Elon Musk Meme Review

00:00:00.000 | And now for something completely different.

00:00:05.880 | Do you mind doing a bit of a meme review in the spirit of the great, the powerful PewDiePie?

00:00:12.280 | Let's say 1 to 11, just go over a few documents printed out.

00:00:15.560 | We can try.

00:00:17.280 | Let's try this.

00:00:20.160 | I present to you document numero uno.

00:00:23.480 | I don't know.

00:00:27.000 | Okay.

00:00:28.000 | Vlad the Impaler discovers marshmallows.

00:00:32.000 | That's not bad.

00:00:37.680 | So you get it because he likes impaling things?

00:00:42.000 | Yes, I get it.

00:00:43.000 | I don't know, three, whatever.

00:00:45.240 | That's not very good.

00:00:49.760 | This is ground in some engineering, some history.

00:00:56.000 | Yeah, I give this an eight out of 10.

00:01:01.800 | What do you think about nuclear power?

00:01:03.600 | I'm in favor of nuclear power.

00:01:05.320 | I think it's in a place that is not subject to extreme natural disasters, I think it's

00:01:12.720 | a nuclear power is a great way to generate electricity.

00:01:18.400 | I don't think we should be shutting down nuclear power stations.

00:01:21.200 | Yeah, but what about Chernobyl?

00:01:24.520 | Exactly.

00:01:27.800 | So I think people, there's like a lot of fear of radiation and stuff.

00:01:34.920 | And I guess what the problem is like a lot of people just don't understand, they didn't

00:01:40.160 | study engineering or physics.

00:01:44.120 | Just the word radiation just sounds scary, you know, so they can't calibrate what radiation

00:01:49.120 | means.

00:01:51.560 | But radiation is much less dangerous than you'd think.

00:01:57.400 | So like, for example, Fukushima, you know, when the Fukushima problem happened due to

00:02:09.160 | the tsunami, I got people in California asking me if they should worry about radiation from

00:02:16.280 | Fukushima, I'm like, definitely not, not even slightly, not at all.

00:02:22.080 | That is crazy.

00:02:24.960 | And just to show like, look, this is how like the dangers is so much overplayed compared

00:02:34.840 | to what it really is that I actually flew to Fukushima.

00:02:39.880 | And actually, I donated a solar power system for a water treatment plant.

00:02:46.080 | And I made a point of eating locally grown vegetables on TV in Fukushima.

00:02:59.240 | Like I'm still alive, okay.

00:03:01.240 | So it's not even that the risk of these events is low, but the impact of them is...

00:03:06.720 | Impact is greatly exaggerated.

00:03:08.920 | It's human nature.

00:03:09.920 | People don't know what radiation is.

00:03:12.360 | Like I've had people ask me like, what about radiation from cell phones causing brain cancer?

00:03:16.640 | I'm like, when you say radiation, do you mean photons or particles?

00:03:19.680 | They're like, I don't know what you mean, photons, particles.

00:03:22.800 | Do you mean, let's say photons, what frequency or wavelength?

00:03:29.920 | And they're like, no, I have no idea.

00:03:31.920 | Like, do you know that everything's radiating all the time?

00:03:35.400 | Like what do you mean?

00:03:36.400 | Like, yeah, everything's radiating all the time.

00:03:39.440 | Photons are being emitted by all objects all the time, basically.

00:03:45.080 | And if you want to know what it means to stand in front of nuclear fire, go outside.

00:03:52.240 | The sun is a gigantic thermonuclear reactor that you're staring right at it.

00:03:58.680 | Are you still alive?

00:04:00.240 | Yes.

00:04:01.240 | Okay, amazing.

00:04:03.080 | Yeah, I guess radiation is one of the words that can be used as a tool to fear monger

00:04:09.080 | by certain people.

00:04:10.080 | That's it.

00:04:11.080 | I think people just don't understand.

00:04:12.080 | I mean, that's the way to fight that fear, I suppose, is to understand, is to learn.

00:04:16.880 | Yeah, just say like, okay, how many people have actually died from nuclear accidents?

00:04:20.840 | It's like practically nothing.

00:04:22.240 | And say how many people have died from coal plants?

00:04:27.920 | And it's a very big number.

00:04:29.920 | So like, obviously, we should not be starting up coal plants and shutting down nuclear plants.

00:04:35.880 | Just doesn't make any sense at all.

00:04:38.880 | Coal plants like, I don't know, 100 to 1000 times worse for health than nuclear power

00:04:43.920 | plants.

00:04:44.920 | You want to go to the next one?

00:04:46.920 | This is really bad.

00:04:50.760 | So that 90, 180 and 360 degrees, everybody loves the math.

00:04:55.880 | Nobody gives a shit about 270.

00:04:58.560 | It's not super funny.

00:04:59.960 | I don't like 203.

00:05:03.080 | This is not, you know, LOL situation.

00:05:08.000 | Yeah.

00:05:09.000 | That was pretty good.

00:05:13.800 | The United States oscillating between establishing and destroying dictatorships.

00:05:18.240 | It's like a metric.

00:05:19.240 | Is that a metric?

00:05:20.240 | Yeah, metronome.

00:05:21.240 | Yeah, it's a 7 out of 10.

00:05:22.240 | It's kind of true.

00:05:23.240 | Oh, yeah, this is kind of personal for me.

00:05:28.280 | Next one.

00:05:29.280 | Oh, man, this is Laika.

00:05:30.280 | Yeah.

00:05:31.280 | Well, no, this is...

00:05:32.280 | Or it's like referring to Laika or something?

00:05:34.400 | As Laika's like, husband.

00:05:35.400 | Husband.

00:05:36.400 | Yeah, yeah.

00:05:37.400 | Hello.

00:05:38.400 | Yes, this is dog.

00:05:39.920 | Your wife was launched into space.

00:05:42.000 | And then the last one is him with his eyes closed and a bottle of vodka.

00:05:46.520 | Yeah, Laika didn't come back.

00:05:48.520 | No.

00:05:49.520 | They don't tell you the full story of, you know, what the impact they had on the loved

00:05:54.520 | ones.

00:05:55.520 | True.

00:05:56.520 | That one gets an 11 for me.

00:05:57.520 | Yeah, yeah.

00:05:58.520 | I love the Soviet show.

00:05:59.520 | Oh, yeah, this keeps going on the Russian theme.

00:06:03.800 | First man in space, nobody cares.

00:06:06.240 | First man on the moon.

00:06:07.240 | Well, I think people do care.

00:06:08.240 | I know, but...

00:06:09.240 | Yuri Gagarin's names will be forever in history, I think.

00:06:16.160 | There is something special about placing, like, stepping foot onto another totally foreign

00:06:22.560 | land.

00:06:23.560 | It's not the journey like people that explore the oceans.

00:06:27.400 | It's not as important to explore the oceans as to land on a whole new continent.

00:06:31.640 | Yeah.

00:06:32.640 | This is about you.

00:06:35.440 | Oh, yeah, I'd love to get your comment on this.

00:06:38.760 | Elon Musk, after sending $6.6 billion to the UN to end world hunger, you have three hours.

00:06:45.520 | Yeah, well, I mean, obviously $6 billion is not going to end world hunger.

00:06:54.640 | So I mean, the reality is at this point, the world is producing far more food than it can

00:07:01.040 | really consume.

00:07:02.040 | Like, we don't have a caloric constraint at this point.

00:07:06.320 | So where there is hunger, it is almost always due to like, Civil War, strife or some like...

00:07:16.240 | It's not a thing that is extremely rare for it to be just a matter of like, lack of money.

00:07:23.880 | It's like, you know, it's like some Civil War in some country and like one part of the

00:07:29.320 | country is literally trying to starve the other part of the country.

00:07:33.440 | So it's much more complex than something that money could solve.

00:07:36.160 | It's geopolitics.

00:07:37.160 | It's a lot of things.

00:07:40.240 | It's human nature.

00:07:41.240 | It's governments.

00:07:42.240 | It's money, monetary systems, all that kind of stuff.

00:07:45.040 | Yeah, food is extremely cheap these days.

00:07:48.080 | I mean, the US at this point, you know, among low-income families, obesity is actually another

00:07:57.920 | problem.

00:07:58.920 | It's not like, obesity is not hunger.

00:08:01.560 | It's like too much, you know, too many calories.

00:08:05.080 | So it's not that nobody's hungry anywhere.

00:08:08.360 | It's just, this is not a simple matter of adding money and solving it.

00:08:14.720 | What do you think that one gets?

00:08:19.200 | Just kidding.

00:08:20.200 | I don't know.

00:08:21.200 | Two.

00:08:22.200 | I'm just going after empires.

00:08:25.920 | World, where did you get those artifacts?

00:08:27.960 | The British Museum.

00:08:28.960 | Shout out to Monty Python.

00:08:32.000 | We found them.

00:08:33.000 | Yeah, the British Museum is pretty great.

00:08:36.240 | I mean, admittedly Britain did take these historical artifacts from all around the world and put

00:08:40.840 | them in London.

00:08:41.840 | But, you know, it's not like people can't go see them.

00:08:46.540 | So it is a convenient place to see these ancient artifacts is London for a large segment of

00:08:54.280 | the world.

00:08:55.480 | So I think, you know, on balance, the British Museum is a net good.

00:08:58.520 | Although I'm sure a lot of countries would argue about that.

00:09:01.960 | Yeah.

00:09:02.960 | It's like, you want to make these historical artifacts accessible to as many people as

00:09:06.360 | possible.

00:09:07.760 | And the British Museum, I think, does a good job of that.

00:09:11.920 | Even if there's a darker aspect to like the history of empire in general, whatever the

00:09:15.600 | empire is, however things were done, it is the history that happened.

00:09:22.560 | You can't sort of erase that history, unfortunately.

00:09:24.680 | You could just become better in the future.

00:09:27.080 | It's the point.

00:09:28.080 | Yeah.

00:09:29.080 | I mean, it's like, well, how are we going to pass moral judgment on these things?

00:09:34.480 | Like it's like, if one is going to judge, say, the British Empire, you've got to judge

00:09:42.160 | what everyone was doing at the time and how were the British relative to everyone.

00:09:48.640 | And I think the British would actually get like a relatively good grade, relatively good

00:09:53.080 | grade, not in absolute terms, but compared to what everyone else was doing, they were

00:10:00.480 | not the worst.

00:10:01.480 | Like I said, you got to look at these things in the context of the history at the time

00:10:05.840 | and say, what were the alternatives and what are you comparing it against?

00:10:09.640 | And I do not think it would be the case that Britain would get a bad grade when looking

00:10:17.680 | at history at the time.

00:10:19.000 | Now, if you judge history from what is morally acceptable today, you're basically going to

00:10:27.320 | give everyone a failing grade.

00:10:28.720 | I'm not clear.

00:10:29.720 | I don't think anyone would get a passing grade in their morality of like, you go back 300

00:10:36.000 | years ago, like who's getting a passing grade?

00:10:39.400 | Basically no one.

00:10:41.200 | And we might not get a passing grade from generations that come after us.

00:10:47.960 | What does that one get?

00:10:48.960 | Sure, six, seven.

00:10:49.960 | For the Monty Python, maybe.

00:10:50.960 | I always love Monty Python, they're great.

00:10:51.960 | The Life of Brian and the Quest of the Holy Grail are incredible.

00:10:59.640 | Yeah, yeah.

00:11:00.640 | Damn, those serious eyebrows.

00:11:01.640 | How important do you think is facial hair to great leadership?

00:11:07.880 | You got a new haircut, how does that affect your leadership?

00:11:13.320 | I don't know, hopefully not.

00:11:16.280 | It doesn't.

00:11:17.280 | Is that the second no one?

00:11:18.280 | Yeah, the second is no one.

00:11:19.280 | There is no one competing with Brejnev.

00:11:24.240 | Those are like epic eyebrows.

00:11:25.800 | Sure.

00:11:26.800 | That's ridiculous.

00:11:27.800 | Give it a six or seven, I don't know.

00:11:32.600 | I like this Shakespearean analysis of memes.

00:11:35.640 | Brejnev, he had a flair for drama as well.

00:11:39.880 | Like showmanship.

00:11:40.880 | Yeah, yeah.

00:11:41.880 | It must come from the eyebrows.

00:11:45.280 | All right, invention.

00:11:47.520 | Great engineering.

00:11:48.520 | Look what I invented.

00:11:49.520 | Yeah.

00:11:50.520 | That's the best thing since ripped up bread.

00:11:52.160 | Yeah.

00:11:53.160 | Because they invented sliced bread.

00:11:56.280 | Am I just explaining memes at this point?

00:12:00.400 | This is what my life has become.

00:12:03.400 | He's a meme lord, he's a meme explainer.

00:12:08.400 | I'm a meme, like a scribe that runs around with the kings and just writes down memes.

00:12:14.600 | I mean, when was a cheeseburger invented?

00:12:16.680 | That's like an epic invention.

00:12:17.680 | Like, wow.

00:12:18.680 | Versus just like a burger?

00:12:19.680 | Or a burger, I guess a burger in general.

00:12:27.920 | Then there's like, what is a burger?

00:12:29.360 | What's a sandwich?

00:12:30.360 | And then you start getting, is a pizza a sandwich?

00:12:32.360 | And what is the original?

00:12:34.600 | It gets into an ontology argument.

00:12:36.160 | Yeah, but everybody knows if you order a burger or cheeseburger or whatever, and you get tomato

00:12:40.880 | and some lettuce and onions and whatever, and mayo and ketchup and mustard, it's like

00:12:46.040 | epic.

00:12:47.040 | Yeah, but I'm sure they've had bread and meat separately for a long time and it was

00:12:50.680 | kind of a burger on the same plate, but somebody who actually combined them into the same thing

00:12:56.120 | and bite it and hold it makes it convenient.

00:12:59.440 | It's a materials problem.

00:13:01.000 | Your hands don't get dirty and whatever.

00:13:04.000 | Yeah, it's brilliant.

00:13:07.000 | That is not what I would have guessed.

00:13:11.680 | But everyone knows if you order a cheeseburger, you know what you're getting.

00:13:15.200 | It's not like some obtuse, like, I wonder what I'll get.

00:13:21.440 | Fries are great.

00:13:22.440 | I mean, they're the devil, but fries are awesome.

00:13:26.720 | And yeah, pizza is incredible.

00:13:31.680 | Food innovation doesn't get enough love, I guess is what we're getting at.

00:13:36.480 | Great.

00:13:37.480 | What about the Matthew McConaughey, Austinite here.

00:13:42.720 | President Kennedy, do you know how to put men on the moon yet?

00:13:45.760 | And ask him no.

00:13:46.760 | President Kennedy, it'd be a lot cooler if you did.

00:13:50.080 | Pretty much, sure.

00:13:52.360 | Six six or seven, I suppose.

00:13:55.840 | And this is the last one.

00:13:58.440 | That's funny.

00:14:01.320 | Someone drew a bunch of dicks all over the walls of Sistine Chapel, boys bathroom.

00:14:05.920 | Sure, I'll give it a nine.

00:14:07.960 | It's really true.

00:14:10.120 | This is our highest ranking meme for today.

00:14:12.280 | I mean, it's true.

00:14:13.280 | Like, how do they get away with it?

00:14:15.280 | Lots of nakedness.

00:14:16.280 | I mean, dick pics are, I mean, just something throughout history.

00:14:21.040 | As long as people can draw things, there's been a dick pic.

00:14:24.080 | It's a staple of human history.

00:14:25.480 | It's a staple.

00:14:26.480 | Consistent throughout human history.

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