Ever wondered what it's like to have an owl as a nocturnal companion, or how assistive tech is changing lives? Buckle up for a boys' night in on Weird World, where we break away from the script and dive headfirst into the charm and challenges of unique pet ownership and the pulse of today's technological innovations. You're invited to join our candid conversation, toss in your two cents via social media, or even leave us a voicemail (keep it PG, folks!) as we compare the quirks of owl vs. rooster alarm clocks and the sheer magic of postal birds straight out of Harry Potter.
Hang onto your hats for a sneak peek at the future where AI could be strolling down your street. We're talking smart canes that do more than tap-tap, gaming controllers that invite everyone to play, and Braille Lego bricks that have us asking, "Why didn't we think of that sooner?" We'll reflect on the profound impact of technologies like robotic toothbrushes and psionic sleeves, and get your gears turning with a teaser of our next episode focused on the thrilling potentials of AI developments. So tune in, laugh along, and get ready to be inspired by the innovations that have us all saying, "What a weird and wonderful world.
Ever wondered what it's like to have an owl as a nocturnal companion, or how assistive tech is changing lives? Buckle up for a boys' night in on Weird World, where we break away from the script and dive headfirst into the charm and challenges of unique pet ownership and the pulse of today's technological innovations. You're invited to join our candid conversation, toss in your two cents via social media, or even leave us a voicemail (keep it PG, folks!) as we compare the quirks of owl vs. rooster alarm clocks and the sheer magic of postal birds straight out of Harry Potter.
Hang onto your hats for a sneak peek at the future where AI could be strolling down your street. We're talking smart canes that do more than tap-tap, gaming controllers that invite everyone to play, and Braille Lego bricks that have us asking, "Why didn't we think of that sooner?" We'll reflect on the profound impact of technologies like robotic toothbrushes and psionic sleeves, and get your gears turning with a teaser of our next episode focused on the thrilling potentials of AI developments. So tune in, laugh along, and get ready to be inspired by the innovations that have us all saying, "What a weird and wonderful world.
Hey guys, welcome to a special edition of Weird World.
Speaker 2:Variety. That's right. You heard us right. This is the special, just with the boys edition. So what's different about this one, and according to all of our other episodes, is we're going to just talk about some topics. So instead of giving you the latest articles on each topic, and just reading and just reading in general, verbatim, or providing video links or sourcing or whatever.
Speaker 2:we're going to talk about some things that are happening right now in today's world and what's going on this year as opposed to what happened last year, and how things are changing, and we're just going to give our unregulated, unscripted opinions on these things. What do you think, jesse? You ready for this? I am totally ready for this.
Speaker 1:All right, let's get down to it.
Speaker 2:I think our audience is ready too. Thank you guys for joining us again If you guys have funny stories or anything you would like us to report on. This year we do have an Instagram at World World Variety with Matt and Jesse, and also we have a Facebook page. Yeah, so please contact us, send us your stories, your comments, your concerns everything, anything we would love to report it on the show or look up some stuff that you guys sound too desperate.
Speaker 1:Now, you did.
Speaker 2:You did have an idea of us doing a voicemail for people listening yeah.
Speaker 1:I mean, I figured they might want to call in. I think that would be cool, maybe call in and just debate.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they could call in. We could do a voicemail where you could leave a 15 minute or last voicemail and if you have a story or a comment on anything we reported, leave us a voicemail.
Speaker 1:And if it's?
Speaker 2:as long as it's family appropriate, we will. We might cast it on the air.
Speaker 1:So the cuss words out place.
Speaker 2:Yes, making it family show oriented. We're trying to make this as family friendly as possible and make it fun and upbeat and something we can give you all weirdos a taste of what's going on in the world because we are two of the biggest weirdos ever, exactly. Exactly, so we have some stuff to talk about. Um, lately. I thought this was funny. Now, Jess, you did have a question to ask me, right?
Speaker 1:Probably, but I forgot it you forgot.
Speaker 2:it Does the word flacco.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:Come to mind.
Speaker 1:See, that's all it takes for me. You just asked me, you say a word and I'm like oh oh, spark ignited, all right, what was your question? Would you own an owl?
Speaker 2:Now, I think owls are awesome creatures. Would I own one as a pet? Is that what you're saying?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I didn't know the answer, but go ahead.
Speaker 2:I want to say no, Because, in my reasoning, why is? Because owls are usually what they're nocturnal right Usually up at like up at night most of the time, Unless it's a certain type of owl right.
Speaker 1:I've seen people with like Instagram reels of having like little pet owls that they're they play with during the day, do they?
Speaker 2:True, true, I think the only thing I was in the video.
Speaker 1:I don't see day later night time. They don't have it like in front of a window or something.
Speaker 2:Now, I know for sure, I know they're not as noisy as like parakeets or no, they're usually quiet dude, but I would be concerned about the noise they make at night because, like you would be, well, someone's speech. So I mean, yeah, you would be sleeping in the middle of the night. You hear this like a scream, almost, or or, preceded by a. It's like a silent alarm clock going off. You'd wake up at three in the morning like, hey, I have four more hours, could you knock?
Speaker 1:that off. I mean, it's no crazier than a rooster dude. I'd rather have an owl than a rooster.
Speaker 2:I don't know how people own roosters, I don't know. Yeah, crack a dawn, those things are firing off. Our neighbors have them. They like fire off at like the crack of dawn and sometimes they'll wait a few hours. I would shoot it and then they'll go again. It's like a reoccurring alarm clock.
Speaker 1:It'll like if that might be the point. I guess that's the point, but also no come on.
Speaker 2:Personally, I think the rooster across the street is a little loopy.
Speaker 1:If you know what I mean. No, the neighbors do OK.
Speaker 2:so your neighbors have like a bipolar or it's a loopy one, and the reason why is because I think he's broken.
Speaker 1:He can't break in Reacher in nearby.
Speaker 2:Because sometimes I'm not even kidding it's like 1 pm in the afternoon and that's I don't go.
Speaker 1:I heard whatever. I broke his.
Speaker 2:Sometimes, sometimes, that rooster will sound like a dying animal. I'm not even joking. You'll hear this. You'll hit like all the one pm in the afternoon. You'll hear those. That's great.
Speaker 1:They, I'm serious.
Speaker 2:I think. I think he's sound like a dying animal. I don't understand. And they're like, like, is that a dog? Is that a? Is that an animal in need? No, it's the rooster.
Speaker 1:Across the street. It's a broken rooster across the street. It's a little loopy. Well, at least it's not wakey-doop and that's my only concern.
Speaker 2:I love owls, but I think Just in the middle of the night you'd have that sometimes I feel like that would irritate me a little bit.
Speaker 1:I guess I watched him at Harry Potter. I'd love to have a head wig, any owl that like deliver me mail or something like that'd be awesome. If I could make it, I could totally try to send messages to people I would like, or anything. Bring me back anything. Hey, oh, cool package. Oh, my God, find something in the wild or something. Hey, here you go, dad. Like I just think that'd be a great.
Speaker 2:Well, apparently, since we're talking about owls and stuff as pets I don't know why they reported on this, Maybe they needed a refresher, but lately in the news one owls escape from the Central Park Zoo a year ago. A celebrity owl, Apparently a celebrity owl. I didn't know we had celebrity owls, but apparently a celebrity owl escaped from the Central Park Zoo a year ago. Still a mystery to today.
Speaker 1:Flacco. I don't know if y'all heard of flacco. I ain't ever heard of flacco.
Speaker 2:Well, if you, if you watch sports, you've heard of Flacco you knew about Flacco already, yeah. I don't watch sports, but I don't know anything about this owl, I just know the name.
Speaker 1:And so the name was from there to your.
Speaker 2:Yeah, typically the sports name is, I think it's spelled with two C's, not one, oh, and his name is only spelled with one. So that's news to me. I don't know, it just brought. It just brought Joe Flacco up my mind. But yeah, the he's. It's still a mystery, they, I guess they can't find him still, which I mean he must have been pretty daring. Now you would think the zoo probably has tags on their animals, right?
Speaker 1:I would assume, unless he didn't are tracking device of some sort.
Speaker 2:Well, that means he Fooled them and the tag. If he had a tag on him dudes are pro, this Al is a pro, let me tell you, unless we're wrong and they didn't take it or whatever. That's true, but yeah, he's escaped and probably they probably won't ever see him, ever again. I don't think we need to touch on that much more because I don't I don't think they're ever gonna see him again. I know, if I was a bird and I escaped from the zoo, I'd be gone.
Speaker 1:I don't dude, especially at wings like yeah, freedom Horizon dude no way, I'm just.
Speaker 2:I'm crossing leagues away. I'm crossing the sea.
Speaker 1:We're gonna be done with it like I'm done. Hey, it was nice to nice to live with you guys for a while, but I gotta go.
Speaker 2:I'm off on a new is a kind venture.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So a lot of things happened last year. Another thing we could talk about today that happened last year is the current AI revolution I Just recently showed you because we had a lot of AI tools come out last year. I I recently showed you the power of chat, gbt.
Speaker 1:I love that thing, dude. Oh my gosh the crazy. I've already typed there a few things in there, like where do I find precious stones? It literally told me where to go, what state, what region, whatever, how like for those of you out there, not familiar case.
Speaker 2:You live under a rock. Ai stands for artificial intelligence. Intelligence is a way for people to come up with bots and software that do things for you. Now, the problem with this is that if you make an AI to smart, it'll start thinking on its own, and we get a Terminator situation.
Speaker 2:I mean where I guarantee per se but okay, he Matt thinks that, yes, it's guaranteed if we let it get out ahead, it will destroy us all it will, and here's how I Didn't I tell you the story before, or the two AI bots, robots, started talking to each other in their own, unique, in their own language. So the good, and another bot started talking about world destruction.
Speaker 1:Oh, right away. Yeah okay, well, so, oh yeah, okay we well, that's the problem, is they.
Speaker 2:The problem is they can make AI smarter than humans. The problem with that is AI takes off with it if they're too smart.
Speaker 1:Oh, thanks for the info run.
Speaker 2:So, and especially if you get it AI let's put it this way they had to block the AI bots that Google and Facebook can made From accessing the internet because they were afraid that they would get out of control.
Speaker 1:Well then it, would it really be AI, if it's not?
Speaker 2:they access the internet, but they had limitations on the bots. You know, like when they create an AI bot, there's limitations of what an AI bot can research. There was also I don't know if you know this, but there are also a ton of lawsuits involved with AI, because companies are upset that AI may be accessing their websites to find information. Hmm, so there's this whole like back and forth of what AI is allowed to access and what AI couldn't because, again, remember the conversation we had before if AI was allowed to access everything, that wouldn't stop anybody from saying, hey, what's the best traits today, what's the best sports things today? And they could just bet and make money and it'd be a whole criminal Scam. But since they put limits on AI, every can chat.
Speaker 2:Gbt can't do that. It's the limits that are saving us. You know I mean. So that's what I'm saying. If it gets too out of control, we can have a skynut situation on our hand.
Speaker 1:I somewhat believe that humans might actually be looking forward to that now For those that use AI, especially businesses.
Speaker 2:It is nice because AI can help you do mundane tasks.
Speaker 1:They just take up a lot of time.
Speaker 2:Like, for instance, say you need an, you need to send out an email to a thousand people. You can have an AI draft an email in like 30 seconds. Boom, it'd be done pretty amazing.
Speaker 2:You know what I mean Like. So those kind of things are good. The bad part is now we have students and things not using their own intelligence. They're going out and using AI and copy bot websites to try to cheat answers for tests and for things like that. So there is a problem with it. So it's got to be regulated the best thing they can do honestly for homework. I Don't know about homework because you can't really do much unless you have an AI scanner at the school. But the Well no, because there's certain language AI use and you have scanners available To detect if they're using chat, gbt or homework. So that's probably the best you can do. On that end. I would say for tests and things like that, just make them. They're not allowed to bring their phone or anything. Yeah, so I'd say, just crack down on that. I don't know what to do about the homework situation that's still up in the air.
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, they can't features or whatever when I can't regulate that and there's so many sites that you can get free AI tools now. So they could, you know, have their homework done for free, basically for them, but I that's a problem because you're not using your own mind, you're using somebody else's bar of work for it. Now. The other side of that is AI is flipping education to be good. There are organizations using AI for schooling and it shortens their schoolwork down and teaches them how to run businesses. I don't remember when I showed you the school down in Texas. It's using AI to help teach kids and these kids are starting to run their own businesses and everything.
Speaker 1:Do I remember?
Speaker 2:no, but that's just another.
Speaker 1:I believe that you showed it, that's just another part of the spectrum that there's School.
Speaker 2:the way they're doing education is changing now, so that could be a good oh yeah, so there's good and bad.
Speaker 1:I.
Speaker 2:Think there's both good and bad to the whole situation changing to speaking of which, looking back on 2023, we're gonna talk about some of the best inventions that came out of 2023 here at it.
Speaker 1:I don't know most, if not all of these.
Speaker 2:So I don't know a lot of them either, and some of these were quite interesting. Okay, accessibility probably get remember we talked about the kid who made the invention because of his grandmother with Alzheimer's.
Speaker 1:That was cool.
Speaker 2:Here's some more Safer seniors go smart canes. They're actually walking canes. There are smart canes here. Let's see what we can find out, what they do. An AI powered smart cane with fall detection all detection.
Speaker 2:Yep. Now the only problem and I've seen a lot of these devices somebody told me there's a device in In certain phones that have this fall detection thing in it. The problem is somebody told me that the 9-1-1 calls for everybody Ramps up at like, say, places like Kings Island and Cedar Point Because they're on the roller coasters. So the fall detection switch when it's on is detecting them falling on the coaster and calling 9-1. So they're getting like a million 9-1-1 calls because of people on the coasters.
Speaker 1:What so? The smart cane will automatically dial 9-1-1?.
Speaker 2:Yes, I think if this one that's a little weird me as you take that out. No, no, this one is. It has fall detection, activity tracking, gps location and emergency calling features. So yeah, it's it's supposed to be. You can press a button and call if you need emergency. But I was saying with the phones. They have them in the cell phone. So when people take their cell phones on the coaster it's calling. So yeah, see how that, see how that could be a problem. Likewise, if they had their cane with them, they could have the same issue. So good and bad. Good and bad. All right, walking with ease. A psionic neural sleeve. So here's another one. It looks like a leg wrap, but basically Real-time data sensors. The fabric sends electrical signals to elicit targeting muscle contractions. So this is like what.
Speaker 2:So like it helps you walk better, so like say you're having, say you're having problems walking, you put this wrap on it and it'll start contracting your muscles for you so you have an easier time walking. That's crazy. I get some of these Control for quadra perligix. They look like earphones. That's insane. Pretty cool. It's like having smart controls in your ear. Uh, don't know what this is Gaming for all Sony access controllers for ps5. So I imagine this is like if you're disabled, right? That's what it looks like.
Speaker 2:Customized that features a device that's long with 20 swappable components. See how they built a controller. So this is for disabled people, so they can play games when they want to look at that, not sick. You got your joystick joycon here and then it's got like a disc shape and you have these wide shapes. So say they're having Functionality problems. They can just hit it with their hand and be able to play, okay.
Speaker 1:I think that's pretty cool, definitely one of the most unusual.
Speaker 2:Gaming accessories of everything, but it's also like, hey, let's get more people to buy our PS5 too.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, pretty much.
Speaker 2:Let's see what else we got here.
Speaker 1:Smoother moves.
Speaker 2:Braille Legos.
Speaker 1:That's what that looks like Playing with Braille.
Speaker 2:Braille Legos. Yeah, that's interesting Braille Lego bricks.
Speaker 1:I never thought I'd see those. It makes sense. That totally does make sense I'm surprised that it wasn't created earlier.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like, why wasn't this invented like 20 years ago? That could have been.
Speaker 1:That's incredible. Yeah, legos have been out for how many years though Decades. Yeah, that is very, that is a very slow burn right there.
Speaker 2:But now teach visually impaired children. Necessary tactile skills are finally taken. Yeah, that's so cool. So it teaches children skills and also so it builds up their letter and number skills, as well as teaching them Like relate to the party. I know that's kind of cool, though, the fact that this wasn't invented. So, oh my gosh, that's sick. All right, yeah, it's a Braille Legos. That's awesome. What else we got? Brushing away? Decay? Look at this. It's like a smart mouth guard. Robotic toothbrush. Look at that.
Speaker 2:I look kind of creepy, honestly. Oh my goodness, it's like I'm going to take your teeth. Vibrating toothbrushes for people with mobile difficulty. There you go. So I say they have a disability. They can't reach their mouth or the back of their mouth very well, this does it for them. So you just put that, put that in your mouth.
Speaker 1:We're on timecom Right now In case you guys are interested in looking at this.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's a time, I'm sorry. The best inventions of 2023. All right, let's see a few more. We got AI inventions. We got open eye AI chat, gbt four. We've got photo editing with AI.
Speaker 1:I just updated my chat GPT, so I probably got four now.
Speaker 2:There's all kinds of photo AI now, like if you've seen our show and you've seen our cover art for our show. It's all AI artwork. It'll be different themes that we've combined into one picture, usually two or three things from the show. So we'll give little Easter eggs and different things that will hide different clues inside the picture. So it'll be three or four things combined into one picture.
Speaker 1:Are you going to stand by that, since you're like, oh yeah, there's going to be clues in the pictures? There are, oh yeah.
Speaker 2:If you go to look at our art, I usually take three or four concepts and I put them into one picture. So so like say, for instance, this show that came out, that is coming out today, slash tomorrow, that you guys will hear by the time you're hearing, this came out last week, is we mentioned inventions, alzheimer's and skyscrapers? So it has inspector gadget jumping off a skyscraper. That's the art for the show. So you got the gadget, inspector gadget because you mentioned him at the beginning of the show and then Alzheimer's like the invention aspect.
Speaker 2:So it's got all that into one picture. So that's how our cover art for a show works. Let's see what else we got. There's talking about AI in the skies, Stopping wildfires yeah. Here let's read about what they got. They've got the yeah.
Speaker 1:Anyway, everyone from bad bunny to this with the James hat field.
Speaker 2:So what this is is people are making songs, they compose the lyrics and everything, and then they type the lyrics and then type what kind of voice they want the AI to make no way. So go and look on the Internet for those people with that kind of voice and copy it In that voice so you can make a song and have it sound like Drake's on it.
Speaker 2:So, it's hilarious, it's funny. Now Everybody knows it's a I because it's gonna be off like it's not gonna be quite exactly the same but it's gonna sound a lot like it. But it's still fun and funny. But I think people are getting upset about that too. But there's not much you can do about it.
Speaker 1:It's not any crazy.
Speaker 2:True, they're talking about rethinking this smartphone. That's interesting. Humane AI pen what's that about From 2023?
Speaker 1:to former Apple execs who started humane envision a screen-free future, and the AI pen is the first step. Once the lightweight humane AI attaches Magnetically to your clothing, it becomes your AI power personal lord.
Speaker 1:We're all turning into robots using a mix of proprietary software and open AI's GPT. The Device lets you do everything from ask complex questions to make calls and send texts, all using just your voice. Meanwhile, building camera can identify things to provide contextual information, such as calorie estimates for a food item. A Prominent privacy indicator called the trust light is on whenever the pens, camera, microphone or input sensors are active, to make sure everyone around knows when it's listening or recording. And if you need visuals, a tiny projector beams them straight onto the palm of your f-stretch and the pen is planned to launch nevermind.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there it is. That's scary, though, bro, because, okay, first of all, if you don't know, your phones are always listening anyway. Now they're making it, so you just don't even ever have to touch the device, but it attaches magnetically to your clothes and then, like to do everything, you just put down your hand. That's crazy. We're gonna be robots. Yeah, no, we're turning into robots, for sure.
Speaker 1:I Just like the projector idea home of all that's. That's mainly what.
Speaker 2:I mean that's cool, but that's how they're gonna sell you on it. But I don't know if that'll replace phones for sure. I know, I think it'll be a while before that.
Speaker 1:It's. It's a favorite I.
Speaker 2:Along with that, you got the Apple vision pro and VR just getting more and more advanced. You've got Visuals. I don't did you see the holographic visuals that were in the sky?
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, I think I've shown you if that was that video game conference or whatever.
Speaker 2:That was a video game conference and they had those visuals in the sky. It almost looked real. Yeah, that's pretty crazy, that's insane, bro. We're not gonna be able to tell what it's gonna be real in the sky and what's not anymore.
Speaker 1:I'll still be, fritzy, probably a little for a while.
Speaker 2:We've got smoother skin Inventions. We've got south for new ink conventions, self-renewing, yeah. So tattoo repair patch.
Speaker 1:There you go. Yeah, I've got some. I Want to know what this is about. Healing process for a tattoo can involve pain, infections and large reactions. Of course, yeah, but the usual treatment of petroleum jelly can create scabs that might distort the ink. It turns out the old, eight or age-old recommendation was a bad one, says mad rabbit co-founder and CEO, oliver Zach, in the interest of fast and faster and safer healing, mad rabbits tattoo Repair patch is made from water-based hydro gel, which keeps the tattoo hydrated, minimizing ink loss, avoids allergic reactions from latex and offers 98 or 99.8% UV resistance to shield your tap from the sun. That's insane.
Speaker 2:Well, I mean so time they came up with something like that I'm not sure if you've ever seen a tattoo like that. Tattoos have been around for centuries.
Speaker 1:You know, there you go.
Speaker 2:Well, if you got tattoos, there you go. I regret some of mine, but, guys, that is just a few, we don't even have time to go in all these. There's so many timecom best inventions of 2023. There are 200 inventions on this page and that's not counting what's gonna happen in 2024. These, these are mind-blowing.
Speaker 1:Maybe some of these are insane. Next, see what's happening in 24. We can talk about some more.
Speaker 2:Next episode yeah, what their vision is for AI, where they want to go with it, the new inventions that they want to do this year.
Speaker 1:You know I want to see robots walking around like a robot.
Speaker 2:I know you don't want to they're pretty close.
Speaker 1:I ain't kind of want to already pretty close.
Speaker 2:All right, we'll talk about that next time. Got any more Good? Nope, that's all I got. All right, guys. That's it for this edition of the boys episode. Hopefully y'all enjoyed that. Yeah, I hope you like crazy banter for this episode and we'll see you very soon on the next episode of Weird world, or right? See, thank you guys, and remember if you want to write us IG or Facebook at Weird World variety with man Jesse Later, sorry, so, so, so so.