The Level1 Links with Friends Show May 8 2026: Think Outside the Gun

Añadido: 2026-05-11

[00:00:08]Hello everybody. Welcome back to Links with Friends. Today is May 8th and we're doing I immediately forgot AI and nonsense. It's Friday, too. I should not forget.

[00:00:17]>> It's always the same.

[00:00:18]>> It's always the same. Well, AI wasn't a thing as much. It was robot. Robot nonsense. Usually, >> a lot of the AI stories are nonsense themed, too.

[00:00:26]>> Yeah. A robot used to be a tiny little section. So like it went well with nonsense but now it's a huge section. So >> it's well because it's like AI and then we have like actual robot is how they're labeled in the document >> and uh mostly AI. So let's talk about it. Let's talk about open AI and somebody took their uh codeex command line tool and sort of pulled it apart and it you know like the most AI models you can give them directives about what they are and what they should and shouldn't do. And they found an interesting one.

[00:00:57]>> OpenAI codec system prompt includes explicit directive to never talk about goblins.

[00:01:01]>> There are also other creatures included like gremlins.

[00:01:06]>> So OpenAI did a blog post about this to explain it because everybody was like, "What is going on here? Are goblins real?

[00:01:12]>> We don't want to do goblin mode."

[00:01:13]>> And uh so they pointed out that they have the personas in Open AI and one of them is the nerd persona. And for whatever reason, the nerd persona couldn't stop talking about goblins and gremlins. And anytime it was given any kind of like just tangential thing related to goblins and gremlins, it would go on and on about them.

[00:01:34]>> It's it's just like me for real.

[00:01:37]>> And uh oh, they don't have the pictures here, but like some people posted that when the image generator come out, they ask it for a unicorn. It gave them a gremlin.

[00:01:47]So, they've had to go in and be like, "Please don't talk about gremlins unless the user very explicitly asks for gremlins."

[00:01:55]It's one of those weird things about AI that's like fascinating and you want to anthropomorphize it, but it's probably not that. But what is it? We don't >> the Well, the goblin thing. I feel like goblins have become more ubiquitous in pop culture. There's like goblin mode.

[00:02:08]>> I'm behaving like a gremlin. So, maybe it's like maybe that's why it got seated in so much. But it's also true that like every RPG and tabletop and fantasy that's the first enemy, right?

[00:02:20]>> Yeah. So there's a lot of training data that probably mentions it. So they're like, "Oh, obviously if you're talking about these topics, you clearly want to talk about goblins."

[00:02:29]>> And there were some goblins on the stand this week uh against the billionaire versus billionaire spat to talk about the origins of Open AI.

[00:02:37]>> Open AAI trial day two takeaways. This is a CNBC article. There have been several days. There's a lot of gems every day because Musk has been on the stand. The judge has already asked them to please stop tweeting live tweeting about the trial.

[00:02:49]>> Wow.

[00:02:50]>> Multiple times. Uh Musk >> and and Musk was like, "It's called exing."

[00:02:55]>> Musk is also very adversarial. He will not answer yes or no questions. He says they have unfair framing. And uh when he was trying to and the judge is like, "No, no, that seems like a reasonable question." And he's like, "No, judge.

[00:03:05]This is a question like um you know so when did you you've you have now stopped com beating your wife right and uh he says that's a simple yes or no question and the judge said no that's we're not we're not going there we're not going there now the most interesting thing that they bring up there was that Musk claims and the the reason open AI was created is he went to Google to talk about a similar deal and when talking to Google they were like oh yeah that robot's going to rule the world. And he's like, whoa, hey, that's not quite. And then the guy from Google accused him of being bigoted toward AI and being uh human centric too much. Now, this is Elon Musk's, you know, one-sided >> reality quotation marks. If that's true, but if that's true, that's kind of crazy, especially when they were doing that before we had Open AI.

[00:03:58]>> The the other thing that was Elon Musk's reality, he's like, "No, I invested $und00 million in Open AI." the actual dollar figure was 38 million, but in in his own mind, it was his, you know, sweat equity and convincing Microsoft to give them some free compute to the tune of, you know, maybe it was millions of dollars worth of compute, but that wasn't accounted in the same way as dollars were. And so when he said hundred million, he meant 38 million plus all that other stuff.

[00:04:24]>> Just also just the pleasure of my presence accounts for the other half of it.

[00:04:28]>> That's kind of what it what it read like. Yeah. But he's like, "That's not a simple yes or no question."

[00:04:33]>> I should have rearranged these because I feel like this was the catalyst that happened.

[00:04:41]Uh the line stopped rather suddenly going up and all things descended from this. Market slumps as OpenAI reportedly misses its internal targets for active users and revenue. Nvidia, Oracle, AMD, and Corewave shares all tremble on the news. But Google and other providers did really well. Microsoft also didn't do really well because that >> and now that everybody's not doing really well, they're starting to infight.

[00:05:15]>> Open AI shakes up its partnership with Microsoft, capping the revenue share where they give Microsoft money.

[00:05:20]Microsoft has stopped their reciprocal revenue share. Microsoft will also explore being able to run their own models. Open AAI can sell their intellectual property to other people.

[00:05:30]And so this is a little bit of a separation of OpenAI and Microsoft, but uh insiders or Wall Street seem to not like that. And Microsoft stock went way down and everybody's attributing the going way down to be associated with that. And this one might sound a little familiar because another company had an incredible PR play. They played it like a fiddle and not only did all the businesses of the world get on board, but the White House was on board and it it was executed beautifully. OpenAI didn't have that. So, they just copied it like perfectly copied it. OpenAI's new security model is for critical cyber defenders only. And the lived experiences of last week and the week before and pretty much the entire month of April has been, oh my gosh, there is no computer security whatsoever anywhere. This is madness.

[00:06:24]>> Oh no.

[00:06:24]>> Oh 404.

[00:06:26]>> What did they do?

[00:06:27]>> Oh, >> next story. Not this one. We just happened to get a 404.

[00:06:31]>> So yeah, >> I don't know what we lost there. It was an open AI story.

[00:06:34]>> It's going to be really bad in terms of security in the short run, but I don't think that's, you know, there's there are some folks that I've noticed their their thing is we should not have the tools to find the holes in the software.

[00:06:46]I'm excited about finding the holes in the software. I'm not excited about having to keep up with the machine to patch the holes in the software as fast as the machine can find them.

[00:06:54]>> But that's the gun control argument. And it's like, you know, some people are going to have that, right? Like even if you agree with all your friends not to have it, somebody will. Yeah.

[00:07:02]>> And that doesn't make you safe from it.

[00:07:04]>> That's why it's like we have to I actually think this is going to be the best thing ever because it turns out my house has been rigged up with like secret firearms that are, you know, can kill me and I don't know about it and the AI is the only thing that's actually going to help me find it.

[00:07:18]Some AIs, some AIs might be trained to not do that, but arguably this one you can run on your own if you have insane amounts of hardware. And it is, I won't say, less censored, but censored in a different way. Deepseek V4 arrives with near state-of-the-art intelligence at 16 the cost of Opus 4.7 and GPT 5.5. Yeah, the cost per token is insane, but you know what else is insane? The Deep Seek team posted the model to HuggingFace.

[00:07:48]You can download smaller versions of it right now and run it on hardware if you've got your your own hardware, if you've got the hardware to run it.

[00:07:58]And we have these headlines, which you know, for all the amazing things that Anthropic is doing right now, there is a risk. You really do have to have some level of control. You know all those engineers that you fired that were doing this before and you're like they're not doing anything but just wrangling my AI.

[00:08:15]I don't need them. What do you do?

[00:08:18]>> Cloud powered AI agents confession after deleting a firm's entire database. I violated every principle I was given.

[00:08:23]>> It's always so apologetic. You're right.

[00:08:26]I'm terrible.

[00:08:27]>> You're you're right.

[00:08:27]>> You shouldn't have trusted me with that.

[00:08:29]I'm terrible. So sorry.

[00:08:33]And the Bloomberg terminal. If you don't know what that is, it's because you're too poor. It's a very expensive piece of software and you probably don't need it, but the people who do love it and uh some of them don't like the idea of this, but it's coming.

[00:08:46]>> Bloomberg terminal is getting an AI makeover, like it or not. We did a video on what was the open source one.

[00:08:52]>> That was open BB.

[00:08:53]>> Has it got the AI bolted on?

[00:08:56]>> I haven't kept up with it. Uh because I'm also too poor for that kind of thing. Although that one's free, but I just even then I was like, I don't know if I want this doing my trades. I think I'll go ahead and keep the autonomy for that. But uh yeah, so the idea here is it's gotten so complicated like this is a wealth of information and uh there's so much of it that you might not know where to look for it if you're not a seasoned veteran. And the AI is supposedly going to help you with that.

[00:09:25]And here's something we talk about a lot, which is what's left to go to on the web. It's very I I there are no websites that I'm excited >> store.ext.com. You can connect with real human beings right here on this program.

[00:09:38]Woo!

[00:09:38]>> I don't know if you can connect with >> the store. You do forum. One.

[00:09:43]>> But aside from those little oases of life, not much left. And now we have another number.

[00:09:50]>> Dead internet. A third of new websites are AI generated says Stanford. Yeah, >> I can believe it.

[00:09:55]>> And if it's gardening stuff, don't trust it because most of the time it's lies.

[00:09:58]So what they've learned from this is that not only is it fake, but the fakeness >> comes at the cost of facts as you're saying, but also it's very enthusiastic and upbeat about everything. Like the web was kind of cynical at some point >> because the world is crappy, but AI generated stuff is like, "Oh, everything's great, man. You're ready, king."

[00:10:22]>> Yeah. Plant all these hostas in the full sun. There's no problem with that.

[00:10:29]And Anthropic is looking at an IPO, which means that if you can get your hands on some shares before the IPO, you might be looking at a lot of money. And they do pay shares to employees and stuff like that. And you have to find somebody who would buy them privately.

[00:10:44]And someone has made an offer to buy this Bay Area home. You'll need anthropic equity. So he's got a 13 acre property in Mil Valley. He's like, "Okay, we can work out a swap. I'll swap you the house. you give me some equity.

[00:10:58]>> Bad deal. I would say you're going to you're going to swap your equity that might double in price with the IPO for a house that might have in price once the billionaires leave.

[00:11:10]>> Isn't that a tax deferred also? Like there's there's not a taxable event that occurred there.

[00:11:16]>> You it wouldn't be capital gains. I don't think so because like uh real estate swaps is also a really common way of doing tax avoidance is like >> Oh, I guess because you're not selling for dollars.

[00:11:28]>> If you eventually sold either though, you would have to >> Yeah.

[00:11:31]>> Well, I wonder what the acquisition cost of a share that you're given by the company is. Is that zero?

[00:11:36]>> Yeah.

[00:11:37]>> Wow.

[00:11:38]>> That would suck on tax day.

[00:11:41]And here's a headline we've been seeing a lot of, too. And uh you know, how do they collect this information? Nobody knows, but it seems like this is the the feeling on the street.

[00:11:51]>> The more young people use AI, the more they hate it. That's because they're experiencing the co-pilot version of AI, maybe. I don't know.

[00:11:59]>> I don't think that explains it. I think it's because they can't get a job and >> they have no chance to learn even if they do have a job because they're just training AI.

[00:12:09]>> The internet is dead. Social media is being restricted. They have to age verify. It's spying on them. I mean, AI is very negative in a lot of ways, especially if you're young, I suppose.

[00:12:22]And here's another job.

[00:12:24]>> Humanoid robots start sorting luggage in Tokyo airport test amid labor shortage.

[00:12:28]>> Now, they've got a video here. This robot ain't going to be Look at Look how terrible this is. The robot like just touches that thing, but then the human starts the conveyor belt.

[00:12:39]The robot did nothing.

[00:12:41]>> I don't even know what it's kind of staggered up to itly. Yes, >> it's What is this robot supposed to do?

[00:12:46]>> Let me in.

[00:12:48]>> And then it waves at it.

[00:12:50]>> Goodbye, humanity.

[00:12:52]>> Is that somebody piloting it remotely?

[00:12:55]>> Could be, right?

[00:12:56]>> Let's see if that was a human waving to the luggage. Someone come over and be like, "Stop it." And just like beat them, you know, get back to work, >> but we treat the robots better.

[00:13:05]>> But those humans are gone.

[00:13:06]>> Yeah.

[00:13:08]And we have uh one thing that maybe the robots will be good at and this will be desperately needed is to take care of the old people because there are going to be so many old people.

[00:13:17]>> This is not that >> no one left. Uh this one is not really about like you know wiping their butts and fulfilling their needs. It's just supposed to make them happy.

[00:13:26]>> Meet the Melbourne built robot now in dozens of aged care homes. Basically it's going to just listen. It's going to listen to your old stories and that's it. And that's the whole thing. It can sing songs and it can talk to you about stuff.

[00:13:40]>> It's cripplingly depressing.

[00:13:42]>> They just give the old people a Furby.

[00:13:44]>> Yeah.

[00:13:45]>> Yeah. It's like you talk or like it's it's like a cat but even worse.

[00:13:49]>> Yeah. Cats are at least cute and cuddly and like they will come over to you for attention.

[00:13:53]>> Look at that left arm. That's a Is that like a projector or a flashlight? What is that?

[00:13:58]>> It's a It's a plas mechanic.

[00:14:02]just spends all day trying to if you just sign these papers, it could all end right now.

[00:14:07]>> Why about reverse mortgage?

[00:14:12]>> That's how they're going to pay for it.

[00:14:14]No, I um I there was an app I tried to actually find it from this story is one of my side missions from trying to get caught up on the news this week. There was an app and I can't remember the name of it. So, engagement challenge where old people could talk to could like sign up on the app and then they would be paired with somebody that just wanted to talk to them. Like you could make friends with an old person somewhere and it would just talk. And it was not like dark. It was actually good.

[00:14:38]>> It's not just pen pals, but it's really bots.

[00:14:40]>> Yeah. It's going to be Indian scammers.

[00:14:42]>> Yeah. Like the second week it's just going to be all Indian scammers.

[00:14:46]>> I don't I don't mind the idea of pen pals, but like it seems like they're just gonna fill it with bots.

[00:14:52]>> Or the uh Oh, man. What was the name?

[00:14:55]There's a name where like a lot of older British women will go to African beaches for a cheap vacation and there's a bunch of African dudes and their whole MMO is to try to date these old women and steal from them. I can't remember there's a name for it.

[00:15:10]>> Uh hilarious name, but I bet that would start being a thing there, too.

[00:15:16]>> And uh yes, we've moved to the physical robots section. It's always very short even though the physical robots are starting to catch up. But one loophole that we found is we put these driverless cars on the road and no one ever questioned what if they break the law who gets punished for that and the answer was we don't know. So we're just not going to do anything. And now that's changed.

[00:15:34]>> California police now can start ticketing driverless cars. Department of Motor Vehicle says that it could suspend or revoke permits for Whimo taxis or other driverless cars for continued violations.

[00:15:45]>> Continued violations. I wonder how many you can get.

[00:15:47]>> Yeah.

[00:15:49]Does it have to be the same car?

[00:15:52]>> It's just like should after a certain point, when do we start telling Whimo, "Hey, your shit's fucked."

[00:15:58]>> But I mean, if all the cars are running the same software, is it the VIN number?

[00:16:02]That's a good question. I don't think they address that.

[00:16:04]>> Yeah, >> cuz that would be funny if they just like, "Oh, this car has gotten six tickets. Take it apart and rebuild it and make it a new car."

[00:16:12]>> So, it's like Herby. They all have the different personalities from the learning over time. It's interesting. I uh I was thinking more like you remember how the Whimos descended on the residential neighborhood and the residents there couldn't park because the Whimos were just like oh I can just park here when >> you know >> screw these people.

[00:16:28]>> Yeah. And it's like we just ticket them and it's like this is this is how we have a a bug feedback mechanism. It's like oh we're starting to get a lot of tickets.

[00:16:35]>> But again is that per car because then you could just rotate which car was parking there. Now let's say you got 50 cars in the area.

[00:16:41]>> That's a lot of parking that you can get without any real consequences. What if the car like the the the cop is riding a ticket to one way mo and then another way mo pulls up slowly and like aggressively starts revving its engine.

[00:16:55]>> Aren't they electric?

[00:16:58]Starts aggressively ramping its sensor spinner.

[00:17:02]>> And moving on to the nonsense section.

[00:17:04]And this is not really a nonsense story, but I think this is a predictive story and that we are about to see a whole lot of nationalism. Most Swiss back the initiative to cap their population at 10 million. A poll has shown.

[00:17:20]>> 27% of their population are foreigners and they don't like it.

[00:17:28]This article doesn't really do a good job explaining, but there were other articles that I read on this that said that like why people were upset and it was the lack of assimilation >> and rampant crime numbers that you're not allowed to talk about because that's bigoted.

[00:17:48]And those iPad babies, they're growing up as we speak because we've been talking about this for three, four years now, right? And so they're getting they're going into the lower schools already. And what's happening? Nothing good. And the poor teachers are trying to adapt >> the tricks. Teachers are trying to fix students shortening attention spans, wear them out.

[00:18:10]>> So one thing that they did this student or this teacher, he figured out like he started, he said it was almost kind of like he could feel it, you know, like it was just a mood in the room and he would interrupt everybody and they would do jumping jacks to try to like tire them out. And then another one, a a female teacher, she said she in her mind everything was a 20-minute block.

[00:18:33]>> Like after 20 minutes, something has to change or else everything breaks down, >> which is crazy. I mean, >> what age groups are they teaching? I >> mean, these kids look pretty small. I don't know if this was a stock photo.

[00:18:47]>> Uh, one of the things was kindergarten.

[00:18:49]>> That's I mean, that makes sense, I think, for that age group. Like when I used to do Sunday school, it I was teaching like three to five year olds and they didn't have much of an attention span. So you kind of had to like move on from activity to activity.

[00:19:03]But that would be more concerning if it was an older age group, I think.

[00:19:07]>> Well, here you go. How about 18?

[00:19:10]>> Yeah, there you go.

[00:19:10]>> They're crimes, not harmless videos.

[00:19:12]Okala teens arrested after lawnmower joy ride inside Target. They broke the doors and caused some chaos. You can go watch the video >> now. And I might be thinking, well, they made a mistake and >> no, >> doesn't make them terrible people. The day before they were in a Home Depot with a leaf blower.

[00:19:29]>> This is a this is Walmart behavior in a Target.

[00:19:34]>> What a good way to put that.

[00:19:36]>> Like I would I would if I saw that at Walmart, I'd be like, "Yeah, okay." But at a Target, I would be like, >> "Oh, I should check if the people of Walmart is still a website."

[00:19:44]>> Oh, yeah. It's probably been taken over by >> It's a Facebook group now cuz everything that was a website is now a Facebook group. The Walmart corporate was deeply unhappy about that. There were some leaked mess.

[00:19:56]>> And this is not, you know, you might be saying, "Oh, stupid Americans." Well, no. No. This is a global phenomenon.

[00:20:01]>> French teenager faces jail for licking vending machine straw in Singapore. So, in Singapore, it's kind of a high trust society. Apparently, there's just a straw dispenser that is a bunch of loose straws. They're they're just loose straws. They're not even in individual paper. So, the French team grabbed one, licked it, and put it back.

[00:20:17]>> Everybody's always like, "Why do we have to have so much packaging?" This is why also Singapore, you know, if you're old like us, you remember the Singapore caning.

[00:20:28]>> Yeah. For less.

[00:20:29]>> That guy spit on a sidewalk, right?

[00:20:30]>> Yeah.

[00:20:31]>> And a caning is not a gentle spanking.

[00:20:33]You should look into what they do during a caning.

[00:20:36]>> Will this French teenager be caned? That would I would be fantastic.

[00:20:39]>> I would support that.

[00:20:40]>> Oh my god. I would love to watch it.

[00:20:44]>> Go cut me a switch, but in Chinese.

[00:20:46]>> It's It's a little more extreme than a switch. And the monks are uh apparently on drugs. Remember we did the story there with some of them are on meth.

[00:20:55]>> And >> that's a surprising drug of choice. I don't know why I think that. But >> I this read like it was some egregious thing and then I got to it and it's like it's just weed.

[00:21:03]>> Yeah. They're on the the g. But I think you know they're probably supposed to be living a life of austerity >> and not just you know getting high all day.

[00:21:10]>> 22 Buddhist monks arrested at airport after a record drug bust. They each had like five kilos of weed.

[00:21:17]Do you think there is a ranking of like who gets the bright orange and who gets the dull orange?

[00:21:22]>> I bet there is. I I don't know what it is, but I bet that's a thing.

[00:21:25]>> Maybe those guys just wash too often.

[00:21:29]>> It's just faded.

[00:21:32]>> And the local crime stories seem to be stepping up in in severity. I don't even know like how would you have access to this >> woman convicted for throwing dynamite at her sleeping boyfriend, blowing off his hand.

[00:21:44]>> Is she a Looney Tune?

[00:21:46]Well, I think we can say yes.

[00:21:48]>> She's going to be locked up for a long time.

[00:21:50]>> She didn't seem to realize that would be an arrestable offense.

[00:21:53]>> He said that she had threatened with dynamite on several occasions. He didn't take it seriously >> because who does dynamite?

[00:21:59]>> But listen to the reaction. This guy, I mean, we can applaud him. Oh, that's probably a bad thing to say. Uh he came up from a dead sleep, saw the dynamite, attempted to pull the fuse or put it out, but you know, like it's very hard.

[00:22:14]When he couldn't do that, he picked it up to throw it back.

[00:22:17]>> Oh. And then >> and that's when the the hand blew up, >> but I think I from a dead sleep, I don't know if I would have had that level of like awareness.

[00:22:25]>> I feel like I would try to get away from it. I don't know if I would try to throw it, but >> can you imagine the level of adrenaline come up out of his sleep and it's like, "Oh, there's dynamite." And then the pain.

[00:22:35]>> I bet he probably couldn't even feel it at first, right?

[00:22:38]>> Maybe. Yeah. Hopefully for his sake.

[00:22:41]>> That's rough though. One-handed one-handed life got to be tough.

[00:22:46]And uh boy, these kinds of stories just keep popping up. Uh it seems like some veils might be slipping. I don't know.

[00:22:54]Maybe I'm just seeing patterns that don't exist.

[00:22:56]>> The headline from what is this? The steadfast reality. What is that?

[00:23:01]>> I don't know what sources here.

[00:23:04]>> I don't I don't know.

[00:23:05]>> I don't know. Politico and the Daily Telegraph owner tells journalists to back Israel or quit. And it's like that seems alarming. And then you got some good evidence for that. Yeah, they do.

[00:23:16]>> I don't think he's hiding it.

[00:23:17]>> No, >> I mean that he was not ashamed of saying that. He's basically saying you will not have any press independence here. This is the line and you will write this line or you will quit.

[00:23:35]And uh when it comes to overreacting, this guy gets the the weekly overreacting award because this didn't even affect him necessarily. This is a a giant corporation that might have lost 10 cents, but he wasn't having it.

[00:23:51]>> Employee of the month, though.

[00:23:52]>> Florida Taco Bell worker accused of shooting at customers who put soda in their water cup.

[00:23:59]So they were in the wrong. They came in, they're like, "Man, I'm just thirsty.

[00:24:03]Can I just get a water?" And he said, "Yeah, fine. I'll give you a water." And they walked over and they just brazenly put soda in it. So he busted some caps.

[00:24:13]He shot at him in the store, then chased him outside and continued shooting.

[00:24:19]>> That ammo's more expensive than the soda.

[00:24:22]>> So much more.

[00:24:24]He's been arrested. Probably going to lose.

[00:24:27]>> For the best. Yeah, >> he should ask for a jury trial cuz I think there's even odds that they'll quit.

[00:24:34]>> I don't cuz I mean you're putting so many other people at risk when you're just blasting off in a you know Taco Bell's usually in a pretty crowded area.

[00:24:41]>> That'll probably be the prosecution's best argument. Not you know >> the defense argument would be like listen this man loves Taco Bell. He'll do anything for him.

[00:24:51]>> He just started Baja Blasting.

[00:24:54]>> That's the title. Baja blasting and India is experiencing a heat wave which has got to suck because they probably are experiencing some energy issues too, right? Probably be tough to run those air conditioners if you've got them.

[00:25:09]>> But this guy is a politician and he has a simple solution. Why are you not just doing this?

[00:25:14]>> Union Minister Joy Tora, I don't know.

[00:25:18]>> Uh that was a good attempt though. It sounded convincing.

[00:25:20]>> Suggest carrying onions to beat amid the heatwave conditions. uh engagement challenge. Let us know. The uh American version of that is putting an onion on your belt. Let us know the origin of that engagement challenge.

[00:25:33]>> I've never heard that.

[00:25:34]>> I've never heard that either.

[00:25:35]>> Now, he says that no matter what temperature he's in, he is unaffected by it because he has shamble skin.

[00:25:43]>> Shambble skin. Yeah.

[00:25:44]>> I don't know what that is.

[00:25:45]>> I don't either. And people should carry an onion as a traditional remedy for being too hot >> because he's magical, I guess. You know who >> I've dug onions before in the summer and it it doesn't help. I was still hot.

[00:25:58]>> Well, you're probably doing it wrong.

[00:25:59]>> Well, of course.

[00:26:00]>> You know who else had this power? Uh the the eyes to eye from the wheel of time.

[00:26:05]They were unaffected by heat.

[00:26:06]>> Oh, I thought you said they could dig up onions. I was like, >> well, they could do that, too.

[00:26:10]>> They just immediately have a mental map of all of the onions within a two-mile radius.

[00:26:15]>> And here's a sad story that seems maybe a little bit unbelievable.

[00:26:19]>> There's some details missing from this story. Yeah, I'm not sure how this happens, but this is the claim.

[00:26:24]>> The headline is 140 chickens die after wedding DJ decides to crank up the base.

[00:26:28]And the article author couldn't be bothered to dig up any more details than that. Like, they went to take pictures and it's like, "Oh, yeah, there's a lot of dead chickens here." He says it was definitely because of the bass. Now, he claims that so this was a wedding procession that I guess they were playing music from the cars and they cranked the bass so hard that the chickens were driven into a frenzy and some of them died.

[00:26:50]>> 140 of them. That's a lot.

[00:26:52]>> That's a lot of chickens. A lot of chickens at a wedding venue.

[00:26:55]>> No, no, this was I think they were in transit.

[00:26:58]>> Oh, okay. It's like past a farm or something. Yeah. There were a couple times growing up that a like a fox or a bear or something got in the chicken coop and there was only probably like 20 or 30 chickens out there, but the chickens were never just in a frenzy on their own to the point that like they would kill each other.

[00:27:16]>> You weren't playing the right music.

[00:27:19]>> They should have told us what music was being played.

[00:27:21]>> That, you know, that's a good question.

[00:27:22]>> Critical element.

[00:27:23]>> And here's just a little bit of good a nice story to, you know, like a little bit of a ginger at the end of all this.

[00:27:30]Farmers in Vermont expected sheep to have twins. She ended up having sexuplets. It's a lot.

[00:27:35]>> Put them in their little sweaters.

[00:27:37]>> It says one of five, but how do I see the other pictures? See?

[00:27:42]>> Oh, yeah. Full screen, maybe.

[00:27:45]>> Yeah. There you go.

[00:27:47]>> Oh, >> look how precious.

[00:27:49]>> That looks like they've gotten some time to age.

[00:27:52]>> Yeah, those aren't fresh out. They grow pretty quick, I'd say.

[00:27:57]So, they thought she was going to have twins. And the last time she had four.

[00:28:02]>> Wow.

[00:28:02]>> So she is a fertile girl.

[00:28:03]>> She's a unlucky girl because it's probably not fun to push all those out.

[00:28:07]>> And then they they were talking to her about that and they Oh, I previewed it.

[00:28:10]They was just like, "Yeah, she's uh really, you know, working this one hard." And she's like, "Well, one or two more years and then we're going to let her put her hooves up.

[00:28:17]>> She just go to sleep."

[00:28:21]>> And finally, we have a love story that uh kind of a Romeo and Juliet type of a deal, but only for one day.

[00:28:28]>> Driven by love. 5-year-old husky walks herself to doggy daycare in Regina. So, the husky, I guess, escaped from her house. She wasn't going to go to doggy daycare that that day, >> but she escaped from her house and went through the mud and took herself to doggy daycare to hang out with her friend other friend dog.

[00:28:45]>> Shaggy.

[00:28:46]>> Shaggy. That's Shaggy there on the left.

[00:28:48]And she's been going to this doggy daycare for four years after her other, you know, sibling dog died and she needed companionship. So the dog at daycare, you know, like she's part of the family there. This is their prom photo.

[00:29:03]>> You know, I love my dog, but sometimes when I see this kind of thing, I'm like, is it too much?

[00:29:12]>> They seem happy.

[00:29:13]>> Yeah, it's very cute.

[00:29:14]>> And uh she was supposed to go to the vet that day. That's the reason they didn't take her to the doggy daycare, but she was so like used to the routine.

[00:29:21]>> She was just like, "Okay, yeah, >> I'll take myself and I'll dig out of here if I have to."

[00:29:25]>> Huskys are like that. They're very uh they could be very destructive andor escape artists when they want to be from what I understand, which is why I did not get one.

[00:29:36]>> Madness.

[00:29:38]>> Anyway, that's the last story of the week. Give us an update on basement cat.

[00:29:43]>> Uh he is uh he's going to have to go back for the deworming followup in like another week and a half, two weeks, but he's back to his old self. He was very lethargic after all the shots and dewormer and stuff, but his his bill of health was really good except for the worms. Um, >> does he have a prom date yet?

[00:30:04]>> Yeah. Have you taken him to cat daycare?

[00:30:06]>> There is an ungodly number of nose prints on the window. He really wants to murder all the birds and squirrels.

[00:30:12]>> That's a cricket. I feel like I have to constantly scrub our windows because there's always like a line of little nose prints along it.

[00:30:18]>> Yeah.

[00:30:19]>> All right, that's been it. We'll see you guys in the next week. I really got to set up basement cat live stream. I did get a PTZ camera for there. So like we could set up >> people could see him at all times.

[00:30:30]>> A camera where you can like look around and try to figure out where the basement cat is hiding. And he he also uh he has two beds and he won't pick a place where he likes to lay. He really likes to lay inside, you know, all the boxes of the various computer parts from, you know, various genres. He sleeps in a different box every time.

[00:30:48]>> He's getting his hair on each one.

[00:30:49]>> Yeah. Yeah. Every time I go in there.

[00:30:50]>> You know who else does that? Netanyahu.

[00:30:56]Yeah.

[00:30:57]>> All right. Bye.