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Back to Elon Musk's robots that are coming for us all, that are definitely going to replace.
This is like the annoying shit you have to see when you're in group, when you're in co-worker groups.
I don't mean like co-worker group chats, but like whole Facebook groups for your co-workers.
These are the kind of memes you see of, yeah, like the Elon Tesla bot and some dipshit posting.
Hey, nice knowing some of you.
Yep.
And it's going to be sick.
They're just going to paint that whole robot the same color as the UPS truck.
It's going to look so sick.
Yeah, and for the people who work inside, it'll be like a sleeveless and one t-shirt, some basketball shorts.
Some basketball shorts under the basketball shorts.
Oh, this is the warehouse model.
Yes, it does come with the tactical.
That is...
That is...
It's functional.
It's functional.
Tool is already playing in its earpieces.
We have preloaded this robot with every five finger death punch song.
I was talking to the guy at the golf course today.
He's like, what comedians did you listen to?
I was like, I listen to a lot of stuff.
He listened to Raging Against the Machine.
I was like, Raging Against the Machine is good.
They're cool.
I like them.
I listen to a lot of stuff.
And he's like, alright.
And I said I liked Raging Against the Machine.
And he wanted to pivot.
So he changed the song mid-song.
And he was like, everybody likes Sublime though.
And then press play on Sublime.
And I was like, what a downgrade.
I didn't feel like doing it.
Very important.
What Sublime song was it?
You know, it was like a deep cut.
I couldn't tell you the title of it.
But you just had the stink of it on it.
It was like the extra ska stuff.
So fast?
Was it a fast song?
No, no.
It was more like reggae-ish ska.
Not great stuff.
But it was funny because I was like, yeah, yeah.
I was like, yeah, man.
I grew up in the IE2. Of course I have a fondness for sublime.
Southern California, baby.
Was it...
Lord knows I'm weak.
Won't somebody get me off of this reef?
That was that one.
I just forgot.
No, it wasn't.
Or what's the one that he does with Gwen Stefani?
Underneath Your Bed or some shit like that?
He has a song, Gwen Stefani?
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
OG. Back when she was just from No Doubt.
Orange County Long Beach crossover, baby.
Yeah.
So cool.
OC Face with LBC Booty.
That's what I'm talking about.
Yeah.
Okay, what were we talking about?
Oh yeah, the warehouse models of Tesla bots that are going to replace this thing.
Like, yeah, okay, we'll get into it.
So I'm just going to read here from Gizmodo.
People probably saw videos of this already.
This story is a week or two old, but it was just too fun to not talk about.
I'm going to read from Gizmodo here.
Elon Musk's beer pouring Optimus robots are not autonomous.
The robots were interacting with guests at Tesla's big cyber cab event in Thursday in LA.
And so this can only really be described as like a bunch of, let's say, a middle school, mentally middle school aged men in 22 year old bodies while wearing lanyards.
Talking to Denny's or drive through voice box and imagining that it was Zardon on the other side of it.
Yeah.
It's fucking fantastic.
We're going to watch some of these videos.
You'll hear the audio at least.
Pretty incredible how embarrassing it must have been for these people once they actually started interacting with...
Because there's some people who I guess still don't know that there's not a robot inside it.
There's mechanical gears, apparently.
This thing could walk...
Without human assistance there to hold it up.
But it was fully remote-controlled and remote-voiced.
And apparently, yeah, a lot of these people couldn't even tell that.
At least the ones that are on video.
I'm sure there were...
I don't know.
You gotta imagine 50...
These are tech reporters and tech evangelists.
I know that's a gullible crowd.
And I know that's a crowd that wants to be tricked.
Yeah.
But you still gotta imagine so many of them were like, what the fuck, really?
