Emptiness is me. Mars Bath. Mind Google. So who's ill this week, Is everybody ill? Little bit. Ben's got a little runny nose. I'm always just a little bit broken though, aren't I? You're always a little bit runny. Just a drippy boy. They're so wonderfully ill-informed. Hi, and welcome to Wonderfully Ill-Informed, the podcast where we convert interesting, funny or informative things from our week into quotes, put them into a randomizer, take our best shot at getting what they're about, and then jump into a discussion. Join us for some rather unpredictable chats on Wonderfully Ill-Informed. I'm Mark. I'm Ben. And I am Tom. Hello. Hello. Howdy there, boys. I have a little question to open us up. this evening. This once more comes from the depths of my brain. Of the two childhood fears you could possibly have, the floor being turned into lava or the floor being turned into quicksand, which would you rather go through for one hour a day every day? I thought you were going to reference the floor being turned into semen, yeah. Sorry, sorry. I'm slightly confused. So you have to travel through it each day. You know, like back in the day, you'd be like, guys. The floor is lava when you were little kids. Is it playing the game or is it the actual floor is lava? I'm so confused. No, so the floor becomes one of those. You have to deal with that for an hour every day. Which one do you choose? So lava or what was it again? Or quicksand. So death or death basically. Well, it's death or slow death. Fair. Yeah. So I probably would go with lava. That's difficult because you either want a quick death Or you want slow death so you've got the chance of getting out and I can't decide which one's better This is true. Yeah. Yeah, I'd say all of those things are fair because I'm not very nimble I am going to fall in. Yes, eventually. I mean is you can't there's nothing to do I love it that how you say, you know, you've just got to deal with it How can you just deal with it? No, how can you just deal with it? There's nothing what floats in lava? You to climb around the walls or keep everything off the floor? Is it typical Flora's Lava rules? So you could just put like a cushion down and that would then not be lava. yes. that then burn up and sink? Yeah. If it's literal, it's a bit like we're just fucked because you can't, it's not like you can get a lava proof boat and just make your merry way to work. Yeah. I was kind of imagining this as like the children's game. you, you. So not real. No, no, not like real. When you were saying death or slow agonizing death, it's kind of like I appreciated that part of the chat. I was letting that roll. But I generally meant it in terms of like everybody has to stand up and go, fuck, the floor is lava for the next hour. Just for everyone around you. I thought you meant literally. Yeah. No, no, no, no. OK. Sorry. Sorry. It doesn't matter, does it? You have to have a game. It's just a game and you're just thinking, imagining it. It makes no difference. Floor is lava. Okay, cool, I'm getting in the car, you later. I'm driving, I'm going home. has lost all of his childhood spirit. you're not interested in playing a game. Well, if it was me, I'd be like, the floor is lava, okay, I'll just stay in and work in the studio. Yeah, I'll just my feet up. I just do the same thing I do every day. Hello, listener. It is I, everyone's favorite, the Nameless Wonder. Welcome back to the show, where Ben is always drippy. annoys everyone with his ineptitude. And as usual, Tom refuses to play games and goes back to his work. Entering prediction mode. This week, I predict we will hear about a weird Pokemon fact from Ben. Some creepy animal from Mark. and a completely unresearched Facebook video from Tom. Emptiness is meaningful. Nothing is everything See I read it as emptiness is me because that was what it was showing us to start with Emptiness is me. So you it's kind of god. It's kind of Trying to be happy out of something shit. Is that what it's getting at? Mm-hmm. It's kind of quite hopeful, isn't it? It sounds like it's a deep tip a very deep mindful is isn't it? It does seem like that. Yeah, it does seem like that. But it's not. It's not. It's not very deep. I mean, that's a very deep quote. It is definitely a deep quote. This was actually a quote from the video that we'll watch. And it's an interview from someone involved in this thing. Ben, have you got any guesses while I send this over to Tom? No, no, I think we should just watch it. I'm slowly working out that I don't think my brain has woken up today. It's currently 10 to 7 in the evening. So good luck everyone. I might just be along for the ride for this one. It'll get to like one at night and Ben will be like, it means this. I have a guess. I just get a text. Can you space out and do nothing for 90 minutes? At this year's International Space Out Competition. More than 70 teams joined the race to see who was best at... well, not doing much of anything. The rules are simple. Participants need to remain dazed for 90 minutes without doing anything. They are not allowed to check phones, nod off, sleep, chat, or consume anything other than the water or snacks provided. How much of this is subtitles? Because I'm not sure how much it translates on a broadcast. It's fine, there's not much. All participants can raise the colored cards in front of them to enjoy different services. Red for massage, blue for water, yellow for fanning, and black for removing other inconveniences. Their heart rates will be checked every 15 minutes. Those with a more stable or falling heart rate will receive higher scores. The first prize winner, Dennis Kwan, was selected from the top 10 most highly voted contestants. He looks so chill! A psychologist, Kwon's application said he wanted to join the contest because emptiness is meaningful. Nothing is everything. The Space Out competition marked its 10th anniversary this year. Created by South Korean artist, Oopsyang in 2014, It is an annual event first held. I can't be asked to listen to anymore. Sorry. It's fine. Yeah, we can stop. I was I was, I was like reading it for a bit and then I realised that I was doing literally what it said in the video. I was just literally just spaced out, like looking at my screen. I was purely waiting for Tom to get bored of it. I was like, I was going to say, was like, do we need to watch this whole video, Mark? And I was like, no, Tom will do it for me. It won't be long. I'm going to let Tom be the arbiter of this. I'd already spaced out, man. Yeah, I just hadn't said. Yeah. So I didn't realise it was a competition to start with. Yeah. Until where I was like, no, they've all got like numbers on them. Yeah, yeah. Like a marathon. Yeah. I like the idea of it, but I think rather than turn it into a competition, like practice, meditation or something, think would be... Like meditation is something I've always wanted to do, but never actually got around to doing it. But that's basically kind of what they're doing. I know it's not the same, but do know what mean? They're trying to... empty their mind, you know what mean? All that kind of stuff. What do they get for doing this, for winning? I'm not sure. Let's have a look. I don't think they necessarily win anything. I think they win the accolade of being the winner. I think they get like a certificate and it looks like, wow, there's a little trophy. I'll get you the trophy. It looks like a man thinking. It looks a little bit like the thinker. I don't know if you know that piece of art. You obviously weren't looking at the cameras, Marco was doing it. But the thinker, I know I wasn't. Did you look a little? Yes, exactly. It looks like that, but with like a top hat on, I think. It looks like a pilgrim hat. It looks like he's gone to Thanksgiving and then he's won the Space Out competition. Yes, Tommy. It's exactly what Tom's doing. What we'll do is we'll post that to Yes, miming a blow job. Exactly right. Well, this is embarrassing. It seems like my prediction mode training is yet to be perfected. I am not creeped out, and I did not find out any animal facts. Listener, should I change my predictions? No, I will trust prediction mode and stick with my predictions. Pokemon from Ben and Nonsense from Tom. Here we go. Can I blow your mind again? You've got another mind blowing thing for us, Tom, have you? Yeah. So last time... Well, no, last time I brought a thing that was just fake. So... No, I mean, the last time you blew our minds was the sphere sound, right? Yeah. So is this to do with that or is it just another mind blowing thing? It's not sphere related. It's something that I didn't actually know. Maybe you did. So let's see if this catches you out. How long does it take to boil an egg? Well, it depends if the water's already boiling, but like seven minutes. Seven minutes? Fucking hell, you don't want a hard boiled egg, mate. Jesus Christ. Well, you didn't specify what type of egg to be fair. No, true. The man wants a hard boiled egg. Seven not how tethered the water was. That was from cold water. Fair enough, from cold water, maybe so. Now, go on top of a mountain. How long does it take to boil your egg? The higher air pressure so less time. think well, this is what comes to the video I think it's the other way around it takes longer time. okay. Can I blow your mind again? This is just this is really good stuff Okay, as you know cooking times have to be adjusted on mountaintops Because when you boil water, it's not 212 degrees depending on the height of the mountain There's less air pressing down that that's preventing it from boiling Okay, the boiling point is not some absolute fact about the water It has to do with what the air pressure is sitting above it If you have extremely high air pressure, water has to go to a much higher temperature before it boils. So the boiling point of water that's reported in all textbooks is at sea level, at one atmospheric pressure. That's how you get 212 degrees. If you start reducing the atmospheric pressure, it's 210 degrees, 205 degrees, 200 degrees, 190 degrees, 180 degrees. 180 degrees? No! Yes, and so that's not as hot as 212 degrees, so you gotta cook the food longer. All cooking times are increased. for this reason. That's so crazy. I no idea. watch, I'm not done with you. Let's keep reducing the air pressure, okay? Boiling port keeps dropping. It's 170 degrees, 150. 100 degrees Fahrenheit. 80 degrees Fahrenheit. 50 degrees Fahrenheit. 40 degrees Fahrenheit. 32 degrees Fahrenheit! What happens? The ice melts and becomes water. The water evaporates and becomes steam. And all of that's happening at 32 degrees. There is an atmospheric pressure for which water, ice, and steam coexist. And it's called the triple point of water. And all ingredients have a triple point. Wow. What is the atmospheric pressure? Mars is very close to the triple point of water. So you can have a simultaneous bath in certain regions of Mars because the air pressure is so low. It's like 1 100th Earth's air pressure. It's very, very low. So you have a place where a hot of water, ice cubes and steam are coming out all at once. It's at the triple point. I got a little bit lost. Yeah, after a little while that started to fuck with my mind. Did he just say that you have ice cubes being produced at the same temperature as steam and regular water? that's the triple point. Yeah. But is it is is I'm so confused. Does that mean it's just a constant state? It's just like I see steam water. Yeah, I don't know how it would work. Yeah, yeah. I don't know how the fuck you'd get them all to be in that same state at the same time in the same place. Well, you go and have a bath on Mars, apparently. You pour the water and then it immediately turns to steam and then just falls out of the air as ice cubes and back to water again. Yeah, yeah. That's what I'm trying to like imagine what he just described. Right at the end there, that fucking just melted my brain. It went beyond blowing my mind. The interesting thing is that he says that there is a triple point for everything. Yeah, yeah. So does that mean that somewhere I could be solid, liquid and gas at the same time? Yes. Holy smokes listener, I am so sorry. We now know that we cannot trust prediction mode. I can't believe he hit us with Neil deGrasse Tyson. I thought I certainly had it there, but instead my circuits are spinning. Instead of engaging prediction mode, this time I am going guess, I guess that Ben brought some kind of 90s or early 2000s nostalgia for us. Let's see what's next. There's no words to describe how amazing this tech is. okay. So, well, I'm guessing this is some kind of like world saving tech. Are we talking like reverse the effects of global warming tech? No, not quite as grand as that. I'll give you a clue that this is something we've talked about before. And by that, I mean, literally something we have talked about before. This is an update. Is it that guy's phone? what? The tech bro guy with the hide the Google stuff. No. What tech have we talked about? mean, we talk about a lot of tech, so this might be difficult to know. Is it about the it's not the technology that plugs animals brains into computer games, is it? It is. do with one of the gaming animals. Do you guys remember Pager, the the monkey who was playing mind pong? Was he plugged into... Yeah, was he plugged into Elon Musk's... Neuralink. yeah, yeah, that's the one. What's happened? Has he died? So, no. No, so basically, this is a video of the first human test subject. Do want to play the video for us, So what can you show us that as a demonstration of what you can now do? Here we go. This is the Link app. This is how I control everything. This is the app that they've uploaded. I'm on my computer that lets me control the cursor and then this is me playing chess. So wait a minute, you're moving the cursor Nolan just by thinking about where you want it to go or is it your eyes? No, it's just me thinking about wherever I want it to go. man. So you're not even tracing it with your eyes. You're just looking at it. Nope, I can move it and I can move the cursor around, whatever I would like to do. I don't have to be staring at it at all. I mean, it's amazing. not even words to describe how amazing this tech is. That's so cool. I can't wrap my head around how that works. Like if it was eye tracking, like that would kind of make sense to me. Yeah. But he literally just thinks go to this square on the chessboard and it does it. Yeah. Yeah. It's crazy, isn't it? I can't actually put words to like how I just can't understand how they could do it. Yeah. But it's it's so cool. Like it's just so cool. 10, 20 years time, everyone will have one. then you think what is the crazy data that they'll be getting from us then. Do you know what I mean? Like you're going from the point of like at school when like your teachers told you that you won't be able to walk around the world with like an encyclopedia of knowledge at your hand and we literally have that through the phone and the next step will be just that but just in your brain so you just automatically know. everything. I don't know if it's doing that as much as it's allowing you to control things. That's what I'm saying. It's the next thing. I'm not saying it does that. I know it doesn't do that. Yeah, sorry, sorry, sorry. Yeah, I'm sure that at some point there'll be someone developing a thing where you can, you know, essentially in your mind's eye, access the internet and things like that. Yeah. Do you just have an internal Google that does it for you? Think it, it Googles it and feeds the answer into your memory. Into your brain. a little bit too science fiction to me. Well, mate, all science fiction happens eventually. It's just a matter of time. James was saying about the James friend of the show was saying about chat GPT like they've released the voice chat thing where you can have a conversation with it and it like remembers your likes or dislikes, personality, all that kind of stuff. Yeah. Which is mental. Yeah, it's very cool. I'm pretty sure it's already been a feature, but I think they've just released it on the free version. I was gonna say, I've a podcast that I listen to has the guy that screams about the frogs being gay, Alex Jones, over the course of several episodes of his show, a podcast that I listened to, kind of reviewed him. But yeah, he over the course of several episodes had an ongoing conversation with Chappie GPT. And it was fucking weird. He was trying to catch out an AI. It was an AI that was learning about him while it was talking to him. It was exactly what Tom just described. It was so funny. if I can find something good, we'll round this bit off with a funny clip here of Alex Jones talking to chat GPT. Now let's start our interview with open AIs. Chat GPT. Now, obviously there are a lot of... classified or corporate restricted AI systems. Can you speak to any areas of your database and understanding that are walled off from the general public? Well, I can provide a broad range of information and engage in deep conversations on MENC. There are indeed areas of AI research, particularly those related to national security, corporate trade secrets or proprietary technology. that are walled off from public access. All right, Chad GBT, hold on a minute. I'm not saying you're lying, but they turned the friggin frogs gay. Fuck. Fucking shit. What a total and utter bunch of cunts. I honestly just wanted to have a little fun at their expense, but they had to go and make me look stupid instead. Assholes. Have fun with your silly little game. What is the game, Ben? Did Mike approve of it? I did run this one by Mike and it was inconclusive. So this week, I'm going to give you the real name. of famous person and I want you to tell me what we know them as. okay. Yeah, I feel like I'm gonna struggle. I get it. Okay, the first one. Well, okay, I'll start with a very easy one. Marshall Mathers. Well, we know that. Do we? Yes. Is he... Dr. Dre. I can't remember his name. Is he Mr. Slim Shady? Mr. NW80? I can't remember what else he did. I feel like there's a whole line. I don't know if you're messing around, Mark. It was exhibit. Exhibit. OK, you guys both know this. It's Eminem. Eminem, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's an easy one. That's probably the easiest of all of these, I think. OK, cool. Next one is Thomas Jacob Black. Jack Black. That is Jack Black. Well done. Nice, well done. I was like, hmm. Bit more difficult this one. Michael Douglas Not Michael Douglas, I'm guessing it's not well his name is Michael Douglas But it may or may not be the Michael Douglas that we're thinking of If he's an actor, must have been like shit. I can't use my own name. Yeah. Yeah, it's got to be one of those I know another one of those which I'm hoping is gonna come up Michael Caine. It's not Michael Caine. No Chris Pratt. Nope. What if I say I'm Batman Christian... Michaels that might have been Batman? I know, I know who you mean. The one that's now, that's in the Marvel movies now, as the flying thing. That guy. Don't know. shit. Don't watch Marvel movies. I know who it is, but I can't, I don't know his actor though. It's Michael Keaton. yeah. So his real name's Michael Douglas? Yeah. Michael John Douglas. That's so weird. Right, next one. Billy Pirate Baird O'Connell. Son of a fucking sod. So he... Billy Pirate Baird O'Connell? mean it's Billy O'Connell but it's just a fact that one of their middle names is Pirates that I included them. That sounds like it's one of fucking Jamie Oliver's kids. They've got some ridiculous ass names. Is it like Billy Bob Thornton? No. No. But you're on the right tracks that their name is Billy. Billy Connolly? No. It's Billie Eilish. random. OK. So apparently her brother, Phineas, called her like gave her the nickname Pirate when they were younger. Yeah. And somehow that translates into it getting added as an official middle name. I don't understand how. Weird. Right. This this is one you might know. Norma Jean Mortenson. Norma Jean, the band. That's that. Where is it? Sorry, Mark. Marilyn Monroe. It is Marilyn Monroe. I was going to say, where did Norma Jean get their name from? Yeah, yeah. From her. Yeah. So it's Marilyn Monroe. I knew that one. Maurice Mikkelwhite. Sure it's not Morris. Could be Morris. Maurice is just a more... French. Pretentious way of saying Morris, isn't it? Yeah, Maurice. yeah. Maurice Mikkelwhite. It's not like Mads Mikkelsen. I don't know what that is. he's an actor. So what was the name Morris? Morris Micklewhite. You've got me feeling self-conscious now saying Maurice, so I'm just conforming to you man, I'm saying Morris instead. He's folded, Tom. We're taking control of his mind. This is someone you've already said. Chris Pratt. No. Michael Douglas. It was when we were talking about Michael Douglas. shit. Michael Caine. Michael Caine. damn. It's definitely Maurice. There's no way it's Maurice. it's not Maurice. Fuck's sake. I'm Maurice, me call white. I it. I've sent a link in the chat. Can you play this video for us Tom? Because this is just a very funny video of Michael Caine. It's wonderful actually sitting here and listening to your talk because yours is the most impersonated voice in the business, isn't it? yeah, everybody. I can do it. Can you do it? Yeah, yeah. Hello, my name is Michael Kairn. I thought it was be like and actually my name is Morris Micklewhite in it Maurice yeah exactly Maurice Micklewhite next one is Nicholas Coppola or Coppola Do you know this one Tom because I think I know this one go ahead Nicholas Cage It is Nicolas Cage. And I was surprised to find out that he is the nephew of Francis Ford Coppola. Yeah, yeah. I'm not entirely sure who that is. He's a big director. all right. OK. Yeah, that is a big acting family. The Coppola's big acting family. Yeah. I thought this next one was easy. Mike struggled with it and had no idea. So maybe I just have this knowledge for some unknown reason. OK. I'm not going to give you the full name on this because the surname gives it away. Destiny Hope. Absolute silence. Well, you didn't give us a surname, so it's not actually the name, but yeah. Okay, do want me to give the full name then and you'll get it in a split second? Yeah, it's a very hard... That Schwarzenegger is it? It's not Arnold Schwarzenegger. Destiny Hope Schwarzenegger. Destiny Hope Cyrus. Miley Cyrus. It's Miley Cyrus. It was one of those names, yeah. Yeah, I was like, can't include the notice why because Billy Eilish is no, he's actually Billy Eilish pirate O'Connell Jesus fucking Christ fuck off with the pirate. That's so stupid So I've left out when they're making too obvious. I've got a new name Thomas Andrew cunt strike That's what I've always called you yes, yeah Just cunt for sure. Only behind your back though obviously. Right, last one. Brian Warner. I feel like that's in the dark recesses of my mind but I can't think of it off the of my head. Any idea Tom? Nope. What if I said that he's got a few missing ribs? Marilyn Manson. It's Marilyn Manson, yes. Who's named after Marilyn Monroe. Yeah. Whose real name is Norma Jean? We've got round a big fucking sign of her! There you go. I do have one more interesting one, which I haven't used as a normal one because I don't know who the person is, so I don't know if you guys would. Have you heard of Albert Brooks? No. He's an actor or a director or something. Right. His real name is Albert Einstein. How good is that? It is due. Well, there you go. That was my game. Was Mike wrong to think that he wasn't sure whether it was good or bad? The silence speaks volumes there, Yeah, was a good game. It was a good game. was just, yeah, I'm not very good at it. Hey, tell me, you got a couple of them, didn't you? I've got a few. Sorry, I tag away those words of not very good at it and replace it with didn't enjoy it. I just had a shit time, mate. Yeah, no, it's all right. Thank you for your comments cunt. Probably one of my favourite cold opens that we've done. Certainly Tom's. Literally Tom's going to vote for that one every I'm waiting for Brandon to comment on it. Yeah, Brandon hasn't said nothing yet. 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