#1126 - Erik Griffin

Joe Rogan (0:01)

You don't want them to know.

Boom! And we're live, Erik Griffin. So we were talking before this podcast, how you mix it up with the Android watch, but the Apple phone, it's very curious.

Erik Griffin (0:14)

Well, see, I used to be all Samsung. I loved the Android, and the watch is great, I love how it interacts, but then I get a girlfriend who has an iPhone, and she's like, I wanna have FaceTime with you.

Joe Rogan (0:24)

So why don't you tell her to get Skype? Skype app.

Erik Griffin (0:28)

You're married? You understand, you can't, anyway.

I got, I...

Joe Rogan (0:32)

Gotta set standards.

Erik Griffin (0:33)

Well, hey, I'm not the standard guy.

Joe Rogan (0:35)

Lines in the sand, lines in the sand.

Erik Griffin (0:37)

So then I, but then they have like a app, they had this app on the app, Apple now, called Gear, which lets you hook up your phone, but you can't really interact with it. You can't like talk or anything, but it's actually kind of nice. You just wanna know stuff's going on.

Joe Rogan (0:50)

It's probably, yeah, we were saying it's probably better that you can't interact with it. Because Jamie was telling me that they, you could do walkie talkie with your iPhones now.

Jamie (0:59)

Yeah, they're still being announced right now. So I don't know all the details, but the Worldwide Developers Conference is going on, the WWDC, so they're announcing a new operating system, the new Apple Watch, and the new automatic workout detection, walkie talkie mode, and something else is going on.

Joe Rogan (1:14)

There's just too much.

Erik Griffin (1:15)

I have an Apple Watch, too.

Jamie (1:17)

I love it.

Erik Griffin (1:17)

You can leave it at me. At least sometimes I leave my phone. I don't bring my phone with me.

Because you can.

Joe Rogan (1:22)

Do you feel weird when you do that?

Erik Griffin (1:23)

Yeah. Because here's what's happening now, though.

Like, if I have my watch, when you look at your watch, what does that cue? It cues like, you want to go, or you're missing out on something, or I don't have any. No, now when you do that, it's just because you're looking at a text message. So now it's just as rude as.

We're not, this isn't helping. It's not helping when I go, if I'm looking, you know, we're talking and I go like this, I look down and you think, hey, do you have to go someplace?

SPEAKER_5 (1:47)

Yeah.

Erik Griffin (1:48)

No, no, I just gotta text.

Joe Rogan (1:49)

It's too much, right?

Erik Griffin (1:50)

Yeah, I just gotta tweet. I gotta retweet, I'm looking at, you know.

SPEAKER_5 (1:52)

That's what it is.

Joe Rogan (1:53)

What are we doing, what are we doing?

Erik Griffin (1:54)

I have no idea. You know what's really weird about all this stuff, the phones and how we talk? Everybody wants to text.

You can't get people to call you. You can't get people to, and now they're putting little emojis.

Right. And then from the emojis, now they're putting like gifts of real people. So this is how I feel. So we're going in a circle because we want human interaction. We want connection. We want to see people. So now we're putting, they're putting a celebrity up, like this is how I feel today. Why don't you put how you feel today?

Joe Rogan (2:24)

Right. Not Chris Pratt throwing a garbage can or something.

Erik Griffin (2:28)

This is my mood. So we're slowly getting back to where it's gonna be, we're gonna actually be talking to a real person.

Joe Rogan (2:35)

You think so? It's gonna come all the way around?

Erik Griffin (2:36)

I think it's gonna come all the way around.

Joe Rogan (2:38)

What is this, Jamie?

Jamie (2:39)

This is the new thing they showed. It's you're making an emoji of yourself called Memoji.

Joe Rogan (2:43)

They already did that with Samsung.

Jamie (2:45)

This is like it's working with Apple.

Joe Rogan (2:47)

They're ripping them off.

Jamie (2:48)

They're working together or something.

Erik Griffin (2:49)

This is what I'm saying though. We're searching, we're trying to find ways to be more ourselves.

You don't need an emoji of yourself. Just do, be yourself.

Jamie (3:00)

Sorry, they're going against each other.

Joe Rogan (3:01)

Oh, there's takes on Samsung AR emoji. Yeah, they ripped off the idea.

Cheap fucks. Isn't that funny? Like Apple's ripping people off. No, they were first with the iPhone.

The iPhone was the first of these kind of things. The first iPhone. But Androids are real close now. They're real close. I mean, it's very debatable.