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Yannis Pappas

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first: 2021-04-12
most recent: 2021-04-12
sittings or episodes: 1
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“You should be because you know what people are always scared robots, but I actually, I've made the sort of, hey, I thought about it. Like robots have been nothing but helpful. It's the people we should be scared of. Again, we're kind of missing the most destructive thing is us, but robots are helpful. I mean, this is a fucking robot. You know, I went on hotel tonight. I'm already booked up. I can change my flight if this barbecue with Rogan goes 16 hours, which whatever Rogan wants to do, I'll do if he wants to kick me in the chest. I'll let him kick me in the chest, whatever. Robots are helpful, no?”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I had a Finnish friend of mine. He's a comic. Tommy Volame has once told me he was like the gut. He's like, I believe in that gut. You know when you have that feeling? He's like, always trust that because that is million. Those are all your ancestors. That's the survival instinct of all your ancestors at beginning of time telling you like, hey, something's off here. Something's, you know, so don't get in the car with Ted Bundy is what I'm saying, ladies. How fucking stupid. How can you fall for that? You know, he's got a fucking sling on. Don't get in.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean, if it wasn't for them, they're the ones, they were our first alarm system from predators. They would defend us. I mean, the Besenji is one of the most ancient dogs. I mean, they're tiny, but they're fearless. And they would chase off lions. Like, you know, there'd be packs of them and they'd chase off lions and protect the tribes. I even get tingles like thinking about dogs because I have a dog. I love my dog. It's just, and there's something about when you're walking with your dog off leash in the woods, it like, there's something about it that's like that tugs at that millions of years of evolution, like that gut. You know, it's like.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Exercise for you Don't you think some animals deserve to be eaten, though? Kind of like Come on, dude. I mean, you got to respect the hy”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“A specific job that you need, and without that dogs doing that animal protecting our crops from scavengers and stuff like that, the list goes on, we wouldn't be here. So that's an often overlooked fact that human evolution was not done in a vacuum just with humans. I mean, without dogs, we would have never evolved. I mean, we weren't the apex predator for most of our existence. We weren't even the apex predator. I mean, we're getting eaten by hyenas, which my favorite animal. And, you know, that's kind of an injustice to, I mean, I'm kind of mad at dogs die. We deserve to get eaten by hyenas. But without dogs, we wouldn't be here. And dogs deserve the protection. So do horses. They fucking lugged us around for thousands of years. And now these fucking German psychopaths are eating them or whatever. We should not eat horse meat just on like be a good dude, man. These things lugged us around for generations. They're beautiful.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And you know what dogs is something I don't think people really understand enough about. It's one of my obsessions. So my dad always used to say, he goes, those things are basically human. And I mean, they dream, they have anxiety. And what people often overlook about dogs is without dogs, we wouldn't be here. We would not have ever evolved from hunter-gatherer to agrarian to, you know, civilization. We wouldn't have cities. We wouldn't have anything. I mean, they are our partner in survival and they are a magical animal. There's no animal that was, it was like destiny almost. I mean, a malleable animal. There's no animal that's that malleable that in a few generations you can tailor to.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Is that the Turing test, the way you try to, is that what they call it? Where you're trying to see if AI can think like a human or whatever, or feel like a human?”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's good to know where you stand on that. I think your viewers, if they didn't have they didn't know they had that question, they just learned a little bit about you and now I know.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Can I ask you a quick question? If you live in a small, I come from small islands, right? And so there's a stereotype that that's where they bang animals. You come from a very small community. An island or something, and you have the choice of banging a family member or an animal. Which one is worse on the moral scale? You're technically not related to the animal.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's been proven throughout history, every empire. When you have all that power, and again, this goes back to power corrupting. If you have, if there's no struggle, there's no meaning. The value is from the journey, the working hard to struggle. And if it's just given to you because you're a sultan or you're Alexander the Great or whatever, you're going to get bored and you're going to bang a dude. I think that's a scientific axiom, actually. Eventually, you'll get bored and bang a”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The Greeks have an ancient expression pan metro narratone, which my mother always used to say, which is everything in moderation, nothing in excess. So try and always get the status quo. And yeah, that many women, eventually it's like the Magic Johnson effect, Isaiah Thomas effect. It's just too much. And you're going to end up banging a dude is what I'm saying. You're going to get sick of it because it's too much. And there's going to be a eunuch that finds its way into your harem.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I kind of like it. No, so there'll be no thirsts, no, you can always put it off. I want to have, I want to bang this girl. I'll put it off. But now I'm thinking about Muslim heaven and they may be offering the best deal. I mean, if it was an expo and they had a booth, I may go with them because they offer 62 or 72, but then I get sick of them. I'd want to, I don't know. I always wondered, like, are you given the 62 virgins or do you choose, can you create them like an avatar, like a video game Or are you just given.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'm at heart. I'm a very lazy person. I always try to find ways to lie down. Like if I'm sitting, I'll figure out a way to kind of contort myself to lay down. That's an interesting thing to, yeah, if you can always push something off. Yeah, I like that. I think that's heaven.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It would be like a Greek caffania just sitting around drinking coffee watching it. I love it. It's a lazy man's paradise. Yeah.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Maybe that's what gives everything meaning. Because if everything lasted forever, if this went on ad infinitum, there would be no meaning to it. I'd be like, hey, if I don't see it tomorrow, I'll see it in a million years. There would be no meaning. There would be no urgency. There would be no feelings. There'd be no nothing of magnitude or superficiality. It would all just be this kind of, it would be torture. That would actually be torture to be here forever. I mean, I'm already sick of this place. And I'm just in my 40s. Like I'm done. I'm sick of me. I'm sick of everything”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We're robots, basically. So some sort of chemical is released that protects you, but there is an acceptance. I don't know how much was a concept. And that's the point I'm making is it's instinctual. We don't really have a choice in fearing death. Otherwise, there would be no progression. We wouldn't, all life seems to want to survive, not by choice, but by instinct.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But I mean, you know, that's another one separate the art from the artist. I mean, the guys will go down in history as the greatest. I mean, a movie a year, and they're all, you can always find something good about each movie, like the dialogue or whatever. I love what you're saying. It's interesting, but the only thing I would say to push back a little bit since we're playing a little table tennis here is. I don't know if it's a choice to fear death. That's more of an it seems more instinctual. It seems like something that nature wants you to do because I've been in positions where I thought I was going to die. Like I've been shot and I had those moments. And then nature also, you know, kicks in an instinct, which is acceptance, where you kind of, I don't know, it's a chemical release or whatever. I don't know, you know.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“He's, yeah, I mean, you know, he's caused a little bit of strife. He's left a little, yeah, he's left a little confusion in his wake for sure.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Maybe his mom wasn't hot though. I mean, or he wasn't Greek because apparently Oedipole, we found it all things good and bad.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Meditate on that? I think the actual, if there is a point to life, it's to hopefully not fear death, to accept reality. I think that's important. I think so much goes awry in the human condition when we lose touch with reality. Every political system that's led to mass murder and everything, I think because the tenants of those political philosophies ended up being utopian. They were detached from reality, detached from nature. And so I think it's very important to accept and acknowledge your own mortality. I think it's the foundation for what makes a good person, a moral person, a contributing member of society because it's true. True things should be the foundation of all things. If what you believe is based on illusion, you're going to end up doing destruction, whether that destruction is on a scale of one.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, my brother wasn't there. We were kind of doing shifts. I was there. I spent the night the night my dad died. He died early in the morning. And I heard the death rattle of the last breath. And it was just, I think it was, he knew I was there. And I think that just probably meant something to him. And I'm just glad I was there.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I got two brothers, but I wanted to make sure I was with him when he died, and I got lucky, and I was in the room with him when he died.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And it just spread all over his body, and he slowly died. I was with him when he died, and that meant a lot to me because me and my brother weren't talking at the time because we're Greeks. We're talking again, but that's how it is.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, every day, every day. But I'm happy that. He got 91 years Very rare. I mean, he smoked for 60 years. Talk about like a guy who was an outlier. I mean, he smoked like 60 years, like packs. I mean, And he didn't die from that. He died. He had prostate cancer, which is the way men should go. Your dick should give out. It should start from the dick. I mean, we focus so much of our life on the dick. That's the way that's a successful life. And that's why every man eventually gets prostate cancer because that is the universe's way of saying like the thing you focused on the most is you put the most energy into is the thing that's spent. And your rotting is going to start there. So that's a successful life.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Sort of the Greek passport that's the immigration passport for Greeks into America. And yeah, my dad played football. My dad did what he wanted. He lived as he wanted at all costs. And I think I got that from him for better or worse. I think it's hurt me in my pursuits if you consider money and fame to be paramount. I've always done what I wanted if I stopped wanting to do it. I just stopped doing it. I think I got that from my dad. So maybe for better or worse, that's what I learned from him. But that's a real currency, you know, feeling like you're in love with what you're doing when you're doing it. Maybe perhaps that's worth more than money. I don't know.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I love my dad, my dad, I would say my dad was my hero. He was just my dad really embodied those values. And I think, for better or worse, it's made me who I am. My dad was a painter. He was a lawyer. He was a lieutenant in the military. New Yorker. New Yorker, born and bred, Brooklyn. His dad, surprise, owned a diner.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Okay, yeah. I mean, gender's not even permanent anymore. I think I'm going to change maybe and live my second half as another gender just to have, I'm bored with this gender. So it's like nothing is permanent. And so accepting that emotionally. Is a good start to being more flexible. You got to be flexible. Like my dad used to say anything too stiff snaps. You got to, you know, it's a cliche and people have said a bunch of different ways. But Bruce Lee is right, man. Be water. Be water.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Can't take things too seriously. You can't, because they're ephemeral, they're not permanent, nothing's permanent. Your bank account's not permanent. Your problems aren't permanent. Nothing's permanent. Your abilities aren't permanent. Your memory's not permanent. Your dick getting hard is not permanent. Can I curse on this or is this go out to do? You can curse.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And humor and understanding reality in its objective context helps with that. Accepting reality as this ephemeral thing that you're really just a part of but not as significant as your ego wants you to believe is a start. That's a good foundation for surviving emotionally.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah. The funny thing about the capitalist system is it puts sort of profit motive above beauty. And you notice when you see certain cities, especially in the old days where like buildings used to be beautiful and now they're just like boxes. They throw a kid up and it's just for all profit margin. It's the illusion of permanence that it's like, oh, let me get as much money as I can. You're like, yeah, you know, my dad used to say, you know, everyone, it's a cliche, but you can't take it with you. So it's kind of comical to me that we're here trying to get this infinite amount like that we're clients. It's like Sisyphus. We're all trying to climb this hill. But I mean, the rock's going to fall on us. So I think that's a healthy outlook. Yeah. My dad always used to say before he passed, you know, he would say, you have to survive not only physically, but you have to survive emotionally. I think a lot of people forget about the emotional part of survival. You have to survive emotionally.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“They do. They do. At a certain point, you got, that's why social workers can only get you so far. You need action. I was a social worker for five years, and all you do is ask about medications and you don't solve anything.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, he's a rare breed. He's like a benign king. Most people I meet who are like really powerful are like douchebags and that's how they got there. I think that's psychopaths have the advantage because they don't have feelings. And Joe's a rare example. He's just a powerhouse of will. And I do think about that. Yeah. I think I should be stopped right now. Just stop me right now because, yeah, power for me. When people get power, they indulge. I don't think it changes anyone. It just reveals your darkest. You know, people aren't supposed to have anything they want. You got to be able to struggle for everything. So I would have a harem, I'd be like a Roman dictator. Yeah. I'd be like a Roman emperor. I mean, people call them emperors. They were dictators. The most effective leaders are dictators. I hope we get back to that. Democracy hasn't worked. I'm ready for a secession of Caesars and I want to start with AOC.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“He would have people below his food standard execute. There'd be programs not of people who are political dissidents, but of people who don't meet his food standard. His cuisine standard is high, and he's usually right.”
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“Yeah, you don't want to give him power. I don't even want him wearing a suit. Like I want a guy who's as thoughtful and educated as you wearing a suit because, you know, suits corrupt you. You put that suit on you. You start feeling that power. Definitely. It's like, you know, yeah, I don't even want Tim Dillon to suit. Power would, he would kill people. He'd get rid of anything that he deemed. I mean, if you made a lobster roll and it wasn't up to Tim Dillon's standard, he would have you execute it the entire restaurant.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“They get along great those two. Would get, I mean, Tim Dillon and King John would be like, they could make like a buddy cop movie. They would get along like Lethal Weapon. That would be a good pitch movie”
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“Yeah, I saw him. I've been in Austin a couple days. I saw him once. We had eight meals in one day. Yeah, so I feel like I've been here longer than I have just because of the meals with Dylan. Kid likes biscuits and barbecue.”
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“D min Got to repeat the grade if you get all D minuses. I actually had a 0.67 GPA average. My freshman year and I had to do it again. This podcast is going to be the spectrum of human intelligence. It runs the gamut from there to here.”
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