Podcast #499: Comedy, Evil, and AI

Drunk Ex-Pastors

Christian Kingery

Religion & Spirituality, Comedy

4.7 • 565 Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2024

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of DXP we address Jerry Seinfeld's recent retraction of his earlier insistence that wokeness makes comedy impossible. We hear from a listener asking about Neil deGrasse Tyson's formulation of the problem of evil, and then talk about Noah Yuval Harari's new book, Nexus, and what it has to say about the dangers of AI. Biebers involve thumbnails and spines.

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0:00.0	What's up, dude?
0:02.2	Happy Lord's Day to you.
0:03.8	Hey, thank you.
0:05.1	Happy, happy Sabbath.
0:07.3	Shomar Shabbat Shalom.
0:10.0	Remember in Big Lobowski where Walter, you know, John Goodman, he's not Jewish, but his wife,
0:17.0	his ex-wife's Jewish, and so he converted for her but he still practices it even though he's
0:21.0	divorced and he's all pissed off because uh the the the bowling league they're in the tournament
0:32.0	falls on Saturday which is the Jewish Sabbath right he's all pissed like showmer Shabbas I told
0:36.5	that crowd down to the league office.
0:37.8	I don't,
0:38.1	I don't fold clothes.
0:40.0	I don't cook on the Sabbath.
0:42.0	And I sure is hell the fucking roll.
0:46.6	I was reading something.
0:48.0	Oh,
0:48.2	I think it's the,
0:49.3	I think it was mentioned in the,
0:51.3	you've all know a Harari book about how strict Jews can't tear toilet paper
0:58.0	on the Sabbath.
0:59.7	So they pre-tear strips of it so that they can wipe their ass on the Sabbath without breaking
1:05.9	any Sabbath rules.
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