741: Moon Joy

14:22Brian Schulmeister:those were all custom and um i got i gotta say i've had gopro cameras and i found them to be absolutely lackluster. The one place that you can still see that they're in use every week, Guy's Grocery Games. They got them taped to the grocery carts. That's it. So if they can get Guy Fieri on board, maybe they'll make that comeback.

14:54Brian Schulmeister:This is an interesting one. OpenAI is backing an Illinois bill that would limit when AI companies can be held liable, even in worst case scenarios like MASH casualties or billion dollar damages. The proposal, SB 3444, would shield so-called frontier AI developers as long as they didn't act intentionally or recklessly and published safety and transparency reports. Well, I don't I haven't seen many safety and transparency reports from OpenAI. They have absolutely acted intentionally and recklessly with their sycophantic fucking AI. But this makes sense.

15:30Jason DeFillippo:This is a stinking of we're just a platform.

15:33Brian Schulmeister:Yeah, this is exactly it. This is, you know, they're trying to get ahead of it. They're trying to get ahead of it. And they're just going to fight the regulation as much as they can until it's just so funny. Like, let's be regulated. Sort of. Sort of. You know, until it comes down to the. On the little stuff. Yeah. Just a little bit. But, you know, but don't we're not going to take off anybody's clothes.

15:58Jason DeFillippo:But if they kill themselves, that's on them. Yeah, exactly. We will make sure that you can't put your friend in a bikini. But fuck it. If they kill themselves, who gives a shit? Or somebody else. Yeah. You know, it's great.

16:12Brian Schulmeister:I love how they cherry pick the things that they're going to care about. Totally cherry picking. So we'll see if see if this goes through. Early polling in Illinois shows about 90 % of respondents oppose giving AI companies a liability shield. So in Illinois, if you remember, they are the frontier of the facial recognition stuff. I got I got a pretty decent sized check from Facebook because they actually used my my, you know, they trained their facial recognition on my my, you know, basically bio photo. Right. And, you know, so good for Illinois. You know, you would think that they're, you know, just some country bumpkin Midwest state.

16:49Brian Schulmeister:Chicago. It's got Chicago. Second city, baby. Well, not anymore, but once. Well, yeah. So yeah, they're going to slap the shit out of them. They're not going to let that go through, I don't think.

17:03Jason DeFillippo:And I just mentioned Artemis 2 and the GoPros. By the way, Artemis 2 is coming back today. They will be landing late. I can't wait. It's going to be awesome. I can't wait to watch it. It's going to be just amazing. I've been nerding out over this the entire time. It's been fantastic. But I've just mentioned Artemis 2 and their GoPros. And of course, that's not really the company that got the most mention out of this or the most mileage out of this. That would be first Nutella and the floating Nutella jar, which was fantastic. And secondly, Apple and their iPhones. And I just put this article in the show notes.

17:36Jason DeFillippo:Artemis 2 astronaut puts all of our iPhone moon photos to shame. NASA astronaut Reid Weissman took a photo of the far side of the moon with an iPhone 17 Pro. and then they put that up on the screen and it is just beautiful it's absolutely beautiful uh links in the show notes if you haven't seen these photos it's science man science i know the fucking world is shit right now but boy did we need this and boy have i loved all this this oh every second every second every second that's been a lifeline to um not killing myself thanks to

18:09Brian Schulmeister:open ai my roommate's a boomer and she's just like well what's the big deal we've already been to the moon we've done this stuff before i'm like not since we've been alive us yeah gen xers yeah you know so it's a it's a big fucking deal because it's like it's hope it's something also you know

18:27Jason DeFillippo:we're doing it again we didn't do it for 50 years we were giving i i just i saw an article i didn't put in the show notes, I saw a map of all the fucking private spacecraft and satellites that are around the earth. We gave it away to stupid companies and fucking Elon. This is us. This is our government doing it for us, for science, and that's it, not for fucking profit. And that's a big deal.

18:53Brian Schulmeister:Yeah, that is a big deal. And I love that, you know, they're trying to cut NASA's budget again. And they basically everybody's pushing back saying, fuck no.

19:01Jason DeFillippo:Yeah. You know, No, we love this stuff. We want this stuff. This is what I want my money to go to.

19:06Brian Schulmeister:Cops and doodads.

19:09Jason DeFillippo:This is from the you have exactly one job file.

19:15Jason DeFillippo:Mercedes Benz recalls us some G-Wagon EVs due to the risk of the wheels falling off. When you build a car, you have really one job. Keep the fucking wheels on. Oh, they have issued a recall for every Mercedes-Benz G580 with EQ technology with the 2025 model year as first spotted by inside EVs. The current wheelboats could allow a wheel to loosen or detach from the vehicle, potentially affecting 3 ,734 models that are on the road. The issue here was the wheelboats were not adapted to the increased vehicle mass and higher torque load associated with the electric variant. So they use the same chassis and all the stuff, except EVs are a lot heavier.

20:02Brian Schulmeister:Yeah.

20:02Jason DeFillippo:And they did not take that into account. So, okay.

20:06Brian Schulmeister:I think, I think 3 ,700 out of those 3 ,734 G-wagons are in my neighborhood. They're fucking everywhere. And I hope the wheels fall off of these fucking things. I'd saw one the other day because I drive a Jeep, you know, and I'm surrounded by these assholes and G-wagons. And somebody actually had a bumper sticker that said, enjoy your Jeep, peasant. on his g-wagon right oh yeah so i hope your fucking wheels fall off that's what i'm saying

20:33Jason DeFillippo:they do say it's unlikely to occur in real world operating scenarios and they will fix it for free if you take it to the dealership so you get you get new nuts you get heavier nuts that's what you get these nuts that's what you get uh if you're using an older kindle you're probably going to get screwed amazon has sent out emails to some of its users with a warning that it's discontinuing support for kindle e-readers and fire tablets released in 2012 or earlier yes that is a long time ago but yes it has one job you read a book with it why should it be

21:07Brian Schulmeister:discontinued it's so funny because the the first kindle that ever came out the kindle one i i i bought it with the the 3g subscription or whatever so you could get it over cellular you know get your books over cellular. Yep. And I gave it to my mom and she had been using it for another decade. Yeah. They never, they never like discontinued any support for that thing. So it's amazing that they're finally doing it now. But, but yeah, it's an e-ink reader. Why would you discontinue support for that? It's, it doesn't really make any sense.

21:41Jason DeFillippo:You can still read books you've downloaded on the devices. You'll no longer be able to purchase, borrow, or download new ones as of May 20th. In addition, if the device has an issue that can only be solved by a factory reset, you're fucked. It breaks it. Deregistering it will also render it unusable. On Kindle Fire devices, users won't be able to purchase or download content anymore, but other services will remain functional. This includes the very first Kindle, the Kindle 2, the Kindle DX, the Kindle Keyboard, Kindle 4, Kindle Touch, Kindle 5, and the first version of the Kindle Paperwhite. Engadget asked Amazon why it decided to cut off support for those models, much as we have, and they said those models have been supported for at least 14 years, some as long as 18 years.

22:23Jason DeFillippo:But technology has come a long way in that time. Not for an e-reader. It's an e-ink tablet. What the flying fuck? What? What? So they said also it only affects approximately 3 % of its current users whom it's now urging to upgrade. It gave them a promo code for 20 % off select Kindle devices as well as e-book credits if they purchase a new model by June 20th. Our newer Kindle devices bring meaningful improvements to screen quality, performance and accessibility, and you'll have access to your complete Kindle library and the Kindle store the company wrote. Sure. Yeah. But the old one works fine.

22:59Brian Schulmeister:Yeah, it fucking works. Why are you just making jokes? I think that everybody who gets these 3 % of the current users that are going to get their device bricked should go find where Jeff Bezos is going to be and just throw them at him the next thing. Just like the tomatoes of our new society.

23:17Jason DeFillippo:I mean, I get it's not a lot of users and I get you might have to have some old code hanging out and some maybe delivery methods have changed and all that sort of stuff. So you've got some legacy code in the system to send a book to an older thing. But so what? They bought it. It's their product. It's not even that ancient. It's an e-reader. It's not complicated. This is total bullshit. Screw you, Amazon. 100 100 and i got a new gadget jason uh i have been as you know my wife and i are kind of foodies we love to cook uh we we basically take our knives to get sharpened at least once a year which started to get a little bit pricey uh my wife is very connected to popular culture she likes her people.com and uh getting her gossip that's her that's her downtime that's her brain breaks from when she's yelling at uh at uh you know spotify or whoever she has to yell at for of the day.

24:07Jason DeFillippo:So at some point recently, Ina Garten talked about her knife sharp. She was cooking on one of her reels and Jennifer Garner posted something about how do you keep your knives so sharp? And then she responded to Jennifer Garner because celebrities only talk to each other and talked about some like$300 electric knife sharpener that she has and uses at her house. That's amazing. And we looked at it and we went, wow, that thing is beautiful, but we don't need a $300 knife sharpener. How about the$80 one? And we tried out the Presto 08800 Eversharp electric knife sharpener two-stage system, silver black.

24:46Jason DeFillippo:Does exactly what it says on the tin. You know, this is going to basically recoup the cost in one year in terms of knife sharpening and did a beautiful job. The knives are great. Slice through everything now. It slices, it dices, it cuts through a fucking can, Jason. Just like the late night commercials.

25:04Brian Schulmeister:It's so funny. I've heard that these are like, you know, like chefy chefs would never use these things because they kind of destroy the blade as they go. But if it's sharp, then it's sharp, I guess.

25:15Jason DeFillippo:And I think it will destroy. I mean, it definitely like this one will not do serrated edges that it will destroy that. And it does take off a little bit, obviously, but it's micro. And, you know, it's going to be decades before I've ruined the knives.

25:27Brian Schulmeister:Yeah, I should just get one of these. I've got our friend Brian Blondell loaned me his very fancy knife sharpening kit that requires an iPhone app. And it's got like, it's a whole thing. And it's like, you know, this looks much easier. And it's only$47.99 right now. Yeah. I can't afford that, but maybe at some point I'll get one.

25:46Jason DeFillippo:Maybe when I fly back for the summer, I'll bring it with me, Jason.

25:49Brian Schulmeister:Bring it with so I can just sharpen my knives. Yeah. I'll charge you the fee, you know. Yeah. I'm in the middle of bankruptcy, so a knife sharpener is probably not the best use of my funds right now. It's a bit of a luxury item, I'd say, Jason.

26:00Jason DeFillippo:Just a little more elbow grease and you'll be fine.

26:03Brian Schulmeister:Yeah, I think I'm just going to use it. I'm going to use the stick in the stone right now to make them sharp.

26:10Jason DeFillippo:And we were talking a little bit earlier about some oopsies by Apple programmers. And it's my opinion. You know, I still love Apple. I'm all Apple, all Apple infrastructure. I'm going to stay that way. I'm going to stay in the Apple environment. Which is so funny because when we started this show, you were the PC guy. I know. I was. I got converted. I was into it. But I do have to say, as everything has gotten more complicated, and it certainly has with all the various devices that we have and all the apps and everything is a lot more complicated and interconnected now, cracks have appeared in Apple's once titanium steel programming.

26:49Jason DeFillippo:You know, it used to be 100 % if you had an Apple product and you paid for it and it would work. Absolutely would work. It would be very rare to have any bugs or errors. And if there was, they fixed them too sweet. But that has not been the case anymore. I think it's just all gotten too complicated. So we talked about the signal issue where, you know, if you remove the app, it should have pulled out all those notifications and deleted those as well. OK, they figure it out. You find it, you fix it. Great. There's another one. And this is this I came across this one. Admittedly, it's a very small use case.

27:23Jason DeFillippo:but as someone who uses this flow daily, it's extremely annoying to me. This is with Apple Fitness, a recent update bug. They have stacks in the workout app. So you can stack a bunch of different workouts together. You can order them. And then when you play them, they'll play in order, right? And as you finish each workout, it basically removes it from the stack. So it's very convenient. So like on Sundays when I'm at my kid's swim class, I will literally go through and I will make my workouts for the entire week. so i'll do something like a 20 minute hit workout a 20 minute strength workout a 10 minute uh you know stretching and meditation thing and then the next day i'll do a different set of three different workouts and then when i go down in the morning to do my workout on my apple tv which connects to my apple watch i just pull up the stack i hit play it does the three in order that i want to do i just boom boom do my three workouts and then i hit stop and because i've done them all it deletes them all the next day i come down my next three workouts start and it goes through the whole week like that and it's been beautiful and wonderful until the last update and now for whatever reason on apple's on the apple fitness app on apple tv it randomly reorders your stack okay just no rhyme no reason no matter what order i put it in if i reorder them on the apple tv app The next time I load up Apple TV, it will re-scramble them all in a completely random order.

28:52Jason DeFillippo:It is fucking infuriating.

28:56Brian Schulmeister:You sure you're just not hitting the shuffle button? There is no shuffle button. There's no shuffle button.

29:01Jason DeFillippo:And, you know, I Googled it, of course, in the Apple forums and on Reddit. Everybody's kind of saying the same thing to people that all do exactly what I do. And it's just we have to wait for an update. They're aware of it. Nobody has responded to anything. It just worked. Yeah, you're in the Apple limbo. Because it's funny. I don't want to be working out anyways. And now you've added friction. Oh, that sucks. Yeah, it's a drag. I'm sure it'll get fixed. But here I am locked in with my Apple Watch and my Apple phone and my Apple TV and my Apple fitness. And it doesn't fucking work the way it used to.

29:44Brian Schulmeister:You're so grumpy. the really shit thing is Apple makes it almost impossible to go backwards. Like you can't go back to a previous version. Yeah.

29:53Jason DeFillippo:And then what I would have to do, but probably I would probably have to go back on my watch, on my Apple TV, on my phone. Yeah. So, you know, just fix it, Apple, just fix it. I mean, yes, it's not that big. First world problems.

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33:12Jason DeFillippo:Media Candy.

33:15Brian Schulmeister:Brian, I hate you. I hate you. I hate you. I hate you. The Pit's so good, isn't it? I have not been able to stop watching The Pit. I'm five episodes in on season two, and I'm trying to slow down now. I was doing two a night, and now I'm just like, I took a break because The Boys came out, so I had to start watching The Boys last night until I fell asleep like halfway through episode two. But it's really good. I really am enjoying the final season of The Boys. But The Pit is just so fucking good. It's the West Wing of medical dramas. That's what I'm saying, man. It's competence-born. It's literally just competence-born.

33:54Brian Schulmeister:I'm there for it. I'm totally there for it.

33:57Jason DeFillippo:I'm thoroughly enjoying the second season. We're keeping up with it. We'll watch the latest episode tonight. But yeah, it's just so it's well-written. It's well-acted. It's just great. It's totally solid.

34:12Brian Schulmeister:Yeah, 100%. And I still, there's no other medical procedural drama that I'm ever going to watch. Me either. Except for this one. Nope, this is it. I hate the genre. This is the one.

34:22Jason DeFillippo:Yeah, seriously. uh shrinking uh ended its third season i feel like yeah third season yeah okay um i don't know if i'm gonna watch if there's a fourth this feels very ted lassoy to me it is started started up here and just kind of went get those occasional episodes that are really good but overall it's just um again you can't fault the acting you can't fault uh a lot of it but it's just uh they're stretching believability. Like, I just don't see how these people can all just be hanging out with each other all day, every day. Or why they would, because so many of their personalities are so massively different, and some of them are just...

35:04Jason DeFillippo:Anyways, it's... I'm glad the show has existed. I don't know if I'm going to take it much further. Okay. Because you've been bitching about it

35:12Brian Schulmeister:since the thing came on the air this season.

35:14Jason DeFillippo:This season has been so all over the map, and it just... Nothing matches up to that first season. I felt the same way about Ted Lasso. Although I feel Ted Lasso was a stronger show overall than Shrinking.

35:26Brian Schulmeister:Well, this comes back to the point that I made with Hacks. When I found out what they do over at shows that actually win Emmys and are award winners, they fire the writing staff because they're just going to let the show coast on the awards that they've already gotten. And then they just hire cheaper writers to come in and do it. I think Shrinking probably, I mean, I don't know. No, they haven't.

35:47Jason DeFillippo:It's still the same writers. Same team? They're just out of ideas then?

35:51Brian Schulmeister:I think they just said the well is fucking dry, my friend. OK, well, scrap that one.

35:59Jason DeFillippo:Yeah. Daredevil. I've still been watching that as well. I don't I I they better inject Jessica Jones soon. That's all I got to say, because I do feel it's same old story over and over again. It's so many of the beats are exactly the same on this show. they didn't they sure they changed you know the people and the places and the things and all that but at the end it's starting to feel very mcu formulaic so i need something to shake it up

36:28Brian Schulmeister:okay yeah i'm behind because every time i went to go watch daredevil i'm like it but i've got an episode of the pit to watch which says something because normally a daredevil would be right at the top of my queue the top of the list yeah you know i'm such a huge mark for daredevil but the fact that it is kind of like the same, it's the same fight scene over and over again, too. Yeah. I've seen that fight scene since season one, you know?

36:51Jason DeFillippo:I could use less fight scenes and more interesting drama happening. Although, something did happen at the end of this episode that's probably going to shake up the next few. So, we'll see. Okay. No spoilers. I'll get caught up. I'll get caught up soon. I promise. All right. And as first reported by Deadline, Amazon MGM Studios have announced on Friday that the upcoming Spaceballs movie will hit theaters on April 23rd, 2027. Okay, great. It's in the can. It's done. We got to wait a whole year for it.

37:21Brian Schulmeister:What the fuck? Why? Why? Yeah. Come on, Mel Brooks doesn't have that much time left. Let's get it out while he's still around.

37:29Jason DeFillippo:Yeah, Mel Brooks might not be around by the time you're actually going to put this movie out. And, you know, you had a lot of publicity about it and you're still getting a little bit. This isn't like the newest Star Wars that we've waited 20 years for. It's just fucking space balls. It should be funny. But it's not like everybody's waiting with bated breath to run out and see this. Put it out already.

37:50Brian Schulmeister:Yeah, seriously. I mean, and they've got traction right now because Amazon MGM Studios put out Project Hail Mary. So they've got a space movie that, you know, that has some legs right now. So they should piggyback off of that and just get it out there. And especially, yeah, if you want Mel Brooks to do a press tour, you better fucking hurry up, you know?

38:08Jason DeFillippo:I agree, yeah. I don't understand why they're sitting on it, but there you go. Jeff Bezos is so much smarter than me.

38:16Brian Schulmeister:Yeah, they better hurry up before they decide not to support it anymore because it's too old. And you have to get a 20 % off coupon to get Spaceballs 3. Because you can't watch it on your old Kindle.

38:27Jason DeFillippo:Right.

38:27Brian Schulmeister:So there.

38:28Jason DeFillippo:And instead of raising prices again, Netflix may have to lower its subscription costs, at least in Italy. A court in Rome recently ruled that Netflix owes its Italian users a refund for price hikes between 2017 and January 2024 and a reduction to previous subscription costs. On top of the refunds, Netflix Italia would have to inform its affected subscribers of their right to have a refund. This is how you do things, people. The lawsuit was originally filed by Movimento Consumatori, a consumer rights organization based in Rome. They said that more than 25 ,000 Netflix users have complained that they're not satisfied with the price increases over the years.

39:08Me too.

39:09Jason DeFillippo:Yeah, me too. According to lawyers representing the consumers, premium subscribers are entitled to a refund of roughly 500 euros, while standard tier customers should get back about 250 euros. That is a significant chunk of change. That's serious money. Yeah. That's a lot of pasta. They also said that if Netflix doesn't immediately reduce prices and refund its customers, the consumer rights organization would pursue a class action lawsuit to recover funds. A Netflix spokesperson told Reuters that it would appeal, adding that the company takes customer rights very seriously and believe our terms have always complied with Italian laws and practices.

39:45Jason DeFillippo:On the other side of the world, Netflix again raised prices for U.S. customers, this time across all of its tiers. Yeah. So what's that money paying for? Well, they just released a free app called Playground for smartphones and tablets. This is a gaming app for kids aged eight and under. It's available to all Netflix members on any tier, and the company promises it doesn't have ads or in-app purchases. It works without mobile or Wi-Fi connections, which makes it the perfect companion for long airplane rides or grocery trips and addicting your kid to Netflix at a young age. There you go. I mean, their gaming is actually pretty good.

40:20Jason DeFillippo:Like, we're still playing Boggle, the Netflix game, almost nightly. And my kid is destroying us now. And it's teaching him new words, which is fantastic. But we are, you know, we're very much limiting his screen time, especially we did so way more when he was under eight, which is exactly, you know, eight and under is what this is geared right towards. So we'll see. How old's your kid now? He's turning 10 this year, man. Jesus Christ. Time, it flies.

40:47Brian Schulmeister:When we started this show. He didn't exist. He did not exist. That's insane. Insane. Well, I would like to pimp another show that I've got called Anonymous, a recovery and addiction podcast. We finally started releasing new episodes. So season two has come out this week. So if you're if you're into that kind of thing, go check it out. It's an anonymous dot show. Link will be in the show notes.

41:11Jason DeFillippo:I think I'm guessing because it's anonymous, you're not putting it up on YouTube like our show.

41:16Brian Schulmeister:No, there's no video for this one. And I'm technically breaking the rule right now by saying that I'm involved with it. Anonymous except you. Yeah, pretty much. I broke my anonymity a long time ago. But this season, we've got some amazing guests on there. Can't tell you about them. Yeah, can't tell you about it. But we're kicking it up a notch. We're kicking it up a notch. So check it out. I think it's a great show. So the download numbers would not back me up on that. But, hey, what are you going to do?

41:52Brian Schulmeister:At the library.

41:56Jason DeFillippo:So I had talked about Breath, the New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor a couple weeks back. I officially have given up on it.

42:04Brian Schulmeister:Okay. I thought you'd given up on it when you talked about it last time. I got this book. I liked like 10 seconds of it. The rest was shit.

42:11Jason DeFillippo:I got really stubborn about it. And I was like, well, there's got to be some nuggets in here. There's got to be some actionable stuff. I must be doing something. This will improve my life if I keep reading this and I will get an actionable insight into how to breathe that I didn't already know or I didn't pick up in the first, basically in the fucking book flap. And no, no. I just stopped. I gave up. So I've gone back to some of the first contact books. So hopefully I'll finish one of those up by next week.

42:40Brian Schulmeister:Okay. Okay. Well, I have a book to recommend to you. It's an older book. It's called 4 ,000 Weeks by Oliver Berkman. And it kind of says it's a time management book, but it's more kind of a life management book because 4 ,000 weeks is about the average time that we have to live, you know, if you run the numbers on it. and I am way past the 2000 mark. So, you know, for me, it's like I get a little fire under my butt now and again when I read books like this because I'm like, there's definitely far fewer days ahead than are behind, you know? So, and it's really well written. The audio book is, I think, I forget who's reading the audio book, but it's really well done, the audio version of it.

43:25Brian Schulmeister:But I can't recommend this book enough. It's really, really good. And, you know, I read a lot of these kind of books to just take the piss out of them. This one's actually solid. This is an actually solid self-help book that I thoroughly recommend. So, yeah. Check that one out when you're done with your next First Contact book. Because you've got to be running out of those at some point. I mean, you can't write them that fast.

43:47Jason DeFillippo:He's writing them that fast, as far as I can tell.

43:51Brian Schulmeister:Okay, okay. And I have been working my way through Mouse, the comic from 1992. two. Did you ever read Mouse? I did. I did. Yeah.

44:01Jason DeFillippo:It's phenomenal. You know, this is absolutely

44:03Brian Schulmeister:phenomenal.

44:04Jason DeFillippo:This came out while I was in college. So of course I read it. This is, you know, this is like a strident, like, you know, fucking as woke as woke can be. So better read Mouse.

44:15Brian Schulmeister:Okay. Yeah. I'd never, I'd never got around to reading it. And I finally picked up a copy and it's been sitting on my shelf and I'm like, well, since we're going through it right now, I should probably get bone up on it. And wow, it's, it's amazing. I can't wait to get to the second book and finish it up. Yeah, and this administration can't wait to enact the second book. I know. I'm reading in real time is how it's going. I'm just following along.

44:37Jason DeFillippo:It's like reading the news.

44:39Brian Schulmeister:Yeah, pretty much. Pretty much.

44:41Jason DeFillippo:So go check it out. Between Mouse and the Lego videos being put out by Iran, that's all the news you need.

44:48Brian Schulmeister:The Dark Side. Ha! With Dave.

44:55Brian Schulmeister:Welcome to the Dark Side with Dave, with podcaster who never sleeps, Dave Bittner. How you doing, Dave? It's nice to see you again. Oh, I'm best described as hanging in there. Been a good week. Not a good week. By good, I mean horrific. You know what I mean.

45:09Jason DeFillippo:It's just been something. Here we are. But there's Artemis 2. There's Artemis 2, Dave. Yes, yes. We've all pinned our hopes on this, and if this thing fucking challengers today, that's it. I'm out.

45:22Brian Schulmeister:Yeah. I have more on Artemis 2 later in my comments.

45:26Jason DeFillippo:Fantastic. Okay. First thing. First things first. We have new Star Wars. We should always lead with this. We have Maul Shadow Lord has dropped on Disney+. I watched the first episode with the kid yesterday. Solid. I like it. Really? Yeah. Really? Okay. Dark. You know, underworld-y as it should be. It's the plot. So, yeah. Episode 1, pretty good. Episode two is out and then they start to drop weekly. So be watching the second episode when the kid comes home from school. All right.

45:57Brian Schulmeister:Well, I was not planning on checking that out. But with your recommendation, I will. I can't say that Darth Maul moves me in any way, shape or form. I just don't really care much about him. But if you say it's a good show, I'll check it out.

46:14Jason DeFillippo:Yeah, they really flesh out his character in the animated series, a bunch of the different ones. So you do start like I've I'm pretty up on his story and he's almost you almost feel sympathy for him to some degree. I mean, he's still an asshole because, you know.

46:33Jason DeFillippo:So far, so good. I am enjoying it. I got to say that they've really been knocking it out of the park with these animated series. They've been pretty good.

46:42Brian Schulmeister:Well, I mean, I just want to tag on to that idea about shows we've been watching. I saw you guys earlier in the show talked about Shrinking and The Boys. I just thought I'd piggyback on to those. I have not watched the season premiere of The Boys yet, but it's on my list. It's very good. Highly recommended. The first two episodes are solid. Yep. Okay. Well, I did not go back and watch the, what's the other one where they're in college? Oh, yeah, you should. I know. It's really, really good. It's actually, I think it rivals the boys as far as quality goes. Yeah. I mean, I watched it up until the first episode of the most recent season.

47:24Brian Schulmeister:And the first episode of the most recent season was so bad that both my son and I were like, yeah, we're out of here. It gets so much better. You have to. That episode was a stinker, but it gets it gets a lot better, a lot better. OK. And then we had the season finale of Shrinking. How'd you guys come away feeling about that?

47:43Jason DeFillippo:a couple thoughts on that that i had really quickly i i felt that it kind of followed the same arc as ted lasso in terms of diminishing returns every season uh nothing is quite matched the first season uh i felt that it was a satisfying conclusion uh for the season and then they immediately followed that with news that it had been renewed for a season four and i went no that was a good end yeah I found that this season in particular was very hit or miss with episodes there were some episodes that I was just like what is even happening and then there were other episodes that did have the feels so personally I feel like they could have walked away and it would have been a pretty good show and more than a bit worried about a season before

48:33Brian Schulmeister:Yeah, I would agree with every point that you made there. So here's hoping, but we know how these things usually go. Yeah. So I put this in here because I know it's security and we generally don't talk about security anymore. But this is kind of a big deal, I thought. And it's worth talking to you guys about because I want to get your read on it and see if this is a tempest in a teapot or, you know, just more AI bullshittery. Treasury Secretary Scott Besson and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell convened an urgent meeting with major Wall Street Bank CEOs to address concerns about a new AI model from Anthropic and its potential impact on cybersecurity.

49:12Brian Schulmeister:The focus is Anthropic's latest system called Mythos, which the company says is capable of identifying and exploiting vulnerabilities across major operating systems and web browsers. Regulators are concerned that tools like regulators, who are the regulators? Regulators are concerned that tools like this could enable a new generation of highly sophisticated cyber attacks, particularly targeting systematically important financial institutions. Now, this has been making a round.

49:36Jason DeFillippo:At this point, Jason, just really, at this point, the regulators is one guy in a basement office saying, where's my stapler? That's who the regulators are in the government now.

49:47Brian Schulmeister:Yeah. Yeah, I've seen the reports on the bugs that this thing has found so far, like in the Linux kernel and all sorts of other shit. And people are kind of getting trippy about it. And it's so everywhere right now that Palantir's stock is tanked because they think that this is going to put Palantir out of business, which is very interesting. But what are you guys seeing and what are you guys thinking about this? Well, you're right. It's been in all the news, all the cyber news lately. I think initially, a lot of folks kind of poo-pooed it, that it was really just marketing and PR, that Anthropic was hyping their new model and they were making it exclusive access to a few companies because it's so powerful, it can't be released to the rest of the world and that it was just, you know, BS and whatever.

50:43Brian Schulmeister:But then the people who were actually using it started talking about it. And like you said, some of the bugs that it was finding started coming out. And some of them are decades old. It's finding all sorts of things. So my take on it is that the main concern is that this tool will cause an avalanche of bug reports that there won't be time to mitigate. and that's we're already seeing that it's like we're already seeing those things it's like the

51:16Jason DeFillippo:same thing with with apple's app stores because vibe coding has enabled so many people to release like things are now coming faster than anybody can check them and then there's any oversight

51:26Brian Schulmeister:then there's any anything like right yeah yeah yeah absolutely so i seem to be real you know that's the thing is like these are like real zero days that they're finding here which you know if the bad guys get it get a hold of these which is why everybody's freaking out it's like this could this could really be like a major fucking thing right now and what's the solution here and more i was surprised to see that yeah well more ai obviously um because that'll solve everything but um i was surprised to see the this meeting with the treasury secretary and the federal reserve chair that was unexpected uh but i guess in retrospect it makes sense um i don't know i i I hate to say that I feel a little numb with all this kind of stuff because it is coming so fast and the rate continues to accelerate.

52:22Brian Schulmeister:And just for myself, I'm finding it hard to process all of it every day and figure out how do we possibly mitigate these things. I guess it's so far out of our previous experience and our history and knowledge of how to contend with something like this. When we have a threat that is coming at machine speed, I don't know. Hold on to the bar. We'll see how. Because this is going to fall into the hands of the bad guys. Count on it. If not already. It is too valuable to not. Um, so.

53:03Jason DeFillippo:Well, and if Anthropic built one, somebody else is going to build one within a few weeks. And, you know, maybe they're not going to be as, as, as, uh, circumspect about trying to keep it contained. Um, you know, it's, it's a Pandora's box that we've really opened with this stuff.

53:19Brian Schulmeister:Well, and on, on top of this, you have the fact that Anthropic is still banned by the federal government, you know, it's just. Yeah. Today, we reported on the fact that there was a judge who upheld the Pentagon ban while it makes its way through. In other words, didn't put a stay on it to allow it to stand. So in the midst of the Treasury Secretary and the Federal Reserve Chair getting together with the Wall Street CEOs to talk about this thing, we have Anthropic in the middle of a pissing match with the Pentagon when what's really needed is everybody getting along and figuring out, you know, how we're going to handle all these things.

54:00So it's chaotic.

54:03Brian Schulmeister:Shocker. It's chaotic. Yeah. Welcome to 2026. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. No, and, you know, I've been trying to keep up with all the AI news, and it's just, it's impossible. It's absolutely impossible.

54:18Jason DeFillippo:It's a firehose torrent of just, and trying to figure out, like, to Dave's point earlier, trying to figure out what is just PR bullcrap versus what's real news and what these things can really do versus what they're saying they can do to try to get some more money. And it's fucking exhausting.

54:37Brian Schulmeister:It is. Absolutely. Yeah. So we'll keep an eye on this one for sure. Yeah. So I wanted to follow up. I meant to talk about this last week, but it slipped my mind. I guess a few weeks ago before I went off to RSA, we were talking about the Strong Songs podcast, which we're both well, we're all fans of. And so when I was on my way back from the RSA conference, loaded up my phone with podcasts to listen to. One of them was the latest episode of Strong Songs, in which he covered Both Sides Now by Joni Mitchell. I'm halfway over the continent, 30 ,000 feet, and I'm weeping like a baby.

55:25Jason DeFillippo:uh and to be fair there's something about being in a plane and the the that makes me weepy anyways i think i cried to like one of the batman movies once because you know you're you're on a plane you maybe have had a you know jack and coke and yeah the oxygen is what it is right right

55:43Brian Schulmeister:right you're feeling you're already feeling a little isolated and and restricted and and all those kinds of things um but you know i i had never i obviously i know the song both sides now i had never really dug into it deeply yeah it's just kind of part of the firmament like it's

56:00Jason DeFillippo:exactly there and it doesn't it was a bit before our generation so we don't feel it like my biggest exposure to it probably comes from love actually you know emma thompson listening to it and right

56:12Brian Schulmeister:yeah and he digs into the history of it how she made this song when she was in her 20s and then And she revisited it when she was in her 50s and compares the recordings, you know, one accompanied by guitar, the other by an orchestra and how different it is when you consider it in your 20s versus when you're in your 50s. And again, I'm weeping. And but one of the things that what's his name? Kirk, I think, is the host of that show.

56:41Jason DeFillippo:Kirk Hamilton.

56:41Brian Schulmeister:Yeah, he said he was talking about conversations with his dad. Now, coincidentally, I'm listening to this on the anniversary of the passing of my father. So I'm already primed to be a big emotional mess, right? But it hadn't hit me. It was sort of in the back of my brain. And then he starts talking about things with his dad and conversations. And he said this phrase, he said, as you get older, your passions soften into wisdom. I was just like, oh, my God. It's so true. It's so true.

57:25Jason DeFillippo:You know, after the under pressure episode and then the both sides now, I actually, I'm a little worried about Kirk. I feel like I should drop him an email and say, are you trying to kill us or are you not doing well yourself? I don't know what's going on, buddy, but can we get a fucking happy episode? Can we do a disco song? Can we? Right.

57:49Brian Schulmeister:Get some village people in here. Yeah. Let's unpack Walking on Sunshine. Yes. Yes. Please. Something stupid and meaningless. Yeah.

57:58Jason DeFillippo:No, it was a very impactful episode. And obviously, you know, same thing, you know. Yeah. being in my early 50s now it's not a song i really thought about much but as he breaks it down and you're listening to it and then you you know jesus christ it is one of those episodes like under pressure and this one have destroyed me yeah yeah no it's again i guess i gotta listen

58:21Brian Schulmeister:to it i listened to under pressure and i was just at the end i was just like give me a tissue but okay but i think it's good i mean i i think it's because i think like for me anyway there's a difference between weeping and crying you know like crying i do when i'm sad but weeping is more of like an emotional release and it's not necessarily sadness it's just it's some sort of escape valve uh and so i feel good on the other side of a good weeping session i think or at least relieved.

58:58Jason DeFillippo:How'd the guy sitting next to you feel about it?

59:01Brian Schulmeister:Well, it was a gal and, uh, fortunately she was very into whatever she was watching on her iPad. So, you know, I'm sitting there a blubbering mess. I had the window seat. Yeah, exactly. I had the window seat. So I'm looking out, you know, uh, the clouds that she's singing about. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Exactly. I'm above the clouds. Before I was below the clouds. Anyway. I've seen both sides now, Dave.

59:31Jason DeFillippo:I've seen both sides.

59:32Brian Schulmeister:I know. I know. Literally and metaphorically. Somehow I missed that the marathon game had launched. It's been out for a couple weeks now, yeah. So explain to me how can I play this? I think you need to go get yourself a console or a PC. So this will play on my PS5, my son's PS5? I do believe it's out for the PS5. I was going to get it, but like I mentioned before in the show, I'm going through bankruptcy and I don't have money for things like that right now. So I won't be checking it out. GRG.show slash donate.

1:00:05Jason DeFillippo:Yes. Please. Pretty please.

1:00:09Brian Schulmeister:But yeah, it's out and the reviews were pretty decent that I read. So that's what I saw. It's a decent game. I watched some gameplay and it seems it has that feeling of old marathon, which was a classic and very important to me. But the other, but the flip side of it is like all modern first person shooter games. They're so twitchy now. Everything moves so quickly. And I'm hoping that there's a way, there's a setting that I can slow that down. There's old guy mode. Yeah, exactly. There actually is on most of these games now. Yeah. Give it a little jelly to not give me motion sickness. So, yeah, I mean, my thing is I like first person shooters.

1:00:53Brian Schulmeister:I'm a Quake three arena guy. I mean, that's what I that's what I came up on. You know, I was semi pro. I actually played in a lot of tournaments and I was really good at it. But I need a keyboard and a mouse. Like doing the thumb thing just does not work for me. I just do not like first person shooters if I got to use that stupid controller. You know, give me a keyboard and a mouse. any day of the week and I will mop the floor with you. But using the little thumbsticks, I suck. They're too sensitive. Even if you turn the sensitivity all the way down, it's like still, it's like my thumbs don't work that way.

1:01:24Brian Schulmeister:I'm not a kid. I need a mouse, please. Mouse and a rail gun and I'm good to go. But yeah, if you check it out, let me know. I would like to play it, but like I said, can't right now. Yeah, no, I get it. So yeah, I'll have to get my son to spring into action and make it so, which is more and more what happens these days. Jack, make this remote work. Okay, Dad. I hate to admit it, but it's where I am. There's only so much extra mental cycles. We've been tech support for our families our whole lives. It's good that you can now offload some of that to your son. Damn straight. It's his turn. Damn straight.

1:02:10Brian Schulmeister:Damn straight. so uh i'm curious if i had a little nostalgia moment uh and i'm curious if you guys are old enough to be in this zone where this would affect you or resonate with you i guess is a better word for it uh one of the shows that my wife and i watch when we're falling asleep or i'd say one of the shows we put on while we're falling asleep is the love boat uh it is gentle it's funny it's nostalgic I particularly like it because of all the old Hollywood people who show up on it you get vaudevillians on Love Boat Charo right exactly yeah Charo Charo yeah Kate Smith and so we had Love Boat on earlier this week and I'm watching Love Boat and I'm starting to fall asleep and one of the guests come on and I said I said to my wife, I said, I'm probably wrong here, but I think that's Pinky Tuscadero.

1:03:17Brian Schulmeister:Now, does that name mean anything to either of you?

1:03:20Jason DeFillippo:Of course it does.

1:03:21Brian Schulmeister:Okay.

1:03:22Jason DeFillippo:Brian? Yes, but I have to say, I saw these things on Sunday morning repeats. So a bit later than you guys, probably.

1:03:31Brian Schulmeister:So like, I watch that live. Yeah, I didn't watch these live.

1:03:35Jason DeFillippo:This is when I was taken to my grandparents' house and deposited it in front of the TV on Sunday afternoons while my dad did things around my, you know, fixed things around my grandfather's house. Right.

1:03:46Brian Schulmeister:I watched them on Friday night when my mom would dump me at my grandparents' house because she wanted to go have her free time. Yeah. But I watched Love Boat with my grandparents because it was Love Boat and then right after Love Boat was Fantasy Island. Right. Right. Right. Right. So it turns out I was right. I figured if she wasn't Pinky Tuscadero, she was someone from Greece. But no, it was Pinky Tuscadero. It was the pink ladies in Greece, right? The pink ladies are in Greece, right. And I think Pinky Tuscadero had the Pinkettes was her little squad of minions.

1:04:21Jason DeFillippo:And Stockard Channing was one of the original pink ladies who was then awesome as the first lady on West Wing.

1:04:26Brian Schulmeister:Correct. Correct. Stockard Channing, a 35-year-old high school student. Yes, well, they all were back then.

1:04:33Jason DeFillippo:It was, you know, we graduated a bit when the 24-year-old Johnny Depp was in 21 Jump Street as a high school student.

1:04:42Brian Schulmeister:Right, right. So, of course, Pinky Tuscadero had a sister named Leather Tuscadero who later came on the show. Anyway, I have a link to the YouTube clip of Fonzie and Pinky breaking up, which is a real, not quite as tear jerking as Strong Songs, but perhaps nostalgic to some of you. Fonzie saw both sides now. That's right. Pinky and leather. Oh, my. But then the other thing this reminded me of, we were talking about the Evel Knievel stunt cycle. Yes. Fonzie had his own stunt cycle, and it was comparatively lame.

1:05:23Jason DeFillippo:Was it? Because it very famously jumped over sharks. Well, this one didn't.

1:05:31Brian Schulmeister:So I included a link to a YouTube commercial for Fonzie's Garage, which was a toy. And so it's Fonzie's Garage where you get to fix cars and spend time with Richie and Potsy and Ralph Mouth. but they also have Fonzie's stunt cycle which instead of jumping over things turns around in a circle ooh that's exciting that's yay it's like it's got training wheels on it it's really lame compared to the evil Knievel thing and what when I first remembered that Fonzie had a stunt cycle I thought to myself they must have just taken the evil Knievel stunt cycle and just rebadged it you know put a leather jacket on it Yeah, put a leather jacket on Evel Knievel and paint his hair darker and, you know, bam, boom, you got Fonzie.

1:06:23Brian Schulmeister:But that's not what they did. They made his own stunt cycle that was very lame. So it's a fun commercial, though, of its time.

1:06:31Jason DeFillippo:I do like those old commercials. What I do wish that when they have these reruns of these shows from the 70s and the 80s, I wish they ran the original commercials. I would love, I would watch, I would watch the shit out of like, I would actually skip the show. I don't even want to see the show. I just, I want to see all the original commercials that ran when this show ran. I want the live feed from back in the day.

1:06:55Brian Schulmeister:Well, and there's plenty of that on YouTube. You can go find strings of 70s commercials and you can find original shows that still include the commercials.

1:07:02Jason DeFillippo:Yeah, the reason I haven't done that is I'd be withering away and still watching it right now. Like I wouldn't have shown up for this. I probably wouldn't eat. I would just be sitting there scrolling endlessly. Old McDonald commercials. I've been watching what's on the air now. That's true. That's true.

1:07:17Brian Schulmeister:Old McDonaldland commercials are weird. They are weird, like psychedelic weird. I guess it was because it was the time. I mean, the McDonald's van was a ripoff of H.R. Puffin stuff. So I guess that was the aesthetic that they were going for. And it's weird. Well, the last thing I have here is a video that NASA posted about the Artemis astronauts put together a little music video. It's called Moon Joy. It's wonderful. one of the flight directors said if you can't take love to the stars why do we even do it and so it's a happy little boost I think when we all could use one so here's hoping that they touch down safely later this evening but this is a nice little video so highly recommend it, it made me smile and made me happy and that was much appreciated we need more of that absolutely Absolutely.

1:08:17Brian Schulmeister:Absolutely. Take the win. All right, guys. Until next week. Until next week. All right. See you guys. Take care. Closing shout outs. So I don't know if you guys didn't hear the last episode where we said that this is an ad supporter, a fan supported show because we don't have ads that much anymore. We have no new patrons. so uh but we do want to thank our current patrons peter brian jade howard andrew hot wings ftw durell derek and geeky grump i am and ben so thank you guys for still sticking with us we appreciate it very very much we absolutely do and over at paypal thank you to florian who made a donation and over the tip jar we've got patrick and john hi john and so if you guys want to help support the show and keep us on the air.

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1:09:23Jason DeFillippo:We appreciate it. Seriously. We sure do. And hip-hop pioneer Afrika Bambaataa has died at the age of 68. He's one of the founding figures of hip-hop culture. And the Hip-Hop Alliance has confirmed that he passed away in a statement the organization said bambada helped shape a global movement rooted in peace unity love and having fun playing tribute to his role in the emergence of hip-hop as both a musical genre and cultural force unfortunately in his later years his reputation was overshadowed by allegations of child sexual abuse and trafficking which he denied but uh that's why we haven't heard too much of him uh he said the uh tmz had reported the artist died in pennsylvania due to complications from cancer on thursday uh africa bambada is somebody that uh appeared a lot in the music that i listened to he did some stuff with johnny lyden from the sex pistols uh time zone which is a great song absolutely fantastic and he also appeared on a lot of uh edm and stuff that i was listening to and uh yeah well i i don't know if we're sad or not because apparently he was not that great of a guy so yeah kid toucher yeah so there you go what you're gonna do i don't know everybody seems okay with michael jackson so here we are and the president oh yeah that too until next time i'm jason de filippo and i'm brian schulbeister thanks for listening to grumpy old woke geeks get all the links and goodies from today's episode of gog.show slash 741 want to keep the grumpiness alive toss a few bucks our way at gog.show slash donate every penny helps keep the show on the air love the show share it and punch a fascist there's a share button in your podcast player use it to spread the grumpiness to friends foes and everyone in between we'll love you for it swing by gog.show to join our discard and chat with us and other show fans thoughts feedback cool links hit us up at gog.show contact and don't forget to leave a five-star review at gog.show review and we'll read it on the show and guess what we've got merch snagged here now at chop.gog.show and stay wrong wrong wrong boob wrong boob and stay grumpy