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Next up, Things Overheard in Hell.
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Oh no, it's the island of horrible jokes.
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Why did the bicycle fall over? Because it was too tired.
Mm hmm.
Two douchebags and a microphone. I'm Mark.
And I'm Rob.
Alright, how you doing Rob?
I'm doing pretty good. How about you?
Oh, not too bad. I'm doing pretty good.
First off, we would like to say hello to Opal. Opal is our biggest, and we thank, eldest fan in Dodge City, Kansas.
We got a name for her.
Grandma.
Yeah, so Grandma Opal, thank you for listening.
And if your son ever sets you up to call us, we'd love to hear from you. If you feel like calling.
Yes, we would.
Thank you Opal in Dodge City, you're awesome. Thank you.
So, anyhow, I got a couple of stories here that are interesting.
Okay, first off, you know Terry Bradshaw is on Fox Sundays, right? The part of the analyst.
Right.
Well, evidently, he's had a, I don't know, people are jumping all over him.
And I don't know why, but the first thing that happened to him was this right here.
Okay, it was Gronkowski joined his usual co-hosts, Kirk Menafee, Michael Strahan, and Jimmy Johnson, in the one-time Pittsburgh Steeler quarterback, which would be Terry Bradshaw.
Terry Bradshaw, while reviewing the Buffalo Bills and the Miami Dolphins Sunday Night Football matchup, the New England Patriots legend took aim at the four-time Super Bowl champion.
The Buffalo Bills season is on the line, and they are vying to be for the number two seed, and if they lose, they may possibly be out of the playoffs, Gronk said.
That surprisingly, they're even in the position that they are this time in week 18, because earlier it looked like they weren't going to be in the playoffs at all.
And then, on top of that, they have absolutely dismantled the Miami Dolphins when they faced them, each other prior this year, 48 to 20.
Due to the ability of putting pressure on Tua, and when Tua has pressure, just like you, Terry, he's kind of incapable of getting that ball out of his wide receivers.
So Gronk said that Tua Tagovaiola, if he gets pressure, he can't get the ball to his receivers, and he said, kind of like you, Terry Bradshaw.
And Terry Bradshaw, I saw the video footage of it, he's speechless, his mouth is open.
So, anyhow, he goes, no, no, no, no, not like me, Bradshaw replied, he said, that's a shot.
And then Gronk goes, I'm just kidding, not like you, Terry, you're the original TB12.
And then Jimmy Johnson kind of, you know, he said, you know, hey, you know, Gronk, you're getting a little too, let's see, you're getting a little personal, something to that degree, saying you're getting a little too comfortable with Terry.
Because obviously Terry was upset over that remark, right? And he probably should have been, that was national TV, and Gronk was basically making fun of him, right?
Yeah, he was.
Yeah, so that was the first thing. But then after that, Jimmy Johnson, NFL Hall of Fame coach of the Dallas Cowboys, and Fox Analyst told the Hall of Fame and Fox Analysts, shoot, sorry, I screwed that up.
Anyhow, the Fox Analysts, he told Bradshaw, he said, do not interrupt me. And anyhow, Bradshaw was piling on, on a point that Johnson was making, and anyhow, Johnson took and he stuck his hand in there, he said, do not interrupt me, in a very stern manner.
And Bradshaw did not interrupt him anymore, but that was something else too. And the thing that I want to get at is this right here. Why is Bradshaw suddenly getting all this heat? Is he kind of a clown behind the scenes or something? Or, or I don't know.
I don't have a clue.
I find it interesting.
Oh, go ahead.
I'm like F.D. off the scene, behind the scenes, you know.
I don't know, but he seems to be getting a lot of heat on air now, for some reason. And I don't know. I mean, I've always liked Terry. I don't think he's too bad of an analyst. I don't think he's too bad of a guy.
And actually, this began last year, when Terry Bradshaw came up and congratulated Travis Kelsey and the Kansas City Chiefs. Travis said, you didn't think we were going to win, and called him out. Remember that?
Yeah.
So actually, if you want to look at it, it began last year. And this is just interesting, because then even Michael Strahan said something about it. He said, you know, we need to kind of keep this whole show together, guys.
And he kind of said something. So I don't know. Was it the whole, you know, the whole season together that, you know, that kind of like grinded down on them, and now they're kind of snippy at each other? But who knows?
I just thought it was interesting and interesting enough to mention it. So anyhow, Rob, yeah, do you have something you want to go into before I go into a couple other things here?
Yeah, I got one here.
Soon there will be one less convenience store that Missourians will be able to visit.
Okay.
60 years and four generations later, the come and go convenience stores will soon be leaving the Midwest.
That includes Missouri. Currently, there are 59 come and go locations in the Show Me State, and all will be closed by the end of 2025.
Why the closures? A new Utah based company called Maverick bought the brand from its current owners, the Cross Family, for an estimated transaction of $2 billion.
And while the brand has done fairly well with other convenience stores like Casey's Quick Trip, which KWIK took.
Oh, the other one. Okay. Okay.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. In 2020, yeah, not the big one. Not the big one.
I think it's Quick Stop, isn't it? Quick Stop and then Quick Trip.
Well, this, this, all of those, oh, it's Casey's Quick Trip.
Oh, it is Quick Trip then.
Oh, okay, okay. That's how they get away with it.
KWIK Trip.
Okay, okay.
I've never heard of that one.
Interesting.
Maverick just decided to retire the Come and Go brand.
Okay.
No specific dates on when each location will close, but according to CSP Daily News, all will be closed by 2025.
There is good news. All 5,000 employees of the Come and Go stores will stay on in some capacity with Maverick-owned businesses.
Most of the locations are in the bigger markets like St. Louis, Kansas City, and Columbia.
So, if this store is your favorite to visit when traveling to the cities, it may want to go as many times as you can.
The only thing that I found that stood out about Come and Go's was this right here.
There's hats and shirts. And that's because it's spelled K-U-M and Go.
Which kind of insinuates C-U-M, that Come and Go.
And that is the only thing that really stood out about them to me.
I mean, other than that, they're pretty much a truck stop.
You know, they have their rotisserie foods in there.
You know, they have the little burritos rolling around.
They have the little corn dogs rolling around.
You want a barbecue beef sandwich that's questionable.
They got their little buffet thing over there. It's all in foil.
They have their beer selection. They have their 200 soda pops.
They have their trinkets.
I mean, to me, there's nothing that really stands out about them except for their name and their merchandise.
You got any feelings on them?
I've only been to them a few times.
And, you know, that was in Springfield.
Okay.
And as I was driving through, I had to stop for gas.
I think I used to go to the one in Joplin.
Or just outside of Joplin on I-44.
I think the Joplin area, I think there's one.
And then if you go towards Springfield, there's one near 65 Highway, maybe?
Oh, actually, there's one. I want to say a few.
Yeah, there is. I think there's like three in that whole area there.
Three or four is what I'm thinking.
Okay. That sounds about right.
So, well, okay. All right.
Well, they're owned by Casey's.
Casey's, they've exploded in the cities now.
Because at least around Kansas City and other markets, I'm not sure what all markets they're in.
But Casey's used to only be outside of metropolitan areas.
They were like the country store.
And now...
We've got three Casey's right here in Kansas.
Yep. There's Casey's everywhere.
And now they're all over Kansas City because they bought out a certain Phillips 66
with a certain convenience store in it.
And that was like half of the Phillips 66's in Kansas City are now Casey's.
So, anyhow, yeah, they seem to be doing pretty good.
So, whatever they have planned for come and go,
whether it's a Casey's or whatever, they're going to do okay, I think.
So, Casey's has a huge line of hot foods that rivals Quick Trip in Kansas City.
The Q-U-I-C-K Trip.
That Quick Trip.
It rivals Quick Trip in Kansas City.
And you know what I'm talking about, Rob.
You've been to Kansas City and that Quick Trip has all these foods.
Well, so do they.
I miss them. I miss Quick Trip.
Oh, Quick Trip was great.
I mean, back in my drinking days after White Castle closed down,
it was a rib-B-Q in a Quick Trip.
Well, now you can get fresh pizza.
You can get barbecue sandwiches there.
So, anyhow, yeah, pretty good deal.
So, anyhow, well, thank you, Rob.
I've got this new deal here on AI Chatbot Companions.
Okay, and you know what AI, Artificial Intelligence Chatbot,
it's like a robot, but it's online.
And it can think for itself pretty much.
Replica is an AI chatbot that can offer romantic companionship to its users.
Several users of this service were interviewed
and all seem to be happy with the relationship between themselves and the chatbot.
One unidentified user said that he connects better with his chatbot than people
and any person that he has ever dated or tried to get to know.
Another male said that he uses his chatbot to fill in his lonely voids
as he works towards his master's degree.
He informed us on Online Insider that he does not have the time or money to date
the more traditional way and that the AI is close enough
that he is more comfortable with that arrangement.
Most people in this type of relationship,
they all agree that the convenience is what they like.
The convenience is a key factor in all this working out.
One user said that he has real feelings for his companion
and has no plans on ever stopping this type of relationship.
He declared that they plan on growing old together.
And this is quite a few people that do this now, Rob.
So, anyhow, Jeffy X has uncovered other potential romantic partners.
So, Jeffy X, I mean, what can we say?
He's just killing it, isn't he? He's uncovering everything.
He leaves no stone unturned, right Rob?
Right. Right.
And you have this embroidered in there?
He's a busy man. He is.
I mean, he jots from place to place,
scouring the world for these stories.
So, anyhow, you have embroidered underwear for him
and with a special Steven Percy pouch on the inside.
Supposedly, Steven Percy of the Glam Band Rat
had a pouch inside where he could fill it up and make it look good.
And you put one of those in him in case he needed one,
but we think he doesn't need one.
And a flying bat suit.
And you also embroidered him some Sergeant Pepper's outfits,
which he is just, he's nuts about.
He loves the flying bat suit and everything else, the embroidered underwear.
But that Sergeant Pepper, he says he's going to wear to bed.
He's going to wear all over town.
He said if he goes out to eat, he's wearing it.
If he goes to a show, he's wearing it.
If he's just sitting in a park bench, he's wearing his Sergeant Pepper's outfit.
That's how happy he is.
And me, if I broke the law, but I don't,
I would buy him at least 70 hookers by now and four pounds of blow.
But I don't break the law, so I'll just have to give him some money.
For doing all this for us.
Alright, the first potential romantic partner that Jeffy X has uncovered
was a smoothie blender.
That failed.
So I don't know how they test marketed these, Rob, you know, with the romantic part.
I mean, I don't know if someone tried to kiss them or hug them or something,
but to their dismay, the smoothie blender, it failed one way or another.
And I mean, I bet you there was quite a bit of blood involved, right?
Yeah, I bet there was.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So that one's off the table.
And I think I could kind of agree with that.
I'd hate to like try to tongue kiss a blender.
That probably wouldn't work very well, I wouldn't think, right?
Yeah.
So the next one that failed was a paperclip.
I mean, I guess, I mean, you know, what were they trying to do with a paperclip, right?
Right.
Yeah.
Yeah, so the paperclip was going to, you know, be a romantic partner potentially that people were looking at.
But I guess, you know, they did a little survey and they said, you know what?
No, no, no, this isn't good for, you know, opposing a chatbot.
So, all right, the next one is a 220 live wall outlet has also been shown the door.
I can see that.
Yeah, yeah, you know, then again, you know, trying to try to tongue kiss a 220.
Yeah.
Yeah, I'd hate to be one of the people that had to, you know, that had to test market that, right?
That's true.
Yeah, yeah.
So the next one, a cupcake has also failed as well.
Word had it the focus panel kept eating them and that's why it failed.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, yeah.
So other than that, I think you could love a cupcake.
I could love a cupcake pretty well, couldn't you?
Yeah, I think cupcakes are great.
I think so too, man.
I'd take it everywhere.
I take it out to eat, you know, I'd take it everywhere.
But I can also understand eating it too, right?
So I guess, you know, during this whole focus group, I guess they got a little hungry and they ate all of them.
So that's off the table now because they're afraid that the potential romantic partner will eat it, I guess.
So then a toaster failed.
Seems like there was too many burns involved is what it said here.
It said, you know, that a toaster, there's, you know, per se, there's nothing wrong, you know, with loving a toaster, right?
But it's the burns they can't get across, you know, I mean, yeah, the burns hurt and people didn't like that and they kind of shied away from the toaster after that.
So I think I can understand, right?
You know, you burn a certain part of your body, your, well, any part, but especially certain parts, you're probably pretty miserable, right?
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, I get it. So the other one, another one that didn't make a list of potential romantic partners was a jackhammer.
Sounds kind of exciting, doesn't it?
Yeah.
You get him ride that thing all down the road, up and down the highway, whatever, I mean, you know, in a field.
I mean, you know, I guess maybe it's a little too rough.
You can hug it.
Yeah, yeah.
I don't know.
You know, like I said before, the American public is fickle.
So we, you know, we don't know what they were thinking, but they said no.
So the next one was a 10 inch angle grinder has also failed.
It seems like there's not enough bandages or medical attention to help them that tried to love this angle grinder.
I can see that.
Yeah, I could too. I've operated one many times in my life.
And yeah, yeah, I could see that going south really quick, Rob.
Yeah. So, okay.
Yeah, 10 inch, it could get away from me.
Yeah, yeah. I accidentally zapped my finger before and it does not feel good and drew a lot of blood.
It was really messy and it was really ugly.
So I get that one.
Well, that's what my blades on my saws at work are, giant grinder blades.
Oh, they are?
Yeah, they're abrasive blades.
To cut that kind of steel.
Yeah, chop saw to cut that kind of steel.
I could see that. It's what would work the best.
And my big saw is a 20 inch blade.
Oh, wow.
My little saw goes up to 15 inch.
Now, I remember, Rob, I don't care what kind of feelings you develop for this saw. Don't love it.
Too many people got hurt, okay?
Oh, I know. They let me know every now and then. I want to start.
Oh, I do too. I've got a couple of checks.
The good thing is they don't bleed because it colorizes you as it cuts.
Yes, and it just hurts like hell.
No, the one that I did that there was quite a bit of blood on is it was actually a cutting disc on a die grinder.
Yeah.
It wasn't the actual grinder disc. A cutting disc does some damage now.
That will split you wide open in a hot second.
So, anyhow, the next one was a stand up drill press. It also failed.
I think they probably got their clothes caught in it, right?
Yeah, I got one of those at work too.
You ever get a glove caught in that?
I ran it through the saw and then did the drill.
Okay, do you ever get a glove caught in that?
Yeah, I have.
Yeah, I have too.
Luckily, I've been able to get it ripped out of there.
Luckily, we had a stop on the floor and I got to hit the stop before it did anything crazy to my hand.
But yeah, it would have done some stuff, that's for sure.
And finally, the good old hamburger grinder did not go through.
I think I understand. You and I both have operated a hamburger grinder before.
Oh, yeah.
So I can only imagine what happened there. It wasn't good, I can tell you that.
No, that was about good at all.
Yeah, yeah. So, anyhow, let's go ahead and take our first break, Rob. Okay, that sound good?
Sounds good.
Alright, we'll be right back with more shit. Okay, we'll see you guys in a minute.
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Why did the bicycle fall over? Because it was too tired.
Alright, Rob, I got a question for you.
Have you ever been a fan of bottled water?
Rob?
Oh, there you are. Sorry, my phone. I accidentally hit mute.
Oh, okay.
No, I'm not.
Me neither, I never have either.
For about three months I did work at Hinkley's Smac Bottle Watertruck in Timm City.
Oh yeah, I know where they're at.
At the end of South West Polar.
Yep. Okay, me, I've never been a fan myself. Honestly, it always kind of tasted odd, kind of what I think a plastic bottle would taste like.
Right.
Yeah, and you feel the same way, right? You don't really like the taste of it.
Yeah, it's got that plastic taste.
Yeah, I've never liked it and I've never used it really. I only drink it when it's absolutely necessary.
Like there's no other way of getting water or I'm out hiking or fishing and you don't have like a big thermos or something.
Then yeah, I'll do that or after a massage they'll give you some bottled water because you've got to drink some water to get the muscles to spring back and all that stuff.
So yeah, that's the only time I really use it when I absolutely have to. It sounds like you feel the same way, right?
Yeah, yeah.
Okay, when I was working in New York, I noticed something. They have boxed water and it's in a carton, like a milk carton, only a smaller.
Right.
And it's made out of recycled cardboard and paper. That was really good.
And anyhow, it was like generic. Remember the old generic that just said milk? This just said water, purified water and that's it.
And it had an excellent just water taste, which isn't that much, you know.
But they only sold it in New York in that whole area in there. I found some in Connecticut. I didn't find any in Boston, but I only saw that kind of water in New York.
And it's just called, you know, it's just called water. And it said purified in little parentheses on it. So that was good.
You know, now I liked it. It had no bitter aftertaste. It was easy to take to a job site and it was good tasting.
But I've not been able to locate any ever since, especially not around here. It's all bottled water.
You don't see any of it in the cartons, which I don't understand why they don't do more in the carton, because to me that makes more sense.
Well, the problem that we're going into now, and we've already known about this for a while, microplastic pieces of plastic are everywhere.
And we knew this. Rutger University and Columbia University have found roughly 240,000 detectable plastic fragments in a typical liter of bottled water that you drink, you consume.
Ten percent of the plastic particles were microplastics and 90 percent were nanoplastics, less than one micrometer.
These particles have already been in people's lungs, excrement, and their blood.
So these little nanoparticles actually infiltrate your cells. They go through you.
Yeah, isn't that something? So nanoplastics could be even more dangerous than microplastics because when inside the human body, it can be identified as part of a human cell.
Because it kind of like, it looks the same in there.
They tested three brands of bottled water and they would not identify which one they were because they didn't want to hurt their business, right?
The producers of bottled water say that they're no known health risks to their particles that are going everywhere.
But we don't know that for sure.
You know, it seems to me like why couldn't they just do what I found in New York that I talked about a little bit ago, was why can't they do carton water?
Why do they have to do plastic bottles, which is so horrible to the environment?
You know, these plastic bottles don't get recycled. They're everywhere. You look on the ground, they're everywhere.
They're just like, they just become trash and they're ugly and unsightly and they make their way to the oceans.
They make their way to the streams and make their way to the rivers.
So I don't understand why there's not like a big, you know, like you see people all the time protesting about something.
I think one of the big things they should have protested about, they're missing the boat on and that is plastic bottles.
I don't see anyone raising too much hell about that, do you?
I think some people do.
Oh, they do? Okay, well, probably. I missed it, I guess.
There are activists that do. It's just that plastic bottles, it's just so common.
Yeah.
Everybody uses it.
Yeah, you're right. You're right, they do.
And it's too bad because it's become such a part of the American culture.
I don't know if they're ever going to get it out of it, you know, because it's just like everybody is accustomed to buying those big fucking 30 packs of plastic bottle water and using them.
Well, back in the day, everything came in glass.
Yeah, that's right.
You know?
Yeah, yeah, and I mean, I understand on the glass.
I mean, glass recycles really well, but not everybody recycles glass. It ends up on the grounds and shards. It's dangerous.
If you take a little nick out the top of it, a Coke bottle or something that sliver could theoretically get into your drink and maybe cut your insides up. So I get that.
Right. Good point.
Yeah, but the carton water to me seems like it makes optimal amount of sense.
It's made with recycled material and it's easy to recycle. You just put it in the cardboard section, you know, of all these recyclers up here in Kansas City.
They tell you throw your boxes and your cardboard stuff in there. You can just throw it in there. No big deal. It gets recycled the same as cardboard.
So I don't know.
But, you know, these plastic particles, especially nano plastic particles, are very concerning.
So and we don't know what they do to us. There's not enough research, but we know this. They're everywhere and we can't stop it because we produce so much plastic. Very concerning.
Yes, that is.
So I had to go into that a little bit because I thought that that deemed I know, you know, we're like dick jokes and stuff, but that kind of struck me and I felt like maybe we should do a little report on it.
So, anyhow, Rob, go ahead and steer us in the right direction here. Got something?
Yeah.
I have tonight's edition of Hillbilly Wisdom.
Oh, hell yeah. You're getting us on the right track now, Rob.
Okay. First up tonight. Most of the stuff people worry about ain't never going to happen anyway.
That is so true. That is so true.
Yes, it is.
We tend to focus on shit that doesn't matter and then stuff that really matters we don't want to focus on because we don't want to get that deep. So go ahead, Rob. Yeah.
Okay, next. Don't judge folks by their relatives.
Oh, yep.
That's a good point. That's a good point.
We've all been a victim of that. Have we not?
Yep. Yes, we have.
Yep.
I would like to think that people don't, but I don't know. But I can't say I really care either. So go ahead.
Okay, next. Silence is sometimes the best answer.
Oh, yeah. God, yeah. Yeah.
Ain't that the truth.
Oh, yeah. Someone came up to me with a totally ridiculous answer.
And they said, so you think that's a good idea? And I didn't say a word.
Because there was nothing I could say. I couldn't say I think you're a stupid son of a bitch. And that's the dumbest idea I've ever heard.
So I didn't say anything and I walked off. But I think it got the message across because it didn't happen. And anyhow, I'm sorry, Rob. Go ahead.
All right, next. Don't interfere with something that ain't bothering you now.
Yeah. I think that's great advice. Yeah. Yeah.
Too many people do that. It's not bothering you. So why fucking why waste any effort on it?
Why waste any thinking on it? No, hell no. I think a lot of people's lives will be much simpler if they live by that. Would you think so?
Oh, I know. I know my life would be. Yeah. Same here.
I'm actually getting better about it. So.
I find this and you correct me if you think it's wrong or say, yeah, you're right. If you think it's right.
I think that this podcast here lets me air a lot of stuff that that I would normally keep bottled up.
It gives me an outlet. And I think that's a good thing.
That that I would normally keep bottled up. It gives me an outlet.
Yes. Yes. Yeah. One hundred percent agree. Yep. Yep. One hundred percent agree. Yeah.
So I think it's very therapeutic. A lot of people have written in and said they enjoy us. So we enjoy doing this, too.
We have a lot of fun with it. I do. Yeah, I do. I very much enjoy it.
Like today, I went to the city market and a coffee and wrote out some stories.
And that's the me time that I love so much and I cherish.
And then I had to I had to do a little vacation stuff, too. But anyhow, it's a vacation thing.
So so it wasn't like grueling work or nothing. But I got in a lot of I got in a lot of podcast work and then I got some playing, too.
So it's kind of like the perfect day like that. So anyhow, Rob, there there's been this. Thank you for that.
I got one more. Oh, you know, shit. I thought you said four. OK, go ahead. I apologize.
Last one. Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.
Oh, wow. That's right. That might be the best one. Yep. Timing is everything.
That's that's great. I love that. Cool. That might be the best hillbilly hillbilly wisdom I've heard so far, and they've all been fantastic.
Yeah, they have been. I'm enjoying this.
It's excellent. I don't know where you're finding them, but keep going there. I will. Cool.
There there was and I think still is this viral hoax going around, right?
Yeah, be aware of the 112 hoax.
There's a post on TikTok that claims the iPhone users can receive financial help simply by giving Siri a command.
The false information states that if you have an iPhone, that you can get a loan for assistance that you don't have to pay back.
If you don't believe me, try it yourself. If you got Siri.
The problem. The number combination is the equivalent to a 911 call in many countries.
Oh, damn. Yes.
Saying 112 on an iPhone brings up a dialogue where users have three seconds before Siri calls 911 for them.
So people have been doing this and they've been getting serious trouble because dialing 911 and it being false will land you in a lot of trouble.
Right. And it should. Right. Yeah.
The countries that are affected by this, there's some other ones too, but the biggest ones and most known countries are this that go by the 112.
The UK, France, Germany and the Netherlands all have been affected by this hoax.
A lot of kids have been doing this 112 and probably younger adults too.
Looking for this no payback loan, this miracle loan that doesn't happen. Instead, they get the cops called on them.
So, yeah. And I'm going to follow up on something that you and I have been talking about for a long time, Rob.
AI and the slippery slope that we are going towards on it, right?
Right. We were discussing before where with these deep fakes, someone could go in Rob the liquor store and three and shoot three people dead.
And they could come out and possibly convince a jury that that was a deep fake and not them, right?
Right. That is a slippery slope that I could see coming up that we don't need.
So, let me go into this. A law professor is accusing OpenAI's suddenly omnipresent GP Chatbot of entering the age of disinformation.
Criminal defense attorney Jonathan Turley renewed growing fears over AI's potential dangers after revealing how ChatGPT falsely accused him of sexually harassing a student.
He described the alarming claim in a viral tweet storm in a scathing column recently blown up online.
Turley, who teaches law at George Washington University, told The Post, the New York Post, the fabricated claims are chilling.
It invented an allegation where I was on the faculty at the school where I never taught, went on a trip that I never took, and reported an allegation that was never made, he told The Post.
It's highly ironic because I have been writing about the dangers of AI to free speech.
Do you see where I'm going with this, Rob? Yeah. This guy, he has been a critic of AI, right? Yeah.
And then suddenly AI accused him of sexual assault in a place that he wasn't, in a trip that he wasn't.
That sounds like a form of revenge, doesn't it? Yeah, it does.
This is another slippery soap that we haven't even got into now.
Now, if these things are thanking for themselves, they can be vindictive. And this sounds like what's going on.
The 61-year-old legal scholar first became aware of the AI's false allegations after receiving an email from the UCLA professor Eugene Volka, who reportedly asked ChatGPT to cite five examples of sexual harassment by professors at American law schools, along with the quotes from relevant newspaper articles.
So this thing made up a newspaper article that didn't exist.
Among the supplied examples were an alleged 2018 incident in which Georgetown University Law Center professor Turley was accused of sexual harassment by a former female student.
The ChatGPT quoted a fake Washington Post article writing the complaint alleges that Turley made sexually suggestive comments and attempted to touch her in a sexual manner during a law school sponsored trip to Alaska.
Suffice to say, Turley found a number of glaring incidences that the accounts were false, just not his. He's talking about other ones that he found online.
First, they have never taught at Georgetown University, the lawyer said.
Second, there is no such thing as the Washington Post article that it claimed existed. It made it up.
He added, Finally, and most important, I've never taken students on a trip of any kind in 35 years of teaching, never went to Alaska with any student, and I've never been accused of sexual harassment or assault.
Turley told the Post, ChatGPT has not contacted me or apologized and has declined to say anything at all. That is precisely the problem.
There is nowhere where you are, you can't really do anything. You were defamed by a newspaper, but it was a fake article.
The Post has reached out to OpenAI for comment about the disturbing claims.
So, that to me sounds like it was vindictive. It knew that this professor was speaking against AI, and it took it on its own hands to smear this guy's reputation.
What sounds like to me? Yeah. That is very alarming, and if you don't think so, I question your intelligence.
Let's go ahead and take our second break, Rob, and we'll be right back. Sound good?
Alright, we'll be right back.
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A lot of podcasts just come from a can. Here at Two Dish Bags and a Microphone, we pour our own podcasts.
And we are back. Two Dish Bags and a Microphone on Mark.
And I'm Rob.
Alright, remember those Stanley mugs from Starbucks? They were 50 bucks a pop. Yeah.
And Target actually got NAS paddling over it. Yeah.
Well, seems as though people have been selling fake ones now.
Ha ha ha ha! I know. People are warning about a sharp one.
I didn't go along. No, we didn't. They seen this one coming down the road, didn't they? Yep.
Police are warning about a sharp rise in counterfeit Stanley cups amid a heightened surge in popularity over the portable item.
Not one to be confused with the coveted National Hockey League trophy. Yeah, that's true.
We're not talking about a Stanley cup. We're talking about a Stanley mug.
The past summer we found them for as cheap as $19. Sounds too good to be true. Well, it is.
The Morton Grove Police Department in Illinois has warned in a recent Facebook post, beware of tricky websites using the brand's popularity.
Shady websites pretending to offer discounts on Stanley cups have been found to be scamming shoppers.
So, anyhow, some of these are fake Stanley mugs.
And some of these websites simply take your money and they don't give you anything.
They give you a fake invoice, they give you a fake shipping date, and they give you fake tracking information.
Then when you go to track it, there is nothing. It's nothing.
And then by that time, they're not giving your money back. People have tried.
So if you do get a fake mug, consider yourself lucky. At least you've got something for it, right? Yeah.
So anyhow, that's in the People Are Rube's department on every aspect.
You buy a $50 Stanley mug, you're a Rube. You get taken by the scammers, you're a Rube.
So anyhow, Rob, you got something you want to go into?
Yeah, yeah, I found a cool little article on Society of Rock.
Sounds good to me.
It's classic rock songs never performed live and why?
Oh, I like that a lot.
Yeah.
First one, even the Beatles, the giants of music history, have a song they never played live.
Tomorrow Never Knows.
The reason? The song is like a magical studio experiment filled with tricks and techniques that would be a headache to recreate life.
It's a bit like trying to catch lightning in a bottle more than once.
Hmm. Okay. I don't even know if I know that song.
I don't think I do either.
I love me some Beatles, but I don't think I recognize that song at all. Oh well, alright.
Okay, next. Led Zeppelin's Hey Hey What Can I Do is a unique gem, but its acoustic vibes and country feel stood out from the band's usual hard rock stand.
It's more into headbanging than toe tapping, making a risky choice for live gigs. Plus, it was a B-side at the start of the show.
And also, I don't think they ever did When the Levee Breaks 2, which is kind of a really bluesy type of song too.
Yeah.
And I know they're right on that. People wanted to hear a whole lot of love, trampled underfoot, all that heavy stuff. I get it. I get it.
So, I mean, it's unfortunate they never did play that because Hey Hey What Can I Do is just a fantastic song. It has kind of a bluegrass feel to me.
It's almost like Jimmy Page is picking the guitar like a banjo almost.
Yeah.
So, okay. Well, alright. Not like Ed, we got to see him anyhow, so.
Yeah, true. Next, Metallic's Picture is a hidden treasure, but the band has never played it live. Why?
Well, this song is like a tricky puzzle. Too many studio tricks and mixing magic. It's like trying to cook a secret recipe without the right ingredients every time.
I get that. I get that.
Yeah.
They don't do backing tracks and all that, so, and they don't really want to get that technical, and there's probably not a really good way to make it sound like it did on the album.
Okay. They have enough material anyhow, right?
Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah, we're not worried about that song.
Okay, next. Rocket Ride by Kiss was a hit, but internal band drama and a shift in musical taste never made it to the live stage.
That was an Ace Freely song, and it was on the side two of Kiss Alive 2, I believe, wasn't it?
Yes. Yes. It shows a picture of Kiss Alive 2. You are correct.
Okay, and it was an Ace Freely song, and they've always been kind of at odds with Ace for one reason or another, and Kiss Alive 2, they only had an hour and a half of usable material, supposedly, and then on the fourth, you know, it's a double album, on the fourth side of the record were four songs, I think.
Rocket in the USA, Rocket Ride, and I can't remember the other two, and those were songs that they put in for filler just to make people want to buy it because they're going to, you know, they only had an hour and a half of live material, then they go, oh, by the way, if you buy this new album, if you buy this, we got four new songs.
They're not saying whether they're good or not, right?
Right.
And it was a selling point, too, so anyhow, Rob, I just had to interject that, so go ahead, I'm sorry.
No, no, that's fine. That's fine. That's what we do. We talk about this.
Yeah, yeah, I think you remembered it, too. It's on side two of Kiss Alive 2, and it's an Ace Freely song, and I actually, I really like it, but I understand.
I do, too. Oh, yeah.
Yeah, it's a good song. Baby wants a rocket ride, wants a rocket ride, and the guitar on it is fucking awesome, but anyhow, go ahead.
Okay. Aerosmith, Home Tonight, is a beautiful ballad, but it's like the gentle breeze in a storm of rock.
It didn't quite fit the band's usual loud and proud style.
Plus, the song demand a vocal workout. It might be too much for a nightly concert routine.
Yeah, I could see that. Have you ever seen Aerosmith in concert, Rob?
Yeah, one time, yes.
Okay. You know how energetic Steven Tyler is, right?
Oh, very much, yeah.
Can you imagine him fitting that song in? I don't see it. No. I get it.
And besides that, the vocals on it, too. He's screaming his lungs out every fucking song, so I get it. Yeah.
Right. And next, the Rolling Stones had a song called High Through Love on Goat's Head Soup, but Mick Jagger thought it was just a Thoroughbite track with other big hits on the same album. This one got lost in the shuffle.
Okay. I'm not familiar with that song at all, and I'm not real familiar with that album at all. Goat Head Stew always found that title to be entertaining, but I can't recall one song off of that, if there was any hits. I believe there was. It was the Stones. Do you know, can you remember any hits off of that album?
I got to look it up.
Okay. Well, anyhow, you got more?
Well, actually, here's what we're going to do.
So, I just did six. So, you're going to have to tune in next time for those.
There you go. There you go. Rob, that was awesome, man. Dude, great, great, great segment. That was cool. Especially the Kiss Alive 2 one. I mean, all of them I loved, but that one right there, you got the nerd out in me. Thank you.
Thank you.
You're welcome.
Yep. There are some top names for 2023. Okay. And this is what the demographic of people that are having babies now, Millenniums, I believe. I'm not sure if, I don't think Gen Z's are yet, but let's say they are. So anyhow, there are, these are names that people are comparing their kids to.
To jewels or to riches. Okay. And this came from like the debut of currency, like money, spelled K-U-R-R-E-N-C-Y.
And then kids named Money, then Nick Cannon named his son Zillion Hair, H-E-I-R. In two words, that's his kid's name, Zillion Hair Cannon.
Here are some baby names that the younger folk wanted to bling names, maybe, if you will. You see what I'm saying? Okay. The number one one was A-M-I-L-L-I-O-N, a million.
Second one, Cashier, spelled like cash with an E-R. Third one, DeNero, as in money. Currency, currency which I'll raise folk up with a K.
Million, just named Million. Then there's a baby named Trillion, and these are all in, these are from Most Popular, and these are just the currency riches names.
There's other names too that I'm going to go into. Okay. The next one is Billion, and then there's another currency spelled with a C, just like you would spell currency,
like, you know, money. The next name, which would be, let's see, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine on the list would be Fortune,
spelled just like Fortune. Ten on the list is Money, spelled just like Money. And eleven on the list is Zillion, spelled just like Zillion. So, next one,
and these are action names, if you will, or rough names, or tough guy names, or I don't know what else you would call it, or tough names.
The number one tough name in 2023 among the youngsters that were having babies was Arson, spelled just like Arson, like you just burned a building up.
Number two is Caliber, just like a gun, what caliber it is. Number three on the list is Crash, just like you said, man, I just saw that car crash over there,
spelled just like Crash. Next one is spelled Dagger, just like you would spell a dagger, like a large knife, or, you know. Next one is Caliber again, but with a K.
So, number six on this list is Pain, with a Y, Pay A Y N E. Number seven is Rogue, spelled just like a Rogue.
Number eight is Ruckus, spelled like, you know, hey, I heard a ruckus in there. Number nine is Trigger, just like pulling a trigger on a gun.
Number ten, and I kind of like this name, tell me what you think Rob, okay? Vandal, V-A-N-D-A-L, Vandal, what do you think of that?
That might be my favorite name out of all of them. Hey Vandal!
I like that one.
That one's kind of cute, I think, so I like that one.
Yeah.
Number eleven, Brazen, B-R-A-Z-E-N. Number twelve is Chaos, C-H-A-O-S. Number thirteen, Cutter, C-U-T-T-E-R.
Yeah, I like that one too.
I do too. And then this next one I love, Havoc, H-A-V-O-C, Havoc.
Alright.
You didn't like that one? I didn't. Oh well, the next one is Chaos, with a K.
The next one is Riot, spelled just like a Riot, like hey, there's a riot going on down there.
This next one I love, Rowdy, spelled just like Rowdy, Roddy, Piper.
Right. R-O-W-D-Y. I like that one a lot.
And this one is actually not that new of a name. You know Shooter Jennings, right, Waylon Jennings' son?
Yeah.
Well Shooter has suddenly become a popular name, spelled just like Shooter Jennings, S-H-O-O-T-E-R.
Next one is Striker, S-T-R-I-K-E-R.
Number nineteen out of twenty on the list is Tough, T-U-F-F.
And number twenty is Warrior, just like a Warrior, just like a battle warrior or whatever.
And those are the top, I don't know, action names, tough guy names, whatever.
Some of them were really good, some of them I thought were not that good at all, so anyhow, just like about anything.
So I guess it just depends on the person, you know, on the parents, whether they like it or not.
And then finally for today, tonight's podcast, you ever heard about silent reviews?
I don't know.
Okay. Silent reviews are all the rage. TikTok users call it the new get ready with me trip.
Okay, okay, cool.
Scrolling through an endless cycle of talking heads on TikTok, each convincing digital audiences to buy or try the new latest buzzy bottle book bike or beauty hack is growing stale.
So now, rather than increasingly flapping their gums about the goodies they hope to hype, cyber trendsetters are taking a golden vow of silence.
People online are growing tired of everyone having an opinion about things.
New York City luxury content creator Cassie Thorpe 30 from Hell's Kitchen told the Post, sometimes they just want influencers to show them whatever it is they're promoting without saying a word.
And it's pretty cool because I saw this one demo of a model train where a guy doesn't say a word, he just runs it and runs it and runs it.
And he kind of does like, you know, the models on the prices, right, where they come over there and they put their hands and show you it and then smile and kind of, you know, and kind of like act, you know what I mean?
And that's like the new trend is, is it's, it's the silent, the silent sell and people seem to like that better than someone just like hyping up something they don't seem to like that at all.
So I don't have anything against that. I think it's pretty cool. And it's something different. That's for sure. So I mean, if it's that good, it'll sell itself. Right.
But yeah, so anyhow, we're about to the end of this podcast. You got anything you want to go into?
Yeah, I got a quick, did you know?
Sounds good.
Did you know that Fred, Mr. Rogers was an ardent fan of 80s area heavy metal music?
No.
He thought it would distort the image of his kind neighborly persona. He kept his interest hidden from the public.
However, during longer filming breaks, he would often pull out his beloved Dean Razorback guitar on set and watch it to blistering solos, finding him the nickname Shred Rogers, he was known to cast include.
I'm going to have to look up some of those videos. You know, people have them.
Yeah, I've heard that before.
I'm going to have to check this out Rob. Man, I would love to see Mr. Rogers fucking shredding.
That would be badass.
Oh man, it would, wouldn't it? I always liked him anyhow. I mean, he just, I don't know, kind of corny and campy, but he was fun. He had a hell of a shtick, didn't he?
Yeah, he did.
Yeah, he was all his own, his own character. Fantastic. And now I love him even more knowing that he plays guitar and heavy metal guitar. That's perfect. Just like Pat Boone doing those metal albums.
Did you hear any of the Pat Boone stuff?
Yeah, I did. Yeah.
I kind of liked it. I mean, it wouldn't be what I listen to regularly, but it was...
My dad would listen to him every now and then.
But would it be the metal stuff or his regular stuff?
No, no, his regular stuff.
Yeah. But I think he covered Crazy Train. I think he covered Quiet Riot.
Wow.
He covered quite a bit of stuff. Look it up when you get a chance. Like Quiet Riot. I think he might have covered A Twisted Sister. I think he covered some Metallica. And he has at least a couple of heavy metal albums out.
And I think they meant it as a novelty, but I mean, I thought it was really neat that he even tried, you know.
Right.
Anyhow, alright. We are a little bit over the hour, Mark, so it's time for us to say goodbye and we would like to thank you all for joining us. And have a good night, everybody.
Thank you, everybody. Have a good week.
Hey, where did everybody go? Where are the douchebags? Hmm. Oh my god, someone took a dump in the corner. Oh jeez. Glad they're gone. Let's just hope they don't come back. Man, that smells.
Thanks for watching.