Roderick on the Line

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00:00:12 ◼   ► hello age on Merlin a feeling I'm well I [TS]

00:00:21 ◼   ► on the mend [TS]

00:00:22 ◼   ► I'm well no it's a chris wallace voice [TS]

00:00:25 ◼   ► oh yeah yeah I think I've never I've [TS]

00:00:28 ◼   ► never loved that response [TS]

00:00:30 ◼   ► I'm well is it that's a bellingham thing [TS]

00:00:32 ◼   ► right [TS]

00:00:33 ◼   ► yeah it's the it's the old days the bear [TS]

00:00:35 ◼   ► trap of of getting if you say I'm good [TS]

00:00:38 ◼   ► how are you I'm good [TS]

00:00:40 ◼   ► oh I'm well that's just a little bit of [TS]

00:00:43 ◼   ► like a you're doing well you're doing [TS]

00:00:44 ◼   ► good [TS]

00:00:45 ◼   ► it's a little bit of a like a backhanded [TS]

00:00:47 ◼   ► slap it's just a light like like kid [TS]

00:00:49 ◼   ► gloves slap you doing leaving no [TS]

00:00:51 ◼   ► footprints [TS]

00:00:52 ◼   ► haha you I'm well we talked to a week [TS]

00:01:03 ◼   ► ago and you were in the throes of [TS]

00:01:05 ◼   ► illness [TS]

00:01:06 ◼   ► yep you know i'm i'm slow to recover i'm [TS]

00:01:09 ◼   ► slow to heal [TS]

00:01:10 ◼   ► he sounds so much better oh I feel I'm [TS]

00:01:12 ◼   ► so I'm a hundred percent better except [TS]

00:01:15 ◼   ► that i'm slow to heal so there's the [TS]

00:01:17 ◼   ► there's probably another week of like [TS]

00:01:19 ◼   ► just every once in awhile be like [TS]

00:01:23 ◼   ► laughing at something and a big ball of [TS]

00:01:27 ◼   ► flame will come flying out let you [TS]

00:01:29 ◼   ► laughs great [TS]

00:01:31 ◼   ► yeah that's right back back in the cave [TS]

00:01:34 ◼   ► another nine months without laughing [TS]

00:01:36 ◼   ► the thing about having a child of course [TS]

00:01:38 ◼   ► is that you laughs more because children [TS]

00:01:41 ◼   ► are ridiculous yeah so I'm laughing all [TS]

00:01:44 ◼   ► the time now [TS]

00:01:45 ◼   ► laughing child laughing are constantly [TS]

00:01:48 ◼   ► know she's a she's a total clown [TS]

00:01:52 ◼   ► yeah but you know we laugh together at [TS]

00:01:57 ◼   ► what a clown her mother is this you know [TS]

00:02:00 ◼   ► that can imagine they they pay you back [TS]

00:02:06 ◼   ► in kind though they do you know I'm [TS]

00:02:08 ◼   ► surrounded by women I always them and [TS]

00:02:10 ◼   ► now i'm especially surrounded by women [TS]

00:02:12 ◼   ► there there are no I mean Colonel [TS]

00:02:14 ◼   ► surviving men in my family my mom my [TS]

00:02:16 ◼   ► uncle jack is eighty seven maybe eight [TS]

00:02:18 ◼   ► lives in Alaska my uncle Junius [TS]

00:02:21 ◼   ► lives here in Seattle but i don't see it [TS]

00:02:23 ◼   ► very often a great name [TS]

00:02:26 ◼   ► junius yeah Junior's rochester oh come [TS]

00:02:29 ◼   ► on really [TS]

00:02:30 ◼   ► junius rochester his father Alfred [TS]

00:02:33 ◼   ► rochester and his mother Marguerite [TS]

00:02:36 ◼   ► rochester names used to be so much [TS]

00:02:38 ◼   ► better [TS]

00:02:39 ◼   ► junius and genius was named after my [TS]

00:02:42 ◼   ► great uncle Julius who was named f2 his [TS]

00:02:47 ◼   ► great-uncle genius sounds Roman geniuses [TS]

00:02:51 ◼   ► brother george alfred Caldwell rochester [TS]

00:02:54 ◼   ► founded the seattle public library but [TS]

00:02:58 ◼   ► his great-uncle genius was one of the he [TS]

00:03:03 ◼   ► was the dead i have intelligence started [TS]

00:03:05 ◼   ► my great-great-uncle genius who was [TS]

00:03:07 ◼   ► responsible for the founding of the [TS]

00:03:09 ◼   ► Washington State Bar Association because [TS]

00:03:12 ◼   ► the lawyers in seattle agreed that they [TS]

00:03:15 ◼   ► needed some kind of association that [TS]

00:03:18 ◼   ► could censure my bike rack great-uncle [TS]

00:03:21 ◼   ► they were like they were like we need to [TS]

00:03:24 ◼   ► Center this man and we don't even have [TS]

00:03:26 ◼   ► an organization powerful enough to do it [TS]

00:03:28 ◼   ► so they founded a bar association just [TS]

00:03:30 ◼   ► to give him just to dis Tek dis bar him [TS]

00:03:34 ◼   ► from their bar easy like you'd have to [TS]

00:03:37 ◼   ► do a lot of stuff pretty bad over and [TS]

00:03:41 ◼   ► over fresh its complex to create an [TS]

00:03:43 ◼   ► organization to smite you would fit a [TS]

00:03:46 ◼   ► lot of work but what is the feather in [TS]

00:03:49 ◼   ► his cap the thing that they really were [TS]

00:03:51 ◼   ► were really open arms about was that he [TS]

00:03:55 ◼   ► basically instigated that the [TS]

00:03:58 ◼   ► anti-chinese riots on the waterfront [TS]

00:04:01 ◼   ► here in Seattle and forced the and you [TS]

00:04:05 ◼   ► know he and a mob an angry literally a [TS]

00:04:09 ◼   ► torch carrying mob like march to the the [TS]

00:04:14 ◼   ► Chinese residents of Chinatown down to [TS]

00:04:17 ◼   ► the docks and said you're either getting [TS]

00:04:20 ◼   ► on that boat to san francisco or you're [TS]

00:04:22 ◼   ► going in the water [TS]

00:04:23 ◼   ► well what what what area is what years [TS]

00:04:25 ◼   ► 1890 you're kidding that's an amazing [TS]

00:04:31 ◼   ► yeah and then some of the most of the [TS]

00:04:33 ◼   ► Chinese got on the boat and went down to [TS]

00:04:34 ◼   ► San Francisco [TS]

00:04:35 ◼   ► would their descendants are still [TS]

00:04:37 ◼   ► probably living peacefully there [TS]

00:04:39 ◼   ► yeah that was at a time when the Chinese [TS]

00:04:41 ◼   ► were the big scare and my [TS]

00:04:44 ◼   ► great-great-uncle immigrant from [TS]

00:04:47 ◼   ► Kentucky and that if not veteran of the [TS]

00:04:52 ◼   ► Civil War than his brother fought in the [TS]

00:04:54 ◼   ► Civil War and came up here and and [TS]

00:04:57 ◼   ► decided to to you know bring a little [TS]

00:05:00 ◼   ► touch of southern xenophobia to the [TS]

00:05:02 ◼   ► northwest headline just keeps moving [TS]

00:05:04 ◼   ► north that's good form of of these [TS]

00:05:08 ◼   ► chinese people cannot live here anymore [TS]

00:05:09 ◼   ► these chinese people who helped us build [TS]

00:05:11 ◼   ► the railroad you know who basically [TS]

00:05:13 ◼   ► built the railroad and improved the West [TS]

00:05:16 ◼   ► in innumerable ways now have to go do [TS]

00:05:20 ◼   ► you uh do you know what happened it says [TS]

00:05:23 ◼   ► did this is a so they formed the Bar [TS]

00:05:25 ◼   ► Association what's that [TS]

00:05:27 ◼   ► so they think they picked the name yeah [TS]

00:05:28 ◼   ► I had they had they had their the salad [TS]

00:05:30 ◼   ► course that's right that's right now our [TS]

00:05:33 ◼   ► business [TS]

00:05:34 ◼   ► junius rochester gentlemen let's go [TS]

00:05:37 ◼   ► ahead and move on to the cutiest she's [TS]

00:05:39 ◼   ► not so moved [TS]

00:05:41 ◼   ► well you know this was the northwest and [TS]

00:05:45 ◼   ► it was a small them small town and I [TS]

00:05:47 ◼   ► think they censored him and then he went [TS]

00:05:49 ◼   ► on to be a he went on to pretty sure [TS]

00:05:54 ◼   ► have a some sort of dubious hand in the [TS]

00:05:57 ◼   ► founding of Columbia City a southern [TS]

00:06:00 ◼   ► suburb of of Seattle AP you know he [TS]

00:06:03 ◼   ► became a real estate speculator and [TS]

00:06:07 ◼   ► founded columbia city and then I don't [TS]

00:06:10 ◼   ► know he's probably hit by a streetcar or [TS]

00:06:13 ◼   ► somebody Chinese tweak some other [TS]

00:06:15 ◼   ► inglorious Northwest way of you know he [TS]

00:06:18 ◼   ► was eaten by a salmon [TS]

00:06:20 ◼   ► he didn't he didn't survive to he did [TS]

00:06:25 ◼   ► not survive to the era where I have a [TS]

00:06:29 ◼   ► tremendous volume of information about [TS]

00:06:31 ◼   ► him and this partly this is that my [TS]

00:06:33 ◼   ► uncle genius and uncle genius is really [TS]

00:06:36 ◼   ► a second cousin once removed but he is [TS]

00:06:41 ◼   ► let me see if I can describe this Junius [TS]

00:06:43 ◼   ► was 10 when my dad was 21 and so juniors [TS]

00:06:48 ◼   ► is not quite my dad's generation but he [TS]

00:06:51 ◼   ► certainly is he is 80 now and that was [TS]

00:06:56 ◼   ► his grandfather do you know Junius his [TS]

00:07:00 ◼   ► geniuses grandfather and my grandfather [TS]

00:07:04 ◼   ► were the same man [TS]

00:07:06 ◼   ► okay george alfred no no I'm sorry wait [TS]

00:07:09 ◼   ► a minute juniors his grandfather and my [TS]

00:07:12 ◼   ► great-grandfather were the same man [TS]

00:07:14 ◼   ► george alfred Caldwell rochester and so [TS]

00:07:19 ◼   ► it was genius is great on all or great [TS]

00:07:22 ◼   ► great on pole i think and maybe my god i [TS]

00:07:25 ◼   ► can't keep it all straight but did that [TS]

00:07:27 ◼   ► thing about geniuses that he is a [TS]

00:07:28 ◼   ► historian and has and is a generation [TS]

00:07:33 ◼   ► older than me so he stood between me and [TS]

00:07:36 ◼   ► all the good stuff right so Mike my [TS]

00:07:40 ◼   ► grandfather's no way my [TS]

00:07:42 ◼   ► great-grandfather's desk sits in junior [TS]

00:07:45 ◼   ► sizes living room and every time I come [TS]

00:07:48 ◼   ► over [TS]

00:07:49 ◼   ► jenya says John did you notice your [TS]

00:07:55 ◼   ► great-grandfather's desk there and I [TS]

00:07:58 ◼   ► have to grind my teeth he should he [TS]

00:08:03 ◼   ► should put little post-its there for my [TS]

00:08:06 ◼   ► beloved john morgan Roderick so you [TS]

00:08:09 ◼   ► think when the estate sale or the estate [TS]

00:08:11 ◼   ► is settled you know ya get a leg up what [TS]

00:08:14 ◼   ► we do the desk you think the thing is no [TS]

00:08:16 ◼   ► one else in the entire family could tell [TS]

00:08:19 ◼   ► you when the 20th century was right like [TS]

00:08:24 ◼   ► geniuses kids my brother is very active [TS]

00:08:27 ◼   ► on social media [TS]

00:08:28 ◼   ► she is she is but if you said 20 century [TS]

00:08:30 ◼   ► go she'll be like uh-huh all dr. you [TS]

00:08:36 ◼   ► know it might have my older brothers and [TS]

00:08:37 ◼   ► sisters none of them care right i mean [TS]

00:08:39 ◼   ► the the desk would end up in the ocean [TS]

00:08:41 ◼   ► except there is except there is that one [TS]

00:08:44 ◼   ► little thread running through my family [TS]

00:08:46 ◼   ► as through all families which is the [TS]

00:08:48 ◼   ► thread of women [TS]

00:08:50 ◼   ► on once it oh well i don't know i think [TS]

00:08:54 ◼   ► that your graduation furniture grudges [TS]

00:08:56 ◼   ► are pretty common or you know what i [TS]

00:08:57 ◼   ► mean when there's a piece of old [TS]

00:08:58 ◼   ► something going around that becomes like [TS]

00:09:01 ◼   ► it's it's the way like when angry people [TS]

00:09:03 ◼   ► get divorced [TS]

00:09:04 ◼   ► you know they make the kid yeah yeah the [TS]

00:09:06 ◼   ► battlefield I think things like things [TS]

00:09:08 ◼   ► that used to belong to dead people get [TS]

00:09:10 ◼   ► your soon-to-be dead people become very [TS]

00:09:11 ◼   ► hot items [TS]

00:09:12 ◼   ► well and this is the thing i have [TS]

00:09:14 ◼   ► reconciled myself to this the desk the [TS]

00:09:18 ◼   ► end tables the the baby spoons the you [TS]

00:09:23 ◼   ► know whatever the fuck he the center [TS]

00:09:25 ◼   ► from the Washington State Bar [TS]

00:09:26 ◼   ► Association like whoever wants that [TS]

00:09:29 ◼   ► stuff if it's that important to them [TS]

00:09:31 ◼   ► they can have it but I know that my [TS]

00:09:34 ◼   ► uncle genius has boxes of papers all the [TS]

00:09:39 ◼   ► letters all he knows where all the [TS]

00:09:41 ◼   ► bodies are buried and geniuses that is [TS]

00:09:44 ◼   ► that generation prior to me where it is [TS]

00:09:48 ◼   ► he is still embarrassed by the crimes of [TS]

00:09:53 ◼   ► our family of the generations of our [TS]

00:09:55 ◼   ► family prior right [TS]

00:09:57 ◼   ► junius would never ever ever publicly [TS]

00:10:01 ◼   ► admit that that the Rochester's were [TS]

00:10:04 ◼   ► behind the anti-chinese rides nor [TS]

00:10:06 ◼   ► norwood jr known normal Junius cop to [TS]

00:10:09 ◼   ► any of the other you know their their [TS]

00:10:12 ◼   ► myriad crimes against humanity that the [TS]

00:10:15 ◼   ► you know and so he genius is very proud [TS]

00:10:18 ◼   ► to hold up a photostat of the of the [TS]

00:10:23 ◼   ► official pardon that President Grant [TS]

00:10:25 ◼   ► granted his great-great-grandfather ab [TS]

00:10:32 ◼   ► Alfred but see I don't even know his [TS]

00:10:36 ◼   ► name [TS]

00:10:37 ◼   ► this is the problem anything like that [TS]

00:10:38 ◼   ► archive John I know and the thing is [TS]

00:10:40 ◼   ► there's an oil painting of this man in [TS]

00:10:42 ◼   ► his Confederate you know Colonel's [TS]

00:10:46 ◼   ► outfit or Brigadier you know dress blues [TS]

00:10:49 ◼   ► there's an oil painting of the man and I [TS]

00:10:52 ◼   ► don't know anything about him and when [TS]

00:10:54 ◼   ► that when i asked genius [TS]

00:10:55 ◼   ► it's like [TS]

00:10:57 ◼   ► he knows i want to know Andy his desire [TS]

00:11:01 ◼   ► to tell me is trumped only by his desire [TS]

00:11:05 ◼   ► to have me want to know and not know [TS]

00:11:08 ◼   ► that's all he has left its really it's [TS]

00:11:11 ◼   ► very probably guys we got the price of [TS]

00:11:13 ◼   ► the price is right and soup and [TS]

00:11:15 ◼   ► withholding from you it's very deep [TS]

00:11:17 ◼   ► it's very deep located at one point my [TS]

00:11:20 ◼   ► my aunt Julie Julie that's 222 names but [TS]

00:11:26 ◼   ► one name right that they used to do that [TS]

00:11:28 ◼   ► in names [TS]

00:11:29 ◼   ► yeah Julie decided that she needed to [TS]

00:11:32 ◼   ► that she wanted to be a member of the [TS]

00:11:35 ◼   ► Daughters of the American Revolution and [TS]

00:11:38 ◼   ► she she traced our family and she this [TS]

00:11:41 ◼   ► is you know of course before the [TS]

00:11:43 ◼   ► internet what we had to send letters to [TS]

00:11:45 ◼   ► like the postmasters and say would you [TS]

00:11:51 ◼   ► dear dear postmaster of of you know of a [TS]

00:11:55 ◼   ► wide-leg Ohio will you send your [TS]

00:11:58 ◼   ► daughter out to the cemeteries and make [TS]

00:12:00 ◼   ► rubbings of all the stones that you know [TS]

00:12:04 ◼   ► like you to research your family before [TS]

00:12:06 ◼   ► the Mormons on the internet was very [TS]

00:12:09 ◼   ► difficult but she figured out that my [TS]

00:12:13 ◼   ► great-great-great-great [TS]

00:12:15 ◼   ► great-great-great grandfather was john [TS]

00:12:20 ◼   ► page colonial governor of virginia and [TS]

00:12:23 ◼   ► childhood friend of Thomas Jefferson and [TS]

00:12:28 ◼   ► so decisions like a lock [TS]

00:12:30 ◼   ► oh it's dead-on and everybody everybody [TS]

00:12:32 ◼   ► was granted [TS]

00:12:34 ◼   ► yeah yeah she's a daughter the [TS]

00:12:35 ◼   ► pre-revolution oh yeah i mean if i [TS]

00:12:37 ◼   ► wanted to fill out the paperwork i would [TS]

00:12:39 ◼   ► be a son of the american revolution by [TS]

00:12:41 ◼   ► already feel like a son of the American [TS]

00:12:42 ◼   ► Revolution as we all do at the only free [TS]

00:12:46 ◼   ► conservative that group [TS]

00:12:47 ◼   ► mmm definitely the sons of the [TS]

00:12:49 ◼   ► Confederacy which I also more than [TS]

00:12:51 ◼   ► qualified for our have taken a turn for [TS]

00:12:54 ◼   ► the worse recently also know the DAR but [TS]

00:12:57 ◼   ► I don't know anything about the sack in [TS]

00:12:59 ◼   ► the dark but not the sack the sack has [TS]

00:13:01 ◼   ► become an organization that is that is [TS]

00:13:03 ◼   ► towing the the stars and bars are are [TS]

00:13:07 ◼   ► part of our heritage line of reasoning [TS]

00:13:10 ◼   ► and so we need to keep the need to keep [TS]

00:13:12 ◼   ► the Confederate flag in the in the South [TS]

00:13:15 ◼   ► Carolina state flag or will have war we [TS]

00:13:18 ◼   ► will have lost our our whole entire that [TS]

00:13:21 ◼   ► we've lost the war [TS]

00:13:22 ◼   ► yeah we've lost our identity as as as [TS]

00:13:25 ◼   ► people who held other humans and bonded [TS]

00:13:27 ◼   ► but i think the DAR is conservative in [TS]

00:13:30 ◼   ► the sense that they want to keep blacks [TS]

00:13:33 ◼   ► and chinese and gays and Jews and Irish [TS]

00:13:35 ◼   ► out [TS]

00:13:36 ◼   ► that's right in your wheel upset but I [TS]

00:13:38 ◼   ► can make in you know that's not what we [TS]

00:13:40 ◼   ► used to call that conservative now it's [TS]

00:13:42 ◼   ► really cheap conservatism has really [TS]

00:13:44 ◼   ► changed a lot it seems pretty [TS]

00:13:45 ◼   ► conservative now by modern standards but [TS]

00:13:48 ◼   ► um so open any in any case so actually [TS]

00:13:53 ◼   ► named her eldest daughter Paige not PA [TS]

00:13:57 ◼   ► ige but page2 H as in like at way to add [TS]

00:14:04 ◼   ► is a really cool name for a girl [TS]

00:14:06 ◼   ► yeah to echo through ten generations [TS]

00:14:08 ◼   ► back to John page our colonial for [TS]

00:14:12 ◼   ► father and it's that kind of old-school [TS]

00:14:14 ◼   ► like let's not talk about the eight [TS]

00:14:19 ◼   ► generations of slaveholders and Indian [TS]

00:14:21 ◼   ► killers in between [TS]

00:14:22 ◼   ► let's talk about John RR thomas [TS]

00:14:26 ◼   ► jefferson's buddy our our Scion John [TS]

00:14:30 ◼   ► page and it's like my own [TS]

00:14:31 ◼   ► yeah I'd really rather talk you know my [TS]

00:14:33 ◼   ► mom's now who was it one of the one of [TS]

00:14:37 ◼   ► one of my mom's intelligence road with [TS]

00:14:39 ◼   ► Custer [TS]

00:14:41 ◼   ► so I got it I got it all everything [TS]

00:14:43 ◼   ► anybody in the states that were [TS]

00:14:45 ◼   ► oppressed was at one time or another [TS]

00:14:47 ◼   ► impressed by me personally I Oh [TS]

00:14:50 ◼   ► reparation direction and think about I [TS]

00:14:53 ◼   ► don't know how you are with this stuff [TS]

00:14:54 ◼   ► but i finally got the patterns over the [TS]

00:14:56 ◼   ► five almost six years my daughter's been [TS]

00:14:58 ◼   ► around if i were to be really honest [TS]

00:15:00 ◼   ► with myself stuff that I remember but [TS]

00:15:02 ◼   ► especially the stuff i capture I capture [TS]

00:15:04 ◼   ► and inhale these successes like oh my [TS]

00:15:08 ◼   ► gosh look she's walking around she's [TS]

00:15:09 ◼   ► pushing a wagon she's doing this and I I [TS]

00:15:12 ◼   ► I laughs along at the times that things [TS]

00:15:14 ◼   ► were silly and and one of us was a clown [TS]

00:15:16 ◼   ► but the times that people were merely [TS]

00:15:18 ◼   ► disappointing don't i don't know if you [TS]

00:15:22 ◼   ► could say is true history but it just [TS]

00:15:23 ◼   ► seems like the times are the times that [TS]

00:15:25 ◼   ► we are flatly evil which we tend to kind [TS]

00:15:27 ◼   ► of a gloss over but you know but the [TS]

00:15:30 ◼   ► stuff we put in the scrapbook and the [TS]

00:15:32 ◼   ► stuff that goes into Junius geniuses [TS]

00:15:34 ◼   ► boxes [TS]

00:15:35 ◼   ► well you know it but there's probably a [TS]

00:15:38 ◼   ► lot of stuff in there where there's just [TS]

00:15:39 ◼   ► like this is just one of the half of [TS]

00:15:41 ◼   ► this is disappointment stuff and that's [TS]

00:15:42 ◼   ► really enough for me to say im just [TS]

00:15:43 ◼   ► gonna keep it sealed [TS]

00:15:45 ◼   ► yeah well everyone's kinda how I like a [TS]

00:15:47 ◼   ► family history works i think it is and [TS]

00:15:49 ◼   ► and maybe I am different in that I [TS]

00:15:52 ◼   ► celebrate the broken you know I [TS]

00:15:55 ◼   ► celebrate the aseptic walt whitman [TS]

00:15:58 ◼   ► celebrate [TS]

00:16:00 ◼   ► I celebrate the unknown hair of graves I [TS]

00:16:02 ◼   ► celebrate the UH the I mean really [TS]

00:16:07 ◼   ► there's no family that you don't have [TS]

00:16:11 ◼   ► that you can look behind three or more [TS]

00:16:13 ◼   ► curtains and not find some terrible news [TS]

00:16:16 ◼   ► because human beings are are awful [TS]

00:16:20 ◼   ► you know just consistently awful and so [TS]

00:16:24 ◼   ► I and I really do feel like that kind of [TS]

00:16:26 ◼   ► revisionism does a disservice over [TS]

00:16:29 ◼   ► generations and over time you know we [TS]

00:16:31 ◼   ► only use a really skewed idea that will [TS]

00:16:35 ◼   ► wear the first messed up generation [TS]

00:16:36 ◼   ► yeah and it happen it's been happening [TS]

00:16:37 ◼   ► for centuries and centuries and [TS]

00:16:40 ◼   ► centuries because nobody because nobody [TS]

00:16:42 ◼   ► reports [TS]

00:16:43 ◼   ► well your uncle al was a rapist and it [TS]

00:16:49 ◼   ► because it you know because it reflects [TS]

00:16:50 ◼   ► on you you feel like it reflects on you [TS]

00:16:52 ◼   ► and I think that's what's going on with [TS]

00:16:54 ◼   ► genius-like [TS]

00:16:54 ◼   ► he does not want to and partly it is [TS]

00:16:57 ◼   ► that that I think now that we're the [TS]

00:17:00 ◼   ► first generation where social standing [TS]

00:17:03 ◼   ► is not determined as much or at all by [TS]

00:17:10 ◼   ► family and blood right [TS]

00:17:13 ◼   ► we live in a world where social standing [TS]

00:17:15 ◼   ► is entirely determined by buying money [TS]

00:17:19 ◼   ► new money and buy your you know and by [TS]

00:17:23 ◼   ► like your 15 minutes of fame [TS]

00:17:26 ◼   ► Cracraft fame but my uncle juniors and [TS]

00:17:31 ◼   ► my father and and and even me I mean I [TS]

00:17:34 ◼   ► was raised still in the last vestiges of [TS]

00:17:38 ◼   ► feeling like your family name was where [TS]

00:17:44 ◼   ► your what was the the locus of your [TS]

00:17:47 ◼   ► honor and that's almost completely gone [TS]

00:17:50 ◼   ► it in America or in the West maybe back [TS]

00:17:53 ◼   ► east people still ask like so what's [TS]

00:17:56 ◼   ► your father do where your father go to [TS]

00:17:57 ◼   ► school [TS]

00:17:58 ◼   ► well I think it's it feels like it's [TS]

00:18:00 ◼   ► something where people at the middle [TS]

00:18:02 ◼   ► levels of of status are certainly not [TS]

00:18:04 ◼   ► scrambling to look at right but whereas [TS]

00:18:07 ◼   ► in the fifties or sixties even you might [TS]

00:18:09 ◼   ► really be scrambling to show how you are [TS]

00:18:11 ◼   ► descended from a virginia governor sure [TS]

00:18:14 ◼   ► and I think people today if you go to [TS]

00:18:16 ◼   ► your favorite Yale I think you probably [TS]

00:18:17 ◼   ► still gonna do what I mean the upper [TS]

00:18:19 ◼   ► classes a picture of people with money [TS]

00:18:20 ◼   ► people who have that lineage sure if [TS]

00:18:22 ◼   ► you've got the family tree and all that [TS]

00:18:23 ◼   ► Providence and you can show it when I [TS]

00:18:25 ◼   ► wanted but there's so many and even the [TS]

00:18:28 ◼   ► last I don't be productive in the last [TS]

00:18:29 ◼   ► 40 years the number of blended families [TS]

00:18:31 ◼   ► the number of people like just think [TS]

00:18:34 ◼   ► about christmas day is like for so many [TS]

00:18:35 ◼   ► people who have like five and a half [TS]

00:18:37 ◼   ► parents know it's like Hanukkah [TS]

00:18:41 ◼   ► but I mean yeah if your last name is [TS]

00:18:43 ◼   ► bush and you are the 42nd president the [TS]

00:18:46 ◼   ► united states 43rd whatever you don't [TS]

00:18:50 ◼   ► have to be a member of the daughters of [TS]

00:18:51 ◼   ► the american revolution because the [TS]

00:18:53 ◼   ► Encyclopedia Britannica has your family [TS]

00:18:56 ◼   ► line it or if you're jonathan coulton or [TS]

00:18:59 ◼   ► somebody like that who clearly came over [TS]

00:19:01 ◼   ► on the Mayflower the whole idea of the [TS]

00:19:04 ◼   ► daughters of the american revolution is [TS]

00:19:05 ◼   ► for people who live out in San Francisco [TS]

00:19:07 ◼   ► to scramble over one another's you know [TS]

00:19:11 ◼   ► carcasses on the way to some cocktail [TS]

00:19:16 ◼   ► party up on Nob Hill I I guess I almost [TS]

00:19:19 ◼   ► wonder if a little bit tom wolfe here [TS]

00:19:22 ◼   ► but I mean I I'm almost thinking like I [TS]

00:19:24 ◼   ► wonder if it's some point maybe around [TS]

00:19:25 ◼   ► the sixties and definitely seventies it [TS]

00:19:27 ◼   ► started to be a little bit of a burden [TS]

00:19:29 ◼   ► to be part of not a burden but if you [TS]

00:19:31 ◼   ► know what I mean it used to be that you [TS]

00:19:32 ◼   ► could say like what if you're a [TS]

00:19:33 ◼   ► Rockefeller or whatever but like the [TS]

00:19:35 ◼   ► thing is if you followed that sort of [TS]

00:19:38 ◼   ► lineal name-dropping like two things are [TS]

00:19:41 ◼   ► going to happen first of all it's gonna [TS]

00:19:42 ◼   ► be obvious what a loser you are that [TS]

00:19:44 ◼   ► you're you know Bing Crosby the third or [TS]

00:19:46 ◼   ► whatever which is like oh you're not as [TS]

00:19:49 ◼   ► famous as the other one [TS]

00:19:50 ◼   ► ok so what do you do you work at the DMV [TS]

00:19:52 ◼   ► but you know there's the other one which [TS]

00:19:54 ◼   ► is like nobody-nobody in America there's [TS]

00:19:57 ◼   ► a great phrase you know you get a phrase [TS]

00:19:59 ◼   ► born with a silver spoon in his mouth [TS]

00:20:00 ◼   ► but i think i first heard this about a [TS]

00:20:03 ◼   ► george w bush maybe earlier that he he [TS]

00:20:06 ◼   ► was born on third and thinks he hit a [TS]

00:20:08 ◼   ► triple right and I i'll use the second [TS]

00:20:12 ◼   ► half of that phrase sometimes you know [TS]

00:20:13 ◼   ► for people who think somebody else got [TS]

00:20:15 ◼   ► something easy i think people don't want [TS]

00:20:16 ◼   ► that i think especially in a post 1960s [TS]

00:20:18 ◼   ► America anyway people don't want to look [TS]

00:20:20 ◼   ► like they got where they were because of [TS]

00:20:22 ◼   ► their last name they wanted to be merit [TS]

00:20:24 ◼   ► or they wanted to be values or brand in [TS]

00:20:27 ◼   ► somebody's mighty that word again but [TS]

00:20:29 ◼   ► you know I think today people really [TS]

00:20:30 ◼   ► want to feel like they made their own [TS]

00:20:31 ◼   ► way or look at somebody like there's a [TS]

00:20:33 ◼   ► wonderful comic that you would love [TS]

00:20:35 ◼   ► called Lucky written by a guy named Joe [TS]

00:20:37 ◼   ► Hill who achieve his a claim with [TS]

00:20:40 ◼   ► locking key by greatly covering up the [TS]

00:20:42 ◼   ► fact that he was stephen king's son huh [TS]

00:20:45 ◼   ► because he knew if you go out there and [TS]

00:20:47 ◼   ► something happened what's your name that [TS]

00:20:48 ◼   ► ass and lady like you know if you go out [TS]

00:20:50 ◼   ► there and let everybody know that you're [TS]

00:20:52 ◼   ► whatever ravi shankar's daughter [TS]

00:20:54 ◼   ► that's gonna happen it's going to cost [TS]

00:20:55 ◼   ► strong reactions to people that [TS]

00:20:57 ◼   ► regardless of which way they look at it [TS]

00:20:59 ◼   ► are not going to be that beneficial for [TS]

00:21:00 ◼   ► you in the long run I guess that makes [TS]

00:21:02 ◼   ► sense [TS]

00:21:02 ◼   ► yeah absolutely can you kind of like a [TS]

00:21:04 ◼   ► tool to walk around going like well you [TS]

00:21:06 ◼   ► know well of course you should give me [TS]

00:21:07 ◼   ► my big mac at a discount I'm descended [TS]

00:21:10 ◼   ► from you know Chinese haters or whatever [TS]

00:21:12 ◼   ► but there's something else has has [TS]

00:21:15 ◼   ► changed him and I think you're right [TS]

00:21:16 ◼   ► that part of it is that is the is the [TS]

00:21:18 ◼   ► candy flake Tom Wolfe overturning of the [TS]

00:21:23 ◼   ► not just overturning but like the the [TS]

00:21:25 ◼   ► change where we felt like those families [TS]

00:21:28 ◼   ► were actually not just not just that the [TS]

00:21:32 ◼   ► the later descendants are a weaker [TS]

00:21:34 ◼   ► strain of the blood but that though that [TS]

00:21:36 ◼   ► that their control of the resources and [TS]

00:21:40 ◼   ► the culture has as imperiled us or that [TS]

00:21:44 ◼   ► they you know it's the rise of the [TS]

00:21:46 ◼   ► conspiracy that those families are [TS]

00:21:48 ◼   ► actually dangerous and not not to [TS]

00:21:52 ◼   ► nothing to aspire to but something to [TS]

00:21:55 ◼   ► eradicate but also I think as late as [TS]

00:21:59 ◼   ► the seventies you know the richest [TS]

00:22:03 ◼   ► people on Wall Street a a pretty rich [TS]

00:22:07 ◼   ► investment banker made five times what a [TS]

00:22:13 ◼   ► normal lawyer would make like that index [TS]

00:22:17 ◼   ► of what the CEO makes a multiple of the [TS]

00:22:19 ◼   ► lowest pay personal hell yea right so so [TS]

00:22:22 ◼   ► you know like a really high powered [TS]

00:22:24 ◼   ► Seattle lawyer would make fifty thousand [TS]

00:22:26 ◼   ► dollars a year in 1965 and maybe like a [TS]

00:22:30 ◼   ► the head of a wall street bank would [TS]

00:22:33 ◼   ► make 250 thousand dollars a year and [TS]

00:22:36 ◼   ► that was just like you know back when [TS]

00:22:38 ◼   ► when being a millionaire was was still [TS]

00:22:42 ◼   ► really something and and now we live in [TS]

00:22:45 ◼   ► this world where there are 27 year olds [TS]

00:22:47 ◼   ► that are making seven hundred thousand [TS]

00:22:49 ◼   ► dollars a year as investment bankers [TS]

00:22:52 ◼   ► and there isn't the premium put on not [TS]

00:22:57 ◼   ► just old money but but that the the [TS]

00:23:02 ◼   ► bulwark that old money old families used [TS]

00:23:04 ◼   ► to represent you know they were the they [TS]

00:23:08 ◼   ► were the our cultural heritage or they [TS]

00:23:10 ◼   ► kept you know that the membership in the [TS]

00:23:13 ◼   ► yacht club was the highest thing you [TS]

00:23:16 ◼   ► could aspire to and now it's like you're [TS]

00:23:19 ◼   ► you know you're Connecticut yacht club [TS]

00:23:21 ◼   ► your your dusty old Connecticut yacht [TS]

00:23:25 ◼   ► club like these these these guys have [TS]

00:23:27 ◼   ► got private jets and they're living in [TS]

00:23:29 ◼   ► Moscow or whatever so there's just no [TS]

00:23:33 ◼   ► who cares right i mean i'm probably [TS]

00:23:37 ◼   ► there are 25 year-olds listening to this [TS]

00:23:39 ◼   ► program right now that are just like not [TS]

00:23:41 ◼   ► even getting the idea that [TS]

00:23:45 ◼   ► social standing was once largely a [TS]

00:23:49 ◼   ► component of who your parents were and [TS]

00:23:52 ◼   ► not at all and you know it was not that [TS]

00:23:54 ◼   ► you went to Harvard and that's why [TS]

00:23:56 ◼   ► people respected you and you got a good [TS]

00:23:59 ◼   ► job [TS]

00:24:00 ◼   ► it was that your father was so-and-so [TS]

00:24:03 ◼   ► and that's why you went to Harvard and [TS]

00:24:05 ◼   ► people respected you and kinda job you [TS]

00:24:07 ◼   ► know [TS]

00:24:08 ◼   ► now we now we have eliminated the the [TS]

00:24:10 ◼   ► first step we still have the we still [TS]

00:24:13 ◼   ► think that going to Harvard is like a [TS]

00:24:16 ◼   ► big deal but that seems like the [TS]

00:24:17 ◼   ► beginning I don't know it's a partly [TS]

00:24:21 ◼   ► because that is not the same virtual [TS]

00:24:23 ◼   ► guarantee of I mean obviously you're a [TS]

00:24:26 ◼   ► pretty good start but it's certainly not [TS]

00:24:28 ◼   ► the same I've told this story half a [TS]

00:24:30 ◼   ► dozen times my friend grants dad had [TS]

00:24:32 ◼   ► told you this when he graduated from [TS]

00:24:34 ◼   ► college in 1964-65 he the story goes [TS]

00:24:40 ◼   ► that I think you for similar stories he [TS]

00:24:42 ◼   ► walked into a Ford dealership and drove [TS]

00:24:44 ◼   ► off the lot with a Mustang because he [TS]

00:24:46 ◼   ► had a diploma [TS]

00:24:47 ◼   ► that's a mean I efforts you know there [TS]

00:24:49 ◼   ► are many similar stories to that and [TS]

00:24:51 ◼   ► then the corollary to that which are [TS]

00:24:52 ◼   ► they if you don't have this then we're [TS]

00:24:54 ◼   ► gonna look a little harder to all these [TS]

00:24:55 ◼   ► different things but you know I think I [TS]

00:24:57 ◼   ► guess that still opens a lot of doors [TS]

00:24:59 ◼   ► but um jammer look to say meritocracy i [TS]

00:25:02 ◼   ► think also just been a real upset if I [TS]

00:25:05 ◼   ► can use that his word is the mineral [TS]

00:25:07 ◼   ► upset in in the whole way we think about [TS]

00:25:09 ◼   ► status and and even even in the time [TS]

00:25:11 ◼   ► before social media but especially [TS]

00:25:12 ◼   ► especially since things like social [TS]

00:25:14 ◼   ► media or you look at stuff like you know [TS]

00:25:16 ◼   ► when I go to my hot dog place and and [TS]

00:25:20 ◼   ► it's everyday it's a it's like Maury [TS]

00:25:22 ◼   ► Povich is on at the hot dog place yeah [TS]

00:25:24 ◼   ► my daughter just she's completely [TS]

00:25:27 ◼   ► hypnotized by it and it will still [TS]

00:25:28 ◼   ► throwing chairs at each other on chosen [TS]

00:25:30 ◼   ► yes and pretty much every episode [TS]

00:25:31 ◼   ► episode is about paternity and it's [TS]

00:25:34 ◼   ► about whether or not this is this is [TS]

00:25:35 ◼   ► someone's baby right daddy or whatever [TS]

00:25:39 ◼   ► and then there's this chair throwing and [TS]

00:25:41 ◼   ► it's mostly it's a lot of very very [TS]

00:25:42 ◼   ► heavy ethnic minorities clowning around [TS]

00:25:45 ◼   ► for what probably 700 bucks but you get [TS]

00:25:48 ◼   ► to be on TV gets beetles are dulce [TS]

00:25:50 ◼   ► juggalos I don't know you hear things [TS]

00:25:53 ◼   ► about these like databases where you can [TS]

00:25:54 ◼   ► like register I've heard this for 20 [TS]

00:25:56 ◼   ► years that you can register [TS]

00:25:57 ◼   ► these databases to appear on things like [TS]

00:25:59 ◼   ► those shows and you go in and talk about [TS]

00:26:01 ◼   ► what your special liabilities are or [TS]

00:26:02 ◼   ► what your what your beef is and then the [TS]

00:26:05 ◼   ► producers going kind of shop those but [TS]

00:26:06 ◼   ► that all has been so upturn you know to [TS]

00:26:10 ◼   ► wear today I think about now Leonard [TS]

00:26:12 ◼   ► Bernstein's might look at the Black [TS]

00:26:13 ◼   ► Panthers to go back to Tom Wolfe right [TS]

00:26:16 ◼   ► in the sixties whereas today I mean you [TS]

00:26:18 ◼   ► were talking about how you like you you [TS]

00:26:20 ◼   ► know you people who are making tax and [TS]

00:26:21 ◼   ► techno mix you know we want you might [TS]

00:26:23 ◼   ► really admire somebody who makes this [TS]

00:26:25 ◼   ► application that you like a lot even [TS]

00:26:28 ◼   ► though you don't need not know how much [TS]

00:26:29 ◼   ► they make me a care but they're used to [TS]

00:26:32 ◼   ► for lack of a better word their [TS]

00:26:33 ◼   ► influence is very interesting that the [TS]

00:26:36 ◼   ► fact that there is somebody who's 25 [TS]

00:26:37 ◼   ► have a friend is 25 and he's on his [TS]

00:26:39 ◼   ► second companies getting buyout offers [TS]

00:26:41 ◼   ► on his second company at 25 and he's not [TS]

00:26:43 ◼   ► a douche he's just extremely good [TS]

00:26:46 ◼   ► manager and he's really smart and he's [TS]

00:26:48 ◼   ► good with people and I not right like [TS]

00:26:51 ◼   ► something like that i'm very attracted [TS]

00:26:52 ◼   ► to somebody like that the property [TS]

00:26:54 ◼   ► eventually he has pretty good money now [TS]

00:26:55 ◼   ► and I'm sure he'll have more later but [TS]

00:26:57 ◼   ► it doesn't matter what his last name is [TS]

00:26:58 ◼   ► right now it could be a made-up name it [TS]

00:27:00 ◼   ► doesn't matter like where he went to [TS]

00:27:01 ◼   ► college where there is that the merit of [TS]

00:27:03 ◼   ► that is very appealing to people and I [TS]

00:27:06 ◼   ► think that's I think that's pretty [TS]

00:27:07 ◼   ► different whereas in like maybe the [TS]

00:27:09 ◼   ► forties or fifties you might look at [TS]

00:27:10 ◼   ► something like that gone well this this [TS]

00:27:13 ◼   ► this could be you know like you know one [TS]

00:27:15 ◼   ► little rose among the dandelions you got [TS]

00:27:17 ◼   ► an eye on this guy in the forties and [TS]

00:27:19 ◼   ► fifties the the primary difference is [TS]

00:27:23 ◼   ► that that guy at 25 years old might have [TS]

00:27:25 ◼   ► been on his second company but he would [TS]

00:27:28 ◼   ► not have been a multi-millionaire [TS]

00:27:30 ◼   ► because there just wasn't that kind of [TS]

00:27:32 ◼   ► capitalization right of things right so [TS]

00:27:35 ◼   ► he would have he would be a wealthy man [TS]

00:27:38 ◼   ► but he would still be sort of living in [TS]

00:27:43 ◼   ► an apartment in New York City and the [TS]

00:27:47 ◼   ► real achievement you know that maybe he [TS]

00:27:51 ◼   ► would be maybe they were right about him [TS]

00:27:52 ◼   ► in the wall street journal but the real [TS]

00:27:53 ◼   ► achievement would be that he would be [TS]

00:27:55 ◼   ► invited to join [TS]

00:27:56 ◼   ► a certain men's club and that the people [TS]

00:28:00 ◼   ► standing at the gates of that would you [TS]

00:28:04 ◼   ► know would either that who his father [TS]

00:28:06 ◼   ► was or in the case that he was you know [TS]

00:28:09 ◼   ► and i think it was incredible success [TS]

00:28:11 ◼   ► they would bend their own rules in order [TS]

00:28:16 ◼   ► to you know like well I know that you're [TS]

00:28:18 ◼   ► you know because because he had [TS]

00:28:20 ◼   ► something that there's something about [TS]

00:28:21 ◼   ► his status he brought something to that [TS]

00:28:22 ◼   ► place those places don't let you know [TS]

00:28:24 ◼   ► we've talked about this with money [TS]

00:28:25 ◼   ► before they can even give you money [TS]

00:28:27 ◼   ► because they like you they give you [TS]

00:28:28 ◼   ► money because they think they can make [TS]

00:28:30 ◼   ► more money than they're giving you and [TS]

00:28:32 ◼   ► instances like that if it's about status [TS]

00:28:34 ◼   ► and clasp it isn't that they're trying [TS]

00:28:35 ◼   ► to reward you for having arrived they [TS]

00:28:37 ◼   ► only want you there if you make them [TS]

00:28:39 ◼   ► look better right now but at the time [TS]

00:28:41 ◼   ► there just wasn't the money that there [TS]

00:28:44 ◼   ► is now and i mean this is this is that [TS]

00:28:46 ◼   ► it's it's so profound because in a way [TS]

00:28:49 ◼   ► this this super moneyed class and the [TS]

00:28:51 ◼   ► super money of San Francisco and and [TS]

00:28:54 ◼   ► downtown New York and such a certain [TS]

00:28:57 ◼   ► extent Seattle like it is a it's it [TS]

00:29:01 ◼   ► there quantities of money that transcend [TS]

00:29:03 ◼   ► every other metric for the every other [TS]

00:29:08 ◼   ► metric that human beings used to [TS]

00:29:10 ◼   ► separate one another like if you walk [TS]

00:29:12 ◼   ► into that class of ultra-rich there [TS]

00:29:17 ◼   ► it does not matter if you did nothing [TS]

00:29:22 ◼   ► about you matters except that right [TS]

00:29:26 ◼   ► you could if you become super rich and [TS]

00:29:29 ◼   ► decide to change your gender & it and [TS]

00:29:32 ◼   ► somebody reveals that your your mother [TS]

00:29:36 ◼   ► was Jewish and your father was pakistani [TS]

00:29:38 ◼   ► and his father killed gandhi [TS]

00:29:43 ◼   ► at all would be forgiven there would be [TS]

00:29:46 ◼   ► no that we would not look at you in the [TS]

00:29:48 ◼   ► slightest way differently because our [TS]

00:29:51 ◼   ► only way of looking at you is that you [TS]

00:29:53 ◼   ► are worth 1 billion dollars like that's [TS]

00:29:55 ◼   ► a it's a new it is a new that the the to [TS]

00:30:00 ◼   ► be that rich that is to be so rich that [TS]

00:30:04 ◼   ► transcends race which is which has been [TS]

00:30:08 ◼   ► the primary like human problem right for [TS]

00:30:12 ◼   ► our whole history to be so rich that [TS]

00:30:14 ◼   ► people don't even see your race anymore [TS]

00:30:17 ◼   ► is a it's a new it's a new step and [TS]

00:30:22 ◼   ► there's no Club in America I don't think [TS]

00:30:24 ◼   ► that would keep a billionaire out [TS]

00:30:27 ◼   ► because he was a Jew and that is that [TS]

00:30:31 ◼   ► was not true even 20 years ago there you [TS]

00:30:35 ◼   ► know anti-semitism was more powerful [TS]

00:30:39 ◼   ► than money up to just like 10 years ago [TS]

00:30:45 ◼   ► really but i don't think that exists [TS]

00:30:47 ◼   ► anymore I mean maybe somewhere in Europe [TS]

00:30:49 ◼   ► maybe somewhere in Switzerland down a [TS]

00:30:51 ◼   ► mineshaft there is a group of guys [TS]

00:30:53 ◼   ► sitting around the table where they [TS]

00:30:55 ◼   ► still won't let soros be a member of the [TS]

00:30:59 ◼   ► of the group and I but but i doubt it [TS]

00:31:02 ◼   ► you know it's a crazy it's a it's a [TS]

00:31:06 ◼   ► crazy thing I've been playing a game [TS]

00:31:07 ◼   ► with my friends lately which is the what [TS]

00:31:10 ◼   ► if you what if you and I know you don't [TS]

00:31:13 ◼   ► probably play the lottery and I don't [TS]

00:31:15 ◼   ► either but if you did let's say you [TS]

00:31:16 ◼   ► walked into a 7-eleven and you're like I [TS]

00:31:19 ◼   ► give me a pack of sweet tarts and and to [TS]

00:31:24 ◼   ► sexually with two hot dogs with pump [TS]

00:31:26 ◼   ► chili and you know what give me a mega [TS]

00:31:28 ◼   ► millions ticket and you just bought it [TS]

00:31:31 ◼   ► on a whim and let's say two days later [TS]

00:31:33 ◼   ► you it was revealed that you had 180 [TS]

00:31:36 ◼   ► million dollars and so you assume that [TS]

00:31:40 ◼   ► 70 million of that goes immediately to [TS]

00:31:42 ◼   ► taxes so now you have a hundred and ten [TS]

00:31:44 ◼   ► million dollars [TS]

00:31:46 ◼   ► what do you do and this game is this [TS]

00:31:50 ◼   ► game really makes people squirm [TS]

00:31:52 ◼   ► because their initial answers like well [TS]

00:31:56 ◼   ► you know I think I probably travel and I [TS]

00:31:58 ◼   ► quit my job and you know I think I'd [TS]

00:32:00 ◼   ► trying and trying to keep my head on my [TS]

00:32:02 ◼   ► shoulders it's like no fuck you don't [TS]

00:32:05 ◼   ► you know we're not living in a land of [TS]

00:32:08 ◼   ► like problem now what exactly would you [TS]

00:32:12 ◼   ► do first [TS]

00:32:14 ◼   ► like what would you do first are you [TS]

00:32:16 ◼   ► going to go home tonight and sleep in [TS]

00:32:19 ◼   ► your own bed tonight hundred and ten [TS]

00:32:22 ◼   ► million dollars you have now [TS]

00:32:24 ◼   ► like what's the first thing you do and [TS]

00:32:27 ◼   ► what's the second thing you do and do [TS]

00:32:28 ◼   ► you have a lawyer who's your lawyer now [TS]

00:32:30 ◼   ► I I thats it's a great game because it's [TS]

00:32:33 ◼   ► so much more complicated anybody thinks [TS]

00:32:35 ◼   ► first thing is I would be scared [TS]

00:32:36 ◼   ► shitless [TS]

00:32:37 ◼   ► yes and I would feel exposed oh yeah [TS]

00:32:40 ◼   ► there's a big part of the lottery is [TS]

00:32:41 ◼   ► telling you who won what that just makes [TS]

00:32:44 ◼   ► you a big target so where do you go you [TS]

00:32:46 ◼   ► go to a hotel right first night you [TS]

00:32:48 ◼   ► don't go home [TS]

00:32:49 ◼   ► yeah I I mean like just this this is not [TS]

00:32:52 ◼   ► the answer you want but like it's the [TS]

00:32:54 ◼   ► it's aligned with the answer I guess is [TS]

00:32:57 ◼   ► that i would first start by the king [TS]

00:32:58 ◼   ► oh my god I hope it's not hope it's at [TS]

00:33:01 ◼   ► least a month before completely screw [TS]

00:33:02 ◼   ► this up right now that I've gotten [TS]

00:33:05 ◼   ► chunks of money before and done stupid [TS]

00:33:07 ◼   ► stuff and it's you know I don't know I [TS]

00:33:11 ◼   ► mean I see the i'm with you that people [TS]

00:33:12 ◼   ► want to sit around a well I take care of [TS]

00:33:14 ◼   ► all the college education stuff and I [TS]

00:33:17 ◼   ► you know I took a year off to go dig [TS]

00:33:19 ◼   ► ditches and Ghana or whatever and I [TS]

00:33:22 ◼   ► don't think that's helped i mean i'm not [TS]

00:33:24 ◼   ► happy if you gamble much but i mean i [TS]

00:33:27 ◼   ► can make five hundred dollars a night [TS]

00:33:28 ◼   ► playing blackjack on the computer and [TS]

00:33:31 ◼   ► then in the casino i'm down 200 bucks an [TS]

00:33:33 ◼   ► hour and the difference is even if it's [TS]

00:33:35 ◼   ► a dollar even if it's a nickel if it's [TS]

00:33:37 ◼   ► real money it's different and anybody [TS]

00:33:39 ◼   ► who thinks that's otherwise is either [TS]

00:33:43 ◼   ► lying or has never had a little bit of [TS]

00:33:46 ◼   ► money right [TS]

00:33:47 ◼   ► it changes everything and it's there [TS]

00:33:48 ◼   ► studying God turns out there's reams and [TS]

00:33:51 ◼   ► reams of research about how people will [TS]

00:33:52 ◼   ► put this tight weird amount of value [TS]

00:33:54 ◼   ► into a tiny little thing just because [TS]

00:33:55 ◼   ► it's a game that they want to win or [TS]

00:33:57 ◼   ► just because there's all kinds of crazy [TS]

00:33:59 ◼   ► wiring in our heads especially as [TS]

00:34:01 ◼   ► Americans that like I think we are all [TS]

00:34:04 ◼   ► really hard wire to make a lot [TS]

00:34:06 ◼   ► shade decisions about having that kind [TS]

00:34:07 ◼   ► of money yes yes well that's like that's [TS]

00:34:10 ◼   ► exactly right like what do we value and [TS]

00:34:13 ◼   ► I look I look around you look around the [TS]

00:34:14 ◼   ► room you're sitting in right now and say [TS]

00:34:16 ◼   ► alright you have a hundred and ten [TS]

00:34:18 ◼   ► million dollars boom it just arrived [TS]

00:34:20 ◼   ► it's in your bank account [TS]

00:34:21 ◼   ► what do you keep of the stuff that's in [TS]

00:34:24 ◼   ► your room right now anything right [TS]

00:34:28 ◼   ► I mean what do you what do you if you if [TS]

00:34:31 ◼   ► you move to a nice place one of your [TS]

00:34:34 ◼   ► stuff do you bring what do you put what [TS]

00:34:37 ◼   ► do you have people put in boxes for you [TS]

00:34:38 ◼   ► and bring to your new house like your [TS]

00:34:40 ◼   ► college textbooks i think i think a [TS]

00:34:42 ◼   ► hundred million is interesting but I [TS]

00:34:43 ◼   ► think potentially two million is even [TS]

00:34:46 ◼   ► more interesting because a hundred [TS]

00:34:48 ◼   ► million like that's of course you know [TS]

00:34:50 ◼   ► people people think oh no I'm going to [TS]

00:34:51 ◼   ► be very wise now you're going to go buy [TS]

00:34:53 ◼   ► a bunch of stupid stuff like you know [TS]

00:34:54 ◼   ► what i mean the the thing is something [TS]

00:34:56 ◼   ► like 30 million is much more scary [TS]

00:34:58 ◼   ► because it would I mean you could blow [TS]

00:35:01 ◼   ► that on one house [TS]

00:35:02 ◼   ► yeah very easily you know I've said this [TS]

00:35:05 ◼   ► before on some other shows but like I [TS]

00:35:06 ◼   ► think part of it is like people who look [TS]

00:35:08 ◼   ► at other people in terms of status or [TS]

00:35:10 ◼   ► wealth and hmm they're gonna build a [TS]

00:35:13 ◼   ► it's like you know if you had that [TS]

00:35:15 ◼   ► hundred-million-dollar date just go go [TS]

00:35:17 ◼   ► look in history look in the last 150 [TS]

00:35:18 ◼   ► years these dumbass state lotteries and [TS]

00:35:20 ◼   ► go look at how many people today are [TS]

00:35:22 ◼   ► really happy after they won over a [TS]

00:35:24 ◼   ► hundred thousand dollars in the lottery [TS]

00:35:25 ◼   ► and the numbers are not good because [TS]

00:35:28 ◼   ► those people spent their entire not this [TS]

00:35:30 ◼   ► is reductive but by and large those are [TS]

00:35:32 ◼   ► people they play the lottery right to [TS]

00:35:34 ◼   ► play the lottery most of those people [TS]

00:35:36 ◼   ► had zero practice having money and it [TS]

00:35:39 ◼   ► was thinking you can run a marathon it's [TS]

00:35:40 ◼   ► like thinking that you can go out and [TS]

00:35:42 ◼   ► play a rock show even though you never [TS]

00:35:43 ◼   ► picked up a guitar any of that stuff [TS]

00:35:44 ◼   ► it's exactly the same thing except now [TS]

00:35:47 ◼   ► everybody knows you got a bunch of money [TS]

00:35:48 ◼   ► the two the two million dollar amount is [TS]

00:35:51 ◼   ► see that's a different game for me [TS]

00:35:54 ◼   ► because i know and you know we know [TS]

00:35:57 ◼   ► people who one day did have two million [TS]

00:36:01 ◼   ► dollars like that is not an abstract [TS]

00:36:04 ◼   ► amount of money anymore if if if we have [TS]

00:36:07 ◼   ► been playing this game 15 years ago [TS]

00:36:08 ◼   ► right 22 million dollars would have been [TS]

00:36:10 ◼   ► like whoa [TS]

00:36:11 ◼   ► what would i do that i like somebody I [TS]

00:36:14 ◼   ► met a foundation board meeting at my [TS]

00:36:16 ◼   ► college in 1990 right like one person [TS]

00:36:19 ◼   ► like a little lady or something that [TS]

00:36:21 ◼   ► like I was clutching her pearls around [TS]

00:36:23 ◼   ► her neck but several friends that that [TS]

00:36:25 ◼   ► sure more money than that and it's [TS]

00:36:26 ◼   ► seared so do I you mean and not just [TS]

00:36:29 ◼   ► people in rock and roll but like people [TS]

00:36:30 ◼   ► or people just been the in the world [TS]

00:36:32 ◼   ► that made a fuckin camera app you know [TS]

00:36:35 ◼   ► but particularly the particularly like [TS]

00:36:38 ◼   ► it's a fucking god damn camera app for a [TS]

00:36:43 ◼   ► stupid ass goddamn phone and now they're [TS]

00:36:47 ◼   ► sitting around with a solid gold thumb [TS]

00:36:49 ◼   ► up their ass weighs 150 million [TS]

00:36:52 ◼   ► different [TS]

00:36:53 ◼   ► well the two million is different [TS]

00:36:54 ◼   ► because i have thought about the [TS]

00:36:57 ◼   ► two-million-dollar thing at that is an [TS]

00:37:00 ◼   ► amount that it is not only plausible [TS]

00:37:02 ◼   ► that some of our friends have you know [TS]

00:37:06 ◼   ► had sort of like the check arrived but [TS]

00:37:09 ◼   ► Merlin it is completely plausible that [TS]

00:37:12 ◼   ► you will make 2 million dollars at one [TS]

00:37:14 ◼   ► juncture or that i will like that is an [TS]

00:37:17 ◼   ► amount of money that is it is possible [TS]

00:37:20 ◼   ► we will see so it's different from a [TS]

00:37:23 ◼   ► hundred million because i already have [TS]

00:37:24 ◼   ► seen what two million dollars does to [TS]

00:37:26 ◼   ► somebody [TS]

00:37:27 ◼   ► yeah and I life really fucking [TS]

00:37:30 ◼   ► complicated get your life gets more [TS]

00:37:31 ◼   ► complicated but I've seen people do it [TS]

00:37:33 ◼   ► well you know I've seen people I've seen [TS]

00:37:35 ◼   ► people go through four million dollars [TS]

00:37:37 ◼   ► and come out the other side with papas [TS]

00:37:39 ◼   ► accept a divorce but I've also seen [TS]

00:37:43 ◼   ► people you know have two to four million [TS]

00:37:45 ◼   ► dollars and do it and make it you know [TS]

00:37:47 ◼   ► come out the other side like with a [TS]

00:37:49 ◼   ► higher definitely like they have more [TS]

00:37:51 ◼   ► problems understand like an example like [TS]

00:37:53 ◼   ► that you got to think more about just [TS]

00:37:54 ◼   ► dumb stuff you can give me an example [TS]

00:37:56 ◼   ► some time ago like theoretically there's [TS]

00:37:59 ◼   ► somebody who your pals with and they're [TS]

00:38:01 ◼   ► doing pretty ok and you take turns [TS]

00:38:03 ◼   ► picking up the tab right right right [TS]

00:38:05 ◼   ► then something happens [TS]

00:38:07 ◼   ► somebody's ritual as things happen and [TS]

00:38:09 ◼   ► now let's say hypothetically one of [TS]

00:38:12 ◼   ► those people has 24 his or her own [TS]

00:38:14 ◼   ► sanity become a lot more circumspect [TS]

00:38:16 ◼   ► about picking up the tab [TS]

00:38:18 ◼   ► yes because people going to start to [TS]

00:38:20 ◼   ► expect that or the right of the envious [TS]

00:38:21 ◼   ► or whatever right now and then you get [TS]

00:38:24 ◼   ► the infrastructure and then you get it [TS]

00:38:26 ◼   ► now you've gotta like get a birthday [TS]

00:38:28 ◼   ► gift for the lawn guy and if you don't [TS]

00:38:30 ◼   ► think that's real dude that is so rich [TS]

00:38:32 ◼   ► the hammer problem it is back the hammer [TS]

00:38:34 ◼   ► problem well it's yeah it's that it's [TS]

00:38:36 ◼   ► now all of a sudden you're given valet [TS]

00:38:37 ◼   ► parking guys 20 bucks I i want to repeal [TS]

00:38:40 ◼   ► remind me to come back to this i was at [TS]

00:38:41 ◼   ► the hotel this weekend did you see [TS]

00:38:43 ◼   ► hammer know what I was at the tonga room [TS]

00:38:46 ◼   ► yeah I was up on the roof what yeah yeah [TS]

00:38:48 ◼   ► someone our talented up on the roof [TS]

00:38:50 ◼   ► where I Spit on the San Francisco cable [TS]

00:38:52 ◼   ► car and then the cablecard tweeted at me [TS]

00:38:55 ◼   ► help my daughter over that presence is [TS]

00:38:56 ◼   ► me and thought of you I thought finally [TS]

00:38:59 ◼   ► have you did you like the view it's a [TS]

00:39:00 ◼   ► beautiful view of you and she was she [TS]

00:39:02 ◼   ► wasn't showing scared it's kind of weird [TS]

00:39:04 ◼   ► and like she's wired right but so that [TS]

00:39:07 ◼   ► the hundred million is in that the [TS]

00:39:09 ◼   ► problem is like there's something that [TS]

00:39:10 ◼   ► is probably bullshit you know anybody [TS]

00:39:13 ◼   ► with a hundred million dollars [TS]

00:39:14 ◼   ► yes and I know at least five people i [TS]

00:39:18 ◼   ► think probably somebody is what is so [TS]

00:39:21 ◼   ► great hundred is the hundred meant to be [TS]

00:39:23 ◼   ► a in the trick of this trick question is [TS]

00:39:26 ◼   ► that meant to be like you're not saying [TS]

00:39:28 ◼   ► 50 billion dollars can write saying [TS]

00:39:31 ◼   ► $50,000 you're saying it's an amount [TS]

00:39:33 ◼   ► that seems large enough to seem like on [TS]

00:39:35 ◼   ► the face of it like you could maybe [TS]

00:39:36 ◼   ► never spend it if you were never spend [TS]

00:39:39 ◼   ► it all if you weren't you know a gambler [TS]

00:39:40 ◼   ► something I feel like a hundred million [TS]

00:39:42 ◼   ► is this amount where you easily could [TS]

00:39:45 ◼   ► live on it and your descendants could [TS]

00:39:48 ◼   ► live on it but you could also squander [TS]

00:39:52 ◼   ► it [TS]

00:39:52 ◼   ► oh it's like that is it is a it you [TS]

00:39:55 ◼   ► could either establish need that your [TS]

00:39:58 ◼   ► family name for generations with a [TS]

00:40:00 ◼   ► hundred million dollars i mean i don't [TS]

00:40:02 ◼   ► know my father was pretty good friends [TS]

00:40:05 ◼   ► with George warehouse her and I don't [TS]

00:40:07 ◼   ► think the warehouses or worth a hundred [TS]

00:40:10 ◼   ► million dollars in 1970 I mean maybe if [TS]

00:40:15 ◼   ► you if you took all the land that they [TS]

00:40:17 ◼   ► owned by me a hundred million dollars in [TS]

00:40:21 ◼   ► 1970 it was an inconceivable amount of [TS]

00:40:23 ◼   ► money that was like that was inflation [TS]

00:40:26 ◼   ► freaks me and it blows my mind all the [TS]

00:40:28 ◼   ► time and they're just like I'm going to [TS]

00:40:30 ◼   ► say this and I'm going to call one of my [TS]

00:40:32 ◼   ► one of my periodic please don't respond [TS]

00:40:34 ◼   ► the way you want to respond [TS]

00:40:35 ◼   ► what it might cost if certain things [TS]

00:40:38 ◼   ► happen in governance these days [TS]

00:40:41 ◼   ► mmm mmm where this happened in 1995 and [TS]

00:40:46 ◼   ► it costs a billion dollars and the [TS]

00:40:48 ◼   ► speculation is that was this time it [TS]

00:40:49 ◼   ► might be 2 billion dollars i was [TS]

00:40:51 ◼   ► thinking about when I was a kid and the [TS]

00:40:54 ◼   ► the most comfortable people the [TS]

00:40:58 ◼   ► wealthiest people that we were very very [TS]

00:40:59 ◼   ► good friends with owned a head for [TS]

00:41:02 ◼   ► generations on a coal mine in Kentucky [TS]

00:41:04 ◼   ► and they were the first people i know [TS]

00:41:07 ◼   ► and i know this because my phone was in [TS]

00:41:08 ◼   ► real estate in this woman sold real [TS]

00:41:09 ◼   ► estate as well the first people i knew [TS]

00:41:11 ◼   ► they had a house the cost a hundred [TS]

00:41:12 ◼   ► thousand dollars [TS]

00:41:13 ◼   ► yeah it was this is 1977-78 it was 100% [TS]

00:41:18 ◼   ► custom every kid doing kid had a room [TS]

00:41:21 ◼   ► with astro turf and a golf like going [TS]

00:41:24 ◼   ► can't afford another guy had a bed on a [TS]

00:41:27 ◼   ► raised a as another girl had probably [TS]

00:41:29 ◼   ► I'd say probably 500 square foot bedroom [TS]

00:41:32 ◼   ► was awesome they had their wet bars was [TS]

00:41:34 ◼   ► so something like six bedrooms and had a [TS]

00:41:37 ◼   ► telephone booth and operating telephone [TS]

00:41:39 ◼   ► booth in there in there like record TV [TS]

00:41:41 ◼   ► area [TS]

00:41:42 ◼   ► oh it was on was it was a British [TS]

00:41:44 ◼   ► telephone booth like a red it's really [TS]

00:41:46 ◼   ► cincinnati bell i'm guessing but it was [TS]

00:41:48 ◼   ► no bit complete irish bar actually at [TS]

00:41:52 ◼   ► the country of Ireland was then it was [TS]

00:41:58 ◼   ► on beautiful land and they had dogs and [TS]

00:42:00 ◼   ► 200,000 but you were great people but it [TS]

00:42:03 ◼   ► stays like that honestly John I'm sorry [TS]

00:42:06 ◼   ► it does not seem like that long ago that [TS]

00:42:08 ◼   ► was a hundred you remember do you [TS]

00:42:10 ◼   ► remember the first time you heard the [TS]

00:42:12 ◼   ► term a billion dollars [TS]

00:42:15 ◼   ► yeah that's why that's when that joke [TS]

00:42:16 ◼   ► started about you know billion with Abby [TS]

00:42:18 ◼   ► because you're like no no i'm talking [TS]

00:42:20 ◼   ► about a thousand times more than that [TS]

00:42:22 ◼   ► yeah right reduced when Carl second [TS]

00:42:24 ◼   ► would say billions and billions of stars [TS]

00:42:26 ◼   ► the word billion was unfamiliar to us [TS]

00:42:29 ◼   ► and his his coinage of billions and [TS]

00:42:34 ◼   ► billions was like that the word billion [TS]

00:42:38 ◼   ► about the signs in the parlance i do it [TS]

00:42:41 ◼   ► was a science word like it was like like [TS]

00:42:44 ◼   ► the word Google could the google glass [TS]

00:42:47 ◼   ► like these weren't words in the in the [TS]

00:42:50 ◼   ► in the common parlance because like when [TS]

00:42:54 ◼   ► the Hunt Brothers cornered the silver [TS]

00:42:56 ◼   ► market in 1980 and basically had bought [TS]

00:43:00 ◼   ► up all the liquid silver all the all the [TS]

00:43:04 ◼   ► silver that was being traded at an [TS]

00:43:06 ◼   ► attempt to corner the world market on [TS]

00:43:09 ◼   ► silver how much money we were talking [TS]

00:43:11 ◼   ► about 50 million dollars me which seemed [TS]

00:43:14 ◼   ► like an inconceivable amount of money at [TS]

00:43:16 ◼   ► the time right and they drove silver up [TS]

00:43:18 ◼   ► to fifty dollars now that way I i may be [TS]

00:43:21 ◼   ► wrong about this 15 million dollars but [TS]

00:43:23 ◼   ► like a billion dollars was the type of [TS]

00:43:25 ◼   ► thing was only a term that got talked [TS]

00:43:28 ◼   ► about in government budgets and land [TS]

00:43:31 ◼   ► world population world population and [TS]

00:43:33 ◼   ► maybe switch the number of stars in the [TS]

00:43:36 ◼   ► galaxy [TS]

00:43:37 ◼   ► yeah you're right million million is [TS]

00:43:39 ◼   ► like now million barely registers not [TS]

00:43:42 ◼   ► because I've got that kind of money but [TS]

00:43:44 ◼   ► now when I hear million thrown out there [TS]

00:43:45 ◼   ► because there are so many numbers we [TS]

00:43:47 ◼   ► hear every day it doesn't even really [TS]

00:43:48 ◼   ► register like us to it's like there are [TS]

00:43:50 ◼   ► million notes in every one of my guitar [TS]

00:43:53 ◼   ► solos we bought a house my mom bought a [TS]

00:43:56 ◼   ► house when I was when I was 10 and was a [TS]

00:44:00 ◼   ► very modest house but it was a [TS]

00:44:01 ◼   ► three-bedroom house on with the front [TS]

00:44:04 ◼   ► yard backyard climbing trees you know if [TS]

00:44:07 ◼   ► it had some renovation but needed work [TS]

00:44:09 ◼   ► but in 1976 my mom bought a [TS]

00:44:12 ◼   ► three-bedroom want to have bath house [TS]

00:44:15 ◼   ► for twenty-eight thousand dollars isn't [TS]

00:44:19 ◼   ► that and then like even check this out [TS]

00:44:21 ◼   ► now even in 1999 have a really good [TS]

00:44:23 ◼   ► friend who he his wife and bought a [TS]

00:44:25 ◼   ► house and then moved out here for to [TS]

00:44:28 ◼   ► work at the place where I work [TS]

00:44:29 ◼   ► he had a court is gonna kill you John he [TS]

00:44:31 ◼   ► had a corner lot in Tallahassee on a [TS]

00:44:33 ◼   ► beautiful Street in Tallahassee mature [TS]

00:44:35 ◼   ► trees all around corner lot three [TS]

00:44:38 ◼   ► bedrooms sixty thousand dollars [TS]

00:44:39 ◼   ► yeah in the late nineties yeah doesn't [TS]

00:44:42 ◼   ► that seem and then and then it was funny [TS]

00:44:44 ◼   ► as then when my friend moved here and we [TS]

00:44:47 ◼   ► worked the realestate.com together he [TS]

00:44:50 ◼   ► would spend a lot of his decks just [TS]

00:44:51 ◼   ► going through all the real estate [TS]

00:44:52 ◼   ► listings to find the most unbelievable [TS]

00:44:55 ◼   ► thing that he could find all right [TS]

00:44:57 ◼   ► here's a really good one now [TS]

00:44:59 ◼   ► a lower noe valley fire damage haha down [TS]

00:45:05 ◼   ► 450,000 anytime you see one of my deal [TS]

00:45:13 ◼   ► and it's ABC fire-damaged it's something [TS]

00:45:16 ◼   ► that God 650 yeah yeah and I all of this [TS]

00:45:21 ◼   ► that like the the way that money has [TS]

00:45:24 ◼   ► become unreal has detached my [TS]

00:45:28 ◼   ► imagination from the real to like I do [TS]

00:45:31 ◼   ► spend an inordinate amount of time [TS]

00:45:33 ◼   ► looking up a dirt roads as I'm driving [TS]

00:45:38 ◼   ► on you know two-lane blacktop in western [TS]

00:45:41 ◼   ► washington looking up dirt roads into [TS]

00:45:43 ◼   ► the trees just to see if maybe there's a [TS]

00:45:45 ◼   ► drug deal gone wrong up there and [TS]

00:45:46 ◼   ► there's a there's a van full of money [TS]

00:45:48 ◼   ► this is the devil back scenario [TS]

00:45:50 ◼   ► double-bag scenario like it is a it is [TS]

00:45:52 ◼   ► becoming a sickness because money seems [TS]

00:45:55 ◼   ► so comically unreal that it just seems [TS]

00:45:58 ◼   ► like oh well sure there are duffel bags [TS]

00:46:01 ◼   ► of money being driven down the road all [TS]

00:46:05 ◼   ► around me did you see this thing in the [TS]

00:46:06 ◼   ► newspaper the other day a think the [TS]

00:46:09 ◼   ► government in Heidelberg Germany went to [TS]

00:46:12 ◼   ► the newspapers and said will the person [TS]

00:46:15 ◼   ► who left the 10 pounds of gold bars and [TS]

00:46:21 ◼   ► duffel bag full of cash in a blocker at [TS]

00:46:25 ◼   ► the bus station please come forward [TS]

00:46:27 ◼   ► because the because we were emptying out [TS]

00:46:31 ◼   ► the lockers that had expired and we [TS]

00:46:34 ◼   ► found this like these pounds of gold and [TS]

00:46:38 ◼   ► suitcase full of money and there appears [TS]

00:46:40 ◼   ► to be no it doesn't seem like it's [TS]

00:46:42 ◼   ► connected to a crime and we'd would just [TS]

00:46:46 ◼   ► like to return it to its owner like are [TS]

00:46:50 ◼   ► you kidding me [TS]

00:46:51 ◼   ► and that's that sounds like a jam but [TS]

00:46:53 ◼   ► that sounds like like chief Wiggum [TS]

00:46:55 ◼   ► telling you to come get your boat you [TS]

00:46:57 ◼   ► know if you think so you think so i [TS]

00:46:58 ◼   ► think it's a little bit like that's my [TS]

00:47:00 ◼   ► body haha that's the jackal comma Carlos [TS]

00:47:03 ◼   ► please come collect your boat jackal [TS]

00:47:08 ◼   ► haha [TS]

00:47:09 ◼   ► try to look at the details on this right [TS]

00:47:13 ◼   ► here because here's the here's the other [TS]

00:47:14 ◼   ► side of this we talk about the unreality [TS]

00:47:15 ◼   ► is a I think I don't know so my father [TS]

00:47:22 ◼   ► was born just a few months before the [TS]

00:47:26 ◼   ► crash oh no they didnt did her work this [TS]

00:47:30 ◼   ► morning [TS]

00:47:31 ◼   ► don't run out of buildings follow was [TS]

00:47:33 ◼   ► born better gonna get the right number [TS]

00:47:35 ◼   ► on this um but I think you know unless [TS]

00:47:41 ◼   ► you're like me and a PBS buff ya ladies [TS]

00:47:44 ◼   ► uh I think Ally i'm guessing a lot of [TS]

00:47:48 ◼   ► people of our age and younger are not [TS]

00:47:50 ◼   ► they know they know the Depression was [TS]

00:47:51 ◼   ► bad the Great Depression they know it [TS]

00:47:53 ◼   ► was bad they may see pictures of [TS]

00:47:54 ◼   ► children selling apples but I'm not [TS]

00:47:58 ◼   ► gonna put well you know what I almost [TS]

00:47:59 ◼   ► went bad direction [TS]

00:48:00 ◼   ► yeah let's just say this stuff happened [TS]

00:48:02 ◼   ► in the twenties and thirties that nobody [TS]

00:48:04 ◼   ► thought would ever happen [TS]

00:48:05 ◼   ► the first thing that never happened [TS]

00:48:09 ◼   ► where people who had a lot of money [TS]

00:48:10 ◼   ► suddenly didn't have it [TS]

00:48:11 ◼   ► yeah the crash and people like Groucho [TS]

00:48:14 ◼   ► Marx and I'm i just remember hearing the [TS]

00:48:17 ◼   ► crowd show [TS]

00:48:18 ◼   ► well all I mean like seriously I think [TS]

00:48:21 ◼   ► he's in less than a week he lost pretty [TS]

00:48:24 ◼   ► much all because there was this part of [TS]

00:48:26 ◼   ► the problem again part of the let me get [TS]

00:48:28 ◼   ► my a great historical perspective in [TS]

00:48:30 ◼   ► here part of the very problem with what [TS]

00:48:31 ◼   ► led to the crash so many of the problems [TS]

00:48:33 ◼   ► with one of them was that people were so [TS]

00:48:34 ◼   ► heavily stuffing money into the stock [TS]

00:48:36 ◼   ► market because it was such an obvious [TS]

00:48:37 ◼   ► thing you're you get dummy right not to [TS]

00:48:40 ◼   ► put all of your money into these stocks [TS]

00:48:42 ◼   ► well just like in 1998 1999 precisely [TS]

00:48:45 ◼   ► precisely even though even though [TS]

00:48:48 ◼   ► delivering bags of pet food by US mail [TS]

00:48:51 ◼   ► doesn't in retrospect seem like such a [TS]

00:48:53 ◼   ► great idea [TS]

00:48:54 ◼   ► hey i've got i've still got my kokomo a [TS]

00:48:56 ◼   ► can message osman over them getting a [TS]

00:49:01 ◼   ► job stainless i don't i don't actually [TS]

00:49:03 ◼   ► have a coke mode but as a great bags [TS]

00:49:05 ◼   ► I know it's a status symbol among a [TS]

00:49:07 ◼   ► certain kind of aging i get my Christmas [TS]

00:49:09 ◼   ► shopping recognize my Christmas shopping [TS]

00:49:12 ◼   ► christmas shopping they just bring it to [TS]

00:49:14 ◼   ► your house but but I anyway I just [TS]

00:49:16 ◼   ► interesting to think about something [TS]

00:49:17 ◼   ► like Groucho he and his brothers and he [TS]

00:49:19 ◼   ► was you know [TS]

00:49:22 ◼   ► I'm trying to think check out was big [TS]

00:49:25 ◼   ► gambler [TS]

00:49:26 ◼   ► it was always out of money everybody [TS]

00:49:27 ◼   ► says Harper was great guy [TS]

00:49:29 ◼   ► elska which ones fo nobody knows anyway [TS]

00:49:31 ◼   ► Groucho's made a lot of dough and he's [TS]

00:49:33 ◼   ► pretty good with money and I think he [TS]

00:49:36 ◼   ► had perhaps at least hundreds of [TS]

00:49:38 ◼   ► thousands maybe millions of dollars [TS]

00:49:40 ◼   ► let's just say that by 1930 standards he [TS]

00:49:42 ◼   ► done pretty well yeah and then in [TS]

00:49:45 ◼   ► something like i'll say a month but I'm [TS]

00:49:46 ◼   ► gonna get really more like three or four [TS]

00:49:47 ◼   ► days it was just gone deef it was gone [TS]

00:49:50 ◼   ► and guess what you owe money because now [TS]

00:49:51 ◼   ► there's calls [TS]

00:49:52 ◼   ► Yeah right there stuff where you had [TS]

00:49:54 ◼   ► shorted to her you know what I mean like [TS]

00:49:55 ◼   ► where you you had a cup and the term you [TS]

00:49:58 ◼   ► know where you can shoot the market [TS]

00:49:59 ◼   ► short-sheet the market and now they want [TS]

00:50:01 ◼   ► to know where the legs that's right and [TS]

00:50:02 ◼   ► so you end it go from being like set for [TS]

00:50:06 ◼   ► the rest of your life to this looks bad [TS]

00:50:09 ◼   ► to you it's all my god to now i owe [TS]

00:50:12 ◼   ► money [TS]

00:50:13 ◼   ► yeah like that's it's just that that [TS]

00:50:16 ◼   ► when people sit around and got a hundred [TS]

00:50:17 ◼   ► nine dollars i go to flip zap zap I go [TS]

00:50:20 ◼   ► do all this obviously safe stuff i mean [TS]

00:50:22 ◼   ► it's i would be tempted to put in a bus [TS]

00:50:25 ◼   ► Locker in Germany [TS]

00:50:27 ◼   ► yeah well then this is the this is the [TS]

00:50:29 ◼   ► one I keep coming back to which is that [TS]

00:50:31 ◼   ► money is fake [TS]

00:50:32 ◼   ► you know money is is fake and I was [TS]

00:50:34 ◼   ► thinking about it the other day I was [TS]

00:50:36 ◼   ► sitting in a hotel in portland and i [TS]

00:50:39 ◼   ► realized that something had happened I [TS]

00:50:41 ◼   ► don't remember when this happened but I [TS]

00:50:43 ◼   ► had crossed a threshold where I no [TS]

00:50:47 ◼   ► longer looked at the prices of items on [TS]

00:50:50 ◼   ► menus like I have crossed a threshold [TS]

00:50:55 ◼   ► where the most expensive item on the [TS]

00:50:59 ◼   ► menu is no longer a daunting amount like [TS]

00:51:04 ◼   ► Oh is the steak forty dollars is it [TS]

00:51:07 ◼   ► fifty dollars like I'm I'm already [TS]

00:51:10 ◼   ► committed to eating in this restaurant [TS]

00:51:11 ◼   ► and I'm going to order the thing that I [TS]

00:51:15 ◼   ► want [TS]

00:51:16 ◼   ► and I'm not gonna order the chicken [TS]

00:51:18 ◼   ► because it's $18 i'm just going to order [TS]

00:51:22 ◼   ► the steak and I'm not gonna whatever the [TS]

00:51:25 ◼   ► price of the thing is no longer matters [TS]

00:51:27 ◼   ► and that is a that is a threshold of [TS]

00:51:30 ◼   ► prosperity that I went over at a certain [TS]

00:51:33 ◼   ► point and most of us spend our lives the [TS]

00:51:36 ◼   ► menu comes and sometimes you sit down in [TS]

00:51:39 ◼   ► the wrong restaurant on the menu comes [TS]

00:51:40 ◼   ► in you Blanche because you're like oh [TS]

00:51:42 ◼   ► shit I didn't realize blast [TS]

00:51:44 ◼   ► yeah right and i have blanched my whole [TS]

00:51:48 ◼   ► life like the menu comes and I look at [TS]

00:51:50 ◼   ► it like oh fuck I did not know that this [TS]

00:51:52 ◼   ► was going to be a fifty-dollar steak [TS]

00:51:54 ◼   ► let's skip wines get the hell out of [TS]

00:51:57 ◼   ► here you know and you stand up and put [TS]

00:51:58 ◼   ► the menu down and like tiptoe back out [TS]

00:52:00 ◼   ► of the restaurant but at a certain point [TS]

00:52:02 ◼   ► I whatever however I measure my [TS]

00:52:06 ◼   ► prosperity it I I now realize that if [TS]

00:52:10 ◼   ► i'm going to walk into a restaurant and [TS]

00:52:11 ◼   ► sit down I'm going to order whatever the [TS]

00:52:13 ◼   ► fuck I want and I'm not I don't look at [TS]

00:52:15 ◼   ► the price and when the when the ticket [TS]

00:52:17 ◼   ► comes i look at the amount on it only to [TS]

00:52:20 ◼   ► calculate a generous tip and this is [TS]

00:52:24 ◼   ► evident this is firsthand evidence of [TS]

00:52:26 ◼   ► prosperity like i did not ever I didn't [TS]

00:52:30 ◼   ► know that this was a measuring line [TS]

00:52:32 ◼   ► again we even realize the you went from [TS]

00:52:35 ◼   ► having an unconscious budget to not [TS]

00:52:38 ◼   ► thinking about it [TS]

00:52:38 ◼   ► yeah i did not aspire to one day I want [TS]

00:52:41 ◼   ► to live in a world where I can order off [TS]

00:52:42 ◼   ► the menu and not look at the price but [TS]

00:52:45 ◼   ► one day I did that did happen [TS]

00:52:48 ◼   ► um and so as I was sitting in this hotel [TS]

00:52:51 ◼   ► lobby eating my mushrooms in garlic wine [TS]

00:52:55 ◼   ► sauce that had been brought to me by by [TS]

00:52:59 ◼   ► a delightful and capable server i was [TS]

00:53:02 ◼   ► saying what is the next what is the next [TS]

00:53:04 ◼   ► threshold for me is it that I by our be [TS]

00:53:08 ◼   ► able to buy a car without thinking about [TS]

00:53:12 ◼   ► how much it costs like there are people [TS]

00:53:14 ◼   ► who say i want that car I want the [TS]

00:53:19 ◼   ► porsche cayman because i am a tasteless [TS]

00:53:22 ◼   ► person who wants an SUV that looks like [TS]

00:53:26 ◼   ► a Porsche 911 like I want a [TS]

00:53:30 ◼   ► thing I got that sounds awful I don't [TS]

00:53:32 ◼   ► want have you not seen the porsche [TS]

00:53:34 ◼   ► cayman I'm gonna get going [TS]

00:53:36 ◼   ► the Porsche Cayman is a they were like [TS]

00:53:38 ◼   ► we got to get in we have to get in on [TS]

00:53:41 ◼   ► this SUV markets but we only make von [TS]

00:53:44 ◼   ► Kahr which is the 911 wouldn't so even [TS]

00:53:48 ◼   ► make it into an SUV and it's like no [TS]

00:53:52 ◼   ► that is a terrible terrible terrible [TS]

00:53:54 ◼   ► looking car it looks like it looks like [TS]

00:53:57 ◼   ► a man i'm seeing looks like a regular [TS]

00:53:59 ◼   ► sports car away now what it's not the [TS]

00:54:01 ◼   ► came and what is that what is the what [TS]

00:54:02 ◼   ► is the 911 was the 911 SUV it's got a [TS]

00:54:06 ◼   ► name to find a porsche SUV porsche [TS]

00:54:12 ◼   ► cayenne little Cayenne right not came [TS]

00:54:15 ◼   ► and died and none of these are words why [TS]

00:54:18 ◼   ► are they calling why are they using why [TS]

00:54:21 ◼   ► are they using Central American words so [TS]

00:54:24 ◼   ► this is the worst of every world [TS]

00:54:27 ◼   ► yeah it looks like they took they took a [TS]

00:54:28 ◼   ► corvette stingray and they crossed it [TS]

00:54:31 ◼   ► with a with a dodge minivan and then [TS]

00:54:34 ◼   ► they put a 911 front bumper on it anyway [TS]

00:54:39 ◼   ► there are people that go down to the [TS]

00:54:41 ◼   ► authority 9600 dollars for the standard [TS]

00:54:43 ◼   ► model for the base model and get that [TS]

00:54:46 ◼   ► the top track speed of 42 miles per hour [TS]

00:54:49 ◼   ► yeah well there you gotta capitalize you [TS]

00:54:51 ◼   ► can pick up diapers really fast like I [TS]

00:54:53 ◼   ► was walking down the street the other [TS]

00:54:54 ◼   ► day and a guy drives by in a Maserati [TS]

00:54:56 ◼   ► and I was like right a Maserati like [TS]

00:54:59 ◼   ► they still make Maseratis and it's a [TS]

00:55:03 ◼   ► certain small small percentage of people [TS]

00:55:05 ◼   ► still buy Maseratis and looking at this [TS]

00:55:09 ◼   ► guy's he drove by and and and it was not [TS]

00:55:12 ◼   ► sir mix-a-lot it was just a regular guy [TS]

00:55:15 ◼   ► but looking as amazing as you drove by [TS]

00:55:17 ◼   ► i'm guessing that he was not a Joe Walsh [TS]

00:55:20 ◼   ► fan and not buying a Maserati like just [TS]

00:55:24 ◼   ► because that was like a [TS]

00:55:25 ◼   ► don't-don't-don't i love that he was a [TS]

00:55:29 ◼   ► huge fan of funk number 49 and this is [TS]

00:55:32 ◼   ► like the next to the next jam so people [TS]

00:55:35 ◼   ► still buy Maseratis but they have to be [TS]

00:55:37 ◼   ► people that are either likes betting the [TS]

00:55:40 ◼   ► farm [TS]

00:55:41 ◼   ► or there really are people that just as [TS]

00:55:44 ◼   ► I no longer look at menu prices they are [TS]

00:55:48 ◼   ► not concerned about how much cars cost [TS]

00:55:50 ◼   ► like I'm gonna get this car and it is [TS]

00:55:54 ◼   ► two hundred thousand dollars and I'm [TS]

00:55:56 ◼   ► just going to go get it and that is a [TS]

00:55:59 ◼   ► that I so I do I aspire to have that be [TS]

00:56:01 ◼   ► my next one that's that's ridiculous [TS]

00:56:04 ◼   ► closet minority report on that so first [TS]

00:56:08 ◼   ► of all with many things now do the other [TS]

00:56:10 ◼   ► thing you can do in the menu and I've [TS]

00:56:11 ◼   ► done this in hotels is to like figure [TS]

00:56:13 ◼   ► out like what it is that I want based on [TS]

00:56:15 ◼   ► how much it costs because I probably [TS]

00:56:16 ◼   ► want the most is when one example where [TS]

00:56:19 ◼   ► I will probably just get the most [TS]

00:56:20 ◼   ► expensive steak which is faster for me [TS]

00:56:21 ◼   ► to find the most expensive to find the [TS]

00:56:23 ◼   ► most expensive steak in order to be [TS]

00:56:24 ◼   ► absolutely blown away not a way I [TS]

00:56:27 ◼   ► conduct myself with any other kind of [TS]

00:56:28 ◼   ► thing in the world right now as we've [TS]

00:56:30 ◼   ► learned from where you you like yourself [TS]

00:56:33 ◼   ► a top-shelf Nicaraguan who what are the [TS]

00:56:38 ◼   ► Cuban nothing with their work i see are [TS]

00:56:41 ◼   ► on I won't go into it [TS]

00:56:43 ◼   ► yeah i've cut back on you can cut you [TS]

00:56:45 ◼   ► can cut this all out now I want but no [TS]

00:56:47 ◼   ► Mike my tasting those things is you know [TS]

00:56:51 ◼   ► what you're willing to spend twenty [TS]

00:56:53 ◼   ► dollars on the cigar for what di dunno [TS]

00:56:58 ◼   ► but you know that's unusual so here's [TS]

00:56:59 ◼   ► what I'm going to say about this as [TS]

00:57:00 ◼   ► we've learned from watching the great [TS]

00:57:02 ◼   ► tumblr rich kids on this Instagram and [TS]

00:57:04 ◼   ► there are people who are there to let [TS]

00:57:07 ◼   ► you know it like exactly how much it [TS]

00:57:08 ◼   ► cost so i might not what I'm saying this [TS]

00:57:10 ◼   ► might be obvious is I think some people [TS]

00:57:12 ◼   ► are gonna look at the price i think if [TS]

00:57:14 ◼   ► they've got the dough they might go in [TS]

00:57:15 ◼   ► and make sure they didn't get the third [TS]

00:57:17 ◼   ► most of all I see are getting there [TS]

00:57:18 ◼   ► looking at the price but they're looking [TS]

00:57:19 ◼   ► at it just captures get their heads with [TS]

00:57:22 ◼   ► their cars sit around and talk about the [TS]

00:57:24 ◼   ► dickhead cars [TS]

00:57:25 ◼   ► yeah and they like they're going to line [TS]

00:57:27 ◼   ► up the black BMW and talk about life i [TS]

00:57:29 ◼   ► know there's always gonna think oh you [TS]

00:57:31 ◼   ► didn't get the the sports rimjob rimjob [TS]

00:57:35 ◼   ► share all of you rim job [TS]

00:57:38 ◼   ► that looks that looks so great for a [TS]

00:57:40 ◼   ► standard sports room yeah i went ahead [TS]

00:57:42 ◼   ► and got the variant rimjob yeah very [TS]

00:57:44 ◼   ► rude job [TS]

00:57:45 ◼   ► yeah it's only six of them well okay [TS]

00:57:48 ◼   ► you're absolutely right that among among [TS]

00:57:50 ◼   ► nouveau reach and Bend probably among [TS]

00:57:53 ◼   ► all reach there is there is a price [TS]

00:57:56 ◼   ► consciousness [TS]

00:57:57 ◼   ► okay yeah the wrong reasons but but for [TS]

00:58:00 ◼   ► me like my goal is to it would be nice [TS]

00:58:05 ◼   ► to be the and I think this is the [TS]

00:58:08 ◼   ► aspiration to live more or less as I do [TS]

00:58:11 ◼   ► now but to be able to have the luxury to [TS]

00:58:16 ◼   ► be unconscious of money like i do not [TS]

00:58:20 ◼   ► want a Maserati and conscious or [TS]

00:58:22 ◼   ► unworried unconscious I did you know you [TS]

00:58:27 ◼   ► don't have to think about it in the [TS]

00:58:29 ◼   ► daily sort of like I need to go to New [TS]

00:58:31 ◼   ► York tomorrow i'm going to buy a plane [TS]

00:58:33 ◼   ► ticket and to not sit and have to go [TS]

00:58:37 ◼   ► well let's see there's an aisle seat [TS]

00:58:39 ◼   ► next to the exit row and maybe I can you [TS]

00:58:43 ◼   ► know maybe i can get like the upgrade [TS]

00:58:45 ◼   ► like to just say i'm flying to New York [TS]

00:58:48 ◼   ► tomorrow and i'm buying a ticket and I'm [TS]

00:58:50 ◼   ► flying [TS]

00:58:51 ◼   ► yes and and you know to live to live [TS]

00:58:54 ◼   ► with the sort of a base amount of [TS]

00:58:56 ◼   ► comfort and be and be like have the [TS]

00:59:00 ◼   ► luxury of not pinching ever go um and [TS]

00:59:08 ◼   ► you know and honestly like I think the [TS]

00:59:09 ◼   ► dream i think i think that is in anybody [TS]

00:59:11 ◼   ► i think could agree it would be nice to [TS]

00:59:14 ◼   ► not have to check prices on things [TS]

00:59:15 ◼   ► yeah you know I mean of setting aside [TS]

00:59:17 ◼   ► that somebody tries to slip into seven [TS]

00:59:19 ◼   ► thousand dollars steak but in an [TS]

00:59:20 ◼   ► ordinary day-to-day stuff it would be [TS]

00:59:22 ◼   ► kind of nice [TS]

00:59:23 ◼   ► do you know pick up the tab without [TS]

00:59:25 ◼   ► having to look at it [TS]

00:59:26 ◼   ► yeah i think i was never do but this is [TS]

00:59:28 ◼   ► the problem is you get when you get the [TS]

00:59:30 ◼   ► money [TS]

00:59:31 ◼   ► what you do is you say eat what you do [TS]

00:59:34 ◼   ► is you don't say I can go to the [TS]

00:59:37 ◼   ► supermarket now and buy whatever I want [TS]

00:59:39 ◼   ► to not have to worry you say I don't [TS]

00:59:42 ◼   ► have to go to the supermarket anymore [TS]

00:59:44 ◼   ► i'm going to send somebody for me [TS]

00:59:47 ◼   ► and then you are now you're paying [TS]

00:59:49 ◼   ► you're paying a different level you're [TS]

00:59:52 ◼   ► paying you're not just paying for the [TS]

00:59:54 ◼   ► groceries you're paying for someone he [TS]

00:59:56 ◼   ► and you're opening the door to where I [TS]

00:59:58 ◼   ► was hoping to walk which is you know [TS]

00:59:58 ◼   ► was hoping to walk which is you know [TS]

01:00:00 ◼   ► and to paraphrase are our late friend [TS]

01:00:01 ◼   ► Leslie Hart fault i hate buying presents [TS]

01:00:03 ◼   ► for my presence right when i get a phone [TS]

01:00:05 ◼   ► the last thing we have to do is go buy a [TS]

01:00:06 ◼   ► bunch of stuff for the phone right and [TS]

01:00:08 ◼   ► this is this is the entourage problem [TS]

01:00:10 ◼   ► because it is i miss the poor kid point [TS]

01:00:12 ◼   ► of view from me but I think it's such a [TS]

01:00:14 ◼   ► fairly small number of steps from give [TS]

01:00:17 ◼   ► me the second cheapest everything right [TS]

01:00:19 ◼   ► to give me the third most expensive [TS]

01:00:22 ◼   ► everything [TS]

01:00:22 ◼   ► well yeah but I think the thing is i [TS]

01:00:25 ◼   ► mean i always feel like I've had a [TS]

01:00:26 ◼   ► fairly low threshold for celebration in [TS]

01:00:28 ◼   ► my life like I can make anything into a [TS]

01:00:29 ◼   ► special event if I feel like it i love [TS]

01:00:31 ◼   ► Jeff why should get this nicer one [TS]

01:00:33 ◼   ► because today I murder or whatever but [TS]

01:00:36 ◼   ► like in the case of what you're [TS]

01:00:37 ◼   ► describing I think it makes a lot of [TS]

01:00:38 ◼   ► sense [TS]

01:00:39 ◼   ► here's the thing in my experience in [TS]

01:00:40 ◼   ► this way a struggle so much with the [TS]

01:00:42 ◼   ► travel stuff with you know work stuff [TS]

01:00:45 ◼   ► because a flight flight across the [TS]

01:00:46 ◼   ► United States cost seven hundred dollars [TS]

01:00:48 ◼   ► round trip [TS]

01:00:49 ◼   ► yeah now if i want to i mean i find out [TS]

01:00:52 ◼   ► until the last minute on the radio check [TS]

01:00:53 ◼   ► out i might be able to get an extra [TS]

01:00:55 ◼   ► nanometer no knee room for sixty dollars [TS]

01:00:59 ◼   ► each way or eighty dollars each way if [TS]

01:01:01 ◼   ► you're a gold member [TS]

01:01:02 ◼   ► no big deal right there i'll pay that [TS]

01:01:04 ◼   ► but now let's be honest that's like [TS]

01:01:06 ◼   ► another sixteen percent on top of what I [TS]

01:01:08 ◼   ► just spent not a huge deal i don't know [TS]

01:01:10 ◼   ► the last time you about business class [TS]

01:01:11 ◼   ► if business classes available that's [TS]

01:01:14 ◼   ► going to be a two-thousand-dollar flight [TS]

01:01:16 ◼   ► if its first class that might be a three [TS]

01:01:18 ◼   ► or four thousand dollars and so now [TS]

01:01:21 ◼   ► you're back to know what can I afford ok [TS]

01:01:23 ◼   ► let's just do business class but [TS]

01:01:25 ◼   ► remember your fancy now so you got an [TS]

01:01:27 ◼   ► assistant so your assistant gonna sit in [TS]

01:01:29 ◼   ► coach will know you want them taking [TS]

01:01:30 ◼   ► education and shine your nails and shit [TS]

01:01:32 ◼   ► like that you know what about the car [TS]

01:01:33 ◼   ► will now you gotta have it you know [TS]

01:01:35 ◼   ► collagen is like I maybe this is just [TS]

01:01:37 ◼   ► like this the limitations of my mind but [TS]

01:01:38 ◼   ► that's why the hundred million dollar [TS]

01:01:40 ◼   ► question is so interesting to me because [TS]

01:01:41 ◼   ► i don't think people iterate they don't [TS]

01:01:45 ◼   ► do enough iterations of the future where [TS]

01:01:48 ◼   ► you go one iteration of the future i pay [TS]

01:01:49 ◼   ► off on my family's debt super nice [TS]

01:01:51 ◼   ► ok next iteration the future no family [TS]

01:01:53 ◼   ► knows you have tons of money and you [TS]

01:01:54 ◼   ► have less now [TS]

01:01:55 ◼   ► ok ok i will have the systems that this [TS]

01:01:59 ◼   ► is where it gets this is where it's such [TS]

01:02:01 ◼   ► a brain teaser for people because i pad [TS]

01:02:02 ◼   ► I just I just pose this question to a [TS]

01:02:05 ◼   ► lady friend of mine the other day and [TS]

01:02:06 ◼   ► she said well made a hundred million [TS]

01:02:08 ◼   ► dollars it's like [TS]

01:02:09 ◼   ► you're not really set for life I mean [TS]

01:02:11 ◼   ► you could blow through that pretty fast [TS]

01:02:14 ◼   ► did not set for your life and I was like [TS]

01:02:16 ◼   ► say what know exactly tell me how a [TS]

01:02:19 ◼   ► hundred million dollars is not set for [TS]

01:02:21 ◼   ► life and she was like well I mean you [TS]

01:02:22 ◼   ► know he's just a little bit here a [TS]

01:02:25 ◼   ► little bit there and I'm like a little [TS]

01:02:27 ◼   ► bit here a little bit there a hundred [TS]

01:02:29 ◼   ► million dollars that's a million dollars [TS]

01:02:32 ◼   ► a year for a hundred years 2 billion [TS]

01:02:35 ◼   ► dollars a year for 50 years and she's [TS]

01:02:37 ◼   ► like well yeah exactly 2 million dollars [TS]

01:02:39 ◼   ► a year like I would have no trouble [TS]

01:02:42 ◼   ► spending 2 billion dollars a year and I [TS]

01:02:44 ◼   ► was like oh look at this way I'm gonna [TS]

01:02:47 ◼   ► I'm gonna find totally pulling this out [TS]

01:02:49 ◼   ► of my ass but this is my postulation I [TS]

01:02:51 ◼   ► don't say it but think about whether [TS]

01:02:53 ◼   ► it's your that later who ever think [TS]

01:02:54 ◼   ► about the largest amount of money that [TS]

01:02:57 ◼   ► you've ever had in a liquid form like [TS]

01:03:01 ◼   ► you could spend this money [TS]

01:03:03 ◼   ► yep and let's say that whatever $50,000 [TS]

01:03:07 ◼   ► let's say that some happen your family [TS]

01:03:08 ◼   ► so we passed away [TS]

01:03:10 ◼   ► you gotta know to two hundred thousand [TS]

01:03:11 ◼   ► dollars whatever it is that you would [TS]

01:03:13 ◼   ► rush to go do stuff with to like a but i [TS]

01:03:16 ◼   ► think if you give somebody more i'm [TS]

01:03:19 ◼   ► making this up if you give somebody [TS]

01:03:21 ◼   ► let's call that they're there [TS]

01:03:24 ◼   ► jee le their greatest liquidity event [TS]

01:03:28 ◼   ► you give people agree that the GL 'if [TS]

01:03:31 ◼   ► you give them three times the previous [TS]

01:03:33 ◼   ► largest liquidity event [TS]

01:03:34 ◼   ► yeah it might as well be a zillion [TS]

01:03:36 ◼   ► dollars I don't think for a minute and [TS]

01:03:39 ◼   ► i'll just be for myself in time for [TS]

01:03:41 ◼   ► myself with money like if it's more than [TS]

01:03:43 ◼   ► a certain amount you know if you have to [TS]

01:03:45 ◼   ► somebody else to do something tomorrow [TS]

01:03:46 ◼   ► morning at 8am I'd say no come on I'm [TS]

01:03:48 ◼   ► busy something to do something some [TS]

01:03:50 ◼   ► morning at 8am five years from now I'll [TS]

01:03:51 ◼   ► probably say yes it's exactly the same [TS]

01:03:52 ◼   ► amount of time it's just--that's million [TS]

01:03:54 ◼   ► years away of course i can do that and [TS]

01:03:56 ◼   ► in that same way a lot of folks so they [TS]

01:03:58 ◼   ► get three times there i was a jammy dle [TS]

01:04:01 ◼   ► Julie yeah well I think something like [TS]

01:04:03 ◼   ► high school test 11 extended weekend in [TS]

01:04:07 ◼   ► Las Vegas not spent well yeah you could [TS]

01:04:11 ◼   ► drop you could you know what I'm going [TS]

01:04:14 ◼   ► to say this i think you could drop a [TS]

01:04:15 ◼   ► hundred thousand dollars in las vegas [TS]

01:04:17 ◼   ► without even trying [TS]

01:04:18 ◼   ► oh you would just did slip on a banana [TS]

01:04:19 ◼   ► peel and it's gone eat you know it lets [TS]

01:04:21 ◼   ► just even say [TS]

01:04:22 ◼   ► you go to like hundred-dollar cables in [TS]

01:04:24 ◼   ► blackjack but it can't everything starts [TS]

01:04:26 ◼   ► moving up you know if they make copy [TS]

01:04:27 ◼   ► room they're not gonna copy cristal we [TS]

01:04:29 ◼   ► gotta get crystal I'm rich now [TS]

01:04:31 ◼   ► so now you're saying this new pattern [TS]

01:04:33 ◼   ► and it's like you know it's you're still [TS]

01:04:35 ◼   ► that same person as i like to say [TS]

01:04:37 ◼   ► wherever you travel the old you comes [TS]

01:04:39 ◼   ► along in the suitcase [TS]

01:04:40 ◼   ► well and this is this is part part of [TS]

01:04:42 ◼   ► what I what worries me is that my [TS]

01:04:45 ◼   ► greatest liquidity event was in 2008 i [TS]

01:04:52 ◼   ► had a hundred and thirty thousand [TS]

01:04:58 ◼   ► dollars because the Lord to the part for [TS]

01:05:02 ◼   ► the point for the purpose of [TS]

01:05:04 ◼   ► illustrating this story [TS]

01:05:06 ◼   ► yeah and it was a combination of a TV ad [TS]

01:05:09 ◼   ► it was all this money that i made as a [TS]

01:05:11 ◼   ► rock musician and what did i do with it [TS]

01:05:15 ◼   ► I didn't work for five more years like I [TS]

01:05:22 ◼   ► did nothing with it i have spent the [TS]

01:05:25 ◼   ► last five years not doing anything [TS]

01:05:29 ◼   ► except drawing down after your own era [TS]

01:05:36 ◼   ► it's yeah like that you've actually [TS]

01:05:38 ◼   ► inherited money for its up I every day I [TS]

01:05:41 ◼   ► go on my favorite website bring a [TS]

01:05:42 ◼   ► trailer calm and I look at hot rod cars [TS]

01:05:45 ◼   ► and I go who that'd be a cool car [TS]

01:05:48 ◼   ► look at that be cool car and a great [TS]

01:05:51 ◼   ► number of these cars are affordable to [TS]