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Episode One

295 - Our Friends, Electric

Episode One

Episode One

Comedy

4.8858 Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2023

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

In the near future (less than 1 week from now), three guys and three robots who are exactly as smart as each other set off on an incredible journey of friendship. Guest starring Jesse Farrar, Mike Hale, and Zeke Golvin. E1 on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/e1podcast

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0:00.0

This story takes place a couple of days from now.

0:03.0

If you look at your calendar, add, oh, I don't know, four days to that.

0:08.0

This is a very special day in human history.

0:11.0

Sure, it seems like a normal day.

0:13.0

The birds are still chirping, the bees are still going extinct, but that day is anything but ordinary.

0:20.0

It is the day that artificial intelligence will become exactly as smart as human beings.

0:25.6

This is not a story of robots taking over, or eternal war between machine and flesh.

0:31.6

This is a story of friendship, between man and beast, a beast known as a computer.

0:39.0

This is the General Mills experimental serials and mascot development division,

0:43.9

manned by some of the most forward-thinking product developers and the world's most advanced

0:48.2

artificial intelligence technologies. If this genius team had invented the nuclear bomb,

0:53.2

they would have blown Japan to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.

0:56.0

That's right, all the way to the other ocean.

0:59.0

But luckily for the Japanese, this advanced research team was only interested in cereal.

1:04.0

The greatest cereal of all time.

1:07.0

Serial so great it would need advanced vision of experimental AI to theorize new flavor combinations and mascot personalities.

1:15.6

But this isn't a story about cereal. We've already told you what it's a story about. It's friendship.

1:21.6

The story is about friendship. Even if you're some kind of loser who's never had a friend, you guys can get a feel for what it might be like from these amazing tales of camaraderie experienced by these guys and robots. It all began one day in Danbury, Connecticut.

1:37.9

Working at the General Mills experimental cereals and mascot development Division is baller as hell, but even so.

1:45.5

I cannot wait for the weekend.

1:47.9

It's only Tuesday, Mr. Suarez, but I'm looking forward to the weekend, too.

1:52.5

I think I'm going to work on my Frankenstein.

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