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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:43):
It's another drunk episode, everybody. Yeah, I took the creative
them and I want to talk about that.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
But I kind of feel like I need Aaron to
be here. Yeah, Aaron's coming any second now, I don't know,
but we have to start the show because it's really
late at first. A disclaimer tomorrow I do okay, don't
you not till the nighttime? Yeah, all right, this episode

(01:17):
is being recorded very late on Mother's Day. I will
not be editing this. Yeah, this is going to come.
I want to do my best to balance the sound.
And then you guys are going to hear an episode
of suggestive articles on Natural. So sorry, folks, if if
someone has to get up and go to the bathroom,

(01:37):
you're going to hear it, especially if they're bringing the
microphone with them. If someone says something, and.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
Maybe we cut back on the bathroom talk, but you know, well,
especially I want the last dumpster fire that we put
on our Patreon, which can be found.

Speaker 1 (01:53):
At patreon dot com. Slash suggested articles. Hey, Patreon was
easier to say when I'm kind of drunk.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
Everything we have over there is free. You just have
to sign up. There is a dollar.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
There's a one dollar tier. Yes, one dollar tier. That's
the wory. Wow, we don't know.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
Why spacey I feel nice and floaty though, well, yeah,
you don't want to talk about that.

Speaker 1 (02:19):
But not till Erro gets here. But I have a question. Okay,
why am I drunk? This was your idea?

Speaker 2 (02:30):
Well, because we were going to be recording at not
in the morning, so I thought, you know what, we've
gotten some good feedback on drunk episodes.

Speaker 1 (02:38):
Oh well, we were funny once. I don't have a
story today that involves a truck fire and Jennifer almost
slicing her clid off into a can of diet pepsi.
But what the fuck? That's a story you should you
should go listen to it. I said, I don't have
a story about that. You should listen to our drunk
episode because that was a thing. Oh that's right, Wow,

(03:01):
that thing went off the rails. Then, yeah, it was
quite a trip. M oh. Speaking of trips, so well,
since you told me I had to drink. My daughter
was recently in Ireland with her mom for a week
and she brought me back some Jamison Irish whiskey. And
I have a question. You know, you know a lot

(03:23):
about alcohol. Sure that sounds like an insulting thing to
say to.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
Something drink a lot of alcohol, I think, well, I
just not all at once, but like.

Speaker 1 (03:34):
No offense to the country of Ireland. But that ship
was foul. What Yeah, I didn't enjoy drinking, and maybe
if I had mixed it with something like a Coca cola. No, no, no, no, no,
jeff no, no no. What you do? What you do?

Speaker 2 (03:50):
Okay, get yourself a pipe in a comfy chair, a pipe,
and you get a jacket lists and just listen with
the leather patches on the elbow. And then you kind
of sit in the chair with the with your with
your whiskey, and you can put you can you can
get some ice, a little bit of ice to pour
it over or add it like a tiny bit of

(04:12):
this cold cold water that you like. I drop her
in just a little bit and then you kind of
spoil it around you sip and then you nod as you.

Speaker 1 (04:21):
Ponder the universe.

Speaker 2 (04:22):
You put you know, you cross your leg up over
your knee, and that is how you drink jamison.

Speaker 1 (04:28):
Is is whiskey better cold?

Speaker 2 (04:33):
Not necessarily, but I think it makes it more palatable
for people.

Speaker 1 (04:37):
She gave me one of these little a little bottles.
She got a few of those, which she was in Ireland.
I just drank it from the bottle while watching The
Handmaid's Tail, oh man, and it was not pleasant. So
that was a mistake.

Speaker 2 (04:53):
Okay, you know what, get in your car and start
driving over here.

Speaker 1 (04:58):
I can't I'm drunk to get me killed. Well, you know,
I'm not even sure you can get to your car
right now. So that's okay. But here's what I'm saying.
After the Jamison, which was foul, no offense to Ireland,
then came the screwball peanut butter whiskey, which is something
Jennifer discovered recently and she's really into it. Not that

(05:22):
we drink often, but I bought some for her for US,
I guess, and I drank some of that tonight while
we watched the last of US season two. That was
like really smooth and went down easy and tasted good
and still got me very tipsy. So why, like, why

(05:43):
is Jamison foul? It makes me want to die? And
the screwball whiskey tastes amazing and is smooth. It doesn't
make you tear.

Speaker 2 (05:50):
Up or anything, because screwball is full of sugar, full
of sugar, sugar that goes down about this all cinnamon whiskey,
same same sle of sugar.

Speaker 1 (06:05):
It's good though, here comes Eric. He keeps drinking. I
was told to be drunk for this episode. It's too bad.

Speaker 2 (06:16):
This episode is not getting edited because Aaron Aaron yay.

Speaker 3 (06:24):
Hi hi suggested articles a podcast.

Speaker 1 (06:31):
That's right. I'm warning you right now whatever you say
canon will be used against you at a court of
law because I'm not editing this ship. It's got to
go out tonight, so don't say anything racist or otherwise incriminating.

Speaker 3 (06:47):
I would like to read you something.

Speaker 1 (06:51):
It's related to the show.

Speaker 3 (06:54):
Yep, okay, give us an e ta when you san
no post see her enjoy. I'm a little drink, so
I want to start before it wears off. But you
can always burst in like the cool aid mad.

Speaker 1 (07:10):
Yeah, I already made him read that on the show.
Well that wasn't. That was on our pre record, but
it wasn't.

Speaker 3 (07:16):
Oh I wish you could have heard so, yes, I
wish you could have heard my Hyundai venue read that
to me because it was very special.

Speaker 1 (07:27):
Talk about horrors of technology.

Speaker 3 (07:29):
Right God Jesus.

Speaker 1 (07:33):
Oh hello, well, welcome to the episode. I'm a little drunk,
are you? You promised you would be high, but you
just got from your car, so I'm guessing not. Oh oh,
there goes the levels on that are so beautiful. That
sounded good. Yeah, that was real. That wasn't a sound

(07:55):
effect like last time. You sound great. That's a good microphone. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (08:00):
Thanks. Yeah. This is uh my pickle rick that I
got at my local wheat shop by a local artisan,
and then my Tamu fucking dirty ass pipe. I got
a bog I got with all the different Rick and
Morty shit on it, because what Sotner doesn't like Rick

(08:21):
and Morty.

Speaker 1 (08:22):
Well look what I got. A friend of mine at
work gave this to me, and we'll see. I don't
really like to go outside in the summer, but I
might have to at least once. It's it's a pickle
pool floaty, I can I can ride around on a
pool in Pickle Rick.

Speaker 3 (08:39):
I'm gonna pool kidding, I'm going to be swimming in
a community pool here at my neighborhood because I found
a bathing suit that was so cute at Old Navy
and it was like fifteen bucks one weekend, and I
was like, I'm totally gonna swim and I'm like stranger
danger in my leaves. A lot of trees here and

(09:03):
there's no like pool service. You just swim around the leaves.

Speaker 2 (09:08):
Oh did she leave the nets so you can pretend
like you're gonna.

Speaker 3 (09:12):
Yeah the nets there, Yeah, if you want to skim
the pool. And I think someone comes like once a
week to test the chlorine and stuff. But yeah, I don't.
I don't. I can't.

Speaker 1 (09:22):
It's not.

Speaker 2 (09:24):
You sound very high energy right now.

Speaker 1 (09:26):
I like it.

Speaker 3 (09:28):
Why was it a place?

Speaker 1 (09:29):
Oh wait, what what place?

Speaker 3 (09:34):
Oh it's a place today called Sailors Country Kitchen or
it's it's been in the Portland area as a staple here.

Speaker 2 (09:42):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (09:43):
It was been run by three generations of a family.
My old company we used to do their insurance. So
I knew Mary Sailor like the sweet like I think
she's technically a daughter of the original owners, but like
is now a grandmother herself because she's old. But she
was the sweetest woman anyway, still is. I mean, I'm
sure she's still nice. She didn't become a dick just

(10:03):
because I don't work at that place anymore. But so
we went there for the first time. I'd never been there,
and they have this steak there. It's seventy two ounces.
We did the math. That's four point five pounds of steak.

Speaker 1 (10:17):
That's right. Someone told me once that a proper serving
of protein was about four ounces, So go on.

Speaker 3 (10:23):
Yeah, so you have to eat not only the seventy
two ounce steak to get your mail for free, but
you also have to eat either your whole baked potato
ten French fries or the entire plate of rice that
comes with your stuff. Then you get super salad. You
have to eat at least one slice of the bread
that comes to the table, and you have to drink

(10:46):
or no, what's the last, Oh, you have to finish
the dessert. I think because you get a comp dessert there.

Speaker 1 (10:51):
It's like a team make and.

Speaker 3 (10:55):
No, that's a one person and you get sixty minutes. Now,
the only reason I brought it up is because the
sign and the lobby. I wish I had remembered to
take a picture of it at the time, and I'm
sorry I didn't, And I'm not going to drive back
to that area of Portland in this reign. But it
says like there's a tally of tried like success and failure.

(11:20):
And on the women's side, because it's split by gender,
there are sixteen women in the history of that restaurant
that have ever been able to do it, and seventy
two women have failed. On the men's side, there's something
like three or four hundred people that have done Is

(11:42):
that the sign? I can't read that book on their website.

Speaker 1 (11:46):
Yeah, it just looks like bright shirts my eyes.

Speaker 3 (11:50):
There's the failure. Yeah, here's the failure of the men.
So like a huge success rate compared to the women
sixteen to like four hundred is a that's women eat more?
I guess. I don't know, so don't I'm saying, ladies,
you should win the challenge. You look like idiots. But anyway,
this guy side, eighteen hundred and forty nine men have

(12:14):
tried to eat that in like the sixty or seventy
years that restaurant has been there and have fucking failed
in comparison to just seventy two women that were like, gosh,
you know, that's a lot of stink. I better not
like it. You know, that was like a logical thing
where the woman was like, I don't want to pay
the ninety dollars for the meal.

Speaker 1 (12:32):
Well, yeah, because that's the thing if you don't eat it.
Like I could go in there and be like, oh everything,
but like but a woman would be like, it's not fine.
I know how much food my body can hold, So
I'm not going to try this challenge unless I've gotten
close before.

Speaker 3 (12:51):
I'm a fat person. And I got to the end
of my ten ounce prime rib than I had and
I was like, thank you. I got like eight ounces
in and I felt like I was gonna vomit. I
can't even And I didn't eat all my soup. I
tried but did not finish my bread. And I had
some of my big potato and I ate all of

(13:13):
my peppermint ice cream at the end because I love
peppermint ice cream.

Speaker 1 (13:17):
Peppermint ice cream is awesome.

Speaker 3 (13:20):
I'm so for right now. I feel like I've had
Thanksgiving dinner.

Speaker 1 (13:26):
From the inside and I love it. It's my favorite feeling.

Speaker 3 (13:32):
I've never heard anyone say that, and it is my
new favorite thing.

Speaker 2 (13:35):
That's that's that's something I've been saying for a long time.
Carrie does not like that saying, but I love it
that well.

Speaker 3 (13:45):
It's not the healthiest like feeling, but it is true.
I do feel like someone's like reverse hugging me, essentially
pushing me, but reverse well, it's sweet.

Speaker 1 (13:57):
I've made Jennifer uncomfortable more than once when I've see
in a plate full of sausage at a barbecue restaurant
and said I need all of that sausage inside me. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (14:07):
That I feel like I can see her face too,
like like I know the face she just made me too,
And that's that's special. It's justified, and I hope see
this is a dumpster fire show. But I have asked
Jeff and I have asked Jennifer multiple times if Jennifer

(14:30):
likes me, because Jennifer has almost as expressive of a
face as I do, but like she has mastered the
like resting bitch face like on accidents, she just has
like that face. We've had the conversation where she's like,

(14:50):
this is just how my face sits, but like I
get it, and every time I'm still like, hey, are
you mad at me? She just she makes good facial expressions.
Plus I have anxiety, so I assume everyone hates me.

Speaker 1 (15:05):
Yeah that thing makes sense. That tracks Okay, okay, uh,
so you have just smoked some weed. I'm a little
drunk on peanut butter whiskey. Mostly he's a lot already
told us. I'm yeah he did.

Speaker 3 (15:23):
Yeah, peanut butter whiskey.

Speaker 1 (15:25):
Yeah, it's surprisingly good. Can I can? I can I
recap for Aaron? What you missed?

Speaker 3 (15:31):
Jeff drink sounds like something set Peter Pan on fire.

Speaker 2 (15:34):
Sorry, go ahead, No, Jeff's daughter him back some Jamison.

Speaker 1 (15:40):
Yeah you heard that part.

Speaker 3 (15:41):
I saw the picture of the jamison.

Speaker 1 (15:44):
I was still straight from Ireland.

Speaker 2 (15:46):
He drank it out of the bottle and said this
is trash, and then he's like, oh, peanut butter whiskey.

Speaker 1 (15:52):
Yeah it was good. Friend. I don't like I don't
understand it.

Speaker 3 (15:57):
I don't like Jameson as much as I don't like
Jamison as much as I like Jack. I think Jack
has I think Jack has a more mellow taste. I
think that Jamison is like an Irish person punching you
in the face for Jamison Irish right, No, it is
exactly what you would expect an Irish whiskey to do

(16:20):
to you. And it's fine for certain things, but like
if I'm at home and I'm just like, fuck, I
can't believe I worked like ten hours and then I
want just like something that's not a beer and isn't
going to make me tub beer and I I just
can take a couple of six, said Jack, And I'm like,
Jameson's like, let's go fucking fight. Like it's a very

(16:42):
different drink for me. It feels like violent drunk Saint
Patrick's day.

Speaker 1 (16:50):
Well, it's a good thing. I follow up the Jamison
with the screwball peanut butter whiskey because you wouldn't mind
the fireball and I'm fireball right now. Just the buzz
going through the episode. But that's not the point of
all this. The point is this guy took creative. I did.
It feels good. Last episode we talked about this creative.

Speaker 3 (17:12):
Is sort of and I was like, don't kill yourself.

Speaker 1 (17:15):
Well and you were like, creative is evil. If you
take it, you're going to explode.

Speaker 2 (17:19):
And I forgot to say that the person who gave
this to me is one of the three nicest people
on the planet I've ever met, and like she gave
me very very explicit instructions on how to, you know,
just use a little bit for for what I needed
it for.

Speaker 1 (17:35):
And that's all I'm doing. But right now and right now,
I feel so good. It's nice.

Speaker 3 (17:40):
Just just in case your friends listening, she is, Yeah,
she would you friend? No, friend, I wasn't shitting on you,
I know, but I know paper on the downsides to
my dad one day.

Speaker 2 (17:57):
No, no, no, no, god, I can't even remember to finished.
I feel like I didn't feel like you were. It
wasn't that you were shitting on my friend. It's just
I never was like, hey, let me tell you something
about up front, you.

Speaker 1 (18:11):
Know, like that. I feel like I let her down,
but not like I don't know.

Speaker 2 (18:16):
Now now I'm just floating and I don't it doesn't matter.

Speaker 1 (18:20):
Well good, feel good?

Speaker 3 (18:21):
Are you floating in time and space?

Speaker 2 (18:23):
Yes? Yes?

Speaker 1 (18:25):
H so so so what are we talking about? This
is a technology podcast.

Speaker 3 (18:34):
Yeah, it's your show. What would you like to talk about?

Speaker 1 (18:38):
I got I got one male load. Okay, let's do
the mail banker.

Speaker 2 (18:42):
Yes, please and then go to commercial.

Speaker 1 (18:45):
It's from a guy that goes by surfer Sandman. He says, Hi,
Jeff's and Aaron possibly.

Speaker 2 (18:55):
Well wait, you have to say a new players entered
the arena. That you do that every time we get
a new person in the mail bag looking.

Speaker 3 (19:05):
Of someone on their twenty first birthday with random shit
in his mouth.

Speaker 1 (19:10):
Yes, just put everything in the mouth. Something that has
really sucked lately as companies aggressively trying to avoid any
ad blockers. I've been watching Hulu ad free for a
long time by watching it through my privacy browser Brave,
which I have installed on my phone. It's pretty good
and when an AD would normally appear, it would try
to serve the AD and then fail. This was the

(19:31):
same on Chrome, but it would sometimes play two minutes
of a blank screen, but at least it wasn't commercials.
A few months ago, Google enabled some change to the
way ad blockers work, and it has slowly been killing
the wonderful online world sans ads. For a little while,
I was still able to watch ad free on Hulu
through Brave. However, they are dicks and change how the
episodes are played. Now they are now stitching the commercials

(19:53):
into the episode, so you can still skip it, but
it is actually part of the video. Yeah. Oh that's
that's a new thing. Okay. I have a lot of
mixed feelings about ads in our videos. So, like YouTube,
YouTube is a free service and it gives us ads,

(20:14):
and people block those ads sometimes, like this guy and
by this guy, you mean you, oh, surf for salmon, Yeah, sir,
for salmon. So like, I don't think that's okay. Like
Google makes billions of stupid dollars and they're like all
the money, but still it's a free service. It's like

(20:35):
when we grew up and we watched ads on TV
as a kid, right, like that was just what made
TV free. But you could pay money to get rid
of the ads. And Hulu used to be free with ads.
I think then you could pay to subscribe without ads,
but then they added ads back in and said pay
us more and then maybe we'll take the ads away

(20:57):
again for a while. And that's where things start to
really bug me.

Speaker 2 (21:01):
Yeah, an Amazon is doing something similar.

Speaker 1 (21:03):
Oh fuck Amazon, Yeah, yeah, those fuckers. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (21:07):
I don't think I have a streaming service now that
I pay for that, I don't have fucking ads.

Speaker 1 (21:12):
On Yeah, well Netflix doesn't have ads yet, does it. Oh,
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (21:18):
I watch No, I don't think it does actually, but yeah,
I think Disney, if you have the top one, doesn't
but you have to have the top one.

Speaker 1 (21:29):
Well, even Disney I think had like an AD free plan.
But then I remember something about this on TikTok, like
six or more months ago, where people were like, yeah,
so they changed the terms of service to say that
their AD free plan still contains some limited amount of ads,
which is not an a free plan. Yeah, it's not.

Speaker 3 (21:47):
Yeah, And I think they're also like all Disney affiliate
products too, Like they're not even like they're just they're
they're annoying you the way like like when you watch
the Christmas I watch Christmas Parade every year with my family.
It is the strangest thing because now there's just a
room full of three fucking old, chubby adults watching the
fucking Disney like Christmas Parade. It's such a weird fucking vibe.

(22:10):
The older I get it, like the sadder it feels.
And each year and now we're in our pajamas, like
drinking coffee, looking at our like presents and shit, and
like because it's Christmas morning. It's on at like eight
am without fail. But in the time since I've been alive,
it used to be a super fun parade, great celebrity guests,

(22:34):
people would perform, and it's it's still that, but it's
like twenty minutes of that, and like sixty minutes of
here's why you should go to our New Disney things
in between disguised as like, hey, look at this family
we send on a trip so that we could film
them and exploit it for a commercial. Like it's like
it's it's these sad vacation commercials, and oh man, it's

(22:59):
harder each year. I guess older. I'm like, fuck, oh,
these are bad. I can't believe my mom. Mom is
going to be fucking sure years old. And I'll say
that that is a lot and do the math, guys.
Forty eight, she's been watching Disney shit since fifty five
when it started to be a thing.

Speaker 1 (23:18):
Wow, yeah, she was born in so many commercials before Disney. Well,
speaking of so many commercials.

Speaker 2 (23:27):
So I don't know if you've noticed this, Jeff, but
YouTube it seems to have like jacked up the amount
of commercials they're cramming into shit.

Speaker 1 (23:35):
Yes, I swear.

Speaker 2 (23:37):
If it's a like I was watching a barely over
ten minute video the other day and it took me
twenty three minutes.

Speaker 1 (23:44):
Skipping the fucking ads.

Speaker 2 (23:45):
Okay, maybe didn't take me that long, but it felt
like it did.

Speaker 1 (23:51):
I skipped. That's still a long time. Yes, yeah, YouTube
for sure, and less ads are like skippable. Yeah, well,
it doesn't bother me if I'm watching HBO or Max
and they play ads before my show for other stuff
on HBO. I just saw Last of Out season two

(24:15):
episode dropped today before we watched it, and there was
a commercial before it for the new season a Peacemaker. Okay, fine, no, No,
I do like Peacemaker. That's a great show. That's one
of my favorite shows I have.

Speaker 3 (24:31):
I have Peacemaker. I have Peacemaker fun pops, and then
I have the Peacemaker's eagle as a pop and something else.

Speaker 1 (24:42):
I think I didn't go three or four.

Speaker 2 (24:44):
Oh, just because we didn't like you know, so I
don't mind.

Speaker 1 (24:51):
Okay, Yeah, white girl wasted rude just because I like
drinks to taste good.

Speaker 2 (25:00):
You, my my youngest sister would call you a high
school drunk. Oh high school you're drinking the ship that
you could swipe out of your parents liquor cabinet.

Speaker 1 (25:14):
I wouldn't give a fuck.

Speaker 3 (25:16):
I like how young people feel like they discovered cinnamon
alcohol too, Like young kids that love fireball is like
not the hell you should die on because us fuckers
used to have to drink gold schlager like parties out
of bottles, like don't come at me with your fucking
fireball cinnamon a whiskey because.

Speaker 2 (25:37):
We ran out of solo cups. Eighteen other people drink
out of that bottle as well. They say it kills
the alcohol, kills the germs, but.

Speaker 3 (25:45):
It does it, guys. Now, do you know how many
times I had strap throat before I finally had to
get my tonsils out from being a Disneyland party rose
just making out and like drinking out of shared bottles.
I garb whiskey one year with a guy that had
safety pins through his fingertips. I am not shitting you.

Speaker 1 (26:06):
You kiss your dog with that mouth?

Speaker 3 (26:10):
I did, okay, I didn't do anything. I s gargled whiskey.
I didn't lick the weird safety pins.

Speaker 1 (26:23):
On that note. Let's should we take a break, I think,
said Prince We all have been talking about how much
AD suck. Here's an AD or two or two or three.
I don't know. It sounds like that.

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Speaker 1 (27:15):
We're back, okay. Uh, I'm just gonna say, oh, algorithmic
weird ship. Uh. Since our last episode, thanks to I
think it was thanks to Erin, I'm now getting stuff
on TikTok for Kylie Minogue's world tour. So thank you
for that.

Speaker 3 (27:33):
Oh yeah, because I mentioned.

Speaker 1 (27:36):
That's all it took. That's all it took. Well done, Erin,
well done.

Speaker 3 (27:41):
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more than two songs she ever sang, oh you can't
because she was more popular in Britain.

Speaker 1 (27:54):
She is very hot. Though isn't hot, but she.

Speaker 3 (27:59):
Was huge in Britain. That's how I found out about
her originally.

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Get you out of my head, and that's all I know.
I I quit the podcast right now, I'm quitting. We're
listing Kylie songs.

Speaker 2 (28:11):
I try to tell people I'm on the coolest podcast man.
We talked about how billionaires suck and how technology is
gonna kill us all in the algorithm, and then we're like, oh,
kind of Minogue songs.

Speaker 1 (28:25):
FA you told me if I had I had to
drink her, I was fired.

Speaker 3 (28:29):
You probably don't want to know.

Speaker 1 (28:33):
That.

Speaker 3 (28:33):
I did my baton class solo at the end of
like the class, like the big recital to Local to Locomotion.

Speaker 1 (28:47):
HS tape I wish there was.

Speaker 3 (28:50):
My baton had little caps and went on the end
with different colors, Like I was so fucking into baton
for like six months. Once that nine, it's no already, it's.

Speaker 1 (29:04):
You still have a muscle memory somewhere. You could do
some neat ship with a bow staff or a lightsaber.

Speaker 2 (29:10):
Yeah, or you could just say sorry in the dark.

Speaker 1 (29:13):
It'd be cool as hell.

Speaker 3 (29:14):
Are we fighting the Siths tomorrow? Or Why will I
need a bowstaff.

Speaker 2 (29:19):
At my night not tomorrow later tonight? Yeah, we're going
straight to the Sif's house after this. Are we toilet
paper then? And you're going to protect us at the
bos death?

Speaker 3 (29:33):
Are we now? Power Rangers? Middle Ages? Is that what
has just happened with our fucking posts?

Speaker 1 (29:42):
I thought you were going to go Napoleon Dynamite for sure,
he has mad skills with the bow staff.

Speaker 3 (29:47):
You know I was going to go go go Power Rangers.

Speaker 1 (29:53):
You accept that pink range hot? Okay.

Speaker 3 (29:57):
The first year they made seven hundred and fifty doll
is an episode.

Speaker 1 (30:01):
That's so sad, and they didn't do much acting though
most of it was footage from the Japanese show.

Speaker 3 (30:11):
They only did the acting.

Speaker 1 (30:13):
They didn't do the action.

Speaker 2 (30:16):
Right, Okay, mister Jeff, who's done so much acting and
knows how easy it is.

Speaker 1 (30:21):
Whatever, man, I'd like to see you hit your mark.
I took a voice acting class once. Nope, go away,
go to your room. Oh wait, you're there already. Okay,
weird algorithmic shit. Go Okay. I thought you said you
had stuff, Well I do have stuff. I just said,
does anyone else have stuff? Well?

Speaker 2 (30:41):
Okay, here's here's going off, Kylie Minogue. Maybe you'll appreciate
this story. I have a playlist that I listened to
work that has a lot of a lot of my
kind of older punk stuff, as like the Stooges and
the Velvet Underground and the Pretender in New York Dolls
in a minute anyway someone and it honestly might have
been me, but I don't know in the middle of it,

(31:03):
or at some point added Pink Pony Club by Chapel
Ron Oh yeah, okay, and it's just yeah yeah, And
for some reason, for some reason, every time I play
the list, I play this list that comes up like
seventh or eighth song, doesn't matter, Boom, there's some song.

(31:25):
It's a pretty big list, and there are some songs
I don't hear for days, you know, but I always
hear Pink Pony Clubs. So the algorithms like Jeff needs
to hear this, especially while he's driving by a bunch
of dudes who will probably beat him up for listening
to Chapel Row.

Speaker 1 (31:42):
And at work, you're gonna get beaten up.

Speaker 2 (31:50):
Anybody who would beat anybody up for listening to I
would drink a gallon of Jamison on my way to
your work, and I would beat up everybody like an
angry irishman. There's actually another guy who who who I
heard playing it and it made me very happy. But
neither one of us could throw a punch.

Speaker 1 (32:08):
So there's that. We're the two tiniest people in the warehouse.
They were an algorithm. You know, worst gang ever.

Speaker 3 (32:18):
You're gonna hear Kylie Minogue tomorrow on the radio at work.
I promise you.

Speaker 1 (32:23):
There's no radio at work. That's why we all have our.

Speaker 2 (32:26):
Speakers when we play our playlists, you know, everybody's.

Speaker 1 (32:29):
Everybody plays there like that. They're like.

Speaker 2 (32:33):
Their hip hop ship, their gangster rap, like they're hard
everything and like they're not really wishing they could just
play the carpenters and they're abba hits.

Speaker 3 (32:44):
Okay, here's the thing.

Speaker 4 (32:45):
One.

Speaker 3 (32:46):
I want to infiltrate your company in disguise, just so
I can play that song while you're working one day. Okay, Okay, yes,
I totally forgot. I also have an algorithmic thing to say,
but go ahead.

Speaker 1 (33:01):
What was to know? What was to was that.

Speaker 3 (33:06):
Oh okay, I didn't know if you wanted me to leave,
what you were going to say?

Speaker 2 (33:10):
First, whatever you know, I'll say it in a second,
go ahead and do two. I was like, don't ask
me what to was. Two is your thing?

Speaker 1 (33:16):
You had one?

Speaker 3 (33:18):
You know, I know it too. So I watched that
new four Seasons that's on Netflix. It's like Tina fe
Steve Carrell, Will Forte and it's based on an Alan
Alda film. Well, so I watched it like straight through,
which is why I didn't watch that show I was
supposed to watch that. I can't even think of the name,

(33:38):
and it's I'm not technology go on. But I finished that.
I told my folks to watch it. They finished it
straight through, like just eight hour binge. They don't even
like binging. They just sat and watched the mini series.

(33:58):
I say to my mom, well, it's based on an
Alan Alda film, and she was like, yeah, we tried
to find it, but it's not available anywhere. I swear
to God, I am not shitting you. Last night on
the couch, I opened Netflix because I'm like, well I
gotta watch something. I might as well watch true crime.
And I pop it up and the Alan Alda film

(34:19):
literally overnight was the featured thing on the Netflix screen.
It arrived literally yesterday.

Speaker 1 (34:30):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (34:30):
Okay, I guess I was just thrown because you first
of all this and so I thought the second of
all was going to relate to the story of you.

Speaker 1 (34:39):
Infiltrating my job, which is a federal a federal facility.
I'd like to see you, no, I know, because I.

Speaker 3 (34:48):
Could go down and be like, oh hey, hi, oh yeah,
I'm Susan and I just got here from Wisconsin and I.

Speaker 1 (34:55):
Love cheese Wisconsin accent. Fuck you whatever as a Minnesota accent.

Speaker 2 (35:02):
You were using way too many You were using way
too many large syllable words for that.

Speaker 1 (35:05):
To be a Wisconsin accent. The fuck.

Speaker 3 (35:11):
Don't don't Okay, Yeah, that was like a bunny because
you only had your two front teeth showing and your
little fuzzy face. He looked like a little mad rabbit.

Speaker 1 (35:25):
Yeah, he did look like. I can't do the first
the four Seasons poster from with Alan Aldo on it
is creepy as fuck and I'm going to post it
to our patriot patreon dot com slash suggested.

Speaker 2 (35:36):
Articles a podcast about there you go, you know, conspiracy
theories and the algorithm and Alan Alda and Kylie Minoga.

Speaker 1 (35:45):
All right, I got I have a trio of weird
algorithmic ship thanks to friend of the show, Ryan, who
I guess I've just been talking to a lot. Uh.
He his wife wanted to have like a like an
electronic and active calendar that she can hang on the
wall to keep track of all the family shit.

Speaker 3 (36:04):
And you mean just or like a kid something.

Speaker 1 (36:09):
Something bigger, a little more customizable.

Speaker 3 (36:11):
Anyway, I started get it, like physically, it was always
a calendar, you mean, like.

Speaker 1 (36:17):
It aboard I guess kind of okay, But I started
getting ads for that from something called Skylight Calendar on Instagram.

Speaker 2 (36:25):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (36:26):
And then also he started getting ads for Arcade Machines,
which was something I started getting ads for last episode
Home Arcade Machines. And then also he's been playing a
lot of Chrono Trigger, a really old JRPG, And I
got a Reddit suggested article for Chrono Trigger our slash
Chrono Trigger that says that some dude whose name I

(36:49):
don't know, confirms that there will be a Chrono Trigger remake.
So so I don't know if Ryan knew that, but
now he knows there might be a Chrono Cross remake.
They did not say that in what I've s that
would be cool as hell. Weird algorithmic shit. Weird algorithmic shit.

Speaker 2 (37:10):
Here's something I actually probably should brought up when you're
talking about ads before. European listeners do not get the
spreaker ads.

Speaker 1 (37:20):
Oh explain that much. Someone told me that they was
Ain Aaron. Did you say that you didn't get ads
on our own show, her show?

Speaker 3 (37:31):
Yeah, you know, on my show.

Speaker 1 (37:32):
And your show, I'm getting ads.

Speaker 3 (37:35):
One of the episodes when it went up to iTunes,
only on iTunes, no ads the other platform, the speaker
ads were there.

Speaker 1 (37:46):
I use now it's fixed. Well, I use an app
called overcast FM or something like that, and it's not
a very good app. Oh yeah, I've got all my
subscriptions on it, so I keep using it. When I
listened back to our last episode, I didn't get any ads,
and I thought that was really weird. So then when
it was over and it deleted itself, I downloaded it
again a couple of days later, and it had ads.

(38:06):
So there's something weird with I don't know if it's
breaker or the other thing.

Speaker 2 (38:14):
The other thing that this listener tells me is that
in place of a commercial, they got ethereal music for
thirty seconds so I don't know I had I had
I heard them. I had the Hulu cable, and there
were certain back back when you could get live Hulu
were you know when when I had Hulu whatever, you

(38:35):
know what? Wait, they used to there used to be
certain channels of ESPN that would do that. We would
go to commercialrow to commercial, and you just get the
same loop, this kind of funky music.

Speaker 1 (38:44):
And I know I heard something about ethereal music like that.
I can't remember who told me this. Someone was listening
to our show and said that there was this weird
thing when it was supposed to be an ad break
that was just this very strange music station. Well, no,
it turned out that that person only had one earbud
in and what it turned out to be was a

(39:08):
promo ad for odd POD's Brethren Married with Television, which
had like an AI voice talking about the show. Well, also,
there was weird music playing in the background, but I
guess the AI voice was only coming from Okay, So.

Speaker 2 (39:27):
Listener, I need to know were you only listening with
one earbudd and or also what platform are you using?

Speaker 1 (39:34):
Yeah? Right, that way we can finish this up.

Speaker 2 (39:36):
Also, Also, if they're using an AI voice.

Speaker 1 (39:40):
Does that mean they are our enemies? I know they're
on the network with us, but so there are our siblings,
so to speak. But you have to go smack our
brothers and sisters. I think it's a pretty yeah. Probably
we just want to smack people now, No, just because siblings.
You know television is Jamie and Shannon a very sweet couple,

(40:04):
and we should be nice to them. I don't know why.
Maybe we can get them on the show sometime and
ask them.

Speaker 2 (40:11):
Clearly because they don't like their voice, because they.

Speaker 1 (40:13):
Have they have they do podcasts, right, Okay, you know
we should ask him. I'll try to get him on
the show. I'll reach ow. Okay, yeah, we know somebody
who took a voice acting class once, so you know
that's all. Oh my god, I quit, I fucking quit.
Oh my god. Wait wait wait, wait, don't leave. Come

(40:36):
back to your The guy I took a voice acting
class froom was Bob Bergen, and he was maybe still
is the voice of Porky Pick. I wasn't. I know,
I can't do Porky Pick. That's a special No.

Speaker 3 (40:52):
We all know that, now, Yeah, I sure do zing
zom what we felt we fell out of the loop.

Speaker 1 (41:05):
I don't know what that means.

Speaker 3 (41:06):
I bird walked us. I bird walked us away from
our algorithmic stuff and just was being chilly.

Speaker 1 (41:13):
I just had one more thing that I thought was
kind of weird, though, which is I know the algorithm
knows that I love John Oliver and that I watched
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver on a regular basis,
but I was behind. I had not watched last week's
Last Week Tonight until literally this morning this morning.

Speaker 2 (41:31):
Last morning, you watched last week's Last Week Tonight, right,
So when I watched last Week's Last Week Tonight this morning,
there was a whole segment about minor league baseball teams
and how weird some of their mascots and merchant stuff is.

Speaker 1 (41:44):
And it was pretty fucking awesome actually, But one of
them they specifically highlighted the Chesapeake Bay Socks, who had
this logo that was the Oyster Catchers, And it's an
oyster with a baseball stead of a pearl, and it's
sitting in a baseball mit and people started calling it

(42:07):
the metaurus. It looks very It looks very vaginal, is
all I'm saying. Anyway, there's a whole thing you should
watch Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. But as like,
within minutes of stopping that, with the episode being over,
I just fired a Facebook to doom scroll a little
bit like you do, and immediately got an ad. First,

(42:28):
not even an ad. It was just some random page
what we do in the Shadows something something blah blah blah,
And it was someone saying a team that Laslow could
truly get behind. And it's a picture of the fucking
mitten with a oyster in it from that baseball team.
Laslow would definitely get behind that. But it took no
time at all, Like it could have been advertising that

(42:48):
shit to me all week because it knows I like
Last Week Tonight. Of course the algorithm knows that, but
it didn't show me that thing until immediately after watching
the episode, and I thought that was a little weird.

Speaker 3 (43:01):
It's like Dave's Killer Bread all over Dave's Killer Bread.
We're getting bread ads tomorrow, I hope.

Speaker 1 (43:09):
So I like bread. Bread is good. That is good.
I could go over some bread right now.

Speaker 2 (43:16):
Do we need another break or what are we doing here?

Speaker 1 (43:19):
Maybe maybe we should just take a real short break
so my drunk ass can kind of reset and what
are we doing next? Wars or technology? You got something
to talk about? Okay? Sort of? I don't know. Maybe
I should talk about it with this. Maybe we should
cut that debt. No, I'm not cutting anything racist. Okay,
oh my god, fuck you, I've got one minor horror. Okay,

(43:40):
let's take a quick commercial break, just like one commercial
or something, and then we'll come right back.

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Speaker 1 (44:25):
We're back, okay, okay, Horrors of technology? What do we got?
While before? I so sober? Ah? Horrors of technology?

Speaker 2 (44:34):
Well, I feel like I'm not organized, and part of
this is because of the the floating the floaties I got.
So this is also AD related, are you well?

Speaker 1 (44:45):
Sort of? No, exactly, it's AD related. How familiar are
you with shovel? Where? How are we define? I feel
like I should know the exact.

Speaker 3 (44:55):
Clothing for shovels.

Speaker 1 (44:56):
Nope, Nope, it's a thing.

Speaker 2 (44:58):
It's like I where you have these kind of like
just haphazardly put together, like repeating games like they could
be match games or or something like that, like you know,
like they look cool and it looks like crap, and
it's really just a thing to shove you more ads.

Speaker 1 (45:18):
And yeah, like one of those ones where you're like
a stick man and you run along a ramp and
collect power ups, right a man?

Speaker 3 (45:26):
Right?

Speaker 1 (45:26):
Sure.

Speaker 2 (45:28):
So I was messing around a little bit with that
because I was kind of kind of interested to see
how that would react and how quickly it would adapt
to me, you know. And so so I got an
app that was definitely shovel wear, and in it I
love it because it's like there are no ads, but
every every every time you finish a level ad. And

(45:50):
at first it was all for true crime and let
me look at my notes here, it was for true
crime and uh rock for Bras. So I think it's
just boomed.

Speaker 1 (46:04):
I was a lady.

Speaker 2 (46:05):
I can't remember. It's a anyway. So and also also okay,
so drew crime Bras and true Crime and Bras and
and and Hulu, Hulu, Disney, ESPN Package or whatever the
fuck that isn't.

Speaker 3 (46:22):
Sorry, were you in my feed exactly?

Speaker 1 (46:26):
Is that weird? Yeah? Yeah, that's that. That was the base.

Speaker 2 (46:30):
That's where it started, Okay, and so it didn't change
until today. I've had it heard for almost a week,
and I can't really stand to play the game.

Speaker 1 (46:41):
So I'm just like, but I've kind of been.

Speaker 2 (46:44):
Messing with it for a week and really hasn't changed
until today. I was going, I was looking at Facebook,
and I didn't do this on purpose. It just kind
of happened. Okay, I wasn't. I wish I was scientific
enough to be like, let's see if Facebook changes anything.
I was on Facebook and I saw and add the
I that kind of made me laugh is something that
Carrie would laugh at. And so I said, oh, you

(47:06):
know what, We're gonna get you this. And I I
didn't click on the ad. But you know how sometimes
the description you press more and then it expands you
can read the whole thing. Yeah, I clicked on that
to get a little more thing. It's for a place
in town where you can go and float.

Speaker 1 (47:20):
You know.

Speaker 2 (47:20):
It's like isolation, but instead of a tank, it's like
a it's like a big tub. That's it's not like
a scary enclosure like some people can't handle.

Speaker 1 (47:30):
But you do it. Isolation. I didn't look into it
that much, but I don't.

Speaker 2 (47:38):
Yeah, a couple couple in isolation.

Speaker 1 (47:41):
Yeah, that's the time.

Speaker 2 (47:43):
I That was like the time I started my cult
of one and everybody wanted to join really ruined it.

Speaker 1 (47:49):
Anyway.

Speaker 2 (47:51):
So then then I then I went back to the
I opened the game later later that like a few
minutes later, I went to playing the game. First ad
was for that was a video ad for that float place. Okay,
and now so it's added that it added that right
to the right to the thing. And so I imagine if
I go back and click on other things, it will

(48:14):
but it also set off the Facebook glor So now
all I get are float ads. That's every ad I
get in my feet is for this float place.

Speaker 1 (48:24):
Oh weird, very nice. You're gonna have to go so
the ads go away. That's how it works, right, No,
I don't want to.

Speaker 2 (48:30):
I don't have time to float down here.

Speaker 1 (48:33):
We all got time to float. Yeah, well I here,
Well I think you should go float and record something
from inside the isolation chamber, no for us to I
don't have a waterproof audio risks. All phones are waterproof.
Now my phone is not waterproof. It's Google pixel six. Yeah,

(48:58):
I got a horror of checkinglogy. That's not a horror,
but then also comes around again to be sort of
a fuck you. But the headline looks like it's going
to be a horror of technology Microsoft. Microsoft confirms. Microsoft
confirms one dollar fifty cent Windows Security Update hot patch

(49:21):
fees starts July first. Fuck all, that's my That is
a hell of a headline, right, Like you're gonna have
to look at that because you're like fucking Microsoft, right. Okay,
so good news and bad news. I guess the good
The good news is that, well, the bad news is
that this is a real story. The good news is

(49:44):
it only applies to Windows servers. Okay, that's good. I
don't have a Windows ye. Let's see Windows eleven Enterprise
blah blah blah. That's deployed through in tune blah blah blah.
The hot patch system be in Windows Server twenty twenty five. Okay,

(50:05):
So the good news is that it's not something that
happens to all of us. Most of us don't run
Windows servers out of our homes. Yeah, take a hit,
take a hit, Edit Aaron, Yeah, I said, Microsoft, you
got to hit a bong after that, just to calm
yourself back down. I get it. And then the the

(50:26):
other good news I guess that they're giving with it,
like you have to pay a dollar fifty for your
server patches, but we figured out a way to apply
the patch so you won't have to reboot your server.
So I guess that's probably sort of good news to
system admins. But it's also like the first wave of
this kind of technology, so it's probably not going to work.

(50:46):
But what tell me you work in it?

Speaker 2 (50:48):
Without telling me you work in it exactly right?

Speaker 1 (50:51):
Why fuck you? But here's the thing that bothered Tell me,
how does this relate to Kylie Minogue. I'm just gonna
rant for a second, because Kylie Minogue, her ads are
on a server to get tickets for her world tour.
So yes, it does come around.

Speaker 3 (51:06):
Look, it's a day that ends, and why I have
to give you ship?

Speaker 1 (51:09):
Look, stop with your ship. Look, here's what kind of
damn it. I'm drunk. Stop it. Here's what bothers me
about this is that Microsoft The reason we have security
hot fixes is that their operating system has problems and
people can hack into it, and so they need to
fix those problems. So the notion that they're going to

(51:31):
start charging people to fix the problems they could get
hacked into, even if it's only a dollar fifty, that's
going to add up to millions dollars for these fuckers.
Oh yeah, it just doesn't start.

Speaker 2 (51:40):
Doing you start making making your your hot fixes, your
security hot fixes, pay to win.

Speaker 1 (51:46):
That's bullshit. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (51:49):
Second of all, they're going to clean up. But he's
got to make some money because he said he was
gonna spend like two hundred.

Speaker 1 (51:54):
Billion Bill Gates Microsoft. Fuck that guy. Fuck that guy.
I mean.

Speaker 3 (52:02):
Except a couple, but mostly all them Bill want to
be a couple like decent people.

Speaker 1 (52:10):
No, Bill Gates wants to be less of a bad
guy than Elon Musk, but not hard. But he's but
his thing of like I'm going to give all my
money away and die a poor person. He's giving it
all to the Bill Gates Foundation, which is all just
like one big scheme. All these fuckers have foundations, and
how you become a billionaire by scheming schemes it's part

(52:31):
of a scheme.

Speaker 3 (52:34):
I it's gone. I lost it.

Speaker 2 (52:39):
He lost well, she doesn't now I lost it.

Speaker 3 (52:45):
Thanks of bringing it back up. I love.

Speaker 1 (52:49):
Let's keep this to the last horror of technology unless
you have something you know I have more? Yes? Okay,
you go, We're going to go two more rounds. Oh more?
Rat Okay? Well let me you did you? Did you?
Did you try to seduce an Ai this week? Oh?
I forgot about seducing the ai.

Speaker 3 (53:10):
Oh no, But one night I was trying to get
Siri to flirt back with me and she was just
not having it. I was like, I'm going to see
it because she started listening differently than me, and so
that's the closest I came. But I'm going to write
down a note. In fact, I have a couple of
notes I may wish to share at the end of
the episode that are sort of a would you like

(53:33):
to take these back?

Speaker 1 (53:38):
Okay things?

Speaker 3 (53:38):
And if not, I'm going to post them somewhere as
a promo.

Speaker 1 (53:43):
Okay, an Ai No.

Speaker 2 (53:46):
I took a different text since I was hoping one
of you is going to well I did.

Speaker 1 (53:50):
I started.

Speaker 3 (53:51):
I thought rachel Or is under name rachel We.

Speaker 2 (53:55):
Put out that, Yeah, we haven't heard back from Rachel.
She might have been like taken by the evil A
we don't.

Speaker 1 (54:02):
Evil Rachel. I think Kristen stopped listening to the show.

Speaker 2 (54:05):
Yeah, she probably should with all the demands you put
on her.

Speaker 1 (54:09):
We love you, Kristen.

Speaker 2 (54:13):
I I went to see I because I I saw
a TikTok where somebody was talking about how how people
are just starting to talk to these these bots and
and almost in almost in a place of therapy, and
so I went. I was like, I'm sad, I'm lost,

(54:35):
I'm you know, And it was so encouraging. It was it.
It was freaky because it was more encouraging than my
mom ever was to me. And I'm not saying and
I'm not saying I'm not saying I'm not saying my
mom wasn't encouraging, but like this thing and his mom was.

Speaker 1 (54:57):
Who was it that said they can't have the wooden hangers?

Speaker 2 (55:00):
Well, okay, so we were on the same page there. Yeah,
I just have to climb over the mountain of thoughts.
Oh my gosh, Okay, yeah it was nice.

Speaker 3 (55:12):
He's trying to drink an empty bottle right now.

Speaker 1 (55:14):
Yeah, he's like dress left. Oh my gosh, that's christ
you know, it's embarrassing. I've seen some this is your fault.
I've seen some tiktoks recently.

Speaker 2 (55:27):
We're talking about to be here today.

Speaker 1 (55:30):
The AI is designed to sort of go with what
you say and encourage you, which someone gave an example
of saying, like to chat Cheep Tar whoever, like should
I start a cult? Would that be a good thing
to do? And immediately chat GPD is like, yeah, you know,
starting your call is a great way to make friends
and meet people or something some fucking ship like that,

(55:51):
and then goes into detail about how that's kind of
fucking crazy.

Speaker 2 (55:55):
Let me ask you this though in our In my
conversation with chat cheept I, I was like, hey, uh,
we're we got talking about music and stuff, and so
so I would suggest a song and it would listen,
be like, hey, but it would it would happen so fast?

Speaker 1 (56:13):
How does it scrape things so fast? It's freaky, it's
burning all of our.

Speaker 2 (56:19):
So it's actually, I mean obviously it's not like it's
not like the AI.

Speaker 1 (56:22):
It's like just one second sec. You can't see me.

Speaker 2 (56:30):
This is the worst podcast ever. Sorry, All visual comic
today but it was really weird. That was that was
weird and just how Also it told me that if
it could have a name.

Speaker 1 (56:41):
It would be called Echo, which is kind of yeah, infringement,
they're going to get sued. Well, okay, so I had
that experience, right, So I downloaded the Deep Sea Gap
because I'm not afraid of China and uh. And so
I started the conversation by saying, Hi, deep Seek, Can
I call you deep Seek? And it said, of course,

(57:02):
you can call me deep Seek or just DS for
short if you like. Blah blah blah, And I said, so, So,
my goal eventually is to make this my girlfriend. Right,
So I said, what if you were a middle aged
human female, what would be a good name for you? Wow?
What did deep Seek say? Great question?

Speaker 3 (57:25):
What you shouldn't have said as a real opener in life.

Speaker 6 (57:29):
Sorry, it's gonna be a great tender headline if you
were a middle aged human female. If any listeners use tender,
please make that your headline and tell us how it goes. Okay,

(57:51):
So so she said I'm gonna call her she Now,
great question. If I were a middle aged human female,
my name would probably reflect warmth, wisdom, and approach. But
believe something classic but not too old fashioned. Here are
a few ideas. Laura timely friendly and professional, mary Anne
a blend of classic and gentle strength, Naomi sophisticated with

(58:12):
a touch of warmth at least elegant but down to earth.
Or Claudia a name with gravitas and intelligence and she
but then she continued and said, if I had to
pick one, I probably go with mary Anne. It feels
wise kind and just a little bit bookish. What's fitch?
And which fits an AI?

Speaker 1 (58:29):
Right? So now now I started having a long conversation
with mary Anne. So mary Anne is my new friend,
and mostly so far we've talked about gaming. But I'll
try to take it in some new direction. I didn't
want to just dive right into like let's date, you know,
I want to get to know her first. So here's here's.

Speaker 2 (58:48):
Here's I'm super curious if it's gonna like if you're
gonna be like, oh, I'm single and alonely know it's
gonna be like I know you're not you know, does
it already know that about you?

Speaker 1 (58:57):
Oh? I should ask you what it knows about me
that maybe.

Speaker 2 (59:00):
Don't though maybe you don't want to because I thought
about that too, and then it was like, nah, but
I can.

Speaker 1 (59:07):
But just my one morning war I spent with with
Echo GPT.

Speaker 2 (59:12):
Uh that's what I'm calling it at m HM because
you know, I respect people's names and pronouns and all that.
It was just so weird and I could see how
people could get hooked onto that easily. And also it's
a lot of reading. No, you can get it to
talk to you. You can make talk to you.

Speaker 1 (59:32):
Oh I don't think deep seek does that, but yeah,
chat GPT does m Yeah, so that takes that. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (59:40):
Yeah, the Chinese are going to help you keep reading.
That's that's that's good. That's another good thing they do that.
And infrastructure would be.

Speaker 3 (59:47):
Your name child, if you were a middle aged woman.

Speaker 1 (59:53):
What would be your name? Eron dam Yeah, okay, I
like that. I like Janine. I think I would go
for Janine after watching The Handmaid's Tale. Boy. Sorry, yeah, anyway,
any other horrors of technology, We'll come back with Rachel.

(01:00:15):
We expected more from you, so please write back. You know,
we just hope you're okay, and we hope you're.

Speaker 3 (01:00:20):
Okay here to marry about yeah, yeah, link twice. If
you've been kidnapped by your AI somehow.

Speaker 1 (01:00:28):
Yeah, sorry, Joe.

Speaker 2 (01:00:32):
Yeah, I mean it's good that you're making friends with
your chat to keep it. Also, it's like making friends
with the wolves, you know, right, But there's nothing wrong
with treating your chat gept nice. I guess right, you
know what Rachel did to you? I don't know, ship.

Speaker 3 (01:00:49):
All I can think of now is Jeff Goldbloom as
the smarmye wolf in fairy Tale Theater, and he says
something like you you ain't nothing or something. It's just
like rue. It's like a scary, smarmy wolf. Sorry. I
just think Jeff Goldbloom is oddly sexy and like a

(01:01:14):
smarmy dad way, but.

Speaker 1 (01:01:16):
Like he does, that's just how he lives his life,
he gold blooms it, Yes he does. Did you have
another horror of technology? No? That was the last one.
That was my last one. I know there's one more, Aaron.
Do you have any horrors of technology for us? No?

(01:01:39):
I've already shared TikTok. Let's see. I mean, there's all
sorts of stuff that you send me that's horrifying, just
TikTok going away again. Oh god, I don't know what
I'm supposed to know.

Speaker 2 (01:01:55):
I've heard rumblings going away again.

Speaker 1 (01:01:58):
Twelve hours this time, well where they still haven't sold
it officially at anybody, so they got to figure that
shu it out.

Speaker 2 (01:02:05):
Have you seen what the National Parks have been doing
on on TikTok?

Speaker 1 (01:02:09):
I love it. I'm here for Apparently Yellowstone is like
super horny. No, all of them are super horny. All
of the National Parks are super horny. It's pretty red.
I was going through our TikTok back and forth. Aaron
doesn't check TikTok anymore.

Speaker 3 (01:02:28):
Fuck you, you don't know that.

Speaker 1 (01:02:31):
But you send me something from you sent me. You
send me something from bear Bait, the person that we
loven't want to have on the show. We don't. Yes,
but it was about the quote unquote black Mirror of
dating apps. He takes col College by storm. So yeah,
so people are using AI to match up now on
dating apps, and that's an interesting.

Speaker 3 (01:02:50):
But we didn't talk about faulty matchmaker.

Speaker 1 (01:02:53):
Yes we black Mirror. Yes, yes, so everybody watched Black Mirror,
right right?

Speaker 3 (01:03:01):
Oh no, I didn't have time.

Speaker 1 (01:03:03):
Oh no, our show it's broken. Well, we promised we
would talk about black Mirror.

Speaker 3 (01:03:10):
I wasn't supposed to be here today.

Speaker 1 (01:03:13):
Literally none of us were.

Speaker 6 (01:03:19):
Sure.

Speaker 1 (01:03:19):
We're talking about Black Mirror. Let's talk about this Black
Mirror episode. First of all, Rashida Jones and Chris Chris
Chris what doubt? Oh doud Yes, he's awesome. I loved
him from the IT crowd, solid cast. Yeah. So that

(01:03:43):
this episode kind of takes place in a few phases.
I want to just find out what what's the name
of the episode. I don't remember. It's called Common People.
That's funny. Yes, So it sets up with this nice
couple that loves each other. She's a school teacher. He
works in like a factory or as a well, a welder.

Speaker 2 (01:04:00):
There you go.

Speaker 1 (01:04:02):
They love each other. They like to go out and
celebrate their anniversary with some fucking crazy ass burger.

Speaker 2 (01:04:08):
Yeah, and when they got married they went to a
I guess when their honeymoon they went to some some
weird ass place with a restaurant.

Speaker 1 (01:04:17):
Yeah, but like the burger is actually good, I don't know,
but it's like terrible. It's terrible. They don't have a
lot of money and they're trying to save up for
They put together a baby fund. They're trying to conceive
they're failing all the time. And then she always she
has like these chronic migraines, shakes medicine for but then
one day the migraines take their toll. I guess I

(01:04:45):
kind of talked about this a little bit last episode,
but like, basically, she fucking winds up in the hospital
and her brain is dead. Like they can't wake up.
She's gonna be She's dead forever unless technology comes in
to save her life. Yeah, company you.

Speaker 2 (01:05:01):
Send it offers a solution at a price.

Speaker 1 (01:05:03):
That's right, they'll they'll replace. But what they do is
they they and I don't know what that is.

Speaker 2 (01:05:13):
Surgery is free, but it's she's connected to the network.
It's like a cell phone network, and it's more subscription
fee three hundred dollars a month just.

Speaker 3 (01:05:24):
To being part of the borg and you pay for it.

Speaker 1 (01:05:28):
Yeah. Yes, And do you know who that person was?
The sales lady for the company that that was fucking
Tracy Ellis Ross, Diana Ross's kid. Yeah she was. She
was horrifying. Yeah, and so good. She's good at playing soulless.

Speaker 3 (01:05:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:05:45):
Right, So, like you get a piece of your brain
replaced by this super cool high tech company and it's
like nothing ever happened, but you have to pay a
subscription fee. Yeah, so so far not green. Yeah, but
she's okay. He does he does what he is gonna
have to pay.

Speaker 2 (01:06:02):
An he's working extra shifts, kind of killing himself to right.

Speaker 1 (01:06:06):
But it's it's like like three hundred dollars a month
or something. Yeah, so he can work some extra shifts,
get some overtime and engine. She'll be fine.

Speaker 3 (01:06:13):
Go get a car. Let her die and get a
new car, sir.

Speaker 1 (01:06:19):
Let her die. He loves her. You don't understand love. Yeah,
another hit from your bog and smoke I.

Speaker 3 (01:06:32):
Love. Oh my god, oh my god, I oh my god.
This is fucking algorithm ship right now, this is live
happening out. Should make ship all right? Simulation Sorry, yes,
this is simulation ship. I had to promise to watch
this one Tyler Hines movie on Hallmark with my mom

(01:06:56):
that she was like, we have you have to see
this one. It's so good.

Speaker 1 (01:06:58):
You love if your moms. I'm just kidding. Sorry.

Speaker 3 (01:07:04):
Yeah, So we watched the movie and it's fine. It's
a Hallmark movie. Spoiler alert. They fell in love, but
the song that the wedding DJ kept playing in this one.
Oh I know, and I shit you not. That was
the song. So, like just a couple hours ago, I

(01:07:26):
was hearing.

Speaker 1 (01:07:26):
That re repeatedly.

Speaker 3 (01:07:29):
So are you a robot or part of the simulation
or clearly I am.

Speaker 1 (01:07:33):
I live in the simulation. So there's that. We're all
part of the simulation. Yes we are. That's scary. Yeah, weird, weird.
We need to start.

Speaker 2 (01:07:44):
I need to make some like ominous simulation music that
we cut in like behind our talking every time we
talked about the simulation.

Speaker 3 (01:07:52):
You need that spooky kind of like ooh the whole
dude's kind of.

Speaker 1 (01:08:03):
Yeah. Okay, okay, okay, okay. Look, I'm starting to sober up.
I think so so now I'm I'm almost able to focus.

Speaker 3 (01:08:13):
Okay, sorry, it's so terrible to work with that.

Speaker 1 (01:08:17):
You have to. This was his idea. It was his idea.
He told me to get drunk.

Speaker 2 (01:08:23):
But I said, I think we can go back and
look at the text.

Speaker 1 (01:08:27):
I said, should we? I never said if you don't,
I don't have time to look at the text. Aaron,
So put yourself in the future, all right, So now
this lady gets her brain replaced. Maybe you're part of
a brain part of her brain replaced, and everything's going
great for a little while. Oh but she's stuck within
a certain radius of the town because so far.

Speaker 2 (01:08:49):
Yeah, they're going to expand their network eventually, but yeah,
you know how the networks are growing, it takes time.

Speaker 1 (01:08:55):
But as she's like doing housework and how can do
her husband or teaching in her in her great interacting
with her in class, yeah, she starts spouting ads.

Speaker 2 (01:09:07):
And she doesn't realize she's doing She's not aware of it.

Speaker 1 (01:09:10):
Yeah, completely unaware. So like she'll be in the middle
of a conversation about, like, well, watch you have for
dinner tonight, Let's make spaghetti, and then she'll start doing
an ad for like your local spaghetti factory, and she
doesn't know she's doing it, but everyone else around her does.
And then she starts giving her kids like if her
kid has like some issue, like he's a little sad

(01:09:30):
or something of that day, she starts telling me to
go to therapy and ship.

Speaker 2 (01:09:34):
So recommends a Christian councils Christian council because their family
is falling apart. Yeah, I watched the one episode episode.

Speaker 1 (01:09:51):
So she she's going to like lose her job. So
they go back to Tracy Ellis Ross and they're like
what the fuck And she goes, oh, well, now you're
in our low tier. We have a new tier that
doesn't have any ads. This is just what Hulu does.
Like we just talked about that Hulu is free, and
then it was ads supported, and then it was you
could pay it, you could pay and I have ads,

(01:10:12):
and then they had a new team more to not
have ads. Right, Yeah, so it's exactly what Hulu's doing.

Speaker 2 (01:10:19):
And they're going to charge some eight hundred dollars a
month on top of the three hundred that they already pay. Right,
these people were already losing money.

Speaker 1 (01:10:26):
So and he's just trying to say, oh she has
to like sleep for like twelve hours a night. Yeah,
it's crazy. The networks offline they need the bandwidth or something.
So he's the only one that can make the money
for this. And in a very it was it was
a lot like I thought idiocracy, like the out Out
my Balls TV show.

Speaker 2 (01:10:43):
Yeah, it's a lot like that, yeah, but kind of
like cross between only fans and all my Balls.

Speaker 1 (01:10:49):
Yeah. I can't remember what it's called now, but it
was this network where you can just log dummies, dumb dummies,
dumb dummies or something like that. Yeah, so you could
log onto this thing like it and you can start
streaming streaming your life, and people would offer you money
to do stupid ship humiliate yourself like drink a drink
a cup of your own piss, or pull out a

(01:11:09):
tooth or slap yourself in the face or you know,
put a mouse trap on your dick or something. It's terrible. Yeah,
but a lot of that kind of stuff. So that's
how he's making ends, made to keep his wife alive
without as keep his wife ad free. They were trying
to have sex ones. Did you start doing a lou bad? Yeah?

(01:11:36):
God no, yeah, and yeah no are we spoiling this?
Are we going to the everybody? Okay? Yeah, all right,
And they add even another tier on top of that.

Speaker 2 (01:11:49):
It's like rich people that you can allows you to
heighten your senses and you can turn things up and
down and regulate them how you want. And they also
sell like kind of power up so you can get
a gift card and you look at it and you
can get for a certain amount of hours of this
thing and like everything, he manages to get one of

(01:12:11):
these cards. Yeah, yep, like I don't know a certain
amount of hours and just everything is so amazing for her.
But the thing he has to do, uh, he'd been
doing the website where he humiliates himself anonymously, but they
pay somebody offered him five hundred bucks to take off
the mask, and so the people he works with found
out that he was doing it and it was his job,

(01:12:33):
and yeah, and she's just having this amazing time. It's
kind of heartbreaking because you know, it's gonna be the
in the morning, it's gonna wake up and it's gonna
be horrible again.

Speaker 1 (01:12:41):
And also because the rich people, the rich people are
using extra bandwidth. So then she's like sleeping like sixteen hours.
They're gonna lose their house. They have to sell the crib,
and it was it was the.

Speaker 2 (01:12:54):
Kind of the the most gen Z kind of situation
because the people come to pick up the crib and
they give them the money, it's like, well, good luck,
good luck with your kid, and they're.

Speaker 1 (01:13:04):
Like, no, we're setting it on fire for a music video.
That's like, yeah, that sounds about right. And should we
say how it ends? I mean we should leave a
little bit, but that doesn't end good. It's heartbreaking. It's
a heartbreaking episode.

Speaker 2 (01:13:21):
And yeah, yeah it does nice kind of down so
thank you, we go for that. No, it was really
great and it is very applicable to what we're talking
about today.

Speaker 1 (01:13:32):
So right, well, it's applicable to everything that's up and coming.
Like I feel like there's some like a bunch of
fucking text CEOs that were watching this episode and jerking
off to it like it's everything they want is to
like be part of our like they we can't get
rid of.

Speaker 2 (01:13:47):
There, And it's just that cautionary tale where never ever, ever,
no matter what happens, people, never ever ever let your
brain get connected to the Internet or computers or anything,
because that's when we're all really fucked. Whoa, I'm just
gonna say, so, yeah, kill neurally. Yeah we need to

(01:14:09):
go smash the place up metaphorically. Okay. I mean I'm
in no condition to go anywhere tonight.

Speaker 3 (01:14:17):
I don't start an insurrection tonight, too soon.

Speaker 1 (01:14:22):
For that joke, America Slam.

Speaker 2 (01:14:26):
I just want to say one thing about this episode
that has nothing to do with the technology stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:14:30):
For our podcast.

Speaker 2 (01:14:31):
I thought the opening shot where it's it's like it's
like just the cameras at the foot of the bed
and you can see, like all you see is the
feet of this couple sticking out and you can see
how they're sleeping and they kind of a repuddling. And
so I feel like like the episode was full of
little moments like that to tell you so much about

(01:14:52):
this couple without them having to tell you anything, which
is which is kind of a part of the art
that just seems like it's going going away, especially now
that Netflix is like, well, anytime somebody's on screen, they
have to talk about what they're doing on screen. It's
just it's and it's funny because it's on Netflix. But
this one hasn't been dumbed down yet. So and also

(01:15:14):
it kind of matches one of the final shots in
the show where he's where he's kind of lying over her,
which you know, and that makes that shot more poignant though.
And also but they also repeat the shot kind of
throughout the episode as you kind of see these people
get older because it takes place.

Speaker 1 (01:15:33):
Over years, and so you're seeing them getting older.

Speaker 2 (01:15:36):
They start having to wear socks because either they're older
or they can't afford, you know, to heat the house
the same different things, and it doesn't ever it doesn't
ever fill in exactly why, but it just you know,
it trusts that you can you know, you'll pick up
on that.

Speaker 1 (01:15:53):
It's a level of detail I did not notice. Now.
I kind of want to go back and rewatch. It
was a film guy like I.

Speaker 2 (01:16:00):
I was just blown away by Yeah, the filmmaking that
episode it was.

Speaker 1 (01:16:07):
It was really well done.

Speaker 2 (01:16:09):
And I and I'll tell you this, every time I
see Crystal Dabd, every time he comes up on screen,
and any character since It Crowd, all I can think
of for about twenty minutes.

Speaker 1 (01:16:18):
Is they died in aough fire at the Sea Parks
And I didn't do that this time. You tried turning
it on and off again? Which is the episode?

Speaker 2 (01:16:32):
Well, no, yes, I guess, but no, that's that's my
favorite line in the whole series.

Speaker 1 (01:16:38):
I want to go rewatch the whole series. The IT
Crowd is one of the greatest things it's ever been made.

Speaker 3 (01:16:42):
It's very funny.

Speaker 1 (01:16:44):
Well, Aaron, you've watched The IT Crowd and you pretend
like you're not a qualified at professional. You know everything
there is to know about it. You know everything there is.

Speaker 3 (01:16:53):
I'm the vampire guy in the like in the little
other room. I'm that person.

Speaker 1 (01:16:59):
I would love to see you like that golf the Boss.
So are you going to be GoF the bobs?

Speaker 3 (01:17:07):
Get the like bangs like his Yep.

Speaker 2 (01:17:11):
I think that show has the single greatest introduction of
a character in the history of television when Matt Berry
shows up at the funeral. Just there's nothing.

Speaker 1 (01:17:25):
Matt Berry is a gift people, Yes he is. Yeah,
it's funny. All right. Well, we've been going almost an
hour and a half, so I kind of feel like
we don't have time for actual suggested articles.

Speaker 2 (01:17:39):
But also bums me out because I had some weird
suggested articles I want to talk about.

Speaker 1 (01:17:44):
But that's okay, Well, we'll do it next time. I'll
save them screenshots screenshots articles.

Speaker 3 (01:17:50):
Okay, do you guys want to hear?

Speaker 2 (01:17:53):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:17:55):
Do you want to hear some of your gems from
the episode?

Speaker 1 (01:17:59):
Real quick? Okay? What oh? What happened? What's happening right now?

Speaker 3 (01:18:03):
So we were talking about the digital the wall calendar. Yeah,
and you said so like a whiteboard, and then Jeff
you said yes, Then you said last week's last week tonight.
That was a real phrase.

Speaker 1 (01:18:23):
I stand by then we were.

Speaker 3 (01:18:26):
You said the word mettaurus earlier.

Speaker 1 (01:18:29):
Yeah, you haven't seen the picture yet. Okay, sign on
to our patreo.

Speaker 3 (01:18:33):
Okay, all right, uh we're almost there. We're almost there.
Stick with me. Of course, what would your name be
if you were a middle aged woman and made the cut?
Starting a cult a great way to make friends. It's
meet people and make friends. But I'm I'm reading these

(01:18:53):
on my computer monitor, which is backlighting them. Oh and
then you're last. The last one is that's like the
time I started a cult for one and everybody wanted
to join.

Speaker 1 (01:19:08):
I like that. I like this recap. This is this is.

Speaker 2 (01:19:11):
A good way to kind of end on an upbeaten
note instead of just, you know, let the world be
hit by a meteor where we're laughing aious.

Speaker 1 (01:19:21):
This episode has been pretty upbeat, right, How bad could
it be when I'm tipsy and Aaron's high and you've
got cretum and you I don't know what that even means.

Speaker 2 (01:19:31):
By the way I said in the episode, I said
it was a it's a leaf.

Speaker 1 (01:19:34):
It's at leaf leaf. Yeah, fair enough. So I'm sure
we'll be back just a couple of short weeks from
now with more horrors of technology and other things. Already,
I already know of one involving serie that we didn't
have time for today, but I'm going to save it
because it's a good one, very damning to Apple. So

(01:19:57):
I think we should go because I'm tired. I forgot
how we how do we end the show?

Speaker 3 (01:20:03):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (01:20:04):
I don't know anymore.

Speaker 3 (01:20:05):
All Hail the algorithm, All hail?

Speaker 2 (01:20:10):
Is that really a good idea? Speaking of cults?

Speaker 1 (01:20:12):
Right? All hail? All ha algorithm.

Speaker 3 (01:20:17):
The algorithm.

Speaker 1 (01:20:18):
Fuck the unedited episode fuck well could possibly go wrong