The Joe Rogan ExperienceJoe Rogan Experience #2147 - Mike Baker
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Kendrick vs. Drake beef turns real: rap battles, ghostwriters, and a Toronto shooting
- NANarrator
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- JRJoe Rogan
Mike Baker, it's very important that I ask you about this.
- MBMike Baker
What's that? (laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
'Cause, uh, I know you're an expert on conflict. How do you feel about the, uh, Kendrick Lamar and Drake beef?
- MBMike Baker
(exhales) Man, I am so glad you asked (laughs) me about this.
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- MBMike Baker
Because my boys, you know, I got, I got three boys, and all three of them have mentioned this in the past few days, right?
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- MBMike Baker
(clears throat) And they want to, they, they want to talk about it, right? So, S- (laughs) Scooter will say, "God, did you hear what he said?" And, it's like, "Re- honestly, no, I haven't." But, um, they've, they've all brought this up. Uh, I am completely unfamiliar with the, uh... Although it sounds like the old days, east versus west, right?
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah, I, I think it's-
- MBMike Baker
In the old rap battles.
- JRJoe Rogan
... a g- it's a personality thing, 'cause one of them is Toronto, so it's actually America versus Canada.
- MBMike Baker
Oh, well, that's right.
- JRJoe Rogan
It's, it's a real conflict there.
- MBMike Baker
And which one is the, uh, the little guy?
- JRJoe Rogan
Kendrick Lamar.
- MBMike Baker
Kendrick Lamar, that's right.
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- MBMike Baker
(laughs) Yeah, so that's what my middle boy, Slugo, said.
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- MBMike Baker
I think he's, like, 5'1" or something.
- JRJoe Rogan
He's not a big fella.
- MBMike Baker
No.
- JRJoe Rogan
Him, uh, and Drake have been going at it now four songs apiece, so eight songs dedicated to beef.
- MBMike Baker
I think that's fantastic. I think we need-
- JRJoe Rogan
Pretty wild.
- MBMike Baker
... more of that, right? It's better than the, uh, Hamas conflict.
- JRJoe Rogan
Is there more?
- MBMike Baker
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
Security guard injured in shooting outside Drake's home in Toronto.
- 4:19 – 6:04
AI voice cloning and deepfakes: from new Randy Travis songs to fabricated scandals
- JRJoe Rogan
Did you hear that Randy Travis-
- MBMike Baker
George Jones.
- JRJoe Rogan
Randy Travis is using AI now to make new songs? Because he's, he was paralyzed by a stroke.
- MBMike Baker
(inhales deeply) Wow.
- JRJoe Rogan
But because they could take his voice, which is an iconic voice-
- MBMike Baker
Yeah, yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
... Randy Travis has it.
- MBMike Baker
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
Incredible voice. But because of AI, they can get recordings of him singing, and he could plug it into AI and he can still make songs.
- MBMike Baker
And you know how much of a recording they need nowadays-
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh, yeah.
- MBMike Baker
... to actually mimic the entire range of a person's voice? As, as-
- JRJoe Rogan
I think it's 30 seconds.
- MBMike Baker
... but less than that now. Start-
- JRJoe Rogan
Really?
- MBMike Baker
Not that long ago, it was 30 seconds. Now you need a snippet, and by a snippet, I mean seconds.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- MBMike Baker
And you can then, you can, you can then, uh, mimic that voice through a range of emotions-
- JRJoe Rogan
Mm.
- MBMike Baker
... uh, and, and, uh, scenarios. It's, it's stunning what they can do.
- JRJoe Rogan
There was a guy who just got fired because he made a fake AI recording of a guy he worked for saying a bunch of racist things.
- MBMike Baker
Okay. (laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
And the guy, like, everybody was attacking him, he got in trouble, and then they somehow or another did an analysis on it and realized-
- GVGuest (secondary in-room voice)
The select director did it to, like, the principal of the high school.
- JRJoe Rogan
Right.
- GVGuest (secondary in-room voice)
Because he was about to get fired, so he was like, "All right, instead of me getting fired, watch this."
- JRJoe Rogan
Right, he thought he was being slick.
- GVGuest (secondary in-room voice)
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
But he's a dummy, and he didn't know that they can tell.
- MBMike Baker
(laughs)
- 6:04 – 11:27
Detecting the fake isn’t enough: watermarking, provenance, and public responsibility
- MBMike Baker
There's, there's two aspects of this whole thing, right? There's the, there's the detection portion of it, right? Can you detect, like, something like this is, is fake-
- JRJoe Rogan
Right.
- MBMike Baker
... whether it's audio, whether it's video, uh, combination of both? And then there's the other side of it, which is, uh, uh, trying to stay up with the capabilities of those that are trying to do these, you know, identity thefts or whatever you want to call it.
- JRJoe Rogan
Mm-hmm.
- MBMike Baker
And that's the, um, that's sort of the proactive effort to lock down recordings, right? And there's some, some interesting work being done in that space, where if you film something... Say you go to a, a campaign rally and you film that campaign rally, there are, um, there are a handful of companies out there figuring out that you can, uh, essentially watermark it, right?
- JRJoe Rogan
Mm-hmm.
- MBMike Baker
So that it cannot be fucked with, right?
- JRJoe Rogan
Mm-hmm.
- MBMike Baker
And that you can determine if it's an actual recording or not. And that's really... I mean, you think about, you know, how much disinformation is roiling around out there now, right?
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- MBMike Baker
So, but detection, it's important, but it's not enough anymore. So where the focus has to be is on ensuring that anything that's being recorded, whether it's a body cam for a police officer, whether it's maybe someone's at a protest, right? And they're, and they're a protester or they're on the other side, whatever. To be able to, to film something and then ensure that it's accurate and true going forward, right? That's, that's a really important part, because you can't... The detection side of it's important, but it can't stay up with the developments of all the folks out there.
- JRJoe Rogan
Right.
- MBMike Baker
All the criminal gangs, criminal elements, and whether it's state sponsored or not that's out there, you know, j- just with this disinformation effort. So, I mean, it's a fascinating, it's a fascinating problem. But people are getting duped constantly.
- JRJoe Rogan
It's a fascinating problem that is only going to get worse.
- MBMike Baker
Mm-hmm.
- JRJoe Rogan
As these new versions of AI get rolled out, it's going to be more and more difficult to detect what's true and what's fake.
- MBMike Baker
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
It's... And people can do it on their computer so easy now. I was... (laughs) This one of Biden, he's walking and he pauses to talk to people, and they CGI'd shit, like, that he's pooping himself.
- MBMike Baker
I saw that.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah, that one?
- MBMike Baker
The one where, the one where he kind of stops. He pauses-
- JRJoe Rogan
He's in that weird pause.
- MBMike Baker
... like he's got to fart. Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
And then you just see him poop himself.
- MBMike Baker
And people are out there saying, "Look, that's a, that's a mid-stage dementia stance," right? That's what they're, that's what they're saying now. They're, they're talking about that. I don't know, I don't know about that, but, but look, there's-
- JRJoe Rogan
Well, something's going on.
- MBMike Baker
There are... If you talk about, uh, just, uh, what do they call it? Face swap, right?
- JRJoe Rogan
Mm-hmm.
- MBMike Baker
So, they can take a photo of somebody now. They can take a little snippet of, of somebody talking now. And there are over 100 apps out there, readily available to anybody, right? Um, that can basically do this fape s- face-swap technology and put somebody else in there. And the, and criminal elements are doing it all the time, right?
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- 11:27 – 17:28
IQ vs. emotional intelligence: why social skills and empathy matter more than test scores
- JRJoe Rogan
... that are concerned about Drake and Kendrick Lamar and don't even know what's going on in Gaza.
- MBMike Baker
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
They're much more concerned with them. Like we have, like a lot of 84 IQ-ers out there bouncing around, walking into traffic.
- MBMike Baker
Yeah, 84's, what, is that average nowadays? Or is that... I don't even know. Um...
- JRJoe Rogan
I think it's 15% of the population is 84 and below, right? Is that what it is? Remember when we looked that up?
- MBMike Baker
50%?
- GVGuest (secondary in-room voice)
Yeah, but that would also mean 15% is whatever 100 and, plus and above too.
- JRJoe Rogan
What's the actual numbers? Like let's-
- MBMike Baker
Yeah, yeah.
- GVGuest (secondary in-room voice)
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
Let's get a pie chart of IQs.
- GVGuest (secondary in-room voice)
Let's see, it's, uh, a g- it's a standard deviation thing for, uh...
- MBMike Baker
See, already I know that you're above 84 just because you said that.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah, you said standard eight- deviation.
- MBMike Baker
Wow. Wow.
- JRJoe Rogan
And he Googles with one hand.
- GVGuest (secondary in-room voice)
Yeah. (laughs) So like-
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- GVGuest (secondary in-room voice)
It's 'cause Carl's being petted.
- MBMike Baker
(laughs)
- GVGuest (secondary in-room voice)
Just no matter what, almost no matter what thing you're trying to average out, they're almost always end up looking this way, and 15% will always be on that side of it.
- JRJoe Rogan
Bro, fif- wh- what, what percentage? 0.1% are 55 and below? Fuck. 2% of the population is 70.... Jesus, between 55 and 70, 2% of the population. And then 14% of the population is 85.
- MBMike Baker
Yeah, but 34% is below a hundred.
- JRJoe Rogan
So, most people are between 85 and 115, and me, I'm in that sweet zone-
- MBMike Baker
Mm.
- JRJoe Rogan
... between 115 and 130.
- MBMike Baker
Are you?
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- MBMike Baker
Really? That's-
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- 17:28 – 29:38
Kids rejecting ‘woke’ culture: schools, furries, pronouns, and the limits of indulgence
- JRJoe Rogan
Reports from the front lines-
- MBMike Baker
Mm.
- JRJoe Rogan
... of kids in high school today.
- MBMike Baker
Oh.
- JRJoe Rogan
That woke shit's out the window. That word retard comes flying-
- MBMike Baker
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
... out of these kids' mouths. They're- they're bringing that back strong.
- MBMike Baker
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
They are bringing that back strong.
- MBMike Baker
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
I'll tell you, that woke thing, it got into college, it ... And then the high school kids, the ones coming up now-
- MBMike Baker
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
... they are rejecting it.
- MBMike Baker
I 100% agree with you, and I- and I know that because, um, our youngest, uh, uh, Mugsy, he's, like, what, 12 years old now. And so he's in seventh grade, and he- it was in the complete blast zone of woke, right?
- JRJoe Rogan
Mm.
- MBMike Baker
The c- And- and, like, the oldest one who's, you know, 16, he kinda had some of it. The middle one, again, didn't care. He was like, uh, you know, "Fuck you. You don't play ball, so I'm not paying attention to you."
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- MBMike Baker
And, um ... But the youngest one was in the complete firing z- you know, fire zone of this- this- this- this woke culture.... and you'll never meet a more (laughs) conservative, sexist kid in your life.
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- MBMike Baker
'Cause he's just like, I... Y- he'll come back and he'll tell us some stories from his, his school, which is a great school, but it's, it's pretty woke, it's pretty liberal, right? You got, you got kids walking around as furries. You got-
- JRJoe Rogan
No.
- MBMike Baker
... a lot of multicolored hair, you got all sorts of things going on there.
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- MBMike Baker
And, uh, and he'll come back and tell us stories and he's just like, "I just don't understand what the hell's happened." And so-
- JRJoe Rogan
Because he works hard at a sport.
- MBMike Baker
Yeah, yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
And that's what you get from a lot of people that work hard at sports, people that value hard work. And people that value hard work tend to be more conservative and-
- MBMike Baker
I think so, yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
... more less inclined to indulge people on their mental illness, you know? "Oh, you're a cat? No, you're not. You have cat ears on."
- MBMike Baker
(laughs)
- 29:38 – 44:30
CIA disguise craft: Hollywood-grade masks, surveillance tradecraft, and “acting” in the field
- JRJoe Rogan
It's very fascist. I wanted to ask you this before I forget.
- MBMike Baker
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
When you were, uh, working for the agency, did you guys... I know that there is a program where they would use special effects makeup-
- MBMike Baker
Mm-hmm.
- JRJoe Rogan
... to change someone's appearance.
- MBMike Baker
Mm-hmm.
- JRJoe Rogan
Have you ever seen that in person?
- MBMike Baker
Oh, yes. Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
How does it look?
- MBMike Baker
Yeah. It, um... Well, it, it gets better all the time, right? Because-
- JRJoe Rogan
So if I go to a concert, like, could I sneak into-
- MBMike Baker
Sure. Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
... sneak into a concert with a rubber nose?
- MBMike Baker
Yeah. (laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
Get me a nice blonde wig.
- MBMike Baker
Yeah, yeah. That's what we used to do. We'd hand out rubber noses and, uh, googly eyes. (laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- MBMike Baker
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
Who in the... (laughs)
- MBMike Baker
So then nobody would see us coming.
- JRJoe Rogan
Like Clark Kent.
- MBMike Baker
Uh, yeah. No, we have a disguise, uh, unit, uh, at the agency, and I'm, I'm super proud of them. And I, I, I was the benefit of their expertise on numerous occasions because you might guess, I mean, I, I'd spent almost all my time with the agency overseas in operations, and there's some places where I don't blend, right? In.
- JRJoe Rogan
Crazy.
- MBMike Baker
And so... I know. I know.
- JRJoe Rogan
So they blended you just like on Team America: World Police?
- MBMike Baker
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
Remember?
- MBMike Baker
Yes.
- JRJoe Rogan
Bro, should have pictured that.
- MBMike Baker
One of the, one of the, one of the greatest...
- 44:30 – 46:46
Masks at protests, facial recognition, and the modern surveillance state problem
- MBMike Baker
'Cause I- I- I, uh... There's been some talk about the protests on campus, right? And the fact that all these (laughs) - all these outside agitators, activists, and then the students, the- the- the actual students, the ones that are actually affiliated with the university, most of them wearing masks, right?
- JRJoe Rogan
Right.
- MBMike Baker
And, you know, I- part of it is... (sighs) I don't know. It- it's just-
- JRJoe Rogan
They're- they're mentally ill.
- MBMike Baker
Yeah, they're mentally ill. It's a s- ah, God.
- JRJoe Rogan
I pho- I photograph people every time I see them. I photographed one today.
- MBMike Baker
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
Saw somebody walking outside with a mask on, the dumb kind, too, the surgical glue stupid one?
- MBMike Baker
Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
That doesn't do a goddamn thing.
- MBMike Baker
But this was- I think was- was a solidarity thing. They're all wearing masks. And part of it was also, I think, they were thinking they couldn't be identified.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- MBMike Baker
And then there's- there's a lot of talk about retinal scanning, right? So, how much of the face do you need in order to identify people, right?
- JRJoe Rogan
How much do you n-
- MBMike Baker
And it's not-
- JRJoe Rogan
Not much?
- MBMike Baker
... much, right? Retinal scanning, it's not 100% accurate, so there's other things you have to do, but-
- JRJoe Rogan
So would you be able to retinal scan that lady with that crazy outfit on?
- MBMike Baker
Yeah. Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
Just retinal scan her-
- MBMike Baker
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
... and then none of that shit would work. The mustache also wouldn't work.
- MBMike Baker
Well, which is- which is... And that's... Yeah, that's a great point.
- JRJoe Rogan
Now you got glue on your face for another- (laughs)
- MBMike Baker
(laughs) And that shit is tough to take off, too.
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs) Oh, that's gross.
- MBMike Baker
It's not good.
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs) .
- MBMike Baker
Um, so, uh, yeah. A- and that's a- that's a- it's a really good point, because now it's made the life of- of somebody who's working, uh, in operations a lot tougher, right?
- JRJoe Rogan
Right.
- 46:46 – 1:07:55
Campus protests aren’t organic: funding networks, NGOs, and foreign influence incentives
- JRJoe Rogan
They all think they're doing something great. They think they're going to fix it. It's- it's, you know, a lot of misplaced energy (taps desk) with tents.
- MBMike Baker
With tents. And with- with matching tents.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- MBMike Baker
And um, and that's, that's the part. Look, I (sighs) again, you know, hey, God bless the- the actual students who are out there, feeling like they're being a part of something. I get that. They're young people. Most of them are gormless, right? They're just saying whatever, right? This is, you know, this is their moment to shine. So they're excited. So they don't... And they, you know, most of them couldn't find Gaza on a- on a map of Gaza. So I think that, you know, that's- that's one side of it, right? And I can't, you know... Whatever. But it's the, it's the coordination of it all-
- JRJoe Rogan
Right.
- MBMike Baker
... by the various outside-
- JRJoe Rogan
Right.
- MBMike Baker
... groups and the activists and the funding of it, right? And the potential for that funding and the coordination to tie back to groups like Hamas or Hezbollah, which basically means you're tying back to the Iranian regime, right? Because they, that's the only reason those groups exist. But nobody seems curious about that because a lot of the media wanted to portray this as just like kids being kids. "Oh, look at it. This is their moment to shine-"
- JRJoe Rogan
Right.
- MBMike Baker
"... as- as student activists."
- JRJoe Rogan
Right.
- MBMike Baker
"And isn't it wonderful? And it's their Vietnam protests," and- and bullshit. Some of it... Okay, fine. So it's layered, right? So some of that's true. You got those kids that are just doing that. But there- there's the incuriosity of the media to say, "Well, what the hell is behind this?" Right? "And what groups?" Is it- is it students for Justice in Palestine? Is it, um, US Campaign for Palestinian Rights, Samidoun, right, which has connections back to Hamas? Um, there's an education for whatever, Just Peace in the Middle East. There's groups that have been actively engaging in this. And that's why you get the coordination of all of this, right? It's that... But nobody asks, "Okay, what's behind it?" "Oh, just students acting." No, it's not. It's- it's a coordinated effort. And then you look at those groups who are always active in this- in this realm, right? And always looking to, uh, have organizations disinvest from, uh, Israel or to, uh, promote causes that are anti-Israeli, right? And then you say, "Okay, well, who's funding it?" Right? So you look at these groups and you say, "Okay, where's the money coming from?" The money is always coming from the same places, right? The, uh, the Tides center, right? Which is part of the Tides Network, which gets significant funding, no surprise, from Soros' Open Society Foundation. Um, you get Westchester People's, whatever, Action Coalition. Um, so you get these groups and you get the legal support. So all these people, the activists who are getting arrested, they can turn to Palestine Legal, which provides-... legal support to the activists and the NGOs that are-
- JRJoe Rogan
And who funds that?
- MBMike Baker
... engaged in all this. Again, you get, they, they're getting their money-
- JRJoe Rogan
(clears throat)
- MBMike Baker
... from charities. A lot of times the charities don't know they're putting money into these groups, right? It g- it goes into the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, right? And the Rockefeller Brothers Fund provides money to these NGOs, you know, like Justice for, you know, Palestine or whatever. And then, uh... (sighs) And, and Rockefeller Brothers gets m- m- you know, funding from, uh, Soros Open Society Foundation as well.
- JRJoe Rogan
That guy-
- MBMike Baker
That guy.
- JRJoe Rogan
... seems to be a bit of a problem.
- MBMike Baker
Right. Well, yeah. And now his kid is even more of an activist than George is, right?
- JRJoe Rogan
Of course.
- MBMike Baker
I mean, his kid is, yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
His kid inherited it.
- MBMike Baker
Kid inherited it. Right.
- JRJoe Rogan
So he's gotta make up for the fact that he inherited it by being extra woke.
- MBMike Baker
Yeah. (laughs) And, and he is, right?
- JRJoe Rogan
And extra guilty-
- MBMike Baker
Oh, God. F-
- JRJoe Rogan
... for having all those billions. You should feel guilty, you little fuck.
- MBMike Baker
Yeah, yeah. Exactly.
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