The Intriguing Chad from titfos.com

The Intriguing Chad from titfos.com Bob and Chad discuss Chad’s book and longstanding website, The Incredibly True Facts of Space, an eccentric collection of short stories, surreal lists, and abstract poetry. After reading snippets featuring alien trivia and a "Dracula telethon," the pair embark on a broad, nostalgic discussion spanning early retail jobs, retro adding machines, vintage calculators, classic Canadian children's television, and the short-lived Sid and Marty Krofft theme park. As the chat wanders into early tech culture, road trip memories, and AI hallucinations, Bob pitches an idea for a modern workplace comedy set in a dispensary, prompting shared stories about past office politics, manipulating budgets for massive CRT monitors, and eccentric former bosses before wrapping up the interview. titfos.com https://youtube.com/live/2WJbLvcUkGw Bad AI Transcript Hey, everybody. Welcome. I've got Chad from TitBose. Thank you. TitBose.com. The incredibly true facts. Oh, I said incredibly, didn't I? the world. acts of space, but they meant it literally. True Facts of Space 2029 because people are taking this public domain packaging it. every variant you can imagine. here's one here. Let me, uh, let me share this. This is, uh, the incredible facts about space. There we go, man. And then it's not the true ones though. It's only the incredible ones. Here's amazing ones, right? These people And then this is interesting facts. So they're not even incredible. Yeah. And then you got the fun facts. True. There is something almost… I wouldn't say that that's not already the case. that is historically proven to be true, too, over and over again yeah I think I think it's true it's hyper true I think if you got 80 then you're doing pretty good yeah I think we're lucky to get over 50 like 55 is uh is probably the positive, don't you think?see how you could talk yourself into several different positions depending on some bigger picture belief systems you had pinned down already so Thank you. Exactly. That's right. there you go now now you actually have written a book called the incredible true facts of space as well. So you have the website you had the website for years, though. The website has been around for there you go. For over 20 years. But the book You're kind of doing it all backwards here. Usually the book comes out. It isn't available. Okay. Well, there you go. that's interesting yeah I guess well you get certain ones with Amazon Prime anyway but I think there's other add-ons that you can do as well so Right, right. You know, a part of that. Audible. Yeah. I think they own Audible.gotcha oh there goes your lights everybody The plus is usually a $5. They should have called it Prime 5. Because it's all $5. I want to start that right now. Everybody's doing plus. We're going to do 5. What do you think? Titfos 5. It's a solid number. I've always was partial to it from the time I was a child because… And it's an odd number, which I enjoy odd numbers. It truly is. So that way, even numbers are kind of shady. It's true. Well, some people have six, but it's okay. there's, Right. Right, yeah. That's true. Interesting. Ha ha ha! Yeah, it doesn't have anything to do with that. Okay. I don't like this, so I'm going to make it fail. Okay. Sure, sure. You type words and whatnot, hold them upside down. Sure. Well, that's one level of fun.Deep thought here in the box. I love calculators. You think people really before the late 60s, early 70s didn't have access to calculators, and then cheap calculators came out in the late 70s, early 80s. Really? Right. Exactly. No, it was. I had, as a kid, we had an adding machine, which was this huge mechanical monster with all the buttons. It didn't have, you know, now you just have 10 buttons. It had 100 buttons, right? So you'd have 10 digits with all 10 digits. Oh, you want to amortize the number? Yeah. Do you want the French method? Yeah. And then you had this big handle, almost like a one-armed bandit that you then had to pull down, and it shot up these metal typeset things that had the numbers on them, and then they would smack against the paper. Oh, wow. It was a monster. Not only the calculation, but then your numbers.Yeah, well, it went onto the paper, and you go, ka-chunk! And it was the funnest thing to play with. It was outdated technology. This is probably from the 20s or something. I don't know. You talk about playing with calculators. That was more. And it was very industrial and heavy. I mean, you couldn't carry it around. There were a lot of mom-and-pop shops still using those. Yeah, and you go, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, ka-chunk! Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, ka-chunk! And then, you know… Oh, no. My mother did the books and she would sit down there and she would do this really quickly. I mean, she was, you know, she was adept because she'd been using that thing, obviously, for probably a couple of decades at that point. So it was it was fascinating where it worked.You muted yourself there. There you go. Mike. Bob? Yeah. Okay. You're there. We had a connection problem. You just muted yourself for a moment. That's all. Ah, rats. I was telling you, when I worked at a grocery store, you know, one of my first jobs, and the ladies that worked the cashiers, you know, they would still doing a lot of typing. They were scanning things, but they were still doing a lot of typing and everything was still cash. So it's kind of a different skill set. I've noticed going through that, uh, just the absence of, of effort that it used to require, you know, having, you know, having worked as a, as a kid, do you see my gosh, you know, we're lucky we still have, uh,so I always wait in line to go in the cashiers lines at Publix because I just, I like the fact that they still have cashiers on duty. Yeah. So, you know, miles, uh, my cohost for static radio, he's a, I always go into the, the people line rather than the computer line. Yeah. And then I always go into the self checkout. You do. Yeah. Oh yeah. Cause I don't, I don't want the, uh, interaction, uh, Or the scrutiny on what I'm buying is usually the thing. I like to talk about it. Yeah, I like that. But he's more social like you where he wants to interact with these folks and find something out, I guess. I don't know. I'd get to say, look, these incontinence pants really are for my dog. Yeah.That's right. You can tell they're not my size. It's obvious. Would you like to open them together? Well, so let's talk about the book a little bit here. What would you call it as, I mean, other than the facts about space, would you call it a compilation of short stories? Yeah, yeah, it is. It's a mix. It's It's a light read. I don't even know. It was like 160 pages on Kindle. Oh, man. I didn't spring for the page numbers. What the hell? I have 190 on my PDF that you sent me. This is a proof copy. Oh, okay. I see it's got the proof on there. Yeah, so it's not really for sale. I do like your artwork. I will say your artwork is very good. Thanks. Yeah. Yeah, I like it. It is an AI background with an AI chair and an AI TV and AI carpet.I'm going to take back my statement. No, I'm just joking. No, I mean, I like, cause you use the incredibly incredible true facts of space part multiple times. Obviously you've added something to the book, but yeah, I've seen that other part many, many times. Let's see. So it started in a Walmart in a inner hell little box where I was supposed to be selling cell phones and was pretty much the directed not to worry about it so uh you know, I, I was like, okay. And Darren didn't like me being in the office because I, you know hung inappropriate posters in the, in the bathroom once. Um, I was still just young enough to be a little bit nuts, you know, like when i worked at Blockbuster, uh, no, sorry, alfalfas. This is before blockbuster bought us. We were kind of the cool record store. And, uh,so alpha like the our gang person. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Books and video. It was interesting. Local mobile kind of, I think it grew up to like three locations. So it's, uh, anyway, it was, um, what were we talking about there? You're working and selling cell phones that you weren't supposed to sell. Yeah. I think i was still just young enough. to be a little nuts. Back earlier when I worked at Alfalfa, this was music. Oh man, I don't know. 24, 25, 24 maybe. So anyway, I had a special sale that we would refill your Zippo if you rented three movies. After we'd become a blockbuster, that wasn't It wasn't part of the plan anymore. It was no longer a, no longer a bonus that we could offer to the customers. You guys had like all of this lighter fluid under the counter. No. In fact, I came up with it because we always had lighter fluid and,on hand and for taking labels. Oh, for removing the label. I got you. That was before the gunk gunk off or whatever it's called. Yeah. And when we were still talking about physical objects, you know, like each one had to be had to be made and had to look right. Yeah. So it's amazing to think how much time we used to spend sorting those tapes, making sure they were rewound and mainly not because you were like, you know, paranoid, angry video guy that wanted them rewound. But it's just the complaint you would get. And, and the, the lack of showmanship you would serve by giving somebody a video, they get home, their popcorn, their kids are on the couch, they plug it in and they got to rewind the whole thing. You know, I mean, classically that was considered, you know, really bad form, right. For, for being cool to your customers. So it's,And Alfalfa's was kind of much more of a hip store. So it really would have made a great movie, now that you think about it. Is this the place that says Alfalfa on the window there? Does that look like it, or is that something differe