- Hey Frank!
Congrats on selling your podcast for babies.
- Thanks, it was super easy.
Each episode is basically just an hour
of me saying goo goo ga ga.
(laughter)
- That's awesome.
- I concur,
congrats Frank.
- Hey guys, can I get you a couple drinks?
Obviously not you, but you two?
- Wait, what do you mean not me?
Why can't I drink?
- Because you're a robot, I can't give you alcohol.
You're gonna short circuit
and I don't want my boss mad at me again.
(nervous laughter)
- Did you guys tell her to tell me a robot?
I'm not a robot.
Right?
- Otis, he doesn't know?
- Okay, okay, he was gonna find out eventually.
Listen,
Tyler 3000,
you are a robot.
- Your uncanny similarity to a human
reminds us of our own fragile existential status.
- Exactly.
Caused by what french philosopher Henri Bergson
would call a troubling encrusting
of the mechanical on to the living.
- So we're kind of dicks to you.
- But all my childhood memories?
- All merely lines of code just stored into your hard drive.
I know,
it sucks.
- But I hooked up with somebody last night at the club.
- Right, you completely passed your turing test.
You're life like,
ish.
- You know how ink on a Kindle almost looks like real ink?
That's what your skin looks like.
- Tyler 3000 come on,
you weren't suspicious at all that your last name was 3000?
- I thought I was related to that singer from Outkast.
- Big Boy?
You've gotta be kidding me.
Your relatives are more like a gateway computer
and TI83 calculator.
(Tyler sobs)
- Don't cry.
See,
that makes us feel less human
when you show you're capable of emotions or whatever.
'Cause,
that's kind of our thing.
- I'm sorry.
I'll try to be less
feeling.
Can I just ask you guys one question?
Why was I created?
- You're a power source for our phones.
Duh.
(phone bleeps)
- Nice.
- So, how about those drinks?
- Yes please.
We are going to the reorientation ceremony later,
and I do not wanna be sober for that.
What do you want?
- Margaritas?
- Let's do it.
- You got it.
(Otis sighs)
- Thank you robot waitress.
- Wait, what?
Am I a robot too?
- Yeah.
- You're literally plugged in right now.
- You have a cord coming out of your asshole.
- You got a very brightly colored cord.
- Wow.
(waitress laughs)
Robot faux pas.
(laughter)
(xylophone playing)
- The scene you just watched
was about a world
where robots
live among humans
as people.
In such a world,
how will the humans treat the robots?
Hmm?
Will they approach them with a spirit of generosity?
Or will they be dicks about it like those guys were?
It presents quite the
puzzle.
Do you understand we're referencing
a television show called The Twilight Zone?
If you are a millennial you might not get that.
You only know about
Black Mirror on Netflix.
Black Mirror, so mind blowing, wow.
They took an episode of The Twilight Zone
and they added a smartphone into it, oh my God.
Charlie Brooker, you're a genius.
Wow.
Oh, it's The Twilight Zone,
but there's a fax machine now.
Totally new show, totally different,
so good.
Well, I hope you liked the scene
and, you know,
it made you question your humanity and stuff.
Okay, bye bye.