Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of The
Speaker 1: Weekly Zeitgeist. These are some of our favorite segments from
Speaker 1: this week, all edited together into one NonStop infotainment laugh stravaganza.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, So, without further ado, here is the Weekly Zeitgeist.
Speaker 1: Well Miles, we are strilled to be joined by the
Speaker 1: host of How to Be a Better Human, great podcast,
Speaker 1: very funny, National Academy of Sciences, live traveling game show,
Speaker 1: Wrong answers only, Welcome back to the show. The hilarious,
Speaker 1: the talented.
Speaker 2: Is Christoph Chris. I also look like pp Bay there is.
Speaker 2: He looks like he's drenched.
Speaker 3: Yellow diamond and the horse foam that's right lathered up
Speaker 3: the ladder ladder in my man's foaming it in today.
Speaker 1: Oh no, Chris, how are you doing?
Speaker 2: Where are you coming to us? I can't believe it's
Speaker 2: been a year. It's been a year.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Every time we're like, bro, we gotta have Chris back,
Speaker 4: and I in my mind you've been back.
Speaker 2: Oh, thank you so much.
Speaker 3: You know, it's been Uh there's been a lot going
Speaker 3: on in the year, and uh, I'm glad to be back.
Speaker 2: It was a joy last time.
Speaker 3: I'm so I'm a fan of the show, and I'm
Speaker 3: glad to be back fan of you two.
Speaker 2: So that's great.
Speaker 4: Oh man man mutual Admir's all right, what's your favorite
Speaker 4: you two song?
Speaker 2: Oh? Uh with that team and us? Oh wait, which
Speaker 2: one did you mean?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: That is I met YouTube the band. I don't even
Speaker 2: like the two of you. Thank you? Not a fan?
Speaker 2: Not a fan.
Speaker 5: Oh, I'm so sorry for the confusion. I love the
Speaker 5: Irish band you too. I thought you're gonna be like,
Speaker 5: all right, which what's your favorite episode? All daily episodes?
Speaker 5: He's real good.
Speaker 2: You've only got eighteen hundred joose from Yeah, I know.
Speaker 1: I couldn't name a single one, and I've been on
Speaker 1: every almost I don't.
Speaker 2: Even know how we haven't repeated a title at this point.
Speaker 1: I mean we probably have, but nobody would notice.
Speaker 4: I think we have pretty No, we've got some keen
Speaker 4: eyed listen.
Speaker 2: Very much on it. I think they will have to
Speaker 2: be keen eyed for the titles, that's right, That's why.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, because they're the same people who tell us like, hey, guys,
Speaker 4: you guys are coming up like on a milestone.
Speaker 2: Really really are what? Our data doesn't indicate this on? Like,
Speaker 2: I what you've talked about.
Speaker 1: We batch recorded all of these back in twenty seventeen.
Speaker 3: Love about you you have you have a group of
Speaker 3: listeners who are so uh great, love the show and
Speaker 3: they are both very detail oriented and focused and also
Speaker 3: the kind of people who are like, hey, I'd like
Speaker 3: to make a peep joke. I love that combination of people.
Speaker 2: We're threatening the needle here, we've threaded the needle. Beautiful.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what is something from your search history?
Speaker 6: Oh gosh, yeah, guys, I was looking through this stuff.
Speaker 6: One thing another p joke that I fell into before
Speaker 6: without even knowing we were going to talk about this
Speaker 6: is you guys know Bigfoot right personally, but like aware
Speaker 6: of the idea. There's there's a version of Bigfoot as
Speaker 6: encryptied out in the interior of China, and its name
Speaker 6: is I guess in English would say urine y e
Speaker 6: r e n uh. And so we did our best
Speaker 6: on stuff they don't want you to know, to do
Speaker 6: an entire episode about the scientific investigation into the existence
Speaker 6: reported of this creature without doing p jokes, and I
Speaker 6: want to be honest, we fucking failed. Yeah, we couldn't.
Speaker 6: It's right there. You know, we're no push of t
Speaker 6: but we are.
Speaker 2: Fans of puns. I guess it's just you're downstream. You're downstream.
Speaker 7: Yeah, well are thank you downstream downstairs, no joke left behind.
Speaker 2: We like.
Speaker 6: What's interesting about this for any fans of cryptids is that,
Speaker 6: unlike the Bigfoot stuff here in the US or Canada,
Speaker 6: in China, partially due to the aftermath of the revolution,
Speaker 6: the Communist Revolution, there was this move to replace superstition
Speaker 6: with science, right to look at spirituality as an opiate
Speaker 6: for the masses, et cetera. And so they poured a
Speaker 6: lot of money into going into these mountainous, remote regions
Speaker 6: of China and trying to find this thing.
Speaker 1: Oh, to find explain it. Basically, they're taking it seriously.
Speaker 1: They're like, it's out there and we're gonna find it.
Speaker 6: Like imagine, okay, imagine if all of us listening tonight.
Speaker 6: We we went to the White House and we said, hey, guys, uh,
Speaker 6: we need millions of dollars to look for Bigfoot and
Speaker 6: it needs to be a federal program.
Speaker 7: And the White House said, yeah, fuck it, I guess
Speaker 7: that's what happens. I can see, like you have to
Speaker 7: ask RFK. He's like the parent that's asleep at the
Speaker 7: wheel that you can make Hey, can we get like
Speaker 7: some billion dollars like Bigfoot?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I feel you have Don Junior pitch RFK on this.
Speaker 2: It'd be happening tomorrow. You know you don't think he
Speaker 2: has just like.
Speaker 4: Body, get over here, dude, dude, what are we going
Speaker 4: to do about the fucking yetti threat? Man, They've already
Speaker 4: got like a line of coolers and ship man and
Speaker 4: cups and stuff.
Speaker 2: What's next?
Speaker 6: Bro?
Speaker 2: What's going on? That's good?
Speaker 1: So I just wanted to confirm because Ben does sometimes
Speaker 1: write down at Searchestree it's underrated, overrated before And I
Speaker 1: just I think it's probably a smart move that you
Speaker 1: changed it from how to test if the bathwater content
Speaker 1: of a soap that you ordered through the mail?
Speaker 6: Yeah that's us man. You said you're going to be
Speaker 6: cool h Yeah.
Speaker 2: No, I just I think it was probably the right out.
Speaker 2: What is something you think is underrated?
Speaker 8: Okay?
Speaker 9: Taking classes as an adult without necessarily pursuing a degree.
Speaker 9: M I think that like learning is really dope. And
Speaker 9: I am a nerd at heart, and I love a
Speaker 9: structured environment where I have a teacher and like classmates,
Speaker 9: and so I've been taking writing classes on Zoom and
Speaker 9: because I decided to design kind of my own mini
Speaker 9: MFA program. So I just found like on different websites
Speaker 9: like writing workshops and through like writers, I follow when
Speaker 9: they teach, and I kind of have been taking classes
Speaker 9: and it feels really great. And I keep announcing that
Speaker 9: I'm going to class to no one all the time.
Speaker 2: I'll worry about going to class.
Speaker 8: I gotta go.
Speaker 9: I'm going to class, and I like will like my
Speaker 9: I'm a backpack, but I'm just walking to my office
Speaker 9: to be on zoom.
Speaker 8: I really like it.
Speaker 9: And I like having classmates, and I like having group
Speaker 9: like chats with your new classmates, and I like learning
Speaker 9: about people's lives, and I like learning new skills. And
Speaker 9: I think that if you have been on the fence
Speaker 9: about taking a class, you should absolutely do it. Community,
Speaker 9: community college, zoom whatever.
Speaker 8: I mean, what a joy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because I remember, in like the height of lockdowns,
Speaker 4: a lot of places we're just offering full courses like
Speaker 4: in video form that you could just like just mess
Speaker 4: around with and just see if if you want to
Speaker 4: take a lecture at have it or something.
Speaker 9: Yeah, just having to two and a half hours a
Speaker 9: week where I like em in class, and I have
Speaker 9: to pay attention to other people's like work and be
Speaker 9: really detailed and just learned stuff.
Speaker 8: It does something really good for you.
Speaker 2: I never thought them.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I never thought about recording for twenty day Fiance
Speaker 4: like that, but yeah, them just being open minded, seeing
Speaker 4: people through other people's eyes, really taking detailed notes then
Speaker 4: sharing them with your class. Yes, exactly, I in a way,
Speaker 4: I'm also taking m FA courses.
Speaker 8: We're all doing it.
Speaker 1: That's such a good idea. How did you like What
Speaker 1: was the first step you took to like start taking
Speaker 1: classes because I feel like I would like to do
Speaker 1: this and just have not.
Speaker 9: So Chloe Caldwell, who's one of my favorite writers and
Speaker 9: now a good friend. I follow her on Instagram and
Speaker 9: she was posting, Hey, I'm starting this class. This is
Speaker 9: the name of it, this is you know how many days,
Speaker 9: this is the cost. And then I emailed her and
Speaker 9: I was like, Okay, I want to take that class.
Speaker 9: And then that kind of got me rolling. And I've
Speaker 9: done like workshops too, which are just like a week
Speaker 9: or a weekend or something if I can't commit to like,
Speaker 9: you know, a six week class. So yeah, that's how
Speaker 9: I started, and then once you kind of are, you know,
Speaker 9: in the world of it, it's so much easier to
Speaker 9: find other stuff. And I highly reck commend writing workshops
Speaker 9: dot com. I do not work for them. I just
Speaker 9: like writing workshops nice. So anyway, do.
Speaker 2: It, anyway, do it, do it? I will. Really, what's
Speaker 2: something you think is overrated?
Speaker 10: I think that doing everything together, specifically like as a couple,
Speaker 10: or like if you're traveling with people, or like just
Speaker 10: any kind of unit of people who are going to
Speaker 10: do an activity maybe and like the pressure to do
Speaker 10: it all together and not be able to like split
Speaker 10: off if there's a disagreement about what should be done.
Speaker 10: It's just like this, like yeah, the pressure of like, no,
Speaker 10: we have to do this together. Or again, if someone's
Speaker 10: like in a romantic coupleship, they're like, no, I won't
Speaker 10: do this without my person. I have to do it.
Speaker 10: We have to do everything together. I think that's overrated.
Speaker 10: People should feel free to branch off, breakoff.
Speaker 2: Who's catching it? Tell me who's catching a sublimine stray?
Speaker 2: Right now? That's what I want to know. I should
Speaker 2: just be able to have fun on my own. Maybe
Speaker 2: you don't have to bring your partner this time. I
Speaker 2: don't know. I get that it's new and exciting, but
Speaker 2: please I get.
Speaker 4: The thing too, like when you go to like a
Speaker 4: theme park too, when people go like literally like, motherfucker,
Speaker 4: I hate that ride and I'm gonna be an asshole
Speaker 4: if you force me to go on it.
Speaker 2: Why don't you do that? And I will go have
Speaker 2: a truro and I'll be right here when you're done.
Speaker 10: This is absolutely fine, but people act like, no, we
Speaker 10: have to do this together, or like we don't.
Speaker 2: Going.
Speaker 1: It's like the one dad, this is really should be
Speaker 1: the one good thing. I feel this and like i
Speaker 1: feel like I've had experience where I'm like, guys, we have.
Speaker 2: Cell phones, like we have each other again.
Speaker 1: I mean just yeah, we're still living like we're in
Speaker 1: the pre cell phone era, like the cell phones have
Speaker 1: ruined fucking everything, just to at least enjoy this extra
Speaker 1: luxury of just being like, yeah, we can fucking split off.
Speaker 1: I can put my hood up and go ghost protocol
Speaker 1: like I like to do sometimes on family vacations.
Speaker 2: Damn go full Luigi on them.
Speaker 1: No, it's okay, Daddy's going ghost protocol. You can tell
Speaker 1: because his hoodie just went off.
Speaker 2: You mean he's having a panic attack in line for
Speaker 2: the ride, so he just put his shot on the
Speaker 2: stairs at his phone. I'm going ghost protocol, y'all.
Speaker 4: It's just so funny to say this, really spicing up
Speaker 4: the fact that you're just feeling kind of off about shit. Sorry,
Speaker 4: I gotta go ghost protocol.
Speaker 2: I'm off.
Speaker 8: That's great.
Speaker 10: No, I go ghost protocol all the time. If I'm
Speaker 10: like traveling with someone and they want to do they
Speaker 10: want to go to like some fucking museum that I
Speaker 10: don't give a shit about, I'm like, great, you go
Speaker 10: do that. I'll go do this other thing. We can
Speaker 10: meet up later for dinner or whatever.
Speaker 4: Like great question, totally random. Who is the last person
Speaker 4: you went on a trip with?
Speaker 2: Unreally this and they're.
Speaker 8: Listening right now and they're frying.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 8: I well, like when I.
Speaker 10: Went to Ireland a few years ago with my sister
Speaker 10: and she was like kind of under the impression that
Speaker 10: we would do every single thing together. She kept wanting
Speaker 10: to do things there it is I didn't want to, Like,
Speaker 10: that's not how I wanted to spend my time. So
Speaker 10: I was like, if you want to buy all means
Speaker 10: And I think she learned some independence, right and then
Speaker 10: and I learned how to, you know, clearly but considerately
Speaker 10: establish some boundaries, like for yourself experience for all of us.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Oh, because you said you and your and your sister's
Speaker 4: personalities are pretty different, right, quite different?
Speaker 11: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, do you remember you saying that? So this
Speaker 4: this tracks? Okay, love you though, love you though?
Speaker 10: Yeah, I love you, Sarah. She's not listening. She doesn't
Speaker 10: care about anything I do.
Speaker 4: Okay, maybe we could have done a podcast together, but
Speaker 4: you want to do that.
Speaker 1: All right, And it is good that we have this new,
Speaker 1: this snow piece of evidence because I think a lot
Speaker 1: of Jamie was on last week talking about going to
Speaker 1: the Snoopy Museum, and I think that I think people
Speaker 1: would have been like Caitlyn did want to go to
Speaker 1: the Snoopy Museum.
Speaker 10: But oh yeah no, no, no, I would have gone, but
Speaker 10: I wasn't invited.
Speaker 2: No, I'm kidding. No, everything is fine, great, love you, Jami.
Speaker 1: I just wish we spent more time to get all right,
Speaker 1: let's take a quick break and we'll be right back.
Speaker 4: And we're back, you know, just thinking when I when
Speaker 4: I choked out that guy for walking out of anger management.
Speaker 4: That was a literal oh you think I said, Oh,
Speaker 4: you're a tough guy.
Speaker 2: Huh. In my mind it was, oh, so you're better
Speaker 2: than me. You think you're better than me. That was
Speaker 2: the subtext there, and I just smile.
Speaker 1: The thing that never does make That's about that anecdote
Speaker 1: is you hadn't seen anger management.
Speaker 2: I understand that narrative as.
Speaker 1: Like an expression of what you are, you know, selfish,
Speaker 1: need to like have your taste validated, But you hadn't
Speaker 1: seen it yet.
Speaker 2: I didn't.
Speaker 4: I didn't like the idea of someone disrespect to me,
Speaker 4: like I'm off this and were.
Speaker 1: You a Sandman fan? Like is that where you just
Speaker 1: like he's better than I.
Speaker 2: Was such a teenage mess, dude. It sucking.
Speaker 4: My brain was so fucked up from like puberty, not
Speaker 4: knowing myself.
Speaker 2: Like ambient racism, my parents splitting up.
Speaker 9: I'm sorry, ambient racism. Yeah, the headlining coach.
Speaker 2: I know it's your favorite band.
Speaker 8: I know, so what it's on my leg.
Speaker 1: Ambient racism tattooed around my gungo.
Speaker 9: It's really hard to fit it around my belly button,
Speaker 9: Like it was really fucking hard, Like it's a lot
Speaker 9: of so tiny it's a lot of fucking letters. People
Speaker 9: can't tell what it it hurts. It just looks like
Speaker 9: I did a black arc. It's like I messed up
Speaker 9: a rainbow. That's what it looks like. But I it
Speaker 9: says ambient racism if you look closely.
Speaker 1: But the bottom stretch the letters way out because I
Speaker 1: have a fucking huge belly. But the thing is dinner
Speaker 1: plate down there, cavernous.
Speaker 2: And the dinner plate navel cavernous bb.
Speaker 9: All right, yeah, I've seen you get ramen out of it.
Speaker 9: Just the Yeah, you're on your back. You just sit there,
Speaker 9: it's right there. Why dirty a plate?
Speaker 2: College? College?
Speaker 4: Your old friend got alcohol poisoning from doing a body
Speaker 4: shot for your.
Speaker 12: Belly too much, bab keep going, I just did seven
Speaker 12: big gulps.
Speaker 2: Keep going way there.
Speaker 9: I remember when you almost died because he used it
Speaker 9: as a measuring comfort night.
Speaker 1: Well, I just saw a picture of a woodpecker's tongue
Speaker 1: that it like wraps all the way around their brain
Speaker 1: to to protect their brain from the.
Speaker 2: From the trauma.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the repeated cte that they're giving themselves but self
Speaker 1: care woodpeckers, That's all I'm saying. But that's how my
Speaker 1: belly button is is just like a series of like
Speaker 1: caverns that like twists and turns inside my body.
Speaker 9: It's I mean, sometimes I know when Miles is on vacation,
Speaker 9: he's splunking down there.
Speaker 8: That's I love that he says he's an Italy. But
Speaker 8: we all know the truth.
Speaker 2: People don't know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they're like, oh my god, if people only knew
Speaker 4: what I was actually up to down there.
Speaker 2: I mean, guys, Jack's oh, never mind.
Speaker 11: But.
Speaker 2: I can't even begin to it.
Speaker 4: There's a place down south that has the echoes of
Speaker 4: the gods.
Speaker 2: Ringing through it.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, this episode is completely off the rails
Speaker 1: which were trying to talk about.
Speaker 2: We were talking about Trump got burner. Yeah, he got burner.
Speaker 1: There was an Atlantic article back in April where they
Speaker 1: were like, we scheduled an interview with Trump, like for weeks.
Speaker 1: Did like this the thing you always do where you
Speaker 1: like send it to the administration. They like, clear you,
Speaker 1: everything had gone according to plan. And then somebody within
Speaker 1: the administration was like that they're not nice to you,
Speaker 1: and so he like started tweeting about how they were.
Speaker 1: They were like, they's never written a fair article about me,
Speaker 1: And it was unceremoniously canceled, and so they they pivoted
Speaker 1: and just called his ass because you can like find
Speaker 1: his phone number on the internet.
Speaker 4: Hot, wait, hold on, what does that mean the art
Speaker 4: I didn't read the article. How did they find his phone?
Speaker 4: And how come we don't have this fucking.
Speaker 2: So they were pretty opaque about that.
Speaker 1: They said that, like, we'll just say the White House
Speaker 1: staff has not been super but good about keeping the
Speaker 1: phone number out of people.
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 9: They is so delicious when you're like, I'm gonna drain
Speaker 9: the swamp, but just put all incompetence in charge.
Speaker 1: Exactly who's calling the President of the United States asked,
Speaker 1: according to the magazine, and then they just did a
Speaker 1: like hours long conversation with him and this is a
Speaker 1: parent which that That was the thing that stuck out
Speaker 1: to me. I was like, Wow, the fuck does like
Speaker 1: he he just spent hours talking to these people, Like
Speaker 1: after they called him unplanned, unprovoked the president of the
Speaker 1: United States, he was just like at his golf club.
Speaker 2: I was like, yeah, I know who you are.
Speaker 1: You're not very fair to me, but that and just
Speaker 1: like they were like gave him a chance to brag
Speaker 1: about himself, and he couldn't resist.
Speaker 2: Let's start from the beginning.
Speaker 9: Don't you know that the American president does not have
Speaker 9: anything to do at all?
Speaker 2: Exactly?
Speaker 9: He's like, I could not have any problems that I
Speaker 9: could think of to solve. I'm just gonna go ahead
Speaker 9: and take this stranger's call for two.
Speaker 4: Also should be that that detail alone should actually be
Speaker 4: the most frightening thing for American people, because yeah, that
Speaker 4: it's all these other fucking pieces of shit that are
Speaker 4: doing all the day to day decision making. That's also
Speaker 4: the thing that came out on that Joe Biden book
Speaker 4: that people don't really talk about was this moment where
Speaker 4: the whole immigration like Biden didn't know what to do
Speaker 4: about immigration because he had no way to, Like he
Speaker 4: was bad at mediating the internal fights within the administration.
Speaker 2: Harris.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so there was nothing happening, and they're like what else?
Speaker 4: So what else was happening?
Speaker 2: Like that, He's like, I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 2: You guys handle it, and here we are.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so it it sounds similar. I remember the Obama
Speaker 1: like BlackBerry thing, but I didn't realize like he was adamant.
Speaker 1: He was like, I'm keeping my BlackBerry. They were like,
Speaker 1: you can't. And so he worked with the NSA to
Speaker 1: create a BlackBerry that like didn't have various like it
Speaker 1: like you couldn't forward an email that he sent you,
Speaker 1: and only like eight people had access to it. It
Speaker 1: was very much like fun, just give him a fucking toy,
Speaker 1: yeah right right right, Well, well they were like, we're.
Speaker 9: Gonna encrypt the shit out of this. Yeah, so your
Speaker 9: phone is not just like completely vulnerable and available for
Speaker 9: like the easiest of hacking. Yeah, and so he eventually
Speaker 9: Trump went to the seven eleven.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 1: No, Trump has been less persuadable by reason from the article,
Speaker 1: so the Atlantic was just like, so, let's do a
Speaker 1: deeper dive into this secret cell phone that we were
Speaker 1: able to use to call him.
Speaker 2: From the article, it.
Speaker 1: Says advisors tried to break his habit, but Trump either
Speaker 1: didn't understand or didn't care, and Trump said term his
Speaker 1: advisors have given up trying to restrict his phone use.
Speaker 1: He calls people non stop. Trump's campaign advisor, Chris Leacevita
Speaker 1: said in an interview with Politico during the Republican National
Speaker 1: Convention last year, I don't worry about it, because what
Speaker 1: are you gonna do take his phone, change his phone number,
Speaker 1: tell him he can't make phone calls.
Speaker 2: Yeah, It's like yeah, yeah, no.
Speaker 8: Yes, yeah, yeah, exactly correct.
Speaker 1: It just sounds like people who you know, are like
Speaker 1: scared of their kid being like, I don't know what
Speaker 1: am I gonna do? Take away his phone? Trump Trump went.
Speaker 1: When people were like, this is the major security risk,
Speaker 1: he'd say, it's not true. My phone is the best
Speaker 1: on the market, the market. It was just like an
Speaker 1: iPhone that he has, and he'd be like, I paid
Speaker 1: the most for the iPhone.
Speaker 2: That ain't even a pro. That's the regular iPhone, the
Speaker 2: best time the market.
Speaker 8: Why is your screen crash?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Damn, your thumbs all cut.
Speaker 8: Up as shit.
Speaker 2: I like to swipe to text. Does a hell of
Speaker 2: a job on my fingertips.
Speaker 1: The first time Trump's team truly understood also from this
Speaker 1: article about the history of his private line. First time
Speaker 1: they understood he would have a different relationship with his
Speaker 1: cell phone than did president's past was election night twenty sixteen,
Speaker 1: the eve of his improbable victory. He was answering every
Speaker 1: phone call. The outside advisor marveled to us nearly a
Speaker 1: decade later, noting that none of the numbers was in
Speaker 1: Trump's contacts. He just answers the phone. He doesn't want
Speaker 1: to miss phone calls. He's just stray numbers that aren't contacts.
Speaker 1: He's and like there's an anecdote in there where the
Speaker 1: Dilbert guy is like, I just got a random phone
Speaker 1: call from Florida and he called me left a voicemaan
Speaker 1: did that guy die? He's I think on his terminal cancer.
Speaker 1: He has the same thing Biden has. And oh, I
Speaker 1: think that's why Trump was calling him. Actually was to
Speaker 1: be like, hey, anything.
Speaker 2: I can do for you. But then like he like
Speaker 2: called it.
Speaker 1: He's like, I can't believe that shit just happened. That's
Speaker 1: a Trump voicemail. Now, like two hours Trump called him back.
Speaker 1: He was like, wait, aren't you like busy? But yeah, yeah, no, no,
Speaker 1: I'm good. I'm good. Why are you busy? Do you
Speaker 1: call you back? I'll call you back like an hour.
Speaker 1: He's just spending his whole day talking on the phone
Speaker 1: like a fucking teenage girl in nineteen ninety two.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like that's what he does. One of the numbers
Speaker 2: he's calling the Corey hotline.
Speaker 8: I don't think that you should drag teenage girls into this.
Speaker 2: Because they were I mean, they were doing important working
Speaker 2: on their phones.
Speaker 8: It's very.
Speaker 9: It's very fun to imagine that he's so not to imagine,
Speaker 9: but to know that he's so insecure, so badly needs attention.
Speaker 8: All of the time that he picks up.
Speaker 9: Exactly stranger's phone calls, Like I bet you if like
Speaker 9: you called him like old school ninety style to change
Speaker 9: his long distance service, I bet you he would be
Speaker 9: with you for like ten days.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: No, he's just like an unscheduled call that lasts over
Speaker 1: five minutes is a shocking luxury for all, but the
Speaker 1: most retired person likes an unscheduled.
Speaker 2: Call from somebody. Oh it's so good to hear from you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, middle of the day on a work day, and
Speaker 1: he's just sitting there for hours just being like, yeah,
Speaker 1: what's good. Yeah, no, I know you're mean to me,
Speaker 1: usually in print. Here, here's some cool stuff I'm up to.
Speaker 2: Oh me nothing right now, I'm just hanging out.
Speaker 9: Also, I love that he didn't actually know that that
Speaker 9: person had been mean to him. Someone had to like
Speaker 9: inform him, Yeah, you know what I mean, Like, that's
Speaker 9: so funny. Someone's like, oh, actually, you're supposed to not
Speaker 9: like this person, and.
Speaker 4: Even then it doesn't matter to him because as long
Speaker 4: as in the moment you're in his face and you're
Speaker 4: not talking cash shit to his face, he's like, and
Speaker 4: I love this person's giving me attention right now and
Speaker 4: asking me a question.
Speaker 1: There's almost no there's like so many pictures of him
Speaker 1: on his phone in this article, like he's just like
Speaker 1: constantly on his phone or like texting someone or there's
Speaker 1: almost no chance that he's not talking to like crypto scammers.
Speaker 4: He looks like such a dickhead on these like in
Speaker 4: these pictures, like he's like hell like doing the like
Speaker 4: I'm kind of like, I'm a little big far sighted,
Speaker 4: so I got to really put my phone far to
Speaker 4: start typing some ship. Oh boy, well, big dumb smile.
Speaker 4: I think if hey, look y'all, if any of y'all
Speaker 4: can figure out how to get this number, please let
Speaker 4: us know. Yeah, please let us know. I'm I could
Speaker 4: do it. I don't know who i'll do an impression of,
Speaker 4: but I will try and talk to him and get
Speaker 4: him to believe he's talking to somebody else.
Speaker 2: Australia. I just have to learn the Australian president's name,
Speaker 2: but you gotta Australia President Trumpet's me President Australia. Things
Speaker 2: down under.
Speaker 8: My name is Melbourne, Australia. I'm the President.
Speaker 2: Crocodile Dundee.
Speaker 4: Oh good to see. It's good to hear from your Crocodiles.
Speaker 2: Been a big fan of your work.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like truly the scam, the you know, gen z
Speaker 1: prank phone call artists of TikTok and YouTube or falling
Speaker 1: down at the job that they haven't been.
Speaker 4: Able to get like we need to get like yeah,
Speaker 4: like like somewhat like James Adomian to put out his
Speaker 4: elon musk and talk to him for like seventy five
Speaker 4: hours and just get some weird ship out of him.
Speaker 9: I would just pretend to be his daughter and have
Speaker 9: a phone sex with him. Gosh, and then I would
Speaker 9: record it and release that, yeah.
Speaker 2: And people would be not shocked.
Speaker 9: I'd be like, hey, Dad, it's a vanka hold on
Speaker 9: about the way you're ready, You're ready, roddy, you're ready, rotting,
Speaker 9: skin falls off your face and really hot.
Speaker 4: I feel you could you can say say you're some
Speaker 4: random You're like, I'm a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader and I
Speaker 4: think you're swell.
Speaker 2: Go on, yes, send me a picture of you right now.
Speaker 8: You just Google and send it'll it'll be the easiest.
Speaker 2: He got Getty images, watermarks all over it. He's exactly.
Speaker 1: Body is sliding off your skeleton like slow roasted pork.
Speaker 1: I'm saying, I just doing it in my voice like
Speaker 1: go on, go on, Oh baby wants to fuck me.
Speaker 2: It sounds like maybe you would. That meat is loocien
Speaker 2: and pulled pork.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel I feel like a dumb prank phone
Speaker 1: call like that, like they they would overreact and then
Speaker 1: somebody will prank call the president, get his ass really good,
Speaker 1: and they'll be charged with treason or treason and they'll
Speaker 1: be put to death.
Speaker 2: Yeah, hanged, rather right, hanged? Why is that? They'll be hung?
Speaker 2: Is a them?
Speaker 4: And they'll be packing down? What do you mean what
Speaker 4: does one have to do with the other. I don't
Speaker 4: know just how the term works. Oh, will they be executed?
Speaker 2: No, No, that's what I meant. I just meant, whoever
Speaker 2: doing it, they'll.
Speaker 1: Be Huh, they'll definitely be hung, you can tell, all right.
Speaker 1: In continuing on our trend of old person news, yeah,
Speaker 1: and yesterday's trend of drug news. We got some news
Speaker 1: about the elderly getting on board with weed.
Speaker 2: Dude, the boomers are hitting the bong hard. They're still
Speaker 2: smoking bonds, I hope, So.
Speaker 9: I don't know, there's nothing funnier than a tiny old
Speaker 9: person hitting a giant bong.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and likely and then like ging that thing.
Speaker 8: Up just like yeah, no cough, nothing.
Speaker 2: No chest convulsion, just straight.
Speaker 3: Oh.
Speaker 2: I like this one. I like this one.
Speaker 8: Oh, this is a little nice, this a little peppery
Speaker 8: or than that other one.
Speaker 2: Welly, you can taste the oh, look at it the tannin's. Wow.
Speaker 2: I did.
Speaker 4: But yeah, it sounds like the sixty five and older
Speaker 4: crowd have shed all like yeah that Yeah, the reefer
Speaker 4: madness propaganda brain is withering away and people are now
Speaker 4: embracing the weeds. The stigma is not as much of
Speaker 4: a thing as it used to be with the sixty
Speaker 4: five and older crowd. Crowd, and obviously, like the expansion
Speaker 4: of like legal and legal recreational and medical medicinal cannabis
Speaker 4: has opened the door for holdouts like my high school teacher,
Speaker 4: My high school history teacher who inspired me to even
Speaker 4: be interested in history as like a major.
Speaker 2: All the time.
Speaker 4: We would talk about like we would talk about weed.
Speaker 4: He's like, hey, guys, really should really stop talking about that.
Speaker 4: I know you're joking to kind of get me riled up,
Speaker 4: but like it's illegal or whatever, Like would you ever smoke.
Speaker 2: Weeds, sir?
Speaker 4: And he would always say, I only don't smoke it
Speaker 4: because it is illegal and I'm a law abiding citizen.
Speaker 2: But if it was legal, I would do it. And
Speaker 2: we're like, oh, we're gonna smoke with you when it's legal.
Speaker 2: He's like, for instance, I'm drunk right now. Yeah, my
Speaker 2: high school history teacher.
Speaker 1: Shout out to the high school history teachers who's secretly
Speaker 1: dipping all classes or like yeah, but like he just
Speaker 1: had a little one in him.
Speaker 2: Was taking SIPs soda that you can in no way
Speaker 2: do a dip.
Speaker 8: In a clandestine manner.
Speaker 2: No, No, he was. He was always at SIPs. But
Speaker 2: that sounded like yeah, anyway.
Speaker 9: It was like, oh, I was shitting myself in public,
Speaker 9: but no one knew. It's like, no, we all knew
Speaker 9: the entire.
Speaker 1: Time your pants filled down because it was so heavy.
Speaker 1: But he actually gave me early weed insight. Also, he
Speaker 1: was like the only reason weeds illegal is because it's
Speaker 1: so easy to grow at home, like and so difficult
Speaker 1: to tack so you can't then't make. Butdweise are worth
Speaker 1: a ship in your bathtub. But you buy a grow light,
Speaker 1: you can grow some pretty great weed. Nobody's going to
Speaker 1: know about it.
Speaker 8: That's a hero right there.
Speaker 2: I know that's teaching it.
Speaker 1: A fucking Catholic high school in Kentucky was just being like, yeah, man,
Speaker 1: so here's what it is. You know.
Speaker 4: That's like I'm sure, like there's a tradition of knowing
Speaker 4: like what the government will let you make on your
Speaker 4: own and won't because of how companies can profit.
Speaker 2: I'm sure for that.
Speaker 4: It's like moonshine is more like the local thing than
Speaker 4: like weed maybe on the West coast, but anyway, there's
Speaker 4: been a forty six percent uptic in consumption among seniors
Speaker 4: un this like Journal of American Medicine study from twenty
Speaker 4: twenty one to twenty twenty three, and now like from
Speaker 4: when they were asking in twenty twenty three, seven percent
Speaker 4: of adult sixty five and older said they'd used cannabis
Speaker 4: in the past month.
Speaker 2: Yeah, boy, hell yeah, hell yeah.
Speaker 4: I think like through I think you know, it's the
Speaker 4: pandemic lockdowns, and I think acceptance around using it for
Speaker 4: certain chronic illnesses or pain management is definitely adding to
Speaker 4: the usage. And I've also noticed a more of like
Speaker 4: a who gives a fuck kind of adda from that
Speaker 4: generation recently, at least the ones around me are more
Speaker 4: like way different than what I remember as a kid,
Speaker 4: or they were like so buttoned up.
Speaker 2: And they're, yeah, dude, don't give a fuck. I'm kidding
Speaker 2: high now I don't have anything to do.
Speaker 9: Well, then to piggyback off of that, I think I
Speaker 9: totally agree that it's not giving a fuck, and I think, actually,
Speaker 9: I'll take it further. It's because they're like, well, we
Speaker 9: have no future because the next couple of years that
Speaker 9: we have or whatever, or under this administration, everything's getting cut,
Speaker 9: America's fallen apart.
Speaker 8: They're like, you know what, I might get into Heroin tomorrow.
Speaker 8: I don't give a fuck, Like, yes, where do.
Speaker 2: I sign up? That means they were getting nihilistic under
Speaker 2: Biden during this thing.
Speaker 8: That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: It built up there who gives a fuck?
Speaker 1: Muscles on climate change and yeah, you know Gaza and
Speaker 1: all that stuff.
Speaker 4: So now we bro I can't be fucking arsted, as
Speaker 4: they say, I've seen more than like also personally a
Speaker 4: few examples of friends of getting their parents to try
Speaker 4: it for pain management. Like a friend of mine's dad
Speaker 4: who was taking all kinds of like opioids for like
Speaker 4: hip and like knee replacement surgeries, was just so zonked
Speaker 4: out all the time and was like but was resisting
Speaker 4: cannabis because they had this very like boomer idea of
Speaker 4: like if I, if I ingested, I might turn into
Speaker 4: a black jazz pianist or something, and I don't want
Speaker 4: that to happen.
Speaker 2: So I don't know if I should take this edible not.
Speaker 11: Ready for me to become Miles David Jim is gonna
Speaker 11: call me cheech and chum, Yeah, exactly, be so mused
Speaker 11: they're gonna come me John Coltrane or something.
Speaker 4: Since they've crossed that bridge, like they're fully like so
Speaker 4: they're like, I can't believe I didn't do this, Like
Speaker 4: I feel so much like it, like clear headed, because
Speaker 4: I'm not so fucking wasted from like traditional like pharmaceutical
Speaker 4: pain medicines. Not to say this works for everyone, but
Speaker 4: like anecdotally that that's been the one I've seen happen
Speaker 4: a lot common where it's like they've always got this
Speaker 4: back pain, they hate taking pills for it, and now
Speaker 4: they just like take their little vape and now they're
Speaker 4: great or an edible or something.
Speaker 1: So it's it's not a surprise when compared with the
Speaker 1: opioids that, yeah, have been legally sold to people for
Speaker 1: the past couple decades.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Wow, massive massive improvement, guys. Yeah, please do that.
Speaker 9: Ohso side note, if you're like a grown up who
Speaker 9: smokes with like a younger people.
Speaker 2: Is this like a podcast for thirteen year olds? Okay,
Speaker 2: but like if you're.
Speaker 9: A grown up, oh my god, why do I sound
Speaker 9: like that? Also, damn, I don't even talk. I've been
Speaker 9: really valley sounding this whole episode, and I'm like, I
Speaker 9: apologize to the listeners.
Speaker 8: I don't know what happening.
Speaker 2: You are You are a valley by way of Odessa.
Speaker 8: Yeah, never lived in the valley. What is this accent?
Speaker 8: It is horrible? Please leave, Please leave my mouth.
Speaker 9: Yeah. I just wanted to say that if you're an
Speaker 9: older person smoking weed with younger people and you're cool
Speaker 9: as hell. If you're an older person drinking with the
Speaker 9: younger people, Bill, that is not cool, that's bad. You
Speaker 9: are a monst and you need to leave. I don't.
Speaker 8: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I got a family friend who's older, like they're like, oh,
Speaker 4: you're smoking. I'm like yeah, They're like I've been doing
Speaker 4: that too, and I'm like, brouh you you're not ready
Speaker 4: for this ship.
Speaker 2: And you're like, well, they're like the store. I go
Speaker 2: to the store and I'm like, all right, this motherfucker
Speaker 2: turned into a scarecrow. And like at this family party
Speaker 2: and high a hit and there was way too much.
Speaker 4: Like just fucking a scarecrow just physically there as a
Speaker 4: presence but not in anything absolute scarecrow.
Speaker 6: And I just.
Speaker 2: Experienced what it was like to get high with me
Speaker 2: back when I got high. Well, at least they weren't
Speaker 2: like you hate me. They were just like, I didn't
Speaker 2: say that out loud, I love you, but you.
Speaker 8: Do look like you would be absolutely not fun.
Speaker 2: High to get high with. Now that was a nightmare.
Speaker 2: I hated myself.
Speaker 8: God, yeah, no, I totally for some reason feel that
Speaker 8: from you. I don't know what that means.
Speaker 1: It must be good. I think it's a good reflects
Speaker 1: well on my personality general, you know, chillness, It means
Speaker 1: you're very.
Speaker 8: Exactly. It means that this is the real jack. You
Speaker 8: know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: It's like I'm high in my regular life. Man, I
Speaker 2: can't be double high.
Speaker 9: You're freaking high off of your beautiful family and cool
Speaker 9: job and like, why would you even need anything else?
Speaker 2: And cool? Yeah, thank you so much. And this is
Speaker 2: thirteen year olds out there. I don't need anything else.
Speaker 4: When you're grown up, you get to pick your own
Speaker 4: clothes and you can buy them whichever ones you want
Speaker 4: to buy.
Speaker 8: Guys, get ready with me.
Speaker 9: So first of all, my mom let me get this
Speaker 9: skirt from the Limited and it was my birthday money,
Speaker 9: so okay. Second off, I wanted to get the stuff
Speaker 9: from wet Seal, but I could not afford it, so
Speaker 9: I got it from my best friend Brittany, and I'm
Speaker 9: borrowing it for this outfit.
Speaker 2: My god, so many syllables and Brittany Brittany by.
Speaker 8: Brit Britanny.
Speaker 1: Let's take a quick break. We gotta meet our favorite
Speaker 1: new character in the news, FEMA head Guy, head Guy,
Speaker 1: Hurricane head Hurricane Richardson.
Speaker 2: And we're back.
Speaker 1: We're back, and the AI trained just to keep the
Speaker 1: roll in and over here We're excited.
Speaker 2: But if we just like one day just went fully
Speaker 2: like an AI is good, you start.
Speaker 4: Our voices, listeners, it's because I'm trying to rebuild a
Speaker 4: burnt down home.
Speaker 2: If you see me starting to be like, I mean,
Speaker 2: I mean, so this is this is my soul leaves
Speaker 2: my body.
Speaker 1: This is kind of an attempt to do that from
Speaker 1: a creator, a famous creative, Natasha Leoni, who you know
Speaker 1: from things like poker Face.
Speaker 2: And Russian Doll American Pie like that. I'm a cheerleader, yeah,
Speaker 2: but I'm a cheerlead. Yes, very very good. Happened to Purdue?
Speaker 2: Who wasn't That wasn't They never go on? Sorry it
Speaker 2: didn't mean anyways.
Speaker 1: Uh. She is the co founder of Asteria, an AI
Speaker 1: production studio that claims to be an artist led ethical
Speaker 1: AI film and animation studio, and they are launching with
Speaker 1: a movie called Uncanny Valley that will be made by
Speaker 1: combining AI tools with traditional filmmaking techniques. Describes itself as
Speaker 1: an The production company just describes itself as an artist
Speaker 1: led ethical AI film an animation studio. The news has
Speaker 1: obviously sparked a backlash, prompting her to clarify that the movie.
Speaker 1: You won't omit any department heads or production designers or
Speaker 1: cinematographers that has more like a green screen or something
Speaker 1: like that.
Speaker 4: Wow, it's the way that's written. It's like they write
Speaker 4: the way she talks. It's like a green screen or
Speaker 4: something like that. Like oh okay, yeah, yeah, that's not
Speaker 4: too bad.
Speaker 1: It's like, but this is a weird move for an actor.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, especially when you have people like Joseph Gordon
Speaker 4: Levitt who are like, this is going to take away
Speaker 4: the incentive for people to even create or want to
Speaker 4: strive for something.
Speaker 2: If if AI takes all over all this shit.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they claim that it's like trained on only what
Speaker 1: licensed licensed content. However, when you ask other companies like
Speaker 1: how how you why don't you just like use licensed content,
Speaker 1: they're like that would be impossible, Like none of this
Speaker 1: is possible with just license content. So remains to be
Speaker 1: seen how that's actually working out, because it's all very.
Speaker 4: It's this, but that's with the chat cheep the open
Speaker 4: a open AI lady said a few years ago when
Speaker 4: they were talking about there, like it's actually through like
Speaker 4: light it like agreements that we have with people.
Speaker 2: And then it came out that it wasn't. It was
Speaker 2: just and I love to say this shs license. You
Speaker 2: should be noted.
Speaker 1: Asteria was founded by Leoni and her boyfriend Brin Mooser.
Speaker 1: What Briton Whyan Mooser? There's no like I think maybe
Speaker 1: it's Brian, Like I don't know nor sorry, that's a
Speaker 1: that's a Mooser if I've ever seen one.
Speaker 2: M O O. S e. R.
Speaker 1: Who is a tech bro whose mentors include Bob Iger
Speaker 1: and Elon Musk. So in case you were wondering where
Speaker 1: this idea came from and who was telling her.
Speaker 2: Like, now this is fine. We talking about Oh my god.
Speaker 4: The weird and Natasha run they're running an OPI although
Speaker 4: I don't know, maybe you do believe this, but like
Speaker 4: when this guy, I like how this dude was described
Speaker 4: as a quote serial entrepreneur.
Speaker 2: I know that.
Speaker 1: And that's like a thing they say is good, Like
Speaker 1: that's that's what you want people to introduce you as.
Speaker 4: To me, I see somebody who doesn't. It was just like,
Speaker 4: will fucking try and make anything fucking happen by any
Speaker 4: means necessary. I'n't tell this lady, I love her, Okay,
Speaker 4: I don't give who, Just tell me who the best
Speaker 4: person to have on our side is I'll make it happen.
Speaker 2: Will going to AI AI.
Speaker 4: Who is the best celebrity actress I could use to
Speaker 4: help sort of trojan horse the idea of an AI
Speaker 4: company in Hollywood being a good thing.
Speaker 10: Hey, Also, the company describing itself as being an ethical
Speaker 10: AI and animations ide like, there's no such thing as
Speaker 10: ethical aiyeh, based on the environmental impact alone, but on
Speaker 10: then also everything else, but like, no such thing.
Speaker 4: That's why everything they say is bullshit. You didn't train
Speaker 4: it on licensed material. This shit isn't ethical. You're just
Speaker 4: saying all the things to try and neutralize those first
Speaker 4: instincts people have when they hear about AI in a
Speaker 4: space anywhere, because people are gonna be like, oh, that's
Speaker 4: just gonna probably you're gonna be firing human beings.
Speaker 2: And they go, no, we didn't even get rid of
Speaker 2: any department heads not. Didn't like that. And it's not
Speaker 2: even trained off other people's copyrighted materials. And it's also
Speaker 2: like ethical and it's it's cruelty free and organic okay
Speaker 2: on GMO.
Speaker 1: Okay, corporations can't say ethical if it's not ethical, you guys,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Oh, I'm sorry, No, it's the opposite. They
Speaker 1: would never say ethical if it was actually ethical. They
Speaker 1: would only do something ethical by accident if it's horribly unethical. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well one of the big uh so the controvert people
Speaker 1: are like, this is bullshit. And then Natasha Leoni, who
Speaker 1: was neighbors with David Lynch, was like, I actually talked
Speaker 1: to David Lynch and he signed.
Speaker 2: Off on this project. Motherfucker, he said.
Speaker 1: I asked him, Hey, David, what do you think of AI?
Speaker 1: And he said, Natasha, look over there, this is a pencil. Okay,
Speaker 1: everyone has access to a pencil, and likewise everyone with
Speaker 1: a phone will be using AI if they aren't already.
Speaker 1: It's how you use the pencil, you see. And that
Speaker 1: maybe true.
Speaker 2: What does he mean, Yeah, just like everybody.
Speaker 1: Everybody's gonna use be using AI, which may be true,
Speaker 1: but it doesn't mean that like he's thought through the
Speaker 1: ethical implications of its use, or that everybody's like that
Speaker 1: he's fully up on like what the environmental impact.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, I don't know if David Lynch was in
Speaker 4: the right state to really be fully answering the question
Speaker 4: about the This is.
Speaker 2: Just her work.
Speaker 1: Somebody who was like Natasha Leoni the next time she's
Speaker 1: asked about AI and just showed the poster for Weekend
Speaker 1: at Bernie's because they were like kind of weird to be, Yeah,
Speaker 1: using David Lynch as your shield here, a beloved dead
Speaker 1: filmmaker as your puppet for saying that this.
Speaker 10: Yeah, well yeah, we can't ask him to clarify.
Speaker 4: It's kind of perfect, you know, to put words in
Speaker 4: a dead person's mouth like that, and like because you
Speaker 4: have enough plausible deny that, like, well.
Speaker 2: Well, first of all, I'm his neighbor. We were neighbors,
Speaker 2: so of course I was talking to him, and you know,
Speaker 2: you're talking about my neighbor right now.
Speaker 4: That's my neighbor, David Lynch, you're talking about You said
Speaker 4: it was okay, it's a pencil.
Speaker 2: It's a pencil. Okay, it's a very cool pencil that
Speaker 2: will burn the earth down.
Speaker 1: But people within Hollywood are saying that AI is already
Speaker 1: being made or being used to make a lot of content.
Speaker 1: It's just they're not admitting it. So it's like a
Speaker 1: thing where like, for instance, a costume designer will get
Speaker 1: a job and they'll have to like turn something around
Speaker 1: really quickly and so they'll have the AI generate the
Speaker 1: idea for them, and then instead of turning that in,
Speaker 1: they will then hire an artist to draw the thing
Speaker 1: the AI generated and then like whila, original creation drawing,
Speaker 1: original human, original human drawing. And then they're like, oh,
Speaker 1: but isn't that worse And they're.
Speaker 2: Like yeah, but nobody notices, right, That's just what is happening.
Speaker 4: Like across the board, I feel like, well that and
Speaker 4: like that they are using NDAs for people like when
Speaker 4: they are using AI. Yeah, I'll tell anybody we use AI,
Speaker 4: I'm all fuck you up because we can't have the
Speaker 4: unions coming at us. Like it's so fucking underhanded. And
Speaker 4: I'm you know, I'm not surprised like that. It's already
Speaker 4: creeping in more and more and more, just not in
Speaker 4: a fucking hooray type of way.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this one, a story bird artist.
Speaker 1: Story bird storyboard artists said quote, And if your back's
Speaker 1: against the wall, it's tempting, even if the result is
Speaker 1: of dubious quality and dubious ethical makeup. And I feel
Speaker 1: like this is exactly what everything is going. Like, all
Speaker 1: jobs are just going to be people using AI to
Speaker 1: create C plus work, and there's just no penalty for
Speaker 1: turning in C plus work.
Speaker 2: And so it's just like everything's going.
Speaker 1: To get shittier in a way that will be I mean,
Speaker 1: everything already has gotten shittier, you know, and like nothing happened.
Speaker 1: So once we let them get away with that, and
Speaker 1: now now that you can just like turn it over
Speaker 1: to a fucking automated C plus machine, like you're we're
Speaker 1: just going to see everything turned to shit and we're
Speaker 1: not even going to be able to like describe what's happening.
Speaker 10: It's the idea of like putting a band aid on
Speaker 10: the problem, but not treating the problem itself. Because the
Speaker 10: problem is like everyone's overworked and underwhelmed, and there's deadlines
Speaker 10: and because because of capitalism, and we so we just
Speaker 10: have to like churn out shit that AI generates to
Speaker 10: like meet the deadline or whatever. And rather than like, oh,
Speaker 10: let's let's I don't know, dismantle capitalism. So we're not
Speaker 10: all like killing ourselves trying to get work done that
Speaker 10: doesn't even fucking need to be done in the first place.
Speaker 10: We've just invented all of these whatever fucking arbitrary totally
Speaker 10: fabricated assignments and deadlines.
Speaker 4: And all that. But kaylin, I just saw what the
Speaker 4: Hulk Vthano's fistfight should have, how it should have three yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: And that's it. Like, that's what's so funny to me.
Speaker 4: They Hollywood should have been the first fucking line of
Speaker 4: defense against this ship to be like this is going
Speaker 4: to fucking kill us. Further, well, they.
Speaker 2: Haven't been in all the movies that are like, hey.
Speaker 4: Yeah, a written by normal people in the studio heads,
Speaker 4: you know what I mean, where they're.
Speaker 10: Like again, I'm like, I'm like, why doren't why aren't
Speaker 10: we remembering fuck? You know, the Matrix Terminator? All all
Speaker 10: the movies were Ai Ai.
Speaker 8: Aihi.
Speaker 4: But I think you know because like we talked on
Speaker 4: trends yesterday about this commercial that was made fully with
Speaker 4: AI and it again, it looks like shit, but you
Speaker 4: can based on what a video looks like a year ago,
Speaker 4: like and if this is where we're at now, I
Speaker 4: can't imagine in another year from now what it's gonna
Speaker 4: look like. But that's a direct threat to the two
Speaker 4: hundred and fifty billion dollars a year TV ad industry.
Speaker 4: Like if people can just start cooking up shit like
Speaker 4: this and they're not even seeing that part of it.
Speaker 2: They're like, well, we.
Speaker 4: Can get away with underpaying people or using less people
Speaker 4: we have to pay by using AI without realizing that
Speaker 4: the proliferation of it is creating an existential threat to
Speaker 4: everything you do, because now anyone can shit out this crap.
Speaker 4: But go ahead, I guess, well, I guess you'll just
Speaker 4: have to find out as you fuck around.
Speaker 1: Nah, it never works that way. Yeah, Nah, we fuck
Speaker 1: around and then it just keeps getting better.
Speaker 10: So yeah, no, soon we're all going to be just
Speaker 10: like working at those whatever fucking cooling data centers and
Speaker 10: like I don't know, throwing buckets of water on the
Speaker 10: drinking Yeah, and that'll be all of ours before.
Speaker 8: You want AI users.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, I mean yeah, it's like, you know, if
Speaker 4: you work at the data center cooling rooms, you actually
Speaker 4: get to sip the water that you.
Speaker 1: Throw them, and you get to steal SIPs all day.
Speaker 2: Waters, unlimited SIPs and unlimited days off. Whoa, you're gonna
Speaker 2: love it here. But they don't pay me. It's the SIPs.
Speaker 1: They pay me in SIPs.
Speaker 10: That's what That's what our future is.
Speaker 2: Anyway, I know it does feel like that, like.
Speaker 1: Anyways, good time. Yeah, it's gonna be good. We're going
Speaker 1: to figure it out.
Speaker 2: We're gonna figure it out. All right, that's gonna do it.
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