Back to episode — Episode 2597 CWSA 09/14/24
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o be healthy so you would exercise. And that wanting for yourself to be healthy gets passed down to the next generation. So in a sense you could say, well, it's the exercise that caused the grandkids to be smarter. But you don't exercise unless you decided to and you said I would be a better creature, whether I'm a better mouse or a better human, if I exercised. So your desire to exercise could ge…
← Previous segment →d buy stock in Hawaii because if you fly from the west coast to Hawaii you spend five or six hours without Wi-Fi, which is crazy in today's modern world. But if you gave me Wi-Fi I wouldn't even mind the five-hour flight. I just get some work done and I'd entertain myself and it'd be great. So my enthusiasm to visit Hawaii would go up 30% by taking the pain of the flight away. That's a pretty big change in my mind. Maybe you too.
I have a theory about the pyramids. You want to hear it? I watched a show on YouTube. I don't know if any of it's true, but apparently there's some pottery from the ancient Egyptians that could not have been made by ancient Egyptians because the ancient Egyptian tools were softer than the pottery. And the pots were made to machine precision way beyond anything that any ancient could have made. And some of the thinking is that the ancient Egyptians didn't make them, that they just still had them. And that there was some of the pottery was made with rocks that are so hard that they would last basically forever. And so they just had them from some previous civilization that was just left over from another civilization that knew how to make them. And apparently the pottery from Egypt got less advanced every year, which would suggest, and you've probably heard lots of speculation about this, that the pyramids were not built by the Egyptians just like the pottery might not have been built by the Egyptians, but rather the Egyptians may have inherited this leftover stuff from some advanced civilization.
So now I'm going to give you my theory about why the pyramids exist. And I don't know if you've heard this one. It's just speculation. It's not based on much. So here's my hypothesis. I put myself in the place of the early civilization. So let's say you were an advanced civilization but you were isolated and the rest of the world were barbarians. And you also knew that your time was limited. Could be that, I don't know, maybe you had some disease that was killing you all. Maybe the barbarians were outnumbering you and even with your advanced technology you knew you couldn't hold them off. You're going to get destroyed. So you reached a point in your civilization where you knew you couldn't last. But you wanted to tell future generations forever that you had once been great. So you build a structure that can't be missed, will never be buried in sand, cannot be destroyed by floods or water, and will be there in 10,000 years. So you build a pyramid, the most sturdy structure you could ever imagine building, because the wind can't blow it over, hurricanes can't hurt it, probably water if the Sphinx was there before the... hold on, weird. I have a video queued up that just started itself for no reason.
Anyway, my theory is that the ancient advanced civilization wanted to not be forgotten. So they built something that would ou
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tlast them. I just throw that in the mix. X is shutting down its headquarters in San Francisco, which used to be the headquarters of Twitter. And Elon Musk is not so happy with California and is done. That building is now, or at least the people, the business part of it, is out of San Francisco. Brazil, do you remember it froze the assets of Starlink because it was mad at X? Those two companie…
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