Name: Joe Rogan Experience #468 - Duncan Trussell, Christopher Ryan
Uploaded: 2014-03-12T06:28:48.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #468 - Duncan Trussell, Christopher Ryan' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2014-03-12. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #468 - Duncan Trussell, Christopher Ryan' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2014-03-12. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #468 - Duncan Trussell, Christopher Ryan

good afternoon ladies and gentlemen or perhaps good evening if you're in an
internet time zone
what does that even mean if you're somewhere else on the planet that's what i'm
trying to say
uh this episode and by the way you just we just had another thing where we had
to go forward in
time did you get that right yeah it's tough jumped forward freaked me out
especially when you're at a
bar hammered my dad was an hour late picking me up at the airport yesterday of
course because he
forgot this episode is brought to you by stamps.com here's a way to save time
other than that
going to the air or going to the post office to send your packages is always a
pain in the ass
getting them measured on a scale and if you're running a small business and you're
selling
online if you're not you should do that because it's way better than having a
boss but stamps.com
is a way that you can do it all from the comfort of your own home with your own
home computer and
a regular printer you can print u.s postage right there in your office they
give you a free digital
scale if you use the code word jre and their 110 bonus offer which includes 55
of free postage
and a free digital scale that you are not to use for mushrooms and you can
measure your packages and
print official u.s postage right there from your office and send it through
stamps.com
it saves you a ton of money and you know all you have to do is package
everything up print it up put
the labels on give them to the postman thank you you you cut a whole process
out if the postage
changes stamps.com is on the ball ahead of time so you don't have to worry
about it and you really
shouldn't be complaining about postage i'm so tired but stamps went up to 49
cents oh my god that
is the bargain of the universe 49 cents and you can take a piece of paper
across the country yeah that's
fucking ridiculous that you would even complain about that and some dude in
shorts will bring it to your
door and they have a car that has a steering wheel on the wrong side of the
road exactly and doors
that's his commitment his commitment to delivering you mail yep anyway go to
stamps.com before you do
anything click on the microphone on the home page and type in jre that's stamps.com
jre we're also brought
to you by ting what ting is a mobile company that does things well they they
like to try to cut out
all the bullshit that you normally get when you have cell phone service all the
bullshit like like
early termination fees and these add-ons that you weren't aware of when you
signed up for a contract
they don't have contracts you can cancel anytime you want they sell you only
what you use so instead of
having now you have a hundred monthly minutes how often you use a hundred
minutes i mean shouldn't
you just pay for what you use well that's how ting has it set up if you use
more you pay more if you
use less you pay less but the bottom line is that 98 of people would save money
if they use ting ting is
also a company that uses the sprint backbone so it's a real cell phone provider
it's not some mickey mouse
that somebody slapped together with duct tape it's it's sprint and you can get
a cell phone from them
one of the highest end android phones available like they have the htc1 which
is a beautiful phone
they have the samsung phones the galaxy s4 the galaxy note 3 they have all the
high-end beautiful android
phones and you just feel better about the transaction it doesn't feel icky it
feels like you're giving them
money for a good service but you're not even with any weird that they tack on
sounds like a burner
phone joe it sounds like what senators used to pick up mail hookers and drug
dealers in baltimore
no it's an awesome company go to rogan.ting.com and save 25 off your first
device you know they're
also working with iphones now yes just recently they started allowing iphones
yeah which is great but
you know the iphone thing is uh i've got a weird thing going on with them
because of this bitcoin
thing i think bitcoin is a fascinating subject and um yeah there's going to be
people that
blow a lot of money on it there's going to be it's going to go up and down i
mean there's a lot going
on with it people may be trying to sabotage it but the bottom line is you can't
get an apple bitcoin
wallet app like they they canceled their app the app had 120 000 downloads i
don't know but that's
disrespectful to the community to the bitcoin community in my opinion i don't
know if bitcoin's ever
going to work out or not work out but i do know that i don't want to support a
company that does
something like that like if if these applications are doing something deceptive
then i think there
should be some sort of a press release explaining what deceptive practices were
being done by these
apps that made you remove them but i find it odd if i can get all these
different bitcoin wallets for
android but when i look on iphone there's fucking nothing i don't that's that
can't be a coincidence you
can't tell me that that google is so negligent that they allow these people to
get on their their their
network and sell these apps and no one is uh knows no one's stopping all the
exploits no one's stopping
all the bullshit or is apple just keeping them from coming on their platform
who knows it's interesting
yeah but i i think this is a a critical time for something like a bitcoin
because it's what it's not
even about it might not even about bitcoin it might be about what bitcoin
becomes and you know people
saying it's not perfect they want to kill it wow whoa whoa whoa slow the down
why would you kill this
like what is this let's look at what this could be because what it is right now
is like some sort of a
computer program and a a new form of currency but if you kill it it never grows
into what it could have
become we money used to be fucking knots on a rope okay it used to be like
these weird handmade coins
made of precious metals right and now it's paper like how did it now it's
numbers it's ones it's zeros
it's it's numbers in a computer somewhere you can't tell me that money can't
evolve like everything else
like a fucking processing system like like like a computer like like a
television things get more
complex they get better they tighten down they figure out you've got all these
smart people
working on this bitcoin thing there's a lot of really intelligent people
invested in this idea of
making the economy more stable with this sort of a currency a currency that can't
be with
or trace that's fascinating like isn't it like more or not it's more anonymous
that's yes yes it's more
anonymous yeah you know what man i think that we the idea of only going the way
we're going and only
using the the methods that we're using right now it's ridiculous i think it's
ridiculous well and also
the upper level of uh of currency trading is always has been virtual for a long
time yeah you know when
banks borrow overnight rates and all that kind of stuff there's no there's no
movement of paper going
on it's just a computer click here there yeah we got way off track this is
supposed to be a ting commercial
but i get crazy when it comes to these things yeah i'll tell you i'm sorry to
interrupt you i met a
guy at a wedding years ago who's a world famous seashell expert i sat with him
at the same table so we
were chatting boring wedding and sounds like a boring conversation well no but
check it out like
this guy because it came up because you know cassie mentioned mozambique and he's
like oh i've been to
mozambique four times collecting shells it's like this amazing place so i mean
the guy goes all over the
world anyway he told me you know how we're talking about currency when the dutch
supposedly bought
manhattan island from the indians for wampum right they paid them in wampum
right yeah and what wampum
was as most school kids know is seashells like sewn onto a belt right yeah but
what he told me was that
they're a particular type of seashell that only grew in this one bay that was
controlled by this one
tribe so they sort of had a monopoly it's like the america the dollar at this
point the reserve
currency right and it would emanate out from there so what the dutch did was
they went and figured out
what shell it was and they figured out how to cultivate that mollusk themselves
so within a couple of
years they had an unlimited supply counterfeit the counterfeit money exactly
people have always been
gone from man that's the story yeah well and all currency you can fuck with all
currency yeah by
definition whatever you know it always has been that way yeah but now it's it's
all virtual it doesn't
need there's not even a coin to fake anymore well isn't that the whole i guess
we already done these
commercials right did we say rogan.ting.com we did right so let's just not even
play music just keep
going um it feels weird when you break up conversations like this um but wasn't
the idea about gold and
precious minerals being there's very few of them there's a finite amount so
that this is a good
thing to base money on because it's you know people sort of always kind of
recognize there's got to be
like a way to put a cap on it yes kind of way keep the way to keep this thing
it doesn't totally make sense
for controlling everything about when you think about what money really is it's
so bizarre it's all because
it's not human okay it's not thinking but it seems to be an organism it seems
to be something that requires
you to love it so it allows you to connect yourself to all these material items
that fill up this weird
hole in your your idea of the world i'll tell you what it is holes of
perception perception it's a western god
right because it's power hungry it accumulates power it's jealous it doesn't
want any other currencies in
existence it wants to control the market and it only works if everybody
believes in it that's a that is
a that's the a dark way to put it i've heard it put a positive way which is it
just represents the life
flow it represents this flow of energy that's always coming through the
universe and it's kind of like
one manifestation of that energy flow and if you look at it like that instead
of demonizing it which
i've definitely done in the past and just see it as just this thing that sort
of uh it's a it's like
you we know when you throw paint on the invisible man or something you know it
like it reveals this
kind of flow through the universe that's where you get into the secret stuff
you know like if you're
very generous more comes back you know yeah but don't you think that money does
have characteristics
i mean don't you think there are predictable things that happen to a person's
life when a bunch
of money comes into it yeah no doubt i think money is objectively toxic you
think so i i you know it's
i think it's not it's literally toxic when you consider all the disgusting
people who handle that
shit all the fear sweat that soaks into it cocaine huh i don't think that money
is inherently toxic i
think people with power are inherently toxic yeah i don't think it has anything
to do with money i
think the real corrupting factor of money is that they want someone at the if
you everybody wants it
okay so if everybody wants it it's someone at some point in time is going to
try to control the flow of
other people acquiring it because then it'll interfere with them and so then it
becomes this
chimpanzee competition thing it's not that money is toxic because you could
take wealthy people who
make a lot of money who do a lot of good things with it and they seem to be
really nice you know and
they they have this ability to help and affect all sorts of other folks like
bill gates i don't know
anything about bill gates but what i know about watching bill gates is his like
constant charity work
okay but let's take this back to where you started right with the apple
shutting down the bitcoin right
the way bill gates got rich the way microsoft got where they are is by shutting
down competition
ever