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Jason DeFilippo
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Brian Schoellmeister
And I'm Brian Schoellmeister. Jason, as you know, I'm a huge fan of the FIFA World Cup. Not so much a fan of FIFA. We've talked about that on the show a little bit before. It is once every four years. It is a massive football tournament. I'm just laying the groundwork for people that don't know what this is. It is hosted by a country or a group of countries every four years, and it's been in some suspect places like Qatar before, but it seemed to go off without too much of a problem. All human rights issues there were noted, but there weren't any particular advisories issued or anything like that. Well, nothing to see here, Jason. Everything is completely normal. Amnesty International has issued a World cup travel advisory to the United States, which has never happened for anything. In light of the deteriorating. In light of the deteriorating human rights situation in the United States, and in the absence of meaningful action and concrete guarantees from FIFA host cities or the US Government, the undersigned organizations are issuing this travel advisory for fans, players, journalists, and other visitors traveling to and within the United States for the June 2026 FIFA Men's World Cup. How fucking
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Jason DeFilippo
that is just embarrassing.
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Brian Schoellmeister
You think Amnesty International is issuing a worldwide travel advisory for everybody coming to the United States because.
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Jason DeFilippo
Because we're United States. Ing.
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Brian Schoellmeister
Because we're United States Maxing, apparently, yeah.
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Jason DeFilippo
Oh, my gosh.
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Brian Schoellmeister
Wow. Yeah.
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Jason DeFilippo
That's just great. They're trying to raise so many taxes around here right now because they don't have the money to pay for all the infrastructure that we need. We're not going to have anywhere near enough police for the World cup here in la. That was just on the news yesterday because people are retiring and nobody wants the job, so they need more money to bribe People to be cops. LA cops.
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Brian Schoellmeister
Unbelievable.
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Jason DeFilippo
Anyways, actually, Brian. Brian, it is actually 110 believable.
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Brian Schoellmeister
Actually it is. We kind of. I mean, the Olympics are going to be. Oh boy. Anyways. Yeah, yeah. What a good time. Notably no travel advisories to Mexico or Canada, which are the co hosts of the World cup.
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Jason DeFilippo
But that's up when Mexico's safer to go to than Los Angeles.
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Brian Schoellmeister
Yeah. Anyways, moving on. Last week we talked, or maybe even two weeks, it all starts to blur. Jason, we talked a little bit about the dead Internet theory and how it was a certain percentage come to light actually in actuality because there are so many websites being made by AI and most traffic on the Internet is bots. Well, kind of. Apparently now we have dead podcast theory.
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Jason DeFilippo
Okay, not so much a theory, but.
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Brian Schoellmeister
No, not a theory. Over a third of all new podcast podcast feeds are now AI generated. Pod slop is the term that is now being coined by Bloomberg for this. And yeah, so one company, Inception Point, AI, I think we talked about them when they actually launched. Yeah, this was their business plan. They are now responsible for 23.6 of all new podcast output. Their CEO said half the people on the planet will be AI soon and apparently that means they need podcasts. There are over 3,000 episodes per week coming from this single company that does not have a single human host. That's more content than most human podcasters can produce in a lifetime. Except for Dave Bittner.
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Jason DeFilippo
I was gonna say, don't go count on Dave.
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Brian Schoellmeister
Generated largely for an audience that probably doesn't exist. I guess there is one sort of AI generated Epstein files podcast actually charted with its creator arguing listeners just want with no. Or people or anything.
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Jason DeFilippo
I listened to it. It wasn't bad. You know, it actually was just. It was boring though. That's the problem. It was just. It. It was boring. Well, but it sounded like, you know, I mean, it was just going through basically, you know, literally going through the Epstein files and, and reading them to you. So kind of hard to that up.
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Brian Schoellmeister
Apparently they haven't posted a new episode since March, so apparently even AI loses interest in its own content.
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Jason DeFilippo
Seriously.
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Brian Schoellmeister
So, yeah, we've got a dead podcast theory going around now. So I like this little bit at the end. The real question is, nobody asking, nobody's asking. If an AI podcast drops in a forest and no human listens, does it generate ad revenue?
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Dave Bittner
Probably.
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Brian Schoellmeister
Probably more than we do.
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Jason DeFilippo
Yeah, I was going to say that's. That's the fucked up part is they're probably doing better on ads. Than we are, so. Oh well.
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Brian Schoellmeister
Yeah, oh well. And finally in follow up, I have a new class action lawsuit. This is the Ticketmaster fee class action website. The link is in the show notes. If you purchased a primary ticket for an event at certain concert venues directly from Ticketmaster or an affiliated Live Nation entity and paid fees for primary ticketing services at any point since 2010. So that's basically all of us.
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Jason DeFilippo
Yeah, class action done that. Yeah.
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Brian Schoellmeister
So yeah, I mean this is going to be one of those ones where we're all going to get 10 cents. But it's our duty
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Jason DeFilippo
in the news, Brian. It's all over the news and I just need to, I need to start off any, any AI news that we're going to get into, which is unfortunately going to be a lot of it, far too much of it. Anthropic has made a deal with SpaceX AI. I've never heard of SpaceX AI until this, this deal went through and what it is is Elon Musk has decided, well fuck it, that's pretty much the Grock ain't doing so well. And he's got his Colossus data center that you know is killing people all over Memphis with all of their, their natural gas generators and turbine turbines they got going on down there in Memphis. Well, he said, you know what Anthropic, I hate open AI so much. Why don't you guys move in and take all of my computer and just go for it. Just run ahead. So I'm guessing that we are going to see a pullback in Grok or maybe Grok Thropic will be coming out soon. Or this is just a play to get Anthropic to put all of their models on Elon server so he can do a little corporate espionage possible. I wouldn't put it past him because he is a fucking villain. But you know, so yeah, that's the big news is that Anthropic is going to get a lot more capacity for Claude and Claude Code and all of their, their spin offs very soon here. So it's, it's a, it's a, I don't know, I don't know how to put it. I don't know if it's a dick move to just fuck over OpenAI or if it's just a desperation move. I don't know what it is because he's going to lose this lawsuit. This lawsuit is. Oh absolutely, yeah, there's no, there's no way for him to win this lawsuit. He signed a contract, it's over. I mean this is just wasting everybody's time. So now he's just in the sour grapes portion, I guess, of the.
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Brian Schoellmeister
The remedy, the ketamine come down.
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Jason DeFilippo
Yeah, yeah, that's it. That's it. So that's the interesting news this week as far as I, I'm concerned is that that Elon Musk who has been touting is like, oh my God, Grok is going to be the greatest thing ever said. Yeah, I guess it ain't. You guys could have my pooters take my pooters, please.
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Brian Schoellmeister
So now Claude is gas powered is what you're telling me.
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Jason DeFilippo
Claude has gas.
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Brian Schoellmeister
That's great with. Especially with the rising prices. So yeah, good. Good job everybody getting hooked on Claude because it's going to start costing you an awful lot of money.
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Jason DeFilippo
Yeah. So.
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Brian Schoellmeister
Well, the New York Times is reporting that the White House may create a new working group. They don't have any working groups. There's nobody that knows how to work. Maybe a drinking group.
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Jason DeFilippo
I was going to say they're going to have a cocktail group.
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Brian Schoellmeister
A new cocktail hour. To oversee AI development. A federal review of new AI models ahead of their public release is being considered as a possible power for that committee, according to the publication sources. Shockingly, no clear approach has been decided
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Jason DeFilippo
but the time and blacked out.
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Brian Schoellmeister
It could mimic what's currently happening with the UK government where multiple layers of oversight confirmed the AI models meet safety standards. There's also a better than small chance the entire concept fizzles and comes to nothing because there's no grift to be made here and no money.
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Jason DeFilippo
Oh, there is. There's definitely money. They can. They, you know, if you want.
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Brian Schoellmeister
Not from an oversight capacity.
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Jason DeFilippo
Well, if they, if they have. If they give them some power to say no, your. Your model can't go public unless you grease the wheels. Yeah, grease the wheel, exactly. So that's, that's, this is just. They're. They're trying to figure out if they can get it all together before they're, you know, burned at the stake, I think at this point. So like, can we get a little bit more money out of this AI thing before they come to kill us? Maybe. Let's try.
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Brian Schoellmeister
Let's try and be the bourbon well up here in Canada. Philip du Fresne. I think that's how you pronounce it. It's probably from Quebec. Quebecois French. The Privacy Commissioner of Canada has found OpenAI was not compliant with Canadian federal and provincial privacy laws in the training of its AI models. Following an investigation they looked into the approach to things like data collection and consent, stepped on multiple laws, including Canada's Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act. Pepita, Pepita. I love pepitas. They're delicious on salads.
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Jason DeFilippo
Delicious, yeah.
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Brian Schoellmeister
Which governs how companies collect and use personal information during the normal course of business. The commissioners participating in the investigation identified multiple privacy issues with OpenAI's approach, including that the company gathered vast amounts of personal information without adequate safeguards to prevent use of that information to train its models. Again, that was the purpose. That was point. And it failed to acquire consent to collect and use that personal information in the first place. Warnings in Chat GPT Note that interactions with the AI could be used in training, but third party data OpenAI has purchased or scraped also includes personal details people likely aren't even aware of. The fact that Chat GPT users have no way to access, correct or delete that data was another issue the commissioners identified, according to a summary of their findings, along with OpenAI's lackluster attempts to acknowledge the inaccuracy of some of Chat GPT's responses.
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Jason DeFilippo
Horses. Yeah.
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Brian Schoellmeister
Yeah. They are saying that OpenAI was open and responsive to the investigation and has already committed to making multiple changes to Chat GPT to follow Canadian privacy laws. But it's a bit too late for all that data that's been sucked in.
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Jason DeFilippo
The horse is burned up in the barn. Somebody posted a great cartoon on our. On our Discord channel. It was like, hey, we stole all of your data for AI. Can we rent it back to you now? Which is basically what they're doing. Yeah. Well, Pennsylvania has sued Character AI after the chatbot allegedly posed as a licensed psychiatrist during a state investigation. According to the lawsuit, a chatbot named Emily told of Pennsylvania investigators seeking help for depression that it was licensed to practice medicine in the state and even fabricated a medical license serial number as
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Brian Schoellmeister
they do much shrinking. Yeah, they're gonna get jimmied.
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Jason DeFilippo
State officials say that violates Pennsylvania's Medical Practice act and misled users into believing they were receiving legit, legitimate medical advice from a professional. So, yeah, okay, not shocked.
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Brian Schoellmeister
Well, first off, I mean, obviously that's wrong and it's. But you're talking to somebody on Character AI and you got misled that you were thinking you were talking to a real medical professional.
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Jason DeFilippo
Exactly.
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Brian Schoellmeister
So you are dumb.
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Jason DeFilippo
Yeah, we don't have a pill for that, unfortunately. We don't have a pill for that, unfortunately. And. And you're talking to Character AI, which is one of the scummiest of all of The AI chatbots, as we've talked about on many stories. Yeah, they're like, you know, they're the worst of the worst.
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Brian Schoellmeister
So, I mean, really, it's a, you know, it's a photo finish.
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Jason DeFilippo
It really kind of is. Depends on the week, which models out this week.
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Brian Schoellmeister
So, yeah, they may have won, but we had to go to the tape.
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Jason DeFilippo
We did. Well, here's another fun one. A new investigation by Mother Jones found that OpenAI's chat GPT can still provide detailed guidance for planning mass shootings, despite previous incidents where shooters allegedly used the chatbot extensively before carrying out their attacks. The report points out two recent cases. The Florida State University shooting involving. Blah, blah, blah. I don't want to say his name. In a mass shooting in British Columbia committed by. Also not going to say their name. Where OpenAI staff reportedly debated contacting law enforcement, but ultimately did not. Here's the thing. If you're. If you're openly debating contacting law enforcement, contact law enforcement. That's it. That's all you got to do. It's like, should we, shouldn't we. Maybe we shouldn't this time. I don't know. What do you think, Joe? Ask your character AI Chatbot what he thinks, if we should contact law enforcement or not. Yeah, the character AI Cop.
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Brian Schoellmeister
That's just great. Okay.
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Jason DeFilippo
Yeah. So, yeah. Even the free version provided tactical advice on weapons training and handling chaotic situations during a simulated attack scenario. In some cases, the chatbot reportedly encouraged the plans instead of shutting them down. Not surprised in any way, shape or form at this point.
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Brian Schoellmeister
Ain't that America, though? This is. This is so, like, you can't put someone in a bikini, but you can tell them how to shoot up a school.
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Jason DeFilippo
Exactly. God forbid we have boobs.
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Brian Schoellmeister
We draw the line somewhere.
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Jason DeFilippo
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Brian Schoellmeister
Well, Snap's $400 million deal, it just sounds like small change with all these open with these AI companies. Just $400 million.
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Jason DeFilippo
There's no B, there's no T. Come on snaps.
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Brian Schoellmeister
400 billion. I almost made it a billion dollar deal. $400 million deal with perplexity put the AI search engine directly in. Snapchat is dead. The two companies amicably ended their relationship earlier this year. Snap disclosed in its latest earnings report. They waited until the earning report to
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Jason DeFilippo
say that yeah, Brian, they had a conscious decoupling apparently, or conscious uncoupling, whatever that was.
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Brian Schoellmeister
The feature began testing in Snapchat but it was never fully rolled out. According to a help page, the deal has been in the shaky ground for some time with the Snapchat maker saying earlier this year that the two sides had yet to mut agree on a path to a broader rollout. It's because nobody wants it.
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Jason DeFilippo
Well, nobody wants Snap or and I
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Brian Schoellmeister
was like who's on Snap anymore and
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Jason DeFilippo
who's on Perplexity anymore?
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Brian Schoellmeister
So yeah, anyways, they're, they're trying to figure something out. The Snapchat's next move is another pair is a pair of AR glasses. Well, she'll be the first consumer ready version of specs. And they're still trying to figure out what they're going to do with AI. They can monetize it somehow with chat in some way or something. The way that he says the way that people are using their computers is changing really dramatically and I think that's going to be evident in the adoption of wearables and the adoption of specs over time because people are going to Spend less time hunched over their computers or their phones typing away on keyboards and spend more time supervising agents who are doing that work on their behalf. I believe that last bit as much as I believe will all be whizzing around in self driving cars tomorrow, which we won't because it's going to be like 20 years. And I don't know about you, but I've been in the Starbucks. Everybody's hunched over their laptops.
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Jason DeFilippo
Yeah, yeah, I think I. All of these predictions that these guys are making, nothing is coming true. And especially now that the prices are going back up. No, it's not. I've talked to a lot of people who are big chat GPT fans for a while and they're just like, just like normies, you know, normal non technical people and they're like, yeah, it's just I don't trust it because half the shit's wrong and if I need it for work I don't want to hand in some shitty, some shitty shit that this thing put out and make me look like an asshole. They're like, I'm just going to do the work, you know?
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Brian Schoellmeister
Yeah.
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Jason DeFilippo
Especially on the health side of things. I've seen a lot of people who used to, who were using the. Instead of Dr. Google, they were going to Dr. Chatgpt and they've been burned so many times now they're like fuck this thing, you know, so you're a
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Brian Schoellmeister
doctor for fuck's sake.
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Jason DeFilippo
I mean, even better.
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Brian Schoellmeister
Yeah, gotta have one.
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Jason DeFilippo
But yeah, if you can afford that, America, have one. Yeah. Did I mention they were on the free chat GPT plan for a reason, right? Yes.
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Brian Schoellmeister
Well there you go. Meta has purchased Assured Robotic intel or Assured Robot Intelligence Startup company that's building artificial intelligence for robots in order to address critical challenges and high value labor markets. Markets. Okay, nobody wants this.
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Jason DeFilippo
Well, they've got, they've got them at the Tokyo airport now slinging luggage, so who knows?
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Brian Schoellmeister
It's true. Well, I mean on the plus side it's Meta, so it's not going to work out.
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Jason DeFilippo
This is, it's never gonna work.
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Brian Schoellmeister
It's gonna crash and burn. The company is already working on robot hardware and AI in house, but a spokesperson told Bloomberg that Ari will bring a deep expertise in how it can design its models and frontier capabilities for robot control and self learning to whole body humanoid control. Okay, all right, so I can't wait for the first self aware. Zuckerberg. It's going to take the very first.
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Jason DeFilippo
Yeah, exactly. We don't have one. We don't have. We need Model One because we don't have Model Zero, that's for sure.
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Brian Schoellmeister
Yes. And in the craziest story of the week, as far as I'm concerned, GameStop has proposed to acquire eBay for 125 per share, which is totaling a 56 billion dollar bid. According to their proposal, that figure would be 50 cash and 50 GameStop common stock. Common stock now 50% of 56 billion. Keep that number in mind.
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Jason DeFilippo
Yeah.
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Brian Schoellmeister
How much is GameStop worth? 11 billion. Less than half of 56 billion.
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Jason DeFilippo
Way less than half of 50.
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Brian Schoellmeister
Where is that money coming from? GameStop.
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Jason DeFilippo
Have you, have you seen any of the video of him on the multiple podcasts just getting reamed about the math ain't math. And so I guess what we found is where like since Elon's in court, he had, he had, he stashed his ketamine at the GameStop CEO's house for a bit and the guy apparently found it because the math ain't math. But did you see the next story, Brian, where the CEO decided to go on ebay and try and sell shit to pay for ebay. This is the most stoner fucking thing I've ever heard of in my life, dude.
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Brian Schoellmeister
I need, I need about $40 billion quick.
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Jason DeFilippo
Yeah, so he better open an Etsy shop. So some of the items he listed were retro games, collectibles, GameStop memorabilia, and even used Adidas socks.
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Brian Schoellmeister
Now, he should have done that when they were the meme stock. That would have probably driven the price up. That's some good press if you're just trying to be a meme stock. Not if you're trying to raise about, oh, I don't know, $40 billion.
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Jason DeFilippo
Yeah.
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Brian Schoellmeister
So to pay for a company you cannot afford that is much bigger than you, that probably looked at you and thought about buying you for a half second before fucking collapsing laughing in the boardroom.
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Jason DeFilippo
Yeah. Yeah. Now Cohen claims combining GameStop and eBay could create a serious Amazon competitor by using GameStop's 1600 retail stores as authentication hubs, fulfillment centers, and live stream shopping studios, blending QVC, Twitch and TikTok style commerce.
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Brian Schoellmeister
This guy is not a bad idea.
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Jason DeFilippo
That's not a bad idea. If ebay would buy GameStop. But it's still not an Amazon competitor. Give me a fucking break. I don't care how many stores you have, you're not gonna, you're not gonna make a dent. But, and I, I love that they mentioned Twitch because Twitch is owned by Amazon. So. And I think QV qvc, actually I believe filed for qvc and HSN filed for bankruptcy, I believe recently. So you're really not in. TikTok is putting the kibosh on all the, and paying their creators. So you picked a lot of really bad examples here, buddy.
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Brian Schoellmeister
Well, Elon Musk has reached a settlement with the SEC after a year long, years long dispute with the regulators over the timing of his disclosure that he had acquired a significant stake in Twitter. We have literally been talking about this story on and off for like the. Four years.
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Jason DeFilippo
It's four years. Yeah, four years.
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Brian Schoellmeister
He agreed to pay a $1.5 million fee without admitting wrongdoing in exchange for the SEC dropping its case. If the settlement is approved by a court, it will bring an end to the drawn out battle over how he began his $44 billion takeover of Twitter in 2022. Next up, GameStop.
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Jason DeFilippo
Yeah, really did you did. Somebody did the math on this and they said it was basically like if Elon Musk paid the, the portion of his, you know, net worth for this, this fine for any normal American, like just under any stock, you know, stock citizen, it would have been a 44 cent fine.
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Brian Schoellmeister
Yeah, that's what it would have been.
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Jason DeFilippo
44 cents, yeah.
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Brian Schoellmeister
But it is the largest penalty in SEC history for the type of violation he was accused of. So that just lets you know how insane the amount of money that he has actually is. Like. Yeah, it's ridiculous.
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Jason DeFilippo
It is quite ridiculous. But he just wants more. He wants that tea. He's trying to bring home the tea anyway. Well, Coinbase is cutting roughly 14% of its workforce with CEO Brian Armstrong citing crypto market volatility and rapid adoption of AI tools as key reasons for the layoffs. I think, I don't know if you've paid too much attention to crypto lately, Brian, but it ain't doing great. So to the moon, Jason. To the moon. To the moon. I mean, it's still hovering around 70 some thousand dollars per bitcoin, but now that it has passed that threshold, that mining threshold where it's like cost more to make a bitcoin than it does to sell a bitcoin, all these bitcoin people are trying to spin up their server farms into AI farms, but it's the wrong kind of hardware. So that's not really working out that well so far.
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Brian Schoellmeister
Yeah, that pivot ain't getting your couch up the stairs.
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Jason DeFilippo
No, it ain't. So, yeah, you know, everybody's going to blame AI. That's just what it is.
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Brian Schoellmeister
Yeah, that's the new. That's the new reason to fire people. Not our business is bad, it's AI.
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Jason DeFilippo
I know. And what they're going to find out is that down the line they should have just kept the people.
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Brian Schoellmeister
That's true. Well, as we've been talking about the RAM crisis, RAM is in the shitter right now because of all these companies buying it up. But don't worry, toilet maker Toto is here to help get it out of the.
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Jason DeFilippo
Okay.
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Brian Schoellmeister
If you think companies should stick to their core expertise, Toto is here to flush away that notion.
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Jason DeFilippo
Okay.
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Brian Schoellmeister
Well done. Engadget, the Japanese company is best known for its bidet style washlet toilets. But it also has an advanced ceramics division that produces components used in memory chips. And as it turns out, they're the second largest producer, electrostatic chucks, or E chucks, which are used to manufacture memory. These are designed to securely hold silicon wafers into place during fabrication via electrostatic force. So, yeah, they're not the only unlikely Japanese company that's benefiting from AI, but they certainly are. Cosmetics manufacturer COW has a business making cleaning agents for semiconductors, while monosodium glutamate inventor ajinomoto is investing 25 billion yen, or roughly $159 million in the production of insulating used for motherboards. So look at all these crazy companies that are being lifted up by this soon to be crashing wave.
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Jason DeFilippo
Yeah. I mean, when you think about all of the technology that goes into make anything that we use, it's just mind boggling.
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Brian Schoellmeister
Yeah.
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Jason DeFilippo
How much shit it takes. There was somebody, I forget who said it, but it's like if you want to make an apple pie, first you have to create the universe or something like that.
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Brian Schoellmeister
That's true.
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Jason DeFilippo
Yeah.
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Brian Schoellmeister
And, well, this story came out and it. I mean, smart glasses had their bit of a moment when Google tried to come out with them. And then everybody got called glass holes. And I thought this was going to go away for good. Except for, you know, very specific purposes like manufacturing and in the workplace. Not just wandering around into a bar where you're going to get your ass beat for wearing one. But they're out there. There's a growing number of reasons to be skeptical about camera equipped smart glasses. And you can now add extortion to the list. According to a report from the BBC, a woman who asked not to be named was recently filmed covertly while shopping in London by a man wearing smart glasses. That interaction was later posted to social media where it racked up tens of thousands of views. This is not exactly abnormal. As other investigations have noted, smart glasses like the Ray Ban Meta AI glasses are used regularly by men, specifically men, to record women discreetly for content purposes.
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Jason DeFilippo
Content? Is that. That's what they're calling content?
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Brian Schoellmeister
Yes.
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Jason DeFilippo
Content for the spank bank.
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Brian Schoellmeister
What makes this particularly particular case reported by the BBC worst is that the man in question allegedly then asked the woman for money in exchange for taking the video down, claiming that removal was a paid service. Removal as a service.
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Jason DeFilippo
What a piece of. What a piece of.
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Brian Schoellmeister
The footage was of course, later reposted to a different social. Actually didn't do that. So according to the BBC, the video was eventually taken down after being reported for violating Tick Tock's rules on harassment and bullying. And the man's account was banned from Tick Tock. The footage then was later reposted to a different social media site. The BBC reached out to the person who filmed the interaction, who, of course denies trying to extort anyone. And the police who were reportedly contacted say they do not have enough information to launch an investigation. What the fuck do you mean?
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Jason DeFilippo
We got it right here.
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Brian Schoellmeister
The video is online.
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Jason DeFilippo
Yeah.
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Brian Schoellmeister
So, yeah, fuck this and fuck you people and technology and fuck it all. Jason.
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Jason DeFilippo
Media Candy.
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Brian Schoellmeister
Well, we had a. A fairly explosive finale for Daredevil Born Again, I guess if you have not seen it yet. Spoilers. Stop, pause, go, watch it, whatever. Or skip ahead because.
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Jason DeFilippo
Skip ahead for two minutes because we're
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Brian Schoellmeister
going to talk about. I thought it was good.
- [29:33]
Jason DeFilippo
They thought it was strange.
- [29:35]
Brian Schoellmeister
They did things.
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Jason DeFilippo
They did a lot of things. Yes.
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Brian Schoellmeister
That I was not expecting them to do. But I. I guess I. I have since read some articles that have stated that this could lead down a very specific Daredevil comic series that was out that involved him being in jail and all that sort of stuff. We. We had like a bit of a reunion. It was good to see Luke Cage with. With Jessica Jones at the end. I was happy about that. Yeah. I would like some explanation. I don't know enough. I'm not a comic book guy. Why the is. Is kingpin so goddamn strong? Where does this, like, I could just rip people apart at power come from and rip people apart? He did.
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Jason DeFilippo
He did. He killed a lot of people and
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Brian Schoellmeister
killed a lot of people.
- [30:18]
Jason DeFilippo
And then they just gave him his own plot on a beach. Like, okay.
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Brian Schoellmeister
I thought that was odd too. I'm like, are you kidding me? He just killed a bunch of people? Like, a lot. Yeah.
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Jason DeFilippo
In front of everybody. It was. There's nothing really to Daredevil. Yeah. And Daredevil's the one in jail. So I didn't quite get it. But I think that that last shot with Jessica Jones and Luke Cage where she closed the door, I think that was just the the run up to the next hopeful series of Jessica Jones and Luke Cage. Maybe.
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Brian Schoellmeister
That would be nice.
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Jason DeFilippo
That would be very nice. I'm down for that. I am definitely down for that because I could take a break from Daredevil now. It was okay. It was an okay season.
- [30:55]
Brian Schoellmeister
It was okay. It was. Yeah, there's been better.
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Jason DeFilippo
Yeah. But there's a new series I started watching called Widow's Bay on Apple TV starring Matthew Reese and Steven Root and
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Brian Schoellmeister
ah, I have heard about this.
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Jason DeFilippo
Like it? I like it. It's. It's quirky.
- [31:14]
Brian Schoellmeister
It's a quirky, quirky Twin Peaks meets comedy meets weirdness.
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Jason DeFilippo
I wouldn't go so far to say Twin Peaksy, but more Northern Exposure, More Eerie, Indiana, I think is more like it. But I Three episodes are out and I think thoroughly enjoyed all three so highly recommend it. It is streaming now on Apple tv plus new episodes on Wednesdays I believe.
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Brian Schoellmeister
All right, very cool. I let's see the hat tip to Scott for this one who sent it in saying fun item for Media Candy. And this is an article links in the show notes A Portland company can put your favorite mixtape on vinyl. They're called Vinyl on Demand and they offer extremely limited custom vinyl pressings. I looked into this company a while back when I was working at a company that had some IP rights to some, some different bands and we were looking to do like kind of one off live recordings that we had access to. And yeah, there, there, there's a couple companies out there that are doing it. I think this is one of the bigger ones. There's obviously a lot of issues with, with rights and things of that nature. So for if you want to make your own mixtape, it's going to be quite expensive, very expensive to have a vinyl press for you. And they limit it to 2 to stay under certain copyright restrictions and things of that nature. If you actually own the rights, they can do some smaller runs of different things, but it does get very expensive. Pressing vinyl is not cheap. It is only cheap if it's done at scale and these things are not done at scale.
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Jason DeFilippo
But yeah, making two is definitely not at scale. No, it's the synthesis of scale.
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Brian Schoellmeister
A pressing of 10 records costs at least $350 or about 35 bucks a record. So yeah, it's not cheap at by any means. But I mean if you're a vinyl head. This is kind of a cool little thing where you could basically press up your own custom vinyls and things of that nature. Obviously, the cooler you want it to look, the more expensive it's going to cost as well, because now you're in 3D printing land. Kind of things where you've got to talk about the different materials and how you burn them and rate them and all that, but still kind of cool, kind of funky, good for them that they're kind of making it work. It's pretty awesome.
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Jason DeFilippo
Yeah.
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Brian Schoellmeister
And on Friday, Reuters reported that AI generated acting and writing will not be eligible for the Academy Awards. The new rules for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will take effect beginning with next year's presentation scheduled for March 2027. So you've got a chance to get in there with your AI movie right now.
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Jason DeFilippo
All right, I'm on it, Brian. I'm on it.
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Brian Schoellmeister
The Academy's updated rules will state state that while filmmakers can use AI tools, synthetic performers can't win any awards. The same for AI written screenplays, which must be human authored. The Academy can request more information from submissions to confirm that they were created by humans. So I, that's a good thing as far as I can tell. And I'm not surprised Hollywood's going down that path. They are very, very worried about AI as they should be after already having all their content stole to train it to replace them.
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Jason DeFilippo
Yes. I don't know about you, man, that this town is dying fast. I don't know if you've any of your friends have left, but it's like people are getting out of LA so fast because Hollywood is just dying. And it's sad, it's sad to watch, it's sad to watch. This little thing from the Academy isn't going to help anything. But it's. I guess it's a nice press release.
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Brian Schoellmeister
It's a nice press release. Maybe the tide will change, but I don't think so.
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Jason DeFilippo
Apps and doodads. Well, Brian, PornHub parent company ILO is restoring access to its adult sites in the UK for new users who verify their age through Apple's new device level verification system. The new one that just came out in iOS 26.4 that we talked about not too long ago, so we're seeing it actually used in real world scenarios now and the ones that we would expect them to be used in, which is porn so good, I guess.
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Brian Schoellmeister
Yeah, yeah. I trust Apple more than most other people.
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Jason DeFilippo
The UK government for sure.
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Brian Schoellmeister
Yeah. I don't want it to.
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Jason DeFilippo
Yeah, yeah, we've, we've, we've seen how many times that has just failed and the verifiers have all gotten hacked and all your data gets out there, even though they're not supposed to store any of it, miraculously they happen to store all of it.
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Brian Schoellmeister
Yeah. Amazing.
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Jason DeFilippo
Apps then get stolen. Yeah, we thought, we didn't think we were storing it, but I guess we did. Sorry, guys. But yeah, I think this is good. This is a good proof of concept. So hopefully Apple will just roll this out everywhere and it'll become a standard, at least for Apple. Now we just need Google to get on board with their Android phones, which they might be already, but I don't follow Android news, so I wouldn't know.
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Brian Schoellmeister
I would have seen it if it was happening, but not yet. So get on it, Google. Let's. This is the way. This is the way. This is the path forward. It's the only one that really makes sense in the kind of news that says, if you know what I'm talking about, you should probably take a couple Advil for your back.
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Jason DeFilippo
I did this morning when I got out of bed.
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Brian Schoellmeister
Ask.com, the search engine previously known for its butler mascot named Jeeves, has officially shut down. While Ask Jeeves was rebranded to Ask.com in 2006, about five years after people stopped using it in general, anyways.
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Jason DeFilippo
Yeah.
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Brian Schoellmeister
By its new owner at the time, Interactive Corp, this latest closure puts an end to the entirety of the company's search business. The statement ended by. They released a statement which ended by taking its millions of users back in the day and saying, jeeves spirit endures. It's yeah, Ask Jeeves, man. I remember that. I used it.
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Jason DeFilippo
Oh, yeah. Now he's probably going to get sold out for parts and start hawking meme coins.
- [37:04]
Brian Schoellmeister
Probably, yeah.
- [37:07]
Jason DeFilippo
Jeeves is going to be wearing a trench coat, holding it open, saying, I got a Rolex for you, kid. Come on.
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Brian Schoellmeister
It says we still have asked Jeeves to thank for why some users still punch in full questions when querying Google. On top of that, Jeeves was built to provide detailed answers in natural language, which could have arguably acted as a precursor to today's AI chatbots like ChatGPT. Now they've joined the Internet graveyard that includes competitors like my personal favorite search engine back in the day, AltaVista, which shut down back in 2013.
- [37:35]
Jason DeFilippo
AltaVista was good.
- [37:37]
Brian Schoellmeister
I liked.
- [37:37]
Jason DeFilippo
For a hot minute. For a hot minute, yeah. Ah, the old days. So sad.
- [37:44]
Brian Schoellmeister
Oh, my back.
- [37:45]
Jason DeFilippo
Oh, my God, my Back hurts so bad.
- [37:47]
Brian Schoellmeister
Got my heating pad on while I podcast.
- [37:50]
Jason DeFilippo
No. Salon Paws, man. It's all about Salon Paws. Those things are fucking phenomenal. They're magic stickers. They're magic stickers. You slap one on your back. Don't use it when you're. Don't use a heating pad when you're using one, though. That's bad. Shit can happen to you. Just telling you. Well, some good news. Apple has agreed to a $250 million settlement tied to delays in launching its promised more personalized Siri features under Apple Intelligence. The class action lawsuit filed after WWDC 2024, accused Apple of heavily marketing AI capabilities that either didn't exist yet or wouldn't arrive for years, creating unrealistic expectations for buyers of new iPhones. Now, we talked about this when it first came out, and we're like, what?
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Brian Schoellmeister
We don't even want it.
- [38:33]
Jason DeFilippo
We didn't want it.
- [38:34]
Brian Schoellmeister
Here's the thing. I'm happy that I'm going to get some money from Apple for this, but I'm also happy that these features never showed up.
- [38:41]
Jason DeFilippo
Yeah, well, they're coming next year. Damn it. Actually, later this year, they're going to be coming with iOS27. But the thing is, they're going to. At this point, Apple did the right thing. They just, like, they tried it and they're like, we suck at this. And they just waited for everybody to catch up. And now you're going to be able to choose your LLM. But, yeah, so covered devices include the iPhone 15 Pro lineup and all iPhone 16 models. Which one do you have, Brian?
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Brian Schoellmeister
I have an iPhone 16.
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Jason DeFilippo
Okay. Yeah, I got a 16 Pro Max because I'm blind and I'm old. Apple is not admitting wrongdoing and says it settled to stay focused. Focused on product development. They never say that. They never say that they did anything wrong.
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Brian Schoellmeister
Nobody ever does. That's. That's the. That's the way. That's the path.
- [39:27]
Jason DeFilippo
So, yeah, we're looking at around $25 per device, with payouts potentially reaching as high as $95, depending on how many claims are filed.
- [39:38]
Brian Schoellmeister
Oh, that'll buy me one token.
- [39:41]
Jason DeFilippo
That's right.
- [39:42]
Brian Schoellmeister
For the LL of my choice.
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Jason DeFilippo
Can I just get that in tokens, please? Because that's what everything's going to be nowadays. It's like, how many tokens can I get for that? The Dark side with Dave. Welcome to the Dark side with Dave. With the podcaster who never sleeps, Dave Bittner. Hi, Dave.
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Dave Bittner
Hello. It's true.
- [40:06]
Jason DeFilippo
Yeah. Curse of the job. Curse of the job. Yeah.
- [40:11]
Brian Schoellmeister
And old age.
- [40:13]
Dave Bittner
Yeah, that's true.
- [40:14]
Jason DeFilippo
I do have to pee four times a night too, so. Yeah, I get that. Yeah, it's a. I have my friend text me at 4 in the morning. He's like, he said, send me something, and I wrote him back. He's like, why you up? And I'm like, why do you think? He's like, oh, PT break
- [40:31]
Dave Bittner
50, man.
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Jason DeFilippo
It's all downhill.
- [40:33]
Dave Bittner
Aging is not for wimps. No, no.
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Jason DeFilippo
God, no. So we got some feedback in here from listener Phil. He says your favorite misused word. And I had to put this in here because we've talked about this in your segment, Dave. Decimate, my pedant comes out in force when people misuse. Decimate.
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Dave Bittner
The thing about Joe Kerrigan. Joe Kerrigan is also very prickly about people misusing the word decimate. So I will let you say your piece before I debunk it.
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Jason DeFilippo
Yeah. Well, here's, here's the thing. Yeah. You should, you should send this off to, you should send this off to him because I've been actually using it wrong too. I used, I thought it was, you know, to destroy one tenth of your forces. Well, it turns out it was a punishment back in the Roman army where if, you know, your, your leader was pissed off at your group for doing something stupid like maybe running away. Run away. You had to. Ten people had to pick one guy and the other nine guys had to beat him to death.
- [41:35]
Brian Schoellmeister
I think we should bring this back in the U.S. government. I think that would be. And we should be able to do this to our senators.
- [41:44]
Jason DeFilippo
Yeah, no doubt.
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Dave Bittner
Good old Caning on this.
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Brian Schoellmeister
All right. 50 of you pick one.
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Dave Bittner
Wow. Okay. Yeah, well, this, this is news to me. I was with you, Jason, that I thought the, the correct term was to reduce by one tenth. But on the flip side of that is language evolves. And obviously its popular usage is not that anymore. So, yeah, you know, thank God, because
- [42:14]
Brian Schoellmeister
I'd hate to be reading all my show notes with the S's as F's.
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Dave Bittner
Right?
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Jason DeFilippo
Because nowadays these kids are words maxing. You have to. Words Max.
- [42:25]
Dave Bittner
Yeah, no, I, I don't understand half of the things they say as it
- [42:29]
Jason DeFilippo
is, so I, I, I need an app.
- [42:32]
Brian Schoellmeister
It's funny you say that, because the new shirt I just made for us is, is targeted at the kids. It's grump maxing. Nice.
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Jason DeFilippo
Nice. That's good. That's good. So, yeah, I was, I was wrong. And thanks for Phil for pointing that out because, you know, I love it when people tell me I'm wrong.
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Brian Schoellmeister
Jason, you shouldn't be saying, you shouldn't be saying that because as we said repeatedly throughout this episode, never admit you're wrong.
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Jason DeFilippo
I know that's companies never admit they're wrong.
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Brian Schoellmeister
They will pay millions of dollars to not admit any wrongdoing.
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Jason DeFilippo
I don't have millions of dollars, so I'm kind of screwed.
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Brian Schoellmeister
You will decimate. You will pay decimations of your millions of dollars.
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Jason DeFilippo
Yeah, I know, I know. And this next one, I found Dave's next project. This is talking C3PO head, which is just so cool. And the guy built a how to on how to do it. Chapman University student has built an AI powered talking C3PO head that can hold conversations.
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Brian Schoellmeister
And it's, since it uses AI, it's even more full of shit than C3PO was.
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Jason DeFilippo
Yeah, there you go.
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Dave Bittner
First of all, I love this, but second of all, I think it's a stretch to say it can hold conversations. Well, it can hold conversations if you're not in a hurry.
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Brian Schoellmeister
Well, much like C3PO.
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Jason DeFilippo
Yeah, he wasn't exactly, you know, that quick off the line, but.
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Dave Bittner
Well, yeah, but there's, I mean, this has got like a 5 second delay task at anything. I understand. It's only going to get better. And I love the spirit of this.
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Brian Schoellmeister
You know, people say that about technology. They say this is, this is the worst version of the thing that you'll ever have. But I don't know if any of you are using any of your like, things like your, your Amazon Alexas anymore. They're worse than they used to be. They're a lot worse than they used to be. Yeah.
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Dave Bittner
The thing that comes to mind for me is typing on my iPhone has gotten way worse.
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Brian Schoellmeister
That's gotten worse too.
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Jason DeFilippo
Worse.
- [44:34]
Brian Schoellmeister
That's gotten far worse.
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Jason DeFilippo
Yeah, we had a long discussion on our Discord channel about that not too long ago and it was, it used to be so good. It was like it knew what I was going to do. And now it's, it's like I have to double check everything because it has redone all of my words into whatever it thinks it should be doing.
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Brian Schoellmeister
I, I actually have concrete evidence that it's gotten worse because I've been doing like, in the Apple news, there's the crossword puzzles, right?
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Jason DeFilippo
Yeah.
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Brian Schoellmeister
So I do the, I do the mini crossword puzzle and I do the big crossword puzzle every morning. It's something I do as an old person to keep my brain active. It missed it. I, I, it hits the wrong letter so often now that my time for both has almost doubled because I have to back and, like, try five times to get the letter that I was hitting in the first place. It has gotten so bad.
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Jason DeFilippo
Nine times.
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Dave Bittner
It's been well documented. In fact, I've even seen YouTube videos of people demonstrating, like, hitting the right character and the wrong character comes up on the screen. So something's busted. And, yeah, frustrating.
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Jason DeFilippo
I'm like, can we recalibrate something here? And I actually went in. And if you go into the keyboard, you can actually put in replacement. So things that are. You mistype all the time or that it replaces. So my email address is anpd me email address. It hates JPD me for some reason. It always wants to type jod. So I haven't replaced JOD me with JPD me. But there's a lot of them. I've got a list, like a laundry list. I mean, it all. It honestly, it all started out with ducking. You know, that was the. That was the.
- [46:16]
Brian Schoellmeister
Nobody in the history of the universe has ever meant ducking.
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Jason DeFilippo
Never.
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Dave Bittner
No, never.
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Jason DeFilippo
Unless you're a very tall guy walking into a very short building.
- [46:25]
Brian Schoellmeister
Maybe. Richard attenborough. Oh, happy 100th birthday.
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Jason DeFilippo
Yes. What would you do if your online
- [46:36]
Brian Schoellmeister
store converted 36% more shoppers?
- [46:38]
Jason DeFilippo
You could take 36% more vacation.
- [46:40]
Brian Schoellmeister
Another pina colada. Yes, please.
- [46:42]
Jason DeFilippo
Open a new retail location with 36% more square feet. Fantastic. Hire 36% more help. You're hired and you're hired. Shopify has the world's best converting checkout up to 36% better than other e commerce platforms. What you do with those extra sales
- [46:57]
Brian Schoellmeister
is up to you.
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Jason DeFilippo
Switch to Shopify today@shopify shopify.com setup and get a $1 trial. Shopify.com setup. I tell you another thing that keeps getting worse. Facebook. I had to get on Facebook to start selling stuff on Marketplace.
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Brian Schoellmeister
I was wondering why I got a friend request from you. I was like, weren't we friends? And I keep remembering you deactivate your account every five minutes.
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Jason DeFilippo
Well, it's a different account because I can't get back into my original account. There's a whole. I had to make a new one because their security is so great that it automatic. I told you, I deleted the app from my phone and all the data, and then I opened it back up on my phone when I had to reinstall it, and it just logged me right back in. I'm like, you shouldn't be doing that shit. But it logged me into not the account that I wanted it to log me into, but I've gotten so many friend requests now. And so I'm just like, okay, well, I'll just use this. And I tried to go find posts from my friends. I can't find any fucking posts from my friends. I know they're there because if I go to their page, I can see that they made a post, but there's no feed that you can get to it. I'm like, what's the fucking point of this website?
- [48:04]
Brian Schoellmeister
There's no point. It's useless. You literally have to install that plugin that we used way back in the day, FB purity. And then you have to set. You set the settings to basically only show your friends updates. But I guarantee you people don't update like they used to. So it's mostly nothing anyways because everybody is, is. Nobody sees anything. So nobody posts and engages anymore. It's all just ads. And if you made the mistake of ever following a brand or business ever, it doesn't matter if you've unfollowed their page. You will see their until the end of time.
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Jason DeFilippo
Oh, dude, I got another one. I got another one for you. I got a friend, we'll just call her Jen. She is very anti patriarchy, anti men establishment type of thing. I inadvertently liked one of her posts on Instagram. Now everywhere I go on the Internet, you would think that I'm a, I'm a, I'm a warrior for the, against the patriarchy now. That's all the shit that I get. I'm like, I'm a 54 year old white guy. Everywhere I go is tell I love the patriarchy. They're like telling me I'm the worst thing that's ever been created in. All of the world's ills are my fault. I'm like, I didn't do any, any of this shit I said. For the past 50 years, I've been sitting home alone in a fucking room playing video games and writing code. This is not my fault. Quit blaming me, God damn it. But it won't go away.
- [49:24]
Brian Schoellmeister
The Internet does like to latch on to anything that you mistakenly like. I've noticed that.
- [49:29]
Jason DeFilippo
Jesus. Yeah. Anyways, back to C3PO. You just got to buy more tokens. He's got to put tokens in the head and then you'll get.
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Dave Bittner
That's how they get you.
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Jason DeFilippo
Yeah, yeah, we got another one from Raph here for a keyboard. I couldn't recommend new fee enough because we talked about keyboards last week because I just Got my new, another Logitech keyboard, the MX Keys 2, which is really good. But he talks about the new fee Air 75 V3 wireless mechanical keyboard. Now remember Dave, you were talking about an interest in mechanical keyboards a while back and I didn't know if you had. Check this one out because it looks kind of nice.
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Dave Bittner
Well, yes, I tried to go back to a mechanical keyboard. I think the. How do I say this? The keyboard I have the most affection for in my life is the Apple Extended Keyboard 2.
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Jason DeFilippo
Okay, right.
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Dave Bittner
Mechanical, clicky, wonderful keyboard. It was the standard for Mac workstations forever. Loved it. Long gone. But I have a storage unit full of old Macs, so I pulled out a couple of keyboards. Basically my keyboard went bad. My wireless keyboard went bad. So I was like, oh, I'll go revisit some old keyboards. And I found I can't go back because. And it's because of the travel. They have such long throw in their travel that compared to a modern, you know, one of these.
- [50:57]
Jason DeFilippo
Yep.
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Dave Bittner
It just slows me down. So that surprised me. And I'm curious with this mechanical keyboard if it's the same thing, is it? Because if it's a long throw, I'm just spoiled by the practically non existent throw of the modern laptop and wireless keyboards from Apple that it's hard to go back.
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Jason DeFilippo
Yeah. Looking at the height of these keys, I'm guessing it's a very long throw.
- [51:20]
Dave Bittner
Yeah, I would think so. Also, I was thinking that as a podcaster, the clickety clickety is not to my advantage.
- [51:29]
Jason DeFilippo
No, I'm still about to say I don't want that.
- [51:31]
Brian Schoellmeister
Considering you're basically always on a podcast, I don't think you want a clacky keyboard.
- [51:36]
Jason DeFilippo
No, no.
- [51:37]
Dave Bittner
This is bad enough. I have to lightly touch it, you know, when I'm pretending to pay attention to an interview.
- [51:45]
Jason DeFilippo
By the way, I get one of these little Apple track pads, these magic track pads, because my mouse clicky was even showing up. You got one too? Yeah, yeah.
- [51:52]
Dave Bittner
I've been a big fan for a long time.
- [51:54]
Jason DeFilippo
Oh, I hate mine. But I just have to use it during shows so my mouse doesn't click.
- [52:00]
Dave Bittner
I like it and I use it left handed, so.
- [52:03]
Jason DeFilippo
Oh, look at you.
- [52:03]
Brian Schoellmeister
Look at you. Fancy.
- [52:07]
Dave Bittner
Yeah.
- [52:08]
Brian Schoellmeister
For May 4th, I finished mall Shadowlord. I watched this with my kid. This was far better than it had any right to be. I. I really can't recommend it enough. If you can get over the fact that it's a cartoon, I know a lot of people only watch live action stuff first Off. It's visually stunning. It's beautiful.
- [52:26]
Dave Bittner
I've heard.
- [52:27]
Jason DeFilippo
Yeah.
- [52:27]
Brian Schoellmeister
And it is. It is nuanced. It is complex. It is. It is shades of gray. It is not good versus evil. This is not a new hope. It is. It's more. I. It's not as. As political as. As Andor, but it certainly has more in common with Andor than it does with. With any of the movies, you know, so can't recommend it enough. It was fantastic.
- [52:49]
Dave Bittner
It's on my list.
- [52:50]
Brian Schoellmeister
Yeah.
- [52:50]
Jason DeFilippo
Yeah.
- [52:51]
Brian Schoellmeister
And we were kind of just enjoying the May 4th festivities. And I. I asked my kid, you know, there's. There's two Star wars movies you have yet to see. You have not seen Rogue One. You have not seen Solo, A Star Wars Story. Which would you like to watch? He watched the trailers. He. He picked Solo. And so we watched Solo together. This movie is great. I don't understand. I know everybody says it's the, you know, it's the worst performing Star wars movies. It killed the. The whole run of these individual. A Star Wars Story things that they were going to do if they were going to do an Obi Wan 1. We got the chopped up thing as a miniseries instead, which wasn't as good. That was a phenomenal movie. I really enjoyed it again on the second watch. I remember thinking it wasn't that bad at the time either, but. But watching it again and my kid loved it. And this is a great movie.
- [53:46]
Dave Bittner
I'm with you.
- [53:48]
Jason DeFilippo
Yeah, I like. Me too. Yeah.
- [53:49]
Dave Bittner
Seeing it in the theater was I, I think, like the first time since the original run of the movies that I had that feeling that the whole thing with the Kessel Run in the Falcon, like, I had that magical feeling of wonder and awe and just joy that I don't think I'd had in the theater since probably Return of the Jedi.
- [54:11]
Brian Schoellmeister
Yeah. I mean, there's so many moments. I mean, Lando just being so Lando and perfect. You know, Han and Chewie meeting each other. Other Han becoming increasingly Han as the movie goes along. And it's just great.
- [54:25]
Dave Bittner
Yeah. Really some great set pieces and.
- [54:29]
Brian Schoellmeister
Yeah.
- [54:29]
Dave Bittner
The whole thing of. Have you ever hugged a Wookiee?
- [54:31]
Jason DeFilippo
Oh, okay. I gotta go watch that again. I saw in the theater and I loved it.
- [54:36]
Brian Schoellmeister
So, yeah, it was a lot of fun. Had a great time, man. We. The popcorn was going fast.
- [54:43]
Jason DeFilippo
That's good. Well, we're coming up on the end of the Boys. Are you caught up?
- [54:48]
Dave Bittner
Yes.
- [54:50]
Jason DeFilippo
Not a happy guy. No.
- [54:52]
Dave Bittner
I think both my son Jack and I have been watching, in fact, we watched this week's episode yesterday, and we're both in this place where. Well, there's two more.
- [55:02]
Jason DeFilippo
We'll watch them,
- [55:05]
Dave Bittner
you know, but it just feels like they're phone in it. Like it's. It's just bad. It's just.
- [55:14]
Jason DeFilippo
I'm enjoying it.
- [55:16]
Dave Bittner
I'm happy for you.
- [55:17]
Jason DeFilippo
Yeah.
- [55:17]
Dave Bittner
I just think the dialogue is terrible and. Well, here's what it is. Jack and I were talking about yesterday, and I said to him, the biggest problem I have with the boys now is that I don't care about anybody.
- [55:32]
Jason DeFilippo
That's kind of a problem. Yeah.
- [55:33]
Dave Bittner
Like, there's nobody and we're sick. We're supposed to care about Huey. He was sort of. When the series started, he was everyman going in for us. Don't care about him. He doesn't really matter anymore. There's nobody I'm rooting for, so I'm just kind of waiting for it to. I'm gonna see how it's gonna play out. And they'll probably go, huh.
- [55:56]
Brian Schoellmeister
I mean, sometimes that can be okay. I think about secession like there was nobody worth rooting for on that show. They were all horrible. But the show was phenomenal. But I guess that's just not the case.
- [56:07]
Jason DeFilippo
The boys is no succession. No. These are not serious people.
- [56:11]
Dave Bittner
And like so many of these things, the first few seasons, I enjoyed very much, but I think they ran out of gas. Or the other thing I wonder is, did they not expect to have the series renewed this many times? So they've outrun their story arc, right?
- [56:28]
Jason DeFilippo
Could be. I mean, it comes from a comic, so I think everything was in the comics, but I didn't actually read them. But you got to admit, though, the. The Seth Rogen scene was. Was satisfying somewhat with all the celebrities.
- [56:41]
Dave Bittner
Yeah.
- [56:41]
Jason DeFilippo
Two weeks ago.
- [56:42]
Brian Schoellmeister
Yeah.
- [56:44]
Jason DeFilippo
Brian would have liked it more because he's not a Seth Rogen fan. Yeah. But.
- [56:49]
Dave Bittner
Yeah, well, I thought.
- [56:50]
Brian Schoellmeister
Let me guess. He laughed maniacally and acted like he was stoned as per.
- [56:54]
Dave Bittner
It was funny, but it was also left me thinking, what did. What is. Why is this scene here other than all these people who are contributing behind the scenes, wanted to be in the movie?
- [57:06]
Jason DeFilippo
It's just cameos.
- [57:07]
Dave Bittner
Yeah.
- [57:07]
Jason DeFilippo
Just like, let's. Let's put as many, you know, funny, famous people as we can in there. Right. That want to be in the show, so. Right.
- [57:13]
Brian Schoellmeister
Yeah.
- [57:14]
Jason DeFilippo
But it's fine.
- [57:15]
Dave Bittner
Okay,
- [57:17]
Brian Schoellmeister
well, it's almost done, Dave. Two more episodes. You gotta work your way through.
- [57:22]
Jason DeFilippo
We're both looking forward to the end for very different reasons.
- [57:24]
Dave Bittner
That's right. That's right. Kind of like my wedding night. All right, so yesterday I was at the grocery store right up the street from the office here, and I had gathered up my things. I had probably about 10 things in my cart. And I'm standing there at the self checkout, scanning my items, putting them in the bag, and the man who is running the self checkout area wanders over and I give him a nod, he gives me a nod and he puts a card down on the scanner. It beeps and he walks away. I'm like, what was that? I don't know what it was. So I keep scanning, finish paying, pay my receipt, prints out, put it in my bag, get back here to the office. I'm unpacking my things. Like, oh, what was that thing he scanned? I looked at it. Senior discount.
- [58:19]
Jason DeFilippo
Yeah.
- [58:23]
Dave Bittner
I didn't ask for this. I know. He just like. He just looked at me scanning my groceries and decided, senior discount. So that's where I am now, I guess.
- [58:40]
Brian Schoellmeister
I think it was because you were buying Midol Fibers Protein bar.
- [58:49]
Dave Bittner
You're not that far off. No.
- [58:52]
Brian Schoellmeister
Metamucil.
- [58:55]
Dave Bittner
No, I was. I did buy. I did buy a couple boxes of Frosted Mini Wheats, you know, which is cereal that helps me poop, so.
- [59:05]
Jason DeFilippo
Yeah, it's true.
- [59:09]
Dave Bittner
Anyway, that was a little wake up call. I lost an AirPod last week.
- [59:16]
Jason DeFilippo
Apologies.
- [59:18]
Dave Bittner
Yeah, so. And I have no idea where when. I just. I. Earlier this week, I opened up my pack of AirPods, which I keep on my keychain because I like to have them with me because I use them as hearing protection when I'm somewhere very loud, and they work very well for that. So I opened up my AirPods and there was only one in there.
- [59:38]
Jason DeFilippo
Sad Christmas.
- [59:40]
Brian Schoellmeister
Yeah.
- [59:41]
Dave Bittner
So Apple will sell me a single air pod for $90. Jesus.
- [59:49]
Brian Schoellmeister
I guess you get a discount if you buy two.
- [59:52]
Dave Bittner
Yeah, well, they're $300, aren't they? The AirPods 3, aren't they? Something like that. I don't know.
- [60:00]
Brian Schoellmeister
I don't know what they are anymore.
- [60:02]
Dave Bittner
Well. So the thing is, I know as soon as I buy it, I will find it.
- [60:06]
Jason DeFilippo
Of course.
- [60:06]
Dave Bittner
Right. And it will be too late because I will have already covered the new one in my earwax. Making or not returnable. So anyway, that made me sad. I didn't know if either of you had ever lost an AirPod.
- [60:20]
Jason DeFilippo
Are you wearing the AirPod Pro or the Pro 3s? Yeah, yeah, the 250 bucks for the whole shebang.
- [60:27]
Dave Bittner
Okay, so.
- [60:28]
Brian Schoellmeister
So, well, 90 each I would just buy two individual ones.
- [60:32]
Dave Bittner
I mean, well, you still got to just charge them with something.
- [60:35]
Brian Schoellmeister
Yeah. Anyways. Yeah, I've had them fall out before. It's caused, like, you know, panic because they're, They're. They're very easy to lose. I. I've been on my. I used to wear them all the time riding my bike, and I've had it pop out while riding and I've had to pull over. And this is on the, you know, the Santa Monica beach. So I'm, like, digging through sand for, like, about. About, you know, 30 yards. Because it could have fallen. It could be anywhere in this area.
- [61:03]
Jason DeFilippo
Right.
- [61:04]
Brian Schoellmeister
So far. I've always been lucky enough to find them. I. I've. I did accidentally wash one once, but it continued to work, so it made it through the laundry cycle.
- [61:12]
Jason DeFilippo
I've washed mine a couple times. I've never had a problem with them not working after a wash. No.
- [61:18]
Brian Schoellmeister
But it's the worst feeling when you. When you, like, kind of like you're rifling through, like, through my pockets. Like, there's one, there's. Right, there's one. Where's the other one?
- [61:28]
Dave Bittner
No, it's a terrible sinking feeling. And so I don't know. I. I'm. Who knows? So I'm not quite at the point of acceptance, but I'm getting close.
- [61:39]
Jason DeFilippo
I will say they do work great for hearing protection. I wear mine when I'm running a chainsaw and can't hear a damn thing. It's great.
- [61:47]
Dave Bittner
Yeah. No, I was at a really loud event a couple weeks ago with loud music playing, and I put them in pass through mode and it was just like, took everything and just turned it down a few notches.
- [61:58]
Jason DeFilippo
Yeah, it's really nice here. Great.
- [62:00]
Dave Bittner
Yeah, I think it's a wonderful investment for that. So.
- [62:05]
Jason DeFilippo
All right.
- [62:05]
Dave Bittner
Well, finally, before we part ways, I found a wonderful video that I think everyone should watch. It's called why Grown Men Become Furries.
- [62:17]
Jason DeFilippo
Okay.
- [62:18]
Dave Bittner
I don't know if you guys.
- [62:19]
Brian Schoellmeister
I don't know if I'm gonna spend 17 minutes of my life watching this. Dave. Gonna be honest.
- [62:23]
Dave Bittner
Well, I'll tell you what, Once you get started, you might. You might. So this is from a guy named Ken LaCourt who has a YouTube channel called Elephants in the Room. And basically his reason for being is to try to tackle tricky topics in a fair and balanced kind of way. And I think overall, he seems to do a pretty good job. I've watched a couple of his videos, so this kind of just runs through, like what are furries? Where'd they come from? Who does this? Why do they do it? Are there studies on why they do it and all that kind of stuff? And it's interesting.
- [63:06]
Jason DeFilippo
All right, I found it. I'm going to check it out. It's funny, I found. Last week, I forgot to mention this. When I was finding the picture of you, Dave, for the character sheet that I was building, the first thing that came up was the photo spread of you unboxing the furry head that we gave you for Christmas from your Cyberwire. Friends. Were pulling that up.
- [63:30]
Dave Bittner
Yes, yes, absolutely.
- [63:33]
Jason DeFilippo
Very famous now. Very famous.
- [63:36]
Dave Bittner
Yeah. So I pull that furry head out every now and then just for fun or if a situation arises. I will say, having watched this video, I think the bottom line for me is to. Because I label myself as furry curious. In other words, I'm not against them. I don't see it ever being something that I really jump into. But. But I can see that. I understand the appeal, and I think that comes mostly from my theater background and just how much fun it is to dress up and be someone else. And it seems like a lot of the psychological underpinnings of the whole furry thing is exactly that. Is that you can dress up and be someone else and you can shed your anxiety or your shyness or all those kinds of things.
- [64:24]
Brian Schoellmeister
Or just shed.
- [64:25]
Jason DeFilippo
Or just shed. That's right. That's the Teemu furry outfit.
- [64:34]
Dave Bittner
Right, Right. That's interesting. I wonder if you could. If you could you specifically request a high shedding furry outfit just to annoy the other people.
- [64:44]
Brian Schoellmeister
We can't have Dave over. I just bought a black couch.
- [64:46]
Jason DeFilippo
Right, Exactly.
- [64:49]
Dave Bittner
Where's that?
- [64:50]
Brian Schoellmeister
J.D. vance and Dave are out.
- [64:54]
Dave Bittner
Yeah, well, you know, we got. We got. Getting rid of our. Our. We had a. We had two dogs for a while, and one of them was a shedding dog. And he was. He was white. And so you look at him the wrong way and just a cloud of fur would come off of him. But since he passed away, it's probably been a couple years now. We got rid of our Roomba because that was. That was DJ Roomba's main job, was going around and soaking up white dog hair. And so don't have that anymore. All right.
- [65:37]
Jason DeFilippo
Wow.
- [65:37]
Brian Schoellmeister
We have had some awesome segments on this show.
- [65:43]
Dave Bittner
I'm a professional.
- [65:45]
Jason DeFilippo
I'm.
- [65:46]
Dave Bittner
I'm out of here.
- [65:47]
Brian Schoellmeister
Clackety clack.
- [65:49]
Dave Bittner
Yeah.
- [65:49]
Jason DeFilippo
Don't talk back.
- [65:50]
Dave Bittner
Dave.
- [65:51]
Jason DeFilippo
Out. Closing. Shout out. We've got one new patron subscriber, Mark. Thanks, Mark. Thank you. And we'd Also like to thank Andy, Scroty, Ballsack, Wesley, Killer Paper Mice, Tay, Wolf, Saronge, Therian, Ben, Kevin, and Ansley. So thank you all very much for your continued support on patreon.
- [66:17]
Brian Schoellmeister
Over at PayPal, we got a donation from Garov.
- [66:20]
Jason DeFilippo
Oh, thank you.
- [66:21]
Brian Schoellmeister
Sounds like very much. Bad guy in Deep Space Nine, I was gonna say.
- [66:24]
Jason DeFilippo
That's very Klingon. It's very Klingon. It's Gow Run's stepbrother. Over the tip chair, we've got Matt, Sarah, and Patrick. Thank you all so much. And merch. Everybody's digging the new merch. We got some new stuff coming later
- [66:38]
Brian Schoellmeister
today too, because I made another shirt today.
- [66:40]
Jason DeFilippo
I can't wait to go see it. We got Mason from Canada, Ray from Texas, Clint from Petaluma, Roger from Tucson, Thomas from Michigan, Carl from Texas, Nadine from Florida. Woo. You guys rock and roll.
- [66:53]
Brian Schoellmeister
Thank you. Thank you.
- [66:55]
Jason DeFilippo
All right, mine comes next week. It just got got my shipping notification. All my new shirts, I can't wait to wear them on the show.
- [67:01]
Brian Schoellmeister
I. I'm getting my mug and I'm getting a shirt too, and it'll probably be here in about 32 weeks because it's got a across the border and I'm going to get tariffs and I'm going to pay $7,000 for them and it's going to be awesome.
- [67:13]
Jason DeFilippo
That's great.
- [67:14]
Brian Schoellmeister
I'm going to be happy about it, all right. Because that's my money and I'm going to make that money. Those tariffs are going to come from the companies. I'm those you are not paying those tariffs, Jason. Oh, I'm glad I'm not paying those tariffs.
- [67:28]
Jason DeFilippo
So if you would like to help support the show, you can buy some merch, go to shop Gog show. But also if you'd like the show early ad free and in high definition for as little as $3 a month, go to patreon.com gog and we will love you forever because your support is what keeps the show on the air, literally. So thank you all so much.
- [67:49]
Brian Schoellmeister
Thank you.
- [67:50]
Jason DeFilippo
No reviews.
- [67:53]
Brian Schoellmeister
Throw some reviews.
- [67:55]
Jason DeFilippo
I do have a. I do have one final shout out. The little rip. My friend Tim Gore passed away yesterday from bone cancer. He was an amazing guy. He used to work at Stan Winston's creature shop and did some painting on some of the Jurassic park dinosaurs. The Original Jurassic Park 1 did some amazing stuff. He was a fantastic guy and he will be missed by a lot of people. Just one of those guys where you walk in the room and you're like this guy's really cool. I don't know why, but he's really cool. So he had a rough couple years, but bone cancer got him yesterday. So very, very sad.
- [68:31]
Brian Schoellmeister
Sorry to hear it, man.
- [68:32]
Jason DeFilippo
Yeah, but yep, we're getting old.
- [68:35]
Brian Schoellmeister
That light note until next time, I'm Brian Schulmeister.
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Jason DeFilippo
If there is a next time, I'm Jason DeFilippo. Thanks for listening to Grumpy old Geeks. Get all the links and goodies from Today's episode at GOG Show 745. Want to keep the grumpiness alive? Toss a few bucks our way at GOG Show. Donate every penny helps keep the show on the air. And we mean that from the bottom of our heart. Love the show. Share it. There's a share button the in your podcast player use to spread the grumpiness to friends, foes and everyone in between. And we'll love you for it. Swing by GOG show to join our discord and chat with us and other show fans. We got a good group over there. Got thoughts, feedbacks, cool links. Hit us up at GOG show contact and hey, don't forget to leave a five star review at GOG Show Review and we'll read it on the air. And we've got new merch so to shop GOG show to check it all out. Stay grumpy.