Google admits it's been recording us

0:00All right. So, Google finally admits without admitting by agreeing to a $68 million settlement for a lawsuit against them for allegedly listening to people through their personal devices. Now, I say allegedly and that they admit without admitting because technically on paper, Google says we're not admitting to We're not saying that we did anything. And this $68 million settlement, it's really just to save us the headache and the hassle. This is Trump change. I mean, we're Google. Do you do you know who we are? Have you heard of us? That little company that owns so much So, we paid the $68 million, but we don't admit to anything. Now, this allegation that Google is listening to people through their devices, this isn't something brand new. This isn't something that well out of nowhere this actually in the lawsuit it goes all the way back to 2016 but I think I would say it's probably around there when it started being kind of like a joke brought up more and more with people that I swear my phone is listening to me.

1:17I'll talk about something and then before I know it, I'm getting an advertisement for it. And these controversies, they they don't stop it. Just Google, right? This lawsuit, yes, it involves Google right now. But I think I think they're playing the game with other people. I don't think they're playing by the other companies playing the same game. And why would they just be listening in? Well, it's exactly what I just told you. The advertisement, the ability to feed people ads that feel so targeted. Wow. It feels like they're listening, but surely they they can't be listening, right? That that has to be make believe. That's some conspiracy theory nut job type of thing to say. I'm not even going to go down that rabbit hole.

2:14But then it happens more and more and honestly when it happens I'll try to think of all of the rational ways in which this can happen. Now like okay we all know that our searches they're not private. You know you can you can do whatever with like a VPN or have some sort of private browser but I I don't know whether you accept the cookies or not. I don't think our searches are private. And that's okay, right? You know, you're you're searching it on some level. You got to feel like that shit's going out in the ether. Like somebody has to be watching from above, right? Well, turns out they are. So, if I if I search something, okay, I understand. Why am I getting an advertisement for it? It makes sense. I mean, why why wouldn't they feed that to me? Why wouldn't they say, "Hey, you know that thing you were searching for?

3:12We have a similar product to what you were talking about or looking for or needed some solution for whatever." But when I get an advertisement from a streaming platform where I'm not even logged in with that email, that's when I start to have issues. Like, okay, this is tied to that same Google account. So, of course, you you may have access to what I've searched online. Okay? If I'm watching Amazon Prime and I'm sitting here looking up stuff in the Amazon app and you know it's all it's all connected, it makes sense that you would feed something to me. But if I'm just talking about it, if I go and look back and it's like, wait a minute, I never did search for that. I never actually went to Amazon. I never actually went to Google search to look for this. I was just having a conversation.

4:10What the Are they listening? No, it can't be real. And again, this is all allegedly. Allegedly, allegedly, right? Google says they don't admit to But like I said, I don't think I don't think they're playing the game alone. I don't think this is a game of solitire. They they probably have some opponents. You know what I mean? Why uh why would like I said, why would you not do that if you're Amazon? Well, that's what Google's doing. Okay. Well, we got to be number one. We got to make sure we have the most advertisement dollars coming in. We have to make sure that it's as targeted as possible. We can say that we compete with them. I know exactly what they're searching. I know exactly what they're searching.

5:07Who else can say that? Well, Meta. Meta could say that. Facebook, Instagram, you know that uh that little company. I think they're playing together. And maybe maybe this is just a company saying whatever. Like something came to light. I I didn't go too far into it. I'm not going to lie. I did read this at a headline level. So, I guess correct me with any details if you want to, but I did see that they agreed to the settlement. I did I did look a little bit under the hood, but I'm not sure exactly how they the exact proof that they have. Like, okay, see, we we caught you with the smoking gun right here red-handed, and Bob's uncle, you're you're give us that 68 mil. And that's the settlement.

6:02That's the let's let's not keep this, you know, going any further. I appreciate, you know, you guys wanting to do what you're doing, but let's just go ahead and squash this right now. And they agree to the settlement. Sometimes sometimes I look at things like this as just the beginning us just starting to, you know, rub our eyes and wake up and say, "Hold on. This is this is what everybody's doing. This is what they're constantly doing." And right now it can it can just be through what we're searching. But the more the more new tech that comes out, the more that we start to integrate with it, well, the more that they'll be able to expand this little game and it becomes an even bigger game than we could have ever expected.

7:08I've been like recently I've been re-watching episodes of Black Mirror and man some of these dystopian predictions about the future they're really scary and there is one that that I actually just watched where bro like so where they have to get the the little marriage the points if you haven't seen it you know it's this probably won't make much sense, I guess. But you got to sit here and ride the little bike. You're basically feeding energy. Everybody, every single time that you're you're pumping, think of like literal guinea pigs on a wheel that are that are given energy and you get these little merit points. Well, then you go to your your cubicle. It's basically a box, a jail cell, and the entire all the walls, their videos and advertisements, and it knows when you're not looking at the uh at the advertisement, it'll it'll just stop and say, "Resume viewing.

8:09Resume viewing." And if anything comes up, like a situational bro was talking to a girl and literally it was like some porn advertisement came up and said, "Hey, frequent user." It's like it him up right there and he's like, "Ah, shit." It's like I think I think that they might not be that far off. Unfortunately, you know, another episode I was watching where they have like a social credit score, social currency, and instead of, you know, I know they got that in like China or some right now, but they, in this episode, they mixed it in with social media. And I look at how people are already so addicted to scrolling on social media now, getting likes, and making sure like they're seen through whatever platform that they choose or whatever.

9:05You know, you have to make sure you don't just have the baby, you have to take a picture of the baby and put it on uh social media for everybody to like it and all that You got to make sure that you're on socials. You're not on socials. What's wrong with you? You don't have that. You don't have anything. you don't post anything. What's wrong with you? And I think it's just going to get worse. And in this this episode, and I brought this all up for a reason. In this episode, they're able to upvote and downvote each other like on a rating scale between one to five stars. And what you can do depends on your rating. what restaurants you can go to, you know, how nice of a hotel, what kind of rental car, what what type of tickets. You know, if if something is limited, guess who's going to get it? It's going to be the high ranked individuals. And you can upvote somebody based on a social post that they put on.

10:03And they didn't they didn't say what platform. So, whatever social media platform they're using where it's all connected. You bump into somebody, downvote. You have a pleasant interaction with somebody, cool. You start to date them and all that. Awesome. You guys have mutual friends. Well, in the episode, they broke up and this one guy just started his points just started going crazy crazy down cuz everybody's down voting. Girl's like, "What's going on?" She's like, "Oh, well, him and so and so just broke up and you know, we're taking so and so." And then apparently to work there you had to have like a 2.5 rating. And they literally just kept down voting until he got fired. Couldn't even go in the building. Sorry sir, you got a 2.1. Can't go in the building. I think I think this game I'm calling it a game as a metaphor, but it doesn't it doesn't end well.

11:04It ends with more and more control cuz the data that we're giving now it's it's not just for nothing. Like what do they do with it? Why would why would Google listen to us for what? Like what what are they getting out of it? They're hoping they get some sort of secret. What's what's going on? They're literally just selling us. Selling us is just just pieces of meat in this system. this assembly line that continues to cycle over and over again. And we're all a part of it. It's not like it has to be sinister, but I I feel like it has like with everything. I mean, man. It's like it's like everything. Everything. I remember going down the rabbit hole with food.

12:01Jesus. What are they putting in our They're putting what? Micro what? And everything is just designed to get you to come back. Everything is just designed. Everything has ads now. Ads everywhere. How long until it's resume viewing? Resume viewing. How do they know? What do you mean? How do they know? Well, like I said, we we participate in this. We we volunteer. We elect ourselves to do this. And I mean, this is not me pointing fingers. I said we ain't the royal we. That's like we like me too, I mean, I want the new We got I mean, I go and search things.

12:56It. What you going to do now? Look things up. Go get a encyclopedia. Shut up. Just going to look it up real quick. And then that's what we say. Well, I ain't got nothing to hide. It's not about what you got to hide. It's not about what you got to hide. It's about everything. The that we don't even think about. The where we think it's just the mundane everyday things that we say and that we look up and that we do, but it leads to It leads to more purchases, leads to targeted advertisement. And in a way, that's not bad, right? I mean, if I need something, if I'm looking for something, bam, bam, there it is. That's the the um what is it? The altruistic way to look at it, the good, the bright side of things, the way to look at it where it's like it's not it's not too bad, right? We just we we want something and we get it.

13:55There it is. We do trade our privacy for all this. So the more that tech advances, the more that we do start to integrate and we will. We already integrate. Like we already like this shit's right next to me. I ain't got going What? What? I'm not on the phone right now, but my phone's literally right next to me. That's why it's we, my It's we. It's not me pointing fingers. It's not me trying to like this is what's wrong with society these days. It's like hold on hold on. I'm noticing that I get this I get this type of feeling when I feel like I don't have my phone on me. And then when I when I get it I'm like ah. And then I kind of have a second thought about it like damn it was that deep? What? You got a phone call to do? I mean, no, but like what did they do back back before before you were born?

14:55Like, what before this happened when cell phones weren't even a thing? And you either catch them on the home phone or that's it. Well, you know, they're out. I guess they they just they'll call back when they can. Apparently, answering machines changed everything. You could leave a message. Holy I could leave a message. Now they'll know that I called and I could tell them why. And then they can call back when they get back home. Not only that, we can upgrade you even further. Caller ID. You can know who is calling. A friend that you don't like to talk to, that telemarketer that calls always right when dinner's about to start. Oh, not anymore. Caller ID right there. it became more and more convenient, more and more like why wouldn't I continue to integrate and right now I can put my phone down.

15:58I brought up these Black Mirror episodes because in the two that I mentioned specifically, everything was connected with what you do, what you see. It literally knows everything that you hear. It knows whether or not you are even watching their advertisements. And it might seem crazy like resume viewing. I wish you would. But what if again you put enough time on it? What if that's just what a certain company does? And if you want to watch this content, that's what you have to do. And that's what they sold their advertisers. Well, they don't they don't have a choice. They don't just walk away. You don't have to worry about a movie going on, a commercial comes on. All right, this is the time to take a piss break. No, you can pause it. Feel free to pause it.

16:54Go take your piss. But you're watching this if you want to watch the movie. I think I think it's the boiling frog method. the little by little we won't even notice. Took a little bit of privacy there. Listen in on you here. Watch what you're doing over there. And it's it's good, right? We're good. It's not much different. This is about what you know. And you got you got some people that are talking about it, but for the most part, even the ones that are talking about it, what did I say? Not getting an encyclopedia. I'm still going to search this I mean, I know that I know that this shit's listening. And it's one of those like I don't know, but you know, I know type which sounds a little It does I get it.

18:00It's it that does sound like a little bit of a conspiracy theory, but it's like $68 million. enough detail where in the lawsuit it goes back to 2016, 10 years of this I mean, I don't think I don't think it's that crazy. And I can see how the almighty powers up above that be I can see how they would just say, "We're doing them a favor." Like I said, here everything you wanted, here you go. You were going to buy it anyways. And if you didn't buy it, you know, that's just a pain you would be having in your life where it's like, man, I wish I had this product. I wish I had this solution. I didn't even know this existed. Bam, here it is. You're welcome. It's win-win. Actually, it's a win-winwin. You're happy. My advertisers are happy. And we're happy. Haha. Laugh all the way to the bank.

19:00And by no means am I one of those that's like, "Eat the rich, the rich, tax the rich, take everything." Shut the up. Only broke people saying that And actually, that's not that's not true. You got rich people saying that Tax the rich more. Okay, who's the rich? Well, you know, I make like uh like 20 million a year. So, um, people that make a h 100red million a year and plus, like that's really like that's too much. Do you really need that? Anything above my means, you know? It just doesn't make sense. I couldn't fathom trying to get that much money. So, by no means am I saying that companies shouldn't company and get their money. The sad part is we probably all agree to it. We all know it too.

19:56Again, these are like jokes like in culture. No, it's like ain't nobody reading the terms and agreement. Nobody. And like with your iPhone and that updates all the time. You got to reaccept that I mean, we willingly, like I said, we volunteer. We are we're volunteering for this So, what happens when augmented reality becomes a thing? And I'm excited for this I'm not going to lie. It's It's not one of those things where I'm just going to be like, "Eh, it. That's crazy. There goes your privacy." It's like, damn. But that would be cool, right? Imagine like a contact lens. There is no losing your phone.

20:52Everything is voice activated and you see it through your your contact lenses. I don't know. You know, they ain't made the yet. They only got different things that you see in shows and movies and things that excite people. But what's crazy is a lot of inventions, that's where they come from. They come from really smart that see some in pop culture. and whether it's a TV show or a movie and or a comic book or whatever the And they're like, I'm going to make that real. I'm going to make it real. And the cool part is when they do. The scary part is when people come in and they exploit that. Because I think a lot of times the invention or product itself there's nothing there's nothing sinister behind it.

21:50I feel like maybe that's just me being optimistic and naive or whatever, but I think for 99.99% of the time, I think if somebody puts years into something into creating something, it's it's not one of those like this will take over the world and we'll have everybody brainwashed. No, it's it's like this is going to change lives for the better. changing lives. This is going to be cool. Like I I just want to be able to do it. I just want to say that I do it. This is my lifelong project. Whatever. However they do it, it will get done. It's already being worked on. It's going to be a part of life. Virtual reality. Okay, cool. Virtual reality is only going to get more and more intense to where you actually feel like you're in these worlds where you're actually, you know, you're feeling the wind on your face and you're feeling the pain and you actually get tired and all of that you actually can dive into this world.

22:54And obviously you'd have to come out to use the restroom and to eat and like that, but that's kind of where you could say, "Okay, but what about augmented reality? What about if there's just gaming zones or whatever and you connect your augmented reality and bam, you could just go into these worlds. It doesn't have to be a headset. It's already in your eyes. Well, now they could actually if it was an entire imagine again like a a Walmart a Walmart super center typeiz building and it was just completely decked out with whatever the theme was. Um, you could put bathrooms in that Just saying. Program the bathrooms in the game or simulation the same place that it is in real life. The same thing with food. like program the exact same replica. So it I think there's going to be some determined that find a way to eat piss while being in this world, whatever world they just decide to be in.

24:03And that's okay. Can the the fun parts of all of this that it sounds good. It sounds real good. But what about when they start listening in there? Now you have it on all the time. You know, augmented reality. Let's take it further. What about when that's where all the signs, menus, everything, it's paperless. You don't we don't have anything actually. It's all right here. Any entertainment, it's all augmented. If you want to see it, it's it's you have to you have to use the AR context. And people are like, why would they force somebody? They wouldn't force somebody to do that. I'm sorry. But have you not gone out and done activities or some Because there's a lot of things where now I mean they make you you got to scan the QR code. As simple as that seems. Scanning the QR code to get all the information. What if I don't want a smartphone?

25:00Smartphones. This is what's wrong with people. Always got to scan take pictures and selfies and whatnot. Well, you're out of luck. I guess you just can't participate. I'm sorry. Where you can like look over at somebody that does have this and then you just feel out of place because it's like, well, damn. I wanted to do this, but I can't even get the stuff that I want. What about the people that want to keep writing checks for the groceries eventually? Eventually, again, it's the boiling frog type method. You got to slowly but surely pull the rug from under people. And that's what they do. That's what they do. And that's what will I think that's my prediction for now. You know, subject to change. I could change that Obviously, who can really predict the future right now, but I think I don't I don't see that not happening. Some sort of again, you have augmented reality everywhere.

26:00I was going to say traffic signs and like that, but that's going to be gone. Traffic signs. No, we're going to have automated cars and So with the thought experiment, assuming it's true, the thought experiment of augmented reality being fully integrated into society within the next, let's just say 25, 30 years. I know it sounds like a far ways away, but hopefully we'll all be alive then, right? You know what I mean? So it's at least worth considering. I think once it gets down to that point, they're going to be watching everything that we see. They're going to be listening to everything that we hear. And I thought I was done with the Black Mirror There was one more episode.

26:57This this shit's crazy. It was actually, it's in season one. The same thing I'm talking about basically where they have some sort of I don't think it's a contact. It's like put into their eyes. I don't know. Either way, they can basically reaccount everything that they've seen in their lives. So, if you you know, you had an argument with your your partner. Okay. Well, you could just go back. Oh, you said um you didn't say this. Yes, you did. I'm sorry. There it is. I just redoed that So, the reason why I brought that up is because he went to go in somewhere and it was like such a quick scene that I didn't really pay too much attention to it, but it just kind of like hit me. Bro went to go into a building and they needed to see the past. It was something like where they're like uh where it was like, "Okay, show me the last 24 hours at I don't know, it's like 4x speed."

27:56He said some certain speed and Buddy is just like shows it to him and his eyes like glow or whatever. It's like all right and now show me the last week at a higher speed and it just like quickly goes through the last week. It makes sense, right? Why wouldn't you do that? Let's say again thought experiment AR fully integrated. You go to the airport like you got things like 911 that happened. I mean ever since then you can't even bring in some shampoo. We we want to keep people safe and we're going to do whatever we got to do. You know, we're going to we're going to make you take your clothes off. We're going to make you We're going to make you go through these metal detectors. We're going to make you take your your watch right there. It could have something in it. Take it off, sir. It's going to set off our machines. What if What if you really can just recount everything that you've seen?

29:00We already do that, right? Like I said, half the people do, they take pictures of it, they take videos of it, and they put it online immediately where it's, you know, it's one right after the other. It's the domino that falls right after the event actually happening. Got to take a picture. Got to take a video. Got to put it online. Get the likes. Get the comments. Say my thank yous. And rinse, repeat. That's something that is already integrated into society. It's something that already people don't even think about anymore. It used to be weird, I bet. Imagine like flip phones and and like that. I don't I don't remember people going around and taking pictures like that But I bet that if everybody was as glued to then as they are now, if it was just a really quick change instead of that slow trickle that I was talking about, I think then people would be like, "Whoa, what the fuck?"

30:16I mean, people already like this, don't get me wrong. Obviously people like oh social media the effect on everybody's already like this isn't brand new obviously but as far as being integrated as far as people accepting it maybe people wouldn't have accepted it as much if it was just something that was slapped into existence. You know, they they had those big ass brick cell phones or whatever. all of that Just straight to straight to iPhone, social media, all of it. You don't just get the iPhone, you get everything. Creators are already on there somehow. Like, you got Tik Tok and YouTube. You got all of it. You got Spotify. You can get all the music you want.

31:13Everything. Everything that is now. Imagine if it just popped into existence. They would have gone bananas. They would have lost their mind. They would have been like, "No." And maybe it would have happened. Maybe it would have been inevitable. But I think because we have already shown to be susceptible to this slow trickle and integration of uh different technology. Of course, right? We're adaptive creatures. Aren't we supposed to be that way? Makes sense. Cool. Cool. I get it. It's biology. That's not It's That's not the actual problem. The fact the fact that we do that, the fact that that happens isn't the problem. It's the fact that it's exploited. So, yes, I'm just pointing out something that's completely natural, completely human.

32:09But because we are susceptible to it, I think it's going to continue to get worse. So, we already are at the point with social media where, like I said, you you the event happens, you take the picture or video and you put it online. You put this timeline, you push it down even further where we have augmented reality. And yeah, you could take a picture by just I don't I don't know. Do you blink? Do you you think it is it like Neurolink where you could just think of what you want to happen? I don't know. It just automatically posts and you could just see everything around. I don't know. Whatever it is, people are even now they're even more obsessed. It's even more like everything is recorded. Literally everything is recorded. The whole like stop recording me. Why are you recording me? It's going to be completely all that's going to be gone. Everybody's going to know that at all times they're basically being recorded and it's already slowly again the trickle is slowly happening with like the like the meta glasses and Ray-B band glasses, whatever the it, you know what I mean?

33:16All the different smart AI glasses that are recording you. I'm not even saying I'm against that Like that seems cool. Like as as like for creating videos, it seems like a really cool way to get a whole bunch of different POV shots. So I see I see why people would want to do that. I see why. Why? Why wouldn't you want to have these glasses that can translate Why not? Why not? Right. So, it's going to continue to happen. We're going to continue to get more and more comfortable. I don't know if comfortable is a word. We're going to adapt to it more and more to the idea of us being recorded at all times. I think that's why serial killers have gone down since damn like the 60s and like that. The the camera. Oh, you can watch me now. I don't think they just disappeared. I think they just know they're being watched.

34:11And what happens when everybody's being watched all the time? every social interaction, you know. Um, you hear you hear people say, "Well, I remember like you used to be able to just do and you didn't have to worry about it ending up online." I don't remember that Like there could be a phone at any moment now, but that whole there could be. Imagine if that could aspect is gone. People around, people are watching. People are watching, people recording. People are recording it automatically goes up to the cloud and you know that shit's there forever. If everybody knows they're being watched, I don't know.

35:10I think it it creates a weird a weird change to who people are. I think I think that's why people use the phone as a weapon and obviously it has been weaponized and like anything it can be taken too far and people use it for real like like they're bullying with it or some I don't I I get it. But there are probably so many instances that I could look up and you could look up where somebody was doing some and they start being filmed and they start acting right. I could see how as a society going through that airport that we were talking about earlier that we would start being okay with Yeah. Go through my last 24 hours. Go through my last week. I got nothing to hide. Yeah. I see all my posts, all the different things I put.

36:06And like I said, the posts are more frequent in this thought experiment, prediction, whatever you want to call it. The posts are constant. It's not even to necessarily get likes. I think I'm I'm just I'm really trying to think through this like out loud. Think through this thing. If you're just posting constantly and everybody's posting constantly, I don't know that how much of your is actually being consumed. Is it for consumption? Maybe not. Maybe maybe social media becomes less social and less media. We have that, but it's separate. This is something different. This is basically you taking snapshots of everything. It's like your fingerprint. It's like your social security number, your your background check.

37:07It's everything. Yeah. Show Show me Show me all your work history in the past month. Imagine doing an interview. Just show me the past what you what you've been doing the past year. Everything. Just pull it all up. Well, How many people have lied into jobs? How many people have stretched the truth a little bit? Have you ever been fired? No. Never been fired. Never been fired before. Oh, well, how about you go ahead and pull up the past past six months? I want to see just speedrun through all that. No more would you in these interviews would you have to say you know tell me about a a time where you overcame a difficult I don't know whatever the they've been saying in these interviews where it's like where you overcame some some sort of circumstance and you made your bosses proud or some some weird when they when they have these weird off-the-wall questions where it's like bro are you serious like well let me check my journal let me see exactly when this happened shut up You you tell me when you had a moment like that.

38:15But those questions are gone. I mean, I guess they're still there. It's show me instead of tell me. Oh, well, show me about a time when this happened. And you could just pop it up. Oh, you don't have any moments. No, it's not a bad tick, but it is a tick. So, let's just carry on. Can you can you tell me about a time when you deescalated a situation with one of your co-workers? Never deescalated. It's not looking good for you. Privacy secrets. Why wouldn't you though? And again, it's like, why wouldn't you? Why wouldn't you? That's that's going to be the question.

39:11You continue to push this timeline out further and further. That's going to be the question. Why wouldn't I do that? Why wouldn't I? As a company, it's well within my rights to make sure that I'm hiring somebody that is an outstanding citizen and does the right thing and has perfect experience with what I'm trying to have them do. When they come into the airport, I have to make sure that this isn't a a terrorist. So, I have to make sure that they don't have some sort of shampoo bomb or something. I got to make sure. Why not? Why wouldn't we? It's for the safety of all of us. Anybody that's against this, they must be a criminal. A criminal. Talking about privacy. No. It's a freedom of press. And now we put a camera and a microphone in everybody. This game is just beginning.

40:13That's my prediction. This game is far from over. In fact, I think they're going to throw away the draw uh playing board or whatever and they're going to they're going to make a whole new one up on their own. And any instructions that it has in this game, they're going to make them up as it goes along. Whatever can be most easily digested. Whatever can be most easily spoonfed to the public. Makes me nervous. excited about the tech and all that, but this one this one makes me nervous because again, it's allegedly they they did not say say the uh the whole I admit it, I'm guilty thing. They they just said I will do this settlement.

41:10I'm gonna pay you to just off. So, but for so long this has been this has just been a conspiracy. This has just been something that I swear it feels like and you just get gas lit and gas lit and gas lit. How much gaslighting is done? I mean you see it with everything coming undone between politics you know co happened. You have independent media has made it harder and harder for them whoever them is right and I think it's multiple them. I don't think it's one team again. And I think it's just a game multiple opponents and we we are the billions of pawns in that game.

42:13So whoever they is, they have a vested interest in keeping us controlled. And yes, we've made it harder through independent media and all of that stuff. we've been we've become more informed and everything but you know they also didn't have it where they could just listen to everything that you said before telephones think about all these the more technology that happens the more control that they have in different ways. So, yes, we have been able to fight back. We've been able to actually wake up, quote unquote, to a lot of the that has been spewing from whoever they is down to us. And I I hate to say it, but they're they're going to keep being crafty. They're going to keep finding ways to make it convenient to give them more control. I think it's I think it's inevitable.

43:16It's something that no matter how many people put the warning bells and try and tell people about what's happening, it's not going to matter again for so many of us. Even when you become somewhat aware, because I don't think anybody's fully aware of all the that's going on, but even if you become somewhat aware, you're still just like, "Well, I do choose convenience." Like, I mean, you could choose to live off the grid. Literally, just go out into the wilderness and learn how to do everything. You You know what I mean? You harvest fruits and vegetables and you know how to um kill wild game and skin it and cook it and I don't know how to do that I would be Put me in the naked and afraid show or whatever where they just drop you in the wilderness.

44:15I would be I don't know what I can't eat. I don't know. And then when I start getting hungry that shit's going to start looking good. I would be But you can. You can choose an inconvenient life. You can choose to just go out and do it all yourself. Electricity, you don't have to be on the grid. Literally, get off of the electric grid. You don't need electricity. You can choose not to. You don't need to worry about money. You don't have to worry about paying taxes and being a part of any sort of system. You don't have to worry about paying like a water bill. You can you can go well that. You can go find fresh water. You can collect it, whatever. Figure it out. You can do it all yourself. We could all do that How many people do that And then when people do, and I most of the time they got a camera person following them just because that shit's so crazy and people want to see it like, "Wow, look at that.

45:14This just does everything." Couldn't be me. In the same way that we look at people that run hundreds of miles. point straight. They did what? How? Couldn't be me. We We like to look at things that couldn't be us. And we choose I choose I choose a convenient life. I know how to get electricity. I don't know how to do that. Wi-Fi. I like Wi-Fi. I like the internet. It's pretty cool. I mean, I don't really do social media, Instagram, Tik Tok, and all that That's one of those things that somehow I've avoided. I used to be more into it years ago, but I literally like I'll post and I'll get off.

46:13But YouTube, Spotify with some podcast, I don't know, man. I could watch some YouTube videos and not the shorts. That's kind of like the same thing. And that's not like I never watch them. I do watch some, but for the most part, but I like that I would hate to be without it. When the hurricane hit in what was it like 2024 when there was like no electricity and no Wi-Fi for like it was like 9 10 days or some like that. It was wild. It was ridiculous. I realized that I could do the Wi-Fi for an extended period of time. I like that But it's one of those things you kind of get used to where, you know, the Wi-Fi might go out.

47:09Like you have ways I I don't know. At least I have ways to entertain myself that don't require the internet, which is good. But power, you take away a nigga's power, I start getting a little bit like, what the I realize that a likes power. I like power. Like, the power goes out, that come. Yeah, the power went out. Came came back a couple hours later. Days, Days. I was beside myself. I didn't know what the to do. And obviously I lived right. We could do it. We could go off the grid, but do we want to? Do we? So yeah, when augmented reality becomes a thing, and I think it will, will we want to not have that?

48:11And you know what? Let's say there's some people that, you know, we're around right now and by the time that thing becomes a fully integrated where it's like normal like how smartphones are integrated into society society today, let's just fast forward and pretend that's how it's been integrated with all augmented reality. By the time that comes, the people that are around right now, there might be some of us that are like, "Nah, that. I don't do it. Just just show me the thing on my phone, man." Or whatever. You know what I mean? Like, show me the way where I don't have to put that technology in in my eye and I'm sitting here every I'm looking at everything with your screens all the time. No, I'm not doing it. There's going to be some people like that, but they're going to die. They're going to be typically the older ones. You know, it's typically the older people now that are just like, "No, I don't do any of the internet or I don't do phones or anything like you know, the ones that are so set in their ways and I'm not changing for nothing."

49:16They eventually die and they are always for the at least historically, they're always the minority. Always. When electricity first came out, people thought it was demons in there. that there were literal demons in the electricity and um here we are. Everybody's got electricity in their home and nobody's talking about demons. So, give it enough time. And the idea of somebody even existing with the thought of being against what everybody does is going to be crazy. Like, what? There's people that didn't want electricity. That's that's crazy. They thought what? Demons wild. Well, it wasn't so wild back then. It wasn't such a crazy thing to to say then, but even if it starts off as the majority and the majority is scared and the majority is apprehensive about this new technology, there's going to be the minority in the beginning, the early adapters that say, "Hold on, I'll try it.

50:32You say, "Uh, you see, I'll be I'll be able to see it. Hook me up. Give me that electricity." And then they start talking because I mean, again, historically, we've been using technology to better society for the most part. So, when they start talking and they start saying, "Well, actually, it's really cool. I'm ex I'm able to do a lot more reading. I can read my Bible now after dark. Get closer to Jesus. Well, then surely it can't be demons. It can't be demons. It helps you get closer to Jesus. Are you sure? Yeah. I read and my eyes don't start hurting like they do when I'm by the fire and my lungs feel better without constant smoke inhalation from having a fire lit in our house.

51:41Um, yeah, it's pretty it's pretty convenient. I like it. Well, It can't be It can't be Demons. I'll get closer to Jesus, too. And I'll get the electricity. And then Betty Sue gets it. Well Well, then Susie Bop down the street is going to get it, too. I don't know where these names are coming from, but even the minority that starts out as the early adapters, they quickly become the majority. if it's truly something that brings convenience into the world, that makes life easier. Because what did I say earlier? Why why wouldn't we why wouldn't we do that? I think I think that this won't be the last settlement or lawsuit against a company for maybe not even listening.

52:45What if it's what if it's more? What if it's well now we're hacking into the camera? Not hacking in. I'm sorry. You agreed to the terms and agreement. This is uh this is actually our right to watch you take shits and we hacked into your frontfacing camera. You know, law enforcement already uses your phone to see where you were and how long you were somewhere and you know what I mean, how fast you were going. It's pretty crazy. And I think I think I even heard something where there's these automated driving cars that can somehow detect when can detect when you're when you're like intoxicated when you're drunk and they can damn definitely fact check me on this cuz I I can't even like finish it.

53:41It was something with this though where it can like not not work, choose not to work or like notifies maybe like it was some like that. And either way, I think that is just the beginning. All of it. All of it. And we're going to choose safety and we're going to choose convenience and we're going to lose privacy and we're going to lose true connection. What little of it that we have left, you know. Um, everything is going to everything is going to just turn into a product. It's not just you, you know, we became products when social media came out. Well, people were now products before. Yes, you could become an A-list, beless, even sealless celebrity and you are kind of like a product. You're a brand. But for the most part, that well that's the few.

54:38That's a pipe dream. That's a one ina million shot. Why would you take that chance? Unless you just know somebody in the business. What What do you mean? How many people went homeless, starving, without for way too long because they moved to Hollywood trying to become an actor? Well, that all went away when we became products and we became products when social media came out and said, "Show us your life. Don't just show your family. Don't just show your friends. Start widening your net." Because at first, that's how it was. It's just your family and friends. Of course, you're going to show them, but don't you want to make more friends? Connection. We're starting to lose connection. Let's Let's do it even more. Your posts, your videos, if you choose to make them public, they reach new people.

55:37New people. New people. And your your profile and stuff, it'll even get recommended to people that are near you. They have similar friends. It's pretty crazy. But we might make you a lot more popular. You are going to have a whole bunch of friends. You're welcome. You're welcome. This continued to play out. Obviously, we continued to feed into this narrative and we continued to put our life on display and we became the products for people. We started hoping that some sort of funny moment. And you had shows like America's Funniest Home Videos that already wanted to get people to send in these home videos. And it's such harmless fun for whenever you slip or you know, damn it, Johnny just hit dad in the in the nuts with a a baseball bat.

56:35Silly little Johnny. Send it in and you could be on America's Funniest Home Videos. This was always and already a thing. Not always. it was already a thing, right? So, when we're able to do that every single day, we now have our camera right here, we don't have to worry about being on national television If you do this right, you can be on global television. Television. I mean, you can put it on your television, but global phones, globally be on people's phones. You'll be globally known for a second. just a little second and I'll give you just enough of a dopamine rush to be like, I gotta come back. I have to come back. I got to do this again. I beat my record. I got more likes than I've ever gotten. And it felt good. It felt really good. So, it started with our friends and our family. It moved on to showing our to random people. And you actually somehow hoping that you can get random people to follow you and to like your That's actually the goal now.

57:38Friends. family. I mean, if they want to come, they can come, but they're all haters anyways, you know, from my hometown. I got to get my new people, my I got to get my followers up. I got to bring them to my profile. And what am I going to do? Well, you get different people. You get different answers. You get different types of stupid. You get different types of talent. You get different types of people. And damn, you gave us the opportunity, us as human beings. And boy, did we deliver. Did we give you everything that we got all the funniest home videos where people have fails and they fall and they have challenges and they have what the breakfast is in the morning and I just got Starbucks and you have the newest song and check me out on Soundcloud, bro. And you got everybody. I'm a photographer. Everybody is just ah I got to get my little bit.

58:36Got to get it. And we all became products. We became products that were also, this is the crazy part. We're products that were also customers because the products, which is all of the different content, is also a debate for other customers. the advertisers, they get to come in and put their content just like how you're putting your content. Well, they'll pay to make sure people see it. And then on the back end, obviously, they're trying to sell something, get that money back. But that's where they come in. And when it's presented to you, whether it's presented to you or the people that watch your well, then they buy And now the same people that are products are also customers. And who are they customers of? Well, they're customers of my other products. And those products, well, they're customers of me.

59:38Me as the topline company that is taking all of this content, whether it's ads from businesses or entrepreneurs or actual organic pieces of content that's going out to big creators, small creators. I wish I could get more followers, type creators, all the different people that are just waiting on the shot and they're just feeding the system more and more, giving more and more products to this neverending machine. And it only works if we all continue to work it. M what I say? Why wouldn't we? We're going to continue to push this. We already are products now as far as the people that are putting stuff out.

1:00:39And it's not just the ones that want to be a creator. Everybody. Everybody that you know Susan just took her first steps. Everybody needs to see it now. This will get the likes. Uh, I fear it's only going to get worse. We're only going to become more and more products. It starts with this. It didn't start with this. Obviously, we we brought this way, way back to where this wasn't even a thing. But slowly but surely, that boiling damn frog just thought he was in a jacuzzi. Just thought he was chilling. I think the next thing that will be productized more than it is already allegedly is the things that we say, the things that we see.

1:01:40I mean, down to if you have augmented reality and you know, you're walking down the street and you see somebody with a shirt that you like and you double take, it's like, "Wow, pops up. There it is. Here's an advertisement for the exact thing that you would like." Because we were able to have some sort of recognition. We were able because you double taped on it and you stayed on on that shirt for.5 seconds longer than you normally do, we actually were able to tell that you were interested in it. You're welcome. Here you go. That's another product. What you look at you say anything about anything. There you go. That's another product. Not not the product that you're going to be served. No, the product is what you say. And the way I sell that is to the advertisers. And I can say I know exactly what they're saying. I know exactly what they see. You want to advertise with me, bro?

1:02:39I'm locked in. I know exactly what they need. They can't even look at that for half a second longer without boom, right there. I'mma give it to them. So, we have a deal. You're going to give all your money to us and make it back because now the things that we're products, the things that you say, the things that you see attached to you who has become a customer now to my other products. It's the same game, just expand it. Maybe this is just going to stay in the allegedly field. Maybe this is never going to be something that you can prove. Maybe it's not something that's even happening. Maybe I'm just talking right now. Maybe this is just the beginning. Maybe there ain't a goddamn thing we could do about it.