Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1748 - Beeple
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1748 - Beeple' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-12-14. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1748 - Beeple

Joe Rogan Podcast, check it out.
The Joe Rogan Experience.
Train by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day.
Hello, Mike.
Hey, how's it going?
You look exactly how I thought you were going to look.
Isn't that perfect?
How is that?
Good.
You look like an eccentric, fun art guy.
An eccentric, fun art guy.
All those things are positive.
It's all positive.
I guess that's-
It's all positive.
That's actually pretty accurate right now, I guess.
Yeah.
You're an eccentric, fun art guy.
And I brought you in here for one specific reason.
Okay.
Two reasons.
One, because I think you're really talented and I enjoy your stuff.
Thank you.
Two, because I want you to explain NFTs to me.
Okay.
Jamie's tried.
Everyone's tried.
I tried multiple times.
And you are probably the most famous NFT guy right now in terms of your success
with NFTs.
Like your NFTs, what did you sell for like an exorbitant amount of money?
We did over $100 million this year.
$100 million.
Yeah.
Over $100 million.
See, that's what I'm saying.
Not counting like secondary sales.
Yeah.
Just primary sales over $100 million.
That's an incredible amount of money.
Yeah.
It's an incredible amount of money.
It's insane.
It's like saying that is just-
What does that mean?
Like mind boggling.
Does that even-
I don't know what that means.
I don't know what that means.
It's like you're speaking words in French that you don't know the names-
Pretty much.
That you don't know the definitions of?
It's something that I think is going to take a long time to process because it's
so new
and it's something that just came out of nowhere.
Right.
Like again, I did not know of this like a year ago.
What does it mean?
What does NFT mean?
Yeah.
What does it mean?
I know it's a non-fungible token, but what is that?
So it's basically just a proof of sort of like ownership of something.
It's really can be sort of like applied to like a bunch of different things.
And to be quite honest, there's a bunch of ways you could use it.
And like, I think it would be very interesting way to sort of like interact
with your fans.
And I think it will sort of permeate a bunch of different sort of like
industries, not just art.
That's just sort of the beginning of it.
I think it's going to be like email.
It's going to be like something where you don't get to be like, I don't like it.
It's just going to be like you have, it's like part of-
NFTs just going to be part of the internet.
Yes.
I've thought about doing something.
This is my thought.
I thought about creating like a separate branch of this company and then having
that entirely
dedicated to charity.
Yep.
And then just use the NFTs to generate money for charity.
A hundred percent you could do that.
Because I'm like, it seems like a great way to just generate money for charity.
Absolutely.
It seems gross if I generate money for myself at this point in time.
But if I just-
That's fair.
That's fair.
If I generate just money for charity with that, I think it's a good idea.
You could generate a lot of money.
Yeah.
Because that's the thing.
It's really just a great way to sort of like organize people around like a
common goal.
Like, did you see the constitution DAO thing?
No.
So basically there's like-
The constitution what thing?
It's called constitution DAO.
DAO?
And so basically-
Like T-A-O?
No.
D-A-O.
That's another-
D-A-O.
So there's-
DAOs are sort of decentral autonomous organizations.
And so that's another sort of like thing kind of in this NFT ecosystem.
Hold on a second.
Did you know about this?
Is this a new thing for you?
Nope.
I've tried to explain this too once or twice.
But it gets lost.
I know it gets lost.
Did you know the DAO thing?
I literally told you this multiple times, Joe.
What the fuck?
No, you never tried to explain-
You never tried to explain a DAO to me, did you?
I wouldn't have started with that.
No, no, no.
It's definitely-
Like all these things are very new.
And like literally this is a term that pretty much came to prominence six
months ago, eight months ago.
Like they were around but not that popular.
Now they're becoming very popular.
And so what happened is with this constitution DAO is people organized to buy
the constitution.
It was up at like auction at Sotheby's or Christie's or one of these.
What?
And it was like $40 million.
The actual constitution you could buy?
Part of the constitution.
Why doesn't Bill Gates have that and just start editing it?
Put his own words.
Everyone must be vaccinated.
My vaccine.
Everyone just wins those.
How does it go to that?
How does it go to-
How does it go to anything?
But if you have the constitution, technically-
It was a copy.
Fuck it.
Oh, a copy.
There was like 10 and 11 copies.
It was one of them.
Imagine if whoever owns the constitution gets to like write in whatever the
fuck he wants.
I think that's what some people might have thought as they were joining us.
Could you imagine?
You just added it.
Could you imagine if you have your own constitution?
That's a command of future.
Mike gets to be king.
It's tokenized.
Yeah.
But so anyway-
Lead is free and legal.
So they basically kind of like pooled all their money together really quickly.
They pooled together from like 20,000 people like $40 million and like tried to
buy it and
they just barely lost out by like, I don't know, $5 million or something.
One of the- I don't know who bought it.
But it was a copy of the constitution.
It was a copy.
It was just like a fucking piece of paper.
It's like a baseball card for the government.
Right.
But the copy was generated when?
What is it?
Like 1800 or 1790, whatever.
Like super, like it's just an artifact.
It's just literally just like a-
Ancient script.
Yeah.
Like just kind of like a like thing.
But sort of, it kind of shows how people can sort of like organize very quickly
around
sort of like a goal.
And so that's where if you had like a DAO for like charity, you could sort of
like organize
people to sort of like have voting power and like these are the charities we
want to support.
You could kind of like have a role in it as well.
And the problem with that is you could have groups that are organized that
would go and
generate money for a specific charity and that charity might be bullshit.
Well, and that's where you have role.
You can program in the rules in it.
I think-
So you can make it very like checks and balances.
So it's not just like, okay, one person's just like, okay, here, let's give it
to whatever.
I don't want to do that.
I want to have control over what the charity was.
And you could do that too.
You could have that too.
You kind of like, you can set it up however you want.
Like here's the like choices.
Like, okay, I'm going to pick these three, these charities that I like and I
approve all
of them and you guys like vote with the community.
So you can set it up however you want.
Do you know much about charities?
I know not that much.
I'm learning more and we're doing a bunch of charity work like next year that
we're like
selling artworks and stuff and like a bunch of auctions.
There's a few charities that I support because I know the people that are
responsible for the
charity.
I know like how they organize and how they run it.
But man, a lot of charities are slippery.
And what's slippery about them is, well, it's not necessarily that they're
bullshit.
Or they waste a lot of money.
The money goes to fucking just bullshit.
Well, it's bloated.
Yeah.
So what happens is a lot of the people that are running these charities wind up
making
an exorbitant amount of money while running charities.
And you find out that these people are making like high six figures and they're
running charities.
And you're like, wait a minute.
What?
How much of the money actually goes to the charitable act?
Sure.
Yeah.
That's important.
And generally speaking, it's not much.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Like we've pulled it up before.
We've shown like some of the best charities and worst charities in terms of
like how much
you donate where it actually goes.
Yeah.
You know, the best charities, obviously, like if you could go to the source,
right?
If you could create, if you could figure out a way to get money directly to
people that
are in need, right?
That's like the best charity, but then you have to get people to facilitate
that and you
have to pay them, which obviously they deserve to be paid, right?
But it's like, should they be getting rich off a charity?
Then the thing is like, okay, but they just want a job, right?
Is the charity for, I mean, it's, you're supposed to, the wealthy people are
supposed to be donating,
but if you need people to run that job, they shouldn't be doing it for
charitable donations.
Like they should be getting paid like a normal person.
Sure.
They should be able to live comfortably while they're doing this hard work.
Yeah.
So I get both sides of it.
Yeah.
It's definitely something though that you can like, if you want to see your
money do the
maximum amount of good, which I'm sure you do, like it's something you do need
to like
sort of, you know, kind of keep tabs on.
I also just don't want to donate to anything that's bullshit.
But again, that's where you can control it and you sort of give the options to
the like
ping that are all sort of like already approved by you.
So it's sort of like, it's not just giving up control.
You can kind of like bring in the community in ways that you want to sort of
like augment it
and kind of like, you know, kind of get feedback, but it's still in a sort of
like controlled manner.
So it's, there's a lot of different ways to like, kind of like use this
technology to interact with your sort of like fans or like.
Since I've been paying like ever since I had, I had this woman Renee DiResta on
who researched the internet research agency from Russia.
They're, they run troll farms and they influence all of our social media, like
from top to bottom.
This is, this is how bad it is.
They found out recently that 19 of the top 20 Christian sites on Facebook are
run by troll farms.
Jesus.
No, it's, it's that, it's that intertwined.
There are so many times where someone, I'll read a comment.
Like groups, like Christian what?
Like groups, like Facebook groups?
Yeah, like Facebook groups organizing because Obama's a Satanist, like that
kind of shit.
And you go like, who is this?
Who's the, who thinks Obama's a Satanist?
And then you go and look into it and you're like, oh, this isn't even a real
person.
Like this, you go to their Twitter page.
I, there's so many times recently that I've gone to people's Twitter pages and
I've looked at what they're writing.
I'm like, I don't think this is a real person.
I think this is like, and they have like a weird name and then.
It's a bot.
It's, it's not a bot.
It's not a bot.
It could be, yeah.
It could just be a person and like.
It's a person that's getting paid.
This is why it's complicated because a lot of them are funny.
They're humor.
This is one of the things that Renee DiResta said.
She went over hundreds of thousands of memes and a lot of them were actually
funny.
So my point is, whenever you allow people to vote on things online now, you're
dealing with an exorbitant amount of fuckery.
That's true.
Organized fuckery.
Organized fuckery from these countries that literally have a vested interest in
causing mistrust.
So what they could do is, if you had a bunch of people that were voting on a
charity, they would develop a fake charity that sucks and then they would rig
the voting.
They would have like thousands of people vote for this one because a lot of
people don't vote.
They're fucking busy, right?
So they would have like an organized campaign.
They have thousands of people working for them.
Well, I will say.
Hundreds of thousands of accounts.
I will say with this, though, you make it so that they have to pay to vote.
And that's the difference.
How much?
It filters a lot.
That's where you'd be sort of like selling some sort of like basic voting right
in this like DAO or like org