February 14, 2023 • 41 mins
It's our farewell episode y'all! Join us as we look back at some of our favorite moments, explore gratitude, and more! THANK YOU so much for following us on this journey! We hope you'll stay in touch with us! Follow Bill on IG @worleybirdpictures and follow Mark on IG @markkendallcomedy
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When it's all about ridiculous news. Everywhere we told about
ridiculous news over here. Hey, everyone, welcome to Ridiculous News,
not your average news show. We cover stuff you didn't
realize was news from the wild and funny, to the
deep and hidden to the absolutely ridiculous, ridiculous. I'm Bill Worley.
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I'm an Atlanta based filmmaker. I'm a comedian. And Mark,
I'm feeling super grateful today because i live in Atlanta
at l Baby, I'm surrounded by amazing friends and family
and tell to people like you. And even though it's
cloudy outside, you go up high enough, Mark, and there's
a loose guy love. Hey everyone, I'm Mark Candall. I'm
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an Atlanta based comedian. Uh and Bill, I will follow
your lead here. I'm also grateful for all the wonderful
folks in my life, yourself included, and are amazing listeners.
And you know, I'm ready to talk about some news today. Yeah, yeah,
let's talk y'all. Today is our final Weekly Round episode.
So in addition to discussing headlines that caught her I
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recently will also be doing some fun final episode surprises
reminiscent given thanks uh and also just spread and love
because it's our Valentine's Day episode uh, and we love
you all, so we wanted this to be, you know,
an episode of love for y'all. Yes, we love y'all,
and we wanted to thank you all so much from
the bottom of our loving hearts for being part of
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this journey with us. Uh. You know, first off, you know,
we've had so many amazing guests in in segments and
fun times, and it's it's impossible with the episode would
be ten hours long if we pulled everything from everyone.
So we just so pulled a couple of just favorite
moments and these first couple are from a segment that
we do called make It Spooky. Now. Make It Spooky
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was initially a segment where we gave people headlines and
they had to make them sound spooky and intense, uh
and usually very fun normal news headlines. It evolved as
the show evolved to get them to do very different
things where there's an impressions and you'll see these are
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some of our favorite variations from make It Spooky, And
we'll start with the great executive producer, Noel Brown himself.
Here's a clip of Knowles Make It Spooky. We're gonna
give you another headline, but this time we want you
to read it in the voice of her song. Alright,
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so Bill is gonna share this next headline with you.
And if you could read it as weren't her song,
that'd be amazing. Massachusetts Museum returns sacred items to suit tribes.
That's fantastically And if I could read all my articles
about museums giving items back to people that deserve them
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or they belonged to in Warner voice, that that'd be amazing.
He does. He could hear that guy read the phone book,
but he did. He had this one quote where he's
like asking somebody. He's like doing a Q and A
and someone asked him about Pokemon go and he goes,
tell me, did these Pokemon when they meet in the streets.
Is the murder? Is that violence? He adds pathos to
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just anything you know that says, that's the man that clip.
I thought Warner was in the studio with us. He's
so good at that, so damn good at that. It's amazing.
It's really funny. It was really funny. Well, we got
another great episode. We have Dr Jeanine Abrams mcclan on
the show and asked her to make it spooky as well.
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But we threw a fun twist her away, and then
she knocked it out of the park. So yeah, this
was this was her um. She said that she was
such a fan of Broadway musicals earlier in the episode,
and then she pulled this off. Whenever You're ready, man
builds benches for the bus stops after singing one man
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sitting in. Uh dude, I so that that that reaction
was real. We did not know that she could sing.
They're kind of like putting her on the spot, like
trying to like, oh, this will be like like fun pressure,
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not like bad pressure, but like fun pressure. Will have
a laugh, will sing and then she just sings for real,
like we know her from Fair Count, the amazing organization
that works to help people get voting, make sure that
they're properly represented in the sense of things like that.
You know, this brilliant, brilliant person had no idea that
her music background went so deep and then she just
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pulls it out of nowhere, so fun, no warm up,
no nothing, just like you, no nothing, she just pulled
that off. And you know, speaking of amazing voices, uh,
you know Jamie Ali Law who's been a guest on
the pod multiple times, um surprised us with her amazing
voice on this clip. Now, this one, this one, I've
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got to read this article. Okay, jop cackling, mating season,
wearing in the time. I mean, is that that's what
we're calling that's the nice way you know? It as
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her rain Congratulations Monkey Queen, Yes, Japan's Monkey Queen. Specific
incredible voice. You know you gotta see it live as well.
It's great recorded. You also got to see her perform live,
follow her uh saying miss Jamie, Yeah yeah, Mark when
you play with her live? And I've I finally got
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to see them do a show live at at a
really cool venue here in Atlanta, and it was mind blowing.
It's i mean, every time she sinks it's mind blowing
and that in particular bit that y'all did was so cool.
Um really really enjoyed it. And you know, she was
jumping out of characters. Mark, You've had amazing characters there.
It's impossible to remember every single amazing character that you've had,
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but one of my favorite characters because we get we
don't have time to do everything. But I don't think
I've ever left as hard as when Shauna was a
guest and pulled out this character. Mark absolutely so Atlanta
comic Shanna got candy. He's so funny. Um, he's you
nique because you know he has jokes. He's a standard
where he's like he's got the repaired jokes. But he's
also a brilliant improviser. So the last per minute don't
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decrease just because it's coming off the top of his head,
you know. And he's just so I mean, this is
in the best way. He's so silly and goofy, and
this character, Um, it was a lot of fun. He
just divoted off the spot and uh yeah, this is
a longer clip because it just makes me laugh. The
whole thing is so I put a longer one and
you guys enjoy Shaunick's character here. You know, we have
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a lot of special guests, you know, come through the studio,
some that you wouldn't even think would be able to
make it. But we are in luck because that very
Haaron that swallowed that rat is with us here today
and so we're so excited to get to talk to them. So,
uh ha, it's great to meet you. It's great to
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meet you. Yeah, what the fuck is up? Whoa? Yeah,
you're definitely from New York. Yeah, Bordas baby go Mad's
go jets. What is up? So? So what's your name? Parent? Uh? Great, Blue,
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I'm and I I'm Irish by my trade by trade,
so what do you want? What do you by birth?
By birth? My fair enough, but culturally I'm Irish. Yeah, yeah,
this is great, big press week for me. Well that's
kind of what I wanted to talk about. I mean,
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it's just like you. You you ate a ratic, got
caught on camera. A lot of people have been applauding you.
Can you kind of like walk a smooth the event
of what happened. I mean, you're out there, you're on
a pond in Central Park, living your life. How do
you come across on rap. I'm like, walk us through that.
So I was pretty hello. I was down at this
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thing that my Ricky was stowing and sent to a park,
and the whole night I was trying to hook up
with this girl. Uh sorry, she's not a girl, she's
a pitcheon and she was she was being pretty flighty
get but she was leading me on. I was going
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from three to three, branch to branch, kind of talked
to this girl, and uh, finally she came out with
the news she's married, and I was like, listen, babe,
I'm not trying to get into no love triangle. Okay,
I've been in too many of those. I'm an old
man now. And uh I I tied a few more
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on with my cousin Ricky and it was time for
me to go, and uh, you know, I was just like,
I gotta get something to my sister from an we
have to work tomorrow. And uh then I saw a
rat and I took a bite. He was pretty juicy,
and I had the whole thing and that's when he
got got. I didn't even find out a little went
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viral and that was like a day later. I had
a whole day to be hung over. Yeah, just a
get there's there. Thank you Shannik for bussing us that,
and you know, shout out. You know, there's puns of
great characters. We go on our Instagram. You can see
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a lot of the other amazing characters folks. Did that
one in particular just popped into my head? And so
thankful to him and all the amazing guests and all
the amazing comedians and experts that we've had on the
show dropping their knowledge and dropping their talent. I've just
dropped Batman. Oh my god, Batman's back. Hello? Or is
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your last episode? So would be remiss if I did
not come by to share one very important thing. It's
been great getting to watch y'all do your episodes. But
since you might be moving on to other things, I
wanted to give you a special invite to the Justice League.
Oh my god, we're getting Mark. We're gonna be in
this Justice League. We need some clerical administrators, you know,
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people that can handle calls, you know what I'm saying,
handle voicemails and on occasion, save the world. Look it
sounds like an admin position kind of you know, we
offer you know, weekends off you know what I'm saying,
custom made costumes and free access to the cafeteria for lunch.
Of the free lunch right right. The breakfast and dinner
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is extra, but there's a very competitive meal plan available. Okay, great, Yeah,
I hope you all consider it. You have my love.
Bat Wait Bill, what's that over there? Oh my god?
What is that? Wait? Bill, Batman? He just vanished. He
did that thing where we look the other way and
then he has gone out the window. Do you think
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I would have not fallen for it? That's what you mean?
I feel for it too every time. Yeah. Yeah, we're
gonna take a quick break to hear a word from
our sponsor. Yeah. Yeah, would amazing and crazy compics to
choose you would ridiculous news. Okay, y'all, we're back and
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for the main course today. Of course, this being the
final episode, we want to talk about gratitude, um, why
it's important, and the amazing experience that we've had, and
you know what, of course we're grateful for it, and
what amazing growth and knowledge and fun we've had doing
this cast. Absolutely, and I really love the article you
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pulled talking about gratitude and and and why it's important.
And I thought there were some great things in here.
Starting off with the picture from this actually this article
about gratitude, it kind of says that shifting our attitudes
to focus on getting thanks has a direct link to
our will being. Uh. It goes on to say the
case in point. In one study, psychologists recruited a group
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of participants and asked half to take time weekly to
write a few sentences about things that were grateful for
from that week, and the other half wrote about irritations
or complaints. So after ten weeks of this, the group
that centered on gratitude felt more optimistic about life than
their counterparts. And then the gratitude group saw physical changes
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as well. They exercise more and made fewer doctor visits
in the group that focused on the negative aspects of life.
And Bill, I know you keep a gratitude journal yourself,
I believe. Yeah, yeah, I have on my third one.
And uh, it's very simple. It's like they have versions
of it on you know, you can order online. It's
there's a five minute version, six minute version. In the morning,
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I get up and much like this study, I assume
they had these kids as I just write three things
that I'm great before and and you know, what I'm
looking forward to the day, and then you do a
little kind of positive affirmation and it's fun. It is
it's fun to realize once you sit down and you
think about things you're grateful for, there's so much and
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one of the things that you're doing it every day.
You can be even grateful for the pen that you're
writing it on, for the chair that you're sitting on,
you know, for the sun shining on your face from outside.
It doesn't always have to be something big, but it's
one of those things that just makes me feel so
blessed in this time and age that we're in and
you know, living in this country or wherever you live, listener, like,
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what what an amazing time to be alive with all
the technology, the healthcare, you know, all of these things
that we have. UM, there's a lot to be grateful for.
And even when I was traving to Thailand, Mark and
I met people from war torn countries and people are
going through such difficult things. That interesting to me was
their attitude and their gratefulness UM towards life because you know,
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it's not something I've personally experienced, and of course it
weighs them down at times. UM. But hearing them talk
about how grateful they are for the people that have survived,
for their families and and things like that. That was
that was really touching and opening. Yeah. Absolutely, and real
real quick sidebar about things being great for I mean,
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you had an amazing trip to Thailand. I know we've
mentioned it some on the podcast, but it sounds like
that trip was really great and I remember you telling
me about it specifically, like hearing stories from other people
and where other people were coming from. It sounds like
it gave great perspective, you know, like as a gratitude exercise.
So that's really cool. Yeah, y'all want to be grateful.
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Just hop over to Thailand, Um, really easy, quick hop
and jump. Absolutely, Mark, Yeah, I think the biggest thing
that I love about travel and I think one of
the biggest and best gifts you can give to yourself
and that when I look back at my forty years
of life, Um, some of the things that I think
I've learned the most from are the times that I
left America shores. I love America, I love our country,
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but leaving our shores to go spend time around other
people in other countries and Thailand, what's so interesting is
not only are the Thai people amazing, of course um
land of Smiles, but it's kind of a there's a
lot of tours there, so we get people from all
over the world as well. And that was the element
to me that on top of this magical place with
mountains and beautiful islands and amazing cities, with all kinds
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of cool stuff going on, is you know, meeting people
who are eager to meet others and share in you know,
community and conversation. And I I mean, I wish America
we just had a fund where everyone could spend at
least a couple of weeks abroad. Come on, Congress, come on,
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but please if you don't travel, and of course during
the pandemic, we couldn't write, so you know, that's another
reason to get out there and go by and rediscover
or discover for the first time the joys of meeting
people that aren't from where you're from. What's that well said? Uh?
And going back to the article, there was another study
that the article sites were by researchers from Kent State University,
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and they tested the effect of writing letters of gratitude
to other people. And with that, the article says the
results were clear. Taking the time to say thank you
in writing made people happier, more satisfied with life, and
even decreased symptoms of depression. So the bottom line the
article says is we feel grateful for all sorts of
blessings in life, but most of us rarely take the
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time to think about those things, let alone write them down. Yeah,
that's a practice I need to do more. And that's
something as we get towards the end of this episode, y'all,
we're gonna we're gonna throw a gratefulness at you. We're
gonna get super grateful and shout out to all the
folks that helped us put this amazing podcast together. But yeah,
that's one of those things I need to do more.
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Um and Mark, you're so good at that. You're so
you're you're a real mentor and influence on me because
of your ability to thank people and and you're always
great following up with the people and letting them know,
you know, thank you for helping us with projects and
things like that. Where did that come from? Is that
just something you've naturally are always been good at. You know,
that's a good question, man, I'm not really sure. I mean,
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I know, as far as like keeping up with people.
I think when I was like younger, like in college,
was the first time I try to learn to start networking,
and I was afraid that I lost touch with some
people that I really didn't want to lose touch with.
And I remember years later following up with them, being like, oh, gosh,
they're not going to respond or whatever, and a lot
of them did, and I was like, oh, so I
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could just try and stay in touch. And some people
you're you're going to naturally lose touch with them, and
but some people you won't. So it's just like it's
just good to try. In fact, in college, there was
one person she was an alum, and she kind of
came back to give networking advice. And I don't follow
it as well as I should, but what she would
do is she would, you know, let's say she meets someone,
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she tries to remember something interesting about them, Bill, you
do a great job of doing that, and then like
a little time will pass and then she'll follow up
with them again, and she says that follow up was
just really helpful. So even though I don't necessarily do
it exactly the way of she did it, I just
remember from then. Just being like you make an initial
contact and then a follow up later can can go
along way. So so when you say initially felt later,
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is that like a couple of weeks later or is
there a time period that you usually in her example,
it was a couple of weeks. Um, But I found that, like,
you know, holidays can be helpful, or birthdays can be helpful,
or you know, if there's something you know about that person,
like I don't know, they like some sport and there's
a sporting event, you know, and you're like, oh, this
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might be an entry an entry way to starting a
conversation with that person. Again, that's awesome. Yeah, and that's
such a thing, you know, some something as as I
love people and I love meeting people, and I'm a
big extrovert, and I do struggle with names. It's just
something that struggle with that I'm always working on. And
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but I do find it sometimes easier to remember the
details about someone versus their name, like if they family,
interesting story about a place they've been or what they do,
or you know, maybe something silly that happened to them
the day that I met them. Um, And I one
thing I'll say to folks that are sometimes embarrassed when
they don't remember someone's name. It works very fall for me.
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Is just to admit it or just to go open
and treat them like an old friend is another way
to to get around that. Um. And I'm very grateful
for being able to see people that I know and
make them feel like I know their name even though
I can't remember. And that includes you. Some of you
are listeners. But I hope that I know that if
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I ever see you, I will just pretend and just
treat me like a friend. You can, you can throw
something up at me, and that'll just make me happy
that I get to say hello, absolutely, you know, Bill
staying on his gratituy train. Another topic we wanted to
discuss today was The Artist Way, and which is a
book we've referenced, you know, many times throughout the show
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as well as just kind of the topic or the
idea of why creating art and trusting your instincts is
so important, you know, and as kind of we as
we wrap up this create a project that we've done,
it seemed like a fitting fitting subject, you know. Yeah,
and The Artist Way is a book by Julia Cameron,
and it had a huge impact on both mark and
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creative life. We've done it, you know, separately and together.
It's a it's a book where you do kind of
twelve weeks of um looking through just your own art,
your own creativity and maybe some blocks that happened to
pretty much all of us as we're growing up. You know.
It's the kind of thing where if you ask, if
you go into a kindergarten class and ask who in
here can dance, everyone's going to raise their hand, usually
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most of everyone, and they will all start dancing. If
you go into a high school classroom and you ask
who in here can dance, you know, maybe one person
in the back kind of halfway raises a hand and oh,
I do actually ballroom dancing or whatever. It's. As time
goes on, sometimes we we repress a lot of those
creative urges and to fit in or you know, because
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of whatever reason. And artist way is not telling you
necessarily to go out of dancing everywhere all the time,
but um, which is fun, but it's telling you to
create art, trust your instincts and um not listen to
that inner critic that we all have that says your
art isn't good enough or you're too old to start
learning how to draw or paintype play guitar, because you
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never are too old. Absolutely agreed. And you know, I
was flipping through my copy of Artist Way to have
you know, random quotes kind of like underlined or highlighted.
So some of these don't have there's much more context
that comes with them, but I just was flipping through
just looking for some things that seemed kind of interesting
that you know, I try to remember, and so somewhat
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related to like trusting your instincts and things. Here's one
quick line from the book by Julia Cameron, and it's
what we really want to do is what we are
really meant to do. When we do what we are
meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us,
We feel useful, and the work we do feels like
play to us. And so what I kind of took
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from that is like learning how to listen to you know,
whether it's like that urge to dance you mentioned, Bill
or whatever is that you really wanted to even if
it's um scary. The more we can kind of try to,
you know, embrace that, that can lead to some fun,
cool opportunities, whatever those opportunities might be Yeah. Yeah, we
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will be right back with more ridiculous news after this
short break. Yeah yeah, yeah yeah, don't confused ridiculous news.
All right, y'all. So we're back and we want to
chat some about chat GPT and Bill, I heard about
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this from you and last weekend you showed it to
me in action, and so for those of you that
hadn't heard about it, like, chat GPT was that. So.
Chat GPT is a language model developed by open AIS.
Is a type of AI model that is trained to
generate humanlike text based on a given prompt or input.
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So chat GPT is based on the Transformer architecture and
is one of the largest language models available with over
one D seventy five billion parameters. The model is trained
on a diverse range of texts, including books, articles, websites,
and social media, so it has a wide range of
knowledge and can generate text that is similar to what
a human might write. This makes it useful for a
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variety of natural language processing tasks such as language translation,
text summarization, question answering, and text generation. Chat GPT has
been used to develop conversational AI systems where the model
is integrated into a chat bought or virtual assistant. The
goal of these systems is to enable people to have natural,
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human light conversations with a I And that whole description
that I just read was from chat GBT. It's so weird, y'all.
It's one of the fastest growing. It quickly in one
month gained more users than Instagram or TikTok U, which
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is insane um a hundred million monthly users. And you
know Bill Gates in this article about Bill from Bill
Gates from MSNBC dot com, you know, he talks about
how he thinks it's the most important innovation right now.
Kind of an easy thing to say, but it is
really interesting and it does raise some moral questions. And
we were talking about is this the other day, Mark,
because I tend to when I see things like this
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that are changed, and my brain initially resisted. I'm like,
I don't know changes life, life has changed, you know things.
There's many many tools that we now use second nature
that when they first came out, we might have been like,
how those are gonna take away jobs or um, you
know whatever. And so you know, when you think about
could chat GP become detrimental to society? That as a question,
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you know, here's a couple of answers to that is,
what are some ways that that could become detrimental, And
one is misinformation and propaganda. Right is, there's AI models
like chat gpt UM that might amplify misinformation because they're
based on data from the Internet, so might amplify misinformation propaganda,
and that could have serious consequences, particularly in the realm
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of politics and news or false information can spread quickly
and have real world impacts. UM also could affect biased
and discrimination. Um they're unbiased in the data they are
trained on these as eyes are, but if the data
contains biases and stereotypes, the model will reflect them, of course,
and that can amplify you know, racism and discriminary practices.
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It's job displacement, you know, more human workers could the
certain industries, and that could exacerbate economical inequality. And finally,
dependence on technology. We might become more dependent on technology
to just do normal everyday things, and that could have
unattended consequences such as the loss of privacy and the
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emergence of new forms of control and manipulation. In all
of those reasons that chat GP could become detrimental, society
is what chat chpt told me when I asked it,
how could chat chpt come become tetrimental to society? Which
is my blowing again, my blow that it has that capability.
So overall, when I asked chat chpt, how it could
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become detrimental society. Besides those four reasons that summary was,
it's important to note that these potential negative impacts are
not inherent to AI models like chat gpt, but rather
a result of how they're developed, trained, and used. To
mitigate these risks, it is important to develop and use
these models in a responsible and ethical manner with proper
oversight and regulation. So basically, it was screaming, please don't
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kill me. No, this is how skynet gets us everybody. Yeah,
speaking of sky Net, let's move on to another segment.
We call making it spooky. So we've given guests a
chance to make things spooky. But we figured, hey, let's
play with each other real quick. Uh So, how about
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we kind of go one after the other where I'll
share a headline with you. You read it, you make
it spooky, you can share one of me. We'll go
back and forth a couple of times. Perfect, So I'm
gonna send one to you right now, all right, electric
cars already making California healthy. Alright, alright, right, here you go.
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Here's the one for you. Minnesota house passes universal school meals,
providing free breakfast and lunch to students. That is definitely
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a horror movie. Bo vibe. I love it. I love
it all right. Here's what I'm coming your way. Oh
kay who it's Foster King to more than a hundred kids.
Oh yeah, yes. And final last one, Mark, I'll just
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shoot this set you last of the super Tuskers sending
Kenya's majestic Megafona. Oh no, he died. This guy died
at the end of reading it. O. Oh, there you go.
That's that's make it spooky. When wherever we have guests
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on we always give flowers, and so I wanted to
give Mark Kendall some flowers. And it is one case
it's okay for us to give flowers. Normally we don't
let the guests give flowers back, but we are guests today.
It's just us, y'all. So Mark Kendall is one of
the greatest friends I've ever had in my life. He's
one of the most talented people I've ever met. He
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is just a joy and someone who brings such a
passion and energy into everything that he does. And not
only that, Mark, I think one of the things that's
incredible about you, besides your amazing creativity, the way that
you can, you know, make ideas that are hard to
communicate into a fun, easy to communicate way with sketches. Um.
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You know your your ability. I mean, you're always there
whenever you need Mark Kendall, he is there probably early,
um and ready to go. But it's your sense of community, man,
It's the way that you have made Atlanta a better
city to live in and the way that you consistently
show up and support other artists and our advocate for
other artists, like I mean, you do it for your
(31:11):
own work as well, but I think that is such
a big part of Atlanta and why you've been so
influential and continue and will forever be so influential in
the city is because of you know, your support for
people in the arts, whether it's comedy or dance or
you know you you name it. Um. It's amazing to
see in in a big inspiration for me as as
(31:34):
a friend and an artist. Bill, Thank you for those flowers. Man,
that's superkind and I really appreciate it. I'm very excited
to be able to get flowers to you back, you know,
or give these flowers back to you. Man. I tell
people this when I get the fortune good fortune to
introduce you, dude in the most talent of filmmaker I've
ever worked with easy, you know what I mean, Like
and uh, you know, for those listening, like filming comedy
(31:57):
is just not an easy thing to do. I mean,
like I don't know how to put it is difficult.
It's really hard, and it's it's it's one thing to
get to be able to like capture you know, like
maybe try to get a good performance out of someone,
or to know how to like record good sound that
will like get a good comedic performance sort of chop
(32:20):
it up in some way. But Bill, you know how
to do all of it and bring it together, you know,
and um, it's just so rare. I've just never seen
that before and and it's really incredible. And you know,
going a little further talking about you as a person, dude,
I learned so much from you. It's just like you
have this um zeal in like love for both life
(32:42):
and for people. You know, and you know, something I've
learned from you a lot. You know, you're great at
talking to folks and something that you do really well
when you talk to folks. It's like, and I've learned
this from you. It's like you are interesting, but you
are also interested, so you're able to it's like this
really great give and take and you really do embody
(33:02):
that you really do live that, you know, and uh,
it's really inspiring. It's really inspiring to see that. And uh.
And it's easy to see two because it's like I
see people drawn to you, you know, and uh, and
so so that's really cool. And one of my one
of my favorite things is watching that happen, you know,
because it's like I've known for you, I've known you
for a while, you know. So it's just like and
(33:24):
so it's cool to see people get to know Bill
and then later they come back to me like, man,
Bill is awesome. Like before when you were in Thailand,
when you were traveling, we had a guest on the podcast, Uh,
you weren't here. They didn't know you weren't gonna be here,
and they're like, where's Bill, oh man? Yeah, man, yeah, man.
(33:46):
So it's just like, uh, and and and the other
thing too is just like I think because you know
you so clearly, I want to get to know people
you want to be with people you know, you know,
people interested you excite you. That's also why like I
trust you so much when it comes to like whether
we're working on something like be a comedic or just
(34:07):
having like conversations about life. You know, like I listen
to you and take your word for things when there's
sometimes when I might be like, I don't know, unsure
about something or like timid about something, like like, for example,
is this offensive that might come up a lot because
we do like you know, like and um, and it's
just like I'll take like, I'll definitely take your word
(34:27):
for it when like we're pushing something a little further.
And that's been super helpful for me, uh to see
because it's just like I think you can kind of
like I don't know, it's like you can kind of
see like above a lot of the stuff that can
be distracting in front um. And so seeing you do
that and like learning from you from that, it's also
just something else that's um, really valuable. Man. I've it's
(34:50):
like I've wanted to stop you for like Ale like
this is too much, This is too much for audience.
Thank you so much for listening to us love on
each other, because we genuinely do love each other, and
I we genuinely love y'all. And we have so many
amazing people to thank and thank you Mark for those
I mean that I'll never forget that. Luckily it's recorded
so I can listen to it again. So but what
(35:13):
I mean ridiculous news as we come to this end.
You know, there's so many people think and we can
go back and forth on this, but Tarry are amazing producer.
Is just I mean, I love her. I know she's
listening to this and cutting it up and adding cool
sound effects, and it's just been such a pleasure and
a joy to get to know her, you know, throughout
(35:35):
making this and what a talented person in so many ways.
And I hope that we can continue to work with her,
because Tarry, you're a badass. Yeah, I mean, we Bill
and I we had never done a podcast like this before,
and so there was a lot of things that we
didn't know and so I can only imagine what that's
like to work with as a producer, you know, and uh,
(35:59):
but I mean, Tarry did such a great job of
leading us through, you know, certain elements of learning how
to make this podcast and making it what it was,
in addition to being just very pleasant to work with.
And so that was a real gift. So thank thank
you Tarry for being amazed. And you know who else
is awesome Casey Casey Willis, Oh my gosh, what are
(36:23):
amazing researcher and friend and um a very talented podcaster
in her own right. Absolutely, So when we approached Casey
to be a researcher, I mean, Casey's got her own podcast,
She's got her own, like very busy artistic life. So
we just wanted her to be involved in this podcast
in some way, and unfortunately she said yes. Lucky for
(36:45):
us she said yes, And so she got the voice
of the show so quickly and was so good at
being able to pull fun, interesting, surprising stories for us
and break them down in a way that we could
then relate to you. So her job was so important
and she just knocked it out of the park. Um,
(37:06):
it was fantastic. Yeah. And and then Ben and Noel
are executive producers, Ben Bowling and Noel Brown. Ben has
been such a good friend for a decade, not more.
I just feel like an old man. But what amazing
performer to watch and play and just such a genuine
nice guy, such a great friend, and what an amazing
opportunity that he threw our way. Yeah. We we've known
(37:29):
Ben for such a long time and so getting a
chance to work with him, you know, in this capacity
was a great change and like fun to do, and
getting to see him more in his element as a
podcaster as an executive producer was like, oh snap, I
didn't realize my friend had this superpower, you know what
I mean, Like yeah, yeah, and then Noel Brown, I
(37:51):
mean what just what a voice, what a man, the legend,
the beard, everything about him. Uh. It just in another
great mentor in someone that I hope I get to
play music with someday because it's got an awesome you know,
it's an awesome musician, does all kinds of awesome stuff.
And so thank you so much to knowl Yes, thank
you course. Yeah, uh, I gotta think my heart, you know,
(38:12):
giving us opportunity to make this pot and working with
them has been great as well, you know, like yeah,
everyone's been super nice, everyone from marketing, you know, what
I'm saying, Like all the different departments we've had a
chance to you know, cross pass with, I've all had
just like a really positive vibe about them, and that's
been really nice. But in our our family of other podcasts,
(38:37):
you know, Ridiculous Romance, Ridiculous Crime, Ridiculous History, and yeah,
of course I heart thank you all so much for
giving us this opportunity. Everyone that works there has been amazing,
and all of our guests, all of our listeners. Yeah,
but we had so many amazing guests, you know, from
all over. UM. Special shout out to the Atlanta comedy scene,
(38:58):
I'll say, you know, um hopping in and doing characters
with us. UM. And also so many people that we
kind of met for the first time on this podcast,
or people that we had worked with and admired but
got a chance to get to know better from these
conversations with a treat and y'all. That brings us to
our final segments, UM, and always a favorite of ours
(39:22):
is the spring of inspiring inspirations and Mark you usually
read these, so we're gonna like you read it, but
I've told something that hopefully folks can relate to, and
uh to leave them on a good note. Yeah, this
is a great pick. So quote is every new beginning
comes from some other beginnings and that's from Semisic. Yeah
(39:46):
we all know that tune. Do you hear it in
your head? You? Yeah, y'all? Oh my god, I just
I am so grateful to all the friends, all our
listeners who have reached out and given us amazing sing
feedback and for y'all to be part of this journey
with us, it means so much. We hope that you
know you have had some fun things to to laugh
(40:09):
with us as you've been along with these characters and
with our guests, and also just fun things to talk
to your friends and family about about the wildness of
the stories that get below the fold and don't always
get attached. But if I hope, if we leave you
with anything, it's the fact that that gratefulness and and
giving each other flowers and letting people know how you
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feel about them and encouraging a little bit of silliness
and goofiness in your life makes life worth living. Well,
said Dolan, I'll just kind of say you know, we
love you. Thank you so much, listeners. This was just
an amazing opportunity. Uh, And please stay in touch with us.
We're gonna keep making stuff and we're excited to share
whatever we make next with you. All yeah, follow us.
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(00:22):
the strange and unusual stories, and well we gave them.
When it's all about ridiculous news. Everywhere we told about
ridiculous news over here. Hey, everyone, welcome to Ridiculous News,
not your average news show. We cover stuff you didn't
realize was news from the wild and funny, to the
deep and hidden to the absolutely ridiculous, ridiculous. I'm Bill Worley.
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I'm an Atlanta based filmmaker. I'm a comedian. And Mark,
I'm feeling super grateful today because i live in Atlanta
at l Baby, I'm surrounded by amazing friends and family
and tell to people like you. And even though it's
cloudy outside, you go up high enough, Mark, and there's
a loose guy love. Hey everyone, I'm Mark Candall. I'm
(01:02):
an Atlanta based comedian. Uh and Bill, I will follow
your lead here. I'm also grateful for all the wonderful
folks in my life, yourself included, and are amazing listeners.
And you know, I'm ready to talk about some news today. Yeah, yeah,
let's talk y'all. Today is our final Weekly Round episode.
So in addition to discussing headlines that caught her I
(01:24):
recently will also be doing some fun final episode surprises
reminiscent given thanks uh and also just spread and love
because it's our Valentine's Day episode uh, and we love
you all, so we wanted this to be, you know,
an episode of love for y'all. Yes, we love y'all,
and we wanted to thank you all so much from
the bottom of our loving hearts for being part of
(01:47):
this journey with us. Uh. You know, first off, you know,
we've had so many amazing guests in in segments and
fun times, and it's it's impossible with the episode would
be ten hours long if we pulled everything from everyone.
So we just so pulled a couple of just favorite
moments and these first couple are from a segment that
we do called make It Spooky. Now. Make It Spooky
(02:09):
was initially a segment where we gave people headlines and
they had to make them sound spooky and intense, uh
and usually very fun normal news headlines. It evolved as
the show evolved to get them to do very different
things where there's an impressions and you'll see these are
(02:29):
some of our favorite variations from make It Spooky, And
we'll start with the great executive producer, Noel Brown himself.
Here's a clip of Knowles Make It Spooky. We're gonna
give you another headline, but this time we want you
to read it in the voice of her song. Alright,
(02:49):
so Bill is gonna share this next headline with you.
And if you could read it as weren't her song,
that'd be amazing. Massachusetts Museum returns sacred items to suit tribes.
That's fantastically And if I could read all my articles
about museums giving items back to people that deserve them
(03:12):
or they belonged to in Warner voice, that that'd be amazing.
He does. He could hear that guy read the phone book,
but he did. He had this one quote where he's
like asking somebody. He's like doing a Q and A
and someone asked him about Pokemon go and he goes,
tell me, did these Pokemon when they meet in the streets.
Is the murder? Is that violence? He adds pathos to
(03:40):
just anything you know that says, that's the man that clip.
I thought Warner was in the studio with us. He's
so good at that, so damn good at that. It's amazing.
It's really funny. It was really funny. Well, we got
another great episode. We have Dr Jeanine Abrams mcclan on
the show and asked her to make it spooky as well.
(04:03):
But we threw a fun twist her away, and then
she knocked it out of the park. So yeah, this
was this was her um. She said that she was
such a fan of Broadway musicals earlier in the episode,
and then she pulled this off. Whenever You're ready, man
builds benches for the bus stops after singing one man
(04:30):
sitting in. Uh dude, I so that that that reaction
was real. We did not know that she could sing.
They're kind of like putting her on the spot, like
trying to like, oh, this will be like like fun pressure,
(04:50):
not like bad pressure, but like fun pressure. Will have
a laugh, will sing and then she just sings for real,
like we know her from Fair Count, the amazing organization
that works to help people get voting, make sure that
they're properly represented in the sense of things like that.
You know, this brilliant, brilliant person had no idea that
her music background went so deep and then she just
(05:10):
pulls it out of nowhere, so fun, no warm up,
no nothing, just like you, no nothing, she just pulled
that off. And you know, speaking of amazing voices, uh,
you know Jamie Ali Law who's been a guest on
the pod multiple times, um surprised us with her amazing
voice on this clip. Now, this one, this one, I've
(05:34):
got to read this article. Okay, jop cackling, mating season,
wearing in the time. I mean, is that that's what
we're calling that's the nice way you know? It as
(05:59):
her rain Congratulations Monkey Queen, Yes, Japan's Monkey Queen. Specific
incredible voice. You know you gotta see it live as well.
It's great recorded. You also got to see her perform live,
follow her uh saying miss Jamie, Yeah yeah, Mark when
you play with her live? And I've I finally got
(06:21):
to see them do a show live at at a
really cool venue here in Atlanta, and it was mind blowing.
It's i mean, every time she sinks it's mind blowing
and that in particular bit that y'all did was so cool.
Um really really enjoyed it. And you know, she was
jumping out of characters. Mark, You've had amazing characters there.
It's impossible to remember every single amazing character that you've had,
(06:45):
but one of my favorite characters because we get we
don't have time to do everything. But I don't think
I've ever left as hard as when Shauna was a
guest and pulled out this character. Mark absolutely so Atlanta
comic Shanna got candy. He's so funny. Um, he's you
nique because you know he has jokes. He's a standard
where he's like he's got the repaired jokes. But he's
also a brilliant improviser. So the last per minute don't
(07:09):
decrease just because it's coming off the top of his head,
you know. And he's just so I mean, this is
in the best way. He's so silly and goofy, and
this character, Um, it was a lot of fun. He
just divoted off the spot and uh yeah, this is
a longer clip because it just makes me laugh. The
whole thing is so I put a longer one and
you guys enjoy Shaunick's character here. You know, we have
(07:34):
a lot of special guests, you know, come through the studio,
some that you wouldn't even think would be able to
make it. But we are in luck because that very
Haaron that swallowed that rat is with us here today
and so we're so excited to get to talk to them. So,
uh ha, it's great to meet you. It's great to
(07:54):
meet you. Yeah, what the fuck is up? Whoa? Yeah,
you're definitely from New York. Yeah, Bordas baby go Mad's
go jets. What is up? So? So what's your name? Parent? Uh? Great, Blue,
(08:17):
I'm and I I'm Irish by my trade by trade,
so what do you want? What do you by birth?
By birth? My fair enough, but culturally I'm Irish. Yeah, yeah,
this is great, big press week for me. Well that's
kind of what I wanted to talk about. I mean,
(08:38):
it's just like you. You you ate a ratic, got
caught on camera. A lot of people have been applauding you.
Can you kind of like walk a smooth the event
of what happened. I mean, you're out there, you're on
a pond in Central Park, living your life. How do
you come across on rap. I'm like, walk us through that.
So I was pretty hello. I was down at this
(08:59):
thing that my Ricky was stowing and sent to a park,
and the whole night I was trying to hook up
with this girl. Uh sorry, she's not a girl, she's
a pitcheon and she was she was being pretty flighty
get but she was leading me on. I was going
(09:26):
from three to three, branch to branch, kind of talked
to this girl, and uh, finally she came out with
the news she's married, and I was like, listen, babe,
I'm not trying to get into no love triangle. Okay,
I've been in too many of those. I'm an old
man now. And uh I I tied a few more
(09:52):
on with my cousin Ricky and it was time for
me to go, and uh, you know, I was just like,
I gotta get something to my sister from an we
have to work tomorrow. And uh then I saw a
rat and I took a bite. He was pretty juicy,
and I had the whole thing and that's when he
got got. I didn't even find out a little went
(10:13):
viral and that was like a day later. I had
a whole day to be hung over. Yeah, just a
get there's there. Thank you Shannik for bussing us that,
and you know, shout out. You know, there's puns of
great characters. We go on our Instagram. You can see
(10:34):
a lot of the other amazing characters folks. Did that
one in particular just popped into my head? And so
thankful to him and all the amazing guests and all
the amazing comedians and experts that we've had on the
show dropping their knowledge and dropping their talent. I've just
dropped Batman. Oh my god, Batman's back. Hello? Or is
(10:58):
your last episode? So would be remiss if I did
not come by to share one very important thing. It's
been great getting to watch y'all do your episodes. But
since you might be moving on to other things, I
wanted to give you a special invite to the Justice League.
Oh my god, we're getting Mark. We're gonna be in
this Justice League. We need some clerical administrators, you know,
(11:21):
people that can handle calls, you know what I'm saying,
handle voicemails and on occasion, save the world. Look it
sounds like an admin position kind of you know, we
offer you know, weekends off you know what I'm saying,
custom made costumes and free access to the cafeteria for lunch.
Of the free lunch right right. The breakfast and dinner
(11:44):
is extra, but there's a very competitive meal plan available. Okay, great, Yeah,
I hope you all consider it. You have my love.
Bat Wait Bill, what's that over there? Oh my god?
What is that? Wait? Bill, Batman? He just vanished. He
did that thing where we look the other way and
then he has gone out the window. Do you think
(12:05):
I would have not fallen for it? That's what you mean?
I feel for it too every time. Yeah. Yeah, we're
gonna take a quick break to hear a word from
our sponsor. Yeah. Yeah, would amazing and crazy compics to
choose you would ridiculous news. Okay, y'all, we're back and
(12:28):
for the main course today. Of course, this being the
final episode, we want to talk about gratitude, um, why
it's important, and the amazing experience that we've had, and
you know what, of course we're grateful for it, and
what amazing growth and knowledge and fun we've had doing
this cast. Absolutely, and I really love the article you
(12:52):
pulled talking about gratitude and and and why it's important.
And I thought there were some great things in here.
Starting off with the picture from this actually this article
about gratitude, it kind of says that shifting our attitudes
to focus on getting thanks has a direct link to
our will being. Uh. It goes on to say the
case in point. In one study, psychologists recruited a group
(13:13):
of participants and asked half to take time weekly to
write a few sentences about things that were grateful for
from that week, and the other half wrote about irritations
or complaints. So after ten weeks of this, the group
that centered on gratitude felt more optimistic about life than
their counterparts. And then the gratitude group saw physical changes
(13:33):
as well. They exercise more and made fewer doctor visits
in the group that focused on the negative aspects of life.
And Bill, I know you keep a gratitude journal yourself,
I believe. Yeah, yeah, I have on my third one.
And uh, it's very simple. It's like they have versions
of it on you know, you can order online. It's
there's a five minute version, six minute version. In the morning,
(13:54):
I get up and much like this study, I assume
they had these kids as I just write three things
that I'm great before and and you know, what I'm
looking forward to the day, and then you do a
little kind of positive affirmation and it's fun. It is
it's fun to realize once you sit down and you
think about things you're grateful for, there's so much and
(14:17):
one of the things that you're doing it every day.
You can be even grateful for the pen that you're
writing it on, for the chair that you're sitting on,
you know, for the sun shining on your face from outside.
It doesn't always have to be something big, but it's
one of those things that just makes me feel so
blessed in this time and age that we're in and
you know, living in this country or wherever you live, listener, like,
(14:39):
what what an amazing time to be alive with all
the technology, the healthcare, you know, all of these things
that we have. UM, there's a lot to be grateful for.
And even when I was traving to Thailand, Mark and
I met people from war torn countries and people are
going through such difficult things. That interesting to me was
their attitude and their gratefulness UM towards life because you know,
(15:01):
it's not something I've personally experienced, and of course it
weighs them down at times. UM. But hearing them talk
about how grateful they are for the people that have survived,
for their families and and things like that. That was
that was really touching and opening. Yeah. Absolutely, and real
real quick sidebar about things being great for I mean,
(15:24):
you had an amazing trip to Thailand. I know we've
mentioned it some on the podcast, but it sounds like
that trip was really great and I remember you telling
me about it specifically, like hearing stories from other people
and where other people were coming from. It sounds like
it gave great perspective, you know, like as a gratitude exercise.
So that's really cool. Yeah, y'all want to be grateful.
(15:46):
Just hop over to Thailand, Um, really easy, quick hop
and jump. Absolutely, Mark, Yeah, I think the biggest thing
that I love about travel and I think one of
the biggest and best gifts you can give to yourself
and that when I look back at my forty years
of life, Um, some of the things that I think
I've learned the most from are the times that I
left America shores. I love America, I love our country,
(16:07):
but leaving our shores to go spend time around other
people in other countries and Thailand, what's so interesting is
not only are the Thai people amazing, of course um
land of Smiles, but it's kind of a there's a
lot of tours there, so we get people from all
over the world as well. And that was the element
to me that on top of this magical place with
mountains and beautiful islands and amazing cities, with all kinds
(16:32):
of cool stuff going on, is you know, meeting people
who are eager to meet others and share in you know,
community and conversation. And I I mean, I wish America
we just had a fund where everyone could spend at
least a couple of weeks abroad. Come on, Congress, come on,
(16:52):
but please if you don't travel, and of course during
the pandemic, we couldn't write, so you know, that's another
reason to get out there and go by and rediscover
or discover for the first time the joys of meeting
people that aren't from where you're from. What's that well said? Uh?
And going back to the article, there was another study
that the article sites were by researchers from Kent State University,
(17:14):
and they tested the effect of writing letters of gratitude
to other people. And with that, the article says the
results were clear. Taking the time to say thank you
in writing made people happier, more satisfied with life, and
even decreased symptoms of depression. So the bottom line the
article says is we feel grateful for all sorts of
blessings in life, but most of us rarely take the
(17:37):
time to think about those things, let alone write them down. Yeah,
that's a practice I need to do more. And that's
something as we get towards the end of this episode, y'all,
we're gonna we're gonna throw a gratefulness at you. We're
gonna get super grateful and shout out to all the
folks that helped us put this amazing podcast together. But yeah,
that's one of those things I need to do more.
(17:57):
Um and Mark, you're so good at that. You're so
you're you're a real mentor and influence on me because
of your ability to thank people and and you're always
great following up with the people and letting them know,
you know, thank you for helping us with projects and
things like that. Where did that come from? Is that
just something you've naturally are always been good at. You know,
that's a good question, man, I'm not really sure. I mean,
(18:19):
I know, as far as like keeping up with people.
I think when I was like younger, like in college,
was the first time I try to learn to start networking,
and I was afraid that I lost touch with some
people that I really didn't want to lose touch with.
And I remember years later following up with them, being like, oh, gosh,
they're not going to respond or whatever, and a lot
of them did, and I was like, oh, so I
(18:41):
could just try and stay in touch. And some people
you're you're going to naturally lose touch with them, and
but some people you won't. So it's just like it's
just good to try. In fact, in college, there was
one person she was an alum, and she kind of
came back to give networking advice. And I don't follow
it as well as I should, but what she would
do is she would, you know, let's say she meets someone,
(19:02):
she tries to remember something interesting about them, Bill, you
do a great job of doing that, and then like
a little time will pass and then she'll follow up
with them again, and she says that follow up was
just really helpful. So even though I don't necessarily do
it exactly the way of she did it, I just
remember from then. Just being like you make an initial
contact and then a follow up later can can go
along way. So so when you say initially felt later,
(19:25):
is that like a couple of weeks later or is
there a time period that you usually in her example,
it was a couple of weeks. Um, But I found that, like,
you know, holidays can be helpful, or birthdays can be helpful,
or you know, if there's something you know about that person,
like I don't know, they like some sport and there's
a sporting event, you know, and you're like, oh, this
(19:47):
might be an entry an entry way to starting a
conversation with that person. Again, that's awesome. Yeah, and that's
such a thing, you know, some something as as I
love people and I love meeting people, and I'm a
big extrovert, and I do struggle with names. It's just
something that struggle with that I'm always working on. And
(20:07):
but I do find it sometimes easier to remember the
details about someone versus their name, like if they family,
interesting story about a place they've been or what they do,
or you know, maybe something silly that happened to them
the day that I met them. Um, And I one
thing I'll say to folks that are sometimes embarrassed when
they don't remember someone's name. It works very fall for me.
(20:28):
Is just to admit it or just to go open
and treat them like an old friend is another way
to to get around that. Um. And I'm very grateful
for being able to see people that I know and
make them feel like I know their name even though
I can't remember. And that includes you. Some of you
are listeners. But I hope that I know that if
(20:48):
I ever see you, I will just pretend and just
treat me like a friend. You can, you can throw
something up at me, and that'll just make me happy
that I get to say hello, absolutely, you know, Bill
staying on his gratituy train. Another topic we wanted to
discuss today was The Artist Way, and which is a
book we've referenced, you know, many times throughout the show
(21:09):
as well as just kind of the topic or the
idea of why creating art and trusting your instincts is
so important, you know, and as kind of we as
we wrap up this create a project that we've done,
it seemed like a fitting fitting subject, you know. Yeah,
and The Artist Way is a book by Julia Cameron,
and it had a huge impact on both mark and
(21:31):
creative life. We've done it, you know, separately and together.
It's a it's a book where you do kind of
twelve weeks of um looking through just your own art,
your own creativity and maybe some blocks that happened to
pretty much all of us as we're growing up. You know.
It's the kind of thing where if you ask, if
you go into a kindergarten class and ask who in
here can dance, everyone's going to raise their hand, usually
(21:52):
most of everyone, and they will all start dancing. If
you go into a high school classroom and you ask
who in here can dance, you know, maybe one person
in the back kind of halfway raises a hand and oh,
I do actually ballroom dancing or whatever. It's. As time
goes on, sometimes we we repress a lot of those
creative urges and to fit in or you know, because
(22:14):
of whatever reason. And artist way is not telling you
necessarily to go out of dancing everywhere all the time,
but um, which is fun, but it's telling you to
create art, trust your instincts and um not listen to
that inner critic that we all have that says your
art isn't good enough or you're too old to start
learning how to draw or paintype play guitar, because you
(22:36):
never are too old. Absolutely agreed. And you know, I
was flipping through my copy of Artist Way to have
you know, random quotes kind of like underlined or highlighted.
So some of these don't have there's much more context
that comes with them, but I just was flipping through
just looking for some things that seemed kind of interesting
that you know, I try to remember, and so somewhat
(22:59):
related to like trusting your instincts and things. Here's one
quick line from the book by Julia Cameron, and it's
what we really want to do is what we are
really meant to do. When we do what we are
meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us,
We feel useful, and the work we do feels like
play to us. And so what I kind of took
(23:19):
from that is like learning how to listen to you know,
whether it's like that urge to dance you mentioned, Bill
or whatever is that you really wanted to even if
it's um scary. The more we can kind of try to,
you know, embrace that, that can lead to some fun,
cool opportunities, whatever those opportunities might be Yeah. Yeah, we
(23:41):
will be right back with more ridiculous news after this
short break. Yeah yeah, yeah yeah, don't confused ridiculous news.
All right, y'all. So we're back and we want to
chat some about chat GPT and Bill, I heard about
(24:04):
this from you and last weekend you showed it to
me in action, and so for those of you that
hadn't heard about it, like, chat GPT was that. So.
Chat GPT is a language model developed by open AIS.
Is a type of AI model that is trained to
generate humanlike text based on a given prompt or input.
(24:24):
So chat GPT is based on the Transformer architecture and
is one of the largest language models available with over
one D seventy five billion parameters. The model is trained
on a diverse range of texts, including books, articles, websites,
and social media, so it has a wide range of
knowledge and can generate text that is similar to what
a human might write. This makes it useful for a
(24:44):
variety of natural language processing tasks such as language translation,
text summarization, question answering, and text generation. Chat GPT has
been used to develop conversational AI systems where the model
is integrated into a chat bought or virtual assistant. The
goal of these systems is to enable people to have natural,
(25:05):
human light conversations with a I And that whole description
that I just read was from chat GBT. It's so weird, y'all.
It's one of the fastest growing. It quickly in one
month gained more users than Instagram or TikTok U, which
(25:25):
is insane um a hundred million monthly users. And you
know Bill Gates in this article about Bill from Bill
Gates from MSNBC dot com, you know, he talks about
how he thinks it's the most important innovation right now.
Kind of an easy thing to say, but it is
really interesting and it does raise some moral questions. And
we were talking about is this the other day, Mark,
because I tend to when I see things like this
(25:49):
that are changed, and my brain initially resisted. I'm like,
I don't know changes life, life has changed, you know things.
There's many many tools that we now use second nature
that when they first came out, we might have been like,
how those are gonna take away jobs or um, you
know whatever. And so you know, when you think about
could chat GP become detrimental to society? That as a question,
(26:12):
you know, here's a couple of answers to that is,
what are some ways that that could become detrimental, And
one is misinformation and propaganda. Right is, there's AI models
like chat gpt UM that might amplify misinformation because they're
based on data from the Internet, so might amplify misinformation propaganda,
and that could have serious consequences, particularly in the realm
(26:33):
of politics and news or false information can spread quickly
and have real world impacts. UM also could affect biased
and discrimination. Um they're unbiased in the data they are
trained on these as eyes are, but if the data
contains biases and stereotypes, the model will reflect them, of course,
and that can amplify you know, racism and discriminary practices.
(26:55):
It's job displacement, you know, more human workers could the
certain industries, and that could exacerbate economical inequality. And finally,
dependence on technology. We might become more dependent on technology
to just do normal everyday things, and that could have
unattended consequences such as the loss of privacy and the
(27:16):
emergence of new forms of control and manipulation. In all
of those reasons that chat GP could become detrimental, society
is what chat chpt told me when I asked it,
how could chat chpt come become tetrimental to society? Which
is my blowing again, my blow that it has that capability.
So overall, when I asked chat chpt, how it could
(27:42):
become detrimental society. Besides those four reasons that summary was,
it's important to note that these potential negative impacts are
not inherent to AI models like chat gpt, but rather
a result of how they're developed, trained, and used. To
mitigate these risks, it is important to develop and use
these models in a responsible and ethical manner with proper
oversight and regulation. So basically, it was screaming, please don't
(28:07):
kill me. No, this is how skynet gets us everybody. Yeah,
speaking of sky Net, let's move on to another segment.
We call making it spooky. So we've given guests a
chance to make things spooky. But we figured, hey, let's
play with each other real quick. Uh So, how about
(28:27):
we kind of go one after the other where I'll
share a headline with you. You read it, you make
it spooky, you can share one of me. We'll go
back and forth a couple of times. Perfect, So I'm
gonna send one to you right now, all right, electric
cars already making California healthy. Alright, alright, right, here you go.
(28:53):
Here's the one for you. Minnesota house passes universal school meals,
providing free breakfast and lunch to students. That is definitely
(29:15):
a horror movie. Bo vibe. I love it. I love
it all right. Here's what I'm coming your way. Oh
kay who it's Foster King to more than a hundred kids.
Oh yeah, yes. And final last one, Mark, I'll just
(29:42):
shoot this set you last of the super Tuskers sending
Kenya's majestic Megafona. Oh no, he died. This guy died
at the end of reading it. O. Oh, there you go.
That's that's make it spooky. When wherever we have guests
(30:05):
on we always give flowers, and so I wanted to
give Mark Kendall some flowers. And it is one case
it's okay for us to give flowers. Normally we don't
let the guests give flowers back, but we are guests today.
It's just us, y'all. So Mark Kendall is one of
the greatest friends I've ever had in my life. He's
one of the most talented people I've ever met. He
(30:26):
is just a joy and someone who brings such a
passion and energy into everything that he does. And not
only that, Mark, I think one of the things that's
incredible about you, besides your amazing creativity, the way that
you can, you know, make ideas that are hard to
communicate into a fun, easy to communicate way with sketches. Um.
(30:49):
You know your your ability. I mean, you're always there
whenever you need Mark Kendall, he is there probably early,
um and ready to go. But it's your sense of community, man,
It's the way that you have made Atlanta a better
city to live in and the way that you consistently
show up and support other artists and our advocate for
other artists, like I mean, you do it for your
(31:11):
own work as well, but I think that is such
a big part of Atlanta and why you've been so
influential and continue and will forever be so influential in
the city is because of you know, your support for
people in the arts, whether it's comedy or dance or
you know you you name it. Um. It's amazing to
see in in a big inspiration for me as as
(31:34):
a friend and an artist. Bill, Thank you for those flowers. Man,
that's superkind and I really appreciate it. I'm very excited
to be able to get flowers to you back, you know,
or give these flowers back to you. Man. I tell
people this when I get the fortune good fortune to
introduce you, dude in the most talent of filmmaker I've
ever worked with easy, you know what I mean, Like
and uh, you know, for those listening, like filming comedy
(31:57):
is just not an easy thing to do. I mean,
like I don't know how to put it is difficult.
It's really hard, and it's it's it's one thing to
get to be able to like capture you know, like
maybe try to get a good performance out of someone,
or to know how to like record good sound that
will like get a good comedic performance sort of chop
(32:20):
it up in some way. But Bill, you know how
to do all of it and bring it together, you know,
and um, it's just so rare. I've just never seen
that before and and it's really incredible. And you know,
going a little further talking about you as a person, dude,
I learned so much from you. It's just like you
have this um zeal in like love for both life
(32:42):
and for people. You know, and you know, something I've
learned from you a lot. You know, you're great at
talking to folks and something that you do really well
when you talk to folks. It's like, and I've learned
this from you. It's like you are interesting, but you
are also interested, so you're able to it's like this
really great give and take and you really do embody
(33:02):
that you really do live that, you know, and uh,
it's really inspiring. It's really inspiring to see that. And uh.
And it's easy to see two because it's like I
see people drawn to you, you know, and uh, and
so so that's really cool. And one of my one
of my favorite things is watching that happen, you know,
because it's like I've known for you, I've known you
for a while, you know. So it's just like and
(33:24):
so it's cool to see people get to know Bill
and then later they come back to me like, man,
Bill is awesome. Like before when you were in Thailand,
when you were traveling, we had a guest on the podcast, Uh,
you weren't here. They didn't know you weren't gonna be here,
and they're like, where's Bill, oh man? Yeah, man, yeah, man.
(33:46):
So it's just like, uh, and and and the other
thing too is just like I think because you know
you so clearly, I want to get to know people
you want to be with people you know, you know,
people interested you excite you. That's also why like I
trust you so much when it comes to like whether
we're working on something like be a comedic or just
(34:07):
having like conversations about life. You know, like I listen
to you and take your word for things when there's
sometimes when I might be like, I don't know, unsure
about something or like timid about something, like like, for example,
is this offensive that might come up a lot because
we do like you know, like and um, and it's
just like I'll take like, I'll definitely take your word
(34:27):
for it when like we're pushing something a little further.
And that's been super helpful for me, uh to see
because it's just like I think you can kind of
like I don't know, it's like you can kind of
see like above a lot of the stuff that can
be distracting in front um. And so seeing you do
that and like learning from you from that, it's also
just something else that's um, really valuable. Man. I've it's
(34:50):
like I've wanted to stop you for like Ale like
this is too much, This is too much for audience.
Thank you so much for listening to us love on
each other, because we genuinely do love each other, and
I we genuinely love y'all. And we have so many
amazing people to thank and thank you Mark for those
I mean that I'll never forget that. Luckily it's recorded
so I can listen to it again. So but what
(35:13):
I mean ridiculous news as we come to this end.
You know, there's so many people think and we can
go back and forth on this, but Tarry are amazing producer.
Is just I mean, I love her. I know she's
listening to this and cutting it up and adding cool
sound effects, and it's just been such a pleasure and
a joy to get to know her, you know, throughout
(35:35):
making this and what a talented person in so many ways.
And I hope that we can continue to work with her,
because Tarry, you're a badass. Yeah, I mean, we Bill
and I we had never done a podcast like this before,
and so there was a lot of things that we
didn't know and so I can only imagine what that's
like to work with as a producer, you know, and uh,
(35:59):
but I mean, Tarry did such a great job of
leading us through, you know, certain elements of learning how
to make this podcast and making it what it was,
in addition to being just very pleasant to work with.
And so that was a real gift. So thank thank
you Tarry for being amazed. And you know who else
is awesome Casey Casey Willis, Oh my gosh, what are
(36:23):
amazing researcher and friend and um a very talented podcaster
in her own right. Absolutely, So when we approached Casey
to be a researcher, I mean, Casey's got her own podcast,
She's got her own, like very busy artistic life. So
we just wanted her to be involved in this podcast
in some way, and unfortunately she said yes. Lucky for
(36:45):
us she said yes, And so she got the voice
of the show so quickly and was so good at
being able to pull fun, interesting, surprising stories for us
and break them down in a way that we could
then relate to you. So her job was so important
and she just knocked it out of the park. Um,
(37:06):
it was fantastic. Yeah. And and then Ben and Noel
are executive producers, Ben Bowling and Noel Brown. Ben has
been such a good friend for a decade, not more.
I just feel like an old man. But what amazing
performer to watch and play and just such a genuine
nice guy, such a great friend, and what an amazing
opportunity that he threw our way. Yeah. We we've known
(37:29):
Ben for such a long time and so getting a
chance to work with him, you know, in this capacity
was a great change and like fun to do, and
getting to see him more in his element as a
podcaster as an executive producer was like, oh snap, I
didn't realize my friend had this superpower, you know what
I mean, Like yeah, yeah, and then Noel Brown, I
(37:51):
mean what just what a voice, what a man, the legend,
the beard, everything about him. Uh. It just in another
great mentor in someone that I hope I get to
play music with someday because it's got an awesome you know,
it's an awesome musician, does all kinds of awesome stuff.
And so thank you so much to knowl Yes, thank
you course. Yeah, uh, I gotta think my heart, you know,
(38:12):
giving us opportunity to make this pot and working with
them has been great as well, you know, like yeah,
everyone's been super nice, everyone from marketing, you know, what
I'm saying, Like all the different departments we've had a
chance to you know, cross pass with, I've all had
just like a really positive vibe about them, and that's
been really nice. But in our our family of other podcasts,
(38:37):
you know, Ridiculous Romance, Ridiculous Crime, Ridiculous History, and yeah,
of course I heart thank you all so much for
giving us this opportunity. Everyone that works there has been amazing,
and all of our guests, all of our listeners. Yeah,
but we had so many amazing guests, you know, from
all over. UM. Special shout out to the Atlanta comedy scene,
(38:58):
I'll say, you know, um hopping in and doing characters
with us. UM. And also so many people that we
kind of met for the first time on this podcast,
or people that we had worked with and admired but
got a chance to get to know better from these
conversations with a treat and y'all. That brings us to
our final segments, UM, and always a favorite of ours
(39:22):
is the spring of inspiring inspirations and Mark you usually
read these, so we're gonna like you read it, but
I've told something that hopefully folks can relate to, and
uh to leave them on a good note. Yeah, this
is a great pick. So quote is every new beginning
comes from some other beginnings and that's from Semisic. Yeah
(39:46):
we all know that tune. Do you hear it in
your head? You? Yeah, y'all? Oh my god, I just
I am so grateful to all the friends, all our
listeners who have reached out and given us amazing sing
feedback and for y'all to be part of this journey
with us, it means so much. We hope that you
know you have had some fun things to to laugh
(40:09):
with us as you've been along with these characters and
with our guests, and also just fun things to talk
to your friends and family about about the wildness of
the stories that get below the fold and don't always
get attached. But if I hope, if we leave you
with anything, it's the fact that that gratefulness and and
giving each other flowers and letting people know how you
(40:31):
feel about them and encouraging a little bit of silliness
and goofiness in your life makes life worth living. Well,
said Dolan, I'll just kind of say you know, we
love you. Thank you so much, listeners. This was just
an amazing opportunity. Uh, And please stay in touch with us.
We're gonna keep making stuff and we're excited to share
whatever we make next with you. All yeah, follow us.
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