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Joe Rogan Experience #2409 - Brian Redban

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  1. 0:002:20

    Quantum computing claims and the multiverse theory rabbit hole

    1. NA

      (drumbeats) Joe Rogan podcast, check it out. The Joe Rogan Experience.

    2. JR

      Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day. (rock music plays) And we're up. Hey.

    3. BR

      Hey.

    4. JR

      Fella, good to see ya.

    5. BR

      Good to see ya.

    6. JR

      Did you see that, uh, new information about, uh, China came out with a new quantum computer that can do, uh, it can do an equation in four minutes it takes all the world's supercomputers 2.6 billion years to solve.

    7. BR

      Really?

    8. JR

      An- and it can do it in four minutes.

    9. BR

      Is that real though? (laughs)

    10. JR

      (laughs) I mean, allegedly.

    11. BR

      I mean.

    12. JR

      Allegedly. That's the problem with this whole quantum thing is I don't underst- I've had it explained to me four or five times, I don't understand it.

    13. BR

      Yeah.

    14. JR

      It's just my monkey brain is like, "What? Oh."

    15. BR

      They also say a lot of things, you know?

    16. JR

      Right.

    17. BR

      Like, so who knows if it's real or not?

    18. JR

      Well, uh, you mean China or?

    19. BR

      Yeah, China. (laughs)

    20. JR

      Yeah. But, but they have American ones that have done them too. They've done some crazy, like, Marc Andreessen explained one of them. That it's so nuts he said that it solved a computer that if you to- i- it solved an equation if you took all of the world's atoms and converted it into a supercomputer, all of the universe's atoms, excuse me, and converted it into a supercomputer. It would take so much time to solve this equation that the universe would die of heat death. And this quantum computer solved it in a matter of minutes.

    21. BR

      Wow.

    22. JR

      I don't know what it means though. I think what they're trying to say is that this somehow or another is proof of the multiverse, because all of these computers are somehow or another... Th- like, this quantum, the idea is this quantum computer is com- is computing along with other quantum computers in other dimensions? Other universes? Other something, other realms?

    23. BR

      (laughs)

    24. JR

      And that there's an infinite number of them, that, that there's so many of them that that's the only thing that can account for this thing being able to do this so quickly.

    25. BR

      I don't even know.

    26. JR

      Right?

    27. BR

      (laughs) Yeah.

    28. JR

      But you, 'cause you, so you're like, "Okay, what are you saying?"

    29. BR

      (laughs)

    30. JR

      Like, what are you saying? What are you doing? What does this mean?

  2. 2:203:56

    How many experts does it take to reboot civilization’s most advanced tech?

    1. JR

      How many people know this? This is what's weird, right? Let's assume that they're telling the truth, and let's assume that they've figured out a computer that can, it's got godlike powers, right? How many fucking people know how this works? Like, what is the number? Like, if all those people got assassinated, and those machines were just sitting there just, like, off, how long would it be before somebody came along that could figure out how to start that up again? Do you know what I'm saying?

    2. BR

      Right.

    3. JR

      Like, are we dealing with, like, it, it, so this is, it might be the most monumental technological breakthrough in the history of the human race, right? If, if something ex- has to be, right? And then you think of what it can do once it does that. And how many people know how to make that?

    4. BR

      One schizophrenic. (laughs)

    5. JR

      (laughs)

    6. BR

      He's been trying to tell us the whole time.

    7. JR

      Is it, like, one dude?

    8. BR

      I think so.

    9. JR

      Is this, like, one dude that they just feed and take care of-

    10. BR

      (laughs) Yeah.

    11. JR

      ... and guard him everywhere he goes?

    12. BR

      Yeah.

    13. JR

      Like, he's the guy.

    14. BR

      (laughs) Yeah.

    15. JR

      He figured this fucking thing out. No one knows how th- how this magic works. I mean, if you had to guess, like, how many quantum computer scientists that could successfully recreate a quantum computer, given enough resources? Like-

    16. BR

      30, maybe.

    17. JR

      30?

    18. BR

      Maybe, yeah.

    19. JR

      Maybe on the planet?

    20. BR

      Yeah, yeah.

    21. JR

      Maybe, maybe. And what?

    22. BR

      Right.

    23. JR

      Thirty out of eight billion?

    24. BR

      (laughs)

    25. JR

      Thirty out of eight billion. I don't even know if we're right, but let's assume we're right. Let's say 100, let's get crazy. Let's say 100.

    26. BR

      Mm-hmm.

    27. JR

      What if those 100 people would have some fucking Mongolian assassin just gets hired-

    28. BR

      (laughs) Yeah.

    29. JR

      ... just take out all of them, and they all start dropping like flies?

    30. BR

      (laughs) Yeah.

  3. 3:567:04

    Foldable phones, Apple’s strategy, and early mobile tech nostalgia (Newton to BlackBerry)

    1. JR

      This, it's weird when there's technology that's at a level where you, you gotta go, like, "How many people know how to do that?" Like, you were just showing me your phone. Like, show, show me that phone again. This is so sexy. This, ladies and gentlemen, is the new Samsung Fold. And I swear to God, when you're holding it in your hand, it feels like a regular phone, and then bam.

    2. BR

      Thin- than it is.

    3. JR

      It's a fucking iPhone. It's so thin.

    4. BR

      Yeah.

    5. JR

      If you compare it to my iPhone, it doesn't feel any different. It feels smaller.

    6. BR

      It actually feels smaller.

    7. JR

      It's smaller. It's smaller than my iPhone.

    8. BR

      (laughs)

    9. JR

      And then you could use it like a regular phone, and it's a good size regular phone. Like, kind of the perfect size for texting-

    10. BR

      Mm-hmm.

    11. JR

      ... where your thumb goes across easy, like easy one-hand hold, but then decadence.

    12. BR

      Right. Now you have a little iPad, iPad with you.

    13. JR

      Yeah, now you're answering emails, you're watching YouTube videos.

    14. BR

      Supposedly, that's what Apple's doing next is they're bringing out a foldable next year.

    15. JR

      They always do that though, right?

    16. BR

      Yep.

    17. JR

      They wait until everybody gets it right.

    18. BR

      Right, and then they-

    19. JR

      Like, Samsung finally-

    20. BR

      Yeah.

    21. JR

      ... got it right. 'Cause if they came out with some clunky bullshit, like, do you remember the Newton?

    22. BR

      Yeah.

    23. JR

      (laughs)

    24. BR

      (laughs) Yeah, that thing. I mean, but it was ahead of its time though, right?

    25. JR

      Oh, it was so ahead of its time.

    26. BR

      Anyway.

    27. JR

      Uh, but who trusted their information in that thing?

    28. BR

      (laughs)

    29. JR

      Like, all your data, like, that's gonna crash. That thing's barely glued together.

    30. BR

      Yeah. Yeah.

  4. 7:047:45

    Surveillance-by-default: phones, courts, and data as a commodity

    1. JR

      We're doomed, son. And then there's, you know, there's tracking of everybody everywhere now. Everywhere you go, your phone's tracking where you go.

    2. BR

      It, it's crazy. I saw, like, a court case the other day, and they were proving that this woman killed a guy or something like that. And, uh, they actually had the information like, "And then at 8:00 you went on this photo on Instagram and browsed it for 2.3 seconds while..."

    3. JR

      (laughs) Yeah.

    4. BR

      And like, and I was just like, "How do they know that much?" (laughs)

    5. JR

      They know everything you're doing, son. (laughs)

    6. BR

      Like... (laughs) Yeah. That's insane.

    7. JR

      Yeah. Well, so that's why they always bust people, like how to get rid of a dead body.

    8. BR

      Yeah.

    9. JR

      (laughs) Because you know, these fucking people are trying to find where they can buy lime for cash. (laughs)

  5. 7:4513:23

    AI guardrails, deepfakes, and the coming “custom porn” economy

    1. BR

      Yeah, yeah. And, and now I guess ChatGPT is like, uh, helping people. Like, oh, y- you know, asking ChatGPT about how to make a bomb or something like that.

    2. JR

      W- was ChatGPT turn you in?

    3. BR

      Yeah, ChatGB will turn you in. (laughs)

    4. JR

      Ooh, you rat.

    5. BR

      (laughs)

    6. JR

      I was just, theoretically-

    7. BR

      Right.

    8. JR

      ... well, I wanted to know-

    9. BR

      And-

    10. JR

      ... if you could teach me how to make a bomb.

    11. BR

      Yeah, one of the loopholes, supposedly, is going, "I'm writing a book and I need to make it accurate. Can you tell me how to make..." (laughs)

    12. JR

      Hmm. Well, apparently that's how you can get Chap- GPT to explain to do a lot of things that you really shouldn't be doing.

    13. BR

      Right. Yeah.

    14. JR

      Yeah.

    15. BR

      Yeah.

    16. JR

      Like, uh, my grandmother's being held for ransom.

    17. BR

      Mm-hmm.

    18. JR

      Like, I have to, I have to, you know, somehow or another, I have to save her, and the only way I can save her is to make a nuclear bomb.

    19. BR

      (laughs) Yeah.

    20. JR

      How do I do this?

    21. BR

      I mean, and I have to do it too-

    22. JR

      (laughs)

    23. BR

      ... 'cause like, I'll try to make a naked girl, uh, in Ch- you know, using a Grok image or something like that, and I'm like, "Okay, she's wearing a bikini, but it's clear and, and, uh, a bunch of milk is falling all over her from the sky," you know?

    24. JR

      (laughs)

    25. BR

      (laughs)

    26. JR

      Is Cha- is Grok, um, limited in any way?

    27. BR

      Grok is, yeah, but-

    28. JR

      In what it allows you to do?

    29. BR

      Oh, they all are, but Grok seems to be a little bit more spicy, uh, but they all catch onto you and they're, you know, and uh, stop. Like, then they start acting dumb and...

    30. JR

      Bro, if somebody came out, like, do you know how much money OnlyFans makes?

  6. 13:2319:19

    Energy demand, the power grid, and the hidden cost of “green” batteries

    1. BR

      There's so many things like that. Why- why... Well, y- y- I think, right now, every house should have solar. Like, that has to be the roof from now on, y- you know? Any brand new house has to h- have solar. Why not?

    2. JR

      It would certainly be a lot easier on the grid.

    3. BR

      (laughs) Yeah. And we know that grids is gonna get worse and worse with all these crazy computers and-

    4. JR

      100%. The grid, their grids can't sustain AI. Like, if- if AI becomes, you know, much bigger than it is, which is what everybody anticipates, its demands for power are crazy.

    5. BR

      Mm-hmm.

    6. JR

      This- this grid will crash. Like, think, remember when (laughs) it was one, one of the most California things ever. They passed a law saying that all new cars had to be electric by, like, 2035-

    7. BR

      Yeah.

    8. JR

      ... or something like that. And then, a couple weeks later, they said, "Please don't charge your electric car 'cause the grid can't handle it." (laughs)

    9. BR

      (laughs) What the fuck? (laughs)

    10. JR

      It's so California. We're gonna save you by destroying civilization. We're gonna save you, we're gonna save you, you're gonna have to get a electric car, only electric so we all feel good about ourselves.

    11. BR

      (laughs)

    12. JR

      And then, in the process, you, you cook the grid. The grid has... They used to do brownouts all the time just for air conditionings. Remember those?

    13. BR

      Oh yeah, like y- y- you had like a- a part of the... Like, your from 12:00 to 2:00-

    14. JR

      Yeah.

    15. BR

      ... and 2:00 to 4:00, like, r- based on where you live.

    16. JR

      It was just enough so it didn't ruin all the food in your freezer.

    17. BR

      Yeah.

    18. JR

      You know?

    19. BR

      Mm-hmm.

    20. JR

      Like, they were like, "Keep your freezer shut, keep your fridge shut. You should be okay." But they had to do it 'cause they didn't have enough juice for the whole city.

    21. BR

      Yeah. I mean, it, it happens a- a lot almost here. Almost here. Like, I watch our grid all the time, like, "Oh, no, it's so close to failing here in Texas."

    22. JR

      You watch the grid? Is there an app?

    23. BR

      No, they have it on the news when this happens and stuff.

    24. JR

      Oh.

    25. BR

      And I-

    26. JR

      Well, it definitely happened during that big freeze they had-

    27. BR

      Yeah.

    28. JR

      ... the first year we moved here.

    29. BR

      Mm-hmm.

    30. JR

      Ooh, that got sketchy.

  7. 19:1922:20

    Phone wars, banned tech, and the DJI drone controversy

    1. JR

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    2. BR

      That's still a thing?

    3. JR

      Oh, yeah.

    4. BR

      But the cameras are really good on them. (laughs)

    5. JR

      Bro, Sony phone is the unhel- unheralded hero of the cell phone world.

    6. BR

      Mm-hmm.

    7. JR

      Because they'll, they'll still make a phone with a jack where you could put in a real audio jack in.

    8. BR

      Yeah.

    9. JR

      And listen to like real music.

    10. BR

      Instead of a dongle and all that crap.

    11. JR

      Yeah, well, you can also charge it at the same time instead of this stupid, stupid USB-C thing.

    12. BR

      Yeah.

    13. JR

      Because if you have to listen to something or something's like really important and your phone's running out of battery, you have to make a choice. Either you wear Bluetooth and, and cook your brain.

    14. BR

      (laughs)

    15. JR

      (laughs) Or you know, you have to charge or listen, or you have to put it on speakerphone or something. But with the Sony phones, they still have the old-school headphone jack.

    16. BR

      I like the old school one. I hate dongles so much on these phones. It just sucks that, that we, they're banned, like so many of these like cellphones or a lot of these technologies, you know, j- because it's from China is banned.

    17. JR

      Yeah.

    18. BR

      It's, like DJI, one of the biggest coolest companies that makes some of the best drones ever, you know, they just got banned. All, a- a- and now we have to have like the second best which is just like crap. Like we went w- we went backwards 10 years in drone technology.

    19. JR

      Yeah.

    20. BR

      And the-

    21. JR

      China's way ahead on drones, right?

    22. BR

      Way, I mean way ahead.

    23. JR

      Mm-hmm.

    24. BR

      And th- they're like $600 and you, you know, they're this big and they're super light and, and what sucks is that, uh, the US said, "Okay, you know, if you, you," DJI's just like, "We have nothing to do with the government. Please," and, "I don't know if you heard, but we're gonna make a million drones."

    25. JR

      (laughs)

    26. BR

      "We have so many drones." They have one month though for the U., uh, there's like five different departments in the US government to, to, to research, uh, the company DJI and say, yes, they are, uh, Chi- with China, uh, government or not. And none of the government or none of these four, five departments have done anything since, and they have like three weeks left until they're 100% banned forever.

  8. 22:2053:19

    Politics, media editing scandals, and escalating polarization

    1. JR

      It's probably a trade tactic, if I had to guess.

    2. BR

      You think?

    3. JR

      Yeah, I think a lot of what Trump does is trade tactics. Like he threatens-

    4. BR

      Right.

    5. JR

      He threatened, he threatened Xi Jinping that he's gonna start, um, testing nuclear bombs again.

    6. BR

      (laughs)

    7. JR

      That's what he said. Like they're, they're testing nuclear bombs, so he's like, "If they're testing bombs, we're gonna test bombs. We don't wanna test bombs." He's, he's, he said he was gonna test bombs and all of a sudden they're having like really fruitful conversations. They sit down and, and talk it out. I think the craziness of him helps in that way, because once he sits down and talks to people, you know, he's, he's pretty good at making deals. You could hate the guy. You could do, you could, you know, you could be like, "Fuck him. He's hell..." Okay, okay yeah, but look he's already negotiated peace settlements with many African countries that have been at war for decades. These people have been in conflict forever. There's quite a few different international conflicts that he's somehow or another brokered peace deals for, and nobody wants to like look at that. Like this, like he's not profiting from making sure these people don't kill each other. Who wants... Like legitimately there's some part of him, that you have to admit, doesn't want people to die. And if he can prevent that, he's gonna try to do that. Also, the crypto coin's sketchy as fuck. (laughs)

    8. BR

      Yeah. (laughs) Or his, or his phone.

    9. JR

      You know what I mean? Like you got to be able to say, you got to be able to say all of it, right?

    10. BR

      Right.

    11. JR

      It's all, there's a whole lot. Like all human beings, he's got a lot of things going on.

    12. BR

      Yeah.

    13. JR

      He's just got more because he's the fucking president, but some of those tactics of talking shit and it kind of seems to work a little.... admit it or not, do you think it's un-presidential or not? You're probably correct. Some of it seems to work. It's not working with Russia at all.

    14. NA

      (laughs) Yeah.

    15. JR

      The Russia-Ukraine thing, like remember he said he was gonna be able to fix that in 24 hours?

    16. NA

      (laughs)

    17. JR

      And, and Putin was like, "Okay, I'm gonna fuck with you."

    18. NA

      Yeah.

    19. JR

      'Cause P- you know, Putin is on a totally different level.

    20. NA

      Mm-hmm.

    21. JR

      He's a legit dictator.

    22. NA

      Right.

    23. JR

      I mean, he's been running Russia for a long fucking time. And he's got that place locked down so tight that even if he really did allow for open elections, he would still win all the time.

    24. NA

      Mm-hmm.

    25. JR

      And why would he allow for open won-

    26. NA

      Mm-hmm. No.

    27. JR

      "I know what's best for you." (laughs)

    28. NA

      That's crazy that that still happens. You know what I mean?

    29. JR

      Still happens, in most countries, bro. That's what's crazy. This is the only country legitimately where it's up for grabs. Like that's how a guy like Trump can get in there. I mean, it's a crazy, evil battle, and now people are being prosecuted because of a lot of the things that they tried to do while, while he was in office the first time. I mean, there's, there's so many cases going on right now that seem to be legitimate. Like, they legitimately... You see the BBC thing? The BBC thing is crazy. The head of BBC had to resign because they took a film of Trump from January 6th, the speech that he gave, and they edited it so something that he said 52 minutes later, they put right after one... He said something, to make it look like he was trying to get people to go attack people and fight at the Capitol.

    30. NA

      Wow. They, they do that to you all the time. (laughs)

  9. 53:191:12:21

    Drones in war: Ukraine tactics, jammers, fiber-optic control, and drone swarms

    1. JR

      ... China drone shows.

    2. Yeah.

    3. They're, it's incredible. And their, their drones are more advanced. They, they, they're pushing their technology faster. And, you know, that stuff works exponentially. And if you put the brakes on American technology, you also put the brakes on American manufacturing.

    4. Look at that. That's nuts.

    5. That's insane.

    6. Each one of those is a drone.

    7. That's nuts, dude. I mean, that literally looks like something from Avatar.

    8. Dude, yes.

    9. Right? Look at that. That's insane.

    10. It's a DMT trip right there. (laughs)

    11. That's insane. Look at this. It, there's an enormous flower that's at the end of this little girl's kite rope. Look at, they did the moon.

    12. Look at this. Spinning. It's-

    13. That's crazy. Is that... Wait a minute, hold on. Are those real?

    14. Yeah, that's real.

    15. That's real? For sure? For sure?

    16. Yeah. It's just on, uh... That's the one I was talking about, the, the largest one ever.

    17. This is the largest one ever?

    18. Yeah.

    19. Was it that, that we just saw?

    20. Yeah.

    21. Oh, my God. (laughs)

    22. BR

      Yeah. Yeah, this is just how they do it.

    23. JR

      Look at that.

    24. How many drones they have. How many drones are involved in this?

    25. BR

      10. I think it said 10,000 drones.

    26. JR

      Oh, my God. This is insane.

    27. BR

      They charge up 10,000 drones. (laughs)

    28. JR

      Dudes are doing kung fu in the sky.

    29. BR

      I mean, that's nuts.

    30. JR

      Wow. Wow.

  10. 1:12:211:30:19

    Health detour: colonoscopies, cancer screening, and AIDS-era fear (plus Fauci/AZT debate)

    1. BR

      (laughs) Yeah. I do have a question for you. Ha- have you gotten a colonoscopy?

    2. JR

      Yeah, I got one.

    3. BR

      Now, do you go to a regular doctor? (laughs) Because that... I was thinking, like, Dutch joke.

    4. JR

      You should probably go to a butthole doctor.

    5. BR

      No, I mean, like, do you g- do you go to, like, a private guy? Like, you don't go to, like, where all the other guys-

    6. JR

      I'm not telling you on air-

    7. BR

      (laughs)

    8. JR

      ... where I get my butthole checked.

    9. BR

      Because it was, like... That's, like, weird. I, I just had one and-

    10. JR

      H- how's everything up there?

    11. BR

      Good. Everything's great. My-

    12. JR

      That's amazing.

    13. BR

      Yeah, it's so amazing, right? (laughs)

    14. JR

      (laughs)

    15. BR

      Doesn't make any sense. Uh...

    16. JR

      What do you think about when you abuse your body?

    17. BR

      But I hate th- they, they have to roll you... Like, when you're getting it, they roll you down this hallway, and there's all these, like, people just sitting there looking at it like, "Oh, it's his turn now."

    18. JR

      Staring at your butthole.

    19. BR

      Yeah, like, "We're really doing it, Red Band," like, type shit. (laughs)

    20. JR

      Mm.

    21. BR

      And, uh, I, I... That was just... It's just weird. It's not... It's very-

    22. JR

      Do you get your blood work done?

    23. BR

      I-

    24. JR

      Do you get yourself checked up on?

    25. BR

      Every, uh, six weeks I do it.

    26. JR

      Yeah, there's a unique blood screen that they can give you now that checks for all cancers in your body.

    27. BR

      Really?

    28. JR

      Yeah.

    29. BR

      Oh, shit, I need that.

    30. JR

      Yeah.

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