Adam: Camera.
Aaron: Do you don't like this view?
Adam: I mean, it is what it is.
Adam: So you just refuse to use the USB mic I gave you or what?
Aaron: It just wasn't working with Linux.
Aaron: I can try it again.
Aaron: Hold on one second.
Aaron: Let's
Adam: So
Aaron: see here.
Adam: everything works with Linux, but you need to know the right magic
Adam: spell to cast.
Aaron: Uh!
Aaron: Oh. Uh, where's the where's the cord for this?
Aaron: I don't even know.
Adam: Sudo. Fine cord.
Adam: Sudo
Aaron: Does this sound bad
Adam: that.
Aaron: right now?
Adam: No, it actually sounds fine
Adam: because I got us off mumble and
Adam: now we're.
Adam: I mean, I guess I don't have to
Adam: see your face, but how's the
Adam: latency?
Adam: Is that okay?
Aaron: It sounds fine.
Aaron: I mean, I,
Adam: All right.
Aaron: I don't know.
Adam: No, I mean, like, is it like I'm
Adam: on the moon and it's taken a
Adam: while.
Adam: I don't want to have to talk
Adam: about space again this time,
Adam: but.
Aaron: No, it sounds good.
Adam: Okay. Well, goody good there.
Adam: I fixed it because I forgot we pay for Adobe.
Aaron: Yeah, I saw who had asked for permission to use my microphone.
Adam: I've.
Adam: I've tried changing that name
Adam: for a long time and it's just
Adam: funny now,
Aaron: Yeah,
Adam: so.
Aaron: I for a while I was hoping that Rooster Teeth was still getting
Aaron: charged, but that's not
Adam: Um,
Aaron: the case.
Adam: no.
Aaron: So.
Adam: Uh. Uh, yeah.
Adam: Um, now the only thing I had
Adam: access to for a while was the,
Adam: like one of the stock sites like
Adam: audio blocks.
Adam: I was using that for a good couple of years because they,
Adam: they never changed the password.
Aaron: Did I tell you when?
Aaron: Um, I didn't get fired from Comedy Central, I just.
Aaron: My contract just ended, but
Aaron: Viacom forgot to, uh, take away
Aaron: my login credentials to their
Aaron: servers.
Aaron: And so for years, I was, like watching Daily Show episodes
Aaron: before they would air and all sorts of things before they were
Aaron: air on television.
Aaron: Like I saw, um, I think what did I saw, I saw Trevor Noah's like
Aaron: first show before they even like I saw some test of the episode
Aaron: that they did with him.
Aaron: It was
Adam: Yeah.
Aaron: on the servers.
Aaron: I was like, who the fuck is this guy?
Aaron: Anyway, they had, uh, they had
Aaron: really good security measures
Aaron: there.
Aaron: So.
Adam: Yeah. Interesting. Yeah. It's. I'm seeing all the stuff where,
Adam: uh, it people are like, getting fired and they have the button
Adam: set up that just deletes the entire database on the way out.
Aaron: Yeah, absolutely.
Adam: Yeah. There's that method you can go with, but I like the
Adam: secret just siphoning off of the teat of, uh, the subscriptions
Adam: they forgot to stop paying for.
Aaron: Well, one lends you it lands you
Aaron: in jail slightly less, uh,
Aaron: quick.
Aaron: Quickly.
Aaron: Whatever.
Aaron: I've lost it.
Adam: It's okay.
Adam: How's everything going?
Adam: How are you?
Adam: How's.
Adam: How's
Aaron: Fine.
Adam: the move?
Aaron: The move.
Adam: Aren't you moving?
Aaron: No. Not
Adam: Maybe you
Aaron: yet.
Adam: just went from one room to the other.
Aaron: Yeah.
Adam: Okay.
Aaron: Um. I'm fine.
Aaron: My. I'm just, like a little beat up.
Aaron: I was replacing the a C compressor and the Land Cruiser
Aaron: yesterday, and, uh.
Aaron: Yeah, that's a it's a big car, that
Adam: Mhm.
Aaron: thing.
Aaron: And
Adam: Yeah.
Aaron: it's, it's hard to reach into it
Aaron: and do things and, and I'm all
Aaron: beat up, but I finished
Aaron: yesterday and
Adam: The names.
Aaron: only five neighbors walked by
Aaron: and said the exact goddamn thing
Aaron: to me.
Aaron: They're like, that's the wrong car.
Adam: What
Aaron: And
Adam: do they
Aaron: I
Adam: mean?
Aaron: was
Adam: That's
Aaron: like,
Adam: the wrong car.
Aaron: because it's usually the Karmann Ghia in there that
Adam: Oh!
Aaron: I'm that I'm
Adam: Oh.
Aaron: swearing at.
Adam: Gotcha.
Aaron: Uh, it's
Adam: I thought
Aaron: funny
Adam: they were
Aaron: that
Adam: just
Aaron: they.
Adam: saying, like, that's too poor for this neighborhood.
Aaron: Oh, no, they they say that to themselves.
Aaron: They don't let me hear that.
Aaron: Uh, but, uh, actually, I told you that I had.
Aaron: This is my Land Cruiser.
Aaron: My neighbor has two land
Aaron: cruisers, like directly next
Aaron: door.
Aaron: The neighbor across from me has
Aaron: two land cruisers, and the
Aaron: neighbor house down has two land
Aaron: cruisers.
Aaron: I don't know why.
Aaron: And they're all, you know, they
Adam: Toyota's
Aaron: all
Adam: are great.
Aaron: kind of are like mine.
Aaron: What?
Adam: Toyota's are great.
Adam: That's why.
Aaron: Yeah, but it's kind of like a it's kind of cultish, I guess
Aaron: the whole movement's kind of cultish land cruisers.
Aaron: They have a wave to.
Aaron: I've never had a car where there wasn't a wave like a little
Aaron: special little wave.
Adam: For the I don't know because I
Adam: get it with jeeps and people on
Adam: motorcycles and all that other
Adam: stuff.
Adam: But like Toyota's like it's such a it's such a ubiquitous car.
Adam: Like everyone has one like to
Adam: get away from someone in a
Adam: priest,
Aaron: It's
Adam: you'd
Aaron: not
Adam: be like.
Aaron: it's not a Toyota.
Aaron: It's a Land Cruiser.
Adam: I guess, I mean,
Aaron: Yeah, that's exactly what someone
Adam: so
Aaron: would
Adam: you
Aaron: say.
Adam: look
Aaron: Who doesn't
Adam: down on me
Aaron: know
Adam: because
Aaron: the wave.
Adam: because I have a Rav4.
Aaron: Well, the Rav4 thing is you make a blowjob sign when you're
Aaron: passing by somebody.
Adam: We have a stencil, some little
Adam: mountains that I bought from
Adam: Teemu.
Aaron: Uh,
Adam: So there's that.
Aaron: yeah,
Adam: Anyway.
Aaron: just make that jackoff motion
Aaron: every time you pass another Rav4
Aaron: hybrid.
Adam: Yeah. As I'm just stuck on the
Adam: four hundred and five, staring
Adam: at the person to my left who's
Adam: on their phone not moving
Adam: forward.
Aaron: Yeah, you might as well just have a bicycle at that point.
Adam: As well.
Adam: I texted you over the weekend talking about that article.
Adam: The whole thing about, you know, are we in the future yet?
Adam: As I was listening to this thing
Adam: about, it was just this long
Adam: discussion about self-driving
Adam: cars.
Adam: And it was it was very, uh, it was New York Times.
Adam: It, it felt very New Yorker, you know, like just
Aaron: Yeah, yeah.
Adam: a couple of balding dudes drinking wine, uh, with their
Adam: sweater vests on, talking about things that don't matter.
Adam: Uh, it was very up its own ass had, like, you know, classical
Adam: music that started it reminded me of being in the car with my
Adam: grandparents and then just not changing it from NPR, ever.
Adam: And, you know, it's just, you know, hell on earth.
Adam: Um, but I listened to the whole
Adam: thing and they were just,
Adam: they're going off this whole
Adam: thing of, you know, self-driving
Adam: cars, self-driving.
Adam: And it does that comes up where
Adam: I'm like, yeah, the self-driving
Adam: car thing.
Adam: It's such a, it's a dumb solution to a problem that could
Adam: should probably be solved by public transportation, you know,
Adam: trains and buses.
Adam: And it's just such a complicated
Adam: way of fixing things at the same
Adam: time, too.
Adam: Based on the amount of people who are just on their phones or
Adam: yelling at their significant other, sometimes being in like a
Adam: physical altercation with them.
Adam: Uh, I'm leaning more towards the self-driving cars these days.
Aaron: My buddy uses it purely so he can get drunk at the bar and
Aaron: have it drive him home.
Adam: Right.
Aaron: He. He had.
Aaron: It's why he bought it.
Aaron: Because
Adam: Mhm.
Aaron: another friend of mine, uh, he drove us home from the bar and
Aaron: we were all trashed.
Aaron: He was slightly I don't think he was really trashed, but he
Aaron: probably had had two or three beers was like borderline.
Adam: Mhm.
Aaron: Uh, I shouldn't be admitting to crimes.
Aaron: I didn't commit a crime.
Aaron: He did.
Aaron: Uh, but anyway, he had Tesla on self-driving mode and my other
Aaron: buddy was just, he's just astounded the entire time as its
Aaron: leading us through Houston dark alleys at three in the morning,
Aaron: back to his house.
Adam: Mhm.
Aaron: So then my other buddy, he's
Aaron: like, I have to get one of these
Aaron: cars.
Aaron: So he bought it and that's he does.
Aaron: I don't think he uses the
Aaron: self-driving for anything else
Aaron: besides going and drinking his
Aaron: woes away, but so there's that
Aaron: use case.
Adam: Um, I won't say names, but I
Adam: remember a story of a bunch of
Adam: people who were being driven
Adam: around in a Tesla model three
Adam: early days, like when they had
Adam: first come out and there was
Adam: like a club, you know, people
Adam: showing off their cool cars, uh,
Adam: that they.
Adam: Yeah.
Adam: And the guy driving put it in self driving mode and everyone
Adam: was talking just minding their own business or whatever.
Adam: And he kept looking back at
Adam: everyone hoping someone would
Adam: say something.
Adam: And he looked kind of
Adam: disappointed when no one noticed
Adam: or cared.
Adam: Um,
Aaron: Was it
Adam: that.
Aaron: a model three or was it the D, the the big one?
Adam: Was model three.
Aaron: Okay.
Adam: It was
Aaron: Three.
Adam: the one that the normies could own.
Adam: Because
Aaron: Okay.
Adam: you're
Aaron: Is it someone
Adam: talking about
Aaron: I
Adam: that.
Aaron: know?
Adam: Yeah,
Aaron: Okay.
Adam: yeah,
Aaron: Yeah,
Adam: you
Aaron: that
Adam: can
Aaron: makes
Adam: figure
Aaron: sense.
Adam: it out.
Adam: I
Aaron: Yeah.
Adam: just don't want to name and shame here.
Adam: I just, I don't know it because
Adam: like I, I use a similar, I use
Adam: the openpilot thing because that
Adam: works with the Rav4 and it just,
Adam: it does the self steering or
Adam: whatever, but it's more for
Adam: like, if you're just sitting in
Adam: traffic, it'll just stay between
Adam: the lines and you control the
Adam: gas and the brake and all that
Adam: stuff.
Adam: Still not safe.
Adam: Um,
Aaron: Mhm.
Adam: but I enjoy tweaking with the technology.
Adam: It's just it's for me, it's a
Adam: flex because I know the guy in
Adam: the Tesla next to me using the
Adam: same technology or whatever,
Adam: spent ten grand to unlock a
Adam: software update where I spent
Adam: like five hundred bucks on a
Adam: cell phone that I attached to my
Adam: car.
Adam: It's more of it's a pride thing.
Aaron: Yours definitely looks like more
Aaron: of the team you thing, but
Aaron: whatever.
Adam: It's the it's a guy who once had
Adam: a rap career, and he's known
Adam: most famously for hacking the
Adam: PlayStation three.
Adam: So
Aaron: Mhm.
Adam: do with that what you will.
Adam: I actually
Aaron: Probably
Adam: haven't
Aaron: won't do anything with
Adam: okay,
Aaron: it, I don't think.
Adam: well, no, nor should you.
Adam: Whatever you.
Adam: You know, when you were building your Karmann Ghia, the the thing
Adam: that got me most excited was you're telling me how you put a
Adam: Bluetooth stereo in there?
Adam: I was
Aaron: That
Adam: like,
Aaron: I
Adam: that's.
Aaron: cannot hear while I'm driving it.
Aaron: I absolutely can't fucking hear it.
Aaron: I spent oh, man.
Aaron: I don't even want to.
Aaron: I the the stereo altogether with all that bullshit, it's probably
Aaron: fifteen hundred bucks.
Aaron: Six hundred bucks.
Aaron: I can't, I can't hear it when
Aaron: the top is on, I can kind of
Aaron: hear it.
Aaron: And I'm not talking like, oh,
Aaron: the speakers aren't powerful
Aaron: enough.
Aaron: Or it's just it's a noisy car and I have sound deadening.
Aaron: All that stuff in it doesn't
Adam: All right?
Aaron: matter.
Adam: Yeah.
Aaron: And you were so excited about it and it's so useless.
Adam: That's fine.
Adam: I don't know.
Adam: I mean, I think you just use it
Adam: to play some Kenny G while
Adam: you're pulled off to the side of
Adam: the road, getting blown by your
Adam: neighbor.
Aaron: Yeah, well, I can't hear that sweet sax over
Adam: This
Aaron: the roar
Adam: is the
Aaron: of
Adam: right
Aaron: a.
Adam: one.
Aaron: Yeah, over
Adam: That's a callback.
Aaron: the roar of that four
Adam: Yeah,
Aaron: banger.
Adam: you'll get a four bang.
Adam: Uh, you could just.
Adam: Can you, uh, is there like, an ox?
Adam: Like you just plug some headphones into it?
Aaron: Uh, well, it's Bluetooth, so I could.
Aaron: I need earplugs anyway, when the
Aaron: the top is down if I'm like
Aaron: driving down the highway because
Aaron: I did
Adam: You drive
Aaron: too
Adam: with
Aaron: much.
Adam: it. You seriously drive with earplugs on.
Aaron: Well, you should Because
Adam: I know.
Adam: I just
Aaron: what
Adam: think that's wild for a car like that's.
Aaron: I know.
Aaron: But it's when I had the super way back when I drove with the
Aaron: top off so often that I like it was hurting my hearing.
Aaron: It probably did lasting damage to my hearing and, uh, and then
Aaron: motorcycle, you know, I always wear a helmet and that helped,
Aaron: but like, yeah, man, that and that car is so low to the ground
Aaron: that the road noise, you know, that whine from freeway noise,
Aaron: it's just like someone has a siren in your ear.
Aaron: And so anyway, long story.
Aaron: I'll get I already have earplugs, but I'll get the
Aaron: Bluetooth ones to where they're kind of like inners for, you
Aaron: know, like a musician.
Aaron: And I'll just wear those and then someone will steal them
Aaron: from my glove box because that car is easy to get into.
Adam: It doesn't have a lock.
Adam: Doesn't lock at all.
Aaron: It's got nineteen seventies locks that are actually a
Aaron: nineteen fifties design.
Adam: Whatever.
Aaron: Yeah.
Adam: I don't know, I'm.
Adam: it's that's just one of those agreements you make when you you
Adam: get a convertible.
Adam: You're just like anyone can get inside.
Adam: The world is welcome in my car.
Adam: And you.
Aaron: Yeah,
Adam: You made that decision.
Aaron: yeah.
Aaron: And I stand by it.
Adam: You're you're a strange
Aaron: But
Adam: one,
Aaron: when
Adam: mister.
Aaron: I get get that Chevy this weekend.
Aaron: I'm just going to put like, a boom box on the floor.
Adam: What are those trucks?
Adam: Those ones that are there.
Adam: There's just like the most barebones ones.
Adam: And they they just don't even come with stereos.
Adam: Now, like, I know Toyota has one and then there's like a startup,
Adam: but it was like an electric truck, which is
Aaron: Yeah.
Adam: still kind of weird
Aaron: It's
Adam: to
Aaron: it's
Adam: me.
Aaron: the Bezos backed, um, uh, truck.
Aaron: It looks like an old Ford Ranger.
Adam: Mhm.
Aaron: Yeah,
Adam: How's that?
Adam: How's
Aaron: I.
Adam: that?
Adam: Bezos backed.
Adam: Oh, that the electric one you're talking about.
Adam: Gotcha.
Adam: Sorry.
Adam: I was talking
Aaron: Yeah.
Adam: about the the Toyota.
Adam: I think it's like a helix, not a helix.
Adam: I forget what it is, but like, you can only buy it in third
Adam: world countries and it's under ten thousand dollars.
Adam: but it's just a working pickup truck, which is, I feel like
Adam: what a lot of people would be happy with instead of the
Adam: commercials I see today.
Aaron: Yeah, it's what those trucks used to be.
Aaron: I mean,
Adam: Mhm.
Aaron: yeah, though we had a we
Adam: Practical.
Aaron: had a seventy eight Toyota truck when I was a kid.
Aaron: And I mean, if, if a bicycle hit you, you were dead.
Aaron: But it was a very like, it's
Aaron: just, it's just a nice get in
Aaron: and go.
Aaron: Well, go to the bar and drink and then it doesn't drive you
Aaron: home kind of car.
Adam: It's stick shift.
Adam: And all I know is I just want what the insurgents are using.
Aaron: I just remember that the law
Aaron: installed a, a a a breathalyzer
Aaron: on it for my, one of my parents,
Aaron: I, I won't out which one it was,
Aaron: but, uh, one of my parents had
Aaron: blown it, but it was so easy to
Aaron: disable the thing because the
Aaron: truck was from nineteen seventy
Aaron: eight.
Aaron: I mean, just like it was just you just needed to give the
Aaron: breathalyzer thing another power source and then, uh, you know,
Aaron: not have it run off the car and then you could start the car.
Aaron: So yeah, it was great.
Adam: Cool.
Aaron: And, uh, and barring that, if
Aaron: say the wire snapped or
Aaron: whatever, you just have your
Aaron: kids blow into it and then you
Aaron: can drive wherever the hell you
Aaron: want.
Adam: Have
Aaron: So.
Adam: you seen the.
Adam: I don't know if you guys have them in your city, but the.
Adam: The stoplight cameras, which are
Aaron: Yeah.
Adam: complete nonsense.
Adam: There's.
Adam: Did you see the thing about cities, how they're.
Adam: They're just putting garbage bags over them.
Aaron: We talk about the flock cameras or the other cameras.
Adam: What is.
Adam: I'm just talking about the red light cameras, like
Aaron: Okay. Yeah,
Adam: the
Aaron: yeah.
Adam: ones that flash at you.
Adam: Uh, if you're.
Aaron: If you
Adam: You
Aaron: run
Adam: did
Aaron: the red
Adam: nothing
Aaron: light.
Adam: wrong.
Adam: I'll
Aaron: No.
Adam: just see them go
Aaron: Running
Adam: off.
Aaron: a red light. Mr. Los Angeles is a wrong thing to do.
Adam: Well, what happens now, though, is if you see one of those
Adam: cameras, like people will see them, they'll just slam on the
Adam: brakes rather than coasting through on a yellow.
Adam: Because in their mind, if you went through on a yellow and it
Adam: turns red while you're in there, you broke the law or,
Aaron: Mhm.
Adam: or I don't know if it's technically the law because
Adam: they're just sending you a bill and I don't think you really
Adam: have to pay it.
Adam: I'm unsure.
Adam: I've
Aaron: Yeah.
Adam: had I've heard multiple things, but I guess contracts are ending
Adam: in certain cities.
Adam: So rather than removing them, they're just putting garbage
Adam: bags over them, which sounds like a great solution overall.
Adam: Just the deal, even with the working ones.
Aaron: That's a very third world slash French thing to do.
Aaron: I like it.
Adam: I was just thinking like, they're not guarded.
Adam: They're not.
Adam: I'm surprised they're not being messed with more than they are.
Adam: Or maybe they are, and I don't know, but I just it's like, how
Adam: hard would it be to just, you know, high five The front with a
Adam: handful of lard, you know, just.
Aaron: You're literally talking about like what the French, French do
Aaron: the French destroy those things?
Adam: I don't follow the French.
Adam: All I know is.
Aaron: You don't have a French RSS feed
Aaron: that tells you all things
Aaron: French.
Adam: I think there I saw something about a tennis player today.
Adam: That was it.
Aaron: Mhm.
Adam: But all I know is, yeah, they they incorrectly, uh, said Marie
Adam: Antoinette said let them eat cake, which never happened.
Adam: And,
Aaron: Let them
Adam: uh,
Aaron: run lines.
Adam: yeah, there are a bunch of
Adam: godless, crazy artists,
Adam: artisans, and I love them for
Adam: that.
Aaron: Mhm.
Adam: And they have trains that work, so that's cool.
Aaron: Yeah. They do.
Aaron: They have, uh, they're just
Aaron: really sophisticated, but also,
Aaron: um, pains in the asses, but
Aaron: whatever.
Aaron: Doesn't matter.
Adam: Now,
Aaron: Trying to adjust.
Adam: I was going
Aaron: This
Adam: to
Aaron: is
Adam: say
Aaron: nice.
Adam: re redo that thought without looking at your phone.
Aaron: No, I'm not even here.
Aaron: I'm on my little couch.
Aaron: Thing with.
Aaron: I'm holding a webcam up to my mouth on a couch with.
Aaron: I'm wearing those headphones.
Aaron: One of the pairs of headphones.
Aaron: You got me.
Aaron: That's like sixty cents.
Aaron: And if I break them while I'm
Aaron: stretching this too far, I don't
Aaron: care because I've got ten other
Aaron: pairs.
Adam: I just I feel like I need to
Adam: maybe get you like a jawbone or
Adam: just some kind of like a call
Adam: operator headset, just something
Adam: you can use that's wired
Adam: because, well, I mean, even the
Adam: USB mic, I guess that wasn't
Adam: good enough.
Adam: Sorry for sending you that one hundred dollars microphone.
Aaron: Oh, I'll get it plugged back in.
Adam: I didn't pay for it.
Adam: That was just sent to me.
Aaron: Oh, okay.
Adam: It's
Aaron: Yeah,
Adam: one
Aaron: well,
Adam: of the
Aaron: I'll
Adam: dumbest.
Aaron: plug it back in either way.
Adam: It's one of the dumbest gimmicks ever.
Adam: It hasn't like an LED on the
Adam: front of it, because that's
Adam: supposed to be facing your
Adam: Twitch audience.
Adam: So you can have like little messages or emotes or whatever.
Adam: Again, it's just,
Aaron: That microphone you sent.
Adam: yeah, I forgot it does that.
Adam: It was just, it
Aaron: What?
Adam: sounds
Aaron: Where?
Adam: fine.
Adam: It's on the, on the front when
Adam: you, if you actually plug it in,
Adam: it'll do
Aaron: Oh!
Aaron: Hold
Adam: something.
Aaron: on.
Adam: Then again, you're using Linux.
Adam: So that might not
Aaron: There
Adam: do anything.
Aaron: is nothing on that.
Aaron: There is a a button that.
Aaron: No, the the there's a microphone button that lights up.
Adam: It's behind the the grille of
Aaron: Oh,
Adam: the mic.
Aaron: really?
Adam: Yeah. It's it's just some diodes.
Adam: It's nothing special.
Adam: I don't know,
Aaron: Oh,
Adam: it's
Aaron: maybe I
Adam: like
Aaron: will
Adam: a
Aaron: plug it back in.
Adam: for your Twitch audience.
Aaron: Yeah.
Adam: Yeah.
Aaron: Oh. I had an idea.
Aaron: Oh. Let's talk with Mika about Creating a Twitch stream about.
Aaron: What was I talking to her about with something about her.
Aaron: Her dad?
Aaron: Oh, I forget what I was saying.
Adam: MM.
Aaron: Her her her antisocial Japanese dad having a Twitch channel to
Aaron: where he discourages people from signing up and tell.
Aaron: And everyone that gives him money.
Aaron: He says, you need to stop giving me my.
Aaron: I don't need money.
Adam: Mhm.
Aaron: I'm retired.
Adam: Which means
Aaron: There
Adam: he would
Aaron: was
Adam: only
Aaron: a better
Adam: get more money.
Aaron: I. It was better in the moment.
Aaron: I can't remember exactly what it was.
Adam: No. Well, uh, I couldn't tell if you were being facetious or not.
Adam: Um, when I texted you over the weekend about the article idea
Adam: of is it the future yet?
Adam: Um, but my thought was, I don't
Adam: know if you have the patience
Adam: for it this week, but I figured,
Adam: you know, we pick three or five
Adam: each and just do a fun little
Adam: listicle thing.
Adam: Um, it actually probably be for next week because already I have
Adam: an article ready to go.
Adam: I, uh, I played through a weird Japanese game and it was fun.
Adam: And then I started another
Adam: Japanese game, and it's not so
Adam: much fun.
Aaron: Okay, I wanted to do an article on the Pope's manifesto he
Aaron: released about AI and
Adam: Oh,
Aaron: talk
Adam: yeah.
Aaron: about how the Vatican has never
Aaron: been wrong about new technology,
Aaron: ever.
Adam: I mean, I'm, I am siding more
Adam: with the Vatican these days than
Adam: I have in the past, but I don't
Adam: know.
Adam: Again, hopefully it's.
Adam: Oh, something better will come
Adam: out of this giant mess that
Adam: we're currently living, living
Adam: in.
Adam: And it's also that thing too,
Adam: where you're like, am I just too
Adam: connected?
Adam: Do I. Does it matter that I see everything like going on with
Adam: the UFC fight happening on the white House lawn?
Adam: Does that affect me in any way?
Adam: Probably not.
Adam: Should I be getting upset about it?
Adam: Sure.
Adam: But does it do any good for me?
Adam: Probably not.
Aaron: I think things are gonna be fine.
Aaron: I, uh, I was thinking about
Aaron: today so that the Spurs are
Aaron: going to the NBA finals, uh,
Aaron: which is the first time in
Aaron: twenty five years that they've
Aaron: done that.
Aaron: And the last time they did that, there was a great tech boom.
Aaron: Things were going really well.
Aaron: Uh, you know, they won and then nothing happened after that.
Aaron: The tech kept going up and,
Adam: What year was this?
Aaron: uh,
Adam: Two thousand
Aaron: this,
Adam: and one.
Adam: You're saying.
Aaron: this was, uh, I think it was two
Aaron: thousand ninety nine or two
Aaron: thousand.
Aaron: Hold on.
Adam: Oh,
Aaron: I'm looking it up
Adam: okay.
Aaron: because I just had this thought just now.
Aaron: It's very important.
Aaron: Um, I'm going to keep vamping here.
Aaron: This is, uh.
Adam: I mean, I can talk if you need me to.
Adam: I thought
Aaron: Yeah.
Adam: the Spurs went to the finals more.
Adam: Or I guess they were just always in the playoffs.
Adam: I remember the Lakers having a
Adam: hard time against them a few
Adam: times.
Adam: in the Kobe
Aaron: Well,
Adam: years
Aaron: they.
Adam: when I watched.
Aaron: They had Dennis Rodman at some.
Aaron: God damn it!
Aaron: When did this when
Adam: I can't
Aaron: did the
Adam: help
Aaron: San Antonio
Adam: you.
Aaron: Spurs win the championship?
Adam: Are you using AI for this instead of
Aaron: No.
Adam: just googling it?
Adam: Because it's going to give you an AI answer anyway?
Aaron: Yeah, yeah.
Aaron: So they won in nineteen ninety nine.
Aaron: And, uh.
Aaron: Yeah.
Aaron: Anyway, they won in nineteen ninety nine.
Adam: Mhm.
Aaron: Uh, spirits were high.
Aaron: Uh, the internet was going to
Aaron: bring a immense prosperity to us
Aaron: and
Adam: Yeah.
Aaron: a whole new world.
Adam: Which
Aaron: And,
Adam: it technically
Aaron: uh,
Adam: did.
Aaron: yeah, but what's fascinating is that after the bubble popped, I
Aaron: think it took six years or something for the stock market
Aaron: to reach like its level that it was before that pop, like it was
Aaron: like six or seven years, I think
Adam: Mhm.
Aaron: seven years, I think.
Aaron: Yeah. Which is funny because
Aaron: then there's the great financial
Aaron: crisis.
Aaron: Whatever.
Aaron: It doesn't matter.
Adam: Yeah. That was that's from old money.
Adam: That was from the houses that
Adam: had nothing to do with the
Adam: internet.
Adam: Internet was completely innocent in that one.
Adam: Not pets dot com.
Adam: Can't blame them for all your problems.
Aaron: Remember what?
Aaron: Oh, no. You weren't there when I met the founder of Askjeeves.
Adam: Was he a a snooty butler?
Aaron: No. He
Adam: That's
Aaron: was.
Adam: disappointing.
Aaron: He was exactly the kind of guy you would imagine that was a
Aaron: computer nerd in the eighties.
Aaron: And 90s like.
Adam: Oh, you mentioned this guy.
Adam: Yeah, this was recent.
Adam: I remember you were.
Aaron: Yeah, a
Adam: Yeah.
Aaron: couple of months ago.
Aaron: Three months ago or something.
Adam: That's right. That. Yeah. And he
Adam: they just closed recently,
Adam: right?
Adam: Like
Aaron: What?
Adam: like Ask Jeeves was like shut down completely just recently.
Aaron: Was it.
Adam: I think so.
Adam: I, I could be getting it mixed up with.
Adam: It was.
Aaron: Mixed up with fifteen years ago.
Adam: I swear I saw some headline that was like sad day today.
Adam: Uh, it was like the Farmers
Adam: Almanac is no longer being
Adam: printed.
Adam: And ask Jeeves,
Aaron: Yeah,
Adam: this has
Aaron: yeah,
Adam: been shut down.
Adam: You're like, what a weird.
Aaron: yeah.
Aaron: My great grandpa would be so sad.
Adam: Um.
Aaron: Uh, now the Ask Jeeves guy.
Aaron: Steve.
Aaron: I forget.
Aaron: Well, I should know his name.
Aaron: We were going to
Adam: Just call him Jeeves.
Aaron: possibly going to be working.
Aaron: Anyway, I'm at Jeeves, and, uh,
Aaron: we were talking through some
Aaron: things, some business things,
Aaron: and then I had to ask him about
Aaron: that time, you know, with, like,
Aaron: what was it like, you know,
Aaron: you're getting this all of a
Aaron: sudden you're getting this crazy
Aaron: traffic and you're, it's the
Aaron: booming early days of the
Aaron: internet.
Aaron: And he's like, we were extremely excited.
Aaron: There were hundreds of millions
Aaron: of people using this thing and
Aaron: we had no idea how to monetize
Aaron: it.
Aaron: He's like, it just didn't.
Aaron: It didn't exist.
Adam: Yeah.
Aaron: Like, do we charge a subscription for searching?
Aaron: Do we pay by the search?
Aaron: We had no fucking clue how to make money off of it.
Aaron: And we were getting money poured into us.
Aaron: And I was like, this sounds familiar.
Aaron: And, uh, yeah.
Aaron: And then he was just a complete nerd.
Aaron: Like he still has those, like eighties and 90s, uh, big rimmed
Aaron: glasses, like, uh, you know, bifocal glasses that, that
Aaron: Jeffrey Dahmer and other computer programmers wore
Adam: I was going to
Aaron: and
Adam: say convicted cannibals.
Aaron: yeah, cannibals
Adam: Yeah.
Aaron: and in various regards.
Aaron: But, um, yeah, it was extremely nice guy, but everything he was
Aaron: saying just mirrored all of what's happening now.
Aaron: Except, you know, with Jeeves, it was, I don't know, it it
Aaron: seemed I liked that search engine just just because I think
Aaron: I liked the cartoon of the of the mascot of the Jeeves.
Aaron: I think that's the only reason it could
Adam: Okay.
Aaron: be the same reason why I like Lycos, I like dogs, so that's
Aaron: the kind of consumer I am.
Adam: Yeah. Well, I remember our our life changed the day we bought a
Adam: copy of Netscape Navigator.
Aaron: Um.
Adam: And we're like, now it's time to really use the internet.
Adam: And then you just watch that
Adam: little gif of the icon looping,
Adam: hoping it would make the site go
Adam: faster.
Adam: Somehow it didn't because dial
Adam: up was just just the worst thing
Adam: ever.
Aaron: Yeah.
Adam: I don't know.
Aaron: I think my dad still has dial up, but whatever.
Adam: Serious.
Adam: I know some people do.
Adam: AOL's still leeching off of a few customers.
Aaron: Yeah. I think they shut it down recently, but they shut it down
Aaron: at the same time as Jeeves and, and the Farmer's Almanac.
Adam: I still think the Beanie Baby websites doing fine, though
Aaron: MM.
Adam: I don't know if they've changed anything.
Adam: Um, yeah, I thought more about that white supremacy joke thing
Adam: I had sent you because I don't think you read it.
Adam: I'm like, I don't
Aaron: I
Adam: know if
Aaron: did.
Adam: I'm going to make.
Adam: Yeah, it was just a, a once over.
Adam: Um.
Aaron: It wasn't ubiquitous enough to be,
Adam: Funny.
Aaron: like, funny to everyone.
Adam: Yeah,
Aaron: It didn't have enough zeitgeist
Adam: yeah.
Aaron: potential.
Adam: I mean, the, the concept being this white supremacy book keeps
Adam: showing up in photo shoots.
Adam: It was on Govi and then some other website, but I was like,
Adam: yeah, I guess it's, it's such a, a minor thing and you have to
Adam: know what's going on.
Adam: It felt like coming up with a punchline without a joke.
Adam: And the more I looked at it, I
Adam: was like, well, at least it was
Adam: just a creative writing exercise
Adam: that will never see the light of
Adam: day.
Aaron: Mhm.
Adam: So, I mean, I already filmed it, it's edited, it's done.
Adam: But, um, you
Aaron: Really?
Adam: know, yeah, I already made an AI
Adam: version of you so I can just do
Adam: whatever I want with your your
Adam: husk.
Aaron: This is great.
Adam: I'm just kidding.
Aaron: Oh, yeah.
Adam: No, I wouldn't have.
Adam: No, I didn't make that.
Adam: I spent my weekend trying to figure out how to get my, uh, my
Adam: keyboard on my iPhone to sync with my desktop Linux, and I got
Adam: it to work.
Adam: So that's how exciting my weekend was.
Adam: And I did a lot of sweeping because the house is dusty.
Aaron: Should we make you know how they
Aaron: made the AI actress that Tillie
Aaron: Norwood?
Aaron: They went and did this whole press thing.
Aaron: Should we make a porn AI actress
Adam: That
Aaron: named
Adam: has to exist
Aaron: Titty
Adam: already.
Aaron: Hardwood and
Adam: It should just
Aaron: have
Adam: be
Aaron: her.
Adam: all all genders though.
Adam: All genders, all
Aaron: Yeah.
Adam: fetishes.
Adam: It's a
Aaron: Yeah.
Adam: it's a horse.
Adam: It's a dog.
Adam: It's,
Aaron: She's.
Adam: uh,
Aaron: She has dicks for nipples.
Adam: yeah, it's your mom.
Adam: It's
Aaron: Yeah,
Adam: your stepsister.
Aaron: it can be whatever you
Adam: It's
Aaron: want.
Adam: it's perpetually stuck in a washing machine.
Aaron: It fucks itself like it delivers
Aaron: the pizza to itself and then
Aaron: fucks itself.
Adam: It cooks itself.
Aaron: Yeah,
Adam: Yeah.
Aaron: but
Adam: Yeah. You go ahead and make
Aaron: I
Adam: that.
Aaron: think
Adam: I
Aaron: Titty Hardwood is a good name.
Adam: yeah again you you got the punch line.
Adam: Now you just need the joke
Aaron: Yeah,
Adam: because
Aaron: well.
Adam: you're probably running out of steam within forty five seconds.
Adam: But.
Aaron: No, I think it'd be great.
Aaron: You go like the Mia Khalifa route, where not only has Titty
Aaron: hardwood not been in any point, but she's trying to move away
Aaron: from her porn career.
Aaron: Like she's trying to.
Aaron: She's trying to, uh, I don't
Aaron: know, work at the UN or do
Aaron: something.
Aaron: And she's like, I want to bring awareness to the, the epidemics
Aaron: in Africa and the food crisis.
Adam: Turn
Aaron: And,
Adam: into a dog.
Aaron: and yes, my name is Titty Hardwood.
Aaron: I get it, I understand that, but this is a new route.
Aaron: Okay.
Aaron: I, you know, there was famine in Madagascar and yes, I, yes, I
Aaron: did fuck myself.
Aaron: Yes, I have cocks for nipples.
Aaron: Okay.
Aaron: Can we please move on?
Adam: I want to talk about the deficit
Adam: and what we can do for low
Adam: income housing.
Adam: I mean, good luck finding a local open source AI that will
Adam: let you make that that your computer can run.
Adam: Um, but I support you.
Adam: I think you should go make that.
Aaron: Well, I was just thinking, well,
Adam: You're
Aaron: I
Adam: like,
Aaron: won't
Adam: I
Aaron: go.
Adam: come up with the ideas you make it.
Adam: I say
Aaron: I
Adam: the
Aaron: just
Adam: stuff, you go do it.
Aaron: know I want to make that, but I feel like I feel like burning
Aaron: out my RTX three thousand ninety on titty hardwoods,
Adam: Mhm.
Aaron: which would be a little bit of a waste considering how expensive
Aaron: RAM is and
Adam: What
Aaron: everything
Adam: if.
Aaron: else.
Adam: What if you use that energy to use all your your, uh, your
Adam: slyness to get a job at a data center and just
Aaron: MM.
Adam: rob that place blind.
Adam: Like just take a rack and see if anyone notices there.
Aaron: Yeah. I have multiple
Adam: Are they going?
Aaron: friends who work in not only the
Aaron: energy fields that are, they're
Aaron: giving the energy to the data
Aaron: centers, but also building the
Aaron: data.
Aaron: I literally have a friend who is building a data center right now
Aaron: with his robots.
Aaron: And I could easily go in there
Aaron: because what's great is that
Aaron: they paint the, uh, the
Aaron: blueprints onto the slab of the
Aaron: data center.
Aaron: So it's like, you know, where
Aaron: the walls go and the racks go
Aaron: and all
Adam: Uh,
Aaron: that stuff.
Adam: the Blackwells
Aaron: So I
Adam: are
Aaron: won't,
Adam: over here.
Aaron: I will know where the racks will
Aaron: be because it says so on the
Aaron: concrete
Adam: What?
Aaron: and.
Adam: So you just you do that that thing where you you take your
Adam: thirty ninety in and you replay and it won't fit.
Adam: But you try
Aaron: Uh.
Adam: to swap hot swap it and you get one of these five thousand
Adam: dollars graphics cards.
Aaron: I'll just take a box.
Aaron: I'll
Adam: Yeah.
Aaron: just show up.
Aaron: I know, like I know where one's being built right now.
Aaron: And when it's going up, I
Adam: This
Aaron: can just take a box.
Adam: this should be the next Ocean's Eleven plot where a guy just
Adam: wants to make a porn parody joke thing, but he doesn't have
Adam: enough compute to do it.
Adam: So now they he spends fifty
Adam: thousand dollars on a intricate
Adam: plan.
Aaron: It's twelve guys who are in cells who want to who need to
Aaron: steal a box of of GPUs.
Adam: And then, well, they have this
Aaron: The
Adam: entire
Aaron: first they gotta
Adam: plan,
Aaron: go buy their suits from goodwill
Adam: right?
Aaron: so
Adam: Well,
Aaron: they can have a meeting.
Adam: they have this entire plan and
Adam: they get there and there's just
Adam: one security guard who's on his
Adam: phone.
Aaron: No, it's not
Adam: Oh.
Aaron: even one security.
Aaron: It's one of those robot dogs.
Aaron: They have that they
Adam: And.
Aaron: the robot dog kills one of them
Aaron: immediately, just like complete
Aaron: like puts a hole through their
Aaron: chest.
Adam: Did you notice a thing in Buenos Aires?
Adam: Like all the apartments had, that they would have a TV screen
Adam: with, like, an operator on it.
Aaron: With TV screen.
Aaron: With an operator
Adam: There
Aaron: on
Adam: was
Aaron: it.
Adam: a weird thing in all the
Adam: apartments we would walk by and
Adam: there would be like a
Adam: telescreen.
Adam: And it's it was basically the
Adam: front desk person, but they were
Adam: teleworking.
Adam: And so
Aaron: Oh,
Adam: they.
Aaron: I
Adam: And
Aaron: saw
Adam: they were.
Aaron: some, some screens.
Aaron: I didn't know what that that was.
Adam: Yeah, there was a bunch of them.
Adam: And it was just, it was just such a weird thing.
Adam: Anyway, I was thinking to be like one of those.
Adam: It's like the security guards,
Adam: like on a Segway, like, hey,
Adam: stop it.
Adam: And it's just following them as
Adam: they're walking out with this
Adam: huge rack for the to build their
Adam: rack.
Aaron: I thought it'd be cooler if it's
Aaron: an Indian guy manning a robot
Aaron: dog that they're trying to
Aaron: outrun.
Aaron: And every
Adam: But.
Aaron: now and then, the Indian guy speaks through the robot dog.
Adam: Save it for the pitch to Netflix or shudder.
Aaron: Yeah,
Adam: Whoever
Aaron: yeah.
Adam: will hear this horrible idea.
Adam: Uh.
Aaron: Sounds like a Showtime kind of idea, but, uh.
Adam: I thought Showtime got shut down with Ask Jeeves.
Aaron: No, it's through Amazon.
Aaron: I think
Adam: Oh,
Aaron: all those are just.
Aaron: It's just Amazon
Adam: right.
Aaron: now, but.
Adam: Amazon's like, we own space.
Adam: Everything you buy, and James
Aaron: Cinemax
Adam: Bond.
Aaron: and yeah,
Adam: MM.
Aaron: but, uh, anyway, yeah, that I
Aaron: think that's a great plot for a
Aaron: movie for, for my titty Norwood
Aaron: creation,
Adam: Yeah. I
Aaron: I
Adam: look forward
Aaron: made
Adam: to
Aaron: it.
Adam: watching.
Adam: Uh, someone upload it to YouTube for free.
Aaron: Did
Adam: Uh.
Aaron: you see that?
Aaron: That guy I was just reading about what of that horror movie
Aaron: is, uh, that's
Adam: Backrooms
Aaron: doing.
Adam: or
Aaron: No, it's
Adam: obsession?
Aaron: not that one obsession.
Adam: Yeah.
Aaron: And, uh, he made it for seven hundred, seven hundred and fifty
Aaron: grand or something, um,
Adam: Mhm.
Aaron: which is micro-budget indie, but
Aaron: you can do some damage with it
Aaron: for sure.
Aaron: And it looked pretty good.
Aaron: like visually.
Aaron: And, you know, obviously.
Aaron: But apparently before that, he did his found footage horror
Aaron: film and just uploaded it to his YouTube channel, which cool.
Adam: You.
Aaron: That's
Adam: You
Aaron: cool.
Adam: might be getting that mixed up with back rooms.
Adam: I don't know,
Aaron: I don't think I am.
Adam: because
Aaron: I
Adam: back
Aaron: think
Adam: rooms
Aaron: this.
Adam: is more of the found footage thing.
Adam: I know nothing about obsession other than it.
Adam: It did better in its second week than the first week.
Adam: So now I might go check it out because it's
Aaron: This.
Adam: the one thing that's not a Star Wars.
Aaron: Yeah. No, this guy did, he did a
Aaron: non backrooms found footage
Aaron: thing in twenty twenty five I
Aaron: think.
Adam: I believe all found footage is now just called a back rooms.
Adam: So
Aaron: Yeah.
Adam: we now retroactively call Blair Witch Project a back rooms light
Adam: or, you know, it's very backrooms esque, you know.
Aaron: If you ever want to see you should check out the Fat fellas.
Aaron: Instagram.
Aaron: I think I may have sent you some of their videos.
Aaron: It's, uh, it's AI generated big black dudes who are like,
Aaron: they're basically like, uh, kings of their world.
Aaron: And they're constantly like looking for snow bunnies, as
Aaron: they call them, which are just skinny blonde white chicks.
Aaron: But anyway, they did, they did a
Aaron: nice backrooms parody where
Aaron: they're, uh, what were they
Aaron: looking for?
Aaron: I think they were looking for
Aaron: smoked meats or something, or
Aaron: they were running away from a
Aaron: spider while looking for smoked
Aaron: meat.
Aaron: I can't remember exactly what it was, but, uh, I'm sure that
Aaron: channels run by a white guy, and as soon as they figure that out,
Aaron: they'll realize it's already racist, but they'll realize just
Aaron: how racist it is
Adam: And
Aaron: anyway.
Adam: for the record, you've never sent me one of those videos and
Adam: let's maybe keep it that way.
Aaron: No, no. I'm going.
Aaron: I'm.
Aaron: As soon as I get off of here, if
Aaron: I could reach my phone from this
Aaron: couch, I would send it right
Aaron: now.
Aaron: But,
Adam: I'm.
Aaron: uh.
Adam: I'm
Aaron: Yeah.
Adam: happily just binging through For All Mankind.
Adam: It's a great show.
Adam: I'm only on season two.
Adam: It might get worse.
Adam: I don't know, but they got a moon base.
Adam: It really is like this is the future you wish you had for
Aaron: This is the
Adam: NASA.
Aaron: one where the Russians land on the moon first.
Adam: Yeah, yeah.
Adam: And it it, it just keeps running with that idea.
Adam: We talked about it all last week, but I'm enjoying it.
Adam: I don't think you'll ever watch
Adam: it because it's not Jeremy
Adam: Clarkson.
Adam: Whatever.
Adam: Futzing around.
Adam: You'd rather watch an
Aaron: Oh.
Adam: old man build a farm?
Aaron: This week is a new, new Clarkson's farm season.
Adam: I can't, I just don't know how you can consume reality TV.
Adam: That's an
Aaron: I.
Adam: that's an odd thing about you.
Adam: You've recommended multiple things.
Adam: I think during the pandemic, you
Adam: were like, you gotta watch Love
Adam: Island.
Adam: And I was like, oh, or was that the one?
Adam: Or
Aaron: Know.
Adam: Love is love is something some Netflix.
Adam: I don't know, it's like Sex Island or something.
Adam: And you're like, you gotta watch this hot or not, or hot island,
Adam: I don't know and watch
Aaron: Well,
Adam: it.
Aaron: that's
Adam: I.
Aaron: because it was a it was a meta take on a reality show.
Aaron: It wasn't actually a reality show.
Aaron: But anyway,
Adam: Know
Aaron: that doesn't matter.
Adam: no no no no no. I was waiting
Adam: for the meta thing to happen and
Adam: it was just another reality
Adam: show.
Adam: What was the meta part?
Adam: Did that come later?
Aaron: You see, I don't know if you
Aaron: watched what I recommended
Aaron: because it was whatever the That
Aaron: Love reality show was where they
Aaron: basically played off of the
Aaron: tropes of common reality shows
Aaron: and showed how horrible that
Aaron: people are.
Aaron: I
Adam: All
Aaron: don't
Adam: I
Aaron: remember
Adam: remember
Aaron: what.
Adam: is watching the first episode.
Adam: Maybe you gave me the wrong name, but it was.
Adam: It was just a bunch of sexy twentysomethings.
Adam: And at the end of the first
Adam: episode, we just looked at each
Adam: other like, what did Aaron send
Adam: us?
Adam: Why is he into this?
Adam: What happened to him?
Adam: Did he become
Aaron: Well,
Adam: younger or older?
Adam: Like.
Aaron: I don't know what that was.
Aaron: You watch, but I will say that
Aaron: as far as reality, quote unquote
Aaron: reality shows go, which I guess
Aaron: Clarkson's Farm is, I think it's
Aaron: more documentary.
Aaron: But yes, reality versus scripted television.
Aaron: Scripted television the last few years, in my opinion.
Aaron: It's just been so like, I can't walk.
Aaron: The writing is so just ham fisted.
Aaron: It's just like, not not good.
Aaron: And I get there are a few good shows out there.
Aaron: I just, I couldn't okay, when I tried to watch like a few
Aaron: episodes of Reacher.
Aaron: Granted, I understand what kind of show that is, but I was just
Aaron: like, this is.
Aaron: So they're all.
Aaron: This is the gathering in the hideout scene, okay?
Aaron: And this is the the strong woman, you know, showing up the
Aaron: guy and his misogyny scene.
Aaron: Okay.
Aaron: Like I just, I fucking hate it.
Adam: That's
Aaron: And then
Adam: fair.
Aaron: when
Adam: I know.
Aaron: I.
Adam: I mean, it's all been done, so you know what
Aaron: I
Adam: to expect.
Aaron: get it, everything's
Adam: You're spoiled.
Aaron: all been done and I don't I don't take that.
Aaron: I don't like that view of it
Aaron: either, because yes, Shakespeare
Aaron: did the meeting in the hideout
Aaron: scene, but the whole thing is
Aaron: like, okay, well, how do you
Aaron: elevate it?
Aaron: And if you just show me
Aaron: something that I saw fifteen
Aaron: years ago, it's so fucking
Aaron: boring.
Aaron: I'm so bored and I'm picking on Reacher because why not?
Aaron: But like, you know, so when I go see something reality show,
Aaron: like, okay, this is at least yes, it's manufactured.
Aaron: Everything has to be created.
Aaron: You know, story wise, you have to create the tension.
Aaron: You have to, you know, get a climax, you have to have act
Aaron: outs, all this stuff.
Aaron: But you also have it's almost
Aaron: harder because you're having to
Aaron: create it from these real
Aaron: performances.
Aaron: You could say of these people and like, okay, Clarkson is, is
Aaron: a, you know, he's a grill man and love him or hate him, but
Aaron: he's, he's immensely entertaining and he knows how to
Aaron: surround himself and find entertaining people and get
Aaron: entertaining out of them.
Aaron: Like he's the guy that like
Aaron: mumbles, the Gerald guy who they
Aaron: always edit.
Aaron: They over edit him now where he's like, has that, I don't
Aaron: know, northern Cockney thing where he's like, oh yeah, I'm
Aaron: gonna build the fence, you know, and all that stuff.
Aaron: That guy.
Aaron: Most people would not know what to do with them in a show.
Aaron: They would just be like, uh,
Aaron: yeah, maybe we don't have him on
Aaron: camera, but Clarkson and Andy
Aaron: Wilman, they're like, this guy's
Aaron: gold.
Aaron: And then
Adam: Okay.
Aaron: they get gold out of all of these people.
Adam: Right.
Aaron: So
Adam: So you just
Aaron: what
Adam: you like
Aaron: I'm
Adam: the
Aaron: saying
Adam: Howard
Aaron: is, fuck
Adam: Stern
Aaron: you.
Adam: exploitation of the the differently abled.
Aaron: Until
Adam: Way to
Aaron: I can
Adam: go.
Aaron: make a titty Norwood to go on some pressor and do reality TV
Aaron: show, I'm stuck with Clarkson and whatever he's making.
Adam: Who's
Aaron: But he'll
Adam: your
Aaron: be
Adam: Beetlejuice?
Aaron: dead in two years anyway.
Adam: Anyway?
Aaron: Yeah.
Adam: I'm not sitting here saying, like, scripted television is the
Adam: best it's ever been.
Adam: I mean, it's the I everyone was, you know, creaming themselves
Adam: over pluribus, which is, you know, the guy made Breaking Bad
Adam: and I was like, I was into it.
Adam: And then it just kept kind of repeating itself where like, you
Adam: know, the concept, right?
Adam: Where like earth becomes a hive mind and there's only like a few
Adam: people who don't aren't part of this hive mind.
Aaron: Right.
Adam: And they would just redo the same thing where it's like she
Adam: would show up to sprouts and be like, my grocery store is empty,
Adam: I want it full.
Adam: And then all the trucks show up and everyone does it.
Adam: And it's like this thing where like you as the audience are
Adam: supposed to be like, wow, they're doing it again.
Adam: Because it's just, it's
Adam: basically that back and forth
Adam: for like, I don't know, six
Adam: episodes.
Adam: And then it just kind of felt like it was, it's a slow burn,
Adam: but it just, it didn't feel like I was getting much out of it.
Adam: So I'm like, yeah, I feel like you, you could invert this a
Adam: little bit more.
Adam: But then again, I'm not the one making the show.
Adam: So whatever.
Adam: I'm just the consumer, so I should probably shut my mouth.
Aaron: I think it's just what happens when these are all tech
Aaron: companies now producing things.
Aaron: They don't give a shit about TV or anything.
Aaron: It's a product.
Aaron: It's always been like that pretty much.
Aaron: But this is just like there's
Aaron: something so synthetic about the
Aaron: TV shows that I tune into now or
Aaron: try that.
Aaron: I'm just, I can't, I can't do it.
Aaron: Maybe it's just I'm just getting older and I'm jaded and I've,
Aaron: I've seen a lot of things and I've seen so much and it's just,
Aaron: I don't know, I just don't see any writing now that I'm like,
Aaron: oh, you know, and then I
Adam: Oh.
Aaron: lean towards reality because it seems like reality has better
Aaron: stories these days.
Adam: I forget too, because I know
Adam: everyone was like, freaking out
Adam: over the, you know, Colbert
Adam: getting canceled over, uh,
Adam: political leanings.
Adam: And there the whole thing of, like, his show closed out with
Adam: six million viewers.
Adam: I'm like, that's like a tick tock.
Aaron: Yeah,
Adam: I forget
Aaron: yeah.
Adam: that TV is dead.
Adam: And this, this format that I, I
Adam: enjoyed for my entire life is I,
Adam: I am in the minority where like
Adam: I'm, I'm not usually swiping
Adam: through random social media
Adam: feeds.
Adam: And just like, you know, I've
Adam: heard people watch TikTok and
Adam: stuff and it's, it's insanity to
Adam: me of just, you know, someone
Adam: talking for three seconds and
Adam: then something completely
Adam: different.
Adam: Like, do you subscribe to that person?
Adam: Like, no, no, no, this is what the algorithm gives
Aaron: This
Adam: me.
Aaron: is the old person's talk
Adam: No, it
Aaron: today.
Adam: is me very much old man brain.
Adam: Um, so I'm with you, but I think
Adam: if I'm gonna, if I'm gonna eat
Adam: my crap, I'm, I'm gonna probably
Adam: stick with the crap that I know
Adam: than the one that's new and
Adam: scary that
Aaron: Yes.
Adam: I, that I'm constantly
Aaron: This
Adam: looking
Aaron: is definitely
Adam: at and going.
Aaron: the old person's talk.
Adam: Uh, it is, but then you don't know.
Adam: You're the one talking about how
Adam: Gen Z and Gen Alpha is going to
Adam: be regressing and going back to
Adam: analog, which is not going to
Adam: happen.
Adam: I know we we say it, but you know, just because six people
Adam: bought something on vinyl doesn't mean it's coming back.
Adam: Sorry, dad.
Adam: It.
Aaron: Yeah, I don't know.
Aaron: I, I also read something the
Aaron: other day that millennials are
Aaron: going to be the last smart
Aaron: generation or that millennials
Aaron: are,
Adam: Right.
Adam: Yeah,
Aaron: are
Adam: I,
Aaron: smarter than Gen
Adam: yeah,
Aaron: X and than smarter
Adam: I've
Aaron: Gen Z
Adam: seen
Aaron: and.
Adam: those articles written by
Adam: millennials saying like, you
Adam: know,
Aaron: Millennials.
Adam: millennials are like the last smart ones.
Adam: Shut up us.
Aaron: Mhm.
Adam: Yeah. You know, Gen X got it right.
Adam: And it's like, yeah, I get it.
Adam: Every do whatever you can to not become the boomer, uh, pointing
Adam: at the younger generation and being like, you know, we're, we,
Adam: we got a leg up on y'all.
Adam: It's like, no, we're, you need to let them do what they're
Adam: going to do.
Adam: Because whether you like it or not, they're the future.
Adam: And you standing there gatekeeping them is not helping.
Aaron: No, I'd rather subscribe to the Bill Maher philosophy of life.
Adam: What's
Aaron: You're
Adam: with
Aaron: all
Adam: purple?
Aaron: dumb.
Aaron: You
Adam: Yeah.
Aaron: don't know what you're talking about.
Aaron: The Beatles were the best band ever.
Adam: What's so
Aaron: And
Adam: hard about
Aaron: Arabs
Adam: two
Aaron: are a
Adam: bathrooms?
Aaron: danger to society.
Adam: No,
Aaron: Yeah.
Adam: I, I never felt like I needed to be a different gender.
Adam: So everyone feels this way.
Adam: It's like, thanks,
Aaron: Listen,
Adam: Bill.
Aaron: I'm dating a twenty two year old black woman.
Aaron: I can speak about this.
Adam: Yeah, it's, I don't know.
Adam: We've said enough, but not enough.
Aaron: Yeah,
Adam: We haven't really said anything.
Aaron: I need to go buy some groceries.
Adam: As this usually ends on a Monday
Adam: or Tuesday or whenever the hell
Adam: we get time to record the stuff,
Adam: it's always you having to go
Adam: somewhere.
Adam: Me having to sit alone, play with my Linux distribution
Aaron: I bought
Adam: of.
Aaron: IBM stock today.
Aaron: I never thought I would do something like that, but,
Adam: Something
Aaron: um.
Adam: happening with them?
Adam: I. I saw the Nvidia thing.
Adam: They released a new.
Adam: They're trying to make like a
Adam: cheap laptop replacement, which
Adam: is like, I guess we need that, I
Adam: don't know.
Aaron: I'm just gathering as much money as I can before all of this
Aaron: falls and crumbles down,
Adam: When
Aaron: which
Adam: money is useless.
Aaron: should be soon, I think.
Adam: Yeah. No. Your money will do
Adam: nothing for you in the in the
Adam: coming purge.
Aaron: Hey, Peter Thiel just moved to Argentina,
Adam: Yes.
Aaron: which surprise, surprise.
Adam: Right.
Aaron: Um.
Adam: I, I couldn't
Aaron: He sees
Adam: have made
Aaron: the
Adam: it
Aaron: writing
Adam: easier.
Aaron: on the wall.
Adam: I know that's where they all go.
Adam: That's where they all went.
Aaron: Yeah.
Adam: Did he arrive by U-boat?
Adam: That was the only question.
Aaron: Did he arrive by, uh, dirigible?
Aaron: Did he.
Aaron: Did he come in on a on a Zeppelin?
Adam: Uh, some.
Adam: Volkswagen.
Adam: Anyway.
Aaron: Yeah.
Adam: Uh, yeah. Okay. Well, I need to
Adam: go catch my matinee showing of
Adam: the back rooms so I can have an
Adam: opinion on, uh, on Jen's what
Adam: Gen Z likes and tell them how
Adam: they're wrong.
Aaron: Yeah. I'll send you that that fat fellas Instagram
Adam: Please don't.
Aaron: of
Adam: I.
Aaron: of, uh, their backrooms parody.
Adam: I, I need a VPN before you send me anything because it's all
Adam: being tracked and it's all being sold back to me.
Aaron: Well, you need to do what I do and just set I don't know when I
Aaron: did it, but my settings are all set to a sixty five year old.
Aaron: So I get all those chair tai chi
Aaron: exercises and I get all of these
Aaron: like, yeah.
Adam: I see those coming in every once in a while.
Adam: Yeah, the one, the fun one right
Adam: now is someone is constantly
Adam: trying to get into my Microsoft
Adam: account, which is I don't know
Adam: what they could even do with
Adam: that because I don't use windows
Adam: anymore.
Adam: I don't use OneDrive, so it's
Adam: just more of a fun game to open
Adam: up the authenticator and hit
Adam: deny, uh,
Aaron: Yeah.
Adam: instead of one of the three random numbers.
Adam: But yeah, that's, that's been aggressive lately
Aaron: Mhm.
Adam: anyway, but, um, you know, it only takes one.
Aaron: Yeah, it really does.
Adam: Good talk. All right.
Adam: Cool. I'll let you go.
Adam: And let's get, let's get started on this demolition man.
Adam: Uh, story.
Aaron: Article.
Adam: Yeah. Also,
Aaron: Okay.
Adam: I mean, you, you mentioned the,
Adam: the Norwood or whatever, but
Adam: remember the movie Simone with
Adam: one.
Aaron: Oh, yeah.
Adam: It's happening.
Aaron: Titty hardwood.
Aaron: God damn it.
Adam: Whatever. Save it for your SNL audition.
Aaron: Yeah. Uh.
Adam: The UK one though.
Adam: Not we can't have you doing the US stuff.
Adam: We need you to be like an import.
Aaron: I'm three times too old for the UK one.
Adam: I don't know, you're you're you
Adam: look like Chevy Chase when he
Adam: started.
Aaron: Yeah, I guess that's true.
Aaron: And Phil Hartman started SNL when he was thirty nine.
Adam: Yeah,
Aaron: No.
Adam: but he was on
Aaron: Yeah.
Adam: pee wee
Aaron: Thirty
Adam: before
Aaron: nine.
Adam: that, so he he did his rounds.
Adam: Uh.
Aaron: But
Adam: He earned.
Aaron: pee wee didn't know.
Aaron: And he went in and he wrote the
Aaron: script to with, um, Paul
Aaron: Reubens.
Aaron: But
Adam: MM.
Aaron: yeah, anyway, age wise, I'm fine.
Adam: You keep saying that.
Adam: I'll back
Aaron: Yeah.
Adam: you up.
Adam: All right.
Adam: Well, thank you for joining me today.
Adam: As always, I don't know how we end this thing.
Aaron: Oh, there's a leave button.
Adam: Yeah.
Aaron: Um, what
Adam: Can you find it?
Adam: What is it saying when you.
Adam: Hit it.
Adam: I'm going to
Aaron: Adobe
Adam: hit.
Adam: Stop
Aaron: podcast
Adam: recording.
Aaron: is in the middle of doing something.
Adam: I'm
Aaron: If you
Adam: going
Aaron: leave
Adam: to.
Aaron: now, you may lose some of your work.
Adam: Oh, yeah.
Adam: Don't leave here.
Adam: Let me hit.
Adam: Stop recording.