Michael Heat: Okay.
Lauren Goode: Okay. Actually not. But last fall I went to an event for Worldcoin, which is Sam Altman’s other company. It was a very strange Viby Crypto -eye scanning at a warehouse in the mission district of San Francisco.
Michael Heat: The orb?
Lauren Goode: This party had everything. Yes. But there was a hover there and there was a really nice sweat shirt that had a world embroidered on it, and I looked at the label and it’s from a company called original favorites, and that’s why I ordered one. So I have the sweat of Sam Altman Worldcoin without the world logo on it. I show it to you now.
Michael Heat: Yes. This is what you wear.
Lauren Goode: And I love this sweat shirt. It’s like in the 90’s, when you used to buy sweat and they were so rough and hard, they almost felt cardboard?
Michael Heat: Yes.
Lauren Goode: Like good old championships, do you know what I mean?
Michael Heat: Yes.
Lauren Goode: That feeling. And you would wash it a hundred times and it still would have that … that’s what it is.
Michael Heat: It looks fabulous.
Lauren Goode: Thanks.
Michael Heat: Congratulations.
Lauren Goode: Mike, what is your recommendation?
Michael Heat: Oh, gosh. I will recommend some standing comedy for our times.
Lauren Goode: Do it.
Michael Heat: It is the new Marc Maron Stand-up Special that is in HBO. It appeared a week ago or so. It’s called Panicked And it’s pretty good. Especially I recommend it because it is a great reef, like just in the middle, quite a bit about the Watch Duty app, which is the app, which people use to track wild fires and became very popular in Los -English at the beginning of 2025, when the one was destroyed by all wild fires. Well, Marc tells the story of how he had a guardian duty and he couldn’t understand the notifications in the app, and he didn’t know if he had to evacuate, so he caught all his cats and evacuated and just didn’t need. And it’s this really funny long story, but it’s just very good. The whole thing is very good. If you know the comedy of Marc Maron, you will know that he is very dark and this special becomes very dark, especially in the second half, but I can highly recommend it. If you know him and you like him, you will love it.
Lauren Goode: Adding it to the clock list.
Michael Heat: Great.
Lauren Goode: Adding it to watch duty. Our guy, Boone Ashworth who used to produce this show for us, he wrote A characteristic story this year about clock dutyAlso.
Michael Heat: He did. He did.
Lauren Goode: So we will include this in the spectacular notes.
Michael Heat: Yes.
Lauren Goode: And Mike, you never leave us again, right? No more holidays for you ever?
Michael Heat: Never ever.
Lauren Goode: Thank God.
Michael Heat: I will sit here behind the microphone until the end of time.
Lauren Goode: The best chat boot is.
Michael Heat: Thanks for listening Uncanny Valley. If you liked what you heard today, make sure to follow our show and rate it in your podcast choice. If you would like to contact us with questions, comments or show suggestions, write to us at Uncannyvalley@wired.com. Today’s show is produced by Adriana Tapia and Marc Leyda. Amar Lal at Macrosound mixed this episode. Marc Leyda is our SF Studio engineer. Meghan Herbst-controlled this episode. Daniel Roman-controlled this episode. Kate Osborne is our executive producer. Katie Drummond is the global editor -in -chief of Wired and Chris Bannon is the head of Global Audio of Condé Nast.
