E116: Bottom Bros NES Beatdown!

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It definitely did that. Did it look like a fucking sippy
cup for a second? I.
Was going to say you drinking out of a bottle.
Going to get my my 60 ounces in,Yeah.
Yeah, it's going to take that somewhere else already, but you
know, we'll save that for divinginto it.
I scared of you. Bro, cases have gotten so

(00:36):
expensive for your phone. Like yeah, this phone, this case
I bought, it's got it's magnet. It's because this stupid thing
doesn't have the magnet inside of it.
IPhones do. Yeah, of course I.
Do, but they've gotten crazy expensive.
Yeah, I, I feel like anytime I have to get a new phone, that's
one of the things I like kind ofdreaded dread because I'm like,
Jesus, how much I'm going to spend on like the glass floor

(00:58):
and the, the. Case yeah.
And then I go to Amazon and I buy one and then it's the wrong
one. Yeah.
So, but our guys at CCICT, you can go in there the they have
the cases in the store. A lot of.
Them a ton, and for the iPhone 16 Pro Max, they're 1999.
Which is crazy. It's insane.
I feel like if you get somethinglike that on Amazon, it's going

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to break on you. It's going to fall apart.
Wrong 1 You guys send it back. You can go in there and you can
try it on your phone. You can make sure it fits, you
can make sure you like how it feels, all of that stuff.
Just pick out some of the product while you're in there
because when you got like iPads for like 60 bucks, like that's
crazy. Crazy stuff.
They got laptops in there, they've got other iPhones if
your kids need one. They've got so much stuff in
there. They're upstairs at the Town

(01:39):
East Mall. That's right.
Across from Men's Wearhouse, so go check them out, try some
cases on, get a 1999 case. 1999 it's.
Crazy dude. All right, guys, we have
something special for you tonight.
We are joined by a buddy of mine.
Yeah, I don't. Even know what this is like, I
don't know what I've agreed to. Here I don't I don't know if you

(02:01):
ever have experience to this guyor not, but my buddy named Chad,
we'll get into how we met and everything, but I will say he is
one of the craziest speaking people I've ever.
To say his name. Yeah, he said.
I'm just going to be me and if we need to edit some shit later,
we will. So obviously if you listen to
the podcast, you know, we say some questionable things and

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this guy will take it times 10. So he's going.
To He may or may not have an interview in the podcast at all.
I don't know. We'll see.
Yeah, we'll see. We might just have to scrap the
whole damn thing and then I'm just going to cut to a technical
difficulties and we'll just we'll just carry on with the
rest of it. Who knows?
But yeah, here's Chad. Definitely did that.

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Did it look like a fucking sippycup for a second?
I. Was going to say you drinking
out of a bottle. It's going to get my my 60
ounces in, Yeah. Yeah, it's going to take that
somewhere else already, but you know, we'll save that for diving
into it. I scared of you.
Yeah, it's so fucking weird. Like seeing you, you know what I

(03:04):
mean? I'm used to just getting these
weird ass fucking texts and likeseeing you say your pocket is
fucking strange. I think he means it's weird that
you're wearing glasses or. You don't have your Dick out.
Don't do that. Don't do.
That he said to be fair, you don't know that I don't.
There is a mirror back there, sodon't stand up.

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Jesus Christ, so. You've already been introduced.
Yeah, we, we, we did a little introduction for you here and I
wanted to kind of just start outby saying how we even met.
Like I'm going to kind of go through it and you can correct
me if I'm wrong, but I feel likeme and some buddies were in
Clash Royale and we joined this clan called Valhalla.

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Does that sound accurate so far?I don't remember Valhalla.
I feel like we started in Valhalla and then the the leader
of Valhalla because we were, I would say, kind of edgy with
some of the stuff we were saying, but it was nowhere near
like where things developed. So we're in Valhalla and he's
like, hey, listen, there's another clan.
I know some guys like I can get you in this clan.

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You're probably more suited there because we already pissing
people off with just some of thestupid stuff we were saying.
And he's like, but I'm going to warn you like these guys are are
pretty fucked up. And I was like, oh man, that
sounds cool. And he's like, no, man, like I'm
saying like I've never heard anyone talk like this before.
So, you know, of course I was like, yeah, let's go, you know,
And I don't remember the clan weinitially all joined because I
feel like we all got kicked out at one point.

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Oh yeah, several. Several if I remember right.
Yeah, oh, we've been through several, but yeah, I can't
remember the name of the initialone, but man, it was good though
'cause they're they had a big active that's.
Cool. When it's active like that it's
fun. It is even if people aren't
being crazy in. There, But the problem is we get
some of these guys together and they just keep riffing off what

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everybody else is saying and it just gets so bad real fast.
Yeah, yeah, it's, it doesn't take us long.
Zero to 100. It's it's pretty raunchy.
Debating on whether I even want to give some examples, but I
will say one of the craziest things though is you're actually

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like really good at this game. Like you were actually like
ranked the last I knew. Yeah, yeah, I and, you know, I
wonder how many times I've been ranked and didn't notice because
I never looked at my profile. I never even pay attention to
the leaderboard. And it was only after somebody
made mention of my badge. But I went and looked and, and
yeah, I was, I was ranked. But I I play this game just for

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the taunts and the to get peopleto try and join our clan and and
rage out on me. So is Royale the one where you
have the characters and you go fight, or is it the one where
you build all the stuff? No, that's that's the original
Clash of Clans is the buildings on.
Yeah, So Royale's more of a tower defense.
Yeah, OK. Yep, I've played that for a
while, Yeah. Yeah.

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And it it could be maybe you need to get back into it, maybe
get a proper introduction to Chad and Alex and.
Here's my thing with these games, like I play them hardcore
for a week or two and then I just get bored and don't and
forget to open it one day and then it just one day equals 2
days equals 3 days. And then I just, I'm like,
shoot, I haven't played like I played Marvel Rival or Marvel

(06:15):
Snap forever. That was the longest I've been
on a game like that. Yeah.
And then I just quit playing it one day and I haven't opened the
app in probably two months. Yeah, we, we.
Try to a lot of people missing. For each other.
Yeah, you're not missing much anymore.
I mean, the game, you know, for a long time, the game has slowly
transitioned to this like pay toplay.
And you know, it started off kind of being subtle.

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And at this point, though, I mean, it's they're not hiding
it. They're just brazen with it.
And they just came out with an update a month or so ago, major
update. And I don't know how they still
have players. I mean, it must be people who
are just straight up addicted tothis game at this point because
it's so bad. Because it feels like it turned

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into something where you just can't even play unless you pay
right like. Yeah, the problem is.
Anywhere with it? Your characters like you can buy
it like an upgrade for them, andif you have this upgrade, it's
like they're impossible to beat if you don't have it too.
Oh. Really.
So it's like never get it unlessyou pay for.
It unless you pay for it. So it's totally fucking sucks.
I hate that. Yeah.
So. That's actually, that's actually

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the business model now go ahead.No, you go ahead.
That's their business model now is they'll come out with a card
and this card will be so overpowered and it's completely
broken. And everybody rushes and and
buys the pack for $40 to Max this card out so that they can,
you know, quickly get on the leaderboard.

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And then after a month or so, they'll come out and they'll
nerf the ever loving shit out ofthis thing.
And they've done that for years now.
No way. Yes yes, except mega knight a
piece of shit. They still have a nerf bath.
Fuck that guy I hate. That one we're getting nerdy
now. Mega Knight.

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What is Mega Knight? He's fucking awful man and he is
like the only card that just apps I see a mega knight.
Like, I know I was like, I'm notbeating this guy and I might as
well just fucking quit out. He's just like the the knight on
the horse with the thing, but he's huge or what?
He like jumps around and smashespeople, but that that's like the
I was going to say either I'm quitting out or I'm just going
to start taunting the shit out of him, which is like something

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that Chad is. Like chat with them or is it
just? No, it's more yeah, emoticons
shit. And he will.
He does it like in a fucking artform, like he will.
It's it's his goal to get someone to leave their clan and
come to our clan just to talk shit and be like, can't fuck
you, I beat you. And he's like, I don't care.
You're here crying like whateveryou know, because then you can
talk. To wow, yeah, and.

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You probably had your account found like a handful of Times
Now. I've had what I'm sorry.
Your account banned like a handful of times.
Oh yeah, I'm I'm on my 4th account.
What? Sounds expensive.
So like they're just banning youand you have to go create a new

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account and you start all over. Yes, so.
So here's what happens. I, we leave our clan open
because I, I want people to, to come and whether I beat them or
whether they beat me, I want them to come to the clan and,
and just talk shit against me, right?
That's, that's kind of my goal. That's what I live for.
And when they come and join the clan, they can see the previous

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chat. That's how Clash Royale works.
And you know when, when me, Mikeand Alex are together, I mean,
we say some pretty stupid shit. And so they get to read all that
and they'll go and they report our comments.
And yeah, I've had three accounts banned because of it.
I was actually going to go look and see because I feel like not
only that, it's also like our clan names like you just know

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off the get go, like it might belike super straight Bros.
We're not gay. I OK so our current clan is
called Uncut Hogs. Oh geez.
She said when you say it out loud, it sounds kind of fucked
up kind. Of dirty.
Yeah, it sounds worse. So yeah, we are UN uncut hogs.

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So if you want to download this game or if you have it already
and maybe you're not in a in a clan, look for.
Level 13 is where I'm at in. This game look for uncut hogs.
You'll know it's us because it says we're not gays Bros and cut
off Jean shorts. Immediate get immediate CE a Co
use your war attacks or don't who cares.

(10:29):
Wow, you guys should be playing the country song in there.
Like if you could add a. Song, yeah.
The banjo, yeah. So I wanted to get you on here
because obviously you've had some time playing games.
You're a little bit older than us, not too much, but you know,
I'm sure you've had some, some good times in arcades And I, I

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remember you told me you have like a funny NES story to share.
That was kind of like an early memory of the NES for you.
Yeah. So 2 questions.
The first question, the first question is 1, what was your
rank in the game? You got to go back to that.
And then 2 How old are you? Rank in what game?
Oh, Clash Royale Clash. Clash Royale?

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Yep. I made it in the top 1000, it
was 700 and something 734 I think it was.
Crazy. How many people play a?
Lot he like, he sent me a video of he was up against like a
Russian streamer, Like how crazy.
Oh like a dude actually is on YouTube and he's screaming.

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Yeah. Are we still need to find
someone who can like let us knowwhat they're saying 'cause I
can't imagine with you just spamming him and stuff like just
I. Want to know what he got?
He got animated for a little bitthere and yeah, I'm dying to
know what he was saying. Send.
Me that video when we're done and and we'll go through it and
see what we can find. OK, All right.

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And I'm 45. OK, so not that much older than
us, born in 1980. We can dig it all right.
So yeah, the the NES story. So a little back story.
I grew up in a poor in a trailerpark.
We can never afford our own gaming systems.

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Oh, we got another one. Me too.
All right, we. Moved our trailer from 1 Trailer
Park to the next so that's awesome.
Oh. Shit, no we didn't.
We couldn't do that. We didn't have anything to haul
it with. And also, I was rich.
I had issues with boundaries. Apparently so this kid across,

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this kid across the street from me, he had an MES and we, he
used to let us come over there and play.
He was like 16 or 17. He could drive.
I was 9 or 10 or so. He used to let us come over
there and play. And I remember.
Already. You sound like what?
He sounds like a creep already if he's 17, letting a nine year
old come over there and play with him.
Yeah, man, looking back there, there's a lot of creeps in the

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trailer park. A lot of creeps, yeah.
He used to let us come over and play.
And I remember be just being completely blown away by the the
duck hunt, the gun and how it worked because it worked on any
TV, right? I mean, it was just fucking
magic. So I quickly became like in love
with the with the NES, and I wasnever going to ever have one.
And so I was sent home one day and I knew his name was Paul.

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He left for work. So I just walked across the
street over to his trailer and unplugged all his shit, his NES
and brought it back over to my trailer and plugged it in and
started started playing it and he got home.
He got home and came across the trailer.

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My drunk stepdad let him in and told him I was in my bedroom.
So he'd come in there to grab his NES and he beat the ever 11
piss out of me. And then, yeah.
And then when my mom got home and she saw it clearly, I mean,
I was, I was pretty messed up and pretty gnarly.
She asked what happened. So I explained to her and she

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said, well I bet she probably won't do that again.
Oh shit. This is a this was a 17 year old
kicking the shit out of a 10 year old.
Now I'm not saying I didn't deserve it, right?
But I mean, so yeah, that's my first NES story.
Was he living with his parents too and they were just gone as
well? I don't know where they were.

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I don't ever remember seeing those in my entire his parents,
my entire life. They may not have even.
Consisted on his own. He smokes, dude.
Jesus. That is a crazy time.
You can't even look at an NES now without like shaking and
shit. Yeah, PTSD.
Just trauma response. Haven't played Duck Hunt since.

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Oh Lord God, I feel like there was something else.
So what about like arcades? You spend much time in arcades,
you know, like, 'cause we're, wehaven't really had much of like
the traditional like what peoplewould do as far as like stacking
coins and reaching the leaderboards, you know,
challenging your friends, any ofthat bullshit, you know, But

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it'd just be interesting to findsomeone who maybe did and like
how it went. Yeah, the arcades were were kind
of a, you know, the only arcade game that I really, really got
into was NBA Jam. Oh.
Yes, dude. Yeah, that was that was the big
thing. The arcade was more of a like a

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place for people to go, you knowwhat I mean?
It was it was great to play games, don't get me wrong.
Games you're just hanging out. Yeah, it was.
It was just a place where all the kids went to and you know,
kind of from there is when when you actually made your plans at
the arcade and then kind of wentand and did the real plans.
But that was always the startingpoint was was the arcade, you

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know, spend you probably rode 10bucks there.
Oh yeah, yeah, you said. I did have a bike.
Did have a bike it was stolen too but it's OK.
So arcades for me were, were thebowling alley, right?
So my parents bowled and we theywould give us quarters for the

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night and we would spend those suckers in the 1st 30 minutes
and they were bowling for hours.And so we'd have to go back and
beg for quarters. And yeah, like Cruise in USANBA
Jam, those are the two big ones,Cruise in USA and NBA Jam.
I was trying always to get my initials at the top of those at
the bowling alley. Yeah, yeah.

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Mike, did you did you spend any time in arcade at all?
No, it was kind of the same thing.
Yeah, we, we really don't have one so.
It's a little town that he livesin and he lived here his whole
life. I lived in the bigger in the
bigger city in Wichita, so we had a lot more stuff to do.
I remember like Aladdin's Castle, like in the mall, they,
Oh yeah, they had that for a little while.

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And sometimes we go to the mall,we'd kind of go go hang out in
there, but. We had this big time arcade
called The Copper Cue in Wichita, and it was like I never
got to go there because all the older people went there.
But it was like this, this placethat just seemed like it was
mystical, like it seemed like ifyou ever got to go in there,
like it was just the coolest place ever.

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Like some club that you cannot get into or something.
Yeah, it just, it felt like it was going to be super cool.
I never got to go there. It's closed down now, but that,
yeah, the arcade was just this mystical place that I never
really got to go. I still feel like it'd be really
cool to open like a brick oven pizza place with a bunch of like
tap beer and then have like somepinball machines and shit like

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that. Like, I think that'd be a real
cool spot to. That place who went in Dallas
would have been cool if they would have done it right.
Sucks so fucking bad. But it's it was hot in there and
they just didn't have a good vibe like it.
Was half the. It was laid.
Out weird and broken and. And yeah, it was just it, it
wasn't awesome, but. No, it definitely wasn't.
We have a place like that still up up here where I live in
Rockford, IL. It's called Nickel World.

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All the games are nickel. And it's, it's got a little,
it's a little Peaches joint inside there.
And you know, I haven't, I haven't heard anything about
them in, in a few years. I'm not sure if they're still
open, but they lasted a really, really long time.
So a lot of a lot of what these guys are doing now is they, it's
just like 10 or 12 bucks and youcan go in and play any game you

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want forever. And that that's fun.
But it also takes a little bit of the fun out of it because you
can't lose. You just keep playing and like
you just, there's not an end to the game, right?
And so it used to be you had to make your quarter last and now
it's like, I don't care if I die, I'm just going to get the
start over. Yeah, there's no skin in the
game now. Exactly right.

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Yeah, which kind of sucks, but you know, I mean, it's still
cool to go play like Wrestlefest.
I hadn't played Wrestlefest and forever, and that game, it was
so fun. I loved that game in the arcade
back then, so that was really cool to see.
Wrestlefest and then the Ninja Turtle.
Game's always fun. Yep.
How? How far are you from Chicago?
Downtown an hour and a half hourand 45 minutes.

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We had a wild time in Chicago last.
Year we spent some time in Chicago and it was it was a
little crazy. So I was like, man, hopefully we
can go back again this year or something and and catch up with
you, do some, do some live stuff, you know.
Yeah, it's a fun city. Chicago's crazy.
Dude. That downtown area was nuts.
We went to this place that had like, it was a four tier bar.
It was like a different theme oneach tier and it was wild.

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Each one of them was way different and they had different
stuff going on. It was cool.
We literally left that night andthis dude outside, like, you
guys have fun and we're like, yeah, it was cool.
And he's like, you want some cocaine?
I was like, oh shit. He was.
He wasn't just a dude. He was the dude.
He was a black Midget. I didn't think we had to get
into all that, but it's still just a black.

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Cocaine dealing Midget. Yes, he was he it was that was
like epic. It was like there is nothing you
can't get any better. That's the joke all the time.
Is the the black midgets going to sell you cocaine and hoes and
he get he did part of it and I think if we bought his cocaine.
The other. Part knows what it came.
Yeah, for sure. See is I mean is that is that D

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guy or what? Like these white guys aren't
cutting it. We got.
We got to diversify. Jesus Christ, E116.
E116. The black Midget coke dealer we.

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Get cut out, we can't talk. About.
We're gonna. Get fucking cancelled on this.
We're gonna. No, we're gonna.
Have no sponsors. We're gonna have no platform.
They're all gonna say you're done.
We'll call it the NES. Beatdown NES.
Beatdown Yikes, that's rough. Bottom Bros NES Beatdown that's

(21:06):
I like. It that's what we'll do and then
I'll just let AI go crazy with it.
Like what does this mean to you?Retro Rewind is back.
Guess what? It's still.
Powered by the Regent Theatre. That's right, Lilo.
And stitch, Lilo and stitch. This week.
Oh, oh, I didn't see it yet. My kids saw it.

(21:26):
I think you guys went to see it.Yeah, we did.
It's great. And people talk shit on it, but
it made a ton of money. Like it did great for Disney, I
mean. It's it's awesome, but we're
also going to be doing an event in July, big event.
This is huge guys. We want this to be so big down
here in Wellington. We are doing a batch of the
future 40th anniversary block party at the Regent Cartridge,

(21:49):
and Quest is sponsoring the movie, so you guys can go see
the movie completely free at 7:30.
Yeah, not only that. I'm going to have the grill out
there. We're going to be doing some
sort of food. I don't know what I'm doing yet.
I don't even know what. Tell us what you want, if you.
Want something specific? Let us know.
Yeah. So I'm going to.
I'm going. To do something, I think we're
actually going to have a beer garden down there.
We're going to block off the block.
Yep, the streets going to. Be blocked off.

(22:10):
We're going to have vendors downthere.
Jerry's going to have a beer garden and we're keeping it as
cheap. As possible.
We're not doing like $12.00 beers or anything like that.
It's going to be cheap. Dude, we, we just want.
People to show up, have a good time and it's right before the
4th of July like come out, kick off your 4th of July well and
it's going to be a good time, man.
We're going to have a real. Life DeLorean down there for you
to take pictures with. It's the only one that I found

(22:32):
in Kansas like there this you it.
I don't know if you guys have even ever seen one because
they're so rare like come check out the DeLorean.
It's going to have those gold wings open.
You're going to be able to take pictures with it.
It's going to show people. If you want to dress up
anniversary the 40th like it It was 85 July and it's the day it
came out July 3rd. I told my dad that I.

(22:53):
Was like, hey, guess what, old ass, you know, it's like this is
40 years ago. He's like, no shit.
I was like, but it came out. July 3rd, 1985, like to the day.
We're doing it on July 3rd, 2025S to the day.
And if you want to dress up likeMartin McFly or Doc or whoever,
dress up, come out, have fun. I mean, yeah, I guess you could

(23:14):
dress up as Biff Tannen if you want, but he's a dork.
Fuck ass. So.
But July 3rd from 6 to 7:30 is the block party.
The movie is right after. Come get popcorn, come get
concessions from Jerry, buy somebeer, buy some food from Mike.
Look at the vendors. We don't know who's going to be
down there yet, but we're going to get as many vendors down

(23:36):
there as we can. How we're going to do like a
live. Podcast at that point, because,
oh, really cool. We could we could just set up a
table and just sit there and hang out with people, maybe do
some interviews from people who want to hang out and remember
seeing it for the first time, you know?
Yeah, I didn't even think about that.
But that would be sweet. That'd be interesting.
Something to look into. So we'll be talking about that.
From now until then, we'll have some Flyers out.

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We'll get Flyers put around Wellington.
I'm going to we're going to put put them on social media.
So come check that out. Make this a big deal.
It's close to the Wheat Festival.
Don't let that deter you. Come out, check it out.
Let's get this downtown hoppin on July 3rd for Back to the
Future night. Man, this is going to be cool.
Great time Retro Rewind Cartridge and Quest Retro

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Rewind. It's kind of hard to say, yeah.
I'll get used to it. It'll get better.
It never does. It never does.
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We use that shit a lot. I know we're.
Going to talk about a bunch of stuff that was created this week
that we still use. That's how I sign my.
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Erasmus. Lerdoff So this came, I mean,
last week, just last week, he talked about Bill Gates saying
the internet's going to be huge and we slept on it.
What fuckers and. Now this.
Thing is introduced and this is like this makes it's a it's

(26:12):
server side, which means it's fast because it's not having to
do anything on your computer andit's it was reactive and we
still use it. You talked about WordPress.
WordPress is about 40% of every website.
I fucking hated WordPress. OK, but it's about 40% of every

(26:33):
website and it's and WordPress uses PHP still today.
From 1995 to 2020 people use WordPress. 40% of the.
Freaking Internet uses WordPress, dumb bitches.
Wow, you just. Called 40% of the population,
it's like the 60. Percent of the Max and the 40%
are like your Dells and shit like that's that's what this is

(26:55):
like you dumb bitches haven't caught on yet.
I mean there someday. WordPress is pretty.
It's out there and it's easily accessible.
So it's AIDS doesn't mean. It's cool.
Whoa. Is it though?
I don't know. All those celebrities sang about
it, so maybe not. I think not.
What the fuck, 1997? Compaq released the TFT 500 flat

(27:21):
panel display on June 2nd. This is the very first early
example of the LCD screens that we used today.
This, I mean before this we had the huge, like this big heavy.
Like green screen this was. One of the first examples of a
flat panel display. I still remember the fucking.

(27:41):
Smell from the heat of those goddamn water.
You would turn. It off or when it would turn on
for the first time, Yeah. Golly dude, that was.
Insane and it would make that noise like you could hear it
was. Like a buzz.
And it was just like, yeah, so this was one of this was one of
the very first flat panels that came out and replaced those Boku
CRTS. And we still use a version of
that stuff now. So I mean, dude, we have at

(28:03):
work, we've got portable LCD monitors now where you just it's
one cable. You it's this thin and you just
plug it into your laptop. It's a It's like TV's are
getting cool as. Fuck yeah they are.
They they showed off rollable TV's.
They're getting bigger. And cheaper and like the
technology is just absolutely insane.

(28:23):
I said rollable. I don't give a fuck.
I don't know what that means. What that means?
No. You know what that meant for us?
Like when? What meant they rolled that?
Sucker in and was this big OCRT?Oh yeah, yeah, I'm talking about
is it rolls up. Oh shit.
Yeah, like a fucking magazine. Yes, beat your dog.
With it. Or something you just hit.
Thor with it and then go watch TV on it.

(28:44):
Unfold this bitch like. Watch my show.
What the fuck? But who the fuck?
Wants to roll ATV? Put your teeth in your back
pocket. And you're just hanging up
there. Who the fuck wants to?
Roll up the teeth, but I'm sitting.
There, watching TV was like God.Damn I wish I could pull this
fuck her up. Got to go now I.
Don't know, but it's a thing. So they're rolling them and I
think what that's going to end up turning into is just being

(29:05):
able to like make them more portable, right?
Anyway, 1998, June 8th to be exact, AOL America Online
announced they purchased ICQ. What the fuck that means?
Yes, you do. This was an.

(29:25):
Instant messaging platform that we all used, AOL Messenger.
No, man. This was ICQ, you don't you
don't remember I CQ it was the green flower with the one red.
Oh, I do. Vaguely.
Now that you say that, I'm like,holy shit, Yeah, you do
remember? This.
That's crazy. Yes.
So AOL. Bought this two years after it
came out because their platform kind of sucked and so they

(29:46):
wanted to They bought this instead because this thing was
huge. They bought it for $287,000,000
and it was short. So I CQ was actually I seek
SEEKU but it was IC and then theletter Q.
That's weird. So it was super popular.
Everybody back then knew what ICQ was and we all used it.

(30:08):
I did MSN. Messenger, yes.
I think we all had a bunch. We had multiples.
I will tell you my favorite thing to use back then was
Trillion and Trillion. Trillion brought them all
together into one. You sign into all of them and
then you can just message acrossthe platforms.
That was Trillion was cool. Yeah, that was.
Cool, so. ICQ got bought by AOL in 1980 or

(30:31):
for for $287,000,000 and actually what I saw when I was
researching this is ICQ just shut down in 2002 so they were
still going Damn that's wild butat.
Looking at it, it's like, OK, sofucking four years.
You said 2002. 2020. 2 is what Imeant to say.
Holy shit yes like 2 years ago Iwas like so they lasted 4?
Years. Big fucking deal 2022.

(30:53):
They shut down. That's crazy.
Yeah. Why?
Were they even necessary in the?I don't know what they were
doing. Like I I couldn't tell you.
I guess they were still doing messaging.
OK. So that's computers for this
week. I know that's the worst part.
So we got through it. Games 1998 the Game Boy Color
was announced at E3 that, my friends, was the answer to the

(31:16):
cartridge conundrum last week wehad we had a ton of engagement
on this cartridge I was super happy with this one I'm going to
be honest anytime you. Ask one of these cartridge
conundrums. I'm like, I have no fucking
idea. And I don't think another second
about it. It just goes out my mind.
And I'm just like, and you're like, oh, yeah, The answer.
I'm like, oh, yeah, that was a question.
Yeah. Well, that's yeah, that.

(31:37):
So the cart, the Game Boy Color was the answer.
And a lot of people were like, well, the very first color
handheld was the Game Gear and I'm and I'm just like, guys, I
didn't say anything about the very first one.
Shut up, bitch. It was.
It was. Nintendo's very first one, cuz
we were talking about Zelda and Mario and Pokémon, and those
were on Nintendo platforms. Yeah.
So Game Boy Color was the answerlast year last week, 2001, a

(32:04):
highly influential, influential puzzle game Bejeweled.
This kind of started the whole. Like fucking Candy Crush shit.
I think so, but I. Think really Tetris started it.
If you want to really go back, Tetris.
What? Tetris is the original and by
that fuck. Tetris.
Wow. Yep.
All right, we're rage baiting that this week.

(32:25):
People are going to fucking loveto hate on that, but I fucking
hate it. Tetris.
Was awesome. Doctor Mario is better it.
Was. The same thing that was fucking
Mario and pills. I love Mario and pills I still
think about. Tetris.
When I'm like loading a truck orloading the back of a van, I'm
like, Oh yeah, I can fit that there.

(32:45):
Like that'll go right there. If there's a it's, it's straight
up and down. I can fit this in there.
No, no, no, no, no. Not loading the truck.
Yes, loading a truck, a trunk, a.
Truck. Oh, OK, or.
Putting junk in the trunk. Go ahead.
Jeez, you're in trouble now. You.
Didn't even do it. And you're in trouble.

(33:05):
I didn't. Yeah, whatever.
Yes, be jeweled. This, I mean, yeah, it's, it was
for the PC. It started a lot of things.
I feel like it, it was a jumpingpoint for a bunch of games.
Mobile, when mobile started, like a lot of this stuff went
after Bejeweled, right? Yeah.
Also in 2001, Crazy Taxi 2 for the Dreamcast.

(33:27):
You didn't play this. This was fun, dude.
Like, so Crazy Taxi was you would take jobs to go pick
someone up and they would pay you a certain amount of money to
do it. And you, it was there was all
kinds of calamities. That sounds fun.
Yeah, it was fun. Like there was all kinds of
things. You had all kinds of obstacles
you had to get through to get tothem and then get there on time
because they needed to be there in a certain time.

(33:48):
And then you'd get paid a certain amount of money and then
you could go upgrade your car and all that kind of stuff.
So Crazy Taxi was fun. So Crazy Taxi 2 came out in 2001
on the Am I crazy are you talking?
Fast as fuck. Is there something else?
Besides tea in this, I don't know.
I just felt like I was. Just listening to you rapid
fire. I was like holy shit.
Here's what happened. I'm not gonna lie here's this

(34:10):
has been on my mind for about 3 days.
I was listening to a guy on a live on TikTok.
And I got him. To look at one of our clips,
yeah live on his TikTok page andit was a 45 second clip of us
talking about cheesecake. Hey, Cheesecake.

(34:30):
And. He's like that seemed like it
took forever. Oh.
Yeah. And I was like, what?
He said. Yeah, if you if there's a way
for you to like take that 45 seconds and do it at 1.5 speed,
I think it would get a lot more engagement.
And I was like, bro, that's honest.

(34:53):
Like yeah, Dang, OK, I mean, I can.
Speed the podcast up while I'm editing.
I can make it. Well, that doesn't help my.
Clips and I I can't really do myI can't that's true.
I can't really put my clips at 1.5, but I was it was just
something where I was like a lotof times what I'll do when I'm
clipping is I can go in and automatically just take out the

(35:14):
pauses or the umm, sure, something that'll make.
It faster. And make it seem like we're not
like pausing. But so I was talking fast
probably cuz that was in my brain.
That guy saying it needed to be quicker.
I like it. I don't know if I do or not.
But it was there and that's probably why I was talking fast.
Plus I feel like you put a gummyin this cuz I talk fast when I'm
on a gun. There's a lot of.
Stuff in there that's a Long Island.

(35:36):
So I mean there's like 4 different types of liquid.
You guys still? Like ice.
Fuck do these. Things still let.
Ice come through. Yeah, they do.
Because I can hear your lot of. Oh man, OK, 2007.

(35:57):
No, no, no, I'm assuming we're back 2005, The Unity game
engine. This is a big one dude.
Unity game engine was released on June 8th and at Apple's
Worldwide Developer Conference, this engine would become a
massively popular game development across many
platforms. So Unity, Cuphead, Fall Guys,

(36:21):
and Among Us are probably the biggest ones that used Unity as
the rendering engine. I mean, the biggest one is
Unreal. Everybody knows Unreal, right?
But Unity's another one, and it still gets used a lot.
I mean, mobile games use this a lot, Unity.
But yeah, those three are probably the biggest that use
Unity. And that came out in 2005.
So that thing's 20 years old andpeople are still using it.

(36:43):
Yeah, so 2007 Forza Motorsport 2for the Xbox 360, Mario Party 8
for the Wii, and Shadowrun for the PC and Xbox 360 came out.
So I've played two of those. I don't know that I ever played
Shadowrun. Yeah, I don't know what that is.
Me either. You ready for this feel?

(37:04):
Like we need to play the. Bulls opening ceremony.
No, we don't dot. Dot .0.
No. OK, all right Quest comrades,
cast your mind back to 2009 for this cartridge conundrum.
The air was thick with Mountain Dew fumes and the hum of
1,000,000 Xbox Three 60s becauseE3 was absolutely bonkers.

(37:28):
Microsoft, always trying to level up, pulled a huge surprise
out of their hat. They unveiled this revolutionary
controller free input device forthe Xbox 360 that was codenamed
Project and Natal, and it promised to let us ditch our
greasy game pads and just flail our arms and shout at the TV to
play. So for this, for all you

(37:51):
seasoned gamers and tech historians out there, here's
your cartridge conundrum for this week.
What was the final official retail name for this
groundbreaking controller free motion sensing Xbox 360
technology when it finally hit the market, you got it.
I know this one because I. Shared a story about it.
You did my my. Siblings.
So if you have. Been listening from day one.

(38:13):
Yeah, you already know. But yeah, I feel like this one's
easy. Mode.
I feel like everybody should getthis.
Yeah, I want to see everybody. Commenting on this one.
This one should be pretty big. Who's?
Going to be the first to. Comment right?
Yeah, I don't. Know Keith he held back this
week but there was a lot more comments so OK yeah so this is I
feel like this was pretty easy mode but that was kind of fun

(38:37):
All right pop culture there's a lot here I'm going to try to get
through it quick but there's just a lot of stuff that
happened from just right before we were born all the way down
until after we graduated and it's mostly movies and like pop
culture really could should probably be called TV's a movie
because that's really what it isbut 1983 war games starring
Matthew Broderick. Do you remember this?

(39:00):
Did you ever watch this? So he's a he was just a, he was
a kid and he played video games,right?
And he accidentally hacked into the military and.
So he actually. Hacked into a top secret

(39:20):
military supercomputer called Whopper.
WLPR War, Operation Plan Response.
He he thought he was playing a new video game called Global
Thermonuclear War, but unknowingly he triggered a real
world nuclear bomb and he had tofigure out how to get the US

(39:40):
government to not get him in trouble and turn it off.
And so he decided he was going to have them, He was going to
tell them it was a game and theyneeded to figure out how to
convince the military to not start World War 3.
That sounds pretty cool. Yeah, I know, but it was 19. 83
And so Matthew Broderick, you know him, right?

(40:03):
Is that Ferris it? Is Ferris.
That's what he's doing with thisday.
Off, yeah. Son of a bitch.
Starting a nuclear war. Nuclear wars. 1984 franchise
power Star Trek 3 The Search forSpock.
I don't say Boo. I'm not going to say another
thing that's fucking. Terrible.
I'm not. Oh.
My gosh, you're going to go there?

(40:24):
He's going there boring and I. I got to say I I kind of thought
the same thing about Star Wars, but now I'm like almost to the
end of the the fucking Obi Wan series about to do like 4-5 and
six and I'm like, he sucked intothat one.
Like I've seen some Star Trek. I'm like, God damn, it's boring.
It it's. It's a nerdier version for sure.
Like it's it's it's definitely nerdier than Star Wars, I would

(40:47):
say. But yes, Star Trek 3, the search
for I wasn't going to go there. Like I was just going to say I'm
not a fan, but you went there. Fucking nerds, come at.
Me. I don't care, OK?
So June 8th, 1984. Two huge movies.
OK. Number.

(41:09):
One Ghostbusters, are you going to call?
Yeah, absolutely. Huge.
That's crazy. They're here to save the world.
Boom, Ghostbusters, Bill Murray,Dan Aykroyd and those other two
guys. You're going to have people.
Fucking man. This movie's great dude.
We watch it every Halloween. The the the freaking soundtrack

(41:31):
is still a slap. Like it's awesome.
And then the second one, a lot weirder but still cool.
Gremlins. Gremlins was fucking weird.
But it was a good one. Super weird.
Those gremlins were creepy and probably gave me nightmares.
I know I had one. I remember having a gremlin.
Like a stuffed animal. Or do you think it would happen
to be pissed on A? Gremlin, doesn't it?
Smoke. I don't know.

(41:54):
I thought it did. Thought that happened in the
movie. Yeah, with water.
Oh water, You think it's like this is any different?
I doubt a beer like it turns like a fucking hillbill.
It's just water with other stuffin it.
Yeah. I don't know.
OK, I want to know. Your opinion on this one?
1985 The adventure comedy The Goonies.

(42:16):
Goonies never say die. Good, bad do.
You remember it? Did you watch it?
Is it a big deal to you? I liked it and.
It was kind of fucking weird, but.
You know. Whatever, everything was weird
in the 80s. Hey you.
Guys, right, That's from that Jesus.
Christ, you can't do that. Got him, I got him.

(42:42):
That's the biggest laugh on the podcast so far.
He's red faced. I got it.
I'm going to clip. I'm going to clip that shit and
readily pop it into the box. He can retire.
Because that is the biggest laugh.
Oh. Fuck, I hope everybody else
finds out as entertaining as I did because I don't know God
damn it. He said.

(43:02):
I quit. He's just.
Stopping. The fuck just happened?
Now he's on the phone, 1987. Harry and the Hendersons, you
remember this? I'm aware of it.
I watch this. Movie a bunch like Bigfoot's
always been a big deal, right? And so they thought they hit
Bigfoot, they thought they killed him, so they threw him on

(43:24):
top of the friggin Clark Mobile or whatever the on top of the
wagon or something station wagon.
And they take him home and he's alive.
And it's like, holy crap, we gotthis big scary monster, hairy
monster looking right at right at us in our face.
And he ends up being like the nicest, coolest.
But he's like, he's so big that it just makes everything funny.

(43:47):
And so they just, it's, it's a funny movie.
Like, I haven't gone back and watched it and probably, I bet I
haven't seen that movie in 25 years, but Dang, that makes me
sound real old. But yeah, I mean, I it was
funny. I remember watching it as a kid.
It was on a lot. I feel like I'm going to have
to. Visit a few of these and yeah, I
know I have this one at. Home on my on my Plex server, so
I definitely know I can we can watch this one without having to

(44:10):
figure out where it's at. All right, 1989.
This one was heavy. Dude.
I don't know if you watched thismovie, but dead post society
with Robin Williams. He's a professor out of all boys
school and he's a little bit, he's a little bit wacky, but
he's not normal Robin Williams. Like he's it's a pretty heavy
movie. And like they he gets these guys

(44:31):
to kind of band together. One of the guys ends up
committing suicide and it's justit kind of wrecks them a little
bit and kind of messes them up. And so this movie, I mean, it
was meant to be heavy. It was critically acclaimed.
It's not it wasn't a comedy. It wasn't anything that was
supposed to be super fun, but itwas it was a heavy one.
It's always interesting to see. Somebody like Robin Williams in
a serious role. Yeah.

(44:52):
Like Jim Carrey or something like that.
And it's like, I agree. Yeah, and he did a great job and
he was really good at it. But yeah, this was this one was
heavy 1989 no holds barred Hulk Hogan.
This is what he went off to do. This is why he.
Left. This is why he left.

(45:13):
No, he was still around. This was.
But he did go off to do movies and yeah, so I don't, I mean,
this wasn't a great movie. I mean, he wasn't a great actor.
This happens a lot now. Like wrestlers are actors a lot
now. And it's WWE has their own.
Like films too? I don't know if they do.
Anymore, Yeah, I'm just saying Iknow they.
Did and it was. Well, I think that one.

(45:34):
Of their newer movies is called No Holds Barred with Kane in it
like that after this. But yeah, I mean it was fine,
but he's definitely a better wrestler than he was an actor.
1990 Arnold Schwarzenegger sci-fi blockbuster Total Recall.
Meh, didn't watch it. Meh.

(45:56):
Whatever, 1991. I definitely remember this
movie. Don't tell, don't tell mom the
babysitter died or don't tell mom the babysitter's dead.
It had Kelly from the Bundys in it.
What is her name? Christina Applegate.
And their mom leaves for the summer or something and leaves

(46:20):
them with a babysitter. And the babysitter dies
immediately. Like, it's this old tag.
And she just dies. And they're like, well, we can't
tell mom because then she'll have to come back and we want to
be free. And so they like, put her in
this trunk and send her to the morgue.
And then they realized that Mom paid cash and the cash was in

(46:41):
their pocket and so all the money is with her.
And so they have no money for the entire summer.
And so they send in a fake resume to some company and they
get this really well paying job.And so this one of the sisters
is making a lot of money and theother kids are just doing all
kinds of crazy crap at home. And it's just a typical 90s.
Don't think I watched it. Yeah, I, I.
Definitely watched it a few times, but you know it wasn't

(47:06):
not my favorite movie. In 1994, the FX channel launched
on June 1st. Hell yeah.
I know you. Say that, but like it was lame
for a long time. I'm sure it was, but I.
Feel like now FX any time I cross FX like that's the thing.
I never watch TV, but if I'm like in a hotel or something,
it's like generally FX has something good on yes.
It's usually something funny or like, I don't know.

(47:27):
I mean they had they. Had Justified which was awesome.
They had the shield which was awesome.
They have always Sunny. Sunny is so fucking good.
And so. Yes, now FX is great, but I
think up until like 2002, it waspretty lame.
Like it, it started out as like a a show in an apartment like

(47:48):
they were, they would like be inthis apartment with two people
and they'd be talking and then they would go show like old, old
shows, like syndicated stuff from Fox.
It was weird. So they finally found their
groove because FX is cool now. And then now there's FXX, which
I think it's just movies. I hear they're going.
To do FXX 6, No I don't. Think so?

(48:09):
That sounds too racy. OK 1996 The action-packed
Michael Bay film The Rock, starring Sean Connery and
Nicolas Cage, exploded on the end of theaters in June June
7th. Meh.
Didn't watch it. 1997. Nicolas Cage and John Travolta
in Conair. Conner was badass.

(48:30):
OK, this is I feel. Like these are basically the
same movie. And.
Somebody said that Nicolas Cage had to put a movie out in the
first week of June where he was just like defusing crisis.
OK. Because.
These sounded these sound like the exact same movie.
One was on a rock and one was onan airplane.

(48:52):
But he, Nicolas Cage, is just like, I like it then.
He started stealing the fucking independence.
Yeah, freaking. What are you saying?
I don't know the words just. Escaped me as I was going
Declaration of Declaration of Independence.
That thing. National.
Treasure. Yeah.
Is that the movie? Yeah.
Yeah. Pretty cool.
You were talking about. Jim Carrey June 5th, 1998 The

(49:15):
Truman Show. That was wild.
Wasn't it it? Was pretty wild.
He was. He's still, I mean, he's right
behind you, so we'll be careful what we say.
But he is a weird dude it. But he like dug into this like
he was. Yeah.
This guy what's? His name?
Truman. No.

(49:38):
Isn't this Andy Warhol? What the fuck are you talking?
Is that this movie? What bitch are you talking
about? What?
Are you trying to be the comedian?
Yes, this. Is not this one Jesus Christ?
Not this one Truman shows like where he's in a fake world and

(49:59):
everybody around him is actors like even as that's what I was
trying. To ask you before I made myself
look dumb and you wouldn't say anything.
God damn. It and then you let me be.
Dumb. And then you figure it out.
Warhol. I'm like.
Typical Mikey, let me fail before you jump in.
So much more fun. That way just let it it's like

(50:19):
watching a car wreck and it's like you just wait for it to hit
me like shouldn't have done thatshouldn't have done that all
right, I. Did not see this movie but 2001
Swordfish. Everybody knows what what was in
this movie. Halle Berry.
Yes. Halle Berry was naked.

(50:40):
I didn't ever see it, but we allknew it, Yeah.
And. It was a big deal in 2001.
Was he Bob Thornton in that as well?
I don't see him on the. Run sheet.
There's Travolta, Jackman and Halle Berry.
I don't know. OK.
I put this one in there for you buddy. 2000.
One Food Network unwrapped. Such a great show.

(51:04):
If you didn't watch. Every episode unwrapped I I feel
like I need. To go back and revisit it
because it's like I, I've alwaysloved the science behind food
and that's why I like food. I feel like people have a love
and appreciation for food, but it's like, if you don't
understand why it does the things that it, it will do, like
you can't like evolve as a cook,you know what I mean?

(51:25):
Like if you understand the science behind it and why things
taste good, it makes it better. And that's why these companies
spend fucking millions of dollars hiring scientists to do
the perfect amount of like salt and fat and sugar, because then
you're addicted. So they figured all this out and
seeing on rap, seeing like your favorite snacks, seeing how
they're like mass produced, which I guarantee everybody in
like other countries, like, oh fuck, all your food is just mass

(51:46):
produced. And it's like, but it's cool to
see how it's done. You know what I mean?
Like you get to watch a Twinkie get made, like that's crazy.
Or Doritos, you know, it's like,I don't know, there's just
something about it. It's just really interesting to
see like where this food is coming from, even though it's
not just out of a fucking gardenor something.
It was this. Show was so cool, like I watched
so much Unwrapped. Like the guy from Double Dare.

(52:10):
What's his name? Yeah, Mark Summers.
Mark. Summers.
Just the production and the way that they went in and showed it
and like they got real close in on conveyor belts and with show
that makes me want to go watch it.
Now, because, man, it was such. A cool show and people tried to
somebody had to create. The shit to make that too, you
know what I mean? Like even like, let's say a
Snickers bar, it's like, oh, it's hit with a blast of air to

(52:31):
give it the signature, right? Fanny girth, you know?
Wow. I could have said.
That better, but I didn't want to you.
Definitely could have been that brilliant.
Yeah, I mean this. Yeah, this was a super cool
show. I watched a ton of Unwrapped and
now Carlton from Fresh Prince. Weird, weird throw.
Throwback there, but yeah, he he's definitely in there. 2002

(52:52):
HBO. Crime drama The Wire premiered.
I've tried to watch The Wire a couple times.
I've never gotten through it, but I've heard it is one of the
best TV shows. I've heard things, but yeah.
I'd never even tried 2000 and. Four Harry Potter and the
Prisoner of Azkaban premiered onJune 4th.
Love me some Harry Potter. You know what movie this?
Is in the series the third? The third one.

(53:14):
That's right, good job. I feel like you might have
cheated. I know.
My hair maybe? Any good stories?
Anything you want to talk about?No, OK.
Hell's Kitchen, I also put this one in there for you.
Hell's Kitchen, 2005. This is Gordon Ramsay.

(53:36):
Yeah, and he does have a restaurant in Vegas and I really
want to go try it because I've heard a lot of people go and say
like, yeah, it's actually reallygood.
We've walked by it about. 50 times when we've been in Vegas,
'cause it's right there where westayed.
So yeah, and then 2007, the star-studded heist film Ocean's
13. These were so cool, like the the
Oceans movies, Ocean's 13. I didn't watch it, but I've I've

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heard you. Haven't seen these.
Dude, when you have some down time, you should watch these.
They're so fun. Like Brad Pitt, there's so many
people in them and they're so just like the way that they it's
just cool. Like it's a cool experience.
Just this watch the movie and see what's going on and see what
happens. Interesting.
Yeah, They're they're super fun movies.
The first one I think Ocean's 13I think is the the Casino Vegas

(54:19):
1 and that one's really cool andfun.
So yeah, I'm going to throw something out.
Here real quick, so one of my buddies, Cody, Chef Cody, he's
he was like one of the finalistson Hell's Kitchen and super
talented chef. Like he's doing some amazing
things and he's actually talked about being a guest on here with
us. So at some point my buddy Cody's
going to come on here and we're going to talk food and and he I

(54:40):
think he likes to nerd out aboutfood as well because, you know,
there's a lot of just cool shit you can do that a lot of people
don't think about. So that sounds fun.
Yeah, he's, he's great. Hey, WCW.
Nitro June 1st featured Goldbergcontinuing his streak.
I don't know if you remember this back then, but Goldberg was
like unstoppable. He did not lose.
He he ended up being 173 and andO during this run and this is

(55:03):
just right in the middle of thatin 98.
He ended up losing that losing in December of 98.
But yeah, he was just unstoppable and just the
fireworks and the way he came out and just the whole the whole
deal, he was fucking built to he.
Was, yeah, he was a monster. He was.
He was. Cool.
It was a pretty cool gimmick. I feel like that everybody
wanted like that's if you told anybody this is your gimmick,

(55:26):
like they're going to say, yes, give me that, right.
Like just let me beat everybody.And yeah.
And so I feel like not very manypeople got to do that, but he
did. So 1993, I don't know why it's
out of order. The WWF was in its final build
to the very first King of the Ring pay-per-view.
These were cool, man. Like they did King of the Ring

(55:48):
before this, but this was like the first big where it was like
its own thing. And King of the Ring's just a
tournament, Like it was just a wrestling tournament.
And so you would go through and you were seated and you'd do a
bracket and then the final person would get the staff and
the crown and they'd be crowned.And it was really whoever they
were going to push that year forthe title is probably who was

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going to win the King of the Ring.
So you knew whoever won the Kingof the Ring, you were going to
see a lot of them that year, probably leading up to
WrestleMania the next year. And then I missed this one, so I
want to go back to it because it's big news. 2001 The WWF
bought WCW in May of 2001. This was shocking.

(56:31):
I remember seeing this. I don't know if you were
watching, but I remember seeing this.
Vincent man's out there cutting a promo.
He's talking about WCW. You're like, what the heck is he
doing? And then up on the Jumbotron,
and if you were like me, you hadtwo TV's in your room and you
had WCW Nitro on top and WWF Rawon the bottom.
What you saw when it came back from commercial break was you

(56:52):
saw Shane McMahon on WCW Nitro in the ring and you saw Vince
McMahon on WWF Raw in the ring and then on the Jumbotron for
each. You saw the other one and you
were like, holy crap, what happened?
I remember seeing that it was. Crazy and.
So what happened? Vince bought this but the
storyline was Shane actually bought WCW out from underneath

(57:14):
Vince and so he screwed him and Vince was just pissed about it.
So, but this was, it was cool, but at the same time it sucked
because there was now there was no more competition and
competition's what drove the Attitude Era competition's, what
drove the NWO to be awesome, like all that stuff.
And so there was no more competition.

(57:36):
And so it just WWF got to do whatever they wanted.
But this was wild to see. They've always.
Been good about like just doing crazy shit though.
Like it. I don't know they they always
found a way to push it for sure.Yeah.
So that's wrestling music real quick.
Wham, everything she wants. I don't know that song that was

(57:57):
that was 1985. I don't remember that one.
And then Prince all around the world in a day album was the was
the album of the of the week something about I.
Don't remember the song I. Had it in here and for some
reason my stuff's not saved, butthis album, this was after

(58:19):
Purple Rain and it just this, I mean, it was big because he was
Prince and he did everything he did was big.
But Purple Rain was so big that this one in my mind, like Prince
is Purple Rain to me. And so this one, I just don't
remember a whole lot about it. 1992.
Ska punk band Sublime released their first album, 40 Ounces to
Freedom. Bad Fish was the biggest song.

(58:42):
I went back and listened to this.
I don't like it. I I.
Was never big into Sublime. They had some like Santeria was.
That was probably their biggest.One right that wasn't on this.
I don't think that was on this. I was.
I was never really. Listening to Yeah. 1996 Bone
Thugs N Harmony the Crossroads dude.
So my brother. Reminded me of a funny story and

(59:03):
it's something that I just, you know, was a race from my memory.
But my younger brother got aholdof me.
He's like, man, when I heard youguys talking shit about Bone
Thugs N Harmony, I thought you're going to share that story
of our older brother. Like, I don't know what was
going on. He was pissed about something,
but anyways, he he thought he had the bone thug CD and he's
like, I'm going to fucking ruin it, You know, like he we had
these like textured walls and shit and he was just going to
like rub it on the wall and ruin.

(59:24):
It's like fucking better not whatever.
So he made true on his promise and started rubbing the fucking
thing against the wall and then realized after he took his hand
off his like our Diablo game or something.
So he fucking just ruined Diablobeyond fucking repair.
Not playing that anymore but. My brother's like.
God, he's like, I was just waiting for this story and it
never came through and I was like God damn, I forgot.

(59:44):
I never would have thought of itagain if he wouldn't have said
that. And I was like, fuck, I, I can
like still remember him like rubbing the shit out of the wall
like. Hilarious how fucking crazy.
Like what A. Crazy threat just to grab a
seat. I'm going to ruin it.
Ruin. It what is going on?
Wow, so the Crossroads, that wasa good song.
Yeah. Metallica came out with load on

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June 4th. Number one.
I don't know the I don't know ifI could tell you a song off a
load, but I'm sure I'd if I heard it, I'd know it.
No for sure. 2002 Eminem The Eminem Show.
My kids, literally. Still asked me to play like
Eminem in the car. I'm like, Oh my God, we do the
the clean version. The kids like have.
Recently found Eminem and that it's like the old stuff still

(01:00:27):
holds up. It does his stuff.
Man, this was his fourth album. Without Me is the biggest song
on this one. And this is the guess who's
back. They still play a clip of this
at every single Stars game when somebody comes out of the
penalty box. Yeah.
And so this is this is the iconic superhero E Man video.

(01:00:49):
And so, yeah, this was a big one. 2003 the number one album
was Marilyn Manson, the golden age of grotesque shit.
Do we want to talk? About the.
What is the thing? That Mandela Effect that we like
before the Internet was at like,oh.

(01:01:11):
Yeah, everybody brew lunch tablespread.
This rumor across our entire country, and I don't even think
it's true, but everybody knew that Marilyn Manson had taken
two of his ribs out so he could do The Dirty on himself.
Yeah. And.
And he? Was Paul from Wonder Years?
Yes. Like what?
I saw like a picture of like a reunion for Wonder years and it

(01:01:34):
had like the two main characters, you know, And then
it had Marilyn Manson with the two.
I was like, God damn it, it got me.
That's hilarious. But I don't know how we spread
that rumor. But everybody.
Everybody. Knew it, knew it.
Everyone knew that rumor. But I remember getting like, my
first Marilyn Manson CD, like mymom found it at like a garage
sale or something and brought it.
And she's like, you know who this is?

(01:01:54):
And I was like, yeah, do you, you know, like what?
And I, I remember you wouldn't have bought it.
I. Can't remember if it was.
The name of the the album or just like the first song and it
was called Cake and Sodomy. Oh jeez, that's a.
Good A. Good intro to what Marilyn
Manson is for the Lindsey who who do not know.
Yes, exactly. That's a that's a crazy one.
And then that took stained 14 Shades of Grey.

(01:02:18):
Took over that one in 2003 laterin the week.
Man, I'm gonna tell you this one.
I guarantee. This one got you.
I'm gonna tell you what. Had a fucking.
Chokehold probably still does. I'm gonna tell you what.
Burn yeah, let it freaking burn.Usher Uh huh.
Usher Confessions 2004. He was the number one song and

(01:02:40):
the number one album, and he should have been like this dude
is. He was on fire back then.
Dude, I have to say I'm a little.
Disappointed. I I brought up the whole anthem
from last week to my wife and I was like, how many times you get
down to and. And she's like, I don't, I don't
even know what that song is. And I play, I play it.
Yeah, I I guarantee know what itis.
And I played it and she's like, no, I don't know what that is.

(01:03:00):
What? She'd never heard the rough.
Riders anthem before and I was like, I don't know how you
listen to the music you listen to, like why you work out
especially and you haven't got down to this song yet.
Oh my gosh. Crazy.
I am shocked by that. I know I I.
I would have put my life on it. I would have too for.
Sure. Like I would have thought, yeah,
for sure, easy. I would have put.
Your life on it, right? Yeah. 100% Mike's life on that

(01:03:20):
one. Just that's music.
Damn. I feel like.
I feel like I've. Created a beast here.
Yeah, it's. Just getting fucking bigger and
bigger. Yeah, I don't know, Is Retro
Rewind its own thing? Yeah.
I, I will say I've, I've been happily just letting this go
along though, because we did getsome new airmail this week.

(01:03:42):
And normally I'm very excited about airmail, but we had that
house on Jefferson send us some stuff.
And let me just preface this real quick, just because you
sent us airmail doesn't mean we have to do fucking shit.
I mean. OK, I feel like we.
Have to for the sake of this one, but if people just started
sending this fucked up stuff like I'm I'm not going to.
I feel like you started it. Excuse me?

(01:04:03):
By just saying. Hey, give us 5 bucks and he'll
put beans in his pants, OK? And nobody's done that yet.
Yeah, well, now we got. Now look what you did.
This is fucked. And I'm going to tell you why,
because we we got a a package sent in and it has 2 sodas. 2
sodas. Sodas and a candy so.
The soda flavor is pickle. Yes, it is.
And barf, what the fuck? Who does that?

(01:04:27):
Apparently that house on. Jefferson And then I will.
Say, this doesn't sound too bad,but we have some sour punch
bites and it's pickle roulette. Yeah, so there's I.
Think it's some good stuff and then there's nasty pickle in
there somewhere. I'd rather just.
If it was just pickle, pickle. I just eat the.
Pickle like that sounds fine to me.
Like if there's a way to determine the Pickles, I'll just

(01:04:47):
fucking eat them. But you guys know we're part of
the. Collector's Maze Network now,
and so they've got a ton of shows on the network.
You can check out some collectibles with the House of
Geekery, or you can listen to the Realmcast Mortal Kombat
Online's official podcast. You can check both of those out.
We're now on the site. You can go to

(01:05:08):
collectorsmazenetwork.com/shows and all the shows.
They've got episodes, they've got links to websites, all that
stuff. If it's nerdy, they've got you
and go check out Collector's Maze.
Hopefully we've got some big things coming through these guys
here in the summertime and throughout the fall.
So I'm ready. Yeah, check these guys out.
Why am I winded? I don't know, you said.

(01:05:30):
You got winded taking your pantsoff the other day, so I did and.
That was bad. That's that's the most fucked up
thing. Like when you try to eat better.
And I'm not saying I eat great all the time, but I will do
better. So like for example, like if I
don't have breakfast, have like a salad for lunch, then like I
don't feel bad eating whatever for dinner.
Work out like every day if I can.
And then like go to take your pants off and I'm like why the

(01:05:51):
fuck am I breathing so heavy? God damn it.
Is it steak? I don't.
Know that's true. I'm so.
Scared to even just fucking. Smell it, It's pink.
It can't be that bad. Fuck, it looks real bad from the
IT makes me want to throw up. Just look at that.
Take that. Oh.
Great. Chunky flavor and then I'll give
you the. The pickle as well.

(01:06:13):
OK. Did we show them?
Could you show them off? Here.
Fucking shit. Of course I got my.
Heck yeah, my Avi Travi chapter.All right, I'm starting with
Pickle because, OK, we'll do it.I don't know how this is going.
To go, but cheers to Pickle. Thanks.
That house on Jefferson? Oh fuck.

(01:06:36):
That's not that bad it. Tastes like a fucking.
Crayon. It tastes like pickle.
Yeah, that's not good, but it's not so bad.
I was just hoping it was. Going to taste like pickle juice
and then I'm like, I don't thinkit does I.
Love no. That's the second one I.
Shouldn't have done the second one, it tastes like.
I shouldn't have done that. If sweet.

(01:06:58):
Pickle was a crayon. That's what it tastes like.
I shouldn't have taken the second.
Swig Why'd I do that? OK, God damn.
It oh gosh Dang. Ready, ready for barf.
Cheers to barf. Thanks to that house on
Jefferson. I freaking knew it.

(01:07:19):
Yeah, that's all about the label.
Thank God. Because man, no, that that
wasn't bad at all. No, it doesn't.
I don't even. Feel like it has a taste at all.
Yeah, it, I mean it has. A flavor of some sort, but it
kind of just is like sugar. But it's it's definitely not
crazy. Barf is better than pickle.
Barf is better than pickle. People.

(01:07:40):
With that being said though, I'll.
Stick to the Long Islands. Yeah, we got this.
These New Jersey iced teas New Jersey iced tea just.
Drinking piss out of a trash canman.
Same joke. OK, nights in a row.
Sour punch bites. Pickle roulette.
So this is going. To be either green apple, lemon,
lime, watermelon, or pickle. I'm just going to take.

(01:08:04):
A few of them here. Oh Jesus.
And it's sour. God I I love sour.
I do not like sour. Stuff.
Fuck. All right.
I've got like 4 of them here, are they all the same?
Oh, some of them are going to bedifferent.
That's the deal. It's cheating if you smaller,
right? Yeah, probably.
OK. Let's try one, yeah?

(01:08:26):
I feel like it's all just the same.
Flavor just melded together because it was like green apple
pickle. That did not taste like pickle.
OK, was it not taste like pickle?
The question I had. That must have been the pickle
then, because it tastes like green apple and pickle together,

(01:08:49):
and now it's in my teeth. I don't think I got a bad one.
All right, guys. Airmail's cool.
People just send us random shit like, I don't, I don't know.
I don't know man, it was scarier.
We in our brain, it was scarier than it actually was.
Yeah, that's. That's for sure.
But with that being said, there's a lot of fucked up stuff

(01:09:10):
out there on the Internet that people could send us.
And I don't know, man, I'm not trying to like peg you on the
podcast or anything. No, I definitely.
Want that to happen but. It was good.
It was OK. So I will say one of our
listeners sent me something. It wasn't airmail, but he was

(01:09:32):
like, hey, have you have you heard this?
And I was like, no, what is it? It's a song.
Let me see. I always forget the artist's
name here. My buddy Lee.
Sent this to me and it's Eminem featuring Adele and the song is
called Praise and it's like a worship song.

(01:09:53):
And at first I'm like, holy shit.
You know my first thought I was like, why the fuck would Eminem
be doing a worship song, which I'm sure is what everybody else
is thinking. And he immediately says, oh, by
the way, AI, but it's still good.
I'm like, Oh well that makes a lot more sense now.
But it's like, how crazy. Is it that you can like, and
I've even seen like ABS where it's like, hey, you could see
what you sound like when you sing by like just doing some

(01:10:14):
phrases and it'll like use your voice for songs and stuff.
So it is crazy that we're at this point in AI and we keep
talking about how it gets just crazier and crazier.
So we have I. Mean, honestly, like we have
some big news here because this whole time we've been doing this
podcast, yeah. We've just.
Been props. It's fake.

(01:10:35):
We we're. AI the whole time and you guys
didn't even know we literally can.
Just text what we want to say and have this AI that's right.
Be us. And how crazy is that it?
It's nuts. It's crazy that that VO 3 is
able to do this and no one even.Notices and nobody even knew.
It's wild so. Anyway.

(01:10:58):
I remember. Telling my dad about how AI
started and there was like a video of Will Smith eating
spaghetti. Yes it was terrible.
The. Craziest.
Fucked up rendering like ever. You saw the new ones?
Yeah, and now like you actually search some of this VO3, it's
crazy like I mean fabric changesand different things like

(01:11:18):
spaghetti they. Showed people eating spaghetti
again and it was professional. And it was steamy.
I mean, it looked like a great plated, you know, not even just
spaghetti. It's like plated.
Well, like they ate it right? Like they.
Spun it. They put it in the mouth, they
slurped it like it. They had the sound, they had the
voices. As the sound effects AI is
getting insane. And to touch base on kind of
what we just talked about with the whole AI thing being a

(01:11:40):
script. I remember hearing like this
podcast of these people who are podcasters and it was like this
man and this woman. And they had them run this
podcast just based on scripts. And then they said at one point
they're like, hey, you guys aren't real.
You guys are AI. And these guys are reacting.
The AI is reacting like, Oh yeah, it's like, my wife isn't
even real. I didn't know.
Like they told me I had a wife and I, I had a wife, but now I

(01:12:02):
don't. And turns out we're just fake.
And how fucking crazy would it be that that's your your reality
is to find out that like nothingyou know is real and it's all
just. It's hard to wrap your mind
around it because like that they, it was the, that program
was programmed to think it was real the whole time.
It had a back story. It had all of that.
And then for that thing to find out that it's not real.

(01:12:23):
Obviously it doesn't have emotions because it's not real,
but the fact that it was able toreact that way, how fucking
crazy would you? Feel though, if like something
told you like these people hearing God all the time or
whatever, turns out it was just a script.
You've been on the script and this whole time you're just like
everything I know is just fucking crazy and made-up and I
just went with it. I don't know, man.
It's it's. Wild to think about it, it

(01:12:45):
definitely feels like we're living in a sci-fi movie at at
times like it. It's really freaking weird and
this stuff is only getting crazier.
I'm glad that a lot of. These platforms are using like
AI generated tags under things because it's like you're going
to see like Donald Trump just like punching babies, you know,

(01:13:06):
and everything like, oh man, he's such a monster.
And it's like, oh, it's AI, Jimmy, they have to.
And here's the. Thing like forever if you've
really looked at this stuff you've been able to see like the
uncanny mouth sure it's harder it's.
Harder now to see. That stuff, yeah.
And so they, there has to be metadata embedded in these
things that tells us that it's AI because it's just going to

(01:13:28):
get too, too realistic and you're not going to know what's
real and what's not. And so these, I do feel like
these companies have to take a little bit of caution and put
something in there so that we know almost like the military.
Effect. Like if you ever watch a movie
that's a military movie, like they intentionally will fuck up
the uniforms because they don't want to like show exactly how we
wear our uniforms because then people can emulate it.

(01:13:51):
So almost feel like AI has to dosomething like you can do it 99%
well, but you got to fuck up something or make something look
glitchy or weird or the eyes don't blink or you know
something to, I don't know. Well, I know like.
I've got Jim and I, and Jim and I will put a little AI tag right
at the bottom and you'll see that it's AI generated, right?
And yeah, I'm sure you could probably get that taken away if
you tried hard enough. You really wanted something to
look real and plenty of people are going to want to do that,

(01:14:13):
right? But I feel like we've there's
got to be something that they add to it that it's just like we
know that this is because it's, it's almost to the point where
it looks so real now that you can't tell.
And so it's only going to get better.
And I feel like it has to be. Governed to an extent, like, you
know, you always want to keep the government out of like, you
know, all the bullshit that you do.
But I feel like there for a while there was like something

(01:14:35):
going on with like Taylor Swift fake nudes or something, you
know what I mean? And it's like, it's to the point
to where you're like, it can like borderline, like ruin
someone's identity, you know what I mean, with the bullshit.
And everybody saw through it immediately.
Yeah, they knew it. You know what I mean?
But still it's like, but it's the thought that person, like
you knew that person. Wasn't going to do that but like
if someone do that. To you, you'd be like, dude,
that's so fucked up, why would anybody do that?
Nobody even wants to see that. I'm going to do it.

(01:14:56):
Now, hey Jim and I, but. Yeah, I mean, I, I really do
think it it, you're right. I don't want the government to
have to step in and do something.
So I think that AI companies have to do that themselves.
Yeah, exactly. And.
Like I, I love the freedom that we have to be able to go out and
generate this stuff and to do cool things and to figure all

(01:15:18):
this out. But when it starts, when people,
people are going to do bad stuff.
And if people wouldn't do bad stuff, then they'd be fine.
But people are going to do bad stuff.
And so you've got to, there's got to be a way to know that it,
that this one's not real. I think, I think the AI.
Tags like have to be a thing. I think if it is, you know, 60%
AI, you know what I mean? Like you need to have A tag.
And I think anyone using it responsibly is not going to

(01:15:40):
care, you know, because like if I have a short story idea that I
want to use this program to likemake a trailer or even a short
movie, it's definitely possible,but I'm not going to care if it
says made by AI. It's like, dude, I don't care.
I didn't have to get cameras andactors And and that's the thing.
Like, it's not, I'm not going toeven come close to saying it's
as hard to go create something with AI as it is to actually go

(01:16:04):
really create something. But to get what you actually
want out of AI, it takes some work.
Like it takes the right prompt, it takes saying the right thing,
creating and creating. And yeah, telling it exactly.
What you want it to do and reiterating and asking for more
and asking for different things.And so it's not nearly as hard
as going and hiring actors and doing that whole thing, but it

(01:16:25):
does still take work to get it done the way that you wanted to
get it done. But with that being said.
How many people you think are getting pissed off by this?
Like I, I don't know if like Adele or Eminem's going to care
that somebody did this AI bullshit and made this song.
But like, what if this song goesoff and has like millions of
views and streams and stuff? People are going to want to
monetize it, you know what I mean?
And maybe that's when like, well, I want royalties because
you're using my voice or, or whatever.

(01:16:47):
But even then it's like just being artists, you know, like I
brought up the other day, it's like, man, I just sit at home
and play my guitar a lot. And I would love to like write
music, but like, you know, having a drummer available to do
stuff. Like, dude, there's got to be an
AI drummer that can just listen to my tracks and find something.
Yeah, similar. But it's like, how long before
people aren't even creating fucking art or music or anything
anymore because they can just say, hey, I've got this idea in

(01:17:08):
my head, make it sound like this.
And then it's like, that's just what it is.
Yeah, I don't. Know that's an interesting one.
Like I, yeah, I don't know. And they've already, they've
already done that some like it'salready everything that is AI
generated came from somewhere, right.
So it's definitely, it's pullingfrom everything that it knows.

(01:17:30):
It's not creating anything new ever.
Yeah, but the cool thing. Is I can put a picture of myself
and say, hey, turn me into a a cartoon in the style of Gravity
Falls, and then I have my own, you know what I mean?
Like that stuff I would have paid somebody for before, you
know? You mean you get on fiver
Gravity Falls people. Gravity Falls, people like,
look, we would have had to create that because nobody can
do that, Yeah. So.
That's I, I feel like it's just a double edged sword.

(01:17:52):
It's so great for people like usbecause, you know, even just
making, you know, like we come up with some stupid ass title
for our podcast, you know, weekly.
And then I can just say, hey, you know, ChatGPT based on some
of this stuff like create me a YouTube banner.
And it's always so fucking good.It's always stupid and crazy and
and I love it, but I agree. I don't know, it's shit's

(01:18:14):
getting out of control. And then every time something
like this happens, it makes me think what's next?
You know, like even with our phones, it's like, dude, it's
going to be a matter of time before it just knows what I'm
thinking and responds for me without me like doing anything.
I mean what I'm the? Most excited for right now is
the just the ability to have a pair of glasses on that can tell
me what's happening around me. Like I really want the XR

(01:18:35):
translating Spanish. And stuff, doing GPS and all of
those things. That's what I that's like.
I want that and I think that's going to be a really cool like
I've already started testing some augmented reality stuff at
work and with glasses and kind of how people, if people can
work that way, instead of havingmonitors in front of them, they
would have like a a display in glasses and they'd people just

(01:18:56):
be sitting at their desk, like looking in glasses and what's
crazy. So I've already started doing
some of that stuff, but like just walking around town, like
rate the the ray being glasses, right?
Like that's what I want in like with the ability to talk to it
and it to go out and check things.
And to add, I do love what Google.
Was doing though, like the wholething is like, hey, what's this
tiny building or this tall skinny building is like that's a

(01:19:17):
lamppost, dumb shit like that. It's funny, but it's like how
many times she's like, oh shit, I can't find my keys.
Where did I put my keys on? Oh yeah, there.
It's in the chair in the kitchen, you know, like, oh,
thanks. You know, like it, it can
definitely be useful. Like I have a terrible fucking
memory and then like, you know, be having an argument with
somebody, like I didn't say that.
And it's like, hey, go back to that and like, oh shit, I did.

(01:19:39):
Or, you know, I mean, we do. That all the time on the
podcast. Yeah, I do that all the time.
Well, I think we did it, I think.
That's, I don't recall. It's a good cold and I yeah.
Right my mouth. Tastes like shitty apple pickle
and I just. I can't get it out of there.
I just kind of want to go. Brush my teeth now.
So why don't you guys just go ahead?

(01:19:59):
And keep it rad. Yeah, Peace.

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