Diggnation (rebooted) - LEGO Got Smarter, Planes Land Themselves, and Hooters Is Rebranding Again

Episode Date: January 7, 2026

Diggnation is back for 2026. In this New Year’s episode, Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht dive into Dry (ish) January, accidental woodworking injuries, and why Kevin's Peloton crush might be more motivating than your therapist. On the tech side, Kevin drops a quiet-but-clear hint for Digg beta users to keep an eye out. The guys talk about Samsung’s decision to ship Google’s Gemini AI to 800 million devices, which feels like a major win for Google’s ecosystem. On the tech side, Kevin gives a heads up to Digg beta users: Communities are coming. Now is a good time to start paying attention. Also on deck: a bizarre Waymo vs. Santa Monica standoff involving robotic cars and 3 a.m. backup beeping, a Garmin plane that landed itself (because the pilot didn’t), and a Lego set that lights up on its own. Other stops include futuristic cartilage regrowth injections, the return of "Dolphin Shorts" via a Hooters rebrand nobody asked for, and an existential debate about smart fridges.Square — Get up to $200 off Square hardware when you sign up at: https://square.com/go/diggLMNT — Get a free 8-count sample pack with any purchase: http://drinklmnt.com/diggDeleteMe — Remove your personal info from data broker sites: http://joindeleteme.com/diggMonarch — 50% off your first year with code DIGG: https://monarch.comWispr Flow — Try voice-to-text writing for free: https://wisprflow.ai/diggYouTube Chapter Markers00:00 Intro02:41 Resolutions Nobody Asked For: Pilates & Productivity03:36 Can Saunas Cure Depression or Just Make You Sweatier?04:52 Kevin Gets Stabbed by Wellness (Acupuncture Chat)06:02 Peloton and the German Instructor Who Yells in Motivation07:13 Holiday Haul: Singing Bowls and the Rise of Vibe Decor09:07 Spoon Carving, Blood Loss & $400 Japanese Hammers12:30 Coming Soon: Digg Communities That Don’t Look Like Reddit14:00 Samsung Gives 800M Devices a Gemini AI Glow-Up20:31 Waymo Cars Are Beeping Insomnia Into Santa Monica25:06 Self-Driving Cars Are Scanning Your Kids for Booster Seats33:25 Lego Bricks Just Got Smarter (and Slightly Haunted)37:07 How Boredom Became the New Self-Care Hack42:10 Garmin Autoland: The Plane That Landed Itself47:56 Parachutes for Planes and Other Backup Plans56:53 Can Amazon's “Art Line” TV Beat the Samsung Frame?1:01:00 Streaming Loyalty Tests: Apple TV, We See You1:03:19 Movies Worth Hoarding Forever (Anchorman & Jack Reacher?)1:05:08 Injecting Knees With Youth: The Cartilage Comeback1:08:44 Dementia-Fighting Protein or Supervillain Serum?1:09:54 Smart Fridge Fatigue vs. Bird Watching for Fun1:13:05 Kamado Joe Smoker Review: BBQ Tech Gets Serious1:15:23 Hooters Rebrands, Dolphin Shorts Return, Internet Shrugs

Brand new year, brand new CES. Legos are self-assembling, friend or foe. Also, an old throwback to a restaurant that dealt with owls. Twin owls returning from the ashes. At a small plate lands itself only right now on Dignation. Twin Alas? Yeah, I don't know what to say. Welcome to Dignation.

Also potentially hazardous to your health. All right, moving on. Why do you have flies in your freaking house? I noticed in Southern California and I have fruit. You put zombie and put hearing in the title and I don't want to do it. Dignation.com. Hello there, friends and family. Welcome to DigNation, 26.

Episode number 25. I'm Kevin Rose. And I'm Alex O'Reck. DigNation covers some of the hottest user submitted stories on social news website, dig.com, diwg.com. Happy New Year, Kevin. Two Gs, too, by the way. Yes, double G. If you miss type, not going to get there. You'll end up at some other website. I don't even know what is that. I'm not scared to look down. I think it's Disney Interactive. Oh, is it? I think so. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, you'll be entertained either way. Yeah, either way. Either way. Happy 226, man. Can you freaking believe it? I can't believe it. New Year's resolutions are in force. Yeah, so what do we

have? First off, we should say, we're doing, I mean, at least I am. We haven't talked about it, but I did dry January. Shut up. Yes, of course. Are you completely dry? Yes. Same. Really? How long has it been for you? Since January. Okay. Mine since last night. I don't know if that's what dry January means. Damp, January. Damp, yes. Yes, I get that. But mine's trending towards dry. It's like, you know, it rained the first couple days. I mean, it has been raining in Los Angeles. It has been raining. So it is. And then you look up from the sky and you're like, ah, it could be dry soon. I should drink some champagne. I actually lucked out because I am right now on the very end of a cold

that started December 31st. Oh. But it's perfect. Did you finish that bottle I got you? No, but I had some of it. It's so good. The gentleman Jack? No, not the gentleman Jack.

Oh, the other one. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, my God, it was so good. The Dahlmore. Yeah. Oof. Did you like it a lot? I love it.

Isn't it great? So good. So smooth. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But you like Gentleman Jack, too. The best? Yeah. The best.

Okay. I'm glad it worked out. I appreciate it. that so dry January happening uh 2026 one of the things that I kind of got to as far as my personal sort of resolution if you will yes is I think 2026 for me is going to be all about self-care oh because I don't think I do a lot of that not that I do anti-self care right but like I'm you know I'm working out a lot I've been doing that for about two years now working out pretty much three days a week.

Cardio too? Or just lifty, lifting? Just lifty, lifting. But there's cardio and lifty lifting. If, but I need to get, I need to do more stretching. Yeah. I want to incorporate like some yoga maybe or like Pilates, some sort of like stretching element. And then also massages. Because I get so fucking tight and tense with the working out. I need to like relax and open up and let go.

You can't put that. Maybe jacuzis. That's not the same bucket to be fair. As self-care? Oh, sorry. I thought you were putting in like the working out. No, I don't put it in a good, hard massage. 200 calories. Get that sweat up, let somebody bend me. That's great. So I've been doing the same thing. Here's what I got.

Sona, which I'm sticking to. I love it. I continue to do that. That's great. 20 minutes day, all cause mortality reduced by like 35% to do six days a week. I thought you said all cause mortality. I did. But I thought it meant like sauna, 20 minutes a day will cause mortality. No, no, no, it reduces.

Gotcha. mortality. And so that's 20 minutes a day, six days a week. Does that work the same with the ultrasonic one? Because I get claustrophobic in the hot air. Yeah. There's, yeah, because he's from the Corian, so that's the same. I have a friend

Ashley Mason, she's a scientist. You can look her up. She's amazing. She was on Peter Atia's podcast and Rhonda Patrick's podcast and actually Darya's podcast as well over the years. Listen to her one on Peter Atia, but she studies sauna research at U.S.

She's a scientist. She has their own lab out there. And she uses infrared to treat depression. Wow. And so they put it all the way up to your neck and they get your core body temperature raise. I think it's like a 45-minute session. And it's amazing what it does for depression.

Interesting. There's a whole protocol on it. I highly recommend her work. And if you can support her lab, she's doing great research. I've done some philanthropic stuff with her lab as well. And I highly recommend just a brilliant, brilliant scientist. Love that. So you're doing sauna.

Yeah, so sauna's one. I started doing acupuncture. Oh, very nice. I found an acupuncturist around the corner from me. That's amazing. I'm going to do... I've never done acupuncture. Yeah, it's, you know, I think it's one of those things we have to do it for a month or so to kind of really get the benefits of it all. I will say I had tennis elbow for like the last six months.

I've been bitching about a lot. Yeah, yeah. And it's gone. Really? Yeah, it was two weeks. The first week, I was like, oh, it's a little bit better. It's freaking gone. Did you tell the Earth?

Yeah. And she was like, like, all around it and stuff. And do it. I got a little bit of a shoulder thing. And she's like legit old school Chinese. How good. Like, no, but like, you know what I mean?

I want that legit shit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I did it for my clambers elbow. Did it work? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, wow. And so she gives you tea when you're done.

You're like, it's nice, dude. It's great. You're going to love it. Self care. Self care. So that's one. Weighted vest. Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Drinking, but that doesn't count. I'm cutting back on that. I'm just adding it in. I'm trying to think there was one other thing that I was doing that was really important

on this front. Oh, I started doing Peloton again. Oh, good. And so because I realized, dude, it's like I know myself well, I mean, I'm getting older, so who knows, but like if I really go into the gym hit hard, I can bulk up pretty easily as long as I'm like having a protein and all that. Cardio is always that like, I don't want to do it.

Yeah, nobody wants it. Nobody wants to do it. I don't know. And so I started doing it, and it's, I took that fitness test where you, like, do the 20 minutes and you set your zones, and then you kind of totally work up. It's awesome. It's really good. I take this one class, I don't know if I should say, I take this one class, and there's,

like, this German instructor, and she's, like, teaching it, you know? Oh. And she's like, welcome to the session, you know? And I'm just like, oh, I'm in. Well, I mean, she's very nice, you know? It's a, you know, everybody. You need a little dominatrix in your, in your, you know. your sports. My wife has said there's certain attractive instructors, you know, and Peloton

does that, they do that quite well. They do that quite well. The whole point of instructors. I had a buddy that was dating a Pelotan instructor. I can't say who. That's like a myth. Yeah. It's like legend. It's like someone who found a unicorn. Yeah, exactly. But, yeah, I highly recommend the German Peloton. Did you get any fun gifts for Christmas? Oh, yes. I got a very nice singing bowl. Oh, yeah, yeah. I got like a big, but I got like a big 20 something inch one like a deep resonant like awesome and then a smaller one because i had a very small one i used for meditation i have three and so daria was very kind to um go out and get me these beautiful bowls for my meditation practice uh and also this beautiful little buddhist statue that's

hand carved like oh i think i saw instagram yeah yeah yeah so that that that was like my christmas right there, which was amazing. And for the record, I don't... The thing about Buddha, when you bring it up, it's such a polarizing thing, especially for, like, Christian people and stuff like that. Really? Well, I've had people who they're like,

oh, like, you're, like, do the Buddha thing. And in Zen, and the thing that I practice with, with Henry, is it's, Buddha is just known as someone that is just someone that is a teacher. Yeah, yeah. They're like, there's no praying to... Buddha is not a deity. It's just like, oh, this person, this person did someone, something really special for this community, and we're paying, like, you know, our respects,

like an almost like an elder in a way. Interesting. So anyway, that's the way, at least this version of Sambo Zen treats Buddha. It's not as someone to be worshipped rather than just someone to... So it's not a religion, it's a philosophy. Well, for some people, they take it as we do with everything. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Some people can treat it more like a religion, but that is not what Zen does in the Sambo Zen sect. So, yeah, anyway, that was my... So, I have... So I have... had an interesting experience. We were down with Heather's brother's family and her nephew got all of her brother's family homemade cutting boards that he made himself. Oh, that's amazing. And they looked fucking amazing. Like they bought, like he bought him at William Sonoma. And I was

like, wait a minute. No, no, no, no. This is a thing? And he goes, yeah, I took a woodworking class. And now I'm like super into woodworking. So Heather and I signed up for a woodworking class. Dude, you've been looking at my Instagrams? Yes, that's what I'm doing? Yes! Okay, I've been carving spoons. That's what I brought in her. I cut myself last night.

Dude, I was bleeding all down my arm because I was whittling my spoon and I had had some champagne. And then I was like, ah, and my daughter's sitting next to me, she's like, oh, yeah, but when you know we have a couple glasses of, it's like, it's like, wah. Like, it's fine, it's fine. You're like, I got to finish the bowl.

I know, but there's blood on my spoon now. I have to, like, carve the blood out of my blood out my spoon. Oh, my God. But yeah, I've been getting into Japanese hand. We've been talking about the sort of Japanese woodworking for a while. I'd never thought to try it, but seeing these, like, cutting boards that he made that look like professional cutting boards. And then the fact that in our kitchen, we have that, like, butcher block and I've been, like, oiling it. And, like, I was like, oh, I really want to get into this. And so Heather and I found a place in downtown. And we're to take, like, an eight-hour intro to woodworking class. Okay, so I want to do that, too.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But also, I want to do that. I want to show you this. Okay. And I know, Mal, I don't have scanning out of my, I'll send you the link to it. We got, we got to show this on a video. Okay. Okay. These are handmade, so you know in Japanese woodworking, it's a lot of joinery, which is a

fancy way of saying you don't have to use nails. Yeah. It's like wood that interconnects with wood. Yeah, yeah, yeah. These are handmade hammer tops for hammers. What? Dude, how beautiful are those. Dude, Mao, look at this.

now look at this how insane are those it's like it's like that camera well i don't want to show my other links and stuff it's like hammer porn it like which i never even thought was a thing and it and it totally is i'm gonna i'm gonna don't google hammer porn no you i don't know what it is i don't want to know so now i just saying the links being pulled up but this site and i'm okay with sharing i did a ton of deep research on who imports the highest in nice Japanese handmade woodworking tools and there's one side that gets like the best of the stuff you

can hand down for generation and generation so are you going to buy like some stuff to this beautiful hammer top is $61. That's nothing. What's that? You're going to make an only fan of it. Yeah, I should make it only fans of it. Rule 34. Yeah, man. It's Rule 34. Rule 34 is if it exists, there's porn out of it. No exception.

Oh, God, really? Everything. That's Rule 34, baby. Wow. Mm-hmm. I didn't even think about that. There's all kinds of weird shit. It's a good point. Well, I mean, just kind of like rolling through. I'm not going to lie. I mean, hammer porn. A late night with one of these hammers. You could create in hammer porn. But anyway, this beautiful stuff.

Because that's the thing is that like I feel like I wanted to go first try it. Like, in a real way. Like, I mean, the last time I fucking tried woodworking was in shop in, in middle school. Like high school, yeah. And I didn't give a shit about it and I didn't care. Right. It was just an elective you had to get done. Yeah, I was like, oh, whatever. But, um,

But yeah, and then Heather was like, fuck, I want to do this. And I was like, dude, let's do it. And I was like, I can't imagine, like, having, like, a wood shop in the garage. It's going to be so fun. It would be so fun. Yeah, that's awesome, dude. It's either going to be great or it's going to be one. But anyway, that was what happened over Christmas.

I was like, yeah, let's do it. Love it. So, shall we talk about a little bit of dig stuff? Yes. On dig things coming up. Yes. Well, coming up very soon, there might be something if you're not paying close up attention to the dig beta that you will miss. So now is the time to start poking around and being present on DIG because we have something that is coming to the public beta.

It's going to be first kind of, what would you say? Kind of rolled out a little earlyish to the beta folks. Maybe. Yeah. Yeah. I think we can say everyone's been waiting for communities. Everyone's waiting for communities. I think that's.

Meaning like you can create your own community. Correct. Yes. Yeah. And so I will tell you. This isn't just like one of those things where when you see it turn in line, if you're going to be like, oh, they've added the future with the buttons that create communities. The visual design that Justin and team have put around this is like, you'll look at it and be like, oh, that is not Reddit.

That is not the old dig. That is something familiar, but uniquely new. And so I'm excited for it. It's a really exciting moment. And this is a chance where if you're an early user, you know, you might be able to claim some of this stuff early and get involved early. And it's coming this month. So we want to make a little announcement here and just tell you, if you're kicking the tires and dig,

pay attention in the coming days and weeks. Things are going to be changing quite dramatically. And then we're off to the races on all types of new stuff. 2026, baby. Big year. Love it. Anything else I should mention that now, or is that pretty good? Okay, sweet.

All right, shall we get into the first story? First story of the day, Samsung rolls out AI to devices. Now, normally this is just like a nothing burger. Yeah, I was like, that's like 2024. Right. But what was interesting about this story is that they have rolled out Gemini. Oh.

To 400 million devices. Whoa. With a plan to go up to 800 million devices. What devices? All their mobile phones. Wow. So it was like, yeah, so Samsung to double AI mobile devices to 800 million units this year. with Gemini. Now, they had their own, you know, AI that they had a homebrewed. What was it called?

It was called like, oh, so like their Apple intelligence? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. I can't remember Bigsby or some shit like that. What was it? Was that it? Come on. I don't know. I'm not a Samsung guy. Okay, so anyway, but they decided to embrace Gemini and they're rolling this out. Their stock jumped in like 4% on Oh, right, because Gemini, oh my God, I don't know why I thought you were saying Google, right? Because Gemini is, Google, right? Yes. And so Samsung's saying we're going to use Google's AI instead of our own bespoke AI is a big deal. Right.

So if you think about it this way, like Google as an Android provider and the creator of Android, it's open source. Right. So oftentimes what we see is with these different providers that are actually producing the phones, they can modify it in any way that they want. Yeah, yeah. Make it their own version of it. Right.

And so classic, like Samsung is. is very good. And they have done a bunch of like homebrewed apps or email apps or own chat messaging apps. They don't use the Google defaults. They have their own package of stuff. And it's quite frankly, a lot of people love it. They think, I mean, Samsung is the most popular like Android-type phone, like even outselling Google phones, right? Yeah, yeah. And so, you know, Google, of course, is stock Google and that's what we get all with all the Google devices you buy directly from Google, which I love. I love that kind of like native feel. And Google has been rolling out some of the more forward early

Android features, or sorry, Gemini features to their pixel devices. And that's always been the benefit of being that. And so it was like, okay, well, if you're a big, if you're, you know, a Facebook, you know, an Amazon, Microsoft, a Google, Anthropic,

you know, chat GPT, like Apple, who do you use as your AI provider? And you either buy or build. And a lot have tried to build. And some not successful. And I would say that when you think about, it's clear now that Amazon has said, Alexa's our baby. And we're going to continue to double down on that and build that into his own credible.

Alexa keeps trying to convince me to go Alexa Plus. Yeah, exactly. I don't need that. Well, we'll see how good it gets. I mean, if anybody has the deep pockets that's required to pull that off, it would be showing like an Amazon. And the infrastructure and devices. Exactly.

So the question, and I don't know the full answer is because it just came out. So I apologize for not having the deep research here. But, you know, they had their bigs-be thing that they were going to go after and say this was our AI. And it was just paned. Everyone hated it. It was basically like Apple Intelligence. Like Siri, you're like, nah, it doesn't do anything, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And so now that they've said they're going to put Gemini on all these phones and make that their model, that's a huge win for Google. So does that mean that if I have an Android phone, if I have a Samsung phone, I don't have to sign up for the Gemini Pro account? See, good question. Right, because that would be huge. I mean, this literally just hit like a few hours ago, so I don't think we know all the details. But I will say what it meant before was it wasn't like you were excluded from having Gemini. You had to go and download the app and then set it as your default AI. Got it.

Okay. And so that was always, but now what they're saying is they're going to bundle it in. Right. And so like Gemini is going to be there. That's interesting. I don't know how much of that is going to require an upgrade or what percentage Samsung will take. or if you buy it directly from Samsung, because, like, you know, they could be the middle person here.

So it's only $20 a month, so there's a part of me that's, like, does Samsung subsidize that? Yeah, maybe. Because that would definitely put it way ahead if it was, like, the pro version of Gemini built into every phone. You don't even have to do anything, just press the button and ask. I mean, this reminds me of, like, I mean, it's a browser world, kind of all over again.

Remember when Safari, like, Apple, or so Google desperately did not want Apple to create a search engine, so they paid for Google to be the default Safari search engine, because they knew that we were going to get all these installs and searches via that. So anyway, I think this is a win for Samsung. For sure. For sure. Because if you have a natively integrated Gemini, it's just going to be a better device. It just is.

Yeah. So, you know, it's pretty awesome, though. $800 million, they're saying they're going to expand this to. I mean, that's also just like, think about the footprint for Google. I know. To just be like, oh, we have now 800 million installs for Gemini that were extra. I know, probably actually. Let's even say that half of the people

weren't using Gemini. Less than that, yeah. Because most people are just like, oh, I have that AI thing, you know, they don't even know what they have. Yeah, or everybody's in chat chit. I mean, like, you know, well, it's really funny because, like, it's so interesting how, like,

the two main ones that I hear your average person on the street talking about are chat GPT because it's so ubiquitous or ubiquitous and then gronk or grok. Gronk. The football player. Yeah, the football player. He's there to help you.

Grock, because of all the people that are still in the X Twitter world. Yeah. You know what I mean? So it's just so interesting that, like, Gemini, this would be such a leap forward. That's cool. It's a smart move. I mean, I think we're going to see more of this consolidation over time. My prediction for this year is that one of the bigs is going to go out of business, meaning one of the big AI providers.

Really? Oh, yeah. I know which one it is. Oh, really? percent. I don't want to say it because then like there's a chance that that will cause or not cause. These are like there are hundreds of employees working at this. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I will say it's not anthropic. It's not open AI. It's not obviously not Gemini. It's not any of the big. There's one sitting out there that nobody really uses

anymore, but they're trying hard. You know what I'm talking about? I think so. I think so. Can you say the first letter of it? No. Okay. Next door the day. Hey, you know what's not sad? Waymo is suing Santa Monica and the city is suing them right back. A court fight is ahead. This was submitted by Sir Matt. So this has been bubbling up a little bit.

So for those of you that don't know, Waymo is the autonomous ride-hailing company that's based in San Francisco, Austin, Texas, Phoenix, Arizona, L.A., I feel like there's somewhere in Texas, maybe Dallas. That sounds right. Yeah. I mean, Austin's obviously Texas.

But anyway, and they're expanding. And it's great. And they're part of Google, right? Google bought them, I think, back in the day. Google created them and incubated them. Incubated them. And then they spun it out? They still are the majority holder.

And I think the only other investors in Dresen Horowitz. Got it. Okay. So they are basically on the forefront, I would say, of autonomous taxi. hailing services. Well, one of the things that has been bubbling up here in Los Angeles is the city of Santa Monica has gotten really mad because what happens is these Waymos will have charging locations. Basically, they get like these big parking lots. There's one over by me at the CBS on Fairfax and Beverly where they basically rent big parking space or parking lots

for the Waymos to kind of go at night to park and charge. And that's sort of like their home Right, right, right. Yeah, I've seen these. You drive by and there's just like, fleets of these cars. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, in Santa Monica, it's, the space is pretty cramped, right? And the problem is, is that with these Waymoes, they're all the Ford E, or not Ford, the Jaguar E-Paces, and they have the sound of backing up, that wum, wwom, wong, wong, and so what happens is at night, they're doing this, like, ballet of autonomous dancing all night throughout the night, constant cars, you know, 20 cars going wwom, wwant, wak, oh, in somebody's neighborhood.

In somebody's neighborhood, in Santa Monica. Can they turn the wompwomp off? That's what I was thinking. Right? Because they're talking to each other. And also, like, you could do like a location-based want-womp turn off. Yeah, exactly. I mean, you have to be able to do that.

Anyway, so I think if, I feel like the city of Santa Monica sued first or they told them maybe they didn't sue, Maybe they just said you have to shut it down. They basically said, like, we're not allowing you to do your cars there, the city of Santa Monica. And that's why Waymo then sued them for, like, you can't, you know, there's no, we're not breaking any rules. There's no legislation.

Like, if you need, if you want to change that we can be here, you have to, like, put out a, you know, a prop or whatever proposition. And so the city of Santa Monica sued Waymo right back. And so now it's going to be basically come down to, it's a little bit like, do you remember when the birds the scooters just came out? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And it was like this whole big fight. I mean, Uber was even like that where it's like the city, it's all this sort of like future stuff where people go

I don't like how it's impacting the way of our normal everyday lives but it's also the future of the technology. Oh, yeah. You get this like. Like the same people that are suing are like, well, I should probably take away one a night. Yeah, no doubt because they're like, it's so much better. I just don't want to next. I mean, it's that what is it? I mean, that's fair though. Not my backyard or, yeah.

I feel like a noise, if you had an apartment and you're sitting there and it's like, want, want, want, all that like, I'd be like, what the fuck? Like, turn that off. Especially because there's no, nobody's buying, it's not like they're hailing the cabs. It's literally them just moving around so that they can optimize the charging at night. Right, right. You know what I mean? Like, it's just, it's like so, I could see people getting, I could see myself getting super

frustrated with that, I'm super sound sensitive. I feel like if you're Waymo, you just got to have to say, hey, city, how can we do this in a way that's acceptable. The answer here is not to kick them out of Santa Monica. No. That is surprising to me because obviously the city of Santa Monica should be happy to have more right-hailing services. To bring more people in.

To bring more people in. Yeah. And Santa Monica is not like doing all that great. Like Third Street Promot is a disaster zone. It's so sad. It's picking up again. Is it? It's picking up.

Oh, good. Yeah. I feel like there's a lesson learned here with Bird where Bird tried to battle the city and the city is like, look, there's plenty of other options, guys. Goodbye. Yeah. Yeah. The one thing I wouldn't tell you this, my Waymo the other day, I got in and I was taking the family to just go get some food. And we get in the car and everything and kids are in and everything. And there's like three minutes in the ride. Dole-Ling. And it's like, you are being connected to a Waymo support specialist. And I'm like, okay. You know, it's like, it's doing its thing. I thought like maybe there's something wrong with the car. You got to get out. And it's like, hi, this is so-and-so from Waymo. We noticed our scans. when you're getting in the car, scanned one of your kids as being smaller

and maybe too small to ride how old are they and how much they weigh and everything. They're freaking LIDAR. Scan the kids to say, like, they need a car seat. Yeah, exactly. Wow. Yeah, isn't that wild? That's crazy.

And they're like, are they, you know, how old are they, blah, blah? And the person was really nice. I said, listen, I go, what's the deal? And they're like, well, if they're under eight, and she is, she's seven, or soon to be seven, and they need a little bit of a booster seat. And so I didn't know that. I was obviously, I'm going to put her in the center

between two adults and all that stuff. But, and she's big. She's just not, you know, not that, apparently not big enough. And I was like, okay, well, that's good to know. And they were like, oh, you're a couple blocks away from your house. We'll get you home, and then we'll have a booster seat. And we have booster seats that are normal cars.

But for me, Waymo's like, can I get to this taco stand that's four blocks away? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Maybe that's a big and a bad parent. I don't know. It's like, they're the safest cars. I was literally put on my friend's stepfather's Harley Davidson when I was eight. Oh, dude.

Like, you were being such a good pair. The fact that your kid has a seatbelt on and you were like, put them between two adults. You're so far ahead of the game. You know what my dad used to do? My dad used to be like, we had a truck with an open back, you know? Oh, yeah. And we'd go to the grocery store and he'd be like, the lab would jump up in the back. Yeah.

And so the lab had no freaking thing. I was just to stick his head out. Oh, yeah. And if we get a car accident, the lab's freaking chucked out of the back. And my dad would be like, okay, lay flat so no one can see you. Oh, maybe. And I would just like lay flat being like, oh, it's fun. Yeah, yeah.

You're way ahead of the game, Kevin. So crazy. Yeah, you know, I have to worry about that. But you know what? It's both creepy that they scanned my kids and estimated their body. But at the same time, I'm like, no, that's kind of cool, you know? Yeah. I mean, it's, it's, it's cool.

I mean. Well, it's not like they're saving that data or anything. It's more just sort of like, the thing goes, ding, that was a small person. Yeah. It also could have been, you know what it could have been? You know what it could have been? I bet you're just 20 bucks. It wasn't scanning for kids.

I bet you was scanning for a pet. Because you can't have pets in the waymo. So I bet you're 20 bucks. It went, this person has a dog. No, dude. No, I think so. And then they went to the cameras and they were like, oh, no, it's a small child. Dude, no, no, no.

There's LIDARs in that AI knows that's a kid. It's not like, wow, it could be a dog walking on two legs, which circus dogs can do. Like, it's not thinking bad. We all know circus dogs can do that. Puddles can do that, for sure. It'd be great if it was just a Dexascan. And by the way, I guess you'd probably lose some weight. Yeah, it's like, Alex, we can smell the whiskey, and we've noticed that you've said indignation that you are doing cardio, but our estimate is you are not.

We noticed indignation that you said you're doing cardio. But you are not. I mean, it's the future. It is the future. I mean, look, we're going to get to that future, right? Where you're going to be going to be going to be like, hey, we found a tumor. You need to go see a doctor when you get back to your place. I'm just saying, it's going to be that fast.

It'll be like, be like that. Hopefully not at the airport. I'm just thinking of places where you're going to get here. You're going to get a flight to Vegas, but, you know, you got a tumor. Yeah, you should sit down over there. Your aneurysm is going to go. Yeah, it's horrible. All right.

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Trinkety. Well, trinkety. Lego-e slash nanoblocky. Yes. By the way, another thing that Heather and I got from her brother. Nano blocks. No, we got a Lego. Which ones? OnZi.

It was the Japanese maple. Yes. So we're going to make the Japanese maple. Dude, Nova, my youngest, has made the whole maple. That's crazy. We're going to do it. It's so fun. I know.

I'm so excited. So Lego news. You know what goes good with that? It's like a glass of whiskey on the side. In February a channel. So Lego. I love how much you wanted me not to drink it. I want you just so bad.

Okay. So Lego has announced the smart brick. Now they've had like smart things in the past. You know, where like you can make it into one that actually you put a button and then actually turns a little car. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So this is completely different.

This is something that they're calling the smart brick. It comes out this spring, and they're rolling it out with this new Star Wars collection. Ooh, fun. And this will be an update that adds, like, interactive lights and sounds to the Lego experience. A lot of people that have these add-on kits. I don't know if you've seen these. So you can buy these third-party kits for, like, some of the Star Wars stuff. Like the Millennium Films.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And they, like, add these, like, little tiny lights and, like, makes it look, like, amazing. Okay. But it's always been a third party out. I've had a buddy that went down this rabbit hole and, like, decked out all of his Lego kits to make them, like, mood lit and shit. It's like a whole thing. But here's the crazy thing. So I did a little bit more research.

And the one thing about these kits, so this is what it says. It's going to be launching on March 1st. It's these smart bricks. But they are these tiny brains that are built into a two-by-four brick, and they sense motion, orientation. light, nearby magnetic fields, and mini figures, and then it triggers context-appropriate lights, real-time sound effects, and behaviors. They have a custom 4.1 millimeter ASIC chip

that runs a play engine using accelerometers, sensors, and coil-based tag recognition, and a brick-to-brick-to-brick positioning system. Brick-to-brick. Something called the Bluetooth Bricknet with no hub required. and they charge wirelessly. So this sounds,

I don't even know what that means. No, I don't know what half that shit means. I understand what each of those means in isolation. Yeah, yeah, yeah, but what does that mean? I know. It sounds really cool, though. I mean, it sounds like you're going to be able to like pick your Millennium Falcon up and when you do it, it'll go and the lights will turn on and, you know what I mean?

Like it would sense is motion and. But wouldn't that be one accelerometer in the build? Why every block? Not every block. No, I think there's a few of these. Yeah. And I think the Bluetooth probably is like you could have like one on each side. Yeah, but also like you, it sounds like the mini figs as they get close.

Yeah, see, that's what I was saying is creating is a self-organizing Bluetooth bricknet. Self-organizing. It organizes itself. Well, clearly. So you don't have to put your Legos away. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That would be the ultimate. Oh, my God.

And all my kids Legos are out. I'm like, go bricknet. It's like, that's the dream. Go brick net. But I am so excited for this era of smart Lego. Like, and not in the sense of just, like, make me a car that goes, but understanding the positioning of things and, like, unlocking, like, the internet of things as part of your, like, for example, that tree that you just got. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, there is a world where those are aware enough to know, it's daytime, it's nighttime, it's night time, let me shade the actual tree leaves and this color or whatever.

Like, that's going to be amazing, right? As it gets into fall, it knows that it's turning into fall. Like it deactivates the magnet and one drops off. You're like, oh, a little pedal fell. And then by the winter you have to like put it back up. Yeah, no, it's great. I love that. Lego.

You guys seen Big Hero 6? Yes. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's what I imagine. Exactly. All of them assembling. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's Big Hero 6 in Lego form.

Oh, my God, yeah. Microbats. Yeah. That's amazing. I'm really excited about it. We started, another thing that we got was a jigsaw puzzle. A thousand pieces. You're doing a lot of old man shit now.

I love it. But to be fair, it goes back to this thing of the sort of self-care thing. Because one of the things, one of the big things was we watched this video, this Harvard professor, was talking about embracing boredom and how we need to embrace boredom. And that boredom is when your mind starts thinking of the self and starts thinking of the bigger things about what your worth is and what you're doing in your life. And one of the things that we're going to do in 2026 is no. phones will enter the TV room. So when we go into the TV room, we'll leave all of the phones out in the kitchen.

What if you have to use the Apple Remote on your phone? I have a remote. What if you lose it? Then I'll get my phone to tell me where the remote is. But you can't leave the kitchen. You'll just have to do it from there. Yeah, well, but again, the whole concept is don't have your phone.

Where the TV is. I'm just trying to see where the boundaries are. And then when do you start drinking out? Like, Kevin. You're like, someone's calling me, but I can't leave. I got my drink. So, anyway, so, but part of that is we don't have to necessarily always just be like, okay, winding down, let's go sit and watch TV.

It's like, okay, winding down, let's go finish some pieces of the puzzle. Let's go build the Lego. Let's do the woodworking class. You know what I mean? So we're trying to kind of add things to our life that is. And the puzzles, it's intense, man. It's hard and annoying, but fun. Yeah, I mean, I think this is the future, dude.

As much as I love technology and I geek out and I stay up late working on stuff, the depth of peace that comes from learning how to sit with yourself without having to do anything is so real. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It really is, dude. But it has to be cultivated. It's not easy shit, especially when you've been, you know, on video games since, you know, on freaking all the things that have been doing all the stimulation.

It does take a rewiring. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's really hard. It's hard. My biggest, I think I've even talked about this because we kind of took a little bit of a detox in it, and it was really helpful. But my big thing was watching TV and then when the ads come, pushing mute and immediately opening reels on Instagram, just gone like this until the TV's back.

And then sometimes to the point where I find myself going to the phone during the show and then end up pressing pause on the show for five and ten minutes. And it's just like, that's not healthy at all. I just want to make sure because I have so many overlapping conversations, did we talk about other rewriting movies for per second device? No, but I saw that video. You saw the video, right? God damn it. And it's so true. Do we talk about that or no? Do you remember?

I know that TV has a writing style that makes it clear what's happening on screen. Yeah, they wanted basically, the edict has come down. Like, if two people are having a normal conversation, they're clarifying like what they're picking up or who they're talking to. Right, exactly. Or that less passive experience. So they're rewriting scripts to re-say the same thing over and over because they have to assume you're not looking and you're doing this. And so they're like,

I can't believe that you slam the door that hard. And you're like, didn't they just say that two minutes ago? And you're like, it's because everyone's like, oh, dude, it's sickening, dude. What are we doing our brains? Oh, it's so bad. I mean, the dopamine,

you basically get numb to the dopamine hits that you get. And then the stuff that gives you the normal dopamine like good friends, love, great food, you know, good music, all that stuff, you don't get the same level of joy out of those things anymore because you're numbed to the amount of dopamine that you're used to getting in your brain. Right.

It's really, it's really, yeah. I mean, that's the whole thing with the, I've talked about this before where we used to, you know, the kind of like moments when you were in grade school and you had a friend that laughed so hard, they like shot milk out of their nose or something. Like those were like moments that happen like every week where you'd be like, oh, that was that funny thing that happened. And now it's like, if I'm not laughing my ass off within the. first 30 seconds of looking at like my phone. I'm like, why is this thing not making me laugh?

You know, and it's like, those used to be special times. Yeah, yeah. And I was like, entertain me, you know, it's crazy. It's really funny. We, we, we, I have a good group of, uh, there five of us. And we got, I'm sure we talked about this. The TRS guys and a couple of their friends, but we go into, to Palm Springs every couple months or every twice a year, hopefully, sometimes once a year. And just do this weekend where we just like, eat junk food, play board games, and the number one thing that happens is we're just laughing the entire time. It's the best. It's literally four days of side-splitting laughter. And then also just talking about life and troubles and all that stuff, which is great to talk through

with other people that are on different paths. But it's like that stuff, you know, you don't want to dull yourself to that stuff. Yeah. Because that is the stuff. That is the stuff. Yeah. You know what I mean? All right. All right. End of the episode. Let's talk about. No, I'm kidding. I'm kidding. The end. The end.

On a happy note, Garmin Autopilot lands small aircraft without human assistance. I've watched this. I read it. I've watched the videos about it. Assisted by Emil. First off, planes have been able to fly themselves for a long time, right? And, you know, most commercial aviation, there's very little that is now handled by actual pilots. They're mostly there in case of issues, but when they're going to go change directions and change altitudes and all this stuff, they're just turning a dial of a setting for autopilot and all that stuff.

Well, Garmin has for a while now has had this technology built into their planes that is an emergency auto landing. And essentially, the way that it works is when the Garmin determines that the pilot is non-responsive, So specifically for general aviation where you have a single pilot, right? Like if you have a pilot and a co-pilot, it's not as much of an issue because that's why the co-pilot is there. But in general aviation where you have single pilot planes, if the pilot is incapacitated, for whatever reason, faints, has a heart attack, passes out. Watching reels. Watching reels.

Whatever it is. The Garmin will, A, either automatically detect that there hasn't been inputs, that the pilot is, you know, not attentive. or B, this can be turned on automatically, which is what happened in this situation. But essentially what it does is it looked, because it's got all the charts in the GPS. Right. So it looks for the closest reliable airport.

It starts navigating the plane to that airport, and it has all the landing procedures and vectors in the charts. It also has all the frequencies for the towers and all the frequencies. So what it does. You listen to the recording. Oh, yeah, yeah. It's like this, it's going on my, my, my, my, my, pilot is incapacitated. Yeah, we will be landing in 10 minutes. I know. And it literally just

starts doing this automated call to the tower frequency. Right. And it allows the tower or other aviators in the area to avoid and, you know, get out of the way. This, and it, and it was able to vector in. It counted down. It landed. It rolled onto the tarmac and shut itself off. This was the first time that this service had ever been used in practical real-world application. It had been testing, but this is the first time. So what happened was there was a depressurization, an unforeseen depressurization of the cabin. Right. For people that don't know, you have like what, 10 seconds they could put your mask on? Yes. Now the pilots did put their masks on and were fully conscious through this entire process. Oh, they faked it. No. What happened was

they lost radio contact with the tower. They could not hear what the tower was saying. So they chose with the fact that they lost, they lost oxygen, the fact that they lost the ability to communicate with the tower, they chose to activate the automated system. Oh, I'd activate it every time. And because the automated system was activated, they chose not to override it. Yes, you can use it whenever you want. And not get in trouble? Well, yeah, it's an emergency. I mean, when they show up, you can't just go, I just didn't

want to land it. Yeah, that's what I was thinking. I mean, you could, but maybe you'd just be like. Because I don't like flying, I'd just be like, all right, just take care of it for me. I mean, that's called having a pilot. Kevin, at that point, you should just hire someone to fly you. Rather than be like, computer, take me to the thing. Fake a pass. I'm going to hit the button.

And then just land and go like this. Oh, hey, guys, we get in? Yeah, exactly. But so this, but it showed that, like, this is the exact type of stuff that general aviation that all aviation has, and really is like, we should be using general aviation more. I really do feel like it. And there's some companies out there that are really like skyrise is one. I talked about it many, many, many year, or like a year and a half ago. It's the one that's changing all the controls, surfaces and the computer fly-by-wire brains for

helicopters. They just put one in, put the one in a black hawk. Oh, crazy. Oh, it's crazy. Because it's like there's no pedals anymore. It's all autonomous. Oh, wow. It's great. Like, would you fly in a black hawk? Would you buy one? yes no are you kidding me if i had the fucking skyrise and i had a black hawk it would be so fucking fun i'd be like let's go everybody pile on the black hawk we're going to palm springs oh my god you you're so different than me i love it man i want it i'm on it well i'm looking at right now what they support they actually have quite a few models that are there so here's the interesting thing i knew they had it on this serious vision jet yeah and that was like i think it was a first jet that

they added on but they're adding it to the honda jet which is kind of awesome yeah They're adding to citation, King Ayres. Oh, the Pilates. Yeah, Plattas. Oh, wow, that's the crazy one. So for, yeah, the Plas, isn't that the most, like, reliable plan ever known to ever exist? So the one of the big problems is that a lot of CEOs and businesses can't use it because the insurance won't. Single engine.

Because it's a single engine. But it's supposed to be the most bulletproof of all, though, right? Yeah, yeah. But, again, it's hard for it to be insured because a lot of, like, the business people need to have dual. engines for redundancy if the CEO's going to fly on it. Wow, crazy. Well, I'm excited for this future. For me, the ultimate would be to have some type of drone with the redundancy of like if one goes out. Yeah, so like the like Jobi, we talked about Jobi or archers and all the one that's doing stuff where it's got like the quadcopters are like the eight or six

blades and it's got the redundancy. If any of them pop, they can still land like two or something like that. So you know the the parachutes they have on some of these planes now, right? Yeah, yeah. Seriously, we talked about that. Years ago. Yeah, so my buddy, Chris Hutchins, one of his best friend, engine failed. No. Out of the middle of the woods, popped the freaking parachute, survived, no problem. Didn't get hurt.

Parachute came down, landed the plane. No issues. They did, so they banned his license because they have to buy default one because they don't know if it's pilot air or not. Okay, okay. And then they did an investigation. Yep. Like four months later came back and yes, it was the proper engine.

failure, not his fault, but got his license back and all that saved his life. It's crazy. Isn't that crazy? That's crazy. It's freaking cool. I mean, that's literally what it's called caps, I think, in the Sirius Vision Jet. It wasn't a Vision Jet, it was a prop. Yeah, yeah, yeah, the... But the Vision Jet has the same thing. It's the only jet with a parachute. Yeah, I love that Vision Jet. It's so cute. Yeah, you know what's funny is I talk to, I know a pilot friend of mine that flies jets and has a

plane, and he goes, there's only one problem with the Vision Jet. He goes, everyone thinks it's so cool and it's cute and small, And it's, you know, for jets, it's affordable because it's like one and a half or two million bucks or something. And he goes, the issue is that it, like, you want to get above the turbulence and it can't get that high. It's not rated to go that high. And so he goes, if you go on anything longer than like an hour flight, you're always

in the bad weather. Oh, wow. Because you can't, because the range doesn't quite get you. Exactly. You can't get to the sweet icing. Yeah. Slick icing. He's like, that's the only problem with that jet.

He's like, it just can't get high enough. So anyway, I hate it. You guys think there's ever going to be a point where pilots are kind of like cocoa delivery drivers where they're not on the plane? They're just piloting from remotely from some centralized place. Ooh, that's a good question. I mean, that, yeah, I think that's going to be happening for sure. I mean, I think also it'll be a mix, right? Like, I think it'll be like Waymo.

It'll be like, it's autonomous. But if there's any question or if anything gets a little spicy, then a pilot can take over remotely for sure. Sure. Skyrise actually does that now that I think about it. They have an automated version where they can fly it from remotely. Yeah. Yeah, it'll be like the way model. Kevin, we noticed you brought two bottles of champagne on board, and you are the only one flying. Are you okay? Would you like this to takeover?

Yeah, yeah, exactly. Sure. Yeah, exactly. See you in Boca. Yeah. Oh, my God. All right. All right.

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Remember one was like quarter? I think it's still is sometimes. But normally it's crappy. Anyway. All right. So let's keep going. I love you. You just knocked kids lemonade.

No, but normally I, I, no. Normally it sucks. Anyway, let's move up. I get headaches from aspartame. I get headaches from aspartame. Like, I don't know why. Interesting. And I was driving by this lemonade stand and this true story.

And I wanted to be cool and I had like a buck on me. And so I gave me like doll. And they would say it was like that, um, that shit that like, you know, the stuff that has the Aspartame in it. Like the, what's that stuff called? Crystal Lake. And so I was like, and they gave it to me, and they're like, look at me. And I'm like, you're like, hmm.

So I felt bad. But anyway, this is going to be legit lemonade. Amazing. All right. So there's been a flurry, if you will, of announcements. Smattering. A smattering of announcements out of everything. Yes, Amazon re-ramps its fire TV.

So there's a full on TV. Oh, not the fire stick. It is a stick in the TV. stick built in. Oh, nice. And so this is called, it's called their art line, which is a frame TV.

Oh, they're doing the frame TV. They're doing the frame TV. Oh, that's interesting because I was going to get one of those to put over the fireplace in the living room. So a couple things. One, they've revamped the whole UI,

so it is beautiful now. It doesn't look like Amazon-y. I don't know how to explain that. I know exactly what you mean. Amazon-y. It looks super sexy, and they have 2,000 different, like, wallpapery kind of backgrounds for you to choose from, which if you, so I have the Samsung other one.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And the frame TV. The frame, yeah. And it's like, dude, I hate it because you go in there and they're like, here's three free frames. And you're like, oh, that one was cool. And it's like, sign up for our $10 a month wallpaper rental service. And I'm like, what? So I'm really hoping this is going to be awesome.

I did a little bit more deep diving into this one as well. And I asked it, you know, how is it better than the same? Samsung spec-wise. It says it's a trade-off. Samsung, the frames generally hits higher brightness and the premium frame pro uses the Neo-Q LED, mini-L-D, which has

much higher HDR peaks. Interesting. Reported at 590 nits. Whereas the Amber, Amber Artline is a 4KQ LED quoted up to 450 nits, but it also adds Dolby Vision, a

matte anti-glare screen, and more frame color options starting at a much lower price yeah what are the prices did it say yeah well real quick to finish that I thought if you care most about HDR brightness and contrast Samsung likely wins if you want Dolby vision a matte art display and a cheaper stylish option the ember is attractive so it looks pretty awesome it starts at let me pull this up here oh I have an action this tab here the price point that it was starting at was actually pretty reasonable. They were saying

it was, I want to say, 899 that it started at or something like that. Shoot, I do not have it. Oh, here it is, yeah, 899. So it comes in 55 and 65 inch options starting at 899. That's not bad. Oh, it looks good.

It looks really good. Oh, I like that. See that math? Like, you would never know that's a TV. Yeah, I love that. Granted, it's in a position where no TV would ever be. Right, but it doesn't look like a TV. We got to send this to Matt because like, you're like, who would ever put a TV there? That's like no TV should go there. But anyway, yeah, it's cool. I'm finally there's some competition to that frame. So there was, so high sense makes one, uh, two, uh, that they do. Yeah, that I've

been looking at, uh, and they have it at Costco periodically for cheaper. And I was like, because again, I don't like that because the high sense one has like a couple built in like 500 or 300 built in, uh, images, not that. $2,000 with this one. That's crazy. I love that. But I love that we act like that's a big deal. It's like they're just wallpapers.

We're like, can you believe it has 2,000 wallbevers? Because Samsung charges you monthly to be able to put a freaking picture in, like, the whole point of it is that it looks like a painting. Yeah, yeah. You know? And so, anyway, I'm, I could be a buyer. Yeah, same. I could be a buyer.

Fire TV. I'm going to see if it was already for sale. I think it's just an announcement right now so far. I haven't seen it on their actual website yet. No, because you have to do, what's it called the art? Yeah, art. What's it called? Art TV.

Anyway, art line. Art line. Oh, the high sense is the one you were looking at. That's got great reviews. Yeah, and it's 800 bucks for the 55. Yeah. Well, this is exciting. I'm all here for it.

I like, Apple TV is still my default. What is your default? Apple TV, is it? Yeah. It's just so easy. So if you, like, give me your setup just out of curiosity. Like, for me, I do YouTube TV. for streaming TV.

Interesting. And for me, because it's like, it's an app built into Apple TV. I get high-res. I use it mostly just for basketball and stuff so I can get like the basketball thing. Yep. And then I would say my go-to,

if I want to buy a movie, it is on Apple. Yep. Because, I don't know. It's just right there. But then I'm kind of worried because if I ever move to a different ecosystem now, I've got all my...

I don't buy a ton of movies, but I probably have 50 or so over the years. I don't know how many you have, but like... I don't really buy movies. I rent movies. Yeah, when you have kids.

Yeah, totally different. Then it's like, you know, you're going to be watching the Grinch every year for the last next decade. You're like, you're going to buy it? Yeah, smart. Do you know, gosh, you know that movie, the Rudolph of the Red Dose reindeer from like the 40s or some shit? Like with this abominable snowman and shit.

Yeah. Do you guys watch that recently? Yeah. It's got some stuff that doesn't age well. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Like the head reindeer was like talking about him.

He was like, you stay here and keep the women safe while we go out. like it's got some shit where you're like oh damn like they're they have some like you know it's that era yeah it's definitely that era yeah it's crazy to listen to some of that stuff i know it's crazy to listen to some of that stuff nobody wants a charlie in the box yeah yeah that's one of heather's favorite movies we have it on DVD i think we bought that one yeah yeah we do yeah what's your setup we do spectrum hmm but it's because heather's mom has spectrum cable and so But we manage it because she's, you know, old. You're getting it for free.

Just say you're getting free. So we just log in as, so that's where we get, like, football and all that side. I have Netflix, too. And then I would say for us, it's like if we're going to buy a movie or rent a movie, we do it through Apple. Why not on Amazon? Because it feels like you're going through a device to a secondary app to then buy a thing on a set. It's like why, I feel like we're jumping through those. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I feel like if I was on an Amazon TV, I would buy it on Amazon. But I feel like I'm on an Apple TV. I should watch it on Apple TV. Plus we just watched Plurbus, which was great. I haven't seen that yet. It's great. Number one movie you own that you would not give up. You can never watch it again.

Wait, can never watch it? All your movies are going away. What's the one that you want to keep to like keep forever? So I'm a really bad person to ask that question because I love to watch shitty movies. I do too. Over and over again. Yeah.

That's the question. What is the shitty movie that you would never give up? Mine is a shitty movie. Mine's Anchorman. I could never not have Anchorman as part of my collection. I get that. It's just like there's, I know that I've overwatched it now and I probably won't watch it for another like two years. But when I do, I will absolutely love it.

It's just too good for me. Yeah. I watch the movies that I see myself going back to and watching, this is just sounds so weird. And I wouldn't say this is like my favorite movie or a movie that I couldn't live without. Yeah, but you like it to put on the background. Jack Reacher. I didn't know what that is. With Tom Cruise.

It's just cool. Wait, is that the one where he like forever and tomorrow and getting to it? No, that's another one. I've watched that. Yeah. That one's great. Yeah, Live Die Repeat. Because they had a different name to it for.

Ender Tomorrow was what it got released as. It was based on LiveDi Repeat the Manga. And then they changed it back. Dude, I got to watch this. Is it good? Jack Reaper. Jack Reacher. Yeah, good.

Jack the Reaper. You'll like it? Jack Reacher. It's cool. It's like a cool little, I mean, it starts a little intense, you know. 64% Rotten Tomatoes. Are you sure? No, forget Rotten Tomatoes. Alex Tomatoes. You don't want to look up Anchorman's Rotten Tomatoes.

Yeah, right. It must be amazing. Okay. Actually, I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I just imagine all our favorite movies don't have great Rotten Tomato scores. Legend of Ron Burgundy, Anchorman, Rotten Tomatoes, 66. See? Dude, who gives that at 66?

six. Okay. It happens. All right. Speaking of being old. Yes. Anti-aging injection regrows knee cartilage and prevents arthritis. What? I didn't even see you pick this. Stanford study submitted by ComDak. So...

ComDac's back. Comdacks back. This to me... This to me is like... I'm so, so excited because it makes me feel like the thing that I think we're 20 years from, you know, it's 20-26. I'm going to turn 30. 50 this year, which is crazy to me. That's crazy.

Yeah, you're right behind me. No, I'm not that. I'm further back. Right behind me. I'm further back. Right on my hails. Are your knees as well? Yeah, on my knees.

And it's starting to get back into the gym and get back working out, which I haven't done. Are your knees hurting? No, thankfully, but knock on fucking wood. Is anything hurting right now? My shoulder a little bit? Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. Which I'm going to do acupuncture with the Chinese lady. This is great.

But so this group in at Stanford. What did they use? Tell me the compound. I probably know it. Okay, so, well, so. So it actually is a protein blocker or an anti... Yeah, it's a protein blocker that blocks a protein called 15 PGDH, which is the protein. And it's the protein that happens, that gets generated as your cartilage is being degenerated.

Oh, interesting. But the thing that's crazy is they injected this protein blocker into the knees of rats or mice that had uh cartilage uh loss and uh um arthritis yeah arthritis and the crazy thing is it didn't just stop the degradation it actually increased and started regenerating the cartilage in the knee it's just in rats in mice yeah but it has oh jeez what but it's we've cured cancer and dementia and everything in mice and rats that's a problem dude you don't know if it's going to translate to humans but it's starting they're doing Because they have a mouth one that they're doing, a mouth one, a pill form. But the crazy thing is, this is the only medication that they've seen that can actually help the symptom or help the problem of age-related arthritis and cartilage adeneration instead of just masking the symptoms.

So that, you know, all the other things that we can do. But they say that in five years to 10 years that we might be not doing knee and hip replacements anymore. because we'll be able to actually like inject a curative thing for knees and hips. Godspeed. Like we need all the things. You know what I mean? Like we're starting to get to the place where it's like I feel like we're, I feel like we're at the age where we got to see the birth of sort of digital technology,

the internet, all this cool stuff. And now as we're aging, I think we're going to start to actually capture the technological flow of medical innovation. Yeah, yeah. So that our version of, of being an old asshole is gonna be a different experience than the old assholes of today. I think if AI continues to do what it's doing,

meaning that the rate of knowledge, accumulation, acceleration, and understanding of genome, biome, all the gnomes. All the gnomes. We'll be in a really good place in 10 to 15 years, without a doubt. But this is very exciting. Dude.

Not this thing, well, this is sure it's fine, but like the idea, that this is going to be a thing is very exciting. There's a lot of shout on goals that I'm seeing right now. There's a bunch of proteins that are really interesting

work that's being done at UCSF with something called Clotho. Google Peter Tia Clotho. It's the only thing they put into primates that can reverse dementia. And it's naturally occurring in humans. I love all that, you know how we get it

when we sprint. So if you were to sprint and run, and we draw your blood, your cloth of levels would be super high. And then when they inject it into primates, they like perform 20% better at cognitive tests. But it makes sense. Like people that work out a ton

and do splenters, they don't get the dementia as much. It's a protective thing. So they're figuring out if we can synthesize it and put it into humans, what happens? Oh, yeah. And the cool thing is the downside there is like minimal because it's already naturally occurring in humans. Yeah, yeah. It's not like your brain, your body would be like, what the fuck is this? It's super exciting stuff. It's like, Jesus, are we

running? I want to do. It's just like, You put it in, you just start sweating. Right, exactly. They're like, oh, God, I feel like I'm running from a bumer. So it's pretty, pretty cool. Yeah, this next decade is going to be awesome. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm very excited.

I'm very excited. 50 to 60. 50 to 60. 50 is going to be the new 40, and then hopefully it'll be the new 30. Yeah, wouldn't that be nice? Yeah. All right. Oh, yeah, here we go.

Oh, yeah. Here we go. This is my last story of the day. I worded it wrong though I was writing in the script here so of course it is CES season yes which means that more smart fridges I have arrived

and we've talked about smart fridge to be smart oh get this one this is a new GE fridge it has a built-in barcode scanner and camera so you can go ahead and you can hold your empty bottle of soda or can of soda up to the

scanner and it will trigger an oil order to buy you more soda. Wow. It is $4,899 for the fridge, but it will help you do your shopping because anytime you're out of something, boop, scan and you get a new reorder. Does it connect? What does it connect to Amazon or Ralph?

I have to imagine it's going to connect to a service like that, a door dash or whatever it may be. But every time I load a page, it's like, do you want to pay $5 a month? You know that slide-up thing? I'm just like, I just want the article. Yeah, so I can get part of it So that's the part I got Anyway, I'm so tired of smart fridge

Dude, nobody needs that shit It's a fridge, it does what it does I literally, over the holidays This is a great buy I got this thing called a bird buddy Oh yeah, Heather has one I saw one of the thing on the Instagram I was like Kevin got a bird buddy

Oh my God, it's so great Yeah, so I got a bird buddy for hummingbirds And it's a little camera that sits there And you get a push notification When your hummingbird visits And I'm watching hummingbirds feed all day long but I'm sitting there and I'm out outside

and I'm like updating firmware I'm a hummingbird feeder and then I'm just like what the fuck am I doing I never thought like if you had told me like 20 years ago

like one day you will be updating the firmware and your hummingbird feeder I've been like what I'll find you're like no I don't I know I know but this is like that I'm like how many things do we need to update the firmware

I don't want to update my fridge I know you know the two things that always get me is you have to recharge your books and your weed pipes. Oh, that's so funny. These things that are supposed to be like, yeah.

Like the epitome of analog. You had your weed pipes? Well, it's like vapes, right? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like, how much weed are you smoking? We got to, we gotta, we gotta get those pipes charge. I said, ran out again. It hit it too hard.

But yeah, I mean, it's like, everything is a firmware thing. So it's funny, my, so my little sister, we did her, um, kitchen a while back, and they got a thermidor oven that had all the like Wi-Fi connected and like did all this stuff and it kept breaking they had to replace the motherboard three times and they're like it's a fucking oven I should just be able to turn the knob and the gas goes on and fire and you know and it's like it's like they were it was such a big headache and they were like we never use any of this the Wi-Fi stuff and my oven in the new kitchen it has Wi-Fi stuff it has an app I never use it I just use the

freaking dial. Yeah. You know, and it's like, I don't want my fridge to have to be, like, connected to the Wi-Fi in order for it to function as a refrigerator. I have one counter to that. Okay. I got a Camano Joe, one of those green egg things. Yep, yep. And I got the digital one. Yeah. Best money I've ever spent. Now, that's totally different. But you know why? Because the green eggs, and this is the red one, the Camado Joe one, they are so, they're finicky to temperature control. Because it's charcoal in there. You got to get the top vent right. You got to get the bottom vent right. You got to get the placement of the thing. That's my Zen right there. I love that. You love that. I love doing that. Okay. Well, how about this? I put the charcoal in, same charcoal.

Plug it in. It turns a heating element on. He starts to charcoal for you. Like, no big deal. Like, you can do that automatically. Fine. But now it has a fan underneath it. So all it does to say put it in slot one, slot two, or slot three, and it automatically perfectly temperature controls it. I'm doing pizzas on it. I did the most amazing rotissary chicken on it, and it gets all the great flavor depth.

I'm not compromising at all the source ingredients. All I'm taking away is the temperature, and I get push notifications with my phone. Love that. All the stuff. I love that. Now, this was funny. I had one of those trailer smokers a couple years ago,

and it was also a digital one. Yeah. And I fucking had to replace the motherboard. I had to do all this shit and the company with the trigger was like send it back we're not going to help you anymore and I logged into my router

and my router had sequestered the IP as a rogue IP address and it thought someone was trying to hack me and that's why it was broken and they replaced the motherboard and everything and it was my because I had a Cisco system at home which is fucking dumb I shouldn't have gotten commercial for my house

and it was like there's a rogue offender because normally it's like I see laptops I see phones and it's like a Trigger comes into the the office and it's like, I don't know who you are. Send me some packets. Yeah, exactly. It's like, what the hell is it?

Oh, God. It's so stupid. I have, this was kind of a one, two, three, four, five devices on me that need soft corruptives. Oh my God, I love it. I'm trying to think. I have one, two, I guess, three. One, two, three.

You ring? No, no ring. I don't do the, cock ring. I don't do the digital cockering. Yeah, those are, that's the new shit. That's the new shit. All right. It's like, Titan.

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Oh dude You're gonna love it Okay Last story of the day Ah This is an oldie buddy goodie Restaurant Known for scantily clad servers

announces comeback And uniform changes After bankruptcy this year Now it might be clear who we're talking about. This was submitted by Move 78. But Hooters is back. Like they've relaunched.

Are they still called Hooters? They are re-launching. It is still called Hooters. We're, Mal and I are still not quite sure why the article was so vague about not using the word Hooters in the title. It wasn't until the second paragraph.

Even the dig TLDR didn't pick up on it. But the image is a Hooters girl with a plate of wings. So, have you ever been to Hooters? A couple times, maybe like, 15 years ago. I, so there was a hooters in... More than that, me like 20 years ago.

Yeah, so there was a hooters in, uh, near my college. Mm-hmm. And we used to go all the time because the wings were fucking great. Right. Still some of the best chicken wings. And I love chicken wings. And I, some of the best chicken wings. And yeah, the ladies were wearing, like...

But you are also a fan of hooters. I am also a fan of hooters. But that doesn't mean that everybody that works at hooters has the types of hooters that I'm a fan of. Which is what type? They're hooters. Copious? That's what they're known for. I mean, they're known for their skimpy outfits.

And anyway, but long story short, they are re-launching it. They went out of business about 10 years ago, filed for bankruptcy. They're coming out of bankruptcy. I think there's a new owners. And they're going back to the original outfits, which were less sort of spandex shorts and, like, real drop tank I mean those original outfits are like 80s fab

like that's amazing yeah so they're like dolphin shorts cutoffs they're saying they're leaning more towards the beach vibe

a sort of more of like a beach wear kind of a thing and they're opening up in Ohio I think they're saying that they're opening in Dayton Mason

and Toledo I'm interested it's a weird brand because I feel like in 2026 does Hooters have to exist I don't think so, but there is a, there's brand identity. They make great wings.

Could you go to a hooters and be cool with it? Like, would you want to be like, seeing like, there's Alex at a hooters? And when you say it like that, no. There's Alex at a hooters. I just don't know that, like, dude, I don't want to go to hooters. I feel like maybe if you change, I mean, it's called hooters. Yeah, I don't know.

I don't think. Do they allow man hooters? They were always allowing men hooters. Were they? Yeah, they were called dude. Hooters. I mean, here's the thing. I feel like, because everybody, everybody has their own wing vibe.

So, like, I would always be like, I want good wings. No, but that's what I want. Yeah, but there's wings everywhere. No, but there's shitty wings everywhere. Nobody makes a good wing like theirs. You're telling me that Hooters are the best wings you've ever had in your life. Hooters was my go-to staple wing. I wouldn't get Hooters to go.

Why would you get Hooters to go if you wanted to go for the ears? That's a great point. You order Hooters to go, you weren't this there. We had Hooters, we would have Hooters delivered to parties. I'm sure you would. The wings? Well, the and the girls. No, I'm just kidding.

Yeah, the wings. But it's interesting. It's funny that that is sort of coming back into existence where it feels like, boy, there's a whole lot of reasons why it should have just stayed in the coffin, you know. Yeah, I mean, I like this idea of a beach-towny kind of vibe. Like, it's almost like. Yeah, like Dick Slash the Word or whatever. I don't know what that is, but the, the,

One thing I did like was like, um, uh, the old like roller skate kind of like drive-in car stuff, you know? Yeah, that was always cool. Like it was kind of a time and era. Like if they did this as more like a surf type thing. Yeah. And it was like covered up and it was like a like more legit. It was just like funsy like that. Yeah.

Like I don't know. But the name is what kills you. I mean, it's called Hooters. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. It's implied. Yeah. It's implied.

Anyway, well, we'll see. Uh, we don't live anywhere near Ohio. But if you do and you want to check it out, let us know. Is it, is it, do you have to still kind of like hold your head and shame when you walk in? Yeah. I always felt uncomfortable. There was a time where, like, for me, growing up as a kid, it was always like, oh, that's that place where that, you know what I mean? Like, I had that vibe.

And then you went and even then I was like, I almost felt like going to a strip club in some stuff. Yeah. Yeah. It was very, it was very strip club. Yeah. Anyway. Anyway, good times. Good times.

All right. Well, that is it for the first episode of 2026. So excited to have you with us. Yes. And it's good to see you, my friend. Happy 20206. Let's make it the best one of the years that we've had. That's right.

We're wishing you a lot of peace, love, health, and longevity in your kneecaps. Yes.