#1406 - Brian Redban

Brian Redban (0:06)

Happy New Year Joe, happy 2020

Joe Rogan (0:08)

Happy 2020, that doesn't sound real.

2020 sounds like a fake number. Like we're in the year 2020, that's like a movie about the future.

Brian Redban (0:15)

Yeah, we've already gone past the Blade Runner date, you know?

Joe Rogan (0:18)

What was the Blade Runner date?

Brian Redban (0:19)

I think that was September, October of last year.

Joe Rogan (0:22)

You know what's interesting about the estimations about the future?

No one ever overestimates or underestimates, everyone overestimates, right? Like Space 1999, remember that show?

Brian Redban (0:33)

Yep.

Joe Rogan (0:33)

That was, I'm older than you, but when that show was on TV, people thought that in 1999, we'd be just fucking flying around through space all the time and living out there.

Brian Redban (0:41)

Yeah, like Buck Rogers.

Joe Rogan (0:42)

Yeah, all those shows. So Blade Runner was what year?

Brian Redban (0:47)

This last year, 2019

Joe Rogan (0:49)

Wow, they missed that, huh?

Brian Redban (0:51)

Yeah, because it's funny when they show it in the movie, it shows the background looks like flying cars and crazy billboards and everything.

Joe Rogan (1:00)

I wonder where technology would be if it wasn't for the internet. Imagine if the internet was not possible, but technology still advanced electronically, like the capability of showing higher resolution images and processing power and all that stuff kept moving, but they never figured out how to link it all up.

Brian Redban (1:19)

Yeah, that's weird.

Joe Rogan (1:22)

That's the scariest thing about the internet.

It's almost like the future put ideas in people's heads, and those people just started figuring out a way to connect everybody and then connect all this crazy computing power and all this information, and you could translate it in real time and do it all around the world.

And what a better way to get the technology to advance, because if it wasn't for the internet, where would we be at realistically?

Brian Redban (1:51)

We'd still be racist, we'd still be molesting people at work, we'd still have nuclear bombs.

Joe Rogan (1:57)

We'd still have radio, we'd still have TV.

Brian Redban (1:59)

Yeah, because that's what's causing all the problems in Hollywood and everything in life. And look at all this stuff that's going on right now with Trump and everything like that. It's the internet getting together going, no, this is wrong, this is right. It's people becoming gangs immediately.

Joe Rogan (2:15)

I think it's a side effect of something that's ultimately gonna be good. That's what I think. I think we're learning how to figure it out. But I think ultimately it's gonna be good. Because what it is, is everybody gets to have an opinion. And through those opinions, you find out which ones make any sense, which ones are crazy.

But right now, it's like the people that are really into expressing their opinions on both sides are usually the ones that everybody else is like, hey, hey, hey, fucking relax, man. Like, isn't there, I think most of us have some sort of a middle ground on almost everything. But that's not represented right now. Because right now it's like the most extreme people are the ones who are putting the most energy into talking about things.

Like, this Greta Thurnburn girl, do they have to go to her every time anybody says anything wrong about the climate? Because apparently Meatloaf said something. What did Meatloaf say?

Jamie (3:10)

Well, he said something about her specifically. I think he said...

Joe Rogan (3:13)

Did he?

Jamie (3:13)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (3:14)

Oh, I thought he had a... The headline I read, and I'm a fucking sucker for clickbait, has said he had climate denial comments.

Brian Redban (3:23)

Yeah, he just said something like, relax. He pretty much kind of did that passive aggressive thing, like, chill out, lady.

Joe Rogan (3:30)

It's probably being funny.

Brian Redban (3:31)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (3:31)

I mean, that's what we do. You took what we're...

Brian Redban (3:34)

I do feel kind of bad for her. I think it's hilarious. Imagine all the other girls in school. What did they think about her?

Joe Rogan (3:40)

I have a friend who worked with autistic people, and she said she thinks she's autistic.

She thinks that this situation is a really bright child that maybe is being pushed in this direction to be this public figure. It's just her, it's not that her opinions aren't valid. They definitely are valid, but it's just, it's not healthy to take a young kid who's developing and then thrust them into the front of something like global climate change debate. It's so hostile. And then just instantaneously, this kid is getting mocked and fucked with, and then they're asking her to make statements. And how dare you, that how dare you just plays over and over and over again. She's not wrong, it's not wrong, her opinions. But it's like she's really young to handle this.