The Golden Hour - Is Erik an Op? | #199

Episode Date: August 28, 2026

Chris and Erik get into the backwards strip mall where they get coffee before the show, Erik asking Rachel where the coffee beans are and getting pointed to the fava beans, and Chris's $120 ice cream delivery that showed up at the perfect consistency. They talk why delivery pizza beats pizza at the restaurant, the Santa Clarita waiter who went full Godfather the second the food hit the table, Erik's air fryer breakfast burritos, and why every sushi roll should be thinly sliced. Then the full story of the upside down guy at Chris's gym and how he finally got banned, the Vegas trip with a friend who gamble gambles and how Erik's wife made him an op, putting the best Congratulations episodes out on vinyl, Spotify pulling AI music, why people who can't tell what's AI yet deserve some grace, and whether cereal is soup.Get two extra episodes every month at https://Patreon.com/TheGoldenHourPodcastTo submit to the show email: [e-mail] or Dropbox Link: https://www.dropbox.com/request/fqtbexhxyaky9X8f8MV1In the subject line, specify whether your submission is King It or Sting It, Debate Club, Rip My Drip, Relationship Advice, or Flaunt My Aunt. In the body of the email, include the attachment, your name, where you’re from, and in the case of Flaunt My Aunt, the name of your relative.SUBSCRIBE to The Golden Hour Podcast: http://www.youtube.com/c/KingandtheSting Get your King and the Sting merch at https://thicccboy.com/collections/sale-home-pageFollow #TheGoldenHourInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/the.golden....Twitter:https://twitter.com/the_golden_hrFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/KingandtheStingAnd check out Brendan, Chris, & Erik on social media!Brendan Schaub:https://www.instagram.com/brendanschaubhttps://twitter.com/BrendanSchaubhttps://www.facebook.com/OfficialBren...Chris D'Elia:https://twitter.com/chrisdeliahttps://www.instagram.com/chrisdelia/https://www.facebook.com/chrisdeliaof...Erik Griffin:https://twitter.com/ErikGriffinhttps://instagram.com/erikgriffinhttps://www.facebook.com/erikgriffinc...See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

I said to Rachel, I was like, yeah. I was like, why, he was kind of crazy. She's telling his wife this. Oh, no. I say, I said, Rachel, what are you doing? She's like, well, you know, I would want to know if you were in Vegas. And I was like, hey, what are you doing? Your wife made you an op.

She made you an op. You are a good guy on people's team. Yes. This dude is like, Eric's an up. And he's, and he's right. He's right.

So, dude's laugh. We're friends that shout. Sometimes we don't know what we're talking about, but that won't stop us. Nothing can stop us. It's stronger. Really? So, dude, this, you know, this area that we're in right now is, like, very interesting. I feel like they're, like, they're, it's almost like they wanted to gentrify the area.

and then they gave up. For what? This one? Yeah. Well, it takes a bit, no? No, but I feel like sometimes, I think sometimes you see us like a real gentrification where it's like blocks and blocks of a neighborhood. Businesses closed down and they're being torn down.

And then you see like those condos going up. You see like, you know what I mean? Like I don't see that in this area, but it's interesting, this little shopping mall that we like to go to. So they got like the Mexican restaurant. little burrito place which I stopped eating burritos on on screen but I still love those burritos

Stop don't tear that much I didn't stop burritos I just stopped doing them on screen I know but I feel like that place has been there the longest Next to that is a weed shop Which the weed shop closed down Because they kept getting busted So they closed down But then there's this great healthy juice place

Right Yeah it's an odd mix Which we go there all the time The guys grade him His wife, they've come to my shows. I love them. And then there's a foo-foo coffee place. Yeah.

In this neighborhood. No, it's backwards, bro. Right? Because I was telling him, like, this is like, how, like, do people in the neighborhood come here? Like, I was like, do Cholo's coming here? Like, you had that combo with him? Yeah. What did he say?

He was like, yeah, man, it's an interesting mix of people. I just feel like, does somebody come in? Like, bro, let me get the, you know, the, let me get the green smoothie with, you know. Yeah. It doesn't seem like it's that kind of nature. Hey, I just rob somebody. I'm tired. Can I get it?

Espresso. Hey, bro, I'm looking for my electrolytes to get a, you know, reconditioned and, you know, replenished. Then the coffee place is, like, total one of those, like, if this was in West Hollywood, it would be like people would be writing scripts. Oh, yeah. You know what I mean? It's, like, really. So I'm glad the guy's doing well, you know, the folio. You like the coffee, huh?

Yeah. I like that. Sometimes I don't even make a coffee at home now. I come here. Yeah, I don't drink it too much, but this is good. 15 minutes early to come.

Well, you only drink it when you come here also to do the other one. Right, but I don't normally go there. I have a coffee first. I'm not going to do that whole drive without a coffee. Sometimes I'm just not.

You know what? We didn't have any beans. Sometimes he doesn't beeless. Check this out. I go to, we don't have any coffee beans. Okay. Sometimes.

I go to Rachel or go. I said, Where's our beans? You know, because I think maybe they came. And she goes, what are you talking about? The beans are in the pantry. I'm like, you think I'm asking you about beans? Oh.

Lime of beans? Yeah, yeah. I'm not asking you about the, she was like, so mad too. She's like, there's a bean area in the thing. And I'm like, you think I'm talking about those beans? You think I'm eating fucking fava beans? I fucking eight in the morning. It was so crazy.

Um, yeah. Okay, well, I'll be in Springfield, Missouri. Uh, I'll be in Phoenix. I'll be in a bunch of different places. I will be in, uh, Birmingham, Alabama, Alfred of Georgia, Buffalo, New York, New York. And then I got my European tour coming up here. That's gonna be on and popping, dude.

Can't wait to see what Brussels is like. I never been to Paris. I should go with you on this. Go to Chris. I come. Man, that would be just fucking, what I want you got in. be hard to handle. Just us walking out the street.

Me coming out with wardrobe. Me like, no, no, no. You're coming out with a different thing. That's it. It's like Laverne and Shirley. Oh, man. That's too bad. I know.

I know. I know. I got to get a little bigger and then we'll do it. You know what I mean? I got to get a little bigger? The crowd work videos are working. They sure are. I'm like, I was like, I was like,

I know. This dude is out here. I know. We really out you. And I, I, uh, yeah, I don't know, you know, I don't know about. Yeah, I'm selling good tickets. I just, I don't know. I, uh, I'm not.

So I need you to go to Eric Griffin.com and go, I'll be in Arizona. Two different clubs. Stand up live 27th through the 29th. I'm doing that. It's all, it's not on my. Somebody canceled the Thursday that they would do it. So I'm doing the Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. And I'm going to be there also at.

Kind of what I did. Tempe on the 30th. Know what I would love? I would love to do two weekends in a row in Phoenix. Oh, wow. I would stay there two weeks. I love Phoenix, bro. Really?

Yup. Oh, because you love the heat. This guy wants to do with the in-laws. We go walking to the place and this motherfucker takes his shirt off. Walking down the street in this neighborhood. Yeah. I'm really healthy. I ate two pints of ice cream two nights ago.

Oh, so you just give you your... Bro, I just go... I love to hear that. You love... Yeah. Live your life. Yeah. And I tell you what, I didn't feel bad mentally about it the next day.

And I also didn't feel bad physically even. Diet culture has it where they think, you cannot live your life. And then that's not sustainable. And I'll tell you, I ate, I spent $120 on ice cream. $120 on ice cream. Delivered it, handles. It's the best. Oh, my God.

I would never trust it. The old lady knows what's up. And I got. Let me ask you something. So when ice cream. getting delivered. Are you on the app? Like, you know how you could see where they're at, the GPS? Are you like, what's going on on my ice cream? Yeah. It's like, it's going to be melted. That would be my whole thing. But I got, I got an interesting tidbit for you after them. I don't

even say tidbit. I, yeah, that's not your word. That's not my word. And I almost feel like I wish I didn't say it. But what would you say instead? Interesting thing. I would just say, I would default to thing. I know. but I don't like how it like sounds cute and like I'm trying to be funny with a word Yeah You know Especially a word that everyone has used for funniness

I got to like to work my own There's a little tidbit Right right right right That's gonna be a segment It's gonna be like tidbits Right right right I By the time the ice cream gets to me

Mm-hmm It is The perfect consistency bro Oh I It is You know what I Bro?

Because there's nothing more infuriating than taking ice cream This is the sword in the stone? Then you have to do like Yeah, you got to take X caliber Oh, bro. They have to do that thing We have to like heat up the thing

Underneath the thing. Yeah. How about when like just the middle is a certain way Or like, oh, it's all uneven? You know what? This reminds me of like I don't normally like, if you go to Italian restaurant, I don't normally like to order pizza and it comes to the table.

Because it's always too hot. Better to be too hot than too cold. I know, but there's something about that trip from the pizza place. Yo, that's a beautiful. That's a beautiful. You know what, man, now we're really talking about the things I like to talk about, dude. There's something beautiful about the pizza. Gorgeous.

From the place to your place. Gorgeous. Open that box and the pizza is now formed. When it comes right from the kitchen and it goes right to your table, it's almost like you're like, this isn't the same kind of pizza. Oh, God, yeah. It's a weird, you know.

It's gorgeous. Oh, I got to tell you this, man. All right. So we go to this Italian restaurant in Santa Carina. Okay. Okay. There's only one other people. There's only one table in there that there's people.

The guy puts this, he's a, he's a, I love that pizza thing you said, man. I know. I know you got a new thing, but. God, dude. We'll talk about it. That's so awesome. So this guy, the waiter, he's a little chubby, white guy. It's just Italian place.

That's important to the story that he's just a regular white guy. Okay, okay. He doesn't look Italian, is what I'm saying. All right. He sits us down. He's talking regular, Santa Clarita. Then the food comes, and it turns into the godfather. What do you mean?

He's like, oh, the regular told me with the... I was like, dude, I was looking at this dude, like, what are you doing? That's some Santa Clarita. I was like, what are you doing, bro? He was like, you know, he turned into like, I was like, what it? Like, you can't. Did he at least do it good? I don't know if that makes it better or worse.

But you can't do this. You can't be like a white guy at a Chinese restaurant. You would the food wouldn't be like like, you know, the beep in broccoli. Dude, that's some shit that like fucking Joe Coy would do on the Tonight Show. That's hilarious. But I was like, it just was so bizarre. You know, I just look. It's the kind of thing.

like you're talking like this and all of a sudden you have a different accent. Yeah. Look at the guy. I was like, what do you? Is this part of the presentation? Yeah, maybe it is.

What's the place called? Because if it's called something cute, then that's what they got to do. If it's like good fellas, Italian. No, it's not, you know what I'm saying?

It is one of those like Bella something. Right, right, right. But, uh, yeah, but, uh, yeah,

you know, we got a pizza from Wolf there. You know, so we got his little cheese pizza. It's pretty fucking hot. It's hot as hell. I'll tell you what, man.

But he's good about it. Wolf goes like this. He goes hot, hot. Yeah. He'll still try to eat it though. He'll go, but the way he tries to eat it, I'm like, okay, he gets it. It's not like he just grabbed it. Because we went to dinner with a buddy of another couple.

We were at this Mexican restaurant with them, and they have a kid about Wolf's age. The kid just takes a chip, dips it into the hottest sauce in history and just, you know, and then he was hollering at the restaurant. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, but Wolf just doesn't do that. I, uh, the past, you know, maybe six years have been really just enjoying hot food, bro. And spicy hot?

Nope. I love spicy hot, but I'm talking about like hot hot, a, there's a right temperature for food where you go. Yeah. Antonio Banderas opening up the laptop. where it's just so nice, man. And there's also a coldness. That's the right temperature. And it depends on what you're eating.

And dude, like getting a nice hot pizza, bro. Or a good temperature pizza. Or getting a nice hot bowl of pasta. My God. Oh, Maron. I'm getting hungry, dude. I'm getting so fucking hungry right now. That didn't work at all.

That was... Oh, oh. Oh, then we're going to do us. I was walking out looking for the cue that did. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Yeah, there is like. It's the beginning of the song. That's how it starts, isn't it?

Yeah. It just goes, that's the start of our sitcom. It's 10 seconds in. There's a, but you get the bop right away. We don't want to, like, now we're going to be, oh, it's got to start with what I want. Yeah, 10 seconds. Nah, I didn't right.

I actually, you know what? When I made that back in a day on a disc, I cut the first 10 seconds because they go, fuck this bullshit. You want that shit to hit. What I want you. Yeah. Yeah. You want it to just go right there.

That's just busting out of the loos. Yup. With that fucking shit without it. No. But you were saying perfect cold. And you're excited. Yeah. Then you go that.

Yeah. And then what I won't. Yeah. Sure. Yes. Agreed. But it's just like when you order food. We order too much food.

We got to stop ordering. I told rage. We got to start cooking more. Yeah. But there is something. We started doing that. But there's a thing though where. Not me.

The, you know, you're looking and you're like, okay. No, no, no. I know. Then they get there And you're like I don't know Because there's nothing worse In having to put your food

In the microwave For the first time yeah Yeah The first time you eat it Yeah Leftovers is fine But yes I actually started putting it in an air friar

We have a glass air fire Even if you didn't say that I know you started doing that You got your fucking things Yeah I got my things I got a ninja glass air friar Your tidbits My tidbits

and I put, you know, cooking. I tell you what, man, I take, try bake, you like bacon? The bacon? Just bacon, yeah. Who doesn't like bacon? Okay, well, what I'm telling you is, I take the bacon.

I throw it in the air fryer. I put the air fryer outside, so there's how house don't smell like bacon, you know, and then I'm cooking the bacon in the air fry. It comes out so good. Wow. And then the, and now you put the thing in, so the grease is on the bottom, you know?

So first you can even defra, I get frozen bacon. I break it in half, and I put half, and I put half, of it in there. It'll defrost it after like three minutes. And then now you spread it apart. Three minutes, three minutes.

Bacon's good to go. It's delicious. The house don't smell like bacon. Now I got bacon, though. How's kind of nice smelling like bacon, though. No. No? Not at first?

Because you're like, ooh, right, right. It's a lingers a bit. Yeah, but like three hours later, you're like, why the fuck is my house still smell like bacon? You don't want that. No, then I started making my own breakfast burritos. So I got some good ass, you know, put the eggs. It's good.

It's delicious. Eggs, bacon, put some cheese on it, throw whatever else, and I know how to roll it now. You put it in the air friar. This fucking guy. You put it in an air fire for two minutes, and it comes out, I'm like,

oh, I'm never buying breakfast burritos again, because I got the jamming breakfast burritos. This shit, the jamming breakfast burritos. It's like Emeraldagasy. Bam. Yeah. So you can, you know, you realize you can, like, do a lot of this stuff that you, like,

you go to these places, you're like, what are we doing? What's that? He's been making steak in the air friar. It came out great. Oh, that looks good. Yeah, you can. That's another thing you can do to.

In the air friar, yeah, you can because the heat is so hot. You could get it up to like 450. That looks like it could be trick bad, though. Yeah. You go, this looks good. You didn't do it. You go, nah, that was a trick. Yeah, and what's up with that weird sushi?

This, look, if you make fucking sushi, is this Casey's? Yeah. If you make fucking sushi rolls, you got to put them in the clump together like they do in the fucking restaurant. You can't just circle him around like a white guy. By the way. We both love sushi. Man. There's this place we go.

And I said to it like I said. You know how you fill out the thing sometimes? Yeah. And I go, I wrote in the thing. Finely slice, please. So I don't even fuck with that thing. No, I do. I say, because I can't stand when the roll and they cut it were like into baseballs.

Yeah, it's terrible. I hate that. Because then you like, you get your chopsticks and you, but you're putting this big piece of thing in your mouth. Can you just thinly sliced? I love thinly sliced. Yeah. Look at the Santa Caritas, man.

It's hard to. We have a couple of places we go. We go, oh, this is pretty good. But then you, like, come to L.A. And you're like, oh, God. Yeah, but then you got to worry about your car in a parking lot. Yeah. Yeah.

I like thinly sliced. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We fucking know. I said it four times. I'm saying it again. I just want you to know. I'm putting it out there in the universe. Do you mean?

You know, you walk it in your sushi restaurant. Oh, there's thin sliced guy. There's thin sliced Eric. Yeah. So wait, so you mean thinly sliced? You mean the whole roll, not the, yeah. The whole roll. Because I can't stand.

When you go to a place that's too thick, they always make the ends super thick. Yeah, they do. Like the end is like a fucking sons of bitches. Like if you turn it on the side, it's like a plant. They do. Yeah. The shit's poking out. Like, no.

Yeah. What is this? A chia pet fucking cut it up. Cut that shit. Yeah. Make this look, you know. Like a plant Yeah

I Yeah so we got the So we got the ice cream And I just went ham bro I got Rocky Road I got fuck I don't even like rock I got Rocky Road Chocolate vanilla

A fucking court I got I got pints And then I got And they just It's still in the freezer right Yeah Well that's the good thing about ice cream Is this just fucking

I know but you're never going to eat that Ice cream again Oh why not You're not gonna eat that again Yeah I will When Oh you're saying Because I'm healthy

Yeah just You had your time. Well, by the way, my kids ate it yesterday again. Okay, with the kids, okay. Yeah, well, that's why. You're not going into the freezer like, oh, oh, yeah. Because of health reason, because I don't want to be, yeah, because I like to be more disciplined than that.

But if I get a hankering late at night, I will go in there and do it. Oh, hankering. Yeah, if I get a hankering, fuck it. So tidbit, hankering. Does you show in the 60s? You were going in today. Yeah, bro. If I feel enough moxie, I'll go in and fucking.

Oh, moxie. Yeah, yeah. No, you know, I'll ask my dame to make me up a fucking, no, but. You ask my dame. The old ball and chain. No, so, yeah, I will, I will do, I will do, I will do, I would do it. Yeah. The chocolate they have at handles, don't fuck around.

The coffee chocolate chip they have. Don't fuck around. The Oreo vanilla doesn't fuck around. Yeah, and use code golden. No, no, no, no. It feels like. Yeah, I know. People should do that.

Graham Central Station? Graham Crackers and Chocolate. Is that what it's called? Bro, Graham Central Station? You can't even, you go next stop, Flavorville. Next stop. Oh, man. You get Central Station?

Next stop taste buds. Here we go. You know what I should be talking about? I should be talking about like sit-ups and push-ups. Yeah, I know. You know what I know. I know. It's like we're doing the reversal.

Took the gym to task yesterday, though. That's the true. And we're back. And we're back. Yeah. The gym was like, the gym was like, yeah. Get him out of here.

Oh my God. I love it, but it's crazy. And so, and yeah, I, you know what happened officially? Officially, I'm ready to admit this. I know too many people at my gym now. You know what I'm saying? I know, I know, I know, because I'm me,

but like people, you know, they're going to put it. Oh, no, now's becoming a thing where you're just like, because you know what, I know what it is. The gym should work like, a good roommate. The best kind of roommate is this. I could walk in. I can just go like this.

That's it. I don't need to, your roommate don't need to be like, bad roommate is someone that's like, hey, have you eaten? Oh, dude. What's going on?

What'd you do? I haven't seen, you know. I'd rather keep the place messy than that. I had a roommate for years that like, I thought about this. If the cops were like, hey,

have you seen him? And if I had, I'd be like, oh, I actually don't know. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He might be a cat. I never see him. You know what I mean?

That's, So now you're in a situation at the gym now where people are like, Chris, what's up? You know, hey, buddy. And you're like, uh. Yeah. And all it takes is. Especially if you have to do this too. Huh?

Yeah. And you know what? I don't listen to anything when I work out. Oh, you're going to have to start faking it. Yeah, but I don't, I don't want. I think I'm just going to wear earmuffs. But here's the thing. I, I, what's that?

Fucking big furry. Sorry, man, just get fucking so cold. But the only. And you're boring. But here's the thing, though. Oh, this is actually a great. invention. Are you laughing at that? And you're bored.

Dude, here's the invention. The music only turns on when you do this. That's a good invention. You know what I mean? Why is it always at the beginning of the song when you talk to him? Such a great invention. It's like, you know, this is like, are you tired of talking to people?

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There's nobody at the gym that I don't like. Right? Everyone's very nice. I actually like seeing them. It's a great setup. And, you know, did I tell you about the guy who does the upside down stuff at the gym? Oh, no. I didn't?

No, tell me about that. Oh, wow, I never mentioned this on Golden Hour? Okay. The upside down guy? Yeah. So he's doing like your... No, if I... I'm saying he's doing your set from 2004.

Yeah. Fuck. 2007, I guess, yeah. No, so. Well, that's funny. I wasn't even doing stand up in 2004. But you were upside down. No, no, I was.

No, this dude is mainly upside down at the gym. Oh, I just. 80% of the time he's working out, he's upside down. And I have a feeling that it's the kind of thing where you could just look around and see people going like this. Bro. They're just looking. They're just going. It's the kind of thing where you, if he's close and you're near someone else, even if you don't know him, you look at him and you go, right?

So it would be so great if the upside down guy just happens to watch this podcast. And then we get him on. So, okay. So I talked about this guy on on congratulations. I know you don't like what I say this, but I talked about him the whole episode. It's the episode called The Ballad of the Upside Down guy, okay? Lincoln put a link Okay

It's a It is It is I will say You know Episodes are Some episodes better know That episode is a fan It should be in a criterion collection

Okay So When you put out the DVDs So This guy Is one of those guys That This would be great to get your take on it

honestly because I did talk about this on my episode but it'll be great no it'll be great to have your guys's take and you're and also this audience some people don't listen to that so um this guy what I was working out next to a woman that was working out on a different machine she asked me something about something an attractive woman okay most people are attractive in that gym you go to male or yeah yeah yeah actually it's a prerequisite right to go to that particular gym So there's this guy who's been upside down months. I mean, bro, he does exercises. Does he walk in on handsstands?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. He might as well. There's, I think it comes in from the ceiling. But, but, but so this guy is, uh, I, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, upside down 70% of the time in the gym. Okay. How? The dips, the fucking.

upside down doing these things. He's mostly does core. It's just fucking obnoxious, right? And I take secret pictures of him. And I, oh, as a matter of fact, I have a whole library on him. Is it up, it's called the upside down? Upside down guy.

But you have to look at it like this. So look, yeah. So look. Only pictures of him. He's always, always upside down. Okay. So, and I, and what I do is I don't put him online. I, well, I guess I just did right there.

But I send him, I send these pictures to my group chat. Yeah. With my brother in it and shit like that. I just, I don't. Other secret group chat. Yeah. I've never seen this. No, no.

I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't say anything about him. I just send. it and I've sent like 14 pictures throughout the months okay and I go this guy's and I I'm coming out you know what is this guy a fucking bat you know he's always upset down so you know there's a lot of workouts where you know sometimes you don't know if if if if you're doing a workout that is valid or worth doing okay now this guy is too fit to be doing what he's doing. It's a,

this is a bullshit exercise, whatever he's doing. It doesn't do anything extra. Ah. But he's too fit to, to be doing it because you're like, bro, you're done already. Yeah.

Okay. So, so it's like a clean car that you're just already shiny and he's going. Yeah. He walks around very, gets upside down, does the fuck a day. Walks to another thing.

You know, very, sometimes you go, whoa. Right? So there's this one day where he's talking to, where I'm, you know, this, I'm doing the hack squat. The other woman is doing a regular squad or deadlift or something. It was a while ago. And she asked something, I can't remember what it was, but I then leave the hack squat and do another exercise.

She's still there, I guess. I see him talking to her. Okay. and and so then I see her go like right some happen

other people are like what? I'm like what? So I'm over near her again and I say, what happened? It's like this guy is so known at the gym

it's such a thing everybody sees it that it's totally appropriate to be like so what happened? I come to learn that the dude said, is that your dude to her? Uh-huh. And she was like, no.

She was like, really? And she's like, I don't know him. Like, I just, and he was like, well, just so you know, he talks to all the trainers in here. So, you know, you should be with him. You should be with another person. What? Okay. Okay.

So are all the trainers, what is that? Are they all women or something? I guess. I don't know. Yeah. Yeah. That's weird. That's what he meant women, right?

That's weird. Which, by the way, I don't really do that. Right, right, right. You know? And so... You're too busy working out. Yeah, yeah. And you're like, you're having conversations with yourself.

100% I am. He's fucking... Yes, I am. I know how you are, yes. So... Nice. Nice, dude. Oh, wow.

Fantastic, look. He's got hands for feet. That's hilarious. Oh, my God. This is great. Okay, so... Now you got to make a little video Where he pulls it up

Somebody comes over Hey That's like Jason Statham one That one was hilarious I was thinking about that last week Laughing in the car Dude

Just go Ah, it was too bright So Right Yeah yeah Yeah To go to the bathroom yeah So I

So I'm like Oh I got to go say something to him Yeah Right But I do this thing where like I'm 46 now All right You know what

Let me take a beat Let me not fucking react You can't just... Yeah. So you go over and you go. I go do some more... I go over and do... So I get on this level.

So I do more sets and then I realize, you know what? For somebody to do that is a... That's a crazy person. That's a person that's mentally not well. Yeah. If I am going to say something to him, I shouldn't do it here at the gym. Who knows what will happen? Maybe if it happens again or something like that.

So I don't say anything, okay? Which is against my nature. I want to be like, the fuck but i'm like i don't know the chick i don't know the fucking dude i just want to work out but not even confrontational right you just want to be like hey man right i would have i would have done it that way yeah i know again you're just even there's like a curiosity yeah totally so but i don't do anything and i i see them all the time so i'm like maybe i'll do it another time you know what i mean so i go back to the gym i leave i go back to the gym another time i don't know if it

was the exact next time or it was maybe one of the next few times some sometimes sometimes dude comes up to me and he says hey man did something happen with you and that upside down guy is he like the upside down guy so now there's like a lore with me and the fucking upside down guy so merch and i'm like now you got to say something well i'm like well no i say what do you mean and he says well uh i saw the other day when he came up to that woman and did the thing right and so i said oh yeah i guess he said this which is what he said and then and then the guy says um that happened to me with that guy. I said, what do you mean?

Right? Because it's so specific. And he said, I like kind of knew this woman at the gym from like school. And we had an exchange. And this guy came up to her and said, hey, you shouldn't talk to that guy. You can do better. Wow. So I'm like, he did?

now you know you're just dealing with a so now i'm like oh i'm glad i didn't say right right you know what i mean this guy's just a fucking lunatic yeah so months go by at this gym i see him sometimes and he's doing his thing you know i'm like i don't know by the way he looks like a dude that would fucking like if everyone in the world got in a fight he would come in sixth place it's just and it's because of his uh tenacity you know what i mean it's not because of his muscles or knowledge of fighting. You would be like, you can't kill him.

It would be like that. So, so, uh, a few months go by and, uh, you know, you know,

I'll run into that other guy and I'll be like, do you have anything with upside down? I'd be like, no. So three weeks ago, this guy comes up with, uh, to me,

that same guy. And he says, hey dude, uh, apparently that guy, uh, used to be a trainer at this gym. a long time ago and he stopped

and now he just works out here and everybody's got a problem with him and I was like really why don't they fucking kick him out and the management comes up and he's like I know the manager really well so then the next time I talk to the manager and the manager I'm like he comes up he's like I heard what happened

I was like yeah bro this guy's fucking crazy he's like why don't you just throw him out like not even like I'm not saying like get him out of here but like what what if he's doing this if he's a problem yeah yeah yeah and he's like it's like it's really hard to kick someone out of the gym and I'm like all right

I don't give a far. So, so then last week, they come up, both of them come up to me. The guy and the manager, and he's like, hey dude, um,

it happened again with another guy. And I go, the same thing. And they go, yeah. And they said, except they happen to live in the same apartment complex. So the upside down guy,

went to that guy's door, knocked on it, and said, said, did you complain about me? Oh. I'll fucking kill you. Oh, no. And the dog was barking and says, I'll kill your fucking dog too.

So they finally banned him from all of the gym I go-toes. Worldwide. He can't go anywhere. It's a weird name for the gym. I go-toes. Upside-down guy, bro. No more upside-down guy. The guy got fucking banned for threatening someone's life, bro.

I was like, well, how can you kick him out? I was like, well, you can't threaten someone's life. I was like, damn. They fucking kicked him out. This guy was a problem, bro. Nobody liked being around this dude. It was so fucking weird. There's something going on with him.

But yeah, you realize that, and that's, I fucking can't stand crazy people, man. Yeah, but you don't even know someone's crazy until, you know what's like when everyone thinks of crazy. They think of like someone outwardly being crazy. all the time. Then you're like, like schizophrenic or like, you know,

that's a cartoon version of crazy. Yeah. This is more realistic crazy. And that's pretty fucking crazy. Yeah, because people who are less crazy are still a problem. I know,

but there's a part of you that's just kind of like, well, I already have some judgment because this guy's upside down all the time. You know what I mean? There's a part of you that's like, hey man,

mix this shit up. It's like somebody doing leg day all, like every day is leg day. Well, yeah. You have an upside down day. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, it's upside down day.

Yeah. And that's kind of funny. And people are talking about it. And they're like, oh, it's upside down. Sure, yes. You know, but if every day is upside down day, you're already like, this is weird. Every day, every day was upside down.

So then when he's talking to the girl, and then you were in a position where he's just kind of like, what, okay, what's this about? You know, and you let it go. I thought that was the best choice. It was. It was. It turned out. It definitely was.

You know, you just go. okay, you know, it's like, wow. Oh, man. Like, that's the kind of crazy, you know, you end up, you know, that guy's. Yeah, you end up dead. Yeah, somebody has up dead. It's like the godfather and the dog head is in the bed with the guy. I know.

You know what I mean? It's like, that sucks. And I don't even think he even meant it like that. But when you, when you're upside down all the time, you can't stay stuff like, I'll kill you and your dog. I know, bro. Like, a random person can say that. You're just like, you know, oh, you're tough talk.

Oh, you're going to. Right. But they do this like, well. This guy's upside down most of the time. I'm glad I'm privy to this information. Is this Vecna? You know, you're like, what's that? That's the from stranger things.

Oh, oh, oh, oh. I don't even know if I even said that right. But yeah, that's, yeah, man. Nah, so. Yeah, I don't. It was just so unsettling, bro. It's like. That's a good crazy person story.

I'm trying to think myself. Have you experienced something like that, Nick, where it's like a particular person that's like off the beaten path. You know what I mean? Like, it's like, you go, oh, this is how even like, let's say there's a, there's a spectrum of like somebody gets really angry and you know it. You're like, oh, that guy's lost his temper. Right, right, right. And there's a levels of where, right, right.

There's different levels. Yeah. Then there's just like a person that is just like, oh, you're. Well, well, nothing happened. Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're like, what are you? What's going on?

Yeah. It was just the gym being the gym and people having a little bit of a kind of quick conversation. And that's set this dude off. Right. Right. Well, it was more than that. Well, right. Yeah. Well, his childhood started. His pictures are all over a group chat. He's probably in a meme someplace.

He doesn't know. But I'm just saying, like, it's like, you know, you know, I think that enough people. Well, he probably, he's probably upside down and he's looking. Right now. I know, but he's looking at people and he sees people going like, what the fuck? Yeah. He probably sees that. This started a long time ago.

He's probably, you know what he's probably thinking? You know what he's probably thinking? Why is everybody upside down? because he's the one who's upside down. I had this guy just send me death threats and he would just repeatedly make a new account and send it. But I was like talking to shit back to him. But he's like, come up for my place in Norcail.

I got guns, blah, blah, blah. I'm like, come down here. I got guns. Like, I was kind of trolling. We're all going to get shot because of the name. But that was probably the closest thing I've ever. Well, let's not say his name on the thing. Yeah, yeah, of course.

I'm not going to put that on screen either. Well, I had a thing like that too. I was. that's so fucked up. I'm online gaming, you know, and you have moderators, you know? Yeah. So this one guy was just saying nonsense,

and so the moderator, so then the guy just goes in, you know. He's like, all right, I see that Eric's going to be in my town, you know, you know, it sucks, and he's going to have to lose his life over, you know, over this.

And, you know, and he's just going in and in, you know, then he's like, oh, you know, I'm, I'm, about to buy a ticket. I don't know if he's worth this amount. That's the part that hurt me. You know what I mean? Especially because he got him on Groupon.

So he's saying all this stuff. And so that you see that kind of thing and there's a part of you that's like, there's a part of you that's like, oh, what the? Then the other part of me was like, this guy, really, this is how you're going to do it? Yeah, no, I know.

He's not going to do it. So you're either crazy or. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, if somebody does that online, though, honestly, they should have jail time. I mean, I know that it's tough But if you threaten someone's life Yeah, in that way

In that way, bro It was just so, it was so, then, you know, I didn't even think about it Until I remember I was there and I was like, Oh yeah, that guy's gonna kill me. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, wait, that's right. These are my last few days.

Yeah, you know, I was like, oh yeah. But then it was like, you know, it's never that, you know what I know? Like so many people are like, you know. A lot of tough talkers on end of that man. A lot of tough talkers, bro. Did you feel a lot of relief that you never said anything to them?

there is an extra thing I have to think about because he's going to know who I am and then he could always fucking so yeah um but that's always to think no I know I know I know yeah I always said it's you know all the haters whatever it's like you look at my schedule you can you know no there wasn't a relief honestly because I did I when I went into my pockets and talk about it I go when I sat down I go all right I got to make sure I'm not going to talk about this upside down guy because it's going to get back to him I sat down I sat down and I go, welcome to congratulations. So here's what happened at the gym. I didn't even. And it was a whole episode. Yeah. Should be criterion conduction. But yeah.

So I'm sure he, I'm, look, dude, everybody at the gym came out to me afterwards in the next few weeks. They were like, I heard that episode. So he probably knows it. Oh, no. But I don't care. Fuck him. Fuck him. See, I'm always worried it out by that.

Like my, my, I didn't, you don't know. But again, what is a public thing? We're doing a public thing. One of my neighbors said to me. He was like, oh, yes, you and Chris talking about it. And I was like,

I know, I used to not like that either, but now it's just such the world we live in. But I used to be like, like, I used to embarrass me when people were like, I saw your Instagram. I'm like,

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you listen to podcasts. Okay, I got something. Do you have a friend of Gambles, like Gamble Gambles? Oh, that's right. Nick Gamble, Gamble. But I don't, all right. So I might. When he says that, I'm like, I don't do that.

Yeah, so you know he does. I know people who do that. I know. I'm kidding. My buddy loves this podcast. Cut to Nick looking in the mirror. I'm about to talk about him. I'm not going to say his name.

He knows I'm about to talk. Okay. So we set up this thing, you know, I went to Vegas with him. Okay. You know, we talked to the wives. You know, they were like, they got together. You know, they went? No, they didn't.

We were just going to go for a night. This is the kind of thing. I didn't know what kind of Vegas guy he was. Yeah. Oh, okay. You get what I'm saying? Yeah. Like, it's like, you know, it's like a family business.

It's, there's, there's, yeah. You know what I mean? Look, I'm going to go to Vegas with you. And he's like, you know, we stayed at a really nice. We had this really nice room. It was like, I was like, wow, we got it all for free, all they kind of stuff. Cool. You know?

And it was a good thing too where like Rachel, she was, she, she was okay with it and not okay with it. Because I said to him, you know, I was like, well, yeah, let's go. We can go for another. Just talk to the girls. they can get together with the kids, you know. And then he's like, yeah, okay, well, yeah, we're going to go. And she's already texting Rachel. And I'm like, oh, shit, I haven't.

You know what I mean? I have to like, I got to ease into this, man. Doesn't sound like a guy you go to Vegas here. But, okay. So, of course, Rachel's like, oh, so you're going on a Vegas trip, blah, blah, blah. And I was like, no, we're just going to go for one night. It's just like a night. We're going to come right back, you know, you know what I mean?

So I was like, you know, so that became a thing. Oh, going to Vegas, you know, but whatever. They got together. It was fine. Yeah. Listen, I gamble. Yeah. I love playing craps.

Yeah, that's fun. Him and I love talking about craps. This guy. Oh, wow. I mean, this is the kind of guy he is. He walks up to the table. He looks at the guy and he says, give me, you know.

Oh. Like, they know him. Oh. He was like, watch this. You know, they're like, hey, what's up? How's your dad? And blah, blah, blah. You know, and he gets a marker, you know.

Wow. And I'm like, oh. So you. You're like, you're like, you gamble. gamble. And then we were at like a $50 table. And I'm looking and I said, can I just? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

He goes there often enough where he goes, yeah, can my guy just bet what, you know, and they go, sure. Wow, that's gangster. Yeah. So I'm like, you know, I got my little system, you know, and this, and he was just going in. He was going ham. Wow. You know, like, and I was like, oh, wow, like this is like, you know, like,

He's the kind of gambler that he's going to catch a heater. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And walk out of there with $150,000. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm never going to get to that. Right, right. It would have to be the luckiest streak ever, and then I'm going to be talking about it forever.

I'm like, remember that time I started with $300? And I, you know what I mean? It's going to be like that kind of thing. We'd hope Eric wouldn't keep bringing it up. You're like, yeah, I'm going to bring up the thing. Proportionally, though, what did he, you know, that it was just like, and then, you know, we went to it. And then, like,

He was like, it didn't go well at this board table. And it's like vibes too. It's like, you know, he's one of these guys is like, yeah, you know, don't talk to the guy. Oh, okay, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's in a witchcraft. He's totally into witchcraft. But I get it.

I'm a vibes guy too. I think when the vibe is great at a table. Well, yeah, having fun or you're not. You could have fun losing. Right. But I remember the greatest time ever I had at a craft table, I was at MGM Grand. There was this old woman.

She must have been 80. rolling the dice and she would go like this one yeah yeah yeah yeah three so fun and she would say natural

listen to me 45 minutes later the whole table with people surrounding the table were going like this one wow that's cool people were throwing money over

like 100 on 10 and like you know it was bananas I wish I was there you know it was like one of the things I think I won like $11,000 It was like that kind of role.

Natural role. So my guy, he's always chasing that. Sure. You know, so we even went, you know, but it was just like, so this is my thing. I'm trying to, okay, I'm trying to get to. So like, you know, you talk to your wife. They were all, I said to Rachel, I said, yeah. I was like, wow, he was kind of crazy.

She's talking, she's telling his wife this. Oh, no. I say, I said, Rachel, what are you doing? She was like, well, you know, I would want to know if you were at Vegas. And I was like, hey, hey, what are you doing? Like, what are you doing? It's like, now I'm in a, it's like, it's such a weird position. No.

Because, you know what I mean? You know what? Because by the way, you know. This is her friend's husband who now we had to go on a play date at first and now we're, we're cool. He, I consider he's a friend. You know what I mean? But it's like, oh.

You got a. Oh. No, you know what happened, dude? You're not this. You're not this. You are not this. I know you very well. You are not this.

But your wife made you an op. She made you an op. I'm a si-op. She made him. I'm a relationship of si-op. You are a good guy on people's team. Yes. And your wife decided one day to make you an op.

Right under the bus. Wow. I mean. And I said, This dude is like, Erickson, up. And he's, and he's right. He's right. And dude, you know what the thing, too?

It's a no fault of your own either. And then you're in this position too. I'm looking at it. I'm like, she's like, well, I'm your wife. Who do you, who are you supported? Yeah, well, then shut up, bitch. So I was like, but the thing is, it's like, they, I know them. They love Vegas, him and his wife.

It worked out fine. You're working, because they, they, they lived in Vegas. Yeah. She knows. She even said to Rachel, like, I got to let him go on his own because he likes to do his thing. And I don't want to be in the way. So I'm like, thank God. Because imagine if it was like the wife doesn't know anything about his gambling at all.

And then I'm saying this, just being in confidence to my wife. Like, yeah, it was like, because again, I just thought it was wild. I was like, dude, slow down. Like maybe you have a plan. Right. And he was like, no, we were out of, you know what crapless craps is. So you could bet on all the numbers, you know. Nick knows crappless craps, you know?

Oh, really? Okay. But anyways, so do you normally craps if you get like a two, a 12, a three, or an 11, and you can win on 11, but the other ones do you crap out? Right. But those can actually be numbers. Okay. But I'm talking about this guy, you know, he was like, $300 on this one, $400.

And then he would press it and press it. And I was like, wow, he swings for the fences. And all I was saying to my wife was like, I, he asked for money that I would have been willing to walk out with, you know? Right. You know what I mean? To start gambling. Yeah.

So I'm just saying casually like, well, this was a lot, man. This was crazy. She just casually tells me, yeah, you know. Oh, yeah, I told us on so. I was like, yeah, I didn't know. Eric was like freaked out about it. And I was like, oh, no, dude. What are you doing?

That's the op maker. I was like, what are you doing? Dude, she's in, she's a position. So my boy, I know you watch. I love you. You know. You know. You know.

He watches? Yeah. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. You know that's not. Yeah, yeah. Of course not.

But man, you know, you married an op maker, bro. But that's just an op. That's always a difficult position you're in when you're with, you know, your wife. Because like if you have a couple that you know, oh yeah. You know what I mean? No, I know. You know what point are they like, you know, what's the loyalty? Where's the loyalty?

I know. Where is it supposed to be? So you're just in a situation where you're like, well, I guess this is. Sometimes I got to tell my wife, I don't want to share that information because it's not, mind to share. I understand I can tell you and you know if... But now Yeah, but what do I... I gotta be like that.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, and I, and I, you know, there isn't stuff that I, I wouldn't tell her like that because I, I hope I didn't marry an op maker. Yeah, but... But again, just sit down and have a conversation with her. Sweetie, you created an op. I tried. I tried. And her whole

thing about it was like, I was like, oh, this is a very justified opinion. Hers? Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, so I just have to go, you make a choice. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You ever been putting this?

No, it's true, it's true. She feels like, yeah, I get it. I remember one time I won't even say names, but it was some comics, and it was back in the day I met just for laughs. And there was some comics were talking smack about this one comic. He's a friend of mine.

So I go to him and I say, I say to him in confidence, it's like, hey man. Yeah. Just so you know, you know, this guy took such offense that he like immediately went to the person.

That was like, and it was like, he was like, then that person comes to me. And so I had to go like this. Yeah, but that's, at that point I go,

yeah, man. That dude's a bitch though. Yeah, you know. I mean, it's like, come on. He knew to because he said to me later.

He was like, ah, man, sorry I did that. Oh, that's crazy. He was like, I'm sorry I did that, man. And I just was like, it pissed me off.

Take a B, bro. And I was like, oh, no, what do you do it? But I just had to own it. Knowledge is power. What I'm saying is I just didn't. I did, like at that point, just like with my friend. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. At that point, I'm like, I have to just be like, that happened.

I did say something. Right. Sorry. Right. Right. Hmm, interesting. Yeah. Because I think.

Like, I love this. Exactly. Wait, let's see what else. Wow. Did you just say pick random episodes? I tried to pick ones I remember it and stuff.

Oh, the drool of baseball. Wow, that was a criterion collection one. Yeah. Yum was the, that really was, well, put me on the map. I don't know why you don't do something like this.

That's funny. The prolo on the Berber, but these are really good ones. I don't remember the whoop-de-scoop-scoop-whoop-poop one. It was just you listened to that. That song. But back when you could listen to shit like that on YouTube and not get

yeah you can't even like we got dinged for something again the unfollowing it's like it's so crazy that they can this is hilarious dude you guys send me that yeah that's good what else should be in the criterion collection

I'll ask yeah you should this is great okay you should just make this that was when I was uh after Adam Carolla show I worked at Funnier Dye and I walked a mile each way and I was listening to congratulations to and from work

oh hell yeah that's awesome So this is kind of a dream come true for Nick. Yeah, he's over at this point. Yeah, that's that whole thing. When you meet your heroes. Yeah. No, you're good.

No, no, I know. The commemorative to the vinyl edition. I honestly, I'm not even joking. I think that if you did put this on vinyl, like, you know, or something. Some people would get it for sure. I think it's, but you make it a thing. Even if people don't use the DVD or the, you put a drive in there,

one of those USB drive, whatever kind of thing. Because you can put one episode. Yeah, even on a vinyl. I know, but it would be like, but it could be just,

yeah, yeah, it's just like a thing, you know? You put a whole episode of like about, about this. That's what you would put on it. And then you sell that.

I would think that would be great. That's making me want that. I know. I know. This is a very interesting thing. Like, you know what I mean? you see about the AI

about how Sam Aldman was saying you could listen to have a podcast Did we talk about this? No, you could have a podcast We did? Oh, okay. No, not about the podcast. I know, but you know what's,

okay, but on that same line, you know what's weird is how there's a social media platform, I don't even know if this is real for the AIs. Okay. And they're showing all the things that they're making up their own language

because they're like, people are watching us. I don't even know if that's real. But I saw like something about that and you just kind of like, you know, where are we? the world right now but i think there's such a pushback on ai right now yeah the i i music like that they're there i my buddy of mine makes ai music so i always send them these videos i see of like

people talking about the lawsuits people showing how they you know they used all the real music to train it and without you know paying any royalties and and all this stuff and now spotify's removing ai music a lot of like oh really the the the duplicate uploads because they're because they're using that to like hack the system to get money. There's just so many like you know, there's so many things about the pushback on AI that I don't know. I think I don't know where it's actually going to be in like a few years. Because like I would say six months ago it was like, oh my God, AI is going to take

over and everything. And now six months later you're hearing people, you're hearing companies talk about, we probably shouldn't have fired the people that we fired. It's becoming too expensive to do the AI. I don't know. I don't know. I think we're already beyond the point of. I don't.

I understand, but I don't know if it's going to be in the way that we thought it does. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, it never is, is it? Yeah, I know, right? Yeah, it's a, it's a weird, it's a wild world. Yeah. What's going on in your mind? And Will Smith keep eating spaghetti.

Hmm? What? Right, that spaghetti. Yeah. Yeah, well, that's going to be how, well, eventually we're going to not be able to tell the difference between Will Smith eat spaghetti, AI, and Will Smith eating spaghetti. and then I guess that's when that meme will end. Well, I think it will when we could see Will Smith is not, you know. That's still my favorite.

Oh, that's hot. That's hot. It is. There we are. The pinnacle of AI was there. When, when, when, when, like, there's just, that's bad. I don't like that one.

There's no art to it. This is crazy. But, but there's still, you could tell, obviously. You could tell it's like. I heard it can create multiple scene cuts like this. with a single prompt you know and it knows when the cut to whoever is talking but did you know that all this audio was also generated with the same prompt i i guess i didn't sir study harder kid eat your spaghetti oh that this one was the one this is when it was art bro i know but the thing

about i'm not stand by that that But the thing about that, though, is like, I maintain that's not a single prompt. That's the lie. Right. At this point. That's the lie. Yeah. The lie is not that you can, you know, you can't make shit like that.

No, no. You got to single prompt. It takes a lot of work. Yeah. And they need to be. Yeah. Because you're, what, you just guess the prompt then? Yeah.

No, yeah. You know, you had to work on that. Yeah. But back in 2023. Oh, wow. That's not even that long ago. Oh, bro. Like at what point

Weren't you supposed to be showing us videos Nick That'd be the next Patreon Yeah yeah yeah of AI videos yeah It's that's Yeah I don't know Okay here's Here's a thing man

Okay So My mom when she was alive You know like say And then like eight years ago Let's say There'd be all those like fake phone calls And all the scamming

Right When you think about getting old And I think about even for myself right now at my unk age. There's one thing to not know stuff, you know, and then you're like, you're like an unc and you're like,

hey, how do you do the thing? And the kids are like, ah, come on. You do it like this. And you're like, oh, wow. But there's another thing now to like not know

the thing that you're seeing isn't real. Yeah. Like that's, you know, that's different. Like you might see a, like you see a news story or, you know,

or even like, the bad, ones I feel are like the ones that are like they've taken old footage and turned it into something. So it might be a story like like that Bruce Lee stuff. You know, and you're like, oh, this is what Bruce Lee was doing. And you're like, oh, wow, I didn't know Bruce Lee was doing that. That's just a thought you would have. It's a person.

Yeah. You know, you're 50 and up and you're like, man, did you know Bruce Lee? And then like, everyone else is like, come on, um, that's AI. Right, right. And you're like, oh, that makes people so uncomfortable. It makes because you're like, there is a. part of you that's like well that looks real to me so like why are they doing that why aren't they saying that this is fake so then what else is fake like does everyone know that everything is is

fake or not is everyone sitting at home like that's a i that's not a i yeah no i don't know i mean but but because how about this because if people could put out allegations and rumors and people believe them and there's no video at all right right right true so now that you have this thing I just feel like it's like that's the scary part about it. I'm fine not knowing how to do stuff. Like when my mom didn't know how to work the remote and that was like, okay, I got to set this up for her. I'm like, okay, and that's one thing not to know to remote,

but it's one thing to see a video where the remote can now, and my mom would be like, can you make the remote turn on the microwave? Like the video I saw? Right, right, right, right, right, right, right. Now I'm like, but that's not real. Right. You know, so I think that that's like, I think we, I think we need to have a little bit more grace for people that don't understand, that don't, they're seeing this thing for the first time.

They happen to Eric too much. No, but I saw that one of the, it was like those newscaster things where they'd be like, we're out here and such and such and then like Godzilla is here, you know, and it looks so real. Right. It's like people are going to end up fucking committing suicide off this shit. Right. Yeah. So I just, I don't know. Maybe bleep that out.

But the, uh, I said, sluers side but the uh the yeah the yeah because it's like the war of the worlds back on a radio yeah yeah it's war the worlds and so who is susceptible to that we're living in this transition time right now where especially for older people yeah yeah like even like i mean i i can look at stuff and be like okay now it's starting to be like twins like i like i was telling you that other time it's like if you know twins and they look exactly the same but there's a moment where you know the difference and you can never unsee it. AI is like that right now.

There is something in it now that like you go, oh, that's AI. You can't describe it. You can't necessarily be like, but there's a thing that's happened where you go, oh, that it's music. Uncanny Valley. It doesn't feel like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know what it is.

But it's, excuse me. Stop coughing. Still, there's a point where I understand people that have never seen anything like this before would be like, this feels real to me. I'm like, I'm good at deciphering it, but I'll still, I'll scroll past something. Yeah. Oh my God. Then I'll find out it's AI, but then later I'll like remember that thing.

Oh, yeah. It's like it's implanted. Yeah. It's real like jelly roll was, there's this video jelly roll talking about that, uh, his wife cheated on years ago. Yeah. And then I was like, oh my God, but then I found out it was AI, but I like recall it later. Dude, that's a real thing.

That is something that is a problem. For instance, you can learn something, besides the AI of it, you can learn something that's false. Yes. And then learn it's false, but still think of it as fact. I got a good example of that too. Both points I'm making here is like how you should have grace for people. So there was that Michael Sarah video where he's going off on the director. Right, right, right, right.

I saw that just casually on the Instagram. You're looking at it. It's a good example, yeah. And I was like, oh, wow, I didn't know. That sucks. So I remember I said to Matt, I was like, man, you see it? Because he was going through something I said. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's just like that Michael Seraph thing. He was like, man, that's AI. Yeah. But the way he said it to me, I was like, well, I mean, how do you know? Yeah, yeah, yeah. How am I supposed to know that's AI? Yeah, yeah. Like, so now you have to like, but what it does is we, now,

you have to question everything. And I don't think that's good. I don't think that's good. No, I mean. I just don't think that's good. I don't think we should all assume that everyone should know what AI is. No, of course not. Especially as time ticks, as time goes by.

I mean, you're not going to know. The cut to, like, there's a real video of Will Smith eating spaghetti. Yeah. He's going to be like, is that real? Yeah. He can now, you know what? He can now make a video of himself eating spaghetti. I think he did.

And no one will believe it. I think he did do that. You know what I mean? He'd be like, he ain't eating spaghetti. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. How about this real or AI?

a day in the life of Angel Reese. What's AI? Oh, no, that's real. Real? Oh, that's hilarious. Nah, it's not that funny. She just misses everything. That's not really that funny. They made it?

No, I'm enjoying seeing it, but it's, they made this. Oh, by the way, somebody hit, I get, I've gotten a lot of great messages from about our last episode. About what? The guy hit me up, he said, man, I had a whole conversation with my wife about this. he goes, a wet burrito is just a big enchilada. And I was like, oh, you're right.

Yes, it's an enchilada. Brought the issue home to his wife. Well, then somebody else sent me a message and said, is cereal soup? Right. You know, and I was like, oh, God, is it soup? Soup is hot, I think, even though there's cold soup. No, you can't say that. What's it cold soup?

Carpaccio. Carpaccio, whatever it is. He's a fucking Tony Soprento. Carpaccio. It's good. Ploge, whatever it is. Gisbacho. Yeah.

There is cold soup. There's other kinds of cold soup. Is it the milk that makes it soup? I don't know. I tell you, that's not something that's interesting. Nah. But if it's delivered at the right temperature. That was interesting to me.

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