Co-host 3 (2:05)

Yeah.

Co-host 1 (2:06)

Get them away.

Host (2:07)

But they say, oh, we're, we're going to. The partnership with Tether is going to allow eight Sleep to integrate all this information from all your wearables into a single encrypted, like, cryptographically enabled AI dashboard. They've just taken a bunch of stuff and rammed it together. And I am, I guess I didn't expect Tether and the Tether Venture arm to back such a, like, main character of this show about a year ago. And they say the company said it wants to work on a sleep focused AI agent that controls the temperature, elevation and firmness of its products, proactively and prevents sleep disruption. And then that gets handled in the qvac offline distributed encrypted AI architecture.

Co-host 1 (2:49)

You don't want to. You don't want a sultry female voice saying, it's time to sleep, Riley. And it's time to wake up, Riley.

Host (2:56)

And you've been.

Co-host 1 (2:57)

Riley, you haven't been sleeping well, Riley.

Host (3:01)

We think you should stay in bed. It's like, no, I gotta get up to work. And then all it does is Elmer Fudd Looney Tunes shit to me to keep me in bed.

Co-host 1 (3:09)

I'm afraid I can't let you leave the bed.

Co-host 2 (3:12)

Instead of an agent deleting your inbox, an agent, you know, like inverts Celsius and Fahrenheit on their temperature for the mattress and suddenly they're like, we're setting your bed at 90 degrees Celsius for a good night's sleep.

Host (3:28)

Well, it says here the investment is designed to empower 8 Sleep and establish a long term collaboration to build AI driven health technology using others Tether's QVAC architecture and leveraging edge intelligence to enhance 8 Sleep products. Of course, the last time we spoke about 8 Sleep, if you're like, why are they talking about 8 Sleep? What is 8 Sleep? It's a mattress that if AWS goes down, then it tries to freeze or burn you to death.

Co-host 1 (3:49)

That's sick.

Co-host 2 (3:50)

It's so cool. But now you don't have to wait for AWS to go down. You just gotta wait for an agent to do it.

Co-host 1 (3:58)

What if sleeping was dangerous?

Co-host 2 (4:01)

Don't you miss that?

Host (4:04)

Yo, Honestly, like, do you know why you get a somnic jerk? Yeah, right?

Co-host 1 (4:10)

Yeah.

Co-host 2 (4:10)

Like, is that a new feature for eight Sleep? A somnic jerk. I didn't know agents could do that.

Host (4:17)

It's because sleeping is so dangerous. Like, it will. It's your last check around. We're finally bringing back jeopardy to sleeping by making it liable to AI hallucinations. Hey, I. It's really important to tell the difference between Celsius and Fahrenheit. And we don't. And I didn't always get it right. I apologize. And it won't happen again in the future.

Co-host 1 (4:39)

You're right to call me out for that.

Host (4:44)

I am just a burned skeleton melted into mine. So another bit of News before we go on to the sort of more serious stuff. And of course this news is coming largely from the same sort of, I would say, our show's silly roots, which I think it's important to not forget, which is that I don't want to alarm you. Brewdog has been purchased. The dog has been bought. The dog the doghouse is under, is under a new ownership. Brewdog has been purchased.

Co-host 3 (5:13)

Oh no. It's end of an era for a certain kind of guy.

Host (5:17)

So. And the great thing is we all like when we knew it went into administration a couple weeks ago, we knew it was going to be purchased and what purchased it is just I think, very symbolic of the decline of a certain kind of UK industry, which is that Tilray, a let's say in the UK press euphemistically called a consumer goods company, in fact a legal cannabis company, a cannabis company based in the US has purchased 11 of the BrewDog pubs in England out of 50, the rest of which are all going to be closed and the staff dismissed, as well as the core brewing operations and nothing else. Like not its Scottish forest rewilding project, not its terrible gin for $33 million.

Co-host 2 (6:02)

That seems really low.

Host (6:05)

I know and it always seems strange to talk about like 33 million pounds, excuse me, not dollars. It's still pretty low. And say that's not very much money, but in the context of this, it's really, really, really not. Or in the context of what it

Co-host 1 (6:18)

was, what was it at its peak and it's before Tail Ray or whatever it is.

Host (6:25)

Thank you so much. Just shy of two, Billy.

Co-host 2 (6:28)

Oh my God. Oopsie.

Host (6:32)

That's an oopsie for James Watt. I believe the problem is generationally wealthy.

Co-host 2 (6:38)

If you lost that kind of money in the tech sector, you'd be held as a God. But doing it in the the brewery sector means you're just a loser.

Host (6:48)

So the Brew Dog emailed its so called equity punks, the people who were suckered into investing in a different kind of company, informing them of the sale, telling them they're formally telling them their shares were zeroed, but saying it still wants to treat them as ambassadors of the pub group going forward. Usually if you're going to donate a bunch of money and end up with an ambassadorship job, at least you're an American ambassador, at least you're on the

Co-host 2 (7:14)

Board of Peace, you know.

Host (7:15)

Yeah, exactly. Your belief, passion and investment help this business into what it is today. While the structure of the business changes, our gratitude does not. We intend to also Continue. Key benefits for shareholders, including bar discounts, tattoo discounts and a free beer on your birthday. Thank you for investing thousands of pounds in our business. Would you like a discount of a tattoo of the logo of the company that fucked you over?

Co-host 3 (7:41)

I would very much like to meet someone who's gonna get a Brewdog tattoo.

Co-host 1 (7:45)

Now that's amazing.

Host (7:47)

I mean, everyone knows I love corporate failures. Like I have a green sill hat.

Co-host 1 (7:53)

Hell yeah.

Host (7:54)

I think the only person who might get a Brew Dog tattoo at this point is possibly me.

Co-host 1 (8:02)

Oh, you should free drink on your birthday.

Co-host 3 (8:06)

I was just sort of looking up. Cause I was very interested in what's happening to the big. The big brewdog in Waterloo, the one that we've spoken about in this show and the one that I'm fascinated by because it's supposed to sort of be like a co working space as well. And one of the ways they advertise themselves is like, oh, we have a podcast studio here as well, you know. Great, great stuff. I would really like to move our operations to the Brewdog in Waterloo if possible. Right. But I. And so I go on to top stories on Google News and the first story is BrewDog closes nine pubs. But will they be missed?

Host (8:39)

No, no, they will not.

Co-host 3 (8:42)

I don't think so, but I guess there is that.

Host (8:44)

Yeah.

Co-host 3 (8:44)

Like it's quite fascinating just to sort of remember at least the story that Brewdog told itself as being or told the public about being like this kind of like ground up brewery that sort of like, you know, and was punk and also like something that apparently people liked and I guess for a very short period people did. And just the fact now that they are sort of a hollowed out shell of themselves, but also one that while seemingly having a lot of real estate markings in major cities, basically has no real kind of impact or legacy at all.

Host (9:17)

Yeah. Well, to the Brew Dog. I'm sorry you had to get put down and I'm sorry that it was Dr. Feelgood who did it. But you know what, there we go.