Diggnation (rebooted) - Burritos from the Sky and Other Signs of Progress | E19 | Diggnation

Episode Date: August 27, 2025

Diggnation Episode 19 is part tech dispatch, part suburban diary. Kevin and Alex open with updates on sobriety, lawn mowing, and a Linux laptop built from scratch. Then it's into smart home experiments, including security cameras that yell at people a little too enthusiastically.Digg news includes app store approvals, invite rollouts, a bot-thwarting system called the Human Captcha Project, and new plans for user-led communities. They also drop "Digg Daily," an AI-powered news podcast you can call by phone like it's 2006 again.Other highlights include a Chinese EV promising 1000 miles per charge, some soul-searching about Tesla, a look at Polymarket’s ethical gray zones, and Chipotle being delivered by drone. Add in complaints about LA transit, the surprise return of CDs, and Google’s Pixel 10 flexing real-time translation.DeleteMeGet your personal data off the internet.  20% off at joindeleteme.com/DIGG with code DIGG.---SquareSee how Square can help your business run smarter.  Learn more at square.com/go/DIGG.---LMNTZero-sugar electrolytes that actually work.  Get a free sample pack with any order at drinkLMNT.com/DIGG.Chapter Markers00:00:00 - Diggnation begins. You chose to press play.00:01:22 - Kevin’s sober. Alex fought a spider.00:03:08 - Lawns were mowed. Childhoods resurfaced.00:05:14 - Kevin builds a Framework laptop. Linux approves.00:08:19 - Security cameras now yell at people.00:15:15 - Digg app gets approved. Embeds are live.00:16:36 - Human Captcha Project launches. Your way into Digg.00:17:36 - Users pitch ideas. Communities expand.00:21:42 - Homemade beef jerky enters the chat.00:23:20 - Digg Daily becomes a phone-in podcast.00:29:30 - A Chinese EV promises 1000 miles.00:38:07 - Sponsor: Delete Me. For digital vanishing acts.00:42:08 - Prediction markets meet ethics. It's complicated.00:54:45 - Chipotle delivery by drone is real.00:59:43 - LA transit vs. DC. Everyone loses.01:03:39 - Sponsor: Square. Business gets infrastructure.01:05:21 - Sponsor: Element. Electrolytes want attention.01:08:01 - CDs return. Audiophiles feel seen.01:17:26 - Kids once entertained themselves. Wild.01:21:30 - Pixel 10 does real-time translation.01:28:46 - Pixel Watch and Apple Watch square off.01:30:59 - Closing remarks. You made it.

Coming up on this episode, Shafts take to the air, both burritos and dildos. CDs are making a comeback, and the elderly should be put down. Welcome to vacation. Also potentially hazardous to your health. All right, moving on. Why do you have flies in your freaking house? I noticed this is earlier. It's Southern California, and I have fruit.

You put zombie and you put ear in the title, and I don't want to do it. Dignation.com. Hello, friends, family, and acquaintances of friends and family. I'm Kevin Rose. And I'm Alex Albrecht. This is Dignation, and welcome. We are glad you are here. Dignation covers some of the hottest users submitted stories on the social news.

Dig.com, DIGG.com. Beta.d.com. That's what you're in? If you're in, If you're not, go to dig.com and put in your email to be invited in when it opens up even wider, although it's been opening up pretty wide, as it were. Hey, speaking of opening up wine, how are you, buddy? I'm too well.

I've not been opening up wide. I've not been drinking. So still, speaking of drinking, it's time for me to pour my ceremonial. That's why I love doing this every three weeks. I get a bottle of this in my gullet, my poor gullet. And the last time you had a drink was three weeks ago. Uh, sure. You got attacked by a spider.

You get to deserve to be. It's the weirdest thing. Just all of a sudden, I love that the deep smell turns into a sip. Oh, whoops. I didn't sip. I didn't sip. It just accidentally hit my lips. I didn't.

I'm not even putting close to my lips. I'm just inhaling the fumes. It's good. That's a good nose. So how's it been? So how has it been? It's been a hundred and twenty-eight. days or some shit like that. It's fine. It's to be expected. Imagine being sober. Okay. No drinks.

Oh, 100 plus days. Okay. I got it. And it's like 6 o'clock. Okay. In the morning? No, no night. Oh, okay. That's harder. And then we kind of just sit there. And then you kind of just sit there. That's kind of what you do. And it's fine. But it's like, you know, I was playing I was playing the new switch with my kids. I built a cherry blossom tree with them. That's nice. Do more stuff like that. You seem very excited about all of it.

No, it's great. It's like, it's just, it's not alcohol. Yes. And is Darya joining you? She's still over for 45 days. Oh, wow. Okay. Well, that definitely helps.

I mean, it is, you know, it's difficult. It's hard to work through this stuff. But you know what? We're doing our best. You know what helps? Alcohol. Speaking of booze, if you guys want, there's still a couple slots left on the mascot allocation list. Like I said, last time, they have already run the allocation for this year, so it might be a bit.

But if you want, send in your emails. Dignation at dig.com? Yes. Yeah. Yeah, got it. Amazing. Yeah, first time. First time, represents.

It's in. So what's been going to? on besides that? Exciting? Lots of stuff. A clean... Oh, I mowed the lawn. That's why my...

I cleaned? My shoes are green. Oh, because you did work. I mowed the lawn. Why did you not hire a person to mow their lawn? I feel like... This is part of the no alcohol thing. It's like, I got to find something to find it.

No, no, I'm telling you there's something... I miss mowing the lawn. That's interesting. I never liked mowing the lawn. Did you mow the lawn when you were younger? No, my dad... My dad did. and you never did no I tried a couple times just because of the like iconic 50s like boy mows the lawn

and gets a nickel you know what I mean I got paid $2 and I just yeah right that's inflation right that's stagflation or whatever they call it anyway I just I would always do it and I was not good at it and so my dad was finally just like you can stop I'll just do it and I think maybe my dad like you was getting some sort of nostalgia yeah just like I just mow the lawn and then it's good Although, how much lawn do you have? L.A. is not a big lawn community. I've got a big front yard, and the back is like AstroTurf stuff, but like the front yard is decent size. And then I got a hedger as well.

Oh. So I can go around and kind of like do the nice little trim around the front. Oh, nice. And I will say with that fresh cut grass smell, you know, and you get out there and you do that nice little, like, I do that fine little line around the edges and then go in. It's nice. Yeah, there's a little bit of Zen. And also your kids should, what live kids? You don't, you have a dog.

Yeah, I've been trying to get them on my lawn all that. But they should see Dad doing some shit, you know? I get that. Like, I'm trying to teach them stuff around the house. I let them push the lawnmower for the first time. You know, when I do repairs around the house, I'll let them, like, help out with that stuff. Yep, yep. It's just kind of fun.

So I did that. That's been good. I got a new laptop. Ooh. So this is not a Mac. I mean, I think anybody could tell. This is a framework. And so this is an actual, do it yourself, assemble your own laptop.

Whoa! What? Yeah. So this whole thing pulls apart. Does it come in like sections? It comes in components, motherboard and everything. And so look at it. I can like peel off this front.

Look at that's the screen where the cameras underneath it. You can see how it's all modular. Oh, I see. And that snaps in there. This whole board comes out. I put my own RAM and hard drive in and everything. You can swap out the motherboard or put it in a faster CPU or whatever you want. Huh.

And then you get to pick your OS, Windows is their default, or you can just do nothing. nothing, and I did nothing installed on here, there is a new version of Linux. Is nothing an operating system? No, no, no, nothing is the phone company, but yeah, that's not. It could be. I don't know, because you were like, I installed nothing, I had nothing installed, and I was like, I don't, is that an operating system? Well, it actually is.

Nothing OS is a, yeah, yeah, yeah. So, Omarki, Omarki, which is done by DHS, who is a really famous engineer, he created Ruby on Rails. This is a really lean version of Linux called Arch, and it uses an overlay, a window manager on top of it called Hyperland. And it is super fluid. We'll show a little video of it here, but it's super fluid. And some of the stuff that you can do in Hyperland,

it's just absolutely stunning. Some of the kind of layouts that you can do, it's all fully customizable just by editing these text files. Is this, this has a, very Mac-like feel. Oh, yeah. MacBook Air vibe. Yeah, look at that OS, though.

Look at that. Cool that looks. Oh, it's got resizing it. It's got freaking... Isn't that sweet? Oh, yeah, that's great. So it's a really clean. It's got a finger sensor reader.

It's got a finger sensor reader? Yeah, figure sensor reader. Oh, my God. Oh, my fingers are there. Next generation. It detects that you have fingers, which is helpful when your fingers go down. Oh, God.

Oh, I have them. They're still there. But the framework is pretty awesome. It does feel and type exactly like a MacBook Pro. Let me see this. Yeah, type, type on that. It feels really good. It's a little awkward where you have to hold it.

Yeah, I mean, that's huge. I don't know where it. Just type something. Does I pretend like your type? Okay. Well, I got it. Yeah. Oh.

Doesn't it feel like a Mac? Oh, yeah. That actually feels a little bit more substantial. Yeah. Almost like a mechanical keyboard. It's really good. But for a lapatapa. It's really good.

So that's what I've been playing around with that. That's fun. Just a new desktop is nice. It's clean. It's a fresh start. It's very minimal. minimal. It's very hacker-esque. It's a lot of its antsy graphics, if you've probably seen the more retro graphic feel. I love it. There's something about that nostalgia stuff that's just

fun to tinker again. Well, even having it look like exposed feels really cool. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like, because I've been doing all sorts of stuff around the house and like getting into like automations and all that stuff and like, you know, replacing light switches with smart switches Like, I've been having so much fun. There's just so much shit to do. Dude, I just got, I didn't tell you this. So I got my camera set up in my house. Okay.

They're ubiquity. Oh, good. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, by the way, you see, ubiquity crushed earnings. Their stock's up like 30% in a single day. It was insane. I mean, ubiquity. I should have fucking bought it when I started putting it in the house.

I know. God damn it. So basically what I did is these guys that came by, they helped me set up the ubiquity. By the way, fantastic crew in L.A., if you need any ubiquity or hardware, Oh, I do. Set up.

I do. They're called Yes, Techie. Okay. And I have no affiliation with them other than they were just fantastic humans. Yes, Techie? Yes, Techie is the name in Los Angeles. I have never worked with a more professional, like, crew of people that understand ubiquity, security cameras, access control, automation, the whole thing.

These guys? Yeah, they're, like, vacuumed up as they were doing every little cut in the wall, make sure to send people to paste them, like, do all. Copy-based. They get the C, control VE, control C, like I've never seen. So they're like, hey, you know, Ubiquity has a speaker that you can do outside. Oh, yeah. And that when their AI detects loitering, there's a checkbox with the cameras.

Oh, my God. And you can say detect loitering. Yeah. I'm like, yeah, I want that. Like, especially like we have one backs up our house that has like a little alleyway. I was like, yeah, let's add that. So they got the speaker and they're like, oh, just soon as a little big. I'm like, whatever.

It comes in. Wait, is the air warrant thing looking thing? I've seen that. Dude, it's four stadiums. Oh my God, dude. And so I check the loitering box, and then you get to choose what mp3 file you want to play. Oh, amazing. So I go into the 11 labs and I have to say, like, intruder alert, like detected, blah, blah, blah.

And then I have it like, whirr-blower, you know, I save it, upload it to the little ubiquity server, and I say, okay, detect littering. And so I go out there and I'm like acting like I'm like trying to get in the door or something. Yeah, I'm littering my own house. Just like test the thing out, right? Yeah, yeah. Dude, that air horn is like literally for like a football stadium because it rocks the entire blog. It's like burr, burr, and true, it's like a hundred times louder than I could have ever wanted

it, right? And I was like, oh my God, I had to like run to be like, how do I stop this from like turn off? It was still going on. Well, it only, I said it to loop one, so that was good because it only went for like 10 seconds. But it was like it will, I am more worried about a lawsuit from causing a heart attack. and the intruder trying to break in. So this implies that you have footage of you scrambling. Oh, yeah.

I should probably find that. You should probably download that. You've got to put it out of the archives. But it was insane. So you should get one. Yeah, yeah, yeah. For sure. I'm going to totally, well, I'm going to call these guys

because I, Brentano gave me the, he has the doorbell, the video doorbell thing. And I want to replace our intercom system. And I just, like I bought all the shit. I bought the knee pads. I bought the fucking. fishing tape to see about running the conduit and I'm just like I just can't get my ass and I still have the the access door and the strike play got all that shit dude that's like a five-day

job I know these guys will do it in like half a day that's why I was like I should just fucking call these people yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah that's amazing yeah because that's where I was too because I realized I would have had to fish a bunch of shit through the walls and I'm like do I want to be like I'm I'm I'm mow the lawn yep I'll like I swapsed out the nest put smart like nests any shit. We just did that. We just changed out the thermostat because our thermostat

went tits up. Did you put NEST 4? No, I do. Ness 4's. Well, so, I have a Lennox system. The Linux, it's like high-end air conditioning. Oh.

Oh. The Lenox X-25. Oh, not like Linux. Like the OS. No, no, no, no. Okay. Not Linux. Lennox.

Okay. But the problem is that they have their own ecosystem of wires. So, like, they have different wires rather than the common. Ah. So our Linux thing broke. Yeah.

And I was like, I'm just going to buy another one. So I bought the newer version of Lennox. The nothing OS one. Yeah, the nothing OS one. And we replaced it, Heather and I replaced it, which was super fun. And it was great, but it was just like, fuck. Is it connected to your, like, home? Mm-hmm.

You got to Google Home? Do you use Google Home? I think it's better than Apple. Oh, you Homicist. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So you're using anything, basically. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's cool.

Yeah, I got all that shit. When you dial this stuff in, it's really fun. It also is a massive time sink. Oh, yeah. But it is, it's too fun to tinker. Oh, well, so I did this thing. So we were, I can't remember where we were, but we were out of the house. And I was like, wait a minute, all of our, all of our lights are our hue lights, but I have access to, and some of them are hardwired plugs that I have access to, like they physically plugged into a smart plug that I can turn on and off.

And I was like, I have it all in Home Assistant. And so while I was away, I opened Home Assistant and I set this like automation for like the lights go off at 11, the lights turn on at 8. And then I set it to this variable called vacation and put like a little dip switch. So now when we're away, if I'm like, oh shit, we're going on vacation, I can literally just click the vacation button and it sets all these automations

to show that we're home, even though we're not home. Well, dude, and I love doing that shit. So listen to this. So listen to this. With the ubiquity stuff in the loitering mode, you can set up a custom web hook to fire any third-party service you want.

So what you do is you get one of those bases that sits on top of your house that can dock a drone charger and you could fire up a drone to do a little mini 360 around your house. I mean, why do I have to have that? Just to scare off people. Fuck, I love that. And if you added

a flamethrower mode to it, just like just shoot flames about you? Or just the speakers, it's like the, but you know, police activity drone is being... Dude, how cool would that be? I'd love it, man. Yeah, I know. We should set that up. Oh, God. All right. Speaking of fun things. Yes. So this is the other thing I wanted to say was, you know how smaller backyard is? Yes.

We're thinking about installing a pool. Jesus. Yeah. I got a single lane. half-lap pool? Yes. Oh, okay. All right, that was the end of that story. Well, yeah, we're thinking about, like, completely redoing a home backyard, but incorporating a jacuzzi, a small little pool.

Are you going to get rid of the shed? The water feature. We don't have a shed. The garage. The garage? I mean, it's a shed. It's not a shed. It's a shed that our car's parked in.

And is basically our storage, you two. No, we've got to keep that. At least for a little while. So you're doing along the other side. I'm going to put solar on top of the garage, specifically, not connected to the the grid specifically to just power a battery bank for the pool and jacuzzi. That's a bad idea. Why?

Why not power your house? So if the power goes out, you have it for your house. Because we already have solar and I'm worried back up on the house. Because we already have that. I need the jacuzzi working at all times. We're just worried about it. Emergency. It's hot.

Get in the pool. Yeah, exactly. Oh, my God. I love it. So, everybody, we are very excited because there have been some really cool. forward progress here at dig.com, some of which I'm sure you might have seen, some of which is new and we were sharing here for the first time. First off, if you were in the alpha, I guess it was what it was, a technical alpha, the good news is the app store and Google Play Store have approved

the app of Dig. It's out there. It is out there. You can download it. Now, if you have, if you had access to the beta or the alpha, you actually get two invites that you can share with friends, which is amazing. So you can get people to come in if you want your friends to join in. The other thing that's really cool is we're finally going to be releasing the embedded media, which launches next week. Or this week? This week. This week. So you'll be able to start seeing YouTube videos and things like that in natively in the app. In theory, I don't want to do in theory stuff. But in theory, eventually we could do live Dignation embeds and do like actual live shows and whatnot in the site, which would be cool.

I know. I'm so excited. I don't know when we're going to do another live show, but I'm excited for that, which I'm sure is going to happen. We could be doing this live out via that. Oh, I see what you mean. This live out via that because we have the technology. We say so many things that we want to keep.

Yeah, exactly. We don't cut that much up. Every once in a while. Every once in a while. Yeah, so one thing to say is that we want, if you don't have access and you're not in the beta or alpha, you can add yourself to the waitlist there. And we'll get you in as soon as possible. doing this project called the Human Captcha Project, which is really fun because we want

to defend and block bots from getting in for as long as possible, really set that foundation of trust amongst community members, get them to know each other, and break bread with us and come out and hang. So we're doing these little meetups. We want to, you know, kind of shake your hand, hang out. Come to a dig meetup. We have, prove your humanity. We have one in San Francisco, September 10th from 7th.

at 10 p.m. at Southern Pacific Brewing Company September 10th, 7 to the 10 p.m. I will be there. R.SvP in the show notes if you can make it. And then we're going to be doing some of these eventually online. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We're doing little group parties and get-togethers. It's a way to say, like, let's get to know these first. You're going to be there, too. Yeah, fuck it. Oh, shit. Okay. Yeah. But it's a way to say, let's get to really know these people that are defining, because those first, like, 100,000 core contributors of any social network are so essential. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And the last thing we want is just ramped bot. No, no, no, no, no. And one of the things, too, just along that line is we are going to be

expanding the communities. All through September, well, end October, and November and December. All the way to December. Probably January as well. Maybe December, January. So every two weeks, we're going to be releasing a new community onto the dig platform. And we are going to have you help us figure out which communities shall come out in which order. We're very excited. Haven't quite figured out at the mechanic, but it's going to be something amazing. And your voice will be heard. Yes. If you have something weird. What kind of community would you? I was just talking about this with Mao. Oh, before I got here. Yeah, because I was like, what? And I was like, for me cooking. Uh, Japanese woodworking for me, meditation. Don't what the fuck. I just, what's

what's wrong Japanese woodworking? That was just so specific. What I was just so specific. I love Joinery. Joinery. Yes, it's... Do you do Japanese woodwork? I'm getting into it. It is where you don't use nails and you do real... I just saw this thing about this thing with the stone.

You're like, no, nails. Yeah, no, this thing with the stone and then this wood that goes in and they carve the wood foundation to fit perfectly into stone. And then as it settles, it actually spreads and sing... That's Japanese woodworking? Yeah, it's joinery, my friend. I'm going to join it.

I'm joining to joiner. I'm joining joiner. So anyway, that... I would say I'd love to do a meditation one retro gaming would be fun yeah oh yeah old BBSs would be fun like I want to start a section called 56k I've got this idea on my mind because the last great modem before it all went internet in my opinion was the 56k modem I was like one was still be bolt to board systems it was still intimate yeah and then we all jumped to the internet but that 56k modem and yes we did use it for the internet later but that was like

I feel like this, this great point where because it was so slow, everything was very deliberate and you had to wait there and chat rooms felt real and connection felt real and you're like, who is this other person on the other end? So weird, age sex language, send me a pick. No, it wouldn't be that bad, but it was age sex language? ASL.

Location. ASL, age sex location. I thought it was age sex language. No. I don't know. Okay. Anyway, that's why nobody is sending me pictures. Age sex language.

All right, gnar. Hello, young children, age, sex language? No, you would say like, no, when you, listen, before you make it sound creepy, when you were young. When you were on, first of all, I was illegal, like, by my age, like, it would have been illegal to talk to me. Oh, God. So I was in there, and like, when you say, when I saw ASL, and I always put it in, like, Los, like where I was, Las Vegas, 13 male, like it was, they would ask for you. So that was age-sex language. I mean, location.

Yeah. I guess it was, like, yeah, yeah. Well, it was location. Location. It wasn't language. English. English. Yeah, C++.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But it was one of these things where it felt very intimate. I feel like if we can get back to some more, I want to take a Raspberry Pi and, like, reboot bolt and board systems and, like, make like a little small, little dial-up machines. Yeah, you call it BB, BBS, bring back bolt-board systems. Sure, whatever. Anyway, there's a lot of fun things we can go and create on this. What did you want now? What did you like oh I was telling you Alex I had cars just like

specifically if I can get like specific off road I'm all about off road right now but but I think to appease the smaller audience in there if we just had a general cars yeah community cars seems not niche enough though it's not niche enough but for this price okay you want to go blue sky yeah I would go so cal off road for sure and then go down right so like food we have food but then I was like yeah but cooking so technically you could talk about cooking in food, but like cooking as its own thing is much more specific because it's like, you know, I found 10 pounds of shrimp. What should I do? Yeah, I just made some beef jerky, by the way. Did you make beef jerky? Yeah, I just did. Oh my God, I've been wanting to do that

for so long. Oh my God, I got a great recipe. How did you, what did it happen to buy in the oven? No, I bought a little tiny dehydrator, a little baby guy on Amazon had great reviews. Okay. And it was like 60 bucks or whatever. And I went and made this amazing meridian. like top round or did you what do you remember yeah so yeah exactly that that cut the top round and then you basically freeze it for an hour and a half and it just gives it enough of the frosty texture that where you can slice it really thin yeah yeah yeah so it's not like flipping and flopping it's like really thin then you make these little quarter inch or less eighth of an inch slices and they marinade for 24 hours and I cut fresh garlic and fresh onions some soy sauce in there some

some smoked paparica, some brown sugar, some coconut aminos, and a couple other things, and then just like mix it all together. Do you put Worcester in there? Yeah, Worcester, yeah. A quarter cup of Worcesters sauce. And it was fantastic. And it was so good. So then you just dehydrated, what, 24 hours?

No, eight hours. I cut it really thin. Oh, wow. Yeah, yeah. But you have to do it hotter at first because it locks, then it dries the outside faster. Oh. It locks in that tenderness. moist inside. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And then you drop the temperature down and do it longer. So the first hour both kills the bacteria and locks you the moisture. Did you brought some in for a shot? I should have. I should have. And I made my kids some blueberries. Yeah, we could Dignation Beef jerky. Dignation Beef jerky. Head to Dignationbeefjerky.

Taste the sweat. I was like, now I see what you're doing with the time that you have without drinking. You're like, I've become an Asian woodworker and jerky. Yeah, it's fun. Oh my God, I love it. All right. All right. Shall we do the first story?

Speaking of cool. fun dig things. Yes, first story of the day, I want you to take out your cell phones and call area code 575-5-500,000-D-I-G-G, also known as 575-500-3-44-4-4. And when you call that, this is what will happen. Today on Dig Daily. Your news diet, pre-portioned by people who actually click the link. Silicon Valley leaders are lowering expectations for AI.

James Gunn's DC Universe will reportedly be different from the marketing. Marvel Cinematic Universe. AI tools are basing a user boil. $5.99 a minute. It is not paid. It is free. This is, well, how does it, man,

why don't you explain? You got a little camera. So the idea started a little while ago of what if we were to take AI to summarize what are the top trending stories, what's the who, what, where, when of the story? But more importantly, I like

to read the comments on dig. What are people saying on dig? So we're just platforming those top trending. stories on dig, short five, six-minute episode, five stories, just your daily dose of top news and what people are saying about it. For your commute, for, you know, whatever it is that you do off platform. That's so smart. It's so cool. Does it support multiple people at once, like if 100 people all dial in at the same time, they're going to get through? Oh, yeah,

you're good. So walk people through the back end. Can you talk a little bit about how you create this? Sure, it's a whole lot of vibe coding. So look, I know how to project manage something and I know how to produce a show. So I just vibe coded like, all right, I need a researcher, I need a writer, I need a rewriter, I need a voice performer, I need an editor, I need a music editor, and it's just a whole stack of vibe code of stuff that's just putting it all together

within like three minutes. So in the morning, we just run the generation. It's pulling those top stories and spits out an episode. Yeah, so when does it usually change over day to day? Right now, it's a little bit of a manual process, but we're aiming for like seven in the morning, Pacific time. Oh, okay. Just to get those, that morning commute of, oh, my God, I love it. Top trending stories, yeah, it's so fun.

But yeah, it's using a little bit of Gemini, using a little bit of 11 labs, and then a whole bunch of just open source projects to assemble things together. Yeah, the voice stuff sounds really good. Yeah. So when you have this released every single day, is this something where you see this going to a podcast? eventually, like where someone can subscribe to this and just get it on their commute? I think right now we're just going to keep it on application, just because it's a little bit of navel-gazing of like, wait, which user? What are they talking about? Like that context of people on dig, talking about dig, and you know what happens in this

community is right, of the inspeak and references to previous references. So maybe, I don't know, maybe. We'll keep it just internal to dig right now and then maybe spin it up. if it feels good to everyone. It's kind of cool, too, because it's like, this is open to the public fully. So it's like if you're out there going, I want to get in, I want to get in, and I want to see what's happening.

This is a cool way to just like see behind the curtain to get a little flavor of what's going on before you get your invites, which of course will be coming out soon, I'm sure. Yeah. It's awesome that the future of this obviously is interactive. You know, some of this stuff has been done in terms of No Book L.M

And what they're doing over there with the interactive podcast. But, you know, you should be able to ideally just have a conversation with your podcast. That would be so funny. Which is kind of crazy, right? If you hear a story and you can just like ask questions of it. Yeah. And if it scales right, maybe even creating custom dailies for your own feeds.

Right now, it's just, it's just global, right? What's trending globally on the platform once we do open taxonomy, maybe there's an opportunity to be like, no, here is your dig daily. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, see, that's pretty awesome because that's when you've been following on the site. Yeah. Because then if you're digging, you know, whatever, join our day. or like you name it you'll get those custom stories in your feed which is pretty pretty straight like if you follow because right now you you don't auto follow or do you do people that

come auto follow certain like there's so few communities do we follow all of them or is there right now when you join the beta you auto follow all the communities just because it's such a smaller set of communities yeah that's so cool yeah because once you get in there and once there's more communities you really like picking what it is that you're although it's interesting to have like the idea of like that also helping service other communities too where like you get your you get through your dig daily five minutes of this is what's going on in your communities and then say let me let's show you three minutes of what's going around on the communities you may not be associated with because that's a really cool exposure to like other

communities that's awesome yeah for sure especially just to be sitting there listening to somebody being like you know well you know have you ever thought about how Japanese huts are made where they don't right nails yeah I mean that's That's the cool thing. It's finding these niche communities and interests that you could expose through that. And then the community would get stoked too because if you're a community owner, that's your community. You're like, oh, one of our stories we're trending on the through the audio stream and now we got exposure to 20,000, 100,000 more people all via that push. That's really, really awesome. Yeah, we're doing a little bit of that right now too.

Yes, we have a small step. Tech by far is the most popular community. But I've been talking to Alex, our amazing community leader. Not this, Alex, Alex at Dig, who is helping me curate some of these to make sure, like, yeah, if tech is trending, that's cool. But let's choose some, like, more offbeat stories. I love it. Really well, you know, round out the rundown for the daily a little bit. Amazing. Okay, speaking of amazing things that are happening and I'm very, very, very excited about.

Yes. Uh, Chinese electric car unveils a 930-mile miracle battery. This was submitted by Alex, aka this guy. Are you serious? Yeah, because I saw this and I was like, why, people should know about this. Amazing. Uh, all right. So, biga-d-d-doo, so, um, there is a, uh, a Chinese car maker called Chang'an, I guess,

C-H-A-N-G-A-N-Chang-G-A-N, and they're preparing to launch this vehicle that's capable of traveling 932 miles on a single charge. So we talked about this a little bit in the past. I think we might even talk about it in the live Dignation in Austin at South-Ey-Southwest that people are starting to go towards these solid-state batteries. Because of that, they're able to put in much more electricity,

store much more electricity, than they could in the same weight and footprint batteries that were the lithium ion or any of those other sort of semi-solid state or liquid. So this car has a 400-kil-watt-hour battery. Is that, that is pretty insane, actually. Yeah, like the Teslas are like 85-kil-watt hours. What are power walls, like 500? No, no, no, probably.

I think they're not as big as, no, because they're not as big as a car. So power wall is probably like 40 kilowatt hours maybe, 29, 28, something like that. I'll do research. Okay, do research. Do your goddamn research. But here's the thing. We, so. 13.5 kilowatt hours.

13.5, right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, so it seems like a lot of the American car manufacturers that are working on it, the range issue, I mean, a range issue, it's not even really an issue, but, you know, hey, look, with electric cars, unlike ice cars or combustion engine cars, you know, the range is something that if you can make it more than the average electric vehicle, then that's something you can promote. That's something you can say.

Like, hey, raise your hand. You know, our car goes 330 miles on a single charge. Well, there was a race that early on. For sure. Every new Tesla came out, like, oh, they got 30 more miles. Yeah. That was a thing. So what Tesla is a great example.

So what Tesla was doing, and I'm assuming they're researching a new battle. architectures and new battery chemicals or chemical compositions, all that stuff. I'm sure they're doing that, but they really hasn't been much of a change since the whatever is it's called like the 4985 or whatever the Panasonic battery that they use. But what they've been doing is they've been getting better and better and better efficiency. The drag coefficient of these cars have been getting down and down and down. Some people think it's sort of like the uglification of electric cars. Like all Teslas look pretty much exactly the same.

nice looking now. I mean, they're nice looking. You know what I mean? Yeah. The Mercedes are just kind of like beans that travel, but they're really efficient so they can get a higher range on the same battery. But China has been really focused on let's get a tech evolutionary jump in the, and to be fair, same with Mercedes. So like we talked about, the Mercedes has a solid state battery that they're testing right now on the roads of Germany that's ostensibly going to be, I think, a 650 mile range on a single charge. But this is getting close. to a thousand miles on a charge, that is, I think,

where we're going to start to get into this real shift of people thinking about electric cars versus combustible engine cars. Because if you go, hey, you know, the always the big thing is, yeah, well, if you want to drive from L.A. to San Francisco, you're going to have to charge. And it's like, sure, but you're also going to have to stop

and get gas. Well, what if you aren't going to have to charge? There's literally going to be no, you could drive up and back without charging. Right. You could drive up, run around there, drive back, all without charging. All of a sudden, the charging infrastructure is great, but it really becomes about charging at home.

Right. You know what I mean? Yeah. And it doesn't take much to charge at home. So I'm really excited about this. I think the fact that it's like topped 900 miles of range, and that's sort of their estimated range. That's not like, well, we had all the windows open, you know, up, and we had the AC down.

and we only went 45 miles and we were able to reach, you know, because, like, I think the Polestar 3 just broke the single-charge EV range Guinness World Record. Wow. But it was a very specific tag. Like, they were going, like, 60 miles an hour. They had a very flat road. It was a very specific, all these very specific things happened.

Yeah. Yeah, but it was, and I think it was close to 500 or maybe even more. But anyway, this stuff gets me really excited, especially since I'm going to be getting a new electric car soon. and hopefully some of these will be out. It says 2027. I know. And then the other thing, it said the manufacturing these solid-state batteries at scale is difficult.

Well, so is everything. Of course, everything. And it only gets easy. High cost? Well, I mean. I was asking the AI, why it didn't, Tesla isn't pursuing this avenue. I mean, look, at the end of the day, Tesla's got issues. Would you buy another Tesla right now?

So the short answer is maybe the long answer is I had a really best. bad experience with Tesla before any of this, you know, anti-Tesla stuff happened. The last time I turned in my car was a very weird exchange, and I'm sure I talked about it on the show, but they ended up charging me a shit ton of money for what I would consider as a natural wear and time. I mean, I've had so many leases, and yeah, every time you're like, oh, it's $500 for like the wear and tear, okay. And they charged me like $5,000, and I just took it out of my bank account. What did you do? Nothing. Nothing. You must. Five grand you must have learned. No, no, no, no, no. There was a little, there was a little ding in the

trunk, which is like, who gives a shit. How big, though, we're tired? So small, like, little ding. And they were like, oh, we have to replace the entire trunk. And it's all because of the fucking robo taxi thing. They were like, oh, we're going to use this as a robo taxi. And it was a weird handoff. So, like, sat at the Burbank Tesla thing for like four months. It was still on my app. It was fucking, it was weird. Oh, I have that app too. Yes. They left my app. And I was conching the horn in a parking lot of my own car. Amazing.

I was tuning into the cameras. Oh, my God. All the other cars sitting around it. But you also weren't paying, right? Yes, yeah, it turned it in. That's the thing. Yeah, it's very strange. So I had already, when I first got this one, and they pulled out that cash, and I called

and was like, what the fuck? And they were like, oh, all four tires had to be replaced. I was like, I've never replaced a fucking tire on my car. Like, I turned it in, like, with barely any fucking miles on it. And they were like, well, we measured the wheels, and you were supposed to have 0.25 was the limit and it was 0.24, so we had to replace all four tires $1,500. Fuck you guys. Fuck you guys. And so I had already been like, no, I'm not going to get another Tesla. And then all the crazy Elon stuff happened. And I was like, well, I mean,

do I really want a Tesla? And to be fair, I got a Tesla because they were the best electric cars. Yeah, there's so many off. Hand down, hands down. Like, Rivian didn't exist when I got my last one. I mean, you know, it existed, but it like wasn't as known. Paul Star didn't, wasn't around as much you know what I mean fucking lucids are gorgeous yeah and it's buying those though I know and they're expensive sitting there and you know you gotta watch out now because some of these you know you get a lucid and all of a sudden in four years it goes out of business and you're like what can anybody like what's who can service it what was the one that that um that went out of business that people were like now I have these like super expensive bricked cars it's like

an SUV oh was it electric or no yeah yeah yeah yeah fuck I can't remember what it's called the reason I got rid of my rivian is because I had an issue with it and they said it was not only was it like a close to a three-month weight, I would have to have driven 50 miles to get a surface. Oh yeah, because it's the only one's down by LAX or whatever. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's horrible. Fisker. Fisker. That's the one that went out of business that it was like, ooh, right. Hey. Do you still like the, what is it, ionic five? Ionic five looks great. Yeah. But the range isn't that great. Yeah. I mean, it's okay. It's, you know what I mean? But like for me, my whole thing is every single year that I've gotten a new electric car,

I've always gotten more range. So that's sort of like the thing. for me and the Model Y that I have now is like 300 miles on a charge. So anytime I see something that's like 300 miles on a charge, I'm like, and it's not like I have range of anxiety. I don't know why I'm like doing this. I should get an ionic five. They look great. Or like the EV-9 looks super cool.

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So have you placed any bets on Polly Mark? So I haven't. You've talked about it. By the way, I was going to say, we talked about, Last week, or last episode, we talked about the ChatGBTGP-T-5 release, which was hysterical. But they actually released on a Thursday. So had you done it, I think you would have lost your money. Right.

But Polly Market allows you to just bet on everything, right? Yeah, so this was the thing that I was, you know, I had seen that you could go in here and predict and pick which day you think that Chad GPT was going to come out. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But the one thing I realize is as you scroll down, they've got like their ranking and trending area. Yes. And the trending stuff is like, oh, will Bitcoin be up or down on this day? Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, as the president is going to say this, but as you kind of get further down into the, all these different bets, some of the stuff is ridiculous. So there was like

a bet on whether Elon Musk would change his profile photo on X or not. Like, weird. It's like, you know when you go to Vegas and I'm like, okay, who's going to win the coin toss for, uh, The Super Bowl. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, I don't know that we should bet on that, but I guess people want to, so let them do it, right? SportsBets be sport feds. This is like that for everything.

So I'm on here late at night and don't try to this. Sober. I was sober as could be. And I'm sitting there and I'm reading through some of these things. And it said on there, at first, it occurred me that a lot of this stuff is about Elon Musk and he could just do whatever he wants and just, you know, rig these things. So that's what I was going to ask. How is that possible?

Like there has, but there's no, it's not like gambling. There's no like oversight, right? Yeah, they have these like oracles that like all agree on whether something happened or not. Right, but I mean like, well, go ahead. It gets paid out in cryptocurrency as well. Okay, but go, but say what you, because I remember. Yeah, so. Yeah.

I found out that there is, um, there's this trend. I hadn't even heard about it until I saw it on here because probably wasn't paying attention enough in the news. But there's this trend, which is horrible, which is. at some of these WMBA games, people are throwing out dildos onto the court. Like, as, like, apparently some crypto group was behind it or it was like, oh, like it was a press stunt first? Yeah, something like that.

And then it sort of caught on. So people are checking out dildos on the court. Obviously, insanely rude, like, horrible. They found the people who were doing actually a couple of got arrested, which was interesting. That's good. Makes sense. But then I saw on here on Polymarket, you could, like, place a wager on a, and whether or not a dildo was going to be thrown on the next court, like during the game.

And so I was like, oh, we wonder what the odds are on that. Not that I was going to bet, but I just was curious. And so I clicked through on it. And if I had put in like a grand or not I or someone that put in a grand, and a dildo was chucked on the court, it was something like you could win $200,000. It was something ridiculous. It's crazy. And so then it occurred to me to your point earlier, like if it's people that you know

or whatever, like Elon can just change his profile photo and you win the X number of dollars. that's kind of insider trading in some sense. 100%. That's what I'm saying. Like, if that bet came up and you bet 10 grand, right? Right. So you make $2 million. Well, there's not that deep of a well, but it's only how deep the well is.

All right, you deep into the well. Well, deep as you can well. Yeah, which was, I think it was about $200K, yes. Okay, so $200K. Yeah, it's $1,000. So now you get yourself a ticket to the next. Or anybody, I guarantee you can find someone you're like, hey, you pay them $5. Here's $5,000.

Make sure you throw a deal there. Shuck it and run, and you get paid 200 grand. That's why I feel like there's got to be other ones, and they have to, but is there any mechanism for stopping people doing that? Well, this is why I worry, because in some sense, people could just put anything that they want to see happen in public settings that is awkward. Oh, so you can post things up. Yes, you can make your own, yes.

So this wasn't like polymarket being like, we want dicks on the WMBA. No. They were like, somebody was like, I'm not. to make this market, I'm going to propose. I'll put 20 grand on saying it's not going to happen. And other people are like, yes, no, yes, no. And then just it kind of defines itself in real time based on the bets. So it starts accumulating the money in the pools get larger and larger. If I'm betting and I see how gamable it is, why would I make that bet though? I feel like the market would take care of that risk, wouldn't it? Well, clearly didn't, right? Like they

I don't think a dildo I got thrown. So I think that that, in that particular case, you would have lost. But we can't take care of that risk. But somebody could have bet that bet, flown to a Sparks game or whatever, and thrown the dildo for $200,000. Like, that's crazy. Right. So they've got a bunch of culture ones here.

Like, I'll show you some of the crazier ones. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Find me a crazy. Justin Bieber in rehab in 2025, 13% chance. So if you were to say yes here. and I put down like $24, I went $142 if he goes into rehab. And so there's like, well, did he be a sentence to life in prison? If I say yes and put in $10, I went $2,22.

Crazy. Isn't that crazy? Emmy's lead actor in a category. Oh, this is interesting. Seth Rogen, 76%. Yes. Isn't that, so it's... But there must be more.

of the ones that like you can manipulate you know what I mean oh my god five kilotum meteor strike in 2025 meteor strike yeah five kilotum meter strike in 2020 yes 24% chance no so if i say no because it's probably unlikely yes so well if i say yes and i put in ninety two dollars and win 356 but the earth is destroyed and if i say no no it's that's only five kiloton. Oh, I'm sorry. Your house is destroyed. It's more than that. That's like a good size bomb. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Um, and I put $100. I want $129. That's if I say, I feel like that's a sound investment in my opinion. See, that's the whole thing. It's like, look actually pretty attractive. Measles cases in the US before 2026, $1,500 or $1,500.

Trump divorce in 25, 4% chance. Nah, no way. I know, but like that's the whole thing. Like, Why don't you say no? Okay, let's say no in 2025, right? Yeah. And I put in $100, I win $103.73. You make $3.73? I do. By gambling?

But you get the point here. Sometimes I feel like there are going to be things in here, especially there's going to be so much insider trading here because there are going to be industries and things that we don't understand, but people have insider knowledge on. Oh, because I saw something that was like, yeah, well, look, like Gemini 3 being released by. Right. September 30th, there's 42% chance. Right, but by August 31st, 7% chance. Well, if I work at Google and I know internally that that release date, that that release date is, let's call it September 29th. There's going to be hundreds of people that know that right now.

Yeah, 100%. And there's, and that's the question is, is it, is there any, is there anything on this site that says you can't do that? Yes, is that the, called the SEC? No, but it's not. covered by the SEC. Yeah, it would be. This is covered. This feels very outside the Well, this one in Polymarkets International, but it's not in the U.S. yet. But there is another one that they have called, that is in the U.S. called Al-She. You think? I don't think you say it. Cal-She? Kalshi? I mean, I think Kal-shee is how

Yeah, calci.com. So that one is legal in the United States. But yeah, it's insider training. If you have insider information that leads to a financial outcome on these, like, gambling type sites. Yeah, that's going to be illegal for sure. I mean, but that's the thing. Is insider trading illegal because it's a criminal act in it of itself? Or is it illegal in regards to the American stock market? Do you see what I'm saying? Yeah. Like, is it only illegal because Because it's a financial institution covered by the SEC. Meaning, does it apply to polymarket? Can you type that into chat chippy-tie real quick?

Like if I, like if I, I don't know how to do it outside. I'm pretty sure it's not. I'm pretty sure it's, well, you could just say, yeah, 100% is all gambling. Because you couldn't have insider information on a sports game and use one of the betting apps. Yeah, 100%. Because, well, I guess it also classified like what is insider information? Right. Here's a guy that says, Lord Miles completes 40-day water fast in the desert.

Yes or no. Yes, 54% chance or no. If I know this guy, and I'm like, that guy can't go fucking two days without drinking water. The most of the guy got is 20 days. That fucking idiot? Yeah, exactly. He's always saying he could go drink not that much than he drinks water secretly. Yeah, exactly.

That's amazing. So just to answer your question. Oh, yes. No traditional U.S. insider trading laws do not apply to polymarket. What? It's... How about klossie? Huh?

What about klossi? Closhy? Yeah. Because polymarket's not in the States yet, so that's probably why they're saying there. Well, app will acquire perplexity, no way in hell. Although, wasn't that, that was one of the things that we're talking about, remember? Yeah, but there's just no way that's going to happen. You didn't want that shit.

Wait, did that say, go back up? Did that say OpenAI social app? Oh, yeah, 2025. 49% chance. Wow. Yeah, but why would they do that? That makes no sense. Yeah, they'd want to do everything, I think.

I mean, I guess. Cracken IPO in 2025, 30% chance? That's actually, I might take that. Cracken? Yeah, Cracken. Film a Crackin? I think they could go public. All right.

Since Colchie is regulated, insider trading on Colchie could have real legal repercussions, use of non-public information to trade, could be pursued under fraud statutes or under the Commodity Exchange Act. Okay. Okay, so it's more of a less gray area. Yeah, yep. It's more solid pink as a twirl. Anthropic acquired in 2025, 7% chance.

I might take that one. That's one that Apple would probably want. Anthropical. This is something, I mean, it's all gambling, right? Like, this is... Yeah, but it's gambling with at least a little bit of knowledge, whereas I feel like with sports, in order to, like, do well in sports gambling,

you really got to fucking know. You know what I mean? You got to know what's going on. And I know like tangentially what's going on, you know what I mean, like, but not enough to be like the stats. That's why I like those, what was the ones that they used to do with like the daily, um, uh, they got around the gambling laws because they did the daily, um, fantasy sports. Oh, yeah, you're talking about. Where instead of it doing a season, because they basically, that was like a gray area where they were like, it's okay, we're not going to, it's not really gambling fantasy sports. they kind of let it go

because they didn't want the group of the office mates to be like everybody dig, let's do it a fantasy football team you know what I mean somebody wins a hundred bucks at the end

but then these companies popped up now they're just full-time sports bets but they popped up and they were like okay we're doing real-time fantasy stuff so it's like

you're picking your fantasy players the moment the game starts and that's you know what I mean so it's really just gambling but the guys that would win were like really scientific, detailed oriented guys. Statisticians.

Fucking static. Yeah, there's sadistic. So it's not like a guy who just kind of knows who's on the Dodgers. Could be like, hey, I win. Yeah, yeah. Anyway. All right. Next story. Watch out for flying burritos. Chipotle orders take flight with first autonomous aircraft

delivery options in Texas. This was submitted by Corey Clayton. This makes me very happy. Essentially, there's a company, and And I watched a documentary, it might have been like a YouTube guy, but I watched a documentary about this company, Zipline. Yeah. And they were doing drone deliveries of blood from a blood bank in, like, in Africa.

So what they were doing was they had these like drones that would fly, they would launch them off. So it was like really low energy use because they basically catapulted them out. And they basically, the hospitals in Africa would be like, okay, we need O positive, you know, two pints of O positive. And they would literally go to the thing, pick up the two points of O positive, put it on these drones, and they would shoot them off these like catapults. And then they would fly to the hospital and they would lower them down and the doctors would take the blood out and then they would go back and get caught in a net. It was crazy watching this happen. Super cool. They then started these like these zip line stations.

So basically what they do is, and I didn't know that they had started doing this, but it's really great that they have actually started doing this. But what they do is they have these like zip stations where they basically build these like racks of drones in the backs of like a target or a back of a grocery store in this case in Texas in the back of a Chipotle. And what they do is they have all the stations and all the different drones. And so the delivery is assigned to a drone. They then take the bag out, put it into the thing. But the thing that Zipline does is the drone itself will hover over the delivery location 300 feet in the air,

and it drops the package with a cable down to the ground. So the person then pulls the stuff out, and then the cable goes back in and the drone goes away. So it helps from the sort of like safety and noise issue because it's only going to hover 300 feet above, but they were like, they started allowing people in the greater Dallas, Texas area to order your food. And this to me, it kind of goes back to the thing with like the drone charger station and the cameras and the autonomy and like popping up and being like thing. Like I feel like this is how we're going to get Amazon deliveries. Yeah. Because it's crazy to me that I can order shit on Amazon and it will be there in like,

three hours. Yeah. Somebody shows and hucks the shit over my thing. But think about this where it's just, you're literally just putting the stuff in this thing and then the thing comes flying over. You know it's there. It lowers it down. You take your stuff out and it goes back up and flies off. It's so awesome. It's amazing. Yeah. And this place is, this company's been around actually for a long time. Yeah. I invested in them, this company. You invested in Ziplier? Yeah. Yeah, maybe. Holy shit. I don't know, maybe like six or seven years ago. Get the fuck out. Yeah, crazy. Long time.

And what, how is it? So, like, it must be doing good. Yeah, I mean, they, like you said, they started off with just doing blood delivery to kind of perfect the, all the drone side of things. And this was what was always the plan was to eventually have something

where they could do more domestic kind of local delivery of all different types of things, but they started off with really essential goods. And it was not this, as you saw. Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. These, like, long range kind of like drop-offs. But, yeah, I should get an update.

I haven't talked to the company in a while. I mean, they're clear. delivering Chipotle's. I know. And like how cool. And of course, like... Amazon has some of this stuff too. Well, they have the droney things, but I don't know if it's in our area or if it's even deployed yet.

I haven't seen anything delivered in LA yet. No, no. Okay. Which is interesting because I feel like LA is a pretty, like, good... I mean, I don't know about you, but I took a Waymo over here. Like, we have, you know, a lot of stuff in the area, which is going to be cool. I would love if they did... if they did some some drone delivery stuff yeah same like I feel like that

like you're to your point well it's it's tough because like everything we're doing now just put people on a job I mean it's that's a tough thing but but that has always been the case with all of technology right like you know horses I mean honestly horses right like you would hire a guy to take your thing down to the market you know what I mean because and then horses were like well this guy's cheap it works for hay you know You know what I mean? But also like a gun. You know, it's like, well, we have to hire 10 of these hunter guys with the arrows because nobody's really good at this. You know what I mean? And there was like, oh, I just made a gun so I can just walk out and bang, get a horse. Not a horse. I mean, your analogy is perfectly here, but I kind of get it makes sense. Right. If you squint, it tracks. If you squinted to the wine. It tracks. Oh my God. The wine is so good right now. I'm very pro worker and I'm, you know, love unions and all that stuff. But I am worried how much. Waymo has ruined Ubers for me. I have a really hard time with drivers

and what the interactions are like and some horrible driving and getting car sick and Waymo ruined me. Yeah, oh, dude. Technology is both making things better and ruining things at the same time. It is the same leap that I made from taxis to Ubers. Because when I got into an Uber for the first time,

I was like, oh, taxes are the worst. They smell so bad, bad, they're nasty. The drivers are we need. speed all the time. Remember how bad taxes were? And by the way, if you have to call? You have to call them to come. And ask one to come to you.

And then they'll show up. Yeah, dude. That's so funny. Yeah. The jump from taxes to Uber is the same feeling as the jump from Uber to Waymo. 100%. Where it's like, boy, this feels like a much better

version of this experience that we've all had for fucking centuries. You know what I mean? Like fucking horses and carriages, like getting someone to drive you somewhere is a fucking thing. I also feel like, I wish L.A. was better with the public transit. It's just the subway system is laid out incorrectly.

I was just talking to my folks about this this weekend. I was down in San Diego. I was like, you know, we grew up in DC, or I grew up in DC, right? The DC metro system makes a lot of sense, because it's this whole concept that everybody had when they were making their metros, or most people had when they were making their metro station,

which is, it's about a central city. The job of the metros is to get people into Washington, D.C., and that makes perfect fucking sense in D.C., Because everybody lives in the suburbs and all the suburbs filter into Washington, D.C., or into the city center because that's where everybody, most everybody works. And there's fun things along the way where it's like, well, I'm a little bit this way, but I'm going to, I work at Tyson's corners and it's on one of the metro things, so it's like, I can take the metro to work.

Yeah, yeah, I've taken those before. But in L.A., it does not work because it's set up the same way. The subway system is set to bring people into downtown L.A. nobody works in downtown LA that's not where the industry is that's not where the work is and so we have this you know the wheel and spoke thing but there's no end of the wheel and so we

I was talking about this because they just opened an LAX metro stop and they're doing a tram that's going to go from the LAX metro center into LAX and all the different things because you've been to LAX it's a fucking shit show it's one of the worst airports I've ever been to

you know what I mean but to have a tram that goes through to all the different terminals from the metro. That's great. The problem is, if I, who live near the Grove, if I want to go to LAX, to that metro station, I have to take the metro to downtown L.A. for no reason. Have this both. Then I have to go from downtown L.A. to like south, stop, get on another train all the way down to the L.A. It's just like, yeah, look at that. It makes sense if everybody is trying to get to downtown L.A. Nobody is. is trying to get to downtown L.A.

People are trying to get from, you know, so where's the Wilshire one, the Wilshire Libreo one that is just about to open. Well, it's like you can go up to L.A.X. Like, you can go up to Santa Monica from there, right? No, because that C is, or the E line is way low. You can't just go and cut it and make a lefty? No, not at all.

That's not Santa Monica. So go up. Where's the Santa Monica? They haven't even made the Santa Monica one. No, it's down there on the very end, and far left. Farthest left of Santa Monica. What?

Down to Santa Monica. The yellow. the far left. Yeah, so you could go to the, to the, from, take the, whatever, the yellow to the pink and then down to LAX. Yeah. Yes, you could do that. But for me, who's up on the purple, I got to take the purple all the way into downtown LA. Then I got to take the yellow all the way to the hub, to the hub to the pink. Everyone in the world right now is watching this, been like, yeah, I don't care. Yeah, I know you don't care. It's just very difficult for us who live in Los Angeles. You've never been taking a motherfucking train. I have one.

Yeah, exactly. Why are you complaining about it? It was fine. It was fine. But also, I would take it more often if it was closer and did more go to more places. Anyway, what were we talking about? Ziplines. Yes. Not Ziplines. Zipline.

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So, the compact disc? I bought a CD player. Okay. And Mal recently bought a CD player, and I didn't know it. Yeah. Yeah, we did this independent of each other's baggage of this. So here's... Heather's going to be so happy.

She has not gotten rid of a single one of her CDs. And she's wealthy now. She has huge cabinets full of CDs. I'm so upset with past version of me. Throwing away my CDs. Same. What was your first CD of all time? Ooh.

Mine was MC Hammer, please don't hate them. Mine might have been Jesus Jones. I think mine was a single of a lighter shade of brown. I don't know if you remember that band. I don't know. It was popular in the Burbs. What was your favorite CD, like, as a kid?

Like, you was on repeat. I mean, I hate to say it. I had been on ice. I played that shit a lot. Dude, everybody did. Paul Abdul. There was a reason why he was famous. Oh, yes.

Back in the day, did you like her? How could you not? That video with the animated cat? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, she was good. Oh, man. I would say the one that, like, A, the Andrew Dice Clay stand-up comedy thing was, I had on repeat a lot.

And then also, oh, what was it? What was the one that was like super dirty rap? Wasn't NWA? Oh, it was NWA? No, no, no, no, no. I was like real rap. Oh, it was probably too short? Easy E?

No, no, no, no, none of that. It was, it was like this whole, like, Jerky Boys. First off, no. Do you like the Jerky Boys? Two live crew. Two live crew. I love the two live crew.

Do you know who the jerky boys are? Of course. Okay. Yeah, of course. They were like the phone call guys. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. So I love those guys because I would just like listen to the fucking,

oh man, it was so, and it was so great because it was like, just at that time when you were like, I was not. old enough to have the CD and it was like so dirty I didn't understand any of it really but it was just like it was like this thing was like I shouldn't be listening this man oh man the first time I heard EZE I'll never forget it I was like these was this good I had as a child I was very much put into this path of like Sunday school religious services oh interesting like very like not easy E.E. Not EZE. EZE was not allowed. And I remember being picked up from school. And I was in second grade and it was by a friend's brother that I had gone to school with. And he's like, we're going to put something crazy on. And he puts in EZE. And I remember just being like, oh, my dad says some of those words, but not like this. Like it was like, it was so hardcore. I was like, what? Like there is so much swearing in this. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

I was, I didn't even, I was like, what? I don't even know some of those words. Those are probably private parts. Like, I didn't know what the hell was going on. Oh, my God. That, like, was an eye-opening experience. You got to get a copy of the EZE CD. Oh, I have a lot of, I mean, I don't, yeah, I probably should, actually.

This is what I'm saying? Now you're into the CD, so what happened? So the one thing I realize is that something that's lost in modern day era is we jump around to whatever fancies us, which is nice and convenient. But it's also not really forcing you to take a deliberate look at the entire layout of an album. Like, you don't really listen to albums anymore. Remember the hidden tracks? Yeah, you had to wait until, like, a couple minutes later.

Like, yeah, track 99. Like, I remember Green Day, Duke had one that I played when I was in college. I was alone. So the cool thing about having those CDs is when you get the pulled out plant pamphlets, you can kind of look through some of the, read the lyrics. Yeah, yeah. And then you also get that experience of how that band put that whole package together during that capsule of time.

Now, the cool thing that I've been getting into is these limited edition, and they're still very affordable, like $25 to $30 per disc. Super Audio CD Limited Edition mono releases of old jazz albums. So why is this important? I don't know. Old jazz, before stereo mixes, was all created mono. And so it was mixed post. to make stereo.

So that was actually not how it was recorded. That was like the DVDification of it all to make it like a higher tech. Star Wars Special Edition. Exactly. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So if you really want that good, good, like the original shit,

you've got to get the mono release tracks on Super Audio CD of the original jazz. Wow. So I got this Macintosh that I love their shit, the 350 CD player, and it plays Super Audio CDs as well. Oh.

And so I'm been getting a lot of these rare Super Audio CDs And now, here's the other thing. This is like some early shit. So you're hearing your first. Okay. If you can go online and you can say, okay, I'll just plot it on ours. Say the first Nirvana album, okay?

Okay, yeah. You can go in there and you can find the CD skew. And what was the very first release of that? Because they've released it like a thousand times since the first pressing, right? Yeah, I have that one. And so you can find this view. I mean, I have the Nevermind, which is not technically their first CD, but yes. Well, well, even with Nevermind.

They sold so many millions of those copies. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The first pressing of it, like the first CDs of it, has a very specific skew typically associated with it. And you can find those, and they're like $7 or $10, but if someone knows that it's the first pressing, it'll be like $17. What? No, no, hold on, though. But if this goes the way of vinyl, those first original pressings of vinyl, and I know it's a very different medium, but it's still physical media, those are hundreds of dollars now. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So I'm just thinking, like, you know. So you just start a CD use collection. Yeah, you'll just buy a couple extras. One for the play, one for the vault, you know? Oh, yeah. You know, because if you can pick them up for like six bucks on eBay, why not? Yeah, I mean, you're not wrong. Eventually, the nostalgia will kick in for somebody to be like, oh, more CDs.

And the cool thing about CDs is you won't get the same degradation you do with vinyl. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So, and a lot of that stuff was recorded around that, especially in the 90s, around that time era for that medium. You know, so it was like, I don't know. I don't think it'll be as collectible as vinyl because vinyl is warm, very warm in a way that CDs aren't, but if you run through a MacKosh setup

with some 2Bams and get a pretty warm sand out of them anyway. I have a blasphemous take and I think there's probably a lot of audio files that would agree. CD sounds better than vinyl. Vinyl has, yeah, okay. Some of them are mixed specific to vinyl

to have better dynamic range. I'm fair. But CDs just sound better. They last longer. Yeah. I don't know. But there is something, I got to say there's something really cool

about pulling out, they call them like these hot stampers, like the first pressings of these vinyl records. And you go over somebody's house and they have... Oh, the hot stampers. Yeah, you have like this first pressing and you're like, hey, this is the first you know, Michael Jackson thriller ever pressed.

And you like put it down and put it on our... That's probably a poor one, like an old Bob Dylan or something, right? Yeah, yeah. And you put it on and you just sink that needle in and the little slight clickiness of it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. poppiness and the warmth that comes out of it, especially with a good 2BAM, it's just like butter, you know, and it's like you just sit, if I have whiskey, I just sit with a whiskey.

I was like, that's the thing, and you're like, all right, let's pop that Bob DeLaynard. Yeah, exactly. I have both. I still collect vinyl. I still have a massive vinyl collection from the 90s and on, but my new approach is vinyl is for collecting, CD is for listening. There you go. Interesting.

Yep. A way to do it. Anyway, I want to talk you and get in a CDT. Well, now I'm going to go. I mean, I literally, I'm going to go home and open up Heather's CD, like, cabinet. Yeah. And just look to see if there's anything, because it's all her CDs. So I'm like, I don't know if I need Indigo girls in my life right now.

Yeah, but you should get some of the old ones now before they go. Would you buy back right now? Who would I buy back? What album would you buy back immediately as a CD right now? Oh, my first Primus album. Oh, for sure. I fucking, Jared was a race car crime. Old Nine Nakesh, too, oh, pretty hate machine on CD.

That album slideout was great. She might even have. The Wall was great on CD. Remember that double thick? Everyone remembers their CD of the wall, that double thick. Yeah, yeah. That was fantastic. She might have some of that stuff.

Oh, she's the Metallica Black album. Oh, yeah. Remember when that came out? I was like, ooh, Satan's in there. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I love that you grew up religious. I didn't even know how you. You're like, oh, look, Mom, Satan's in here.

Pratt. Dude, my parents, my mom found Snoop Doggy Style, and I had it, like, hidden behind my, like, things, you know, and she was like, I read some of the lyrics in here and like, and she was pia. Yeah, ma, ma, ma, ma, ma, ma, ma. Just sit down. Smoke this.

Yeah, exactly. Let me just put this on. Oh, God. Dude, I remember when I, you know, when you're younger, I wish I still like weed, I don't, but like when I love weed, I remember coming in and my mom just being like, your eyes are so bloodshy, you're okay, you're getting sick, and I'm like, yeah, I just need some chips. Yeah, I just, sorry. you have any salt and vinegar chips.

Yeah, just like guacamole. Just great chips of guacamole, please. Those are fun days, though. Oh, my God. You mean being a kid? Yes, they were amazing. So much fun. That was the best. I love, it was so funny.

So I watched some, this guy, I think he's in the UK and his little son, and he does this thing where he goes, he goes, I'm going to tell you something that you don't understand. He's like, think about what would be one of the worst punishments. and he was like, I don't know. And he was like, we used to want to go outside. He was like, why would you want to go outside? And he was like, no, that's what I would do is we would go outside. Staying inside was a punishment.

Yeah. They would say, you need to go to your room. And he was like, why would that be a punishment? I love being in my room. Yeah. And he was like, yeah, if I told you, your punishment is you have to go outside. And he was like, what would I do outside? Yeah.

It was like, oh, my God. And then the other thing he did, which I thought was so funny, He was like, okay, I'm going to go in this room and you need to come to the door and you're trying to ask your friend to come outside and play, okay? And he goes through all this stuff. And it's like genius, because the kid knocks.

And then he like waits, knocks again and the guy opens and he was like, why are you knocking a second time? He's like, you're gonna get your friend killed. He's like, those parents are like, on their way to the door, you knock a second time? Are you crazy? Yeah. And it was like, oh my God, that's so funny.

Dude, did you see the video that went viral of a kid trying to, like, doorbell, ding and ditch? That's so great. Yeah, he, like, did his dad, like, is running? He's like, run! Yeah, exactly. And the kid's, like, he freezes. He's like, my dad said his part of childhood. I need to do this.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And she's like, what are you doing? And then, like, the dads are sprinting in the background. He was like, just run! Oh, my God. There's so much stuff. I mean, I know it's like old man talking about old man things, but, like, it's, there was so. much different.

I mean, it's back to like the 5600, you know, 6K. Modem, like there was just so much different in life, but that feels like it might be less than. Now, look, I play video games with my buddy almost every day. It's awesome. I feel like I hang out with my buddy all the time. So I get that, like, playing video games with your friends online

is socializing in its own way. But there was something about, like, going outside and, like, hang, out and doing stuff. And also figuring out how to entertain yourself. Right. Like that's the other thing. My buddy said that he's got...

My kids. No, he's got kids. And he said one of the most frustrating things. They're like, what do we do now? Yeah, they'll come up to him and be like, I'm bored. Oh, there's one kid's here. You got fucking video games. You got television.

You got fucking all these things. You're bored? Figure it out. Go entertain yourself. I said I was bored too. But that was only one we'd like go to places I didn't want to go to like the car school. When someone was like, it's after school, you've done it home or go outside. you would never be like, I'm bored.

Or you'd say to your friend, I'm bored, and you'd be like, I don't know, you want to go poke this tree with a stick? I'm like, thank you. Yes, exactly. I was older and be like, we'd be like, we're both bored. We should probably break something. Yes, oh, 100%.

Let's like this tree up fire. I'm sure it will be fine. That was the first thing you do. You'd be like, what can we destroy? Dude, when it was rain, you probably didn't get this much because you were in Vegas, but when it would rain, it would rain, like, torrential in Virginia.

We had these, like, because there was so much rain and we lived on a hill, there was actually like a ditch, like a full, big giant ditch. Ours would keep the water. We'd try and block it so we could get more build-up of water. And then did you do the foil boats? Oh, 100%. Yes.

I so was like, I just want to fucking slide down this thing, like luge. And then when it was dry and bikes, oh, you make a ramp on the things. Yeah, let's do that again. I'm surprised that we didn't die as children, but whatever. Anyway, speaking of not that, new technologies. Geez. Next story, powerful but pro- Sorry, powerful and proactive.

Pixel 10 phones are here. I heard one. This was submitted by Skippy Bosco. Very Skippy Bosco. Here's the thing. Lots of cool stuff. I want to talk about one thing, which is the real-time voice translate

with AI local on the phone, not going to the cloud, not recording your stuff, but also using your voice as the translated mechanism on the other side. They showed a demo of this, and it blew my mind. I was like, this is what you want.

I mean, think about, like, for me, I was going through the process of doing the Italian citizenship thing when we talked about, then the Italian government said, we don't want Alex, just sad. Oh, did that happen? Yeah, it did, yeah.

But they didn't want Alex because they don't want anybody that's, they just sort of locked it down because too many people were doing it. Yeah, yeah. Which is sad because I really did want my Italian citizenship because I love Italy and I'm, you know, you want to have a place there at some point. But I don't want to leave. I just want to, anyway, long story short, there were times when I was like talking to lawyers on the phone and they were Italian and I was English and so I'm like trying to, you know, and this, you can literally turn it on and say I want, you know, we're speaking English and Italian. Oh, that's so cool. And it literally will go, this video, you know, this is now using Google Translate. We are not recording this phone call.

It will be translated in the voice of the, of the speakers. I then say, okay, so I'm trying to get this form for the blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. It then translates it in my voice and says the Italian to the other person on the other side of the line. They then respond in Italian. It then translates their voice into English. and I hear them talk to me in English. I just had a brilliant idea. Keep going.

But that's it. Are you getting one of these phones? I'm getting one. Maybe. So if we get two of them, oh, yeah. We can flip them around and hook them to each other

and then I can call you and tell them I'm speaking to a Japanese person. You can say you're a Japanese person speaking to an English person. We can do double translation and then have it come out the other end and see what it does. I mean, it might destroy the planet,

but I'm in. You see what I'm saying? We can be like Japanese. That's really fun. I don't know why I was expecting some big. Spanish to this, this, that. You can have like five, four hops.

You can chain them. Oh. Actually, it would be really funny to see what telephone game happens. Right, exactly. With the loss of translation. Of, like, six different languages. Oh, that's fucking fun. That would be fun.

That would be really, really fun. This just makes me, like, think about, like, if you're in Japan, oh, well, whatever. Were you going to Japan? Well, so I was going to say. I'll drink. We go to Japan. My birthday was last week. Let's go.

Happy birthday. me. I already said my next one. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's all good. But my next birthday is a big birthday. Oh, 50. 50. Oh, fuck. Yeah, you'll be there soon. No, I won't. I got years. You don't have years. I at least over more than a year. That's not years. That's a year. Well, it was just my half birthday a few, the week ago. I know, I know, because you're literally six months younger than me. But I was talking to my older sister, and she was like, I was like, I was like, I'm thinking about going like on a trip with Heather. It would be so fun. And she was like, okay, but you got to go to like on a big trip. Like go to Australia. I want to go to Antarctica or something. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like something not Italy. What are you going to do? Japan. Oh, sweet. We're going to go to Tokyo because I know you go to Tokyo. Oh my God. I've only been that one time. Heather's only been one time. I will blow your mind now. I'm so excited. Yeah. So next summer, August, boom. How many people do you want there? I mean, nobody except me and Heather, plus maybe you and Darya?

Yeah, I mean, we should keep it small. Well, because, so the other thing I'm going to do is, I would say more than six, and it gets complicated. I was planning on doing it myself with just Heather, and then I was like, if I'm in. Oh, we should go, dude. Kevin's going to want that. Oh, I'll take you there. And I would love it because I know you'd show me around. Oh, my God.

You would, your mind would be blown. I'm so excited. I'm so excited. Yeah, okay. I mean, by the way, we're going to then buy, like, matching condos in. Shazuka or whatever. Oh, dude, the price is there. It's so cheap, too, to buy stuff.

That's what I'm saying. Anyway, so that's what I was going to do for my birthday. Anyway, but I'm very excited because I feel like we're getting to a point where pretty soon you're going to be able to sort of be wearing these things when you go and travel to be like, hey, I read, you know, this is what I want. Yeah. It's going to be great. I'm stoked. I'm actually pretty excited about all the Android stuff.

I watched the whole thing. I don't know if you watched it. I didn't, no. I just watched this video thing. Our friend Jimmy Fallon did the... Oh, right. Jimmy was the guy that was doing it. He did the whole thing, which I thought was refreshing.

It was cool to have so many of these stages are setting out where it's like, oh, you're in your friend's hip living room, and you're hanging out with tech people, and like, they just show you a cool demo and talk about their kids and maybe make a joke. We're drinking coffee. Let's put on the Apple fucking Missy Pro and look over here while I'm talking. It's like, no, no.

Disingenuous. But the thing that Jimmy did is he came out there and he was just Jimmy. Yeah. And he was just joking around and he went off script a handful of times. And you're like, finally something that I'm both getting the data that I want, the information that I want. But at the same time, they're having fun with it. Yeah, yeah. And like, there was a joke where they mentioned Apple at one point.

Oh, yeah, it's all that. And he was like, it was the MagSafe. Like, can we say the A word or whatever? She was like, yeah, it works with all other MagSafe things, blah, blah, blah, blah, and Apple products. And he was like, are we allowed to say the A word on that? Yeah, I know. But it was like, and she's like, yeah, like we were confident in our products and we think they're bad ass. Yeah, we're happy to like put our name in like the same.

So, and I was just like, finally, they're just talking from the heart. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Versus from the script. Yeah. And like, there was a couple things I didn't like, but that was like in some other stuff. But I thought it was, as someone that was critiquing the whole thing, I thought I mean, when they virtually sacrificed the cow, it was like, yeah. That's a little, that's a stretch. Yeah, yeah, I get it.

But I get it. You got to figure out how to feed the AI. Yeah, it was exactly the blood of a cow. Oh, my God. It was a great one. I think that this pixel is solid. It looks really solid. They do stuff that Apple.

Apple is the privacy OS. They painted themselves at that. Siloed individual apps, can't talk to each other, blah, blah, blah. And I've liked that for a lot of what Apple has done. I like the fact that, you know, they've really locked down that device and ecosystem. But I will say when you have Google

sitting at that kind of crossroads or the intersection of all things, email, calendar, contacts, like all of those things of your life, having AI sit at that layer and be able to make sense of it all and some of the demos that they gave, I'm like, oh, this unlocks a lot, right?

It's like, now we live in a world where, like, oh, you're running, you know, 20 minutes late to that dinner. I'll call the restaurant and let them know and send your friends the text, and by the way, we'll take a different route because we're Google and we know it'll get you there faster. Yeah, because Waymo, right? Waymo is Google.

But that's the shit where you're like, oh, they're connecting all of the dots in a way. I just made up that example, but you get it. Like, we're starting to see a little glimpse into that future, which looks pretty cool, as long as they keep it private. So let me ask you this, too, what is that watch? Oh, this is the pixel watch. Is because this, my Apple Watch has just stopped taking a charge.

And it's new, and I'm a little pissed. Yeah. Like, I woke up, and I was like, well, but I mean, it's not that new. Like, I don't know if I can return it. It's like six months old. When was it the last generation released? That's when I got this. I mean, it still should be working.

So that is weird. I agree. I'm going to take it to an app store, Apple store, or go to the app store. Yeah, I got the new, well, this is the new one. I have the new one coming, but this is just the pixel watch. And I don't have my Android phone with me, so it's working on its own LTE right now. What do you think, though? I think it's great.

I mean, it's got Fitbit built into it. So you get a lot more data up front. Like, you can't get steps on your watch without going through like 1,000 hertz. I know. I fucking hate it. And like, there's steps right on the front screen, which I'm like, thank you. I get Apple, you want to have your proprietary rings and all that shit. I just want to see how many steps I've taken.

Yeah. Like, yeah, it's got calendars on the edge. That's great, too, and Miles and all that. By the way, I never set the rings. So they're just the standard rings for a normal human that has the watch. And then a friend completes the rings and it gets me a push. It's like, your friend complete the rings. I'm like, yeah, and you're like, you have a ditty lower the rings.

Right, exactly. It doesn't say he completed my rings. Yeah, so. Completed his rings. I don't know. I kind of like this real-time heart rate on the front. They have some firsts that have come out that now Apple is copied and they have a couple more now like they have satellite communication now if you're out running and you don't have your

phone with you and you don't have cell phone service you can actually communicate with satellites and let people know that you're in trouble with your watch they were the first ones to come out with on the watch loss of pulse detection oh so it's like you had a heart attack and they know you haven't removed your watch but they lose your pulse get that then they can go and call emergency services for you which is awesome that's actually really nice they save some lives they actually have people on there on the video where they were showing like people that were like this actually like paramedics showed up brought me back to life and like i'm okay now it's like insane wow so it's cool it's cool stuff but i and then they they're revamping the

do you have to have an android phone yes yes well got to get pixel 10 see you next tuesday and right are you gonna get one were you mean like next Tuesday like never no uh that's the word see you next Tuesday. It was a joke. I'll tell you later. I'll tell you later. Is it something you're having modern culture thing? It's pretty ancient, but yeah,

it's, you know, you'll see, you'll see. Anyway, guys, that was amazing. Talk about a fun show. Yes. So it was so fun. It's coming in bullshitting about stuff. I know. I'm going to get a very small pool,

a comically small pool. Oh, yeah. Go ahead. Tuck on in. I just want to smell. I mean, you can. It does smell good. It does smell good.

Just saying. No, I can't. Wait, so is there an end date to this, or you just... There is. Oh, I'm, I... 2027? When I get my Chinese car. No, no, no, no.

No, he already did your Chinese car. I don't know. I'll report back next time. Okay, all right. Well, on that note, people, we are so glad that you came and sat with us for this hour and however long while I drank and Kevin listened. I'm a lot of water. See you soon.