Joe Rogan gifts Lex Fridman his favorite watch

Take this, that's yours now. That's an Omega. And that has a moon phase. See that moon on the bottom of it? That's yours. You see the moon on the bottom of it? You see that? This is a happy man right now. That's my watch. That's my favorite watch, by the way. You see the moon on the bottom of it? Yep. That is the actual moon phase. It's a real high-resolution photograph of the moon. And as the moon rises, it will rise. It's set in the position where the moon is currently. Oh, that's awesome. Fuck yeah, it's awesome. Take that piece of shit, stupid fucking frisbee you got on your wrist. You can't get this back because you just did it on record. No, it's yours. It's yours, man. Joe, thank you so much. This is a steampunk watch. That fucking stupid thing. The robot writes it and erases it every minute. That's so dumb. But that watch, that watch is my favorite watch, and I want you to have it. Joe, thank you. My pleasure. See that? You got a big-ass wrist. Yeah. I do. Well, we can get it sized for you. No, no, this is perfect. Fuck, man. But you see the little moon? Thank you, Joe. Thank you so much. You see it at the bottom? Wait until it becomes full moon. You get a real sense of what it looks like. It's beautiful. It's a beautiful high-resolution image. And one of the reasons why I like Omegas, first of all, the astronauts that went to the moon, allegedly, they wore Omegas. But also, it doesn't have the same sort of cachet value as Rolexes or a lot of the people that have a peripheral understanding of watches. But they're fucking phenomenal watches. They make amazing watches. I have a bunch of Omegas. I love them. But that is my favorite watch, and you have my favorite watch now. Joe, thank you. Actually, this is the one thing I think a watch could add, is perspective on the cosmic scale. That's why I like that watch, and that's why I think you should have it. Because I would look at that watch, and I would say, this is where we are right now with the moon cycle. And when it comes full moon, like right now, it's just kind of like a little, it's probably a quarter moon or something. Yeah. When it comes full moon, you'll get a real sense of what it actually looks like, because it's beautiful. It's a beautiful high-resolution image of the moon with little stars behind it. See how much shit Connor got for his watch this week? Yeah, but that's a ridiculous watch. That's a ridiculous watch. I don't like those watches. I mean, look, you could like whatever you like. Yeah, that's a million dollars, his watch. That's preposterous. It's all filled with diamonds and shit. I don't own a single diamond. I've never had a diamond in my life, and I want a fucking diamond. I like engineering. That's what I like. I'm a fan of engineering. And what I like about that watch is the engineering behind it, is that it's a mechanical watch, meaning the time is kept within a second or two, I don't know what it is, like a day? I forget what it is, but also with a complication. There's this crazy complication that shows the moon rising across. And when it goes dark in the sky, I know when I can go outside and see the stars, because I look at my watch. And when my watch shows me no moon, that's when I go outside on my deck. Because when I go outside on my deck, I know I'm just going to see nothing but stars and no moon at all. No light pollution, just beautiful stars in the sky. I'm going to take care of this one. Take care of it, my brother. Take care of it.


Gilbert Strang: Why People Like Math

On YouTube, just consuming a bunch of videos and just watching what people connect with and what they really enjoy and are inspired by, math seems to come up again and again. I'm trying to understand why that is. Perhaps you can help give me clues. So it's not just the kinds of lectures that you give, but it's also just other folks, like with Numberphile, there's a channel, where they just chat about things that are extremely complicated, actually. People nevertheless connect with them. What do you think that is? It's wonderful, isn't it? I mean, I wasn't really aware of it. We're conditioned to think math is hard, math is abstract, math is just for a few people, but it isn't that way. A lot of people quite like math, and I get messages from people saying, now I'm retired, I'm gonna learn some more math. I get a lot of those, it's really encouraging. And I think what people like is that there's some order, a lot of order, and things are not obvious, but they're true. So it's really cheering to think that so many people really wanna learn more about math. In terms of truth, again, sorry to slide into philosophy at times, but math does reveal pretty strongly what things are true. I mean, that's the whole point of proving things. And yet, our real world is messy and complicated. What do you think about the nature of truth that math reveals? Because it is a source of comfort, like you've mentioned. Yeah, that's right. Well, I have to say, I'm not much of a philosopher. I just like numbers, you know, as a kid, this was before you had to go in, when you had a filly in your teeth, you had to kind of just take it. So what I did was think about math, you know, like take powers of two, two, four, eight, 16, up until the time the tooth stopped hurting and the dentist said you're through, or counting, yeah. So that was a source of peace, almost. Yeah. What is it about math do you think that brings that? Yeah. What is that? Well, you know where you are, yeah, symmetry, it's certainty, the fact that, you know, if you multiply two by itself 10 times, you get 1,024, period, everybody's gonna get that. Do you see math as a powerful tool or as an art form? So it's both, that's really one of the neat things. You can be an artist and like math, you can be a engineer and use math. Which are you? Which am I? What did you connect with most? Yeah, I'm somewhere between, I'm certainly not a artist type, philosopher type person, might sound that way this morning, but I'm not. Yeah, I really enjoy teaching engineers. They go for an answer. And yeah, so probably within the MIT math department, most people enjoy teaching students who get the abstract idea. I'm okay with, I'm good with engineers who are looking for a way to find answers, yeah.