Absurd Truth: Gosling > Oscars

Dana is going to watch the Oscars only to see Ryan Gosling perform, “I’m Just Ken”. Meanwhile, Google admits their Gemini AI image generator was inaccurate.

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Episode Transcript

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Dana Lashes of surd Truth podcast sponsoredby Celtech. It's his laugh mission to
make bad decisions. It's time forFlorida Man, So first up here.
A Florida man was taken into custodyafter climbing a cell tower and then live

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streaming. This was in Hillsboro County, Florida. A Florida man was arrested
after he climbed to a giant celltower. Deputy said law enforcement was called
around seven o'clock Saturday night a manclimbing the tower. When they identified him
and responded to the site where hewas climbing back down. He reached the
ground, was taken into custody,and a deputy can be heard asking him

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in the video you made it allthe way to the top top and the
guy who replies yeah, yeah.This why to live stream? Didn't you
read this story about the chick wholike fell off a cliff because she was
trying to get a selfie like allfor social media. The Florida man accused
of trying to steal plane didn't getvery far, according to the Lee County
Sheriff's Office. Investigators were called tothe airport to help Lee County Port authority

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with the past burglary. They saytwo maintenance workers noticed a plane in the
grass with a broken wing and anopen door, and it was supposed to
be on a designated ramp. Thenthey found all kinds of stuff, magazines,
with the ammunition of ballistic vest.Surveillance video showed the suspect, identified
as Bruce Matthew Plummer, getting onand off a plane, turning on the
lights of another moving a plane ontothe grass at a camera view. Apparently

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it sounds like what did he wantto do? He had all kinds of
stuff in his record, several DUI'sviolation of probation. He's charged with oh
a lot arm burglary of an unoccupiedconveyance, grand theft over one hundred thousand.
I didn't know that this was inits own charge possession of a bulletproof
vest while committing certain offenses. Ididn't know that was a whole other charge,

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did you. Yeah, I meanthat seems kind of why. I
think that's kind of a pready charge. Well, remember that La case back
in the nineties where those guys thatwere in full body armor was just trying
to rob that bank and the copscouldn't stop them because every time they'd hit
him with bullets, they would justkeep going. It makes sense, I

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guess, but I've never heard ofit. Yeah, it's a weird.
That's a weird thing. Let's seehere. I got a couple more.
I'm not reading this one. Arenot going to read that one either.
Some of these are just no,we're not doing it. This one Florida
man did frauded home depot of onehundred thousand dollars. Investigators say they were

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scanning. Hint. This he was. He'd scan stuff, walk out with
other things that he'd scan something likethe Henry floor patch which costs nine dollars
ninety eight cents, and walk outwith white roof coating, which costs two
hundred and forty eight dollars. Sohe had like a whole scheme that he
was doing. So he'd scan forsomething and then he would, you know'd
he'd take something else that was obviouslymore of value. This was in Miami

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Beach, and Orlando was in afew things. So this, uh I,
this isn't you Steve right, well, you're not a Florida man bets
fifty thousand that there would be astreaker during the Super Bowl, goes to
the game and streaks and then losesthree hundred and seventy four dollars in winnings
after he bragged about it on theinternet. So a guy, I mean,

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it's kind of funny. He betthat there would be a streaker at
the Super Bowl and then he gatecrashed the Super Bowl and streaked because he
bet on that there would be andso he made it happen, and then
he bragged about it online. Heboasted in interviews that he would make all

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this money and he had placed fiftythousand on someone doing it. He was
he was bragging about it, andthen he should have kept quiet. Now
all of his pants are frozen theretheir invest de gating and all that stuff.
So that's that's so dumb. Whywould you do that? Why would
you do that? I mean,you know, he could have just stayed
quiet. And then a woman getsa chili reception from Coconut Creek police.

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She robbed a dairy queen of allthe things to Rob Allison and Fetting forty
four pom Beach County, walked intoa dairy queen, brandished a gun,
demanded money. No one was hurt. She was taken into custody. I
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got a culture thing. Before weget into headlines. I don't watch the
Oscars. I don't. I'm not. I used to watch it because I
like to watch people's outfits, andI like to see who is the gothiest
of them all, because you alwaysget somebody who really pushes the envelope.
A lot of red carbet dressing soboring, and everybody plays it safe.
I'm a chick. I like tolook at this stuff, right, I

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don't. I don't really see halfof the stuff that they put out because
most of everything's garbage. But Iactually may watch at least one thing at
the Oscars, just because I thoughtit might be hysterical. Now, I'm
gonna tell you something I'm not proudof. I wanted to see what all

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of the I never I didn't actuallymake it through the movie. I wanted
to see what everybody was talking aboutwith the movie, because everybody was arguing,
and some of my conservative friends weredisagreeing with each other because they were
saying that the film's director is apparentlyso self unaware that she accidentally made a
giant. Basically, the film isa giant epitaph for third wave feminism and
she didn't realize that she did it, and I wanted to really see if

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that was the case. I couldnot make it through the movie. It
was one of the worst things.It went on for way too long.
It was really boring. But Iwill say that Ryan Gosling, all you'd
had to do was just put hisscenes together and call it Ken and it
would be you know, it wouldbe a blockbuster. It'd probably get all
the Oscars. Just saying so.Anyway, the reason I said I was

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gonna watch one part of the Oscarsis because he's apparently performed at the Oscars.
Now, remember he got an Oscarnomination, and Greta Gerwig, the
director didn't, and Margot Robbie,who played Barbie, didn't get it.
And everyone was so mad. They'relike, can you believe Ken got it?
Can you believe I'm gusn't got it? Says Seccess Or maybe it's because
you guys. I mean her performanceis Barbie was not the same as like

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her performance in Itan, yet theywere two different things. One Oscar worthy,
this one. She's come on notthe same, guys. It doesn't
just because something translates into dollars atthe box office does not mean it's a
good performance. And I can't evenbelieve I'm defending the Academy on this.
I feel like I need to jumpoff my roof now. But he's going
to perform I'm Just Ken, whichgot nominated for Best Original Song at the

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Oscars, and I actually I'm gonnawatch that because he's hysterical. He is,
absolutely I'm not. I used tonot. I don't get into chick
flicks. My favorite chick flick isdeath Proof. Go watch it. One
of Tarantino's best work. Kurt Russell'sin it. It's a brilliant film.

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That's my favorite chick flick is deathProof. Yeah, that to me is
a chick flick. And I thestunts and it alone are just sweet.
Anyway, I'd not he was alwayslike he always like a romantically that's like
what he always plays, and soI never but he was so smarmy in

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this movie. It was hysterical.So now I'm gonna watch I'm gonna watch
him do this. I'm gonna watchthis at the Oscars. I can't belive
who's saying this. I'm gonna watchhim perform this. And also because you
know, it's gonna make all thethird Waivers mad. They're mad because he
got nominated for Best was it BestSupporting Actor or some cat whatever, and
none of the other chicks did,so apparently he's gonna do it. Mark
Ronson co wrote the song. Heused to work with Amy Winehouse. He

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was he helped her get real big. So I'm curious to see this.
Are you good? I'm gonna watchthis? Are you gonna watch this part?
I haven't seen any even an inklingof the Barbie movie, nor oh
I wanted to die. I meanI didn't even get all the way through
it. I got maybe a littlebit passed when they I mean, I
don't even think I got halfway through. I think I've always resigned now to
these big shows where if there's onesingular thing on these shows that I may

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want to see, I'm not stillwatching the show. I'm still not watching.
But I'll see the clip on Twitter. I'm gonna wait and I'll just
kind of keep an eye on Twitter, and when people are talking about him
getting on stage, I'll flip itover and rewind it back and I'll watch
it and then that's it, becauseI can't sit through the whole thing.
I'll die and I'll take all ofyou with you. I'm kidding. It's
time for Dana's Quick five. Allright, So first up for our headlines.

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Here, we've got almost a thirdof Americans. This is a pulvia
reason say that the second the firstAmendment goes too far because these people are
a bunch of pansies. I justfeel like if I was a tyrant,
I would do surveys like this,and everyone who's surveyed wrongly, I'd round
you up. The survey found thattwo thirds of morons believe that America is

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on the wrong track when it comesto free speech. It's a foundation for
individual rights and expression in the firegroup. To Newpole, they say,
yeah, third of people that theysurveyed, according to their press release,
are absolute morons. They went toDartmouth and they asked one thousand morons at
Dartmouth about their opinions on free speech, and the third of them were actually

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believe this. They said, onlytwenty five percent of respondents agreed that the
right to free speech was very orcompletely secure. Those are the people who
are smart. The rest of themare walking abortions. That's what they are,
walking mental abortions. I mean,you're almost going to convince me.
I mean, I'm all for lateterm if it means that those people can
be candidates. Apple is going towind down the electric car effort. Yeah,

(10:37):
because everyone is. It's not justApple. They're canceling their work on
EVS after the odyssey, this decadelong project. They're actually putting everything and
really into AI is what they're lookingat. They're not looking at EVS anymore.
They're winding that down again. Everyoneis Union Square In San Francisco.
The Macy Store is amongst many slatedto close. Now, this is like

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a combination of a couple of things. Macy's isn't doing well and they're switching
to more higher end like Blue Mercuryand Bloomingdale's. They've tried a boutique concept
as well, and a number ofdifferent areas across the country that fared better
than the traditional department macy store.So that's kind of part of this.
Also, because San Francisco is fullof needles and feces, and nobody wants

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to be stepping over excuse me,you know, nobody wants to be stepping
over that stuff on their way togo and make a purchase nobody. Let's
see CNN has paid Don Lemon almosttwenty five million in total to settle his
ouster, so he gets paid anyway, he has the last laugh. There
you go. Google Gemini invented fakereviews smearing a book about political biases.

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This is Peter Hassan had had thispiece where he noted that the Gemini they
actually slammed his book. They saidthe book was criticized for lacking concrete evidence
and relying on anecdotal information. Exceptit it didn't and it's completely insane that
that Gemini spat out summary is afour negative. They basically like cribbed different

(12:07):
words from different people and made upfalse reviews. That's what they did.
That's what Google Gemini did. Iknow Pepa Pig, which I never watched,
is unfortunately and unhelpful stereotypes with questionablemessages about gender equality and behavior,
say UK child behavioral experts, andUS parents say that the show is turning
their kids into brats. So PepaPig is apparently like the British version of

(12:31):
Cayu Canadian Kyu. If you're unfamiliarwith Kyu, Kyu was a bald brat
from Canada, who whined about everythingand really, just I don't know this
child. So the Pepa Pig series, they say that they it's just teaching
wrong. It's like brainwashing kids.It says that that Pepa Pig has an

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attitude problem, she's a brat,her mom is dominar father's useless, and
it has these very dangerous stereotypes.Can't believe kids watch this because it literally
looks like something that a four yearold drew with an iPad. Right,
I just I don't get it.I don't understand the appeal of this.
And the massive massive grocery chain mergerhas hit a wall. The FTC and

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nine states have filed suit to stopKroger and Albertson from merging. We have
more on the way stick with us. The AI situation. So Google is
now finally saying, okay, ourAI, maybe it went a little too
far. They're admitting their inaccurate AIgenerated images of black founding fathers, Asian

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German Nazis, and female popes wereunacceptable. Sound Our Pikahi said that Gemini
ais woke images were not acceptable ina memo to staff because people were really
criticizing this. This is the GoogleCEO saying that the company is working around

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the clock to fix the issue.I don't know how they could be working
around the clock to fix the issue. I'm not I mean, someone said,
can you give me a standard Naziofficer? And it literally showed them
a picture of a black dude ina Nazi uniform. The memo was posted
online and it said they wanted toaddress the issues with problematic text and image

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image responses in Gemini and they saidthat you know it's shown bias because they've
baked it in. That's the thing. How do you unbake the bias?
That's not an easy fix. Thatis not an easy fix at all.
How do you unbake the bias inthis? I don't know. I mean,

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I here's my thing. If theyhave to work around the clock because
AI is making pictures of black people, imagine if AI decides it just wants
to kill humanity, how many aroundthe clocks will we have to have to
fix AI at that point? Like, what are we doing? I don't
know, what are we doing?I don't know, but I'm just saying

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it is it is. It's thewhole thing, is that this is the
problem that we're going to have andand I don't know. They said that
the so pirate wires, it's atech publication. They said. The reason
that Gemini hasn't worked out, andthe reason that you have this is obvious
they have all this dumb stuff isbecause of the people who work at Google.
I mean people who work at Googleare are apparently are psychos, and

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they have stupid political views that theyhave to bake into their work. Thus
you get stupid generated AI images thatare completely historically inaccurate, and you're they're
trying to direct con history for bias. I mean, this, this is
the it's a problem. I mean, this is affecting absolutely everything. I

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read a thread the other day aboutDEI and all of that in the practice
of medicine. How it's affecting eventhat. And I'm not talking about just
you know, oh it's a guywho says he's a woman. I mean
goes beyond that, where you havepeople who you know, what if you
there was some some nurse practitioner orsomething that had tweeted, tweeted out using

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her photo and everything that her friendthey were was wearing a thing a button
who's a nurse was wearing a button? That had pronouns on it, and
the guy who who she was shewas drawing blood from, uh was asking
her, well, why why doyou have your why do you have pronouns
on a button there? And itwas an older guy and it may have
been because he didn't you know,no, not everyone lives on social media

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and plays in people's fantasy world ofpretend gender. And the woman on Twitter
had said, oh, well,you know, she seemed like, you
know, my friend had to stickhim twice to get a vein and like
wink emoji, like causing actually causingharm to someone over politics. That's psychotic
and against the oath. And Idon't know, I worry about medicine.

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I worry about all kinds of stuffbecause all of this it's creeping into everything.
And when you have AI that peopleare going to be relying on for
not just scientific breakthroughs, but Imean war strategy, think about it.
That's what the Latest Mission Impossible wasall about. You see how far the
implications of this can go, andespecially when you have this bias baked into
it, I don't know how youunbake it. Thanks for tuning in to

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