From Photo Albums To Password Hell: What Innovation Broke!

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Ten episodes in and we’re asking a blunt question: where did “convenience” quietly make life worse? We start with coffee pods—why speed and plastic turned a daily ritual into something thin and wasteful—and move straight into streaming bloat, where exclusives, rising prices, and ad tiers make cord-cutting feel like paying more for less. From there, we trace how subscriptions swallowed everything: design tools, groceries, games, and loyalty apps, all nibbling at your wallet while dulling your sense of ownership.

We get personal about photos and memory, too. Remember flipping through a heavy album at your grandma’s? Phones gave us great cameras, but feeds and filters flattened meaning. We talk about printing yearly highlights, resisting the churn, and choosing constraints that make images feel like moments again. Then we tackle short-form news and outrage cycles—how bite-sized certainty kills nuance and replaces real local action with performative takes. If you’re craving less noise, we share practical ways to rebuild attention: smarter sources, fewer apps, and more community.

Review culture gets a spotlight. When herd ratings on IMDb or Rotten Tomatoes swing with brigading, the cure is taste you own. We share how to use reviews as a map, not a verdict, and why sampling first—pilot episodes, sample chapters—keeps curiosity alive. Finally, we make predictions: AI-generated ads flooding screens, preorder fatigue draining joy, tech distorting intimacy, and a near-term slump in writing as volume outruns voice. The hope? A correction powered by audiences who still back real craft.

If you’ve felt nickel-and-dimed by subscriptions, burned by streaming sprawl, or starved for art with fingerprints, this one’s for you. Listen, then tell us what modern “innovation” you’d gladly roll back. Subscribe, share with a friend who needs a reset, and leave a review with your top fix—we’ll read our favorites on the show.

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Tenth Episode, Housekeeping, CTA

SPEAKER_04 0:00

Before we start, I just want y'all to know this is our 10th episode. We've made it to 10. Now, anyone who watches all the time or is watching for the first time, do me a favor, send us an email, stuff at uploadsofun.com. Send us an email. Let us know what you think of the show, things you'd like to see added, things you'd like to see more of. Or if you just want us to quit in general, go ahead and send us a nice video.

SPEAKER_02 0:26

And if you want to see our naughty content, go to stuff.uploadsofun.com. You can see my stuff.

SPEAKER_04 0:34

Okay, so what was terrible this week?

SPEAKER_03 0:36

Ooh, terrible? Terrible. Oh, I got bullied by my friends. Well, not bullied. Because I read more of one piece, and I finally read Ace's Death, and he gets punctured through the stomach. Spoiler alert! I'm never gonna. But they were making donut jokes because he looks like a donut. Oh, God.

SPEAKER_04 0:57

So they were mocking me. So it's like Jackson making fun of Bridget Terabithea. What?

SPEAKER_03 1:02

Bridge of White? Wait a minute.

SPEAKER_01 1:03

Hold on. What did you say? I said Bridge of.

SPEAKER_03 1:05

You said Bridget Terabithea? And then he said Bridge of Terabitha.

SPEAKER_02 1:08

I was like saying Bush is Bridge Saiya.

SPEAKER_01 1:11

Bridge of Terabitia. You said Bridget Terabithea. Oh, Bridget Terabitia.

SPEAKER_02 1:15

Oh, yeah, that's the one where she dropped.

SPEAKER_04 1:17

Was it like Jackson making fun of the motion picture that is called the Bridge to Terabithia? A little bit, yeah. Okay, I'm gonna start speaking like that now. So I'd never misspeak.

SPEAKER_02 1:29

Bridge of Terabitia. Bridge of Terabithia.

SPEAKER_04 1:31

You know what was terrible this week? Trying to sign up Jackson for the ACT test online. What is that? Good God!

SPEAKER_01 1:38

What is ACT? Yeah, no one knows.

SPEAKER_08 1:41

It's a test you gotta take to graduate.

SPEAKER_04 1:43

But I accidentally auto well auto-filled my name.

SPEAKER_06 1:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:47

And I had to change his name. And oh my god, I had to talk to six different people. I said had to send four different emails. And then finally I was able to change his name. But then once I changed his name and I entered the school code that the school gave me, it said that the birthday and the name didn't match up. So then I had to call the school today, and they gave me a new code, and everything is good, and now he can go take the peasy. And he can prove that he's a genius. So there you go. It's Hitler's birthday. Jackson.

SPEAKER_03 2:21

Why would you say that? Today? Wait, is it really?

SPEAKER_01 2:27

What? You just randomly said that? Is that even true? I saw the United family, so I was just like, oh, what's terrible this week it's a horse?

SPEAKER_08 2:38

Um my terrible thing is, and you will you guys will definitely make fun of me, but I don't care. I think season one of Faraday is done. They've released eight episodes, and this past week there was not an episode nine, which was very disappointing.

SPEAKER_03 2:54

Oh no! Wait, let me guess. This was on Brit Box?

SPEAKER_08 2:57

No, it's on HBO.

SPEAKER_03 2:59

I don't know why, but I feel like if anything is on Brit Box, no one's heard of it. That is just me? Maybe people in like London or. Okay, but it's like I hear the name Britbox, and I'm like, does anyone hear of it?

SPEAKER_04 3:10

Hey Calvin, you're not Brit Box's uh demographic.

SPEAKER_08 3:13

I guess we're not getting a sponsorship with Brit Box. Oh, my God.

SPEAKER_01 3:17

Sorry, I'm gonna cry myself to sleep tonight. Wait a minute. Hold on. What is the show you're even talking about?

SPEAKER_08 3:23

Faraday. It's a it's Turkish.

SPEAKER_02 3:26

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_08 3:27

And it's a cartoon, it's animated. And it's it's weird.

SPEAKER_04 3:32

Why did you have to say it's a cartoon and it's animated?

SPEAKER_08 3:35

Oh, okay. It's standing.

SPEAKER_04 3:36

It's all right.

SPEAKER_08 3:38

I didn't.

SPEAKER_04 3:39

This is just gonna become this podcast, it is set to become one roast after the other for an hour long. Yep. That's all it's gonna be. It's true. It's crazy.

SPEAKER_07 3:49

It's true.

SPEAKER_04 3:50

Do you have anything else to say about Faraday? Or how about Royal Crackers?

SPEAKER_08 3:55

Well, I was gonna say that for the end.

SPEAKER_01 3:59

You're gonna say that's good?

SPEAKER_08 4:01

I was gonna say Royal Crackers. We'll talk about that then.

SPEAKER_01 4:04

I don't know what that is.

Main Theme: What Tech Has Ruined

SPEAKER_04 4:05

I'm Josh. I'm Rachel. I'm Calvin. I'm Jackson. And this is relatively terrible. I love you, but you're all terrible.

SPEAKER_08 4:14

Okay, so last week's podcast, we talked about uh 90s and 2000s nostalgia, things that you know are no longer available today, that we miss. And so that kind of naturally led into us thinking about what things today have innovation and technology all but ruined?

SPEAKER_05 4:36

Yes.

SPEAKER_08 4:37

So I have a list of some things that were my idea, our idea, and uh some stuff that I Googled that we're gonna talk about and see if we think technology and innovation actually ruin them. And then we'll see at the end if there's anything uh else we would add to that list.

SPEAKER_04 4:55

Well, at the end, we're gonna guess. We're gonna make predictions. We're each gonna make one prediction of something that technology will ruin in the near future.

SPEAKER_08 5:04

Got it. Okay. Okay, so the first thing I have, I don't know if you guys will have a lot to say about this. You will totally have a lot to say about this.

SPEAKER_04 5:12

Is this what I think it is? Social interaction? Wait, what?

SPEAKER_08 5:16

No, what?

SPEAKER_03 5:17

Oh, hold on, say it again, I missed it. Social interaction? Oh no.

Coffee Pods: Quality And Waste

SPEAKER_08 5:21

No, but that could be something maybe you would add. But I when I when I googled this, I found this on a list. I was like, oh my god, this is so true. And and it's coffee, specifically coffee pods. Oh, and and it's both an issue of quality, but it's also an issue of waste. And the fact that these pods now uh create so much waste, although they've increased efficiency with coffee, they've not brought down the price of coffee at all.

SPEAKER_02 5:54

Um can you explain how innovation or technology has made that has made those a big problem?

SPEAKER_08 6:00

It was an innovation to create these pods to make coffee more efficient. Okay, let me know.

SPEAKER_04 6:05

Whereas in the past, let me give you a little story. America's history on coffee. Okay. Coffee in America has always sucked ass. Well, that's why we got it from everywhere else. Exactly. But when we brought it here, just like anything else we take, like The Office, it's kind of good at first, and then we ruin it, and that and that's all there is to it, and then it's bad. So coffee has always been bad. There's even been instant coffee, that's an American innovation. And but then, like in the 2000s, there became like craft coffee and the stuff that I really love, but people still wanted their craft coffee. So you had these little plastic pods that would have different types of coffee in them.

SPEAKER_08 6:48

You buy the Keurig machine and brew one cup at a time.

SPEAKER_04 6:51

And they suck, it's nasty. It basically just tastes like water with a little bit of flavoring. It's not real coffee. For some reason, America still doesn't like good coffee. That's why you guys, you guys have called me a coffee snob before. But it's because I want good coffee. Wait, what's the coffee machine in Better Call Saul? That is something that the Gail Bedaker, the one scientist, like he he created it to create like the perfect cup of coffee.

SPEAKER_03 7:19

No, in Better Call Saul. Yeah. Oh, remember the workhouse?

SPEAKER_04 7:23

Yeah. Oh, shit coffee. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 7:25

Because I think you do just put it in one of those pods and put it.

SPEAKER_04 7:28

No, no, no. What that was is it's a whole bunch of instant coffee, hot water, flavoring and sugar, and possibly milk, and it all just comes down together when you pay for it. You saw it. You yeah, it's just all like this, right into the cup, and then oh, this is really good. Insta coffee. In institutional machines, it's the worst coffee ever. That's all I've got to say about it. But the pods are worse because then it started putting more plastic out there.

SPEAKER_08 7:54

Exactly. And that was the one thing this article pointed out was you know, people used to buy coffee in cans, and then most people recycled those cans. I mean, we grew up with our families having coffee cans with change or whatever in them. And now you just have all these pods, and the coffee is no better. And frankly, it's even more expensive, and you have to have a specific machine to brew it. Okay, so there's coffee. This next one, when I saw this on the list, I was like, oh my gosh, I can't wait to talk about this. And I think you'll be very shocked to hear that this is on the list.

Vaping, E‑Cigs, And Health Claims

SPEAKER_03 8:27

Okay. Okay.

SPEAKER_08 8:28

Smoking.

unknown 8:30

Okay.

SPEAKER_08 8:31

Because now you have because innovating, we now instead of just smoking cigarettes, oh, vape and e-cigarettes flavors. Did you know that? Yes.

SPEAKER_02 8:41

Yes, there's flavors. There's a flavors. Let me just say this. If you're gonna smoke, it's pardon my language, close your ears. Don't be a pussy. Get a real cigarette or cigar. If I see you with the vape, I'm gonna smack it out of your damn hand.

SPEAKER_03 8:57

This is a real mixed message here. And isn't vaping more dangerous?

SPEAKER_01 9:00

Yes, because you can control the nicotine in it.

SPEAKER_03 9:03

They do listen. I uh flavors. I'm sorry, if you want to smoke uh watermelon, just drink water watermelon. Eat a watermelon. You don't need to smoke water. Oh, you don't need to smoke it.

SPEAKER_02 9:16

Why do you need to smoke watermelon? Little Johnny, when he was 10 years old, wasn't thinking, oh, cotton candy. I'm gonna smoke that one day.

SPEAKER_03 9:23

It's worse, you don't do this with vaping. You do not. Oh, no. Most people are like, they're they're hide it.

SPEAKER_01 9:30

Yeah. See, that's another thing. When you see real men smoking, they're just like, Yeah, that's my cigarette. You smell this cigarette, you smoke it, not vape. You smoke it. I smoke vape. Oh. Vape is good.

SPEAKER_08 9:45

Well, I just think the whole thing is ridiculous because we grew up in the era of man, the the the no-smoking and the harm of cigarettes was just so impounded. That message was just everywhere all the time. I never had a desire to smoke, never. So I think it's if you smoke, I'm not gonna judge. You do you?

SPEAKER_02 10:08

Well, we're in a free look in America, it's a free country. If you want to smoke, go ahead. But personal opinion, just breathe. Wait, what? Just breathe. Breathe fresh air.

SPEAKER_08 10:19

Like it's just that cigarettes, we know that they're harmful to your health, and it's also very expensive. So it's a very expensive habit and it and it harms your health. This whole thing with the e-cigarettes and the vaping being marketed is less harmful when then the stories come out about this popcorn lung you can get. And really, this stuff hasn't been on the market that long. We don't know what somebody who vapes for 30 years, what the consequences of that are gonna be. Well, now there's gonna be worse.

SPEAKER_04 10:48

Oh, yes, we do. They're gonna live in a trailer park for the rest of their life. That's just gonna happen.

SPEAKER_03 10:52

Well, and now there's vape shops. Oh. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_02 10:58

Vape shops. Well, and then vaping just leads to marijuana and practice. How old are you?

SPEAKER_01 11:04

Well, it does.

SPEAKER_02 11:05

Okay, let's be for real. Most of the time, when you see those vape shops, there's usually something marijuana in there.

SPEAKER_08 11:14

Not that in Tennessee, they can't. Well, not too much.

SPEAKER_01 11:17

Go over to Missouri?

SPEAKER_08 11:18

Oh, yeah, get your weed right here.

SPEAKER_01 11:20

But that's a different place than a vape shop.

SPEAKER_04 11:23

That is an actual weed dispensary.

SPEAKER_01 11:25

You can get a vape there too. No, you can't. It's a true package.

SPEAKER_00 11:28

He sounds like a seven-year-old man.

SPEAKER_08 11:31

You're just missing for it.

SPEAKER_00 11:32

Kids these days have got vapes on every corner. Probably smoke weed too. Probably shoot up the heron in the arm. Got them Barbie dolls full of crack cocaine.

SPEAKER_02 11:41

Well, see, it's funny because they, you know, they say, oh, it's the healthier choice. You know, I don't do that crack. I don't do that cocaine. Healthier choice. Healthier choice. It's still drugs. It's no, vaping isn't drugs, but it's smoking. It's pathetic.

SPEAKER_04 11:55

I think we're I think we're severely misinformed. There's probably a doctor on the other end listening to this going, nope, that's not at all.

SPEAKER_01 12:04

Weed is wrong.

SPEAKER_04 12:05

But I will say this on the record, weed is a drug. I'm sorry, jelly roll. I don't care how much weight you lose, it's still a drug.

SPEAKER_01 12:16

Well, yeah, I'm getting through drugs by doing more drugs. Yeah. He said the only thing that got me through my drug habits is weed. Is weed. That sounds like a country song. The only thing that got me through my alcoholism was beer. It's the exact same thing. My wife's a whore, but we're made weed.

SPEAKER_00 12:39

And I still smoke weed.

SPEAKER_01 12:42

Wow. Wait, is he still doing weed? Yes, he's never gonna stop because he's a drug addict. Sorry, Tim Roll. We're spending way too much time on vaping e-cigarettes. We gotta move on.

SPEAKER_08 12:56

I knew that would be funny, though.

SPEAKER_04 12:57

That industry already has too much money and we're helping them out.

SPEAKER_01 13:00

So don't vape. Don't smoke. Listen, I know if you're gonna smoke real stuff. No.

SPEAKER_04 13:08

There are so many other things you can do than smoking if you think if you think you're stressed out and that's why you smoke. Suck a fat one. That's such a bad excuse to just kill yourself.

SPEAKER_03 13:20

Wow. It is! I'm stressed. But I just heard is suck a fat one instead of killing yourself.

SPEAKER_02 13:28

And this episode is sponsored by the American Health Association. No, it's not. They wouldn't touch this with a 10 file. We're gonna get sued by the American Health Association.

SPEAKER_01 13:40

This just in uploads the fun and ruins this nation's youth with smoking.

SPEAKER_08 13:45

We're gonna get like that that uh misinformation banner.

SPEAKER_02 13:49

No, we're gonna get labeled PG 13. Why? For smoking.

SPEAKER_08 13:53

Smoking. Moving on. Uh so the next thing, this is definitely something we have talked about before streaming services.

SPEAKER_04 14:00

Oh.

SPEAKER_08 14:01

I mean, at this point, you might as well just have cable.

SPEAKER_04 14:04

Yes.

SPEAKER_08 14:05

So that's cable got to be very, very expensive.

SPEAKER_04 14:08

If you're gonna be able to do that, you're talking about cable cutting was supposed to be a thing. How much do we spend on streaming a month now?

SPEAKER_08 14:13

I'm not sure.

SPEAKER_04 14:14

Is it over a hundred?

SPEAKER_08 14:16

I don't think so. But we deliberately don't subscribe to certain streaming services. Because they suck.

SPEAKER_04 14:24

Good. Paramount plus.

SPEAKER_08 14:25

Because we don't we don't want to keep adding up the bill.

SPEAKER_04 14:28

The only thing I like, I I think my favorite part about streaming is I think the best thing to come out of it is prime. Because you can get any movie on there and you want if you want to buy it. You know what I'm saying? Buy it or rent it. But for the most part, what they're doing now to get you to buy every single one of them is you got this movie here, this movie here, this movie here, this show here, this show here. We have exclusive content here. So you're you're screwed.

SPEAKER_08 14:54

So you're talking about the way when you go on to Amazon Prime, the way you know it tries to get you to sign up for subscriptions through. Yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_04 15:02

That sucks. I thought one service at some point would come out on top, and that would be the one. And nope. I should have I should have known though, because they're not gonna be able to make as much money that way.

SPEAKER_08 15:13

I think I think we knew things were gonna change when Netflix lost the office.

SPEAKER_02 15:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 15:22

That was such a huge deal.

SPEAKER_02 15:24

I remember that still.

SPEAKER_08 15:26

Yeah, that was a very big deal. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 15:30

And then we got Peacock.

SPEAKER_08 15:34

And that was sort of when you knew it was like, okay, like all these networks are gonna be buying their stuff back.

SPEAKER_02 15:39

Peacock's turned out to be decent. But man, if they lost the office, they're they would go well.

SPEAKER_04 15:47

The thing that they were smart about is not only did they gain the office, but then they started doing those super fan episode seasons. Genius. Genius. Oh my gosh. Like that's absolute genius.

SPEAKER_08 15:57

Now there's I I didn't even know MGM Plus was a thing. But now that's another one. Kaylee Quoco's just got a show that's come out on there.

SPEAKER_00 16:06

Yep.

SPEAKER_08 16:06

If that was maybe on another service, maybe I would watch it. But again, it's like I'm not paying for another one of these.

SPEAKER_04 16:13

Well then there's like Crunchyroll, there's Apple TV Plus, there's AMC has its own, CBS has its own, all the networks have their own. Then you got then you got Hulu. Shh it's nuts. Yeah. To the point where now, if you want to have all the shows and all the different content, you're gonna be paying well more than cable.

SPEAKER_06 16:33

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 16:34

It's crazy. It's stupid and it's definitely, I agree, has ruined it.

SPEAKER_02 16:37

Well, and another thing that's being ruined by it, especially on Amazon Prime, is now they're adding commercials to it.

SPEAKER_07 16:43

Unless you want to pay$2.99 a month, and then they'll get rid of the commercials.

SPEAKER_02 16:47

Wasn't that the whole point of streaming services in the first place? Not to have commercials.

SPEAKER_07 16:52

No.

SPEAKER_04 16:54

Well, that's probably what the general public thought at first, because there wasn't.

SPEAKER_08 16:58

Yeah. But you can't do that. And then they started adding them in. So like now the bundle that we have for HBO and Hulu and all, I pay extra for the no commercials.

SPEAKER_01 17:06

Hell yeah.

SPEAKER_08 17:08

So America. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 17:11

Alright, what's next?

SPEAKER_08 17:13

So next is sort of in the same vein, but um subscriptions for everything.

SPEAKER_04 17:19

Oh, okay. Now this one, I think I had you put it on there, right? Yeah. Okay, because here is why. Everything in the world now has a subscription. And what I mean by that is apps that I use, like Photoshop, everything, InDesign.

SPEAKER_08 17:39

All the Microsoft programs.

SPEAKER_04 17:40

All the Microsoft programs. Uh I'm just like, what the heck?

SPEAKER_08 17:46

You used to just go to Best Buy, you bought the software, then you had it, you installed it, and it was done.

SPEAKER_04 17:52

Now it's a monthly subscription. Yeah. Games.

SPEAKER_08 17:55

Maybe all games.

SPEAKER_04 17:57

Like Fortnite. Fortnite's free. Bull to the shit.

SPEAKER_01 18:02

How many in-app purchases have you made, Calvin? Just give me a estimate.

Subscriptions For Everything

SPEAKER_04 18:10

Just give me a general estimate of what you think you've spent on Fortnite. 3,000?

SPEAKER_08 18:15

The fuck! 3,000? Probably over the course of like a.

SPEAKER_03 18:23

Do you see what I'm saying? Well now they have a subscription. Fortnite crew. Yeah, they also have Yeah. Right. That's a subscription.

SPEAKER_04 18:31

Exactly. And even games like there's a game I play on my phone. I love it. Old. I I am old. I don't care. I love getting old. Little kids and teenagers suck. But um, but there's a point in these games where you have to pay money or you can't win anymore. Yeah. They make it that way, and it really, really sucks. Plus, uh, the only program I have, and this is why I still use this, and they're changing it now. Final Cut Pro is what I used to edit. It's a it's an Apple program, and it was the only one you could buy outright. It was$300 for the program, and you had it forever, and they give you updates and stuff. Now they've made a new suite of programs where there's a new final cut in there, and I'm wondering when they're gonna like push out this old version. And it sucks. I I hate it. And even like, you know, we use Opus Clip for this podcast, we use D script, we use uh all these things that are monthly subscriptions, and that's how you get bit in the ass, too, in your bank account, too. Yeah, when you have these all these subscriptions.

SPEAKER_02 19:39

I wish we could just go back to one big upfront fee, and that's it. I'd rather pay more in the beginning and have no expenses down the road than a little bit here, then a little bit, a little bit, because then in the end it's gonna cost more. It always does. Yeah. It always does.

SPEAKER_08 19:55

Well, and it also, and now it's trickled over into other areas, not just software purchases, but things like I do um Walmart Plus. So I get my Walmart groceries delivered, and um, in order to get the free delivery and some other perks, like I'm paying a yearly subscription fee for that. Now Target has come out with their own.

SPEAKER_05 20:17

Yep.

SPEAKER_08 20:17

Um, you know, and they they all offer all of these loyalty programs and all this, and it just it gets to be too much. It's to the point now where it's like, even if you go to Buffalo Wild Wings, you know, they want you to sign up for their rewards thing, and it's like, okay, that's great. Yeah, there's free food and everything, but it's another app, it's another subscription, it's another way for you to market to me through my email and all of this. And it just, you know, it's to the point where I just I don't want to sign up for another thing.

SPEAKER_04 20:45

Yeah, it sucks.

Photos, Albums, And Authenticity

SPEAKER_08 20:46

I don't know more, no more things. Okay, moving on. Next thing. Oh, God. I don't I'm it'd be interested to get your guys' thoughts on this, but photos. And I put this on here um twofold, thinking about how so many photos now, because of technology, they're doctored, they're fake, they're AI. But also something that I am nostalgic for is photo albums.

SPEAKER_04 21:13

Yeah, nobody prints photos anymore.

SPEAKER_08 21:15

I miss photo albums.

SPEAKER_04 21:18

Um that was actually when I was a kid, that was one thing I loved to do is my mom had this same tub full of photo albums and loose pictures, and I would just go through it for hours.

SPEAKER_08 21:32

Every time we went to my grandma's apartment when I was a kid, I would sit down and pull out her photo albums. I did the same thing. I mean, I still have my parents' wedding album pretty much memorized. I looked at it so much.

SPEAKER_06 21:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 21:46

Um and I I I'm I very much miss photo albums, and and there's just it it's just something that's I think technology has ruined.

SPEAKER_04 21:54

Also, it's it's made everyone thinks they're a photographer now. That's cool.

SPEAKER_08 21:58

That too.

SPEAKER_04 22:00

They've got a you know a camera in their pocket, a really nice camera. Like wow, like a crazy nice camera. And they're just not photographers, so we see a lot of bad photos and stuff. But I do I miss uh what do you call them uh the instant cameras? Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 22:17

We had those at our wedding, disposable cameras.

SPEAKER_02 22:18

Disposable cameras. Yeah, those those are nice, but people also just completely have ruined the act of taking photos and videos because they all take photos and videos of everything. And that ruins the moment. Live in the moment. Yeah. Stop taking a picture or video of everything. I I saw one comedian, I can't remember who said it, but you know, you know how you'll tell people that or show people that you were at my show? You talk to them about it. You tell them your experience, you don't show them a photo or a video. That's another stupid thing. People take these photos and videos and then they put them online. Yeah. So you'll see, you know.

SPEAKER_08 22:58

Clips of this concert or that thing, and a lot of times the audio's bad anyway. That's not you're actually not helping promote anything because it doesn't sound very good.

SPEAKER_04 23:06

So you guys are you guys are younger, so does this even really affect you, or because you don't really remember physical photo albums? Yeah, like just real photos.

SPEAKER_02 23:19

I think they should come back because I'm I'm I'm I mean, I've printed out photos before. Yeah. And I mean I've sent fan mail before of printed photos.

SPEAKER_08 23:29

Whose autograph do you have? Remind me. I can't remember his name.

SPEAKER_03 23:32

Jonathan's Jonathan. Yeah. Philip Banks from Fresh Prince. Jenks Bonathan.

SPEAKER_04 23:41

Jenks Bonnethan. That's pretty good.

SPEAKER_03 23:42

Jonathan.

SPEAKER_04 23:43

There is a resurgence. Uh and I've it was funny after we started talking about it, of course, I started to see stuff on my phone. There's a resurgence of film cameras and people taking pictures with film.

SPEAKER_06 23:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 23:56

And it's not hard to do.

SPEAKER_02 23:58

No, because I think our generation and most even older generations are starting to get sick of all this online crap and are starting to go back to physical media. Which thank God, because all this, all of it being right here gets really old really quickly.

SPEAKER_08 24:15

It's and well, and again, like, don't you want to have your grandkids come to your house someday and look at your wedding album instead of like, here, I have all these uh go to my iCloud and look at all my photos that are stored there. You know, there's just something very um there's just something special about photos.

SPEAKER_04 24:35

That's a good point because you you wouldn't even bring out your own hard drive. You just point to the cloud.

SPEAKER_08 24:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 24:41

You wouldn't bring out an old hard drive and be like, this is all the family photos. If you guys want to go look at them on the computer, you'd be like, here, sign into my cloud.

Clocks, Phone Numbers, And Password Fatigue

SPEAKER_08 24:47

I I think photos have I think, yeah, there there are some benefits to uh digital photos and a camera on your phone and all that, but I think by and large, photography has been damaged by technology.

SPEAKER_04 25:02

It has. Also, you could argue helped because of digital cameras and stuff like that. Like if you are a photographer and you know what you're doing, it can really help you. But for the most part, with all the slop online, yeah, it's it really sucks, yeah.

SPEAKER_08 25:17

Yeah. Okay. So this one, I know this is gonna get uh the two of you, but oh boy. Uh I grouped them together because they're both pr pretty minor, but clocks and phone numbers. No one under the age of 35 can read an analog clock and tell what time it is.

SPEAKER_04 25:42

Do you know what an analog clock is? It's like a clock.

SPEAKER_08 25:45

Yeah. Not digital. A non-digital clock.

SPEAKER_02 25:48

I can I can't.

SPEAKER_08 25:51

We're gonna we're gonna have to test that. That's gonna have to be a video where we put up the clips. I'd be like, what time is it?

SPEAKER_03 25:57

No, the thing is phone numbers, yeah. I don't memorize phone numbers. I can't do it. I don't really earlier, I had to pull out my phone and check what my what your own phone number is? Because my cause dad asked me, I was like, oh wait, let me make sure. Okay, yeah.

SPEAKER_08 26:13

Yeah. And that's that's just a thing of the past is knowing phone numbers. Whereas, yeah, when I was a kid, I mean, I still know my my parents' home phone number from when I was a kid.

SPEAKER_04 26:26

1-440-845-8592. Yeah. And you just leaked their number.

SPEAKER_03 26:31

So that's cool.

SPEAKER_07 26:32

That number no longer exists.

SPEAKER_03 26:35

Oh, okay. Well, someone else in the world might have that number.

SPEAKER_04 26:39

1-216-476-0764.

SPEAKER_08 26:42

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_04 26:42

He just keeps leaking numbers.

SPEAKER_08 26:44

They don't exist. You know, but yeah, I but I don't know your guys' phone numbers. Nope. I don't know. I don't know my old kids' numbers.

SPEAKER_02 26:51

I only know my number and your number. I don't know dad's or Calvin's.

SPEAKER_08 26:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 26:56

Because it's all right there. Now I know your email.

Short‑Form News And Outrage Cycles

SPEAKER_08 26:58

Now that's interesting because I feel like now when I sign up for things or even when I go to the doctor, I think I'm asked more frequently what my email address is these days than my phone number.

SPEAKER_04 27:10

Yeah, for sure.

SPEAKER_08 27:11

So maybe the phone number thing is is not a big deal. I don't know. It's just kind of odd.

SPEAKER_04 27:17

Um It's just one it it is every once in a while it gets kind of scary in my mind.

SPEAKER_08 27:24

Like if I got into a car accident and I'm barely conscious and they're asking who to call, what number can we call? Like, well.

SPEAKER_04 27:31

Just push the button on my phone.

SPEAKER_08 27:33

Yeah. Put my phone in front of my face and open it and just find Josh. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_04 27:38

Sir, your face is half gone. We're gonna need you to. Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_08 27:42

Yeah, it's um It's not gonna be good.

SPEAKER_04 27:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 27:45

Along the same line of not knowing numbers.

SPEAKER_02 27:47

Oh boy.

SPEAKER_08 27:48

You guys, I know you guys will relate to this one, but passwords for every freaking vegan thing.

SPEAKER_03 27:57

Oh, I remember some of mine.

SPEAKER_04 28:01

Not every single one. How often do you change passwords for something? If you no, I don't know. Jackson used to do it all the time. Not recently, but for your one email address, because I kept getting a notification like, you just change your password.

SPEAKER_01 28:17

You just change your why are you changing it every day? And how are you coming up with so many passwords? I don't know.

SPEAKER_08 28:24

I'm sick of all the passwords. I'm sick of trying to remember them. Um, I'm sick of all the different rules of pain on the website.

SPEAKER_04 28:31

Yes.

SPEAKER_08 28:32

It's, you know.

SPEAKER_04 28:34

And I'm and I'm also sick of now all the browsers have this thing where it tries to make a password for you.

SPEAKER_08 28:39

Yes, I'm sick of that as well. Okay, so passwords suck. Moving on. Okay, next one. Short form news.

SPEAKER_04 28:50

Oh, yeah, that's very bad. Can you explain?

SPEAKER_08 28:53

News on social media, where you just have like a very brief headline that's typically misleading.

SPEAKER_02 29:00

And then everyone makes these assumptions and their own opinions without getting the full story, all the facts, and that's how Also, everyone is all of a sudden a news reporter and they're saying they've got the right story.

SPEAKER_04 29:12

So it's it's all of a sudden it's just like you're scrolling through and you're getting news from people who know nothing of what they're doing.

SPEAKER_08 29:20

I don't think we know what those are anymore. It's like we talked about last time, where you know, it just used to be part of the standard, I don't know, I don't know what to call it, but I mean, we watched the news. You watched the six o'clock news, you watched the 10 o'clock news. Like it was just something that people did. Um, and you also focused a lot more on your local news, what was going on in your area that you really needed to be concerned about. And now we're just concerned with every, you know, tidbit going on everywhere. And I think this is why people are so overwhelmed by the news, um, because we do have access to so much information and it's all constantly thrown in our face, and you're never quite sure what to believe about any of it.

SPEAKER_04 30:06

And the bigger problem is all this stuff is thrown in people's faces and they're told to care about it. And if you don't care, you're a piece of shit. Yeah. And all this, and it's just not true. And if you don't get involved, like, how are you supposed to get involved? You know, I thought about this with all this ice stuff, and I'm just gonna say it. But, you know, all this really bad stuff is happening, and there's this narrative being pushed on this side and that side. But what I've asked myself lately, and I just thought of this the other day people are telling you to go protest ice. Why? That's not going to help, and it's just gonna get you hurt, your family hurt, kids are getting hurt. Why isn't anyone like trying to hide these illegal aliens? Why aren't they using their own home and like making a little secret room and hiding these people?

SPEAKER_08 30:58

Why don't we have an Anne Frank situation going on here? Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 31:02

And you want people to just like feel bad because they're not saying anything, but you're not doing shit either. You're just trying to get views, you're just trying to get clicks, you're trying to make other people feel bad. And you know, at the end of the day, these people are breaking the law, and it sucks that people have to get deported. Yeah, it sucks that people have had to die at the hands of ICE, but you're not helping.

SPEAKER_08 31:27

Yeah, yeah. Why are we instead of protesting, why aren't we lobbying for reform in a lot of the immigration laws? Yeah. Why are you not um funding shelters and resources for people, for refugees, for people who are trying to come in the right way? Yes. Um there's things to do other than just sitting around and getting angry about it, and I think and I think it's all false anyway. I think the majority of these people who are talking about this.

SPEAKER_04 31:54

It's a huge trap.

SPEAKER_08 31:56

It's rage bait, it's just trying to make you feel guilty. It's just it's performative. There are actually things you can do, and I think the people who are actually doing things are not out there talking about it. It's another form of kindness content, in my opinion. Yeah, it's just another flavor of that same thing.

SPEAKER_02 32:13

Well, and it's ironic for a country such as us, the United States, where we're so rebellion, we're so anti, you know, conformity, have your own opinion. And yet that's exactly what they're promoting. You're not allowed to have your own opinion. Yeah, you're not allowed to have your own opinion anymore. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 32:29

So and yeah, I would just say let's and this is all it all ties into this um short form news content. You don't care if you're just going out there and protesting and holding a sign, because I've seen all the content on the other side where they ask these people any questions about what's going on, they have no clue.

SPEAKER_02 32:49

Yeah, they have no clue. Well, I'm for the cause without doing anything for the cause.

SPEAKER_04 32:54

Because I don't even know what the cause is.

SPEAKER_02 32:56

Because they just want to be able to say, yes, I support this without being able without doing that.

SPEAKER_08 33:01

Well, they just don't want to get canceled. And then I think you have a bunch of people who are scared. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 33:06

Well, because if they actually let let's here's a scenario. If they actually took a group of illegal aliens, and then they'd have to vet them out to see which one's dangerous or not, that would be their job, and you went and hid them somewhere, none of that would make the news because no one would know that they were hidden, and you wouldn't be protesting, and you don't want that because you want the narrative pushed that you want pushed.

SPEAKER_08 33:32

There's so much more we could say about that, but I'll I'll stop us there.

SPEAKER_02 33:35

For those who say that it's not a bad thing, then how come in our country it's dividing our own people against each other?

SPEAKER_04 33:43

See, but there are people here, that's the problem with social media. There are people here that you would call moderates, that you would call that just don't care about this stuff, but that's not gonna get pushed online. No. So it's gonna it's gonna seem to you, it's gonna feel like that doesn't exist.

SPEAKER_08 33:59

Yeah, and I and I think going back to we see all of this news, and I I think this is where a lot of times I get stuck is it can feel very overwhelming because you're hearing about everything going on everywhere. And that is so much of that I can't do anything about, like outside of prayer, um, and maybe supporting some causes that are in that area fine. But you know, I think overall, I think we would all be better served if we started focusing on ourselves. How can I be better? And then how can I help my family be better? And then how can I help my local community be better? And to go back to a rant that was silly, although I I hold to it, but the whole thing about like leggings, like I don't want to see your ass, right? We are just so individualistic as a society, and we just care about what I want. We are not at all concerned with the needs of the people walking around us at Target. We will get online, we will rant about what's happening six states over from us. And I'm not saying you shouldn't be concerned, but again, what is happening in your own hometown? What are you doing to support your local community? What are you doing to try to better the lives of the people immediately around you?

SPEAKER_02 35:16

That's why I can't stand today's pop music because it it that's the whole message. It's all about me, making me feel better. I don't care what anyone else thinks, because think about this you go into Target, you're with your kids, and then all of a sudden in the vinyl section, you see Sabrina Carpenter down on all fours in her album cover.

SPEAKER_06 35:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 35:34

And now your kids have seen that.

SPEAKER_06 35:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 35:36

But she doesn't care because it's all about her and her world without thinking about how that image could affect anyone else. Or God knows what her lyrics are. I'm not even I don't even want to know.

SPEAKER_04 35:48

Yeah. So just like we don't want to see your ass in leggings, you don't want to see your political ass online. Just keep your ass to yourself.

Reviews, Herd Thinking, And Taste

SPEAKER_08 35:59

Okay, the last one that I have, um, and this one, I don't know, this maybe this will be a little bit controversial, but I think technology, I I think we have gone too far, and this is probably controversial because of what we do, but I think we've we've gone too far with online reviews. And I think we review the crap out of everything. And I think we give too much credit to reviews.

SPEAKER_02 36:27

And I'm well, it's funny that you say that because now I'm seeing it everywhere because on social social media they they know who I am and they give me content that's related to me. And everyone's talking about how Breaking Bad's won 10 out of 10 episodes, now down to a 9.7. Watch it for yourself before you go and look at the reviews. You have to. I knew you were gonna bring up Ryan. You have to go and do stuff on your own and give your own opinion. Who cares what other people think? Now you can have a conversation with those people and have a discussion. That's great, but that doesn't mean you have to agree with their exact rating because what all of a sudden made people think, oh yeah, you know that one episode that was a 10 out of 10 for 13 years? Yeah, no, it's actually 9.7.

SPEAKER_04 37:11

And see, Calvin saw that it is actually Game of Thrones fans.

SPEAKER_03 37:16

And if you read the reviews, even some of them are like, yeah, I love this show, but since y'all dog shitted on Game of Thrones, I'm gonna hate on y'all now. So it's like, so you were a fan, but now you're not?

SPEAKER_08 37:29

Come on. It's game playing.

SPEAKER_04 37:31

Yeah, and here's the stupid thing about that. How long ago did Breaking Bad go off the air? Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 37:35

Why are you doing this now? 13 years. Well, that just shows you how good of a show it is because you're still shitting on it. And it aired what, 13 years ago? It's still being talked about to this day. It's still one of the most highly regarded shows ever.

SPEAKER_08 37:50

Yeah, you actually going on to IMDB just got more people talking about it again.

SPEAKER_02 37:54

Yes. I mean or Rotten Tomatoes or whatever. For our biggest fans out there, Harley, shout out to Harley. You know, she has a newborn baby now, Lily, and she's up most of the night, which happens with newborns. So now she's just now discovering Breaking Bad. It's multi-generational. It's gonna keep it's gonna go. It's a good show. It's a great show for a long time. It's a little peak because it's just great all around. So go out and figure stuff out for your own. Don't just conform to what everybody's saying online.

SPEAKER_04 38:25

You've gotta watch stuff now for yourself before you go to the reviews and look at those and be like, we we we got caught in that for a little while with Marvel. Newest Marvel comes out, you're like, oh, the audience score seems pretty good, but the critic score is really low, and you go and you're like, eh, it was okay. All that stuff can be bought and purchased, most of it's not real. Go and watch it for yourself. Go watch uh Ozzie Mandius. Uh, that's the Breaking Bad episode that Jackson is talking about. It is a 10 out of 10. But you've got to watch the rest of the show first. But yes, it's such a great episode. It's it's so such great writing. I also hate things that are socially driven. Like you have to like this because it has this piece of content in it.

SPEAKER_08 39:13

Or it was written by this type of person. I just got caught up. I read a booker long-listed novel um written by somebody with disabilities, and the novel was unnecessarily shocking. And it was and it kind of I was like, this is not shocking in what way? This the content. Oh, it was it was it was wow. And so anyway, I I guess like uh where I feel like we are currently at with reviews is you just again, you have to have some discernment. I think reviews can be really helpful, especially when you're going to buy a product or you want to understand how something works. But at the end of the day, reviews can be bought.

SPEAKER_03 39:55

Um could be rage bait.

SPEAKER_08 39:57

They could be rage bait, they can be um they can be retaliating, you know. And like personally, if I leave a review, it's usually either because I thought the thing was really, really good or was really, really bad. Um, you know, but that's actually not that helpful, I think, to most people. So I think reviews, you know, you kind of you gotta be careful.

SPEAKER_04 40:24

And then you've got uh people like reviewing stuff in short form clips. Yeah. And most of the time, they're always positive no matter what. Like there's this one guy, he's very popular. He actually did a bunch of stuff with the Superman cast and James Gunn and everything, but every review he puts out is positive no matter what. And I think the straw that broke the camel's back for me was the new Masters of the Universe trailer, and he's watching, he's like, Let's go, let's go! And I'm like, I'm like, no, did you watch the trailer? Yeah, I was like, Were you even watching this? Yeah, and it's like, get out of here.

SPEAKER_08 40:58

And I think especially, I think, especially when you're reviewing some form of art, number one, art is always subjective. And I see this debate on Bookstagram all the time about whether or not you should put out negative reviews. And if you do, you definitely don't tag the author, you know, and it's all about like framing, you know, well, this book wasn't for me. There typically is an audience for most books. And I I agree with a lot of that, but you know, there is nothing wrong with having an opinion and saying, I thought this book was trash. I don't care who wrote it, I don't care what their political views are, I don't care how nice they are. At the end of the day, I thought this was poorly executed and their editor should be fired.

SPEAKER_02 41:39

I think the whole problem with online reviews is that no one has their own opinion anymore.

SPEAKER_06 41:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 41:45

Nobody's thinking for themselves, nobody has an original idea anymore.

SPEAKER_04 41:49

That's why I've parented you and Calvin the way that I have, because I want you guys to be able to think for yourselves. I want you guys to realize what's good writing, what's funny, what's not funny. Um, you know, swearing in a movie. Should there be swearing in a movie? If they use it right, is it just there to be there? Like I started watching the new uh Burbs, the Burbs on Peacock, the new version of that. Beautifully shot. It has a really great cast. It's it's kind of boring so far, but it's but it looks like a movie and it's a TV show. But uh it's got F-bombs in it, and it's just ridiculously stupid. Ridiculously dumb to do that, and you're gonna you're gonna like alienate a whole audience just because they're gonna be like, well, that's okay, that's the way people talk. Whatever. It's not funny, it's not smart, it's it's not good.

SPEAKER_08 42:40

Okay, so predictions for things that technology and innovation are gonna ruin in the we'll start with Jackson. How how like what are we predicting? Like the next five years, next 20 years in your lifetime?

SPEAKER_04 42:51

What's something technology will ruin? You want me to start or do you guys want to start?

SPEAKER_03 42:55

Uh I have one. Go. Uh ads. I think they're gonna be all AI now. Because people are just lazy. Oh, that's a good one.

SPEAKER_08 43:05

Advertising.

SPEAKER_04 43:05

He's right. We saw Coca-Cola had an all, and they they said at the bottom, an all AI in the movies during Christmas.

SPEAKER_06 43:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 43:14

Trash.

SPEAKER_06 43:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 43:16

I think uh pre-ordering stuff. I'm getting so tired of pre-ordering stuff. It takes out the joy, and when something is newly released and you go and you buy it when it's just out. Why do we need to pre-order everything? Yep.

SPEAKER_04 43:32

They're trying to they're trying to find out how many they need to make. Well, do you have enough made or don't you? But see, Funko, that's a that's a great thing because that you're saying, because Funko's already learning that lesson now. With because now Funko's are worthless because they've made too many and all the time.

SPEAKER_08 43:51

They saturated the market so badly. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 43:54

Yeah. Sex. Technology has ruined sex for years and it's Going to continue to ruin sex. I've noticed, um, you know, the world already treats sex as just another bodily function, it's not anything special. Anyone can get access to porn anywhere, uh, according to all kinds of it. Technology will take you there easier than you've ever been able to get there. I mean, you've already seen signs of sex being ruined for even young men because now there's not even just Viagra, there's hymns, there's all these different the blue chew, all these different pills for dudes in their 20s that can't, they already cannot get a boner. And that is just sad. You know what I'm saying? Blue chew. Yeah, okay. It's just it's it's another version of Viagra, but it's for young dudes. And this just comes with the whole territory of not knowing that sex is special. And I've always said it to my boys, and I will continue to say it sexual sin is a sin of progression because you will look at one thing and it works for you until you get to until it doesn't. So you go to these worse worse, worse, worse, worse until none of it works, and then you're doing things you would have never dreamed you would be doing, and you're just in a really, really bad place. And I think technology is gonna take us there even quicker. Sorry to be a downer, but that's you're already seeing that happen. The fact that teenagers, 20s, 30s are needing boner pills. Yeah, like I hate to call them boner pills, but I don't know what else to call them. But that is sad. That is just sad. I can't imagine that the experience for either partner is as good as it could have been when you're having to take a pill, too.

SPEAKER_08 45:53

Well, and it's it's gonna it's gonna continue to ruin relationships.

SPEAKER_04 45:57

Yes. Because not just a man-woman, all your relationships with all kinds of people.

Predictions: What Tech Will Ruin Next

SPEAKER_08 46:03

With all kinds of people. And I think that um, you know, we we've just objectified people so much.

SPEAKER_02 46:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 46:12

Um, and that's a huge contributor to why why we do that, why we see people just as objects, things, and not actual.

SPEAKER_04 46:21

That's one thing I didn't like about that movie, Rental Family. Is in that movie it's about this actor who moved to Japan and he starts working for this place where you can rent him basically to be part of your family. But one of the things was he's not from there. So he hires a prostitute every once in a while to just like and they don't show anything because mostly what they show with him and her is them like he's lonely. Yeah, he's just like interacting with her, and you can tell, you know, she's you know, the the alarm goes off, and she's like, he's like, Oh, you got he's like, I'll give you another hour for free. Because she knows he doesn't want sex, yeah.

SPEAKER_08 47:00

It's not about that.

SPEAKER_04 47:01

He just wants he's just lonely. And I just I don't like when people try to make that normal. Like that that sucks for men, but especially for women. Let's be honest, like sex work, women, like it's just synonymous, which is terrible.

SPEAKER_02 47:19

Well, and they're trying to make that normal. I mean, I remember when we were watching, what was it, the iCarly Reboot.

SPEAKER_04 47:25

iCarly Reboot, yep.

SPEAKER_02 47:26

And we had to turn it off because they were making that, you know. I think Carly said, Oh, yeah, my friend used to do something on the lines of that. Yep. Normal. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 47:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 47:37

And if you go one scroll on social media, you'll see, you know, hate to point out names, but I can't stand this dude. Jack I think his name is Jack Doherty. Doherty, yeah, I know who you're talking about. They do these challenges, uh meaningless videos, but while promoting an agenda the entire time without people even recognizing it.

SPEAKER_06 48:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 48:06

See, and and with all of these the OF models, the these sex workers, strippers, whatever, who make all of this money like millions and millions a year. It's not like, and and I still would be down on it if it was, but it's not like it's making the world a better place.

SPEAKER_08 48:26

Well, you know, and and feminism has tried to take back control in these areas where historically women who participated in sex work did so because they had no other choice.

SPEAKER_05 48:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 48:42

You can actually read read through the old testament. There were prostitutes because there were no jobs for women, and the men in their family either wouldn't work or couldn't.

SPEAKER_06 48:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 48:56

And that was really the only option they had. And so, you know, historically, this has not been a go-to profession for women. We this is not something anyone in their right mind wants to do, but feminism has tried to turn the narrative and say, yes, we do want this because we're trying to take back control. We're trying to feel like we have power in these situations. And so this is where feminism has weaponized sex. And this is why now you have women who will go on Instagram and their underwear to try on clothes, not giving a shit that there's some 11-year-old who's masturbating to their video. Like that is disturbing. But this is what feminism has done. Um, and so again, we don't care about the people around us unless we're supporting a cause, we're getting recognition for it.

SPEAKER_04 49:50

Yeah. What do you have? What will technology ruin in the future for you?

SPEAKER_08 49:55

I think I think we're already seeing it. And I I am not anti-AI. I think it has its place. I think it will continue to grow and have a place, and I think it will be a good tool in many ways. But I think writing in general, kind of like what you said about like advertising, I think we're already seeing the books, the movies, the content, you know, coming out. Um that's just AI generated. And I I think I think we're gonna have a period of time where people are really gonna try to monopolize on that. They're really gonna try to make money off of that, and it's gonna be garbage. Um, and then hopefully maybe we'll have some kind of renaissance where we will go back to like actually treasuring good literature, good storytelling, comedy that's actually funny. Um but I I I think we're we're in for a dark period here where um I think between the political climate and people being afraid of cancel culture, um, and then AI and technology, I think I think we're gonna be in a bit of a middle ages kind of dark period when it comes to good writing in in all genres for all things.

SPEAKER_04 51:11

And the scary thing is what is going to get us out of that? Because it you're gonna have a period where people are trained to like the bad stuff. Yeah. So we're just gonna have to like hold on to our values and just kind of, you know, hopefully, you know, stick it out.

Bright Spots Of The Week

SPEAKER_08 51:27

I think the good news is that it eventually will change. Um, history is very cyclical. You can see, you know, the ups and downs. Society becomes very conservative in this area and then very liberal in this area. And and it always, you know, it always ebbs and flows. It's just, you know, we're dealing with these technological advances. But I mean, there's definitely been periods of history where writing and literature and storytelling has been censored um way more than it should have been, or not valued in the way it should have been, and it's and it's come back. So, like I said, I think we're just gonna need to uh buckle down for the next few years. Yeah, hopefully it'll come back.

SPEAKER_04 52:05

So, what was good this week? What was non-terrible this this past week?

SPEAKER_03 52:10

Uh buying the DGD VIP meet and greet. Oh, nice. Wait a minute, you bought that? Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 52:17

I thought you sold out.

SPEAKER_03 52:18

No, I bought it. You bought it before it was sold out.

SPEAKER_02 52:21

You're gonna go by yourself?

SPEAKER_03 52:22

Mm-hmm. I'm gonna meet six grown dudes by myself. Wow. Make sure you phrase it.

SPEAKER_08 52:29

Should you maybe like explain who they are for people who don't know what DG is?

SPEAKER_03 52:34

They're a band and they're gonna be in Nashville performing, and I bought the VIP meet and greet.

SPEAKER_08 52:39

And what what is the actual band name?

SPEAKER_03 52:41

Dance, gav, and dance, DGD. Okay. No one calls them DGD.

SPEAKER_04 52:45

I call them Dance Gavin Dance. I call them DGD. That's great. That's a good thing for me this week is learning that they're called DGD.

SPEAKER_08 52:53

I do need to find a new show before I fall asleep at night. I like to watch something kind of mindless and dumb and entertaining, like I found Faraday to be. So there is, there is, I keep falling asleep though. And that's not a that's not against the show. I actually do want to watch it, but there is a show on HBO, and it's at well, it's actually part of um Adult Swim called Royal Crackers. And it's and it's about these this white trash family. Oh god. And they they own a cracker company. But they're they're white trash. Um and like the one the one brother, uh, he's a former um uh rock star from a band called Taint. It's just it's pretty ridiculous. Um I found that to be pretty funny, so I need to I need to watch, I need to watch more of that. But hopefully I'll find something else that you'll walk in the room, look at the TV, and then just walk back out because you don't you're not gonna watch it.

SPEAKER_04 53:56

Fair it is, but why? Because it is. It just it's just very odd, very, very strange, and not in a good way. I don't think I'll keep watching Royal Crackers, though. I mean, you missed the one episode where they went for the uh the inspection.

SPEAKER_08 54:11

Oh yeah, no, I felt I didn't see that one.

SPEAKER_04 54:14

That was very Rick and Morty.

SPEAKER_08 54:16

It got Oh, see, I would like that.

SPEAKER_04 54:18

Weird. It got weird. Because it was already weird before. This got like sci-fi weird.

SPEAKER_08 54:26

Okay. See, I like I like weird.

SPEAKER_02 54:29

Tropic Thunder. We watched Tropic Thunder.

SPEAKER_01 54:33

I can't believe we forgot about that! Tropic Thunder.

SPEAKER_08 54:40

Comedy being at risk. There's nothing.

SPEAKER_02 54:42

You can't make that anymore. You cannot make that today. Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_04 54:46

But it's hilarious. I think you can though. I think people are just like, I wouldn't do that. And it's like, yeah.

Comedy, Domino’s, And Closing Quip

SPEAKER_01 54:53

Why? I don't think they could get Robert Downey Jr. to do that again. No. Well, I mean, maybe. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 55:00

I can't believe you guys watched. That one scene with Jack Black. That was just like, wow. Yeah. That's just well. Oh, and we got Domino's. Oh, that was good. That was very good. That was good.

SPEAKER_04 55:14

Domino's is good. That was a great night. That was a good night. Yeah. You know what it wasn't? It wasn't relatively terrible. There you go.