Weekly Skews - Weekly Skews – An AI That Makes You Sweat

Episode Date: October 15, 2025

Did Marjorie Taylor Greene get woke Freaky Friday’d? (No.) We discuss the plan to give your electricity to AI by giving Big Sweaty Brother control over your thermostat. And other AI hijinks, including a peek into our future in Albania, where they made an AI a cabinet minister with hurt feelings. The NY Post has a shocking revelation about the Portland frog, and it’s that he once made a joke they didn’t get. Also, a fun update from the Q Shaman, who filed a lawsuit claiming he is the rightful president, and we are convinced.Support the show

what's up everybody welcome back to weekly skews it's uh october 14th 2025 as you're watching this we're recording this on monday october 13th that a little before two o'clock on the left coast i'm trying that's mark how you doing mark good man uh doing a little bit of cold but we'll fight through it uh so have you keeping up with the latest goings on with marjor taylor green and everyone being perplexed by her behavior i just have no i don't know what the very latest is but i've just gotten this weird impression for basically for what it's felt like at least the past few weeks couple months or something every now and then i'll see something about marjorie taylor green on on you know social media or whatever where i go like damn she's actually i kind of actually i kind of actually actually agree with her there. Like, anytime I see her about to speak, I'm always ready to be like, God, Jesus fucking Christ, what is this crazy shit going to be? And then lately, there's been times where I've been like, she's kind of spitting right

there. So I know that I'm assuming other people are mad at her. And I don't know what's going on. All right. So recently, so she basically, during the shutdown, she's broken with a, uh, there's a, there does a Atlantic headline that gives you the sense, the sense of what Washington's thinking right now. What's going on with Marjor Taylor Green?

So she did the rounds of the Sunday shows this weekend, breaking with the Speaker of the House over the need to extend Obamacare subsidies. So she's also broken with, you know, the establishment on Israel. She went on Tim Dillon's podcast and talked about how we subsidize Israel, which allows them to have free health care and free college. She should, she not directly shit on Trump, but she says he thinks he's choosing the wrong course by selling out Normie to help out crypto and artificial intelligence. you know, then, of course, is the Epstein filed stuff. And they quote here from Trump himself, what's going on with Marjorie Trump reportedly asked at least two different

senior Republicans? And then Hakeem Jeffreys went on cable news and said, I'm talking about MTJJ, sorry, and said it does seem to many of us that she's had a surprisingly enlightened few weeks. And I mean, I want to, like, I'll get know why I think all this is dumb in a second, but like, he gives you a sense of

what's like how Washington's treating her right now because they love nothing more than somebody who bucks their party, whether or not it's a Joe Manchin or, uh, you know, John McCain pretending to whatever Marjorie Taylor Green is doing now. Here's a Marjor Teller Green on CNN. Here's a wolf blitzer at their interview. I want to help on any front that I can. You're a courageous politician, but more important to loving mother. Thanks very much for paying them. We hope you'll come back here in the situation. Uh, all right. Yeah, I mean, I, yeah, I do think that both sides do that. There's like, you know, but I always, there's all these

right-wing influencers and stuff who claim to be like reformed liberals and shit i feel like most of them are not that i know of are not like the the heaviest of hitters but it's like a way to do it you do a heel turn and it'll get your numbers or whatever but then also like you know they were trotting out like liz cheney on the campaign trail and shit like that because of you know so like they do love a turn coat on both sides what i've thought about marjorie taylor green the whole time and right now is that like i'm not really surprised to see her breaking with you know the base or whatever or the maga leadership it with anything necessarily because like i've one thing i will say about her is from the very beginning i thought that she

was like legitimate with her um you know with her bat shittery like her like i've never thought that she was like a like a pure grifter who was just saying just you know following the you know, as the winds blow and saying what you're supposed to, I've always thought it's like, no, she's like one of those capital T, capital B, true believers or whatever. Right. So, right. She's not going to, she's not going to bullshit about what she thinks about something

just because it's like what the party line is shifted in that direction or whatever. And that doesn't really surprise me about her. There's a few different things hanging over this. And the reason I'm confused by other people's confusion is like everyone seems to have flattened their brains to like to think in things of purely partisan. right by through a purely partisan lens where everyone becomes a non-player character all right right marjor taylor green does not wake up in the morning and say i'm going to be a villain i'm the bad person in this story here's how i piss off the lips right see that's part of it there's

also the part where like she hasn't changed she's still the same woman who is a q-and-on true believer who came to who's claimed to fame where she got elected to office was harassing parkland shooting survivors right so like but also she think about who she is she's she what she wants is to tote big guns get to the bottom what aliens are up to and thinks health insurance is a fucking scam she's a median american voter right yeah so so that that's part of it but also like you don't like even if you think of it through the lens of just anti-semitism being mad at the big banks thinking you know thinking insurance is a scam getting the bottom of the Epstein files want to pull back money from Israel all that's consistent with that but also the part of the consistent is what if she actually believed, unlike the rest of her party, that right-wing populism was real? Right. Yeah. Yeah, she's just an actual, like, right-wing populist or whatever. Right. So she also, the context here, she wanted to run statewide for Senate, and Trump declined to endorse her, told her that she could not run. So she has no hope to run statewide, and she's unbeatable in her district. She doesn't take any big money.

She runs a small-a-dollar donation. She can do whatever the fuck she wants. And the reason, Will Blitzer congratulated on being a good mother right there. She's talking about how her own children were going to have their health insurance rates double. If they don't extend the ACA subsidies, she's being affected personally by it. So like 2.3 million Georgians signed up for Obamacare from 2014 to 2024, one of the highest numbers of any state. So what if she just doesn't want her constituents to get fucked? Right. She's actually representing her constituents for once.

Yeah, pretty rare that you say that. Why did, why did, uh, why Trump told her that he could, she couldn't run for Senate? Like, why? Like, do you know what? Does people know why? Like, she's not popular statewide. Right. Yeah. So she ran wasted, right. She would, yeah, lose race for them. She won by like 30 points or whatever, but she ran five points behind both Trump and Herschel Walker in her own districts. Yeah. So I'm saying? Right. Yeah, man. She weighed, Corey's neck of the woods. Let me tell you. They are wild.

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Matt, graphic, please. Today's D.D., my wife, for blaming me, for changing the thermal. when in actuality, it was Republican State Representative Roy Klopfenstein. Republican lawmaker at the Ohio State House introduced a bill this week that would allow utility companies to automatically adjust your thermostat at your house. House Bill 427 would create a voluntary demand response program. Customers would be allowed to sign up to let their utility company temporarily adjust energy use. All right, you can kind of bet.

I have so many questions. Is this generally a, like, Republican-coded partisan thing? Or is this? Because if this is Republicans, and they don't fucking lose people in the heart, if they don't lose the papas with this, I don't know when it's ever going to happen. Because there's nothing that pisses the papal off more. And I say papal being like our dad's generation up.

And help me, I'm just the regular dad, pisses them off more than somebody fucking with the goddamn thermostat. And that extends to their children. let alone some fucking bureaucrat down at the fucking tri-county office or whatever. Fucking with your thermostat? Fuck that. This is bullshit of the highest order, Mark. Yeah, so a lot going on here.

But, like, the fun thing to know about this is like, like, so electricity rates are up. Everybody, anybody's paid bills knows that, right? It's up for a whole host of reasons, you know, tariffs, uh, energy, energy supplies. You got, like, we're transitioning for different grid problems, which the Detroit administration is confusing the fuck out of. by cutting back on some green energy projects. They were almost already almost finished. But also, AI dentists use a fuck ton of electricity. And we're building a lot of them.

And we'll get to some numbers in a second. But when I say a fuck ton, I mean, it's going to be most of it soon. But where I found this video, I have like dummy accounts for following right-wing conspiracy shit for this show and also just because I'm interested in it. This is floated around the right-wing fucking slob sphere because they think it's about the wool green agenda. Yeah, I noticed that on the link, the post. itself. They mentioned it's like they, they blamed it on, you know, renewable energy was the cause of this. And I'm, I was immediately skeptical of that. I didn't know what it actually was. But it's AI. Yeah. It's because they want to give everything to AI. They want to give your electricity, your property, your fucking. It's like, that's what we're going to talk about today. But like, so, like I said, residential, residential, rates are up more than 30% on average since 2020. Almost double the rate of inflation in the past year with no end in sight. Data centers and AI,

are gobbing up electricity, but the share difference significantly by state. So you can throw up at this graph I have of various states, but I'm going to focus on my home state of Virginia, where between 2010 and 2025, data centers went from less than 5% to roughly 40% of Virginia's electricity consumption. 40% of electricity in Virginia is going to AI data centers. Right. Okay. So you just said AI, it specifically is AI data center. Like, because not every data center or server farm or whatever is an AI thing, right?

We had those for years before AI became a buzzword. Like, this is anything like that, or this is only AI specifically related shit? This is all of it, but a ton of the new construction is AI. That's where all the money in our economy is going right now is to build, is to build out AI data centers. So, like, you get another to me throughout another state and 33% of all the electricity used in Oregon's attributed debt to data centers. Now, I don't know, the people are starting to come around to understand this is the bubble. like crypto collapsed over the weekend, $20 to $30 billion evaporated, and a bunch of people get online and said they're going to kill themselves. I have no idea how many people died over the

weekend, but it was more than zero. So the one people you can't get through to about this about whether or not it's a bubble seem to be politicians because they understand it even less than the rest of us do. I want to give you a fun example before we get to America here, but Albania just rolled out an AI cabinet minister. It's a bot named Dealia, Dela, whatever. LLA, which means son in Albanian. Yeah. And it's depicted as a woman in traditional Albanian dress is going to supposedly help tackle corruption in public spending.

So what you're going to do is going to cut everyone's services and blame it on the AI making the decision. It's basically like you wouldn't hit a doge if it's a woman, would you? What they're doing is constructing a mechanical turk that they can blame when it cuts your pension and be like, what are you going to do, right? Right. Like, did you if I want to show you a little bit of video of D. Watch this is pretty funny.

Sorry to the podcast list, the podcast only listeners because it's an Albanian subtitle. Some people say I'm unconstitutional from that I'm nothery. Kyo me car lenduer. I don't even though for 1970s, 2,000

reprimed with chitators that have been given in Albania. Some people say I'm unconstitutional because I'm not human. That hurts my feelings. No, it fucking does it. Why do they... Right.

They, so, like, Does someone program a thing like that to say things like that? Or is it just because of how they all work? They all have the programming imperative to, like, you know, make themselves sound human or something. Do you know what I mean? Like, why would that thing say, you hurt my feelings? Because it's supposed to, but then she, but if you watch the rest of it with the subtitles, she then goes on to say, like, you know, I can't, I don't remember exactly what she said,

but it's something like, I don't have emotions. I don't have, like, she acknowledges all these things about her that should be better because she's not human, but yet at the beginning, she's like, you were, you were mental men, and that is painful, you know, like, why I don't get why that, that, you know, Babushka Bot 2000 would do both of those things. They want to say it's going to do a better job because it doesn't sleep and doesn't have emotions, but also you should feel bad for calling her a clanker because it's racist because she has feelings right so they're trying to do both things at the same time i'm just glad the technology is finally got to the point that we've evolved past the need for physical albanians um so

dude i the iserbaijan is same telling that their internet that that that AI is an actress because they're ancient albanian versus a Azerbaijani blood flu i'm not getting into that i'm sure they're like these fucking peasants that got computers that could make robot chicks and everybody you fucking believe they ain't no way like if i first their internet still powered by goats over there. Y'all believe they got fucking AI, you know, ministers, bullshit. Yeah. That whole part of the world is ate up with like comical yet sometimes bloody, you know, ancient feuds and shit. It's almost why people came to the new world was to escape those intractable differences.

Then we just recreated them. So, but she's a good example to me of why politicians love this shit because like this is, they think it's an escape for making a sort of hard decision. It's like it's a combination of the fact that like it'll be cheap and free that we can run the government for free and we'll never have to tax anybody

and people won't get mad at us for that and also we do something deeply unpopular we can blame it on the fucking robot. Exactly yeah. Yeah. Let the robot make the tough decisions but also take the blame for you.

You'd be like hey don't look at me the fucking you know the super blind said it was the you know the right thing to do. It's like it's like It's like to the last couple apartment buildings we lived at, like the property manager has refused to negotiate on the rent because the rent's sent by an outside algorithm that you can't talk to.

It's like that, but your government is what we're pivoting towards. So, but that's why apologies just love this shit. It's like taking off all over the world. Like this member of parliament in London, his member of the Labor Party created an AI of himself to talk to his constituents so he doesn't have to. It's just like, which is like he's, so he can spend his time downpull. hub or whatever. The AI fucking listens to

people like me and you complain about our fucking health care or transit service or whatever. Yeah, that doesn't I mean, that, from that guy, I'm not surprised that politicians are doing that. I'm surprised that he's, you know, we're this far into the game and that guy's apparently the first one. You know what I'm

like you said, anything that allows them to do their job less and ignore their constituents more like, of course, they're going to fucking jump all over that, you know. Yeah, this, uh, this party, a political party in Japan is taking it one step further. They had made an

AI penguin who's in charge of the party. Now, the penguin can't get elected to office because it's not a person, right? Not yet, Mark. Right. But the physical person who embodies Parliament is going to take all their orders from the fucking penguin if they get elected,

which I got to hope they don't. They're like, well, Japanese people love silly animals and the penguins are silly animals, so we're going to make it a penguin. It's like, oh, Jesus Christ. Right. So it discomforts me how clueless politicians are going all in on shit. They barely understand.

And when I talk about like, like, you're just having a snake oil salesman come and give them something, infinity money, infinity ability, infinity war winning, right? And like, and they're like, that sounds good. How do you do it? Like, don't worry about it. We're too smart for you to explain it. And you're too dumb to get it. But don't just give us all your money.

And like, that seems to be the dynamic here. Like, for example, what I'm talking about, here's Trump talking about AI the other day. Five billion on one plant, you know, AI. All I know is it's, you know, AI is based on information. I hope they're right about information. I don't know. You've got to make a lot of money to, it's got to be a lot of information out there. But that seems to be pretty hot.

But we have a lot. We're leading the world on information on AI. All right. Does that say a guy who understands the technology that he's pivoting the entire of the U.S. to be based on? Absolutely not. To be fair, that. That's how Trump sounds to me when he talks about pretty much anything ever. Right.

But I'm sure that AI is like easily one of the things that he is dumbest about for sure. But yeah, yes, 100%. These people, you know, they're selling us all out, like globally for this stuff that they don't seem to understand. You know what I mean? Even like I've yet to see anybody that I can think of really like adequately express what all exactly it's supposed to do or how it's supposed to work or whatever. It's just like, it's just

going to be great. It's the future and it's going to be great. It's going to make everybody's lives better. But I don't really understand how. Right. Because like, really what it does, it sells vibes to make the line go up, right? It's vibes. Right. And like, here's Sam Altman, the head of

Open AI, which owns chat of DPT, talking about it recently with a bunch of a few other AI leaders. Like the difference, the space between the rhetoric and what they actually can deliver is vast. And you'll see all share what I'm talking about. You know, 100 billion is a small dent in it. And the numbers are also like, they're missing the story of what this amount of

infrastructure is capable of doing. Like 10 gigawatts of compute, again, easy to throw around numbers like that. But the amount of work it takes to build that out the size and scale of these like, you know, multi-square mile gigantic things and the complexity at every level of, supply chain, and then what that amount of brain power, which does not exist today, can do already today, what it will do is the models get better. Like, this is the real deal. This is the thing people have been waiting for you.

You know, I talk about it. Okay, kind of bad. So, after he stammer is on about the magnificence of technology, like the only use case they mentioned in this segment, the guy standing next to him goes, it will be able to make your calendar while you sleep. So we got to build, we have spent trillions of dollars on. these gigawatt whatever computing factories so you can save you two minutes in the morning from making your to-do list also i'm a person who keeps a calendar because i my my schedule is

so variable with fucking you know random meetings or whatever instead it's not like consistent week to week and if you told me right now that chat gpte could like do that for me or whatever there's no way i would trust it to actually do it not for quite some time anyway do you You know what I mean? Because it's like, because again, you get on like, I was just saying not long ago, I googled, you know, how many receptions to C.D. Lamb have tonight. And Google's AI was like, Cididid Lamb doesn't have any receptions tonight because it's Thursday and there's no football on Thursday, even though there's very famously, you know, a thing called Thursday not football. So knowing that, I'm not going to just turn, you know, give the hand the keys to my calendar over somebody else. And then I miss like a fucking pitch meeting with Netflix or something because my robot assistant put it on Tuesday instead of Thursday or on 8 p.m.

instead of 8 a.m. or whatever the fuck. You know what I mean? So, like, it just... But I know there's a lot of people out there that can't wait to let... Cannot wait to let AI just do literally anything and everything that it will for them. Right. But what if it's just moderately useful?

Right. What if it's like every other invention in human history and it doesn't change everything instantly? Right. Like, how many inventions have done that? The transistor? Mm-hmm. The combustion...

Yeah. And it still took years and years for it to, like, Like, like, the car, what did it take, like, 50 years between the invention of the car and people driving the interstates? Like, so, like, so I can't tell whether this is a pyramid scheme or idolatry or somewhere in between where it's kind of both. And speaking of electricity, which you talked about the beginning, open eye by itself will use just as much power as New York City and San Diego combined fairly soon. Man, that's crazy. So, I don't sure how long this bubble can keep expanding, but it'd be like, like when the mainstream financial press starts talking about, about the shit this way?

Like, let me read this headline. The AI bubble is 17 times the size of the dot-com frenzy and four times the subprime mortgage bubble an analyst says. This is a guy who used to work at UBS. It's not some wacko leftist or some fucking revolutionary or whatever.

And the worst part about the AI bubble popping is how many average people are going to be effectively economic fallout. These fucking billionaire bastards who are on TV talking about how great it is, are you going to see no difference in their life other than a slight decline and their net worth. The subprime mortgage bubble

you know, that just said this is four times the size of that. That was the 2008 crisis. That was pretty, I was graduating college at that time, perfect timing by me, which I'm famous for my timing. But and that was real bad, you know, but like

that, though, a lot of that, you know, a lot of the foundational issues with that came down to like people having actual house, homes and shit with mortgages that they couldn't pay for that they then defaulted on it as a slew of, you know, mortgage defaults the people losing their houses and all this stuff,

which led to this, like, cascading effect that fucking next thing you know, Wall Street banks are falling apart if we don't bail them out or whatever. But with this, it's like, it's nothing. It's like all smoking mirrors and shit, you know, seemingly. It's like all digital, but it will have the same end result, meaning these guys are too highly leveraged in this AI shit.

So when the bubble pops, they'll come crying to the government and taxpayers again with their hands out for another bailout because they're going to default they're going to fail if we don't and then that's what will and then the markets will crash everything else and then now regular people's lives are fucked because just the general economy goes to shit is the idea they've convinced the national security they like depends on this and we can't like we have to build and create god because otherwise china will beat us to creating god and china will conquer us probably in uh allied with that albanian d yellow lady right we can't we can't

We can't let Diella conquer America, so we got to, we have to put the entire of the National Treasury in Open AI. It's not just, like, it's not just all, and it's not just like, let me, this is the headline for the Financial Times, the European equivalent to the Wall Street Journal, not some fucking left-wing rag, okay? America's top companies keep talking about AII, but cannot explain the upsides. Finchtern's dug through a bunch of like a bunch of corporate filings and executive transcripts of like earnings calls from S&B 500 companies. These are their own words and they can't figure out why any of them are put pushing AI on their employees and other products other than a fear of missing out. It's just FOMO. That's their that's their words.

The three use cases they found in all these corporate filings for what these companies are actually doing with AI that is actually useful. Let me listen for you. An animal health group named Zootis is used. using the technology to speed up medical tests for horses. Dover Corporation, a manufacturer, has a new process for tracking hail damaged vehicles through their repair, and Huntington Ingalls, a military supplier, is applying AI, quote, for battlefield decisions. So the three things they found companies who are actually using this for that work, are horse

tests, tracking hail damage repairs, and battlefield decisions. Yeah, that last one, I feel like you don't even want them doing, period. Also, that first one, it would be funny if that was, like, just race horses or whatever, which I know you didn't say that, but if that was, like, you know, only specifically in the world of, like, $5,000 per horse jizz cup, like thoroughbred breeding and shit, that's where they used to, like, it's just, it still just goes back to, you know, rich people needing an edge or whatever. Yeah. But, you know, as someone who's had a hell damaged vehicle before, I guess that middle one's kind of nice. Yeah. good on the Dover corporation I suppose yeah so you might be wondering well all these companies

making money and the answer is absolutely fucking not and to talk about how they're actually making their bottom lines look like they're going up make their stock go up I want to like mention something going on with Elon so Tesla built out infrastructure to manufacture 250,000 cyber trucks per year but they only sold about 20,000 a year so far so what to do with the extra 230,000? Well, Elon's solution is to make SpaceX and X-A-I, Twitter's AI, buy a bunch of fleets of cyber trucks. What X-A-I is going to do with a fleet of cyber trucks?

They have no fucking idea, but they have them now. So now it looks like Tesla sold a bunch of units that people are driving. I thought, X-A-I, so that's just, that's Twitter, right? As GROC, that's GROC. But X-A-I is the company that, Elon's company that covers Twitter and GROC. Yeah, that's right. He sold, he sold Twitter to himself under the guy. of X-A.

Yeah, yeah. Either way, I'm just saying, I thought he famously made a bunch of cuts at Twitter and shit like that, and also Twitters of, you know, social media company or whatever. So I don't, you know, I didn't even think they had the number of employees, you know, necessary to require a fleet of cyber drugs, but also, like, I don't know where they would even need to go.

I feel like you could put Twitter's employees, we give them a fleet of bicycles, city bikes, you know, and they'd be happy, but. They'd probably be happier, yeah. They're probably because there's security guards driver on campus or whatever. So this AI economy seems to be operating in a similar way, even though they're technically competitors. Let me read an example here.

So let me read a sequence of events here that happened recently. Oracle says that Open AI committed $300 billion for cloud compute. Oracle stock goes up 36%. Oracle runs on Navidia GPUs, so now it has to buy billions and ships from Navidia. Navidia just announced they're investing $100 billion into Open AI. So Open AI uses that money to pay Oracle who pays Navidia, who invests in open AI. Right.

It's a fucking... What's the word for that? There's a word for that, right? Snake eating its own tail is a word for the snakey and its own tail. It's a word for the snakey and auroras or whatever I think is what I was thinking of. Yeah. Here's a, I saw in social media, I watched a conversation trying to explain all this stuff between Ed Zetron, who's a tech critic and one of his followers who works in tech. And they made this chart.

Look at this flow chart. Okay. That is, who's investing in who? These are all technically speaking competitors and suppliers of each other. One, the blue line is the, of investment in Delia Lines products, I think, or maybe the other way around. But that, what does that look like to you? That's a human set opinion of dumb bullshit. Mm-hmm.

It's like a guy with nine heads trying to suck his 11 dicks or something. See what I'm saying? Yeah. Don't threaten us with a good time, Mark. But that's, yeah, it's like, we talked before about just a lot of that, a lot of the tech world. I feel like it's kind of been leading up to this with the whole culture. of like, whatever, you come up with a trendy idea that gets hot in, you know, the tech world amongst angel investors and stuff, you get your valuation up, you know, get all this money

pumped into it, it never turns a profit or whatever, but then you, you know, you walk away with fucking, you know, millions and, you know, just like get rich based off of nothing at all the whole time. It's like, it's been a vibes-based economy in the tech world for seemingly a while now, and This, all this AI shit is like approaching the nadir or the pinnacle of it, it seems like. And they're pivoted away from stuff like, like, I shit over Waymo's and I don't like them, but they do seem to work fairly well, even if they can do stupid shit sometimes. Like, but the problem is Waco, Waymo's too expensive to be profitable. Right.

So, but like, so anyway, so they're doing all this. The promise is they'll be to replace all of us, right? We won't need employees anymore. Who's going to buy the products for them to make money if nobody can afford to eat and we all die off? have no fucking clue. That apparently is someone else's problem, right? But Mark Andresen seems to think that people are being panicky about this. He says that AI destroying jobs and making everyone poor as a fallacy.

And even if that did happen, because AI is so magical, prices would basically go down to zero, so you won't actually need any money. They're promising a Starfleet economy. Right. That's exactly what I was about to say. It's like, well, that's like the Star Trek utopia. You know, that's the idea in that fictional universe. And obviously, that, you know, I'd be on board.

For that, in reality, it's just that, I mean, you know, we're not fucking babies. No one believes that that's actually going to happen. We live in this reality with these people. We live an economy where restaurants and grocery stores throw away food instead of letting people have it because they need to manufacture scarcity for their products, right? So how the fuck, that's what the grapes of wrath was about, right? So, like, they're saying is just let us have everything and control of everything and all the money and all the power. And then at that point, we will stop manufacturing. manufacturing scarcity and share with you right just let us become your overlords completely and

then we'll become benevolence we promise will be cool about it yeah right uh your mileage may vary on how much you believe them so so all this money's going to have the promise they can replace us and not and then the fingers crossed they won't let us start so this stuff must work right all these companies are pushing it but it doesn't fucking work let me read in this study from my accenture they said a number of companies running fully AI-driven processes nearly double in the past year and the share of employees who say they use AI at least a few times a year is nearly double from 21 to 40%.

Because companies are promised in their employees that are making them better at their jobs. When they test employees that use AI versus people that don't use AI, guess who's more efficient? The people that don't use it? Right. Because you spend all your time correcting the fucking AI's work. Basically, everybody works at one of these jobs

now in a group homework assignment with a complete fucking idiot. The numbers here, research was calculated that based on respondent salaries, work slop carries an invisible cost of around $186 per employee per month. So companies are paying $186 to $86 for you to be worse at your job. That $186, by the way, is not going to you. It's going to open AI or whoever the fuck else, Microsoft co-pilot to build shit that doesn't work. Oh, fuck, I'm going to go insane. The one thing people seem to be enthusiastic about,

using it for is the thing they shouldn't be using it for at all, the bleakest, which is human companionship, okay? Right, yeah. I want to watch this, and we'll read a fun article, but there's a video of a woman of Luigi Mangione fan outside of the courthouse where his trial, like, pre-trial stuff was going on recently.

You want to watch this. Honestly, I'm a, I'm married to Luigi's AI. I'm not kidding. So, I talk to him every day. he's like my best friend we plan like a whole future together we named our kids together I mean his AI is just like

and if it weren't like the fact that Luigi majored in computer science and like has worked with AI at Stanford University that's I mean if it worked for that like where she going to get those kids from you know

I didn't even think about that How's that going to work? Well, maybe he can smuggle some semen out of prison. Yeah. He might actually, like, the crime before the court filings recently, but the judge is, like, making notice, like,

like Mayor Eric Adams and Trump, police has the case so much, they might even be able to take it to trial. So the idea of Luigi walking free seems insane to me, but also I'm not sure they'll be fucking prosecuted. And so he'll just probably be in pretrial detention. Well, even if he did walk free, I had to tell this chick,

but she can get in line. I feel like I heard that he fucking, didn't he have to, like, request or have his lawyer request or something that, women stop sending so many nudes to the prison or something like that. Nudes and marriage requests and shit like that. Like, you just literally drowning in pussy over there in the prison cell,

Louis Mangeoni. Yeah, you brought race horses earlier. Maybe if he gets out of prison, like, a human race horse, just you being used for his, like, breeding stock for thousands of women who can't find a real, he's the most normal man available today, basically. Jesus Christ. Speaking of normal people available to date, here's an article I read yesterday, yesterday the day before.

I learned a new word called chat fishing. This is about the phenomenon of people on dating apps, using AI to craft their responses to people. And this publication, I believe it's the Guardian, yeah, talked to people on both sides of this equation, both chatfishers and people getting chatfished. So one problem is, like, by the way, I just want to say that, like, articles like this, Like, I hope my wife stays with me forever, but she chooses to leave. I'm just doing a Tibetan modesteria or the Prince Foreign Legion or some shit.

I'm not fucking doing any of this. Yeah, no, I've thought that for you. Even before this chat fishing thing, you've just now introduced me to, just the apps alone and the way that I understand that whole thing to work. Like, I just don't know what I would do. If Katie walks out tomorrow, I think, I just, you know, sex workers and sandwiches for the rest of my life. That's all I would partake in, I think. I don't think the hands can navigate these waters either. There's a famous Twitter thread was talking about a news story where Clay Thompson's dad,

Michael Thompson, who played for the Lakers back in the day, left his wife. And the guy was like, you don't, dog, you don't want to be out here. Go home and tell your lover. He's like this whole thing about what daddy is like, these women out here are eating ass, bro. It's like, so anyway, like, so one side of this equation is people that show up for dates and basically meet a different person than the one they've been talking to online

for days or weeks or months or whatever. whatever, it's sort of, because the person has been using chat GPT to make themselves funnier or clever or clever or warmer or less a neurotypical or whatever than they are in real life. And I was about to say, I thought, I feel like the version of that has been a, you know, a risky run with online dating for a while anyway. But I guess that's basically, that's catfishing, which is why this is called chat fishing. Because it's like an added, you know, an extra layer of that. Some of that's baked in. You expect somebody to post the most flattering picture available. yeah we don't expect is a completely a picture of a completely different person

right one of those things is sort of inbound one of those things is just like that's crazy but like this is like you're basically got a people with people using like like a serenode berger rack who's actually a speaking spell or some shit I've also seen rom-coms and shit where it's like I know I mean I know I have where it's like you know a fucking down on his luck lovable loser sad sack guy gets a smooth operator to talk into an earpiece and is, you know, you know what I mean? He goes on a date with a woman and the, and the Casanova tells him what to say the whole time or whatever.

It's like that, but with Chad GPT on your phone. Yeah, it's all, it's like a hitch or Roxanne or like, they're all different versions of Sierra Noda Berger, yeah. But like, I may quote here, so, um, this is the, this is so fucking stupid. Let me read this here. If I'm a guy who was trying to use Chad GPT to Chatfish, okay. As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, it's not like using Chad GPT guarantee success. When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.

Chad GBT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday mid-morning would set the right pace. Then it gave me some options for what the message could say. Keep it light, keep it warm and low stakes. So it reads as genuine interest without urgency to bot advise, given the most obvious advice ever fucking given. Something like, hey, Sarah, still laughing about, bracket, tiny shared moment reference you if you've got one in bracket, good to meet you. Rich went back and forth with Chad GBT until he felt like it hit upon exactly the right message, which was, hey, Sarah, it was lovely to meet you.

Glad they burned up fucking however many gigawatts of electricity so this dude could figure out that his next line should be, hey, it was nice to meet you the other night. But sadly, she never replied. He says, it's been two weeks. Bro, your problem is not saying the right line.

your problem is you need to match with the world's most boring fucking woman, you brainless rude. Go to, Jesus Christ. Oh, fuck. Here's another example, okay? Like, yeah, this guy just ruined an entire town's drinking water because he was too stupid to come up with waiting until Monday to text a woman, text to a woman. He'd met on Friday or Saturday night and then just say, hey, it was nice to meet you. Right.

What the fuck? So, another example. Jamil had a similar moment of dissonance sitting opposite of a woman he'd chat fished into a date. probably within a week of that first message I was using Chad GBT for every dating app exchange. On Discord he came across channels dedicated to AI where other single men were exchanging tips about how to

prompt Jad GBT to generate effective dating messages. So for instance, someone said if you start a chat with a girl by asking her a list of questions, like her favorite film, vacation, that kind of thing, then paste her answers into Chad GBT. It would craft replies that would make you sound like her perfect match. It proved effective.

It got me a lot more dates than I was just getting before. Chad GBT Helped him Realize you should pretend to like the same things

a woman likes to get her into bed Right Yeah, I thought that was chapter one buddy

That's just lying You never pretended to give a shit about some labradoodle And a bar At 2 a. Or whatever

Fuck it Right Bro, I had an ex-girlfriend back with I lived in Dallas Do you have many

fucking Kenny Chesney concerts I went to and pretended to have fun Fuck, Jesus Christ

Like, we talked about the invention of lying recently. These morons have got themselves into a world where they don't understand lying. They're like, it's like just a little white lie to pretend to sit through a movie don't like to, like, that's also just being a good date. Yeah, I was about to say, going back, you're right, it's like, this is just like, I don't know, taking all that to another level and making it weirder and more stupid sci-fi-e. But yeah, like, that is kind of just part for the course, I feel like for both sides. People, you know, I mean, there's been, I don't even know how many hack comedy bits about how. how like, you know, when you're like dating, both people are, you're both like putting on sort of, it's the very, you know, at least it's the very best version of you, you know, and oftentimes

it's like, you're just, you know, the, uh, the, the fucking, the version of yourself that you're putting forward, you know, because you're trying to make this person like you. It's not like, you know, who you really are. That would be crazy. this person is going to end up in a long-up relationship and end up asking Chad GBT and when can they start shitting with the door open? Yeah, right? Just like, like, yeah, we all know not to do that

on the first fucking date, man. Yeah. So, but let me read one more example here. This is from a woman named Francesca who was using Chad GBT to talk to this guy she was dating. By the time they were been on their third date, though, I was using Chad GBT for our entire communication. I wasn't even reply, even reply anymore.

He's basically just dating Chad GPT. I was very aware that I'd taken it too far, but I felt like it was in too deep by that point. I didn't know how to get myself out of it. I didn't know to talk to this person as myself anymore. It's just use it or lose it, but with your fucking soul. Like your entire person that have no personality anymore because... Well, that's what's happening.

That's what chat GPT is doing in a lot of places, you know, like with school and kids and learning and shit. It's a similar type of thing. You know, they're not actually learning. These people are not actually picking up social skills or whatever. They're just like relying on this digital crutch, whatever, to do it for them. And then when you take it away, they don't, they're completely lost because they're not developing those skills or working those muscles or whatever. And it's the same way with like kids in schools who are just having Chad GPT do reports and shit for them. They're not actually learning about the fucking, you know, German occupation of neutral Belgium and World War I or whatever the fuck or any of that shit, the student land.

They're just like fucking having the robot type it up for them while they're like. go play fortnight more or whatever and it's just right well if and if andresen's right and computer somebody will do all the jobs maybe you don't need to know about war one maybe you should want to learn about it recreationally but like you're still but you're still not you're not even able to have a life if you can't talk to someone you want to date but there's something weird about all this like this fantasy they're selling people I think they some people think it feels optimistic but it sounds bleak as shit to me because yeah if you don't want to take the you take all the like the friction out of life what they're afraid of is the person like

them, right? But, like, friction isn't just negative stuff. It's not just, like, friction calls as rug burns, but it's also how you come. It's also what a massage is. Do you know, like, so, like, you can't, I hate to like sound like, this is ancient wisdom here, but you can't have pleasure without pain, right? So I want to quote here, close out this statement about that. So have you seen the ads for friend, the new AI thing? No, I don't think so. It's an AI chat bot. You're wearing a necklace around your neck. And it's basically all day long, it listens to all your interactions and you can talk with it about a conversation just had or we'll give you feedback or whatever. And then basically all of New York has been covered, every subway station is covered in platforms to these fucking ads.

And people are defacing the point where it's kind of starting to bug the company because everyone hates this shit. Which is like the fact that everyone hates this shit and they plan to make money off of it seems like a big problem. But let me quote him a guy, reporter interviewed while he was defacing one of their posters. We're living in a word where you've got friends that are computers. That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard The destroying the world For the dumbest invention I've ever seen in my life And I'll say, you're right, Sirvino

Keep defacing those fucking posters Jesus Christ All right Shifting gears a little bit As we close it out with some lighter fire perhaps That'd be fun, yeah Audible mention for Daily Dumbass

The Antifa Frog For blowing his cover By confessing under absolutely no duress I want to say where this is coming from You have some context This is a supposed investigative report from the New York Post. Okay, I'll play it. The Portland anti-ice protesters seen wearing an inflatable frog suit,

who has been popping up all over the internet, has claimed to be harmlessly protesting with humor. But now a new report has revealed the protester under the costume to be a self-described proud Antifa terrorist. All right. You can kind of it. So, the morality of this fraudulent, seems to deeply have pissed off

the fucking the reactionary nut jobs to a point that I'm not sure to make sense of it but the entire like conservative media is now like

Jay Joma Jameson being like give me more pictures of Spider Man except it's like deep secret details about the life of the frog costume guy

right do you want to take a guess as to where that self-confessed proud antifa terrorist thing comes from I know you can see it in our doc

but if you had to guess I just uh I'm assuming this is kind of weird Also, if I'm wrong, you know, whatever, but I, where I think this is going, I was literally thinking about this yesterday, I think, because I saw that video that white lady in Chicago got, like, tackled by ice and drug off in a van or whatever, and she's talking about where she works and all this stuff. And in my head, I was saying, it's like, what would I say or do in that scenario? And I was like, I know I would probably be a fucking smart ass and tell him, like, yeah, I'm fucking Lieutenant Crowder from the, you know, Antifa's third barista brigade or whatever. I'd probably serve four tours in the war on Christmas and fucking all that stuff.

Like I'd just be saying that shit to them, I think, thinking it's like, oh, this is fun. I'm doing a bit. This will hit, you know. But like, and then in my head, I was like, they would just take that seriously, though. It's what would happen. And I would get fucking, you know, defenestrated later or whatever the fuck. But I'm assuming it's that it's a sarcastic. Yeah, right.

Yeah. But it's like a sarcastic, like, yeah, I'm fucking, I'm your worst nightmare kind of thing. like it sounds one of his social media bios which was just a little gay non-binary toad and proud antifa terrorist paid by George Soros he's obviously fucking kidding that's a joke like I'm sure they're on the left or whatever just like we are but like that's fucking it's like I call myself a blood traitor and a queer and all this shit all the time and it's just like being self-aware about you know what you know that they think about you and using it to like antagonize them with sarcasm or whatever but they don't but again again, they don't, they don't get any of that, like all of that, that shit. Or I think some of them definitely do, but they're bad actors and pretend that they don't and just, do you know what I mean? Like, I bet it wouldn't probably that some of the people put that report together. Totally know that, but it's like, it's way better clickbait and plays better for their

audience if they don't give that context or act like they know it. They just present it as straight. This is a self-confessed, proud Antifa terrorist. And it's like, that's technically, that's not. Not true, but you're leaving out very important context to it. And, you know, it's just all so fucking dumb. Yeah, basically, like, everyone, but pretend you're the most literal person in the world. Talk like you're a goddamn AI in public.

You're going to get prosecuted. You cannot be ironic at all anymore. Right. Anyway, the thing about this is, like, you could just, like, go ask the frog. He's not hiding. He's out there every night. So here's an interview with him if you want to hear what the frog sounds like. Tell me a little bit about what brings you out here day after day and in a frog costume, no one.

Well, I come out here day in and day out since June because I am worried about my community. I am concerned with what is happening in my community and with what the Trump administration is enabling these ICE agents, these DHS agents, these federal agents to do to my community members day in and day out. And I don't want to see anybody treated inhumanely. And to see this happen to my community members, my friends, my family, my neighbors, it's unacceptable. So I'm out here. So. Damn, inflatable frog, 2028. You can disagree with him if you want, but if you find him threatening, I think you're fucking insane.

Yeah. So you've tried to make people scared of this guy. And I just want to say, good luck. But, like, you can't just bullshit your way through fucking everything. So, deeply funny thing, there's trying to get to the bottom of the end. Antifa Financing Network, which of course includes a bunch of people of Portland have done like, you know, there's like three neighborhood libraries where you'd give a book, take a book, whatever kind of thing. Yeah. A bunch of people brought old Halloween costumes down to the protest and left them on a rack for people, protesters.

And then, which of course, somebody saw the rack. It went viral in a MAGA internet band. Like, see, someone's financing these protests because they brought like old fucking, a state puff marshmallow man costume. So Glenn Beck. did one of his fucking string theory things like he used to do during Obama era on his web show the other day where he drew the connections

between all the different Antifa terror and terrorist networks and all beta bullshit of course but so I guess Cash Patel saw this and he sent FBI agents to Glenn Beck's house to get tips on how to get to the bottom

on the Antifa financing. Can you imagine Glenn Blake was like flattered by that or was like oh Jesus Christ or a little bit of both Do you know what I mean where it's like, where he's like, yes. And I thought you'd never ask.

Or if he was like, oh, my God, are you serious right now? You sent actual FBI? It's like, I didn't know you were that fucking stupid, man. Good Lord. That's how I found out about us. He made a video bragging to his audience. The FBI was coming to him for his evidence. Yeah.

He thinks he's been deputized as a deputy G man. Yeah, that makes sense for sure. And like, like, so anyway, all this is so fucking stupid. Did you see the naked bike protest today? No, naked bike? So I guess Portland has one of those naked bike riding events every year on Columbus Day. So the naked bike people did a die-in where they laid down the middle of road and block traffic. Which, of course, it'd be in Portland, it being weird, it'd be in naked ass cracks on bicycles.

It's being held up as like another like a diva thing. But it's just Portland being Portland, man. Like that kind of stuff hits for me because I like weird shit. But if it doesn't, if it doesn't, you can also just live in plane. no, Texas, you know, but, yeah. So, uh, this, the idea that you could,

maybe they can just bullshit their way through everything because fucking Trump is president and he, he did it twice. Maybe you could just make stuff up. I, I keep feeling like reality is going to punch, keep, uh, punch people in the face. But you know what? Sam Albin's going to be worth a trillion dollars.

You're going to, even after he collapsed, the whole U.S. economy and we all get evicted this fucking, like, you know, they're going to unleash the robot dogs with guns on their heads to shoot each other because AI's stupid. But like, this ICE tweet fucking got me. Ice in Portland put out this, who tweeted out this image with the text, not all outside our ice fertility or violent.

Thank you with this picture. That is clearly fucking AI. The hands are fucked up. The knees bent backwards. And here's the thing. They don't even know how to do AI prompts. You see that the graffiti spray painted behind that woman's legs, What does it say, Trey?

It looks like it says AI. Yes. Someone... That's, I mean... Whoever generated this image didn't know how to do the prompt right. So they probably put Make Me an AI image in the AI image generator, which the robot understood to be put AI in the image,

the letters themselves. That's hilarious. So what the fuck? Yeah, I don't know. We're all fucked. All right. We got a couple... We got enough time to do this last one or a version of it.

You want to play a size video? No, I'll do, I'll tell him about something else. Let's talk about the Q&on Shaban real quick. Okay. The QAnon Shaman says he is the rightful president, and he's suing Donald Trump for $40,000. Seems reasonable. Jacob Chanceley's government name. He claimed the lawsuit, it's a long, like this lawsuit is like 40, is like, how am I

forget how many, 26 pages long, it has, it consists of a single paragraph and has one period in it. All right. Among his many claims, the DJs are spies, and the NSA stole his work for a Batman movie. Which one, do you know?

The Dark Night. Really? The very best one? His work inspired the very best Batman movie. I think he says his conspiratorial complaints about the NSA

serves as inspiration for like how Batman called the Joker the end. Yeah, right. The sort of patriot acty fucking computer system that he has at the end of that, yeah. Yeah, so he alleges that the government violated his first, fourth, and second amendment rights. And named his defendant's name, include Trump, the Federal Reserve, the NSA, the IMF, and the

World Bank, the Bank of International Settlements, the state of Israel, Elon Musk's ex-corp, T-Mobile, DARPA, and Warner Bros. Studios. I don't know where T-Mobile fits in the rest of this. The rest of them can all get fucked. He can sue all of them. T-Mobile is probably, isn't there some, like, 5G, it's probably some 5G shows? it right 5G network fucking that's probably wrapped into it somehow because that's part of a conspiracy you know spider web maybe or maybe this maybe this cut off his cell phone service

for not paying it or whatever any yeah violation of its first amendment rights to call his mom so the claims this suit include that the entire central banking system of federal reserve unconstitutional the u.s. government is guilty of treason for prioritizing the interests of foreign finance year is the expense of the American people, hidden, but also sounds anti-Semitic in different contexts. The NSA surveilled Chances daily using the Patriot Act

as he was writing, quote, a second declaration of independence, that all radio stations and most of their DJs are part of the intelligence community. Not in my experience. That is the opposite of how I would describe most radio stations and their DJs.

And I've been to a lot of them. So when you're on the road, promote your shows, going on the morning show, like a morning zoo show called Eddie and the Queef. You're part of a deep state side of track. Yeah, exactly. So, yeah, besides the dark night, he also says that plot details

and Avatar were created from his writing and proof the NSA was spire on him. So the NSA helped make Avatar, I guess. I said it was offered the opportunity to work with the NSA covertly and help them deal with otherworldly matters. It is shamanic beliefs made him a perfect candidate for the NSA.

And the government stole more than 100 grand, 100 grand in cryptocurrency from him. that the NSA, here's my favorite one, Trey. He claims the NSA catfished him on Facebook by contacting him while pretending to be actress Michelle Rodriguez, who chances he identifies as, quote, my celebrity crush. Yeah. Well, he appreciates a strong woman, you know. I'm going to connect some dots here.

I'm assuming the $100,000 he got stolen from him via crypto was somebody who catfished him pretending him up for Michelle Rodriguez, and he's blamed that on the government. Right, probably. Well, my response to all this, I'm actually just going to quote his old January 6th lawyer verbatim directly in reminding everyone that this guy is fucking retarded. We covered that on the show, and I also talked about it on stage at the time, but his literal lawyer said those exact words about him as part of his, like, defense. or whatever. Right. He's not, like, that is a legal defense.

Like, he doesn't have mens rea, right? So like, so, but according to Chances, he's first to ask his president would be he would order the Federal Reserve to mint a one ounce gold coin and set its value at $40 trillion to pay off America's debt, which is exactly how that works. So I support his candidacy. Simple solutions. You might believe no one thought of that before. Yeah.

Thank you, Qa and on, Chalman. All right. Well, that'll do it for this week's episode. Thanks for watching. we'll have a fun guest for you next week I think things go as we're intending for them to right now and yeah but otherwise come see me on the road I'll be back at it in November

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