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January 14, 2025 20 mins

This episode dives into the implications of wildfires in LA, questioning the media's focus on celebrity misfortune rather than everyday victims. The conversation also tackles the unpredictable NFL season, AI companionship, and relationships marked by significant age gaps, exploring themes of loneliness and societal values. 
• Discusses the media portrayal of LA wildfires and celebrity focus 
• Questions the impact of Sam Darnold's performance on his career 
• Analyzes the unpredictability of the NFL season 
• Explores AI companions and the rise of loneliness in society 
• Contemplates significant age gaps in relationships and societal judgments 
• Encourages listeners to reflect on their values and connections

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Speaker 1 (00:10):
all right people.
What is going on?
Thank you for tuning into thisepisode of the lmbe podcast, for
lmbe stands for literallynothing but everything.
I'm mike rispoli.
I hope everybody had afantastic weekend.
What'd you guys end up doing?
Because I ended up doingnothing.
Actually, that's not true.
My friend Ethan decided to payme a visit and a little

(00:33):
precursor or whatever you callit, foreshadowing, that's the
word for it Can you guys tellthat I just don't read books?
Yeah, no, a littleforeshadowing for you.
Friday's episode is going to bemy conversation with Ethan, so
that's something to look forwardto.
Ethan is just like one of myclosest friends.

(00:55):
He's also a great guy, sohopefully you guys enjoy that
episode that I'm going to beputting out on Friday.
Yeah, I got really nothing goingon besides watching sports.
I actually just got back fromwatching the Rams game.
Actually, speaking of the Ramsin LA, it really is terrible
what's going on over there in LAwith all those wildfires.

(01:15):
I really do feel bad foreverybody who's lost their home,
but what I do think is funny isthey're only showcasing the
celebrities who have lost theirhomes in LA and it's like guys,
these are multi-millionaires,I'm sure they're gonna be fine.
They got houses everywhere.
If you think they've only gotone house in LA, I think you're

(01:36):
wrong.
So not all of their memoriesare gonna be burned.
It kind of shows you howself-centered Hollywood is in
general, because I'm surethere's regular-ass people who
live in LA.
And what are they doing?
All they're doing is showcasing.
Oh, ben Affleck's got to goover to Jennifer Gardner's house
or whatever, because his houseburned down.
Well, what about Johnny orStacey or whoever the fuck who's

(01:58):
living in LA?
And they don't have a backupplan, because all of these
frigging celebrities aremultimillionaires, they've got
houses all over.
They're going to be fine.
It's the people that don't havesomething that we should be
really sad and worried about.
It's hard for me to really putmy heart out there to some

(02:21):
asshole celebrity where if Iwere to walk up to them on the
street, they wouldn't give twoshits about me.
But I'm supposed to give a shitabout them, like no, what I'm
waiting for is the celebrity tostart a GoFundMe page.
That would be the icing on thecake.
No, I think.
Uh, I do think it is terribleof what's going on.

(02:43):
You never want to seesomebody's house being burned
down and all this stuff,especially since it's
uncontrollable.
So my heart does go out.
But at the same point I'm alsositting here like I think
they're going to be fine, Likethey can go out to their houses
over in the Cape or I don't know, I don't know Martha's Vineyard

(03:05):
Like where else do these peoplehave houses?
Speaking of the Rams game, thatwas actually kind of shocking.
Considering Minnesota is a14-game winner this season, I
thought that they weren't goingto be frauds.
But there was a guy on TikTok Ithink the program is called

(03:30):
Caps Off.
Just three, four, maybe evenfive guys just sitting there
talking football.
One of them is a Jets fan andhe made the perfect comment.
He goes you can take the playerout of the Jets, but you can't
take the Jets out of the player.
And that is Sam Darnold.
Because, dude, when thoselights were on him, he just shut
them off.
I wonder.

(03:52):
I think he threw like fourpicks in the game.
He really did not play well.
Some MVP caliber season justcome in crashing down and now
it's kind of like, dude, whatare you going to do If you're in
the Vikings front office?
What are you going to do ifyou're in the Vikings front
office?
What are you going to do?
You signed Danny Dimes when hegot released from the Giants.
You got JJ McCarthy.

(04:13):
He hasn't even taken a snap yet.
You drafted him just this pastyear.
So I don't know.
Decisions decisions that youare going to have to make if you
are in that Vikings frontoffice, and I would not want to
be there for when that decisionis made, because, given how Sam

(04:34):
Darnold did play, there wasmoments of greatness.
So you wonder if he's going tobe able to take that and bring
it somewhere else, or if he justis Sam Darnold and he just does
what Sam Darnold does, which isseeing ghosts out there on the
field.
I don't know, um, but it'sreally hard to count out Sean

(04:55):
McVay and Matt Stafford on thatRams team.
I think Sean McVay is just anunbelievable coach I don't care
how young he is and MattStafford that dude has just
always been a dog, probably oneof the most underlooked
quarterbacks ever.
It truly is.
Just because in the NFL he wasplaying in the slums over there
in Detroit, but I remember whenhe threw for 4,000 yards in a

(05:17):
season.
Dude didn't even get a Pro Bowlnom, playing on shitty teams
and you just don't get therecognition that you deserve.
No, I think Stafford is anabsolute dog and that Rams team
is healthy.
I think that Rams team is goingto be a problem for whoever
plays them next.
I thought the Eagles weresomewhat fraudy, but they looked

(05:40):
pretty good against the Packers.
I don't know, this has been avery bizarre NFL season, so I
think the playoffs are justgoing to be a continuation of
that.
Like teams that you think wouldwin didn't win, teams that you
didn't think would win did win.
I mean, I never would havepicked the Texans over the
Chargers.
Cj Stroud, finally, is comingup and looking like somewhat of

(06:06):
an old CJ Stroud that we sawlast year, even though he lost
two of his biggest weapons.
I think that's going to be theTexans downfall, because they
lost two of their wide receivers, but I don't know.
They just made the Chargerslook silly.
So I have no idea what toexpect with this frigging team.

(06:27):
I'm just rooting for anybody whocan take down the Chiefs.
That is my biggest thing.
I don't care if people think,oh, the first three P, x, y, z,
no, no, no.
I think it would be bad for theleague, especially when you've
got teams like the Bills and theLions who are so desperate for
a win.
I think seeing a team thathasn't been there before would

(06:53):
be much better than seeing ateam three-peat.
But that's on me.
It could also just be myabsolute hatred for the Chiefs.
Yeah, that's right, hatred.
I fucking cannot stand thisChiefs.
Yeah, that's right, hatred.
I fucking cannot stand thisteam.
And it's funny because I'm aPats fan, so I had 20 years of
bliss, and all the shit thatI've been bitching about is all
the same shit that everybody wasbitching about when I was a
Pats fan like oh, the refs areon their side.

(07:14):
Oh, they're getting the call.
It wasn't to this level.
I will bitch about it until theday is long.
That fucking right tackle onthe Chiefs, every play getting a
false start.
You would never have seen thaton those past dynasty teams.
You just wouldn't.
That shit would have beencalled.
Chiefs are getting away with alot of bullshit and the refs

(07:35):
truly are a 13th man on thefield for them.
I don't care what anybody says.
Yeah, I'm like like oh jesus,I'm only seven minutes into this
thing and I got like nothinggoing on.
Um, all right, we'll talk aboutthis for a bit.
You guys see this like sex robotthing.
Ai, can it go too far?
I absolutely think it 100 cango too far.

(07:57):
Ai, can it go too far?
I absolutely think it 100% cango too far.
And you know what I think?
I think what it is is just abunch of nerds who aren't
getting laid and they're justliterally creating weird science
.
If you guys have ever seen thatmovie If you haven't seen it,
it's a really funny movie.
I don't remember when it cameout Either late 80s, maybe like

(08:20):
mid 90s And're just like oh well, if we can't get a woman to
touch our dick, we'll just makeone.
That can I swear to god, dude,like.
At first I thought sex robotswere just a joke, but they are
legit and I keep seeing thisthing.
So I looked it up and,according to Forbescom, this is

(08:41):
no joke.
Here's an exact quote An AIpartner, a company at CES 2025,
is willing to sell you a robotgirlfriend if you've got
$175,000 to spare.
Dude, if you've got $175,000,what woman wouldn't you be able

(09:01):
to get?
Like?
Age holds no bounds to what aperson has in their wallet.
I mean, look at Trump.
You think he got Melania basedoff of his sparkling personality
and good looks that dudeliterally looks like a freaking
tractor tire, like come on, ohmy god, I just got to bring this

(09:21):
up real quick too.
The whole thing about thatdude's ear.
Like nobody can tell me thatthat dude got shot.
There's no way.
There's no way that there's nota conspiracy with that.
How in the fuck do you have atwo millimeter hole shot through
your ear and all of a sudden,two weeks later, you're giving a

(09:42):
speech or whatever, and thatthing is healed?
Oh well, he probably got itsewn up.
I've seen people with gaugeswhen they come to their senses
and get rid of those stupidfucking things and they still
have the fucking scars and thestitches from from whatever it
was, from that gaping hole.
I have an earring hole that Idon't use anymore because I came

(10:04):
to the realization that wearingan earring is kind of douchey.
I blame my sister.
She was the one who pierced itand that hole hasn't even fully
healed and that thing isn't afucking two millimeter gape at
the top of my ear.
So don't tell me that thatwasn't somewhat staged.
It just doesn't make sense tome.

(10:25):
Oh, you're gonna have a guygive you however much money to a
democratic uh, donor.
No, I, I think it was 100staged.
I don't know man, the just thefact that his ear, what is this
guy?
Is this guy AI?
Is Trump AI, where he justregenerates?

(10:46):
This just doesn't make sense.
Oh well, you know, trump isonly one example.
Alright, how about this BillBelichick getting some hot 24
year old to go out with him?
If you're a 24-year-old woman,do you really find a 70-year-old
man attractive?

(11:06):
No, it's got to be based onwhat his wallet is.
Dude, I would have loved to bethe father in that room.
Oh honey, who are you bringingover?
Oh, he's my boyfriend.
How old is your boyfriend?
He's 70 years old.
And then Bill Belichick, of allfucking people, walks in that
room.
Dude, I couldn't even be mad atthat, though.
Like, at first I hear70-year-old, I'd be pissed.

(11:31):
But Bill Belichick walks in.
What's the over-under on?
How many minutes it would takeme to just be like yo, bill, can
I get that autograph real quick?
I could also just be being adick here.
There is also that possibility.
I don't know.
I just don't know.
Like, you're some hot20-something-year-old, you're

(11:54):
young, you're wild, you're free.
And here you are using strapsnot just to tie the person to
the bed, but just to make surethat those folds and flaps don't
go all over the place.
To make it a little lessgrotesque, like I don't know,
man, if I get any lady listenershearing this and they are with
somebody who is of significantage difference of them, like if

(12:18):
you are a Bill Belichick and hisgirlfriend, if you're dating
somebody who's 50 years yoursenior, what do you see in that
person?
Is it honestly maybe just forthe fact that older men maybe
treat women with a little bitmore respect than the modern
generation?
Because, like I hear thestories, like my friends go out
with guys and stuff or girls atbars that I'm always hearing

(12:39):
bitch moaning and complainingabout their situationships or
their ex-boyfriends and stuffand how they treated them.
I don't know, is theresomething to that?
Is it just maybe in the waysthat the older generation treats
women versus, like, the newgeneration?
I don't know.
I really don't know.
I'm just trying to extend somesort of an olive branch because,
as we all know, I tend to notknow what I'm talking about

(13:01):
nearly half the time.
As we all know, I tend to notknow what I'm talking about
nearly half the time, so I wouldreally love to know what people
see in that, because I couldnever date somebody who's 50
years older than me.
At this point in my life, Icouldn't imagine going out with
somebody who's 80.
That just does not seemappealing to me.
Oh well, love does tend to findyou in strange ways, or

(13:26):
whatever the saying is.
But in this case, where did youfind this magical love?
In a nursing home?
What did you find?
This artifact?
Underneath a rock six feet deep.
Look, that's where they'reheading in a few years.
But all right, going back hereto the AI girlfriend stuff,
forbescom Robotics is anAmerican firm with a range of AI

(13:50):
robots that it claims canfulfill a variety of roles,
including acting as a brandrepresentative at the sales
booth.
Are robots just going to takeover human jobs?
Are they even trying to hide itanymore?
Well, we can't enslave humans,so we're just going to start
enslaving robots.

(14:10):
Hang on, where was I?
You can also use it as acompanion for elderly people.
All right, that makes sense.
When they can't find a younghottie, who the fuck else are
they going to bide their timewith?
But then the article goes on tosay or even as a romantic
partner to tackle the staggeringloneliness epidemic.

(14:31):
Dude, can you fuck a robot Like, does it have those parts?
Imagine going up to your likerobot girlfriend.
Yo, what that hand do.
Because, like, what is thepoint?
You better test that thing'sgrip strength or your dick is
gonna get ripped off like my god.

(14:51):
I'm assuming that hand jobswould be the name of the game
with that thing, because I don'tknow how you would actually get
fun like somewhat functioningparts that would actually feel
like an actual person if you aretrying to use it for sex.
Dude, I remember back in theday in tlc they had that my
strange addiction thing andeverybody used to make fun of

(15:14):
that guy that thought his carwas a girlfriend.
But how much different is this?
What?
Because it looks like a human.
That that makes it anydifferent.
And I'm sorry, if you're solonely you could just go out and
get a dog.
But if you are lonely and youare getting or thinking of
getting a dog, only get one ifyou can, one afford it and two.

(15:36):
You know what you're gettinginto, because I don't want to
see that thing going back to ashelter.
Oh, we just didn't know howmuch work it was.
Yeah, well, you're a fuckingpiece of work too.
You don't see me driving youoff to the side of the road and
taking off Like my God, havesome compassion.
But yeah, nobody's telling youthat you can't go hang out with
your friends.
Like say what you want.

(15:59):
The world has kind of gone backto normal.
Companies are forcing us to goback into the office.
Like don't tell me that you'reso lonely.
The amount of people that I'veI've gone out with or the amount
of people that I've spoken toand they're just like, oh, I
just really like my alone time.
No, you like your alone timewhen it's feasible to you.
Like you're selfish but honestly, like what is this statute of

(16:23):
limitations on these fuckingrobots?
Like what can you do and whatcan it do?
It's crazy, because then thisthing says that the robots can
be configured as either male orfemale and the company claims
that it can even replicatehistorical figures.
Oh my gosh, you just get a, aBiden robot and it's just

(16:44):
bouncing off the walls becauseit doesn't know where it's going
.
You get a Trump one.
It's just the most selfishthing.
Get prepared for the best sexyou've ever had.
It's going to be bigly Best sex.
You're going to have to do allof the work, but I promise you
it's going to be the best.
Yeah, I don't know.

(17:06):
I don't know.
I feel like I was worried.
Everybody was worried that withAI and stuff, that jobs would
be taken over, because,especially in marketing or
whatever, like you can have chat, gbt, just write you out a blog
, write you out a newsletter,xyz, even, um, uh, the digital

(17:27):
arts.
Like you could just getsomething.
You just say, oh, here's whatI'm looking for and I'll print
you out a picture.
Like I knew it was gonna likeget rid of jobs.
I didn't realize that thesethings were also gonna like
represent people and get rid ofpeople.
But if we're so lonely that weneed robots as a companion, like

(17:52):
I don't know, listen to apodcast.
That's what I did during thepandemic.
I was living in a one bedroomapartment in Bristol, rhode
Island, and I was listening topodcasts just to make it sound
like I was with people.
Before I came down to myhometown, stayed with my parents
for a bit.
I don't know.
Man, People are crazy, theworld is crazy.

(18:15):
But honestly, to a certaindegree, I also wonder if having
robots as people would maybemake the world a little bit of a
better place, because peopleare just some of the most
arrogant and self-centeredpeople.
Dude, I almost killed this oneguy because he was just not
parked right at a gas station.
Dude in the truck, it's alwaysa dude in the truck.
You got two pumps open.

(18:38):
It's one station and this dudejust decides to park his truck
in the second space and doesn'tpull up to the front.
And I'm just like dude.
If you went to a restaurant withfour people and you were one of
the first peoples at the booth,would you just sit right on the

(18:59):
edge and have people climb overyou or would you have slid
fully into the booth?
Because I feel like the samephilosophy applies to whether
you're at a restaurant andyou're in a gas station.
Like I always, if there's afree pump, I always pull up
because I don't want somebodyblocking me in.
If I don't have to have themblocking me in, like, common
sense goes a long way, butapparently people just don't

(19:22):
have it, and maybe that's whywe're also creating robots,
because robots are programmed tohave common sense that people
just don't have.
I don't know, man, I reallydon't know.
But on that note, I think I'mgoing to let you guys go If you
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(19:45):
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All right, have a fantasticweek ahead and I'll catch up

(20:05):
with you guys later.
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