#1094 - Brian Redban

Joe Rogan (0:05)

So, Jamie Vernon has some Facebook stock for sale. He's got it, he's uploaded it to Craigslist.

Jamie Vernon (0:11)

Sold!

Joe Rogan (0:13)

Take it, take it off my hands.

I think it'll bounce back. If you guys don't know what we're talking about, Facebook, apparently, Jamie, you were the one who first told me about it. Why don't you fill people in?

Jamie Vernon (0:22)

Well, from what I saw, there's something going on. I think the company is called Cambridge Analytica, which what I've also then learned is that Steve Bannon used to be the VP of this company, but that was before he was in the Trump campaign, and they are responsible for scraping millions of users' personal information, I think, through a couple apps, maybe, like a personality app, if someone took one of those quizzes.

Joe Rogan (0:45)

Like a personality quiz, right? Like those online quizzes?

But let's be, those are morons that answer those things, right, for the most part, or people are super bored.

Brian Redban (0:57)

And that's how you get, most of the time, how you get your Facebook passwords stolen is from those things.

Joe Rogan (1:01)

Oh, yeah, yeah, or from sneaky emails that tell you your account's been compromised, please re-enter your password, and you're like, it's okay, well, it doesn't say Facebook on the URL. They can be sneaky with their URLs too, like put something in front of it and then Facebook, and you're like, oh, it looks like Facebook, you know?

Jamie Vernon (1:21)

So the FTC is looking into this case right now, apparently, as of yesterday, and what I read is they face up to a potentially $40,000 fine for every infraction, which would total over $2 trillion, I'm sorry, with a T, trillion.

So their stock has tanked, I think it was like 8% yesterday, it's at eight and a half so far today, it's down to $165 a share, it was like 185 two days ago. So, and then a lot of people then are also now talking about just getting rid of their Facebook account altogether.

Brian Redban (1:53)

I talked about this last night, I'm on the actual fence of doing that, just because I can't take it anymore. That's the only place I go to where it's just, I get annoyed, I get in fights, I have to see my sister talk about Trump every day. It's just upsetting now.

Joe Rogan (2:07)

It's a very good forum for people that are into political arguments. Like political arguments, gay rights arguments, there's a lot of like, that's like one of the last places where it's okay to say that you don't think gay people should be married.

It's like, you know, I know, I just know some people that I probably shouldn't know anymore.

Brian Redban (2:29)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (2:29)

And occasionally, you know, we're on my real Facebook page, which I never go to. Like if I go to it once a year, it's a lot.

Brian Redban (2:37)

And that's where all the fake news stuff is. Like I thought Pam Anderson died the other day, and it was just one of those fake news stories. And that's always where you find it is on Facebook.

Joe Rogan (2:44)

Well, whenever you go and read an article and those things at the bottom, they're like, you should see what she looks like now.

And there's like 30 of them. Like, wait a minute. Like, they're just throwing shit at you. They're just literally like, come on, you're gonna bite on one of these. Come on, what is it, Kevin Costner? You can't believe what he looks like now.

You remember that girl from Precious? You can't believe it.

Jamie Vernon (3:04)

How often does it work though? You check every so often, right?

Joe Rogan (3:07)

No, I don't anymore. But they got me a few times in the early days.

Jamie Vernon (3:10)

I was Googling it.

Joe Rogan (3:11)

Well, I thought that those were below. See, it's a sneaky thing because they took the place of real stories. It's like it used to, you go to CNN and everything would be CNN. But now you go to CNN. Everything's CNN up until the line and then below the line, it's like sponsored content. Like, wait.

This isn't, this is so sneaky because this is barely an ad. This is like an article on CNN that takes you to some new place. And every page, like you have to keep changing pages. And every page is like one paragraph.

Like one paragraph on what Kevin Costner looked like in 1980 Okay, what about 81? Boom, next page. In 81, Kevin Costner started to gain weight.