How To Prepare For The 3I/ATLAS | ROI Podcast™ ep. 490 | Law Smith @LawSmithWorks & Eric Readinger
What do rogue comets, robot artists, and Trader Joe’s parking lots have in common? They all get the ROI Podcast treatment in episode 490, “How To Prepare For The 3I/ATLAS.” 🎙️ Law Smith (stand-up comedian & business advisor) and Eric Readinger (media producer & Mr. Manager) as they navigate a hilariously wide spectrum of topics in their signature casual-professional candor in this jam-packed 34-minute ride, guaranteed to make you laugh and learn.
🔥 Highlights from this episode:
Preparing for “Alien” Invaders: Law and Eric kick things off pondering if people listening to ROI Podcast ever get déjà vu – have we talked about this before, or are we just crazy? (Don’t worry, you’re not crazy… or are you?) Then it’s on to the literal alien-sounding guest of honor: 3I/ATLAS, a newly discovered interstellar object hurtling through our solar system. The hosts pull up the facts on this cosmic visitor, reading about its bizarre features. Did you know this thing has a dust tail pointing toward the sun (totally backwards for a comet) and zero detected volatile gases? Basically, it’s not acting like any ordinary space rock. Cue Law’s colorful commentary – the dust clinging inward “like a vagina,” he quips, keeping it irreverently real at 24 minutes in. (Yes, he went there. 🙈) By August 5th, scientists expect to confirm if 3I/ATLAS is a comet or something weirder. Naturally, our hosts speculate wildly.
🤖 Conspiracy or Caution? Eric can’t resist a fun little experiment: what happens if they both Google “3I/ATLAS” on the same network? (He “goes incognito,” as if the NSA isn’t listening anyway.) They joke about being on some watchlist for searching this stuff. Eric’s “gotta be conspiracy” side wonders: if search results scream alien spacecraft, is Big Brother priming us? This leads to talk of a controversial Harvard paper by Avi Loeb suggesting 3I/ATLAS might be alien tech in disguise. Law reads a sensational headline (and promptly drags the source as a “trash newspaper”). The article even used the phrase “hostile alien technology,” which sets off our BS detectors. Hostile, really? Eric calls nonsense: “If they try to say it’s hostile, that’s bullshit…whatever they’re doing is trying to manipulate us,” he warns. In other words, don’t go loading your bunker based on clickbait.
Armageddon Ain’t Got Nothin’: Still, the prospect of an Earth-bound object brings out the humor. “Oh, dude, we gotta go Armageddon on this bitch,” Law laughs, riffing on the idea of Bruce Willis and crew saving the day. Eric plays along: if it were on a collision course (it’s not – it won’t get closer than about 1.8 AU, well outside Earth’s danger zone), we’d have until November to plan the mission. They divvy up roles – Law calls dibs on being anything but Bruce Willis (because spoiler: Willis’s character doesn’t make it). Eric volunteers as the big guy in the crew. It’s a miniature improv scene imagining how two Tampa dudes would handle a world-ending asteroid. Spoiler: it involves a lot of gallows humor and probably zero actual preparedness. 😜
AI vs. Jobs – Should We Freak Out? Switching gears from space to the workplace: Law brings up a brand-new Microsoft study that ranks the 40 jobs most at risk from AI and the 40 jobs safest from AI. What did they find? Essentially, if your job can be done by a computer in theory, it’s on the risky list – think translators, writers, customer service reps. If your job needs hands-on human touch, you’re safer – think plumbers, electricians, nurses. As Law neatly sums it up: “Basically…it was like, the more human touch is needed, the more secure it is.” In other words, AI can code or crunch data, but it still struggles to fix a leaky pipe or care for a patient. Your plumber isn’t getting replaced by a robot anytime soon.
Eric guesses correctly that trades and physical jobs rank as “secure.” Law doesn’t read all 80 occupations from the study (you’re welcome), but he gives some examples: dredge operators and bridge tenders are apparently very safe from automation (who knew!), while roles like interpreter or copywriter are blinking red. They joke that dishwashing should be automated by now – “Seems like AI should already be doing that,” Law muses about those restaurant gigs. (Where’s our dishwashing robot, tech people? 🍽️)
Truckers vs. Self-Driving Trucks: The conversation steers into the impact of self-driving vehicles. Law points out a huge hurdle for AI in the real world: truck drivers. The U.S. has around 3 million truckers on the road, and their labor union isn’t exactly cheering for self-driving semis. In fact, it’s actively trying to stop autonomous trucking. “That’s where innovation gets suppressed,” Law remarks, recognizing a classic economic tension. Sure, in theory we could automate long-haul trucking, but what about the humans whose livelihoods are tied up in it? “What would those guys do?” he asks, if AI took the wheel. It’s a real concern – entire communities depend on trucking jobs. (For context, roughly 3.05 million Americans work as truck drivers, and the ripple effects of displacing them could be massive.)
Eric admits he’s personally uneasy about autonomous cars. “I’m not for the self-driving car until everybody has one,” he says, half-joking that a mix of human and robot drivers is a recipe for chaos. Law, on the other hand, is so ready for robotaxis. Why? “God damn, it’s gotten worse out there [on the roads],” he laments. Cue the Tampa traffic rant: Drivers today are hopelessly distracted (thanks, smartphones), traffic light timing is dumb, and nobody seems to care. Law even confesses he’s become that guy – you know, the jerk who zips up the open lane and cuts in at the last second. (He swears it doesn’t actually slow anyone down… and he might have a point.) Eric laughs, “you’ve become the guy you hate,” as Law unabashedly owns it. They bond over the fact that we’re living in possibly the worst era for traffic ever – “absolute worst time in history,” Eric declares, citing all the “stupid, stupid shit” happening on the roads.
So would a fleet of self-driving cars improve things? Maybe – robots don’t text and drive, after all. But we’re not there yet, and the transition will be messy. Law’s takeaway: people (and cities) could already optimize traffic better – but “I don’t think cities give a f**,”* he says bluntly about poor civil engineering coordination. Until Skynet takes the wheel, we’re stuck with human error and human behavior, for better or worse.
The AI “Slop” Era and Human Creativity: Summer 2025 is not only literally hot (more on that in a second) but also culturally heated with a surge of what Law dubs “AI slop.” He means the flood of mediocre, machine-generated content now spreading across the web. (If you’ve noticed a lot of bland blog posts and spammy articles lately, you’re not alone.) In fact, Law cites a Fortune report that over 50% of all internet traffic is now bots. Think about that – more clicks by algorithms than humans! It’s a wild stat that underscores how much content is churned out (and consumed) by machines. No wonder things feel a bit…off online.
This sparks a deep-ish discussion: Can AI churn ever replicate real art or comedy? Eric isn’t convinced. “I don’t see AI developing the emotional response needed for people who become great artists,” he argues. Great art, great comedy – it’s born of human struggle, oddball experiences, unique perspectives. A chatbot that never had a childhood trauma or an awkward first kiss can only mimic so much. “There’s a human touch… I don’t think it’ll ever be reproduced,” Eric says, confidently planting a flag for creative humans everywhere.
Law plays a bit of devil’s advocate, imagining an AI that could write a decent joke. Would that kill comedy? Nah – comedy would just evolve. “Comedy is a moving target,” he explains. It’s always about contrast or conflict in society. If AI starts cranking out formulaic one-liners, human comedians will pivot to humor that robots can’t do – mining the truly genuine or absurd aspects of life. “If AI could write real good jokes…comedy would shift away…and keep moving,” Law says. In other words, as soon as the bots catch up to one style, comedians will find a new edge. The art form itself is slippery and can’t be bottled that easily. (Picture stand-up in the 2030s: maybe it’ll involve roasting the AIs in the room. 🤖🔥)
They also touch on the distinction between design and art: churning out generic graphics vs. creating inspired art. Law notes a lot of current graphic design looks like “dogsh*t” – perhaps due to templated tools and AI helpers. But real art, the stuff people do for “love of the game,” stands apart. Eric draws a line between, say, a graphic designer making logos to pay the bills versus an artist pouring their soul into a canvas. The former might be more automatable (and already being nibbled at by AI), whereas the latter remains deeply human. Bottom line: ROI Podcast is bullish on humans. We might be in an “AI slop” phase, but the cream of human creativity will rise above, and new tech often just forces us to double-down on what makes us uniquely us.
Diet & Life: No All-Or-Nothing, No B.S. Amid the tech talk, this episode serves up some refreshing life advice – the kind that’s grounded, not preachy. Law brings up Vinnie Tortorich, a nutrition guru he’s mentioned dozens of times (to Eric’s apparent amnesia). Vinnie’s philosophy: “No Sugar, No Grains” and a dose of reality. The guy isn’t about fad diets; he’s about sustainability. Law loves this approach because it matches how real people live. He shares Vinnie’s common-sense wisdom: “If you’re gonna have scotch during football on Sunday…go for it. But get back on it the next day.” Enjoy your cheat day or cheat meal, then return to your routine. In other words, moderation over obsession. Eric chuckles, noting it’s not exactly groundbreaking – and that’s the point. It’s obvious, yet so many diets fail because they ignore human nature.
Law continues, “skim milk is bullshit…sugar’s horrendous for you.” They laugh about the lies we were fed growing up (fat makes you fat, margarine is healthy – all the now-debunked 1980s diet dogma). Both hosts admit meal planning is hard (“feel like a real POS that we have to,” Eric sighs), and they struggle with it too. The honesty is refreshing: these aren’t wellness influencers preaching quinoa, but regular guys saying yeah, we eat junk sometimes – we’re working on it.
The convo veers into Trader Joe’s – a beloved grocery store with a cult-like following (and nightmare parking lots). Law and Eric riff on the irony that Trader Joe’s doesn’t let you trade anything. “They only trade for money – that is bullshit, bro!” Eric laughs, proposing a bartering system where you bring homegrown veggies to swap for a frozen filet mignon. It’s a goofy idea that highlights the ROI Podcast vibe: even a supermarket tangent becomes a comedy sketch. They joke about Trader Joe’s friendly staff (a bit too friendly, like those “flair” employees in Office Space). Law humorously confesses hatred for Aldi – “that place sucks my…(you know)” – citing that his kids like it but he’s not sold on the quality or savings. Nothing is off-limits for critique, not even budget grocery chains. 😂
Beneath the jokes, there’s an undercurrent of life optimization: finding healthy food that fits a busy life, budgeting (Eric mentions factoring in gas money just to grocery shop), and recognizing companies that treat employees well (shout-out to Publix and Chick-fil-A’s benefits). It’s real talk, packaged in humor. One minute you’re hearing about expired salad dressing, the next you’re nodding because, yeah, those expiration dates are often arbitrary. “I try to explain to my kids: that date’s just to get you to buy it again,” Law says about the food in their fridge. Perishable items are often labeled overly cautious, while the truly unhealthy processed stuff seems to last until 2032. The guys encourage a bit of skepticism: maybe trust your nose more and the printed date less. (Within reason – they’re not saying eat spoiled food, just don’t throw out perfectly good eggs because they hit an arbitrary number.)
Misinformation and Media Mayhem: A fascinating anecdote pops up when Law mentions “50% of the info available to us is bots.” This segues into a story Eric shares about Karl Rove (political strategist) and an old trick: when Rove anticipated damaging documents would surface about his candidate, he planted fake documents first. Those fakes got debunked, so later when the real evidence emerged, the public dismissed it (“old news, already debunked”). 😲 Sneaky, right? Eric parallels this to recent events like the Nazca alien mummies hoax – a spectacle where supposed ET remains were shown in Mexico, later proven fake. Flood the zone with BS, and people won’t know what’s real. It’s a timely caution in our “post-truth” world. Law brings it back to media literacy: when sensational stories like “hostile alien comet” start trending, keep a critical eye. There’s often someone behind the curtain pulling strings – be it for clicks, money, or influence.
This serious point is delivered ROI-style: wrapped in humor (Game of Thrones zombies? They go there), but it resonates. In a summer filled with wild headlines and “the hottest day ever” news alerts, Law and Eric remind us to stay cool and think. By the way, about that heat – Tampa finally hit 100°F for the first time on record in 135 years. Law was skeptical it officially happened (it did, on July 27, 2025, breaking the old 99° record). So if you needed more proof we’re in strange times… there you go. Climate records broken, AI bots roaming the internet, interstellar comets paying visits – welcome to 2025!
🎙️ In Summary: This episode of ROI Podcast is a wild ride through the big “what ifs” and “oh no’s” of modern life – but it’s anything but doom and gloom. Law Smith and Eric Readinger use comedy as their compass to navigate AI anxieties, cosmic mysteries, and everyday challenges. Their takeaways:
Don’t panic, prepare (and laugh): Whether it’s an alien rock or AI revolution, freaking out is futile. Educate yourself, have a plan, but keep your sense of humor. As Law jokes, sometimes the plan might just be calling Bruce Willis – and that’s okay.
Human creativity > AI: The robots are coming for some jobs, true. But the human spirit isn’t so easily replicated. Empathy, creativity, humor – those are our ace cards. If you’re in a job that uses them, you’re in better shape than you might think. And if you’re not, maybe it’s time to cultivate those human skills for the future.
Moderation beats perfection: In diet and beyond, extreme all-or-nothing mindsets burn out. Enjoy life’s little pleasures (in moderation) and then keep moving forward. Or as Law quotes from his nutrition mentor: have that treat, then get back on it tomorrow. Discipline isn’t about never indulging; it’s about not letting indulgence completely derail you.
Stay skeptical about sensationalism: We live in an era of clickbait and deepfakes. A healthy dose of skepticism – and seeking reputable sources – goes a long way. As this episode shows, asking “who benefits from me believing this?” is always a good practice. Half the internet traffic might be bots, but you don’t have to be one of them. Consume info consciously.
By episode’s end, you’ll feel like you just hung out with two sharp (and slightly irreverent) friends who poked holes in the hype. 🚀 From interstellar mysteries to office politics, ROI Podcast delivers insight with a side of laughter. As Law and Eric gear up for their 500th episode, they’re not slowing down on the hot takes or the humor. So tune in, enjoy the ride, and remember: when life sends a giant comet or AI apocalypse your way, face it with knowledge, wit, and maybe a well-timed joke. 😎👍
Law Smith 0:00
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Eric Readinger 0:10
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Law Smith 0:13
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Law Smith 0:24
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Eric Readinger 0:34
people listen to us and learn like, am I fucking crazy? Or have I heard this before?
Law Smith 0:40
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Eric Readinger 0:43
whole conversation,
Law Smith 0:45
yeah. But I mean, look, you gotta understand most active listening. Passive activity doesn't mean you're 100% gonna memorize everything to talk about. How many episodes we got in 490
Eric Readinger 0:57
is it? Yeah, wow. We got 500 coming up. Yeah, that's why we should do something. And I think we've had that conversation. Also,
Law Smith 1:04
I've got some ideas. I might pay to get a guest I want on, which one, who's gonna I want Vinnie tortorich on, who's a nutrition guy, the no no sugar, no grain Dude, that's like, realistic about health and nutrition, but also, like, you know, grew up a football player in Louisiana. He became
Eric Readinger 1:28
the I've never heard of the guy. So why would we do let's do somebody both know,
Law Smith 1:32
speaking of things we've talked about on the show, I brought him up at least 40 times. He used to go on Adam Carolla, is podcast, like, every two or three weeks. And they would go like, okay, thin crust pizza. And he's like, Look, if you're gonna just Ha, enjoy it for the night, but like, don't make don't make it every
Eric Readinger 1:53
No, you want him to come on until you can be fat.
Law Smith 1:55
No. But he's realistic. It's like, if you're gonna have scotch during football on Sunday. You know, go for it, but get back on it the next day, the next morning, you know,
Eric Readinger 2:07
yeah, I get it doesn't sound too
Law Smith 2:11
groundbreaking. It's not, it's it, that's, that's why he's interesting, because it's, it's, but he also, like, just like everybody else, no, but he'll the other guy, but he, he'll also, he has a documentary called fat. I think that fat doesn't make you fat. That's the big lie we grew up with. You know, skim milk is bullshit. Yeah, sugars horrendous for you. All the processed food we have, I'm going to still eat them like I say it on the show, like I don't eat them, but I eat them on the rag, right? Because it's like, I don't I need to. If it's around, well, most of this shit is around planning meals, which I don't do, I know, and that's difficult for me, just in general.
Eric Readinger 2:52
Yeah, me too. Feel like a real piece of shit that we have
Law Smith 2:56
in this area. We have wild fork, which I really like, because they have, like, kind of Trader Joe's used to be the ship back in the day, they had a bachelor kind of meals that were, like TV dinners, but they were healthy ish, right? I don't know if they still have them, because I refuse to go in that parking lot a lot of the time. Scary. It's fucking cramped all the time because we only have like, one or two in this area. You expect me to believe that? Plus, you know,
Eric Readinger 3:24
when they're offensive,
Law Smith 3:26
it's really not, okay, it's not, it's, it's really, like, pretty cost effective there, okay, if you get, like, the organic, like, like, super granola, you know, hippie shit, right? For sure, yeah, you can spend a lot in there on, like,
Eric Readinger 3:46
for us, we gotta take gas money into, you know, into consideration. Well,
Law Smith 3:52
funny, funny, far away we're bringing up costs to any Well, you can't get it delivered. Otherwise I might. I would probably get it a lot more often, right? But I don't see it on DoorDash, or they're very particular. I know they treat all their employees really well, like Chick fil A good like Publix does a good job with that in general, right? Like, retirement wise, if you stay with them, they'll, they will still kind of like, hook you up. Yeah, we have a comedian friend. I don't know if you know, actually, but he works at one and he's like, I ran into him, like, cutting meat or something, and he's kind of embarrassed. I'm like, No, dude, you're gonna retire, like, in a year, right? And like, be
Eric Readinger 4:34
fine. You know the bullshit part about Trader Joe's though, they the
Law Smith 4:38
hibiscus shirts, they don't sell. They don't actually
Eric Readinger 4:41
allow trades. The only thing they trade for is money. That is bullshit. That's bullshit, bro, like, you should be able to bring your own food. Hey, I'll give you, you know, I grew this. Trade Me for a filet mignon,
Law Smith 4:55
right? I should be able to bring in old food, right? And go, like, Give me something.
Eric Readinger 5:00
In for this, my banter yet. You know, it's not, not food I
Law Smith 5:04
just threw out. I just did a fridge purge yesterday of stuff that was because my kids, I try to explain expiration dates on stuff a lot of the time, is to get you to buy it again, yeah? Like you can't fuck around with no smell it. They're bullshit. Well, they're getting you to buy it quicker a lot of the time. Yeah? And then the stuff that is really bad for you sticks. It'll be like expiration date of 2032
Eric Readinger 5:31
actually throw that one out, yeah? But
Law Smith 5:33
we should be able to bring in my old ranch, yeah, man dressing,
Eric Readinger 5:38
or even your own concoctions.
Law Smith 5:40
Yeah, I can bake them something, and they should take it, and I should at least get a coupon.
Eric Readinger 5:44
Here's some brownies. Give me food. Wait,
Law Smith 5:47
there's there. So Chick fil A is the right kind of nice, I think, like they don't overdo it. I feel like there's something Scientology weird about Trader Joe's employees were there. Were there two? Like, in your zone
Eric Readinger 6:01
trader Jones, but Joe's like, three times, so it didn't pick up on the nuance. It's
Law Smith 6:08
like office space when he's there, there Jennifer Anderson works at that, like, you know, tchotchke kind of restaurant, yeah? And her managers, like, Oh, yeah. It's like, That guy everywhere you Yeah, like too nice, too into it. So fake,
Eric Readinger 6:27
yeah, that's a problem.
Law Smith 6:29
And wipe that
Eric Readinger 6:31
smile off your face.
Law Smith 6:32
But every every trade, I'll say this, fuck Aldi. If anybody has Aldi, I don't know if I think they're getting around the country, but that place sucks my
Eric Readinger 6:42
balls. Yeah, dude, we're all the employees that
Law Smith 6:46
I was talking about this with my kids, because they they like going there, and I'm like, I'll be good food. I don't think it's that much cheaper. I think you'll be savings. I think you think it is because you hear what I'm doing, right? Yes, yeah, I thought you're gonna acknowledge me. I thought you're gonna keep going just acknowledge it. Well, when you get a good one, I'll knock fucking slam baby.
Eric Readinger 7:12
I'll try better next time, thinking, speaking
Law Smith 7:13
of slam dunks, if you're listening in your ear holes right now. Matt Fernandez, our friend of the program, has a new special on YouTube. It's called clownfish. Go check it out. Give a little Like button. Put it on the background. Maybe you don't like him. He looks like Zangief from Straight Street Fighter. So he can look a little scary.
Eric Readinger 7:35
But I never thought of that. He needs Mohawk, though. Yeah, I know
Law Smith 7:39
I tried to do it on stage when he he brought me up on stage every time I did his Wednesday show in Palm Harbor, and just would eviscerate me on the intro and outro. But I thought I loved it. I thought it was funny, yeah. Uh, he's like, this next guy looks like a gay rollerblade teacher. You know, that's good, yeah, stuff like that. That's not even like so good for it the but he has a special out go on YouTube, check it out. He's got one on Amazon as well, if you're a prime baby. And then I will be at Sunshine City comedy club coming up in October, and Clearwater comedy club as well in October, headlining those maybe you'll do a set, huh? Maybe you need to put something on the calendar. And we're kind of talking about this
Unknown Speaker 8:30
the other day at that place.
Eric Readinger 8:33
Panic attack, no, no, no. I'm
Law Smith 8:35
saying you work your way up to that. You got to do a set before a real
Eric Readinger 8:39
show. For sure. I'm gonna do a lot of sets, right, but I'll give
Law Smith 8:44
you some time. You can eat some my time for real. Okay? They're like, how much time do you want to do? And I go, how much is the minimum?
Eric Readinger 8:53
How much that I could get paid?
Law Smith 8:56
I like calling, again, a soft headlining. If it's going well, I'll go the time you need to go, but Right? It's like a weird crowd, touristy, not a lot of people in there, because I'm not drawing, you know, I'll do with hard 38 Yeah, I'll get, I'll get a time, all right, I'm out, or I'll tell they don't do, they do like a shotgun style of shows. So usual shows are host, maybe a opener, but usually host feature
Eric Readinger 9:24
headliner. For some reason, in my mind, I'm thinking a shotgun start in golf, and it's just all four comedians at the same
Law Smith 9:31
time. Oh well, it's shotgun style originate in Boston, from what I understand, but it's basically the whatever comics on stage brings on the next one. And so, like, a showcase show. So they, instead of having that host, feature that time gets allotted to, like, sometimes four people. And so you get a little bit of variety in that. But I like, I'm like, Hey, you guys want to do extra time. I don't care as long, as long as the crowds there for a good 90 minute show. I feel like, 90 minute. Is, like, kind of perfect.
Eric Readinger 10:01
Yeah, it's like a movie.
Law Smith 10:03
I feel like, if you're not famous in drawing, like, if you're not Gillis or someone like that, like, you know, after minute 90, it's gonna, you're not gonna, you're gonna be
Eric Readinger 10:14
like, Okay, I gotta go. Yeah, that's enough comedy, yeah?
Law Smith 10:17
Especially when it's a grab bag of people opening? Yeah, I'd rather have you open and do five minutes, yeah, for one of those sets. Okay, at least I know what's going on. Um, here's a Microsoft just dropped a study showing the 40 jobs most at risk by AI and 40 most secure. What I know you saw that? Oh, you did. I know you can't read this from without your new Do you have new glasses? No. Oh, I like those better. Don't know. Don't look I want you to guess. We always got a guess. Oh,
Eric Readinger 10:51
were you guessing the most secure ones you can give me either one. What do you think most secure is gonna be? Stuff like your plumbers and your trades peoples, yep.
Law Smith 11:05
You know, it gets pretty specific. So, you know, I'm not gonna go, Yeah, you didn't get dredge operators,
Eric Readinger 11:11
right? Yeah. I remember seeing, I saw the list.
Law Smith 11:15
I broke it down to human touch. Basically it was like, the more, that's a good way to put it, the more human touch is needed, the more like secure it is. I'll go from the bottom up dredge operators, bridge and lock.
Eric Readinger 11:30
Don't worry, the whole thing changes. Give people an idea. That's a long list. Yeah,
Law Smith 11:35
no, I'm not gonna read the whole thing. Dishwashers, I don't know. I guess that should happen. Seems like aI should already be doing that. One seems like it could be automated with machine
Eric Readinger 11:45
dishwasher in my house. Yeah,
Law Smith 11:49
the restaurant guys, though, you know,
Eric Readinger 11:53
feel like that's, you know what? I don't want them to lose jobs.
Law Smith 11:57
No, that's what I'm saying. That's, that's part of the problem with the AI stuff with the self driving cars is truck drivers. We have like, 3 million truck drivers in the country, or something crazy like that, yeah. And so their their union is trying to stop it from happening. Like, this is where innovation gets, you know, suppressed down, yeah, and that. And that's a really over time. That's a really interesting thing to watch, because it's like, what would those guys do?
Eric Readinger 12:24
I mean, I'm, you know, I'm not all for it. I feel like I'm not getting for driving the self driving car until everybody has one. I'm more for
Law Smith 12:33
it, because, God damn, it's got worse out there on drivers. Look, yes, are awesome. Phones are fucking
Eric Readinger 12:40
Yes, but we are at the absolute worst time in history for traffic. Yeah, and stupid, stupid shit. But a lot of it because of the phones,
Law Smith 12:48
I would say a lot of it also is like civil engineering, of like, getting your lights to go at times that make it efficient. I don't think people cities give a fuck about that, for the most part, yeah. And then the other part is just people like, I've now become that asshole that goes all the way up the right on the highway and just wiggles right in at the end, because there's always someone that's distracted, yeah? And no matter it's I've been doing this for like, two or three years now, I've become that
Eric Readinger 13:17
guy, yeah, that I hate. I don't blame you, but it, I
Law Smith 13:21
honestly don't delay, like, almost every time, do not make any more delay for anybody. It's someone that's like, bull and
Eric Readinger 13:28
then, like, not paying attention. Yeah, no, it's terrible. Now
Law Smith 13:31
I live in a Spanish neighborhood, and I will say Rav fours, CR vs those tiny SUVs driven by Spanish grandmas. I fucking profile and I get around those ones because they are the slowest motherfuckers out there. That's a good tip. Yeah, thank you for that. They're the new Asians. I don't know if you knew that. That stereotypes out this one's it? Why?
Eric Readinger 13:56
Oh, nowhere to start. What
Law Smith 13:59
about people that are scared to go on the highway. You know, there's a lot of people, a lot of people that drive, they're like, I don't go in the interstate. You're like, what I mean? Unless you're like, I get it. Donor, I all the time or something. It could be scary. I get it. But it's like, You're a grown person, yeah, you're driving a car. That'd
Eric Readinger 14:19
be the minimum of, like, you know, being able to drive period, you got to be able to have a period. Oh, it's not Saudi Arabia, bro,
Law Smith 14:29
alright, no crime there. Everybody's happy there. That's nice living. Yeah,
Eric Readinger 14:36
I think they're like new, crazy rules for the for kids, to get their learners permits and shit. Do they want them? I hear they don't want them, right? They want them? I don't know. I don't think we're there yet where they're all gonna be. They don't want to drive Uber or whatever, auto Uber, but like, I think they have to take a lot, or they have to take a 40 hour course, or 50 hour course, or some. Been insane. Why for what? I don't know, DeSantis. No, I was like, somebody owns the company that does the classes, and they're making out like, you know, a bandit.
Law Smith 15:15
It's not, I bet it's an insurance thing. I bet it's a insurance
Eric Readinger 15:18
point is, there's money behind it, is my point. Oh
Law Smith 15:22
yeah. And it's definitely someone pushing I'm a man, wrong button to save me money. DeSantis crushed it for Florida in covid times and locked down and said, Fuck this, and opened us up and and then he's been a shell of a person ever since he looks like he got broken up with every picture I see him, every video I see him. He looks like a sad boy.
Eric Readinger 15:42
Maybe they replaced him with a double
Law Smith 15:44
maybe AI
Eric Readinger 15:46
Santas. But
Law Smith 15:48
I mean, the guy was like, on his like, Trump talked shit to him once three or four years ago, and he just looks like destroyed him. Just caught him, dude,
Eric Readinger 15:57
President. And I think that, oh yeah, for sure, that was when we lost good old Ronnie. Here
Law Smith 16:05
are the jobs you shouldn't be looking into because AI interpreters, translators, historians, passenger attendants. That's a wild one, wait. Passenger
Eric Readinger 16:15
attendance, I guess that's like a flight attendant, I guess. But
Law Smith 16:20
that one, I don't understand writers and authors, we're still gonna need that that's bullshit. Yeah. I mean, this is so the way they tabulate it is a little funky, but probably they had ai do it. But, like, it basically, to me, your jobs insecure. If, if it's admin or clerical based, if it's white collar and it's that kind of work, you're pretty much fucked. Yeah, long term. Now, here's the good news. This shit never happens as fast as we think it does. Moore's Law says, you know, technology goes in an exponential rate and will surpass us as humans, however we're I don't think we're there yet, and I think we have no idea of what that really is, but people aren't that quick to adopt shit anyway.
Eric Readinger 17:13
That's true. That is true,
Law Smith 17:16
and Americans were not leading in that first mover crowd around the world, Japanese, different story. I have a problem when they have panties in a vending machine, right? Hell yeah, everything in a vending machine because you're so sexually frustrated and suppressed that you have to do those kind of weird things, right?
Eric Readinger 17:39
The stuff where they're like graphic designers and like artists and shit like that thing that AI is gonna say it'll get there with that I I don't know. I disagree. I don't think it'll ever get there. I don't think it'll do that with comedy. Here's why, sure, comedy, well, Comedy The most evident. But I'm saying like comedy is
Law Smith 17:58
a moving target, if you think about it, because it's always about contrast or conflict. So what if the AI could write real good jokes, not right now, comedy would shift away from that in a different way, and it would just keep moving.
Eric Readinger 18:10
Yeah, but my point is is I don't see art AI developing the emotional response needed for people who have become great artists because of it, you know I'm saying, like, watch yourself. You're a great artist. Thank you. But I don't but you know what I'm saying? Like,
Law Smith 18:31
by Eric's order, there's, uh, Etsy store,
Eric Readinger 18:37
there's a human touch that we gotta have. The human touch, I don't think it'll ever be reproduced.
Law Smith 18:41
Well, I don't know if you checked out the swath of graphic design these days, but it is, it a lot of dog shit out
Eric Readinger 18:47
there, yeah. I mean, when it's good, let me know. But, like,
Law Smith 18:49
it's but, yeah, I agree. Like, real art, like creative stuff, like the stuff you do in your free time, you do it for the love of the game, yeah. I mean, it's not that those, kind of people, yeah, that they're not, it's not going to touch that. And it might be what I was saying about comedy. It might move, because if you look at art over time, it has arrows for a reason, right?
Eric Readinger 19:10
Yeah. I mean, I guess there should be a discernment between, like, somebody who designs graphics for websites, as opposed to somebody who's an artist and they're, you know, that's all they do. And they're inspired, and they create their shit, like, where, you know, a designer that's getting paid weekly, you know, they're cranking shit out. They have deliverables to me, you know, that sort of thing, yeah, that I can see well as because that doesn't require Picasso level shit,
Law Smith 19:44
right, right? A lot of it's like, I can do it if you're, if you're an exterior Sign Company, which, to me, always underrated signage. If you're a retail kind of store or anything, a lot of people skimp on the sign, and I don't think you should. Um. Yeah, I agree. It's expensive. They're expensive, but that kind of design for sure, like you could that could be replicated, no problem. And it kind of already is a little bit automated in a way, but you have to get it cut in a certain way, and all that stuff. But I would say for the AI slop era we're in right now, summer of 2025, maybe the hottest summer I can remember, 100 I don't think it did. There's a lot of claims. Tampa, Tampa, fun fact, it's never had 100 degrees here, and they reported, a lot of reports, but I didn't see anything official said it got to 100
Eric Readinger 20:41
official. There's official, official temperature guy, well, Denis Phillips, right, yeah, with the suspenders. It's Dennis with one. Why does Denis not say it's official? I thought
Law Smith 20:55
I have notifications on for Denis every time he posts, so I haven't seen anything come
Eric Readinger 21:01
through. I think I follow him on Facebook. I'm pretty sure Tina's posted a thing that said, like, all the different number of days for certain cities that have been over 100 it was like, Chicago has like, 64 days. Like, yeah, stupid stuff where it's like, Wait, Portland Maine has 64 days over 100 degrees, right? And we're down at one, right? Maybe zero. We're
Law Smith 21:23
tropical. Baby has something to do with the winds. It's kind of why would the hurricanes kind of usually dodge us? But that would be a fuckery of like a whole 365, kind of calendar year of two hurricanes that, again, another fun fact, never had a direct hit both. Both went just, like, just about the margin outside of the city, yeah, of Tampa, but, like, flooded the fuck out of after. So, I mean, we got douche, but technically not a direct
Speaker 2 21:55
hit. Yeah. I mean, I'm gonna count it.
Eric Readinger 21:59
I don't why, because you didn't have to build a fence afterwards. No, I just like, as a direct hit to my fence. Well, should have built a good fence to begin with. It wasn't my fence to start out,
Law Smith 22:11
right, but you got to go around as a dad and just like, touch stuff and go. I need to fix, I need to improve this. Yeah, that's old school dad
Eric Readinger 22:19
stuff. That's not what I do when I'm home.
Law Smith 22:23
Oh, this sucks. I You don't you don't Blaze up and just walk around and be like, um, I would say that's another fun fact. I just want to live on that. We haven't had one recorded history hit here, and because of the Toka Baga tribe, the name of marketing agency that we're doing work for if, if you need a legion marketing agency, go to solving how.com or hit us up. You can get a hold of me. I'll message you back. Even on my only fans, you don't have to pay for it. Yeah, it's free. Yeah, I'll cut that up. We'll use it as commercial, okay, but you got anything you want to show I thought you had something you want to show me.
Eric Readinger 23:11
Well, first thing I popped up the the three eye Atlas, interstellar object flying through our solar system right now is that the I want to do, actually, what is that I want to do? A little experiments. Do I want you to Google three? I Atlas, just see if it comes up. Three, I slash Atlas. All
Law Smith 23:36
go incognito, which doesn't really matter. Three. I How do you spell out this? A, T,
Eric Readinger 23:45
L, A, S, uh huh.
Law Smith 23:48
Okay, we're on the same IP, though, so I don't know if that matters.
Eric Readinger 23:54
Well, either way. Why? I'm just curious. You know, I gotta be conspiracy. I'm just curious if it pops up. Make sure it's the same little, fun little experiment. What is it? Okay? Well, they don't know. And I guess by August 5, they'll know if it's a comet or not, because it's all right, so I thought it was, yeah, it's got these documented anomalies. It's got a sunward coma dust Hill points towards the sun, unprecedented, precedented for comets at 2.8 astronomical units radiation pressure should repel dust, yet it clings inward
Law Smith 24:38
like a vagina.
Eric Readinger 24:40
Yes? So, like, that's just one weird thing, like, it doesn't look like a comet that would go be moving and then have a tail coming off the back. Is what it say? Zero. Volatile gasses, no, no carbon monoxide, dioxide or not, gassy, yeah. Detected comet or saw exhibited strong out gassing at this distance. And a disproportionate scale. Basically, it has a 24 kilometer coma, at 11 kilometer nucleus. It's got that's like, it's,
Law Smith 25:11
why are these words that mean other words, man, or make up some new shit.
Eric Readinger 25:15
But basically the it's like, going really fast, and it's aimed right at Earth.
Law Smith 25:23
I thought it's close. It's projected to go close, but not no cigar kind of thing. Well, last I that was my guest you were bringing up. I didn't know how to name. I just heard that we have one coming close to us, but,
Eric Readinger 25:39
well, they're gonna know next couple days. What it isn't?
Law Smith 25:42
Oh, dude, we gotta go Armageddon on this bitch,
Eric Readinger 25:45
because they, they're saying if it did, it would be like November before it would get to Earth. I
Law Smith 25:50
call Bruce Willis. Okay, I call big black guy. Oh, wait, I don't want to be Bruce Willis. He's the martyr. I'll be,
Eric Readinger 25:59
yeah, okay, I'm still big buck. Michael Carr Duncan, yep, terrible. So that's fun to watch out for. I even switch it over to show people.
Law Smith 26:13
Now, is Hill Bob any relation?
Eric Readinger 26:20
Well, we don't know. Hill Bob was a comet. This might be a comet, but they don't know. I mean, the weird thing is that they've got, like, professors, I think Avi Loeb, physics professor, came out and said, like, might be a, might be an alien spacecraft.
Law Smith 26:39
And, yeah, well, trash, trash newspaper USA Today, the preview of a link I'm looking at is saying like Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has co written a research paper speculating whether the comet three. What is it? Three? I Yeah. Atlas three. I forward slash. Atlas is, in fact, hostile alien technology. Here we go. This is the, let's watch the spin on this. No, I start to
Eric Readinger 27:14
go hostile. Yeah. Why would you say that
Law Smith 27:17
hostile? Quotes, in quotes.
Eric Readinger 27:19
How would they know? Well, I do think that if it is a thing, if it turns into a thing and they try to say it's hostile, that it's bullshit, and that whatever they're doing is trying to manipulate us straight up, like no reason, oh, for something that could fly into from outer space, there's no reason why they would kind of try and destroy
Law Smith 27:36
us. By the way, I read something already on the way over here about information we have available to us, 50% per This is per fortune. Which fortune is more legit than some of the other rags. It's still not as good as it used to be, but it's not Forbes. Forbes is a dog pile shit bag, like I will I'll still try to get on Forbes as a Guest writer, just to say I was on Forbes, just to flex, you know, but fortune still a little bit better, and they reported like 50% of all web traffic right now is bots and so that that has something to do with content creation too, because a lot of It's being generated and all that stuff. But, like, it's really once a spin thing goes, those bots weave it out a little bit further right and exponentially.
Eric Readinger 28:32
Well, I was just listening to somebody talking about this today. They were talking about
Law Smith 28:39
interstellar being the best.
Eric Readinger 28:41
I don't know it was Karl Rove was trying to, like, mess up with the perception of, I maybe it was George W Bush something to do with, like, his service or something. So what he did was because he knew that this paperwork existed that was negative for whoever, right? So he created a bunch of fake shit, yeah, put it out first, so that the public says, Oh, well, that's already been debunked. Like, it's all bullshit. So then when the real shit comes out, they're just like, What are you talking about? We already did this. Oh, it's and it's been used for, like, the Nazca mummies that I've told you about, that the what is the same thing, the same idea where they,
they had, uh, you know, they said, Oh, we got these, these mummies of these aliens or whatever. And then they took these things to Mexico, in front of Mexican Congress. And they were like, not real. They were like, oh, yeah, goals. And they were all, like, put together so that everybody's like, Well, that was debunked. It looked
Law Smith 29:38
like the zombies in Game of Thrones, which I'm watching right now for the first time. But, yeah, dude. So basically, what we zombies and shit. I'm like, get the fuck out of here, dude. I
Eric Readinger 29:50
mean, wait till you get to season eight when you're mine. Oh, you're on the last one. Yeah, you started from the beginning. I
Law Smith 29:57
zipped through it. Yeah, the
Eric Readinger 29:58
first couple seasons.
Law Smith 29:59
Great TV. 81st to suck first? Are you talking about? No, they did first seasons in like four ADP. It looks like a soap opera net. No, it's not. It is. It's not in 480 we just look shitty. My definition was, I think this, I know I think the cinematography sucks on it. Anyway, it it from one to two. Season One to two, it's dramatically better.
Eric Readinger 30:25
Okay, the look, I've never anybody complain about the first season of Game, the last season is horrendous. Here's
Law Smith 30:31
my thing, if you like that and you don't like any of the like, Marvel shit, it there's, it's almost like, so close. There's so many,
Eric Readinger 30:39
yeah. I mean, you know, either you have an imagination and can enjoy things or not,
Law Smith 30:43
right, right? But it's not real. Dragons aren't real well, and it's like my buddy Brendan says about all the Harry Potter books. It's like cheap writing when they Harry gets stuck in some situation and goes, Oh, just use magic and get out. You're like, Oh, that sucks. Yeah, you
Eric Readinger 31:01
know this, this little, little known of spell, by the way, out of my I don't
Law Smith 31:07
know if you remember when you watched it, but like, there's so many scenes of someone almost about to get it, and then someone coming with, like a blade and just cutting the head off of that person, the person that's attacking him. There's like, way too many. Oh yes, do close calls. Like, there's like 40 of those.
Eric Readinger 31:26
Yeah, it's shocking when the mountain crushed that guy's head. Oh yeah, that was awesome. See that?
Law Smith 31:31
Pedro Pascal, yep, his anxiety. He needs hot chicks around. I don't know if you saw that. That's his thing. It's good move. I don't, I don't trust him. I don't know why. There's something about him. I
Eric Readinger 31:44
don't, I don't like, Okay, well, I'll let Pedro now.
Law Smith 31:48
Well, he's, he's Mr. He's Mr. Fantastic, Mr. Reid Richards. Was he Narcos? Yeah, right. I like, which sucked, because fucking Escobar is like five, seven and fat.
Eric Readinger 32:06
He wasn't Escobar. Who was he? He was a cop. Oh, my bad. Escobar.
Law Smith 32:13
Whoever played that guy. You know, I didn't get all these Latin What about it? Step You didn't a great job. The guy he was. He's good. If you didn't know what Escobar kind of looked like, Escobar wasn't big.
Eric Readinger 32:29
I mean, I don't think he looked big in the show. He looked 6263, you know.
Law Smith 32:41
How do I know my roommate was obsessed with, uh, Pablo Escobar in college, and was telling me about that when that show came out, and then it ruined it for me. So I hope it ruins it for y'all if you're waiting to watch it. But, um, you know this comment, according to NASA, it says it's gonna be like 130 million miles. So it's pretty goddamn close.
Eric Readinger 33:06
I'm sorry. I'm trying to look up.
Law Smith 33:09
You're a crack researcher on the fly,
Eric Readinger 33:11
dude. They have a I'm
Law Smith 33:15
gonna have to go in a minute. I gotta go pick up my daughter from Dance Camp. That's been a fucking pain in the ass for me this week. Thank god they're going to school soon.
Eric Readinger 33:24
Well, we'll save it for next time. But there, there's a research paper coming out. I'll give you the quick
Law Smith 33:28
I gotta go recital tomorrow. What's worse a comment hitting us or going to dance recital?
Eric Readinger 33:38
Good question. Anyways, there's some research paper coming out that they went back and analyzed all these old pictures of the sky, and they can pretty much prove that there's shit up there that moves and leaves and isn't stars and all these things. So apparently it's supposed to be a pretty big deal, because it's a peer reviewed gimmick and, like, it's kind of hard to argue against.
Law Smith 33:59
Yeah, we'll find out again. I'm like, I What? It'll come out, and people will be like, cool. What can I do? Right? I mean, like, I'm, look, I'm curious about it, but I only got so many times minutes in the day, right? That are already jammed
Eric Readinger 34:14
exactly what they want. Who don't look up?
Law Smith 34:17
Who wants it? I look up all the time. I look at the stars. Who
Speaker 2 34:21
you know, who you know,
Law Smith 34:25
Hootie, who man you really hit that. Go fucking nuts.
Speaker 2 34:42
Fucking high. So fucking high, so fucking high I'm gonna get. I'm.
