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Grumpy Old Geeks, a weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schulmeister and Jason DeFilippo, discussing the finer points of what went wrong on the internet and who's to blame. Welcome to Grumpy Old Geeks. I'm Jason DeFilippo.

And I'm Brian Schulmeister. These fucking bros won't stop, Brian. The bro-bro-cops-lips. Bro-pops-lips. Yeah. Something like that. They're on the bro train. I made that video on Instagram like a month ago now. Actually, it feels like 10 years ago. It's still getting...

I'm still getting comments every day. The long trail. It is. It is. And these kids are just like, bro, why are you crying, bro? Stop crying, bro. A, I'm not crying. It's a semantical debate based on script kitties and vibe coding.

That's all it is. But everybody takes it to be like the end of the fucking world. And just the insults are not creative. Be creative. Please. You know, it's shit that I already know. Yes, I'm a has-been. Why do you think I have a podcast? If I was a fucking bin still, I wouldn't have a podcast.

Jesus Christ. Get your shit together, kids. Come on. I expect a higher level of insults from you. But this is what you wanted with that video. It's mission accomplished, right? Technically, it is. You did this as a point to try to get engagement, and you're getting it.

Oh, it worked. But here's the thing. But it didn't really work because they're not subscribing to our podcast. That's true. Our numbers have not really increased. It's just been a fucking headache for me. So, Instagram engagement for podcasts, still shit. Surprise. Useless.

Oh, man. Are you, you know, topped off on your World Cup? It's all so exciting, Jason. We're at the end of the group stage, so, like, all the games are being played at the same time. So, we figure out who's doing what in each group.

And I came to come record, and I was like, oh, I'm going to miss Morocco versus Haiti and Scotland versus Brazil. Big deal. Brazil's going to kill Scotland. They are up one to nothing. And Morocco should handily take care of Haiti. Toot toot high right now, Jason. I have my Apple app that only does one thing open on the desk here.

That's right. Tells you the scores of the games that you're too busy to watch because you're making the dollars. The dollars. Dollars, singular, yes. Doing the fucking podcast. Yeah, it's all very exciting. I'm having a blast. It is.

I still hate FIFA, but I can't. They gave me the one fix, and I just can't help myself, Jason. I know. I know. You and everybody else. I have not seen one game this time around. Not one. Okay. It saddens me.

It saddens me. I just have not. You can fix this. I've been sick. I've been very sick. So, I have not been able to get up. Well, luckily, there's still 48 games to go, Jason. Well, I may be able to get one in then. It might be the last thing I do on my deathbed, but I'll take it.

Okay. I'd rather do that than look at my fucking Instagram comments one more day. Well, I love this. Elon Musk is pushing back against criticism over the dismantling of USAID, arguing on X that if aid cuts had caused even a single child's death, Brian, it would have become one of the biggest news stories in the world.

If I recall, it was quite a big news story. Musk has also claimed that USAID itself was responsible for millions of deaths, echoing allegations tied to federal funding of gain-of-function research. The debate comes after months of reporting from major outlets documenting the impact of foreign aid cuts on health care, food assistance, and disease prevention programs around the world.

Researchers, public health experts, and humanitarian organizations have linked the reductions in aid funding to rising mortality rates, particularly among children in vulnerable areas. Some studies project that the long-term effects could contribute to millions of additional deaths by the end of the decade if funding is not restored.

So, TLDR, Elon, they did. You ketamine-soaked fucking douche nozzle. Yeah, they absolutely did. And can we, by all means, if we're going to go revisit ancient history, because that's what Trump would call that.

That was in the past. Who cares? That was a long time ago. Let's just talk about Doge in general. Did you save us any money, Elon? No. No. No, you did not. Did you spend a ton of money? Yes. Yes, you did. Exactly.

And now, Mr. Trillionaire, are you or are you not a trillionaire? You're not right now because that SpaceX stock is kind of doing the same things that those starships were doing over the Caribbean, falling back to Earth in a giant chunk of pieces and shit like that.

He's the first person in history to go from trillionaire to billionaire. But, you know, he still has a whopping $957 billion, which is obscene and something that, I don't know, just slice off a light, like a slice for the kids for USAID, you know, that you say you're not killing.

Well, that you killed already, maybe restitution. He could put one one-hundredth of his net worth into a low-yield savings account, like not even making a lot of money, just your run-of-the-mill stick, go to Wells Fargo, open up an account, and put one one-hundredth of your worth into that.

And the interest alone could solve so many of the world's problems. But you see, Brad, he doesn't actually have it. He doesn't have it, though. No, it's all paper money. It's all paper. It's paper money, and all he does is take out loans against the paper money, which is unrealized tax gains. I'm sorry, not paper money.

On paper money. If it was actually paper money, we could spend that motherfucker. Yeah, yeah. But no, it's fake money. It's fake money that he's taking loans out against. It doesn't really, you know, I think if the whole thing kind of came down, he'd probably be in about the same boat as you and I. And he might need to start podcasting.

But, hey, what are you going to do? I've been watching that stock. I've got a separate tab open that I just keep refreshing because it's just the schadenfreude of it. It's just so delicious. I would recommend you watch a World Cup game instead, but you do you, Jason.

The thing is, I don't have cable in my room. I don't have cable in my room. I can't afford the cable box for cable in my room. I guess I could do that. Out of all the people in this household, I am probably the one that can figure out how to watch a World Cup game if I wanted to.

I could probably hack the fucking satellite to get it right in my house. But no. Anyway, this is just a fun one. Anthropik's most advanced consumer AI model, Claude Fable 5, was available for just over three days, Brian, before being pulled under pressure from a U.S. government export control directive.

Now, we talked about this last week. This is where it gets fun. Now, a legal tech startup called Legion is suing the federal government, arguing that losing access to the model has caused immediate and potentially existential damage to its business.

You built a business from software that's only been available three days? Three days? Legion, which uses AI to help lawyers generate court filings in legal documents, probably in Alabama, compared to last week's news, says Fable 5 had become central to its product development in just three days.

The company argues that the government's restrictions sidelined engineers, disrupted operations, and created uncertainty for any business that depends on cutting-edge AI models remaining available. First off, if your business model relies on cutting-edge AI models remaining available, have I got news for you?

You don't have a business model. You have a hope and a dream. Oh, no. This is like suing a hot girl's parents because she won't blow you, which I know it's a flawed analogy, but I came up with it and I was happy with it, so I got to get it out there somewhere that will come in handy for somebody.

Right. It's like relying on the autoblow 4, but then they have to pull it from the shelves because the FDA said it actually can cut your dick off. Oh, that would be a problem. Yeah. I only tried the two, and I'm still intact, so progress. I should have stuck with that one.

I tried to sell it at the garage sale, and it didn't work. Was that a massager? Well, technically. Yeah, it's, you know, if you're trying to tenderize a cucumber, that's what it's for. It's a salad device. I often tenderize my cucumbers for my salad.

I play them, and then I tenderize them. Yes. It comes with being 50. It just takes time. So, yeah, Legion built its business on rented AI, and it's discovering that the downside of building your company on somebody else's API sucks. Welcome to the party, pal.

Welcome to the party. Well, we talked about dynamic pricing and how the grocery stores all around the country, in the U.S. anyways, because, you know, we have laws, and apparently so does California, have been putting in the digital display, digital price checks, so they can basically roll in dynamic pricing and raise the price of your bananas at the push of a button.

Well, a new lawsuit has been filed on Monday in Sacramento, California, proposed as a class action, which is accusing British Petroleum, 7-Eleven, Walmart, Albertsons, and other gas station chains operating in California, along with a software platform of using AI to coordinate high prices and wring more money from the pockets of consumers, according to Reuters, who reviewed the suit.

Reuters says the software in question is called Calibrate, with a K. With a K. Got it. A company whose website says it has been removing the guesswork and adding certainty to organizations' biggest decisions for decades, and that it offers market-leading AI, analytics, and modeling, which has been around for decades.

Ooh, decades. In California, using AI to collaboratively set prices could be the basis for a valid lawsuit, because there's been a 2025 amendment to California's primary antitrust law, which makes algorithmic price-fixing illegal. Don't! Ticketmaster?

Specifically, no one may use or distribute a common pricing algorithm as part of a contract, combination in the form of a trust, or a conspiracy to restrain trade or commerce. And what exactly is a pricing algorithm? California law defies it as any methodology, including a computer, software, or other technology used by two or more persons that uses competitor data to recommend a line, stabilize, set, or otherwise influence a price or commercial term.

Now, illegal in California, Cass station's probably doing it. Not exactly the same as dynamic pricing, but in my view, this becomes a very gray area, because what do you base your dynamic prices on? You don't just base it on demand.

You also base it on what competitors are pricing their items at, right? Right, yes. So, technically, illegal in California, so somebody should walk down to the Ralphs and say, you might not want to spend the money on those dynamic pricing, the little LED price units for the bananas yet.

We'll see, we'll see. This actually made it into the headline news here in L.A. because it's a big deal. And in the old days, you know what they used to do, Brian? They used to drive around town with a notebook and look at their competitors' signs and then take that back and figure out what their pricing should be.

This was a common thing. I don't know if you've ever worked at a gas station. I have. And that's what they did. That's how they did it. And I'm okay with that because there's a bit of effort involved. And there's no collusion. There's no collusion. Everybody was, everybody had their own guy driving around with a notebook.

I would recommend that Calibrate rename themselves to collusion with a K. Yeah, there you go. There you go. And I got a quick story for you, Brian. We always talk about how, you know, the United States is a third world country. And Los Angeles is very much right up there, especially with our decaying infrastructure.

I was coming back from Trader Joe's. And because I go to Trader Joe's now to buy my garlic because the dynamic pricing at my Ralph's, it's charging me 75 cents a bulb for garlic now where I can get it for 49 cents at Trader Joe's. That 25 cents is magical right now. So I need it.

There was a Mercedes in front of me pulling up. The light turned green and we're all going. And there's a dip in the road, right? He's a boop, boop, right at where the light is. The car in front of me does the boop, boop. Out of the bottom of the Mercedes is a giant rat fell out into the middle of Ventura Boulevard.

And everybody was just like, holy shit, we're swerving, going crazy, like trying to avoid the rat. And that's LA in a nutshell. It is just a rat infested hellhole. Yeah, I never really saw rats when I was in LA, but things are getting weird.

Well, we've had them. I mean, in the valley, they're just everywhere. I mean, we have signs for people, you know, don't poison the ground and the trees because they live in the trees. But they also live in the cars. So, my car, my roommate's car, the neighbor's cars. You know what we do to get rid of the rats in California?

By cats? No. We zip tie bars of Irish spring to the inside of our engine blocks. That's how you get rid of rats inside of a car. Because just like women, rats hate Irish spring. That's two things. Irish spring is good for deterring women, deer, and rats.

So, there you go. It is a birth control soap. All right. It has so many uses. I have to admit, I don't think I've ever owned a bar of Irish spring in my life. I did. I did. My girlfriend at the time said, get rid of that shit, you stink.

Okay. Hat tip to Shauna for saving me from myself on that one. Thank you, girl. Well, a new problem is emerging inside enterprises racing to adopt AI, Brian. The cost of the tokens powering those systems. What, people aren't token maxing anymore? Oh, no, they're not token maxing, baby.

No. They're token frugal. Yes, they are. You know, because the token algorithmic pricing has taken effect. So, according to leaked internal audio from consulting giant Accenture, companies are seeing AI spending rise rapidly.

And it's often non-technical employees, not engineers driving the biggest costs. Talk about a plot twist, Brian. So, one surprisingly expensive use case is converting PDFs into presentation slides or markdown files.

But still cheaper than the Adobe subscription. You'd need to do it with Adobe Acrobat directly. True. Still cheaper. Fuck you, Adobe. Accenture says organizations are moving beyond simple chatbots into AI-powered workflows, coding assistance, and enterprise-wide deployments of tools like Microsoft Copilot, Cloud Code, and OpenAI Codex.

As adoption scales, token consumption is becoming a significant and unpredictable operating expense, raising questions from executives about whether the business value justifies the cost. The issue is spreading across the industry. Uber recently capped employees' AI usage after reportedly exhausting its AI budget in just four months.

In response, Accenture is developing a new product, Brian, called Token IQ to help clients track, manage, and optimize AI spending. How many tokens do you need for Token IQ? Exactly. If I was an employer and I had employees that their job was to take a PDF and turn it into a presentation, I'd be like, I'm already paying you to do that.

So, why don't you just do that? Because that's your job. You do that. Yeah. I don't. What's the. But it's funny that it's the non-technical employees because they're also probably dicking around, you know, getting, you know, help with their gout and talking about their relationship issues and trying to find a girlfriend.

And getting it to write all their emails because they no longer have the brain capacity to do it themselves and all that stuff. That's what everybody I know that is heavily invested in AI. They're not coders. They're not engineers. They're middle management. And they've stopped thinking.

At work. One could say, though, that middle management has never really had much of a thought. So, I know, I know. I'm sorry. I'm treading and treading on your domain now since you're middle management. Well, not even. So, you're a podcaster like me. I was too smart for it, unfortunately.

That was the problem. There you go. See? There you have it. There you have it. So, stop using AI or otherwise you might fall down the middle management hole. So, your friends have to use this quite a bit? You know, I just know an awful lot of people that just can't seem to write an email anymore by themselves.

They have to take the email that they got, plop it into some gen AI and get the crafted email. And now they're getting too lazy to even tweak it. They just send what they get. So. That's the one thing that I've just never understood is using AI for email. Email is like the one thing that I'm like, I'm going to write every single word of that because this is communication with another human being that needs, that has a desired outcome.

You know? It's like there's something that needs to be done because of this email. Whatever it is, I'm the only one that knows it. The AI doesn't know it. Yeah. It's like, you know, okay, Grammarly. I use Grammarly because I failed English in the fourth grade. Fine. You talk pretty one day. Exactly.

Yeah. Me write like orc. But that's fine. Grammarly does that. But it doesn't change the words. It puts in the punctuation. But I just don't get it. Have you ever written an email with AI, Brian? Absolutely not. I tried it once to see if it would be any better or easier. It was a particularly sensitive email in which I was, it was just a tough one to write, right?

So, like, I was like, well, how do I get, I want to get the tone just right for this email because this is kind of uncomfortable. And it was a miserable fail. Like, I hated it. I was just like, nope, screw this. I'm just going to agonize this over this for an hour. And then I crafted something that made sense and it went well.

So. Shocker. Yeah. Shocker. Because I have brain. And know how to talk. Oh, dear. This episode is sponsored by Delete Me. Have you ever thought, I should really be doing something to protect myself from stalkers, scammers, and hackers, but you're not sure what?

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A Microsoft researcher has used an unlikely source, GOATS, in the 1999 strategy game Age of Empires 2 to make a serious point about large language models and claims of AI sentience. In a paper titled, If LLMs Have Human-Like Attributes, Then So Does Age of Empires 2, Researcher Adrian DeWinter built simple logic gates using the game's GOAT characters, then combined them into a basic AI system known as a Perceptron.

I like that. His argument is that any sufficiently powerful system or substrate can theoretically implement the same kinds of computations that power modern AI. So, this guy's sharp. The real takeaway isn't that GOAT-based AI is practical, because GOAT-based AI is just fucking awesome to say.

It's that people often project human qualities onto AI based on how it's presented. If ChatGPT produced identical responses through a browser, a smart speaker, or a herd of virtual goats running around a video game, the output would be the same.

But our perception of its intelligence would change dramatically. DeWinter argues this demonstrates how much AI anthropomorphism is driven by human expectations rather than objective evidence. And this comes down to language. It's the fact that what we're seeing with the GOATs is exactly the same as it would be if it was translated to language.

But the fact that we, as humans, you know, we see sentience when we hear language coming back at us instead of, it's like, it's just that perception, even though the output is technically mathematically exactly the same. Because think about AI.

LLMs, it's just math and it's just numbers. That's all it is. So, I just, I love this. I love this. They got goat seed. Goat-based AI, they got goat seed. Well, back in March, it was widely reported that Oracle had sent anywhere between 10,000 and 30,000 employees an email notifying them that it was the last day with the company.

We now have a more concrete number of people who have lost their jobs. In its annual regulatory filing, Oracle said that it employs approximately 141,000 people worldwide as of May 31st. That's down 21,000 employees from the 162,000 employed by the company in the same period last year.

In its filing, the company said it has an existing restructuring plan in place that it made and will continue to make adjustments to its workforce. It admitted that the adoption and deployment of AI technologies across its operations have resulted and may continue to result in reductions to its numbers. As Bloomberg has recently reported, Oracle cut thousands of jobs in order to have more readily available cash it can use for its AI data center buildouts.

Let me repeat that. Oracle cut thousands of jobs in order to have more readily available cash. Oracle cut thousands of jobs in order to have more readily available cash. The company has spent $1.8 billion in these restructuring costs, which includes severance payments for laid-off employees.

Oracle cut thousands of jobs in order to have more readily available cash that it spends on its restructuring costs, not for the fucking data centers. You follow people? Don't believe this bullshit. Don't believe the hype.

Well, I mean, technically, AI did kill their jobs. No, I'm not arguing that. It's just not the way that they are presenting it to the public. My point is that they are saying that this is to save money to build data centers, but they are not saving any money, maybe in the long run, but right now it is costing them an awful lot of money to get rid of those employees.

Yes, short-term. It's short-term for long-term. But if there is a long-term, because who knows if Oracle is going to survive this? Until then, they'll just pay Elon for his methane and running the meth labs of AI data centers. Whatever the fuck he's using to power those ketamine burning in the factories.

I don't fucking know. Ketamine-studded unicorns. That's what we're doing today. Well, Norway is imposing a strict ban on the use of generative AI tools by elementary school kids. Thank God, because what the fuck would they be doing using generative AI? Prime Minister Jonas Garstori suggested at a press conference that AI lets children skip crucial steps in their education and that schools should focus on teaching them how to read, write, and do mathematics.

The ban impacts students from 1st through 7th grade, age 6 to 13. However, the policy also extends to teens in a reduced fashion. Kids age 14 to 16 can use generative AI, but only with a teacher's supervision. Teens 17 and above are encouraged to use AI appropriately on their own.

This isn't the first move Norway has made to remove tech from classrooms. They banned smartphones from schools back in 2024, which has proven to be a success. It led to a reduction in bullying, better grades, and a significant increase in the number of visits to psychologists for mental health issues. Notably, because they also banned guns, nobody's schools got shot up.

These results were especially potent with girls. Norway is also planning a social media ban for all children under 16, which is similar to how Australia handles things. A bill will be introduced to Parliament by the end of the year. Sounds solid. Sounds like a good plan. Maybe we should do something like that.

Good luck. Good luck. The FCC is considering new rules that would require wireless carriers to verify and retain personal information from every new and renewing customer, including a name, physical address, government-issued ID number, and alternate phone number.

The agency says the proposal would make it harder for robocallers and scammers to obtain service anonymously. But privacy advocates, domestic violence organizations, and digital rights groups argue the policy could effectively eliminate anonymous prepaid burner phones that are often critical for abuse survivors, journalists, whistleblowers, and others who need to protect their identities.

I would also say the homeless, because the homeless, because the homeless actually have cell phones too, believe it or not. Let me ask you a question, Jason. Hit me, Brian. Hit me. These shady organizations that run these robocallers and the robocaller rooms and all that, they're not going and getting burner phones from Verizon.

No, they're not. No, they're not. So we're talking about, they're getting them in Myanmar, and they're getting them in China, and they're getting them in Russia. They're not getting them, Brian, in Poughkeepsie, I would say. So my argument here would be, this is kind of bullshit.

We have seen a couple of robocaller farms, but that does not mean that every person on the fucking planet, or at least in this country, you know, we do think that we are the planet sometimes. I know. We are the world. Yeah, we are the world. Screw everybody else.

Look, we're going to trade you some ranch dressing for some SIM cards, okay? Let's go. Let's go. Europe, I'm investing. I'm investing in companies that make ranch right now, because Europe is going to go crazy. Have you not ever made your own ranch dressing? It's really not that hard. It is. It's really not that hard.

It's very simple. And again, all you World Cup people visiting that are here, I know the F, was it the F, not the FCC, the, yeah, FCC. The FAA. The FAA has issued a warning about how you have to check your ranch.

You can just buy the packets. You can just buy the packets, the dry packets. You'll be fine. You don't need to bring the big tubs of ranch with you. That's right. Reconstitute it when you get back home. Yes. You can be a ranch mule. Shove them down your pants. But anyway, back to the burner phone issue here.

Everybody's saying that this is a bad thing. There's a link in the article if you want to go actually make a comment on it, because initial public comments go to June 25th and reply comments due by July 27th. I went and looked at it. There are like 145,000 comments. And in my random sampling, this is not like the last time the FCC opened it up and it was just a bunch of dead people saying, this is a great idea.

We should do it. Literally, every single one says, fuck you, FCC. This is a terrible idea. Go eat a bag of dicks. Yeah. And it's not going to solve the problem that you're claiming it's going to solve. It's just not. So. No, this is just another grab to get personal information. So, like, Trump's goons can fucking come in the hallway, you know, Pepe and Pedro.

So, fuck him. Fuck them all. All right. Well, Meta has decided to suspend the model capability initiative, which is the employee tracking program that they were using to basically, you know, train, train the AI to take over their jobs and all that sort of stuff. They did it not because of the workers' understandable displeasure around being almost perpetually monitored or for potentially breaking privacy laws.

They did it because it caused an internal data leak. Business Insider reported that sensitive data collected through the program, including employees' private conversations, performance data, and transcriptions, was made inadvertently available to the entire Meta staff. Wow.

So, now we know Bob and Sue from accounting are boning. We have carefully designed this program with privacy safeguards. Obviously, you did not. Obviously, you did not. And while we have no indication at this time that any data was improperly accessed by Meta employees, yeah, you fucking do.

We're pausing it while we investigate. The fact that we know that it happened means that somebody accessed it. Come the fuck on. I don't know how we ended up in the whole 1984 doublespeak world, but we really have. Like, I blame Trump because Trump is the person that just started coming up and saying black is white, white is black, and nobody fucking said shit about it.

Nobody fucking challenged him. They just let it go. So, now every company's PR agencies basically just stand up and fucking lie to our faces. To your face. Yeah. Bald-faced lies. And nobody, everybody just kind of goes, well, I don't know, okay, whatever.

Sounds legit. Despite this official line in previous statements that employees collected data would be tightly controlled, again, no, it fucking wasn't, it appears Meta wasn't quite on top of security as a claim. This marks the latest in a series of AI-related cybersecurity incidents for the company.

Meta reps issued a similar response in March after an agentic AI took unprompted action that also dominoed into a security breach. And earlier this month, the company had to react after hackers exploited its AI customer service chatbot to hijack Instagram accounts. Right, and this just, no, it didn't.

This just in, this just in. Meta is now suing the U.S. government because it does not have access to Fable 5 because they needed that for their security system. I mean, this is why I drink. I mean, I'm just, I, this is why I wish I still could. So, fuck.

This is why I drink for you. Thank you. Thank you. Please. Uh, yeah, somebody sent me a meme today and it was, it's pretty funny. It's like, when I drink alcohol, everyone says I'm an alcoholic, but when I drink Fanta, no one says I'm fantastic. Anyway, more Meta news.

Meta is rolling out a new line of smart glasses starting at $299, continuing their push to make AI-powered eyewear the next major computing platform. Well, I can't wait until all the recorded video and audio from those glasses gets leaked. Well, it did actually, Brian, if you remember about a month ago, all the people in Africa, that were seeing everybody boning and pooping and all that stuff, all the, they, they all got fired.

So now we have a new company to figure out where to go get all of our smart glass video from. Okay. Great. It does exist. It is out there. The glasses built with Essilor Luxottica include cameras, speakers, and access to Meta AI, allowing users to take photos, record videos, translate languages, and interact with the world around them through voice commands.

Okay. Great. But while new hardware is getting the attention, the bigger story, Brian, is privacy. Because Meta's smart glasses have already been at the center of debates over facial recognition, user data collection, and the potential for covert recording. Yeah.

We talked about it just, wasn't it just last week that they actually shipped the code with the facial recognition software in it, just not activated. They just didn't turn it on. Yeah. It was set to zero, Brian. Facial recognition set to zero. Yeah. Yes.

Critics have also pointed out the reports that some privacy safeguards, such as recording indicator lights, can be tampered with or removed. Piece of black tape. The electrical tape problem, Brian, the electrical tape problem. You know what electrical tape's good for? Nipples at the rave. That's what electrical tape is good for.

That's what God intended it for. It seriously is. Oh, I miss the clubs. That's why it comes in multiple colors now, not just black. Oh, really? Man, that would have been great back in the day. I know. We were so deprived. When asked about the issue, Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth suggested that society, society will simply adapt over time, comparing smart glasses to the early backlash against camera phones.

No, no, no. Listen to me, Andrew Bosworth. It has been years since we had the glass holes. We have not adapted. We still hate these fucking things. We have not forgotten. The way we will adapt is by not buying your shitty product.

That's how we're going to adapt. Never forget the glass holes, Brian. Never forget the glass holes. I love this. He argued that, quote, unquote, social learning and evolving public norms will determine what people find acceptable. I think we're determining that right now.

And people are saying, fuck you and your fucking glasses. Critics counter that this approach effectively shifts responsibility from Meta to the public, asking bystanders to adjust to increasingly powerful wearable surveillance devices. This is this is Elon's playbook. Let's shift responsibility for our self-driving car betas to the public.

This is what the tech bros do now. As competitors like Google and Snap enter the market. Well, Snap, just put a fucking cork in Snap. They're done after those new glasses ship. Jesus Christ. And Apple continues its own wearable ambitions. The future of smart glasses may depend less on technology and more on whether consumers and regulators accept Meta's view that privacy concerns can be worked out after the products are already on people's faces.

Yeah, that's not really how it works. I have a fix, Brian, and the fix is simple. Legalize punching somebody in the face who's wearing them. That's it. Seems fair to me. I think that that is the regulation we've all been looking for. Saturday, September 26th.

Two of combat sports' most dangerous strikers collide. Bare Knuckle. Liverpool's own Darren the Gorilla Till goes to war with Cuban powerhouse Yoel Soldier of God Romero. Plus, the Bare Knuckle Middleweight Championship of the World is on the line. When the reigning champ Dave the Redneck Mundell defends against undefeated British challenger Jack the Meek Cleaver Cullen.

BKFC 94. Till vs. Romero. Watch it live only on DAZN. Sign up now at DAZN.com. We've talked about these sorts of cases more than a few times over the last few weeks. I have a feeling this is going to become a regular feature on our show because there's going to be one or two new ones of these every single week and it appears everybody's just settling.

Following a similar lawsuit earlier this year, Google has settled with a minor known as RKC who claimed that social media platforms harmed them, Reuters reports. Terms of the settlement were confidential. The same plaintiff also sued Metasnap and TikTok with those trials set to proceed next month. I suspect checks are being written right now.

YouTube had thousands of similar lawsuits pending, so the second case represents a test run for the many to follow. The first trial was brought by a 20-year-old woman known as KGM, we talked about it on the show, who also claimed harm due to the addictive nature of social media. That person won their trial and received $6 million in damages with $3 million coming from Meta and YouTube taking on the other $3 million.

YouTube vowed to launch an appeal for that case saying it responsibly built a streaming platform, not a social media site. You got comment sections? You got a comment section. Can you register an account? Yep. Yep. Can you have a name and profile? Yep. Sounds like a social media site to me.

Yep. More than 3,300 lawsuits involving social media addiction are pending in California state courts alone. And another 2,600 were brought by people, school districts, municipalities, and states in California federal court. That is just one state, but it's easy to see the size of the problem for YouTube and other platforms if each plaintiff receives a multi-million dollar award.

So at some point, they're going to have to stop writing the settlement checks because it's going to get too damn expensive. And then the real fun will begin. We'll actually get a court case on this. It's not a precedent. Brian, I know I have emails and texts somewhere where your son has been harmed irreparably from social media addiction.

And I think that if I produce those emails, I should get a 50% cut of whatever millions of dollars that we can sue out of Google and Meta. Wink, wink, nudge, nudge. See what I'm saying? Well, here's the problem, Jason. I did some responsible parenting.

And as soon as I saw what the fuck was going on on YouTube, I shut it. We tore that fucking iPad from his hands and banned YouTube. Brian, you're supposed to go along to get along. Come on. We need the money. We need the money. Advertising is down. I didn't realize there would be millions of dollars of payouts if I just harmed my child.

Well, it's true. True. If every boomer who created a Gen X kid, there was millions of dollars. You take the good. You take the bad. You take them both. And there you have the settlement. A settlement. Hat tip to Barrett who sent this one in.

Tesla kills another, he said. A Tesla crashed into a Texas home, killing a 76-year-old grandmother. A 76-year-old grandmother died after a Tesla driver, reportedly using the car's autopilot feature, crashed into a Katy, Texas home Friday evening, according to authorities. Photos released by investigators show a gaping hole in the front of the Houston area home with a vehicle still inside the house and debris scattered across the lawn.

A neighbor's security camera footage obtained by CNN appears to show the vehicle traveling at a high speed on a neighborhood street before it drives out of frame. A loud noise is heard seconds later. The Tesla driver told responding deputies the vehicle was in autopilot mode, according to Harris County Constable Precinct 5.

He was taken to a local hospital for treatment, showed no signs of intoxication, and was cooperating with investigators. So the only thing that he did was mistakenly believe that there is full self-driving in a Tesla. Yeah, so he's just dumb. But, you know, and why is he going so fast?

Brakes didn't work. There's a lot to unpack with this one. So I'm sure this, I'm sure that this is going to have a follow-up story. But this did get me thinking, Brian, I think it's time for us to maybe, maybe we should go to Suno or whatever the Udio or whatever those fucking music AI treatments are.

And re-swizzle Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer by Elmo and Patsy, which is a classic. Grandma Got Run Over by a Tesla. By a reindeer and Tesla. Yeah. Just Santa Claus driving his Tesla. Santa Claus playing his new stream deck while it's driving in self-auto and just runs over Grandma.

That's it. That's a great song. I haven't heard that. Dr. DeMano, man. Dr. DeMano. Well, you know, well, the kids that are calling me bro have probably never heard it. So if they are, if one or two of you are listening to the show, go check it out. Links in the show notes. All right.

Well, in further self-driving news, Rivian has been sued on allegations that it made misleading statements about the self-driving capabilities of its R1T truck and R1S SUV. According to the class action complaint bought by Rivian customers, the first generation models of these vehicles are not capable of offering the self-driving potential that the company had promised.

They also argue that Rivian represented those early models would be capable of level three autonomous driving, meaning the vehicle would be able to steer, accelerate and brake without driver action. But in reality, Rivian manufactures its Gen 1 vehicles without the hardware, camera, sensors and compute to enable hands-free driving and or level three autonomous operations.

No software update, no matter how sophisticated, will enable its Gen 1 vehicles to perform as advertised. Sound familiar? It should. It does. Because this is exactly what Elon got sued for with Tesla. And he's, and where are these mini giga factories, Brian, that are supposed to be retrofitting?

Not a single one has been built yet, Jason. Imagine that. Okay. You know what you can do, though? You can drive your Tesla up and use Grok for free in the parking lot, probably. Maybe. Yeah, perhaps. And Waymo is recalling over 3,800 of its self-driving taxis due to a software issue that could cause them to enter closed freeway construction zones at speed, according to the NHTSA bulletin seen by Reuters.

The company is reportedly working on a fix and has restricted freeway driving until further notice. Waymo reported that at least 13 of its robo-taxis drove onto highway sections that were closed for construction. Wait, 13? Why did they wait so long to do this recall?

13 is a lot. Like, one car drives into a puddle and gets stuck, and they recall 4,000 cars. 13 of the taxis drive into, that took them a while. What the hell? You know what they say? They've identified an area of improvement regarding performance around freeway construction zones, Jason.

That is their statement. AI wrote that fucking email. I'm telling you right now. We voluntarily restricted freeway operations last month while making improvements, proactively notified state and federal regulators, and decided to file a voluntary software recall with NHTSA.

You know why you did those voluntary things? Because if you didn't, and somebody's Waymo did this and they died, you'd be sued into oblivion. But they can afford it, so I think that they, yeah. This is the second recall for the Alphabet-owned robo-taxi company in a bit more than a month.

We talked about these other ones. They recalled 3,791 robo-taxis after a vehicle drove onto a flood road in San Antonio. Remember, they couldn't, the weather didn't, the app didn't update in time. The app didn't update in time. Yeah, it didn't get the wet signal.

Prior to that, the fleet was recalled for a particularly dangerous situation where some of its robo-taxis were seen failing to stop for school buses that had their stop signs and flashing lights deployed. Oops, forgot to code that in, didn't we? Yep. Didn't vibe code school buses. Despite these issues, Waymo's autonomous fleet has largely performed well, according to the company.

Yeah. On its own safety impact page, Waymo says its vehicles have been involved in 92% fewer serious injury or worse crashes compared to human drivers, and 92% fewer pedestrian crashes. Noticeably, that is on Waymo's own page with their own safety impact study.

Also, I noticed that Marlboro has said that cigarettes are great for you. They're delicious. Eight out of ten doctors agree. Yes. Yeah. The NHTSA just has to be, oh, they've probably been underfunded and they had everybody fired, so there's probably one dude there right now.

But I'm sure Elon says that if we could, it has, this had zero impact, gutting these agencies. Zero impact. Yeah, zero impact. Zero. Zero impact. Mm-hmm. These people were going to die anyways. Long enough timeline. Writing up. Speaking of, America's $42 billion broadband expansion program was supposed to bring future-proof fiber internet to millions of underserved homes.

Instead, critics say it's becoming a massive subsidy pipeline for Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos. The BEAD program originally prioritized fiber networks because they offer higher speeds, more capacity, and decades of useful life. We covered this during the Biden administration when this was passed, and we're like, this is good stuff.

But after the fuck-nut Trump administration rewrote the rules, states were pushed toward a so-called technology-neutral approach that opens the door for satellite providers like Starlink and Amazon Leo. The result, five years after BEAD launched, only a small fraction of the promised connections have been delivered, and taxpayers are funding billionaires instead of building lasting local infrastructure, jobs, and economic growth.

I don't think there's a single sector that this cronyism hasn't touched. It's insane. Yeah. So, there you have it. Well, in case you need another reason to be wary of videos showing people winning big on Polymarket, other than listening to our show and hearing us talk about Polymarket and prediction markets.

Why are you watching videos of people winning on Polymarket? That's a... I'm sure they're being served as ads and promoted content. An investigation by the Wall Street Journal has found that the company is paying social media creators to post misleading content promoting the prediction market.

Of the 1,105 TikTok videos the publication reviewed, 778 appeared to show someone placing a bet, but a closer look reportedly revealed that none of the latter featured the actual Polymarket website, instead using dummy sites made to look like the real thing. More than half of the videos that appeared to show winning bets, those bets would in reality have been losses, according to the Wall Street Journal.

The publication spoke to creators who worked with Polymarket and viewed materials. They say they were given to ensure their videos were convincing and engaging. In addition, Polymarket reportedly also enlisted a social media army to repost those videos and help them go viral. Lying liars and the lies that they lie.

Well, and because this asshole has never had an original idea in his life, Meta is reportedly building its own prediction market app, codenamed Arena. As Zuckerberg looks to capitalize on the growing popularity of platforms like Polymarket and Kalshi. According to the New York Times, Arena would launch as a standalone mobile app through Meta.

I just, I have to stop here, Brian. I have to stop. Because it just, it boggles my mind that this guy, over and over and over again, is just stealing other people's shit and doing it so poorly that he, nothing's gonna, nothing, nothing is going to happen with this.

What he's going to do is try and buy Kalshi or Polymarket in about six months, like you said last episode. Yeah, yeah. Well, first off, this arena is never going to get built. It's never going to get built. He's probably going to, a billion dollars will be thrown at this and it will never, ever, ever launch. It will never see the light of day.

It's just not going to happen. He will buy something else. I really feel like Zuckerberg, all he did was about 15 years ago, 10, 15 years ago, he set a Google alert for top tech trends. And it was once a month. Get a little digest.

And he gets his little digest in the email of top tech trends and he goes, hey, we don't have that one yet. Let's build the, then he goes to the boardroom and he says, we're going to build this thing that, that we don't have. And then everybody nods their heads. And then he cuts checks and lots of money goes down a well.

And then eventually, if the idea sticks around long enough, after they've wasted their time trying to build their own thing and it didn't work out, if the idea is still there and it's still working, he'll buy one of the companies. That is his entire business model. Well, that's how we get Instagram and WhatsApp.

Yep. Those are, you know, the main ones that we all know about. Yep. So, and here's the funny part. They're saying that when they launch it, if they launch it, it's going to be points-based, like a video game, but no real money is involved. But they're saying that maybe in the future, real money will be involved.

Right. This is, this is the way of dancing around potential regulations and people talking about it and maybe some naysayers. And I just, I just want to be able to say something that will get my investors thinking we're doing stuff. Exactly. But not anything bad. And, and the funny part is, it's like, we look at the metaverse and the metaverse is such a flop because there was nobody for him.

To buy because it was such a phenomenally terrible idea that nobody wants it. It's like, you know, if there's nobody else to buy, there's a reason there's nobody else to buy because it's a terrible fucking idea. Nobody wants it. Nobody wants it. So what are you doing? Yeah. And this isn't the first time he's done this.

I don't know if you remember this one, Brian, but six years ago, almost to the day, this article came out. Back in 2020, Facebook decided that what the world really needed during the pandemic was a prediction market. The company launched Forecast, an experimental app where invited experts could earn points by making predictions about COVID elections and other major events.

So we've been here before. It's just over and over again. Same shit, different fucking day. Well, I'm going to I'm going to give you a little good news, Brian. OK, this one this one tickled my heart.

A nonprofit group has restored the entire climate dot gov archive after the Trump administration shut down the site and redirected visitors to NOAA's main climate pages, which is very interesting because NOAA has been gutted to climate dot gov has served as a central hub for government funded climate information, including research summaries, data sets, educational resources, climate indicators, maps and public facing explainers.

But former climate dot gov staff and volunteers responded by preserving the site's publicly funded content in launching climate dot us because federal government materials generally aren't protected by copyright.

The team was able to recreate the archive in full. Awesome. You fucking go, girls. The newly restored site now includes climate news expert blogs, classroom resources, data tools and access to the fifth national climate assessment. Organizers say the goal isn't just preservation.

They formed a nonprofit and plan to expand the platform with new climate education and public information resources. That's awesome. I like how we're now having to basically publicly source things that our government are supposed to do for us because our government just isn't doing it for us anymore.

We have to take we have to do it ourselves and fund it. That's great. First, we first we turned GoFundMe into fucking basically medical insurance. And now we're doing it with everything else, too. That's fucking great, America. Isn't it awesome? Isn't it awesome? Yeah. Just put Charlie Sheen on the fucking flag at this point.

Winning. Oh, and here's another one. The Trump administration wants to know if it should regulate bets on reality shows. The CFTC in a notice filed Wednesday is specifically asking for comments on whether prediction market bets on game shows, reality show competitions and pageants should be permitted as is.

No, that's it. That's no. But it'll probably happen. Yeah. Not like there's staff on these shows. Millions of camera people who get paid peanuts. You mean scripted reality? Yes, of course. Yeah. Yeah. Scripted reality.

No, no, no, Brian, it's unscripted reality. Yeah, sure it is. It's unscripted reality. Uh-huh. Yeah. Right. I have my kid finally decided he wanted to watch The Mandalorian and my wife decided she would watch it with him. So I've been sitting there and when I'm not watching soccer games, have watched the show with them as they've gone along.

Uh, we've, we've, we've finished season one. We've, we're about halfway through season two. Solid. I forgot how solid of a show it really is. Really? Okay. Until Book of Boba Fett comes along. So far, season one and two are just great. They're just great watches again.

We don't talk about the Book of Boba. Unfortunately, that's coming next because I think timeline wise after season two ends, I have to watch Book of Boba Fett before Mandalorian season three. But, but no, there's only two episodes that you have to watch or at least one episode. Was it two episodes or one?

Yeah, but my, my kid's nine. He wants to see everything. Okay. There's a fire hose of content, Jason. And you have to sit him down and, and tell him how terrible it is and explain to him how awful it is. To a nine-year-old is probably great. Ah, he should not have gotten out of the pit that easy is all I'm saying.

Come on. I agree. 30 years of speculation. 30 years of speculation. Like the fucking Sarlacc burps and there he is. Great. Done. Spoiler. Here we go. Chase writes in, okay, first off, yes, season two of Strange New Worlds has the best musical ever, especially the part with the Klingons.

I can watch that over and over. The Klingons at the end were the fucking best. Dying. That's so good. I was laughing so hard. Oh, God. Second, I really don't want to resubscribe to Paramount. Amen, brother. Do any of the Torrent sites still work? It's been a few years since I've done that route, but I want to watch the new season and I'm torn.

Well, Chase. You're not torn. You're Torrent. Yes, because we are the podcast that giveth. There's a link in the show notes that you can go to Sweden with a link to everything Strange New Worlds, and it will be updated as new episodes come out.

So, you're welcome, Chase. Yes. And, Silo, season three starts next week. I'm looking forward to that. Yeah, that snuck up on me. I saw an ad for it earlier today. I was like, oh, yeah, that's right. Quick little update for everybody. I have it in my little TV note, because I keep a note of when TV shows are coming and when new episodes are coming out.

Silo, July 3rd, Strange New Worlds, July 23rd, Ted Lasso, August 5th, and the new Lord of the Rings, the Ring of the Ring of the Ring, or whatever the hell they call that Amazon show, will be in November at some point. We don't have an exact date yet. Okay. Plan accordingly. All right. I will. I actually have, I use Things to track my to-dos, and I have a notebook in Things that tell me what's coming up.

Let's see what Things has to say, because I know I have something coming up in the to-watch folder. Bang My Box is coming out on Tuesday. Is that Bob and Sue from Accounting? No, no. That we learned about in the meta-league? Oh, it's great.

It's the Robin Bird story about Robin Bird, who was a, she had a show in New York. Hey, man, it's produced by Sarah Jessica Parker. So, you know, it's got a great sign of quality. It's got a great fucking name, though. Come on. Bang My Box is awesome. You know what else was produced by Sarah Jessica Parker?

The new Sex and the City shit. And that was horrible. Yeah, that's true. Yeah. And July 2nd, we have Undercover Chef Korea. That's all I got on my to-do, my to-watch list. Just go ahead and throw in Watch World Cup. Yeah, I'll try. I'll try. Well, Google is finally shutting the door on Manifest V2 browser extensions, a move that effectively marks the end of many traditional ad blockers in Chrome.

The company has been migrating extensions to Manifest V3 for years, arguing that the new framework improves security, privacy, and performance. Critics, however, have long warned that the changes limit how effectively ad blockers can filter web traffic. So, this is interesting.

I use Brave, which has a built-in ad blocker, which is awesome. If you can get past, you know, Brendan Icke as the founder of Brave, which makes me throw up a little in my mouth every time I use it. But, and if you can turn all the crypto shit, it is a fantastic browser.

I love it. But, Chromium-based is not the answer for, like, what's going to happen in the future. Because Edge and Opera are more likely to follow Chrome unless they decide to maintain the MV2 themselves. So, you may be shit up a creek, Brian, because I think you're still on Opera.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe time to try Brave. I'm telling you. It's like, once you turn everything off, it's a fine browser. At this point, I think I'm just literally going to turn everything off, Jason. Okay. Like, the computer, the phone, the internet.

We're going to move to Saskatchewan and be a farmer. We're going to be a dirt farmer. Except you can't even do that, because if you buy those John Deere tractors, you have to get the subscription to get the software updates. Yeah. You know what I'm actually doing, Brian, after we're done recording the show that I'm doing tonight?

I'm getting my food server license for the state of California so I can go work in commercial kitchens, because homie needs a job. So, that's what it's come to. So, you can joke about it, but I'm literally going to go be a fucking line cook when we're not doing this show.

You're going to be working in a ghost kitchen, man. That's, seriously, that's going to be it. As long as it's not one of Travis Kalanick's ghost kitchens, I'll be okay. I'll be okay. But, yeah. Hey, you got to do what you got to do, man. Got to pay the bills. Got to pay the fucking bills.

That's true. So, Dungeon Crawler Carl, book two. I'm almost done with it. Yep. I love these books. I listen to the audio version because it is a phenomenal way to consume these books because it is so well done. It is beyond well done. It is a full cast recording done by one fucking guy.

It's incredible. But, you know what I found that's interesting about these books, Brian? I don't find myself running back saying, I got to listen. I got to keep going. They're great when I listen to them, but it doesn't make me go, man, I feel like I really should be, you know, like a great book I can't put down.

I cannot stop reading it. These I can put down anytime I want and come back to it. And it's still fun. It makes me laugh out loud. They're great, but I'm not, it doesn't have that, like, you know, hook in my heart. It's very light. It's light. It's fun. It's effervescent.

It's popcorn. It's not, it's not a stink. It's popcorn. And, uh, it's, it's also why I really have not had a problem. Like initially, like as soon as I finished two, I was like, I got to get three. And I was like, no, I don't. No, I don't. I need a break from this. I, I need to read something that has actually got a bit of soul to it.

That's not, don't get me wrong. Dungeon Crawler Carl, lots and lots of fun. Oh, so much fun. It's not a deep story. No, there's nothing to it. It's just fun. So, and that's fine, but I agree with you. It's something that you can easily walk away from and come back to.

Yeah. And it, you know, it did get me to start playing Diablo again on my PlayStation 5 that I couldn't sell because nobody wanted it. But, uh, so I, I actually went back to actually playing video games because it tickled that itch and it, which made me think too, it's like when I'm listening to this, I'm like, would, does Brian even get half the jokes in this thing?

Because they're so deeply ingrained in, in video game culture that, you know, some of this stuff might just go over your head, but I guess there's enough crossover that, you know, you, you get it. So, I mean, I'm sure there's a handful of things that probably would have been a lot funnier if I was a mega gamer, but like, you know, I was, I, I played games with a mega gamer.

Fuck those guys. Uh, I played, you know, I played games when I was a kid. It's not like I'm not aware of this. It's like, you know, elf needs food badly. I've played all these games before. They just weren't like modern ones. You're not like a world of Warcraft kind of guy. So. Yeah.

Yeah. You know, I tapped out with like link and all those games. So. Okay. And, you know, I do want to do a quick shout out to the guy who got butt hurt because we didn't give him credit for telling us about. Because he recommended the book to us over a year ago.

Yeah. And we get so many book recommendations. If we read every book we get, we would never have time for the books we actually want to read. So good on you. I can't, we, we can't search Patreon right now because it's all fucked up, but, uh, you know, on, uh, on, uh, discord, that thing, that thing, you know, uh, planet, planet of trees.

So thank you very much. Planet of trees for, for recommending it and being a Patreon subscriber. Uh, we, we will give you credit when we can search a Patreon message. Or just let, drop me a note with your actual name and I'll give you a shout out. But, uh, yeah, sometimes good stuff gets through the cracks, you know, I'm sure a lot of books.

We get a ton of book recommendations and sometimes we get to them. Sometimes we don't. Sometimes it takes a year and we don't remember that you recommended it. Yeah. So we'll give you credit. We promise. We promise. And then finally, Dungeon Crawler Carl goes straight to series order at Peacock from Seth McFarlane's Fuzzy Door.

I like Seth McFarlane and I, I really, I still think that Orville was the best Star Trek on the air for quite some time, but I don't think this show can be made into a TV series. I don't think it can either. It there's, it's too much. There's too much going on.

There's going to be too much CG. It is just, it is, you know, theater of the mind. Perfect. You don't want this thing into a TV series. And that's, you know, I'm like, okay, go for it. I don't really know if I care to watch it because it is so good as it is.

You know, it's only going to be a letdown. It's only going to be like, I am, um, uh, what's, uh, the stoner guy that you hate? So many of them. Seth Rogen. Seth Rogen, at least Seth Rogen, isn't doing this one because, you know, he's done preacher, the boys, all that stuff.

It would just be really depressing if he did it. I think at least Seth MacFarlane has the right sense of humor to go with it. Um, but, and I can actually see Seth MacFarlane being Carl, you know, I don't know if he's, I don't know if he's just a producer, he's going to star in it, but I can actually see him kind of pulling it off.

Right. But I just think there's, there's too much going on there. There's way too much going on there. So. Anyway, that's the news that's all fit to print there. And I'd like to say, thank everybody that bought my new app track a lot. All 14 of you. I've made $36 so far.

I only have $73 or, uh, no, uh, $63, uh, left to make to actually cover the cost of the app store developer, uh, subscription. I had to pay to buy, to be able to make the app and put it on the iOS store, but give it a, give it a shot.

If you want a links in the show notes, it's only two 99. And I've gotten great reviews so far. Everybody that got it, like actually likes it. So. All right. Yeah. I'm cool with that. Thanks. Keep going. Buy his app, people. Yeah, please. Uh, about 300 of you, please go buy the app and then, then I can actually get my health insurance next week without having to go work for a ghost kitchen.

But we know that's not going to happen. So you want fries with that, Brian? Uh, yes, please. And now to thank the people that make this show possible over at Patreon, we've got a new subscriber, Harvard, and we've got, uh, we'd like to say thank you to everybody else. Mark, Craig, Jay, Eddie, James, Andre, Paul, Dan, Philip, and Ryan, who also keep the wheels on the, on the wagon going round and round.

So thank you all so much for your continued support. Thank you. Michael, who sent us $6.30, which is his Facebook consumer user profile privacy settlement. Thank you, Michael. Much appreciated. And Radek, who sent us 20 bucks over on PayPal. Thank you so much.

And Damien with the 20 bucks over at the tip jar. And Kathleen, thank you all very much. And I don't know if that Damien is the same one who sent us the, uh, long email that we, uh, got a little bit earlier today, but if that is, or even if it isn't, shout out to the Damien who sent us a long email. Really appreciate it. Thanks so much.

Hope you were able to access all your accounts at some point. And over at the YouTube, uh, we've got Jason B. Blackmon at Jason B. Blackmon. So thank you very much. Cause you can get a subscription over at YouTube now to help keep the show on the air. And Jason out of the ghost kitchen. There's no, that's just not going to happen.

I'm, I'm, I'm destined. I'm destined. And, uh, we would also like to thank Dominic from Australia and Christopher from Maine for buying some merch. So thank you all very, very much. And if you can see behind me, the wall of merch, uh, the wall of mugs. Oh, oh, Brian's wearing the shirt.

Yes. Wearing my naked Reagan shirt today. Cause I got to represent for Chicago, but I shouldn't have worn it because it's hot as balls in here. And the shirt is, this is, this is one of the thick shirts that our, our fans have been asking for. They're like, can you make the thick shirts? I'm like, why this is hot. It's summer people.

And we're in a heat wave and I have to turn the AC off before we do this show. So I am sweaty. So let's, let's wrap this shit up. So if you want to keep supporting the show and we really, really hope you do go to, uh, either patreon.com slash GOG. And you can sign up there for as little as $3 a month.

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And I'm super curious. Dominic from Australia, let us know when that actually arrives. That might be a while. Stay grumpy. Saturday, September 26th. Two of combat sports' most dangerous strikers collide.

Bare Knuckle. Liverpool's own Darren the Gorilla Till goes to war with Cuban powerhouse Yoel Soldier of God Romero. Plus, the Bare Knuckle Middleweight Championship of the World is on the line. When the reigning champ Dave the Redneck Mundell defends against undefeated British challenger Jack the Meat Cleaver Cullen, BKFC 94, Till vs. Romero.

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