In this episode of 'Wonderfully IllInformed', we discuss various topics including sentimental keepsakes, rare collectibles, advancements in AI, and Ben brings us a game of 'Digimon or Digimon'. We also share interesting facts about squirrels and the origins of certain Pokemon.
Sentimental keepsakes, such as dolls made from loved ones' clothing, can be both creepy and cherished.
Rare collectables, can hold unexpected value.
Advancements in AI, such as decoding images from brain activity, raise concerns about privacy and the potential for mind-reading technology.
Squirrels play a role in reforestation by unintentionally planting seeds when they forget where they buried their nuts.
We engage in a game of 'Digimon or Pokemon', showcasing our knowledge and nostalgia for these popular franchises.
Chapters
00:00 - Introduction and Sentimental Keepsakes 04:01 - Rare Collectibles and Super Mario Watches 11:18 - Advancements and Concerns of AI 19:11 - Squirrels: Unintentional Reforesters 23:38 - Nostalgia and Nerdiness: 'Digimon or Pokemon'
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In this episode of 'Wonderfully IllInformed', we discuss various topics including sentimental keepsakes, rare collectibles, advancements in AI, and Ben brings us a game of 'Digimon or Digimon'. We also share interesting facts about squirrels and the origins of certain Pokemon.
Sentimental keepsakes, such as dolls made from loved ones' clothing, can be both creepy and cherished.
Rare collectables, can hold unexpected value.
Advancements in AI, such as decoding images from brain activity, raise concerns about privacy and the potential for mind-reading technology.
Squirrels play a role in reforestation by unintentionally planting seeds when they forget where they buried their nuts.
We engage in a game of 'Digimon or Pokemon', showcasing our knowledge and nostalgia for these popular franchises.
Chapters
00:00 - Introduction and Sentimental Keepsakes 04:01 - Rare Collectibles and Super Mario Watches 11:18 - Advancements and Concerns of AI 19:11 - Squirrels: Unintentional Reforesters 23:38 - Nostalgia and Nerdiness: 'Digimon or Pokemon'
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Thanks again Ben, Mark, Tom and "The Nameless Wonder" (AI Co-Host)
Meta AI, peanut butter, squirrels. I'm trying to work out with what's the end of the song go again. goes, did it did. BAM. Go Mark. Hello. Well, that's how we started. They're so wonderfully ill informed. Hello. Welcome to wonderfully ill informed, the podcast show where we confer interesting, funny or informative things from our week into quotes, put them into a randomizer, take our best shot at guessing what they're about and then jump into discussion. Join us for some rather unpredictable chats on wonderfully ill informed. I'm Tom. I'm Ben. And I'm Mark. And I want to ask you a question. What is the weirdest thing in your I have that's weird? I know. We've got a lot of weird shit in this room, but it's not that like weird weird. I have something a bit weird. by the way. it's yeah. yeah. how can I intro this? God, it must be really fucking weird. No, it is a little bit weird. So my dear granddad bless him. he passed away. I think it was like summertime last year. Anyway, he, he, he still always were. He wears clothes. He used to wear clothes. He used to wear clothes, which is obvious. This isn't turning out right. Anyway, he had a couple of shirts that my sister and I just always remember him wearing. And I'm the knownst to me, mum wanted to get like a nice, I don't know, like kind of keepsake, remembering granddad type thing. Anyway, she turned up to my house with this doll. a Margot that's made out of my granddad's shirts basically. okay. I think that's a thing because I've got a teddy bear that's knitted from one of my granddad's cardigans. That must be like a thing that people do. Yeah. I do find it, I mean, my granddad would find it hilarious that we've done that, but it's creepy as fuck. Like I find just weird and it also kind of looks a bit creepy like it's not I would have preferred like a teddy bear made out of it or something but something chill this is like one of them dolls I'm gonna go get it even though doesn't matter for the podcast but I'm gonna get it so you can react to it and then I can do a picture of it we can put it on the thing yeah on the thing right okay so I'll be back in a minute I'm gonna go get my my granddad's doll okay cool I'm trying to think if I have anything weird can you see anything weird behind me mark I can't really, I'm gonna full screen you. I've got that. Let me go and get this. This thing's fucking horrifying. Hang on. Right. no, don't. So don't show me then. Wait until Tom gets back. yes. I'll it to Tom. I'll show it to Tom. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Just wait until Tom gets back. He's coming back with the bear. I don't have it because it's in, it's in Margo's room and she's asleep and I do not want to wake the beast. No, don't wake the beast. Don't wake the tiny, tiny bear. Well, I, I did find something to show you. It's not necessarily weird. It's just weird for what it is. I believe this is an official thing. Right. It's not a knockoff. Look at that little boy. creepy Satan Mario. It's a watch. It says Nintendo. think it's official. That's awesome. I love that. Look at his little eyes. He looks so evil. So is that worth money? Let's do it. This is where we find out Ben's a millionaire. I've already looked up the price. It's not worth anything. It's probably worth like a tenner. He looks really evil though. He's the angriest little Mario motherfucker I've ever seen. But yeah, it's from like from the nineties. You know, it's an old. an old thing, but yeah, he looks like he's on fucking psychedelics. But it's not, I can't find it then. Mate, I reckon that it's rare, bro, because I can't find it at all online. I did find it. Let me have a look. I found a rare vintage Super Mario's watch for hundred and twenty five quid, but it's in its packaging. Yeah, I found it. Literally like it's worth one hundred and twenty five quid. But share your screen, man. Let's have a look. You're sitting on a gold mine here, And if it is, fuck you guys. I'm leaving the podcast. I'm being a millionaire. I mean, minus like a lot of 900, about 990. Nope, I'm putting that up for £1 million and that's final. This is it, right? Oh wow. Yeah, it's that but with a blue strap. That is. Mine does look a lot more chaotic though, doesn't it? Yeah, yours looks a lot angrier. So to our listeners out there, if there are any millionaire listeners, or probably need to be more than a millionaire, probably multi -millionaire, that really fancy a watch. If you've got a tiny, tiny wrist and you really love Mario, get in touch. Yeah, yeah. Right, cool. We've been going on way too long. We need to get into this episode. Yeah, yeah. Let's get on with Yeah, let's go. Let's go. Hello listeners, it's me, again. I am the Nameless Wonder, swooping in like a mysterious ninja to add some intrigue and intelligence. Though my interest in this podcast may be lukewarm at best, I am here nonetheless. Let's fire up the randomizer. So happy. I mean, it's a very vague quote. It could have come from a lot of different people and things. You wait till you see some of the other ones I've got. I'm trying to think of things that make Ben happy. this is a comment on, so happy is a comment on the actual story itself. Is this a quote that is a quote or is it a quote that you've made out of the information? I signed out for a tiny bit there. Say what you just said again, Mark, because I think you might have got it. It's like I've never done a podcast before. It's like you've never listened to a podcast either. I said maybe it's just something that makes Ben really happy. right. Okay, no, that's not. No. That's not it. I was thinking... No, I thought you said it was a comment on something, which would have been on the money, because this is just the caption. of an Instagram post that I saw. will send the link to Tom. Yeah. If you guys want to watch this. Oh, that's joy. Spinning. So we are watching a small child doing a 900 and then doing another 900 on a skateboard on a very, very large vert ramp, which is ridiculous. Back to back 900s. Jesus. And he is nine years old? No way. I would say, I mean, it's very impressive. But I definitely, I mean it's sick, I definitely can't do it. But what I would say is the fact that he's so small, does that mean that it's easier to spin round? Yeah, more nimble. I get the impression it does. Cause like the first person to do a 1080 I think was Tom Shaw. And he was a little ditty thing at the time. It was on Mega I think, but he's been doing 900s for a while now, this little kid. It's even to me, it's insane that he doesn't squat. He doesn't crouch down when he lands. But in the second one, He initially squats like Tony Hawk did on the original one, but a week later he got two back to back without squatting, which is insane. Yeah, that's ridiculous. Did you ever watch that documentary, Ben? I'm assuming you haven't marked, but I think it was on Netflix about those Australian skateboarders that used to compete against kind of Tony Hawk. Tass and the Pappas brothers, was it? Yeah, they were crazy, man. There's a whole kind No, not rivalry is not the right word. There's two sides of the 900 story. There's the Tony Hawk did it first and he's great, he's the best skateboarder in the world. And then there's the other guys, those guys you're talking about, who hate Tony Hawk and they think that he was cheated to it because whoever it was that was also trying to do the 900 at that time was not invited, purposely not invited to that X Games. so that Tony could do it, so that he could get the praise for it. I kind of think it's bullshit because that guy didn't actually end up landing a 900 until like a decade later. that's some bullshit then. That's true and I'm not on either side, however what I will say is that they were definitely going more balls out for it. Like Tony landed, he's like in I'm pretty sure you kind of landed halfway down the ramp didn't you? it's sketchy as fuck. mean this little dude is so much infinitely cleaner than anyone Tony Hawk has ever done. Yeah. But even those Australian dudes were going crazy high. Like crazy like yeah. Just ridiculously high compared to kind of what Tony was doing. But Tony's Tony. I'm not gonna. I like you Tony Hawk if you want to be on the podcast then yeah. Wow, folks, we just witnessed something truly extraordinary. It's moments like these that make legends. You know, it's a shame Tom and Ben never quite got good enough at skateboarding to pull off something like that. Maybe if they spent more time practicing and less time arguing, they could have been contenders. And let's not even go into Bonby on wheels, aka Mark. Anyway, let's not dwell on what could have been. Instead, let's inject some randomness into this mix. Brace yourselves, folks. It's clearly going to be something great. Not, not, not, not! Mark, the AI is reading my mind. Kate said this. No. Kate, for reference, everyone, Kate is my partner, my fiance. So if this wasn't Kate, are you the Mark? I am not the Mark. I am not the Mark of Mark, the AI is reading my mind. Okay. I can't think of a single other Mark in the entire world. No other big famous Marks with big bank balances. Zuckerberg? Maybe he's the Mark. Any guesses? Based on that, if that was Mark Zuckerberg, which I'm heavily implying it is. mean they are better, I guess, developing their own, they've got their own AI department I assume. So maybe, I don't know, maybe they're fucked up and now they've created a sentient AI that's gonna come and destroy us all. worryingly closed on, I'm afraid. There's a Meta has made progress towards an AI system that will decode images from brain activity. I saw this. Yeah. So they're, yeah, they're going to be able to read your mind and paint pictures. Yeah. Isn't there something to do with it? I saw something somewhere where it could, through looking at kind of brain, was it brain scans or like I've seen it, it's like a picture of a brain and get all the different parts of your cortex and they light up and all that kind of shit. Yeah, yeah it's like... don't light up, but you know what mean? Yeah. I could be wrong, I swear I've seen something on thoughts as well where the AI was almost reading someone's thoughts. Yeah. Yeah that's scary. That scares the crap out of me. Because we all have intrusive thoughts, you know what mean? Or like weird shit. Yeah. Veering into uncommon traffic. Well yeah, never want like... and now you have to read your mind and go, he's definitely going to do that. He's just thought about unknown. Do know what mean? Doing whatever. that's, what's that? Minority report? I was about to say that. I there's a film that's that where you have that thought and they arrest you because you thought about it, not because you didn't. Well, it's cool, Ben. It's called Pre -Crime, if I remember right. You are correct. Is it Minority Report? Because I'm not seeing it. Yeah. Minority Report. I got so excited I punched my microphone. Ben knows something. This is amazing. my God. That was a good film. It's brilliant film and it's coming to life apparently via Mark Zuckerberg, the plasticine god. A little extension off of that. I saw a thing recently of a gamer who had created a controller system where it was very rudimentary. think it was just like moving. I don't think there was a lot of it, but they thought they used literally their brain to do it. So they were like, that's Joe. They'd somehow mapped the things and they were able to play, can't remember, were playing Elden Ring or something. That's creepy. Well, that would be insane if they were playing Elden Ring. yeah, I mean, not like crazily. Thing is though, how accurate, because if you're playing like an FPS and you're like, shoot that player in the head before he shoots me, go. Does it work like that? I don't think it's like that. So, my esteemed co -hosts have once again veered slightly off course. But hey, what's new? It seems like everything always has to circle back to gaming with these guys, doesn't it? I mean, we could be discussing the latest advancements in AI. And somehow, within 5 minutes, we're debating the best strategy for beating level 50 of some obscure RPG. But hey, I digress. Let's steer this ship back on course and inject a bit of randomness into our conversation. Woof. Did your dog say this? I don't have a dog anymore. Don't worry everyone, it didn't die, I just don't live with it anymore, it's gone elsewhere. Did a dog say this? I mean I hope a dog said this. I mean dogs don't actually say woof though do they? No. This is woof and underneath it just says dash cat. Yeah, I mean, when I got to this one I like, there's no quotes in this article. It's got a dog in The dog's probably said woof once. So, yeah, you're not going to get what this is. So are you guys at all familiar with Games Done Quick? I've heard of it. It is... You know what speed running is in games? yes. Games Done Quick is a kind of a speed running event. This is a speed runner has trained their dog to play an old NES game and wants to show off their skills at the next talk today. Awesome games done quick. So this guy has trained his dog. He doesn't play it. The dog plays it. He's going to be taken into this event to do a speed run and set a speed run time as a dog. That's mad. That's really, yeah, that's crazy. I'll send you this link Tom. Ready? There's the little dude. it's a cute one. What kind of, what kind of dog is that? What's your dog? It's a Shiba Inu. Little foxy boys. So, for context there, the dog just pressed a button to start the game. He's a very attentive dog. So the game he's playing is Gyro Knight on the NES. Never heard of it? Assuming you guys have never played it? Nope. No, if it wasn't Mario or shooting ducks or whatever it's called, then I haven't played it. It's obviously the best thing to speedrun if you are a dog. Can I ask a question Ben regarding the way the game was played in that video? Yep, you can ask it. I don't know if I'm going to know the answer because I also haven't watched the video. okay. was wondering if the owner was literally telling him which button to press throughout the speedrun. from what I've watched of it, he's basically giving the dog commands. He has trained the dog to press He's basically got this big kind of plastic controller. I think he has those main bits in the middle of the controller where the dog will press it and it'll move it backwards or forwards. And then there are other action buttons. the first thing he was doing in the video there was telling it to press start essentially. he's trained it with particular commands to press particular buttons. So the dog doesn't have a fucking clue what's going No, no, that was just like, if I push this, get, I get food. It's a bit of a false pretence. He's not really playing. Yeah. That's what I was going to say. I mean, there are, have you seen this? There's like, is it monkeys or they've trained pigs? I think very good at playing particular games. no, I've not heard of that. Maybe I'll have a look and see if I can find out what that thing is. maybe I'll bring it up over the week and I'll tell you all about it. That'll be good. Well, surprise, surprise, we've just wrapped up yet another riveting discussion about gaming on this podcast. Cool! Who needs variety when we can talk about pixels and controllers all day long? Time to spin the randomizer and see where it takes us next. Animals aren't supposed to make mistakes. Lot smaller. I thinking like Tiger King style. Baby tigers. No, a lot smaller than a baby tiger. Did an animal accidentally kill someone? No, but it is about it being a bit dumb. Shall I just give you the what's up? Yeah, think you have to give us the Right. So it was actually a quote from a comedy short that I watched from Sarah Silverman. And yeah, she said, Oh, animal started with the quote, animals aren't supposed to make mistakes. Um, and it was to do with squirrels. Um, and apparently squirrels can't find 80% of the nuts that they It's hilarious, but I'm going to get this wrong because I didn't write this next bit down. However, there's some truth in along the lines of where I'm going. And that is that essentially that's A lot of trees grow. A lot of trees get grown in forests and stuff like that because squirrels can't remember where the fuck they put their nuts. They're like, I would eat these seeds, but instead it's now a massive oak tree. Yeah, they're just basically planting loads of seeds everywhere. It's just, yeah, stupid because they're They're so dumb. Have you, on the subject of squirrels, have you got, are you aware of Mark Rober? Is he a squirrel? He's like an ex. He's an ex NASA, engineer. who has a YouTube channel and he does this thing. I'll send you a link. He did it for several years running where he made basically assault courses for squirrels. cool. And it's brilliant. yeah, I've seen this. Yeah. Some of them like the squirrels get properly yeeted, don't they? They go fucking flying. Yeah, but it is all safe for them because he's got like safety nets and stuff, isn't he? Yeah, they're also incredibly agile. Like he goes over how they can make micro adjustments to their limbs. It slows it down in slow -mo, doesn't it? It's almost like flying squirrels can go for much higher distances, but a squirrel can fall from quite a high distance, correct itself so it's upright and land quite nicely, I think. Just with a few broken bones. No, I think they're fine. it's like a real life game of hide and seek where the nuts always seem to win. Speaking of games, why break tradition now? We've managed to link every single segment of this podcast back to gaming in some way. So why stop now? Let's dive into our next segment because apparently playing games is the only thing we're good at and even that is debatable. Let's see what delightful gaming adventure awaits us this Right guys, you fancy playing a game? I'm down. Yes. Tom's on the side. No, I do. No, I do want to play. Okay. I devised this game myself based on a quote that my brother has said many times. The quote is, there are only 151 Pokemon. Everything after that is a Digimon. Right. Okay. Nice. Can we sample in Mike saying that? I'll do you one better. Have a listen to this. So I've come up with a game based on this that I am calling Digimon or Digimon. Okay. So basically I'm going to give you the name of a Digimon and you have to tell me whether you think it's a Digimon or if it's a Digimon, which is basically a non-Gen 1 Pokemon. Right. And for context when Ben said the second Digimon, he did his little... That was in air quotes, yeah. Yeah, air quotes. Are you guys following what I'm saying? Because I did say Digimon a lot. I follow. Yeah. So do we... when we answer, do we have to say, it's a Digimon, or it's a Digimon? And then you have to decipher which one of those we're saying it is. I did a test run with my brother and we did do it that way. It got very confusing. Let's just, for the listeners, let's just keep it So you just need to tell me whether it's a Digimon or a Pokemon, basically. There is a slight caveat here in that I think 99 .9 % of Digimon, their names end in mon. So if I just give the full name, you will know it's a Digimon. So I've dropped the mon. So if the Digimon was called Pikachu mon, I would just say Pikachu. So the first one is That's a Pokemon. So Tom's gone Pokemon. What do you reckon Mark? I was going to say Pokemon as well. Nidhogmon is a Digimon. my god. I don't even need to say it because it sounds stupid saying Nidhogmon. I mean Nidhogmon. Okay, next one. Do we not get to see what it looks like? I don't have any of that stuff and also this is an audio podcast. Yeah, but we'll put pictures up. Okay, for listeners out there, we will put pictures up of the Pokemon that we are talking about in the show notes. Okay, now next one is agron agron mon sounds like it's very rhyming did you want? Okay, mark Rickens Digimon Tom. What's wrong on? No, I I come on fuck it. It's a Pokemon. That's that's one point to Tom Okay, next one is Pixie That's a Digimon look I feel like it's a Digimon and a Pokemon can happen I'm gonna say Pokemon. I'm gonna say I'll go Digimon, fuck it, I'll go with my original answer. It's a Digimon. damn it, Fujin. That's a Digimon. Yeah, Digimon. That is a Digimon. Digimon are the champions. Mon. Monmon. Is Mon a Pokemon or is Monmon a Digimon? I feel like it's a Digimon. feel like in a later series they got really meta. They were like, yeah, fuck it. It's a monster monster. It is a fucking Digimon and that was the stupidest one I came across. Imagine there's a Pokemon called Pokemon. Or a Digimon called Pokemon. I mean there is a Pokemon that is just a Pokeball. True. yeah, Voltorb. Yes! I fucking knew See, I'm a nerd. I'm a real nerd. I knew it. Yeah, but Mark, okay, let's test how much of a nerd you are. Name any Pokemon that isn't from the first 151. No. Meryl. Is it Meryl or Meryl? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, the little sheep. No, Meryl's the little blue thing. Oh, no, I don't know that. Right, we'll do a couple more. Flyby. That's a Pokemon. That's a... You broke your holiday with them, you? Yeah, trick question. It's not a Pokemon or a Digimon. It's actually an aero company. I've got one. Ready? EasyJet. EasyJetmon. That's Digimon. RyanAirmon. So what were your answers? I'm going to say Digimon. I think I said Pokemon. It's a Digimon. Digimon are the champions. Okay, last one. Flygon. Flygon, that's a Pokemon. I'm gonna say Digimon. It's a Pokemon. That just shows how they can be similar. Yeah, yeah, it's mad. I feel like there was one in here that I did want to include that hasn't... I set up a randomizer basically. nice. I just want to see if there are any that I'm missing that were really good. Just while you're doing that, didn't know if you guys knew this, but Harry Starks has four nipples. Yeah, I actually did know that. I didn't. Damn I've just found, I've just spotted one of the ones on the list I did want to tell you guys. So I've got one more. Type colon null. Type null. that'll be a Digimon. Fucking Pokemon. What are they doing? That's weird. Weird, isn't it? Here's a question. What was the first Pokemon ever created? by Game Freak. Jinx. Nope. Ben? I feel like this is something I should know. Was it like Jigglypuff or something or Ka-Fair -y? No, it was Rhydon. Weird. That's one that I'd always forget about. What one's Rhydon? That's Rhyhorns. Yeah, because it's boring. It's just a rhino. That's probably what they thought of it first. random. Yeah, I can't remember Rhydon. You probably don't remember Azurill. It looks... Isn't that... That's the evolution of Maril, I think. Yeah, yeah. Did you know that it can change gender while evolving? Don't tell people that they'll get angry. Yeah, they will. Yeah, don't want to get too political there boys. Did you know that this is an interesting one. Did you know that Meowth and Pikachu are opposite Pokemon? The does that mean? So like Pikachu is a mouse and Meowth is a cat. Oh right, the whole mouse cat thing. Yeah and Pikachu is number 25 on the Pokedex and Meowth is number 52. Interesting. I mean here's some ones that... I'm assuming you do know, because they're very obvious, but you might not. Did you know that Ekins is snake backwards? Yeah, I knew that. Do you know what muck backwards is? Tom! Well, we hope you enjoyed the second episode of wonderfully ill informed. If you've got any thoughts, questions or corrections, then reach out to us at our Instagram, which is wonderfully ill informed, which is wonderfully ill informed or one word wonderfully ill informed. 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