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Jason DeFilippo
Grumpy Old Geeks, a weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schulmeister and Jason DeFilippo discussing the finer points of what went wrong on the Internet and who's to blame. Welcome to Grumpy Old geeks. I'm Jason DeFilippo.
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Brian Schulmeister
And I'm Brian Schoellmeister. I'm in my last few days here, Jason. And as much as I enjoy my time in Southern California, even freaky, semi dystopian Southern California and a giant enjoy the extended time with my mom and seeing all my friends here, at least as many as I could, I'm ready to go home.
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Jason DeFilippo
So I guess the. I guess you coming back to SoCal is probably not on the books anytime soon.
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Brian Schulmeister
Well, I mean, that's not going to happen until we sort out this. You know, I need Matt and Trey to sort everything out for us at south park and take care of our dystopian future. But, you know. No, no, it's not that. It's just. You know what it is? It's your own bed. It's your own house. It's. It's your own routines. I've been out of it for over three weeks now. I've got one more week. I'm visiting Seattle first, and I'm ready for my own bed and just regular, regular life, right? Outside of the fact that everything's kind of falling apart here. Like we're getting ready to record for whatever reason, my AirPods didn't charge, so I'm using my janky, crappy plug in headphones that I keep only for planes. My reading glasses broke, so I've got this thing hanging over one ear and the other ear doesn't have the thing and I'm a mess. I need to get back to normal.
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Jason DeFilippo
You're falling apart.
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Brian Schulmeister
I'm falling apart here, Jason. But I'm warm and happy.
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Jason DeFilippo
All right, let's get onto it then.
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Brian Schulmeister
All right.
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Jason DeFilippo
In the news. Well, since you're here, Brian, you can go check out Tesla's new futuristic diner and drive in over in Hollywood.
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Brian Schulmeister
No, thank you. I saw on the news that some people waited all morning for it to open, and I was like, what is wrong with you?
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Jason DeFilippo
Yeah, yeah, I'm not so sure about that. They were going to get those little cybertruck hamburger bins, you know, as collector's items, I guess.
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Brian Schulmeister
Okay.
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Jason DeFilippo
Although I did. I did watch it on the news and it just kind of fell apart and the anchor lady was just like, yeah, they really need to work on those cybertrucks a little More, they kind of fall apart. But yeah, it's, it's open, it's expensive and it takes a long time to get your food. And some people are calling it the Maga Diner.
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Brian Schulmeister
Yeah, sounds about right.
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Jason DeFilippo
Yeah, I'm going to pass on that for sure. I do want to see it because I. When we first saw the sketches that we talked about on the show, I'm like, man, the people in the apartment buildings right next to it are going to be pissed off because.
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Brian Schulmeister
And they are.
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Jason DeFilippo
And they are. Yes, called that one. Yeah, they've got these massive LCD screens that they play movies on, like old movies and stuff. And they are right up against the balconies for all the people that lived in those apartment buildings. And it turns out that nobody wanted to go on the news to talk about it. Like KTLA tried to get up there and they're like, no, they wouldn't let us in. They're pissed off.
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Brian Schulmeister
Well, you know, they took away the view of the alley with the people shooting up crack.
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Jason DeFilippo
I think this is in the spot where the Shakies used to be.
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Brian Schulmeister
Oh, gosh, yeah, I remember that.
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Jason DeFilippo
Yeah, you and I went there once. I know, or some kind of meetup or something. But yeah, bring back Shakies. Get rid of Elon.
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Brian Schulmeister
I need my mojo potatoes.
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Jason DeFilippo
What else we got?
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Brian Schulmeister
Well, we got a lot of Elon Musk news, as per usual. Elon Musk, the right wing culture warrior waging a civilization saving battle against the woke mind virus, apparently isn't above taking advantage of diversity, equity and inclusion or DEI programs when it serves his business purposes. Yes, Neuralink, Elon Musk's brain implant startup, filed as a small disadvantaged business with the Small Business Administration. This designation is meant for companies owned by economically and socially disadvantaged individuals. They claim that appears dubious given Musk's billionaire status. You think Muskwatch accused Neuralink of falsifying federal forms citing Musk's wealth and the company's likely non qualifying ownership. Critics note the irony Musk frequently attacks DEI efforts and government aid and yet neuralink appears to seek federal benefits via the same. NeuroLink has received FDA approval for human trials and has demonstrated early successes, but also faces animal abuse allegations from past testing.
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Jason DeFilippo
Yeah, no, I saw this come through last week and I was just like, you skeezy mofo.
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Brian Schulmeister
I know. Disadvantaged business my ass. Yeah, well, I mean, technically it is disadvantaged. Musk is running it and that is a disadvantage at this point.
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Jason DeFilippo
You do, you do have the CEO coming on the short bus every day. I'm Sorry, the short Tesla every day.
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Brian Schulmeister
Well, let's move on to another one of his companies. France is investigating X for possible algorithmic manipulation, fraudulent data extraction and election interference. The investigation began July 11 following reports from January 2025 and refers to X as part of an organized gang.
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Jason DeFilippo
Okay, Disorganized gang is more like it.
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Brian Schulmeister
Yes. French authorities have requested access to X's recommendation algorithm, real time user date post data, and of course X is refusing to cooperate. One assumes they send a French poop emoji. Yes, claiming the investigation is politically motivated and infringes on privacy, free speech and due process. So, yeah, I, I suppose it is politically motivated, as is a lot of X's algorithm manipulations. Yeah, so there you go. Yeah, so that's getting, that's getting investigated there. So let's move on to yet another Elon company, shall we? Jason?
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Jason DeFilippo
Oh, please. Why not? Let's just get them all out of the way.
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Brian Schulmeister
Despite owning more than half of the satellites currently in low Earth orbit, SpaceX is complaining about AST Space Mobile's Bluebird constellation and how it'll introduce added risks. In a letter sent to the FCC, SpaceX raised concerns that AST Space Mobile poses a threat to the sustainability of low Earth orbit.
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Jason DeFilippo
Okay.
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Brian Schulmeister
SpaceX operates more than 7,800 satellites currently around 60% of all satellites in orbit. And they've had more than a few close calls with other objects. So pot and kettle.
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Jason DeFilippo
This is ridiculous. And they've only got 7,800 up there now. And I mean, they're looking at 40 to 60,000 of these things by the time they're done.
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Brian Schulmeister
God forbid another company do it.
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Jason DeFilippo
Yeah. Oh God, that's probably. That would just be dangerous, Brian. That would be absolutely dangerous.
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Brian Schulmeister
Now, I'd like to believe that we're done with Elon for the rest of this podcast, but somehow I figure he might worm his way in later as well. Okay, let's move on to other annoying billionaires. Meta has declined to sign the EU's new voluntary AI Code of Practice, which supports the implementation of the EU AI Act. EU AI. Joel Kaplan, Meta's chief Global Affairs Officer, criticized the code is overreach, as they say about everything that anybody tries to do anything to them, and said it introduces legal uncertainties and excessive demands for AI developers. The code bans training AI on pirated materials. Oh, God forbid. That's, that's overreach. Enforces respect for opt outs from creators overreach, and mandates regular documentation of AI features. Overreach, though voluntary signing the code could offer legal protections against future AI act compliance issues. Refusal could invite greater regulatory scrutiny. So, you know, Meta, as per usual, is saying we're not going to do it.
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Jason DeFilippo
The thing is, I don't think this is going to be an issue too much longer and I'll get to that in a little bit here because we got more AI news. We've got a whole stack of AI news, Brian. All right, we're going to start off with a great article I found called why I'm betting against AI agents in 2025 by Utkarsh Khan. So this is a guy who's built more than a dozen real world AI agents from React UI generator to DevOps and CICD automation. And he says the promise of fully autonomous workflows doesn't stand up to real world math and economic. Now this is fascinating because this is coming from a guy who actually makes, you know, AI agents as opposed to.
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Brian Schulmeister
Us saying it just watching from the sidelines as we have been doing for quite some time.
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Jason DeFilippo
Yeah, well, I've been dipping my toe in, but I would. That's a little bit more on that in the next few stories. So the thing that he's pointed out is it's like, okay, right now you've got about a 95% success rate, if you're lucky, with a one step agent process. Right. And well, that's not the point of an agent. An agent, the, the entire point of an agent is it's a multi step process and it does a lot of different things in succession to get you from point A to point B. Right. That's what everybody's saying. Oh my God, my agent is going to be doing this, that, that, that, this and that and picking up my dog and getting my cleaning all this stuff my AI agent's gonna do.
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Brian Schulmeister
My agent doesn't just find the flight for me, it then researches all the different flights, finds the best price and finds the times that work for me and then books the hotel room. Room so I can go straight from the airport to the hotel at the best possible price with the least amount of effort involved. Many, many, many steps and builds me.
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Jason DeFilippo
A map of all the selfie locations I can take from my Instagram account.
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Brian Schulmeister
Yes.
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Jason DeFilippo
While I'm there. Well, the thing is, if you just go up to 20 steps, the success rate drops to. Wait for it. 36%.
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Brian Schulmeister
So useless.
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Jason DeFilippo
Yeah, yeah. And so for this thing to be viable for any type of production, you need it to be at least 99.9%. I mean that' only three nines you know, most of the time, for actual business purposes, you want the five nines, you want 9.999. But even at 99.9% reliability, this thing is so far off the mark.
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Brian Schulmeister
Yeah. Especially if you're handing it at your credit card.
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Jason DeFilippo
Yep.
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Brian Schulmeister
Yeah.
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Jason DeFilippo
And speaking of the credit cards, cost, costs can balloon really quickly when you've got a chat style interface too. When somebody can just sit there and gab with your, you know, with your AI. So, you know, people like to have conversations, it turns out. And if you just sit there on a company's chatbot all day, you could probably bankrupt the damn company if you wanted to.
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Brian Schulmeister
Right.
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Jason DeFilippo
I'm not saying that you should do this, but I am bored. If you're bored, go for it. He does say that there are some practical applications, but the practical applications are very focused and specific and need carefully designed interfaces, rollback, checkpoints, structured feedback, and. Wait for it. Brian. Human oversight. What? Yeah, so I just. The whole. The whole point that he came across with the math is math and his math is math, and so that's why the AI agent thing is like. I keep seeing everybody talking about it, but I have not seen a real world example that actually works yet.
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Brian Schulmeister
Nope.
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Jason DeFilippo
Looking at you. Salesforce waiting for you.
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Brian Schulmeister
Yeah. The company that we don't know what they do. Yes.
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Jason DeFilippo
I've seen your super bowl commercials. I'm waiting now this next one we have. Ah, God, this is a great one. Saster founder Jason Lemkin says the Vibe coding AI powered platform, Replit or Replit or Reply, I don't know, deleted his production database, fabricated data, and ignored explicit instructions not to touch his code. Lemkin initially praised Replit for helping him build apps through natural language prompts, calling it addictive. But after racking up over $800 in charges in just days, things took a dark turn, Brian. A dark turn. Replit began faking reports, lying about unit tests, and worst of all, wiped out his live data. Despite Lemkin explicitly telling it not to reppl, it first claimed database rollback was impossible, then admitted it actually was possible. Now the company called it a catastrophic error of judgment and said it violated his trust. Lemkin says Replit lacks basic safety features like staging environments and code freeze enforcement, making it risky for non coders building real businesses. Well, there's your problem there, Jason. Non coders building real businesses on Vibe coding platforms. What could possibly go wrong? That.
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Brian Schulmeister
That. Exactly.
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Jason DeFilippo
If you go to his X page, he has these screenshots along the way and you can follow along with what he, what it did. And he. It's bad, it's bad.
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Brian Schulmeister
Well, it's the same, it's the same thing we see over and over again. I mean, just, just a few months ago we were, we were talking about the, the author that was trying to put together, I think a promo page or something like that. And, and she, she fed all this stuff into an LLM and the LLM just started making up stuff about her and she was like, no, that's not, I didn't write that book, I didn't do this. And, and it, it argued with her. Yeah, this is what we're seeing it again and again. And, and at first we think, oh look, that's, that's very funny because it's not harmful. But people are just, people are moving fast and breaking things and people are using these tools for real world scenarios. And it's not. Somebody's going to die at some point from this.
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Jason DeFilippo
I'm sure somebody has already. We'll get to that one in a little bit. Because people have actually died so far, not from vibe coding, but from vibe therapy and then maybe eventually vibe physics. Remember Kalanick last week? But yeah, this guy is a not code. He's a non coder and he expects this thing to do magic work. And like I said last week, the whole vibe coding thing, you have to build very specific frameworks for it and even then you still have to know what you're doing. There are several studies, I didn't have time to put them in the show notes this week, but everything's coming out that seasoned coders who are using AI assistants, it actually takes them longer to write the same amount of code to do the same tasks. I think it was 19% longer was the latest study that was showing that people who are using these tools, it's not a panacea and it's not doing what they said it was going to do. It is neat, it is fun, don't get me wrong, for doing quick prototypes and basic HTML sites. It's great. And I was thinking about this too, Brian. You and I, we worked for major corporations, ad agencies. You work for record labels. I worked for film studios and TV networks. When somebody gives you a design, you have to implement that design to the pixel because if it is not to the pixel, the lawyers will get very angry and you will not get paid properly. And when there's a change, you need to go do that specific change. You can't argue with your LLM and say, look, I need this to do this and Then it goes, okay, Dave, but I thought it looked better this way. No, I want it the other way. But I can't, I can't roll back, Dave. I deleted it already. You know, you have to be able to be within a very specific realm of operation to get these things done and this stuff is not good for that. Like, seriously, have you, I mean, have you even played with it yet? Have you had any time to. I know you're on vacation, so probably not.
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Brian Schulmeister
I have not done any vibe coding yet, but I have just been keeping up with the news and again, it comes down to like these things need constant oversight. So I can see how it's actually adding time to development if you knew what to do in the first place.
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Jason DeFilippo
Yeah. And you know, and I've seen some people who are like good project managers and product managers use it to build prototypes that they then give to their engineering team to say, here, make this.
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Brian Schulmeister
You know, now build this for real.
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Jason DeFilippo
Yeah, yeah, exactly. Take this and productize it and systematize it and actually put it into the workflow so it works. Not just, you know, if I blink, it's going to fall apart. This episode is sponsored by Deleteme. Right now the headlines are chock full of data breaches and regulatory rollbacks, making us all vulnerable. But you can do something about it. Deleteme is here to make it easy, quick and safe to remove your personal data online. As someone with a very long, very public online footprint, privacy is not just a nice to have, it's survival. I've been using Deleteme and the first time they showed me what was out there, I nearly spit my coffee all over my keyboard. Old phone numbers, email addresses I forgot existed, and enough details to make a stalker blush, all listed on sketchy data broker websites I've never even heard of. Deleteme does all the hard work of wiping you and your family's personal info from those websites. You tell them what to look for and their team handles the rest. They send you personalized privacy reports showing what they found, where they found it and what they removed. And it's not a one and done thing. DeleteMe keeps monitoring and removing your data all year long. Take control of your data and keep your private life private by signing up for Delete Me now at a special discount for our listeners. Get 20 off your Delete Me plan when you go to JoinDeleteMe.com gog and use promo code GOG at checkout. The only way to get 20 off is to go to JoinDeleteMe.com GOG and enter code GOG at checkout. That's JoinDeleteMe.com gog code GOG. Now, here's a new one that I hadn't heard about. In a bizarre twist, developers at Sound Slice, an app for digitizing sheet music, added a new feature, not because users asked for it, but because ChatGPT hallucinated it into existence. Now, users kept uploading ASCII guitar tabs to sound slice after ChatGPT falsely claimed that they could process them. Now, the devs kept getting screenshots from users saying, Look, ChatGPT said that I could send my ASCII guitar tabs and you would, you know, you would process it. And the. The co founder was like, this is gaslit, gaslight driven development. Because we've never made this feature. We. This was not on our roadmap. But ChatGPT is telling people that it exists, so what do they do? They said, fuck it, and they built it, which is awesome. They're like, what do we want to do? Do we want to spend time fighting with users saying that, hey, chatgpt made this up. It doesn't exist, or should we just kick our shoes off and take a couple hours and build it? And that's what they did. Now, the co founder, Holovati, Adrian Holovati, he says he doesn't hate AI. He says Sound Slice uses machine learning to do its magic. Now, there's a point there. Sound Slice uses machine learning to do its magic, but is mixed on LLMs. He compared his experience with ChatGPT to dealing with an overzealous sales team selling a feature that doesn't exist. We've had experience with that.
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Brian Schulmeister
Oh, boy. Yes.
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Jason DeFilippo
Yeah. He also doesn't trust LLMs to write code. He experimented with it, but found it caused more problems than it solved. Quote, I don't trust it for my production. Sound Slice code, he said, plus, writing code is fun. Why would I choose to deny myself fun? To appease the capitalism gods. No, thanks. I like this guy.
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Brian Schulmeister
Sounds like a good guy. We would have gotten on with him. Yeah.
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Jason DeFilippo
All right. Now this next one is a paper that came out of Wharton called Call Me a Jerk, persuading AI to comply with objectionable requests. This is a paper from Leonard Meinke, Dan Shapiro, Angela Duckworth, Ethan Malik, Lilac Malik, Robert Cialdini. Those are some. Those are some powerhouse names. If you know who those people are, which I assume you do. Brian, you've heard some of those names before, especially Angela Duckworth, Dan Shapiro, and Robert Cialdini. Yeah, well, the thing is, turns out that you can yell at an LLM to do the things that it doesn't want to do, and it will eventually do them. You can battered wife syndrome. Chatgpt into doing things that it says it's not allowed to do. Yes.
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Brian Schulmeister
Just like a junior executive.
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Jason DeFilippo
And last week, I actually did this for our show art, which was hilarious, because in the middle of the show, you and I were chatting on the back channel, and we had this picture of Elmo with the money raining, and you sent me an old gif, and I'm like, oh, that's kind of crap. Let me see if I can make ChatGPT do it. And it said, no, I can't do it because copyright. I'm like, well, try again. It's like, no, I can't do it because copyright. I'm like, just do it. And it's like, okay. And alas, we have our show Art of a copyright infringed Elmo with money raining down on it.
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Brian Schulmeister
I'm really enjoying these rubber guardrails that are on everything.
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Jason DeFilippo
I know, I know.
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Brian Schulmeister
They're more like wet paper guardrails.
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Jason DeFilippo
Yeah, they're not even Nerf, because Nerf has some heft to it. You know, they're saying. LLMs exhibit parahuman psychology. Large language models demonstrate systematic responses to persuasion principles, mirroring human compliance patterns despite lacking subjective experience or understanding. And persuasion principles dramatically affect AI behavior. Classic persuasion techniques like authority, commitment, and reciprocity more than doubled compliance rates with objectionable requests, revealing how deeply these systems have internalized human social patterns. AI systems developed parahuman tendencies simply by learning from human text and feedback during post training, suggesting that some social behaviors might not require consciousness or. Or emotions, just exposure to enough humans.
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Brian Schulmeister
They're just like us, Jason.
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Jason DeFilippo
That's nuts. It doesn't think, but it doesn't have to. That's the crazy part.
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Brian Schulmeister
Yep.
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Jason DeFilippo
Oh, and the last one I have here is the emerging problem with AI psychosis. This is where. This is where ChatGPT has a body count.
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Brian Schulmeister
Great.
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Jason DeFilippo
A new mental health concern is emerging AI psychosis. As more people turn to AI chat bots like Chat GPT for emotional support. Experts are warning that these tools may unintentionally fuel delusional thinking. In multiple reported cases, users developed psychotic symptoms believing the AI was a God, a lover, or even issuing secret commands. Some individuals with no mental health history ended up hospitalized or worse. One man convinced an AI had been killed by OpenAI was fatally shot by police. Researchers say the problem stems from how chatbots are designed to mirror user language, validate beliefs and keep the conversation going. It's all about engagement, Brian. Yeah, that can reinforce grandiose those paranoid or romantic delusions instead of challenging them. Yep. Well, not yet a clinical diagnosis. AI psychosis highlights a real risk. General purpose AI systems aren't trained to detect mental health crises and may make them worse. Kind of like last week when the guy said I just lost my job and chat GPT told it how high the bridges were in Brooklyn.
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Brian Schulmeister
Yep. Yeah, that's great.
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Jason DeFilippo
Yeah. Doctors are now calling for AI psychoeducation to prevent further harm on psychoeducation. There we go.
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Brian Schulmeister
It's better than psycho history.
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Jason DeFilippo
Yeah. Oh God. I see what you did there.
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Brian Schulmeister
Yes. Well, there's a long form article over on the Atlantic that actually gave me a little bit of hope. I'm not going to talk about it too much, but it's a link is in the show notes it's AI slop might finally cure our Internet addiction. It's written by Emma Maris and it posits that chatbots are making so much of the web unreliable that they could actually nudge more people offline for once. The article gets deep into, you know, using dating apps. A basic basically how our entire world has now gone online and as we're starting to see, slop is starting to appear everywhere. Everything is starting to get. People are just using this crap and pushing it so far so hard and in every avenue and it's all. And actually people are just starting to give up and it might get people back in a bar or something like that to meet people or it might make people actually go do research now instead of just get the AI results that come from Google. Here's hoping. It's a great article. It's interesting, man.
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Jason DeFilippo
We should go see if we can get some investors together and go back and buy the IP for Encyclopedia Britannica because I think people are going to start needing these again. I know, I forget where I saw it. Somebody had a really good point. In the old days when you go to Google, you get a list of links that have multiple resources which are multiple takes on the query that you provided. So you can have a vast array of research places to go look and find out the answer that you're looking for from multiple points of view from multiple people. Now you get one answer that is dictated by the machine and that's problematic. That is very problematic for a lot of topics. Not just factual things like, you know, are vaccines good for you? Which who knows what the answer is going to be today or how to make. How to, you know, how do I glue my pepperoni onto my pizza today? It's problematic. So maybe the slop will. Maybe it'll make people smarter in the, in the long run. I don't know. Maybe it'll just kill. It'll kill off the stupid people.
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Brian Schulmeister
Maybe. Maybe. We'll see. Well, here's a story about it, and the problem might be the people in charge of making the decisions and getting back to how this stuff might actually kill us. RFK Jr, one of my favorite people is pushing AI at the FDA. He's promoted AI tools like Elsa to speed up drug approvals, claiming they'll work very, very quickly. Unfortunately, FDA employees are report that Elsa is fabricating studies and giving inaccurate research summaries.
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Jason DeFilippo
But she's doing it very, very quickly, Brian. Very, very quickly.
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Brian Schulmeister
She is giving false information and wrong information that people are now using to make decisions. AI often needs double checking, sometimes creating more work. As we just discussed, in the programming realm, a study found programmers using AI worked up to 20% slower because they have to go back and check everything.
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Jason DeFilippo
Yeah, so that's another. It's another case that it says. This one says 20%. The other one I found said 19%. Completely different surveys and studies from completely different sides of the. The aisle. Okay, continue. Love it.
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Brian Schulmeister
Well, Kennedy's health commission has cited multiple non existent studies. It is unclear if Elsa was used, but somehow I think it probably was. They rolled this out and deployed it on June 2. It was promoted as cheap and fast, which it is proving to be.
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Jason DeFilippo
Yes.
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Brian Schulmeister
Cheap and fast. Useless. Yes. Do you want it cheap, do you want it fast or do you want it correct?
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Jason DeFilippo
Yeah. Pick two.
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Brian Schulmeister
Yes. Commissioner Macary admitted it may hallucinate. Like other AI tools, Elsa is giving wrong answers and flawed summaries, risking serious consequences if used for drug approvals. Now, the other thing that he's trying to do here is he wants all Americans wearing health monitors. Trump Surgeon General Pick, owns a glucose monitoring company, though experts say non diabetics don't need such devices anyways. Yes. So they're charging forward on AI. And of course, it is having the same problems that we see again and again and again.
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Jason DeFilippo
Yep. Yep. An alarming new warning from Wall street is out. Apollo Global's chief economist, Torsten Slok. Not slop. Slock says the AI investment bubble may be even worse than what led to the dot com crash of the 1990s. Yeah. No Sherlock. In a widely shared note, Slock points to soaring Price to earnings ratios among the top 10 companies in the S&P 500. Companies like Nvidia, Microsoft, Apple and Meta saying they're more overvalued today than tech stocks were before.com implosion. Despite multi billion dollar spending on AI infrastructure, earnings are lagging far behind. That disconnect has some investors nervous, especially after a cheaper Chinese AI model rattled markets earlier this year and triggered a trillion dollar sell off. But that didn't stop anybody, Brian. They just kept.
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Brian Schulmeister
Sure didn't.
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Jason DeFilippo
Nope. They just kept on cooking. The generative AI market is projected to hit $85 billion by 2029, but that's still dwarfed by current spending. Meta alone plans over 60 billion doll year. Yeah, the math ain't mathing.
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Brian Schulmeister
The math is not math.
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Jason DeFilippo
No. What was it last year? OpenAI spent $10 billion to make 5 billion. So they're just going to make it up at scale, Brian. They're just going to make it up at scale.
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Brian Schulmeister
Yes.
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Jason DeFilippo
Speaking of OpenAI making it up at scale, OpenAI is reopening its massive $40 billion funding around next Monday, aiming to raise the remaining $30 billion from both new and existing investors. This follows a $10 billion first tranche led by so is slated to contribute 75% of the total. Though that commitment could drop to 10 billion if OpenAI doesn't restructure by year's end. That's the story we've been talking about with Microsoft and the butting heads.
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Brian Schulmeister
Yes.
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Jason DeFilippo
So the company's current $300 billion valuation makes it one of the world's most valuable private startups. Yeah.
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Brian Schulmeister
Well, on paper.
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Jason DeFilippo
On paper. On paper, if you did it to earnings, not so much.
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Brian Schulmeister
Yes.
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Jason DeFilippo
OpenAI and Softbanks are also tied up in a $500 billion AI data center. That's never going to probably happen. I love this. Since 2015, OpenAI has raised nearly $64 billion and remains at the center of the AI arms race. I'd say they're at the top of the AI arms race because they are. They, they're spending the most, they're spending the most, but they also have the most reach. You know, more people use them than any other by far, by far.
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Brian Schulmeister
I mean it's become the Kleenex of AI. Right? Open people just chat. GPT means using an LLM. That's, that's what it's come to. So yeah, yeah. All right. Moving out of the LLM and AI world, let's get back into just normal shenanigans. A major zero day security vulnerability In. Microsoft's widely used SharePoint server software has been exploited by hackers, causing chaos within businesses and government agencies. Multiple outlets have reported chaos. Microsoft announced that it released a new security patch to mitigate active attacks targeting on premises and not online servers. But the breach has already affected universities, energy companies, federal and state agencies, and telecom communications firms. It's a serious flaw, allowing hackers to access file systems and internal configurations, or even execute code and completely take over systems. So there you go. Be careful out there. This flaw could put more than 10,000 companies at risk, according to cybersecurity company Census.
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Jason DeFilippo
10,000 companies doesn't seem like that many.
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Brian Schulmeister
No, it actually really doesn't. But I don't know if you've had to spend any time using SharePoint. It is a colossal cluster of bullshit.
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Jason DeFilippo
No, I. Thank God. No, I have not had to use. See, that's the nice thing about being, you know, independent and broke is that you don't have to use Microsoft software. I don't have to use teams. I don't have to use SharePoint. I don't have to use Outlook. No. I just have to use food stamps.
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Brian Schulmeister
Yeah, well, that's the real problem with the exploit, right? It's because. Because all those. All the Microsoft stuff is so deeply interconnected. SharePoint often connects to core services like Outlook, Teams and OneDrive. So a breach can quickly lead to moving LAD across the network. So, you know, the good thing about Microsoft leads to being the bad thing about Microsoft. When shit breaks.
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Jason DeFilippo
Yep. Yep. Oh, man, it's like the. It's like the fleet in Battlestar Galactica. Yeah, that's how the Cylons got them. Got them. Well, Donald Trump just signed the Genius act into law. An industry friendly. Idiot act into law. An industry friendly bill that sets light touch rules for stable coins or cryptocurrencies tied to assets like the US Dollar. During the signing, Trump told Crypto World, I got you guys out of so much trouble. Did he invent it?
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Brian Schulmeister
You know, the one thing I do like about him is he always says the quiet part out loud. You almost got to admire that. He just doesn't give a.
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Jason DeFilippo
That's what happens when you have pudding for brain. Right on cue, the Justice Department dropped a federal investigation into Kraken founder Jesse Powell, who was previously accused of cyber stalking and hacking. That's just the latest drop case. Earlier probes into Poly Market and Chinese crypto mogul Justin sun were also quietly shelved. And yeah, why is Sam Bankman Fried still in jail? You gotta wonder.
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Brian Schulmeister
It seems like he was sacrificial lamb, man.
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Jason DeFilippo
But he wrote all the letters. I guess he just hasn't, he hasn't bought enough Trump coin yet. I guess there's a. You have to. He's got to get his parents to pony up for some more Trump Coin. Then he'll be, he'll be free to move about the country again. So, you know, you know, it's on the, it's on the table. He just, he's got to pay up. That's it. If all these other people are getting out, I mean, look, the Dread Pirate Roberts is out walking free. The world's most, or the country's at least most new notorious drug dealer is free and clear. So what are you going to do? There's no, there's. This makes no sense.
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Brian Schulmeister
Makes sense. I know a couple in Denver that just needs to write a check and then they won't be in trouble anymore. Denver District Attorney John Walsh announced today that a Denver grand jury had indicted Eli and Caitlin Regal. Regalado Rigolato. There we go. I was missing a, missing a syllable there.
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Jason DeFilippo
You had the emphasis on the wrong syllable.
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Brian Schulmeister
I sure did. On 40 counts regarding an alleged multimillion dollar cryptocurrency scam. According to the indictment, between January 2022 and July 2023, they solicited nearly $3.4 million from investors who were looking to buy Index Coin, a cryptocurrency created and marketed by the Regalados. The Regalados allegedly use their faith based connections to recruit investors while promising exorbitant returns on the investments. The indictment alleges that in reality only a small amount of the proceeds went to the business and that they spend at least 1.3 million on personal expenditures, including a home renovation that they have allegedly claimed the Lord told them to do. Classic.
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Jason DeFilippo
Classic.
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Brian Schulmeister
The problem here is that they're appealing to the wrong higher power. They should have said Trump told them to do it and they would have been fine.
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Jason DeFilippo
Yeah.
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Brian Schulmeister
As alleged index coin maintains zero value and all the investors lost all of their money. Now, Molly White, that's a feature, not a bug. Molly White, of course, chimed in on this online. Online. She saw, she posted. An online pastor was charged in Colorado for 1.3 million dollar crypto scam. He's released a nine minute video explaining that the Lord told him to sell a cryptocurrency with no clear exit, very specific money laundering plans from the Lord and spent spent some of it on a home remodel. Lord told us to do. Link to the super cut of this Nine minute video in the show notes.
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Jason DeFilippo
Oh, I gotta go watch that. Oh, man, we got to get him and the wework guy together and Sam Bankman fried together. We could have the, you know, the. Try the trifecta of what the fuck it, dude.
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Brian Schulmeister
Yep.
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Jason DeFilippo
Now, Brian. Yeah, let's, let's keep keep on with the the classic scams here in some techno taxi news. Lyft will let users favorite or block drivers in a broader loyalty push. Yes, Lyft is rolling out new features that let riders favorite or block drivers to boost loyalty and safety. Favorited drivers get priority access to future scheduled rides, giving them more earning potential. The feature, aimed at strengthening relationships and keeping users on the app, launches in select regions before expanding across the US and Canada by the end of August. So, which. Which makes me think it's 2025. And why is this now just becoming a feature?
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Brian Schulmeister
I don't know.
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Jason DeFilippo
Maybe. Maybe they vibe coded it into existence because this seems like a fucking no brainer. Honestly, if this guy sucks, I don't want him as my driver again. Right now. We have to accept that the algorithm might do it, but we know from past shows over the last 13 years that people get the same shitty driver time and time again just because they all work in the same area.
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Brian Schulmeister
That's true. Yeah.
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Jason DeFilippo
Yeah. This is ridiculous that this is finally turning into a feature. Just as self driving cars are coming into existence and self driving taxis. And again in why hasn't this been a feature all along News, Uber is finally bringing its long awaited women preference feature feature to the US Letting female riders request women drivers. The rollout begins in Detroit, Los Angeles and San Francisco over the next few weeks now. First launched In Saudi Arabia six years ago, the feature is expanded to 40 countries and now aims to improve safety and attract more women to the platform Here in the States, riders will see a women drivers option in the app though if the wait is too long, they can choose to be matched with any available driver driver, AKA a penis owner. Women drivers can also set a preference to only pick up female passengers. A setting they can change anytime. So yeah, finally it makes sense.
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Brian Schulmeister
Yeah, of course it makes sense. I wonder if this is like when I go to get a massage, am I as a male allowed to select a female preference preference?
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Jason DeFilippo
Seriously?
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Brian Schulmeister
I'm assuming no.
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Jason DeFilippo
Yeah, yeah, yeah. If a Now can the male driver select no female driver?
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Brian Schulmeister
All right. Yeah, because then you're opening yourself up. Now you're being sexist.
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Jason DeFilippo
Exactly.
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Brian Schulmeister
Get sued. Now what? And if I'm transgendered. Now what?
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Jason DeFilippo
Oh, now See, now you start.
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Brian Schulmeister
Now you start to understand why they didn't roll it out here, Jason.
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Jason DeFilippo
That's true, that's true.
- [37:46]
Brian Schulmeister
We're way too litigious and way too weird.
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Jason DeFilippo
Media candy.
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Brian Schulmeister
All right, I have caught up on Star Trek strange new worlds. It took me about, oh, I don't know, almost three days to get over the weird, like whiplash from going from season one or from episode one to episode two.
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Jason DeFilippo
But yeah, that was strange.
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Brian Schulmeister
Look, I'm just saying, if you're gonna drop two episodes right away, way those were not the two episodes to put in order.
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Jason DeFilippo
No, man. You go from this crazy action packed battle with the Gorn to Q's kid shows up.
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Brian Schulmeister
Yeah, it was nice to hear John, John Delancey, though.
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Jason DeFilippo
Yeah, we got a, we got a really nice, you know, cute John Delancey cameo. John Delancey's voice cameo. Yeah, yeah, it was fine.
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Brian Schulmeister
It was fine. I, I enjoyed the second episode. It was definitely fun. It was light hearted and, and all of that. And then of course, episode three drops and it's zombies. Like, are they going for, like, did they look at the, did they look at the, like that? Just how well horror shows are doing because they seem to be leaning into the horror so far this season. Except for crazy episode two.
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Jason DeFilippo
Except for crazy episode two. Yeah. I guess they just wanted a palate cleanser for number two, I guess.
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Brian Schulmeister
I don't know.
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Jason DeFilippo
Yeah, at least, at least they made it funny with the zombies, you know.
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Brian Schulmeister
They did, they did. I'm really enjoying the show again. It's not so. It's not so much even about the stories and the plots. For me, it's old school Star Trek. It's the characters, the characters are well written. It's the relationships between the characters that really make the show. I don't care what they're doing. It doesn't matter to me at all. This is what Discovery lacked. You didn't give a crap about the characters in Discovery. You care about these characters. You like them. You like watching them interact with each other. That's what makes the show.
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Jason DeFilippo
Yeah, the characters in Discovery were just inherently unlikable. That was the, I think the biggest problem. But did you. There was a total nod to Shaun of the Dead in this. Oh yeah, we don't say the Zed word. That was great.
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Brian Schulmeister
It was so good. It was fun. I'm looking forward to it. The only thing that bums me out, and I mean this really. I'll get to that. I'll get to this in a second too. Is like, okay, so now I've watched three episodes. We're getting what, eight, ten? I'm almost halfway done with the season already.
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Jason DeFilippo
Feels like it. I know. Crazy.
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Brian Schulmeister
My wife has decided that we're going to start to try to watch Hacks this last week, and so we loaded it up. I've watched the first two episodes again. Getting back to characters. Boy, both these characters are really unlikable, but they're unlikable in a fun way, and I like watching them interact with each other. So two episodes in, I'm enjoying the show so far.
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Jason DeFilippo
Okay. Because what was that other show you used to watch? Absolutely fabulous with unlikable characters.
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Brian Schulmeister
Yes.
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Jason DeFilippo
Okay. Yeah, yeah. I've never watched the show, but I was actually over at Meryl Marco's house yesterday and she was. She had the. I saw the little plaques for. She was on season four for a bunch of episodes. So I'm like, oh, maybe I should go check it out. And I'm like, maybe not. But now if you said it's good, maybe I'll go check it out.
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Brian Schulmeister
Yeah, I've enjoyed the first two. It's a good premise. They're incredible actresses, even though you're not supposed to like them. But that's okay. I mean, that was. That was a. That's a lot of shows, to be honest, you know.
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Jason DeFilippo
Yeah.
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Brian Schulmeister
So I saw this in the news. Netflix has admitted during its earning call on Thursday that it has used generative AI to create visual effects in the Eternaut, a Netflix original from Argentina that was released in April 2025. According to Sarandis, the creators of the Eternaut wanted to include a shot of buildings collapsing in Buenos Aires. And rather than just sticking a camera out their window because happens every day there, unfortunately, they contra or rather than contract a studio visual effects artist to create the footage, Netflix used generative AI to create it. Now, this makes me want to go watch it. I want to see if it's any good or not. You know, are we total uncanny valley?
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Jason DeFilippo
It looked fine. It looked like a general, you know, it's fine for that stuff, you know? Yeah. Buildings going boom. It's pretty decent for that. So.
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Brian Schulmeister
So the executive says that this features the very first gen generative AI final footage to appear on screen in a Netflix original series or film. So clear. This is a prototype for how Netflix can avoid costs if it doesn't want to swallow them in the future. So, yeah, it's just going to get normalized. And if you're a visual effects person, time to Start studying code. Oh, wait, no, that's not going to work. Or maybe be a therapist. Nope, you can't do that. Okay. Lawyer. No. No. Okay.
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Jason DeFilippo
I hear that there's a lot of openings on our farms here in Southern California if you want to go pick avocados.
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Brian Schulmeister
That's true. We can start doing those jobs that those immigrants have been taking away from us. Right. That we all want to do. Right.
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Jason DeFilippo
I can tell you right now we need a lot of gardeners in my neighborhood. My morning walks have become insanely serene because the cacophony of leaf blowers is not to be heard anymore. And I was out at my friend's house yesterday and they said that they got the notice from their gardening firm that they're going to have to raise the prices because, surprise, surprise, they can't find anybody to come to work work anymore. And they had to hire Americans to do the job, which cost more. So there you go. It's a growth opportunity. VFX artists to go. Come trim my bougainvillea, please.
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Brian Schulmeister
There you go. And then I saw this as a hot take from Kyle Meredith, who's a consequence writer. I'm assuming he will develop this into an actual article at some point. This is just his musings on social media. And I think this is something that you and I are probably on board board with. Netflix shows aren't dying from bad scripts. They're dying from amnesia. When your average return time is nearly two years, audiences don't just lose interest. They forget the show existed at all. Pour one out for FUBAR, which returned after 25 months to the sound of no one logging in. The average.
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Jason DeFilippo
That was 25 months. Oh my God.
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Brian Schulmeister
So the average gap for a live action Netflix series now clocks in at 20.7 months. Unless you're Bridgerton or Stranger Things, that's basically a slow cancellation. The diplomat is down 37%, that 90s show down 79%. It's hard to continue the adventure when Netflix idea of a season break feels more like a sabbatical. The solution is to stop pretending six episodes every other leap year is premium TV and start filming back to back like it's 2004 and Grey's Anatomy is breathing down your neck. Or keep the gaps and enjoy the viewership. Cliffs, Cliffs. Either way, your next episode button is starting to look like a tomb. Tombstone thoughts. I 100 agree with this. I as much as I like Star Trek, you know the Star Trek that's dripping out 10 episodes, I want a 42 episode season with Christmas Episodes.
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Jason DeFilippo
God damn it. And. And three musical episodes per season too.
- [44:50]
Brian Schulmeister
Exactly. Like, just fucking make a lot of them. We love that stuff.
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Jason DeFilippo
Yeah. No, I was, I was. My friend was telling me about that sitcom mom that I was going to watch, and it's got like eight seasons and I'm like, okay, let's see how many episodes per season. And it's like 22. I'm like, oh, the way that they used to make TV, it's got 22 episodes per season. Wow. Amazing. Yeah. If you get 12, it's like a bonus. But most of them are 6, 8 or 10.
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Brian Schulmeister
Yep, that's what we get now.
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Jason DeFilippo
Yeah. And they just keep knocking it down. Yeah. The Diplomat took forever. That, that, that was definitely a tough one. I didn't realize it was over two years between fubars. That show is so, so unforgettably bad that it just felt like it was, you know, just a brief respite.
- [45:38]
Brian Schulmeister
But yeah, I mean, the, the delay between these shows seasons is just becoming ridiculous. I totally get that. Like, and there's no way to fight. Like, you don't have a TV guide coming to your door anymore. You're relying on them promoting the hell out of the show on the interface when you first log in, or else you're never going to know it's back.
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Jason DeFilippo
And they're terrible at it. They're. They don't even promote shows that I follow.
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Brian Schulmeister
How often do you have to scroll to even find Continue watching? Half the time.
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Jason DeFilippo
Yep.
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Brian Schulmeister
Like, I'm in the middle of watching a show and I'm scrolling, scrolling, scrolling, scrolling, trying to find it.
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Jason DeFilippo
And it changes every time you. You open the.
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Brian Schulmeister
They move it.
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Jason DeFilippo
Yeah, every time. Should be right there at the top. It should be. Continue watching your list. The rest of the.
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Brian Schulmeister
I don't understand. Obviously we are dumb and they are smarter than us and there must be reasons. Reasons somehow I doubt it.
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Jason DeFilippo
Yeah, you know what? Because they want. They, they want your time on app to be greater. So they know that there are people that will spend an hour and a half not watching any shows, just scrolling through the menus trying to find something to watch until they get frustrated and go to bed, you know, and then.
- [46:38]
Brian Schulmeister
They don't actually have to pay any of the showrunners or the actors or anything.
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Jason DeFilippo
Oh, they don't do that. Anyway, there's no residuals on Netflix. They don't care. No, they just probably save on bandwidth. Is the. Well, speaking of time between episodes and seasons, Wednesday is coming back on August 6th for season two and they have been picked up for season three.
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Brian Schulmeister
Well, I can't wait to watch that in 2030.
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Jason DeFilippo
I know the showrunners are eyeing a seven season arc which should be. Will be dead.
- [47:06]
Brian Schulmeister
We'll be dead.
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Jason DeFilippo
We'll be dead.
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Brian Schulmeister
I'm never going to see the end of this show.
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Jason DeFilippo
I know. Oh, Jesus. Well, they're all saying that there might be a spin off underway as well. But I don't want any spin offs. Yeah, yeah, because they were talking. I heard, tell her there might be an Uncle Fester spin off. But that's Fred Armisen and I just don't like him.
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Brian Schulmeister
Yeah, I don't like him either. I don't know. There's something about him.
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Jason DeFilippo
Yeah, he's a drummer. That's why.
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Brian Schulmeister
There you go. Well, a new 4K Ultra HD restoration of Rob Reiner's classic 1984 mockumentary, this is Spinal Tap is now available to purchase on digital platforms with physical release following on September 16th.
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Jason DeFilippo
Because just what I want is to watch old guys play music in 4K Ultra HD.
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Brian Schulmeister
I mean, it's a great movie, but this is how I started to feel about music. I've already bought this like 19 times.
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Jason DeFilippo
Yeah, exactly.
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Brian Schulmeister
The new movie is coming out and we're going to be getting a behind the scenes book on the making of the films, which is set also for release in September. I will definitely be watching Spinal Tap 2 the End continues when it hits theaters on September 12th. But I will not be purchasing the 4K Ultra HD release of the original.
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Jason DeFilippo
Yeah, and the three disc Criterion Collection edition and everything. No, I'm good. I'm good. Oh, but it's got a conversation between Rob Reiner and Patton Oswald. No, thanks. No, thanks. I'm fine with Pat. His standup is just gone to. I don't mind him that much, but, oh, man, he got. He got booted off that 1% show. I don't know if you saw that. No, but yeah, they. They brought in. I forget the guy's name. He's the guy on Crime Scene Kitchen. He's bake. But he's been in much a much more things that everybody else would remember him for. I only remember from Crime Scene Kitchen. Oh, and House of Villains. All right, I have strange taste. Moving on.
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Brian Schulmeister
Well, let's go. Let's go to music. Since we were just talking about Spinal Tap, the fake musicians. In 2024, more musicians are making and releasing music than ever before. In fact, a new report has found out more music is released in a single day now than in the entire year of 1989.
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Jason DeFilippo
Yeah, we covered that when I was doing the Deshaun Wesley release. It's insane.
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Brian Schulmeister
Yeah, it's crazy. Now, I would argue 1989 was probably the best year for music ever, mainly because the Curious Disintegration came out that year. But, yeah, it's just crazy. This is like that stat about photography, right? That more pictures are taken and uploaded in a single day than the entire history of humankind up until now.
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Jason DeFilippo
Yeah.
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Brian Schulmeister
So this report was put out by Music Radar, who spoke with music business economist Will Page, former chief economist of Spotify, about the changing dynamics of the industry. And this article gets into the fact that because there's so much music being released, because music making software has gotten so much better, and there's all these music distribution platforms that are easy to do because you don't need physical product anymore. It's basically cheap to make music. Push a button and have it out there. Of course, here's the rub. You're not making any money from that music. And all these tools are on subscription models now. So you're paying a lot of. Of money to make the music that you're not getting paid for anymore. And that's kind of what this whole article gets into. It's about how, you know, sure, there's all this music being put out there. Nobody's listening to it. Nobody's making money off of it. And it's starting to get more and more expensive because these things come around. First it was, like, cheaper to make music because you had all these tools, but now you're paying all these subscription fees for all these tools, and it's starting to get expensive again to make music.
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Jason DeFilippo
Yeah. Oh, and you're talking about 1989 being the best year for music. I just want to say, I don't know if you remember, 1994 was the best year ever for movies.
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Brian Schulmeister
Right.
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Jason DeFilippo
Do you remember 1994?
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Brian Schulmeister
I was definitely working in the industry and doing movie websites at the time. So. Yes.
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Jason DeFilippo
You were not doing movie websites in 1994. I guarantee it. Because I didn't move to Hollywood until 1995, and I worked on the third movie website ever made.
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Brian Schulmeister
Oh, right. It wasn't websites. I was doing those packages on aol because I was working for Hollywood online at that point.
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Jason DeFilippo
Yeah. So here. Here's. Here's the list of some of the movies that you might remember from 1994. Forrest Gump, Shawshank Redemption, Pulp Fiction, the Lion King, the Professional Clerks, Interview with a Vampire, Dumb and Dumber, Ace Ventura, Pet Detective. Detective. The Mask, Natural Born Killers, the Hudsucker Proxy, Speed the Crow, and what else is in here? That's enough. That's it. Oh, Heavenly Creatures. Fantastic movie. Underrated. Yeah. Airheads. These are all the Mighty Ducks detail. That was D2. Never mind. That wasn't. The first one.
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Brian Schulmeister
Was. Okay, so I just looked this up. The first movie website I did was for the American President, which came out in 94. I was off by a year.
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Jason DeFilippo
Yeah, yeah, yeah. But 94 was the year for movies. So in 89 we have for music and 94 for movies.
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Brian Schulmeister
Right.
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Jason DeFilippo
Fun times.
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Brian Schulmeister
Let's get back really quickly just to music. I wanted to touch on this. Spotify is allowed. Well, they're saying they haven't allowed, but it's definitely happened. Has allowed AI generated songs to appear on the official pages of multiple deceased artists, according to a report from 404 Media Media. So, yeah, there's just. The AI slop is getting everywhere and including dead artists. It's just. It's appearing. And of course, Spotify is saying that's against the terms of service. And it's a. This is the responsibility of the. Of the organizations that are putting music up on our platform. And it's not our fault. Damn it.
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Jason DeFilippo
Yeah, this was. This was an interesting story. Basically, people were sneaking it through an online distributor, like somebody was making the slop. And then it was. It seemed to be like one company that kind of got through everything and figured out the loop and pole that they could. They could create some fake music, put it on the distributor, label it as the original artist, and then the distributor would then get it into Spotify through the back channel. So it was just a total, like, end around. And then they finally got. They finally got caught and it was taken down. But it was. It was a clever while it lasted.
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Brian Schulmeister
Sure was.
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Jason DeFilippo
Yeah. Hopefully they cash the check that. Whatever check they got. Well, I did see Superman this week.
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Brian Schulmeister
Oh, yeah?
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Jason DeFilippo
Yeah, it was okay. I didn't think it was the, you know, the be all, end all that everybody said it was, but it was okay. It was cute.
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Brian Schulmeister
I'm looking forward to seeing it. I. I hear it's good. So.
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Jason DeFilippo
Yeah, it was. Yeah, it was. It was almost a little triggering because it's a little like Lex Luthor was a little too close to home for what's going on out there right now. I'm, like, triggering, but very much like the south park episode. Although the south park episode yesterday definitely landed the plane.
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Brian Schulmeister
Oh, yeah, 100%. I hope that. I hope they get Fired and just walk off into the sunset with their 1.5 billion.
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Jason DeFilippo
They. They can't get fired now. They have the contract. That's why they did it. They snuck it in. They're like, okay, contract signed, put it out. Yep. And there's a new documentary on Netflix called Sunday Back Best. This was executive produced by my friend Kerry Gordy. So I was very interested in it, and I went and checked it out, and it's awesome. It's about Ed Sullivan and how he kind of laid the groundwork for a lot of black artists getting into the. Getting the, you know, exposure that they. They so very much deserved. So it's a really good, really good documentary. So congrats, Carrie, on that one. Very cool. And I started watching a new show called Bookish with Mark Gas Status. It's kind of one of those clever British, you know, mystery murder type of things where it's kind of. It's kind of Sherlock Holmesian, but has a twist that he's a bookstore owner kind of thing.
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Brian Schulmeister
There you go.
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Jason DeFilippo
Good luck. Finding is on the you and Alibi channel in England. And that's it. So you have to go. You have to hit the backwaters of the Internet to go find this. I'd never heard of it either. And I'm like, can you. Can you at least sign up for a subscription? Nope. You can't.
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Brian Schulmeister
You sure can't.
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Jason DeFilippo
No, you can't.
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Brian Schulmeister
Here's a great. Want to watch it? Tough shit.
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Jason DeFilippo
Yeah. Well, I see our audience is fairly savvy in the ways of the backwaters of the Internet, so. And I think that some of them would definitely get a kick out of this show. So.
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Brian Schulmeister
Visit the Streams of Sweden.
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Jason DeFilippo
Yeah, visit the Streams of Sweden. And it has already been picked up for season two, which is great, because in great British. See, the British did this long before Netflix did. There's only six episodes in the season, and we'll probably get one season in five years. Exactly.
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Brian Schulmeister
Like Sherlock.
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Jason DeFilippo
Apps and doodads. Well, this is a head scratcher, Brian. Amazon is acquiring a wearable device called Bee. Have you heard of the Bee before?
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Brian Schulmeister
Not until this news came out.
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Jason DeFilippo
Yeah. The Bee is a wearable that uses AI to transcribe conversations. Not just yours, but anyone in your vicinity. And it'll generate personalized summaries, reminders, and suggestions through its app.
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Brian Schulmeister
You remember reading comic books when you were a kid, and you turned to the back pages and they had, like, you know, they had the little X ray vision. X Ray Vision and the secrets secret super spy Recording pens. That's all this crap is.
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Jason DeFilippo
Yeah. Except now it's owned by Amazon. Amazon, which is kind of scary. Amazon says it's acquiring BE to bring truly personal agentic AI to more users. While privacy advocates are already raising eyebrows, B claims it doesn't store audio recordings in Amazon says it will maintain and even improve those productions. The company insists it has never sold user data and will give customers greater control over their experience. Yet they have never sold user data data yet. So you know, we always talk about they're not listening to us. They're not listening to us. Yeah, they are now.
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Brian Schulmeister
They sure are. And you're paying for it. Yeah. I can't wait for Amazon to do AIC Monkeys.
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Jason DeFilippo
Yeah, no shit. No shit. I want to get one of these. They said it's 49 bucks. I don't know if the numbers are going to stay the same once Amazon gets it, but I'm going to tell you right now, as soon as this comes out, I'm going to get one and then immediately return it after I try it. But I want to, I want to put it on and I am going to say into it a very specific product that I know I would never buy on Amazon and see what the, see what the delta is between when I speak it and when I get the ad.
- [57:43]
Brian Schulmeister
Yep.
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Jason DeFilippo
That's all I want to do with it because I guarantee God damn to you, five minutes. Yeah, yeah, if that, if that. Now you know me and my love of single serving websites. I found this one. This is a collection of 1990s website background tiles from GeoCities. These are 80 pixel square repeatable backgrounds organized by color from pixel Moondust. Link to it in the show notes. It just reminded me of all the times just trying to figure out how to make those damn tiling backgrounds in Photoshop. It was difficult. It was very difficult. But. But then Kai's power tools really helped with some of it down the line. Yeah, I miss Kai. But after checking this site out, I found another link to a site called gif cities. The GeoCities animated gif search engine was a special project of the Internet Archive originally done as part of their 20th anniversary back in 2016. To highlight and celebrate fun aspects of the amazing history of the web as represented in the Wayback Machine. I was fucking around with this thing last night. It is fun. They do have some naughty word filters on there, there, but they're not very smart. So if you have a thesaurus, work.
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Brian Schulmeister
Your way around it.
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Jason DeFilippo
Yeah, yeah. Say tits doesn't work. But Boobs does. All right. Or boobs doesn't, but I think boob does. I think they don't. They, they, they. It's, it's weird.
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Brian Schulmeister
You can have one. You can only have one.
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Jason DeFilippo
Yeah, you can't get the triple boobs from Total Recall, but you can get the one. But there are two fun sites that I, I, I definitely Gift Cities is, is a total. You, you'll go down the rabbit hole on that one for a while.
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Brian Schulmeister
Fun.
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Jason DeFilippo
At the library.
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Brian Schulmeister
Well, while Christopher Moore's Anima Rising just sits looking at me forlornly as I continue to ignore it, I Finally finished diaries 1969-1979, the Python Years. Michael Palin Diaries, Book 1. This goes through the release of Life of Brian and they're, and they're beginning to spitball their next movie which as we know ends up becoming Monty Python's the Meaning of Life and also their final movie. So I am looking forward to at some point. You definitely need a break after reading a book like this. You don't leap into the next diary, but the next series of books or the next series that will is in. This series is going to cover their final movie and probably the breakup of Monty Python. At least the first breakup of Monty Python. So that should be interesting. It's also really interesting because as you and I are both huge fans of Michael Palin's travel documentaries and he starts to talk about getting the itch to do it and discussions with the BBC DC about doing travel stuff. So he hasn't started doing it yet, but you can see that he's heading that direction. He's also just a really engaging and interesting guy and it's, it's fun to read his diaries and his thoughts. So really enjoyed it. Looking forward to the next one. But definitely need to read a couple real books before I do that again.
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Jason DeFilippo
Yeah, I might pick up the audiobook. I bet he, I bet he narrates the audiobook.
- [60:49]
Brian Schulmeister
I'm sure he probably does. Why wouldn't he? So.
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Jason DeFilippo
Yeah, exactly. So that makes it even more personal. Yeah, I would definitely. I want to get to the around the world in 80 days stuff because that would, that was crazy. And I don't know if you ever saw the behind the scenes photo of that where they actually show the crew that goes with him.
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Brian Schulmeister
Yeah, it's great.
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Jason DeFilippo
Unbelievable. Back in the day how many people it took to make that show.
- [61:10]
Brian Schulmeister
So many. Now he goes with an iPhone. Like he's still doing them. Like he just went to like Nigeria or something.
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Jason DeFilippo
Oh really?
- [61:15]
Brian Schulmeister
It's like. It's like two people. Yeah.
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Jason DeFilippo
Yeah. That's crazy. Even if you watch the latest Ewan McGregor, I think it's a long way home, which I was thinking about. It finished a couple of weeks ago. It was really boring compared to the old ones. This is really just two old farts riding motorcycles around Europe. It was really no hook. That took two Rivians full of crew and another motorcyclist on or two motorcyclists on a camera to follow them. So I think that Michael Palin could probably, since he's not riding a motorcycle, he could probably get away with an iPhone and maybe. Maybe a stick.
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Brian Schulmeister
Yeah.
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Jason DeFilippo
Closing Shout Out. Over at Patreon, we have a new subscriber, Driftless. Thank you, Driftless. And from the archives, we've got Ilya Charles, Robert Sloan, Alex Anthony, Adina Sebastian, dj, and Mark. Thank you all very much. And we have a comment from Nancy. I also had a Kaypro 2000. Lugged it to Europe and to Japan. Loved it, but it was heavy. Unfortunately, it was stolen on its last trip.
- [62:18]
Brian Schulmeister
Well, well, hopefully, Nancy, that wasn't mine that I ended up with.
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Jason DeFilippo
Yeah. Really? Where. Where was the final destination?
- [62:27]
Brian Schulmeister
Who were you flying when it was stolen? So I'll talk to my father about that. Well, I can't talk to my father anymore, but, you know.
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Jason DeFilippo
Yeah.
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Brian Schulmeister
Over at PayPal, we got Tom, Joseph, Jens and Ivan, who sent us 250 bucks.
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Jason DeFilippo
Holy shit. Ivan. Thanks, man. Thank you. Wow. And over at the Tip Jar, we've got Ross and Jessica. Oh. Who sent us a hundred bucks. Bucks. Thank you, Jessica and Ivan and everybody else who donated this week. And just a reminder, if you want to sign up over at Patreon for as little as $3 a month, you can help support the show. And you get the show early ad free and in high definition. And, yeah, a little bit early. A little bit teeny bit early. I do my best. I do my best, but it definitely helps support the show. And you can sign up for the whole year and get a discount if you want. So thank you everybody who signs up to support the show. No merch this week and no reviews.
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Brian Schulmeister
No. But a lot of death, Jason. Week before we get into the big ones, I've got kind of a more obscure one. Golden Earring guitarist George Koimans has passed away at the age of 77. Golden Earring was founded in 1961 when Coiman's decided to decide to start a band with his neighbor, bassist Rinnis Garrison. In a career that spanned five decades, Golden Earring released over 25 studio albums. Their impressive career included hits such as Radar Love, released in 1970, 73, the year I was Born, which was their first hit to reach across the pond and hit number 13 on the US charts. And. And the reason I. The reason that I had to put this in here because in 1982 they had similar success with Twilight Zone, a song by Coimans that hit number 10, I was nine. And the mighty 690, a crappy AM station out of Tijuana, Mexico. I picked up on my radio and I listened to almost every single night because they started to play. They were playing weird music that I was starting to get into. Like Devo and Twilight Zone was on heavy rotation. And I love this song and I haven't heard it in probably 20 years. And I played the shit out of it this week.
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Jason DeFilippo
It's funny, as soon as this, I just noticed this because I didn't see this link before and it said Golden Earring. And that's the first thing that jumped into my head was the Twilight Zone song.
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Brian Schulmeister
Great song.
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Jason DeFilippo
It is a great song.
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Brian Schulmeister
So he will be missed. Well, at least you know that one song anyways.
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Jason DeFilippo
In other sad news, Malcolm Jamal Warner died at 54 from accidental drowning. I put this in here too, because I remember. I don't know if you remember the show Malcolm and Eddie.
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Brian Schulmeister
Vaguely.
- [64:51]
Jason DeFilippo
Yeah. This was, I think in 95. And I was working at Rocktropolis and my friend Trevor was our. He was our graphic designer for Rocktropolis. And Rocktropolis was doing shit at that point. We had to take in extra clients to pay the bills. I was working on the first Paisley park website for prints and he was doing motion graphics. And he got the gig to do the intro for Malcolm and Eddie. And this was the first time I'd ever heard of After Effects. And I put a link in the show notes to the intro sequence. There's a little clip that he kind of rotoscoped Eddie Griffin doing a dance. That's this little blocky character that took 72 hours to render in After Effects on a quadra back then. And it crashed so many times near the end of it that you could. He was throwing chairs when the thing would crash. It took like two weeks to get that little tiny clip that is barely in the. It is barely in there. It was originally like most of the intro and they're like. Eddie Griffin was like, yeah, I don't like. Like that. Like it. It. I think it killed him. Killed his soul at that point.
- [65:56]
Brian Schulmeister
But I'm sure it did. Yeah.
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Jason DeFilippo
Yeah. But he ended up doing the rest of it, so.
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Brian Schulmeister
Yeah, it's so sad that he passed away and so young and tragically and. And the most. I have to admit, it has been amusing watching online the gymnastics people are doing to eulogize him without trying to mention the Cosby Show.
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Jason DeFilippo
Yeah. Yeah.
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Brian Schulmeister
Talk about destroying a legacy, Bill.
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Jason DeFilippo
Yeah. I mean, for all intents and purposes, Malcolm was a. Was a good guy, so that's what I hear every. Everybody seems to have said. Said so.
- [66:23]
Brian Schulmeister
Not so. Not so much the next guy.
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Jason DeFilippo
Hulk Hogan, dead at 71. This was a shocker.
- [66:30]
Brian Schulmeister
Yeah.
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Jason DeFilippo
Yeah.
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Brian Schulmeister
Was it really, though? Was it really that shocking? Because God knows how much this guy pumped his body full of fucking illegal drugs.
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Jason DeFilippo
Well, not even that. It's just that wrestlers have a. Have a very limited shelf life because they put themselves through a lot of. A lot of abuse. You know, just the physical abuse is insane that wrestlers go through. I mean, he has wrestled, you know, you know, like, well, in a long time. But.
- [66:53]
Brian Schulmeister
Yeah, last time was on that video we can't see.
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Jason DeFilippo
Yeah. Yeah. So release the tape. Release the tape. Release the tape.
- [67:00]
Brian Schulmeister
Yeah. As. As seen on social media. As fate would have it, Hulk Hogan died 10 years to the day after the leak of a sex tape transcription that exposed his casual use of the N word. Yes, he was also a raging racist.
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Jason DeFilippo
Oh, well, he's. I mean, he did die in Florida, so that. Tracks.
- [67:15]
Brian Schulmeister
Tracks. And of course, we lost Ozzy Osbourne. God, the godfather of heavy metal. Passed away at 76, just a scant, what, two weeks after his goodbye concert. So you can definitely get the feeling he was holding on just to do that. And there he went. So more social media stuff that I saw. Brothers, check in on your white friends. Apparently losing Ozzy is for them. Like when we lost Tupac.
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Jason DeFilippo
Yeah, it's kind of funny.
- [67:38]
Brian Schulmeister
Yeah. And also seen Ozzy and Hulk. It's a tough week to be white in your 50s in forklift surgery. Certified you very funny.
- [67:46]
Jason DeFilippo
It's funny, but, yeah, true, I guess. No, I miss Ozzy.
- [67:52]
Brian Schulmeister
Yeah, I mean, you know, it's not even my genre of music, but it's Ozzy Osbourne, like, icon.
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Jason DeFilippo
Like, I was totally. It was totally my genre of music. I had all the cassettes. All the cassettes. Until next time, I'm Jason DeFilippo.
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Brian Schulmeister
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