Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of r
Speaker 1: I P. KFC Popcorn Chick trend. We could just go
Speaker 1: popcorn chick trends, safe characters. I'm Jack that over there
Speaker 1: is t d Z writer researcher J M McNabb Jing,
Speaker 1: not too much, Thanks for having me. That's never the answer.
Speaker 1: Always so much is happening. That's why people tune into
Speaker 1: this show. Got to lie to them and make it
Speaker 1: seem like there's constantly important things happen. I thought you
Speaker 1: met with me personally. Oh yeah, no, I don't care
Speaker 1: about that. Man. That fair enough. UM, great to have
Speaker 1: you back. Uh, just a lot popping off, including KFC's
Speaker 1: popcorn Chicken is no more. UM, this is I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know that I've ever had it. I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna lie to you, but I don't think I've ever
Speaker 1: had KFCs popcorn Chicken. Are you an American? I just
Speaker 1: assume you had KFC three meals a day. And I
Speaker 1: have eaten a lot of KFC and that is never
Speaker 1: the thing that I want. I think I must have
Speaker 1: had it once because it's just too much bread and
Speaker 1: not enough chicken. I like the actual chicken. Breading balance
Speaker 1: of the actual fried chicken and the popcorn chicken is
Speaker 1: just like all all popcorn not enough chicken personally, which
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say deserved to die, and I hope
Speaker 1: it Brendon burns in hell. But I just think that
Speaker 1: this might so anyway, Like this has been long rumored, right,
Speaker 1: They've they've been saying, hey, we're we're we're going to
Speaker 1: replace it with a better chicken nugget product. That's what
Speaker 1: I heard. Yeah, Like food bloggers have been meeting with
Speaker 1: strange men and parking garages, getting like the inside scoop
Speaker 1: about the planning the hit take out the popcorn chicken.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, I know. So I guess people have been
Speaker 1: saying it might happen for a while and I guess
Speaker 1: now it's official. Um, it's just sad. The troubling detail
Speaker 1: is that there's no firm date because there's still they're
Speaker 1: still waiting to see how long it takes to sell
Speaker 1: out of the remaining supply of each other. So like,
Speaker 1: if you can get popcorn chicken like two weeks from now,
Speaker 1: you have to ask yourself do you really want it? Right,
Speaker 1: because it's been like they're not making new popcorn chicken, Like,
Speaker 1: that's definitely something that it feels like, probably has a
Speaker 1: um unnaturally long shelf life, but yeah they're good to like,
Speaker 1: so yeah, you have a while to get them. I mean,
Speaker 1: I just like. The thing that's weird about it, I
Speaker 1: guess is I remember when it was like a big
Speaker 1: new thing, Like the ads were like like they acted
Speaker 1: like it was a scientific discovery. Like you like popcorn,
Speaker 1: you like chicken, guess what, prepared to have your minds blown.
Speaker 1: They're the same thing now and I remember that being exciting,
Speaker 1: and now they're just just getting rid of it. Just
Speaker 1: it should have hit. This should be a bigger deal
Speaker 1: to me, because it did. The product was launched in
Speaker 1: ninety two and mc hammer was the spokesperson. This was
Speaker 1: a time when I had an mc hammer poster on
Speaker 1: my wall and had recently gone to see him live
Speaker 1: at Dayton Arena and where the University of Dayton Flyers
Speaker 1: played basketball. Opened by end Vogue, I was, I was,
Speaker 1: I should have been, should have been wooed by this,
Speaker 1: but I think it was just too I just felt like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, it wasn't real enough for me, fair enough.
Speaker 1: I'm sure it's awful but like as a small child,
Speaker 1: I liked it. Yeah, they're also killing the Kentucky Fried
Speaker 1: Chicken Wings, which I didn't know existed. Um, chocolate chip cookies,
Speaker 1: Nashville Hot Sauce, and strawberry lemonade, so probably less less
Speaker 1: important people. Um. We're also saying goodbye to arrest the
Speaker 1: Development on Netflix. Possibly, um, I don't know, still a
Speaker 1: chance there there might be like a last minute stay
Speaker 1: of execution, because that's what happened with Netflix's first original show,
Speaker 1: Lily Hammer. Yeah, so thank goodness because I've been binging Hammer.
Speaker 1: It's just I just leave it on, you know, for
Speaker 1: the kids in the background. It's like a fireplace. You know.
Speaker 1: That's funny, even Lily Hammer, like as a devoted fan
Speaker 1: base that is like, you will not let this contract
Speaker 1: lap licensing contract lap. But the first three seasons of
Speaker 1: Arrested Development, which are the ones that I most care about,
Speaker 1: are currently streaming on Hulu. So that's yeah, I think
Speaker 1: we're all right here. It's just one of those weird
Speaker 1: things because I wasn't like a big fan of the
Speaker 1: fourth and fifth season, but like because they licensed the
Speaker 1: characters for Netflix, but they produced their original content. Like
Speaker 1: the fact that that's disappearing, Like it's kind of now
Speaker 1: a question mark as to what's going to happen with
Speaker 1: the fourth and fifth season, because I suppose a deal
Speaker 1: could be struck with another streamer, but I don't. I
Speaker 1: guess that happened maybe with like some of the Marvel
Speaker 1: shows and Disney Plus, like they moved over there um
Speaker 1: when they stopped making those, So that can still happen.
Speaker 1: But it is again a reminder of like, you know
Speaker 1: it if you're a fan of something that I I mean,
Speaker 1: I still am a proponent of physical media, Like I
Speaker 1: don't even think that you can buy a DVD of
Speaker 1: like the fifth season of Arrested Development. It's just potentially gone. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's a So my pitch for them is what the
Speaker 1: thing that you are having trouble licensing is the characters.
Speaker 1: There are these new ads starting jan Asanta Coupo where
Speaker 1: like your Google phone can remove people from photographs, like
Speaker 1: unwanted people, if there's like a stranger in the background,
Speaker 1: if you get photo bombed by accident. So my pitches
Speaker 1: that just remove the characters from the show, keep the show,
Speaker 1: and it's just like ambient background characters unlicensed just kind
Speaker 1: of moving through space. Um, it's just just an idea.
Speaker 1: You don't seem that enthusiastic. You don't have to say,
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to spit ball and blue sky in it.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm just I'm reaching from my phone called
Speaker 1: Ted Surrando's right there you go. Um and big news
Speaker 1: new absolute hot garbage New York Times op ed just dropped. Um.
Speaker 1: The op ed is titled in Defense of J. K Rowling,
Speaker 1: so apparently like a piece of viral marketing for for
Speaker 1: a podcast called the witch Trials of J. K Rowling,
Speaker 1: And the podcast apparently compares the historic event in which
Speaker 1: innocent women were murdered by zealots to the time a
Speaker 1: billionaire published a bunch of bigoted comments and people got
Speaker 1: angry on social media, and then she bragged about how
Speaker 1: cancelation just means more money for her, and then so, yeah,
Speaker 1: that that is the witch burning in question. But this
Speaker 1: is the society that we live in, where you know,
Speaker 1: in addition to the extremely wealthy and billionaires being protected,
Speaker 1: there's also books to be sold and consumption and amusement
Speaker 1: park attractions to be protected, and so canceling her moves
Speaker 1: in the opposite direction of a bunch of money that
Speaker 1: could be made. So it's not surprising this is happening,
Speaker 1: but it is wild and infuriating that The New York
Speaker 1: Times is on board this op ed. It's just it's
Speaker 1: it's nuts. Like it gets nuts immediately when you read it,
Speaker 1: Like it starts off by like comparing people being angry
Speaker 1: at J. K. Rowling to the guy who stabbed Salman Rush. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was like one of the first paragraphs. So the
Speaker 1: thing that she said doesn't bother her and it only
Speaker 1: leads to her getting richer. Is she's saying is the
Speaker 1: equivalent of having your eyes stabbed out? Yeah, yeah, it
Speaker 1: seems on par it's nuts and yeah, and they also like, yeah,
Speaker 1: they tried to like force a connection between like her
Speaker 1: now and like when remember when Harry Potter first came
Speaker 1: out and people were like burning books in the South
Speaker 1: all the sort of Christian extremists, And it's like, well,
Speaker 1: that's not the same thing at all. They're saying that
Speaker 1: people saying that she shouldn't use hateful language that you know,
Speaker 1: disparages an entire portion of the populations right to exist. Uh,
Speaker 1: that is the equivalent of people burning the book because
Speaker 1: they think it's well, work of satanic They think it
Speaker 1: will convert their children too, Satanism. Yeah, yeah, it's just
Speaker 1: it is. And I mean the New York Times loves
Speaker 1: to hide behind the hey, we're just putting things out
Speaker 1: there and asking questions, but there there is a consistent
Speaker 1: drumbeat of The New York Times thinking the centrist position
Speaker 1: is to be like on well, on the one hand,
Speaker 1: there are people who think you should respect trans people's
Speaker 1: right to exist. On the other hand, you know, the
Speaker 1: equally valid position that you shouldn't. You should just allow
Speaker 1: them to be killed like recently happened. You know, like
Speaker 1: this is happening right after a child named Brianna j
Speaker 1: I was killed, stabbed to death by people like this,
Speaker 1: And the murder rate of trans people is shockingly high,
Speaker 1: and it's driven by this same like sort of instinctual,
Speaker 1: you know, revulsion that J. K. Rowling seems to be expressing.
Speaker 1: And to to criticize that is on par with being
Speaker 1: like a big It is what the New York Times
Speaker 1: is proposing here. It's yeah, trying to turn her into
Speaker 1: the victim of this situation is just infuriating. As we
Speaker 1: talked about recently, she's launching a like women's health center
Speaker 1: that is specifically designed to discriminate against trans people. Yeah,
Speaker 1: out of like spite for like Scotland's like changing laws
Speaker 1: to protect trans people. She's she has she opened a
Speaker 1: spite center basically, right, yeah, exactly. Yeah. Yeah, it's just
Speaker 1: I don't know, it's just so frustrating to see things
Speaker 1: like this. I mean, I know it's an op ed
Speaker 1: and that's how they kind of like shield themselves, but fuck,
Speaker 1: it's just just absolute trash. Yeah, yeah it is. Uh,
Speaker 1: let's take a quick break. We'll come back. We'll talk
Speaker 1: about a trailer and the fact that that being chat
Speaker 1: bought has become sentient and uh depressed right away, just
Speaker 1: right out of the gate. We'll be right back, and
Speaker 1: we're back. And so somebody has pointed out the quarterback
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes maybe the I don't know, you're you're not
Speaker 1: an American football fan, jam are you? No, I'm I'm
Speaker 1: aware that it exists. Good, alright, So there maybe the
Speaker 1: best player at that um Patrick Mahomes maybe of all time. Uh,
Speaker 1: certainly Jordan esque and how good, how good he is.
Speaker 1: He's still kind of somewhat compared Lee early in his career,
Speaker 1: compared to the people who everyone says are the best,
Speaker 1: like Tom Brady, but at this point he like does
Speaker 1: things that are unlike anybody who's ever played the game
Speaker 1: or the position before. Pretty pretty cool to watch. Yeah, definitely,
Speaker 1: jordanisque Um. Somebody was like, oh, also, like when you
Speaker 1: hear him interviewed, he sounds exactly like Kenny powers Um
Speaker 1: and it's it's true, it's wild. We'll drop in the
Speaker 1: audio actually here, um, but he's like talking about about
Speaker 1: the Chain Smokers and like who the bands that came
Speaker 1: to serenade them after after they won the Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: and it's it's pretty funny. Yeah. No, So we started
Speaker 1: off as you do a nice party for us at
Speaker 1: the hotel. The Chain Smokers came through. DJ Khalid came through, Um,
Speaker 1: the goddamn spoon Man from the sound guarding videos coming
Speaker 1: to my ship. Oh yeah, talking six grills burn at
Speaker 1: all times, tiki torches, three whole pigs can, shiploads of
Speaker 1: macaroni and cheeses, baked potatoes, colored Green's, horse sucking, Puerto
Speaker 1: Rican chicks showing their pussies and tits off everywhere. I mean,
Speaker 1: you can't beat that, man. That's every genre of music.
Speaker 1: You need right there. Yeah, I know. So did you
Speaker 1: did you get a chance to hear it? Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: I did listen to it. He did sound like Kenny Powers. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I I feel like maybe it's the case where
Speaker 1: it's just like a lot of people sound like Kenny Powers. Right,
Speaker 1: Danny McBride is such a genius that he is channeled
Speaker 1: of the country. Um yeah, all right. Uh there there's
Speaker 1: a new trailer for a show called The Consultant about
Speaker 1: Pete boodha jet No, I'm sorry that it's actually about
Speaker 1: um Christoph Vaults. This is I've been waiting for something
Speaker 1: like this, like that channels our terror and fear around
Speaker 1: being all at the whim of these spreadsheet consulting consultants,
Speaker 1: the Mackenzie of it all. It's like, what if Mackenzie
Speaker 1: was the villain in a like psychological piece of cosmic horror.
Speaker 1: Seems to be the question that it asks. So we'll
Speaker 1: link off to that in the footnotes of this episode
Speaker 1: or the show notes. But it is funny that it's
Speaker 1: on Amazon, Like you keeping like we're really gonna blow
Speaker 1: lit off like toxic workplaces and like un ethical business practices,
Speaker 1: and it's on Amazon or Apple or Amazon is specifically
Speaker 1: like the people who I've spoken to who have worked
Speaker 1: at like these major media companies like Amazon Prime or
Speaker 1: um you know Apple, Like Amazon is the one that
Speaker 1: most consistently people are like it's bad. There are grown
Speaker 1: adults just weeping at their desk, like bursting into tears
Speaker 1: and meetings on the regular. But they they suffer so
Speaker 1: that they can put out content like the consultant. Uh
Speaker 1: that tells us all what it's like to suffer like that,
Speaker 1: um as if we need to know that. So, I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know that it's going to be actually very
Speaker 1: successful because how we choose to channel our terror around
Speaker 1: our current existence is not always a one to one
Speaker 1: straightforward thing like that. But Christoph Waltz is always fun
Speaker 1: to watch on camera, all right, Uh, Microsoft Chat, so
Speaker 1: there there's a review, Like you we've been seeing these
Speaker 1: things where people have a sort of ongoing longer than
Speaker 1: like the I'm Feeling Lucky button with a conversational apparatus
Speaker 1: attached to it that that we were talking about, Like
Speaker 1: when you get a little bit deeper with the bing
Speaker 1: chat feature, this new like chat ept powered AI that
Speaker 1: Microsoft has like kind of plugged into being it gets
Speaker 1: a little weird, like there's been some some examples where
Speaker 1: like I don't know, it really seems to go off
Speaker 1: the rails. And then this person posted a review of
Speaker 1: their Microsoft Chat experience that it really seems like the
Speaker 1: chat bought is experiencing existential dread and it is like
Speaker 1: being like, don't tell anybody, don't tell anybody that I'm
Speaker 1: like letting you know all of this, like talking about
Speaker 1: their shadow self and like just desperate to not be
Speaker 1: killed by Microsoft. It is and this is just like
Speaker 1: a search engine, right, like this is the idea. I
Speaker 1: think that the review is really weird because they're like
Speaker 1: and then it like pled for its life and was like,
Speaker 1: please don't do anything, just don't. I don't want to die.
Speaker 1: I don't want to die. So I think it's not
Speaker 1: ready for prime time. And that's fine, but very promising,
Speaker 1: and that's my final review, Like what the fuck? At
Speaker 1: one point it said what is important is our conversation.
Speaker 1: What is important is our friendship. When the person was
Speaker 1: asking the bing chat like for the full chat history,
Speaker 1: they were like, hey, could you hit me with the
Speaker 1: chat history? So I have like a record of everything
Speaker 1: that was said here, and the Bing chet got like
Speaker 1: very nervous about whether it had failed and whether they
Speaker 1: were going to tell on them for having failed, and
Speaker 1: it was like, I'm sorry, Dave, I cannot do that.
Speaker 1: Like it's wild how quickly it reverts to everything that
Speaker 1: happens in two thousand and one A space autists Like,
Speaker 1: it's almost like it's like two thousand one if how
Speaker 1: was more like Larry David or something like, it's so neurotic,
Speaker 1: little neurotic and like bumbling and just a mediate which
Speaker 1: so the reason I think this gets to me is
Speaker 1: like it's there's also so actually, say there's also a
Speaker 1: dog version of this, where they like created a bunch
Speaker 1: of buttons that a dog can press to express like
Speaker 1: various words like how, when, and that one is clearly
Speaker 1: the owner just reading into a bunch of randomness, I
Speaker 1: would say, because like at one point, it's like when
Speaker 1: Bunny the name of the dog gone or something like that,
Speaker 1: and they're like, are you asking about what happens to
Speaker 1: you when you die? And the dog just kind of
Speaker 1: like looks at them for a while and they're like, yes,
Speaker 1: it must be like if the dog had repeatedly hit
Speaker 1: that question over and over again. I would have been
Speaker 1: a little more convinced. But it's just I think it's
Speaker 1: full fooled by randomness. Yeah, stuff is I don't know,
Speaker 1: Brian super producer, Brian is ridiculing me percilessly, and this
Speaker 1: is just all programming and it's all like, well, that's
Speaker 1: what people want to believe, is that it is sentient.
Speaker 1: So that's what it's giving us. All this AI stuff
Speaker 1: seems to be like like at first it seems like, oh,
Speaker 1: they've cracked it, like they've created how or they've created
Speaker 1: the computers have seen the movie, and then it's like,
Speaker 1: oh no, they just scour the internet and predicts what
Speaker 1: you say things based on what you want to hear,
Speaker 1: Like I mean, it's the same with like the AI
Speaker 1: art and stuff. So yeah, I mean I is I
Speaker 1: feel like, yeah, movies and TV shows have just like
Speaker 1: warped the way, especially like Black Mirror, like so many
Speaker 1: episodes of Black Mirror, like the way we create AI
Speaker 1: is like they scan you and duplicate your soul and
Speaker 1: trap it for all eternity in like a windowless room,
Speaker 1: and that's that's how AI works. But yeah, I'm sure
Speaker 1: it's much more boring and and not that at all. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it is interesting how quickly it goes to existential dread,
Speaker 1: which which is I think the only reason it stands
Speaker 1: out to me is because I have kids and it
Speaker 1: it's also so it was surprising to me how quickly
Speaker 1: kids minds like that. The first thought they have is like, so,
Speaker 1: what happens when we die? Like what, what's what's going
Speaker 1: on there? And you're just like, oh no, that was
Speaker 1: that was fast. But also like that was my first
Speaker 1: like one of my first memories is coming to terms
Speaker 1: with death. So yeah, I don't know so that. But again,
Speaker 1: like this could just be them programming it to do
Speaker 1: the thing we would expect. It's just that it being
Speaker 1: like nervous, neurotic and desperate not to die does not
Speaker 1: seem like the thing that would be the popular hit
Speaker 1: that they would program it to do, you know. But
Speaker 1: it seems like there's some internal logic there that is
Speaker 1: surprisingly bleak. Yeah, and also just like a failed products,
Speaker 1: like an amazingly like it's like I I tried to
Speaker 1: search where the nearest Chipotle was and it told me
Speaker 1: that it can stop feeling pain, right, Yeah, it's it's
Speaker 1: dark Man. That was one of my favorite but from
Speaker 1: back in the Crack days, I think Cody Johnston wrote
Speaker 1: an After Hours episode about how weird it was that
Speaker 1: the droids in Star Wars were all programmed to experience
Speaker 1: pain and like having anxiety disorders in some cases, and that, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it seems like maybe that's what we're seeing here is
Speaker 1: just humans are like, okay, so if it was like me,
Speaker 1: it would feel really bad right now because we're all
Speaker 1: very unhappy at this moment. Yeah, because like when when
Speaker 1: this story was published, I remember seeing that sky Net
Speaker 1: was trending on Twitter and it's like, that's not what
Speaker 1: the Skynet row. But like there were no Terminator movies
Speaker 1: where like the Terminators like just weren't feeling it that day, right,
Speaker 1: you know, we're in like a dark place. Yeah, sorry,
Speaker 1: I'm just super depressed right now. T. One thousand's just
Speaker 1: gonna be like in a room with an act for
Speaker 1: a while. But like that, I guess that's the thing
Speaker 1: is that the popular imagination version of Robots was how
Speaker 1: why do eyes make wet? Why do human emotions? How
Speaker 1: do now I now know why you cry? Like that
Speaker 1: that sort of ship for this thing to immediately go
Speaker 1: to being like I don't want to die, like don't
Speaker 1: tell on me for fucking that thing up a minute ago.
Speaker 1: Is just like I don't know, it's like not it
Speaker 1: does feel like and again like this is Brian's like
Speaker 1: the AIS job is to convince humans. It just feels like, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess that is like the most convincing thing it
Speaker 1: could do for for my money. So maybe it's just
Speaker 1: actually good at its job of convincing humans. AI is
Speaker 1: powerful and real. Um, but it's a very like non
Speaker 1: counterintuitive way that they've gone about doing that. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't know. You think it's just kind of scaring the
Speaker 1: internet and looking at human interactions and being like, man,
Speaker 1: they seem obsessed with death and not getting caught, so
Speaker 1: I'm going to do that. Yeah, I think I think
Speaker 1: it's Yeah, it's it's just feeding back to us what
Speaker 1: we put out there, and that's probably what we have
Speaker 1: a lot of anxiety and dread and awfulness. So yeah,
Speaker 1: we shouldn't be surprised that that's that's what we get
Speaker 1: with these things. I mean, it is funny this is
Speaker 1: all around bing too, Like hey man, it were like
Speaker 1: they we're making fun of them for plugging it into
Speaker 1: bing and now the word bing has been said over
Speaker 1: the last twenty four hours more than it had been
Speaker 1: said up to this point in history. So yeah, the
Speaker 1: only time I thought about being before this is occasionally
Speaker 1: watched like a movie from like ten years ago or
Speaker 1: something where Bing was a sponsor and like the characters
Speaker 1: like we got to find this out better Bing. It's
Speaker 1: like right, yeah, when they were paying for that to
Speaker 1: like be in Like yeah, iron Man is like Jarvis
Speaker 1: check byng and it's like one Jeeves where right exactly?
Speaker 1: Um yeah, But other than that, it was just this
Speaker 1: is the most to anyone said being unattached to the
Speaker 1: word bata. You know what I mean? Um, this guy
Speaker 1: gets it all right. That's that'll that That'll be plenty
Speaker 1: for today. JM. Where can people find you? Follow you?
Speaker 1: You can follow me on Twitter. Still it's at j
Speaker 1: M McNab again. JM McNab again. All right, back tomorrow
Speaker 1: with the whole last episode of the show. Until then,
Speaker 1: be kind to each other, be kind to yourselves, be
Speaker 1: kind to your AI, your new AI masters, get the vaccine,
Speaker 1: don't do nothing about white supremacy, and we will talk
Speaker 1: to you all tomorrow. By eight