College Kids Cheat AND Apologize With AI, Duckfaced Woman On A Roller Coaster, and Nutmaxxing

Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
Everything you are about to hear is true.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
None of the names have been changed because no one
is innocent from stupidity.

Speaker 3 (00:14):
It's a great bay stupid worldlings, well, a stupid, gray, stupid, gay, stupid.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
Welcome to insane Eric Lane's stupid world. And if you
see something stupid, say something stupid.

Speaker 4 (00:37):
And now here's the man who has given a piece
of his mind to so many people. He barely has
a mind left. The host of this stupid world, Eric Lane.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
Welcome to my stupid world. I've got five stars stupidity
for you, so please rate the podcast with five stars.
My Insane Florida neph you Pacho Guero and I will
underwhelm you with some of the dumbest stupidity and test
your sanity with the insane game show. So relax and
let your mind go to mush as you enter the
realm of reality. Well, apparently cash is now Cringeugh, that's right.

(01:17):
According to a new survey, over half of the gen
Z only used physical money as a last resort. Yeah,
and nearly a third think that people that pay with
cash are just out of touch. Imagine that same generation
that buys seven dollars ice lattes and films themselves crying

(01:42):
in the car, thinks that I'm the embarrassing one for
handing over handing over a ten dollar bill.

Speaker 5 (01:51):
I ought to give you a piece of my mind.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
The humble dollar, once the universal symbol of freedom collers
buying a hot dog without fees, has now been reduced
to a social faux paw. Cash is no longer cool.
It's not esthetic enough. I guess it doesn't tap to pay.

(02:19):
It just works, and that apparently is unforgivable. See not
out to be fair. Gen Z says they're ditching cash
for good reasons. You see. They claim it helps them
budget better, which is kind of funny because I've seen
what happens when the Apple pay button pops up and
check out. You know, the finger starts to twitch, the

(02:40):
dopamine hits, and suddenly they spend forty eight bucks on
a candle that smells like moonlight. Intentions, But sure, cash
is the problem, right, I mean, let's be honest. Digital
payment is kind of like a financial illusion, you know,
you know, it's like a financial illusion show. You wave
your phone here, little chime, and poof, the money's gone.

(03:03):
It just doesn't feel like spending, which is exactly why
people do it. You don't see your wallet getting thinner.
You just watch your battery die faster. You know, you
don't have that pain of having to break a twenty.
Your cash, on the other hand's got the beautiful, painful
honest to it. It's painfully honest. You give that twenty

(03:27):
to somebody, they give you back three singles. You feel
the pain, you feel, you feel the loss, you feel
the transaction. It's called budgeting. That's awareness, that's reality hitting
in the palm of your hand. But the real issue
here isn't convenience you see, it's it's control. You see,

(03:48):
cash works everywhere. It doesn't need a signal, an update,
or a six digit passcode. It doesn't shut down when
your bank's system is temporarily unavailable, and it doesn't leave
it digital trail for marketing algorithms to follow you home with.
You mean you can't hack a twenty dollars bill. You
know you can't get a transaction decline from a crumpled

(04:09):
five say, And when the power or the internet goes out,
and you know it will go out, you're going to
see a lot of gen zers standing at the gas
pump holding their iPhones like lost magic wands wondering why
tapping the screen doesn't summon gasoline. Cash isn't cringe, folks.
Cash is freedom, it's privacy, it's resilience. It's the one

(04:35):
form of money that doesn't ask for a software update
every three weeks. So the next time you see some
tech savvy twenty something that's sneering at you for using
outdated paper money, just smile at them because you know,
when the Wi Fi dies, you'll still be able to
buy lunch, and well they'll still be trying to vn

(04:56):
moa sandwich.

Speaker 3 (05:00):
Pity, it's a stupid way.

Speaker 6 (05:09):
You can spread the stupidity by sharing this podcast on
social media. When you subscribe, however, you'll never miss an
episode like the weekend episode that features Poncho Guero Insane,
Eric Lanes Insane Florida Nephew. Ask Poncho anything and he'll
give you a reasoned answer with his sage wisdom. Also
test how well your stupidity matches up with Poncho in
the weekly insane game show, and it would really boost

(05:32):
the podcast's popularity if you would rate and review the
podcast so it will stand out in searches. You never
know how many folks are out there searching for stupidity.
With all the five star stupidity you've heard, it deserves
a five star rating. These very real stupid stories can
also be found in links that will be published to
Telegram Messenger following each episode. When you add the Telegram

(05:52):
app and join Insane Eric Lane's Stupid World Telegram channel,
you'll have access to all of them. Visit t dot
me slash sane eric Lane to get the info and
a link to download Telegram. It's free with versions for
desktop or mobile devices, and support it on Windows, Linux, Android,
or Apple operating systems. Follow all the stupidity on Facebook
or x by searching for Insane Eric Lane, or find

(06:15):
links to follow at Insaneericlane dot com.

Speaker 1 (06:49):
Yes Sundata. Another week is passed and we are once
again joined by Pajo Guerro May Insane Florida nephew from
the lovely city of Jacksonville, Florida, who has hopefully not
been under any hurricane threat. With all these hurricanes have
been flying around Jamaica and all these places, you guys
have kind of skirted by them so far.

Speaker 5 (07:09):
I didn't even realize that they were hurricanes going on
right now, it's been a very quiet hurricane season. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (07:14):
Yeah, well, I mean you actually made my week because
I might have some podcast art to put it out
this week.

Speaker 5 (07:22):
Were you a little dry on podcast art to begin with?

Speaker 1 (07:25):
No, No, I mean I had something I was going
to use, But I mean this actually has been pushed
to the top of the pile.

Speaker 7 (07:32):
I know.

Speaker 5 (07:33):
Yeah, I knew it would be when I saw the
dog barking at the trap door again.

Speaker 1 (07:38):
Yes, yes, So we've got Pacho's possum. It's going to
be featured this week. They're gonna be the star of
And I like the video. You said the video and
looked like it was hissing at you.

Speaker 5 (07:51):
Oh yeah yeah at one point, Yeah, when I got
a little bit closer the video and he.

Speaker 1 (07:59):
Didn't much want to have his picture taken. Yeah. Well,
to get I have to get your opinion on whether
you think cash is cringe or not, since you deal
in a lot of finances and this sort of thing. Okay,
do you do you consider cash as being cringe or

(08:19):
or are you okay with paying with cash?

Speaker 5 (08:22):
Well, I mean, I guess it depends. Like I'm not
against it, but I'm not going to want to pay
cash for like like like at the store, like that
is going to be annoying, but right to pay cash
like for like Facebook Marketplace. I kind of I know
some people might say Venmo this, and I'm not against that,

(08:44):
but I kind of trust it a little bit like
moreere I'm like, you know what, I'd rather just be
clean and impersonal.

Speaker 1 (08:51):
Okay. Well, you know it's funny. I had to help
my wife set up a Venmo account because really there's
the people that well there's people in our church that
want to have her give their kids lessons, and they
were going to pay with see, and so she's coming
to me, she goes, what's what's Venmo? And so I'm
having to explain to her. So yeah, but but now

(09:13):
now she she's pro she can, she can you know,
use it and all that kind of thing. But she
still prefers, you know, cash because you know, I guess
in some cases there are fees. If you do, you know,
pay electronically, don't you You still end up paying some
fees for the for the service, don't you.

Speaker 5 (09:30):
It can be yeah, not not guaranteed, but it can be.

Speaker 1 (09:35):
Yeah. Because I have a cash app I used, I've
sent people's stuff cash app and then my, my, my,
my friend. I've been helping down in Uganda for several years.
I've done some fundraisers to help him get through college
and whatever. And he has uh it's called world Remit. Honest,
if you've ever heard of that app or not never

(09:56):
heard of it, yeah, I had neither. I was going
to send something like questern you Union, and he said, no, no,
that you can use this world Remit app. And it's
like no fee to transfer money.

Speaker 5 (10:07):
Western Union sounds so old.

Speaker 1 (10:11):
They have an app. The thing is there is like
three point fifty per transaction, you know that they take
out of the money and then he has to go
to the local post and they.

Speaker 5 (10:23):
Don't charge me anything. It's an app.

Speaker 1 (10:26):
Oh yeah, yeah right right so but but anyway, no,
he told me about this this world Remit, and then
I found another one which was called Remittly. Is another
app that's out there. You can you know, send cash
on and there's no fee and and and when he
when he gets the money, now Western Union, he has
to go to the post office and go to like

(10:47):
a like an ATM machine and scan his phone then
it gives him the money. But with these other ones,
it goes right to his phone. And it's like they
call it mobile money. Have you ever heard of that?

Speaker 5 (10:58):
I mean I've not heard mobile money, but like I've
definitely used like Zelle or Vino stuff like that before
where I just get direct to positive in my account. Yes,
and that's kind of word that I'm aware of for it.

Speaker 1 (11:11):
Right, And I just I'm not if you knew about this,
but many years ago I read that there's a city
in China there no, there is literally no hard currency
in the city at all. None. It's all electronic. You
go to the newspaper stand and you want to buy
a newspaper, you scan your phone everything.

Speaker 5 (11:29):
I do not like that. That sounds like awful time. Yes,
are you kidding? Like in China you talk about where
they've got like what social credit scores and stuff. Yeah,
what's to stop them from just like, oh, I you
know what, I'm going to just like stop your electronic
bank account from working. That to me is the bigger
issue I've got for some of.

Speaker 1 (11:49):
That exactly exactly you know. So, but yeah, here are
some of these these gen z people that they still
prefer that over over cash. I mean I still like
opening up my billfold and seeing all the green backs
and stuff in there, and then when you have to
when you have to, you know, plup. When you have
to break a twenty you know, it's so painful, you

(12:11):
know because oh it was, there goes my twenty dollar bill.
You know, you don't get that experience when you pay
what I what.

Speaker 5 (12:18):
I do hate is like when I have to pay cash,
like at the store, which is basically never, and you're
you're giving like some weird amount of change change back,
Like what am I gonna do with that?

Speaker 1 (12:30):
Well, yeah, you can really freak people out and give
them a two dollar bill. They think it's a counterfeit.

Speaker 5 (12:36):
I so what I used to do that back in
the day, like when I was in like high school.

Speaker 1 (12:41):
This is what I like.

Speaker 5 (12:44):
Doing. I'd go to the bank, and I realized, I
get the bank, they're desperate to get rid of their
two dollar bills and stuff like they if you don't
hand them out, and so I just ask, like how
many two dollars bills you have? And I would just
grab like as much money as I could and exchange
it all for two dollar bills. And then I would
go in the store or i'd go to like you know,

(13:04):
eat out, of the restaurant or something, right, and I
would only use two dollar bills and I would watch
people just like freak out as as.

Speaker 4 (13:12):
I did that.

Speaker 1 (13:14):
Well, I hope you don't do that with pennies.

Speaker 5 (13:17):
I I no, no, I don't do it. But when
it comes to like weddings and stuff, you know, money
is the most useful thing, right, Yeah, what I'll do
with with a wedding is I'll go and I'll collect
a bunch of like coins, yeah, dollar coins.

Speaker 1 (13:36):
Oh. Yes.

Speaker 5 (13:37):
Like so when one of my best friends got married,
I wanted to give them a little more, like more
than what I normally would do. So I bought like
a little engraved, like small chest and then I build
it with two hundred dollars and dollar coins, oh my gosh.
And then I put like fake jewels in it whatever,
just to make it look more. And then and I
gave a bottle of meat with it.

Speaker 1 (14:00):
Oh.

Speaker 5 (14:00):
So it was like like wedding dowery type thing and.

Speaker 1 (14:04):
Oh my gosh, oh my gosh.

Speaker 2 (14:06):
No.

Speaker 1 (14:06):
See, yeah, you can't do that kind of creative stuff
if you spend all that time doing digital currency. It's
a fun part about the heart currency, you know, really,
you know, oh my gosh. Well, you know, look, I mean,
it doesn't matter if it was hard currency or digital currency.
If I got all my coworkers salaries by mistake, and
I'd take it anyway, I would taking that's right.

Speaker 5 (14:30):
Oh would you give it back? Is the question, though.

Speaker 1 (14:35):
I well, you know, based upon our first story this week,
I think I would almost side with the worker.

Speaker 5 (14:43):
Really, I oh yeah, I'm fascinated by the story.

Speaker 1 (14:50):
When I saw it come up, I knew you were
probably going to pick this because it was such a
tempting story to talk about, and you being in finance.
I mean, I just kind of felt you might be
gravitating toward it.

Speaker 5 (15:03):
Oh, not because of the finance. I would love to
spend less time thinking about that. Oh okay, but just
the thought of it. Okay, I imagine getting is a
teaser for what's to come. Okay, our first headline of
the week. A worker gets all of his co workers
salaries by mistake and refuses to return it, and so

(15:29):
so like, you know, what would you do if you
finally get the bonus you feel like you deserve, and
then then you find out that you know they want
it back.

Speaker 1 (15:40):
Whoops? I guess that's I guess that's on you, isn't
it right.

Speaker 5 (15:46):
It kind of makes you think like the whole monopoly thing,
banking are in your favor whatever it actually it actually
happens sometimes.

Speaker 1 (15:56):
Like oh sure, yeah, yeah, I know, I know. And
and but anymore in today's world with the digital money
and you know, really, I mean, they probably could easily
just say no, we're just gonna it might have been
a banking are but we're taking it back. It has happened,
you know, at one point, I've seen stories where, you know,

(16:16):
a person's bank account had like a million dollars for
like thirty minutes until they realized that somebody had made
a mistake, and then they had to go back and
reverse it. Oh Ben, you know so but yeah, I uh,
I don't know. I don't know the whole finance thing
it started. It gets a little dystopian there for me,
you know, because when you're looking at the World Bank
and all the how everything is all interconnected, you know.

Speaker 5 (16:39):
Yeah, just I will say, what I'm definitely not for
is the whole like universal currency thing or what?

Speaker 7 (16:47):
No, no't yeah, I don't know, but that I mean now,
now as far as having universal currency, wouldn't that streamline
the global economy so much better?

Speaker 5 (16:58):
Yeah, Well, the thing like you don't have there's very
little control you have over like the government spending anyways,
with inflation. But imagine if you're being told basically like oh, yeah,
you have no control over that. Now you can't really
put your money in other things, or or you have
like what Canada that decides to because some people are protesting,

(17:22):
so they basically.

Speaker 1 (17:23):
Like take people's.

Speaker 5 (17:25):
Bank accounts and don't let them use it. So like
all of that, Like I just don't trust government enough
for that. It could be good, be like yeah, it's
good now whatever, like like it only takes one like
like this has nothing to do with the king's day.
I don't even know what that's about. It's ridiculous. Yeah,
but I think back to like Israel or something, right,

(17:46):
and they got a series of judges and they finally
say I want a king, and you know, and Samuel's like,
all right, fine, fine, I guess we will get into
your king. It only takes one bad king to screw
the people thing, and so I just yeah, the more
power that you give an individual person, the more likely

(18:07):
that a like corrupt just awful people are going to
be drawn to them and be just like the more
likely you're going to corrupt someone, Like, there's no way
it's going to work out. Well, I don't know anything
else that the government does really well, with the exception
of like two things.

Speaker 1 (18:22):
Maybe, Well, what is your take on the whole bitcoin stuff.

Speaker 5 (18:27):
I'm not against it. I don't own it myself, but
like it is, I understand the the fact, you know,
I mean, what the whole like silk Road thing, Uh,
if you're like getting drugs online anonymously with it. But
also I'm I'm I don't care what I like, I'm
not gonna do that. I love the anonymous whatever thing.

(18:50):
It's not backed by anything other than no.

Speaker 1 (18:54):
I know that the federal government would love to get
their hands on it to try to control.

Speaker 5 (18:58):
It, right, So the fact that they can't control is
what I like about it. Yeah, but well, if you
think about what the US said, it's all Fiat money anyways,
like the UK government, So all of it's backed by
just the faith and trust of the of the entity
that is you know over there. At least with bitcoin,
there is a certain amount of a max capacity of

(19:22):
bitcoin that can be mined, so you cannot inflate it
the way that the government can print money.

Speaker 1 (19:30):
Maybe you can help at least shine a little light
on this whole mining thing. It's all I can figure out.
The way is like, okay, where do they get the
bitcoin from? And they go, you go mining the internet.
Well I'm not can I make bitcoin when I'm looking
for stupidity out of the internet? Can do that.

Speaker 5 (19:49):
So there's like a series of transactions that you have
to do that traces back each and each each movement
or payment of the bitcoin. Basically, this is very simplified.
The big See there's like a digital trail and a
series of really complex mathematical equations.

Speaker 1 (20:04):
Is it like a Wall Street kind of thing where
you're like buying and selling or something or what.

Speaker 5 (20:08):
You can But what mining is is basically you've got
companies that are verifying its authenticity. You can think of
each bitcoin having a unique fingerprint, and that fingerprint changes
with each each exchange of the hand, each transaction had.

(20:30):
It's got this kind of trail of data and and
like a history to it, and.

Speaker 1 (20:35):
So somehow that adds value.

Speaker 5 (20:37):
Well, what it does is it guarantees that it cannot
be duplicated. So you can't just have someone create you know,
like hey, I created bitcoin on my computer and I'm
going to flood the market with these this counterfeit bitcoin.
It's basically the system that allows it to be I

(20:58):
guess trusted in, verified as non counterfeit, so that way
you know that what you're getting is legitimate. And as
a reward for these companies or even individuals, like you
could get your computer running this. It takes a lot
of computing power and it can generate a lot of
heat and energy, so it costs money to do that,
but you can earn small bits basically of this and

(21:23):
that after you you basically you're basically verifying transactions. That's
essentially what you're doing. When you verify so many transactions
you are you earn a bitcoin basically as mining it.
And at a certain point there will be no more
bitcoin that is going to be able to be mined,

(21:44):
and I think at that point there will be some
kind of like transaction type fee that probably gets used
for the person that's that's doing the blockchain stuff for that,
because again you need some kind of way to verify
that and authenticate that what you're getting is legitimate.

Speaker 1 (22:04):
I just need somewhere to wrap my head around this
whole thing. That's what I want to do. I mean,
I mean, I can hear what you're saying, and I'm
trying to understand it, but my brain is just going what.

Speaker 5 (22:17):
I totally get it. I did a little bit of
research into it years back. I actually I do own
some stock in a big tone bitcoin like blockchain kind
of mining company. Yeah, it was doing great back in
twenty twenty, twenty twenty one, and after Biden took office,

(22:38):
manans it's not fully tanked, but it's not doing the
way it was well.

Speaker 1 (22:44):
And that's the other thing. Sometimes it's wildly doing well
and then it sinks and wild it goes back up again.
It fluctuates. The most craziest thing I've ever seen.

Speaker 5 (22:54):
So much I think is based on what the government
does and what the government's doing and what you like.
So when the government, when people think that the government's
going to try to ban bitcoin, which seems like they're
trying to do for a while five years back, then
everyone starts freaking out and thinking their bitcoin is gonna
be worthless. They want to sell it. Yeah, Or when

(23:14):
the US dollar is doing a little bit better than
it was, then they might think, okay, well, you know what,
it's less of an inflation hedge at that point.

Speaker 1 (23:22):
I see.

Speaker 5 (23:23):
So, I don't know, I see it as a way
to help hedge inflation potentially.

Speaker 1 (23:28):
Would you would you prefer to have your your salary
paid in bitcoin?

Speaker 8 (23:32):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (23:33):
Man, I don't know. Well, it depends. Maybe if it
was all paid in bitcoin and I could sit on
it long enough to sell when it's good. But I
don't know. I wouldn't be against it. It would take
a little bit of learning how to trade that stuff
to make it work.

Speaker 1 (23:50):
But yeah, exactly, exactly. Oh my gosh, yeah, okay. Now
now now my head is spinning at this point. I'm
going to have to put me another glass of Scott's
goal to compete. So, oh man, well, I don't know.
I hear the stories about the bitcoin trading and I

(24:11):
just kind of go all right, whatever. I keep thinking,
you know, how is this comparing the goal that's in
Fort Knox. I mean, I just I just wish we'd
go back to the gold standard again. That's kind of
what I wish.

Speaker 5 (24:22):
Oh yeah, you're like, what was it ron Paul here? Yeah, yeah,
it wouldn't. I used to think that was really dominant.
Now I I kind of think, you know what, like
that would actually be probably really.

Speaker 1 (24:34):
Good put be the best thing for our countries, go
back on the gold standard.

Speaker 5 (24:38):
Oh, people might be able to afford houses again.

Speaker 1 (24:41):
Well what a change? Yeah? Absolutely?

Speaker 9 (24:45):
Oh man, so but but yes, uh, the the the
idea of somebody actually mistakenly getting your salary, that that
would be that would be quite a quite a story
to have, you know, yeah, my mistake.

Speaker 5 (25:04):
So yeah, well look, I guess I might as well
jump oh wait, wait, wait, wait with a small talk,
do you have any any stories?

Speaker 1 (25:15):
Not much going on this week other than the fact
we've got I'm living with two old women that complain
about all their aches and pains.

Speaker 5 (25:22):
Okay, well yeah yeah, so you could have left it
at just living with two old women, and I think
we would have all taken a.

Speaker 1 (25:32):
Yeah that's right.

Speaker 5 (25:34):
All right, Well I do have one. It's not like
a crazy story, but it's a weird story.

Speaker 1 (25:40):
All right. Well that's even better.

Speaker 5 (25:42):
Yeah, yeah, I know, right, So this is like life
with I guess, like I don't know, life always has
a way of throwing you something you don't expect.

Speaker 1 (25:52):
Of course, especially with two kids.

Speaker 5 (25:54):
Yes, yes, this actually has nothing to do with the kids. Oh,
so what happened? And my wife she is, you know,
she's needing to order something from I don't know, like
Amazon or Walmart or something, and they they, I guess,
they give you an option now to like like to

(26:16):
what is it choose? Like when what time of day
you want to deliver?

Speaker 8 (26:20):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (26:21):
Yeah, like like maybe a drone delivery.

Speaker 5 (26:24):
No, not a drone delivery, that would be I still
don't understand how that happens. Yeah, So, so like in
the morning, basically the only time they had really available
to deliver the next day was either like eight o'clock
in the morning or at at like uh, what what
is it at, like like ten o'clock at night, and

(26:46):
she needed something that so she's like, all right, eight
o'clock it is. And and she's thinking, like, I hope
the dog doesn't freak out, because there's a really good
chance he's going to freak out over it. Sure enough,
like eight o'clock comes, we wait up, and the dog
just immediately like you can tell that he was surprised
about it, because like he got up and just like

(27:09):
he didn't know what to do, so he kind of
like it just like starts trying to bark, but I
don't think he was ready to bark, and and so
like for for the rest of the day into like
the next three days, he starts like hacking up a
lung what at all times of the day basically.

Speaker 1 (27:26):
Like, oh my gosh, you know I didn't okay, didn't
know that dogs got hair balls.

Speaker 5 (27:33):
Well it's kind of what I sound like. And so
I'm like, are you good? And he's like, look totally fine,
tails wagons, panting away, but he just keeps like like
like I mean, it's like he's like he's trying to
throw over. I'm like, did he did he like get
himself so worked up that he like hurt his throat?
Did he somehow he didn't eat anything that I know of?

(27:54):
He we had all just woken up, so like he
got still surprised by the Amazon driver that just like
he just he literally like lost his voice basically wow,
barking out of out of just waking up there. Yeah.
I did try like setting him up that night, sort
of patting his back. I was like, do I need
a heimlick? This guy? Like I don't know from like
tind to like I'm not actually heimlick my dog. I'm like,

(28:16):
kind of like Timelaker, pat like this, and it's seemed
to work, and then he starts like coughing. Later, Look,
three or four days later, I haven't heard him conflict
that anymore. So I guess he just like irritated his throat.
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (28:29):
I have never heard anything like that, But I'm like,
I don't want to take my dog to the vent
because he decided.

Speaker 5 (28:35):
To freak out over the Amazon driver at a Oh
my god, that's my thought going through this whole thing.

Speaker 1 (28:42):
I have never heard of a dog getting so suddenly
awakened so suddenly early in the morning that he actually
lost his bark.

Speaker 5 (28:51):
Yeah, I have not ever heard that. So that was
just a weird situation, that's all. I don't say other than.

Speaker 1 (28:59):
It was a weird Okay, that's that is weird. That
is definitely weird. But yeah, having you heimlicked the dog
would be even more weird, that is true.

Speaker 5 (29:08):
Yeah, Look, I figured better better do something than nothing.

Speaker 1 (29:14):
I guess. My gosh, well, never a dull moment in
the Poncho household, and.

Speaker 5 (29:24):
That ain't that the truth? So with that, you know,
I guess information, Yeah, I m also jump in with
our weird stories. Thankfully, my stories are not nearly as
weird or stupid as the rest if you if you
hit this is the first office of the podcast. Welcome.

(29:45):
I'm Pata. I am Eric Leane's Florida in sant Florida correspondent.

Speaker 1 (29:51):
Yeah, and uh and you're actually you actually contributed to
some of the stupidity.

Speaker 5 (29:57):
Yes, I I found the head liner for the the
week here. Let Eric know, and uh it was I
had a one later, we've got story.

Speaker 1 (30:11):
Of the week. You really maxed out this week?

Speaker 5 (30:15):
Yeah, uh, yeah, I figured I had to. I had
to shoot my shot with this.

Speaker 1 (30:25):
Oh yeah, look look we're laughing because we know what's coming. Okay,
So but yes, absolutely, but but yeah, I I go
out and do my Internet mining, but I don't get
my bitcoin payment for it because I'm not I don't
have a powerful enough computer. I guess the stupidity isn't
that doesn't have that much value to it or something.

(30:46):
I don't know, But this is this is the stupidity blockchain,
this is what this is, all right, So that's right.
So and so then I put out the headlines and
then Pacho filters through all of them and decide. It's
kind of you're you're sifting through all of the soot
or the and then you find the nuggets of gold.

(31:08):
That's kind of what you're doing, you know.

Speaker 5 (31:10):
Yeah, that's why I try. I uh well, it's every
once in a while I contribute. Okay, that's right, So
like this week, and it's gonna be a good one.
So if you can stick in there and seven headlines
or stories from now, you're gonna you're gonna.

Speaker 1 (31:27):
Look, I'll tease the I will just say this if
if if you know you're obviously you're you're listening to
the podcast and you can see the podcast notes, then
you know what we're talking about.

Speaker 5 (31:40):
Because it's ye, that's yeah, you're right. You're gonna want
to change your diet at the end of this podcast,
is what I'm getting at. So with that going in,
uh yeah, look your salary, right, we're coming close to the
end of the year, and you know, do you get

(32:01):
to figure out if you have any bonuses or maybe
you know a yearly.

Speaker 1 (32:07):
Raise, well some some windfall, yeah.

Speaker 5 (32:09):
That windfall, maybe maybe even just found a twenty dollars
bill on the floor of the break rem atwork. Would
you pocket it, you know, and what if you found
everyone's pay you know, in your accounts of a factory
worker in Russia is being sued by his company because
he mistakenly received all his coworkers' paychecks in his account

(32:33):
that came out to be around eighty seven thousand dollars
and he's refusing to return it. The company says that
there was a software glitch and that he's not entitled
to that money. The total was supposed to be paid
out among thirty four employees. The man says he did
his own research online and found out that if it's

(32:55):
a billing air, he's obligated to return it, but if
it's a technical error, it's his call to return it
or not. Wow, and naturally that's what he claims it was.
This happened a little while bad, and in the first
two rounds of cases, the courts have sided with the company.

(33:18):
But now the man is appealed to Russia's Supreme Court
and they've agreed to look at it.

Speaker 1 (33:23):
Wow, that's it happened in Russia, of all places too.

Speaker 5 (33:28):
I think that could happen at my company. There's a
lot more than eighty four people that works at my company, Yeah,
thirty four people.

Speaker 1 (33:36):
Yeah, well, so it's a difference between a billing error
and a technical error. So a billing error would indicate
maybe human error error, but if it's a technical error,
it's beyond the human contribution to the mistake. Is that
what we're saying?

Speaker 5 (33:55):
Yeah, I don't know, man, Yeah, but I think technically
this guy's trying to get away with with all this.

Speaker 1 (34:03):
Yeah. Yeah, Well, it'll be interested to find out if
the Russia Supreme Court actually takes his side on this,
because if that's the case, there's gonna be a lot
of New Yorkers moving to Russia.

Speaker 5 (34:14):
Oh yeah, well to Russia with startup companies or something.

Speaker 1 (34:21):
Yeah, right, you know, so, yeah, that that's that's crazy. Well,
I mean, I guess he also maybe got an apology letter. Oops,
our mistake. We didn't mean to do this. I don't know,
but I mean, look, I know, I don't think anybody
was cheating in order for him to get this extra

(34:41):
eighty four thousand dollars stuck in his bank account. But
I know that old saying, if you're going to cheat,
at least don't cheat on the apology. Okay, But I
guess some folks at the University of Illinois didn't get
that memo. Okay, this is this is With all the
stories we've done on artificial intelligence, this was bound to

(35:04):
happen sometime. Okay recently. There were a couple of professors there,
Kathy Flanagan and Wade Fagan Umschneider. They started to notice
something kind of strange in their computer science course. A
lot of students, like about one hundred or so were
mysteriously turning in suspiciously perfect answers on relatively easy assignments. Hmmm.

(35:29):
Of course that kind of work didn't look like it
come from a rather stressed out sophomore running on red
bull and panic, but kind of like an algorithm, you know.
So the professors did a little investigating, and sure enough,
it looked like dozens of students were using AI to
do their homework, at least for them for that point. Well, now,

(35:53):
when they realize just exactly how widespread this was, well,
the professors sent out a warning. It was rather polite warning.
It just says, look kind of like it's the academic
equivalent of it's like, you know, hey, we see you,
so please explain what you did just before this whole
thing unravels and gets worse. Well, at first, it seemed

(36:13):
like some of the students were stepping up to the
plate and taking some responsibility. I mean, apologies began to
kind of roll in, one by one, and then by
the dozen, I mean emails filled with regret and remorse
and promises to do better next time. The professors were
a bit touched out of the sincerity. Some even moved

(36:36):
and they thought, hm, you know, maybe this is a
teachable moment. Maybe maybe the kids had learned something about honesty,
you know, until they realized it's like eighty percent of
these heartfelt, emotional apologies were also written by AI. Okay,
that's right. The students used artificial intelligence to a apologize

(37:01):
for using artificial intelligence. Same phrasing, same tone, same overuse
of identical apologies, and it well, they showed it. It
showed it to the entire class. Okay, so imagine this.
You're sitting in class, a giant screen full of AI
generated remorse. See you some seer apology messages, each one

(37:23):
probably about as authentic as a politician social media post
after a scandal, you know. And the funny thing is
the professors didn't punish anybody. They treated it lightly, kind
of more less a warning than a crackdown. As one
of them put it, this was supposed to be a
life lesson, you know, because really, look, if you're going
to use chad GPT to cheat on an assignment and

(37:45):
then again to apologize for cheating, I don't say I
wouldn't say, you're you're really showing mastery of the data
science or common sense for that matter. But meanwhile, on Reddit,
the students and teaching assistants from the same university started
chiming in with their own horror stories. Now, my wife
has seen a few, I mean in the Christian school

(38:05):
she teaches at from you know, middle school of elementary students,
mainly middle school students. But apparently AI use on campuses
isn't just common, it's like all over the place. Okay.
One TA teacher's assistant said about seventy five percent of
the work it was it was turned into like it
was AI slop. That's what they call it. Another said

(38:27):
students were using functions in their code that actually hadn't
even been taught in class. That's a dead giveaway that
the quote student doing the homework had a micro shift
for brain. Okay, I mean, one course assistant complained that
even short weekly paragraphs were being turned in completely AI generated.

(38:49):
So I mean what we have is like a kind
of recursive stupidity. You might say, you know, students cheating
with AI, lying about cheating with AI using AI, then
getting caught because the AI was too lazy to even
vary the sentence structure. I mean in this you know
age of technology. I guess intelligence might be artificial, but
you know, stupidity, my friend still is one hundred percent human,

(39:13):
that's for sure.

Speaker 5 (39:15):
You don't have to start like putting in your prompt
like adding in a few grammatical and spelling errors.

Speaker 1 (39:21):
Yes, exactly. Well here's another thing. This was on another
episode of the podcast, but they were also doing some
studies on the artificial intelligence algorithms out there, and they
wanted to find out what AI would do if given
its own volition to get basically place bets in gamble,

(39:46):
and they found that AI began to develop the same weaknesses,
thinking that even after losing several bets, that well, they'll
win on the next round. You know what, I'm saying,
the same philosophy, and so AI was actually using the
same reasoning that we were making bad choices and basically

(40:08):
the AI became gambling addicts. So I mean, look, AI
is necessarily all this cracked up to be sometimes, you know?

Speaker 5 (40:18):
Yeah, and that's just the way right. Well, look, all
I know is I've got one more thing to be
thankful about this year, and that is what well thankful.
I am not a teacher these days, that's not students
these days. I especially, I have not been able to

(40:40):
stop hearing six seven after we talked about.

Speaker 1 (40:42):
It last, tik, was that right?

Speaker 5 (40:44):
Everywhere?

Speaker 4 (40:44):
Now?

Speaker 5 (40:45):
Everywhere?

Speaker 1 (40:45):
Well you you know what, my my my wife even
is hearing it now in school from the kids.

Speaker 5 (40:54):
Yeah. I I mean, I'm glad, I know, but I
realizing just how old that we sounded. Less.

Speaker 1 (41:06):
Well you said, then you tell me that you heard
it from some kids in the park the very.

Speaker 5 (41:11):
Next day after we recorded, I'm hearing kids shouting it
out in the Park's hilarious.

Speaker 1 (41:17):
I know that is hilarious. Well, this is even funnier too,
because at our at our youth group at our churches
last week. Okay, this one kid and I we we
send snaps back and forth with each other on Snapchat,
random snaps. Okay, and I'm having fun with filters on snapchat.
So anyway, this is at youth group. He across the

(41:40):
room must have zoomed in really tight on me standing somewhere,
and he puts US six seven in the filters. Oh
my gosh. So o man, so yeah, it's it's it's right. Yeah,
you're gonna see six. Well, and did I I told
you what the local baseball team is doing here? Didn't I?

Speaker 5 (42:02):
You mentioned a little bit about it?

Speaker 1 (42:04):
I think, yeah, yeah, the State College Spikes. What's funny. Well,
this I don't know. It's part smart marketing, but I
think it's a little too late. They're going to do
this thing in June. They want to They want to
rebrand themselves from the State College Spikes to the State
College six seven ball club, which is great if you

(42:27):
could do it next week, it's not going to be
so great if you're doing it in June. At that point,
six seven is going to be old news.

Speaker 5 (42:34):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, So this stuff moves way too
slow for that.

Speaker 1 (42:40):
Oh man, that's insane. Oh well, yeah, we'll all be
saying six to seven to their six seven marketing schedule.

Speaker 5 (42:49):
Well, people like us are going to have killed it
for them by that time. We get there.

Speaker 1 (42:53):
You're right, that's true.

Speaker 5 (42:56):
Yes, Look, I'm thankful to not be Jen Alpha and
to have grown up without AI so that I learned
to use my own brain to apologize for my own mistake, right,
and the mistake is probably what Oreos should be saying

(43:16):
as well. Maybe they need it right in a I
apology for this. Did you ever try like seasonal weird food?

Speaker 3 (43:25):
You know?

Speaker 1 (43:26):
The weirdest stuff I saw Oreos come out with here
recently was watermelon.

Speaker 5 (43:32):
Why that sounds awful?

Speaker 1 (43:34):
Yeah it was.

Speaker 5 (43:35):
It was really bad.

Speaker 1 (43:36):
Yeah, watermelon, Oreos. They didn't last long.

Speaker 5 (43:38):
When I was in high school, I remember I'd always
try to get weird food like I did this all
until college. After college, I would hang out with a
couple of friends of mine that we'd always get like
weird food and just like laugh and you know, whether
it was good or bad, it didn't matter. It added
more story when it stuck. Butever in high school, we

(44:00):
we got this. It was like a Thanksgiving pack of
soda by I think, tell me about that. I probably,
I don't know. Maybe it was on the pipe, it was,
it was. It was Joan's soda was and they had
like a Thanksgiving dinner pack. It was like it was
like five or six sodas that came together in this pack,

(44:21):
and it was from of like turkey and gravy. It
was like sweet potato cast roll, it was like green
beans I think it was, yeah, maybe pumpkin pie for dessert.
And it was like one might have been cranberry. And
then the thing that one was like a Brussels sprout
type stuffing or every it was. The thing is every

(44:43):
year they came out with a new one and so
the dish was a little different every year. I can't
remember which one was that we got.

Speaker 1 (44:49):
That year.

Speaker 5 (44:50):
It was awful. I mean the whole thing sucked. Like
maybe the pie was okay, the cranberry was all right,
but yeah, horrible. You should not be drinking you know,
gravy and turkey flavored drink or like green bean casserole
or whatever. But like there's something fun and kind of
I don't know, like it's a ste river, right, it's

(45:11):
a story that you get. Well, Oreo is kind of
following this trend here. Yeah, you haven't really fully digested
those If you haven't fully digested those fun sized snickers yet,
we're already moving on to the next holiday. Yeah, Oreo,
they've announced a new special edition ten of cookies that

(45:32):
taste like Thanksgiving foods. You can't get them at stores,
just online. It's six different flavors and each comes with
two of each. So the flavors are Turkey and stuffing,
sweet potato, creamed corn, granberry styles, pumpkin pie, and caramel

(45:52):
apple pie. You can order a ten for twenty dollars
plus shipping through oreo dot com. The question is he
really wants an Oreo that tastes like turkey?

Speaker 1 (46:04):
I don't know, would you be willing to put the
money down and get some?

Speaker 5 (46:08):
I am, I'm logging on right now.

Speaker 1 (46:16):
I mean we we did, we did the live testing
of the craft. What was it? What was the mac
and cheese flavor that we did? It was a pumpkin
get pie, pump Yeah, pumpkin pie, pumpkin spice, mac and cheese.
That's right, And we actually actually ate some. And and
so maybe if you can snag yourself a tin and

(46:38):
and uh you can taste testy or look, you.

Speaker 5 (46:42):
Know, it comes in too. I mean it'll be after Thanksgiving,
but I could save it for next time I see you.

Speaker 1 (46:49):
Well no, no, no, I mean you, you would eat
it right here. I mean, if you get it between
now and November, you just take a bite and you
get two cookies each. So maybe you and Missus Pancho
could be on the.

Speaker 5 (47:03):
So longer than now, notify me. So I'm assuming this
is all sold out right now?

Speaker 1 (47:09):
Oh that's who knows. It might be, but it would
be that would be a riot if you and Missus
Poncho on a special Thanksgiving episode of the podcast you
would both test have a That would be a riot.

Speaker 5 (47:24):
You have a whole whole like what three four course
Thanksgiving meal? Then have a whole you know, four course Thanksgivings.

Speaker 1 (47:32):
Oh man, just get your opinion and get Missus Poncho's
opinion for having eat a turkey and stuffing flavored cookie.
Just just well, look, if you're successful in getting that
package of Oreo cookies, that that would be. That would

(47:54):
be the best podcast of the year. It really would.
If if you could do that, it really would. Unless
you got a package of human body parts by mistake. Okay,
this this is outrageous. I mean this, this woman in Hopkinsville, Kentucky,
she got a package that she wasn't definitely expecting. Now

(48:17):
she thought she was getting medical supplies. Okay, maybe gauze,
you know, box of gloves, a new staper for her desk. Now, Nope, nope.
She opens a box and finds two human arms and
four fingers, all packed on ice. You know, just chilling,
like a very disturbing frozen pizza. Because so obviously you

(48:39):
know when she calls nine to one one and then
she calls a coroner, I mean, who could blame her?
I mean, this is not exactly the kind of thing
you're gonna be able to shrudge off. Oh, two arms,
that's fine, I was expecting three. So the coroner for
Christian County, Kentucky, Scott Daniels, shows up and well, he
has to process this like it was just another day
at the office, okay, and owing to him, this wasn't

(49:01):
a prank, believe it or not. Some wasn't some elaborate
horror movie plotter. Wasn't even a bad Christmas gift. It
was actually real human cadaver parts, all right. So this
is where the stupidity kicks in here. This bizarre delivery
didn't come from the US Postal Service, from FedEx, or

(49:22):
from ups now. It was actually a private courier which
somehow involved three separate entities in the shipping process. Okay,
so somehow, somehow, I don't know, all three managed to
screw up simultaneously. All right, so we got three separate groups,

(49:42):
one box, two arms, four fingers, and a very very
startled Kentucky woman. Okay, the perfect storm of perfect storm
of logistical incompetence here, folks. All right, so luckily nobody
was harmed. The cadaver parts did eventually make it to
the proper destination, a medical training facility, actually, and the

(50:03):
woman you know, got the medical supplies that she actually ordered.
But you really, I think you really have to wonder,
you know, what if she'd been opening the box while
sipping coffee barefoot in a bathroom. You know, I don't know.
Maybe we can take a lesson from Hopkinsville here. Sometimes
stupidity isn't malicious. Sometimes it's just a spectacular chain of

(50:24):
errors that result in a random person getting a ups
box full of human limbs.

Speaker 5 (50:29):
That's why you have to open your packages before you
you wrap it. You know, Oh, I know what this is.
I yeah, this is the right.

Speaker 1 (50:38):
Always always double check. That's a good point, right, of course,
If this ever happens to you. Maybe I wouldn't open
it in the living room, that's for sure. Okay, So
so yeah, yeah, I I I don't know. I know
that there have been some mix ups before in some
things we've ordered, and more and more people are ordering

(51:00):
online and you know, you guys ordered from Amazon, you
know this kind of thing, and so there's that possibility
you might end up opening up a box of stupid.

Speaker 5 (51:11):
It's possible, Yeah, I could. I could imagine a box
of body parts, Like how weird that? Like that that's
an actual person, right, Like, there's a real person. Imagine.
A part of me thinks it's probably the way that
you wish that you could go.

Speaker 1 (51:29):
Yeah, yeah, I mean, but imagine opening up the box
expecting to find medical supplies and you know, you're looking
at Jeffrey Dahmer's dinner. Yeah, yeah, this is like.

Speaker 5 (51:44):
What Jeffrey Dahmer's Hello fresh.

Speaker 1 (51:48):
Yeah that's right. Oh man, Yeah, that would be a
start That would be definitely a startle. I'm thinking about
getting her medical supplies and opening up to find four fingers.
Although you know what, we have actually talked about this,
this is a two fact. Now, She's not let's just say,

(52:08):
she's not in the best relations with the other two
of her children. All right, this is a family divided.
And so we've all set around and you know, talked about,
you know, who's going to get what of grandma's estate
when she finally kicks the bucket. Okay, And this is

(52:29):
a suggestion that my own son came up with, Okay,
that whenever she finally passes from this earth, that we
end up. And this is so morbid, but you're gonna
love this. But when she finally passes, we chop off
Grandma's middle finger on both hands and send one each

(52:50):
to uncle, one uncle, and one aunt. So here's this
is what you're getting of your mother. This is our
middle finger. So I'm like, and we're talking about this
over dinner, and I'm like, this is not happening. I
don't believe this. So yeah, so and and of course

(53:11):
my wife is saying that's all they deserve. I'm like,
oh my gosh, I'm gosh. So I don't know, maybe
maybe the body parts thing might come out a different
way this next time. I don't know who cares.

Speaker 5 (53:27):
Morbid, man, Well, I don't know. Some people, I think,
you know, they look at it they'd probably pass out
when they when they see someone's you know, yes, back
at them. Our next story, I've got someone who is
knocked unconscious, not by a bunch of body parts flying

(53:49):
at them, but but by a duck flying out there.

Speaker 1 (53:55):
I saw this headline and I'm sitting there and I
had to compose myself before I could talk on the air.
I really could. It was so funny.

Speaker 5 (54:05):
Yeah, so I f I'll start with a painting. A picture,
all right, it's a picture A bright sunny day in Orlando,
home to palm trees, burrows, roller coasters that go faster
than your will to live after two hours online or
in line. I'm sorry, had two hours online. Yeah, I'll

(54:25):
give you no will to live too. Hillary Martin was
at Seawheel World ready for a thrill on the Maco
roller coaster, one of those rides that brags about hitting
seventy miles per hour, just before it reminds you that
you're not as brave as you thought, right, right, Mako
Shark is the fastest shark in the ocean, So you know.

Speaker 1 (54:45):
Yeah, have you really get fast? Have you ridden the Maco?

Speaker 5 (54:50):
I don't think I had it. It's been a while
since I've been a sea world, and I think that
might be a newer one. I couldn't be. I don't know.
It's been a while, I like a good while since
I've been there. Yeah. So she straps in, feels the
wind in her hair, maybe screams a little like the
usual fun. But then I don't nowhere, nature, decience has
had enough of human joy. And because at the very

(55:12):
at the very moment, a duck, like a literal, honestly
god duck comes flying out of the sky like a
feathered missile, and it smacks her right in the faith.
And now I think that was a good time to
pause and just reflect. This duck wasn't part of the show.

(55:33):
It wasn't a train steaworld performer. It was just like
a regular unsuspecting bird, probably thinking, Hey, what's that big
shiny snake zooming through the air, right before realizing it's
too late that it was able to you know that
it was about to meet Hillary. It's seventy miles per hour. Now,

(55:54):
the impact was brutal. Hillary was knocked out cold mid rock.
The duck, let's just say, did not file the countersuit,
and afterwards Hillary claimed she suffered permanent injuries, disfigurement, mental pain,

(56:14):
and the kind of embarrassment that comes with explaining to
the er that your assailant was a mallard. So naturally,
she'ssuing sea World for fifty thousand dollars, arguing that the
park created a zone of danger by building a roller
coaster near water, where As it turns out, ducks tend

(56:36):
to live. And you know what, she might have a point.
I mean, who could have guessed that building a seventy
mile power people slinging machine next to a pond full
of airborne wildlife could end so badly? Apparently the folks
who designed it, not the folks who designed I mean
the SeaWorld, for their part, was all the compassion of

(56:56):
a corporate email template. The safety of our guests and
employees is a top priority, and we take these situations
very seriously. Now, if I can translate that, it means
we cannot believe we're having a meeting about duck collisions.
Somewhere in a SeaWorld boardroom, someone is now updating a
safety manual, new rule helmets, and all coasters also maybe

(57:20):
installed duck radar. So there you have it. A roller coaster,
a duck a fifty thousand dollars we're worth of head trauma,
proof that in Florida, even the wildlife is out here
fighting for its right to thrill seek. Yeah yeah, Now,
either out of the duck was just like high on
math or something, right, it is a Florida duck. Now,

(57:43):
now she's got permanent duck face.

Speaker 10 (57:45):
Though our jokes are contributing to the fifty thousand dollars
worth of embarrassment that she's asking.

Speaker 5 (57:59):
This is, I guess in the duck. The duck works
for Sea World, and much like an orca, I don't
think this lady has a leg to stand on.

Speaker 1 (58:06):
Yeah, yeah, that's just I don't know. Just the idea
of a woman being knocked out cold on the seventy
mile in our roller coaster, being smacked in the face
by flying duck, it's oh man, I mean it's I'm
just imagining. This is literally something that you would see
in like some weird comedy movie or something. You know,

(58:27):
as there coming around the corner and smack feathers everywhere
and she's knocked out cold in the seat, you know,
I mean, that's that's just outrageous. I don't know, I mean,
I guess when you have a sudden impact on something
like that, it does kind of throw you for a loop. Definitely,
But I will say at least she was sober when

(58:50):
she got smacked in the face by a duck on
the wrong coaster. I mean, you might have heard the
phrase drunken debakery, but how about some drunken the butchery. Okay,
we got a twenty eight year old guy in Germany
and he stays in charges. Not because he used a
duck to smack somebody in the face or something like that.

(59:13):
He got drunk at a bar and he fell out
of a window. He ended up, Yeah, he ended up
landing in the courtyard of a butcher shop next door.
I guess, next door to the bar. So what does
he do? He breaks in and starts eating sausages? Why not?
Because why not? Yeah, cops actually showed up, But they

(59:35):
showed up after he called from the inside of the
butcher shop around ten forty five at night. Now he
tells the cops he wasn't hurt, he didn't even know
where he was, and no other word on any more injuries.
But an ambulance did get to him and took him
to the hospital. The doctors checked him out. The manager

(59:56):
of the shop said that one of those pigeon nets
on the building had actually been torn and the door
to the butcher shop was damaged. So I guess this guy,
in his inneebriated state, grabbed two sausages from their fridge.
Not really clear if he bothered to cook them or not.
I'm sure if he's probably drunk, he probably didn't notice.

(01:00:17):
But police said that he's probably gonna be facing charges
for property crime. But yeah, that guess that's what they
do in Germany. You get drunk, fall out of a window,
and then break into a butcher shop and have yourself
some sausages.

Speaker 5 (01:00:30):
I mean it sounds like a good time to me. Yeah,
it's a perfect place to fall if you're gonna be
be drunk. I guess sausage.

Speaker 1 (01:00:42):
I guess does does? Does German sausage help you recover
from a hangover? That's what I want to know.

Speaker 5 (01:00:47):
That's why usually though, when someone's drunk, it's their sausage
that ends up coming out. Weich speaking up. If you
want your sausage to come out with a blast, then
you want to stay away from the German sausages. I'll

(01:01:12):
tell you exactly what you need to do to be
able to nutmax like like the rose are okay nut
maxing this is yeah, you've heard like like looks maxing
and stuff. Well, nutmaxing is one of the more I
guess new trends out there.

Speaker 1 (01:01:33):
Trends. It's a trend.

Speaker 5 (01:01:35):
Oh yeah, it's oh yeah, I mean.

Speaker 1 (01:01:39):
Part part.

Speaker 5 (01:01:41):
You want to do like a podcast like we could
both try to try to like test and compare and
contribute to these these uh gin scientists, I think is
what the wording was. We can we can both. We
could come back in a like a month and give
like an update, give an update if you if you want,

(01:02:02):
and everyone could know if it works or not.

Speaker 1 (01:02:04):
Well, I do want you to know that I I
used my ingenious talent to craft that that headline for
you too?

Speaker 5 (01:02:14):
Is it? I say I want, I don't want to,
I don't wanna, let me, let me, let me git back,
so I don't I don't offend Eric here cocked and
loaded meets the Nutbaxers is bigger, always better. Are you
sure that you didn't tell a I to write that

(01:02:34):
for you?

Speaker 1 (01:02:35):
No, not a deliverer.

Speaker 5 (01:02:40):
Look throughout history, some of humanity's brightest minds have pushed
the boundaries of science through personal sacrificing. Right Jonah Stall
pested his own polio vaccine, Isaac Newton shoved a needle
into his eye socket just to see what would happen.

(01:03:01):
And now standing proudly but not too proudly in that
same tradition, are the Internet's newest pioneers, the men of
our slash Come Bigger Loads, a subreddit devoted to increasing
the size, go and spectacle of male emissions.

Speaker 1 (01:03:21):
Oh yes, somebody has to do it.

Speaker 5 (01:03:23):
Yeah, this is where I'm assuming most of our listeners
are tuning out, and a few of you freaks out
there are still listening intently. If anything, some.

Speaker 1 (01:03:33):
Of you are, they're calling their friends and telling them
download the podcast.

Speaker 10 (01:03:38):
I know, right that would I mean obviously here typing
away to you like you gotta gotta read this, listen
to something.

Speaker 11 (01:03:46):
In fact, this is kind of what happened when I
did find out about this. I mean, Eric's gotta find
out about this. He's gonna Eric is gonna love the
nut maxing. Uh you give me all about nut maxing.

Speaker 5 (01:03:59):
Oh yeah, there's one thing Eric's all about. I think
this is one thing that made you think about you? Yeah,
well yeah, so, yes, these are citizens of the digital age. Okay,
which should worry you that that sentence when you've got
to clarify it about that, you're like, okay, you know
where this is going.

Speaker 1 (01:04:19):
It worries me when you think about netmacine, you think
about me. That's what's the biggest worry about there.

Speaker 5 (01:04:24):
Yeah, we're gonna move on.

Speaker 12 (01:04:32):
Look, I get these These are the are the citizens
scientists of the digital age, men who looked at the
miracle of the Internet and said, what if I could
make that bigger?

Speaker 5 (01:04:47):
Yes, their lab codes are bathrooms, their test subjects are themselves,
and their methods are well, let's call them freestyle with
with with this online laboratory over forty seven thousand, I'm
thinking of either out of their their methods are chronic.

Speaker 10 (01:05:13):
Maybe we could say yes.

Speaker 5 (01:05:36):
Within this online laboratory, over forty seven thousand users share research.
Research isn't quote here. You make sure you guys saw
that research on supplement combinations they believe will deliver monster results.

(01:05:56):
Oh yes, quote unquote. They swamp dosage notes, compare before
and after stats, and debate things like the ideals zinc
to less than ratio and the seriousness of people discussing well,
they do it with the seriousness of people discussing nuclear policy.
Their holy trinity, this is the so called holy grail

(01:06:19):
of volume is zinc, pigm l, citraline, and lestin, all
taken in the pursuit of what one might terriitably call
impressive visuals.

Speaker 1 (01:06:34):
Yeah, impressives.

Speaker 5 (01:06:38):
Many of these men have full blown experimental routines, which
I assume is nightly. And then let me even use
shot glasses for measurement, because, as one reditor put it,
what gets measured gets managed.

Speaker 1 (01:06:59):
Measured by shot glasses.

Speaker 5 (01:07:01):
Wow. Well, it's the kind of commitment that would be
admirable if it weren't aimed at turning your love life
into a science fair project.

Speaker 10 (01:07:15):
But you don't want to be you know, asking your
wife to lubricate with baking soda and vinegar.

Speaker 5 (01:07:25):
And uh well, the reasons for joining this cause very
One guy said he started during quarantine because he was
stuck in a beach house with his girlfriend and needed
a new hobby. Was right, So I also pick up
the hobby of nutnaxing. Yeah, yeah, maybe you think my
kids will be proud of me if I if I

(01:07:46):
picked up a new hobby. Yeah, Another said his partner
told him she preferred a little more showmanship, and many
inevitably admit that porn is completely broken their understanding of
what's normal. Well, I think that that probably plays by

(01:08:06):
far the biggest.

Speaker 1 (01:08:08):
Biggest it does it. It is probably the biggest stimulant.

Speaker 5 (01:08:13):
I might say, definitely, But well, yeah, look, anyone, it's
not real, right, like, you know that that's real. Doctors,
for their part, they have been quickly to clarify there's
no clinical evidence that any of this works. According to rologists,
the only scientifically validated method for increasing outputs is staying hydrated.

(01:08:41):
That's not zinc, not root powder, not ancient twist secrets,
just water. But apparently drinking drink water doesn't look as
cool on the supplement label as load boost, which I have.
I assume it is like what like like formulated or

(01:09:04):
something like that, right, right, Still.

Speaker 1 (01:09:08):
Don't they don't they have firewater out there? They can
use firewater.

Speaker 5 (01:09:12):
Yeah, well, no, that's going to dehydrate you, Eric.

Speaker 1 (01:09:15):
No, okay, all right, okay, it.

Speaker 5 (01:09:18):
Might lower your inhibitions.

Speaker 1 (01:09:20):
So yeah, that's true.

Speaker 5 (01:09:23):
Well, still here, facts have never stood in the way
of the determinedly, determinedly stupid. Members of this community see
the lack of medical consensus not as a warning, but
as an encouragement.

Speaker 1 (01:09:37):
Of course.

Speaker 5 (01:09:38):
One chiropractor turned self proclaimed intimacy nutrition expert offers those
aren't quotes there. I don't know if it's real. Right,
as my wife would said, he was a degree nutrition.
Anybody can call themselves a nutritionist. Everybody can call themselves
a registered or a dietitian. Yes, true, Yes, he's an

(01:10:01):
intimasy nutrition expert. He offers a Patreon recommending more than
two dozen ingredients balancing quote biblical wisdom and quote hand
trick tradition with whatever you could find on on pub med.
I assumed it was gonna be called pube med. I

(01:10:22):
don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:10:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:10:24):
Meanwhile, factions have emerged. There's Team Tummy Pancake and Team.

Speaker 1 (01:10:30):
Bunglazer Tummy Pancake. Yeah yeah, just imagine what that is?

Speaker 5 (01:10:36):
Well yeah I can, I can't imagine. Yeah, to uh.

Speaker 1 (01:10:43):
That's my that's my favorite new term right there. I
saw that nearly lost it.

Speaker 5 (01:10:48):
What it makes you think of is this. This is
an old family guy clip of Peter trying to buy
a record. He's at a record store, and he's like
he's trying to decide what like classical music to get,
like you know, Beethoven, Bach and and he's trying to
this guy be like you know, it's like he's like, well,

(01:11:09):
I'm having a hard time deciding do I get to
back or do I get to boosy? And he's like, oh,
I don't know. He's like, well, what w do I
get first? He's like, no, you always start with the boosy.
You never never finish on the boosy. If it always
ends on the back. It's all this I'm butchering. Okay,

(01:11:29):
but tmmy Pancake and the team Bunglazer two rival names,
I guess after the their preferred aesthetic outcomes.

Speaker 1 (01:11:41):
Yes, it was just pancake.

Speaker 5 (01:11:45):
Look, that's the most uncomfortable thing I've heard all all
day right now. Oh man, uh, someone somewhere out there
someone is saying stick step into that though. So yeah,
all this is any bad visuals, I don't want to
be especially if you say they're Let me imagine if

(01:12:09):
if the Civil War have been fought over, who could
make the bigger mess? Right beneath that the absurdity a
lot of something oddly tragic. These men aren't curing disease
or pushing forward science. They're chasing validation, convinced that masculinity
can be measured in millimeters millimeters, that's right, I know.

(01:12:30):
Measuring in millimeters is usually the kind of stories that
we get people trying to increase whatever they can, right then,
so yeah, in a sense, and someone trying to increase
their their there, I guess we'll say their mass. They're
trying to increase their volume for one. Yeah, it's what
happens when the insecurity I think, meets Internet culture meets

(01:12:54):
unlimited access to supplements with no FDA oversight and probably
you know, people's unlimited access to porn once again exactly.
But you almost have to admire the dedication though. It's
it's like the purest form of misdirected human ambition, meticulous
note taking, self experimentation and unwavering faith and nonsense. It's

(01:13:17):
like proof that your high school student actually can do
the work. They're just choosing that to they they've turned
a bodily function into a competitive sport, which which shouldn't
be a surprise if you've listened to our podcast long enough,
because we already know that spirm raising is a competitive sport.

Speaker 1 (01:13:36):
Now it is, that's right.

Speaker 5 (01:13:38):
But this one, though, is one about metals, fans or dignity.
I think, and and I think that's the beauty of stupidity.
It's not lazy, it's relentless. It takes curiosity and drives
and driving it. It points them in the dumbest possible direction.
So here's to the self made scientists of our slash

(01:14:02):
come bigger loads. We've got my I've got my beer
raised to high for them right now. The newtons of nonsense,
the the galileos of bad ideas, their proof that the
human drive to understand ourselves will never die. It'll just
keep finding new ridiculous ways to embarrass us all and
proof once again that that basically people's desire. Or but

(01:14:27):
I guess you would say, I guess I'll say sex
for for kink, you know, for for whatever they're for
kinks and giggles, kings. It's what drives our science forward. Okay,
that's why Open ai is apparently said that they're gonna
start treating adults like adults last month, which I can

(01:14:49):
only assume mean that the goon apocalypse is upon us.
So the next time someone yells or tells you that
that they're working on a personal sub project. Just hope
that it involves a telescope and not a measuring cut.
And uh, in a way though, they're not so different

(01:15:10):
from NASA scientists, except their rockets never leave the launch
pad and everyone involved really wishes they would stop filming.
Imagine counting down you know. Uh, I think it totally
ruined the mood. Well, in the end, they didn't reinvent

(01:15:32):
scientists or science, but they did prove one universal law
for every action, there's an equal and opposite lack of shame.
And with that in mind, do you want to supplement
boosts with me? And we could we could give our
own thoughts on personal experience here.

Speaker 1 (01:15:49):
Yeah, and you can make the bigger tummy pancake.

Speaker 5 (01:15:51):
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 8 (01:15:52):
That I.

Speaker 5 (01:15:57):
But you realize though, like if you're gonna if you're
going to be scientific about this, you have to have
you need to use the same metric or volume of metrics.

Speaker 4 (01:16:09):
So like.

Speaker 5 (01:16:11):
There's there's all no there's I'm like, I can't think
about this anymore. No word. Oh gosh, the worst thing
ever heard all week?

Speaker 1 (01:16:23):
Uh, Well, I have to wonder though, I mean What
is it with guys and load size? That's what I
want to know.

Speaker 5 (01:16:32):
I think, I think guys with size of any kind
is the thing.

Speaker 1 (01:16:38):
I guess, I guess. I mean, the irony of it is,
it doesn't matter how big the load is. Once there's what.
Once penetration has been made, it it kind of like
locks out all the other contenders, you know what I mean.

Speaker 5 (01:16:55):
This is one of these conversations I don't want to
have with you.

Speaker 1 (01:17:02):
But I'm saying, it doesn't matter if if you've got
I don't know, I don't know, fifty million or five
hundred million, it doesn't matter. I mean, you don't get
to get in one winner unless you might get lucky
and have two at the same time. I don't know.
I don't know. It's just I guess it's it's all
in the process. That's all I can figure. You know,

(01:17:26):
I don't know any case. I mean, the thing is
what's wrong with just the old fashioned rhythm method? I
don't know. I just I have no idea. But anyway,
we got some ask Pancho questions for you, which you
might feel more comfortable talking about.

Speaker 5 (01:17:42):
I can just imagine what your son would be thinking
if he was listening to this.

Speaker 1 (01:17:49):
Well, I got it. I mean it was I had
to hear about the apparently all of his roommates and
even people in his job of my six seven reel
that I put up on social media. I think I
told you they were out, and of course it was
nothing but utter embarrassment for him. But all of his

(01:18:11):
friends and coworkers thought it was fantastic.

Speaker 8 (01:18:14):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:18:15):
So I've scored with them, but not with my son.
I don't know, but yeah, anyway, we got some ask
Pancho questions though for you, and this one, I think
that I think this is a pretty this is a
softball for you, okay, because we got someone wanting to
know what is wrong with being a trad wife. Now
we've talked about this before, I think, okay, but they're

(01:18:38):
they're asking, says dear Pancho. My boyfriend is planning to
propose soon, and some of my friends are upset with
me because I told him I want to be a
trad wife. Now they thought I was kidding, But being
a stay at home mom is a goal of mine.
I want to spend as much time as I can
with my newborn and take care of my house and
my husband, and they said the trad wife is outdated

(01:19:01):
and a bit demeaning to women because women are so
much more than that in twenty twenty five. Yeah, right, right,
Is there anything wrong with wanting to be a trad wife? No, yeah,
I think that.

Speaker 5 (01:19:18):
I mean, like all these women that think it's demeaning,
they're going to probably think, how I'm man explaining or something.
But yeah, I mean, I don't know. My wife would
probably be considered pretty traditional. She's she's more just stay
at home. She no, I gave her the option, right,
And this is like I think the way it should be.

(01:19:39):
She'd have the option to work or to stay at
home and and like raise kids and stuff, and she
chose to stay at home and raise kids. That's what
she wants. She thinks that she would end up kind
of really regretting and not enjoying her life the same way.

Speaker 1 (01:19:52):
So she would be more or less in the same
situation as this person.

Speaker 5 (01:19:55):
Right, she's homeschooling. She nash mills her grain and bakes
bread like kind of is now, now, when you think
trad wife and you got that like Instagram thing, well
that's kind of like fake, like the Instagram thing that's
all people try to put up like you know, some
kind of show for it whatever. Yeah, but yeah, no,

(01:20:16):
there's nothing wrong at all. I think most women from
when I talk with my wife probably would agree and
feel the same way in that way, because like, guess what,
like jobs kind of suck sometimes and yeah, it could
be tough at home to doing that stuff, but like
imagine not having to have the stress of a boss
being you know, crazy and and and just like crazy

(01:20:37):
workdays and overtime and then still you know, like like, yeah,
I get why you wouldn't want to do that, and
there's a lot of value added and so yeah, there's
nothing wrong these are It's feminism I think has really
done a lot more harm than good at this point, right,
you know, from where whatever we're at now with it
now that tries to say that women can be men

(01:20:59):
and be just as if not better. Right, Yeah, I
don't know, there's there's I think there's something more to
complimentaryism where we're like my wife and I compliment one
another with our differences there. So yeah, I don't know.
I think honestly what that means is that you're the

(01:21:20):
marrying type is what I see for me. So you'll
be happier. I guarantee you'll be a happier person than
your friends are.

Speaker 1 (01:21:30):
So so you don't see anything wrong with being a
tried wife.

Speaker 5 (01:21:33):
I don't see anything wrong with it? Why, Like yeah, yeah,
And like I gave him from my wife. I'm like,
you can work or you can stay home, like and
do the kids. I'm kind of glad she chose to
stay home. I wouldn't have blamed her if she chose
not to, though, I'd be like, yeah, you know, but yeah,
so I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:21:54):
All right, Well, you have a tried wife, so I
guess that that kind of takes care of it.

Speaker 5 (01:22:01):
Yeah, it's right. Maybe I'm biased on that way, but yeah, no,
I think it's great. I love it. I've got as poncho,
I say, help, fiance has a beer wallet and champagne taste.

Speaker 1 (01:22:18):
Yeah. I've been accused of that a few times.

Speaker 5 (01:22:22):
Okay, well let's see, they say, dear Poncho, I love
my fiance, but his wallet might be allergic to responsibility.
Every payday, he splurges on the latest gadget, sneakers and
gaming gear, and then magically forgets about rent and bills. Yes,
who ends up covering the shortfall. Yeah to me, he
swears will change, but nothing does. We're planning a wedding,

(01:22:45):
but I'm starting to wonder whether I should be planning
an exit strategy instead. I'm starting to feel more like
his bank than his bride to be. Am I being petty?
Or is this a big red flag your thoughts? Maybe
I just love the guy with no money management skills.
It's not his strength. It's definitely somebody you got to
addressed to talk about and figure out beforehand. He should

(01:23:06):
not be in charge of the money if that's what
he does. Yeah, you know, and and so yeah, you're
gonna have to like either. For me, I'd see it
as a red flag, like you because like, what what
is your job? Like back to the tradway, right, what
is a guy's job in the role, It's his job
to provide. So in my mind, I'm like, what kind

(01:23:28):
of guy consumes more than than than this lady? Like
I thought girls were the ones, Like most even men's
razor commercials are geared towards women because they're the ones
that buy all this stuff. So like, yeah, all that
I just that's I don't know, maybe a red flag.

Speaker 1 (01:23:47):
Well, but like he should be able to. Well, here's
the here's the thing. I mean, I like, my dad
was an accountant. I just I have no skill whatsoever
in any kind of numeracal or arithmetic talent. Okay, I mean,
and I know that, and I mean to me, I

(01:24:08):
would rather have my teeth teeth drilled than to sit
and try to reconcile my bank statement. Okay. So I
mean my wife, she worked in mortgages, she did finance,
she was in banking. When we got married, I just
handed her the check book. I said, give me an allowance.
I don't really care, you know, And so I basically surrendered. Look,

(01:24:32):
I will trust you with your financial acumen. You might say,
all right, So I have a feeling this guy is
probably going to have to do the same thing. He's
gonna have to you know what I'm saying. I mean,
because he obviously has no concept. Because you know, obviously
it is a lot of work for my wife to
sit there and balance the books and do all this

(01:24:53):
kind of thing. But obviously she knows she's better at
it than I am. And I know she knows she
would probably be put in padded room if I was
taking care of it. You know what I'm saying. So
you do have to kind of figure out your strengths
and weaknesses here, you know.

Speaker 5 (01:25:10):
Yeah, I think that's a that's a good point of that,
But that's something that you want to figure out.

Speaker 1 (01:25:17):
Talking a red flag as much as I would say
it's a caution light, because you mean want to say
you want to make sure that that is figured out
before you get married, though, I think, yeah, yeah, I
mean recognize the fact that Houston, we have a problem,

(01:25:38):
you know, So maybe she needs to have a little
uh come to Jesus moment with this guy before they
get married.

Speaker 5 (01:25:45):
Yeah, you know.

Speaker 1 (01:25:50):
I mean, here's the other thing I wonder, does he
is he even aware of his inability to control his
spending or is he just like doing it like this
is like breathing.

Speaker 5 (01:26:03):
That's possible, you know.

Speaker 1 (01:26:05):
Maybe she just needs to point out something to him
and just say, look, before we settled into this, this
is what I see, and this is what we need
to move forward, and that mighty or may not decide
whether they actually get married. So yeah, I don't know.
Would you if if missus Pancho, if you saw she

(01:26:27):
was like a spendthrift and going in before you married her,
would I mean, how would you approach something like that?
Would you actually set her down and say, look, before
we can get married, we have to do this and this.

Speaker 5 (01:26:38):
Oh she knew before we got married that I was
going to be the one doing the books.

Speaker 1 (01:26:43):
Yeah, but still, I mean, you know, it sounds like
the guy is he's got he's got holes in his pockets,
he's got money. This comes he can't. It burns a hole.
And when he gets money in his pockets, it burns
a hole. So thankfully I can't. I would love it

(01:27:03):
if my wife would go out and buy something for herself,
you know what I'm saying. It's like, please go out
and do this, because she would say, you know, I'd
like to go to board and brush and do a
little of this. And I'm like, then go I mean,
I mean, I'm the one that's trying to encourage her
to go out and spend some money on herself, you know,
and she never does. In fact, she actually held a

(01:27:26):
gift certificate. We bring this up all the time. She
held a gift certificate for so long because she wanted
to make sure she wanted to spend it on the
right thing. She held the gift certificate for so long
this store went out of business. Okay, So I'm like,
there is I mean, it's nice to be thrifty, you know,

(01:27:51):
and to be cautious with your money, but there is
a point that you probably need to draw the line.
Oh my god. So so yeah, I don't know. I
would call it a yellow a yellow light rather than
a red flag for this girl.

Speaker 5 (01:28:07):
There you go. But my point is you want to
have that conversation before you get married, because you don't
want to be having it and then figuring out you,
you know, made a big mistake or something right, right,
take it back?

Speaker 1 (01:28:23):
How many mistakes you think you're going to make on
our insane games this week?

Speaker 5 (01:28:26):
Oh? Man, I don't know how progressively getting worse. I
feel like a man. You know.

Speaker 1 (01:28:40):
I'm open to talking about anything, but I love talking
about surviving in the stupidity that's always around us. And
if you're insane enough to ask, well, I'm insane enough
to reply, and I would love to hear from you.
You can leave me a message at podcast dot insane
Eric Lane dot com you have a comment there from
a podcast, or if you have a question, I'll be
happy to address either one your question or comment just

(01:29:03):
might be talked about in a future podcast. And if
you are someone you know would like to join in
on the podcast, you are more than welcome to participate.
If you've got the podbean app on your phone, you
can do just that right from your smartphone, just like
the other six hundred thousand podcasters who also use it.
Download the app at your favorite app store and add
this podcast to your favorites. You can also email me

(01:29:25):
with comments or questions or requests at shout out at
Insanericlaine dot com, and of course, you should certainly subscribe
to the podcast if you listen on Apple Iheartbreaker, YouTube,
Amazon Music Player, FM, Podchaser, Boom Play Overcast, Pocketcast Radio, Public, Spotify,
or any other podcast platform.

Speaker 13 (01:29:44):
Don't forget to follow me on Facebook and x at
inst Eric Lane.

Speaker 1 (01:29:56):
It's time to play Eric Lane's insane game Trilo, starring
his insane Florida nephew punch a wee. Well we've got
we're going to give you an extra one this this
week because we have a bonus mindbender for the Insane Games.
All right, okay, so it don't count double okay for
whatever that means. So we've got normally, we've got five

(01:30:18):
mind benders. We have a bonus mindbender this week also,
and I'll give you a statistic of something and you
figure see if you can figure out what it is
we're talking about. And uh, well, well you got you
got three clues you can go with, all right. And
the idea is if you can do it on the
first clue, that's the best part, right, or even without

(01:30:39):
the first clue. All right, So you're ready for the
first mindbender?

Speaker 5 (01:30:42):
Yes, yes, I'm ready.

Speaker 1 (01:30:43):
Sure, all right, you sound eager. All right, this is good.
All right, you're your first mindbender here. Eighteen percent of
people say that this is the scariest thing you could
do on Halloween. What is it?

Speaker 5 (01:31:01):
Oh, man, the scariest thing you could do.

Speaker 1 (01:31:06):
Yes, the scariest thing you could do on Halloween. Eighteen percent.
That's all.

Speaker 5 (01:31:12):
Just eighteen percent, just eighteen percent.

Speaker 14 (01:31:17):
This is the scariest thing you could do on Halloween.

Speaker 5 (01:31:20):
I mean, let's say, go to a graveyard or cemetery
at night.

Speaker 1 (01:31:27):
Oh that's good, Yeah, go to the graveyard. Uh wrong,
one hang on.

Speaker 5 (01:31:33):
Oh gosh, I thought I got it.

Speaker 1 (01:31:36):
No, actually, it is your first clue. There we go,
all right, not a haunted house. Not a haunted house.

Speaker 5 (01:31:46):
I'm glad I didn't say that. I was on my
mind there.

Speaker 1 (01:31:49):
Yeah, so not. But remember you're talking about eighteen percent
of people. All right, so eighteen percent of the people
say that this is the scariest thing you can do
on Halloween. The first clue not a haunted house.

Speaker 5 (01:32:04):
M given how antisocial people are. Now, yeah, I'm gonna say, actually,
go up to someone's door and knock on it for
trick or treating.

Speaker 1 (01:32:17):
Oh yeah, that's true. That would get people a lot
of trauma, you know, but it is not that, all right.
Your next clue outside outside, Yeah, eighteen percent of people
say this is the scariest thing you can do on Halloween,
not visit a haunted house and outside.

Speaker 5 (01:32:40):
I'm going to say, go out in the woods that night.

Speaker 1 (01:32:44):
That's good. Yeah, it's not going out into the woods.
And your final clue not visit a cemetery.

Speaker 5 (01:32:54):
Oh okay, well that.

Speaker 1 (01:32:58):
Right, man. I will say that, uh this there, This
is very popular in Pennsylvania particularly, may not have a
much in Florida, but very popular in Pennsylvania.

Speaker 5 (01:33:16):
Scary thing, I mean, is it like a haunted hay
ride or something I grew up with those kind of
things going on.

Speaker 1 (01:33:23):
Yeah, that's good. Yeah, but.

Speaker 14 (01:33:28):
That's not a haunted hey ride, but you're getting northly close.

Speaker 1 (01:33:30):
It's visit a corn maze.

Speaker 5 (01:33:33):
Visit Why is that scary? What?

Speaker 1 (01:33:36):
Well, they do have haunted corn mazes, and they got
and it's just something about walking through this maze of
stalks of corn, you know, and you got the Children
of the Corn movie, I guess, you know, and people
could be in the corn that could reach out and
grab you and all that stuff. To me, I would
love going through a haunted you know, I would love that.

(01:34:00):
But eighteen percent of the people think that that's would
freak them out. So all right, So that that was
a bit of a challenge, but it was a good
Halloween theme right there. All right? So yeah, ready, ready
for mindbender number two? All right, here we have thirteen percent,

(01:34:21):
only thirteen percent of people have taken love advice from
this person? Who is it? Thirteen percent of people have
taken love advice from this person? Who is it?

Speaker 5 (01:34:39):
This person? I'm gonna say Delilah, you know radio syndicated.

Speaker 1 (01:34:49):
Yeah, oh man, that's good. I never thought of Delilah
at all, but that's good. No, your first clue, I
never see them once or no, I'm sorry, may see
them once but never again. So thirteen percent of people

(01:35:10):
have taken love advice from this person. May see them
once and never again.

Speaker 5 (01:35:16):
Is it a stranger?

Speaker 1 (01:35:19):
Oh is well? Oddly enough? Your next clue is it
is a stranger.

Speaker 5 (01:35:27):
It is a stranger, Okay.

Speaker 1 (01:35:29):
Yes, a stranger. You may see them once and never again.
Been thirteen percent of people have taken love advice from
this person.

Speaker 5 (01:35:38):
Oh man, is it a hairdresser.

Speaker 1 (01:35:43):
Oh, only your hairdresser knows for sure.

Speaker 14 (01:35:46):
Yes, I heard that story, but it's not that. Your
final clue.

Speaker 1 (01:35:53):
Four wheels you may see then once and never again
a stranger, and four.

Speaker 5 (01:36:03):
Wheels a police officer. Oh, I'm domestic violence kind of thing.

Speaker 1 (01:36:14):
Domestic violence right right?

Speaker 5 (01:36:16):
A little dark?

Speaker 1 (01:36:18):
Yeah, But the correct answer is an uber or a lift.

Speaker 5 (01:36:21):
Oh yeah, I don't even I don't even use that stuff.
That's probably why I'm not even thinking about it.

Speaker 1 (01:36:26):
Yeah, I believe well thirteen percent of the people that
do use uber or lyft would get love advice from
their driver. Oh that tells you where our society is going,
that's for sure. All right. Moving on to mindbender number three.
This percentage of us a little bit higher. Twenty seven
percent of people avoid going here. Where is that?

Speaker 5 (01:36:53):
Twenty seven percent of people avoid going here?

Speaker 1 (01:36:57):
Avoid going here?

Speaker 5 (01:36:59):
I mean this one downtown is what I think?

Speaker 1 (01:37:03):
Oh yeah, well that's true. We avoid going downtown State
College all the time with all the students there. All right, well,
obviously that is not the correct answer. But here's your
first clue. Some people go here multiple times a week.

Speaker 5 (01:37:22):
The grocery store.

Speaker 1 (01:37:24):
Wait, wait, talk about twenty seven first people would avoid
going to the grocery.

Speaker 5 (01:37:28):
Yeah, so the majority of people can't avoid that, but
some people might try to avoid that.

Speaker 1 (01:37:36):
I don't know. Yeah, well no, but your next to make.

Speaker 5 (01:37:40):
You feel dumb?

Speaker 1 (01:37:43):
Well, all right, well, your first clue or your second
cloth is not the health club?

Speaker 5 (01:37:49):
Oh is it the gym?

Speaker 1 (01:37:52):
Then not the gym. Here's a clue that might help
your final Sundays Sundays?

Speaker 5 (01:38:03):
Is it church?

Speaker 1 (01:38:07):
Actually? Yes, it is? Wow, yeah it is church. Twenty
seven percent of people avoid going to church. So yeah,
and I can see that. I can honestly see that. Sometimes,
you know, they think that the you know, the roof
is going to fall in on them that they go
to church. You know, you've heard that story. Yeah, I'm
not going to church or roof of kvan the minute

(01:38:29):
I walk in the building. All right, all right, so
that's good. You got that one on before you got
to the third club. After the third clue takes us
to mindbender number four. This is a little higher percentage.
This is one third of people. Thirty three percent of
people never tip this person.

Speaker 5 (01:38:53):
Thirty three percent never.

Speaker 1 (01:38:54):
Tip, never tip them, never tip this One third of
the people tip this person. Who is it?

Speaker 5 (01:39:01):
Is it like like a cashier of like a oh yes.

Speaker 1 (01:39:08):
No, it's other although they want you to tip the cashier,
but it's not.

Speaker 5 (01:39:12):
I don't understand why you have to do that, Like
I'm like, uh yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:39:17):
Well your first clue not a server, so thir people
never tip this person? Not a server.

Speaker 5 (01:39:29):
Is it a fast.

Speaker 1 (01:39:30):
Food like employ your worker, not a fast food worker. Uh,
next clue, most people see them once a month.

Speaker 5 (01:39:43):
Once a month. Oh man, is this one your hair hairdresser?
You're your barber?

Speaker 1 (01:39:50):
Yeah, that's the one, your barber or hairstylast. Your final
clue was an appearance. You know you're making a you
know they help you with your appearance. So do you
tip the person to cut your you cut your hair, I.

Speaker 5 (01:40:04):
Cut on hair. But when I did have someone else
kind of I would tip them.

Speaker 1 (01:40:07):
Yeah, you would tip them?

Speaker 4 (01:40:10):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (01:40:10):
Well yeah, they I mean they need to make a living.

Speaker 1 (01:40:14):
Yeah. Would you believe the fact that I've never I
don't think. I can't remember the last time I've gone
to anybody to do anything with my hair?

Speaker 5 (01:40:23):
I could believe that, that's what?

Speaker 1 (01:40:26):
Yeah? So all right, so what not bad? You're you're
You're got two out of four, So that's good. Go
to mind bender number five. Now you have a dog, right,
I do have a dog. Yeah, all right, So twenty
five percent of dogs have chewed this up? What is it?

(01:40:50):
I'm gonna twenty twenty one quarter of all dogs have
chewed this up.

Speaker 5 (01:40:56):
I'm gonna say a shoe.

Speaker 1 (01:40:58):
Oh that's a good sir, But that's not the one
it is.

Speaker 14 (01:41:02):
The first clue is rubber.

Speaker 15 (01:41:04):
And plastic, rubber and lastic, rubber and plastic. Twenty five
percent of dogs have chewed this up.

Speaker 5 (01:41:26):
Someone's phone case.

Speaker 1 (01:41:29):
Oh that's good, that's good.

Speaker 5 (01:41:32):
You know, I think I know what it is.

Speaker 1 (01:41:35):
Okay, Well, well, your next clue is not a shoe,
so that probably not that's saying all right, I'm gonna
say the remote. Oh that's good. Not through your final clue, Jeffrey.
You know who Jeffrey is.

Speaker 5 (01:41:53):
Jeffrey. I do not know who Jeffrey is.

Speaker 1 (01:41:56):
The giraffe from toys r us.

Speaker 5 (01:41:59):
Oh man, I mean, is it just uh?

Speaker 12 (01:42:05):
Is it just like the kids one of the kid's toys.

Speaker 1 (01:42:09):
That's it. That's it, children's toys. Now has your dog
gotten into the kid's toys at your house? And shoot
him up?

Speaker 5 (01:42:18):
He's not really a chur So we're pretty lucky in
that way.

Speaker 1 (01:42:22):
Oh well, then you have lucked out on that one.
All right, well, very good. So yeah, well so now
that lives us now to a bonus mind bider this week.
All right, so uh and and this might be fun
to guess. All right, this one is twenty seven percent
of people have purchased this during an impulse. By Okay,

(01:42:45):
we talked about the guy that was buying you know,
stuff all the time. The woman couldn't control his spending.
So twenty seven percent of people have purchased this during
an impulse. By what is it they purchase?

Speaker 5 (01:43:01):
I'm gonna say, like a candy bar or snack of
the checkout line.

Speaker 1 (01:43:07):
I would probably do that for sure. But no, your
first clue, it can be expensive.

Speaker 14 (01:43:17):
It's an impulse buyer.

Speaker 1 (01:43:20):
Of people have purchased this, all right, purchased this particular,
not a specific thing, but it's just.

Speaker 14 (01:43:27):
Something of people have purchased this during an impulse buy.
And it can be expensive.

Speaker 5 (01:43:33):
Can be expensive an impulse by.

Speaker 14 (01:43:38):
And I'm guilty of this. I'll be out there, you man, what.

Speaker 5 (01:43:48):
It can be expensive? People's definition of expensive so different.

Speaker 14 (01:43:52):
Well, have you ever bought anything on an impulse?

Speaker 5 (01:43:55):
Yeah? But very infrequently. Man, I'm not really an Paul's person.
Oh man, is it?

Speaker 11 (01:44:05):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (01:44:08):
I'm thinking it's a male.

Speaker 14 (01:44:10):
You would probably have an idea.

Speaker 5 (01:44:14):
Uh. Oh man, I feel like I'm losing it.

Speaker 1 (01:44:22):
Eric, don't don't think, don't think too specific, too specific.
This is a general category.

Speaker 5 (01:44:31):
And pulse by I mean a tool, a tool like
a hardware tool or something.

Speaker 1 (01:44:38):
Well that you could probably be close to that. But no,
your your next clue not jewelry.

Speaker 5 (01:44:49):
Not jewelry.

Speaker 1 (01:44:51):
It can't be expensive, but not jewelry. Clothes close on
an pulls by.

Speaker 14 (01:45:02):
I've done, I have bought clothes.

Speaker 1 (01:45:04):
I'm gonna send to me an impulse Okay, But your
final clue your kids will want it.

Speaker 5 (01:45:12):
Toys toys, well, well, what what you consider a toy
for an adult is different, you know, or whatever.

Speaker 1 (01:45:22):
But yeah, can you be more specific?

Speaker 14 (01:45:26):
I mean, toys are for kids.

Speaker 1 (01:45:28):
So if toys are for kids, what would be for electronics?

Speaker 5 (01:45:33):
I guess I don't know.

Speaker 14 (01:45:38):
I'll give it. Well, no, the answer is a gadget.

Speaker 5 (01:45:43):
A gadget, Okay, that's kind of what I meant.

Speaker 1 (01:45:47):
Yeah, like electronic gadget or something like that, you know.
So I can guarantee you that'd be the first place
I would go to. If there's something out there, those
Instagram ads the stuff you can get, you know, or
some of the stuff you see advertised on social media.
I'll look at that. I'm like, oh, I could use that,
you know, or something. I mean, I guess if there

(01:46:09):
was a tool gadget out there, you know what I'm saying,
you could probably get a tool gadget. You know what
was the impulse by you you got? Can you remember?

Speaker 5 (01:46:22):
Oh? Man, I really can't. Really. It's never anything big,
like it's always something like a I think candy or
something like that.

Speaker 1 (01:46:29):
Oh really, really, I don't.

Speaker 5 (01:46:31):
Buy big things on an impulse, you know.

Speaker 1 (01:46:34):
I remember one time. This wasn't really a gadget, but
it's back whenever I was single and stupid, but I
you know, I would get these you know, credit card
my credit card bills, and they would give you the
reply envelope to put your payment in and mail it.
But inside the reply envelope there was always a flap

(01:46:55):
you could tear off that had an offer on it.
You know, you could say, hey, well on this particular one,
on this offer. It was a Franklin Mint version of
a Monopoly board, okay, And it was like made out
of mahogany wood. It had like felt in the middle,

(01:47:17):
It had twice the money. It had a banker's drawer.
You could pull the banker's drawer out and put them
I'm like, I love playing Monopoly. It was like three
hundred and fifty bucks.

Speaker 5 (01:47:26):
Oh my god.

Speaker 1 (01:47:27):
You know, yeah, I still have it. I bought it
and I still have it. So when we played Monopoly,
the boys would love it when I'd pull out this
this mahogany wood Franklin Mint version of a Monopoly board
and we had a ball with it. Of course, you
could have also spent an additional thousand dollars to buy
the table and chairs to go with it. Oh my god. Yeah,

(01:47:50):
I couldn't afford that, but I wanted that. I wanted
that monopoly board so bad. I bought the sucker on
a credit card for three hundred and fifty bucks. That
was a serious simpul spy for me. I can if
I'd done that after being married, I would probably no
longer be married, you know. So anyway, so all right,

(01:48:14):
well we've got some great stuff that I've been mining
the internet for with no bitcoin to show for it. Uh,
that's got we got coming up that you're going to
get to pick from from next week. We talked about
the flavored Oreos. Hopefully if you're successful to get your
Thanksgiving dinner and Oreo cookies, you can sample that for us.

(01:48:35):
But we now have craft selling apple pie flavored mac
and cheese for the holidays.

Speaker 5 (01:48:43):
Oh well, that actually really good.

Speaker 1 (01:48:46):
That actually that says to me. To me, I think
that's better than the pumpkin spice mac and cheese. Right,
all right, So so we got that coming up, and
and I love this because, uh there's the reactions online
is what's even funnier. There's there's great reactions to this.
All right, So then we have another story that I'm
found where Kentucky. This is just fantastic, Okay, because of

(01:49:09):
the national attention on the recent elections around the country. Okay, well,
we've got folks that live in Kentucky. Well, they thought
they could vote for the mayor of New York City.
So unfortunately they could not, and they were upset because

(01:49:30):
they couldn't vote anywhere because there was no voting in
Kentucky this year. So there's confusion in Kentucky. So that's
a great story. Another story, we had a suspected pedophile
joking that he hopes Chris Hansen isn't waiting for him,
and he gets a surprise. Oh my gosh, yeah he

(01:49:56):
got a surprise. Let's just say that, all right. So,
and I love this. If you lived in the state
of Maine, you might have been one of the five
hundred people or more that got letters sent of your
own death.

Speaker 5 (01:50:10):
Of your own death.

Speaker 1 (01:50:12):
Yeah, we're sorry to inform you, but you have died.
Oh yeah, a little mix up in the state of Maine.
All right. Another story, we have a naked Florida man
arrested for driving around in circles in a church parking lot.
That's I guess what they do in Florida whenever they're bored.

(01:50:34):
All right, And a great story here. What's grosser than gross?
That would be sitting on a plane next to a
human bio hazards. Well, yeah, and again this is another
story of another plane stupidity that I have to read
knowing that I'm will be happy to fly to a

(01:50:56):
wedding later at the end of the year. So I'm
getting prepared, all right, And then we haven't We have
a story where a drunk Wisconsin teacher falls out of
his car and then stumbles around school. Oh nothing like Yeah,
he's a substitute teacher. It's about I love it when
you substitute teachers come to school drunk, you know, just
that's the greatest day ever, you know. So I remember,

(01:51:18):
I remember one lady before. Oh have you my substance,
my substitute teacher, you know, God rest her soul. She's
already dearly departed. But her name is Bess Hooper, and
she was an old school teacher, and she would if
we got miss Hooper to come and be a substitute teacher.
We knew we were gonna have fun. So Bess Hooper

(01:51:40):
would come to school in her nineteen sixty nine white
Ford Falcon and she would park it right in front
of the school. And she would always come to school.
She had white hair, pearl ear rings, horn rim glasses,
and would wear a navy blue dress with white polka dots, okay,
And she would get out of her little Ford Falcon

(01:52:01):
and come and walk up the steps to the school.
And all of the student body is out there standing
waiting to go in for the first class, and they
would see miss Hooper coming up the steps and they
would count the steps as she would go up one, two, three,
and she would ignore them, just walk right past them
and go into the school. And so she was going

(01:52:22):
to come in and be our substitute teacher one time
for I guess it was for some kind of a class,
but we were using the business class the Business classroom
for something else. I may have been driver's aad or something.
I don't know what it was. But anyway, Bess Hooper
was going to come in and be the substitute teacher

(01:52:42):
for this class. And so she comes in and sees
us sitting on these desks with all these adding machines,
and she thought she was in the wrong class, and
She's like, is this driver's education And we're saying, no, man,
this is business. And so she walks out and we
didn't see her for an hour because she wandered the
halls looking for the right. So, but yeah, we have

(01:53:04):
a drunk substitute teacher. Here's one. We have a peanut
butter covered man captured on video wandering around the campus
at Purdue.

Speaker 5 (01:53:14):
A peanut butter covered.

Speaker 1 (01:53:16):
Man totally covered head to toe in peanut butter. Right, yeah,
all right. Then we have a criminal mastermind who tried
to swim from police after firing gunshots. So another great
police story. We have a woman. We have a woman.
This is crazy, a woman who met another man during

(01:53:37):
a bachelorette party, invited him to her wedding, then left
her husband and married him instead. Wow. Crazy story on that,
all right. We have a story where a Forlida man
pulled a knife on someone in a bathroom stall because
he really needed to use it.

Speaker 5 (01:53:56):
He pulls them out of a bathroom stall, he.

Speaker 1 (01:53:59):
Pulls a n eye on him. Okay, yeah, because he
really had to go all right. We have a new
Jersey judge who has denied a woman a lawsuit over
suing a store because the kids in the store were
calling her a Karen, So she's she's suing the store. Yeah,

(01:54:21):
she's suing the store. And here's the best one talking
about the bathroom problems. We have fights breaking out at
a Texas bass Pro shop grand opening because two guys
were standing in line for the toilet.

Speaker 5 (01:54:33):
The toilet fights.

Speaker 1 (01:54:34):
Yeah, I guess one. I guess one guy thought he
was going too long in the toilet, and so they
had this big fight at the bass Pro shops. So
so that's a few of the things you can look
forward to coming up in the next episode or so.
So it should be a should be a good a
good episode next week. And maybe maybe next week we'll

(01:54:55):
have pictures of Pancho's possum with babies.

Speaker 5 (01:54:58):
Oh my gosh, I certainly hope not.

Speaker 1 (01:55:02):
Yeah, bro, let's go to.

Speaker 2 (01:55:14):
You can interact directly with Insane Eric Lane's Stupid World
through the telegram app when you join the Insane Eric
Lane's Stupid World Telegram channel. Once the episodes are published,
links to the actual articles used in the podcast episodes
are posted to the channel. When you join the channel,
you can read the actual stories, see the photos, watch
the videos from the stupidity that's talked about in each episode.
You can leave your comments about what you've read or seen,

(01:55:37):
and even make suggestions or opinions about what you've heard
on the podcast. If you have some stupid stories, you
can also share links to them and they could be
used in an upcoming episode. Visit t dot me e
slash Insane Eric Lane for more information and to download
the Telegram messenger app to your device. It's available in
desktop versions for use on Windows, Linux, Apple, and Android

(01:55:58):
operating systems. Telegram as a secure messaging app that is
gaining in popularity. To learn more, visit telegram dot Org.

Speaker 1 (01:56:07):
Call Call Cool, cho Call Good, Call Came.

Speaker 8 (01:56:15):
See Insane. Eric Lane's Stupid World is produced with the
support from Envision, wise Llcanamericcuntry dot Com from Wise Brothermedia,
Universal Comedy at the United Stations Radio Network, Sheet Happens
dot Com, Good Parts Media, and Mister Laughs.

Speaker 1 (01:56:30):
See music from Randy stone Hill. It's a Great, Big
Stupid World, Copyright nineteen ninety two stone Hillian Music, Word Music,
Twitch in Fibes Music and is available anywhere you've purchased music.

Speaker 4 (01:56:41):
Thanks for making it to the end of Insane. Eric
Lane's stupid world. Please make sure you still have your
wits with you as you leave. And if this has
inspired you to start your own podcast, get started today
with Podbean, the podcast solution that's trusted by over six
hundred thousand podcasters and hundreds of industry leaders. For over
ten years, they been helping podcasters of all genres and sizes.

(01:57:02):
Download the Podbean app from your favorite app store and
start recording right from your smartphone.

Speaker 1 (01:57:08):
Find out more at podbean dot com

All Episodes

Episode Transcript

Popular Podcasts

Stuff You Should Know

Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang

Dateline NBC

.css-15opob5{left:0;position:absolute;top:0.8rem;} All Episodes

.css-14f5ked{margin:0;word-break:break-word;display:-webkit-box;-webkit-box-orient:vertical;box-orient:vertical;-webkit-line-clamp:2;overflow:hidden;}College Kids Cheat AND Apologize With AI, Duckfaced Woman On A Roller Coaster, and Nutmaxxing

Episode Transcript

Popular Podcasts

.css-r6mb8g{margin:0;word-break:break-word;display:-webkit-box;-webkit-box-orient:vertical;box-orient:vertical;-webkit-line-clamp:1;overflow:hidden;}Stuff You Should Know

Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang

Dateline NBC

All Episodes

College Kids Cheat AND Apologize With AI, Duckfaced Woman On A Roller Coaster, and Nutmaxxing

Stuff You Should Know