LEGO Got Smarter, Planes Land Themselves, and Hooters Is Rebranding Again

Summary

Diggnation (Rebooted) — Episode Summary

Episode: LEGO Got Smarter, Planes Land Themselves, and Hooters Is Rebranding Again
Hosts: Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht
Date: January 7, 2026

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Overview

After a 15-year hiatus, Diggnation is back! In their classic style—just two geeks catching up—the guys riff on the internet’s latest stories: from self-assembling LEGO bricks and autonomous airplanes to a Hooters revival. They share personal updates, reflect on tech and wellness trends, and sprinkle in that trademark, irreverent humor.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. New Year, New Habits, and Self-Care (00:16–07:08)

• Both hosts are attempting a (somewhat) dry January, using the new year as motivation for better habits.
• Self-care is a major theme: Kevin talks sauna, acupuncture for tennis elbow, weighted vests, and a renewed focus on cardio with Peloton’s German instructors.
• Alex shares his own workout approach and the couple’s new puzzle/woodworking hobbies.

Memorable Quote:
“A good hard massage—200 calories.” —Alex (03:30)

Notable Segment:
Kevin explains the health benefits of sauna, referencing UCSF scientist Ashley Mason’s work on infrared sauna for depression (03:59–04:37).

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2. Crafting, Woodworking, and Old Man Hobbies (07:08–12:28)

• Both guys are getting into woodworking. Alex is excited by DIY cutting boards, while Kevin’s carving spoons—sometimes resulting in “blood on my spoon.”
• Japanese hand tools and joinery spark geeky enthusiasm, with Kevin even researching premium hammer tops.

Memorable Quote:
“It’s like hammer porn, which I never even thought was a thing and it totally is.” —Kevin (10:46)

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3. Digg Platform Updates: Communities Coming Soon (12:28–13:51)

• Digg is rolling out “communities” to their public beta, promising new ways for users to create and organize groups.
• Early adopters will have a chance to claim community names and participate in shaping the experience.

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4. Tech News Roundup

Samsung Bundles Gemini AI On All Devices (13:59–20:27)

• Samsung is launching Google’s Gemini AI across 400 million (soon 800 million) devices, moving away from their own Bixby assistant. This integrates Google’s cutting-edge AI into Samsung’s Android ecosystem by default.
• Discussion about industry implications for other AI players and the inevitable platform consolidation.

Quote:
“It’s a browser world kind of all over again... They knew they were gonna get all these installs.” —Kevin (18:20–18:41)

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Waymo vs. Santa Monica: Autonomous Cars Bring Noise (20:29–28:49)

• Waymo, Google’s self-driving taxi service, is in a legal spat with Santa Monica due to “womp womp” backup noise from its cars operating all night in residential areas.
• Alex details both sides, and Kevin shares a personal story of Waymo’s car lidar scanning his kids for legal compliance.

Notable Segment:
Kevin’s kids were scanned by Waymo’s AI to see if they needed booster seats (25:41–26:23).

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LEGO Smart Bricks & Internet of Things (32:42–38:35)

• LEGO announces “smart bricks” with built-in chips allowing motion/interactivity, lights, and sounds. These bricks sense orientation, nearby minifigs, and use a wireless “bricknet.”
• The hosts geek out on the potential for Internet-of-Things-style LEGO kits.

Quote:
“I am so excited for this era of smart LEGO.” —Kevin (36:00)

Memorable Exchange:
Kevin imagines smart bricks organizing themselves to clean up kids’ rooms. “Go bricknet!” (36:00–36:08)

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5. Well-Being, Boredom, and Embracing Analog Life (38:35–41:59)

• Alex discusses embracing boredom, limiting phone use in the TV room, and a return to puzzles and LEGO for mindful downtime.
• Both reflect on dopamine addiction and how media is now written for distracted audiences with “second devices” in mind.

Quote:
“They’re rewriting scripts to re-say the same thing over and over, because they have to assume you’re not looking and you’re doing this [on your phone].” —Kevin (39:42)

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6. Planes That Land Themselves: Garmin’s Autopilot Milestone (42:07–49:25)

• Garmin’s emergency auto-landing technology successfully landed a plane after a real-life depressurization incident, marking the system’s first use outside of testing.
• The system detects incapacitated pilots (especially important for single-pilot general aviation), contacts air traffic control, and lands the plane automatically.
• Kevin and Alex ponder remote-piloting, future aviation, parachute-equipped jets, and the safety advantages of new tech.

Notable Segment:
Alex details the incident and tech at (43:54–45:12), including tower communications and emergency protocols.

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7. CES Product Talk: Amazon’s Frame TV Competitor (56:52–61:00)

• Amazon’s new “Art Line” Fire TV enters the frame-TV market, with matte art displays, built-in backgrounds, and Dolby Vision, challenging Samsung and Hisense at a lower price point.

Quote:
“I love that we act like that’s a big deal. Can you believe it has 2000 wallpapers?” —Kevin (60:11)

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8. Smart Appliances: Necessary or Not? (70:03–75:06)

• GE’s new smart fridge features a barcode scanner and automatic ordering—but the hosts remain skeptical of smart fridges and “firmware for hummingbird feeders.”
• The chat pivots to the absurdities of needing software updates for everything, but Kevin gives a nod to his “Kamado Joe” smart grill.

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9. Hooters Returns—Rebranded and Retro (75:28–80:10)

• The iconic (and controversial) restaurant chain Hooters is staging a comeback, emerging from bankruptcy with updated, vintage-inspired uniforms that channel more “beach vibe.”
• The guys discuss the odd cultural legacy of Hooters, question its relevance in 2026, and remember a time when its wings were the main draw.

Quote:
“It feels like, boy, there’s a whole lot of reasons why it should have just stayed in the coffin, you know?” —Alex (79:05)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “I can’t believe it’s 2026. New Year’s resolutions are in force.” —Kevin (01:12)
• “The depth of peace that comes from learning how to sit with yourself without having to do anything is so real.” —Kevin (38:49)
• “If AI continues to do what it’s doing...we’ll be in a really good place in 10 to 15 years, without a doubt.” —Kevin (68:04)
• “You know, it's that era.” [On watching old Christmas specials and encountering outdated social norms.] —Kevin (62:10)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• Self-Care & Wellness: 00:16–07:08
• Woodworking & Hobbies: 07:08–12:28
• Digg Communities Announcement: 12:28–13:51
• Samsung Gemini AI Rollout: 13:59–20:27
• Waymo v. Santa Monica: 20:29–28:49
• LEGO Smart Bricks: 32:42–38:35
• Mindfulness & Media Boredom: 38:35–41:59
• Garmin Auto-Landing Tech: 42:07–49:25
• Amazon’s Frame TV Competitor: 56:52–61:00
• Smart Fridges & Appliances: 70:03–75:06
• Hooters Returns: 75:28–80:10

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Language and Tone

The hosts remain loose, playful, and conversational—poking fun at themselves, swearing liberally, and blending deep tech/geek insights with candid takes on wellness and nostalgia. The vibe is classic Diggnation: irreverent but smart.

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In a Nutshell:
Diggnation’s comeback episode delivers a whirlwind tour of user-submitted internet oddities, cutting-edge gadgets, and the hosts’ own journeys in self-improvement. Whether you’re interested in LEGO’s next-gen bricks, big AI news, or just want to hear about woodworking injuries and nostalgic chicken wings, this episode captures the unique blend of geek culture and comedy that defines classic Diggnation.

Transcript

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Brand new year, brand new ces. Legos are self assembling friend or foe. Also an old throwback to a restaurant that dealt with owls. Twin owls returning from the ashes.

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And a small plane lands itself only right now on dignation.

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In the house.

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In the house.

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I don't know. I don't know what to say. Welcome to dignation.

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Also potentially hazardous to your health. All right, moving on.

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Why do you have flies in your freaking house? I've noticed this earlier.

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It's Southern California and I have fruit. You put zombie and you put earring.

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In the title and I don't want to do it. Dignation.com hello there, friends and family. Welcome to Dig Nation 2026, episode number 25. I'm Kevin Rose.

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And I'm Alex Ulrecht. Dig Nation covers some of the hottest user submitted stories on the social news website dig.ford I G. Happy New Year. Happy New Year.

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Two GS too, by the way.

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Yes.

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Double G. If you mistype not gonna.

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Get there, you'll end up at some other website.

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I don't even know what is that. I'm scared to look at it.

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I think it's Disney Interactive.

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Oh, is it?

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I think so, yeah. Yeah.

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Well, you'll be entertained either way.

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Yeah, either way. Either way. Happy 2026. Happy 2026. Can you freaking believe it?

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I can't believe it. New Year's resolutions are in force.

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Yeah. So what do we have? First off, we should say.

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I don't know what we're saying we're doing.

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I mean, at least I am. We haven't talked about it, but I've been dry January.

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Shut up.

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Yes, of course.

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Are you completely dry? Yes, same.

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Really?

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How long has it been for you?

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Since January.

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Okay.

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Mine's successful. I don't know if that's what dry January means. Damp January, Damp. Yes, yes, I get it.

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The vine's trending towards dry. It's like, you know, it rained the first couple days.

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I mean, it has been raining in Los Angeles.

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It has been raining.

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So it is.

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And then you look up at the sky and you're like, ah, it could be dry soon.

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Drink some champagne. I actually lucked out because I am right now on the very end of a cold that started December 31st. Oh, but it's perfect.

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Did you finish that bottle I got you?

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No, but I had some of it. It's so good.

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The Gentleman Jack?

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No, not the Gentleman Jack.

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Oh, the other one.

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Oh, my God, it was so good.

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The Dalmore?

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Yeah. Oof.

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Did you like it? A lot. I loved it. Isn't it great?

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So good. So smooth.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah. But you like Gentleman Jack, too?

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The best.

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Yeah.

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The best.

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Okay.

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I'm glad it worked out so dry. January happening, 2026. One of the things that I kind of got to. As far as my personal sort of resolution, if you will.

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Yes.

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Is I think 2026 for me is gonna be all about self care. Ooh. Cause I don't think I do a lot of that. Not that I do anti self care. Right. But, like, you know, I'm working out a lot. I've been doing that for about two years now. Working out pretty much three days a week.

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Cardio too, or just lifty? Lifty.

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Just lifty. Lifty. But there's cardio and lifty.

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Lifty.

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Ish. But I need to get. I need to do more stretching. So I want to incorporate like some yoga maybe or like Pilates. Some sort of, like, stretching element. And then also massages. Cause I get so fucking tight and tense with the working out. I need to, like, relax and open up and let go. You can't put that.

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That's not the same bucket.

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To be fair, that's self care.

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Oh, sorry. Self care. I thought you were putting in, like, the working out. You. I don't put it a good hard massage. 200 calories.

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Get that sweat up. Let somebody bend me. That's great.

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So I've been doing the same thing. Here's what I got. Sauna, which I'm sticking to. I love it, love it. Continue to do that.

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Great.

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20 minutes a day. All causes mortality reduced by like 35% two to six days a week.

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Oh, I thought you said all cause mortality. I did, but I thought it meant, like, sauna. 20 minutes a day will cause mortality.

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No, no, no, no.

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I was like.

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Reduces gotcha. Mortality. And so that's 20 minutes a day, six days a week.

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Does that work? The same with the ultrasonic one. Because I get claustrophobic in the hot air.

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Yeah, there's. Yeah. Cause that heat's from the corian, so that's the same. I have a friend, Ashley Mason. She's a scientist. You can look her up. She's amazing. She was on Peter Attia's podcast and Rhonda Patrick's podcast and actually Daria's podcast as well over the years. Listen to her when I'm Peter Attia. But she studies sauna research at ucsf. She's a scientist. She has her own lab out there. And she uses infrared to treat depression. Wow. And so they put it all the way up to your neck and they get your core body temperature raised. I think it's like a 45 minute session and it's amazing what it does for depression.

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Interesting.

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There's a whole protocol on it. Highly recommend her work and if you can support her lab. She's doing great research. I've done some philanthropic stuff with her lab as well. And highly recommend. Just a brilliant, brilliant scientist.

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Love that. So you're doing sauna?

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Yeah. So sauna's one. I started doing acupuncture.

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Oh.

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I found an acupuncturist around the corner from me. That's amazing. I'm going to done acupuncture. Yeah, it's, you know, I think it's one of those things where you have to do it for a month or so to kind of really get the benefits of it all. I will say I had tennis elbow for like the last six months. I've been bitching about a lot. Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And it's gone.

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Really?

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Yeah, it was two weeks. The first week I was like, oh, it's a little bit better. It's freaking gone.

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Did you tell her? Yeah.

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And she's like, target like all around it and stuff. And I got a little shoulder better and she's like legit old school Chinese.

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How good?

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No, but you know what I mean, I want that legit shit.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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I did it for my clamorous elbow.

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Did it work?

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Yeah, yeah. Oh, wow.

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And so she gives you tea when you're done. You're like, it's nice, dude. It's great.

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You're gonna love it. Self care.

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Self care. So that's one weighted vest I've been doing.

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Oh, yeah, we made fun of my.

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Weighted vest drinking, but that doesn't count. I'm cutting back on that. I'm just adding it in.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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I'm trying to think. There was one other thing that I was doing was really important on this front. Oh. I started doing peloton again.

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Oh, good.

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And so. Cause I realized, dude, it's like I know myself well. I mean, I'm getting older, so who knows? But like, if I really go into the gym and hit hard, I can bulk up pretty easily. As long as I'm like having a protein. All that cardio's always that like, I don't wanna do it. Nobody wants, nobody wants to do it.

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I don't know.

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And so I started doing it and I took that fitness test where you do the 20 minutes and you set your zones and then you kind of totally work up. It's awesome. It's really good. I take this one class. I don't know if I should say. I took this one class and there's like this German instructor and she's like teaching it, you know, and she's like, welcome to the session.

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You know, she's like, oh, I'm in.

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Well, I mean, she's very nice. You know, it's a. You know everybody.

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You need a little dominatrix in your. In your sports.

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My wife has said there's certain attractive instructors, you know, and Peloton does that. I would say they do that quite well. They do that quite well.

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That's the whole point of instructors.

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I had a buddy that was dating a Peloton instructor.

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Whoa.

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I can't say who.

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That's like a myth.

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Yeah, it's like legend.

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You found a unicorn.

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Exactly. But yeah, I highly recommend the German Peloton.

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Did you get any fun gifts for Christmas?

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Oh, yes. I got a very nice singing bowl.

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Oh, yeah? Yeah, yeah.

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I got like a big 20something inch one. Like a deep resonant, like, awesome. And then a smaller one because I had a very small one I used for meditation. Now I have three. And so Darya was very kind to go out and get me these beautiful bowls for my meditation practice. And also this beautiful little Buddha statue that's hand carved.

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Oh, I think I saw it on Instagram.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah. So that was like my Christmas right there, which was amazing. And for the record, I don't. The thing about Buddha, when you bring it up, it's such a polarizing thing, especially for like Christian people and stuff like that.

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Really?

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Well, I've had people, they're like, oh, you do the Buddha thing. And in Zen, in. The thing that I practice with, with. With Henry is. It's. Buddha is just known as someone that is just someone that is a teacher.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Like there's no praying to. Buddha is not a deity. It's just like. It's just like, oh, this person did something really special for this community. And we're paying like, you know, our respects. Like an. Almost like an elder in a way.

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Interesting.

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So anyway, that's. That's the way at least this version of Sambo Zen treats Buddha. It's not as someone to be worshiped rather than just someone to.

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It's not a religion, it's a philosophy.

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Well, for some people, they take it as we do with everything. Some people can treat it more like a religion, but that is not what Zen does in the Sambo Zen sect.

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Interesting.

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Yeah. Anyway, that was my.

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So I had an interesting experience. We were down with Heather's brother's family, and her nephew got all of her brother's family homemade cutting boards that he made himself.

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Oh, that's.

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And they looked fucking amazing. Like, they bought. Like he bought them at Williams Sonoma. Yeah. And I was like, wait a minute.

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No, no, no, no.

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This is a thing. And he goes, yeah, I took a woodworking class.

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Yes.

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And now I'm like, super into woodworking. So Heather and I signed up for a woodworking class.

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Dude, have you been looking at my Instagrams?

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Yes.

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You see what I'm doing?

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Yes. Okay. I've been.

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I've been carving spoons. That's why I brought it. I cut myself last night, dude. I was bleeding all down my arm, whittling my spoon, and I had had some champagne and then I was like, ah. And like, my daughter's sitting next to me. She's like, oh, you cut yourself? I'm like, oh, yeah. But when you have a couple glasses of.

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It's like, it's fine, it's fine. You're like, I gotta finish the bowl.

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I know, but there's blood on my spoon. Now I have to, like, carve the blood out of my spoon.

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Oh, my God.

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But, yeah, I've been getting into Japanese hand.

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We've been talking about the sort of Japanese woodwork for a while. I had never thought to try it, but seeing these, like, cutting boards that he made that look like professional cutting boards, and then the fact that in our kitchen we have that, like, butcher block, and I've been like, oiling it and like, I was like, oh, I really want to get into this. And so Heather and I found a place in downtown and we're going to take like an eight hour Intro to Woodworking class.

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Okay. So I want to do that too.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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But also I want to show you this.

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Okay.

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And I know Maui. I don't have scanning out of my. I'll send you the link to it. We got to show this on video.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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These are handmade. So, you know, in Japanese woodworking, it's a lot of joinery, which is a fancy way of saying you don't have to use nails. Yeah, it's like wood that interconnects with wood. These are handmade hammer tops for hammers.

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What?

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Dude, how. Those are beautiful. Are those. Dude, Mal, look at this. How insane are those? Let me zoom in here. It's like.

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It's like that camera over there.

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Well, I don't want to show my other links and stuff. It's like hammer porn, which I never even thought was a thing and it totally is.

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Now I'm going to send you Don Google hammer porn.

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No. You think? I'm like, I don't know.

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Is that a thing? I don't want to know.

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So now I just sent you the link so you can pull it up. But this site, and I'm okay with sharing it, I did a ton of deep research on who imports the highest in nice Japanese handmade woodworking tools. And there's one site that gets like the best of the stuff you can hand down for generation to generation.

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So are you going to buy like some stuff to.

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This beautiful hammer top is $61.

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That's nothing.

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What's that?

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You're going to make an only fans of it.

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Yeah, I should make an only fans of it.

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Like Rule 34.

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Yeah, it's Rule 34.

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Rule 34 is if it exists, there's.

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No point for it.

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Oh. Oh, God. Really?

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Everything that's Rule 34.

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I didn't think about that. There's all kinds of weird. It's a good point.

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Yeah.

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Well, I mean, driving home, just kind of like rolling through. Not going to lie.

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I mean, hammer.

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Late night with one of Hammers.

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Hammer porn.

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But anyway, this beautiful stuff, that's the.

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Thing is that I feel like I wanted to go first, try it in a real way. I mean, the last time I fucking tried woodworking was in shop in middle school.

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Like high school. Yeah, exactly.

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I didn't give a shit about it and I didn't care, you know?

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Right. It was just an elective you had to get done.

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Yeah. I was like, whatever. But. Yeah. And then Heather was like, fuck, I want to do this. And I was like, dude, let's do it. And I was like, I can't imagine having like a wood shop in the garage.

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It's gonna be so fun.

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It'll be so fun. Yeah. That's awesome, dude. It's either gonna be great or it's gonna be one. But anyway, that was what happened over Christmas. I was like, sweet. Yeah, let's do it. Love it. So shall we talk about a little bit of Dig stuff?

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Yes.

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Fun Dig things coming up.

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Yes. Well, coming up very soon, there might be something if you're not paying close enough attention to the Dig beta that you will miss. So now is the time to start poking around and being present on Dig because we have something that is coming to the public beta. It's going to be first kind of, what would you say, kind of rolled out a little earlyish to the beta folks, maybe? Yeah, yeah. I think we could say everyone's been waiting for communities.

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Everyone's waiting for communities.

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I think that's meaning, like, you can create your own community, correct?

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Yes. Yeah.

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And so I will tell you, this isn't just like one of those things where when you see it turn light, if you're going to be like, oh, they've just added the feature. Well, the button says create communities. The visual design that Justin and team have put around this is like, you'll look at it and be like, oh, that is not Reddit. That is not the old dig. That is something familiar but uniquely new. And so I'm excited for it. It's a really exciting moment and this is a chance where if you're an early user, you might be able to claim some of this stuff early and get involved early. And it's coming this month. So we want to make a little announcement here and just tell you if you're kicking the tires and dig, pay attention in the check in every once in a while, days and weeks, things are going to changing quite dramatically and then we're off to the races on all types of new stuff.

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2026, baby.

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Big year. Love it. Anything else I should mention on that, Mal? Or is that pretty good? Okay, sweet.

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All right, shall we get into the first story?

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First story of the day, Samsung rolls out AI to devices. Now, normally this is just like a nothing burger.

[B]

Yeah. I was like, that's like 2024.

[A]

Right. But what was interesting about this story is that they have rolled out gemini. Oh. To 400 million devices.

[B]

Whoa.

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With a plan to go up to 800 million devices.

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What devices?

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All their mobile phones.

[B]

Wow.

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So it was like. Yeah. So Samsung to double AI mobile devices to 800 million units this year with Gemini. Now, they had their own, you know, AI that they had a home brewed. What was it called? It was called like.

[B]

Oh, so like their Apple intelligence.

[A]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. I can't remember Bigsby or some shit like that.

[B]

Bixby, Was that it?

[A]

Come on.

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I don't know. I'm not a Samsung guy.

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Okay. So anyway, but they decided to embrace Gemini and they're rolling this out. Their stock jumped in like 4% on the.

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Oh, right. Because Gemini. Oh, my God. I don't know why. I thought you were saying Google. Right? Cause Gemini is Google, Right?

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Yes.

[B]

And Samsung saying, we're going to use Google's AI instead of our own. Bespoke AI is a big deal, Right.

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So if you think about it this way, like Google as an Android provider and the creator of Android, it's open source, right. So oftentimes what we see is with these different providers that are actually producing the phones, they can modify it in any way that they want.

[B]

Yeah, yeah. Make it their own.

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Make it their own. Right. And so classic like Samsung is very good and they have done a bunch of like homebrewed apps, their own email apps, their own chat messaging apps. They don't use the Google defaults. They have their own package of stuff. And it's quite frankly a lot of people love it. I mean, Samsung is the most popular, like Android type phone, like even outselling Google phones, right?

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And so, you know, Google of course, is stock Google and that's what we get with all the Google devices that you buy directly from Google, which I love. I love that kind of like native feel. And Google has been rolling out some of the more forward early Android features, or, sorry, Gemini features to their Pixel devices. And that's always been the benefit of being that. And so it was like, okay, well if you're a big. If you're a Facebook, an Amazon, Microsoft, a Google anthropic chatgpt like Apple, who do you use as your AI provider? And you either buy or build. And a lot have tried to build and some not successfully. And I would say that when you think about. It's clear now that Amazon has said Alexa's our baby and we're going to continue to double down on that and build that into its own credible Alexa.

[B]

Keeps trying to contender. Convince me to go Alexa plus.

[A]

Yeah, exactly.

[B]

Need that.

[A]

Well, we'll see how good it gets. I mean, if anybody has the deep pockets that's required to pull that off, it would be someone like an.

[B]

And the infrastructure and devices.

[A]

Exactly. So the question, and I don't know the full answer is because this just came out. So I apologize for not having the deep research here. But you know, they had their Bixby thing that they were going to go after and say this was our AI and it was just pan. Everyone hated it. It was basically like Apple Intelligence, like Siri, you're like, it doesn't do anything. Right. And so now that they've said that, they're going to put Gemini on all these phones and make that their model. That's a huge win for Google.

[B]

So does that mean that if I have an Android phone, if I have a Samsung phone, I don't have to sign up for The Gemini Pro account.

[A]

See, good question.

[B]

Right.

[A]

Because that would be huge. I mean, this literally just hit like a few hours ago, so I don't think we know all the details, but I will say what it meant before was it wasn't like you were excluded from having Gemini. You had to go and download the app and then set it as your default AI.

[B]

Got it. Okay, I see.

[A]

And so that was always. But now what they're saying is they're going to bundle it in.

[B]

Right.

[A]

And so like Gemini is going to be there. So.

[B]

Interesting.

[A]

I don't know how much of that is going to require an upgrade or what percentage Samsung will take or if you buy it directly from Samsung because, like, you know, they could be the middle person here. So.

[B]

So it's only 20 bucks a month. So there's a part of me that's like, the Samsung subsidize that.

[A]

Yeah, maybe.

[B]

That would definitely put it way ahead if it was like the pro version of Gemini built into every phone. You don't even have to do anything, just press the button and ask.

[A]

I mean, this reminds me of like, it's a browser world kind of all over again. Remember Safari? Like Apple or. So Google desperately did not want Apple to create a search engine. So they paid for Google to be the default Safari search engine because they knew they were gonna get all these installs and searches via that. So anyway, I think this is a win for Samsung and Samsung users.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Because if you have a natively integrated Gemini, it's just gonna be a better device. It just is.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

So I, you know, it's. It's pretty awesome though. 800 million. They're saying they're gonna expand this to.

[B]

I mean, that's also just like, think about the footprint for, for Google.

[A]

I know.

[B]

To just be like, oh, we have now 800 million installs for Gemini that were extra.

[A]

I know.

[B]

Probably extra. Let's even say that half the people weren't using Gemini.

[A]

Less than that.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Because most people are just like, oh, I have the AI thing. You know, I don't even know what they have.

[B]

Yeah. Or everybody's in ChatGPT. I mean, like, you know. Well, it's really funny because, like, it's so interesting how like the two main ones that I hear your average person on the street talking about are chatgpt, because it's so ubiquitous. Or ubiquitous. And then Gronk or Grok.

[A]

Gronk.

[B]

Gronk.

[A]

The football player.

[B]

Yeah, the football player.

[A]

He's there to help you.

[B]

Grok. Because of all the People that are still in the X Twitter world.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

You know what I mean? So it's just so interesting that though, that, like, Gemini, this would be such a leap forward. That's cool.

[A]

It's a smart move. It is a smart move. I mean, I think we're going to see more of this consolidation over time. My prediction for this year is that one of the bigs is going to go out of business, meaning one of the big AI providers. Really? Oh, yeah, I know which one it is.

[B]

Oh, really?

[A]

Oh, 100%. I don't want to say it because then, like, there's a chance that that will, you know, I don't want. These are like, there are hundreds of employees working at this.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[A]

I will say one that I like too. It's not anthropic. It's not OpenAI. It's obviously not Gemini. It's not any of the big. There's one sitting out there that nobody really uses anymore, but they're trying hard. You know what I'm talking about?

[B]

I think so. I think so.

[A]

But can you say the first letter of it?

[B]

No.

[A]

Okay, next story of the day.

[B]

Hey, you know what's not sad? Waymo is suing Santa Monica and the city is suing them right back. A court fight is ahead. This was submitted by Sir Matt. So this has been bubbling up a little bit. So for those of you that know, Waymo is the autonomous ride hailing company. It's based in San Francisco, Austin, Texas, Phoenix, Arizona, Louisiana. I feel like there's somewhere in Texas, maybe Dallas.

[A]

That sounds right.

[B]

Yeah. I mean, Austin's obviously Texas, but anyway. And they're expanding and it's great. And they're part of Google, right? Google bought them, I think, back in the day.

[A]

Google created them and incubated them. Incubated them and then spun it out, or spun it out. They still are the majority holder. And I think the only other investor is Andreessen Horowitz.

[B]

Got it. Okay. So they are basically on the forefront, I would say, of. Of autonomous taxi hailing services. Well, one of the things that has been bubbling up here in Los Angeles is the city of Santa Monica has gotten really mad because what happens is these Waymos will have charging locations, basically. These. They get like these big parking lots. There's one over by me at the CBS on Fairfax and Beverly, where they basically rent big parking space or parking lots for the Waymos to kind of go at night to park and charge. And that's sort of like their home decide.

[A]

Right, right, right, yeah. I've seen these. You drive by and they're just like. Yeah, it's just a parking lot of these cars. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[B]

Well, in Santa Monica, it's. The space is pretty cramped, right. And the problem is, is that with these Waymos, they're all the Ford E, or not Ford, the Jaguar E Paces. And they have the sound of backing up that womp, womp, womp, womp. And so what happens is at night, they're doing this like ballet of autonomous dancing. All night, throughout the night, constant cars. You have 20 cars going, oh, in somebody's neighborhood, in somebody's neighborhood in Santa Monica. So the.

[A]

Can they turn the womp, womp off?

[B]

That's what I was thinking, right.

[A]

Can't they turn off because they're talking to each other.

[B]

And also, like, you could do like a location based womp, womp, turn off.

[A]

Yeah, exactly.

[B]

I mean that. You have to be able to do that anyway. So I think if. I feel like the city of Santa Monica sued first or they, they told them, maybe they didn't sue. Maybe they just said, you have to shut it down. Like, they took. They basically said, like, we're not allowing you to do your cars there. City of Santa Monica. And that's why Waymo then sued them for, like, you can't. You know, there's no. We're not breaking any rules. There's no legislation. Like, if you need, if you want to change that, we can be here. You have to like, put out a, you know, a proper whatever proposition. And so the city of Santa Monica sued Waymo right back. And so now it's going to be basically come down to. It's a little bit like, do you remember when the birds, the scooters just came out?

[A]

Yeah, yeah.

[B]

And it was like this whole big fight. I mean, Uber was even like that, where it's like the city, it's all this sort of like future stuff where people go, I don't like how it's impacting the way of our normal everyday lives, but it's also the future of the technology. So you get this. Like.

[A]

Like the same people that are suing are like, well, I should probably take away one tonight.

[B]

Yeah, no doubt. Cause they're like, it's so much better. I just don't want to. I mean, it's that. What is the.

[A]

I mean, that's fair, though.

[B]

Not my backyard or.

[A]

Yeah, I feel like a noise. If you had an apartment and you're sitting there and it's like, hold on. I'd be like, what the fuck? Like, turn that off.

[B]

Especially because there's no. Nobody's buying. It's not like they're hailing the cabs. It's literally them just moving around so that they can optimize the charging at night.

[A]

Right, right.

[B]

You know what I mean? Like, it's just. It's like, so I could see people getting. I could see myself getting super frustrated with that. I'm super sound sensitive.

[A]

I feel like if you're Waymo, you just gotta have to say, hey, city, how can we do this in a way that's acceptable? The answer here is not to kick them out of Santa Monica.

[B]

No, that's. That is surprising to me because obviously the city of Santa Monica should be happy to have more ride hailing services.

[A]

To bring more people in.

[B]

Bring more people in. Yeah. And Santa Monica is not, like, doing all that great. Like, Third street promo is a disaster zone.

[A]

So sad.

[C]

It's picking up again.

[B]

Is it?

[C]

It's picking up.

[B]

Oh, good.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

I feel like there's a lesson learned.

[C]

Here with Bird, where Bird tried to battle the city, and the city is like, look, there's plenty of other options, guys. Goodbye.

[A]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. The one thing I didn't tell you this, my Waymo, the other day I got in and I was taking the family to just go get some food. And we get in the car and everything, and kids are in everything. And there's like three minutes in the ride, and it's like a Waymo. You are being connected to a Waymo support specialist. And I'm like, okay. You know, it's doing its thing. I thought, like, maybe there's something wrong with the car. You gotta get out. And it's like, hi, this is so and so from Waymo. We noticed our scans, when you're getting in the car, scanned one of your kids as being smaller and maybe too small to ride. How old are they and how much they weigh and everything? They're freaking lidar scan. My kids to scan.

[B]

They need a car seat.

[A]

Yeah, exactly. Wow. Yeah. Isn't that wild?

[B]

It's crazy.

[A]

And they're like, are they. You know, how old are they? Blah, blah. And the person was really nice. I said, listen. I go, what's the deal? And they're like, well, if they're under eight and she is. She's seven. Yeah. Or soon to be seven, they need a little bit of a booster seat. And so I didn't know that I was. Obviously, I'm gonna put her in the center between two adults and all that stuff, but and she's big. She's just not, you know, not that. Apparently not big enough. And I was like, okay, well, that's. That's good to know. And they were like, oh, you're a couple blocks away from your house. We'll get you home. And then we'll have a booster seat. And we have booster seats that are normal cars. But for me, Waymo's like, can I get to the taco stand? That's four blocks away. Yeah, yeah, maybe that's a big and bad parent. I don't know. It's like, dude, they're the safest cars.

[B]

I was literally put on my friend's stepfather's Harley Davidson when I was eight.

[A]

Oh, dude.

[B]

Like, you're being such a good pair. The fact that your kid has a seatbelt on, and you were like, put him between two adults. You're so far ahead of me.

[A]

You know what my dad used to do? My dad used to be like. Cause we had a truck with an open back, you know.

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[A]

And we go. We'd go to the grocery store, and he'd be like, the lab would jump up in the back.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And so the lab had no freaking thing. I was just sticking his head out. And if we get a car accident, the lab's freaking chucked out of the back. And my dad would be like, okay, lay flat so no one can see you. Oh, man. And I would just, like, lay flat being like, oh, this is fun.

[B]

You're way ahead of the game, Kevin.

[A]

That's so crazy.

[B]

Yeah. You don't have to worry about that. But you know what?

[A]

It's both cream that they scanned my kids and estimated their body. But at the same time, I'm like, nah, that's kind of cool. You know? I mean, it's cool. I mean.

[B]

Well, it's not like they're saving that data or anything. It's more just sort of like the thing goes, ding. That was a small person.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

It also could have been. You know what?

[A]

It could have been a small person.

[B]

You know what it could have been? I bet you 20 bucks it wasn't scanning for kids. I bet you it was scanning for pets. Because you can't have pets in the Waymo. So I bet you 20 bucks it went. This person has a dog.

[A]

No, dude, no.

[B]

I think so. And then they went to the cameras, and they were like, oh, no, it's a small child, dude.

[A]

No, no, no, no. There's lidars. And that. AI knows that's a kid. It's not like, wow, it could be a dog walking on two legs, which circus dogs can do. Like, it's not thinking that.

[B]

We all know circus dogs that do that.

[A]

Poodles can do that for sure.

[C]

It'd be great if it was just a DEXA skill.

[B]

And by the way, index scan.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Lose some weight.

[A]

Yeah, that'd be so good. Alex, we can smell the whiskey. And we've noticed that you've said indignation that you are doing cardio, but our estimate is you are not.

[B]

We noticed indignation that you said you're doing cardio, but you are not.

[A]

I mean, it's the future.

[B]

It is the future. I mean. I mean, look, we're going to get to that future, right, where you're going to be going through airport security and they're going to be like, hey, we found a tumor. You need to go see a doctor when you get back to your place. I'm just saying, it's gonna be that fast. It'll be like. Be like that.

[A]

Hopefully not at the airport. I'm just thinking of places where you're about to get on your flight to Vegas, but, you know, you got a turmeric. Yeah.

[B]

You should sit down over there. Your aneurysm is gonna explode.

[A]

It's horrible.

[B]

All right. All right. Well, anyway, Waymo, hopefully it'll all come to fruition because I took one here and I'm gonna take one home because they're great.

[A]

They are great. Let's talk about 2026 one more time. It is a new year. That means new goals and a new you. I gotta say, the number one thing that is important for pretty much everyone on the new year and something we always tend to forget or push aside, which is how do you manage your budget, get track of your money, and understand what is going on financially in your life. And Monarch has helped me for many years now, for several years, do just that, which helps you kind of budget. And so you can see where you're at. You can have each the individual category, know where you are for the month, rollover funds if you need to. But I gotta say, the one thing that has. And I'm not even, like, going on what they tell you to say for a sponsor. The one thing I like the best feature that I like and the biggest pain in the ass ever since the freaking Microsoft money days of 15 years ago is categorizing shit is a pain in the ass. And the thing I like about what they have is they have this AI that looks at the transaction, is like, hey, I know that place is called, you know, so and so bike shop, but that's actually coffee or that's a breakfast spot or whatever. And so it knows to put that in the right place. You don't need spreadsheets, you don't need any of that stuff. This does all of it for you. If you want to keep track of your finances and get them under control this year, you're only a couple weeks into the year.

[B]

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[A]

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[A]

All right, wild week. Lots of announcements, obviously, for ces and this one as a dabbler in the world of all things trinkety.

[B]

Trinkety?

[A]

Well, not trinkety. Lego Y. Nanoblocky.

[B]

Yes. Which, by the way, another thing that Heather and I got from her brother Nanoblock is. No, we got a Lego.

[A]

Which ones?

[B]

The Japanese make maple.

[A]

Yes.

[B]

So we're gonna make the Japanese maple, dude.

[A]

My Nova, my youngest has made the whole maple.

[B]

That's crazy. We're gonna do it.

[A]

It's so fun.

[B]

I know. I'm so excited.

[A]

So, so Lego news. You know what goes good with that is, like a glass of whiskey on.

[B]

The side in February. It's general.

[A]

So Lego.

[B]

I love how much you wanted me not to drink.

[A]

I want you to drink so bad. Okay, so Lego has announced the smart brick. Now, they've had, like, smart things in the past, you know, where like, you can, like, make it into one that actually. You push a button and it actually.

[B]

Has, like a little car. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[A]

So this is completely different. This is something that they're calling the smart brick. It comes out this spring and they're rolling it out with this new Star wars collection.

[B]

Ooh, fun.

[A]

And this will be an update that adds, like, interactive lights and sounds to the LEGO experience. A lot of people have these add on kits. I don't know if you've seen these. So you can buy these third party kits for, like, some of the. The Star wars stuff, like the millennium. Yeah, yeah. And they, like, add these, like, little tiny lights and, like, makes it look, like, amazing.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

It's always been a third party ad. I've had a buddy that, like, went down this rabbit hole and like, decked out all of his LEGO kits to make them, like, mood lit. And it's like a whole thing. But here's the crazy thing. So I did a little bit more research and the one thing about these kits. So this is what it says. It's gonna be launching on March 1st. It's these smart bricks, but it's. They are these tiny brains that are built into a 2x4 brick and they sense motion, orientation, light, nearby, magnetic fields and minifigures. And then it triggers context appropriate lights, real time sound effects and behaviors.

[B]

Whoa.

[A]

They have a custom 4.1 millimeter ASIC chip that runs a play engine using accelerometers, sensors and coil based tag recognition and a brick to brick positioning system. Brick to brick. Something called the Bluetooth bricknet. With no hub required. And they charge wirelessly. Holy cow. This sounds. I don't even know what that means. No, I don't know what half that shit means. I understand what each of those means in isolation.

[B]

Yeah, yeah. But what does it mean in a thing?

[A]

I know. It sounds really cool though.

[B]

I mean it sounds like you're going to be able to like pick your Millennium Falcon up and when you do it, it'll go and the lights will turn on and you know what I mean? Like senses motion and.

[C]

But wouldn't that be one accelerometer in the build? Why every block?

[B]

Not every block?

[A]

No, I think there's a few. I think there's a few of these. Yeah, yeah.

[B]

And I think the Bluetooth probably is like you could have like one on each side or.

[A]

Yes.

[B]

But also like it sounds like the minifigs as they get close.

[A]

Yeah, See, that's what I'm saying. It's creating a self organizing Bluetooth bricknet. Self organizing.

[B]

It organizes itself clearly. Clearly.

[A]

So you don't have to put your Legos away. That would be the ultimate. Oh my God, all my kids Legos are out. I'm like, go bricknet. It's like, like that's the dream.

[B]

Go bricknet.

[A]

But I am so excited for this era of smart Lego. Like, and not in the sense of just like make me a car that goes. But understanding the positioning of things and like unlocking like the Internet of things as part of your. Like for example, that. That tree that you just got.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[A]

Like there is a world where those are aware enough to know it's daytime, it's nighttime. Let me shade the. The actual tree leaves in this color or whatever. Like that's gonna be amazing.

[B]

Right as it gets into fall.

[A]

Yes.

[B]

It knows that it's turning into fall.

[A]

Activates the magnet. One drops off, you're like, oh, little pedal fell.

[B]

And then by the winter you have to like put it back up. Yeah, no, it's great. I love that Lego.

[C]

Have you guys seen Big Hero 6?

[B]

Yes. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

[C]

That's what I imagine exactly them assembling.

[B]

Oh yeah, yeah.

[A]

Big Hero 6 in Lego form.

[B]

Oh my God. Yeah. Microbots.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah. That's amazing. I'm really excited about. We started another thing that we got was a jigsaw puzzle. A thousand pieces.

[A]

You do A lot of old man shit now. I love it.

[B]

I know. But to be fair, it goes back to this thing of the sort of self care thing. Cause one of the things, one of the big things was we watched this video, this Harvard professor was talking about embracing boredom and how we need to embrace boredom. And that boredom is when your mind starts thinking of the self and starts thinking of the bigger things about what your worth is and what you're doing in your life. And one of the things that we're gonna do in 2026 is no phones will enter the TV room. So when we go into the TV room, we'll leave all of the phones out in the kitchen.

[A]

What if you have to use the Apple remote on your phone?

[B]

I have a remote.

[A]

What if you lose it?

[B]

Then I'll get my phone to tell me where the remote is.

[A]

But you can't leave the kitchen. You'll just have to do it from there.

[B]

Yeah, well, but again, it's. Yeah, the whole concept is don't have your phone. Right, Right.

[A]

I guess where the TV is, I'm just trying to see where the boundaries are.

[B]

And then when do you start drinking out?

[A]

Like, Kevin, you're like, someone's calling me. But I can't leave. I got my drink.

[B]

So anyway. But part of that is we don't have to necessarily always just be like, okay, winding down, let's go sit and watch tv. It's like, okay, winding down, let's go finish some pieces of the puzzle. Let's go build the lego. Let's do the woodworking class. You know what I mean? So we're trying to kind of add things to our life, that is. And the puzzles, it's. It's intense, man. It's hard and annoying, but fun.

[A]

Yeah. I mean, I think this is the future, dude. I, as much as I love technology and I geek out and I stay up late working on stuff, the. The depth of peace that comes from learning how to sit with yourself without having to do anything is so real.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[A]

It really is, dude. It's like. But it has to be cultivated. It's not easy. Especially when you've been, you know, on video games since, you know, on freaking. All the things that have been doing, all the stimulation, it does take a rewiring.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's really hard. It's hard. My biggest. I think I've even talked about this because we kind of. We took a little bit of a detox, and it was really helpful. But my big thing was watching tv and then when the ads come pushing mute and immediately opening reels on Instagram.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And just gone like this until the TV's back. And then sometimes to the point where I find myself going to the phone during the show and then end up pressing pause on the show for five to 10 minutes. And it's just like, that's not healthy at all.

[A]

I just want to make sure, because I have so many overlapping conversations. Did we talk about how they're rewriting movies for a second device?

[B]

No, but I saw that video.

[A]

You saw the video, right?

[B]

God damn it. And it's.

[A]

So did we talk about that or. No.

[C]

Do you remember that TV has a writing style that makes it clear what's happening on screen?

[B]

Yeah. They wanted. Basically, the edict has come down.

[C]

Like, if two people are having a normal conversation, they're clarifying, like, what they're picking up or who they're talking to.

[A]

Exactly. Or that less so this. They're rewriting scripts to re. Say the same thing over and over, because they have to assume you're not looking and you're doing this. And so they're like, they don't want you. I can't believe that you slam the door that hard. And you're like, didn't they just say that two minutes ago? And you're like, it's because everyone's like, dude, it's sickening. Dude, what are we doing to our brains?

[B]

Oh, it's so bad. I mean, the dopamine, you basically get numb to the dopamine hits that you get. And then the stuff that gives you the normal dopamine, like, good friends, love, great food, good music, all that stuff. You don't get the same level of joy out of those things anymore because you're numbed to the amount of dopamine that you're used to getting in your brain. Right. It's really bad.

[A]

Yeah. I mean, that's the whole thing with the. I've talked about this before where we used to. You know, the kind of, like, moments when you were in grade school and you had a friend that laughed so hard they, like, shot milk out of their nose or something. Like, those were, like, moments that happen, like, every week where you'd be like, oh, that was that funny thing that happened. And now it's like, if I'm not laughing my ass off within the first 30 seconds of looking at, like, my phone, I'm like, why is this thing not making me laugh? You know? And it's like, those used to be special times. And I was like, entertain me you know, it's crazy.

[B]

It's really funny. I have a good group of the five of us and we, I'm sure we talked about this, the TRS guys and a couple of their friends, but we go to Palm Springs every couple months or every twice a year, hopefully sometimes once a year and just do this weekend where we just like eat junk food, play board games. And the number one thing that happens is we're just laughing the entire time.

[A]

It's the best.

[B]

Literally four days of side splitting laughter. And then also just talking about life and troubles and struggles and all that stuff, which is great to talk through with other people that are on different paths. But it's like that stuff, you know, you don't want to dull yourself to that stuff because that is the stuff. That is the stuff. You know what I mean?

[A]

All right, end of the episode, let's talk about gray. And.

[B]

On a happy note, Garmin autopilot lands small aircraft without human assistance.

[A]

I watched this, I read it, I've watched the videos about it. I don't know.

[B]

This was submitted by Emil. First off, planes have been able to fly themselves for a long time, right? And most commercial aviation, there's very little that is now handled by actual pilots. They're mostly there in case of issues. But you know, when they're going to go change directions and change altitudes and all this stuff, they're just turning a dial of a setting for autopilot and all that stuff. Well, Garmin has for a while now has had this technology built into their planes that is an emergency auto landing. And essentially the way that it works is when the Garmin determines that the pilot is non responsive. So specifically for general aviation where you have a single pilot, right? Like if you have a pilot and a co pilot, it's not as much of an issue because that's why the co pilot is there. But in general aviation where you have single pilot planes, if the pilot is incapacitated for whatever reason, faints, has a heart attack, passes out watching reels, watching reels, whatever it is, the Garmin will A either automatically detect that there hasn't been inputs that the pilot is not attentive, or B this can be turned on automatically, which is what happened in this situation. But essentially what it does is it looks, because it's got all the charts in the gps, so it looks for the closest reliable airport, it starts navigating the plane to that airport and it has all the landing procedures and vectors in the charts. It also has all the frequencies for the towers and all the frequencies.

[A]

So what it does, you listen to the recording.

[B]

I heard the recording, yeah.

[A]

It's like, this is Garmin. My pilot is in capacity.

[B]

Yeah. We will be landing in 10 minutes.

[A]

I know.

[B]

And it literally just starts doing this automated call to the tower frequency.

[A]

Right.

[B]

And it allows the tower or other aviators in the area to avoid and, you know, get out of the way. And it was able to vector in, it counted down, it landed, it rolled onto the tarmac and shut itself off. This was the first time that this service had ever been used in practical, real world applications. Non testing. It had been testing, but this is the first time. So what happened was there was a depressurization, an unforeseen depressurization of the cabin.

[A]

Right. And for people that don't know you have like, what, 10 seconds, they could put your mask on.

[B]

Yes. Now, the pilots did put their masks on and were fully conscious through this entire process.

[A]

Oh, they faked it.

[B]

No, what happened was they lost radio contact with the tower. They could not hear what the tower was saying. So they chose, with the fact that they lost oxygen, the fact that they lost the ability to communicate with the tower, they chose to activate the automated system.

[A]

Well, I'd activated every time.

[B]

And because the automated system was activated.

[A]

Can you use it every time?

[B]

If you want to override it, yes, you can use it whenever you want.

[A]

Didn't I get in trouble?

[B]

Well, yeah, it's an emergency. I mean, when they show up, you can't just go, ah, I just didn't want to land it.

[A]

Yeah, that's what I was thinking.

[B]

You could, but maybe you'd just be.

[A]

Like, oh, because I don't like flying. I'd just be like, all right, just take care of it for me.

[B]

I mean, that's called having a pilot, Kevin. At that point, you should just hire.

[A]

Someone to fly you.

[B]

Rather than be like, take me to.

[A]

The fake a pass up, hit the.

[B]

Button and then just land and go like this. Oh, hey, guys.

[A]

Yeah, exactly.

[B]

But so this, but it showed that, like, this is the exact, exact type of stuff that general aviation, that all aviation has and really is like, we should be using general aviation more. I really do feel like it. And there's some companies out there that are really like, Skyrise is one. I talked about it many, many, many years or like a year and a half ago. It's the one that's changing all the controls surfaces and the computer fly by wire brains for helicopters, they just put one in. Put the one in a Blackhawk.

[A]

Oh, Crazy.

[B]

Oh, it's crazy because it's like, there's no pedals anymore. It's all autonomous. You can just pick up. It's great.

[A]

It's like, would you fly in Blackhawk? Would you buy one?

[C]

Yes.

[A]

No.

[B]

Are you kidding me? If I had the fucking Skyrise and I had a Blackhawk, it would be so fun. I'd be like, let's go, everybody pile in the Blackhawk. We're going to Palm Springs.

[A]

Oh, my God, you're so different than me.

[B]

I love it, man. I want it. I'm it. But I'm to going.

[A]

Looking at right now what they support. They actually have quite a few models that are there. So here's the interesting thing. I knew they had it on the Sirius Vision jet.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And that was like. I think that was the first jet that they added on. But they're adding it to the Honda jet, which is kind of awesome.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

They're adding the Citation King Airs.

[B]

Oh, the Pilatus.

[A]

Yeah. Oh, wow.

[B]

That's the. That's a crazy one.

[A]

So for. Yeah. The Plaza. Isn't that the most, like, reliable plane ever known to ever exist?

[B]

So the one of the big problems is, is that a lot of CEOs and businesses can't use it because the insurance won't.

[A]

Single engine.

[B]

Because it's a single engine. Although it's super secure.

[A]

It's supposed to be the most bulletproof of all though, right?

[B]

Yeah. But again, it's hard for it to be insured because a lot of, like, the business people need to have dual engines for redundancy if the CEO is going to fly on it.

[A]

Wow. Crazy. Well, I'm excited for this future. For me, the ultimate would be to have some type of drone with the redundancy of, like, if one goes out. And.

[B]

Yeah. So, like, the, like, Joby, we talked about Joby or Archer is another one that's doing stuff where it's got like the quadcopters are like the eight or six blades, and it's got the redundancy. If any of them pop, they can still land like two or something like that.

[A]

So you know the parachutes they have on some of these planes now, right?

[B]

Yeah, yeah. Cirrus says:1.

[A]

We talked about that years ago. Yeah. So my buddy Chris Hutchins, one of his best friends. Best friend. Engine failed.

[B]

No.

[A]

Out in the middle of the woods, popped the freaking parachute. Survived no problem, didn't get hurt, parachute came down, landed the plane. No issues. They did. So they banned his license because they have to by Default one. Because they don't know if it's pilot error or not.

[B]

Okay. Okay.

[A]

And then they did an investigation.

[B]

Yep.

[A]

Like four months later came back and yes, it was a proper engine failure. Not his fault, but got his license. License back and all that. Saved his life.

[B]

It's crazy.

[A]

Isn't that crazy?

[B]

That's crazy.

[A]

It's freaking cool.

[B]

I mean, that's literally what it's called. Caps, I think in the Cirrus Vision jet or a cirrus.

[A]

It wasn't a vision jet, it was a prop.

[B]

But.

[A]

Yeah, but the Vision jet has the same thing. It's the only jet with a parachute.

[B]

Yeah. I love that Vision jet. It's so cute.

[A]

You know what's funny is I talked to, I know a pilot friend of mine that flies jets and has a plane and he goes, there's only one problem with the Vision jet. He goes, everyone thinks it's so cool and it's cute and small and it's, you know, for jets, it's affordable because it's like one and a half or two million bucks or something. And he goes, the issue is that it, like, you want to get above the turbulence and it can't get that high. It's not rated to go that high. And so he goes, if you go on anything longer than like an hour flight, you're always in the bad weather because you can't. Because the range doesn't quite get. You exactly.

[B]

Can't get to the sweet icing.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

The slick icing.

[A]

He's like, that's the only problem with that jet. He's like, it just can't get high enough. So anyway, I hate it.

[C]

You guys think there's ever going to be a point where pilots are kind of like coco delivery drivers, where they're not on the plane, they're just piloting from remotely from some centralized place?

[A]

Oh, that's a good question.

[B]

I mean, that. Yeah, I think that's. That's going to be happening for sure. I mean, I think also it'll be a mix, right? Like, I think it'll be like Waymo.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

It'll be like it's autonomous, but if there's any question or if anything gets a little spicy, then a pilot can take over remotely for sure. Skyrise actually does that. Now that I think about it. They have an automated version where they can fly it from remotely.

[A]

Yeah. Yeah. It'll be like the way Mode will be like, kevin, we noticed you brought two bottles of champagne on board and you were the only one flying. Are you okay?

[B]

I'm like I to take over.

[A]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Exactly.

[C]

Sure.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Exactly.

[B]

See you in Boca. Yeah. Oh my God.

[A]

All right.

[B]

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[B]

Because you've showed it to me. I've been like, this is the most amazing thing.

[A]

Well, I mean, I have it right now where I could just, like, hold down this button. Hey, Alex, how are you doing today? Oh, wait, I mean, tomorrow. And so what? It'll do.

[B]

Yeah. Hey, Alex, how are you doing tomorrow? That's amazing. No, no, no.

[A]

But what it did is it heard that I messed up and it got that. And rather than just be, like, doing the whole thing, it goes back and fixes it before it even pastes it in. It's awesome. It's great software. I use it for all my agent encoding. It's compatible with everything, though, so you can use it for email dictation, Slack Docs. It works on your Mac, on Windows, on the iPhone. It is a hotkey. As you saw me hold down there. All you gotta do is hold down and then you just go to town and it learns your writing style. So if there are certain acronyms or names or things or tone that you want to get through, like, I told it, like, well, I actually had to tune it down because I told it to go crazy and start doing exclamation points and everything. I was like.

[B]

I mean, that's how I was doing it.

[A]

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[B]

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[A]

All right, on to.

[B]

They're going to do a lemonade stand.

[A]

That's. Yeah, it's super cute. They were asking last night because we made some soup that had lemon in it and Nova was like, how many lemons do you have to squeeze and all that. And Zel's like, I want to sell lemonade. And I was like entrepreneurial. Let's make it happen. So we're do it.

[B]

I support text around so that we all know.

[A]

Will you come by? Will you really buy lemonade?

[B]

100.

[A]

We're gonna like make a fancy sign and too like let's upsell at five bucks a cup. I don't know about that. Everyone was like, quarter? Yeah, sometimes. But normally it's crappy.

[B]

Anyway.

[A]

All right, so let's keep going.

[B]

I love you just knocked. Kids.

[A]

No, but normally I. I know normally it sucks.

[B]

Anyway, let's move on.

[A]

I get headaches.

[B]

My kids are gonna make.

[A]

I get headaches from aspartame. Like I don't know why.

[B]

Interesting.

[A]

And I was driving by this lemonade stand and this true story. And I wanted to be cool and I had like a buck on me and so I gave him like doll. I got it and they, they would say it was like that. That shit that like, you know the stuff that has aspartament, like the. What's that stuff called? Crystal Light. And so I was like. And they gave it to me and they're like, look at me. Like, I'm like.

[B]

You're like.

[A]

So I felt bad. But anyway, this is gonna be legit lemonade.

[B]

Amazing.

[A]

All right, so there's been a flurry, if you will, of announcements, a smattering of announcements out of everything. CES Amazon re ramps its fire tv. So this is a full on tv.

[B]

Oh.

[A]

And launches. Not the fire stick. It is a stick in the TV stick built in.

[B]

Oh, nice.

[A]

And so this is called, it's called their art line, which is a frame tv.

[B]

Oh, they're doing the frame tv.

[A]

They're doing the frame tv.

[B]

Oh, that's interesting because I was going to get one of those over the fireplace in the living room.

[A]

So a couple things. One, they've revamped the whole UI so it is beautiful. Now it doesn't look like Amazon Y. I don't know how to explain that.

[B]

I know exactly what you mean.

[A]

Amazon Y it looks super sexy. And they have 2000 different like wallpapery kind of backgrounds for you to choose from. Which if you. So I have this Samsung other one.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[A]

And the frame tv.

[B]

The frame, yeah.

[A]

And it's like, dude, I have hate it. Because you go in there and they're like, here's three free frames. And you're like, oh, that one looks cool. And it's like, sign up for our $10 a month wallpaper rental service. And I'm like, what? So I'm really hoping this is going to be awesome. I did a little bit more deep diving into this one as well. And I asked it, you know, how is it better than the Samsung spec wise? It says it's a trade off Samsung. The frames generally hits higher brightness and the premium frame Pro uses the Neo QLED mini LED which has much higher HDR peaks. Interesting reported at 590 nits. Whereas the Amber Amber art line is a 4k QLED quoted up to 450 nits. But it also adds Dolby Vision, a matte anti glare screen and more frame color options starting at a much lower price.

[B]

Yeah. What are the prices? Did it say?

[A]

Yeah, real quick. If you care most about HDR brightness and contrast, Samsung likely wins. If you want Dolby Vision, a matte art display and a cheaper stylish option. The Ember is attractive. So it looks pretty awesome. It starts at. Let me pull this up here. Oh, I have it actually in this tab here. The price point that it was starting at was actually pretty reasonable. There was some saying it was, I want to say 8.99 that it started out or something like that. Shoot, I do not have it up. Oh, here it is.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

8.99. So it comes in 55 and 65 inch options starting at 8.99.

[B]

That's not bad. Oh it looks good.

[A]

It looks really good.

[B]

Like look like that.

[A]

See that matte? Like you would never know that's a tv.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

I mean granted it's an absolute position where no TV would ever be.

[B]

Right. But it doesn't look like a tv.

[A]

We gotta send this to Matt. Because like you're like who would ever put a TV there? That's like no TV should go there. But anyway, yeah, it's cool. I'm finally. There's some competition to that frame.

[B]

So there was. So hisense makes one too.

[A]

Oh they do?

[B]

Yeah, that I've been looking at. And they have it at Costco periodically for cheaper. And I was like. Because again I don't like like that. Cuz the Hisense one has like a couple built in like 500 or 300 built in images.

[A]

Not that 2000 with this one.

[B]

That's crazy. I love that.

[A]

But I love that we act like that's a big deal. It's like they're just wallpapers. Can you believe it has 2000 wallpapers?

[B]

Because Samsung charges you monthly to be able to put a fricking picture in. Like the whole point of it is that it looks like a painting.

[A]

Yeah. Yeah.

[B]

You know, and so anyway, I'm. I'm. I could be a buyer.

[A]

Yeah, same.

[B]

I could be a buyer.

[A]

Fire tv. I'm gonna see if it was already for sale. I think it's just an announcement right now. So far I haven't seen it on their actual website yet.

[B]

No, because you have to do. What's it called? The art.

[A]

Yeah, art.

[B]

What's it called?

[A]

Art tv. Anyway.

[B]

Art line.

[A]

Art line. Oh, the hisense is the one that.

[B]

You were looking at.

[A]

Yeah, it's got great reviews.

[B]

Yeah. Then it's 800 bucks for the 55.

[A]

Yeah. Well, this is exciting. I'm all here for it. I like Apple TV is still my default. What is your default tv? Is it?

[B]

Yeah, it's just so easy.

[A]

So if you like give me your setup. Just out of curiosity. Like for me I do YouTube TV for streaming TV.

[B]

Interesting.

[A]

And for me, because it's like it's an app built into Apple tv. I get high res. I use it mostly just for basketball and stuff. So I get like the basketball thing and then I would say my go to if I want to buy A movie. It is on Apple because. I don't know, it's just right there. But then I'm kind of worried because if I ever move to a different ecosystem now I've got all my. I don't buy a ton of movies, but I probably have 50 or so.

[B]

Oh, wow.

[A]

I don't know how many you have.

[B]

But, like, I don't really buy movies. I rent movies.

[A]

Yeah, but when you have kids.

[B]

Yeah. Totally different.

[A]

Then it's like, you know, you're gonna be watching the Grinch every year for the last next decade. You're like, you're gonna buy it.

[B]

Yeah. Smart.

[A]

You know. Gosh. You know that movie, the Rudolph the Red Do Reindeer from, like the. The forties or some, like, with this Abominable Snowman and.

[C]

Yeah, yeah.

[A]

Do you guys watch that recently? Yeah, it's got some stuff that doesn't age well.

[B]

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

[A]

Oh, yeah. Like, the head reindeer was, like, talking real. He's like, you stay here and keep the women safe while we go out.

[B]

And, like.

[A]

Like, it's got some. Where you're like, oh, damn. Like, they're. They have some. Like, it's, you know.

[B]

You know, it's that era.

[A]

It's definitely that era.

[B]

Some stuff. I know.

[A]

It's crazy to listen to some of that stuff.

[B]

Nobody wants a Charlie in the Box. One of Heather's favorite movies. We have it on dvd. I think we bought that one.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah, we do. Yeah.

[A]

What's your setup?

[B]

We do Spectrum, but it's because Heather's mom has Spectrum cable, and so we. But we manage it because she's. You know, you're getting it for free.

[A]

Just say you're getting free.

[B]

So we just log in as. So that's where we get, like, football.

[A]

Yeah. I have Netflix, too.

[B]

And then I would say for us, it's like, if we're gonna buy a movie or rent a movie, we do it through Apple.

[A]

Why not on Amazon?

[B]

Because it feels like you're going through a device to get to another device to then buy a thing on a set. It's like, why. I feel like we're jumping through this.

[A]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I feel that.

[B]

I feel like if. If I was on an Amazon tv, I would buy it on Amazon, but I feel like I'm on an Apple tv. I should watch it on Apple tv. Plus, we watch. You know, we just watched Pluribus, which was great.

[A]

I haven't seen that yet.

[B]

It's great.

[A]

Number one movie you own on that. You would not give up. You never Watch it again.

[B]

Wait. Can never watch it again.

[A]

All your movies are going away. What's the one that you want to keep? To, like, keep forever?

[B]

So I'm a really bad person to ask that question because I love to watch shitty movies.

[A]

I do, too.

[B]

Over and over again.

[A]

Yeah. What's. Okay, that's the great. That's the question. What is the shitty movie that you would never give up like that. Mine is a shitty movie.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Mine's Anchorman. I could never not have Anchorman as part of my collection.

[B]

I get that.

[A]

It just.

[B]

Like there's.

[A]

I know that I've overwatched it now and I probably won't watch it for another, like, two years, but when I do, I will absolutely love it. It's just too good for me.

[B]

Yeah. I watch the movies that I see myself going back to and watching. This is gonna sound so weird. And I wouldn't say this is like, my favorite movie or movie that I.

[A]

Could like to put on the background.

[B]

Jack Reacher. I don't even know what that is with Tom Cruise. It's just cool.

[A]

Wait, is that the one where he, like, Forever and Tomorrow?

[B]

No, that's another one. I've watched that.

[A]

Yeah, that one's great. Live, Die, Repeat, or Tomorrow, because it had a different name to it.

[B]

Tomorrow is what it got released as it was based on. Live, Die, Repeat. The Man.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

They changed it and then they changed it back.

[A]

Dude, I gotta watch this. Is it good? Jack Reaper.

[B]

Jack Reacher. Yeah, good.

[A]

Jack the Reaper.

[B]

You'll like it.

[A]

Jack Reacher. Okay.

[B]

It's like a cool little. I mean, it. It starts a little intense, you know?

[A]

64 rotten tomatoes. Are you sure?

[B]

No, forget Rotten Tomatoes.

[A]

Alex.

[B]

Tomatoes.

[C]

You want to look up Anchorman's Rotten Tomatoes?

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Right? It must be amazing. Okay.

[C]

I'm not sure. I'm not sure.

[A]

Rotten.

[C]

I just imagine all our favorite movies don't have great Rotten Tomatoes squares.

[A]

Legend of Ron Burgundy. Anchorman. Rotten tomatoes. 66. See, dude, who gives that a 66? Okay.

[B]

Ugh. It happens. All right. Speaking of being old.

[A]

Yes.

[B]

Anti aging injection regrows knee cartilage and prevents arthritis. What?

[A]

I didn't even see you pick. This.

[B]

Stanford study, submitted by comdac. So comdac's back? Comdac's back. This.

[A]

Comdex.

[B]

This, to me is like. I'm so, so excited because it makes me feel like the thing that I think we're 20 years from. You know, it's 20, 26. I'm gonna turn 50 this year, which is crazy to me.

[A]

Yeah, that's crazy.

[B]

That's old. Yeah, you're right behind me.

[A]

No, I'm not that. I'm further back.

[B]

Right behind me.

[A]

I'm further back.

[B]

Right. On my hails or your knees as well? Yeah, on my knees. And it started to get back into the gym and get back to working out, which I haven't done.

[A]

Are your knees hurting?

[B]

No, thankfully, but knock on fucking wood.

[A]

Is anything hurting right now?

[B]

My shoulder a little bit.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

Which I'm going to do acupuncture with a Chinese lady. She's great, but. So this group at Stanford, what did they use?

[A]

Tell me the compound. I probably know it.

[B]

Okay, so well. So it actually is a protein blocker or an anti. Yeah, it's a protein blocker that blocks a protein called 15PGDH.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

Which is the protein. And it's the protein that happens that gets generated as your cartilage is being degenerated.

[A]

Oh, interesting.

[B]

The thing that's crazy is they injected this protein blocker into the knees of rats or mice that had cartilage loss and deep arthritis. Yeah, arthritis. And the crazy thing is it didn't just stop the degradation, it actually increased and started regenerating the cartilage in the knee.

[A]

It just.

[B]

In rats in mice. Yeah.

[A]

But it hasn't. Oh, Jesus. What?

[B]

But it's.

[A]

We've cured cancer and dementia and everything in mice and rats. That's a problem, dude. You don't know if it's gonna translate to humans.

[B]

But it's starting. They're doing. Because they have a mouth one that they're doing a mouth one, A pillow form. But the crazy thing is this is the only medication that they've seen that can actually help the symptom or help the problem of age related arthritis and cartilage degeneration instead of just masking the symptoms.

[A]

Hmm.

[B]

So that, you know, all the other things that we can do. But they say that in five years to 10 years that we might be not doing knee and hip replacements anymore because we'll be able to actually like inject a curative thing.

[A]

Godspeed. Like, we need all the things.

[B]

You know what I mean? Like this is that we're starting to get to the place where it's like, I feel like we're.

[A]

We're.

[B]

I feel like we're at the age where we got to see the birth of sort of digital technology, the Internet, all this cool stuff. And now as we're aging, I think we're gonna start to actually capture the technological flow of medical innovation.

[A]

Yeah, yeah.

[B]

So that our version of being an old app is going to be a different experience than the old assholes of today.

[A]

I think if AI continues to do what it's doing, meaning that the rate of knowledge accumulation, acceleration and understanding of genome biome. All the gnomes. All the gnomes, we'll be in a really good place in 10 to 15 years, without a doubt.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

But this is very exciting. Not this thing. Well, this. Sure, it's fine. But the idea that this is going to be a thing is very exciting. There's a lot of shot on goals that I'm seeing right now. There's a bunch of proteins that are really interesting work that's being done at UCSF with something called Clotho. Google Peter Tia Clotho. It's the only thing they put into primates that can reverse dementia. And it's naturally occurring in humans. Like it's, you know how we get it when we sprint. So if you were to sprint and run and we draw your blood, your Cloth levels would be super high. And then when they inject into primates, they like perform 20% better at cognitive tests. But it makes sense. Like people that work out a ton and do sprinters, they don't get dementia as much. It's a protective thing. So they're figuring out if we can synthesize it and put it into humans, what happens.

[C]

Oh, yeah.

[A]

And the cool thing is the downside there is like minimal because it's already naturally occurring in here.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's not like your brain, your body would be like, what the fuck is this?

[A]

It's super exciting stuff.

[B]

Like, jesus, are we running? I wonder who. Just like, you put it in, you just start sweating, Right?

[A]

Exactly.

[B]

You're like, oh, God, I think I feel like I'm running from a puma.

[A]

So it's, it's pretty, pretty cool. Yeah. This next decade is going to be awesome.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm very excited. I'm very excited. 50 to 60. 50.

[A]

60. 50 is going to be the new 40 and then hopefully it'll be the new 30.

[B]

Yeah. Wouldn't that be nice?

[A]

Yeah. All right. Oh, yeah, here we go.

[B]

Oh, yeah, here we go.

[A]

This is my last story of the day. I worded it wrong, though. I was writing in the script here, so of course it is CES season.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

Which means that more smart fridges have arrived.

[B]

Come on.

[A]

And we've talked about smart fridges before. Oh, get this one. This is a new ge. It has a built in barcode scanner and camera so you can go ahead and you can hold your empty bottle of soda or can of soda up to the scanner and it will trigger an order to buy you more soda.

[B]

Wow.

[A]

It is $4,899 for the fridge, but it will help you do your shopping. Because anytime you're out of something, boop, scan and you get a new reorder, does it connect?

[B]

What does it connect to? Does it connect to Amazon or Ralph's?

[A]

I have to imagine it's going to connect to a service like that, a door dash or whatever it may be. But every time I load a page, it's like, do you Want to pay $5 a month? You know that slide up thing? I'm just like, I just want the article.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

So I can get part of it. So that's the part I got.

[B]

Anyway.

[A]

I'm so tired of smart fridges, dude. Nobody needs that fridge.

[B]

It does what it does.

[A]

I literally, over the holidays, this is a great buy. I got this thing called a bird buddy.

[B]

Oh, yeah. Heather has one.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

I saw one other thing on the Instagram. I was like, kevin got a bird buddy. Oh, my God, it's so great.

[A]

Yeah. So I got a bird buddy for hummingbirds. And it's a little camera that sits there and you get a push notification when your hummingbird visits. And I'm watching hummingbirds feed all day long. But I'm sitting there, I'm out, outside. I'm like, updating firmware on my hummingbird feeder. And then I'm just like, what the fuck am I doing? I never thought, like, if you had told me, like, 20 years ago, like, one day you will be updating the firmware in your hummingbird feeder. I've been like, what the.

[B]

I don't.

[A]

I know. No, I know. But this is like that. I'm like, how many things do we need to update the firmware? I don't want to update my fridge.

[B]

I know.

[C]

You know, things that always get me.

[A]

Is you need to.

[C]

You have to recharge your books and your weed pipes.

[B]

Oh, that's so funny.

[C]

Things that are supposed to be like.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Like the epitome of analog. Your weed pipes, like vapes, Right?

[A]

Oh, yeah. How much weed are you smoking?

[B]

I don't smoke very much. We gotta get those. Get those pipes charged.

[A]

Yeah, he said, like, it ran out again and hitting it too hard. But yeah, I mean, it's like everything.

[B]

Is a firmware thing, so it's funny. So my little sister redid her kitchen a while back, and they got a Thermador oven that had all the wifi connected and did all this stuff, and it kept breaking. They had to replace the motherboard three times. And they're like, it's a fucking oven. I should just be able to turn the knob and the gas goes on and fire and, you know, and it's like. It's like they were. It was such a big headache. And they were like, we never use any of this. The WI fi stuff. And my oven in the new kitchen, it has wifi stuff. It has an app. I never use it. I just use the fricking dial.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

You know, and it's like, I don't want my fridge to have to be, like, connected to the wifi in order for it to. To function as a refrigerator.

[A]

I have one counter to that.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

I got a Kamado Joe, one of those green egg things. And I got the digital one. Best money I've ever spent. Now, that's totally different, but you know why? Because the green eggs. And this is the red one, the camago one.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

They are. So they're finicky to temperature control because it's charcoal in there. You got to get the top vent right. You got to get the bottom vent right. You got to the. Get the placement of the thing.

[C]

That's my zen right there.

[B]

I love that. You love that.

[C]

I love doing that.

[A]

Okay, well, how about this? I put the charcoal in. Same charcoal. Plug it in. It turns the heating element on. Heat starts the charcoal for you. Like, no big deal. Like, you can do that automatically. Fine. But now it has a fan underneath it. So all it does is say, put it in slot one, slot two, or slot three. And it automatically perfectly temperature controls it. I'm doing pizzas on it. I did the most amazing rotisserie chicken on it. And it gets all the great flavor depth. I'm not compromising at all on the source ingredients. All I'm taking away is the temperature. And I get push notifications. My phone. Love that. All the stuff.

[B]

I love that.

[A]

Now, here's what's funny. I had one of those Traeger smokers a couple years ago, and it was also a digital one.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And I had to replace the motherboard. I had to do all this. And I was in the car company with Trigger was like, send it back. We're not going to help you anymore. And I logged into my router, and my router had sequestered the IP as a rogue IP address, and it thought someone was trying to hack me.

[B]

Oh, my.

[A]

And that's why it was broken. And they Replaced the motherboard, everything. And it was my. Because I had a Cisco system at home, which is dumb. I shouldn't have gotten commercial for my house. Amazing. And it was like, there's a rogue offender. Because normally it's like, I see laptops, I see phones, and it's like a traeger comes into the. The office, and it's like, I don't.

[B]

Know who you are. Send me some packets.

[A]

Yeah, exactly.

[B]

It's like, what the hell is this?

[A]

Oh, God, it's so stupid. I have. I just was kind of have 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 devices on me that need software updates.

[B]

Oh, my God, I love it. I'm trying to think. I have 1, 2. I guess 3. 1, 2, 3.

[A]

You need a ring.

[B]

No, no ring. I don't do the cockering.

[A]

Yeah, those are.

[B]

I'm good with that.

[A]

That's the new.

[B]

That's the new.

[A]

All right.

[B]

Like Titan.

[A]

Strangle.

[B]

Strangle.

[A]

Here we go.

[B]

Give me two minutes. Oh, God, I love it. Yeah. I want to talk to you about the kamado, Joe. The thing.

[A]

Oh, dude, you're gonna love it.

[B]

Okay, last story of the day. This is an oldie buddy goody restaurant known for scantily clad servers announces comeback and uniform changes after bankruptcy this year. Now it might be clear who we're talking about. This was submitted by Move78, but Hooters is back.

[A]

Like, they've relaunched. Are they still called Hooters?

[B]

It is still called Hooters. Mal and I are still not quite sure why the article was so vague about not using the word Hooters in the title.

[A]

It wasn't in the title.

[C]

It wasn't until the second paragraph. Even the dig tldr did not.

[B]

But the image is a Hooters girl with a plate of wings. So have you ever been to Hooters?

[A]

A couple times. Maybe like, 15 years ago.

[B]

So there was a Hooters in more than that.

[A]

Maybe like, 20 years ago.

[B]

Yeah. So there was a Hooters near my college, and we used to go all the time because the wings were fucking great. Still some of the best chicken wings, and I love chicken wings, and I saw some of the best chicken wings, and, yeah, the ladies were wearing, like, big boots.

[A]

But you are also a fan of Hooters.

[B]

I am also a fan of Hooters, but that doesn't mean that everybody that works at Hooters has the types of Hooters that I'm a fan of, which is what type?

[A]

They're Hooters copious. That's what they're known for.

[B]

I mean, they're known for their skimpy outfits. And anyway, but long story short, they are relaunching it. They went out of business about 10 years ago, filed for bankruptcy. Bankruptcy. They're coming out of bankruptcy. I think there's a new. New owners. And they're going back to the original outfits, which were less sort of spandex shorts and like real drop tank tops.

[A]

I mean, those original outfits are like 80s fab. Like, that's amazing.

[B]

Yeah. So they're like dolphin shorts cutoffs.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

It's cool.

[B]

They're saying they're leaning more towards the beach vibe.

[A]

Ah.

[B]

Sort of more of like a beach wear kind of a thing. And they're opening up in Ohio. I think they're saying that they're opening in Dayton, Mason and Toledo. I'm interested. It's a weird brand because I feel like in 2026. Does Hooters have to exist? I don't think so, but there is a. There's brand identity. They make great wings.

[A]

Could you go to a Hooters and be cool with it? Like, would you want to be, like, seeing, like, there's Alex at a Hooters.

[B]

And when you say it like that. No, there's Alex at a Hooters.

[A]

I just don't know that, like, dude, I don't want to go to Hooters.

[B]

I feel like maybe if you change. I mean, it's called Hooters. Yeah. I don't know. I don't think. I don't.

[A]

Do they allow man Hooters?

[B]

They were always allowing men Hooters.

[A]

Were they?

[B]

Yeah, they were called duders. Yeah. I mean, here's the thing. I feel like, because everybody. Everybody has their own wing vibe. So, like, I would always be like.

[A]

Oh, don't bring this back to the wings.

[B]

No, but that's what I want.

[A]

Yeah, but there's wings everywhere.

[B]

No, but there's shitty wings everywhere. Nobody makes them.

[A]

You tell me that Hooters are the best wings you've ever had in your life.

[B]

Hooters was my go to staple wing. I wouldn't get Hooters to go. Why would you get Hooters to go.

[A]

If you wanted to go for that? That's a great point. If you order Hooters to go, you weren't this therapy.

[B]

We would have Hooters deliver delivered to parties.

[A]

I'm sure you would.

[C]

The wings.

[B]

Well. And the girls.

[A]

No.

[B]

Just kidding. Yeah, the wings. But it's interesting. It's funny that that is sort of coming back into existence. Where it feels like, boy, there's a whole lot of reasons why I should have just stayed in the coffin, you know?

[A]

Yeah. I mean, I like this idea of a beach townie kind of vibe. Like, it's almost like.

[B]

Yeah, like dick flash resort or whatever.

[A]

I don't know what that is, but the one thing I did like was like the old, like, roller skate kind of like drive in car stuff. Yeah, yeah. That was always cool. Like, it was kind of a. A time and era. Like, if they did this as more like a surf type thing.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And it was like covered up and it was like a. Like more legit. It was just like funsy like that.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Like, I don't know. But the name is what kills it.

[B]

I mean, it's called Hooters.

[A]

Yeah, exactly.

[B]

Yeah. It's implied.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

But anyway. Well, we'll see. We don't live anywhere near Ohio, but if you do and you want to check it out, let us know.

[A]

Is it.

[B]

Is it. Do you have to still kind of like hold your head in shame when you walk in?

[A]

Yeah, I always felt uncomfortable. There was a time where, like, for me growing up as a kid, it was always like, oh, that's that place where the. You know, I mean, like, it had that vibe. And then you went. And even then I was like. I almost felt like going to a strip club in some.

[B]

Yeah, yeah.

[A]

It was very. Strip club.

[B]

Anyway. Anyway. Good times. Good times. All right, well, that is it for the first episode of 2026. So excited to have you with us.

[A]

Yes.

[B]

And it's good to see you, my friend. Happy 2026.

[A]

26.

[B]

Let's make it the best one of the years that we've had.

[A]

That's right. We're wishing you a lot of peace, love, health, and longevity in your kneecaps.

[B]

Yes.