AI Manners, Sperm Races, Papal Name Hypotheticals & Pasta Debates | Lightning Round Gets Wild
It’s lightning round time! Chris and Anne open with OpenAI’s surprising energy usage linked to polite prompts (00:03), then reveal whether they use manners with their own bots (00:22). Things escalate with papal name hypotheticals (01:15), a very serious pasta shape debate (02:00), and finally, the sperm race startup that no one saw coming (03:08). Stick around to hear which historical figures' sperm they'd bet on — and why youth might not always win.
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00:00 - Untitled
00:03 - The Impact of Politeness on AI Interactions
01:16 - The Dynamics of AI Interactions and Unexpected Topics
01:56 - Discussion on Pasta and Marathon Promotions
02:56 - The Secret Sauce: A Culinary Legacy
03:11 - The Rise of Unconventional Startups
04:39 - The Clash of Legends
All right, should we go to the lighting round, close out the show?
Speaker BYes, let's do it.
Speaker BChris OpenAI is reporting that they are spending significant money in electricity bills or the amount of electricity that's being used because of people saying please and thank you to their AI bots.
Speaker BDo you use manners when you are asking ChatGPT to do something for you or saying, hey, will you please help me with this?
Speaker BThank you, Siri.
Speaker AYou know, and it's funny, I actually look back at my, my prompts in ChatGPT and everywhere else, and I almost 100% of the time say please.
Speaker AI have no idea why, but I do.
Speaker ASo I guess I'm causing more energy usage with every, with every command that I, that I ask of ChatGPT.
Speaker ABut I guess old, old Ma Walton raised me right.
Speaker AI guess it taught me manners.
Speaker ASo, yeah, I say please all the time.
Speaker ADo you say please?
Speaker BNo, it's a robot.
Speaker BThey don't have feet feelings.
Speaker BI'm just like, I'm putting in a command.
Speaker BIt feels like adding niceties like please and thank you is like a ridiculous thing that I.
Speaker BIt's just gonna mess up the system.
Speaker BI just like, I feel like I have to be as explicit as possible when I'm writing those things.
Speaker AWow.
Speaker AFascinating.
Speaker AFascinating.
Speaker AAll the dynamics of how people use things.
Speaker AAll right, Pope Francis died this week.
Speaker AMy question for you is, if someone were to elect me pope, what name would you recommend that I take?
Speaker BI would say you should be Pope Thomas, because Pope Thomas is the patron saint of, or actually is also depicted as a doubter, but a believer.
Speaker BSo I think this would be good.
Speaker BLike, you'd be able to ask questions, you'd be able to like, you know, use that as the premise for your Popedom.
Speaker BWhat do you call it?
Speaker BPope Hood?
Speaker AMy papacy.
Speaker BYes, your papacy.
Speaker BYour paper.
Speaker AWow.
Speaker BYes.
Speaker AWow, that's a good one.
Speaker AAnd I like the thought you put into that.
Speaker AThat was really good.
Speaker BAll right, let's go to question number three.
Speaker BLondon marathoners can carbo load for free this weekend at top Soho pasta spot.
Speaker BPastao.
Speaker BSoho.
Speaker BHopefully I said that right, but definitely did not as part of a pop up marketing campaign for the marathon.
Speaker BChris, what is the perfect pasta shape, in your opinion?
Speaker BAnd sauce?
Speaker ACrack me up.
Speaker AI.
Speaker AI'm guessing you didn't say it right.
Speaker AI don't really know, but I guess the, the.
Speaker AThe Asian pronunciation of an Italian spot in Soho is probably not correct.
Speaker ABut anyway.
Speaker BI don't even know.
Speaker BP A S T A I O.
Speaker BSomebody corrected.
Speaker AThere's no Point to it and I don't know how to spell this word.
Speaker AI never have.
Speaker ABut it.
Speaker AThe answer is easy.
Speaker AIt's masachouli.
Speaker AThat's the, that's the only noodle.
Speaker AAnd explain that.
Speaker BThat shape for people in case they're not familiar with machine.
Speaker AIt's a penne without the ridges.
Speaker ABasically, that's what is.
Speaker AThat's what I'm penne without the ridges.
Speaker AAnd it's my grandfather's sauce.
Speaker AYeah, my grandfather makes a killer sauce, which I believe it or not, I think you've had it right.
Speaker BOh, I have.
Speaker BIt's wonderful.
Speaker BI love it.
Speaker BYeah, it's so tasty.
Speaker BSo tasty.
Speaker AGot some anis in it.
Speaker AYeah, he.
Speaker AHe lights it up.
Speaker AAll right, last one.
Speaker AIn the latest sign of the impending apocalypse.
Speaker AI can't even believe this one.
Speaker AAnne.
Speaker AA startup has raised $1.5 million.
Speaker ASomebody gave $1.5 million to a company to pit sperm samples against one another.
Speaker AA microscopic sports style match, complete with leaderboards and play byplay commentary in an arena filled with 4,000 people.
Speaker AAnd if you could watch sperm from any two men in history, dead or alive, race for the gold, who would those two men be?
Speaker AAnd whom do you think would win?
Speaker BI thought the Robot vs Human marathon was entertaining.
Speaker BI didn't know about sperm races.
Speaker BI would have to say, given the context, I would want to see a sperm race between LeBron and Anthony Edwards.
Speaker BUm, I would assume that Ant would win because of his youth.
Speaker BBut when you think about all the money, I forget like we were watching starting five, this show on Netflix about.
Speaker BAnd it follows like LeBron and Anthony Edwards and a few other players around.
Speaker BThe amount of time and money that LeBron spends on his body, I wouldn't be surprised if like his sperm had some kind of superpower.
Speaker BSo like even though he's older, he could still beat the younger ones.
Speaker BBut that's, that's the first thing that came to mind.
Speaker BAnd go.
Speaker BWolves beat the Lakers again.
Speaker AYeah, they had a good first game.
Speaker AYeah.
Speaker AYou know, it's funny, I had to.
Speaker AI thought it answered this question too.
Speaker AMy brain went to the old people.
Speaker AMine would be Anthony Quinn against Al Pacino.
Speaker ATwo men that both fathered kids in their like late 70s or 80s.
Speaker AIt just see, just put a pit them up against each other.
Speaker AIt'd be great.
Speaker AIt'd be great.
Speaker AThose two are.
Speaker BYou'd be there forever.
Speaker BIt wouldn't be a race.
Speaker BIt'd be like a brawl or something.
Speaker AI don't know if you'd be there forever.
Speaker AThose guys were.
Speaker AThose.
Speaker AThose.
Speaker ATheir spurs were pretty modal, and they were pretty.
Speaker AThey were moving pretty hard in their day.