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Speaker 2: There's a thought experiment that's been doing the rounds online.

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Speaker 2: So that is, if you were to go back in

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Speaker 2: time one hundred years with all the knowledge you have

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Speaker 2: right now, what could you offer humanity in that time

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Speaker 2: to make things better? So all the new technology we have,

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Speaker 2: all their extra knowledge, breakthroughs, adance, advancements, all of the

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Speaker 2: things that you know right now, if you were put

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Speaker 2: back in time one hundred years, what could you tell

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Speaker 2: those people to say, Hey, I've got some advancements and

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Speaker 2: some tech to pass on. What would be the one

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Speaker 2: thing you could do? And it made me think of

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Speaker 2: this clip from comedian Nate Bergetski, and here it is.

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Speaker 3: I've thought about it like time travel, Like if I

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Speaker 3: went back in time knowing everything I know now, I

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Speaker 3: don't think I would make a difference. I don't think

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Speaker 3: you would even hear about it. If I went back

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Speaker 3: to the twenties and I like saw some guy on

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Speaker 3: like an old phone, I'd be a kay, eventually they

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Speaker 3: have phones you just carry in your pocket, And he'd

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Speaker 3: be like, yeah, how do they do it. It's like,

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Speaker 3: you know, I mean, I don't know. I don't know

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Speaker 3: how they're doing it. It's like a satellite or something,

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Speaker 3: and they'd be like, what's the satellite? Well, I shouldn't

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Speaker 3: have even brought that up there. It's like a round

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Speaker 3: metal dish or something that that's gonna go pretty high

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Speaker 3: in the air. I honestly don't think I could prove

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Speaker 3: I'm from the future. I mean, they would want some proof.

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Speaker 3: You know, who's the next president? Oh boy, such a

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Speaker 3: good point.

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Speaker 4: When he sees you wouldn't even hear about it, so

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Speaker 4: he be back in time and he'd make so little

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Speaker 4: difference that it would never even make the history books

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Speaker 4: that someone went back. It's a good point. I think

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Speaker 4: if you went back in time, you'd probably just be

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Speaker 4: a liability. Most of us would be totally useless, right, Yeah.

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Speaker 4: We couldn't even make fire out and we couldn't make

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Speaker 4: a shelter.

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Speaker 2: You'd end up like Lucy Jordan. They take it, they

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Speaker 2: cut your way and say you're you're crazy. So they've

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Speaker 2: got this thing called the internet.

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Speaker 1: Was how does that work?

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Speaker 2: Don't how the internet works?

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Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, your phone, that's a good one. There's

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Speaker 4: most people, there's not a single thing in their phone

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Speaker 4: that they know how it works or even what it does. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: can imagine trying to explain bluetooth to someone.

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Speaker 2: I don't understand how it works. I just hope it works,

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Speaker 2: and when it doesn't, I get annoyed. But thank god, some.

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Speaker 4: Sparks might be able to do some stuff. Is there

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Speaker 4: an electrician you went back?

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Speaker 2: Could you invent a light bulb?

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Speaker 4: I mean there's been, but you'd probably be a worse

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Speaker 4: plumber if you went back, because you know, plumbing now

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Speaker 4: involves a lot of pre made plastic fittings that are

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Speaker 4: much easier to put together. Judging by when I put

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Speaker 4: a sink in the other.

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Speaker 2: Day, Yeah, it's very easy, but there's no bunnings. So

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Speaker 2: even if you've got all that plumbing knowledge and say

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Speaker 2: all you need is some PVC I PVC.

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Speaker 4: Are we the most useless humans that have ever existed?

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Speaker 4: Practically speaking?

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Speaker 2: I think we'd be up there.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, average, you.

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Speaker 4: Know, across average, Because there's some genius, absolute genius engineers

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Speaker 4: out there, there's no doubt of it. And there's some

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Speaker 4: people the smartest people imaginea will exists out there, but

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Speaker 4: the average everyday human would be dumber and more useless

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Speaker 4: than a hunter and gatherer because at least they know

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Speaker 4: how to make snails on wilderbeast pie exactly. At least

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Speaker 4: they would not understand the seasons.

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Speaker 2: They were resourceful.

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Speaker 4: In fact, I read this book once and they reckoned.

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Speaker 4: But looking at bones and stuff that our ancestors, hunter

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Speaker 4: and gather ancestors would basically win every event at the

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Speaker 4: Olympics now because they're outside. They're hardcore, just balls of

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Speaker 4: muscle with a complete knowledge of all of nature. You

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Speaker 4: go back there, Tyler, and you say, well, what did

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Speaker 4: you do in your time? You're like I used to

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Speaker 4: talk into a microphone to some people, Like we're with

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Speaker 4: the people I don't know they were around the country.

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Speaker 4: Nice to talk into this patted microphone about stuff in

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Speaker 4: the news.

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Speaker 2: They kick you out of the tribe. So leave that

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Speaker 2: guy behind. He's of no use to it.

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Speaker 4: We don't need any broadcasters. You do need someone that

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Speaker 4: can kill a mammoth and skin it.

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Speaker 2: Don't give that guy any memmoth.

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