Speaker 1: Too sexy for.
Speaker 2: This syrup? Is that what you said? I think, so wow,
Speaker 2: that's that's actually the saddest ship you say that.
Speaker 1: Don't say that you're not.
Speaker 2: I'm too sexy for this drug. I abuse too sexy
Speaker 2: for sir. Okay, that's what's going on.
Speaker 1: I haven't abused it to the point that I can't
Speaker 1: pronounce words. I just like, I'm too sexy.
Speaker 2: For I'm so sexy that I am. All I do
Speaker 2: is drink from ethysine. That's how sexy I.
Speaker 1: Am, how sexy. That's what I tried when they when
Speaker 1: they were asking me if I was if I had
Speaker 1: a problem, you know, I was like, I think you
Speaker 1: might just be too sexy. Bro, might be too sexy
Speaker 1: for this vodka. I'm drinking in my closet. It's so sexy, no.
Speaker 2: Rationalization. I'm just just sexy for it. You've lost three
Speaker 2: jobs consecutively because you keep sipping lean.
Speaker 3: All right, Okay, Hello the Internet, and welcome to this
Speaker 3: week trend edition of Dir Dally's Guys.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, oh you sound curious today. Yes, I'm curious.
Speaker 1: My name is Jack O'Brien. Over there is my co host,
Speaker 1: mister Miles Gray.
Speaker 2: Wow. What a weekend. What a weekend?
Speaker 1: What a weekend do you have?
Speaker 2: What a weekend?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: But also just like the news fucking sucks. It is
Speaker 2: like that lady got you see the arrest in Woosh, Massachusetts,
Speaker 2: Like the town came out to try and prevent ice
Speaker 2: from taking this mother away, and then like the local
Speaker 2: cops were in on it too, and you're like Jesus Christ,
Speaker 2: and then you're like, yeah, Mother's Day, Mother's Day, everyone,
Speaker 2: But yeah, good time, good time.
Speaker 1: Seems bad I did, and.
Speaker 2: This will go into my over under it, but yeah,
Speaker 2: I think I did. I think I did pretty good
Speaker 2: on Mother's Day.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: I think matter he didn't like to take where I said,
Speaker 2: you know, without me, you wouldn't be a mother today.
Speaker 2: That wasn't taken well. And then I was like, is
Speaker 2: it wouldn't that be a bit someone would do.
Speaker 1: There's a reason I didn't call out your ability to
Speaker 1: get my jokes in this Mother's Day card.
Speaker 2: There's it feels that feels like I was just jokingly
Speaker 2: I did tell I was saying. I was like, I'm
Speaker 2: surprised we don't see more like conservative like talker men
Speaker 2: being like coming after Mother's day. Somehow that's where get
Speaker 2: we're getting dangerously close if we're gonna completely discount everything
Speaker 2: that like non men do. I feel like Mother's Day
Speaker 2: might be might be happening, or it's just like the
Speaker 2: one day where they're like, it's it's how I write
Speaker 2: the wrongs of everything I do every.
Speaker 1: Day right spiritually, it's how they get it off their check.
Speaker 2: Just just be a good partner.
Speaker 1: It is wild that because I get a lot my
Speaker 1: kids are at the age where they're, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: on a mother's or Father's Day, they they're wanting to
Speaker 1: know what about Kid's Day, which does exist in Korea.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they have that in Japan too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I uh My My thing is always like, well,
Speaker 1: every day is like kind of kids day, you know,
Speaker 1: you get and then you get like your birthdays. And
Speaker 1: but really, when you think about the fact that we
Speaker 1: still have Father's Day, like kids deserve a day more
Speaker 1: than fathers deserve a day. I feel like, in many ways.
Speaker 2: Called their fucking birthday jack, Yeah, thank you, sorry. I'm like,
Speaker 2: y'all don't deserve no fucking day. I would have answered
Speaker 2: your kid like I did when my homegirl high school,
Speaker 2: this white girl asked why it would be problem, why
Speaker 2: there's if there's black entertainment television, why there's no white
Speaker 2: entertainment television. And my answer was, look around, so that child,
Speaker 2: where's Children's Day?
Speaker 1: I say, look around, look around you. You don't got
Speaker 1: to work, it's all yours. You just you just eat
Speaker 1: and be merry. You should have children's Day where we
Speaker 1: just make it so they see what it's like if
Speaker 1: every day isn't Children's Day. Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'd be like, okay, son hop in the booth,
Speaker 2: talk about the genocide and Gaza and uh the creepy no,
Speaker 2: I mean fashion American fashions.
Speaker 1: Go ahead, go go just nails it. Yeah, is better
Speaker 1: than both of us.
Speaker 2: The way his two year old articulated just the mara
Speaker 2: of it all was I was in tears. Yeah.
Speaker 1: All right, Well this is the episode where we cover
Speaker 1: some of the news that happened over the weekend. We
Speaker 1: also cover some things that we think are overrated underrated. Miles,
Speaker 1: do you want to kick us off with something he
Speaker 1: thinks underrated underrated? Yes?
Speaker 2: First up, almond extract in your French toast. Go for it,
Speaker 2: do it? Okay, I made a brioche French toast cast role.
Speaker 2: It used a little vanilla extract to say, you know what,
Speaker 2: Her majesty likes Almond, she likes you know, Marzapan, She's
Speaker 2: down with that almond flavortle almond extract. Damn, just a
Speaker 2: teaspoon and a half in there. So fucking I loved
Speaker 2: like almond deep almond extract. Deflavor that in a fucking
Speaker 2: French toast took it to the next level. So anyway,
Speaker 2: just consider.
Speaker 1: That kind of brand. You use it on your French toast.
Speaker 2: Boche with that buttery bread, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: So it really just gets gooey delicious. The other one underrated.
Speaker 2: Taking a full dryer load out with your arms in
Speaker 2: one go, every single thing. Clean out the fucking dryer,
Speaker 2: one go your goo. You're not dropping a sock, not
Speaker 2: a fucking jack, not a single fucking no basket.
Speaker 1: Underneath the basket, You're taking it and moving it to
Speaker 1: the next location.
Speaker 2: I'm like that former playmate Kendra Wilkinson after she got divorced,
Speaker 2: no basket she was married to Hank basketball player.
Speaker 1: Of course.
Speaker 2: Of course, yeah, I'm Sands basket. I always have been,
Speaker 2: even before the fire, even before even when we had
Speaker 2: a laundry basket, I was all arms unload, ye, taking
Speaker 2: that ship out. There's a science to it, okay, an art,
Speaker 2: an intimate understanding between the rigidity of the fabrics, the gravity,
Speaker 2: and your own capacity.
Speaker 1: Allow.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because sometimes you're like, oh, that was gonna flop over.
Speaker 2: You're like, I'm a little bit more of an arm one.
Speaker 1: Huh.
Speaker 2: This one's thick. If I get enough of enough pressure
Speaker 2: on it, that shit can hang off my arm and
Speaker 2: it will not touch the ground. So is this just
Speaker 2: another week where I did something unremarkable and I'm asking
Speaker 2: for more race.
Speaker 1: You for something, You're looking for some help.
Speaker 2: In a weird coincidence? How come her majesty doesn't think
Speaker 2: recovering from in your slip and emptying a dryer in
Speaker 2: one go is unremarked? Why why is that? Yeah, that's
Speaker 2: something to think about.
Speaker 1: I just I don't I don't know. Is one of
Speaker 1: your tactics that you don't use, uh fabric softener like
Speaker 1: bounce sheets in the wash so that everything just sticks
Speaker 1: together from static? Oh? Yeah, no static?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 2: The static actually isn't that bad to be honest.
Speaker 1: Wait, you don't you don't use the bounce sheets.
Speaker 2: I do sometimes when I have them. In this post
Speaker 2: fire era, I've definitely gone to brass tacks. I'm like,
Speaker 2: oh yeah, dry your sheets this seasoning.
Speaker 1: Of I would sooner let the let the clothes mold,
Speaker 1: then use it without dryer sheets.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you know, it's it's all, it's all up
Speaker 2: to you. It all works, it all works, but getting
Speaker 2: it out that's satisfaction. Again, It's something shout to everybody.
Speaker 2: I know people who regularly do this. You you know
Speaker 2: that feeling, and I salute you to.
Speaker 1: You get it to the next spot and just yeah,
Speaker 1: drop it, just.
Speaker 2: Drop it on the floor.
Speaker 1: Done, you shout to your majesty. Wash is done.
Speaker 2: Did you put them in the bathtub again? Yep? Damn.
Speaker 1: Brian the editor is always coming with conspiracy theories that
Speaker 1: I hadn't even thought about. Do dryer sheets even work?
Speaker 1: What's the Isn't it just gas guards against static? And
Speaker 1: it also like gives them a nice little freshness. In
Speaker 1: my experience, they've worked. I've definitely noticed the difference where
Speaker 1: they y, I guess, stick to your body.
Speaker 2: I guess I don't have I guess in the arrow
Speaker 2: when I wore a lot of like polyester fake fabrics
Speaker 2: like shimmery basketball shorts. Yeah, that was pulling those shits
Speaker 2: out of the dry and they're.
Speaker 1: Just like just could power a small town for a
Speaker 1: week after you get them out, like a defibrillator.
Speaker 2: Just fucking go in there and pull two shorts apart
Speaker 2: in a dryer and they'll give you requisite shock to
Speaker 2: get your heart going.
Speaker 1: Oh that's interesting. So Brian is Brian just doesn't get static,
Speaker 1: and so that's why he doesn't believe in it. But
Speaker 1: some of us are very staticky out here, and I
Speaker 1: blame myself, all right, my underrated. I just so I
Speaker 1: heard a podcast yesterday that kind of blew my mind.
Speaker 1: It was an episode of the show search Engine. I
Speaker 1: heard one and a half episodes of Search Engine. The
Speaker 1: good one is responsible for my under and then the
Speaker 1: bad one is responsible for my over so the under
Speaker 1: like it was an episode about it was interviewing this guy.
Speaker 1: Was his book Airborne Out that's about how we figured
Speaker 1: out that viruses can travel in the air, like basically
Speaker 1: what we now know about how COVID was transmitted. I
Speaker 1: I thought we knew that shit. Like, I just felt
Speaker 1: like my model of the world was always that, like
Speaker 1: people sneeze virus gets in air and then like you
Speaker 1: gotta hold your breath because we didn't have masks when
Speaker 1: I was a kid. And but apparently like that was
Speaker 1: even heading into the pandemic. That was like somewhat controversial,
Speaker 1: and like the reason that the World Health Organization like
Speaker 1: default went with like wash ear groceries was that they
Speaker 1: were still unsure about the idea of like airborne disease
Speaker 1: and like, I don't know like the pre so basically
Speaker 1: they track like this. This idea was introduced in the
Speaker 1: early twentieth century by this married couple that the idea
Speaker 1: of like airborne viruses and like globules and you know,
Speaker 1: all all the stuff that we now know about how
Speaker 1: COVID traveled and like why I'm masking helped. But before that,
Speaker 1: like this, before germ theory, the theory was miasma's which
Speaker 1: is like bad air. It was like that, well, you
Speaker 1: can't open your window if you're sick, because then the
Speaker 1: bad air is going to travel in through your window
Speaker 1: and kill you. Yes, it was you know, it was
Speaker 1: dumb and incorrect, but so they like one of the
Speaker 1: theories is that the like suggesting that illness traveled through
Speaker 1: the air was seen as so stupid after that that
Speaker 1: they were just like, yeah, we're not that that's stupid.
Speaker 1: And so these people introduced the idea of like germs
Speaker 1: being in the air and like kind of proved it
Speaker 1: pretty definitively. But they were annoying. They were so annoying
Speaker 1: like people, Yeah, they're just an They were like iconoclastic
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, we're just suspicious of everybody, and
Speaker 1: they basically their bad personalities. One of the theories goes
Speaker 1: sets scientific and like you know, the study of how
Speaker 1: disease spreads back like decades because there was just like nah,
Speaker 1: fuck those people, and then like by the time, by
Speaker 1: the time of like the aughts and even into the
Speaker 1: like teens at the beginning of COVID, like their studies
Speaker 1: were still like some of the best work that had
Speaker 1: been done, but like you had to like call the
Speaker 1: institution where they worked and have them like send you
Speaker 1: photo copied pages of their work so that you could
Speaker 1: like kind of uh do do your research and like
Speaker 1: base it on that, and eventually they got like a
Speaker 1: small uh following. But it's just one of those things
Speaker 1: where like I feel like when I was like in
Speaker 1: school growing up I was just like, we have everything
Speaker 1: figured out, you know, we're we we know everything, like science,
Speaker 1: science knows everything, case closed on everything, case closed exactly,
Speaker 1: and that was incorrect and also like makes the world
Speaker 1: seem less interesting than it actually is because you're just like,
Speaker 1: oh whatever, like that seems like it seems like the
Speaker 1: scientists have it figured out and yeah, and then here
Speaker 1: we are there. We were in like twenty twenty, like
Speaker 1: washing our groceries because a bunch of people didn't want
Speaker 1: to believe that germs could like travel through the air.
Speaker 1: And I just feel I feel like there's more ways
Speaker 1: than we realized that people in the future will look
Speaker 1: back on us and we'll look like, you know, the
Speaker 1: The image that always comes to my mind is like
Speaker 1: when people were like working out with that belt that
Speaker 1: jiggles your belly around yep, yeah, while like smoking a cigarette,
Speaker 1: like you know the Like that's what we're going to
Speaker 1: look like in many ways in the future. Hopefully it's
Speaker 1: because of like how on our phones we were, but
Speaker 1: I think there's also other ways that we're kind of
Speaker 1: in the dark ages that we probably don't understand or
Speaker 1: appreciate fully. Down from the dark ages, in many areas
Speaker 1: for sure.
Speaker 2: Yeah. When you said wrote the book Airborne, I thought
Speaker 2: you were referencing the nineteen ninety three movie about the
Speaker 2: guy who had to move to Cincinnati and he's a
Speaker 2: rollerblader and Seth Green, isn't it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I assumed they were the same thing. Is that?
Speaker 1: Is that not what that movie is?
Speaker 2: I was waiting for you to get to the part
Speaker 2: about how he rollerbladed down Down.
Speaker 1: He solves it by rollerblading. Yeah, Down one of the
Speaker 1: few movies when that came out when I lived in Dayton,
Speaker 1: I was like, that's fucking Ohio based movie. That's crazy.
Speaker 2: But it's like that was shot in California.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly, Oh those are the days. Yeah. Also,
Speaker 1: the like interview with the guy, so this guy is
Speaker 1: like maybe overboard in the like airborne direction.
Speaker 2: Take place in for Cincinnati. Hey all right, they've shot
Speaker 2: it there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there you go. And you could tell every every
Speaker 1: shot of that was screening Cincinematic.
Speaker 2: Yeah, when they were eating buckets of Skyline chili.
Speaker 1: They have a great Octoberfest there if you ever need
Speaker 1: a second specific for the city of Cincinnati. Great october Fest.
Speaker 1: A lot of apple strudel and just a massive party there.
Speaker 1: The guy who wrote the book and is I guess
Speaker 1: he's like an epidemiologist. I don't know what exactly his
Speaker 1: training is, but like he keeps he's just a roll.
Speaker 2: Yeah, dude, I fucking killed Devil's Backs.
Speaker 1: How I got interested in it was the movie Airborn,
Speaker 1: and somehow that led me back. It was just a
Speaker 1: big Michael Jordan fan, and then Seth Green movie and
Speaker 1: then came about. But he carries a portable carbon monoxide
Speaker 1: detector on him and basically this is something that I
Speaker 1: always like suspected and like I'm gonna have to do
Speaker 1: additional research. But his thing is that, like, as the
Speaker 1: if you're in a room by yourself with the windows
Speaker 1: and doors closed, the carbon monoxide levels are going to
Speaker 1: go up and up, like very slowly and minimally because
Speaker 1: you are exhaling. And it's like it's basically a measure
Speaker 1: of how much of your breath is in the air
Speaker 1: when you're measuring it. And he basically said that, like
Speaker 1: he keeps this on him and if he's like on
Speaker 1: a plane before they turn the air filters on, for instance,
Speaker 1: or you know, just in a room like this reminded
Speaker 1: me of when I was in classrooms when I was
Speaker 1: a kid, and like they have all the doors and
Speaker 1: windows closed, and like suddenly I'm like started, Like by
Speaker 1: the end of it, I feel like I can barely
Speaker 1: stay awake. That might have been because shit was but
Speaker 1: it also might be because of all the breath that
Speaker 1: was in the air. Is like you know, but anyways,
Speaker 1: he was saying, you can see how much breath is
Speaker 1: in the air with these little detectors and then like
Speaker 1: once it gets above a certain level or he sees
Speaker 1: it heading in that direct and he masks up, which
Speaker 1: was interesting makes me fail.
Speaker 2: Don't we exhale carbon dioxide?
Speaker 1: What's what's the I think I think I said the
Speaker 1: wrong thing. I always get those wrong. Carbon carbon dioxide whatever,
Speaker 1: the one is that we exhale goes up.
Speaker 2: Carbon is like the thing for your house, the.
Speaker 1: Thing that kills you. Yeah, yeah, I think it's carbon dioxide.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, okay, yeah, which doesn't kill you but does
Speaker 1: make me sleepy.
Speaker 2: I'm a big dioxide fan.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you're a big and I'm always trying to
Speaker 1: give carbon monoxide credit for things.
Speaker 2: You know, You're always like, yeah, plants need it to survive.
Speaker 2: I'm like Jack, that's not the wrong one. Stop telling
Speaker 2: your kids that they're gonna get bullied.
Speaker 1: What is something, Miles, do you think is overrated?
Speaker 2: Overrated? This goes back to Mother's Day overdoing it with
Speaker 2: the flowers as a gift, Like, I think there is
Speaker 2: a reflex in straight American men, yeah, to just buy
Speaker 2: the fuck out of some flowers. Yeah, and it's like
Speaker 2: the most thoughtless gift. I think if you know what
Speaker 2: your partner.
Speaker 1: Likes, by all means sure.
Speaker 2: I've through trial and error. I started off like I
Speaker 2: can I look like that that evolutionary chart where I
Speaker 2: start off as like chro magnet flower giver man. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but I'm like, here, twelve two dozen roses, Like dude,
Speaker 2: what the fuck is this? How much did this cost?
Speaker 2: I'm like they were a fucking oh I didn't even know,
Speaker 2: and I would tell you the price, but I think
Speaker 2: that's a bit ghost So I'm just gonna know.
Speaker 1: So I think you would be mad at me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, to the point where she's like I know what
Speaker 2: a dozen costs? Like this is such I remember I
Speaker 2: remember getting it just immediately like this is not a
Speaker 2: good gift, and not like in a fuck you kind
Speaker 2: of way. I'm just like, let me ed you, edutain
Speaker 2: you for a second. Just because they were expensive doesn't
Speaker 2: mean I'm gonna like them. And I also realized her
Speaker 2: Majesty loves like wild flowers like she likes. So I
Speaker 2: went to the floorist and I went I was like,
Speaker 2: where are your like wildflowers out They're like in there,
Speaker 2: They're like put together whatever you want. You can walk
Speaker 2: out here for like thirty bucks, and I was like,
Speaker 2: whatever I want. He's like, yeah, if it's just if
Speaker 2: it's just like the wildflower stuff, go ahead.
Speaker 1: And just pick that shit off the side of the highway,
Speaker 1: broke as you want this.
Speaker 2: And then this other dude comes in, sweaty, slicked back hair,
Speaker 2: looks like a total piece of shit, like middle aged
Speaker 2: dude like me and a Meati is like I need
Speaker 2: three dozen. He came in like out three three dozen
Speaker 2: red roses.
Speaker 1: I really fucked up this time.
Speaker 2: It was so like his energy. I didn't want to be.
Speaker 2: I didn't like, obviously there could be nuanced to his story.
Speaker 2: Maybe they're three people. But then I kept listening and
Speaker 2: they're like separate. He's like, no, I just need one
Speaker 2: big bouquet three dozen red roses as quick as you
Speaker 2: can as you can, and I'm like, what the fuck
Speaker 2: is this guy going through? And I just I'm just thinking,
Speaker 2: you know, as as you you know, this is part
Speaker 2: of like understanding your partner more. You don't you don't
Speaker 2: just get the big stupid boot k of flowers, because
Speaker 2: that's not always what they want for me. It's like,
Speaker 2: you need some wildflowers. Her Massey likes card, likes food.
Speaker 2: I like to cook, and I've really doubted in before,
Speaker 2: like I would try and go overboard with like the gifts,
Speaker 2: because I would be like, I don't know what to do,
Speaker 2: rather than again, yeah to express, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like, okay,
Speaker 2: if you don't like this Michael Jordan life size cutout,
Speaker 2: you're gonna like this locket engraved with our son's initials
Speaker 2: or this French toast.
Speaker 1: I don't know this locket engraved with Michael Jordan's initials, right, right,
Speaker 1: Jeffrey Jordan.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So I just say, you know, just a little
Speaker 2: thought goes a long way. Just the empty gesture of
Speaker 2: just pulling up with an seen bouquet of flowers is
Speaker 2: such a dult. It's it doesn't always work. It doesn't
Speaker 2: always work, and in fact, most of the time they're like,
Speaker 2: I would have rather you spent that same amount of
Speaker 2: money on like anything else. Yeah, the flowers that are
Speaker 2: are will look nice, obviously, but then they they go
Speaker 2: away real quick.
Speaker 1: I usually try and get some nice flowers that are
Speaker 1: you know, I have a sense of what my wife likes.
Speaker 1: But this year, uh, you know, some family sent some flowers,
Speaker 1: so we had a lot of flowers already, so I
Speaker 1: was like, fortunately, I wasn't like relying on that to
Speaker 1: be the only thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're like, hey, babe, four pound bag of shredded cheddar.
Speaker 2: Pretty cool?
Speaker 1: What do you think of that?
Speaker 2: That? What do you think of Mother's Day? No?
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I was just joking.
Speaker 2: Let me go get the real one really quick. I'll
Speaker 2: be back at forty five minutes.
Speaker 1: Tires screeching.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: My overrated is horseshoe theory. Have you have you heard
Speaker 1: centrist talk talk horseshoe theory?
Speaker 2: So far one direction you end up? Yeah? Yeah, man.
Speaker 1: The guys are always never never used to talk about
Speaker 1: people on the right. It's almost always used to talk
Speaker 1: about how people on the left are actually crazy. Uh,
Speaker 1: and they're actually just as bad as Donald Trump if
Speaker 1: you think about it, Yeah, And I don't know, Like
Speaker 1: so this podcast Search Engine like had a good original
Speaker 1: you know, interview with that guy who wrote Airborne, and
Speaker 1: then the next episode was about Crypto, and I was like,
Speaker 1: maybe they can like make some sense of Crypto and
Speaker 1: like with what's going on with that, But they just
Speaker 1: like brought NPR's Planet Money in to do it, and
Speaker 1: these guys were just not it for me, and they
Speaker 1: I don't know, they kept like they just casually were
Speaker 1: like I think they were talking about a joke that's
Speaker 1: so unfunny that it becomes funny, and they were like,
Speaker 1: it's like a meme horseshoe theory because like the ends
Speaker 1: of the Spectrum meet up. But it's just like I
Speaker 1: realized like that for some reason, that was the final straw,
Speaker 1: and I was just like these motherfuckers just like saying
Speaker 1: horseshoe theory when it's like, no matter what they just think,
Speaker 1: they think it makes them sound smart. It's fucking stupid.
Speaker 1: It's just a way for centrists to feel like they're
Speaker 1: superior over people who aren't centrists, and they keep bringing
Speaker 1: it up at a time when the only thing that's
Speaker 1: going to save US is people to the left of
Speaker 1: them actually making progress, and you know they just think
Speaker 1: everything the left of Joe Biden is dangerous.
Speaker 2: I mean it's pretty convenient. So it's like, oh, okay,
Speaker 2: well you're just like them now because you're just like
Speaker 2: the health care Yeah, you know, they're advocating for cut
Speaker 2: Medicaid cuts like every Okay, yeah, I so wanting everyone
Speaker 2: to have everything is the same as wanting only white,
Speaker 2: straight people to have everything. Only yeah, not even them,
Speaker 2: Like they don't even get universal healthcare, just won't be
Speaker 2: on the receiving end of the government's violence.
Speaker 1: I guess, yeah, but I don't know. It's again, like
Speaker 1: they weren't even talking about it in that respect, but
Speaker 1: it just feels like I've heard enough people say it
Speaker 1: in that in that world that I'm just like, God,
Speaker 1: they fucking they just can't get else. Also, that's their
Speaker 1: like scientific accounting of how comedy works in an episode
Speaker 1: where they repeatedly are like doing that. I'm also just
Speaker 1: over like punning like that in a New York Times
Speaker 1: article that we're going to cover later on, Like there
Speaker 1: was like a paved the way in an article about
Speaker 1: town design, and they were like, no, pun intented just
Speaker 1: like these fucking people that yeah, or they were like
Speaker 1: you to speak, I think they did a so to speak.
Speaker 2: Oh god, yeah, just fucking say it and it's fine.
Speaker 2: It's also it's not I'm not alright with it.
Speaker 1: Go out of the way to take that. Yeah, paved
Speaker 1: the way and everything. I'm anti thinking that you've done
Speaker 1: something when you've done a little pun that like thinking.
Speaker 2: That that's comedy. Would you have been fine if they
Speaker 2: just used and then and then they've paved the way
Speaker 2: for other things? Totally fine sentence. Yeah, don't don't stop
Speaker 2: in the way doing the big Catherine Han wink.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, why is that image printed in the middle of
Speaker 2: this sentence?
Speaker 1: Yeah, but yeah, it's it's all like it's just such
Speaker 1: like it's because the horseshoe in question is like a
Speaker 1: plotted on a graph, so it feels smart and it's
Speaker 1: just like no, like none of it. It's it's stupid.
Speaker 1: It's very not nuanced, and it's like exactly wrong at
Speaker 1: this point in history to be talking to be repeatedly
Speaker 1: bring it up even when it like doesn't make sense
Speaker 1: to bring it up. Very frustrating. Shut the fuck up,
Speaker 1: all right, Let's take a quick break. We'll come back
Speaker 1: and we'll talk about some news, and we're back. We're back,
Speaker 1: and so are the markets.
Speaker 2: Maybe sweet for the moment, maybe for the moment. You know, Trump,
Speaker 2: we always say he's pump vacan he's trump vacant, and
Speaker 2: that's what we're getting again with the fucking tariff wars,
Speaker 2: trade wars. So we just Scott word that the tariffs
Speaker 2: will be paused for ninety days between the US and China,
Speaker 2: and Trump is claiming victory somehow. But the pause again
Speaker 2: will impose a mere thirty percent duty on goods from China,
Speaker 2: down from one hundred and forty five percent, and China
Speaker 2: will reduce its tariffs on products made in the USA
Speaker 2: to ten percent from one hundred and twenty five percent.
Speaker 2: So basically they're both like, okay, we can let's dial
Speaker 2: tariffs back by one hundred and fifteen percent. We were
Speaker 2: really getting wild there for a second. Oh guys, all right, well,
Speaker 2: let's let's knock that off. And China was clear like
Speaker 2: this really isn't a deal. They're just like this is stupid,
Speaker 2: And Scott Bessett was also basically kind of saying similar thing,
Speaker 2: although trying to make it feel dally basically saying like
Speaker 2: the two economic powers were just reaffirming that completely decoupling
Speaker 2: their economies would not be good for literally the entire
Speaker 2: earth economy somehow. So yeah, I mean, China isn't doing
Speaker 2: anything to change any of the policies Trump has been
Speaker 2: yelling about. So this is a very trumpy deal in
Speaker 2: that he overplayed his hand, had way too much dip
Speaker 2: on his chip that the chip broke. Then he starts
Speaker 2: putting his fingers in the dip bowl trying to get
Speaker 2: it out, and then when someone catches him, he's like, yeah,
Speaker 2: it's all good. I never wanted anything anyway, swish yeah,
Speaker 2: And he's like, yeah, I saved it. You have not.
Speaker 2: You have not. If anything, we're still work soft than
Speaker 2: before you were here. So nothing is objectively better.
Speaker 1: The level and like depth of ass kissing is really
Speaker 1: like that, that's been the I can't quite get my
Speaker 1: mind around it, but it's got to be changing things
Speaker 1: so drastically inside like how everything works. Like there's a
Speaker 1: New Yorker article that was like looking at just like
Speaker 1: all these people whose careers are just to flatter Trump
Speaker 1: now in the Washington d C. And I feel like
Speaker 1: that's just fucking everybody at this point, like it's just creating,
Speaker 1: like including the olive arcs, Like everybody is just building
Speaker 1: this reality where he can claim W's you.
Speaker 2: Know, I wonder if the next president is just gonna
Speaker 2: be someone who's so well built to kiss ass, because
Speaker 2: that's just the new dynamic that exists in Washington. But yeah,
Speaker 2: this is just everyone is praising it, like on Fox
Speaker 2: and stuff, and then occasionally you get like the China
Speaker 2: who are like this, I can't believe he blinked, He
Speaker 2: blinked again, He blinked again. Because some people were so
Speaker 2: horny to watch the economy completely collapse in like service
Speaker 2: of like this absolutely inane economic policy. But I think
Speaker 2: the people with a lot of money won this round.
Speaker 2: I think because everyone was yelling at Scott Besant to
Speaker 2: do something and people I guess helped. But yeah, so,
Speaker 2: I mean again, the trouble is, we're all going to
Speaker 2: still see higher prices, and many companies have already been
Speaker 2: preemptively warning their customers that like higher prices are on
Speaker 2: the way due to tariffs, and so this may call markets,
Speaker 2: you know, the markets for a few days or weeks,
Speaker 2: but regular people are still at the mercy of corporate greed,
Speaker 2: will who will be using tariffs as like a fig leaf.
Speaker 1: Apple is still considering whether to raise prices on iPhones
Speaker 1: just they're like I don't know, Like now, we're like
Speaker 1: he made the fucking charts, so like what we might
Speaker 1: as well just like keep the price is there? Nothing
Speaker 1: bad is going to happen there.
Speaker 2: That's like the thing all the companies are talking about
Speaker 2: right now in tournal. It's like, you think we can
Speaker 2: get away from putting another five or seven percent?
Speaker 1: Yeah, And anytime they have, they just raised the fucking price. Yeah,
Speaker 1: any like news story that they can get behind and
Speaker 1: be like, well, obviously it was the pandemic, and it
Speaker 1: was the war in Ukraine because wars have never happened before,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, now it's going to be the
Speaker 1: tariffs is going to be their excuse to raise prices
Speaker 1: even if they economically don't need to.
Speaker 2: And they will not. No one will actually point a
Speaker 2: finger at Trump. If anything, they'll they'll kiss his ass
Speaker 2: and cover for him. When people are like what the
Speaker 2: fuck is going on, They're like, sorry, we hear at Walmart.
Speaker 2: Believe it's the immigrants that is actually raising prices on you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it is interesting about like who's going to
Speaker 1: like there's got to be some good reporting coming about
Speaker 1: like what exactly is going on in the court, the
Speaker 1: royal court of the Trump administration, Like to your point
Speaker 1: about like if the person who takes power next, because
Speaker 1: it's not gonna be a Democrat, it's gonna be just
Speaker 1: whoever Trump decides to let be the next Republican candidate.
Speaker 1: You know khrush Jeff, have you seen the Death of Stalin? No? Yeah,
Speaker 1: So it's like about Stalin's like royal court and like, ye,
Speaker 1: the Steve Bushemi plays Nikita Khrushchev, who was like one
Speaker 1: of the inner circle for Stalin, and he's both really
Speaker 1: like good at kissing ass and then like Stalin used
Speaker 1: to just like make everybody around him get like shit faced,
Speaker 1: like for his amusement, like drink until they threw up,
Speaker 1: and Khrushchev would like come home at the end of
Speaker 1: the drinking.
Speaker 2: I mean in the movie.
Speaker 1: I don't know how historically accurate it is, but like
Speaker 1: he would come home and like tell his wife everything
Speaker 1: that happened so he didn't forget it, and like they
Speaker 1: would like write down notes so they were just like
Speaker 1: the best at like playing this weird game essentially a
Speaker 1: drinking game. Yes, stay on top of your shit, and
Speaker 1: like he'd be like, okay, so then he said this,
Speaker 1: and like I'm not sure exactly why he was going
Speaker 1: in that direction, you know, but it's all just stupid
Speaker 1: fucking maneuvering for the pleasure of the emperor is basically
Speaker 1: what what the future of this country? And like who's
Speaker 1: in power, and like what happens comes down to.
Speaker 2: Look at him and look and then he got to
Speaker 2: take over.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's right. And then yeah, so Khrushchev then eventually
Speaker 1: becomes the leader of Russia during the Cold War, big
Speaker 1: chunk of the Cold War.
Speaker 2: Oh you love to see it all right?
Speaker 1: Yeah, So I wanted to talk about this New York
Speaker 1: Times article that is about a small town called like
Speaker 1: could de Sac Tempe I think, or tempe Cul de Sac.
Speaker 1: It's like a small town outside of Phoenix that is
Speaker 1: specifically planned to be car free and they got a
Speaker 1: bypass from the city to not have to like provide
Speaker 1: X number of parking spots per resident, which we've covered before,
Speaker 1: like in trying to build out like cities that aren't
Speaker 1: just designed for cars. That's like a big thing that
Speaker 1: comes up is like minimum parking requirements is like what
Speaker 1: they have to deal with. They got to bypass to
Speaker 1: like build this small town, and it's just there's no parking.
Speaker 1: There's some like wide pathways that you can the emergency
Speaker 1: vehicles can drive down, but for the most part, the
Speaker 1: whole city is like designed for pedestrians, like with humans
Speaker 1: in minds.
Speaker 2: Like Europe, Yeah, yeah, exactly. Like when you look at
Speaker 2: how the buildings are all oriented, you're like, oh, this
Speaker 2: feels very European, where everything is just kind of all
Speaker 2: very centrally located. Yeahind of vertical.
Speaker 1: Modeled on towns in Italy and Greece built long before
Speaker 1: the advent of cars. Cul de Sac Tempe is what
Speaker 1: its developers called the country's first neighborhood purposely built to
Speaker 1: be car free and you know, good for the climate,
Speaker 1: but also like good for people's health, good for people's happiness.
Speaker 1: It is kind of funny that they and that they
Speaker 1: say that like it can drive low cost of living,
Speaker 1: low cost of government. It's funny that the New York
Speaker 1: Times is like treating this like a revelation when they
Speaker 1: like New York is a massive example of this, or
Speaker 1: like a place where people happily live without cars because
Speaker 1: there's public transit, and like they pay a massive premium
Speaker 1: to live in a place like that, where you just
Speaker 1: like are on top of each other. And that's like
Speaker 1: I've always thought that, like this also has something to
Speaker 1: do with you know, we've talked about post apocalyptic movies,
Speaker 1: like you know, being a fantasy of like people not
Speaker 1: having cars anymore, where you just everybody's walking and everybody's
Speaker 1: like living in small communities right on top of each other,
Speaker 1: or you know, I think a lot of people like that.
Speaker 1: There's a tweet that I remember seeing, but that is
Speaker 1: along the same lines of like people who think they
Speaker 1: like loved college and don't realize it's because it's the
Speaker 1: only time that they were like in a walkable environment
Speaker 1: where you don't need a car, like people who like
Speaker 1: live on college campuses. And you know, it's also why
Speaker 1: people join cults or become Disney adults. You know, we
Speaker 1: like to be in these little places where you walk
Speaker 1: down the middle of the street.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Cruise ships.
Speaker 2: I have the same feeling about cruise ships. And I'm like,
Speaker 2: as a kid, I like was obsessed with them, and
Speaker 2: then I went a couple of times as an adult,
Speaker 2: like in my twenties and early thirties, and I always remember, like, oh,
Speaker 2: it's because I can walk fucking everywhere. Yeah, like, yeah,
Speaker 2: I think that's what Americans whenever they go somewhere where
Speaker 2: they can do.
Speaker 1: That, like, yeah, like old cities built before a car.
Speaker 2: I love this.
Speaker 1: It's so charming. I don't know what it's about. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's even that part in I'm adding Shawshank to this
Speaker 1: because so one of the things that they talk about
Speaker 1: is like they have there a twenty four year old
Speaker 1: woman who is living there on her own for the
Speaker 1: first time. She's been able to live without assistance of
Speaker 1: family and friends because she's blind, and she's able to
Speaker 1: because she's like, I don't know, and in order to
Speaker 1: like have a good time, I don't have to cross
Speaker 1: the street.
Speaker 2: It's just wow, right, yeah, yeah, that's not something I
Speaker 2: have to think about, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not something you have to think about. It
Speaker 1: like reminds me like that that is the one of
Speaker 1: the parts of Shawshank that sticks with me, which the
Speaker 1: reason I'm like emphasizing it. Shashank is like one of
Speaker 1: the most popular movie like people like rate it so
Speaker 1: highly and it was just like massively popular in the nineties.
Speaker 1: But it has this like small community obviously living like together,
Speaker 1: and it's like there are horrifying aspects of it, but
Speaker 1: I think there it's also a fantasy of living in
Speaker 1: a community without cars. And when like the guy gets out,
Speaker 1: he like immediately almost gets hit by a car, right,
Speaker 1: and like you're like Jesus, yeah, he's like everybody went
Speaker 1: and got into a big damn hurry. And I do
Speaker 1: think like that part hits so hard, and that movie
Speaker 1: hits so hard because again, just as the children long
Speaker 1: for the minds, I think I think the people long
Speaker 1: for you know, small communities where you don't where you
Speaker 1: could just like let your kids run and not worry
Speaker 1: about them getting hit by a car, or like you
Speaker 1: don't have to get in a car and like feel
Speaker 1: like you're in mad Max all of a sudden to
Speaker 1: just like go to the grocery store.
Speaker 2: You know, right. It is so different when, especially when
Speaker 2: you go abroad and you realize energetically how different people
Speaker 2: are when they think about their kids going out and
Speaker 2: having like doing shit out in the world. Yeah, because
Speaker 2: like in Europe like places that stuff like central squares,
Speaker 2: Like you'll go, It'll be like nine at night. There's
Speaker 2: a bunch of kids like running around just having a
Speaker 2: good time. And yeah, their parents like it's because they
Speaker 2: all probably live around the fucking corner and this is
Speaker 2: just built so differently and I don't have all my
Speaker 2: fear of like gun violence and whatever the fuck going on.
Speaker 2: They're like, is it safe for these.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let the kids, Brian the editor, saying, the kids
Speaker 1: are out at midnight in Mexico City, Like, yeah.
Speaker 2: That's when I was in Italy. Man, the kids are
Speaker 2: out so late that I was like, well, these kids
Speaker 2: are fucking cooler than me. And they're right small cigarettes.
Speaker 1: Cigarettes in second grade. Like I don't know, such as life,
Speaker 1: you know. But yeah. The article says not having to
Speaker 1: factor in residential parking allowed its architects to configure buildings
Speaker 1: to maximize shade and to design narrow pathways that encourage
Speaker 1: breezes and social engagement. The pedestrian is really the primary person,
Speaker 1: the figure that you're developing for, said Alexander Vundeling, the
Speaker 1: lead architect on the project. Big expanses of glass were askewed,
Speaker 1: awnings added over sunfacing windows and native plants and trees
Speaker 1: put in for cooling shade it. But just like the
Speaker 1: idea and this is like this kept popping in my
Speaker 1: head during like when New York was doing the congestion
Speaker 1: pricing and everyone was like kind of freaking out and
Speaker 1: being like they can't take our cars. But it's like,
Speaker 1: just it's so abnormal for anybody to do an idea
Speaker 1: that is designed for people and not cars and not businesses.
Speaker 1: It's like that that is a radical thing. And it
Speaker 1: seems like if you just ask somebody to come in
Speaker 1: fresh and be like, so, how should we like design
Speaker 1: these communities that we live in, like it would take
Speaker 1: them so long to get to the bad idea of like,
Speaker 1: well you need to design everything for cars and businesses,
Speaker 1: like obviously the obvious idea is like just design it
Speaker 1: for people to like live close to each other.
Speaker 2: It was like maybe we're like in this new era
Speaker 2: because we've gone so astray from recognizing people's needs that
Speaker 2: with this one neat trick, like.
Speaker 1: Companies to want you to know about it were like.
Speaker 2: Dude, this is the greatest place to live ever, like
Speaker 2: everyone's now moving to these car free places. Yeah. Wow,
Speaker 2: Well I remember seeing when this thing was first like
Speaker 2: an idea and before it got built, And it's interesting
Speaker 2: to see now that it's like sort of pretty much
Speaker 2: in full swing now that like at least from like
Speaker 2: this article on another one I saw in Dwell, like
Speaker 2: it seems people are enjoying it. Yeah.
Speaker 1: One of the people who like moved there not intending
Speaker 1: to like get away from cars, they had to. They
Speaker 1: were like, eh, I guess, I mean the rent is
Speaker 1: good and like it's it would be a good place
Speaker 1: to like kind of start our family. And they like
Speaker 1: had to give their car away and they had to
Speaker 1: like weigh that when they were deciding. Just they're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it's a community like people you can like
Speaker 1: literally like borrow a cup of sugar from your neighbors,
Speaker 1: like you see your neighbors all the time. When their
Speaker 1: daughter was born, three different families brought a meal or
Speaker 1: dropped off cookies or offered to go buy them groceries.
Speaker 1: It's just feels.
Speaker 2: Like we have to like build Disneylands for getting back
Speaker 2: into some sense of community.
Speaker 1: But like I think that's what Disneyland is is like
Speaker 1: longing for.
Speaker 2: But like this I'm saying that, like this is a
Speaker 2: I mean like a purpose built thing for us to
Speaker 2: exact ignite our sense of Community's like, I think that's it.
Speaker 2: We were unable to do it, and I mean people
Speaker 2: are able to do it, but because of the sprawl
Speaker 2: and things are sort of are hardwiring. It's like, I
Speaker 2: don't know, man, this we're all just disparate, siloed off
Speaker 2: if we're not connected. And then you're like, oh, this
Speaker 2: place it's built for me to remind myself that community
Speaker 2: is like a thing that we earned for perfect Why would.
Speaker 1: A place where people live be built for people. I
Speaker 1: don't understand that. That's crazy. It's crazy to me. Miles.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I do just have to uh.
Speaker 1: First of all, I'm gonna shout out, you know, great
Speaker 1: great article from the New York Times, Kara Buckley, shout
Speaker 1: out to care for reporting it. I do have to
Speaker 1: read the part I was talking about earlier, and mister
Speaker 1: Effort of Strong Towns said cul de Sac Tempee could
Speaker 1: pave the way as it were for similar car free developments.
Speaker 1: You just didn't need that as it were. It were
Speaker 1: just cut that as it were. I feel like maybe
Speaker 1: the editors at the New York I'm gonna blame the
Speaker 1: editors at the New York Times and not yeah, the author,
Speaker 1: because it was that Kara buck Glee.
Speaker 2: He said, this is the name of it, the journalist. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that wasn't on Kara, that was the.
Speaker 1: Editor, as it were, uh not intended.
Speaker 2: That's exactly now that you're saying it. It's so smug annoying.
Speaker 2: I fucking don't it sounds like some asshole reading the
Speaker 2: New York Times that I hate. Yeah, like that they
Speaker 2: would that it would almost be like that as it wasn't.
Speaker 2: There's like pave the way and they would lower the
Speaker 2: paper and look at their like partner, go as it were,
Speaker 2: and then lift the paperback and keep reading it like
Speaker 2: you shit the fuck up. Just read about these carless
Speaker 2: cities and how we need them.
Speaker 1: That's right, all right, let's take a quick break and
Speaker 1: we'll come back and cover some of the other things
Speaker 1: that are happening. We'll be back, and we're back.
Speaker 2: We're back.
Speaker 1: And Trump just did something that, you know, a less
Speaker 1: up and up, less trustworthy president might might seem a
Speaker 1: little suspicious. He just did something that, uh seems like,
Speaker 1: you know, if if he weren't totally on the up
Speaker 1: and up, which he totally is you know, uh, like,
Speaker 1: you know, he's just that it's just a gift. The
Speaker 1: plane is a normal gift.
Speaker 2: Just a gift, it's normal plane.
Speaker 1: He Uh so he got a lot of money from
Speaker 1: like the tech world, and uh, the US Copyright Office
Speaker 1: just released the third part of a report that uh
Speaker 1: ask some questions about how AI just takes copyright copyrighted
Speaker 1: work and like dozens.
Speaker 2: Companies. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yea, yeah yeah yeah. Nothing to
Speaker 2: see here, nothing to see here.
Speaker 1: It seems like it's just training it on work that
Speaker 1: no artists who are not paid that well.
Speaker 2: To begin with the GIBLI stuff, we told chapt go
Speaker 2: to animation school in fucking knuckle down. That's right, and
Speaker 2: don't come back till you can do flawless recreations of
Speaker 2: Miyazaki style animation. Okay, So, among many government departments that
Speaker 2: Trump seems to be trying to overthrow, he fired the
Speaker 2: head of the US Copyright Office after that report came out.
Speaker 2: Perhaps not coincidentally, this happened right after she issued part
Speaker 2: three of a lengthy report about AI, which, as we said,
Speaker 2: expressed some concerns and questions about the usage of copyrighted
Speaker 2: material by AI technology. The draft notes The generative AI
Speaker 2: systems draw on massive troves of data, including copyrighted works,
Speaker 2: and asks do any of the acts involved require the
Speaker 2: copyright owners consent or compensation? No?
Speaker 1: It also like asks like do we need this shit
Speaker 1: at all? At one point they're just like, why what
Speaker 1: good is this other than removing Like truly, the only
Speaker 1: business purpose of this is removing the need to pay
Speaker 1: the artist, Like that, that's it, because otherwise you just
Speaker 1: pay them to do the thing that you're asking them
Speaker 1: to do. Now, I get so hostile when I see
Speaker 1: people putting like, clearly AI generally.
Speaker 2: Oysters are just stuff to promote their work, or like
Speaker 2: a deck that has clearly made by AI, Like I
Speaker 2: don't know why. My instant reactions like the fuck are
Speaker 2: you thinking?
Speaker 1: Just fucking the fucker shrippery.
Speaker 2: Fucking slope and now we're not paying artists.
Speaker 1: So making Generative AI more vulnerable to copyright lawsuits, you know,
Speaker 1: due to all the copyrighted material that it actually like
Speaker 1: directly steals from, would get in the way of his
Speaker 1: plan to pay back all the tech companies that Bank
Speaker 1: World is campaigned, which has already resulted in five hundred
Speaker 1: billion dollars of investment in an AI infrastructure project called Stargate.
Speaker 2: Mmmm, well, did you walk through the stargate and stay there?
Speaker 2: That's right, and don't come back and don't bring back
Speaker 2: whatever the fucks on the other side of that thing
Speaker 2: over here.
Speaker 1: Well, so stargate. Did you watch Stargate? I saw that
Speaker 1: in theaters when I was a kid.
Speaker 2: Stargt g one, the TV show No.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I organized a viewing of the TV show No,
Speaker 1: the Kurt Russell movie, And I don't think I ever
Speaker 1: got my head around, like is it a parallel dimension
Speaker 1: that it's going back too, or was it time traveling
Speaker 1: to actual ancient Egypt? And it's like the premise that
Speaker 1: like Egyptians couldn't have built that ship by themselves, had
Speaker 1: to be Aliens.
Speaker 2: It was definitely uh, Egypt coded, but they were considered
Speaker 2: like intergalactic.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, it was a wormhole.
Speaker 2: So it was like they were able to exactly holes.
Speaker 2: If you had a stargate. I had a stargate, we
Speaker 2: could stargate.
Speaker 1: That's right, you know, hit me up on hit me
Speaker 1: up on my stargate later.
Speaker 2: And I'll bring my stargate and we could be stargate.
Speaker 1: But for they by creating the TV show after the
Speaker 1: fact that had the guy from mcgiver in the Kurt
Speaker 1: Russell role. I have completely replaced Kurt Russell in the
Speaker 1: movie in my memory of the movie with mcgiver, so
Speaker 1: just because they both have the same kind of blonde,
Speaker 1: dirty blonde mullet. But anyways, that's what that's what they
Speaker 1: named their AI Moonshot project after five hundred billion dollars
Speaker 1: so that you know they can.
Speaker 2: Is this comes out of time to where a lot
Speaker 2: of people are questioning if chat GPT got worse. It
Speaker 2: was like, yeah, I know, but I'm saying it dropped
Speaker 2: part four it was worse. And then everyone's like, what's
Speaker 2: this ship? Like how far this is? Like worse than
Speaker 2: like three iterations.
Speaker 1: Imagine if if they dropped an iPhone and then had
Speaker 1: to pull it off of the market because it was
Speaker 1: worse than the iPhone.
Speaker 2: iPhone seven team never mind, y'all were y'all fucking with
Speaker 2: the Apple five? Right?
Speaker 1: What they did the thing as we talked about last week,
Speaker 1: they they dropped it. So this is a technology that
Speaker 1: the whole claim is that it's going to be advancing
Speaker 1: so so fast, like we can't keep up, and like
Speaker 1: it's scary how fast it is going to be advancing.
Speaker 1: And they dropped their latest version and it was worse
Speaker 1: than the previous version, and they admitted it and took
Speaker 1: it off like they took it back. They were like,
Speaker 1: our bad that so yeah, that that would be my
Speaker 1: admit it. That would be my clue that things might
Speaker 1: not be as they're suggesting. They are that open air.
Speaker 1: Of course, the company that has the most much dumping
Speaker 1: buckets of money and energy into this ship. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean they're trying to get every last dime they
Speaker 2: can before the fucking like Indiana Jones trying to snatch
Speaker 2: his hat before the gate shuts up on him. He's
Speaker 2: like last bit of money by you'll never see me again.
Speaker 1: On the plus side, firing the head of copyright office,
Speaker 1: I think means we just get a full you know,
Speaker 1: fair use purge where we can just like show Mickey
Speaker 1: Mouse doing whatever we want to play in full songs
Speaker 1: on the that's right by the most litigious artists.
Speaker 2: Yep, we're gonna be playing Eminem on a loop.
Speaker 1: That's right, Yeah, yeah, Eminem.
Speaker 2: I guess wasn't that weren't they like when he played
Speaker 2: a Mom's Spaghetti remix what they're like, it's a fucking
Speaker 2: all the lyrics are moms spaghetti.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well they don't listen. They just have AI that's
Speaker 1: combing the internet. And see, so don't say, don't act
Speaker 1: like AI hasn't done anything for us.
Speaker 2: Yeah, only AI. We fun with. His last name is Iverson.
Speaker 2: That's right, Okay, all right?
Speaker 1: And finally, uh, you know, we talked last week. The
Speaker 1: Pope is Americans. Big news. He's from Chicago. People. The
Speaker 1: two baseball teams of Chicago got got into it over
Speaker 1: the weekend trying to claim him because the Cubs claimed
Speaker 1: him first as their Oh you know, really, yeah, they're pontiff.
Speaker 2: With what with what did they what did they? What
Speaker 2: did they base that off? There?
Speaker 1: There was an ABC report that claimed he was a
Speaker 1: Cubs fan. Well you're fired because it turns out that,
Speaker 1: you know, further reporting, his brother John Prevost said he
Speaker 1: was never ever a Cubs fan and was really a
Speaker 1: White Sox fan, and that led to the team, the
Speaker 1: White Sox, posting their own, you know, post about the
Speaker 1: Pope's fandom, and then people like started scouring the internet.
Speaker 1: They found photos of the Pope at the two thousand
Speaker 1: and five World Series, he's like, in the background of
Speaker 1: this one picture just on a cell phone back in
Speaker 1: two thousand and five. This guy's making moves. What was
Speaker 1: it Who was he on the phone with? That's a
Speaker 1: great question.
Speaker 2: I have to assume. God right, he looks like he's
Speaker 2: moving weight. I don't know why, but he's just like.
Speaker 1: He smiles and looking off in the middle distance on
Speaker 1: a Nokia, you know. And then he was shown on
Speaker 1: camera during the game, which I love. Look what we
Speaker 1: can do as an as a national internet.
Speaker 2: How the fuck did someone find that?
Speaker 1: I know, that's impressive.
Speaker 2: Did somebody have that on like in a binder already
Speaker 2: ready to go or with someone like now, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: call him through every Cubs broadcast game to see if
Speaker 2: I can catch the now Pope.
Speaker 1: And then and the commentary team is like, look at
Speaker 1: that guy. That guy looks like that guy could be
Speaker 1: Pope one day.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, real right, young man, keep your head down.
Speaker 2: We're rooting for you, Pope. Let's just call him Leo
Speaker 2: the fourteen.
Speaker 1: Maybe.
Speaker 2: I don't know, we'll see, we'll see where this goes.
Speaker 2: I just love though too, that like, because you know,
Speaker 2: for there's such a divide between Cubs fans and white
Speaker 2: Sox fans, and a lot of people just presume that
Speaker 2: the default Chicago in is a Cubs fan. Yeah, but
Speaker 2: a lot of it's like geography, class and all these
Speaker 2: other things. Race can plain to it because like my
Speaker 2: family from Chicago, all white Sox fans. Whites are not
Speaker 2: Clubs fans. They are not Cubs fans. And it's just
Speaker 2: interesting that, like I wonder if that ABC persons like, yeah,
Speaker 2: he's probably he loves base he's from Chicago, he's a
Speaker 2: Cubs fan. And then the brother goes, he was never.
Speaker 1: He was never a Cubs.
Speaker 2: Don't ever fucking besmirch the pope's.
Speaker 1: Name, like that unbelievable. He so, by the way, so
Speaker 1: he was at the two thousand and five World Series,
Speaker 1: which the White Sox won, because the Pope presumably enlisted
Speaker 1: angels to sabotage the other team. I like, yeah, in
Speaker 1: his arms, that's what they should have gotten footage of
Speaker 1: doing the angel wing flap front Angels.
Speaker 2: And the use ai doctor and image where he's calling
Speaker 2: the Angels to fucking do that, or someone get a
Speaker 2: real actor to portray him.
Speaker 1: But yeah, but some people are claiming that the Cubs
Speaker 1: since the Cubs falsely claimed he's a Cubs fan. They
Speaker 1: then lost on Friday, which fucking lie on the PA.
Speaker 1: Don't like that, Yeah, man, what are you doing? They
Speaker 1: then won the next day. I will also say, if
Speaker 1: we're going with the theory that he's intervening on behalf
Speaker 1: of the White Sox. The White Sox were so so
Speaker 1: far this season. They're twelve and twenty nine. They're coming
Speaker 1: off one of the worst seasons in the history of
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball or the Papacy, Like almost the worst
Speaker 1: baseball season of all time. They were in the running,
Speaker 1: like I'm not a baseball fan and the only things
Speaker 1: I knew about last season were Shoho Tani is good
Speaker 1: and the White Sox are historically right. Like they would
Speaker 1: open Sports Center with clips of them fucking up, Like
Speaker 1: that's how bad they were. Like, the White Sox are
Speaker 1: at it again. Look a look at this masterful fuck up,
Speaker 1: which only suggests that the Pope took his eye off
Speaker 1: the ball for too long and he was busy controlling
Speaker 1: things with his mind so he could become pope. But
Speaker 1: now that he has a direct line to God, you know,
Speaker 1: you gotta think now that he's secured that with whatever
Speaker 1: he was doing last year. You know, maybe he had
Speaker 1: to you know, probably like allow a bad White Sox
Speaker 1: season so he should could get repaid.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't know about the exact dealings that
Speaker 1: got him to be the pope.
Speaker 2: Nine game win streaks.
Speaker 1: They are two and two since he was named. Okay,
Speaker 1: so you don't want it to be too obvious, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you don't want to tip him off that Christ. That's
Speaker 1: why he wasn't back there doing the Angels wings in
Speaker 1: the outfield. He's you know, that's got you think. That's
Speaker 1: the humility thing. His biggest conflict is Pope.
Speaker 2: He's like, do I advocate for gay people or do
Speaker 2: I use my powers to get another World Series?
Speaker 1: Way, I mean, if the Socks win it this year,
Speaker 1: that's uh, like that.
Speaker 2: That would change off when I will Okay, no, I'm
Speaker 2: not that Uh anyways, can't win them all because then
Speaker 2: it would it would ruin the narrative arc.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: So I think this year White Sox have a respectable
Speaker 2: they finish around five hundred.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like a manager takes over and like what.
Speaker 2: Next season, Leo the fourteenth that you can crank it
Speaker 2: up a little bit. Bro, I's not gonna get mad
Speaker 2: at you.
Speaker 1: We all want to see. We all want to believe.
Speaker 2: I was pope. I would my fandom would poison my papacy.
Speaker 2: I just know that I would just go to all
Speaker 2: the games they like. This guy doesn't even fucking go.
Speaker 2: He's not even the Vatican. He's always had like Laker
Speaker 2: games or Arsenal matches.
Speaker 1: It's like when the camera when the like JumboTron shows them,
Speaker 1: he's like doing the holding finger up and chugging a
Speaker 1: beer thing.
Speaker 2: Olean, not one thing spilled, keeping my garments piss it open,
Speaker 2: so you know, yeah, like this over my head, not
Speaker 2: a drop. Oh my god, he could.
Speaker 1: I can do my own miracle about making alcohol turn
Speaker 1: into something. I'm gonna turn this beer into piss.
Speaker 2: Brother, I'm too sexy for this beer.
Speaker 1: We're wearing a full pope hat at the game. Oh shit.
Speaker 1: All right. Those are some of the things that are
Speaker 1: trending on this Monday, May twelfth. We are back tomorrow
Speaker 1: with a whole last episode of the show. Until then,
Speaker 1: be kind to each other, be kind to yourselves. Get
Speaker 1: you or vaccines while you still can, get your flu
Speaker 1: shots while you still can. Don't do nothing about white supremacy,
Speaker 1: and we will talk to you all tomorrow. Bye bye.
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