In this episode Jared and myself discuss several topics; including, but not limited to, copyright laws, corporations, virtues, personal development, writing, philosophy, synthetic intelligence, the war on drugs, manipulation, the war on terrorism, human connection, and a whole lot of historical references! Come join us in this very insightful 3-hour conversation where we attempt to interpret our thoughts.

2:08 – “So can I go to prison if I hum that song by Michael Jackson?”

5:55 – “Patents restrict the Growth of our nation”

10:25 – “It’s Litigious”

12:17 – Yale college course on American History:

13:20 – Me trying to remember which colony attracted religious people. “It starts with a P..”

14:40 – “A queen who just went around killing everyone who wasn’t Catholic..”

16:13 – The individuals in the colonies separated based on similarity to one-another…

19:12 – “This cartoon character called Brother Johnathan…”

20:42 – “Brother Johnathan is based on a real person, Johnathan Trumbull…”

20:53 – “Johnathan Trumbull is an ugly looking dude.”

22:05 – Benjamin Franklins Autobiography

22:50 – Benjamin Franklin on cleaning the streets.

“After some inquiry, I found a poor, industrious man, who was willing to undertake keeping the pavement clean, by sweeping it twice a week, carrying off the dirt from before all the neighbours’ doors, for the sum of sixpence per month, to be paid by each house. I then wrote and printed a paper setting forth the advantages to the neighbourhood that might be obtain’d by this small expense; the greater ease in keeping our houses clean, so much dirt not being brought in by people’s feet; the benefit to the shops by more custom, etc., etc., as buyers could more easily get at them; and by not having, in windy weather, the dust blown in upon their goods, etc., etc. I sent one of these papers to each house, and in a day or two went round to see who would subscribe an agreement to pay these sixpences; it was unanimously sign’d, and for a time well executed. All the inhabitants of the city were delighted with the cleanliness of the pavement that surrounded the market, it being a convenience to all, and this rais’d a general desire to have all the streets paved, and made the people more willing to submit to a tax for that purpose.”

27:09 “I think it was in the 1950’s, there was this immense flood”

28:31 – “The Kansas City Spirit” by Norman Rockwell.

34:20 – People were very trusting during the Great Depression.

34:37 – “A documentary of Americans who live in Japan.”

35:21 – “But there

40:52 – “I think it was Portugal who ended their war on drugs..”

41:05 – “Just like Iceland ended its war on poor people.”

46:17 – “I’ve heard recently that… Elon Musk.. and Stephen Hawking.. both went over the rules for robots…”

47:01 – The Three Laws of Robotics

48:02 – “Just before cowboys became a thing, robots and space were a thing..”

48:30 – “Didn’t we land on Pluto?”

48:49 – “Was that thunder?”

48:55 – “Yeah we landed on mars..”

50:00 – “Well if you are out there listening, and you think this is so stupid because we don’t get this, then you need to…”

51:20 – “… A point where we’re all like Spock”.

52:13 – “Life’s grape against your lip.”

52:27 – “Logic can only go so far as the data you collect.”

59:40 – “The author of Harry Potter said…”

59:56 – “One of my role models, in a way, is Eckhart Tolle…”

1:04:44 – “I found a book on the number zero.”

1:06:25 – “[Buddhists] They have a word for everything..”

1:07:27 – “Oh the 10,000 hours thing… Mastery by Robert Greene.”

1:07:18 – The 10,000 hours / multiple lives picture.

1:11:47 – “I think your phone is messing with the equipment?”

1:13:16 – “…when you were a child, and that’s where most people think that they end.”

1:14:46 – “A friend of mine used to sing the song, break the chain.”

1:15:42 – “Epigenetics”

1:18:27  – “Blaise Pascal”

1:21:11 – “I know hundreds of people have thought this..”

1:24:03 – “The same guy who wrote the three [laws of robots], came back and said there’s a zero..”

1:27:58 – We can control robot arms using just our brain:

1:29:02 – Joe Rogan podcast discussing cyborgs, like the guy with Google glasses attached to his skull.

1:34:02 – The computer from the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy:

1:34:27 – “You have to read that book series (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy).”

1:34:57 – “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, is a lot like that..”

1:36:34 – Benjamin Franklin on focusing on one virtue for each day of the week, and one at a time:

1:37:25 – “There’s another author who did the same thing.”

1:37:56 – My Danish friend gave me some videos of people speaking Danish to show you:

1:50:24 “Yeah Divinci definitely did that. He used to study every aspect of a feather before drawing one…”
If you want to learn more about this, pickup that book Mastery by Robert Greene mentioned at 1:07:27.

He was talking about this at 1:13:16. Refer to that reference.

1:54:55 Comfort zone challenge (TED talk video):

1:57:02 (Jim Carrey and Robin Williams) “I remember that one of them, and I don’t remember which one… would do that all the time to impress his mom, because his mom was always sad or something…”
I still can’t figure out who it is, but here’s a video of Robin Williams with his mom:

2:09:04 – “I listened to a podcast awhile back..” NPR episode about burning man.

2:20:34 -“I felt a great disturbance in the force..”

2:20:39 – “Yeah and he’s just some robot?”

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