WEBVTT - Strange News: Breathe Through Your Butt, Steal Chairs, Watch the Skies and Oh, Tight: a Foreign Base in the US? 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:04.680 From UFOs to psychic powers and government conspiracies. History is 0:00:04.760 --> 0:00:09.080 riddled with unexplained events. You can turn back now or 0:00:09.160 --> 0:00:12.119 learn this stuff they don't want you to know. A 0:00:12.200 --> 0:00:13.920 production of iHeartRadio. 0:00:26.640 --> 0:00:29.040 Hello, welcome back to the show. My name is Matt, my. 0:00:29.080 --> 0:00:30.840 Name is Noah. They call me Ben. 0:00:30.880 --> 0:00:33.800 We're joined as always with our super producer Dylan the 0:00:33.840 --> 0:00:38.440 Tennessee pal Fagan. Most importantly, you are you. You are here. 0:00:38.760 --> 0:00:42.080 That makes this the stuff they don't want you to know. 0:00:42.120 --> 0:00:45.879 If you're listening to Strange News the evening it publishes, folks, 0:00:46.000 --> 0:00:51.440 Welcome to Monday, October twenty seventh. It is Halloween week. 0:00:51.680 --> 0:00:54.000 It is the most wonderful time of the year. And 0:00:54.240 --> 0:00:58.720 also we are recording live together in person. 0:00:59.000 --> 0:01:02.520 Can we get a booth still a boom boom boom? Yeah, 0:01:02.600 --> 0:01:06.840 boom times. We love it. It's our favorite time of 0:01:06.840 --> 0:01:09.840 the year. I think it's a lot of y'all's as well. Yeah. 0:01:10.160 --> 0:01:13.319 The Monster Mash. Sorry, I've kind of sleeped a private 0:01:13.560 --> 0:01:15.080 so the Monster Mash that's just really cool. 0:01:15.160 --> 0:01:15.319 Yeah. 0:01:15.360 --> 0:01:19.120 That way is a song about wait, so it's a song. 0:01:19.040 --> 0:01:22.920 About a dance. A dance, Yes, yeah, very met It's 0:01:22.959 --> 0:01:27.080 like the hokey pokey almost but more thematic. Yeah, yeah, 0:01:27.280 --> 0:01:31.920 it's like boom we we. This is not only our 0:01:31.920 --> 0:01:36.839 first time recording together post adventures on the High Seas, 0:01:37.200 --> 0:01:40.520 but this is also our first time really getting to 0:01:40.760 --> 0:01:43.639 catch up before we get into strange news. 0:01:43.720 --> 0:01:45.360 Now should we do that? 0:01:45.560 --> 0:01:47.200 You want to catch up, you guys please? 0:01:47.200 --> 0:01:48.920 When the last time we caught up, well, you know, 0:01:49.000 --> 0:01:51.640 we spent some time together, some quality time, if I 0:01:51.680 --> 0:01:54.880 do say so, myself on a boat. Remember that moment 0:01:54.960 --> 0:01:57.120 on the other boat when we played the song We're 0:01:57.120 --> 0:01:59.320 on a boat we did. Yes, that was a real 0:01:59.640 --> 0:02:00.560 moment as well, and. 0:02:00.520 --> 0:02:03.200 It was delightful, so fantastic. 0:02:03.240 --> 0:02:06.560 Thank you Charlie, Thank you, Captain Charlie. We're also also 0:02:06.680 --> 0:02:10.839 thank you to Tennessee for coming along with us and 0:02:10.880 --> 0:02:13.200 putting up with our salute to you, sir, putting up 0:02:13.240 --> 0:02:14.480 with our shenanigans. 0:02:14.520 --> 0:02:17.760 Than to all our fellow sailors and the sailors we're 0:02:17.760 --> 0:02:20.840 sailors now came to our live show about for me 0:02:20.960 --> 0:02:23.400 to trangle. Yeah, believe we're going to be beaming out 0:02:23.440 --> 0:02:25.440 into podcast land before. 0:02:25.200 --> 0:02:26.960 Long, right, Yes, absolutely true. 0:02:27.040 --> 0:02:30.200 We met several folks who actually listen and hang out 0:02:30.240 --> 0:02:32.440 with us. In this world. But we hung out with 0:02:32.480 --> 0:02:34.640 them for reals and it was awesome. 0:02:34.680 --> 0:02:35.320 It was wonderful. 0:02:35.760 --> 0:02:39.640 Yeah. We we started keeping lists of people to thank. 0:02:40.040 --> 0:02:41.200 Do you want to do it at the end of 0:02:41.240 --> 0:02:42.760 the show, or do you want to do it now? 0:02:43.240 --> 0:02:44.480 Let's do it at the end. You got to let 0:02:44.639 --> 0:02:46.440 do it all the way through to find out. 0:02:48.680 --> 0:02:51.960 Yeah, yeah, that's right. 0:02:55.680 --> 0:02:57.520 Captain de Vaughn, who was the guy who took us 0:02:57.520 --> 0:02:58.280 on the boat from the. 0:02:58.280 --> 0:03:00.640 Boat, Oh yeah, and then we also met the actual 0:03:00.639 --> 0:03:05.480 effects captain of the Valiant Lady shout out Demir, shout 0:03:05.520 --> 0:03:09.840 out Deputy Captain Maran, and accept my friend request. 0:03:09.880 --> 0:03:14.119 You guys, so let's get to it right because they're 0:03:14.160 --> 0:03:18.520 so we're so used to doing strange news every week. 0:03:18.919 --> 0:03:21.000 We didn't want to leave you without a dope beat 0:03:21.040 --> 0:03:23.720 this step two. But we had a run of classics 0:03:23.880 --> 0:03:26.880 right as we were as we were traversing in our 0:03:26.919 --> 0:03:31.560 maritime adventures, and a lot of stuff happened before we 0:03:31.639 --> 0:03:34.440 came back to check in with our fellow conspiracy realists 0:03:34.480 --> 0:03:38.960 about all the news strange and otherwise maybe we dip 0:03:39.000 --> 0:03:42.520 our toes in with this one. Guys. You know that 0:03:43.120 --> 0:03:45.520 butt breathing might soon be a medical treatment. 0:03:45.680 --> 0:03:52.280 Finally, this is a big one funeral for me. It's 0:03:52.360 --> 0:03:55.520 clearly we'll always top off the list of important news 0:03:55.560 --> 0:03:56.640 stories anything to do with. 0:03:56.600 --> 0:03:58.600 But may I be the first to say, what the 0:03:58.640 --> 0:04:01.520 hell are you talking about? Cox? 0:04:02.200 --> 0:04:04.760 Yeah, it's like our old butt light ad. The beer 0:04:04.880 --> 0:04:06.400 is so good you could drink it with your mouth. 0:04:06.440 --> 0:04:08.200 I love that we gave it to him for free. 0:04:08.400 --> 0:04:09.840 I haven't heard him trying it out quite. 0:04:09.760 --> 0:04:12.560 Yet, but there's it's probably a different market from us. 0:04:12.840 --> 0:04:16.960 Is it like the South Park eating with your butt thing? 0:04:17.520 --> 0:04:17.960 Similar? 0:04:18.160 --> 0:04:19.240 Is it like butt chucking? 0:04:19.880 --> 0:04:24.240 Is it like boofyeh? Similar to shout out scotus. So 0:04:24.680 --> 0:04:27.200 it turns out that last year a group of researchers 0:04:27.240 --> 0:04:31.919 won the twenty twenty four Ignoble Prize in Physiology for 0:04:32.080 --> 0:04:35.839 discovering that, yes, many mammals are capable of breathing through 0:04:35.880 --> 0:04:36.400 their atus. 0:04:36.440 --> 0:04:39.680 Give us a list, Yeah, is it? 0:04:40.360 --> 0:04:45.640 We do so, TVG, TVD. We wanted to shout this out. 0:04:45.680 --> 0:04:48.720 The Ignoble Prize, as we all know, is kind of 0:04:48.760 --> 0:04:51.400 like the Raspberries for science or the Razzies. 0:04:53.000 --> 0:04:58.039 Honestly, unfair, mean spirited, mean spirited. I think this is 0:04:58.080 --> 0:05:00.840 important science that we're talking about here's today, I'm not 0:05:00.880 --> 0:05:05.960 worthy of any kind of ignomy ignominy. Yeah, okay, thank you. 0:05:06.480 --> 0:05:08.160 I think we both got close to it. 0:05:08.320 --> 0:05:09.000 I can't remember. 0:05:09.120 --> 0:05:11.760 That's a that's a word that's tough to pronounce, similar 0:05:11.800 --> 0:05:16.480 to that word for magic press digitate, press, the digitation 0:05:16.720 --> 0:05:17.720 press the digitation. 0:05:18.880 --> 0:05:19.120 Yeah. 0:05:19.600 --> 0:05:22.719 So, uh, this team, Just to keep it short, this 0:05:22.760 --> 0:05:26.719 team went on after their Ignoble prize, they conducted a 0:05:26.760 --> 0:05:29.240 new study and said, hey, maybe we can adapt this 0:05:29.360 --> 0:05:33.159 butt breathing method to treat people with blocked airways or 0:05:33.279 --> 0:05:37.240 clogged lungs. So shame on all of us who had 0:05:37.240 --> 0:05:39.680 some pretty awesome jokes about butt breathing. Cool. 0:05:40.000 --> 0:05:42.040 They did not have to have the pen shoved through 0:05:42.160 --> 0:05:44.360 or you know what I mean, you know the movie 0:05:44.400 --> 0:05:46.400 see it in those medical drama shows all the time. 0:05:46.560 --> 0:05:48.240 Yeah, the improvised tracheotomy. 0:05:48.360 --> 0:05:48.720 There you go. 0:05:49.000 --> 0:05:52.800 In this case, we're talking about intra anally administered oxygen 0:05:52.880 --> 0:05:55.799 gas or liquid as an acronym. 0:05:55.880 --> 0:06:00.400 Match one it is. 0:06:00.440 --> 0:06:01.200 You got it, you got. 0:06:04.400 --> 0:06:05.000 Let's move on. 0:06:05.120 --> 0:06:06.440 Okay, I thought you were going. 0:06:06.279 --> 0:06:15.880 For Kennedy accident there, real quick. Uh So, if you 0:06:15.920 --> 0:06:17.279 want to learn more about this. 0:06:17.440 --> 0:06:21.400 Go to ours Technica. Excellent article by a journalist we've 0:06:21.440 --> 0:06:25.240 mentioned in the past, Jennifer Olette, but breathing may soon 0:06:25.279 --> 0:06:27.839 be a real medical treatment. We're gonna pause for a 0:06:27.839 --> 0:06:30.480 word from our sponsors, and then we'll get into even 0:06:30.600 --> 0:06:33.240 stranger news, and don't worry, we'll tell you about it 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:34.520 with our mouths. 0:06:39.640 --> 0:06:41.839 And we return and Ben, you totally nailed it. The 0:06:41.880 --> 0:06:44.159 monster mash is, in fact the dance one cannot do 0:06:44.279 --> 0:06:47.159 a song. But I have heard people getting perplexed about this. 0:06:47.160 --> 0:06:50.719 This concept of the monster mash is about a song, 0:06:50.800 --> 0:06:53.160 but it is not itself the song. But it is 0:06:53.279 --> 0:06:55.080 neither of those things. It is in fact a dance 0:06:55.080 --> 0:06:59.720 because one cannot do a song. Never mention it Halloween. 0:07:00.000 --> 0:07:00.919 It's just the monsters. 0:07:00.920 --> 0:07:04.600 It's just the monsters, and the mashing monster is smashy. 0:07:04.760 --> 0:07:05.840 No, that's very different. 0:07:06.000 --> 0:07:07.919 I think we've mentioned this before on the show, But 0:07:08.640 --> 0:07:11.160 if you're not aware of it, and you're not a child, 0:07:11.440 --> 0:07:15.480 go ahead and search for Comedy Bang Bang Monster Mash 0:07:15.640 --> 0:07:18.720 and find all of the versions of the monster mash 0:07:18.760 --> 0:07:20.920 that they have created for that show on their very 0:07:20.920 --> 0:07:22.239 special Halloween episode. 0:07:22.240 --> 0:07:23.680 I don't think I've heard of one, so I'm looking 0:07:23.720 --> 0:07:25.679 forward to that. And also shout out to where Wolf 0:07:25.680 --> 0:07:29.600 bermtzvah spooky scary boys becoming men and men becoming wolves. 0:07:29.840 --> 0:07:33.800 Oh yeah, Tracy Jordan from thirty Rock, one of the 0:07:33.800 --> 0:07:37.680 best monster mash parodies of what are the best sitcoms 0:07:37.720 --> 0:07:42.080 of all time? Per minute ratio is than anything else. 0:07:42.120 --> 0:07:43.080 It's so dense. 0:07:43.320 --> 0:07:45.360 Thank you, Tina Fey, Thank you Tina Fey. 0:07:46.040 --> 0:07:46.960 And Louren Michaels. 0:07:47.040 --> 0:07:50.360 Yeah, yeah, sure, and Alec mister Baldwin, you know, I 0:07:50.480 --> 0:07:55.640 just finished Destroiter's amazing. What a delight telling you guys, 0:07:56.880 --> 0:07:57.760 literally delighted. 0:07:57.800 --> 0:08:01.720 It's such a good hang. Obviously huge Tim Robinson fan, 0:08:01.800 --> 0:08:04.320 I think you should leave Stan. That one kind of 0:08:04.360 --> 0:08:06.800 got buried for a minute. And now Netflix has been 0:08:06.840 --> 0:08:09.280 pushing it out and I binged it in like two days. 0:08:09.600 --> 0:08:13.280 Your nailed. It's delightful. Yes, the report is clear. 0:08:13.360 --> 0:08:14.640 I'm only six episodes in. 0:08:15.280 --> 0:08:18.880 Oh man, guess what You're in for a great ride. 0:08:18.920 --> 0:08:22.040 I bring that up because produced executive produced by Lauren Michael. 0:08:22.080 --> 0:08:22.400 That's right. 0:08:22.440 --> 0:08:24.560 He knows how to pick him and he seems to 0:08:24.640 --> 0:08:27.240 give chances even to folks who are a little bit 0:08:27.680 --> 0:08:29.240 off the beaten track, you know what I mean. 0:08:29.520 --> 0:08:31.960 Got kicked off SNL after like one season. 0:08:32.160 --> 0:08:34.440 Yeah, Like, I mean, he's the reason the kids in 0:08:34.480 --> 0:08:36.960 the Hall made it to the stage. He's the producer 0:08:37.040 --> 0:08:39.800 of brain Candy, So dude knows how to appeal to 0:08:39.840 --> 0:08:42.319 the masses and also to the you know, the weirdos. 0:08:42.520 --> 0:08:47.959 Yeah, and speaking speaking of, let's see if this segue works. Okay, 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:50.000 so we'll see. 0:08:50.160 --> 0:08:50.280 Uh. 0:08:50.520 --> 0:08:54.959 So we all know that Tim Robinson has his newest 0:08:54.960 --> 0:08:57.199 project out with his co career is at King And 0:08:57.920 --> 0:09:01.160 I watched episode one The Chair Company, rich is Uh 0:09:01.440 --> 0:09:02.480 what'd you think? What'd you think? 0:09:02.559 --> 0:09:05.480 Though? I'm intrigued. It is very much red meat for 0:09:05.760 --> 0:09:09.920 the type of consumers of media that we are. Yeah, 0:09:09.960 --> 0:09:11.959 and it's exactly the kind of thing that he should 0:09:12.000 --> 0:09:14.959 be doing, sort of like a super super super dark 0:09:15.320 --> 0:09:18.040 satirical look at like the corporate world and like all 0:09:18.080 --> 0:09:20.160 in the intrigue and sort of there seems to be 0:09:20.200 --> 0:09:23.120 an illuminatis conspiracy at the heart of the whole thing, right, 0:09:23.160 --> 0:09:25.480 but I've only seen the one, so I'm super into it. 0:09:25.480 --> 0:09:29.360 You're gonna share conspiracy, a chair conspiracy, That's what the 0:09:29.400 --> 0:09:31.560 whole thing's about. There are only two episodes out as 0:09:31.600 --> 0:09:34.800 we're recording today on October twenty second. Vanila nailed it. 0:09:34.880 --> 0:09:38.439 We're super into it. Chairs have been on our minds. 0:09:38.520 --> 0:09:41.120 And there's a story you found that, Matt, I don't 0:09:41.120 --> 0:09:43.000 know if you were aware of this. I know nothing 0:09:43.040 --> 0:09:46.200 about so. I love a good heist. We love a heist, 0:09:46.280 --> 0:09:49.360 we love we all love a good heist. And apparently 0:09:49.400 --> 0:09:51.160 there's a heist involving. 0:09:51.559 --> 0:09:54.760 Sure, this seems a little more, a little less like 0:09:54.800 --> 0:09:56.720 a heist than that it was done in one fell 0:09:56.760 --> 0:09:59.560 swoop and more like a death by a thousand chair situations. 0:09:59.600 --> 0:10:01.679 Oh yeah, you know, just just kind of picking them 0:10:01.679 --> 0:10:04.120 out here and there from cafes that aren't locking them down. 0:10:04.160 --> 0:10:06.959 You gotta lock down your chairs. Cafes got lock down 0:10:07.000 --> 0:10:11.600 your chairs. There is apparently something of a chair thieving 0:10:11.800 --> 0:10:17.319 syndicate over in Spain that got busted by Spanish police, suspected, 0:10:17.400 --> 0:10:20.720 let's say, until proven, guilty of stealing over eleven hundred 0:10:20.760 --> 0:10:24.920 chairs from various beistros and cafes. You know, the culture 0:10:24.920 --> 0:10:27.400 over there, lots of lovely little you know. 0:10:27.679 --> 0:10:31.880 Patio cafe exactly street side, and they all get locked up. 0:10:31.920 --> 0:10:35.319 They usually get locked up with chains. We're talking plastic chairs, 0:10:35.320 --> 0:10:38.560 we're talking metal chairs. The occasional wood chair you could 0:10:38.600 --> 0:10:40.360 saw through the wood, but then you wouldn't have yourself 0:10:40.400 --> 0:10:45.760 a functioning chair, would you? Would you? De Spain's National 0:10:45.800 --> 0:10:49.000 Police said earlier this week that they had arrested seven 0:10:49.040 --> 0:10:52.560 people suspected of stealing more than eleven hundred chairs from 0:10:52.640 --> 0:10:57.360 various outdoor seating areas at restaurants and bars across Madrid 0:10:57.720 --> 0:11:01.160 and in the nearby Tri State area. Kind of situations. 0:11:01.559 --> 0:11:03.120 My friend, we sit like kings. 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:06.840 I guess is this related to the anti tourism movement. 0:11:06.880 --> 0:11:10.199 That's funny, because where the tourist is gonna sit, if 0:11:10.200 --> 0:11:11.600 there's no chairs, maybe they'll just. 0:11:11.480 --> 0:11:15.080 Golm wants don't like to do? 0:11:15.160 --> 0:11:17.600 Is stand? Well, I'm serious. 0:11:17.720 --> 0:11:21.040 I recall from my brief time in several parts of 0:11:21.040 --> 0:11:24.040 Spain that those cafes and the outdoor seeing areas were 0:11:24.120 --> 0:11:26.360 one of the highlights of just being in the area, 0:11:26.400 --> 0:11:29.479 being you enjoy where you are and having. 0:11:30.000 --> 0:11:33.720 Europe as well, having a nice espresso, having a little prosecco, other. 0:11:33.640 --> 0:11:36.520 Drinks that end with a real tapas, which means they 0:11:36.520 --> 0:11:40.880 come free with the water, olive warm, olive. Larry David's coming, 0:11:41.240 --> 0:11:42.240 It's supposed to be free. 0:11:42.400 --> 0:11:45.400 Well, you know, it's funny about olives. Also, speaking of David, 0:11:45.400 --> 0:11:47.040 what do you do with the pit? You know? What 0:11:47.080 --> 0:11:49.959 do you have a garbage plate? You know it's disgusting. 0:11:51.920 --> 0:11:55.440 So wait, could I ask quick quick questions? 0:11:55.480 --> 0:11:57.040 You must and I wish you would. 0:11:57.120 --> 0:12:00.840 Okay, great? Uh, then into the breach once again, friends, Uh, 0:12:02.640 --> 0:12:05.800 what do you do with eleven hundred chairs? 0:12:05.840 --> 0:12:08.360 Well, you flip them, buddy, You find yourself a chair fence, 0:12:08.800 --> 0:12:10.760 start a chair fan chair. 0:12:11.080 --> 0:12:14.480 Yeah, you start a chair compan full. 0:12:14.280 --> 0:12:17.600 Circle now, I mean they were apparently selling them around 0:12:17.679 --> 0:12:22.600 Spain and also in Morocco and Romania. So if you're 0:12:22.800 --> 0:12:25.800 looking for a good deal on a hot chair, yeah, 0:12:26.040 --> 0:12:27.200 that's apparently the Spotify. 0:12:27.320 --> 0:12:28.960 I'm just thinking of the transit costs. 0:12:30.480 --> 0:12:32.480 It seems like maybe it's one of those things where 0:12:32.800 --> 0:12:36.320 it's either idiotic or is a genius. Rights Like, nobody 0:12:36.520 --> 0:12:38.920 has thought of this. But to your point, to both 0:12:38.960 --> 0:12:42.280 of y'all's points, they are typically after hours lock the 0:12:42.360 --> 0:12:44.640 f down right with heavy chains and stuff. So they 0:12:44.679 --> 0:12:47.800 really have to find these crimes of opportunity case in 0:12:47.880 --> 0:12:50.120 the joints for folks that aren't locking their chairs down. 0:12:50.240 --> 0:12:52.719 And then what do you say on your first date? Oh, 0:12:52.800 --> 0:12:55.880 my job, I sell loose chairs in Romania. Yeah, well 0:12:55.920 --> 0:12:57.520 you probably have to have a cover story. I would 0:12:57.559 --> 0:13:03.199 imagine I drive to roman Off exactly. I'm in I'm 0:13:03.240 --> 0:13:04.839 in suitable import exports. 0:13:06.160 --> 0:13:11.480 And let's see. The estimated value of said stolen shares 0:13:11.800 --> 0:13:16.120 was around sixty thousand euros or sixty nine thousand US dollars. 0:13:16.520 --> 0:13:21.320 That's according to police. Let's see, there's a piece on 0:13:21.440 --> 0:13:25.200 ABC News that is actually mainly a reprint of the 0:13:25.200 --> 0:13:28.160 Associated Press article about it, and they say that it 0:13:28.160 --> 0:13:30.920 was a group of six men and women who worked tonight. 0:13:31.040 --> 0:13:33.600 I'm quoting from the piece here to pilfer the chairs 0:13:33.880 --> 0:13:38.520 from eighteen different establishments in Madrid and Talavera de la Ryana, 0:13:39.200 --> 0:13:41.199 which is a smaller city to the southwest of the 0:13:41.240 --> 0:13:44.680 capital city. And this was between August and September of 0:13:44.720 --> 0:13:49.160 this year. They face charges of theft and belonging to 0:13:49.200 --> 0:13:52.440 a criminal organization. They are now being classified as something 0:13:52.480 --> 0:13:55.440 of a you know, a group of organized criminals, something 0:13:55.440 --> 0:13:56.040 of a syndicate. 0:13:56.200 --> 0:14:03.360 They're chairman of organized tribe, one would hope, keyboard chairman 0:14:03.440 --> 0:14:07.680 of the hewn down to make delightful dovetail joints on 0:14:07.960 --> 0:14:08.800 bespoken chairs. 0:14:08.880 --> 0:14:10.840 How do you feel about an Iran dak not a fan? 0:14:11.200 --> 0:14:12.240 I'm uncomfortable. 0:14:12.360 --> 0:14:15.320 I'm okay with the vibe, I'm not okay with the 0:14:15.320 --> 0:14:17.480 commitment of their being there for a long time. 0:14:17.559 --> 0:14:19.360 I like the really large ones you'll see in the 0:14:19.400 --> 0:14:20.400 North Georgia Mountains. 0:14:23.080 --> 0:14:24.960 Can somebody explain to me what a. 0:14:25.320 --> 0:14:29.440 Wooden share that is perma reclined at an angle that 0:14:29.720 --> 0:14:33.000 I don't really it is super deep, yeah, so you 0:14:33.040 --> 0:14:35.680 can't adjust it. 0:14:36.160 --> 0:14:37.080 Some of the smaller ones. 0:14:37.200 --> 0:14:40.040 Maybe that's true in general, though, they sort of have 0:14:40.160 --> 0:14:42.080 a set form, right they do. 0:14:42.280 --> 0:14:44.680 They do, and it's kind of like a papa song. 0:14:45.240 --> 0:14:48.120 Like at first you're you're thinking, this is an interesting 0:14:48.200 --> 0:14:51.000 experience for my button, my posture, and then time goes 0:14:51.000 --> 0:14:54.440 on and you're like, I kind of want a regular chair. 0:14:54.560 --> 0:14:57.080 Well, will help you out with that, there you will. 0:14:57.680 --> 0:14:59.120 We just have to go to Romania. 0:14:59.360 --> 0:15:02.280 I'm sorry, what the hell is a papasan Papaistan's like 0:15:02.320 --> 0:15:03.560 a bean bag, right kind. 0:15:03.440 --> 0:15:06.840 Of, It's like it's the circular, Yes, it's it's a cupped, 0:15:06.880 --> 0:15:11.000 a cupped, padded thing that is seated in sort of 0:15:11.040 --> 0:15:15.200 like a futon that's seated in a metal frames. 0:15:15.280 --> 0:15:16.400 Your home metals. 0:15:16.680 --> 0:15:19.320 It's metal or bamboo, well usually metal legs and then 0:15:19.360 --> 0:15:21.800 a bamboo baskets, and then the thing sort of creates 0:15:21.840 --> 0:15:23.080 a formatting factor. 0:15:23.200 --> 0:15:25.160 Okay, thank you guys. 0:15:25.400 --> 0:15:28.800 They're not great, not super comfortable. They look and now 0:15:28.840 --> 0:15:31.080 they're kind of coming back because they're a bit like retro. 0:15:31.360 --> 0:15:32.960 They're like given retro vibes. 0:15:33.080 --> 0:15:35.680 Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's like it would belong in a 0:15:35.720 --> 0:15:37.160 bedroom that had a waterbed. 0:15:37.440 --> 0:15:44.680 Oh yeah, are coming back? I hope so did they leave? 0:15:44.880 --> 0:15:47.640 I think they maybe just got a little more niche. 0:15:47.880 --> 0:15:51.640 You know, you have you seen Licorice Pizza Paul Thomas Anderson. 0:15:51.640 --> 0:15:55.200 Maybe there's a great waterbed subplot in it, Like this 0:15:55.560 --> 0:15:58.280 entrepreneurial kid kind of finds out about water beds in 0:15:58.280 --> 0:15:58.640 the size. 0:15:58.640 --> 0:16:02.200 He's gonna a subplot subplot. Yeah, here's my prediction about 0:16:02.240 --> 0:16:04.880 the chair heist thing. It feels like, based on the 0:16:04.920 --> 0:16:07.120 stuff you found here, it feels like it might have 0:16:07.200 --> 0:16:09.360 been an inside job for at least a couple of 0:16:09.360 --> 0:16:09.960 those restaurant. 0:16:09.960 --> 0:16:13.200 I'm looking for the pun, but it's not there. That's 0:16:13.200 --> 0:16:15.720 why I think you're right, because to your point and 0:16:15.760 --> 0:16:19.000 to the thing we've been saying, I've never seen chairs 0:16:19.080 --> 0:16:23.880 just stacked on the curb side. Yeah, it doesn't seem 0:16:23.920 --> 0:16:26.080 like a very good business move because people are gonna 0:16:26.080 --> 0:16:28.440 take your stuff if you don't bolt it down. Not 0:16:28.480 --> 0:16:30.600 to have like lost faith in humanity or anything, but 0:16:30.640 --> 0:16:31.960 it's just kind of how it is. 0:16:32.040 --> 0:16:34.560 I gotta say, Yeah, I'm really going through it, and 0:16:34.600 --> 0:16:37.280 I feel like I might get some Papa Soans or 0:16:37.320 --> 0:16:40.280 maybe even some Matondacks if maybe I won the lottery 0:16:40.400 --> 0:16:40.760 or something. 0:16:41.320 --> 0:16:45.320 Yeah, we just ask chat GPT. Apparently it can predict 0:16:45.360 --> 0:16:46.120 lotto numbers. 0:16:46.240 --> 0:16:47.320 What or not? 0:16:47.680 --> 0:16:51.480 I mean, everybody can predict lotto numbers, but can they 0:16:51.480 --> 0:16:52.720 predict them accurately? 0:16:53.400 --> 0:16:56.920 That the question I'm just gonna pull from this daily 0:16:56.920 --> 0:16:59.840 mail thing. Powerball winner reveals how she used chat g 0:17:00.440 --> 0:17:05.160 to generate winning numbers. Women in Michigan decided to ask 0:17:05.280 --> 0:17:09.520 the what do you call it large language model system 0:17:09.880 --> 0:17:13.480 which is quite popular and a little bit divisive, for 0:17:13.520 --> 0:17:17.120 a little help when it came to picking her lottery numbers. 0:17:17.119 --> 0:17:20.800 Her name's Tammy Carvey, forty five of Winandot, which is 0:17:21.040 --> 0:17:26.120 near Detroit, speaking of the Detroit detroiters. On September sixth, 0:17:26.520 --> 0:17:30.280 the powerball numbers were drawn, and the numbers that she 0:17:30.400 --> 0:17:34.159 asked chat gpt to generate they hit. She says, I 0:17:34.200 --> 0:17:36.879 asked chat GPT for a set of powerball numbers, and 0:17:36.920 --> 0:17:39.439 those are the numbers I played, she said. In a 0:17:39.440 --> 0:17:42.920 statement from the Michigan Lottery, she said, typically she only 0:17:42.920 --> 0:17:46.240 plays when the jackpot goes into the stratosphere and with 0:17:46.359 --> 0:17:49.440 the powerball starting to really really swell. You know, these 0:17:49.440 --> 0:17:52.800 things are accumulative, I believe to around one point seven 0:17:53.080 --> 0:17:56.200 billion dollars, the second largest in US history. She decided 0:17:56.200 --> 0:18:00.280 to give it a go, and she did hit not 0:18:00.720 --> 0:18:03.720 hit the one point seven eighty seven billion, but she 0:18:03.920 --> 0:18:06.960 won a lot more than she thought she apparently. When 0:18:07.000 --> 0:18:10.520 she did win, she googled it's not apparently not immediately 0:18:10.560 --> 0:18:13.280 clear what the my mount you get is depending on 0:18:13.280 --> 0:18:16.200 how many numbers, whether powerball is included. 0:18:15.800 --> 0:18:18.280 I've mean, how many other people want exactly right. 0:18:18.840 --> 0:18:20.959 So it told her that she likedly won about fifty k, 0:18:21.440 --> 0:18:24.440 but that was then very quickly revealed to be only 0:18:24.520 --> 0:18:27.280 half of the story, and she actually won one hundred 0:18:27.400 --> 0:18:33.879 thousand dollars because she added a power play multiplier. Okay, 0:18:34.040 --> 0:18:39.040 here's the interesting uh huh. The Michigan Lottery did have 0:18:39.080 --> 0:18:42.720 a statement saying the results of all lottery drawings are 0:18:42.840 --> 0:18:47.040 random and cannot be predicted by utilizing artificial intelligence or 0:18:47.119 --> 0:18:49.040 other number generating tools. 0:18:50.200 --> 0:18:53.359 Also, none of the hardcore lottery players are gonna believe 0:18:53.400 --> 0:18:56.440 that for a second, because people get these superstitions when 0:18:56.480 --> 0:18:57.280 it comes to sample. 0:18:57.800 --> 0:19:00.400 Yeah, that could well become a superstition. And where it's 0:19:00.440 --> 0:19:02.840 like run it through old chatty as you used to 0:19:02.840 --> 0:19:08.560 call call them. Carvy's story is the latest Daily Mail says, 0:19:08.560 --> 0:19:10.840 and a growing trend of lottery hopefuls turning to the 0:19:10.840 --> 0:19:13.840 technology for numerical inspiration. And I think this is interesting. 0:19:14.359 --> 0:19:17.000 I don't put much credence in it having any kind 0:19:17.040 --> 0:19:19.239 of predictive ability for this kind of thing. It's just 0:19:19.280 --> 0:19:22.720 generating stuff. Not really sure what the prompt was, you know, 0:19:22.760 --> 0:19:25.560 if she just asked it cold, give me the numbers, 0:19:25.760 --> 0:19:28.639 or if she put in some kind of other little 0:19:28.680 --> 0:19:31.680 tidbits of information about herself personally, like the kinds of 0:19:31.760 --> 0:19:35.280 numbers she usually plays, or who knows. But the point 0:19:35.400 --> 0:19:38.119 is you're starting to see people use chat GPT for 0:19:38.160 --> 0:19:40.959 all kinds of weird and ridiculous and sort of like 0:19:42.080 --> 0:19:46.399 you know, frivolous kind of stuff like make me the 0:19:46.400 --> 0:19:50.159 most amazing brownie recipe, and I cringe at that a 0:19:50.200 --> 0:19:53.920 little bit, considering how resource intensive it is and how 0:19:53.960 --> 0:19:58.240 each one of these engagements uses a whole lot of power, 0:19:58.280 --> 0:19:59.920 a whole lot of water. And not to be tree 0:20:00.040 --> 0:20:03.440 huggy about it, but the more people just start running 0:20:03.520 --> 0:20:07.639 random things through it, the more that AI bubble is 0:20:07.720 --> 0:20:11.159 getting bursting. I don't mean economically, I just mean like 0:20:11.200 --> 0:20:15.359 what it's doing to the environment and the structure and 0:20:15.560 --> 0:20:17.199 the land needs and all of that. 0:20:17.720 --> 0:20:20.600 I love the lack of context too with this. I 0:20:20.720 --> 0:20:22.800 want to harp on it too much because I think 0:20:22.800 --> 0:20:25.520 there's a future episode for us, but the lack of 0:20:25.560 --> 0:20:30.160 context always cracks me up. With your example of a CHATCHBT, 0:20:30.280 --> 0:20:34.639 give me a brownie recipe, it is totally plausible that 0:20:34.680 --> 0:20:38.080 a large language model could respond by saying a brownie 0:20:38.119 --> 0:20:42.040 is a character from European folklore. The best way to 0:20:42.160 --> 0:20:45.200