662: Tempest in an Instant Pot

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Welcome to Grumpy Old Geeks. I'm Jason DeFilippo. And I'm Brian Schulmeister. Jason, I'm in my home stretch here in Los Angeles. Oh, how's it been? How's it been? It's not been bad. Apparently, there's a new variant of mosquito in Los Angeles that has been eating my wife and son alive.

But I have emerged virtually unscathed. So that's been nice. It's my son's birthday today. I can't believe it. He's eight years old. Jesus. I know, right? When we started this, you didn't even have one. Have one. Nor did I have much of an intention of having one. But here I am.

Whoops. Yeah. Yeah. So it's his eighth birthday. After this, we're going to take him to In-N-Out. His preferred lunch. That's what he picked. Because the kid's got taste. You don't want him to be 10. So let's just go clog the arteries now. Yes. Let's get that done.

And we're going to go see Despicable Me 4 in theater. And then tomorrow and Saturday, we're back at Disneyland. And then my sister briefly comes in to say hi. She's visiting. And for multiple reasons, my mom is also having a procedure. So we're kind of like tagging off. As I leave town, she'll come into town to make sure everything goes okay.

And, yeah. Then I'm heading home. Back to Toronto. And then, you know, five hours after I land, it'll start snowing. All right. See? Then you just got to come back. Yeah. Pretty much. Hopefully, he'll be joining us back in Los Angeles sooner than later. Well, it's looking good for the election at the moment. So we'll see.

God. Okay. Fair weather compatriot here. I see. I see how this works. I don't like to live in fascist countries. I'm German. I know how these things go. That's true. You have... You have... It's in the blood. It's in the genes. It's in the genes. Trauma follows.

All right. I got a little follow-up here from the breach we were talking about last week, the NPD breach. I found the checker over at Pentest.net or Pentester.com. Sorry, not .net, Pentester.com. And I ran my info through. And, yeah, it's all there. It's all there.

They had addresses I forgot I lived at. Me? Dude, I was going to bring that up. I'm like, I totally forgot I lived there. It was actually kind of cool because I was like... I actually did a screenshot because I was like, I totally forgot half those addresses. Yeah. I copied it so I can put them back in a timeline so I can kind of figure out where I've been because I was drinking a lot back then.

And I totally forgot some of the places that I lived. It's really weird because I was trying to figure out where this data could have possibly come from because obviously, you know, mortgage, of course. They've got all the houses I've owned. They've got all the houses I've owned. Rental agreements, I'm guessing, but they miss a whole bunch.

Like, they have everything except for where, like, the three places I lived off campus during college. They don't have those. And I'm positive I was on the rental agreements for those. Did you pay bills? Were you on the bills? I was thinking maybe they got it from utilities. Could be.

Like, I don't remember how we split that up back in the day. So I just thought I thought it was really 20 bucks for the gas. Yeah. OK, I'm playing the payboy playboy bill this month and you're paying for gas. So, yeah. Yeah. So it was just interesting because I was like, really, I spent about five minutes just like pondering.

How did they how do they how do they get these addresses but not others? But, yeah, I mean, we're all we're all owned now, like every single address, socials, everything. It's all in there. See, the thing is, this was all already out there. But it was just collated. Yeah, this is nice and collated.

But the problem is they just didn't fucking encrypt it. It's like, come on, everybody else encrypted it. So these guys need to be. Well, I think the main guys should be in jail for this. Oh, I agree. And this this comes back to one of Dave's tenants, which is once this gets back to the politicians, then some action will be taken, possibly.

And I'm sure every politician ever is in there. Yeah. Anybody anybody look up Obama yet? You know, and we'll find out which houses they haven't disclosed. Yeah, exactly. I'm sure I'm sure those are through the trust. But you never know. You can get around that these days. Yeah.

Yeah. But I did find some ex-girlfriends. I was always wondering, whatever happened to her? I'm like, oh, they went there. Okay. Okay. It's a good stalking tool. It is. It can be used for creepage. Yeah. It totally can be used for creepage. Yeah. Oh, by the way, the one thing I do want to say about that is when you do put your stuff in there, they do conveniently give you links to the three main credit bureaus.

Everybody just go freeze your credit if you haven't done it from the million breaches that we've talked about before. Yeah. I had my dad go do it. My roommate finally did it. It takes 10 minutes to go set up all the accounts and get it all done. But once it's done, you can sleep a little bit easier. Not much, but a little.

Well, see, the thing is, this is the other thing I've been trying to tell everybody that we all know as listeners and speakers on the show, it's a lottery. It's basically a lottery at this point. Since everybody's info is out there, you have just as much chance of winning the lottery as you do losing the game of life from somebody stealing your identity because there's so much information.

They have so much to choose from. Exactly. And I still stand by the fact that you are more likely to have your identity stolen, getting gas at the gas station with your credit card than you are from one of these breaches. I agree. Definitely agree. So we've got a bit more follow-up. Tesla has recalled, has yet another recall, but this one isn't an over-the-air one.

This is what I would call a traditional recall because what's that meaning? This is an artisanal recall. Yes. They've recalled over 2 million vehicles so far in 2024 and close to 10,000 more. Shouldn't be very noteworthy at this point, except for the fact that this one is not over the air.

Apparently, they didn't glue down some trim very well, which could just pull off their Model X SUVs if you're driving fast enough or rain hits it or any number of combinations. You get hit by a self-driving car. You get hit by a Cybertruck or a self-driving car. Yeah.

The roof flies off and hits somebody. Yeah. You don't want that. Yeah. So yet another one. Not a good year for Tesla. Nope. Not at all. But speaking of recalls, Microsoft announced that its controversial recall AI search feature will be available for testing in October. Great.

Yes. Recall, if you forgot about this one. If you recall. If you recall, takes screenshots of screen activity, allowing users to search for past information. And the security experts had a field day with it because it just saved all of those screenshots unencrypted.

They were easy to get to by other users on the machine. And Microsoft is saying that recall will be off by default and promise some security enhancements. And the company also did come out with their new AI powered PCs, those co-pilot plus PCs that will support recall. And here's the funny thing.

They says, the wide release timing is unclear, but Microsoft aims to prioritize security throughout the rollout. How about A, they revisit the backlash they got last time they talked about recall. And B, prioritize security before the rollout instead of throughout the rollout, maybe before.

Yeah, before would be good. Yeah, I'm just saying maybe let's look forward, not back. Come on. Well, we talked about the FTC and they're, well, they've ramped up in general doing quite a lot of stuff recently. But the one I particularly liked is they were trying to put a ban on non-compete agreements.

Now, this wasn't a blanket ban. There were carve outs for things like C-suites. And, you know, it basically, it was, it made sense. It was a- Yeah, it totally made sense. It made sense. It wasn't a carte blanche. You can do whatever you want and just take all the company's secrets if you're super high up and go get a new job and there's nothing that can be done about it and start up another competing company unless you're Elon Musk because he can do whatever the fuck he wants, apparently.

But anyways, it was, it was a fair system. It looked that way to me. It was a fair ruling. It was a good middle ground. Yes. Yeah. Now, if you had to pick two states that would say, nah, we're not going to do that and we're going to challenge that, which states would you think they'd be, Jason? Well, the first that come to mind would be Texas and Florida.

Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. I got it in one. Winner, winner, chicken dinner. Yes, of course. It is, it is Texas and Florida whose district judges have said the agency does not have the authority to enforce this rule. So screw that. Okay.

We'll see how that goes. It's going to end up going to the Supreme Court, of course. That's the, there's no other way to do it now. So we'll see what happens. It'll work its way up there. Yes, they are so friendly to companies. In the news. Apparently, Waymo's self-driving cars were honking at each other to say hi.

It's kind of like their version of the Jeep wave. Did you ever see the video of this? Yes. It was a classic. Yeah. Yeah. Well, apparently. It's like the old Budweiser commercial. What's up? What's up? What's up? Yes. Vehicles were spotted honking at each other a few weeks ago, prompting Waymo to issue a software patch.

Now, software engineer at Waymo, Sophia Tung, happens to live where a bunch of these taxis would gather to idle and said, set up a live stream to capture the honking vehicles because the patch did not work. Then put a soundtrack to it, including lo-fi music in the vein of the ubiquitous lo-fi girl channel on YouTube.

The title, Self-Driving Taxi Depot Shenanigans to Relax Slash Study To, did pretty well on YouTube. All right. And apparently, Waymo's Director of Product and Operations, Vichy Nihalani, I believe is correct. Tough name.

That was enough. It's early. It's early. Appeared on said software engineer, Sophia Tung's live stream, because apparently, if you have a job that's doing pretty well, you still live stream for shits and giggles, to basically say, well, second patch is out. This one should work.

Let's give it another go. Yeah. Apparently, this was a feature, not a bug. This was an intentional feature for taxis cruising on public roads to avoid collisions. One would think they have higher technology than honking for self-driving vehicles. Do they have fucking sonar?

What are these bat machines here? Come on. I mean, that was such a head-scratcher to me. I'm like, really? Quick, Brian, to the bat taxi. Anyways, so apparently, it's now fixed. The Waymo service is available for those living in San Francisco, Phoenix, and 79 square miles of Los Angeles, stretching from Santa Monica to downtown.

When I was in Santa Monica, I saw four of these things. Okay. Was anybody in them? No. My wife looked at me and said, not a fucking chance would I ever get in one of those. Okay. I was wondering if you were going to take one for the team and try it out.

Absolutely not. Well, you're a father. You have an excuse. Yes. I would. Just around the block, just to try it. Right. But, yeah. Well, General Motors' AV company, Cruise, has recalled its fleet of 1,194 self-driving cars to resolve longstanding trouble with unexpected braking.

You know, I'll take the honks over the braking. Yeah. Well, I'd rather take, and I'll take braking over acceleration. Yes. So that's at least something. Cruise has shipped software updates to those vehicles that should mitigate the braking problems, and, as such, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has closed its nearly two-year probe into the issue.

Now, the recall and the conclusion of the probe takes one worry off Cruise's plate at a time when it's still under active federal investigation from the Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission after that little incident up in San Francisco where they ran over a woman. Right.

Yes. Yeah. Oopsies. So, yeah. Well, you can still get in your Waymo, and it won't honk at anybody, but you're not getting in a cruise. Gotcha. Well, Condon asked, the media conglomerate that owns publications like The New Yorker, Vogue, and Wired has announced a multi-year partnership with OpenAI to display content from their titles in ChatGPT, as well as SearchGPT, the company's prototype AI-powered search engine.

This partnership comes amid growing concerns over the unauthorized growing concerns. Growing? They've grown as big as they can. We're all concerned. They done busted out. Yes. Last month, they sent a cease and desist letter to AI search startup perplexity, accusing it of plagiarism for using its content to generate answers.

I guess the theory here, and the only one left for these old school media companies, is if they're going to do it anyways, you might as well get some cash out of it. Yeah. I guess so. Yeah. Ars Technica also has signed a deal with OpenAI. I think everybody's going to be doing it at this point.

I wonder what ever happened with Sarah Silverstein, Silver, Silverman, Silverstein. I'm looking, I'm literally looking at a Shel Silverstein. I was going to say, is this where the sidewalk ends today? It is. Yes, it is. That's very funny. I never heard anything about that lawsuit.

I'm going to have to, I'm going to have to Google search AI that later. Yeah. Yeah. Hit the. I'm sure the AI's answer will be, she is a bitch. Probably. From what I hear, wouldn't be wrong. I thought she was very pleasant. I've even met her in person a number of times.

Okay. Okay. I've known, I know people that have also met her in person a number of times that have not had the same experience. Okay. But I guess people are just people. People are people. So why should it be? Now I'm going into Debeche Mode land. Anyways, a hat tip to Barrett, who sent, sent this link in now.

Okay. He said, well, guess all of us are software engineer. I guess all of us software engineers are done now. This is from a site called echo tcs.com. And it's about a programming system, AI programming system called Cortex that has come out. Now I could not tell if this was something that was lost in translation because I believe this probably was a Spanish language thing.

Initially, I was unable to find this in any other media like Engadget didn't have it. Ismoto didn't have it. TechCrunch didn't have it. I'm wondering if this is a joke. I think it's a press release. Well, it's obviously an AI written press release because there are tons of errors in it.

There are tons of errors in it. And there is a Cortex AI like platform out there that you can sign up for. Yeah. So I think that this was kind of a really ill begotten press release that just kind of went awry that just pumped itself up like completely.

Yes, because Cortex can solve 100 million lines of code at once. A leap of giant steps toward the potential of AI coding assistance. What's wrong with that sentence, Brian? Many things. The press release is basically going on to say that this thing can do so much more than any other previous one can do.

It can do much larger projects. It can do things basically by itself. And we're all screwed. Now, the line that particularly stood out for me, Jason, is this one. Because the AI works with up to 100 million lines of code simultaneously, fewer and more context-sensitive errors occur.

Well, we have our answer, Brian. Does that cancel each other out? Yes. Fewer and more. Fewer and more context-sensitive errors occur. So, yeah, that was a bit of a head-scratcher, Barrett. Not sure what's going on there.

I think Barrett may have sent that tongue-in-cheek. Okay. See, we need that sarcasm emoji, I tell you. I'm telling you. I'm telling you. This is another one about how we're going to lose all of our programming jobs to AI. But this one's real, okay? In a leaked recording, Amazon Cloud Chief Matt Garman suggested that most developers could soon stop coding as AI automates much of the process.

Garman emphasized that the future of software development lies in understanding customer needs and building innovative products rather than just writing code. Okay? Yeah. He urged employees to enhance their product management skills to stay competitive because what everybody loves is a fucking product manager.

Jesus. Garman's comments were optimistic, highlighting the creative opportunities AI offers developers, while an AWS spokesperson reinforced that AI tools will help developers focus on more innovative work. Right. Now, I tend to agree with the fact that AI is going to take over most coding jobs.

It's what it's really good at. It's really good at that. And that is great because as a programmer for over 20 years, programming sucks, man. Yeah. It's drudgery. It's drudgery. It's drudgery. It is no fun. It is no fun. And, you know, anything that could, you know, God, just even the simplest task is write me some unit tests because nobody liked writing unit tests.

They were terrible. But even the basics, just, you know, write some basic functions. The only thing I worry about, and I think I've mentioned this on the show before, is that people are going to be using AI to write their code for them, which means that there's going to be a lot of homogenous code out there.

Yeah. Which leads to, as we see in WordPress all the time, people install the same bits of software, which opens up, you get one hole in that software, and then boom, you know, you've given away the farm. So that's where it's at least nice from an evolutionary standpoint to have, you know.

Many different approaches to the same problem. Exactly. And if you want as many different approaches to the same exact problem as you possibly can, write in Perl because that programming language is shit. Nobody's trying to hack that anymore. Oh, my God. There are a few Perl enthusiasts out there that still swear by Perl, but Jesus, was that a bitch.

It's like, how do I do this? Well, how would you like to? Because we can do it 400 different ways. So, yeah, I think that it is a good thing, actually, though, that AI will be taking over a lot of those jobs because, you know, I don't do it anymore, so fuck it.

I agree. AI's already taken over everything else. Just let them take that, too. Let's all just sit on a farm and grow rutabagas or some shit. At QVC, fall shopping is more than just checking out.

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I love this article. It's what we all know is true, and I'm sure Elon has blocked Gizmodo at this point. Bankers have lost so much money thanks to Elon's terrible Twitter deal. Now, we all knew that he was overpaying for Twitter at the time, which is why he tried to back out of the deal, then said he wasn't backing out of the deal, then he was forced to finalize the purchase only because a court told him he made the deal and he asked to honor it.

We're now learning more details about just how dumb buying Twitter was in financial terms, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday. Apparently, it was the worst deal since the global financial crisis in 2008. Hey, man, if you're going to shoot for the moon, shoot for the moon.

Shoot for the moon. It was a moonshot, that's for sure. Seven banks loaned Elon Musk money, totaling $13 billion in 2022 to help him buy Twitter, now known by the obnoxiously generic name X. And every single one of them has been unable to offload the debt without incurring major losses from the deal.

This means that the loans are just sitting on the balance sheets of these banks. In fact, the journal explains that this just wasn't one of the worst deals since 2008. It's one of the worst deals of all time. Yeah, so basically, how do we know the people who work at these banks have felt considerable financial pain from agreeing to something so stupid?

How much pain did they feel? As the journal tells it, top investment bakers at Barclays were told at a dinner in late 2023 that everyone would be getting at least a 40% pay cut after everyone got their bonuses for the year. Oh, but about 50 of the company's 200 directors left because the deal was so bad and they were getting so screwed.

Nice. Well, that's a great article. That's good news. Yeah, it is good news. So, yeah, it's a good article. It's really funny. It basically gets down to, does this actually still work for him? Well, yes, because he's a raging egomaniac and basically he's created a bubble of sycophants and that's what it's good for for him.

So, I guess, worth it. But for the banks, not so much. Which means, and if it's bad for the banks, it's bad for us. Yes. Is the big problem. Yes, because those costs get passed down. Trickle down economics, Brian. They need to make the money from us now. Exactly. So, we all paid for that.

Yeah. And we finally might have found a stable genius here, Jason. A stable genius? Okay. Yes, a billionaire that actually seems to be paying attention to things for once. Ron Conway, who is a venture capitalist who has given liberally to the Democratic Party over the years and bought himself a lot of influence, of course.

It's not doing it out of the goodness of his heart. Recently chewed out top members of Fairshake, a network of super PACs designed to create a clearer regulatory and legal framework for the blockchain economy. So, basically, this is the BitBros. Yeah. This includes Mark Andreessen, Ben Horowitz, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong, and Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse.

So, they're all pushing for, of course, no regulation on the shit that they're doing, which totally needs to be regulated. So, what drove him over the edge? It appears he was blindsided by a secret PAC-related effort to unseat Sherrod Brown, a prominent Democratic congressman who has spoken critically of the crypto industry.

And this is from the leaked emails. $12 million to Brown's opponent at a time when Senator Schumer is doing his best to get a bill passed in the Senate in the lame duck, Conway wrote in an email referencing a crypto-friendly bill that Schumer is currently shepherding through the legislature. You all know that's a slap in the face to Senator Schumer and a slap in the face to me when you know I'm meeting him in San Francisco tomorrow.

How short-sighted and stupid can you possibly be? Not one person bothered to give me a heads up that you were doing this. I'm the one using my 25-plus year personal relationships to help this movement the most significantly, and not one person bothered to inform me. Sadly, I'm even a donor to Fair Shake because of your selfish hidden agendas.

It is time for us to separate. This is a wake-up call to myself that I've been working too long with people who do not share common values, and that is unacceptable. I will no longer compromise myself by associating or helping. All right. We'll see if he puts his money where his mouth is because we don't know yet.

This could just be an intentional leak to make it seem like he's doing the right thing before he meets with all the Democrats. Yeah. See, I remember the name Ron Conway, but I can't remember what column he's in, if he's in the hero or villain column. He's in the in it for himself column from what I can tell.

He's a venture capitalist. Of course he is. Yes, of course he is. He's playing both sides. He's trying to get all this done, but he's apparently trying to do it not too unethically, but we'll see. Yeah, well, it's a gray area, Brian. It's a gray area.

The world's gray, Jason. That's why I was goth.

Media candy. A little sad we don't have Dave with us for this news, but I'm sure we'll rehash it when we all reconvene next week. Star Wars The Acolyte is not getting a second season. They've decided not to renew it according to Deadline and Variety, which is great because they left it on a hell of a cliffhanger.

And I personally feel it was just starting to get good. See, that's the problem. Yeah, it's like this is why I do my three season rule. I know, I know. Except the three season rule never works with Star Wars because you can't, you can't help yourself. I know. Yeah.

And the thing is, it's like I talked to a bunch of people about this who were, you know, medium, middle of the road fans. Like, we like Star Wars, but we're not fanatical about it. And it was just like, yeah, that's kind of a bummer. What else is on? Yeah. What's next? Skeleton crew comes pretty soon, right?

Yeah. It's just like, it wasn't even, it's just like, yeah, it was, it was decent, you know? Yeah. Well, I mean, to, to what Dave always says when we talk about this stuff, he says it's, it's, it's low pressure Star Wars. Yeah. Because it's not the main storyline. It's not the thing that we grew up and loved. It seems cool, like cool new lightsabers, cool new ships, cool new planets that they're on, but it's low stakes.

Like I'm not invested yet. Like I was starting to get invested. I was excited for there to be a second season, but am I going to, am I, am I, am I crying? No, it's whatever next. Well, I'm crying at the budgets for those things. I thought they, I thought they got this system down to where they can do these things on like, you know, a shoestring budget, but each episode was $22 million.

Yep. $22 million. No wonder they canceled the fucking thing. Yeah. It's ridiculous. That's insane amount of money. I thought they made that cool Mandalorian backdrop thing for all the, you know, the virtual sets so they could do it on, you know, for cheap. It was just a, basically a copy of Unreal Engine and a bunch of TVs.

And then they just get a bunch of nerds in and play dress up and like pew, pew, pew. Good. We got a show. $22 million is ludicrous. Yeah, I agree. And some more bad news for Star Wars fans. Well, depending on how you felt about Boba Fett and what they did to him, there's always a danger in taking a fan favorite mysterious character with no backstory and then providing a backstory when he's old and fat.

Mm-hmm. Which is what they did with Boba Fett, unfortunately. But during his recent appearance at Fan Expo Chicago, Tamara Morrison, who plays recent Boba Fett, confirmed he has not been asked to return as Boba Fett for The Mandalorian and Grogu. So, he will not be in any future shows or, well, or the movie, certainly at this point.

So, who knows? But no Boba Fett. Yeah, no, no tears shed either. Again, yeah, they kind of, that book of Boba Fett was not the best. No, but it had the three best Mandalorian episodes that I've seen in it, so. It sure did. It had a great Mandalorian soundtrack. And Fennec Shand, great character.

So, give her her own show. Yeah, so that part was at least a win. But yeah, on the whole, that was not a good show. So, and Disney has backed down from its attempt to dismiss a lawsuit related to the death of a restaurant guest at Disney World.

This made the rounds. We didn't talk about it last week because we were on such a high for Disney that we didn't want to sully, sully the Disney news. The lawsuit was filed after Dr. Amy Tang Swan died from an allergic reaction despite assurances from restaurant staff that her meal was safe. Disney initially argued that her husband, who filed the suit, waived his right to sue when he signed up for a Disney Plus account and purchased park tickets.

So, there was enough global backlash. It's like, come on, guys. Are you fucking serious that they finally said, okay, you don't have to go to private arbitration for this? No, that was absolutely ridiculous. But, I mean, it's always, everybody in the industry knows you don't mess with a mouse.

The lawyers at Disney are not Mickey Mouse. They are in the rancor pit. That's where they're kept. They're throwing a piece of meat every now and then, and they're told to run after things. And that's what Disney lawyers do. And they are overzealous at all times. But this one was particularly egregious.

Agreed. I mean, whoever, whatever lawyer decided to sign off on this one needs to be fired. AI. They're going to blame it on AI. Yeah. Well, some final Disney news, I think, here. Disney Plus has added Hulu content to its platform, causing concern among parents who previously saw it as a safe space for young children.

How's that going for you, Brian? I agree with this. I think the problem with it right now is that if you do there, you can obviously set a child account, which is great. But the child account basically means a toddler account. There needs to be like a mid-level here because like you don't get a lot of the Star Wars stuff.

You don't get a lot of the Marvel stuff. It's all like Disney Junior. There needs to be like, okay, I have a now eight-year-old. He's not interested in anything that shows up anymore under the child account settings because he's outgrown that. But he's also not ready for all the shit that you're putting on the homepage for the adult accounts now.

He doesn't need to see the Kardashians' vagina. Or Walking Dead or any of that crap. Or Walking Dead or any of that crap. Exactly. So there needs to be another tier that they put in here now. Well, no. It's very simple, Brian. You put in the age of the person who's watching it and then you have a slider that says, I want content that goes from here to here.

That's it. We've got technology for fucking doing this. This isn't fucking hard. We absolutely could do this. I mean, somebody would have to go through and put in all the shows or anything like that. But look. They do that already. Just an explicit filter. That's fine. It's not that hard.

I agree. It's not that hard. But that is – I agree. I'm concerned about this as well because I don't want Lucas, my son, to just scroll around in the adult version anymore because there's way too much adult stuff. But like I said, the kid's version doesn't work for him anymore either.

So I have to sit with him when he does it. Well, Brian, we've got some good news for you. According to a report from Deadline, Chick-fil-A is reportedly planning to launch its own reality TV streaming service. It's just a bunch of cows saying eat more chicken. We love Jesus. The fast food chain is collaborating with a major production company and other companies to create family-friendly, unscripted content.

The budget for some shows could reach $400,000 per half-hour episode. We should get in on that. Start writing some shit. A 10-episode family-friendly game show is already in the works. And the question is, will it be off the air on Sundays? Ah, very clever.

Yes. Do they have too much money? I mean, I understand wanting to get into verticals. You know, we've won the chicken game. KFC's on the ropes. Let's expand our offerings. But what genius at that board table said, let's do TV? Ah, I don't know.

The thing is, fast networks are so easy to spin up nowadays. And yeah, $400,000 per half-hour episode, that's like, you know, 20 minutes of Chick-fil-A income, I'm sure. So it's nothing for them. And see, I don't know anybody that really eats at Chick-fil-A anymore, at least here in California, after the whole, you know, gay marriage thing that they came out against.

So all my friends, we go to Popeye's, which frankly has a better chicken sandwich, if I'm being honest here. The spicy chicken at Popeye's is excellent. It's so good. It is so good. And I have a Chick-fil-A two blocks from my house, and I still don't even go there. Even when I'm feeling, you know, even when I'm at a low point.

Although, I will say that there was a little gay coalition that I worked with at BLT, and every Thursday, we all would walk down to Chick-fil-A, and they're like, I don't care if they hate the gays. I love the sandwich too much. It's like, okay. It's a good sandwich.

It's a good sandwich. But, you know, if I have to stand behind it, then they should have to stand behind it, too. I'm looking out for their rights, goddammit. You know, I'll tell you what, In-N-Out makes a damn good burger. I'm not going to watch the In-N-Out channel. Exactly. Exactly. Well, actually, I guess technically I do, but it's called the Adult Network.

Well, I think Chick-fil-A and the In-N-Out people are kind of on the same, I think they're on the same clan, so. Yeah. Yeah. That's true. You know who's not, though, is Denny's. Mm-hmm. Denny's has launched a new afterlife menu inspired by the upcoming release of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. The menu features four themed items, including the Say It Three Times Slam Breakfast.

Oh, boy. Yeah. Say it three times when you're in the crapper that afternoon. Ah! Ah! Ah! The Afterlife Melt Grilled Cheese, the Beetlejuice Burger, and the Cookies and Scream Shake. Yeah, I'm still not going to Denny's, but...

I haven't been to a Denny's in a good 30 years, and I don't intend to for this either. I'm not drunk at midnight stumbling home from the pub, so that was the best time to go to Denny's. Fries and Ranch after the bar was the best thing in the world with all your friends. No, not going back to Denny's for any...

Actually, they tore down the Denny's here in my neighborhood to make room for the Chick-fil-A, so can't. That's an upgrade. Actually, it is quite a bit. And we have a bit of a two-parter here, Brian, and I'll take part one. Lionsgate's new trailer for Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis leans into mixed early reviews, reminding viewers that past Coppola classics like Apocalypse Now and The Godfather also faced initial criticism before becoming masterpieces.

So the new trailer is out. I watched it. I was frankly befuddled by both the movie and the quotes. And I'm just not an Adam Driver fan, so I don't know if I even care. But continue, Brian. Take us to part two of this ongoing story.

Well, let me just also say really quickly, I'm with you. I watched the trailer. I don't understand this movie. I don't think I'm interested in this movie. And everything I've heard about this movie tells me it's a big, hot mess. So I'm not sure I'm ever going to see it anyways. But continuing with the big, hot mess trend, that trailer, with all of its supposed quotes reminding us that some of his other works that weren't considered very good on release became masterpieces.

Every single one of those quotes completely made up. Was it made up by AI? Well, they don't know. So I got into this a little bit, but they are definitely all made up because they used major artists or major critics like Pauline Kale, Andrew Saris, Rex Reed, Rex Reed.

So these are people who you can actually look up the quotes that they've said at the time, the reviews that they made at the time for his previous works. And none of that stuff is in any of theirs. But Gizmodo's Reed Jones has theorized that someone could have used a chatbot program to come up with these false quotes because the trailer quoted Ebert as saying, referring to Dracula as having style over substance, a phrase that does not appear in his actual review.

He does say it is an exercise in feverish excess. But apparently he put each, the Gizmodo guy, dumped this in the chat GPT, and they kind of spit out almost exactly the same thing. Ah, okay. Interesting. Lionsgate has taken full responsibility for this after the fact.

Lionsgate is immediately recalling our trailer from Megalopolis. The statement provided to the trade read, we offer our sincere apologies to the critics involved and to Francis Ford Coppola, an American zoetrope, for this inexcusable error in our vetting process. We screwed up. We are sorry. Oh, God. So Coppola didn't even make it at Lions, some schmucks at Lionsgate made it.

Some schmucks in the marketing department at Lionsgate said, we've got this subscription to ChatGPT. We should be using it. Oh, my God. So that sucks all around. Why wasn't Coppola should have had? You usually get sign off, right? Yeah.

But apparently he's too busy chasing skirts on his sets right now. Oh, I heard about that, too. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, man. So, yeah. I have no plans on ever doing Mushroom, so I probably will never watch this movie for sure. But this is kind of a fun fuck up. Oops. Yeah.

Yeah. It's good times. Almost makes you wish you still worked in the movie industry, huh? I know. I used to hang out with the trailer guys, too, and they were pretty cool. Trailer guys were always the best guys. Yeah. Because their department was right down the hall from us.

We were in print marketing. Right. And that's how I got all those Star Trek sounds. The whole library. The guy slipped me a USB under the table. He's like, here's the whole Star Trek next-gen library. Go have that. Nice. So, I'm like, thanks, dude. Appreciate you. Since I've been back home, staying at my mom's, the marketing program on Air Canada worked.

They had the first three episodes of Ted Lasso, which I ended up watching because there wasn't much in the way of movies that I hadn't seen already and wanted to see. And since I've been back, that has been my nighttime viewing. I have worked my way through seasons one, seasons two, and I'm halfway through season three of Ted Lasso.

Gosh, it's just such a great show. The third season is definitely the worst. Probably could have cut it after two, but there are some moments in season three that are spectacular. What a great show. It is just heartwarming, fun. I go to bed with a smile on my face. All right.

Yeah, I might have to do that, too. I could use that. Although, every time I see Keely, I'll just think of her in the latest season of Fargo. She was just ungodly good. She was so good. Did you watch that yet? I've never watched Fargo. It's been on my list to do. Oh, my God.

Yeah, you're missing out. That is one spectacular, spectacular series. I think seasons one and this latest season are the best. Okay. That is what I keep hearing. So at some point, I will get to that. Yeah, you have to, man. It's so good. Speaking of old watches that are so good, I started rewatching House of Cards from the beginning.

Wow. Were you able to get past the Kevin Spacey taint? I don't really care. Yeah, me either. I don't give a shit. I don't really don't care. Like, whatever. Yeah, yeah, whatever. The show is so fucking good. And, you know, if you do hate Kevin Spacey, it's perfect. And if you like Kevin Spacey, it's perfect.

Because he's fucking phenomenal in it. Because the writing is so good in the show. And those first couple episodes that Fincher directed are amazing. We're just finishing up season one now. We will not watch the last season because that was just an unmitigated dumpster fire. That was going to be my question because I never watched after he was taken off the show either.

I never watched the last season. Dude, no. Okay. It was bad. It was bad. Yeah. But this first season is just, it's a masterpiece. There's so much packed into every single episode, except you can always, this was true when it first aired, skip episode eight.

That was just the worst episode when he went back to his alma mater for an episode. That was terrible, terrible episode. Just skip it. We fast forward the whole thing. But we're loving it. Absolutely loving it. And that theme song is so good. It just gets stuck in your head.

Just the whole, the cinematography, the colors, everything was phenomenal. Yeah. Yeah. No, because Fincher, man, he laid out the tone for the show. And it was just beautiful, beautiful. I started watching this new game show called The Anonymous this week.

It's, yeah, it's okay. Not great. It's a Bravo sci-fi channel thing. Yeah. I'll tell you in a couple of weeks. They launched the first three episodes. We watched the first two. Right. But yeah, it's just one of those, like, you know, how much can you lie to people's faces and get away with?

Yeah. I saw a commercial for it and I figured I'd be seeing it on the show at some point here. Yeah. Well, the funny thing is the commercial, the reason that we started watching is because my roommate is a big fan of Anna Delvey, the, you know, the scam queen of New York, who's been under house arrest for two years, who, by the way, this morning just got released from house arrest and can go 75 miles outside of her home in New York.

But anyway, she did the commercial. We're like, can she be in the show? But it turns out she's not. They just hired her for a commercial. Right. Okay. Saying you're a fan of her is a very weird statement to make. I said it was my roommate, not me. Oh, no, not you. But still, it's a strange, strange world we were in.

Yeah. Well, hey, man, you got to give the girl some credit. She did have balls for what she did. Definitely had some said some cojones on her. I watched Alien Romulus this week. Oh, I'm curious. Oh, my God. I fucking love that movie. It was so good.

I'm so happy that the Alien franchise is being rejuvenated after those execrable movies that came out that made no sense whatsoever because that one with the Native American tribe was phenomenal. I'm happy to hear this is good. I'm very excited. Well, wasn't it Predator with the...

Oh, crap. That was Predator, not Alien. Yeah, that was Predator, dude. Yeah. No, there have been Alien versus Predator. But yes, this is the Alien side. This happens in between Alien and Aliens. Well, I'm happy both franchises have turned a new leaf from shit to good. Yeah, exactly.

This was... There was a lot of throwbacks to Aliens in here and Alien. So if you're into it, you know, if you're a fan of both of those movies, there's a lot to, you know, to really tickle your nostalgia button. But I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Absolutely 100% thoroughly enjoyed it. I've been thinking about it ever since. I kind of want to see it again. I'm really looking forward to it. It's going to have to be a super late night watch at home with headphones on because my son has seen the commercial and it freaks him right the fuck out. Yeah, yeah. Well, the movie definitely would freak him out then because the movie is better than the commercial.

But definitely watch it in a very dark room with headphones turned way up. Oh, excited. Can't wait. Yeah. Good news. Good news.

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Sign up now at DAZN.com. Caps and doodads. So the Overcast drama continues as we keep getting emails in. From now, we're getting emails from both sides of the camp. Yeah. A lot of people still like it or very happy with some of the – well, they all agree that things need to be fixed.

But most people – a lot of people recently this last week, I would say 75% of the feedback we got about Overcast was positive for Overcast. Yeah, except for the people who liked using CarPlay with Overcast because that doesn't work anymore, which is a big thing. Kind of a big thing since most people listen to podcasts in their car.

In Los Angeles, yes. Yeah. And I think one thing that nobody has really talked about that I found on the subreddit is their battery issues with Overcast. Now, I hadn't even turned it on for weeks. And then I looked at my weekly progress report on battery usage and on apps that are using the most battery.

This was number two. Overcast was number two in my list at 13% of my battery for the week. And I had never even opened it. So it's got some serious battery issues. People who were using it still saw that it was just draining their battery super duper fast.

So I uninstalled it. Obviously, the battery issue went away when you uninstall it. But yeah, it's definitely an issue. There are some data issues too. It's pulling a lot more data than it should be pulling for that stuff. Well, I do know that the most recent update fixed my main issue, which is on the homepage.

It no longer shows every single podcast you're subscribed to. It only shows the ones with new episodes, which is all I want. So they did fix that, which is good. The battery issue is concerning, especially as I'm about to do two days in Disneyland, which means I need a phone to last all day.

So I'll probably uninstall it for the time being and reinstall later. Okay, well, you're going to want to get your OPML because I don't... Well, I guess it should if you have the Overcast account when you log back and you sign in your account. It should keep it. But no guarantees with this update. No shit. But hat tip to a fan of the show and friend of mine, Jason Bryant.

He sent over in basically how to get your OPML because Marco took that out of the latest update that there's no OPML export in the app. So if you go to the Overcast website and go to your account, you can export the OPML from there. And as Jason liked to put it, Marco is just a programmer, going to be a programmer.

He also has the option to export an OPML file that even says on the website, nobody else can read. So if you want an OPML file for shits and giggles with way more information than you absolutely need, you can get that one too. But the standard OPML file to import into other players is available there.

All right. Yeah. So thanks, Jason, for that one. I am still going to – I'm still sticking right now with Apple Podcasts because I want to go test all the other ones still. And it was funny, Jason sent me a text and he's like, I haven't opened Pocket Casts because that was what he was trying to move to since 2015.

And he showed me my old show, Vapid, was still there. Yeah, I saw that. I think he posted that on our Discord as well. Oh, he did? Okay. That's awesome. Yeah. I was just like, oh my God, I haven't seen that in a while. I loaded up Pocket Casts and I just – I'm too lazy to learn a new interface and how it works.

And then I also tried the one that you sent me. What was that one called? NoiCast. Yeah, that didn't even make it for 20 minutes after I really dug into it. That's way too basic. Didn't dig that one at all. So in the meantime, yeah, I've been using Apple Podcasts as well. And a little bit of news about that.

I guess they got – maybe they heard the Overcast news and went, maybe we should make our service a little bit better. They've updated their web interface because I saw some people saying the one thing I really miss is having a good web interface. Well, Apple Podcasts on the web has a new look and feature set, more akin to the app itself.

So you can do just about everything that you could do on the app now via the web, which is great if you're into that because I often will play podcasts on my browser as well. So that's great. Yeah, it's not – it's okay. I mean, yeah, it's okay. The thing that bugs me about it is that Discovery kind of sucks on it because – Yeah, Discovery has always sucked on Apple Podcasts.

Well, the thing is on the app, it's pretty good. I'm fine with it on the app. I guess it kind of mirrors the app somewhat. But I've had more luck with search on the actual iOS app. Right. The Mac app, not so much a fan, but their top lists are – the way they display the top lists are shit.

Right. So – but searching has seemed to be – seems to be a little bit better. But yeah, it's okay. I checked it out. Sure. Whatever. And, you know, I had kind of the same thing. I hadn't used Apple Podcasts for so long. I was subscribed to all these shows that I have not listened to in years. I know. I was doing all these downloads from shows.

I'm just like, I really don't want to give that person my number. So, like, delete, delete, delete. Quick, quick, quick. Get rid of it. Oh, yeah. Now, we have a little follow-up here. In a Reddit AMA, Sonos CEO Patrick Spence has said he was hopeful that Sonos could re-release the old app. Until very recently, he explained that, nope, we can't.

Because the actual app updates the software on all of the hardware as well because it's a very – they're, you know, very much married to each other. And the old app would actually work worse because of all the upgrades that they've made – I'm sorry, not upgrades, updates.

Let me be very, very clear on my verbiage there. The updates that they've made to the new app and the hardware itself, it would just be a shit show. So, they're kind of stuck on the path now of going to fix this steaming dumpster file of a Tesla Cybertruck of an app.

Yeah. They're committed. Unfortunately, they are very, very committed. Now, this is a really fun one. I had to skip on Discord before I saw it everywhere. In a bold move, the popular iPad illustration app Procreate has announced that it will not be integrating generative AI into its software, setting itself apart from competitors like Adobe who put that shit on everything.

Man, everybody does now. Like, this makes me so happy. I am going to become a Procreate user if I can figure it out. I don't know if you're going to – do you draw much? No. It's really good for that. It's really good for taking images from the internet and learning how to sketch over them.

That's about it. Well, that would be good for my son, actually. Yeah. Yeah. I've got to check this out. Okay, cool. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Give him an iPad with an Apple Pencil and Procreate. It's a fantastic tool for that. Yeah, he's such the artist these days. He loves doing that shit. Oh, Procreate's the shit then.

Yeah. I've been a paid user of Procreate forever, and this made me very happy too. I'll finally have a use for that Apple Pen I bought. Yeah, yeah. I use mine every day. I love it. Right. But the – because I actually use the Apple Pencil with – not Apple.

It was Affinity Designer. Right. It works really well, you know, because it's basically Illustrator. So if you're doing lots of curves and stuff like that, it works really well. And that's what I was talking about the other day. But I use my iPad Pro as a secondary monitor to my Mac Studio and then drag my docs over there, and I can draw with the Apple Pencil on the app on the Mac and then use the app like the keyboard, the mouse with it.

Oh, it's a beautiful setup. Beautiful setup. Anyway, just a hat tip to James Kuda for this. There's a link in the link in the show notes where he does a video on – I think it was X – but basically saying, no, we write software for humans. Fuck this AI shit.

I support that. Yep, absolutely. And then I saw this in the news, and I just couldn't believe it. Now, I don't do a lot of sous vide. Yeah. I'm a barbecuer and an instant potter and a traditional cooker and all that sort of stuff. I hear it's amazing. I just have never gotten into it because I don't need another kitchen device.

But if I did want to get into it, I don't think I would buy an Anova, who I guess makes some decent ones now. They will soon start charging a subscription to use the smart features of their cooking appliances. That is ridiculous.

Like, if you can't buy something for your kitchen that you don't own, I can't believe it. The subscription will kick in on August 21st and apply to the proprietary app, which controls wireless functionality. So you won't be able to remotely control the device without paying $2 per month or $10 per year, which isn't a lot.

But still, it's the principle of the thing. I agree with this writer. In the old days, we'd buy an object and use that object. End of story. Now, everything's a dang subscription. Yes, I wrote those previous sentences in the cartoonish old man's voice, but the point stands. Exactly. So this will only apply to new users.

You're grandfathered in, if you already have one. But sort of, if you have some of their older first generation products, they're going to strip all the smart features from those. Class action. Class action. A hundred percent. This is ridiculous.

Sue these fuckers out of existence. Yep. I agree. So screw that company. Since you have an Instant Pot, Brian, I would recommend the Instant Pot AccuSlim Sous Vide 800-Watt Precision Cooker Immersion Circulator Ultra Quiet Fast Heating with Big Touchscreen Accurate Temperature and Time Control Waterproof.

This is $71.99 on Amazon. But as we know, Amazon changes prices based on your purchase history and a myriad number of other factors. So your price may vary, Brian. Okay. I have one of these and see, when you buy a sous vide device, you're not just buying a sous vide device because then you also have to go buy a fucking vacuum sealer and all the bags that go with it.

Since I sous vide a total of two times with this device, I ended up selling my vacuum sealer at a garage sale to my neighbor and made some of my money back. So yeah, I'm not a sous vide guy. I tell you what though, the food was amazing. I made some lemon chicken in it and it was just ungodly good, but it took forever.

I hear it's good, but yeah, no thank you. Now, the one thing I left out of the article is I read this sentence a couple of times and I just like, my head exploded. This is from company CEO. My whole thing just moved, so I've lost it. That's my fault, sorry.

This is from company CEO, Stefan Savajan. I think that's how it's pronounced. Our community has literally cooked hundreds of millions of times with our app. Unfortunately, each connected cook costs us money. How much could it possibly cost for a simple Bluetooth feature?

How's it costing them money at all? Even if it has to pull to an AWS to get some data for something, which through Bluetooth, it shouldn't. How's it costing them money? The app developer who actually makes the app. Well, you build that into your pricing, you dickhead. No shit.

That's what you fucking do. Oh, you don't sell it if you're not going to update it. Jesus Christ. Yeah. You know, iOS updates, Android updates. You know this going in. This is a known quantity. We're on iOS 18. So it's happened 18 times.

It's not like this is the first time Apple just goes, hey, we're going to update our operating system. Oh, we never knew about that. This is the first time this ever happened. Can you believe our entire company isn't set it and forget it, Jason? Here's the thing, though, too. Now, I might be might be kind of a dickhead for saying this, but the thing about sous vide is you put a bag of stuff in some hot water and you press a button that says cook and then you come back later and it's cooked.

Why do you need Bluetooth and Wi-Fi for a sous vide? They do point out in the article that you don't actually need it, but I guess it's the principle of offering it and then screwing people for it. That's the well, that's exactly it. Yeah. So that's that's the thing there. So but hopefully not many people actually use the Bluetooth feature because how fucking lazy you got to be.

There's timers on everything. You weigh your food. You know how long it's going to take. Come on. I do believe in general this article is a tempest in an instant pot. Closing shout outs. Over at Patreon, we've got Ersbo, who also writes in just a quick hello to let you know my Saturday morning is not proper until I turn on GOG.

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No reviews this week. Boo. No, but a lot of people died. Yes. Phil Donahue died at age 88. That was crazy. Crazy. I mean, talk about a guy who created the media landscape that now no longer exists, but did for a long time.

Yeah. Yeah. I just, I feel bad kind of for him. He says, Phil Donahue, talk show host, pioneer and husband of Marlo Thomas dies at 88. So he still can get out of the shadow of Marlo Thomas on his deathbed. So. Yeah.

Sorry, Phil. She was, she was a looker back in the day. She was. She was, she was that girl. Literally. L'Andalon has died. He was a French actor, died at 88 as well. What, you're not going to read the headlines? Seductive star of European cinema.

I was going to get there. He was a seductive star of European cinema because I remember him from Zorro from 1975, which I have talked about my quest to find the DVD of Zorro forever on the show back in the day until I finally found it. It was a quest, a Herculean quest, which now you don't have to do because the whole fucking thing is on YouTube, which I put a link to in the show notes.

And it is the full movie, not the one that I had, that everybody had seen before with the little clips cut out. This is the actual two hour version. Great version of Zorro. Some of it hasn't aged well, but it is fun. The soundtrack, amazing. But just because you were the seductive star of European cinema does not mean that you weren't batshit bug nutty insane because Alon's family has refused to put down the dog the actor wanted

to be buried with because that was his last dying wish was wanted to be buried with his perfectly healthy dog. They wanted, he wanted the dog to be euthanized so he could take it with him. Now he has had over 50 dogs in his lifetime and it was a very staunch supporter of animal rights. Except for the one that he loved the most.

Except for his old dog. The one that he said that he loved the most. Yes. So yeah, you know, 88, you're not really firing on all cylinders. So yeah. I'm a firm believer that we don't have to follow all of our family's wishes when they pass if their wishes are bug nutty.

Yeah. Yeah. So the family did the right thing. There was a, there was a massive outcry in France saying, what the fuck are you people thinking? And they're like, no, hold, slow your roll, slow your roll. The dog's staying with us. He's okay. It's okay. Papa was a little kooky. We're good.

We're good. So, but that does not diminish from his body of work at all. So you could do worse than spending an afternoon watching some of his classics. So good stuff. And we usually only talk about some of these people when they're dead. So I want to shout out one who is still alive, Brian.

In today's digital world, it's hard to imagine life without images, video, and music at our fingertips. But behind this digital convenience lies the work of unsung heroes like Nasir Ahmed, an Indian American engineer whose breakthrough in digital compression made JPEGs and MPEGs possible.

I'd just like to point out that he pronounced them J-Pog and M-Pog. Well, he's Indian, so I'm not going to go down that route. So you can appoo your way to the cancel house if you want to. I was going more French with the pronunciation, but okay. I got that. In 1974, Ahmed developed the discrete cosine transform or the DCT algorithm, a method to reduce the size of digital files without losing critical details.

This innovation was crucial during the early days of the internet. No shit. Well, back when we had dial-up. It took forever to get those Barlow Thomas pictures downloaded. I'm telling you, man. I'm telling you. That's before we had AI just to make them up ourselves. Yeah.

She looks great with six fingers. I'll take an extra finger for that one. Woo! Six finger handy, please. Woo! Oh, boy. Way to spell it out, Jason. I'm doing my favorite. I'm doing my favorite thing here, Brian.

I'm talking to the people who just don't get the joke sometimes. Yeah, so anyway, sorry to sully the not-so. You try and do a good thing, Brian, and then you just- You try. You try, Jason. You try, anyway. So this is a pre-obit for Nassir.

I'm sure he's really going to appreciate it. I know. Didn't you hear what those assholes said about you? He's like, I didn't even work on AA. Come on, I made JPEGs. Jimmy, a fucking break. JPEG. Yeah.

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