Shrimp of the Land

First and foremost, as mentioned on the show, the fundraiser for listener and good friend Ryan's daughter:
https://gofund.me/a52a4a97

After that, just sit back and enjoy.  Even more crazy aspects are forming in the grand conspiracy theory, and a new business idea breaks Jef.


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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:02):
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Speaker 1 (00:41):
That's good. You just came up with that. Yeah, because
all of our last supper talk, man, that reminds me
I have not had breakfast. Oh my god, and I
drank I had coffee, so my stomachs like, you go.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
Get something real quick.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
Ready. No, no, no, no, no, let's do this. I'm psyched
to do this episode. Actually, so let's do it.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
Yeah, okay, I don't think we have time today to
talk about what's happening in the news, Like not that
kind of news, but yeah, like the thought of will
I ever retire has been on my mind and the
answer is probably not.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
Oh, you want to know what my retirement plan is?
Finding a bag of money on the ground. Oh, that's
that's that's my plan. That's that's my best shot. Right now.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
Well, we should but we should take a trip to
like New York, Like it'll be that will be our
seed money to fly out there and then just wait
for bodies to come dropping out of Wall Street and
then you fish around in their pockets.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
You take it. I like it. I like it. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
Those guys usually carry a few hundos on them to
show off.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
Yeah, yeah, just to give their valet, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
Yeah, but seriously, sympathy is for anyone listening right now
who has just recently retired and now has to go
become a greed at Walmart. But yeah, also also a
little shout out. I'm just gonna like, uh, I'm gonna
pour one out here over my keyboard for Aaron. She
was supposed to join us today. Yeah, you know, we

(02:06):
tried to get past all the poop talk on this show,
but she was felled today. Yeah yeah, yeah, so she can't.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
She can't make it. It's a it's a very how
do you put this delicately? Yeah, it's a slippery situation.
I don't know. Oh God, I'm mad at you.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
I We're supposed to.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
Be here, Yeah, I know, right, I can say whatever
I want because I know she probably won't listen, she's
too busy. But go on, or she just doesn't care.
I'm mad because she's not here.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
Oh, because she's not here.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
Okay, yeah, I'm mad at her because she's not here.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
Aaron I, Aaron, I've I've instacarted some some pepto bismol
to your house. Luckily I had your address anyway, so
I feel better soon.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
I did like the name of our of our meeting,
the pepto bismal power. That's the name of the name
of the episode.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
It might be. We should probably get started with follow
ups from last week. You told me you had something.

Speaker 1 (03:14):
Yeah, yeah, my brother is actually it was a listener, Okay,
sent me a message about it, and he said, Dude,
I can't believe for the boot texting a recording of
a combo, you didn't consider that the asshole suspicious husband
put spywear on her phone. We didn't. We didn't. Is
there not at all?

Speaker 2 (03:34):
No, we didn't talk about that.

Speaker 1 (03:36):
That is.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
Oh man, how.

Speaker 1 (03:38):
Does it just capture that one? That?

Speaker 2 (03:41):
That is a Okay, that is a difficult topic. And
I don't know the current state of phone spyware necessarily
like stuff that you can manually install. Sure, but let's
talk about it. Okay, Okay, this was something I looked
into in the past as a parent, So I just

(04:02):
wanted to see what the options were out there, because
you have two different avenues as a parent, right You
could like tell your kids every night when you go
to bed, I'm going to look at your text messages
or whatever I got to make sure you're safe. Or
you can be a sneaky asshole, or maybe some of each.
But I've explored the road of being the road of
being a sneaky asshole. It doesn't really work that well.

Speaker 1 (04:26):
And how long ago was this?

Speaker 2 (04:29):
I mean probably ten years ago. Okay, I don't know
seven to ten years ago, but still I think some
things still apply. It would be far far easier to
put spywear on someone's phone if it was Android, first
of all, because it's easier to like, there's just a

(04:49):
setting on Android where you can say allow the installation
of apps like the third party applications that aren't from
the Circle play store.

Speaker 1 (04:59):
Yeah, and we know it was an Android device, we
know it wasn't we know it was?

Speaker 2 (05:06):
We know it was an Android. How do we know
this was that?

Speaker 1 (05:09):
Also in the mail bag that might have been I
had some communication as well at don Juan Philoso raptor
at gmail dot com an email someone actually emailed you.

Speaker 2 (05:19):
Okay, yeah, I like that. Yeah, so we know it
was Android. Well, if there's other follow up, let's hear that. Well, no,
I guess that this is really it. This is all
I get. So I will say on on iPhone it
would be almost impossible without fully jail breaking the device. Now,
there are lots of spyware apps you could install that

(05:39):
will like not be very secret, like there will be
an icon on the screen and it'll tell you that
it's running in the background and it'll you know, But
if you wanted to do stea he spyware where you're
the spouse that you're suspicious of was not aware, you
definitely have to jail break the iPhone for sure. Android
again probably easier. But even on Android like that shit's

(06:02):
pretty unreliable. I think the companies are probably kind of
shady too.

Speaker 1 (06:06):
Maybe I don't know, like you'll uh oh absolutely.

Speaker 2 (06:10):
We know this and the results you get will be mixed.
But there's a very poor chance that if you install
a commercial application that you find on the internet that
says this will allow you to get logs of the
text messages and stuff, from your from your spouse's phone.
It's very unlikely that that will go completely unnoticed. It's

(06:30):
possible to install those apps, but for it to go
completely unnoticed is very unlikely.

Speaker 1 (06:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (06:36):
Yeah, Now technology evolves, people might have found a better way,
especially on Android. But when I look at.

Speaker 1 (06:44):
Somebody, somebody had the Yeah, what if somebody had the
resources to get like a private detective or something like that,
somebody who or just you know, some back alley guy
that you know you can hook him up, but you know,
just I just need you to get your wife's phone
for ten minutes. She's in the shower and I can,
you know, make sure you hear everything you want or something.

(07:05):
I don't know, I'm trying to imagine scenarios where.

Speaker 2 (07:08):
But wait a second, didn't didn't part of uh? What
was that Monty? Didn't Monty's original story say that she
noticed that she had sent a recording of the conversation.

Speaker 1 (07:17):
Yes, yeah, Bob had sent it, not not that she
noticed that it had gotten right but not like that
she was.

Speaker 2 (07:27):
Now was there? I didn't get any follow up with
an actual boob picture.

Speaker 1 (07:32):
There, no boobs? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (07:34):
Sorry, So what was the rest of it that you
that you know.

Speaker 1 (07:37):
That's it. That's it, that's all all I have.

Speaker 2 (07:39):
Yeah, okay, so Manti reached out and said this was
an android phone. Yes, okay, yeah.

Speaker 1 (07:44):
And then my brother tooxted and that was But I mean,
you have to admit we did kind of drop the
ball by not bringing that up as a possibility.

Speaker 2 (07:52):
Yeah, you know, I didn't even think of it, probably
because again for you know, I looked into that a
long time ago to keep an eye on my kids,
and I found it to be not not useful. Now,
if you want it to be secret, If you don't
want it to be secret, fine, there's.

Speaker 1 (08:09):
Your kids up in the basement like everybody else does.

Speaker 2 (08:11):
Man, it is tempting. We don't have basements here. Oh otherwise,
otherwise I would have done that a long time ago. Okay, fatally, Well,
I should clarify. I did hear from Ben. I guess
we're doing we're doing mail bag right now. So uh
in the mail bag. I did hear back from Ben again.

(08:33):
First of all, he'll be contacting us uh in the
near ish future to maybe come on his show in
the summer. I don't know if that's together or one
at a time. He might want to keep us separated
because we're we're a lot of assholes. Yeah when we're
together to say, yeah, we are a lot. He did
send some of his some of his top booby picks,

(08:53):
so I will be posting those to the Patreon. He
gave me permission, So for those of you the waiting
to see some boobies on Patreon, Ben from Chasing the Whimsie,
He's got you covered. And he also said.

Speaker 1 (09:07):
That a family podcast.

Speaker 2 (09:12):
He also said that there are color versions of the
comics coming, so he so we may get to see
the one f Jeff Gnome in full color sometime in
the near ish future.

Speaker 1 (09:25):
Yeah, and and there also might be some multimedia stuff
going on with the Gnomes two that I might be
helping with. So oh, if I can ever get back
on the horse, we'll see. I'm intrigued, all right, Yeah, yeah,
there's there's things in the works. Stuff afoot. I don't
know what I'm talking about. I sound crazy today, right,

(09:46):
so normal?

Speaker 2 (09:47):
Yeah, pretty pretty much pretty much usual? All right. Uh, okay,
here's another very important thing from the mail bag. I
got to give a shout out to. We've we've mentioned
a friend of the show, a coworker and friend of
mine and a friend of yours too, I think, though
not as absolutely. I don't think you guys have met
in person, right, No, we've never met. But okay, so

(10:08):
this is this is a shout out to Ryan friend
of the show. Ryan. I'm going to put a link
in the description for the show. Hopefully you guys can
click on it and take a look. There's a story
to be told. But this is about Ryan's daughter.

Speaker 1 (10:23):
Ryan.

Speaker 2 (10:23):
Ryan has a daughter named Nia, and Nia has been
afflicted with something called neurofibromatosis type two. And I'll just
read a little bit here from the GoFundMe. This is
a rare genetic disorder that causes tumors to grow on
nerves in the body. And this has led to many
many surgeries from a from a pretty young age and

(10:45):
it and I'll be honest, like I've known Ryan for
a long time. It was not a great prognosis in
terms of, you know, long term, but a lot of
the surgeries have worked, and like you know, it's good news,
like Nia more or less thriving, but not without some issues.
You know, when you have tumors growing on your nerves,

(11:06):
that can cause a lot of problems. Cite, hearing, touch,
like all of your senses. So anyway, Nia has to
undergo some some lengthy new treatments to try to keep
some tumors that are on Nia's auditory nerves from growing.
I think there's actually two tumors. It's it's it's pretty terrible,

(11:28):
but it's going to be effectively like a chemotherapy kind
of situation or something similar, like a chemo drug. But
it's like you have to sit in a chair and
just stay there for like eight hours while they slowly
drip this medicine into your body. Not a lot of
fun anyway. So you know, Ryan has a good job.
He's got you know, he's got healthcare that covers most

(11:49):
of this, but there's a lot he puts on credit cards,
so life can still be a struggle because America. Yeah. Yeah,
So he's doing a small go fund me, like as
gofundmes go. This one's pretty small and it's not even
for the medical bills. He would just like to make
MEA's life a little less terrible by giving her something

(12:09):
to do when she's sitting in that chair all day.
And that's just a steam deck.

Speaker 1 (12:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (12:15):
Now, if you don't know what a steam Deck is
it's just a very portable little computer. It's like a
Nintendo Switch, but it plays PC games from the Steam platform.
If you know what that is great. If you don't,
just trust me. It's basically for playing video games, so
that way Nia can be entertained at least while while
sitting in that chair having poisoned dripped into her body.

Speaker 1 (12:40):
So that's it.

Speaker 2 (12:41):
It's just a it's a one thousand dollars fundraiser, though
if they get succeeded, I mean I'll help, because like
there's credit card bills to pay off. But all Ryan
is really looking for is just a little bit of
money to buy this piece of hardware and maybe a
couple games or something to go along with it. So
that's it. I'm going to put a link in in
the show notes. Maybe I'll post the link to Patreon too,

(13:03):
but think about it. Just read the story. It's quite
a thing. Neurofibromatosis is. There's a couple different types of it.
Sometimes you'll get like little tumors or bumps on the
outside of your body, but these are growing internally. Like
for the most part, you wouldn't know anything was wrong
unless you see the MRIs or whatever. It's pretty pretty crazy.

(13:25):
So yeap shout out to Ryan. We hope everything goes
well with NIA, and I am sure this fundraiser will
work out no problem. But to any listeners that donate,
think you think, thank you? You're the best. All right,
So the the moving on from that, we've got someone.
This appears to be a letter that was inspired at

(13:47):
least in part by Monty's email from last week. Because
this is another very strange, real life situation that could
be algorithm fueled. Who is brace yourself? This is from
someone named Rake? Okay, all right, so another another new
contestant has entered the arena. All right, this one's a

(14:08):
little long, but it's I'm going to read it. Stop
stop me anytime if you want to ask a question
or comment on something. Of course, when have I ever
done that? This is this is about the power of
Twitter and the algorithm. Yeah, okay, Rachel says hi, first
time listener, A longtime caller. Wait no, I had that backwards? Boy,

(14:29):
what a morning? Okay, Rachel says Hi, long time listener,
first time caller. I have a story that I've long
found annoying, but now I'm all conspiratorial about it because
of you guys.

Speaker 1 (14:39):
Aw. Thanks.

Speaker 2 (14:41):
Yeah, we try, we try. Yeah, this is the whole
point of the show.

Speaker 1 (14:45):
Absolutely.

Speaker 2 (14:46):
I used to be on Twitter and would occasionally develop
a rapport with a mutual sometimes without first vetting their profile.
There was one man in particular who started chatting with me,
definitely a reply guy, but a seemingly nice and moderately
amusing one. One day he DMed me direct message for
anyone everyone should know that, right, Okay, again and again

(15:06):
without first vetting him. I replied, and we started to
talk rather frequently. Before long it evolved into something tawdry.
But I was dating and met someone in real life
who I actually really liked, so I cut things off
with Twitter dude and what I thought was a very
kind and respectful way. I guess he thought we were
going to get married or something, because he lost his
proverbial shit and called me all sorts of terrible things publicly,

(15:30):
well publicly on Twitter on Twitter. Yeah yeah, for his
two hundred followers. But still, I DMed him and said
that I was very sorry I hurt him, but I
hoped he understood that I wanted and needed someone who
lived close. He apologized to leaded the tweet and we
didn't talk again. Okay, so far, so good, until a

(15:51):
few months later, when the real life dude and I
broke up and I started verbally saying verbally saying that
I was bored. I didn't tweet it, but I did
say the words, and suddenly Twitter dude popped up in
my DMS again, being the being the foolish and dramatic
person I am, I decided why the hell not and
let him start talking to me again. This time he

(16:11):
was way less awful, I would hope, she says, although
I had finally vetted him and realized his Twitter was
full of pro Trump nonsense everything.

Speaker 1 (16:21):
There's been some red flags.

Speaker 2 (16:23):
All right now if he starts them shouting abusive things
about you in public Twitter.

Speaker 1 (16:27):
Yeah, he was even.

Speaker 2 (16:29):
Nice when I started sore of seeing someone who was
very important to me. When that ended though, When that ended, though,
once again, Twitter Dude again seemed to think that we
were going to be together. So again I had to
tell him no, and he lost his shit and the
cycle continued. And it's an actual cycle. Every time I
get bored because I haven't got someone to date, a

(16:49):
fault of my own admittedly, and I say the words
I'm bored, he shows back up. It's bizarre. I thought
he just had a sixth sense for knowing it, which
was creepy enough. But then I started listening to this
Podcass and now I'm simultaneously relieved and also further creeped
out because maybe my phone is listening and knows that
this dude is, at the very least a great source
of drama for me. I've since deleted my Twitter account,

(17:12):
but he does have my phone numbers, so now I
get asshole texts when he's mad because I won't date him.
Is that a text of his asshole?

Speaker 1 (17:19):
I don't know that's that's asshole text.

Speaker 2 (17:21):
Please clarify Rachel. Thankfully, he doesn't even know the city
I live in, but he did come up as a
suggested friend on Facebook recently, and I quickly blocked that.
I haven't blocked his phone number because I want to
know if he's threatening me, but I am a little
scared at this point that the algorithm might lead him
right to me. Fuck and that's the end of the email.

Speaker 1 (17:40):
Fuck O.

Speaker 2 (17:42):
Well, a couple things immediately come to mine. Okay, you
blocked him on Facebook? That was good. But hopefully he
didn't see you first, because then there's a good chance
he knows where you live.

Speaker 1 (17:53):
Yeah, depending on your privacy.

Speaker 2 (17:55):
Setting, Depending on your privacy settings, everyone should be checking
their Facebook privacy set. Thanks know your privacy settings? Yes,
definitely go through that. Well, what are your initial thoughts?

Speaker 1 (18:07):
That's yeah, I'm terrified.

Speaker 2 (18:11):
I mean, she's saying that she'll express in real life
that she's bored, and all of a sudden, within like
a day or something, he starts texting. That's so creepy.

Speaker 1 (18:22):
That's that's like simulation type stuff, right, Yeah, it kind
of is.

Speaker 2 (18:26):
Yeah, I was going down a different avenue, but we
could just chalk it up to being in a simulation.
I think that's you.

Speaker 1 (18:32):
You know, Rachel. You know I'm always going to take
it to the simulation first.

Speaker 2 (18:35):
But that that's your biggest hope and dream is that
none of this is real.

Speaker 1 (18:41):
I sure hope it's not.

Speaker 2 (18:44):
God, it would be nice. Okay, how about this? We
know the algorithm connects people in the background. Yes, yes,
there's no question about that. In fact, I think I
have some stuff in my photo gallery screenshots I've taken recently.
I think there might even be one or two today
that that were like, well, this isn't for me, this

(19:04):
is for someone near me, or that I've talked to
you recently. That it's suggesting stuff. Right, so we know
the algorithm connects us in the background, it knows who
we know. M hmm. If the algorithm thinks that Rachel
needs some kind of entertainment or distraction, it could Oh god,

(19:25):
this is this is this is okay, I think simulation
is a better one.

Speaker 1 (19:27):
But let's know this. This this goes back to my
whole thing with the ai that's coming after us. Yeah,
the ai US.

Speaker 2 (19:38):
What if like Twitter dudes suggested articles start showing him
things that remind him of Rachel? Yeah yeah, I'm like,
I'm in my hands bringing over here so hard because
he knows how crazy this sounds.

Speaker 1 (19:53):
But but I mean, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (19:59):
I mean, it could just be showing him things that
remind him of Rachel every few months anyway, but the
timing does seem strange. Timing is weird without hearing, is
there any way he puts bywhere on your phone?

Speaker 1 (20:12):
Yea, what downloaded? Did you download one of the asshole picks?
We did? We didn't, we did, We didn't establish that
that wasn't the thing. I know it wasn't. Damn. Yeah,
it's pretty wild. Yeah, Rachel, that's that's that's peaky because.

Speaker 2 (20:32):
I guess you would notice, right like, you're at this
particular point in your life where you're like, I don't
even know what I'm doing, and then all of a sudden,
this guy starts texting you when you haven't heard from
him for months, and.

Speaker 1 (20:43):
Maybe he's just a bot, and maybe he's an AI.

Speaker 2 (20:48):
Yeah, he could be an AI that's programmed to be like.

Speaker 1 (20:52):
The algorithm, you know that, like you saw the movie Her,
whereas the operating system the guy falls in love with.
Maybe this is like that. But if the algorithm has
has a personality now or I mean the algorithm, Yeah,
for sure, it's like that episode the algorithm is a dick.

Speaker 2 (21:14):
Well the well wasn't Elon Musk trying to like change
Grock so that he would specifically have conservative values, which
like has sort of been that with mixed results based
on what people post. But like, it's all about how
you train the algorithm, right, I don't know why you've
got to bring him up at all. Yeah, absolutely, there is.

Speaker 1 (21:31):
It's nature. Nature and nurture on your algorithm?

Speaker 2 (21:35):
So right, So like there could be an AI that's
programmed to be like a standard woman hating abusive republics.

Speaker 1 (21:43):
Yeah, this guy, if this guy, if this not this guy,
if this AI or algorithm was scraping Twitter for how
to respond to women, Oh yeah, totally totally, he's like
nailing it, nailing it, asshole. Right.

Speaker 2 (22:00):
That goes back way further than chat GBT, Right, Like,
wasn't it for Pepsi that tried to make like like
a friendly chat bot and within like an hour, Twitter
convinced it to like say the Edward Oh god, Okay, okay, Well.

Speaker 1 (22:16):
Here's what we need to do. Okay, I think we
need to We need to step away and when we
come next episode, we will follow up. And if Rachel,
if we think of anything for Rachel, we can we
can ask her or if she has any more to add.

Speaker 2 (22:31):
Okay, And if any of you have ideas, how can
they talk? How can they tell us their ideas?

Speaker 1 (22:36):
Suggested articles podcast no suggested articles podcast at gmail dot com,
YEP an email.

Speaker 2 (22:44):
Or if they want to reach out to you directly,
like apparently Monty did.

Speaker 1 (22:48):
Oh I'm a don Juan velociraptor at gmail dot com.

Speaker 2 (22:52):
Right, yes, we got to have Lola Foules back on.
It's been it's been so much has been happening. We
got to get some more guests. Yeah, yes, I'll try
to reach out to her soon.

Speaker 1 (23:05):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (23:06):
Yeah, So, so my wish for you, Rachel is that
it's not a real person. Yeah, here's hoping it is
your wish for her that this is all simulation so
it doesn't matter or something.

Speaker 1 (23:19):
No, No, I want things to matter for Rachel, but
kind to be good. So let's yeah, but Jeff, I
think we need to take a break.

Speaker 2 (23:30):
Yeah, I think so. That was a lot that email.
That kind of shook me. Yeah, disturbing, But there could
be an algorithmic connection. I think it's possible. All right,
so something's going on there. Let's ponder that while we
have a few commercials. Good idea on your part.

Speaker 1 (23:45):
Jeff, I just had a I just had a thought. Okay, what.

Speaker 2 (23:51):
As a cliffhanger? Okay, cliff is it about Rachel? No?

Speaker 1 (23:55):
Not, I mean specifically, it does involve Rachel, but it's
not specifically about.

Speaker 2 (24:00):
All Right, Well, should we do a cliffhanger it and say,
after the commercial. Okay, the break if you want to
hear his thought, you've listened to those commercials, damn it.
We'll be right back.

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Speaker 1 (24:48):
Okay, and we're back all right here, so so so
so we have we have a we have a cult
following at this point, right, and everybody's the best kind
of close. Yes, well, it is the Church of the
Church of the Algorithm, except we're not getting any money
at all.

Speaker 2 (25:09):
This is terrible.

Speaker 1 (25:10):
It's a really badly run, poorly run cult, but but
a lot of podcasts. They have like a term for
their listeners.

Speaker 2 (25:17):
Right, Okay, you know, I'm bracing.

Speaker 1 (25:20):
I think we should call I think we should call
our listeners the brain trust. So we throw it to
the brain trust. Okay, well yeah, ok yeah, I like that. Yeah,
I like that because there are a lot of them
are smarter than we are.

Speaker 2 (25:35):
Well, like especially Ryan, Like he's a guy that I
go to with all my tech stuff. We've talked about
trying to get him on the show. But yeah, we're
going to get him on the window.

Speaker 1 (25:43):
Yeah. Well maybe, yeah, we'll get We'll get him in
here someday. Yeah yeah. Okay, what do we got now?
What's going on?

Speaker 5 (25:49):
Now?

Speaker 1 (25:50):
We are we done with the mail bag?

Speaker 2 (25:51):
Oh? There's so I think we're done with mail bag?
But okay, boy, do I have weird algarithmic shit to
bounce off you weird?

Speaker 1 (25:58):
Okay, let's go.

Speaker 2 (25:59):
Well, the first one actually relates to Ryan. Oh so
the reason you know Ryan is because we get on
xbox Chat often at night. There's play video games and
you tend to just kind of do your own thing.
But it's always nice to see you and talk to you.
It hasn't always been the case. That's lately, that's your master,

(26:19):
but we get to try.

Speaker 1 (26:21):
I don't play Power World, Jeff, geez.

Speaker 2 (26:23):
We've been playing Power World, the game that's kind of
like Pokemon, but with intense versions of slavery and killing
and guns. Anyway, Ryan will often joke, you know, someone'll
ask him like, hey, do you have this near where
you live? Or you know this and that, and he'll
joke that he lives in Tucson. That's his joke because

(26:47):
he thinks that there's nothing in Tucson, I guess, And
he thinks he lives remote enough where there's nothing around him. Now,
he actually lives in California.

Speaker 1 (26:54):
But why don't we just dock some his street addresses? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (27:00):
Anyway, But the other day I just found it really
weird Google opinion rewards. You can earn like a couple
bucks here and there, more than we make doing this
podcast just by answering Google surveys once in a while.
And the other day it popped up the weirdest question
I've had yet, and the question was simply, are you
from Arizona? That is weird, and that's all I wanted

(27:23):
to know. I don't know what would have happened if
I had said yes, but I don't want.

Speaker 1 (27:27):
To nail down it's trying to nail down Ryan's actual location.
Ryan run, it's the calls coming from inside the house.

Speaker 2 (27:35):
I just found that so fucking weird because I never
joke about being in Tucson, and like he only does
it over xbox Chat like so so like my phone
wouldn't even really have an opportunity to hear him say that, right,
But it's this is this is sort of like the
Rachel thing, Like the phone makes connections about us in
the background, right, So, uh, that creeped me out a lot.

Speaker 1 (27:58):
Yeah. Well I had a thing with Ryan this week too,
because his Facebook suggested we should be friends even though
we really don't have any connections on Facebook.

Speaker 2 (28:08):
Or do we. Well, I'm connected to Ryan on Facebook,
so there is a mutual connection only a matter of time.
I guess, Okay, it found you. It's been I mean,
I've been friends with Ryan on Facebook.

Speaker 1 (28:19):
I think they're really the most upsetting part of that,
Ryan is you didn't you didn't friend me on Facebook?

Speaker 2 (28:23):
Come on the book?

Speaker 1 (28:25):
Yeah, let's see.

Speaker 2 (28:30):
Well, you know, another one of those things that tie
us together. Jennifer started researching pet insurance recently because Sophie,
formerly known as the Dog of Thrones, she had an
emergency and almost died. And she's too old to get
pet insurance. She's sixteen. No one's going to insure her.
But we have the younger dog, Shorty, and she started

(28:53):
looking around for pet insurance options, and I started getting
ads for pet insurance on Facebook. So that's cool, let's see. Okay,
all right, this is probably my funniest, though kind of upsetting. Okay, upset.

(29:13):
This isn't even a connection to me, but it's just
something stupid that happened in technology the other day. And
this was on Twitter kt LA News, which I do
not follow on Twitter, but it's one of our local,
you know, broadcast stations. I think it's our NBC affiliate.
I want to say, so, okay, makes sense that would

(29:35):
pop up. KTLA tweeted out KTLA experienced a technical error
while adding language filters to our social media accounts, resulting
in an offensive word being accidentally shared. We were appalled,
blah blah blah. So they issued this long apology, but
someone grabbed a screenshot of it and retweeted KTLA's tweet

(29:58):
with the screenshot and it's just this respected I guess
broadcast slash news plays and it's just it's just the
N word. They just tweet they just tweeted the word wow.

Speaker 1 (30:09):
Oh jeez. Damn.

Speaker 2 (30:13):
That's that's that's that's an error while trying to while
trying to implement language filters.

Speaker 1 (30:20):
Damn. Yeah, yeah. Is that weird? Is it upsetting? It's
upsetting that so many of this, so much of this
stuff evolves racism. Well, I mean on Elon Musk's Twitter. Yeah,
that's fair.

Speaker 2 (30:36):
Yeah, you know, it's that's gonna that's going to be
the result. How about you any weird connections in your
life recently?

Speaker 1 (30:43):
Actually it's been kind of a chill a week for me.
So so no, no, no connections, No they have, I
don't know. Yeah, well that was a quick secon. Should
we take our commercial now? We should?

Speaker 2 (30:55):
I know, but we could just move on to uh
headlines then the horror of technology?

Speaker 1 (31:00):
The horrors of technology? Uh uh uh?

Speaker 2 (31:03):
You do you want to start?

Speaker 1 (31:07):
Yeah? You use Audacity, right, I do.

Speaker 2 (31:10):
That's the that's the that's the application I used to
edit this very podcast just to freewear sound editing tools.
Should I stop using it? No?

Speaker 1 (31:17):
I'm just curious if you if it's tried to push
a studio on you. The it's not gonna do with
the AI.

Speaker 2 (31:26):
Oh no that I've noticed generator or something that sounds horrifying. Okay,
go on, Okay, I was.

Speaker 1 (31:34):
I was trying to cut some dumpster fire stuff this morning,
and I kept missing the the little box to never
show this again, so it kept coming up and coming up.
Oh and I had to update the software, so it
came up again. I was like, son of a bitch.

Speaker 2 (31:52):
So so audacity, the freeware sound editing tool now has
a freeware. I don't know if the freeware actually because
I didn't click on it. I'm not going to click
on that shit. If it advertises it to me, I'll
look into it and try to figure out what it is.

Speaker 1 (32:07):
Yeah, I might. I might play around with it, but
just to see. But I don't. I don't think it's
free a lot of AI. Well anyway, it doesn't matter. Okay,
fuck that. I'm having a brain meltdown right now.

Speaker 2 (32:19):
Well, when your audio editing tools start wanting to use AI,
I get it. Yeah, yeah, here's a headline. Microsoft has
rolled out a free to play AI generated version of
the nineties first person shooter Classic Quake two. Did you
hear about this?

Speaker 1 (32:40):
No?

Speaker 2 (32:40):
Rather than using preset locations and enemies that are the
same every time you play, the new game's content is
generated on the fly by a Microsoft AI model. It's
a in browser game. I haven't tried it yet. I
guess maybe I should. I should try it and try
to report back. All right, but it sounds like, I
don't know, man Like, if you're taking an already existing

(33:03):
game and you're adding some AI to it to make
like new level types and stuff, that doesn't sound bad
to me, but I that's.

Speaker 1 (33:11):
But you're cutting out game to programmers.

Speaker 2 (33:15):
Well, that's where this is going.

Speaker 1 (33:17):
Right, There's there's a there's a line that's being crossed
right where. I don't know. I don't like it.

Speaker 2 (33:24):
The problem is that it always starts small and starts smallest,
like I remember when AI image.

Speaker 1 (33:29):
Like, suddenly Rachel's getting angry texts from a guy who's
hopefully very far away.

Speaker 2 (33:37):
Okay, God, I hope So Rachel did not say if
she knew where he lived, and he might not be
a real person. Yeah, but if he is, she should
stay a few states away.

Speaker 1 (33:46):
Yes, yes, at least you need that buffer buffer move
if you have to, Rachel. Yes, yeah, that's like.

Speaker 2 (33:54):
Do you remember when AI image generation tools like couldn't
do faces much less hands and everything. Faces would come
out in these weird swirls and stuff. Yeah, those were
the good old days. Aims generation seemed completely harmless and silly,
and it was fine.

Speaker 1 (34:08):
Now now it's terrifying.

Speaker 2 (34:10):
Now it's destroying lives.

Speaker 1 (34:11):
Yes, as all great technology eventually does. This is why
we don't have Beta max folks. Okay, all right, yeah,
these are these are the jokes. Sorry, that's for any
of our listeners that are as old as us.

Speaker 2 (34:30):
Okay, Beta max was ruined by the porn industry. I know,
I know, but I just I'm scared to look. There's
there's got to be a I generated porn by now, right.

Speaker 1 (34:43):
Oh god, that's terrifying.

Speaker 2 (34:45):
That.

Speaker 1 (34:46):
Well, every time there's a new technology, the first thing
you can guarantee that somebody is going to try to
apply it in the porn exactly realm So oh no,
I don't know, don't do it, don't do it. Okay,
you know what, Let me take your mind off things, kay,
close your eyes, yes, just want you to hear the
soothing sound in my voice.

Speaker 2 (35:05):
Give me a headline that's not about that.

Speaker 1 (35:07):
Okay, all right, I'm going to take you back to
twenty twelve in the release of Call of Duty Black
Ops two.

Speaker 2 (35:13):
Oh I saw this? Okay, yes, yeah, please tell me
about this. This is this is exciting kind of he's.

Speaker 1 (35:19):
Still got his eyes closed. He's really getting into this.

Speaker 2 (35:21):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (35:23):
Call of Duty Black Ops two has predicted what's this week?

Speaker 2 (35:27):
Apparently that's predicted this week.

Speaker 1 (35:30):
Yes, it's about a cold war with China because they
stop exporting rare earth elements to the United States. And
that actually happened this week, and they said it. The
game was set, not in the year twenty twelve or
some random year. It was set in twenty twenty five. Oddly, yes, done,

(35:52):
done done.

Speaker 2 (35:54):
Yeah, So for the record, then the game setting was
that a cold war started between China and the United States. Yes,
But then this is not a game, this black op.
Call of Duty Black Ops two is not a political
game where you're trying to broker a deal, right, it's
a game. Are you going into China and shooting Chinese? Na?

Speaker 1 (36:17):
Yeah, I don't know, I mean I assume is that
what's coming next? I mean, come on, Call of Duty
is all about shooting people.

Speaker 2 (36:24):
Right, right, that's my point. So, like this game sets
up in twenty twenty five, fucking twenty twenty five, this
Cold War starts and there's a trade embargo, and then
we start killing people, yeah, to get the rare earth minerals.

Speaker 1 (36:39):
Yeah, so but instead they're just gonna, you know, strip
mine our national park.

Speaker 2 (36:45):
So it'll be fine.

Speaker 1 (36:47):
Yeah I heard something about it.

Speaker 2 (36:49):
He opened dipshit opened up fucking like millions and millions
of acres for.

Speaker 1 (36:53):
For for uh so we can get cheap boys blogging, right.

Speaker 2 (36:56):
Yeah, blogging. Well I already that people are already saying that,
like that's not going to work, Like it's not the
right kind of lumber. Yeah, we get our lumber from
Canada because Canada's climate produces stronger wood that can build
better house. And then as I'm saying that out loud,
it doesn't fucking matter. They'll build houses out of our
cheap American soft wood and then the houses.

Speaker 1 (37:17):
Will fall apart. Yeah with you'll see the people. It
will be the people who live there's.

Speaker 2 (37:22):
Fault, of course.

Speaker 1 (37:24):
Yeah. All right, well that was fun. Yeah that was
a real This is a real Happy Go Lucky episode.

Speaker 2 (37:31):
Guys, the important thing is nothing's real because it's all simulation.

Speaker 1 (37:38):
Okay, everything is bullshit, nothing means anything. That's my That's
my main motto. Anytime, anytime life gets me down, I say,
everything is bullshit, nothing means anything. To move on.

Speaker 2 (37:50):
I've got a headline that will make you laugh. Okay,
this is a good one, and it calls back to
one of our long ago episodes. But I'm not going
to tell you which one. Maybe I should skip the
headline and just read you a few paragraphs here, Okay.
Albert Sanneger, the founder and former CEO of Nate Nate

(38:11):
Nate Just Nate, an AI shopping app that promised a
universal checkout experience, was charge. Did you Did you hear
this one?

Speaker 1 (38:19):
No? I'm laughing because I think I know where this
is going.

Speaker 2 (38:22):
Was charged with defrauding investors on Wednesday, according to a
press release from the US Department of Justice. Shocking, so
let me just skip down here. Nate said its apps
users could buy from any East e commerce site with
a single click thanks to AI. In reality, however, Nate
relied heavily on hundreds of human contractors in a call

(38:43):
center into the Philippines to manually complete those purchases. Man,
So it's a thousand Filipinos in a trench call.

Speaker 1 (38:50):
Yeah, it's a thousand Filipinos in a trench cut. It is. Wow,
that is a hell of a callback. Yeah, Wow, that's
preteen nuts.

Speaker 2 (39:02):
I mean, come on, Amazon was already caught doing this
in their grocery stores. And you think you some guy
that runs an app called Nate, you think you can
pull the wool over our eyes?

Speaker 1 (39:10):
Come on, yeah, Trey Harder, buddy.

Speaker 2 (39:13):
What was his name? Albert Sabert?

Speaker 1 (39:16):
Yeah, fuck you, Albert. Yeah, I mean, thank you for
employing some people overseas, but you know, not like you
were paying that. I wonder if they even had air
conditioning in there while they were probably not.

Speaker 2 (39:28):
That costs money. They've got all those devices to power. Yeah,
have you seen like I saw, like there was a
dude that was like riding a bicycle around playing Pokemon Go.
But he had like forty phones like attached to these
brackets that were coming out of the like the basket
of his of his bicycle. Wow. So it was just

(39:49):
like a fan of devices in front of him and
so he could play, he could like do multiplayer content
by himself just to get the best Pokemon.

Speaker 1 (40:00):
Wow. That's somebody who's way more motivated than I am.

Speaker 2 (40:04):
To do anything. Yeah, and he's seizing his powers for Pokemon, right, yes.

Speaker 1 (40:09):
Said, Okay, did you hear they made a digital twin
mouse brain?

Speaker 2 (40:16):
Explain?

Speaker 1 (40:17):
I don't know if I can.

Speaker 2 (40:21):
Yeah, I'm sure whatever you explain will be at least
as accurate as me trying to explain the genetically modified
pigs last episode.

Speaker 1 (40:29):
Yes, okay, okay, give me a second to get the
article up.

Speaker 2 (40:33):
I didn't have it break, It's fine, I'll cut this
part out.

Speaker 1 (40:37):
Thanks, will you if you're hearing this? Jeff didn't, and
he's a dick. Okay, that's why he keeps shitting because
I say stuff like that. There's gonna be a super
cut someday. Okay. So they developed an artificial intelligence model
to create a digital twin of the mouse visual cortex,

(40:59):
the brain reaching responsible for processing visual information.

Speaker 2 (41:02):
Okay, okay, now.

Speaker 1 (41:04):
They basically this has all sorts of applications, but apparently
the most exciting are would be in an incredibly realistic
virtual reality. But I don't know if you know baar
bait of on TikTok. I. Yes, she's one of my
favorite I know that account of people. I follow her

(41:27):
and I never see her anymore. Yeah, that's the Yeah,
it doesn't want you to know the truth, that's right.

Speaker 2 (41:35):
So she explained it, Yes, she explained it. She's smarter
than us.

Speaker 1 (41:39):
She's talking about the applications of it, and we've run along.
So if you really want to know the ins and
outs of how they did it, I think you're going
to have to track down the article. We'll put up
a link. But she says that the applications are in
a lot of in robotics. They're so frightening, frightening. She's
she sees the bright side of things on this. But

(42:00):
but she's talking about how you could hijack the brain
of a jellyfish or an insect and then what just
have it do what you want. I guess what what
would you do if you hijacked a jellyfish? Take over
the world. That's what you do, Jeff, you would take
over the world.

Speaker 2 (42:14):
You said the applications were for virtual realities, Like so
you you hijack the brain of a jellyfish and then
you put on goggles and then you.

Speaker 1 (42:21):
Can no, no, they're mostly in virtual reality or the
most the most practical applications.

Speaker 2 (42:29):
Couldn't this be like like.

Speaker 1 (42:32):
And I'm trying to go through the other stuff?

Speaker 2 (42:34):
I mean, look, I I never this is weird. I
never actually saw the movie. I know it's one of
the highest grossing movies of all time. But isn't this
like the premise of Avatar, like you could build a
body and then put on VR goggles and take over
its brain.

Speaker 1 (42:48):
No, No, that's not what we're talking about. Maybe maybe
I don't know, try to take take over the world.
That's what we're talking about, global domination. Okay. She also
talks about how could lead to digital clones of brains,
for so you could have robots with like human like
intelligence at some point, which is interesting because the difference

(43:09):
between an artificial and intelligence and and you know, a
computational intelligences. You have the creativity and humanity, right, we
are creative?

Speaker 2 (43:19):
Yeah, but also like we humans will like look at
the world and be like, oh god, life is whatever.
But I guess I've got to go pay the bills.
But the robot is going to be like, oh, I
see this is humans. Yeah, it's gonna find a different option. Yeah,
it is.

Speaker 1 (43:37):
I need to track your down and see why she's
not seeing the negative side of this stuff. But maybe
we can destroy her. But but but she also brought
up something that it is just my personal favorite, uh
new word. It's called bio hybrid computation.

Speaker 2 (43:52):
M Yeah, okay, that's interesting.

Speaker 1 (43:55):
Yeah, yeah, exactly. Okay.

Speaker 2 (43:56):
So it's like a human brain and a computer brain
working together to for.

Speaker 1 (43:59):
Yourself, yes, or a computer brand with human like qualities.
Are you using some yeah, using some sort of bio
bio portion of it, I guess obviously, because there's a
bio biohybrid. Yeah, yeah, like you said what you said, Jeff, Yes, okay, okay,
I agree. The longest way to say you agree with

(44:20):
somebody that came back around. So I'm going to save
you with the power of with the power of neon chaos. Okay,
neon chaos. I guess this technically was a mailbag, but
I had it open to my browserra he sent over
a headline or an article from the BBC. We haven't
talked about this in a while, but here we go.
Microsoft has begun the rollout of an AI powered tool

(44:41):
which takes snapshots of user screens every few seconds. The
Copilot Plus recall feature is available in preview mode to
some people with Microsoft's aipcs and laptops. It is a
relaunch of a feature which was dubbed a quote privacy
nightmare when it was first announced last year.

Speaker 2 (45:00):
They pause the rollout in twenty twenty four as we
talked about uh, and after trialing the tech with a
small number of users, it has begun expanding access to
those who signed up to its Windows Insider software testing program.
Microsoft says recall will be rolled out worldwide, but those
based in the EU will have to wait until later

(45:20):
in twenty twenty five.

Speaker 1 (45:21):
Do you know why? Do you know why, Jeff? Why?

Speaker 2 (45:24):
Because the EU has laws that protect its users privacy.

Speaker 1 (45:28):
Yeah? Because the EU is better? Okay, quite say in
America is the best.

Speaker 2 (45:31):
We're not.

Speaker 1 (45:32):
We suck. We suck at privacy.

Speaker 2 (45:36):
Okay, yeah, we sure do.

Speaker 1 (45:38):
We sell it.

Speaker 2 (45:39):
We sell our privacy. That's right, long since gone?

Speaker 1 (45:42):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (45:44):
I mean you know the sales pitch is the purpose
of recalls allow PC users to easily search through their
past activity, including files, photos, emails, and browsing history. In
case we all needed that. No red flags there, no, oh,
here we go For example, Microsoft says a person who
saw address online a few days ago would be able

(46:06):
to use the feature to easily locate where they saw it.

Speaker 1 (46:09):
Nope, and then they'll tell you about my mindset today.
Every time you say Microsoft, I think you're starting to
say micro penis. I don't know why, because I'm a overpose.

Speaker 2 (46:20):
Okay, Microsoft, I'm skipping ahead here. But Microsoft said recall
does not share snapshots or associated data with Microsoft or
third parties, and in and information does not share between users.
Why recall requires you to confirm your identity before it
launches and before you can access your snapshots? Bullsh And

(46:41):
everything is stored locally on your computer.

Speaker 1 (46:43):
Bullshit? Not good. Yeah, anything that is stored locally on your.

Speaker 2 (46:47):
Computer can be taken. Oh now, they do say it's
just like everything else. They do say that they've added
a feature where users can delete screenshots which have been captured.

Speaker 1 (46:58):
Oh, here we go, Or how about just not have
it as a have a feature that we can just
turn off?

Speaker 2 (47:03):
That would be better.

Speaker 1 (47:04):
Then we don't save us the delete you know, we
don't have to our delete button.

Speaker 2 (47:08):
You know, there's still no mention of being able to.

Speaker 1 (47:12):
Wear out from us deleting all the screenshots. Delete delete,
delete delete. I know you can mass delete something and
nobody's ever had to replace their delete KEYP but in
my you know, micro penis okay, all right.

Speaker 2 (47:25):
The UK's Data watchdog has said it has quote continued
to engage with Microsoft on this matter unquote. Uh but
they they're they're not granting approval for this yet.

Speaker 1 (47:37):
Yeah, no, no, and they shouldn't. Thank you, EU. And
you know what, somebody in America, somebody, let's let's let's
do this we put up with. Let's not let these
tech companies steamroll us. But we're going to We're all
going to bend over and take it.

Speaker 2 (47:53):
The problem with data privacy is that we've always been convinced,
at least that we have bigger fish to fry, like
it's not a front burner issue for any of us,
because we're always worried about this or that or whatever.
And right now we finally, I mean, there's some actual
scary shit happening. Usually it feels like it's mostly smoke
and mirrors to destroy us. But there is scary shit
happening right now, Yes there is. So I feel like

(48:15):
the few people in government who might actually care about
our privacy over capitalism. Are not going to be able
to do anything about this. But let's remember one thing, everybody,
what's that right now? Right now? This might not last,
but right now, if you were going to go buy
a new computer, it's going to tell you if it's
a co pilot plus PC because it has an extra

(48:37):
neural processor in it. That costs money. So it's going
to be you know, computer prices. You might be a
little bit more expensive. So there might be options out
there that don't have copilot plus and capabilities, and those
are the ones you're going to want to buy. That
might not be an.

Speaker 1 (48:52):
Option showing people to buy Apple, you dirty son of
a bitch.

Speaker 2 (48:56):
I mean, like you could buy a Chromebook, but then
it's going to be riddled with Googles.

Speaker 1 (49:00):
I AI, I'm sure it's a lose lose, lose lose
lose situation. You got to get Linux machines people.

Speaker 2 (49:06):
If you were on a Chromebook, it's it's basically like
a nothing piece of hardware. But it's all web based, right,
Everything that does is the Internet. But let's remember the
mantra we discovered a week or two ago, or an
episode or two ago.

Speaker 1 (49:18):
Fuck Google. Fuck every search, fuck every search, fuck every search,
every search.

Speaker 2 (49:23):
It does work. I've been playing around with it. Sometimes
I'll google something, I'll get AI results, and I'm like,
I forgot to fuck every search, and then I go
and go and add the word fuck to my search.
Friend of the show Eric said he's worried he might
get fired now because he is fucking every search. He's
fucking every search.

Speaker 1 (49:43):
At work, every search at work. People, Yes, I got
I got one more.

Speaker 2 (49:48):
Okay, let's hear it.

Speaker 1 (49:49):
And what do you what do you? What do you
know about the What do you know about resurrection? Science?

Speaker 2 (49:56):
Science? I know that right now in the theaters is
the Last Supper Parts one, two, and.

Speaker 1 (50:00):
Then oh my god, not that.

Speaker 2 (50:03):
That's all I need to know.

Speaker 1 (50:05):
Left Jesus think more Jurassic Park.

Speaker 2 (50:08):
Oh is this about dire wolves?

Speaker 1 (50:10):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (50:10):
Yeah, please talk. I have not explored this. I saw
that someone made dire wolves of things. There's a company.

Speaker 1 (50:17):
There's a company. You think I'm gonna sit here and
tell you how it works? Yes? No, please, No, that's
not the point of this. They want to these guys
want to make wooly mammoths bring them back, which I
think is would be awesome. Let's have wooly mammoths and
just let them run free.

Speaker 2 (50:33):
Yeah, what what are we gonna do with the wooly mammoths?

Speaker 1 (50:35):
You know? Put them in zoos? We can't have elephants anymore.

Speaker 2 (50:38):
Right, So, but it's so hot and they're really do
we shave them? We make sweaters out.

Speaker 1 (50:43):
Of We're gonna have wooly rammiths, rugs, yeah, oats, scarves.
You know, why do we that's a good question. Why
do Maybe they're delicious.

Speaker 2 (50:53):
We don't know.

Speaker 1 (50:53):
We're gonna find out. We're gonna find out. Also, the
dire wolf thing is kind of a bullshit because they
didn't actually resurrect a dire wolf. Didn't, you know, do
the whole Jurassic Park. They are clone weaked some They
tweaked some jeans in a regular wolf to make it
more like what we know of a dire wolf, you know,

(51:16):
And so it's it's kind of it's kind of bullshit
what they did there. Now they have done some pretty
they did that with the They did a mouse that
they made wooly too. Tweak the jeans, do you tweak
the hair length gens?

Speaker 2 (51:28):
And and there?

Speaker 1 (51:30):
Yeah, is that just give a little tweak give a little?
Is that it do?

Speaker 2 (51:33):
We just have to take an elephant and have it
have more hair that yeah, the oldestination.

Speaker 1 (51:37):
I hope. I hope they're actually going to make a
wally mammoth though. That would be cool. I I would
like to see that. Yeah, could they do the Dodo bird?
That'd be cool. That's actually that is I believe that's
one of their ultimate goals this company.

Speaker 2 (51:51):
It's on there. It's on there to do list, the
dream board.

Speaker 1 (51:53):
Yeah. Also, I guess Dodo birds are delicious? Is that
why they went exting?

Speaker 2 (51:59):
It definitely is an option. Yeah, yeah, wow. All right, Well,
welcome back to the world dire wolves. Hopefully winter is
coming because the earth is getting awfully hot.

Speaker 1 (52:10):
No, it's actually it's not even May yet, so winter's
not coming. And I don't know if you were here
for the last winter, it really never came. All right, right,
but you know what is coming? Another commercial break?

Speaker 2 (52:23):
Okay, that's the end of the horrors of technology. What
are we going to do when we come back? Suggested articles?

Speaker 1 (52:30):
I think we might all right.

Speaker 2 (52:32):
We can do a few of those. All right, we'll
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And we're back. I am opening up browser. Ooh, here
we go. Second article? All right, First article video movie
on Max who Cares? Okay, God of Chaos Asteroid. It's
exactly four years until the rarest space event of our
lives it's on Forbes. Is this going to be a disappointment? Probably?

Speaker 2 (54:05):
Right, probably, but go for it. Okay, when will we
be dead?

Speaker 1 (54:08):
That's my question? I know, right, come on, big money,
No whammy? No, oh actually we do want the whammy.
Oh I'm so fucking old. Okay, this is about Apophae.
What this is the meteor that people thought was going
to be our end back years.

Speaker 2 (54:26):
Ago will not in people not though, Oh yes.

Speaker 1 (54:31):
But it will become It will be remarkably close. So
could it be trouble in the future when it passes
us in twenty twenty nine? Okay, this is a oneye
foot wide space rock that we'll get within twenty thousand
miles of Earth. That's insanely close. Well is that close

(54:52):
enough for we'll be able to like see it go by?
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (54:57):
I was. I was hoping it would be like, you know,
like I can see the craters on it as it
flies past my window or something. But twenty thousand miles
still seems like a lot.

Speaker 1 (55:06):
Yeah, it is a lot. But I mean when you
think how it's closer than the moon, you know, Oh
that's true. All right, Well that sounds fun. Okay, will they.

Speaker 2 (55:17):
Do anything weird, like turn half of us into zombies
or no.

Speaker 1 (55:22):
It looks like for now the future trajectory is unknowable,
but scientists are certain for anything, we should use it.
It's close pass in twenty twenty nine to study it closely.
After all, in twenty sixty or twenty sixty eight, when
it also passes, it could live up to its God
of chaos moniker, which is what Apophus means that I
was disappointing. It was disappointing. Fuck you, Forbes don't need

(55:44):
to know that. Okay, there's no new stuff. It's we
knew it was going to be a close pass already
or sorry, people on Team Meteor already knew this. You know,
we're all hoping for the meteor. We kind of we
kind of keep tabs on the things we need Team
Meteor t shirts. Yes, oh yes.

Speaker 2 (56:06):
Tea media that will at least be more wearable in
public than my fuck every search T shirt. I got
an article from Forbes as well, I suggested, and it's
about Microsoft, your favorite topic. They're offering five hundred million
free upgrades from Windows ten to Windows eleven.

Speaker 1 (56:25):
Yeah, I wonder why.

Speaker 2 (56:26):
But there are some problems. There's like seven hundred and
fifty million Windows ten users left, but two hundred and
forty million of them do not have a computer that's
powerful enough to run Windows eleven because things keep getting
more complicated. Of course you can't just ye whatever. Anyway,
not everybody has the neural net. But there was a

(56:47):
funny part here. Microsoft's latest upgrade announcement is unlikely to
pull many users from Windows ten to Windows eleven. And
one reason is that recall is back. It's just what
we were just talking about, right I recall Yeah, get
it Ours tech. They quoted an article from Ours Technica.
It says quote that grown you here is users reaction

(57:07):
to recall going back into Windows. Security and privacy advocates
are girding themselves for another uphill battle against recall. The
AI tool rolling out in Windows eleven that will screenshot, index,
and store everything a user does every three seconds.

Speaker 1 (57:22):
Oh god, yeah, anyway, I always I always read that
name as Ours Technica five yeah, Ours yeah.

Speaker 2 (57:32):
So again, like, I'm not going to voluntarily take an
update to Windows ten if I don't have to. But
on the other hand, Microsoft will eventually extort this out
of us, because within the next six months they will
only be doing security updates for Windows eleven, so if
people find new ways to hack into Windows ten, and
they will, you could be a risk if you don't upgrade.

Speaker 1 (57:53):
Yes, yeah, because fuck us. Yeah, there's another shirt we
should have cauz fuck us, fuck us. I guess there's
already kind of a podcast called because fuck You That's Why,
which which we didn't talk about that on Yeah.

Speaker 2 (58:07):
Wow Wow. Okay, if you didn't know this already, go
to your podcast feed and look for b F y
t W Because fuck You That's why. We were on
the b F y t W podcast in their very
last episode.

Speaker 1 (58:23):
It's called All Hill the Algorithm.

Speaker 2 (58:25):
The episode is called yep, it's named after us. We
competed in some games of strange technology guesswork against Stevie,
one of the regular co hosts of b F y
t W, and then.

Speaker 1 (58:40):
Aaron, our own Aaron.

Speaker 2 (58:42):
Yeah, because their other regular co host was felled by
stomach problems. Wait, did Aaron get.

Speaker 1 (58:48):
Anything from him? Oh my god, she might have through
the internet.

Speaker 2 (58:51):
It's another one of those Internet viruses. I guess yes,
fuck or Aaron? Do you have protection on your computer?

Speaker 1 (59:00):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (59:00):
I got to check and see if I have any updates, I'm.

Speaker 1 (59:02):
Gonna have to gargle after this. Goddamn. Okay, I got
another article. This is, this is, this is, this is
for all the points, Jeff, you have to guess this,
and I'm gonna give you five seconds, so no pressure.
Netflix fans have just days left to watch the greatest
ever sci fi movie made? What is it?

Speaker 4 (59:21):
Go?

Speaker 1 (59:21):
Five?

Speaker 2 (59:22):
Wolf of Wall Street?

Speaker 1 (59:22):
Four sci Fi?

Speaker 2 (59:24):
Oh side?

Speaker 1 (59:24):
Sorry?

Speaker 2 (59:25):
That one that one that was but like like Star Wars,
but a terrible version of it that was made only
for Nero. Blade Runner. Oh okay, I didn't know that
was on Netflix in the first place. I didn't either
which version. There's like twelve different versions of Blade.

Speaker 1 (59:42):
I know so many different versions. Yeah, I am not
sure which one it is? O g Or directors.

Speaker 2 (59:50):
It's a movie worth watching.

Speaker 1 (59:52):
Do you think that you know what? I wonder? I
bet Neon Kaos knows all the cuts and could tell
us which is the which is the best one, the
best one?

Speaker 2 (01:00:00):
Dean Chaos, tell us the best cut of Blade Runner? Please?
That'll be in our next mail bag segment, I hope.
Do you think Blade Runner has aged well enough like
where I could get like the family to do a
family movie night and the kids will be engaged or
would they just find it like old and boring.

Speaker 1 (01:00:18):
I don't. I think they will find it old and boring.
It's a very it's cool. It looks great, man, I think,
and you know, I just don't. No, I can't imagine
a world where your kids would be excited about that,
all right? Yeah, I could be wrong. I love that.

Speaker 2 (01:00:42):
I love the ending man that Rutger Hower monologue tears
in rainsman. Yeah, I've got a headline that I have
to click on because I can't. It's it's the headline
appears to be a radio station. I don't think it's
a local station. But here we go. I Conic breakfast
restaurant franchise files chapter eleven.

Speaker 1 (01:01:04):
Ah, there's a wait what and.

Speaker 2 (01:01:07):
I hop franchise with ties to New Jersey files for
chapter eleven bankruptcy.

Speaker 1 (01:01:12):
Why is it giving me that?

Speaker 2 (01:01:14):
Don't know?

Speaker 1 (01:01:15):
That's what the fuck?

Speaker 2 (01:01:18):
Now that I've clicked on it, now it's going to
give me more New Jersey headlines?

Speaker 1 (01:01:21):
Oh yeah, definitely. Well here's one. Here's one. I don't
know if this would have been here before? Was this
already here? Or was this here because you said what
you said, It says, now streaming in an age of
light a darkness rises enter an unseen era of Star Wars.

Speaker 2 (01:01:39):
Okay, but what did I say that would lead us there?

Speaker 1 (01:01:43):
You mentioned the movie that you definitely that was kind
of like Star Wars.

Speaker 2 (01:01:49):
Yeah, that's true. I did say that. I don't remember
what that movie is called, like Harvest Moon or something.

Speaker 1 (01:01:55):
It was called ship. I'm an Zach Syner saying I
have a friend at work who who'll know exactly what's coming.

Speaker 2 (01:02:04):
Fuck, Zack Saer. Here's the headline that affects us all.
Chinese electronics company Anchor starts raising prices on Amazon. I
like an Anchor's Anchor makes good products, man, But yep,
they're about to get more expensive. I suppose they're not,

(01:02:24):
because they make like batteries and cables and shit, they're
probably not part of the we won't put tariffs on
laptops and smartphones is probably not included in that, right,
I'm guessing. Oh, here's something that we're told is scary.
The headline is bad omen ancient pyramid in Mexico collapsed

(01:02:46):
into a pile of rubble.

Speaker 1 (01:02:48):
Oh damn. Oh wait.

Speaker 2 (01:02:51):
This was in twenty twenty four. This is a brand
new article, according to the byline, but it says extreme
weather events and rising seas or and blah blah blah.
A stunning example of this is in twenty twenty four
was a stone pyramid in Mexico. So coming to an
increasingly chaotic global climate. But this happened a year ago.
We're just hearing about it now.

Speaker 1 (01:03:11):
But that's how that's how I think that's the state
of the world. There's so much bad shit happening. We're
just now hearing about the stuff that happened last year.

Speaker 2 (01:03:19):
I suppose I suppose goddamn it. Okay, Japanese car maker
takes drastic action amid US trade war. Which car maker
isn't And he guesses.

Speaker 1 (01:03:30):
I don't know, Toyota.

Speaker 2 (01:03:32):
I'm halfway down the article and it hasn't told me
what company it is. Uh, Mazda. Here we go. That
took a long time to get there. Wow.

Speaker 1 (01:03:40):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (01:03:41):
Mazda sent a letter to its US dealers informing them
that it would not raise its sticker prices or tack
on import fees for any vehicles already on dealership lots
that will come into the country before May first. Well, Okay, cool,
I mean buy a car now, that's that is actually
the ethical thing to do. So it's kind of surprising
to like, yeah, because we know everybody's going to be

(01:04:02):
raising their prices even if it's not important.

Speaker 1 (01:04:04):
Like right, okay, here's another Star Wars article. All right,
star Wars fans torn as Darth Vader returns for a
new prequel. This is something from Gaming Bible. I'm not
going to click on it, but you said the word
star Wars. I have not had Star Wars on my
articles from all time.

Speaker 2 (01:04:21):
Yeah, all right, oh, dea, The Drug Enforcement Agency gives
cannabis rescheduling update. Do you think it's going to happen?

Speaker 1 (01:04:32):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (01:04:33):
That would be great. I've got to scroll through this
article here to find out. Oh my god, the Drug
Enforcements right and left on everything. Oh sorry, Drug Enforcement
Administration set an update to an agency judge that the
marijuana rescheduling process is still on hold end quote remains pending.
Uh oh before Acting Administrator Derek Maltz, who has called

(01:04:54):
cannabis a gateway drug that causes psychosis, So like this, do.

Speaker 1 (01:05:00):
This sounds like he has psychosis?

Speaker 2 (01:05:04):
For madness is still a thing apparently, which would make
sense with this administration, because for madness was all about
scaring people into thinking that marijuana would make black men
have sex with your white women.

Speaker 1 (01:05:17):
Yep, okay, I got one. Oh, look at this, Look
at this. I got a repeat suggested article. Do you
remember do you remember when? Was it last time or
two times ago? About the cat new cat coat color? Yes?

Speaker 2 (01:05:30):
I got that article again, toffee crisp.

Speaker 1 (01:05:33):
Yes, what is it called licorice?

Speaker 2 (01:05:35):
Something wet licorice, something licorice, licorice snaps, chewy licorice, sticky licorice.

Speaker 1 (01:05:42):
Licorice snack? What was it called liquoric snack? Licoric snack?
That was the name of the color. Yeah, it's so
smaki is what it's really called?

Speaker 2 (01:05:51):
A salty? Salty licorice? That's what it was called salty licorice. Yes,
but we're good at this whole, right, So what's.

Speaker 1 (01:05:58):
I'm looking at the articles right there? I couldn't find it. Okay,
fuck it, I'm done?

Speaker 2 (01:06:02):
Wait is this done?

Speaker 1 (01:06:04):
Okay? Is it?

Speaker 2 (01:06:05):
What? There was nothing for us to learn from what
you just put us through?

Speaker 1 (01:06:09):
No, it was I don't usually get have you ever
noticed repeat articles?

Speaker 2 (01:06:13):
Oh? I see just that salty liquors.

Speaker 1 (01:06:15):
Really wants me to know about that salty liquors. I
think I get one of those cats. You do love
the cats.

Speaker 2 (01:06:20):
Yeah, this is a This is a headline very very
close to my heart. Because of my particular eating habits,
there are certain lines I won't cross, and if you
know me, you know I will not eat mushrooms. But
what I do really love that some people think is
disgusting is shrimp. How do you feel about shrimp?

Speaker 1 (01:06:41):
Oh, dude, I just had this article. I just scrolled
past this article from Smithsonian magazine. Yes, yeah, bugs of
the sea. They're not the bugs of the sea.

Speaker 2 (01:06:51):
Yeah. You might think of shrimp as bugs of the seed,
which is something Jennifer says to me all the time
because she hates shrimp. But a remarkable, but a remarkable
discovery shows the opposite bugs are actually shrimp of the land.

Speaker 1 (01:07:06):
It doesn't make it any better. I just scrolled past
that article.

Speaker 2 (01:07:10):
That's I have an idea. You and I we're going
to start a canning company where we grind up cockroach meat. Yes,
the canning company will be called Shrimp of the Land.

Speaker 1 (01:07:27):
I love it.

Speaker 2 (01:07:27):
It's just a you open up your tin. It's just
cockroach meat, just high quality, clean, sanitary cockroach meat.

Speaker 1 (01:07:35):
It's like snow Piercer all over again. Well, that's another
movie that the Mickey seventeen guy made.

Speaker 2 (01:07:42):
Stuer we were talking about Mickey seventeen and the dumpster
fire we were called. So you'll have to wing for that. Well,
eventually that all makes sense someday in the future, when
you subscribe to our free Patreon Patreon dot com slash
suggested articles. I have a hard time saying slash Yeah.

(01:08:03):
I've been.

Speaker 1 (01:08:04):
I feel like I'm stumbling over all my words today.

Speaker 2 (01:08:06):
I did have half of a Jack Daniel's Coca Cola
drink last night, so my god, you could, I could.

Speaker 1 (01:08:15):
Yeah, it's possible knowing me. Also, Okay, yeah, well I
think I think that's a pretty good Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:08:25):
I mean, look, we we have this new business plan
to work out now for but for so we need
to end the show so we can move on.

Speaker 1 (01:08:33):
I love it so much. I'm gonna be saying that
all week and just busting out laughing because that's that's
my favorite new thing. Don't don't kill that. Don't kill that.

Speaker 2 (01:08:46):
It's a shrimp of the show some respect.

Speaker 1 (01:08:54):
Shrimp the land cocktail oh gosh, sandwich, Trimp of the Land.
Poor boy.

Speaker 2 (01:09:01):
Wait, okay, you're you're a food guy. You're a food guy.
Shrimp of the Land, cocktail, What do you make the
cocktail sauce out of?

Speaker 1 (01:09:10):
Does it even matter at this point, say cocktail sauce
a shrimp.

Speaker 2 (01:09:16):
Well, but there's a probably a different flavor profile, you think, Well, oh,
you'll have to try Shrimp of the Land before you
can figure out. You got to figure out the flavor profile. Yeah,
we'll get out.

Speaker 1 (01:09:26):
Look, look, we got it. We gotta get the we
gotta get our company made. We gotta get some investors,
and we gotta have you know, the Shrimp of the
Land going, and then we'll worry about the cocktail sauce
and the the other things. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:09:40):
So if you want to invest uh in Shrimp of
the Land, our new company, reach out suggested articles podcast
at gmail dot com, an email email address. Feel free
to chime in on our patreon, Patreon dot com slash
suggested articles.

Speaker 1 (01:09:56):
A podcast, Patreon. Sorry, what did you just say?

Speaker 2 (01:10:05):
I had lost you?

Speaker 1 (01:10:06):
That's okay, what was I supposed to say? A patriot?
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:10:11):
Yeah, it's like and I think that that's it for
this episode. Aaron best wishes. Yeah, get better, Aaron for
your your your ring piece, and damn you know what,
save some room when you give and you feel better.

Speaker 1 (01:10:36):
Yeah, let's just go. A'll heal the algorithm. I can't
do it.

Speaker 2 (01:10:40):
Please watch for the link to the gofund me in
the show notes, and I'll hail the algorithm.

Speaker 1 (01:10:44):
I'll heal the algorithm. This is so funny, it's so stupid,
it's so funny. Those awesome I don't know. I think
I'm broken as a human is killing me.

Speaker 2 (01:11:06):
I might keep this in.

Speaker 6 (01:11:10):
I can't.

Speaker 1 (01:11:11):
I guess I love it