736 - Work Will Set Your TV (5/30/23)

I sometimes wonder if Obama has plenty of self awareness and does this stuff as a bit

Bill Crotts

they should watch the Factory documentary the chines just roast the American worker the whole time.

Robert Falco

Honestly I could see the elites replacing robots with slaves if only because their is a distinct (non-pun intended) human element that is missing from the AI Utopia, namely the unbelievable high that comes from dominating another human being which no doubt they will come to crave. Otherwise, I think they will just end up cannibalizing themselves in their Elysium since for their to be "winners" there has to be "losers" and if all the losers are dead than the title of winner ceases to have meaning--you need people to point at.

Kevin

Niceeeeee

Gummo?

MKatieUltra

You can hear Matt crack a Bang energy drink at 7:20 in a futile attempt to cure his mental ailment

Ben

I thought American Factory was pretty good but also sort of frustratingly agnostic

aKg

Don’t knock my assisted suicide plan- it’s waaay cheaper than retirement

James Aydelotte

Inspired by Terkel? Obama can eat a bag of dicks.

James Aydelotte

You talkin bout prof?!?!

Tony Bonacci

sinner!!

Natasha Art

A straw in a Budweiser for a bedridden person is some Harmony Korine shit lol, right up there with the boy eating spaghetti in a dirty bath tub.

MKatieUltra

Very true, Mr. Buttface.

Smooth Shrek

he is so gross

Eon Gattignolo

I fucking hate Obama so much

Ben

Where is psycho-sonic!?!?!?

Alex Berkowitz

correct. it's awesome.

And they're doing gods work

JN

way the future--way of the FUTURE way of the FUTURE

carl

Tony Scott's "Biederman on Fire"

Tommy

We're basically paying these guys to watch TV/movies and then regurgitate content to us for sustenance like a mother bird.

buttface

Felix on fire

John Carter

one of my comfort episodes

etienne

LOL - Obama’s creating content for today’s young people, thank god!

Jed Levin

I will laugh until I die at Hillary saying "So Amy Schumer, I just heard about your AMAZING battle with endometriosis!"

Michael S. Judge

I'd buy that for a holodollar

Christopher E Musgrave

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bong rip transplant

Also another job that was born during the Obama presidency: PODCASTING. So….

Zach Pierce

Will… “alf” ?

Visit my Metaverse World and watch Secret Alf Milking Videos

C. Andrew

I would cut my own foot off to see Obama, and The Puerto Rican Rattlesnake together.

Marcus

I am kind of surprised they didn't touch on this weird thing where Obama brings people food in like every episode. There is an incredibly long and boring montage where Obungler brings these office ladies lunch in these sad looking styrofoam clamshells. And the clocks on the wall shows it's like after 2 pm. Here's the President bringing you your sweaty lunch at 2! It's fucking weird.

Davis Guggenheim also directed several eps of Deadwood, so it’s complicated. Tho he also put the Edge in It Might Get Loud, so idk maybe you’re right

snafujesus

Chris with the best joke of the episode 👑

Joseph McConnell

obama is so fucking boring, why would you ever talk about him?

Ross Moore

So you don't want to see the Seinfeld 9/11 episode?

M.R. Alchemist

The best podcast would be Obama interviewing Will, Matt, and Felix about their jobs.

John Harwood

At the Austin TrueAnon live show they made a joke about Chapo only doing movie eps

T S

Godammit I Love When Chris chimes in!!!!

cashedtrapezoid

If you showed the AI-extended Mona Lisa image to Leonard da Vinci, I bet he would have loved it. But he was from medieval times, so he would have also been impressed by the dancing baby from Ally McBeal.

Tommy

Obama produced it but with documentaries that really doesn’t imply creative control

Meadow Green

They also seem to imply that Obama made it when that’s not true lol. He did have like an interview thing with them tho

Jack Arens

Obama saying "I'm in the future" is so goddamn funny to me

Jones Kolbinsky

15 years later and Choom is still funny

what_an_answer

mise en scène, everything that exists within a piece of art was put there for a reason and has a purpose, this is what AI art is killing, same for paintings and for those video game things they’re rolling out where every character can converse with you endlessly.

Thomas Stevens

Driving trucks, the Mona Lisa, and AI are all what I assume Mona Lisa Overdrive is about.

Tommy

It's risky to make fun of Obama because he's such a nothing, which is worse - or at least less interesting - than evil. It's like MST3K trying to lampoon Manos: The Hands of Fate: if I recall correctly, after an unusual stretch of silence from the seats, one finally commented, "I give up."

SJ

Naw American Factory is cool, the filmmaker said “workers of the world unite” at the Oscars. Impossibly based move.

Meadow Green

Have you ever considered that driving trucks and the Mona Lisa are both overrated

C. Ries

Duh, pretty sure they made a movie about it. Pretty boring movie

did you know that there's a bunch of extra shit in Mona that didn't make it to the painting because it was boring as fuck? tmyk

etienne

Man, Felix has so much energy when it's time to shit on the Obungler, you love to see it

LeZero

Accurate, yet irrelevant

not an op just a fag

Next time on Chapo, are Art History nerds an op?

Shut up nerd

birdo

It’s sinner, man!

Rohmer Simpson

Is Will aware there is a crazy panoramic backdrop to the Mona Lisa already? The techniques used to create it are part of what made the Mona Lisa so popular in the first place. The Mona Lisa is actually a lot more than just the portrait.

shadow government lockdown

catsjvk

did u guys move to LA so you can sit in your houses and watch tv all day?

Matty yglesias

From the store

Bob Johnson

I'm not getting Patreon notifications for Chapo anymore. Wha'happined?

Zack Burke

This episode reminds me Felix’s commentary on respecting Hilary’s people more than Obama’s because hers were at least true believers. Don’t think anyone in human history has been as self obsessed and unaware of themselves like Obama in here

Tim Mullen

Documentaries are Obama's version of Bush's watercolours.

Diokles

Lol but there will be a liability cap when your self aware AI driving software does the whole spy games scene

NYCM&AHole

Goddamn that’s awful.

NYCM&AHole

Oh yeah the way the nursing home industry works now is, you sell a nursing home, the buyer cuts the budget and makes things worse for everyone in it, then sells it to another guy who does the same thing, lather rinse repeat forever. Pure fucking evil

Doug Cartel

it is really funny that all of Obama's underlings were shouting that Trump was The New Fascism and literally a month before Trump's inauguration Obama was passing laws that lifted restrictions on who Special Forces teams could target etc "Uhh yeah he sounds like trouble, anyways navy SEALs can now tie liberals to the hoods of their cars"

Doug Cartel

"these poor managers get beaten up by their employees every single day. truly the noblest profession"

Doug Cartel

I adjust fatality auto accident claims and I’m ready for the day humans don’t drive as much or at all. I’ll find something else to do if it means no more pictures of dead kids and crying mothers holding blue tarps in the road

SlowTrickle

jesus christ, we already have a technology that can be automated and electrified way easier than trucks on highways but we're just gonna let the actual real world train network fritter away into dust and try to put lithium batteries on road trucks that use LLM models on lidar cameras. they say it a lot on Trashfuture, but the only thing we can try is the impossible, right?

etienne

Have they heard of fucking trains?

William

These art extensions are the exact same logic behind the Disney Star Wars extended universe- “where did Han Solo get his boots”?

William

Yes, but also fuck BJG

Sparky

According to Ralph Nader, in an interview with Briahna joy Gray some months ago, self driving cars and trucks cannot be made safe for driving with other cars, or in bad weather conditions. But corporate America really wants the reduced labor costs of shipping without human drivers, so it seems obvious to me they're gonna try to get human drivers removed from major highways.

Josh Bobst