The Daily Zeitgeist - The Worst Gifticles Of 2024

Episode Date: December 23, 2024

In this special holiday episode, Jack and Miles discuss the worst gift guides of 2024, featuring Goop, Oprah, Crypto, A.I. slop and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Oh yes, I see how it's appropriate for the theme. Yeah. Oh, yes. I see how it's appropriate for the theme My name is Jack that over there is Saint Santa Miles lift old good old st. Split Way too much of that loud no, it's cuz cuz I go down the chimneys Uh-huh, and my wife says it's actually my pulmonary oncologist says that I'm in a spot of trouble. Oh, good Lord.

It does sound like something that Santa would say to like get Mrs. Claus off his back. It's actually going down the chimneys. It has nothing to do with all the weed I'm smoking. It's all the fiberglass I'm free-basing. You're free-basing fiberglass. Okay My kids are at an age where they're reading a lot of books where the bad guy Has like a clue that they're a bad guy in their name like Luke

Siffer, you know what I mean? Like that's yeah. Yeah. Wait, where are you going with that one? Luke? What Luke Siffer? Oh Lucas oh like this is cipher yeah oh got a guy cipher yeah I thought you're totally fucking up Star Wars you know Luke's sith there what that's a guy right that's a guy right like Darth Vailer but I so my six year old was like, so do bad guys always have like something in their name that like backwards, it like tells you something. And then we were like, there aren't really many names like that. I was like, I guess Santa would be though.

Right. If like Satan, you know. Oh, sure. Sure. It's just an anagram. It's like a little too on the nose. Like Santa can't be the bad guy because it's too close. They barely tried to hide it. I wonder what kind of, yeah, let's see Santa Claus. Let's just get some an anagrams. Not ants casual.

That's not like a, it's ants casual That's right. And these ants are way too casual Oh, they're way to get my kids a ant colony for Christmas. So the time that's like the gel versus the dirt I'm gonna get dirt. Why is jet gels the new kind? Because you can see right you can see right through it and like they light up So I think you can get I think I got the every we got that for my nephew long ago Anyway, all that to say we're here to actually look at good gift guides with some good ideas and by good We mean questionable and probably nah fun. Yeah that so I was saying like I was thinking about getting the man colonies until I saw Gwyneth Paltrow's gift guide, a GP's picks in particular.

That pretty, pretty interesting stuff. I gotta say. She's got stuff for kids. You know what, what is and isn't for kids, you know? Yeah. What child wouldn't want an $8,000 vanity because they're remodeling a bathroom. That's right. There's this one that is a stacking ring, which means it's a ring that you can't wear by itself. It's like meant to be stacked with other rings and it's one thousand six hundred and forty dollars. So it's like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's just like an add on ring, like a additional baseline ring for a year.

$1,640. Okay. This is the one that I feel, cause there's always weird shit on the goop gift guide. I do not, what the fuck is mouth tape? Miles, I'm so glad you asked because I don't fucking know either. Mouth tape for the low price of 24.95, you can get some vio to mouth tape

out mouth breathing in mouth taping so the description for the Uninitiated taping your mouth closed at night forces you to breathe through your nose while you sleep Unless your nose is stuffed up in which case it kills you is not said there But and because mouth breathing can be the culprit for all sorts of sleep disruptions like snoring mouth taping May help you and sound sensitive partners get a better night's rest This tape set is our favorite the fabric is a cotton blend with a hypoallergenic medical Great adhesive like a typical bandage as always consult with your physician about any sleep issues And use of this product, which could probably

kill you. I love like with any, it's like, it's not a goop gift unless you tape the, or not tape, unless you, wow, it's in the brain, unless you Google what the product is and say medically sound like mouth taping. And then like WebMD is like, again, the thing that makes it a goop thing is when like there's not enough evidence to suggest This is a thing that works also if you're snoring like that again. They did do the right thing. It's like Contact your doctor, please go for your fucking trap. They are shut with nothing if not legally savvy and

Scared of being sued so they always do the right thing in the end. This is there's another one on here that's like an again, it's a $245,000 a week expedition to Alaska. Uh huh. Holy shit. Like I don't even know. It's basically a private super yacht journey through the coastal wilderness. And it's the most special way to explore it for only $245,000 a week. A week. Yeah. Yeah. A week. A week. But it's very standard. If anyone who's chartered a private super yacht knows, I mean, obviously that's quite the norm. It's actually not that bad of a price actually, like for real, though,

like no cap miles. That shit is a good price. No cap on my spending. Yes, that's a fantastic, fantastic, fantastic price. And then there's just to get someone. Yeah, yeah. I love all of these in the context of being gifts that you get for somebody. The mouth breathing one in particular, because the way that sleep apnea and other sleep-based

breathing problems are treated is by forcing air into your mouth. And this is like, what if the opposite? Instead, we deprived it and just forced you through tough love to nose breathe your way out of apnea. Like, and it also assumes that the obstruction is like in your mouth. Because kind of, you know what I mean? Like, yeah, yeah, yeah. Wouldn't you still get apnea?

Like even if you're breathing through your nose? Well, because it's about an obstruction, right? Yeah. I think the back of the danger there. Yeah. Yeah. Look, I'm no doctor and I use scotch tape on my mouth for safety because it's not very strong.

Because it looks funny. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Then there's like just all the wellness gifts in this goof guy. I said goof guide. It really is good There's this like sauna tents a Hairbrush that I guess is the ultimate hairbrush more salt lamps

Thing I didn't know were body balance magnets. Oh, yeah You know, you haven't oh my god that actually explains so much. I thought you were on to body balance magnets You don't know about body balance magnets? BBS? They're earseeds for the whole body. Ear seeds? Yeah, yeah, yeah. You don't know about earseeds?

That's what the description is. It says body magnets, ear slayer, like ear seeds for your whole body. Ear seeds are seeds placed on your ear to serve as tiny acupressure devices. That's part of like, you know, like acupuncture sort of world. But now they're saying you can put they just realign you by putting these stickers on your. Oh, hell yeah.

I just saw on, I believe, Instagram, the ultimate gift guide Instagram, a like body sock thing that is being sold as a treatment for ADHD. It's like you put yourself in a body sock that puts pressure all over your body and that somehow allows you to sleep with ADHD. Oh, so yeah. Just does it work? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I'll go like based on the performance of the person in the commercial, Yeah. Does it work? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like based on the performance of the person in the commercial, because it did have some real infomercial vibes to it. But yeah, it seems like they were sleeping like a baby. It does say for children with sensory processing disorders like autism or ADHD, body socks can play a significant role in helping these children improve their emotional. I don't know. That's from a website. The people in the commercial

were adults and they were just like ooh cozy and they're rating it did look it did look very good to me so I might try that shit. Yeah yeah yeah. Shall we move on to Oprah? Oh I just have a couple other things from Gwyneth. One of my favorite things that she's ever posted is a photograph of her groceries. And she was like, this is all you can afford on like snap payments for a whole week of groceries. Like the basically like the it's fucked up. We need to give poor people more money. But then like her groceries that she was buying where it was like clearly an organic market,

there's like eight limes and you know, basically just the ingredients for organic guacamole. Like the pricing was fucking wild. There was no like beans or rice or any of the staples. So I do just have to shout out a couple of the food gifts that she's recommending, like an $88 seasonal citrus box grown with love and picked by hand in Ohio Valley. A mere $88 for some for three pairs, three loose pairs. Exactly. They just come in in an Amazon box. for some for three pairs, three loose pairs. Yeah, exactly. They just come in in an Amazon box, just loose. Just fucking all mushed up to.

Yeah. Oh, God. And then we have this luxury Grandmaster chess pieces set. What makes your kid, your kid makes it luxury. You ask it being completely fucking impractical because inside this handsome green croc embossed briefcase, this it appears to be made of crocodile skin on the outside. Is a complete chess set handcrafted in Los Angeles from rich, dark and white chocolate.

Use the pieces to play on the green and white board. And when the game is over, bon appetit, my friend. $350 for a chess set that you can use once. Wow. And then you're meant to eat it, or it's just gonna like melting on your fingers. Yeah, that's, you're not fucking playing with that. What do you do?

You have to play like in a fucking open, like outside in the cold, so your body heat doesn't transfer to the chocolate to keep it intact. Exactly need gloves. I would eat that shit in one go. I know Um oprah, are you there? What happened? Where's your favorite things? This is my thing. I gotta say up top talking about oprah's gift guide. We have fallen so we have fallen so far from the The original intent of oprah's guide, what used to be the reason for the season.

Yeah. We're like, yeah, what is fucking billionaire Oprah by? What the fuck is in her house? And that was kind of like what the Oprah gift guide like it was all you sure. Many things that were some practical, most kind of like very impractical, completely out of the reach of most people. And now it's gone completely the other way where it's now fucking, I mean, this makes sense. Oprah's a billionaire. It's now quote, powered by Amazon. And everything is like shit that in my mind, I'm like, Oprah wouldn't be caught dead

using this fucking $30 towel. I'm sorry. You're not. I don't believe it anymore. And it's now the Amazon has fully captured Oprah's gift guide. And I just got to say it's it's a shame because I just I don't know who to trust anymore. I don't know if my wife will like these adjustable gold initial rings, because I don't see Oprah wearing them, even though it does spell out Oprah. You can only get Oprah's initials. You can't get any other initials. That's all we got right now. That's all we got.

I just I just have the full knuckle ring that with Oprah written across them like into the right thing. It's yeah. So it's a genius idea like there. There are very famous people. I'm sure Oprah is one of them, who are known for giving really great Christmas gifts. If you get on their list, then you get, Tom Cruise has a coconut cake that he sends to people

that is legendary. And once you're on the list, you stay on the list, you always get a coconut cake, and it's supposed to be unbelievable. I think it's probably pretty good, but people love talking about how they're on Tom Cruise's coconut cake list. Yeah. That is a very LA weird thing. People will like name check. They're like, yeah, actually I just got Tom's cake. I mean, I don't know. I know a person tangentially who gets a cake. Yeah. And they talk about it. Yeah. All the time. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. They send out like Eaton's, they send out a Christmas card update. That's just like still on the list. Their holiday card is them with the Tom Cruise cake. They're like, always in his heart. I would do that. I would totally Christmas. Um, but so it makes sense. Always in his heart. I would do that. I would tell you Christmas. But so it makes sense like this idea that like get the gifts for people that like Oprah would get them, you know, like celebrities get

the best gifts, like when they go to the Oscars or whatever and then probably give the best gifts. And that was the idea behind the Oprah gifts. And instead now, yeah, it's just like having a website that just gives you the things that Amazon would already highlight for you.

Well, cause I think the evolution of this was eventually then people, you could game Oprah, you could give her a bunch of shit, get on the list or buy your way on the list probably. To the point now it's like yeah, Oprah is loving the Apple beat studio pro Kim Kardashian collaborative headphones Uh-huh. No. Oh, yeah No

Oprah Shit then there's one for I think people who are in just infinitely There's a thing in LA that people always say on hiking trails. It also feels like aimed at people of color who play music while hiking, or it's mostly people like people are playing so much music on the hiking trails. I can't believe it anymore. I get one thing if you're like blasting music and you're trying to make it about you, but whatever.

If you're like just walking by someone, they got some music. It doesn't fucking bother me. The wilderness is vast there's a fucking water bottle that has a built-in bluetooth speaker in it that i'm like okay this feels like the most like for the annoying person in your life get it uh but yeah that one just feels like this this would cause a lot of disruptions on runyon canyon where people are already like everyone's got a bluetooth speaker when they hike. It's because they're promoing their SoundCloud. That's right. Their album just dropped on Runyon Canyon. There's a pair of sneakers that are also

high heels. Like you know how people in New York, they walk to work in sneakers and then like put on the heels, put on the fancy shoes these split that difference not carry redshaw yeah they are she'll work them he'll sneak the icon i don't know i can't can't picture can't quite picture oprah rockleys but no i've been wrong before these like this again this feels i mean look op Oprah has completely fallen from grace. She's platformed all the bad doctors you can imagine. But now a shoe like this, I feel bad for someone's like, oh, Oprah said these nasty looking,

they look like prescription shoes. Yeah, they do. Like it kind of blows your mind looking at it. Like it looks like a weird running shoe with a big elastic strap with a fucking heel on it. I don't know. But apparently Gail wore these for 12 hours straight. Okay. But why in order to, um, well, the thing is I believe it's not true at all and

just used to sell someone. Uh, let's take a quick break. We'll come back. Uh, we'll look at some other V cool gift guides. We'll be right back. Welcome to decisions decisions, the podcast where boundaries are pushed and conversations get candid. Join your favorite hosts.

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And there's another group that, you know, is buying gifts, receiving gifts. Won't you please think of the megaGA people the poor MAGA people who? Didn't get invited some of them to Thanksgiving dinner, but now they're like we don't care man We've got the White House things are cool We've got our own gifts. We're glow. I look I was looking I was trying to just think of gift guides That would make my head explode. Yeah, and I searched for a Democrat gift guide No, no, no energy right now. There's no energy. There's no energy there There's nothing like the most you can get are like

Etsy stores that are kind of like for the Democrat in your life and it would be like Trump is bad But the same store will be like and here's a MAGA pot holder if you want that also But yeah on the Daily Mail, they've put together all these like grifty fucking nonsense objects for people to, you know, use to give the violent racist in their life a fun gift. Like the first thing- Or for the violent racist in their life to get for them after they're not invited Thanksgiving as a like, ha ha in your face. I'm coping. Guess what?

I don't need Thanksgiving when I have this $180 pickleball paddle with 45 on it. Okay. That's a pass. There is another one like a mini Trump Bluetooth speaker pass. I mean, look, I'm going to pass on all of these except for the pajamas. Now the pajamas are kind of $ kind of nice. $175. Amir $175. At that price? They've got stars all over the they look like they couldn't look any more like

they cost $35. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They are they might as well have the price stitched into them like 15 to 35.

I'd say is the top that you're going to go. This is an interesting one too, that he's also selling a football, like a, like a flask that's shaped like a football and one end screws off and you put, I'm guessing alcohol in a flask isn't for water. So you can drink from a football with Trump and blazoned on it. So people have a reason to kick you out of a youth sports game. Right. Because yeah. So the idea with the flask is that you're disguising your booze as a thing that is not

noticeable and would otherwise be there. You know, right. Like put that on your bookshelf. Right. Exactly. You just have a book and then you just like take a steal a quick swig from it. We've all been there. But a very clearly like toy football, like plastic football, like that doesn't look like a leather football at all with Trump written on it is

not a thing that exists in reality in any way. No, no, no. I think, because most of this shit is basically like, let's go to a website where they're mass producing stuff. What can we print Trump on? Boom, there it is. Now charge seven times what it actually costs. And hey, grift complete.

Yeah, I will say that the navy blue pajamas do look a little bit more like they cost $175. The ones that I was talking about are the star printed pajama bottoms that are a mere $72, but look like they should cost $25. Yeah. Let's actually speaking of griffs. I also did do something. I just, again, I'm like, what's a fucking weird, like, what can my brain summon?

I was like, what about crypto gift guide? Oh, hell yeah. There are so many. So there's like a bunch where it's like, you can fucking turn your car into like a crypto mining operation. Like this is so dystopian. I don't wanna talk about it.

Wow. It's like the normal, like the normie stuff that they sell that is like absolutely fucking off the rails. One is a hoodie that costs $195. It's all black. But the reason this is actually very chill. There is an NFC chip.

Okay, that that's integrated into the fabric that will verify the authenticity of your garment on chain and you can access exclusive content and community features by tapping this. Is NFC no longer the thing? It's now NFC? No, NFC is like the technology used for like Apple Pay and stuff. Got it. Okay.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a technology. Yes, yes, yes, yes. It's also leaked in the NFL. It's like one of the leads in the NFL, yeah, yeah. It's a technology. Yes, yes, yes, yes. It's also leaked in the NFL. It's like one of the leads in the NFL, but. Exactly, it's near field communication is what that text says. Near field communication, of course, Miles.

Yes, exactly, exactly. Then there's this other one. Oh, let me, allow me to show you, Jack, because this is absolutely beautiful. For the lady in your life, or a person who just cares about their nail job, their manicure is important. You can get a chipped nail set, a programmable press on nail set for $64

that it features, quote, NFC enabled nails like fingernails that can connect to block chain experiences and crypto. What the fuck? Well, yeah, I don't yeah Yeah, so what can I just Keep walk me through what that would even mean You can like walk in and just put your nails somewhere and it would be able to like pay For that thing with your nails essentially? I guess here's how they are

selling it because again I have no idea what the fuck they're talking about. Hold on, is there a promo video? There seems to be like a promo flash animation when you go to the website that disappears pretty quickly. They only had like five seconds worth of like, hypothetical this is how it's used. Okay, so here, this is how they're selling it. Tap, connect and slay all day. Be that girl with the tech nails.

Out drop dead gorge press ons. Have NFC chips in the thumbs. So you can stay in the moment and effortlessly share your customizable links by tapping your nail to any smartphone. Okay, so anything that does like it, like NFC reading as a phone, you can basically like, oh, you want my IG or you want my podcast here? Let me put my fingernail up to your phone. And then my fingernail that looks like grotesquely enlarged, I will say like,

have you ever seen like one of those magic sets where they have the fake thumb that you hide stuff in? It's like big. It's like three sizes too big and plastic. That's what the nail looks like. It's like puffing off and like way too big for the thumb on that. Like they could have just done a press on nail and been like, yeah, that's basically the idea. But they show how shitty their product looks in this. Yeah, it's failing as a press on nail.

Like how much technology is in there that it looks like you're putting on like, like a gigantic piece of gum on your finger. Right. That's my thumb. That's just my thumb. Very normal, very normal. Very chill. Like fungal infection on your nail or what's happening? No, it's actually a near field communication chip.

Actually, bring your phone here. Yeah, check out my website. And then the person just jumped off the building chip. Actually bring your phone here. Yeah. Check out my website. And then the person just jumped off the building that you were talking to them on. Right. Right. Then there's crypto gift cards. It's just, again, I'm not in that space. Two most valuable things. Crypto and gift cards.

Yeah. But the NFC fingernails, I think, is probably a winner in terms of like who the fuck's buying that. But I'm look, Zyke Gang, if you know somebody and that works for them, please get them the chipped nail set so they can share their LinkedIn with someone. Are they doing it tongue in cheek or like did the crypto bros who came up with this not even think about the fact that like chipped nails are a bad thing? Like, you know what I mean? Like, chipping their nails is bad. Like, I wonder if that even if that if they were like, yeah,

that'll be like a fun tongue in cheek thing. Or if they were like, what do you what are you talking about? Chipped nails. What? Yeah, I don't know. And I'm wondering if this this feels like, you know, like at a group of like NFC, like crypto enthusiast type people, like they're doing like a brainstorming thing. And it's just a bunch of dudes been like, dude, okay, so you can ship anything right?

Like women, their fingernails, right? Okay. Yeah. They want to share their like Instagram or whatever. And then they can put that on their nail. So rather than out loud, just say a handle to someone, they can be like, put your phone on my thumb to get this. Yeah, this is sick, dude. This is six is also yeah. Anyone I, anyone, you know, who's serious about getting manicures, they're serious about how their

fingernails look in my experience. You know what I mean? And some, some busted ass fucking press on nails with a fucking NFC chip That is for someone who is so outside of the like yeah, it has crossed their mind. She has nails. So Yeah, yes Oh, if these scammers are anything worth their salt if they these are scammers worth anything, this is a final sale product because every single, if it's not every single instance of this being bought for someone is going to get returned. They're all going back unless this is final sale.

Okay, they do have I will I will just let we can hear it from them on their tick tock channel that only has 600 followers. This is the one where they're trying to make it look like it's a real influencer type person being like, you guys heard about this new rage? It doesn't even have 300 views, but this is them trying to act like we're solving a problem. Yeah. You've probably seen this NSC now trend all over TikTok and you're probably like, how the hell do I do that for myself? I don't know how to program it,

don't know where to get the chips, my nail tech wouldn't do it or do my nails myself. Babes don't worry. We literally made them in Bresons. So you can just like tap your phone. Oh and she's showing you the giant thumbnail. I'm literally taking this as a gift to my Lash Tech right now. And the video's over.

Not one, they didn't give you one look at what the fingernails look like on your hands, because they're like, bro, it's a L if anyone looks too closely. Real quick. She gave you like a real quick glimpse of her own thumbnail and it is massive. Yeah. Yeah. It looked like she like was like doing some like DIY handiwork and like was using a hammer and accidentally blasted her thumb. Yeah. Like trying to put a nail in. But anyway, there.

Give yourself hammer thumbs while also, you know, being able to show people your website, a thing that I'm always wanting to show people my website or my Instagram just by sticking my hand next to their phone. So, yeah. And if this worked and was useful at all, their videos would probably have more than 270 views. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They're trying. They're trying. They're trying. They're out here trying.

They are fighting for their lives out here. People. Let's take a quick break and we'll come back and we'll close out with a finally AI has come for the gifting world and regular gift guides are nervous. We'll be right back. Welcome to Decisions Decisions, the podcast where boundaries are pushed and conversations get candid. Join your favorite hosts, me, Weezy WTF, and me, Mandy B. As we dive deep into the world of non-traditional relationships and explore the often taboo topics surrounding dating, sex, and love.

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but that was just my brain promoting onto it. So all of these have gone the way, like this used to be a very common form of media, like every type of every magazine. You know, a lot of different editorial institutions would have their gift guides. It would be written by a person. And I said, now craft. What's that? Is doing it, correct?

And I said, now craft. What's that? Is doing it, correct? We did not do when it cracked, but we had to fight tooth and nail to not do one. It was, you know, parent companies would be like, what about a gift guide, guys? No, I don't think we did. But anyway, the I remember saying no to it once. That doesn't mean it never snuck through. But now this whole genre feels like a slap a little bit like even the when who's never steered before like her gift guide feels like it was just being

generated as you searched through it. Right. So why not just go right to the source and use AI to generate a gift guide specifically for the very specific person you have in mind. Yeah, exactly. And powered by chat GPT. Yeah, they're all using chat GPT. There have been some articles where people like,

I like how some, there are clearly the websites that are in bed with AI and they're like, wow, this makes holiday shopping easier. Then there's ones from CNET that says, I asked AI to help me create a holiday gift list. I won't make that mistake again. Oh, really? Yeah, because again, what it's doing is it's like,

give us a description of a person and we will give you the ultimate gift guide. Yeah, because again, what it's doing is it's like, give us a description of a person and we will give you the ultimate gift guide. So I think it's probably appropriate that we would, Jack, you and I would find a way to use AI to get each other gifts. How would you, for the purposes of a gift guide, how would you describe yourself to an AI to see if it can get some of the things you want? Because there's my version, which is a little bit tongue in cheek.

But I feel like I was trying to give it details. I said Jack is 40 something. What? Old. Yeah, that's incorrect. All right. So I would say I'm like, you know, cool dad, like, you know, artists, cool dad, first and foremost. Wow. And the artist. Yeah.

So, okay. Okay. Artists who loves athletics. Hero. And is a hero. Yeah. I think this is going to generate something really, really good for you. And is a hero? Yeah, yeah. I think this is gonna generate something really, really good for you. Jack is a 44 year old cool dad and artist who loves athletics and is a hero?

Yeah, I think that's good. Should we go with that? Yeah, let's do it. Okay, so this is from Cool Gift Ideas, which is AI powered. Jack, let's see what it's going to create for you. And I will also use another one called gift list and we can compare and contrast. So here is what we got for wow. The generated gift ideas are here. Here's a GI Joe sort of graphic, same graphics as GI Joe says dad real American hero. So took that literally. Yeah

The artist never retire book by that. It's a murder. She wrote dying. What is this? Huh? What the fuck is that that didn't even it didn't wow. This is how fucking inaccurate is then you click the link It doesn't even show up on the other side. A watercolor paint set, an athletic gear organizer bag that looks like it just has four slots for something. Yeah, is that it looks like maybe a thing like a portable bowling shoe container is kind of what it looks like. Or you can carry four bowling shoes at a time a running belt with a water bottle a cool dad baseball cap

Working on this dad bod. Okay. Oh god some of the worst art. I've seen. Yeah, this is actually probably the worst Shit, I guess I shouldn't have gone so hard on my how artistic and cool I am yeah, this other one just says so many are like, get him a duffel bag or an under armor hoodie. Yeah. You should get it. Under armor. Yes. I can fit in on the Jersey shore. The dude that is actually probably the most accurate thing for saying you're like a dad who thinks he's a hero and is into sports and shit like that. It's like, yeah, dude, that's an, you're, you're an under armor hoodie.

I was kind of waiting to see if it gave me like any thin blue line stuff, you know? No, no, no. Thin blue line under armor. How would you describe me, Jack? So I said 40 year old hip hop, NBA lover, new dad. And I did this a while ago, this a while ago, totally not as you were searching for mine. And I think, I think it came up with like some, some fun stuff. Okay.

Are you, can I see? You know, oh, you want me to, okay. Here, let me, are you doing this? I, sorry. You said 40 year old hip hop lover, hip hop, NBA loving new dad, NBA loving new dad, NBA loving new dad. Oh, that that lack of proper syntax is going to fuck this AI right up. Here we go. Let's fire up cool gifts and then let's also enter it over here on gift list.

Let's see what we got gift list. Who's coming first? How many trees are we burning right now by even asking it to do this? I'm very sorry about that. Let's see. First one is a dad jokes book. OK, a onesie. Yeah. And they're Jordan baby sneakers. Yeah, you know that I would.

This is so because I did the exact same search. Sherman, it gave me different results, like completely sharp. Hip hop remix album. No, get the fuck out of here. Ooh, yeah. Hip hop, baby. A collection of classic rap songs, a fun and engaging music album, as we call them,

that brings classic hip hop tracks into a family friendly setting. Hip hop, baby, a collection of classic rap songs. And then you go to that. Yo, this is a violation. Is you think this is racist? It said baby carrier for new dads. It had a black guy.

Wow. You think it was reading NBA, loving hip hop, man. Here you go, pal. And they're like, here you go. You might like this baby carrier. Wait, the chat, GPT one, when you click on it, it like just takes you to like doesn't really take you to the thing that it says it's going to take you to. So it says hip hop baby, a collection of classic rap songs.

I go to that and it just takes me to a thing that's a, that is a bunch of like baby onesies that say smooth since days of under ruse, but not the product that they were talking about. Look, Jack, it's the their gift guides are going to hold the time. That's the thing. I understand. They just like made up a product. Get it right. That doesn't exist. And then we're like, hoping that you wouldn't click through to see. It's also like weird paintings of shirtless rappers on here oh that well which ones uh this one is h-u-i-b-a-l-i huey bylee rapper lil music baby tapestry rap hip hop it's like giving, making up rappers from AI. Who's Hueybite?

No, not me. Not me. Not me. Huh. Interesting. Yeah. It's a mess out here in the, in the world of AI. I thought, I mean, honestly, I think just by like broken clock is right twice a day

and all that. I feel like the best thing was thinking that a mid forties dad who thinks he's a hero would wear an Under Armour hoodie. Yeah, they did nail that one. The best thing was thinking that a mid forties dad who thinks he's a hero would wear underarm or hoodie. Yeah, they did. That was like that was sort of spot on in a way that I don't think they even realized how like accurate that was. So but I think the fact remains, don't use them.

I really want listen. Joke is I used it and this is what Chad GPT thinks you are as a person, although I would be offended if I got that shitty baby carrier because it was just like that on it. Here you go, pal. Yeah, I feel like the it's so interesting that they like give you descriptions of things that you might want to hear. And then when you click through, like that thing, that product doesn't exist. Yeah.

Well, it's almost like that's a big flaw with AI. It's telling you what it thinks you want to hear rather than what not that there's like an objective truth over what a 44 year old dad or four year old new dad who likes NBA and hip hop. Like the fact that they have to lie to like get you. Yeah. Like, oh yeah, we got a great gift to guide idea for you, man. Oh, hell yeah, dude got a great gift to guide idea for you, man. Oh, hell yeah, dude.

Like check out this. It's like a collection of classic rap songs, but it's for babies. And then it's just a onesie that says picture me strolling, they hatin'. Like that's what it clicks through to. Oh my God. All right. That's, that just, that almost killed my Christmas spirit. That's what I think at the end of the day, we just need to keep sending our letters to the North Pole

Yeah, that were they they're heard and under there. Thank you All right. Those are that's where Oprah lives, right? North Pole. That's part of Montecito, California. Yes, okay Those are the gift the only gift guides on the entire internet. We hope that you heard something in there that was, you know, struck your fancy and is going to be useful to you. Bad job, the internet. It's getting worse out here. I think the lesson here is that the gift guide era is fully dead.

Like, it all seems so impersonal. Looks like AI generated nonsense. There's no description, no reason to anything. A lot of it is just merely tied to the name of a celebrity and they're like, that's good enough. Um, again, I think the best gift guide you can do is listening, you know? Yeah. Uh, because I'm the, the way I've had to change my gift guide skills to just be like panic searching

the internet in December to try and find a gift is like, being always being like, Oh, okay. You wanted to borrow this from someone. Okay. You might, I might get you one of these. Oh, you like, Oh, you like how this thing looks on me? Okay. I might have to get you one of those.

Okay. I have a little notes section where I like to put my, yeah, that's how you do it. Cause that's all the great gift givers. And it is a fairly recent creation so But I like during this episode recording the best gift givers. I think are people who listen and Listen like yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that's the secret. Don't use AI or use use AI and say, what would a thoughtful listener get for this person? Here's their name and information in social security. Please, please, please. Specifically to them.

All right. We're going to be back with more holiday themed content, more year end episodes. We are off not doing updating episodes every day, but we got more year and episodes coming out more best of the year episodes that you guys voted on. So tune in to that on the weekdays and we will talk to you all then. Bye. Bye. Bye. Welcome to Decisions Decisions, the podcast where boundaries are pushed and conversations get candid. Join your favorite hosts, me, Weezy WTF and me, Mandy B, as we dive deep into the world

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