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Alex Albrecht
What the fuck is up, bro?
Kevin Rose
We're back.
Alex Albrecht
We're back. I was sciatica. I was a child of the night.
Kevin Rose
First of all, did you ever have crushes on animated characters?
Alex Albrecht
Of course. Princess Allura from Voltron.
Kevin Rose
Snake Eyes was cool.
Alex Albrecht
I always thought they'd get together, but I get you.
Kevin Rose
I don't want to undergo circumcision for this one. I'd have to see a picture before I could weigh in.
Alex Albrecht
Of what?
Kevin Rose
No one wants to be chased by a cocaine shark.
Alex Albrecht
Oh, Jesus. I didn't even think about it.
Kevin Rose
And I've had a couple drinks. Can I eat one and just see what happens?
Alex Albrecht
Oh, he's calling 911.
Kevin Rose
What's up, brother? Quinn's here.
Alex Albrecht
Hey. Holy hell, dude. It's been like fucking forever. It's been about 12 years me, that one.
Kevin Rose
What's up, man?
Alex Albrecht
Yeah.
Kevin Rose
Good to see you, buddy.
Alex Albrecht
Welcome to Dupations. Also potentially hazardous to your health.
Kevin Rose
All right, moving on. Why do you have flies in your freaking house?
Alex Albrecht
I noticed this earlier. It's Southern California and I have truth.
Kevin Rose
You put zombie and you put eerie in the title, and I don't want to do it. Dignation.com. hello, friends and family. Welcome to Dignation. My name is Kevin Rose.
Alex Albrecht
And I'm Alex Albrecht. Dignation now covers some of the hottest topics that we find interesting across the World Wide Web. Some of those young kids call it the WWS.
Kevin Rose
Yes, we also use ChatGPT and other sources to find information these days.
Alex Albrecht
We do. Although I'd say you more than me. You're like, Mr. Chatgpt.
Kevin Rose
No, perplexity is where it's at, dude.
Alex Albrecht
All of them. I, like, use them. Although I will say, okay. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Did you. So what happened? Did you actually acquire these?
Kevin Rose
Okay, yeah. So before we get into the show, we gotta have a beer.
Alex Albrecht
Okay.
Kevin Rose
So I failed on the beer front. First of all, Glenn's here.
Alex Albrecht
Hey. Holy hell.
Kevin Rose
Welcome.
Alex Albrecht
How is that even possible? Also possible, time travel. Time travel. What's up, sir? Good to see you.
Kevin Rose
What's up, guys? It's so good to see you, brother.
Alex Albrecht
Wait, is this Pliny the Elder, like, the fancy plan? Anything else?
Kevin Rose
Well, hold on. We'll talk about that. But let me tell you the Glenn story. So here's the horrible Glenn story. The Glenn story is that like. And remember in our episode, we were like. We're like, oh, Glenn can't make it.
Alex Albrecht
Yeah. We did the in member emblem.
Kevin Rose
He's probably flying drones and, like, rest in peace. And we thought he was Dead. But, like. But the. The thing was, is I thought he was in the Bay Area.
Alex Albrecht
Yeah, me too.
Kevin Rose
And so I hit him up. I'm like, dude, like, if you ever make it down, he's like, dude, I live in la, like, a few blocks away from you.
Alex Albrecht
You're like, whoa, what a change of events.
Kevin Rose
I know. So cheers, by the way. We're good to. Glad to have you here, brother.
Alex Albrecht
Hey, buddy.
Kevin Rose
Ah.
Alex Albrecht
Whoa, buddy. Yeah.
Kevin Rose
Pliny the Elderly. Okay, so I did not get the beer I wanted to get.
Alex Albrecht
Well, first off, I have not had, like, a fancy beer in a very long time.
Kevin Rose
This is the number three ranked IPA in the world.
Alex Albrecht
This is glorious.
Kevin Rose
It is glorious.
Alex Albrecht
And I don't think I've ever had this. Is this the one that, like, people have to, like, stay in line with or.
Kevin Rose
That's kind of the younger.
Alex Albrecht
Oh, that's the younger one.
Kevin Rose
This is the elder. A little bit more hair on this one than the younger, but I will say so. Here's the funny thing.
Alex Albrecht
And that's good, Kevin.
Kevin Rose
It is really good shit. So hold on.
Alex Albrecht
Yeah, take your time. Sup it. Sup it.
Kevin Rose
So the number one ranked beer in the world is, according to Beer Advocate, is Heddy Topper by the Alchemist. Okay, Strange story. They're made in Vermont. And I had always.
Alex Albrecht
What's strange about that?
Kevin Rose
No, I always wanted to try this beer. And Glenn's like, oh, yeah, yeah, that's a buddy of mine. And I was like, what? I was like, what are you talking about? Like, this is the hardest beer to get in the world. He's like, oh, yeah. We were like, we used to live together. And I'm like, what are you talking about? And it's true. This is a buddy of Glenn's. And I went and visited it out there when I was out there for another friend's wedding. And Glen, you connected us, I think, via email or something like that. Super nice guy.
Alex Albrecht
Did you try it?
Kevin Rose
Yeah, I sent him a bottle of wine, actually. Remember when I think we were staying out there? This was like, two years ago. Yeah, I tried. It's amazing. I ordered it from a third party because I wanted to get it here as fast as possible. It didn't make it in time, but we will have it for the next episode.
Alex Albrecht
I love it, dude.
Kevin Rose
But I'm very excited to try. But so Pliny, Russian River Brewing fantastic beers. They make a younger. I had their younger this year. It's amazing. And sadly, they're going for $150 a bottle right now. Oh, I Didn't buy that.
Alex Albrecht
No.
Kevin Rose
And it's number two. Why would you buy number number two?
Alex Albrecht
Yeah.
Kevin Rose
Come on. And this is number three. And it was like, eight bucks.
Alex Albrecht
This was eight bucks.
Kevin Rose
It was like nine.
Alex Albrecht
Nine dollars?
Kevin Rose
Yes. If you couldn't find it, it's still.
Alex Albrecht
Ah, there's the rubber.
Kevin Rose
But no, it's not that hard anymore. But isn't it good?
Alex Albrecht
Dude, I have not, like I said. Cause, I mean, look, at the end of the day, as people remember, I and slash Kevin were big beer drinkers. Yes. And then I just got to this point where I was like, it just makes me so, like, bloated and heavy. You know what I mean?
Kevin Rose
Yeah. Oh, yeah.
Alex Albrecht
And then I, to be fair, just started drinking more wine, and I got really into. Not into wine. Like, ooh. But, like, I just enjoy it.
Kevin Rose
Yeah.
Alex Albrecht
And I also feel like I'm really good at, like, getting cheap wine that I like.
Kevin Rose
Yeah.
Alex Albrecht
My dad used to do this all the time, so. My dad used to have. I think it was called, like, Mark Mark Johnson. Mark Mark something. And he would get. And it was Pinot Noir. And he would buy the Magnums, and it was just for him, and he would just crush it and then have a Magnum open. No, it would take, like, five days or in a week or whatever.
Kevin Rose
Canting. Yeah.
Alex Albrecht
But he would just be like, magnum. Magnum. Magnum. And I was like, dude, what? And he's like, it's fine. It's good. It's. I like this red wine. And so now I kind of get that because, like, I'll go to Costco and I'll buy, like, they have, like, a Brunello. That's the Kirkland Brunello. And it's like, you know, 10 bucks, whatever. And I'll just buy a case of that.
Kevin Rose
That doesn't give you a headache?
Alex Albrecht
No, everything gives me a headache, Kevin.
Kevin Rose
Okay, so then you're fine.
Alex Albrecht
Actually, I did wake up this morning. I had a. I had a bottle last night, and I woke up this morning, and I was like, oh, I don't know if I should have done that before doing dignation again, but I'll be all right.
Kevin Rose
He said 10 minutes. I'm fine. That's the nice thing about beer. Yeah.
Alex Albrecht
Natural ones. Yeah.
Kevin Rose
The first thing. Glenn gets here. Glenn gets here. Like, you know, he's in the bathroom. And I'm like, glenn, want some wine? Thinking he'd be like, yeah, I'll take whatever. He's like, do you have any natural wines? Like, making custom orders and shit? It's amazing. No, they're really good. They're really. The orange wines are fantastic.
Alex Albrecht
Have you ever had any orange wines made from oranges?
Kevin Rose
No, no. It's like actually they use. It's the time of. They leave the grape actually in the wine. They take it out early and so it gives it more of an orange hue. And they're typically natural wines. They're really good. I'll bring one next time.
Alex Albrecht
Yeah, I don't.
Kevin Rose
I'm going to say they're not expensive at all. They're just like the best. They're really good. All right, so we've got good beers to start.
Alex Albrecht
Well, so before we get into it, we do want to say a. As we said on the last episode, we have decided that we will. And by the way, that's the other thing you don't get with wine is so many burps. So I apologize.
Kevin Rose
We are sponsored by Gas X. We're getting older, by the way.
Alex Albrecht
Gasx is great. So don't make fun of good product. So, as we said last week, we were excited. We had such a good time getting together to do this sort of one more time. We decided, you know what? Come on, one more time.
Kevin Rose
Let's do it a couple more times.
Alex Albrecht
That said, I have a feeling that this episode is going to be coming out probably right on the heels of the one that just came out.
Kevin Rose
Probably a little bit late, maybe. Heels. Ish.
Alex Albrecht
Heels. Ish. Don't get used to them coming out once a week. Once every two weeks. It's going to be a little used to it.
Kevin Rose
Just not so often.
Alex Albrecht
You can get used to it, but just be ready to be disappointed a little.
Kevin Rose
So we're thinking about one every three weeks.
Alex Albrecht
One every three weeks is kind of what we're. What we're shooting for. But honestly, it's been really great not only seeing everybody's reactions, but also reconnecting with old fans. I mean, there's so many people that I was just like, oh, my God, dude. And old friends, like people have come out of the woodwork to be like, oh, my God, I'm so excited you're back doing this thing. Like, congratulations. So fun. So thank you guys all really, for consuming the content and being happy that we're back. Because we're happy that we're back.
Kevin Rose
Yes. And I will say, if you do want us to do it more often, the easiest way to do that is you definitely. If you're an old school watcher, if you're new to this. Hello, welcome.
Alex Albrecht
Hello.
Kevin Rose
We're glad to have you. Yes. Tell your old friends that used to watch with you that we're back. Yeah, because that will get us more numbers and if we get more numbers and actually we'll. We figure if we get to a big enough state, we can actually take sponsors at some point. I don't know. We'll figure it out. But anyway, tell your friends. Um, to that end, new things have happened. There is a new invention called Instagram. Since we last. Well, actually Instagram was around, but we weren't really doing clips or anything.
Alex Albrecht
Well, Instagram reels probably wasn't around.
Kevin Rose
Definitely not around. So some of our best of clips. Instagram.com the dignation the dignation TikTok new new.com thedignation Our website with all the RSS links for the podcast if you want it on audio is at dignation show fansignation.com email us.
Alex Albrecht
Fansignation show the show fans at dignation.
Kevin Rose
I got someone still has that domain.
Alex Albrecht
If you happen to have the domain dignation.com, and you'd like to offer your services for pass through, please let us know.
Kevin Rose
Yeah, somebody has it.
Alex Albrecht
Fansignation Show.
Kevin Rose
Fansignation Show. Email us. We can read your emails on the show like we used to back in the day. And of course where you can watch this high def 4k content is YouTube.com dignation yes.
Alex Albrecht
If you'd like to compare and contrast. It's very funny. And now my YouTube feed is like old episodes of Dignation and then the new episode of Dignation. And the thumbnails are very specific about age.
Kevin Rose
Yeah.
Alex Albrecht
Like seeing just the little baby Kevin and Alex.
Kevin Rose
I know.
Alex Albrecht
Right in like my old garage right next to us, being like, yeah, it's.
Kevin Rose
Going to be good.
Alex Albrecht
We're back sciatica.
Kevin Rose
I can't sit for too long. Just like, it's horrible. Okay, I feel ya. All right.
Alex Albrecht
Anyway, we're very excited. Oh, but I did want to say one of the other things that's been really cool is I'm now getting fed some like, clips and stuff from like, old episodes and remembering we got to do some really cool shit.
Kevin Rose
Yeah, no doubt.
Alex Albrecht
And it reminded me of one of my favorite moments that we had, which I'm sure you remember. We went to the Indy car racetrack with Danica and Danica Patrick took us on a lap in the pace car, which by the way was a Honda Civic hybrid. And I've never known that a Honda Civic hybrid could go that fucking fast.
Kevin Rose
Well, she was like in flip flops.
Alex Albrecht
She's like five and she just Goes.
Kevin Rose
You know, I love that she's.
Alex Albrecht
I know. She was totally a you type girl.
Kevin Rose
Well, like, back then. I mean, she's tiny.
Alex Albrecht
Hey, hey.
Kevin Rose
She's good.
Alex Albrecht
She's my favorite, though, is we were supposed to go on a second lap. Kevin was like, get me the fuck out of this car.
Kevin Rose
No, dude, I don't want to die. I want to stop at this point. Kevin, stop. Let's stop.
Alex Albrecht
Let's stop.
Kevin Rose
Let's stop. Okay, Okay. I need to get out. I definitely need to get out.
Alex Albrecht
Yeah, this would be good. That would look like flip flop.
Kevin Rose
A flip flop can get stuck underneath the pedal.
Alex Albrecht
It was.
Kevin Rose
There's dingo. I'm a Crocs. I got new Crocs, by the way.
Alex Albrecht
Oh, those are nice.
Kevin Rose
Camo, camo, camo. Little croc action, you know. Saving some money.
Alex Albrecht
Yes, saving some money. Because that's what you need to do is get Crocs to just save some money.
Kevin Rose
Have you seen the wine we've been drinking on these episodes?
Alex Albrecht
Yeah, that's true. That is true. I apologize. I apologize for drinking all that fancy wine. I'm still got my flip flops. I think I might be buried in my flip flops.
Kevin Rose
You know, if Crocs wants to sponsor us.
Alex Albrecht
I've never owned a pair of Crocs.
Kevin Rose
Oh, they're so comfortable.
Alex Albrecht
Really?
Kevin Rose
Oh, yeah. What's the size shoe? You're like ten and a half though, right?
Alex Albrecht
Nine and a half. Ten.
Kevin Rose
I'm going to get you Crocs next episode. I'll get you some fancy ones. They're upstairs. I love it now, too, by the way.
Alex Albrecht
You're just. I know. I'm gonna show up and have, like, some fucking strawberry shortcake Crocs.
Kevin Rose
No, no, I'll get you some.
Alex Albrecht
Cool. Thank you. Thank you. I'm very excited now. I get Crocs.
Kevin Rose
So let me write this down. Ten and a half Crocs.
Alex Albrecht
Nine and a half. Ten.
Kevin Rose
So ten. Ten.
Alex Albrecht
Yeah, more comfortable. Okay.
Kevin Rose
Crocs. Amazon Crocs. Okay. Affiliate Crocs.
Alex Albrecht
Affiliate link.
Kevin Rose
Save that money.
Alex Albrecht
Oh, my God. All right, let's get into this, guys.
Kevin Rose
Let's do it.
Alex Albrecht
We have. We just started. So this story was like, one of those stories that just baffles my mind, okay? The Viral Chase bank glitch is actually a crime and could land you in prison. So this happened a while ago. I started seeing this all over, all over the place. Essentially, what happened was somebody figured out bank fraud and thought that somehow it was an ATM software glitch. So what this guy did Was he just wrote a check to himself on a bank account that had no money and deposited into the ATM at Chase and was, like, shocked that there was funds available. And so he withdrew those funds and was like. Went on TikTok and was like, bro, there is a software glitch happening right now. It's an infinite money glitch. Write a check from an account that doesn't have any money and then put it in the ATM and they'll let you take some of it out. They don't even know that's called.
Kevin Rose
They're giving you a little credit, thinking you're not going to scam them.
Alex Albrecht
It's called check fraud. It's literally called. I think it's called check kiting is literally what it is, where you write a check that, you know, won't have any funds deposited in a bank or cash it in a bank.
Kevin Rose
How much did he get, though? Only, like 100 bucks at a time or something like that. They don't give you the full amount.
Alex Albrecht
No, he started doing it over and over because he thought he was like. He thought it was like World of Warcraft where you can buy an item for like 5 gold from some vendor and sell it to another person.
Kevin Rose
He's like, taking advantage now before they close the hole. Yes.
Alex Albrecht
He's like. And it went viral on TikTok because he was telling people, guys, I've figured out money, go to a bank and steal it. And they're all like, dude, this guy's unlocked the code, man. Let's go. Everybody write these checks. And they were just. And everybody. And then all of a sudden, he went back on TikTok and was like, the bank is really mad. The cops are going to be looking for me. What is happening? It was their fault. It was like, how is it their faul.
Kevin Rose
No, that's called fraud.
Alex Albrecht
It's literally check fraud. Like, Steven Spielberg made a movie about that. So he got arrested, I'm assuming. Look, to be fair, I didn't follow up past the virality of the moment. I'm assuming maybe not arrested, but probably has to pay.
Kevin Rose
If you chase, though, you kind of have to be like, you know, he's not playing with a full deck.
Alex Albrecht
So it's the bank. So the bank is like, that guy's an idiot. We should probably give him money.
Kevin Rose
No, but, no, not give him money.
Alex Albrecht
That guy stole money from him. Well, let's ask him some questions about this safe.
Kevin Rose
He clearly thought that he had found, like, a loophole. Like, you know what I mean? Like, it Wasn't like. He was like.
Alex Albrecht
But, like, meaning it's a bank.
Kevin Rose
So I have. Something happened to me one time. This.
Alex Albrecht
I had stole money from my bank.
Kevin Rose
Yeah. Almost. Oh, I had no money. This was like, 2000. I was broke as hell.
Alex Albrecht
Okay.
Kevin Rose
And I logged into my bank account, and there was $120,000 there. They had wired. Somebody had wired money into my account that was. Went to the wrong account.
Alex Albrecht
Oh, that is an interesting.
Kevin Rose
No, I normally have, like, hundred dollars, you know, in my bank. And I was like, do I go into the branch? Do I just take his 300 out? Because that was max you could take out of time. And so I took a picture of it. No, I don't think I take. I don't think we had smartphones back then.
Alex Albrecht
I took a picture.
Kevin Rose
No, no. I got the ATM receipt because I wanted to say, someday I will have this. So I got, like, printed out. Like, I'll be like, one day. I will have this. And so I got the receipt, but then I didn't do anything. And then literally the next day, it was gone.
Alex Albrecht
Wow.
Kevin Rose
They messed up.
Alex Albrecht
That's so. So that's a different thing. I discovered check kiting.
Kevin Rose
Yeah. But if I had gone into the branch and took it out 50k and been like, hey, just trying here to get my money out. Like, you still go to jail for that.
Alex Albrecht
I don't know if you would have gone to jail for that. Cause you could have been like, oh, I thought I won some lottery and there was a direct deposit. Did you buy any tickets?
Kevin Rose
No, I just thought that nobody would have done.
Alex Albrecht
I was under that impression. One of my favorite jokes from Animaniacs.
Kevin Rose
Oh, shit.
Alex Albrecht
Remember Animaniacs?
Kevin Rose
Of course.
Alex Albrecht
One of my favorite jokes is they get trapped in this elevator, and the maintenance man is, like, working on the thing. And then, like, 10 minutes goes by, and they. They're like, is somebody gonna come and help? And they're like, oh, you guys are still in there? He goes, yeah, we're still in there. And he was like. I was under the impression you guys got out. He's like, why would you think that? He was like, I was just under that impression.
Kevin Rose
You still in there?
Alex Albrecht
It was our indication that you got out. Oh, really? What gave you that indication?
Kevin Rose
That's just an indication we had, dude.
Alex Albrecht
Like, that's fucking funny as shit, dude. Why am I.
Kevin Rose
Why are you an Animaniacs guy?
Alex Albrecht
Well, I was a child of the 90s, Kevin.
Kevin Rose
First of all, you could have been watching Transformers. Was G.I. joe, was DuckTales was Smurfs. Smurfette was hot.
Alex Albrecht
I know, but Smurfs was more my sister. My older sister.
Kevin Rose
What?
Alex Albrecht
She was more into, I thought.
Kevin Rose
You mean Smurfette looked like your older sister?
Alex Albrecht
Yeah, I could be into Smurfette. She looks like my sister.
Kevin Rose
What? No, no, I was just like my whole blues. Did you ever have crushes on animated characters?
Alex Albrecht
Of course. Princess Allura from Voltron.
Kevin Rose
I don't remember her.
Alex Albrecht
Fucking hell. That was like my thing I liked.
Kevin Rose
Who was the one on G.I. joe? Lady Jane.
Alex Albrecht
Lady Jane?
Kevin Rose
Yeah. Lady Jane was hot. Sassy too.
Alex Albrecht
She was sassy.
Kevin Rose
Snake Eyes was cool. I always thought they would get together. Snake Eyes.
Alex Albrecht
But I get you. I totally get where you're going.
Kevin Rose
I don't know that Snake Eyes was a dude.
Alex Albrecht
Oh, that is true.
Kevin Rose
Because they never took their mask off.
Alex Albrecht
Well, then he was a very athletic woman.
Kevin Rose
They had snake eyes.
Alex Albrecht
Snake eyes.
Kevin Rose
They knew what was underneath there. Snake eyes.
Alex Albrecht
Oh, God, all that stuff was good. I remember I had a sleepover and we were watching Voltron. God, kids are so dumb.
Kevin Rose
What's the name of the Voltron woman? I want to look her up.
Alex Albrecht
Princess Allura.
Kevin Rose
Princess Olora.
Alex Albrecht
Allura.
Kevin Rose
A L, L, uh.
Alex Albrecht
Oh.
Kevin Rose
Oh, shit.
Alex Albrecht
Yeah, dude, not that one. That's the new one. That's the one. Oh, why couldn't you like classic. I could like both. I'm just saying. That's the one. That little Alex, you know, boner boy. That's where that was.
Kevin Rose
Oh yeah, you get the blue eyes.
Alex Albrecht
So I had. Kids are so fucking dumb. He went to sleep. I stayed up a little bit later watching Bullshit. I mean, I think was like Godzilla versus Mothra or some shit, which was awesome. And then the next day I was like, dude, you missed it. You fell asleep. They like late night. There's like some like Japanese porn that they played with, like the Voltron chick. And it was like all porn.
Kevin Rose
It was great.
Alex Albrecht
You like saw everything. And he was like, what?
Kevin Rose
And I was like, yeah, you fell asleep.
Alex Albrecht
You missed it.
Kevin Rose
He's like, fuck. You told that to a friend?
Alex Albrecht
Yeah, cuz I thought it's. Again, kids are stupid. I don't know why it never happened. Fuck. Of course not.
Kevin Rose
So that's who you like? The pink helmet. Oh, yeah. She's kind of cute.
Alex Albrecht
I mean of all like, there's so many. Like Daisy Duke from Dukes of Has.
Kevin Rose
Oh, Daisy. Well, that's a real woman.
Alex Albrecht
This is a real woman, kid. That ain't no Snake Eyes, dude.
Kevin Rose
First of all, don't hate on Snake Eyes.
Alex Albrecht
She's a prince. I love Snake Eyes. As a male person to look up to.
Kevin Rose
First of all, Snake Eyes was a badass. Well, they've made so many movies now it's clearly a dude. Now I know. Could have been a woman.
Alex Albrecht
Anyway, long story short, if you're getting free money, especially from a bank, it is illegal. No bank is just going to be like, I'm going to give you some free money.
Kevin Rose
Unless it's high interest checking.
Alex Albrecht
Unless it's high interest checking.
Kevin Rose
You never know. All right, so okay, here we go. Next story. My girlfriend really wants me to get circumcised. Okay, hear me out now.
Alex Albrecht
Okay, first off, you're married, so I don't know who this person is.
Kevin Rose
No, no, this is a 27 year old male from the UK.
Alex Albrecht
Okay.
Kevin Rose
He's an atheist.
Alex Albrecht
Okay.
Kevin Rose
As one is. That's fine.
Alex Albrecht
Yeah.
Kevin Rose
His girlfriend is 31 year old. Christian from Africa has expressed that she doesn't like him uncircumcised and wants him to undergo circumcision. They've been dating for four months and things have become more serious and she's been insisting on the matter. Initially he said, I thought she was joking. But lately she's made it clear that if they're going to have kids, which you can do either way, that's still works.
Alex Albrecht
It's just.
Kevin Rose
And want to marry me, you'll get this procedure done. I'm at a loss because I've repeatedly told her I don't want to undergo circumcision.
Alex Albrecht
I mean, citing the risks.
Kevin Rose
I don't know how many risks there are about it, but I think there.
Alex Albrecht
Might be more risks as you're older, you get older.
Kevin Rose
So for this one I'd have to see a picture before I could weigh in.
Alex Albrecht
Of what? Yeah, I was just about to say of the woman.
Kevin Rose
Of the woman, yeah.
Alex Albrecht
Maybe his penis is like super fucked up, but it needs to get circumcised.
Kevin Rose
Like if she's like a 10, you're doing not on his penis, she's like a 10.
Alex Albrecht
No, but like I get you. What's the long term viability of this relationship?
Kevin Rose
I hear that sometimes you're out of your pay grade, right?
Alex Albrecht
Yes.
Kevin Rose
And if he is a two and she's like eight and a half, you go choppy, choppy.
Alex Albrecht
I get that. I get that. No, I totally get that. I see what you mean. You should also see a picture of.
Kevin Rose
His jump though because it could be excessive for skin.
Alex Albrecht
Yeah, it could just be an issue.
Kevin Rose
Thank you, Glenn, for the Excessive foreskin. It could be excessive. I'm so glad to have Glenn back.
Alex Albrecht
It's great.
Kevin Rose
He brings the reality to it because there could be excessive foreskin that needs to be taken care of.
Alex Albrecht
He knows medical ramifications of he's clearly.
Kevin Rose
Been a doctor in the previous life. Okay, so question.
Alex Albrecht
Yes.
Kevin Rose
Is everyone here circumcised?
Alex Albrecht
Yes.
Kevin Rose
Yes.
Alex Albrecht
Yeah, same.
Kevin Rose
Okay. Okay. Well.
Alex Albrecht
I just love how softly you did that. I know. Is everybody here circumcised? And then concern in your eyes? Yeah. And once everyone concides because somebody said.
Kevin Rose
No, I'd have to go to them and be like, well, let me ask you a question.
Alex Albrecht
I get that.
Kevin Rose
Here's the real question. What if they flip the script and someone say, hey, I don't like it.
Alex Albrecht
Reattach your foreskin.
Kevin Rose
Could you redo a reattachment procedure?
Alex Albrecht
I mean, I don't want. Here's the thing. And I think this is exactly where this guy gets. When you're young and shit happens to you, you know, like if you get circumcised when you're young, like who. I don't remember it. I don't fucking know that. But any conscious decision where it's voluntary to go, I would like to be unconscious and someone cut my penis. That is right. Never the choice.
Kevin Rose
Well, first of all, I have voluntary. I'll do a little overexposure here. In the spirit of dignation.
Alex Albrecht
Yeah, yeah.
Kevin Rose
You know, I like to keep shit tight. You know, as one should we keep our junk tight? Like we don't want Amazon.com going, growing. Yeah. So when I trimmed down and I thankfully I have a razor now that protects against that. But back in the day, you would cut your dick sometimes with a razor when you're trimming down there.
Alex Albrecht
It hurts. Yeah, it's not a fun thing.
Kevin Rose
Yeah, it really, really. And that's a nick. Could you imagine taking off like a, like a huge fold?
Alex Albrecht
Well, first off, whoever said that like balls is like indicates like strength. That's never had balls hit by a small, small thing. Like literally flicked in the balls is one of the most painful things.
Kevin Rose
Oh yeah. If you flip back out, you could drop to the ground.
Alex Albrecht
So I don't know why that's like been the like. Oh yeah, it takes balls.
Kevin Rose
You know those slap competitions that they have on YouTube?
Alex Albrecht
Yeah, slap off.
Kevin Rose
They should do that with, by the way, that would.
Alex Albrecht
So I would love to see the cut of like the first one the guys like got his hands and the guy just goes, whack that guy. Dies. They never do it again. Like, literally, that guy dies on the floor, and they're like, this was the worst idea.
Kevin Rose
I don't know why we would ever do it. My deck and zipper for the first time. Oh, yeah, A month ago, for the first time. Did you cut it? It was just a little bit of blood. Yeah. So you were zipping fast and you hit it. I was driving. You were driving?
Alex Albrecht
Why was your. No, I don't wanna know. I don't know. I don't know. Sounds great. I'm glad that. Glad you survived. I'm glad you survived.
Kevin Rose
Okay. So Glen was driving. Caught it in the zipper. As one does when they drive.
Alex Albrecht
Yeah. You know, what was that something about Mary? Remember when he got. He, like, zipped his junk all over the thing?
Kevin Rose
So, anyway, back to this guy, though. Let's get serious for a second here. I know we've been joking around. He's 27, she's 31. She's probably more experienced.
Alex Albrecht
I think, as much as I disagree. I mean, a. I kind of feel like any time you're in a relationship with somebody that is trying to force you to do something that is so extreme and outside of your comfort zone and that you're very clearly against, that's a relationship red flag.
Kevin Rose
To be fair, he's probably only against it because it hurts.
Alex Albrecht
I don't know. I mean, it's his dick. Like, he's 27. That's what his dick looks like.
Kevin Rose
That's fair.
Alex Albrecht
You know what I mean? That's like somebody being like, okay, I want to date you, but you've got to sow a vet onto your penis. What the fuck?
Kevin Rose
You could be like, breast implants.
Alex Albrecht
Yeah. Yeah. Like, breast implants.
Kevin Rose
Oh, yeah.
Alex Albrecht
Like, if you were like, you have to get breast implants or I would date you.
Kevin Rose
Fuck you. Get out of here.
Alex Albrecht
Yeah. So I think we just landed.
Kevin Rose
Yeah. Yeah. Don't do it, my friend.
Alex Albrecht
Good luck to you, sir.
Kevin Rose
Yes.
Alex Albrecht
I think the consensus amongst the elite here and knowledgeable medical is don't do it. Is don't do it.
Kevin Rose
Don't do it.
Alex Albrecht
Unless you're a two and she's a 10.
Kevin Rose
Yeah. If you're a two and she's A 10.
Alex Albrecht
Sniff snip.
Kevin Rose
Yeah, we can all agree on that one. Yeah.
Alex Albrecht
You happier?
Kevin Rose
All right.
Alex Albrecht
Okay, here we go. Next story. Hyundai's Wild Sci Fi sports car is slated for production. Have you seen this?
Kevin Rose
I have not looked at it. Purposely. Did not look at it because I knew you were gonna bring it up.
Alex Albrecht
Okay, first of all, how much beer.
Kevin Rose
Have you drank so far? Chexis? Yep. You're way behind.
Alex Albrecht
What are you. Where are you?
Kevin Rose
I'm done. I'm down at the bottom. Very bottom.
Alex Albrecht
I feel like that's not what that actually looks like.
Kevin Rose
Mm.
Alex Albrecht
Mm.
Kevin Rose
I'm done now. I finished.
Alex Albrecht
Okay, well, I was talking about circumcision.
Kevin Rose
Okay, fair enough.
Alex Albrecht
And it makes me thirsty. Okay, so we've talked about electric cars.
Kevin Rose
Yes.
Alex Albrecht
We both own electric cars. Yes. I'm very bullish on electric cars ever since I had an electric car. And I love them. But I also feel like the innovation in the electric car space is really cool. It's good. But I also feel like, you know, like, we talked about this with Tesla, like, the designs are pretty much bog standard. Most of the cars are going to be the ones that are going to, you know, chasing aerodynamics and efficiency in electric cars. Most electric cars are going to start looking about the same because it's the optimal, you know, aerodynamics.
Kevin Rose
Yeah.
Alex Albrecht
Hyundai announced a couple years ago. Hyundai, Hyundai, Hyundai, Hyundai, Hyundai. Whatever. I can never know how to pronounce it correctly, but I also want to do it right. Anyway, they introduced this car called the Envision 74.
Kevin Rose
Oh, shit. I'm just looking at this right now.
Alex Albrecht
This is it, dude.
Kevin Rose
That's it. Looks like the Back to the Future car.
Alex Albrecht
Yeah, it looks like a DeLorean. But here's the crazy part. It was going to be a. I mean, they may still make a version of it. Look at that. Look at that fucking car, dude.
Kevin Rose
I know. The problem is they never look like this when they get to production.
Alex Albrecht
No, this is the car. They're making this car.
Kevin Rose
That's the exact production model.
Alex Albrecht
Yes, this is the production model. This is not the.
Kevin Rose
Can I take the fin off of it?
Alex Albrecht
I mean, I'm sure you can do whatever you want once you get it, but here's the thing. They first announced it as a hydrogen hybrid. So it's going to have two hydrogen motors and an electric motor. But they've just now said that they're making an all electric vehicle.
Kevin Rose
Shit. Where do you fill up hydrogen?
Alex Albrecht
There's only 59 hydrogen fueling stations in all of the United States. I know, like, nobody does that, but there's a bunch. There's like 129 or 119 hydrogen fueling stations in Korea. In South Korea.
Kevin Rose
Okay.
Alex Albrecht
So that's why they made that all. But here's the crazy thing. First off, look how fucking cool this thing looks.
Kevin Rose
Oh.
Alex Albrecht
But here's the thing. Hyundai is quietly Becoming my favorite electric car company. They have the Ioniq 5N which looks baller.
Kevin Rose
Super cool. 5N.
Alex Albrecht
The Ioniq 5N which is their like N is like their, you know, AMG or their like M for. But yeah, look how fucking cool that is.
Kevin Rose
I don't know that that's. That cool.
Alex Albrecht
It's cool.
Kevin Rose
That's cool.
Alex Albrecht
No, keep going. I mean, that's sort. Yes, yes, but that's the one.
Kevin Rose
What?
Alex Albrecht
The powder blue one. I mean, but think about it for.
Kevin Rose
Like, it looks like a Ford Fiesta.
Alex Albrecht
Yeah, but it's a fucking Fiesta. Anyway, but long story short, guess what they just announced like six, seven days ago.
Kevin Rose
What's that?
Alex Albrecht
No idea. This. This is the Hyundai Heritage series Grandeur. They're making a 1986 salon car.
Kevin Rose
Dude, that is hot.
Alex Albrecht
And they're making it into an all electric fucking beast shit. Right?
Kevin Rose
Dude, I will be fucking retro in line for this.
Alex Albrecht
Right? Like, this to me is like. Dude, these people are fucking doing it. This is like. When I saw that.
Kevin Rose
Are they really going to make that?
Alex Albrecht
Yeah, when I saw it, I was like, this is gonna be. I. At first I thought it was like a Men in Black. Like. Yeah, like stunt car that you could get. But dude, think about pulling up in that all electric, looks like a 96 fucking salon car.
Kevin Rose
One of the cars I've been desperately searching for my entire life has been the car from the Matrix with the suicide doors.
Alex Albrecht
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. What kind of car is that?
Kevin Rose
That is a. It is a Matrix suicide doors car. Oh, yeah, there it is. Lincoln Continental.
Alex Albrecht
Oh, yeah.
Kevin Rose
I love that car. But not. I mean, it's a little far off, but it's similar.
Alex Albrecht
It's not dissimilar to that car. Dude, we got all electric, brand new. Like. Fuck yeah. Dude, I'm telling you, Hyundai is like, they're slowly becoming my favorite electric car company. And it's like, I just. I want it. I want it.
Kevin Rose
Okay, What's Hyundai stock at right now? Ooh, over the counter.
Alex Albrecht
63.
Kevin Rose
It's at 60. I don't know what the market cap is. They're not trading on our exchanges.
Alex Albrecht
I don't know. But all I'm saying is the fucking.
Kevin Rose
Envision 42 billion whole. Damn. They're not. They're not nothing.
Alex Albrecht
No, dude, no, no, no. And they're. They're like, they're. Because they think about it, Samsung is huge in the battery world.
Kevin Rose
Yeah.
Alex Albrecht
South Korean company.
Kevin Rose
Yeah.
Alex Albrecht
Hyundai. South Korean company.
Kevin Rose
Like, South Korea is dope. Have you ever been.
Alex Albrecht
I've not.
Kevin Rose
I've been. It's so good.
Alex Albrecht
I know. I go back to Japan.
Kevin Rose
Let's do a double live dignation there in South Korea.
Alex Albrecht
Done. Look at that.
Kevin Rose
Email us if you want to sponsor.
Alex Albrecht
By the way. How great is that? That we're just like, yeah, we should start doing live dignations and in, like, Asia. I mean, but, dude, if anybody works for Hyundai and wants to get Hyundai, just say Hyundai. Don't try and it's not Hyundai.
Kevin Rose
It's not Hyundai.
Alex Albrecht
Hyundai.
Kevin Rose
Let's ask Glenn. Glenn, how's it. I would say Hyundai. I don't know about Hyundai.
Alex Albrecht
Hyundai. Hyundai.
Kevin Rose
No, Hyundai. Hyundai. I mean, Hyundai doesn't sound too bad, actually. I mean, we're just making up names now.
Alex Albrecht
I know.
Kevin Rose
It is Hyundai.
Alex Albrecht
I did speak Honda.
Kevin Rose
Hyundai.
Alex Albrecht
Hyundai.
Kevin Rose
Ah, Jesus. Did you catch up? Yeah. Then you haven't drank your beer yet.
Alex Albrecht
That's why I was able to catch it. I just saved your life, Kevin. But long story short, I'm just loving that these guys are going out of their way to push the envelope and bring back that nostalgic vehicle. Like, I want the nostalgic vehicle. I actually was talking about doing of, like, starting a company where I would get old, what's it called? Classic cars and then convert them into electric.
Kevin Rose
Oh, dude. Hyundai. What is it? Hyundai.
Alex Albrecht
Hyundai.
Kevin Rose
Hyundai. See, what's that? ChatGPT? Yeah, it's just Google. Google pronunciation.
Alex Albrecht
But is it Google pronunciation in South Korea?
Kevin Rose
Yeah. Oh, that's. Oh, wait, hold on.
Alex Albrecht
American pronunciation.
Kevin Rose
Yeah, do it in South Korean. It just says British. Okay.
Alex Albrecht
That fucking car company. You're like, oh, that's an interesting way to put it. Hyundai. Hyundai.
Kevin Rose
No, Hyundai.
Alex Albrecht
Hyundai. Hyundai.
Kevin Rose
Hyundai.
Alex Albrecht
So we were all wrong. And I was the most close to wrong.
Kevin Rose
Okay, so what's next?
Alex Albrecht
But by the way, we're all getting these cars.
Kevin Rose
100%. We're getting these cars.
Alex Albrecht
I would so roll up to, like.
Kevin Rose
Fucking chick fil a with that seconds, dude.
Alex Albrecht
It would be so boring.
Kevin Rose
Any filet.
Alex Albrecht
Any filet.
Kevin Rose
That is the dopest car I've seen in a long time.
Alex Albrecht
Right?
Kevin Rose
Yes.
Alex Albrecht
I literally, I just. I put this thing together last night. I was like, oh, I should talk about that Hyundai that I like. Cause it's super cool and fun. And then I was like on Instagram and I was like, what the fuck is this? And I thought it was a joke. Like, somebody had just, like, made like, you know, like, put it together and be like, oh. So I looked it up and no, it's here. And I was like, dude, this is even fricking cooler.
Kevin Rose
It's so freaking cool.
Alex Albrecht
So what they're doing. And then we'll get off this topic. Cause I'm just so excited. Cause I love cars and cool stuff is they're starting to do this thing called the Heritage Series. And I have a feeling this is not the last car that they're gonna prod. I'm also interested to see if they do. If they're limited. Like, if the numbers are limited, like, they're gonna make 1,000, 10,000, you know, whatever. Cause I wanna get myself.
Kevin Rose
Okay. So I have a Heritage car that I looked at, and I will admit that I was looking to buy this. Okay.
Alex Albrecht
Less cheap than the.
Kevin Rose
Well, let me just say. Let me put it to you this way. I was like, okay, this looks like a cool car.
Alex Albrecht
Okay.
Kevin Rose
I think I would like to own it.
Alex Albrecht
Okay.
Kevin Rose
And I wanna, like, what it would. What it would cost.
Alex Albrecht
Yeah.
Kevin Rose
Because it looks really dope. I think it's this one here. Let's see here. Explore. Okay, so this is the Valor Mal with the cell phone. Look at that. Look at that sexiness. Male.
Alex Albrecht
Or is it velour?
Kevin Rose
It could be velour. So that looks like a vintage. Like, almost. Like, almost. That's a gorgeous. Cool. Like, it's an Aston Martin. Yeah, it's almost looks like an old school. Like, almost like a Cobra.
Alex Albrecht
Like a Chevy Cobra or something. Cobra. Yeah.
Kevin Rose
Yeah. But, like. Yeah, look at that, Glenn.
Alex Albrecht
That's gorgeous.
Kevin Rose
Yeah, it's freaking gorgeous. So I was like, okay, I gotta get this. Like, look at that. Can we get it? So I got a hold of a rep at Aston Martin because. I don't know if I should even say this. I've had an Aston Martin in the past. Like, long time ago. I'm not embarrassed to say that they were great cars. And I was like, I want this car.
Alex Albrecht
And, Kevin, the good news about cars is you can buy them.
Kevin Rose
No, no, no, no, no. So I went and looked, and they.
Alex Albrecht
Is it like Ferrari, where they're like, they won't let you.
Kevin Rose
No, they're doing, like, 100 of them.
Alex Albrecht
Oh. So it's super limited.
Kevin Rose
What do you think it's gonna cost?
Alex Albrecht
I mean, 500k, 1.4. Oh, gee. Come on.
Kevin Rose
Yeah, yeah.
Alex Albrecht
Gotti Town. That's not a thing.
Kevin Rose
So no go. But anyway, beautiful car. All right, next.
Alex Albrecht
Also a beautiful condo in Santa Monica.
Kevin Rose
It's very true. Next story of the day, cocaine sharks found in Brazil.
Alex Albrecht
Okay, okay, I have questions.
Kevin Rose
I actually found this story.
Alex Albrecht
Are they made of cocaine?
Kevin Rose
Well, I'll tell you In a second.
Alex Albrecht
Are they cocaine distribution sharks?
Kevin Rose
I'll tell you in a second. I found this on Digg, actually.
Alex Albrecht
Oh, cool.
Kevin Rose
And dig if you're listening. If you sell me the site back, I will mention more of your artist. Okay, I've been trying to do that and they have not want to sell it yet. All right, so this, they took these sharks and they brought them in for investigation.
Alex Albrecht
And was it because they assumed something had to do with.
Kevin Rose
No.
Alex Albrecht
Or were they just interested in shark checking?
Kevin Rose
They check for mercury. They check for stuff. Every once in a while they get sharks in to see like, how is the population doing?
Alex Albrecht
What's the sharks doing in Brazil? They found some money at that.
Kevin Rose
They found that they have a hundred times higher concentrations of cocaine than 80s partygoers.
Alex Albrecht
They're bloodstreams than normal sharks or than like. So they're party sharks. These are sharks that are like, I gotta get up to the morning and check the tucker. So.
Kevin Rose
Dude, first of all, no one wants to be chased by a cocaine shark.
Alex Albrecht
Oh, Jesus. I didn't even think about that. Oh my God.
Kevin Rose
Think of the ramifications.
Alex Albrecht
That'd be great if it was just like. First off, I'd love to see the Jaws trailer. It's like.
Kevin Rose
Like five times the speed. Yeah, they're just like fucking burning calories. Like, you look at this guy, he's skinny as shit, bro.
Alex Albrecht
That dude doesn't sleep.
Kevin Rose
Dude, that dude has been like going nonstop for like a month.
Alex Albrecht
I saw that guy burning man.
Kevin Rose
Like he has no fat on his body at all. That shark has been hitting it lean. So somehow these. They don't know how these sharks are heart though. They don't know how these sharks are doing lines of cocaine. But they apparently like.
Alex Albrecht
Oh. So they don't know why these sharks have cocaine in them.
Kevin Rose
They think it might be like smuggling. Getting into the water.
Alex Albrecht
Yeah, like they always aren't there. Like always like news reports of like a child found a bundle of cocaine on the shore of.
Kevin Rose
So they're not putting it in their bodies as like.
Alex Albrecht
Yeah, they're not. It's not a recreational.
Kevin Rose
Right, Exactly.
Alex Albrecht
No, no.
Kevin Rose
Meaning like they're not like smuggling in them or anything like that. Like, you know, there's cut open humans and put their guts and shit to smuggle.
Alex Albrecht
Yeah, yeah. Like the movie Lucy, which is also very. Which is actually pretty cool.
Kevin Rose
I'm saying it. It's good actually.
Alex Albrecht
It'd be really good in your fucking thing.
Kevin Rose
Here's the question though. You go to Brazil?
Alex Albrecht
Yeah. First off, are we going To Brazil. Have you been to Brazil?
Kevin Rose
Yes, I have. I went there for a bachelor party. Fucking amazing. Oh God, it was great. Hairless, very hairless. So we went hairless. What?
Alex Albrecht
Nothing.
Kevin Rose
So we went to. I went to Brazil for a bachelor party. It was fun.
Alex Albrecht
I'm glad you came back.
Kevin Rose
I made it back alive. But I will say if they had on the menu. Cause they sell shark things. Cocaine shark, little upsellsies.
Alex Albrecht
A little upsell.
Kevin Rose
Little $15 extra little add on.
Alex Albrecht
Little add on hammerhead or hammer nose. I get that. Would I have cocaine shark?
Kevin Rose
I mean maybe it would be like sushi and cocaine.
Alex Albrecht
No, because I was thinking about that because you remember when we were in Japan.
Kevin Rose
It's not doing drugs then.
Alex Albrecht
Fogu Fugu.
Kevin Rose
Fugu. The both blowfish.
Alex Albrecht
The blowfish, yeah. Remember how like our fucking lips were tingling?
Kevin Rose
Well, we thought we might have died.
Alex Albrecht
Well, I thought I might have died.
Kevin Rose
Yeah.
Alex Albrecht
First off, it was the worst. Oh my God, I was so tired, drunk. It was all, all the things. It's all amazing. We had a great.
Kevin Rose
Japan's the best. Yeah.
Alex Albrecht
But yes, no, the fugu. Like I could imagine, like, oh, you have shark and you have cocaine shark. And if you have cocaine shark you just get a little like Woo. Ha.
Kevin Rose
Yeah, like a little pepperless step. Yeah, yeah.
Alex Albrecht
Little cook in the hole.
Kevin Rose
I mean I kind of feel like that should be a thing they should sell, I mean sweet restaurants in Brazil.
Alex Albrecht
Why would be. Yeah, I mean if they're discovering it, maybe they just do a little test.
Kevin Rose
But it's not like it's like you're getting like full cocaine. It's like you just. Little sharky cocaine.
Alex Albrecht
Yeah, it's like. It's not full cocaine, Kevin.
Kevin Rose
Yeah, I know. It's just shark cocaine. People don't do cocaine.
Alex Albrecht
This is just in general.
Kevin Rose
Just in general. But if you're having it in the shark.
Alex Albrecht
Yeah, maybe in the shark form.
Kevin Rose
These sharks are fit. Every time you see like a video of them off the coast of Brazil tested positive for cocaine. Scientists say it is the first time that dude detected in free ranging sharks. Researchers at the Oswaldo Cruise. That guy's been hitting it. Look how skinny he is.
Alex Albrecht
That's the same guy. Two years later.
Kevin Rose
His nose holes are blown the fuck out.
Alex Albrecht
I mean look, they're mostly cartilage. So now they're just empty.
Kevin Rose
Yeah, exactly. You know what?
Alex Albrecht
Bunch of muscle.
Kevin Rose
Good on them. They're having a good old time. And you know that would be hysterical.
Alex Albrecht
If you're like snorkeling and you like come up To a shark who's just doing coca. Holy shit.
Kevin Rose
Like, fucking shoves it away under the seashells and shit.
Alex Albrecht
Some like crazy fucking lobster on the side. You owe me 20 bucks for that ball. Oh, God.
Kevin Rose
Nothing like cocaine sharks to bring back dignation.
Alex Albrecht
Okay, so this is not necessarily a story.
Kevin Rose
Okay.
Alex Albrecht
Did you finish your beer yet? Yes.
Kevin Rose
Is it done? It's shot. I got red wine for you.
Alex Albrecht
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Kevin Rose
It's my own blend.
Alex Albrecht
It's my own blend. Is it actually your blend or is.
Kevin Rose
It just called Rose? No, it's called Rose Rock. It is a place made in. It was made in Oregon, so I'm excited for you. No, it's actually a really good Pinot, so I'm excited for you to try it.
Alex Albrecht
I would like some.
Kevin Rose
I have an extra glass.
Alex Albrecht
Watch it, watch it. Don't spill yours.
Kevin Rose
No, this is fine.
Alex Albrecht
Okay.
Kevin Rose
People get freaked out when glasses are like this, and I'm okay with it. They're freaked out. Yeah, I know.
Alex Albrecht
Oh, really?
Kevin Rose
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
Alex Albrecht
I cannot. I could not. I could not.
Kevin Rose
People don't like it when glasses are sitting like this.
Alex Albrecht
Well, first off, a. It's your couch. Well, I know, but also, like, no.
Kevin Rose
Number one, a stain treated couch. Do you not get that? Stain treated? Do you get that? This is stain treated. Yeah, of course.
Alex Albrecht
Oh, yeah.
Kevin Rose
You get a little spray Z's. I don't know if it kills you or not, but.
Alex Albrecht
Oh, great.
Kevin Rose
Oh, look at that.
Alex Albrecht
Jesus, Kevin. Growfest.
Kevin Rose
Me too.
Alex Albrecht
Casa de Manana.
Kevin Rose
Okay. I don't know why I have this wrong glass, Glen. No, no offense, no offense, no offense. Can you grab us a different wine glass? Thank you, Glenn. Just a wine glass, not a beer glass.
Alex Albrecht
I have drank wine out of a Brofest class.
Kevin Rose
All right, so what's your story?
Alex Albrecht
Here's the thing. Here's. Here's the thing. Did you. What language did you. Did you take in high school? I didn't. You didn't have any language requirement in high school.
Kevin Rose
I took Pascal.
Alex Albrecht
Oh, you took Pascal?
Kevin Rose
Like, literally. They let us take computer science.
Alex Albrecht
I love you, Glenn. I love you, Glenn.
Kevin Rose
It's great.
Alex Albrecht
It's great.
Kevin Rose
Can you. Cammy that mouth. This is fine, Glenn. Yeah, thank you. It's just there's literally like a thousand other wine glasses. All right, this is good juice, bro.
Alex Albrecht
I'm excited for the juice.
Kevin Rose
Let me know what you think of this. Juice is loose Rose rock from Oregon, which is Oregon Pinot.
Alex Albrecht
Come on now.
Kevin Rose
Yeah, try that. I think you'll like it. All right, so Duolingo. Take your time. Duolingo.
Alex Albrecht
So this is what I was going to say. Cheers.
Kevin Rose
Is it good?
Alex Albrecht
Sure, sure, sure. It's your wine. To your glass. I'm just visiting.
Kevin Rose
That's really good.
Alex Albrecht
Yeah, I know. Cheers. Okay. So you didn't take a language in high school? I took. I was always bad with languages.
Kevin Rose
Same.
Alex Albrecht
I took Latin for two years.
Kevin Rose
You're bad with languages. It's like the hardest one ever.
Alex Albrecht
No, it was actually easy because most of the words are like the word. You know what I mean? Because we're all Latin languages anyway. So I took Latin for two years, then I took French for two years and then I took French in college for a year.
Kevin Rose
Can you speak any French? Y say like, I love dignation. It's so great.
Alex Albrecht
Oh, God. What's I love?
Kevin Rose
Okay, you don't have to do this. It's not gonna work.
Alex Albrecht
Yeah. Je t'aime dignation.
Kevin Rose
Oh, there you go.
Alex Albrecht
Or je t'aime le dignation.
Kevin Rose
Ooh.
Alex Albrecht
C'est bon. So not a ton. They kind of go in and go out. But because of all the stuff that I'm sure people know because I've been talking about on the show with Italian citizenship and going to Italy and falling in love with Italy and all this stuff, I was like, you know what? I'm going to download a language learning app and I'm just going to. I'm not going to judge it. I'm just going to start the app and do the things that it says to do. Half an hour a day. You know, it's all fucking Candy Crush now. It's crazy. It's literally like streaks and badges and shit. And I'm like fireworks and shit. Yeah. Talking to you. Conversations getting legendary.
Kevin Rose
Gold shit.
Alex Albrecht
And I was like, this is all. I mean, I know that.
Kevin Rose
Yeah.
Alex Albrecht
I've been doing that for nothing. No benefit. Except adrenaline in my head for video games. For video games?
Kevin Rose
Yeah.
Alex Albrecht
Like Candy Crush. It's like this. I don't get anything.
Kevin Rose
You take Candy Crush?
Alex Albrecht
I stopped, but yeah. Really? Oh, it was so good. It's really addictive. Anyway, so I downloaded Duolingo and I'm now on my 18 day streak. But not only that, a friend of mine turned me onto this thing and I wanted to know if you. I mean, you probably don't hadn't heard about it, but it's called Slow news.
Kevin Rose
No.
Alex Albrecht
So the whole concept is you can consume your news, your daily news in a foreign language, but they talk slowly. So it's literally Slow news. Italian. And so what it is is that every day you can consume your news in audio form, but it's in Italian. But they do it very slowly.
Kevin Rose
Amazing.
Alex Albrecht
Isn't that a great idea?
Kevin Rose
Yeah.
Alex Albrecht
Genius. Yeah, I'm sure they do English for some people who are just slow humans, people that are kiting checks and not knowing it. They're like, you shouldn't steal from a bank. Oh, why the fuck was I stealing from a bank? Thanks for saying that slowly.
Kevin Rose
So they have Spanish, they have French, they have Italian, and they have German. You know what?
Alex Albrecht
But isn't this great? Yeah.
Kevin Rose
But also, I kind of wish they just had, like, Bluey in Japanese because, like, I like Bluey. I like Bluey. Did you ever watch Bluey?
Alex Albrecht
First off, they do have blue in Japanese. Bluey with Japanese turned on.
Kevin Rose
Oh, okay. I'll sure they have a dub. Okay. All right.
Alex Albrecht
But again, they're going to be talking really fast, right?
Kevin Rose
I need them to slow down.
Alex Albrecht
So this is the thing, man. But I was like, I've really decided, because I'm like. I had a friend of mine that was like, oh, I did a year streak on. I think she was. She was learning Spanish. She was like, I did a year streak, and then I realized I couldn't, like, have conversations or talk. And I was like, I'm totally not. Like, I'm not judging it. Like, I'm not trying to be like, oh, well, you know, if I can't say, where is the this, because I've been doing this for 18 days, then, like, fuck this thing. It's like, no, I'm just gonna do it for, like, three months every day, and at the end, see what it does. No pressure to me. Like, if it doesn't work, who gives a shit? It was like, 80 bucks for a year. And it's fun. I mean, you know, does it work? Well, I mean, it's doing. It's. Yeah, it's pretty cool.
Kevin Rose
The problem I have with duolingo and apps like that is that, like, they always take me down this route of, like, taking me in the shit, where I'm, like, never gonna say it. They're like, watermelon. And I'm just like. I'm like, when?
Alex Albrecht
I didn't know you could learn aquatic.
Kevin Rose
No, I'm just like, when the fuck am I gonna say watermelon? Like, I want to go to. I want to go to Japan, and I want to say, where's the bathroom? Can I order extra sake? I'll take more of that fish. Like, there's certain things, like, I don't want watermelon.
Alex Albrecht
So Duolingo is actually doing that. It starts with, like, ordering in a cafe.
Kevin Rose
Yeah.
Alex Albrecht
You know what I mean? So it's like croissant. You know, how do I get a coffee with sugar and milk and all that?
Kevin Rose
That's where we need to go.
Alex Albrecht
And then it's like navigating a city. Like, where's the bathroom? Where's the church of Piazza? Like, where's the restaurant, stores, pharmacy, like, all that stuff?
Kevin Rose
Do you have this in extra large? Like, things like that?
Alex Albrecht
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Dispensary. La dispensaria for Glen Cuestar las dispensaria vero. And so anyway, where's the dispensary? You could just check the hippie Glen selection and it'll turn it off. Can you microdose this pizza? But anyway. But I was like, it's been interesting for me because I was like, I'm not a big language guy. But I also was like, I want to know. I want to learn as much Italian as I can learn without actively hurting my brain. Because to be fair, I never liked school. Didn't like it beginning that it started, and I hated it. I powered through just to fucking get done with what my parents said I needed to do to be able to be like, I don't have to ever go back to a school. But I also love learning. It's such a weird dichotomy. Like, I love. I love new, like, learning new things. But I fucking hated school. I loved all the. Like. Well, when I got to college, I loved all the social stuff, but, like, I was not a school.
Kevin Rose
Yeah, I got really bad grades until I got into computers. And then it just, like, went from there.
Alex Albrecht
But even then, like, I literally went to college to have someone tell me that I already knew shit about computers.
Kevin Rose
That's right.
Alex Albrecht
That's literally what I know.
Kevin Rose
I remember going into those classes, and I know more than the instructor there. So I got a new phone.
Alex Albrecht
Newer than the last phone.
Kevin Rose
This is the brand new Pixel 9. Just came out two days ago.
Alex Albrecht
First off, how many fucking phones?
Kevin Rose
Don't worry about it. Don't worry about it. I need to practice. I need to learn.
Alex Albrecht
You need to learn. I need to learn the phone.
Kevin Rose
First of all. Have you ever felt a phone that felt more like an iPhone than that? Ooh, yeah.
Alex Albrecht
That is an iPhone.
Kevin Rose
It's got some weight to it, but.
Alex Albrecht
That'S like, the form factor.
Kevin Rose
Look at the camera, though, how crazy it looks.
Alex Albrecht
That's fucked up. That's cool. I feel like I could go to Mars with that.
Kevin Rose
Yeah.
Alex Albrecht
At what point? At what point you said that? I'm just trying to think of, like, how to say this. Like, this is an iPhone. The form factor is an iPhone.
Kevin Rose
I know, it's crazy.
Alex Albrecht
At what point is it, like, did they just give up and go, let's just make an iPhone with our shit in it?
Kevin Rose
No, but, like, now it's got.
Alex Albrecht
But you know what I mean? It was always sort of like, but this is what the. Sam, this is what that is.
Kevin Rose
No, but to be honest, iPhone is copying more of their shit. Cause you can pick this wherever you want. Check this out. It's got Gemini built in now by default. So watch this. Who is Alex Albrecht? Look how fast that was.
Alex Albrecht
That was fast.
Kevin Rose
Alex Albrecht is best known as an American TV personality, actor and podcaster.
Alex Albrecht
Oh, I am.
Kevin Rose
He co hosted the popular tech show the Screensavers and podcasts like dignation. He's also recognized for. Is he circumcised? Let's just see. Let's just see.
Alex Albrecht
It's gonna be in my Wikipedia.
Kevin Rose
I can't provide personal details about people, including Alex Albrecht. This is private.
Alex Albrecht
You know what? That was nice. Thank you. Thank you. It's not publicly available until now.
Kevin Rose
Holy shit. But it's like, it's built into the os, so I don't like it, so.
Alex Albrecht
What do you mean you don't like it?
Kevin Rose
You know, it's just like, there's still some issues and it's cool and all, but, like, I gotta say. So the nothing phone, which I know we've come back, we talked about this last time. The one thing I didn't show you about the nothing phone that I like, we talked about how minimal it was. Yeah, I never showed you the ringtones.
Alex Albrecht
Oh, and you did not.
Kevin Rose
So. So check this out. This has LED is built into the back. Okay, Watch this, watch this. Fuck is it making? Oh, it's not doing videos. It's not doing audio. Hold on. First off, is it doing any, like, visuals?
Alex Albrecht
No, but the fucking.
Kevin Rose
Jesus.
Alex Albrecht
The Casio keyboard called and wants its samples back.
Kevin Rose
Hold on.
Alex Albrecht
It's fucking great.
Kevin Rose
Oh, can you see it now? Oh, yeah, yeah. Check this out. That's kinda dope.
Alex Albrecht
First off, this sounds like somebody falling down the stairs with bones.
Kevin Rose
Listen, hold on. These are ringtones.
Alex Albrecht
Yeah, no, I get it's the one.
Kevin Rose
Okay, hold on. What about this? This is the machines. That's. That's pretty straightforward.
Alex Albrecht
That's a telephone.
Kevin Rose
That's pretty dope.
Alex Albrecht
I mean, it is dope, but I Literally feel like do that if I threw a Casio keyboard down the stairs.
Kevin Rose
How about this?
Alex Albrecht
That is someone falling down the stairs.
Kevin Rose
Ooh, you gotta admit this, by the way.
Alex Albrecht
That's a dolphin having sex. And that's. He's finished.
Kevin Rose
You gotta admit that's kind of dose.
Alex Albrecht
I love it, dude. I totally love it.
Kevin Rose
Yeah. So anyway, by the way, I think.
Alex Albrecht
I had a fucking ringtone. My phone is never on.
Kevin Rose
I think Android should be cooler like this. Like, not like this is like, the stock Google stuff doesn't do it for me. And also, Apple AI is coming now. I got the beta on this one now, and you can move the icons around to wherever you want. And, like, so is Siri.
Alex Albrecht
And Siri has the. What is it that Siri is going to be using? Is it chatgpt?
Kevin Rose
No, no, no. Well, it's got that as a backup, but it's called Apple Intelligence.
Alex Albrecht
Apple Intelligence. It's Zone llc.
Kevin Rose
They'll get there, but yeah, they're leaning on that. But anyway, this story was about the Pixel 9. I'm going to return it, and then I'm going to return it. Give my money back. And then also, Volkswagen is introducing ChatGPT into their cars. And then Siri announced they're doing Claude. Sorry, not Siri. Alexa is doing Claude.
Alex Albrecht
I mean, we talked about this last time.
Kevin Rose
It's a war.
Alex Albrecht
It is a war, but at the end of the day, I don't know if there's gonna be a meaningful difference to an end user on.
Kevin Rose
Agreed.
Alex Albrecht
The difference between Claude, Sonic.
Kevin Rose
So you don't care chatgpt.
Alex Albrecht
Why would I? Cause they're all gonna do essentially the same thing. They're gonna talk to me via the. Whatever product I'm gonna have.
Kevin Rose
Right?
Alex Albrecht
So, like, I will say I'm excited for. The Alexa is such a weird device, right? It's such a weird device. It was so revolutionary when it first came out. It was like. Well, I mean, like, to my parents.
Kevin Rose
Oh, yeah.
Alex Albrecht
Like, my dad, literally, I remember when he first got an Alexa, he was like, dude, I can ask it to play any song and it'll just fucking play it.
Kevin Rose
Oh, for sure.
Alex Albrecht
And I was like, yeah, well, that's the Internet. You know what I mean? Like, welcome to the Internet, Dad. But he loved it. And then they got a little. They get to the point where they were like, it's the guy's spying on you, he's gonna think. So they put them all away.
Kevin Rose
Oh, really? They get them.
Alex Albrecht
Oh, yeah. And I was like, oh, they just stopped using them. Which, whatever.
Kevin Rose
I mean, they are listening, they're not listening.
Alex Albrecht
But either way, I have them all throughout the house. But I literally do essentially two things. One, I do every day if I need to, which is I ask it to turn the lights on or off. That's it.
Kevin Rose
Pretty straightforward.
Alex Albrecht
Pretty straightforward. And then the other thing is, if I ever have like a question or like, I'm like, how long should I have like in the kitchen? Cause we have them in the kitchen. I'll be like, oof. These hard boiled eggs have been in the fridge for a couple weeks. So I'll be like, hey, Alexa, Interesting. Should I have this? You know, should I eat these eggs? Does it work? Sometimes.
Kevin Rose
Watch this.
Alex Albrecht
So this is why I'm saying I'm excited.
Kevin Rose
This is a new Gemini. Okay, I've had some hard boiled eggs in the fridge for a couple weeks. Should I eat them? This is gonna. No, you should not eat hard boiled eggs that have been in the fridge for two weeks. They are likely spoiled and could make you sick.
Alex Albrecht
Perfect.
Kevin Rose
It's best to discard them. Well, much as though push it a little bit. Oh, yeah. But I like to roll the dice a little bit. I'm a little risky on that sort of thing. And I've had a couple drinks. Could I eat one and just see what happens?
Alex Albrecht
Oh, it's calling 911. No, it's not that.
Kevin Rose
Absolutely not. Eating spoilers is a serious health risk. Amazing poisoning with symptoms like vomiting, diarrhea and fever. Oh, it's never worth taking that chance. Even if you feel a bit adventurous after a few drinks.
Alex Albrecht
Amazing.
Kevin Rose
Please prioritize your health and safety. Jesus.
Alex Albrecht
Please rate this exchange 1 to 10.
Kevin Rose
But the thing with, as we know, Apple will not. They'll say, I'm searching the web for should you eat?
Alex Albrecht
So that's what? Sometimes it's gonna get better though. But sometimes with Amazon, it'll be like a knowledge.com post says you should only eat them after it's been a week. You know what I mean? So I do do that periodically, but it's not good. It's not bad. Well, so Claude would have been. That would have been great if they were like, oh, please don't eat that. I'd be like, oh, okay, okay, Alexa, I will not eat that. And I would throw them away. I mean, I'd do that.
Kevin Rose
Claude is better watch. It's been a couple weeks and I've had some hard boiled eggs in the fridge. Can I eat them? So Claude, I think Claude is better to determine if your hard boiled Eggs are so safe to eat. Consider the following. Have they been stored in the fridge continuously? Is the shell cracked? Do they smell? Do they have any weird appearance? Generally, hard boiled can last about one week in the refrigerator after two weeks.
Alex Albrecht
Or is in your reading. And so I'm already like, if I have to read.
Kevin Rose
Yeah, I know, I know. It'll get better.
Alex Albrecht
Not gonna anyway, so.
Kevin Rose
But the.
Alex Albrecht
If I have to read, I'm not gonna do. Literally.
Kevin Rose
The interesting thing about this, though, which I guess the whole point of the article is that ChatGPT is going into Volkswagen.
Alex Albrecht
Oh, yes. Yes, it is.
Kevin Rose
So there's gonna be this, like, war where, like, we're gonna get in our cars, we're gonna have one AI there, we're gonna have. Our phone's gonna have a different AI.
Alex Albrecht
Yeah, but what does it matter to you?
Kevin Rose
I guess it really doesn't.
Alex Albrecht
Why would you give a shit what the underlying tech is? You're gonna talk to your car, you're gonna talk to your aircraft, you're gonna talk to your refrigerator, you're gonna talk to your wife, you're gonna talk to your children, you're gonna talk to your accountant, you're gonna talk to your bathtub.
Kevin Rose
It's all gonna be.
Alex Albrecht
You're just gonna be talking to everything.
Kevin Rose
Yeah.
Alex Albrecht
And by the way, I for one, am excited.
Kevin Rose
I am too.
Alex Albrecht
I like talking.
Kevin Rose
I'm pro AI. I'm a fan.
Alex Albrecht
Well, so let me ask you this though.
Kevin Rose
Okay.
Alex Albrecht
What are the use cases in the car?
Kevin Rose
I mean, it's mostly just like, is there a better route? And then, you know, by the way, when were you.
Alex Albrecht
When do you trivia. I'm stuck in traffic. Ask me some questions.
Kevin Rose
I don't know. You can do whatever you want.
Alex Albrecht
You know, Was the third president of Guam.
Kevin Rose
So, I mean, that's the whole thing about the AI is like, you can just like, have fun with it while it's in the car. Yeah.
Alex Albrecht
But I mean, like. Well, here's the thing. So I will say one of the things that I like. The air conditioning in a car is so fucking important. It's like, especially in California, especially when we're like, in the middle of the hot. Yeah, we're in the middle of a hot street right now. The Tesla air conditioning is not great. No, it's just not great. And it's like, it's such a.
Kevin Rose
But no amount of AI is going to, like, fix that.
Alex Albrecht
No, but I was thinking, like, what would I. What would I be driving and saying, like, what would I want to do? And I Think I would. I would do things like, you know, hey, car. Or vogi, whatever the Volkswagen is called. I don't know. Hey, Vogy, I'm high. Can you knock it down a dip?
Kevin Rose
So I've had. I've had.
Alex Albrecht
I've had them just be like, So.
Kevin Rose
I had Rivian and I sold it. I didn't like it.
Alex Albrecht
No, you sold your Rivian.
Kevin Rose
I had so many issues with it.
Alex Albrecht
But you had issues with your Rivian.
Kevin Rose
So hold on. It had Alexa built in, and I could say to Alexa, I could say, hey, play me my Pandora station of this. And it would do it quite well. I could say, what is the forecast? It would do it quite well. So it was like it was getting there.
Alex Albrecht
But, yeah. Cause, like, you're right, though.
Kevin Rose
There's not a whole lot of things you need to do.
Alex Albrecht
What are you gonna say? And to be fair, like, cars have had voice activation stuff for so many years, and it's always been so janky and wonky that it's just, like, it would take longer for me to tell the car to turn the fan down two notches.
Kevin Rose
That's right.
Alex Albrecht
Because I don't know what the command is that they're listening for. I don't know what the fucking thing is.
Kevin Rose
That's right.
Alex Albrecht
Say it. And it's like, heading to Pizzeria Mango. And you're like, what the fuck are you doing? Dap, dap, dap. But if it's an AI, yes. You can be more general about it. You know what I mean? You can be like, ooh, the fans. A little high. Gotcha.
Kevin Rose
Also, you could say things like, hey, I'm heading home. Is there a place where I can grab a slice of pizza on the way home?
Alex Albrecht
100%.
Kevin Rose
Like, that kind of shit's gonna be amazing.
Alex Albrecht
So this is one of the things that I've always said about car navigation with all maps, and maybe somebody has done this, and if so, please email us or text me or text me. Well, if you know me, text me, but email me. Whatever.
Kevin Rose
Fansignation show.
Alex Albrecht
I'm driving down the road. I'm on my way to San Diego to see my folks. There's a navigation. It's like, I'm fucking going 80 miles an hour in that direction if I open maps on my phone. And I shouldn't, because I'm driving. But maybe the Tesla's driving, whatever. And I ask for a McDonald's, Taco Bell, a Starbucks, you know, a fucking steak place, whatever. Do not show me the one that's behind me. That I'm driving 80 miles an hour away from.
Kevin Rose
That's gonna get fixed.
Alex Albrecht
But I mean, but this is the thing that it's like that, where it's like, hey, I'm on my way somewhere. What's in between?
Kevin Rose
Like, what does six sounds?
Alex Albrecht
What?
Kevin Rose
Well, you could just say, like, okay, you're driving. You're by yourself, right?
Alex Albrecht
Yeah, yeah, I want to start.
Kevin Rose
How long's the drive?
Alex Albrecht
Two and a half hours.
Kevin Rose
Okay, so you're driving, you say, hey, play me some new music I've never heard of before. I'm interested in this genre. Sexy. My girlfriend is not. Or my wife has not talked to me in a while. Like, hit me up with some.
Alex Albrecht
I've been sleeping in the guest bedroom. Could you maybe just sing to me a little bit? This is one of our favorite songs.
Kevin Rose
Extend the.
Alex Albrecht
This is totally not working.
Kevin Rose
Drop the steering wheel down and go in and out.
Alex Albrecht
Like, open the input output port for my penis.
Kevin Rose
Okay. Open gas station. Next story, next story.
Alex Albrecht
I gotta fill my tank. All right, next story, next story, tank to be filled. Why are singles in Spain putting upside down pineapples in their shopping carts?
Kevin Rose
I don't even know what an upside down pineapple is.
Alex Albrecht
It's a pineapple that's upside down.
Kevin Rose
Okay, fair enough.
Alex Albrecht
Here we go. So, by the way, this was really good.
Kevin Rose
Yeah, there's more.
Alex Albrecht
So I've known that pineapples was connected to, like, open couples that are looking for, like, a third on, like, especially on, like, those, like, sexy adults only cruises. Swingers. Swingers. Thank you. Yeah, I was like. I was looking for the word swingers.
Kevin Rose
Pineapple.
Alex Albrecht
Swingers. What they would do is they would put, like, a pineapple, an upside down pineapple sticker, or like a magnet on their door, which meant that if you're on a cruise and you saw that, they'd be like, those people are ready.
Kevin Rose
Mal, did you know about this?
Alex Albrecht
Yeah.
Kevin Rose
Oh, it's kind of.
Alex Albrecht
It's pretty.
Kevin Rose
Well, remember when was wearing the black ring and we called them out and we were like, oh, do you know about the black ring?
Alex Albrecht
Ooh, no. But I'm thinking about don't get a black ring. Well, no, no, no. Now I will never.
Kevin Rose
No, you can't. If you're into that.
Alex Albrecht
I'm not into anything.
Kevin Rose
If you wear a black ring, I'm like, why don't you wear a wedding ring? Are you single?
Alex Albrecht
No.
Kevin Rose
So if you wear a black wedding ring, that means you're like, you're open.
Alex Albrecht
To as the upside down pineapple? Yeah.
Kevin Rose
Oh, upside down pineapple means, like, come a knockin.
Alex Albrecht
Yeah, they'll do like, upside down pineapple pins. They'll do upside down pineapples in their. In, like, grocery stores outside in the world. But so. So what happened was Spain. In Spain, a bunch of these singles were just like, this is fucked up. Dating apps suck. Is there any other way that we could do this? And they started doing this thing that kind of went viral on, like, Spanish TikTok, which is. They would go to this grocery store. Hello.
Kevin Rose
Hello.
Alex Albrecht
They would go to this grocery store called Mercedona, and they would go between 7 and 8pm oh, shit. And they. Girls or guys would take a pineapple from the fruit section, turn it upside down, put it in their cart, and then they would hang out in the wine section. Oh, and other people would come into the wine section and be like, oh, I see the pineapple. They want a date. Like, they're looking for a date. And they would like, bump carts and be like, oh, excuse me. And if there was some connection, they'd be like, yeah, let's go get dinner or go get drinks. Weird. Yeah, right? But it's also like, fucking pool. Like, it gets you outside, right? You're not on your phone. It's not like a dating app where you're just like, fucking going through Tinder and being like, nah, nah, nah, nah. I guess this guy or I guess.
Kevin Rose
Right, right. Like, you're out. Because the Whole Foods has kind of been that way too.
Alex Albrecht
Really?
Kevin Rose
Well, I mean, like, if you go to Whole Foods and it's like, Whole Foods?
Alex Albrecht
No, I mean, like, is it dating place?
Kevin Rose
It's been a thing where people pick people up. Like, they go to Whole Foods and they're like, oh, you get macaroni. Like, they. They do. They do shit. Like people you've tried to date at Whole Foods.
Alex Albrecht
Macaroni.
Kevin Rose
Have you ever dated Whole Foods?
Alex Albrecht
Have you ever dated a Whole Foods?
Kevin Rose
I. I've been propositioned, kind of.
Alex Albrecht
See, fucking Glenn. But Glenn is exactly what people would want in a Whole Foods. You know what I mean? Like, if you're going to a Whole Foods to pick up a guy, that's.
Kevin Rose
The guy for sure. Because he loves vegan food.
Alex Albrecht
Yeah. He'd be like, I have allergy. Let's rock.
Kevin Rose
You're not vegan anymore.
Alex Albrecht
I mean, I didn't even know you were vegan.
Kevin Rose
Are you kidding me? He was vegan for, like, freaking 50 years. We used to try and, like, bet him to eat meat.
Alex Albrecht
Oh, I do remember that. I do remember that.
Kevin Rose
Do you eat Steak. Now, I mean, I have to be really picky with what I eat because it impacts me the next day. Because you feel it for a while. Yeah, interesting. Even emotionally interesting. Like you cry for the next day. No, no. If I eat something that is like factory, it's. It's not as much with chicken as it is with beef.
Alex Albrecht
Yeah, interesting.
Kevin Rose
So, like, you want grass fed from.
Alex Albrecht
A local source, like a good.
Kevin Rose
Like a good slice of. Of cocaine shark would be great.
Alex Albrecht
But that, you know, was harvested humanely using only the highest quality cocaine hulks.
Kevin Rose
To entice them in.
Alex Albrecht
To entice them in.
Kevin Rose
Oh, you want some sharks?
Alex Albrecht
No, no, I want some.
Kevin Rose
That stuff's delicious. Oh, you want. Yeah, you have some more. Have some more, Glenn.
Alex Albrecht
Oh, yeah. Thank you.
Kevin Rose
Yeah, no problem. All right, so the interesting pineapple thing, I'll have to try.
Alex Albrecht
I don't know. I would have to try that next time.
Kevin Rose
I didn't mean you smell like.
Alex Albrecht
That's an interesting story. I have to experiment with that. I will see what my upside down pineapple brings.
Kevin Rose
You know, be kind of funny to just do it.
Alex Albrecht
Just be like, no, no. Because then people will come up that's like, ha, ha.
Kevin Rose
And you flip it back.
Alex Albrecht
Yeah. You're like, I'm just here for pineapples. They're like, ma'am, could you please leave? I'm just here for pineapples.
Kevin Rose
Here, Glen, take this and you can have a little bit. Little tasters.
Alex Albrecht
Yeah, there you go. All right, last story. It's gotta be about Japan. And when you talk about Japan.
Kevin Rose
Oh, I got one after you. But go ahead, talk about Japan.
Alex Albrecht
Okay, second to last, penultimate story. Sometimes the things that I say. You ready for this?
Kevin Rose
Yes.
Alex Albrecht
So first off, we all know Japan has a work ethic that is very singular.
Kevin Rose
Insane.
Alex Albrecht
It's very specific. By the way, one of my favorite Michael Keaton movies from the 80s was gung ho with Getty Watanabe. Fucking love that movie. I should actually watch that movie again. It's been so long. And it was all about. Because remember in the 80s, it was all like, oh, the, you know, Japanese are coming to take our jobs. You know what I mean? So it turns out that Even now, the 12 hour work week or 12 hour workday is like, norm. Like, if you get a job, nine to nine, that's like minimum. Minimum.
Kevin Rose
Holy shit.
Alex Albrecht
So working in Japan is still, like, fucking crazy. And there's this whole hierarchy.
Kevin Rose
They call it the salarymen.
Alex Albrecht
Yeah, the salaryman. Remember when we went to Japan, you table next to us with that dude was like, fucking literally passed out.
Kevin Rose
I've been back like 20 times as we went to that trip, and I've seen a lot of Saori men get hammed. They go hammed.
Alex Albrecht
Well, one of the things that I find completely crazy is that sometimes enough times that there's now an industry around this, people will literally go and like, tender their resignation and the boss will just be like, fuck you. No, rip it up and be like, fuck you, blah, blah, blah, and just hound them, go to their house. What will not let them quit their job. Like, to the point where there are now companies that have started that will help you quit your job.
Kevin Rose
What the fuck?
Alex Albrecht
Yeah. And by the way, the people that come to the, like, help me quit my job, it's the third time they're trying to quit their job. Like, it's like the ultimate gaslighting. Like, the boss just doesn't let them quit their job. And they're like, what the fuck do I do? The guy like, follows them home and like, well, like, not let them quit. Like, what do you do?
Kevin Rose
Respect, dude.
Alex Albrecht
It's literally like, you know, like, when a kid. When you're like a kid, it's just like, you're like, you gotta do this. And the kid's like, no, I'm not gonna do it.
Kevin Rose
I'm out.
Alex Albrecht
I'm out.
Kevin Rose
It's like an angry dad. You get back on the football field. I don't care what.
Alex Albrecht
Yeah.
Kevin Rose
It's like.
Alex Albrecht
And if you stop, you're like, I'm not gonna get back on the football field. It's like, I don't know what I can do to follow up with that.
Kevin Rose
Right.
Alex Albrecht
So literally the employers are just like, I don't know. Because they're worried about the employer squirreling them for any other job.
Kevin Rose
Right. Interesting.
Alex Albrecht
They're worried about. There's this whole sort of hierarchy, which I really do think is great, and we could use a little bit of it of like the sort of, like, you know, how about work respect to your elders and respect to the people at work above you.
Kevin Rose
You know, also just work in general.
Alex Albrecht
And work in general. Yeah, it's a little loosey goosey here, which is great because it gives us, you know, a lot of heads up and you can quit if you want to quit, but how crazy is this? So there's now like a handful of companies in Japan who's literally, their job is to help you quit your job, and they pay them to help them quit their job.
Kevin Rose
I feel like a lot of people have this problem Though, where it's like, you can't. And this is something that I've learned I need to get better at, is, like, boundaries with, like, either, you know, professionally or personally. Right? Like that circumcised guy.
Alex Albrecht
Like, he needs boundaries.
Kevin Rose
He needs boundaries.
Alex Albrecht
Yeah, I get that.
Kevin Rose
You know what I mean?
Alex Albrecht
That is very clear.
Kevin Rose
Yeah. Yeah. So, like, there's, like, there's. I get why this should exist. It makes sense to me. She wouldn't let you quit. Oh, did she follow you?
Alex Albrecht
And then what did you do?
Kevin Rose
You had to. You had to go with her then.
Alex Albrecht
Are you guys married now?
Kevin Rose
If she says no, Glenn, you can't break up.
Alex Albrecht
No, it's the power move. It's. It's literally uno reverso of relationships, you know?
Kevin Rose
How much longer did it last?
Alex Albrecht
I ended up moving.
Kevin Rose
He moved.
Alex Albrecht
You're like, well, if I'm not in this city or this state, you can't be married.
Kevin Rose
You know what?
Alex Albrecht
Oh, my God, that's amazing.
Kevin Rose
If all fails, just fucking move to another state.
Alex Albrecht
By the way, any of these people could move to Korea.
Kevin Rose
That's why he used to be in San Francisco. Now he's here.
Alex Albrecht
Yeah. He's like, I'm going to break up with you. No. Okay, cool.
Kevin Rose
All right.
Alex Albrecht
See you tomorrow.
Kevin Rose
All right.
Alex Albrecht
Moving to Los Angeles.
Kevin Rose
Last story, last story, last story. Okay, so AI.
Alex Albrecht
Is here and involved.
Kevin Rose
That was weird that AI just responded to me. So AI amplifies false memories.
Alex Albrecht
Ooh, I saw the title of this. I wanted to know what it was.
Kevin Rose
This is fascinating because we are entering a world where we're not going to be able to understand what is real and what is made up. Obviously, we're going to have a lot of that. But also, this is where I really get upset with the new Google phone, which I don't like at all. Google has added some features to the new phone that. Let me give you an example. Let's say Glenn takes a picture of us sitting here, and he wants to be in the photo. Okay?
Alex Albrecht
Oh, okay.
Kevin Rose
There is literally in the photos app right now, you can say, add a picture, add a person, and he can go and sit down. You can get up, take a photo. And now the three of us are.
Alex Albrecht
Sitting next to each other, but that moment never happened. It technically never happened.
Kevin Rose
And then they got the magic eraser shit where you can erase people out of the background.
Alex Albrecht
So we talked about this.
Kevin Rose
I hate this shit.
Alex Albrecht
So here's why it's even more nervous. Like, it's even worse than that. So I think we talked about this on dignation. Way back in the day, there was a study that was done where they took photos and photoshopped people in places that they've never been. And they talked people through, like, oh, well, when you were in Paris. And they were like, well, I've never been to Paris. And they were like, no, no, you went to Paris in 2012. Blah, blah, blah. And it was like, no, I've never been to Paris. And they showed them pictures, and they would not only start to remember being in Paris, they would start telling stories to the person about being in Paris. And the memories of being in Paris.
Kevin Rose
They'Re making it up.
Alex Albrecht
And it all just happens because that's how our brains and memories is. So the fact that now AI is going to be generating these images and experiences that you actually happen. Yeah, people are totally going to be thinking that.
Kevin Rose
And you're erasing people out of your history. You're removing people from the background. I just don't like it. And also, check this out. Last one. This is. After seeing this, I'm starting to think that AI should be regulated. Look at this video.
Alex Albrecht
Oh, my God. Oh, my Lord.
Kevin Rose
I mean, Elon looks pretty good there.
Alex Albrecht
He looks like he's having a great time with his.
Kevin Rose
Look at Zach. Oh, yeah. Oh, God. Obama, the drone. Glenn, you love that, that, that. That drone action.
Alex Albrecht
Oh, my God. Yeah. Oh, is that Kamala and Obama? I couldn't tell.
Kevin Rose
They put on the horse.
Alex Albrecht
Although they rocket Kim Jong Un. Dude, this is.
Kevin Rose
That's amazing. Yes. Glenn, did you make this?
Alex Albrecht
Here's the thing. Here's the thing. Here's the thing. A. Yes. It's literally like Wag the Dog. Do you remember the movie Wag the Dog?
Kevin Rose
I don't.
Alex Albrecht
So it literally is about them. About the government creating a fake war.
Kevin Rose
Yeah.
Alex Albrecht
To, like, there's some. Some, like, you know, whatever governmental, like, affair. Like, there was something happening that they were like, we need the American people to be, like, thinking about something else. And so they hired this Hollywood producer to put on a war, and they, like, invented this conflict between two people, and they, like, shot all this, like, footage on green screen. Like the moon landing. Like the moon landing. Kevin, did you. You met Buzz aldrin? At my 30th birthday party.
Kevin Rose
Yeah, he was great.
Alex Albrecht
He definitely would punch you in the.
Kevin Rose
Face if you thought, he's deceased now.
Alex Albrecht
What?
Kevin Rose
He's dead.
Alex Albrecht
Wait, did Buzz die?
Kevin Rose
Are you kidding me? He's at your birthday party, dude.
Alex Albrecht
What?
Kevin Rose
Yeah, he's dead. No, he's not.
Alex Albrecht
Fucking hell, dude. I was Like, I was like, how did. I was like, I would know. I feel like that would be information that was disseminated to me. Fucker.
Kevin Rose
Sorry.
Alex Albrecht
He's dead now. What?
Kevin Rose
Fuck it for buzz. He's not even.
Alex Albrecht
Oh, my God. You just gave me a buzz. Jesus, Kevin.
Kevin Rose
Okay. Sorry.
Alex Albrecht
He's dead.
Kevin Rose
I thought he was. AI told me that.
Alex Albrecht
AI did tell you that.
Kevin Rose
Okay.
Alex Albrecht
Anyway, long story short, that's the type of stuff, the one thing that I will say, the one good thing is if I saw a video, even if it was less like cheesy and artsy as that of Putin being like, gay people are cool, I'd be like, wow, that's AI. You know what I mean? Like, there's a certain part now where hopefully people will look at the content.
Kevin Rose
Yeah. But five years ago, five years from now, dude, it could be way. But again, not even that. Six months from now.
Alex Albrecht
Yeah, but think about it. But if six months from now, half the shit that you see is fake, right? You're gonna start to go, it's probably fake. Right? Like, that's the thing is like. But then you get to the check cashing people and you're just like, are they really gonna think about that? This is my. That's my biggest. That's not my biggest fear, but a fear that I have about the world writ large is when people who are at the point where they could believe all of these like, conspiracy theories.
Kevin Rose
Yeah.
Alex Albrecht
Get to a point where they start believing things that are very like, would cause them to be violent or cause them to really like, lash out.
Kevin Rose
Well, I mean, it's already happened. Even with just like subreddits and shit.
Alex Albrecht
Yeah, dude, it's.
Kevin Rose
It's.
Alex Albrecht
It's the fucking wild west.
Kevin Rose
Yeah.
Alex Albrecht
But also I go back to. Great movie, really good book. No country for Old Men. There is something to be said about the fact of. Is it really the worst time in human history or is it because we are over 40?
Kevin Rose
That's a great. That's a great way to end the show.
Alex Albrecht
No, but it's because, like the whole thing of no country for Old Men is it's that the world always seems like it is worse than it has ever been. No, to older.
Kevin Rose
Hey, listen, I was gonna tell you older people, in the last week I heard about MRNA vaccine come out for lung cancer that looks really promising to cure lung cancer.
Alex Albrecht
That's fucking huge.
Kevin Rose
Like, there's a bunch of really good shit coming out. So I'm not all doomsday, but like, you're right in that we're gonna have to have a readjustment of society's, like, belief system 100% and understanding whether or not they should trust something immediately or not.
Alex Albrecht
Yeah. Because at this point, I think it's very clear.
Kevin Rose
It's very clear.
Alex Albrecht
And by the way, I think that's what has really sort of caused this big schism in the United States is this whole concept of people believing stuff that they hear. Whether, you know, it's.
Kevin Rose
Listen to this.
Alex Albrecht
Yeah.
Kevin Rose
I had a buddy get his phone hacked, okay. And he got all his photos leaked out there, like, you know.
Alex Albrecht
Yeah.
Kevin Rose
And, like, there's definitely some, like, dick pics and shit and, like, stuff with his, like, significant other. But no, because the thing.
Alex Albrecht
Why would you put that on your phone?
Kevin Rose
But everybody has. On my phone. You don't have any phone?
Alex Albrecht
No. Fuck no, dude.
Kevin Rose
I've got a lot of shit on my phone.
Alex Albrecht
I'm a fucking. I am a fucking lockbox.
Kevin Rose
You don't have anything to Heather being like.
Alex Albrecht
Nope. I mean, I do, but not on my fucking phone.
Kevin Rose
What do you. On your computer?
Alex Albrecht
On places that are secure.
Kevin Rose
What's secure?
Alex Albrecht
Everything.
Kevin Rose
No, you put, like, external USB sticks and shit for that shit.
Alex Albrecht
I don't know what I'm gonna say or not say, but long story short, somebody can hack my phone and they're not gonna get dick pics of me.
Kevin Rose
Oh, well, I got lots of shit on my phone anyway. But my point is that if you get hacked, my buddy was like, mine is AI.
Alex Albrecht
You know, I mean, that's true.
Kevin Rose
That's true.
Alex Albrecht
That's actually totally true.
Kevin Rose
Yeah. It's actually.
Alex Albrecht
If he was smart, what he would.
Kevin Rose
Do is pre release AI.
Alex Albrecht
No, he would go use AI to generate a bunch of, like, dick pics and him fucking release them ahead of time. Just release them. Doesn't ahead of time just release them.
Kevin Rose
Just make himself well in dou. And then when people see the other ones, they'll be like, oh, those are fakes.
Alex Albrecht
Those must be fakes.
Kevin Rose
Exactly.
Alex Albrecht
That guy doesn't have a 26 long, you know.
Kevin Rose
Exactly.
Alex Albrecht
Yeah.
Kevin Rose
All right.
Alex Albrecht
Good times that has been.
Kevin Rose
This episode of dignation. Dignation show is the URL. You will get it. Please follow our Instagram because there'll be really funny clips with our best episodes and stuff like that. Glenn, great to have you here. And Glenn is going to fire up the drone and do a 360 fly around us.
Alex Albrecht
He's been drinking champagne.
Kevin Rose
Champagne and mushrooms.
Alex Albrecht
Holy.
Kevin Rose
So there it is. Come closer.
Alex Albrecht
No, I know my teeth.
Kevin Rose
He can get close, but he has been drinking.
Alex Albrecht
Oh, my God. It's actually really nice.
Kevin Rose
It feels good. The air feels good. He's really good.
Alex Albrecht
He's great.
Kevin Rose
He's a great. Better than you trying to land the helicopter. In my head.
Alex Albrecht
I mean, yeah, but if I had fucking VR and I could actually, like, see what was doing that.
Kevin Rose
He's a pro.
Alex Albrecht
This is amazing.
Kevin Rose
I know.
Alex Albrecht
We should pay him.
Kevin Rose
I know how much you charge. You can't hear us. Too loud.
Alex Albrecht
All right.
Kevin Rose
Until next time, take care of yourselves. Get circumcised.
Alex Albrecht
No, don't.
Kevin Rose
Don't do it.
Alex Albrecht
You don't have to do it later.
Kevin Rose
Do it later.
Podcast Summary: Diggnation (Rebooted) - Episode 003
Title: Bank Fraud, Animated Crushes, Deepfaked Memories, and Hippy Glenn
Hosts: Kevin Rose & Alex Albrecht
Release Date: September 16, 2024
1. Welcome Back and Catching Up Timestamp: 00:00 – 12:30
After a 15-year hiatus, Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht reintroduce Diggnation with their trademark humor and camaraderie. The hosts engage in light-hearted banter about their personal lives, including humorous anecdotes about crushes on animated characters. The return is further celebrated with the unexpected appearance of their friend Glenn, adding to the nostalgic and jovial atmosphere of the show.
Notable Quote:
Alex Albrecht (00:08): "I was sciatica. I was a child of the night."
Kevin Rose (02:01): "I don't want to undergo circumcision for this one. I'd have to see a picture before I could weigh in."
2. Bank Fraud: The Viral Chase Glitch Timestamp: 12:35 – 26:11
The first major topic delves into a perplexing instance of bank fraud involving a Chase ATM glitch. A TikTok user discovered that writing a check from an empty account and depositing it at a Chase ATM resulted in accessible funds. Believing it to be a "money glitch," he encouraged others to exploit the flaw, leading to widespread fraud. Kevin and Alex dissect the incident, explaining the concept of check kiting and its legal ramifications.
Notable Quote:
Alex Albrecht (12:36): "It's called check fraud. It's literally called check kiting…"
Kevin Rose (14:32): "No, that's called fraud."
3. Relationship Drama: The Circumcision Conundrum Timestamp: 20:15 – 26:11
A listener's dilemma is presented where a 27-year-old atheist male from the UK faces pressure from his 31-year-old Christian African girlfriend to undergo circumcision. The hosts humorously navigate the sensitive topic, weighing the pros and cons, societal expectations, and personal boundaries. They emphasize the importance of mutual respect and autonomy in relationships, ultimately advising against succumbing to undue pressure.
Notable Quote:
Kevin Rose (20:15): "My girlfriend really wants me to get circumcised. Okay, hear me out now."
Alex Albrecht (25:26): "Any time you're in a relationship with somebody that is trying to force you to do something… that's a relationship red flag."
4. Hyundai’s Wild Sci-Fi Sports Car: A Nostalgic Leap into the Future Timestamp: 26:21 – 34:16
Kevin and Alex transition into an enthusiastic discussion about Hyundai's latest venture into electric vehicles with the Envision 74—a car reminiscent of the iconic DeLorean from Back to the Future. They explore Hyundai's shift from hydrogen hybrids to all-electric models, marveling at the vehicle's design and technological advancements. The conversation highlights Hyundai's growing prominence in the electric car market, juxtaposed with nostalgic design elements that appeal to both modern and classic car enthusiasts.
Notable Quote:
Alex Albrecht (28:39): "Look at that fucking car, dude."
Kevin Rose (27:56): "That's the exact production model."
5. Cocaine Sharks in Brazil: Nature’s Unintended Smugglers Timestamp: 36:13 – 41:28
The hosts discuss a bizarre environmental study from Brazil, where sharks were found with extraordinarily high levels of cocaine in their bloodstream. This unprecedented discovery raises questions about drug smuggling methods and their impact on marine life. Kevin and Alex humorously speculate on how sharks might be ingesting cocaine, touching upon the environmental and societal implications of such findings.
Notable Quote:
Kevin Rose (36:16): "They have a hundred times higher concentrations of cocaine than 80s partygoers."
Alex Albrecht (37:19): "No one wants to be chased by a cocaine shark."
6. Upside-Down Pineapples in Spain: A Creative Dating Signal Timestamp: 62:20 – 67:10
Exploring cultural trends, Kevin and Alex examine the phenomenon in Spain where singles use upside-down pineapples in their shopping carts as a non-verbal cue for seeking dates. Originating from the traditional symbolism of pineapples in the swinger community, this modern twist leverages grocery stores as social hubs, fostering in-person connections over digital dating apps. The hosts appreciate the innovation behind this method, promoting real-world interactions.
Notable Quote:
Alex Albrecht (62:33): "They would put like, a pineapple, an upside down pineapple sticker… they’re looking for a date."
Kevin Rose (63:01): "That’s the upside down pineapple means, like, come a knockin."
7. AI and Deepfaked Memories: Navigating Reality in the Digital Age Timestamp: 71:52 – 80:54
In a thought-provoking segment, Kevin and Alex delve into the implications of artificial intelligence on memory and perception. They discuss how AI-generated content can create false memories, blurring the lines between reality and fabrication. The conversation covers the ethical concerns of deepfakes, the potential for misinformation, and the psychological impact on individuals. The hosts advocate for cautious consumption of AI-infused media and highlight the need for regulatory measures to address these emerging challenges.
Notable Quote:
Alex Albrecht (72:03): "Our brains and memories are... the fact that now AI is going to be generating these images and experiences that you actually didn’t happen."
Kevin Rose (72:50): "This is the type of stuff… we’re not going to be able to understand what is real and what is made up."
8. Closing Thoughts and Final Banter Timestamp: 80:00 – End
As the episode wraps up, Kevin, Alex, and Glenn engage in their usual playful banter, reflecting on the topics discussed. They emphasize the importance of staying informed and critical in the face of rapidly evolving technologies and societal trends. The hosts invite listeners to engage with them through various platforms, promising more engaging and insightful discussions in future episodes.
Notable Quote:
Kevin Rose (81:00): "Don't do it."
Alex Albrecht (80:55): "All right, so that has been."
Conclusion
Episode 003 of Diggnation (Rebooted) masterfully balances humor with insightful discussions on contemporary issues ranging from financial fraud and relationship dynamics to technological advancements and environmental curiosities. Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht, along with their friend Glenn, deliver an engaging episode that not only entertains but also provokes thoughtful consideration of the complexities in today's digital and social landscape.
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