Joe Rogan Experience #1406 - Brian Redban

(instrumental music plays) Hello, Joe.

Hello, Joe.

Happy New Year.

Happy 2020.

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.

Yeah.

So-

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

When was the Blade Runner date?

I think that was September or October of the ni- or last year.

You know what's interesting about the estimations about the future? No one ever over est- or underestimates. Everyone overestimates, right?

Right.

Like, Space 1999, remember that show?

Yep.

That was a ... 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. (laughs)

Yeah, like Buck Rogers stuff.

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

Uh, this last year. 2019.

2019.

Wow. They missed that, huh?

They ... Yeah. Yeah. 'Cause it's funny when they show it in the movie, it shows like the background looks like, like cr- like s- flying cars and, like-

Mm-hmm.

... crazy, you know, billboards and everything.

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 cap- capability of, you know, showing higher resolution images and processing power and all that stuff kept moving, but they never figured out how to link it all up.

Yeah. That's weird.

That's the scariest thing about the internet. It's almost like they put i- uh, 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 the ... What, what a better way to get the technology to advance. 'Cause if it wasn't for the internet, how much ... Where would we, we be at realistically?

We'd still be racist, we'd still be molesting people at war.

Still have nuclear bombs.

We'd still have nuclear bombs.

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

Yeah. 'Cause that's what's, uh, causing all the problems, uh, you know, in Hollywood and everything, and life, and, you know, look at all this s- stuff that's going on right now with, uh, Trump and everything like that. Like, it's the internet getting together going, "No, this is wrong, this is right." It's people-

Mm-hmm.

... uh, becoming gangs immediately.

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 w- what it is is like everybody gets to have an opinion. And through those opinions you find out which ones make any sense, which ones are crazy, and which o- ... But, like, right now it's like the people that are really into expressing their opinions on both sides are usually the ones that, like, e- ev- that everybody else is like, "Hey, hey, hey, fucking relax, man. Like w- this isn't it ..." M- 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 Thunberg girl, do they have to go to her every time anybody says anything wrong about the climate? 'Cause apparently Meat Loaf said something.