Cyan Banister
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346 appearances
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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I donate money to the UCLA amicus brief clinic down in LA, and I'm very, very, very drawn to that cause. And so a lot of the philanthropy that I do in the first place is around the First Amendment. So if I had a trillion dollars, it would be to go after Hollywood. The next thing would be create a school of comedy where we train the next generation of comedians.
Because I think that what the world needs more of is laughter. Because this is how we let out steam about what's going on in the world. We're all too sensitive right now. Everything is offensive. We got to stop being so concerned about the words that people are saying and learn to think for ourselves instead. Figure out what our inner voice is, our true north is.
And then it doesn't matter what people say. It shouldn't even hurt you. I would say that a trillion dollars is a lot of dollars.
Yeah. I mean, I probably would try to work on legalization of mind-expanding substances, MDMA, psilocybin, et cetera, probably put more money to work behind that. I probably would try to work on incarceration rates, people that are in prison for causes that cause no harm to anybody, to free those people. I probably would plow a majority of it back into startups and
Gen Z and Gen Alpha are incredibly freaked out right now about AI. Rightfully so. A lot of them are going to school and wondering why they should even bother. We're not paying attention to that despair. They're like, why am I learning these things when I can just go to chat GPT and ask this question or create a report with chat GPT that's good enough?
Or why am I learning how to code when there's copilot or these things that are just going to generate code and create apps just because someone dreams of it? Like, why am I learning the intricacies of how all this works?
And so one of the things I'm deeply thinking about my dispatch from the future is how do we create a world where people understand nothing is going to be more valuable than what's created by human hands in the future. So in a world where everything is quick, cheap, and flawless, the things that are flawed have value. So I don't know if you've ever read the book, The Diamond Age.
Yeah, exactly. So we're heading into the diamond age. Borders of countries are being questioned. Democracy itself is being questioned. Do we create files of societies through crypto where people subscribe to a certain type of living like the Victorians did in diamond age? And do we have material matter printers that print everything we need on demand?
If everybody has most of what their needs are met, what's left and what's left is artisanship. And so I think we're moving into a great age of artistry like has never been seen before. And the big argument that's coming is whether or not AI created art is really art. I argue that it is. I argue that an idea that someone had in their mind that they didn't have a paintbrush to bring to life
Now they have that paintbrush. Now they can take that idea and synthesize it into something that people can see and express themselves in ways they never were able to in the past. Now, did they not spend 10,000 hours honing that craft? For sure. But does it make them not an artist? No. So my dispatch from the future definitely is going to be around painting.
Gen Alpha and what we do for them and Gen Z to try to make sure that they understand they have a future and to start investing in that future now so that those platforms exist so that they understand where they can participate in this new economy that's coming.
I've had so many kind things done for me in my life that it's so hard to pick one, but I'm going to pick this one because I was hitchhiking on the side of the road when I was 17, 16 years old. I think I was 16. in Albuquerque, New Mexico. And I'd gotten kicked out of Denny's because I overstayed my welcome in there with the bottomless cup of coffee. And it was in the middle of the winter.
And I went into a gas station and I got kicked out of the gas station. I ran out of options. So I went out to the freeway and stuck my thumb out and started hitchhiking. I got hypothermia and I started feeling my body shut down and I knew I was probably moments away from death. And that's when an RV pulled up. I was with a boyfriend at the time. He's like, God told me to stop for her. Not you.
He pointed to my boyfriend, which was kind of mean. And he said, but her. And he said, but since you're with her, just get in. And so they picked me up off the ground because I was not able to move anymore and brought me into the RV and put a blanket on top of me. And he gave me hot chocolate. And he said, where are you going? And I said, I'm going to Flagstaff, Arizona.
And the next thing I knew, I woke up and I was delivered to the front doorsteps of my mother's home at the time. And so that act of kindness saved my life. It was a complete stranger. He told me that he had circled past me probably eight or nine times, gone off the off ramp, on the on ramp, off ramp, on ramp.
Thinking that it was crazy that he was getting this lightning bolt, going back to lightning bolts to save my life. But then he was just like, I realized if I don't stop, she's going to die. And so he saved my life and I'm so thankful to him. I don't even know his name because he just dropped me off.
I slept through the whole ride, but it was that act of kindness, that act of giving to a complete stranger and listening to his gut feeling that I'll never forget.
Yeah, thank you.
Every movie theater. It's everywhere. This is everywhere. You have not left.
Congratulations on that, Cyan. Thank you. Thank you. I'm excited to be back, and I'm so excited. I did not expect to see David, so I'm over the moon. I'm so excited.
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