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Waveform: The MKBHD Podcast

Are We Optimistic About Tech with Hasan Minhaj

Waveform: The MKBHD Podcast

Marques Brownlee

News, Hobbies, Technology, Tech News, Leisure

4.86.8K Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2022

⏱️ 124 minutes

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Summary

This week, Marques and Andrew sit down with Hasan Minhaj! They discuss everything from fantasy basketball to whether or not artificial intelligence can create art. There are a lot of upsides to new technologies, but there are also some serious negative aspects of technology that are worth discussing (hence this 2-hour long conversation). Despite all the downsides, Marques sheds some light on how he thinks about technology and continues to stay optimistic about the future. This is a good one! Shop the merch: https://shop.mkbhd.com Twitters: Waveform: https://twitter.com/wvfrm Marques: https://twitter.com/mkbhd Andrew: https://twitter.com/andymanganelli Hasan Minhaj: https://twitter.com/hasanminhaj Adam: https://twitter.com/adamlukas17 Ellis: https://twitter.com/EllisRovin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wvfrmpodcast/ Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/mkbhd Music by 20syl: https://bit.ly/2S53xlC Waveform is part of the Vox Media Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's up people of the internet. Welcome back to another episode of the waveform podcast where your host I'm Marquez and I'm Andrew and this special guest episode

0:13.8

I say special because the episode itself is really special. It's a lot of fun. This time we have

0:19.1

Hassan Minaj with us actor writer comedian creator. I think we have a lot in common but he's he's been prolific over the past few years. I'm a fan of his work. He reached out. He's been watching the podcast. If you guys aren't subscribed on YouTube, you're missing out on something Hassan Minaj has been a job. Exactly. Get subscribed already. But this is this is a good episode of long conversation. We had a bunch of talks. We started about basketball and like the fact that we use like basketball analogies for like everything. I understood all of that.

0:49.1

There was a fun intro. But then we quickly jumped into creativity and writing and I think one of the most interesting parts was like trying to stay optimistic on the future possibilities of technologies on the horizon like AI or Twitter and privacy and yeah. There's lots of question marks and and just kind of how we think about those things. And you might be surprised at the depth of some of these conversations we have it's a lot of fun.

1:16.5

I also at some point had him flip the tables on me and just start asking me questions. Yeah, which has never happened on waveform before. But I thought it was great. I enjoyed it. And this is an all time episode. It was so much fun. He was such a nice guy. And he just like had a bunch of really, really fun questions that there's probably points in this episode where my face is totally blind because I'm just thinking about the emergency to go a little.

1:38.1

Just a merrous. It's one of those that just feels like a conversation and you happen to have microphones in front of you, which is a good time. Yeah. All right. Also just make sure put your bets in on how fast you think he is typing the alphabet. Oh yeah for reference. He brought in sticky notes and a pen. So yeah, this is a whether that yeah is an analog technology. Yeah, we didn't let him write it. He's still at the type it. But let's get into the actual conversation.

2:02.4

Hassan, thanks for joining me on the podcast. Andrews here. Yeah. Thanks for having me. Yeah, I really appreciate it. This is we're looking forward to this. And we're talking a little bit before the podcast about technology and about being a creator and there's all the stuff that we could talk about.

2:19.6

But I just want to open with, because people ask,

2:22.2

like, why do you have certain guests on the podcast?

2:23.9

Like, why was the choice process?

2:25.8

I want to read a bunch of things that we have in common.

2:27.9

Okay.

2:28.8

I think there's a lot more that we have in common

2:30.0

that people don't understand.

2:31.4

Okay.

2:32.3

So, we both are creators, I would say.

2:35.0

Sure.

2:35.8

We both have a YouTube channel, technically.

2:37.1

Technically.

2:38.0

We're both hot ones alone.

2:40.2

Yes.

2:41.1

One of my favorite shows.

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