WEBVTT - Icon Deep Dive #1: Albert Einstein 0:00:00.600 --> 0:00:03.960 Oh hey, guys, welcome to this spinoff episode of The 0:00:04.000 --> 0:00:09.480 Daily Zeitgeist. We're calling tentatively the Iconograph to show about icons. 0:00:09.760 --> 0:00:12.000 My name is Jack O'Brien. I co founded the website 0:00:12.000 --> 0:00:15.160 crack dot com, and for the past seven years I've 0:00:15.200 --> 0:00:18.360 co hosted a daily show with the comedian Miles Gray 0:00:18.560 --> 0:00:22.280 about the Zeitgeist. The News Ghost Spirit of the Times. 0:00:22.960 --> 0:00:25.919 We cover what's happening in our shared consciousness through the 0:00:26.000 --> 0:00:30.800 news and pop culture of today, and this spinoff version 0:00:30.920 --> 0:00:36.480 will cover the zeitgeist through the people and characters who 0:00:36.840 --> 0:00:39.479 don't make the news every day, but they exist in 0:00:39.520 --> 0:00:43.040 our movies and on our bumper stickers and T shirts 0:00:43.040 --> 0:00:46.599 and as reference points in our conversations. But yeah, one 0:00:46.600 --> 0:00:50.760 of my criteria for whether someone deserves a TDZ icon 0:00:50.840 --> 0:00:54.279 episode is whether you could dresses them for Halloween and 0:00:54.320 --> 0:00:57.080 people would get it. One of the recurring questions I 0:00:57.120 --> 0:01:00.840 want to ask in these episodes is if this icon 0:01:00.960 --> 0:01:04.760 existed today in our reality, how likely would they be 0:01:04.800 --> 0:01:07.440 to be on the Epstein flight logs, that sort of thing. 0:01:07.840 --> 0:01:11.800 And in this episode we're talking about the stein Bert Einstein. 0:01:11.959 --> 0:01:15.639 We're starting with a big one, genius, visionary, silly billy 0:01:15.760 --> 0:01:19.160 rogue sex maniac. Next week, I think we have Erkele 0:01:19.760 --> 0:01:22.120 That should give you a sense of the scope of 0:01:22.480 --> 0:01:25.520 our inquiry here. But yeah, don't be fooled by the 0:01:25.560 --> 0:01:28.679 subject matter of our first episode. It's a very stupid show. Still. 0:01:28.720 --> 0:01:33.240 The format is simple. Each episode a different icon, Miles, 0:01:33.480 --> 0:01:36.840 a guest, and me talking geist through the lens of 0:01:36.840 --> 0:01:39.399 that icon. We will start with the stuff that is 0:01:39.440 --> 0:01:42.479 part of the iconic image we all have of Einstein. 0:01:42.600 --> 0:01:44.880 The picture of him sticking out his tongue, Where'd that 0:01:44.959 --> 0:01:48.360 come from? Why was he doing that? He equals mc squared? 0:01:48.640 --> 0:01:53.480 What that mean? The rumpled wild hair look, the myth 0:01:53.520 --> 0:01:56.040 that he was a slow child, the quotes and misquotes 0:01:56.040 --> 0:01:59.200 and made up quotes. And then we'll get into some 0:01:59.320 --> 0:02:02.920 really interesting stuff from his life that didn't make it 0:02:02.960 --> 0:02:06.560 into the myth that got rejected by the brand management 0:02:06.600 --> 0:02:10.359 team that is all of us, because it didn't match 0:02:10.560 --> 0:02:14.000 the image we wanted for Einstein. But we're hiring a 0:02:14.040 --> 0:02:16.880 researcher to help with each one of these episodes. This 0:02:16.919 --> 0:02:21.160 one was researched by Dave Ruse. Thank you, Dave, And yeah, 0:02:21.240 --> 0:02:22.960 I'll be back at the end to tell you some 0:02:23.000 --> 0:02:26.200 stuff I missed from my notes in my No No 0:02:26.200 --> 0:02:30.200 No notebook dump. But here I am talking to Miles 0:02:30.280 --> 0:02:34.920 and Michael Swain about Albert Einstein and plenty of other stuff. 0:02:35.080 --> 0:02:39.760 Hope you enjoy. I don't know if you know what 0:02:39.800 --> 0:02:43.680 we're doing today, Victor, but we're talking about a little 0:02:43.680 --> 0:02:47.160 guy by the name of Albert Einstein. Ever heard of them? Yeah, 0:02:47.400 --> 0:02:51.360 Walter math Owl's episode three. It just turns out. I'm 0:02:51.400 --> 0:02:55.919 really into that movie Episode four, Meg Ryan, episode five, 0:02:56.639 --> 0:02:57.200 Tim Robbin. 0:02:57.280 --> 0:02:59.600 Every time I think of Walter math Out, the image 0:02:59.600 --> 0:03:01.959 that pops into my head for some reason is him 0:03:01.960 --> 0:03:04.640 and Dennis the Menace with the chick lit Yeah. 0:03:04.720 --> 0:03:07.200 Yeah, I don't know. Well yeah, yeah. 0:03:07.200 --> 0:03:10.560 Fucks up his dentures and brilliant idea to replace them 0:03:10.560 --> 0:03:11.280 with chick lit gum. 0:03:11.960 --> 0:03:13.560 That's his proactive idea. 0:03:13.960 --> 0:03:17.040 Yeah, because he sucks up his dentures. Mister Wilson import 0:03:17.520 --> 0:03:20.840 or whatever. Oh yeah, mister Wilson has always taking important 0:03:20.880 --> 0:03:23.600 meetings the killer. 0:03:23.520 --> 0:03:26.560 Oh yeah, and then, uh, what's his face? Christopher Lloyd 0:03:26.600 --> 0:03:28.280 plays like a crazy drift in it. 0:03:28.760 --> 0:03:32.400 Yeah, he was born to play. Yeah. 0:03:32.680 --> 0:03:34.880 I think a flame goes up his butt or something 0:03:34.880 --> 0:03:36.320 because he farts on a campfire. 0:03:36.320 --> 0:03:39.920 There's something with him farting in fire anyway, Einstein? Are 0:03:39.920 --> 0:03:40.760 we talking about CHRISTI? 0:03:41.280 --> 0:03:42.840 Yeah, Einstein. 0:03:42.880 --> 0:03:44.920 A lot of people don't know that Einstein died by 0:03:44.960 --> 0:03:47.120 farting on a campfire and the flame went off his 0:03:47.200 --> 0:03:48.400 butt and blew them up. 0:03:48.600 --> 0:03:51.960 The apple hit his head. This was what inspired. 0:03:53.000 --> 0:03:58.520 Beer blows his ass off. 0:03:58.520 --> 0:04:01.840 This is so funny. There's a you account called fart Share. 0:04:05.440 --> 0:04:08.560 This is how the Einstein episodes over the miles, linking 0:04:08.640 --> 0:04:12.240 up famous fart scenes. Dennis the Menace. All right here, 0:04:12.320 --> 0:04:17.359 we'll get into it. Hello the Internet, and welcome to 0:04:17.480 --> 0:04:23.120 this very special episode of Turnilley Zeitgeist. Oh, which we 0:04:23.120 --> 0:04:26.560 don't know what we're calling yet Iconograph. Maybe keep coming 0:04:26.600 --> 0:04:28.960 back to Iconograph. Will figure it out and start of 0:04:28.960 --> 0:04:32.720 looking at the zeitgeist through current events. We're looking at icons, 0:04:33.200 --> 0:04:37.080 powerful pop culture hork froxes that are basically the stars 0:04:37.080 --> 0:04:39.560 of our shared consciousness. I'm joined as always by my 0:04:39.640 --> 0:04:44.080 co host, mister Miles Grind. Are we doing a rake? 0:04:44.320 --> 0:04:44.480 Hi? 0:04:44.920 --> 0:04:45.400 Yes? Hi? 0:04:45.920 --> 0:04:49.120 It's interesting because I don't know what you're about to 0:04:49.160 --> 0:04:52.680 tell me, so it's hard coming in cold. That's the 0:04:52.720 --> 0:04:55.160 whole point here is I'm here to be dazzled by 0:04:55.760 --> 0:04:58.000 Sexy Facts. 0:04:57.160 --> 0:05:02.719 Sexy Facts and Dennis the Menace Fart Conversations. Yes, Miles, 0:05:02.720 --> 0:05:04.800 we're thrilled to be joined by the co host of 0:05:04.839 --> 0:05:07.320 my very first podcast, the Crack podcast from the early 0:05:07.400 --> 0:05:10.120 days of Cracked, back doing some very funny stuff at Cracked. 0:05:10.640 --> 0:05:14.680 Very talented writer who back in back in those days 0:05:14.720 --> 0:05:18.280 wrote one of my favorite science articles about like mind 0:05:18.279 --> 0:05:20.440 blowing science stuff. So I wanted to have him on 0:05:20.560 --> 0:05:23.600 here see if he could explain what any of this 0:05:23.960 --> 0:05:26.919 ship means. He's the creator of the Small Beans podcast network. 0:05:26.960 --> 0:05:29.480 It's Michael Swash. 0:05:30.240 --> 0:05:35.120 Might I pitch Iconic Class? Do people say icon class class? 0:05:35.440 --> 0:05:39.000 And you were going iconic Cast, but there's a Christian 0:05:39.200 --> 0:05:43.440 podcast called iconic Cast. 0:05:43.279 --> 0:05:47.280 To an icon speak of which we're going to hit. 0:05:47.720 --> 0:05:50.800 One of the very first sketch related things me and 0:05:50.880 --> 0:05:53.719 my primary partner over on my Small Beans comedy in print, 0:05:53.720 --> 0:05:56.880 Abe Everson, also a big director at Crack. One of 0:05:56.920 --> 0:06:00.040 the first things we ever did was like Jesus me, 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:04.880 it's hitler thing, which caused Rob Shrub, successful Hollywood comedian 0:06:04.920 --> 0:06:07.480 Oh Yeah, to tell us to give up and quit. 0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:12.359 And we're to pursue comedy and I understand what he 0:06:12.520 --> 0:06:15.520 was really saying. Well, no, you shouldn't say that too 0:06:15.520 --> 0:06:18.359 a young creative, but I've always been interested ever since 0:06:18.400 --> 0:06:22.119 that horrible burn in my soul, in like your abe 0:06:22.120 --> 0:06:24.880 Lincoln's or the joke math around. Yeah, the things we 0:06:24.920 --> 0:06:28.040 put the most energy into. Yeah, I'm so powerful. And 0:06:28.120 --> 0:06:31.039 of course as you age, thanks to outlets like Cracked 0:06:31.040 --> 0:06:35.360 and now just broader internet culture, you find out so 0:06:35.440 --> 0:06:39.320 much of it as a package story as well, and 0:06:39.320 --> 0:06:40.719 it makes you reflect on, like. 0:06:41.440 --> 0:06:42.520 So what is my life? 0:06:42.600 --> 0:06:44.920 It's like an echo of an echo of a condensed, 0:06:44.960 --> 0:06:48.719 agreed upon retelling of a You know, we're not so 0:06:48.880 --> 0:06:51.760 out of the realm of myths as we think we are. 0:06:52.040 --> 0:06:54.120 We still basically live our lives by them. 0:06:54.360 --> 0:06:57.000 I realized as I was because I did read like 0:06:57.320 --> 0:07:01.359 a chunk of the Walter Isaacson Einstein biography or listened 0:07:01.400 --> 0:07:04.200 to it because I didn't want to own an Einstein biography, 0:07:04.240 --> 0:07:07.440 because the type of person who reads an Einstein biography 0:07:07.800 --> 0:07:10.480 makes my hand just do the jack off hand motion 0:07:10.800 --> 0:07:15.040 and like, oh, okay, oh you're reading Einstein's biography. Yeah 0:07:15.200 --> 0:07:17.560 you did. A smart guy. You think you're a smart guy. Huh, 0:07:17.600 --> 0:07:21.280 But Einstein is the example that got me thinking about 0:07:21.760 --> 0:07:26.280 icons and like their power and this like gravitational force 0:07:26.600 --> 0:07:31.200 that they exert on like meaning and ideas and just 0:07:31.240 --> 0:07:33.800 like the world inside our brains. But I think I 0:07:33.840 --> 0:07:37.400 was sitting behind a car in traffic in LA and 0:07:37.440 --> 0:07:41.480 there was a bumper sticker with an Einstein quote that 0:07:41.880 --> 0:07:45.200 he definitely didn't say. I was just like, God, many 0:07:45.760 --> 0:07:49.320 people really want like they just use him to be 0:07:49.400 --> 0:07:52.560 the guy who if he said that thing, like it 0:07:52.640 --> 0:07:54.080 becomes true mag. 0:07:54.000 --> 0:07:56.360 Yeah, yeah, yeah, because I feel like, don't people always 0:07:56.360 --> 0:07:59.160 do the same, Like the definition of insanity is. 0:07:58.960 --> 0:08:01.480 The definition where it's like that's the big thing Stein, 0:08:01.880 --> 0:08:04.560 and You're like, the definition of insanity is doing the 0:08:04.600 --> 0:08:09.040 same thing twice and expecting different results, which, as I've 0:08:09.080 --> 0:08:11.840 said before, is actually a pretty good definition of the 0:08:11.920 --> 0:08:12.920 scientific method. 0:08:13.960 --> 0:08:17.080 And interestingly, I think Einstein, I would venture to guess 0:08:17.080 --> 0:08:20.120 Einstein might say that it's actually not possible to do 0:08:20.160 --> 0:08:21.000 the same thing twice. 0:08:21.160 --> 0:08:22.680 That's what's interesting about this. 0:08:23.000 --> 0:08:26.240 Which is why you do multiple requirements. We do. Yeah, 0:08:26.560 --> 0:08:29.280 God doesn't play dice as another one that gets used 0:08:29.320 --> 0:08:32.079 a lot. He was making a complex point about like 0:08:32.520 --> 0:08:35.319 quantum theory, and like his critical quant. 0:08:35.320 --> 0:08:38.240 Theory, particular interpretation of quantum theory the Copenhangen is. 0:08:38.640 --> 0:08:40.360 But also he's. 0:08:40.240 --> 0:08:42.559 Allowed to be wrong about other stuff or like he 0:08:42.679 --> 0:08:45.800 also one time said, oh fuck, I sat on my ball, 0:08:46.000 --> 0:08:46.880 Like you know what I mean. 0:08:47.080 --> 0:08:50.520 He said, I'm going to fucking marry my cousin. Was 0:08:50.520 --> 0:08:53.000 the thing that he said. That's at a certain point 0:08:54.000 --> 0:08:59.840 which we'll get into. But yeah, this dice thing, though, 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:02.199 is used by people to be like, see, God has 0:09:02.240 --> 0:09:05.120 a plan. Einstein said that God doesn't play dice, and 0:09:05.120 --> 0:09:09.800 it's like, no, he was talking about quantum mechanics. 0:09:08.600 --> 0:09:12.360 Sex dice with the different sex ex SI side wouldn't 0:09:12.360 --> 0:09:12.680 do that. 0:09:12.920 --> 0:09:22.560 This only Einstein plays sex dice. This is my Einstein impression. 0:09:23.000 --> 0:09:26.840 God plays no sex dice, only Einstein. But I just 0:09:26.880 --> 0:09:29.640 want to start out talking about like the big things 0:09:30.320 --> 0:09:35.280 everybody knows about Einstein. I feel like one of them 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:38.960 is the tongue photo. I've said that like one of 0:09:39.000 --> 0:09:42.160 the criteria for judging if someone's an icon is like 0:09:42.200 --> 0:09:45.320 could you dress up as them for Halloween? And like 0:09:45.400 --> 0:09:47.400 most people would be like, yeah, I know who you are. 0:09:47.559 --> 0:09:50.160 In Einstein's case, I think it would be a mix 0:09:50.200 --> 0:09:52.640 of people being like you're Einstein or or Mark Twain. 0:09:53.080 --> 0:09:56.920 I think another one is college dorm room posters, you know, 0:09:57.240 --> 0:10:00.880 and like the Einstein tongue photo, the one. 0:10:01.040 --> 0:10:04.280 It's like a yeah, it's it's the Bob Marley photo 0:10:04.360 --> 0:10:05.800 for someoneho's like a science major. 0:10:06.080 --> 0:10:08.520 Oh we'll get to Bob Marley eventually on this show. 0:10:08.840 --> 0:10:12.160 But yeah, so that that's a real photo. It was 0:10:12.320 --> 0:10:15.640 taken like on his seventy second birthday after a party, 0:10:15.800 --> 0:10:19.640 so it's I think fair to assume that he was 0:10:19.640 --> 0:10:22.200 a little bit fucked up. He was coming out of 0:10:22.280 --> 0:10:26.520 the party afterwards, and he was just getting in a car. 0:10:26.800 --> 0:10:30.480 A photographer named Arthur Sas swooped in, got the shot, 0:10:30.559 --> 0:10:34.679 and Einstein fucking loved it. He was like, yo, could 0:10:34.720 --> 0:10:37.320 I get like a thousand copies of that and just 0:10:37.400 --> 0:10:40.520 immediately started sending it to his friends of his tongue 0:10:40.520 --> 0:10:44.000 out photo. His tongue out photo. Yeah okay. That was 0:10:44.040 --> 0:10:45.640 like yeah, okay, good good friend. I'm glad. 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:47.240 He got so excited that he wanted to share like 0:10:47.280 --> 0:10:49.960 a boomer does, like AI slop on Facebook. 0:10:51.640 --> 0:10:55.040 He was immediately spamming people with this photo. He was like, 0:10:55.120 --> 0:10:58.360 that is that's who I want to be. I think 0:10:58.400 --> 0:11:01.400 that's an that's an important part of his legacy. He's 0:11:01.400 --> 0:11:03.120 a bit of a silly billy. It's a bit of 0:11:03.160 --> 0:11:06.800 a loose cannon. But he said, this gesture you will 0:11:06.880 --> 0:11:09.680 like because it is aimed at all of humanity. The 0:11:09.760 --> 0:11:14.080 outstretched tongue reflect my political views. So a little fucking 0:11:14.160 --> 0:11:15.560 punk rhy dog. 0:11:16.520 --> 0:11:20.040 He was almost funny for a second, and he's like, 0:11:20.160 --> 0:11:21.560 let me explain the shit out of it. 0:11:22.240 --> 0:11:23.200 You'll explain. 0:11:24.559 --> 0:11:29.040 I know, here come those thousand words right now. 0:11:31.960 --> 0:11:35.040 I do feel like the look is important art, and 0:11:35.040 --> 0:11:37.640 then the funny thing is that so the tongue in 0:11:37.720 --> 0:11:41.800 many ways reflects I just stay in for humanity in 0:11:41.840 --> 0:11:46.359 the political spectrum. I do think the look is important. 0:11:46.720 --> 0:11:51.280 Like I think to get a icon the level of Einstein, 0:11:51.840 --> 0:11:54.280 you need to have a lot of different shit come together. 0:11:54.640 --> 0:11:58.320 And I think him looking like a rumpled genius with 0:11:58.440 --> 0:12:01.280 wild hair, like if he if he was like a 0:12:01.320 --> 0:12:05.640 fastidious man with like a comb over, like you know, 0:12:06.000 --> 0:12:08.640 like who is just like very well put together. It 0:12:08.800 --> 0:12:11.640 just like Woodruman or something. Yeah. Yeah, if you just 0:12:11.640 --> 0:12:14.559 look like Harry Truman, that's a great example. Like nobody 0:12:14.600 --> 0:12:17.920 knows what Harry Truman. Nobody thinks about Harry Trump. 0:12:17.640 --> 0:12:18.480 Thank very similarly. 0:12:18.520 --> 0:12:20.680 The reason it took us a while to get around 0:12:20.679 --> 0:12:25.760 to doing the big budget Oppenheimer is very similarly, you know, 0:12:25.960 --> 0:12:30.440 rubbed elbows, same rooms. Oppenheimer arguably responsible for the killingest 0:12:30.480 --> 0:12:33.760 thing anyone's ever done in the history of man. Certainly interesting. 0:12:34.360 --> 0:12:38.560 He doesn't really look or act super interesting, right, So 0:12:38.640 --> 0:12:41.000 we were like Einstein, Einstein, Einstein, Einstein. 0:12:41.040 --> 0:12:43.320 All right, let's do an Oppenheimer we have, let's get 0:12:43.320 --> 0:12:46.360 an Oppenheimer in here. Although I will say I think 0:12:46.440 --> 0:12:49.720 that I remember like certain reviews and I couldn't find 0:12:49.760 --> 0:12:53.000 them for this podcast, but certain reviews of the Oppenheimer 0:12:53.080 --> 0:12:56.840 movie being like really good, loved it. It's weird when 0:12:56.960 --> 0:12:59.920 Einstein shows up and you're like that, it's like a 0:13:00.200 --> 0:13:03.319 fictional character showing up in this movie that's supposed to 0:13:03.320 --> 0:13:06.040 be you know, it's like a muppet showing up. It's like, 0:13:08.840 --> 0:13:13.319 it's he's so iconic that it's just like, wait, why 0:13:13.880 --> 0:13:17.240 why is the guy from the picture with the tongue out? 0:13:17.280 --> 0:13:21.320 Why is he in this historical drama. 0:13:21.440 --> 0:13:23.680 I guess I'm too much of a physics nerd because 0:13:23.800 --> 0:13:27.719 one of my favorite forgotten shows is Manhattan, where one 0:13:27.720 --> 0:13:31.960 of the Wet Bandits Daniel Stern plays a brilliant physicist, 0:13:32.040 --> 0:13:34.920 which is amazing to me, just like not that he 0:13:34.960 --> 0:13:37.120 doesn't pull it off, but that's bizarre to me. Yeah, 0:13:37.200 --> 0:13:40.200 Manhattan has Einstein, you got Neils Bor, you got like 0:13:40.240 --> 0:13:42.400 you'd expect those people to show up. I would be 0:13:42.440 --> 0:13:44.920 surprised to find Stein didn't show up in the Oppenheimer movie. 0:13:44.960 --> 0:13:48.240 Frankly, Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's just I think the effect 0:13:48.360 --> 0:13:52.240 of it for some people who just know him from 0:13:52.280 --> 0:13:55.600 being like wow, okay Einstein. 0:13:56.280 --> 0:13:57.400 You could draw on and app him. 0:13:57.440 --> 0:14:01.200 He's you know, yeah, my knowled to Einstein is truly 0:14:01.400 --> 0:14:03.280 fucking well. What was the movie you just talking about 0:14:03.320 --> 0:14:08.720 with Tim Robbins. Yeah that was not Comedy Central all 0:14:08.760 --> 0:14:12.079 the time. I watched that many times. Uh, the photo 0:14:12.679 --> 0:14:16.679 equals MC squared everything else I have like the whatever. 0:14:16.760 --> 0:14:19.680 The distillation of Einstein is through culture that has really 0:14:19.720 --> 0:14:21.880 nothing to do with him as a person. So like 0:14:21.920 --> 0:14:24.400 when I saw him in Oppenheimer almost I was almost. 0:14:24.120 --> 0:14:26.840 Like, this is this true? That was the real guy? 0:14:27.120 --> 0:14:30.520 The guy was really he talked to Einstein. I thought 0:14:30.560 --> 0:14:33.960 he was like storyline. 0:14:34.560 --> 0:14:36.800 I got so not to put you on the spot 0:14:36.960 --> 0:14:39.840 at but I want to ask files, can. 0:14:39.680 --> 0:14:43.000 You say what he equals MC squared means? And an energy? 0:14:44.080 --> 0:14:46.280 Is it? Energy equals I don't. 0:14:46.080 --> 0:14:49.680 Even mean technically, but like I'm just wondering the thing 0:14:49.840 --> 0:14:51.000 that we all know. 0:14:51.000 --> 0:14:52.320 It by road or do you know? 0:14:52.400 --> 0:14:54.800 Oh yeah, no, no, no, no, truly it's purely just 0:14:54.960 --> 0:14:57.880 the letters. Yeah, I know he's famous for he equals 0:14:58.000 --> 0:15:02.720 mass whatever the fuck squared. I'm also science is like 0:15:03.000 --> 0:15:06.280 the subject I know the least about. So yeah, it's 0:15:06.280 --> 0:15:09.000 truly limited to I could write it on a chalkboard. 0:15:09.320 --> 0:15:10.360 I don't know what it's. 0:15:10.280 --> 0:15:12.440 Appropriate, because I just show up when Jack tells me 0:15:12.480 --> 0:15:14.120 to and it's always worked out so far. 0:15:15.520 --> 0:15:18.560 I am yeah, because I so first of all, that 0:15:18.760 --> 0:15:20.760 is one of them, because I want to start with 0:15:20.800 --> 0:15:24.040 the things everybody knows, right, Like the picture I think 0:15:24.160 --> 0:15:28.760 is up there equals MC squared is the thing. When 0:15:28.760 --> 0:15:32.640 I asked my children before they left work for work today, 0:15:32.680 --> 0:15:35.080 I sent them out to the mines before they left 0:15:35.080 --> 0:15:36.720 for school today, I was like, do you know who 0:15:36.800 --> 0:15:40.600 Einstein is? They knew what he looked like, and they 0:15:40.680 --> 0:15:44.000 knew he equals MC squared, but they don't really know 0:15:44.080 --> 0:15:47.760 what that means. I read a chunk of his biography 0:15:48.240 --> 0:15:51.800 that was covered the portion where he comes up with it, 0:15:51.840 --> 0:15:55.240 and I think I kind of have vague sense, so 0:15:55.320 --> 0:15:57.240 let me try, okay, and then you tell me if 0:15:57.240 --> 0:16:00.600 it's wrong. It's that they were trying to like make 0:16:00.720 --> 0:16:04.880 a set like there was absolute space and there was 0:16:04.960 --> 0:16:08.160 absolute time, like everything up to that point was like, 0:16:08.600 --> 0:16:12.040 well you always have like you can measure everything against 0:16:12.040 --> 0:16:16.320 absolute time. And he figured out basically, the only absolute 0:16:16.520 --> 0:16:19.640 that really works is the speed of light, and like 0:16:19.840 --> 0:16:24.480 based on how fast light is moving, time actually is 0:16:24.640 --> 0:16:28.680 variable and space is actually like mass is actually variable, 0:16:28.880 --> 0:16:31.600 so like the only constant is the speed of light. 0:16:31.880 --> 0:16:35.480 But even that's like not totally constant. But that was 0:16:35.600 --> 0:16:38.040 kind of what I got. That like, once you look 0:16:38.080 --> 0:16:41.080 at things from the perspective of the speed of light, 0:16:41.440 --> 0:16:46.240 like everything else like can shift, including how fast time 0:16:46.320 --> 0:16:49.160 is moving, so there's like no absolute time. How'd I do? 0:16:49.560 --> 0:16:50.320 Pretty good? 0:16:50.640 --> 0:16:52.680 Can I just shout out things as a big fan 0:16:52.800 --> 0:16:55.160 of physics that make my brain explode? Like I know 0:16:55.200 --> 0:16:58.600 what's juicy? I won't bore you. He intuited several things that, like, 0:16:58.680 --> 0:17:02.120 to me, a guy read a lot just about what 0:17:02.160 --> 0:17:04.800 physics means, but I can't learn math no matter how 0:17:04.800 --> 0:17:06.919 hard I try, but read a lot of books of 0:17:07.000 --> 0:17:10.320 like appreciation of physics and cosmology. 0:17:10.280 --> 0:17:11.359 Equals mc squared. 0:17:11.400 --> 0:17:13.760 There's a few things he intuited, and he's become more 0:17:13.800 --> 0:17:16.520 like a Buddha figure to me because it's just amazing 0:17:16.560 --> 0:17:19.560 to think, or like Mary Shelley, who's like basically invented 0:17:19.560 --> 0:17:21.480 sci fi and horror when she thought of the idea 0:17:21.480 --> 0:17:24.600 of Frankenstein when she was eighteen. So it's like one 0:17:24.600 --> 0:17:26.639 of those moments where I'm like, I just can't believe 0:17:26.640 --> 0:17:29.040 a human thought of that. And one of the things 0:17:29.160 --> 0:17:33.520 is everything's relative, like you said, and like trippy examples 0:17:33.560 --> 0:17:36.120 are even if you were moving ninety nine point ninety 0:17:36.160 --> 0:17:38.960 nine nine percent the speed of light, if you shine 0:17:38.960 --> 0:17:41.480 a flashlight out and measured that light, it would be 0:17:41.560 --> 0:17:45.160 going relative to you the speed of light. I cannot 0:17:45.320 --> 0:17:48.800 catch up to it. Ever the end, or at least, 0:17:48.840 --> 0:17:51.640 we still don't understand anyway to breach that, or even 0:17:51.680 --> 0:17:54.760 that it could breach. Everything else would unravel if it breached. 0:17:54.800 --> 0:17:55.680 But you know so. 0:17:56.080 --> 0:17:58.760 And then the other thing that he really intuited the 0:17:58.760 --> 0:18:02.840 equals MC squared is is that energy equals which is 0:18:02.840 --> 0:18:05.200 crazy to me. And this is the part I don't get. 0:18:05.320 --> 0:18:07.920 Why would it be exactly equal to the speed of 0:18:08.000 --> 0:18:10.880 light squared? That makes it seem like God is real. 0:18:10.920 --> 0:18:13.720 But I don't understand the math of randomness. But my 0:18:13.760 --> 0:18:17.399 point is equals MC squared says energy converted by some 0:18:17.480 --> 0:18:24.280 amount equals matter. So Einstein also intuited that, which is 0:18:24.320 --> 0:18:26.800 what an a bomb proves, Right, this tiny piece of 0:18:26.880 --> 0:18:29.119 matter actually has this much energy in it. 0:18:29.160 --> 0:18:29.800 Motherfucker. 0:18:30.119 --> 0:18:33.879 Sorry, we are all made of stardust, as the Great 0:18:33.880 --> 0:18:36.040 Profit movie tells us, and. 0:18:37.880 --> 0:18:38.800 It's quite literal. 0:18:39.760 --> 0:18:42.320 But what was the one who connected everything? 0:18:42.440 --> 0:18:45.680 Is that the same stuff that is light is your 0:18:45.840 --> 0:18:47.200 physical body. 0:18:47.760 --> 0:18:51.600 That's the same stuff. And to think that someone figured. 0:18:51.280 --> 0:18:54.240 That out And then you're like, well, how so smart 0:18:54.280 --> 0:18:57.800 guy and he's like, here's proof and I don't know how, 0:18:58.080 --> 0:19:01.640 but all the other smart people who understand math when yes, 0:19:01.720 --> 0:19:03.480 holy cow, he's right. 0:19:03.560 --> 0:19:09.879 So reading exactly reading that, Like first half of the biography, 0:19:10.040 --> 0:19:11.800 like the thing that blew me away is like he's 0:19:11.840 --> 0:19:14.199 not the best at math. Nobody's like this guy's the 0:19:14.200 --> 0:19:16.760 best in math. He's like good at math. He's not 0:19:17.000 --> 0:19:20.240 the best at like experimental science. What he's the best 0:19:20.280 --> 0:19:23.679 at is like having high thoughts and then like really 0:19:23.720 --> 0:19:27.840 believing in this. Yeah, and he also just read everything 0:19:28.119 --> 0:19:29.000 that was out there. 0:19:29.080 --> 0:19:31.080 But it's like the one coming in and going time 0:19:31.160 --> 0:19:34.040 is light and you go, what are you talking about, bastard? 0:19:35.560 --> 0:19:39.000 He Yeah, he was basically reading all the science and 0:19:39.000 --> 0:19:42.600 then was able to like pull these different elements out 0:19:42.680 --> 0:19:46.119 and construct his theory out of that. I do have 0:19:46.200 --> 0:19:48.600 a loose theory that like some people are just always high, 0:19:48.920 --> 0:19:51.479 like that's just how their brain chemistry works, and like 0:19:51.600 --> 0:19:53.680 he is one of those people. Like the thing about 0:19:53.760 --> 0:19:56.200 him being like a rumple genius who like doesn't have time, 0:19:56.400 --> 0:19:59.320 like would show up with like one shoe off and 0:19:59.359 --> 0:20:02.520 like a his hand is not wrong, Like he was 0:20:02.600 --> 0:20:05.840 that guy. He never had like he would have He 0:20:05.880 --> 0:20:07.600 would go on a trip and then have to like 0:20:07.680 --> 0:20:10.240 mail home and be like, could you send my suitcase 0:20:10.520 --> 0:20:13.320 with this stuff in it? So he's just a space person. 0:20:13.480 --> 0:20:16.639 He was a space person like constantly. He would read 0:20:16.720 --> 0:20:21.479 physics constantly and also like play the violin and like 0:20:21.720 --> 0:20:23.919 he just like really liked to vibe the music and 0:20:24.040 --> 0:20:26.480 think high thoughts. Like essentially one of. 0:20:26.480 --> 0:20:29.080 The only fun facts I know about him is that 0:20:29.119 --> 0:20:32.159 they did dissect his brain, because why wouldn't you. Yeah, 0:20:32.200 --> 0:20:34.760 and he had a super thick corpus colossum, which is 0:20:34.880 --> 0:20:38.159 the two between the two hemispheres. So it's actually like 0:20:38.280 --> 0:20:41.119 he was the Michael Phelps by which I mean genetically 0:20:41.160 --> 0:20:46.520 predisposed to just be done right of imaginatively thinking about math. 0:20:46.680 --> 0:20:48.840 For people who don't know Michael Phelps is like if 0:20:48.880 --> 0:20:50.720 you saw him in person, you would be like, who 0:20:50.760 --> 0:20:54.239 is this human caricature? His arms and upper body is 0:20:54.359 --> 0:20:57.919 like massive, and then his legs are like tiny. Uh 0:20:58.320 --> 0:21:00.399 but yeah, and you I mean, and they've. 0:21:00.240 --> 0:21:02.840 Done studies showing his body like wicks away lactic acid. 0:21:03.040 --> 0:21:05.960 You know, yeah, that's what he called an outlier, Like. 0:21:06.080 --> 0:21:08.879 Shah, yeah, yeah right, yeah, he shouldn't have revealed himself. 0:21:08.920 --> 0:21:11.640 There going to dissect him at the Pentagon at some point. 0:21:12.119 --> 0:21:13.000 Right now, it. 0:21:13.080 --> 0:21:16.439 Seems to have had some physical brain structure advantages. 0:21:16.520 --> 0:21:19.240 He was like, I want to be cremated immediately because 0:21:19.240 --> 0:21:21.399 I don't want people to worship at my bones and 0:21:21.440 --> 0:21:23.080 I don't want them to like do weird shit to 0:21:23.160 --> 0:21:25.840 my brain. And they were like, sorry, asshole. And his 0:21:25.920 --> 0:21:28.280