Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this special holiday season
Speaker 1: year end episode of like istal.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, get appropriate appropriate for the theme?
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh yes, I see how it's appropriate for the theme.
Speaker 1: My name's Jack.
Speaker 2: That over there is.
Speaker 1: Sentimentizal spliff old good old saints spliff.
Speaker 3: The way too much of that loud.
Speaker 2: No, it's because I go down the chimneys and my
Speaker 2: wife says it's actually my pulmonary oncologist says that I'm
Speaker 2: in a spot of trouble. Good lord.
Speaker 1: It does sound like something that Santa would say to like,
Speaker 1: get it, get missus claws off his back. It's actually
Speaker 1: going down the chimneys. It has nothing to do with
Speaker 1: all the weed I'm smoking.
Speaker 2: It's all the fiberglass. I'm freebasing. You're freebasing fiberglass. Okay.
Speaker 1: My kids are at an age where they're reading a
Speaker 1: lot of books where the bad guy has like a
Speaker 1: clue that they're a bad guy in their name, Like
Speaker 1: Luke Siffer, you know what I mean, like that.
Speaker 2: Wait, where are you going with that one? Luke what
Speaker 2: Luke Siffer?
Speaker 1: Oh, Lucas Cipher, Yeah, Cipher.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought you're totally fucking up. Star wars. You know,
Speaker 2: Luke Siff, what's all right? That's a guy right, like
Speaker 2: dark Valor.
Speaker 1: But so my six year old was like, so do
Speaker 1: bad guys always have like something in their name that
Speaker 1: like backwards it like tells you something. And then we
Speaker 1: we were like, there aren't really many names like that,
Speaker 1: and I was like, I guess Santa would be though,
Speaker 1: right if like Satan, you know, it's just anagram. It's
Speaker 1: like a little two on the notes, Like Santa can't
Speaker 1: be the bad guy because it's too close. They barely
Speaker 1: tried to hide it.
Speaker 4: I wonder what kind of Yeah, let's see Santa close.
Speaker 4: Let's just get some an anagrams, not a not ants casual.
Speaker 4: That's not like a it's ants casual.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 1: And these answer are way too casual about getting my
Speaker 1: kids a ant colony for Christmas.
Speaker 2: So with the gel versus the dirt, the dirt whise,
Speaker 2: Gail's the new kind. You can see right through it
Speaker 2: and like they light up, so I think you can
Speaker 2: get I think I can see everywhere. We got that
Speaker 2: from my nephew a long time ago. Anyway, all that
Speaker 2: to say, we're here to actually look at grift gift
Speaker 2: guides with some good ideas, and by good we mean
Speaker 2: questionable and probably nah fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah that so I was saying, like I was thinking
Speaker 1: about getting the Aunt Colonies until I saw Gwyneth Paltrow's
Speaker 1: gift guide GPS picks in particular, that pretty pretty interesting stuff.
Speaker 3: I gotta say, do you.
Speaker 2: Got stuff for kids?
Speaker 3: You know what what is and isn't for kids?
Speaker 2: You know? Yeah? What child wouldn't want an eight thousand
Speaker 2: dollars vanity because they're remodeling a bathroom.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 1: There's this one that is a stacking ring, which means
Speaker 1: it's a ring that you can't wear by itself. It's
Speaker 1: like meant to be stacked with other rings. And it's
Speaker 1: one thousand, six hundred and forty dollars. So it's like yeah, yea, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: yah yeah.
Speaker 3: It's just like.
Speaker 1: An add on ring, like an additional baseline ring for
Speaker 1: year one thousand, six hundred forty dollars.
Speaker 2: Okay, this is the one that I feel because there's
Speaker 2: always weird shit on the Goop gift guide. I do
Speaker 2: not what the fuck is mouth tape miles.
Speaker 1: I'm so glad you asked, because I don't fucking know either,
Speaker 1: mouth tape for the low price of twenty four to
Speaker 1: ninety five. You can get some VO two mouth tape
Speaker 1: out mouth breathing in mouth taping. So the description for
Speaker 1: the uninitiated taping your mouth closed at night forces you
Speaker 1: to breathe through your nose while you sleep, unless your
Speaker 1: nose is stuffed up, in which case it kills you
Speaker 1: is not said there. But and because mouth breathing can
Speaker 1: be the culprit for all sorts of sleep disruptions like snoring,
Speaker 1: mouth taping may help you and sound sensitive partners get
Speaker 1: a better night's rest. This tape set is our favorite.
Speaker 1: The fabric is a cotton blend with a hypoalergenic medical
Speaker 1: grade adhesive like a typical bandage. As always, consult with
Speaker 1: your physician about any sleep issues and use of this product,
Speaker 1: which could probably kill you.
Speaker 2: I love like with any like. It's not a Goop
Speaker 2: gift unless you tape the or not tape, unless you wow,
Speaker 2: it's in the brain, unless you google what the product
Speaker 2: is and say medically sound yeah, like mouth taping, and
Speaker 2: then like web md is like again. The thing that
Speaker 2: makes it a Goop thing is when like, there's not
Speaker 2: enough evidence to suggest this is a thing that works. Also,
Speaker 2: if you're snoring like that, Again, they did do the
Speaker 2: right thing. It's like contact your doctor please, got forty
Speaker 2: fucking track. They are shut with.
Speaker 1: Nothing if not legally savvy and uh scared of being sued,
Speaker 1: so they always do the right thing in the end.
Speaker 2: This is there's another one on here that's like an Again,
Speaker 2: it's a two hundred and forty five thousand dollars a
Speaker 2: week expedition to Alaska. Uh huh, holy shit, Like I
Speaker 2: don't even know it's it's basically it's a private super
Speaker 2: yacht journey through the coastal wilderness and it's the most
Speaker 2: special way to explore it for only two hundred and
Speaker 2: forty five thousand dollars a week a week. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: a week a week. That's but it's very standard. If
Speaker 2: anyone who's a charter to private super yacht knows, I
Speaker 2: mean obviously that that's that's quite the norm and.
Speaker 1: Not that actually like for real though, like no cap miles.
Speaker 1: That shit is a good price.
Speaker 2: Cap on my spending. Yes, that's a fantastic, fantastic, fantastic price.
Speaker 3: Again just to get someone.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I love all of these in the context of
Speaker 1: being gifts that you get for somebody. The mouth breathing
Speaker 1: one in particular like it because the way that sleep
Speaker 1: apnea and breathe. Other sleep based breathing problems are treated
Speaker 1: as like by forcing air into your mouth, and this.
Speaker 3: Is like what if the opposite.
Speaker 1: Yeah, instead we deprived it and just like forced you
Speaker 1: through tough love to nose breathe your way out of apnea.
Speaker 1: And it also assumes that the obstruction is like in
Speaker 1: your mouth.
Speaker 2: I feel.
Speaker 1: Kind of you know what I mean, like yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: wouldn't you still get apnea, like even if you're breathing
Speaker 1: through your nose?
Speaker 2: Well, because it's about an obstruction, right, I think at
Speaker 2: the back of the danger there. Yeah. Look, I'm no doctor,
Speaker 2: and I use Scotch tape on my mouth for safety
Speaker 2: because it's it's not it's very funny. Yeah yeah, yeah
Speaker 2: yeah yeah. Then there's like just all the wellness gifts
Speaker 2: in this goof guid, I said, goof guide. It really is.
Speaker 2: There's just like a sauna tense uh hair brush that
Speaker 2: I guess is the ultimate hair brush, more salt lamps.
Speaker 2: Thing I didn't know were body balanced magnets.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you know you haven't. Oh my god, that
Speaker 1: actually explained so much. I thought you were onto body
Speaker 1: balance magnets. You don't know about body balanced magnets.
Speaker 2: There their ears, their ear seeds for the whole body
Speaker 2: ear seeds. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you don't know about ear seeds.
Speaker 2: That's that's what the description is. It's his body magnets
Speaker 2: ear slayer like ear seeds for your whole body. Ear
Speaker 2: seeds are seeds placed on your ear to serve as
Speaker 2: tiny acupressure devices that it's part of like you know,
Speaker 2: like acupunctures of world. But now they're saying you can
Speaker 2: put they just realign you by putting these stickers on your.
Speaker 3: Oh hell yeah, uh.
Speaker 1: I just saw on I Believe Instagram the Ultimate Gift
Speaker 1: Guide Instagram a like body sock thing that is being
Speaker 1: sold as a treatment for ADHD. It's like you put
Speaker 1: yourself in a body sock that like puts pressure all
Speaker 1: over your body and that somehow allows you to sleep
Speaker 1: with ADHD.
Speaker 3: Oh so yeah, just does it work? Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: I'll go like based on the performance of the person
Speaker 1: in the commercial, because it did have some real infomercial
Speaker 1: vibes to it. But yeah, it seems it seems like
Speaker 1: they were sleeping like a baby.
Speaker 2: It does say for for children with sensory processing disorders
Speaker 2: like autism or ADHD, body socks can play a significant
Speaker 2: role in helping these children improve their emotional I don't
Speaker 2: know that's from that's from a website.
Speaker 1: The people in the commercial were adults and they were
Speaker 1: just like ooh cozy and didn't look it did look
Speaker 1: very good to me, So I might try that ship.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Shall we move on to Oprah?
Speaker 1: A couple other things from Gwyneth. One of my favorite
Speaker 1: things that she's ever posted is a photograph of her
Speaker 1: groceries and she was like, this is all you can
Speaker 1: afford on like snap payments for a whole week of
Speaker 1: groceries like that, basically like that, it's fucked up. We
Speaker 1: need to give poor people more money. But then like
Speaker 1: her groceries that she was buying where it was like
Speaker 1: clearly an organic market. It was like eight lines and
Speaker 1: you know, basically just the ingredients for organic guacamole. Like
Speaker 1: the pricing was fucking wild. There was no like beans
Speaker 1: or rice or any of the staples. So I do
Speaker 1: just have to shout out a couple of the food
Speaker 1: gifts that she's recommending like an eighty eight dollars seasonal
Speaker 1: citrus box grown with love and picked by hand in
Speaker 1: Ohi Valley, a mere eighty eight dollars for some.
Speaker 2: For three pairs, three loose pairs exactly.
Speaker 1: They just come in in an Amazon box, just loose, just.
Speaker 2: Fucking all mushed up too. Yeah, oh god.
Speaker 1: And then we have this luxury Grand Master Chess Pieces set.
Speaker 3: What makes your kid? You can make such luxury?
Speaker 1: You ask it being completely fucking impractical because inside this
Speaker 1: handsome green croc embossed briefcase, this it appears to be
Speaker 1: made of crocodile skin on the outside is a complete
Speaker 1: chest set handcrafted in Los Angeles from rich dark and
Speaker 1: white chocolate. Use the pieces to play on the green
Speaker 1: and white board and when the game is over blown
Speaker 1: up a teat my friend three hundred and fifty dollars
Speaker 1: for a chess set. Uh that you can use once? Wow,
Speaker 1: and then you're you're meant to eat it or it's
Speaker 1: just gonna like melting your on your fingers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's you're not fucking playing with that. What do
Speaker 2: you do? You have to play like in a fucking
Speaker 2: open like outside in the cold, so your body heat
Speaker 2: doesn't transfer to the chocolate to keep it intact exactly.
Speaker 2: I would eat that shit in one though. I know, Oprah,
Speaker 2: are you there? What happened? Where's your favorite things? This
Speaker 2: is my thing, I gotta say up top talking about
Speaker 2: Oprah's Gift Guide. We have fallen, so we have fallen
Speaker 2: so far from the the original intent of Oprah's Gift Guide.
Speaker 2: What used to be the reat Yeah, we're like, what
Speaker 2: is fucking billionaire Oprah by? What the fuck is in
Speaker 2: her house? And that was kind of like what the
Speaker 2: Oprah Gift Guide get like. It was a sure many
Speaker 2: things that were some practical, most kind of like very impractical,
Speaker 2: completely out of the reach of most people. And now
Speaker 2: it's gone completely the other way where it's now fucking
Speaker 2: I mean, this makes sense. Oprah's a billionaire. It's now
Speaker 2: quote powered by Amazon, uh huh, and everything is like
Speaker 2: shit that in my mind, I'm like, Oprah wouldn't be
Speaker 2: caught dead using this fucking thirty dollars towel. I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: you're not. I don't believe it anymore. And it's now
Speaker 2: the Amazon has fully captured Oprah's Gift Guide, And I
Speaker 2: just got to say it's it's a shame because I
Speaker 2: just I don't know who to trust anymore. I don't
Speaker 2: know if my wife will like these adjustable gold initial
Speaker 2: rings because I don't see Oprah wearing them.
Speaker 4: Even though it does spell out Oprah.
Speaker 1: You can only get Oprah's initials. You can't get it
Speaker 1: any other initial That's all we got, right now, That's
Speaker 1: all we got. I just I just have the full
Speaker 1: knuckle ring that with Oprah written across them, like can
Speaker 1: do the right thing. It's yeah, so it's a genius idea.
Speaker 1: Like there there are very famous people I'm sure Oprah's
Speaker 1: one of them, who are known for giving like really
Speaker 1: great Christmas get. Like if you get on their list,
Speaker 1: then you like get Tom Cruise has a coconut cake
Speaker 1: that he sends to people that is like legendary and
Speaker 1: like once you're on the list, you stay.
Speaker 3: On the list.
Speaker 1: You always like a coconut cake and it's supposed to
Speaker 1: be unbelievable. I think it's probably pretty good. But people
Speaker 1: love talking about how they're on Tom Cruise's coconut cake list.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a very la weird thing. People will be
Speaker 2: like name check. They're like, yeah, actually, I just got
Speaker 2: Tom's caken't. I mean, I don't know. I know a
Speaker 2: person tangentially who gets a cake and they talk about
Speaker 2: it all the time. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they send out like Etn's they send out a
Speaker 1: Christmas card update that's just like still their list.
Speaker 2: Their holiday card is them with the Tom Cruise cake.
Speaker 2: They're like always in his heart.
Speaker 3: I would do that. I would totally Christmas.
Speaker 1: But so it makes sense, like this idea that like
Speaker 1: get the gifts for people that like Oprah would get them,
Speaker 1: you know, like celebrities get the best gifts like when
Speaker 1: they go to the Oscars or whatever, and then probably
Speaker 1: give the best gifts, and that was the idea behind
Speaker 1: the Oprah gifts and instead now yeah, it's just like
Speaker 1: having a website that just gives you the things that
Speaker 1: Amazon would already highlight for you.
Speaker 2: Well, because I think the de evolution of this was
Speaker 2: eventually then people you could game Oprah. You could give
Speaker 2: her a bunch of shit get on the list or
Speaker 2: buy your way on the list. Probably to the point
Speaker 2: now it's like, yeah, Oprah is loving the Apple Beats
Speaker 2: Studio pro Kim Kardashian Collaborative headphones.
Speaker 3: Uh huh oh yeah, oh Oprah I love that shit.
Speaker 2: Then there's one for I think people who are in
Speaker 2: just infinitely there's a thing in la that people always
Speaker 2: say on hiking shows. It also feels like aimed at
Speaker 2: people of color who play music while hiking, where it's
Speaker 2: mostly people, like, people are playing so much music on
Speaker 2: the hiking trails, I can't believe it anymore. I get
Speaker 2: one thing, if you're like blasting music and you're trying
Speaker 2: to make it about you, but whatever, if you're like
Speaker 2: just walking by someone, they got some it doesn't bother me.
Speaker 2: The wilderness is vast. There's a fucking water bottle that
Speaker 2: has a built in Bluetooth speaker in it that I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 2: this feels like the most like for the annoying person
Speaker 2: in your life, get it? Uh? But yeah, that one
Speaker 2: just feels like this. This would cause a lot of
Speaker 2: disruptions on Runyon Canyon, where people are already like everyone's
Speaker 2: got a Bluetooth speaker when they hike. It's because they're
Speaker 2: promoing their SoundCloud.
Speaker 1: That's right, they're just their album just dropped on Runying
Speaker 1: can At Ruingying Canon, there's a pair of sneakers that
Speaker 1: are also high heels, like you know how people in
Speaker 1: New York they walk to work in sneakers and then
Speaker 1: like put on the heels, put on the fancy shoes.
Speaker 1: These split that difference by retscha. Yeah, they are the icon.
Speaker 3: I don't know. I can't can't picture, can't quite picture
Speaker 3: Oprah Rockleys. But I've been wrong before.
Speaker 2: These like this again, this feels I mean, look, Oprah
Speaker 2: has completely fallen from grace, She's platformed all the bad
Speaker 2: doctors you can imagine. But now a shoe like this,
Speaker 2: I feel bad for someone's Like, oh, Oprah said, these
Speaker 2: nasty looking They look like prescription shoes. Yeah, like it
Speaker 2: kind of blows your mind looking at it, Like it
Speaker 2: looks like a weird running shoe with a big elastic
Speaker 2: strap with a locking heel on it. I don't know,
Speaker 2: but apparently Gail wore these for twelve hours straight. Ope.
Speaker 2: So but why in order to well the thing is
Speaker 2: I believe not true at all and just used to sell.
Speaker 1: Let's take a quick break, we'll come back. We'll look
Speaker 1: at some other are the cool gift guides.
Speaker 3: We'll be right back.
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Speaker 1: Miles up here on your wall in the corner like
Speaker 1: Spider Man, Why did you paint yourself the same tone
Speaker 1: as my wall paint? That can't be safe. I was
Speaker 1: going for the thing from that iconic Pink Floyd poster,
Speaker 1: you know that where the girls are all painted with
Speaker 1: different album covers. Reference, yes, very timely reference. Did you
Speaker 1: have that poster? I did not, but it was like
Speaker 1: one of the cooler posters that was more high school
Speaker 1: freshman year of college poster.
Speaker 2: I feel like, what's like one of your favorite posters
Speaker 2: that you do you think about?
Speaker 1: So I lived in a dormant high school and I
Speaker 1: had my room covered in every Wu Tang album cover
Speaker 1: from thirty six Chambers up through Wu Tang Forever. Wow,
Speaker 1: And that was like all I wanted on my wall.
Speaker 1: I think I actually had a couple of movie posters,
Speaker 1: but like I had the wall of Wu Tang at
Speaker 1: a New England prep school.
Speaker 2: I guess like between the two, wouldn't there really only
Speaker 2: be thirty six chambers in Wuta Forever in that time period?
Speaker 3: You know all the solo jizzu.
Speaker 2: Oh, then you would have like maybe ghost Face Killer.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, I got it. Got got it.
Speaker 1: But the one that I feel like is the most
Speaker 1: iconic poster of my childhood is the Jordan Wings poster.
Speaker 2: Okay, when you said wings, I thought you were talking
Speaker 2: about Paul McCartney and I was like, oh boy, yeah, you.
Speaker 1: Don't know that one. Paul McCartney's been wings are chilling.
Speaker 1: But like I had it in my room. My math
Speaker 1: teacher had it up in her room. Oh, that's the
Speaker 1: one where his arms are fully out like that, his
Speaker 1: arms are fully out to the side. It's like wider
Speaker 1: than it is tall. It's supposed to be like life size.
Speaker 1: Wait what teacher did you say? My math teacher? Yo,
Speaker 1: this is so funny now I think about your science
Speaker 1: teacher had it in his office. Yeah, this was like
Speaker 1: I think, Yeah, I'm a cool teacher. I got the
Speaker 1: Wings poster.
Speaker 3: It's like I love Michael Jordan.
Speaker 1: Yeah, everybody has Jordan posters, but I'm also kind of
Speaker 1: into art and poetry, because like, this one's black and
Speaker 1: white and he's just like kind of staring into your soul.
Speaker 1: And it has a William Blake quote on it, which
Speaker 1: I had totally forgotten until I looked it up on
Speaker 1: eBay today, the quote being no birds soars too high
Speaker 1: if he soars with his own wings, which I hadn't
Speaker 1: really thought about at the time. Not really a good quote, right,
Speaker 1: nobody's ever really accusing birds of soaring too high, too.
Speaker 2: High would come down.
Speaker 3: Who do you think you are?
Speaker 1: A bird? As you can see behind me, I am rocking.
Speaker 1: I have the poster from a Walkman concert that I
Speaker 1: went to. You can get movie posters, you can get
Speaker 1: concert posters. All that stuff exists on eBay. But I
Speaker 1: think I got to add a wings poster to my backdrop.
Speaker 1: What do you think?
Speaker 2: Well, look, if wings are your thing, we all got
Speaker 2: a thing and it's on eBay. Maybe it's fashion, car parts,
Speaker 2: trading cards, retro posters, anything you can collect. So go
Speaker 2: find the thing that keeps you up at night. Whatever
Speaker 2: you love, find it on eBay. eBay things people love.
Speaker 3: And we're back.
Speaker 2: We're back.
Speaker 1: And there's another group that you know is buying gifts
Speaker 1: receiving gifts. Won't you please think of the mega people,
Speaker 1: the poor mega people who didn't get invited, some of
Speaker 1: them to Thanksgiving dinner.
Speaker 3: But now they're like, we don't care, man, We've got
Speaker 3: the White House.
Speaker 2: Things are cool, We've got our own gifts. We're I look,
Speaker 2: I was looking. I was trying to just think of
Speaker 2: gift guides that would make my head explode. Yeah, and
Speaker 2: I searched for a Democrat gift guide. Oh no, no
Speaker 2: energy right now, there's no energy. There's no energy there,
Speaker 2: there's nothing like. The most you can get are like
Speaker 2: Etsy stores that are kind of like for the Democrat
Speaker 2: in your life, and it will be like Trump is bad,
Speaker 2: but the same store will be like and here's a
Speaker 2: Maga potholder if you want that also. But yeah, on
Speaker 2: the Daily Mail, they've put together all these like grifty
Speaker 2: fucking nonsense objects for people to you know, use to
Speaker 2: give the violent racist in their life a fun gift, like.
Speaker 1: For the violent racist in their life to get for
Speaker 1: them after they're not invited Thanksgiving as a like aha
Speaker 1: in your.
Speaker 2: Face, I'm coping. Guess what I don't need Thanksgiving? When
Speaker 2: I have this one hundred and eighty dollars pickleball paddle
Speaker 2: with forty five on it. Okay, that's a pass. There
Speaker 2: is another one like a mini Trump bluetooth speaker pass.
Speaker 2: I mean, look, I'm going to pass on all of
Speaker 2: these except for the pajamas.
Speaker 3: Now, the pajamas round seventy five dollars a mirror.
Speaker 1: I must be five dollars that they've got stars all
Speaker 1: over the They look like they couldn't look any more
Speaker 1: like they cost thirty five dollars. Oh yeah yeah yah, yeah,
Speaker 1: yeahyeah they are. They might as well have the price
Speaker 1: stitched into them, like fifteen to thirty five. I'd say
Speaker 1: it's the top that you're going to go.
Speaker 2: This is an interesting one too that he's also selling
Speaker 2: a football like a like a flask that's shaped like
Speaker 2: a football and one end screws off and you put
Speaker 2: I'm guessing alcohol, and a flask isn't for water, So
Speaker 2: you can drink from a football with Trump and blazoned
Speaker 2: on it. So people have a reason to kick you
Speaker 2: out of a youth sports.
Speaker 1: Game, right because yeah, So the idea with the flask
Speaker 1: is that you're disguising your booze as a thing that
Speaker 1: is not noticeable and like would otherwise be.
Speaker 2: There, you know, right, like put that on your bookshelf, right.
Speaker 1: Exactly, you just have a book and then you just
Speaker 1: like take a steal a quick swig from it. We've
Speaker 1: all been there, but a very clearly like toy football
Speaker 1: like plastic football, like it doesn't look like a leather
Speaker 1: football at all with Trump written on it is not
Speaker 1: a thing that exists in reality in any way.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, I think because most of this shit
Speaker 2: is basically like, let's go to a website where they're
Speaker 2: mass producing stuff. What can we print Trump on? Boom
Speaker 2: there it is now charge seven times what it actually costs,
Speaker 2: and hey, grift complete.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I will say that the navy blue pajamas do look
Speaker 1: a little bit more like they cost one hundred and
Speaker 1: seventy five dollars. The ones that I was talking about
Speaker 1: are the star printed pajama bottoms that are a mere
Speaker 1: seventy two dollars but look like they should cost twenty
Speaker 1: five dollars.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's actually speaking of grifts. I also did do
Speaker 2: something I just again, I'm like, what's a fucking weird
Speaker 2: Like can my brain summon? I was like, what about
Speaker 2: crypto gift Guide? Oh? Hell yeah, there are now talking
Speaker 2: many So there's like a bunch where it's like you
Speaker 2: can fucking turn your car into like a crypto mining operation.
Speaker 2: Like this is so dystopian, I don't want to talk
Speaker 2: about it. Wow, it's like the normal, like the normy
Speaker 2: stuff that they sell that is like absolutely fucking off
Speaker 2: the rails. One is a hoodie that costs one hundred
Speaker 2: and ninety five dollars. It's all black. But the reason
Speaker 2: this is actually very chill. There is an NFC chip
Speaker 2: okay that that's integrated into the fabric that will verify
Speaker 2: the authenticity of your garment on chain and you can
Speaker 2: access exclusive content in community features by tapping.
Speaker 3: This no longer the thing, it's now NFC.
Speaker 2: No. NFC is like the technology used for like Apple
Speaker 2: pay and stuff.
Speaker 3: Got it okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, yea.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's the very it's a it's a technology, yes, yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 3: It's also leak in the NFL. It's like one of
Speaker 3: the leaves in the NFL.
Speaker 2: But exactly it's near field communication.
Speaker 3: Is near field communication of course miles.
Speaker 2: Yes, exactly exactly. Then there's this other one. Let me
Speaker 2: allow me, allow me to show you Jack, because this
Speaker 2: is absolutely beautiful for the lady in your life or
Speaker 2: a person who just cares about their nail job. Their
Speaker 2: manicure is important. Even get a chipped nail set, a
Speaker 2: programmable press on nail set for sixty four dollars that
Speaker 2: it features quote NFC enabled nails like fingernails that can
Speaker 2: connect to blockchain experiences in cryptos.
Speaker 3: What the fuck?
Speaker 1: Well, yeah I don't yeah, uh yeah, so what can
Speaker 1: I just keep walk me through what that would even mean?
Speaker 1: You can like walk in and just put your nails
Speaker 1: somewhere and it would be able to like pay for
Speaker 1: that thing with your nails.
Speaker 3: Essentially.
Speaker 2: Uh I guess here here's how they are selling it,
Speaker 2: because again I I'm I have no idea what the
Speaker 2: fuck they're talking about? Is there hole one? Is there
Speaker 2: a promo video?
Speaker 1: There seems to be like a promoh flash animation. You
Speaker 1: go to the website that disappears pretty quickly. They only
Speaker 1: had like five seconds worth of like hypothetic goal. This
Speaker 1: is how it's used.
Speaker 2: Okay, so here here this is how they're selling it.
Speaker 2: Tap connect and slay all day. Be that girl with
Speaker 2: the tech nails out drop dead Gorge press ons have
Speaker 2: NFC chips in the in the thumbs, so you can
Speaker 2: stay in the moment and effortlessly share your customizable links
Speaker 2: by tapping your nail to any smartphone. Okay, so anything
Speaker 2: that does I get like NFC reading as a phone
Speaker 2: you can basically, oh you want my ig or you
Speaker 2: want my podcast here, let me put my fingernail up
Speaker 2: to your phone and then snail that looks like grotesquely enlarged.
Speaker 3: I will say like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, hey, have you ever seen like one of those
Speaker 1: magic sets where they have the fake thumb that you
Speaker 1: like hide stuff in and it's like big, it's like
Speaker 1: three sizes too big and plastic. That's what the nail
Speaker 1: looks like. It's like puffing off and like way too
Speaker 1: big for the thumb on the Like they could have
Speaker 1: just done a press on noil and been like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's basically the idea, but they show how shitty their
Speaker 1: product looks in this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's failing as a press on nail. Like how
Speaker 2: much technology is in there that it looks like you're
Speaker 2: putting on like like a gigantic piece of gum on
Speaker 2: your finger. That's my thumb. That's just my thumb. Very normal,
Speaker 2: very normal.
Speaker 3: Like fungal infection on your nail or what's happening?
Speaker 2: No, it's actually a near field communication chip. Actually, bring
Speaker 2: your phone here, Yeah, check out my website.
Speaker 1: And then the person just jumped off the building that
Speaker 1: you were talking to them on right.
Speaker 2: Then there's crypto gift cards. It's just I'm again, I'm.
Speaker 1: Not two most valuable things crypto gift cards.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but the NFC fingernails I think is probably a
Speaker 2: winner in terms of like who the fuck's buying that?
Speaker 2: But I'm look zeitgang. If you know somebody and that
Speaker 2: works for them, please get them the chipped nail set
Speaker 2: so they can share their LinkedIn with someone.
Speaker 1: Are they doing tongue in cheek or like, did the
Speaker 1: crypto bros who came up with this not even think
Speaker 1: about the fact that like chipped nails are a bad thing,
Speaker 1: Like you know what I mean, like somebody chipping their
Speaker 1: nails is dead. Like I wonder if that even if
Speaker 1: that if they were like, yeah, that'll be like a
Speaker 1: fun tongue in cheek thing, or if they were like
Speaker 1: what are you what are you talking about chipped nails?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't understand.
Speaker 2: I'm wondering if this this feels like, you know, like
Speaker 2: at a group of like uh NFC like crypto enthusiast
Speaker 2: type people, like they're doing like a brainstorming thing and
Speaker 2: it's just a bunch of dudes been like dude, okay,
Speaker 2: so you can ship anything, right, Like women their fingernails, right, Okay, Yeah,
Speaker 2: they want to share their like Instagram or whatever, and
Speaker 2: then they can put that on their nail. So rather
Speaker 2: than out loud to just say a handle to someone,
Speaker 2: they can be like, put your phone on my thumb
Speaker 2: to get this. Yeah. This is sick, dude, this is sick.
Speaker 2: It's also yeah, anyone I anyone you know who's serious
Speaker 2: about getting manicures. They're serious about how their fingernails look. Yeah,
Speaker 2: in my experience, absolutely, you know what I mean. And
Speaker 2: some some busted ass fucking press on nails with a
Speaker 2: fucking NFC chip. That is for someone who is so
Speaker 2: outside of.
Speaker 1: The like, yeah, it hasn't crossed their mind. She has nails.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's uh, if these scammers are anything worth
Speaker 1: their salt, If they these are scammers worth anything. This
Speaker 1: is a final sale product because every single if it's not,
Speaker 1: every single instance of this being bought for someone is
Speaker 1: going to get returned. Yeah, they're all going back unless
Speaker 1: this ship is final sale.
Speaker 2: Okay, they do have I will, I will just to
Speaker 2: let we can hear it from them on their TikTok
Speaker 2: channel that only has six hundred followers. This is the
Speaker 2: one where they're trying to make it look like it's
Speaker 2: a real influencer type person being like, have you guys
Speaker 2: heard about this new rage? It doesn't even have three
Speaker 2: hundred views, but this is them trying to act like
Speaker 2: we're solving a problem.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so you've probably seen this nsc now trend all
Speaker 5: of a TikTok and you're probably like, how about how
Speaker 5: are you that for myself? And I had to program.
Speaker 5: I don't know what to get the chips my na do.
Speaker 5: I nows myself, Babe, don't worry. We literally made them
Speaker 5: in bressans so you can just like tap your phone.
Speaker 3: Oh, she's showing you the giant thumbnail.
Speaker 5: I'm literally taking as a gift to my lashtack right now.
Speaker 2: And the video's over. Not one. They didn't give you
Speaker 2: one look at what the fingernails look like on your hands,
Speaker 2: because they're like, bro, it's a l if. Anyone looks
Speaker 2: too close.
Speaker 3: Real quick.
Speaker 1: She gave you like a real quick glimpse of her
Speaker 1: own thumbnail, and it is massive.
Speaker 2: Yeah. It looked like she like was like doing some
Speaker 2: like DIY handy work and like was using a hammer
Speaker 2: and accidentally blast did her thumb like trying to put
Speaker 2: a nail in, but.
Speaker 3: Anyway, give yourself hammer thumbs. Well.
Speaker 1: Also, you know, being able to show people your website
Speaker 1: a thing that I'm always wanting to show people my
Speaker 1: website or my Instagram just by sticking my hand next
Speaker 1: to their phone. So yeah, and if this worked and
Speaker 1: was useful at all, their videos would probably have more
Speaker 1: than two hundred and seventy views.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but they're trying, They're trying. They're trying.
Speaker 1: They are out here trying, they are fighting for their
Speaker 1: lives out here.
Speaker 3: People.
Speaker 1: Let's take a quick break and we'll come back and
Speaker 1: we'll close out with finally AI has come for the
Speaker 1: gifting world, and regular gift guides are nervous.
Speaker 3: We'll be right back, and we're back.
Speaker 2: We're back.
Speaker 1: And I thought this said the grift list, but that
Speaker 1: was just my brain promoting onto it. So all of
Speaker 1: these have gone the way like this used to be
Speaker 1: a very common form of media, like every type of
Speaker 1: every magazine, you know, a lot of different editorial institutions
Speaker 1: would have their gift guides.
Speaker 3: It would be written by a person and now craft,
Speaker 3: what's that is you doing?
Speaker 2: It cracked?
Speaker 1: We did not do want it cracked, but we had
Speaker 1: to fight tooth and nail to not do one.
Speaker 2: It was parent companies would be like, what about a
Speaker 2: gift guide guys.
Speaker 3: I don't think we did.
Speaker 1: But anyway, the I remember saying no to it once,
Speaker 1: that doesn't mean it never snuck through. But now this
Speaker 1: whole genre feels like AI slop a little bit, like
Speaker 1: I'll like even the when and who's never steered? Oh
Speaker 1: yeah before like her AI, her gift guide feels like
Speaker 1: it was just you know, being generated as you searched
Speaker 1: through it, right, So why not just go right to
Speaker 1: the source and use AI to generate a gift guide
Speaker 1: specifically for the very specific person you have in mind.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, and powered by chat GPT. Yeah, they're all
Speaker 2: using chat GPT. There have been some articles or people
Speaker 2: like I like how some there are clearly the websites
Speaker 2: that are in bed with AI and they're like, wow,
Speaker 2: this makes holiday shopping easier. Then there's ones from seeing
Speaker 2: that that says I asked AI to help me create
Speaker 2: a holiday gift list. I won't make that mistake again.
Speaker 2: Oh really, yeah, Because again, what it's doing is it's like,
Speaker 2: give us a description of a person, and we will
Speaker 2: give you the ultimate gift guide. So I think it's
Speaker 2: probably appropriate that we would Jack, you and I would
Speaker 2: find a way to use AI to get each other gifts.
Speaker 2: How would you, yeah, for the purposes of a gift guide,
Speaker 2: how would you describe yourself to an AI to see
Speaker 2: if it can get some of the things you want?
Speaker 2: Because there's my version, which is a little bit tongue
Speaker 2: in cheek, but I feel like I was trying to
Speaker 2: give it details. I said, Jack is a forty something
Speaker 2: what I'm old?
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's incorrect, all right, So I would say, I'm like,
Speaker 1: you know, cool dad, Like you know cool dad first
Speaker 1: and foremost, Wow, and the artist?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: So Jack is it? Okay? Artist who loves athletics, hero
Speaker 2: and he is a hero.
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think this is going to generate something really
Speaker 2: really good for you. Jack is a forty four year
Speaker 2: old cool dad and artist who loves athletics and is
Speaker 2: a hero. Yeah. I think.
Speaker 3: Yeah, let's do it.
Speaker 2: Okay, So this is this is from Cool Gift Ideas,
Speaker 2: which is AI powered. Uh, Jack, Let's see what it's
Speaker 2: going to create for you. And I will also use
Speaker 2: another one called gift list, and we can compare and contrast.
Speaker 2: So here is what we got for Wow. The generated
Speaker 2: gift ideas are here. Here's a g I Joe sort
Speaker 2: of graphic, same graphics as g I Joe, says Dad,
Speaker 2: real American hero. So it took that literally? Yea, the
Speaker 2: artists never retire book by it's.
Speaker 3: A murder, she wrote, dying hire.
Speaker 2: Huh, what the fuck is that? That didn't even it's Wow,
Speaker 2: this is how fucking inaccurate is Then you click the link,
Speaker 2: it doesn't even show up on the other side. A
Speaker 2: watercolor paint set, an athletic gear organizer bag that looks
Speaker 2: like it just has four slots for something.
Speaker 1: Yeah, is that it looks like maybe a thing like
Speaker 1: a portable bowling shoe container is kind of what, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it looks like, or you.
Speaker 2: Can carry four bowling shoes at a time. A running
Speaker 2: belt with a water bottle. A cool dad baseball cap
Speaker 2: that says working on this dad body. Oh god, some
Speaker 2: of the worst art I've seen. Yeah, this is actually
Speaker 2: probably the worst.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this shit, I guess I shouldn't have gone so
Speaker 1: hard on my how artistic and cool I am.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this other one just says so many are like,
Speaker 2: get him a Duffel bag or under armoor hoodie. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you should get it armor hoodie.
Speaker 3: Yes, that can add it in on the jersey. Sure, dude,
Speaker 3: that is.
Speaker 2: Actually probably the most accurate thing for saying you're like
Speaker 2: a dad who thinks he's a hero and is into sports.
Speaker 3: And shit like that.
Speaker 2: It's like, yeah, dude, that's an you're you're an under
Speaker 2: armour hoodie.
Speaker 1: I was kind of waiting to see if it gave
Speaker 1: me like any thin blue line stuff, you know.
Speaker 3: No, just no, no thin blue line under armour.
Speaker 2: How would you describe me? Jack?
Speaker 1: So, I said, forty year old hip hop NBA lover,
Speaker 1: new dad, And I did this a while ago, totally
Speaker 1: not as you were searching for mine, And I think
Speaker 1: I think it came up with like some some fun stuff.
Speaker 2: Okay are you oh you want me to Okay?
Speaker 3: Are you doing?
Speaker 2: Sorry? You said four year old hip hop lover.
Speaker 3: Hip hop, NBA loving new.
Speaker 2: Dad, NBA loving new dad. Oh that that lack of
Speaker 2: proper syntax is gonna fuck this AI right up here
Speaker 2: we go. Let's fire up cool gifts and then let's
Speaker 2: also enter it over here on gift list. Let's see
Speaker 2: what we got gift list. Who's coming first? How many
Speaker 2: trees are we burning right now? By even asking it
Speaker 2: to do this. I'm very sorry about that. Let's see.
Speaker 2: First one is a dad jokes book, an NBA onesie
Speaker 2: here enjoyed the Baby Sneakers? Yeah, you know I would.
Speaker 1: This is so because I did the exact same search
Speaker 1: term in it gave me different results like hip.
Speaker 2: Hop remix album no Get the Fuck out of Here? Yeah.
Speaker 1: Hip Hop Baby a collection of classic rap songs. A
Speaker 1: fun and engaging music album as we call them that
Speaker 1: brings classic hip hop tracks into a family friendly setting.
Speaker 1: Hip Hop Baby a collection of classic rap songs. And
Speaker 1: then you go to that, Yo.
Speaker 2: This is a violation. Is you think this is racist?
Speaker 1: Is it?
Speaker 2: Baby Carrier for new Dads? It had a black guy. Wow,
Speaker 2: you think it was beating NBA loving hip hop?
Speaker 3: Man?
Speaker 2: Here you go, pal and they're like, here you might
Speaker 2: like this baby Carrier.
Speaker 1: Wait, the chat GPT one when you click on it,
Speaker 1: it like just takes you to, like doesn't really take
Speaker 1: you to the thing that it says it's going to
Speaker 1: take you to. So it says hip Hop Baby a
Speaker 1: collection of classic rap songs. I go to that and
Speaker 1: it just takes me to a thing that's that is
Speaker 1: a bunch of like baby onesies that say smooth since
Speaker 1: days of under rus, but not.
Speaker 3: The product that they were talking about, the jack.
Speaker 2: It's their gift. Guides are gonna halloon a time. That's
Speaker 2: the bad thing. You've got to understand.
Speaker 1: They just like made up a product that doesn't exist,
Speaker 1: and then we're like hoping that you wouldn't click through
Speaker 1: to say. It's also like weird paintings of shirtless rappers
Speaker 1: on here.
Speaker 2: Oh that well, which ones?
Speaker 3: This one is h u I b A l I.
Speaker 1: Huey Biley rapper, little music, baby tapestry rap hip hop.
Speaker 2: It's like giving making up rappers from AI who's Huey
Speaker 2: bite No not me, not me, not me?
Speaker 3: Huh.
Speaker 1: Interesting, Yeah, it's a mess out here in the in
Speaker 1: the world of I thought.
Speaker 2: I mean, honestly, I think just by like broken clock
Speaker 2: is right twice a day and all that, I feel
Speaker 2: like the best thing was thinking that a mid forties
Speaker 2: dad who thinks he's a hero would wear under ourmor hoodie.
Speaker 3: Yeah they didn't.
Speaker 2: That was like that was sort of spot on in
Speaker 2: a way that I don't think they even realized how
Speaker 2: accurate that was. So uh, but I think the fact
Speaker 2: remains don't use them. God, I really want list a
Speaker 2: joke is I used it? And this is what Chad
Speaker 2: GBT thinks you are as a person. Although I would
Speaker 2: be offended if I got that shitty baby carrier because
Speaker 2: it was just a black dad on it.
Speaker 1: Here you go, pal, Yeah, I feel like the it's
Speaker 1: so interesting that they like give you descriptions of things
Speaker 1: that you might want to hear, and then when you
Speaker 1: click through, like that thing that product doesn't exist.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Wow, it's almost like that's a big flaw with AI.
Speaker 2: It's telling me what it thinks you want to hear
Speaker 2: rather than what not that there's like an objective truth
Speaker 2: over what a forty four year old dad or forty
Speaker 2: year old new dad who likes NBA and hip hop. Uh.
Speaker 1: The fact they have to lie to like get you yeah, like,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, we got a great gift guide idea for
Speaker 1: you man.
Speaker 3: Hell yeah, dude, Like check out this.
Speaker 1: It's like a collection of classic rap songs, but it's
Speaker 1: for babies. And then it's just a onesie that says
Speaker 1: picture me strolling they hating that's what it clicks through to.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, all right, that's that Just that almost
Speaker 2: killed my Christmas spirit. That's what I think. At the
Speaker 2: end of the day, we just need to keep sending
Speaker 2: our letters to the North Pole. Yeah, where they're heard
Speaker 2: and thank you.
Speaker 3: All right, those are that's where lives, right, North Pole.
Speaker 2: That's part of Monacito, California.
Speaker 1: Yes, okay, those are the gift guid the only gift
Speaker 1: guides on the entire Internet. We hope that you heard
Speaker 1: something in there that was uh, you know, struck your
Speaker 1: fancy and it's going to be useful to you. Bad
Speaker 1: job the Internet. It's getting worse out here, I think.
Speaker 2: I think the lesson here is that the gift guide
Speaker 2: era is fully dead. Like it all seems so impersonal.
Speaker 2: It looks like AI generated nonsense. There's no description, no
Speaker 2: reason to anything. A lot of it is just merely
Speaker 2: tied to the name of a celebrity and they're like
Speaker 2: that's good enough. Again, I think the best gift guide
Speaker 2: you can do is listening, you know. Yeah, because I'm
Speaker 2: the way, I've had to change my gift guide skills
Speaker 2: to just be like panic. Searching the Internet in December
Speaker 2: to try and find a gift is like being always
Speaker 2: being like, oh, okay, you wanted to borrow this from someone, Okay,
Speaker 2: you might I might get you one of these. Oh
Speaker 2: you like, oh you like how this thing looks on me?
Speaker 4: Okay, I might have to get you one of those.
Speaker 2: Okay, I have a little notes section, Mike. Yeah, that's how.
Speaker 1: You do it, because that's all the great gift given
Speaker 1: notes and it is a fairly recent creation.
Speaker 3: But I feel like the best episode.
Speaker 2: The best givers, I think are people who listen.
Speaker 3: And unassible listen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's the secret. Don't use AI or use.
Speaker 1: AI and say what would a thoughtful listener get for
Speaker 1: this person?
Speaker 2: Here's their name in Information and Social Security. Please please
Speaker 2: please specifically to them.
Speaker 1: All right, We're going to be back with more holiday
Speaker 1: themed content, more year end episodes. We are off not
Speaker 1: doing updating episodes every day, but we got more year
Speaker 1: end episodes coming out, more best of the year episodes
Speaker 1: that you guys voted on. So tune in to that
Speaker 1: on the weekdays and we will talk to you all
Speaker 1: then bye bye to