There Is No Ice Cream, Only Butter feat. Gil Duran
It's the free one!
It’s the free one for the week and we’re discussing Balaji Srinivasan, and the Network State freaks of the Bay Area, with extremely experienced California journalist Gil Duran (@gilduran76). However, we’re also discussing the indentured-servitude coding boot camp that got hemmed up by the CFPB, as well as a story where McDonald’s had to shelve its AI ordering assistance experiment after it went full chaos mode and started arbitrarily deciding that some customers wanted hundreds of dollars in nuggets, or a handful of butter packets when they ordered ice cream. This is definitely worth not having electricity.
EDINBURGH LIVE SHOW ALERT We're going to be live at Monkey Barrel comedy at the Edinburgh Fringe on August 14, and you can get tickets here:
Comments (35)
Hussein returning on the highest possible note, this rules.
I suspect that the Turkish ice cream men learned this for children as like a traditional thing, and then as a bit did it to a grown man as an extra level of humiliation. And then it went viral and the Turkish ice cream men think more people like it than actually do
November needs a gmod collision drop
I hate it when I press the button for orange soda, the machine gives me butter, and my co-worker insists the machine wouldn't make an error of that kind
Oh my god, so many Iranian presidents are going to die in SF
I, for one, encourage the elites to embrace helicopter transport
The pronunciation of Balaji's name as Ballagio without the O is driving me nuts. Shout out to my bud Bala-ji, who is a minor tech bro weirdo but not that bad otherwise.
today the riff shall be left as an exercise for the reader
I want a sociological study on the spread of Turkish ice cream man antiques now
Requesting a bonus episode that is just hussein recounting all the Turkish ice cream man antics
I Have All Butter and I Must Cream
There was actually one of these tech boot camps in Appalachia that achieved a 100 percent placement rate by firing all of the instructors and replacing them with the graduating class.
Tech and the perpetual grift economy of Appalachia is now catching up to the puppy mill cycle for truck drivers. "In debt thanks to signing a lease with us, after driving for all of two weeks? Come be a trainer for us!"
Starmen Keirkegard, send tweet
I was thinking about how the Turkish ice-cream man is like Bane and then I realised that Bane sounds like Keir Starker
Bolso should come to SF where I can guarantee he will get bitten by a coyote
The McD's thing confirms my bias against speaking to machines that I developed playing Hey You Pikachu
Is this the first time that Boonta Vista has scooped a TF story? (Softbank emotion cancelling)
*with a slightly too manic energy* haha, can you believe these guys have to practice eye contact, wow, what dopes
It was either in The Jakarta Method or during an interview I heard with Vincent Bevins where he recounted that the promise "Jakarta is coming" was graffitied in Chile in the run-up to the coup. Because of this episode I cannot stop thinking about "NEOM is coming" graffiti in the benighted San Francisco Bay Area.
Andrew do you also live here? I fear NEOM has already arrived and her name is California Forever
The word for “no direction but up” (“ever upward”) is “Excelsior”—at least that’s how New York translates its motto.
Anyway Eric Adams is probably gonna get replaced with Andrew Cuomo, so it’ll be “fun” watching him have to do awkward public appearances with Trump once they’re both in office again.
GEGEGE NO KITARO’S EYEBALL DAD (the eyeball that is his dad) DID NOT DIE TO GET USED AS A CALL CENTER TOOL. Also it’s a show that’s kinda Japanese Folkloric Horror For Kids starring a ghost-associated kid with only one eye and his dad who is his other eye and several weird folkloric beasts, most of whom are funny old men. I thought the rat guy was the popular one but I guess the eyeball is soothing. There’s a catgirl who used to be a creepy threatening cat but got changed to a Cute Cat and sometimes people post about that choice being cringe
It is episodes like these where I wish I was guesting to offer my knowledge on japanese kids TV series. Usually I remember that I have nothing else to contribute alas, I took a company evaluation class by a softback vision fund lawyer so this could've been it 👁
1. Starmen Keirkeirgaard 2. Pretty sure I have actually seen chicken nugget Jesus in the wild
3. Holyshit billionaire auto-ABA party
I studied SoCal history in school, the railroads wanted people to buy tickets so they tricked people into coming out here. Since, it’s mostly people trying to force it into work despite it being a bad idea.
Jimmy Fallon. Jesus Christ, get mad at the right white man!
Kier Skarsgard??
the missing 8th(?) Skarsgård
the thing about the turkish ice cream men is its not that it caught on from tiktok, when i was in turkey in 2014 they were all doing it back then too. this being widespread way predates one guys virality.
listening to the opening i'm imagining a Jackie Chan-esque movie about a Turkish ice cream man getting into something and kicking ass. whoever gets to this concept first is gonna make so much money
Yay Hussein is back! Sorry about Turkish ice cream man.
It's fucked up that all Turkish Ice Cream insist on some kind of nonconsensual Tease & Denial play when all you want is vanilla.