It's 2026 and we are officially OLD | Hey Tablo Ep. 1 — Transcript

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1. 0:00It's 2026
2. 0:03and apparently Kangnam style was 14
3. 0:07years ago.
4. 0:08What the
5. 0:11>> Hey, Tableau.
6. 0:13[laughter]
7. 0:16>> All right. Uh,
8. 0:20give me give me like 10 seconds. Okay. I
9. 0:23just need to I just need to
10. 0:27>> You can do this.
11. 0:30You piece of
12. 0:33[laughter]
13. 0:34How was it? Seriously.
14. 0:37Oh my god. Why am I nervous doing this?
15. 0:39I've done this before.
16. 0:43I'm talking all the time. I I have no
17. 0:46idea why this is why this is making me
18. 0:48nervous. Okay. Anyways, happy new year.
19. 0:52It's 2026,
20. 0:55believe it or not. Time passes
21. 0:58pretty fast. It feels like yesterday
22. 1:01that Haru was six.
23. 1:04She's going to be 16 soon in May. My
24. 1:08daughter, I have a daughter, first of
25. 1:10all, which is
26. 1:14which is still mindboggling.
27. 1:17And that daughter
28. 1:19is gonna celebrate her sweet 16 this
29. 1:22year. That is Oh my
30. 1:27I I don't know if I could do this.
31. 1:31This
32. 1:33truth has hit me hard.
33. 1:36She's going to be 16.
34. 1:39It's only a matter of time until she's
35. 1:42like, "Get away from me, Daddy.
36. 1:45Daddy, you're standing too close.
37. 1:48Daddy, your voice is too loud. You're
38. 1:50talking way too much. [sighs] I can't
39. 1:54believe it. 2026
40. 1:57to people like me born in the8s.
41. 2:012026
42. 2:03feels like uh one of those Back to the
43. 2:06Future sci-fi dates. It still feels like
44. 2:10a time where like cars are flying and
45. 2:15we're on hoverboards.
46. 2:172026 is unreal to people like me. To
47. 2:21people that are, you know, my daughter's
48. 2:23age, it just feels like another year.
49. 2:26[panting]
50. 2:27It's just 2026, not a big deal. But to
51. 2:30me, 2026
52. 2:33is like a is like a sci-fi number. It's
53. 2:36not real. And that's the year we're in.
54. 2:41That is just crazy. Anyway, this is Hey
55. 2:44Tableau, the new podcast from me,
56. 2:47Tableau of Epicai. You may know me
57. 2:51already. I'm assuming some of you do.
58. 2:54Uh, you may be a fan of Epicai's YouTube
59. 2:58show, which is Epicaz. Uh, you may be a
60. 3:01fan of my music, Epicai, and my solo
61. 3:04music. or you may have been a fan of my
62. 3:08previous podcast which was 5 years ago.
63. 3:11It's already been 5 years. Anyways, uh I
64. 3:14started this podcast because not because
65. 3:17I have nothing to do or or I need a
66. 3:20reason to get out of the house. I
67. 3:21started this because I feel like a lot
68. 3:23of our Englisheaking fans uh need
69. 3:28something like this and they've been
70. 3:30asking it for a long time. um Tableau,
71. 3:34can you do a podcast again? And finally,
72. 3:37I got around to it. I'm hoping that this
73. 3:40podcast can be like an Asian dad that
74. 3:43you need. I I have a theory that
75. 3:47regardless of where you're from, uh what
76. 3:51age you are, where uh you are in life,
77. 3:55everyone needs an Asian dad. only one
78. 3:59that doesn't scream at you or
79. 4:03compare you to
80. 4:05neighbors, kids, or, you know, tell you
81. 4:07long stories about how they had to like
82. 4:09climb mountains to get get to school.
83. 4:13And kids these days are too fragile and
84. 4:17then slap you across the head because
85. 4:21you are the only child that has ever
86. 4:25been bad at math in this house. weirdly
87. 4:28specific, but
88. 4:30[panting]
89. 4:32anyways, I feel like this podcast can
90. 4:34become that kind of Asian dad. Uh, you
91. 4:37can come to me once a week, every week
92. 4:40to just let your mind get off all of
93. 4:44your worries and troubles and at the
94. 4:46same time get some no [ __ ] advice
95. 4:49uh, and sometimes feel like someone's
96. 4:52just listening to you. I I want this to
97. 4:54feel like a conversation that I have
98. 4:57with you and that you have with me once
99. 5:00a week and hopefully it helps you get
100. 5:02through that week. As I mentioned at the
101. 5:05beginning, Kangnam style is 14 years
102. 5:10old. It was 14 years ago when that whole
103. 5:14sensation happened.
104. 5:16Can you believe that? I feel like it was
105. 5:19like at the most maybe seven years ago,
106. 5:21but now it's been 14 years. That's just
107. 5:24crazy.
108. 5:27Do you all remember? You listening right
109. 5:29now, do you remember where you were when
110. 5:32Kangnam Style dropped? When that video
111. 5:35went viral as hell?
112. 5:38I remember because I was sitting next to
113. 5:40Sai. I was sitting next to the guy who
114. 5:43made Kangnam Style. And let me just say
115. 5:46he was just as shocked as anyone else
116. 5:50when that song blew up the way it did.
117. 5:52Uh he he was beyond shocked because he
118. 5:56was hoping for a number one song on
119. 5:59Korean charts because he hadn't had a
120. 6:02number one in a while, right? And he was
121. 6:05very nervous, which was interesting for
122. 6:07me to see because he's a sbe of mine.
123. 6:11He's an older artist. um one that I
124. 6:14looked up to and was always a hitmaker.
125. 6:17So, it was strange seeing him nervous. I
126. 6:21was like, "That should be doable for
127. 6:23you." Like, but when it outdid that by
128. 6:27like
129. 6:29by like 10,000fold
130. 6:31was like number two on Billboard, he was
131. 6:34more shocked. So, I remember this moment
132. 6:36because I was there, but it still feels
133. 6:39like it was like maybe seven to eight
134. 6:41years ago, but it's been 14 [ __ ]
135. 6:44years. That's
136. 6:47Oh my god.
137. 6:49So, my daughter was like one at the
138. 6:51time. That is crazy.
139. 6:55You know what the importance of Kangnam
140. 6:58style truly was? It's not that you know
141. 7:02personally for him you know it was a
142. 7:04great hit it was a big success and um
143. 7:09shaped his career after that right so it
144. 7:12it was a great thing to happen but for
145. 7:14people who just watched this happen
146. 7:18especially from from Korea I believe
147. 7:20that it was a reminder that unexpected
148. 7:26strange things still can happened. It
149. 7:30It's sort of like um 2002 World Cup. I
150. 7:34don't know if any of you will remember
151. 7:37uh I'm assuming a lot of you weren't
152. 7:40even born then, but in 2002 at the World
153. 7:44Cup, Korea beyond all anyone's
154. 7:48expectations just dominated
155. 7:51and we got to the final four. At a
156. 7:55certain point, it almost felt like we
157. 7:57were gonna actually win this thing, like
158. 8:01we were gonna be holding the World Cup
159. 8:05in our hands. And it it was an insane
160. 8:09time because not not only because people
161. 8:12were happy or excited, but because
162. 8:15behind that happiness and excitement,
163. 8:19there was this feeling of wow, totally
164. 8:23unexpected strange things can happen in
165. 8:26life and maybe it can happen in my life
166. 8:30too. And I I believe that was the
167. 8:33importance of Kangnam style. It reminded
168. 8:37us that sometimes totally unexpected
169. 8:42things can happen to people that are
170. 8:44underestimated.
171. 8:47And these are just two examples. But
172. 8:49when we go through life, sometimes just
173. 8:51weird things happen, right? Where it's
174. 8:54like, "Oh my god, that's crazy." And I
175. 8:57believe these moments are very important
176. 8:59just just to remind us from time to time
177. 9:01that you can have wild dreams, you can
178. 9:04have wild aspirations.
179. 9:07Uh most of them won't materialize, but
180. 9:11once in a blue moon something will.
181. 9:14Okay, that got me thinking. Uh what else
182. 9:17is hella old? Now let me uh let me
183. 9:21search this. Hold on. Tell me a bunch of
184. 9:25things that are old
185. 9:29or
186. 9:30happened
187. 9:32long ago
188. 9:35that will make me feel old.
189. 9:40Okay, let's see. Oh, you're in for a
190. 9:43nostalgia punch. Here's a list of things
191. 9:45that will absolutely make you realize
192. 9:47how far we've come.
193. 9:49The first iPhone came out nearly 20
194. 9:52years ago, 2007. That's 19 years ago. I
195. 9:56remember the very first time I saw an
196. 9:59iPhone. I was in Tokyo
197. 10:02and we were looking for a Chrome Hearts
198. 10:06store. By we, I mean uh this this one
199. 10:10guy in my group uh Two Cuts. He was
200. 10:13like, "I want to go to Chrome Hearts."
201. 10:15And we were looking for the store. And
202. 10:18back in those days, we had these phones
203. 10:21that basically, you know, were text
204. 10:23texting devices, right? And you could
205. 10:27access the internet, but it was through
206. 10:30such a small screen and such a crappy UI
207. 10:37that no one really used it, you know, it
208. 10:40was just there. It was just a
209. 10:42possibility that no one tapped into. And
210. 10:45we're like, how do we find this place?
211. 10:47And then this uh friend of ours that was
212. 10:49with us, he busts out this metallic
213. 10:53device and he's like, "Let me check."
214. 10:57And I'm like, "What the [ __ ] is that?
215. 10:59What is that thing you're holding?" And
216. 11:01he's like, "This
217. 11:03is the iPhone."
218. 11:06They called it the Jesus phone at the
219. 11:07time because it was like the savior of
220. 11:11phones,
221. 11:13[panting]
222. 11:14apparently, the Messiah of phones. So he
223. 11:17was like, "It's the iPhone." And he said
224. 11:20it in that voice, too. He He wasn't
225. 11:23like, "Oh, it's it's the new iPhone." He
226. 11:25was like, "It's
227. 11:28the iPhone."
228. 11:30>> And I was like, "Oh my god." And he
229. 11:34opens up an app and it was like a game.
230. 11:36It was a toilet paper game. You all
231. 11:38remember this, right? You remember this?
232. 11:40You listening right now, you remember
233. 11:41this? If you were born then, you know
234. 11:44this toilet paper game. The whole point
235. 11:46of the game was you just keep tapping
236. 11:49down and it's just infinite scroll of
237. 11:54toilet paper.
238. 11:56I don't know why we loved it so much,
239. 11:57but he showed me that and he's like,
240. 11:59"See, you can do this. You can make
241. 12:01phone calls with this." And I was like,
242. 12:02"Holy."
243. 12:04[laughter]
244. 12:05I was like, "Oh my"
245. 12:09I was like, "So, what you're telling me
246. 12:11here, it's an iPod that I can call home
247. 12:14with?"
248. 12:16And he's like, "Yes." And I was like,
249. 12:18"Take my money." I was like, "When's it
250. 12:21coming out in Korea?" And once the
251. 12:24iPhone was in my hands the next year, I,
252. 12:28you know, it's never left my hand. And
253. 12:30at times I wish I I wish I never
254. 12:34discovered it. I wish that it was never
255. 12:37made because I remember a time before
256. 12:42phones, before smartphones,
257. 12:46and we like actually like met people and
258. 12:49and like sat in the park and stuff like
259. 12:53on a bench like we talked,
260. 12:58we we held hands, we hugged,
261. 13:03we had kids and stuff.
262. 13:09And then the iPhone came out 19 years
263. 13:11ago and everything changed. Anyways, uh
264. 13:15I can't believe that it's 19 years. It
265. 13:17feels like maybe
266. 13:1913 14 years. Almost 20 years is crazy.
267. 13:24That is just insane.
268. 13:26I was a big fan of Steve Jobs though. A
269. 13:30lot of people are probably like, "Oh,
270. 13:32Tableau
271. 13:34the fuck." I know. I know all the
272. 13:37stories, but you know, people are
273. 13:39complicated. I don't have to like or
274. 13:43admire 100% of a person, right? There
275. 13:47are parts of everyone's life that I
276. 13:51admire and certain parts that I don't.
277. 13:54But, you know, you can't really pick and
278. 13:57choose.
279. 13:58You just take the good with the bad.
280. 14:01Anyways, I was a huge fan of Steve Jobs.
281. 14:03It feels crazy. Like, wait, when did
282. 14:05when did Steve Jobs pass away?
283. 14:11I remember it was like uh when the
284. 14:13iPhone 4S or 5S came out. iPhone 4S
285. 14:17because people said that the 4S was
286. 14:19iPhone for Steve. It was right after
287. 14:22Steve Jobs passed away. He passed away
288. 14:24in 2011. So that's so
289. 14:28Wow. That's 15 years ago.
290. 14:33>> Oh, he passed away when the when the
291. 14:35original iPad was only a year old.
292. 14:38iPhones still had home buttons. Wait,
293. 14:40what?
294. 14:42Oh my god.
295. 14:44iPhones had home buttons
296. 14:47like clickable, right? It like it made a
297. 14:50sound and everything, right?
298. 14:53that no the fingerprint thing came
299. 14:55after. At first I think it was an it was
300. 14:58a literal button.
301. 15:00I don't know why Chat PT is saying this
302. 15:02but and Call Me Maybe hadn't even come
303. 15:04out yet.
304. 15:06Can you believe this? I asked when did
305. 15:08Steve Jobs pass away? And he's like
306. 15:10Steve Jobs passed away on October 5th,
307. 15:132011. That's almost 15 years ago now. To
308. 15:16put that into perspective, the original
309. 15:18iPad was only a year old. iPhone still
310. 15:21had home buttons and Call Me Maybe
311. 15:23hadn't even come out yet. [laughter]
312. 15:31What the [ __ ] [laughter]
313. 15:35Okay,
314. 15:37[laughter]
315. 15:38I guess you were a fan.
316. 15:41Speaking of songs that came out a long
317. 15:44time ago, if you're a K-pop fan, this is
318. 15:46going to hit you hard. Big Bang's first
319. 15:50big hit, the song
320. 15:52Lie
321. 15:54was also 19 years ago. That is crazy.
322. 16:0019 years ago. I didn't even know Big
323. 16:02Bang was 19. Big Bang still feels like a
324. 16:06group that came out maybe at the most 10
325. 16:08years ago cuz they're still so so fresh,
326. 16:11right? So, when did Bang Bang Bang come
327. 16:14out? Hold on.
328. 16:15When did
329. 16:17Big Bangs
330. 16:19Bang Bang Banga come out?
331. 16:23Cuz kids still listen to this like it's
332. 16:25a new song that just dropped like a
333. 16:27month ago and it it sounds that way,
334. 16:30right? It sounds super fresh.
335. 16:33It came out 11 years ago. Oh my god,
336. 16:41I am old as [ __ ] Wow, that's crazy. And
337. 16:46also, Born Hater was 12 years ago, our
338. 16:49song.
339. 16:50>> I think this is the one that boggles my
340. 16:52mind.
341. 16:53>> Born Hater,
342. 16:54>> cuz the music video was
343. 16:56>> seems pretty
344. 16:57>> pretty new.
345. 16:58>> Yeah. Still relevant with the whole
346. 17:00vertical thing.
347. 17:01>> By the way, that Born Hater video,
348. 17:03Epicai's born hater video was the first
349. 17:05time that vertical videos were abled on
350. 17:10YouTube.
351. 17:11I know this because when we were
352. 17:13shooting the video and the director and
353. 17:16I had decided on doing a vertical video,
354. 17:20our biggest issue was that we didn't
355. 17:22know how people would watch on their
356. 17:24computers.
357. 17:25So, we even had a display on set and we
358. 17:33flipped the screen
359. 17:35on its side, right, to watch the
360. 17:38monitor. And also that's how we assumed
361. 17:42people would watch. [laughter]
362. 17:46I'm not kidding. This is how dumb we
363. 17:48were. Uh we were like, "Okay, people
364. 17:51maybe they can just take their take
365. 17:53their laptop and just put it on the side
366. 17:55and they can watch it in full screen."
367. 17:58And we were like, "But that's
368. 18:00ridiculous. Hopefully YouTube will
369. 18:03implement vertical videos."
370. 18:06What's interesting is even on a phone
371. 18:08through the YouTube app, you couldn't
372. 18:10see vertical videos in vertical. It just
373. 18:13played it in landscape with the black on
374. 18:16the sides. And then soon after the video
375. 18:19came out, at first it wasn't possible,
376. 18:22but soon after it came out, uh YouTube
377. 18:24implemented it and there was like an
378. 18:26article about how Born Hater played a
379. 18:29part and the rest is history. So if you
380. 18:33guys enjoy vertical videos, if you enjoy
381. 18:36YouTube shorts
382. 18:38or any vertical videos, Tik Tok,
383. 18:42Instagram reals, you have me to thank me
384. 18:46and the born hater director. I feel like
385. 18:49I should get
386. 18:51something for this.
387. 18:55Like YouTube, come on. I deserve a
388. 18:59little something for this.
389. 19:02Uh let's see what else uh happened a
390. 19:04long time ago. Uh Tik Tok launched a
391. 19:07decade ago.
392. 19:10Do you remember Vine?
393. 19:14You're like you were a Vine fan?
394. 19:19Vine was basically
395. 19:21Tik Tok. It created like a new form of
396. 19:26meme and I loved it. That was nine years
397. 19:30ago.
398. 19:32uh since it's shut down.
399. 19:36Let's see what else. Uh
400. 19:39do you remember the Damn Daniel? Damn
401. 19:42Daniel. The the meme. That meme
402. 19:46is 10 years old.
403. 19:50Damn [ __ ] I'm Daniel.
404. 19:54Damn Daniel. Damn Daniel's 10 years old.
405. 20:00Damn.
406. 20:01You know when memes are straight up
407. 20:04older than some humans, you know you're
408. 20:06old. Like, you know, when the the the
409. 20:10memes that you used to love
410. 20:13are older than like some elementary
411. 20:17school kids,
412. 20:19you're old as hell. The ice bucket
413. 20:22challenge was 12 years ago.
414. 20:24I remember doing this. It's on a
415. 20:27rooftop, but that was 11 years ago. Wow.
416. 20:30That also feels maybe like five, six
417. 20:33years ago. Time passes so fast. Frozen
418. 20:38Let It Go came out 12 years ago.
419. 20:43>> Frozen one. It's 12 years ago. Holy
420. 20:47[ __ ]
421. 20:49No, it's more than 12 years ago. It's
422. 20:522013. So 13 years ago, the Avengers
423. 20:56assembled for the first time in 2012. So
424. 20:59that's 14 years ago. Game of Thrones
425. 21:02ended in 2019. So that's seven years
426. 21:07ago.
427. 21:09>> What? Wait, 2019 was seven years ago.
428. 21:13[laughter]
429. 21:17>> Okay, this is the this is the funniest
430. 21:21moment.
431. 21:22Yes, Grace.
432. 21:25She's like, she's like, "Wait, wait a
433. 21:27minute." After all this discussion, she
434. 21:31wasn't as shocked that the iPhone's 19
435. 21:33years old or that or that Frozen was 12
436. 21:36years ago or that Damn Daniel was 10
437. 21:38years ago. She's like, "Wait a minute."
438. 21:41She's like, "Stop the presses.
439. 21:452019
440. 21:46was seven years ago." Yes, Grace. That's
441. 21:51that's how math works.
442. 21:54If it's 2026 now,
443. 21:582019 was seven years ago. Wow, that is
444. 22:01crazy. Despito
445. 22:04was in 2017.
446. 22:07So that's 9 years ago.
447. 22:11You're listening to this right now and
448. 22:14either thinking that,
449. 22:17"Oh my god, that's that was 10 years
450. 22:19ago. That was 14 years ago." Or you're
451. 22:21thinking,
452. 22:23"That's it. That feels like I don't
453. 22:27know. Honestly, I thought that was like
454. 22:2830 years ago." If you're the latter,
455. 22:31then you're just super old. [laughter]
456. 22:38I'm sorry. I'm sorry, but if you're not
457. 22:40shocked by any of this, if none of this
458. 22:43is blowing your mind and you're like,
459. 22:46sounds about right. Well, that was only
460. 22:4819 years ago. Feels like it was 34 years
461. 22:50ago, man. You're you're really [ __ ]
462. 22:52old. And I got to say, I'm like right
463. 22:54there. I'm like I'm at the cutline,
464. 22:58right? I'm like almost there now.
465. 23:02Hold on. Let me take a sip of this
466. 23:05unbranded
467. 23:06unnamed coffee from this
468. 23:11unbranded mug.
469. 23:15[snorts]
470. 23:17Just letting um all the coffee companies
471. 23:20out there know
472. 23:23>> this could be I'm sorry. What the hell
473. 23:25was that sound? Uh that came from my
474. 23:28body. I'm sorry. Okay. I really said Did
475. 23:33Did the mic pick that up?
476. 23:36Sorry. That's the sound you make your
477. 23:38body makes when you hit a certain age.
478. 23:41You young people don't know. You
479. 23:43listening right now, you're too young to
480. 23:45know this. This is the sound your body
481. 23:47makes at a certain age. Anyways, this
482. 23:49coffee could be yours. Your coffee. It
483. 23:51could be your coffee in this mug. And it
484. 23:54it could be your company's logo on this
485. 23:57mug. This is the first episode, so we
486. 24:00don't have any sponsors. We don't have
487. 24:03any ads yet because we have to get the
488. 24:06numbers first and then we can we we can
489. 24:09afford to keep doing this. So, please
490. 24:13please share this episode with your
491. 24:14friends. Uh
492. 24:17oh, Avengers Endgame was seven years
493. 24:20ago. It's already been seven years since
494. 24:22Tony Stark snapped away uh Thanos and
495. 24:25also the entire Marvel franchise.
496. 24:29>> [laughter]
497. 24:33>> Oh god, I really hope uh the next uh
498. 24:35they're making a new Avengers right now,
499. 24:38>> you know, Doomsday with Robert Downey
500. 24:40Jr. playing Dr. Doom. So, it's like the
501. 24:44multiverse thing again.
502. 24:47Anyways, I guess they realized in the
503. 24:49next in the last seven years that maybe
504. 24:53they do need to keep Robert Downey Jr.
505. 24:57on screen, right? I got to say it's a
506. 25:00it's probably a huge uh risk him taking
507. 25:03this role because like we all have such
508. 25:07fond memories of Tony Stark, that
509. 25:09character. He played it so well and it
510. 25:12became
511. 25:14um something just beyond a character. Uh
512. 25:17it it became like this huge pop culture
513. 25:19moment, right? and him being back in the
514. 25:24MCU,
515. 25:25you know, it can go really bad. [snorts]
516. 25:31[panting]
517. 25:32I'm I'm just hoping that it's it's
518. 25:34really good because they also brought
519. 25:35back the directors from Endgame and
520. 25:37Infinity War. The Russo brothers, uh,
521. 25:40they were they they were responsible for
522. 25:42all the really good MCU movies like
523. 25:45Civil War, Infinity War, and Endgame. So
524. 25:50hopefully it'll be good. Okay, this is
525. 25:51going to blow your mind.
526. 25:54This can't be real. Hold on. Oh [ __ ] it
527. 25:56is real. Hold on. Let No, I This can't
528. 25:59be real.
529. 26:01No, I I have to search this again. This
530. 26:04This can't be real. Oh my god. The first
531. 26:08Harry Potter movie,
532. 26:10Harry Potter and the Sorcerer Stone, not
533. 26:13even the book, the movie is a quarter
534. 26:16century ago, 25 years ago. Okay, this
535. 26:20this went from being fun to depressing.
536. 26:27You know, I don't like when people do
537. 26:30this. If it's 25 years, just say 25
538. 26:34years. Don't say, "Oh, so quarter
539. 26:37century ago." What the [ __ ] is that
540. 26:39supposed to mean? Why are we using these
541. 26:43measurements? Why would you say quarter
542. 26:45century ago? Just say 25 years. Like,
543. 26:50why are you trying to make us feel bad?
544. 26:53Oh my god. In five years, I'm going to
545. 26:55be half a century old.
546. 26:57>> Whoa.
547. 26:59You know, one of those um one of the
548. 27:01things that that drives me crazy, you
549. 27:04know how in Korea, if you're like 43,
550. 27:08they say,
551. 27:12which means uh two days from now, like
552. 27:15the day after tomorrow, you're going to
553. 27:16be 50. And they start this [ __ ] the
554. 27:19minute you you hit 41.
555. 27:22I swear everyone does it. Even my fans
556. 27:25do it. And I'm like, that's nine years
557. 27:28later. How can you say the day after
558. 27:32tomorrow you're gonna be 50? Even now, I
559. 27:36heard it all last year. Because our
560. 27:38YouTube show, we're like, uh, we're very
561. 27:42childish at times. People
562. 27:44[clears throat] will leave comments
563. 27:45like, "Can you believe these guys will
564. 27:47be 50 the day after tomorrow?" No,
565. 27:53the day after tomorrow, I'm going to be
566. 27:54two days older than I am now.
567. 27:59I still have five years until I hit 50.
568. 28:02That's like saying, "Oh, you know, in
569. 28:04the day after that they're going to be a
570. 28:06hundred. They're going to be dead."
571. 28:09[laughter]
572. 28:10Please just say 25 years. Don't say a
573. 28:13quarter century ago. And it's just
574. 28:18Destiny's Child's Independent Woman came
575. 28:21out more than a quarter century ago.
576. 28:25He's
577. 28:26Can we agree to not use this century
578. 28:29thing?
579. 28:31It's already been 5 years since co ended
580. 28:34since CO ended.
581. 28:37I feel like the u age of memes and
582. 28:40algorithms and just social media uh
583. 28:45makes everything seem like it was
584. 28:46yesterday. And it also makes things that
585. 28:50happened yesterday feel like they didn't
586. 28:53happen at all. Do you know what I mean?
587. 28:56Like it's great that things that
588. 28:59happened uh like 10, 20 years ago
589. 29:03feel fresh, right? From a creator's
590. 29:06perspective, um, as a person who creates
591. 29:10content or creates music, it's great
592. 29:13that I have certain songs that I wrote
593. 29:16like 15 years ago that people still love
594. 29:18like it came out yesterday. That's
595. 29:20great. But at the same time, uh, that
596. 29:23also means that things we should
597. 29:25remember, like we should not forget are
598. 29:29forgotten within
599. 29:31days.
600. 29:33And that's how I feel like when I when I
601. 29:36think about that. Yes, Avengers seems
602. 29:39fresh. Frozen seems like it was
603. 29:41yesterday because we keep seeing the
604. 29:43same memes. Um, but at the same time,
605. 29:46things we shouldn't forget. We forget
606. 29:49pretty fast as well. When did social
607. 29:52media come out? That was When did
608. 29:57>> Sorry, I should take off this bracelet.
609. 29:59This bracelet must be annoying everyone.
610. 30:03Hold on, let me take it off. Okay.
611. 30:06When did Facebook
612. 30:09come out?
613. 30:13Facebook launched February 4th, 2004.
614. 30:1822 years ago. Okay. Wow. That's that's
615. 30:21actually a long time. But at the time,
616. 30:23not everyone used Facebook, right? Like
617. 30:25it was like a it was a very local thing.
618. 30:27like I'm sure you've seen um the movie
619. 30:30social network. It started as a Harvard
620. 30:33thing and then expanded to like Stanford
621. 30:35to other colleges. So at the time it was
622. 30:38still pretty pretty local. Let's see
623. 30:40what AI thinks
624. 30:44uh is the starting date of social media
625. 30:47which is ironic because social media
626. 30:50basically created this [ __ ]
627. 30:53When did social media start
628. 30:58in your opinion?
629. 31:01Great question. It depends on how you
630. 31:04define social media. I know. Just answer
631. 31:06the question.
632. 31:08Okay. Uh the big bang of social media
633. 31:122003 to 2008. Okay. So roughly the same
634. 31:15time. The mobile and algorithmic age
635. 31:182009. So let's say that we've had social
636. 31:21media for like 20 years, right? Most
637. 31:24people listening, most of your life has
638. 31:27been within the social media age. For
639. 31:31example, my daughter uh never lived in
640. 31:35in another time, right? But for people
641. 31:38like me who are super old,
642. 31:43who are going to be a hundred two days
643. 31:45from now, um for us, we remember a good
644. 31:50half of our lives without social media
645. 31:53or or even the internet. So when I look
646. 31:56back,
647. 31:59to be honest, I can't even
648. 32:02I I I it doesn't even feel real anymore,
649. 32:05which is crazy because back in those
650. 32:07days, if somebody came up to me when I
651. 32:08was a kid and was like, at some point
652. 32:11they're going to create this thing and
653. 32:13you're going to be able to hold it in
654. 32:14your hand and any opinion or thought you
655. 32:17have, no matter how shitty,
656. 32:21[laughter]
657. 32:23you can post it
658. 32:26and everyone can see it. I'll be like,
659. 32:29"Okay,
660. 32:31okay,
661. 32:33that doesn't sound real at all." But now
662. 32:36when I look back, I'm like, the the time
663. 32:40before all of that seems unreal. Like in
664. 32:44those days, like if you had an opinion,
665. 32:46maybe two of your friends knew,
666. 32:48[laughter]
667. 32:51right?
668. 32:52>> [panting]
669. 32:54>> You know what I mean? Like if you were
670. 32:56really bad at expressing
671. 32:59your thought or whatever thought you
672. 33:02have or opinion you have and it's and
673. 33:05it's something you just shouldn't say,
674. 33:07right? Because you haven't worked it out
675. 33:09in your mind and or you're just you're
676. 33:12you're very bad at articulating your
677. 33:14thoughts. Maybe like maybe like one
678. 33:17person other than yourself
679. 33:19knew that. So, they couldn't cancel you,
680. 33:24right? It's just one person that knows
681. 33:26that you're terrible at expressing your
682. 33:28thoughts. Maybe that's that that seems
683. 33:31like nature intended. And what I mean by
684. 33:35that is um I don't think humans were
685. 33:38created to care [snorts] or even know
686. 33:42what's happening everywhere at the same
687. 33:44time. I don't know if we are
688. 33:49biologically
689. 33:51capable of having
690. 33:55ubiquitous thought, you know, that
691. 33:57that's that's supposed to be like in the
692. 33:59realm of like the divine or like a
693. 34:02supreme being maybe. But I I'm not sure
694. 34:06that humans are supposed to know
695. 34:09this much stuff. I think we're supposed
696. 34:12to just know what's going on in our
697. 34:15families, our neighborhoods
698. 34:18at the most, maybe our city. And we're
699. 34:21not supposed to know that some dude
700. 34:25named Daniel
701. 34:27in a whole other continent wore some
702. 34:31shoes and someone was like, "Damn,
703. 34:34Daniel."
704. 34:36Does that make sense?
705. 34:38I I I I don't think that's what was
706. 34:40intended by nature. Like obviously,
707. 34:43right, we weren't born with these
708. 34:45devices like attached to our hands. Um
709. 34:49so when I look back at in at those times
710. 34:53now that seems unreal. Am I making
711. 34:56sense?
712. 34:57Because if what I just said makes no
713. 34:59sense and if you're listening right now
714. 35:02and you disagree with me, that's because
715. 35:04we're living in this age where I have a
716. 35:08mic in front of me and my thoughts are
717. 35:11being projected to like tons of people.
718. 35:15Back in those days when I was a kid,
719. 35:19maybe one friend, okay, my friend Hansun
720. 35:25would would know that I have these
721. 35:27thoughts. So even if I make no sense,
722. 35:31I'm only confusing one person.
723. 35:33[laughter]
724. 35:34I only have one person disagreeing with
725. 35:36me.
726. 35:38That's my point. Uh yeah, that's crazy.
727. 35:42YouTube was 21 years ago. YouTube was
728. 35:46born. When was the first uh the YouTube
729. 35:49zoo video, right? Video.
730. 35:54The YouTube zoo video, which was the
731. 35:56first YouTube video was uh me at the
732. 35:59zoo. It was 2005.
733. 36:02So, it was 21 [snorts] years ago.
734. 36:05Have you seen that video of the YouTube
735. 36:09founders uh in this small ass room like
736. 36:13completely miserable because they
737. 36:16weren't getting traction? So, it's them
738. 36:18sitting in this really shitty office
739. 36:21space. It looks like a supply room, but
740. 36:25they're sitting there and they're down
741. 36:27in the dumps because they're no one's
742. 36:29watching YouTube. Also, no one's using
743. 36:32YouTube. there aren't enough videos on
744. 36:34YouTube. So, they're like debating what
745. 36:36they can do, but they still have like
746. 36:39this sense of humor.
747. 36:41A lot of people watch this video as like
748. 36:43inspiration because they're like,
749. 36:45"Everyone starts somewhere." Even
750. 36:47YouTube had these worries at the
751. 36:50beginning. But what I noticed was that
752. 36:52even though they may be facing certain
753. 36:57failure, they're humorous about it. like
754. 37:00they're laughing and I watched that and
755. 37:03I was like that is the spirit of
756. 37:05YouTube. That is probably why they made
757. 37:08it, why YouTube became what it became is
758. 37:11because they were able to laugh and like
759. 37:14have a sense of humor about it. But
760. 37:16anyways, that was like 21 years ago.
761. 37:20Damn, that's crazy. Time passes so fast.
762. 37:24That is crazy. You know what's crazy?
763. 37:26Uh, one day it's going to be 2036
764. 37:30and we're going to be talking about the
765. 37:32Hey Tableau
766. 37:34podcast
767. 37:36came out 10 years ago.
768. 37:38Oh my god.
769. 37:41I hope we're still like speaking to each
770. 37:44other and stuff 10 years from now. I I
771. 37:46don't mean you guys, but um I hope it's
772. 37:50not like the future depicted in
773. 37:53Terminator like Skynet or or the Matrix
774. 37:57machines have taken over.
775. 38:00Oh, knock on wood.
776. 38:04Uh what else? Pokemon Go came out 10
777. 38:08years ago. Hold on. Hold on. Why does
778. 38:11Pokemon Go feel like it was five years
779. 38:13ago? this 10 years ago. I still have my
780. 38:17account. Did you guys play? Do you
781. 38:19remember what level you got to? Let me
782. 38:21check mine. If you're driving right now,
783. 38:23please don't check what level you were
784. 38:27uh on Pokemon Go. Pokemon
785. 38:30Go. I went into this app for the first
786. 38:33time in like years, and it's popping up
787. 38:36like all these items. I got daily
788. 38:39adventure egg. Hold on. Hold on. I'm
789. 38:41just trying to check my level. Hold on.
790. 38:43Oh, I got to level 52. Is that high?
791. 38:47This was 10 years ago. That's crazy.
792. 38:52All of these things are a reminder that
793. 38:54time
794. 38:56really does fly. It just flies by. You
795. 39:01know, I planned today's episode to
796. 39:05be like a fun intro to 2026,
797. 39:08like a fun start to 2026, but holy [ __ ]
798. 39:13all of this really has me thinking,
799. 39:18we need to make better use of our time.
800. 39:22Time seriously does just fly by. You
801. 39:26know how uh as you get older, time
802. 39:31feels like it's going faster, like a
803. 39:34year seems way faster than it did uh
804. 39:38when we were kids. Like when we were
805. 39:39kids, summer break
806. 39:42really felt like a break. It it it felt
807. 39:47almost
808. 39:48infinite impossibility.
809. 39:51Like when school was out and you had
810. 39:54summer break, in your mind, you had
811. 39:57enough time to build a treehouse,
812. 40:01to discover areas of your town that you
813. 40:05never knew were there. Uh you had enough
814. 40:10time to learn various different things.
815. 40:15uh to hang out with your friends, to
816. 40:18spend, you know, countless nights just
817. 40:20on the phone, uh to read comics,
818. 40:25to do your summer homework, everything,
819. 40:28right? Like it it felt like it it was
820. 40:31not just an ample amount of time, but
821. 40:33like an infinite amount of time. And
822. 40:36summer break really felt like summer
823. 40:38break. But these days, because I have a
824. 40:41daughter, like when she goes on summer
825. 40:43break, it might feel like
826. 40:46enough time to her, but as I'm watching,
827. 40:50I'm like, "Oh my god, school starts
828. 40:52again in a week. Her summer break is
829. 40:55already over."
830. 40:57And you know, you know, they they say
831. 40:59it's it's almost, you know, scientific
832. 41:02that time feels faster as you get older.
833. 41:06And I always assumed that it was because
834. 41:08our memory gets bad because you have
835. 41:11less things to remember. Like let's say
836. 41:14memories are like dots and because you
837. 41:18have less dots between 2025 and 2026 or
838. 41:23between 2010 and now
839. 41:27you have less memorable moments.
840. 41:31If you only have like three dots between
841. 41:33the last year, then in your mind it'll
842. 41:39seem shorter in retrospect than when you
843. 41:42were a kid and you have so many
844. 41:44memorable moments. Um because everything
845. 41:47is new, right? The first time you tried
846. 41:51mint chocolate ice cream, the first time
847. 41:53you had Hawaiian pizza. Uh weird
848. 41:56choices, I know, but I love them.
849. 41:59um everything was new and fresh. So
850. 42:03they're like huge dots. So the more dots
851. 42:07you have uh the longer it feels. And
852. 42:12apparently that's that's sort of
853. 42:14pseudoscientific
854. 42:16that as you get older you have less
855. 42:19memorable moments because most of it is
856. 42:22routine and there's no sense of marvel
857. 42:27or sense of awe anymore when you when
858. 42:31you do things because you've probably
859. 42:34already done them. And the problem is
860. 42:38this is a new worry that I have not for
861. 42:41myself but for people in general is that
862. 42:45the age of social media. So ever since
863. 42:47social media happened we feel like we've
864. 42:50experienced things that we haven't. So,
865. 42:53not only are we, as we get older, are we
866. 42:57uh going into a routine and losing our
867. 43:00sense of awe
868. 43:03um at experiencing things for the first
869. 43:06time. Now we live in an age where we're
870. 43:10exposed to so much information and and
871. 43:12so many videos and so many experiences
872. 43:15of others
873. 43:18that
874. 43:19even when we do experience something for
875. 43:21the first time it doesn't register as
876. 43:24the first time like we've seen it
877. 43:26somewhere you know uh if I ever go
878. 43:30somewhere and I see a bunch of capiaras
879. 43:33uh in a hot spring like copy baras in a
880. 43:37in a onen like in a hotring. That should
881. 43:40feel like a huge dot. That should feel
882. 43:44like an amazing sight to see. The
883. 43:48problem is I just watched like three
884. 43:50hours of videos and shorts about copy
885. 43:54bars
886. 43:55flocked together in a hotring in Japan.
887. 43:58There's a there's apparently a zoo in
888. 44:00Japan where they do this. a bunch of
889. 44:02copy baras are in a hot spring together
890. 44:05and it's like the cutest thing and I saw
891. 44:08one video because like was like dad
892. 44:11let's search copy baras in hot springs
893. 44:15and we did and we watched every video.
894. 44:18[clears throat] So now if I go to a if I
895. 44:20go to the zoo, if I actually go to the
896. 44:22zoo or better better yet, if I'm like
897. 44:25just walking through some forest and
898. 44:28then there's a there's a natural hot
899. 44:31spring and for some reason there's a
900. 44:33[ __ ] ton of copy bars inside the spring
901. 44:35just chilling.
902. 44:37That should shock and amaze me and there
903. 44:42should be an explosion of awe when I see
904. 44:45this. Like, oh my god, that is this is
905. 44:49not only cute, but this is amazing.
906. 44:52Like, this like this the this amount of
907. 44:57natural beauty shouldn't even be
908. 44:59possible and it's happening right in
909. 45:01front of my eyes.
910. 45:03I won't have this awe anymore or I'll
911. 45:06have less of the awe. It'll be cushioned
912. 45:08because I've seen so many videos online.
913. 45:11Right? And I know this is a hilarious
914. 45:14example, but what I'm trying to say is
915. 45:17because we're living in uh in in an age
916. 45:19where we vicariously experience um
917. 45:23everything before we actually experience
918. 45:25it, uh our our sense of awe, our
919. 45:28dopamine um has already been drained.
920. 45:34And that will shorten the dots. that
921. 45:38that will minimize the dots or just when
922. 45:42every memory uh becomes disposable,
923. 45:44we'll just have less dots to look back
924. 45:47on. And
925. 45:49and for that reason, I I feel like even
926. 45:51if you're not as old as I am, uh even if
927. 45:56you're in your teens or like in your
928. 45:59early 20s, I feel like a lot of people
929. 46:02feel like time is passing faster now.
930. 46:04before phones, before social media. I
931. 46:06think when you were young, you really
932. 46:08did feel like a month was a month and
933. 46:12only old people like me felt like time
934. 46:15was passing faster. But now I feel like
935. 46:19everyone experiences time passing
936. 46:21faster. I know this because I talked to
937. 46:24my daughter about what episode I'm doing
938. 46:27today and she cuz she asked me, she's
939. 46:29like, "Dad, what are you going to do for
940. 46:31your first episode?" And I was like,
941. 46:32"Oh, these, you know, did you did you
942. 46:34know Kangnam style was 14 years ago?"
943. 46:36And she was like, "Really? It was 14
944. 46:40years ago." And I'm like, "Bro, you've
945. 46:43been alive for 15 years. [laughter]
946. 46:48You've you've only been alive for a year
947. 46:50longer than Kangam Style." But even she
948. 46:53feels like time is passing fast.
949. 46:56And I think it's I think it's it's
950. 46:59because of our phones and social media.
951. 47:04I believe there is only maybe like two
952. 47:07things
953. 47:09that I have no problem
954. 47:12um having people binge on on their
955. 47:15phones. I I believe we should be on our
956. 47:17phones less, but I believe there are two
957. 47:20things that are okay to binge on. first
958. 47:23um Epicaz or Epic's YouTube channel. Um
959. 47:28that's okay. And also this podcast
960. 47:32uh I know it's very selfish of me to say
961. 47:34this but um we will work
962. 47:38to not just provide a dopamine hit but
963. 47:41also you know hit a chord in your heart.
964. 47:44We will try our best to teach you
965. 47:47something at least to leave you with
966. 47:49with at least
967. 47:52one medium-sized dot in your mind. We
968. 47:55will try to do everything possible to
969. 47:58heighten the sense of awe as we live
970. 48:01this life. Like I will try I will try.
971. 48:03So I'm not going to say get off your
972. 48:05phones because I I depend on [laughter]
973. 48:08I depend on your phone to get to you. So
974. 48:13I won't say that. But um yeah, let let's
975. 48:16uh be mindful of these dots that
976. 48:20we're creating.
977. 48:222026 is a fresh start. We got a new year
978. 48:28to create some dots together. And
979. 48:32hopefully we can create some good ones.
980. 48:34We can create some big ones so that when
981. 48:37it's 2027
982. 48:39and we look back, we we can say, "Hey,
983. 48:41you know what? for the first time the
984. 48:43last year, the last 365 days
985. 48:48feels kind of like it was 365 days.
986. 48:52I have this memory. I have this big dot
987. 48:55here, this mediumsized dot here, this
988. 48:57small dot here. Hopefully, we can do
989. 48:59that together. Please share this video
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991. 49:05watching on YouTube, which I would like
992. 49:08you to do,
993. 49:10you might be using Spotify, Apple
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995. 49:14can watch the video, the full video on
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1003. 49:37[laughter]
1004. 49:38and pay for this mic and these cameras
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1008. 49:51like submissions like if you want to
1009. 49:54tell me something or ask me something or
1010. 49:57you know if you have ideas for episodes
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1015. 50:12don't know that this is blowby-blow.
1016. 50:16A lot of people think that my handle on
1017. 50:19Instagram is blowby blow blowby blow
1018. 50:23and they're just shocked that they're
1019. 50:25mind blown that it's blowby-blow you
1020. 50:28know you know like the blowby-blow
1021. 50:30>> can I get the blowby-blow so it was a
1022. 50:33play on that because my name is Tableau
1023. 50:35right so I was like blowby-blow but
1024. 50:37everyone calls it blowby-blow
1025. 50:40blobby blow or something like that
1026. 50:42[snorts] anyways I'll see you next week
1027. 50:45on Hey Tableau Oh, bye-bye.
1028. 50:49>> Hey, Tableau.
1029. 50:51[laughter]