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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Transcript
All right, should we go to the lighting round, close out the show?
Speaker B:Yes, let's do it.
Speaker B:Chris 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 B:Do you use manners when you are asking ChatGPT to do something for you or saying, hey, will you please help me with this?
Speaker B:Thank you, Siri.
Speaker A:You 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 A:I have no idea why, but I do.
Speaker A:So I guess I'm causing more energy usage with every, with every command that I, that I ask of ChatGPT.
Speaker A:But I guess old, old Ma Walton raised me right.
Speaker A:I guess it taught me manners.
Speaker A:So, yeah, I say please all the time.
Speaker A:Do you say please?
Speaker B:No, it's a robot.
Speaker B:They don't have feet feelings.
Speaker B:I'm just like, I'm putting in a command.
Speaker B:It feels like adding niceties like please and thank you is like a ridiculous thing that I.
Speaker B:It's just gonna mess up the system.
Speaker B:I just like, I feel like I have to be as explicit as possible when I'm writing those things.
Speaker A:Wow.
Speaker A:Fascinating.
Speaker A:Fascinating.
Speaker A:All the dynamics of how people use things.
Speaker A:All right, Pope Francis died this week.
Speaker A:My question for you is, if someone were to elect me pope, what name would you recommend that I take?
Speaker B:I 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 B:So I think this would be good.
Speaker B:Like, you'd be able to ask questions, you'd be able to like, you know, use that as the premise for your Popedom.
Speaker B:What do you call it?
Speaker B:Pope Hood?
Speaker A:My papacy.
Speaker B:Yes, your papacy.
Speaker B:Your paper.
Speaker A:Wow.
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker A:Wow, that's a good one.
Speaker A:And I like the thought you put into that.
Speaker A:That was really good.
Speaker B:All right, let's go to question number three.
Speaker B:London marathoners can carbo load for free this weekend at top Soho pasta spot.
Speaker B:Pastao.
Speaker B:Soho.
Speaker B:Hopefully I said that right, but definitely did not as part of a pop up marketing campaign for the marathon.
Speaker B:Chris, what is the perfect pasta shape, in your opinion?
Speaker B:And sauce?
Speaker A:Crack me up.
Speaker A:I.
Speaker A:I'm guessing you didn't say it right.
Speaker A:I don't really know, but I guess the, the.
Speaker A:The Asian pronunciation of an Italian spot in Soho is probably not correct.
Speaker A:But anyway.
Speaker B:I don't even know.
Speaker B:P A S T A I O.
Speaker B:Somebody corrected.
Speaker A:There's no Point to it and I don't know how to spell this word.
Speaker A:I never have.
Speaker A:But it.
Speaker A:The answer is easy.
Speaker A:It's masachouli.
Speaker A:That's the, that's the only noodle.
Speaker A:And explain that.
Speaker B:That shape for people in case they're not familiar with machine.
Speaker A:It's a penne without the ridges.
Speaker A:Basically, that's what is.
Speaker A:That's what I'm penne without the ridges.
Speaker A:And it's my grandfather's sauce.
Speaker A:Yeah, my grandfather makes a killer sauce, which I believe it or not, I think you've had it right.
Speaker B:Oh, I have.
Speaker B:It's wonderful.
Speaker B:I love it.
Speaker B:Yeah, it's so tasty.
Speaker B:So tasty.
Speaker A:Got some anis in it.
Speaker A:Yeah, he.
Speaker A:He lights it up.
Speaker A:All right, last one.
Speaker A:In the latest sign of the impending apocalypse.
Speaker A:I can't even believe this one.
Speaker A:Anne.
Speaker A:A startup has raised $1.5 million.
Speaker A:Somebody gave $1.5 million to a company to pit sperm samples against one another.
Speaker A:A microscopic sports style match, complete with leaderboards and play byplay commentary in an arena filled with 4,000 people.
Speaker A:And 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 A:And whom do you think would win?
Speaker B:I thought the Robot vs Human marathon was entertaining.
Speaker B:I didn't know about sperm races.
Speaker B:I would have to say, given the context, I would want to see a sperm race between LeBron and Anthony Edwards.
Speaker B:Um, I would assume that Ant would win because of his youth.
Speaker B:But when you think about all the money, I forget like we were watching starting five, this show on Netflix about.
Speaker B:And it follows like LeBron and Anthony Edwards and a few other players around.
Speaker B:The 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 B:So like even though he's older, he could still beat the younger ones.
Speaker B:But that's, that's the first thing that came to mind.
Speaker B:And go.
Speaker B:Wolves beat the Lakers again.
Speaker A:Yeah, they had a good first game.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:You know, it's funny, I had to.
Speaker A:I thought it answered this question too.
Speaker A:My brain went to the old people.
Speaker A:Mine would be Anthony Quinn against Al Pacino.
Speaker A:Two men that both fathered kids in their like late 70s or 80s.
Speaker A:It just see, just put a pit them up against each other.
Speaker A:It'd be great.
Speaker A:It'd be great.
Speaker A:Those two are.
Speaker B:You'd be there forever.
Speaker B:It wouldn't be a race.
Speaker B:It'd be like a brawl or something.
Speaker A:I don't know if you'd be there forever.
Speaker A:Those guys were.
Speaker A:Those.
Speaker A:Those.
Speaker A:Their spurs were pretty modal, and they were pretty.
Speaker A:They were moving pretty hard in their day.
