And now for something completely different. Do you mind doing a bit of a meme review in the spirit of the great, the powerful PewDiePie? Let's say 1 to 11, just go over a few documents printed out. We can try. Let's try this. I present to you document numero uno.

I don't know. Okay. Vlad the Impaler discovers marshmallows. That's not bad. So you get it because he likes impaling things? Yes, I get it. I don't know, three, whatever. That's not very good. This is ground in some engineering, some history. Yeah, I give this an eight out of 10.

What do you think about nuclear power? I'm in favor of nuclear power. I think it's in a place that is not subject to extreme natural disasters, I think it's a nuclear power is a great way to generate electricity. I don't think we should be shutting down nuclear power stations.

Yeah, but what about Chernobyl? Exactly. So I think people, there's like a lot of fear of radiation and stuff. And I guess what the problem is like a lot of people just don't understand, they didn't study engineering or physics. Just the word radiation just sounds scary, you know, so they can't calibrate what radiation means.

But radiation is much less dangerous than you'd think. So like, for example, Fukushima, you know, when the Fukushima problem happened due to the tsunami, I got people in California asking me if they should worry about radiation from Fukushima, I'm like, definitely not, not even slightly, not at all. That is crazy.

And just to show like, look, this is how like the dangers is so much overplayed compared to what it really is that I actually flew to Fukushima. And actually, I donated a solar power system for a water treatment plant. And I made a point of eating locally grown vegetables on TV in Fukushima.

Like I'm still alive, okay. So it's not even that the risk of these events is low, but the impact of them is... Impact is greatly exaggerated. It's human nature. People don't know what radiation is. Like I've had people ask me like, what about radiation from cell phones causing brain cancer?

I'm like, when you say radiation, do you mean photons or particles? They're like, I don't know what you mean, photons, particles. Do you mean, let's say photons, what frequency or wavelength? And they're like, no, I have no idea. Like, do you know that everything's radiating all the time? Like what do you mean?

Like, yeah, everything's radiating all the time. Photons are being emitted by all objects all the time, basically. And if you want to know what it means to stand in front of nuclear fire, go outside. The sun is a gigantic thermonuclear reactor that you're staring right at it. Are you still alive?

Yes. Okay, amazing. Yeah, I guess radiation is one of the words that can be used as a tool to fear monger by certain people. That's it. I think people just don't understand. I mean, that's the way to fight that fear, I suppose, is to understand, is to learn. Yeah, just say like, okay, how many people have actually died from nuclear accidents?

It's like practically nothing. And say how many people have died from coal plants? And it's a very big number. So like, obviously, we should not be starting up coal plants and shutting down nuclear plants. Just doesn't make any sense at all. Coal plants like, I don't know, 100 to 1000 times worse for health than nuclear power plants.

You want to go to the next one? This is really bad. So that 90, 180 and 360 degrees, everybody loves the math. Nobody gives a shit about 270. It's not super funny. I don't like 203. This is not, you know, LOL situation. Yeah. That was pretty good. The United States oscillating between establishing and destroying dictatorships.

It's like a metric. Is that a metric? Yeah, metronome. Yeah, it's a 7 out of 10. It's kind of true. Oh, yeah, this is kind of personal for me. Next one. Oh, man, this is Laika. Yeah. Well, no, this is... Or it's like referring to Laika or something? As Laika's like, husband.

Husband. Yeah, yeah. Hello. Yes, this is dog. Your wife was launched into space. And then the last one is him with his eyes closed and a bottle of vodka. Yeah, Laika didn't come back. No. They don't tell you the full story of, you know, what the impact they had on the loved ones.

True. That one gets an 11 for me. Yeah, yeah. I love the Soviet show. Oh, yeah, this keeps going on the Russian theme. First man in space, nobody cares. First man on the moon. Well, I think people do care. I know, but... Yuri Gagarin's names will be forever in history, I think.

There is something special about placing, like, stepping foot onto another totally foreign land. It's not the journey like people that explore the oceans. It's not as important to explore the oceans as to land on a whole new continent. Yeah. This is about you. Oh, yeah, I'd love to get your comment on this.

Elon Musk, after sending $6.6 billion to the UN to end world hunger, you have three hours. Yeah, well, I mean, obviously $6 billion is not going to end world hunger. So I mean, the reality is at this point, the world is producing far more food than it can really consume.

Like, we don't have a caloric constraint at this point. So where there is hunger, it is almost always due to like, Civil War, strife or some like... It's not a thing that is extremely rare for it to be just a matter of like, lack of money. It's like, you know, it's like some Civil War in some country and like one part of the country is literally trying to starve the other part of the country.

So it's much more complex than something that money could solve. It's geopolitics. It's a lot of things. It's human nature. It's governments. It's money, monetary systems, all that kind of stuff. Yeah, food is extremely cheap these days. I mean, the US at this point, you know, among low-income families, obesity is actually another problem.

It's not like, obesity is not hunger. It's like too much, you know, too many calories. So it's not that nobody's hungry anywhere. It's just, this is not a simple matter of adding money and solving it. What do you think that one gets? Just kidding. I don't know. Two. I'm just going after empires.

World, where did you get those artifacts? The British Museum. Shout out to Monty Python. We found them. Yeah, the British Museum is pretty great. I mean, admittedly Britain did take these historical artifacts from all around the world and put them in London. But, you know, it's not like people can't go see them.

So it is a convenient place to see these ancient artifacts is London for a large segment of the world. So I think, you know, on balance, the British Museum is a net good. Although I'm sure a lot of countries would argue about that. Yeah. It's like, you want to make these historical artifacts accessible to as many people as possible.

And the British Museum, I think, does a good job of that. Even if there's a darker aspect to like the history of empire in general, whatever the empire is, however things were done, it is the history that happened. You can't sort of erase that history, unfortunately. You could just become better in the future.

It's the point. Yeah. I mean, it's like, well, how are we going to pass moral judgment on these things? Like it's like, if one is going to judge, say, the British Empire, you've got to judge what everyone was doing at the time and how were the British relative to everyone.

And I think the British would actually get like a relatively good grade, relatively good grade, not in absolute terms, but compared to what everyone else was doing, they were not the worst. Like I said, you got to look at these things in the context of the history at the time and say, what were the alternatives and what are you comparing it against?

And I do not think it would be the case that Britain would get a bad grade when looking at history at the time. Now, if you judge history from what is morally acceptable today, you're basically going to give everyone a failing grade. I'm not clear. I don't think anyone would get a passing grade in their morality of like, you go back 300 years ago, like who's getting a passing grade?

Basically no one. And we might not get a passing grade from generations that come after us. What does that one get? Sure, six, seven. For the Monty Python, maybe. I always love Monty Python, they're great. The Life of Brian and the Quest of the Holy Grail are incredible. Yeah, yeah.

Damn, those serious eyebrows. How important do you think is facial hair to great leadership? You got a new haircut, how does that affect your leadership? I don't know, hopefully not. It doesn't. Is that the second no one? Yeah, the second is no one. There is no one competing with Brejnev.

Those are like epic eyebrows. Sure. That's ridiculous. Give it a six or seven, I don't know. I like this Shakespearean analysis of memes. Brejnev, he had a flair for drama as well. Like showmanship. Yeah, yeah. It must come from the eyebrows. All right, invention. Great engineering. Look what I invented.

Yeah. That's the best thing since ripped up bread. Yeah. Because they invented sliced bread. Am I just explaining memes at this point? This is what my life has become. He's a meme lord, he's a meme explainer. I'm a meme, like a scribe that runs around with the kings and just writes down memes.

I mean, when was a cheeseburger invented? That's like an epic invention. Like, wow. Versus just like a burger? Or a burger, I guess a burger in general. Then there's like, what is a burger? What's a sandwich? And then you start getting, is a pizza a sandwich? And what is the original?

It gets into an ontology argument. Yeah, but everybody knows if you order a burger or cheeseburger or whatever, and you get tomato and some lettuce and onions and whatever, and mayo and ketchup and mustard, it's like epic. Yeah, but I'm sure they've had bread and meat separately for a long time and it was kind of a burger on the same plate, but somebody who actually combined them into the same thing and bite it and hold it makes it convenient.

It's a materials problem. Your hands don't get dirty and whatever. Yeah, it's brilliant. That is not what I would have guessed. But everyone knows if you order a cheeseburger, you know what you're getting. It's not like some obtuse, like, I wonder what I'll get. Fries are great. I mean, they're the devil, but fries are awesome.

And yeah, pizza is incredible. Food innovation doesn't get enough love, I guess is what we're getting at. Great. What about the Matthew McConaughey, Austinite here. President Kennedy, do you know how to put men on the moon yet? And ask him no. President Kennedy, it'd be a lot cooler if you did.

Pretty much, sure. Six six or seven, I suppose. And this is the last one. That's funny. Someone drew a bunch of dicks all over the walls of Sistine Chapel, boys bathroom. Sure, I'll give it a nine. It's really true. This is our highest ranking meme for today. I mean, it's true.

Like, how do they get away with it? Lots of nakedness. I mean, dick pics are, I mean, just something throughout history. As long as people can draw things, there's been a dick pic. It's a staple of human history. It's a staple. Consistent throughout human history.