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Does the bidet have, like, automatic aim? It

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has butthole target lock? Yeah. Five, four, three,

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two, one, zero. Welcome to the show, people.

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Welcome to the show. Eat my shorts. So here is

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to conversation. Welcome to the cash exchange.

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What up? How are you? You know, I had a near

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-blinding experience today. Near -blinding experience?

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Are you talking LED headlights? No, no. I was

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out in the wilds of Houston and I was near some

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trees. I look up. As soon as I do, gust of wind

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comes in and all of a sudden I feel something

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hit my bare eyeball. Okay. And I was wearing

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sunglasses, but I don't know, I guess. As far

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as final destination situations go, it was a

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pretty, pretty light one. But I got back to the

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truck. I looked in the side view mirror and just

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started digging around in my eye socket and found

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like a little, looked like a little piece of

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a, I don't know, like a thorn that broke off.

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Oh. Just hanging out in my eye socket on my eyeball.

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I think there might still be like some tiny bit

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in there because I've been feeling funny, but

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you know, I'll flush it out eventually, I guess.

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I was about to say, I think you should maybe

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check that out. Maybe go invest in some eyedrops

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to clear out whatever that is. You're not out

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of the woods yet. Anyways, what about you? How

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are things going with you? Pretty good. I can't

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complain. I am... I've been doing a deep dive

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on all of my my backlog podcast work today. So

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I am Feeling productive. It's great. Nice. Oh

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speaking of Feeling good I want to pick up dinner

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this evening from a restaurant that I frequent

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quite a lot they know me they know me around

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there and The guy hands me my food and I was

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like, hey, can I get a receipt because You have

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to have a receipt to scan the code to get the

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points, even though I ordered the food on the

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app that the points would go to. Anyways, and

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so while he's getting my receipt, he says, so

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how's your day going? Or no, he's like, so how

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are you today? And I said, not bad. He heard

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bad. Oh man. Is everything all right? I was like,

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what? He was like, I'm sorry, you're having a

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bad day. I said, no, I said, I'm not bad. Believe

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me, man, if I were actually having a bad day,

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I would just say not bad. Cause I'm not going

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to burden you with that. We had this conversation

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and I stand by it. You should absolutely follow

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up if somebody says they're doing bad. We did

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have this conversation, but I clarified with

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him that I would not lay that burden on him.

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And he was like, oh man, that's good. Cause I

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didn't know like, like, do I need to say something?

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Do you need a hug? Like, I don't know what to

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do. I was like, I appreciate it, man, but no,

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no. All peachy. That's so sweet. See? That is

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the good side of humanity. Yeah. Yeah. He was

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willing to hug this stranger. Cross the counter

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at, I assume, Pluckers. Yeah. How'd you know?

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They know you there. They do. Everything's coming

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up. Millhouse has been so close to triumphant.

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Oh, this isn't even the home base, but they do

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know me here too. And I do go to trivia here

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and use the same trivia name. So, yeah. We'll

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have to reinstate that tradition. We will. Are

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you ready for your three things? Yes. All right.

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What do bananas, knockoff phone chargers, and

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HD DVDs have in common? Bananas, knockoff phone

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chargers, and HD DVDs. You eat too much of them

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in one sitting, you'll die. I mean, that is technically

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correct. They're all slightly irradiated. I believe

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that one is also correct. Not the three line

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I was going with, but if you eat it, I feel like

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if you eat enough of them, you'll die is the

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three line for anything we've done on this pod.

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Yeah. Yeah, probably. Hmm. Bananas knockoff.

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So knockoff is definitely the, the part to be

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concerned with, with that one. HD DVDs do not

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exist and were beaten out by Blu -ray. After

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a very brief stint, yes. And someone in our family

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bucked the wrong horse on that one. That is true.

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The things that have a far superior version.

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What is the superior version of a banana? Yeah,

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I don't know. A plantain? What? Plantain? Plantain?

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What'd you call it? Plantain. Oh, that sounded

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weird. It only said plantain. The plantain? Plantain,

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yeah. Is the plantain the better version of the

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banana? Give me some fried plantains. I am not

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that southern. Oh, man. Knock off phone cords.

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Banana. Yellow. Phallic -shaped. Phone cords.

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thin spaghetti shaped HD DVD boob shaped But

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only in two dimensions front view only yeah,

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I don't know I have no clue I had an alternative

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Three things for this episode. Okay, I figured

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those would be too easy now Do you want to hear

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them since you're given in? Give me the one most

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obscure one of the other three. The other three

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don't connect to this one. It was two separate,

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like, connections to our topic of the day. Oh.

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Okay, yeah, give me all three then. Okay. So,

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completely unrelated to Bananas, phone chargers,

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and HD DVDs, the other three were Nature Valley

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granola bars, wishbones, and pinatas. Things

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that are meant to be destroyed. Things that are

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meant to be broken. Oh! Planned obsolescence.

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Planned obsolescence. Hey -ya! What does a banana

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have to do with planned obsolescence? Bananas,

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knockoff phone chargers, and HD DVDs are things

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with a lot shorter of a shelf life than they

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should have. Oh, okay. Which is things with a

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similarly short shelf life based on... a fun

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little thing called planned obsolescence, our

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topic for the day. I was right on track with

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the HDDVDs and I just abandoned it. You gotta

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verbalize these thoughts. This is an audio format.

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We can't read your mind. No, I said it. I said

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it. I said... You said they were boob shaped.

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There was no other feedback for HDDVDs. Yes,

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I did because I said that they were beat out

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by Blu -ray, that they barely lasted at all because

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they got beat out by Blu -ray. That is true.

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That's what I said. Okay. Okay. So this episode

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is going to be my version of the Old Man Yells

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at Clouds episode. There's a couple of things

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on the list of upcoming episodes that we have

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that are going to involve at least one if not

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both of us being a little grumpy. So by the next

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time we do one of those episodes, I will have

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your Old Man Yells at Cloud picture done. All

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right. No, I mean, I got plenty to say about

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planned obsolescence. It's stupid, for one. Sure.

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But I can elaborate later, if needed. I mean,

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I imagine it will be, but we'll see. All right,

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so a quick little bit about the history of both

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the concept and the term. The concept of planned

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obsolescence began with a literal light bulb

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moment. Yeah. I knew about this. Between the

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years of, or between the 1890s and the 1920s,

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the lifespan of the light bulb was increased

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from 1 ,500 to 2 ,500 hours. When they realized

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that the light bulbs lasted too long to be profitable,

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big companies like GE and Philips joined forces

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to create the Phoebus Cartel, the world's lamest

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cartel, by my estimation, at least. I don't know.

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Not everyone uses drugs. Not everyone has use

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for S traffickers. Everyone uses light bulbs.

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So if you're asking me, pretty powerful cartel.

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This is true. They did impose very strict fines

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on any light bulb producer who went over the

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thousand -hour bar that they set. I don't know

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if they were out here breaking kneecaps, but

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I don't think you'd call yourself a cartel if

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you're not willing to... Edison was part of it.

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...do some damage. He was famous. for sending

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goons after people that were maybe not giving

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him his fair share. Like especially with the

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people that had to flee to LA to make movies

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because he literally had people coming to New

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York and New Jersey on these shoots. They'd get

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word of it. He'd find out. and he would send

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people and they would go break their cameras

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and just beat up the people. So that's how we

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got LA to be Hollywood and where all the movies

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are made because they were on the run from Thomas

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Edison and his camera company. Look it up, Edison

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was a dick. He was. I have watched entirely too

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much Family Guy. Brilliant man, but also... Very

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nefarious, very greedy, very selfish. So the

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Phoebus cartel ended during World War II, but

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its effect lasted for several decades afterwards.

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In the 1920s, Henry Ford and GM played into this

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as well with the original stance that the Model

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T should be the only car you'll ever need to

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own. It even came with all of the things that

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it would take to repair the car yourself. But

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once they got a little ways in and both GM and

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the Ford production company realized that no

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one was buying cars anymore, they started releasing

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all of these fun new models with cosmetic and

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functionality upgrades to incentivize throwing

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your old one away. So that's where we got the

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trim levels? Yes. It was the model TX LE. I have

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never known what trim level I have on any of

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my cars. I assume they're the standard ones,

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because I don't think I've ever gone out of my

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way to buy an above base level. Well, you don't

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have to go out of your way. They'll just toss

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it on there. Now we've made it to where we actually

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got the name Planned Obsolescence, which was

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from the 1930s. It was in a book. by a man whose

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name I just realized that I did not write down,

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but it was a suggestion as a way for the country

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to pull itself back out of the Great Depression,

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was if manufacturers would start making things

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that had a predetermined shelf life, that consumerism

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would go up and in turn, it would fix the American

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economy. And now we're here. Yeah. Yeah. I mean,

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what was the initial idea for every product made.

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I guarantee you, the initial idea wasn't, well,

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we can get this stuff a hell of a lot cheaper

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from China, so we'll just get everything from

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China. Yeah. I mean, I don't imagine that was

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the takeaway back in the 30s, but they had a...

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So were there specific things? It was... So he

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wrote an entire book on it and I don't have a

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great deal of... like that kind of specific information

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on it, but from what I read, it seemed like it

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was just a blanket statement for American manufacturers.

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So it was a, if you have a factory that produces

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toothbrushes, then you can make them so the bristles

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wear out faster, the American people will buy

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more of the toothbrushes and you'll have more

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work for the people in your factory to do. Well,

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and then you can also put out PSA saying, oh,

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you have to change your toothbrush out like every

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week. Do you know what kind of bacteria it creates

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unfreshness for the women folk? Because everything,

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everything back in that time was a threat against

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women's freshness. I mean, it wasn't necessarily

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a ploy for planned obsolescence or to boost the

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economy, but it was a ploy to have people...

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I mean, it is a ploy to boost the economy because

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it's a product that people didn't necessarily

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need and they created an issue to solve this

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problem that didn't actually exist like gingivitis

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with Listerine. So, yeah, I mean, that's where

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all that stuff comes from, I guess. Same mindset.

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I mean, planned obsolescence was solving a problem

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that did exist. It just... Yeah. Overcorrected.

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Yeah, I mean, that's a story of America, isn't

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it? Overcorrection. Sure, that you could definitely

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make that case. A lot of people think we're swinging

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in to the extreme of the other way now, and it's

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a mess out there. Yeah, I have no thoughts I'm

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willing to share on that out loud. Good, good,

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because a lot of people are too willing to share

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their thoughts on the internet. Yeah, no. Not

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a political podcast. I'm not going to weigh in

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on it. I have thoughts. They are irrelevant to

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this. What is relevant to this is fast fashion

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and Ikea furniture. Because we have so much over

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-corrected that we are completely dependent on

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fast and cost -effective over sustainable and

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lasting. Do you have real purchase in a brick

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and mortar kind of furniture? Like, do you have

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actual like... Yes, things made out of wood.

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Yes your home dining room table that we used

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Growing up came from brick -and -mortar Living

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room set We have two entertainment centers one

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holds a TV one holds a fish tank both of those

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were Drop on your doorstep and assemble Coffee

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table same way bedding came from a store dresser

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came from a store kids' beds were packages. So

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I think we're split about 50 -50. Okay. When

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I was looking for information about this episode,

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I took stock of all of the furniture that I owned,

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which is not a great amount. My couch came to

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me through Wayfair, so it was delivered to my

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package locker. Absolute nightmare to get to

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my fourth floor in a different building apartment.

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I have a bed frame that I've had for five years

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now, uh, that I bought from Amazon that is seen

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better days. It has made it through several moves

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and it is, it's dying on me. And my entertainment

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center and bookshelf, Ikea. That thing behind

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me, I don't know if that counts as furniture,

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Amazon. Uh, yeah, the kids have a bookshelf that

00:17:16.269 --> 00:17:20.950
I bought from Ikea and it is garbage. It constantly.

00:17:21.109 --> 00:17:24.309
just explodes if you put like one too many books

00:17:24.309 --> 00:17:27.210
on it just the whole thing just like so that's

00:17:27.210 --> 00:17:30.309
crazy should probably get that replaced at some

00:17:30.309 --> 00:17:33.470
point but i would consider that yeah but you

00:17:33.470 --> 00:17:36.190
know that's that's what it is right now yeah

00:17:36.190 --> 00:17:40.269
these podcast checks aren't coming in yet all

00:17:40.269 --> 00:17:42.490
of that one dollar that we've made so far can

00:17:42.490 --> 00:17:44.829
go to fund a new bookshelf for your children

00:17:44.829 --> 00:17:47.769
one dollar and 12 cents checked it today okay

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okay we're making progress man We're getting

00:17:51.039 --> 00:17:54.759
there. We're getting there. So yeah, all of my

00:17:54.759 --> 00:17:57.440
furniture has basically been delivered to me

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and has been assembled with a very specific size

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of Allen wrench. I own at least 12 of them at

00:18:02.299 --> 00:18:05.359
this point. I don't know what they go to. I don't

00:18:05.359 --> 00:18:07.000
know how they keep moving with me. I'm pretty

00:18:07.000 --> 00:18:09.319
sure that I throw them away after I finish building

00:18:09.319 --> 00:18:12.359
the thing. But every time I move, I have a new

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collection of them. I actually like putting those

00:18:15.019 --> 00:18:20.029
kits together. For a little while I was using

00:18:20.029 --> 00:18:24.170
this, what's the, what do they call like side

00:18:24.170 --> 00:18:27.890
hustle stuff? Gig work? Yeah, yeah, the gig,

00:18:27.950 --> 00:18:31.390
I was part of the gig economy and a lot of it

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was putting that stuff together and for the most

00:18:35.230 --> 00:18:40.029
part, it's enjoyable, it's mind numbing sometimes

00:18:40.029 --> 00:18:43.109
and you realize how shitty all this stuff is

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and it's just, it's like the crappiest particle

00:18:47.720 --> 00:18:51.279
board you've ever seen just fashioned into some

00:18:51.279 --> 00:18:56.039
sort of usable piece of furniture that is covered

00:18:56.039 --> 00:18:59.940
in the thinnest layer of, it's pretty much just

00:18:59.940 --> 00:19:02.240
like a sticker that they put on top of the particle

00:19:02.240 --> 00:19:08.019
board to make it look like it's wood. But I also

00:19:08.019 --> 00:19:13.920
have a funny story about from a brick and mortar

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because one year for I don't know, I think it

00:19:19.019 --> 00:19:21.680
was like birthday and Christmas one year. Dad

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got me a couch, a sofa because the one I had

00:19:26.839 --> 00:19:30.099
was from Wayfair and it was busted in the middle

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and it was just a piece of junk. And so he was

00:19:33.240 --> 00:19:36.200
like, okay, I'll get this for you and that'll

00:19:36.200 --> 00:19:37.579
be your birthday and Christmas present. I'm like,

00:19:37.720 --> 00:19:41.039
great, because I need a couch. And so we're going

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through the buying process and they said, okay,

00:19:44.299 --> 00:19:47.759
well, I'll even do the delivery for you. Like

00:19:47.759 --> 00:19:51.039
I'll do the to the door delivery, not the bring

00:19:51.039 --> 00:19:53.579
it in because you can do that part. They'll bring

00:19:53.579 --> 00:19:55.000
it to your door, you just bring it in, you set

00:19:55.000 --> 00:19:59.759
it up, then you're good to go. Awesome. So the

00:19:59.759 --> 00:20:02.319
time comes where it starts to, it's being delivered.

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And I waited home all day because they're like,

00:20:04.960 --> 00:20:07.539
okay, well, we'll be there between like 9 a .m.

00:20:08.180 --> 00:20:11.740
and noon the next day. It's like, okay, cool.

00:20:12.559 --> 00:20:15.079
And I wait around, wait around, wait around,

00:20:15.180 --> 00:20:17.539
nothing. Wait around, wait around, wait around,

00:20:17.759 --> 00:20:19.920
nothing. Get a notification, driver's on the

00:20:19.920 --> 00:20:22.240
way. Wait around, wait around, wait around, nothing.

00:20:22.700 --> 00:20:24.700
Made sure that I had the phone number in the

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system so they knew to call me whenever they

00:20:26.559 --> 00:20:31.720
were there. And then it was probably like, I

00:20:31.720 --> 00:20:34.900
don't know, nine o 'clock at night. I get a notification,

00:20:35.119 --> 00:20:37.809
delivery successful. That's weird. I'm on the

00:20:37.809 --> 00:20:40.869
second floor and you can hear everybody going

00:20:40.869 --> 00:20:44.809
up and down the stairs. So I don't know how they

00:20:44.809 --> 00:20:48.029
would have gotten an entire couch up the stairs

00:20:48.029 --> 00:20:51.309
without me knowing. Well, I lived in a terrible

00:20:51.309 --> 00:20:55.450
apartment complex that had the same apartment

00:20:55.450 --> 00:20:59.980
number for multiple buildings. Yeah, it was it

00:20:59.980 --> 00:21:02.619
was off the highway. So half of the addresses

00:21:02.619 --> 00:21:06.420
were off were based on the highway The other

00:21:06.420 --> 00:21:09.299
ones were based on the street behind the apartment

00:21:09.299 --> 00:21:12.680
complex. I had the highway address with the apartment

00:21:12.680 --> 00:21:16.640
number They delivered it to the apartment number

00:21:16.640 --> 00:21:21.180
with the backstreet address and so I had to drive

00:21:21.180 --> 00:21:26.500
around to go find where they put this couch and

00:21:26.500 --> 00:21:32.079
they also lived upstairs but they had like this

00:21:32.079 --> 00:21:33.759
tiny little walkway like you walk out of your

00:21:33.759 --> 00:21:36.339
door and you turn and then the stairs would be

00:21:36.339 --> 00:21:40.039
right there. These people, these furniture store

00:21:40.039 --> 00:21:44.200
people, delivered this couch to this apartment

00:21:44.200 --> 00:21:49.619
on its side wedged between the door and the railing.

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So if this person walked out of their door they

00:21:53.109 --> 00:21:56.529
would run face -first into my couch and would

00:21:56.529 --> 00:22:00.029
not be able to leave their apartment. So I had

00:22:00.029 --> 00:22:04.890
to enlist some help, move it, wiggle it out of

00:22:04.890 --> 00:22:08.089
there, get it down the stairs, into my truck,

00:22:08.309 --> 00:22:10.650
drive it to my apartment, get it up the stairs,

00:22:10.670 --> 00:22:15.049
and then get it into my apartment. Yeah, and

00:22:15.049 --> 00:22:19.609
it was not a fun experience. I wouldn't imagine.

00:22:19.970 --> 00:22:24.160
I don't understand. I know that most delivery

00:22:24.160 --> 00:22:28.380
drivers are underpaid and overworked. Oh. And

00:22:28.380 --> 00:22:33.480
also competent, but by God. Holy moly. It's just

00:22:33.480 --> 00:22:36.900
overrun with silliness. It is. It's a silly world.

00:22:37.779 --> 00:22:41.559
It's a silly world, but I am hoping to one day

00:22:41.559 --> 00:22:45.539
own furniture made of actual wood and not press

00:22:45.539 --> 00:22:48.539
board and vinyl. It's on the bucket list is to

00:22:48.539 --> 00:22:50.339
own real furniture again. Just wood? Bare wood?

00:22:50.619 --> 00:22:53.839
to own furniture that is made of real wood. Okay,

00:22:53.839 --> 00:22:56.740
we can make that happen. Bed frame and all that

00:22:56.740 --> 00:23:00.660
jazz. Yeah. Yeah, just go to Home Depot. And

00:23:00.660 --> 00:23:02.240
the great thing about getting your wood from

00:23:02.240 --> 00:23:05.119
Home Depot is that it's got all the twists that

00:23:05.119 --> 00:23:09.900
look like intentional design. Yeah, maybe I'll

00:23:09.900 --> 00:23:12.240
channel my inner Ron Swanson one of these days.

00:23:13.039 --> 00:23:15.740
There you go. And for your next place, we'll

00:23:15.740 --> 00:23:18.400
just do handmade furniture. But not like Amish

00:23:18.400 --> 00:23:21.869
handmade, it's just like... We spent like 30

00:23:21.869 --> 00:23:23.730
minutes thinking about it and then this was the

00:23:23.730 --> 00:23:27.009
result kind of handmade furniture I think I would

00:23:27.009 --> 00:23:30.029
maybe like it to look a little bit better than

00:23:30.029 --> 00:23:33.890
that Do we get some spray paint too? Yeah, or

00:23:33.890 --> 00:23:36.250
if you're feeling real in the money, we'll just

00:23:36.250 --> 00:23:41.369
get some stain Oh Fancy We'll stain that pine.

00:23:42.269 --> 00:23:46.410
Yeah Anyways, where were we? We have made it

00:23:46.410 --> 00:23:51.420
to Just a couple things that have really grinded

00:23:51.420 --> 00:23:53.859
my gears when it comes to planned obsolescence.

00:23:54.259 --> 00:24:01.180
One of which is the printer. I have so many grievances

00:24:01.180 --> 00:24:06.319
with a smart printer. I just had my rant about

00:24:06.319 --> 00:24:11.380
HP like two or three episodes ago. I know. I

00:24:11.380 --> 00:24:13.359
wasn't going to go too deep into it because I

00:24:13.359 --> 00:24:15.960
do remember us already talking about it, but

00:24:15.960 --> 00:24:19.140
the... The printer situation is just ridiculous.

00:24:19.819 --> 00:24:22.880
I don't print enough things to warrant a subscription

00:24:22.880 --> 00:24:26.380
service. I should not. That's too bad. That is

00:24:26.380 --> 00:24:27.519
too damn bad. I don't know why I have to stress

00:24:27.519 --> 00:24:29.339
this. I don't know why I should have to stress

00:24:29.339 --> 00:24:32.660
this, but I should not need a subscription to

00:24:32.660 --> 00:24:36.339
print things on my own paper with my own ink.

00:24:36.799 --> 00:24:39.480
From a printer that you purchased. From a printer

00:24:39.480 --> 00:24:43.019
that I purchased. And it was not cheap. No printer

00:24:43.019 --> 00:24:46.589
is cheap these days. No, it's absolutely ridiculous

00:24:46.589 --> 00:24:48.890
that you have to get a subscription to your printer.

00:24:50.470 --> 00:24:52.789
Not gonna touch on it because it was already

00:24:52.789 --> 00:24:56.150
on our subscriptions episode. But it will get

00:24:56.150 --> 00:24:59.769
me heated. As it should. It should get more people

00:24:59.769 --> 00:25:03.269
heated. Then maybe I'd cut this shit out. I mean,

00:25:03.369 --> 00:25:06.670
the only way to get through to the powers that

00:25:06.670 --> 00:25:09.869
be is to stop subscribing to ridiculous subscriptions.

00:25:10.450 --> 00:25:13.170
You know what I blame? You know what I blame

00:25:13.170 --> 00:25:17.140
for that? Do you remember in like the 20, probably

00:25:17.140 --> 00:25:20.299
mid 2010s, where everything was a subscription

00:25:20.299 --> 00:25:23.259
box? Yeah. If you liked candles, you could get

00:25:23.259 --> 00:25:27.039
a subscription box. Makeup, beef jerky. Dinner

00:25:27.039 --> 00:25:32.720
is a subscription box now. I'm tired of this

00:25:32.720 --> 00:25:39.519
grandpa. That's too damn bad. The big bad when

00:25:39.519 --> 00:25:43.519
it comes to planned obsolescence is... By far,

00:25:43.839 --> 00:25:48.400
cell phones and tablets. Yes. When you consider

00:25:48.400 --> 00:25:52.579
replacing your phone, what is it that makes you

00:25:52.579 --> 00:25:55.599
want to switch or want to upgrade? On this last

00:25:55.599 --> 00:25:59.920
one, it was because it was dying. I mean, I'd

00:25:59.920 --> 00:26:04.700
had it for a while. And as far as average phone

00:26:04.700 --> 00:26:09.960
ownership goes, I think I'd had it probably four

00:26:09.960 --> 00:26:13.690
years, five years. Okay. Wow, that's not bad.

00:26:15.410 --> 00:26:18.309
The camera on the back was cracked and it wasn't

00:26:18.309 --> 00:26:20.390
like egregious. It just showed up like sometimes

00:26:20.390 --> 00:26:22.329
if the light hit it right you could tell in the

00:26:22.329 --> 00:26:23.789
pictures that there was a crack but for the most

00:26:23.789 --> 00:26:26.250
part it was fine other than that and the battery.

00:26:26.769 --> 00:26:31.750
But I think mostly if I have a functioning product

00:26:31.750 --> 00:26:37.490
then I will want to trade because of like new

00:26:37.490 --> 00:26:41.450
features or stuff like that. Yeah. I switched

00:26:41.450 --> 00:26:45.769
from iPhone to Android two years ago, I think.

00:26:47.190 --> 00:26:49.609
And the thing that eventually just motivated

00:26:49.609 --> 00:26:52.569
my, my switch over was just the fact that all

00:26:52.569 --> 00:26:54.769
of the iPhones that were getting released seemed

00:26:54.769 --> 00:26:57.730
like they were just carbon copies of the one

00:26:57.730 --> 00:27:01.029
before it just with like forced to have larger

00:27:01.029 --> 00:27:05.410
capacities. But now they're orange. Neat. They're

00:27:05.410 --> 00:27:08.869
orange and no longer include the battery. What?

00:27:09.559 --> 00:27:14.059
The battery that's in the iPhone Air is so small.

00:27:14.819 --> 00:27:17.579
You're supposed to buy it separately and then

00:27:17.579 --> 00:27:20.619
attach it to the back, creating a thicker phone

00:27:20.619 --> 00:27:24.039
than the actual iPhone. But you can use it without

00:27:24.039 --> 00:27:27.940
that, and you get like a solid 15 minutes of

00:27:27.940 --> 00:27:31.960
the world's thinnest phone. It was only a matter

00:27:31.960 --> 00:27:34.819
of time until the battery was sold separately

00:27:34.819 --> 00:27:37.839
on one of these things, but oh my god is that...

00:27:37.480 --> 00:27:40.819
Just nonsense. Do you remember when, because

00:27:40.819 --> 00:27:46.200
I had a Blackberry Pearl, loved that phone. And

00:27:46.200 --> 00:27:49.920
if it started acting up, you just went to Fry's,

00:27:50.119 --> 00:27:52.680
which doesn't even exist anymore. You go buy

00:27:52.680 --> 00:27:56.140
a battery for like 15 bucks, plop it in. It's

00:27:56.140 --> 00:27:59.319
like you got a brand new phone. I remember I

00:27:59.319 --> 00:28:02.960
dropped my Galaxy S5, the ones that still had

00:28:02.960 --> 00:28:05.000
like the plastic backs. I dropped that thing

00:28:05.000 --> 00:28:08.960
so many times. If I dropped my phone without

00:28:08.960 --> 00:28:12.279
a case right now, I think I would shatter this

00:28:12.279 --> 00:28:16.880
$1 ,200 machine. Yeah. As opposed to my little

00:28:16.880 --> 00:28:22.660
$400, maybe, Galaxy S5. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, for

00:28:22.660 --> 00:28:28.279
Christmas, Emily and I got Mom the battery in

00:28:28.279 --> 00:28:30.259
her phone replaced because she said that it was

00:28:30.259 --> 00:28:35.519
dying all the time. And yeah, it was a hundred

00:28:35.519 --> 00:28:37.619
-something bucks. and you have to like take it

00:28:37.619 --> 00:28:40.779
to the store. We had to drop it off and then

00:28:40.779 --> 00:28:45.220
go eat and then come back and pick it back up.

00:28:45.400 --> 00:28:48.599
Yeah. With my pearl, you run into fries, you

00:28:48.599 --> 00:28:50.799
run out, you swap them out, you're done in like

00:28:50.799 --> 00:28:54.240
10 minutes. It was a simpler time. And you saved

00:28:54.240 --> 00:28:59.200
80 bucks. Yeah. Did you know that being able

00:28:59.200 --> 00:29:01.400
to take your phone in to get the battery replaced

00:29:01.400 --> 00:29:05.420
was also a peace offering from Apple after they

00:29:05.420 --> 00:29:10.849
got big time sued for planned obsolescence? Yeah.

00:29:11.069 --> 00:29:15.490
Yeah, because they had that whole scandal about

00:29:15.490 --> 00:29:21.890
intentionally torpedoing your phone. Like, they

00:29:21.890 --> 00:29:25.630
would put out a update and they would be like,

00:29:25.970 --> 00:29:29.430
oh, but a side effect that we just can't help,

00:29:30.109 --> 00:29:33.450
that it just has to happen this way, is that

00:29:33.450 --> 00:29:36.750
all the older phones will run slower and it'll

00:29:36.750 --> 00:29:39.089
drain the battery faster. I didn't know that

00:29:39.089 --> 00:29:43.490
was their workaround for them. So they've been,

00:29:43.809 --> 00:29:45.710
so technically that's not the workaround because

00:29:45.710 --> 00:29:49.990
they never admitted guilt. They weren't officially

00:29:49.990 --> 00:29:53.029
actually torpedoing the phones, but you know,

00:29:53.170 --> 00:29:56.910
they did pay $500 million to users of iPhones

00:29:56.910 --> 00:30:00.519
if you were eligible. Apple came under fire for

00:30:00.519 --> 00:30:02.720
the same reason that John Deere and a bunch of

00:30:02.720 --> 00:30:05.380
other like really big companies have recently,

00:30:05.380 --> 00:30:10.339
which is based on the the right to repair. The

00:30:10.339 --> 00:30:14.960
right to repair is a thing that is I think more

00:30:14.960 --> 00:30:17.420
bananas than almost anything that we can discuss.

00:30:17.839 --> 00:30:22.660
And that's like John Deere technically has the

00:30:22.660 --> 00:30:25.480
ability to shut off your machinery if you try

00:30:25.480 --> 00:30:27.640
to get it repaired by someone who does not work

00:30:27.640 --> 00:30:30.940
for John Deere. You pay hundreds and hundreds

00:30:30.940 --> 00:30:33.519
of thousands of dollars for this equipment. And

00:30:33.519 --> 00:30:37.859
you can't fix it. And they say that, hey, well,

00:30:38.279 --> 00:30:41.299
you know, only we know what we're doing. Like,

00:30:41.299 --> 00:30:44.380
I know that you can get some guy under a tree

00:30:44.380 --> 00:30:47.259
somewhere taking apart your tractor and he thinks

00:30:47.259 --> 00:30:52.440
he knows what he's doing. But, you know, I just,

00:30:52.440 --> 00:30:54.720
we wish that was the case. We wish that there

00:30:54.720 --> 00:30:57.660
were ways that people could know what they were

00:30:57.660 --> 00:31:02.349
doing. Just sorry, so can you give us like 10

00:31:02.349 --> 00:31:05.470
grand and we'll fix it for you? Although who's

00:31:05.470 --> 00:31:08.029
to say when a John Deere tech would be available

00:31:08.029 --> 00:31:11.430
who knows how prevalent they are didn't I feel

00:31:11.430 --> 00:31:13.630
like there's another big one I don't want to

00:31:13.630 --> 00:31:17.849
throw out any Any names if it's not true. I feel

00:31:17.849 --> 00:31:21.569
like there's a big motorcycle company that also

00:31:21.569 --> 00:31:24.789
ran into these issues I could see that it's been

00:31:24.789 --> 00:31:26.589
a push from consumers for a really long time

00:31:26.589 --> 00:31:30.509
because It's just insane that we can't fix the

00:31:30.509 --> 00:31:33.970
things that we own. We've gone so far from a

00:31:33.970 --> 00:31:36.289
hundred years ago getting a car that came with

00:31:36.289 --> 00:31:40.410
the tools to fix or replace anything that you

00:31:40.410 --> 00:31:43.549
need. You have to pay extra for carjacks now.

00:31:43.549 --> 00:31:46.509
You have to pay extra for spare tires. Oh yeah,

00:31:46.549 --> 00:31:48.809
I get fix -a -flat in my car. I don't get an

00:31:48.809 --> 00:31:52.329
actual tire anymore. Well, it's just that the

00:31:52.329 --> 00:31:57.180
tires are so advanced to that. Yeah, we honestly,

00:31:57.240 --> 00:31:58.779
there's no other way around it. We just have

00:31:58.779 --> 00:32:02.119
to, we would have to charge you for it or, you

00:32:02.119 --> 00:32:04.519
know, you can just bring it in, we'll fix it

00:32:04.519 --> 00:32:07.819
and we'll figure out the price later. The dumbest

00:32:07.819 --> 00:32:10.019
thing about the fact that my car comes with fix

00:32:10.019 --> 00:32:12.759
-a -flat is that it has the space in my trunk

00:32:12.759 --> 00:32:18.140
for a spare. Why give me a spare tire shaped

00:32:18.140 --> 00:32:21.319
hole? If you're not going to give me a spare

00:32:21.319 --> 00:32:25.940
tire. Well, in case, in case you hit the lottery

00:32:25.940 --> 00:32:28.279
and then all of a sudden you want to splurge

00:32:28.279 --> 00:32:31.400
and get a spare tire. In case you get a flat

00:32:31.400 --> 00:32:35.900
at midnight on the highway. You know, that would

00:32:35.900 --> 00:32:38.319
be on my list for winning the lottery. It's my

00:32:38.319 --> 00:32:41.539
third purchase. It's a spare tire. It's a spare

00:32:41.539 --> 00:32:44.140
tire. I'm not even getting a new car. Just a

00:32:44.140 --> 00:32:47.970
tire for my little Toyota. I'm sure they have

00:32:47.970 --> 00:32:51.950
great financing options for it. Yeah. Only 36

00:32:51.950 --> 00:33:00.710
months and it is mine. Oh, this world, man. I

00:33:00.710 --> 00:33:03.150
will say I've fallen, I've kind of fallen prey

00:33:03.150 --> 00:33:07.990
to the marketing on the iPad because I do really

00:33:07.990 --> 00:33:10.940
want to get a new iPad. Mine still works. In

00:33:10.940 --> 00:33:13.960
your situation, it makes sense. And there's nothing

00:33:13.960 --> 00:33:16.599
wrong with upgrading because of new features

00:33:16.599 --> 00:33:20.420
available. Yeah. So my iPad still works. It is,

00:33:20.420 --> 00:33:23.319
I want to say like five, six years old. And it

00:33:23.319 --> 00:33:25.700
has gotten to a point where the work that I'm

00:33:25.700 --> 00:33:29.279
doing on it, because I'm trying to do more like

00:33:29.279 --> 00:33:33.339
art things, in part, tends to take up a lot of

00:33:33.339 --> 00:33:37.200
its capacity. And so... I've gotten to a point

00:33:37.200 --> 00:33:39.339
where the things that I'm doing are slowing down

00:33:39.339 --> 00:33:42.240
so much that I know that I can just have a better

00:33:42.240 --> 00:33:44.740
way to do this if I just upgrade my iPod. That

00:33:44.740 --> 00:33:48.700
said, those things are so expensive that I don't

00:33:48.700 --> 00:33:50.579
know how long it's going to take me to be able

00:33:50.579 --> 00:33:53.019
to justify a purchase that large. That's going

00:33:53.019 --> 00:33:55.740
to be my second purchase if I win the lottery.

00:33:56.299 --> 00:34:00.039
Is there anywhere someone might be able to see

00:34:00.039 --> 00:34:03.839
your art perhaps on a weekly basis anywhere?

00:34:04.299 --> 00:34:08.460
You can check out my artwork on at cash exchange

00:34:08.460 --> 00:34:12.380
pod on Instagram. There we go. We are also on

00:34:12.380 --> 00:34:15.800
TikTok X. I was going to say Snapchat. That's

00:34:15.800 --> 00:34:18.940
definitely wrong. YouTube. YouTube. Yes. We could

00:34:18.940 --> 00:34:22.739
be on Snapchat if there were, if there were a

00:34:22.739 --> 00:34:25.800
market for it. This is true. Maybe one day we'll

00:34:25.800 --> 00:34:29.260
be a, we'll be a Snapchat pod too. Maybe need

00:34:29.260 --> 00:34:31.019
some outside help for that. We need some outside

00:34:31.019 --> 00:34:33.559
help with the socials that we have now. This

00:34:33.559 --> 00:34:36.230
is true. But two marketing degrees on this call

00:34:36.230 --> 00:34:40.710
right now. Yeah, but hey also if you're interested

00:34:40.710 --> 00:34:44.150
in Getting doing some pro bono work for an up

00:34:44.150 --> 00:34:47.269
-and -coming podcast company and your social

00:34:47.269 --> 00:34:49.969
media savvy You can email us at cash exchange

00:34:49.969 --> 00:34:54.570
pod at gmail .com. Yeah, and And with that we've

00:34:54.570 --> 00:34:56.489
checked everything off the list and we may continue

00:34:56.489 --> 00:34:59.030
the episode. I will justify within the next like

00:34:59.130 --> 00:35:01.650
year or so I think actually upgrading my iPad

00:35:01.650 --> 00:35:04.090
because the more that I'm asking of it, the less

00:35:04.090 --> 00:35:06.750
that it's capable of doing. I made a flip book

00:35:06.750 --> 00:35:10.030
animation for this podcast and it took me so

00:35:10.030 --> 00:35:12.829
unbelievably long because I had to pause after

00:35:12.829 --> 00:35:15.869
each frame played to make sure that my iPad didn't

00:35:15.869 --> 00:35:17.610
crash and I didn't lose the work that I was doing

00:35:17.610 --> 00:35:19.949
because it would have broke me as a human being.

00:35:20.409 --> 00:35:23.010
Yeah. Well, hey, if that time comes and you get

00:35:23.010 --> 00:35:27.309
that new iPad, I have a Apple pencil for you.

00:35:27.469 --> 00:35:30.300
Okay. It'll be a birthday or Christmas present.

00:35:30.539 --> 00:35:34.000
You don't use your Apple Pencil? Well, I wanted

00:35:34.000 --> 00:35:37.119
to upgrade my current Apple Pencil because it

00:35:37.119 --> 00:35:40.579
has the barrel roll feature and haptics on it.

00:35:40.900 --> 00:35:43.579
What is barrel roll feature? Like when you turn

00:35:43.579 --> 00:35:46.599
it, it like turns the, it can sense the turning

00:35:46.599 --> 00:35:48.760
and so like whenever you're like drawing or something

00:35:48.760 --> 00:35:51.360
like you'd like a paintbrush. So it would twist

00:35:51.360 --> 00:35:54.989
with the... Oh, okay, okay. Yeah. and also like

00:35:54.989 --> 00:35:57.909
haptic feedback stuff on it. So that was that

00:35:57.909 --> 00:36:01.170
was going to be an upgrade just for feature sake,

00:36:01.269 --> 00:36:05.650
like not because I actually needed it. But it

00:36:05.650 --> 00:36:08.869
was a present from this Christmas present from

00:36:08.869 --> 00:36:13.710
dad, and I had gotten something originally and

00:36:13.710 --> 00:36:15.829
it just wasn't working the way I thought it was.

00:36:15.849 --> 00:36:18.510
So I returned it, got store credit. They had

00:36:18.510 --> 00:36:21.010
to sell on that the new Apple Pencils. I got

00:36:21.010 --> 00:36:23.199
it. brought it home, tried to connect it to my

00:36:23.199 --> 00:36:25.380
iPad and I was like, that's weird. And I did

00:36:25.380 --> 00:36:27.840
a lot of research on whether you could have two

00:36:27.840 --> 00:36:29.699
Apple Pencils connected to the same iPad, all

00:36:29.699 --> 00:36:32.420
kinds of stuff. And it turns out that I didn't

00:36:32.420 --> 00:36:35.179
do enough research beforehand because the Apple

00:36:35.179 --> 00:36:39.099
Pencil I got does not work on the iPad that I

00:36:39.099 --> 00:36:43.119
have. So it has been sitting at home in a drawer,

00:36:43.420 --> 00:36:47.360
in the box, completely unused. Okay. So that's

00:36:47.360 --> 00:36:49.320
unfortunate. I thought you were looking to upgrade

00:36:49.320 --> 00:36:51.739
yours sometime soon. I don't know. I don't know.

00:36:51.739 --> 00:36:53.380
I got a lot of stuff I got to take care of before.

00:36:53.480 --> 00:36:56.800
I worry about that. That's fair. All right. So

00:36:56.800 --> 00:37:00.179
after cell phones and tablets, I think one of

00:37:00.179 --> 00:37:02.320
the things that's gotten out of hand with planned

00:37:02.320 --> 00:37:04.980
obsolescence is the kitchen appliance. A lot

00:37:04.980 --> 00:37:06.960
of the reason that I think that the kitchen appliance

00:37:06.960 --> 00:37:09.320
has gotten a little ridiculous is because the

00:37:09.320 --> 00:37:11.280
prices seem to double yearly and the things that

00:37:11.280 --> 00:37:14.340
they do seem to get narrower and narrower. I

00:37:14.340 --> 00:37:17.360
specifically blame that on as seen on TV products.

00:37:17.659 --> 00:37:21.690
The Slap Chop. Slap Chop. The Vigetti. What?

00:37:21.690 --> 00:37:24.849
It spaghettied any vegetable of your choosing.

00:37:26.210 --> 00:37:28.070
That name should have been workshopped a little

00:37:28.070 --> 00:37:31.969
harder. Primarily zucchini. But yeah, no, it

00:37:31.969 --> 00:37:34.449
just, it made all those zoodles that were popular

00:37:34.449 --> 00:37:36.889
for one whole year. I worked in a restaurant

00:37:36.889 --> 00:37:39.570
that sold zoodles for a little while and it was,

00:37:39.730 --> 00:37:42.469
it was so gross. They used it in place of pasta.

00:37:42.570 --> 00:37:45.150
It was like a $3 substitution despite the fact

00:37:45.150 --> 00:37:48.489
that zucchinis are not. Much cheaper than, yeah.

00:37:48.690 --> 00:37:51.340
Yeah. And because they didn't drain the zucchini

00:37:51.340 --> 00:37:54.099
or like dry out the zucchini a little bit, the

00:37:54.099 --> 00:37:57.019
sauce wouldn't stick at all. And so you essentially

00:37:57.019 --> 00:38:00.940
just had like a plate of cold zoodles and then

00:38:00.940 --> 00:38:05.079
a glob of marinara on top. Zoodles is a funny

00:38:05.079 --> 00:38:07.360
word. Completely inedible, it is. And I will

00:38:07.360 --> 00:38:11.000
be using it as often as I can. I do like spaghetti

00:38:11.000 --> 00:38:13.019
squash though. Yeah. It's been a while since

00:38:13.019 --> 00:38:15.780
I've had it, but it's good. It's the season.

00:38:16.219 --> 00:38:22.750
Yeah. I'm on... PSL 4 so far. Okay. I'm slacking.

00:38:22.949 --> 00:38:25.110
It's been available for like a month. I haven't

00:38:25.110 --> 00:38:27.070
had any. I haven't been to a Starbucks in forever.

00:38:27.510 --> 00:38:31.570
Are you a PSL gal? I am, yeah. I like spiced

00:38:31.570 --> 00:38:34.429
coffee. Like I'm a big chai person. That's my

00:38:34.429 --> 00:38:37.150
go -to if I'm ever at Starbucks is like a chai

00:38:37.150 --> 00:38:39.550
latte. So I'm a big pumpkin spice person too.

00:38:40.170 --> 00:38:42.510
Well maybe next time we get together we can go

00:38:42.510 --> 00:38:45.409
get some PSLs and hold them with both hands and

00:38:45.409 --> 00:38:47.670
just inhale. It's got to come in one of those

00:38:47.670 --> 00:38:50.230
ceramic mugs with no handle, the little vase.

00:38:50.570 --> 00:38:52.650
You got to have a sweater with the influencer

00:38:52.650 --> 00:38:56.389
paws. I have spent too much time online. Yeah,

00:38:56.389 --> 00:38:59.090
well. A quick little side note. I Googled, as

00:38:59.090 --> 00:39:03.650
seen on TV, food products. And the best one that

00:39:03.650 --> 00:39:06.210
I found that just like sparked that nostalgia

00:39:06.210 --> 00:39:09.070
in me was the Amazing Brownie Pan. Do you remember

00:39:09.070 --> 00:39:12.409
that one? Uh vaguely. Was it something about

00:39:12.409 --> 00:39:14.769
how it doesn't stick to the sides? No. So the

00:39:14.769 --> 00:39:17.550
Amazing Brownie Pan, Its entire purpose was that

00:39:17.550 --> 00:39:19.849
you only get edge pieces of the brownie. And

00:39:19.849 --> 00:39:22.550
so it was this big like metal S that went in

00:39:22.550 --> 00:39:24.730
the center of the pan. So it was just a snake

00:39:24.730 --> 00:39:30.050
of brownie. It was the best. It was the best

00:39:30.050 --> 00:39:32.409
way to eat brownies. I'm all about like the corner

00:39:32.409 --> 00:39:35.429
pieces. That was just all corner. Yeah. I'm looking

00:39:35.429 --> 00:39:38.769
at it now too. And it's a lot of, a lot of copper.

00:39:38.969 --> 00:39:41.329
Yeah. Going hard into the copper. All of that

00:39:41.329 --> 00:39:44.889
like Gotham copper stuff was, was very big for

00:39:44.889 --> 00:39:47.900
a minute there. Our dad actually has a collection,

00:39:47.900 --> 00:39:51.760
I believe, of copper cookware. Oh, here's a copper

00:39:51.760 --> 00:39:55.119
brownie maker. Okay. Ceramic infused copper cooks

00:39:55.119 --> 00:39:58.260
each brownie evenly. Do other methods not cook

00:39:58.260 --> 00:40:00.019
your brownies evenly? I guess I haven't made

00:40:00.019 --> 00:40:02.320
enough brownies to know. I might not be discerning

00:40:02.320 --> 00:40:04.800
enough. I got to step up my brownie game. Mr.

00:40:04.980 --> 00:40:07.159
Lid Tupperware with the lid attached. How is

00:40:07.159 --> 00:40:09.320
it attached? It's got a hinge on it, I think.

00:40:09.340 --> 00:40:12.019
Or it may just be part of the whole thing and

00:40:12.019 --> 00:40:14.090
you can't separate them. Seems like it'd be a

00:40:14.090 --> 00:40:16.050
pain to clean. Sounds like a storage nightmare.

00:40:16.309 --> 00:40:19.869
That too. But, I mean, actual Tupperware stuff

00:40:19.869 --> 00:40:22.889
is also a storage nightmare. Like so much copper.

00:40:23.289 --> 00:40:26.190
Copper steel propane. Copper chef square pan.

00:40:26.409 --> 00:40:29.530
Red copper brownie bonanza. Red copper mug. I

00:40:29.530 --> 00:40:32.949
want a brownie bonanza. Copper eggs XL. Extra

00:40:32.949 --> 00:40:35.829
large eggs? It's an egg poacher. Extra large

00:40:35.829 --> 00:40:38.469
copper? Make perfect hard boiled eggs without

00:40:38.469 --> 00:40:41.550
the shell. No peeling required. Alright. Copper

00:40:41.550 --> 00:40:44.699
house stove grill. Stove top grill, non -stick

00:40:44.699 --> 00:40:47.360
copper pan, non -stick copper square pan. Geez

00:40:47.360 --> 00:40:50.639
Louise. They just found like a big old pile of

00:40:50.639 --> 00:40:52.219
copper and they're like, what are we going to

00:40:52.219 --> 00:40:54.639
do with this? And this is just the kitchen stuff.

00:40:54.699 --> 00:40:56.900
It doesn't even talk about like all the, like

00:40:56.900 --> 00:40:59.639
the knee braces and stuff that have their copper

00:40:59.639 --> 00:41:03.019
infused. Or those sea sickness bracelets that

00:41:03.019 --> 00:41:06.900
rounded you to the earth. Yeah, what were what

00:41:06.900 --> 00:41:09.539
were those were those the ones where you'd stand

00:41:09.539 --> 00:41:11.460
you'd like stand on one leg And they're like

00:41:11.460 --> 00:41:13.099
try to push me down. You can't do it. You can't

00:41:13.099 --> 00:41:17.699
do it. It's bracelet. Oh, yeah I should really

00:41:17.699 --> 00:41:20.739
have added that into the the episode on advertisements.

00:41:21.139 --> 00:41:23.599
Those were so fun They were all righty Billy

00:41:23.599 --> 00:41:26.019
mates now We're gonna have to add has seen on

00:41:26.019 --> 00:41:28.619
TV as an episode topic because just going off

00:41:28.619 --> 00:41:30.659
the kitchen stuff I got plenty to say about it

00:41:30.699 --> 00:41:32.980
So I'll save all the rest of my copper humor

00:41:32.980 --> 00:41:35.820
for that. I think to be able to do that, I would

00:41:35.820 --> 00:41:39.599
propose that we do it on a milestone episode.

00:41:39.840 --> 00:41:43.280
So maybe when we get to our 50th. Okay. And in

00:41:43.280 --> 00:41:47.119
the time between that, we purchase each other

00:41:47.119 --> 00:41:50.159
one as seen on TV kitchen item that we are required

00:41:50.159 --> 00:41:55.530
to cook with. Okay. Oh, yeah, that sounds like

00:41:55.530 --> 00:41:58.190
a good plan. It's a good 50th celebration. I'm

00:41:58.190 --> 00:42:00.949
not necessarily going to ban copper, but I think

00:42:00.949 --> 00:42:03.190
we can do better. Perhaps the little vampire

00:42:03.190 --> 00:42:06.730
who chops garlic. I have actually always wanted

00:42:06.730 --> 00:42:09.869
a slap chop. My neighbors would absolutely hate

00:42:09.869 --> 00:42:13.050
me. The Vagetti Pro. Look at that. What is a

00:42:13.050 --> 00:42:18.110
Vagetti Pro? What is an amateur Vagetti? I don't

00:42:18.110 --> 00:42:21.369
know. You just sit there with a cheese grater.

00:42:21.670 --> 00:42:25.630
I don't know. Three stainless steel blades included.

00:42:26.269 --> 00:42:29.130
Great for gluten -free diets. Oh, here's a Vagetti.

00:42:29.369 --> 00:42:32.650
They're just plain old Vagetti. Looks like a

00:42:32.650 --> 00:42:36.150
pepper mill type situation. Anyways. Spiralize

00:42:36.150 --> 00:42:39.889
your veggies? Yeah. You know when I think that

00:42:39.889 --> 00:42:42.610
we lost the plot when it comes to all of the

00:42:42.610 --> 00:42:45.250
new things that we're building? When? At what

00:42:45.250 --> 00:42:48.329
point? It does kind of vary depending on what...

00:42:48.349 --> 00:42:50.769
appliance or bit of technology that you're using

00:42:50.769 --> 00:42:53.170
as your mile marker. But I think the moment that

00:42:53.170 --> 00:42:56.670
we dove headfirst into planned obsolescence in

00:42:56.670 --> 00:42:58.489
a point that we may never come back from was

00:42:58.489 --> 00:43:03.710
in 2020, which marked the release of the AI integrated

00:43:03.710 --> 00:43:07.690
refrigerator. 2020 was a wild year, like a fever

00:43:07.690 --> 00:43:12.070
dream of sorts. To be fair, to be fair, people

00:43:12.070 --> 00:43:14.610
had like, how much were those checks? Two grand?

00:43:14.769 --> 00:43:17.489
I don't know. the stimulus check or whatever.

00:43:17.710 --> 00:43:20.090
I didn't get one of those. I wasn't totally enough

00:43:20.090 --> 00:43:22.570
with the turtle club. Well, I didn't mean to

00:43:22.570 --> 00:43:26.090
bring up any bad memories or missed opportunities,

00:43:26.550 --> 00:43:29.389
but... That was the worst part of 2020 for sure.

00:43:30.989 --> 00:43:33.070
But yeah, people had these and they were blowing

00:43:33.070 --> 00:43:37.309
on such dumb crap. Yeah. And so, I mean, it makes

00:43:37.309 --> 00:43:39.809
sense that that's the time that they would release

00:43:39.809 --> 00:43:45.429
an AI powered refrigerator that would Would it

00:43:45.429 --> 00:43:48.889
scan the contents of your fridge and make a list

00:43:48.889 --> 00:43:51.489
for you? It would track what you were putting

00:43:51.489 --> 00:43:54.250
in and taking out of this refrigerator. It had

00:43:54.250 --> 00:43:58.269
a 32 -inch touchscreen, built -in Alexa, and

00:43:58.269 --> 00:44:01.550
a family hub that allowed for image sharing.

00:44:01.829 --> 00:44:03.809
And yeah, it had AI vision. There was a camera

00:44:03.809 --> 00:44:05.889
inside the fridge that would constantly scan

00:44:05.889 --> 00:44:08.090
your groceries to see what you maybe needed more.

00:44:08.110 --> 00:44:11.800
Was that the one that also had the... Screen

00:44:11.800 --> 00:44:14.519
on the outside that would show you what the inside

00:44:14.519 --> 00:44:18.559
look like. Yes. Mm -hmm Man that refrigerator

00:44:18.559 --> 00:44:21.059
that would have taken two and a half stimmies.

00:44:21.059 --> 00:44:28.519
There's a $5 ,000 fridge I Mean if you're you're

00:44:28.519 --> 00:44:32.579
two adults and you have literally nothing else

00:44:32.579 --> 00:44:35.579
To spend that money on then I guess why not?

00:44:35.920 --> 00:44:39.659
Sure. Yeah Oh man, I swear. But imagine getting

00:44:39.659 --> 00:44:42.079
to a place in society where you can spend $5

00:44:42.079 --> 00:44:45.599
,000 on your refrigerator and its technology

00:44:45.599 --> 00:44:48.480
will be outpaced in like five years. When there

00:44:48.480 --> 00:44:52.320
are still refrigerators from 50 years ago that

00:44:52.320 --> 00:44:55.760
still do what they're supposed to do, there's

00:44:55.760 --> 00:44:59.199
nothing more frustrating than when something

00:44:59.199 --> 00:45:02.079
breaks down, you go to fix it and then you find

00:45:02.079 --> 00:45:05.179
out that the problem is a computer chip or some

00:45:05.179 --> 00:45:08.960
nonsense like that. Old refrigerators, old dishwashers,

00:45:09.260 --> 00:45:12.360
old washers, old dryers, old air conditioners,

00:45:12.480 --> 00:45:15.210
all this stuff. stuff I can fix no problem. You

00:45:15.210 --> 00:45:16.889
know what I can't fix? I can't fix something

00:45:16.889 --> 00:45:19.050
that's got a broken computer chip on it. Yeah.

00:45:19.250 --> 00:45:22.050
I remember a couple years back, dad had a car

00:45:22.050 --> 00:45:26.530
with like the big display in the middle. It needed

00:45:26.530 --> 00:45:29.690
a software update and it, I think it somehow

00:45:29.690 --> 00:45:32.010
damaged the car when they were trying to update

00:45:32.010 --> 00:45:33.469
it because he took it into the dealership and

00:45:33.469 --> 00:45:35.670
he ended up leaving that dealership with a new

00:45:35.670 --> 00:45:39.489
car. Yeah. Yeah. And it was, it was more, I mean,

00:45:39.949 --> 00:45:42.409
He also really wanted a truck. And then whenever

00:45:42.409 --> 00:45:43.849
he got a truck, he was like, why do you have

00:45:43.849 --> 00:45:46.349
a truck? I mean, he uses it now for the stuff

00:45:46.349 --> 00:45:50.190
that he does. But yeah, it was less of a headache

00:45:50.190 --> 00:45:54.429
for him to just buy a new vehicle than it was

00:45:54.429 --> 00:45:57.110
to figure out what was wrong with the radio.

00:45:57.369 --> 00:46:00.369
That is where we are in this world. I've talked

00:46:00.369 --> 00:46:03.190
about it a couple of times, but I've been trying

00:46:03.190 --> 00:46:05.550
to like go backwards a little bit in technology

00:46:05.550 --> 00:46:08.840
because of how ridiculous most things are these

00:46:08.840 --> 00:46:10.960
days. I am so frustrated with the fact that I

00:46:10.960 --> 00:46:13.679
don't have a CD player in my car. He does. I

00:46:13.679 --> 00:46:17.699
want a CD player. He does in his 2019, 2019 RAM.

00:46:18.280 --> 00:46:22.639
Yeah. I don't know. It's ridiculous because he's

00:46:22.639 --> 00:46:26.210
got USB -C. He's got like seven of them. in his

00:46:26.210 --> 00:46:28.289
truck. You know how many USB ports I have in

00:46:28.289 --> 00:46:32.550
my 2017? How many? One of the fat ones, the USB

00:46:32.550 --> 00:46:36.130
-A or whatever it is. Yeah. I got one and he's

00:46:36.130 --> 00:46:39.809
got like 19 of them. He's got one up on the on

00:46:39.809 --> 00:46:42.309
top of the dash. He's got them underneath the

00:46:42.309 --> 00:46:44.710
the radio. He's got them in the console. He's

00:46:44.710 --> 00:46:47.369
got them in the back seats. He's got a CD player.

00:46:47.750 --> 00:46:51.630
He's got an Uber driver. Yeah. He's got a heated

00:46:51.630 --> 00:46:54.460
and cooled seats. It's ridiculous. It's flying

00:46:54.460 --> 00:46:58.260
too close to the sun. Yes. I have one USB -A

00:46:58.260 --> 00:47:02.400
or two USB -A ports, one USB -C and a wireless

00:47:02.400 --> 00:47:06.219
charging mat that does not fit my phone. I don't

00:47:06.219 --> 00:47:08.760
have any devices that I can use on this little

00:47:08.760 --> 00:47:11.940
charging mat. I strongly dislike wireless charging

00:47:11.940 --> 00:47:14.820
mats because usually you have to take your phone

00:47:14.820 --> 00:47:17.800
out. And I'm not a psychopath, so I have a case

00:47:17.800 --> 00:47:20.260
on my phone so I can never use it. Yeah, no,

00:47:20.260 --> 00:47:23.539
it's a complete non -starter. Also, they don't

00:47:23.539 --> 00:47:25.480
they're never at the right angle to actually

00:47:25.480 --> 00:47:27.840
stay charging I found or maybe I'm just getting

00:47:27.840 --> 00:47:29.960
like the cheap ones. I don't know but I am NOT

00:47:29.960 --> 00:47:34.659
a fan. Yeah, I Wrote the word obsolescence in

00:47:34.659 --> 00:47:39.199
my my document at least ten times. I don't think

00:47:39.199 --> 00:47:43.659
I spelled it right once There are too many letters

00:47:43.659 --> 00:47:47.420
in this word The first couple of times Google

00:47:47.420 --> 00:47:49.579
Docs did the little, like, gray line under it,

00:47:49.599 --> 00:47:52.760
like, are you sure? You sure about that? Let's

00:47:52.760 --> 00:47:54.639
double check this. And then I got later in the

00:47:54.639 --> 00:47:57.000
document and it just started fixing it for me.

00:47:58.699 --> 00:48:00.679
Like, she's not going to get better. Enough with

00:48:00.679 --> 00:48:04.619
the subtlety. It's like this, you idiot. Alright,

00:48:04.820 --> 00:48:07.619
do you have anything else? Because I have a little

00:48:07.619 --> 00:48:10.900
game for us to play. I mean, we already talked

00:48:10.900 --> 00:48:17.460
about the fact that then it's been alleged and

00:48:17.460 --> 00:48:22.559
Apple did not accept blame, but also made things

00:48:22.559 --> 00:48:25.599
as well. I mean, okay, fine. Okay. Okay, we'll

00:48:25.599 --> 00:48:29.059
do this. But just to help out our customers.

00:48:30.219 --> 00:48:34.139
But there's also like the fact that companies

00:48:34.139 --> 00:48:37.079
that have already gotten your money for a product,

00:48:37.599 --> 00:48:41.599
like especially a laptop, all like technology

00:48:41.599 --> 00:48:45.059
-based stuff will just say, Yeah, we're not offering

00:48:45.059 --> 00:48:47.860
support for that anymore. And in fact, after

00:48:47.860 --> 00:48:51.480
this day, it essentially just becomes a gigantic

00:48:51.480 --> 00:48:53.559
calculator. That's going to be all you can do

00:48:53.559 --> 00:48:55.940
with it. Because it's too dangerous. It's too

00:48:55.940 --> 00:48:58.019
dangerous. It's too dangerous because we can't

00:48:58.019 --> 00:49:02.260
keep updating it with how the world is going

00:49:02.260 --> 00:49:06.219
and all the things that could take your privacy,

00:49:06.960 --> 00:49:09.550
all of all that. Like we can't. So we don't want

00:49:09.550 --> 00:49:11.630
to leave you susceptible to that so we're just

00:49:11.630 --> 00:49:13.130
going to make it to where you need to buy a new

00:49:13.130 --> 00:49:15.150
product or you just can't use this one anymore.

00:49:15.789 --> 00:49:18.969
So yeah laptops and stuff they'll sunset whatever

00:49:18.969 --> 00:49:21.889
operating system because oh this is a new one

00:49:21.889 --> 00:49:24.050
and won't be able to use this one anymore for

00:49:24.050 --> 00:49:27.369
your safety because we can't keep updating it.

00:49:28.630 --> 00:49:33.550
Cars. Cars do not last anywhere near what they

00:49:33.550 --> 00:49:35.840
used to. Like on the last episode, we talked

00:49:35.840 --> 00:49:39.300
about how after a hundred thousand miles, which

00:49:39.300 --> 00:49:42.920
isn't that much when you're paying $40 ,000,

00:49:42.920 --> 00:49:46.139
$50 ,000 for a car after a hundred thousand miles,

00:49:46.199 --> 00:49:49.639
you have to pay $10 ,000 to get the battery swapped

00:49:49.639 --> 00:49:52.019
out or whatever it is. It might not be a hundred

00:49:52.019 --> 00:49:54.780
thousand miles. It's a big milestone these days

00:49:54.780 --> 00:49:56.739
if you get to a hundred thousand miles in a vehicle

00:49:56.739 --> 00:50:02.739
though. One, because if you have the attention

00:50:02.739 --> 00:50:05.659
span, and you have the wherewithal to stick with

00:50:05.659 --> 00:50:08.519
a car and not get blinded by things that glitter,

00:50:09.920 --> 00:50:15.119
then you will be lucky to make it to 100 ,000

00:50:15.119 --> 00:50:18.739
miles and not having some catastrophic failure

00:50:18.739 --> 00:50:21.099
on it. Like I've been real lucky with my truck

00:50:21.099 --> 00:50:23.079
that I haven't had anything major go out on it.

00:50:24.380 --> 00:50:28.699
I did have a random coolant fitting, like metal

00:50:28.699 --> 00:50:33.119
fitting that just exploded one day. I started

00:50:33.119 --> 00:50:36.400
smelling something. It's a very distinct smell

00:50:36.400 --> 00:50:38.900
when you're burnt, when you're leaking coolant.

00:50:39.980 --> 00:50:42.340
And check under the truck, sure enough. And it

00:50:42.340 --> 00:50:45.739
was a, I don't know, I fixed it myself and the

00:50:45.739 --> 00:50:50.400
part cost like 70, 80 bucks. But as far as like

00:50:50.400 --> 00:50:52.480
issues that I could have had, like I've been

00:50:52.480 --> 00:50:54.159
real lucky with what I've got, but I know that

00:50:54.159 --> 00:50:57.010
most people aren't as lucky as I've been. And

00:50:57.010 --> 00:51:02.289
it should not be ridiculous to sit here and say,

00:51:02.869 --> 00:51:05.929
okay, I just took a five -year loan out on this

00:51:05.929 --> 00:51:08.849
vehicle. I hope it lasts that long. You should

00:51:08.849 --> 00:51:12.449
not be making major repairs on something when

00:51:12.449 --> 00:51:14.949
you are still... taking a reasonable amount of

00:51:14.949 --> 00:51:17.809
time to pay off that thing. But it seems more

00:51:17.809 --> 00:51:19.349
and more that that's where everything's going.

00:51:19.590 --> 00:51:21.449
Everything's getting cheaper and cheaper, thinner

00:51:21.449 --> 00:51:23.710
and thinner. And they want to tell you that it's

00:51:23.710 --> 00:51:25.769
because of fuel mileage, we have to make the

00:51:25.769 --> 00:51:28.110
cars lighter so that they don't burn as much

00:51:28.110 --> 00:51:30.630
gas. Well, we have to add all this other stuff

00:51:30.630 --> 00:51:34.130
to pass emissions and do this and that and this

00:51:34.130 --> 00:51:36.610
and that. It's just more stuff that could go

00:51:36.610 --> 00:51:39.710
wrong. Oh, well, the government wants to make

00:51:39.710 --> 00:51:44.190
sure that your car is doing everything that they

00:51:44.190 --> 00:51:47.130
say it's supposed to. So we have to add all these

00:51:47.130 --> 00:51:49.849
computer chips. Okay, well, we add these computer

00:51:49.849 --> 00:51:52.010
chips, but those computer chips can go out. And

00:51:52.010 --> 00:51:54.809
it's up to us whether or not that's within warranty

00:51:54.809 --> 00:51:57.769
or not, or whether we decide that maybe you did

00:51:57.769 --> 00:51:59.630
something to it. And so now we won't cover it.

00:51:59.719 --> 00:52:02.420
I just hit the four -year mark with my car last

00:52:02.420 --> 00:52:04.920
month. I have been getting mail every three to

00:52:04.920 --> 00:52:08.059
four days. I'm getting mail like Harry Potter

00:52:08.059 --> 00:52:10.280
getting accepted to Hogwarts. You ready to trade

00:52:10.280 --> 00:52:12.900
in yet? You ready to trade in? I've been getting

00:52:12.900 --> 00:52:15.239
calls from the dealership that I bought my car

00:52:15.239 --> 00:52:17.519
from. At least once a week that's like, hey,

00:52:17.639 --> 00:52:19.119
so you've hit your inverse. Are you ready to

00:52:19.119 --> 00:52:21.440
trade up? Have you seen the 2025 version of your

00:52:21.440 --> 00:52:25.059
car? You could be doing like 500 a month, you

00:52:25.059 --> 00:52:29.389
know? That's not bad. My favorite. No. My favorite

00:52:29.389 --> 00:52:33.929
call is like the, hey, hey, so we know that you

00:52:33.929 --> 00:52:37.039
came here, like, no. four years ago, five years

00:52:37.039 --> 00:52:40.119
ago, and you bought a Ram. Well, oh my gosh,

00:52:40.320 --> 00:52:43.559
this is so, okay. So we are in desperate need

00:52:43.559 --> 00:52:47.139
of a Ram. Your Ram, like would you be like, we

00:52:47.139 --> 00:52:48.699
could get you in something great, but we just

00:52:48.699 --> 00:52:51.119
really need this Ram. Like we've got this deal

00:52:51.119 --> 00:52:53.840
and it's all contingent on just getting this

00:52:53.840 --> 00:52:55.539
right. Can you think we can work something out?

00:52:55.699 --> 00:52:57.019
We'll give you a great deal on something else.

00:52:57.159 --> 00:52:59.119
Come on, leave me alone. They want to make you

00:52:59.119 --> 00:53:01.260
feel important. That's why they make you sign

00:53:01.260 --> 00:53:07.360
a blank paper. Let me keep my USB -C -less car

00:53:07.360 --> 00:53:10.980
playlist vehicle and then be happy about it.

00:53:11.579 --> 00:53:14.039
I'm riding this until the wheels fall off. If

00:53:14.039 --> 00:53:18.920
it happens literally, I don't have a spare. And

00:53:18.920 --> 00:53:20.739
I don't think you can buy four spares at once,

00:53:20.739 --> 00:53:22.599
can you? Yeah, I'll take the whole set. I like

00:53:22.599 --> 00:53:24.820
to come. I'll just put three in the back seat.

00:53:25.059 --> 00:53:26.820
I was about to say, I like to come prepared.

00:53:27.099 --> 00:53:32.179
My whole trunk is just tired. And still nothing

00:53:32.179 --> 00:53:38.019
to lift the car with. I'm not a smart man. Yeah,

00:53:38.039 --> 00:53:40.860
no. I don't have any plans to upgrade my car

00:53:40.860 --> 00:53:43.260
despite the fact that I think having wireless

00:53:43.260 --> 00:53:44.980
card play would be very cool. Yeah, it would

00:53:44.980 --> 00:53:47.699
be cool. Having any card play at all would be

00:53:47.699 --> 00:53:51.500
neat. It is. Maybe think about that. I will say,

00:53:51.780 --> 00:53:54.239
I will make one small concession to you. Apple

00:53:54.239 --> 00:53:57.420
card play is leaps and bounds better than Android

00:53:57.420 --> 00:54:00.409
Auto. That's it. That's all I'm giving you in

00:54:00.409 --> 00:54:02.690
the application. Interesting, interesting. It

00:54:02.690 --> 00:54:06.949
is, yes, it is light years better. All right.

00:54:07.170 --> 00:54:10.869
Are you ready to talk innovation or idiocy? Ooh,

00:54:10.949 --> 00:54:12.969
is that our game? That is our game. All right,

00:54:13.110 --> 00:54:15.949
let's go. It might be more of a debate than a

00:54:15.949 --> 00:54:19.750
game necessarily because I had... an idea originally,

00:54:19.750 --> 00:54:23.949
and that was to create a mixed list of five AI

00:54:23.949 --> 00:54:26.510
integrated things that I personally believe are

00:54:26.510 --> 00:54:29.449
ridiculous and five AI integrated things that

00:54:29.449 --> 00:54:32.670
do not yet exist. But as I Googled a great many

00:54:32.670 --> 00:54:34.389
of the things that I thought wouldn't have AI

00:54:34.389 --> 00:54:37.750
integration, I found out I was depressingly incorrect.

00:54:39.550 --> 00:54:43.130
There are AI powered bidets that will track.

00:54:43.469 --> 00:54:45.449
I don't remember specifically what those track.

00:54:45.579 --> 00:54:48.500
There is an AI toilet in the works that is made

00:54:48.500 --> 00:54:50.579
to track your gut health. Don't know how that

00:54:50.579 --> 00:54:52.559
works. Don't want to know. That one's based out

00:54:52.559 --> 00:54:56.159
of my current home hometown of Austin. It's called

00:54:56.159 --> 00:54:58.320
Throne. And I will be keeping an eye out on it

00:54:58.320 --> 00:55:00.539
because I'm very curious. But yeah, no, the more

00:55:00.539 --> 00:55:02.239
ridiculous things that I looked up, the more

00:55:02.239 --> 00:55:04.500
I realized that I couldn't find five things that

00:55:04.500 --> 00:55:07.519
didn't already have some kind of artificial intelligence.

00:55:08.239 --> 00:55:10.820
Maybe does the bidet have like automatic aim?

00:55:11.340 --> 00:55:17.150
It has butthole target lock. I like to think

00:55:17.150 --> 00:55:20.869
so, yeah. It changes the water pressure, the

00:55:20.869 --> 00:55:23.789
water temperature specific to the, I think it's

00:55:23.789 --> 00:55:27.469
like a retinal scan. And you sit down, hey, how

00:55:27.469 --> 00:55:31.369
you doing? Welcome back. How does it know? It's

00:55:31.369 --> 00:55:37.230
like the rings on a tree. I mean, do we know

00:55:37.230 --> 00:55:39.949
with any kind of certainty that they're not like

00:55:39.949 --> 00:55:42.650
fingerprints? It's not a, not a unique to the

00:55:42.650 --> 00:55:45.510
person. Anyway. I could not find enough ridiculous

00:55:45.510 --> 00:55:49.050
things that did not actually exist with AI. So

00:55:49.050 --> 00:55:52.550
I have five AI products that do exist and we're

00:55:52.550 --> 00:55:55.210
going to talk whether they are innovation and

00:55:55.210 --> 00:55:58.110
they are going to replace their dumb counterparts

00:55:58.110 --> 00:56:01.289
and make them obsolete or if they are idiocy

00:56:01.289 --> 00:56:04.909
and will go the way of Google Glass. Okay, before

00:56:04.909 --> 00:56:09.250
we start this, I am very pro automation, smart

00:56:09.250 --> 00:56:12.530
home, that kind of stuff. Okay. Where are you

00:56:12.530 --> 00:56:16.010
in that? deeply against it. I don't think we'll

00:56:16.010 --> 00:56:18.349
get into a couple of them in this list specifically,

00:56:18.349 --> 00:56:21.610
but I don't think that I need data on every single

00:56:21.610 --> 00:56:24.750
thing that I am and do. Okay. I understand the

00:56:24.750 --> 00:56:26.849
point of bringing cameras. I understand why they

00:56:26.849 --> 00:56:29.289
are a great thing to have. I also don't really

00:56:29.289 --> 00:56:31.570
need to see every time that I come to my front

00:56:31.570 --> 00:56:33.969
door. I don't need to watch myself unlock my

00:56:33.969 --> 00:56:37.309
front door. So if it were smarter and were able

00:56:37.309 --> 00:56:39.849
to recognize you and didn't give you a notification

00:56:39.849 --> 00:56:42.269
of that, then you would be on board with it?

00:56:42.409 --> 00:56:45.460
No. So I think the point is that I don't personally

00:56:45.460 --> 00:56:48.880
see a lot of the things that AI is used for as

00:56:48.880 --> 00:56:51.139
things that really benefit me. Like I don't feel

00:56:51.139 --> 00:56:53.679
like I am worse off because of the way that things

00:56:53.679 --> 00:56:56.099
have been prior to them being integrated with

00:56:56.099 --> 00:56:58.780
AI. Like the fridge that I have, perfectly fine.

00:56:58.980 --> 00:57:01.320
There is no possible reason that I think it would

00:57:01.320 --> 00:57:03.619
improve my life that I no longer have to look

00:57:03.619 --> 00:57:06.039
at the vegetables in my refrigerator before I

00:57:06.039 --> 00:57:09.099
go shopping. It takes a minute of my time to

00:57:09.099 --> 00:57:11.400
check before I leave my house. Devil's advocate.

00:57:11.739 --> 00:57:14.619
And by devil, I mean advocate for myself. I'm

00:57:14.619 --> 00:57:19.840
notorious for not remembering what we have before

00:57:19.840 --> 00:57:22.260
I go shopping. And so I end up getting everything

00:57:22.260 --> 00:57:24.300
I need for whatever I'm trying to make. And then

00:57:24.300 --> 00:57:26.500
we have doubles, triples, quadruples of things.

00:57:26.900 --> 00:57:29.679
Okay, sure. Do you make a grocery list when you

00:57:29.679 --> 00:57:32.780
go out to get groceries? Sometimes. Sometimes.

00:57:33.019 --> 00:57:35.480
Maybe. Sometimes I leave the house and I'm like,

00:57:35.519 --> 00:57:37.239
you know what? No, it's like three things. I'll

00:57:37.239 --> 00:57:38.480
remember it. And then I get there and I'm like,

00:57:38.480 --> 00:57:39.539
wait. You're going to measure with your heart.

00:57:39.719 --> 00:57:43.559
Wait, did I check the eggs? I saw an egg carton.

00:57:43.679 --> 00:57:46.380
Did I check how many eggs were in the egg carton?

00:57:46.579 --> 00:57:50.000
A gallon of milk. I did not. Well, I guess I

00:57:50.000 --> 00:57:53.139
better buy 24 then, just to be safe. Yeah. And

00:57:53.139 --> 00:57:56.079
just like that, it's Easter in September. And

00:57:56.079 --> 00:57:59.119
a week later, I need eggs. I wish I'd checked

00:57:59.119 --> 00:58:01.639
how many eggs we had. Better buy another dozen.

00:58:03.280 --> 00:58:05.639
Omelets for dinner, kids. Eggs for everything.

00:58:06.880 --> 00:58:09.239
You got a neighbor you particularly hate? Let's

00:58:09.239 --> 00:58:13.070
go. Oh, we don't talk about them. I would still

00:58:13.070 --> 00:58:17.150
argue, despite your devil's advocacy, make a

00:58:17.150 --> 00:58:19.570
list. Look at the things in your pantry. You

00:58:19.570 --> 00:58:21.429
have a general idea of what you're cooking. How

00:58:21.429 --> 00:58:23.949
many times should I check it? I mean, I believe

00:58:23.949 --> 00:58:25.869
in going the Santa Claus route. Check it twice.

00:58:26.750 --> 00:58:28.829
Okay. Maybe I'll get around to that at some point.

00:58:29.130 --> 00:58:31.210
Maybe. At this point, I think it's just too late

00:58:31.210 --> 00:58:34.150
for me to change, you know? Yeah. Would it not

00:58:34.150 --> 00:58:36.849
be a change if you got an AI integrated fridge

00:58:36.849 --> 00:58:39.309
and it was suddenly doing all of your your grocery

00:58:39.309 --> 00:58:42.309
list for you? A lazier change. I could just connect

00:58:42.309 --> 00:58:46.849
it to whatever Instacart and then I could hire

00:58:46.849 --> 00:58:51.409
someone that will take the groceries from Instacart

00:58:51.409 --> 00:58:53.489
at my door and then put them into the fridge.

00:58:54.070 --> 00:58:55.590
Which I mean really is the only reason I had

00:58:55.590 --> 00:58:58.829
kids. So they're built in. But one of them, one

00:58:58.829 --> 00:59:02.480
of them would put milk in the pantry. Just being

00:59:02.480 --> 00:59:05.440
absent minded. The other one would put milk in

00:59:05.440 --> 00:59:08.239
the pantry just to mess with me. I think both

00:59:08.239 --> 00:59:10.880
of them are in both of those camps. And the third

00:59:10.880 --> 00:59:15.059
one would try her best to get it to the fridge,

00:59:15.079 --> 00:59:17.420
but then would trip and milk would be all over

00:59:17.420 --> 00:59:22.920
my floor. A kid after my own heart. Maybe we're

00:59:22.920 --> 00:59:24.679
not there yet. Maybe I still got to get outside

00:59:24.679 --> 00:59:27.019
help for that part. Sure. That's when you call

00:59:27.019 --> 00:59:30.960
in the fiance. As you live your best Wally life.

00:59:31.039 --> 00:59:35.980
I don't have to do nothing. I mean, yeah, you

00:59:35.980 --> 00:59:38.219
know, I don't have kids. So maybe I should invest

00:59:38.219 --> 00:59:41.760
in a $5 ,000 refrigerator instead so that it

00:59:41.760 --> 00:59:44.579
can do all of the work for me. So when we're

00:59:44.579 --> 00:59:47.739
talking about the, do you have a problem with

00:59:47.739 --> 00:59:50.519
the, with cameras that have like AI integrated

00:59:50.519 --> 00:59:53.500
into them or they use like a physical sensor

00:59:53.500 --> 00:59:56.579
to notice motion and then can take a video from

00:59:56.579 --> 01:00:00.519
there? We do have cameras. that can tell you

01:00:00.519 --> 01:00:03.860
if there is a vehicle, if there's a person, if

01:00:03.860 --> 01:00:07.039
there's whatever. So it does use AI for that,

01:00:07.320 --> 01:00:09.760
but as far as just motion goes, it's a physical

01:00:09.760 --> 01:00:13.619
sensor. I don't, like, I fully understand why

01:00:13.619 --> 01:00:18.159
people get ring cameras. I have a security camera

01:00:18.159 --> 01:00:22.699
for, like, if I'm away, because cats don't necessarily

01:00:22.699 --> 01:00:25.019
need, like, a person to come in and check on

01:00:25.019 --> 01:00:26.940
them if I'm only gone for, like, a day and a

01:00:26.940 --> 01:00:30.030
half. But I make sure like their food is on a

01:00:30.030 --> 01:00:32.789
timer. I make sure that I have my security camera

01:00:32.789 --> 01:00:35.469
on so that I can like check in on them if I need

01:00:35.469 --> 01:00:37.849
to. But it also, it stays off for the rest of

01:00:37.849 --> 01:00:40.590
my time. Like as soon as I get home, it gets

01:00:40.590 --> 01:00:42.829
turned back off because I just, I don't like

01:00:42.829 --> 01:00:46.570
it. I think so much of my problem with AI integration

01:00:46.570 --> 01:00:50.550
is that I want to maintain my personhood and

01:00:50.550 --> 01:00:53.610
I feel like the more AI gets integrated into

01:00:53.610 --> 01:00:56.090
the things that I do every day, the more I just

01:00:56.090 --> 01:00:58.159
become a whole set of numbers. the amount of

01:00:58.159 --> 01:01:02.739
data that I am is a little irksome. I mean, they

01:01:02.739 --> 01:01:05.239
have all the data they need just based off the

01:01:05.239 --> 01:01:08.480
phone in your pocket. I know, which is also a

01:01:08.480 --> 01:01:10.559
concerted effort that I've been making because

01:01:10.559 --> 01:01:13.980
I understand all of the draws of why you would

01:01:13.980 --> 01:01:15.760
spend all of your time on your phone. But I also

01:01:15.760 --> 01:01:17.960
know that it made me miserable for a lot of the

01:01:17.960 --> 01:01:19.980
same reason. I don't like the idea that I have

01:01:19.980 --> 01:01:23.219
an algorithm on each individual app that's tailored

01:01:23.219 --> 01:01:26.139
to what will keep me on that app for as long

01:01:26.139 --> 01:01:29.340
as possible. That's fair. It feels pretty gross

01:01:29.340 --> 01:01:32.820
and violating. And so I don't, I don't think

01:01:32.820 --> 01:01:36.280
that it's going to be a long time before everything

01:01:36.280 --> 01:01:39.099
in our lives is just automated for the sake of

01:01:39.099 --> 01:01:41.619
automation. A chip in your brain? More or less,

01:01:41.719 --> 01:01:43.920
yes. But I would like to hold out on it as long

01:01:43.920 --> 01:01:46.800
as I can. Gotcha. And on that note. On to the

01:01:46.800 --> 01:01:50.320
game. Innovation or idiocy? The AI enabled oven.

01:01:50.539 --> 01:01:53.159
which uses AI to recognize dishes and adjust

01:01:53.159 --> 01:01:55.579
the temp and cook time automatically. It also

01:01:55.579 --> 01:01:57.860
includes an interior camera to track progress

01:01:57.860 --> 01:02:00.360
from your phone and create time -lapse videos

01:02:00.360 --> 01:02:03.280
for your social medias. Innovation or idiocy?

01:02:04.179 --> 01:02:08.840
I would say innovation. Okay. I am so bad at

01:02:08.840 --> 01:02:11.280
cooking things in the oven and I always feel

01:02:11.280 --> 01:02:13.980
like I have to like peek in on it just to make

01:02:13.980 --> 01:02:16.579
sure that I'm not messing everything up. Like

01:02:16.579 --> 01:02:19.619
baking? Forget about it. Can't do it. I burn

01:02:19.619 --> 01:02:22.610
something. or undercooked something and then

01:02:22.610 --> 01:02:24.570
I keep cooking it because I think it's undercooked

01:02:24.570 --> 01:02:26.650
and then I ended up burning it. So if I could

01:02:26.650 --> 01:02:29.150
get some help with that then that's just fine

01:02:29.150 --> 01:02:32.909
by me. So much of baking is just contingent on

01:02:32.909 --> 01:02:34.869
you sticking a toothpick in and it coming back

01:02:34.869 --> 01:02:39.369
clean. It's a pretty easy mile marker. The wipe

01:02:39.369 --> 01:02:41.670
method. Just keep wiping until it comes back

01:02:41.670 --> 01:02:46.489
clean. Think about that next time you're baking

01:02:46.489 --> 01:02:49.630
a cake. How do you feel about it? I understand

01:02:49.630 --> 01:02:52.650
the validity of it because I am a very anxious

01:02:52.650 --> 01:02:56.289
cook. I am always convinced that I have either

01:02:56.289 --> 01:02:59.710
condemned myself to salmonella or I have burned

01:02:59.710 --> 01:03:04.789
the absolute hell out of my chicken. I have no

01:03:04.789 --> 01:03:07.530
middle ground because the only way that I can

01:03:07.530 --> 01:03:10.230
mentally eat chicken that I make is if it looks

01:03:10.230 --> 01:03:13.210
like it's been charred. If it's overcooked. That

01:03:13.210 --> 01:03:16.469
is the wrong take. And so I also acknowledge

01:03:16.699 --> 01:03:18.920
in this specific instance, that it would be a

01:03:18.920 --> 01:03:23.199
great help to me. Okay. If I had something that

01:03:23.199 --> 01:03:25.659
was just going to like adjust the temperature

01:03:25.659 --> 01:03:28.699
and time and all of that stuff for me. And it,

01:03:28.860 --> 01:03:32.940
so does this exist? This does exist. Okay. So

01:03:32.940 --> 01:03:37.300
how, I guess, how does it know to adjust? Like

01:03:37.300 --> 01:03:40.780
I know that it can get like the pan, but what

01:03:40.780 --> 01:03:42.800
information do you have to give it in order for

01:03:42.800 --> 01:03:45.880
it to do that? Can it read the internal temperature?

01:03:46.190 --> 01:03:50.150
just based off of AI? I genuinely have no real

01:03:50.150 --> 01:03:53.670
idea how it works. What it gave me were the like

01:03:53.670 --> 01:03:57.369
punchy clip note release kind of things. Because

01:03:57.369 --> 01:04:00.829
I do want a set of like the Bluetooth probes

01:04:00.829 --> 01:04:03.590
that you just pop in there and then you put your

01:04:03.590 --> 01:04:06.150
food in like the smoker or whatever. And then

01:04:06.150 --> 01:04:09.750
you can just constantly keep track of what the

01:04:09.750 --> 01:04:11.969
temperature is. It doesn't work if there's steam.

01:04:12.510 --> 01:04:17.869
Okay, come on. That is very cool. I will have

01:04:17.869 --> 01:04:20.250
to look that up and get back to you. It can't

01:04:20.250 --> 01:04:23.949
it can't read through aerosoled water to get

01:04:23.949 --> 01:04:26.269
a good reading on everything. That is so dumb.

01:04:26.469 --> 01:04:29.289
My time -lapse videos are gonna be foggy. Idiocy.

01:04:29.389 --> 01:04:32.690
I'm gonna sue Samsung. Idiocy. I'm changing my

01:04:32.690 --> 01:04:35.989
mind. Idiocy until they hammer that out. So the

01:04:35.989 --> 01:04:38.090
takeaway that I had from this one specifically

01:04:38.090 --> 01:04:40.590
was that I get anxious when I cook. It would

01:04:40.590 --> 01:04:43.530
be really cool to have something that just like

01:04:43.530 --> 01:04:45.980
takes that worry away from me. But it also is

01:04:45.980 --> 01:04:48.039
a thing that I know personally that I should

01:04:48.039 --> 01:04:50.639
just know. I don't cook enough is the takeaway

01:04:50.639 --> 01:04:54.280
that I have. I should know better how to cook

01:04:54.280 --> 01:04:56.699
and to know when to take a thing out of the oven.

01:04:57.099 --> 01:04:59.860
And takeaway is the reason you don't cook enough.

01:05:00.179 --> 01:05:03.280
You're absolutely correct. And so like I, I know

01:05:03.280 --> 01:05:05.820
this is a personal defect and not one that I

01:05:05.820 --> 01:05:10.239
feel willing to offset with AI. Also, I think

01:05:10.239 --> 01:05:12.659
having time -lapse videos for social media is

01:05:12.659 --> 01:05:14.840
stupid. I understand why they're there. And I

01:05:14.840 --> 01:05:16.619
do watch a good amount of cooking videos, but

01:05:16.619 --> 01:05:19.559
I think having a feature of your oven be that

01:05:19.559 --> 01:05:22.039
you can make an Instagram reel with it is idiocy.

01:05:22.539 --> 01:05:24.519
This is actually, it's actually something that

01:05:24.519 --> 01:05:27.079
I wondered sometime earlier this week. I saw

01:05:27.079 --> 01:05:30.179
a video of a woman baking cookies and it showed

01:05:30.179 --> 01:05:34.400
you from like ball of dough to the whole cooking

01:05:34.400 --> 01:05:36.079
process. And I was like, how do they get that?

01:05:36.260 --> 01:05:38.460
How do they get that view? How do they record

01:05:38.460 --> 01:05:42.090
this? And now we know. Huh. I'll be. No, still

01:05:42.090 --> 01:05:46.710
idiocy until I can cut through steam. Stupid.

01:05:47.389 --> 01:05:50.170
Do you want to venture a guess into how much

01:05:50.170 --> 01:05:54.110
this bespoke single wall oven cost? Bespoke.

01:05:54.230 --> 01:05:56.329
That means they're tacking on a couple grand

01:05:56.329 --> 01:05:59.050
in the wall. Single or double? Single. Single.

01:05:59.309 --> 01:06:04.030
I am going to go. Remember, the crazy AI fridge

01:06:04.030 --> 01:06:07.579
was only $5 ,000. Oh, okay. If it did your grocery

01:06:07.579 --> 01:06:10.139
shopping for you and cooked all of your things

01:06:10.139 --> 01:06:15.300
without you having to lift a finger. $8 ,050

01:06:15.300 --> 01:06:18.360
and $1. Prices right? Nope. Too high, too low?

01:06:18.699 --> 01:06:21.360
Too high. Wow. $5 ,000. I will give you a hint.

01:06:21.380 --> 01:06:24.420
It is cheaper than the fridge. Oh, okay. $3 ,200.

01:06:25.119 --> 01:06:30.659
$2 ,600. Okay. It's $2 ,600. I mean, what does

01:06:30.659 --> 01:06:35.309
a regular glass top stove oven go for? I want

01:06:35.309 --> 01:06:38.309
to say like six, 700. Okay. So you're still paying

01:06:38.309 --> 01:06:41.909
a premium, but I'm assuming since it's in wall,

01:06:41.969 --> 01:06:44.070
you don't get any kind of like cooktop. Yes.

01:06:44.070 --> 01:06:47.550
It's the 30 inch in the wall oven. There's a

01:06:47.550 --> 01:06:50.550
Whirlpool electric cooktop, just the cooktop

01:06:50.550 --> 01:06:54.210
900 bucks. Is it AI integrated? Will it turn

01:06:54.210 --> 01:06:57.050
off whenever my pasta is done? No. I mean, it

01:06:57.050 --> 01:07:00.590
just looks like a glass top stove. Interesting.

01:07:01.070 --> 01:07:03.489
Well, I was way off on that one. Last time we

01:07:03.489 --> 01:07:05.630
were in Nebraska Furniture Mart, we looked at

01:07:05.630 --> 01:07:09.449
like the chef kitchen stuff. And those, those

01:07:09.449 --> 01:07:13.630
go for 20. Yeah. Which is dumb. There have been

01:07:13.630 --> 01:07:15.889
discussions about things like that in my household.

01:07:16.230 --> 01:07:19.449
Like one day getting them? I mean, ideally in

01:07:19.449 --> 01:07:21.949
the perfect world. Are you a pot filler girl?

01:07:22.449 --> 01:07:25.730
Are you a pot filler girl? Are you going to run

01:07:25.730 --> 01:07:27.969
another water line from the sink so you can fill

01:07:27.969 --> 01:07:30.519
pots on the stove? I do think those are incredibly

01:07:30.519 --> 01:07:32.679
cool, but I think it's a level of rich I never

01:07:32.679 --> 01:07:35.920
aspired to be. It's just, it's so far out of

01:07:35.920 --> 01:07:37.739
my reach. Nate and I were actually talking the

01:07:37.739 --> 01:07:40.940
other day about what I think is a rich person's

01:07:40.940 --> 01:07:43.400
kitchen. And it is where everything looks like

01:07:43.400 --> 01:07:46.179
a cabinet where you can just like open a cabinet,

01:07:46.360 --> 01:07:49.079
boom, trash can, open a cabinet, surprise fridge,

01:07:49.460 --> 01:07:53.219
open a cabinet, pantry. I do want a trash compactor.

01:07:53.380 --> 01:07:55.940
I think they're so cool. It's what I mark as

01:07:55.940 --> 01:07:58.440
a rich person. Yeah, they are neat. One of these

01:07:58.440 --> 01:08:01.739
days. One day. All right. Your next item is an

01:08:01.739 --> 01:08:05.039
AI toothbrush. It tracks where you brush and

01:08:05.039 --> 01:08:07.659
gives you real time feedback. Dumb. Straight

01:08:07.659 --> 01:08:10.380
up idiocy. Paying a hundred plus dollars for

01:08:10.380 --> 01:08:13.139
a toothbrush is stupid. Yeah. Trust yourself.

01:08:13.480 --> 01:08:16.119
But it tracks coverage pressure and brush time.

01:08:16.500 --> 01:08:19.739
Okay. You can do two of those by just saying,

01:08:19.880 --> 01:08:23.159
huh, did I get it? Yeah, I got everything. And

01:08:23.159 --> 01:08:27.430
then you can do what my Children are smart enough

01:08:27.430 --> 01:08:31.050
to do. Alexa set a two minute timer every time

01:08:31.050 --> 01:08:33.729
before bed and they brush their teeth. It goes

01:08:33.729 --> 01:08:38.149
off and then they're done. Voila. It's like magic.

01:08:38.689 --> 01:08:42.930
So flat idiocy on straight up idiocy. Okay. Devil's

01:08:42.930 --> 01:08:45.689
advocate. Okay. While I do think this thing is

01:08:45.689 --> 01:08:48.529
still idiocy because I can't imagine a level

01:08:48.529 --> 01:08:51.010
of features that would ever make an AI toothbrush

01:08:51.010 --> 01:08:54.180
make sense. I don't have dental insurance. And

01:08:54.180 --> 01:08:57.819
so if my forever payout is just what it would

01:08:57.819 --> 01:09:00.600
cost for this toothbrush, there is a chance that

01:09:00.600 --> 01:09:03.939
I could be persuaded eventually. Is there cavity

01:09:03.939 --> 01:09:06.420
detection? Does it pop out the little mirror

01:09:06.420 --> 01:09:08.579
while it's in there? Just give you a once -over?

01:09:09.039 --> 01:09:11.739
It has... Do you have to buy a special attachment

01:09:11.739 --> 01:09:14.439
to put the floor right on? It breaks into zones.

01:09:14.760 --> 01:09:17.779
That's so dumb. That's so stupid. It's so silly.

01:09:18.020 --> 01:09:20.579
With this iteration, idiocy. But I could see

01:09:20.579 --> 01:09:23.739
it in the future, making sense. That's where

01:09:23.739 --> 01:09:27.920
I stand. What does this oral be AI powered toothbrush

01:09:27.920 --> 01:09:33.119
cost? North of $100. North of $100. $149 .99.

01:09:33.439 --> 01:09:39.859
Nope, higher. $175. Nope, higher. $225. $329

01:09:39.859 --> 01:09:44.060
.99. What? There is a different version of this

01:09:44.060 --> 01:09:46.539
particular toothbrush that comes in midnight

01:09:46.539 --> 01:09:50.460
black, but it's $70 more. It's got the midnight

01:09:50.460 --> 01:09:54.380
package? It's got the midnight package. It's

01:09:54.380 --> 01:09:58.199
either $3 .29 or $3 .99. People are buying this.

01:09:58.460 --> 01:10:02.239
People have bought this. But then these people

01:10:02.239 --> 01:10:05.340
will turn around and say the economy is in the

01:10:05.340 --> 01:10:07.840
shitter. But this is the same economy that affords

01:10:07.840 --> 01:10:11.439
you to buy a 400 - What a time to be alive. I

01:10:11.439 --> 01:10:15.720
know. I know. Jesus, man. All right. Next up,

01:10:15.720 --> 01:10:19.479
we've got an AI powered lawnmower. This is one

01:10:19.479 --> 01:10:21.600
of the specific things that I did look up hoping

01:10:21.600 --> 01:10:23.399
that it didn't already exist so that I could

01:10:23.399 --> 01:10:27.180
put it on the nonsense AI products. Nope. No,

01:10:27.180 --> 01:10:29.439
they have robot lawnmowers. I mean, it works

01:10:29.439 --> 01:10:33.220
on the same principles as like a Roomba. I think

01:10:33.220 --> 01:10:38.000
giving a robot spinning sharp blades might be

01:10:38.000 --> 01:10:41.739
a bad idea. I think that that's probably the

01:10:41.739 --> 01:10:43.760
first one that's going to turn evil. And then

01:10:43.760 --> 01:10:45.640
you're going to have like a final destination

01:10:45.640 --> 01:10:48.640
bloodline situation on your hands. But before

01:10:48.640 --> 01:10:50.680
that happens, you're going to have the best lawn

01:10:50.680 --> 01:10:53.539
in the neighborhood. Maybe. Do you have a Roomba?

01:10:53.859 --> 01:10:57.420
Have you had a Roomba? Yeah. My Roomba, I do

01:10:57.420 --> 01:11:00.279
appreciate what it did. It was a good little

01:11:00.279 --> 01:11:03.279
robot vacuum for a decent amount of time. With

01:11:03.279 --> 01:11:07.520
that said, it could never get the smart layout

01:11:07.520 --> 01:11:10.140
feature right. It never knew where any of my

01:11:10.140 --> 01:11:13.260
walls were. And so almost every day it would

01:11:13.260 --> 01:11:17.840
end up in some idiocracy -esque situation. where

01:11:17.840 --> 01:11:20.300
it's just the, it's little mopping robot going

01:11:20.300 --> 01:11:23.199
back and forth one foot from the wall. Your floor,

01:11:23.380 --> 01:11:26.100
your floor is now clean every day. It would just,

01:11:26.579 --> 01:11:30.180
it would beep in distress for me to go move it.

01:11:30.520 --> 01:11:32.939
I don't think that I have talked about this on

01:11:32.939 --> 01:11:35.300
the podcast, but there have been multiple times

01:11:35.300 --> 01:11:38.340
where I've, I've gone to this establishment and

01:11:38.340 --> 01:11:42.640
there is a robot mop and it goes around the store.

01:11:42.840 --> 01:11:46.260
And it says something along the lines of, we

01:11:46.260 --> 01:11:48.619
are keeping the floors clean for you. Thank you

01:11:48.619 --> 01:11:51.699
for shopping at, we are keeping the floors clean

01:11:51.699 --> 01:11:54.899
for you. Thank you for shopping at, we are keeping

01:11:54.899 --> 01:11:56.920
the floors clean for you. Thank you for shopping

01:11:56.920 --> 01:12:01.020
at, over and over and over again. Exactly. That's

01:12:01.020 --> 01:12:03.880
exactly what it reminds me of. But like people

01:12:03.880 --> 01:12:06.399
are trying to walk around it. and then it'll

01:12:06.399 --> 01:12:08.239
sense the person there and then it like stutters

01:12:08.239 --> 01:12:11.079
it tries to juke out of the way and then someone's

01:12:11.079 --> 01:12:13.340
over there and then it tries to juke again and

01:12:13.340 --> 01:12:16.039
just back and it's just stuttering all over the

01:12:16.039 --> 01:12:18.380
place we are keeping the clean the floors clean

01:12:18.380 --> 01:12:22.520
for you thank you for shopping with us anyway

01:12:22.520 --> 01:12:28.979
ai -powered lawnmower i'm sorry i interrupted

01:12:28.979 --> 01:12:33.140
you last time go ahead go ahead it's two sentences

01:12:33.520 --> 01:12:36.779
This AI -powered lawnmower has intelligent self

01:12:36.779 --> 01:12:39.659
-charging capabilities and uses AI for precise

01:12:39.659 --> 01:12:42.659
mapping and continuous mulching. It has smart

01:12:42.659 --> 01:12:45.920
sensors that detect obstacles, changes in terrain,

01:12:46.340 --> 01:12:50.239
and wires. It is the outdoor Roomba. Wires? Like

01:12:50.239 --> 01:12:52.779
fencing, I would imagine. Oh, wires you have

01:12:52.779 --> 01:12:56.060
hanging around your yard. Okay, I mean, I'm on

01:12:56.060 --> 01:12:59.479
the fence with this one. On one hand, it would

01:12:59.479 --> 01:13:02.100
be nice to just, while I'm working, just, hey.

01:13:02.170 --> 01:13:04.289
Lawn's getting mowed. Nice. But on the other

01:13:04.289 --> 01:13:09.010
hand, I like mowing. It's casual exercise. It's

01:13:09.010 --> 01:13:12.529
nice to do in the spring. I like mowing, but

01:13:12.529 --> 01:13:15.090
yeah, I mean, I think that there's a lot more

01:13:15.090 --> 01:13:17.989
maintenance that would go into having this, having

01:13:17.989 --> 01:13:21.250
a AI powered lawn mower that probably wouldn't

01:13:21.250 --> 01:13:24.630
be worth it right now. I think that you would

01:13:24.630 --> 01:13:28.229
need like a medium sized yard. You're not going

01:13:28.229 --> 01:13:29.869
to get it for a small yard, but you're not going

01:13:29.869 --> 01:13:33.079
to get it for a big yard either. So I don't know.

01:13:33.479 --> 01:13:35.520
But those are, they're not AI powered, they're

01:13:35.520 --> 01:13:38.199
remote controlled. But there's a lot of municipalities

01:13:38.199 --> 01:13:41.140
that use those mowers. Oh, I didn't know that.

01:13:41.359 --> 01:13:43.739
Yeah, take care of like medians and stuff. Or

01:13:43.739 --> 01:13:45.840
really steep hills. They're really good for really

01:13:45.840 --> 01:13:48.520
steep hills. Interesting. Like on the sides of

01:13:48.520 --> 01:13:50.380
overpasses and stuff. You know, they just have

01:13:50.380 --> 01:13:53.100
remote control. They just... Okay. So is your

01:13:53.100 --> 01:13:56.260
take idiocy or innovation? With the right circumstances,

01:13:56.340 --> 01:13:59.119
with the right situation where it would make

01:13:59.119 --> 01:14:01.979
sense to have it, then no, it's innovation. Because

01:14:01.979 --> 01:14:04.720
then you also got people that can't physically

01:14:04.720 --> 01:14:08.279
mow. So that would also be taking care of them.

01:14:09.000 --> 01:14:12.100
So yeah, I mean, it's got its points of idiocy.

01:14:12.180 --> 01:14:15.779
It's got its innovation. But if you're using

01:14:15.779 --> 01:14:19.119
it just solely because you don't want to mow,

01:14:19.300 --> 01:14:21.600
I think it's a pretty dumb thing to spend that

01:14:21.600 --> 01:14:23.600
money on. Because what, you're looking at like

01:14:23.600 --> 01:14:27.319
three grand? No, lower. Oh, a grand? Higher.

01:14:27.840 --> 01:14:30.909
$1 ,500. $1 ,500 for the base. I don't think

01:14:30.909 --> 01:14:33.430
it goes too much higher than that, like $1 ,500

01:14:33.430 --> 01:14:36.310
to $2 ,000, $22 ,000 maybe. And then probably

01:14:36.310 --> 01:14:39.050
at that point, you're just, I mean, I guess there's

01:14:39.050 --> 01:14:41.689
a lot of things that could up the price, deck

01:14:41.689 --> 01:14:45.029
size, battery size. No, I mean, $15 ,000 seems

01:14:45.029 --> 01:14:48.130
about right for that. $1 ,500? Yeah, $1 ,500.

01:14:48.529 --> 01:14:51.890
It's got to be the right situation for it. So

01:14:51.890 --> 01:14:55.010
I'm right in the middle on it. All right. Your

01:14:55.010 --> 01:14:59.409
next item is an AI -powered deadbolt. with facial

01:14:59.409 --> 01:15:02.289
recognition and AI fingerprint identification.

01:15:02.970 --> 01:15:07.489
AI powered as in it senses that my phone is nearby

01:15:07.489 --> 01:15:11.409
and unlocks. Don't need the facial sensor. Don't

01:15:11.409 --> 01:15:15.189
need the fingerprint. But it is really nice.

01:15:15.569 --> 01:15:18.710
I lived in an apartment that had a smart deadbolt

01:15:18.710 --> 01:15:22.050
and it's nice to have. It had a code on it, which

01:15:22.050 --> 01:15:25.390
I wasn't a fan of. But yeah, I would be down

01:15:25.390 --> 01:15:29.239
for that. Okay. I am firmly in the idiocy camp

01:15:29.239 --> 01:15:32.159
on this one. Yeah. You're not getting into Fort

01:15:32.159 --> 01:15:35.399
Knox. Why do you need a fingerprint scanner and

01:15:35.399 --> 01:15:38.800
a facial ID to get into your home? That's one

01:15:38.800 --> 01:15:41.399
less thing you need. Keys are fine. I guess.

01:15:41.779 --> 01:15:44.439
Keys are fine. Especially like if you have a

01:15:44.439 --> 01:15:47.600
Tesla and your phone is your key or the card,

01:15:47.659 --> 01:15:49.399
whatever it is, you don't have a physical key.

01:15:49.520 --> 01:15:51.079
So that's one less thing you have to carry around.

01:15:51.399 --> 01:15:54.960
And for guys, we have very limited real estate

01:15:54.960 --> 01:15:57.229
as far as holding things. We don't have a purse

01:15:57.229 --> 01:16:00.170
that we can just put mountains of nonsense into.

01:16:00.689 --> 01:16:03.229
Receipts from six years ago. Seven different

01:16:03.229 --> 01:16:05.850
makeups that all do the same thing. Probably

01:16:05.850 --> 01:16:07.729
some hard candies that you got somewhere because

01:16:07.729 --> 01:16:09.909
I think they just come with every purse. How

01:16:09.909 --> 01:16:11.930
do you not have the upper hand when it comes

01:16:11.930 --> 01:16:14.670
to storage? All of your pants come with pockets.

01:16:15.350 --> 01:16:17.829
Okay, so get pants with pockets. Problem solved.

01:16:18.149 --> 01:16:20.350
That's a lot easier said than done. They still

01:16:20.350 --> 01:16:22.210
don't make a lot of women's things with pockets.

01:16:22.520 --> 01:16:25.920
Women are always on TikTok and it's got pockets.

01:16:26.260 --> 01:16:28.880
Yeah, because it's still a fun new thing for

01:16:28.880 --> 01:16:31.880
us. So has every piece of clothing that I've

01:16:31.880 --> 01:16:34.640
owned since the beginning of time. Male privilege.

01:16:35.100 --> 01:16:37.460
Get with the program. There's nothing stopping

01:16:37.460 --> 01:16:39.979
you from wearing jeans. You tell me that your

01:16:39.979 --> 01:16:42.680
jeans don't have at least two pockets? Women

01:16:42.680 --> 01:16:44.779
over here trying to get the jeans that make their

01:16:44.779 --> 01:16:48.239
butt look good. Okay, well, maybe in lieu of

01:16:48.239 --> 01:16:51.000
that, just get pants with pockets in the back.

01:16:51.159 --> 01:16:52.760
You can put whatever you want to back there,

01:16:52.880 --> 01:16:54.920
make it look however you want. But no, you're

01:16:54.920 --> 01:16:56.939
going to sit here with your ass looking good

01:16:56.939 --> 01:16:59.640
and then, oh, I don't have pockets. Get out of

01:16:59.640 --> 01:17:02.279
here. First of all, in a lot of the pants that

01:17:02.279 --> 01:17:05.380
I have that do actually have like, maybe they've

01:17:05.380 --> 01:17:07.680
got four pockets. They probably have two. A lot

01:17:07.680 --> 01:17:10.560
of them won't fit my whole phone. They're still

01:17:10.560 --> 01:17:13.220
built for the flip phone era when things were

01:17:13.220 --> 01:17:16.210
wider and not as long. Okay. So you want to talk

01:17:16.210 --> 01:17:19.949
about things that are meant to steal your attention.

01:17:19.970 --> 01:17:22.909
So you got a flip phone and now you're complaining

01:17:22.909 --> 01:17:27.930
that your pants can only fit a flip phone. Make

01:17:27.930 --> 01:17:31.689
it make sense. I'm not saying that in the sense

01:17:31.689 --> 01:17:34.649
that I can't put a flip phone in my pocket. I'm

01:17:34.649 --> 01:17:36.909
just saying it's ridiculous that they are sized

01:17:36.909 --> 01:17:39.409
inappropriately for what nowadays phones look

01:17:39.409 --> 01:17:41.569
like because I bought all of those pants well

01:17:41.569 --> 01:17:43.649
before I bought my flip phone. I can tell you

01:17:43.649 --> 01:17:48.109
right now. I am wearing custom -made jorts. You

01:17:48.109 --> 01:17:50.229
see? You see? And guess what? You want to know

01:17:50.229 --> 01:17:52.970
something funnier? There's literally a pocket

01:17:52.970 --> 01:17:55.630
in these jeans that is too small for me to put

01:17:55.630 --> 01:17:59.229
anything into. Yeah? I have all my regular pockets

01:17:59.229 --> 01:18:01.750
and I have a pocket that I don't even use. I

01:18:01.750 --> 01:18:04.890
have so many pockets. Male privilege over here.

01:18:05.229 --> 01:18:07.569
You could too. I'm sorry I don't have a pocket

01:18:07.569 --> 01:18:10.109
watch. Is it one of those little pockets inside

01:18:10.109 --> 01:18:13.029
the big pocket? Yes. I have one of those in these

01:18:13.029 --> 01:18:14.710
shorts. I don't... I don't know what they're

01:18:14.710 --> 01:18:16.930
for. I feel like they served a purpose at some

01:18:16.930 --> 01:18:19.590
point. Maybe that's like for a, I don't know,

01:18:19.729 --> 01:18:23.109
an iPod shuffle. Sure. Maybe. I don't know. All

01:18:23.109 --> 01:18:26.310
right. So the deadbolt is innovation. Yeah. I

01:18:26.310 --> 01:18:29.189
think it, it goes into ADSE territory whenever

01:18:29.189 --> 01:18:32.130
you're adding facial recognition and fingerprint

01:18:32.130 --> 01:18:36.229
analysis. Okay. I have one more item on our list.

01:18:36.489 --> 01:18:39.810
All right. Very big one. Very good one. An AI

01:18:39.810 --> 01:18:42.750
mattress that uses data like heart rate. breath

01:18:42.750 --> 01:18:45.130
rate, and sleep patterns to make real -time adjustments

01:18:45.130 --> 01:18:48.369
on things like temperature and firmness. Can

01:18:48.369 --> 01:18:51.789
it give you other suggestions? Did not look,

01:18:51.829 --> 01:18:54.670
will not look. I mean, if everything's already

01:18:54.670 --> 01:18:56.649
in place, it should just be like a software thing,

01:18:56.670 --> 01:18:59.189
right? Maybe. Maybe it just gives you like a

01:18:59.189 --> 01:19:03.430
little, you know, for the most successful situation

01:19:03.430 --> 01:19:06.210
to find yourself in. Know what I mean? It just

01:19:06.210 --> 01:19:07.949
plays Staying Alive by the Bee Gees. It's the

01:19:07.949 --> 01:19:12.899
same as CPR. Don't ever anyone's ever tried the

01:19:12.899 --> 01:19:16.699
surely they have Maybe okay. Well, that's just

01:19:16.699 --> 01:19:18.640
my question or you're the one that brought up

01:19:18.640 --> 01:19:21.359
the Bee Gees Although if it tracks your heart

01:19:21.359 --> 01:19:23.619
rate and your breath rate feel like it's tracking

01:19:23.619 --> 01:19:26.100
some things. They really shouldn't be yeah that's

01:19:26.100 --> 01:19:29.140
like that story about that woman who caught her

01:19:29.140 --> 01:19:31.979
husband cheating because she got a notification

01:19:31.979 --> 01:19:36.359
from his Fitbit that his Heart rate went up at

01:19:36.359 --> 01:19:39.300
like 3 in the morning when he wasn't home now

01:19:39.300 --> 01:19:41.989
heard that story Technology, man. Real double

01:19:41.989 --> 01:19:45.989
-edged sword. It was like a cautionary tale,

01:19:46.449 --> 01:19:49.310
like whenever those started becoming popular.

01:19:49.829 --> 01:19:51.710
Thousands of men suddenly stopped wearing their

01:19:51.710 --> 01:19:54.029
Fitbits. And women. I don't know, babe. I think

01:19:54.029 --> 01:19:57.390
I threw it in the washing machine. And women.

01:19:57.970 --> 01:20:01.170
No, I had one that was a program through work,

01:20:01.329 --> 01:20:03.329
and it was one that just clipped onto your pants.

01:20:03.569 --> 01:20:05.829
I definitely ran that through the washer a couple

01:20:05.829 --> 01:20:08.649
times. But yeah, I mean, if it's tracking that

01:20:08.649 --> 01:20:11.659
kind of stuff, then... I don't see why I couldn't

01:20:11.659 --> 01:20:15.000
track everything. I don't know at the end of

01:20:15.000 --> 01:20:18.159
the day who that's helping, if it's helping anyone,

01:20:18.659 --> 01:20:22.699
or if it just ends up being a real mood killer.

01:20:23.140 --> 01:20:25.779
I think some things just don't need to be tailored

01:20:25.779 --> 01:20:29.060
to you. You can adjust. That's fair, yeah. It's

01:20:29.060 --> 01:20:31.340
a thing you're capable of doing. In the same

01:20:31.340 --> 01:20:34.279
way that you can learn, I could learn to trust

01:20:34.279 --> 01:20:37.260
the chicken cooking in my oven. I can also just

01:20:37.260 --> 01:20:40.960
like... Learn how to control my sleep cycle on

01:20:40.960 --> 01:20:43.939
a regular mattress you could but I mean there's

01:20:43.939 --> 01:20:47.699
there's things that Like the Apple watch is good

01:20:47.699 --> 01:20:50.859
for tracking a quality of sleep. It's good for

01:20:50.859 --> 01:20:54.920
tracking sleep apnea I don't I don't know in

01:20:54.920 --> 01:21:01.680
what capacity or the Effectiveness of it would

01:21:01.680 --> 01:21:04.100
be for tracking that kind of stuff, but there

01:21:04.100 --> 01:21:07.470
I mean there would be benefits to that if it

01:21:07.470 --> 01:21:10.250
was actually accurate. If it's not just like

01:21:10.250 --> 01:21:13.590
the shoes I got in the third grade that had lights

01:21:13.590 --> 01:21:17.250
one through five and then depending on how fast

01:21:17.250 --> 01:21:20.930
you were going was how many lights lit up. I

01:21:20.930 --> 01:21:23.750
would run like Forrest Gump if I had those shoes

01:21:23.750 --> 01:21:31.250
today. But my point is it was all for show. It

01:21:31.250 --> 01:21:34.739
wasn't actually anything. That's fine, where

01:21:34.739 --> 01:21:38.880
do I get those shoes? Is that what you want for

01:21:38.880 --> 01:21:44.300
Christmas? Yes. Speed sensing shoes. If they're

01:21:44.300 --> 01:21:47.859
AI powered, no. But then there was also Nike

01:21:47.859 --> 01:21:51.140
released their own smart shoes at one point that

01:21:51.140 --> 01:21:53.680
connected to your phone and could give you stats

01:21:53.680 --> 01:21:58.039
like that. They also had a line of shoes that

01:21:58.039 --> 01:22:00.920
had the thing cut out. so that you could just

01:22:00.920 --> 01:22:04.939
take out the insert and slip it in, put the insert

01:22:04.939 --> 01:22:07.619
back in, and it served the same purpose. So,

01:22:07.619 --> 01:22:10.699
I mean, we've come a long way since just the

01:22:10.699 --> 01:22:15.119
five bars on the tongue of your shoe. Yeah. We're

01:22:15.119 --> 01:22:18.140
moving on up in shoe innovation. As far as the

01:22:18.140 --> 01:22:20.979
mattress goes, I mean, I think a pretty easy

01:22:20.979 --> 01:22:23.979
one would be like if it sensed that you were

01:22:23.979 --> 01:22:26.779
maybe getting too hot and there was like cooling

01:22:26.779 --> 01:22:30.439
somethings in it. There is. I mean, we don't

01:22:30.439 --> 01:22:32.460
have like a smart mattress or anything, but it

01:22:32.460 --> 01:22:36.579
was like, oh, this mattress has technology in

01:22:36.579 --> 01:22:39.039
it to keep you cool at night and doesn't do shit.

01:22:39.520 --> 01:22:42.420
I mean, there's nowhere, there's nothing to plug

01:22:42.420 --> 01:22:46.199
in. So it's all like, oh, because of the airflow

01:22:46.199 --> 01:22:48.300
and yada, yada, yada, all this other stuff, just

01:22:48.300 --> 01:22:52.439
marketing baloney. But I mean, if it wasn't a

01:22:52.439 --> 01:22:57.079
product that actually adapted to the situation,

01:22:57.350 --> 01:23:01.229
then I can see it being innovative if it actually

01:23:01.229 --> 01:23:03.390
did what it's advertised to do. Because sleep

01:23:03.390 --> 01:23:08.010
is very important. So if you can have something

01:23:08.010 --> 01:23:12.449
that is maybe overseeing things while you are

01:23:12.449 --> 01:23:16.550
unconscious, then I could see the perks of it.

01:23:16.850 --> 01:23:19.630
Am I going to go out and buy a smart mattress

01:23:19.630 --> 01:23:24.529
tomorrow? No. But for someone that is concerned

01:23:24.529 --> 01:23:28.170
enough, with those things to have that option

01:23:28.170 --> 01:23:30.729
then by all means go for it. I could see how

01:23:30.729 --> 01:23:33.829
this technology could eventually maybe be able

01:23:33.829 --> 01:23:36.989
to like not necessarily diagnose but show signs

01:23:36.989 --> 01:23:41.029
of say like sleep apnea. And I think that would

01:23:41.029 --> 01:23:43.810
be really cool. I think it's an innovation in

01:23:43.810 --> 01:23:46.710
that sense because I think it has a future with

01:23:46.710 --> 01:23:49.689
it. I think if the only things that it's doing

01:23:49.689 --> 01:23:53.449
are making adjustments on the temperature and

01:23:53.449 --> 01:23:56.899
firmness, throughout the evening. When you're

01:23:56.899 --> 01:23:59.460
asleep, if you're too hot, kick the blanket off.

01:23:59.760 --> 01:24:02.880
If you're too cold, bundle up. Like you do those

01:24:02.880 --> 01:24:04.960
things in your sleep anyway. You want to fix

01:24:04.960 --> 01:24:07.180
the problem that you're having. You don't need

01:24:07.180 --> 01:24:11.560
a computer to do that for you. Yeah, but if it

01:24:11.560 --> 01:24:16.020
takes you out of your rim because you become

01:24:16.020 --> 01:24:20.640
so uncomfortable that you have to wake up to

01:24:20.640 --> 01:24:24.319
some degree to Put on more blankets or to take

01:24:24.319 --> 01:24:27.659
off the blankets then I don't know I mean like

01:24:27.659 --> 01:24:31.060
I said it's it I feel like it's a product for

01:24:31.060 --> 01:24:33.619
people that feel like that is important enough

01:24:33.619 --> 01:24:37.239
to have a product for Sure, and all this stuff

01:24:37.239 --> 01:24:40.239
is if it is something that interests you then

01:24:40.239 --> 01:24:43.619
go for it If it's not if you think it's dumb

01:24:43.619 --> 01:24:46.520
then just don't get it if it helps with accessibility

01:24:46.520 --> 01:24:50.539
I'm all for it if the entire purpose of its development

01:24:50.539 --> 01:24:53.500
and its use is just to take away a thing that

01:24:53.500 --> 01:24:56.939
you can just do, then I'm against it. You know,

01:24:57.260 --> 01:25:00.340
when your tooth brushed clean. You've brushed

01:25:00.340 --> 01:25:03.180
your teeth enough times. You've, I assume, been

01:25:03.180 --> 01:25:06.720
to a dentist before. Like, you don't need to

01:25:06.720 --> 01:25:09.199
automate that. You don't need to offload that

01:25:09.199 --> 01:25:12.739
onto a robot. But if you are incapable of mowing

01:25:12.739 --> 01:25:17.000
your lawn, absolutely get the robot. I am...

01:25:16.970 --> 01:25:20.529
personally on the idiocy side of this one. Okay.

01:25:20.930 --> 01:25:24.350
For now, at least. I don't think that the technology

01:25:24.350 --> 01:25:27.489
is there to serve all the purposes that it claims

01:25:27.489 --> 01:25:33.069
to serve. Yeah. So yeah, but again, it's, I just,

01:25:33.470 --> 01:25:35.710
if it's your thing, it's your thing. Go for it.

01:25:36.329 --> 01:25:42.909
And that is one of the pitfalls that we fall

01:25:42.909 --> 01:25:46.520
into. a lot more now than they ever did before.

01:25:46.800 --> 01:25:49.520
If it's not for you, then it's just not for you

01:25:49.520 --> 01:25:52.600
and that is fine. If it's for someone else and

01:25:52.600 --> 01:25:55.699
they enjoy it, great. Yeah. We're not out here

01:25:55.699 --> 01:25:59.619
yucking people's yums. No. And that was a topic

01:25:59.619 --> 01:26:01.840
for its own episode, but I feel like we say it

01:26:01.840 --> 01:26:05.039
so much that we just end up doing a compilation

01:26:05.039 --> 01:26:07.880
of the episodes that we have done. That is fair.

01:26:07.979 --> 01:26:12.539
That'll be our clip show for episode 100. No,

01:26:12.539 --> 01:26:14.020
it can't because we got to get Charit Reddick

01:26:14.020 --> 01:26:17.100
on for $100. It can be $99. It can be the lead

01:26:17.100 --> 01:26:19.979
up. That's fine. I'll accept that. Like when

01:26:19.979 --> 01:26:22.119
they do a clip show before the season finale.

01:26:22.880 --> 01:26:25.600
I just got to the clip show episode of The Office.

01:26:26.300 --> 01:26:28.399
When it gets bought out and they have a banker

01:26:28.399 --> 01:26:31.460
talking to Toby about how safe the office is.

01:26:31.619 --> 01:26:35.560
Yeah. I understand why they're made because your

01:26:35.560 --> 01:26:38.380
budget was blown in some other episode, but I

01:26:38.380 --> 01:26:41.560
hate them. Yeah, I have a... I watched a couple

01:26:41.560 --> 01:26:43.760
episodes of the second season of Twisted Metal.

01:26:43.819 --> 01:26:47.180
It is far worse than the first season so far,

01:26:47.399 --> 01:26:50.380
but I'll give it a shot. It's only like six episodes

01:26:50.380 --> 01:26:54.619
or something like that. What is it? The Boy Spinoff.

01:26:54.779 --> 01:26:58.300
Generation V? Yes, that came out. That was really

01:26:58.300 --> 01:27:01.300
delayed because one of the guys died. Car accident.

01:27:01.840 --> 01:27:04.840
So I'll give that one. I'll watch that one and

01:27:04.840 --> 01:27:07.460
then still have not got around to the office.

01:27:07.739 --> 01:27:11.119
I only watched the premiere of paper. One thing

01:27:11.119 --> 01:27:14.359
that I had ended up on the cutting room floor

01:27:14.359 --> 01:27:17.420
from one of our previous episodes was that I

01:27:17.420 --> 01:27:20.739
haven't watched the episode yet or the show yet

01:27:20.739 --> 01:27:25.880
but I knew it was a terrible, terrible sign when

01:27:25.880 --> 01:27:30.180
like two days after the premiere of it and I

01:27:30.180 --> 01:27:32.439
went on to Peacock and the first thing you saw

01:27:32.439 --> 01:27:36.189
was stream the entire season now. Yeah. And no

01:27:36.189 --> 01:27:39.050
one I know is talking about it other than, like,

01:27:39.050 --> 01:27:42.050
I see commercials for it all the time. And there's

01:27:42.050 --> 01:27:44.989
one with the main guy and Oscar, and he's like,

01:27:45.149 --> 01:27:48.729
I'm Donald Gleason. And Oscar says, yes, you

01:27:48.729 --> 01:27:51.050
are. And I'm Oscar Martinez. And Donald says,

01:27:51.289 --> 01:27:54.970
yes, you are. What is this, man? Nunez. Oh, I

01:27:54.970 --> 01:27:56.970
said Martinez, didn't I? Nah, he's always just

01:27:56.970 --> 01:27:58.029
going to be Oscar Martinez. That's the character

01:27:58.029 --> 01:28:01.149
he plays, man. No. No, he lost that. He does

01:28:01.149 --> 01:28:04.170
not get to say that. Yeah, I... I've only ever

01:28:04.170 --> 01:28:06.289
heard bad things about the rest of the season.

01:28:06.670 --> 01:28:09.670
I did. I won't divulge anything that I know about

01:28:09.670 --> 01:28:11.609
the rest of the show, but it did get picked up

01:28:11.609 --> 01:28:14.050
for a second season already. It got picked up.

01:28:14.050 --> 01:28:16.770
I think the week it got released, which more

01:28:16.770 --> 01:28:19.810
power to him, I guess. Did you see Nate Bragazzi

01:28:19.810 --> 01:28:23.430
hosted the Emmys? I did. And did you, he did

01:28:23.430 --> 01:28:27.430
the Washington skit, but he was, what's his name?

01:28:27.630 --> 01:28:29.710
The guy that created the TV. Earl Television.

01:28:30.090 --> 01:28:34.739
No, it's Farnsworth. Hubert Farnsworth? No, it's

01:28:34.739 --> 01:28:38.220
that guy is named after the TV guy. Hubert Farnsworth.

01:28:38.659 --> 01:28:42.079
I think it's Farnsworth something. Philo Farnsworth

01:28:42.079 --> 01:28:44.460
was the creator of the television and he was

01:28:44.460 --> 01:28:48.340
him and they're like, what is this? And they're

01:28:48.340 --> 01:28:51.420
like, streaming? What is streaming? And Nate

01:28:51.420 --> 01:28:55.119
Bergazzi said a new way for companies to lose

01:28:55.119 --> 01:29:00.100
money and 100%. And that is very indicative by

01:29:00.100 --> 01:29:03.779
the paper. Yeah. Having not watched it. but knowing

01:29:03.779 --> 01:29:06.060
enough about it to make an informed decision.

01:29:06.199 --> 01:29:08.600
That's fair. But all right, you got anything

01:29:08.600 --> 01:29:11.239
else? What do you think that the queen -sized

01:29:11.239 --> 01:29:15.800
version of an AI mattress cost? Nine thousand.

01:29:16.119 --> 01:29:20.319
Close, higher. Ten five. Ten flat. I think it

01:29:20.319 --> 01:29:22.960
might be, it might be like ten two, so you're

01:29:22.960 --> 01:29:27.340
close. Silly, silliness. They make it up to a

01:29:27.340 --> 01:29:29.079
California king. Not even want to know how much

01:29:29.079 --> 01:29:30.619
that cost. I don't know what the price of that

01:29:30.619 --> 01:29:32.279
one was. I think it was like 15 grand maybe.

01:29:32.899 --> 01:29:35.340
Dumb. A lot of saliness. But that is all the

01:29:35.340 --> 01:29:37.460
things I had. This episode lasted significantly

01:29:37.460 --> 01:29:39.340
longer than I thought it would. Final thoughts.

01:29:39.720 --> 01:29:42.020
If you have bought a thing, especially if it

01:29:42.020 --> 01:29:44.359
is an expensive thing, do your best to avoid

01:29:44.359 --> 01:29:46.539
the marketing for the new version of that thing.

01:29:47.079 --> 01:29:49.180
I wholeheartedly agree with that. What you have

01:29:49.180 --> 01:29:52.199
is fine, in most cases. And if it's not, replace

01:29:52.199 --> 01:29:55.699
it. No shame. Yeah, you do you, man. You do you.

01:29:56.060 --> 01:30:00.359
That's all I got. Well, as far as for me, AI

01:30:00.359 --> 01:30:02.680
does not need to be in everything. Things don't

01:30:02.680 --> 01:30:05.039
have to be smart. Things don't have to talk to

01:30:05.039 --> 01:30:07.399
each other. But, if that's what you're into,

01:30:08.039 --> 01:30:11.979
then go for it. But just know. Just know that

01:30:11.979 --> 01:30:14.979
China sees everything. China knows everything.

01:30:15.479 --> 01:30:17.659
And every time you connect something else...

01:30:17.659 --> 01:30:23.619
I do not like this little ASMR. China. No. Absolutely

01:30:23.619 --> 01:30:26.960
not. And with that... We're out. Peace out, Girl

01:30:26.960 --> 01:30:28.300
Scouts. We'll see ya.