Is This How It Ends?
Is This How It Ends?
Dystopian Chaos: Hurricane Conspiracies, Assassination Plots, and Bad Robots
In this episode of Is This How It Ends, we dive headfirst into the dystopia that's already knocking on our door. First up: hurricanes Helene and Milton. Natural disasters, or are politicians controlling the weather to sabotage the election and steal land? Then we discuss Trump’s third assassination attempt—because why stop at two? It's like a bad action movie that just won’t end.
Next, we explore Diddy’s latest drama: lawsuits, scandals, and more lawsuits, because apparently, there’s no limit. Meanwhile, Elon Musk’s much-hyped "We Robot" event was more of a futuristic flop, proving once again that tech billionaires aren't immune to disappointment. And speaking of disappointment, disinformation is everywhere, spreading faster than a Twitter (I mean X) rumor—making it nearly impossible to tell fact from fiction in today’s crazy world.
It’s not all about doom and gloom. In true Is This How It Ends fashion, we balance the serious with the quirky, and cap off the episode by highlighting the astrological significance of the Aries full moon, aka the Hunter’s Moon, aka a Big A** Moon, and the biggest supermoon of the year! Aries brings bold, fiery energy—perfect for taking charge and making big decisions. It’s all about embracing courage, setting boundaries, and going after your goals.
Tune in, stay skeptical, and embrace the chaos—because in this world, nothing is certain, not even the weather.
Show Notes
Earth's "second moon": https://www.cntraveler.com/story/how-to-see-earths-second-moon
Starship's Booster: https://www.space.com/spacex-starship-flight-5-launch-super-heavy-booster-catch-success-video
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Hey y'all and welcome to our podcast. Is this how it ends? Where we talk about politics, aliens, all kinds of things. Right, I'm Nell, I'm so and welcome y'all. So today's lineup, of course, is going to be a little bit weird. We're talking about hurricanes. We're talking about Trump assassination attempts. We're talking about Did assassination attempts. We're talking about diddy phase of human evolution. It's a lot going on, y'all, so let's get started. I don't know where to begin, so if there's so much to, yeah, I don't.
Soph:There is. There's a lot happening, like it's just 3000 things and we need to like pick just a select few. Do you want to start on the assassination?
Nele:Okay, so did y'all know that there was a third assassination attempt of Trump? I personally did not know.
Soph:I mean, I kind of heard it.
Nele:I was like I heard it and then, like on some youtube videos, there were like trump assassination attempt question mark. It was just. We were just all very confused, um, so I have some facts for you all. So a third reported assassination attempt on former president donald trump occurred on october 12th 2024 at a rally in Coachella. California Authorities arrested a man named Vern Miller, a Las Vegas resident, near the event, where he was found with a loaded gun, a handgun, high capacity magazine and fraudulent credentials at a security checkpoint. Miller claimed to be attending the rally as a supporter and had the weapons for personal safety. However, officials suspect he may have intended to harm trump oh, so they're just making.
Soph:They're not. He didn't do anything, but they're making the correlation that if he was there with all of that, then it was for yeah why all these attempts?
Nele:attempts now, I mean, when was president? He didn't have this many attempts. All his life he's been screwed over people and he hasn't had this many attempts and now all of a sudden, like when he's running again.
Soph:It all seems suspicious. The one at his what was it, mar-a-lago? I thought I was like that one sounded suspicious. This one sounds suspicious.
Nele:The first one sounded suspicious when he had the Kotex pad on his ear.
Soph:Yeah, and then when they research these people, they say they're like they're Republicans. Yeah, so maybe his own people hate him.
Nele:I don't know what's going on, but yeah, I think we can move on to something else.
Soph:Yeah.
Nele:So hurricanes, look, we've been hit by some pretty devastating hurricanes Helene and Milton, by some pretty devastating hurricanes Helene and Milton. So Hurricane Helene became one of the deadliest storms since Katrina, claiming over 230 lives across multiple states, with Florida's Big Bend region among the worst affected. Following closely was Hurricane Milton, which made landfall in Florida as a Category 3 storm, causing widespread damage, power outages and prompting major evacuations. When Milton has weakened, recovery efforts are ongoing in impacted regions, including Florida, georgia and parts of the Gulf Coast.
Soph:That's great. Have you heard about just the conspiracies surrounding these hurricanes?
Nele:No, and I want to hear it. I'm curious.
Soph:So this is like I love a good conspiracy theory, I love going down these rabbit holes, but sometimes it's like, come on, we are pulling at straws right. Sometimes it's like, come on, we are pulling at straws right. So to your point, nels, I mean the hurricane season. They're becoming more violent, more unpredictable, more deadly, and you know, scientists who are under attack are saying that this is fueled by climate change. You know, warmer waters, rising sea levels these conditions are like steroids for these storms and that's what scientists are saying. But not everyone wants to believe that. Not everyone wants to believe that people, corporations, are fueling climate change. Right, it's caused by humans, burning fossil fuels, deforestation, agricultural and industrial practices All of these things are causing climate change. People don't want to. There are a lot of people who don't want to believe that. What they do want to believe is that the government, particularly Democrats in these global elites, are manipulating the weather to push their climate agenda.
Nele:Nope, absolutely not. So we're just going to create a hurricane to kill all these people, cause all this devastation, yes, which the government will have to pay for that doesn't make any sense.
Soph:It doesn't make sense. So we're intentionally intensifying storms to wreak havoc on conservative regions, so disregarding that, in the history of hurricanes and tropical storms, that these are the states that are hit, right? I don't even understand it. But one of the things they're saying is that they're also saying that the government is trying to seize Chimney Rock Chimney Rock is a town in North Carolina that was hit hard. Saying that the government is trying to seize Chimney Rock Chimney Rock is a town in North Carolina that was hit hard. So the government is trying to seize it and come and do a lithium mine.
Soph:There's no, as far as I know, there's no lithium mine in Chimney Rock. But if you, you know, if you Google it, they do say that there is one in Kings Mountain, north Carolina, which is about 80 to 100 miles away from Chimney Rock. So that's what they're saying and it doesn't help that Trump, marjorie, taylor, greene and other Republicans are helping push this. But what they're really trying to do, they're pushing the idea that all this chaos, the hurricanes, the damage, the political fallout, is part of a grand scheme to cheat, for Democrats to cheat their way into office. Wow.
Nele:Right Projection. If they could do it, that's something that they would do.
Soph:Right, and I think they're kind of like laying the groundwork right If Trump doesn't win in 2024, this November, the election was stolen, they already set it up. They already set it up, they're laying the groundwork for more election denial and using climate disasters as fuel for their fire. And it's so outrageous, it's so careless, it's so dangerous and irresponsible. We're living in surreal times. You don't know what to believe anymore. You just don't. There's so much information. Some of it is true, some of it is not, and it's all mixed up. People are confused, they're overwhelmed, unsure. What's what anymore? And these conspiracy theories? They prey on that. And that's the point. You flood the public with so much false information that no one knows what's true. So this is our new reality. Right To your point about Trump's third assassination, you just kind of like you don't, is it? What do you believe? What do you believe? And it's just. It's an erosion of trust and leaves us vulnerable, divided and just ripe for manipulation.
Nele:This world is crazy and that's why I say hi all the time. You know I don't need to be in reality, not at all. Reality is just, it's for the birds. Honestly, it's for the birds.
Soph:It is for the birds. But I think I'm really concerned about the way misinformation is just spread and it's just it's really hard to decipher and look through what's real and what's not, and it's like what's the end goal? You know they're banning books, they're you know they're doing away with all of these things. Like the education system is trapped shot, you know. So it's really concerning to me.
Nele:Trust nothing, not even the weather, at this point. Your own research.
Soph:I don't think that it has lithium mines. They're not trying to steal it. You know they're not changing. They're not changing. They're not creating hurricanes to hit the two swing states. They're saying because they're swing states. And how stupid would Democrats have to be right, it's close to an election, but let me cause chaos. Yeah, you know, like ruin people's homes, like all this money you're going to have to shell out now, like well, no one's that I mean Republicans think that people are just not common sense.
Nele:I just wish it's so ridiculous. Now what's going on, even just like Trump, like they're talking about him, like actually soiling himself, talking about him, like actually soiling himself, like that's the rumors, like, yeah, that's how bad it is and so it's like it's too late to back out now and you should have had the come to jesus moment, like you know, the dems did with biden, you know. But here we are. It just doesn't really seem real. And just to use justifications like weather manipulation, like these people, when trump loses, they're gonna pull everything out of their bag, like to like to see what sticks. Honestly, honestly, like I'm nervous. These aren't.
Soph:I'm just saying you know they're voting for the party right. Like Trump is. He's a wild card. Like he doesn't always do. He usually doesn't do what the party wants Like he does what the crazy people want.
Nele:This man doesn't even know how to pronounce words. He was in Arizona. He meant to say Arizonians. He called them Eregians. I'm here with you, eregians. Come on, was it him that said Haitia, haitia, that was Vance, haitia. I just got out of vote, y'all. We have like 22 days left. I'm voting.
Soph:I have to vote early next week.
Nele:I have no excuse. My voting place is in my building.
Soph:Oh nice.
Nele:Yeah, my community room Nice. I never have an excuse not to vote.
Soph:I wonder if it's going to be a Remember when Obama was on the ballot, those polling places were insane, yeah, insane, oh yeah. Like I think I waited hours to vote.
Nele:Wow.
Soph:Look at you.
Nele:I know it was also my first presidential election since becoming a citizen, so I was like oh, yay, yay, off topic, but I just want to say Obama kind of shaming men that look like this about voting for Trump. I'm here for it, totally here for it Doesn't make any sense. Someone has here for it, totally here for it Doesn't make any sense. Someone has to say it. Obama's like nah, I could be the Black uncle Shaming y'all and this is what I'm going to do.
Soph:I'm here for it, I love it.
Nele:I'm here for it. So there's one person I know in my life that I just don't understand. It, like just posting all this Trump stuff, but anyway, yeah, it's crazy.
Soph:I mean you could be for the party but I'd be ashamed to even post anything about. I mean, like, how do you like the mind gymnastics that you have to do to justify yeah?
Nele:This man won't release his medical records. And now he's talking about Kamala having hay fever and that's why she's crazy. He's like I passed, I aced my cognitive exam. You don't ace a a cognitive. I don't understand. You've got a good score. I don't understand like he's just rambling at this point but he still hasn't shown us anything. Kamala has shown us her her medical records. Like how do you let this man just keep on getting away with this?
Soph:he's pushing hate and people seem to love it.
Nele:Yeah, it's hate and division um, speaking of hate, um which some people say is the actual opposite of love, which brother love, which was diddy's new name. See how I connected that I like that.
Soph:So yeah, the other love is diddy's new name well, he changed.
Nele:His set is yeah, that was his new name Before all this started happening. He was changing his name to Love and then he was trying to like, yeah, love Combs. Like, yeah, sean, love Combs. And he even has his youngest daughter. Her name is Love as well. And yeah, he was trying on this campaign to get people their publishing back and it was like, sir, it don't matter now, oh my God, so his daughter's?
Soph:name is Love. I hope that he had some good lawyers and accountants that he's able to. He said kids, you know, because they don't have to try to get a job with the name.
Nele:Like yeah, like it's going to be hard for them, the sons, the older sons, they participated, but the daughters, you know and I.
Soph:It's part of me, you know for the sons, like they were groomed into that lifestyle you know, yeah, which is unfortunate, but at a point you have to be old enough to know that this ain't right yeah but yeah, to raise your kids in that kind of lifestyle lifestyle um, like their morals are probably like a bit skewed too definitely, and they're rich too, so their sense of reality is totally oh yeah oh yeah, totally so.
Nele:Um Diddy has now been named in six separate lawsuits, followed by Tony Busby, the Texas attorney, who says he's representing up to 120 attorney who says he's representing up to 120 alleged diddy victims, and of the four of the six that filed so far, um, four of them are male accusers. So this is what I didn't like that was going on in, like, the youtube, blogosphere, whatever that people are focusing so much on the fact that, oh, like he has male accusers now that are filing, and I'm just like, why is that the biggest deal? Like apparently, allegedly, there's kids involved. Like allegedly he assaulted, like a pregnant woman.
Nele:Like this man is lacing baby oil with drugs yeah, that's what they're saying that's, that's what they're saying that's what that's, that's what's been going around, that the oil was laced and you, technically, you can provide drugs by transdermal, like as a route of, as a route of administration, definitely, yeah. So nothing, nothing is safe. You know, with him you go to these parties. You're thinking like here's a glass of water, here's like not everyone that goes there is like at the after after party they go to the regular party, they have something. Everything is laced.
Nele:So yeah, um people in this world there's just in october 2024, sean diddy combs faced multiple new civil lawsuits accusing him of sexual assault. And okay, with youtube, you can't say certain words, so I shouldn't even say so, sa, and just say sa right. Six lawsuits were filed, including allegations of assault on both men and women from 1995 to 2021. One particularly troubling case involved a claim that combs molested a 16-year-old boy at a 1998 party. Other suits include charges of forced drugging, violent sexual assaults during private and industry events. Combs denies the allegations, calling them part of a reckless media circus as his criminal case proceeds. Here's the thing right, when Tony Busby did his press conference and he said that when he first opened up the lines for people to call in, it was like 3,000 people that had called in, but then they narrowed it down to 120.
Nele:But the people that actually have suits, they have things to corroborate what happened. They have medical records. Maybe they filed a police report. They have things that he's not choosing. These people don't have any kind of evidence against him. So, um, this should be interesting like how this, how this goes, because how many times is diddy going to go to trial? He already tried to get bail for a third time. He was denied. Wow, and so the trial isn't going to start until may. So he's going to be in that janky ass detention center in brooklyn which has the worst conditions until May. He's still complaining about the food Certain rumors talking about he wants a nutritionist to come and make him some food.
Soph:The thing with Diddy, and I'll say it. There were always rumors about Diddy, and I'll say it like there were always rumors right about Diddy, like there were. I think there were always people who kind of knew, like he there's some shady stuff going on with him. It was alluded to um, and now it's come out. Now it's all of that stuff. Is it had to come out one day?
Nele:but the thing is so, no one, even when cassie first came out with, like her allegations, no one even believed her until, like, they saw the video yeah, and what was sad?
Soph:because you said there were people who they were, like there was a, she got punched, he punched her once and they were sitting around, like you think they look forward and say um, believe her. You know, this is what I've witnessed.
Nele:No one even did that but here's the thing like at first I used to have like that same like mind frame, like, oh like, no one said anything. But I'm sure this man has unalived people, made them disappear. He blew up kid cudi's car, like you know that's a good point, like if you're also scared.
Soph:Who knows and you know a lot of this stuff is. It's a lot of blackmail going on, so who knows what he has on these people?
Nele:yes, and if, if some of the assaults like were videotaped, then the people aren't gonna come out because he can be, he can blackmail them.
Soph:So or they were.
Nele:They were in on it too, so they're not gonna say anything again, because then you look back if you're like yeah, I was there when he was beating the shit out of her and I said nothing yeah, and they were linking kevin hart Hart to Diddy or whatever first, and you could see he was all up in the video with Diddy or whatever you know, laughing, and now he's like I don't know that man, you know that man? Yeah, he's not trying to hear nothing, and I guess there's a rumor that there's a high profile celebrity that's in one of the videos as well.
Nele:Actually, not even rumor, tony busby said it, the lawyer said it, which video like an, like an incriminating video or yeah, now here's the thing like there's someone that could have been in the video, but it doesn't mean that they participated. Like, like they're the ones that drug the person or whatever. Like I don't. I think there's not releasing the names because they're not directly, like, related to the crime. Maybe this happened to be in the video, like, who knows, maybe they were doing acts with certain someone else, consensual, maybe they didn't even know they were being recorded, like who knows, you know, but those names haven't been released yet.
Nele:But Diddy is a whole demon. Um, I just in anyone and I'm gonna keep it real anyone that I know in life sides with this man and his axe. I don't know you, no more. Honestly, because if you had the money, if you had the power, you'd abuse it just the same. You have no morals to see. This man blatantly lied about the things that he did and then, once the video came out of Cassie, then he had to backtrack it. But we'll apologize because we didn't ask for all that did we ask for the truth. So if he lied about that, he's lying about all of this.
Soph:Yeah to treat someone the way he treated her that's crazy.
Nele:That is crazy. So, um, I hope all these people that are suing him get his money. Um, I hope so, but I don't know, child, how. Like he's already been through a few lawyers, now I think he has a new, a new lawyer. Um, because he's really trying to get out on bail and she's like no sir, absolutely not, because you are known for like just tampering with witnesses or something like that, or harassing them, like one person he called like 150 times sir, you're that, you're a flight risk. Absolutely not stay your ass in the jail eating moldy bread. I hope there's mold on the bread. I hope the mold is like really green and it's raised up that almost looks like broccoli. I hope it's that kind of mold, not even the mold you're going to scrape off. You can't scrape off that mold.
Nele:The spores are all up and through.
Soph:I'm not one to celebrate anyone's downfall Me neither but there are people like you just had it coming. The whole demon Kim Port is up there. She's like told you.
Nele:The angels got her. The angels, the angels got her. The angels got her All right. So so do you want to talk about another weird person, elon Musk and his robots and whatnot? Because he's weird as hell too.
Soph:He is weird. I'm not going to focus solely on him. We're going to focus mostly on the science, mainly SpaceX, tesla and, of course, yes, elon Musk, real life supervillain. We'll start with the good First SpaceX. So on October 13th, spacex successfully launched its Starship rocket, marking a significant milestone. Launched its Starship rocket, marking a significant milestone. The super heavy booster Starship's first stage was caught by the launch tower's we call them chopstick arms after precise landing, which was a first ever feat. Now let me see if we can show this real quick.
Nele:By the way, don't we still have some people up in space lost somewhere?
Soph:Girl, we still got people up in space, okay.
Nele:Okay, we got people up in space lost, but all right, they up in space. Okay, we got people up in space lost, but all right, they're not lost, but they're not coming home.
Soph:They're up there, they're not coming home. They ain't coming home for a little bit. They're going to come back home next year, I think January, and they're going to come back home on a SpaceX rocket. So Musk, as much as we hate them, he's going to be the savior. I know he loves that. Oh God, this is what we want to see, and there we go. That's pretty cool.
Nele:That is cool.
Soph:Yeah, this was really really big. So what I just showed you? That super heavy booster. So the job of that heavy booster is to provide the initial powerful thrust needed to lift a spacecraft like SpaceX Starship off the ground and through the Earth's atmosphere. It uses multiple engines to generate immense amount of force, enough to propel the rocket's upper stages into space. Once it completes its job, it separates from the upper stages, which continue the journey, and normally this thing right here, the booster some parts of it remain in space, while the rest returns to Earth, usually falling somewhere in the ocean. But this time around, spacex was able to recapture it, which is it's a huge deal. Rocket parts are expensive, like a booster like this can cost about 50 to $60 million. It could cost millions. So, being able to reuse this, reuse the booster and other parts of a rocket, figuring out how to do that, uh, spacex did, um, that's like a, that's like the next phase, and trying to make space travel a bit less expensive.
Nele:So, um, musk on that well, spacex look, I don't think we need to muscovize space. Okay, we don't need. I mean, yes, this is good. I just don't like his ass and I don't want any of his juju his aura up, um, anywhere near mars when we go there.
Soph:Absolutely not you know his head's already big, so could you imagine? Oh, my goodness, yeah, but I mean, his company is really. They're making a lot of strides in this space, at least. At least spacex is now tesla, let's get into tesla. Uh, last week um, he had a, he tesla had a. Uh, we robot event. Um, and now if we, if we Robot sounds a little bit like iRobot, like you're not yeah.
Nele:Right From the movie.
Soph:When you see this, I feel like Elon watched iRobot and then went to his developers and said, hey, I want everything to look just like this.
Nele:Yes, he's like instead of iRobot.
Soph:we're going to make it different. We're going to be like WeRobot, since we all know in iRobot what happened the robots wanted to kill all humans. Well, they wanted to help them, even if it meant killing them for their own good.
Nele:Well, girl, that's what's going to happen anyway. Okay, because the robots are going to see humans are not worth much nowadays and, um, they gonna kill our asses. Um. So when you mentioned to me about the robots, I started like looking it up and they showed a video of the robot dancing oh yeah, we're gonna get into that yeah, role. I was. Like you can tell the programmer might have been melanin deficient or just lacking rhythm, because well, let's robot doing this.
Soph:Yeah so let's take a look. So he had, so that was part of it. So it was. It was three things that were featured at this um big reveal. It looked like a really good party though, so kudos to that. So he revealed the cyber cab of the robo van and the optimist robot. So let's, let's take a look at um. Let's take a look at this video.
Nele:I love the beginning. Oh my goodness, we don't need him.
Soph:Oh my goodness you know what that mean. I don't need to make fun of him. So that's the cyber cab.
Nele:It's so ugly it's hideous.
Soph:It's hideous. Let's go on to. We have quite a show for you tonight. I think you're going to like it. Oh my goodness, I just arrived in the robo-taxi, the cyber cab, and there's 20 more. Where that came from? There's 20.
Nele:Wow.
Soph:So let's go to this cyber taxi.
Nele:Now the cyber taxi. What is it Actually? We saw this. That was to this cyber taxi Now the cyber taxi.
Soph:What is it Actually? We saw this. That was just a cyber taxi. We're going to go to the. What he, what he got into, is the cyber taxi.
Nele:Okay.
Soph:So this is the um. What we're going to show now is the is the uh, oh, and uh, also, what, what, what, what is this? What the hell is this? What the hell is this what?
Nele:the hell is this? What the hell is this? What the hell is this? What the hell is this? What the hell is this? What the hell is this? What the hell is this? What the hell is this.
Soph:What the hell is this? What the hell is this? What the hell is this? What the hell is this?
Nele:What the?
Soph:hell is this Oculus?
Nele:Absolutely not.
Soph:And, as you can see, we started up with someone in a robot suit, sort of that, and then we've progressed dramatically year after year.
Nele:Yeah, okay, no, absolutely not.
Soph:So that's that. And then someone was like, how this the cybers, how the cybers, the robo van looks like it looks like the van from iRobot where all the evil robots came out of.
Nele:Yeah, it does. I was like this looks familiar.
Soph:I'm telling you, like this man has no imagination. Like he saw that movie, loved it and said just wants to spread this ugliness.
Nele:That's why it's supposed to be contained in a movie. We don't want this here. This is ugly, it's hideous. First of all, now you know I love my people, but you can't talk about technology because it's going to bring some like foolishness. So rapper Slim Thug was, you know, talking about the robots, like oh, you know, we get a robot, we're going to replace you women. You know talking about the robots like oh, you know, we get a robot, we're gonna replace you, you women, you know, because we'll have a robot cooking clean and we gotta care about his feelings and have sex with the robot then you do that and leave women alone look, the women on this planet will thank the robot gladly.
Nele:just go ahead, just go ahead. Just first of all, I read that these robots started like $16,000. So good luck. Why don't you want to pay for it For now?
Soph:So the tax. He starts at $30,000. He's saying it's going to be for $30,000.
Nele:But yeah right.
Soph:That's the same thing when he said Tesla, there was one price for Tesla. And then, like right before it came out, he was like no, I'm jacking this up like another like 20 grand. You either bought it or you didn't. And his fans, his fans said okay, we'll do it even though we prepaid.
Nele:Here's the thing Like Elon said something about, like oh, oh, you know, you can have the robot, like, basically, do domestic work for you, like cook stuff for you and bring stuff to you, whatever, and it's just like. I'm all for creation and progression, but to create things that will then, like well, how that affected domestic workers. You understand, like you know what I mean. Like you create things that to replace people. Because you've never had to work, you don't know what it's like to have a job of yours under threat because of technology. So you create, keep creating these things that does the job for everyone else. And then what about the actual, like human beings? Oh, robots can do all these things, but then people are out of a job.
Soph:Yeah, and you know what. So they like to tell us right when it comes to these things. They like to tell us um, tech is supposed to save us time, give us more leisure, make it a more green space and do all of this and do all of that. When OpenAI ChatGPT came on the scene, it was a huge thing. The stuff it was able to do was amazing, which caused a lot of jobs to be eliminated, and those of us who are still working, our jobs didn't get any easier. We're still working the same amount of time.
Soph:So, if you really want to help people, if you really want to help me save time, you want to help create more green spaces, create a technology that I don't need to work and I'm in. Like, all my needs are provided for. I could buy a house, I could raise a family if I choose to, or I could raise a cat if I choose to shout out to the cat women, okay, yes. Like, if you want to really help people, if you want us to have more time or more leisure time, like, why don't you do that? You know, I I don't want um, I don't want tech that freeze, that frees up my time, just so I could still sit in a robo taxi for two plus hours to get to work and work like 40 plus hours a week.
Nele:I don't want that. That's true. And now they haven't people come back to to work now.
Soph:It's, this is not. This is not for us. It's, it's not. It's not for us. It's not to give us back time, cause guess what? Something will come and take its place. Mainly work.
Nele:Yeah.
Soph:I mean, this is capitalism, it's not to help us.
Nele:It is and here's the thing right. We have to work to buy the shiny things that are supposed to make our life easier and so, in reality, just lower the prices of everything so we don't have to work so hard and do all of the things. That's the reality of it, you know, but that's not going to happen. We got to be able to work to afford the shiny things.
Soph:Yeah, we got to be able to work to afford the shiny things. Yeah, but I, I love how, um, um. So when it comes to the, when it comes to the optimist robot, really not, it's not. So the version that is now it's not fully autonomous, it's remote controlled by someone in another country. Who's to say that person is not spying on you or gathering data about your life? Of course, musk and his other big operations they build empires of collecting data Like why wouldn't this robot just be another tool to do the same thing? This robot?
Nele:all up in your house, all up in your spice cabinet. Yes, exactly. All up in your business.
Soph:Yeah. And then, first of all, this has a long time coming, right. I don't know if in 2021, when he first revealed that he was working on this, he, he had a whole reveal, and this is this is let me show you what this reveal was. So this man is like I'm working on a robot. People are excited. You know he hosts this event and let me show you what we see.
Soph:He's so weird, let me me. And then the fact that he was able to do this and, like he, no one bats an eye, like his stocks still go up, um, like people still believe in him. I don't understand.
Nele:I don't understand it either like he can use his money and his influence to like not saying this stuff doesn't matter, like SpaceX is dope, you know, but like there's stuff that's happening right now to real flesh and blood people. Yeah, so this?
Soph:is.
Nele:Is that someone in a robot outfit?
Soph:This was his reveal.
Nele:What is this? This was his reveal. What is this? This was in 2021.
Soph:That's Musk to the side. That's who? That's Musk to the side. If you can see that person, oh I see it right there?
Nele:Absolutely not. First of all these moves are awful. Absolutely not.
Soph:First of all these moves are awful? Absolutely not. This was 20, that was 2021. When he said he has a robot to show us, fast forward now in 2024, it's no longer a man in a suit, but now this thing is not, even it's not fully autonomous. Okay so, and we think he's like some great genius.
Nele:He just has a lot of money and he likes to tinker with toys.
Soph:Yeah, so the? So the cyber, the cyber cab or the robo taxis. This is already a thing. So there's a company called waymo and they have self-driving taxis and they've been cruising through cities like san fran, la um, phoenix and austin for a while now. So this is this is nothing new here the robo van there was. These journalists, rebecca Bellin and Maxwell Zeff at TechCrunch, described it, described the robo van as having a retro, futuristic look, somewhere between a bus from the JetSense and a toaster from the 1950s, somewhere between a bus from the jet sense and a toaster from the 1950s. First of all, I think this thing it looks like a trolley, like it literally looks. So we're just, you know, like it's.
Nele:Like. I don't. Is it a robo van Like like a minivan, or is it just a van Like for transport?
Soph:I think it's a van for transportation and for transportation. I think it's a van for transportation, it's a van for transportation. This is only a prototype. Only that one van exists, I think, for the cybercabs he has a couple. The robot he has I don't know how many, but the van I think he only has one, but the van I think he only has one. So, yeah, I mean. So he has this big event and shows off these toys. People have all the jokes right. I love to me that comment about the Jetsons in a 1950s toaster. Like all of his inventions, have that feel, that feel that someone like what someone in the 80s would envision a future in 2015 would look like Like that's what this stuff is.
Nele:It was giving me the taxi, was giving me like RoboCop with a little bit of Knight Rider. It was just it was ugly as hell, like those Cybertru. It's. Ugly as hell, like those cyber trucks. Ugly as hell. I've seen like three of them recently and I'm like why I see them?
Soph:it's I see them all over georgia so it is um, so I I don't think anyone really liked any of what he showed off. Um, people are so underwhelmed I mean, in fact, it was so unimpressive that so Tesla's shares fell 7%. Oh, wow, yeah, musk's net worth dropped by a staggering 15 billion. I say staggering, but I'm sure to him 15 billion is not a lot. Yeah, and a wall street analyst called tesla's um 30 000 robo taxi, dubbed the cap, a toothless taxi in a note to investors friday morning, adding that tesla has vicious targets with little evidence of feasibility. He does this often he promises the world and he gives you a man in a robot suit dancing around, or you know this, um, this low budget yeah, yeah, so he he has a habit of over promising and coming up short.
Soph:He's not an innovator, right? Um, thinking about, like his robots, companies like boston dynamics. They have several variations uh, for, like a dog like robot and, um, humanoid, humanoid ones that can jump, that can pick up things that are fully. They don't need someone to remote control them from another country. Yeah.
Nele:I've seen these Chinese robots and they had better dance moves by far, and I think the video was actually from a few years ago. It was like these Chinese robots and I was like, yeah, Well, so Honda back in the 80s?
Soph:so back in the 80s again. This man is. He's not reinventing, he's not inventing anything. This thing already exists ability to recognize moving objects, postures, gestures, its surrounding environment, sounds and faces, which enabled it to interact with humans. It could detect the movements of multiple objects by using visual information captured by two camera eyes in its head, and also determine distance and direction, and it could do a ton of other things that this, whatever he presented to us, can't. So again, the tech is there, it's been done.
Soph:I'm not sure why Elon is seen as the father, the son and the Holy Spirit of this AI movement and tech advancement, and he's not. He made a name for himself early on as some innovator who had the answer to this utopian future. He doesn't, and the more I hear him speak and the more I look into what other companies are doing in this space, and the more he becomes a deranged MAGA, the more I'm like this man. He just has enough money to hire the right people, buy up the right company to make him look like this Einstein level genius, which I mean, I don't think he's. I think I do think he's smart, I just don't think he's who he likes to portray himself to be. And, honestly, if we're gonna get like robots, like he's thinking, like the babysitters, the lawnmowers and all of that, it's going to come from Japan, you know, yeah, moving in the future and you know they probably have the tech, but they're like we're not giving it to the US because you all militarize everything.
Soph:Like it's like how can I make this a weapon, yeah, and that's and that's it a weapon? Yeah, and that's and that's it, and it was. It was very underwhelming and I would like for these companies to create tech so I do not have to work and all my like that's what I want If you need your time. Like like I hate when they come up with these things and like, oh, my god, you're gonna have so much time, it's gonna do this, it's gonna do that, but I still have to work 40 hours a week?
Soph:yeah, absolutely not no drive as often. Great, but I still gotta go into the office at nine and then leave at five. So I still what? What leisure time do I have? They're like oh, he was saying for the, for the taxi. He's like you could sleep in it, you could do work in it, I'm like like a train, that's you know he's like so out of so removed.
Nele:I'm saying, like these people create these things and they have no concepts, Just like Trump. It's like Trump he doesn't create things but except stories of nevermind.
Nele:But you know Trump being in the in the supermarket looking all lost, grabbed like a random bag of popcorn. This man has never grocery shopped for himself. He's never known what it's like to write a resume like he doesn't know and you want him to rule the country. You think he cares about food prices. I don't. I don't get it. I get it because it's aspirational. You know, to be melanin, deficient and have money and power. That's aspirational for people, yeah, but it for us, regular folk, it it doesn't do me any good, honestly it doesn't, I don't, I don't care.
Soph:Like again, like open, ai, chat, gpt. You know these super powerful machines that can do all of this work. People still got to work First. People either lost jobs or they're just working the same Like it does. It does nothing. Whose whose time is it freeing?
Nele:It helps me with my emails, but then it just frees up more time to write more emails.
Soph:So, exactly Cause that cause, the man is going to be like, oh you did this so quickly. Either I should get rid of you and just let it do that, or I can give you more work. They're going to find work to fill it up and I don't. I don't care about any of this stuff. There are real problems that we can be looking into. The stuff that we want to do, it's just I get it. It'd be nice to you know, have some, you know, energy efficient, whatever.
Soph:And that's another thing Like all of these, like all of these, electric, they're all electric. Yeah, grid to support it? Like I don't understand Facts, we do not have the grid to support it. Like I don't understand Facts, we do not have the grid to support it. California is on this thing where, like, they want people to have like electric cars by whatever year it is which is not that far away. On what freaking grid.
Nele:Facts.
Soph:I don't understand, but it's all about the money.
Nele:Yep. So this is what this is about All right. So stay woke, y'all, because Can we watch that video again, the one of the dancing robot in the suit?
Soph:Yes.
Nele:Let's watch that again, please. Muscles. Like yeah On the side. Like yeah On the side. Like yeah, absolutely not. This is awful.
Soph:Not even good dancing either.
Nele:Not even good dancing either. First I was like okay, you were doing the robot, all right, you were getting this. And then all that other stuff I don't know what that was.
Soph:That is low budget as hell Can you imagine you invite people to unveil this robot you've been working on and promising them and they get there and they're like how are you not chased out of town? How do?
Nele:you Low budget as hell. You know what that reminds me of, which is related but not related.
Soph:Yeah, how could they not vote you off these companies? These shareholders are afraid of them because any other company CEO they're like. How can we get them out?
Nele:girl this reminds me of actually it's a kind of a Diddy story, but not so. Me and Javi shout out to my boo, javi, we were at Diddy's restaurant, justin's and so my mom was promising us that we were going to meet Tyson Beckford. We're like, oh, tyson Beckford, we were going to meet tyson beckford. We're like, oh, tyson beckford, we're gonna meet tyson beckford. That she was like oh, here's tyson beckford's daddy. We were like what girl we don't want to meet his daddy? She made us take a picture with him low budget as hell managing expectations.
Nele:she was the elon mus, the Elon Musk of our hopes and dreams of meeting Tyson Beckford. I didn't know. Jd had a restaurant, yes, in the city called Justin's. I remember we went there and they were like, oh, do you want some water? We thinking it's water a la tap, and then it comes in this fancy blue bottle. The water's like $50. We were like what in the hell? You want to put that shit back? Fancy blue bottle.
Soph:The water's like $50.
Nele:We were like what in the hell you want to put that shit back? That happened to me once.
Soph:I went somewhere. They were like, do you want tap or still? I was like I want still. And then they bring us this fancy bottle. I'm like, oh, this is nice. And we had like three of them $15 each. We're like what?
Nele:Absolutely not, it was.
Soph:Voss, I think that's how I say it V-O-S-S. That's good water.
Nele:That's good water.
Soph:All right, that's that girl.
Nele:That was a whole heap of a hot mess.
Soph:The future is almost here. It looks like we're living in the 80s.
Nele:Yeah Well, maybe what's up next is a little bit more hopeful. So now on to shady astrology, where I know How's that hopeful.
Nele:I'm going to get there. I'm going to get there. Girl, let me get there where I normally would get, in your Zodiac's ass. But since I did that with the Libras, no shout outs to the Libras. But my one Libra fan was like is that what you really think of us? Yes, girl, but I said good things too. You don't take all I got to give all right. We're going to talk about actually.
Nele:It's actually a really special time because there's a full moon in Aries on October 17th and it's supposed to be a big deal. It's called the Hunter's Moon and what makes it such a big deal is that it'll be the largest super moon of the year. At its nearest point, it will be 222,000 miles from the earth and appear 10% larger than normal. So, y'all, it's a big ass. Moon October 7th, yes, so Aries, right. What does it mean when the moon's in Aries?
Nele:So Aries is a fire sign that is known for its bold, assertive energy. So this full moon encourages people to take initiative, assert their personal needs and embark on new projects or changes. It's time for bold decisions and embracing leadership roles. But there also may be some heightened impulsivity or conflict. That's right, because Aries they be doing the most. They're real intense. Right. Aries can push individuals towards fast, decisive decisions without fully thinking them through.
Nele:So bold, big ass moon. We have some bold, big ass decisions and things that we need to work on. Tap into your inner aries. Y'all the aries is the ram. Tap into your inner ram and ram towards those goals. Right, that's right. It says now's the time to reflect on personal goals, set boundaries and embrace courage, but it's also to important to balance this fiery energy with patience and mindfulness to avoid unnecessary conflict or burnout. Yes, so the moon will be big and bright on the 17th of October. You know, set your intentions, make those decisions. You got anything bold that you want to do. Soph Girl, I have so many bold things that I want to do if I were to be bold, I would just quit society.
Nele:Me and nz and my plants would just live on a commune in north dakota somewhere. But that's it for shady astrology. I can't speak Shady astrology. See, it wasn't so bad right.
Soph:No, it wasn't so bad. One thing I wanted to look into. So there's supposed to be like an extra moon in the sky. I'm going to read this article because I think it's cool. So this fall, I think, beginning sometime in September, the skies will hold a special treat for attentive space lovers. The skies will hold a special treat for attentive space lovers. Over the next two months, Earth will have a second moon. Beginning on September 29th, just after 4 pm, An asteroid will enter Earth's orbit and travel in a horseshoe-shaped path around the planet until it departs on November 25th.
Soph:Earth's second moon is actually in NASA's name 2024 PT5. It's considered a temporary mini moon because moons are scientifically defined as naturally formed bodies that orbit planets, per NASA science. But to us Earthlings it won't look like the moon we know and love, because it won't be visible to the naked eye. In fact, the second moon is so mini that even a normal it won't be visible to the naked eye. In fact, the second moon is so many that even a normal telescope won't be able to capture it. To see it, you'll need a telescope at least 30 inches in diameter, paired with a CCB or CMOS digital detector. So while we do have the second moon. You will not be able to see it unless you have special equipment. So that's pretty cool.
Nele:Tying into you know um, big ass, big ass moon yes, you got a tent moon a mini moon and a big ass moon All right, Well, yeah, that's that's it All right. Well, y'all, thank you for joining us for this episode. Until next time, please make sure, if you like the vibe, to like, comment and subscribe. Shout out to some new subscribers that we got. Shout out to y'all because we got a few. Yes, till next time, y'all. Bye.
