Rambling 207: New Years Eve Worldometer
/How’d catching Santa go? What has happened in 2022? Does the future have the technology to reverse cryostasis? The duo discuss the outcome of their attempt at catching Santa and look through the worldometer.
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Topics Discussed:
- Failed at catching Santa
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
- A Briefcase in Pulp Fiction
- Cat people in the future
- Jesus Christ Time Machine
- Worldometers.info
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Cristina: Warning. This program contains strong themes meant for a mature audience. Discretion is advised.
Jack: Going live in 5, 4.
Cristina: What does live mean?
Jack: Welcome to the Rambling Podcast, the show where we've got humanity's most absurd and baffling ideas. I am Jack.
Cristina: And I am Christina.
Jack: And we're your glorious hosts. And we're gonna host a lovely show for tonight. Earned this after. I love when people say that. We got a great show for you tonight. It's like, we got it. We gotta show. Whether it's great or not is up to you to decide. I'm not choosing if it's great or.
Cristina: Not for you, and you're not choosing whether it's night or not.
Jack: I'm not choosing what time of day you decided to consume this, bro. But like, I guess in the past, people used to control that part of our lives. Yeah, it's like, if you want to watch my f****** show, you tune in whenever the. I said you.
Cristina: Except you don't choose that either. The person saying that isn't choosing the time his show is on.
Jack: No, he's just like, I got the best offer by the station. Yeah, I'm gonna take it. No way. There's no way. So today is an amazing day because today we are. You know what we're doing today?
Cristina: Talking about what happened on Christmas.
Jack: Yes. But what is today?
Cristina: New Year's? Is it New Year's Eve?
Jack: New Year's Eve. Bam, bam, bam, bam, bam.
Cristina: What?
Jack: So we got some exciting stuff to talk about. But before we get to that exciting stuff, we got math, by the way. It's very exciting.
Cristina: We have math. That does not sound exciting.
Jack: Numbers. Everybody loves numbers.
Cristina: Love it.
Jack: But before we get to this exciting numbers, we do have to talk about what happened with our plan to catch Santa Claus clause. So let's recap the extent of everything we decided this Christmas. What we wanted for Christmas was Santa Claus. So we'll know. Listen to me.
Cristina: Okay?
Jack: Is Santa Claus. So we decide we're gonna wish, like, he's a genie for a present, which is Jesus cryogenically frozen Jesus Christ, which isn't a thing, but okay. It's okay. We have time. We send Santa the letter. We then dust off our time machine and we go to the past and we wait for the crucifixion. When he's crucified, we take him off the cross and we cryogenically put him in stasis and leave him where he was already going to be. Then we close the cave. Santa then finds Jesus and brings him. He finds him in the present, because we asked for the present. And then he brings Jesus cryogenically in stasis to us. And with this, we have now brought both Jesus, which we could have kept before, and Santa to us. Except the biggest hole of all in this plan is that everything in the present. Santa Claus knows, because that's like his big overpowered trick.
Cristina: He knew we were being naughty.
Jack: He knew we made this plan because duh. And he knows we went to the past and he saw us do everything with Jesus. Then he saw us disappear and reappear. Now he has perfect memory of that entire time having happened. And then he sees us make the wish. So from. For him, he. He remembers all of this already. He's like, oh, yeah, those people who put him in the thing. You can wish for him.
Cristina: We can actually do that part at least.
Jack: What? Bring him?
Cristina: Yeah.
Jack: Yes. We have Jesus.
Cristina: Yeah.
Jack: We have no Santa.
Cristina: Okay?
Jack: We have no Santa. There's no way to catch him, because he knew. He knew all along, of course.
Cristina: His parents were good enough for him to bring Jesus to us, but not good enough for him to stick around.
Jack: We're good to the world. We are important to the world.
Cristina: But then why didn't he want to stay around so we can catch him?
Jack: He doesn't want to be caught.
Cristina: Well, maybe not catch. He could have had a conversation.
Jack: Look, this show is so easy for him to just, like, sidestep that he sees us the way he sees everybody else. He's just measuring us by those same metrics, I suppose.
Cristina: But he still gave us Jesus.
Jack: Yes. He's not saying we're bad. Why? Because you're trying to catch him? It's not bad.
Cristina: It's not good.
Jack: That's neutral. It's not gonna, like, tip anything in any direction.
Cristina: Okay.
Jack: Yeah.
Cristina: He thinks giving us Jesus was a good idea.
Jack: I don't think.
Cristina: He doesn't care.
Jack: Why would he care? It's just wasted time, you know?
Cristina: Well, whatever.
Jack: We got Jesus, we have Jesus. That's great. We can at least study him. That's fascinating, except that we got to.
Cristina: Travel to the future to get him and frozen.
Jack: Yeah, we. We still successfully put him in cryostasis and have not.
Cristina: He has to stay there.
Jack: Yeah, so we don't really have Jesus. We. We have him, but there's nothing we could do do without the potential of killing him in the process.
Cristina: Yep. So we gotta do something about that. We're not done.
Jack: We're not done. We created a problem that we need to solve, and we don't have the Result of why we created the problem.
Cristina: But then, like, okay, now I'm not really sure what to do with Jesus, because in the future, we know cat people have taken over, so even if they have the technology to unfreeze Jesus, why would they do that?
Jack: I totally brought this up before.
Cristina: You did.
Jack: I did. I totally did. I'm like, why would they help us?
Cristina: Huh?
Jack: What, did they catch us?
Cristina: What if they cut? Exactly. Oh, crap.
Jack: But, like, also, I had a plan.
Cristina: Yes.
Jack: We don't actually know if the future is still the same.
Cristina: But what do we do if it is?
Jack: Come back, scoop out the place, obviously.
Cristina: Yeah, but like, then we just have.
Jack: I mean, you and I haven't used the time machine other than for Jesus.
Jack: And we haven't gone forward other than to now from where we went back to.
Cristina: Yeah, so. But if we go to the future, I mean, I guess then we'd have to wait until we solve the cat thing to take Jesus to the future anyway.
Jack: What if we find out that we don't solve the cat thing?
Cristina: I don't know. We just keep Jesus the way he has. He's just a trophy.
Jack: And then never go to the future.
Cristina: No, we still go to the future to see. But if it's not.
Jack: If it's overtaken by cat people.
Cristina: Yeah, we do nothing. We can't do anything.
Jack: Except we can't be seen there either.
Cristina: Yeah, we're not going ourselves. We have people for that.
Jack: You're right. But they can't come back and report anything if they get caught. Still look human.
Cristina: We give it a time. Like, okay, if you're not back in an hour, we know you've been captured. Then we give them those pills that they fight into and kill themselves. Also.
Jack: This is crazy. No, because with a time machine, until we could choose when you come back to any time travel that doesn't feel instant to the waiting party is f****** bullshit. Right? That's a lie. It's stupid. It's like I'm a. I'm a. I have a time machine, right? I have a time machine and I'm gonna go back in time 10 days. But is it just I got to choose the amount of time in some dial that I just increase or reduce. I can't type in days. And if I did type in days at exactly 24, I can never break a day in half. No, I should be able to choose any time. You know how far back based on our own metrics. We design the metrics so time machine should be able to navigate backwards in time. Evenly. So I tell it I want to go back, you know, three days and I go back and from back there I decide, okay, I'm gonna go forward. When you can go forward. Are you? No. Because you chose time going backwards. So you should in theory be able to choose time going forward. It's not just a unanimous. I had to only put days. So I moved exactly 48 hours backwards or 72 hours backwards.
Cristina: Mm.
Jack: So I have to move. It only moves in these increments. So I have to move seven days. So if I took three days over here, then when I go over here, it's been three days. No, that doesn't make any sense. I should be able to pick the moment.
Cristina: Yeah.
Jack: Why wouldn't I just pick the moment I left like a second later?
Cristina: Yeah. It should be like, that's how we know something went wrong. If they disappear and that's it.
Jack: No, I know, it's 100%. If they don't show up instantly, we know something. My question is, in every thing all media ever created about time travel, why are people waiting for the person that left?
Cristina: Because the person doesn't know the exact time to return. I don't know. The person decides to be dramatic and like, I want to return five minutes.
Jack: After the moment, but it'll be like days or some s***, a couple of hours or something. And it's like, what, dude?
Cristina: Maybe they got the map wrong. Maybe there's some math involved to do it correct and they just got it wrong. Days, that's crazy. If it's like a few minutes, it's like on purpose. I think that's on purpose. You're just being mean.
Jack: If it's day, if it's minutes.
Cristina: Yeah. You're just like, I want them to believe I'm dead. I'm not dead. Hahaha. No.
Jack: Yeah. Because if they're not instantly back, you're like, what the f***?
Cristina: Yeah. Yeah. In the time machine, I think it was like that though. Whenever he went back, it was instant and he would just go tell everyone, this is what I did. Hahaha. And look at my. Listen to my adventures and whatever.
Jack: But there's no way they could believe.
Cristina: Him until he never comes back. I don't think he goes back.
Jack: No. He just gets lost forever.
Cristina: Yeah. Yeah. So eventually they just. That's it, that's the end of his story. I guess for them they have to believe him. Or I guess they could have think he killed himself. He went crazy after his wife died and killed himself.
Jack: To be fair, he did go crazy. After his wife died. That is essentially what the story is about.
Cristina: Yes. And that's what they must believe. What else would you believe? Unless you believe his stories of the time traveling.
Jack: Which way? Crazy.
Cristina: Yes. You know, they have the machine. It seems like, I guess it's too complicated for anyone to work it out. Like it just looks like trash to them. And they're like, yeah, he totally just killed him. So this is garbage. What is this thing? Because they have the time machine right there. Like if they were curious enough. Yeah, you think? Doesn't he have an assistant? Why didn't he learn how to use it?
Jack: Interesting point.
Cristina: Maybe he did kill himself. Okay, the time machine is a lie. It's just trashing himself. It was art.
Jack: There's an assistant who just doesn't know anything. Suddenly the assistant killed him.
Cristina: The assistant killed him? Yes. He saw he was going crazy and felt bad.
Jack: And maybe he felt in danger. Maybe he was next in line to have all the stuff because he, you know.
Cristina: Yeah, but if he believes him, why, like, why wouldn't he use it? He should have also. He should have been the next person to disappear.
Jack: I bet that's the thing. I bet the time machine creator's apprentice is a story.
Cristina: Oh, maybe I'm not gonna look it.
Jack: Up, but yeah, who gives a s***? It's totally a thing.
Cristina: It's not important.
Jack: Yeah, and if not, somebody better make that thing. The Time Machine Inventor's Apprentice. There's so many things. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
Cristina: How is that anything?
Jack: Blob at the top of the hill. Like all these dumb names, very long title descriptions. Yeah, it's like totally a description for the most part. Like a weird almost.
Cristina: How do you know this main character is important? Imagine if she didn't have a dragon tattoo.
Jack: That name would make would be cooler at that point. Cuz it'd be like, I wonder, what's the dragon tattoo? I wonder what's with the name.
Cristina: Wait, if it was still called the.
Jack: Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, there'd be so much intrigue about looking for the dragon tattoo.
Cristina: That's never mentioned at all.
Jack: Never mentioned.
Cristina: But then would you assume the main character has it even though no one has ever said anything?
Jack: You could. That's it. That's fat.
Cristina: Unless they say. Unless someone points out, like, and she doesn't have tattoos. Because then you know, oh, okay, this girl doesn't have tattoos. So why is this title called that?
Jack: Yeah, no, that's a valid point. Like, look, I. I think it would think about. We haven't even Seen this? Think about how interesting. Have you seen this?
Cristina: I don't remember. I might have. I don't remember.
Jack: Well, I haven't seen it and like, you don't even remember it. I haven't seen it. But think about how much more interesting this already is we're talking about. Like, is who. Who has it? Then who has the tattoo? Why is the name the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo? She's not the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Did she meet a girl who has a dragon tattoo?
Cristina: I know she's reading a book and the book is called A Girl Dragon Tattoo. Oh, what a corny. I don't know.
Jack: Fascinating, right?
Cristina: I don't know.
Jack: I think. No, that's the way to go.
Cristina: That's the way to go.
Jack: It's like the briefcase in Pulp Fiction. That makes it interesting. Now you're wondering, but it's not called.
Cristina: A briefcase in Pulp Fiction.
Jack: First, if it was called a briefcase in Pulp Fiction, my biggest question would be, what the f*** is Pulp Fiction? Are they in Pulp Fiction? Is that the name of this town or location we are. Are they in Pulp Fiction?
Cristina: I think they're in Pulp Fiction.
Jack: Briefcase in. Is is their situation called Pulp Fiction?
Cristina: What does Pulp Fiction mean?
Jack: I don't know, dude.
Cristina: There's a type of. I thought that was a genre or something. It sounds like one.
Jack: It.
Cristina: It could because it's fiction, but I don't know what the pulp.
Jack: It's thick fiction. It's a pulpy. Like if you had orange. Fresh squeezed juice. You can have somebody strain your fresh squeezed orange juice and it's just fresh squeezed orange juice. Or you could have it squeezed but not strained so that it's pulpy orange juice with chunks of the orange.
Cristina: Have you actually seen Pulp Fiction?
Jack: I've seen Pulp Fiction.
Cristina: Do you know what it's about?
Jack: I don't remember.
Cristina: You just know there's a briefcase?
Jack: Yes.
Cristina: Does anyone say Pulp Fiction?
Jack: I doubt anybody says Pulp Fiction. The main character's name is Pulp Fiction.
Cristina: His name is Pulp Fiction.
Jack: First name Pulp. Last name Fiction.
Cristina: Yes.
Jack: No, look, because it would be a briefcase in Pulp Fiction. That. No, it doesn't work.
Cristina: Why not? What if there is a beer briefcase inside him and you don't even know?
Jack: So we're not even. We're thinking about the wrong briefcase.
Cristina: Exactly. Yes.
Jack: It's like the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. We don't actually see what's being mentioned even if we think it is.
Cristina: Maybe she has it in her mouth and then you see it every time she talks.
Jack: Then she Does a little hiss every time. But what does pulp Fiction mean?
Cristina: I don't know. It means something.
Jack: I don't know. I'm sure I think you're kind of right. All things considered, it probably means something like juicy fiction, thick fic fiction.
Cristina: Pulp fiction are books about imaginary characters and events produced in large qualities, quantities and intended to be read by many people, but are not considered to be very good quality. And there's like, examples, but the only one I can send that sounds familiar is the Da Vinci Code.
Jack: What was the description again?
Cristina: It is about imaginary characters and events produced in large quantities and intended to be read by many people, but are considered to be very. Not considered to be very good quality.
Jack: So they're just intentionally, like mediocre books that are essentially just kind of pass the time.
Cristina: Yes. So I guess. I guess, like, there's nothing amazing about this fiction, but everyone's reading it for some reason.
Jack: Interesting. Interesting.
Cristina: Wonder if Twilight counts as pulp fiction. No. Unless it has to be imaginary characters and events. I don't know. I don't know.
Jack: I think. I think that works. I think Twilight is definitely in there, but. Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. So it is New Year's. We failed to catch in Santa. We got ourselves a Jesus we could do nothing with because we'll kill him if we try to do him or whatever. Uncryo him.
Cristina: Cryo.
Jack: And it's the end of the year and I just. I was looking for. I'm like, hey, cool, you know, we can't do anything with this Jesus guy. This plan failed. We. Not any closer. Talking to the cloud people. Steve's still out there learning how to communicate with clouds, which I guess has a beaver or whatever, the groundhog, because as a groundhog is not like the easiest thing to do.
Cristina: Oh, he's a groundhog.
Jack: Yeah. So there's a lot of obstacles in the way. And I'm like, we got nothing to do, nothing to review. I mean, there's a bunch of cases we could probably look into, but same s*** all the time.
Cristina: Mm.
Jack: So I'm like, alright, what's the worst thing that has ever happened on New Year's?
Cristina: Oh.
Jack: In looking for that, I stumbled upon something that I thought was about as cool. And so I shelved the other idea about what the craziest thing or the worst thing that happened on New Year's is. I somehow landed at a counter for all the data that matters in the world.
Cristina: A counter?
Jack: Yes. And it could bring it up to the day. It could bring it up to the day. For the whole year so we can find out what this year has been about in numbers.
Cristina: Numbers. I needed you to explain it exactly.
Jack: I'll explain.
Cristina: Yes.
Jack: For example, this year our total world population has actually tipped into the 8 billions. This shows us that the population is at 8 billion.
Cristina: 8 billion. Is that the highest it's been 8 billion?
Jack: 8,193,710, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16.
Cristina: What?
Jack: It's going up?
Cristina: Oh, it's going up?
Jack: Yes.
Cristina: Okay. Those are just people being born. Or that's people alive.
Jack: Current people living.
Cristina: Current people living. Oh, so shouldn't it be going down too?
Jack: Well, yeah, sometimes it gets stuck. There's more people being born than there are people dying.
Cristina: Okay. So that number is always increasing, the numbers always going. And there's other numbers that are going up and down too.
Jack: There are many numbers, yes.
Cristina: What are some other facts about this year?
Jack: Well, we're gonna go through this entire list of which there are quite a bit of a few numbers. And I want you to see how this is going. Okay, so here we are looking at the current world population.
Cristina: What's all that info?
Jack: This is just data about it.
Cristina: And that's just of things of this year. That information.
Jack: No, this information is giving you general information about the population in general.
Cristina: Oh, okay.
Jack: At the moment it's 8 billion. And it's going to reach 9 billion by 2037 and 10 billion by 2058.
Cristina: Ridiculous.
Jack: Is doubled in the last 40 years.
Cristina: That is too many people. Whoa.
Jack: Currently 2022 growing at a rate of around 0.84% per year, adding 67 million people per year to the total.
Cristina: Whoa, whoa.
Jack: Growth rate reached its peak in the late 1960s when it was about 2.09.
Cristina: Oh, my gosh. What happened? That's ridiculous. 0.40 something right? Right now. And now that's 2.09.
Jack: Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was huge. It was zero. It was 0.8 4.84.
Cristina: Oh, okay.
Jack: It was.04 before and now. Oh, no, that's what you. That's what it is currently says 0.84 at the moment. And it was 2.09. Yeah.
Cristina: Everyone was having a child. Whoa.
Jack: Children everywhere. Children everywhere. Births this year alone, 133 million.
Cristina: That's crazy. I think I know, like three babies that were born this year. Something like that. I'm not sure. But that number keeps growing. Does it have info on that too? Like what's averagely every year or anything.
Jack: Telling us where it began?
Cristina: Oh, okay.
Jack: Then There have been 300,000 births today.
Cristina: Today. That's crazy.
Jack: But this year there have been 66 million deaths.
Cristina: When you're looking at the billion is like, how much is that? Was the percentage of deaths way insignificant to like the current of population? Like deaths? Wow.
Jack: Yep. It's way less than you think. As for the total.
Cristina: Yeah. What deaths this year? Just 66 million deaths today?
Jack: 150,000.
Cristina: Wow. 150,000. But that's way closer to the birth rate than the deaths of this year. Compared to the population.
Jack: No, to the population of all time. But if you look at like births this year versus.
Cristina: Comparing to deaths this year.
Jack: Is 1/3 of all births the same way. Same way today is one third of all. Actually, it's one half. Today is a particularly death filled day.
Cristina: Oh, well, that's not good. Okay. Today's not a good day.
Jack: It's not a good day. New Year's is when lives are lost, Right?
Cristina: What is happening? Oh, my gosh. So many numbers just going crazy.
Jack: So net population. By the way, this. The Worldometer is the name of this site. Worldometer.info for anybody interested. But we go into the net population growth. This is the total gain or loss.
Cristina: Talking about money?
Jack: No. Of people. So this is the. How many people have we gained without counting the people we've lost?
Cristina: Okay.
Jack: And so this year the total has been a gain of 66 million. You can see it kind of going up and down there. That's because it's competing with the deaths. Okay, but it's still going up.
Cristina: Yeah.
Jack: Net population growth today, same situation. Just competing with the deaths.
Cristina: Okay. Okay. It's about the same as the deaths.
Jack: Yeah. So to summarize, for the year, this year we crossed over to 8 billion people. We birthed 133 million people. We lost 66.7 million people this year. That's a lot of heavy stuff.
Cristina: That's crazy. But it's all crazy. Well, man. Covid. But like, is it more?
Jack: I don't know. But now we start getting to the money.
Cristina: The money.
Jack: Government and economics. So, you know, the people who run.
Cristina: Your lives, how much money they're making.
Jack: How much money has been used?
Cristina: Oh, use. Okay.
Jack: Public health care expenditure this year.
Cristina: Gotta be ridiculous.
Jack: Is at five freaking trillion. Almost six trillion dollars.
Cristina: Yeah.
Jack: That's expensive for the year, but we can, boom, make it for today and see that it's already at $13 billion today alone.
Cristina: Okay.
Jack: Ridiculous. Now, on education, for the year, we have wasted $4 trillion.
Cristina: That's good. I guess.
Jack: I guess.
Cristina: Don't you want it? What should it be more or less than the health?
Jack: I think this is a global thing.
Cristina: Oh, yeah. But so. But that's good right now.
Jack: Not a lot.
Cristina: It's not a lot.
Jack: It's not a lot.
Cristina: Ew.
Jack: Military expenses.
Cristina: As long as it's higher than military. Has to be a good year, right?
Jack: No, I mean, I guess.
Cristina: Yeah.
Jack: It is about twice as much as the military at this point. So that's good.
Cristina: So a ridiculous amount.
Jack: I mean, not twice as much. Its education is about twice as much as military.
Cristina: Okay.
Jack: Says more on the use, but still.
Cristina: Like trillions or something.
Jack: Yeah, they're both in trillions. Expenditures for the military are at 1.7 and for public education is at 4. So. Yeah. Cars produce this year. 83 million.
Cristina: That's a lot of cars.
Jack: That's a lot of cars. Think of what 83 million cars looks like.
Cristina: Where are these cars at?
Jack: Everywhere. This hella Tesla's outside.
Cristina: Yeah.
Jack: Now here is a different category. Social media, or just media in general, I guess. And society. So society and media. Now, interesting enough, the slowest moving stat on this entire thing is the pace at which new books are being published.
Cristina: What?
Jack: Very slow.
Cristina: Maybe it's only one specific time of the day that. Oh, no. The never went up.
Jack: Yeah, very slowly.
Cristina: Wow. What? It is ridiculously slow. Are they counting online books, too? This can't be right.
Jack: Yep, they're just slowly ticking.
Cristina: What?
Jack: Yeah.
Cristina: Why is everything else going up?
Jack: Random crap too, like newspapers circulating or still blowing up?
Cristina: Newspapers, not books. Okay.
Jack: Cell phones being sold are way more than books.
Cristina: How is published that many? I don't understand. Who's getting more than one cell phone? People just hoarding cell phones. What's happening?
Jack: There's just that many people getting cell phones. Money spent on video games just today is $264 million.
Cristina: That makes sense.
Jack: But for the year.
Cristina: For the year. Oh, what's for the year?
Jack: It is $113 billion.
Cristina: Can we see how much books have been published for the year?
Jack: 2.7 million.
Cristina: That can't. Is that really right? What?
Jack: News papers circulated are 170 billion. TV sets sold are at 244 million. Cell phones sold are at 2.6 billion.
Cristina: Oh, my gosh. How many cell phones did you buy this year?
Jack: Internet users in the world? Everyone today, 500. I mean, 5 billion. 561 million. So almost everybody. There's. If there are only 8 billion people, then 5.5 billion people being online means only 2.5 aren't.
Cristina: And those are the Elderly and the babies.
Jack: Yes, 100%. Those are. Bunch of them. Just simply can't do jump online.
Cristina: Yeah. Or they're asleep because they're in that part of the world that hasn't woken up yet.
Jack: Fair enough.
Cristina: Oh.
Jack: Email sent today.
Cristina: I send so many emails. I hate emails. I'm tired of emails.
Jack: This year has seen a total of 105 trillion emails sent.
Cristina: Whoa.
Jack: Yeah. Blog posts this year.
Cristina: Has to be ridiculous.
Jack: 3.3 million billion billion billion.
Cristina: Is that more than newspapers? Or is there more newspapers winning?
Jack: Interesting.
Cristina: Way more newspapers this year and this year. Okay, wow. Okay.
Jack: Tweet sent this year is at 324 billion. Google searches are at 3 trillion.
Cristina: You think they'd be so much more. I mean, I guess that's a lot, but.
Jack: That's a lot. But yeah, I do agree. I feel like it should be way higher than that.
Cristina: Whoa. Ridiculous. How many tweets have you tweeted this year?
Jack: None. I don't have a Twitter. Oh, forest lost this year.
Cristina: All of it.
Jack: 5 million acres. Land lost to soil erosion. 7 million acres.
Cristina: What causes soil erosion? Is that fires?
Jack: Is that farm decay time? Hella CO2 emissions. 36 billion. Trillion. Yeah. No, that's a billion. That's billion. 36 billion. Let's see. Toxic chemicals release into the environment this year. 9.7 tons of toxic chemicals.
Cristina: Is that bad?
Jack: Probably tons. Now we're going on to food.
Cristina: How many tacos have been eaten?
Jack: That would be an amazing study. Undernourished people in the world. 866 million. To be fair, that's way less than you'd think. Think. Right. That's one less than one. Eight.
Cristina: Oh, okay. How many. What are the other stats?
Jack: Overweight people in the world. 1.7 billion. Of which they're all here in the United States. Even if there are only 300 million, it's because each one of them counts for two.
Cristina: So there's more overweight people though, than starving people. That's a good thing.
Jack: Yeah. Well, here's the crazy thing. The next diet here is obese people. And there are a lot.
Cristina: There's.
Jack: There's 1.7 billion overweight people. There's 825 million overweight. I mean obese. So to be fair, if these 825 million people ate less, they can feed this 866 undernourished people.
Cristina: That's not how it works.
Jack: That's literally how it works. If the calories that these people are consuming, which is an added to their body, was given to those people they.
Cristina: Would have to physically give it to those people.
Jack: No. If their diets were just altered and all the extra food was sent to those other people starting today. Those aren't dead people. Those are malnourished people.
Cristina: Yeah, but how are you gonna send it to them? Like, we have so much food. We don't need to. We should be already feeding these people.
Jack: Oh, no, it's greed. We're just gonna take it from the people who are greedy.
Cristina: Like, we don't have to take it from the obese people. We could just give them the garbage we have.
Jack: Why don't we want to make the obese people healthier?
Cristina: The obese people? I guess. Well, you want to take care of the obese people.
Jack: Do all the things at the same time. Fix two birds, one stone. Two birds die because of my one rock.
Cristina: But what if they don't want to stop being fat?
Jack: Oh, fair enough. People who died of hunger today? 25,000.
Cristina: 25,000. How many people died from obesity?
Jack: That would. You don't die from.
Cristina: You don't.
Jack: You don't really die from obesity. Yeah, like, I don't know. That's a whole other problem. Because obesity could cause a heart attack, but it could cause diabetes. You know, it's like many different things.
Cristina: So you can't really say this person died because of obesity. We can see when someone died from starvation. Okay.
Jack: Throughout the year, 11 million people died of starvation.
Cristina: 11 million?
Jack: Yes. 11 million people starved to death. Money spent for obesity related diseases in the USA a lot this year is $230 billion.
Cristina: I know people who did that. Oh, my gosh. Yes. That's crazy.
Jack: All the diseases and crap that they're fighting because of problems they've given themselves. Well, here's a more relatable one. Money spent on weight loss programs in the United states this year. $68 billion. 68 billion.
Cristina: What is the solution to the problem? So you think just, I mean, taking away their food is not the solution and giving it to the hungry people? Because that's just gonna get them fat, you know, like, it's the same garbage.
Jack: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Because, you know, it's funny, even the fat people are malnourished.
Cristina: Exactly. So you can't do that as a solution.
Jack: Yeah, it's the quality of what you're getting. So, like, obesity, it's problematic, but you still don't have the vitamins you need. You can give somebody else the calories, and they'll still not be getting the Vitamins they lack.
Cristina: That doesn't solve anything.
Jack: Yeah, it doesn't. It's a real problem. It's a real problem. People's gluttony is boundless. Now moving on to energy. Energy used today a lot. Megawatts.
Cristina: Megawatts, okay.
Jack: 397 million megawatts from non renewable resources. 338 megawatts from renewable resources. 60 million megawatts. Solar energy striking earth.
Cristina: Striking earth.
Jack: Yes.
Cristina: The energy we're getting from the sun.
Jack: Yeah, the energy amount. The amount of energy slamming into the earth this very second, I guess for the entire year. That's problematic because I don't know what the f*** number I'm looking at at this point. It's beyond millions, beyond the billions, beyond the trillions. Is that what a Googleplex is? Is it one Googleplex?
Cristina: Well, we're not even close to actually using that or gathering that or whatever like.
Jack: No, this amount of energy is so g****** efficient. We would. If we could capture all the light just headed to Earth. Yeah, just the light hitting Earth. If we could capture all of that, we would power Earth until the extinction of humanity.
Cristina: That's crazy. What?
Jack: Yeah, that's why anybody who can hunt that's just gathering everything that lands on Earth. Civilization 1 type s***.
Cristina: But how many of this energy was taken from the windmills? Those Ewell windmills?
Jack: I don't know. Maybe that's on here somewhere. Oil pumped today in barrels. There's 81 million barrels pumped today.
Cristina: Okay.
Jack: Oil left calculated in barrels. This is the total oil left on Earth calculated in barrels. And that is 1 trillion. There are 1 trillion barrels of oil left being calculated by the amount of oil like deposits found.
Cristina: Okay.
Jack: Days to the end of oil at our current rate is forty years or a hundred or fourteen thousand days.
Cristina: That doesn't seem like too bad.
Jack: No, that's good enough. Time to come up with a bunch of stuff. Natural gases left one. What is this trillion as well? Or is that also Googleplex? Billion that trillion. One trillion natural gases left.
Cristina: We just need to get that sun power. That sun.
Jack: That sun power is way up there.
Cristina: Yeah, like I don't care about any of that. Look at the sun power.
Jack: Yeah. Days to the end of natural gas, 56,000 days. Coal left 4 trillion. What's BOE boy bones bo ko left bull. And days to the end of coal are 147,000.
Cristina: Good. Because we need that sunpower. We have. Just figure out the sun.
Jack: Yeah, okay, look. Yes to that sun power. We gotta like dedicate all our resources.
Cristina: Why are we Wasting our natural resources. When we have something hitting us in.
Jack: The face, it's hard to catch, man. It's not easy. It's not easy. You gotta understand. It's a lot. There's a lot of energy. A lot.
Cristina: Yeah.
Jack: But, like, what do we got to do? We got to build these solar panels, and we have to do it with what, Our existing energy. You see the problem? And it's like, well, do we have the amount of energy it would require to build the thing in order to do the thing?
Cristina: But if we did it, like, yes, it will take a lot, but.
Jack: But slowly less because we direct more and more of the solar.
Cristina: We'll be getting so much more.
Jack: Yeah. Production eventually would cross a threshold in which it's exponential, because energy is infinite.
Cristina: Mm.
Jack: Yeah. I think it's worth. It's worth the investment. It'll be very slow at first, but as you start crawling more and more, the gain is infinite. Yeah, it has infinite. But there's no way we can use that much energy.
Cristina: No, that's crazy.
Jack: Not in our. The lifetime of any of us, at least.
Cristina: So ridiculous.
Jack: A lot of energy.
Cristina: The sun is the way.
Jack: The sun is the way. That's the true mother of life. So, health. Communicable disease Deaths this year. 12 million seasonal flu deaths this year, 500,000. Seasonal flu.
Cristina: Seasonal flu.
Jack: It's a murder a little less known. Covid. No. This year. No. Covid took a couple. Right. Covid. Is.
Cristina: Is Covid here?
Jack: Oh, maybe somewhere in there.
Cristina: Unless the first one has Covid included in it.
Jack: No.
Cristina: No.
Jack: Deaths of children under five this year. 7.5 million. It's a lot of dead kids.
Cristina: A lot of dead kids.
Jack: That's a lot of dead babies.
Cristina: Yeah.
Jack: 42 million abortions this year.
Cristina: Yeah, but that means they saved a lot of dead babies. There's less dead children because there's more dead babies.
Jack: Yeah. In any case, we could come. We can merge the abortions and the dead children and just say that there are just 50 million abortions or 50 million dead children under five. Deaths of mothers during birth this year. 300,000. What? Deaths due to. Oh, no, not even just people infected with AIDS. 44 million.
Cristina: Oh, okay. That's not. Deaths.
Jack: Okay, this is the current number of people alive right now with AIDS and hiv.
Cristina: Is that a lot compared to how many people there are?
Jack: No.
Cristina: What is that?
Jack: Not even close. Yeah, this is just millions. We're talking 8 billion people. Now we're on to deaths caused by HIV and AIDS in the year. That's 1.6 million Covid is about as crappy or a little shittier.
Cristina: So how many people with it died? Like, what's the math? There's 44.
Jack: Very little.
Cristina: A million died.
Jack: It's not a problem anymore.
Cristina: Okay. So if you get it, you don't have to worry.
Jack: No, you stop worry. But you can handle it now. There's enough medication to kind of fight it back pretty heavily. Science have it. Science has advanced quite a bit. We have the technology.
Cristina: Mm.
Jack: Deaths caused by cancer this year, way worse. Why aren't we out here horrified about cancer?
Cristina: I guess can't give cancer to someone.
Jack: And although we can give AIDS to someone, it is still way less impactful.
Cristina: People are horrified.
Jack: Yeah, there's freaking deaths. 1.6 million of AIDS and HIV, but by cancer there's 8 million. Please. Cancer is looking at AIDS like chump numbers. B****.
Cristina: But what was the seasonal flu number again?
Jack: The seasonal flu was. No, it's not significant. 500,000 now. Deaths by malaria, 391,000.
Cristina: Okay.
Jack: Cigarette smoked today. Wow. 12 billion cigarettes smoked this year. 5 trillion.
Cristina: Oh yeah. There's people who don't just do one. Yeah, they'll do a box.
Jack: Deaths caused by smoking. This year they have that number. 5 million.
Cristina: 5 million. How do they know by smoking?
Jack: They don't know.
Cristina: That doesn't make sense.
Jack: This is the same as like being over.
Cristina: Yeah, Wouldn't it be the same? Where are those obese numbers then? Do they have smoking numbers? That doesn't make sense.
Jack: No, it's total bullshit. Like 100% because it would have to be the things that smoking caused. And you can't tell what was caused by smoking or just happen cents. Suicides. This year, just over 1 million.
Cristina: Just over 1 million.
Jack: Money spent on illegal drugs this year, 397 billion.
Cristina: I wonder if that number has gone down because now weed is not such a drug. A legal drug. So that number should have gone down.
Jack: That's probably a huge one. But it's also like insignificant. The change here in the United States, it's. There's a world out there. Road traffic accident fatalities. So car accidents that resulted in somebody dying. 1.3 million.
Cristina: I wonder if they count animals who died. Animals, Cats, deer, squirrels. For some reason, all the random animals, such as the fly that hits your windshield.
Jack: How can. I mean, I bet somebody calculated the fly that hits the windshield.
Cristina: Math, that's how.
Jack: I don't know. There's probably a way to calculate it.
Cristina: Well, that's a lot of death.
Jack: Well, no, it used to be, but now the Windows design in such a way that they glide off as opposed to smack into it. That's why it's. Your windshield is at an angle.
Cristina: Okay. But the animals are still dead.
Jack: There's a bunch of dead animals. But like, how do we calculate something like that? Right. That's nuts. How many animals are there on average? How many of them have died for what causes? Like so much.
Cristina: Mm, so much. Yeah. It's a lot of stuff that happened this year and a lot of money.
Jack: Spent on a lot of things.
Cristina: A lot of things.
Jack: Education is higher, but it's also. We're talking the world. If we were to look at the United States impact of that same thing, it's probably very different.
Cristina: I think it's less.
Jack: I think it's probably way less.
Cristina: Like, when it comes to military, what were the three things? Military, health and education.
Jack: Yeah.
Cristina: Where do you think they rank?
Jack: I think military is way up there for the United States.
Cristina: You think that's number one then over medical? Yeah, yeah, sure. I don't know.
Jack: I do think it's everything.
Cristina: Everything about the hospital is expensive. That's a lot of money.
Jack: Everything about the hospital.
Cristina: Yeah. When it comes to health.
Jack: Yeah. I guess in the here in the United States, at least many countries take care of their citizens. And here. Nah.
Cristina: But that's why I would think that would be more. Probably we spend more money on that than military.
Jack: Well, no, that's. We're literally paying from our pocket as opposed to from tax. That's how they're calculating that how much money of the taxpayer dollars going to these things is what the question was answering, not how much people have like donated to them or whatever.
Cristina: Oh, okay.
Jack: Yeah. So when it comes down to it, like what you waste on health care, that doesn't matter versus what is taken from your money. That's what's being calculated.
Cristina: So what's the most shocking thing you remember from this year?
Jack: The most shocking thing I remember from this year. This year kind of flew by and it was a bit of a haze. I'm sure a couple of amazing things happened, but I don't remember any. They weren't particularly memorable. It's kind of still rebounding off of 2020 when s*** was like just hitting the fan and the world ending or whatever was happening.
Cristina: Nothing has really changed. I mean, Ukraine is still doing their battle.
Jack: Yeah, that happened this year. War.
Cristina: War. At least the world war hasn't happened yet.
Jack: And NASA is gonna finally have to give up all it. Not NASA. The government is finally also gonna have to give up all this paperwork related to UFOs and stuff, that's. That's cool.
Cristina: That's cool.
Jack: That's dope.
Cristina: Aliens.
Jack: Aliens. Our jobs are no longer gonna be a secret. And only for the people who listen to this show, but for everybody. Soon we're gonna be on tv. We're gonna be super megastars. It's gonna be awesome.
Cristina: I don't want to be on tv.
Jack: Why?
Cristina: Doesn't sound fun.
Jack: Well, we're just gonna be here. Well, I guess not here. Depends where we are.
Cristina: What are we doing just waving at people on tv? Are we celebrities?
Jack: I guess we're gonna be waving like the Queen. We're gonna be podcasting from inside of a bubble.
Cristina: That died today. That died today. That happened this year.
Jack: Oh, the Queen died this year. Oh, yeah, that did happen.
Cristina: I don't know why it came out that way. Yes. That was a mess.
Jack: The Queen. Oh, Her Majesty the Queen. And war.
Cristina: That's.
Jack: That's it. Is that the year wrapped up?
Cristina: Yeah. And Elon buying Twitter.
Jack: Elon bought Twitter. That happened.
Cristina: And Facebook's meta died. I don't know. Is that.
Jack: I don't know.
Cristina: They made it such a big deal. It was a lot panicking, sort of. And like, what's it gonna do? It's gonna change the world and everything, and we're gonna be living in it. This is gonna be.
Jack: The feature became like a weird matrix.
Cristina: Nothing happened.
Jack: Yeah, nothing happened. People hopped in. Somebody made some angry or bored apes, and that was it. The end.
Cristina: Was that an NFT?
Jack: Yeah.
Cristina: Was that the thing this year? NFT.
Jack: There were a bunch of NFTs, but it's been like two years of NFTs at this point.
Cristina: Yeah, well, it died off this year. It was born. Yes, Last year.
Jack: Yeah. Both of those things came and went pretty quickly. Meanwhile, bitcoin's still going hard.
Cristina: Yeah. What a year.
Jack: What a year. What a year.
Cristina: But look, we've had.
Jack: We had some ups and downs this year. We didn't catch Santa, but we've done a lot. And our only saving grace is Steve training. Eventually he'll be done. One day he'll be like, I figured it out.
Cristina: And then he abandons us.
Jack: Yeah. Goes joins a cloud or whatever. Becomes a God himself.
Cristina: He is sort of, kind of.
Jack: Yeah.
Cristina: He needs to become one.
Jack: But anyways, look, look, look, look. You guys can find out about Steve the Groundhog on our Groundhog Day episode. You guys can see last year's wrap up last year. You got to go back in time. You can't listen to it anymore. You got to go to last year to hear it when it first came out. Get yourself a time machine. You don't have one.
Cristina: Get cooler, get cooler.
Jack: Get cooler. Get a cooler.
Cristina: Get a cooler.
Jack: No, that's where we store our time machine. In a cooler.
Cristina: Why would we do that? That's gotta be huge.
Jack: Why can't our time machine be. Watch. A wristwatch, huh?
Cristina: Because I feel like you described it as us going into it.
Jack: Why can't it be a wristwatch that turns us into pure light and then pulls us inside?
Cristina: How do you take multiple people?
Jack: Well, you can take as many people as you want. We're 99% emptiness. I'm a walking nothing.
Cristina: So you put it on, and then how do you get other people to put it on? They just. You fall onto the floor. I mean, it falls onto the floor, and then the next person just puts it on, and then they fall.
Jack: No, we all just get sucked into it and then it disappears.
Cristina: How does it know who to take you?
Jack: I don't know. You hold hands.
Cristina: Okay. He's like, what stops everyone else from entering?
Jack: It looks way more like magic. Yeah, but look, you guys can learn about all that stuff and you can, like, I don't know, look at posts and chunk on the official websites and chunks and stuff. But look, find us on social media@justconvo pod, on Twitter, Instagram and TikTok, and you can.
Cristina: Or remember to subscribe. Yes, remember to subscribe. Don't do. Do it. Please. Do it.
Jack: Do what?
Cristina: Subscribe.
Jack: Please subscribe. Yes, I suppose. Please, I beg of you.
Cristina: Please, please. I need you to subscribe.
Jack: I mean, we don't need s*** from these people, Ray.
Cristina: And review the show.
Jack: Oh, yes, that's very important. Very. It's awesome when you do that. We like it.
Cristina: Let people who might like this show know about it.
Jack: Yeah, man, there's a bunch of stuff.
Cristina: Look, there's a choice of people who might not like this show.
Jack: Yeah, look, we're on all the feeds, right? Then we're everywhere. You can show them wherever you want.
Cristina: Show everybody who exists, and then they'll know.
Jack: And look, there's a bunch of episodes about all the crap we talked. And, you know, you'll find all of it. Just type keywords and junk and you'll. You'll find it, bro. It's there. Anyways, look, this has been the Rambling podcast. Take nothing personal and thanks for listening. Bye.
Cristina: Have conversations with someone else.
Jack: So that's brain work right there.
Cristina: That's brain working.
Jack: Have conversations, paint write, sketch, do something. It doesn't f****** matter. Do something. Exercise.
Cristina: You're not a zombie.
Jack: Yeah, prove you're not a f****** sheep.
Cristina: Or a sheep.
Jack: Yeah, that's what sheep do. They wait to be herded.
Cristina: Oh, that's exactly what's happening. Okay.
Jack: Yeah. People wait to go back to the herd later and then be told what to do. D***. And people just gave in, dude. People just gave in. That just happened. People just. And were programmed school programs.
Cristina: This is so easy.
Jack: Yeah, school programs. Us, dude. It's do what you go into f****** building. Shut the f*** up. And you do what the person in the front is telling you to do. You know, it doesn't make sense, but that's. You're not there to learn math or English. You need to learn how to follow orders.
Cristina: Good morning. Good morning. The podcast is hosted by Christina Collazo and Jack Thomas, produced by Lynn Taylor and published by great dots.info art by 0lupo and logo by Seth McAllister with social media managed by Amber Black.
