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The Ben and Emil Show

BAES 34: Paypigs is over (real)

The Ben and Emil Show

Ben and Emil

Comedy

51K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

It was fun while it lasted, but it's time to move on. Paypigs is over, and The Ben and Emil show is born. All at once we are: -changing our name -moving out of Emil's apartment -ditching Patreon and launching our website (www.benandemilshow.com) -- go sign up for a free month of bonus episodes! All our existing bonus episodes are up there for you to enjoy :) -launching merch -launching a new monthly show As for the rest of the episode, we're talking about the Apple Vision Pro: what we think about it, its implications for society and technology. We're also covering the tech execs who testified in front of the senate judiciary committee, and META's blowout quarter. This episode (and every episode) was masterfully edited by Dillon Moore. Check him out at https://www.dillonmoore.co and @ dillonmoore on IG We're on instagram. @ bencahn and @ emilderosa and @ dillonmoore TIMESTAMPS: 00:00-8:30: big news 8:30-11:50: twitter sucks 11:50-26:00: the future of computing 26:00-29:20: China, a douchebag CEO 29:20-46:40: tech execs trotted out, online shopping 46:40-59:32 META earnings, what we use social media for, Ben's social media insecurities

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to episode 34.

0:02.0

What will go down in history as a historic episode

0:06.0

because it is the final episode of PayPigs.

0:09.0

That's right.

0:10.0

And the first episode filmed in a divorced dad's apartment. It's always been that.

0:15.6

We're on a folding table because the the credit card repo guys took the dining room

0:21.1

table. There's nothing left in here. But we do, also apologies for my, I just got

0:28.6

back from China yesterday, so I'm a little jet-lagged, but we have some big announcements to make.

0:35.1

Huge announcements. They're so big. This isn't a joke. So yeah, PayPigs,

0:40.1

then we tricked you a little bit.

0:43.6

PayPigs is over.

0:44.6

Yeah, we're not calling it that.

0:46.3

Because we're going to change the name.

0:47.3

We're changing it to, one, two, three,

0:50.3

the Ben and a Meals show.

0:51.9

It's just going to be easier for everybody.

0:55.0

You know, we've heard all the complaints.

0:57.0

We've seen it ourselves.

0:58.0

You try to search for us on Instagram and it warns you that if you proceed you're going to see nasty stuff or whatever and they're like are you sure yeah I really want to search for this podcast

1:11.2

And we heard about all the Reddit stuff where you know if you want to get on there and have a fun time with your friends on Reddit but you're getting ladies asking you to send them money and call your names and stuff like that so we don't want that happening to anybody

1:22.7

no we don't and it's just easier for everybody it's the band and a meal show you know

1:27.8

what you're getting yeah so we're changing our name also we heard you don't want to

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