But I don’t know. I guess I find myself being an optimist in the long run. It just seems so obvious to me that we’re gonna figure it out somehow. Like, you look at the history of humanity, and you look at what we’ve been able to accomplish, and it’s like, yeah, there was some really stupid, really selfish and destructive shit, but every couple years, we just get a legit genius, you know? We’ve legitimately produced so many geniuses when you think about it—even just in the past century. And I mean, it wasn’t that long ago when we didn’t even have electricity, you know? It wasn’t that long ago when everybody thought Earth was the center of the universe. And now, like, some aboriginal tribe in some tiny corner of the globe can watch my videos on their phones and send messages to each other by bouncing signals off of satellites in space, and so it just seems crazy to me that someone’s not gonna figure out how we can stop warming the planet. I’m pretty convinced that some genius is going to stumble onto the scene one of these days, and just be like: Oh, dope, I solved it. Like, they won’t even be trying to, you know what I mean? They’ll just be working around in the lab one day, like, trying to do something else entirely, and then they’ll get some crazy result on their machine and they’ll be like: Whoa. Shit.

Because like, I’ve experienced some version of that in the studio, you know? Like, what I did with Chris and Trick—I’m not saying our music solved global warming—but if music COULD solve global warming, like, if music had that kind of power, we would’ve done it that day together. I know that sounds fucking crazy, but whatever: I’m over it. I’m already over whatever reaction you’re gonna have to the way that sounds.

All I’m saying is: There’s got to be some scientist who’s on the verge of some major breakthrough. There has to be some person who’s just like, right on the brink of making a life-changing discovery that’s gonna save us all. And, who knows? Maybe they haven’t even been born yet. Maybe it’s some kid who hasn’t even been conceived. Or maybe it’ll be Oddvar. Maybe he’ll just be running tests one day in the seed vault and like, going out and digging holes in the ice or whatever he does and taking measurements, and then he’ll just be like: Of course! You know? It’s always something so obvious. In the movies, whenever they’re showing a scientist coming to some next-level realization, it’s always something that’s been right under their nose this whole time. And then they figure it out by accident and they’re just like: How could I have been so stupid? How could I have ignored this?

#32—Left shoulder. A lot of people think this one’s an angel, but it’s actually a character from Bob’s book The Question of Society. It was the first novel that he ever wrote—like, way back when he was in his twenties—and it was one of the first things of his I ever read. There’s this character, Barbie-One-6-3, who goes flying around the city—she’s a robot with mechanical wings—and she eats people’s brains whenever they’ve outlived their purpose, like, according to the society. It was a pretty dark book, but I just thought that character was super-scary, you know, and like, if I had her on my shoulder, no one could fuck with me. Plus, like, hardly anyone’s ever read that book, and so most people just see the tat and think it’s this really cute angel or something, which I think is hilarious.