Bill Gates Launches New Podcast, Tells Seth Rogen About Smoking Pot (gatesnotes.com) 35
Thursday Bill Gates launched a new podcast called "Unconfuse Me." ("What do you do when you can't solve a problem? I like to talk to smart people who can help me understand the subject better...")
Join me on my learning journey as I talk to brilliant guests about Alzheimer's, artificial intelligence, the future of education, plant-based meat, the evolution of language, marijuana, and more.
The first words of the first episode are a clip of Seth Rogen saying "Edibles? I don't mess with that. Snoop Dogg doesn't eat edibles. Like, that's how wild the variation on edibles is, and I do not recommend this."
Then Bill Gates' voice says "I love learning, even if a topic's complex, I like to see if I can figure it out..." People reports that the 67-year-old Microsoft co-founder and former CEO also spoke to Rogen and his wife Lauren Miller about the future of Alzheimer's research: With studies showing that "40% of cases" are preventable, according to Rogen, the "five brain healthy habits" in their framework are important: sleep, exercise, nutrition, mental fitness and emotional well-being.
He even confessed that his being a celebrity encourages people to better care for themselves. "I taught this coursework of brain health, and we've also had a neurologist teach the coursework, and we scientifically proved that people retain information better from celebrities than doctors, which is it's a heavy burden," he joked, adding that this information "was published..."
Miller also shared that she goes to a neurologist and the pair are both "open" with their doctors about their habits, and "no one" in the medical world has told them that smoking weed is bad for their brain health. They even believe its benefits of boosting hunger and relieving stress might be good for preventing Alzheimer's. "It's not federally legal, so there isn't money to fund research," Miller said.
Gates later concluded the podcast with his own funny anecdote, laughing about his first time he ever smoked weed — back when it was a "rebellious" thing to do. "In school out of the, say 105 people in my class I think, there were three or four who didn't smoke," he said. "Because it was kind of a, 'Hey, I'm an adult! Hey I can break the rules!' But I will say, sometimes it's like, I guess I'm doing this to be cool. It wasn't so much smoking for pot's sake."
The first words of the first episode are a clip of Seth Rogen saying "Edibles? I don't mess with that. Snoop Dogg doesn't eat edibles. Like, that's how wild the variation on edibles is, and I do not recommend this."
Then Bill Gates' voice says "I love learning, even if a topic's complex, I like to see if I can figure it out..." People reports that the 67-year-old Microsoft co-founder and former CEO also spoke to Rogen and his wife Lauren Miller about the future of Alzheimer's research: With studies showing that "40% of cases" are preventable, according to Rogen, the "five brain healthy habits" in their framework are important: sleep, exercise, nutrition, mental fitness and emotional well-being.
He even confessed that his being a celebrity encourages people to better care for themselves. "I taught this coursework of brain health, and we've also had a neurologist teach the coursework, and we scientifically proved that people retain information better from celebrities than doctors, which is it's a heavy burden," he joked, adding that this information "was published..."
Miller also shared that she goes to a neurologist and the pair are both "open" with their doctors about their habits, and "no one" in the medical world has told them that smoking weed is bad for their brain health. They even believe its benefits of boosting hunger and relieving stress might be good for preventing Alzheimer's. "It's not federally legal, so there isn't money to fund research," Miller said.
Gates later concluded the podcast with his own funny anecdote, laughing about his first time he ever smoked weed — back when it was a "rebellious" thing to do. "In school out of the, say 105 people in my class I think, there were three or four who didn't smoke," he said. "Because it was kind of a, 'Hey, I'm an adult! Hey I can break the rules!' But I will say, sometimes it's like, I guess I'm doing this to be cool. It wasn't so much smoking for pot's sake."
he's one of us (Score:2)
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True! We should also ban dancing in most towns. Also bring back prohibition, profanity is punishable by 6 years in prison, no one is allowed to make silly faces at a dogs, putting ice cream on pies gets you 40 lashes and last but not least NO FARTING ANYTIME ANYWHERE
Re:Scrape (Score:4, Informative)
I think you need to re-read the parent comment.
*whoosh*
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Wow, i did have a case of apostrophe blindness
Hey Bill (Score:1, Funny)
How about a podcast called "why do I get 40 seconds of progress bars every time I change directories in your shitty operating system?"
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If you want Windows to have anything close to normal speeds you have to disable the ten-thousand layers of bullshit anti-whatever crap that is running all the time. The anti-malware, anti-riskware, anti-ransomware, screen scrapers, file checkers, indexers, double checkers, the second anti-malware daemon, the half dozen system anti-virus processes, etc, etc, etc. Plus whatever new anti-thing they add tomorrow.
That OS does nothing other than run stuff to prevent stuff from running. What a joke of a system.
A healthy brain understands.... (Score:1)
Must be one hell of a slow news day (Score:2)
n/t
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Couldn't tell by the mobile MSN page since you can't read articles without viewing the desktop version or getting the app.....
Epstein (Score:1, Troll)
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Coming to the defense of a man whose wife left him over his association with the world's most notorious pedophile is not a good look.
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Bill...?
Bill Gates! (Score:1, Flamebait)
Now I understand (Score:3)
Well, that explains Clippy.
Omg (Score:2)
I prefer edibles (Score:3)
Re:I prefer edibles (Score:4, Interesting)
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When you smoke several grams a day you need some serious edibles to get the effect you are after. I can eat 100mg of edibles and act like nothing happened. Depends on what you've eaten, can creep up on you.
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What happened to smoking several grams a day and you are bombed... all day. There is something wrong with that shit since it became nice and legal.
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When you smoke several grams a day you need some serious edibles to get the effect you are after.
That absolutely makes sense. Smoking several grams a day of anything is not going to be healthy though. Hopefully you at least use a weed vape.
likes to talk to smart people (Score:4, Funny)
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Bill Gates is Epstein's buddy (Score:1, Informative)
Does Seth Rogen also enjoy having sex with enslaved children? Why is he on the show? Is this just Bill trying to rehabilitate his image by leveraging the stoner crowd?
Are celebrities just better speakers? (Score:3, Interesting)
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It mentions they scientifically proved people retain information better form celebrities but could that be they just scientifically proved those celebrities are just better at public speaking? The best teachers I ever had were charismatic and went to great lengths to be entertainers in their classrooms to better keep your attention while covering dry material.
Are you sure you actually learned more from those entertaining teachers? I think there is a fair amount of research indicating that while students of entertaining instructors FEEL like they learn more, they are often mistaken. There seems to be a sweet spot the instructor is entertaining enough to keep the students awake and ENGAGED, but still challenging enough that the student does not slip into the passive consuming mode. If things are TOO easy to follow and understand, it is easy for the critical/analyt
bhang (Score:1)
No wonder Microsoft employs so many Indians. Its all about the bhang. Explains a lot about Microsoft really.
and sometimes... (Score:1)
...you're a "celebrity" because you made a giant pile of money, that's it. It probably does indicate special competence in a single lucrative field or a large amount of luck, usually both.
I'd think by 2023, we'd clearly recognize that celebrity != ability.
Still not cool. (Score:2)
Still not cool.