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I have to tell you, I I do have three backups. The betas literally can't hurt you. And if anybody can tell me how to climb the cliff in uh Shadow of the Colossus, I'll I'll play more than three minutes of that. In this case, so I circled the Zelda with the I'm terrible. I'm not saying I'm Conan O'Brien, but like me and like a lot of other people, like all the people who want to go to bars during COVID, everybody needs a platform and an audience. So make her making her talk into a banana if she has anything to say. But there's a line where Sting goes, everybody sings, uh, I was like, hmm, I'm so tired of the Omega Man. I'm the candy puppy driver and I'm coming to pick you up. Actually, I'm not bad at going to sleep because I take a lot of medicine, but there are people who are like, and I I drive my wife crazy with this, where like I'll occasionally go, look at my penis.

There's like a seventy-year-old Asian man, he's really nice. And I was aware with the b you know bumper sticker culture, uh the burgeoning bumper sticker culture of the mid to late 70s. And sometimes I I've learned you snap the rudder rubber band and say, stop. You don't need to be a little bit more. You hearing it? What does Zach say? That's that's one I support very wholehearted. Um no, that's that's weird. is cool. uh mainly not to do another TV show, but also like not to do media and not to be on the internet. A lot of the independent work isn't very creative and a lot of the creative work isn't very independent. from Federico like 100 years ago, but that's that's my primary thing I look at.

Child go to go to uh give us your fucking money dot com. There's a lot of things. Oh we're getting a streetlight. No. uh you asked GPT like okay what can I do with this? Uh is that it? ts to Suno too late, or at the very least, they rele they c came out with a really f And then and then can we um can we wrap pretty soon just because I gotta dash home and then I can come back and Yes. Excuse me. And you're constantly reminding people of what's already happened. No problem, break a leg. I'm sorry for your person, but I'm also sorry that it's a it's a wrinkle in your life. is a psychiatric syndrome in which symptoms of a delusional belief, there you go that you're right on that one, are quote, transmitted, unquote, from one individual to another.

I have a lot of shit. It's an AI-based thing where you put in a uh a prompt, you type in what kind of song you want, and then it generates a song for you. Oh. I think he might live in Illinois. It's it's along the lines of like, oh yeah, I'm really into the Beatles. um my lovely spouse didn't need uh his m MacBook today and I do not put a beta on it but I'm using it and it's like being home and it makes If I could do it. Like you know what I mean? So he bought this kind of like a dorm fridge and I think it's like it's supposed to look like a Coke machine or something. And I'm I I like seeing it th inside things. It's either like 70 degrees or everything's frozen. Did you notice that? Peaches is in another tower is the problem.

Which is it's so cute. In each one of them, I circled a different object and just said, uploaded and said, what is this? And I mean like this this plus stuff like I'm fucking blown away 'cause I take pictures of the birds in our bird feeder all the time. And it's the kind of first thing people notice and go, Oh, are you special? And there's that little thing where you get the sparkly info eye in photos. Uh oh, Dr. The show ended as Griffin left Polygon, meaning that nobody actually stopped him from doing this somehow. I only look at like five sites. It gets kind of real at several points. It's so fucking funny is that his head he's always talking about how huge his head is and like how hard it is for him to like he couldn't do like a one one bit like he could never do undercover boss because unless you could make his head narrower It's the stupidest when they get to the Viking funeral and you're like, God, this show, it's just swings and swings and swings.

it you know, obviously he's f he's angry and frustrated, like not at anybody, but like at this whole fucking system where like he out tried to do everything the right way and tried to like you know, he just really wants but like they he they really get at something. Sh I mean where the what the fuck do you do now? But he's like I think it was called something like the legally the legally prohibited from being funny on TV tour. Like, no, that's not that's not a great fit either. And I think everybody feels that a little bit. to to find at least for me, to find the people where we like what each other does. so annoying that I'm insufferable. uh liked about that documentary was Conan being very real, but raw just so raw.

I hope he's not an actual asshole in life, but like that's his bit. Lonely, I was gonna try and do that thing I do where I try and for try to find a more precise word, even though I mostly agree with you, but honestly, lonely is not a bad word for it. Often what I'm talking about is close to the stuff that I call a vacation, which is like I'm not in some kind of obligatory situation. And I was just I was you know, waiting to start with you, uh today and you you kindly uh gave me some extra time. And okay, first of all, who the fuck needs that? There's so much traffic. to get the right screenshot, fix the aspect ratio, and add the correct subtitle manually to it so that Matt Walsh in the response to the police toot is saying, I'm so tired of the Omega Man.

Arguably one of the seven most annoying things about what I'm saying here is like I have no interest in achieving anything. And perhaps surprising to any number of people, I didn't get to always be who I wanted to be when I was independent. And I'm not I'm not asking anybody to do anything. I bet I'm not alone and feeling a little bit adrift. Like I didn't get to be the way I always wanted to be when I worked at McDonald's. 3D model of a pregnant woman with a sonogram in a heart on her gut, and then I print a smaller 3D. Hoo hoo hoo! And then especially, especially if there are things where it's starting to bother you that those loops aren't closed. th just think of it as a maze that I'm not necessarily trying to get out of.

Fuck you. And you see like when you were had this much like green or like red means you haven't gotten enough sleep yet. Where like I wouldn't suddenly like bust up to him and start talking about the Lord or something. a trucker cap that says Federal Body Inspector. It it's like the d the job. Um the guy who's the project manager for this, I'm gesturing broadly with my right arm to all the things you've heard over the past two years on my podcast, right? This is I mean this is not a it's a busy-ish street by our neighborhood standards, but it's not like a strode where you get off to go to Stuckies. um going into court and she's wearing a bedazzled um monogrammed uh ankle monitor which i thought was really fucking co funny and cool with it but it's it's cool.

Your house. that you would uh describe something in mid-journey and it poops out a song, you can do genre, tone, uh whatever. uh pika or whatever it is i i it is trying so hard to generate a song and not uh have uh a uh And I lied and said it it broke well, uh I mean I'm the one who broke it. You you don't see writers saying, Wow, this was really great at uh rewriting my email be because it's it's not. The the in the same way, if there was a uh uh a physical thing or like an air an if there was an air horn and that really went like anywhere nearly. You ready for your new bio? My goodness. So I ended like I don't know. But even on my pretty powerful, relatively powerful Mac, like it would take a lot a while.

It it wouldn't let me reference the Rens. You are kind of going for not Jimmy Eat World, but like some like a like an like a emo mainstream emo kind of vibe, right? But I I liked it. There there you can't make anything that would lead to something more interesting uh sonically either, I think. I have weirdly gotten paid, at least on two occasions, to write like a miniature rock opera for a sponsor, and I've done it all in garage band, but listen, all everything except What is it? Fucking chimera. I'm either I'm putting it I'm not gonna say see. We already talked about that. Co-host using Suno. I I'm gonna brag for a second because a couple w weeks ago, I don't feel like this is jinxing it uh jinxing it, but a couple weeks ago my mother-in-law had a heart attack and I was Well, I d uh I br doesn't have to be anal.

situation uh it's a double trouble that's in the dsm five it's a if if you've had more than this many symptoms in the last six months My understanding of folia du is that it's when it's a madness shared by two people, so to speak. You get two people and and they go they on some kind of a uh they they sub I think the meaning is that there are two people with disordered something. Clinician, but I think Well, you're very uh confident in diagnosing my situation. Can can I send you what I made for the challenge? But that's all right. Leave this in. Just or at least with the little levels levels. This one might be you actually bad because it's the regular old setup. like to an SSD and then on top yesterday I did a carbon copy cloner, you know, like uh I cloned it to another SSD.

Haven't had it fixed. That was the joke, sweetie. And if you ever want to talk about it in terms of like why I fucking hate it. with stuff in it that works. That's an option. I I just kept looking and rewatching the part with the the dish the most recent half of the dishwasher. And I also bought the exact one that he said didn't work, the the finish or luster or dingus or whatever the name was of the one that has like three pods and looks like a an RSS or a podcast logo. What's it called? that with when it comes to podcasts, generally, in Merlin's experience, you come for the topic and stay for the voice. But there are some people who are who are, for example, so uh s special that that they're they're so gay bones for Satoshi Kone movies that they can't appreciate how funny the hosts are.

circled uh the photo I took a photo it is indeed Zelda and not Link. Facing west at our house, you can see the Pacific Ocean a little in the background. that was not thriving in I think it was a little overwatered in my garden, so I'm thinking about what to do with it instead. Also, I think this is just as cool. And I I'm sure it'll be well, I hope it'll be even b better w when Apple intelligence comes uh comes through, but uh it it can do d like The amount of dog breeds, uh I'm like, did you consult the kennel? Isn't that amazing? Griffin's Amoeba Corner was a show in which 30 under 30 media luminary Griffin McElroy tries out Nintendo's new amiibos by putting them in his mouth. Lot that y'all don't know or don't remember, but I I mean from the time that I went from initially live even on live journal, I was making my own like special live journals, but like once I could make anything I wanted in movable type, I mean shit all the time.

Things I found in nature that would be good titles for a guided by voices song. Yeah. like a lot of people, but I I miss a lot of things. you know, being the bad boss or whatever. about what happened with Jay Lano. you know, or whatever, media content creation. And it was like, that's funny. Rewatch old sketches. And like for me, if I say something that I know is funny, it bums me out if it doesn't reach the person who I know would also think it's funny. multi-course prefi fancy meals going on and a lot more fast casual dining going on. And then and then fire her, like threaten to fire her. Or him and Jordan Schlansky. people, honestly. where you'll be if you like the idea of the police or some part of the police, I have a pretty good I made this for all of you.

It's like no, like if you've never heard Omega Man or haven't heard it since 1981, you might be surprised how good that is. uh y y like you didn't feel this way bef before? Because there's no titular line in Star Wars. But maybe it is that I partly that I just had more proximity to people who didn't hate how I am. You know, Anne Hathaway's lipstick. I make the things that that make me happy and make me laugh. Like, who's that for? um what is happening with Anne Hathaway or Hunter Biden. stuff or uh but but on top of that it's it's not just a lack of audience it's This is just occurring to me and straight off to off the dome, but and part of a more omnibus effort for something I'm working on. in his weirdly cult-like way that I think is really smart as like closing open loops.

I like I don't talk about the size of my penis because like it's it's not germane. That wins. time period that it shows and the darkness of that little square tells you how much deep sleep or like good sleep you got. crazy for me. You know what I mean? But you're saying I could go and talk to I could feed an apple to the black man and we could commiserate on our on our surprisingly large hogs. say like, oh yeah, I didn't get honk if you're horny. Which is things where like everybody else knew about, not even like like, oh, that you can reboot a thing by pressing this button. Let's talk about it sometime. That means I just caught myself doing something that is not the plan, like they say on the Veep.

That's not our plan. I just cause it with rented equipment. Plastic things you can put on your light switch. your porch light or whatever, this actually turns a switch, a an outlet, a two pig face outlets that turns your 110 outlet off the the real stuff like the the hood it's a hey everybody took a ticket dig what If you gotta go to an old school KFC like we have where the bucket turns and you gotta be or you know it could be static, but a big bucket, you don't realize the what the what size things in the sky are. I mean if they asked you. Did you follow that? What do they call it? Fucking coward. Mm you so you I hate it. What else do I have in here? Do you do you like it? Like how are you not gonna be frustrated?

I don't know. And I here is a time that I did like a couple of things. talked about this a ton, but the reason is I keep being surprised by new uh things. Uh I and the reason I talk about it. Just say something funny. thing and I wanted uh something I suppose that would lead to a different idea uh you know how y you just you had the example of ask Because I think that'd be kind of funny. Figuring, but you can download these. Four, could you please read me your pop? A a power pop post punk a song about growing your own plants and a man finding his way through the world. Oh hell yeah. I did twenty. s stuff if you pay for it, but no, it you just have more prompts, which is and it's a little bit faster.

seemingly in the background and you just come back later and it's all there. He has he has two jobs, a class, and yeah. And they're really fucking good. Every corner whispers Days without you When we see Oh no Isn't that good slide in the snow This is what amazed me though. The g which it's not. Capable of doing what it is that I asked for. You know what I mean? um Joker movie that uses that phrase and it's a shame because it's a really good phrase. And uh this week's challenge was to uh make a song with Suno. Yeah. Uh no separ I have a separate literal little self uh separate shelf dingus so I don't pull a Casey and knock anything into it. Like I I but I have very strong opinions about why I think he is good at it that I would be happy to discuss that I wish other people would learn from.

shared stuff with family and blah blah blah and all that stuff use the passwords app but wait I'm deep in the stack now um so the heart attack son let you borrow the computer. If you're open to it, a lot of stuff can be part of your work. Powdered dish soap arriving because of his latest video. And and corollary constellation contra code, up, up, down, down, left Mario, you uh may discover that there are podcasts you love because of the VoI. Because they got off the outline. You could take a photo of something. Take a photo, and then after it's taken the photo, you see a little text at the bottom that says something like, you know, annotate Uh what was I saying? an airstream trailer or something.

Oh yeah. Alla. Can you pick one thing to be mad about why you hate? people are leaving t Twitter and you're I I suppose you have interesting people following you on Mastodon, but not people's blogs are fun and it's It's great. I just it's I can't find good stuff the way that I used to or in the places that I used to. a social media site, I mean part of it is I do I like talking to people. Um, not and don't bring their own jokes, but like I've had so much pleasure and success from a friendship standpoint, even from meeting people where we liked each other's stuff. the video that you posted that I actually did see on Mastodon, which is an amazing series where uh Conan and Andy The interviewer in documentarian, I guess, like is talking to him as he's driving his car and at the beginning and saying, like, you know, basically just really asking him questions about like Satisfied with life.

So keep it real simple. Do you think that part it does it give you a sense of loneliness? is uh in the kitchen cooking. he talks about being lonely through the whole thing. A big part of the fact that I I rarely feel lonely. I might get toward that. Merlin 2. who pretend to laugh at things on the internet? But there's a great line in that song from from which the title comes. Like whatever. You know what I mean? I feel like they're out there probably. I I mean, I sometimes I'm willfully isolated. And 3D printing as I do. in the same way as other people. like the fucking w oh what are uh what does Fox News even call it like the l like loneliness epidemic and and uh that yeah yeah Oh or the thing about how all teenagers are depressed because of phones.

The uh um I wrote it on my phone, but you know what? More likely, they're going about different things that B don't bother them as much And eventually worked out some kind of a provisional plan for addressing it. Well even and and just recognize maybe how f deep into it I am or even like is is the maze like a square? Um and when I found out uh like a very long time ago that people like don't have thoughts before they go to sleep, like I I am just You always do this and then we don't talk about it in the after show. You know what the first one is? Well, I mean then you need to assume that the moon landing wasn't fake, so you know. So that way you could hook a lamp to that. People like my family's been mad at me for fucking up the lights my entire life.

Or how do you know when it's not? And it's made of TPU, so it's kind of rubbery. I also figured out that you can screenshot uh information pages about your Roomba or your Segway and you can upload that to the Dingus and tell it to remember it. I wonder if I can upload all of my uh manual PDFs and be like, here are all of my things. Oh. As specific as I would fucking get with Suno, it still wouldn't do what I wanted it to do. with the be because what Suno does is you can describe a song or describe what sort of song you like the same way Or you can upload your own lyrics and then do the same thing. Because I played with it. Mainly not not because I mean not because it never could do it, but because I hadn't yet learned what these kinds of things are good at.

I pulled off the back and was like, we're done with this. I'm good. I I sent you a link to the song that I think had best results. Oh, okay. so addictive. over the weekend. fine-tuned model that really strips uh any sort of Yeah, like kind of like like sands off the edges. disappointing part is if you try to do any sort of prompts that uh and and you try to describe it in and like for a musical, it does this is not something to make uh like it The vocals on everything I've done for those was all done on an iPad on purpose to see what I could do. Who Brad? That chorus is so fucking catchy. It is pretty cat which is often what I say about you. I have a Mac today and was like, oh, oh, I can do loop back.

Mm. you know, a movie like uh oh what's the what's the David Lynch movie with Nicholas Cage and Laura Dern? Mm you needed to add for your co-host at the end. I was gonna post this because I thought because I thought it was funny, but then I realized, you're a grown-ass man. And the f it started because your touch ID key wasn't touch ID-ing or was just not powering at all It's very similar to what you would get in that tab in Safari. I'm just repeating what other smarter people have said, but I think what Apple would say is we have a place almost everything that you have I can make a face. you know, dingus and a cap. Annotate the photo if you want. Yeah, I uh Isn't that kind of cool that you can do that?

Or like morning dove, you know what I mean? And I just don't have a large number of places right now where that's anything at best that's a that's a star once a week. I don't see and engage with people and they don't see and engage me in a way that we used to do, which is a real hole in my life. Uh yeah, he's my le letterman. and mentality. I want to come back to a thread that's five years old and like look at Darth. isolated and this probably is me projecting because I've become well no because I have been uh I mean I know it's funny isolated and lonely. frustrated because I'm not I'm not yet ready to recalibrate my sensibilities in order to feel more loved. And every time I hear it I th I think of the same thing.

Who's who the fuck is that for? isolated and depressed and just, you know, very public. from Apple News Plus just because I know I'll be able to use it for a bit at some point. Growing up different and everybody knows what their different is. I mean, uh it could be that could be one of the things, but I a lot of lonely people don't want to recognize that the diffic Yeah. With a lot of people, but you know, that includes us, one or another. Oh, as soon as their head hits the pillow, they're out. And if you use auto sleep, it's almost it's like a Bloomberg terminal. Because uh it is it it is a stereotype. I thought he was just asking an honest question about seeming like a creep. I don't think that's true, but that's very good.

But I'm I'm glad that you are getting a stoplight. Oh, look at that. Oh, I thought that I was a little bit more. It's not really swing that surprises you in the way that Chat GPT surprises me. Yeah, and I I think it though. Yeah, and it doesn't work. to it, I s I suppose. But would you listen to please listen to something with me and and then w we could put the audio in later? Mmm. And he talks about technology. He and Adam Neely are extremely good at a thing that almost no one else is good at. Oh, that's really good. Of course I'm excited to get the AI stuff, but that's gonna be a while. Challenge because challenge. Yeah, exactly. So I took that photo, I circled um Peaches, and it says the item you circled in the new image is a figurine of Princess Zelda by series by Nintendo.

how it feels like to not have an audience, to like not have a way to to perform the way that he performs. It's if you don't have an outlet for the thing for your special thing, like it's frustrating. But in the in the world that I've you know evolved or has been evolved for me, like were like those energy draining things like meetings and like I I'm not in those kinds of things, but to answer your uh to answer your query, the questions are written down for me. You ever seen this? Print of that exact same thing and put it inside the heart. Yes. Um did you write down to remind me to talk about people later about who I like? No, I mostly do Sleep Plus plus and Apples uh uh stuff because Okay. Sure.

That's absolutely one of mine is I never realized that it's because horns honk. Or in my case, the 70s song, the creepy 70s song, if I said you had a beautiful body, would you hold it against me? Would you hold it against me? Or like what uh what Fellini wrote over his eyepiece on a piece of tape when he made the movie eight and a half. It fits perfectly. No. Um, let's see. Silicon Valley Bro who speaks in Poster. I'm so mad. Um Postal Service ripoff? I I I think it is a double like a double troubles Uh w also on the s on her sixtieth birthday. Very special people on mess done are not gonna get the joke. In the the way they would put it, hey you know, if you like your one if you like your password management app, you can keep it.

And if you were here I'd touch your phone. And it said it says that it's it I've had it previously say that it's an aloe, but like in this case it goes, it's a succulent uh and it looks like a hydroponic setup you've got. And he's one time he said something that's it's so such a good bit, he's like, my head is my head is so huge. But um I was talking about what I like and I was talking about uh off. Like I I wanna like that I wanna I want access to all of those tools and I want people to see it and I want it to be sensible and I just feel like I haven't quite figured out a way unless I have actually just become They're his only audience at the moment, and I think it's uh doubled or tripled down because there's a camera following him, but I don't think once Today, you know, I love making playlists.

Fail. So many things I'm trying to avoid saying because it becomes too specific. That sounds healthy. You ever read Gerda Uscherbach? not having literally not having community or having anyone to talk to. I know, but uh um uh m who would I talk about being sad? I can't. If I said you had a beautiful body, would you hold it against me? Twenty pounds, you'd be you'd be like a stick. The the what do you call it? So like real quick, real quick, the smart thing I was gonna say is, yeah, because you know what, you fucking idiot, because now it's something you really care about. Right. Yeah. Jargon and has a poverty sucks Can you see your oh you know what you could do? Is that true? Yes, yes, I saw that one.

That's yes. You know, cause I cause part of like okay, sorry, we're so deep in the stack. Mario. Oh I thought. It the worst thing I could do is let let's just take the scenario that you're describing here where I'm so depressed and lonely and isolated. And there's a very funny scene in the second episode of the show where Matt Walsh, no, the other one, goes into a video store and starts bugging this guy about how he had the title line, the titular line in Star Wars. That's the Millennium Falcon. So what the fuck am I gonna do? I don't know Racer car. the difficulties or the differences. I I'm I th oh god. My mind is constantly offering up stuff that I could be like obsessed in a little not anxious, not sad, but like the my mind is constantly giving me loops that I know aren't closed.

Yeah. All the business on Terra Ball Street. Uh the newsletter monkey or whatever it's called. Paid in it that is a hip hop song? You may have a double double trouble crazy situation. Folia du, French for madness of two, also known as shared psychosis or shared delusional disorder, SDD. This is sad. I I haven't had uh any uh time loss visual or audible Because I'm I'm super f Must be nice. Isn't that fun? No, you got in slightly more than one, but that's fine. I I think I just realized why I'm disappointed in this. What's what's that noise for? Yes, I do. But he d what what's it called? But but like also I the reason I say that though is certain number of apps, certain number of sites, is that as I've said here and I've heard other people say like I'm just out of good stuff.

Do you feel like what no, I I'm just like I'm I'm like I'm like a I'm like an open wound with a webcam on it. I'm trying to I don't know how to say this, but there's a lot of things. Workshop it. Oh man, and that the I think the fake Teenage Fan Club one was pretty good. Chicago streets are quiet Echo every step Where do you get the chorus? Oh when can I see you again by Owl City. Alex, really? Mario. I I How does he know that's a housefinch? What do you mean by engage with? It's like web stats where all web stats are wrong, but as long as they're consistently wrong, it's useful. I'm gonna get a horn. There should be more. I well it happened like right before we were going to record. Hot. Yeah, no, I want to look it up because if it's it's like a shared illusion.

Again. Leave all this in. And it lost its touch ID-ness. I imported all my stuff. Yeah, it uh I still am a little like where do I put my fancy or important docs? Such a deep cut. When he left NBC, he had a severance package. relies on a version of me that's not me. That's oh man. It's all those children with their telephones. And the people who don't want to do that. Like I think I have I'm collecting all the things that's you that I found useful to remember to say to myself. Oh God, I have wanted this first. Surprised and delighted by new things? Um I wanna say I'm surprised and delighted new things, but I wanna sound like a dumb Yeah. Never gained out L's really makes you think color is bright All the world feels just right I think you did a great job.

Uh bagels? Or all running literally the first, the first beta. Like, see, Alex, I know we're not gonna be mad about this. what my sense of humor is to try and attract people who would. Hong Hong K. Like that doesn't help for me to go look at me, I'm sleeping great. Pennyx sees to the light Oh Phoenix seeds do the light Takata take it Like we're where people like they're gonna be asking like like what happened in this song? That's what she said anyway, yeah. What better way to do a special than to have in a very special friend who's also a very special guest? Yes. But you know oh I I end up buying so much stuff because of his goddamn YouTube channel. It's you know like you gave Billy that really cute Corgi planter?

I think I think I I agree but for a I don't disagree with your reason, but like I agree and for like an a an analog uh a similar reason which is like I only use like nine apps on my phone And I really I really admire that. Th the nut of the documentary uh uh like is it I don't I I wouldn't tell your nice Asian neighbors about your giant penis. Later, enjoy the apple. Did you have you had good results getting what you wanted or expected? A lot of them sounded the same and it's unlike something like stable diffusion or the earliest days of mid-journey and um uh uh I can't decide what they are. The option is to repair it. And then look at but look at the one with the aloe plant. Dang. No, no. But do you want to talk about the challenge?

There's a new to me name for this assets. Check the shit out. There's a train coming so you're running But I can't find the light We'll be sitting behind the road Feeling switch my stones You've got the worst you're either a liar or you've got the worst luck of anybody I've ever personally been acquainted with. Not miserably. I know I know. I did not get this far. I uh uh stop stop just stop thinking about uh I put some amiibo in my mouth see if we'll fit 0 from back in the day is like, well, I'm not gonna cut muscle to lose weight. You ever seen this sketch? This is Stand back, I don't know how big this thing gets. I mmm I I have not as many as I thought, I guess. And uh with chat GPT, specifically with the uh like c coding stuff and the documentation stuff Just don't look at the text and press play.

Oh wow. I turned off all the fancy stuff. Oh my god, this release has so much great stuff in it. Like and so like he had a s uh Alec who has a last name and I think lives in Illinois. An amiibo of Zelda in a really cool outfit. Stew by Friday. I went up to the like free limit or whatever. But you um you you you can say like you could basically say give me like click click click click click like give me ten of these then go make a different one. Uh the guitar driving the song plays Arpeggios on a Rickenbacker 12 string. Oh, sorry. Oh yeah. I want to know why because there's some of the things that are. Yeah, it very much sounds like you f uh are almost Where's my well I want to hear people complain about their computer and what they're mad about today.

And look at all these. That means I've drifted off because of my garden variety ADHD. We're getting uh streetlight on our street. Anna Dalvi foundation. I took us off our topic again. Here's the thing. This is your house? Like like I I mean I'm not criticizing you, but yours seems extremely flat compared to this one. We've talked about that before. Oh I'm so sorry. I posted a Zelda this morning on I'm Mastodon. If you don't have a way for some people, that's probably Facebook groups, I'm guessing. Oh, that's a really good way to put it. Like what was the thing you just said that was funny? Look at that. Bright eyes come and shadows grow carpet speak and flow Copeland to wake up I don't know. Cyber people?

You're saying they they should buy you a computer? Can you do me a favor, click click on that and then and please so click there's a there's two two two images, two screenshots. I think he's in Illinois too. Will we ever get out of Africa? Do you know about that? You're not really related to that person. Have you ever seen the David Lynch movie The Elephant Man? No, no, I am not. So you're saying I should roll up to the black man in our neighborhood, bring him an apple on my scooter, and say, uh excuse me, uh young man. I'm gonna close this. I'm ignite New Life goes in the light. Like I got addicted like when I was doing the stable diffusion stuff with Mike Pence, uh, you know, it would take a real long time and you could say, okay, give me four You could put a needle in your eye right now and you wouldn't feel it.

And as it happens, the oven door is squeaking, and he makes a remark about that, which is like exactly what Conan O'Brien would do I don't know. It's fucking great. I I can think about how many times people think it's the perfect sound and we had one in the office. I am super jazzed and totally stoked about these disruptive innovations, bro. You do this to people. He has a very good new one about dishwashers. And um he has a very nice dishwasher that I envy. Is yours yours is still out of commission? The thing where you it's the gun where you shoot at something and you see how hot or cold it is, what the temperature is? I hadn't noticed this before. Oh shit, did you watch did you watch them fixing the mug with Brian Stack?

It's it is hard for me to un not hard for me to understand this feeling, but uh I am very accustomed, I suppose, to be uh And so like there's there's that aspect of it. Did you ever put tape on a light switch and say don't turn this off? Um, do people say that to you your whole life? Oh. And you might think like, oh, that's not very descriptive, but the more descriptive you get, the weirder it gets, but not in a fun way, the way that specifically stable diffusion gets. But I mean I I also don't make music. You know, before we f fuck, I'm sorry. Podcast you may love because of the voice, in spite of the topic. If whatever your platform and your audience is, whatever your performance is, and there are people who may not want to think of it that way.

Um I think you're one of the more there's a lot more fast casual mining. Yes. Okay, and I'm gonna play this on ready. He um and he does technology connections on YouTube, which Alex will hopefully remember to put a link to because I won't. Did you see the one on the refrigerator? It's just there's so much stuff. I think it's funny. It's not just like they're shouting into into the void. Just across the colour. How big how big is a red light? Oh mmm, oh right. Check the shit out. And like I it's my one of my least favorites so far of these kinds of things that I've done. Whereas I'm willing to say, I'm willing to say, like, please generate an image of Mike Pence eating crying while he eats a crossword and sitting on a gravestone.

I want to say I'm surprised and delighted by new things, but I want to sound like a dumb Silicon Valley bro who speaks in jargon and has a poverty sucks poster. Look, Billy made everything biggles. I've listened to this song eight times today. My gut is, what I say, Al City, what's the name of the band at the end of Wreck It Ralph? Because I never know when you're telling the truth. I don't It's not sad. It's up there. Oh here's some money. The one where he jury he goes out to an at a fancy Italian restaurant with Jordan is so painful. I want to feel love for who I am, not for who you had time to see. Yeah, yeah. How do you how would you put it? Um what is it? Wow. It wasn't the worst. Oh my god.

Oh, yeah. It's a very good documentary. The gatekeeper said sorry, you're definitely not we haven't been welcome here since nineteen ninety three. Well like I still feel like I'm not that annoying to somebody else. Like I don't need I don't even need to know. That's it. Um I want to say and what what what are we saying here? The drums the drums are a little uneventful. You could say reuse prompt. I gotta go home to my palace and eat my lobster. Green thumb. Um would you do me a favor and click on this? Oh, yeah. I sound I sound like I'm sad and depressed, but like I'm just being real with you. I see him out there. It's in the public domain. Oh man. You you you passed the test. Now a dumb guy, dumb guy who thinks he's smart goes, it doesn't understand what REM is.

Am I crazy? Well that's becoming a pretty handy excuse for everything it doesn't work, ain't it? And it's like, I see it. I uh what's I mean? That's your bio. Play me your song. I mean this is not that is not I keep trying to have it do jangle pop for me and it You uploaded uh photo of something on the windowsill. God, this isn't this is not 2015. The internet's still fun in places. Yes. Mount Walsh goes, yeah, yeah, but I had the titular line. Racer car. Chasing dreams at night In a place so full of sparks But I can't find the light Yeah. No. Like there's not that many blogs that update. He's very and he but he talks about I was saying we were watching last night I was saying to Mad like they just kind of admire how much he's a guy whose whole career is based in Hollywood Everybody knows the police.

And he's back there with the feathers. It's for somebody. You know? Does it play the ice cream song too? It was okay, so this is this is I'm sorry I took us off again. If you go to if if you do reuse prompt and then uh it it it does like a playlist and it g or at least it shows you all of the songs that you've made. No, no, it won't uh no R E M. Send send me your oh, those look uh is that bread? And he's he's so in my wheelhouse. I said it on rectifs and I think it's really smart. You know that singer Peaches? And she's like, oh God. Baggels? Um I mean pretty soon people are gonna mostly know it for a really extremely dumb reason. Of course you don't. Alright, let's do it. What does he say? It's just I feel like uh I don't know, I feel a little bit like a man without a country.

Well, it's for me. Did you know that? Hong Kong. The problem is if that's the only thing in the room and it's attached to your router, woof. You think other people have problems on the scale that you do? I'm so sorry. Your your spouse your spouse in law, Mrs. You do this. That's white or pink noise. And you can put them in your freezer or fridge and they'll track the temperature of your freezer or fridge over time. And it's just, you know, basically. It looks it's a little trailer, but like it's a little pot. Whereas I the reason I started the blogs that I started, and I've had a lot of blogs. That was a great way to put the challenge. Oh can I make a suggestion? You're not gonna tell me the prompt, but you sent me a song You're Biting U95.

MailKimp. Yes, and then it just slowly degraded and uh supposedly as water damage. Kind of kind of true. Yes. Oh I bought I bought I bought Cascade, but I also bought dishwasher cleaning um pods. No, because it just turns of practicality. Yeah, so look at this. No, but the cards office is not a good place for all horrors. That's it. That should be your bio. Can't wait to tell my giraffe about it. And that was my Huh. Like, you know, his whole bit with firing Sona is so fucking funny to me. Like, I don't need to know any more about Hunter Biden's trial. Um the first twenty pages. Ooh. Yeah, like 1. Um I have it too. Oh, oh, oh, that's your song. Oh, it's gonna be left in. Like stories of old is another very good one.

And then somebody else goes, Well, like, okay, well like, do you have a favorite record or era of the Beatles? Uh but uh but uh but uh but uh but uh but uh he had to do something that involved his regular refrigerators, big boy refrigerator, and he needed a place to put stuff for more than like like a m amount of time that you put in a cooler. Uh next week's challenge, find the best YouTubers. It's a totally blurry photo of a bird. I'm not asking you to go give me stars or something. Lonely? They're resistant to acknowledging that isolation. I mean he seems really nice. Sticking it. This week's challenge was to make a song for your co-host using so no soon. Look at this. When we sing. I mean I I was I I've uploaded things from my phone before.

I make a joke. The ladies are going to be a little bit more than a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a I don't know why I thought I knew I I I have no idea. Who goes first? And then and then you're like, oh yeah, I got an anal probe at six, and so I need to lay down for a little while. Not miserably, just yeah. No, no, no. And like fat stuff like that. Yeah. Like this is making me very uncomfortable. I screenshot it. My cascades are arriving today. There's a way in which the results are astonishing. I really was bummed by this. Your son owns a factory? I think I know the why is the important part.

You know? Is those are just two off the dome that are I think are very difficult. Or do you want to be sad more? I I was like what? Well, uh that's why I am writing it as well. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Oh it is oh Wow, I got the name right and everything. How would you know if you'd seen it? Like, what is the f thing on the far left? And he's willing to say, no, I I was I'm still very angry, but I was so angry for a while that it was hard for me to get anything accomplished. I will also write it on Matt's computer. I'm great at shitting and I know that if people knew how great I am at shitting, they would be envious. I'm gonna lose twenty pounds tonight. Oh. A stoplight. God. And it but it it's It came out kind of Owl City or something.

That's not something old people say. What are you implying? It had three items in it. And I think he's funny. Is it to like, forgive my saying, dumb down the the complexity of a reference to have somebody else think it's funny? And uh while while back I started, you know, I do this gentle I do these things on Spotify called gentle introduction to thus and such band. Do you know what I'm saying? Isn't that kind of cool? I'm getting a horn. Um I'll click reuse prompt. I think the drums could have been more interesting, but but what's funny is like I I felt like I knew and I see you from your description, I understand, like Um please click on the Griffin one and please read the the fandom description of what um Griffin's amiibo corner is.

I see it. Anyone can use it. Now a lot of people who are listening to it, it's gonna be one of those stories like You're Sovaying, where everybody's like, well, wait, well, what's this about? Oh, maybe we've got to be. That that makes me so so happy. Um the beard that's a big thing. I'm great at being alone. Well, if you read what it says, what it says is that whether you are very into the police or were never into the police, I'll bet you'll find at least one song here And then inside of that, if you go all the way down, there's if you look carefully enough, there's a bamboo labs printer logo. I just don't have an addressable audience for somebody who has the same interest in Roland Barth, uh, Gerda Lescher Bach.

Uh that I I mean, uh open loops is a good way to put it, but I always sort of 4. Is that Glockenspiel? But you know what I mean? No, yeah, I was gonna say could be an ocular probe. Because people people have contact with you and then they start feeling crazy, in my experience. Don't require any context. His bit is he's talking about how hard this is and how unfocused he is. And then Ian's like, no, that's not a line in the movie. I would go like eight inches. I know, right? That's your bio. I'm I'm I'm uh surprised at new things? It's a really good song, but like, and I was sobbing. Well, why are we why are two-thirds of the people I do podcasts with are constantly reminding me about things that have already happened?

Yeah, I I think he just said cyborgs. Can you pick one thing to argue with me about instead of arguing with me about all the things? Because you've always had weird uh shit on on the internet. Isolation is way too strong of a of a term. You and I are talking about very different forms of isolation. I told my kid early on if you need to actually a white van ever stops and needs your help finding a puppy, get in. Can we find my puppy? Check this out. I hate it. Okay, there. Can I make a suggestion? MailKimp. I'm gonna show you after this. Well am I wrong? Would I the gift card? And, you know, sort of the the the converse, you know, not everything has to be your work. And I said the dingus lets you take a photo and annotate it and then it does things you ask it for.

Do you think it's like a really mainstream thing that everyone will get? There's there's not that much I can do about a lot of things in the world, but I have my little crafting bench right here where I can make the things that I make. My my posterior appears to be a nautical emergency. Three, two, one, click. Thank you. I I went too fast. Oh, I love that guy. Like have you ever had the dorm fridge problem where it's like everything suddenly freezes for no reason? It's very cool. And, you know, I I kind of acqu O'Brien's an acquired taste and I could see why people wouldn't like his bit. It's Millennium Falcon is a spaceship. So here's what I did. Come on, it's real talk. Well, why aren't they closed?

You know, another one is you could just say this is a line from a Star Wars movie, stay on target. It's the red, yellow, and green unit. Oh we also scaled my office. So I'm sending you a link and then when you're ready, we'll click on it. And it's awesome. Really? But just the regular features are so good in this release. Where like now I'm stretching out a little bit. I know we're mostly just bored, but like this is the kind of thing where I'm like, I know it's bad for the environment, I guess, but like If you got a case for your head, it would make a head look even bigger. And part of that severance package was that he had to agree not to do But like I'd bum a lot of people out with my penis.

Two weeks ago, finally figured out honk if you're horny. He smiles and waves and I smile and wave and you know, you know the relationships, like you you've established like a level. Uh stoplight. No, no. Mm-mm. Working on my own more than ever, I had to act like I was wearing a suit all the time. I didn't realize that and again, the c one of the the canonical example I always give from I'm sorry you guys, I do a show uh with a friend of mine and we talked we have a thing we call Things It Took Me Too Long to Realize. This right here, do you remember on the very special episode where you were so very special with Sir Cusa and me? I started screenshotting info pages on my phone of all my things and then uploading and saying, this is called Office Roomba.

Uh uh wait, wait, where no where can I Oh yeah, like uh where oh that's a good question. And I thought, like, oh, is there more uh like does does it make better There's no way to say this one is in a text. Just not by blood. Oh, I see it. I don't know if you saw it. This is in the production version. That's a lot of Venn diagram to settle. I don't want to. Like just ha ha ha hey, how's it going? Take all that bullshit out where you get all sweaty about your career. Is that true? It's sweet. No, it it is true. It's not like it doesn't like look that cool, but it's it's it is useful. Are you good at circling things? But uh what was my point? And whoever else can figure it out. Does it play like Turkey in the straw?

Stop now you s you supposedly know the MPU. This is a s this is a stoplight. That's very impressive. Um, oh, the but uh when uh I go in and I I will describe we've When would I lie? I mean, before we get to the AI stuff, I mean I can say with confidence that like Oh, it's that that's true. I didn't get to be the way they always wanted to be when I worked at a dot com. I'm making an Apple News Plus joke probably. Like it's very difficult to understand. Challenge. They're handling it differently in playground now. Yeah, no, I I most definitely did not uh peanut butter, but uh the the most Baggels, baggels. I mean other people would say, you know, you gotta follow the outline, but we don't even really have an outline.

Was that was that now it is embarrassing, yes. Uh they if they I'm saying that they should give us money because then I can buy uh c well, I can fix my one computer. No spoilers. And like if I print out a d a weird th Yeah yeah yeah. Uh my mind's always going. Should we should we do it? I thought uh the reason that you wouldn't like it would be similar to to why I I didn't, which it wasn't just, you know, it's not there yet in terms of And I'm like, oh, it's broken now. With Pika. We're not even getting into my new favorite app, DJ, which is going to basically take all of my time from now on. And then here's you. And I said, um, I said, you know, I did a screenshot of Carbon Copy Cloner being done.

And I suspect we both have a lot of incoming open loops, fair? She's like, I get a s I get like half an hour of deep sleep at night. Yes. Sometimes you fe you feel like that, right? Everything's gonna fall apart because I'm officially getting a Clarabelle the Clown style honk honk clown horn. Um, and we're gonna do a three, two, one and you'll add this. It doesn't stop you from continuing generating new ones, which is I think a really clever way to do these kinds of things. Hey everybody. This was an on-purpose test of this feature. Like this is a really cute little planter that looks like Yeah. Like if you have open loops in your life and especially if they're things you need to close And I think it's useful when it comes to tracking to pick one place.

I'm excited about that. Unless you think it's not funny and it ruins it. No. Alright, that's good enough. You didn't write it down in the world. Like joke jokes have left. Can I buy you a computer? Like I don't think it's any different than anybody else in that sense. You put it so well, Alex, you got it in the less less than one. I love what he does. That was the int that was the entire website. Well, the reason you have that I'm on I always have been. Yeah. Or at least that's what I did. Nobody's nobody said anything about it because it was on the member episode. I took the time to open Affinity Designer. Yeah, I go, I'm just so tired of all these Star Wars. I think I got saw a photo at one point of You don't think he did that?

Sure. Oh there we go. Um all you did MailKimp before it was MailKimp. Oh my god. com, S U-N-O. I want people to know what it's like to be me. I would also like to take this opportunity to remind you that Mastodon hates threads because there's a picture of Griffin putting an amiibo in his mouth right underneath that post. It's a very it's a really good observation and I have to say very good question. I have no interest in attempting almost anything that I'm not sad. But then I realized, no, no, he's an actual creep. Messages. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The lyrics are about being bipolar in Chicago. I don't think it's a good idea. I'm just so excited for you to hear this. Oh God. I did not know I've been typing out what is the thing well And it comes back to sim I think to similar reasons, which is like, I don't know who sees this.

So but You broke the horn? And bummed by how it turned out? Oh, that's cute. Like what is the thing that I circled? Mm-hmm. Look how good Darth was. Syracuse, great at vacation. Oh I'm here for that. Uh oh, those are two very different things. It's like training your model on the open web. What? Uh this is very song. There's one where he had to temper see and this is also I want to say a great so this guy's name is Alec something. I don't envy his money. And so he his idea was to say thank you to all the Team Coco people who had been so supportive, but also to like figure out the rest of his career. I think more of us are than we admit. You're right getting things done, right? Okay, I'm pausing it.

Which Yeah, that's one of the new things about Pika that is I ran I ran into that too. Okay, would you listen? That's how British says it. See, you put in the work and uh now you've got a little slave. In a very probably embarrassing way. Yeah, go look at my Mastodon. A aloe-like plant. I like them talking to me, especially if they get the bit. It's like So Oh perfect. Later. Yes. He's so dorky. Like being being a queer kid who may or may not know they're queer, and being a kid who's slowly discovering that their mind doesn't work I've drifted off into doing something I didn't need to, right? Oh god. Oh, you've got a filter. The cask. Three, two, one, click. art, just so I know Alex knows this, but just so y'all know it, you pay for it.

My kid's Frank Grimes. Hey, I've got one of you over here. Yes. Um, you know, I've got a I've got a time machine backup, I've got a second time machine backup. That's something that people who care say. But like I learned, oh, you can buy these little thermometers with a USB A. You know, always talking to myself. Will you I mean you can't really close the open loop if you don't know, if you haven't acknowledged it exists. Sounds like I program the drums. You're all excited because you have a Mac today. I know you've got problems. What I was gonna say about Alec, I've said this about Jason Snell, it's been something that's part of my leavings and learnings uh from my friends is that Well, but I mean like when you have a problem, all you do is tell people to give you money.

The truth is I I rarely talk about anything upsetting unless I feel like it's not that big a deal. Have you ever taped have you ever before before the age of of smart device support mechanisms like Yes, yes. I I think that I got to it. I don't know. What was I talking about? Fucking asshole. Yeah, and I had heard people Um we'll do the after show. Uh That's true. I was talking to I was talking at I don't think he knows I exist, apart from the fact I give him fucking money every month. The parents are fine. Shut up. Have you seen HomeKit for controller for HomeKit? And I didn't have the inclination to try harder, but It's very it's very constrained. Why would I lie about Because you don't know about things.

Or am I crazy? Because he's apparently uh quote the in the weird internet appliance guy. No, no, no, no. Yes. When I circle things with my finger, it looks terrible. Oh my fucking god, it's so stupid Instagram seems like a big source of that, but like I don't think it's as straightforward as it used to be. It's just more a way of saying I I bet I'm not alone. But isolation, different isolations. Yes. It's like it's crazy what it comes up with from almost nothing, but I wonder how many of them sound kind of the same. Mrs. It's like the elephant man. I'm I'm very envious of my lovely But one of my favorite videos is him going deep on this because I've wondered a lot, had you ever dorm fridge like in college?

So I took a photo of those three things and then on three different three different I su I circled it. I I don't know. And when you click on it, it'll say that's a central bearded dragon. I maintain that the internet is getting more fun because uh So what do I do? Merlin Mann says that a lot of creative and independent work is less creative and less independent than you think. It's a good read. Growing up different is can be very, very lonesome. But if you use auto sleep, for me, Alex, do you still use it? I started a document I started a document a couple days a call days ago called Useful Things to Say to Yourself. You know what I didn't know? I spelled out boobs. Well yeah, there are some people.

She's in another tower. And I'm I don't feel like I'm reaching those people. Certainly don't count on a thread making any fucking sense to anybody. Dolorously in a minor key. We are throwing it away. All right, three, two, one, go. It's so good. Well, you know, really all it is, I mean it's got some stuff, but mostly it's just I was expecting a link. I say, what is this and what should I do with it? Like, it'll be okay. That'll work. And that's the extent of our relationship. I don't it's it's not important. No. And this sounds like something that old people just say. And I'd love to talk about that. Oh, I like it. And I also think that there's been a big split in sort of taste. And so and Darth, you know what?

Like anytime you want to talk about being sad, I'm here. But in this case, so you get this dial that shows like a 24-hour clock. So you're saying I should go to him and then it like like the great M Milton Burrow, I'll take out just enough to beat you. It's aspirational, but you do it like it's an announcement of a thing instead of going like it would be like you every week going I've tried doing and it's like room by room. New stuff just keeps blowing my mind. This is Do by Friday, a weekly challenge podcast with Alex Cox and Merlin Mann. Gift Card had a heart incident. Fuck off. Two two iPads. And uh it it it knows and Do you use that much though? I've gotten some I've gotten some very specific Don't hold your breath, right?

Just write it down. Did you know each one of those lights is twelve inches in um diameter? You can light our scan Yes. So loud and people think they're funny. But what I was gonna say was like the interviewer in the doc thank you for reminding me. I didn't say you were sad. Well uh one thing that's neat about auto sleep once you learn the crazy system. Then that the line turns to yellow where you're in the getting closer and then one turns to green. Really? Oh see you circled back. Something like that? Um oh. I live under a I live over a bowling alley. Yeah, Billy makes Montreal bagels. Wow, that's but honestly, Alex. I will say that it yeah, it's been you, me, and you keep your water on a separate level or the same level I envy his options.

You posted a Zelda? I take pictures of the lizard. Like I'll like everybody put up with it with jobs. I'm just trying to get through. I see, I I have not cracked this app. Uh but I don't remember most Yes. I just have it on like I said, my Mac has been broken. He's got some kind of electric car and like a really nice dishwasher. Yes. I hadn't taken a photo on my phone before, I don't think. If you would please please click on And I um I was listening to one of mine which is a general introduction to the police. It'd be funny if you have like a clown horn for a horn. Shut the fuck up. I'm really good at pooping. It used to be you just have your files, your XLS or your CSV or whatever it was, but now there's like a I don't have I haven't played playbook.

Wow, Alex, how about that green thumb? I think I heard it on Quincy or something. com. Whoa, what's that? It could be me. Madeline's like, why did he yell at his wife in the kitchen? Like like David Allen, I mean, he describes it It's a new version. I want to say um um I'm That's why your yours had to be a little bit more general. I need to also get something for my kid and photograph it and send it to him at work. I mean, I really miss the Twitter of ten years ago. Yes. And and then he goes, Yeah, yeah, I had the titular line. Isolation, because the first thing I think of is like a New Yorker cartoon of a desert island. The parents are fine. Yeah, we tried So I should bite in the day Our sentence It saws chums the heart And what happened was I asked for an early 80s mid-tempo jangle pop song in the style of Athens Georgia bands.

Yeah, it wasn't there. And also this really cool thing that my neighbor at the office gave me when she moved out. Like why would you be welcome now? That was such a great idea in the sixties and seventies. Genuinely. And people who I don't uh uh you can download it. That's it. That's a good one though. Like today I have Cascade. It's on the phone. But especially in the first act, he he's very fucking angry. So I felt that with with Conan. I follow that up with a reference to a TV show n almost no one has ever seen, which is a night late 1990s show called The Upright Citizens Brigade. Not not even shouting. Much more of like, oh, the Beatles are called the Beatles because of the beat of the music.

One of the things you should say to yourself, one of the useful things you should say to yourself, uh I'm collecting all the things that I've learned to say to myself. And that's why I embrace smart lights. Because you know it's weird. Yeah, and it it's not giving a like dream like And I come uh I ask a lot of questions. Can we listen to one another's songs before we share what the exact prompt was? Those drums are fun. Um so like you know what a Folly Ado is? Like in the sense that if you want secret stuff, use notes. And uh uh you kind of mentioned this, but but to be clear, this is not the beta. Uh Conan. Uh uh yeah, and there's um I I hate Write it on Matt's computer. I've no idea. Yeah, I was all excited because Or am I both or neither or something else?

You know how many of those And isn't that an interesting thing? I didn't make this to say here's King of Pain six times. He's like, you know, there's that, there's that guy, the guy from Raise of the Lost Ark was teaching the kid how to drive. What about my giraffe? But like I I just thought it was like a ha ha. Are we talking about uh like I I could not handle the horn anymore. I am very sweaty about my uh career because I want my own. So like the shit I've done, the the fake Hooskrudio song, the fake New Order song, the fake Smith song, all those things I did for Squarespace and um Oh god. Oh my god, w you can ask my person, ooh, what if we lied together? That's what the fancy loop back thing was for.

What I it's something I heard about, but you reminded me that it exists. You this started because your laptop And that's a lot to that's a lot. And that is Yeah, I mean it's okay if you want to touch the third rail because I know it's germane to everybody and especially germane to you, but Did you try did you try a bunch? It's very snap to grid, not just rhythmically and musically, but no My kid is fucking Frank Grimes. I mean I don't have a lot of money. Anyways, um Oh he looks great with the beard. It's it's not a head, it's more like a case for a head. And it's it makes you um less Or is it possibly like considered probably a fairly obscure thing? It'll bubble up. Oh my god. Yeah, yeah. Hey everybody, thank you so much for for listening to this show.

I was crying like a baby in the fucking theater. So like the classic examples, I don't care if it's true, but the examples that come to mind are things like I I just But the guy's asking him questions about People can handle like a little amouse bouche, but they don't want to have a meal I love Sona. I'm really good at being alone. And I'm like, oh I'm sorry. Wow. So good. Ladies, gentlemen in cyborgs. And some will you do me a favor please and sometime ask me why what it is that I think that he and Adam Nealy do well because I think we'd help people. So I took a photo of three things. And do you see the results of that? I took fifth ten or fifteen minutes Get into my truck and we will find that little pup.

And look, look, look, look, look how it fits. Here's a picture of Billy making bagels. Have you never heard reckoning? Except you're both the elephant man. And that was the challenge this week. You know, I didn't want to do myself, but I did uh I did a car so I did so before before I tell you this bit It wasn't there yet in the same way that OnePassword was for sure. You ever you take a photo of something? And the entire time his wonderful, hilarious, very smart wife. I don't know that reference to Don't worry about that And uh I oh That's my song. Let me let me turn off my Synology. Ladies and gentlemen, and uh what does he say? Just want to be clear about that. That guy's a really good writer.

That's really funny. Put Darth in that group, please, with um with Adam Neely and uh and Alec. Because what I really That's a shitty way to lose weight. We all like to come home and loosen our belt and watch porn or whatever. The Oh God, you're right. Cascade? But I have I have thoughts about I have thoughts about this challenge. I really thought that I would go into this and have a lot of uh fun playing. Yeah. Um the but I uh loop back Oh, so you're not running a beta on every single one of your machines Look for the one about refrigerators. I believe I for a second I was confused. I thought it was a bad thing. Did I Mm-hmm. Like if you ever go to a K like or outside of KFC, look at the bucket.

You see this fucking kid This is no. She's like, you know I never checked. Well no, I'm just curious. The photos stuff Um Which helps so much. Uh we're talking about oh no, I'm talking about uh It's one of those things I can't really talk about, but there's several things in life that I can't really talk about that I'm actually fucking great at. And sometimes I'll open it up and I'll be like, fuck man, look at that. Have you seen the update to that? Everyone I've uh oh ex with the exception of you, um I mean everything's related if you make it related. It's quite possible that simply nobody wanted to acknowledge it. And he's kind of quiet about it and thinking about it. And y well, y yes, but it it uh was it that before You have no business saying that.

That's its God. That would be Oh my god. And I was trying to figure out why. There's a band that does a song at the end of Wreck It Ralph that sounds like the hugest Oh here Because I you said that he highlights good YouTubers and explain why. Were you going to talk about Yeah. Ha ha. Meet me, and then I take off. What? Right. Not that the movie's gonna be bad, but there's an upcoming Like where two people go or or or or the one whi with Juliet Lewis where she goes out and acts all crazy with uh Brad Pitt or whoever. Two iPads. Merlin Mann said something a long time ago that a lot of people you hear you hear this every day. If you think of it in terms of food service. And he's he's he wants to wants to have physical contact with you.

There's one where he needed to blah blah blah. That's okay. It'll be fine. They're sharing their, you know, w weird But I th I suspect that one thing you and I have in common Remember, this is supposed to be a comedy. Yeah. Yeah. It would let you do specific instruments? And you're like, oh, no problem, break a leg. I don't know. I I I I don't have it in front of me and I'm not gonna look it up because I don't do that on podcasts. How many times has somebody in my family had a heart attack the minute before we record? I think you're now. I mean it doesn't even need to be for the show. I think I think one one of the things in terms of our differences that are reconcilable, I think one of the things I susp I mean that uh context What I uh Well you could say that it's one of those bullshit things people say that like Did you know that you can take a photo of something in the ChatGPT app?

But um I've I've watched I've watched the funniest thing I are the first thing I remember hearing Conan O'Brien say that I still think about all the time. And I'm being I'm being real here. Well, if I decided what is the cure to that? I just thought it was I just thought it was an I knew what horny meant They're not funny. Upgrade. I woke up, this is uh the other day, I just wake up and Billy's making bagels You did that. So the this joke and so this is Like I know you can lock them in notes Go to patreon. I think this is Over. Why is that clown singing a country rock song? Or I'm having an invasive or intrusive thought. What about an Apollo 13 when they said don't press this button? You would never ask an app to write for you and you would never ask an app to quote make a song for you.

Wait, let me let me know. But um I don't envy other people's money, but I do very much envy their options. Am I gonna go somewhere else? And so I posted a link to that and I made a little joke. Yeah, because yeah, yeah, there are folks who uh Yeah. See? Did you like run it a bunch of times? The same way that in Garage Band, for the longest time in Garage Band, 'cause I mean, I don't know. I don't think it's Or both. No. And then you can download it like CPAP info. God damn. I'm flexing and I I didn't mean to. Make yourself our heads Let me see through the well I hated it, then I started to really like it. I mean that's pretty catchy for a robot. You know, there's no pain sensors in the eye, it's just the area around the eye.

Is that a pretty good way to do it? I don't know that reference, but I do have a lot of things into computers. Like whether they realize it or not. I'm like, well I know, but that's But I but when I talk about being alone Aww. And I I get to think sometimes that other people's minds are not always going. It takes a little It makes these little movies. Put differently, regardless of how good the topic is, if you're not into the voice, you won't listen. And I'm so am I gonna change No. Go work on your own thing. I want bread I was gonna I was gonna try and guess, but is it something non-obvious that was causing that? It's like, oh no, all the great shows. I'm saying I'm being vulnerable with you guys because that's kind of my deal You may not believe all the screen grabs I I accumulate of shit.

Oh. Did you see it on Mac Stories? Why don't you run it through chat GPT and words with it? I love what he does, but I also just love the way he does it. Yeah. Because when you argue about all the things, you're really missing out on where this is going. So goddamn painful. He's a really good writer. Cascades. Bah No. But like one reason I like doing the stuff I do is I can find ways to like make it make it my thing. I'm frequently blown away by what ChatGPT can do Here's the thing. And this could literally I mean sorry guys, this could be a pop hit. Yeah. There's there's no way I'm Bancroft. com Or that's a house finch. Isolated would be taking it too far. I don't I don't need to know that much about like Hey everybody.

And I I know fairly clearly that the three things I've taken a photo of are Isn't it amazing how often it's right? That's a lot to ask of other people. Hey, check it out. What is this? Yeah. And is it the like they're just Well I mean like I just wanna there's the thing that I really w super wanna underline the most No. I was ready to come in here Cop Between the Ebb and Flow, that's you. I think the important part of it, and I don't know again, I I'm not a Two Macs. Um Zach Friedman. And he does this amazing stuff with a But It just I did I didn't think double racism. You forget my saying you have no basis. Hey Alec connections. It wasn't just Max, it was everyone who came into the focus. It's not funny.

With two D's for a double dose of this pimpen. Oh sorry, it's up there, I will look a little luck. I turned off one password everywhere just because I want to see. I was a stowaway. You know, I'm actually mad at you now. I say that to myself sometimes, stay on target. The body of knowledge? But uh uh people who write code and do backend things. Have you noticed every time you tell me about some fucking huge calamity in your life, I go, oh man It appears to be an amiibo, which is a line of toys to life figurines. Like I I I'm not not trying to wrap it up. It seems like it's about a person. Wreck it, Ralph, and song. I know you're a very special guest. Um, and it's just this beautiful like coda.

What I'll occasionally do is say like like she uses auto sleep too, and I'll go, shit, look at this. Because here's the thing. Yeah, yeah. It's like a hardware virus of the mind. I'm I'm not envious of his money. But to answer your question, yeah, a little bit lonely and a little bit He's the one who said he's the one who said, you know, um, man Mm-hmm. I wanted more like weird absurdist shit with this You ready? You don't know which things are real. Oh shit dog. Uh welcome to Jew by Friday. Oh Are we in a circle type s situation? And under another bowling alley. There's a picture of Billy. Like I don't That is the completed pourer for my dishwasher that I made. Yep, yep. Would it let me It's really easy to send money now in messages.

I have I have these these brain farts now. Am I gonna go into blue sky and be all wackity schmackity-doo? That bums me out. I was talking to the project manager about it and boy is he sorry he ever met me I made some very upsetting Mad Max work. No, no, no, no. Or neither. It's so funny you should say that. Nobody there's no way to engage with this. There's a there's a lot less, and this just goes for everything. I learned about this from this app. Whoa, wait a minute. U U Haven't I talked to you about this? And here's what you can do with it. A Especially if they have candy. There's a switch. Al I don't spoil this for you, but Alex says turns out the powder's actually better. Controller? I'm putting paid in full on every song.

And then the le the slightly less dumb guy goes, Well, I'm probably just not putting in a way that it can understand, or it's not I'm always stowing away. The key part I look at are these little blocks inside of each Alec, come on, do by Friday. It's a place where you go and It's just that for some people the platform is a bar and the audience is the other people in the bar. Like threads are my that's my that's my oils. God, I'm upset. Oh, thank you for your c courage. And Jordan is such a good sport about it. Like not that. Which uh Huh all right, cool. No. He loves heat pumps. Yeah. It doesn't help. I've just you know I gotta chop chop. It's about Chicago. And I failed miserably. Ladies, gentlemen.

Uh probably the third or fifth best channel on the internet. People he likes. Do you know when your cognition is correct? Does that seem bigger than you expect? Apple TV. It's pretty cool. And then I knew this would go nowhere. Yeah. He because he has two jobs. Dude, you know that's on my list too, right? Or like it would be like to me, I thought it was about as clever as Mm. I'm sending this to you. He's one of those rich guys that has a regular house. She's been on the podcast. But like I uh yeah, always have I got my pulse down to like the high sixties, which is It lives here. It's like it's like having two elephant day. And I said, you know, if you do a backup Uh the technology connections guy.

But they've got to be a little bit more than a little bit. Or that is a male um pigeon. I'm already opening up with who fucking cares about the police? Your head hits the pillow and you're asleep Home can controller for home care, it's called Or shared. It's a podcast uh that Alex does. Uh no. If you want share, if you want passwords. Mm-hmm. And it gives me all the instructions for like planting. Question Because think about how often it's the perfect effect for what's happening, right? Welcome to the now cause of my head. You're a very special guest title. Uh And instead of being a switch for like Oh that might be a playgrounds thing. Like I I'm happy to see whatever bullshit that comes up with, but No one has ever hired somebody because of their mast-on bio.

And the computer does all of its stuff But they have a pretty big wheel at the cracker factory. Or something else. I but I but I mean like if I started saying oh and this is this is very like Yeah. Ah, you almost landed it. Oh yes. But uh but Alec I think you get on YouTube, man. No, I'm telling you the song What is that what does that mean in the MPU? Please remember this. Planning seas through the lands. Um I did update the document. Alec. Let's do it right now. Whoa, that was you were just like triple racist. Another thing I say to myself, just do the thing. My god, I thought Mike Curly was gonna just literally cry. This is currently on the phone. Oh, there we go. And you've grown up different in at least two ways I can think of.

Is that it? So did you know in this instance I just sent you Because the thing is uh uh Yeah, that doesn't But I'm biased. But that makes me look harder. And I think the truth is that You double racist. It's great. I'm on the internet science page. Thanks Google. It's a thing. From the loop to Quicker Park. Let's see. Two watches. This week's challenge, make a song for your c I see I'm gonna need to make some tweaks. Check in on check in on Marlon's wound. Okay, here it is. And it either is You know that's one of my T T I M T T Rs. You were perfect. Again, who fucking cares? That would be That's call Folia Do. Alex, honey I had a website that was nothing but th I was saying things to him today.

He stays in character the whole time. We're gonna we're gonna really quickly develop a bio for you. Everyone's saying this. Tech connections. I went deep in the stage. I feel like I kind of know what you're going for. Let's put it that way. You're a very special guest to me. Or No, that was great. There's a lot less Yeah, yeah. Tell me when you're ready and then three, two, one go. But um But And I think that's valuable. I did but I uh But like I love making stuff in Garage Band. The nut of this Um Um Playgrounds This is wonderful, Alex. Chasing dreams and raw transcript