BAES 120: AI is the Biggest Bubble of All Time ft. ED ZITRON

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🗓️ 2 October 2025

⏱️ 115 minutes

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Ed Zitron is back with us to talk about all the latest insanity coming out of silicon valley, OpenAI, and the entire AI tech apparatus.The numbers don't add up. Give this video a thumbs up if you enjoyed it! And please leave us a comment! It helps us! ***Ben's new movies and tv podcast with Dillon is OUT NOW! GO WATCH the latest episode on THE HIGH SCHOOL CATFISH here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MC1wfcB6c2E **CHECK OUT EMIL'S LIVESTREAMS HERE: https://www.youtube.com/emilderosa Support us and get bonus content, ad-free versions and more plus your first 7 days free at https://benandemilshow.com __ SOME OTHER VIDEOS YOU MAY ENJOY: That's Cringe of Cody Ko: https://youtu.be/dTbEk0pVh2w Our AUSTIN VIDEO: https://youtu.be/yGSs56bFzRU Our episode with Kyla Scanlon: https://youtu.be/cIHWkY35cuc Big Tech is out of ideas (ft. ED ZITRON): https://youtu.be/zBvVGHZBpMw Arguing with a millionaire (ft. Chris Camillo): https://youtu.be/1ZUWTkWV_MM We bought suits HERE: https://youtu.be/_cM1XqA9n2U ***LINK TO OUR DISCORD: https://discord.gg/CjujBt8g ***Subscribe to Emil's Substack: https://substack.com/@emilderosa ***Trade with Ben at https://tradertreehouse.com __ MIZZEN & MAIN: Mizzen & Main is offering our viewers 20% off your first purchase at https://mizzenandmain.com using promo code BAES20. ZOCDOC: Stop putting off those doctors appointments and go to https://zocdoc.com/baes to find and instantly book a top rated doctor today! GOODR: Go to https://goodr.com/BAES and use code BAES for free shipping! __ Follow us on instagram! @ benandemilshow @ bencahn @ emilderosa Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The big question is whether or not all of this AI spending is a bubble.
0:04.4	I feel very safe in saying yes.
0:06.6	Yes.
0:07.1	You have committed to failure.
0:08.5	There is no doing this.
0:09.8	If they gave every dollar just a Sam orman, the guy who can't even tell you why you're giving the money to him.
0:16.3	When you're like, what are you going to do so?
0:17.6	He's like, well, yeah.
0:55.3	Today it's going to be really intelligent. It could get agentic at some point. No one else has a big business doing this, even Claude Codd with Anthropic, which is theoretically meant to be super popular. 33 million a month. Ugh. That's less than the Cincinnati Reds make. What's you do with the Reds? What if it's stupid? What if they make the AGI and it can't do stuff? They're like, yeah, we need you to make this a PowerPoint. It's like, no. I don't want to. And I'm just like wasting some small town in like West Virginia's water. And I'm just like, what am I doing with this? Hey, you got this.
0:56.0	You know what?
0:56.9	You got this. You got this.
0:57.5	I hate you got this.
0:58.8	I hate when the robot says you got this.
1:00.7	I don't ever hear that from it because I'm abusing it.
1:05.5	I'm looking down to town with me tell me what's going on
1:11.4	Tell me what's going on
1:13.6	Your hair looks okay
1:18.4	Oh, thanks, thank you
1:19.6	Were you wearing a hat?
1:20.7	No, it just looks messy
1:22.3	And he doesn't have a f***ing hairbrush, did he?
1:25.1	Now all the f***ing perverts
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