0:00

So I was reading the other

0:02

day about this strawberry

0:05

in Japan that's so expensive,

0:07

it costs like 10 bucks

0:10

per berry. And

0:12

I was thinking, man, I really... I don't

0:14

want to pay 10 bucks for a strawberry, but I must

0:16

admit, as a lover of

0:18

all fruits, the idea

0:21

that a strawberry would be worth

0:23

10... would taste good enough to

0:26

be a $10 value. I

0:28

really do want to try that strawberry. I don't know.

0:30

Maybe next time I go to Japan, if I ever

0:32

find occasion to go to Japan again, or

0:35

the opportunity rather to go to Japan again,

0:37

maybe I will keep my eye out for

0:39

that strawberry. But that just

0:41

got me thinking in general about

0:43

the most expensive things in the world, right?

0:46

And so I googled it, and

0:51

would you like to know the most expensive things in the

0:53

world in 2023? Number

0:56

15 is the

0:58

Damien Hirst Dead

1:01

Shark. The one that he... the

1:03

Tiger Shark, I believe, that he stuck in for

1:06

Malbehyde. That thing sold for,

1:08

I think, $8 million last year? That doesn't

1:10

seem most expensive at all. What is this?

1:12

I guess these are just the most expensive

1:15

things bought in 2023. Mariah

1:17

Carey's engagement ring... well,

1:20

she's worth more than $300 million on her own. And

1:24

her fiancé, I

1:26

think, was not

1:29

too shabby himself. Anyway, apparently he

1:31

bought an engagement ring for her that

1:34

cost $10 million. Jesus Christ.

1:37

It's the highest purchase price ever

1:40

for a celebrity engagement ring. Well,

1:42

they felt the need to mention the

1:44

word celebrity, which tells me that there are just normal

1:46

people that have bought way more expensive rings than that.

1:49

The perfect pink diamond.

1:51

Christie's Hong Kong sold a 14.23 carat,

1:53

intense pink diamond, to an anonymous... Higher

2:00

for just over twenty three million.

2:03

Thousand Two Thousand twelve I guess he

2:05

just knows to expenses purchases, ever answered

2:07

the phone stupid list or it. the

2:09

show barred to a one carrot gemstone

2:11

watch is worth twenty five. In

2:15

you, imagine having a

2:17

watch on your wrist

2:19

worth twenty five million

2:21

dollars. Oh

2:24

Lord. Ah, Here's

2:26

a good one out of you guys

2:28

are heard of others. I've been thinking

2:30

about doing an episode devoted to just

2:32

it. Maybe he ordered a Jeff Bezos

2:34

is giant clock. If

2:37

you know how familiar with that he's

2:39

having this clock built summer out the

2:41

middle of nowhere and it's does gonna

2:43

be designed to run for ten thousand

2:45

years and that's all it does I

2:47

think is it just takes away for

2:49

ten thousand years and that clock supposedly

2:52

is still being built I think I

2:54

may have been built like on an

2:56

island or and of it and added

2:58

i gotta get up i it'll get

3:00

about only the as that of make

3:02

it's but it is definitely costing him

3:04

forty two million dollars. Ah,

3:07

nineteen Sixty Two Ferrari G T

3:09

O sold for forty eight million

3:11

dollars. That's gotta be the most

3:13

expensive car ever sold. Rights? Wondered

3:16

what is the most expensive

3:18

car ever? Most expensive car

3:20

oversold, right? It's probably that

3:22

no, no, no, no, no

3:24

No no. There was a

3:26

nineteen, Sixty five Mercedes Benz

3:28

three hundred S L R

3:30

Move in the house coop.

3:32

Ah, that's sold for a

3:34

hundred and thirty five million

3:36

dollars and twenty two a

3:38

denial. Admit. They. Had a picture of it.

3:41

It's real, pretty. Hundred. Thirty

3:43

Fuck Imagine. I. Could, of course,

3:45

you can't who can imagine having one hundred

3:48

and thirty five million dollars let alone what

3:50

they would do with? Interesting

3:52

as the car

3:55

insurance.com domain name.

3:59

According to Go Down. cost

4:01

forty nine point seven million dollars

4:03

the purchase was made by Quinn

4:05

Street I don't know what that

4:07

is but it's probably an investment

4:09

firm or something forty nine point

4:11

seven million dollars for a domain

4:13

if anybody's

4:15

looking I have Eric's

4:18

boss calm Oh

4:21

and Jeff's boss calm about both of those domains I'll

4:23

sell you those for nine

4:25

million hell I'll sell it to you for I'll throw

4:28

both of them in together and an

4:30

email address well I mean did you be on you could do

4:32

whatever you want to with it right I

4:35

would throw both of them together for hold on

4:37

let me do some quick math in my head okay

4:40

I could let them go Jeff's boss calm Eric's

4:42

boss calm I feel confident in a bundle deal

4:45

individually they're gonna cost you more but if you

4:47

buy them together I'll cut you a deal I

4:49

would let them go eight

4:52

hundred thousand dollars I'll sell

4:54

each of them individually for five hundred thousand but if you

4:56

want them together I'll give you a hell of a deal

4:58

that's like a 20% discount and get

5:00

them for eight hundred thousand that is so much less

5:02

than the forty nine point seven million dollars that I'd

5:04

like you to focus on that part of the transaction

5:07

and not how much money eight hundred thousand dollars

5:09

is because in the grand scheme of things I

5:12

mean if you if you just stare at that

5:14

only sure eight hundred thousand dollars seems like a

5:16

ridiculous amount of money to pay for my two

5:18

vanity domain names unless

5:22

you compare it to car insurance comm in

5:25

which case you're paying next to

5:27

nothing and you're getting

5:29

twice the domain names car insurance comes one

5:31

domain name anyway if you're interested in by

5:34

my domain names let me know now

5:37

there's another watch the graph hallucination

5:39

watch fifty five million

5:41

dollars Lawrence graph is the chairman

5:43

of graph diamonds man there

5:46

are so many people out there that

5:48

are so rich and fancy that you and I have

5:50

never heard of damn

5:52

110 carrots on that

5:54

thing how do you set all out on a watch the

5:57

Gustav Clint painting portrait of Adele block

6:00

135 million Jeff Bezos Beverly

6:02

Hills house is 165 million

6:05

Wow eat your heart out not your house

6:07

was only 70 something Geez

6:09

Louise Well heat

6:12

so okay So he has this 165 million dollar Beverly

6:14

Hills house has 119 million dollar man She

6:18

has a 23 million dollar New York

6:20

City condo a 23 million dollar house

6:23

in Washington and It

6:25

interesting that they cost the exact same Well,

6:28

I guess except for the 165 million

6:30

dollar estate that he bought from David

6:32

Geffen interesting the

6:35

card players painting Paintings

6:37

on here. Let's just go through okay. There's a

6:39

couple of paintings the most expensive painting seems to

6:42

be 450

6:44

point three million and that is

6:46

for Leonardo da Vinci's Salvatore moon

6:48

D Well now I kind of want to see

6:50

what that looks like. Let's see Well, well

6:53

that is a it's a pretty cool painting Any

6:56

internet had it for free? So I've seen

6:58

it. I guess I don't own it, but you know, I can look at

7:00

it Save myself half

7:03

a billion dollars Villa Leopolda

7:08

506 million dollars for a mansion on

7:10

the French Riviera It

7:12

holds the title of second most expensive

7:14

private residence The building served as a

7:17

hospital during World War two and has

7:19

changed hands several times since

7:21

its construction in For

7:24

Belgian King Leopold the second hints the name

7:27

there you go via Leopolda Have you guys

7:29

ever seen that place or Villa Leopolda? Sorry

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7:36

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10:21

not as fancy as the world's most expensive house

10:24

which is in Mumbai. You might have heard this one it's

10:26

been in the news off and on

10:28

the last couple of years. It's

10:30

a 27-story building in like downtown

10:33

Mumbai that has three helipads, a

10:35

bunch of like multiple elevators. It's

10:37

obviously got movie theaters and all

10:40

that kind of stuff in there.

10:42

I mean it's 27-story building. It

10:45

is owned by billionaire Mukesh Ambani, the richest

10:47

man in India who has a net worth

10:49

of about $84.2 billion. I wonder what that

10:55

puts him on the richest people in the world

10:57

today. And then the number one item

11:00

on this list is the history supreme yacht.

11:02

It's not the largest in the world. That

11:05

one goes to Jeff Bezos super yacht but

11:09

his only cost a mirror $500

11:11

million whereas this one cost $4.5 billion. It

11:13

took three years to design.

11:16

It is outfitted with some of the

11:18

world's priciest materials and amenities. I mean

11:20

it would have to be. Can

11:23

you imagine that

11:25

ship sinking? Sorry

11:28

I took a break to imagine

11:30

in my head. It's good

11:33

lord. The yacht features

11:35

gold and platinum structural fittings plus

11:38

gold alloys in the base deck

11:40

railings dining area. It better have

11:42

gold Q-tips for

11:44

$4.5 billion. It's believed

11:46

that the Malaysian businessman Robert Kuok who

11:48

owns the Shangri-La hotels and resorts purchased

11:51

the boat. Oh I have stayed at

11:54

a few different Shangri-La hotels in my life so

11:56

in some ways I feel like I helped pay

11:58

for that boat. Oh,

12:01

here's that okay. These are the most

12:03

expensive. Here's a different list. Let's see what we can get

12:05

So the whole other is cool. The

12:07

International Space Station is

12:09

worth about a hundred and fifty billion

12:12

dollars So what's the richest person in

12:14

the world right now worth richest? person

12:20

Elon Elon Musk is number one again. Great

12:23

He's with two hundred and forty five

12:25

point one billion dollars. I Guess

12:28

that's why he doesn't give a shit if he ruins Twitter two

12:31

or four to five billion dollars so

12:34

he could Theoretically

12:36

buy the International

12:38

Space Station and live in it off-planet.

12:41

I Wonder how long all

12:44

right. That's it now. Okay, so every

12:46

every like mega billionaire is

12:48

has a space company now, right?

12:50

Like obviously musk Richard

12:52

Branson, I think his might have just crumbled

12:54

maybe not Bezos has his as well how

12:57

long until one of those dudes puts a

12:59

house in space Like I

13:01

just a floating orbiting mansion that

13:03

they hang out in I do you

13:05

think it'll happen in your lifetime I it has to

13:07

write. I mean if you think about I'm 48 I

13:09

was like 18 before

13:11

the internet was a thing and

13:14

then it wasn't really a thing until I was in my mid-20s and Then

13:17

I was around before digital cameras.

13:19

I was around for cell phones Like

13:22

I've seen cell phones in my lifetime

13:24

go from those giant go from non-existent

13:26

to those giant bricks to

13:28

iPhones that have more

13:31

processing power than probably the entire

13:33

United States military and NASA combined

13:36

in the 1970s, so it doesn't

13:38

seem crazy that a billionaire

13:42

or Trillionaire, which

13:44

I imagine will also probably see in our

13:46

lifetimes could end up

13:49

Generating so much wealth that they that

13:51

they they could pull something like that

13:53

off. I wonder I wonder how quickly it'll happen

13:55

more than anything Hubble telescope

13:58

is only billion

14:00

dollars. So you're telling me that

14:03

there's a yacht on

14:05

earth worth more than the Hubble telescope.

14:08

That seems out of whack. Or

14:11

it seems like somebody overpaid for a yacht. Maybe that's the

14:13

answer there. Alright, so I

14:15

think where I was going with all this,

14:17

I'm trying to remember before

14:20

I got before I took

14:22

11 off-ramps, richest

14:25

person of

14:28

all time, right? Because we were watching or we

14:30

were talking, my my wife Emily

14:32

and her friend Meg, they're both fans of

14:34

the Gilded Age, which is that Netflix

14:37

or HBO. That's some show

14:39

that exists in like Victorian

14:41

New York around the time of

14:43

the Vanderbilt's and like the Rockefeller's

14:47

and the Astors and all of

14:49

those like turn-of-the-century oil

14:51

and rail and

14:53

fur barons. And those people were, I

14:56

think if you if you encounter inflation, those people were

14:58

way richer than the richest people are now. So yeah,

15:02

like John D. Rockefeller,

15:04

its estimated 2023 net worth would be 320 billion

15:09

dollars. So dwarfing the richest people

15:11

now, like Elon Musk can only

15:13

dream of being worth 320 billion

15:16

dollars. Cornelius Vanderbilt

15:19

would be worth 250 billion dollars

15:21

today. Now is he he would be

15:25

Anderson Cooper's great-grandfather? How

15:28

is Anderson Cooper related

15:30

to core? Cornelius

15:34

Vanderbilt. Great great great grandfather.

15:36

Alright, so the Rockefellers and the

15:39

Astors and shit, they were like the richest Americans

15:41

ever but that's not America's. But

15:44

that's nothing. There have been way richer people in

15:46

the world. Let's look at the top, the richest

15:48

people of all time. We'll just do top three.

15:50

Yeah, Emperor Shenzong who lived from 1048 to

15:53

1085. So not a whole, not

15:59

a long life. He's from China, the

16:02

Song Dynasty. He's estimated

16:04

to... Holy

16:10

shit. I

16:14

don't know, I can't put a price tag on it,

16:16

but they say that the Song Dynasty at

16:18

the time that he ran it, the nation accounted for

16:20

between 25 and 30%

16:23

of the world's economic output. So

16:26

at the time that he was

16:28

ruling the Song Dynasty, they

16:31

were responsible for 30% of

16:33

the world's economic output. That's fucking

16:36

crazy. Number two is Augustus Caesar.

16:38

Now that's interesting because if you

16:40

watch our Monday F*** Face Adjacent

16:42

show called The Break Show, where

16:44

we open up baseball cards, sports

16:46

cards, non-sports cards, silly cards, whatever,

16:48

elf cards, Dallas cards, we opened

16:51

up some historical cards the other

16:53

day and I got a relic

16:55

card that had a piece of an outfit

16:58

from Augustus Caesar and from Julius Caesar on

17:00

it. So the second richest person

17:02

of all time is officially entered

17:04

into the F*** Face Collection. That's pretty cool. Good

17:07

for him. That's how you know you've made it

17:09

when you make it into the F*** Face Collection.

17:11

He lived from 63 BC to

17:13

14 AD in Rome obviously

17:15

and his wealth is estimated at about

17:19

4.6 trillion dollars. His

17:21

empire also accounted for about 30% of

17:23

the world's economic output at the time but

17:27

they estimate yeah he... Holy shit, Augustus

17:31

personally owned all of Egypt

17:34

while he was alive. Yeah

17:36

and they think it was his

17:38

fortune would be the equivalent of 4.6 trillion which is nothing

17:42

compared to apparently Mansa

17:45

Musa who was the

17:48

king of Timbuktu and is referred to often

17:51

as the wealthiest person in history. It just

17:54

lists his wealth as richer than anyone could

17:56

ever describe. There's no... I'm just gonna read

17:58

this from here. There's really no way to

18:00

put an accurate number on his wealth.

18:02

Records are scarce if non-existent and contemporary

18:04

sources describe the king's riches in terms

18:07

that are impossible for the time. Some

18:10

tales of his famous pilgrimage to Mecca

18:12

during which Musa spending was so lavish

18:14

that it caused a currency crisis in

18:16

Egypt...what? His

18:18

vacation caused...well maybe I shouldn't say it

18:21

was a...that's not fair it was wasn't

18:23

a vacation it was a pilgrimage. But

18:25

his pilgrimage caused

18:28

a currency crisis in Egypt. He spent so

18:30

much money. He

18:33

carried with him hundreds of pounds of

18:35

gold. They say

18:37

one year of Malian gold

18:40

production probably generated about a

18:42

ton. Others say his army consisted of

18:44

200,000 men with 40,000 archers. Okay. But to

18:49

get caught up in the king's exact wealth

18:51

is to miss the point according to Rudolf

18:53

Ware, an associate professor at

18:55

the University of Michigan. His riches were so

18:57

immense that people struggled to even describe them.

18:59

And this is a direct quote from him.

19:01

This is the richest guy anyone's ever seen.

19:03

That's the point. They're trying to

19:06

find words to explain that. There are pictures of

19:08

him holding a scepter of gold on a throne

19:10

of gold holding a cup of gold with a

19:12

golden crown on his head. Imagine as much gold

19:15

as you think a human being could possess and

19:17

then double it. That's what all

19:19

the accounts are trying to communicate. Well

19:22

I guess they can't put a number on it but they can

19:24

rate it higher than 4.6 trillion so

19:26

we can assume that he was worth at least

19:28

4.7 trillion although it sounds like

19:30

way more than that. I wonder what it was like to be

19:32

that rich. I have a

19:34

feeling I'll never

19:37

know. Alright. Hey

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