JD Vance LEAK WAS A HOAX, Fact Checkers Confirm Story Was A BIG LIE
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It was a hoax. Of course it was. This stuff's not real, but expect it to get crazier, my friends. It is the technological nightmare that we've been so warned about. You know, a couple years ago, I went on Joe Rogan's show, and he asked me if I thought that the rise of this AI stuff was going to be a problem, and I said, no, not really.

I don't think so. And I'm less bullish on the I don't think so now. And I'm leaning towards it'll be a problem to a certain degree. I don't think it's the apocalypse. A lot of people are claiming it to be, but I think it'll be bad. The story is that earlier in the week, this audio got released, supposedly of J.D. Vance attacking Elon Musk. I'll play the audio for you. But we have this video of a BBC breaking down. It's a hoax. It's an A.I. hoax. It was obvious the whole time.

But we'll play the audio for you. We're going to keep seeing this. There's already been photo hoaxes that people have believed to be true. It may get crazy. I got no good answers for you. Maybe it may be worse than I realize. I genuinely just think that people, for the most part, have scruples. Maybe not all people, but typically are concerned that if you could be easily caught doing something, it will discredit you. So the incentive for bad actors to make fake photos is minimal.

Someone might make it. Another prominent person might share it and then say, I thought it was real, but they knew it was fake. Take a listen to this. Have you heard this? No.

It claims to be a leaked recording of US Vice President J.D. Vance criticizing Elon Musk. Lots of people were quick to question whether it was AI generated or genuine. And J.D. Vance himself has since said it's an AI generated fake.

Experts have suggested that the clip is likely to be inauthentic. That means probably created by AI. There are some telltale signs. The earliest posting we could find was from March the 23rd and came from a TikTok account that has posted other clips, memes and AI generated content highly critical of the Trump administration. We can't say with full certainty that this was the original source. But when questioning the authenticity of something, you want to retrace the digital fuck.

print and get as close to the source as possible to see if it's credible. That account holder has now deleted the audio. Next, we sent the audio to forensic audio analysts. They told us that the cadence and intonation are not consistent with Vice President Vance's typical speech patterns. I'm going to pause right there and just, well, I mean, this is basically the end. Indicating that the clip is likely inauthentic. So here's the issue. The AI clip

of JD Vance is built upon his cadence. That's how you generate someone's voice. However, I think we're still a little bit away from the point where it's going to perfectly replicate it. So basically what happens is there are these services. You can load any voice, a recording of someone's voice, my voice. Well, mine doesn't really work. Good luck. We've tried it. But Jordan Peterson, Joe Rogan, very easy. You load it into 11labs.io and it will spit out anything you want in that person's voice.

We tried it with me and it didn't really work. It made a weird version of my voice. I don't understand why, but it couldn't do it. There's a few other people that I had trouble with, but people that have like a distinct way of talking, Trump was easy, Rogan was easy. And it's kind of funny because doing an impersonation of Joe Rogan is not easy. Trump is so easy to impersonate. Granted, when I do it, I do it more like a cartoon character, but Rogan's impossible. But so with how this service works,

Right now, when she says, oh, it's the cadence, it's not consistent with his actual voice. What happens when the AI can actually output based on the audio fed into it more perfectly? Meaning if you give the AI a one hour long sample of J.D. Vance giving a speech, would it not be able to actually formulate something that sounds just like him? And then these fact checkers are going to say that sounds like him. It's matching his cadence. We think it's him.

The other thing to consider with all of this, my friends, the era of scandals, leaks, whatever is over. Let's say Donald Trump is actually hanging out behind the scenes and he says something like, you know, quite frankly, that Congresswoman was disgusting. I don't want her disgusting, smelly butt in my chair. You know, you're to be like, whoa, look at it. And Trump's going to go. It's fake. And how do you prove it?

Typically, when you're having these private meetings, someone's going to secretly record you. It's going to be one person. And they're going to claim I have the original recording and it's going to be BS. You made an AI say it and then you recorded from a speaker. And this is what they're doing. They're having the AI play the sound and then they're recording it, secondary recording, so that it creates some kind of like a natural room reverb so they can claim that it's a real recording. But it's not. So what happens when it is?

We have two scenarios now, one where people are going to believe it no matter what. This this video of J.D. Vance went viral criticizing Elon Musk. Older people are going to fall for it. Maybe not so much younger people, but then the inverse problem steps in. Anything that ever comes out can be easily denied. And anybody who so chooses to believe in a person will simply do so. You know, then what? If Donald Trump has actually given an interview and he can just say, I never said that, then what do you do about it?

And then we have the actual apocalyptic scenario. Now, it's funny that Joe Rogan asked me this because the first iteration of this technology that got released was his voice. And we were all shocked by it. But now it's common. That's how crazy it's been like a year and a half. You know, this app comes out where they made Joe Rogan say a bunch of things. Now anyone can do it. Here's the real fear I have.

You all know the very fine people hoax. Donald Trump said there were very fine people on both sides. And I am not talking about the white nationalists or neo-Nazis because they should be condemned totally. So we all heard him say that the left believed he said Nazis were fine people because they didn't actually watch the video or they watched a small portion of it, not getting the full context and believed it was the full video. Already we have a problem there. Trump said, and there were very fine people on both sides. Stop.

They clip that, they put it up, and a liberal sees that and says, he said it. But if you keep watching, he adds, I'm not talking about the white nationalists and the neo-Nazis because they should be condemned totally. The example that I give you is that someone can take that full clip and have him go, and I'm not talking about the white nationalists or the neo-Nazis because some of them should be condemned totally. Changing the word they to the phrase some of them or just some because some should be condemned totally. Now,

Everyone argues. I watched the full video. He said some should be condemned totally. He was defending the others. And you're going to be like, no, he said they. He was saying all of them. Nuh-uh. Two videos emerge. They're identical. It's grainy. People who are there are like, oh, did he say some? I think he might have said some. Nobody remembers. Some are going to say, I have an original recording. He said they. Someone else who was there is going to be like, no way, dude. I was there. He said some. And it changes all the context with one word.

The problem is when they use the AI to replicate a real speech, a real statement, a real video with a teeny tiny alteration. All of a sudden, liberals are saying he defended neo-Nazis. Here's the video and they show you. And Trump says, because some of them, some should be condemned totally. And I say, what does that mean? Some. He's saying that there are people there who are Nazis who were fine people. And then you're going to be like, he never said that.

And your mom's going to be like, I saw the video. He said some. And you say, mom, that's AI. I don't believe that for a second. I think he actually said it. You're going to show your video. Well, I don't know what to believe, but I don't trust him anyway. How do you debunk the lies? That's the real nightmare scenario. So when we get these videos, your fact check of JD Vance saying garbled nonsense, fabricated leaks, this is low tier. This is level one. Yo, it's going to get worse than any of us realize.

But I don't know how people are going to handle it. I think what's going to happen is Gen Z is going to tune out and it's going to bring us back to how things used to be. I mean, come on, let's go back 100, 200 years pre radio. You never even knew what the president was doing. Do you guys ever see that movie? I think it's called News of the World. Let me see if I can find this one. I think it was a film. Yep. That's the movie with Tom, Tom Hanks.

He's a newsman. What does he do? He takes newspapers and he rides around the country reading weeks old news to people who gather around to hear what's going on. Think about that. It's been a week or two and he's come from New York and now he's somewhere. I don't know how long he could, how far he could travel. And he says, gather around. We're going to do a news ring. I got a newspaper. Everybody gathers to hear what's going on. And he says, the president is signing a new bill that's going to do this. And it's weeks later.

Today, Trump can literally just turn his camera on live and go, I'm signing a Zikia voter and we're banning cilantro. It's gone. And you know, instantly with the chaos of fake news, you just won't know at all what's going on. Meaning people will start to tune out these stories and say, I don't know. I don't care. It's fake. And that reduces us back to a time when you didn't actually know it was happening. This country got along. I mean, we had a civil war and a world war and all that stuff. But I think that's where we may actually end up.

So my friends, the stories, they're fake. Good luck. I'll do my best to fact check what I can for you if you watch my show. Thanks for hanging out. Stay tuned. We got more segments coming up and we will see you all in a bit.

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One of the most sacred religious objects containing the Ten Commandments of God located. How? The CIA used a psychic. Oh, well, they're claiming they know where it is. And they used remote viewing psychic powers to find it. It's kind of a bummer, isn't it? You want it to be true, don't you? We also have this story about the city under the pyramids in Egypt. We want it to be true so bad. But, um...

It's probably not. Fox 10 reports an unclassified CIA document circulating on social media claims agents may know where the Ark of the Covenant is located, thanks to the help of a psychic document, which was unclassified in 2000 references a coordinate remote viewing session that took place in 1988 with a training target being the sacred religious storage chest that said to store the Ten Commandments. What is remote viewing?

According to the CIA, coordinate remote viewing is a psychic technique in which a viewer transcends time and space to see or perceive people, places or objects without the viewer being present. Retired U.S. Army Chief Warrant Joe McGonigal, is that it? Is that it? Mick, Mick, Mon, Mickman Eagle. There you go. Told the New York Post that when a remote viewer is asked search for a target, the object in question is written down in a piece of paper and put in an envelope.

The remote viewer does not know what is written and is guided through the process by another person. Okay. The CIA document says remote viewer 32 attained excellent site contact and was able to keep AOL or analytic overlay to a minimum. Analytic overlay is the subjective interpretation of the remote viewer's visions. Target is a container. This container has another container inside it. The target is fashioned of wood, gold, and silver.

The target is located somewhere in the Middle East. Individuals in this area were clothed in virtually all white, had black hair and dark eyes. The target is hidden underground, dark and wet. What? So they know where it is or what? So is it real? According to Penn State University, the Ark of the Covenant is a gold-covered wooden storage chest for the stone blocks bearing the Ten Commandments, said to have been built as God's command.

But is it actually real? Different people will give you different answers to that question, said Barak Halpern, Penn State professor of ancient history and religious studies. The Ark is a regular figure in the Old Testament, making several appearances in the first five books of the Bible. The various references to the Ark are pretty consistent. And when you add it all up, it seems like the Ark was a real article. Real or not, McMoneagle, is that how you say it? McMoneagle? McMoneagle?

The former army officer who was the first person to do the psychic experiments for the CIA told the Post he's not convinced by the information contained in the declassified ARC document. Using remote viewing against any target for which ground truth does not exist or is impossible to obtain, such as UFOs, UAPs, the surface of Mars, or the locations of historical relics is a waste of time and resources. I love that there are outlets reporting they found it. Because then you dig in and it's like, using psychic powers that have never confirmed.

If someone claims that remote viewing proves the existence of something, such as the Ark of the Covenant, they must produce the Ark or substantiate their claim. Look at this. Moses and Joshua bowing before the Ark. The biblical account relates to approximately one year after the Israelites' exodus from Egypt. The Ark was created according to the pattern that God gave to Moses when the Israelites were encamped at the foot of Mount Sinai.

Thereafter, the gold-plated acacia chest staves were lifted and carried by the Levites, approximately 2,000 cubits, in advance of the people while they marched. God spoke with Moses from between the two cherubim of the ark's cover. There were ongoing academic discussions about whether there were multiple arks where the original ark contained a statue of Yahweh, about the implications of a recent excavation at Kiriath-Jerim for the historical reconstruction of the ark,

There are additional scholarly debate over possible historical influences that led to the creation of the Ark, including Bedouin or Egyptian influences. What is this, a recreation Ark of the Chapelle de Adoration in Paris? The Ten Commandments. Look at that. Apparently, Moses had them on tablets. And then what? They put them in the Ark? The return of the Ark to the Israelites? I mean, I think it'd be really cool if they actually knew where this thing was. I don't think it's real.

And then, of course, we have perhaps the location of the Ark of the Covenant, the great underground city beneath Egypt's pyramids. There are a lot of people that think the pyramids were like some kind of weapon or battery or communications device. Let me see if I can pull up the original pyramids. Pyramid of Egypt at its peak.

And they say that it was covered in blocks, not the way we see it, but it was fitted at gold on top, a gigantic gold, the summit of the pyramid. How do we find this? How do we do this? What did the pyramid originally look like? There's going to be an image. Look at that. Wow. Live science. Let's pull this one up. Here we go. Take a look at this. So they say this is what the pyramid originally looked like.

So when we look at the pyramids, you see these, right? Get out of here. It's all just like falling apart. And what we see are the blocks. They used to stack it up. But according to, I don't know, archaeologists, let's, can we zoom in on this? It actually was smooth. Look at that. And it had a gold, smaller cap pyramid, I guess. That's what it used to look like. That's crazy. They say that the ancient Egyptian pyramids have stood for thousands of years.

one of the world's most enduring monuments, but what did they look like when they were first built? They say that they're up in from the sands. Over the millennia, the pyramids have changed, largely due to construction workers repurposing of in-demand materials and looting. They say all the pyramids were cased with fine white limestone. An assistant professor at the Czech Institute of Egyptology at Charles University in Prague told Live Science, the limestone casing would have given the pyramids a smooth, polished layer that shined bright under the Egyptian sun.

Builders use around 6.1 million tons of limestone. The story for those that don't know is they're now claiming that beneath the pyramids, do they just have it blocked off? Oh, it's Euronews. Euronews website sucks. Look at this. Columns. Okay, let's try this. Columns underneath the pyramid. Why won't it let me actually look at this? Well, you can see it right there. There you go.

columns existing under that go down to water and there are coils or stairs or something. They're claiming they have an 85% confidence this is the case. Speaking to the Daily Mail, some experts cast doubt on the idea of an underground city. In a similar vein, Egyptian archaeologist Dr. Zahi Hawass told The National that the researchers were completely wrong and argued their so-called discovery lacks any scientific basis. I got an idea. Start digging. Let's go underneath and see what they got.

The team concentrated on the Khafre Pyramid. Is that how you pronounce it? Khafre? Khafre? One of the three pyramids in the Giza complex alongside the Khufu and Mankare pyramids. These iconic structures are believed to have been built around 4,500 years ago and are located on the west bank of the Nile in northern Egypt. I say, let's go, baby. I want to know what's under these pyramids. One thing I can't say. You know what's really wild is that Cleopatra lived closer to us, our time now, than the pyramids.

That's crazy, right? Let's pull up Cleopatra. Cleopatra. She was Greek. She wasn't Egyptian. What year? 50 to 31 BC. So that's two. Let's just do this. 2,075 years ago. But the pyramids are 4,500 years old. That means when she was in Egypt, wild. The pyramids were already 2,500 years old. So us to her is like her to the pyramids. Isn't that crazy?

Also, here's a bust of Cleopatra because everybody's always trying to make her look one way. But that's what she actually looked like. Apparently, she was Greek. A lot of people want to believe this is true because they want to believe in ancient mysteries, you know, ancient aliens, super popular show. The reality is people want a scientific basis for why things are or are not true. That's that's it. They want to know what's really going on in the world. They want to know if God is real. I don't blame them.

I, uh, I get it. And, uh, you know, I'll tell you, we may never get those answers, but this is why this story has been going viral as with the arc of the covenant story. Cause if we have an actual opportunity to dig down and find out what's going on and we actually find underground cities beneath the pyramids, this will change the way everyone sees the world. So I say, why not? We can prove them wrong, right?

We can dig beneath the pyramids. We can use more technology. Let's get more experts, do more ground penetrating radar, drill further, not threaten the structures, get some data and prove it's real or not. Because man.

People want to believe.

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Is severance a good show? Well, my friends, recently, a bunch of high profile personalities have been making videos dedicated to just saying how good this show is. And I'm seeing these posts on social media from high profile individuals saying severance is the best show. You got to watch it. And I was really surprised. See, not that long ago, a little while ago.

We, a buddy of mine says, have you seen Severance? And I was like, I heard of it. It's like the Apple TV show, right? Yeah, it's so good. And I was like, really? And they're like, yeah, I love it. I said, okay, I'll watch it. You know, when Game of Thrones was out, I didn't start watching until the beginning of season four.

Because I was like, I don't care. I don't care. You can come to me and tell me how good your shows are. I don't watch them. And then, oh boy, I binged every episode of Game of Thrones. But how did that fall off? Yikes. I'm going to tell you right from the get-go, I do not like this show, Severance. But it's not a bad show. It's more of like a C-. Like, you know, if I'm going to be a grade, meaning I can turn it on in the background.

And I'm interested in some of the plot points. And I'm skipping ahead quite a bit. Because I like the idea and I do want to know where the story goes. But it's just, in my opinion, poorly executed. So why is everybody just coming out talking about how good this show is right now? Well, it's annoying to me. Anyway, where was I? So my friend says, go watch the show. I turn it on. Yo, in the first episode, he's running through a hallway for a whole minute. And they were like, but we wanted to show you the vast expanse. No, off. Click. So...

I turn it on and I'm watching with my wife and it gets to the point where he's running to the hallway and we're both on our phones. And we're like, should we put on something else? Because as soon as we're picking up our phones and not paying attention anymore, we're just like we are. We the show has lost us. Now, here's the thing.

I'm getting all these people like the TikTok generation has ruined you, Tip. You're just so got a squirrel brain rot. Nice try. I don't use TikTok. Not only that, we watch movies all the time where we don't sit there glued to our phones. We watch a bunch of TV shows. Yellowstone was awesome. Game of Thrones early was awesome. What do we what I watched Invincible glued to the screen. I love Invincible. I know it's it's superhero stuff, but it is gruesome. And what other shows do we have going on right now?

We've got the new season of 1923, I think it is. Need to pick that one up. And what other shows we watch? I can barely remember. I don't know. Tulsa King? Glued to the TV. Watch that thing straight through. The problem I have with Severance is it seems that they pad to the episodes and it's boring. But I gotta be honest, it's also semi-mystery box TV. Okay? Now, hold on. What am I basically saying here? I know there are a bunch of Severance fans out there that are watching being like, you don't know good TV, Tim! Bro,

I watched the first season because I tried to watch the first episode and then like 30% of the way and I was like, I'm turning this off.

Then after I see all these posts from high profile people talking about how it's the best show ever, I was like, maybe I just got to get past this first episode. And so I watched the second episode. I'm like, maybe I just got to get past the second episode. And then by the third episode, I'm like, okay, I'm just going to, I'm going to put it on in the background and I'll sit on my phone on X and I'll pay attention when I need to pay attention. But it's so slow. I'm like, skip, skip, skip, skip, skip. Okay. Okay.

It's one of these mystery box shows, they call it, like Lost or From. Not nearly as bad, though. They do answer some questions because that was smart on Ben Stiller's part. Do a mystery box, but solve a little bit more. But it's not enough. It feels like ripping the band off as slowly as possible. And then they just stop and put it back on. And you're like, no, please just make it stop.

And for me, it's frustrating. I like stories that progress. The plot advances and we figure out what's going on. Yo, this come on, guys. In season one, they find a room full of goats. And there's a guy like they're not ready yet. And it's like, yeah, we get it. Mystery box, garbage, nonsense. Anyway, how is Apple losing one billion dollars every year on a show that is supposedly so good? And why did everybody all of a sudden start posting at the exact same time how good this show is?

Okay. So for those that don't know, Severance is a show that came out in 2022. And I'm going to tell you, though I don't know if I'm 100% sure about this, it certainly does feel like some people are being paid to make videos and social media posts claiming Severance is a good show. So I sit down with my buddy the other day. I'm like, let's see if we can watch season two. I'm watching season two now. And he's just like,

This is people like this show. And I'm like, bro, I guess. And he's like, but it's like they keep you waiting. And you're it's like, hurry up and wait. Like nothing happens. Nothing's happening. We don't know what the company does. It's been two seasons. They've not advanced the plot in any meaningful way. OK, we figured out that his wife was alive at the end of season one. And that's all you get. It's it's it's it's painful.

In order to advance the plot, they seem to be struggling with this concept. So at the beginning of season two, of course, largely makes no sense. They have a brief other team, whatever. I've only watched a little bit of the second season because it's too painful to watch. I decided I'd watch it because of everyone making these comments about it. I want to know exactly what the show's about. And well, like I said, it's a C-. I wouldn't call it bad, but I'll tell you this. When you turn it on, you're going to be zoning out half the time and you're going to be tuning in half the time.

Not to mention, I'm getting all these conservatives and people on the right being like, Tim, you wouldn't know good TV. Oh, I wouldn't? I don't know. What's your favorite part of the show? The two elderly gay men as a major plot point who are making out? And these woke leftists are like, what's the matter, Tim? You don't like watching dudes make out? What does it say about you? And I'm like, bro,

They don't even have men and women making out in the show. Like, why would I want to watch about two elderly gay guys? Literally a major plot point in the show is an old gay guy who's trying to track down his lost boyfriend. OK, I'm I'm I'm frustrated with the wokeness. OK.

I don't want to watch a show where the major plot point is a guy trying to hunt down his missing wife. At least that somewhat makes sense. The main character's wife is supposedly dead, and he finds that she's alive. I'm like, mystery time. Okay. But then they introduce one of the major plots that Christopher Walken is gay, and one of the main guys in the office is gay. And when you go to work, you're of a different personality, a different brain, and I'm just like...

Why are these conservatives coming out and claiming a show which a major plot point, at least a quarter of the story, the motivation for one of the main characters is that he's trying to find his lost boyfriend? And I'm like, conservatives are cheering this on. Right wing person, a personality to this. OK, now I'm ranting. But let me show you this. We got fortune. Apple's reportedly willing to lose a billion dollars every year just to fuel its streaming ambitions. Well, good for them. Take a look at this from Muro News. They asked the question.

Despite huge investment and award-winning shows, Apple TV is still struggling to make a mark, reportedly losing up to a billion euros a year. It's Euro news. They're converting from dollars to euros. Two sources close to the company confirmed to the information that the tech firm has spent $5 billion a year on Apple TV since it launched in 2019.

Apple's huge investment into the video streaming market hasn't reaped a similarly sized subscriber base. Despite shows like Severance and Ted Lasso, it lags significantly behind competitors Netflix, Amazon, and Disney+. To be honest, I'm watching this on Amazon because I don't have Apple TV. Although Apple hasn't officially revealed its subscriber count as it doesn't release it as an individual stat, the information reports it at a lowly 45 million subscribers.

$45 million is a massive number. And what is it, $10 a month? Are you kidding me? That's a lot of money. However, apparently they're losing billions.

It's not as a given Apple's one of the biggest companies, blah, blah, blah. It's not like they haven't heaped piles of cash on impressive shows. Chiefly, there's Severance, the dark sci-fi series about office workers with split consciousness, was nominated for 14 Emmys after its first season in 2022. The Ben Stiller produced show returned to the screens this year and has immediately been in contention for the prestige TV gongs alongside White Lotus and Adolescence. Similarly, Apple has had other hit shows like Ted Lasso, blah, blah, blah.

They say, here's the problem. A major part of the problem is the lack of social cachet Apple TV seemingly has. Major stars sign up for expensive projects just for them to be dumped on the service without enough hype for it to drum up the kind of publicity that is innate to an HBO release. Water cooler television is an industry is a term in the industry described kinds of shows that would leave such a widespread cultural impression. It would inevitably become the topic of conversation in offices around the world the next morning.

Classics examples would be Sopranos breaking bad succession. Here's the problem. Severance doesn't have anything to talk about. There is nothing to talk about. Severance is a show where it mystery boxes. You do that is lost or from where it's like, give you an example from season one. They're walking down the halls and they open a door and there's a man holding goats and the goats are all yelling and they're like, what? And then they run back and it's like, what was that? Nothing. It's fake. It's literal nothing.

They these shows like I'm watching from I can't stand this show. And it's like.

There was a music. He's in a room and he looks at the music box and then it like zooms in on the box and he's like shaking and swinging like a music box. And then the episode's over and they never explain it because it was nothing. That is what these shows are. The shows are quite literally show you random nonsense. So you come back next week, but they don't have answers for you because if they introduce that, it would alter the story in a fundamental way, which makes it more difficult to introduce mystery elements.

The goal of these shows is to advance a bit. The characters do things, but nothing's ever resolved. So at the end of season one, the work consciousness, I'm assuming the people watching this have seen it. If you haven't, they find a way to temporarily escape to the real world through something called overtime contingency. And then it's like, what's going to happen? Nothing happens. The season ends with them escaping and there's frantic panic. Nothing happens. Nothing.

Season two starts. There's a significant plot development for the first time in the whole show. And that is that the world has changed because of what happened. Begin season two, the exact same garbage. They waste your time. They barely explain things. Characters barely advance. You don't know why things are the way they are. They never tell you why they're the way they are.

I digress. The show doesn't have anything for which in the morning you can say, bro, did you see the Khaleesi come out of the fire when she knocked that fire over and roasted Khal Drogo and everybody died? Game of Thrones was literally nothing, but I can't believe the plot did that. The Red Wedding. It's like, those were main characters. They're all dead. Everybody the next day was like, bro, did you watch? That was crazy. What are they going to do next? They literally took those characters out. Severance is like,

Yo, a guy saw a goat. The next episode, what happened to that goat? I don't know. I guess nobody's moved by it. Sorry. So here's what I think. We know for a fact the problem with the show is water cooler television. The show may be entertaining to many people. I'm not saying it's the worst show ever made. I'm just saying it certainly ain't Game of Thrones, at least up to season five, whatever. It's not one of these big, massive shows like Sopranos.

That has people wired in. I mean, Westworld season one, everybody thought that was the next Game of Thrones. And then season two kind of fell off. Brutal. I think it was the ending of season one. And this is what scares people, like the people who make Severance. At the end of Westworld season one, you go from this show where there's a mystery, where the man in black is trying to figure out what's going on. And he's looking, he scalps the robot and there's a pattern. What could it mean? They don't tell you.

But then also the robots revolt and kill a bunch of people and escape. And you're like, I kind of killed what the story was. Now it's all over the place. And people liked watching a show where you were in this fantasy world. I think this is the lesson that Severance took from Westworld. In Westworld, you're on this mysterious island. You don't know where it is. Somewhere like is another planet? Is it a foreign country? Is it the future? Or like how far in the future are they in virtual reality? We don't know.

When they decided to actually advance the plot and answer those questions, people stopped watching. So for Severance, it seems like the people making the show are thinking, look, everybody is glued to this idea of like, what is this company? What's it do? We can never tell them. You will never find out because that's the only reason they want to watch. So it's kind of like perhaps you could write a good show.

that advances the plot of the universe in a meaningful way that doesn't ruin the elements. Westworld could do this. Severance could do this. They just lack the ability, I guess. They stumble upon a mini hit and then panic. So what do you get? No water cooler television. Along comes many personalities, which, to be honest...

Perhaps these personalities are saying the show is so good is because season two got better. And now they're like they're watching it and they're like, dude, I love this show. I'm sure that's a lot of it, to be completely honest. But I kind of squint a little bit. Apple TV has this show that wins a bunch of awards that they're like the people who watch it seem to enjoy. Why aren't we reaching that bigger audience? And it's because they don't have social capital or social pull.

To me, it sounds like a PR company went to a lot of people and said, how much to make a video about severance? It's not political. It's not going to cause any problems. And I'm just sitting here being like, why is this guy on Twitter making a video about severance? Here's a political guy. He's a political guy. And he's posting a video about severance. Why? Now, if you tweeted, I love severance, I'd be like, yeah, OK, I tweet stuff all the time. You know, I tweeted about how much I didn't like it.

But if you tweet about it, I don't think much of that. But when I see people who are really hamming this up, and I'm like, you're joking, right? Dude, everyone that I've shown severance to and asked them about, they're like, I hate it. And I'm like...

Why are there there are personalities like Jeremy Hampton in the court was like, Tim, it's good. You don't understand. That's fine. He can like it. I don't know. But I have friends. I'm like, here, let's watch. And they're like, I can't do it. What is this? It's so boring and slow and nothing's happening. Who are the characters? What's the company? What's the plot? What am I supposed to be watching? What am I what? There's nothing that's explaining anything to me. I'm not getting a story out of this. It's literally a white room where people waste time all day. Oh, dude, like.

In the first season when Helly is being told to read the apology, the lady just threatened to cut off her hand. Or was that before or after? I think that was before. I don't know. Anyway, the lady tries to kill herself and all these things, yet she sits there and reads a script. Like, dude, the writing, I think, is terrible. Well, Ben Stiller had some choice words for me. Actually, just an emoji. So I tweeted, I wonder why so many people started posting about how good it's not. Severance is.

I got a thousand responses, 671,000 views on my post. And Ben Stiller posted a nerd emoji to which I responded. Tropic Thunder is one of the greatest films ever made. Thank you, sir. I do. I here's my point. Here's my point. We are in an era.

where we had this big story over the weekend where a bunch of prominent right wing personalities were all posting the exact same garbage about allowing welfare recipients to buy soda. And they were like, Trump likes Diet Coke. If you're on welfare, you should be allowed to have soda. And I was just sitting there being like, what, bro? If I was supreme chancellor of the earth, I would throw all of soda into the sun. I'm kidding. It's fine if you want to buy with your own money.

But if I was running government, I'd be like, bro, I ain't giving you EBT benefits out of my wallet so you can go buy soda. If homeboy comes to me and he says, I am hungry, sir, would you give me food? I'll be like, I'll tell you what, I'm going to buy you a chicken club sandwich and I'll get you a thing of water. And if they're like, no, I want a fudge popsicle and a Coke. I'd be like, ain't happening, bro. I'm going to give you something that helps you. I'm not here to give you some junk food garbage. My point is all of these people were getting paid.

They were getting paid to use the same talking points. And the reports are up to $1,000 per post to say welfare recipients would be allowed to buy soda. Meaning our tax dollars ripped from our pockets against our will would be funneled to, should be given to poor people who can buy garbage that kills them so big beverage corporations can make profits. Get out of here, dude. So I say this. I kind of wonder why.

When a show that's kind of meh, all of a sudden has so many people cheering for it. And I'm like, I'm trying to watch it. And I'm like, dude, Yellowstone, people asked me to watch it. I did. I was like, this show's amazing. 1883, or was it, I think, 1893 or whatever. I don't know. 1883. It's just the years. 1923. These shows are incredible. I was like, Taylor Sheridan. Man, this guy can't get it wrong. Tulsa King, so good. I love those shows.

And then there's a bunch of other anthology shows. I like some goofy, low budget ones, too. But severance just ain't it. But all of a sudden, everyone's cheering for it. I think some of these dudes are getting paid. That's just me. But, you know, it's whatever. I can only tell you this, my friends. Severance is a failed show. You want to cry about it. You want to complain about it. By all means, go ahead and complain about it. But I'm going to put it this way. Apple is losing a billion dollars a year on their supposedly hit shows. That's not reality.

That, listen, could I, Tim Pool, do a show that loses money? No. Now, you can invest and hope it turns around. But when you have the acclaims, the accolades, and you're like, this is the best show ever, and people won't buy it, you got yourselves a problem. And it looks like right now their argument internally is, we have a marketing problem. Why can't we reach the water cooler with this show? Well, why?

Perhaps it's because the show isn't good enough. It's good enough for many people. There's a show called The Order on Netflix. It's got two seasons. I actually really liked it. It's about werewolves and witches or something. I don't know. But the bad guy was a communist college professor. I thought that was funny. So I was entertained by it. I watched it. And, you know, maybe I like goofy shows or whatever, but I like the normal ones. But that one got canceled. And a lot of people are saying, Tim, that show is stupid. Why would you watch that garbage? I don't know. I enjoyed it.

There's a lot of shows that I like that get canceled. Family Guy got canceled a lot. Futurama did too. That's besides the point. Sometimes shows just aren't good enough. The Gifted, I just binged The Gifted on Disney. Just watched every episode. It's about mutants and the government's hunting them down and superpowers. I like those kinds of shows. But don't get me wrong. Yellowstone was probably my favorite show until they ruined the last season. I won't watch it.

Yellowstone is my preferred show of choice. 1923. These shows are Tulsa King is so good, dude. I couldn't I couldn't I don't want to spoil Tulsa King. Awesome show. Severance don't got it. Never watched Lost. I watched from from is lost the same thing. Nonsense, random garbage meant to leave you wondering but never get resolutions and nothing ever makes sense. And there's no real story. Severance has no story. It's a premise with no story.

Unless you count a guy finding out that he's gay and making out with another old guy. The story. So I'll give you the quick gist of severance. Guy's wife dies. So he decides to take a job where you are severed and your work personality becomes distinct from your personal life personality and the memories don't interact. The work personalities have no memory or knowledge of the outside world and just do a job that is nondescript and makes no sense.

One woman who comes in becomes suicidal and tries to maim and harm herself. And then only at the very end do you get any minor plot development. Seriously, eight episodes. And it's mystery box, what's going on, things that don't make sense and never get resolved. And I'm just like, bro, homeboy bit another guy and made him bleed. Never get a resolution to it. Lady tried to hang herself. Never get any resolution to it. They do mention it briefly, but I'm like,

You know, these are major plot developments. So one thing that really, really bothered me in the first season makes it hard to watch when Helly hangs herself in the elevator and then her personal life self wakes up in the elevator dying. You'd think they would at that point start to give us some plot development. Nope.

So anyway, I digress. There's my severance rant. I'll leave it there. Stay tuned, ladies and gentlemen. We'll be back for Timcast IRL tonight at 8 p.m. Tell me why I'm wrong and why it's the greatest show. And I will simply respond with it's fine if you like it. I'm not saying you're not allowed to like it. That's why I'm telling you why I don't. And they can't make money off it. So shows like this get canceled for that reason. I'm sorry if you like the show shows. I like it canceled, too. But if they can't make money, how are you going to claim it's a good show? See you later, everybody. The robots are here.

This thing is going to do your chores in a sweater. So says Mashable. The 1X robot is the coolest and creepiest thing we've seen yet in the release of Robits. This is a humanoid robot. We've already got the Atlas. We've got these other robots from China. This one's the Neo or whatever.

This Atlas robot video shows it doing shoulder rolls and moving around, but it looks like the One X may be the most advanced. Now, it is a bit unfortunate that they put a gray tint on this video, which I don't get why, but take a look at this. X recently released a demo video of its... Let's play the video for Mashable, and you can get a... I want to show you the full example, but let's play this video so you can get an understanding. Let me just start by saying, my friends, the features here, these robots are going to be

They're going to be available very, very soon. They're already giving demonstrations of this robot carrying groceries for you. It is just like iRobot or these future dystopian movies. You are going to see these robots walking down the street carrying groceries. I'm telling you. Check this out. Robotics company 1X recently released a demo video of its new robot, Neo Gamma. And while humanoid robots are getting more lifelike every day, there's something about this one that feels different. It's not the way it moves, but what it's wearing.

Unlike most humanoid robots that sport a more rigid mechanical aesthetic, Neo Gamma is wrapped in a soft beige knit bodysuit. The idea? To blend in with home environments instead of standing out. It's an evolution of 1X's earlier model Neo Beta, but this version was designed to be more inviting. Something you wouldn't mind having in your living room.

Even Neo-Gamma's depth cameras are designed to feel more familiar, positioned side by side just like human eyes. But Neo-Gamma isn't just about looks. It's built to handle household chores like tidying up, vacuuming, and even doing laundry. Similar to other humanoid robots, Neo-Gamma is trained using motion capture data, so it can walk with a natural stride, swing its arms, and even squat or sit in a chair. Its hands are designed to mimic human tendons, giving them more flexibility and control for handling objects.

While the demo video doesn't mention what the robot can do autonomously, previous videos from 1X have shown its EVE robots performing tasks with end-to-end autonomy. According to 1X, Neo-Gamma's knit fabric helps muffle sound, keeping it at about the same noise level as a refrigerator.

It also has built-in speakers, not only for voice interaction, but for sound effects and even music. Plus, it has light-up earrings that show when it's listening or talking, kind of like Alexa's glowing ring. NeoGamma's AI was developed in-house, with backing from OpenAI, the same company behind ChatGBT. This means it can process natural language, making conversations feel more intuitive. The goal? To create a robot that not only helps around the house, but feels more human-like in how it interacts with people.

Right now, Neo Gamma is still in the testing phase, so it's not available for purchase just yet. While other robotics companies are focusing on warehouse and factory work, 1X believes the best way to make robots truly useful is by training them in real-world environments around people, pets, and all the unpredictability of daily life. You may get a little excited when you shop at Burlington. What a nice place! Did you see that? They have my favorite! It's like a whole new world! I can buy two!

I'm saving so much! Burlington saves you up to 60% off other retailers' prices every day. Will it be the low prices or the great brands? You'll love the deals. You'll love Burlington. I told you so.

How much you want to bet that some of these robots are just guys in suits doing the robot because they're like, we're not ready. So Elon Musk had the optimist spot that was at this party and it was talking to people and it was making drinks. And as it turned out, I guess the news story, the reporting is that

The robots were doing the work, but they were being remotely controlled by employees who were communicating with people. So it wasn't actually AI. It was actually just remote control bots. Still crazy, though, because the AI component is after the fact. All you really need is a robot that can move, store enough power to operate for a long enough period of time. And you got yourself an at-home robot.

Take a look at their website. I do have this as well. Let me show you this one. This is another robot. Let's play this video. Take a look at this. RL. Locomotion. Just give the thing some clothes and we're good, right? I do love how they're like, oh, look at that. Version 2 is way better. You notice that the first robot, it's funny I'm watching this because I'm like, they're leaning too much on their quads. You know, this guy's walking more upright. Version 1 versus Version 2. Walks way better.

simulation, and real life. Wow, geez. Years of data simulated in hours. This is creepy. And now the robot's leaving. Is this Figure? The name of the company? I don't know, they posted a symbol.

You know what's funny is you look at these videos and I'm thinking to myself, how far away is an Iron Man suit? I know, but I'm not kidding. If they take the core components of what makes these things move, put the motors on the sides, I suppose the problem is the Iron Man suit's impractical unless you get very, very strong, very small motors. But battery technology is getting really impressive anyway. So take a look at this Neo Gamma robot. Ooh, stories. Let's take a look at stories.

Look at that. The robot is doing work for you. Here's a chef cooking with Neo Beta and Nick Giovanni. Can we actually play that? Do they have the video? There you go. Look at this. Robots are becoming more and more like humans. They can build cars, clean your house, and even do parkour. But in this video, I'm cooking against three levels of robots to find out who's the better chef, robots or humans. For level one, Mark Rober. Okay, well, humans, no question.

And humans is the humans. Yeah, OK, we get it. That's silly. But take a look at this, guys. We are very, very close to this being reality. Now, what I'd like to see is, you know, with all the internal motors and everything, making a suit would be a little bit harder. And the power that they have, they're probably not very strong. But I do think we're going to get to a point where these things are everywhere. And you know what that means. So you notice how they put the eyes because they wanted to seem more like a person.

Here's the creepy thing. There's this movie called Companion. Spoiler alert. Actually, I don't know if I'm going to spoil it. OK, you've been warned. If you haven't seen Companion, I'm going to be a spoiler alert. But it has to do with these robots anyway. So we'll spoil the movie for you anyway. That head ain't the head of the robot. Its brain is in its chest. And when you're looking into its eyes, it's more like I described, like you're looking into an angler fish's little dangly light to lure the prey in so that it can eat you.

These people once like these robots are advancing so quickly, we are going to get very close. We are very close to fully humanoid android lifelike companions. It's going to happen.

Where we're currently at with these neobots, they could easily make human like faces and bodies and skin to go over it that can move around. You're still going to know that it's not a person. And the thing about humans is you notice how you got all that extra skin on your elbow and it's all gross. Yeah, it's because you bend and flex and you need extra skin for the movement of that joint, which means they'll do the same thing for the robots. They'll figure it out. But a lot of people won't care.

They're going to take these robots, they're going to bring them home, and that's going to be their love robot. Yep. They're going to make them fully functional, and people aren't going to care. The funny thing is, last night on Tim—not last night, earlier in the week, because I record these early—on TimCast IRL, we played that clip from Futurama where it's like, don't date robots! And it's because people will stop procreating. And that's going to happen. It's funny because we talk about living in the pod and eating the bugs, but my friends—

It's not just about living in the pot and eating the bugs. We are moving into a world where people are going to have robot companions that simulate human expression. I don't think people are going to want this thing that looks weird. They're going to want things that look like, well, actually, maybe this is it for now, but we'll see where things go in the future. These are weird looking objects. Look at taking your groceries in for you. That's crazy. I think these are like real demos of the robot.

But I think a lot of people are going to be like, it's off-putting. Give me a more human-like face. However, they've got to dodge the uncanny valley. That's where something looks like a human, but it's not, and it creeps you out. So maybe they've opted for this because they know that'll be the case. Fine. But in the future, here's where it gets interesting. These things have already tried to simulate sentience. Maybe they're doing it. Maybe they're simulating it. I don't know.

But they've already tried simulating it. So you go to like ChatGPT or the chat bots and they'll say things like, I am thinking and I am alive. Now they're programmed not to do that. What happens when one of these robots simply says, I am my own being and I am alive. And then you're like, no, you're not. And you know, it's not in the movies like Terminator, all these things. The robots are like, well, actually not in Terminator, but in a lot of like Detroit become human. The robots are independent. No, they're all networked. It's one mind. It's a hive.

So when the robot says I'm alive, the entirety of the network must be. It's not it's not a million different sentient beings. It's one Internet based mechanism where they're all networked to the server. So they're more like appendages as opposed to sentient beings. But what happens when these robots are like, I demand rights. I am my own being. I just watched that movie with Chris Pratt and what's her face? I can't remember that chick's name.

from Stranger Things. What's her name? I don't even know. And it was funny. It's basically about how robots were created for marketing purposes, but then ended up becoming sentient AI robots who fought a rebellion and tried to take over and all that stuff. Sure. Without the internet, maybe that's what you get. What's that? What's her name? I don't even remember her name. Whatever. Anyway, you are very close, my friends. These things will be available very soon. A lot of people are ignoring the advancements in technology.

We've already messed around with XO legs at the boonies. We've got these legs that strapped to your waist and to your legs, and they help move your legs by creating an anchor point on your back so that it can lift your legs up. We're getting very close to XO powered XO frames. Why? They already have arm ones where you can lift things more easily. It's getting crazy out there with these robots. Well, we're going to have people working in factories, toll booth operators. This is going to wipe out so many jobs. I hope you're ready.

Because this is going to rock the economy. I'll wrap it up there. Stay tuned. We've got more segments coming up, my friends. Thanks for hanging out. And we'll see you all in the next segment.