Michael Heat: Ok
Lauren Goode: All right. Actually not. But last autumn I went to a party for Worldcoin, which is the second company of Altman itself. It was a super strange Vibey Crypto Eye Scanning in a warehouse in the missionary district in San Francisco.
Michael Heat: Ball?
Lauren Goode: This event had everything. Yes. But there was a Swag and there was a really nice sweatshirt, which was decorative on it, and I looked at the label and it is a company called Original Favorites, so I ordered one. So I have a sweatshirt Sam Altman Worldcoin without a global logo. I show you this now.
Michael Heat: Yes. That’s what you wear.
Lauren Goode: And I love this sweatshirt. It is like in the 90s, when you bought sweatshirts and they were so rugged and tough that they almost felt like a cardboard box?
Michael Heat: Yes.
Lauren Goode: Like sweatshirts of a good elderly master, do you know what I mean?
Michael Heat: Yes.
Lauren Goode: This feeling. And you would wash it a hundred times and it would still be … it is.
Michael Heat: It looks great.
Lauren Goode: Thank you.
Michael Heat: Congratulations.
Lauren Goode: Mike, what is your recommendation?
Michael Heat: Oh, God. I intend to recommend a stand-up comedy for our time.
Lauren Goode: Do it.
Michael Heat: This is a modern special Stand-up Marc Maron, which is on HBO. He appeared about a week ago. It’s called Panned And this is quite good. In particular, I recommend this because there is a fantastic riff, just like in the middle, the whole about the observational service of the application, which is an application that people utilize to track fires and have become very popular in Los Angeles at the beginning of 2025, when La was devastated by all fires. Well, Marc tells a story about how he was watching the duty and could not understand the notifications in the application, and did not know if he should evacuate, so he caught all his cats and evacuated and simply did not have to. And this is a really humorous long story, but it is also very good. The whole thing is very good. If you know the comedy of Maron Maron, you will know that it is very gloomy, and the special one becomes very gloomy, especially in the second half, but I can recommend it. If you know him and like him, you will love it.
Lauren Goode: Adding it to the watch list.
Michael Heat: Great.
Lauren Goode: Adding it to watch. Our guy, Boone Ashworth, who produced this program for us, wrote a story story about service this year.
Michael Heat: He did. He did.
Lauren Goode: We will attach it in notes.
Michael Heat: Yes.
Lauren Goode: And Mike, you never leave us again, right? Never again holidays for you?
Michael Heat: Never.
Lauren Goode: Thank goodness.
Michael Heat: I will sit behind the microphone until the end of the time.
Lauren Goode: The best chatbot is.
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