Name: Bill Burr & Joe Rogan - Has Technology Gone Too Far?
Uploaded: 2025-04-03T01:59:10.000Z
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Bill Burr & Joe Rogan - Has Technology Gone Too Far?' from Comedy University on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-04-03. Transcript available.

My eyes are fine until I stare at my computer too much.
No, they get screwed up and then you try to look at the TV and you can't see
what's going on.
It's guaranteed. It's age, but it's also... I don't think screens are good for
you.
Have you ever taken a picture with your cell phone of a screen and then you see
those lines that you can't see?
Like whatever the f*** those are?
Well, it's actually just your phone's aperture on the camera is not able to
catch up with the flickering images.
Is that what it is? That's not f***ing with your eyes?
So then if I'm looking through the screen at that, that doesn't f*** with my
eyes?
I think it's the actual strain of staring at something that's lit up so close
to your face that's really f***ing with you more than anything.
Isn't that correct? Is that the correct aperture? Is that the correct
terminology?
You're squinting. You're reading. You're squinting your eyes. You don't even
realize it.
Yeah, that's not what we're talking about. We're talking about the flashing
thing.
It's just your camera can't catch shutter speed. Is that what it is?
Like if you watch cars, if you see videos of cars that have LCD lenses, there's
something that happens when you film them.
It looks like they're flashing.
It's a different refresh rate usually.
Yeah, it's weird.
I don't like any of that, which is why my new special, I actually did it in
black and white because I don't like HD TV.
I don't like seeing somebody's pores as they're talking to me.
HD at this point was great and then it got to a point where it's clearer than
real life.
Like I went to a game at Dallas Cowboys football stadium and they got this
giant TV, classic Texas, right?
We got the biggest TV, you know?
Right.
That means we're the best.
And it was so clear.
It looked realer than what was going on in the field.
And I had to like pull the visor down on my head because I kept wanting to look
at that.
Tony Romo's like right in front of me.
The promoter hooked me up with these great seats.
He's right there.
And I'm looking up further away than he is for me looking up at this giant TV.
It's also an instinct to look at screens.
I see that a lot at the UFC.
People are there.
Babies do it.
Everybody does it.
It's an instinct to stare because it's so captivating.
And we're used to staring at screens.
So like if you're at a sporting event and there's a screen there, you just
automatically start gravitating towards that screen.
I look at the screens here.
I usually always just look right here instead of looking right there.
Well, you should.
You're actually running shit.
You're supposed to do that and make sure that nothing's exploding.
There's no demons behind us that we don't know about.
Yeah, I'm not a fan of technology, electronics.
I like some, but it just, I feel like all the benefits of it are taken away.
And then some with the crashing, with the refreshing, with the what just
happened, with the oh, now this is outdated and I have to buy a new one.
And then I throw this one into the ocean.
I go back and forth.
I love it in a lot of ways because I'm just fascinated by innovation.
I'm fascinated by these new things that these new people keep inventing.
But there's also part of me that realizes that at a certain point in time, it's
not benefiting us anymore.
It's not like making our lives easier.
It's just making things more connected to electronics.
It's making you more into like whatever world that the electronics create.
Yeah, somewhere in the 90s, we pretty much plateaued.
Maybe we were fine.
And even people say, well, what about medical stuff and like helping people out
and everything, helping them live long and cure disease and everything.
That basically kills the rest of us to keep that other person alive.
And then they're still alive, taking a shit that ends up in a river and just
keeps polluting more and more.
We're just like, we're just, we're all over the place and it really needs to
shrink down.
Like the technology, I don't think would be a problem if there weren't so,
everybody has a laptop or so many people have laptops and shirts and all this
shit that we just keep buying and then throwing out.
Like, you know, that whole put litter in its place.
You ever think about that?
It's like when they pick it up, where do you think it goes?
Do you think it leaves earth?
It just goes somewhere else.
We don't have to look at it and it's just sitting there.
What's going to happen is they're going to figure out a way to take everything
that we make and turn it into either a product or turn it into fuel.
Like whenever we make something and we have to throw it out, it'll just become
fuel for something else.
Do you know how many people would have to agree just to even get that ball even
slightly moving?
There would just somehow Jesus would be brought up and somehow just something,
them versus us, Republican, Democrat, liberal, conservative, and nothing would
get done and they would just sit there screaming at each other.
Maybe.
Or maybe they could figure out a way to actually use whatever the pollution is,
like whatever carbon goes into the atmosphere, pull that out and convert that
into energy.
I guarantee you there's probably some nerds that already know how to do
something along those lines.
Maybe not to that level, but at least take the shit.
From down the dump, you know they know how to do it.
There's just no money in it and it's just like, you know.
They probably get checks to not do it, right?
Yeah, things are done.
Oil companies show up with hookers and just a big freight train full of money.
Come on, boys, it's a party.
Yeah, don't do that.
Then we got to get all new machines that's going to cost us a bunch of money.
Just do it the way we do it until we die and then you guys can do it how you
want to do it.
By then someone else has bought into the deal.
So I am completely pessimistic when it comes to that shit.
Oh my god!
Uh-uh.
Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh.