Why Does Fugazy Mean 'Fake'? | Joe Rogan and Eddie Izzard

If anyone's pissed off with politics at the moment, track yourself back. If you're going to look at politics from any time back in history, it's always been hell. It's always been rubbish. It's always been all over the place. And, uh, I think, um, transparency as opposed to opacity, if that's the word, you know, the more transparent things are, the more we can check, hey, that guy's lying about that. You know, if we could work out what's a lie and what's not a lie, that would be really nice. I don't know if we could have lies detected all the time to, I think it's going to be mind reading. Mind reading. Well, I really think that we're going to have technology within the next 50 years that allows people to definitively understand whether or not someone's being honest. That would, it would make it. Um, I, I'm sure someone could get a bad side of that, but it's up front. You think there's a lot of good stuff on that. Cause someone could say, this is going to happen though. I want this to happen. A lot of people's scams are going to fall apart. What do you call them? Ponzi schemes? Yeah. Ponzi schemes, pyramid schemes. Yeah. A lot of that it's going to fall apart. Why do they call Ponzi schemes? Was it kind of called Mr. Ponzi? Yeah, I think so. I think you can, there's like a, there's a bunch of those little terms like Fagezi. Jeff Ponzi, I think. Fagezi is one that people use for fake. It was a, there was a limousine company that was writing bad checks, Fagezi limousine service. And it became like a thing on the East coast where, Oh, this guy's a, he's a Fagezi cop. That means you're a fake cop. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. Fagezi became a big word. Charles Ponzi there. Yeah. Look at that. Jeff Ponzi. Look at that dirt bag. Look at him. He looks happy. 1920. He's about to leap over his own walking car. Roaring 20s. Just ripping people off. Do we tell people as you're listening, please look up Charles Ponzi on Wikipedia. And yeah. So that's it. And how did he die? Did he explode? Hopefully explode. Get hit by a meteor. It'd be nice.