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16:35Jason DeFillippo:well from the physician heal thyselves category anthropic is investigating potential unauthorized access to its clawed mythos model that has been touted for its ability to find cyber security flaws maybe you should turn it on itself because somebody got in no this this one is genius i got something to say about this go ahead several unauthorized users who reportedly have a private chat on discord supposedly gained access to mythos through a developer portal and by making an educated guess as to where the model might be located that same group may also have access to other unreleased anthropic models according to the report this is a bit this reminds me a bit of like when you wanted to get into somebody's images and they had a wordpress site you just start guessing

17:13Brian Schulmeister:what the folder was just go to wp-content slash date slash you know just run through that uh so yeah yep they got hacked it didn't it didn't get hacked brian it did not get i want to i want to clarify this. They guessed the URL based on the structural layout of all of the previous URLs before them. This is where experience comes into play. You know, these are just these guys who are vibe coding everything that work at Anthropic. And, you know, they're just these are just people who have not been through the shit like we have. Exactly. And know that, you know, you got to change some shit up because if it's just, you know, when I was doing web development

17:51Jason DeFillippo:and we'd have to put things online for clients and clients could never remember usernames and passwords. So you kind of give up on that. And I learned really quick that you don't put it on, like say, coldplay.com slash dev. Because as soon as you do that, those images appear on every fan site known to man. So you start doing things like coldplay.com slash fucknut25. There you go.

18:12Brian Schulmeister:And even that can still get, so then you got to put your HD access in with your robot rules, your robot exclusion rules. But the best thing to do is just to send them a user and password that's encoded in the url that they can then look at which used to be able to do in the old htaccess days i don't know if you can do that now but you know but see the still the thing is it's like we learn shit like this the hard way so there's now this is a new generation doing the same shit that we did but with much higher stakes and much bigger fucking paychecks

18:38Jason DeFillippo:exactly well today amazon announced that it will invest five billion dollars in anthropic as long with as much as 20 billion dollars in additional payments if certain milestones are met. This news follows the initial$4 billion investment Amazon made in Anthropic back in 2023 and a second$4 billion round from 2024. On Anthropic's side, it is committed to continue use of Amazon's custom Tranium silicon for its AI models. This latest agreement will see Anthropic promising to spend more than$100 billion on AWS technologies over the coming decade. so you invest uh what that's roughly uh five uh ten another let's just go all in so 25 and another eight 32 billion dollars to get them to spend 100 billion dollars on your tech but it's a bet because who knows if anthropic will be around yeah we'll talk about it is betting amazon if you want to make money just go to polymarket and bet on temperatures at charlie's de gaulle and

19:33Brian Schulmeister:fly a fucking couple of your jets over that thing that's all you gotta do oh man yeah this is it's the fake math, the fake math. We're talking about that.

19:42Jason DeFillippo:And it's also just, it's everybody just throwing fake money at each other, making deals for like fake money. You give me this, and then you'll get that later. And blah, blah, blah. And none of this is ever going to happen.

19:52Brian Schulmeister:Right. But the thing with Amazon is they actually have real money to put behind Anthropic, who's going to give them back fake money by using Amazon. It's just basically they give it to them and say, can we have it back now? You know, just running the numbers. Yeah. Because it's all about data centers, Brian. Now, more than 3 ,000 data centers are planned or under construction across the U.S., and a new report warns the environmental cost could be massive. Massive, I tell you. Just 11 gas-powered facilities could emit over 129 million tons of greenhouse gases annually, more than the entire country of Morocco.

20:27Brian Schulmeister:But make sure, make sure you don't use any more of your plastic straws.

20:32Jason DeFillippo:Oh, God, no. We can't get plastic straws anymore. We got to have the metal ones.

20:38Brian Schulmeister:Dude, you can't even get plastic garbage bags in California anymore. It's only paper. It's only paper.

20:43Jason DeFillippo:That's right. We all got to do our part, Jason. We all got to do our part. Yep. Fucking joke. It's a fucking joke. This whole fucking world is a fucking joke.

20:54Brian Schulmeister:Oh, would you like me to continue? Please do. I've got more. Please do. I've got more. So XAI has been pulling millions of gallons of drinking water daily from the Memphis Sand Aquifer to cool its facilities.

21:07Jason DeFillippo:Don't take showers more than five minutes. Don't be in your shower for more than fucking five minutes, people. Do your part.

21:15Brian Schulmeister:So all while indefinitely delaying a promised$78 million water recycling plant that was meant to offset that usage. $78 million seems like nothing compared to what these people are spending. So what are they holding back for?

21:30Jason DeFillippo:Because that would do something good and it doesn't do anything for them except for maybe decent PR if anybody notices.

21:35Brian Schulmeister:Yeah, well, it's not working right now because local officials and community groups say the project was oversold with construction now stalled and no timeline for completion. Meanwhile, XAI continues to scale aggressively, including plans for additional data centers nearby. And it even reports significant as it even reports significant financial losses. Well, maybe you should lose 78 more million dollars just to make the people around you happy so they can take a shower and scrub off all the shit you're putting in the air from all those fucking methane generators that you're using. Just saying.

22:06Brian Schulmeister:But, Brian, it gets better. At full build-out, its operations could consume over 10 million gallons of water per day. Just let that sink in. 10 million gallons of water per day for Grok, the AI that nobody even wants, let alone the ones that people actually use. And most of it's going to be permanently lost to evaporation. Now, if they should, you know, reclaim it and send it to the people so they can take a shower, that might be something. Turn it into gray water. I don't know.

22:39Jason DeFillippo:Make sure you get those low-flow toilets. I swear to God. You got to get the low-flow toilets and make sure you replace your old dishwasher with the new one that uses a lot less water because it's really going to make a fucking difference.

22:51Brian Schulmeister:We did just replace our dishwasher with one that uses less water. That's just because our old one broke. now here's here's where it gets even funner brian i know funner is not a word but i'm gonna i'm bringing it back startup founders are burning cash on ai instead of hiring humans and it's called token maxing yes token maxing it's an ai trend that treats massive compute bills as a badge of honor make sure you work extra hard for your company put in those extra hours because they're

23:22Jason DeFillippo:going to take care of you. You got to work. You got to do your best for that company until they

23:27Brian Schulmeister:fuck you. Yep. One CEO bragged about one hundred and thirteen thousand dollar monthly AI invoice for a four person team claiming those tokens now handle engineering, marketing and more. Now, look, Brian, I will write shitty code all day for one tenth of that. So nobody wants to Jason Max. No, they don't. Nobody wants to Jason Max. God damn you, Brian. Jason Maxing. We have a show title. Ah, damn it. Now, see, inside companies like Meta, dashboards reportedly track employees' token usage, reinforcing the idea that more AI spend equals more productivity. But this is what a lot of these dumb little fuckers don't quite understand is it's easy for Meta to say that because they own the model and the infrastructure.

24:13Brian Schulmeister:You don't, you little shit. So stop wasting money and hire some goddamn people or get a real idea because the AI company that you're running is generally just a wrapper for another fucking foundation model. And you don't own anything because you're building your entire company in somebody else's backyard.

24:29Jason DeFillippo:Back to the same thing we've been saying since day one of the show, just AI wasn't around then. Yep. Same thing.

24:36Brian Schulmeister:Yep. And they're about to have a real fucking reckoning because the era of cheap AI is starting to get priced to what it actually costs. Yes, that's right. Brian, we've said it's coming, it's coming, it's coming. It's finally fucking here.

24:51Jason DeFillippo:It's the Uber model. It's always been the Uber model. We are going to price cut ourselves underneath the ground. We're going to make everything so cheap. First taste is free. Have at it, people.

25:01Brian Schulmeister:And now we're going to screw you. Yep. And here's the fun part. Anthropik and OpenAI are tightening the access and pushing users off their generous free tiers after agents like OpenClaw started hammering their systems. Now, these people have been saying, Agentic is coming. Agentic is coming. The world is going to be great. Well, first, no, we had AGI. AGI is not going to work. Okay, let's, Agentic. Yes. Agentic is it now. It's got AG in it.

25:27Jason DeFillippo:We can still keep that.

25:28Brian Schulmeister:It's got an AG and an I. It's got to go down the line a little bit. So they fucking got it. Now, OpenClaw was, you know, and here's the funny part. You know, OpenClaw was the big, you know, Agentic thing that you could go buy a$4 ,000 Mac Mini and run yourself to delete all your emails and probably ruin your life with. So OpenAI goes and hires the guy that made OpenClaw for like$100 million and just the product has just been, nobody cares about it anymore because everybody else has run out their agentic shit because agentic AI is just another fucking wrapper around more AI to run more compute.

26:01Brian Schulmeister:The problem is that they didn't really count on the fact that, oh shit, everybody's going to use our product now. And we know every time somebody uses that product, it costs them more money than they're getting paid. So AI is moving -

26:13Jason DeFillippo:It's like new order, single.

26:14Brian Schulmeister:Yeah, exactly.

26:16Jason DeFillippo:They're basically selling Blue Monday on vinyl here, people.

26:19Brian Schulmeister:Yep. We lose a dollar on every order, but we're going to make it up at scale. That's right. So, yeah, all the AIs are moving from flat rate free access to token based. That's it. And it's happening everywhere. Everywhere.

26:33Jason DeFillippo:It's not even the paid where you're getting crunched on now. I've been using Claude recently to help write our social media updates, right? And it was always like I only make maybe 10 queries to knock out all of our social media updates for the week. Obviously, I edit them. I don't take them as is. But anyways, I ran about 10 queries to knock out the whole week's worth. And that used to never be a problem. Now I can only do like six. And then it cuts me off. So now I've had.

27:01Brian Schulmeister:Yeah. And by the way, here's the tip for that. Use one of the older models. It doesn't cost them as much to run, so you get more shit. Don't use the latest Opus. Use the Sonnet. And it still works. It just comes back a little bit slower. And honestly, I found it better when I had to use it. So I was that program that I've been working on, my Xcode project, the iPhone app. Yeah, I would run it for Sonnet for like five hours trying to get stuff done. And I would just watch TV while it ran. And then I flipped it over to Opus one day to see how much better it was. And my the meter that shows you how much you have left on your on your quota went from this to full in about 45 seconds.

27:43So I'm like, not going to use that one anymore.

27:46Brian Schulmeister:So I think everybody's going to have to be dialing back because it's coming down to it. Like people are going to have to go back to actually doing the fucking work again, Brian. I know it's going to be difficult. It's going to be difficult because everybody's been lazy maxing. And by the way, last one on this, Microsoft is going to shift GitHub down to they're going to token base too. Everybody's going to token base because they can't afford to keep running these free ones. the quotas are going to get smaller and these token maxing guys are just going to be out on the street because they never learned how to code in the fucking first place.

28:21Brian Schulmeister:Yep.

28:22Jason DeFillippo:All right, let's switch to other types of dystopia. The Department of Homeland Security is reportedly developing smart glasses that could be used to collect intelligence on immigrants and U.S. citizens. That's great.

28:33Brian Schulmeister:Wonderful.

28:34Jason DeFillippo:Devices would help ICE agents identify illegal aliens from a distance by capturing video and comparing it to biometric data like facial recognition and walking gate according to budget documents dhs wants to deploy ice glasses by september 2027 this will make surveillance of u.s residents ubiquitous according to the report which is goddamn dystopia yes it is it might be portrayed as seeking to identify illegal aliens on the streets but the reality is that a push in this direction affects all americans particularly protesters a dh lawyer speaking on the condition of anonymity because nobody can nobody wants to be on camera anymore because this is getting ridiculous so of course this is worrying civil liberty groups who will do fuck all about it yeah so i i want to say this was an engadget article

29:22Brian Schulmeister:but this is from ken klippenstein's newsletter highly recommend people go find that on substack and subscribe he's a fantastic journalist i give him a few bucks a month uh he does great work and you get all this stuff like straight from the horse's mouth but uh just i just want to put in a plug for Ken there because he runs a fantastic, I mean, fantastic newsletter.

29:42Jason DeFillippo:Yeah. And in case you haven't gotten around to reading Palantir's CEO, Alex Karp and Nicholas W. Zemiska's 2025 book, The Technological Republic, because why would you do that to yourself? The company best known for supplying AI-driven defense and surveillance software to the likes of the U.S. Army, ICE, and the New York Police Department shared a 1 ,000-word ex-post that last weekend covering its main points. it is a manifesto of staggering proportions that made me want to vomit in my mouth

30:09Brian Schulmeister:that's a yeah that's about it these people should be in jail yeah for many reasons for many many many reasons but yeah links in the show notes if you have not

30:22Jason DeFillippo:read this and you should uh this this is their plan this is what they want and it is as again and as dystopian as it can possibly be. This is what they're heading for. This is why they're plowing money into Trump people. This is why they're backing politicians. This is what they want. Read it. Read it.

30:43Brian Schulmeister:Something else you need to read? And buy some booze before going to bed, because you're probably going to need it.

30:48Jason DeFillippo:Yeah. And something else you probably want to read, and I've got no real commentary on this other than, boy, oh boy, it's eye-opening. This is an article over at The Atlantic. what I learned about billionaires at Jeff Bezos' private retreat. And if you think that billionaires are just like us, they are not.

31:06Brian Schulmeister:No, they're not.

31:07Jason DeFillippo:They are not. They're not even human.

31:10Brian Schulmeister:Not anymore. Not anymore. So now I want to I'm trying to end the news on some highlights and uplifting things. You know, that's what that's my goal now. It doesn't always work. But so I found. Yes. So if your brain feels like it's been marinating in TikTok sludge, scientists at UC Santa Barbara may have a fix and it's not logging off. It's watching weirder stuff. In a study of about 500 people, just seven minutes of experimental animated shorts boosted creativity and conceptual expansion, while standard viral videos did basically nothing. So put on Twin Peaks. There you go. Participants who watched the artsy clips were more creative or wrote more creative stories and showed more flexible thinking, even though they actually liked the junkie videos more.

31:57Brian Schulmeister:Doritos are delicious. Broccoli is good for you. Exactly. Although I like broccoli, too. But not everybody does. Maybe that's why we're the hosts. The theory, ambiguous, challenging content forces your brain to work instead of just doom scrolling grooves deeper. So there's a short video in the article. They list the short video site that they used. I went and I watched some stuff on there. And it's great. There's actually fantastic videos on there. And you can watch them on the crapper and then come out smarter and happier and lighter and actually more creative. I should put a few of them in the show notes that I liked.

32:37Brian Schulmeister:There's some really, really, really good stuff on there. Highly recommended. But this makes sense. It makes sense. Your brain is actually working.

32:45Jason DeFillippo:yeah and uh i found this to be a feel-good story as well this came from a friend of the show ross who sent this to me uh this is a story over at wired the scammer used an ai generated maga girl to grift super dumb men a med student said he's made thousands of dollars selling photos and videos of a young conservative woman he created using generative tools and he's not alone that's great yeah grifting the grifters indeed indeed and the final feel-good story just to end on a good note, the jaw-dropping iPhone video of the Earth setting behind the moon is rightfully breaking the internet. There's a link over at Gizmodo.

33:21Jason DeFillippo:You can find the video anywhere. Watch it. It's beautiful.

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35:30Jason DeFillippo:Media candy. Moving from our real dystopia to sci-fi fake dystopias, a hat tip to Jansu on our Discord. Silo Season 3 just got its Apple TV release date and first trailer. It will be premiering on July 3rd on Apple TV, and the trailer link is in the show notes. I, of course, watched it. Having read the books, I kind of, I know what's coming. There's no real surprises here. I'm a little worried about this season because for me, this show is 99.9999999999 % Rebecca Ferguson. And most of this season will not be about Rebecca Ferguson's character. So I'm sure they're going to work her in because they know that she's the big part of this show too.

36:12Jason DeFillippo:So I think we're going to be bouncing back and forth between the timelines a lot. But, you know, I love this show. I love both seasons. I can't wait for the third, regardless of what's going to come.

36:21Brian Schulmeister:Yeah, I'm just amazed that it's July 3rd this year. I thought it was going to be another three years the way they've been making TV lately. So that's good. That's good. We've also been waiting for Jessica Jones to show up in Daredevil. And she finally did for about 17 seconds, which is what we predicted. And it was fine. It was a good 17 seconds. It was great. I love her. Bring back Jessica Jones, for God's sake. Bring back her own show. Yep. Yep. She's still a badass. Still looks great. And we did get a little tease on one of the agents that he might not be what he looks to be, like human. So that was a good little—they slid that in there very subtly.

36:58Brian Schulmeister:They did. I thought that was pretty good.

36:59Jason DeFillippo:They did. they didn't beat you over the head with it, which is what they usually do with Daredevil.

37:03Brian Schulmeister:Yeah, yeah. And I got to say, after this season, I don't think there's any, you know, toothpaste left in the tube with Daredevil.

37:11Jason DeFillippo:Not unless they bring back all four of them together again, but who wants a Fist of Fury guy? Yeah. All right, what else we got? Well, Amazon is here to remind you about its very expensive Rings of Power TV show, which in a surprise move is apparently dropping its third of five planned seasons earlier than expected. The report comes from The Hollywood Reporter and is yet to be confirmed by the streamer, but a source close to the production told The Trade that Rings of Power Season 3 will be arriving later this year rather than the expected 2027 release date. Season 2 wrapped in October 2024, so instead of three years, we'll only be waiting two.

37:49Brian Schulmeister:God damn. I mean, it's a pretty show, but let's let a fire under it, guys. Let's go. Let's go. At least it's coming. I like the show, so we'll see. Jumping forward several years from the events of Season 2. Oh, my God. I have to go watch Season 2 again. You got me into it, and I got to say, I fell in love with it, and then I was very bummed that it was over. So that sucked. I think it's a fun show, and they definitely spent a lot of money on it. It's very pretty. Yeah, speaking of pretty fun shows that you should never watch the very end of, Battlestar Galactica is coming back to streaming services finally.

38:23Brian Schulmeister:I don't want to spoil it for everyone, but there was no plan. I'm just telling you now. So May 1st on Paramount Plus and Pluto. I have the entire series and all the miniseries and everything on my hard drive because I went to Sweden because I was tired of it not being on streaming. But yeah, I got to tell you, Brian, it's a great show. It is a great show. there's some definite like stinkers in there but that first season is fucking solid it is so solid highly recommended if you've never seen battle star the battle star galactica reboot you just

39:00Jason DeFillippo:gotta you just gotta yeah it's it's it's great even with its flaws uh one of my favorite bands of all time has come back dead can dance have returned with death cults the latest entry from their newly run launched run of monthly 2026 releases so instead of putting things out on streaming services and all that. These are all being put out exclusively through Bandcamp, thus forcing me to sign up for Bandcamp for the first time ever. They have not announced a new full-length album alongside the singles. There's two now, and the official framing remains a month-by-month release starting rather than the traditional LP rollout.

39:33Jason DeFillippo:The strange thing about this is Dead Can Dance has always been really two people, Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard. So far, the songs have only involved, as far as we can tell, Brandon Perry. We don't know if Lisa Gerrard's involved. We don't know if she will be involved. There's no public clarification whatsoever about if she's involved or not. She actually hasn't posted anything on her private, not private, on her own socials other than some other stuff that she's involved in that isn't Dead Can Dance. So who knows what's happening, but the songs are great, so I don't care. It's been such a long time.

40:07Jason DeFillippo:The last album that they released was back in, I think 2020 or something like that. And then they were going to tour and I had tickets and then pandemic. So tour was canceled and then tour was reannounced and pandemic came backish. And so tour was canceled again. Then the tour was reannounced and I had tickets and then canceled because of health issues and nobody said what the fuck was going on. This band has been a mystery forever. I don't care. There's new music, whatever.

40:33Brian Schulmeister:I'm happy. Well, here, Brian, from the description that you just told me, I'm really worried that there's going to be another fucking pandemic now. So thanks for that. Because every time they make new music, it seems like the world falls to shit.

40:45Jason DeFillippo:We don't need an actual pandemic. Have you seen who's in charge of health and human services in your country?

40:52Brian Schulmeister:Yeah, moving on, Brian. It's a fucking walking pandemic. What else we got?

40:56Jason DeFillippo:Well, let's talk about what happened at Coachella. I actually did watch a bit of it, particularly the Nine Inch Noise, which is Nine Inch Nails with Boys Noise collaboration that they did at Coachella, which was fucking phenomenal. And the album's absolutely fantastic that they put out. But I, you know, I'm on the wrong coast, so I'm a bit late. So I didn't see any of the later shows that were on. I did not catch Madonna, surprise appearance, joining Sabrina Carpenter, Sabrina Carpenter, who I've decided I liked since The Muppet Show. It's amazing what that can do. I'm quite a fan. But you want to talk about dystopia, I've included a link in the show notes and there is an image.

41:34Jason DeFillippo:Madonna and Sabrina Carpenter, dance music, particularly Madonna. known for dance music. She came out. Nobody danced. Everybody is just standing completely still with their phones. It's really weird. It's the weirdest thing I've ever seen in my life.

41:53Brian Schulmeister:It is wrong. Did you watch the TikTok video where they zoomed out to the whole audience?

41:58Jason DeFillippo:Yep.

41:58Brian Schulmeister:It's creepy. It's like, how hard does it have to be to be a performer performing to that with no feedback from your audience whatsoever? Nobody seems to be enjoying it.

42:09Jason DeFillippo:They're just trying to capture it for what? There is a 4K stream on YouTube that is capturing it. Put your fucking phone down. You want to watch it.

42:17Brian Schulmeister:Watch the 4K stream shot with professional cameras later. Yeah. I mean, you can probably see the zits on Madonna's ass with the cameras that they've got. Why are you sitting there at a show? The show is supposed to be fun. You're supposed to sweat, bump into people, get grind and do fun shit.

42:32Jason DeFillippo:But apparently I'm glad I've aged out of Coachella because if this is what it is now, no thank you.

42:40Brian Schulmeister:There's a different performance that I saw. I saw FKA Twigs perform. Oh, I like her a lot too. Oh, she's an amazing performer. A guy I work with, Deshaun Wesley, and a bunch of our Vogers went out to Coachella, and they had a surprise performance at the end of her first night, the first weekend in Coachella. And it was awesome. And you said the crowd is going nuts. Absolutely nuts. And then you can see Sabrina Carpenter is completely different. But it's funny that the last time I the reason I first had to watch Sabrina Carpenter is because Deshaun was dancing on her Grammy thing. So this is my only he's my only link to new music anymore.

43:16Brian Schulmeister:But FKA Twigs is insanely good.

43:19Jason DeFillippo:Yeah. Well, this was this was dystopian again. And yeah, as the article points out, there's no wrong way to listen to music. And I would say, except for maybe this, Deezer, who has been reporting quite well on how AI-generated music is seeping into streamers, has come out with another report. They reported receiving nearly 75 ,000 uploads of AI-made tracks per day on its platform. Per day.

43:45Brian Schulmeister:Those are going to start going down now that they have to start paying for them.

43:48Jason DeFillippo:Yeah, probably. They published a report revealing that 44 % of its daily uploads are AI-generated songs accumulating to around 2 million flagged songs per month. Deezer said more than 13.4 million songs were detected and flagged as AI-generated across 2025. The statistics are made possible with their patent-pending AI music detection tool, which was launched in January 2025. A few months following the release, Deezer announced that it saw around 20 ,000 AI-generated tracks uploaded a day, which we reported on when that first came out. So it is just increased. Despite all that, Deezer says that only about one to three percent of total streams on the platform involve AI generated music and that a majority of these streams are marked as fraudulent and demonetized.

44:30Jason DeFillippo:So they're working on it. They're trying to do it. But man, that is a flood of shit.

44:36Brian Schulmeister:Yeah. Yeah. A tsunami, as it were. Yes. A tsunami of shit. Apps and doodads. Well, Brian, Apple has released a software update for iPhones and iPads to fix a privacy bug that allowed deleted messages to be recovered through forensic tools. Now, I told you they were going to fix this one fast, and they did. They even released a point patch. It was a point patch to the point patch to get this one out. So, yeah, the issue stemmed from how the operating system handled notifications. when a message was received and displayed in a notification, its content could be cached and stored locally for up to a month, even if the message itself was later deleted or set to disappear in apps like Signal.

45:15Brian Schulmeister:So this was how they backtraced those old Signal users, and they got convicted for that. So Apple is big on the privacy side, so they're like, we're sorry, our bad, our bad.

45:30Jason DeFillippo:Well, amidst ongoing legal trouble with several states and more than 100 pending lawsuits. This week, Roblox announced a$12 million settlement with Nevada, allowing the company to avoid going to trial in this case. As part of the deal, Roblox has agreed to give$10 million over three years to local children's support programs like the Boys and Girls Club and other non-digital groups while spending another$2.5 million to fund a law enforcement liaison position and awareness campaign regarding online safety. That awareness campaign should be don't let your kids Roblox. That's about it. Additionally, Roblox will also implement more rigorous safety protocols, including an age verification system that combines a facial age estimation system with government-issued IDs that will only allow children to talk with other players of similar ages.

46:13Jason DeFillippo:Furthermore, users under 16 will not be allowed to message adults unless they have been designated as a trusted friend, which can be assigned via QR code. Aren't most kids abducted by trusted friends?

46:24Brian Schulmeister:Yeah, yeah, basically. And can't you go to any restaurant and just take a sticker of a QR code and say, it's the menu, please scan it, and then there's your trusted friend network right there. So some old guy is going to go to Chuck E. Cheese and put his sticker on all of the menus and all the kids that go to Chuck E. Cheese will then be his new trusted friend. I'm sure that's going to work out great, guys. I'm sure it will.

46:46Jason DeFillippo:While Roblox may have settled with Nevada, the company is still facing a number of lawsuits, in fact, 99 or so earlier in the article, from other parties in the states, including Kentucky, Iowa, Louisiana, Texas, and more regarding claims that the platform has knowingly facilitated child sexual exploitation.

47:03Brian Schulmeister:I got 99 lawsuits, but Nevada ain't one. Speaking of kids, Cash App is expanding its financial services to target younger users, launching a new program for children ages 6 to 12 as it looks to build early relationships with Gen Alpha. What the fuck? Brian, parents can create and manage accounts on behalf of their children who won't have a direct app access, but will receive debit cards for spending. Yeah, I want to give a six-year-old a debit card. What the fuck? That's insane. Yep, the accounts can accept limited peer-to-peer payments from approved contacts and offer up to 3.25 % interest with features like scheduled allowances to encourage saving habits.

47:46Brian Schulmeister:Brian?

47:48Jason DeFillippo:What parent is, what six-year-old is running around without their parents anyways and needs a debit card? Have you been to Calabasas lately, Brian?

47:58Brian Schulmeister:Okay. Okay, fair. At age 13, users can transition to broader cash app services under parental supervision, including stock and Bitcoin trading. No. You have a 13-year-old chance to buy stock and Bitcoin. What the fuck is wrong with you? Oh, wow. The company says it already has around 5 million monthly active teen users entering a competitive and controversial market focused on youth financial exploitation, or I mean education. Right.

48:26Jason DeFillippo:You know, it was bad enough that they gave us all those credit cards in college where all you had to you were walking around the quad and basically you just had to sign a piece of paper and they gave you a credit card at insane interest rates. And I bought very expensive keyboards with it. And we're still paying those off well after graduation.

48:44Brian Schulmeister:Some of us aren't. Some of us had to file bankruptcy because of those very same credit cards that started us down the wrong fucking path.

48:50Jason DeFillippo:Thanks, Chase. That was an awesome plan of yours. So, no, don't do this for your kids. Absolutely not. And, yeah. Yeah. Judges granted the makers of the Ice Sightings Chicagoland Facebook group and the Eyes Up app a preliminary injunction to stop the Trump administration from coercing platforms to take these projects down. Similar apps, including IceBlock and Red Dot, were also taken down from the App Store and Google Play. Judge Jorge L. Alonso of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois found that the plaintiffs are likely to succeed in their case, which alleges that the government suppressed protected speech under the First Amendment by strong-arming Facebook and Apple into removing ICE monitoring efforts.

49:31Jason DeFillippo:The lawsuit cites social media posts by former U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and former Secretary of Homeland Security. They're all formers. It's amazing how fast this is going. Christy Noem that demanded and took credit for the removal of these apps. In a document filed on Friday, Alonzo called these posts thinly veiled threats. Good. We should be able to have these apps. There's nothing wrong with them.

49:59Brian Schulmeister:The Dark Side. Ha! With Dave. Welcome to The Dark Side with Dave, with the podcaster who never sleeps, Dave Bittner. Dave covers the daily cybersecurity beat on the Cyber Wire, busts scams with Joe Kerrigan on hacking humans, untangles privacy headaches with Ben Yellen on Caveat, digs into industrial cybersecurity on Control Loop and still shows up to stir up some trouble on only malware in the buildings. Welcome back, Dave. Thank you. Nice to be back. So we got a little start here. Mike M. sent us a note, said, the only useful use of AI that I've seen so far. Wondering what you fellow geeks thought of it.

50:35Brian Schulmeister:And it's two links to two Star Wars fan film videos. I want to emphasize the fan film videos. Did you guys get a chance to watch these? I did. And your thoughts? Well, I mean... Is Mike correct? They're very impressive. Yes. Is Mike correct? Is this the only useful AI that you've seen so far? No. No. But I think it is a fun use of AI. I would love to know what tool they're using for this. I don't know. So I've admittedly, I've never dug into this, but I'm curious what tool allows you to have the consistency that they seem to have here and be able to create what they've created. Some of these if you took some of these individual shots, you could plop into a Star Wars movie and nobody would know that you'd done it.

51:31Brian Schulmeister:They're that good. I disagree.

51:34Jason DeFillippo:Well, you're wrong. i'll tell you why i disagree that the sound is off and i'm so attuned to that that the the voice does not match does not match oh yeah just shots okay yes i'm saying just the visual

51:49Brian Schulmeister:the pure visual and i'd say that many of the uh the ai versions of the main characters are better

51:56Jason DeFillippo:than the ones ilm has done yeah well there's also 10 years difference yeah yeah of course

52:04Brian Schulmeister:But it's inconsistent. I think you're, Brian, you're absolutely right on that the sound is wrong. To me, the main thing that's lacking are the performances. Yeah, Lando's pretty flat. It's really bad acting. Yeah, and I think they just, it seems to me like they didn't have enough to sample from with Lando to get a full range of emotions for whatever they're using to generate his audio because he always sounds like he's kind of yelling no matter what.

52:33Jason DeFillippo:uh but at the same time it was fun look i watched all of them i didn't just watch these i watched the rest by this guy and then it led me to other ones and honestly i can't even go onto youtube now because my entire recommended thing is just cgi fucking star wars stuff or you know could be worse it could be worse i thought it was a lot of fun that's any different than normal though that's I'm never on YouTube. Oh, there you go. So, you know, yeah, I thought it was a lot of fun. The thing that I really took away from this is that Star Wars is such a fun universe and we love it all so much that the beats that Lucas left off because he had to only make a two hour movie, not fucking Hobbit 17 hours from one book.

53:22Jason DeFillippo:They're all interesting. like I love the behind the scenes things between Darth Vader and Boba Fett and like all these little beats I would watch all of them right like and you know the guy points for the creativity not so much with the AI stuff but just like what he the things that he decided to do with it the story the little stories he chose to tell were all good like I liked them all they were fun is the technology there yet absolutely not So, yeah, it's still very uncanny valley to me, particularly with the sound.

53:58Brian Schulmeister:Yeah, I agree. Yes. Yes. And so the facial movements are very uncanny valley. It's helpful when you have characters like Darth Vader and Boba Fett. With no faces. Yeah, right. It helps a lot.

54:09Jason DeFillippo:Whose lips don't need to move. You could do an entire movie about Mandalore and everybody would love it. Yeah, right.

54:16Brian Schulmeister:Well, maybe he could rotoscope him and turn him into animated shorts and they'd be probably better. Speaking of which, Maul is still very good. oh yeah i need to check that out my my son came to me uh earlier this week and said hey one of my friends said uh mall's really good and i said yeah one of my friends said it is too let's watch it so yeah i haven't watched yet but yeah i'm watching it with my son and and we fell um a

54:39Jason DeFillippo:little bit behind i guess one comes out every monday and i've basically argued with him every single day this week no we're only watching one we'll watch the next one tomorrow no we're only gonna watch monday so well that's a good sign yeah it's a good sign he's enjoying it i have to

54:52Brian Schulmeister:Check it out. I finished Fallout last night, season two of Fallout, which is really good, surprisingly. Surprisingly good. And yeah, I think I'll dive into that because the boys, I have to wait every week for the boys now. My son and I caught up on that yesterday and felt like the most recent episode was a filler episode. Kinda, yeah. Yeah, didn't. Kinda. And boy, there was some bad dialogue writing in that episode. Like, I don't know. They should hire this AI Star Wars guy. Right. Yeah. There you go. I think it's coming to a good climax, though. I hope so. You didn't go back and watch the miniseries, though, did you?

55:33Brian Schulmeister:No. See, yeah, you don't know what's coming yet. Okay. Yeah. So there's stuff that you know, having seen the university stuff, that I don't know, having not seen it, that makes you more excited for what's yet to come. Absolutely. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Well, that sucks for me. Well, maybe you'll be pleasantly surprised when it shows up and you go, oh, that's cool. I didn't realize that was coming. So. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So I don't know. We'll see. We'll see. All right.

56:07Jason DeFillippo:Well, let's move from Star Wars to the other big sci-fi franchise, Star Trek, because we do love our prop sales in this segment. The current era of Star Trek is ending with a fire sale. Now that Paramount's committed to making more Star Trek movies, maybe. We'll see. Right. It's time to say goodbye to its current run of TV shows by selling everything off. Prop Store and 403 Auction recently launched individual sales of props from recent Trek shows. From Prop Store, collectors can put down money for costumes and props from Star Trek Discovery and the Star Trek Shorts miniseries. And over on 403, Star Trek Starfleet Academy stuff is up for grabs.

56:42Jason DeFillippo:Unfortunately, nothing from Strange New Worlds, which is the only show I'd be interested in, really. But I mean, there are fun little things in there. Nothing I want to spend a ton of money on. You can buy entire transporter rooms, but they do say you have to come and pick it up. They will not be delivering it to you.

56:58Brian Schulmeister:That's a very cool transporter room, though. You got to admit that thing is really cool. It's cool looking. Yeah, absolutely. But, you know, if I had money, I would definitely get some of the Klingon outfits that they have in there are pretty spectacular. They would make amazing Halloween costumes for sure. Yeah.

57:16Jason DeFillippo:Yeah, if you have the coin. I don't think any of us are the six feet tall and 140 pounds that most of the actors that played these Klingons are and would be able to fit into them, but yes.

57:26Brian Schulmeister:Do you guys remember the Star Trek adventure at Universal in California? No. No. Why would that be at Universal? Star Trek is paramount, so why would there be a Star Trek at Universal? I'm just telling you where it was. I don't know. Are you drinking a lot back then?

57:41Jason DeFillippo:I just fondly remember the Star Trek experience in Las Vegas where I did drink quite a lot.

57:47Brian Schulmeister:So that was great. Yeah. This was, I guess it was sort of like a special effects demo kind of thing where they would mix footage from one of the Star Trek movies with footage. They get audience members to come up and get dressed up and they put them in scenes that would then get cut into the movies. So it was a whole behind the scenes sort of thing. Sounds fun. It was fun. And my reason for bringing it up is that I once got picked to be in it. And so I got to dress up like a Klingon. Somewhere I have a VHS tape of it. I'll have to try to dig up somewhere. Who knows where it is. But the funniest thing about it is that I dressed up as a Klingon, but I still had to wear my glasses.

58:37Brian Schulmeister:So I got the whole Klingon head and the, you know, the battle armor and everything and my little round glasses.

58:46Jason DeFillippo:Didn't Chang in the Undiscovered Country have a monocle? Yeah, see, that would have been cool. They get astigmatism too, man. Klingons, they're just like us.

58:57Brian Schulmeister:Right, right. Yeah. Yeah. So I'll see if I can dig that up. I have so many. Gosh, there's so many VHS tapes. So many VHS tapes. Get on it, man. They're melting as we speak. They're not going to last much longer. I know. Anyway, I had an interesting question came by on one of my feeds this week and it got me thinking because I feel like we're sort of in the middle of the generation that this would have happened to. So I'm curious for both of you, because you're both a little bit younger than me. In your life, did you ever know anyone who was born in the 1800s? Nope. Yeah, my great grandmother. Mm hmm.

59:42Brian Schulmeister:Mm hmm. Yeah, she was she was she. Yeah, she was she came over from like in the 19 like 1917. She came over when she was at least 20. So yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Same for me. There's some great grandparents who were born like 1898, right at the tail end of that. And I have very vague recollections. In fact, the memory I have of my one great grandmother on my father's side was seeing her in the hospital right before she passed away. But I just thought it was funny. Like there is no one alive who was born in the 1800s. And I have a link to the Wikipedia page on the last person who was alive, who was born in the 1800s, who was an Italian woman named Emma Morano.

1:00:30Brian Schulmeister:But I don't know. It's funny how these things pass. You know, we're very close to coming up on a time when there will be no more World War II veterans. That's scary. Yeah. And that was so, especially when we were kids. What's that? One can tell the way society is going, yes. Yeah.

1:00:52Jason DeFillippo:Memory is short when they're not around to remind you that Nazis are bad, I guess.

1:00:57Brian Schulmeister:When we were kids, it was such a regular part of life, particularly for me growing up in the 70s. And on TV shows, like you watch the Mary Tyler Moore show and half the characters, if they were men, their background was, what did you do in the war? And we all knew what the war was. It was World War II. and so they're pretty much almost gone and same thing with Holocaust survivors it's not going to be much longer until there isn't going to be anyone who was there and I just wonder what happens when we lose those connections look outside that's what happens when we lose those connections yeah, yeah I think I shared the story with you guys about how one time probably 20 years ago I interviewed a woman who was in her 90s whose father had been a slave.

1:01:47Brian Schulmeister:Not her grandfather, her father. I do recall this, yes. Yeah, her father, when he was a child, was born into slavery, got freed when he was four or five years old, and the woman that I was interviewing was born when he was in his 50s. So the math worked out for this all to be, but for me, it was a real reset of my own calibrating history because to think that just not someone's grandfather, great-grandfather, you think about that time as being so far away. But here it was one generation before us that someone I was talking to, their father, was someone else's property when he came into this world.

1:02:30Brian Schulmeister:It's hard to contemplate. Time is weird. It really is. I was just saying this week how i still feel like post-covid just how messed up time is and the weeks sometimes the weeks are flying by and sometimes there are moments that last forever and yeah i feel like it's not the same way it was before i just can't grasp the difference between decades anymore

1:02:58Jason DeFillippo:like when i was younger decades seemed very long and now it's i i'm always shocked when something was like 20, 30 years ago. I'm like, how? That was five years ago.

1:03:09Brian Schulmeister:Yeah. Yeah. I'm watching this show on Netflix and one of the trivia questions was, the person that you're looking for was born the same year that Fight Club, The Matrix, and one other movie came out. And they're like, 1999. And I'm like, fuck.

1:03:31Jason DeFillippo:which no the the phrase 1999 doesn't bother me it's when i do the math and i realized 1999 wasn't a decade ago exactly it was almost three of them yeah that's the problem there lies the rub

1:03:46Brian Schulmeister:yeah i think part of what's contributing to that i saw a different video this week and it was asking why is it that the most recent decades have been so similar to each other in other words like the people from the 50s looked like people from the 50s. Same with the 60s. Same with the 70s. Same with the 80s. But somehow from the 90s and certainly starting around the 2000s, if you were to hold up a picture of somebody and say, what decade is this from? There isn't the distinction that there used to be decade after decade with clothing styles and hairstyles yeah it's all kind of blended together and i'm not sure why uh mass production of

1:04:28Jason DeFillippo:everything uh just could be homogenization of culture so the internet the internet amazon everybody's getting the same clothes everybody's getting the yeah yeah yeah so i don't know i don't

1:04:41Brian Schulmeister:know if it's good or bad but it is it's bad i'm with you it's bad and so so and so it is yes well Speaking of bad, there's another article that caught my eye here that I thought I'd share. I spent some time with this week. It's written by Derek Thompson, and it's titled, If America is so rich, how did it get so sad? And it looks at how so many of our economic indicators over the past few years have been quite good. Like unemployment is good. The stock market is doing well. obviously the stock market is not the economy but people aren't happy and what's the disconnect here about why things are good but people aren't happy well this article digs into that i i i didn't read

1:05:33Jason DeFillippo:the article yet i definitely want to although i have enough sadness porn in my life that i don't need more right which is what this would be but my my gut instinct is all these economic uh indicators that look strong look strong and they are strong for the very rich but it's there's no trickle down here yes there's low unemployment but the people that well there used to be low unemployment we're seeing unemployment is starting to skyrocket again but even when there was low unemployment people weren't getting paid well wages were rising yes but prices are rising faster right stock market vast majority of people that doesn't impact them in any way shape or form they're they're not invested and even if they are in it it's it's only retirement accounts and and even those are getting slammed left right and center at certain points so all these economic indicators only affect people that are already rich and they're not affecting the middle class and the lower class so yeah we're seeing that is we're seeing people upset about that jason and i I have, particularly Jason, has been banging on the drum of class war is coming for quite some time.

1:06:44Brian Schulmeister:Yeah, one of the things this pointed out to the point of low income groups, that wages have been rising significantly among the lowest level of earners in a healthy way. But one of the impacts of that is that the prices of everyday goods like burgers has gone up as a result of that. And that hits the middle class. So now the middle class feels like they get anxious because the prices of everyday things are going up. And it's also harder for the middle class to hire people to do the things that they used to rely on the lower class to do, like mow their lawns and do the handyman work, childcare, right?

1:07:31Brian Schulmeister:All that stuff has gotten more expensive because in a good way, the wages have gone up. But anyway, this thing, the bottom line here is this person posits that we've got this combination of post-pandemic inflation, institutional distrust, social isolation, and this crisis-driven media environment makes us all feel worse despite positive economic indicators. And I think there's a lot to this. So I share -

1:08:07Jason DeFillippo:No arguments for me on any of those.

1:08:08Brian Schulmeister:No, I've had multiple conversations with multiple people all across the spectrum just in the past month that there is this general malaise and depression that a lot of people have right now that they can't quite really put their finger on and it is just, it's kind of blanketed. You can put your finger on it right here. Maybe that. This is a big part of it. He's holding up his phone. For those listening on audio, Brian's holding up his phone. I'm holding up my phone

1:08:36Jason DeFillippo:and I'm putting my finger on it. This is a huge part of it because this is the reason that we have that crisis-driven media environment because it's being fed into our eyeballs every five seconds. This is the reason we have social isolation because we think that this is keeping us in contact with our friends and our family when it's really not, it's not the same. It's just not. It's not the same as seeing people in person.

1:09:00Brian Schulmeister:Yeah, that is, I was getting to that. That's the biggest problem that most of the people I talk to is, it's so hard to make new friends and you're, you know, what's the old phrase? You can lose friends, but enemies accumulate. The people I know are like, you know, there's a lot of loneliness. There's just a huge amount of loneliness and people can't figure out how to just branch out and meet new people. Well, my wife, it's funny

1:09:25Jason DeFillippo:because my wife had mentioned to me just the other day, I can't remember why it got brought up. It was some one of our colleagues and dating and, you know, my wife was just like, we never would have met each other. Not in a million years would we have met each other in today's environment. There's people, people don't go to bars. People aren't going to concerts. And, you know, we met through friends of friends at a bar at a concert. And it's all these sorts of...

1:09:51Brian Schulmeister:Now at a concert, So you just stare at your phone. You don't even know that the cute girl standing next to you. Yeah. Right. You guys were talking earlier about nobody dancing to Madonna. You know, like, you're right. Everybody wants to get that footage. You're right, Brian. It's just the phone. Just throw them all away. A lot of it is.

1:10:06Jason DeFillippo:A lot of it is. This is this constant contact thing that tricks us into thinking we're having meaningful interactions. Plus, it's just a depression machine. It's just sending us nonstop, comparing ourselves to others. We're being told we're not good enough. We're seeing people present the best possible version of themselves. That's probably a lie and becoming more so every single day because of generative AI. Like they're fixing everything. Everything is perfect in everybody else's life except yours. You suck. That's what our phones are telling us.

1:10:40Brian Schulmeister:I also wonder how much people completely related to that. How much do people feel unsafe? I've heard people say that they we are in a state where our prey instinct is constantly being triggered, you know, where we feel like we're being hunted. that that feeling of always having to look over our shoulder because of the barrage of bad news of and the way that these platforms and the news organizations have capitalized off of that, of pressing those buttons to keep us engaged because we're fearful. We want to go back to see what's happened next. That's from the algorithm. The algorithm does that.

1:11:22Brian Schulmeister:You know, if it bleeds, it leads.

1:11:24Jason DeFillippo:So, I mean, I see that even as a difference between suburbs and like the city. I think about like my sister-in-law and my brother-in-law and with their kids, they live out in the suburb and they're terrified. They're really unsure. They're scared to come into downtown Toronto. I would walk around my neighborhood at midnight naked and I would feel completely safe outside of the fact that I would just be sexy. but i would be you know it's yes bad things happen bad things happen in greater proportion in cities than they do in suburbs true toronto is incredibly safe there is no reason for my in-laws to feel that the way they do about toronto but that's what's being fed to them they they think that suburbs are safe cities are dangerous you listen to the news you hear about the bad things that are happening and the bad things that are happening are happening concentrated in the cities as opposed to the suburbs.

1:12:22Jason DeFillippo:Yeah, I think we're just getting overloaded all the time.

1:12:26Brian Schulmeister:Yeah, there's no more filter and there's no, I guess, you know, when we used to get our news at specific times of the day, it was more compartmentalized.

1:12:37Jason DeFillippo:And it was a half an hour.

1:12:38Brian Schulmeister:Right.

1:12:39Jason DeFillippo:It wasn't a nonstop, never ending feed of it. It was, you know.

1:12:44Brian Schulmeister:And by the fact of it only being a half an hour, it was more curated as to what, you know, the majority of people need.

1:12:51Jason DeFillippo:And they always ended with a fucking puppy being saved. Right. That's why we're trying to end our news segment with something nice and light, too. Yeah. Yeah.

1:13:02Brian Schulmeister:Well, it's a good read. I recommend it. I found it to be pretty insightful. You know, not completely unrelated to this. I saw another lecture that commentator David Brooks gave this week. And he's, you know, right of center guy. Someone I don't always agree with him, but I respect his writing and his capabilities and all that stuff. And he made a lot of really interesting points in this talk. He was giving a talk at Yale. and the talk was about what can we do, how is America going to save itself when we're on the other side of all this stuff that's happening right now? Basically, everything that's going on in Washington, how do we get past this?

1:13:51Brian Schulmeister:And it was a historical look back and I had a lot of interesting insights and I sent it to a friend of mine who is way more hard left-leaning than me and I'm pretty left-leaning and I sent it to a friend and said, I think you might find this interesting. And she wrote back and said, I don't like David Brooks. No. And I was like, I was like, okay, but I understand that. And I put that in the calculation of sharing it with you, knowing you the way I do, but also having watched this myself and feeling like as your friend, you would find value in this, but instead you're dismissing it because of the messenger and i was very frustrated by that and there was no convincing her otherwise she's like i'm not spending an hour of my life watching that guy it's hard to break through somebody's bubble

1:14:46Jason DeFillippo:chamber the hard left and the hard right are both problems like we can't just say it's the hard right the completely far right that's the problem it's also the completely far left so yeah no it was it was frustrating we have to be able to to find some middle ground it's never going to be both ends wanted my way or the highway and that's just not how the world works. I mean, it can work that way. We're seeing the world work that way right now and I think we all agree we don't like it. Right. Yeah, no shit.

1:15:16Brian Schulmeister:Right. Well, I'm going to go lock myself in a room and watch some AI Star Wars. I'm going to go walk around my neighborhood naked.

1:15:25Jason DeFillippo:All right. Do you have a ring camera, Brian? No, but everybody else does and I'm sure you can hack into them pretty easily.

1:15:33Brian Schulmeister:oh my goodness i'm gonna go i'm gonna go rub a puppy and look at a tree so i hope that's not a euphemism not a euphemism i have a puppy all right guys see you next time all right bye over at patreon well we peaked last week brian because we got no new patron subscribers this week. But we would like to thank Timothy, Stephen, Jason, Steve, Matt, Jeremy, Dan, Spizes, Patrick, and James. Sorry, Spizes, if I screwed that one up.

1:16:06Jason DeFillippo:But thank you. Well, the lingering guilt donations over your pending bankruptcy have continued over at PayPal. We've got Gregory with 50 bucks and Connor who gave us 180 bucks. Thank you. Thank you guys so much.

1:16:18Brian Schulmeister:Trust me. Trust me. Jason's not out of the woods yet, people. No, I got 60 more days to wait. Kathleen and Thomas with the 25 over at the tip jar. So thank you very much. And if you would like to keep the show on the air and keep the grump on a grumpin', go to either patreon.com slash GOG and sign up for as little as$3 a month, but you can sign up for more if you want to get the show early, ad-free and in high definition, or go to GOG.show slash donate to find other ways to keep us cooking. So we appreciate you very, very much. No new merch this week, but new merch is coming. I'd like to see my...

1:16:54Brian Schulmeister:Oh, what a great mug this is. It keeps my coffee hot. Now that I'm past the thing, we're going to have new merch. I promise. New merch is coming. I'm going to finish it this week because now I can sleep at night.

1:17:05Jason DeFillippo:It's great. I got to get the logins from you. Or I'll just guess based on URLs from previous iterations. Exactly. That's all you have to do, Brian. We did get a new five-star review. They didn't give their name, and they used some emojis. So apparently, let's start with fire fries. fire fries okay i don't know what that but uh one of one of shows that make me the most happy to know it's been released love you guys look love you too we'll take any good review thank you so and i want fries now so yeah thanks on fire yeah oh what a fucking week until next time i'm brian schillmeister and i'm jason de philippo thanks for listening to grumpy old geeks get all the

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