Name: What COVID Tells Us About the Future
Uploaded: 2021-02-08T18:53:03.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'What COVID Tells Us About the Future' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-02-08. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'What COVID Tells Us About the Future' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-02-08. Transcript available.

the Joe Rogan experience like I love I have a Tesla and I love my Tesla I love
it to death it's probably the best car that I have but there's something that I
miss and what I miss is the I want to hear I want to feel the gear I want to
feel the I push the left pedal down the clutch engages I push the gear shift in
the third gear I let the clutch out I push down the gas there's this
interaction with this thing that lets me I'm engaged I'm feeling it there's
something about those those kind of old cars and mechanical watches and there's
a lot of other things that those things excite me yeah it's a tactile it's like
a
dance yeah I like cooking over fire you know I'm saying like there's there's
things that I still like that are older things I like running on dirt you know
there's I'd like those they are chopping wood there's things this tactile
experiences you know yeah I know those are dying I know they're dying the
manual
gearbox is dying my car still a stick I talked about it last time I was here
the
Mazda 3 it's a stick shift people are kissing with masks on do you understand
what's happening yeah yeah yeah yeah people are making out with two masks on no
one they're dangerous dangerous people but you know I'm saying like that I feel
like mass kissing is like it's a step in the wrong direction it's we're gonna
become aliens we're gonna become the grays with the big black eyes the giant
heads yeah we're not gonna kiss at all anymore no we're gonna do it all through
our brain it'll be a relic of the past yeah it's gonna be like the difference
between a Tesla and a manual 1970 Chevelle is gonna be the difference
between real fucking and and and people just plugging into some fucking some
computer and just letting it all happen inside some virtual reality experience
where you don't have to worry about cooties that's what I'm worried about
man I'm worried about tactile human experiences and I'm not really worried I'm
recognizing that the same way if you wanted to if you wanted to look back on
primates and you early primates and go and go look if you brought a chimp you
know into the future and said hey this is what it's gonna be like gonna fly in
planes and you're gonna you're gonna eat off plates like fuck that I like
swinging from trees and I like throwing my own shit at my enemies like I can't
give that up I'm not giving up throwing shit I like shit in my hand and giving
it a good
time in the world yeah and I fucking get together my other chimp buddies and we
fuck up some dude across our imaginary line we kill him you know there's
there's parts of that that for sure we're we're life is better today but I'm
not a future human I'm a current human I can in in my current state there's
tactile experiences that I enjoy I like kissing I like holding hands I like
shaking
a person's hand when I meet them I like drinking whiskey I like driving cars I
like shifting my own gears I like opening doors for myself whenever there's one
of
those things where like you step towards it and the door opens up I never use
those fucking things I grab that handle I open that bitch up I like opening
doors I
like it's I want to I want to experience things yeah I want to I want to
interact with the world I like interacting yeah I think there will always be a
place for that mm-hmm no no more well kovat has put a wrench into that kovat is
a
it's basically showing us what the future holds in store for us the future
holds in
store for us is the elimination of biological threats and there's a lot of
biological threats that we take for granted like emotions hormones the desire
to breed conquering the the natural primate instincts to dominate environments
and to expand our boundaries and our kingdoms all those things are dangerous
they're not good but they also create art and romance and controversy and they
they they they provide people with an enthusiasm and motivation there's all
these things about being a human that creates art yeah and makes things like
wine they it makes things worth living whiskey cigars I do yes the kinetic
nature of life pre-covid you know what I mean like bumping into someone going
to
something just serendipitously meeting someone you know that doesn't happen any
more
really now everything is just so it happens in Texas I'm two days in so I'm
learning but I'm gonna take you around yeah we're gonna be fine yeah yeah the
people that don't want it to go back are the people that are most fearful the
people that are like my grandmother died I understand I get it yeah it's it's a
terrifying tragedy that anybody has to die from a disease but we have to
recognize that we're all gonna die and you can't stop all life because a
disease
comes along and kill some of us we have to recognize what can we do to mitigate
the dangers of this disease plus what can we do to mitigate the dangers of
dissolving our culture we haven't done that instead we've only
concentrated on miss mitigating the dangers of spreading something so stay home
we're three masks touch no one wear gloves while you're driving like fuck man
this is not life this is not life and most of these people that are three mask
people they don't know goddamn anything about vitamins and quercetin and saunas
and all the
different methods you can use to stimulate your immune system it's like we're
we're we're we don't want
people to be able to take their own chances and make their own risks and the
more
liberal you are and the more left-wing you are the more likely you are to
appeal to
authoritarianism and this is the one of the most discouraging aspects of our
culture in 2021 is that like these all these people that are supposed to be
like left-wing
people in my when i was a kid i thought of i've always been left wing i've
always been
my my family's like my my stepdad's a hippie he was a hippie my mom they were
they were very
like open-minded left-wing people there i that it was all about free expression
it was all about
letting people be who they are and and living whatever life you wanted to be
and and accepting
people for who they are that's not what's happening now this is all this fear-based
weird appeal to
authoritarianism to there's too much disinformation on the internet we have to
have a czar of truth
there's people calling for a czar of truth do you know this no this is the new
thing they're asking
for the government to create a czar of truth the government to decide what's
real and what's not
to dis to dispel disinformation see you can pull this up czar of truth this is
something that cnn
has talked about a lot of these like weirdo networks have talked about like do
you do you
understand these people understand what happens when you start censoring people
we start
saying things like we need the government to step in the government's never
been good at anything
they've never been good at anything not one thing even during this whole like
covet crisis like
businesses are suffering they're just if your business you're but especially in
l.a it sucks
five percent of all l.a restaurants are gone yeah there's no contingency plan
in place and then also
they're like stay home but then how do you make money yeah so you can't have it
both ways you have to
have like a safety net in place the p the people that are making these distinctions
and making
these decisions they don't lose a paycheck that's the problem all these mayors
and governors and
health board advisors they don't miss a paycheck they can shut down everything
and they do it for
optics well yeah there i think there's a way to be smart about this obviously
this is a real thing
and it does affect people but yeah but listen man you got through it i got
through it yeah sure but like
i'm i'm younger and i know there are cases where where people are hit really
hard by this but i think
sometimes there's bureaucracy attached to it where you're not even using logic
like
the comedy story you know they were they were all out before this like
look it's in purple tier right now whatever it is they've opened yeah yeah
outdoor dining is allowed
now in los angeles but when i made the decision to come out here everything was
clamped down
but before it was clamped down they did have outdoor dining and all that and
the comedy store was allowed
to have outside seating in the parking lot you know where we park before we do
our sets so there
was tables there was chairs and they could watch tv they could watch a football
game they could watch
the comedy store documentary they were able to be congregated in that parking
lot but they weren't
allowed to if you put a comedian doing jokes outdoor that was suddenly
communism against the rules but
like nothing has changed other than instead of a tv that their focus is on they
are watching a comedian
but for some reason the city deemed that not allowable because the city is
filled the city
government is filled with people so stupid they want to be a part of the city
government that's the problem
yes it just makes like on the ground floor in your mouth all right thank you it
makes it makes no sense
to anyone it doesn't have to make sense and it was frustrating because before
the shutdown when
everything was like super locked down i was doing a lot of outdoor shows in la
and i was doing all
these alt shows just like in backyards and on the top of hotels and stuff but
the comedy store wasn't
allowed to do shows because it was called the comedy store there was too much
attention on it
is that what it is yeah i think it's just a bunch of fools that's all it is it's
just a bunch of
fools working in government it doesn't have to make any sense they just have to
keep their jobs
and they have to give off they have to give off the perception that they're
doing something
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