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The comedy4cast network. Let's dog ear that for now.

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This is comedy4cast, Episode 814, A View of the Many.

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It's time once again for the Dog Days of Podcasting. For more information and

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to hear all the shows, go to dogdaysofpodcasting.com.

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Let's get started with Odd News Plus.

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Here are our odd news stories for Thursday, August 22nd, 2024.

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First up, a look at your daily horoscope. If you're an Aquarius, today is your day.

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The stars have finally aligned and you will have a major breakthrough on those

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issues that have been testing your resolve.

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Celebrate the day, But please, whatever you do, do not turn on your phone tomorrow.

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No texting, no social media. Just no.

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But did we mention that today is your day? Have some cake.

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Now let's get to our actual for real odd news story.

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We've all been there. You're in the all too appropriately named waiting room

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at the doctor's office. Or standing on a platform, wondering when the f***ing

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T train is going to get here.

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And there's nothing to do. So you take out your phone and begin scrolling through videos.

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That should be fun. Yes, it should.

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But is it? A new study finds that watching short snippets of videos or fast-forwarding

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through them makes people even more bored.

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Lead researcher Katie Tam said that study participants predicted that they would

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feel less bored by switching videos instead of watching them in their entirety.

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But participants, who were allowed to freely switch between seven different

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videos within 10 minutes, reported they were more bored than when they watched

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a single 10-minute YouTube video all the way through.

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Participants also reported similar results when they watched a 10-minute video

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rather than fast-forwarding or rewinding through a 50-minute video for 10 minutes.

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Okay, that makes no sense.

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How can I be more bored if I'm watching someone showing me how to pull off that

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viral lip-sync challenge?

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Then, switching over to a supercut of cats being frightened by a cucumber.

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Then, over to a staged practical joke, clearly going to be made much funnier

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by pitching up the voice a few octaves.

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Over to two girls showing off a dance move.

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Then, over to a highlight about a sport that I think may be soccer,

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where the player may have done something good or bad. Oh, and here's someone

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else doing that same dance move as before.

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It kind of looks identical, but it's not. And a short clip of someone scrolling

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through their phone made totally engaging because they sped up the video and

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added a distorted bass beat.

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Yeah. It turns out digital switching is less uplifting than sticking with one

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video and watching it all the way through.

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Maybe a good way to think about it is it's like going to the movies.

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You get more enjoyment out of immersing yourself in the single video rather

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than swiping through a ton of them.

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Just please don't watch the video while you're in the theater.

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And finally, in the age of chatGPT, AI song generation, and instant conversion

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of text prompts to images or video, what's next?

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It seems we may have our first indications.

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Researchers say they have been able to develop the next generation of AI products

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by introducing something they're calling artificial interference.

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Apparently, it's a form of... Excuse me. Yes, what is it? Nothing. Go on. Okay.

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Artificial interference will allow... Sorry. Excuse me again. Yes?

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Yes. What? You interrupted me.

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Oh, now I get it. Wow. That is... Really annoying. Yes.

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That about wraps it up for today's Odd News Plus. A big thanks to the 

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comedy4cast patrons for helping make this show possible.

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Story, voices, well, most of them, and original music by Clinton Alvord. Copyright 2024.

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All rights reserved. Talk to you next time. But for now, that's it.

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We're done, done, done, done, done. Bye-bye.

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Music.