Diggnation (rebooted) - Diddy, Flying Taxis, and a $350 Bottle of Beer - Diggnation

Episode Date: October 2, 2024

This week, we’re kicking back with some beer talk and reminiscing (hello, Edward Forty Hands!). Kevin's got some great stories from his recent AI summit trips in London and Berlin, and we��re diving into everything from Waymo’s self-driving cars to Tesla’s latest micro-taxi prototype. We’ll also chat about the new iPhones, some fancy beers we’ve been trying, how AI is changing content creation, and a few wild stories you won’t want to miss.🎥 Don't Forget to Subscribe!🎧 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0bzwpvU...📱 Follow us on TikTok:   / thediggnation  📸 Instagram:   / thediggnation    / @diggnationhighlights  Chapters:0:00 - Diggnation Intro4:12 - Beer Rankings: Elite beers, tasting notes, and wild nights.11:06 - Tech & iPhones: Tasting an the #1 ranked beer and our thoughts on new iPhone models.20:37 - Autonomous Taxis: Remarkable tablet review and our new YouTube channel announcement.26:57 - Tesla Micro Taxi: Our Waymo experience and the future of Tesla's taxis.38:13 - Lost Phone Saga: Heather's phone mishap and living tech-free.41:12 - AI in Podcasts: AI’s role in content creation and email evolution.53:38 - AI & Face Slap Fighting: How AI intersects with sports and tech trends.1:02:20 - Diddy's Troubles1:09:37 - Flying Taxis: Joby's flying taxi.1:22:19 - Google Glass & AI Dubbing: The rise and fall of Google Glass and AI translation tech.1:31:49 - Fan’s Email & Hyundai: Mental health discussions, ketamine therapy, and Hyundai pronunciation.Don't forget to like, subscribe, and leave your thoughts in the comments!

This is going to be one of those days, guys. I'm starting to kind of get to this place where I just don't believe anything that Tesla says. Stignation covers some of the hottest, weirdest, different stories around the fringes of the internet, sometimes mainstream, sometimes the fringes. Sometimes mainstream. Technically, in aggregate, it was 40s.

Yeah, 140. 144s. What would we do now, like sparkling water? I don't know, this is like... This is Toppling Goggler. No no uh toppling gobbler like i would pay so much money to have a cool new watch face dude i've got this crazy theory that's that's about to happen what so welcome to dictation Also potentially hazardous to your health. Alright, moving on.

Why do you have flies in your freaking house? I have no reason to be in here. It's Southern California and I have fruit. You put zombie and you put deer in the title and I don't want to do it. Dignation.com And I don't want to do it. Dignation.com Hello everybody and welcome to Dignation Rebooted, episode numero four, I believe. That's correct. I'm Alex Albrecht.

And I'm Kevin Rose. Dignation covers some of the hottest, weirdest, different stories around the fringes of the internet. Sometimes mainstream, sometimes the fringes. Sometimes mainstream. Should we tell everybody that you have been drinking? Listen, I have not... No. I said mainstream, which was like a

head of hair. Oh, the mainstream. Mainstream. Yeah. Like a good... What do you call that cut where it's like tight on the sides? High and tight. Party in the back? Mullet. Mullet, yeah. Mullet. Yeah. So you've had a couple... No, here's the deal. I had to fly in i've had a hell of a few days a dude a bro you texted us your calendar just like oh my god i have so

much stuff to do and i was like it gave me agita just knowing somebody on the planet had a calendar it was a lot so i i flew in i just got back i just landed i hate flying i had a glass of champagne on the flight she offered me a second one, which was very kind. That's the best kind. And I was just like, you know, I didn't want to turn down such a gift. Well, she'd be upset with you. Of course she would. And that's her job to provide joy.

And she poured him a little heavy. Nice. And did you not, did you, were you not aware that you had scheduled it to do designation afterwards yeah no and i mean like were you supposed to fly in yesterday or something oh yeah yeah so i was supposed to fly in yesterday and i was just gonna sleep and then we'd be all good but like um not that it matters no it's just it was just one of those things where i was like okay i'm gonna thread this needle because i'm leaving to london on sunday and so i'm glad we got a chance to record oh yeah yeah yeah um which is awesome so i'm out there for a little

bit and i go to berlin for uh true ventures um uh ai summit which is gonna be fun and i did oh that'll be good really cool we're finding a lot of new ai companies at true which is um which is a lot of fun but that'll be cool when you come back you'll have to yeah that's what you can tell dude i've got so much stuff to share. I want to talk about one story. Ospac. Are you talking to... Ospac. I was trying to remember the story. I do have a story. I wanted to fit that in. I don't know if I can now, but anyway.

Actually, I should. I should. Let me just pull it up. Okay, well, while you're pulling it up, I had a thought, which was was I remember one of the, like, loveliest times that we had as two knuckleheads drinking on a couch for some semblance of a profession. 12 years ago. 12 years ago, or more than 12 years ago,

was when we decided it would be a good idea to tape 40 ounces of beers to our hands. Oh, the Edward Forty Hands episode. Edward Forty Hands. And I wanted to, I feel like that's something we should figure out how as adult humans that are responsible-ish could recreate something in the spirit of Edward Forty Hands. But not the same. Well, I mean, maybe it's just the same and one of us dies at the end.

Did we do actually 40s or did we do 20s? No, we did highballs or whatever they're called. No, highballs are whiskey with... No, yeah, not highballs. We did a ball of cocaine. We did a ball of cocaine. Yeah, eight ball of coke, we're good. Then we went right into it.

No, no, no, we were doing tall boys. 22s, yeah, 22s. Yeah, tall boys. Yeah, it was two 22s. Two right into it. No, no, no, we were doing tall boys. 22s. Yeah, 22s. Yeah, tall boys. Yeah, it was two 22s. Two 22s. Technically, in aggregate, it was 40s. Yeah, 44s.

Yeah, 44s. Edward 44's hands. What do we do now? Like sparkling water hands? I don't know. We feel like we're so old. I don't have any water hands. Sparkling water hands?

I don't know. I'm just trying to dial it back a touch. Well, the funny thing is, now I drink so much wine. I was like, there's no fucking way I'm putting two bottles of red wine on my hands. You could have little half bottles. Oh, correct. Do a little duck horn on one. A little duck horn on one?

You know what I mean? Like, you like that cabby cab? Yeah, I do like me a cabby cab. Could you get me a water? Thank you so much. Mel's the best. Anyway, so I was just thinking about that the other day. I was like, you know what?

This could be really fun. Let's do that for another episode. Yeah, that's what I was going to say. This is a throwback. And then we can show ourselves side by side. Exactly. And how much we age. That's one of the things that is so bad is now my YouTube algorithm shows me my face.

And I'm like, I haven't had enough coffee to see that. I know. We've got to get you some Botox or something. We've got to do something good. I'm doing it. I did the vampire thing. You should do that. I know. I should do the vampire thing at the least. We could record me getting a vampire facial.

Agreed. They sponsor it. Vampirefacials.com. You have things. So I have things. You have treats. Oh my god, Matt, you're the best. Water's the best. Cheers. Okay. That was fast. all right so here's the thing about the the number one beers in the world i got called out a little bit oh okay oh oh for the because we had pliny the elder yes but i never said that was number one no you said number three what i said was heady topper was

number one okay i was like okay i want to find try and get some heady topper was number one okay i was like okay i want to find and try and get some heady topper technically speaking okay heady topper is the number one ranked ipa that makes so in that genre that style of beer it is number one okay so the good news is wait did you get some i got us heady toppers oh so that is the number one ranked and they don't let you pour it into a cup. They don't let you? No, look at what it says here. Drink from the can. Drink from the can. Yeah, they're very like but the number one beer in the world

is a stout. This is no joke. This is the Kentucky Brunch by Topling Gogler. It's Topling Goliath. Toppling Gobbler. Toppling Gobbler is going to become my new screen name for everything.

Listen, this is Toppling Gobbler's Kentucky Brunch. Look at how they wrap it. This is like no joke. Dude. So here's the deal. Whoa. It's dipped in like this beautiful silver wax.

This is like the thing from Harry Potter where they take the memories out and put it in the pool. Anyway. I saw that a long time ago. I don't have the bottle opener. You have a bottle opener. So this is a stout. So stouts are technically like the top five beers in the world and then they go

down to heady topper which is the first ipa on the list which is technically the number one ipa in the world so that's what are we are we we're gonna try a little heady topper oh got it you have one for that yeah i got it and that one we can put in cups let's just split one just because oh we're supposed to only drink out of the can that's right yeah i just i have like i have like for that. Yeah. Got it, got it. And that one we can put in cups. Let's just split one. Just because, oh, we're supposed to only drink out of the can. That's right. Yeah. I just, I have like,

I have like, I bought eight of them, but I will say that they hit hard. Bro. And so. This is going to be one of those days, guys.

No, I don't want it to be one of those days. And gal. And gal. Oh my God. I got our analytics back for the podcast because I logged

in a transistor. Yeah. It's not good, dude. Why is that not good? I mean, it's good. analytics back for the podcast because i logged in the transistor yeah it's not good dude why is that not good i mean it's good there is for the boys there is gal it's for the boys there's like three women watching right now by the way ladies thank you yeah you know what thank you for coming it's it's probably i don't know what it was but like i will say that it's always been that way. Hey, cheers. Cheers, brother. Thank you, man. So this will put some hair in your chest.

This is very hoppy forward. Oh, see, this is my kind of beer. I said that her and her husband would watch together, but she just won't commentate. See, that's the thing. So a lot of couples watch it together. That's great. Yeah. Eight percent, which is not too bad this is good this is smooth it is good it is usually ipa gets you that like funky negroni

back you know what i mean where like yeah the sour like yeah yeah yeah and by the way everybody's knows what earwax tastes like right like i feel like i say that like negroni tastes like earwax tastes like, right? Like, I feel like I say that, like, Negroni tastes like earwax, and people go like, how do you know what earwax tastes like? But I also bite my fingernails. After you clean your earwax. I mean, it can happen. That's how I go, ugh, what the fuck? And it is earwax.

Interesting, yeah. Tastes like Negroni, if anybody's wondering. I use Q-tips, but... I mean, Q-tips, are you not supposed to use q-tips yeah but i used pen do you forget and how often do you clear clean your ears real talk i mean not not what did you say how often seriously be honest not often not often like sometimes i'll get out of the shower when i feel like everything's a little looser yeah and then just go on and go to town but that's maybe like six times a year what yeah holy shit i'm like once every seven days almost every day every day it feels great

it does it does feel great it does feel great yeah i had a year are you pulling out like i shouldn't say this we don't want to talk about it i had uh a dated a girl who, there was something obsessive. Like, she just loved cleaning other people's ears. Oh, yeah. I had one of those one time. I don't know where that came from. I had a girl that liked it. But it was also kind of nice because I felt like my ears had never been as clean.

Yeah. You know what I mean? I dated someone that wanted to be like an esthetologist. Is that what they call them? An esthetician. Esthetician. Esthetician. Esthetician. But she just wanted to clear everybody's pores oh and she'd be like oh like let me just like work on that i was like okay but like it's like kevin comes he's just got red all over nobody really wants

somebody to like just pick at you and shit i don't know it just seemed a little anyway it didn't work out um but i will say this is lovely it is lovely it is lovely but i want you to try the number one beer in the world so this is truly so here's the deal with this beer and i don't want people to think you know we're doing this for the show so this is not something we drink every day nor would you want to because stouts are like don't you have to peel the wax off yeah but sometimes you can just get in there um have you ever opened one of those before? I've done one before, like a long time ago.

I had one of these in Portland when I lived out there. Because I just wanted to try it. It was like COVID. I was like, we're all going to die, so I might as well get the best beer in the world. Okay, I got it. Oh, I'm so nervous. So here's the deal with this. Because it's a stout, you have the hand-numbered bottle.

Okay. This is the 2022 vintage. And actually, no, the older ones are worth more so you can age these like wine so there was some on my beer collectibles that were like over a thousand dollars and you're gonna put it in a wine glass yeah dude this is like oh my god dude yeah this is like some deep shit right here this that that is like the shit that comes out of the evil guy at the end of blade you know what i mean yeah this is like oh no it's not whoa don't say that no no no just surprising yeah it's chocolatey it's that smells really good that smells like now you gotta try some of this

that smells like dessert let me pour you a little bit of this here. Get a little tasty taste. It's like car oil in a way. It looks exactly like used car oil. Yeah, so cheers. And let's give this a smell. Very chocolate notes. Little walnut. Sweet, sweet walnut chocolate. Balls.

Little clove. Balls. Oh, that's good. Dude, that tastes like a fucking dessert wine you see why this is the number one beer in the world like that is good though that does not taste like beer it is glorious isn't that amazing oh lord yeah but so guess how much okay so this this was about uh fifteen dollars a can i mean that's a lot but that's's definitely, what is that, a 20? What is a... 20 ounces?

Yeah, 20 ounces. More than 16. Yeah. Okay. So how much is one? What would you say this one is? You can age it like wine. I mean, 25 bucks a bottle?

$350. $350? For one glass of one bottle. For one glass of this? 12 ounces. For a bottle of this? 12 ounces. For a bottle of this? What the fuck? Dude, it's the number one beer in the world.

And they're hand numbered. They only make like 1,000 of them. I mean, now I'm concerned. Yeah. Dude, that is crazy. The thing is, I was talking to my accountant. I think we can write this off, actually. I mean, 1,000%?

We brought up that bottle. That is 1,000 doing it for the show don't shake your head you're not an account part of the show there's no way this is what we do yeah first yeah we've had beer sponsors that's true uh who sponsored us with beer wise we had uh do we yeah remember we went to the same adams we had same adams yeah but michelob was the one you can do it one time i don't think heineken had but i could be wrong about that but anyway michelob did because we went to that's when we went and did the live show in st louis remember yeah and we went to their like craft beer thing where they make all that's right craft beer and that was fun actually i just swear to god it was michelob michob Ultra. It was Michelob? Yeah. Okay, yeah. Because I have a Michelob Neon Lite.

Oh, the gift of this. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right. So I've got some new gear to show off. Okay. This is, you know, we've been talking about Android phones. We've been talking about all kinds of stuff on the phone recently. I thought it would be fun that as stuff comes out, if we can get people to like either send us stuff or just

give our hot take on like something fun uh the new iphones came out yes i got the new i didn't go for the like crazy plus and you did yeah that's so you have pro max no that's desert desert well it's the new color i did so i like mine's a little smaller. Wait. Yeah. What is that? So this is the Max, not the Pro Max, the Plus. It's like, it doesn't have the three cameras because I don't need the other camera. Oh, so you got the iPhone 16, what? We're trying to send each other our contact info. We have our contact info.

I know, but it tried to send them. That's amazing. That's mine, dude. That's me. That's me at the beach. So it's kind of, but see how it's a little bit lighter and a little smaller? How do you feel about that?

Okay, I mean. So I didn't go with this one because it felt like it was a little too big. Yeah, it's a little lighter. I mean, dude, that looks like they're exactly the same size. I mean, this one's a little lighter. I mean, dude, that looks like they're exactly the same size. I mean, this one's a tad lighter for sure. So try this. This is an add-on I just got.

How do you do it? So that is a magnet add-on. When you don't do a case and it snaps into the back, it gives you a little holdsies. I never understood how the holdsies things work. Yeah, so these are magnet holdsies. Okay. Isn't that cool? Magn the holdsies things work yeah so well these are magnet holdsies okay isn't that cool magnet holdsies and so this one I found on Amazon

that one's made by Anker the brand Anker it's pretty cool actually it's kind of cool too because you use a little stand so when you're on a plane or something yeah I don't know I thought this was like if you're not going to do a case so my iPhone 15 I had no case the entire time and you didn't scrape it or break

it or anything no i just sent it back i got yeah i got the free uh free replacement stuff i think this is good that feels nice feels really good anyway it feels like what i mean i guess i i never thought i was a power thing although dude have you done this so i saw this the other day and i was like oh no yeah thank you thank you um so like check out your pinkies so this pinky scoops up and it's the pinky for me which one you hold your phone with that i rest on my phone on yeah i don't think i have a difference no so one so one has been bent up i heard about a little bit yeah just because i constantly like and then it's also like that's the place where like i get sore when i'm like oh god it's like too much i can't well people are fucked up people are getting arthritis and shit in that bottom pinky the way there's a hole yeah yeah yeah for sure yeah that's

the thing i think the anchor one's a little cleaner a hundred anchor makes such great shit do you have other chargers and everything? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, they're the best. I'll say the wireless charging stuff on the iPhones has really been like, oh, my God, this is so crazy. Like, I literally... And do you do the thing where...

Sideways at night? Sideways at night. It's so great. So good. How did it take that long for them to do that? It's been around for about two years now. Yeah, but it took long. So I've got some more gifts for you.

Oh, shit. We talked about getting you some Crocs oh shit I had some camo Crocs and I thought you had never had Crocs I have never had Crocs oh my god Kevin thank you so much little Amazon Prime gift

so how do I get the Croc out you said 10 do you like the camo I like the camo feel how comfortable these are the little thing out there. See if they fit. You said 10. Yep. Do you like the camo? I like the camo. They're super cool. Now feel how comfortable these are. These are my first. Now what do you do? Do you heel strap? It's your choice.

You can start with it up. Start with it up. Okay. Just go in. Once you get used to Crocs though, dude. Whoa. It's kind of nice. That is so light. Yeah. Dude, those are cool looking. Speaking of which, snake eyes. Snake eyes. You never know what's behind of nice. That is so light. Yeah. Dude, those are cool looking. Speaking of which, snake eyes.

Snake eyes. You never know what's behind the mask. Do you have a cut? Yeah, I don't want to hurt you. Yeah, don't break the nice crocs. So that was one little gadget. And then the last one. Bro, it's like Christmas. No, this is not for you.

But the last one. I'm going to take your things home. This is the Remarkable Tablet, the new one. What's a Remarkable Tablet? so this is a tablet just for note-taking i see why these are used by prisoners are they're so easy isn't that what they said that like why would prisoners care oh my god dude these feel great they're good right holy shnikes try this, try this, though. This is the new Remarkable tablet. Okay. So you're left-handed. So, Kevin.

So just write some shit. What have you been feeling about your mother? Look how responsive that is, though. Oh, wow. That's crazy. Like, just do a quick stroke. Isn't that crazy, that E-ink display? And then hit this.

You can go color. Color? So, yeah, just tap on the – well, that gets rid of the navigation. Okay. Tap on that, and then you can be like, oh, I want – so now this is go color. Color? Just tap on the, that gets rid of the navigation. Okay. Tap on that and then you can be like, I want, so now this is a color,

the first color e-ink display. Ooh. Or you can do a highlight. That's probably, highlight's probably a better way to do it. Hit that button there

and then just highlight over something, like all the way. There you go. Whoa. And then let go and it'll turn. Whoa, dude,

this is creepy. And then it'll do text to, Whoa. Text to actual text And then it'll do text to actual text. Text to actual text? Holy shit. It does two texts? Handwriting to text. How do I do that?

I don't know yet. Okay. I just got it, but it's pretty dope. Dude, this is amazing. And this all syncs to the cloud and goes back to your notes, and you can search them and all kinds of shit. Oh, my God, bro, this is is crazy isn't that kind of sweet so no distractions not like you know like an ipad or anything like that so you're not like worried about other stuff

it's just simple note taking can you how do i get past ah yeah it's a little delayed bro i like this though pretty sweet huh, huh? This is amazing. So, okay, all right. Okay, black. So it's just like, think of it as like a distraction-less note-taking pad. Wow, that's like crazy. They have like charcoal, they have the whole thing. So people are actually using it for like high-def drawings.

And it's cool, it's got that like pressure sensitivity yeah that's cool my two squiggles look like a simpsons character it does actually isn't that cool yeah so anyway just like something something to play around with that's amazing the nice thing about these you can have these in meetings and no one thinks you're dicking around on your ipad because if you bring an ipad to me yeah what are you doing you So who makes this? Remarkable. So that's their thing. They're like, forget. We're just doing clean, really responsive, e-ink display, note-taking, and that's kind of it. I mean, this is really cool. Plus the pen feels really nice. Yeah, it's good. This is their brand new one that just came out. It just hit the market

maybe like a week ago. Dude, this is rad. Thanks for their brand new one that just came out. It just hit the market maybe like a week ago. Dude, this is rad. Thanks for getting me this. Yeah, no problem. I really appreciate it. Of course, yeah. Let's try it. Damn it. But it's fun just to try this stuff.

You know, it's like I always have to be playing with the latest stuff if you're looking to make investments in the space. Oh, yeah. Well, yeah, you've got to know what's out there. You know what I mean? Speaking of which, we've got to go to CES. Oh, CES ces so we should do a live show out of ces i mean i know it's short notice i guess it's not that short it's not to january so we could that'd be kind of fun yeah but we also like do you remember we used to

do stuff where we would just be like hey we're both gonna be at this place yeah we need to get an episode in the can like we shot in the lobby of that hotel in Austin that's what I'm thinking like we find like just like a shitty bar we call them up and we're like hey is it okay if we like raid your bar do you still know a bunch of those people I know a place we could go yeah yeah yeah it's like a place that'll hold like 150 people 200 people or whatever we'll just have like if you're in CES

here's the deal email us fans at dignation.show if you're going to CES yeah that would really help actually because then we can actually say, okay, this is the interest level. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And if it's like a couple hundred people, let's just do a fun little thing.

Yeah, for sure. Dude, hell yeah. Will Harlan wants to go out too. We'll have fun. We'll just be looking at a bunch of shit. Oh my God. And if you're a vendor at CES. Yeah, and you want us to come show us some shit.

Yeah, we'd love to come check out your shit. So like hit us up as well. Mm. Mm. This is intense, dude. It's come check out your shit. So hit us up as well. Mmm. Mmm. This is intense, dude. It's intense. It is intense. Like that is, I think that's a beer you split.

Yeah. Like I don't know if I could have like a ton of that. I'm trying to see what percentage it is because it's definitely not low. It really, probably 10 plus, yeah. But it definitely feels like, the best way to describe it is like a really dry, like unsweet port.

Yeah. You know what I mean? But you do get the chocolate and the walnuts and all that coming out of it. And the boho. And yeah, it's like,

you can definitely get a hint of all that. It doesn't say the ABV, but I'm sure ChatGPT would know. ChatGPT knows the ABT. Bro, my feet feel fantastic. Don't they? Can I have a little bit more of that $500,000 wine?

Yeah. Or booze? Yeah, there you go. Thank you. This is like, oh, there you go. Good, good, good, good. I mean, it's like cough syrup. You can have the rest.

All right, let's get into some stories. Yes, yes. Wait, before we do, before we do before we do a little housekeeping um so we are this is this is all new uh we are trying things that we had you know didn't have opportunities to do when we were doing this the first time one of those was to potentially clipify the shows and have some of those clips live next to the live show or next to the full show on our YouTube channel. We hear you. We hear a few people. We hear the few people.

And I totally get it because I was like, yeah, it kind of feels like because it was even showing me a lot of this stuff. And I was like, well well i'm seeing the episode but anyway long story short we created a secondary channel for the clips so if you want to see the clips if you are like oh i've only got 10 minutes the new show just came out i want to hit a clip uh then you want to go to uh dig nation what's the what's our main one is youtube let's start with the main one yeah so if you go to YouTube.com slash Dignation, you always get the 4K high def video there. Boom. You can subscribe, like, do all the things, the notifications, turn those all on because that will only be now when you get hit with the full episodes.

Now, we do clips. We do clips. TikTok, Instagram. Yep. Clips. Short YouTube shorts. YouTube shorts, which are going to be now at a new URL, which is? It's at Dignation Highlights.

That's the YouTube account. Dignation Highlights. Perfect. And check the show notes because it'll be down there. Slash Dignation Highlights. Highlights. Long. Nope, didn't work.

At Dignation Highlights? Yeah. At Dignation Highlights. Oh, there it is. Hey. Look at that. Subscribe to it. There we go. Perfecto. At Dignation Highlights. Oh, there it is. Hey. Look at that. Subscribe to it. There we go.

Perfecto. Okay, so. So anyway, so long story short, we are over the next however long. We're going to keep trying different things, so you may start seeing stuff. And we do want to hear your feedback. So we are hearing what you're throwing down. And that's all I have to say about that. No, it's good because, like,'s, there's two things we're trying to

accomplish. One, we want these individual little clips to see a wider audience so we can pull in more people, obviously. And then two, if you liked a really funny little segment, you're like, oh, my, my friend would laugh at this. It gives you a place to go share these things for them around. And the same thing with the, at Dignation, at the Dignation on Instagram and same URL for TikTok as well. It's so funny to see the stuff sort of cut up

because we would always just put the thing out into the ether and be like, that's the only place. The full episode, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Back in the day. Yeah, so it's been pretty cool. Okay, not a story. Okay.

But a story. So not a story, but a story. I got in to Waymo. The self-driving one? The autonomous taxi service. Yeah. What'd you think? Holy hell, dude. It is amazing. Okay. So you signed up for the app. So in LA, you can download the actual Waymo app itself, which is a Google product. So it's LA, San Francisco, and Phoenix, I believe, are the three places that it is now. Yeah. I started to see them around just LA, and I was like, oh, those are those Waymo cars. You can tell because they've got the little... Yeah, they've got the LiDAR spinning sensor on the front.

And I was like, oh, that's kind of cool. And I like everything tech, so I was like, I, that's kind of cool. And I like everything tech. So I was like, I want to at some point try this and see how this services. And I saw people literally getting dropped off next to my house. And so I was like, okay, I'm in the service area. And so I was at a buddy of mine's house last week.

And I was saying like, oh yeah, the Waymo, blah, blah, blah. And he was like, oh, I have an invite code because I was on the wait list. And he was like, I have an invite code. I was like, oh, the way my bubble button he was like oh I have a an invite code because I was on the waitlist and he was like I have an invite code I was like oh that's great so he invited me and then Heather and I had a cocktail party at the Edmund which is on like Wilton and Melrose it's like cool bar and he was the guy that invited us to the cocktail party so I was like oh dude this is great let's take away mo and so i ordered it the thing drives up i unlock it in the app get in it's like do you remember the first time we got into a virgin america plane yeah and everything just felt like super like chef's kiss it was like they had redone they rethought the

whole thing the whole thing the whole experience yeah like you just walked in you were like i feel good yeah same thing we sit down it's like hello alex it's the voice to speech is not that great with names which is weird because it's like i know you're like easy to do these days more can now i'm more concerned that you're not a good driver if you can't say my name well hello alex anyway totally but then like we get in we're barely put our seat belts on i hit start ride you You're looking. It's like boo, boo, boo, boo. There's like all this like zen music going.

It's like welcome to Waymo. For your safety, please buckle up. We hope you enjoy your ride. I mean, it's literally like being on the monorail at Disney. You know what I mean? Yeah. And then it cut on to Melrose. And I was like, I don't even know if i would have made that turn right so good dude

it flies i know i was in san francisco and i use it for the first time and i get in it and it was the same thing where i shut the door and i'm like okay and if you've ever turned on self-driving mode to tesla oh bro it's like it's self-driving was like ah because it doesn't know whether to make certain things you're like jesus christ Like sometimes it makes things where you almost die. Yes. This thing got really aggressive really fast, but in a smart way. 100%. I never felt like I was going to die, but I was a little scared.

Interesting. So I thought Heather was going to be scared. Yeah. Because she says, I'm going to be scared when we do this. Right. Neither of us were scared. Huh.

We loved it. We were also hammered. No, no, no. On the way there. Oh, you said after the cocktail party. No, on to, before we did, we went there and back. And were also hammered. No, no, no. On the way there. Oh, you said after the cocktail party. No, on to, for the, we did, we went there and back. And you drove back in. Bro, it was great.

Yeah. We went, we went, right? And I sent my Tesla and then we just drove ourselves back. You know, logistically. It was hammered. Yeah. It's so great, dude. I'm like, I was, I was really, I was blown away.

The thing that sucks is it doesn't come all the way up here. Yeah, I know. And I literally, I considered taking it to like the edge of Santa Monica and then just getting an Uber and popping over. I thought about that too. But also it doesn't go on the freeway. So I was like, oh, it's going to take a while again. Yeah. Yeah.

So I mean, here's the, so Uber is announcing like probably by the time this podcast comes out, they have a new prototype for a two-person taxi. Have you seen this thing? You mean a motorcycle? Sorry, not Uber, a Tesla. The two-person taxi? Yeah. How is that?

Oh, they've got this new little two-person Tesla that was like, somebody saw a picture of or got a picture of it, Tesla taxi. So they have this taxi day event coming out yeah october 10th i think they have an event it's it's pretty soon but i thought it was because they're taking back all the old model 3s and model ys like you can't sell your so they talked about that but they also found this like weird looking like robo thing that's been going around town see this yellow shaped tesla car yeah and it's like they don't know what these are and they're assuming that these are the prototypes for the

tesla little micro taxis i mean it would make sense because the bottom line is like look i really enjoy my tesla i've i've enjoyed all my teslas it feels weird to me that they were removing things like the LiDAR or the radar they had certain things that they were removing because they were like oh we'll just fix it in software with the cameras I wouldn't trust that stuff

the fact that that thing, the Waymo looks like it's got too many sensors I'm like now that I trust because you don't put that stuff on there like it's got too many sensors. Right. I'm like, now that I trust. Right, right, right. Because you don't put that stuff on there if it's not doing anything. Yeah, I'd much rather them scale back over time. Oh, 100%.

You know what I mean? Where you're like, oh, this thing's ugly, but it's safe. Yeah. You know what I mean? Yep, 100%. And then they take one sensor off, and you're like, okay, after millions of miles, they realize they didn't need that sensor.

You can remove that one sensor. Yeah. And look at this prototype, though. That looks kind of dope. If that's the actual Tesla little taxi, that's sensor. Yeah. And here's, look at this prototype, though. That looks kind of dope. If that's the actual Tesla little taxi, that's amazing. I mean. You might be able to buy these, though, and then have them go to work for you. So that's the thing that they always said that they suggest, or that they said about the Teslas, was that, like, when self-driving comes in, you'll be able to have your Tesla work as an Uber driver for you.

Which is crazy i mean crazy but like i don't do i do i've started to kind of get to this place maybe it's just me or i just don't believe anything that tesla says anymore because i've so believed them and then oh it's late oh it's not here oh it never happened you know what i mean like it's just i'm starting to go like i'm not going to listen to the presentation hype. I'm going to wait until I see the product. It's fair. It's really hard because like I've been in this situation before and probably most recently in the biggest mistake was when I was approved in the NFT stuff where you have all these really exciting ideas and you

can't wait to tell the world about them. Right. I mean, this is how many broken promises have we had from Tesla? Like a ton, right? Like things that they said they were going to launch like the the new uh roadster that's like now like five years later whatever i love that idea but there's all these things where you know you get excited about the possibility and then the market changes dynamics change you think something's going in a different way and you scrap plant plans yeah but consumers get upset right yeah and it's like that's a hard place to be but it seems like we're now at least a month or two away from well a month away from whatever their first offering is gonna be for this i'm interested to see i just always assume because they were saying that like they're building their

taxi fleet with model 3s and model ys because that's why you couldn't like buy your lease like you could lease a model 3 and a model y why you couldn't buy your lease. You could lease a Model 3 and a Model Y, but you cannot buy it. You have to give it back. Oh, you mean at the end? Yeah. Oh, because they wanted to accumulate more? That's because they were going to... What they said was, we're doing this so

that they could build their fleet. Oh, crazy. Older used Model Ys and Model 3s. That makes sense. It makes sense, but not if you make your own little new non-Model 3. I mean, maybe they're using GameCube guts. Maybe they're taking out the... GameCube. You know what I mean?

Maybe that could be like, oh, that's the internals. We take the engines. We take the battery pack. Oh, interesting. You know what I mean? Like repurposing a lot of the old tech from the old... Recycle the old cars and then add more tech. because they're going to need more sensors for sure i mean like it's cameras just aren't going to do it yeah well i'm excited we'll see so far so good with the

waymo stuff though that is fun it i i'm just excited i can't wait like it doesn't go over the canyons yet so like you can't go into the valley with it it's just like three to five years out and it's doing everything you know it's on the valley with it. But this is like three to five years out and it's doing everything, you know? It's on the freeways. It's everywhere. Although you just see that like people on the freeway are nuts in LA. Oh, dude, yeah. Especially late night. Oh, bro.

They're going like 120 and they'll zoom past you and like do these hardcore cutoffs. Yeah, yeah. It's insane out here. It's LA, baby. All right. Anyway, so not a story, but a story. I'm glad you had it. It was a cool experience.

Yeah. All right. Well, you got the first story then. Well, I mean, we sort of talked a little bit about it, but a story. I'm glad you had a cool experience. Yeah. All right. Well, you got the first story then. Well, I mean, we sort of talked a little bit about it, but. Yeah, so the new Apple Watch came out. This is the new one. This is the new one. Oh, shit.

You got the bare one? You want aluminum? Yes. You want more weight? No, it's lighter. No, this is the lightest one. No, look them up. No, mine's aluminum too.

Oh, you got aluminum. Yeah. I did. Sorry. I thought you guys confused the shit out of me oh you went heavier what i thought you had stainless steel because it looks stainless steel no yeah there's okay i want the polished black yeah yeah here's the secret did you know so you can use the actual the old bands the ultra bands on the new watch so you get the cooler bands keys gonna buy one

yeah they have some really cool ultra bands yeah because also like i got the one that has like the adjustable thing i feel like one of those like kids who like first learns how to tie their tie and they have like this really fucking long little part of the tie that is what my watch look at this look how fucking i'm on the second thing yeah you're tucking a lot underneath there bro look at this yeah well they make smaller ones i know but they i chose the small one and this is the one that's a small one i think i didn't choose the fucking monster don i wanted the one that was like it looks good though dude it's great i love it i will say too i have the snoopy thing so heather put this thing where like

it's literally snoopy and then he goes to, and then when you wake him up, he does another full animation. And I was like, bro, why is Snoopy the only one of these faces? Like, why is there not faces from, like, Star Wars? Disney, yeah, yeah, yeah, totally. Like, insert whatever. I know. And I would pay so much. Like, it boggles my mind that Apple is not selling watch faces.

Like I would pay so much money to have a cool new watch face. And this is awesome. It's just like, I mean, it's basically like a screensaver. Like it just rotates through all these different animations. I mean, clearly they've done some of these deals. So there's probably more in the pipeline. I mean, I hope. But at the same time, it's like, that's not like the surrounding air for them. Watch face sales. I mean, I hope. But at the same time, it's like that's not like the surrounding air for them.

Watch face sales. I know, I know. They're not, yeah. Because right now they don't even have a way to sell watch faces. No, I know. On the app store. So they would have to build all the infrastructure

to do that. And they're like, okay. Yeah. It's just a whole thing. Anyway, that's cool. So the watches are great. The watches are great. I do like the new hearing test.

They're turning the airpods now into like hearing aids for people which is kind of cool all the medical stuff that they're doing has been really fantastic I mean like

you know although this one doesn't have the blood ox because of the patent issue but yeah alright so we're fans I'm now off Android

so we are we're back are you off Android I am you just dipped in to dip in I dipped in and then I just. I was just dipped in to dip in. And then I just like, I just can't deal with the bubble stuff. And it's.

Dude, the ecosystem is just so strong. It is strong. I remember I tried the, I think we talked about this last time. I tried the Windows phone for a hot second. And it's just so hard. Also just the portability of your data between desktop and mobile is so huge. Because like I log in and my photos are right there. And when I took a second ago, my iPhone instantly pops up my desktop, my iMessage perfectly built

in. Like it's, it's too. Did I tell you the story? Did I, did we talk about this on one of these? We're starting to have so many of these new episodes that I forget if I brought up the story, but did I tell you that we went to Italy andaly and heather left her phone no oh yeah so we so heather and i in early may like end of april early may we went to serbia uh for five days tell me about the the horrible beef you had out there the horrible beef not with another person yeah it's just the actual meat The actual meat. They don't really cook their meat. Anyway. Lovely people. So we're standing in the... Like, we take the cab to...

Or take the Uber to... Actually, it was an Alto, now that I think about all the different services. But anyway. Heather plugs her phone in. Because they have all the light chargers. And she's like, well, I'm about to get on an international flight international flight i should probably get what did they have her shit no she put it in to the seat pocket and in my mind i saw her do it and i went she's gonna fucking forget that phone yeah like i just and i was like that's cool get there and of course you know you're kind of

rushing to get out of like you're just like let just like, let's get in there. Come on, check in. We get our tickets or like we check in, we get up to the line. We're literally in line at the security and Heather goes, oh God, oh no. And I go, what, what? And she goes, I don't have my phone. And it was like, what could we possibly do? You know what I mean? Like, and it was like a Sunday.

So nobody is there at support. Like, it was just like, what is even happening? Anyway, long hairy dog story later. We got it to my buddies. My buddy was house sitting.

We got it to him. He had it in his hand before we took off to go to Serbia. So we're like, it's, he's got it. That check one. Then we were like, Oh, maybe we should have him ship go to Serbia. So we're like, he's got it. Yeah. Check one. Then we were like, oh, maybe we should have him ship it to Rome. Don't, no, bad idea. Costs $500. Got stuck in customs. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You don't get it for like a week. By the way, she picked it up in Rome the night before we flew home. But the saving grace was, she brought her laptop and so at the end of the night she could sit down she could go through our messages she could text people she could and it was like you didn't miss a beat yeah some ecosystem and to be fair we had such a better time that she didn't have a phone because she wasn't on her phone yeah i mean it was great and anytime she wanted to take a picture she was just just like, Alex, take a picture of that. And I'd be like, oh, okay.

Did you see the little lockbox they have now with the little timer on it where you can put your phone in there and it won't open it up for a certain amount of time? Oh, that's so great. I just got to pitch that. I want to try it. Yeah, I mean, that is the lock-in of all things Apple,

which, you know, it is what it is. They still make great shit. Dude, it's so smooth. By the way, speaking of smooth, back to... Are you back to the beer? shit. I'm not going to go into it. Dude, it's so smooth. All right. Speaking of smooth, back to. Are you back to the beer? Yeah, I'm back to the LM. All right, so let's talk about a story that I have on something called Notebook LM.

Have you seen this? No. Okay, so. Is it LM, like as in AI's LLM? Yeah, so this is basically a new product. It's an experimental product from Google. Okay. And they allow you to do, it's powered by Gemini 1.5 Pro.

Okay. And you can dump different things in here. Okay. Like note taking, you could do all different types of stuff. Okay. And you can give it instructions and kind of query your own data, right? Which some of this exists already with like Claude and other stuff like that. For sure. But there's some really interesting features.

One in particular that blew me away. I want you to hear this podcast. Listen to this. It's a podcast talking about it. Welcome back, everyone, for another deep dive. Today we're going to be in 1897 London. Ooh. Yeah. And we're gonna um we're gonna be in 1897 london oh yeah and we're gonna be looking at queer competitions oh and and when i say queer i don't mean all right right like we think of it today but queer as in unusual yeah unusual or peculiar yeah peculiar yeah and this is

this comes from an article uh from the strand magazine yes Magazine. Which, tell us a little bit about that, because some people might not be familiar with The Strand Magazine. I have a hunch I know what's happening. It's a monthly, hugely popular... Hugely popular monthly magazine. In Victorian England. Victorian England. You can sort of compare it to something like...

The Strand Magazine. You know, like a must-read today or something. It was very, very popular. Okay, so... Because I did see some headlines about... Somebody... Creating podcasts. Somebody took just an article from the Strand Magazine from the 1800s and said, make a podcast out of this.

And it made that. Bro. Dude, how crazy is that? That's fucked up. So, I've been messing around with it i i did something where i said my buddy it's something i shouldn't have done my buddies my buddy sent me um uh chris saka sent me his um his his uh annual report around his his venture fund um low case yeah this one's low case carbon which is is uh is green fund and it's like a 10 page report i'm like oh this is freaking long

you know and so i dump it i dump it in and i'm like give this back to me in like the voice of bill burr in jokes form and it's like it's like you motherfuckers this guy thinks he knows he's good at investing like it's just like give it to me back as like, this is the way to consume a really dry, Yeah, exactly. Exactly. So just the thing about this is like, think about, there's kind of like this thing where you think, okay, sometimes the TLDR is good for me. Like where I'm like, here's a 20 page document.

Give me the TLDR. Yeah. And you can read the bullets and you're done. Yeah. But sometimes I actually want to read or listen to the full story. Yeah. And the options we have right now are basically like some sites have this AI button where you hit play and it's like,

yeah, welcome to the New York times edition 12. Yeah. Yeah. It just reads it. It's like today we were walking down the street and you know, it's like a little choppy. Yep.

This is like taking that but also understanding what would make a more concise version of it in podcast form yep throwing a couple co-hosts in there yeah making the natural banter between the two chemistry faked chemistry chemistry and then putting out a podcast man i mean it's literally it's it's finally coming from my job yes yes there is a chance we don't have to do this in like six months actually that we should do that would be so cool if we actually put out an episode that like we didn't actually do yeah like it was just the two of us sitting on the couch yeah the whole nine yards same looked exactly the same like yeah and it was completely generated by ai we should do me we should say take we'll take an

old episode like one of our more popular ones and we'll feed it and say this is the template of how these guys banter yeah here are the 10 things i want you to talk about today that are more modern stuff oh and make an episode out of them 100 and see And see what happens, you know? Dude, that would so, I mean, yeah, it's crazy. So I was at that cocktail party I went to, was like this networking thing. And I was talking to this guy and he was like, you know, I didn't find out until late in life that I'm dyslexic. And he said, the three things that have completely changed my life as someone who now knows that i'm dyslexic are audiobooks he was like i consume three books every like every every three days i'll consume a new book he's like i love it he's like i know i would read but i would always

it was not enjoyable it was like it was like struggle yeah which i totally empathize with i feel that way about reading. And he goes, one of the other ones, I can't remember what the third one was, but the second one was ChatGPT. He was like, what I do is I, when I like have an email that I have to write, I'll come up with the bullet points of what it is that the information I want to convey. And I'll say, you know, hey, chat to BT. I want you to create a, you know, an email response. He'll put the original email that he's responding to. He's like, write it in a prose style. Here are the bullet points of the, of what I want to get across in this email. And then he'll rewrite it to make it sound like him and you know, all that stuff.

And he has found that it's just like completely changed his life because he can now no longer struggle with getting across the information he wants to get across in these communications oh it's huge it's crazy it's insane because like i so i use um a couple different email apps one of them is superhuman and superhuman has this built in now where it will crawl all of the corpus of your entire email history. And you can ask questions of your email in AI form. So like,

check this out. It's like, I'm on my main email address here. Right. Yeah. And I'll just say, I go back to the main screen here and I'll just be like question mark. And I'll say,

um, when is dignation? Right. Okay. And then I hit enter there and then, um, I'll search? Okay. And then I hit enter there, and then I'll search for that, and then it crawls all of my different emails and will tell me if there's any,

Dignation was mentioned in several emails. Then it shows you the sources, and then you can see here the Dignation emails that you had about that, and then quickly jump in. So, but my buddy was like, my buddy was like, hey, do you remember when we were at Cabo three years ago we had the great chef I'm like yeah that was a

fantastic he's watched this what was the chef's name in Cabo and how can I get a hold of them and it's like these are the three emails this is the chef's email address blah blah it's like he didn't have to remember like normally you'd be like oh how am I gonna find the chef's like maybe chef Cabo or like oh yeah you know it's like and now it's just like so clean, but it also works on the compose side as well. So it gets to know how you respond and write emails over time. So it can naturally get your default tone. Oh, that's great.

It's crazy, dude. It's so crazy. Yeah. We're living in the future. Dude, I've got this crazy theory that's, that's about to happen.

What? So this is a prediction. It's early days, but like, I'll throw it out there. So here's what I think. One of the things I realized in using more Microsoft AI lately with Copilot is that Copilot is built in at the OS level, right?

Yeah. And so I have a belief that whoever's closest to the metal, like closest to the CPU, like has control over the OS, will control the AI overlord kind of stack that rules that domain. Okay. By default, right? Sure. What's like web browsers? The built-in web browsers,

I mean, there was a reason why there was monopoly cases and all that stuff. Exactly. Because like, everybody used Microsoft Edge, or was it Edge? It was, what was the one before Edge? Yeah, if you hadn't said Edge, I would have got it. People are yelling at us.

Explorer. Internet Explorer. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. IE. Yeah, yeah, yeah. IE. So IE was built into everything, right? Yeah.

And so, but it was just one app. But this is like, AI is built at the fundamental core level of understanding of the OS. So, for example, I haven't used Windows in a long time. And I was like, Hey, how do I find this one setting? It launches me right to that setting and like, and calls out. So what you have to understand where this is going is that the OS will understand how to use every single option, every single application that you install. Wow. So imagine a world where you launch Adobe Premiere,

Adobe Photoshop, whatever, that you're like, oh man, I kind of know this app, but I kind of don't. Sure. And you're like, hey, OS, you know, cut me together a video, blah, blah, blah. And it understands how to do that because it knows every single option. The AI in the operating system is talking to the now AI

in the software system. Or maybe not even have to The AI in the operating system is talking to the now AI in the software system. Or may not even have to have AI in the software system because it understands how to use the app soup to nuts. Wow. And so it's just going and doing it on your behalf. I mean, Copilot is really a great name for that. Did you almost do the thing that everybody's worried about?

I almost spilled all over myself. But I'm saying like yeah i think that's coming no i mean i think you know well look i mean when is apple intelligence going to be put into your you know what i mean yeah that's going to come it's so true but the apple is is like i gotta give them cred in that they're like they're doing this more quarantined ai sure where they each app has its own i and respect. I mean, yeah, Microsoft literally was like, we're going to record everything that your computer has ever done and have it on file in case you need it. And it was like, how do I turn that off?

Yeah, but I kind of feel like that's a good thing. Like, there'll be areas for you to quarantine data. Like, even on the new iPhone, have you seen how you can make... Oh, yeah, what was that? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, watch this, dude. It's like a secret area. Yeah, watch this.

I don't use so much of the functionality of the iPhones, man. I feel like, so check this out. So let's just say like, uh, I'll have an app here. Like, let's just say, uh, Duolingo, what are you doing? I'm doing Japanese. Hi. Hi. Uh, Mizuto, Alex-san. I said water and Alex. Water and Alex. Okay. So if we hit, uh, this right here, like Instagram, for example, I can say require face ID. And then now if I just go off to the side and don't show your, like I show your face, it will let you log into Instagram unless you don't have my face ID. Oh, that's kind of cool. So if you just randomly pick up my phone, you're like, oh, what's Kevin up to on this?

Oh, funny. You can't get in. Yeah. That's smart. It's pretty sweet. And then you can also hide it. Oh, funny. Yeah. That's smart. It's pretty sweet. And then you can also hide it. Oh, yeah. What's the hidden ones?

Then there's like a little hidden thing at the bottom here. It says hidden. Oh, that's great. And then you have to be able to like do a face ID to get into those. Do you have anything in that folder? Grinder. Just Grinder. Exactly.

I get that. So, I don't know. Some cool updates. That's all I have on that front. Yeah, no. But the podcasting stuff is crazy. We got to don't know. Some cool updates. That's all I have on that front. Yeah, no. But the podcasting stuff is crazy. We've got to do an AI podcast at some point. I mean, even just to see.

Just for funsies. Like the first five minutes of the show or something. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, wait. So, is Notebook LM available for everybody? It's a good question. I know that it says experiment. It says try it.

I don't know. Yeah, they've opened it up. Yeah, you can do it right now. Cool. Yeah, cool yeah it's pretty sweet interesting I might have to try that because I've been so one of the things that I again back to the a the you know not you know right reading is not my favorite thing in the world um scripts oh script right yeah man I get so many screenplays and I'm like oh god I gotta read that screenplay or oh god I gotta check out that thing blah blah blah and I was like I just I wish I could like have someone read this to me yeah but here's even here's what you know what I mean but like with the intention of the

lines and you know what I mean like yeah but here's what's even cooler this is what I've been doing lately not on this but more for vc deals yeah where you can say okay okay, I'm going to drop in 20 full PDF screenplays of the hottest indie films in this genre into Notebook L.A. or into the pro version of ChatGPT. And now I'm dropping a new one in. Give me your take. Does this have the chance to be a breakout? So I had actually two years ago come up with this idea as a business pitch of going,

what if I built this software that could do this and then licensed it to the studios as a first run? Because they'll have thousands and thousands, tens of thousands of scripts that they have to go through. And they have, you know, interns or readers where they'll pay them, you know, a hundred bucks a script. And they'll take notes and do all this stuff. And I was like, well, what if the first wave was something like this where it was an AI bot that was reading? It's going to be way better than an intern because they have a corpus of data and knowledge to pull from when you get thousands of scripts in there. Yeah, you could literally be like, here are the screenplays for every Best Picture winner and Best Picture nominee for writing for the Oscars. Yeah. And then just go, now I'm going gonna give you 20 scripts that i just got you know submitted right which one of these like order

them in order of quality so i mean it's super fucked up when i say it that way but like no but dude i so i just did this oh so what i did is i created i went into google ai gemini studio which is a different thing you probably haven't seen it It's more for the developer side, but it's very text-based. Anyone can hack on it. And I was like, okay, here are some news sources I'm going to give you. And I gave them live RSS feeds like a dump in real-time news. I gave them like 1,000 stories, right? And I said, rank these on their potential to be novel, unique stories that would fit this persona and i

define the persona of the user as being a geek into these things blah blah yep and what's funny is like it said okay yes tesla's earnings and or sorry not tesla's but like um nvidia's earnings the fact that they had a massive quarter, interesting, but not breakout story. Got it. Because we scored it lower on that because it's not really, it's tech relevant, but not tech indie slash niche.

Yeah, it doesn't get people excited. Right. It's just good news in the tech space. It's all the stuff we always wanted to do on Dig. And so I'm like creating this custom little algorithm, which is fucking awesome. It's just good news in the tech space. It's all the stuff we always wanted to do on Dig. And so I'm creating this custom little algorithm, which is fucking awesome. It's fun. It's very interesting. It's really interesting stuff.

Yeah. This is a fun time to be alive in the space of AI. Well, and also it's a fun time to be somebody who has coding experience, or at least past sort of computer science experience, but hasn't had to code in so many years. Yeah. Because that's what I've been really finding interesting is like the ability to kind of go in and do things with the sort of like coding brain,

but not have to worry about the semantics of Java or C++ or C Sharp, like all this stuff that it's like I haven't fucking coded in so long. Right. I don't want to start now. And the thing is like you don't even need to learn coding. I know. That's what I'm saying. It's like all the no-coding.

Have you seen Hot Dog City? I have not been to Hot Dog City. Okay, so Hot Dog City, watch this. Hot Dog City. Hot Dog City. Oh my God, Pereira. Hot Dog City. Hot Dog City.

All AI. All right. I have to show you how you can go from something that sounds like this. Look at the downtown. The buildings are made of meat. To this. Look at the downtown. The buildings are made of meat. Look at the filthy ground. The people all in the street. But they're not people. They're actually probably bees. It would be made up of the bossa, which is for

show you cover songs. What is this? So you sing into it. Oh my god, I'm so doing this right now. And it takes off with whatever you want in a voice. This is part of Sumo's new... Sumo. Oh, because those are the guys...

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because I remember when, like, the internet was killing. Like, TikTok was just, like, for three months, all these, like, old school songs that people had discovered, like, from the, like, 40s or 20s.

Yeah, they were making it sound like 40s or 20s songs. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But with new lyrics. With new lyrics. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So this, you sing into it. Oh, I'm definitely testing that out. Kevin and Gavin have a great show, AI for Humans, on YouTube, which they cover a lot of the AI tools.

Oh, yeah. They're great. Those guys are awesome. But anyway, fun stuff in the... In the future of AI. Future of AI. What's next? This is one of those articles where I was like, no duh, but also like, oh, yeah, right.

Okay. Oh, we talked about this recently. Hell, you and I on the show? Yeah, we talked about if you did it in your balls. If you did it in your balls. Like we had the ball slapping. Remember we said if you was just like. Oh, I do remember that.

You said it would be one episode. I did. It was like, he's dead. He's dead. His balls exploded. Yeah. So, follow-up story yeah to the ball slapping experience health warning over face slap fighting yeah this is from the bbc

so you guys i mean we've all seen the about the effects of face slap fighting on the competitors. First off, A, of course. Yeah. brain injuries you're gonna start a sport where literally the job is is to take as much face slap punishment as you can this i feel like this started in like eastern europe yes because i used to see all those like videos of people getting just rocked in the face by these giant dudes so essentially they sat um they this group of people sat a bunch of doctors down they were like we're going to show you this stuff we're going to show you some footage about this you know new slap fighting championship or whatever because it's coming to the u.s so people are trying to like make it be like the new ufc right right right um and essentially these uh doctors watched all these

things and they were like dude half of the people here are showing clear signs of of concussion and not only that in 2021 a dude died no yeah so he got slapped in the face so hard that he fell unconscious started bleeding out of the nose they brought him to the hospital found a brain bleed and they were like we think we got it under control and within a week he had passed away oh fuck and it's just like dude what the fuck are we doing like i've seen some of these videos and i'm like this can't be good for anybody and like at least with ufc there's like skill involved like with this it's like i mean maybe there's skill in like how hard you hit the person but also when you see them connect and it's the slow-mo it's like you can see their soul leave their body like 100 it's not there's nothing about this that says this is healthy for you yeah and it's

and it feels like one of those things where you're like i mean i guess it's like bare knuckle fighting like i don't know there's just something about it that's like really we had like this is what somebody was like i got a great idea let's slap each other as hard as we can in the face and see who survives yeah but ufc is the same way dude i mean i guess it is i guess it is but but i agree with you that there's something about with ufc you're like okay is one guy gonna like there's always the chance that somebody just does like an arm bar and somebody and they tap out right yeah 100 and you're like oh nobody really got hurt yeah yeah yeah and this like when like literally it's whoever becomes unconscious first like you know it's literally the person that gets unconscious loses.

Right. And there's nothing. Oh, my God. Yeah. It's really. I mean, I get the appeal. It's like watching a car crash. Yeah.

But also, it's like I just can't imagine that there are people that are like, this is going to be the next UFC, man. Let's go. Yeah. I mean, why can't they just put a glove on or something? I feel like that they did something. Because then it defeats the purpose. It's like the whole point is try to unconscious your friend.

Did you ever face slap with Mike Tyson? I wouldn't face slap with fucking anybody. I wouldn't face slap with your two kids. People love that clip, by the way. Fight him. That was my favorite thing. We should start selling shirts that just say, fight him. That's what they used to do in front of all the Mike Tyson punch-ups, right?

They'd go, fight. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was so good. Anyway, so don't join the slap fighting group if you want to not have your brain become mush. Yeah, that always seemed like a bad idea. Yeah. But, all right, moving on.

Oh, boy. This is a heady one people this is the story of the yeah this is the story where we picked it we're like huh this could go off the rails a little bit it will it probably will yeah so um puff daddy uh it's already off the rails it seems that he's been having a lot of trouble lately oh. So he's obviously been indicted. Oh, boy. 50 Cent has a documentary coming out about him. Yes, that's right, on Netflix.

And the weirdest thing, though, I mean, there's so many things, dude. So, okay, so let's talk about just what we know to be true first. Yeah, because I haven't been following this all that well. Heather was like, if you need any, I've been deep diving into this stuff. Oh, dude, it's hard. I hate celebrity gossip. I hate it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't watch any of it.

I despise it. I'm not into it. I used to have a girlfriend that was like, would get the ass weekly and shit. And I'm just like, oh, I hate celebrity gossip. Anyway, what he's been charged with, and granted he hasn't been convicted, but he definitely did it. I mean, come on.

I mean, I can't understand if it was like some shit where you're like, well, we'll get into why. But like, okay, racketeering conspiracy, which I didn't know what racketeering was. It's like a mob thing, right? Yeah, I thought it was like a racquetball, but like okay racketeering conspiracy okay that's which i didn't know what racketeering was it's like a mob thing right yeah i thought it was like a racquetball but like it's it's basically it's not a racquetball uh dishonest and fraudulent business dealings oh which is like a lot of people

it's like yeah that's like we do that that's like mcdonald's okay so then we got uh please sponsor us and then we have, love egg muffin. Yeah. Wonderful. Dude, bacon, egg, and cheese biscuit. Sausage, egg, and cheese biscuit. And pretty soon we're going to be sponsored by McDonald's. I would never take that sponsorship.

You would. I have not had McDonald's or Taco Bell in two years. Woo. Yeah. That's a big deal for you. It is. It is. Sex trafficking.

It hurts me all the time. Actually, I take that back. I did it in Florence, but it's because it's a different type of food. Anyway, sex trafficking. Go on. Which is horrible. I mean, in Florence, but it's because it's a different type of food. Anyway, sex trafficking, go on. Which is horrible. I mean, sex trafficking is, all jokes aside, is probably the worst thing.

Like, it is the most disgusting thing, I think, that almost an individual can do. Way more than prostitution in my mind. It is prostitution. It's also one of those things that, like, it's against someone's will. I felt like only happened in movies. Yeah.

You know what I mean? And then when stuff pops up like this, you're like, people are actually doing this. I don't know why they do it. It's so confusing. Anyway, um,

forced labor, which, what were they getting them to do? I don't know. Uh, interstate transportation for prostitution, which federal, okay.

Go to state. Sometimes, uh, we got drug related crimes, which is like, okay, that... Federal. Gotta go out of state sometimes. We got drug-related crimes, which is like, okay, that makes sense. Yeah. Kidnapping. I thought that said kickboxing.

No. I was like, wow, they're busting him for kickboxing. Dude, arson. Arson? Yeah, so he burned some shit somewhere. Bribery, which like, whatever. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It goes along with all this whole genre.

Yeah. In obstruction of justice, that's more or less the same. Okay, so here's. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It goes along with all this whole genre. Yeah. In obstruction of justice, that's more or less the same. Okay, so here's the thing though, dude. This is the thing that made me want to bring up this story. Dude, they caught him. Okay, so I got a couple things. I got a buddy that told me that they had been to a house and heard some stories about all this shit. And I don't know if you'd be cool with me telling it

i'll kind of i'll do it anonymously but like here's the deal they found this is this is the news story this is not my buddy yeah yeah they found a thousand bottles of baby oil in his house too much baby oil dude that's just too much thousand bottles 10 is too much dude if you had 10 10 is like if they if they bust him with ten, you'd be like, oh, fuck, he's doing some shit. A thousand bottles. Like, that's not even something you could fit in your Costco cart. Dude, it's not even... You shouldn't even be able to fit that in Costco.

Yeah. It's like... Costco doesn't even sell a thousand bottles of baby oil. And then his attorney came out and said he likes to buy in bulk. Oh, my God. Right, and then Costco came out and said, we don't sell it in that much bulk. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, that's amazing.

Oh. So. Now, here's the thing. Did you hear that? I heard this today. I heard it was laced with other shit. Oh. I mean, of course it would be.

They found some of the bottles that had MDMA, topical MDMA put into them. Oh, yeah. I don't know if that's a rumor or what, but I heard that as well. Yeah. So his lawyer came out today, I think, and said that he's going to testify. And what people are speculating is

that basically he's going to get up on the stand and name names of a bunch of other people. And that he's kind of doing that to see if it'll help people back like have the people back off or come to his aid it's crazy because like i saw a video with him and a young justin bieber oh dude the justin bieber thing i saw the like apparently i don't want to misquote this here but i want to make sure it's backed up we can check before we air this but like there was a lebron quote where he said diddy parties are the best parties which like yeah maybe it was a video of like kevin hart at one of his like nude parties

i don't even know well the white party was like the party to go to right was that like his annual party yeah that was his like annual party so apparently he had so so here's the story that i heard from a friend okay there's like there on the street. Yeah, so apparently a friend was at a place where there was a party that was about to happen. Okay. And they were, like, cool, we're at so-and-so's house. I won't say whose person's house it was. And his buddy goes, we got to go. And he's, like, what are you talking about?

Like, we're at this, like, famous celebrity's house. Like, what? He's, like, we got to go. And they got in the car, and they drove out. It was, like, a long driveway to get out. And a bunch of SUVs, like he said, like it was like

10 plus SUVs pulled up. And like all these women and dudes got out. And he's like, oh, let's go back to the party. Yeah, exactly. And he goes,

you don't understand. If you are at that party, everyone is required to partake in all the things at that party otherwise you are not allowed to be there oh so you have to do all the things and at this particular party apparently there was a basketball court like an indoor basketball court this is fine which is fine but in so far you know the stadium like the stadium seating should be sure sure it was like fold out beds like one after another.

So it was like 30 beds that would like fold out. Oh, boy. Dude, what the fuck? Oh, boy. Yeah. And then you heard about, what was this guy's name? The Dad. The Dad?

No, the dad from the sitcom. You know what I'm talking about? Cosby? talk about no no not cosby uh uh cubert what was the guy's name what was the guy's name the what sitcom okay there's so many sitcoms have dads um yeah you know i'm not here what is you know i'm not here no hey you know i'm not here it was like uh uh he had that little nerd voice. He was like dressed up preppy. Oh, Urkel. Urkel. Urkel's dad.

Urkel's dad? Urkel's. Or do you mean. Dad on TV show. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. The guy from. Carl Winslow. Yeah, Carl Winslow.

You didn't hear what happened? No. Dude. Wasn't he the guy from. Yeah, this dude. Diehard. Yes. Yeah. Did you hear what happened? No. Dude. Wasn't he the guy from Die Hard? Yes. Yeah.

Did you hear what happened about this? Ronald Vell Johnson, yeah. Now, did you hear? No, what happened? So, there is... Okay. So, Reginald Jackson, yeah. Reginald Vell Johnson. Yeah, so he denies attending Diddy's parties.

Okay. But apparently somebody walked in on him at a Diddy party, and I don't even want to get into this show, but he was being taken advantage of. And Diddy said there's nothing more powerful than taking a man's dignity or something like that. Oh, God. Yeah, I know, dude. Oh, Lord.

I know. Fucking hell, there are people on this planet, man. I mean, what's the craziest party that you've ever been to? What's the, be honest, like the craziest shit you've ever seen. Not even in the dictionary where those words, where all that stuff is. I mean. No baby oil? No baby oil.

No way. I mean, like, honestly. Everybody has a little baby oil. That's not what makes this weird. One bottle. That's not what makes this weird. No, I mean, like, just like parties. You know what I mean?

Like college parties. Yeah, you never went to any crazy. No. I've been to a couple of bachelor parties. You, like, grew up in Vegas. No, but I didn't see anything really crazy there, to be honest. I wasn't into that whole clubbing scene weird shit. But I will say that I've been to a couple of bachelor parties that were a little nuts.

But nothing to this extent. Like, Jesus. I mean, my bachelor party was playing D&D in Big Bear. That's a tame bachelor party. I agree. It was awesome. I had a great time. But I will say that 1,000 bottles of baby oil does not do any good justice.

Way too much. And by the way, nothing good happens with a thousand bottles of baby oil. No. I'm very interested to see how this shakes out. I'm also just sort of one of these things where it's like a slow, it's like watching a slow moving car crash. But the crazy part though is like, had, okay, let's just say four years ago.

And Diddy's like, hey, Alex. Like, you run into him. And he's like, dude, like, having a party tonight. Bro, yeah. You know, right? A thousand percent. I'd be like, oh, my God, I have to see what's going on at one of these Diddy parties. Because I didn't know that anything other than just a celebrity party was going on.

Do you know what I mean? Right. But then the question is, like, how do you get out once the door locks? I mean, scrappy. You just got to get scrappy, Kevin. You just got to claw some out. You just body oil up. Yeah.

You just, like, move out. Actually, it's like. You're like, all right. Did you ever see. Oh, my God. Did you see the Watchmen HBO series? If you didn't, you got to watch it. Oh, you can see the full series.

There's a lot of people. It's great. There's that guy who's really elastic, and she's chasing him, and he's running, and he's in a full head-to-sew silver suit. He just grabs his baby oil and sprays it, and then he literally luge slides into a sewer grate. I mean, that's probably what I would do to get out of the party. That's exactly what I would do.

A hundred percent. I'd be like, move me up. Yeah, because you kind of have to act like you're there for the party. for the party 100 because when everyone's body oiling up you know they're pouring on themselves you're like hey yeah this looks great and then you just like sneak off to the bathroom real quick and just out the window just look out yeah exactly just sliding down kevin just sliding down the i mean i would not stay for that shit, obviously. That's horrible. No, come on. Speaking of a good way to get yourself out of situations. Yeah. Have you ever heard of Joby?

No. Okay. So I had never heard of Joby. Heather and I were at the Grove just getting like lunch, whatever. Pineapple? No pineapples. Although we were at a cheesecake factory and they probably did have pineapples. Upside down cake?

Pineapple upside down cake. So we walk over and on the grass of the grove, like the little picnic area place, there was a giant six copter taxi. It was just like a luxury quad. It looked like somebody had taken a drone and just blown it up. And there were five seats. A quadcopter? Yeah. Like a flying one? It was a flying taxi, dude. So Joby

is this company that does flying taxis. In LA? And they were showing it off because they're finally launching it in Los Angeles. No. And in New York. I fucking saw that thing. Dude, did you ride in it? No, because they were just setting up.

Today is the day where they were actually going to have people come and like sit in and all that stuff. But here's the thing. LAX to the Grove. Oh my God. LAX to downtown LA. Done. JFK to Manhattan.

And it's like Uber. You literally, you'll get an app. You'll be able to schedule a ride. Dude, LAX. I would use a heartbeat. Helicopters are too scary for me. But this is super safety. Post Kobe.

It's super safety. Super safety. They have like so many copters. So many blades. So many blades. Even if like three of the engines i felt like a super safety was like some certification i hadn't heard oh this has got super safety from ntsp yeah yeah no dude but how fucking cool is dude i'm in i've been wanting a like a personal transport

drone device yeah for a long time these guys make it and not only that it's going to be like uber and will they land on my roof? So this is the thing. It's stepping stones. I have a roof layer, yeah. I'm telling you. The next thing, the next version of this. Can this vertical take off and land?

Of course it's VTOL. Come on. Vertical takeoff and landing. Look at it. Look, look, there it goes. Oh my God. Is it cleared by the FAA? Yes. Wow, it's all electric?

Yeah. Well, it's all electric? Yeah. Well, it might be hydrogen cell, but they said it's like whisper quiet. It sounds like wind. But, dude, JFK to the Manhattan heliport. Dude, that looks like so much fun. And it's like seats five. And I'd imagine if they have an engine failure, then you're fine. Then the other ones are fine.

The other ones just kick in, Yeah, and these land real quick. Look, LAX and DTLA, eight minutes. Dude. I love this. I literally just saw this yesterday. I walked up to one yesterday and was like,

wait, what the fuck is this? So it's called Joby, J-O-B-Y. There's an emergency alert happening. Emergency alert. Probably going to hit us. Is that an earthquake? Is it an earthquake? I didn't get one.

Only Mal got one. Oh, here we go. There it goes. What is it? Spirit weather? Missing endangered adult. Oh. Diddy party.

Missing adult. No, it's not too soon. Well, he's in jail, so I guess he couldn't be holding a party. But yeah, dude. This looks really cool. Dude, we live so close to the Grove. Yeah. else so i guess he couldn't be holding a party that's um but yeah this looks really cool dude we live so close to the grove yeah that the fact that we can change we would start flying out of lax so much more because we always fly out of burbank because it's just like so much better

but how freaking crazy is this what's the range on this thing 100 miles okay so you could you couldn't do it to vegas no but the whole point is it but the whole point is, this is like, they always talk about this in logistics. It's like, what do they call it? The last mile? Last mile, yeah. So it's like, this is the last mile for flight, basically. Right. So it's like, instead of taking a 45-minute ride to the fucking LAX, which is such a pain

in the ass. It was an hour and 20 minutes for me to get from LAX to my house, which I'm not that far away. But I sat in traffic all the time. I did watch a new episode of Shogun, though. I'm getting through it. We watched the pilot episode, and then we got off to another show. I know, we're coming back. It's so good, dude. Watching that guy get boiled, I was like,

oh, fuck me. I don't want to. We always talk about this, but Heather's always like, oh, it'd be so great to live in the 20s. I was like, dude, you'd die of a fucking pinprick. Yeah, and there's no running good water and shit. Good luck taking a shit and not smelling it for four weeks. Anyway, but long story short, how crazy is that? I literally just bumped into one.

Dude, that's amazing. Yeah. So, this is kind of like where, you know they have these ultralight planes and stuff that you can get? Of course. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And you get a mild certification and all that stuff. Yep, yep. And I talked to some of my buddies that actually like fly like real flyers like they have jets and

shit and not that i have that many but like i have a couple friends that have jets and like they say the thing that sucks about those is you can't get above the weather like the reason why you want a jet like a oh the little one yeah yeah the little jet oh yeah yeah is it can't get high enough to get out of the weather and so they're like yeah you can go to vegas but you're in bumpy air the entire time dude and they're like why do you want that i mean i got i restarted getting my pilot's license again and uh i ended up not getting it again i was i was close i was probably like a month out get the thing and i was like, I just, it's fun.

It's really fun in the sort of like video game thing. Like, oh my God, this is crazy. I can't believe I can fly a plane myself. But I was just like logistically, like, am I really going to fucking fly myself to Santa Barbara? Nah. You know what I mean? And it's not cheap. You know what I mean?

And then if you had a couple of drinks the night before. Oh, yeah, right. Yeah. And then you're like, wish knob. Dude, I felt that way about my motorcycle. I was like, so I can take my motorcycle any place except places that I want to go and have like a drink? I was like, let's take a Waymo. Yeah, exactly.

All right, just a quick update on this story here, which I think is a good one. I'm heading to, as I mentioned, I'm heading to London. Oh, yeah. I downloaded the new Zelda, which just came out. Oh, on your switch i got my switch which is uh echoes of wisdom that'll get you and i'm so excited dude you get to play the main protagonist here is actually zelda oh for the first time in 38 years yeah they flipped it that's amazing and so now like links in trouble and zel taking over. And my daughter Zelda is actually dressing up as Zelda for Halloween for the first time this year.

Oh my God. Which is going to be so freaking cute. This neighborhood is so perfect for Halloween. Dude, look at this. We can put this on the video. Oh my God. How cute is she? Fucking Zelda as Zelda.

It kills me. Look at how proud she is to be Zelda. Oh my God. We'll put this in the... That's fucking cool. That she is to be Zelda. Oh, my God. We'll put this in the... That's fucking cool. That's going to be fun. I know. I'm going as Link.

I told her I was going to go as Link. That's cool. So that's my... Yeah, you'll have to share that on Instagram. Yeah. I'm so proud. You know, she's such a cutie. That's so cool.

Anyway, so just a heads up, because that's an important one. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And it's a top-down 2D scroller. So it's not like an epic... Wait, top-down 2D scroller? 3D. Top-down... So it's like the original...

Yes. Got it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Top-down scroller? Top-down... Scroller is the sideways one. Okay. I'm going to say it's a...

Oh, God, what do they call that? A 3D... No, yeah, it's not like asymmetric. Asymmetric? No, no one would call it that. There's a thing, yeah, it's not like asymmetric. Asymmetric? No, no one would call it that. There's a thing for it. There's like a thousand geeks yelling at us right now. I know, I know, I know.

It's top-down, though. It's Diablo. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Top-down gaming name. It's called 2D top-down. Isometric? Isometric. That's not what I was thinking, but I just like to repeat you guys.

Yeah, isometric. But it looks really cool. I mean, it's close with asymmetric. But I love that, though. Like, for me, the Zeldas that were most fun, and don't get me wrong, the latest one was freaking epic. Yeah. But those are heavy commit games, right? That's 100%.

And when you have this, like, kind of top-down 3D mode, for me, it's like a lot more just cutesy old nostalgia kind of play than like... It's like the pick-up-and-play. Yeah, pick-up-and-play. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's like Farmville. Not Farmville. The Village. What's that one? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. The one where you go fish and shit. Stardew Valley.

I forgot about that. Yeah, it's that same thing. I need more game recommendations. Are you going to get the new PlayStation Pro? Here's the thing. I need more game recommendations. Are you going to get the new PlayStation Pro? Here's the thing. I'm going to get it. I know.

When we did all the TRS stuff, I got all the different game consoles, and I would review all the games. The bottom line is. Did you see what it does, though? No, but the bottom line is I don't really do console gaming. I do PC gaming. So you don't use a console thing at all? On the PC sometimes.

But usually I'm just mousing and controlling. But I'm playing like World of Warcraft. Are you still World of Warcraft? Yeah, I just finished War Within.

What? Yeah, dude. How many hours you got on there? Bro, I can't even. I can't even. I mean, thousands. Really?

Billion percent. Yeah, when I do the slash play on some of my characters it's like 752 days you're like oh god wow that's a lot of life i know well this is why i started duolingo it's so funny that's why i started duolingo it's because i was like if i want to sit down and fuck around on tiktok for four hours a day or two hours a day or an hour a day yeah i should

be learning italian yeah that's fair and I'm on my 39-day streak. I'm 15 in. Yeah, I saw it. I was like, oh, I'm getting there. All right. Last or second to last story. Yeah, last story. Last story.

This is going to be a good one, actually, though. Meta announced a bunch of new shit. Yeah. So Zod comes out on stage. He's wearing his own branded clothing, which he makes himself now. What? I didn't hear that part.

He does stuff like that. The MetaQuest 3S is a brand new budget-friendly VR headset. Okay. At $299. Man, that's fucking cheap. Like, if you think about how cheap these things are getting. I know, but I still don't see. It still feels like a hammer looking for a nail.

Like, I don't see anything that's that exciting. They have the Orion AR glasses now. Yeah, which are basically for dev only. They just showed them off. So they're not for sale. Like, that's not the product. Right, but they want to get there, right? By the way, they look exactly like the glasses that Bart had to wear

when he turns into, slowly, into, like, a nerd. Remember that? More thicker. Yeah, yeah. It's like, literally, he had to wear when he turns into slowly into like a nerd remember that we're like more thicker yeah yeah it's like literally had to wear these glasses he had to wear like stilt shoes and like scrape his mouth and so and he basically just becomes this like massive nerd yeah they those glasses look exactly like the Orion glass the thing about this is I remember when I got the Google Glass when I was working at Google yeah and it was a very awkward thing because there was a big pushback against it. So I got really lucky in that. I got an introduction to the Glass team, and they gave me –

I was the first external out-of-the-glass team person to receive them. Amazing. And so I got to take them, and I was like, I'm going to take them to a party in San Francisco. Amazing. Because everyone was hyping them up. Oh, yeah, I remember. And so I was wearing them, and I looked like an absolute dork, but everyone wanted to see them. i was like i'm gonna like take them to a party in san francisco because everyone was hyping about oh yeah i remember so i i was wearing them and i look like an absolute dork but everyone wanted to see them yeah yeah and then as they started to unfold there was like one woman

that wore them to a bar and actually got them knocked off her face by someone i remember this yeah and it was like this big pushback against like privacy and the don't point your cameras at me and like 100 i don't know that that ever goes away. Well, but then think about the meta Ray-Bans, right? Those exist. Those have front-facing cameras, and I don't feel like they're getting as much flack as the Google does. Do you know anyone that owns them, though?

I mean, not anybody that owns them without working in the space. You know what I mean? Yeah, I can imagine. It's so funny. There's some of this tech that we see where. And then didn't Snap announce theirs? Yeah, they did. And they looked so bad.

Yeah, so the thing, when I think about this stuff, I think, okay, what's the practical real world? Yeah, how are you going to use it? Yeah, and for me, it's like, it's almost like when, remember when the Segway came out and we were like, oh, that looks pretty cool. Oh, yeah. And then we rode one, we did them on TV.

Yeah, yeah. Screensavers. And it was like, it was very apparent that they were so dorky that you didn't want to be seen in public with them.

Yeah. But if you were in like France and you wanted to do like a 10 mile walking tour in four hours, you were like, I'll be that tourist. And you like put the freaking helmet

on and go to town, right? 100%. I kind of feel like these glasses will will be that where you'll be like oh i'm traveling so it's like it's like you remember where you do like the docent in the museum where you get the like little audio thing you hit the button exactly you put these on to go take a tour of the museum it overlays you're walking around a foreign city and like, oh, that building was built in 1910. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's so cool.

Yeah, take the meta Orion quest of, like, Florence and the squares. That's actually, that feels like an application that I would use. I'm just still not a huge fan. But anyway, so props to Zaki. He's trying to push that forward, like, whatever. Did you see the thing about the wristband? Yeah, the wristband. Helps you control it with your fingers. Yeah, but the thing about the... The wristband? Yeah, the wristband. Helps you control it with your fingers.

Yeah, but it's not the motion. It's the actual electrical current being sent to your muscles. Oh, I didn't know that. Yeah, so I was like, oh, because with this, it's all just the sort of motion thing. Tip, tip.

Tap, tap. Bleep, bleep. Toast, toast. Mine's not working for some reason. Snoopy. Yeah. But this one is actually sensing the the electrical uh um uh charge going through your muscles that to me feels like oh

that's a whole other technology right i also like the idea that they have the um they call it the processing puck so basically the glasses come with the glasses and then this thing that looks like I mean like a pencil case mm-hmm it's got the two Snapdragon processors in it mm-hmm it wirelessly connects to the glasses so it's like having an external video card mm-hmm with it but without any physical dongle so that's it carry it but the processing is done in the puck so that's kind of a cool innovative thing yeah it's really cool because you're you're taking the the heaviness of the processing and the battery yeah all saying this can go in my pocket and it's also wireless right but like the cool thing about that is like you you're off you're basically taking the the computational side of it yeah which is

the heat the weight the everything else yeah it's saying saying, get it off my helmet, off my face, and put it in a place that makes a ton of sense. Yeah. It's awesome. Okay. So the one thing I will say, forget all that stuff, that I am most excited about, I thought that was sister, that I'm most excited about is that they are taking videos that now you upload to like Instagram or WhatsApp um and they're doing some other

integrations as well and they're doing voice over lip syncing in different languages so they call this ai powered dubbing tool oh that's really interesting i i i almost did this for my last podcast where i found a company that was doing um you could take a transcript, you can drop it into like, say, Japanese. Yep. And then they would do the AI voice lip dubbing. Yeah. And you could release it to the Japanese market on the like podcasting Japanese, you know, iTunes shit. So like, imagine our clips hit like 30 other languages.

Wow. That's really cool. It's funny. I saw this interview. I think it might have been Mr. Beast, but it was a long time ago. But one of the things, he was being interviewed, and one of the things he said was,

one of our biggest things is that they have translators that translate their videos into all these different local super localized like regional dialogues in portugal right and he was like we get double our views from all of that well 100 and it was like that just is crazy that you could just like you know have have people feel like they're watching the consuming the content as if we were speaking their language. So I have to imagine in the short term we're going to see a massive boost

in breakout shows that just resonate with a different audience in another country. Yeah, 100%. There's a chance the Japanese audience likes us. Do you think they'll like us? Of course. Konnichiwa. Hajite masu de.

By the way, speaking of Japanese audience, we just started watching Drops of God on Apple TV+. What's that? It's been out for a while. Yeah. You should watch it. It's about this French vintner who was like an asshole to his daughter, and he ends up moving to japan and he passes away and essentially he's

going to give his estate like all this wine and all like his millions of dollars to either his daughter who's he's estranged from who's french or this guy who he's been sort of training as a like master sommelier yeah and the thing that they have to do is taste these wines and label these like eight wines from his cellar to know which one's going to get the like 200 million dollar thing it's so good because it takes place in japan it's also about wine and a lot of times they're speaking english but she speaks french and the other guy speaks like japanese but the common language is english so it's it's that's awesome dude i love that yeah it's called props of god i will i i'm always adding to my list oh by the way i am on

um that app now letterboxd the app do you know letterboxd i mean the one that's been around for like ages correct yeah uh so you can follow me and my movies that i'm liking. My name on Letterboxd is profile, watch list. That's not Kevin. No, they don't give me. I was late to the game. Pronouns, he, his. K.K. Rosie Rose. How come you can't find your profile on that?

Come on. I don't know. There it is. Kevin Rose, 77. That tracks. Follow me up there. And I've only rated a few things. But yeah, that's where I'm doing all my movies.

I have this list of 500 movies to watch before you die. Holy shit. And so I'm really excited to. Yeah, what's number one? Well, they're not ranked like that. It's not in the order. Have you guys heard of a movie called In the Mood for Love? Mm-mm.

Not off the bat. Apparently it's really good. Have you guys heard of the movie called In the Mood for Love? Apparently it's really good. Have you guys heard of the movie? The one I've watched recently is Harry Caray. Harry Caray? Yeah. So that's like a seppuku or what they stab and they cut themselves up.

I know what Harry Caray is. It's basically it won all these awards. They consider it to be the, many consider it to be the most important Japanese film of all time. Is it Kurosawa or is it somebody else? I don't know. I don't know about that. But I do know that it was epic.

And it was like, it's basically, you know, it's not in English. It was filmed in like the 50s or something. And it's basically, you know, it's not in English. It was filmed in like the 50s or something. Oh, wow. And it's basically about samurai warriors. And I don't want to ruin it for you, but it's like freaking, it's amazing. It's about these guys that commit suicide. Yeah, yeah. And what they have to go through and the honor and all that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And it's just like, I can see why it won so many awards back then. It's still like a really good movie. So another one, if you're into Japanese stuffony stuff is harry carrie i'm sorry oh god i did not mean to be such a dick about that i just mispronounced it it's called giri haji it's not called care just like you'll eventually see us go full dementia by the time we're done with this show in like 10 years. I heard about a movie called Harry Caray, Kevin. It was great.

Giri Haji. I can't remember if it was on Netflix, Amazon, or whatever, but it's really good. Just watch it. It's great Netflix, Amazon, or whatever, but it's really good. Just watch it. It's great. Great movie. Or TV show. Emails.

We have an email address. Yes. And you guys have emailed. So we have, it is fans at dignation.show. Send us your most pressing questions, including, but not limited to, technology advice, relationship advice, vehicle maintenance. Vehicle maintenance. asking questions including but not limited to technology advice relationship advice uh vehicle maintenance vehicle maintenance i don't know i might want to skip that one what else we could ask for so there's there's there are things we're good at uh investing

video games yes uh that's it that's pretty much what we got that's it all right so we've got a light one and then we got a really fucking dark one oh god Kevin chose these I'm so excited do you want the light one first or do you want the dark one first let's do the dark one first

okay so then we're not ending the show on a dark one okay so I want to take this really seriously and not laugh

and like be very serious about it but I want to I want to let this guy know that we love him okay okay this guy's name is Jeremy hello Jeremy

and he wrote in he said please plead for help with treatment resistant depression he said treatment resistant depression which is the kind where you try drugs just not nothing's working he goes hi so kevin um talking about using ketamine to treat depression because i had an episode about ketamine usage yeah i used it when i was stressed out for me it was lot of anxiety, but I've had a lot of friends use it for depression. Yep. I have treatment-resistant depression and suffer from constant suicidal thoughts.

Oh, man. So much that I have been able to successfully apply for a medically-assisted dying in Canada and have been approved. Jesus, buddy. I know, I know. So it's pretty hardcore. Let's put on a live show so you can just come and hang out.

Seriously. However, I wanted to reach out and see if there was someone that could help with getting me a ketamine treatment so I don't just fade away and have a couple more years of life. Any chance of passing this along? Unfortunately, due to a mental health situation for seven years, it left me in a horrible financial shape. I'm just looking for a treatment that may help improve my life. Okay. Humbly, Jeremy.

So, Jeremy, I think a couple things to say. You know, there is a bunch of clinics on the ketamine side. I can't be your doctor, but you can go research about it. That episode that I did was mainly so you could see what a high-quality clinic look like. So you're not doing some fly by night operation. Somebody that's a chiropractor doing ketamine therapy. You want to actually have like a real doctor doing it. We want to say that we love you. Thank you for watching Dignation. And dude, brother, like, like, listen, like life is a crazy twisty rollercoaster ups and downs don't believe anybody that tells you it's a straight up and to the right this is not a crazy like we've all been through some shit yeah and we

just want to say that um as you know someone that's watching us you know at least i want to say that like um you know we'd love to have you out at a live show we've got your back we really appreciate you writing in and there is hope yeah This does not have to be the end. We hope you seek out some treatment, try some new things. And there are a bunch of really amazing compounds that are in the wings a few years out, including one that I saw recently that was approved. That is a, it's like an analog to ketamine therapy and pill form. It's antidepressant now.

Oh, wow. So there's a bunch of new modalities that are coming very soon. Get outside, get some exercise, work with your doctors, but please come see us for a live show. We'd love to host you, you know, and hang out and just give you a hug because you're not in this alone, man. A lot of people are going through this shit. I just wanted to do this one because all of our fans are...

It's funny. I just did this True Ventures offsite. When you have 50 plus people, undoubtedly someone is dealing with something really hardcore yeah yeah either a passing of a family member um someone going through cancer yeah we're at that age now and i know you know we've got enough people watching this that are in the tens of thousands now that like some of you are going through some shit and you know we should set up like a discord where people can get together and chat seriously like a dignified out there is probably having the same

100 that you are 100 and like if you if we're gonna do a live show eventually 100 if we could do something where um you know you just want to come up and say hi and get a hug like we're all about that and supporting the community that's always had our back for so many years it's the least we could do so please let us know and we're sending you lots of love yeah and keep emailing us yeah please uh so jeremy thank you for that one um heavy thanks for being so vulnerable no also important no very important yeah um all right this is from ju kang um just straight to less heavy i mean i hope I'm pronouncing that right. The whole point is, what's the

subject? The title is Hyundai Pronunciation from Ju Kang. Long time fan. Thank you, Ju. Joe. Joe. I don't know how to pronounce his name. The part of the reason we're doing this is to learn from you, Joe. Ju.

It is unbelievable that you guys are back. Thank you, Jew. Anyways, I speak Korean. And it was a torture to watch you guys in the last episode getting further and further away from the correct Korean pronunciation. We were trying to, for people that don't know, we can probably do a quick

little flip back. Oh, did he attach an audio of him? Yeah, he did. He did. We were trying to figure it out. Google says it wrong. Thank you. We did look at the Google. The correct pronunciation in Korea is Nope.

I don't believe that's how it's pronounced. Oh, all the letters are silent except the H? Give me a second. The correct pronunciation in Korean for Honda is letters are silent except the H. Give me a second. The connect pronunciation in Korean for Hyundai is Hyundai?

Somebody wrote it out. Okay, here we go. Hyundai? Here we go. Hyundai. Hyundai. This is how I was pronouncing it, right? I'm a big fan of the new Hyundai electric car. Hyundai. Is that a Hyundai? I'm a big fan of the new Hyundai electric car. Hyundai. Isn't that how?

Is that a Hyundai? Is that a Hyundai? Hyundai. Hold on. Oh, nice Hyundai you got there. What nice Hyundai you got there? What kind of Hyundai is that? Hyundai.

He's giving so many examples. Thank you, Jew. Oh, oh. No, you know what? It's not pronounced Jew. He said it at the bottom. Pronounced Jew. It pronounced you he said hit the bottom pronounced you it says it right there at the bottom all right fuck yeah i got that one nailed it nailed it all right so nailed it jew thank you for writing in and uh we look forward

to our live dignation uh in south korea on our world tour which is starting uh well you leave for london sunday exactly I'll just meet you there. Oh, my God. That is so freaking funny. Yeah. So thank you for that one. I don't know if I walked away from that email exactly knowing how to say Hyundai. Hyundai.

That's what it was. I was saying Hyundai, but I was giving you the hyun. You got the hyun right. You just didn't get the di right. Yeah. Hyundai. Hyundai. Anyway, I still want one of those cars.

Bro. Yeah, I still want one of those cars. Bro, if anybody works at Hyundai, we would love to get one of those retro, 80s, awesome machines. Yeah. Hell yes. That would be amazing. All right. Oh, my God. That was so fun.

That was an amazing episode. Lots of fun. If you have stories, anything else you want to recommend, email us, fansindignation.show. And just a reminder. Where can they see us? Well, I would say there's two things you can do that would really help us out. If you're an old school fan

and we appreciate you. Dude, you know what's funny? I was in the freaking airport today. I got recognized by two people. Bulls Indignation. Can I tell? Really? Yeah, they were like, dude, Indignation's back. And these are like full on executive guys in like suits and shit. Like all of our fans have grown up. That's up so great and they're like now all tech executives and shit

it was so awesome so um it happened twice and then it happened one other place I feel oh I was with I was with Darian we were walking in the park like around the corner here and some guys like Dignation oh my god I was like holy shit, people love it. So anyway, tell your friends if you're an old Dignation fan, we'd really appreciate it and of course, I would say number one

is definitely subscribe to our YouTube which is slash Dignation. The clips are going to be great which is a really long URL. Dignation highlights.

Highlights. Could have been clips. Dignation clips? Highlights too. Highlights, okay. At Dignation highlights but the Instagram would be huge. Instagram.com slash TheDignation Clips? It wasn't available? Highlights too. Oh, Highlights. Okay. At Dignation Highlights. But the Instagram would be huge.

Instagram.com slash TheDignation. We're posting all kinds of funny clips there. Yeah, it's great. And I'm commenting on shit and stuff and having a good time there. So that would be a good one as well. And then if you're a TikTok person, TikTok.com slash TheDignation. And that is it for this episode. Again, just a reminder, we're doing these every three weeks or

so so make sure to keep checking back and check your kevin i would like to say thank you kindly for the first ever crocs and your first ever number one beer in my world number one beer in the world which by the way was slapping wasn't that good dude kentucky brunch by topppling Gargoyle. Oh, God, I've got to remember what Toppling Gargoyle. Goliath, yeah. Oh, God, that was so great. Well, thank you guys all so much for watching, and we will see you in a few weeks. Hope you're having a great time.