Michael Heat: Ok.
Lauren Goode: All right. Actually no. But last autumn I went to an event for Worldcoin, which is the other company of Sam Altman. It was a super strange thing of scan of Vibey eyes in a warehouse in the Mission District of San Francisco.
Michael Heat: The sphere?
Lauren Goode: This party had everything. Yes. But there was a swag there and there was a really beautiful sweatshirt that had blazoned the world on it, and I looked at the label and is from a company called Original Favorites, and so I ordered one. So I have the Sam Altman Worldcoin sweatshirt without the world logo. I’m showing it now.
Michael Heat: Yes. This is what you wear.
Lauren Goode: And I love this sweatshirt. It’s like in the 90s when you bought sweatshirts and were so difficult and difficult, they felt almost like cardboard?
Michael Heat: YES.
Lauren Goode: Like good sweatshirts old champions, do you know what I mean?
Michael Heat: YES.
Lauren Goode: That feeling. And wash it one hundred times and would still have that … that’s this.
Michael Heat: It seems fabulous.
Lauren Goode: Thank you.
Michael Heat: Congratulations.
Lauren Goode: Mike, what is your recommendation?
Michael Heat: Oh, God. I will recommend a stand-up comedy for our times.
Lauren Goode: Foul.
Michael Heat: It is the new special Marc Maron Stand-Up that is on HBO. He came out a week ago or down. Is called Panic And it’s quite good. In particular, I am recommending it because there is a fantastic riff, as in the middle, a bit on the Watch Duty app, which is the app that people use to trace fires and have become very popular in Los Angeles at the beginning of 2025 when Los Angeles was devastated by all fires. Well, Marc tells the story of how he had seen the duty and he could not understand notifications in the app, and he did not know whether he should have evacuated or not, so he grabbed all his cats and evacuated and absolutely did not need it. And it’s this long really fun story, but it is also very good. The whole thing is very good. If you are familiar with Marc Maron’s comedy, you will know that it is very dark and this special becomes very dark, in particular in the second half, but I can recommend it highly. If you know and like it, you will love it.
Lauren Goode: Adding it to the control list.
Michael Heat: Great.
Lauren Goode: Adding it to duty. Our boyfriend, Boone Ashworth, who produced this show for us, this year wrote a story of a film about the duty on guard.
Michael Heat: He did it. He did it.
Lauren Goode: So we will include it in the notes of the show.
Michael Heat: YES.
Lauren Goode: And Mike, you will never leave us again, right? No more holidays for you ever?
Michael Heat: Never never.
Lauren Goode: That’s better.
Michael Heat: I will sit here behind the microphone until the end of the time.
Lauren Goode: The best chatbot is there.
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