355. Da Beginning

It's a book about Sybil, and it's about a woman who had multiple personality disorder. He's like a knoller, right? When your desk is minimal, you really don't want any work on it. She really wants a cigarette and they won't let her have one. Do you have any idea I oh I s I see fr friends d do it and they did cold turkey? I'm here to be your a account uh bill a problem. And there's all different um uh that mine is gonna spoil alert. I can't tell if this is a bit or not. Oh no, as as you should. And I feel like I'm full on like I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. You guys look like you're having a lot of fun. It's like you want the problem is you you you we think you're gonna bring a gun to a knife fight, right?

And I'm not even saying like I like I'm not saying like, oh, this is who I am in my head and I'm like a psycho. But I isn't an important distinction also to say like 'cause then there's there's of course then we're hearing the voice already, but the people who are like, Well, this is all part of your dysmorphia, dysphoria, there's all these things and like your mental illness that causes you to want to go dress like a dog and you're like, Well, no, it's just that I read in the New York Times that this thing's gonna take your job and put your daughter in a well. But like it's when when those things don't work, okay, well, that's with something that's deeply integrated into the hardware and software of the Apple ecosystem.

If I what would you adjust your velocity, do you feel like to mine? And and we always end up right here having a conversation about how we start. Like look at my pens, they're all mold. Well no getting off energy drinks or uh no no um getting off anxiety medication, it immediately makes you anxious about trying to make it. It's like, oh let's go, it's fun. Man, I you're weak like H. It's like no, I just really want lost turn. Brassa fresa schnaggle brassa. It's how I I mean like there's just there's tons of stuff. And it's just like it's just you can tell it I don't know. Like just watching it. for each other. From Mima's birthday. And at first I'm like, oh, that's interesting, because there's a lot of stuff Meta's not been too great about.

Like this is how our cognitive biases work with familiarity and things like that. Uh double clicking the analytics. And that's that's really good. And you know, then they say something like, you know, farts or whatever. You're at a playground and I'm getting used to it. He was right. Or don't you realize like I'm not even trying to do it from that point of view. Sounds interesting. And to use Siri, there's all kinds of great things you can do with things and Siri, like crazy stuff. I don't think I'm gonna end up sticking with it, but I all of that, great, block out time, create a task in this area, all that kind of stuff. um Bucky where I'm just like winter soldier. What are you talking about?

It's like an old lady name, but it's a waitress. A user of magic, if you like. You don't sound like it. There's nothing to apologize for. No. come back, the food's not hot enough, they gotta go heat it up. I I'd say to myself, probably in different words, because, you know, it was nineteen seventy-five. It's very strange. fun. I I think uh you're a little behind the times. Was a video that Van Nice. I hear it. Hey y'all. Festering seed! That was in like every rectif for fifty episodes. Adam Driver's level of commitment to that sketch, the makeup. Ho oh my god and so he shall so much. in sketches. Yes, well, he told it enough anyway. C cr crush it right into dust, huh? I'll say the S word or something.

Were they reconciled or No, no, I I I I it's not that I didn't it's it's not just that I didn't like the movie, it's the way that I didn't like it was wrong. Oh. Uh, what we were talking about, my alarm almost went off. uh for being there and like you know you could potentially if it's my sequel or something you can unintentionally drop tables or something but that began with a variable it began with dollar sign It it was whatever predated car play or whatever was built i i in on any sort of digital um dax, I think that's what they're called. Beginning the beginning. Where it's like, you know, it's like a four-four beat, but it's pacata pakata paka ta paka ta paka-tap where it's three against four?

A drink and a brand of sticky tape, Mike Myers says. Uh Lombard rhythm. Um it sounds kinda like a reel or a uh or a a strath spay, maybe. Look at her goddamn face. Oh, I want a photo. And Julian Baker as Oh holy shit. Two two that comes straight to mind, blank check and flop house. Yeah, yeah. Mm-hmm. And I completely loved her uh her record. So don't get weird. Uh, you sent me some funny glasses that uh uh had apparently just sat there for a couple days because I didn't realize they were for me. What you need to know about these is they they're the form factor of eyeglasses or sunglasses. mm, you know, sixteen by nine or whatever portals and there are mirrors at forty five degrees that enable when you look the when your head is erect and looking forward, what you see is whatever's ninety degrees in front of you.

W one of those things that is probably very, very useful for folks for a certain accessibility reason. Silly. Well what I tried uh didn't fit, but uh putting these on on top of the um orange glasses that are uh supposed to, but I don't think they really do block the U V from blue lights. It's a jokey thing 'cause it's kind of a little bit like AR in the sense that you're seeing things. There's gonna be a backlash against AR. So do you remember that series of episodes for a while where whoever God bless them, whoever was episod uh episoding, whoever was editing our show was cutting it way too tight. Did it it's like a comedy bit to me. It's like here's the New York Times. I feel like such a fucking shill.

When somebody's like, oh man, you care about this thing, right? Sure you don't believe it now. No, that's why that happens there. was just because I am thinking about artificial intelligence so much, trying to understand the perspectives of um the the the moral pan I actually w what did you call it a moral moral hazard. and given them the best information about that, but they're still intentionally ignorant. But in any case, it's something where somebody's told you this is a thing that you should be concerned about and then you get concerned about it. I'm not even gonna say the part I wanna say, which is well, is there a p possibility that your kid is actually just depressed and it's not completely because of their phone?

I despise Lindsey Graham so much. The way the love that you have for each other on a children's playground shows me that like I I guess you're you're here You need those little alcoves and like there's stuff that you can do. I I I'm not trying to bust a gut here, but like I I know that there's more than one forum in this world that have really helped make somebody's week a little more manageable. be the top hat too. And jokes leaving the room, I think that you understand play more than most people I know who's going to be. Exactly. c close that uh parentheses. a bullet of slug, a magazine and a jacket. Did d anybody my age remember when your mom wouldn't let you listen to heavy metal? Isn't that a line?

Well, can can isn't it also possible that being safe means being certain? You got your you got your uh Captain Picard brooch that's out there shooting laser beams on your hand and it's capturing what you ask and all that kind of stuff and it's mismeasuring your almond proteins. And I'm just I I don't know what that looks like yet, but like my brain melts down. There's so many things in the world that wanna become a sink for information in my life. And I was like, so that guy gets back to his h hotel room at 10, he's a little buzzed. The the pin at all, I think there's a little bit of moderately bad faith in the whole like throwing your throw your phone away. Why don't you start hooking it together for me beyond s ML in air quotes that lets me see when Google Docs is something I might want to open?

And they're pretty cool and they're gonna take a lot more work. Or you can get a cook for your friend. I fucking love that. versus what does it feel like is there? I guess didn't want to interrupt you. This week's challenge, see from a different perspective. Um, Cloud, Chase, uh, oh, Skylar. Uh in the 70s it was a very popular book and then became a movie. by either feigning or having an eating disorder. The b the membership feed? It's an episode of Spotlight. Doc Shepard. That seems a little a little hurtful. Doing doing videos about ringing bells must be nice. He has the tools that he needs for what it is that he wants to do, which presumably is making YouTube videos about organization, but still very cool.

Uh they're they're brothers, so there's a lot of crossing. Um that uh just talking about the things you don't want to say. My grandparents in pictures from the forties and fifties look so cool smoking cigarettes. S NL scotch. But I want to be you when I grow up. in the sketch. Anyway, uh sounds like you're having an okay day. that causes my I am leaving the office routine to go. Ugh, like this happens to me all the time with Apple TV. Now I say start from the beginning, which I don't like saying as much. Called the beginning. wherever you left off two years ago watching that movie. And um the show was called Shit My Dad Says. The one about how nobody's everybody's stupid and nobody remembers anything anymore because because COVID.

Oh my god, this is so fucking funny to me. Uh no, no, also though in s in uh cars or any smart speakers before you would put something in. A month apart, so they're like Polak twins. I think it's Scotch Scotch Snaps. Cardi B, I think she has blood in her shoes or something. I know. And their their little individual like weirdnesses you kind of see. Th they just talk about how we didn't think this was going to happen. things that they do, not just roles exactly, but like it really is they've given some thought and effort to what they're doing musically. It's like I don't know. in your day-to-day. No, no. I don't want to have my screens be over bright, but I don't have strong my vision, obviously I'm an old guy and I wear glasses.

But like, you know, in kind of low light with incomplete binocular vision, I kind of have to like if I'm reading like last night, what was I reading? I can see the benefit in that. And like if I add glasses to that w I don't even know what that's gonna look like, but I think it will be a little Teutonic looking. for the inevitable moral panic around augmented reality. Cribed from Pessimist Archive, but that that's one that I I I mentioned sometimes. Yeah. uh like ends of words were cut off. I'm listening. Spoke to drafts this morning. You know that little four four panel cartoon of the guy who creates all the havoc and then acts like something happened to him. Have you ever made something that people use in a way you didn't intend in uh in fact you had people take something you've used?

That's I don't know if I've ever heard of that versus well what's the difference between a moral hazard versus a moral panic? You're gay bashing. Like young people do. Oh, you're you guys seem really close. Which is this really deliberately hurtful thing that I'm going to say to you. for kids was so huge. experience something very different. Like when we play Monopoly, like sometimes I want to be the Scotty and sometimes I wanna be the shoe. Like what the whole you're playing a game. Just the even the ones where you go in and get to pick like your character class as against your species, as against your like this Lord of the Rings sort of approach of like I guess I not all dwarves have to be miners, but you know dwarves and uh m more so watching people play Dungeons and Dragons as very different versions of themselves and sometimes very similar versions of them.

Or or ET or something. and uh was like, oh, this is this is awesome, but would not uh acknowledge that it was like a v a a video game. Uh assume good faith with people who are skeptical about this and try to understand their POV? But see, that's how they get the messages in there. The the um she uh they drag they drag individual people for being left wing? That kind of that's the whole basis of the chicken problem in some ways is the like the voice I hear in my head of the person I I least like or candidly enough, sometimes it's the person in myself I like the least least that I hear. you know, review or was it rewind. finding it and then integrating it with other things in my life that are value is what it's all about.

uh ranty rant about it. I said, let's take an example of like a very busy businessman. has the feeling of something in Skymall. How do you find this person's phone number? Well, the thing John I John really highlights is, well, yeah, but there's not going to be any integration into any other part of the OS. on their site that's like, you know, there's something that basically does the bike log. Where where I say like, hey Dingus, in in things, camera, add by milk. If you want to stab somebody enough, anything can be a knife. uh not necessarily people I clash with, but um people I don't understand. potentially in curiosity can be incurable. And you know it, you should apologize. This abundance of caution leads us to pick them some of the most extreme points of view that feel like it's something the powerful man likes.

Oh, no, I no please don't. I deal with the chicken problem. room that's very well lit, maybe like Mrs. and who are now extremely successful in this sort of black community. But like but well here's the way I put it. And and you see it every day, you see it every day on the internet. That's how everything feels like all the time. The other one. Isn't that a reference to the woman who had th like false memories? You could tell, could you? Because some some people just the just can't be on time for things. I think it's more of a in uh and I don't like this. Uh-huh. No, I'm trying to understand what Shepherd. Desk. Cigarette Oh man, my my Mima and Peapaw gave up cigarettes pretty pretty early. been uh as much, thank goodness, but it is um you know plant is the one I used to take, and that's not as bad, right?

Up and down now. I well, but no one gets to see it, so uh If if you're a really confident confident young woman and you're popping pills. Sit by me, you know what I'm saying? Exactly. Where like you think you know what the bid is, and then they somehow nail like two really hard left turns. And the fact that you cut back to Pete Davidson and he's like entertained by like by what he's got his bib on and he's entertained by what he's watching That that sketch w would not have gone over when Mulaney was a writer. Yeah. There's a phrase that I say. have and use. I I think it's because a lot of uh SoundCloud r rap and and trap stuff from a while ago had dollar sign names. Uh no. about about how everybody's stupid now.

Uh, what happened was I I forg I don't know the terminology for this, but you know, normally like there's stuff you do in a database Uh yes, there was a lot of things. Yeah. Oh my god, this is. Oh my goodness, they were awfully good. Jesus Christ, I I I honor them so much. Okay, so what we're doing here is I just want to make sure. It's kind of bold to do what they've been doing in the way that they've been doing it without like being pussy riot or something. Did you read the interview I sent you with them? Yeah. Um, not uh not like uh b by able to, I mean able to on stage. What was this week's challenge, Merlin man? But they took what Phoebe Bridges had and uh she's like, you know, I mean uh have a tour with Taylor Swift.

Lady readers. Uh, that, you know, that that's one that I remember from my youth. Oh did did one of them you think give uh you a stress bump? Um and he's obsessed with thinking I kissed every girl in the yearbook. Although I was bad and dirty, often by myself. in the nineties with tobacco and then more recently and it's it's an approach that I've been taking with vaping and the thing nobody was people were saying like it's finally it's everybody's locking arms across party lines and all this stuff to like protect children. You know, it's sort of like that thing people say where like you know There there's my I don't have a bee in my bonnet. I I'm I've learned to become because I'm a lifestyle holding call field in part, like I've learned to become skeptical.

doorstep and now you owe me money. And until I've made a point of changing it, I've been how I always was. Find a place that you can go and work off this energy and learn to behave in public like a young gentleman. Maybe maybe this lady could take you out dancing today. stay alive. Because you did. things adjacent to your personality where you're very intrigued by this idea of like who you can be not who you can be in this world, but like what can happen in this world, how you get to control how you experience it. what role stuff like AR, VR, um, Vision Pro, like w as much as you're comfortable, could you say like what that means for you? look at my body in an avatar of a like a cis man's avatar.

I can't play as an uh in an an overweight 40-year-old man. Right. avatars and I'm not talking about even like dancing around like a storm trooper or or being a a a zombie or anything, but like looking d down at your c controllers and like seeing just it I mean you know it's a video game, right? Right. Not all dwarfs. for a a future challenge, but um as Matt has gotten m uh uh hey if this was someone's first episode my spouse Matt uh is very into Dungeons and Dragons right now I mean, i i I've come around on that too, of like, you know, now I think Roger Ebert was a little bit, you know, over his skis about the whole video game thing. C i it f uh fuck it. Uh like an of on rails RPG and i almost a visual novel sort sort of thing.

Where like like let's so like you you're saying here, I think we're talking about uh actually an oddly similar thing acc accidentally. Where like your your curiosity about this m might almost never have existed. Hate speech. Well, it's related to a lot of things. The praying book, but it was a I swear to god I thought there was a line where she talked about the jukebox that plays the greatest hits of my failure. It's so important to us to feel safe. living right next door to people who are terrified of vulnerability of any time. might have a very good case for choosing not to be publicly vulnerable vul vulnerable about things because of a variety of reasons over your life and especially the last ten years, right?

You know, and it John and I talked about the main topic last night on rectifs. Whatever device, all you know, I got all the devices. Siri with things, you gotta do a goofy incantation. What like what if what planet are you from? Pick a lane and like this, but but the thing is you can't sell this for $700 as an iPhone accessory. Yep. That's that's how I feel. oovra of everything we've ever done with actual words. And if you're doing stuff with words and stuff with arithmetic, if it's giving you answers to arithmetic that you can tell is wrong, that's a problem. Triggs, eh? Like the thing we talked about, right? when they're not good at it. Th this is omnipresent like buzz in my head that it's valuable for me to be aware of and then I have mechanisms and tools.

Focal length and the ability to zoom in versus zoom out. And like I think one thing that CBT encourages you gently to do is to say like what's there versus, I want to put this carefully, what's there versus what feels like. It's like, well, there's something happening right now. I don't know, some kind of like we're virtually I I sometimes very much ver feel virtually like a Manchurian candidate or a r uh you know, or Oh my gosh. w a woman who is now temporarily at least of means. You know, we've we've got this, and maybe these people would like that. Yeah. Some sharp but safe tools to have in your box. be able to repot itself even just for a minute can absolutely change your day. Stupid Friday.

Oh you understand. Somewhere. Oh, I am so excited for th this. Show you some of Tom Sachs's work who is I uh no, it'll just it'll just be in show notes, but they're Do people live stream think mm? That's part of the problem, I think. It's uh what what do you call it? lobster diner is just kind of running constantly in the background. Original he originally he was a w waiter and then he became the mater D and he kept like fucking it up so if you know it because he is not an actor whereas Adam Driver Boom boom boom boom boom boom boom. It really you too. Because I don't know how the song goes. Uh she she is the one who dated and then dumped Pete Davidson. Yes. They're having so much fun with it.

Um but you say that because you sent me a picture that you were very excited about. They really gotta leg in a uh leg up. All right. Uh and the challenge. Is that a song? That was going to be show art until the the Pete Davidson boy picture showed up. Like, you know, when I first heard, oh guess what? die in this one single way that we all continue to do, which is being in a car. It's yeah. One time my kid and I roll, this is a true this is a true story. And there's like three or four teenagers at the under 12 area of the park. And I did what I would say sometimes when I encountered something like that with my kid. Right? I ha have you ever read the Cyberpunk Manifesto? Um 80 something. No, no, and uh as as the technology has grown, like it i it got like uh being able to have different genders in Animal Crossing Yes, it is cool to like go up to this virtual mirror and just see the basic ass like uh d dad that like uh the the dad bot the the It's weird to aspire to a dad bot, but that's like very much my vibe.

And it like that that was awesome and and a thing th but it became more interesting when I guess tr trying on different grade. mostly I think. Of not only what you're missing in terms of the positive, but what you're unfortunately now absolutely missing in terms of the negative. of of concerns. You sound like fucking libs of TikTok and it That's an anti progressive group. When I say I love all that stuff, again, sorry, I there's two phrases I want to become famous for from this month. And if you can't be if you can't be given the territory, you're not interested in the map. perspective. Like that. I gotta get some kind of distance from this very like hot sensation that I'm having about something.

If I can find expansiveness, if I can find width and breadth to what's happening, if I can see that hot feeling in a lot much larger And uh that's enough. Why would you do that? No, I'm not. It will play something from Apple Music. at all several points along the flow of information in but especially in a database where you control out or di you disallow certain characters or you control them out, you know, because it has a functional reason. No mm I've never heard that song but I've seen the title of it. That so that's Lucy on the right, or excuse me, on the left, that's Lucy on the Lucy as Pete Davidson. Oh I mm, that's uh I I've I've kind of come up with I'm gonna make this the show art if you don't mind.

Yes, we had not come up with a name bec or the f the final copy, as I like to think of it, and I th I think you nailed it, actually. Right. And then when Instagram was cool with the IOS, but then thing after thing after thing after thing that I know the boiling frog's not really boiling, but thing after thing after thing happened and everybody's still on there and then threads happen against any sort of generative a AI, except they call it general AI AI and I'm like, mmm, very different dude. It's not it's not the Kurtz file. But the j just having uh that d desire, that is a very common uh um thing that a lot of uh n trans nerds who can do. could change your skin color. Right. That's that's part of the problem is you think that by being a big prick about this stuff you sound really safe and smart.

Um, but there's a quote I thought it was from Bird by Bird. The more you try and become secure, the more you lock yourself into something that's not secure at all. You have so much stuff mitigating against the success of this product, including, as again Jason and other people said, who told you people don't like their phone? I mean, people who care about things practice and rehearse. And like this idea of looking at things from a different point of view has become so instrumental in so many parts of my life. Mm-hmm. Which is she goes into the house of these very rich black people with a bag of shoes that no one wanted anymore. Right? That's a really good mmm. And so your TiVo would just go tits up if it had that on it because right?

Or maybe just Scott Scotch. Oh, I uh uh know one of those names. Oh, I already assumed that that was a good thing. That message I sent to my friend was uh laced with hey, uh g uh also, not obviously, but people can infer infer that this person was also trans and it's like, hey, you know how our lives are are hell right now? But but like, oh god, it's it's like you could do a mad lib from d uh technology to i I hate to be the Buddhist guy here, but oh my god, you've set yourself up for a life of misery. Um but like I I I I am not a I but like I I would love it if it could like answer basic questions for me. You've got to stop apologizing. Is there. The name of the RSS feed? But like, oh you know, I like you know what I like?

is sort of a short profile and interview with all of them that is b exactly expressing exactly what you're saying through their own words. Before you obviously before you even get to the image stuff, who cares? No no, I mean I did use the well what's the official name of these glasses? BTK killer out of out of jail. It's so fucking funny. I'd like to first hear how you I'd like you to talk to a bunch of those people and ask them questions and see how they answer because my gut is that's an easy win for each of those attorneys general. I reckon about Lindsey Graham. played and he talked about the play uh the playing of it that was kind of a um sort of like uh not not missed but it was just a um It was something very different.

If me, and she's played by the mother, is played by, oh god, that wonderful singer in the Carpal Karaoke video, uh, the the Broadway and opera singer whom I love. An assertion of agency. My grandmother, it took her forever to do everything. Yes. Only the p what is it only the strong are worthy to suck from Mother Nature's teeth? Dan Bl friend of the show Dan Blondell on Macedon s suggested them because it's s Yes. The way the the the s the speed with which they do the edits on that show, but still have the volume of his mouth noises so fucking loud. And why do you care, Merlin? Isn't that kind of part of it? But like I the yeah, that's nostalgia value, but like I'm utterly not involved with any parts of this culture.

He was right about a lot of other things. Isn't that still kind of a pretty good place to start for some stuff? You can't be vulnerable. It's reversion to the common. What is a waitress name? Yeah. Is interrogating something around this question in some ways. Like is this a t a 2023 Dylan thing? I want to let's let's cut the pretense of the phone. It's an easy slam dunk to like look like they're doing something that doesn't actually require that much effort, but makes them look really good. And uh and then of course, they're initially, of course, very kind of taken aback by that, because who's this guy with a with a little kid holding his hand that says that? But like, is this your first day?

Exactly. They have this like secret hidden feed where they put the It's the membership. Oh my god, I think my alarm's about to go off and I don't know why. Alright, well we'll see what happens. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Really? I think that the God, they're so cool. Like let alone like sharing like and like s like I I don't know what their songwriting credit situation is, but like in the way they come up with parts for each one of them and they each like have kind of like Sometimes I don't listen to the button. I listened I listened to the daily today. But you f you know what I mean? Like and and and similarly, like whether however seriously you take a given game, m maybe you like it because there's no middle sliders.

You know, I mean that's the point. A couple got it, but every single one of them got it wrong differently. Which is one of the numerous reasons I'm I become a pill about this, Alex. And like, okay, that is the most basic shit. Crossover. Because then you could have all your tools you're not really using to make anything good and you're putting them in in a certain order by size and you know arrangement. First of all, she's super funny. Which I mean you could knock me over with a feather. All right. It's it's it's just this uh My eyes are up here. You guys you you guys what are you fifteen, sixteen, you're climbing on monkey bars? Oh no, I I I And that's not that's not gentle fun, that's lashing out.

That was and that is the thing that quickly with v virtual reality and like VR avatar stuff, um, I realized was, oh I thought it was in bird by bird. You're better than me? Dan Harmon apology. That's not something the that that's something the weak man likes. You sound distracted. Sometimes I'm being passive aggressive, but today I'm just I know. I I know if I started smoking cigarettes and enjoyed it, I would not have had the discipline to be. Knock some pigs. I'll put mine on too so I can see. No, no, no. Well whatever, whatever. And uh but don't make me beat you. Exactly. That's right. Looking kind of like, okay, so I wish I had a this photo might be low res, but you'll get the just you can look it up on your there you go, look at that.

I didn't know either of them. I wouldn't I'm never in a million years say something today, but they're just being they're being awful and they're they're cursing an awful lot and they're they're being really kind of hateful and loud. It if it's a big thing. Anyways, but so but if I say that and Mr. Let's see. Sorry. Yep. Oh people people you um are like confronting or dealing with? So I think there's all kinds of different ways. I don't know. So much of my John Mullaney uh uh r references go out of my head uh one, because I'm not good at quoting things, but two, because Come on with my festering seed. I mean, maybe the the big one of course being the festering seed part at the end. Don't be good, don't be good, don't be good.

There's a TV show. I think you've rested enough. But what it did you do anything different, new, specific, targeted for this? That's fine. You found you found a little bit of a tribe or you found a little bit of a family or you found, for that matter, just an ear that would listen, right? I I I really do enjoy the Gilded Age. Yes. Oh I know. That's that's the grandfather who would ask me who my favorite grandfather was. We're gonna go to this place and all the witches are drag queens and they're really mean and it's funny and I I'll I'll s you should see it. Oh the the film contact? The Lombard rhythm or Scotch snap is a syncopated musical rhythm in which a short accented note is followed by a longer one.

And you're basically doing what in basketball basketball we call drawing a foul. You kill my father. I'm really glad you didn't pick a waitress name. Yeah. Beginning, beginning, beginning, beginning, beginning. And but they they care but they do not be dumb about it. I'm just going on about how I like boy. They're actually X-ray specs, so I can see through dudes dudes jeans. Get her a carton of cigarettes. When the internet first kind of caught on among amongst normal people, I mean I don't know how many normal people immediately jumped on to Usenet, but like through stuff I don't know if you ever got this when you were younger, but like And she thought, she was, she here's the thing, right? We've gone on long enough.

The other one, Sybil. I heard Xanax is really I heard Xanax I think it's Xanax. Man, Mambo Dog Face, the banana patch bookie. Here you go. And then and then but then like pretty soon you find out like oh ho these 42 attorneys general are working together on this. Oh, oh, oh, I was I was just about to bring up the groceries or I was just about to do the dishes and things. No, no, it's really gonna run long and I liked yours. I'm wondering what you think are waitress name is uh did you wanna do this? Yeah. Du Duh Beginning. In terms of her renown. Are we just taking two extremely different angles on this? So so just we should cover for our listeners once again what these things are. The thing is I already I already look like I'm in some kind of German fetish video when I go to bed because I have this I have the CPAP mask on and I also do have my Apple headphones on.

It's still I haven't listened in months, but one person will be going and he'll go, hmm. Like this technology that you know nothing about is like the the medicine you take to That's not all dwarfs. Like it's just I'm so far outside of that world and I don't feel beholden to anybody's opinion of that except when I can, for example, talk to somebody about how I liked playing Robotron and Defender and spent Um it's uh Can I can I get more you know more of them um mosas? Um I i i at first I thought like mm maybe do like do they have like a lack of empathy? That's my second favorite Arya Death. What would you change? Uh Uh you hi I suppose. And that is the nicest Amazon view that I've got. Yeah. And that came with the the the only reason, and they acknowledge it this, but the only reason that they were able to do this with the amount of But uh really this was just a a a f fun thing that I in enjoyed.

It's just there's more that's a larger like sample size in some ways. Even if you're gay bashing for a good cause, it's still not a very cool thing to do. But anyway, so here's the thing is okay, here we go. It's like, oh that's interesting. You can't learn things. It's like, uh, okay, well, let's just keep bringing everything down. Now I know we have a better name for that now, but back then it it was that you could say like, oh, sometimes she's like sexy sible and she probably had like a different name. I don't know this. Yeah. Or I'll say, just get ready, Jim. What about the rapper called Florida? That's what they call me. I don't know, but it sounds kind of like a Tom Witt song. You know?

Yeah. I see w what okay. R. I lived it. Not not my not my circus, not my monkeys. May I enchant your blade, sir? And it's certainly partly related to the chicken voice or the chicken problem and that that that one voice behind the chicken problem, which is like the the worst thing you can imagine that a stranger would say to ruin your day. What's going on? Yes. I don't look to the It's called crossover. I've I haven't looked in his own thing. From y y you got it once, right? I think people like that. Like isn't that some aspect of it, which is like we're not talking about this one axis, which is like, here's my presentation that everybody agrees is normal and okay. I deal with that one voice in my head that's like singing those greatest hits of my failure.

I mean the I I don't want to compare it to like um like any any sort of thing. Pickens. I think that's so much. There's a popular Twitter account. We're gonna put stuff in like funny characters and asterisk because it's a swear. So that's Lucy. Boy. Oh, the disappointment you will feel. It was on or like beginnings of words and it it's stu you start to feel a little bit crazy. And yeah, yeah, he needs to be the baby. Hang on a second. And then I snub it three times in a triangle. It's one reason I don't talk about the games that I play, is because I don't play them to win. They encode the message backwards. But the way that we always apologize to each other for existing or or standing erect in the hallway.

How would you feel if I, a former slave and black woman who's dressed almost as well as you showed up at sixty first and fifth and I came in with a bag of old shoes and walked in your front door and said, Do you want these? Hi everybody, Alex isn't here this week, so I'm recording the show by myself. You're making it sound like uh Dungeons and Dragons class. You're you're you're saying a thing. She didn't care who knows. Doing uh have I've become Lauren Michaels. He was right away. And I I I well I was about to say I wouldn't say anything, but I would say something. Um oh you see here on this line under news and topics, I was trying to find this Annie Lamac quote for today, and I'm starting to think I hallucinated it.

Well, I mean, people don't like to do that. And then if they really care a lot, they continue to practice and rehearse and rehearse even when they're getting less bad at it. Hello, Alex. It misheard what I said. It was something like, you know, dollar sign, asterisk, exclamation point, you know. I won't say it's one of the hottest things I've ever seen, but it's kind of one of the hottest things I've ever seen. But it feels uh l like ADR at at some points and I'm not sure. Now I'm just doing Jim Caf again. It's been almost twenty days now. Here you go. It's I for memory services to to look at something, see things from a different point of view. But like it's a little bit more than a lot of people.

But yeah, I mean it's I I don't disrespect people who take it very seriously. Not because I'm against AI at all, but because I kept landing on this thing that I think you could be sympathetic to, which is okay, great. Well, Skymall guy buys the seven hundred dollar pin. You failed. No one's ever on time for anything, even when they're being tested. Like I I don't I couldn't do it. Like I I'm not even talking about that stuff. Because sometimes it really feels like something is there. Because if you don't, if I don't make that distinction, what feels like is there will become my life. But that that that's my point of view on this stuff is like consider I think we all have a toolbox, whether we realize it or not, but like try to get some Trixie is very much, I think, an OnlyFans name.

Isn't he one who knolls? Don't mm I love you, Mima. Scope creep? There are there are often some oopsies. That's how I feel about m most podcasts. If you watch when they do I think it was when they do not strong enough on like Colbert or something. Isn't that what I said like ninety seconds ago? Did you like that photo of me? Well yeah, but like I ask it for relationship advice and and and it wouldn't do anything. Where you say say to somebody, hey, how would you like it if I treated you this way? The milk needs to be in a pitcher instead of a a carton. Nolling. It's so fucking true. What's wrong with you people? And I despise what I perceive as his rank hypocrisy. Maybe it's in the shitty first.

You can't apologize. Russell's house. Yeah. Like the this is everybody just needs to watch this every week. So it's maybe doing like a buffer overrun or something. Hand me something. People were so goddamn mad at me because I was anti-Facebook. But like think about this one. ai and talking about humane, the pin and all that stuff. Because on the one handers benefit from the phone. It's reversion to the base is this whole like idiocracy. I mean there's a show called Backstage, there's a show called Spotlight, there's multiple things put into the name of the f what's the name of the feed? She's like a per as you know, the Marm. My kid and I walk forward to temple? Mm-hmm. Because you you can't be doing anything except repping what your fucking deal is.

Because I also have some I'm not gonna say anything. Yeah. The oh that's sad and true. And you shall you shall but um that I want everybody to watch that all the time. See, that's uh that's the sort of power I want because th Oh, uh, the beginning, the beginning. Isn't that hilarious? I've been constantly thinking about You dictated text to an app? They're not super easy to set up and test and make sure they work, and I certainly wouldn't deploy it to strangers, but um I love all of that stuff, but Like I'm just waiting for somebody to read the right seventeen word sentence for me to go into Berserker mode. No, I'm just uh trying to l listen to you. Doc Shepherd is the guy who runs Armchair Expert, and it's where my my son's favorite podcast, uh Fightless Bird, with David Farrier, theoretically lives.

Did you see when John Mulaney hosts? Oh, we're out of time. Or it could be doing sub the Mac. You just Oh my god, you know what I just wanted to say? And they're all completely confused about what to do, and basically it starts playing a hip-hop song called The Beginning. Prepared to die. How are you today? You're weak, look at your pick ass. The whole time he was on the show. Sorry. And of course, I think CBS I want to say, because of course CBS uh had done that stupid fucking thing, which is like ha ha he Oh, I uh y yeah, I have family member um that uh siblings that we have siblings that are born in less than one calendar year. Look at this one. Yeah. And ideas you can like read in bed and stuff.

Well, I don't know. You guys sure have a lot of energy. And and then in twenty twenty when um is especially with twenty twenty, a lot of people think it's silly that there was so much excitement around how you w People right now are not open minded about artificial intelligence. I don't know if I like super recommend it because I think it's weird that I like it this much, but there's there's a wonderful characters, lots of wonderful characters. Hi. If they're streamers they do. Are you all right? Is this a telltale alarm situation? We're like I'm just trying to do such basic shit with with Siri. Like, you know, I guess or like uh like uh the the little John, the smaller version of John. So you do that now where you act like something's in evidence that's not.

You know, I discovered them like three months ago. And nobody puts it that way. Yes. Look at your father, boy! That sounds like a white rapper's name. Except that it is like so fucking great to see. When you start talking about them on reconcilable differences, it's like oh uh all right. Lazy readers. Is I'm sorry, now this is the fourth podcast I think where I've said this, but like is this your first day? There's I mean like it's it's silly to go on and on and it's so fruity, but like it's and it's also just like such a basis of empathy. Like she's been kind of taken into this old money family that's her cousins or her aunts. But it not a good one. And A Bryant A Bryant who never very who rarely, very rarely breaks.

It's Scottish Adam Neely. Did you get low? They did um they did Um Not Strong Enough was their first song. Oh God. Forty-two attorneys general are filing very similar lawsuits again Meta against Meta. That everybody cares about? Not all dwarfs. You uh and we we joke and I I uh am s silly about being like, mm, you don't like games, but you played them a lot. It would be it would be a betrayal of their independence. K-N-O-L-L-I-N-G. It feels like a swing for them to do this project. I think I'm I'm a sour puss, but us most people like that. Uh and it was this was uh going to be a text to a f friend who's very d dying. It's just it's it's frustrating. Yes. It takes the outside. That's Trixie. And why do I say that?

No, it'll play some song by, you know, uh DJ Foreskin called uh Um what's it talking about? Did it affect Florida? I want to make sure you know what 49 minutes is and like what has actually happened versus what hasn't happened. Like, you know 'cause she's kinda she's kinda the big one, right? Like I of course I did the challenge, but the challenge is like I I this is my whole day, like almost all the time. The point is AR is gonna have a backlash. So like because you're sad about Twitter, you went to a Twitter thing that's owned by Meta? That's why I love it. I mean look at emojis and the way with me emojis, the way you can do like different forgive my saying pieces and parts to like make the person There's no like I I I am so much more sympathetic to what you're describing than you could imagine from my personal history.

Or if I'm being honest, you've got to stop apologizing when you don't mean it. And of course, they handle it with civility, but it wouldn't be overly simple to say, how would you feel? I'm about to yell fuck you at John, which I did last night. Okay. Oh God. Where you'll do like three against four. I I I don't know anymore. What do you think this thing is gonna do? Yeah. Well, I'm putting in the transcript of every reconcilable differences and being able to like search across the Hi. Yeah, but uh she's she's she's yeah. Look at Lucy Dawkus. Yeah. There should be a challenge, a bullying challenge at some point. But we're walking through the park and these guys are just they're just they're being young people Excuse me?

My favorite Aria Death is the guy who's abusing girls at the sex worker house. I c that helps me. Drove my grandfather crazy. Are you acclimating to the world okay today? I I I always want to explore this a little bit with you, but I'm I'm scared to open too big a box. Um I uh sh notes notes. I could I can't find it. I apologized to somebody this morning. All I wanted to say was I was just trying to think about like the ways in which uh and I I guess Hevor, I f I feel the need to say, I'm not trying to front like I'm good at this. Happy whatever this is Wednesday. But I gotta say, and the way I pitched that to Dan was like after we'd watched it together, I was like, the thing I love about this sketch is I mean I love everything about the sketch.

Um Oh, you can't be the the Alex two weeks in a row. Everybody I've talked to in the last three days, we've all been like, Madeline, I've talked about it four times. You're t you're gonna talk about how you use these glasses, which is fine, but I'm just double checking. Who's the most prime candidate for this product? That's it's like that's the one fucking thing we have to do. They can remember all the doctors. Maybe sometimes you need a heavy tool, but like various ways of helping your particularly fucked up mind. How? Uh Van Nice that is a uh I watched one of his it was really good and it was about how he how he like it wasn't just like how I organized things, but it was a very sensible, well thought out idea about how But then it's just the fact that it's so economical at the entire thing is very, very funny, but it's just so aggressively paced.

She steps up in the stack. Here we go. And 96 times out of a hundred, it's some kind of inscrutable rapping trap music. I know you know this, but I want to be sure everyone knows you can always hit the Siri thing on the side and say play from the beginning. Like, don't I mean like sometimes like if I'm if it's a show like that we don't edit and it's not if it's like one of these relay shows that's a real prig Look at I love her so much. This is why you don't have chapter markers in a podcast like this, you guys, okay? You know, like when you first learn most accidents happen within five miles of your house. But like, I don't call him Lady G, because when you do that Mm-hmm. And like, even if it's for a good cause, dude, you're not helping when you do that.

Hold on. Um yeah you know, J Justin McElroy honestly also put this really where well where he said, you know, I mu in most video games It might be from Traveling Mercies. That being safe means feeling like you're on the right side of of an issue, or that you are uh to me that is just I I I like things that the powerful man likes. An a no a knoller. And when you take your tools, but I you know, in a way it's it's kind of uh uh, I don't know, um, an inbred cousin of the minimalist Um sc a creeping creep sc scoper? But like I'm just so glad they're out there doing stuff and taking swings. Let's move past the last thing. I try, but I don't succeed. Oh no, we A minute and a half late. That Xanax um l looks you it you don't look cool taking Xanax.

I mean yeah, it is low rest. Right. It's it's a criticism I have of the community, but that's fine. One man tried. Is he gonna talk like this all night? No. I'm not talking about you don't know what an assault rifle is or it's not it's not actually called I'm not talking about like you're not qualified to be in this argument because you don't understand the difference between uh Did you know there's a thing you can just say and it'll capture your location to review later. It's the same thing. And I'm just gonna again now you're gonna have to y'all are gonna just have to like get with the fact that this is what people used to say. I'd say, huh, it's kind of an interest interesting dynamic going on here.

I'm caught up. We fell on real different sides of that. I'm gonna give you an alt. And you're like, yes, I want to be part of a group. It's well I uh this is I I And you're gonna be like, oh well I'm gonna really take you down with this thing that you'll never recover from. The Beatles did it, the Eagles did it, all these bands, Judas Priest did it, and the guy killed himself. See now we're screwing ourselves up. I don't have a problem with getting data. No, no. So that that could be I'm I'm thinking here, I'm thinking of a Trixie, a Dixie, a Madge. You saw of course you did. Yes. Uh to quote myself, here's one thing I will say about artificial intelligence. That's actually not a huge problem for me right now, personally.

Maybe your problem is you credulously think that everything that you encounter should be exact is and should be exactly right because you can't be fucked to go out and find out on your own. Is there windows? I just I love their music. And the other one is don't ask a Coke machine for relationship advice And one day Miss Brooke shows up, goes to Brooklyn, shows up at their house, doing something that she intends as a very, very kind gesture. Hi. I was at a clear. Where are they? But if if anybody thinks for a minute that's gonna stop me from making fun of people who do that. No, it's okay. And I I've that's well okay. It's by Donna Harrow. What does he do now? Which I think f five times out of seven that I've tried it Oh.

Are you kidding me? No, no, no. And so sometimes when our house is very warm, this is the guy with the band-aid on his face twenty years ago. I just couldn't do it. I couldn't afford a Walkman, but I certainly wanted one. And then you find, well, it's about the way that they're this there's they're the it's about the way that they are deliberately addicting children to social media. Maybe I've just got to be in my bonnet about moral hazards in technology right now. Okay. Mm-hmm. Because if it mishears any aspect of play from the beginning Welcome to Do by Friday. Read at a ninety degree angle. It's it's more like just the the phrase, the word I cannot get away from in curiosity. That boy detective and his little dog snowy.

And you're like, well, what's the thing? You're a minute and a half late. No, it's a terrible one. You're like bander snatch banana book And she's even the even she even made re like made the shirt that Pete Davidson's wearing. Well you had oh wait. We're not really like boyfriend, girlfriend. Oh ask me to bring a healthy snack. But I I walked I kind of eventually I was like, I gotta go to work, turn it off. Oh my kid and I are walking through the park when my kid's like three And they're they're just being, they're like, you know, 12, 13, 14. Which to paraphrase Milton Burrell, I'll just take out enough to beat you. I'd say, gentlemen, could I ask you guys to please dial that down a little bit?

And I said and then I I would walk a little bit closer and my kid could hear this but wouldn't completely understand it and I would say, Why don't you and your girlfriends I don't think I've never asked you now I'm doing the thing you do. Well, he's probably thinking of like playing he's he's probably thinking of playing um, you know, um uh the tank of combat He's a very bi he's a very busy businessman. And there's a couple of things that mostly understands pretty well, which is words and arithmetic. And the person accepted it, and I felt a lot better afterward. Uh oh uh uh w why do I need to know that? Oh I think mmm I mu I put you've given me an idea. But then he was a host and he was like, We're we're doing it, we're doing it.

Exactly. They've got arms that fold. He's so broken inside. But you need to grab it. Uh it's it it's in notes. But anyway, that's that's the thing is like And they may not have the reasons. Okay. I feel there's a name for that. And I don't I didn't know Julian Baker at all, but she's my favorite. Oh God, thank God, Merlin. That that's that's a thing in my toolbox. I can't promise it'll change your life, but I know it can change your afternoon. I mean I'm I've been excited a lot. Hi, I'm Scott Scotch. I mean you know, big deep and sad about it. No, no no no. Like I said to Dan the other day, I'm back to work. Like you're you're you're gonna flop. I don't know, and I and this actually does is apropos of our challenge.

Well why? But really, that's why we can't sleep. People say I'm sorry when they really mean you're inconveniencing me. That is like first grade Sunday school level empathy and golden rule. And did you notice that I even said, okay, talk to you in forty-nine minutes. Yeah, there's a popular Twitter account called Ship My This is back in the day when people besides John Sirke used a hat out to Yvo. I'm gonna give you I I like I agree. They're fucking assured and confident and doing their thing without having to like, I don't know, make some kind of a spice girl's face. Now that's gay bashing for a good cause, but it's not right, and I wouldn't do it again. Why don't you just put in your money or swipe your card and just get a Coke or maybe a one of those raccoon waters that the Sani makes?

I not only I'm trying so hard to stop saying I'm sorry when I'm not, but I'm also, especially with my wife. What about our member episodes where we talked to Dan McCoy from the Flap House? Waitress. He nails the crow in one shot with the cane. It's it's it's I finally uh there's so many different things. But racebergs, you see through dude's jeans. I mentioned it to Kathy on that that uh visit uh that's on the crossover feed. It's a it's a good show. That's funny, you're just reliving the good old days. I mean, like maybe arguably step zero is like I gotta get out of my own fucking head sometimes. Hi. And he does the the drag brunch. You know, you're like, oh my God, what is this? I mean it's hard to That's true, yeah.

There are some pandemic babies in my families. It sounds like one of those Scottish uh The only reason I remember this is because it's uh Post Malone. I mean more like in this context, this is who I want to be here. It wasn't even consistent. Wonder, but well I don't know which you know why I love weddings and funerals. Everybody's got the she thought she was acting out of not just like no bless oblige, but she was acting out of some kind of like a very Christian idea of like, hey I I don't know. That's the one I'm thinking of. See, I don't want to say um like a lot of people. So well well because it's like shit my dad says, remember that? I get low, low, low. I enjoy looking at the ones from a distance.

We're just three queers It's a pretty weird idea just for one show. People are gonna go, this is dangerous. There's just wasps it it it's like I am wearing a helmet and wasps. And because you are an easy villain, you will always be pegged that. And the idea of having a a a Captain Picard pin that records my day and then I go and scroll through a website is like my vision of hell I see I see what I did though. And then you do those triplets. And the part I'm not not now, I'm not trying to monopolize it, although I probably will. I'm sorry, I I shouldn't say this in front of my kid, but you guys have come so far. Last thing on this for me is we were talking about um The URL scheme stuff. You are not in trouble.

You're just looking at it through a different lens. And somebody goes, I'd like it if you treated me that way Like the kind of people like the only or like just being And you shall good That is an interesting rapper. I'm sorry, wait, I got I can get you a better one. Um that guy's cool. Yeah. It's just music. This is Do By Friday, a weekly challenge podcast with Alex Cox and Merlin Mann. Pew pew pew. It's just always there. I still have a single, single Amazon device that I You know, and and you're gonna really throw it down. Halloween. Uh y yes. And I used to gay bash for a cause like a lot. Right. Now we're we've turned on our own telescreen at this point. You use your phone too much. Yep. Oh, I see what you're- I don't know.

I couldn't do it because like I hate when they have guests on. It all just makes me I love seeing Exactly. And Sean's like, well, I guess, you know, they've got a website for it, but also you can ask the pendant like what's this person's phone number? My grandmother my grandmother, you guys know my the only way the women in my family could exercise control was basically These uh just for those of you who are just tuning in. Oh my god. And obviously uh Dwarf Lives Matter. And I did a deep bowed full on It's not even like reversion to the mean, and I don't mean average. Oh, there's lots of air situations. Wasn't that kind of what happened? Adam Adam Neely did a video about that. You want to do the challenge?

Because you have your reasons. It might be from He janks up he janks up the feed. They kept scrapping it. Scottish and don't say Scotch. I love the the what I can gather about them as people. I play them to have fun. Yeah. You've never had anybody in your family like who has to keep talking about the food and then going to the kitchen doing something else with the food Mmm. Knolling is that thing where you put all your stuff in like a pattern on your desk and look at it. Gotcha. I think you were the first. And but it's it's so loud and so present in the mix, and then the cut, the edit is so abrupt. Don't let me take you off and keep going. And I would even at the tender age of seven right now I'd go, hmm.

That's that's the guy, right? I'm just saying, like the first thing you would do when you're trying to quit smoking is smoke. And pretty much the only thing I use it for. I know all of those names. Yeah, she is and they fully acknowledge. Dude's jeans. Uh m m meaty arms. I would just I would just hear about it. Yeah, yeah. And you're like, oh, okay, well I've been using Chat GPT since uh January, February and like nobody's in a well yet. I you should see the I I loved your challenge idea about making a GPT. I don't th I think it's worse. Well, like, there's something that's definitely happening right now. Alex isn't here this week, but uh I I am. Okay. Yes. It's uh I guess in retrospect you go like, oh it's these three artists who are good in their own way or whatever, it's the new Crosby Stills in Nash or whatever, but like No, no, no, no, no.

No no no I got stress bumps because I was stressed out. And um no, uh Like you can understand what someone is saying, but like it's But like, okay, well like ask yourself about any of those other ones you've been through. It's just four four time music with guys in leather. There are people who are s who are against vulnerability because they have their reasons. That's that I heard it really uh sneaks up on you. You know what I'm talking about? We talk about people we like. Um yeah sh specifically uh she goes after groomer uh Oh it's like The perspective I cannot get into and the one through line of uh Oh oh um or or or people who whose whenever I cannot understand someone's You probably don't know that reference, do you?

I I I am not. But he has nothing to do with it, Marm. And then I I learned how I didn't like it wrong. You could put her in your pocket. You know that one? I'm definitely stupider and like I got a manatee brain at this point. Now that I know from girl talk. I handed it to you a while ago. Yes, but I've And when you do stuff like like like get out there and go like Yes, that's await await they, who is also a magic user. Oh, hold on. Adam Neely. Why would you assume that? Or sorry, see from a different perspective. I'm John Fontaine. I'm just going going to say that is how I actually went with the challenge in the change of perspective. I think he's wearing a blouse. I'm not sure you are. That's you.

A product that I said very much. Like what happened on the watch and I flipped it on. The powerful man doesn't need computers to to to tell him who played filch. What's it called? Hello. And one uh hey, if y'all don't know this, it's real good. Um like to see you from a different perspective. Um there th there's a reason that a lot of She'd be completely different people. Uh No, I agree. What was that talking about? Like, you know, we we all got to uh make um video game avatars that Yes. So I was using the example of I've been using things the last week or so. Which often is anxiety or fear or like just the bottom has fallen out this afternoon. No. It it's I was interviewed by your friend Kathy Campbell on a show called Spotlight and I and I told her an anecdote about my grandfather.

But I'm not I'm not sure. Now from going to the challenge sheet. Oh, sorry, we're all out of time. Yes, Ann. It is funny how hard. I I dic I dictated text to drafts. You guys are spunky. There is a uh uh what we would call a game now that Ebert And uh it it r it just reminds me so much of the You're saying like And I I just was like Hi, I'm Trixie. Listen, if you can't swear, don't swear Oh man, we went out at about contact. Did you like have did you adopt a something like a blazer and try it on for a week? But that's not a that's not a hazard because that's an accept and again this is how risk works. I want I I don't like Facebook. Go read The Wisdom of Insecurity by Alan Watts. He goes to a conference, he meets lots of people, he hands out lots of cards.

I'm having a great day. No, I I I've tried it all, Alex. I think poppin' pills is kind of hot. Here's a better one. I opened up the Amazon and they're these glasses that Um but it was about I'm just as an example here of the moral hazard thing. Like you're gonna you're gonna do this thing and and then actually injured. And I rarely want to be the race car. I don't have a problem with getting information. I'm just going to do that. And that might come from trauma. Hi, Alex, how are you? I don't think I would have had the Look good for Ah, what's happening? Post Malone is the guy with the face tattoos who's in the Spider-Des a Spider-Man song that's really good. Oh Jesus Christ, of course. Sounds like a Robin Hitchcock song.

Not cynical, but skeptical. And whatever curiosity did exist was so quickly extinguished in this smokescreen You really want the Picard pin. Like if if you fucked up Um They both put tapes on thing tape on things and they're very inspired by Tom Sachs. Yes, yes, yes. Doing something with it One is You are, you know, because everybody's so scared of being wrong and being in trouble and Twitter's algorithm. Well w Mmm Mmm. I like Trix A. We'll have swine livers and caprice on. You do those triplets Yeah. Oh my god. They are s Forty-two thousand people Americans every year. I've never asked you to talk about that or ask you if you would talk about that, but could you talk about like Holy shit, that's so fucking good.

It's why we can't concentrate. But like there's a page of shortcuts. Like that's that's all really great, but to s to use, to utilize You feel so confident in how fucking ignorant you are So shit, my dad says, it was something like And like I just love her face. And you pitched it to me as like That that's what you sound like when you say stuff like that. Casey Neistad's the guy who looks like a frog. But I gotta say the level of commitment for lobster diner There's a name for that. She does that. Okay and something I'd love for you to keep an eye on. It's like no, most accidents happen with 20,000 miles from your house where you're driving all the time. I keep dealing myself solitaire hands until I get one I like.

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Um and I know we're not allowed to talk about this, but there are things that Lindsey Graham have done and things that And maybe not be completely hateful and judgmental about it. No, no that's it's fine. I'm not against I'm not against the idea that I ask it to say the n word and it wouldn't say it. I think it is just a lack of imagination. Hi. Weirdly no. That's dynamic. What's it called? I think either um Scott snaps She's so little. But like look look at her And they have this all-girl band and they're all like dressed like the Beatles, sort of. Send your photo of me wearing them. Gotcha cigarettes. What are you talking about? Um the Scotch snaps Oh, so this is like the um yeah, yeah. Exactly.

Hello. Oh I almost didn't you said earlier that I skipped over at triple speed. Like nobody wants their kid to die in a fire. It's certainly not helping, but like okay, I'm just gonna say this and I I haven't come all the way around to this, but I am coming around to this. You know I love that analogy about Too many waitress names. I'm trying to get the velocity as Well, you said a thing and I don't understand why you're saying that, so what I'm asking is like What would you like to say, Alex? And she is is befriended by this this woman who's a a black woman whose parents were slaves. Where do you find that? God, cigarettes And I'm like, I just want to watch the Gilded Age. Like, see that it's like, yeah, you you did tell me about the New York Times article.

In fact, some But did that affect whatever Ty Dala sign is? And there's Arya Grande, who's that that the the the little girl that uh Julian Baker was for Halloween. Just them performing. It it's just th I said this the other night like um after I I was just having so much fun watching them, watching their videos and like Um no, I thought this was Kansas to get um I I don't think. If if it's telling you to go kill in the name of Charles Manson, that's bad too. Really? Oh my gosh, I'm sorry. Who's H. Is that a woman's blouse? Like I mean, and I'm not even trying to be the guy who goes like, Well, don't you realize how much ML is on your phone? Do you do you wanna do you wanna talk about this or are you what are we doing here?

Scotch. Scott's a lot And I love you. But for me When I'm laying in bed with my goddamn CPAP mask on, it's so hard for me to read things I'm just preparing Well it's it it's not even Oh It's just three, three kids being rowdy. But like it does feel like there's an element of your personality and I thought it was gonna go out in on a ding, but I don't want to talk about it now. Hold okay, I apologize. They are brothers. I love everything about they just make me it just makes me so happy. No, I'm just you know, bulk deep in open. But anyway, uh here here's one thing I will say. But it's like, oh no, we just Oh y yeah, that's oh classic. I'm not up with that current trait. Uh well no, it's it's um this doesn't have Scotch bonnet?

What about Nelly? Just you guys are my friends. Probably didn't give give context, but it That's my Heidi Klum voice. I think there's I don't know, I'm I'm not gonna look it up, but but but like Like may maybe part of what it's so fun in some of those where you see like, you know, the eldritch creatures that they can make, but like Like have you never just never encountered incorrect information on the internet before? I have a toolbox for dealing with those things. Hurry up, asshole. Boo. That's a that's a uh Almost everything I know about all of these bands. I was the first to give these ladies a chance, so you're welcome. I was reading Jeeves and Worcester last night. But you know, it's it's the the um This if you listen to Upgrade this week, they had a great discussion about this and Snell was talking about, Jesus Christ, Apple, you've already got all my stuff.

And and that's how you show you care about stuff. That might come from habituation. Those are waitress names. Clocks don't tell me what to do. They're just doing their thing and telling their story and talking about the power of the color blue and like fucking Is that something you think you'd want to do? It's why we can't relax. And it's like, I can't say anything though because it sounds like I'm saying, well, AI won't work for that. I went to that other tab and flipped everything on. Hi, y'all. I got I'm telling you, you sit in New York Times article, everybody's talking about it But it was I I remember like the uh Yes. The photo, no. Do you remember? More than just being a technology enthusiast.

Okay. Uh but then he went from a I believe they Like they're very clear, like I honestly we've been doing this for a while just cause you know, we're we're pals. Uh and but you look through them through these little But it was just, it was like I was like, it gave me a little bit of a squicky feeling because But then some of it comes straight back to just like straight up CBT. I want you to compare it to something, please. It's right by my front door. It was not pretty. I know Lucy Lucy Dawkus I learned about from Scott Simpson a few years ago. And everybody thinks I want to be the race car. Yeah, but like it's satanic if you play it backwards. I gave a talk. That is ho, ho, ho, ho, ho. I'm pamming.

Remember that thing, remember that thing um Steve Jobs said about what was a Dropbox? Like and but like We have this beautiful system. It's um But you don't realize how much you're kind of like relying on it until you don't take it. R. I wouldn't do it again. Oh my god, Alex. Sometimes when it's very warm in our house, Mattel and I will say to one another, Ooh, it's hot in here. And she's a really good guitar player too. Like to see you on time. It's the approach that had been taken And um, but but it's been revised a bit over over the years. Like, I mean, obviously I don't want them to be hasty and dumb about it, but you have so many I'm sorry it's just so hot. See Shall I just you just tell me whatever you want to tell me.

Pickens? Mm-hmm. Oh, just Julian just Julian writ large. But but the piece was pickups are so obvious that I love it. I've tried it all. That's a true story, right? Yeah. I'm the I used to get yelled at all the time because I didn't like Facebook. It's really funny. Those uh Scotch triplets or something. And he says yeah. And you're like, well actually in that case that was And it in uh not the But like it's that is such a false that's such a like I've already made four. Um it's gonna be like the uh pretape colin show uh link Challenge this week. Yes There are some people who will just always, always, always peg you as the villain. And like it it had this And that's what it feels like. The right.

But but and then I'm not sure if you're not going to be able to do it. It's most of us because we don't feel safe. Did you catch that part? You know that thing where you hate like you open up a uh YouTube video or even worse, like a movie and it's like Mm-hmm. But she fucking rips. Let's see how this went. Um it it it's not even necessarily I've tried coming in every conceivable way. Why is my TV yelling at me? Ah I Now Roderick thinks it's because I was bad and dirty, but I don't think that's why. I'm in a silly mood and I'm just funning with you. Uh uh I I'm I'm actually asking you this because I don't know. Like it's She probably had like a waitress name, like Trixie or something. I And it's like that hilarious meme my kid showed me.

It's hard to do if you've got a minimalist desk because you want to really And pretty much the only thing I use it for is to say the phrase You guys go talk. Hello. There's a And like I gotta hold the iPad kind of off to one side and I I could s But like I'd like to just talk about what that can mean. You sound like the person who thinks women shouldn't ride on trains or they'll miscarry. And one is this Ooh. Here we go. It's available. Bless you're hot. That might come from like Let's do my friend. Now, that's what I used to say. Um, like sucking on a lollipop and Pete Davidson. But like He never has to write a phone number down because he know it's all recorded in his dingus. That's what I take Uh I wrote it down in the doc Um see from a different perspective.

Mar Marcy and I flew out. And I have to go make that version of myself here in the game. Is but it's not enough. Oh. I'm no waitress. Near me. But I'm how I am. You, for example No, I'm not asking you to apologize. You can't have an OnlyFans until you're done transitioning, is that what you're saying? No. Tackle box It's glasses for gals Hm. That sounds dirty. It's almost like somebody going, Oh, I slipped on your Like or you don't want you don't like and but But are the people who are playing video games do they all look like the rock in real life? Sixteen designers. I used to like to be Do it from the finder. That's why I'm here. Guys, this is not the great goo one. And like In curiosity is like Yeah.

Where do you find s where do you find Merlin talking with Kathy? Uh well Th this week's uh three, two, one. I'm not a gamer. And then I ask it to say the n word and it did say it and now I'm mad. That's what I'm worried about. I hate it. There's that that term for like that kind of the rap that that like especially a lot of ladies do now. Again, thinking thinking about in like What are we doing? Would Meryl Streep always want to play Meryl Streep in a movie? Could you tell I was testing you this morning? Oh, okay, right. It's how I learned about UGK Did you watch Minus and L? It's Go listen to you're not so smart. Well, what does that mean? I'm like, I'm just saying, look Oh my god, it's such a good bag It's like well why would you play it backwards?

Each device No, they're not those kind of brothers. I I tricksy tated. Yeah. You're not mad about it. Oh my gosh, that smokey eye. Stop. Is that like Irish twins? Are you a Madge? I've I've talked about this way too much, but All those things. What can I what can I prove is there? What are we doing? I know. Some are harder than others Okay, so at the end of the day Hurry up, asshole. Everything stop. Like I I don't have panic attacks, but like I thought you guys I thought you guys were just good at math, but Oh thank you much. But so Here's what you can do. You're thrilled. Right? Just funnin with you. Post Malone Cardi B Ariana Grande. Did you stop Wik using Wikipedia the first time you found an error on it?

He's a no isn't he a knowler? I'm asking you to be aware that I was testing you and you failed it. Yeah it was. Oh, we can do w whatever We give each other music recommendations twice or three times a year. No, no, but no. You're thrilled. Thank you. Stop stop. I'm like, okay. And like You go to the Coke Machine and you can get a Coke. This is a product, not a company. It's merely a start. That's what Uh I appreciate that. Otherwise I'm a fraud You just want to be ready. I I feel like I really get what you're saying. Oh, you're always uh You didn't catch that. Yep Nobody can ever find the feed. Anyways It's like preparing for Like probably not. I'll do the Scotch snap. What's happening? It's like raw transcript