Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of pump
Speaker 1: Trend Zeit Lotgeist. We hadn't done that before, Shawnny Pawnee.
Speaker 1: Shawnny Pawnee, you've outdone yourself. Shawny Poney on the discord,
Speaker 1: he actually had Pumpkin Zeit Lotgeist, and I thought, well,
Speaker 1: why not turn Pumpkin into pump Trend, And that's how
Speaker 1: we ended up at I think one of the best
Speaker 1: short show titles we've ever had. My name is Jack O'Brien,
Speaker 1: and that over there, well that is super producer Brian Jeffrey.
Speaker 1: How's it going, everybody coming all the way from Mexico?
Speaker 1: New number one importer exporter with the United States.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, taken over for China.
Speaker 1: Also, like knew everybody wants to go there now because
Speaker 1: you have more progressive abortion laws than the United States.
Speaker 2: What's the vibe in Mexico? Everybody just celebrating.
Speaker 1: Everyone's super happy because all they think about is America
Speaker 1: and their their relationship to the US is.
Speaker 3: Well, Jack, I'm gonna tell you, it's pretty slow here
Speaker 3: in Mexico and no one gives a fuck about what's
Speaker 3: going on. From what I can tell, like it just
Speaker 3: doesn't come up, and that's.
Speaker 2: Why I'm here shocking to me. All right, should we
Speaker 2: tell the people some of the things that are trending?
Speaker 2: Should we tell them I could care less about the
Speaker 2: things that are trending. I just want to kiss you.
Speaker 2: Get out, Joe, get in here, and get out of here.
Speaker 1: Ever since then, the damn jets have been cursed, both
Speaker 1: those jets and jets flying through the sky.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, we don't wanna We don't want to
Speaker 3: blame it on nine to eleven.
Speaker 1: But I don't want to blame it all on nine
Speaker 1: to eleven. Brian, I've said this before. Yeah, certainly didn't help. Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's talk about NFTs. We haven't checked in with NFTs
Speaker 1: for a while. You know, we were famously.
Speaker 2: Skeptical on the whole FT.
Speaker 1: Train, and we just haven't wanted to check in with
Speaker 1: them for a while because they've been rocketing to the moon.
Speaker 1: Is that a why we Oh no, I'm sorry. So,
Speaker 1: so what has happened is they have you know that
Speaker 1: they had a big fall. But then people were like,
Speaker 1: just wait, there's a future for NFTs. There's a future
Speaker 1: for blockchain. I believe there's a future for the blockchain. Uh,
Speaker 1: for sure in the future when the software of our
Speaker 1: government is not Ponzi scheme is not the software for
Speaker 1: our entire civilization is not just how how I scam
Speaker 1: the best.
Speaker 2: And so uh since since kind.
Speaker 1: Of people realize that a lot of this shit was
Speaker 1: a scam people, something called deep Gamble did a deep
Speaker 1: dive into like what some of the most expensive NFTs,
Speaker 1: some of the NFTs that are still supposedly holding onto
Speaker 1: value are actually valued at, are actually trading at. And
Speaker 1: from their report they said mac contract on Athereum has
Speaker 1: a floor price of thirteen million, two hundred and thirty
Speaker 1: four thousand dollars two hundred and four and it's all
Speaker 1: time sales are eighteen dollars.
Speaker 2: So partially this is like.
Speaker 1: You know, the whole I don't know what the floor
Speaker 1: price or anything. It seems though like what they're saying
Speaker 1: is that they're saying they claim that they're you know,
Speaker 1: selling for one thing, but there is a what we
Speaker 1: call in the world to finance, what we call a discrepancy, Yeah,
Speaker 1: a discrap between listed prices and actual sales data, which
Speaker 1: might suggest what this expert group that did a deep
Speaker 1: dive is suggesting that NFT collections that they analyzed are
Speaker 1: worth zero dollars, like straight up officially worthless.
Speaker 2: It's over for all you hosts.
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh, it's gonna be real upset anyway, I'm gonna
Speaker 3: it's a it's an NFT bro that I sort of know.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, I get to I get to observe.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we just beep his name out and because I
Speaker 1: think he started Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, we looked into
Speaker 1: that together.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and uh yeah, yeah, he's gonna be a real
Speaker 3: cranky He's.
Speaker 2: Gonna be a real cranky Joe. Uh No.
Speaker 1: But I do think I want to keep it and
Speaker 1: just beep his name because yeah, and the name of
Speaker 1: his product, because I think it stands in for how
Speaker 1: a lot of people feel right now, you know, like
Speaker 1: we have all come into contact with people who treated
Speaker 1: us like fucking idiots for being like.
Speaker 2: I don't know, man, it just like doesn't really make
Speaker 2: sense to me.
Speaker 3: Then the amount of people that tried to onboard me
Speaker 3: into all of that ship that was there was a
Speaker 3: lot of different scams going on, but it had had
Speaker 3: all had the same goal, and they just they really
Speaker 3: drew in a lot of people who you know, believed
Speaker 3: in it and you know, yeah, that's required, you know,
Speaker 3: to extracts as much money as possible. But yeah, I
Speaker 3: mean that's this sucks for anybody who is the n.
Speaker 1: F T S and they're still believers out there, man,
Speaker 1: Like I still see.
Speaker 2: It's funny like sometimes like somebody.
Speaker 3: Else is cultish. The way the way they cultivate.
Speaker 2: That cultivated.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, the way they did this, they they infused
Speaker 3: just enough of cult vibe.
Speaker 2: The whole damn cultivation. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I just caught somebody on what one of the socials.
Speaker 2: Okay, it was Twitter.
Speaker 1: It's only when I go on being like, I was like,
Speaker 1: this person's like has some strange opinions. Let me dig
Speaker 1: in see like if they're a bot or you know,
Speaker 1: and like the thing that they had most recently tweeted
Speaker 1: in the timeline was like GM crypto people or you know,
Speaker 1: like the good morning good night thing that the crypt
Speaker 1: believers do where they have to like they think it's
Speaker 1: good luck or like you have to show your belief
Speaker 1: by saying good morning or good night to the rest
Speaker 1: of the crypto community.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of weird little rituals and phrases and
Speaker 3: so many initialisms and acronyms like.
Speaker 2: That was the thing that kept me want to get
Speaker 2: the acronym.
Speaker 3: That's what kept me from investing anything into all this
Speaker 3: all crypto in general was Yeah, all the fucking initialisms
Speaker 3: and acronyms I had to learn. Yeah, I have no patience.
Speaker 1: Difference between initialism and acronym. I've never heard initialism before
Speaker 1: this moment.
Speaker 3: Initialism is just like some random fucking letters strung together
Speaker 3: and you just say.
Speaker 2: The letters okay, gotta gotta go.
Speaker 3: And an acronym is like actually laser or something like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, actually stands for something like me, you know, stand
Speaker 1: on my own two all right, So anyways, you know,
Speaker 1: not much changing in the world of vn FTS, but
Speaker 1: it does seem like it is officially like bottomed out
Speaker 1: this report from Deep Gamble, Like if you're surprised at
Speaker 1: like or if you're wondering like what NFT experts are
Speaker 1: doing telling on the whole industry, they do like they
Speaker 1: are like there's still a future, like it's it's.
Speaker 2: Gonna be useful down the line.
Speaker 1: So you know, people, there's still belief out there, but
Speaker 1: the shit is worth zero dollars.
Speaker 3: The only way, the only feasible thing I see a
Speaker 3: practical use for NFTs is fucking Ticketmaster selling it stopped
Speaker 3: giving you like whatever paper tickets, just an NFT or
Speaker 3: some shit like I don't know.
Speaker 2: It's printed on cracker.
Speaker 3: That's like when you explain what an n f T is,
Speaker 3: it's like, okay, Like so it sounds like it's this.
Speaker 3: It sounds like a ticket to me. That that's all
Speaker 3: it is. It's this identifier.
Speaker 1: And I think chain could be incredibly useful to bring
Speaker 1: Like so much of the world is haunted by the
Speaker 1: ability of people to like hide money, spend money but
Speaker 1: not admit they're spending money, you know, billionaires, to harbor
Speaker 1: money off shore, uh, to invest in horrifying shit that
Speaker 1: is basically trying to upend civilization. Like what if if
Speaker 1: we could get all the money on blockchain, that would
Speaker 1: be cool because then we would be able to, you know,
Speaker 1: see where all the money is. That's that's something from
Speaker 1: the Ministry for the Future that I think like that
Speaker 1: that is the end stage. Like this would be really
Speaker 1: a cool way to make it so people can't cheat
Speaker 1: constantly at capitalism. Like that might be a thing that
Speaker 1: makes some version of capitalism work in the future. But
Speaker 1: right now we're just too far gone for this to
Speaker 1: be anything other than a money laundering operation.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and what a money laundering operation.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they really did it to themselves and all of us. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I should admit not only am I an NFT skeptic,
Speaker 1: I'm also upside down on these things. You guys, mostly
Speaker 1: a liquid because I'm all in NFTs, just wishing the
Speaker 1: whole community good morning and good night. All right, let's
Speaker 1: take a quick break and we'll come back and hit
Speaker 1: a bunch of quick stories. We'll be right back, and
Speaker 1: we're back, and we're gonna talk about uh Murdoch stepping
Speaker 1: down on tomorrow's episode Tomorrow's full up, as well a
Speaker 1: couple others. The Craft singles recall, Yo, you know the
Speaker 1: important stuff. Oh, it sounds like you have some takes
Speaker 1: quote unquote.
Speaker 3: It's just the article I read it had it's an
Speaker 3: extra for being quote unpleasant, and I was just like,
Speaker 3: it just gave me a shiver because I'm like, that's
Speaker 3: that's so despicably vague. Yeah, I just don't like this anyway.
Speaker 1: No, I do love Craft singles that I love American
Speaker 1: is whatever, even though it's not cheese.
Speaker 2: I do. I do appreciate it.
Speaker 1: I do just want to note that The New York
Speaker 1: Times has done what I can only describe as a
Speaker 1: reverse death notice, where they were like, hey, Jimmy Carter
Speaker 1: is still fucking alive.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's making us look like assholes.
Speaker 2: It looked like a fool.
Speaker 1: Well, I don't know who he's making look like an
Speaker 1: asshole other than death itself. Yeah, this is one of
Speaker 1: those stories that I feel like opens with a Southern
Speaker 1: man saying, you know, death's a funny thing, Like that's
Speaker 1: that's that's what I heard in my mind when I
Speaker 1: read this story. They put us all on notice that
Speaker 1: he was going into hospice eight months ago, and he's
Speaker 1: still out here. He's closing in on ninety nine, like
Speaker 1: luxuriating in hospice like it's a vacation resort.
Speaker 3: What did they put him in hospice for exactly?
Speaker 1: I'm not sure, man, I don't know all the details. Hey,
Speaker 1: look man, it's not I'm not I'm not a news reporter.
Speaker 1: I got a lot of tables. It's not like I
Speaker 1: have a daily news podcast. Come on, I got a
Speaker 1: lot of details to keep track of. I think I
Speaker 1: think maybe some manner of cancer, maybe just like being
Speaker 1: acutely old as fuck.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure.
Speaker 3: Well, look he built a lot of fucking houses, so yeah,
Speaker 3: he's probably got that wild old man's strength keeping him alive.
Speaker 1: Yeah, got that wild uh hammer thumb, that's what put
Speaker 1: him in there. But then he's like he's built up
Speaker 1: so much strength. But it does like this sort of article,
Speaker 1: you know, does make me think that the author of
Speaker 1: this piece is trying to kill him, because it's just
Speaker 1: like this is like when somebody goes to the line
Speaker 1: and the commentator, the NBA commentator is like, he hasn't
Speaker 1: missed a free throw in you know, twenty games, and
Speaker 1: you know, it's like you're you're that.
Speaker 2: I don't believe in superstition.
Speaker 1: I do believe Peter Baker had author of this piece,
Speaker 1: has just doomed Jimmy Carter to die with.
Speaker 2: Them the next week. Maybe we'll see. But yeah, there's
Speaker 2: some good.
Speaker 1: They keep blaming it or like attributing it to how
Speaker 1: much he loves peanut butter ice cream, which peanut butter
Speaker 1: ice cream is good as fuck, but.
Speaker 2: I doubt that's what keeping him alive.
Speaker 1: But they have this quote from his grandson, who's like
Speaker 1: we thought at the beginning of this process, that it
Speaker 1: was going to be in five or so days. I
Speaker 1: was down there with him in the hospital and then
Speaker 1: said goodbye. And then we thought it was going to
Speaker 1: be in that week, that it was coming to the end,
Speaker 1: and it's just now been seven months, which on the
Speaker 1: one hand, like the owner, people.
Speaker 3: Are like looking at their watches like like like you're
Speaker 3: like you're waiting for the bus and it's late.
Speaker 1: You're like, yeah, bye to somebody, and then you kept
Speaker 1: walking the same direction as them. You like, ah, ship
Speaker 1: all right, Yeah, like this.
Speaker 3: This is just a weird article to write.
Speaker 2: It is.
Speaker 1: It doesn't need to be written. I got like another
Speaker 1: thing they say is like he's gotten so many, so
Speaker 1: many admiring things written about him, and you know, letters
Speaker 1: and and that have been eulogizing him, and he.
Speaker 2: Gets to read it. Yeah, like that's would be great if.
Speaker 1: We all knew we were gonna die like seven months
Speaker 1: in advance.
Speaker 3: And then and you get to find out that people
Speaker 3: thought you were pretty chill.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and unless you're not, unless people are like.
Speaker 3: Good, arguably there, yeah, I still somehow a war criminal,
Speaker 3: I assume, but yes, yes, for sure, the chillist president.
Speaker 1: The chillest of war criminal. Let's see other things. The
Speaker 1: Republicans are going to shut down the government again.
Speaker 3: Uh, I wish I had I forgot my slide whistle.
Speaker 1: I guess this happens like every few months now, you know,
Speaker 1: when there's a split branches of the government. And I
Speaker 1: don't know, there is like one really good quote from this,
Speaker 1: so I guess it's it's between like to the super
Speaker 1: conservative fascist wing of the Republicans and the ones who
Speaker 1: are like even more fascist than them are arguing with
Speaker 1: one another, and one of them had this quote, we
Speaker 1: always get the blame name one time that we've shut
Speaker 1: the government down, and we haven't got the blame.
Speaker 3: But it's your fault.
Speaker 2: You just said we've shut the government down.
Speaker 1: He hit it. It's it's a great quote. Like you,
Speaker 1: the name one time is almost like that. You you
Speaker 1: almost never hear that outside of the realms of like
Speaker 1: written comedy. Okay, name one time, you know, like that's
Speaker 1: such a weird, weird, like self owned setup picture.
Speaker 3: You're talking to your wife, all right, Name one time,
Speaker 3: I cheated on you and I haven't got the blame.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, what huh? All right, that's what you're all
Speaker 2: going with.
Speaker 1: So anyways, yeah, but that that's coming, I don't you
Speaker 1: know it. We'll we'll wait until we have a political
Speaker 1: expert back on the show, uh to tell us, like
Speaker 1: when when has this ever worked? The shutting down the government?
Speaker 1: Because like they're they're like threatening to shut down the
Speaker 1: government but already complaining that they're going to get blamed
Speaker 1: for it. And it's like, yeah, man, you're you're threatening
Speaker 1: to do the thing. You can't both threaten to do
Speaker 1: the thing and then complain that people are gonna be
Speaker 1: mad at you when you do the thing.
Speaker 3: You're you're holding the government hostage and that's objectively annoying
Speaker 3: to people.
Speaker 2: Brett stop.
Speaker 1: Let's see Dolly three is out and the image examples
Speaker 1: that I've seen it's not like out and I'm generating
Speaker 1: images with it. It's been released to a handful of people,
Speaker 1: and the images that they've released as part of the
Speaker 1: you know announcement are very like realistic looking. There's also
Speaker 1: a pool quote from the story that gets that like
Speaker 1: the thing that makes it hard to get like appropriately
Speaker 1: freaked out about AI where they're like this one shows
Speaker 1: a particular knack for images containing letters, numbers, and human hands,
Speaker 1: which I get like, having seen the previous Dolli's work,
Speaker 1: I guess I get that that's an improvement. But it's
Speaker 1: just funny like that those are It just reminds me
Speaker 1: of like when I like gave up on drawing, you know,
Speaker 1: in third grade because like hands were too hard to draw.
Speaker 2: I was like, I don't know, all my hands just
Speaker 2: looks like a child drawing of a flower. You know.
Speaker 3: That's when I knew right around like second where you
Speaker 3: would see other where other kids were at with drawing. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and you look down at your paper, you're like, oh.
Speaker 1: The hands man, But I don't I don't know. This
Speaker 1: does seem to be the thing that Dolly up to
Speaker 1: this point has had a problem with. You were you
Speaker 1: were saying before we start recording, there is something about
Speaker 1: like the Dolly image generation that and the problems, like
Speaker 1: the weakness weak points that is so reminiscent of dreams.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like it's all those things that there are
Speaker 3: some of those things that you hear about like oh
Speaker 3: you can't like read in dreams or hands look weird?
Speaker 3: Is something stuff like that. It's it's very dream like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, letters and numbers and also like yeah, it's
Speaker 1: some of the images, because like when I picture Dolly,
Speaker 1: like just close your eyes right now. And when I say, like,
Speaker 1: Dolly image, what do you picture?
Speaker 3: I it's it's almost I feel like, in twenty something
Speaker 3: years it's gonna be like you remember vapor wave. I
Speaker 3: feel like there's gonna be like a Dolly wave. Thing
Speaker 3: of the way. There's a specific sort of way that
Speaker 3: these images look. There's a certain like sheen to them
Speaker 3: where it's immediately obvious to me.
Speaker 2: Now when something's been made by.
Speaker 3: Especially these types of images that they're showing, like the
Speaker 3: types of images they want people to prompt, not like
Speaker 3: you know, like stuff you're trying to trick people with. Yeah,
Speaker 3: Like these just have a very particular rendered kind of
Speaker 3: look to them.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: The thing that I'm picturing when I picture a Dolly painting,
Speaker 1: and maybe this is just because like I like, you know,
Speaker 1: we are not I don't know cut that the thing
Speaker 1: I'm picturing is like that face of the like Botch
Speaker 1: restoration of the Jesus Fresco, like you know where it's
Speaker 1: like it took a realistic painting of Jesus' face white
Speaker 1: Jesus has made up face and like turned it into
Speaker 1: a weird like third grader's drawing like that, that's what
Speaker 1: Dolly looks like in my mind like that.
Speaker 2: There there are good works where.
Speaker 1: It's like, oh damn, like this is really cool, but
Speaker 1: then like always around the edges are just like these
Speaker 1: weird things where it's like, yeah, that's cool, except like
Speaker 1: George Bush has a pillow for a head or something,
Speaker 1: you know, like it looks like someone drew a stick
Speaker 1: figure in.
Speaker 2: That one, like it it's just yeah, it's yeah.
Speaker 3: I definitely prefer the more abstract images that you can
Speaker 3: generate because that's what has like yeah, it's it's creepy.
Speaker 3: Uh yeah, And I can't tell you why it's creepy,
Speaker 3: but it's like yeah, and I'm it's it's also made
Speaker 3: me like look at people's hands and pictures more, which
Speaker 3: is annoying to me. Yeah, And I don't know why
Speaker 3: where I just like I have to check now where
Speaker 3: I'm like make sure you're not or is this a
Speaker 3: real photo? And I I have to spin my little
Speaker 3: top like fucking inception.
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 3: If I'm awake, that's good.
Speaker 1: Any lucid dreamers out there, if you if you're able
Speaker 1: to let us know, do like does your brain have
Speaker 1: trouble with hands in like when you're dreaming, like, can
Speaker 1: can you look down at people's hands and be like,
Speaker 1: oh my god.
Speaker 3: I feel like I feel like I've heard that is
Speaker 3: a thing, but I'm that might be a false memory.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but like a lot of the Dolly like misfires
Speaker 1: look like when you wake up from a dream when
Speaker 1: you have a fever of like one hundred and three.
Speaker 3: You know, I had some wild dreams. But you know
Speaker 3: what when I did actually literally have a fever dream,
Speaker 3: it involved numbers explicitly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, your brand's like connecting different parts that it's like
Speaker 1: not supposed.
Speaker 2: To and it was just dream.
Speaker 3: I was having trouble with math at the time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, It's like Dolly three is like death fever level.
Speaker 1: Uh dream dream logic. Well, I think that's I think
Speaker 1: that's been plenty. Brian, thank you for stepping in for Miles.
Speaker 1: Well he's away for the day.
Speaker 3: My pleasure.
Speaker 1: It is wonderful having you. I would ask where people
Speaker 1: can find you? But do you prefer to remain unfound?
Speaker 3: I am elusive and reclusive and that rhymes Jack emitted.
Speaker 1: Wow, I am gonna have to run that by a
Speaker 1: couple people, but I will get to you on whether
Speaker 1: that rhymes. That's gonna do it for us on this
Speaker 1: Thursday afternoon. We are back tomorrow with a whole ass
Speaker 1: episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other,
Speaker 1: be kind to yourself, Get the vaccine, don't listen to Florida,
Speaker 1: get the fucking vaccine, don't do nothing about white supremacy,
Speaker 1: and we will talk to you all tomorrow. Fight bite
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