305: He Almost Got Robbed! (NOT CLICKBAIT)

Summary

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Zane and Heath: Unfiltered

Episode 305: He Almost Got Robbed! (NOT CLICKBAIT)
Release Date: October 27, 2025
Hosts: Zane, Heath, Matt, Jared

Overview

This lively Halloween-adjacent episode features Zane, Heath, Matt, and Jared in a heavily off-topic, irreverent group chat. The crew discusses Halloween habits, viral parties, the economics of giant pumpkins, veganism, and an alarming real-life almost-robbery story. The latter half takes a deep dive into the rapid acceleration of AI, the ethical dilemmas it poses for media and music, and the hilarious, sometimes unsettling, outcomes of AI-generated content. As always, the tone is casual, comedic, and highly unfiltered, with stories bouncing rapidly between nostalgia, pop culture, personal anecdotes, and hot takes.

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Main Discussion Points & Highlights

Halloween Vibes & Neighborhood Pressure

[11:32–15:15]

• Debating the merits (and social pressure) of going all-out with Halloween decorations.
• Fears of neighborhood judgment if decorations are subpar, and whether such community expectations matter.
• Zane: “If you're going to judge me for not putting anything up that's on you.” – (13:03)
• Tips on avoiding tacky decor & combining Halloween-Christmas through “Nightmare Before Christmas” theming.

Giant Pumpkin Economics

[16:35–19:48]

• Fascination with giant pumpkins—multi-thousand dollar seeds, competitive growing, using pumpkins as boats for regattas.
• Hot tip: Keep a wet towel over pumpkins to avoid stretch marks during super-size growth.
• “Bro, a seed from a giant pumpkin is like $850!” – Matt (18:36)

Iconic (and Absurd) Halloween Parties

[21:23–26:16]

• Reminiscing about epic Halloween bashes, especially the infamous “Notch” (Minecraft creator) mansion parties.
• “It's the Notch house. Tackiest house ever. Well, it's not tacky. The whole thing just looks like a hotel.” – Matt (22:10)
• Outlandishly themed rooms (pagan/cult rooms, shipwrecked pools), massive budgets, and 3,000+ guests.
• Logistical issues: never enough bathrooms!

Halloween Costumes, childhood nostalgia, and party antics

[31:12–37:11]

• Favorite costumes growing up: ninjas, Scorpion from Mortal Kombat, Ninja Turtles.
• Ninja weapons fantasy draft and the physics of sneaky ninja walking (33:22).

ALMOST GETTING ROBBED: Jared’s Story

[37:11–40:55]
Timestamp: [37:11–40:55]

• Jared describes encountering a man with a gun just outside the studio.
• Heart-racing moment: Jared stays calm, walks past, and the guy rides on.
• “For about 10 seconds of him coming towards me, I think my heart stopped.” – Jared (38:14)
• Group's reaction: Joking, relief, and some real anxiety about city safety.

Mind Your Own Business—Literally (Currency Trivia)

[41:06–45:11]

• Surprising trivia: U.S. coins used to say “Mind Your Business” before “In God We Trust.”
• Exploration of why that might have been, and is it financial advice or just sass?

Veganism, Moral Hypocrisy, & The Chicken Dilemma

[49:09–53:59]

• The ethics of meat eating, bogus “cage-free” marketing.
• “We probably look like monsters to these chickens, but I won’t say no if they’re on a platter at a party.” – Matt (48:50)
• Confessions of bad vegan attempts: weight gain due to “junk vegan” eating, disappointment with vegan cheese & cauliflower wings.
• Debate over fake meat branding and “why would you want it to taste like chicken if you’re against eating it?”

Eating Manatee, Eagles, and the Strange Morality of Meat

[54:54–56:56]

• Absurd tangent: what animals are ok to eat, which aren’t, and how even PETA might have a line.
• “I’ve always thought manatee would be delicious... they’re not predators, they’re just like butter.” – Zane (55:08)
• Comparison to forbidden meats like bald eagle and the existence of black markets.

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The AI Rabbit Hole

Viral AI Video Memes & Sora Tech

[56:41–67:19]

• Sora’s “Jake Paul” deepfake is a trending meme—Jake gave permission for his likeness, hence the deluge.
• The group shows genuine concern about misuse of AI for misinformation.
• “It’s really freaky—it could look like a full-on murder or a political attack and cause mayhem.” – Matt (63:29)
• AI videos: Old granny getting shot with a t-shirt cannon, JFK vlogging, Bob Ross painting Twin Towers. Increasing hyperrealism, dangerous virality.

AI Detection, Deepfakes, and Prompt Economy

[61:36–64:38]

• Google Gemini’s ability to pinpoint any photo’s exact location, raising privacy and doxxing alarms.
• Difficulty of keeping AI prompts secure; once a style is public, duplication is trivial.

AI in Art and Music

[66:00–68:05]

• “You can make trillions of more songs just by grabbing a song that already exists and making it into every genre.” – (66:54)
• Fear and awe: the pace of progress, from “Will Smith eating spaghetti” horrors two years ago to nearly-perfect video in real time.
• Ethical crisis: Will artists, producers, and designers simply use AI and pass off the work as their own?

The Dystopian Future (Or Not?)

[71:25–72:51]

• Existential angst about what tech does or doesn’t genuinely solve, and the possibility that eventually “AI Zane and Heath” will surpass the originals.
• “Bring back the AI guys. Man, that episode was way funnier...” – (72:01, joking about being replaced)

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Notable Quotes & Moments (with Timestamps)

• Halloween Pressure:
  “If you're going to judge me for not putting anything up that's on you.” – Zane [13:03]
• Giant Pumpkin Seeds:
  “Bro, a seed from a giant pumpkin is like $850!” – Matt [18:36]
• Childhood Costume Memories:
  “When your son says that he wants to be Scorpion, but you give him the actual scorpion.” – [31:31]
• AI Deepfakes Anxiety:
  “It’s really freaky—it could look like a full-on murder or a political attack and cause mayhem.” – Matt [63:29]
• Jared’s Near Robbery:
  “For about 10 seconds of him coming towards me, I think my heart stopped.” – Jared [38:14]
• Meat Morality Tangent:
  “Honestly, I'm glad we eat them [turkeys]. Get them out of here. Even PETA's like, you can kill them.” – Zane [45:50]
• AI Lyrics & Ethics:
  “But the lyrics, though, that’s where I just have issue with... at least the poetry should come from the depths of our minds and souls.” – Matt [68:32]
• About being replaced by AI:
  “Is it just me or is the AI one better than them? Bring back the AI guys.” – Zane [72:01]

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• [11:32] Halloween Neighborhood Debate & Decorations
• [16:35] Giant Pumpkins, Seeds, and Regattas
• [21:23] The Minecraft/Notch Halloween Mansion Party Stories
• [31:12] Favorite Costumes, Ninja Tricks, Mortal Kombat
• [37:11] Jared’s Nearly Robbed – The Main Story
• [49:09] Ethics of Meat, Fake Vegan Foods
• [54:54] Eating Manatee, Forbidden Meats & Morality
• [56:41] AI Deepfakes, Sora, & Viral Video Ephemera
• [61:36] AI Photo Location Recognition & Prompt Security
• [66:00] AI Remixes in Music, Art, and Existential Dread
• [71:25] Will Zane & Heath Be Better as AI?

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Episode Tone

Casual, honest, joking, sometimes dark, but ultimately fun and friendly. The crew leans into absurd tangents, self-deprecating humor, and isn’t afraid to get topical or take shots at themselves. There’s constant riffing and callback energy—classic Unfiltered.

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Best For:
Anyone wanting a wild, personality-packed group chat with Halloween nostalgia, internet tech fears, and a real near-miss robbery story as the emotional core. A must-listen for fans of pop culture tangents, podcasts about nothing in particular, and comedic hot-take riffs on society’s everyday weirdness.

Transcript

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[B]

I hate the smell of pumpkins, though.

[C]

I don't like pumpkin seeds either.

[B]

You don't even like roasted pumpkin seeds.

[C]

Give me a pepita.

[B]

What is a pepita? Oh, yeah, dude. Pepita seeds. Pumpkin seeds. You like pumpkin seeds? You kidding me? Wait, there's no way I like pepitas.

[D]

I cannot believe they're the same thing. We are good to go. Are we live?

[E]

We are live.

[C]

All right, all right. Let's get it.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Okay.

[D]

We welcome, welcome, welcome all the places you'll go.

[B]

Is that your favorite Dr. Seuss book of the places you'll go?

[D]

No, it just says it right behind me.

[C]

One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish.

[E]

That was.

[D]

That was the first book I read.

[B]

That's a banger.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Oh, yeah. That's like straight up bars. It's almost like a poem. Really too.

[C]

Yeah, they should do that instead of the Llama pajama song. Do the rap thing.

[B]

Yes, that one also. Walk it in my pocket. That one goes really hard. I've seen people do that.

[D]

I've actually never seen the movie.

[B]

There's no walking in my body.

[D]

No, it's a movie. No, no, no. The Cat in the Hat movie. Sorry, I thought we.

[C]

Cat in the Hat is a really good movie. Like, surprisingly good.

[D]

Yeah, I've never seen it.

[B]

Cat in the Hat. That was Mom's dress. You ruined it. Honey, it was ruined when she bought it.

[D]

So is that Cat in the Hat's character? He talks just like that?

[B]

No, he just does so many different bits throughout. It's Michael. It's Mike Myers play.

[D]

Oh, it is?

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

Oh, wow.

[C]

It was ruined when she bought it.

[B]

You pay this woman to sit on kids?

[D]

I Do it for free. Oh, wow. Okay. Damn. Yeah, it's like it was really Michael Myers that made the whole character. It's like Jim Carrey with a Grinch.

[B]

Oh, my gosh too.

[D]

Imagine the both of them in one movie. That'd be pretty crazy.

[B]

Oh, dude, that would.

[D]

Isn't that the same world?

[B]

Um, I don't think so. Well, Whoville takes place on a snowflake. Like the Grinch is on a snowflake.

[D]

Yes.

[B]

Which I'm always like, they are doomed. Like a snowflake snake is going to hit the ground. And I don't know what happens to Whoville.

[D]

I forgot that there were their whole world is on a snowflake.

[B]

Yeah. It should just end with it going in like a little kid's mouth and.

[D]

Then he just trips. And then isn't the lorag or that whole thing is in a fish or in a bowl or something or.

[B]

I don't know much about the Lorax. Is the Lorax also tied with Horton Hears a who?

[D]

I think so.

[B]

But wait, if Horton hears a who. So there's other who's that live on land? Because isn't. Yeah, he picks up the flower and he can hear the who? Yes.

[D]

Yes. Okay, so it's a flower, not a bowl. I thought it was like they're all. Everybody lived in a bowl. Oh, is every one of these books, they live on one little, like, atom or something? Because if that's the case, that sucks.

[B]

It's pretty deep. It's just about paying attention to the little guy. There's little things all around you, you know?

[C]

Wow.

[D]

Mean, if you think about it, we are also on Little Snowflake.

[C]

That's true.

[B]

Anyway, who's Thing? Your thing one. Your thing two? Yeah, Thing one, Thing two, Thing one.

[E]

Thing two.

[D]

We got Cat in the Hat. Who's Matt?

[B]

Matt in the hat.

[C]

All right.

[D]

Matt in the hat. And then Jared's supposed to be Lorax, but he forgot the mustache. The yellow.

[B]

The.

[D]

Or he was. No, you're supposed to be the other guy.

[E]

I was supposed to be the little brother in the Cat in the Hat, but I didn't have time to paint the little stripes on it, so now I just look like the Lorax. Like a half ass Lorax.

[D]

You just. You should. You should have got a yellow spray paint to spray your mustache in.

[B]

The Lorax is huge these days. It's like a massive meme. Every. I feel like every, like, quirky girl dresses up as the Lorax.

[D]

I think out of all of them that's like the most famous one I think that people like remember cuz it.

[B]

Became a big meme of that little. The little girl at the end dancing like let it go.

[D]

It's a like a.

[B]

There's like a big cutaway shot at like the end where they're singing like the final number and there's this little girl from behind who's just kind of like shaking her.

[D]

Is that it right there?

[B]

Yes. This little girl it ever. It's just this massive meme where she's just like doing this little left to right people.

[D]

It's just relatable.

[B]

It really is.

[D]

You know, normally if, if on Halloween you'd get like a Halloween spooky set. We go with Dr. Sue set because why not. Why not go for. With along with our characters instead of just like spooky spiders.

[E]

I don't know.

[D]

Cobwebs.

[C]

I'm feeling the mullet right now.

[B]

You are rocking that mole.

[C]

It feels really right.

[B]

Yeah, I love that there's blue mullet wigs out there too.

[C]

Yeah, it's. It's pretty special.

[D]

And my hair is something I like yearned I wish for honestly.

[C]

Like yours fits you too.

[D]

Every time I go get a hair transplant, like this is what I think I'm gonna walk out with.

[C]

And then when you go to the barber and they. You show them a picture of what you want.

[D]

Oh, did I tell you? I would go to back in the scene days when I tried so hard to but I could never pull it off. I would go to my any haircut place and I would get show them a picture of Wyatt or Caleb. These are two guys that like were seen that I would see all the time, but they didn't know who I was. They were just like MySpace. Semi famous, but they lived in our city.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

Crazy, crazy times. I would show them literally their MySpace pictures. Like, hey, can you give me this? But my hair wasn't long. So their hair like was long, mine was short. And I'd be like, hey, can you give me.

[C]

We always do that. Like you ask them for a haircut. That's not possible.

[D]

Yeah, like what do you want extensions? I can't grow your hair out because I would like, I would want that.

[C]

We really thought they were magicians. They could just do it.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Who was your go to picture that you would like bring in?

[B]

Oh, that's such a great question. You know what? I. It was my mom's friend had a hair salon and they would just cut my hair just normally. I never got to do anything funky with my hair.

[C]

I remember flipping through the book, being.

[D]

Like, I hate these.

[C]

And then I would. Yeah, I would just show different rock stars that I thought looked cool. Like, I want to be this, like.

[B]

Okay, all right.

[C]

Okay.

[B]

But you rocked it. You did have good rocker hair. Your hair. I love the widow's peak, too. That's pretty nice.

[C]

It's almost like Dragon Ball Z. Yeah, it's.

[B]

It reminds me of Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen, that movie with Lindsay Lohan at the end where she's like Eliza and she's doing her final number. Okay, pull up Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen.

[D]

I've seen that movie once. Dancers, years ago.

[B]

I swear they look just like the boys in the background.

[C]

Oh, yeah.

[D]

How do you remember that?

[C]

Good pull.

[B]

That girl was.

[D]

Did he just watch this?

[B]

No.

[D]

That is such a specific.

[B]

I watched it a lot as a kid.

[D]

Oh, okay. I've only seen it once, but I definitely watched it.

[B]

It's a great flick. Megan Fox.

[D]

Is it actually good? Yeah, it's good. Okay. It, like, holds up.

[B]

It was, like, a good one for Lindsay Lohan in her career post Parent Trap. Not doing any, like, Disney Channel, get a clue stuff. It was like a good, fun theater flick. Thirteen of Rotten Tomatoes.

[D]

It does not hold up. It does not hold up.

[B]

It's a lovely story.

[D]

And then, you know what? We were just watching Heath with Lindsay the Freaky Friday.

[B]

Y' all watched it?

[D]

Well, we watched on Amazon 30 minutes, and we were sitting there. It was. I think we gave it 30 minutes, and we're like, damn.

[C]

Did you watch it?

[B]

No, I'm waiting for it to be, like, on Disney plus.

[C]

Okay.

[D]

Fitting.

[B]

Yeah. I mean, it's bound to be on it.

[D]

Don't get too excited.

[B]

Bummer.

[C]

It's annoying because a lot of people said, like, it was better than they thought. They really liked it. Maybe we just didn't get to it.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

We got up to the part where they switched, and I could not follow.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

There's, like, four people that switch because.

[B]

Lindsay's now a mother.

[D]

Yes.

[B]

Is it her two kids switch with her and her mom, Curtis. Okay.

[C]

But the thing is, she has one kid that switches, but they. She also meets a guy that she likes whose daughter. Enemy of her own daughter in school. So there's, like, issues at the house. They don't get along.

[B]

Okay.

[C]

But then, like, they switch with Lindsay Lohan with the grandma, Jamie Lee Curtis, and it's all mixed together.

[D]

You're watching. You're just like, whoa, whoa. We kept looking at Each other. Like, what's going on?

[C]

It was a lot.

[B]

Is it still through a fortune cookie? Do they go to a Chinese restaurant?

[D]

I think this time it was through, like. I think she was like a tarot card reader. Yeah.

[C]

Like in a club.

[B]

Go back to the Chinese.

[D]

Yeah. It wasn't like a bowling alley club. Like, what was that? Yeah, the. And the sets were like, kind. It didn't make sense. Like you're watching her. Like, this feels really new or. Yeah, just. It did. It didn't.

[E]

It didn't hit.

[B]

I'll give it a go. I'll give it a go.

[C]

We did Watch Black Phone 2 last night, though.

[B]

Oh, damn.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Was it better or just as good as.

[C]

I really liked it.

[B]

You saw Black Phone 1?

[D]

I didn't like it.

[B]

Okay.

[C]

I really liked it.

[D]

I was watching. I was just like, I'm. I, like. I was like, about to. I was like, oh, this is like not going anywhere. Everything was great, though. The cinematography, like, everything were amazing.

[B]

He's my new favorite actor.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Really good to be the next top dog. He's very capable.

[D]

Yeah, there are that. I mean, everybody. The cast was amazing. Acting was incredible. So everything was amazing except for the stories.

[B]

I don't want it. I don't want this to be a spoiler, but don't spoil too much. Is the Ethan Hawke's character. Is he a ghost haunting them or is he still alive?

[C]

It's like Freddy Krueger s. Okay.

[B]

So it's more like of a demon. That's.

[D]

It's actually Exactly. Freddy Krueger s. Okay about it.

[B]

Yeah. Okay, cool. I kind of got that from the trailers, which I. I love it when, like, horror is grounded into reality and not too super.

[D]

And definitely do like a. Watch like a recap.

[B]

Okay.

[D]

Because I. I kind of forgot what happened then throughout the movie. I was like, oh, I remember, I remember, I remember.

[B]

Did you ever watch Outsider on Max? That came out in 2020 with, like, Jason Bateman?

[D]

I remember the. The. The. The logo. Outsider. Yeah, like the show. But I don't know what. I just started it.

[B]

It's so good. Oh, so it was a Stephen King book.

[D]

And is that. Is that right there?

[B]

Yes. Not the Outsiders. Outsider.

[D]

I was like. Because I don't see Jason. Yes, got it. Okay.

[B]

It's. Oh, yes.

[D]

Oh, my God.

[B]

See, it's. It's a good, like, little horror series to pop on because it came out in 2020, I think, like during, like Covid times, and just not enough people were that hyped about it. But it's very good.

[D]

That's so interesting how many times I've seen this exact picture and didn't know who was in it.

[B]

Pop it on.

[D]

Okay.

[B]

Pop it on. It's good. We should run that intro.

[D]

Yes. Let's do it. It's com, baby.

[E]

Oh.

[D]

Welcome back to Zany Heath Unfiltered.

[C]

I'm Z. I'm Heath.

[B]

I'm Matt in the hat.

[D]

And we are here. We're here. We are live and we're good to go.

[C]

And we got a special Halloween episode for you.

[D]

Nothing Halloween about it though. Nothing scary. Does your bright and full of colors.

[B]

Does your neighborhood get a lot of trick or treaters?

[C]

We did a little bit of research on the neighborhood and apparently they do go all out.

[D]

Oh.

[C]

So it is like a good spot to be for Halloween.

[B]

Okay. So you'd be doing lawn decorations. What are you, simple man?

[C]

I think it's going to be a little laid back this first year.

[B]

Yeah, it's.

[C]

It's a lot. Because if I'm gonna do it, I'm gonna go all out.

[B]

Right.

[C]

I don't want to do a half assed decoration here and there.

[B]

Cut out. It's just a pumpkin. And people know that, like they can go up and get candy.

[D]

You know what's, what's all out mean?

[C]

Like, you know, when you drive through Toluca Lake out here, you're like, damn.

[B]

Yeah, they're like borderline.

[D]

Oh, you. You want that for your house?

[C]

Oh, that'd be sick. Yeah.

[D]

Oh, you want to, you want to make it like literally into like a. Yeah, Like.

[C]

Oh, the dream.

[D]

Oh, I thought you, I thought you had hated that.

[C]

No, I think it's so cool when like everything's super done up. Everybody's on the same page.

[D]

Oh, okay.

[C]

But also it seems like since they do go all out, they're going to be a little judgy if you don't. Right. Like, oh, the new guys don't. Don't celebrate too good for the.

[B]

Y' all don't participate. We just want to make sure everybody's.

[C]

Kind of, you know, you know, because. Because everybody's going to be enjoying the treats, right? Yes. And we just want to make sure that, you know, everybody's kind of putting in the same outfit.

[D]

I do not fall for that. Like, I. If, if you're going to judge me for not putting anything up that's on you.

[B]

Scrooge.

[D]

That.

[C]

It's Scrooge.

[B]

Scrooge.

[D]

No, I don't think so. I think it's like some People, like, for me, I like my house not, like, full of.

[B]

But you'll decorate your body from head to toe as, like, a Game of Thrones character, all that stuff. But you can't commit to just decorating the front lawn.

[D]

Yeah, but it's not. But the thing is that, like, we didn't. Like, that's like. There's a difference between going to a theme party and not coming in theme. Like, when we live in a house. You didn't sign up to turn your house into a haunted mansion every year. You know what I mean? Like, I think that's, like. That's.

[B]

It's for the community.

[C]

It's for the great.

[B]

For the great.

[C]

No, but I want to do, you know, like. I mean, it's tacky, and everybody's got them, but, like, those massive, massive skeletons. Like, I don't want to do, like that. I want it to be, like, good.

[B]

Yeah, the massive skeleton.

[C]

But.

[D]

But that's not tacky. They're celebrating the. The spirit of Halloween.

[C]

So there's. It's the same with Christmas, right? Like, you can do really good Christmas decorations, and then you could do, like, the cheap way where you get those things with the fan in the back, and it just blows.

[D]

I better see fucking Santa Claus and the reindeers on your house. Both of you this year. Santa Claus, reindeer. I want it animatronic coming down onto the house.

[C]

I think it'll take me a few years once like, our kid gets older and, like, they. They understand it.

[B]

Yes.

[C]

I think it's gonna be cooler.

[B]

Right. I think when, like, if I had a house and I had to decorate it up for Halloween, though, I wouldn't go too scary in the beginning because, like, the little kids, you don't want to make the house seem too scary.

[C]

Right.

[B]

Just make it full pumpkin theme. Get as many type of pumpkin shit as much as you can on your lawn. People love it.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

And then as the kids get older, you get a little scarier, you know.

[C]

Start cranking it up a little bit.

[B]

Yeah, man. That's the vibe.

[C]

But the thing that pisses me off is the takedown.

[B]

Right? Yep. You got to have storage for it, all of it.

[C]

There was one guy, though, in Toluca Lake, he would do his Halloween decorations into Christmas because he would do Nightmare Before Christmas.

[B]

Brilliant move.

[C]

And I'm like, damn, that's kind of the way to do it.

[B]

Best of both worlds.

[C]

But then it does get a little bit awkward around Thanksgiving. You're like, you're in that transition period where you're like, all right, come on.

[B]

Yeah, your skeleton Rudolph is just not hitting the way it should.

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[B]

Have you bought any pumpkins yet? No, no. Get it?

[C]

Not yet.

[B]

I'm now, you know, I like getting them from a pumpkin patch properly. Yeah, it just.

[C]

There's something about it, you know, it's the whole ambiance.

[B]

Yes.

[C]

It feels different than just like grabbing one at Publix.

[B]

Even though the ones at Publix are kind of nice and all of those Pumpkins are like 10 out of 10 and they're cheaper pumpkin patches. You got kind of slim pickings. But have you heard about giant pumpkins? Like people who grow for the world records? Yes.

[C]

Insane.

[B]

It's such a lucrative business from what I'm hearing. So like giant pumpkins are their own separate breed from normal pumpkins. Okay. So there are people who specialize in growing the giant pumpkin. They get a bunch of pumpkins that are giant pumpkins going. And then once one is like the biggest, they kill off all the other.

[C]

And they let the nutrients flow to one.

[B]

On getting that pumpkin as large it can go and it goes over like 2000 pounds. Like it's they can get as big. Yeah, 2500 pounds of a giant pumpkin.

[C]

The way buying it though.

[B]

Well, listen to this. So besides just competing in contests and trying to win the prize money, some people will also carve them out and turn them into. Regatta is basically these mini boats and swim with them. But once. Once you have a giant pumpkin that is a prize winning pumpkin, you then can sell the seeds of that pumpkin for guess how much one seed is. Oh, it's like giant pumpkin.

[C]

It's like horse breeding.

[B]

That's the regard of some people who grow their giant pumpkins. Enter a race to swim with pumpkins.

[C]

And they're called regatta.

[B]

Yeah, like a regatta. Isn't like a regatta like a form of like a canoe?

[C]

That's Mariah's favorite cheese.

[B]

Well, ricotta.

[C]

No, but with the Italian, it's Rigotta.

[B]

But guess how much a seed is worth from a giant pumpkin.

[C]

150 bucks more.

[B]

300 bucks more. 500 bucks more.

[C]

$1,000 for a seed.

[B]

A little lower.

[C]

750.

[B]

Higher.

[C]

800.

[B]

Higher. 850.

[C]

850.

[B]

50 boys for a seed. For one seed. And guess how many seeds are in a pumpkin?

[D]

A lot.

[B]

A giant pumpkin. Even more. It is a cash cow. In giant pumpkins.

[C]

I might get into pumpkin breeding.

[B]

Hot tip.

[C]

So what you really looked into it, huh?

[B]

Yes, hot tip. I learned from when you're growing a giant pumpkin is that because the pumpkin gets really, really big, it can start to crack. What you have to do is get a wet blanket basically, or a wet towel and keep that covered over the pumpkin. As it grows, it maintains its moisture. It prevents any stretch marks. And that's that. That's the hack to get a big giant pumpkin.

[C]

I like the new thing where they're putting them in plastic boxes when they're like shaping them into faces.

[B]

Oh, you grow it.

[C]

Oh, you put it inside of like this shell.

[B]

Like a mold of someone's face, whatever.

[C]

And then it grows within that. You could do them with watermelon. You could do a p. Pumpkins. Look at that.

[B]

I never knew this. Yeah, I thought those were carved.

[D]

No.

[C]

Well, the people do carve them, but you can grow them in that thing and then it's just like easy to do at home.

[B]

I might get into that.

[C]

Look at that.

[B]

A geranal pumpkin. Is that a Gerardo pumpkin? Good for them. I hate the smell of pumpkins, though. I really do. Like, not a pumpkin candle, it's fine. But when you cut open a pumpkin and you smell that, I hate it.

[C]

It's A little throw upy.

[B]

Yeah, there's just something about it that's just. I don't.

[C]

I don't like pumpkin seeds either.

[B]

You don't even like roasted pumpkin seeds.

[C]

They're all right.

[B]

Bad. They're not a pepita. What is that?

[C]

Oh, pepita seeds. Those are the best.

[B]

What is a pepita? Like a papaya seed?

[C]

No, pizza. They're like. They're in like salads and stuff like that.

[B]

Okay. They kind of look like a. Oh.

[C]

They'Re from a papaya.

[B]

Okay, so it is a papaya seed.

[C]

Is it from papaya?

[E]

I. How do you spell papiza? Because this, the way I spelled it. It said. Did you mean papaya?

[C]

Do P, E, P, I, T, A?

[B]

Oh, yeah, dude. Okay, I've seen these. Pepita seeds. Pumpkin seeds. You like pumpkin seeds? You kidding me?

[D]

Oh my God.

[C]

Why are they so much smaller and they're different colors?

[B]

Wait, there's no way I like pepitas.

[D]

I cannot believe they're the same thing.

[B]

Oh, there's no way.

[E]

They're not exactly the same.

[B]

Okay.

[E]

Very closely related.

[C]

That's like being like, I don't like pistachios. I like the shelled. The shelled pistachio. Wow, that's really funny.

[E]

Oh, they are the same thing. Pupitas just don't have a shell.

[B]

Okay. Okay. So they're genetically modified pumpkin seeds.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

Do you guys have any Halloween plans?

[B]

We have parties. We have parties that have been rolling through the portable. It's just figuring out which party is worth going in.

[C]

Do you remember the Minecraft guy?

[B]

Yes. Who?

[D]

So every year I think he still throw those. Throws those parties. I just don't think we get the invite anymore.

[C]

I was going to say. Or we don't.

[D]

It's not we don't. We don't get the invite. Our friends don't get the invite anymore. Because usually a few friends get it and then it just like spreads to other friends.

[B]

Yeah, it's like those were the crazy founder of Minecraft. I don't even know who the guy is or what he looks like. He's like Gatsby when he throws the party.

[C]

It's intense.

[B]

You. No one ever knows where he is or who he is.

[D]

Oh, that's. I. Yeah, I've never seen him there. Well, there. Mind you, there are. There is like 3, 000 people at this party.

[B]

Oh, his name is Notch. Is it?

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

Notch. Yes.

[B]

It's the Notch house. Yes.

[D]

Yes. Notched.

[B]

Tackiest house ever. Well, it's not tacky. The whole thing Just looks like a hotel.

[D]

Well, yeah. I mean, it just says that I'm rich as Beverly Hills.

[C]

Pretty much rich.

[B]

Huge.

[E]

There goes the invite.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

I notch, I love your house. I've always been a big fan of nine nine nine Craft.

[C]

Minecraft. I play Minecraft. I love Minecraft.

[B]

Have you ever played Minecraft?

[C]

No. I don't get it.

[B]

It's hard.

[D]

It's my little brother, I. I used to see it all the time because my little brother watches other people play it.

[C]

So I asked one of my friends that does it and it's just building. Yeah, like you just like build things. And I was like, but it's all pixelated looking. But then he was trying to explain.

[D]

That was the charm of it though. It's like very pixelated.

[C]

I was like, is there like a story mode? Is there campaign? Can you play with other people or you just go into this, like you just. You build shit.

[B]

Yeah, I think there is some, like, campaign. Not campaigning, but like harvesting almost. You start off with a limited amount of money. You have to mine for resources. Build that. Zombies come out at night. You have to fight like the zombies. You have sheep, you raise sheep, you have chickens, you trade it.

[D]

But I don't like the zombies. The zombies to me make no sense. Overdone. Yeah. I feel like just wolves. Like, it has to like, like be real.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

Like why? Why zombies?

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Give like a natural predator in the environment.

[D]

Is there dragons in the sky?

[B]

Good question. I don't know.

[C]

Could be.

[E]

There's one.

[B]

There's one.

[D]

There's one dragon.

[E]

It's called the Ender dragon.

[C]

See?

[D]

Wow. Okay. All right, well, if you're gonna have one fiction, you have to have like all fictions in it. But. Yeah, that's. That's. I remember that one. That party we used to go to every year.

[C]

But they were crazy.

[D]

Yeah, they were wild. And dude, seeing everybody in costume like that. People went all out for those costumes.

[C]

Yeah. I just remember hearing like, how to throw that party every year. And I'm like, wait, how much?

[D]

How much does it cost?

[C]

It was like one to 1.5 million.

[B]

Oh, boy.

[C]

Dude, everything in the house is completely custom. Like, do you remember going downstairs and it was like a radioactive, like, basement thing with like.

[D]

Yes.

[C]

Crazy.

[D]

Do you remember, like the cult room that he had? It was in the middle. It looked like a.

[B]

Yes, yes.

[D]

It's not cold. That's a bad word.

[B]

It's a very, like, pagan witch.

[D]

It was like a pagan witch room.

[B]

Oh, yes, yes, yes.

[D]

I don't know I say cold.

[B]

It is.

[D]

I think it's like.

[B]

Yeah, it's culty.

[D]

It was culty.

[B]

Witchy. All of that. Yeah.

[D]

That looked. I remember seeing down, like. And then all the guys in, like, the black hoods, like, yeah, a candle. I'm like, oh, this is scary. Oh, he's into some freaky shit.

[B]

Yeah. And then I remember, like, his pool, he, like, turned it into, like, a swamp almost. There was, like. I don't like gators in it.

[C]

And there was the boat. He had, like, a full shipwreck.

[B]

Yes.

[D]

It looked like. It looked like. What's that? Rainforest Cafe into the little water section. It kind of looked like that. I'm like, oh, damn. Oh, yes. Yeah, that's.

[B]

Wow.

[D]

Where'd you find this?

[E]

I guess the people that put it on, like, the production studio.

[D]

Of course, they took pictures. Yeah. So Jared's gonna show you guys pictures. Look. Oh, yeah. I remember this room that. Yeah.

[C]

Do you remember the one year where you walked up and it was, like, full, like, military?

[D]

Yes. That was. That was like, three years ago. Four years ago.

[E]

Was this the cult thing you're talking about?

[D]

Yes.

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[D]

That was crazy. I was like, darryl, remember the one year we. We got. We drove a boat.

[C]

Wait, no.

[D]

Remember the boat?

[C]

Oh, the boat car.

[D]

The boat car.

[C]

Yes.

[D]

Literally driving. We drove a full boat car to. To this party.

[B]

And it.

[D]

I felt like it was like Krabby Pat.

[C]

Ms.

[D]

Puff and Mrs. Puff's Boating School.

[C]

Yes.

[B]

Oh, yes, yes. Yes.

[D]

That was a yacht.

[C]

And who had to drive the boat?

[D]

You had to drive the boat.

[C]

I had to drive the boat.

[D]

Is that the X Men?

[E]

No, this is. It looks like. Kind of like an alien.

[D]

Yes. Oh, no, we didn't get invited to this one, Heath.

[C]

I kind of remember it.

[D]

You remember this one? I don't know that.

[C]

I don't remember.

[D]

No, There was no alien. No, we didn't go to this one.

[C]

No. That looks fun.

[D]

Damn.

[B]

He needs more bathrooms in that house, though.

[D]

Yes.

[B]

I remember waiting in line forever.

[D]

Yeah, that line gets lost.

[B]

Many people just get some bathrooms then.

[D]

Outside, and that is so true. It's like, why are you, like. Or a porta Potty? Or, like, events happen all the time. The outside, like, bathroom thing. You have to. It's. It's. It's all right.

[B]

I mean, if you're hosted or.

[D]

You know.

[B]

What?

[D]

Like, you know, next time I go to a party like that and the line is over 20 people, I'm pissing on the floor.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Well, do you wear Depends out to parties? Baseball Games, concerts, People are doing that. Yeah.

[B]

Oh, man.

[D]

Or if they're in the middle, like those festivals. Now, these people. These kids are. These kids are wearing diapers because they want to hit the front, like, at like, 2pm for a 8pm slot. Or headliner.

[C]

Yeah. People go into the ball drop. They interview them all the time. They're like, yeah, I'm wearing diapers.

[B]

I would. I don't think.

[C]

That's not how I would start my year.

[B]

But I am curious enough to put on a pair of Depends, take a.

[D]

Piss and see how it feels.

[B]

And see how it feels. Like, does it really feel like nothing? Does it so absorbent where it's just like. No, I'm good. It's just like, a little damp and wet down there. But you're still, like, functional.

[D]

Exactly. And not only piss. I want to piss and.

[B]

Oh, at the same time.

[D]

And then I want to, like, be there and. And see how long it takes to smell it.

[C]

Right, right. Are they odor absorbing?

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Like.

[D]

Like, how well does it work if. Right now, are you gonna smell it right, you know, like. Like, how long into the podcast.

[B]

I bet it's pretty like. Like, sealant on it.

[D]

Would you want to change me?

[B]

No.

[D]

Are you putting me on a changing table right here? Are you. Are you cleaning me up?

[B]

Take you to the koala.

[D]

Care.

[B]

You get on.

[D]

That's like a good. That's like a good show challenge. Like, it's like, must change. Must change and clean each other for a challenge.

[C]

Oh, like a Fear factor.

[D]

Oh, God.

[C]

The next chapter.

[D]

Now when I watch a Fear Factor, I'm like, some of those stunts were like, like, unacceptable. And also, like, there's. Some of them are super easy. It was like, oh, that's fucking easy. But some of them were just like, this would never be allowed today.

[C]

I definitely wouldn't have done half of them.

[D]

They did have a season where it was influencers.

[C]

Yes. I remember.

[B]

Didn't key in and J.C. do it?

[D]

Yeah, yeah. No, it was J.C. and Dom.

[B]

Oh, my gosh.

[D]

Yeah. I was so jealous. I saw him like, damn, they're gonna be. They're so famous.

[B]

Remember one time they were eating, like, these spiders that had, like, pinchers on them, and, like, people were eating the spiders, and it was like, pinching their face.

[C]

Oh, my God.

[B]

Absolutely not.

[D]

Oh, my God.

[B]

Eating any, like, living bug alive is, like. Like, that kind of crosses the line. Living bug, like, I wouldn't eat. I could.

[D]

You're saying dead bug is. You think more is allowed? Not a live bug.

[B]

I don't know. There's just. Like, I could. I could eat a dead bug. Like, I've ate crickets before. I've ate. Like.

[D]

What does it taste like?

[B]

Not bad.

[C]

Kind of airy, crispy.

[B]

Yeah, it's almost like air fryer.

[C]

Like, popper, honestly. What? It's like, it's. It's not bad until you start thinking about it when it's in your mouth.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

And then you start, like, realizing what you're eating, and then it kind of grosses you out.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

But, like, if you were digging in a bag of popcorn at a movie theater and you hit it, you wouldn't think twice.

[D]

Got it.

[C]

Like, if it's dark and you're just sitting there popping them.

[D]

You know, that's what I think about pistachios. It's like, you always get that one. It's like, oh, that sweetness to it. Oh, that's different. No, but there's some of those. Some pistachios, man, they. You feel like you just died. Like, you just died. You ate, like, a rotten corpse pretty bad. It's like the Bedazzled beans, or what is it called? The Bedazzled bean. Boozled, man. It's like.

[C]

Yeah, it's like that one Shishito pepper.

[D]

Like, that's. That's. That's too much.

[B]

Oh, yeah. Being covered in bees.

[D]

No, that's. That's a song. And that's. Oh, that's scorpions. That's not even bees.

[B]

Hell no.

[D]

Do scorpions, like, immediately, like, pinch you or, like, does it. Like, what's the.

[B]

They have to be, like, agitated. And, like, their stinger will, like, sting you if they feel agitated. Same thing with, like, a bee as well.

[C]

Isn't it crazy?

[D]

They got feelings like, us. Like, some of them, like, get annoyed quick. Like, some of them are just, like, chill. They're like, yeah, yeah, if I touch me, yeah, you can pick me up. Like a chill scorpion. There's chill scorpions out there. They're just like, all right, yeah, I'm cool. I don't care what you gotta do. Imagine having these big benches, but you're just like, I'm not gonna use them. I would never hurt you.

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[D]

That's a good costume. Yeah, Full thing, like, go all out.

[B]

Ooh, Zane, I think you're on this one.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

And people be like, why Scorpio? Like, because I'm a Scorpio. Be like, yes. Okay.

[C]

That's right.

[D]

All right.

[C]

Okay.

[B]

Makes sense.

[C]

All right. It's kind of cool. It's kind of.

[D]

Oh, my God.

[C]

I was that guy for. For Halloween one year.

[B]

Oh, wait.

[D]

When your son says that he wants to be Scorpion, but you give him the actual scorpion.

[C]

Wait, who. Who is. Because I was that guy.

[B]

Ninja Turtles. Yeah.

[D]

He's from Mortal Kombat.

[B]

Oh, Mortal Kombat. You're right.

[D]

I love that game. I owned every single one.

[C]

Click that one right there. That's the costume I had.

[D]

Oh, you had the cheap.

[C]

Yeah, I had one like that.

[D]

I like the ice one. What's his name?

[E]

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[D]

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[E]

Damn.

[D]

Yes.

[B]

What was the world of Mortal Kombat? Were they ninjas representing countries and just.

[C]

I don't think I ever saw it. And I. I'm so confused why I picked that out as a kid. Maybe I just thought it was cool.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

I don't think there was, like, any story. I think it was a video game. Right. And then they tried to make it a movie, and they're like, all right, what are we gonna do?

[B]

Work?

[D]

And I just don't think it ever really made sense. Because it was just a video game. There was like. No, because it wasn't like, a comic book or anything, right?

[E]

I don't think so.

[D]

It was just, like, a game.

[B]

So the series takes place in a fictional universe consisting of numerous realms according to in game backstories created by elder gods and ancient ethereal pantheon of almighty eternal prenatural beings. Okay, okay, I get it.

[C]

Dude. Ninjas are dope.

[B]

Oh, dude. To be a ninja.

[C]

Have you. Have you been seeing that thing about ninjas? How they walk to be quiet, and everybody's trying to do the trend?

[B]

No tiptoeing.

[D]

Yeah. What?

[C]

So apparently the thing is, ninjas would put their hand out so they wouldn't break leaves. So they would put their hand like this, their fingertips, and then they step through on their hand, and then their next hand goes out, and then they step their other leg through.

[D]

They're like, through their hand?

[C]

Yeah. You would be like, crouch down and you go like this. And you step on each hand as you're. It's. Everybody's doing it right now. It's the new thing like that.

[D]

Wait, and what is this?

[B]

And this kind of muffles so you can.

[C]

So you can, like, sneak up on people and be quiet. I don't know. That's what they're saying.

[B]

I believe it.

[C]

I don't know if they interviewed a ninja to, like, ask him what he did.

[D]

One ninja.

[C]

But that's the thing.

[D]

They still got ninjas, right?

[C]

Yeah. See, this is. This is the ninja walk.

[B]

Oh, I'm gonna be doing this tonight.

[C]

He's picking up on Patricia. Hey, baby.

[D]

I've never seen this. Even in, like, gameplay, I've never seen this.

[C]

It keeps their weight spread out.

[B]

It's coming back. Means they can walk over twigs without the ninjas, man. It's their weapons that I was always a little questionable about because, like, the ninja stars, once you run out, you gotta get it back.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

I'm like, where are all your stars?

[D]

Exactly.

[C]

And are they clinking around? Are they making sound? Or are they in, like, a nice little sheet?

[B]

Yeah, your side, like.

[D]

Oh, but I mean, ninjas carry swords. They got swords, okay.

[B]

Yeah, they do have swords.

[D]

Yeah, they have, like, those. And those samurai stars, they're the sharpest in the game.

[B]

And nunchucks. Dumb chucks. Is it numb or none?

[D]

None. Nunchucks.

[B]

Nunchucks.

[D]

Yeah, sorry. I play ninja gator, so. I know all the time. I know my incident. My incendiary. My incendiary, they used to have, like, the. The stars, but it had, like, a bomb attached to it. So they go. Yeah, what else did they have? Yeah, they had all that. Look at that.

[C]

Okay, now, if you were a ninja, what's your go to? Like, what's your. Oh, you get to pick two things off this list right here. What are you taking?

[B]

Not a bow staff. Not the bow staff, no.

[D]

It's probably the wakazaki, the wakazashi. Because it's a medium sword. I don't want that long. I know I'm gonna cut my finger off. And then I can't have anything too short because, you know, I'm not gonna get any work done with that. So like, a medium size sword I think is perfect because I could carry that, I could run with it.

[B]

I kind of like the kusi riri gama. Okay, that one, it looks like a chain with a knife because, like, you could kind of wrap that around someone's legs, get them a little down on the ground, and then use the Blade.

[C]

All right, so this is what I'm going for. The kyo Kyoketsu shoogi.

[B]

Oh, boy. Yeah. Like the rope one with, like, the knife at the end.

[C]

So you throw it, and then you could retrieve it.

[B]

But you got to go through a lot of org.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Because it's got to be like, cover your eyes.

[D]

You know, once you throw it, if you miss them, you're. What. What's.

[C]

What's happening? My thought process is I got that for some distance, right?

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

Like, I can hit somebody across a room. And then I'm also going with.

[D]

No, you can't get. You can't get more than 1.

[C]

The whole point.

[D]

2.

[C]

And then the ninjato sword. That's straight right there. Yes, that's me. So that's my close quarter combat.

[D]

I would. I'm gonna do a shuriken. I'm gonna do one of the stars.

[B]

Okay.

[D]

And then I'm gonna do a knife. I get both.

[B]

Good luck.

[D]

Unlimited. I want unlimited shurikens.

[B]

Did you ever watch Three Ninjas? Yes. Yeah. Rocky loves Emily.

[D]

Well, he loves Emily.

[B]

Rocky, Colton, Tum Tum. Three brothers. They had this Japanese grandfather. Yeah, that was a classic ninja.

[D]

So good.

[B]

O movie. Three Ninjas One, Three Ninjas Kickback. Three Ninjas. Magic Mountain. Or the one with Hulk Hogan.

[D]

Yes. Oh, my God. Yes.

[B]

Those were great.

[C]

Click, click them. Let me see.

[B]

They changed their identities in summer. It's like they changed the kids. Three Ninjas Kickback.

[C]

Was JTT in that?

[B]

Jtt Who?

[C]

Jonathan Taylor Thomas?

[B]

No, Jonathan Taylor Thomas.

[D]

Was JT coming?

[B]

Any of the Three ninjas, though. They did look like that them.

[C]

You ever work ninja?

[B]

Oh, yeah. With Chris Farley? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[C]

So stupid. Rest in peace.

[E]

Big Easy. Big man.

[D]

Why this is a big boy.

[E]

Did I tell you guys, I almost. I. I thought I was going to get robbed yesterday. Like, yesterday morning, right outside of the studio, what came? Drop dropped some stuff off at the front door. And then I was moving my car because they were filming. And then as I was walking back to the office, saw a guy probably like 20, 30ft in front of me on a. Just like riding a bike on the sidewalk. And then as he was getting closer, he pulls a gun out of his waistband.

[B]

What?

[E]

And I was like, oh, fuck. Honestly, I was just like, would not.

[C]

Have been my bummer.

[E]

I was just like, I really don't want to get robbed right now because I was still setting up everything for Sal, and. And he, like, he looks at it, kind of like pats his thigh with it, and then puts it in his like front waistband and then keeps on riding past me. What? But for about 10 seconds of him coming towards me, I like, I think my heart stopped.

[D]

I bet his gun was out the whole time when he was coming towards you.

[E]

Yeah. And then he just put it in his front waistband and kept on.

[B]

Right.

[C]

Did you freeze? Were you just like stuck standing there? Just like.

[E]

No, I kept on walking.

[B]

Did he see you?

[E]

I think so. I mean, I like we passed each other like a couple inches from each other on, on the sidewalk, but it was like right outside. I was like.

[C]

When he went by, were you like.

[E]

I, I. A little bit. I was just like, I kind of tensed up a little bit and I was like, I just have to make it around this corner. And then I'm good.

[D]

Oh my God. Now I would have. I definitely like the way I would. I would pretend I didn't see it because I feel like if you pretend you didn't see it, you're not a threat.

[B]

That.

[E]

And that's, that's kind of what I did. Like, I didn't say anything. I didn't try to like make a face or anything. I just like try to stare straight. Well, like side eye.

[C]

Cool.

[E]

Yeah.

[D]

But in reality. Oh my God.

[B]

Scream.

[D]

Oh my God, he's got a gun.

[C]

91 1. What's your emergency? Damn.

[B]

Terrifying.

[C]

Well, we're glad you're okay because if you would have died, we would had to fire you for not being ready for the episode. Wow.

[D]

Oh my God. I'm surprised you didn't tell us that when we filmed.

[E]

That's crazy. And the crazy thing is I completely forgot.

[D]

I would have been thinking about that all fucking day.

[E]

No, I came in, I told like a couple people that were like just in the front room right there. I was like, oh my God, this guy had a gun out there. And then I just got so wrapped up in preparing for Sal that I completely forgot to tell you guys.

[C]

My God.

[B]

Shit.

[D]

It could. What if it's like a fake gun? He just likes to like scare people walking by.

[E]

It looks, looked it.

[D]

Maybe he was scared of you. And he was like, I need to show my dominance right now in case this guy wants that.

[C]

Yeah, he was just like letting people know, like, hey, it's like a little pistol.

[B]

Just like a little handgun.

[E]

I mean it like it wasn't small. Like it wasn't like one of those ones that could like fit in a lady's purse, you know, but it wasn't like a Desert Eagle. It was feel like it was just A regular Glock.

[B]

Just a regular compact concealed carry.

[E]

Yeah.

[C]

Okay.

[D]

And he just.

[E]

He pulled it out of the side waistband, checked it, patted it on his thigh.

[C]

But what was he checking if. What do you, like.

[B]

What if he just, like, unloaded. Check the bullets. I was like, all right, yeah. What if he was like.

[D]

What if he, like, committed, like, did something, like, just five minutes after he saw you?

[C]

Or he was getting ready to. You know, he's. He's just making sure.

[E]

Yeah.

[D]

Jared, you're a witness that you saw. You saw him.

[C]

Could you point him out in a lineup?

[D]

Nope.

[B]

Maybe check that citizen app. Maybe something happened we don't know even know about.

[D]

Oh, yeah, you should check it. I'm good at some. I'm good. I don't want to be a part of that.

[C]

He's just riding by. Are you, Jared?

[E]

You know. You know what the. The original saying on, like, the quarter was? And this is. This will tie into it.

[B]

In God we trust.

[C]

No, it's before. In God we trust. Before it's something really weird. Like, you're like, why?

[E]

Kind of. It's, like, weird to have on a. A month on it, like a piece of currency. But it's. It's kind of like how I like to live my life a little bit, you know?

[C]

What is it again?

[E]

It says, mind your business.

[C]

That's right.

[B]

The quarter said that. Yeah. Mind your business.

[D]

What do you mean, the quarter?

[C]

Like, on coins before it says, in God we trust? It used to say.

[D]

Oh, it used to say that.

[C]

It used to say, mind your business.

[D]

I. I think they should bring that back.

[B]

Was that like. Like, phrase more used back then is like, oh, like, focus on creating something for yourself and, like, your own currency. Like, mind your. Like, your money's your business.

[D]

I think. I think it's always been like, mind your business. Like, focus on yourself, not others.

[B]

Right. But was it more tied to, like, financial. Like, oh, like an inspiring quote.

[C]

Like, mind your business. Go get. Go start your business.

[B]

Yes. That's how I'm seeing it. If they were putting it on coins and stuff off, like, it was more of like a. Yeah, I guess. Like, it's called the Fuji Farm. Mind your business.

[D]

Like, but to me, that, like, I feel like it's more mine M I, N E makes more sense to put on a quarter.

[B]

Oh, yeah. Mine your business. Yeah.

[D]

Instead of mind you. Because mind you is like, focus.

[C]

Okay. Minecraft. Okay.

[B]

Oh, a penny saved is, you know, like, a penny saved is a penny earned kind of thing.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah.

[E]

Benjamin Franklin designed this first okay. Ben in 1787.

[D]

That's how they put him on the 100 bill.

[B]

Ben was just full of ideas himself.

[E]

Yes.

[B]

He was just like, let's do this. I'm thinking a redesign. He also wanted the.

[C]

He stole everything from Tesla.

[B]

Everything. What are we talking about?

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

Who?

[D]

Him.

[C]

Ben Franklin.

[B]

No, what are you talking. What do you mean, Ben Franklin?

[C]

Sorry, scrap, scrap, scrap. I thought. I thought we were talking about Edison. Oh, oh, Edison was the inventor.

[D]

Yes.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Franklin, though, did go ahead experiment with lightning as a kid. That's like with the key on the. The kite and stuff. But he didn't like, invent electricity. But also, Thomas Edison, I think, was behind proposing what could have been our mascot for the United States. What is our mascot?

[C]

Eagle.

[B]

The eagle. I think it was very close to being a turkey.

[C]

It was.

[D]

Wow.

[B]

And I think Ben Franklin was behind that as well. He also known to be a little bit of a playboy as well.

[D]

Okay.

[C]

Mr. Franklin.

[B]

He had some partners. Yeah, he loved the ladies. Ben Franklin.

[D]

Quite a few.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

He was low key. Low key. Gave like Britney Broski in that picture. Did he not?

[B]

What? It's a myth. Have we talked about this before? Shit. The story about Benjamin Franklin wanting the national bird to be a turkey is a myth. The false story began due to a letter Franklin wrote to his daughter criticizing the original eagle design for the great seal, saying that it looks more like a turkey.

[D]

And you know what? Who said it was a myth? You know, somebody that wasn't there, period. You know what I mean? I am. I'm so sick of these, like, oh, we got a fact check. He's like, who the fuck? Who fucking knows?

[C]

You don't know if you weren't there.

[D]

How the fuck are you supposed to know? Okay, let us have fun with this myth he used.

[B]

So basically he was like one. The eagle looks like a turkey and felt. A bald eagle is a bad moral character. He does not get his living. Honestly. He is too lazy to fish for himself.

[D]

Okay, I'm sorry, did Ben write this down in his personal diary?

[B]

He wrote. No, he wrote it to his daughter.

[D]

Okay, all right.

[E]

You see?

[C]

Okay.

[D]

All right. And that's what a fact checking is. I want.

[C]

And this is why we need to implement it.

[D]

I want the source.

[B]

And then. But he wrote that in comparison to the bald eagle, the turkey is a much more respectable bird and withal true to original native of America. And he is basa. He is besides and silly. A bird of courage. So he wasn't like, let's make it a turkey, but A turkey would be a better one. Yeah, yeah, that's true. A turkey.

[D]

The thing is that we talk more about turkeys than eagles, so I think it should have been a turkey.

[B]

I think so. But.

[C]

But we also eat turkeys. Imagine eating bald eagle or our bird. Our bird would be a little.

[D]

Yeah, I guess.

[B]

Just wouldn't, like, look that badass. On all the Americana stuff we put.

[D]

I just, I just, I just wish we saw them more. We just don't. I don't see enough eagles for it to be like my country's bird.

[C]

But that's what makes it so special.

[D]

Where you're like, when you see it, you're like, yeah, turkeys are ugly as actually. Look at that.

[B]

Nasty. Ew.

[D]

Yeah, dude, turkeys are so ugly, bro. Like, literally ugliest animal I've ever seen.

[C]

And they have ugly legs.

[D]

Honestly, I'm glad we eat them. Get them out of here. You know, even PETA's like, you can kill them. Peter's like, we don't need them.

[C]

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[D]

Chickens are cute chickens. I look at chickens, I'm like, I think twice before eating them. I'm like, oh, you taste good. But turkey is like, ew, put it, get in my mouth.

[B]

That's why I can't do like chicken wings that much.

[C]

Or like, why the, the veins and the grizzle?

[B]

Because then you're like, you have eight chicken wings and you're like, like, that was like four chickens, like, wings. Like, I'd rather boneless, boneless chicken wings. It's like, okay, that's like a cut up chicken breast into like little chicken nugget type thing.

[D]

Are you sure though? You could be eating eight different birds still. No, no, no.

[C]

You get so much more nuggets out of a breast.

[B]

Right, Exactly.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

So like, for me, I'm like, okay, I'm not like using that many chickens, but just going through like all those sticks, it's just like, you're like, looking.

[C]

Back, I would go to like all you can eat wing night. Yeah, just down like 40 wings.

[D]

Oh, man. We probably look like monsters to these.

[B]

Chickens, but I won't say no to them if they're on a platter at a party. Like, I'll go for the chicken wings, but I'm not gonna order them for myself.

[D]

You know, I understand PETA, because imagine you were sitting in a pen and you saw another human like sucking down a leg bone. A human. Like, you'd be like, oh, that, that is terrible. That's what chickens deal with.

[C]

And I'm tired of the lies. I'm tired of the whole cage free, like all this stuff.

[D]

Oh, yeah, I, yeah. Insane grass fret, grass fed feta, grass once.

[C]

Yeah, it has to be grass finished.

[B]

Yeah. They need to crack down on that.

[D]

And they never will because you're allowed to lie.

[B]

But I've seen videos of some chickens that are like constantly moving. They are cage free and they are Roaming on like.

[C]

No, they're just being a big ass barn type.

[B]

But the barn moves, moves too. So like it's like a moving barn. So they keep grazing more land as they're moving around. So they're moving. They're. Cause they're not confined to a cage. I'm a little okay with that.

[C]

That's like me putting Dean in a cage in the car and being like, cage free. Because he's worth driving around.

[D]

No, because we're moving. Oh, no, he had looked. He gets to move.

[C]

He gets to see stuff.

[D]

No, I think, I think it's all best bad. I think it's all bad no matter what the it says on there.

[B]

Again, if you think it's bad, I would never.

[D]

Oh, no, I love my chicken legs. I. I'll never go vegan. I think vegan is absolutely repulsive.

[B]

I'd go vegan if I had like the money to like. Like, if I had money. What do you mean? Well, like, if I had a chef every day who could make me what I would want. Vegan meals, Good vegan meals. And it's accessible. Like, that's what's tough about being a vegan is like, there's just not that many, like, vegan options.

[C]

When I did it, I was the shittiest Vegan.

[B]

Vegan.

[D]

You're a pescatarian.

[C]

I gained so much weight, so I did pescatarian for a while, but then I was like, you know what? I'm going like, full vegetarian vegan, bro. There's so much you can't eat and then you just start finding junk.

[B]

Yeah, that.

[C]

The amount of bars I was eating just like really unhealthy stuff. I was like, there's no way that this is better for me right now because I was doing it like the lazy way. Right?

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

Like I wasn't eating raw vegetables and stuff like that.

[B]

Exactly. I would want it just to be like, like, you know what I do with, though?

[C]

Vegan cheese.

[B]

Oh, yeah. Vegan cheese does taste good.

[D]

Oh, that. Remember that place down on Ventura? They made good, like pizza. It was like peanut pizza they made out of cashew.

[C]

Cashew.

[D]

You know what? This, surprisingly, it doesn't taste that bad.

[B]

But I don't like cauliflower. Buffalo wings.

[D]

Ew. Anything cauliflower is.

[C]

You don't like cauliflower? Like boneless wing bites?

[B]

No. Because what are we doing?

[C]

No, if you get them from Cheesecake.

[B]

Factory, I mean, they do taste good, but it's just like. But I'm just eating cauliflower. I'd rather have like some like tofu type like, meat that really looks and tastes like chicken. Have you been cauliflower?

[D]

Have you all ever had like cauliflower crust pizza?

[C]

Oh, yes, yes.

[D]

You like that?

[C]

It's. It's good for what it is.

[D]

Oh, my God. I remember eating it once. I'm like, oh, this tastes like ass. No bueno.

[C]

I remember. I remember cooking a cauliflower steak.

[D]

Oh, no. How's that even a thing?

[C]

You cut it and then you like. I think, I think I sous vide it and then pan fried it.

[D]

How do you get like the, the, the texture of a.

[C]

It wasn't that.

[D]

Oh, that's not co. That's cauliflower. What do you think? Cauliflower. That's crazy.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

That is just a lie.

[C]

That's just cauliflower bread.

[B]

It's sliced. You just ate like just a bunch of veggies. It's not that, that film.

[D]

I just, I hate, I hate when we were like, it's. No, it's chicken. It's like, don't say it's chicken. It's not chicken. Or there they put like C H I K E. No, you can't use the word. You can't use the word if you don't want to be it. Yeah, yeah. I'm surprised PETA isn't cracking down on that. Like vegan. That's like using the word chicken or like faking the, like C H I K E N for like, like, what.

[C]

Are they, like the Morning Star bar or the corn?

[D]

Yeah, don't use our, don't use our words. Use your own words. Come up with your own words.

[C]

Yeah, they're all just like vegetarian options of the meat.

[B]

That's a good.

[C]

And it tastes just like chicken. Why would you want it to taste like chicken?

[D]

Yeah, right.

[B]

You're promoting the idea of still eating the chicken.

[D]

Exactly.

[B]

I guess.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

I think it's, I think it's for.

[B]

It's a really silly argument though, if you're making that your whole mission every day to go around to just like town halls and board meetings, just spreading the message to stop using.

[C]

I think it's introductory.

[B]

Just make it chicken flavored. Can you say that?

[C]

They don't.

[D]

But I think that's weird.

[B]

But I mean, like, that's weird. Noodle packets. They like chicken flavored, fish flavored.

[D]

I think if you're going to go vegan, you shouldn't have anything chicken flavored. That's fucking weird. Oh, I love chicken flavor. But I can't touch A chicken?

[B]

Why?

[D]

It's like, imagine, oh, I want human flavored. But no, we can't eat humans. It's like, the fact that you even want human flavored is weird.

[B]

I think you might be a vegan, Zane.

[C]

I think this is his realization.

[D]

No, I love chicken. I don't feel bad at all. Eating a piece of chicken. Yeah, kill the.

[C]

Off with his head. And then there's like, the people that think it's okay to eat fish. Okay, now we pick and choose.

[B]

Yeah, because we're overstating. There's not that many fish there left in the ocean too.

[D]

And fish are cute as. Have you seen the.

[B]

Stories with, like, Tick Tock? You could watch someone, like, completely clean a fish, no problem. But it's like, you can't watch slaughter videos like on Tick Tock. You can't see how the sausage is made on Tik Tok, but we can watch just slaughter, like, fish just being chopped up. Sushi people, they don't mind holding the.

[D]

Fish up in the air and let having it lose breath, having it suffer out of water. If you don't mind that.

[B]

It's weird where we draw the lines with certain animals too. Like, it's. It's frowned upon. You can't eat dolphin. Like, no way.

[D]

And I bet you dolphin good.

[C]

No. I've always thought manatee would be delicious.

[B]

Manatee, so cruel.

[D]

But imagine cooking it whole. Cooking a whole minute.

[C]

You know that kale is filet Me. Yeah, boy. Think about it. They're. They're not predators. They're, like, slow, you know. That's not like a lean, muscly type. You're just like. It is butter.

[D]

Yes. And you know, it's like full organic, you know, it's not like, injected with hormones.

[C]

Oh, boy.

[B]

Oh, boy.

[E]

Damn.

[C]

I don't know that that is one. And I think that they say they're in danger because they know that.

[B]

Oh, look.

[D]

Manity steaks.

[B]

See, it looks like hillbilly vlog.

[E]

This is a crime.

[D]

Look at how that's a crime.

[B]

They're.

[E]

Yeah, they're illegal to eat anywhere in the world that they inhabit.

[C]

But you. You then you think, like, maybe it's illegal because they taste so good, they don't want us fishing them.

[D]

It is so crazy that some meats are like. Like, you know, some animals you can kill and eat and some animals you can't.

[B]

Like, there's a black market for types of meat.

[D]

That's wild.

[B]

It's crazy. There's people out there that like, I want bald eagle now. Or like, I want manatee steak now. You're privately eating it. Like, you can't really have friends over be like, hey, guys, manatee steak.

[D]

It's game night.

[B]

You're just privately eating this.

[C]

These wings are good. What are. Big ass eagle wing.

[D]

You just put in a big.

[B]

Oh, God. Different. Another topic we're getting.

[D]

Yeah, we're getting to. We're getting to risque. We're about to get into human meat. We keep going with this.

[C]

There's no way that's real.

[B]

AI is crazy with that. Sora 2 now.

[D]

Oh, with Jake Paul.

[B]

Oh, my gosh. The biggest victim, gay Jake Paul. It's. It's kind of like my favorite.

[D]

No, it's really good.

[B]

I watch all of them.

[D]

So at first I thought they were.

[C]

Like, why did they pick him?

[D]

Yeah, I thought they were allowed to do just any celebrity. It's just his just kept circulating. I'm like, oh, my God, that sucks that his just. Only his is going viral. And.

[B]

It looks so real good.

[C]

But then I found out he gave Sora permission to use his likeness.

[B]

Brilliant.

[C]

So that's why you can't use people that are alive unless they give likeness, which is why they're all dead. Celebrities that you see, it's always Michael Jackson. It's always poor Martin Luther King catching strings. Yeah.

[B]

Did you see John F. Kennedy where.

[D]

He'S like, it was jfk, Martin Luther King doing. Oh, no, I haven't seen that.

[B]

I saw one of JFK DJing. He's like, Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do to shake that ass. Oh, my gosh.

[C]

They're way too good.

[B]

It's.

[D]

It's. It's out of control. It's out of control. Like the Jake. The Jake Paul one. Do you think he knew that it was. They were gonna use him like this?

[C]

I don't think he realized it would be this big. But maybe it's good press.

[B]

Like, I mean, it's good publicity. I mean, it's just. You're getting yourself out there.

[D]

Do you think Jake Paul at first was annoyed and then he was just like, wait, I have to. Like, I have to not. I have to not be upset by it. I got to roll with it. What?

[B]

His number?

[D]

I don't have his number.

[C]

Oh, my favorite one, though, Bob Ross doing Twin Towers is.

[B]

Oh, my gosh. You got to be kidding me. Bob Ross painting the Twin Towers.

[D]

But it's like, it just.

[B]

It.

[D]

Like this.

[E]

It's.

[D]

It's. It's getting out of control.

[B]

I like that. There's watermarks on all the SO videos too, I think.

[D]

But not all of them. Not all. I think, like, like, oh my God.

[B]

Mr. Rogers and Bob Ross.

[C]

WWE smackdown. No, my favorite. Somebody took MLK and tweaked it to. To match with that one video. You ever have a dream where you think you. When you think you can do you? I. I have a dream when you think you. You think. And I lost it.

[D]

Oh my God.

[B]

My.

[C]

I was like. That was such a.

[D]

People coming up like with like whatever in their own imagination and making AI of it is like insane. It's really the spongebob one. You just see the Krabby Patty in the middle of the highway on a chase.

[B]

No, I know that there have been a bunch of. Now the animation part of it is even more crazy and alarming where people are doing crossovers with like Garfield and like Ash Ketchum and yeah. Family Guy episodes that have never happened in scenes like that. We're cooks. We are.

[D]

Yeah, we are. So.

[B]

But I'm curious though. How hard is it once you're in the SORA app to like generate to.

[C]

Make a prompt like that?

[B]

Have to be dense enough to like get exactly what you're going for to make it look very hyper realistic. Cuz prompts are everything.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

And if you've mastered and figured out a prompt like you're on to something, you almost want to gatekeep your own prompt. If you are like figuring out exactly exact. But then people download your video re upload the AI and go make something just like this.

[D]

And then they'll do it.

[B]

Yeah. So kind of maybe the prompt isn't that valuable, but it is crazy where it's at now.

[E]

Did you see.

[D]

Did you see the Epstein files AI board game?

[C]

What?

[B]

No. I saw a Fisher Price Epstein. Yes.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

Okay. Jared, can you pull.

[B]

You like Fisher Price toys. Yeah. It's like come to Epstein's island. It's like do like oh my God button. Release them. Release the Epstein files. It's a bunch of kids playing with just like a board game.

[C]

With the whistle files. They had the magnifying glass looking at the names.

[B]

I saw one that was like Fisher Price where like they had like a plane come into like an island and you have like the people and them talking at like Jeffrey Epstein's like pad insane.

[D]

And then it's like it's too detailed.

[B]

And it's also crazy with like Google's Gemini, which is their AI. Any picture, no matter like wherever it is like you can. It can figure out where the photo's taken, like, instantly.

[C]

Oh, really?

[B]

Yeah. Like, there was, like, a girl eating at a cafe in New York City, but just a blurry background kind of behind her. And you upload that in Google Gemini, it can say it's New York City, and then you go, okay, let's get more specific. And then it will tell you the exact intersection of where you're at. I mean, it would. It wouldn't be able to tell where we're at, like, here, but, like, it.

[D]

Can sense, like, it'll take, like, Google Earth into account and just like.

[B]

Yeah. So if you're posting, be careful what you're showing. If that's actively where you are, because it's pretty.

[D]

I mean, at this point, if. When you come in a crime, you just have to dispose of everything. You literally have to be naked when you're committing the crime. And you have to make sure there's no cameras on you. There's no cameras on the building. There's a camera. It's. It's.

[E]

There's.

[D]

It's impossible to get away with anything.

[B]

Did you see also the. One of it was, like, Batman chasing the Joker, and it's from, like, a helicopter. Like, you're watching, like, a runaway chasing him. They clearly did that. And, like, the Joker's, like, jumping over, like, a fence into a backyard. Batman's right behind.

[D]

But. But it looks.

[B]

It looks. And it looks so entertaining where I was like, damn, I could, like, watch that if you were watching, like, superheroes.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Looks like it's IRL fighting crime from, like, above. Love from a helicopter.

[D]

Wow.

[B]

It was pretty crazy.

[C]

Do you have to have a membership for Sora?

[B]

You have to have a friend invite. So someone you know.

[D]

Oh, wow.

[B]

Has it. You could take a ride. Like a friend. My brother has it. Pretty cool.

[C]

Has he been making stuff?

[B]

He hasn't sent me anything.

[D]

I would love to see what it looks like.

[B]

I can't. What the hell is this, bro? Didn't see it coming. Oh, it's JFK in the parade, like, vlogging himself. That's terrible.

[D]

The Jake Paul one. It's not like. And it's also. It's not some guy that's, like, there and then he's. And then he puts in Sora's like, turn me into Jake Paul.

[C]

It's like, it's creating.

[D]

It's just creating its own image. Wow. Because I. At first, when I saw the videos of Jake Paul, I was like, oh, this person kind of looks like Jake Paul and he's just like AI ing Jake Paul's like full face to make it look but I just can't believe that is a full like just AIs creating that entire video of him. That's so insane. I guess I think they gotta ban it's, it's too like it how? Like as fun as it is to watch you, they gotta ban this. It's too much. It's too far Facebook and I'm not being a boomer about it.

[B]

It's like bad when like a video that looks so questionably real then gets around to the rest of the world. Yeah. It could look like something that's really alarming. It could look like a full on murder, like a political attack and stuff that makes a whole other country think that that's actually happening in real life and causes like just mayhem and riots and all of it based on just misinformation getting around.

[D]

Exactly.

[B]

It's really freaky.

[C]

People were posting the, the old granny getting shot by the T shirt cannon like point blank. This old lady is just at like.

[D]

It looked real, dude. I, I, dude, I had to watch it a couple times and go like, oh, this is AI.

[C]

People are like, this is so messed up. This one right here.

[B]

Oh my God.

[D]

The, and the only part that doesn't look real is the guy's reaction shooting it because everything else looks pretty good.

[B]

And it's what's going, going to get crazier.

[C]

We were just talking, it's only good.

[D]

We were just talking about this two months ago, three months ago where we're saying like it's, it's getting really good really fast and it was not this good. It was nowhere near this good. When we were talking about a couple months ago. It's, we're getting like updates and like by, by weeks, like in two weeks it's already getting so much better where it looks like they spent three years updating it.

[C]

It, it's so dangerous.

[E]

Do you guys remember that the Will Smith AI video that it was how bad that was only two years ago.

[B]

Yeah, we watched that like here of like him eating spaghetti and stuff.

[D]

That was, that wasn't the, what we saw.

[B]

Yes, we watched.

[C]

That was the, that was the original.

[D]

This was the original. And we were freaking out about this. We were freaking out about. They were like this, this looks real.

[C]

It's almost like when you, when you were younger and you were playing video games and you thought it was so realistic and then you get older and you look back at like PlayStation 2, you're like, I cannot Believe I thought this was. That it wouldn't get better.

[D]

Jared, you're sure that was the video?

[B]

Yeah, yeah, that was that.

[D]

Remember we fucking.

[B]

We were just even typing in prompts for it to, like, show images of things we wanted to see. Like. Yeah, like. Oh, bring up, like, the cookie monster DJing or something, giving it, like, weird stuff like that. And it was showing us these distorted images, but we're like, that's pretty crazy.

[D]

Oh, my God. We're gonna. We're gonna have to have a whole segment on here. AI Video of the Week. Like the. The AI video that scares us the most every week.

[C]

It's so weird.

[B]

And even music as well. It's insane. Did you see someone, like, did an AI cover of $0.50 Mini Men and.

[C]

It was like, back in, like, the 50s.

[B]

Yeah, like a really cool mini man.

[C]

But it sounds.

[B]

Shot that man.

[C]

And it sounds good.

[B]

Oh, my gosh.

[D]

It's unbelievable. It's. Who's singing that?

[C]

They're. They're taking, like, rap songs but turning it into like a 50s, like, shoe bop type, kind of older, oldest reading, kind of just.

[E]

Wow.

[B]

And it's like. Oh, yeah, please hear this.

[C]

Listen. Grab your headphones.

[B]

This one, Listen. This one.

[C]

Oh, this is the other one I heard. Yes.

[B]

She turned it up in her headphones. Damn. Wow.

[E]

The crazy thing is, is, like, if somebody then filmed like a. Like a music, like an actual person that like, kind of fit that voice, I would never be able to tell. No, it's scary and cool at the same time because then you get to hear it in different genres. Like that.

[B]

Huh.

[D]

Do you can make trillions of more songs just by grabbing a song that's already exists and making. Make it into every genre? Any song. Take a Taylor Swift song and put it and make it a rap song. Sure, I'll do it and make it sound amazing.

[E]

Oh, somebody with the new album. Because the new album's got a lot of backlash. Somebody did say they're like, yo, if you think. If you. If you sing the. The lyrics, like, how MF Doom would have done it, it's actually pretty hard.

[D]

Mf, like the rapper.

[B]

He was kind of an underground, like, indie rapper who passed away. He wore a mask and stuff. Oh, MF Doom.

[D]

Oh, I've never.

[B]

You probably have heard some of his songs. Like, he had really good melodies and he doesn't.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

You're saying he doesn't make music anymore?

[B]

He died.

[D]

Oh, he died. Oh, yes.

[B]

Yeah. You could just like, make a song with AI even if you were an artist. You get the whole melody and all of that, and then you go, great, let's hit the booth. And now I'm gonna sing it. But we have just, like, done. Done. But that's such an unethical producer. 100.

[D]

But you know what? They're gonna do it because there's no way to prove that they didn't do that.

[B]

Sure. But that would be the biggest scandal ever if you found out that Jack Hansenoff was using AI to, like, hammer out.

[D]

You can't tell.

[C]

What's the difference, though, from back in the day when they would have everybody record live instruments and everybody's playing. And then I'm sure they were like, oh, you got these people who got a machine and they could push a button for a drum set or a guitar. That's true.

[B]

Point.

[C]

And they were probably like, yeah, but what we were doing was real. And this is just a machine. Making the me like is just the next step.

[D]

That's a very good example. That's. It's the same thing. I'm sure back then they'd be like, that's cheating what they make the beat out of AI.

[B]

But I think the lyrics, though, that's where, like, I just have issue with.

[C]

But then also, too, it's like, at.

[B]

Least the poetry should come from the depths of our minds and our souls, and that being part of reality.

[D]

And you know what? We. We all agree we're all on the same page. But you know, these artists, especially with how hard it is to write music, they're gonna be like, if there's an easier way to do this.

[B]

Now I'm like a rapper, rapper trying to just like, get a little street cred and freestyle. I would just go home and, like, instead of writing the damn raps, have AI spit out the raps, memorize them. Go just start down the block.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

All this. That AI. And then I'm the next biggest rapper.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

No one knows. And it's all my early street.

[D]

And you can't.

[B]

You can't.

[D]

If some. If someone takes your lyrics and go and put it in, AI is like, were these lyrics created by AI? They won't know that. Like, that's something you can't, like, prove, right? That something was created by AI because all you got to do is just literally just change it a little bit after A.I. yeah. Makes it. You know, these, like, cover albums or these albums, like, the. The art. The album art for all these. You know, 80% of them are all AI now.

[C]

Oh, like the full covers.

[B]

Yeah. That's why we need to be supporting artists.

[D]

I know.

[B]

Hire people.

[D]

But you know, it's really funny.

[E]

We're.

[D]

I. Where we're talking about this. Graphic designers are also using AI.

[B]

I know. That's most of them too. Yeah. Cuz like, you'll.

[D]

It's easy.

[B]

I love going on Etsy and like buying someone like design like a cool invite for something. They're just using AI.

[D]

You're like.

[E]

And.

[D]

And I'm sure they're charging you and making it seem like they. I'm sure a lot of them are doing that because it's like, it's there. It's like. And almost like if you want something done, you can just do it.

[C]

But they probably. They probably see it as like, yeah, this is the. I could do this if I wanted. I just don't want to spend 150 hours.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

And they're like, it's so.

[D]

And why not accept the payment of someone who's gonna pay me to do it?

[C]

I'm just tired of putting in my own order when I go to restaurants. That shit's got to stop.

[D]

How is that? Yeah. How do we have AI? How do we have all this AI shit and we still got to put our fucking order?

[C]

So stupid. I'll go into like a fast food joint and there'll be somebody behind the counter and I'll walk that hair. I'll walk up to order and they're like, no, you order over there on a screen. I don't get it. I'm sick of the corporate greed.

[D]

I will never forget. I will never forget our fucking coffee at the airport.

[C]

When so stupid.

[D]

That made me so goddamn angry.

[C]

And they love it.

[D]

Yeah, they. They love it. Sending your ass.

[C]

Send it back to the screen. And you know what pisses me off? I could easily be like, I want this. This. No ketchup. Add onion. But when I'm in the screen and I got to do the selections, it's just like, I could have told you faster and you could have like. And it's because they don't want to pay their workers. Mm. They want to. They want to be it. They want to get high.

[D]

One last.

[C]

The party ends tomorrow. Start paying people more.

[D]

I'm just like, in my head, I'm like here. Because I think it hasn't. Hasn't solved any of our problems yet. Right. Like, to me, like, for me, I don't think AIs really solved anything for me. Has made my life easier. But it is going to. It's going to. It's going to make our Lives easier one day. And we're going to be so thankful for it.

[C]

I just wonder. I'm going to have to come in and record. Yeah, we're going to.

[D]

Be time.

[C]

But what? It's better. It's funnier.

[D]

Yeah, I would be so much better.

[B]

Is it just me or is the AI one better than them? Bring back the AI guys.

[C]

Like, man, that episode was way funnier when they.

[B]

We do a live show finally and people are like, this is not.

[C]

That would. That would suck.

[D]

That's what, you know, you could put in. Have this podcaster Zayn be better.

[B]

I would like. I would like to see it. I feel like we have enough footage of us out there to like upload into an AI.

[D]

Oh, yeah, just.

[B]

Just see like a five minute clip if possible in the future if you ever want to like tinker around with it to see if there could be like.

[D]

But so I. I don't think Sora can use our faces, right, Cuz.

[B]

No.

[D]

Oh, but can you though? Can you. Can we be like we.

[C]

If we gave Sora permission.

[D]

Oh, you'd have to give him full permission. So they get like. Anybody can do anything with our faces.

[B]

It probably would look like the ones like, you see of like podcasts where it's like our mouths are moving and it sounds like us from all the times we've spoke, but it's not. Not totally realistic. But it's possible.

[D]

I can't wait to. But the podcast is gonna still keep going.

[C]

It's just crazy to think back though. Like, we thought like the deep fakes were crazy where they would like morph somebody's face onto somebody.

[D]

Yeah, that's pretty. I mean, that's pretty much what. Yeah, that is crazy.

[B]

We're just doing those like greeting card things. Yeah, we'd put everyone's like, face, everybody was an elf and stuff, dancing around.

[E]

Oh, speaking of AI, have you actually. Never mind. Let's say that for the unwind because it.

[B]

The.

[E]

The Tesla videos where people are teaching like, they put Grock into Teslas.

[C]

Oh, I heard about that.

[E]

And people are like teaching their Teslas how to swear and these Teslas go off.

[D]

Oh, like this is real. Like they're actually.

[E]

I think so.

[B]

They found like a loophole to get it to like, cuss and stuff.

[D]

Yeah, I'm getting rid of my Tesla if you can do that through. Nope. I'm going to get my gas car back now. While I'm driving. Dude, imagine some. Someone does some shit to your car to happen in the middle of your driving No, I don't know why.

[C]

When you said that, it just reminded me of that one clip of asking Siri to say something in French.

[D]

Yes, Matt, did you see that clip?

[C]

I love when people find.

[D]

It was like, I got attacked by a seal.

[B]

Okay.

[C]

Something random like that. Yeah. Hold on. A seal pushed me yesterday. In French. How do you say a seal pushed me yesterday in French?

[B]

In French. A seal pushed me yesterday is.

[D]

How does one get to that moment? Like, a seal had to have pushed somebody at one point.

[B]

Someone knew French and then knew English. And then, like, realize that if you translate it, I think probably, I think.

[D]

Somebody got attacked by a seal. Seal first.

[C]

It was. It was an AI video of a seal pushing something.

[E]

I'm so scared and so excited for the future.

[B]

Like.

[D]

Like this. This is so. I feel like I'm about to go up on stage. Like, that's the feeling it's giving me. Like, shit's gonna pop off in life.

[C]

All right, guys, well, that's it for the episode. We're gonna. We're gonna carry on into the unwind and keep watching these AI videos. Videos and stuff if you guys want to watch it. Patreon.com Zane and Heath keep these cameras rolling. You get an extended cut of every single episode. We also give you early access ad free. We do a bonus episode every month. We do a live Q A every month. Again, patreon.com Zayn and Heath.

[D]

I feel so, like. I feel like, like a church woman. Like, like someone. Someone at church that's like, just in the front row. She. She's. I don't know. It's just like. Yeah, you look. And I. I know what Todd feels like now. Just like, you just don't have to.

[C]

Worry about the hair.

[B]

It's just doing its thing.

[E]

Feels good.

[D]

All right, well, you can check out these episodes every Monday audio form and all podcast platforms. And every Tuesday video form on YouTube.com zayn and heath all right, guys, we'll.

[C]

See you in the unwind.

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