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Alex Albrecht
Jump onto a wall and do a backflip. Like, I could probably do that now.
Kevin Rose
Jump onto a wall. Why would you. Pointing over here? There's no wall over here.
Alex Albrecht
That's a wall.
Kevin Rose
Well, how do you jump onto that? It's a. It's. It's a.
Alex Albrecht
It's. No, you do the thing with it.
Kevin Rose
I do it like a wall. Like a brick wall. Like where, like, you get up on top of it and then you back the wall. Oh, like there's nothing to stand on.
Alex Albrecht
No, not a pony wall. Just a regular wall. I mean, like, what do you think we call it?
Kevin Rose
Pony wall.
Alex Albrecht
Yeah, yeah, yeah, A little.
Kevin Rose
Little wall.
Alex Albrecht
Pony wall. Okay. No, I mean, like, just like run up to the wall, plant your foot on the wall and do a backflip. Can we try and. I haven't had enough booze to attempt it. Welcome to dignation. Also potentially hazardous to your health. All right, moving on.
Kevin Rose
Why do you have flies in your freaking house?
Alex Albrecht
I've noticed in California. In Southern California. And I have shrimp.
Kevin Rose
You put zombie and you put eerie in the title, and I don't want to do it. Dignation.com.
Alex Albrecht
Hello, everybody, and welcome to Dig Nation Episode 8. I'm Alex Albrecht.
Kevin Rose
And I'm Kevin Rose. Dignation covers some of the hottest stories from around the Internet, sprinkling around the web. A little bit of everything. Technology news, variety.
Alex Albrecht
Oh, variety.
Kevin Rose
A little potpourri. Potpourri of stories, as a word.
Alex Albrecht
That's a good way to put it.
Kevin Rose
Yes.
Alex Albrecht
Happy holidays.
Kevin Rose
Happy holidays. I am finally back in town. Good Lord. Where were you?
Alex Albrecht
Oh, that's right. You were like, like, out and about in a booth.
Kevin Rose
I've been traveling a lot.
Alex Albrecht
Yeah. Well, welcome back.
Kevin Rose
Lots of traveling. Cheers.
Alex Albrecht
Cheers, my friend. Good to see you as always.
Kevin Rose
And you said that.
Alex Albrecht
That was horrible.
Kevin Rose
Chardonnay.
Alex Albrecht
Why do you drink my chardonnay?
Kevin Rose
I don't know. It was available.
Alex Albrecht
It was available. By the way, Heather and her music partner Leah wrote a song called Anything But Chardonnay. Ah. And it's.
Kevin Rose
Now I understand why she might.
Alex Albrecht
Literally, it's like the kryptonite for Heather. She's just like, oh, what do you have?
Kevin Rose
What?
Alex Albrecht
White wine. We have a lovely chardonnay.
Kevin Rose
She's.
Alex Albrecht
Fuck.
Kevin Rose
Yeah. I'm going to switch out in a minute. But anyway, we've got some crazy stuff to talk about. Should we mention the big thing up top? Should we swap that and put that one up there? Because I think that's important.
Alex Albrecht
I agree. However, comma.
Kevin Rose
Okay.
Alex Albrecht
We forgot to talk about that. So I'm not sure what kind of that. What information is going to be or.
Kevin Rose
Just more of the reinforcement of the things.
Alex Albrecht
Oh, love it.
Kevin Rose
Oh, we can say Mixmaster Mike now.
Alex Albrecht
Oh, good. Did you like it?
Kevin Rose
He signed today.
Alex Albrecht
Why don't you tell him?
Kevin Rose
Okay, so we have a live dignation coming up at. It's going to be during. South by Southwest.
Alex Albrecht
Yes.
Kevin Rose
And I say during because we put on our ticket sales south by Southwest because we thought that's, like, you know, that's when it is.
Alex Albrecht
Yeah.
Kevin Rose
And they threatened to sue us.
Alex Albrecht
Do. Did they do.
Kevin Rose
I didn't show you that.
Alex Albrecht
No. But I remember this conversation. I remember this conversation back in the day.
Kevin Rose
Right.
Alex Albrecht
So it is going to be in the city of Austin, Texas, and things may be happening around that time.
Kevin Rose
Other conventions.
Alex Albrecht
Other conventions that are not associated with us, but we will be there to do a live show in the city of Austin.
Kevin Rose
Yes. We got a great venue. We're almost called the Mohawk or something. Mohawk. We're almost sold out of the VIP tickets.
Alex Albrecht
Oh, cool.
Kevin Rose
But it's so funny. We call them vip, but, like, really, all the tickets are amazing tickets. And I'm not just saying that because actually, when you're at the bottom floor, you actually get access to the stage, and then there's its own private bar off to the side and, like, bathrooms and, like, all kinds of night. It's a good venue for anyone and everyone.
Alex Albrecht
Yeah.
Kevin Rose
So tickets are selling very fast. We got Mixmaster Mike to announce today he is joining as our musical guest. We first met him. Mixed messages.
Alex Albrecht
Oh, screensavers.
Kevin Rose
Screensavers Back.
Alex Albrecht
What? Gosh, it was, like, 2005. Nope. 2004. That's how memory works.
Kevin Rose
Easy.
Alex Albrecht
Yeah, it was either. It was either October or. No, I think it was November of 2004, which. The craziest part is I only did 20 episodes. I was literally only there doing that show for four weeks. It feels like an eternity.
Kevin Rose
It does.
Alex Albrecht
And now I was prepping for two months ahead of time, but it was, like, crazy to think of how, like, it just. That would mean. It, like, taught me live television. It, like, taught me. I mean, it was the foundation of us getting together and doing the show for seven and a half years.
Kevin Rose
We had a great guest, too.
Alex Albrecht
Huge guest, dude. Nichelle Nichols, Stan Lee from Star Trek. Stan Lee. Oh, I forgot. Stan Lee came in.
Kevin Rose
Yeah, I interviewed him. I got a footage of that.
Alex Albrecht
That was so cool. Yeah. And Mixmaster Mike. It was really. It was a fun show. Yeah, it was a fun show. It was perfect for what we needed. Because, like, if we had continued doing the show, like, if that show had just sort of continued, I don't know where it would have gone. Yes, but it was that show that. I mean, you were. We were prepping the show when you came in and pitched me the idea on dig.com.
Kevin Rose
Right.
Alex Albrecht
Which was hysterical because I was just like, yeah, good luck. Cut to. I was like, man, I could have just given you money.
Kevin Rose
That was. That was pretty funny. And then. And then that obviously started dignation because that's how we met there and all that good stuff. But anyway, back to the show. Yes, it is March 8th. We now have. Go to dignation show. We have a link to the actual purchase the ticket. Tickets. 20 bucks gives you one drink of your choice. Non alcohol. It could be alcoholic. It can be semi alcoholic.
Alex Albrecht
They've got like little chicken fingers maybe. I don't know. Hello.
Kevin Rose
Like, whatever you want. Uh, and you can use that and get access to the event. Or we have a rooftop kind of like further up area that is a hundred bucks. And that's open bar, lounge area, all that good stuff. Which is almost sold out. So that would. It's funny how the VIP is like selling out faster than normal tickets, which I wouldn't have predicted.
Alex Albrecht
Not me. No, no.
Kevin Rose
But it's. It's crazy. So anyway, we have also a discount coupon code for hotel accommodations now live there as well. So.
Alex Albrecht
Amazing.
Kevin Rose
We have this like, basically a discounted rate and we're going to add more. Try to add more hotels as it goes on. But yeah, you could find pretty decently priced hotels out there. Come fly out. Take Southwest.
Alex Albrecht
Dude, I gotta get my tickets. And I was like, why wouldn't you just take Southwest?
Kevin Rose
No, it's. It's cheap. My sister is just flying out here actually to see me and she's taking Southwest. $114.
Alex Albrecht
Dude, it's great.
Kevin Rose
It's great.
Alex Albrecht
It's great.
Kevin Rose
Anyway, we'd love to see you. Love to hang out.
Alex Albrecht
And more details. Surprises.
Kevin Rose
More surprises. More guests that you won't want to miss. I'm telling you, this is going to be a wild, fun event on multiple fronts. Mostly because your mom will be there and don't. You can bleep that. Just bleep it this time. Don't make me talk like somebody else.
Alex Albrecht
No, don't make me talk. That was your part. That was your fault.
Kevin Rose
No, it was not me talking last episode. People thought it was me.
Alex Albrecht
That's amazing. No one thought it was you. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Kevin Rose
Okay. All right. So Anyway, come, because there's going to be fun stuff. I actually went to buy some Miller High Life cologne, which I said was going to. I was going to throw it to the crowd.
Alex Albrecht
Oh, amazing.
Kevin Rose
We're going to have some gifts to kind of like toss out to the crowd.
Alex Albrecht
Yeah, why wouldn't we?
Kevin Rose
The Miller High clone. I want to stay true to my word. The cheapest I could find was $150 on eBay.
Alex Albrecht
Amazing. And by the way, it's gl. So when you throw it, if somebody.
Kevin Rose
Doesn'T catch it, it's gonna be a box. Okay, you messed up one time. Remember when I drove the golf ball into the crowd? Almost killed someone.
Alex Albrecht
I do not.
Kevin Rose
You don't remember that?
Alex Albrecht
When was this?
Kevin Rose
I did a live show and we had that golf pro golfer there, and they set up a thing that was like a station. And granted, it was like one of those condensed squishy balls. And I was like, I'm gonna like. In my head, I'm like, I got my chipping wedge. I'm gonna put it up in the crowd.
Alex Albrecht
I have no memory of this.
Kevin Rose
Yeah, yeah. This is bad. So I go and I swing full force.
Alex Albrecht
I mean, I do remember you hitting or almost hitting somebody in the face in the crowd.
Kevin Rose
This was. This must have killed the woman in the face.
Alex Albrecht
Oh, that does sound weird.
Kevin Rose
And then I'm like, I get sued. And I like, slammed the golf club and like, handed it to her later. She was fine. It was like just a squishy ball.
Alex Albrecht
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Her face is just swollen. She's like, thanks, Kevin. Lip was bleeding.
Kevin Rose
No, it's good. Mr. Toast is.
Alex Albrecht
Hi, Toasties. Welcome back, buddy.
Kevin Rose
Anyway, dignation show. Please join us. It's gonna be so much fun. Get your tickets while you can.
Alex Albrecht
It's gonna be so crazy fun. Yeah.
Kevin Rose
We've got a couple extra guests and big announcements. Like at least 4ish that are gonna be will kind of slowly pepper out until March 8th.
Alex Albrecht
Yes. I mean, that's the thing too, is. Hey, buddy.
Kevin Rose
Made it.
Alex Albrecht
Yeah.
Kevin Rose
14.
Alex Albrecht
Geez, man. He is. He's trucking.
Kevin Rose
Yep.
Alex Albrecht
Yeah.
Kevin Rose
What are we gonna say?
Alex Albrecht
Nope.
Kevin Rose
Holiday plants. New Year's Eve.
Alex Albrecht
What about you, sir? What are you doing for your holidays? We are. Mine's gonna be fast, man. We're doing an up and back. We're going straight down. I know. It's big. It's crazy. Don't. Don't make yourself barf. Yeah.
Kevin Rose
He's okay. It just takes a second. Yeah, there we go.
Alex Albrecht
Dude. Bro, it's just like me waking up every morning. Yeah. Doing a quick up and back. We're going down to Orange county to see my sister and my whole sort of side of the family on Christmas Eve. Spending the night, Christmas morning with the kitties, nieces and nephews. And then we're up to other place in Orange county to see her nieces and nephews, her brother do Christmas Day, spend the night, and then we're back home.
Kevin Rose
Jesus.
Alex Albrecht
Lickety splicity.
Kevin Rose
Yeah, I'm staying here.
Alex Albrecht
Really? Yeah.
Kevin Rose
I'm saying. Well, sadly, my mom can't travel, which is a huge bummer.
Alex Albrecht
Oh, man.
Kevin Rose
She's got some eye issue stuff going on. So my sister's gonna come in, I'm gonna see her, and then I'm gonna go at some time in January in Vegas and go spend some time with her.
Alex Albrecht
Just getting up there.
Kevin Rose
But yeah, so lots going on New Year's Eve.
Alex Albrecht
Any plans?
Kevin Rose
No plans. I'm trying to be good.
Alex Albrecht
About what?
Kevin Rose
Drinking.
Alex Albrecht
Oh, we talked about this.
Kevin Rose
Tell people what your plan is for. We're only going to drink during Divination.
Alex Albrecht
Yeah.
Kevin Rose
Yeah, that's our plan for next month.
Alex Albrecht
So my wife and I are doing dry January. We basically do it every year.
Kevin Rose
Damp.
Alex Albrecht
And then now, as Kevin coined it, damp. Uary, which I love that coin term. So essentially I'm. My wife and I are not going to drink during January. However, comma, for the. For the grams for you guys out there. I can't not do it on dignation, so. But I think we're only going to do two episodes.
Kevin Rose
Yeah.
Alex Albrecht
So it's like two days out of 31 days.
Kevin Rose
There should be some crazy episodes, though.
Alex Albrecht
Oh, yeah. Because it'll just be like.
Kevin Rose
Like a glass and a half is going to put his, like just completely.
Alex Albrecht
Dude, it's just. Yeah.
Kevin Rose
The tolerance use resolutions. I don't really have that many this year.
Alex Albrecht
Do you do them?
Kevin Rose
Are you known to do them? I'm known to write them down.
Alex Albrecht
Yeah. I feel like every time I look back at mine, I'm like, huh? Really? That's what I wanted to do. You know what I mean?
Kevin Rose
What I hate is mine are always the same. Every year.
Alex Albrecht
Travel more.
Kevin Rose
No, it's not travel. Mine's more like travel less, learn a new language.
Alex Albrecht
Learn a new language.
Kevin Rose
It's like on there, like, drink less, learn a new language, get in shape.
Alex Albrecht
It's the same shit. Well, let's do this. How about we challenge each other to come up with. Cause the next time we're recording, I think is just into January.
Kevin Rose
Okay.
Alex Albrecht
So let's challenge ourselves now to come up with some out of the box but achievable. Cause that's the thing for me. I feel like I always do these, like, big, grand things. I want to finish my pilot's license, and then I take the plane up and I go, this is boring. It's not my cup of tea.
Kevin Rose
You had a good time?
Alex Albrecht
I mean, I. Yes. It's just. I'm not like, I can pilot. I can pilot. And there's part of it enjoyable. But I don't. I don't like the hobby part of it is I don't. I've yet to sort of figure, besides video games. Like, I've yet to kind of get that thing of, like, this is that hobby that I'm, like, super into. And I like. Anyway, all this is to say, let's get some. Put some New Year's resolutions. Thank you, Toasty. Let's get some New Year's resolutions that are a little more out of the box. And then we'll tell the audience and they can like, next time around. Yeah, okay.
Kevin Rose
Next time around. Not now.
Alex Albrecht
No, because we want to think about it. I mean. Yeah, yeah.
Kevin Rose
Okay. Sounds good.
Alex Albrecht
It's also. It's like. It's just. It's like mid December. It's not even Christmas. I should. I don't want to think about New Year's resolutions.
Kevin Rose
We'll figure out some resolutions and we'll see if you can keep them with us. Actually, my little slack group, they have a lot of resolutions going on. We have a little channel dedicated to New Year's resolutions.
Alex Albrecht
That's cool.
Kevin Rose
Some good ones in there, though.
Alex Albrecht
I think that's good. By the way, I need a new computer.
Kevin Rose
Yes, we need to get you a proper computer. This is a resolution.
Alex Albrecht
This is from 2016. And I only use it on Dignation.
Kevin Rose
I have a MacBook Mini.
Alex Albrecht
What is that?
Kevin Rose
Sorry? Not a Mac Mini. A Mac Mini.
Alex Albrecht
Just that?
Kevin Rose
Yes.
Alex Albrecht
So you want me to carry a mouse, a keyboard, and a monitor? I can just fucking pull up fucking Stephen Hawking, the whole thing and just come up and be like, hey, here we go. Let's fucking go. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I just use AI to generate my voice.
Kevin Rose
I mean, I was just saying, like, creative solutions. We don't have these ad sponsors yet.
Alex Albrecht
Yeah.
Kevin Rose
So maybe we just give you a Mac Mini.
Alex Albrecht
I can just do like a backpack and like a fucking VR headset and be like, hi, everybody. Cameras? Yeah. Camera sensors.
Kevin Rose
Yeah, I do want those.
Alex Albrecht
It'd be like Justin tv, right?
Kevin Rose
Yeah, that's right.
Alex Albrecht
Back in the day, pre Twitch, we'll.
Kevin Rose
Get you a new computer.
Alex Albrecht
I mean, I can buy a new computer. I just. Now it's like. Cause also, like, I will say PC laptops. It's just so dumb. Easy to buy a Mac laptop. You know what I mean? You don't have to think about it. You just go, do I want the light one or the really powerful one? And do I wanna spend half of my yearly income or a third of my yearly income on a PC? You know what I mean? But with a PC, it's like everybody's gotta have their bells and whistles to be like, oh, no, come and get the Lenovo because we've got this new touchpad sensitization. And you're like, but I don't. I just want the fucking co. Like, sleek, cool. I know Windows PC that just works.
Kevin Rose
So I have one Windows computer that I have because I want to play with the latest AI from Copilot. I want to see what they're doing on the Windows side. Like, it's kind of a job thing. So I got one of these, the Lenovo's like the ThinkPads or whatever. You know, I got one of those. And it has like that little thumb, the finger thing that. Where it's like encrypts your hard drive and shit.
Alex Albrecht
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Kevin Rose
But then I'm like, I just like, what if I move computers like this? Encrypting it. What, that sensor breaks?
Alex Albrecht
Yeah. Oh, no. What do you do?
Kevin Rose
It's just like, it's so. And they take forever to boot up. Anyway, I ended up getting at the Microsoft Surface Pro laptop. Oh, interesting laptop. And it's an ARM based chip. Oh, so it's like not intel, huh? And it's fast and the battery life's great. It's got Wi Fi 7, which I have here at the house now, so I get like faster WI fi speeds. Ooh, yeah.
Alex Albrecht
That's crazy. I got to upgrade my fucking WI fi. Stop saying things that are good.
Kevin Rose
Yeah, it's.
Alex Albrecht
Dude, it's not.
Kevin Rose
How fast is your home WI fi though? Are your plug like, like wired?
Alex Albrecht
Gigabit fiber?
Kevin Rose
Wait, just one gig?
Alex Albrecht
Yeah, that's all I need, man. What am I downloading and uploading a gigabit nothing gig for what?
Kevin Rose
Streaming. Downloading.
Alex Albrecht
Streaming. Do you know how you 4k?
Kevin Rose
What if you have to download something really big? It takes software updates.
Alex Albrecht
15 minutes. That doesn't even take 15 minutes. Takes like five minutes.
Kevin Rose
Well, mine takes three minutes, so. Well, check out the speed test, though. So this is the speed test on.
Alex Albrecht
Oh, on the WI fi.
Kevin Rose
Yeah, on WI fi.
Alex Albrecht
See, now I gotta upgrade my goddamn WI fi.
Kevin Rose
And that's what. That's with Wi Fi 7. And this, this doesn't even have Wi Fi 7 built. Does it have Wi Fi 1? They have 5. WiFi 7.
Alex Albrecht
What is that, the iPhone?
Kevin Rose
Yeah, I think it does. Yeah. Because I'm getting 957.
Alex Albrecht
Is that 16?
Kevin Rose
It's a new one.
Alex Albrecht
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, I guess. All right, let me just put New Year's residue. Buy all new Wire 557.
Kevin Rose
Do you use Ubiquiti at home? I gotta get you a ubiquity.
Alex Albrecht
I haven't. I haven't done that. I have like Orbos or something like that.
Kevin Rose
Orbo Orbi. That's pretty good. I like the Orbos. Is it Arbos?
Alex Albrecht
No.
Kevin Rose
O, o R. Oh, the Orbos.
Alex Albrecht
Yeah. It's like Netgear.
Kevin Rose
Yeah, Yeah. I don't do that.
Alex Albrecht
Orbee. Well, yeah, I mean, ubiquit.
Kevin Rose
I got ubiquity. Do you have cameras at your house?
Alex Albrecht
Yeah, we do ring cameras.
Kevin Rose
Okay, I gotta get you on ubiquity cameras.
Alex Albrecht
I mean, see, this is the thing. We're redoing our kitchen, which by the way is like. We just bought all of our appliances. Woo. Our American Express bill after the holidays is gonna be like, heyo, going on a trip.
Kevin Rose
You should get 4% cash back.
Alex Albrecht
I should get that?
Kevin Rose
Yeah.
Alex Albrecht
On how? What?
Kevin Rose
The US bank card that they just came out with.
Alex Albrecht
Yeah, but I like the points.
Kevin Rose
Yeah, the points for travel. That's good.
Alex Albrecht
Yeah. But anyway, so long story short, we're gonna do in ceiling speakers and then we're gonna connect it to a new Sonos driver. And so then we're redoing all of our Sonos stuff. Oh, but the new house, that's. Oh, you.
Kevin Rose
Ubiquity's got that new thing too.
Alex Albrecht
See? Give it to me.
Kevin Rose
They have it all. They have like the. They have the Sonos competitor now. It's supposed to be better.
Alex Albrecht
Ubiquity does.
Kevin Rose
Ubiquity does. Yeah, it's like they're the drivers and everything. I gotta show it to you, dude. You should try it before. Just go buy it. You go. 30 day return policy.
Alex Albrecht
Done.
Kevin Rose
This is my. My mic fell off now during the thing, so I don't know if it still sounds good or not. I mean, does that sound okay? Yeah, yeah. Sweet. All right. So.
Alex Albrecht
All right, let's get into it, shall we?
Kevin Rose
Let's do it.
Alex Albrecht
Okay. This is super fun. Talked a little bit about Star wars last episode because of us going getting invited to the premiere of Andor Season 2, which we are so freaking excited about. Jeremy Allen White. You guys may know him from the Bear, the TV show the Bear. He was also in that wrestling movie. What was that wrestling movie called about the. The early wrestlers, anyway?
Kevin Rose
Early WWF stuff.
Alex Albrecht
Yeah, yeah.
Kevin Rose
Okay.
Alex Albrecht
Pre WWE or pre wwf. I can't remember what it was called. Ironclaw. Iron Claw. Thank you. Great movie. Like, I mean, super intense. I watched it on a plane. I was like, fuck me. I didn't know this was what this movie was. Anyway, Jeremy Allen White, great actor. He is now officially joining the Star wars universe. He is going to be in the Mandalorian and Grogu movie, which is interesting that they're even making a Mandalorian and Grogu movie. But I'm excited because I love the Mandalorian and Grogu's Grogu the best. But the crazy thing is they announced that his character is actually going to be Jabba the Hutt's son.
Kevin Rose
What?
Alex Albrecht
Jabba the Hutt's son's son. Rota. The Hutt.
Kevin Rose
Rota.
Alex Albrecht
So here's the question.
Kevin Rose
Who's the wife?
Alex Albrecht
Jabba's wife.
Kevin Rose
Yeah.
Alex Albrecht
Jabba has many wives. He's Jabba the Hutt.
Kevin Rose
There's gotta be some lore around this. Who's the wife or the partner? Whatever.
Alex Albrecht
I'm sure there is somewhere in canon or off shadow.
Kevin Rose
Jabba the Hutt. Wife, partner.
Alex Albrecht
So this is the thing. How is.
Kevin Rose
Jabba the Hutt doesn't have a wife.
Alex Albrecht
In canon or Legends, but there's some.
Kevin Rose
Theories that he was in a relationship with Gardula the Hut.
Alex Albrecht
I mean, I wanted to pull up Gardoola.
Kevin Rose
Is she hot?
Alex Albrecht
She's not really.
Kevin Rose
Yeah, but who, like, what is a hot.
Alex Albrecht
Look at that. She's kind of hot.
Kevin Rose
Look at that, dude.
Alex Albrecht
Oh, God. Show. Okay.
Kevin Rose
Hello.
Alex Albrecht
Show the people at home what Gradula the Hutt could potentially look like.
Kevin Rose
I mean, she's kind of like.
Alex Albrecht
She's got something.
Kevin Rose
I could see how. I could see how he could be into her. That's all I can say.
Alex Albrecht
I mean, she's more attractive than Jabba.
Kevin Rose
She's more attractive than Jabba.
Alex Albrecht
That's very clear.
Kevin Rose
And she's feminine. She's got curves. She's got curves.
Alex Albrecht
I mean, so does he, but not in a good way. Here's the thing. TBD and I have a theory, but TBD is because they do. They did have some Huts show up in Mandalorian. Oh, no. Was that the Mandalorian or was it. I think it might have been the book of Boba Fett. I think it was the book of Boba Fett. But we have seen Huts that aren't Jabba in this live action world of the TV shows. But here's my thing. What if he's adopted the child hut? The child hut? Yeah. What if Roto the Hutt is brought on board to be Jabba's son because he's such a badass like, cartel guy?
Kevin Rose
Why? How does this play into any of the universe?
Alex Albrecht
I'm just saying, then you don't have to have him hud ized. Oh, then he could be Jeremy Allen White playing either a human or any of the other species that are sort of humanoid. Oh, he is.
Kevin Rose
Yeah. That doesn't look like a human.
Alex Albrecht
That first off, that looks like a Smash them all. Like that does. So if Rhoda's already canon, then, then, then she's gonna. Then he's gonna be hudded up. So then it's like. Is it just him playing the voice then? Like, that's cool. But like.
Kevin Rose
Yeah, it's not the same though. You don't get any of his features or any. Like it's basically someone behind the.
Alex Albrecht
Or they would like make him look more like. Oh, my God. By the way, I saw this really interesting article about. I think it was in Variety as well, about the advent of what they called beautiful rat boys.
Kevin Rose
What is that?
Alex Albrecht
Jeremy Allen White, Timothy Chalamet. There's like this list of these actors that are like the new hot actors in Hollywood. And Variety called them the beautiful rat boys.
Kevin Rose
Like, they look like rats or like the Rat Pack.
Alex Albrecht
Yeah, no, like they look like they have rodent esque features that like, instead of like the chiseled Robert De Niro brat. Oh, like this new. Yes, that's another one. Yep. Hot rod Hot rodent boyfriends.
Kevin Rose
What the fuck is going on?
Alex Albrecht
But if you think about it, you're like, there are these sort of like rat like people. Rat like people. But they're. I don't know if I would say rat, but it just like, it's like, man, I know, but like, how are you doing? These guys so bad. These are like the new hot guys.
Kevin Rose
That's fair. Everybody should have their. Their time in.
Alex Albrecht
In the sun.
Kevin Rose
It's the. It's the time of the rats.
Alex Albrecht
It's the time of the rat. It's the year. Maybe it's the Chinese calendar. Maybe it's The Year of the Rat. Anyway, long story long. We are. I'm super excited. I think Jeremy Allen White is a brilliant, fantastic actor. I've loved almost everything he's been in. I say almost because I never watched Shameful, but I've heard only good things. But to be coming into the Star wars universe, I mean, we just got Shameless. Shameless, Yeah. I did not watch it, but he was. I've seen clips, and he's great. But we did just get what's his butt. Jude Law is now in Star wars in Skeleton Crew, which is super charming. Skeleton Crew is, like, adorable. It's 80s, it's Goonies. It's, you know, Treasure Island. It's all the things. Nick Frost is so good as SM88 or SM33, which, by the way, SM33 and SMEE, because Smee was Captain Hook, second in Command. So, like, SM33. It's basically SMEE. Yeah. Great, right? Brilliant. Brilliant. There's so many cool things. I mean, it's. It's a kid show, and it's very kiddie at times, but I think the kids are really cute. Neil is adorable. But also now we have, you know.
Kevin Rose
Would have what, another Jude Law in.
Alex Albrecht
The Star wars universe. And now we're gonna have Jeremy Allen White in the Star wars universe. Like, it feels cool that we're bringing all these, you know, really great actors and actresses, but it also seems like.
Kevin Rose
There'S finally been, like, a reboot in terms of, like, some of the finally, like, the Star wars shows again are starting to kick ass.
Alex Albrecht
Oh, yeah.
Kevin Rose
There was, like, a little dead period there.
Alex Albrecht
Well, they did.
Kevin Rose
You know what I'm talking about?
Alex Albrecht
Yeah. I mean, I kind of got turned.
Kevin Rose
Off of it for a while. Yeah.
Alex Albrecht
Obi Wan was not great. I mean, I love all the things that they tried to do, and I love Ewan McGregor, but, like, it just felt very not great. And then I enjoyed Ahsoka. I think the character that they made, Ahsoka, is very. Not the character that Ahsoka was in the animated series. But also, like, there's so much good. There was a lot of good. I mean, I'm fucking. I cannot believe. Oh, my God. I'm, like, literally missing people's names. I'm, like, staring at him as Ray. Not Ray Winstone. Oh. Who's the guy that played the bad guy in Ahsoka who just passed away? Good God, dude, I gotta look it up.
Kevin Rose
We got this email.
Alex Albrecht
My brain.
Kevin Rose
We got this email from this guy.
Alex Albrecht
That was like, alex, brain doesn't work.
Kevin Rose
It's so great to see you guys not be able to remember things.
Alex Albrecht
Oh, dude.
Kevin Rose
Makes me feel better. Like, we're all, like, so old. Can't even remember, like, half the we're trying to bring up. It's. It's bad.
Alex Albrecht
Yeah, dude, It's. It's not. Not Admiral Thought not.
Kevin Rose
We're gonna cut this whole piece.
Alex Albrecht
I know. Just get. Wait for it. Oh, there it is.
Kevin Rose
We'll act like you remembered it the whole time.
Alex Albrecht
Yeah. Thank you. I appreciate. Appreciate it all.
Kevin Rose
Jump back and then act like you remember it. So we could, like. But we want to say this too. And then we just, like, jump into where he, like, remembered it. Yeah, let's pretend like I love it. I love it.
Alex Albrecht
I love it. Okay, good.
Kevin Rose
Yeah.
Alex Albrecht
Yeah. Okay, good, good, good.
Kevin Rose
But maybe you want to show some of the stuff that we said that.
Alex Albrecht
Okay. Okay. Here we go.
Kevin Rose
Yeah.
Alex Albrecht
You know, that guy is so great. And Ahsoka, who passed away, was so sad. Ray Stevenson.
Kevin Rose
Oh, Ray Stevenson, of course. Yeah.
Alex Albrecht
One of the many punishers.
Kevin Rose
Yeah. So good.
Alex Albrecht
Also Rome. He was the best in Rome.
Kevin Rose
Yeah.
Alex Albrecht
Anyway, I'm just now just saying things that I like.
Kevin Rose
Yeah.
Alex Albrecht
Toaster.
Kevin Rose
It's a good boy.
Alex Albrecht
Yeah. Anyway, so super excited. Excited to see what. What comes of this movie. I mean, I love all the people that are working on it. It's great, actually. Bowled with David Filoni.
Kevin Rose
I feel like you're just like. Like, angling for a role. Like you want to be him.
Alex Albrecht
Look, here's the thing I want to say. Everybody that works, here's the thing I'm gonna say. If I'm an Alpha, you're ready for this. I'm ready for this. This is what I'm gonna say. I have come to a very good realization.
Kevin Rose
You'd be a good Obi Wan.
Alex Albrecht
That I am not a great actor.
Kevin Rose
No, what are you talking about?
Alex Albrecht
I am a great television host.
Kevin Rose
Yeah, but you're good.
Alex Albrecht
I'm a great. Bullshit. You'd be a good Obi Wan good at improv acting. I've seen myself enough to go, nah. And that's why I sort of stopped doing it, because I was like, if I was a director, I'd hire a better actor than me.
Kevin Rose
Really?
Alex Albrecht
Yeah. Which is okay. I think that's fine.
Kevin Rose
Yourself, though.
Alex Albrecht
I watched a line like, give yourself a line. Yeah. I mean, no, like.
Kevin Rose
Like, give me a line like somebody just passed away. Like, so.
Alex Albrecht
But that's improv.
Kevin Rose
Oh, okay. So you can do.
Alex Albrecht
That's different. Very, very good at improv.
Kevin Rose
Oh, okay.
Alex Albrecht
Yeah. So what's happening when I get like, if I have to read lines.
Kevin Rose
Oh, I see it just.
Alex Albrecht
Even though I know what I'm like, I want like, oh, yeah. I should be like, this, that, and then I do it and I'm like, that's fucking. That's not.
Kevin Rose
I. I'm horrible at that stuff, so I feel you.
Alex Albrecht
But anyway.
Kevin Rose
All right.
Alex Albrecht
Also, if you wanted to put me in your movie, I mean, I'm. I'm available.
Kevin Rose
Yes.
Alex Albrecht
And we'll do it. So will I. I have actually, there's in coming in. You're gonna have to stick with me for a while, but in November, I got to do some stuff for a friend.
Kevin Rose
Predator?
Alex Albrecht
Nah.
Kevin Rose
Are you one of the predators?
Alex Albrecht
Nah. By the way. By the way, if you go back and watch Dan's. If you go back and watch Dan's first short film that he. I mean, not his first short film, but the one that, like, broke in Portal, where it was the short film based on Portal, the video game. Dan Trachtenberg, just for reference and look back.
Kevin Rose
Portal.
Alex Albrecht
Dan Trachtenberg on YouTube. It's got like a bazillion views. I'm guard number two.
Kevin Rose
No way.
Alex Albrecht
And if you watch, you get royalties for that shit. If you watch. I feel like I'm the better guard. Like. Like, I. You can tell. No, no, I was just. I was just running after the chick.
Kevin Rose
I would love to be guard number two on something. It was the best.
Alex Albrecht
Yeah, it was the super fun. I just got fed up in, like, a guard outfit and ran around.
Kevin Rose
I love that.
Alex Albrecht
Yeah. Anyway, so I'm guard number two. You can see me in there if you watch the. If you watch the thing. Okay.
Kevin Rose
All right, let's move on.
Alex Albrecht
Next story.
Kevin Rose
This story is mind blowingly cool slash scary slash awesome, which is my favorite type of story for a dignation OpenAI. Have you read anything about this, by the way?
Alex Albrecht
I have not. I've seen people start talking about it and then I just sort of moved. Moved past.
Kevin Rose
OpenAI announces its new O3 model.
Alex Albrecht
Okay, now is this the one That's. That's.
Kevin Rose
There was 001, but didn't they announce. Oh, two.
Alex Albrecht
Didn't they announce. Well, they. They just didn't release it.
Kevin Rose
No, no, they skipped it because it was a trademark violation with the mobile carrier.
Alex Albrecht
Oh, yeah.
Kevin Rose
They came out and said that. Yeah.
Alex Albrecht
I mean, okay, well, that's not as fun as. Yeah, secretly somewhere There is an O2. And it's so good. They were like, let's dumb it down and put it out as 03. Yeah, but I did also see that, didn't they add like a pro.
Kevin Rose
Yes.
Alex Albrecht
Monthly thing that has access to some, maybe some of this, but not, not fully.
Kevin Rose
So I'll explain it all. So, so here's what, you know, the. Everyone's pushing towards this AGI, right. Like how do we get to true artificial like generalized intelligence? Like real, like a machine that can, that learns self learning and all that.
Alex Albrecht
You know, makes sense and is going to take over the planet and murder us all.
Kevin Rose
Okay.
Alex Albrecht
So I'm glad that we're running towards that so fast.
Kevin Rose
We're trying as fast as we can to get there. So basically what's happened is they have these benchmarks for how they, they challenge and test AI.
Alex Albrecht
Yeah.
Kevin Rose
And they always look for these like. Okay, well step functions are like how, how much of a leap are we making with each new model release? Okay.
Alex Albrecht
Yes.
Kevin Rose
So they gave it coding benchmark, they gave it a standard math benchmark and it jumped like 20% on both those. Which is substantial.
Alex Albrecht
Yeah.
Kevin Rose
Okay. Everyone's happy about that. Blah, blah. Now there is a couple other things that are these benchmarks that are even harder.
Alex Albrecht
Okay.
Kevin Rose
So one of them is around novel math problems that have either have unpublished results so we know the answers to them, but they haven't been published yet.
Alex Albrecht
Okay.
Kevin Rose
So it actually has to figure out what the answer is.
Alex Albrecht
I love that.
Kevin Rose
And they say even for like the best world class mathematicians, it can take either hours or days for a human to solve these problems.
Alex Albrecht
Sure.
Kevin Rose
So up until this point, they've run all models against this particular set of problems.
Alex Albrecht
Yeah.
Kevin Rose
It's been less than 2% accurate up until this point. Whoa.
Alex Albrecht
So less than 2% of the time.
Kevin Rose
It can actually solve correctly.
Alex Albrecht
Hey, we figured this thing out and otherwise it just. Otherwise it's like. Is it 17?
Kevin Rose
Yeah, exactly. It's like 23.
Alex Albrecht
23 to get there.
Kevin Rose
Yeah, it just makes it up. So here's the deal, here's what happened. The new one, okay? This new O3 gets it over 25% of the time now. Okay.
Alex Albrecht
Nice, big, big jump.
Kevin Rose
Now this is the craziest one. They have this test called the ARC AGI test. Okay.
Alex Albrecht
Okay.
Kevin Rose
And this is a very special one because what it does is it tests the model's ability to learn new skills on the fly. So it's not like looking into its back kind of like corpus of data per se to find like the solution to a pre recorded thing.
Alex Albrecht
Got it.
Kevin Rose
But they introduced new mechanics and say solve this problem on the fly. Okay. So version 0.1, which came out five years ago, has been like the gold standard for this stuff. Okay. In the last five years, all of the models that they have have run against it have had about from 0 to 5% accuracy in its ability to actually solve these problems. So somewhere between 0 and 5%.
Alex Albrecht
So, yeah. Okay. Okay.
Kevin Rose
So 01 comes out, right?
Alex Albrecht
Yep.
Kevin Rose
They run it against it on what's called low compute, which is like, you can. You can do the problem, but it's not going to cost you a ton of money. Like, they're giving enough compute to it, but not insane amounts of compute.
Alex Albrecht
The floodgates were not open, right? Yeah.
Kevin Rose
So with O1 was the first time it jumped up to 25%. Okay.
Alex Albrecht
Ooh.
Kevin Rose
Now O3, low compute, it jumped up to 20 or 75%.
Alex Albrecht
75%, yeah.
Kevin Rose
Now get this.
Alex Albrecht
Oh, boy.
Kevin Rose
A human is 85% is what a human can do. Okay. Now they gave it the high compute version of O3.
Alex Albrecht
Oh, no.
Kevin Rose
And for the first time ever, it surpassed the human at 87.5% in terms of its reasoning ability and around novel new problems. First time ever. Okay. So we win from 01, which is 25% to 85% in like a year.
Alex Albrecht
This is the craziest shit. There's more?
Kevin Rose
Yeah. So there's more.
Alex Albrecht
All right, Ron Papil, hit me up. But wait, there's more.
Kevin Rose
So let me. Let me. Let me walk you through the timeline.
Alex Albrecht
Okay?
Kevin Rose
GPT 2, 2019, 0% in this model.
Alex Albrecht
Okay.
Kevin Rose
GPT 3, 2020 0%. GPT 4. We all remember that came out 2023. 2%. GPT 4. Oh, remember that came out 2024. 5% 01 Preview 2024 21% 01 High 2024 32% 01 Pro 2024. 50% 03 Tuned Low 2024. 76% 03 Tuned High 24. 87%. We're talking from 2019 going from 0% to 2024, now surpassing a human for the first time.
Alex Albrecht
But also 2024 going from 5%.
Kevin Rose
Right.
Alex Albrecht
To 87.5, whatever you said, in the same fucking year.
Kevin Rose
So now. But get this. This is where it gets crazy. So what they have is these models where you can say, okay, I'm going to either apply low, medium, or high compute to the problem.
Alex Albrecht
Yeah.
Kevin Rose
What they're talking about for this model is they're saying because the high compute version can cost thousands of dollars to compute it for one question.
Alex Albrecht
So.
Kevin Rose
But get this. This makes me rethink AI altogether because We've always been the AI that we know today is very much like, I pay $20 a month. Give me the answer to, like, this movie or whatever. Right.
Alex Albrecht
Who did this movie or whatever.
Kevin Rose
Exactly.
Alex Albrecht
Well, what movie?
Kevin Rose
It's like, you're not giving enough information.
Alex Albrecht
That'd be funny. Just wait until we're like, what's that movie I'm thinking about? So this is where Ray Stevenson.
Kevin Rose
Well, this is where the funny thing is, like, they're gonna have these options for High compute in the future. We'll have to, like, click a button and give it, like two grand to go figure something out. That's how you have a fuck with your friends. Like, you go to their house, you know, their chat GPT is open. Yeah, yeah, go watch this, you dick. High compute.
Alex Albrecht
It's gonna be. It's gonna be the new. It's gonna be the new Alexa buy and ship, that thing.
Kevin Rose
Yeah, exactly.
Alex Albrecht
No, no, no, no, no.
Kevin Rose
Yeah, and it'll be like high compute and you.
Alex Albrecht
Some giant philosophical question or just something.
Kevin Rose
Stupid about your friend. Yeah, exactly. So this is crazy, though, because this is the first time where they've said they've surpassed humans in its ability to reason.
Alex Albrecht
Yeah, but here's the fucking craziest part. That's just the shit they're telling us about.
Kevin Rose
Right, Right.
Alex Albrecht
That's just the shit that they're letting people know about.
Kevin Rose
Right, exactly.
Alex Albrecht
I mean, it's like back to like, the drones that are over New Jersey, where it's like, what is up with that?
Kevin Rose
Do we know yet?
Alex Albrecht
I mean, I think, yes, we do know what it is. It's military drones that we're testing because they said that there was a fly area for drone testing. That is exactly where this is all happening. And the government basically came out, the Defense Department came out and was like, it's fine. They were like, well, is it you? And they were like, it's fine. Nobody has to worry about it. It's fine.
Kevin Rose
Shut down jfk, though.
Alex Albrecht
Well, because again, you think about it, it's like a bomb threat, right? So if all of a sudden 50 people call, you know, FAA and go, there's crazy. Out into the flight.
Kevin Rose
Oh, wait, hold on. Pentagon just came out and said that they.
Alex Albrecht
Shocking news.
Kevin Rose
Department of Defense doubles down, saying drones are not military assets.
Alex Albrecht
Sure, but wouldn't you also say that. Wouldn't you say that if someone saw.
Kevin Rose
The sine Lawrence on porto. The question is, why would the military test around. Yeah, exactly.
Alex Albrecht
It would interfere with fa. Okay, so here's the other thing. This Is the other thing. Half of it could be explained away as you walk out. We're here in la, you walk outside, you see something in the sky and you go, that's weird, right? My gut doesn't go drone. My gut. I mean, believe me, when I was a kid, there were swallows out and I was like, I think I'm seeing fucking aliens for the first time ever. And was like, those are just fucking birds, you know?
Kevin Rose
Right, right.
Alex Albrecht
But now all of a sudden, everybody's talking about these weird drone sightings over Los Angeles. You walk out the door and you see a plane and it's got a weird cloud cover and it's hitting weird and it's like, that's. I've never seen a plane look like that. That must be one of those fucking drones, you know what I mean? So I think there's a, there's a chunk of that that is people just being like, I'm looking for drones subconsciously now over New Jersey.
Kevin Rose
Oh, 100%.
Alex Albrecht
Because like there was the one picture that was like, that's a fucking crazy ass drone. And then someone over a United Airlines and it was like the exact place where the fucking navigation lights would be. And it looks exactly. You know what I mean? Same size.
Kevin Rose
Well, who cares if it's a drone?
Alex Albrecht
Well, the thing is that people go, it's a drone, AKA or it's something we don't know. Or it's aliens. Everybody just goes, it's aliens.
Kevin Rose
Yeah, that's the problem. People think it's. But why would aliens. Although if you're an alien and you want to like disguise yourself, why not look like a plane?
Alex Albrecht
I mean, to be fair, if I can make a disc hover and go all over the place, why wouldn't I just make my ship look like a plane?
Kevin Rose
Oh, that's amazing. Then you just have like aliens and you'd never know. You're like, oh, it's in United Airlines or Southwest. It's painted that way.
Alex Albrecht
Oh my God. If we come to find out that chemtrails are actually like the way you differentiate between an alien spaceship that is dressed up to look like a frickin British Airways transatlantic flight. Yeah, that would be amazing. Yeah, because if they're smart enough to make these crazy things and not be discovered for this long, they're smart enough to go, maybe we shouldn't look like a fucking flying sphere of energy. You know what I mean?
Kevin Rose
Yeah. What do you think the odds are that there's actually aliens coming to visit us? Man, I'm at 90% right now. I think we're gonna figure this out in the next few years. Dude, there's too much weird shit.
Alex Albrecht
Think of AI.
Kevin Rose
Have you seen all the videos? I know there's AI now, but like, have you seen all the videos? Like there's so much weird stuff that's being captured now. I just can't imagine, like this isn't just like some kind of reflection shit.
Alex Albrecht
Like, I mean, there's no. I agree. There are definitely. Ah, yeah. I mean, look, I hope that would be cool because, you know, like, you know, the Watchmen maybe would make us all not murder each other so much. You know what I mean?
Kevin Rose
I don't know. They'll probably attack them.
Alex Albrecht
Well, that of course is gonna happen because we're idiots. Yeah, the human species is idiots.
Kevin Rose
Yeah.
Alex Albrecht
No matter how smart you are. Right. You know what I mean? It's like that great line from Men in Black. Oh God, I'm gonna murder it. It's. He's talking. He was like, yeah, he was like, why don't you just tell people that aliens exist? And he was like, a person is smart people are dumb, stupid creatures that are prone to violence. And I was like, oh, that's an interesting way to put it. Like a person is smart people are scared. Yeah, yeah.
Kevin Rose
They can just like freak each other out.
Alex Albrecht
Didn't Hawking say to stop the SETI.
Kevin Rose
Project because he was afraid that essentially the aliens willing to follow the signal and come to us are the advanced.
Alex Albrecht
Species that are looking for meals, things that dominate. Yeah, I mean, yeah. I don't know.
Kevin Rose
Yeah, someone said it shut down. Yeah, it's a great point. We were sending out a lot of signals to be like, hey, come find us.
Alex Albrecht
Well, that was the whole, the whole thing behind that three body problem, which was super weird show, not so great. It was all right, but book great. Yeah. Was that we sent a signal and the aliens were like on our way.
Kevin Rose
Oh, is that what happened?
Alex Albrecht
Oh yeah. I was like, we're coming to dominate. We'll be there in 10,000 years or whatever.
Kevin Rose
I. I think AI is gonna actually help us figure this shit out because I mean analyze all this stuff.
Alex Albrecht
I will say I think, I think the thing. Look, I think, you know, way more waymo cars driving me around without a driver. You know, the frickin, you know my ask a question out loud in the house and it just answers it. Like that's all cool. Like that's all coming. You know what I mean? Like AI to solve this, AI to solve that. Like that's all coming. I think the thing that I'm really excited about is the stuff that noodles all the smartest people on the planet's brains, about quantum mechanics, about the actual makeup of the universe, about near light travel or faster than light travel, space exploration, all of that stuff. Having these really outside of the box thinking solutions that we get from these AIs. That, to me, is the thing that I'm most excited about.
Kevin Rose
I think that's what gets unlocked here.
Alex Albrecht
Right, because that's what I'm saying.
Kevin Rose
85% equals human. And we're at 87.5 in 10 years when this is like 700% or 10,000%. It's like it's reasoning ability is just going to be like, you know, we invent new shit by just like connecting these dots in weird ways.
Alex Albrecht
Yeah, yeah.
Kevin Rose
It's going to be able to do that in order of magnitude or more better than any human can.
Alex Albrecht
Yeah.
Kevin Rose
And we're gonna have so many breakthroughs on so many frontiers. It's gonna be awesome.
Alex Albrecht
Yeah, that's what, that's what I'm thinking about. And it will kill us. It will kill us, but in a nice kind way. Cause it'll learn how to kill us humanely, which is very nice of it.
Kevin Rose
I'm kind of down with that.
Alex Albrecht
You wouldn't be just being killed. No, no, no. En masse.
Kevin Rose
If it's like, listen, like checkmate, you know, it's like you can either rack GPUs or you can rack GPUs or we're gonna put you out. Yeah, I'd probably be racking GPUs. I'd serve it for sure. We've talked about this before.
Alex Albrecht
I'd be more of a. I'd go into the woods and put the paint on and start, you know, really, I have too much of a drive to live, dude.
Kevin Rose
Listen, if you rack GPUs with me with this, for this AI, would we make money? Not only would we make money, there'd be AI bartenders.
Alex Albrecht
I mean, at night. You've already said you're going to send me AI sex workers. I think maybe we're living in the.
Kevin Rose
Right. They're going to check a lot of boxes for you.
Alex Albrecht
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Kevin Rose
Okay.
Alex Albrecht
Oh, my God. Okay. But speaking of. I think it's. We should talk about this story which is AI adjacent. New physics. Sim trains robots 430,000 times faster than reality. So this is literally a Black Mirror episode. Essentially, this group of researchers out of Carnegie Mellon, they unveiled something called Genesis. The other Thing that's really cool about it is it's completely open source. You could literally go and Download it on GitHub right now and run it on your computer. But what it does is it basically builds virtual 3D worlds. And when I say virtual, I don't mean they exist in a computer and you can go run around in them. I mean they are virtual. They are. Nobody's looking at them except these robots. So they're basically using multiple, concurrent, live, interactable, all physics done correctly, worlds for robots to learn how to interact with the world. So, example you want.
Kevin Rose
You've been in shitty worlds.
Alex Albrecht
Like, no, no, no.
Kevin Rose
I've been in a lot of these 3D worlds. And you can fly in shitty.
Alex Albrecht
No, no, no. But it doesn't matter. All the physics is real based on reality, right? So because of that, you can put a robot into this world and go, we want you to drive a car down this road and learn to drive. For every hour that the robot spends in these virtual worlds, they gain 10 years of real time experience. Wow.
Kevin Rose
Because they can do it so fast.
Alex Albrecht
It's like the Matrix.
Kevin Rose
Because you don't have to observe it in real time.
Alex Albrecht
They don't have to. Time isn't the thing that they need to worry about now.
Kevin Rose
You're blowing my brain. I know this one thing is no time. It gets. Yeah, it's just a compressed. I knew that. Ghostbusters.
Alex Albrecht
Thank you.
Kevin Rose
Fucking that one.
Alex Albrecht
Everybody here should know that's big.
Kevin Rose
Can we get a little indicator, give you a little dig counter and go up one by one.
Alex Albrecht
You have an understanding.
Kevin Rose
I have my first cultural reference.
Alex Albrecht
Got one seven plus years. Okay, that's amazing. But so think about it again. You go back to the thing about AI solving problems that humans can't. All of a sudden you're like, hey, what if we go, hey, robot, that is going to do virtual surgeries, right? How about you go spend an hour testing yourself.
Kevin Rose
If you can't look into them, how do we know the reality is right? It's like you need your arm, so it's carving you up and shit. And you're like, fuck, the training model was wrong.
Alex Albrecht
I mean, I'm sure they're logs.
Kevin Rose
Exactly.
Alex Albrecht
That a human could take 10 years to read through and be like, oh, no.
Kevin Rose
Yeah, exactly.
Alex Albrecht
And the guy's in the field like, how are you feeling today?
Kevin Rose
That's what I worry about.
Alex Albrecht
Or maybe just gets drunk. I mean, maybe it's like the hallucination problem where it just goes off and comes back and is like, can you drive robot. And it's like, oh, fuck, yeah, man. And then all of a sudden, it's like, dude was spending 10 years listening to the fucking Ted traveling in his van, smoking virtual ganja, and we're putting him in the car going, this guy.
Kevin Rose
Spent 10 years learning how to drive the fucking Glenn AI. Cause he's in there just, like, fucking. Yeah. Oh, God.
Alex Albrecht
There's a lot of issues still to be tbd, but still, again, it always goes to how crazy it is. But the thing that's really crazy about it is these guys have put this information out for anybody to use. So any robot manufacturer can go, oh, we want to train our guy to do a backflip. I'm going to put him in this world. He's going to spend two seconds, the equivalent of 10 years doing backflips in the virtual world, where the physics is all the exact same.
Kevin Rose
Two questions.
Alex Albrecht
Yes.
Kevin Rose
One, do you think we could do a backflip if we train for this next year and maybe that's our New Year's resolution?
Alex Albrecht
Yes.
Kevin Rose
You think we could?
Alex Albrecht
I mean, I've already been able to do a backflip.
Kevin Rose
You could do one right now.
Alex Albrecht
No, I mean, I was able to. Meaning, I think I could probably. On flat ground. On flat ground? Yeah. Yeah.
Kevin Rose
How about we do back handsprings?
Alex Albrecht
That feels worse. Like, harder to me.
Kevin Rose
No, it does not. Are you kidding me? You go all the way around, you're.
Alex Albrecht
Gonna land into a handspring and then pop up like.
Kevin Rose
Like. Just like.
Alex Albrecht
Oh, no. I mean, I know how they work.
Kevin Rose
That would be good.
Alex Albrecht
I think if we're gonna do it, do it. Let's do back flip. Or the easier one is front flip.
Kevin Rose
Let's do the aerial. What is it? Windmill.
Alex Albrecht
Oh, no. You just mean break dancing.
Kevin Rose
Break dancing. Let's do windmills.
Alex Albrecht
I feel like we did this challenge about windmills already, maybe, like a decade ago. This feels very us.
Kevin Rose
I think we could do a windmill within a year. Like, if that's our New Year's resolution.
Alex Albrecht
I think within a year, I could easily. I could hire us a breakdown, jump onto a wall and do a backflip. Like, I could probably do that now.
Kevin Rose
Jump onto a wall. Why would you pointing over here? There's no wall over here.
Alex Albrecht
That's a wall.
Kevin Rose
What is that? Well, how do you jump onto that? It's.
Alex Albrecht
No, you do the thing with it.
Kevin Rose
I mean, like a wall. Like a brick wall. Like, where you get up on top of it and then you back off. Oh, like, there's nothing to Stand on.
Alex Albrecht
No, not a pony wall, just a regular wall. I mean, like, is that what we.
Kevin Rose
Call a pony wall?
Alex Albrecht
Yeah, yeah, yeah, pony wall.
Kevin Rose
Okay.
Alex Albrecht
No, I mean, like, just like run up to the wall, plant your foot on the wall and do a backflip. I feel like I could do that right now.
Kevin Rose
Can we just.
Alex Albrecht
And I haven't had enough booze to attempt it, but I definitely could. I definitely could.
Kevin Rose
I mean, there's.
Alex Albrecht
Dude, by the way, drinking. This is one of the things I'm gonna say. As a human on this planet, there's nothing better than getting drunk and trying physical activities that you believe you can.
Kevin Rose
Do a hundred percent.
Alex Albrecht
However, as I am aging, I now know how dangerous that could be.
Kevin Rose
Yes. And I know there's a non zero chance you might put your foot and. Or head through the wall in attempting to do it, but I'm willing to take that chance.
Alex Albrecht
That's interesting. I get that. But I'm just saying, if you want to be able to do a standing backflip or a standing front flip, I think we could get there.
Kevin Rose
The front flip I can do on a trampoline still. Today I tried it. I did, sure. Because I took my kids to the bouncy house. Shit, not the kids bouncy house, but the bigger ones where they actually have big trampolines.
Alex Albrecht
Oh, like the Zoom Room or whatever it's called.
Kevin Rose
Dude, you're not. You have no idea how sore you are the next day.
Alex Albrecht
Oh, bro, I can't even imagine.
Kevin Rose
Dude, I jumped on a trampoline for like 10 minutes and I was like, oh, this is so fun. Reminds me being a kid. My kids were like, oh, flip down. Good job. You know, I was like, oh, still got it. You know, like the next day I.
Alex Albrecht
Was like, I'm like, oh, dude. Oh, dude, I did. I was at the gym and I did. That's so dumb. The littlest fucking things. You're just like, why that? We were doing pull ups.
Kevin Rose
Yeah.
Alex Albrecht
And I usually have my. My shoulder just hurts in general when I do any kind of lifting. Like, it's just. It's just crunchy. Broke my collarbone twice when I was a kid, so it's like it's all out of joint, you know, whatever. So I just. There's. That just kind of hurts my shoulder. And it's fine. It's not injured in any way. So doing the pull up. And my buddy or my. The. My trainer Matt was like, hey, you can choke your grip up a little bit if you want. Some people like to go wider.
Kevin Rose
Why do you grip the wider you get.
Alex Albrecht
Oh, interesting. Okay, yoke. So anyway, so I went a little bit. I went a little bit thinner, like in between. And I did my 10 pull ups.
Kevin Rose
Then you get.
Alex Albrecht
And I got off. And I was like, my neck hurts. Like, literally. I was like, why does my neck hurt? And it was just my entire trapezoid muscle, like just the. On the either side of my spine. It just hurt. And I was like, it hurts when I go like this. It hurts when I go like that. Like, this is weird. So I went back to doing the regular one two days. I was literally just like, okay. And I was like, I didn't do anything to injure myself. I just did pull ups. Slightly closer grip and my fucking, like went nuts. I was like, what the.
Kevin Rose
Yeah, that's the whole thing is where that. I mean, it goes to show we need to do like more. More like full. Full body kind of of stabilization exercises because, like, it's when you don't hit something and then you're like, oh, let me just try this new thing. And like, those muscles haven't been touched like, yeah, 15 years.
Alex Albrecht
Yeah.
Kevin Rose
Like, all you do typically is like. Like, that's all we do.
Alex Albrecht
This and this and this.
Kevin Rose
And then there's like.
Alex Albrecht
And then when I do this, everything hurts.
Kevin Rose
Amazon packages, which is this.
Alex Albrecht
Oh, God.
Kevin Rose
And this.
Alex Albrecht
Yeah. Forget bending over.
Kevin Rose
Jesus. Exactly.
Alex Albrecht
We did sumo deadlifts today and I was just like, ow, ow, ow.
Kevin Rose
It doesn't even sound fun.
Alex Albrecht
It's like, why it's fun. Okay, you're up.
Kevin Rose
Yes.
Alex Albrecht
Ooh.
Kevin Rose
Okay, so we are a little bit of a AI kick today, but big.
Alex Albrecht
AI, big AI kick.
Kevin Rose
It's been a big week. Have you seen this? How you can make movies in your living room now?
Alex Albrecht
I mean, I know that you can make movies.
Kevin Rose
Have you seen this?
Alex Albrecht
No, it's this.
Kevin Rose
Oh, dude, watch this kid. This is some new AI shit. Kid. This kid he's sitting in, that's like his house.
Alex Albrecht
Yeah.
Kevin Rose
You know he's got a chair there. It's like here probably like, I mean.
Alex Albrecht
That does not look like a heated chair.
Kevin Rose
That barely looks like. It's ikea.
Alex Albrecht
Oh, ikea, yes.
Kevin Rose
Yeah, it's not heated.
Alex Albrecht
It's like that does not look like.
Kevin Rose
Heated chair, but okay, so.
Alex Albrecht
So tell us a bit about yourself.
Kevin Rose
I am Trogus the Wise. I've wandered through the realms for centuries. Face down armies of darkness for ancient dragons.
Alex Albrecht
Oh, boy.
Kevin Rose
But nothing, nothing prepared me for this.
Alex Albrecht
What could be more challenging than dragons?
Kevin Rose
Dragons are straightforward. They tell you they're going to burn you. And then they do it. Simple. What happened? Well, they ask if I know Python and they do.
Alex Albrecht
And then.
Kevin Rose
Then they wanted me to install a firewall. The bad news is I could fight. The good news is having father chanting B. I don't know what he's saying anyway.
Alex Albrecht
God, that's nuts.
Kevin Rose
Is that crazy?
Alex Albrecht
I mean, and again, that's. I mean, look, we're. We're already so. Oh. So I saw this video of these people that were discovering there's a new TV show on Netflix. And they were watching it and it's. I think it's like Norwegian or something. And they were watching it in English and they accidentally hit the remote and it said, like, watch the original version in Norwegian. You know what I mean? Like the language thing. And they were like. Like, this is Norwegian. And so they watched it in Norwegian and they were like, her lips.
Kevin Rose
Yeah.
Alex Albrecht
Are matched perfectly to the Norwegian. And then they put it back on English and re. Did the whole scene again and her lips were perfectly matched on English. And it's because they're using AI.
Kevin Rose
Yeah.
Alex Albrecht
To match the. To. To do the localization stuff. And there's a part of me that's like, I think that's cool. But then there's also a part of me that's like, it's cool.
Kevin Rose
Except for one thing. Kung fu movies. Because when you. That shit is mismatched. It's awesome.
Alex Albrecht
That's the best. I mean, it's literally like why Kung fu movies were so fun.
Kevin Rose
Yeah.
Alex Albrecht
Haha. You've come here.
Kevin Rose
Exactly.
Alex Albrecht
It's the best. But also, like, I like to know, like I. I've yet to. And please, if you guys have any examples of this, let me know. But I've yet to watch except for things like Spirited Away or things like, you know, any of the, like Miyazaki stuff where, like, it's, you know, whatever. Where it's like professional actors. But I always feel like the dubbed version of like German shows on Netflix or something. You know what I mean? Like, the people that they get to do the ADR is like, they're okay, but they're not great. So I prefer to watch the original show and read the subtitles.
Kevin Rose
Oh, you do?
Alex Albrecht
Because I get the emotion from the actor in a. Even when you're dripping better way.
Kevin Rose
If you got like a bottle out and you're like partway through the bottle, you're like wanting to read all the subtitles.
Alex Albrecht
Wanting to read all the subtitles is a strong way to put it. Able to Read all the subtitles is also a strong way to put it. I would say I enjoy watching the pictures and then re watching it when I'm sober.
Kevin Rose
That's fair.
Alex Albrecht
So I know what's happening. Although, honestly, we started watching this, I think it's on Apple TV plus, but it's called Drops of God.
Kevin Rose
Ooh.
Alex Albrecht
And it's French, English, and Japanese. Oh, you would fucking love it, dude.
Kevin Rose
It's got 100% rotten tomatoes. This looks great.
Alex Albrecht
You would love it, dude. It's about wine.
Kevin Rose
Oh, interesting. Oh, I heard about this.
Alex Albrecht
Oh, it's so good. Dude. It's so good. But, you know, they go from speaking French to speaking Japanese, speaking English, and it's all kind of, like, together. So it's like, maybe there's a way you could dub it or, like, listen to it all on one language, but I feel like you would totally lose the coolness of what's going on. It's. It's really. It's really great. You guys should. You guys fucking love it. It takes place in Japan and on, like, vineyards in France.
Kevin Rose
You're like the third person to tell me about this. I need to watch it.
Alex Albrecht
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Anyway.
Kevin Rose
All right. AM movies coming soon.
Alex Albrecht
Oh, yeah. So that's. Well, I mean, I think the visual effects is going to be the first thing that gets disrupted. I mean, and also, visual effects is one of the biggest, most expensive parts of movies. And there are movies like, David Fincher is. Is like, the perfect example of somebody that, like, you watch his movies and you don't realize you're seeing a bazillion visual effect shots. Like, he has more visual effects shots than, like, Avatar. Maybe not, but you know what I mean?
Kevin Rose
Well, and also, this is like, this tech. We've said this a thousand times, but it's like 10, five, five years from now, three years from now, it's gonna be just unbelievably good.
Alex Albrecht
Well, and also, like, the thing that's fun is you're gonna get this right, so you're gonna get a sketch that somebody puts on Instagram or TikTok or whatever the Instagram or TikTok is of the time, and it's gonna be basically an animated movie, or it's gonna have professional visual effects, because it's gonna be so easy to do. I mean, we're already seeing that with, like, filters. Like, there are times when people who are using filters on TikToks, they don't look anything like they look like on the TikTok videos. And you can maybe Sometimes tell that there's filters, but the filters are getting to a point where it's gonna be. It's gonna be pretty weird. Especially when they start doing the sort of filters of people. Like, you know, you can kind of already do like the Arnold Schwarzenegger and like movie trailers with his voice. And like, that's already there. When that gets even better, like, it's gonna be tough. I saw somebody that was. That had said something interesting about the idea of AI killing the Internet as we know it. Because essentially, once AI gets so good at mimicking people.
Kevin Rose
Yes. Content.
Alex Albrecht
Nobody will believe anything that is on the Internet ever. Because everybody, even the people that are currently being fooled. You know what I mean? The generation that's sort of like, I don't know what this. Like I saw this person talking about the thing and it's like, that's fake. It's like, well, how would you know? I know once they start to realize, well, that's. Oh, it's all can be fake.
Kevin Rose
Right.
Alex Albrecht
But they'll.
Kevin Rose
But now it's starting to get hit us.
Alex Albrecht
Yeah.
Kevin Rose
Like, I see stuff where I'm like, there was this thing the other day that I saw where it was a freaking clip and I didn't. I read the comments that I realized it was fake.
Alex Albrecht
Oh, dude, I got.
Kevin Rose
Have you. Have you had any of that?
Alex Albrecht
Yeah, I got hit up with and it was me being dumb. The name of the account was like, something Something AI, but it was like a castle for sale in Scotland. And I was like, heather, look at this fucking cheap ass castle in Oscar. And. And she was like, that's amazing. And then she looks at the comments. I don't really look at the comments on social media stuff. I just watch the thing. Yeah, but she was like, yeah, it says it's AI. And I was like, oh, motherfuck.
Kevin Rose
Addison's project fooled my mom.
Alex Albrecht
It passed the mom test.
Kevin Rose
Which. Addison's portrait. The portrait project. Yeah. See, that would fool my mom too. We had contracted a guy whose main gig was manipulating faces, changing faces altogether with models on OnlyFans. What? Oh, that's right. What did he do?
Alex Albrecht
Wait, what is he. What did he do? He works with only fangirls who want.
Kevin Rose
To stay anonymous but want to show.
Alex Albrecht
Full nudity and face.
Kevin Rose
And he would do face swaps. Yeah, fakes of their faces.
Alex Albrecht
That. That is very interesting. I mean, that. Look, I. Man, we could get down the OnlyFans rabbit hole, but it's like, by the way, I'm gonna start my. My feet.
Kevin Rose
I was gonna say that guy loved your feet.
Alex Albrecht
Anybody who loves my feet, they're available for purchase.
Kevin Rose
There was you. You had, you had. I just.
Alex Albrecht
It's so. It was my house. I never wear shoes in my house.
Kevin Rose
So if you didn't watch the last episode. His toe made an appearance for a minute. Did you zoom it? Cause I didn't see it, but I saw the comment was like, you made my life by showing me Alex's feet. Somebody was.
Alex Albrecht
I mean, I do have good feet.
Kevin Rose
Somebody like went to town.
Alex Albrecht
Oh, bring it on, man.
Kevin Rose
After they paused that shit for sure.
Alex Albrecht
Yeah.
Kevin Rose
Would you do it onlyfans with your feet?
Alex Albrecht
Why wouldn't I? It's just my feet.
Kevin Rose
I think we should make that account. Let's see if we can make any money. Why not, dude, you can make an extra fee.
Alex Albrecht
First off, if I was a chick, I'd be like, I'm in. Because who wants to see guys feets?
Kevin Rose
Dude, there's. I guarantee you could get at least 10 subscribers.
Alex Albrecht
Look at these bad boys, ready for action.
Kevin Rose
Don't take them out though.
Alex Albrecht
No, that's for paid customers. Exactly. This is for the freevies.
Kevin Rose
Yeah, Just this little preview.
Alex Albrecht
This is a preview.
Kevin Rose
Hello.
Alex Albrecht
Might even take the shoe up.
Kevin Rose
No. How dare you.
Alex Albrecht
You can't even see the socks.
Kevin Rose
Ridiculous. But look at this. AI, have you seen this?
Alex Albrecht
Oh yeah. Where the guy gets on a motorbike or whatever.
Kevin Rose
This. Can we show a little bit of this footage?
Alex Albrecht
Yeah.
Kevin Rose
I hate this cuz this is making me so confused about life. Watch this, watch this one. Watch this one. Oh my God. That's the best. Isn't that crazy though? AI's just doing this.
Alex Albrecht
That's good.
Kevin Rose
This.
Alex Albrecht
Oh my God.
Kevin Rose
This is the stuff where I'm just like, what is. What is AI doing? Oh, look at this one. Hold on, Mal, one last one. There's like, there's. There's like all this one. Look at that. Now you wouldn't think that's AI, I would.
Alex Albrecht
That's too much jiggle for that.
Kevin Rose
No, that actually is real. Yeah, I'm just. It got. It got recommended to me.
Alex Albrecht
By the way. That fooled me because I was like, yeah, her butt's jiggling too much. That's got no. That's weird. Fucking hell. Yeah, she got some junk in her trunk.
Kevin Rose
That's not junk, that's just a proper trunk.
Alex Albrecht
She's just. First off, I don't think the junk is talking about the trunk. I think the trunk is where the junk goes.
Kevin Rose
Wait, what did I say that.
Alex Albrecht
That's just a trunk no, that is a trunk. Okay, now I don't understand what junk in the trunk means. Is it. Does the junk in the trunk implied that there is something in the trunk that is the junk and the trunk is like pants? Or as Kevin has preferred to say, that the junk in the trunk is that the trunk has too much junk, but that a good trunk is just. We have a question for you real quick.
Kevin Rose
We are liking to know the term junk in the trunk, and we were wondering what part is the junk and which portion is the trunk in the term junk in the trunk. So open. AI, Go ahead. I gotta say in the term. I got Santa turned on.
Alex Albrecht
Not Santa telling us this trunk in the trunk question.
Kevin Rose
Resume. Go on.
Alex Albrecht
That's quite all right. What else would you like to chat about today?
Kevin Rose
I just want to know about the junk in the trunk. Which portion is the junk and which portion is the trunk in that saying? And what do those things mean? Thank you, Santa. Oh, ho, ho.
Alex Albrecht
In that saying, junk playfully refers to someone's curves. And trunk is a fun way to say the backside. It's all in good humor.
Kevin Rose
Thank you, Santa.
Alex Albrecht
Wait, so they didn't. Did you use 03 high end?
Kevin Rose
Two grand for that?
Alex Albrecht
Was that two grand? Oh, God, I hope you did. Oh, that is interesting. TBD down in the comments, you let us know.
Kevin Rose
No, that Santa nailed it. No, he said, I didn't know that was junk or the was junk.
Alex Albrecht
Junk meant the curves and trunk meant the butt. Yeah, but then what I always thought.
Kevin Rose
It was like a big butt was there was junk inside of the trunk. So the junk was making the trunk larger.
Alex Albrecht
That's what I thought Santa just said.
Kevin Rose
Yeah, that's what Santa. Sick. No, he's saying the curves.
Alex Albrecht
Yeah, the stuff in the trunk. Yeah, more junk is more curves, less junk. So you could say she has an appropriate human amount of junk in that trunk.
Kevin Rose
That's right. That's right. She has the right amount of junk in the trunk.
Alex Albrecht
That is the correct way to put it.
Kevin Rose
All right, now that we solved that. Thank you, Santa.
Alex Albrecht
All right. Thank you, Santa. Bringing it back to some fun technology stuff. This was announced like a week ago. I feel like nobody was talking about it. And I saw it and was like, oh, my God. Thank. Thank God. This is. I mean, well, whatever. You can buy your next Hyundai.
Kevin Rose
Hyundai.
Alex Albrecht
Thank you, Jew car on Amazon in these 48 US cities. So one of the things that I loved about buying my first Tesla was that there was no dealership. There was no. Well, you gotta get the undercoat. Cause we Already installed it. Oh, there's a lacquer paint that we put on at the dealership. Oh, there's a. Plus $10,000. Cause you want that car and then.
Kevin Rose
You gotta go negotiate and all that shit.
Alex Albrecht
I hate it. Everybody hates it. Yeah, everybody hates it. There's.
Kevin Rose
Nobody likes it.
Alex Albrecht
And somebody made a good point. They said, look, you know, you may try to, you may sell at a dealership 100 cars a month if you're lucky. People buy one car every three to ten years.
Kevin Rose
Right.
Alex Albrecht
There is a totally different power dynamic going on there. And that is. And that's. And that's bad. I've always said, like, when I got my first Tesla, I was like, this is magic. They tell me exactly how much it's going to be online. Fucking put in a credit card, I put in the thing and I fucking go. And so what Amazon is doing is attempting to partner with local dealerships. So these are actual Hyundai dealerships.
Kevin Rose
I'm browsing Hyundai's right now.
Alex Albrecht
And they're in LA. LA is one of the. One of the 48 US cities which.
Kevin Rose
Why don't they have Amazon prime on these, though?
Alex Albrecht
You mean delivery money?
Kevin Rose
Yeah, like, you should get like a. Like, I guess I have to go pick it up. They can't bring it to me.
Alex Albrecht
And so here's the thing. A, this is the beginning. This is the first toe dip in. But I love the idea that you basically get to go look at the sticker, see what they have on it and decide whether you want to buy it or not. And by the way, you could go and test drive the cars. Anybody can go and test drive cars. So go test drive the car that you want. But like they have. Do they have any of the Ioniq 5 N's?
Kevin Rose
No, that's. What, what was the one we wanted that was like the.
Alex Albrecht
Oh, it's not out yet. Oh, they have the 5N.
Kevin Rose
It's on the Amazon page.
Alex Albrecht
I love that. Dude.
Kevin Rose
That car is Onyx 5N. Here's the Ionic 5. Is it the in.
Alex Albrecht
Well, that's a limited. Ooh, is that the Disney limited?
Kevin Rose
What's the Disney limited? Don't tell me.
Alex Albrecht
Disney. Disney 100 year anniversary. Did a Honda that Ionic 5. Disney.
Kevin Rose
Are these good cars?
Alex Albrecht
Great cars. I think they won Driver Car of the Year or Edmunds Car of the year in 2023.
Kevin Rose
Crazy.
Alex Albrecht
They're awesome. And they're Hyundai. Come on, baby.
Kevin Rose
I feel like you're sponsored. Secretly, if I was sponsored, like almost like a Russian supply. But you're sponsored by like, like Hyundai, please. What did you say earlier where you're like, yeah, I love that. And I was like, why is this?
Alex Albrecht
I don't remember. Oh, no, it was a. It was Star wars because.
Kevin Rose
Yeah, Star wars, exactly.
Alex Albrecht
But, but I love this idea, right, of like Amazon. I mean, and the reason why I kind of got a little like, was. I mean, it would be nice if it was some other company other than Amazon, which is like the biggest fucking conglomerate on the world. And it's gonna be the fucking company in Wally that like has us eating food directly in our face and makes us fat and we all just float around on fucking things. So there's a part of me that's like, does it have to be Amazon? But then again, they have the opportunity to disrupt the market. And I think the more this happens, the more honestly, this is the promise of Prodigy, the dial up service. Cause one of the big things that I remember with the first Internet dial up service, throwbacks, way back machine when I was on, when I was on Prodigy was that you could go to Ford and spec out a new Ford and you could see the msrp. And I was always like, why can't I just press a button and have the car?
Kevin Rose
Dude, you had some early insight there, bro. You're like, you should be able to just buy a car on here.
Alex Albrecht
If only I invested in Prodigy.
Kevin Rose
Exactly.
Alex Albrecht
I'd be just a little bit less money than I have now.
Kevin Rose
Yeah.
Alex Albrecht
Anyway, I like that new Hyundai that.
Kevin Rose
We were showing though.
Alex Albrecht
Yeah, the 80s retro one.
Kevin Rose
What was that? What was it called?
Alex Albrecht
Just look up Hyundai Retro. 80s.
Kevin Rose
Yeah, that was a really cool car. I feel like we both need one of those at some point. Oh, there it is.
Alex Albrecht
Yeah, the Heritage. Yeah, Heritage series grandeur. Oh, dude, so cool. Looking.
Kevin Rose
So cool.
Alex Albrecht
Show Mel this guy. You guys all remember this guy.
Kevin Rose
So good, so great. So good.
Alex Albrecht
Oh my God. All right. Do we have any emails?
Kevin Rose
We do have an email. Email of the day. Oh, I want to shoot them. It's my Superman trailer.
Alex Albrecht
Oh, dude. So great.
Kevin Rose
Yeah, so great.
Alex Albrecht
So great. Okay.
Kevin Rose
That's all we had to say.
Alex Albrecht
James fucking gun, man. James is like so good.
Kevin Rose
Yeah, it's, it's, it's gonna be amazing, man.
Alex Albrecht
And also like crypto the dog.
Kevin Rose
Yeah, that was weird.
Alex Albrecht
Why is that weird?
Kevin Rose
Why did it have the dog?
Alex Albrecht
Because it's like, it's all canon. It's a way for them to be like, you start a trailer with Crypto the dog. You know, you are in the hands of someone who loves the source material.
Kevin Rose
That'S a good point.
Alex Albrecht
Gets the source material, who also is going to give you the opposite of the sort of dark, deep, dark undercurrents of the Snyderverse, where it's like, you know, I mean, there was an interview with fucking Snyder where he was like, because they kill. He kills Jimmy Olsen in the first movie. And he was like. Or in Batman vs Spider Man. And he was like, yeah. I just thought it'd be great to, like, you know, piss off the, like, comic nerds and be like, yeah, we're gonna do everything. We're do different. It's gonna be different. We're killing Jimmy Olsen. And I was like, that is so not what anybody who likes Superman wants to see.
Kevin Rose
Yeah.
Alex Albrecht
So it's, like, nice and aesthetically gorgeous. Henry Cavill, great Superman. There's a lot to like in that, and I enjoyed most of the stuff, so it's not a knock, but it's just sort of refreshing to be out of that darkness of dc. And I think what they did was they were like, marvel's got joy, hope, and color. We're gonna go the other way and give them gritty, real. And it was fun for a minute. It was fun for Mad Returns. No, no, no. It was fun during the Nolan Batman verse. Yeah, yeah, that was when it was fun. And then once, I think we went a little dark with the Snyderverse and Time and a Place. But this trailer was, like, hitting all of.
Kevin Rose
Is this summer. It's gonna be good, dude.
Alex Albrecht
Hitting all of this stuff. And the other thing that I was, like, really happy about was when the guy comes in as Clark Kent, he looks completely different.
Kevin Rose
They nailed it.
Alex Albrecht
Like, I get that.
Kevin Rose
Yes.
Alex Albrecht
But. But also towering over people, and I was like. But also, like, he just, like the hair. The way he has the hair. Like, his sort of goofy look when he looks at Lois.
Kevin Rose
Like, I would always be like, superman is saying that.
Alex Albrecht
Yeah, that's pretty. Especially I saw a clip of. Of the Henry Cavill. The Henry Cavill Clark Kent talking to Bruce wayne in Superman vs Batman, and I was like, like, come on, let's just. That's just Superman.
Kevin Rose
Yeah. Yeah.
Alex Albrecht
You know what I mean? I mean, even Christopher Reeve was good at the sort of, like, body mechanics and sort of comic timing of everything.
Kevin Rose
Yeah, Christopher Reeve, like, was very, like, dorky kind of like, I don't know. There's been some decent Supermans. They weren't bad.
Alex Albrecht
I don't know if any of them really have been bad.
Kevin Rose
What was that? One of the Man Seal?
Alex Albrecht
Yeah, that was Henry Cavill.
Kevin Rose
Oh, that was pretty good. Yeah, it was bad.
Alex Albrecht
Yeah. I mean, Hans Zimmer score. Jesus Christ. You want the feels and, like, moments where you're just like. Like when that punk dude fucking puts beer on his head and I'm just like, oh, man, he doesn't know what's happening.
Kevin Rose
Yeah, it was good. I'm excited for this, though. I want DC to make a comeback and, like. Cause they have some good properties, and I'm just like, this. This feels like they're moving the right direction.
Alex Albrecht
Well, I mean, yeah. And then, like, the new Green Lantern. Green Lantern TV show with Kyle Chandler.
Kevin Rose
I haven't seen that.
Alex Albrecht
It's Hal Jordan. I mean, it's not out yet, but.
Kevin Rose
No, but, like, I haven't seen the preview. It looks good.
Alex Albrecht
Well, there's no preview yet.
Kevin Rose
Okay. I haven't seen anything about it, but.
Alex Albrecht
Just the fact that it's Kyle Chandler. Who's it?
Kevin Rose
Just an announcement.
Alex Albrecht
Yeah. Yeah.
Kevin Rose
Okay. Okay.
Alex Albrecht
Anyway.
Kevin Rose
All right, email. Here we go. That's it. Here we go.
Alex Albrecht
You missed it.
Kevin Rose
Apollo writes in. Hello, Paolo. First of all, congratulations on the revival. Amazing, amazing stuff.
Alex Albrecht
Thank you.
Kevin Rose
Hope to see you at the live show. Apollo, head on over to dignation show for tickets today.
Alex Albrecht
Very nice plug. Good plug.
Kevin Rose
Where can I find Kevin's cap? Oh, what brand slash reference number is it?
Alex Albrecht
Wait, is that the same cap I said from episode?
Kevin Rose
I'm assuming I wear this, but in black or gray typically, so I'm assuming it's one of these.
Alex Albrecht
So it is the Yosemite.
Kevin Rose
Yosemite. It's a Yosemite, which I believe is.
Alex Albrecht
Pronounced Yosemite, but it is.
Kevin Rose
God damn it. I gotta search for it. Kevin, cut this to make it look like I remember it.
Alex Albrecht
We're doing this so much.
Kevin Rose
When you cut this and make it.
Alex Albrecht
Look like I remember. Yeah, don't feel so bad anymore.
Kevin Rose
James Purse. So it's James Purse. Oh, yeah. Three, two, one. Yeah. Thank you for the question. This is a James Purse Yosemite shirt. And three. Great question, and thank you for asking. I just happen to know this off the top of my head. It is a Yosemite hat.
Alex Albrecht
Why do you keep saying Yosemite? It's Yosemite.
Kevin Rose
You said Yosemite.
Alex Albrecht
No, it's pronounced Yosemite.
Kevin Rose
You said Yosemite. I know.
Alex Albrecht
I thought you knew. It was pronounced Yosemite in 3, 2.
Kevin Rose
I didn't see it was stuff. It's a funky font. Three, two, one. Hello. Hey, dignation, let's start over again.
Alex Albrecht
Oh, God.
Kevin Rose
Oh, great question. It is a Yosemite. A James purse hat. And you can find it on James purse dot com. And it's a. It's a great hat. They make great clothes there. And.
Alex Albrecht
Oh, wait, James purse. I think that's the one that I want. My buddy has T shirts. Are they on?
Kevin Rose
Yeah, they make it. Most people get T shirts from them.
Alex Albrecht
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Kevin Rose
I do not like their T shirts. They're a little bit, like, too thin for me, but, you know, too thin.
Alex Albrecht
I'm okay.
Kevin Rose
You're looking for. You're in the market for a T shirt. You've been telling me, bro, I can't.
Alex Albrecht
Get a fucking shirt to save my life. I. I mean, I. I gotta go do like a whole wardrobe thing. You guys are gonna get to see some radical changes.
Kevin Rose
Oh, I'm excited for that.
Alex Albrecht
Nah, it's all gonna be basically this, but different. Yeah. Because I have a shorter torso and so like anything that has like a long torso, it just fits weird. I don't know. I gotta go get like.
Kevin Rose
The hats are not cheap.
Alex Albrecht
Well, it's James Pierce. None of them are cheap.
Kevin Rose
Well, they make only suede ones now. Those are probably pretty dope.
Alex Albrecht
I mean, 225 dope.
Kevin Rose
I mean, I didn't know it was that much. It was a gift, man. I bought it myself.
Alex Albrecht
It was a gift that I bought my sale.
Kevin Rose
I didn't know it was this expensive, but they are a little pricey. I recommend the knockoffs.
Alex Albrecht
The wish versions of the Yosemite.
Kevin Rose
This was a fun show.
Alex Albrecht
Dude. It's great. And the holidays are coming, so happy holidays, everybody. And we'll see you in the new year.
Kevin Rose
I think we're have resolutions. We're also going to be drinking in the new year.
Alex Albrecht
Yep. But just that day.
Kevin Rose
It's just that day.
Alex Albrecht
Just that day.
Kevin Rose
Which could be a little crazy.
Alex Albrecht
And we may break our necks if we try to do any break dancing. Or backflips or front flips.
Kevin Rose
That's right. But.
Alex Albrecht
Or back of handsprings.
Kevin Rose
That is what I want to get, though.
Alex Albrecht
Can you do wall handstand push ups? That is the last.
Kevin Rose
Can you do that?
Alex Albrecht
Yeah, yeah, yeah. But that's the last thing that I got really drunk in Ireland and we were like, let's all see if we can do handstand push ups. And I was able to do handstand push ups. And my buddy who's like yoked like.
Kevin Rose
You put your back against the wall with your legs up. Yep. And then you do a full push.
Alex Albrecht
Up and you do push ups.
Kevin Rose
You can do that.
Alex Albrecht
I'm so excited.
Kevin Rose
All right, let's try for the B roll. B roll. Here we go. See you soon. Happy holidays.
Alex Albrecht
This is prep for the. For the only fans, okay? Whoa.
Kevin Rose
Jesus Christ. Are you recording this?
Alex Albrecht
It's slick.
Kevin Rose
Oh, hell.
Alex Albrecht
Whoa. Whoa.
Kevin Rose
Setting the bar high. And. And just kick back.
Alex Albrecht
Yeah. And then. And just get yourself into a. I don't do these.
Kevin Rose
Hey, you got it.
Alex Albrecht
Ichi.
Kevin Rose
Knee, son. Height. Hey. Oh, fuck.
Alex Albrecht
Wait. You gotta go flatter. Flatter with your legs. Straighter with your legs.
Kevin Rose
Each your knee, son. Hi.
Alex Albrecht
Straighter. Straighter with your legs. Try it again. Try it again. You got it. Don't bend your knee. Don't bend your knees.
Kevin Rose
Each your knee, son.
Alex Albrecht
Don't bend your knees. You've got so many knee bends.
Kevin Rose
I think I got two. Now. You try it now. Here it goes. Here we go.
Alex Albrecht
Flat. Yep, there it is.
Kevin Rose
Okay.
Alex Albrecht
Here we go.
Kevin Rose
Oh, there we go.
Alex Albrecht
Yeah, man.
Kevin Rose
Yeah. That's no joke. Oh, excellent.
Diggnation (Rebooted) Episode 008: AI Breakthroughs, Star Wars News, and Alex’s OnlyFans?!
Release Date: December 27, 2024
In the much-anticipated return of Diggnation after a 15-year hiatus, hosts Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht delve into an exhilarating mix of topics ranging from groundbreaking advancements in artificial intelligence to the latest news in the Star Wars universe. Episode 008, titled "AI Breakthroughs, Star Wars News, and Alex’s OnlyFans?!", is a testament to their signature blend of geeky enthusiasm and humorous banter. Below is a detailed summary capturing the essence of their lively discussion.
The episode kicks off with the hosts engaging in their characteristic playful banter about attempting physical feats while slightly tipsy. Shortly after, they shift gears to promote the upcoming Diggnation live show slated to occur during South by Southwest (SXSW) in Austin, Texas.
Kevin Rose ([03:05]): "We have a live dignation coming up at. It's going to be during South by Southwest."
Alex Albrecht ([03:43]): "We have Mixmaster Mike to announce today he is joining as our musical guest."
The hosts discuss the benefits of attending the live event, highlighting VIP ticket perks such as stage access, a private bar, and exclusive areas, noting the rapid sell-out of VIP tickets. They also mention discounted hotel rates and extend a warm invitation to their listeners.
A significant portion of the episode is dedicated to exhilarating Star Wars news. Kevin Rose shares exciting updates about Jeremy Allen White joining the Star Wars universe, specifically in the upcoming Mandalorian and Grogu movie.
Kevin Rose ([17:34]): "Jeremy Allen White... he is going to be Jabba the Hutt's son."
The conversation shifts to speculation about Jabba the Hutt's family dynamics, including references to Gardula the Hutt, leading to humorous exchanges about character relationships and canonical lore.
Alex Albrecht ([18:25]): "I'm just saying, he could be Jeremy Allen White playing either a human or any of the other species that are sort of humanoid."
They also touch upon the broader Star Wars franchise, mentioning other additions like Jude Law in Skeleton Crew and discussing the revitalization of Star Wars shows with a focus on quality and engaging storytelling.
Kevin Rose ([23:36]): "It's been a great guest, too."
Alex Albrecht ([23:36]): "It's been a great guest, dude. Nichelle Nichols, Stan Lee from Star Trek. Stan Lee. Oh, I forgot. Stan Lee came in."
The hosts express enthusiasm for the evolving Star Wars narrative, appreciating the infusion of talented actors and the return of beloved characters.
Transitioning to technology, Kevin Rose introduces groundbreaking news about OpenAI's latest O3 model, which marks a significant leap in artificial intelligence capabilities.
Kevin Rose ([28:24]): "OpenAI announces its new O3 model... They have surpassed humans in its ability to reason."
The discussion details how the O3 model has dramatically improved its accuracy in solving novel math problems, increasing from a mere 2% accuracy in previous models to an impressive 87.5%—a feat surpassing human performance.
Kevin Rose ([31:01]): "Now O3, low compute, it jumped up to 20 or 75%. Now, for the first time ever, it surpassed the human at 87.5% in terms of its reasoning ability around novel new problems."
The hosts explore the implications of this advancement, contemplating AI's potential to revolutionize various fields by accelerating problem-solving capabilities beyond human limits.
Further delving into AI advancements, Alex Albrecht introduces "Genesis," a project from Carnegie Mellon that simulates virtual 3D worlds where robots can train at unprecedented speeds.
Alex Albrecht ([42:02]): "But speaking of, I think it's... Genesis builds virtual 3D worlds. And when I say virtual, I mean they are completely interactive and physics-accurate for robots to learn."
Kevin Rose ([44:24]): "So, one of the things... When you spend an hour in these virtual worlds, they gain 10 years of real-time experience."
They discuss the transformative potential of such technologies, highlighting how virtual simulations can dramatically expedite robotic training and learning processes, akin to the accelerated training depicted in The Matrix.
The conversation takes a playful yet insightful turn as the hosts discuss AI-generated content, particularly in the realm of OnlyFans. They touch upon the ethical and practical aspects of AI-driven face swaps and content manipulation.
Kevin Rose ([58:01]): "AI is just doing this... It's making me so confused about life."
Alex Albrecht ([59:27]): "Anybody who loves my feet, they're available for purchase."
The duo humorously entertains the idea of launching their own OnlyFans account featuring AI-enhanced content, illustrating the ever-expanding influence of AI in personal and commercial domains.
Shifting focus back to AI's impact on entertainment, the hosts debate the future of visual effects in movies.
Alex Albrecht ([56:40]): "And the thing that's fun is you're gonna get this right, so you're gonna get a sketch that somebody puts on Instagram or TikTok... it's gonna have professional visual effects because it's gonna be so easy to do."
They ponder the seamless integration of AI in creating high-quality visual effects, predicting a shift where AI tools could democratize content creation, making professional-grade effects accessible to indie creators and influencers.
Throughout the episode, Kevin and Alex engage with listener emails, providing shout-outs and answering queries. Notably, they address a question about the idiom "junk in the trunk," clarifying its meaning with humor and camaraderie.
Kevin Rose ([62:16]): "We are like, 'junk in the trunk,' and we were wondering... which portion is the junk and which portion is the trunk...?"
Alex Albrecht ([63:27]): "In that saying, junk playfully refers to someone's curves. And trunk is a fun way to say the backside."
Their interactions reinforce the show's community-centric atmosphere, offering listeners a sense of inclusion and participation.
In keeping with the season, the hosts discuss their New Year's resolutions, blending personal anecdotes with comedic challenges. They contemplate physical feats like backflips and breakdancing as potential resolutions, highlighting their lighthearted approach to self-improvement.
Alex Albrecht ([10:07]): "Let's challenge ourselves now to come up with some out of the box but achievable resolutions."
Kevin Rose ([76:38]): "Could you do handstand push-ups? That is the last thing that... David, can you do that?"
Their candid and humorous exchanges provide a relatable and entertaining touch, bridging their technical discussions with everyday life experiences.
As the episode draws to a close, Kevin and Alex return to their ongoing themes of AI's transformative potential and reaffirm their excitement for upcoming projects and content. They maintain their trademark humor, ending the episode on a high note with discussions about physical challenges and festive cheer.
Alex Albrecht ([76:21]): "And we may break our necks if we try to do any break dancing. Or backflips or front flips."
Kevin Rose ([76:22]): "That's right. But... there's a non-zero chance you might put your foot or head through the wall in attempting to do it, but I'm willing to take that chance."
The episode encapsulates Diggnation’s essence—melding geek culture, technological insights, and good-natured humor into an engaging and informative listening experience.
Notable Quotes with Timestamps:
Kevin Rose ([31:01]): "Now O3, low compute, it jumped up to 20 or 75%. Now, for the first time ever, it surpassed the human at 87.5% in terms of its reasoning ability around novel new problems."
Alex Albrecht ([42:02]): "But speaking of, I think it's... Genesis builds virtual 3D worlds. And when I say virtual, I mean they are completely interactive and physics-accurate for robots to learn."
Kevin Rose ([58:01]): "AI is just doing this... It's making me so confused about life."
Alex Albrecht ([63:27]): "In that saying, junk playfully refers to someone's curves. And trunk is a fun way to say the backside."
Kevin Rose ([76:38]): "That's the last thing that... David, can you do that."
Conclusion
Episode 008 of Diggnation (Rebooted) successfully re-establishes the show's presence with a dynamic mix of topics and entertaining dialogues. Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht provide listeners with insightful discussions on AI advancements, the evolution of the Star Wars saga, and the quirky intersections of technology with everyday life. Their ability to blend serious discourse with humor ensures that Diggnation remains a must-listen for enthusiasts eager to stay abreast of the internet's most intriguing stories.