The Snark Tank - #195: Chris is a Quitter

Episode Date: December 23, 2023

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Starting point is 00:01:15 Hey, everybody, welcome back to the Snark Tank podcast. Welcome, welcome one and all. We are in the mid, we're in the middle of December as we are recording this. We're equidistant, basically, from all the holidays in the beginning of December. We're smack dab in the middle. We're going to try and get to as many of your questions as possible. Remember, you can ask your questions over at patreon.com slash a snark. tank.
Starting point is 00:01:37 Check out the tiers over there to see what's going on. There's some cool extra ammo episodes there. One that I'm really, really fucking have. I'm really, I'm so, I'm so pleased with the Gears of War I can't even tell you. But that's up there. We just did a Steam, a guest the Steam review game type thing. We did it once before and people seem to like it. So we did it again, ran out the year.
Starting point is 00:02:02 A bunch of other stuff like that. So pop on over there. I don't normally do the housekeeping this this quick, but I always forget. So I got to do it. That's fair. Yeah, I guess... It's time to begin, isn't it? I guess we'll focus on questions because I don't really know much that's...
Starting point is 00:02:21 I don't know. Stuff has been happening, but, like, I don't know enough about any of it at all. Like, I have no idea. I know there's some stuff with the completionist. I know that Twitch rolled back their nudity policies or whatever the fuck after, like, less than a day. after less than a fucking day. They rolled it back already? Oh, you didn't know?
Starting point is 00:02:43 What happened? Did someone wall out immediately? Well, everybody was just like, too many people. Yeah, everyone. Straight up naked? Like, straight up naked? Well, no.
Starting point is 00:02:52 Everyone was just pushing the boundaries. People were theory crafting, essentially. And they were like, oh, let's, uh, this wasn't a good idea. But that sucks. I think that would have been a pretty cool idea of people that do not safe for work art and stuff like that. Look, man, it would have been totally normal if they would have did it outside of a meta. If they just made an announcement like, hey, we're going to let this happen.
Starting point is 00:03:16 People were so hopped up, especially with the new, what, the artistic nudity meta? You know, like, they were like people now really wanted to get in on it and go hard on the pain. I mean, hell, I don't stream anymore. And I even thought, like, what can I do? like I was thinking like oh I can do male camel toe streams or something this is this piece it's insane is it like there's like people that were just like trying to do it like oh I can like make some cool stuff I can do some cool things I can like draw you know like some rather suggestive things you know they make money off of it
Starting point is 00:03:51 and then there's like motherfuckers like you that are just like oh how can I make this company regret their decision yeah not even like how can I do something fun how could I just ruin this how could I make Twitch upset for saying yes to me I was just like only fans light, you know, like just give people a taste where I got like, I got some UFC shorts or some bicycle shorts. And then, you know, you just kind of just get a little, you know, you get the half chode going on or whatever. Yeah. You get that little chub going on.
Starting point is 00:04:19 You guys are despicable, man. What are you talking about? If you, if you were. Frame one, dude. You just like, let's do it. I'm done. I got, I got, I did. Like, that is.
Starting point is 00:04:28 I didn't do anything. Why didn't do you guys? I didn't do shit. No, I'm talking about Derek's ilk. Yeah. That's true. I mean, but like, how would you, why wouldn't, it's like, if they were asking for it at this point, because all it was, in my opinion, all it is is just protecting these booby streamers, right? They've proven time and time again that that is their top priority as far as like, who to protect?
Starting point is 00:04:56 Like, who to protect? It's like, oh, it's not an all-encompassing thing. Like, let's make guidelines that protect X, Y, Z. It's just whatever. Let's just make sure that these people can keep doing things and then possibly they'll keep sliding in our DMs and we'll keep getting to have sex with them. Because, I mean, I've even heard stories on Instagram.
Starting point is 00:05:17 I think it's a money thing. I think it's a money thing primarily. I think it's like, dude, they bring up so much money. I mean, it's always a money thing primarily. For sure, it's a money thing. No get me wrong. It's definitely a money thing. But it is, it is, it is, I'm waiting for all of the
Starting point is 00:05:33 booby streamers because there's been a handful of women that have talked about hooking up with you know important people in Twitch or Instagram or how to you know like how to game how to basically get above the it's like you remember how I'm sorry to even say this but you remember how fucking Gamergate started
Starting point is 00:05:54 I can't even brought that up it's it's I said I already apologize I already apologize but I'm just saying you remember how it started in the same way where you just have there's some people who will get a leg up by fucking everybody you know it's uh
Starting point is 00:06:11 it's smart there's no reason not to it kind of is smart i mean if you if you can get away with it i mean if they if they want especially now that aids isn't a problem at all it's just like go to the fucking like I mean you just go is there any
Starting point is 00:06:28 STI that is like protection doesn't protect protection from AIDS really is there any STI well it definitely will dramatically reduce the chances of transmitting it yeah that's like how you stop it like how you reduce is not a hundred percent it's like masks it's like masks with COVID I mean like it might it will probably maybe a little bit but it's like an eradicate
Starting point is 00:06:50 I will say because assuming it doesn't rip if if if if if masks don't rip off them if mask were latex like a okay okay we'd be breathing anything like frogs, like with a mask, you'd be like, like suffocating. So like, you know, I've had, they protect a lot more than a mask, too.
Starting point is 00:07:10 I'm just saying, man. Yes, 100%. I've had, I have, unironically, dude, I'm not even joking. I've had at least like seven different experiences where the condom has straight up ripped.
Starting point is 00:07:20 What are you doing? What are you doing? Actually straight up. You know what it sounds? I'm not doing the fucking anything. I'm not doing anything wrong. They just fucking suck. I think we're learning some information about you,
Starting point is 00:07:28 I think we're learning some actually some good information about you that. You're possibly well-endowed and you're using small condoms. That's what it sounds like. I'm using the cheapest ones. Well, that has to be what it is. Chris, condoms don't break often, dude. Like, they really don't.
Starting point is 00:07:47 I really can. I can probably count on my hand. Well, Kingston, often is not, often is not seven times. Often, like, over the course of the number of condoms that I've used, it's not often, but it's enough for me to be like That's, I've, you're up there We're like, that's a lot So this guy has, well, so it doesn't
Starting point is 00:08:09 It could mean just like you've been with Lily for a long time That would mean you, your, your sex count Should be high. Yes. Yeah, I understand that, right? I've used, I've used many a condom in my day But particularly before I go to the person I am with now. I have broken maybe two condoms
Starting point is 00:08:29 and that's because one of the times I thought I should put two on because I got scared and it broke because I had two on. Didn't you learn it sex ed? That's like the worst thing you could do. I learned that it's sex ed, but I was like it can't be that bad.
Starting point is 00:08:43 You're like nah, fuck the man. It was like it was a little bit of space. I was like maybe if I like really, you know, hunker down. It's so stupid. It's really stupid. Spirmicidal condoms. There's like there's other things that could be done.
Starting point is 00:08:58 me condoms are fucking well well something that I was something that I was actually so hold on something that I was actually curious There are people that jack off of condoms dude That's weird
Starting point is 00:09:11 That's weird that's weird that's weird that's weird that's weird That's like I have a So about this like nudity thing This artistic nudity I was actually curious because like Derek like dude Could you have just screamed all of your your like nude modded Resident Evil gameplay under that banner?
Starting point is 00:09:27 You probably could have done that Oh my God, I could have. You're right. No, you're right. Because that would probably be buying me back to Twitch. That would have brought me back to Twitch. It didn't, I didn't even cross my mind because that is it literally I want to, I would love to stream this shit because it is, I know there would be a bunch of horny people watching, but it to me, it's just funny. So I would love to just, man, now I'm actually kind of disappointed.
Starting point is 00:09:56 That's funny. Doesn't that? suck you just changed my entire perspective you could have played a balder's gate with like just you know complete all the all the nude mods or whatever all the swinging dicks dude like fuck the only all it also known as the
Starting point is 00:10:09 only reason to play it yeah it is the only way I'm man dude some of the other the encounters that I'm discovering or there's there are some wild sexual encounters in that game like like some of them are just like
Starting point is 00:10:23 yeah some of them just like they put so much time into this fucking sequence. That's what that's what 80s Boulders gateway. It'd be a bunch of these fucking, like, these fucking neck beard guys, back when only nerds played it. And they'd be like, yo, I want to fuck that dragon.
Starting point is 00:10:42 And the DM is like, are you sure? And it's like, yeah, I want to fuck that dragon. And he's like, all right, bro, roll. And no, if I get the 20. And he's like, well, I guess he's fucking a dragon. So you approach the dragon in a very central manner. and is really feeling your vibe. The dragon takes out its big, scaly penis,
Starting point is 00:11:02 and just starts rubbing it against her forehead. And it's like, he's got to do it. Because that's the game, you know? I like it takes the penis out, even though he's a dragon. It's hidden when they're not in sex mode. When there's sex mode like a latch opens, like, a latch open. The dragon latch.
Starting point is 00:11:21 It's like how like, you know how like Beatles have the, like, the casing over their wings? The carapist, yeah. Yeah, yeah. But in that fly mode. Yeah. That's awesome. I don't know.
Starting point is 00:11:34 Yeah, man, I've been playing a little bit. Hello, hello. I'm Malcolm Gladwell, host of Smart Talks with IBM. I recently spoke with IBM's new director of research, Jake Gambata. We discussed his vision for the future of quantum computing. At IBM research, what we always do is answer what is the future of computing. whether it's coming up with new algorithms, coming up with better AI, coming up with quantum, or coming up with just how do different accelerators go together?
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Starting point is 00:14:07 I've been playing a little bit and it's, uh, I just, I just do not understand how you have any combat encounter in this game without either getting completely wiped or just being overencumbered by like 50 different mobs with like a bizarre attack pattern where they can shoot crossbows at you three times in a row for each individual. turn and you're just like, okay. I don't, I'm, I actually dislike it more the more I play it, so I think I have to stop. I think I have to stop. I've given it enough. I've given it like 25.
Starting point is 00:14:36 It's simply not for you. 25 hours. I put into it and I'm just like, I like, I like the story here, but like I can't, I cannot do this. Watch the story beats. Well, look, no, I already, I gave you to the suggestion that if you, if you, if you, if you want to play strictly for the story, just like, do you remember that there was a whole, there was a whole argument of we, of course, you got, remember that there was the whole argument about people wanting to experience everything that has to do with from software games so they would like for there to be something.
Starting point is 00:15:07 Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Different modes like easy story mode or some shit like that. And of course, the fans completely reject that. And I was, you know, obviously I don't, I don't, I was indifferent because obviously if it was there, I wouldn't play it. So it didn't matter to me. But I always feel like more options. there's always a better idea, in my opinion, because it wouldn't, it wouldn't fuck with my
Starting point is 00:15:29 gameplay at all. It wouldn't do anything to me, and that's what actually matters. Like, say, I don't, like say, I don't feel, I don't feel any sort of way about God of war having so many different options of difficulties. I feel nothing about it. I play what I play, and you play what you play. So, as far as, like, say, Baldersgate goes, for example, if somebody wanted to experience the story, I feel like.
Starting point is 00:15:56 like, and then you have a PC, why not throw some fucking trainers on there? Two, if the combat is that like, ugh to you, why not have, because to me, it is hilarious if you just put, if you have an infinite amount of fucking just, if you can just go and your turn meter never depletes, it can be really fucking funny. Yeah, yeah, I bet. You can, you can, you can, you can, I've thrown, like, I just fucking around. I was just throwing everyone Just
Starting point is 00:16:25 Just having fun Throwing everybody And then Killing a boss by throwing him to death You know because I didn't have It was just Just fucking around And those are things that I even thought
Starting point is 00:16:35 About streaming Because that's fun to me But long story short Yeah I feel like if you wanted to like Why not? Maybe I'll fuck around with that Maybe I'll fuck around with that
Starting point is 00:16:43 It's just like I'll find myself in the beginning area I'm in the beginning area Dude I'm in the beginning area And then there's these fucking Knowles or whatever the fuck And
Starting point is 00:16:52 That's a lot of that's a hard fight. That is a hard really fight if you're not like level four at least. It's, but it's not even just a hard normal, because I'm just like, I'm already decided like, all right, I'm playing this for the story. I'm on the difficulty is like the lowest it could possibly be, right? There's no, there's nothing. There's no reason why this shouldn't be like an easy trounce at the very least, but it's fucking insane. And it's not like impossible, but it's so tedious where I'm like, oh my God. That's CRPGs though. That is CRPGs. them 15 minutes to go.
Starting point is 00:17:23 And I have to watch. I wish I could at least skip their turn at the very least. Like press Y for their turn. Jesus. Like at the very least let me do that. I could skip. I don't know. Let me sell this for you a little bit more.
Starting point is 00:17:35 Manipulating the game speed. Sometimes in large battles, absolutely. Because you know what it also does? Because I like being, like right now in my dark urge, I'm a giant muscle mommy. Right? She just all fucking giant naked running around and shit. but the fucking giants are so goddamn slow.
Starting point is 00:17:54 They are so slow. It's annoying. So you can obviously switch between party members and use somebody who's faster to travel, until you know, to diverse, but I want to be the muscle mommy. I want her to be leading the charge.
Starting point is 00:18:06 So I just mini-to-rescime to 1.5, and it feels perfect when I'm traveling. And then sometimes in giant battles, I'll put it up to like 1.7 and motherfuckers are flying. So like I'm waiting for like, an entire fucking, you know, like, I'm waiting for like fucking 15 people to do shit.
Starting point is 00:18:24 And so it's just flying through it. And I was like, this is awesome. This is like, man, I guess. This is like, it's like, I, I rarely really have games where I like, unless a game is bad, I'm very rarely turned off by it. But I guess just, I don't, I don't know. Boulder is just like such a, I feel like everyone should experience those characters.
Starting point is 00:18:49 I'm, And I play D&D, but like, there's very rarely game I can play. Oh, this game play is not like me. Like, I don't play Pokemon because the gameplay hasn't changed at all. But still, like, I can understand how to play Pokemon. But I'm also, I just, real quick, I just, I'm speaking of someone who's done multiple playthrus though. So like, the things that I'm telling you are things that like, because I feel, I feel like there's
Starting point is 00:19:10 some things that I feel like some people want, I use from software games as an example. I feel like there's some things that people really want to experience. like even like the transformation of bosses and things that some people can just never experience unless they just watch a video but some people just want to kind of be in it they want to do it and I feel like well the developers made the game that the way they want to make it so if you want to play a different way
Starting point is 00:19:36 hopefully you have a PC and then you can intervene you can do things that will help you play your way because there are some moments in the game that are like like I particularly think like the end of act two is so cool Hello, hello, I'm Malcolm Gladwell, host of Smart Talks with IBM. I recently spoke with IBM's new director of research, Jake Embatta. We discussed his vision for the future of quantum computing.
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Starting point is 00:20:26 Building actual physical machines. Yeah, it's why I came to IBM. I wanted the experience, the culture of building hard things that others have not done before. Where do you imagine we are in the timeline of this technology? There will come a point when it will mature. Right? Yeah. My cell phone is a mature technology at this point. How far are we from that point with
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Starting point is 00:22:10 Indeed.com slash podcast. Terms and conditions apply. Need to hire? This is a job for Indeed sponsored jobs. I think that's such a fucking cool part of a video game. At what level do you... I think you should experience that. At what level are you even remotely competent in combat?
Starting point is 00:22:27 Like, at what point do you not get trounced? Three for me. I don't know, I'm three and those... I'm three and those knolls are fucking absolutely raping me, and I don't understand. Well, what are... I can't fathom it. Do you have any... What's a group?
Starting point is 00:22:42 Yeah. I don't know. I'm a fucking... What is it? Oh, my God. I don't remember. I'm swapping them out. constantly. Because you're a barbarian, you should be fine with the nose, by yours.
Starting point is 00:22:54 Like, not by yourself. I agree. Run it by yourself. Yeah, I agree. But you should be able to run in there and, like, tank a lot of the damage and it's to get healed by Shadowheart from a distance. I should. Yeah. I should.
Starting point is 00:23:05 I agree. I agree with that. I agree with that entirely. But I do, my damage is fine. But then, like, Shadowheart's healing is fucking garbage. And then, I don't know. I can't. I can't.
Starting point is 00:23:18 I can't. I kind of hate these characters because the, combat is, it's actually affecting how I see the characters because like I just think of them as weak pieces of shit. I don't know. And I, I can't like them. I understand what you're saying. That's interesting. It's interesting.
Starting point is 00:23:30 But the combat is so like, I guess, it has to be, I've played D&D. It has to be. Well, you're a D&D guy, yeah, right? Because it's not, because I, I need to stress. It's so simple. It's, but no, because it's not, it's not, it's not about simplicity. It's about the fact that, like, it's turn base, but it's also D&D rules. So there are these, like, advantages and, like, weird.
Starting point is 00:23:50 like orderings. It's not like a tactics game. Like it's not. It's not straight out. It's not a streamlined tactics game, but it's a tactics game. Well, it's a, no, it's a CRPG. It's not a tactics game. There's a tactics.
Starting point is 00:24:03 It'd be like saying a portal is a first person shooter. Technically, I guess, but it's not, you know what, you know that it's not a shooter. It's not. In the same way that this is not really, it's not really a tactics game in the same way. It's a CRPG where you could do a lot of shit. But like, I don't know, something like, something like XCOM or something makes a,
Starting point is 00:24:20 infinitely more sense to me because there's like a set order or there's like a set turn or there's like a set wave or there's like a set rule to like how the encounters is supposed to go but with this one it's like and it's the same problem I had earlier on where it's like okay I can go and then 15 knolls go and then the rest of my party goes and it's like well why did the 15 knolls get to go before the other people in my party I also that aspect of the game as well how do they're so oh you have to do is so many things just go to withers and be like hey I want everyone to have high dexterity and then everyone move for everybody else says Yes The fuck is Withers The old The ancient guy from the
Starting point is 00:24:57 Did you go into the tomb Did you go into like the big Like the lot of the fucking The what is it The the The fucking Draugger looking guy Yeah
Starting point is 00:25:07 I just was quick little Your order Wait wait wait wait wait wait wait Wait wait wait wait Your order is determined By dexterity Yes Okay
Starting point is 00:25:19 All right What else would What else would dick that. I mean, I don't think, I just think the rules of the game would dictate that. I don't, I don't even think that, I didn't even think that would even think that would, like, why would how nimble I am with a pen decide, like, what order I go in combat? Like, it's insane.
Starting point is 00:25:33 Because of how, how nimble you are with your, how quickly you get your body act? You know what I think, you know what? I think a problem is where, um, there's a lot of RPG games that actually just have, they just have speed. There's a lot of, there's a lot of games. So it's more obvious to them. I think, I think that's just like, there, it's more obvious to people that, like, play things that actually shows speed, and there's also, like, say, different armor sets that will actually gain speed. Now, I know there's a lot of games that don't have it where it will fall to their dexterity,
Starting point is 00:26:04 sometimes even Constitution, which is weird, but... I think it's just simply one, you don't play RPGs, and then two, you don't know Dundas and Dragons. Well, I don't play D&D for sure. I play RPGs. I just don't play D&D RPGs. If you're playing RPGs, you understand the read what each stat doesn't. immediately if you've never played an RPG. And you'll be like, oh, this does this, this does this.
Starting point is 00:26:25 No, because dexterity doesn't. Say, for example, in, um, Dexterity is not a common indicator of when you can go. Dexterity does not affect your speed. It affects your, your ability to control your body. Like how good you are with like range weapons. Right.
Starting point is 00:26:39 Certain types of weapons and stuff like that, but it doesn't make you go faster, right? Yeah, right. Like, but you, like, for instance. Yeah, go ahead. Like, I played Dragons Dogma. I first, I just started playing Dragons Dogma a little while ago, right? The first thing I did was,
Starting point is 00:26:51 I hovered over every stat and it's like this that does or even the soul's games obviously check the games you go there this that does heavy weapons dexterity how many inferiorly frames you have x y z it's like this stuff like that where you're like I don't know what the fuck's or if or if I didn't know what I was doing in something my instinct would be why the fuck am I not able to x y and z that'd be like my means of like that's how I approach a problem yeah and I and I and I google the shit and I look it up and it's all like it kind of reminds me of it kind of reminds me of those point and click games from like a long time ago where it's like oh to get past this section
Starting point is 00:27:27 you have to click the you have to dip the key in peanut butter and then twist it on the clock and then that opens the door in the other room it's like it's like holy shit what is this reasoning like why would dexterity determine like what order you go in comment that is so alien to me like that's made so much sense to me but I guess not compute like with the definition of what dexterity means in most games and what it even just does By definition it makes sense
Starting point is 00:27:54 But no No it doesn't. I wouldn't even say I wouldn't even say I wouldn't even say By process of elimination What the stats that you are left with Which one do you think would Would determine your speed? As far as just looking at the stats
Starting point is 00:28:07 Like my assumption My assumption initially was My assumption initially was that it was just based on level or something Or some like weird invisible stat that I couldn't see They're like oh they could go before my other guys because they're like stronger or something. And that's why they get to go. And it's like that's a weird disadvantage
Starting point is 00:28:24 to put the player out of it. Dice deities, Oxford definition literally is readiness and grace in physical ability. Yeah, readiness is not... No, but readiness does not imply that you go first. It just implies that you're ready to move first.
Starting point is 00:28:40 But who isn't? But like that's what... But it doesn't... Whatever is the person that has the most nimble body is going to be able to... Like, let's say like, someone breaks into a room, right? Most tactics games that I've ever...
Starting point is 00:28:51 It's arbitrary. Very arbitrary, nonetheless. I'll admit that. No, but that's not the conversation what I'm saying is most games that operate under this framework do not have this. They just don't.
Starting point is 00:29:02 Straight up. No, they have a speed stat proper. They have a speed stat. They have a speed stat. Or it's just straight up, okay, you go, they go, you go, they go, they go, because that's what a turn-based game is.
Starting point is 00:29:13 You know what I mean? Like, they're not, they don't have this extra advantage. Most games that I've ever played, absolutely do. not really a lot of times they'll have it if it's not if it's not actually a stat that's controllable it's usually people that have to go through the code and see the stats themselves that the games depending on your level have fixed levels of speed and everything else so like as you
Starting point is 00:29:35 traverse different sections in the game even in games like xcom like there's a stat for whoever is going to move the quickest and what or the role they play to move the quickest and then like and that's fine except that's fine except that's fine except That's fine except it's usually The balance isn't as It's not four guys versus 50 knolls Or 48 goblins You know like it's not
Starting point is 00:29:59 It's something of it feels fucking insane Like and especially just because it's so damn slow Like I just can't I fucking I can't do it I'm glad it's doing well I'm glad it's game of the year I'm glad I'm glad they're fucking set But like I don't know I'm gonna have to mod the shit out of it
Starting point is 00:30:16 Or just watch another play through while I play something else because that's the kind of the thing too where it's like I could experience I was at least watch the play through because I could play the story but then part of me is like modding fun because if you're playing for the story you want to make your own choices
Starting point is 00:30:27 and so I feel like that's kind of like so you're not going to get all right and figure everything out like modding is so for me to get as many because there's so many different directions of going and why I want to do so many things why I put the speed up to 1.4, 1.5
Starting point is 00:30:41 is because you realize when you've done like all everything before there's so much You can skip now. So I want to get to point A to point B as fast as possible so I can get a specific outcome that I'm looking for. So that's why I want to speed this shit the fuck up because although I'm cutting out hours that would normally just take me fucking walking. Me just fighting because I've done it.
Starting point is 00:31:09 I've done it. I've done it. So now I'm trying to affect like I want to get to I haven't used like say I haven't traveled with a specific companion. and now I want to hurry up and get to this place to where there are people that you meet in the third act. So I'm like fucking trying to hurry up and like I want to do something different with them. You get you get you get two companions or do you get pain and third act. You get one. One, I think just one actually.
Starting point is 00:31:32 You get two in the second act. You get one in third act, right? Yeah. You get, uh, yeah, I think that's correct. And so it's, there's things that I want to do. So I'm just trying to like now obviously, um, if you're going to play, if you want to play the same thing, you can just have. save points and then start from there where it's like, okay, I want to experience it different from here,
Starting point is 00:31:50 so I'm making sure I save so then I can do two different things so you can cut out a lot of shit and not start all over. But yeah, man, but look, just to, I completely understand what Chris is saying, though. Even though, like, I, it's, I definitely, I understood it. I look things up so then I understand it, but there is a stream, the streamline
Starting point is 00:32:08 fucking, like, traditional term-based RPG, it will always be my favorite. It is exactly why, like, a game like Rage Shadow Legends even interested me at all when I started playing it and started reading the stuff and looking into it and I was like oh whoever's actually making
Starting point is 00:32:26 this shit understands and it's like it's even what can be it means even in Rage Shadow Legends there are stats for things so nobody's saying there aren't stats for things they're very um they're very they're very they're not streamlined they're just very
Starting point is 00:32:42 understandable they're easily consumable it's right there in your face where It's just you have your attack defense, speed, you have your crit rate, crit damage, you have your resistance, and you have your accuracy. And so it's like, everybody understands all those stats.
Starting point is 00:32:55 And then there's way more other things on top of that. I think it's the fact that it's D&D as well. So if like, it's an RPG and then if it's D&D and people are like, I don't know how to fuck to play D&D. Opposed to me, I was like, oh, this is all, I know all these numbers and values.
Starting point is 00:33:09 I know what does what. I know what your ability goes where. I know what the class is going to get. So I have, I just have four knowledge with it. Because every, The only encounter in that whole game that I say is like for real hard. There's Shadow Hearts final encounter is a hard encounter.
Starting point is 00:33:23 That's just a lot of motherfuckers using a lot of shit on you. And then obviously Raphael. Those are the only two encounters that I'm like, this is for real difficult. I played it on tactician. I didn't play it on the honor mode. Honor mode is stupid. I played on tactician mode. And I got through everything pretty simply.
Starting point is 00:33:42 But it's like, I know the game. Yeah, yeah. That's a thing. It's not very hard. knowing the game and let's be honest some people don't want to take the time to to know a whole game yeah which i actually understand that to like where i'm like damn do i really want to spend all this time to get into all this and when i'm not even that you know it's just it feels like such a commitment i understand that i don't i don't live by that mentality but i do understand yeah the reason i'm
Starting point is 00:34:06 trying to figure out a lot of this stuff now is because next year is pretty dry for me like there's there's really nothing next year that i see of any I guess Final Fantasy 7 Integrate is coming out or not Integrate fucking what is it Rebirth the sequel The second part of the other part
Starting point is 00:34:24 of seven remake is coming out And that's probably the only thing That I can see Hello hello I'm Malcolm Gladwell Host of the podcast Smart Talks with IBM I recently sat down with IBM's chairman And CEO Arvin Krishna And I asked him
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Starting point is 00:36:52 Being on the horizon at all. So I'm like, I'm using this time to catch up on shit that I missed. I care about that. And I get, I keep hearing of Wolverine might be coming out. I don't know if I believe that. Wolverine's not coming out next year.
Starting point is 00:37:02 Yeah, we'll see. And we might be getting a trailer for dread wolf. Yeah. I think so that goes. I think they didn't get out because of Balders get coming out. They're like, nah. They're like, maybe not.
Starting point is 00:37:14 Bro, I think we're barely getting a trailer. I don't even think. I think it'll probably, I think it'll probably come out in 26. No, no, that's not fair. That's not fair. 25. 25.
Starting point is 00:37:24 I would say 25, not 26. It's like kind of crazy. That sucks for that. I'll be so sad. That starts for them, though. Because it's done. It's done.
Starting point is 00:37:33 It's over. It's over and I'm going to cry. But see, what's cool about Balders Gay doing so insanely well is that there is a complete blueprint of like, okay, if we don't meet these standards, like,
Starting point is 00:37:46 And here's the thing. The story of Dragon Age. You know what company's making that gate? Wait, Derek, I understand what you're saying, right? Derek, I understand the words you're using. But what company is making Dreadwolf right now? Okay, so here's the thing. So.
Starting point is 00:37:59 You just said standards involving EA. That's crazy. It's crazy. Here's the thing. They've failed so many times. They're taking so long making this. They have to get this right this time. They've taken too many else.
Starting point is 00:38:16 I feel like this time, because let's remember, even when BioWare, even when EA was partnered with BioWare, Mass Effect 2 was a massive success. It's not like it's completely just EA's, they're fucked completely. As much as a lot of people did criticize Dragon H2, there's a lot of people that look back on it and they said I still had fun with that game. You know, it just felt. I love Dragon H2, right? I love Dragon H2, right? It's pretty fun. I like the characters.
Starting point is 00:38:40 It's a good game. That's really what drives it. The characters are fucking awesome. But what happened is this, right? In Dragon Age 2, that was made by BioWare, right? No, EA was definitely involved, though. Yeah, no, under E.A. That was made by, but the team that made it is gone.
Starting point is 00:38:59 That whole team is gone. You say everybody's gone. None of, they're all like saving lives or like innovating scientifically. They're all gone now. What about, okay, well, okay, okay, so what about having? I don't believe, I can be wrong, I can be wrong, but I don't believe anyone is still there. I can't confirm that or whatever. It's just all I know is that Inquisition,
Starting point is 00:39:21 even though I, look, here's the weird thing about Inquisition. I like the game. People who are fans of Dragon Age, as far as I'm concerned, I've seen them like the game. I've seen other people for whatever reason criticized it because it started off
Starting point is 00:39:36 as it was going to be like a, you know, online service and then they switched it up. But it's noticeable, but not really. It's noticeable where you see the elements of the game where it's like, oh, this would have been like an online service, but they fixed it enough to where it just turned into a full-blown game. It could have been a massive disaster.
Starting point is 00:39:55 There was really only a handful of bugs, which I was shocked, because they talked about how much of a disaster was working with Frostbite. And I enjoyed the game to the point where I played it maybe two or three times campaigns, and I really, there was only a handful of things I didn't like as a Dragon Age fan. But overall, I was really okay with the game. the game. Like, I enjoyed it. Now that Balders Gate 3 came out, it's like, oh shit. But having that fucking, having that blueprint, I actually feel like this is going to make
Starting point is 00:40:27 the game better. I really think that, like, say, if Balders Gate 3 for whatever reason didn't come out, they probably could have just been like, this is just, this is good enough. Now it's like, I don't think they can do it. I think they can't afford to just be like, the characters are there. The characters are already there. Dragon Age has some. of my favorite characters in any RPG. I really like them. So they already have that going for them. I think you sound like a Call of Duty fan.
Starting point is 00:40:56 What? After Titan Fall 2 came out. And you were like, they have the potential to make a great Call of Duty game. They have it all right there. Call of Duty. They made Call of Duty. They made ColoDuty.
Starting point is 00:41:08 No, no, no. Because Titanfall came out and had a lot of innovative ideas and really cool ideas for the video game and futuristic combat in a shooting game, right? There are a lot of really cool ideas that Calduty could have used. Yeah, it could have been like,
Starting point is 00:41:21 oh, that can be a withstand in a game. No, no, no, but it's a, that's a bad comparison, though, because Call Duty consistent, like, make so much fucking money that they don't have to. Like, they don't, like, it would be the reverse,
Starting point is 00:41:32 it would be the reverse situation. I'm, I'm, I'm in reference to the idea of the quality of the game, not so much the need, the need to do it, right? Well, that's what I mean. It's not, it's not, it's not, put it this way.
Starting point is 00:41:44 If Titanfall 2 was objectively the game of the year that year, and it sold, like, it was all anybody was talking about, and everybody unanimously agreed, this is where first-person shooter should go, and it was, like, it sold, like, it's sold, like, twice as much as any call duty game it ever sold, then they would be like, yeah, we got to, we got to look into it, in the same way that, in the same way that Dragon Age would have to look to Baldur's Gay. That would be a comparable situation, I guess, although it's not annualized, so it's still not exactly the same. Dude, it's, but, come on, it's make or break. We know it's make a break. Oh, we know it's make a break. So with that being said, it would be, now I know, because it's EA, I get it. Don't, don't, don't, I'm not like, I'm not dismissing that it's EA. But I feel like even EA, they're like, oh, we have to turn a profit with this. So we, this has to be nailed.
Starting point is 00:42:34 Look, man. I actually, I look, I look at. I don't even think EA, EA used to be like a lot worse than it. Like, I actually don't think EA is even remotely as bad as, I don't know, EA's pretty good these days in comparison to most, like, Ubisoft is on fire. Ubisoft hasn't posted, hasn't made anything of note in fucking ages. Activision is constantly on fire.
Starting point is 00:42:55 Activision. Activision is a mess. EA's actually, I don't know, man, like, they put out, like, they're not the worst one anymore. There's not the worst. I think they're probably of the, of those, they're probably, they're kind of the better one. They're kind of the better ones, really. I don't know of a big... They put out Dead Space again, so that's like...
Starting point is 00:43:16 Cool. Dead Space Remake is... That was great. It Space Remake is fucking superb. They did It Takes 2, which was like super weird of them to do. And It Takes 2 was fucking incredible. Star Wars Jedi Survivor and Fall in Order were great. You know, Wild Hearts was actually pretty good too,
Starting point is 00:43:31 although that's like a kind of a double A game that was like a little bit more... Like casual monster hunter type stuff. And they have their sports stuff, which, you know, is... You know, I don't really give a shit about that at all. But... The Cash Cow... That, who,
Starting point is 00:43:44 yeah, yeah. Yeah, that's the entire thing. Haven't changed in the last 10 years, but I'm saying, but I'm saying,
Starting point is 00:43:50 but I'm saying, but I'm saying, when you compare it, you'll be buying like wildfire, bro. You're right. But when you, but when you compare it to like,
Starting point is 00:43:55 I don't know, like Activision, who's like, you know, like Overwatch is fucked. Uh, call duty is fucked right now, even though it's like
Starting point is 00:44:04 the biggest game gaming property in the world still, uh, you know, everything that Blizzard is working on is completely on fire. I mean, the company sucks, although they drop the whole story mode thing,
Starting point is 00:44:16 I guess. That's a problem. Chris, you're actually completely right about that where the stink of all of the shit that was happening before, we kind of forget that. They've been consistently okay.
Starting point is 00:44:29 That they haven't done any, they haven't done anything to warrant worst company of the year like they were consistently getting. Anthem, which is no, no, look,
Starting point is 00:44:39 Anthem was bad. Anthem was fucking terrible. right. And I think that might have been the straw that broke the camel's back. Yeah, but even dude, even the leaks that came out of that was like, that wasn't even EA doing that. EA wasn't, the EA wasn't coming to them being like,
Starting point is 00:44:56 yo, you got to make a live service game. Like, BioWare for some reason got it in their heads that they wanted to do that. And then EA was like, well, I mean, if you want to do this, go ahead and do it. And then they completely fucked it up. So like, even the worst thing. Yeah, there was that big expose on Anthem,
Starting point is 00:45:12 how like they didn't even know what game they were made like the entire time i remember that i remember that but i didn't know that they made the choice i always thought they did that i didn't know that no they they they but i don't think they kind of confuses that is my biggest fear though that's what the fear comes from oh jesus christ that made those games is just not present that's what confuses me you're right they're just not there like the people that made the people that made the lore about Dreadwolf, the people that know the story of the game, the people that created that world,
Starting point is 00:45:47 they're gone. They've been gone for like 10 plus years. They've been not around. That's why even Inquisition's so different. Because Inquisition, Inquisition picks up not even directly after one. You don't even see your gray ward, not after two, so I don't even see a gray warden. I'm gonna fucking
Starting point is 00:46:06 off doing, you get a letter from the nigga. I'm like, why are you talking? What? I want my character. Oh, my character. So, okay, so that, that was very disappointing, but you're, look, I would have loved if they would have just even DLCed that shit. Just show me the character, bro. They brought in Hawk. They brought in Hawk, which was directly from, and you actually did shit with him. So it was like, even though I didn't give a, I don't give a flying fuck about Hawk at all.
Starting point is 00:46:36 Even though, like, I enjoyed, number two, I didn't give a fuck about the protagonist. I cared about everybody else that was around the fucking slut elf that you get to bang that poor wood elf. And then you could choose the killer or not and have the little demon baby. No, I bang the shit ever. That's cool. Of course. Of course. For the culture.
Starting point is 00:46:53 Yeah. But yeah. I don't know. People, I guess people felt, well, go ahead. No, no, I was just saying. Like I, let's say, so let's say it is slated for 2025, right? To give them time. that's going to be a rough year too
Starting point is 00:47:15 that's going to be a really rough year for them because like are we pretending are we pretending like we don't know what the game of the year for 2025 is going to be? Yeah. Pretending?
Starting point is 00:47:28 Like are we pretending not released that game that year. They should not release that game that year. They can't hold on to it forever. Like they can't hold on to it forever. Well, they got to be 25. They got to either do it next year
Starting point is 00:47:40 or they got to be 226. Obviously, GTA6 is Oh yeah, yeah, never mind, yeah, no matter what, no matter Yeah, I'm not a DTA person crazy like that But like, yeah, it's gonna be GTA six, no matter what, yeah So how sick would it be if they did it, Mortal Kombat style? Were, say, Mortal Kombat somehow So how do the fuck, how does fucking Mortal Kombat able to keep secrets
Starting point is 00:47:59 But fucking Rockstar can't? What's going on with that? Because Mortal Kombat fucking literally was like, Hey, we have a new game, it's coming on in a few months And then it just came out and it was like Yeah, we didn't know. We were waiting for a long time. I mean, and we just didn't know.
Starting point is 00:48:12 We were like, I was kind of crazy. Like, there was none of my, I followed a bunch of Mortal Kombat pages. And nobody was like, hey, yo, this came out. But anyway, so it would be awesome. What if they're trying to fuck with this in that way? Because they said for, there was like Dragon Age Day, whatever the fuck, Dragon Age Day was, it just passed like a few weeks ago. And they said, we're going to see some shit next year.
Starting point is 00:48:35 So what if they do the same thing? That would be awesome if they were like, hey, we're actually fucking, like, done with this shit. we're just polishing it up and it's going to drop in like November. I don't trust it, but at the same time they got it, they can't fucking drop in 2025. That's going to be a fucking. That's not good idea. They're in a rough spot.
Starting point is 00:48:52 They have to basically, they have to go this, they have to go 2024 basically. Like that's the only, because right now the competition is like, I mean, I guess they don't have to because like who cares. Like who cares about wins game the year. Really, ultimately as long as they make money,
Starting point is 00:49:07 it doesn't really matter. They could go in 2025 if they want. It's just, You know, I, that, that game is, GTA 5 is going to be such a, or GTA 6, I keep want to say GTA 5 because it's insane to me that we're already at 6, but like, I've done that too. It's going to be such a juggernaut and it's going to be so transformative to like the landscape that like I don't know how anything is going to come out of that.
Starting point is 00:49:32 I don't know how any game is really going to stick around in the conversation after that, like during that year. Unless it's like Eldon Ring 2 or something or. or something substantial like that. Like, I don't know. And even that, like, I think we would have a hard time. There's only the only thing that I feel like would be more celebrated.
Starting point is 00:49:51 Not more. That's the wrong words. Maybe on a similar playing field is if they announced Bloodborn for PC. Because that would be... Maybe, yeah. The one thing that niggas, like, it's trending like every fucking month.
Starting point is 00:50:05 Like, people are just like, hey, hey, how about just do it already? Like, fuck. I'm actually in that camp. I really want Bloodborn on fucking PC. The fact that, like, like, I don't even, I feel like that made people happy, but it wouldn't do what GTA6 is going to do to the gaming world. No, no, no, no.
Starting point is 00:50:21 I'm not saying. What I'm saying is, I'm talking about excitement. I'm not talking about fucking, like, some type of, like, oh, this is. It's like, GTA6, like, you know, it's great. I think it would have beat Eldon Ring this year if it would came out. I think, I think what to build Eldon Ring that year. I think it would be able to beat Baldur's game. GTA is so well loved.
Starting point is 00:50:39 Hello, hello, I'm Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Smart Talks with IBM. I recently sat down with IBM's chairman and CEO, Arvin Krishna. And I asked him, how can companies use AI to its fullest potential to create smarter business? My one advice to that, pick areas you can scale. Don't pick the shiny little toys on the side. For example. If anybody has more than 10%, of what they had for customer service 10 years ago,
Starting point is 00:51:13 they're already five years behind. If anybody is not using AI to make their developers who write software 30% more productive today, with the goal of being 70% more productive, so we are not asking our clients to be the first experiment on it. We say, you can leverage what we did. We're happy to bring out all our learnings, including what needs to change in the price.
Starting point is 00:51:39 process, because the biggest change is not technology, is getting people to accept that there's a different way to do things. To listen to the full conversation, visit IBM.com slash smart talks. All right, quick quiz for the hiring managers out there. What's worse? Being understaffed or being poorly staffed? Well, that's a trick question, because both are recipes for chaos. Either way, just say to yourself, this is a job for indeed sponsored jobs. You'll get matched with candidates that meet the skills certifications, and everything else you're looking for. Or go a different way and get no traction. Seriously, sponsored jobs posted directly on Indeed are 95% more likely to report a hire than non-sponsored jobs. It really is a no-brainer. Spend less time searching and more time
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Starting point is 00:53:13 Girls love just driving cars and hitting people. Guys is like shooting stuff. I like just driving down long strips of areas as fast as I can from cops. Like even, like I'm not even a GTA person. Like I really think GTA games are kind of hollow to a degree. Granted, I've only beat like three of them. I've only beat like Vice City, Four, and Sen. No, I'll be five of them then.
Starting point is 00:53:39 I guess I'd be Vice City, San Andreas, four, and five. even in the moments I feel like it's kind of silly so the moments of silliness I kind of like they subtract me from it but like everyone
Starting point is 00:53:51 likes those games like just everyone like those games the news news like game news the fucking they lick their lips the idea of anything of granted of water coming out
Starting point is 00:54:01 you know like so it's just yeah there's something I was playing I was playing I was playing Grand The Theta Theta 4 yesterday because I'm trying to finish it I'm trying to make my way
Starting point is 00:54:11 through all the of Thotho games because I actually never beat most of them. I played a lot of them extensively but I never actually like played through the story of most of them. So I'm trying to, I'm playing through GTA4 and I remember I just like I did something that I never did before when I was a kid because I didn't have the
Starting point is 00:54:26 patience for it and I like I hailed a cab and I sat in there and I I just let the cab take me to where I was going to go and I didn't skip at all and it it was so fun listening to this rate because it was like the car driver had to like on some conservative radio talk show or whatever
Starting point is 00:54:44 and they were just going fucking ballistic and then you'd see like these dynamic things happening like people being robbed on the street and you would see it just kind of happen as you were passing by and it's like this is GTA 4 too is like 2008 or something like this is fucking awesome and the
Starting point is 00:54:59 and just to imagine like where they're where they would be at now after Red Dead Red Dead Redemption really what captures me about it is like dude the idea of Red Dead Red Dead Redemption 2 levels of like thought and polish going into something
Starting point is 00:55:14 like a modern grader than auto game is so fucking enticing to me I can't even I don't think it fits but the idea of it fitting in there would be like this is insane it's exciting it's insane
Starting point is 00:55:24 like the idea of having a character like Arthur Morgan that you're playing as as a woman in Gtie A six that'd be crazy I mean it's insane it's cool
Starting point is 00:55:33 and and I mean I mean yeah but like it's insane it's gonna be it's gonna be crazy that part of the internet that part of the
Starting point is 00:55:41 internet yeah yeah yeah dude it's way louder than I it's way more of them it's way more of them it's way louder than I it's very loud I mean I was just like bruh bruh remember remember the the starfield pronoun like that is the fact like the fact that blew my mind so of course people like look at the way she shaped Tim pool oh my did you see it you did you see this the temple thing
Starting point is 00:56:06 what happened I totally forgot I know what you're talking about but I did that it's already a woman a woman can't run up behind a guy and knock him out it's like yo you've never been punched him you've never been outside i don't think it's it's it's you can't possibly believe that that's so i saw that i saw that like tim tim i can get a 13 year boy to knock you on contest so so look so look look look like i saw that 13 year old to do it to you listen listen listen listen i saw that and i was immediately overtaken with this intense apathy because there you cannot like i know tim enough i don't know i don't know i don't know i guess i don't know modern Tim, but I knew him at one point
Starting point is 00:56:43 enough to know that he's not an idiot. So he can't possibly believe that. Like there's no way that you as a thinking human being believe that there's no way a woman could knock you out. Like it's just not... I think people think shit like that that this have never really been in, like, never had like physical interaction.
Starting point is 00:57:02 On average, sure, but no, but Tim's... No, but that's... I agree with what I'm saying. What would come to Tim. Yeah, Tim knows better. Like, Tim knows that that's not true. Like, he can't possibly believe that that's not true because that would be literally... But his retarded audience believes it. Right.
Starting point is 00:57:20 His audience believes that, like, dude, I don't need to tell you that Ronda Rousey would kill Tim Poole. I don't need, I don't, that doesn't need to be said. That doesn't need to be said. Half of Ronda Rousey could kill Tim Poole. Like, this is not a matter of, like, this is, it's just, you cannot believe. that. And when I saw that, I was like, oh, he doesn't believe that. This is literally just the performative bullshit that we've seen for years now, exemplified by the fact that now Twitter rewards that kind of behavior even more so that it did before. Exactly. Not only attention
Starting point is 00:57:54 money, so it's like, wilder because of that shit. For sure. Yeah, so I just, I don't know, I saw that, and I was like, this is just too, I couldn't even be upset at it because it was just so clearly just not just wildly stupid. No, you're right. That's why like the first, insanely dumb. When I first realized that about him specifically when I saw that compilation around the 2020 election where he kept saying Trump is going to win by 49 or 50 states. He's going to win by a landslide. And when he said that so many times, it's like compilations of it. That's when I was like, oh, I see what he's doing. Like his audience.
Starting point is 00:58:30 Because the only way you can get away with saying stuff like that is when your audience is so fucking stupid that you can get away with saying stuff with that. Because if I told that to my audience, they would laugh. I'd be laughed out of existence because we know that there are states that are always going to be red and blue. There is never going to be a president that's going to capture all fucking states in the election. That's just not going to happen. That is not how it fucking works. I would say this. I wouldn't even say it's improbable.
Starting point is 00:58:55 I would say it's impossible because that is how our country works. So to say that this is highly improper. No, no, I wouldn't even say in problem. The thing is the last time anything. Imagine. The last time anything like that happened? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:59:12 Can you imagine California, New York turning... It is not something... It can't happen. It would have to be so far in the fucking future that this landscape doesn't even matter anymore. I think aliens can make that happen. We're still talking about wild scenarios,
Starting point is 00:59:25 but we're just talking about in reality. My point being that like when he speaks like this, when he speaks like this, you're like with him saying women can't do that, when fucking that movie Atomic Blonde came out, the same people were saying the same fucking thing, saying, oh, she couldn't do that.
Starting point is 00:59:40 And I'm like, yeah, because you niggas were saying that shit when fucking, uh, when fucking Kill Bill came out, right? Like, shut the fuck up. Shut the fuck up. You're just talking shit to get money. Like, people that are like acting like, oh, that's true. And I'm like, shut the fuck up. Why?
Starting point is 00:59:56 God, damn. Like, I, like, I, dude, have you ever, like, do you, first of all, I think, first of most, people don't understand how easy it is to knock someone unconscious, especially if they're not paying attention. It is not a feat to do that It doesn't take many pounds of pressure It doesn't take very many pounds of pressure at all People move their arms back and hit people and knock them out
Starting point is 01:00:17 Like that happens Like quickly trying to do something You hit someone you knock them unconscious You're like I didn't mean to do that at all That's what happens He's called getting hit in the button Yeah literally right Shut you off
Starting point is 01:00:29 It didn't register It sucks though It does suck that there's enough people that believe This type of stuff to where he can say this That's because to me it's like the charlatans and the grifters are always going to exist. You just wish that the people weren't like, you know, you're the special enough to fall for it. You just wish that it wasn't like that, but it is. You know, like, what are you going to do?
Starting point is 01:00:55 You wish, like, everyone would just laugh in unison and be like this, you know, like say there's the story. And I think it's, I don't know if it's true or not, but people say that the first person in America that introduced insurance got hanged. now I don't know if that's true or not but I've heard that many of times that's crazy but you just because it the idea of it sounds so fucking absurd you would hope that people would do something like that when somebody says like oh women can't knock out men or some type of shit like that we're like that is that is stupid like their kids have knocked out adults on accident it's just it's a stupid thing to say like it just but you know when you're when you're special you can believe anything
Starting point is 01:01:34 You know, they just, like, oh, no, I'm like, you're talking like, when you're special. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:01:41 Oh, man. I love you. Dude, Barney, let's, let's move on to some, let's move on to some, yeah,
Starting point is 01:01:49 yeah, poor Barney, man. Yeah, wait, which Barney are you talking about? I love you. You love me.
Starting point is 01:02:01 I can't do his voice. Hey, Homer. No, no, we can't You're turning to Belch on Marges Clit? No, my God, enough of this. Oh.
Starting point is 01:02:11 We can't keep. Somebody brought that up on sacred recently. Did they? What? Yeah, somebody was like, hey, somebody wrote in privy to this fucking conversation. I had to explain. I had to explain this to Colin and Dustin.
Starting point is 01:02:27 And they were fucking bewildered. Oh, man. Just can't. I love the crossover, man. I'm surprised because the shit that I made, the shit that we do, Mika or Micah is so, she's just with the shits immediately. Like whenever I do offensive beam thread, she posts it in it. I'm like, yo, this is crazy.
Starting point is 01:02:48 That someone has a video. She posted a picture of Peach, putting her dress over her hard dick and coming through her dress. Of course. Coming through it. Like the dress could stop. She did that? She did that? Is that real?
Starting point is 01:03:05 Swear to God. Mike did that? No. I swear. That can't. I showed Lily and Lily started laughing until she cried. And I was like, where did she find this? Where do you find that picture?
Starting point is 01:03:20 I mean, that's, she posted that on Twitter? That's how you do. She posted it in my, and one of my, what you call it? To one of my offensive meme threads. Oh, my God, I see it. Jesus Christ. I can't believe. You got to.
Starting point is 01:03:33 That is. Put that in the thing that Derek C. No, I... Yeah, let me see this. All right. Here you go. Here you go. I put it in the chat.
Starting point is 01:03:42 I got to check it out for, uh, for, for a secondary purposes. I mean, I can't believe that. I can't believe she actually posted that. I have a thread. Oh, my God. Jesus. I was, I see, I was expecting it to be more ludicrous. Like, the way that she's drawn is like, this was somebody who like, like, like,
Starting point is 01:04:03 like really liked this. They were like, this is, this is hot. I think this is hot. This is a good picture. When that McDonald's might be buzzing.
Starting point is 01:04:13 The idea, dude, the idea of like, she has nothing to use. She's about to come. She's like, I just use my dress. And it's straight through.
Starting point is 01:04:24 That is some power, man. That's destroying a uterus. That's destroying a uterus. All right. All right. Listen, let's get to some questions. Either that person's pregnant or dead.
Starting point is 01:04:41 The latter. Oh, man. All right. One too many near death experiences. One too many near death experiences, right? He says, how do you all? Are you guys as tired of seeing video game leaks ruining the launch of trailers in-game skin events as I am?
Starting point is 01:04:55 Seeing GTA get their thunder stolen, and the same with Fortnite getting that leaked Peter Griffin and Solid Snake being in the game is so annoying? You can't seem to have cool surprise anymore. It's lame. Hopefully I'm not bringing the mood down, but I need to bitch about this, thanks. I don't know.
Starting point is 01:05:09 I agree. I sort of agree. I think it's more depressing. I feel more bad about it from the perspective of the teams. Hello, hello. I'm Malcolm Gladwell, host of Smart Talks with IBM. I recently spoke with IBM's new director of research, Jake Mbata. We discussed his vision for the future of quantum computing.
Starting point is 01:05:33 At IBM research, what we always do is answer what is the future of computing, whether it's coming up with new algorithms, coming up with better AI, coming up with quantum, or coming up with just how do different accelerators go together. It's our DNA to answer the question of what is the future. Isn't it a perfect problem for IBM because you kind of need to have a legacy of building stuff? Yes. Building actual physical machines. Yeah, it's why I came to IBM.
Starting point is 01:06:03 I wanted the experience, the culture of building hard things that others have not done before. Where do you imagine we are in the timeline of this technology? There will come a point when it will mature. Right? Yeah. My cell phone is a mature technology at this point. How far are we from that point with Conton? By 2029, we'll build the first fault-tolerant quantum computer.
Starting point is 01:06:30 That is one that can run a very, very large. large problem. To learn how IBM is building the future of computing, visit IBM.com slash quantum. All right, quick quiz for the hiring managers out there. What's worse? Being understaffed or being poorly staffed? Well, that's a trick question, because both are recipes for chaos. Either way, just say to yourself, this is a job for indeed sponsored jobs.
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Starting point is 01:07:55 It's not like, you know, it's, I don't know, leaks are kind of exciting in some way, but it does suck to have like the trailer for your, the trailer for your, the trailer for, the trailer for grand theft auto to leak is definitely like kind of a bummer in some way because it would have been cool to have that just fall out of nowhere. But at the same time, these companies kind of tease this stuff anyway. You know, like we knew that trailer was coming before it got leaked. So I kind of, I don't know what, I don't know what surprise we're really missing in that sense. If it's, if it ruins a shadow drop of something, that's more annoying. But for, for Rockstar to be like, hey, early December is when the first trailer's going live.
Starting point is 01:08:35 And then everybody knows it's going live. And then it leaks the day before. That's not really, that doesn't register to me as the same. Well, it feels like, you know what it's like? You're probably, imagine you're normally, you know, when you, when you're piping a girl good, you have an average of like time that you're, you know, then just one day you just fucking, you cut it really. It's just, you just bust way too fast.
Starting point is 01:08:59 And it's just kind of underwhelming where it's like, oh, I was expecting the anticipation of this and all this. It just feels like you know it's going to come on probably on this specific date and you kind of like have it. It's like literally UFC 296 is tomorrow. I'm fucking like the anticipation is at an all time high. And if that shit just started like right now, I'd be like, what the fuck? They'd just be like it's kind of like it feels like I was, it's completely cut off in it.
Starting point is 01:09:25 I had this timeline in my head. But to your point, I 100% feel bad for the. devs were because you want them to get that satisfaction of being able to release it exactly when they want and everything. So it feels bad all around to me. Well, like, I would have felt great contributing to, I mean, well, I did watch it on, I did watch the Rock Stars trailer of it. I didn't watch, I didn't see the leak on Twitter X or whatever. Um, so I still did it. But, you know, it just, it just feels like, God, what a fucking scumbag. Like, why, why, why you got to do that to them, man like they're gonna yeah it's it's it this is a fucking net positive of fucking a new game that
Starting point is 01:10:07 we're all waiting for like why can't we just celebrate why you gotta be a dick it is it is it is it is annoying it is it is a it is a that just happened with uh what is it's it's it's um there were some um screenshots of a wolverine wolverine that leaked um and stuff like that and it's like i don't know man i i i know what you're saying and i agree it's just I guess for me, I miss the days when leaks were a little bit more like, is that real? Because when it's one hour of GT... Like, I remember last year, an hour of GTA 6 footage leaked. And it wasn't really...
Starting point is 01:10:42 It was like really, really early, like, in-game stuff. And it really... It didn't really give away a whole lot, but it was no question. It's like, oh, that's... That's absolutely grant to thought of six. Like, without a fucking shadow of a doubt. Like, it's very clearly what this is. I remember in like 2010 or 2009 Halo Reach had some leaks
Starting point is 01:11:01 and everybody, but it was like some really blurry screenshots of like certain guns and back then it was like oh, is that real or is it? And nobody really knew. And that was actually a lot of fun because then people would be like, oh, well here's all the reasons why it wouldn't be. And there was all this theorizing. But when all that theorizing is kind of gone and it's just like, oh yeah, no, that was GTA6.
Starting point is 01:11:22 And here's an hour of footage that you can watch. Also, here's the trailer that's obviously real. That's lame. You know, I do miss, like, the benign leaks from, like, a long-ass time ago where it was, like, there was actually some conversation to be had about. And sometimes those leaks would be fucking completely fake, by the way. Like, I'm sure, like, just completely, like, oh, that wasn't, that actually wasn't real at all. And that was kind of fun. But.
Starting point is 01:11:47 It used to be, I think we've developed this really bad level of entitlement. Yeah. Like as a culture where we're like, yeah, we should see it early. They're taking too long. It's like, well, dude, anticipation is a good thing sometimes. You know, patience is a virtue. Dude, I saw people, I saw people angry. They were like, oh, man, it got to wait until 2025.
Starting point is 01:12:07 You got to wait until 2025 for this? It's like, bro, I was surprised it was coming that early. I thought, yeah, I thought, that billion. I think there's people, I thought like 208 or something. I swear to God. Yeah, me too. I was like 20, I was like 20, I was like 20, 26, 27, 27. earliest because the way that I was thinking about it was like
Starting point is 01:12:25 dude we haven't seen this at all and it's coming out in a year and a half that's kind of crazy yeah that's like a short when you think about especially from seeing that alpha footage or whatever it was before right they need a long time to work on this shit and you also just think about like how early things are
Starting point is 01:12:44 announced now like bro like elder scroll 6 was announced three years ago and that's nowhere near out fable was announced three years ago fucking how long the Kingdom Hearts 3 fucking take to come out after it was announced? It's Oh, Blade? Yeah, Blade is like 2026, 2027 Early. It's like there's no way that it's coming out to you and that shit
Starting point is 01:13:08 Dude That's what I love Mortal Kombat did it man Mortal Kombat was just like hey yo we got a new game And that shit drops You know what's really crazy? I gotta say though I gotta say though real quick though That a Blade game from the fucking dishonored team sounds like sounds sick as hell.
Starting point is 01:13:23 Oh yeah, it's perfect. It's perfect. Hopefully they can do it. What's crazy is that, like, Mortal Kombat's very popular in America, but, like, not anywhere else. Like, Americans really love Mortal Kombat, and then, like, Everett's, like, Street Fighter,
Starting point is 01:13:38 or, no, it's Street Fighter and Tech and everywhere else. But it's, like... Because it's extremely... It's extremely westernized. When it comes to fighting games, it's like, fucking... If it's not Japanese base... You look at even the way the characters
Starting point is 01:13:51 talk like lukeh the fact that lukeg has like oh yeah i am luke from chowlin munk and it's like this is like very much so an american's idea what fighting people are because it's crazy because they've won um they've gotten awards for like best uh multiplayer fighting game and i'm like this is not the best one but i guess it's over here i guess the voting's happening in america well people like people like people like people like the reason this conversation started in the first place the reason this conversation started in the first place, surrounded by, or I mean, in the, in the context of Mortal Kombat was like, it's crazy how Mortal Kombat doesn't have any leaks at all. Yeah. And GTA doesn't.
Starting point is 01:14:33 It kind of makes sense. But it makes sense when you consider like, you know, dude, Rockstar, the last time I checked, I could be wrong, but like, Rockstar employs 4,000 people. Yeah. That is a lot of, yeah. fucking crazy. For context, I think That is high as fuck. Did you say is that low?
Starting point is 01:14:58 That's high? That's extremely high. I guess that's hot. I guess that's... I don't know the range of like how many people will be working at like a game company. Yeah. I just don't know. I just don't know.
Starting point is 01:15:07 Over a thousand is crazy. I was going to say a thousand is kind of high. A thousand is kind of high and that's for like big like a thousand is like at a thousand, one thousand, one thousand, one hundred. something like that. Okay? That's where Bungy is and that's because they have a live service game to like maintain.
Starting point is 01:15:24 You know what I mean? Put this in perspective. Ubisoft as a publishing arm with everything that they own, that's 20,000 people. For everything. And Rockstar is like, I think, 4,000 by themselves.
Starting point is 01:15:41 Which is fucking crazy. If every studio was like that, that would mean Ubisoft would have about four studios, which they do. not. They have several. It's insane. I didn't know the numbers.
Starting point is 01:15:56 Yeah. All of Blizzard is about 5,000. Activision with Call of Duty and everything that goes into that. Oh, wait. So yeah. So Activision Blizzard is 20,000 or 17,000, something like that. And that's everything that Activision. That's every studio that they own. It's insane. I think 343 is like maybe like 200. so like i yeah but i would have bumped that up to like 400
Starting point is 01:16:25 i would have bumped that up to like 400 yeah yeah probably you bump it up to thousand with them i mean i mean yo to be to be fair to them to be fair to them easy dude to be fair to three four three man they're really it's kind of they're doing a fucking really good job actually over there now that they probably got a lot of the now that they're only five people
Starting point is 01:16:43 and it's only five people there they're the people who care a lot i guess so like now they're actually doing some good shit. Not that there's one person who actually played Halo. He's like, all right. With him not sleeping.
Starting point is 01:16:55 I got to say, I got to, I got to hand them. All right. Now put the flood in. I got to hand them the flowers. I got to hand them flowers. They're doing a good job turning that,
Starting point is 01:17:04 turning that fucking ship around. Props to them. They're doing better than bungee is right now, which is, man. I don't know what happened. I would not be, I would not be,
Starting point is 01:17:16 I would not be surprised if they canceled final shape. We can't make it right now. What's the problem? What's going on with them right now? So Bungee missed revenue. Well, hold on. Let me just paint some back to her. Bungee missed.
Starting point is 01:17:30 So they've got bought by Sony for $3.5 billion. Like a couple years ago. I think two years ago they were bought by Sony. And they were bought specifically because of their live service expertise because Sony was thinking of going into this live service area where they were just like, oh, well, we need some expertise on this. We're not really good at this. We're not really familiar with this.
Starting point is 01:17:46 hilariously enough, even just like I think yesterday, the last of us multiplayer game was officially canceled. So that's gone. That's like their biggest attempt at anything like that. So it's completely gone. So they paid $3 billion for this team
Starting point is 01:18:00 and they missed their internal revenue projections by like 50% which is catastrophically bad. Like that is insane. That's like an understatement. That's a really fucking bad. That's really bad.
Starting point is 01:18:16 And so So basically, and so they had to lay off like, they had to lay off 10% of their studio. And basically what happens now with them is, they're basically in a situation where like, if they miss revenue projections again when this DLC comes out, they basically open themselves to being taken over by Sony's board of directors.
Starting point is 01:18:37 So basically all of the bungee board will be gone and then they will be replaced by Sony people, which is hilarious because they only bought, they, they, No, they only bought this studio specifically for their expertise in live service, which they will then no longer have if they throw their own guys into the board of directors for that studio. It would be like, it would be like if you, it would be like if you bought, this is a really, this is a really abstract concept, but where with it, it would be like if you bought,
Starting point is 01:19:07 if you were putting together like a military, right, and you got the, the best general that was available. and then you lobotomized him and then just made his brain a copy of your brain so it's like you got the body of this you got the body of this general but you have your brain so it's like what a fucking waste this is not this general anymore
Starting point is 01:19:35 so they're in a really weird fucking I don't know man they're in a weird fucking situation but we'll see they're gonna they're gonna they're gonna bug Cory Barlog and me hey man I know you're not doing anything right now. Like, you just,
Starting point is 01:19:49 take over fucking bungee. And then he's just like, what if we put Crohn's how to do this in the next fucking, what if we put in the next function? What if we put war god, what if we put war god Zeus of Child in here? Zeus of Child. Oh my God.
Starting point is 01:20:05 Oh, guys, we're at an hour mark. We got a hurry big of questions. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, that's true. That's true. Holy shit. I forgot we were at an hour. Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 01:20:13 We've only done like one or two questions. At the fact that bunchy shat itself. All right. I promise it gets bigger, road. And he says, hello to the melanated minorities and Chris. A genie approaches each of you with one wish. Now, you are all smart lads. You have heard the legends before.
Starting point is 01:20:31 You understand that any possible wish you make will lead to unforeseen negative consequences. Knowing this, you all decide to make one dastardly wish in the hopes that the overall outcome will be positive. What is the ill-wish? what is the ill-willed wish you would ask for and how would these side effects cause a positive outcome? Could be a world-changing or just a minor improvement to your life. Hello, hello. I'm Malcolm Gladwell, host of Smart Talks with IBM.
Starting point is 01:21:00 I recently spoke with IBM's new director of research, Jake Mbata. We discussed his vision for the future of quantum computing. At IBM research, what we always do is answer what is the future of computing. whether it's coming up with new algorithms, coming up with better AI, coming up with quantum, or coming up with just how do different accelerators go together. It's our DNA to answer the question of what is the future. Isn't it a perfect problem for IBM because you kind of need to have a legacy of building stuff? Yes.
Starting point is 01:21:33 Building actual physical machines. Yeah, it's why I came to IBM. I wanted the experience, the culture of building, hard things that others have not done before. Where do you imagine we are in the timeline of this technology? There will come a point when it will mature. Right? My cell phone is a mature technology at this point.
Starting point is 01:21:59 How far are we from that point with Conton? By 2029, we'll build the first fault-tolerant quantum computer. That is one that can run a very, very large, large problem. To learn how IBM is building the future of computing, visit IBM.com slash quantum. All right, quick quiz for the hiring managers out there. What's worse?
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Starting point is 01:23:13 Just go to Indeed.com slash podcast right now. Indeed.com slash podcast. Terms and conditions apply. Need to hire? This is a job for Indeed's sponsored jobs. Same. Mine is to say the same. What?
Starting point is 01:23:30 I wish everyone that dies goes to hell no matter what. That's crazy. That's pretty cool. It's pretty cool. You're confident that is crazy. It's such a severe understatement. of what I just did to reality, dude.
Starting point is 01:23:53 I do humans, period. You're like, that's crazy. That's crazy. You fucked everything up. I broke everything. I'll leave happy. I buy. It's so evil.
Starting point is 01:24:05 It's so astronomically fucked up. And I said everybody. That means aliens are going to hell. Aliens dying and galaxies over are going to hell. They're like, yo, what is this, dude? You know what I would do? I would, uh, so I would kill off humanity slowly by giving. Jesus Christ.
Starting point is 01:24:27 Everyone has penises. Just vaginas and uter. That's so insane. Well, you replace all of them. You replace all of them? Yeah, so basically everyone just like. Well, they would just have them. Some people would have both.
Starting point is 01:24:42 No, no, no, no. They're gone. So now everybody just pieces. So basically all that's going to happen is people just going to butt-fucking. each other until they die. I'm not even exaggerating when I tell you. I'm not even exaggerating when I tell you that would ruin
Starting point is 01:24:55 I don't know if I would have much of a reason to continue. Honestly. Like if I knew that that was... You got to seek improvement on your own at that moment. You're like, well, you know how you know how much a flesh
Starting point is 01:25:12 I would raise in value? There'd be wars over fleshlights. There would be fleshlight. There would be full-fledged wars and genocide. over fleshlights. Yeah. Dude, that should be crazy
Starting point is 01:25:24 because now, okay, so what do you, so what do you, so how do you approach Lily now? Like, like, like,
Starting point is 01:25:28 what, I'm breaking, I'm leaving. I'm leaving. But why? I'm leaving. But why would you do that? If you can't find anything else.
Starting point is 01:25:39 I don't want to ruin. I don't want to ruin anymore. I can't need to have that anymore. Yeah. But there's no, then now you can't find what you're looking for. It's just, it's just,
Starting point is 01:25:45 it's all gone. Like, so why wouldn't just stay in it. I know, I'll be by myself. I'll go on my own solo adventure. I'll get a little dog and a horse. So pussy is king.
Starting point is 01:25:53 Like that's the, that is the key to a loving. Dude, without pussy, man would have gotten so much farther as a, as a group. Oh,
Starting point is 01:26:03 yeah, we might be able to change the world. We would colonize Mars. Mars would be colonized. The world might change in a beautiful way, but we won't be around to see it because the pussy wars
Starting point is 01:26:13 were going on first. The pussy wars. The pussy wars will be going on first and then after, that. After the pussy war settled down, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. You know the doctors?
Starting point is 01:26:24 You can still masturbate. They're like, oh, we can still masturbate. The doctors that do the, what are they called? The bottom surgery that turn dicks in the pussies, they're making a killing. Oh, yeah, dude. They're going to be the richest people on earth. They're going to be crazy well. You drag him to the fucking,
Starting point is 01:26:44 ditch unstrap him. So I don't, no, no, please don't unstrap me. Unstrap him So those are all really terrifying wishes I don't like any of that I don't like that Why not Chris? It scares me
Starting point is 01:26:58 I think If I had a wish So if I had one wish Right Then there would be some Unforeseen negative I don't know man I feel like I would
Starting point is 01:27:08 I would Here's how I would This isn't exactly how I would word it But I would drop a contract So I would know exactly What I'm wishing for And all the specificity all the specificities of it.
Starting point is 01:27:19 But I would ask for, I want $1 from everyone in this country. And it's untraceable. That's it. That's all I would want. Because then I'm a fucking, I'm a millionaire. I've got no issues. I'm not hurting anybody really. You know?
Starting point is 01:27:45 Yeah. But something negative has to come with it, right? Is that the question how I understand it? Well, that's the genie. That's the genie. That's up to the genie. How would you guys turn that against me? It's like a monkey ball.
Starting point is 01:27:55 Let's say you guys are the genie. Right. So what's going to happen is you say it's untraceable. Yeah. You say it's untraceable. How would you receive it? I'm still like what's going to happen is. Yeah, yeah, he would hide it somewhere.
Starting point is 01:28:13 It's like it's yours. Yeah, like it will exist, but it's fucking six miles underground, right before it hits the magma or something. It's just there like, all right, well, good luck. Good luck. Damn. How did you make mine worse? How did you make mine much worse?
Starting point is 01:28:31 Mine is already extremely bad. Yeah, yours is just, I mean, you just, but that's the thing. It's like you've wished for something bad on purpose. Bad on purpose. Me too. You just had no. So something good to come out of it? Mine's not objectively bad, though.
Starting point is 01:28:46 Because there's a lot of people that would love my scenario. No, the The person that fucking drew That Prince's Peach would be ecstatic They'd be like, yo Yeah Yeah, totally It's like this
Starting point is 01:29:03 Fucking rules I can't believe this I can't wait to see my ex-girlfriend Who's now technically a boy But whatever, technically male, whatever Comes through her own dress so hard And here's the thing though But he, he, this person
Starting point is 01:29:18 fantasize about this shit, but then now dude's getting piped by a can in by a Prangles can. And he's like, I did, well, I thought it was, I thought it was going to be awesome. And it just, it's just agony. It's just, this fucking, his, his ex got
Starting point is 01:29:34 the hog on them, man. It looks like, it looks like this. Yeah. He's just taking this regularly, dude. And this is the head, bro. This is the head.
Starting point is 01:29:48 If anyone listening, you just pulled out a Kirkland water bottle. Getting blighted, getting blighted by this person. Legs to the point of the other. Hello, hello. I'm Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Smart Talks with IBM. I recently sat down with IBM's chairman and CEO, Arvin Krishna. And I asked him, how can companies use AI to its fullest potential to create smarter business.
Starting point is 01:30:21 My one advice to them. Pick areas you can scale. Don't pick the shiny little toys on the side. For example. If anybody has more than 10% of what they had for customer service 10 years ago, they're already five years behind.
Starting point is 01:30:42 If anybody is not using AI to make their developers who write software 30% more productive today, with the goal of being 70% more productive. Yeah. Wow. So we are not asking our clients to be the first experiment on it. We say, you can leverage what we did.
Starting point is 01:31:00 We're happy to bring out all our learnings, including what needs to change in the process, because the biggest change is not technology, is getting people to accept that there's a different way to do things. To listen to the full conversation, visit IBM.com slash smart talks. All right, quick quiz for the hiring managers, out there. What's worse? Being understaffed or being poorly staffed? Well, that's a trick question, because both are recipes for chaos. Either way, just say to yourself, this is a job for Indeed
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Starting point is 01:32:16 Just go to Indeed.com slash podcast right now. Indeed.com slash podcast. Terms and conditions apply. Need to hire? This is a job for Indeed. deed's sponsored jobs. Legs just loose, just loose. He's standing up right because he's laying on the bed.
Starting point is 01:32:33 That's the only reason why he's not standing on his own militia anymore. So yeah, it's an interesting, interesting scenario for me. I think, I think, you know, I think that, I think the genie would probably, even if the genius just be like, you're fucking like, what's wrong with you? Just leave. He's just like, what are you even, I want to go find somebody else? Is he like, are you sure? I'm like, yeah, everyone.
Starting point is 01:32:55 All of them go there. All of them now. All of them. You tell you don't want like a billion dollars? No. No. All right. He's like, no joke.
Starting point is 01:33:06 No, seriously. I'll give you a billion dollars. I'm like, no. No. Everybody burned. Let's move on. Cyrus wrote in. He says, what up, you derelict heathens?
Starting point is 01:33:14 Aside from socks, what is the most dog shit Christmas gift you remember getting when you were a kid? At 11 years old, some out-of-state relatives thought a literal child with like a $20 gift card to some restaurant I'm convinced wasn't real. I've definitely gotten Chili's gift cards that I remember being really... But I got an Applebee's gift card, bro.
Starting point is 01:33:34 But dude, yo... What the fuck goes there? Dude, they got fucking bottomless... They got bottomless... They got bottomless, long island Tuesdays. They got bottomless Long Island iced teas on Tuesdays. Bro, on my birthday... On my birthday, I just wanted to grab a steak real fast.
Starting point is 01:33:52 And my dumb ass was like... I'm curious, does taste Applebee's steaks? I just wanted, it was the most dog shit steak. I think I'd rather would have like a Salisbury fucking TV dinner. I was like, what the fuck is this? You're an apple bees. Applebee's is for chicken tenders only. Like, that's like the only thing you can get there that is safe.
Starting point is 01:34:15 That is safe that won't make you sad. That's like kind of like it's got some kind of, it's like, oh, it's just nice breading at least. You know, like I don't, I don't know. I remember, this is not a joke. I remember for Christmas, or my birthday, one of them. I can't remember. We had a neighbor, or I don't even know if he lived in our building.
Starting point is 01:34:36 I don't think he was a neighbor. He was, he was a Kramer-like figure in my life growing up. I'm crying right now. The idea of an Applebee's steak is so fucking gross. Bro, it's, it's, it is a stuff. They microwaved it. I literally think they just microwaved it because it was, I was like, what the fuck is this? so bad. I couldn't believe it. I couldn't believe how bad it was. But this guy, his name was
Starting point is 01:35:01 Spunky. I think I've brought him up on the show before. Maybe. I'm not sure. Spunky. Spunky. He would show up to my parents' apartment when I was a child. He would go into the fridge. He would eat stuff. He would tell my parents a bunch of stuff that I didn't have the attention span to pay attention to. And then he would leave for months at a time. And then he wouldn't see him. And then he would show up again with a completely different haircut and do the same thing again. had like a million different jobs. I don't know what, I don't know what this guy's story was really.
Starting point is 01:35:28 But he gave me, I remember for my birthday, he just so happened to be there for my birthday. And I think that's what this was. I don't think he came to give me a birthday gift. I think he just sort of showed up on my birthday and realized what my parents were doing. And he was like,
Starting point is 01:35:45 hey, here you go, man. And he gave me fucking cough drops, like a lot of them. Like a handful of cough drops. He's like, Happy birthday, kid. I was like...
Starting point is 01:35:58 Was it at least the Cherry Halls? That's crazy. No, it was like... It wasn't cherry halls. I don't remember. It was not halls. I know that. I know it was not a branded...
Starting point is 01:36:08 It's not even a good shit. Yeah, it wasn't even like a something that I was like, okay, cool. He got like... Equate or something or some bullshit. Kirkland is some shit. Dude, it's crazy too, because that was like a really good birthday. So, like, it just... It just...
Starting point is 01:36:22 The disparity was crazy. Like, I think I got... got like a Game Boy Advance SP and like a really cool like a cool costume or something or some like really cool action figures some like tall like I had like Dragon Ball Z figures that were like this big like really fucking tall and then cough drops from this fucking guy. That's so funny that he literally just reached in his pocket and gave you whatever he had. Yeah. Because I've had cop drops in my pocket before like when I'm like off. Yeah, for sure. And the little sniffles and shit.
Starting point is 01:36:56 I'm trying not to cry. I'm trying not to cry. The thing that made me sad, the thing that made me sad is that, like, I think I understood. Like, I understood what was happening. Like, I understood it's like, oh, you just reached in your pocket. Like, I don't expect a birthday gift from you. I don't know you would. Yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 01:37:09 Like, you, like, so the fact that he gave me anything I thought was funny. But, like, the thing that bothered me was like, I know that he just gave me that because it was in his pocket. And it bothers me because it's like, if my birthday was like either yesterday or the day after, what would he have had in his pocket that would have been more interesting? Like, how do I know, like, on the day afterwards, he didn't have, like, a really cool knife, you know what I mean? That he would have just, like, hey, here you go. You know what I mean?
Starting point is 01:37:31 Like, that would have been sick. Yeah, here you go, kid. Here's a rifle. But there's a right. Here's a rifle, kid. Here's a fucking sawed-off shotgun. Here you go, kid. Sawed off.
Starting point is 01:37:43 You're like, ooh. Here you go, kid. Here's a haunted manuscript that shapes your reality as you read it. it's like oh it's like well okay I don't know I want this
Starting point is 01:37:59 the stupidest shit it is here's the necrumacan it's the necronomicon it's such a dumb it's such a dumb game that's good it's so stupid
Starting point is 01:38:11 but it's amazing it's so good yeah I have to put man fuck I'm so behind you know what I'll make I don't make better I'm fucking behind I actually had the mystery team in it
Starting point is 01:38:19 actually for real all right you're let's move on no I think it would have been Fun with the man Next. Next. Okay. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:38:28 Okay. Okay. Here we go. Ghost raid. So stupid. Ghost raid. Ghost raid rode in. We know ghost raid.
Starting point is 01:38:36 Absolute. Psycho. Ghost rape. No ghost raid. Why is he waving ghosts? Ghost raid. Oh. Oh.
Starting point is 01:38:46 Okay. The single most un... He's fucking his... Ghost raid is a... A dark urge. I would like that. Ghostway as Gold Race has bad ending energy.
Starting point is 01:38:57 Yeah, he's bad, he's the bad ending. He says, hey, snarky, snark and the dark bunch. Hope life's going well. So many companies seem to have a theme park. From Disney World to Nintendo Land to Hershey Park. It got me wondering what theoretical snark tank theme park, what a theoretical snark tank theme park would consist of, be it rides, foods, mascots.
Starting point is 01:39:18 The only limits your imagination. I love this fucking question. I love this idea. Because we got to have mascots. What, what, what's it? What's that? Yeah. No, I just want to, like, is, how old is this, nigga, like, to make a reference to
Starting point is 01:39:33 Marky Mark? I have no idea. I have no idea. I have no idea. That's still, that's still too young. That's still too young. That's too young to make a fucking Marky Mark reference. He probably looked, he probably watched the video of him being that Asian man's head out of his eye, his eye.
Starting point is 01:39:47 His eye always said, so he's like, oh, that's who Mark is. Yeah. Hell yeah, dude. All right. So, okay. the mascots, God, I love this. So, penis man, absolutely. We're definitely gonna have a penis man.
Starting point is 01:39:58 Lord Sexman. Lord Sexman. What does Lord Sexman look like? We gotta, well, that's the thing. It's like, we gotta draft him up for the, for the, for the theme park. We have to figure out like what he looks like. That's an extra ammo in itself, like figuring out. You just took the words right out of my mouth.
Starting point is 01:40:17 So this is absolutely. So this is absolutely. Write that shit down. I'm writing that shit down. Snark Tank theme park That's fucking Definitely Because that we could go for our
Starting point is 01:40:28 We could go for a while on that I'm going to write it in the extra ammo queue In our discovery Yeah just do that please That'd be fucking It's not working Yay That's an awesome idea
Starting point is 01:40:40 I can't wait to do that one It's gonna be the fucking Shadiest thing Yeah so So Ghost Raid Thank you for the amazing question We will absolutely We will absolutely do this
Starting point is 01:40:52 in depth for like an entire hour because this this this question captured my imagination in a way that I wasn't anticipating when I was reading it so we're going to save this because it's too good so consider that a compliment to you and your question asking skills please 100% come again let's see let's see let's see you'll bust again let's get one more I got to see did did did did you did you got to leave already I thought we could do like two more I got to start getting ready oh I mean I guess we'll do two more uh and we'll do two sign we'll do two more and then I'll just record the names for sure thank you I appreciate it guys yeah let's see oh my god puffing on cheeses
Starting point is 01:41:35 puffing on cheese you know you try to like this shit when you were a kid who didn't and you inhale burnt you inhale straight and burr you're like you immediately start choking
Starting point is 01:41:49 like what the fuck that was just smoke This is kind of an interesting one. Can people do this? Sweet come of mine wrote in. He says, Sweet come of mine. Come, come, come.
Starting point is 01:42:06 Oh, this is a scoge, scoge. He says, hey, snark-cunts, way, way back in episode six, hilarious to even bring up something that long ago. Like, we were like, we remember that. That's insane. We were mere children. That was like, what, like the,
Starting point is 01:42:22 third or second episode that we did as a as a something like that it was like the second yeah like because we started episode like four or five I think when we started doing it weekly because before that it was scattered the things we've said the things we've
Starting point is 01:42:38 been recorded saying is fucking obscene dude like I think about it sometimes I'm like holy shit the stuff we've said on recording is insane I don't remember nearly anything that we've ever said.
Starting point is 01:42:54 I remember in moments. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, he wrote in, he says, way back in episode six, Derek made a statement that you can absolutely always find someone better than the person you're dating. That in a mathematical sense,
Starting point is 01:43:07 that there was always someone better for you. Seeing as that was like 2020 and Derek is now married, Sween is probably going to marry soon and Chris is still smart and alone, does that opinion for any of you change or do you still hold to it? Happy holidays. No, because Santa touches your boyfriend. but graciously. Oh, that's hot.
Starting point is 01:43:25 Thank you. I disagree, but I disagree with a different way now. But I, um, no, I, it, it doesn't, my experience doesn't alter the, the facts of there being seven billion, eight billion people on the planet. And it's just, it's just not like this whole idea of this soulmate or one and only someone thing is just fucking stupid. You know, it doesn't matter. I'm completely satisfied.
Starting point is 01:43:52 That's a different thing, though. I'm completely satisfied. I don't have the desire to, like, oh, I need to upgrade or some shit. But say, for example, a ghost just takes her. She literally a ghost just like appears, wraps her, and then she disappears. And I have to get over that. You know, I get over that after a while. Like, the crazy shit happened.
Starting point is 01:44:12 Odds are that I could. Would I find someone? I don't know. The odds are low to actually maybe find somebody like that. But as far as, let's just say if I were able to talk to every woman that was a bachelorette or whatever. Hello, hello. I'm Malcolm Gladwell, host of Smart Talks with IBM. I recently spoke with IBM's new director of research, Jake Mbata.
Starting point is 01:44:37 We discussed his vision for the future of quantum computing. At IBM research, what we always do is answer what is the future of computing. Whether it's coming up with new algorithms, coming up with better AI, coming up with quantum or coming up with just how do different accelerators go together. It's our DNA to answer the question of what is the future. Isn't it a perfect problem for IBM because you kind of need to have a legacy of building stuff? Yes. Building actual physical machines.
Starting point is 01:45:08 Yeah, it's why I came to IBM. I wanted the experience, the culture of building hard things that others have not done before. Where do you imagine we are in the timeline of this technology? There will come a point when it will mature. Right? Yeah. My cell phone is a mature technology at this point. How far are we from that point with Quantum?
Starting point is 01:45:33 By 2029, we'll build the first fault-tolerant quantum computer. That is one that can run a very, very large, large problem. To learn how IBM is building the future of computing, visit IBM.com slash quantum. All right, quick quiz for the hiring managers out there. What's worse? Being understaffed or being poorly staffed? Well, that's a trick question, because both are recipes for chaos. Either way, just say to yourself,
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Starting point is 01:46:33 person to cut through the chaos, this is a job for Indeed sponsored jobs. And listeners of this show will get a $75 sponsored job credit to help your job get the premium status it deserves at indeed.com slash podcast. Just go to Indeed.com slash podcast right now. Indeed.com slash podcast. Terms and conditions apply. Need to hire? This is a job for indeed sponsored jobs. You can find some awesome fucking people on the planet. It's just like, come on. Like, of course. But it's just, I want to counterpoint real quick. Yeah. First of all, if you saw Ghost Take Jojo, you're never getting over that. You're never getting over that. I know. It was such an extreme example. It's such an extreme. You are never. I'm a little bit, here's the thing. I'm a little bit
Starting point is 01:47:17 superstitious in the way that I didn't want to say like, oh, if she got. like, I use an example that is so absurd that I feel like I can't will. So you'd use one that's more terrifying than any of the ones that actually could happen. I use one that's so unlikely to happen than saying something that's like a possibility. And then what if something happened? I'm like, oh, my God, I willed that into existence. You know? So I just want to be like so outlandish with the example.
Starting point is 01:47:41 Like, oh, ghost steals her. If you guys are just talking and a ghost shows up and it's like, I'm taking Jojo. And you're like, no, you're not. And it just grabs her and she's gone. her and then just disappears. Like, I'm fucked. I don't know. What do I say to anyone about that?
Starting point is 01:47:57 You're going to jail, first and foremost, a person. A person is missing. I'm totally fucked. It's missing. Guys, you gotta believe me. I know this is going to sound so insane. I understand that this is going to sound like I'm making this up, but I can't even, I can't even begin to tell you. Like, please hook me up to a lie detector.
Starting point is 01:48:17 I swear to God. I was talking to her in the case. kitchen and a ghost came said I'm taking Jojo wrapped their arms around her and she vanished I'm not kidding hook me up to a lie detector I'm telling the truth please help me
Starting point is 01:48:32 you know what's crazy you know what's even crazier the state he would be in you cannot hug him up to lie detector because if they in that state of mind they'd ask you what's your name you would say Derek Pilot and it would be a lie and it would be a lie just like that's my name
Starting point is 01:48:47 The trauma you'd be experiencing would be off the charts. You'd have to grapple with a lot, dude. It's a lot, yeah. A new chapter of the world opened up to you, and it's not even a chapter that opened up when you're young, where you're kind of get used to the fact that's real. It opens up in your 30s where you're like. You know what pisses me off, though?
Starting point is 01:49:13 How many things have I seen that happened that I thought didn't happen that I just repressed? What's going on with the world? Here's the thing that would probably be the most upsetting. There's so many people that believe in superstitious and supernatural stuff, like the religion that they believe in. Right? They believe in so much. They believe in how Holy Ghost, but then I tell them this.
Starting point is 01:49:31 They're like, bullshit. But I'm like, but, but you believe, though. You give me the benefit of please. You made me swear on a Bible when I sat down to give my testimony. But me telling you for real, a ghost stole my wife is bullshit to you? I'll eat everyone in this courtroom. I'll eat every single one of you guys. I'll eat you guys.
Starting point is 01:49:58 I love the idea of that scenario. You swear on this Bible that has ghost in it. And you're like, bro, I swear to God, they're like, no, you're stupid and you're crazy. Get the fuck out of here. You're like, the bailiff just starts to beating the shit out of you. You start to whooping your ass with the fucking malice. He's like, male, if you take this, and they start whooping. The fucking judge just starts sipping his coffee like he can't see it.
Starting point is 01:50:24 And then at the last minute before your dad, he's like, oh, all right, that's enough. That's enough. That's enough. We still got to put him somewhere. We still got to use him as a slave. He's got to make license plates. Hold on. Don't kill him.
Starting point is 01:50:36 Don't kill him. All right, buddy. On your feet. On your feet. Look at you. You're looking like a mess. Oh, you can't walk now? You pussy.
Starting point is 01:50:45 You stole your wife, you fucking jackass. Last one. What's what these homies fucking my whole wrote in? He says, hey, Negro Trio. I mean... Trio! Let's relax. Let's relax.
Starting point is 01:51:05 What's one Christmas movie? What? Chris is rapping. What? Chris is rapping. He could say at N-word. In rapping, he can say to N-word. That's the only time. Facts. What's one Christmas movie that... that you just can't stand. But at every Christmas get together, people always put it on.
Starting point is 01:51:23 Mine is an elf because I find the humor annoying. It's a fair answer, I think. I remember liking that movie, but I only seen it like once. I hate The Grinch, from being honest. I hate the Grinch. Jim Carrey's Grinch is a terrible movie, I think. You hate the Grinch?
Starting point is 01:51:38 I don't like any of the Grinch's, actually. I'm lying. I fucking love that movie. Really? I love that movie so much. What movie do I think is very overrated for Christmas, but everybody else to play it. I think the Santa Claus is dog shit.
Starting point is 01:51:50 I think I just like Christmas movies. What did you say, Derek? I think most of them are pretty good. I think Santa Claus, the fucking Tim Allen? Oh, yeah, they're terrible. They're terrible. There was just one get together. Chris, I think you remember.
Starting point is 01:52:03 You've got to remember this. Let's get together, right? We didn't get together. We all came over. We were all going to watch movies, right? And we were like, yo, let's watch a movie. And one of our friends would not stop, saying put on Santa Claus 3, the escape clause.
Starting point is 01:52:21 She would not stop. We watched Seoul. Good movie. Really enjoyed it. We're like, oh, that's a good movie. What else do you guys want to watch? Yeah, this is recent then. She would not stop.
Starting point is 01:52:33 It was 2021, I think. Yeah, it's the last few years. Would not stop. We're like, yo, we don't want to watch it. Hello, hello. I'm Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Smart Talks with IBM. I recently sat down with IBM's chairman and CEO, Arvin Krishna, and I asked him, how can companies use AI to its fullest potential to create
Starting point is 01:52:53 smarter business? My one advice to them, pick areas you can scale. Don't pick the shiny little toys on the side. For example. If anybody has more than 10% of what they had for customer service 10 years ago, they're already five years behind it. If anybody is not using AI to make their developers who write software 30% more productive today, with the goal of being 70% more productive.
Starting point is 01:53:26 Yeah. Wow. So we are not asking our clients to be the first experiment on it. We say, you can leverage what we did. We are happy to bring out all our learnings, including what needs to change in the process, because the biggest change is not technology. It's getting people to accept that there's a different way to do things. To listen to the full conversation, visit IBM.com slash smart talks. All right, quick quiz for the hiring managers out there.
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Starting point is 01:54:56 Need to hire? This is a job for Indeed's sponsored jobs. Okay. An hour later. Let's watch this. We don't want to watch that movie. We do not want to see that movie. Stop.
Starting point is 01:55:09 She didn't stop. We ended up watching it that night. Oh, my God. She would not give up. She would not give up. I was so miserable. I already hate it. that movie. I don't, I already hate those movies, period. Even the first one that people, like, argue,
Starting point is 01:55:24 even the first one that people argue is like, good. It's like, I don't, I just don't find Tim Allen funny or endearing at all. I don't like him. I think he's very, very unfunny. I think the premise is fucking dumb. I just, I can't, I can't get into it at all. But the Santa Claus 3 specifically sucks dick on a level that I could not even begin to describe. without wasting everyone's time. It's so bad. It is a horrible movie.
Starting point is 01:55:56 Because that's the one with like the fucking, is that the one where he has like the plastic beard? Is that the one? Yeah. And it's the fucking Jack Frost. Oh my God. Martin Short. Martin Short.
Starting point is 01:56:07 Martin Short. Martin Short. Martin Short. There you go. Yeah, dude. I, oh, man. Awful,
Starting point is 01:56:14 awful fucking, awful film. Awful fucking movie. But that's probably, That's probably one. Nobody, but the thing about that was, is that nobody outside of that one situation, I've never, ever seen anybody put that movie on or, like, argue for it so incessantly. The one, I'll- They would not give up.
Starting point is 01:56:34 I'll say this. I find, I just, I don't really care for a Christmas story really at all. I don't know if I hate it, but I don't care for it even slightly. Like, it's never something that I want to watch. watch it doesn't hit for me it's not I don't find it amusing you're not you're not 50 years old Chris yeah like that which one is it's um it's the one with the black and white one right no a Christmas story is a Christmas story is the one where it's like you'll shoot your eye out kid you know uh you uh the the one with like they're at school and they a kid sticks his tongue
Starting point is 01:57:12 to the pole and it's it sticks and I Fred Gile I don't care about that shit and the The leg lamp. The leg lamp, I think, is kind of funny. I feel like, I'm a describing portion of this movie, and I'm like, is it Ebony's the Scrooge one? No, right? No, that's a Christmas Carol. A Christmas story is the one with the little kid, look it up. You have a computer in front of you.
Starting point is 01:57:36 Look up a Christmas story. You'll see it. You'll see exactly what I'm talking about. If you've ever seen it before, God bless you, but it's just an old, it's a very old movie. I don't care for it. It's got nothing on, it's got nothing on home alone. or like any of these other, like, great Christmas movies. Like, it's just like, I can't.
Starting point is 01:57:52 Fucking excellent. I can't sit there. Home alone will always be well. Home alone is one of the ones. Oh, my God. Fuck this movie. Fuck this movie. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:57:59 And fuck that stupid ass kid, too. Yeah. No, 100%. Oh, my God. I wanted to punch his head in, dude. Yeah, 100%. Like, that's trash. Don't put that shit on in my house ever.
Starting point is 01:58:09 But, yeah, home alone, definitely. Especially number two. I love number two more than number one. And, you know, one movie I'm afraid to watch again because I'm afraid it's going to be dog shit is jingle all the way. Because I love that movie as a kid. That movie's still really fun. Is it?
Starting point is 01:58:24 I'm afraid to watch it, man. Because that's why it ruined Space Jam for me when I watched it as an adult. I was like, oh, this move is fucking terrible. And I feel bad now. Space Jam. Space Jam is crazy. Did you hear about that canceled? Like, they were going to the sequel to Space Jam back in like the 90s and early
Starting point is 01:58:39 2000s that they were going to do that ended up not happening because Looney Tunes back in action didn't do well at the box office? I don't really remember. Do you know what this is, Kingston? Do you know what it is? I heard about that, yeah. I heard about the fact that they were going to make another Looney Toons movie, but Looney Toons back in action didn't do very good.
Starting point is 01:58:57 Well, so the idea initially was to make a sequel to Space Jam, and it was called Skate Jam with Tony Hawk, which I actually think would have been fucking dope, to be honest with you. It could have done all right. Instead of just doing like, hey, it's basketball every single time, the idea of them doing kind of like the same idea, but like for different sports or different like, That's kind of cool.
Starting point is 01:59:20 It even rolls off the tongue to skate jam. Yeah, skate jam sounds cool. It could work. And the idea of, I love the idea, too, that there would be, like, skate music in a Lututut. Like, the idea of, the idea of Daffy Duck fucking doing, like, grinding a tailpipe to, like, bad religion or something is fucking ridiculous. But we never got it because Luton's back in action sucked. Oh, well. Anyway, that's a Luton.
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Starting point is 02:03:31 And I'll probably put a little bit of music for a little bit of atmosphere. I don't know what the hell it's going to be, but you're probably hearing it right now. So here we go. I'm going to read the list. Starting off with a dock on the bay sitting on a cock because I'm gay. P, B, B, B, B, B, B, B, B, B, B, B, B, B, B, B, B Csys, very cool. Blow a dick, a female dick, gay is what I will become. Leon Sam's.
Starting point is 02:03:56 Big meaty stinks. Saucy legs, McGee. Very cool. Gray Collier. Josh, it wasn't me giddy. Andy, the man whose handies are S-tier and dandy. Very cool. Evil Sween be like, I'm tiny.
Starting point is 02:04:16 I'm skinny. So rude. Ben Shapiro 100% stashed away one of his sister's bras when he was younger 100%. You know, obviously that's creepy. But at the same time, even Ben Shapiro would not be able to resist those milkers. Heath Smoker, Daddy Lars, the Uncle Ruckus of the Goon Squad. I'm not gay. I'm feeling trans got man's dick in my ass.
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Starting point is 02:06:25 to Swinney makes me consider racism, agreed. Chris, you broke ass, crayon eating no brain, dead sister having Titan player. That's pretty fucking rude. Baller of the first sin. You don't have to be afraid anymore. We are approaching episode 200. I would like to thank all the
Starting point is 02:06:43 bitches, big bitches, small bitches, Tall bitches, short bitches, 100%. Chris, please look it up. Please look up picks of Dizzy Gillespie. Ruinning the upholstery of a Ford F-150 with the boys. Every single time. When you get
Starting point is 02:06:59 caught between the cum and some dude's penis, I know it's gay shit, but it's true. Johnny Silvercock. Cypher graph. Sweeney with the Eany Weeny Piny Facts. Elmo Fassie.
Starting point is 02:07:15 dead in New York City apartment. And I think it's kind of bussing. Oh, yeah, and I think it's kind of bussing. I think it's kind of cab. The dreams in which I'm dying are the ones that kind of slap. Hunter Dubois, the dog father. Carl, get a glass. I want to see it, Carl.
Starting point is 02:07:35 Take the glass from... Carl. Get a glass. I want to see it, Carl. Take a glass from the Walker's Corp. Before I squirt takes... before the squirt takes full control. So stupid. Sweeney, look my peony.
Starting point is 02:07:51 The cum flows wide on the bedstreet seats tonight. Not a straight man to be here in a, here in the kingdom of penetration. And it looks like I'm the, was that queer? It cut off a little bit. It looks like it just cuts off. It just says, quit. Bro, same, The Everlasting Gaze. back to Tank of Come.
Starting point is 02:08:17 Caucasian container, the cracker barrel for gays, Donald Trump burping on Dom's clit. Do Christian girl squirt, holy water? I sure hope they do. Dan, hold her tighter. She's a fighter.
Starting point is 02:08:31 Schneider. King Kong's ding-dong wrote in. Black people's... Black people is actually short for basketball people. I'm sorry, Sweene. I thought of that phrase independent. I didn't know. Why is this shit always cutting off, man?
Starting point is 02:08:49 And then it's like, and then won't let me complete it. Do Patreon's... Patreon? Patreon is fucking stupid, man. Like, just so many things... Yeah. All right, whatever. She picking on my pippa, possum, L. Gog.
Starting point is 02:09:07 Average clear energy. Shout out. I couldn't even edge. I just busted. Just the hard R Star Coffee on the Twitch bitch She shinzo on my doohiki till I Abe I like that
Starting point is 02:09:24 Rest of peace Choked to death by Aubrey Plaza's thighs Yep Been blowing lots of guys Been blowing lots of guys Living in the gay man's paradise Taking dons of every size Living in the gay man's paradise
Starting point is 02:09:43 trans femme gremlin exposing people with the lactose intolerance of 90 million rodogens of ionizing radiation Ush Not vipin VIN
Starting point is 02:09:58 There we go The Angelic DM So here I am Blowing every man I can I'm fucking every man Pretending I'm a homo man DJ Khalid voice DJ Kams
Starting point is 02:10:10 Cuc Craig the Canadian Friendly reminder. Kevin Storbel. Wow, I can't speak. Kevin Sorbel, star of Christian media like God's not dead, voiced Hercules and God of War
Starting point is 02:10:23 3. Yes, 100%, but you would usually say Kevin Sorbel star of Hercules, but I get that that's the joke, I guess. Yeah, Kevin Sorbel fucking sucks now, man. He sucks so badly. He just sucks.
Starting point is 02:10:40 And he's just doing what a lot of people are doing. They're like, oh, I'm not relevant anymore, so I'm just going to go on this whole, like, adopt this new arc where look, man, everything's a problem, and we've got to go back to being good old gay Christians and sucking Cocker or whatever guts. I don't know, whatever, shout out. It's your boy, Shawnee D. Little Dick Big Nuts.
Starting point is 02:11:05 Daily Wire presents Matt Walsh. Matt Walsh's What is a Black. I still, we need to make that a real thing. Ben and Jerry's Funky The proud owner of a 12-gauge silly straw I have a climax that's approaching Provoking his cum leaks out of my butthole I am Reclaimer of the Gay born and Gay I I don't know what this is
Starting point is 02:11:27 Why is this like I I wish it wouldn't cut off but it just does Like clearly there's more And even when I hover over it like say like you know like a hyperlink it just like It just doesn't want to do anything so it's pretty cool. Yeah, thanks Patreon. Gay Sinatra be like, Start spreading your cheeks. I'm fucking your ass.
Starting point is 02:11:52 Let's see. 3XO and the Japanese skin professor whose suitcase of Yakuza hides was stolen in Chicago. What is that fucking Yakuza 4 or something? Sloping, stroking, smoking, joking. emoji that's doing this. Oh, Keith David.
Starting point is 02:12:12 Homeless drip M.H. Lord of Homeless Drip. Pretty cool. Is that supposed to be like, oh, wait, no, no, no, never mind. I get it. If you get put on Santa's nice list, he'll show you his missile toes. Very cool. MF.
Starting point is 02:12:31 That's a MFag. That's so not even clever. I think. Big tits are lame. Vagina walls don't thrill me at all. So tell me why I should, why shouldn't it be true? That true, I get dick out of dudes. I just, sorry, that threw me off. Obi, what you blow me?
Starting point is 02:12:55 Kremlin de Gremlin. I canceled my LSM patronage because of Collins blind PlayStation meat riding. That shit sucks and trophies are gay. Damn, shots fired, bro. I mean, I don't know. I just remember Colin having interesting takes of like liking stuff that people, like he almost seemed like a contrarian in the way that he plays games. But no, I just, everybody has their own flavors.
Starting point is 02:13:27 But yeah, shout out to Colin. That's it. I'm really going to do it this time. Deith Kavid. She spread it and let me take a sniff of that. that Mahi. Fucking police. Coming hard as I thrust and pound.
Starting point is 02:13:42 All right. Avi. Marge's unburped clip. Oh, man. Halo 2. Blow me away tune. Only the gayest will survive. Need the homos who bust inside.
Starting point is 02:13:54 I am gay against the wall. I appreciate the people that kind of give a precursor. Wage slave 583. A sad guy for Michigan. I understand the guessing thing is also good with it, but a lot of times it's hard to guess the fly. Down bad for a helicopter dick emoticons so I can see Chris go
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Starting point is 02:14:45 you gotta pay the trolls toll to get into the boys' hole Gade 6 Shaggy using 2% of his power to grant himself an N-word pass Kid Cuddy I'm on the pursuit of fat penis
Starting point is 02:14:59 And I know Everything that's long Ain't always gonna be throbbing But it should be Let's see Snark tank Snitch bitches need to stop Telling on me to
Starting point is 02:15:12 Daddy Colin Could you guys make Gorilla noises I need them for my D&D campaign Uh I well I'm gonna have to have Chris handle that because I just
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Starting point is 02:15:41 A mean lesbian. Wow, you're very mean. Gumballs voice actor calling Dream the F-sler. What I like about it is this person has a dream as is avie. Sadman.gov. I'm going to try that. I'm going to type that in later. John Strickland.
Starting point is 02:15:57 Do your balls hang low? Can they gobble down my throat? Is the calm thick as rice? Is it sweeter? Is it spice? See, the problem I have with this is that it needs to rhyme. I want it to rhyme with low, right? So it's like, do your balls hang low?
Starting point is 02:16:15 Dada, da, da, da, da, da, do you tie it and knocking? You tie it in a bow? Like, I wanted to, like, I wanted to, for it to be satisfactory for me, but still, nice. Merck's 1889. That Pengement button make my cone of vision shrink steady. Okay. The first church of Keith David featuring Paul just of Watson's massive fist, Waffle punching his shit down the sink train.
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