In this edition of Big Boy Trend On The Roof, Jack and special guest co-host Blake Wexler discuss the 63 year old TV show Mr. Ed, the new 0% rated Amazon adaptation of 'War of the Worlds', microplastics in GLASS bottles?!?!, the singing camper that sparked a rescue mission, 'The Wizard Of Oz' coming to the Vegas Sphere (featuring yet another useless implementation of AI) and much more
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Big
Boy Trend on the Roof, Big Boy Trend on the Roof.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
They ain't never seen a big boy trend on the roof.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
That one courtesy of that clip, that classic clip.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Of somebody singing like making up a.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Song called big Boy Get on the roof. They've never
seen a big boy get on the roof as their friend,
a big boy dances his way onto the roof, and
then it becomes big boy grill on the roof because
they're grilling on the roof.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
It's just a beautiful, beautiful.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Clip, just pured, the vibes immaculate. And then it was
trending again because Trump was on the roof of the
White House yesterday as we talked about. And now that
shit is just in my head irrevocably, that song, big
Boy Trend.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
On the roof, Big Boy Trend on the roof.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
My name is Jack O'Brian that of course over there.
Of course that voice clip you hear, of course, of
course isake wax Lie.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Have you ever heard of a talking horse? The mister ed,
because you a song, right, A horse is a horse?
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Of course, horse, unless isn't that what it's unless, of course.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
That's the thing that I think might be more popular,
exponentially more popular than the show itself, where that song,
that song has outlived that show in the zeitgeist.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
If I may, I think it's time for them to
reboot that and like make him how has an anti hero?
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Oh wait, they did that with bo Jack Horseman Nember Mine.
The it is.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
So there's this thing that some people think is real. Uh,
some people don't. But it's this phenomenon where we all
we all have our questions. The truth is out there
is out there. Someone called the Flint effect where somebody
noticed that on i Q tests, people like they had
to keep upping the difficulty of IQ tests because people
(02:06):
kept getting better and better at it, and like you're
supposed to it's supposed to be a test of like,
you know, what is average intelligence. And so if you
give somebody who gets a one hundred today on an
IQ test a test from nineteen fifty three, they would
get like a one hundred and twenty. They would be
a above average for nineteen fifty And people are like, well.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
That can't bemcheck, how can you get higher than one hundred?
It's idosterious like one twenty. Why are you making you
couldn't you have done a better example than a hundred?
Speaker 1 (02:42):
So IQ one hundred is average what you have to understand,
and they.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Told me it's an A plus.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Buddy, you did great. Now go back to play with
your your paint chips. The you know, everybody's like dah,
the kids are getting stupider every year, right, And the
truth is that for a long time, according to IQ
tests highly fallible, everybody has been getting smarter and smarter
on a like three IQ test points per decade average
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since like the nineteen twenties, Big mystery. Some of the
theories are that it was like everybody was being exposed
to lead for so long and then they stopped. But
it's been more gradual, and it's been everywhere. Basically, it's
been like everywhere on the planet. My loose theory is
that it's just like thing like culture has gotten more
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complex and you know the theory.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
The example I.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Use is movie movie trailers used to have to be like,
this is your protagonist. His name is Dave. I'm going
to tell you about his life and then explain the
plot to you, and then like not a good movie,
but like Diehard four has a no voice over, and
the trailer has like a very subtle reference to the
(04:06):
first one, where like doors open and you hear the
song that they played from the first one when the
bank vault opens, and it's like, that's how you that's
where they revealed it. I heard that, and it's just yeah, yeah,
it's like all these things that we've been like told
make a dumber, like MTV, like this fast cutting and
all that stuff is like, actually, you know, more difficult
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for our brains to keep up with, and we're having
to like imbibe like more difficult texts and all this.
But a lot of people are like, well, IQ testter
bullshit and none of it matters, and like you're only
getting smarter in this very specific way. The one thing
that I always go back to being like, I think
we're smarter in a pretty significant way is like, go
watch mister ed.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
What they thought was entertaining in the nineteen fifties.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
That made people exactly and explain to you that it
was a talking horse, uh before showing you a show
about a talking horse, where from scene one it's pretty
evident that this is a show about a talking horse.
It does feel like a show that was made by
and for people who had been kicked in the head
by a horse.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Yes, it was traumatic brain injuries in an agricultural space audience.
It's for every single episode. Okay, so I know we
all know horses don't talk. However this one does.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Mister let's start there with that horse equals horse.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
We know he's a horse, of course, obviously we all
know that. Now here's here's where we might lose some
of it is mister ed. It's mister ed. Okay, horses
have names. Probably lost a little, but we're still on
the same board. Now. Now you're gonna fucking blow your
brain down on this next one. This mayor is talking
the thing. This thing is gonna fuck you up.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
And again, I don't think that that makes us smarter
than them in ways that are that important. I just
think in the same way that like IQ tests are
testing your ability to like detect patterns and like you know,
pry apart like the meaning of like a specific sentence
like that is also like the sort of thing you
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can get from watching more and more complicated and subtle
messaging through your media. And like where we started was
fucking talking horse. Are you fucking kidding.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Shut it off, Shut it off, Turn off that garbage off.
You're bringing Satan into this household. All right? Anyways, hello
the Internet.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Speaking of entertainment that was made behind four people who
were kicked in the head by a horse. There is
a new War of the World's starring ice Cube. It
is getting a lot of attention for having a zero
percent on Rotten Tomato. It's and so we watched the trailer,
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and then we watched a scene that is also getting
a lot of attention. In the scene, it's just in
the scene, it's ice Cube, his daughter and her friend,
an Amazon delivery driver trying to solve a problem. It's
all happening over zoom. I assumed this was like, Okay,
what if we're the world happened during pandemic.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
It's not.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
They're just like, Dad, you work so much, you're always
on zoom And he's like, ah, I guess so, Dad,
was the last time you left your apartment?
Speaker 2 (07:37):
That's confidential, says ice Cube.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
And then an Amazon drone delivery device like saves the
day at the end of the famous scene.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
It's kind of mind boggling. You kind of need to
see it to believe.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
It that this is an actual movie that's being released
by Amazon. We'll link off to the Reddit post where
people are like the scene fucking rules.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
People are going to deconstruct this trailer the way we
just deconstructed Mister Ed, but like fifty years from now
where they're gonna be like, okay, So they needed to
be told that the data is their food. That's these
people are so stupid. In the year twenty twenty five,
what if I didn't know what year it was in
the year twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Oh god, one of the ways we got smarter is
knowing what year it does.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
No, No, that was a that was a miss. But
the data is their food. So these these aliens, I
guess are coming in to eat our data because it's
their food. Yeah. And where they're already started.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
With one thing, they started being like what if we
remade that Will Smith movie Enemy of the State, but
like it was through you know how, Like they're those
horror movies that are like unchatted, It's time the Chat
is Haunted or whatever, where it's like the whole movie
takes place through like zoom. But like, because like this
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tends to work best for horror movies where it's like
you have a you know, window, you have like a
view of the action through someone's computer screen, and like
the limiting factor of that makes it like extra suspenseful
or whatever. For like a big budget action movie like
War of the World's to remake that by being like,
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we're just gonna like show you shitty footage of this
doesn't seem like it was that that good of an idea.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
You were saying, no, no, no, no, I wasn't and
but now I will. And it's that. Meanwhile, the only
reason why this big budget film, to your point is
exclusively is a zoom film. It's because when ice Cube
signed the contract that morning, he had sat in the
worst traffic of his life in la and was like, Yeah,
I'm not leaving my house for this movie, so you
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can do whatever you want with the other scenes. You
can have aliens blowing things up in the city. I'm
sitting at my desk. You're gonna bring the count and
I'm not leaving this room now. And they were like,
we can work with that. Yeah, sounds great, that's how
we wrote it. Actually, that's right, coincidence. But yeah, so
they're doing a zoom windows eye view on War of
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the worlds.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
It is hovering at a stunning zero percent on rotten Tomatoes,
and super producer Victor points out that I asked several
times as we were watching the trailer and then watching
the scene, if this was real like it does? It
does feel like it can't possibly be real, specifically the
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the Amazon trail because this is like an Amazon Prime
original And to have a scene inside where the guy's like, no,
it's cool, I can get you this by sending it
out on a drone is pretty pretty amazing.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
So, zike Agle, let's get this tomato meter up to
a nine percent by the end of the day. I
think we can do it if we all vote. We're all,
how does that work? Is it like a Nielsen rating
where you need to have a tomato in your TV
in to vote? Yes, that's how work. That is how
it works. Okay, just have a they have a rotten.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Little thing in your in your TV and if you
throw a tomato at it, its senses that.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Yeah, feel the pressure. Tomatoes fucking rotten as hell. Dog.
They hate this one is fresh tomato. They love this one.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
That's the that's how we communicate that we love in
this household. One we Uh, we communicate that we love
a movie by throwing fresh tomatoes at the television.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
All right.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Uh we got one in the category of oh you
thought this was helping. You thought what you were doing
was helping. It's actually hurting you, fucking idiot. Fuck fourth
of July.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
There, there's a new report out of Ansis, which is
a French outlet, that microplastics are present in all beverages,
but those packaged in glass bottles contain more microplastic particles
than those in plastic bottles, cartons, or cans, which is
I think it's part of a genre of story I'll
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group it with the genre of story of oh you
thought recycling was good, you thought recycling actually helped. It
actually fucking hurts you, idiot, which I think in both
cases these stories, I don't think they're designed.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
It's designed to happen this way.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
I think it just unintentionally works out this way, which
like tends to be how things work with like power
and money. But like the powerful people with money are
in control of both, like creating the crisis and then
the response to the crisis, right, and so they created
the fact that like microplastics are everywhere and then and
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they created like just the massive amounts of pollution and shit,
and then they created recycling, and they created glass water bottles.
We'll save you from having microplastic, you know, that narrative.
And unfortunately, because they do, they do a like a
whole assed job of destroying the environment because that's what's
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profitable and like the easiest thing to do. But they
do an incredibly half asked job of like the problem mitigation,
you know, and so they don't bother. For instance, the
like story that recycling is not that helpful actually is
true as far as I've been able to research, But
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it's true because nobody has bothered to put any funding
behind like the sorting of garbage, which is like the
thing that would help, you know, it would just be
like if you could somehow make it profitable for people
to like bring the environment back into order through cycling,
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we would have had this solved two decades ago. But instead,
I feel like the way that the story comes to
us is we can't fucking do anything right, you know,
and you're just like it comes to you in a
way that you're just like, oh, I fucking give up,
Like I'm not going to try anything, and that's unfortunate
that it's just the byproduct of the people in power
having like having a monopoly on both the problem creation
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and problem mitigation, you know, things that we try, and
they don't actually put any thought or money or energy
into solving the problems. They just create a pr campaign
to be like, and we solve that one. Don't worry
about it, don't look over here anymore, leave us alone.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
It's kind of like when you know, the Bush administration
is like, Okay, take off your shoes when you go
through airport security because they did nine to eleven, and right,
that's basically what it is. They caused the problem. They
did that, And it's like, oh, I was taking off
your shoes really going to prevent you getting a bomb
on a plane? No, because it's not done correctly. Is
that is that basically what you're saying, that they could
actually look in your shoes because George Bush did nine eleven.
(15:05):
I'm just I'm confused with your with your now that
it's actually is that what it is with my analogy? Yes,
your analogy was opaque and I'm trying to clean it
up a little.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Bit with the audience with I know you think that's
a good yeah, a good example of problem mitigation that
uh didn't really save us from much because the shoe bombs.
Do you remember did you ever see what the shoe
bomb looked like? The so embarrassing it was, so it
was wiley coyote if he was like drunk like it was.
(15:36):
It had like lit like you had to light the
back of the shoes to get them to blow up.
But anyways, it was very silly.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
No, I I agree with you, like on an emotional standpoint,
I think that's it's it's not the biggest tragedy of it,
but it's such like a sad byproduct where we are
trying where it's like I am, you know, not that
you're you know, working in a coal mine, but it's like, oh,
I'm separating my trash, I'm trying ying, so like I'm trying,
you know, and then you blame yourself when in reality,
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these corporations are just stacked everything against you in such
a way, and not only have they fucked the environment up,
they're blaming it on you as well, you know, or
they're making you blame yourself. It's just such a bummer.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
So just making it all seem like nothing can be
done because nothing is being done, and either nothing is
being done is because they're not doing it, and they
both solve the problem problem and they've also you know,
concentrated wealth to such a degree that they're the only
ones who have the ability to address the problem and they're.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Just not going to the CEO. Become a CEO, and
then you can and then you can help.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
I do think like when you look at the stories
of how people become CEOs and how that whole world operates,
like one of the most important things to do is
like do something awful and like not tell anyone that's
like you know what I mean. It's like and that's
how we know we can trust you. It's like how
the mafia would operate too. It's like, yeah, well this
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person needs to kill someone so we know that they're
like with us and they're not going to turn on
us or like turn you know. Like I think that's
where I think that's a lot of the half the
battle of becoming rich and powerful is like I'm always
in my reading mostly picture books and comic books of
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historical research, historical picture books, I'm always unsurprised, like all
of the like nakedly evil shit that's being done by
the wealthy and powerful. It's always like, oh, man, that's
even worse than I thought. And then all the stuff
that we actually hear about, it's like, oh, that was
overblown and sensationalized. But like the stuff that the evil
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people are. They tried to overthrow FDR and like have
him killed by military general because they wanted to do fascism,
like during the Rise of Hitler.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Like this's looking crazy. Oh my god. I thought I
was making a hyperbolic joke, but in reality it's so
much worse. It's like, Okay, go to Wharton, have an
evil father, poison a village. You have to poison a
village at some point, we do give polio, Like those
are the ways that you're going to become successful and
try to overthrow the man. Yeah, that's right. Let's take
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a quick break. We'll be right back and we're back. Hi, Hi,
going on, Hi, Good morning, good morning, Good morrow to you.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Blake and I just slept eight hours in between. Yeah,
I first act in this act terrible. Oh my god,
what were we talking about last night? Oh, fraggle rock?
Did we create a concert? Do we play fraggle rock?
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Smoked a couple of fraggle rocks. You know what I'm saying.
That's that's right. I don't even know what I'm saying. Uh,
let's talk. Let's talk about something stupid.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
I think the last Act if I can remember, eight
hours ago, we were talking about how wealthy people are
destroying the world and not doing.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Shit about it.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Let's talk about a camper in British Columbia who was
all right, so I'll tell this like a mystery. Two
hikers hiking near something called.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
The Atlantic Ocean. You don't know that. That can't be right.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
It is the Atlantic near the Boulder Fields in Vancouver,
British Columbia, heard what they thought was a distressed call
for help. Heard someone like bellowing screeching, and they were like, wait, listen,
there it is again. They couldn't quite like figure out
where it was coming from. It couldn't quite hear what
it was. They reached out to the authorities, who sent
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out mount They sent to other whatever, yeah, unmountains, strolleys
and flyes a drones to like sweep this whole park,
this whole natural park, to see like where this person
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was who was badly wounded.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
And I'm just gonna.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Read from this post from Central Okanagan Search and Rescue said,
we found him alone camper singing his heart out to
the trees, blissfully unaware that the acoustics of the Boulder
fields had turned his tent side concert into an accidental
distress signal. Why'd they just like turn so like turned
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it into TMZ in the middle of his statement he
wasn't in trouble unless you count as singing. That's literally
from the quote. They literally like took a moment to
just burn this motherfucker.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Who also must be I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
If somebody's like out of nature, they're probably like giving
the double rainbow guy, you know, Like, do you remember
that guy who's.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Like, oh my god, a double roombo It sounds like
the habbiest person in the entire world.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Possibly, yeah, Or it could just be somebody who is like,
I love singing, but I'm so humiliated by my singing voice.
Might be beautiful, might not. I just don't have the
courage to sing in front of people. I'm going to
go to the most remote location that I could possibly
imagine to sing alone where nobody can hear me, nobody
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will hear me nobody will be affected by my singing.
And then there's like an entire squadron of like drones,
people on horseback, search and rescue people rolling up and
then just like fucking roasting him to the national media.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
It's so devastating because it's like, Okay, so my voice
is so bad that people you have you got to
be pretty sure that a horrific occurrence is happening to
bring in all these like cops and like call the authorities.
And his voice is so bad that people are like
that is one hundred percent someone dying or someone in
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very big trouble, So we're going to call them in.
I like the idea of him singing like Papa Roach
or something. It actually was really scarab wo fuck no, wait,
that's disturbed. That's disturbed Jack, get your get your bad
music straight. That's why that is definitely popper Roach. I
regret down with the sickness. Isn't that disturbed Roach? Also
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is you might not have realized that, and also Disturbed
and the limp Biscuit and yeah, there are part of
the same band Puddle of Mud. Now there's a band
band just called Sack of Ship, a loose description of
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the after effects of diarrhea, empty bank account. It's just
all right, we have an AI update.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Uh, you know, we've been we talk a lot of
trash about AI on this not we're not talking trash necessarily.
We're just reporting on what is happening, and we're looking
for the good stuff, you know, and we.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Have talked about like they're there.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
AI appears to be fun to play with, like when
incorporated into video games. Uh, people seem to enjoy talking
to chat GPT.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
I don't know if that's good.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Sometimes it makes them want like want to kill their
spouse and like sort a cult, but it, you know,
fun to play with seems to be one of the
things I'd put in AI's pro I think there's a
Thomas middle Ditch, that improviser guy from Silcon Valley. He
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has a podcast where he like improvises and like does
funny stuff with AI that I saw a clip of
and I was like, that's weird.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Again. Appears to be fun. He appears to be having
fun playing with that thing. Now.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Now, this, on the other hand, is where it seems
less successful, which is everything else, literally everything else, like
when the product of your playing with it is important
and needs.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
To be good. It's not. It hasn't been going so well.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Like when wait, like it'll it'll give you the experience
of doing research and making that research easy, like in
that super Bowl commercial where the guy's like, I can't
read or write for shit, I'm a dairy farmer. But
this helped me do marketing and like do the cheese
research that I needed to do. He seemed happy, He
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seemed like a very satisfied customer. It just so happened
that the research that I did that they quoted in
the super Bowl commercial said that Gouda cheese is the
most popular cheese on the planet and responsible for sixty
percent of cheese consumption worldwide, which is both not true
and like obviously not true.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Yeah, that's wrong. That I know is wrong. That's wrong.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
I know.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
It's impossible.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Fun fun and fun to play with and especially like
seems promising when you're playing with it, and like therefore
fun the results are bad so far, is what we
could tell. Anyways, the sphere you may know from we've
talked about it before when we were in Las Vegas.
The spular thing, that's right, he got it. Yeah, big
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circle in on the Vegas skyline. Very weird to look
at because there's so many LED lights that it is
delivered to you in high resolution no matter where you are,
and so like when we were there for NBA Summer League,
there was just like a hazy Las Vegas skyline on
the horizon and then a like bright full definition basketball
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just like floating in the middle distance for easy. Yeah,
this fear is very weird. I took my kids to
see a nature documentary there. I was like, this is cool,
Like this screen is big and like there's it's a
it's a weird fun experience. It is a movie ticket
that costs what a concert ticket would cost, so for
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I cannot recommend it on that basis. It also like
has a weird thing like AI display in the in
the lobby where there's like these robots that are clearly
just being controlled by someone, but like people are interacting
with the robot and they're like, robot, am I going
to make what should my lottery numbers be? It's like
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a Zoltar thing, but with an AI scan off with
more money behind it, right yeah that but yeah, but
still a trick still like the same old mechanical turch shit. Anyways,
so they are trying to find other ways to you know,
sell people tickets, and like the cheapest, best, most cost
effective way to do that is show them a movie
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that you know, again you charge concert venue tickets for
a movie. And so they have announced that they are
going to be showing a Wizard of Oz, which is
a movie that was not originally made for the Las
Vegas Sphere. You may remember it was made in nineteen
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thirty nine, which pre dated priest sphere. Yeah, pre sphere,
I believe, like a definitively pre sphere. And so you
might be wondering, well, how they do that, and the answer,
of course is AI.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
Yes, yes, this is the promise. They are finally delivered
on their promise. This is what it's for.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Uh so, yeah, they've they've upscaled it to fit the
massive screen. That is what the sphere is is just
a very very very big and high definition screen. AI
upscaling has been used, has been done quite a bit.
There's a famous image that you can find on the
internet from I Love Lucy where they sharpened the face
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of background actors and.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
How do you describe the fuck is going on this person?
Speaker 1 (28:37):
It looks like the background characters go from being blurry
out of focused background characters, which you know that what
they were meant to be by the filmmaker to portray
depth and to keep the focus on the foreground actor. Uh,
to something that looks like, uh, it would be right
(28:58):
at home in the VHS from the Ring, like just
a very strange like blurry but then like kind of
a a face emerging from inside the blurriness thing. Google
used generative AI models like this from its Gemini family too,
so they, among other things, they had to like sharpen
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the resolution so that you know, they could blow the
image up, but then they also had to expand the
frame and like add characters to the side. So like
all those decisions that a filmmaker makes of like what
goes inside the shot, they're just like let the AI
(29:43):
handle that.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
Leave it to the experts artificial intelligence. Yes, there's no
read for no need for a director anymore.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Right, So the aspect ratio of the movie had to
be radically altered. The film grain has been totally eliminated. Uh,
And the backgrounds that they've showed are like they just
look like AI generated garbage. Like there's this one shot
of Dorothy's face that they've released with a background that
(30:13):
just looks like a fucking sidewalk with like grass next
to it, like a photograph that they've taken. Like it
just looks like someone copy and pasted a Wizard of
Oz character in the concept art from Willie's Chocolate Experience.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
You know, it's nothing, it's absolutely nothing.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Yeah, that like AI bullshit thing that they did last year,
that that's kind of what it looks like.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
It's gonna look weird as hell. Like the Isle of
Lucy thing is so upsetting where I just looked up
like one of the like a photo. It's you can
almost predict. It's like, oh, all these people were dead,
Like it's like they're dead people in the background, like
people who it's that AI thing where it's it's not
really it's like I don't know, Oh, I've never seen
(31:01):
something fucked up in this particular way before. It way
kind of makes up right.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
It makes your brain like start asking questions that your
brand was never supposed to ask, such as what the
fuck am I looking at?
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Yeah? Yeah, where generally it's like, Okay, I know, maybe
the camera's out of focus here, or someone walked by
the camera and that's why it looks weird, but it's
like this didn't need to look weird. This was fine
not looking weird, and then you made it look weird. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
The other thing that they're doing is expanding the frame,
so like there's this one shot that original film sphere
experience that like they showed this off. By the way,
this cost eighty million dollars the price of like a
very expensive like feature film to do this, to expand it,
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and they showed it off on like CBS Good Morning
or some other news.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Product for good Morning. By the way, I just want
to say that, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
It h it like shows the original film, which has
like three characters in the middle, like right after Toto,
Like I don't know why I pronounced that Toto. I
think I was thinking to too, like almost bites the
woman who is like the wicked witch in never never Land.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
That's not and in Oz. I don't know what corrected you.
I never would have corrected you.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
They expanded out so that you can see the whole
room and there's just like a shelf in the corner,
and like the uncle character is just like standing next
to a door looking at his dick, like just like
looking that that's the one thing that I've noticed AI
has real trouble with, because there was also this really
(32:50):
depressing New York Times just like yeah, he's just over there,
dick gazing, just looking down at his dick. There's this
New York Times article about a woman who is using
AI to help with her like manifesting. She's like, you know,
my mom, like read me the secret about how like
you just like think about what you want to become,
(33:11):
and like AI helps me do that. Like I've created
these images of myself like on a private jet, and
I've created this image of myself like as the feature
as like a ted Talk speaker, and the ted Talk
image that she's created, she's like standing looking at the camera,
smiling smugly, and like the audience is packed, but literally
(33:35):
nobody is looking at her. Like people are just like
staring in like the wrong direction. Like that they really
have trouble with, Like Eyeline matches. They're like, we can
create a whole crowd of people who appear to have
no idea that what what they're doing there, because that
would require like artistry and it just isn't necessary.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
Where Like that that image that you showed where from
where Dorothy's like in her grandmother's home, like no one's
ever been, like, how does her grandmother decorate her home?
Because that's really all your there's nothing like moving the
story along other than other than the perverted uncle in
the corner of the stereo. But he's a probert towards himself.
(34:18):
You know, he's his own tangle head. I don't know
how he's cool. Yeah, well he's cool. I'm sorry, he's
a cool he's a cool uncle. He's a fun uncle
because he wears at backward. It's a kanglehead. But it
really just looks like shit, doesn't add. It's weird. It's
just weird. I know that's like not a complicated term,
but it's really the best term to describe what this
(34:38):
is is bizarre. Weird is the right term. I bet
it would be.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
Fun like to do like in a photo like in
a forum month on Reddit, be like use a guy
to expand the like corners of this shot and like
put like hide funny stuff in there. That Ye, that
would be fun to do. It is not a result
that people are going to want to spend a lot
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of money to then see, and it is not something
that you should be doing to a classic work of
cinema that where every square inch of the frame has
been treated like a painting and like carefully constructed. And
then you're just like, I don't know, maybe like a
shelf over here or something. I don't know, man Like
there's just like a big white wall wall with like
(35:28):
a an ia shelf next to it.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
It's like, uh, what why is that would be funny
as a bit where right now on this zoom, I
see you a microphone when you're back in your square
background two doors kind of a generic background, and it's like,
all right, let's see what else is in Jack's space
and it zooms out and it's just your whole extended
family watching us through this podcast in silence, just staring
(35:50):
at their dicks, sorry, at their collective O'Brian dick. So
that was wouldn't that be funny? On that? That'd be funny?
Wouldn't that be funny?
Speaker 1 (36:03):
And that would be fun all right, that's all we've
got time for, folks. Blake, such a pleasure in having
you as always, such a pleasure. Where can people find you?
Follow you all that good stuff?
Speaker 2 (36:13):
People can and will find me at Mike Wexler and
shall On at blic Wexler on all social media On
August twenty third, I'm going to be in Philly doing
my show called The Reviews Are In, which is a
variety show where me and other comics read reviews that
we've actually left for products and places and they're always insane.
(36:34):
Audience members can come on stage and read their reviews.
So if you saw me, why invited, whether they're when
you receive a good stock card that I will mail
you months. I guess months. It's too late. But if
you saw me in Philly last Friday, first of all,
thank you, and then second of all, this show will
be completely different. So that's a part of the Philly
(36:54):
Comedy Festival on August twenty third at bic Wexler and
social media.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
Yeah all right, we are back tomorrow with the whole
last episode of the show until then, and it's a
very fun one.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
I must say that.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
Until then, be kind to each other, be kind to yourselves.
Get the vaccine while you still can not very much
longer as we'll talk about tomorrow. Coop, Yeah, gay blue Shot,
don't do nothing about white supremacy, and we will talk
to you all tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
Bye. The Daily Zeitgeist as executive produced by Catherine Law,
co produced by bee WAYGE, co produced by Victor Wright,
co written by j M McNabb and edited and engineered
by Brian Jefferies.
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Big
Boy Trend on the Roof, Big Boy Trend on the Roof.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
They ain't never seen a big boy trend on the roof.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
That one courtesy of that clip, that classic clip.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Of somebody singing like making up a.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Song called big Boy Get on the roof. They've never
seen a big boy get on the roof as their friend,
a big boy dances his way onto the roof, and
then it becomes big boy grill on the roof because
they're grilling on the roof.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
It's just a beautiful, beautiful.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Clip, just pured, the vibes immaculate. And then it was
trending again because Trump was on the roof of the
White House yesterday as we talked about. And now that
shit is just in my head irrevocably, that song, big
Boy Trend.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
On the roof, Big Boy Trend on the roof.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
My name is Jack O'Brian that of course over there.
Of course that voice clip you hear, of course, of
course isake wax Lie.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Have you ever heard of a talking horse? The mister ed,
because you a song, right, A horse is a horse?
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Of course, horse, unless isn't that what it's unless, of course.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
That's the thing that I think might be more popular,
exponentially more popular than the show itself, where that song,
that song has outlived that show in the zeitgeist.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
If I may, I think it's time for them to
reboot that and like make him how has an anti hero?
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Oh wait, they did that with bo Jack Horseman Nember Mine.
The it is.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
So there's this thing that some people think is real. Uh,
some people don't. But it's this phenomenon where we all
we all have our questions. The truth is out there
is out there. Someone called the Flint effect where somebody
noticed that on i Q tests, people like they had
to keep upping the difficulty of IQ tests because people
(02:06):
kept getting better and better at it, and like you're
supposed to it's supposed to be a test of like,
you know, what is average intelligence. And so if you
give somebody who gets a one hundred today on an
IQ test a test from nineteen fifty three, they would
get like a one hundred and twenty. They would be
a above average for nineteen fifty And people are like, well.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
That can't bemcheck, how can you get higher than one hundred?
It's idosterious like one twenty. Why are you making you
couldn't you have done a better example than a hundred?
Speaker 1 (02:42):
So IQ one hundred is average what you have to understand,
and they.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Told me it's an A plus.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Buddy, you did great. Now go back to play with
your your paint chips. The you know, everybody's like dah,
the kids are getting stupider every year, right, And the
truth is that for a long time, according to IQ
tests highly fallible, everybody has been getting smarter and smarter
on a like three IQ test points per decade average
(03:17):
since like the nineteen twenties, Big mystery. Some of the
theories are that it was like everybody was being exposed
to lead for so long and then they stopped. But
it's been more gradual, and it's been everywhere. Basically, it's
been like everywhere on the planet. My loose theory is
that it's just like thing like culture has gotten more
(03:38):
complex and you know the theory.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
The example I.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Use is movie movie trailers used to have to be like,
this is your protagonist. His name is Dave. I'm going
to tell you about his life and then explain the
plot to you, and then like not a good movie,
but like Diehard four has a no voice over, and
the trailer has like a very subtle reference to the
(04:06):
first one, where like doors open and you hear the
song that they played from the first one when the
bank vault opens, and it's like, that's how you that's
where they revealed it. I heard that, and it's just yeah, yeah,
it's like all these things that we've been like told
make a dumber, like MTV, like this fast cutting and
all that stuff is like, actually, you know, more difficult
(04:28):
for our brains to keep up with, and we're having
to like imbibe like more difficult texts and all this.
But a lot of people are like, well, IQ testter
bullshit and none of it matters, and like you're only
getting smarter in this very specific way. The one thing
that I always go back to being like, I think
we're smarter in a pretty significant way is like, go
watch mister ed.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
What they thought was entertaining in the nineteen fifties.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
That made people exactly and explain to you that it
was a talking horse, uh before showing you a show
about a talking horse, where from scene one it's pretty
evident that this is a show about a talking horse.
It does feel like a show that was made by
and for people who had been kicked in the head
by a horse.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Yes, it was traumatic brain injuries in an agricultural space audience.
It's for every single episode. Okay, so I know we
all know horses don't talk. However this one does.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Mister let's start there with that horse equals horse.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
We know he's a horse, of course, obviously we all
know that. Now here's here's where we might lose some
of it is mister ed. It's mister ed. Okay, horses
have names. Probably lost a little, but we're still on
the same board. Now. Now you're gonna fucking blow your
brain down on this next one. This mayor is talking
the thing. This thing is gonna fuck you up.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
And again, I don't think that that makes us smarter
than them in ways that are that important. I just
think in the same way that like IQ tests are
testing your ability to like detect patterns and like you know,
pry apart like the meaning of like a specific sentence
like that is also like the sort of thing you
(06:18):
can get from watching more and more complicated and subtle
messaging through your media. And like where we started was
fucking talking horse. Are you fucking kidding.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Shut it off, Shut it off, Turn off that garbage off.
You're bringing Satan into this household. All right? Anyways, hello
the Internet.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Speaking of entertainment that was made behind four people who
were kicked in the head by a horse. There is
a new War of the World's starring ice Cube. It
is getting a lot of attention for having a zero
percent on Rotten Tomato. It's and so we watched the trailer,
(07:03):
and then we watched a scene that is also getting
a lot of attention. In the scene, it's just in
the scene, it's ice Cube, his daughter and her friend,
an Amazon delivery driver trying to solve a problem. It's
all happening over zoom. I assumed this was like, Okay,
what if we're the world happened during pandemic.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
It's not.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
They're just like, Dad, you work so much, you're always
on zoom And he's like, ah, I guess so, Dad,
was the last time you left your apartment?
Speaker 2 (07:37):
That's confidential, says ice Cube.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
And then an Amazon drone delivery device like saves the
day at the end of the famous scene.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
It's kind of mind boggling. You kind of need to
see it to believe.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
It that this is an actual movie that's being released
by Amazon. We'll link off to the Reddit post where
people are like the scene fucking rules.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
People are going to deconstruct this trailer the way we
just deconstructed Mister Ed, but like fifty years from now
where they're gonna be like, okay, So they needed to
be told that the data is their food. That's these
people are so stupid. In the year twenty twenty five,
what if I didn't know what year it was in
the year twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Oh god, one of the ways we got smarter is
knowing what year it does.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
No, No, that was a that was a miss. But
the data is their food. So these these aliens, I
guess are coming in to eat our data because it's
their food. Yeah. And where they're already started.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
With one thing, they started being like what if we
remade that Will Smith movie Enemy of the State, but
like it was through you know how, Like they're those
horror movies that are like unchatted, It's time the Chat
is Haunted or whatever, where it's like the whole movie
takes place through like zoom. But like, because like this
(08:59):
tends to work best for horror movies where it's like
you have a you know, window, you have like a
view of the action through someone's computer screen, and like
the limiting factor of that makes it like extra suspenseful
or whatever. For like a big budget action movie like
War of the World's to remake that by being like,
(09:21):
we're just gonna like show you shitty footage of this
doesn't seem like it was that that good of an idea.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
You were saying, no, no, no, no, I wasn't and
but now I will. And it's that. Meanwhile, the only
reason why this big budget film, to your point is
exclusively is a zoom film. It's because when ice Cube
signed the contract that morning, he had sat in the
worst traffic of his life in la and was like, Yeah,
I'm not leaving my house for this movie, so you
(09:53):
can do whatever you want with the other scenes. You
can have aliens blowing things up in the city. I'm
sitting at my desk. You're gonna bring the count and
I'm not leaving this room now. And they were like,
we can work with that. Yeah, sounds great, that's how
we wrote it. Actually, that's right, coincidence. But yeah, so
they're doing a zoom windows eye view on War of
(10:15):
the worlds.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
It is hovering at a stunning zero percent on rotten Tomatoes,
and super producer Victor points out that I asked several
times as we were watching the trailer and then watching
the scene, if this was real like it does? It
does feel like it can't possibly be real, specifically the
(10:39):
the Amazon trail because this is like an Amazon Prime
original And to have a scene inside where the guy's like, no,
it's cool, I can get you this by sending it
out on a drone is pretty pretty amazing.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
So, zike Agle, let's get this tomato meter up to
a nine percent by the end of the day. I
think we can do it if we all vote. We're all,
how does that work? Is it like a Nielsen rating
where you need to have a tomato in your TV
in to vote? Yes, that's how work. That is how
it works. Okay, just have a they have a rotten.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Little thing in your in your TV and if you
throw a tomato at it, its senses that.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Yeah, feel the pressure. Tomatoes fucking rotten as hell. Dog.
They hate this one is fresh tomato. They love this one.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
That's the that's how we communicate that we love in
this household. One we Uh, we communicate that we love
a movie by throwing fresh tomatoes at the television.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
All right.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Uh we got one in the category of oh you
thought this was helping. You thought what you were doing
was helping. It's actually hurting you, fucking idiot. Fuck fourth
of July.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
There, there's a new report out of Ansis, which is
a French outlet, that microplastics are present in all beverages,
but those packaged in glass bottles contain more microplastic particles
than those in plastic bottles, cartons, or cans, which is
I think it's part of a genre of story I'll
(12:12):
group it with the genre of story of oh you
thought recycling was good, you thought recycling actually helped. It
actually fucking hurts you, idiot, which I think in both
cases these stories, I don't think they're designed.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
It's designed to happen this way.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
I think it just unintentionally works out this way, which
like tends to be how things work with like power
and money. But like the powerful people with money are
in control of both, like creating the crisis and then
the response to the crisis, right, and so they created
the fact that like microplastics are everywhere and then and
(12:54):
they created like just the massive amounts of pollution and shit,
and then they created recycling, and they created glass water bottles.
We'll save you from having microplastic, you know, that narrative.
And unfortunately, because they do, they do a like a
whole assed job of destroying the environment because that's what's
(13:16):
profitable and like the easiest thing to do. But they
do an incredibly half asked job of like the problem mitigation,
you know, and so they don't bother. For instance, the
like story that recycling is not that helpful actually is
true as far as I've been able to research, But
(13:39):
it's true because nobody has bothered to put any funding
behind like the sorting of garbage, which is like the
thing that would help, you know, it would just be
like if you could somehow make it profitable for people
to like bring the environment back into order through cycling,
(14:01):
we would have had this solved two decades ago. But instead,
I feel like the way that the story comes to
us is we can't fucking do anything right, you know,
and you're just like it comes to you in a
way that you're just like, oh, I fucking give up,
Like I'm not going to try anything, and that's unfortunate
that it's just the byproduct of the people in power
having like having a monopoly on both the problem creation
(14:25):
and problem mitigation, you know, things that we try, and
they don't actually put any thought or money or energy
into solving the problems. They just create a pr campaign
to be like, and we solve that one. Don't worry
about it, don't look over here anymore, leave us alone.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
It's kind of like when you know, the Bush administration
is like, Okay, take off your shoes when you go
through airport security because they did nine to eleven, and right,
that's basically what it is. They caused the problem. They
did that, And it's like, oh, I was taking off
your shoes really going to prevent you getting a bomb
on a plane? No, because it's not done correctly. Is
that is that basically what you're saying, that they could
actually look in your shoes because George Bush did nine eleven.
(15:05):
I'm just I'm confused with your with your now that
it's actually is that what it is with my analogy? Yes,
your analogy was opaque and I'm trying to clean it
up a little.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Bit with the audience with I know you think that's
a good yeah, a good example of problem mitigation that
uh didn't really save us from much because the shoe bombs.
Do you remember did you ever see what the shoe
bomb looked like? The so embarrassing it was, so it
was wiley coyote if he was like drunk like it was.
(15:36):
It had like lit like you had to light the
back of the shoes to get them to blow up.
But anyways, it was very silly.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
No, I I agree with you, like on an emotional standpoint,
I think that's it's it's not the biggest tragedy of it,
but it's such like a sad byproduct where we are
trying where it's like I am, you know, not that
you're you know, working in a coal mine, but it's like, oh,
I'm separating my trash, I'm trying ying, so like I'm trying,
you know, and then you blame yourself when in reality,
(16:05):
these corporations are just stacked everything against you in such
a way, and not only have they fucked the environment up,
they're blaming it on you as well, you know, or
they're making you blame yourself. It's just such a bummer.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
So just making it all seem like nothing can be
done because nothing is being done, and either nothing is
being done is because they're not doing it, and they
both solve the problem problem and they've also you know,
concentrated wealth to such a degree that they're the only
ones who have the ability to address the problem and they're.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Just not going to the CEO. Become a CEO, and
then you can and then you can help.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
I do think like when you look at the stories
of how people become CEOs and how that whole world operates,
like one of the most important things to do is
like do something awful and like not tell anyone that's
like you know what I mean. It's like and that's
how we know we can trust you. It's like how
the mafia would operate too. It's like, yeah, well this
(17:02):
person needs to kill someone so we know that they're
like with us and they're not going to turn on
us or like turn you know. Like I think that's
where I think that's a lot of the half the
battle of becoming rich and powerful is like I'm always
in my reading mostly picture books and comic books of
(17:23):
historical research, historical picture books, I'm always unsurprised, like all
of the like nakedly evil shit that's being done by
the wealthy and powerful. It's always like, oh, man, that's
even worse than I thought. And then all the stuff
that we actually hear about, it's like, oh, that was
overblown and sensationalized. But like the stuff that the evil
(17:46):
people are. They tried to overthrow FDR and like have
him killed by military general because they wanted to do fascism,
like during the Rise of Hitler.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Like this's looking crazy. Oh my god. I thought I
was making a hyperbolic joke, but in reality it's so
much worse. It's like, Okay, go to Wharton, have an
evil father, poison a village. You have to poison a
village at some point, we do give polio, Like those
are the ways that you're going to become successful and
try to overthrow the man. Yeah, that's right. Let's take
(18:19):
a quick break. We'll be right back and we're back. Hi, Hi,
going on, Hi, Good morning, good morning, Good morrow to you.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Blake and I just slept eight hours in between. Yeah,
I first act in this act terrible. Oh my god,
what were we talking about last night? Oh, fraggle rock?
Did we create a concert? Do we play fraggle rock?
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Smoked a couple of fraggle rocks. You know what I'm saying.
That's that's right. I don't even know what I'm saying. Uh,
let's talk. Let's talk about something stupid.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
I think the last Act if I can remember, eight
hours ago, we were talking about how wealthy people are
destroying the world and not doing.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Shit about it.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Let's talk about a camper in British Columbia who was
all right, so I'll tell this like a mystery. Two
hikers hiking near something called.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
The Atlantic Ocean. You don't know that. That can't be right.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
It is the Atlantic near the Boulder Fields in Vancouver,
British Columbia, heard what they thought was a distressed call
for help. Heard someone like bellowing screeching, and they were like, wait, listen,
there it is again. They couldn't quite like figure out
where it was coming from. It couldn't quite hear what
it was. They reached out to the authorities, who sent
(19:58):
out mount They sent to other whatever, yeah, unmountains, strolleys
and flyes a drones to like sweep this whole park,
this whole natural park, to see like where this person
(20:21):
was who was badly wounded.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
And I'm just gonna.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Read from this post from Central Okanagan Search and Rescue said,
we found him alone camper singing his heart out to
the trees, blissfully unaware that the acoustics of the Boulder
fields had turned his tent side concert into an accidental
distress signal. Why'd they just like turn so like turned
(20:47):
it into TMZ in the middle of his statement he
wasn't in trouble unless you count as singing. That's literally
from the quote. They literally like took a moment to
just burn this motherfucker.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Who also must be I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
If somebody's like out of nature, they're probably like giving
the double rainbow guy, you know, Like, do you remember
that guy who's.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Like, oh my god, a double roombo It sounds like
the habbiest person in the entire world.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Possibly, yeah, Or it could just be somebody who is like,
I love singing, but I'm so humiliated by my singing voice.
Might be beautiful, might not. I just don't have the
courage to sing in front of people. I'm going to
go to the most remote location that I could possibly
imagine to sing alone where nobody can hear me, nobody
(21:37):
will hear me nobody will be affected by my singing.
And then there's like an entire squadron of like drones,
people on horseback, search and rescue people rolling up and
then just like fucking roasting him to the national media.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
It's so devastating because it's like, Okay, so my voice
is so bad that people you have you got to
be pretty sure that a horrific occurrence is happening to
bring in all these like cops and like call the authorities.
And his voice is so bad that people are like
that is one hundred percent someone dying or someone in
(22:16):
very big trouble, So we're going to call them in.
I like the idea of him singing like Papa Roach
or something. It actually was really scarab wo fuck no, wait,
that's disturbed. That's disturbed Jack, get your get your bad
music straight. That's why that is definitely popper Roach. I
regret down with the sickness. Isn't that disturbed Roach? Also
(22:41):
is you might not have realized that, and also Disturbed
and the limp Biscuit and yeah, there are part of
the same band Puddle of Mud. Now there's a band
band just called Sack of Ship, a loose description of
(23:02):
the after effects of diarrhea, empty bank account. It's just
all right, we have an AI update.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Uh, you know, we've been we talk a lot of
trash about AI on this not we're not talking trash necessarily.
We're just reporting on what is happening, and we're looking
for the good stuff, you know, and we.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Have talked about like they're there.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
AI appears to be fun to play with, like when
incorporated into video games. Uh, people seem to enjoy talking
to chat GPT.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
I don't know if that's good.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Sometimes it makes them want like want to kill their
spouse and like sort a cult, but it, you know,
fun to play with seems to be one of the
things I'd put in AI's pro I think there's a
Thomas middle Ditch, that improviser guy from Silcon Valley. He
(24:03):
has a podcast where he like improvises and like does
funny stuff with AI that I saw a clip of
and I was like, that's weird.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Again. Appears to be fun. He appears to be having
fun playing with that thing. Now.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Now, this, on the other hand, is where it seems
less successful, which is everything else, literally everything else, like
when the product of your playing with it is important
and needs.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
To be good. It's not. It hasn't been going so well.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Like when wait, like it'll it'll give you the experience
of doing research and making that research easy, like in
that super Bowl commercial where the guy's like, I can't
read or write for shit, I'm a dairy farmer. But
this helped me do marketing and like do the cheese
research that I needed to do. He seemed happy, He
(25:00):
seemed like a very satisfied customer. It just so happened
that the research that I did that they quoted in
the super Bowl commercial said that Gouda cheese is the
most popular cheese on the planet and responsible for sixty
percent of cheese consumption worldwide, which is both not true
and like obviously not true.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Yeah, that's wrong. That I know is wrong. That's wrong.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
I know.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
It's impossible.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Fun fun and fun to play with and especially like
seems promising when you're playing with it, and like therefore
fun the results are bad so far, is what we
could tell. Anyways, the sphere you may know from we've
talked about it before when we were in Las Vegas.
The spular thing, that's right, he got it. Yeah, big
(25:46):
circle in on the Vegas skyline. Very weird to look
at because there's so many LED lights that it is
delivered to you in high resolution no matter where you are,
and so like when we were there for NBA Summer League,
there was just like a hazy Las Vegas skyline on
the horizon and then a like bright full definition basketball
(26:10):
just like floating in the middle distance for easy. Yeah,
this fear is very weird. I took my kids to
see a nature documentary there. I was like, this is cool,
Like this screen is big and like there's it's a
it's a weird fun experience. It is a movie ticket
that costs what a concert ticket would cost, so for
(26:33):
I cannot recommend it on that basis. It also like
has a weird thing like AI display in the in
the lobby where there's like these robots that are clearly
just being controlled by someone, but like people are interacting
with the robot and they're like, robot, am I going
to make what should my lottery numbers be? It's like
(26:55):
a Zoltar thing, but with an AI scan off with
more money behind it, right yeah that but yeah, but
still a trick still like the same old mechanical turch shit. Anyways,
so they are trying to find other ways to you know,
sell people tickets, and like the cheapest, best, most cost
effective way to do that is show them a movie
(27:18):
that you know, again you charge concert venue tickets for
a movie. And so they have announced that they are
going to be showing a Wizard of Oz, which is
a movie that was not originally made for the Las
Vegas Sphere. You may remember it was made in nineteen
(27:40):
thirty nine, which pre dated priest sphere. Yeah, pre sphere,
I believe, like a definitively pre sphere. And so you
might be wondering, well, how they do that, and the answer,
of course is AI.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
Yes, yes, this is the promise. They are finally delivered
on their promise. This is what it's for.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Uh so, yeah, they've they've upscaled it to fit the
massive screen. That is what the sphere is is just
a very very very big and high definition screen. AI
upscaling has been used, has been done quite a bit.
There's a famous image that you can find on the
internet from I Love Lucy where they sharpened the face
(28:23):
of background actors and.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
How do you describe the fuck is going on this person?
Speaker 1 (28:37):
It looks like the background characters go from being blurry
out of focused background characters, which you know that what
they were meant to be by the filmmaker to portray
depth and to keep the focus on the foreground actor. Uh,
to something that looks like, uh, it would be right
(28:58):
at home in the VHS from the Ring, like just
a very strange like blurry but then like kind of
a a face emerging from inside the blurriness thing. Google
used generative AI models like this from its Gemini family too,
so they, among other things, they had to like sharpen
(29:21):
the resolution so that you know, they could blow the
image up, but then they also had to expand the
frame and like add characters to the side. So like
all those decisions that a filmmaker makes of like what
goes inside the shot, they're just like let the AI
(29:43):
handle that.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
Leave it to the experts artificial intelligence. Yes, there's no
read for no need for a director anymore.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Right, So the aspect ratio of the movie had to
be radically altered. The film grain has been totally eliminated. Uh,
And the backgrounds that they've showed are like they just
look like AI generated garbage. Like there's this one shot
of Dorothy's face that they've released with a background that
(30:13):
just looks like a fucking sidewalk with like grass next
to it, like a photograph that they've taken. Like it
just looks like someone copy and pasted a Wizard of
Oz character in the concept art from Willie's Chocolate Experience.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
You know, it's nothing, it's absolutely nothing.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Yeah, that like AI bullshit thing that they did last year,
that that's kind of what it looks like.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
It's gonna look weird as hell. Like the Isle of
Lucy thing is so upsetting where I just looked up
like one of the like a photo. It's you can
almost predict. It's like, oh, all these people were dead,
Like it's like they're dead people in the background, like
people who it's that AI thing where it's it's not
really it's like I don't know, Oh, I've never seen
(31:01):
something fucked up in this particular way before. It way
kind of makes up right.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
It makes your brain like start asking questions that your
brand was never supposed to ask, such as what the
fuck am I looking at?
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Yeah? Yeah, where generally it's like, Okay, I know, maybe
the camera's out of focus here, or someone walked by
the camera and that's why it looks weird, but it's
like this didn't need to look weird. This was fine
not looking weird, and then you made it look weird. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
The other thing that they're doing is expanding the frame,
so like there's this one shot that original film sphere
experience that like they showed this off. By the way,
this cost eighty million dollars the price of like a
very expensive like feature film to do this, to expand it,
(31:56):
and they showed it off on like CBS Good Morning
or some other news.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Product for good Morning. By the way, I just want
to say that, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
It h it like shows the original film, which has
like three characters in the middle, like right after Toto,
Like I don't know why I pronounced that Toto. I
think I was thinking to too, like almost bites the
woman who is like the wicked witch in never never Land.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
That's not and in Oz. I don't know what corrected you.
I never would have corrected you.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
They expanded out so that you can see the whole
room and there's just like a shelf in the corner,
and like the uncle character is just like standing next
to a door looking at his dick, like just like
looking that that's the one thing that I've noticed AI
has real trouble with, because there was also this really
(32:50):
depressing New York Times just like yeah, he's just over there,
dick gazing, just looking down at his dick. There's this
New York Times article about a woman who is using
AI to help with her like manifesting. She's like, you know,
my mom, like read me the secret about how like
you just like think about what you want to become,
(33:11):
and like AI helps me do that. Like I've created
these images of myself like on a private jet, and
I've created this image of myself like as the feature
as like a ted Talk speaker, and the ted Talk
image that she's created, she's like standing looking at the camera,
smiling smugly, and like the audience is packed, but literally
(33:35):
nobody is looking at her. Like people are just like
staring in like the wrong direction. Like that they really
have trouble with, Like Eyeline matches. They're like, we can
create a whole crowd of people who appear to have
no idea that what what they're doing there, because that
would require like artistry and it just isn't necessary.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
Where Like that that image that you showed where from
where Dorothy's like in her grandmother's home, like no one's
ever been, like, how does her grandmother decorate her home?
Because that's really all your there's nothing like moving the
story along other than other than the perverted uncle in
the corner of the stereo. But he's a probert towards himself.
(34:18):
You know, he's his own tangle head. I don't know
how he's cool. Yeah, well he's cool. I'm sorry, he's
a cool he's a cool uncle. He's a fun uncle
because he wears at backward. It's a kanglehead. But it
really just looks like shit, doesn't add. It's weird. It's
just weird. I know that's like not a complicated term,
but it's really the best term to describe what this
(34:38):
is is bizarre. Weird is the right term. I bet
it would be.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
Fun like to do like in a photo like in
a forum month on Reddit, be like use a guy
to expand the like corners of this shot and like
put like hide funny stuff in there. That Ye, that
would be fun to do. It is not a result
that people are going to want to spend a lot
(35:04):
of money to then see, and it is not something
that you should be doing to a classic work of
cinema that where every square inch of the frame has
been treated like a painting and like carefully constructed. And
then you're just like, I don't know, maybe like a
shelf over here or something. I don't know, man Like
there's just like a big white wall wall with like
(35:28):
a an ia shelf next to it.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
It's like, uh, what why is that would be funny
as a bit where right now on this zoom, I
see you a microphone when you're back in your square
background two doors kind of a generic background, and it's like,
all right, let's see what else is in Jack's space
and it zooms out and it's just your whole extended
family watching us through this podcast in silence, just staring
(35:50):
at their dicks, sorry, at their collective O'Brian dick. So
that was wouldn't that be funny? On that? That'd be funny?
Wouldn't that be funny?
Speaker 1 (36:03):
And that would be fun all right, that's all we've
got time for, folks. Blake, such a pleasure in having
you as always, such a pleasure. Where can people find you?
Follow you all that good stuff?
Speaker 2 (36:13):
People can and will find me at Mike Wexler and
shall On at blic Wexler on all social media On
August twenty third, I'm going to be in Philly doing
my show called The Reviews Are In, which is a
variety show where me and other comics read reviews that
we've actually left for products and places and they're always insane.
(36:34):
Audience members can come on stage and read their reviews.
So if you saw me, why invited, whether they're when
you receive a good stock card that I will mail
you months. I guess months. It's too late. But if
you saw me in Philly last Friday, first of all,
thank you, and then second of all, this show will
be completely different. So that's a part of the Philly
(36:54):
Comedy Festival on August twenty third at bic Wexler and
social media.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
Yeah all right, we are back tomorrow with the whole
last episode of the show until then, and it's a
very fun one.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
I must say that.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
Until then, be kind to each other, be kind to yourselves.
Get the vaccine while you still can not very much
longer as we'll talk about tomorrow. Coop, Yeah, gay blue Shot,
don't do nothing about white supremacy, and we will talk
to you all tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
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