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James Damore's AI Art and Lil Nas X's Jolene Cover
from #271 - The Many Taints of Newark | The Tim Dillon Show · #271
5 min
Tim recounts a Twitter feud with fired Google engineer James Damore over bad AI art, then pivots to criticizing Lil Nas X's vocal talent versus his image and marketing tricks.
- The United States of Al rewrote its season 2 premiere to offer a powerful reaction to the Afghanistan situation.
- The lead actor is Indian and from South Africa, not Afghan, but plays an Afghan interpreter on the show.
- Tim questions why this show exists at all.
- The premise is a Marine combat veteran and an Afghan interpreter who served together become buddies back in Ohio.
- Tim argues the show's premise essentially validates the Afghanistan war by suggesting it was worth it for the friendship it created.
- Hollywood uses feel-good stories about unlikely friendships to smooth over imperial mistakes and wars that killed people for no reason.
- Tim speculates the show's audience is elderly white people with early-stage dementia who watch CBS.
- The show explains to old viewers why America went to war in Afghanistan while they drool into their mashed potatoes.
- Tim prepares to play the Afghanistan episode from The United States of Al.
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