05 ◼   ► stuff you know i would like to i would [TS]

00:08:07 ◼   ► like to have that that kind of a thought [TS]

00:08:10 ◼   ► proficiency is all but that's kinda want [TS]

00:08:12 ◼   ► to get from that other book is that same [TS]

00:08:14 ◼   ► idea is that like if you just try to [TS]

00:08:16 ◼   ► look this over here and this big easy [TS]

00:08:18 ◼   ► relatively easy to understand pile [TS]

00:08:20 ◼   ► called evil you miss out a lot on unlike [TS]

00:08:23 ◼   ► how profoundly bad news it was right i [TS]

00:08:26 ◼   ► think that thing with you write [TS]

00:08:27 ◼   ► something off as evil I mean what what [TS]

00:08:29 ◼   ► the fuck does that mean what does that [TS]

00:08:31 ◼   ► mean people i'm sorry i wanted to curse [TS]

00:08:33 ◼   ► on Hitler conversation but you know [TS]

00:08:36 ◼   ► it'sit's it does it does seem like you [TS]

00:08:39 ◼   ► know there's a good we should talk about [TS]

00:08:41 ◼   ► illness [TS]

00:08:42 ◼   ► yeah evil I mean evil is not a not a [TS]

00:08:45 ◼   ► thing that you want to [TS]

00:08:46 ◼   ► are off your your-your-your bright [TS]

00:08:49 ◼   ► sunshiny middle-aged guys podcast yeah [TS]

00:08:54 ◼   ► let's start talking about evil right [TS]

00:08:56 ◼   ► away first 10 minutes i've said this [TS]

00:08:58 ◼   ► before i'm gonna say it again i am you [TS]

00:09:00 ◼   ► know that job I had in nineties was [TS]

00:09:03 ◼   ► working on a lot of stuff with [TS]

00:09:04 ◼   ► litigation and environmental assessments [TS]

00:09:09 ◼   ► involving lots of stuff involving like [TS]

00:09:10 ◼   ► chemicals so basically here's a nut [TS]

00:09:13 ◼   ► here's the job that i had 45 years was [TS]

00:09:15 ◼   ► working at a place where if a giant [TS]

00:09:17 ◼   ► giant giant company got sued by somebody [TS]

00:09:20 ◼   ► if there's any chance in the world that [TS]

00:09:22 ◼   ► person had actually been injured like [TS]

00:09:24 ◼   ► really honestly if there was a chance it [TS]

00:09:25 ◼   ► would just write a check right that's [TS]

00:09:27 ◼   ► the thing that people used to do like GE [TS]

00:09:29 ◼   ► used to just write if you said hey [TS]

00:09:30 ◼   ► there's PCBs in my cereal [TS]

00:09:33 ◼   ► however implausible that was if they [TS]

00:09:35 ◼   ► thought there was some chance that that [TS]

00:09:36 ◼   ► could go to court and like they had a [TS]

00:09:38 ◼   ► chance when they would just write a [TS]

00:09:39 ◼   ► check and eventually the companies like [TS]

00:09:41 ◼   ► hey we can't afford to do this forever [TS]

00:09:42 ◼   ► so we got the most cynical ass annoying [TS]

00:09:46 ◼   ► ambulance-chasing cases and had to let [TS]

00:09:49 ◼   ► go and like do a pics and bunnies puppet [TS]

00:09:51 ◼   ► show of science to show how look at it [TS]

00:09:54 ◼   ► the you this guy would have to eat do [TS]

00:09:56 ◼   ► nothing but eat cereal full of chlordane [TS]

00:09:59 ◼   ► 40 years and it's still much more likely [TS]

00:10:01 ◼   ► his lung cancer came from his three [TS]

00:10:03 ◼   ► packs of cigarettes a day right to do [TS]

00:10:04 ◼   ► that because you've got a really like a [TS]

00:10:06 ◼   ► pig's and bunnies you got to really [TS]

00:10:07 ◼   ► bring it down and I was the era of a lot [TS]

00:10:10 ◼   ► of like rats in your coke can and then [TS]

00:10:13 ◼   ► people were people were were drumming up [TS]

00:10:15 ◼   ► some some species lawsuits I i remember [TS]

00:10:19 ◼   ► hearing around the same time starting [TS]

00:10:20 ◼   ► maybe in the eighties I remember he [TS]

00:10:21 ◼   ► never did this but I think this is kind [TS]

00:10:23 ◼   ► of a coupon guy thing to do that like [TS]

00:10:25 ◼   ► you right if you write a letter to the [TS]

00:10:27 ◼   ► winn-dixie and you say there was a rat [TS]

00:10:29 ◼   ► in my coke to give you free stuff right [TS]

00:10:31 ◼   ► there that's a guy freak oh yeah yeah [TS]

00:10:33 ◼   ► and then that became kind of an industry [TS]

00:10:34 ◼   ► thing is though like a lot of people [TS]

00:10:36 ◼   ► came in with like sick building syndrome [TS]

00:10:38 ◼   ► you're supposedly the black mold or not [TS]

00:10:42 ◼   ► even black hole just the fact that you [TS]

00:10:44 ◼   ► know with you have these really crazy [TS]

00:10:45 ◼   ► consultant people come in so you've got [TS]

00:10:48 ◼   ► to go live in this mobile home that [TS]

00:10:50 ◼   ► doesn't have any quote unquote chemicals [TS]

00:10:51 ◼   ► in it and I became very suspicious [TS]

00:10:54 ◼   ► no homes no no chemicals are used in the [TS]

00:10:57 ◼   ► construction of mobile homes [TS]

00:10:58 ◼   ► no not at all but I became very cynical [TS]

00:11:00 ◼   ► about all that stuff you know one hit [TS]

00:11:01 ◼   ► theory in cancer and all these ideas [TS]

00:11:03 ◼   ► that have been you know they're pretty [TS]

00:11:04 ◼   ► pretty bananas [TS]

00:11:05 ◼   ► what about radon how do you feel about [TS]

00:11:07 ◼   ► radon I think that's the thing isn't a [TS]

00:11:09 ◼   ► big new jersey thing get right on right [TS]

00:11:10 ◼   ► on your basement Yeah right on your [TS]

00:11:12 ◼   ► basement is probably think they write a [TS]

00:11:13 ◼   ► check for that you know what I mean [TS]

00:11:15 ◼   ► we're not right on comes out it comes [TS]

00:11:17 ◼   ► into your basement because it's because [TS]

00:11:18 ◼   ► nature because because of nature [TS]

00:11:21 ◼   ► yeah because God put it there mm that's [TS]

00:11:23 ◼   ► what he would he wants is great about [TS]

00:11:25 ◼   ► being second hour back to God Hitler [TS]

00:11:27 ◼   ► sorry no not at all [TS]

00:11:29 ◼   ► nobody sense how poor John my gosh you [TS]

00:11:32 ◼   ► should sue somebody have you been [TS]

00:11:33 ◼   ► exposed to anything recently have i ever [TS]

00:11:36 ◼   ► you might have missed me with [TS]

00:11:38 ◼   ► mesothelioma thinking about on daytime [TS]

00:11:40 ◼   ► TV I've been exposed to so many bad [TS]

00:11:43 ◼   ► ideas that I feel like they are having [TS]

00:11:46 ◼   ► their taking a toll they're making me [TS]

00:11:47 ◼   ► sick [TS]

00:11:48 ◼   ► yeah the it just makes me wonder though [TS]

00:11:50 ◼   ► I live in an old house and there are [TS]

00:11:52 ◼   ► times when I think my family keeps [TS]

00:11:54 ◼   ► getting sick i wonder if there's [TS]

00:11:56 ◼   ► something that's killing us in our house [TS]

00:11:57 ◼   ► and that's about 20 years ago that's the [TS]

00:11:59 ◼   ► last thing the world everyone thought [TS]

00:12:00 ◼   ► about do you have two cows syndrome [TS]

00:12:02 ◼   ► I don't think so but I'm you know what I [TS]

00:12:04 ◼   ► think I think it's really purely [TS]

00:12:06 ◼   ► behavioral and cognitive which is like [TS]

00:12:08 ◼   ► if i get out of the house and walk [TS]

00:12:09 ◼   ► around like a fucking gentleman like get [TS]

00:12:11 ◼   ► out of the house of I don't lay there [TS]

00:12:12 ◼   ► and listen to podcast for literally [TS]

00:12:13 ◼   ► eight hours i have a slightly better [TS]

00:12:14 ◼   ► mood and I breathe better [TS]

00:12:16 ◼   ► I think it's just sitting on my ass but [TS]

00:12:18 ◼   ► but you know but it's nice to know [TS]

00:12:19 ◼   ► you're a syndrome that's right there's [TS]

00:12:22 ◼   ► nobody can sue for that radon is one of [TS]

00:12:24 ◼   ► the densest substances that remains a [TS]

00:12:27 ◼   ► gas under normal condition no kidding [TS]

00:12:30 ◼   ► yes it is the operator mercury to very [TS]

00:12:32 ◼   ► dense gas rain on our apartment yeah [TS]

00:12:35 ◼   ► well I think we should all learn more [TS]

00:12:36 ◼   ► about radon it would be if we do nothing [TS]

00:12:38 ◼   ► else today we should learn more about [TS]

00:12:40 ◼   ► right on [TS]

00:12:41 ◼   ► I you don't real active colorless and [TS]

00:12:43 ◼   ► odorless and tasteless noble gas see [TS]

00:12:47 ◼   ► that round-out that's how the the KGB [TS]

00:12:50 ◼   ► kills their their expatriates is that [TS]

00:12:53 ◼   ► right [TS]

00:12:53 ◼   ► something Germany kind of thing to do it [TS]

00:12:55 ◼   ► but radon gas in their basements in new [TS]

00:12:56 ◼   ► jersey new jersey kids get sick as I was [TS]

00:13:00 ◼   ► I was coming here I wanted to add an [TS]

00:13:02 ◼   ► addenda to keep moving and get out of [TS]

00:13:06 ◼   ► the way [TS]

00:13:07 ◼   ► Oh fantastic [TS]

00:13:09 ◼   ► because I realized that is you know in [TS]

00:13:12 ◼   ► its basic form it is complete and holy [TS]

00:13:15 ◼   ► especially if you say it correctly i [TS]

00:13:17 ◼   ► don't think i would never want to I [TS]

00:13:20 ◼   ► would never want to accuse our listeners [TS]

00:13:23 ◼   ► not saying correctly but you got me it's [TS]

00:13:25 ◼   ► not keeping my hands are always not more [TS]

00:13:28 ◼   ► it's not keeping or get out of the way [TS]

00:13:29 ◼   ► it's keep moving and getting tired of [TS]

00:13:31 ◼   ► constantly to both degree [TS]

00:13:33 ◼   ► yeah absolutely absolutely and it's it's [TS]

00:13:35 ◼   ► it's a it's a holy edict and it ended it [TS]

00:13:37 ◼   ► belongs it belongs carved into a [TS]

00:13:40 ◼   ► Lincoln's nose on 11 Mount Rushmore but [TS]

00:13:43 ◼   ► actually it should be translated into [TS]

00:13:44 ◼   ► every language and carved onto the to [TS]

00:13:47 ◼   ► the Lincoln of your country on the Mount [TS]

00:13:49 ◼   ► Rushmore of what your country [TS]

00:13:51 ◼   ► let's go forward in fourth grade every [TS]

00:13:53 ◼   ► year you always get like this day in [TS]

00:13:55 ◼   ► history [TS]

00:13:56 ◼   ► he's like back in Ohio we make paper [TS]

00:13:58 ◼   ► mache Indian mounds and stuff like that [TS]

00:13:59 ◼   ► like I state the Buckeye State absolute [TS]

00:14:01 ◼   ► hundred percent go buckeyes I think [TS]

00:14:03 ◼   ► there should be a module regarding keep [TS]

00:14:06 ◼   ► moving and get out of the way at every [TS]

00:14:08 ◼   ► level in primary education [TS]

00:14:10 ◼   ► absolutely they should teach it they [TS]

00:14:12 ◼   ► should want to make sure you continue to [TS]

00:14:13 ◼   ► teach you should have to recite it at [TS]

00:14:16 ◼   ► the DMV if you get a citation for you [TS]

00:14:18 ◼   ► should have to go to some kind of keep [TS]

00:14:19 ◼   ► moving gallery school but I realized [TS]

00:14:22 ◼   ► that there that there are that there [TS]

00:14:25 ◼   ► need to be sort of a bill of rights of [TS]

00:14:27 ◼   ► keep moving it out of the way there [TS]

00:14:28 ◼   ► needs to be a a some articles that go [TS]

00:14:32 ◼   ► along with these are like your [TS]

00:14:33 ◼   ► amendments these are like you're not [TS]

00:14:35 ◼   ► allowed to drink no more slavery that [TS]

00:14:37 ◼   ► that's right that's right that's right [TS]

00:14:38 ◼   ► a universe without the First Amendment [TS]

00:14:40 ◼   ► first amendment to the junkie million [TS]

00:14:44 ◼   ► other way see it seems to me to be that [TS]

00:14:46 ◼   ► we need to introduce an additional [TS]

00:14:48 ◼   ► concept which is the concept of of [TS]

00:14:53 ◼   ► positional relativity or inertial [TS]

00:14:58 ◼   ► relativity insertion Paul International [TS]

00:15:01 ◼   ► relativity which is to say that when i [TS]

00:15:06 ◼   ► am in a crowd of people moving or [TS]

00:15:09 ◼   ► certainly on the highway moving any [TS]

00:15:12 ◼   ► situation where you are in a group of [TS]

00:15:14 ◼   ► people and you're all moving the same [TS]

00:15:16 ◼   ► direction more or less [TS]

00:15:17 ◼   ► uh-huh so you could be in this crowd of [TS]

00:15:20 ◼   ► people and you could be thinking to [TS]

00:15:22 ◼   ► yourself I am keeping moving and I'm not [TS]

00:15:26 ◼   ► in anybody's way because we're all [TS]

00:15:28 ◼   ► moving together in the same direction [TS]

00:15:31 ◼   ► more or less and so I am fulfilling the [TS]

00:15:35 ◼   ► tenants of keep moving you know the way [TS]

00:15:36 ◼   ► so I'm fine and I'm going to go back to [TS]

00:15:39 ◼   ► sleep i'm going to start looking at my [TS]

00:15:40 ◼   ► phone i'm gonna go back back into the [TS]

00:15:42 ◼   ► sort of you know a text trance [TS]

00:15:45 ◼   ► uh-huh but the reality is i find that [TS]

00:15:51 ◼   ► you need to keep moving also relative to [TS]

00:15:55 ◼   ► the other people who are moving around [TS]

00:15:58 ◼   ► you it's not enough to just do some [TS]

00:16:01 ◼   ► motion [TS]

00:16:02 ◼   ► yeah yeah that's right you need to the [TS]

00:16:03 ◼   ► International relativity you should [TS]

00:16:05 ◼   ► always because of international [TS]

00:16:07 ◼   ► relativity you should always also be [TS]

00:16:09 ◼   ► either passing or being passed [TS]

00:16:13 ◼   ► oh that's good you know what I mean [TS]

00:16:15 ◼   ► right he's not busy being born is busy [TS]

00:16:18 ◼   ► dying like that is exactly right because [TS]

00:16:20 ◼   ► your own claws if you are not being [TS]

00:16:23 ◼   ► passed by other people then you should [TS]

00:16:27 ◼   ► be passing other people you should not [TS]

00:16:30 ◼   ► be do not ever allow yourself to become [TS]

00:16:33 ◼   ► part of a of a block movement where [TS]

00:16:38 ◼   ► everyone is moving at the same pace [TS]

00:16:40 ◼   ► because that is the death of innovation [TS]

00:16:45 ◼   ► and you're also you're not leaving a [TS]

00:16:46 ◼   ► space for somebody who needs to go super [TS]

00:16:48 ◼   ► fast [TS]

00:16:49 ◼   ► thank you ok exactly i had to fly on [TS]

00:16:53 ◼   ► United last week and I i I'd it [TS]

00:16:58 ◼   ► oh man and still mad at them and and all [TS]

00:17:02 ◼   ► this being mad at them [TS]

00:17:03 ◼   ► yeah has really paid off for me how's [TS]

00:17:06 ◼   ► that I just it just kills you [TS]

00:17:08 ◼   ► I just feels good I keep being mad at [TS]

00:17:10 ◼   ► united and make it being over there and [TS]

00:17:12 ◼   ► I keep going over here and and uh yes is [TS]

00:17:15 ◼   ► what they wore winter [TS]

00:17:17 ◼   ► this is what they pay for asking for [TS]

00:17:18 ◼   ► first class for some reason they want to [TS]

00:17:19 ◼   ► use United [TS]

00:17:20 ◼   ► I was in the nice part of the bus and [TS]

00:17:24 ◼   ► but here's the thing and I think this is [TS]

00:17:26 ◼   ► not know where is this clear this yes [TS]

00:17:28 ◼   ► America's highways sure but on the [TS]

00:17:30 ◼   ► moving sidewalk [TS]

00:17:32 ◼   ► I don't want to get all Seinfeld here [TS]

00:17:33 ◼   ► but honestly the moving sidewalk it [TS]

00:17:36 ◼   ► betray so much about how little [TS]

00:17:37 ◼   ► understood the American understands [TS]

00:17:39 ◼   ► about getting anywhere [TS]

00:17:40 ◼   ► well and it's a very simple moving [TS]

00:17:42 ◼   ► sidewalk is a very small petri dish is a [TS]

00:17:45 ◼   ► controlled environment shares narrow it [TS]

00:17:48 ◼   ► is limited and narrow there's only so [TS]

00:17:50 ◼   ► much you can do and so therefore it is a [TS]

00:17:53 ◼   ► heightened state where you must practice [TS]

00:17:55 ◼   ► the ninja levels of keep moving and get [TS]

00:17:59 ◼   ► out of the way and what did you discover [TS]

00:18:00 ◼   ► on let me just let me just tell you [TS]

00:18:02 ◼   ► there's all you need is you know here's [TS]

00:18:04 ◼   ► the thing [TS]

00:18:05 ◼   ► there are people who don't travel a lot [TS]

00:18:06 ◼   ► who don't know about moving to the right [TS]

00:18:09 ◼   ► either on an escalator I mean that's the [TS]

00:18:11 ◼   ► thing I'm imagine something in in [TS]

00:18:13 ◼   ► seattle it's definitely a thing in San [TS]

00:18:14 ◼   ► Francisco [TS]

00:18:15 ◼   ► I mean we were downtown yesterday and [TS]

00:18:17 ◼   ► you can tell the people who are from out [TS]

00:18:18 ◼   ► of town because they don't know to move [TS]

00:18:19 ◼   ► to the right of the escalator let people [TS]

00:18:20 ◼   ► get by right because they are from [TS]

00:18:22 ◼   ► stockton and and there is no right or [TS]

00:18:25 ◼   ► left in stock and comfortable it's all [TS]

00:18:28 ◼   ► just a flat so jesus said this is the [TS]

00:18:30 ◼   ► thing that I don't let me just add yes [TS]

00:18:32 ◼   ► but i think people who are from a wide [TS]

00:18:35 ◼   ► open spaces central California I was [TS]

00:18:38 ◼   ► talking to a woman from the Czech [TS]

00:18:39 ◼   ► Republic last night and she said as we [TS]

00:18:43 ◼   ► were sitting and chatting and she was [TS]

00:18:44 ◼   ► like American to the Ukraine and I was [TS]

00:18:45 ◼   ► like never been to the Ukraine slovakia [TS]

00:18:48 ◼   ► all mountains in Slovakia and she was [TS]

00:18:50 ◼   ► like how you create beautiful [TS]

00:18:52 ◼   ► well she said this is the thing about [TS]

00:18:54 ◼   ► the Ukraine that people don't fully [TS]

00:18:55 ◼   ► understand and Russia to which is that [TS]

00:18:58 ◼   ► you get over you get out of the [TS]

00:19:00 ◼   ► mountains of the slovak ear or whatever [TS]

00:19:03 ◼   ► you have you know halfway through Poland [TS]

00:19:04 ◼   ► it starts happening and then it's just a [TS]

00:19:07 ◼   ► flat pan [TS]

00:19:08 ◼   ► it's a flat pan all the way to the Ural [TS]

00:19:11 ◼   ► Mountains there's not a there is not [TS]

00:19:13 ◼   ► another bump all the Ukraine is [TS]

00:19:17 ◼   ► completely flat and she said all of [TS]

00:19:18 ◼   ► Russia is flat until you get to the year [TS]

00:19:21 ◼   ► olds but the you know the populated part [TS]

00:19:22 ◼   ► of Russia just flat as a pancake and [TS]

00:19:25 ◼   ► that and she said these but the people [TS]

00:19:27 ◼   ► in those places they don't have any [TS]

00:19:30 ◼   ► geographical features and so they do not [TS]

00:19:34 ◼   ► feel hemmed in by geography they don't [TS]

00:19:37 ◼   ► because there's no ocean there too to be [TS]

00:19:41 ◼   ► and then you spent 30 years it's like [TS]

00:19:43 ◼   ► the Old West or something like walk [TS]

00:19:44 ◼   ► around the planes there's there's no [TS]

00:19:46 ◼   ► left and right like stars no left and [TS]

00:19:48 ◼   ► right it's just like it's just like [TS]

00:19:49 ◼   ► Stockton California it is eternity in [TS]

00:19:52 ◼   ► every direction so why would you move to [TS]

00:19:53 ◼   ► the left or right for any reason just [TS]

00:19:56 ◼   ► more it's more and more stockton yeah [TS]

00:19:58 ◼   ► it's just it's basically like the sky [TS]

00:20:01 ◼   ► except it's under your feet and it's [TS]

00:20:03 ◼   ► brown right and what's that thing called [TS]

00:20:04 ◼   ► we can fly anywhere in the sky the open [TS]

00:20:07 ◼   ► skies theory what's it called [TS]

00:20:09 ◼   ► so open skies theory though it's called [TS]

00:20:11 ◼   ► uh we were like planes what we will [TS]

00:20:14 ◼   ► hardly ever had each other if they're [TS]

00:20:15 ◼   ► just lying around what you you always [TS]

00:20:17 ◼   ► remember what that's called Oh [TS]

00:20:18 ◼   ► positional national/international [TS]

00:20:23 ◼   ► relativity international relative she [TS]

00:20:25 ◼   ► doesn't have a sense of she she met will [TS]

00:20:27 ◼   ► be from stockton well the thing is she's [TS]

00:20:29 ◼   ► from the czech republic which is very [TS]

00:20:31 ◼   ► hilly it's like if it's not a hill [TS]

00:20:33 ◼   ► it's a Dale you know what I mean like [TS]

00:20:35 ◼   ► the czech republic is all hills and a [TS]

00:20:37 ◼   ► lot so she's really she was born she was [TS]

00:20:39 ◼   ► literally raised international [TS]

00:20:40 ◼   ► relativity she has she had a tongue that [TS]

00:20:42 ◼   ► she got into fucking check bones [TS]

00:20:44 ◼   ► yeah and so she was commenting on her [TS]

00:20:46 ◼   ► fellow Eastern Bloc Slavic peoples but [TS]

00:20:51 ◼   ► it was a one of these like you choose [TS]

00:20:53 ◼   ► that she can do that she can and the [TS]

00:20:54 ◼   ► thing is I think the czech republic is [TS]

00:20:56 ◼   ► the California of Central Europe stay [TS]

00:21:00 ◼   ► clear that they feel like because and I [TS]

00:21:03 ◼   ► think especially if you were if you were [TS]

00:21:05 ◼   ► raised in the Czech Republic when the [TS]

00:21:07 ◼   ► wall was there right the wall was [TS]

00:21:10 ◼   ► essentially the late let gene something [TS]

00:21:12 ◼   ► haha it left that means wallow left [TS]

00:21:15 ◼   ► means wall but uh but but she's [TS]

00:21:18 ◼   ► commenting on the Ukrainians and and the [TS]

00:21:20 ◼   ► Russians she's trying to explain their [TS]

00:21:22 ◼   ► mentality and the and it sounded exactly [TS]

00:21:24 ◼   ► like how i would explain the mentality [TS]

00:21:27 ◼   ► of someone from Nebraska or Montana or [TS]

00:21:29 ◼   ► North Dakota there's no left or right [TS]

00:21:32 ◼   ► it's just all [TS]

00:21:34 ◼   ► all it's just all open big sky country [TS]

00:21:37 ◼   ► mhm [TS]

00:21:37 ◼   ► so anyway so you're on the beer on the [TS]

00:21:39 ◼   ► moving sidewalk and you are encountering [TS]

00:21:41 ◼   ► some people from stockton we just think [TS]

00:21:43 ◼   ► there's more thing is like it's one [TS]

00:21:45 ◼   ► thing to be a tourist who feels like [TS]

00:21:48 ◼   ► someone was just brusk and asking you to [TS]

00:21:50 ◼   ► move aside [TS]

00:21:51 ◼   ► but the thing is if you're here for a [TS]

00:21:52 ◼   ► week you'll eventually go I get it [TS]

00:21:54 ◼   ► I'm supposed to move over to the right [TS]

00:21:56 ◼   ► like it says on the fucking sign right i [TS]

00:21:58 ◼   ► learned something yesterday and if you [TS]

00:22:00 ◼   ► get to be a local and like people will [TS]

00:22:02 ◼   ► get that an airport that doesn't happen [TS]

00:22:03 ◼   ► it's the same reason the TSA line is so [TS]

00:22:04 ◼   ► unbearable [TS]

00:22:05 ◼   ► it's just it's it's literally like hell [TS]

00:22:07 ◼   ► because it's the same thing over and [TS]

00:22:09 ◼   ► over people always like you know what I [TS]

00:22:11 ◼   ► tried to put water through the other day [TS]

00:22:12 ◼   ► i'm a pro and i actually tried to put [TS]

00:22:13 ◼   ► water throw up right now on the worst [TS]

00:22:15 ◼   ► and that they got a guy that stands [TS]

00:22:18 ◼   ► right there and shouts at you [TS]

00:22:19 ◼   ► ya to take your water our know and I was [TS]

00:22:21 ◼   ► I was like I was so so what's the word [TS]

00:22:23 ◼   ► like supplications like I'm so sorry I i [TS]

00:22:26 ◼   ► had to get up at 3am my time to be here [TS]

00:22:29 ◼   ► and I'm i can't believe i have a smart [TS]

00:22:31 ◼   ► water in my bag I'm really really sorry [TS]

00:22:33 ◼   ► yeah that's not me no here's the [TS]

00:22:36 ◼   ► dangerous one the dangerous dangerous [TS]

00:22:37 ◼   ► one is the pair of to me big beefy guys [TS]

00:22:41 ◼   ► yeah who are walking fast ish down the [TS]

00:22:45 ◼   ► middle like two big heavy guys no [TS]

00:22:47 ◼   ► offense walking down the middle at like [TS]

00:22:50 ◼   ► a slightly above average pace that right [TS]

00:22:52 ◼   ► that's the worst because they think if [TS]

00:22:54 ◼   ► they think they've nailed it [TS]

00:22:56 ◼   ► they think they are both keeping moving [TS]

00:22:58 ◼   ► and getting out with you think it with [TS]

00:23:01 ◼   ► me at all if they're thinking at all and [TS]

00:23:03 ◼   ► I think they're probably not they're [TS]

00:23:04 ◼   ► feeling like cock of the walk like they [TS]

00:23:06 ◼   ► have really they understand that this is [TS]

00:23:08 ◼   ► not something you just stand on [TS]

00:23:09 ◼   ► you-know-what with a big wide stance [TS]

00:23:12 ◼   ► make it came all the way here from [TS]

00:23:14 ◼   ► central California they're coming to the [TS]

00:23:17 ◼   ► the beef herders to convention downtown [TS]

00:23:20 ◼   ► in the top 10 in the castro had they are [TS]

00:23:24 ◼   ► having a good old time getting where [TS]

00:23:26 ◼   ► they're going but then he had a roller [TS]

00:23:27 ◼   ► bag got the roller bag here comes Merlin [TS]

00:23:30 ◼   ► mongoose [TS]

00:23:31 ◼   ► yeah and I'm like I'm like a little [TS]

00:23:33 ◼   ► squirrelly guy right yeah that thing on [TS]

00:23:34 ◼   ► your way to somewhere [TS]

00:23:35 ◼   ► yeah but I need to get somewhere but i [TS]

00:23:37 ◼   ► also want to teach oh yes i want to [TS]

00:23:40 ◼   ► teach I want to be a dick about it but [TS]

00:23:42 ◼   ► the thing is no matter how fast you're [TS]

00:23:43 ◼   ► going there's always somebody else that [TS]

00:23:45 ◼   ► needs to go faster and that's why it's [TS]

00:23:47 ◼   ► international relativity you have to [TS]

00:23:48 ◼   ► understand you always gotta make room [TS]

00:23:50 ◼   ► for somebody who's like a bullet going [TS]

00:23:52 ◼   ► through that and that's what makes room [TS]

00:23:54 ◼   ► for the next bullet make room for the [TS]

00:23:56 ◼   ► bullet Nick room for the bullet and and [TS]

00:23:58 ◼   ► they they looked at me like I said [TS]

00:24:01 ◼   ► excuse me and not a mean way but i can [TS]

00:24:03 ◼   ► use me like as in like you're literally [TS]

00:24:05 ◼   ► walking down the center of the moving [TS]

00:24:08 ◼   ► sidewalk and taking the entire birth and [TS]

00:24:10 ◼   ► just because you're moving doesn't mean [TS]

00:24:12 ◼   ► you're getting out of the way em anyway [TS]

00:24:15 ◼   ► I i have god I just if we could all get [TS]

00:24:17 ◼   ► that there's so many things that would [TS]

00:24:18 ◼   ► be so much easier to deal with if these [TS]

00:24:21 ◼   ► if international relativity were [TS]

00:24:22 ◼   ► introduced [TS]

00:24:23 ◼   ► well I'm this is a concept that they [TS]

00:24:25 ◼   ► understand in Europe much better because [TS]

00:24:30 ◼   ► in poison ivy lesson rights in Europe [TS]

00:24:32 ◼   ► John there everybody in your nose right [TS]

00:24:36 ◼   ► where the left on the right arm because [TS]

00:24:37 ◼   ► if they make them if they step to the [TS]

00:24:40 ◼   ► left and then they get to the ride and [TS]

00:24:45 ◼   ► put the hands on their hips and then all [TS]

00:24:47 ◼   ► of a sudden there in the duty of [TS]

00:24:48 ◼   ► luxembourg and somebody else you know [TS]

00:24:52 ◼   ► when somebody else's their King and that [TS]

00:24:54 ◼   ► you're doing the last time warp right [TS]

00:24:56 ◼   ► site work so so but the thing is like [TS]

00:24:59 ◼   ► however many years ago it was and i [TS]

00:25:02 ◼   ► think it was like carter administration [TS]

00:25:03 ◼   ► when they put up all those signs that [TS]

00:25:05 ◼   ► said a slower slower traffic move right [TS]

00:25:08 ◼   ► like they were trying to do that in [TS]

00:25:10 ◼   ► America they were trying to teach us and [TS]

00:25:13 ◼   ► one when i was when i got my driver's [TS]

00:25:15 ◼   ► license it was one of the questions in [TS]

00:25:18 ◼   ► the driver's license exam and and they [TS]

00:25:21 ◼   ► really hammered on it like slower [TS]

00:25:24 ◼   ► traffic keep right the left lane is for [TS]

00:25:26 ◼   ► passing oh maybe John do you remember is [TS]

00:25:28 ◼   ► it just me or wasn't there a time in [TS]

00:25:30 ◼   ► america where that leftmost lane was [TS]

00:25:32 ◼   ► literally called the passing lane but [TS]

00:25:34 ◼   ► what has lain it was the passing lane [TS]

00:25:36 ◼   ► the passing lane an entire Lane for [TS]

00:25:39 ◼   ► passing because everybody's got to go [TS]

00:25:41 ◼   ► faster or slower you use the passing [TS]

00:25:43 ◼   ► lane to pass and then you move over no [TS]

00:25:45 ◼   ► matter how fast you're going [TS]

00:25:46 ◼   ► that's right and we'll just go over [TS]

00:25:47 ◼   ► there cuz you're going 65 go in there [TS]

00:25:48 ◼   ► and like live there [TS]

00:25:49 ◼   ► yeah i'm i'm going the speed limit is 65 [TS]

00:25:51 ◼   ► I'm going 65 and no one should be [TS]

00:25:54 ◼   ► allowed to go fast and a plan traffic [TS]

00:25:56 ◼   ► cop see this is and this is that this is [TS]

00:25:58 ◼   ► the i-5 problem if you get out there [TS]

00:26:00 ◼   ► around Sacramento you encounter these [TS]

00:26:03 ◼   ► people who not only don't know left from [TS]

00:26:06 ◼   ► right but they've got some you know they [TS]

00:26:08 ◼   ► just came from a church in a mobile home [TS]

00:26:11 ◼   ► and there and they believe that they're [TS]

00:26:14 ◼   ► doing God's work by keeping keeping the [TS]

00:26:17 ◼   ► traffic tempo down you know like 65 [TS]

00:26:20 ◼   ► miles an hour is the speed limit and i'm [TS]

00:26:22 ◼   ► here to enforce it but in in in Europe [TS]

00:26:25 ◼   ► they never they never decided that we [TS]

00:26:29 ◼   ► decided somewhere at some point in [TS]

00:26:31 ◼   ► America that all that was we were that [TS]

00:26:34 ◼   ► was just a suggestion [TS]

00:26:36 ◼   ► we were just suggesting that you keep [TS]

00:26:38 ◼   ► right but then we're not really [TS]

00:26:40 ◼   ► enforcing that and that's not really [TS]

00:26:42 ◼   ► anything there are some states where it [TS]

00:26:44 ◼   ► actually isn't the law and you know and [TS]

00:26:47 ◼   ► it became like oh let's just you know [TS]

00:26:49 ◼   ► can we all just agree on cheese [TS]

00:26:52 ◼   ► yeah but in Europe it's amazing and so [TS]

00:26:54 ◼   ► you see it not only on the highways but [TS]

00:26:56 ◼   ► you see it like in public spaces to [TS]

00:26:59 ◼   ► people understand to get out of the way [TS]

00:27:02 ◼   ► the bullet [TS]

00:27:03 ◼   ► yeah and you know the problem is the [TS]

00:27:05 ◼   ► bullet this is the other thing the [TS]

00:27:07 ◼   ► bullet could be Hitler at any time [TS]

00:27:08 ◼   ► yeah and so you do want to get out of [TS]

00:27:10 ◼   ► the way of the bullet [TS]

00:27:13 ◼   ► uh-huh no wait a little wheels you know [TS]

00:27:16 ◼   ► it's basically this is really i hate to [TS]

00:27:18 ◼   ► say this I I nothing against our [TS]

00:27:20 ◼   ► wonderful provincial American friends [TS]

00:27:23 ◼   ► but there is something kind of big city [TS]

00:27:26 ◼   ► about it and that's why I think one [TS]

00:27:27 ◼   ► reason Manhattan feels so Brask to [TS]

00:27:30 ◼   ► people but you know here's here's the [TS]

00:27:32 ◼   ► part that's really going to bum you and [TS]

00:27:34 ◼   ► keep you up at night is that the people [TS]

00:27:35 ◼   ► who want you to get the hell out of [TS]

00:27:37 ◼   ► their way on the sidewalk don't actually [TS]

00:27:38 ◼   ► care about you [TS]

00:27:40 ◼   ► no don't it's about society if your [TS]

00:27:43 ◼   ► house is about keeping moving it's about [TS]

00:27:45 ◼   ► getting out of the way it's about what's [TS]

00:27:47 ◼   ► the phrase inner a an inertial [TS]

00:27:50 ◼   ► internationally international relatively [TS]

00:27:52 ◼   ► yeah and so but yeah you're actually [TS]

00:27:54 ◼   ► right but it's very self-involved it's [TS]

00:27:55 ◼   ► very provincial to say like the speed [TS]

00:27:57 ◼   ► limit is 65 ergo yeah i can i can charge [TS]

00:28:00 ◼   ► out here [TS]

00:28:01 ◼   ► ergo I could be at any lane because no [TS]

00:28:03 ◼   ► one should be going faster than anything [TS]

00:28:05 ◼   ► that's why I love driving in Manhattan [TS]

00:28:07 ◼   ► because the rules of driving in [TS]

00:28:09 ◼   ► Manhattan are if the nose of your car is [TS]

00:28:13 ◼   ► one micrometer in front of the nose of [TS]

00:28:18 ◼   ► the car next to you then you have [TS]

00:28:21 ◼   ► positional Authority and you can do [TS]

00:28:24 ◼   ► whatever you want and that guy has to [TS]

00:28:26 ◼   ► watch out right like if you get in front [TS]

00:28:29 ◼   ► of another car even half a car length in [TS]

00:28:32 ◼   ► front of another car then you can more [TS]

00:28:35 ◼   ► or less change lanes at will [TS]

00:28:39 ◼   ► because the presumption is that you are [TS]

00:28:41 ◼   ► ahead of that guy so it's his [TS]

00:28:42 ◼   ► responsibility to look out for you and [TS]

00:28:44 ◼   ► you are looking forward and making [TS]

00:28:47 ◼   ► decisions about what's coming at you [TS]

00:28:49 ◼   ► like all of Manhattan traffic is looking [TS]

00:28:52 ◼   ► forward very different from somebody [TS]

00:28:54 ◼   ► who's used to the on ramp off ramp by [TS]

00:28:57 ◼   ► the walmart where we always politely to [TS]

00:29:00 ◼   ► do a zipper thing there is no merge [TS]

00:29:02 ◼   ► concept in New York you never know [TS]

00:29:05 ◼   ► whenever like puts their arm over the [TS]

00:29:07 ◼   ► passenger seat and cranes their neck [TS]

00:29:10 ◼   ► around to see if there's a spot and puts [TS]

00:29:13 ◼   ► their blinker on and slows down and [TS]

00:29:16 ◼   ► waits for a spot because there's never a [TS]

00:29:17 ◼   ► spot right you know no one will ever [TS]

00:29:19 ◼   ► make a spot for you [TS]

00:29:21 ◼   ► so the only way that you can get around [TS]

00:29:22 ◼   ► and that's not because they're mean [TS]

00:29:24 ◼   ► that's just because that's how driving [TS]

00:29:25 ◼   ► works that's just how driving works [TS]

00:29:26 ◼   ► right and so you just drive and you're [TS]

00:29:29 ◼   ► looking forward and you assume that the [TS]

00:29:31 ◼   ► people who are not in your peripheral [TS]

00:29:34 ◼   ► vision are watching you because you're [TS]

00:29:37 ◼   ► in front of them and if you use if you [TS]

00:29:39 ◼   ► turn right then they get out of your way [TS]

00:29:41 ◼   ► and it's it's genius you drive in New [TS]

00:29:44 ◼   ► York and no one [TS]

00:29:46 ◼   ► the thing is no one ever hits the brakes [TS]

00:29:47 ◼   ► you just are all moving in a symbiosis [TS]

00:29:50 ◼   ► because you're you have this awareness [TS]

00:29:53 ◼   ► and you recognize that because you don't [TS]

00:29:56 ◼   ► really have to look behind you then all [TS]

00:30:00 ◼   ► then all of a sudden like what you need [TS]

00:30:02 ◼   ► to do is really understood and taken [TS]

00:30:04 ◼   ► care of which is like I've got three [TS]

00:30:05 ◼   ► guys in front of me and I'm watching [TS]

00:30:07 ◼   ► them and okay this guy's moving so I'm [TS]

00:30:11 ◼   ► moving into that space you know I'm [TS]

00:30:13 ◼   ► moving into that space inside it's [TS]

00:30:14 ◼   ► almost like a beautiful dangerous dance [TS]

00:30:16 ◼   ► it's it's the it's the best [TS]

00:30:18 ◼   ► everybody's going out how in the world [TS]

00:30:20 ◼   ► could traffic on Third Avenue go 65 [TS]

00:30:24 ◼   ► miles an hour but it happens all the [TS]

00:30:27 ◼   ► time and it's because nobody's looking [TS]

00:30:31 ◼   ► back they could just break the rearview [TS]

00:30:33 ◼   ► mirrors off they're just looking forward [TS]

00:30:36 ◼   ► and dealing with the 325 things in front [TS]

00:30:40 ◼   ► of that right [TS]

00:30:41 ◼   ► ok there's a bike messenger on the left [TS]

00:30:43 ◼   ► this taxicab looks like he's looking for [TS]

00:30:45 ◼   ► a fair there's a delivery truck up there [TS]

00:30:48 ◼   ► I see him two blocks as fast as reactive [TS]

00:30:50 ◼   ► as opposed to wondering how soon you get [TS]

00:30:53 ◼   ► to go 65 on a highway again and being [TS]

00:30:56 ◼   ► frustrated because the because the brake [TS]

00:30:57 ◼   ► lights when do I get to go 65 is I'm [TS]

00:30:59 ◼   ► gonna go 65 yeah yeah it's so it's so [TS]

00:31:02 ◼   ► secretary Hasse passive that that that [TS]

00:31:06 ◼   ► version of it is [TS]

00:31:06 ◼   ► yeah that the the country ass highway [TS]

00:31:09 ◼   ► version of driving you know is is the [TS]

00:31:12 ◼   ► worst and when you when you get into an [TS]

00:31:14 ◼   ► environment and the thing is all all [TS]

00:31:16 ◼   ► like center central cities have their [TS]

00:31:19 ◼   ► own tempo I mean Detroit is very you [TS]

00:31:25 ◼   ► would think Detroit kind of midwest de [TS]

00:31:27 ◼   ► but because the car culture is so strong [TS]

00:31:30 ◼   ► going into detroit and it feels it [TS]

00:31:34 ◼   ► really feels like lineup lineup to make [TS]

00:31:38 ◼   ► a run at the death star you know like [TS]

00:31:40 ◼   ► you just strap in and you just here we [TS]

00:31:43 ◼   ► go we're going in like that in Boston [TS]

00:31:46 ◼   ► oh yeah Miami Boston the Boston has the [TS]

00:31:49 ◼   ► additional advantage of like there are [TS]

00:31:51 ◼   ► no street signs given up trying to [TS]

00:31:55 ◼   ► explain i'm offering LOL streets [TS]

00:31:57 ◼   ► yeah yeah anyway so i love i love that [TS]

00:32:01 ◼   ► experience of driving in a place where [TS]

00:32:05 ◼   ► and and that's the thing about driving [TS]

00:32:08 ◼   ► on the on the autobahns in Europe like [TS]

00:32:12 ◼   ► if you doze for a second if you get over [TS]

00:32:15 ◼   ► into that passing lane and you are going [TS]

00:32:17 ◼   ► a hundred and ninety kilometers an hour [TS]

00:32:20 ◼   ► and you think to yourself I'm pretty hot [TS]

00:32:23 ◼   ► shit you know I'm going 290 kilometers [TS]

00:32:26 ◼   ► an hour i'm over here in the path of [TS]

00:32:28 ◼   ► passing lane there's a bunch of [TS]

00:32:30 ◼   ► there's a bunch of of trucks and I'm [TS]

00:32:35 ◼   ► just gonna I'm just gonna I'm pretty [TS]

00:32:36 ◼   ► happy with myself I'm gonna I'm gonna [TS]

00:32:38 ◼   ► relax for once you start down to like a [TS]

00:32:40 ◼   ► sense of like there's nobody who could [TS]

00:32:42 ◼   ► ever object to what I'm doing [TS]

00:32:44 ◼   ► yeah you know it's against the classic [TS]

00:32:46 ◼   ► kind of like annoying America thing of [TS]

00:32:47 ◼   ► like I've covered my bases here I know [TS]

00:32:51 ◼   ► I'm not actively doing anything to [TS]

00:32:53 ◼   ► harass anyone so therefore nobody could [TS]

00:32:55 ◼   ► ever have any objection to what I'm [TS]

00:32:56 ◼   ► doing [TS]

00:32:57 ◼   ► yeah right i mean i'm going hundred and [TS]

00:33:00 ◼   ► ninety kilometers an hour i'm fucking I [TS]

00:33:02 ◼   ► you who could who could have a problem [TS]

00:33:04 ◼   ► with this and you doze for one second it [TS]

00:33:08 ◼   ► comes the bullet you look down at the [TS]

00:33:10 ◼   ► fucking stereo for one second and you [TS]

00:33:13 ◼   ► look up in your rear-view mirror and [TS]

00:33:15 ◼   ► there is a 500 class mercedes that was [TS]

00:33:19 ◼   ► going 220 kilometers an hour and he is [TS]

00:33:22 ◼   ► Nell like metallurgically grafted to [TS]

00:33:26 ◼   ► your rear bumper [TS]

00:33:28 ◼   ► he's well you're observing a clap punked [TS]

00:33:30 ◼   ► he is flashing his brights in a way that [TS]

00:33:33 ◼   ► is so angry like there's something about [TS]

00:33:36 ◼   ► the like the flash the brights flash on [TS]

00:33:39 ◼   ► a German car that is just like Octomom [TS]

00:33:43 ◼   ► shalimar she'll like it just looks [TS]

00:33:46 ◼   ► different [TS]

00:33:47 ◼   ► so they it's designed to communicate [TS]

00:33:49 ◼   ► anger you know in a way that we can't [TS]

00:33:53 ◼   ► relate to hear and you feel like such a [TS]

00:33:55 ◼   ► boob and then invariably that happens [TS]

00:33:58 ◼   ► right at a place where there were on the [TS]

00:34:00 ◼   ► right-hand lane [TS]

00:34:01 ◼   ► there's a stack of trucks and there's no [TS]

00:34:03 ◼   ► way for me nowhere for you to get out as [TS]

00:34:05 ◼   ► you hadn't used on what why would I ever [TS]

00:34:06 ◼   ► need to move over why would have to [TS]

00:34:08 ◼   ► start thinking about that right look at [TS]

00:34:09 ◼   ► me i'm mr. guy I'm i'll wait for [TS]

00:34:11 ◼   ► somebody to come up behind me and I'll [TS]

00:34:14 ◼   ► notice them [TS]

00:34:15 ◼   ► yeah and maybe they flash their lights [TS]

00:34:16 ◼   ► or something which is a very mean thing [TS]

00:34:18 ◼   ► to do and then I'll move over when it's [TS]

00:34:19 ◼   ► convenient for me but i'll move over [TS]

00:34:21 ◼   ► one's coming for me but invariably what [TS]

00:34:23 ◼   ► happens is you become the problem and [TS]

00:34:27 ◼   ► and he never felt like the problem so [TS]

00:34:29 ◼   ► much you [TS]

00:34:30 ◼   ► nobody's nobody's more of the problem [TS]

00:34:32 ◼   ► then somebody's pretty convinced that [TS]

00:34:33 ◼   ► could never be part of the problem if [TS]

00:34:35 ◼   ► you're like you should [TS]

00:34:37 ◼   ► me you you're like one of those Gunny a [TS]

00:34:42 ◼   ► bouncy balls in a particular again Rock [TS]

00:34:47 ◼   ► run equipment right exactly everything [TS]

00:34:49 ◼   ► is just to get and then fucking [TS]

00:34:52 ◼   ► gummibär ok guys the ball or your [TS]

00:34:55 ◼   ► brother or glory blog wrong huh [TS]

00:34:59 ◼   ► you've heard of so-called pass out yeah [TS]

00:35:02 ◼   ► I dated a gal I who is in the United [TS]

00:35:06 ◼   ► States you never tell stories like this [TS]

00:35:09 ◼   ► yeah well I'm a very private guy no you [TS]

00:35:11 ◼   ► stay over here in my lane [TS]

00:35:12 ◼   ► tell us more well it's just interesting [TS]

00:35:14 ◼   ► because I'm this was in 1999 here in [TS]

00:35:19 ◼   ► girl very young yes expect [TS]

00:35:22 ◼   ► unconscionably young girl that I was [TS]

00:35:24 ◼   ► saying we have to pass out not to not to [TS]

00:35:26 ◼   ► tote not to say too much but past i was [TS]

00:35:28 ◼   ► down in that area down around the Czech [TS]

00:35:31 ◼   ► border where this is this is why bring [TS]

00:35:32 ◼   ► it up hills and dales yes well and [TS]

00:35:35 ◼   ► really it was more checked in German in [TS]

00:35:37 ◼   ► a lot of ways [TS]

00:35:38 ◼   ► hmm talk more Noelle she had am she had [TS]

00:35:42 ◼   ► a real super East German kind of [TS]

00:35:46 ◼   ► childhood you know like her father was a [TS]

00:35:48 ◼   ► surgeon as they say like he was a doctor [TS]

00:35:51 ◼   ► and he got whatever the East German [TS]

00:35:54 ◼   ► government felt like paying him for [TS]

00:35:55 ◼   ► stuff constant you know weird like [TS]

00:35:58 ◼   ► mystery meat privations you know it was [TS]

00:36:01 ◼   ► interesting she was right on the line i [TS]

00:36:03 ◼   ► mean i think this is that pass out might [TS]

00:36:05 ◼   ► have been in stripes for all I know it [TS]

00:36:08 ◼   ► might as well in oh I see I see what [TS]

00:36:10 ◼   ► you're supposed to go look at the map [TS]

00:36:11 ◼   ► it's right there [TS]

00:36:12 ◼   ► oh I know where it is that's not cool [TS]

00:36:14 ◼   ► ask coat-of-arms Carla Callaghan Griffin [TS]

00:36:16 ◼   ► like a dragon's together yeah really you [TS]

00:36:18 ◼   ► know what we don't have enough Griffin's [TS]

00:36:20 ◼   ► in America that's another problem with [TS]

00:36:21 ◼   ► this place [TS]

00:36:22 ◼   ► I mean you know pass out as a is like um [TS]

00:36:25 ◼   ► yeah it's one of those old towns it's [TS]

00:36:28 ◼   ► like a town where you start scratching [TS]

00:36:30 ◼   ► the surface near like Oh was [TS]

00:36:32 ◼   ► incorporated in 1100 except it was [TS]

00:36:35 ◼   ► already a bit already been a Roman town [TS]

00:36:37 ◼   ► 4,000 sure you know like one of those [TS]

00:36:41 ◼   ► generally anymore the story than that [TS]

00:36:42 ◼   ► except that i was at a twenty-year-old [TS]

00:36:44 ◼   ► the nineties and she was kind of east [TS]

00:36:47 ◼   ► germany to play basketball she was [TS]

00:36:49 ◼   ► almost six feet tall [TS]

00:36:50 ◼   ► Wow astonishing is real outlier for me [TS]

00:36:53 ◼   ► see like i like that you know i always I [TS]

00:36:56 ◼   ► always imagined I've got your number [TS]

00:36:57 ◼   ► yeah but then you throw a curveball like [TS]

00:37:00 ◼   ► this every pound hard i'm not hard once [TS]

00:37:02 ◼   ► dated a nice german basketball player [TS]

00:37:05 ◼   ► you know she really large hands [TS]

00:37:09 ◼   ► um yeah yeah I'm worried about the house [TS]

00:37:14 ◼   ► I worry about the highway so that's your [TS]

00:37:16 ◼   ► denim it really is but the thing is the [TS]

00:37:17 ◼   ► beautiful part is and keep moving and [TS]

00:37:19 ◼   ► get out of the way it just it's it's [TS]

00:37:22 ◼   ► it's a bit is a base it's the best of [TS]

00:37:25 ◼   ► America and the best of Europe again in [TS]

00:37:27 ◼   ► a social psychology uh it's a it's a [TS]

00:37:31 ◼   ► method of understanding the world that [TS]

00:37:33 ◼   ► will help improve everything now you're [TS]

00:37:35 ◼   ► adding science with the inertial [TS]

00:37:36 ◼   ► relativity [TS]

00:37:37 ◼   ► yeah yeah you got a bullet you have to [TS]

00:37:40 ◼   ► you have to always I mean all these all [TS]

00:37:43 ◼   ► these edicts I'm realizing you know part [TS]

00:37:47 ◼   ► of what makes them lasting is that the [TS]

00:37:50 ◼   ► that they are flexible they can have [TS]

00:37:53 ◼   ► sort of you know amendments to them [TS]

00:37:55 ◼   ► right do they do grow with the time's [TS]

00:37:58 ◼   ► right not I do not believe that there [TS]

00:38:01 ◼   ► should be Roderick on the line original [TS]

00:38:03 ◼   ► lists who are trying to imagine what the [TS]

00:38:06 ◼   ► founders maybe just don't want things [TS]

00:38:08 ◼   ► judges out there you don't want a lot of [TS]

00:38:10 ◼   ► activism it's true you don't want you [TS]

00:38:12 ◼   ► don't want people who are trying to try [TS]

00:38:15 ◼   ► to legislate from the bench if you know [TS]

00:38:16 ◼   ► what I'm so but you do want to allow [TS]

00:38:19 ◼   ► these edicts to be improved upon by [TS]

00:38:22 ◼   ► future generations because they're going [TS]

00:38:26 ◼   ► to have to adapt to a future time when [TS]

00:38:28 ◼   ► everybody's going to be on hoverboards [TS]

00:38:30 ◼   ► or or in pneumatic tubes and some of [TS]

00:38:35 ◼   ► these things are going to be some of [TS]

00:38:37 ◼   ► these things are going to think have [TS]

00:38:38 ◼   ► been solved [TS]

00:38:39 ◼   ► it's not really a true isn't it won't [TS]

00:38:41 ◼   ► work in a pneumatic tube well and i know [TS]

00:38:44 ◼   ► i'm not sure how you would pass somebody [TS]

00:38:46 ◼   ► in a pneumatic tube well i think if you [TS]

00:38:48 ◼   ► had any sense you'd engineering [TS]

00:38:49 ◼   ► pneumatic tube that takes that into [TS]

00:38:50 ◼   ► account [TS]

00:38:51 ◼   ► right right exactly there's gonna be [TS]

00:38:53 ◼   ► there's gonna be five tubes and you're [TS]

00:38:55 ◼   ► going to be able to choose the two [TS]

00:38:57 ◼   ► right that best expresses the the speed [TS]

00:39:01 ◼   ► with which you would like to be [TS]

00:39:02 ◼   ► automatically transmits be important [TS]

00:39:04 ◼   ► that you continually reach use the [TS]

00:39:06 ◼   ► appropriate amount is nice right well [TS]

00:39:09 ◼   ► yeah I mean I think somebody from [TS]

00:39:11 ◼   ► stockton or from a you know from Kiev is [TS]

00:39:16 ◼   ► going to look at walk up to these tubes [TS]

00:39:17 ◼   ► and he's gonna be like how am I supposed [TS]

00:39:19 ◼   ► to choose this like I'm not getting in a [TS]

00:39:21 ◼   ► tube the last tube that last thing that [TS]

00:39:24 ◼   ► they saw that resemble the pneumatic [TS]

00:39:25 ◼   ► tube transporter was some kind of cow [TS]

00:39:28 ◼   ► shoot like a slide into McDonald's [TS]

00:39:30 ◼   ► playground right so they're going to [TS]

00:39:32 ◼   ► choose the one all the way to the right [TS]

00:39:34 ◼   ► it's a nice big tube slow moving to the [TS]

00:39:39 ◼   ► minivan of tubes [TS]

00:39:40 ◼   ► yeah you just get in there and sort of [TS]

00:39:43 ◼   ► like was Shannon just sort of oh just [TS]

00:39:46 ◼   ► captain seats we just get real [TS]

00:39:49 ◼   ► comfortable [TS]

00:39:50 ◼   ► yeah it's just a gentle wish that wishes [TS]

00:39:53 ◼   ► you off to your destination all the way [TS]

00:39:55 ◼   ► on the left on the other hand [TS]

00:39:56 ◼   ► yeah you're gonna see a line of people [TS]

00:39:57 ◼   ► there in downhill ski costumes some of [TS]

00:40:02 ◼   ► your people in the app class somebody is [TS]

00:40:04 ◼   ► covering them with the you-know-what [TS]

00:40:07 ◼   ► like motor oil they have goggles on and [TS]

00:40:11 ◼   ► they're lining up to get into that left [TS]

00:40:13 ◼   ► hand to because that is a that that the [TS]

00:40:16 ◼   ► pneumatic pressure is a lot higher than [TS]

00:40:18 ◼   ► them [TS]

00:40:18 ◼   ► yes by tighter fit it's a future [TS]

00:40:21 ◼   ► attitudes of extremity yeah you are [TS]

00:40:24 ◼   ► right about pass out first paragraph 2 [TS]

00:40:26 ◼   ► in the 2nd century BC many of the Bowie [TS]

00:40:28 ◼   ► tribe which north across the Alps out of [TS]

00:40:32 ◼   ► northern Italy by the Romans in 70 new [TS]

00:40:34 ◼   ► capital code blue durham by the Romans [TS]

00:40:37 ◼   ► now within the inch dot district PESA [TS]

00:40:40 ◼   ► 2nd century pc turns out [TS]

00:40:42 ◼   ► really yeah yeah around Europe is old [TS]

00:40:45 ◼   ► John Europe is old [TS]

00:40:47 ◼   ► the thing about past hours it is in it [TS]

00:40:51 ◼   ► is a Bavarian town and Bavaria was never [TS]

00:40:54 ◼   ► in the East no portion of Bavaria was [TS]

00:40:57 ◼   ► part of Eastern Europe so our [TS]

00:40:59 ◼   ► resemblance to a [TS]

00:41:02 ◼   ► to a check or Eastern person was much I [TS]

00:41:06 ◼   ► think you were interpreting a kind of [TS]

00:41:08 ◼   ► universal Germanic severe severity that [TS]

00:41:12 ◼   ► you know what that's on me she had very [TS]

00:41:14 ◼   ► very blonde hair the varying severity if [TS]

00:41:16 ◼   ► you will but very severe phobia for the [TS]

00:41:20 ◼   ► verity as we call it [TS]

00:41:21 ◼   ► yeah okay and that but you know it's [TS]

00:41:25 ◼   ► sometimes it's tricky over there you [TS]

00:41:28 ◼   ► know there are a lot of Germans yes true [TS]

00:41:31 ◼   ► and they're different from each other [TS]

00:41:32 ◼   ► which is the which is the confusing part [TS]

00:41:34 ◼   ► you know Germany's you know Germany's [TS]

00:41:37 ◼   ► not that big it's not much bigger than I [TS]

00:41:40 ◼   ► don't know rotonda in stockton right [TS]

00:41:43 ◼   ► somewhere you can put all of Germany in [TS]

00:41:44 ◼   ► California because Germany compared to [TS]

00:41:46 ◼   ► like what state would it be [TS]

00:41:47 ◼   ► it's probably the biggest texas right [TS]

00:41:49 ◼   ► well that's a good question how big is [TS]

00:41:52 ◼   ► Germany big is Germany relative to a [TS]

00:41:55 ◼   ► Texas say uh huh and says i don't think [TS]

00:42:01 ◼   ► there are 80 million people in Germany [TS]

00:42:02 ◼   ► now is that right 60 million 80 million [TS]

00:42:05 ◼   ► people at 80 point six million day after [TS]

00:42:11 ◼   ► the United States Germany is the second [TS]

00:42:12 ◼   ► most popular migration destination in [TS]

00:42:15 ◼   ► the world I think that's true [TS]

00:42:17 ◼   ► a lot of people want to move to germany [TS]

00:42:18 ◼   ► who they got they got a mythical [TS]

00:42:20 ◼   ► creature on the coat-of-arms pretty [TS]

00:42:22 ◼   ► handsome how they do they do they've had [TS]

00:42:24 ◼   ► I don't and I think a lot of them don't [TS]

00:42:25 ◼   ► think its mythical haha this episode of [TS]

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00:43:35 ◼   ► woman on the the woman from the czech [TS]

00:43:37 ◼   ► republic i was talking to she was like [TS]

00:43:40 ◼   ► so I mean because we were talking about [TS]

00:43:42 ◼   ► a lot of different things and at one [TS]

00:43:44 ◼   ► point she was like well you know for a [TS]

00:43:46 ◼   ► while there in the nineties all the [TS]

00:43:49 ◼   ► people all the young people in the Czech [TS]

00:43:51 ◼   ► Republic we're learning English because [TS]

00:43:52 ◼   ► it was very fashionable and it seems [TS]

00:43:54 ◼   ► like that's the way we were going but [TS]

00:43:56 ◼   ► now everyone is learning German again [TS]

00:43:59 ◼   ► because just it's just for practical [TS]

00:44:03 ◼   ► purposes at the Germans are I mean [TS]

00:44:06 ◼   ► basically they have um they have on [TS]

00:44:09 ◼   ► solution suggested and land again but [TS]

00:44:12 ◼   ► this time this time just with like [TS]

00:44:15 ◼   ► tourists caravans and there's no that [TS]

00:44:19 ◼   ► and that was a little bit depressing to [TS]

00:44:21 ◼   ► me because I do remember being in Prague [TS]

00:44:23 ◼   ► at a time when it felt like an American [TS]

00:44:26 ◼   ► colony a little bit really i thought was [TS]

00:44:29 ◼   ► uniquely European all for sure but I [TS]

00:44:32 ◼   ► mean in the sense of like the young [TS]

00:44:34 ◼   ► people and the energy that they had for [TS]

00:44:38 ◼   ► the future very cosmopolitan oh i mean [TS]

00:44:41 ◼   ► if if it hadn't been for the wall [TS]

00:44:44 ◼   ► I think prague prague would have evolved [TS]

00:44:48 ◼   ► to be the capital of Europe and I think [TS]

00:44:50 ◼   ► it may one day you know like Prague have [TS]

00:44:54 ◼   ► the disadvantage of always I mean for [TS]

00:44:56 ◼   ► her a long time being kind of a a colony [TS]

00:44:59 ◼   ► right it was an Austrian colony a second [TS]

00:45:04 ◼   ► city in an empire and so Vienna was the [TS]

00:45:08 ◼   ► capital and prague could only ever be a [TS]

00:45:12 ◼   ► you know up a spoke the the checks could [TS]

00:45:18 ◼   ► only be a spoke of this Empire and then [TS]

00:45:20 ◼   ► they had a like a brief period there [TS]

00:45:23 ◼   ► between the wars where they seem that [TS]

00:45:25 ◼   ► there seemed like possibility for them [TS]

00:45:27 ◼   ► and then they were you know they were [TS]

00:45:30 ◼   ► absorbed by the Nazis and then maybe [TS]

00:45:32 ◼   ► then became part of the Warsaw Pact and [TS]

00:45:34 ◼   ► they never had their moment in modern [TS]

00:45:37 ◼   ► times but project itself and the Czech [TS]

00:45:40 ◼   ► people and that I mean I think they are [TS]

00:45:43 ◼   ► the best of Central Europe and it's it [TS]

00:45:46 ◼   ► should be the and the problem is it's [TS]

00:45:49 ◼   ► gonna get [TS]

00:45:50 ◼   ► it's going to turn into a tourist shit [TS]

00:45:52 ◼   ► hole it already has but like there's [TS]

00:45:56 ◼   ► something about it should be the center [TS]

00:45:58 ◼   ► of central europe it's a very feminine [TS]

00:46:01 ◼   ► city it's a very like and feminine in [TS]

00:46:05 ◼   ► both ways like it's it's um it's also [TS]

00:46:08 ◼   ► dangerous like feminine it's and it has [TS]

00:46:13 ◼   ► claws claws out right at your link to [TS]

00:46:17 ◼   ► the the the Buddhist whoppin Buddhist [TS]

00:46:20 ◼   ► weapon and i'm saying that right the [TS]

00:46:22 ◼   ► federal coat of arms and it's the volume [TS]

00:46:24 ◼   ► our Eagle which they adopted the federal [TS]

00:46:27 ◼   ► republic of germany uh adopted as its [TS]

00:46:29 ◼   ► symbol in the 450 what's interesting is [TS]

00:46:31 ◼   ► the evolution of this thing over time [TS]

00:46:33 ◼   ► fucking become less terrifying and by [TS]

00:46:35 ◼   ► the time you get to the standard of the [TS]

00:46:37 ◼   ► federal president it's really more like [TS]

00:46:38 ◼   ► an angry bird like five video game yeah [TS]

00:46:41 ◼   ► oh look that's too bad you look at that [TS]

00:46:43 ◼   ► it did it i mean i remember you get more [TS]

00:46:47 ◼   ► of a death from above thing and now [TS]

00:46:49 ◼   ► looks like you're going to try and knock [TS]

00:46:50 ◼   ► some pics / I remember the you know the [TS]

00:46:54 ◼   ► be so the the East German coat-of-arms [TS]

00:46:58 ◼   ► always had like a hammer and a compass [TS]

00:47:02 ◼   ► because they were building as workers [TS]

00:47:05 ◼   ► utopia [TS]

00:47:07 ◼   ► um and it compared to like the the [TS]

00:47:12 ◼   ► federal republic or whatever the the [TS]

00:47:18 ◼   ► West is the last night's like so the GDR [TS]

00:47:22 ◼   ► was the German Democratic Republic and [TS]

00:47:24 ◼   ► the other one was the federal republic [TS]

00:47:26 ◼   ► of germany is that how it went that [TS]

00:47:29 ◼   ► right whatever the further the FRG in [TS]

00:47:32 ◼   ► the GDR but I'm but yeah that like the [TS]

00:47:35 ◼   ► Eagle seemed pretty badass [TS]

00:47:38 ◼   ► but then you you don't have to go back [TS]

00:47:40 ◼   ► too far to see the Nazi eagle which was [TS]

00:47:42 ◼   ► not that but that doesn't make you feel [TS]

00:47:45 ◼   ► warm and fuzzy but then you go all the [TS]

00:47:49 ◼   ► way back and it doesn't look like an [TS]

00:47:50 ◼   ► eagle at all it looks like a freaking [TS]

00:47:52 ◼   ► Buzzard it looks like it it looks like a [TS]

00:47:53 ◼   ► Griffin like a death Buzzard yeah kind [TS]

00:47:56 ◼   ► of [TS]

00:47:57 ◼   ► and it looks like it's kind of like a [TS]

00:47:58 ◼   ► little kid going i have strong muscles [TS]

00:47:59 ◼   ► like yeah I'm strike certain flexing oh [TS]

00:48:03 ◼   ► my god it's got so many and funny [TS]

00:48:05 ◼   ► chicken feet [TS]

00:48:07 ◼   ► thank you for sending me that the bundle [TS]

00:48:08 ◼   ► swapan isn't it nice and then there's no [TS]

00:48:11 ◼   ► way then there's the the two-headed [TS]

00:48:14 ◼   ► Buddhist whoppin what if you go even [TS]

00:48:17 ◼   ► further back the original german [TS]

00:48:19 ◼   ► confederation will be as wide hided [TS]

00:48:21 ◼   ► think it was invited to drop my goodness [TS]

00:48:25 ◼   ► there's so many Eagles there's naked [TS]

00:48:27 ◼   ► guys dressed up like a green goddess [TS]

00:48:29 ◼   ► said salad dressing outfit [TS]

00:48:31 ◼   ► yeah well let's see that I think I think [TS]

00:48:32 ◼   ► that's the best German ever i've talked [TS]

00:48:35 ◼   ► about that before right the the like [TS]

00:48:36 ◼   ► nascent yeah the drawings right a druid [TS]

00:48:40 ◼   ► worship the right tree worship that goes [TS]

00:48:42 ◼   ► on in that country and is generally lady [TS]

00:48:44 ◼   ► on in all of Central Europe yes they [TS]

00:48:46 ◼   ► really are only Christian on the surface [TS]

00:48:50 ◼   ► and surface especially surface [TS]

00:48:52 ◼   ► Christians and beneath that they are [TS]

00:48:54 ◼   ► still sacrificing lambs to the nature [TS]

00:48:59 ◼   ► God's camp Germans love to camp in short [TS]

00:49:03 ◼   ► pants like hiking biking up to the [TS]

00:49:06 ◼   ► parking lot and hiking down to the [TS]

00:49:08 ◼   ► parking lot of the other side for food [TS]

00:49:09 ◼   ► that's not to give away too much not to [TS]

00:49:12 ◼   ► reveal too much about my book of hiking [TS]

00:49:15 ◼   ► understand yes they do they really like [TS]

00:49:18 ◼   ► donkeys like West if they have to [TS]

00:49:20 ◼   ► yeah but they're you know they're really [TS]

00:49:23 ◼   ► corner they really want some labels [TS]

00:49:24 ◼   ► around anyway I don't know why I keep [TS]

00:49:29 ◼   ► getting cold [TS]

00:49:30 ◼   ► you know I think it might be that you [TS]

00:49:33 ◼   ► live in us in a in a sick house i might [TS]

00:49:36 ◼   ► be a sick house i'm pretty sure we've [TS]

00:49:38 ◼   ► got the asbestos in our tubes [TS]

00:49:40 ◼   ► yeah you have you everybody's got [TS]

00:49:41 ◼   ► asbestos in their tubes yeah [TS]

00:49:43 ◼   ► but i feel you know like ever since my [TS]

00:49:46 ◼   ► experiment and let now I'm not this is [TS]

00:49:49 ◼   ► on casting at my experiment in going [TS]

00:49:52 ◼   ► sugar-free oh wow so we can get really [TS]

00:49:56 ◼   ► backing off that a year ago [TS]

00:49:58 ◼   ► oh I get some get some late-night dining [TS]

00:50:01 ◼   ► at state there's there's just been [TS]

00:50:04 ◼   ► sterile backsliding and I don't know and [TS]

00:50:07 ◼   ► the thing the thing was when i first had [TS]

00:50:11 ◼   ► sugar after i had been sugar free for [TS]

00:50:14 ◼   ► for a long time like whenever I would [TS]

00:50:17 ◼   ► have even a little bit of sugar i would [TS]

00:50:20 ◼   ► i would immediately recognized that it [TS]

00:50:21 ◼   ► was poison like it felt like poison I [TS]

00:50:24 ◼   ► like your body almost 12 reject it [TS]

00:50:26 ◼   ► well yeah because you would you just get [TS]

00:50:28 ◼   ► eat at a rather I would get crazy [TS]

00:50:32 ◼   ► immediately like your mind would just be [TS]

00:50:34 ◼   ► like wow dude I feel incredible but also [TS]

00:50:36 ◼   ► i just a taste weird if you haven't had [TS]

00:50:39 ◼   ► a candy bar really long time ago to be [TS]

00:50:41 ◼   ► the candy bars like this is who eats [TS]

00:50:44 ◼   ► this this is your easy [TS]

00:50:45 ◼   ► yeah and you're and just wondering this [TS]

00:50:47 ◼   ► should be a one-bite operation no way [TS]

00:50:49 ◼   ► should there be a super size Snickers [TS]

00:50:50 ◼   ► that's disgusting [TS]

00:50:51 ◼   ► yeah exactly i mats and that's a perfect [TS]

00:50:54 ◼   ► as that's perfectly true like one bite [TS]

00:50:56 ◼   ► of confection you get the whole [TS]

00:50:59 ◼   ► everything that's good is in that first [TS]

00:51:02 ◼   ► bite and everything that follows is just [TS]

00:51:05 ◼   ► like garbage at the perfect way to put [TS]

00:51:08 ◼   ► it [TS]

00:51:08 ◼   ► it's a camp train of followers and what [TS]

00:51:12 ◼   ► at Camp to camp train right you know [TS]

00:51:16 ◼   ► when an Army moves through oh yeah that [TS]

00:51:18 ◼   ► you're talking about the German [TS]

00:51:21 ◼   ► backpacking well in a sense we went to [TS]

00:51:24 ◼   ► last night watch acting i watch Henry [TS]

00:51:26 ◼   ► the fifth and I ate a point-of-sale bean [TS]

00:51:30 ◼   ► ice cream [TS]

00:51:30 ◼   ► yeah thank you and that you didn't come [TS]

00:51:32 ◼   ► in the fifth that's what's happening to [TS]

00:51:34 ◼   ► me too and you know what what my gateway [TS]

00:51:36 ◼   ► drug was I found some gluten-free um [TS]

00:51:40 ◼   ► granola know what gluten-free granola [TS]

00:51:44 ◼   ► and then it seemed possible [TS]

00:51:47 ◼   ► well I know and then someone else [TS]

00:51:48 ◼   ► introduced me to nonfat Greek yogurt [TS]

00:51:53 ◼   ► and so I was like listen I got all the [TS]

00:51:55 ◼   ► ingredients here i got nonfat Greek [TS]

00:51:57 ◼   ► yogurt i got gluten-free granola I got [TS]

00:51:59 ◼   ► those bags with a near beer and alcohol [TS]

00:52:03 ◼   ► those bags that you get now at the [TS]

00:52:06 ◼   ► supermarkets where you get a 15-pound [TS]

00:52:08 ◼   ► bag of blackberries raspberries [TS]

00:52:10 ◼   ► blueberries and strawberries all mixed [TS]

00:52:12 ◼   ► together and frozen which is it that is [TS]

00:52:15 ◼   ► a technology that like if all of [TS]

00:52:18 ◼   ► California if everyone in California has [TS]

00:52:20 ◼   ► to die in order to keep the fruit [TS]

00:52:22 ◼   ► factories producing cheap berries I feel [TS]

00:52:28 ◼   ► like it's a trade-off that I'm willing [TS]

00:52:29 ◼   ► to consider [TS]

00:52:31 ◼   ► I agree I agree a terrible state and and [TS]

00:52:33 ◼   ► the truth is that the berries are one of [TS]

00:52:35 ◼   ► the few things that have not gotten [TS]

00:52:37 ◼   ► awfully yet it's not awful like tomatoes [TS]

00:52:39 ◼   ► have gotten off or peaches have gotten [TS]

00:52:41 ◼   ► awful you can still have a good [TS]

00:52:42 ◼   ► blueberry or blueberry a good strawberry [TS]

00:52:44 ◼   ► bad strawberry but they're not [TS]

00:52:46 ◼   ► categorically shit like PS yeah they [TS]

00:52:48 ◼   ► have they haven't they haven't read them [TS]

00:52:50 ◼   ► to the point that there's no flavor [TS]

00:52:52 ◼   ► texture of the next relation we got one [TS]

00:52:54 ◼   ► banana now that's right that's right [TS]

00:52:56 ◼   ► there is only one kind of banana the [TS]

00:52:58 ◼   ► other day I look down at my little [TS]

00:52:59 ◼   ► daughter and she was she had a half a [TS]

00:53:01 ◼   ► banana and she was applying it to her [TS]

00:53:04 ◼   ► lips like lipstick all and I was like [TS]

00:53:07 ◼   ► what are you doing and she said just [TS]

00:53:08 ◼   ► putting on some banana lipstick adorable [TS]

00:53:13 ◼   ► and I felt and she you know and she said [TS]

00:53:16 ◼   ► it and looked at me as though it was it [TS]

00:53:18 ◼   ► couldn't be more obvious what she was [TS]

00:53:20 ◼   ► doing but I did feel a little bit like [TS]

00:53:22 ◼   ► the banana nose a banana that's that has [TS]

00:53:26 ◼   ► a that's mostly starch does feel a [TS]

00:53:30 ◼   ► little bit like lip balm and and less [TS]

00:53:34 ◼   ► like food you know this little gritty [TS]

00:53:37 ◼   ► yeah these starchy tasteless modern [TS]

00:53:41 ◼   ► bananas but anyway if we have to die [TS]

00:53:43 ◼   ► verte the whole uh the ball every River [TS]

00:53:47 ◼   ► that comes out of the southwest right [TS]

00:53:49 ◼   ► well you know having a drought you're [TS]

00:53:51 ◼   ► saying you're saying plenty of water [TS]

00:53:52 ◼   ► plenty of cheap workers just keep the [TS]

00:53:55 ◼   ► frozen berries coming just pour that [TS]

00:53:56 ◼   ► shit on to the berry farms and if I mean [TS]

00:53:59 ◼   ► la is going to end up devolved into [TS]

00:54:01 ◼   ► water riots and you know and [TS]

00:54:04 ◼   ► mass sort of like terrible immigration [TS]

00:54:09 ◼   ► and at by which i mean like armies of [TS]

00:54:12 ◼   ► thirsty people marching north in [TS]

00:54:16 ◼   ► tattered clothes yet his la needs a [TS]

00:54:19 ◼   ► reason to be more like either do nor mad [TS]

00:54:21 ◼   ► max that's what we need right now [TS]

00:54:24 ◼   ► resource riots on top of it all yeah [TS]

00:54:26 ◼   ► that's gonna happen no matter what and I [TS]

00:54:28 ◼   ► just say fence off those berry fields [TS]

00:54:30 ◼   ► pop some corn let preference but guard [TS]

00:54:34 ◼   ► towers around the berry fields and just [TS]

00:54:37 ◼   ► let those la people you know march to [TS]

00:54:39 ◼   ► the sea or whatever but keep those [TS]

00:54:41 ◼   ► berries coming but I so i started making [TS]

00:54:43 ◼   ► gluten-free granola with with them with [TS]

00:54:47 ◼   ► nonfat Greek yogurt and frozen berries [TS]

00:54:50 ◼   ► and I felt very virtuous because i had i [TS]

00:54:54 ◼   ► was doing all the right things here but [TS]

00:54:57 ◼   ► what I was really doing was making a [TS]

00:54:58 ◼   ► giant parfait sunday still technically a [TS]

00:55:02 ◼   ► lot of sugar [TS]

00:55:04 ◼   ► well and a lot of just just a massive I [TS]

00:55:07 ◼   ► mean because I because because once i [TS]

00:55:09 ◼   ► felt like i had given myself a pass [TS]

00:55:12 ◼   ► I be nice to eat a large mixing bowl of [TS]

00:55:15 ◼   ► it [TS]

00:55:16 ◼   ► yeah i did not impose any size [TS]

00:55:18 ◼   ► restrictions on it southend and i was i [TS]

00:55:20 ◼   ► was basically making popcorn bowl of [TS]

00:55:24 ◼   ► this stuff and and I was like this is [TS]

00:55:26 ◼   ► incredible you know it's a it's like [TS]

00:55:28 ◼   ► that the the secretary at the place i [TS]

00:55:30 ◼   ► used to the stock brokerage where I [TS]

00:55:32 ◼   ► worked back when I was still drinking [TS]

00:55:33 ◼   ► who I overheard one day talking to her [TS]

00:55:36 ◼   ► the her desk partner and she said have [TS]

00:55:40 ◼   ► you ever have you ever tried these [TS]

00:55:41 ◼   ► fat-free brownies and the co-worker was [TS]

00:55:45 ◼   ► like no this was when fat-free yeah [TS]

00:55:47 ◼   ► brownies were knew she was like they're [TS]

00:55:51 ◼   ► incredible i mean i ate a whole pan of [TS]

00:55:53 ◼   ► them they're fat-free and like four cups [TS]

00:55:56 ◼   ► of sugar fat free and i was like Lady [TS]

00:55:58 ◼   ► yeah four cups of sugar exactly right so [TS]

00:56:01 ◼   ► anyway so that was my gateway these [TS]

00:56:04 ◼   ► parfaits i'm jon is very pretty soon I [TS]

00:56:07 ◼   ► was just like what I'm gonna be eating [TS]

00:56:09 ◼   ► 4,000 calories of non-fat yogurt i might [TS]

00:56:12 ◼   ► as well be on [TS]

00:56:14 ◼   ► a magical just eat ben & jerry's and [TS]

00:56:17 ◼   ► butt but I feel like to get back to [TS]

00:56:19 ◼   ► where the jumping-off point was here [TS]

00:56:21 ◼   ► that is why I'm sick because i still [TS]

00:56:24 ◼   ► have this sense memory i saw this this [TS]

00:56:27 ◼   ► this distant memory of knowing how [TS]

00:56:32 ◼   ► poison sugar is and now it's in my body [TS]

00:56:35 ◼   ► again to the to the to the degree that I [TS]

00:56:38 ◼   ► can't sense it when i put in [TS]

00:56:41 ◼   ► oh no you're back on your back your back [TS]

00:56:43 ◼   ► on sugar basically well it's in there [TS]

00:56:45 ◼   ► you've got you've got a baseline amount [TS]

00:56:47 ◼   ► of sugar and which is going to make you [TS]

00:56:48 ◼   ► want more sugar we even if you're not [TS]

00:56:49 ◼   ► conscious of it that's exactly right and [TS]

00:56:51 ◼   ► i think that's how it is [TS]

00:56:53 ◼   ► yeah that's exactly how it i didn't [TS]

00:56:55 ◼   ► begin my night saying well i'm gonna [TS]

00:56:57 ◼   ► have a all of this ice cream [TS]

00:56:59 ◼   ► no but then it was gone you know yeah [TS]

00:57:02 ◼   ► I'm Agincourt that's that's enough [TS]

00:57:05 ◼   ► collagen up the gentle my condition [TS]

00:57:09 ◼   ► yeah as in core wow that's a real thing [TS]

00:57:14 ◼   ► it's a real thing it really happened [TS]

00:57:16 ◼   ► yeah that's thirty years war i keep you [TS]

00:57:19 ◼   ► know there was a time when I felt like [TS]

00:57:20 ◼   ► the thirty years war was the key to [TS]

00:57:22 ◼   ► understanding everything was that [TS]

00:57:24 ◼   ► educates not that's not the hundred [TS]

00:57:25 ◼   ► years or 30 years or no no 30 years I [TS]

00:57:28 ◼   ► mean a sort of sort of unrelated uh-huh [TS]

00:57:33 ◼   ► but sort of not everything in Europe is [TS]

00:57:35 ◼   ► revived third thirty years war came [TS]

00:57:37 ◼   ► later but but but thirty years war is [TS]

00:57:42 ◼   ► like three years and years or a hundred [TS]

00:57:44 ◼   ► years war that's right for the roses [TS]

00:57:46 ◼   ► okay well yeah we're just saying words [TS]

00:57:49 ◼   ► for of the world via century of World [TS]

00:57:53 ◼   ► War when you're in the thirty years war [TS]

00:57:56 ◼   ► is the one that happened in a sort of a [TS]

00:57:59 ◼   ► post Martin Luther and it really felt [TS]

00:58:04 ◼   ► like that was the first for a long time [TS]

00:58:06 ◼   ► it felt like that was the key for me to [TS]

00:58:09 ◼   ► understand everything that happened [TS]

00:58:10 ◼   ► subsequently in Europe and that but the [TS]

00:58:13 ◼   ► problem with the thirty years war is [TS]

00:58:15 ◼   ► there's nothing there's no way to keep [TS]

00:58:16 ◼   ► it in your mind there's no central [TS]

00:58:19 ◼   ► there's really no central figure there's [TS]

00:58:22 ◼   ► no central battle there's no central [TS]

00:58:25 ◼   ► event really it's it's just like all [TS]

00:58:29 ◼   ► against all chaos war that lasted for 30 [TS]

00:58:35 ◼   ► years and and the end result was mostly [TS]

00:58:41 ◼   ► that everyone everyone was tired and all [TS]

00:58:45 ◼   ► of the good things were had been burned [TS]

00:58:48 ◼   ► you know it was that it was the first [TS]

00:58:50 ◼   ► sort of total war where everything just [TS]

00:58:52 ◼   ► the armies would come into a town and [TS]

00:58:55 ◼   ► they would go out the other side and [TS]

00:58:56 ◼   ► there would just be nothing left on card [TS]

00:58:58 ◼   ► and and then everybody just got [TS]

00:59:02 ◼   ► exhausted and and just sort of petered [TS]

00:59:04 ◼   ► out sort of thing and so it's very hard [TS]

00:59:06 ◼   ► to keep like I read several books about [TS]

00:59:08 ◼   ► it and I have this very clear picture of [TS]

00:59:10 ◼   ► all that you know Charles the fifth and [TS]

00:59:12 ◼   ► all these people that were that were the [TS]

00:59:14 ◼   ► source material for all the stuff that [TS]

00:59:17 ◼   ► came after right you couldn't look at [TS]

00:59:19 ◼   ► the american revolution or or Napoleon [TS]

00:59:21 ◼   ► or or the French Revolution or anything [TS]

00:59:23 ◼   ► that came later without understanding [TS]

00:59:25 ◼   ► this cauldron of the thirty years war [TS]

00:59:30 ◼   ► but now it's been you know half a dozen [TS]

00:59:33 ◼   ► years since i read a book about it and I [TS]

00:59:35 ◼   ► couldn't really tell you anything about [TS]

00:59:39 ◼   ► it because it is because it just it's [TS]

00:59:41 ◼   ► not just them i'm old and my brain is a [TS]

00:59:43 ◼   ► sieve [TS]

00:59:43 ◼   ► but but there's no even as i was reading [TS]

00:59:47 ◼   ► books about it I was like the person [TS]

00:59:48 ◼   ► writing this book does not understand [TS]

00:59:51 ◼   ► the scope of what they're talking about [TS]

00:59:52 ◼   ► because there's too much [TS]

00:59:55 ◼   ► there are too many factors going in and [TS]

00:59:58 ◼   ► coming out the other side there were too [TS]

00:59:59 ◼   ► many [TS]

00:59:59 ◼   ► many [TS]

01:00:00 ◼   ► actors and it's just like Oh King Gustav [TS]

01:00:03 ◼   ► of sweden now isn't how he's riding into [TS]

01:00:06 ◼   ► what now his army is involved like where [TS]

01:00:09 ◼   ► did they come from one of those [TS]

01:00:10 ◼   ► different time were like today you if [TS]

01:00:13 ◼   ► anything happened between any two [TS]

01:00:14 ◼   ► countries we would know about it [TS]

01:00:17 ◼   ► the second that happened and everybody [TS]

01:00:18 ◼   ► would have a theory everybody in the [TS]

01:00:20 ◼   ► entire on the entire planet would have a [TS]

01:00:22 ◼   ► theory because they they have a record [TS]

01:00:23 ◼   ► about it and then what it might be weeks [TS]

01:00:26 ◼   ► before you heard about something right [TS]

01:00:28 ◼   ► right you're saying I mean it was it [TS]

01:00:30 ◼   ► wasn't like it wasn't even like the 43 [TS]

01:00:32 ◼   ► can show a newsreel and go like this is [TS]

01:00:34 ◼   ► what it means is pearl harbor right this [TS]

01:00:36 ◼   ► is this is what this is what we're [TS]

01:00:37 ◼   ► fighting for [TS]

01:00:38 ◼   ► it must have been much more local and [TS]

01:00:40 ◼   ► localized and I think there were there [TS]

01:00:43 ◼   ► were you know whole swaths of events in [TS]

01:00:45 ◼   ► the thirty years war where there were no [TS]

01:00:47 ◼   ► witnesses who survived from the other [TS]

01:00:50 ◼   ► side of the story right you got one side [TS]

01:00:53 ◼   ► of the story because everybody on the [TS]

01:00:54 ◼   ► other side of the story died [TS]

01:00:57 ◼   ► yeah and and you know I like I often i [TS]

01:01:02 ◼   ► often weep for the lost human the the [TS]

01:01:08 ◼   ► you know that we make so much progress [TS]

01:01:09 ◼   ► and then we have these sweeping wars and [TS]

01:01:11 ◼   ► kind of like everything is ruined right [TS]

01:01:14 ◼   ► like it in a way like bullets same way [TS]

01:01:16 ◼   ► that you weep for the library at [TS]

01:01:19 ◼   ► Alexandria right like oh if only we had [TS]

01:01:23 ◼   ► if only we had all those books and had [TS]

01:01:27 ◼   ► always had them there wouldn't have been [TS]

01:01:30 ◼   ► dark ages or something but in fact you [TS]

01:01:33 ◼   ► know the more you study the more you [TS]

01:01:34 ◼   ► realize like ads to stall stall [TS]

01:01:37 ◼   ► construction paper and glue that's all [TS]

01:01:40 ◼   ► we're all just silent green light up all [TS]

01:01:43 ◼   ► line up off go into the grinders that [TS]

01:01:46 ◼   ► are under every taco bell you know every [TS]

01:01:51 ◼   ► third person that goes into a taco bell [TS]

01:01:53 ◼   ► doesn't come out this reason all those [TS]

01:01:55 ◼   ► birds hang out outside you know and [TS]

01:01:58 ◼   ► we'll walk by yesterday morning on the [TS]

01:01:59 ◼   ► way for daddy daughter morning we went [TS]

01:02:01 ◼   ► out to get some dim sum as you walk by [TS]

01:02:03 ◼   ► the guy the bird guy the guy gets the [TS]

01:02:05 ◼   ► free chicken KFC 1030am he's in there in [TS]

01:02:08 ◼   ► chicken and there's no because I respect [TS]

01:02:11 ◼   ► his dignity but I just gonna let you [TS]

01:02:12 ◼   ► know it's a real thing [TS]

01:02:13 ◼   ► was there yesterday morning 10-30 [TS]

01:02:14 ◼   ► getting chicken butt but interesting [TS]

01:02:16 ◼   ► that remains and you and your young [TS]

01:02:19 ◼   ► daughter have now made them some part of [TS]

01:02:21 ◼   ► your 5 daddy-daughter routine that she [TS]

01:02:24 ◼   ► could put it away I mean she's no John [TS]

01:02:25 ◼   ► Roderick but she could put a hurtin on [TS]

01:02:27 ◼   ► some dim sum just talking as much as i [TS]

01:02:30 ◼   ► do just talking about it makes me sad [TS]

01:02:32 ◼   ► but I'm not sitting at your kitchen [TS]

01:02:34 ◼   ► table right now eating for people's [TS]

01:02:36 ◼   ► questions about I get you off that sugar [TS]

01:02:40 ◼   ► for people for portions up for big [TS]

01:02:44 ◼   ► hungry man portions of dim sum and I'm [TS]

01:02:46 ◼   ► like I'm I'm slapping people's hands as [TS]

01:02:50 ◼   ► they are reaching you know anything is [TS]

01:02:53 ◼   ► over so it's irresponsible because we [TS]

01:02:55 ◼   ► went in there and at first he really he [TS]

01:02:57 ◼   ► loves my daughter he's always asking [TS]

01:02:59 ◼   ► about her and whenever I bring her and I [TS]

01:03:00 ◼   ► got to do this more he like slashes the [TS]

01:03:02 ◼   ► price in half [TS]

01:03:03 ◼   ► oh hello so we got like 16 pieces of dim [TS]

01:03:06 ◼   ► sum for six dollars uh-huh and then we [TS]

01:03:09 ◼   ► ate it and then we went downtown and [TS]

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