Speaker 1: Aol Zone Media.
Speaker 2: Oh man, welcome back to it could happen here the
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Speaker 2: So we're back. We're still at CES. We're slightly more
Speaker 2: sober than we were last night.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but we are more high on ces.
Speaker 2: We are higher on cees. If you haven't been, The
Speaker 2: Consumer Electronics Show is one hundred and twenty thousand or
Speaker 2: so people all flooding into Las Vegas for about four days,
Speaker 2: where they walk around in a convention center that if
Speaker 2: you grew up in a small town, the convention center
Speaker 2: is larger than where you grew up. And it's just
Speaker 2: wall to wall a mix of incredible new technology, achievements
Speaker 2: that are going to change people's lives, absolute nonsense, vaporware,
Speaker 2: repackaged old shit, and stuff that will get someone you
Speaker 2: love killed, all just crammed together in this massive room
Speaker 2: the size of a small world, and yeah, you just
Speaker 2: kind of go crazy slowly living in it. This is Robert,
Speaker 2: you know me and Garrison? Hello, you know Garrison, And
Speaker 2: returning from part one is Tavia Mora, our resident technological expert. Tavia,
Speaker 2: how'd you feel in your second day out on the floor.
Speaker 4: Exhausted and excited to be impressed by stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, well that is what we're doing today today's episode.
Speaker 2: Last time we tell keep that mic in your hand.
Speaker 2: Last episode we talked about the most obviously stupid products.
Speaker 2: So Tavia, I want you to start us off with
Speaker 2: what is a good product something you saw today or
Speaker 2: yesterday that you thought that thing is fucking cool.
Speaker 4: Well, let's see. I think we're in the North Hall.
Speaker 4: It was in the North Hall that we saw This
Speaker 4: is a gadget called wheel me that was just a
Speaker 4: simple rolling platform that I would track along where it
Speaker 4: was supposed to go on the ground. But what I
Speaker 4: saw on it was a road case, and I was
Speaker 4: very excited. Since I work in a lot of the
Speaker 4: event spaces and when I have to move to and
Speaker 4: from kind of where we're like staging a lot of
Speaker 4: stuff to where the site is, it's really nice to
Speaker 4: have the extra help. The extra lift that was marketed
Speaker 4: pretty much directly toward me. As soon as I saw it,
Speaker 4: instantly wanted it. I could see I use for that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it seemed like a potentially really useful thing. Obviously,
Speaker 2: the mount that they had wouldn't be able to go
Speaker 2: up or down stairs. Well, but if you're moving across
Speaker 2: like a large warehouse space or something like the kind
Speaker 2: of folece where a lot of events are held, or
Speaker 2: a concert space, I could see it being a real
Speaker 2: labor saver. And we did see there was another product
Speaker 2: there that was like it was a delivery robot for
Speaker 2: like delivering food that they had built away for it
Speaker 2: to go upstairs, where it basically had a large, maybe
Speaker 2: two feet diameter wheel and there were like plastic spokes
Speaker 2: and then the outside of the wheel is like soft
Speaker 2: plastic like the actual tread itself, and so it would
Speaker 2: just kind of bend to conform to the shape of
Speaker 2: the stairs, and it was able to roll smoothly upstairs
Speaker 2: on its wheels as a result of that, which I
Speaker 2: thought was kind of impressive. And that's one of the
Speaker 2: nicer things, is like seeing like, oh, somebody really puts
Speaker 2: some thought into that. That's a legitimately clever idea as
Speaker 2: opposed to a product we didn't mention last time. But
Speaker 2: it's one of the dumbest things I've ever seen. A
Speaker 2: guy who created smart plants, who used the power of
Speaker 2: AI to make your plants able to communicate with you,
Speaker 2: so It's basically a huge plastic flower plant pets with
Speaker 2: a Z spelled with a Z.
Speaker 3: And basically you can't talk to it. But most of
Speaker 3: what humane to we were just molesting the plants.
Speaker 2: It will it has speakers in the flower pots, so
Speaker 2: would you like stroke the leaves? It will giggle like
Speaker 2: this is It was immediately like, oh, this is made
Speaker 2: for some kind of weird sex freak like some.
Speaker 4: And didn't it like spin back and forth a little
Speaker 4: bit as oh, he's giggling.
Speaker 3: It like it shimmered, it like danced the pod around,
Speaker 3: it made it made small little noises. It was. It
Speaker 3: was quite something. And the guy was incredibly enthusiastic about
Speaker 3: his about his talking, his talking giggling plants.
Speaker 4: He was following his passion truly.
Speaker 3: You could see yeah in his eyes. I will say
Speaker 3: the product worked. I'm just not sure it did work
Speaker 3: the product is for, but it was one of the
Speaker 3: more functional pieces of technology we've seen. It did.
Speaker 2: He also said that like when the plants were dry,
Speaker 2: it would like make the sound like a bubbling water sound,
Speaker 2: which I think is a mistake. It should scream at
Speaker 2: you when you have not watered the plants recently enough.
Speaker 2: But I do love how clearly he was obsessed with
Speaker 2: the brilliance of this design. That is one of the
Speaker 2: fun things at the smaller booths at a show like this,
Speaker 2: because like you know, you got like big companies LG
Speaker 2: and Lenovo and Honda, all these massive companies with very slick,
Speaker 2: expensive booths, and then you have in other areas just
Speaker 2: like a little square that's just a crazy person with
Speaker 2: the thing that they've dedicated their life to building. And
Speaker 2: sometimes it's the most brilliant thing you've ever seen. And
Speaker 2: sometimes it's a flower poth that that giggles when you molest.
Speaker 3: Sometimes it's plant, but it's you.
Speaker 2: I always appreciate the fact that, well, at least you
Speaker 2: threw your life into this stupid thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah. No, it's always kind of endearing, like yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: no matter what it is, it's it's fun to see
Speaker 3: someone who's like, figure it out life.
Speaker 2: Yeah, a man. Yeah, you know who you are. You're
Speaker 2: the plant pets guy. Is that a good thing to be?
Speaker 2: I don't know, that's not yeah, that's not that's not
Speaker 2: on me. Uh.
Speaker 3: I mean, we certainly saw a lot of a lot
Speaker 3: of products walking walking the show floor today, not nearly
Speaker 3: as many metaverse products as there were last year, and
Speaker 3: there were still some. I was finally able to try
Speaker 3: the Haptics tax suit, which I missed last year. This
Speaker 3: is it's basically a vest that zips up. It's it's
Speaker 3: not as painful as some of the other haptic suits
Speaker 3: that I tried out last year, which I kind of
Speaker 3: you enjoyed the ones that are just like actually hurt you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but like basically shock you in such a way
Speaker 2: as to simulate a stab, wound or something.
Speaker 3: That was cool. Yeah, this one by B hacked. This
Speaker 3: one by b Haptics was very user friendly. It wasn't
Speaker 3: it wasn't really painful, but it worked. It worked pretty well.
Speaker 3: What else? What else did we see walking walking into
Speaker 3: the big central hall? Oh? There was there was that
Speaker 3: thing that I wish was real but probably will never be,
Speaker 3: which is the LG podcasting camphor hand.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So LG the people who may or may not
Speaker 2: have made your TV, but there's a decent chance they did.
Speaker 2: They have their big booth. It's mostly like TVs and
Speaker 2: smart home connected and entertainment stuff. But then they had
Speaker 2: like a concept product that was like a camper trailer.
Speaker 2: It was actually a really nice layout, but for what
Speaker 2: you know camper trailers, they have all these little like
Speaker 2: cubby holes and storage spaces built into the sides in
Speaker 2: the back, and so underneath the bed that took up
Speaker 2: the back, they had like a folding down space where
Speaker 2: it was like it was like stored a half dozen
Speaker 2: bottles of wine and glasses in a very like pleasing way.
Speaker 2: But then in the center of the wine and the
Speaker 2: glasses are two like recording microphones. Like that's just like
Speaker 2: they made a van for podcasting alcoholics and.
Speaker 3: I respect very targeted audience there.
Speaker 2: Yeah. On the other side of it was a fold
Speaker 2: down panel that was like a lot of campers have
Speaker 2: that you could fold it down and it's like a table,
Speaker 2: but on the wall, like once you fold it down,
Speaker 2: underneath the part of it that folds down, it's like
Speaker 2: a TV screen that they had tuned to like a
Speaker 2: fire place, like a campfire video. Just like if I
Speaker 2: am out in the wilderness, I am not putting on
Speaker 2: a campfire video. That's the most depressing thing I can imagine.
Speaker 2: Why would you do that? But that was fun in
Speaker 2: terms of like actually impressive things. There's a product we
Speaker 2: saw our first night out there. The time Kettle. I
Speaker 2: don't know why they gave him up that name. It
Speaker 2: has nothing to do with what the product does. This
Speaker 2: is a translation device specifically, it's it's like the star
Speaker 2: trekiest thing I saw, because first off, it's a little
Speaker 2: retro It's like a kind of a thick rectangular prism
Speaker 2: with a screen on it. And the rep from the
Speaker 2: company was like a Chinese man who clearly was like
Speaker 2: spoke Mandarin is his native language, and we had a
Speaker 2: conversation talking into this thing, and it would translate and
Speaker 2: speak back to each other. And there's like a little
Speaker 2: compartment on it that pops out, and it has two earphones.
Speaker 2: You could each put one in each person's ear to
Speaker 2: have like a live conversation that's translated over it. You
Speaker 2: can also hook it in through your phone. I know
Speaker 2: there's a couple of devices like that. This is the
Speaker 2: one I've seen that seemed both the smoothest and the
Speaker 2: most kind of like purpose built of them. I thought
Speaker 2: it was really impressive, and it's one of those only
Speaker 2: you don't get those so often these days, but like
Speaker 2: every now and then at a show like this, you
Speaker 2: see a piece of technology that's like, well, this is
Speaker 2: what I assumed we would be doing with computers when
Speaker 2: I was a kid in the future, right, there would
Speaker 2: be an instant translator, a babblefish device that you could
Speaker 2: just fit in your pocket, and it is kind of
Speaker 2: fucking dope, and I thought it worked really well. Liked
Speaker 2: I could have conducted an interview with this guy through
Speaker 2: that thing and it would have been pretty seamless, which
Speaker 2: which was nice to see. Speaking of Mandarin, I don't know,
Speaker 2: whatever products you're listening to, there's like a good thirty
Speaker 2: percent chance they're made over in China. So support the
Speaker 2: Chinese economy. We're back. So one of the things we
Speaker 2: did at this trade show, most of the time we
Speaker 2: spent was not out on the floor looking at products,
Speaker 2: it was attending these different speeches and panels, like where
Speaker 2: they'll have people from like they had like one of
Speaker 2: Google's AI heads and like the head of McDonald's AI integration,
Speaker 2: which is happening for some reason. We'll talk more about
Speaker 2: this in our dedicated AI episodes that are coming a
Speaker 2: bit later. But on one of the panels it was
Speaker 2: AI is the Fifth Industrial Revolution, was the name of
Speaker 2: the panel. They did not once to talk about what
Speaker 2: industrial revel The other four were or why this one was?
Speaker 2: They just said that title like five times. They were
Speaker 2: very proud of it. And one who was that Lady Garrison.
Speaker 3: The Alexa lady with the iHeart AI shirt.
Speaker 2: Yes, there was a lady with a shirt that said
Speaker 2: iHeart is Was she the dividend lady?
Speaker 3: No, the dividend lady was from was from the Synthetic
Speaker 3: Information panel?
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, oh sorry, sorry sorry that was the other panel. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 2: there was a panel in like deep fakes and AI harms,
Speaker 2: and there was a lady on there who was like
Speaker 2: some sort of relevant expert. But she kept using the
Speaker 2: term the liar's dividend to refer to the money that
Speaker 2: you make if you're a scammer, and she kept using
Speaker 2: it in the way she used it. I immediately thought, like, oh,
Speaker 2: this lady wants to sell a book and that's the
Speaker 2: title of the book, right, Like, that's very clearly she's
Speaker 2: mentioning it in such a pointed, unnatural way. That was
Speaker 2: my assumption. Aparently the term.
Speaker 3: Has existed for a few years now.
Speaker 2: It seems useless to me because like, if you're saying
Speaker 2: someone is a fraudster, well, the diviend is the money
Speaker 2: they make committing fraud. Like, you don't need to give
Speaker 2: it another name. It's not like that's like again, it's
Speaker 2: like calling the money you get robbing a bank the
Speaker 2: bank robbers dividend. Well, that's just a stupid thing to say. So, yeah,
Speaker 2: we've been using that for everything now and now you
Speaker 2: are all enjoying the podcaster's dividend here. You know, that's
Speaker 2: that's what you're listening to.
Speaker 3: Speaking of listening, we tried good pivot here, say thank
Speaker 3: you loud to you, thank you. We call that the
Speaker 3: Segway dividend. We tried. I know Robert's familiar with this,
Speaker 3: but I've not tried them out before until today. I
Speaker 3: think it's called chokes shocks. Shocks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I wear those headphones every day. Yeah. They're like
Speaker 2: bone conducting headphones.
Speaker 3: Bone conducting headphones, so they don't go in your ear.
Speaker 3: They go around like around the back of your head.
Speaker 3: They hook around your ear lobe and they vibe right
Speaker 3: and they can make you hear sounds in your brain.
Speaker 2: Yeah, which is pretty cool.
Speaker 3: They were they had they just launched a new waterproof
Speaker 3: model targeting like swimmers.
Speaker 2: Yes, IP sixty eight or something like that. Like, yeah,
Speaker 2: it's it's supposed to be. You can submerge it for
Speaker 2: like hours at two meters of depth, so you can
Speaker 2: like swim with them on.
Speaker 3: But I really enjoyed these. Yeah, apparently they can help
Speaker 3: some people who have like targeted hearing loss, So that's
Speaker 3: that's an actually neat piece of working technology.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's really cool if you're not aware of these,
Speaker 2: because when we say, like Whin said, you can hear
Speaker 2: sounds to them. They're just like wearing normal headphones. But
Speaker 2: we have a friend who is deaf in one ear
Speaker 2: and put them on for the first time recently. It
Speaker 2: was able to like hear out of that ear for
Speaker 2: the first time in years, which is like kind of
Speaker 2: an amazing thing to be able to do with a
Speaker 2: fucking set of headphones that are they're not cheap headphones,
Speaker 2: but they're not like inaccessibly expensive. All right, Tavia, you
Speaker 2: got another one you wanted to talk about.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there was the product that we ran into that
Speaker 4: was very close to the tact suit that Garrison had
Speaker 4: tried on, and it's called three D Desk. It looks
Speaker 4: to be like an additional add on you can put
Speaker 4: on top of your desk that you would use if
Speaker 4: you were working. The one that we had seen was
Speaker 4: a standing sitting style desk and it has the actual
Speaker 4: product itself on top of it, which looked to be
Speaker 4: like a stand, and it had two monitors attached to
Speaker 4: one plane of it, and then with like I think
Speaker 4: a simple button switch, it would sort of like another
Speaker 4: monitor would swoop out from behind them, and there was
Speaker 4: sort of like this cycling monitor arrangement that I hadn't
Speaker 4: quite seen before. And I work a lot with a
Speaker 4: bunch of different types of programs, and I'm like more
Speaker 4: or less stuck to my desk most of the time.
Speaker 4: So this actually looked to be another really useful product
Speaker 4: for somebody like me, not unlike the wheel me.
Speaker 2: Yeah. One of the thing you can if you've seen
Speaker 2: like a drafting table, right like those desks, it's basically
Speaker 2: a big desk that you can like pushed down so
Speaker 2: that like the desk part is almost parallel and you
Speaker 2: can like put stick paper and stuff on and you
Speaker 2: can draw draw on it, like it's what architects use.
Speaker 2: It has that, so like underneath the monitors there's this
Speaker 2: top desk piece that you can like flip up and
Speaker 2: you can put stuff on, like use it as like
Speaker 2: a drafting table, or push it back down, you know,
Speaker 2: with the switch of a button. It's pretty cool looking desk.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it would have like the two monitors and then
Speaker 4: this sort of like this plane that would be sitting
Speaker 4: at like a thirty nine degree angle or so kind
Speaker 4: of from you, so you can set a bunch of
Speaker 4: books up or a bunch of notes you're taking or organizing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, as a general rule, it was one of the
Speaker 2: like the products that I kept finding myself gravitating towards
Speaker 2: in our free time. There was like anything that had
Speaker 2: nothing to do with AI, because yeah, anyone who could
Speaker 2: who could find any reason to stick AI in something
Speaker 2: like people there's people selling like battery generators that are
Speaker 2: like AI assisted, and it's like, what do you mean
Speaker 2: it means? It means it cuts off the power when
Speaker 2: it's full.
Speaker 3: Well, unbelievable.
Speaker 2: That's not a that's just a battery working better, Like,
Speaker 2: come on, guys, It's this thing the tech industry does
Speaker 2: that that has has been exposed by like a lot
Speaker 2: of the products we've seen this year, many of whom
Speaker 2: are like just absolute nonsense, like the the wehead thing
Speaker 2: that that that like hideous chatbot that looks like a
Speaker 2: broken human face and just deeply off putting. Now that said,
Speaker 2: there was a really cool product that we uh uh
Speaker 2: that I actually like liked, the AI use application. So
Speaker 2: there's a company called Cellistron that makes they're calling it
Speaker 2: a like a home observatory, and it's it looks like
Speaker 2: a big telescope. It's not cheap. It's not insanely expensive
Speaker 2: for a telescope, mind you, but it's it's not inexpensive,
Speaker 2: and it is like a motorized telescope that it uses
Speaker 2: like AI, like some sort of AI program in order
Speaker 2: to cut out light pollution and stuff and enhance the
Speaker 2: images that you're you're getting so that you can actually
Speaker 2: get clear images of like galaxies and other planets from
Speaker 2: your backyard. And it hooks into like a phone or
Speaker 2: a tablet or computer like wirelessly. It actually generates its
Speaker 2: own Wi Fi network, so you can still use even
Speaker 2: if you don't have Internet. But one of what you
Speaker 2: can do is you could control it from like an iPad,
Speaker 2: and you could port the feed directly to your TV,
Speaker 2: and you could like direct you could have like a
Speaker 2: group of people sitting around snorting whatever drugs you prefer
Speaker 2: to snort and like looking at different galaxies and shit
Speaker 2: in space. And that was pretty fucking cool and actually
Speaker 2: like an actual application of machine learning that I thought
Speaker 2: was positive.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you can have like your little at home star parties.
Speaker 4: I dug in a little bit more on like how
Speaker 4: AI gets used there, and it seemed like it was
Speaker 4: mostly part of the image processing before controls get set
Speaker 4: to the user and they have like other adjustments such
Speaker 4: as brightness, contrast, that kind of thing, But it sounds
Speaker 4: like it does like some image processing as part of
Speaker 4: its AI capabilities.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was that was neat. Again, not a cheap product,
Speaker 2: but like actually something that's seeing it used impressed me
Speaker 2: and I could see wanting to have that, And I
Speaker 2: could also see like a clear bit my roommate has
Speaker 2: telescopes and stuff, and there's usually the light pollution is
Speaker 2: too much of a pain in the ass and fucking
Speaker 2: even in Portland, which is not the worst city for
Speaker 2: light pollution in this country to use them very well.
Speaker 2: So something like that, and also just being able to
Speaker 2: easily drop it onto your TV and like hang out
Speaker 2: with friends, like if I had fight at access to
Speaker 2: something like that back when I was doing hallucinogens. I
Speaker 2: think it would have used it a lot.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that sounds that sounds promising.
Speaker 2: Speaking of things that I would have used a lot
Speaker 2: as a young man. Garrison, you want to tell us
Speaker 2: about the hand job machine.
Speaker 3: Sure, So there's this Company's what you said to get
Speaker 3: a second there. So there's this company in Norway called Handy.
Speaker 3: They they make they make interactive, interactive sex toys. They
Speaker 3: started by targeting the male sex toy demographic, or as
Speaker 3: they I actually liked that. They that they actually more
Speaker 3: often said the penis uh demographic, which yeah, which was nice.
Speaker 2: I appreciate that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, But anyway, it's uh, it's it's a little thing
Speaker 3: that you can you can slight and it.
Speaker 2: Goes up like it looks like a nice coffee thermoscy.
Speaker 2: Its kind of like with like a little tube that
Speaker 2: has like a clear plastic penis prism.
Speaker 3: Next to it. It has what has when it has
Speaker 3: like a has like a stroker sleeve attached in and
Speaker 3: you can control like the speed and vibration just on
Speaker 3: on the little like thermous looking thing. But the real
Speaker 3: features of the Handy is that it also has hands
Speaker 3: free control that you can you can hook this thing
Speaker 3: up via an app to many different sources. You can
Speaker 3: hook this up to whatever you're watching on your computer.
Speaker 3: You can hook this up to movies. You can hook
Speaker 3: this up to an Amazon Alexa if that's your thing,
Speaker 3: and the sounds will will impact how the how the
Speaker 3: Stroker moves. The one of the more promising applications which
Speaker 3: it really also opens opens the field of music, is
Speaker 3: that you can hook it up to like your Spotify
Speaker 3: or something and the music and like the beats of
Speaker 3: the rhythm will impact the vibrations and speed on the stroker.
Speaker 3: So we can now learn which songs are best for orgasms,
Speaker 3: which opens a whole new, whole new category for the Grammys.
Speaker 3: I think there's a lot of trial and error. I
Speaker 3: think one hundred gex is definitely gonna be up there.
Speaker 4: I think nickel Back is going to make a comeback.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is gonna be the Billie Joel renaissance. Just
Speaker 2: just people spilling ropes over down Easter Alexas Christ.
Speaker 3: They also just launched a second product called I Think
Speaker 3: just a the O, which is just a more classic
Speaker 3: small handheld vibrator. Similarly like the Handy, It's it's based
Speaker 3: on actual like sound vibrations, not a motorized vibration. So
Speaker 3: it similarly can hook can hook up to music and
Speaker 3: that changes the way it feels. So we have we
Speaker 3: have not been able to test these yet because he
Speaker 3: didn't actually have free copies.
Speaker 2: They only had to give Garrison a penis sheath.
Speaker 3: They only they only had the free sleeves. But the
Speaker 3: actual device is two hundred dollars, which is not is
Speaker 3: not super expensive. Uh, considering this style of like sex toy,
Speaker 3: that is kind of standard. Yeah, yeah, that was. That
Speaker 3: was one of the the more professional booths sexually. Yeah
Speaker 3: and see yes, and this is they did a really
Speaker 3: good job.
Speaker 2: This is a good time for me to tell my
Speaker 2: favorite masturbation machine story. Oh so there's a product. Oh boy,
Speaker 2: you know, for the penis having demographic, there's not as
Speaker 2: many sex toys traditionally, not as many at least fun
Speaker 2: ones out there. It's it's it's a little bit of
Speaker 2: a barren wasteland. But there is the flesh light. And
Speaker 2: if you haven't seen a fleshlight, maybe you've heard about them.
Speaker 2: It does look like a big, heavy plastic flashlight and
Speaker 2: you unscrew the top and there's a fake vagina in
Speaker 2: there right. Some of them are shaped like asses, some
Speaker 2: of them are sex asses.
Speaker 4: Sometimes there are a button. Sometimes there are a mouth too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh yeah, there's mouths too. And I once had
Speaker 2: a friend who got in some trouble with the law,
Speaker 2: and we had to drive to their house and grab
Speaker 2: a bunch of things in their house and throw them
Speaker 2: away because we weren't sure if the police were going
Speaker 2: to be showing up. And so after we did that
Speaker 2: that night, it was a very depressed, very sad night,
Speaker 2: and we all got extremely drunk, and three of the
Speaker 2: four of us are standing out on the front porch
Speaker 2: in front of like the house that we're at, and
Speaker 2: then the fourth person in the room, who was like
Speaker 2: roommates with the person who had just been arrested, comes
Speaker 2: out with the arrested person's fleshlight and for reasons known
Speaker 2: only to them, and God hurls it at us. Now
Speaker 2: we're in like this is a we're in Richardson, Texas,
Speaker 2: and like it's kind of this walled off by concrete bricks,
Speaker 2: little front porch area, and we all bolt to get
Speaker 2: away from the fleshlight and it hits the brick wall
Speaker 2: and the plastic case shatters and then the thing hits
Speaker 2: the ground and the fake plast silicone vagina inside of
Speaker 2: it slithers out like like a living creature, probably lubricated
Speaker 2: by some sort of substance, and it was one of
Speaker 2: the most unsettling moments of my life.
Speaker 3: I'm really glad you could share that with the Strawberry
Speaker 3: that the sound was incredible.
Speaker 2: It did. Yeah, it sounded a lot like if you've
Speaker 2: ever seen that episode Always Sonny where where Danny DeVito
Speaker 2: gets berthed from a couch like covered in sweat. It
Speaker 2: sounded a lot like that, I imagine.
Speaker 3: And we call that experience the flesh Lights Dividend.
Speaker 2: The Fleshlight Dividend. That's right now, speaking of jacking off,
Speaker 2: The next product we're going to talk about is Jackery,
Speaker 2: a company that makes some really actually pretty cool like
Speaker 2: survival equipment, specifically like solar battery, solar panel and battery resetups.
Speaker 2: And we're going to talk about that because it's definitely
Speaker 2: like of the products we saw here the most in
Speaker 2: our miliu as like the world is falling apart show.
Speaker 2: So we're gonna get to that. But first, here's some ads.
Speaker 2: We're back and we're talking about Jackery, which it's fun.
Speaker 2: One of the things I appreciate about this is that
Speaker 2: the hand job machine could have been called jack the Jackery,
Speaker 2: or the company could have been called Jackerreye. And likewise,
Speaker 2: the company that makes batteries and solar panels could have
Speaker 2: been called Handy because it's handy. They have a solar
Speaker 2: battery around when you're camping. Curious, interesting, interesting stuff. Yeah,
Speaker 2: a lot of thoughts there thoughts to be thought.
Speaker 3: Oddly, that ven diagram crossover is closer than I thought
Speaker 3: it would be.
Speaker 2: So jackerrey is a cut I would recommend googling their
Speaker 2: stuff they make. There's a lot the field of like
Speaker 2: solar batteries and panels is super crowded right now, and
Speaker 2: most of the batteries you're gonna are gonna be made
Speaker 2: like one of the same two or three factories. It's
Speaker 2: basically the same factory makes a bunch of companies batteries,
Speaker 2: and a lot of them are very unsafe. There was
Speaker 2: a company that sent me some review samples like a
Speaker 2: whole solar generator and battery last year that I was
Speaker 2: going to kind of do a piece about, you know,
Speaker 2: surviving on a solar generator, and then a month after
Speaker 2: it arrived I was still testing it. It came out
Speaker 2: that they had burned down a bunch of people's houses
Speaker 2: because the batteries were insane. No, yeah, so you want
Speaker 2: to be careful with this stuff. Jackery is one of
Speaker 2: the I have had good luck with some of their products.
Speaker 2: They seem to be of a high build quality. I
Speaker 2: have not heard horror stories about them. When you go
Speaker 2: to the the their booth of people there seem to
Speaker 2: be genuinely knowledgeable, and the way in which they set
Speaker 2: it up and demo it suggests a degree of knowledge
Speaker 2: about the product and like what people want out of it.
Speaker 2: So one of the things they do have some really
Speaker 2: large including some like some solar batteries with generators with
Speaker 2: solar panel generators that are large enough to run like
Speaker 2: a deep freeze, which is really cool being able to
Speaker 2: do that. And the setup they had specifically was a
Speaker 2: like an actual like serious, like solid like not one
Speaker 2: of those folding panel setups that goes on the roof
Speaker 2: of your car or truck alongside with like a tint
Speaker 2: like one of those via truck talk tents for overlanding,
Speaker 2: and then plugs into you know, either their one thousand
Speaker 2: or like two thousand watt solar generator or yeah so
Speaker 2: or a battery generators and just everything about the way
Speaker 2: it was set up seemed really practical. It seemed durable.
Speaker 2: It didn't feel like something was gonna fall apart. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I can see it being like a legitimate like even
Speaker 2: outside of the car, because that's more or less like
Speaker 2: a hobby it's sort of thing. But having one of
Speaker 2: these generators that you can actually run your fridge and
Speaker 2: your freezer and your lights in your house all like
Speaker 2: they had some like an outage.
Speaker 3: Microwaves, stuff, cooking implements, o other kind of stuff you
Speaker 3: might take for like like you know, like a week
Speaker 3: in mountain trip or something. The main the main roof
Speaker 3: Mountain Pad, I think I was able to pull four
Speaker 3: hundred watts, and then it had two sliding up panels
Speaker 3: that can pull three hundred watts so that they could get.
Speaker 2: Hot and in a sunny day, they said you could
Speaker 2: get like nine hundred watts an hour.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, really good for watts an hour, which is
Speaker 3: which is quite impressive. And they have all the batteries
Speaker 3: to store it. And by by far, I think Jackery
Speaker 3: is the most consistent company in this field that I
Speaker 3: could I routinely see high praise for because the feel
Speaker 3: of like portable solar like solar charging is kind of
Speaker 3: a little bit sketchy sometimes, Yes, stuff can easily break,
Speaker 3: things to be really easily over marked. Like I had
Speaker 3: a solar panel to to to charge my iPad that
Speaker 3: really only lasted like two weeks and it just completely
Speaker 3: stopped working. But I've only heard only heard good things
Speaker 3: about Jackery. I have not tested them out myself. I
Speaker 3: know Robert has some of them. Robert has some of
Speaker 3: their battery equipment, but hopefully we'll be able to get
Speaker 3: our hands on some of that this year.
Speaker 4: They also had a lot of different form factors of
Speaker 4: the same types of products, so a lot of smaller
Speaker 4: versions of things that seem to be really good if
Speaker 4: you need a kind of more modular setup. That was
Speaker 4: for sure.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they had like large ones that you could basically
Speaker 2: have plugged into your house in case you lose power
Speaker 2: for a small period of time in order to like
Speaker 2: ensure that you don't like you don't actually have a
Speaker 2: period where the power's out. And then they had a
Speaker 2: lot of like really good camping sort of like off
Speaker 2: grid battery options it's just cool. Take take a look
Speaker 2: at the if you are if you are someone who
Speaker 2: is in the kind of financial situation that you can
Speaker 2: prep in that way where you're buying like solar equipment
Speaker 2: and batteries, which definitely is never super cheap, right, I
Speaker 2: would recommend checking them out at least as you kind
Speaker 2: of do your research.
Speaker 3: There's like two more products I think I want to mention.
Speaker 3: The first is Shift. This is a company I was
Speaker 3: already familiar with, but I got to try these out.
Speaker 3: They look kind of like roller skates, but they're not
Speaker 3: roller skates. They are these sort of boots with motorized
Speaker 3: and locking wheels that attach onto your shoes. And their
Speaker 3: use case for this is like factory workers. It makes
Speaker 3: them real, It makes them be able to walk and move.
Speaker 2: They said two and a half times faster, considerably faster.
Speaker 3: I was able to walk at at a pretty at
Speaker 3: a pretty decent speed. You can you can lock the
Speaker 3: wheels if you need to, like do more like delicate
Speaker 3: mobility tasks.
Speaker 2: Go upstairs stairs ladders.
Speaker 4: That was one way to even lock and unlock the
Speaker 4: shoes themselves from being used. There's like a certain gesture
Speaker 4: you had to make by you.
Speaker 2: Lift up your heel I think it was, and it
Speaker 2: locks the shoes so the wheels don't.
Speaker 3: Come you lift up your heel in twest and and
Speaker 3: it Yeah.
Speaker 4: The boot itself had a hinge that was just under.
Speaker 3: The Yeah, so I've seen these before. They look they
Speaker 3: look kind of fun, but they're four kind of factory works.
Speaker 3: So it's it's it's it's kind of a mixed bag
Speaker 3: where the device worked quite well, and it took me
Speaker 3: like just like maybe like like one minute to get
Speaker 3: used to it. Then I could then I was really smooth.
Speaker 3: But the actual operational use case they're envisioning is like
Speaker 3: being able to get like get more, get more productivity out.
Speaker 2: Of their workers the same amount of money, the same
Speaker 2: amount of money.
Speaker 3: So like, yeah, I think Robert made the pretty good comparison.
Speaker 3: Like last year we tried out this exoskeleton, which also,
Speaker 3: you know, they talked a bit about a little bit
Speaker 3: about productivity specifically for like again factory workers, but that
Speaker 3: extra teleton was also designed to help that worker not
Speaker 3: damage their body. Like it was it was to make
Speaker 3: sure that they actually can can stay safer and not
Speaker 3: to as much damage their knees, their joints, their back
Speaker 3: versus these little roller skate type shoes. Yeah, I have
Speaker 3: no such have no such ability.
Speaker 4: I mean it would it made you go faster, kind
Speaker 4: of like one of those walkways that you have in
Speaker 4: the airport. Who doesn't want to go a little bit faster.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was the way the guy repped it too,
Speaker 2: where he was like, we have these factory workers. They're like,
Speaker 2: I have the best job in the company. Now, it's
Speaker 2: so fun skating around on these things. Nobody said that
Speaker 2: to you, bro, Like, don't lie.
Speaker 4: It's a nice thought.
Speaker 3: He also claimed that there's not been one fall or
Speaker 3: injury with these things, on which I just I do
Speaker 3: not believe because I almost fell down to testing these out.
Speaker 3: I'm sure if you're carrying like heavy boxes like it's
Speaker 3: it's very easy for your weight to get to get
Speaker 3: away from yourself when you're literally walking on wheels like
Speaker 3: and it can be controlling. It actually is more intuitive
Speaker 3: than I thought it would be. But mistakes happen, and
Speaker 3: those those sorts of big claims are a little bit
Speaker 3: a little bit sketchy.
Speaker 4: I found myself kind of waving my arms a little
Speaker 4: bit out in front of me to keep my balance.
Speaker 4: I wasn't like confet on them.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, just watching you both, I could see like, well, yeah,
Speaker 2: people are gonna get hurt. Now, I don't I am
Speaker 2: sure because it seems to be easy enough to use
Speaker 2: that I suspect it would. You could really get a
Speaker 2: lot of extra money out of your workers as an
Speaker 2: employer using these things, but at the cost of some
Speaker 2: of them are gonna like fucking eat shit and hurt themselves,
Speaker 2: which is not like in the grand scheme of corporate evil,
Speaker 2: especially at the show where everybody's like talking about the
Speaker 2: potential of AI to eliminate tens of millions of jobs.
Speaker 2: Not really, it doesn't really scan. And I think we're
Speaker 2: still putting this on the good episode because like they
Speaker 2: worked in a way that they were technically impressive. We
Speaker 2: just found it kind of upsetting that they were bragging about,
Speaker 2: like you can get more money out of your already
Speaker 2: exploited workforce with these. Yeah, but I could see someone
Speaker 2: just getting these and because they would allow you if
Speaker 2: you like, yeah, if you if you live in a
Speaker 2: walkable city.
Speaker 3: City neighborhood, it can make your commute times much faster.
Speaker 2: And still probably safer than like you less risk maybe
Speaker 2: than like a bike or something like that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I want to see somebody wear those at a
Speaker 4: roller skating rink.
Speaker 3: So yeah, that's called that's called Shift Robotics. I believe
Speaker 3: they're based out of Texas. Yeah. The last thing I
Speaker 3: want to talk about. For both mine and Robert's job,
Speaker 3: we use a lot of computer screens. I'm looking in
Speaker 3: Roberts hotel room right now where we're recording. He has
Speaker 3: a laptop hooked up to a second monitor. I have
Speaker 3: a very similar setup I have. I have a laptop
Speaker 3: and a secondary monitor on my desktop. I have like
Speaker 3: three or four monitors always running at the same time,
Speaker 3: just because of the absurdity of what our works sometimes entails,
Speaker 3: so it could be hard to get things done on
Speaker 3: a single screen. And we saw this one product that
Speaker 3: looked just like a like a very like thick keyboard
Speaker 3: with a with a touchpad, but it had these like
Speaker 3: AR glasses attached. Now, AR is a tricky field. We
Speaker 3: tried a lot of AR stuff last year. Most of
Speaker 3: it some of it was okay, some of it was
Speaker 3: a little bit finicky. But this company was called Sightful. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and what this basically was is that it was a
Speaker 3: fully functioning computer but instead of a instead of just
Speaker 3: having a regular display, it has a display built into
Speaker 3: these yeah, into these glasses.
Speaker 2: The product itself looks like just the bottom half of
Speaker 2: a laptop, like the keyboard part that holds the PCU
Speaker 2: and shit with like this weird flappy thing attached to
Speaker 2: the keyboard part that holds like a set of glasses
Speaker 2: that are plugged in directly to the laptop. That's how
Speaker 2: it like looks.
Speaker 3: And when you put the glasses on, you get like
Speaker 3: four screens that pop up. The screens aren't too big,
Speaker 3: they're not too small. You can change the size by
Speaker 3: using using the touchpad. And this require a lot less
Speaker 3: like like a like a focusing like you usually when
Speaker 3: you put on ar AR glasses you have to kind
Speaker 3: of dial in the focal length to make them look right.
Speaker 3: But this was all very clear. That text was easy
Speaker 3: to read, Changing from one screen to another was pretty
Speaker 3: was pretty easy. They had they had They had a
Speaker 3: pass through mode like a lot of good ar does.
Speaker 3: They had a mode where you can lock the screens
Speaker 3: in place. You can turn your head and they don't move.
Speaker 3: They had another version where you just with like keystrokes,
Speaker 3: you could turn your head and the screens follow you,
Speaker 3: so it was it was a pretty It was a
Speaker 3: pretty useful device.
Speaker 2: Yeah. You could press a button and it would go
Speaker 2: the screens would disappear, Like if you're walking while using it,
Speaker 2: you can press a button and it would go clear,
Speaker 2: so you wouldn't see it, but you could see where
Speaker 2: you were.
Speaker 3: Walking pass through.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like I typed an email or two, and like
Speaker 2: did some googling on it, and I very quickly adapted
Speaker 2: to the screens being virtual but still using a physical keyboard.
Speaker 3: I we didn't get like motion sick with it. It
Speaker 3: was not. Now. I think this is like either the
Speaker 3: first or second iteration of this product.
Speaker 2: First the first to market, the first.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think there is some ways to improve. It
Speaker 3: runs its own Android operating system, which you know, if
Speaker 3: you're trying to download applications. The fact that I can't
Speaker 3: run Windows or Linux or even Apple's system, you know
Speaker 3: that that could be a bit of a limitation. It
Speaker 3: only had like two hundred and two hundred and like
Speaker 3: fifty gigs of work.
Speaker 2: It wasn't really a full storage and power. It's a
Speaker 2: little bit beefier than your phone.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: The company the product, by the way, is called spacetop. Yeah,
Speaker 2: sightful as the company's spacetop is the is the actual
Speaker 2: product itself, and yeah, I.
Speaker 3: Uh, we're gonna We're gonna keep our eye on it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I wouldn't buy the first in of this thing.
Speaker 2: It's about twenty two hundred bucks, which is like upper
Speaker 2: mid level cost for a laptop.
Speaker 3: My issue is at based on how expensive it is,
Speaker 3: the laptop itself isn't powerful enough to justify that price. Certainly,
Speaker 3: the fact that you know, I can act like I
Speaker 3: have four monitors wherever I go, that is, that is
Speaker 3: very convenient. I think I just need the laptop to
Speaker 3: be a little bit more powerful, especially with how many
Speaker 3: tabs they have open at all times. Having only eight
Speaker 3: gigs of RAM just will not cut it. But I'm
Speaker 3: certainly certainly hopeful that we'll be able to see small
Speaker 3: improvements going forward.
Speaker 4: Indeed, yeah, they had mentioned it as being a web
Speaker 4: first device instead of anything else.
Speaker 3: That makes sense.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, it's like a Chromebook, and I think in
Speaker 2: terms of like it's actual yeah, efficacy.
Speaker 3: Very similar to a Chromebook, like operation.
Speaker 2: Wise, But my hope is that like the kind of
Speaker 2: technology they've developed, it will get you know, if it's successful,
Speaker 2: they'll make more parers. Now I do kind of worry
Speaker 2: about how successful it will be, because, like Garrison and
Speaker 2: I were both like, oh, this is perfect for what
Speaker 2: we do, but we have a very specific use case
Speaker 2: for our machines. And I'm not sure like how many
Speaker 2: other people are in our position. But I was really
Speaker 2: impressed with just like how well it immediately worked.
Speaker 3: Yeah, No, I I was happy with it. You can
Speaker 3: hook up an external monitor if you if you want to,
Speaker 3: So that's that's nice.
Speaker 4: And I am a glasses wearer, and so one stuff
Speaker 4: that they had for me is that they took my
Speaker 4: glasses and approximated my prescription.
Speaker 3: Oh that's cool.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and they slid on these magnetic sort of like
Speaker 4: eyeglass pieces onto the headset that you're wearing, or like
Speaker 4: the glasses that you're wearing. That way, I could actually
Speaker 4: use it without wearing my prescription glasses.
Speaker 3: Nice.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And that was really It's stuff like that that
Speaker 2: lets you know that people making something didn't just aren't
Speaker 2: just like trying to rush some shit out the door
Speaker 2: to make money, Like, Oh, you put some thought into that, motherfucker.
Speaker 2: I appreciate that. And this all leads us the easily
Speaker 2: the best product of the entire show. Honestly, the only
Speaker 2: one really worth talking about, Garrison. Will you hand me
Speaker 2: the flying car brochure? So Jesus Christ, this is the
Speaker 2: Cees of flying cars. Robotaxis is the term we heard
Speaker 2: a lot. We went to a panel that was like
Speaker 2: serious people in the robotaxi industry, which they admitted does
Speaker 2: not exist, by the way, Advance to air mobility, Advance
Speaker 2: of air mobility. It was the acronym AAM. Yeah. No,
Speaker 2: there are several companies that are using effectively like these are.
Speaker 2: Some of them are like ultra lights. There was one
Speaker 2: of the companies that came here bragged like you can
Speaker 2: buy buy a plane that doesn't require a pilot's license
Speaker 2: because it's so light, but it's still a plane, which
Speaker 2: seems like a horrible idea to me. But there are
Speaker 2: some real companies who are like testing out electronic aero taxis.
Speaker 2: Some of these are this is not vaporware. These products exist. Now,
Speaker 2: what doesn't exist is the legal framework to allow people
Speaker 2: to do this. Like the panelists were like openly like,
Speaker 2: we want this to be an industry, but first there
Speaker 2: have to be it has to be legal right now,
Speaker 2: we don't know, like they they're still trying to figure out,
Speaker 2: like what the rules are going to be. They're hoping
Speaker 2: by the end of this year the FAA puts out
Speaker 2: like a temporary rule set about how robot air robo
Speaker 2: taxes work and also how they called them verta ports,
Speaker 2: which is because these are all vertical takeoff and landing craft.
Speaker 3: At least the one that we saw on the show
Speaker 3: floor looks like a looks like a Lamborghini with a
Speaker 3: massive drone, like a.
Speaker 2: DGI type round top. And that's that's the one I
Speaker 2: want to talk about, because all of those were real products.
Speaker 2: The exit paying the air road product, in my opinion,
Speaker 2: is absolutely not. It's built as a low altitude air
Speaker 2: mobility exploring. Yeah, it looks like a huge drone like
Speaker 2: you'd buy a fucking best Buy attached to a Lamborghini.
Speaker 2: And apparently the whole drone part, all of the rotors
Speaker 2: fold back into the body when you're driving it as
Speaker 2: a car.
Speaker 3: Like a like a transformer, like a transformer.
Speaker 2: And the reason why I say this is the best
Speaker 2: product in cees is not that I think it would
Speaker 2: work or be safe. Because we talked to the people
Speaker 2: and the person who was told to us is their
Speaker 2: technical expert, and neither of them could answer if it
Speaker 2: had airbags. They did say probably. They did say probably.
Speaker 3: Which isn't what you want to hear.
Speaker 2: No, that you should have that answer.
Speaker 5: That's not a tough question, that's not a gotcha does
Speaker 5: your car have airbags?
Speaker 3: First, First, the PR guy that we were talking to
Speaker 3: was very open about knowing almost nothing about the technical
Speaker 3: aspects of this device. And then when we talked to
Speaker 3: the technical person, they too didn't know very much about it, so,
Speaker 3: which just isn't very reassuring.
Speaker 2: Like and I even tried to do it the easy
Speaker 2: way where I was like, well, I know ultra light
Speaker 2: aircraft you don't need a pilot's license for so do
Speaker 2: you need Does this qualify? And they were basically said, no,
Speaker 2: we don't know, we don't know yet. Yeah, it'll take
Speaker 2: some kind of license probably. What kind of range does
Speaker 2: it get? They said twenty kilometers by.
Speaker 3: Air about twenty minutes per.
Speaker 2: Chart, Yeah, which seems like a dangerously short amount of
Speaker 2: time to be flying you and a loved one potentially
Speaker 2: in a thing it is.
Speaker 3: It is pretty low altitude. I think they said it
Speaker 3: maxes out at around one hundred meters.
Speaker 2: One hundred No, they said one hundred meters.
Speaker 3: Sorry, So it's really not for going up super high.
Speaker 3: And I when we went to the more like expert panel,
Speaker 3: a lot of these use cases for this, they imagine
Speaker 3: is kind of replacing helicopters in cities. There's like metavac
Speaker 3: use cases. But a lot of people were talking about
Speaker 3: like testing these things out in New York where rich
Speaker 3: people use helicopters to get around the city, and this
Speaker 3: is what they want to replace them with. Because these
Speaker 3: can be purely electric, these can be much more because
Speaker 3: these can be much quieter. So that was what a
Speaker 3: lot of what they were talking about. However, again most
Speaker 3: of the panel was just them just complaining that the
Speaker 3: government hasn't done enough work to make this a real industry.
Speaker 2: Garrison, I got, you're not aware of this topic. You
Speaker 2: just handed me the flyer we got from them that
Speaker 2: I don't think either of us read through. Here's their story.
Speaker 3: Oh oh boy.
Speaker 2: Sale Beyond Limits twenty thirteen. Zoo Deli ignited Erot with
Speaker 2: a daring dream to turn the enchanting broomsticks of Harry
Speaker 2: Potter into tangible wonder. Oh no, a tribe of daring
Speaker 2: mind set forth on the thrilling journey of crafting electric
Speaker 2: marbles that could take humans to the skies through tireless exploration.
Speaker 2: The first ever prototype, the flying motorcycle. Gracefully, this is
Speaker 2: all a Harry Potter thing. Some madman from China fell
Speaker 2: so in love with Harry Potter that he made a
Speaker 2: death car. I'm back around to loving it again.
Speaker 3: Average tech industry guy, brain poisoned by Harry Potter creates
Speaker 3: death device.
Speaker 4: I feel like this guy and the plant pet sky
Speaker 4: are probably like pretty tight.
Speaker 2: They're both the same kind of why is there somebody
Speaker 2: apocaly ten based around Harry Potter?
Speaker 3: What's going on in this industry?
Speaker 2: And it is so the other brochure they had it
Speaker 2: shows like the flying car, the modular flying car, which
Speaker 2: looks like a cyber truck because if it had like
Speaker 2: you know, you can get a truck, you can put
Speaker 2: like a bed cap on the beds. It's basically like
Speaker 2: a big it's like a cyber truck with one of those,
Speaker 2: but the bed cap opens up to deploy like a
Speaker 2: quad copter thing that human beings can ride in.
Speaker 3: Kind of like sound wave in Transform, which.
Speaker 2: Is like it's a cool idea from like a kid's
Speaker 2: point of view. I think the idea here is that,
Speaker 2: you know, John McAfee used to do this thing where
Speaker 2: he would live in the desert with a cult of
Speaker 2: weirdos and they would fly around on gliders until he
Speaker 2: got his nephew and an old man killed in a
Speaker 2: glider crash. This is this is the dream yeah, of
Speaker 2: that Harry Potter fan.
Speaker 3: I mean, I this The reason why I'm actually very
Speaker 3: pro this product is because the only people that are
Speaker 3: going to use these are really rich. Yes, yeah, I
Speaker 3: think there's a high chance this could take out a
Speaker 3: lot of them.
Speaker 2: This this has the best chance of dropping multiple billionaires
Speaker 2: of anything since the Death's Up.
Speaker 5: Like we comel from one hundred meters in the air,
Speaker 5: just crashing out of the sky in Santa Monica and
Speaker 5: san billionaires just taking out whole lanes of traffic.
Speaker 3: Imaginers, I meagine you're walking through the park one day
Speaker 3: and a billionaire comes flying down from the sky and
Speaker 3: lands in like a two million dollar drone.
Speaker 2: The prototype that they say they got to fly was
Speaker 2: two tons. Wow, you could really do a lot of
Speaker 2: damage with that. Well, this is this is all quite exciting.
Speaker 2: Keep your eye on the sky, folks, Maybe wear a
Speaker 2: helmet for a while until this all shakes out. Like
Speaker 2: there's the story in the news right now that like
Speaker 2: some dude in Portland had the fucking door of that
Speaker 2: Alaska Airlines flight in his backyard. And I can't wait
Speaker 2: until that's like a third to Elon Musk, just like
Speaker 2: Lance in someone's yard.
Speaker 3: Like two million dollars.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah. And by the way, if fucking a
Speaker 2: billionaire's carcass winds up in my lawn, I got a
Speaker 2: new punch bowl with their skull, I'm gonna harvest their pros.
Speaker 2: We call the billionaires division the billionaire's dividend. Well, all right, everybody,
Speaker 2: anyone Tapia, you have anything to plug?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, you can find me on Twitter or x
Speaker 4: at cut Mora, or if you want to learn a
Speaker 4: little bit more about me and my interactive and immersive work,
Speaker 4: you can see my work at tabiamora dot com.
Speaker 2: You can also see her work in my book A
Speaker 2: Brief History of Ice, where she did all the illustrations,
Speaker 2: or in my book After the Revolution where she did
Speaker 2: all the illustrations, or in the sequel which will come
Speaker 2: out when I finished those last two fucking chapters like
Speaker 2: three years from now, huh or in Vegas, yeah tomorrow
Speaker 2: to Laura. All right, well we're done.
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