Fear& - We Should Talk About Cuba | Fear&

Episode Date: March 30, 2026

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He has bunch of numbers. Go ahead. No, no, Austin, this is your show, man. Go ahead. No, no, actually, will. If you notice, like... It's a nice arm. You might have noticed like...

You might have noticed I did civil rights at Del Taco. I'm supposed to be autistic. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another episode of the Fear and Podcast. And today we got a very special guest. It's Noah Colin, everybody. And Hassan was begging me to have, he wanted to introduce you because he's like that. No. He wanted to talk about exactly what you do and where you're from.

No, you're in a state of panic because you have no idea who Noah is. Are you kidding me? Noah and I are great friends. Old friends. You're a journalist. Yes, that's right. Yeah, he's a journalist. No Colwyn, former senior editor of the Jewish current.

You can just say editor, former guy. Former editor, Jewish currents, worked advice news, has a fantastic podcast that I always recommend call Blowback. Go check their episodes out. They had a wonderful one on Cuba, season two, which, you know, has been very, very relevant as of late. And my good friend, someone who's been on my stream probably a million times at this point, someone just kind of comes to Los Angeles and stays in my house. So I was like, hey, you're in my house. You do podcasts. You know how to yab? Come on the show. Must be really nice

going on his stream every once in a while. How is that? I mean, you know, it's, I like the attention, but I don't like a song. Oh, really? So it's like, I love the attention. I love the feedback. Oh my God. I love, I love getting the text. Like, Noah, you look so good on the stream.

Yeah. Who's that fucking bozo next to you? Why do you get that, uh-go in there with you? It's weird. So it seems like we, maybe if we have that disposition towards him,

maybe he would like us more. Yeah, yeah. You're not mean enough to me. He doesn't. Did he ask you to stay here? Did he ask me to, no, I invite myself,

every time exclusively. I only invite myself. I say, be in LA this like get the bed ready yeah like I'm not even gonna be here he's gonna be in my house like really I'm not even here tonight because I'm flying out yeah you're to New York to literally where I live yeah yeah we're we're all of all of my New York friends are here right now or they're in well I guess braces and C-pack but um which C-pack is where are they doing C-PAC this year uh like one of those layers of hell yeah uh regardless you know frozen one yeah you know

I'm going to what Noah called the Muslim Illuminati dinner. Oh, yeah. With like, Muslim Illuminati. Yeah, Zoran and all the Muslimadi aid, we call it.

But it's a great, it's a, it's a great event that I'm sad. I'm probably not going to be able to make it. Yeah, I wasn't invited. Well, you're not in like, they have standards.

Yeah. You're Lebanese. Yeah, I know. Yeah. And not even. Did you know that? No. Well, we learned something every day.

Yeah. Did you assume that when I walked in or you're like, oh, that's a white guy? I mean, well, you know, look, race is a tricky thing. Well, that's correct. You know, I, you know, and judging by your white skin, yeah, I did kind of assume. Well, a lot of people, a white guy. A lot of people. Judging by the white skin.

A lot of people assume that. But what you wouldn't know is I'm white passing. No, you're just white, dude. You can't say here. You can't say someone wouldn't know your white skin. I say I'm white and that's, you know, contested by others. Is this on Mike or White that most heated forum debate of all time locked? Yeah, but no one has ever questioned whether you're white or not.

No one's like, yeah, that guy, I'm going to, I'm going to do a hate crime on him. Oh, no, that's true. I have a tremendous amount of privilege. Yeah, I feel like you can hail a cab pretty easily. Wait, is that not a, is that a bad that I just? No, you're just so funny. You still, you're like mentally stuck. in like 2016 era woke?

What? Where you're just still there all the time and it's awesome? He's still with her. Well, I'm not with her anymore. Oh, no, I'm not with her. You don't want a woman to lead? No, I think that women can lead. Too emotional? Is that what you're going to say?

I think, I think, I think, I think women can lead. Uh-huh. Just not on their periods. Is what he told me off camera, by the way. I mean, she clearly, she was through menopause. But that, regardless, that doesn't matter. That doesn't matter. That's crazy. I mean, I'm stating the obvious here.

He's like, no period problem is there. But a woman, even if she was having her period, then she could leave. And I'd be happy with it. But the thing is, is what I've learned is, you know, I don't care if you're a woman. I just don't want you to be bought and paid for by the establishment. Oh. So you hate girl bosses. All right.

We have a lot of stuff to cover. Oh, yes. Tremendous of that. One of the topics that I obviously have to bring up. I know some people might not like it. A little political, but not really. I went to Cuba. No one's been to Cuba.

You've been to Cuba. Austin has never been to Cuba, which is why this conversation will be very interesting. And Austin will be blocked out of it. But yeah, I just got back from Cuba. We did a humanitarian aid mission alongside Progressive International Code Pink. We brought in 40 tons of medical,

aid on the island. I conducted a bunch of back-to-back interviews. And, you know, it's been pretty devastating to see our... I just didn't expect you to go in and suck up all the electricity, like retro from Spider-Man 3, man. Well, that's the real reason. Yeah, no, it is, it was, it was, it was, like, I thought it was going to be an issue when, like, you know, I got a call actually from, like, a Cuban diplomat. He was like, listen, like, like, we get it. Like, one gaming PC. I understand.

Two gaming PCs, like, look, we can kind of get it. It's his thing. But, like, listen, at three gaming PCs, like, we're going to have to turn off another hospital. No, they were like, I specifically was like, well, at least turn off the baby hospital because that uses less electricity than the adult hospital, so I can use it for myself.

I'll be honest with you. I saw you in your cardiac glasses in your $600 shirt. And the five-star hotel, I was like, why didn't I go? You know. It's interesting. Noa and I were talking about this. And we, I think, kind of all went to Cuba at, like, three different phases. Yeah. Yeah.

No, even I would say I went in a different phase in the sun. Yeah. Because I went there, I think 2013, 2014, which is like kind of the, you know, Castro is, like, dead for all intents and purposes. But they haven't really talked about it yet. He's, like, hidden away in his tower. And the United States isn't fucking with them yet. And so it's kind of like Cuba's independent. and then he was there, what, a month ago, two months ago?

Like two months ago? And the end of January? Yeah. And then you were there at, it's like very most dire. This is peak worst conditions. Yeah. And I've talked to people that have been in the past as well. Like, dude, remember when you were like, it's so beautiful?

Like I totally, you land and you're like, oh my God, this is like one of the most beautiful places I've ever seen. It's unlike anything else I've ever experienced, partially because like I haven't really traveled to the Caribbean or Latin American countries at all. like I've been to Mexico that says it's North America right so um I I was was taken aback by like how sick everything is like how cool how how wonderful the people are how beautiful island is um how beautiful the architecture is and then like right after when you start like moving outside of the airport and you start like getting into the city and you're like oh look at these cool

buildings you're like oh my god they all are like emptied out Like they're hollowed out like bombs exploded inside of them and you're like how the fuck this is this Like how do people live like this how did this happen and that was a big part of like what I wanted to figure out because everybody's always like oh it's the government is the government's doing this and that And then you know obviously it's something that I've I've read quite a bit about as far as like the blockade the sanctions And you really feel it like when you get there you're like damn we have really fucked this stuff Yeah, yeah. I mean, it's crazy for me because it's, I don't know if you know this, but my dad lived in Cuba as a kid. Whoa. For years and years and years.

What? Yeah. I did not know that. Are you? My grandfather was one of the mobile gas oil guys that was delivering oil to Cuba before they pulled everybody out. Whoa. And my dad was there when they pulled everybody out. And he talks about like how crazy that was to experience like, Going from a Cuba that was, like, so vibrant and, and loving that community in those people so much. Like, seeing them kind of, the beginning of them being choked out by, you know, American imperialism. I mean, well, it's also been a very, like, one of the things that has been really kind of jarring, at least on the trip that I took, was, you know, they, like, there's still, like, a semblance of normalcy.

Like, I was there when the Havana Jazz Festival was going on, which was incredible. incredible. And that's some hot jazz. Oh, it's incredible. That's sick. And like, these are bands that,

like, tour in the United States, by the way. Like, it's since the, you know, since the Obama thaw in relations,

there has been more, like, like communication and people go back and forth between the island and the United States and more money from relatives families

in the United States makes it into Cuba. Yeah. And it's like you, meaning that you can kind of see like a plausible, you have like a plausible idea of like, oh, here's what like what life here could be like. Yeah. If we didn't have this, if we didn't have this, if we didn't have this, if we didn't have like,

the idea of like a vibrancy, like being on the streets of that city and in that country is not that difficult to imagine. It's just that like you go and there's trash all over the streets. You know, there's no money for anything. The pharmacies are empty. It's a really, I mean, it's, it's, it's, there's, there's, I've, I wouldn't say that like in the spectrum of travel to, you know, like, you know, like, fucking like global like travel or expert or whatever that I'm anywhere near the latter.

But like I have seen a few different countries in the world. I've been to the West Bank. I've been to Latin America. And I'd never seen anything like it. Never seen anything like it. Have you ever been in Puerto Rico? Yeah. Okay.

Because I was looking at some images and it's like like, like I feel like there's a couple, there's a couple different methods in that, in this region, right? That like there's a couple different levels of like American intervention. Like you have Haiti on the maximum side, right? where it's like completely destabilized, you know, it's almost like a, like a different warlords competing for power at certain points. And in other points, you have like a corrupt puppet that America is installed. And then you have Puerto Rico, which is like territorialized and their grid is also failing as well. And that's like, you can see that like, you know, it's not like a capitalism versus communism, you know, systemic issue.

because like Puerto Rico is an American territory, right? And we've like caused tremendous hardships for regular Puerto Ricans. And then you see Cuba, which is like our intervention from. No bombs, no guns, no bullets, just economic warfare, pure economic warfare. And it's crazy because like, you know, there's materials on the island. They had a robust industry for sugar. and very quickly after the revolution, America was like, we're not buying.

It's over, like, you fucked up. And it didn't stop there, obviously. They have so much. What really frustrated me, aside from, like, the immediate hardships that I saw, you know, people having, people experiencing hardships with getting food. Everything is so expensive,

and their wages are so marginal, so minuscule. but it was the potential. Like we have robbed this 10 million person Caribbean island of like so much potential, whether it be arts, whether it be in the field of sports where they're still like thriving in spite of those odds, right? Bio-medical research. But like I just wish we could live in a world where we could see exactly what they would be

able to accomplish if we just weren't constantly. restricting everything. Well, it's so amazing that you highlighted this because a lot of people don't fucking know what's going on. In fact, I've got some messages from people being like, I had no idea what was going on in Cuba. Americans are completely oblivious to what's happening on a huge scale. I think it's a weird, I will never bet against American obliviousness

or ignorance of what happens outside America's borders. You know, it's just like it's our way of life. know what goes on elsewhere. I do think, though, I have a little bit, uh, I have a little bit of sympathy for us American cattle, though, because there's a lot of, like, it's, like, part of what Cuba's problem is right now is that it's competing in the news cycle, so to speak, against, I don't know, like, World War III. Yeah. Like, it's this, like, it's, it's, we have, we're at a historical inflection point with Cuba. There's never been anything like this or whatever. And it's like, if you turn on the news, quite reasonably, there's a lot of other stuff that's taken

precedent for, like, an American viewer. Right. I mean, Which makes this kind of work, this drawing this kind of attention that much more important. Right. But it's such a fucking, like, I, it's, one of the challenges that I felt like I've had in the last few months last year has been trying to get people to pay attention to it because of how raised everything is. Yeah, I mean, I mean, you got, you got Cuba, you got Iran, you got trans people and women's sports. I mean, it's just, there's so many things. Three issues of equal weight and, you know, like, terror. Right.

I mean, existential threats. Yeah, I mean, all around the world. Yeah. Well, you know, I'm really glad that the Olympic Committee hasn't seemed to do shit about the fact that, like, the Olympics are getting hosted in a country that, like, you know, will deport anybody for looking at a nice officer funny. But you know what they've made sure?

Oh, yeah. The sanctity of women's sports is protected. So all people that place fifth and sixth place can finally maybe get, have a chance. Have a chance. I have a treat. Gosh, darn it. That is a quality razor. I tell you what, Will, I happen to agree with you.

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But, you got us matching glasses. Well, I got, yeah, yeah. Well, no, you get nothing because you were already there. And I actually, I had bought some of these same things at the airport. Oh, my God. You shouldn't have a son. This is a, this is a baseball. Did you play stick?

ball like I asked you to? No, I didn't. Bro, I, because I literally, first of all, I landed and I was just gaming on my game. No. He was landing and we just landed and played league. Here, this is a baseball, a Cuba baseball from Cuba for you. Who's that? And then this is a Cuban cigar for Austin. Oh, I think that's for you, man. You shouldn't have. Dude, that was one thing I did when I went to Cuba is I brought like 30 baseballs with me. Oh, fun. And everywhere I went, I would like, give me a scouting mission. Yeah, no.

He was like, this is for the future. I was like, I'm taking you to the Dominican Republic. And we're going to put you in the MLB. I was doing a blindside mission. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I was on my Sandra Bullock. No, it's like that, for a kid. Yeah, it's like, it's like the butterfly effect where you're like, you never know.

Did I pass them off? I was like, I can't take this baseball. Well, now, like, that gives me an idea. Like, I would love to see like a Kenny Powers going to Cuba. like scouting mission. Yeah. And then, you know, now you have like some, some incredible baseball players that Will Neff has brought up to the rest of the world as a gift.

No one knows. They don't even know. Will doesn't know either. They're like, one day, there was these white men. He came up to me in the streets. I'm a little child. He said, take this baseball. And he garnished my wages for the rest of my life.

Well, this means a lot to me. thank you. I'm going to cherish it. Yeah, I got you a smoking cigar. I can't smoke them, but I love a cigar. Well, you know the rumor about Cuban cigars is that they're rolled on the thighs of beautiful women. Yeah, that is some of her. You know, I could have never heard that? Oh, yeah, I've heard that too.

No, Noah has a good. You know, as somebody who, like, like, I admittedly didn't enjoy a cigar at all until, like I tried, until I went to Cuba and had a good one. Oh, you really had me in that first half. No, no, no, until, no, because it was. was like, you know, I had cigars and it never, it never, like, clicked for me. Is it what, you know, like, oh, like, I'd be in the mood for this. Uh, but then somebody gave me a cohab and I was like, oh.

Yeah. I just, I didn't even smoke. I can't smoke in general. I just, I didn't, I didn't, honestly, I didn't do shit. Like, I, I, I literally, you know, I didn't do anything. Bro, I didn't even, if you're gonna get canceled for exorbitant at least have a fucking. No, it's crazy.

Like, I straight up, I didn't even fucking eat food. Like, I had, I had food twice. He just had tiniest, Yeah, I had that one tiny cofacito and everyone made a big deal about that, which is so crazy. Because, like, that was just at my friend's house. I was literally at, um, that was at my friend's house and, and they made me like a Cuban coffee. That's it. And everyone was talking about it.

Like, this was so extravagant, which is crazy. I'm going to when I went to Cuba, I purposefully, I was really on my fucking dictator shit. Like I, I had a huge beard. I was smoking cigars every single. day. Yeah. I was tossing baseballs to children. Remember these.

Do you think I would have been... Remember my face. Do you think I would have enjoyed it? No, you would have... You would have killed yourself. What? Dude. Dude, dude, dude.

First of all, like... I love... Oh, shit, it broke. I'll explain it like this. Oh, that does that. Oh, damn it. Hassan. Hassan.

What do you mean? What have I did? He gives it to you immediately breaks. You broke the gift that I brought to you from a fairly restricted, not often travel to plays for Americans. I think this would be fine. Okay. What does that mean?

What does that even mean? I don't know. It's not a chain anymore. It's just going to be. I'm going to have to. Yeah. Put in your mouth. Yeah.

No, no joke on it. You would have hated it. March and I talked about this, actually. Because we were like, thank God us and then didn't come. And honestly, I think Will wouldn't have enjoyed it either, to be fair. because like it is i think i would have just kind of split off and and it would have made me sad to go from what i experienced in my 20s to what i experienced in my 30s i think that would have been tough yeah it's first of all like there's just blackouts all the time yeah the the

the uh telecommunication system fails all the time like you have like we got cuba cell right you get like e sims we got the eeems and stuff but it's just like doesn't work right right right? And it doesn't work throughout mass parts of the day. So like there's no communication. Like it makes logistics very different. Like if you want to go like I went actually has on his story is like the one I'm about to tell. But when I went in January, I was like, all right, I'm going to go meet. I was going to meet our friend Marta, you know, an older woman who lives in Nevada who we interviewed for our show years ago and was going to get to finally meet her in person. And I was like, all right, I'm going to go to your house at like 637. I'll be there then. And so I assume,

you know, in the middle of the day, I'd had pretty good luck so far getting a cab let me tell you at a certain hour of the day that is not the ease of which you are able to get around and it's not like you can call anything it's you know you can like it's the the you have to I mean it's you have to if you want to like make sure that you've arrived to the airport for example like you've got to make arrangements with like whoever last gave you a thing and like try and plan ahead there's no it's it I mean it's very it's desperate I spent I spent like 45 minutes looking for a ride and I ended up getting like a like a guy on like a moped I think, you know, I think if I would have had the expectations of that going in.

No, no, it's unlike anything you've ever experienced here. One of the most burnt images for me in Cuba was we took a ride with a guy and it was the craziest shit I've ever seen. He had a 19, I don't know, like. Oh, like a 50 Chevy Chevy. Yeah, exactly. One of the craziest old cars, I'm not a car guy, so I don't know. But like, right before he started driving, he was like, hold on. And he had like a thermos of water that he held out the window while we were driving.

with a line to the radiator so he could so he could keep it like they can they keep those cars running oh yeah they do so they've those old cars and then the other car that you see um we this the guy who gave me and brend in a lift to the airport and who uh we had run it we met in a van on the street he had um he was from holland yeah or he had been living in holland for many years and he came back to cuba to take care of his mom and like his big passion project it seemed while he was back in cuba and probably how he got some income was he had an old Soviet lota like a like an old car in the Soviet Union. Yeah. And it was awesome. Like, you know, it's like very stiff. And I felt like if it got in an accident, I would have been like bisected. But it was legitimately like it's it's the like

they have such ingenuity in the cars they restore because the parts are replaceable or they can find what you know, because these were so mass produced and also because they're like seven years old. And they have no other option to. Yeah. None. So they have to find a way to fix this. There are, there are a lot of, like, that was surprising to me. Like, there's a lot of modern vehicles. Yeah, for sure. Like, it's not, I thought it's like all.

Just not enough for the whole population. Yeah, of course. Yeah. And there's, there's no, there's no, like, there's very limited gas on the island. Yeah. So at this point, it's been three months. No oil tankers have actually entered Cuba with the exception of like, this is how fucked up the American government is.

The American government has allowed oil transatlantic. for us to take place for private businesses. So there's private businesses on the island. Like some of the hotels, there's like four, I believe, that the American government allows Americans to stay in. Any other hotel you stay in inside of Cuba, and there's, you know, thousands of hotels in Cuba. It's considered potential military interference.

Yeah, you're like, they say you're aiding and abetting a foreign sponsor of terror. So you can go to prison for 10 years. And the only, yeah, one of the four hotels that we stayed in, That was the big thing. Like everyone was like, these hotels have, these hotels of power when the hospital's known. It's like,

yeah, who do you think made that happen? Do you think the Cuban government's like, oh, we love, we love making sure that our babies are dying in our free health care system. When people from abroad come to Cuba, they bring dollars.

They bring euro. They bring foreign exchange and foreign currency that, like, needs to circulate in Cuba so that, like, how the exchange makes it in, can then be used. to buy the other things from abroad that people need.

There is also like, like obvious, like, you know, you can, like, when you go there, this becomes very visible. But I can see it from the outside. People are like, oh, my God, you're going to stay in a luxury hotel while people starve. And it's like, there's a reason the power is on there. And there's a reason that they try to keep these businesses going because it's like one of the only functioning sectors of the economy, you know, barely at this point. Yeah.

And like the Cubans themselves, like, whether they're a fan of the government or not, it doesn't really matter. They are very excited the prospect of like tourists coming in because it's like literally the only time where they can make like a tremendous amount of money. Yeah. Um, for themselves and they're like, yeah, even if Cubans you talk to on the street don't love the, don't love the government and there's plenty who don't. Like they and they'll tell you, like the, the thing that is so jarring, at least to me is the extent to which, and I had this, I did have this thought when I was there. Like all of them are saying like, come back. Please come. You know, please spend your money here.

Like, please just be present in some form. Because it also feels like for a lot of the people who live in that country, they feel like the world has left them by. They feel like the, you know, like they've been, that's part of, you know, like they have insanely high emigration rates that people can go abroad and work to send money back home, et cetera. And for many people, you know, it's a very, like it weighs on them, like as human beings.

Yeah. Well, it's a very philanthropic thing you did. And I'm glad it was met with such ubiquitous praise. Yeah. I mean, I don't really give a shit about, I don't really give a shit about people being like, you're such a nice guy or whatever. Fuck that.

My goal was to address some of the major problems that people were experiencing and then, you know, talk about who's actually responsible for it, right? Because it's like designed in this invisible way where it is designed to invoke this kind of response in the population where they're like, what the fuck is going on here? Like the government is so incompetent.

I don't have food in my, you know, if I'm not able to purchase food, yeah, eventually I'm going to blame the government for it. And it's like it's super insidious bureaucratic sanctions terror that they've brought about this island. Trump needs a win. So ultimately, I think, you know, in a few months they'll throw McDonald's in there and call it a victory. Yeah. I mean, I don't. I mean, we've talked about this on the stream of a bunch, but in general, I do believe that like the biggest thing going for the Cubans is that like, yeah,

exactly that. Like Trump probably ramped up this Cuba shit just like he did in Venezuela because the last year he's been taking such a beating in the public. And it was like, well, I need some easy dubs. And when presidents need a dog... We're going to put a McDonald's in there. It's going to be great. Yeah.

There is actually a great movie. It's on Netflix called The Wasp Network. And there's like a Cuban defector scene and it's Wagner Mora. He washes a shore at Guantanamo Bay. And they take him inside and they're like, oh, what do you? You know, like they're welcoming him because you're a refugee. And so they bring him a McDonald's and he's. And he's like, I always wanted McDonald's.

Like we dream or like we dream like it was. And he's, you know, it's. They do have a McDonald's Bay, which is great. Really? Oh, yeah. Bro, we are. There's no symbol more. We are the synonymous with freedom than the McRoh.

Well, no, do you remember when? We are the fattest imperialist. OG, OG 2010's digital content memory, Benny Johnson's photo essay about Fort Hood. This was like a, it was a BuzzFeedster. from years and years ago, and he did like a photoist that was like, did you know they have fast food on American military basis? And it was like, he's like, they got Taco Bell.

They got chilies. Yeah. Like, isn't that nuts? Oh, my God. It's still got the OG like, it's still got the OG roof and everything. God, the barbed wire in front of me. I think it's so.

Okay, that's not the OG route. That can be. Those are old cars. That's a photo from the 90s for sure. No, no. I'm saying like, they still driving those cars around there? What's cool?

The 90s is OG. now. Yeah. Wait, it's open right now. Because the McDonald's now doesn't have that any longer. That's like the 90s McDonald's. So that's why I'm calling it the OG because we are OGs.

That that's, I mean, we literally ship, we drop ship Burger King trucks to forward operating bases. Like in the 1940s, we would like leaflet Japan and Germany and, you know, be like, you know, like welcome democracy,

like reject your overlords. Yeah. And now we're just dropping happy meals. Yeah. Yeah. Go home, GI. There are no happy meals for you. We gave the copies here. Oh, man, Will, I cannot wait to go see the Rolling Stones.

The Rolling Stones. Stop me up. Stop me up America. It's one of my favorite bands. Right. And I've been looking on Seat Geek. Oh, you have the app on your phone. Oh, that's right.

I love seat geek Because it's really hard Going through and looking for your favorite seat Thank God with seat geek All the seats are rated 1 through 10 So you know what you're getting And you know if you're getting a good deal or not Right

Right Right So when you buy your one seat You know that you suck What? I got friends Oh okay No no I meant on 1 through 10 A seat with a bad rating

You know that you're going to be sitting behind a post yourself. Oh, I hate you. I'm not saying that you're going to the Rolling Stones by yourself. No, I would never do that. Are you going to the Rolling Stones by yourself? Is this a cry for help? I kind of need somebody to go with me. I'll go. Yeah, but you know what? There's a tremendous amount of things that you can fight on Seat Geek. I was looking. I saw Demi Lovato, the Backstreet Boys, Chris Ableton, Morgan Wallen. Alex Warren, the new year means new artists are on tour, folks. Yeah, new artists like the Rolling Stones. To make it even better, you can use Code Fear 10 for 10% off your seat geek tickets.

That's 10% off tickets with promo code Fear 10. That's Fear 10. Well, yeah, we're not going to spend too much time on the, you know, more time on the Cuba thing. Wait, you guys did a wonderful thing. I mean, he did, he did, he did a wonderful thing. I know, I know, but I didn't bring aid. I went, I went for the cloud. No, I went for the cloud.

I went for the cloud. I just, no, I think it's, you know what I think it is, though? You know, like, aside from like the, the interest. in the American government and like whoever is more sympathetic to American government's interest in the media to be like to disparage this thing to like change the conversation away from like the, you know, on the ground conditions to like look at these guys. They're doing like a almost like a far like a poverty safari, whatever to belittle it. I think that the reason why there was so much like anger towards it is because a lot of people

have just gotten used to not doing things. So when they see someone doing anything, they go, oh, that's weird. And then they feel a little odd about it. Like they, they, there's like a sense of feeling immoral about like someone else that's just like, you know, doing something. So they immediately assume there's got to be some sort of cynical purpose for this. There's ulterior more, ulterior purpose. And I'm just going to disparage him so I could feel better about myself and my lack of doing things. And I also think they just fucking hate you.

There's that, too, for sure. There's that. I mean, you know, porcena no los dos. Like, I, you know, it's, you know. know, I, uh, the hatred also comes from that. Yeah. I think the hatred also, definitely not from a Pepsi commercial. Did you speak any Spanish way over there? Uh, no. I do not. I am, I don't speak any Spanish whatsoever. Well, I do. So yeah. Yeah. Well, yeah, you would have been great. Um, yeah. Anyway, let's talk

about something that Austin wants to talk about. Well, I have a great story for all of you. I, I, I, this, this ties back to something that we talk about pretty much every episode. Is this going to be the fucking airport? No, there's, there's a plane. There's, there's, there's, definitely was a a plane crash, but I was something else. I was going to bring up airports, so for sure. You can bring up the airports, and we can talk about my story later. No, we, this is your story. Oh, no, I had a specific story.

Okay, well, regardless, airport travel is, is, uh, almost come to a complete halt at this point, partially because of the price of jet fuel, increasing. It's like, it's like perfect storm, jet fuel and the TSA. And, and the TSA is under the Department of Homeland Security. Yeah, liquid. And there's this like gridlock in Congress, as there always is, about like the funding vehicles for the DHS. They don't want to fund ICE. They want to fund TSA, but they don't want to fund ICE.

So the Republicans are just been holding out on it. Maybe we can just have ICE do TSA. Well, that's what they. Well, what a brilliant idea. What a great idea. We're sending the agents. I mean, they. The finest we've got.

Yeah. And the images of. been insane. Because these are like the only people that are getting salaries at this point that haven't been fired from their federal government jobs. Also this is the only time I've been seeing all these photos of ICE people and they don't all have masks on. I don't know why they're

not masked in this situation. But it means that we saw that school shooter looking ass. That was crazy. That was crazy. Yeah. Seeing like 20 year old like ice agents that aren't fat yet was was a shocking image. That is true. It's like I should when I see that. I should.

actually in the future, thank you. I should in the future be thinking like, all right, you're 20 years old now, but I got to imagine you with like a stomach, you know, the size of the Gulf of Mexico. Yeah, so as you all know, I travel every single week.

This is your drip coffee. That's your cappuccino. I handed it to you. This is your ice. I got you this. This is vanilla oat. That's me. Huh? Is that the cappuccino? No, I don't remember. Order. Oh, okay. Great. Wow. Awesome. Delicious.

As you know, I travel every week. I fly out of plane every week. And I have been noticing a huge rise in airfare. I mean, it's suffocating. It is absolutely suffocating. I obviously, you know, I have to do it because I don't live here and I have to fly as a means of transportation. And you could. You could live here.

Yeah, but it sucks here. I don't want to live here. Where do you live? I live in Portland, Oregon. Oh, wow. Mm-hmm. And so anyway, I fly. I've been noticing the rise of air prices.

and the increase in wait times at security. But one thing I will say is that what's interesting is it is very much on an airport-to-airport basis. This is not being – airports are being affected disproportionately. You know, like Atlanta is seeing a lot of call-outs. JFK, LaGuardia are bad. Newark, however, for those listening, Newark has been solid. I'm from Portland. The Portland airport.

Yesterday I had an incident where I couldn't find parking. I was driving around for 25 minutes trying to find parking. I had to send Christian in with bags because I couldn't find a parking spot because the entire parking garage was filled to the brim with spring breakers. But security lines empty. But regardless, yeah, the DHS won't fund ICE, right? Or they don't want to fund ice, which is great. We don't want to fund ice. It's like the Republicans are kind of, this is, it's for the first time in a long time, Chuck Schumer's doing what he should be doing.

where it's like, they know that essentially everybody's blaming the Republicans for this and so there's some Republicans who are trying to negotiate like a TSA only funding package. What? He's just eating my fucking bagel. You're bagel. I'll have some bagel.

You'll have some bagel? No, would you like a bagel? Actually. How'd you know? I'm Jewish. I love me. Bagel and cream. I mean, this is the worst.

In L.A.? In L.A. Yeah. You're Jewish? buddy you don't even know the half of it oh yeah i mean i think that's wonderful no he was he was did you hear the publication that he was added yeah you were not even listening to what i was explaining i heard the publication were you an editor uh it's uh called uh jewish the jewish yeah i don't let him say it i don't let him say it this is the only time he's allowed to say because i'm how presumptuous maybe i don't know maybe you were what's true no no there if i was an editor

at super gay magazine. And I was a stray man. You'd be like, what the fuck inside are you going to get? I mean, I don't know. I always think that like you could be, just because you're not gay, though, you'd be a great coach. You'd be a great gay coach.

But I'm not going to be an editor. You could be. Yeah, but that's different. Like coaches, like, like, like, there are plenty of coaches that we see on football sidelines who are like, you never played football. It's, uh, you know.

It's like affinity magazine or something. Like a black lifestyle magazine. What am I going to coach the Jewish community? Yeah. I didn't want to assume your... All right, so today we're going to practice taking it easy. Not getting upset when we're cut in line. That is a great character, though, the Goym coach.

Well, it's like it's like a better version of the Shabbas. Once upon the time, Jews needed somebody on Shabbas, right? A Shabbas Goy. Yeah, to turn out the lights and, you know, light the oven, whatever. Now we need, it's more like a life coach situation. It's like, we need you to learn how to like count to 10, you know, not blow up. that village, you know, not yell at Hassan on the internet. That's not working.

Nobody, that hasn't stopped. Well, he hasn't started yet. We got to get Will on it. You got to get him certified. Hi, I'm Will Knaff. Back to airports. The other, the Republicans want to pass a thing. They're eating themselves alive for it.

I think that the big tell, though, like the sign that this will not go on for eternity, is that Delta this week. So airlines have specific congressional help. desks? Yeah. And Delta said we, because of this thing, we have to shut down our specific special Congress helpline. So get ready.

Get ready. There's going to be some chuds from flyover country who are going to have learned some hard lessons. That shit's going to pass so quick. Why the fuck do they need a help desk? I can, I call and I get on the line immediately. Brother, you understand that the American politician is one of the most

pampered animals on the planet. In addition, in addition, actually, but you know, we We know this about people in Congress. They're all very smart. Yeah. And they're very patient and conscientious people who absolutely, when presented with a line or a service situation, don't immediately say, I deserve special treatment. If there's anything we know about people in American politics, it's not that they demand

favors for themselves in every turn. They do in a not so subtle way. I guess it's like invisible to the average person, but they do kind of live like the way we perceive like a corrupt Latin American dictatorship. to exist where they got like platinum health care and they deny regular citizens that right that that amenity right they they get to travel like this and they can hire whom literally they ever they want also congress immune to foia you know they they're you know which is a not you know like i mean we've seen uh how effective some well look i'll also say this i you know who's to say there's a

causation but also when you get into congress you magically get really good at trading yeah yeah it's remarkable, really. They just they're trading all the time. Speaking of trades, you know who the greatest trader is, obviously. Nancy Benedict Arnold. Well, no, no. Nancy Pelosi's got nothing on the Trump family. That's true.

That is, well, we... Oh, insider trading. I love the, like, now how when there's like something horrible that's happened in the world, I'll get a rush of like positive feeling because I'll learn from news that somebody out there was able to make some money. Yeah. this horrible thing that happened.

Yeah, this is one of the craziest ones, because, like, obviously the war in Iran is unfolding in ways that the American government could not have perceived would be so poor. Like, it's not been going well. No. Let's just say that, to say the least, okay? Strait of hormones that is responsible

for 20% of all energy flowing through it is shut off by the Iranian government. And there's a lot of instability in the markets. However, in all of this instability in this crisis, there's someone out there making a lot of money. The other day, 15 minutes prior to Donald Trump's announcement that the straight of Hormuz had been opened and that like they were going to mediate and, you know, their talks were going to begin signaling that de-escalation is imminent. someone put in $538 million in oil futures and made, we don't know how much money they made, but just one guy, 15 minutes prior to that announcement from Donald Trump,

became like, you know, a couple billion dollars wealthier. Genuine question. Obviously, that's insider trading. But how do you prove it? That's exactly right. No, I mean, it is. No, I mean, it is. I mean, you know, this is insider trading is also like, insider trading is also one of these crimes that like, you know, like Steve Cohen, the guy who owns the Mets.

He got got for it in the years ago. Yeah. But on the whole, it is like, like what's the difference between insider trading or just being really good at your job and having, you know, an idea of what's coming down the pike? Well, let me tell you guys a little thing called the SEC, a federal regulatory agency that has a bunch of lawyers and a bunch of investments. like, you know, really smart guys who, who look at not only these unusual trades, which this would be. All I'm saying is if Vegas can figure out when you're playing advantage in blackjack, we can figure out when people are fucking betting on inside.

They can and they choose not to. Exactly. But what about, what about like, what if I'm using an encrypted messaging service or something and I'm saying? Have you been doing insider trading? I feel like you're going to. Are you like a billion dollars richer after this past week's events? What's going on?

We just find out he was in the room randomly. He pulls out one of those old school brick phones, burn everything. Look, I'm not saying I would inside trade, but I don't know how you'd get caught. You absolutely would do it. You would definitely inside trade. Me? Also, it's always the people who are, it's always, it's like, what I love is that when you do read, because, you know, they happen, like the insider trading prosecutions and stuff that do happen,

it is like, like when you read the blow by blow and then an indictment or something, it's awesome. It's always like, so this guy. was told by his cousin who works for a company about something happened. And then he told all of his friends and they all opened $50,000 positions at the same time. What am I supposed to do with that information? I get told, well, something's going to happen. What am I supposed to do?

Just sit on it. Well, it's illegal. If you do inside trade. How do they prove that that wasn't my intuition before? Make sure that your language is ambiguous. Make sure what's you say something like, what's your level of confidence? Yeah. Yeah.

Oh, okay. That's what I say to them. It's like taking notes. He's like, I don't intend to inside trade. How should I phrase it in an email? No, I would never inside trade, but money seems to be made. You know what actually I would make sure to do is like not just on like chat, GBT or Claude, but on like all of them.

Ask these questions. Like repeatedly. Yes. How do I get rid of a body? Yeah, yeah. And maybe even like in your Gmail, like type it out in drafts and don't send it, but like let it to draft save so you can refer to it later. Right.

Yeah. You know as being a bad friend right now. I'm being a good friend. I'm giving you, I'm actually, this is harm reduction. No, no, I make plenty of money and I don't need any more. That's why I look at these people and I say, look, you have billions of dollars. And I say, I have me some. No, no, like I, I am gay.

No, Lebanese. Satisfied. No, I'm, I'm, oh, man. Yeah. Oh, yeah. It is springtime. That it is. Which means more movement trips, eating out.

It means you got to stay more consistent with your health. That's right. And you have a man friend who is famously fruit and vegetable phobic. That's right. So how's he getting all the things he needs in his diet? Great question, Will. He uses what I like to call and what they like to call. And what we like to call.

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And these people have billions What the fuck more could you want Why can't you just you know Spread the wealth around a little bit more above? Others love you know I guess I don't know Anyway speaking of Speaking of immense wealth corporations, right? And a specific corporation, I go to quite frequently. It's a fast food

restaurant. I won't say it. There I want. Because I want to protect the workers. But I just wanted to share a story. Well, I'll get to it. I want to share a story that my message to the working class is starting to resonate. Okay. And my message has always been to do what you can and fight every transaction, fight against exploitative consumer practices, etc., etc. I went to a... Wait, can I clarify something for no? Because, like, you're using some words

that don't actually align with what you're doing. He thinks that the most revolutionary act... Not the most, but... What is, like, disheeding a charge? Yes. So he is... He's Mr. he's Mr. calling the manager

and he thinks that like every time he calls the manager over some sort of dispute like I don't know he didn't have the swan I'm sorry if you ever had an undercooked steak I just you act like these aren't problems I just need it

if he doesn't have like the proper origami swan towel perfectly positioned on the corner of his bed that's a lawsuit that's he's exaggerating he's exaggerating you have made No, no.

He's exaggerating. He's exaggerating. He is exaggerating, and he participates in what I like to call a shame culture. Well, we're going to let you tell the story, and then we'll judge. We have a shame culture around consumers advocating for themselves, and it is perpetuated by the capitalist pigs. All right, Lena Con, what did you do? Okay, so I went to this fast food place. It was a Mexican place, Mexican restaurant, fast food where they dish up.

Um, got it food for you. Like burritos and marito. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Could be anything. Right. So I go, go to this place and I, I'm, I'm getting a, a burrito bowl for myself. I'm getting a breederable for Christian. I'm getting a burrito for my friend.

I'm paying for everybody. And I get there and I'm starting to make my food. And the guy goes, Austin Show. Right. And I went, how are you? Good to see it. He's like, I'm such a fan of Fierrein. You know what I'm going to do?

I'm giving you my employee discount. Nice. I said, 50% off that's crazy I told him I said you know what you don't have to do that this is like $70 worth of food

you don't think it'd be 50% off he said no you know what Austin wait hold on two brutables 70 dollars have you been to I think he said a three three three chip I still

well we've got chips squawks soda I'm assuming I'm assuming that's fixed it's that's unbelievable well but that's how much it is God damn so he goes to me he says Austin I'm going to give you this 50% discount.

Sure. I said, you know why? Because you taught me to stick it to the man. Nice. So I just want to say that I, my message to the working class has always been, stick it to the man. Stick it to the man. Find a moment where you can stick it to the man and cut into corporate profits.

And that's what this guy did. And he said every time you walk through that line, I'm giving you 50% off. Wow. that's, I mean, that's big. That's huge. I just want to know, you know, Hassan, is there anything that you are doing on a day-to-day basis that would have that sort of impact? You know, marginal stuff, obviously, like boosting unionization efforts, you know, working with advocates. Yeah, working with labor unions in general, offering them broad awareness and also support, fundraising for them.

things like that. But see, which are utterly irrelevant. But how many burrito bowls have you gotten discounted? I have gotten zero burrito bowls discounted. But I do genuinely have a theory that if we all as consumers, if consumers, if everybody was like me. We could all get the employee discount. No, no, forget about the employee discount.

But if everybody was like me and they advocated for themselves in a respectful way, I'll never inconvenience anybody that's working, if you advocate for yourself, I think slowly but surely we'd chip away at those corporate profits. The only thing corporations respond to is a drop in profit and a drop in revenue. I mean that and like really annoying email. Yes. Which is what I has been typically been my method. Right. Yes. Like United Airlines like they hate to see. But United Airlines, I think is notorious. And I've started to in United Airlines actually just there's news. They just dropped the new product. I saw that the whole road. Yeah. They have a new,

they have a new airline. Yeah. Did you see this? Yeah. United. Oh, yeah, yeah, we need the full row. This is so cool. I confess they kind of, I'm glad I'm a United customer when I saw this. United Airlines introduced a new product. I don't know what they're calling it. Just call it like a new couch product or something. Relax row.

Yeah. A new relaxed row where you can turn three economy seats into a bed. Airlines is a new option for travelers who want to get more comfortable when they fly. Starting in 2027, passengers on certain flights can purchase a row of economy seats. And that row will transform into a lounge after takeoff. It's called the United Relax Row. It comes with three seats designed for travelers who want more space that families with small children, maybe couples as well. The row includes a custom-fitted mattress pad, larger blankets, and extra pillows.

Pricing will be released at a later date. Yeah, so here's the deal. Here's a deal. This is what happened. This is how this came to be. All right. Oh, you were in the room. No, but I know what the room sounded like.

United got together. And by the way, this has been done before already with another airline. I think it was Air New Zealand already did this. Oh. Air New Zealand's been doing this for years. They got in the room. You were such a plane office. It's crazy.

They said, hey, we have these transatlantic, trans-Pacific flights that fly sometimes 20% empty. So the back of the plane has rows of, seats empty. Why don't we find a way to up, you know, fill these seats or make more revenue on these seats? Why don't we sell some of these rows? They're going to be empty anyway. Why don't we just upcharge? Also the traveling with kids thing. I mean, that's why they're like in the marketing. They're like showing like, hey, kids, do you see kids? Because you have to buy seats for them anyway. Right. And it, no, it's now. The thing with United Airlines is they may be making product improvements with, with this particular product. They've also made a product with their business

class product. But until they start to treat their employees better and address that, their product will always be shit. I flew United recently to China. We flew to Beijing. From the moment we walked to the airport, got to the front of the airport, the service was atrocious from top to bottom. And I will tell you, that's not the people that work their fault. They are working for a company that does not treat them well. And the way that they, because they're not treated well, sometimes the customers face the brunt of that. And that is a reflection of how the company is treating them. So United, until you treat and pay your employees well, your product will always fall short.

He's a Delta booster, by the way, just so you know. I mean, he has a dog and his life. As a lifelong United member, my dad is a premier 1K member. I'm a diamond medallion with Delta. But like, so I've mostly just flown United in my life. I had, though, I will say, it wasn't so much about United so much as I had this experience, like not this past. weekend before was in my Chicago for my sister's wedding and there's you know crazy weather you know a bunch of airport bullshit and I had to stay over for a day and you know

the TSA stuff was starting to get hairy the whole thing was nuts and so I was in O'Hare for you know probably like a total of like I don't know like 12 14 hours over a course of two days maybe even more and I was like blown away at how good all the airport staff was including airline staff security people whatever it was one of the those situations where it was like, I kept thinking if I had this job, I would be the worst person. I would be such an asshole. I'd be so grouchy. I'd be so, you know, I'd be, I'd be, I would not want to be pleasant to the thousands of like really, because like obviously people who are traveling are often like really agro and annoying. Oh, for sure. I was like, I, I, I give a lot of

credit. I think airport, I think the quality of airport worker these days is very high. They're all has on obvious. TSA has the highest dense. of fans that I've ever encountered in any other sector. March and I talk about this all the time. Really? Anytime I pass through, it's like, oh my God, what are you doing here? When I was going to Cuba from the Florida airport, from Miami-Dade, I brought obviously wads of cash, as you're supposed to do.

I had like, I think like four grand in my hand in a plastic bag, and it was in small bills. And it looked very suspicious. Okay. Yeah. It looked like a mission accomplished. Yeah. It looked like I was a, it looked like I was, you know, trafficking drugs or something. I walk up.

I have it in my hand when I go through the, you know, crazy X-ray machine thing. You put it in your hand? Yeah, because the guy told me like, oh, yeah, you can hold your cash in your hand. I was like, all right, fine. So I walked through it. The guy goes, oh, my God, Hassan, like a big fan. Right? And then he sees my hand.

It goes, what the fuck is that? because why do you have so much cash? I was like, well, I'm going to Cuba and, you know, they tell you, like, bring cash. Don't worry, it's under, like, the, you know, legal limit. And, but it didn't look like it was under the legal limit because it's, it's small bills. Because I'm putting it to my ear and going, hello? Yeah, that was so, it was so fat. And he was like, well, I have to, he's like, I'm sorry, I have to look at this.

And I was like, sure, that's fine. And he looks at it. He sees there's, like, small bills. And I think in his mind, he was like, do I call this in? well it's Asan and he just let me through I mean I well now I have an idea of I just want to go to the airport so I can money spread at TSA yeah yeah yeah like oh I'm sorry I'm sorry oh yeah I flexed on my fans like that

that's gonna be the next New York post headline Chaviour communist Asan Piker flexes on poor TSA worker who hasn't been paid in months I do think there is like the TSA thing though it kind of does make sense where it's like all right well if you work at an airport that airport has to be or population centers that removes all the cletus is in the country. And then it's like also if you go through a TSA line, you look at the

like the gender and racial and age composition of who works for TSA. And it's like, yeah, that's a lot of potential has some of it. Yeah. Yeah, there are a tremendous amount. I've met some of them. I like Mets some Austin shows. I like all TSA agents except for the one

whose job it is to scream, take your shoes off, no hoodies, no coats. I feel like some of that's a choice. I think, I don't know if they have to do that. I think there's some people that... It reminds me of like a prison camp, just listening to that on... Your clothes will...

Your luggage will follow you. Yeah. Oh, I know. Yeah, there is a very, like, you know, a feeling of being cattle when you're in that... When you're in that problem. Especially now that they've done,

they've figured out all the new airport terminals that they, like, you know, when they debut or they open, like, a LaGuardia or whatever, or Newark, they... They've now figured out, how it's like, oh, you just make the rules, like the halls and the lines really

winding and big, so people are constantly moving so that that way they're not getting mad. Like that's like the way, I mean, right now it's not how it's working because the fucking, because the lines are still so but like you go and it's like they've set it up so you're supposed to go like zig zig zig zig zig zig zig.

The lines are getting so bad that I saw a video of them doing live entertainment. No. Yes. Actually, wait, you could probably There was live entertainment at the TSA line. like busk on the streets and play music, like actually playing for people in TSA lines is probably like a good bet. Yeah. It's what it's what they're doing. That's going to happen in Portland. Absolutely. No, the lines aren't that bad there. Nobody wants to go to Portland.

That's the thing. Nobody wants to. We're doing to have a tourist destination. No. You know, no, you're our guest. Let's open it up to you. Do you have anything spicy you want to talk about? I have some other topics if you just want to. No, I'm just wrong for the ride. I wanted to bring something up that I haven't mentioned before. Oh, sure. I'll go for myself. I wait, did you have something? Well,

he just mentioned. He literally just finished saying I have topics. He has bunch of hours. Oh, go ahead. No, no, Austin,

this is your show, man, go ahead. No, no, actually will, why don't you go ahead. If you notice,

like, you might have, you might have noticed how you did civil rights at Del Taco. Yeah. If you notice, like,

the show is anchored around Austin's immediate needs and we are constantly in a state of panic. That's why I was like, oh, Cuba, maybe we can talk about that briefly.

And then I had, and then Austin's like, And then I had to do 35 minutes on airport terror. You had a pressing topic. No, there wasn't anything pressing. I was just going to bring up something that I've been thinking about. But it's not even a topic. Please jump in.

It was going to be about clavicular and I didn't want to want to talk about that. Oh, well, that's essential. No, let's skip that for now. All right. Wait, what happened? Did he do a salute recently or something? No. We just so deeply don't care about clavicular.

I just don't think he's in that greatest shape. Okay. Okay. He's, he's doing the topic. Ladies and gentlemen. Well, quick. We had some good news this week. What's that?

Sora. Losing its doors, despite the billion dollar investment and IP investment from Disney, which is so baffling because of all the potential foils to AI, if you had told me that the one that would finally kill the AI machine was they just can't make money on it. It's so fucking awesome, dude. It's so awesome. Well, they also had like, they figured out that there's not, like, there's obvious, like, there's just no world in which somebody's going to sit down and be like, well, you know what, like, I really need to spend, like, pay like a gazillion dollars for. Like, I need to have the ability to generate,

like, Mickey Mouse hitting golf. Yeah. Hitting, like, you know, like using a nine iron. Yeah. Like that's what I like hanging out on the street or I don't know like going with Homer Simpson to Mars. Right. Like all of that kind of level of really advanced creativity. Yeah. It just turns out there's not as much of an audience for it. Or at least open AI can't spend, commit the resource. Dude, my favorite quote of all time, what you made with Sora battered.

That's awesome. Sorry, that is amazing. That was the epitaph on their. gravestone for sword. Bro, that's, sorry, that is, I did not see that. That is amazing. It's the exact opposite. It's like, that's, that is like, that is like, that is like, that is like, that is mattered less.

Like, in human history, like, other than, like, yeah, so, um, your censored video of mini mouse is, um, it was important. It's like Lockheed Martin shuddering its operations and being like, so many lives were saved. Yeah. Yeah. Every time I saw one of those fucking videos, I just scrolled past because none of them that were entertaining. Although I did get duped by a few, which was the, which was the, which was the deer jumping on the trampoline. Oh, but that's like, what are the cat music ones?

Well, I got, I got fucked up with the deer jumping on the trampoline. I was like, oh, oh my God, that's crazy. Then I started sending it to all my friends. Oh, no. And then, and then I realized it wasn't real when I kept scrolling. And then there was an elephant jumping on a trampoline. And then he had to like, and then he had to sort of follow message to his friends like,

ah, isn't it crazy that a computer can do this? L-O-L. Yeah. Saving face. Backtracking. There was only one AI video that ever really did it for me. And it was grandma's going to the chiropractor where like the chiropractor would like snap them in half.

I couldn't help but be like that. No, for me it's Boulder. When we had a fat lady Glassbridge Boulder. Yes, that was awesome. That was awesome. We had, because there was, it was this, no, you don't remember this?

It was like this whole, like, wait, pull it up, Gabe, you got to find it. It was like a week long, like, thing where it was like this genre video or the guy jumping in the infinity pool and then it breaks. Yeah, yeah. Oh, right, right.

Like, because you, using AI to just, like, take this thing that, like, you, you think for, like, a half second. Oh, I've seen this. And I don't know why this was just, like, so popping because there was a million versions. The craziest part is she's wearing her. Hasanabe merge. And then everyone

is just like perishing. What I also liked was the Disney learned about open AI shuttering SORA like after it was announced. Yeah. Because they had like this billion dollar partnership and they were working on it. And I think it was Reuters had a story yesterday

they was saying, uh, yeah, they were actually working on this, um, pretty much right up until it was afterward. It was announced and like everybody was taken by surprise. Which suggests by the way that like open AI,

they had to close it because they just don't have the money. to keep shoveling into it. So what I've heard is that it came down to the equation that they, the highest model that they could factor was charging someone $300 a month for SORA, right? Like that was the idea of their platinum and their average computing burn on SORA, like regular SOR users was upwards of $3,000 a month.

So typically you're supposed, like per person, per regular users. Yeah, yeah, no, no, they were a great thing. This is actually good business to make money. Yes. To make money, you got to spend money. Right. We all agree on that. To make money, you got to spend money. So if you're spending $2,500 a month per user. For user?

Think about how much money you are spending to make money. No, no. It takes a lot of money to have no fat lady dropping gold. No, it's crazy because like, yeah, their revenue model is non-existent because there's this, there's two different factors here, right? Like, they have to get a lot of aura. and hype moments, right? Because the entire business revolves around getting unlimited fundraisers, like going to Microsoft,

going to all these other tech companies and being like, this is the future, give us $7 billion. And at first they were like, okay, fine, let's do it. But in order to keep that momentum going, they had to deliver like a consumer-facing product. And that's the reason why they're doing a lot of this generative AI shit. Ultimately, the goal here is to obviously train it as much as possible on a lot of many users as possible, but you could open source it in that situation. And that would probably be more reliable. But they wanted as many users as possible.

And users don't give a shit about like using a rerouting their, you know, telecommunications to a chat GPT assistant, right? Because the average person doesn't have that. That's B2B. So they were like, all right, we'll just do this, you know, generative AI bullshit. Problem is it's horrible for the environment. and not only is a horrible for the environment, it's insanely expensive.

So then the fundraising, the reason why they started this was for fundraising purposes, right? But then the fundraising took a necessity on its own because they had to keep spending, you know, billions of dollars just for people to use the product. And also they were losing money. And now they're all, it's also like, they all have to, they're all competing.

Yeah. And like there can only be like the math works out that only a couple of these things can survive as business. My two thoughts that really, really tickled me. Yeah. The first one of all the people on Twitter who were like, Hollywood's shaking in its boots. I made this version of Dragon Ball Z IRL for 30 bucks.

And it's like, no, no, you made a two-minute trailer that looked like shit that was so expensive that you bankrupt a company. with a billion dollar Disney investment within the year. A, that's the first one. Second thing that I cannot stop thinking about is what Disney characters did Disney license as the sacrificial lambs to Sora. When they were going through their IP list,

which ones do you think Disney was like, Song of the South? We'll give them Chippendale. And they can fuck those squirrels every which way but lose. because we don't give a shit about them anymore. Like, which characters do you think? They went, they like, they like ran the numbers. I'm like, all right, who's the least?

Who's like the toy story character that everybody cares about the least? And it's like, all right, it's the slinky dog. Slinky dog, you are. Put him out back. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Or old yelling you. Yeah.

It's going to be AI videos of slinky dog with convictular, Morg. My favorite version of that was, this was another, like, trend on Twitter. It's always Twitter, by the way. always like the profile of a guy who really loves Sora and gender of AI is also like he's into cryptocurrency schemes and he's he's caught the bag numerous he's he's held the bag on numerous occasions okay constantly getting scammed and he thinks he's going to fuck other people but he's never

been able to do that yeah yeah so that guy will then place himself in a movie set in a fictional movie set yeah that was you know what I'm talking about Z one yeah the one where he's like he's going around and taking selfies. I know. Everyone on set. I've seen that one. And it's like, what goes on in your mind when you are posting this?

Like, do you think your friends from back home are going to look at and be like, wow. Yeah. What a cool guy. To me, it's like, okay,

this is, he's next to Batista and Tom Cruise. This is like how much America, like American celebrity culture has fallen because like we used to be a country where there were people, you know, and there still exist where it's like, they go,

they collect autographs, they're obsessed with celebrities or whatever. but like they're obsessed with like a version of you know reality like they don't it's like imagine it's like well now we've made a technology so you don't actually have to like carry out your obsession or exist in the real world you can just like hit rewind on this video of you posing with robert downy junior and slinky dog for like fucking you know like for eternity i just don't understand who that's for in general you described it it's for like the guy who's you know been holding the bag like five times like but like i'm like i want to

want to know what's the thought process where like does he think he's going to fool people into thinking that he actually went on this set this Hollywood set where celebrities keep materializing out of nowhere and it's like always it's so funny because the set changes immediately as soon as the frame changes and it's like it's so obviously not a real video there's gonna be I believe that like a lot of this stuff right is like there's there's a bunch of it that has this uncanny valley stuff where it's like all right well this is like too weird or unseemly you know like when we saw like why does that guy have seven fingers? Why does that woman's mouth like go vertical?

Whatever. But then there's this other kind of category where it's like the photorealistic stuff. And that people, he's describing like, what impulse does somebody have to do this or whatever? And I genuinely think that there is part of the way that this AI stuff has been marketed is that people believe that they are doing, if not something virtuous,

something cutting edge. It reminds me a lot, actually, of like the early iPhone days and how like Apple made people feel like if you bought an iPhone and you dicked around on it. Like, you were in Tron, bro. Yeah. Like you were, you know, and, you know, granted that was the beginning of like a legit

paradigm shift and how people like, shit, use technology or whatever. Whereas this stuff, it's like, you're just fucking with rude. Yeah. When you're, when you're, when you're, when you're, when you're, when you're, when you're, when you're, when you're, Giger counter is how well you can get Will Smith to eat pasta.

That's exactly. Dude, that was the test. That is. That was like, I mean, that way, like, you just, like, it's the longest time. like, look at how improved it is. Will Smith actually twirls his fork in the pasta. And now we're, yeah, in like 20 years, they're going to be like, look, like, Will Smith is like eating pasta and we've never seen him eat pasta this. Like, Will Smith has been dead for five years.

Yeah, well, I mean, that and also the state of Israel is using it to make it seem like Benjamin Nanyahu's still alive. And on that note, oh, if you ever see Slinky Dog show like a Benjamin Nanyahu. I've had, I will say I've never had more people. People ask me, like a question like that, like an AI verification thing, like, yo, is Benjamin, Indiana? Yeah. Well, it is, we're getting crazier by the moment.

We will speculate all of that and much more. Behind the paywall. Behind the paywall. Thank you so much. Noah, thank you so much for joining us. Is there anything you like to shout out? Blowback podcast. That's what I make.

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