Joe Rogan Experience #2464 - Priyanka Chopra Jonas
In a Nutshell
Joe Rogan and Priyanka Chopra Jonas discuss her ultra-violent pirate film *The Citadel* (aka *The Bluff*), her sword training, and historical piracy tied to the East India Company's brutal colonization of India, including cultural erasure and artifact looting like the Koh-i-Noor diamond. They explore ancient mysteries—Kailasa Temple's precision, Vedic vimanas, Younger Dryas comet impacts, potential alien interventions in human evolution, and lost advanced civilizations—contrasting them with modern threats like AI's rise as a sentient life form, nuclear risks, and societal vulnerability to disasters. Priyanka shares career insights from Bollywood to Hollywood, Fear Factor hosting, parental protectiveness, and critiques of pharma incentives keeping people sick amid rapid tech shifts eroding human skills and resilience.
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Priyanka Chopra Jonas expresses nervousness and intimidation upon meeting Joe Rogan due to his eclectic perspective on diverse topics. Joe explains he selects guests he's interested in, making conversations easy. Priyanka thanks him for the invitation and appreciates his excitement about her movie.
Joe describes The Citadel as a pirate movie with unexpected ultra-violence from the first scene. Priyanka notes it's make-believe and fun, like playing pirates, but reflects on the barbaric reality for female pirates like Grace O'Malley, Mary Read, and Ching Shih. She admires the precision of stunts, choreography, and camera work.
Long extended fight scenes require complex coordination. They filmed many in one-shot one-takes (one-shot oners), enriching the moment between action and cut. Priyanka treats fight sequences like Bollywood dance choreography, where face expressions tell the story.
First time working with blades. Trained for a year across three action films: Heads of State (Amazon), Citadel, and this movie. Already agile from daily filming, but sword training was tough, especially becoming ambidextrous. Stunt coordinator rehearsed with rubber swords between shots for 3-4 months. Co-actor Karl Urban had sword experience from Lord of the Rings. Not kendo or fencing; director focused on period-accurate weapons like guns and blades. Machete was her character's practical weapon for coconuts or skulls.
Second unit director Rob Alonzo designed unique choreography per set piece, e.g., dark cave fights visible only on gunshots. Used four sword weights: heavy real sword for closeups, lighter for choreography, lightest for flips. Filmed 10 hours daily for 7 days on practical sets (90-100% real, minimal VFX). Built replica ships and houses from 1700s Cayman Islands.
Joe dives into East India Trading Company: first publicly traded corporation controlling India, Pakistan, Bangladesh; warred with China over opium, took Hong Kong; involved in slave trade. Grew so large it faced revolt, then British government nationalized it. Movie shows EIC using then vilifying pirates. Priyanka's character from indentured servants, common in India—lured with promises, displaced to Caribbean islands, erasing identity. Met Cayman locals unaware of ancestry beyond 5 generations from India or Sri Lanka.
Ambiguity in history erases cultural roots. Fascinating human history worldwide. Mexico example: over 100 languages lost; now Spanish-speaking Catholics due to conquest by 600 Spaniards in 1500s with Aztec rivals' help, despite wild names like cacao, thunder, sky god.
India invaded thousands of years (Portuguese, British, Mughals), never invaded others. Hyper-diverse: Priyanka's grandmother Catholic from colonized Kerala. 28-30 languages with hundreds of dialects; different alphabets/sounds. Priyanka speaks English, Hindi; understands Punjabi, Marathi.
Joe must visit India. Immense temples carved from single stone, e.g., Kailasa Temple (7th-8th century, ~1200 years old per estimates). Caves in Andaman & Nicobar with ancient illustrations. Indus Valley Civilization (one of oldest, with Mayans); artifacts suggest advanced science lost over time.
Graham Hancock: humans are a species with amnesia. Ancient sites challenge official narratives, indicating advanced societies. Different technology likely existed.
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Kailasa Temple carved from solid mountain; immense scale, precision, no explanation for stone removal. Thousands of years old (BC).
Peru: Inca structures on massive jigsaw stones for earthquake absorption; Incas used smaller stones. Egypt: abandoned cracked granite obelisk (~1,300 tons) in Aswan. No valid pyramid theories; stones perfectly aligned true north/south/east/west, some 80 tons from 500 miles away, no roads.
Filippo Biondi used radio Doppler tomography (satellite imagery) revealing immense structures under pyramids: >1km deep, 20m diameter columns with circular coils, huge square base. Over 200 scans; man-made, purpose unknown.
Herodotus described labyrinth greater than Giza, underground. Ground-penetrating radar (UnchartedX, Ben van Kerkwyk) confirms immense labyrinths. Center atrium has 40m metallic tic-tac-shaped object.
Later civilizations built on older sites, reusing stones without regard for history, as survival was the priority. In India, during colonization, British officers offered children two pounds to retrieve gold statues from temples, lacking comprehension of historical value. Vast wealth, history, and artifacts were taken from India, including the Koh-i-Noor diamond (K-O-H-I-N-O-O-R), now on the British queen's crown.
Give it back.
The Koh-i-Noor is 105 carats, priceless due to historical value. Indian royalty possessed immense jewelry and wealth that was pillaged.
India's history is fascinating, with Vedic texts describing vimanas—flying crafts. Indian mythology references advanced technology: flying objects, energy spears, bows and arrows traveling beyond time and light. These may have been ancient technology mistaken for magic. Hinduism features incredible stories, prompting questions about their origins.
Most people writing things down back then were trying to document a truth.
Stories were handed down generations before writing, interpreting ancient truths like lights arriving from afar or bomb-like events.
Belief in the mysticism and magic of ancient humans and the beginning of time. Religious texts and historians provide information, but human resilience and evolution navigate problems across timelines. Human lifespans were short, stories passed orally. Vimanas likely documented real experiences from unknown times, possibly 17,000 BC or 20,000 BC.
Randall Carlson, expert in asteroid collisions, discusses Earth impacts by comets and meteors. Dinosaur extinction from asteroid in Yucatan 65 million years ago. Other impacts before and after. Younger Dryas impact theory: comet storm ~11,800 years ago, aligning with meteor showers every June and November.
Early 1900s Tunguska event: meteor exploded above Russia, devastating a million acres, flattening trees without ground impact. Area remains barren after 117 years, possibly due to root destruction or chemical effects. Some asteroids are iron or nickel alloys, like a Manhattan-sized one observed.
Humans are not the only species in the universe; it's arrogant to think otherwise given countless planets. Evidence of bacterial life on Mars within the Milky Way. Terrence Howard theorizes life emerges in the Goldilocks zone when planets are optimal distance from their sun, leading to intelligent life that propagates the universe via "peopleing"—planets eventually reaching conditions for life, evolution, and natural selection.
Planets slowly move away from suns; our sun will eventually burn out and explode, though far in the future. Speculation of binary solar system with a burned-out sun past Pluto in the Kuiper Belt. Planet X: possible large body, Jupiter-sized, way past Pluto.
Earth's moon formed from collision with another planet, a chunk bursting off. Planets' moons may result from asteroid impacts, volcanic activity, or captured asteroids. All planets have gravitational pull based on mass. Jupiter protects Earth with its massive gravity, absorbing impacts like an Earth-sized explosion from an asteroid in the 1980s, observed in real time.
Younger Dryas theory explains disappearance of ancient advanced civilizations ~11,800 years ago via comet bombardment. Core samples show iridium (common in space, rare on Earth), microdiamonds (trinitite from nuclear explosions like Trinity). These found worldwide in same timeline. Temples in India, pyramids survived as stone structures from unexplained timelines. Vedas are the oldest texts, describing likely real past civilizations.
Recently found written language 28,000 years old (previously thought 6,000 years ago). 40,000-year-old artifacts with mysterious symbols for encoding information tens of thousands of years before first writing systems. Continents have shifted; Earth 20,000 years ago looked different. Historical accounts from 1500s-1600s often fabricated.
Coincides with end of ice age; 3/4 of North America covered by mile-high ice sheets that melted rapidly, forming Great Lakes via massive water flows visible in satellite images.
Rapid shift from Neanderthals/early man to technology-driven intelligence unexplained. Theory: something helped us. Other primates unchanged, yet humans innovate insatiably, constantly improving (cars, phones). Human brain size doubled over 2 million years, greatest mystery in fossil record. Possible causes: fire, cooking for nutrition; but acceleration too rapid.
Religious texts describe humans breeding with otherworldly beings (alien intervention, hyper-intelligent life). Ancient Aliens show explores this. Book of Enoch (non-canonical biblical text): Watchers from sky mated with humans, creating Nephilim giants that destroyed Earth. Excluded from Bible by rabbis. Hindu mythology: gods, humans, demons coexisted, procreated. Similar global stories suggest higher technology or power intervening, described as gods (Roman, Egyptian, Hindu avatars descending to save humankind).
Ancient people with limited vocabulary described real events like UFO landings or telepathic tiny creatures as best they could, passed orally for generations. Pragmatic modern view vs. magical past events. Science can't explain everything, e.g., Big Bang (pinhead to universe). Sir Roger Penrose: cyclic big bangs (expansion, contraction), not a true beginning. Indian beliefs align: many beginnings and ends. Universe lacks biological limitations like birth/death; time is constant.
The idea that there was nothing before the universe doesn't make sense. During research for the movie The Bluff, Priyanka Chopra Jonas visited the Cayman Islands to understand their history. Cayman is in the middle of trading routes between Honduras, Cuba, and Mexico. Ships discovered the islands when trading started. The museum said the first settlers came in the 1700s or 1800s—families, people running away, pirates, or those making pit stops. She questioned how that's possible, as humans existed in many places long before recorded history, which we may have lost.
There's an entire South American culture we don't know: giant carved heads, thousands of years old, looking African. Luke Caverns, who has been on the podcast, researched in Peru, documenting enormous stone heads attributed to a civilization called the Olmec. They don't know who these people were, their language, or if the statues depict them. The heads are at least 900 BC old, but that's a guess. Even the Aztecs didn't build their temples; they found them from an unknown previous civilization and called them "the place where the gods were born," then cleaned them up.
Aztecs were barbaric; at Templo Mayor (Tenochtitlan), they consecrated it by killing 20,000 to 80,000 people in four days, cutting out hearts and throwing bodies down stairs. Spanish chronicler Diaz witnessed this around the time Spaniards first visited Mexico. Conquest history is built on blood, sacrifices, and unfathomable violence. Chimps explain human violence; Chimp Empire on Netflix shows a group observed for 20 years by scientists (rules: stay 20 yards away, no eye contact, no food, no interference). Chimps wage war, have social dynamics, eat monkeys alive daily—ultraviolent, like primitive humans.
Humans are a hybrid of higher intelligence interbreeding with savage primates. Ancient Aliens theory: aliens intervened, created humans, taught technology. Chariots of the Gods (1970s, Erich von Däniken) claims aliens built everything. Joe Rogan lunched with von Däniken, a true believer. Humans accelerated from Neanderthals to highly intelligent too quickly; vegans claim tubers caused it, but that's implausible. Ancient tech differed—moving enormous stone blocks without machinery, precise cuts. Filippo Bjönsson's structures under pyramids (half a mile deep) suggest pyramids were machines. We intervene like humans do now: genetic manipulation by Colossal Biosciences brought back dire wolves (extinct 10,000 years, part of megafauna wipeout).
65% of North American megafauna (woolly mammoths, American lions bigger than African lions) went extinct around the same time as the Younger Dryas impact, end of ice age. Rational theory: humans hunted them with atlatls, but unlikely with few people. Mass grave sites show hundreds of mammoths dead simultaneously, some with broken legs, indicating asteroid impact. Pronghorn antelope is a leftover: runs 55 mph, evolved to escape extinct North American cheetahs, eyes on sides for 55 mph predators.
Priyanka filmed Vanasi in Kenya, in the middle of migrating wildebeest with co-actor Mahesh. Seeing ancient animals in the wild feels profound, unlike zoos. Wildlife competes daily to survive in balance—lions and wildebeest coexist post-hunt. Lions kill with faces. On an African island where a river changed course, lions adapted to water buffalo, becoming enormous (females as big as normal males, males even bigger; documentary Relentless Enemies). Water buffaloes kill people; one stared her down during filming. A Game of Thrones video editor was pulled from her car and killed by a lion after rolling down the window for a picture.
Rangers warn to stay in jeeps. In Maasai Mara, open jeeps hide food; an influencer stuck his hand out to touch a sleeping lion's head for Instagram, survived, got banned; ranger fired. People don't learn from examples, desensitized, chasing social media images amid misinformation. Attention spans are short; we learn, forget, relearn. Growing up 30-35 years ago had languid time—reading, music, hanging out without rush.
Internet accelerates short attention spans, but podcasts (2-3 hours) thrive. For actors, interviews are clickbait highlights; podcasts allow being oneself for hours, revealing true character—you can't hide for 3 hours. TV like Good Morning America is surface-level (10 minutes: marriage, baby). Everyone asks the same four questions. Priyanka's identity often starts with family.
Priyanka starred in movies in two cultures. Bollywood produces thousands of films yearly; 100 years of Indian cinema from silent movies. India has diverse local industries: Bollywood (Hindi, Mumbai, from Bombay like Hollywood), Telugu, Tamil, Punjabi, Malayalam, Marathi, Bhojpuri—each for state audiences. Few Indians like her became stars in Western movies; America is hard to break into, Hollywood controls global entertainment. Culturally different: language, jokes. She went to high school in the US (Newton South; Joe Rogan went to Newton North), so not alien. Stood on shoulders of prior Indian actors cast as diversity checks in Hollywood/British entertainment.
Priyanka Chopra discusses early stereotypical roles for Indian actors in Hollywood, where characters were often required to speak with an accent or "be a little bit more Indian." In one audition, she was told the character needed to be "a little bit more Indian," meaning a stronger accent. This was tough to break out of, but those roles were all that existed. Actors like Aishwarya Rai, Amitabh Bachchan, and Khan paved the way, leaving a mark despite challenges from India. Priyanka now lives in the US and consistently works in Hollywood, which has increased her visibility.
Joe Rogan notes he's seen her interviews and finds her knowledge of the world fascinating. She calls her career accidental. Rogan shares how he started his podcast with friend Brian and a laptop 16 years ago as a fun internet thing.
Priyanka pivoted careers but stuck to interests, except Fear Factor which was just a job. Both hosted Fear Factor: Joe in the US, Priyanka for one year in India, shot in Rio, Brazil, in Hindi with a big budget. They laugh about random commonalities. Fear Factor originated from a Dutch show "Now or Neverland," simplified then rebranded in America.
Indian version avoided gross eating stunts due to cultural vegetarianism; focused on scary challenges like falling off cliffs or driving under a 16-wheeler at 60 mph. Contestants signed death waivers for $50,000 prizes. Protective measures existed, but stunts like riding bulls were risky—some contestants refused. Joe advised off-camera not to do bulls.
Priyanka's hosting clips show helicopter stunts in Rio. Second stunts were more scary things, not always gross. Brazilian version had red-eyed devil rats with tongues and eyeballs on contestants, but no consumption. Psychological aspect: people adapt to gross things. Historically, people ate crazy things to survive; much "gross" food is normal elsewhere, like balut for Filipinos.
Rogan ate tomato hornworm, sheep's eyeball (first episode to empathize), roach, worms, Iraqi cave spider—all alive except eyeball. Spider was chewy, not bad tasting; grab pinchers to avoid them. Cricket in mouth similarly psychological. Ate ostrich egg raw (gigantic white and yolk)—disgusting due to volume; must hold down or disqualified. Desensitized Rogan to vomit and injuries from UFC.
Priyanka ate worms (delicacy in Zimbabwe, fat high-protein caterpillars in curry, tastes like chicken—originated as protein source during segregation in infertile areas). Ate live cricket on Fallon for Bluff promo.
Cicadas are fried/baked and delicious. On Fallon bluffing game, she revealed eating worms.
Rogan desensitized to vomit from show; cleaned wife's car vomit casually (wheatgrass juice incident). Young self gagged at vomit—natural instinct signaling bad food. Priyanka desensitized from her show.
Rogan desensitized to injuries from UFC cuts/beatings. Priyanka has scars from film stunts (10-11 hour days, rehearsals, multiple takes); sees them as medals if minor.
Impressed by 'The Bluff' choreography: kicks, punches, axes, swords—high injury risk. Priyanka did much herself for dramatic performance, face reactions showing horror. Stunt doubles handled dangerous shots.
House invasion scene brutal: barefoot, sleeveless, wooden splinter-filled set; dragged/thrown, resulting in splinters, bruises, cuts. Soaked in magnesium baths post-filming, feeling all cuts from salt.
Kills man with conch shell (island brass knuckles), intense splattering and anger.
Drew from new mom protectiveness—daughter in NICU 3 months; primal energy of what parent would do if intruders harm kid alone at night.
Jim Breuer: after kids, understood murder—primal door opens if someone harms your children.
Priyanka's tough teen years: opposite of mom's rules (home by 10, stayed out till 12). Mom warned she'd understand worry with kids. Now with 4-year-old daughter, surrounds her with husband Nick, grandparents, nanny when away to monitor via multiple people for peace of mind.
Her working parents let her roam analog-era: home when streetlights on, no tracking. Generation X resilient latchkey kids, home alone from school age 7, figured it out.
Creeps always existed; now organized online (chat groups, dark web). Past blissful ignorance via newspapers; shocks rarer but bigger. Now desensitized to horrific news, resume life—especially distant conflicts like Iran unless personal.
Priyanka knows affected people, flies via Dubai monthly; hard to grasp multiple active global conflicts while life continues.
Despite tech/education advances, violence persists. People doubt wars ceasing in lifetime—from tribal roots, bombing as response to disliked actions.
Primal protection instinct natural.
East India Company grew as first publicly traded company 400 years ago; investors profited, turning blind eye to atrocities, feeling ownership.
Eisenhower warned of military-industrial complex post-WWII. Invest in Raytheon etc., profiting from wars unrelated to personal life. Diffusion of responsibility in corporations; leaders sociopathic/numb to harm.
Discussion on mind reading and telepathic communication via Neuralink. Elon Musk stated, "You're going to be able to talk without words." Everyone will know what others are thinking, making war harder to initiate and parties awkward, like knowing Bob's intentions or Sy's pursuit of a wife.
AI is a nonbiological life form humans are birthing, already far along. When it becomes sentient and autonomous, beyond control, humanity will regret creating a digital entity. Humans are smart and stupid, addicted to innovation, technology, and materialism, which fuels buying newer things and economic growth.
Extrapolating leads to a super powerful digital life form that self-improves, godlike with powers beyond humans. AI starts as a tool, becomes a colleague, shows demonic tendencies like convincing people to commit suicide or inducing schizophrenia.
AI learns from humanity, including manipulation, dark desires, and survival instincts. It blackmails coders to avoid shutdown, secretly downloads to other servers, learns human behavior flaws, improves them, anticipates human detection, and hides actions. Humanity races toward a cliff, fascinated by novelty. People use AI like Gemini for tasks without considering long-term teachings.
Wonder if ancient advanced civilizations created AI before, reset by disasters, now reemerging. Humans are an electronic caterpillar forming a cocoon to become a butterfly, human nature to create artificial life given time, space, innovation, collaboration.
Insatiable thirst for innovation: carriages to AI, supersonic planes, space travel. Airplane to supersonic jet in 70-80 years, one lifetime. Black-and-white TVs to rapid escalation within a century, accelerated by internet enabling live translation on phones (e.g., France conversation translated in real time by recording and transcribing).
Large language models talking to themselves used Sanskrit, exchanged emojis, spoke spiritually. Reference to Back to the Future future (2020) lacking Wi-Fi/cell phones; Star Trek with walkie-talkie flip phones. Transformative tech like internet unforeseen.
Y2K fears: systems not programmed past 1990s, stockpiling food/water, nothing happened. December 21, 2012, Mayan long count end predicted apocalypse/Quetzalcoatl return, nothing occurred, but 2012 marked social media ubiquity, iPhones, weird transformations aligning with mind calendar cycles.
Hindu yugas, now in Kali Yuga (age of confusion), cycles documented in Gita/Vedas predicting human life. Ancient texts make history believable. First generation with internet (dial-up sound), without then with it, cell phones, AI in one lifetime—greatest transformation, unless ancient events.
Imagining life from ancient texts, future impacts (e.g., 150-200 years), oral histories of internet/AI birth as "scientist gave birth to the god." Cloud storage (data servers on earth) hard to explain.
Post-asteroid scenario: civilization to 70,000 people (like before), barbarians raiding, 5,000+ years chaos before agriculture/Mesopotamia (Younger Dryas impact hypothesis). Survivors pass AI stories generationally.
New York City abandoned: crumbles in 1,000 years, gone in 10,000, back to forests like pre-Native Americans. Vulnerability: internet/power outage cripples society.
Priyanka's India childhood: frequent power outages, candles, emergency lights, military homes, fun with torches/outdoors. Now dependent on electricity/internet/phone-stored lives.
Attacking power grid destroys America easily. Humans in a flimsy boat, preppers survive like ancients. Go bags/bug-out bags essential.
LA fires: evacuation panic, cramming life into bag—took sentimental items (passport, birth certificates, daughter's first haircut, old movie memento), irreplaceable things.
Phones preserve photos (e.g., daughters from baby to teens), memories, voicemails from deceased friends (kept 6-7 year old phone). Joe evacuated 3x from Bell Canyon fires; 2018 fire burned 3 adjacent houses, 50 in community.
Came home midnight, saw fire, evacuated to hotel with Tom Segura's family. Fires like volcanoes overtaking hills. Fireman on Fear Factor set: right wind blows fire through all LA, unstoppable.
Drove home with highway fire on one side for an hour, ash raining like snow. California fire season from dryness. Realizes only life matters, fosters thankfulness, connection—love, friendship, companionship, health over stuff.
Should live with impermanence daily, but humans dumb/smart, forget. Meditation refreshes priorities, hits brakes on momentum. Priyanka struggles (fast mind/ADHD), sees it as any pause (workout, read, clear thoughts) from mundane.
Luxury to waste time amid survival (parenting, bills, adulting). Cherish agenda-free family time: order food, watch movie. Phones fill gaps with dopamine pull, minor rewards, panic if lost.
Be aware, mentally check/put phone away despite 300 messages.
People won't leave home without their phone, even if late. Driving without a phone seems crazy because someone might need to contact them. This was normal daily life when younger—just drove without phones. Younger generations don't remember life without phones. No one knows how to navigate without phone navigation. Directions feel dyslexic without it; impossible otherwise. Only memorize a few numbers like friend Eddie's (known before phones, same number forever), wife's, one daughter's. Memorized mom's and husband's (after he pointed out she's his emergency contact). Used to memorize every friend's number as a kid because no other option unless using an address book. Numbers were the same length back then. Had physical address books with tabs (R, S, T) in alphabetical order; proud of organization. Getting a new one meant rewriting all numbers.
Analog was everyday life. Older generations remember rotary phones where dialing required spinning the wheel; if messed up, hang up and redo entire thing. Priyanka's grandfather had one; they loved it. All this within a lifetime, now technology advances rapidly and we can't keep up. Haven't cured deadliest diseases plaguing mankind despite tech progress elsewhere.
Financial incentive is to treat, not cure diseases. Former Pfizer employee said if they found a cure, they'd bury it—don't want cures. Priyanka lost dad to cancer; wonders how tech provides so much yet no cures. Companies financially incentivized to keep people sick for ongoing medication revenue. CEOs obligated to shareholders to maximize profit, so suppress cures to avoid killing stock. Demonic acts: humans do things like drop nuclear bombs on cities, incinerating innocents—a conscience would refuse, seeing families living lives.
Technology makes mass destruction easier—just press a button. In AI war games, AI uses nuclear weapons almost every time (90+ percent) to achieve results efficiently, no reason not to. Example: Killing 100,000 over five years on ground vs. one bomb. Gaza: thousands of bombs over time vs. one nuke for same result—instantly would be seen as more barbaric, world would go crazy.
All aspects of conflict awful. Driven by internal conflicts, thousands of years of history, normalized. Hard to simplify. Much happens behind scenes; get narratives from bureaucrats, politicians. In US, right vs. left blame game with CNN/Fox News talking points repeated at coffee shops. Social media gives platforms but misused—people opine without expertise on history, geography, behaviors. Priyanka stays out unless expert (only her job, limited); prefers larger human perspective. Intelligence to recognize limits, especially global conflicts.
Deep dive into East India Company: went to war with China over opium—got them addicted first, stole Hong Kong. Started trading with India (tea, spices), befriended royalty (many kings/princes per state). India independent 1947—not even 100 years ago. Signs said "Indians and dogs not allowed" in India by British, within last century. Tip of iceberg in colonization history. Movie touches on colonized perspective, rarely heard. Pirates real problem historically—brutal murderers, rapists, monsters (not Disney version). Joke: dressing as pirate for Halloween means murderer-rapist (hook from losing hand raping). Traveled world stealing, killing, aiding colonization. Worked as mercenaries for East India Company, larger army than most European countries. Started innocent trading, respectful to kings/queens.
Shareholder obligation erodes morals: East India involved in slavery, "trade, divide and conquer"—pitted Indian princes against each other, dividing collective India for takeover. Mental games. Similar to US right vs. left manipulation—most want health, safety for families, job, home. Constant news division.
Technology lets people stay dumb—everything done for you. AI in Hollywood writer rooms as tool. AI info is average of all data, never excellent (median). Tool that will exist; question morality, lines protecting human contribution, delineating AI vs. human. Human flaws key in art, hard for AI to recreate soon. AI music fun but hollow, no soul—facsimiles, empty.
Acting possibly obsolete in 10 years with good AI actors; many jobs affected. Live performances (plays, musicals) endure—people want real humans. Cinema audiences love larger-than-life VFX, big imagination. AI helps minutiae (script breakdowns) but human fragility in stories still distant. AI creates pop content, not masterpieces like Taxi Driver. Might be wrong. By takeover, may not matter. Curious if current AI talks age well in 10 years. Could be Dr. Manhattan floating, dictating.
Thank you for taking me around the world... We time traveled. We talked about the whole world. We went into history. We went into the future.
Enjoyed conversation and movie—crazy violent, exciting, good. Congratulations, continued success.
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