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[–] darharrison@lemm.ee 29 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Robert's interview with the AI home assistant robot guy this year was unintentionally amazing, the dude was dressed like Jordan Peterson (ie. an insane person) but had all the interviewing skills of a parboiled potato. And he had no clue that Robert was clowning on him so hard.

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[–] valek879@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Any chance you could link to this or help me find more stuff from Robert? I am always interested in his takes.

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[–] darharrison@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

I mostly know of him from Behind the Bastards, a podcast about prominent historical figures (usually 1800s through present). The twist, apart from their regular Christmas "Non-Bastard" episodes is of course that these influential people actually behaved questionably at best during their time. I really think Robert's research and storytelling are great, he and the guests he brings on really can make an hour fly by sometimes. Most of the biographies are split up into a couple parts, with people like Kissinger and Vince McMahon having such dubious pasts to earn them 6 parts each.

Anyway, the interview with the AI home assistant dude was from another podcast which he frequents, called It Could Happen Here, a more news-oriented podcast. Both of the podcasts can be found on YouTube, published by Cool Zone Media. I believe they did 3 episodes of CES coverage for this year, the final part contained the interview. After all the dunking Robert talks about another interview he had at CES which was a lot more uplifting.

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