The promise of the internet has failed us. Our politics are breaking us. But the sports world, even in a state of group-hate, provides lessons for a fundamental human need that is currently all too absent: connection. Roy Wood Jr., one of the most prolific road comics in our country, has a million miles of experience at kicking the tires on The Real America. And his rules of the road will surprise you, because they exist less with Obama at the batting cage and somewhere more between Ted Cruz on the sidelines...and the porn gun range. Also: NASCAR, Mr. Wizard, and Sammy Sosa. • Watch Roy Wood's new special, "Lonely Flowers" https://www.hulu.com/movie/0bdefff9-def5-4e22-96d9-94fd899f0f83 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: What is the promise of the internet and how has it failed us?
Welcome to Pablo Torre Finds Out. I am Pablo Torre, and today we're going to find out what this sound is.
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Do you know this one friend who just comes out of bed in the morning and then doesn't come out of his grin? Who is even in front of the first coffee, shamelessly well-groomed and shines around the bed with the morning sun? Terrible. Disgusting.
How can you just be so... Restless? Very simple. Train your sleep and become a morning person. With the Galaxy Watch 7 or the Galaxy Ring and the Samsung Health App.
The first nine years of my career, I drove half a million miles. God. Between two different cars, two odometers, total odometers, half a million. And now I'm like, bro, I used to be whiteout conditions in Aspen, drafting 18 wheelers like NASCAR. drafting an 18-wheeler. Drafting an 18-wheeler in a snowstorm.
Waiting for those Mario Kart, what is it like when you see, when you're right nearby, you get a special boost to pass them.
Yeah, yeah, shake and bake, engaged. Because in my brain, in slushy conditions, I would rather be closer on an 18-wheeler because it's throwing the water in the air, so it's not under my tires. The wipers can handle visibility. Just don't get too close if he jackknives that you don't have range. But, like, that's the calculations I used to make. And now I'm the dude in the right lane.
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Chapter 2: How does Roy Wood Jr. view the current state of connection in America?
And to me, that's the issue is that to find that tribe and those groups of people back in the day, you used to have to leave the house. Now you can be in a message board and be in a group with a bunch of other dudes and y'all all talk, but you never meet. Y'all never go show up to the Dungeons and Dragons live tournament. Like it's... Whatever you're doing online is the only thing you do.
So you're in your Twitch stream, and you got five people, and you play Call of Duty together. You run missions for some first-person shooter together. And that's good to a degree, but the moment you turn that headset off and go back out into the real world, who are you? And what are you? How are you connecting? You're still lacking something.
Are you scared of AI at all or is it like 3D televisions to you? Remember when that was the future? Oh, yeah.
Smart is simple control. Smart is 3D videos on demand. Smart is LG Cinema 3D Smart TV. So, how smart is your 3D?
Everything was going to be 3D. You're going to have a 3D experience at the house. Then it was going to be VR, and VR is going to be the future. Then it was metaverse.
I accidentally went to what has been labeled a 4D movie. Are you familiar with what the fourth dimension is?
Is that the one where the shit shakes, the chair shakes? I know they got those.
Yes, and they will also shoot gusts of compressed air at you. Pass.
It was horrible. Does it smell too? Like in a car chase, can you smell like rubber and all of that? Some smell-o-vision? I heard that's coming.
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