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Welcome to Grumpy Old Geeks, I'm Jason DeFillippo. And I'm Brian Schulmeister. You okay, Brian? I might take a nap in the middle of the show. My son, his tonsils are massive. They grew. Apparently, tonsils can grow at a different rate than the rest of your body. If your tonsils grew faster, then whatever you'd call that system, your mouth.
The side effect of having large tonsils is snoring. Little did one know that not only 7-year-olds can not only snore cutely, but they can also snore like a 350-pound drunk man. Okay. These have been storing so loud he wakes himself up, comes into our room, and then proceeds to wake me up. I think I had like two hours of sleep last night because then I'm scrambling, I'm moving around, I'm trying to go to sleep on the couch.
I'm just a bit of nightmare. And, you know, luckily the doctor is like, oh, don't worry, this will resolve itself in about six to 12 years. I'm like, great. So that's our living hell right now. How are you? I would like to propose a technological solution for you. Yes. Get some noise-canceling headphones and strap them onto his head so he can't wake himself up with his own noise.
I don't know if he could sleep with them on, but it's worth a shot. Well, you have to try something. I got to try something because it's only been a few days and I'm already losing my mind. Fun times. Well, I got some follow-up for us today. Going back to the old, I think the longest running joke that we've had on the show, which was, hello.
The social network that launched in 2014. The social network that couldn't. Yes, the little social network that couldn't. Andy Bio has a nice write-up called the quiet death of Ella's big dreams. It's a long read, but it does kind of go through the entirety of Ella's history and why they went through it. I read through it. I read through it. And, you know, again, we were right. And I got all the shodans and the Freud's reading it.
Yeah, pretty much. Yeah, it could have just been. Hello told you so. Yeah, I mean, you know, noble goals, but did not follow them. Yeah, noble goals, not a social network make. No, no. And in news that is surprising, no one, George Carlin's estate is now suing the creators of that AI generated comedy special. It wasn't particularly special in order to have much comedy, but.
That's special. Yes, Carlin's estate is anticipating that the lawsuit could be met with a first amendment defense, but feels that the special has no comedic or creative value absent itself proclaimed connection with George Carlin and that the AI generated impression in personation fails to satirize him as a performer or offer an independent critique of society.
Yep, 100% on all points. Yeah, they are going to win that one. I think. Yeah, yeah, they had no big surprise there. And I tried again. And it is so bad. I mean, that is one of those things I wish I would have downloaded it. Just so I had a copy of it for future generations to say, see, this is what we were doing when AI first came around. And it was wrong. Look into Jason's special collection. There's the George Carlin AI special and the Hulk Hogan sex tape.
Don't tell anyone the last human being to have it. Peter teals knocking on my door. Great. Big thank you to Jeremy for picking up my scanner that I mentioned two weeks ago took me a while to box it up, but it is should be in his lovely hands yesterday. So it found a new home or was I haven't checked the tracking number and I haven't gotten a complaint yet. So I'm guessing it showed up.
Sorry to listen or Ben who tried to bribe me to undercut Jeremy and throw him under the bus. So I just couldn't do it to another show fan Ben. I'm sorry. I hope you understand through him under the bus. Oh, public. I didn't say Ben who.
No, no, no, and big thanks to Mike D from Wheaton who long ago sent me those magnets on a stick. And I saw I'm going to send you some stickers and he gave me his address on a little three by five card that was with the magnets, which had fallen behind the dresser that I hadn't moved until last week.
Where I found it. I'm like, I runically if it had been written on metal, you could have picked it up with the stick. Exactly. If you just send me what a Kevin Mittening's business card, don't have been able to blink there it is. So, but your stickers are on the way Mike if you're still even listening after all these years, he's probably sitting in a bunker somewhere going. So as those never sent me my stickers, I've never listened to those guys again.
I'm sick to get grabbed the can of beans. Oh, man. And I did talk about annex and those damn fraudulent Facebook advertising charges. Well, once here's the deal one or two of them they're not going to do anything. When you get 25 of them stacked up in a row, then they start to listen. So it just takes time, I guess. So they finally canceled my card because I'm like, I never have nor will I ever advertise on Facebook and they go, sir, we understand 100%. So, here's a new card. Bye. In the news.
Well, Christmas keeps on rolling Jason. It's still pink slip season. eBay is laying off 9% of its workforce. Wow, that's that's quite a lot over a thousand rolls are being reduced as they say. I'm being auctioned off to the lowest bidder. I like how they did this one US employees were asked to work from home on January 24th. And those affected will be notified shortly. They didn't even want anybody in the office.
They got a pad. They got it. Well, they got they have to like, you know, put all their computers that the people were using on eBay. So. Yeah. Yeah. The company also plans back to scale back the number of contractors they're using over the coming months. And so they're blaming this again. Like many people have on having hired too many people in recent years. A little crap.
While we are making progress against our strategy, our overall headcount and expenses have outpaced the growth of our business president and CEO Jamie I only said in the memo. So. Yeah, I think this is just a lot of COVID contraction again. Yeah, I think everybody over. I'm going on. Yeah. I mean, when the care it was in charge, we had lots of free money floating around. And a bit of money. Yeah, we got that. Look, he decimated the X and it's still running. Mm-hmm. Sort of. Sort of.
More more layoffs here as well. Alphabet is cutting dozens of jobs at its X moonshot lab. So this is just days after alphabet and Google CEO Sudar Chai warned workers are more downsizing this year. He's leading off dozens of employees mainly support staff at the moonshot lab. They're restructuring it to make it easier to spin out projects as independent startups with backing from outside investors. So I guess a lot of the internal admins going away and good luck. This is what they're saying.
Yeah, find your own money. Good luck. Yeah, go to the other X really. Not that you can't this you can't stay here at this X. I shame on in gadget for misspelling Sudar Patri's name. I know I just realized I just you know, I am I am a sheep and I just read it. And yeah, I'm sure that's correct. Yeah, you know, well after the baronstein baronstein bear kerfuffle. Just for all I know what universe were in exactly what universe did I wake up in today?
Did I wake up in the Sudar Pachai verse or the Sundar Pachai verse? Yeah, for I mean with two hours sleep. I mean it could be Bill mates that ran Microsoft for all I know. No shit. No shit. Speaking of Microsoft, they're laying off 1900 employees from Activision Blizzard, which yeah, by the company. For 69 billion dollars and start cutting heads. Yeah, and if anybody surprised about that. Well, yeah, whatever.
That's just that's that's you know standard playbook because there's going to be duplication of roles as they say. They also killed one of the new games that was coming out of Blizzard, which is kind of sad because Blizzard hasn't released anything new and exciting for ages. So we had eight percent of the staff. Done. That's quite a few and of course that's one day after their three trillion dollar evaluation. So making money is not a is not a good mean your job is safe.
Oh god no, they're like we made three we're worth three trillion dollars. We want to be worth four. Hit the road. And speaking of companies that are doing really well, but still laying off people. TikTok is reportedly laying off workers to cut costs as well.
From the short form video platform quibi, I mean sorry, TikTok told NPR that the company laid off around 60 employees, mostly from its sales and advertising division across its various US offices like Los Angeles, New York and Austin and abroad. These are part of a routine reorganization, but NPR said the company decided to let them go to cut costs. It's only 60 people. That's nothing. Don't even wake me up for less than a thousand. Come on.
Well, there's a there's an entire company that had to lay off everybody. Now we're cooking now we're cooking doomed crypto firm terraform labs files for bring bankruptcy in the US. The company that wiped out over 40 billion from the crypto market with the collapse of its terror US dollar and Luna stable coins is fine. Not very stable as finally filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Sunday.
The firms estimated assets and liabilities are both in the range of 100,000,000 to 500 million quite the range with the estimated number of creditors being somewhere between 100 and 199. Now, who found or informer CEO do quan is listed as the majority shareholder at 92% with an address registered in Singapore where the company is incorporated. He is in jail. Whoops.
Yes, following the rest of quan and his associate Montenegro for traveling with four task sports last March, which gives you great, great comfort and knowledge that this is an up and up company that did everything across the board evenly. Quan is currently still in jail until his extradition to the US likely by mid March where he will face security fraud charges.
He's also wanted in his home country South Korea for similar charges, which led to him his family and some key terraform labs personnel fleeing to Singapore between April and May 2022. Shortly before interpol placed him on the red notice list in the September that year. You're talking to get a red notice. He denied that he was on the run with the eventual discovery of a fake passports would suggest otherwise. I would just like to point out that in the headline doomed crypto firm.
I think that's redundant. Just crypto firm would have been fine or even criminal. They're all criminals has anybody not face charges at this point. Is there is there a single upstanding member of the crypto community? Well, the Winklevi twins are still walking free for now. For now. For now. I saw this over on 404 and just the headline maybe go, who what? It's called wiki media's pornographers. So apparently there's a whole bunch of porn on Wikipedia if you know where to look.
But the funny part is is that the editors and you know all of the pedantic mofos that make Wikipedia run. They still quibble over the same stupid stuff like no that file name of the blow job is just not right. You should name it to this. Just reading the excerpts of their transcripts of their chats back and forth. They're just way funnier than the actual homemade porn that is you know sprinkled around Wikipedia. Got to love a pedantic pervert. Exactly. Exactly as you showed title for you.
Speaking of pedantic perverts also on 404 media there they're on a roll here. There's another article called how to upload porn to Instagram. So Instagram is is known for being the hardest place to get even a nipple through. Except here's the trick. Here's the trick. All you have to do is put a here. If you make a video all you need to do is put a three minute countdown clock in front of the video which apparently their content scrubbers get sleepy at two minutes and 59 seconds.
They want at that point. They do like most people on porn hub two minutes and 59 seconds is all you ever need. Then they just then the video starts up and there's one video that had a 2.1 million views at the time the article was written. So apparently it's not that big of a secret. Okay. I just feel like there's so many places one can go with with less effort but okay. Much less effort. You know if you are on porn hub you'd already be done by now. It should be there. You'd be home by now.
Exactly. Well, Francis find Amazon $35 million over intrusive employee surveillance or what Amazon calls normal behavior in the US. Our business model. Yeah, business model. Exactly. So good for them for that. Francis data privacy watchdog organization the CN I L as filed has find a 32 million pound or 35 million in US dollars. Fine over the companies use of an overly intrusive employee surveillance system that requires them basically to clock in and clock out constantly.
They're tracking them on almost minute by minute basis which they just said that's that's one step too far. Yeah, this is France. Yeah, they have barcode scans call that they call out employees for periods of downtime as low as one minutes blah blah blah blah blah. So they basically just said that the accuracy of the system is illegal not so much the system itself but it's too damn accurate Jason.
Well, when you're going to get your brief break in because you're definitely still not going to get a P break. No, no, brief break. I could use a brief break. I could definitely use a brief break. This is a very, very disturbing story. 60 year old you'll see if I can speak this one. I need a brief break. 61 year old man is suing macy's and the parent company of sunglasses hut over the stores alleged use of facial recognition.
So this is a guy who was in lived in California and was going back and forth to Texas. And the thing is there was this robbery at a sunglasses hut. Somebody stole a bunch of stuff. They pulled some video use some facial recognition on it turned out it wasn't the guy he was arrested and then eventually let go because he proved that he was in Sacramento at the time of the robbery. But the the rub here is no pun intended. He was gang raped when he was in prison. Oh, yeah.
So now he's suing macy's and the parent company for $10 million. So I hope he wins very much so very, very much so me too. Yeah, that's just this that's you know one of the unintended consequences of facial recognition is gang rape. So let's let's put that on the list. Okay. No, that yes. Meta's oversight board has raised concerns because that's all they can fucking do. Exactly. Over automated moderation while overturning a decision by the company to leave a Holocaust denial post on Instagram.
They've overturned a decision by the company that is non binding that the company doesn't have to follow. So they didn't really fucking overturn it. Did they? No, they didn't. The posting question depicts squidward from SpongeBob Squarepants and reported to include true facts about the Holocaust. However, the claims are either blatantly unsure or misrepresented historical facts. The oversight board said.
I mean, the only reason I put this story in here is because I just wanted to point out again that the metas oversight board is a fucking paper tiger that does shit. Yep. Yep. I would like to be on that board. They're going around and around about this one stupid post that keeps popping up and they can't get anything done and no wonder it's a shitton. Mm hmm. There you go. Big surprise, big surprise, I think that's by design. I think that we discussed that at the very beginning.
Oh, the whole thing by design. Yeah, it's all by design. Yeah. Now it's a good news. Six deaf children were given some gene therapy straight into their ears, ear holes. And now they can listen to podcasts. I mean, they can hear. Welcome, new listeners. Welcome, welcome. Welcome, young. Young. Bucks. Yep. So what it's basically up there, their range of hearing because before they couldn't hear anything under 95 decibels. Now there it's around 45 decibels. So, but here's the thing.
It's gene therapy that they basically wrapped in a virus to get it into the system, which then counteracted. Some gene deficiencies that they already had, which is a really cool new therapy. That's awesome. It is so cool. Like, can I get that glow in the dark crisper recipe again? Because I would like to glow in the dark, please. That's amazing. That's fantastic to hear. I love this stuff. I mean, I think science and medicine in the next 10 years is just going to blow our minds.
Yeah. Yeah. So we can stick around long enough to reap the benefits. Keep saving now because it's going to be expensive. I'm sure. I mean, yes, it is going to be expensive in the US. There's no doubt about that. No doubt about that. Something else is expensive in the US is tires for your EV, which apparently you have to replace really often. I did not know this. This is definitely filing. It's going in the column column in my next car is an EV. Yeah, definitely. This comes from Florida.
And they're saying that the EV by like anybody with an EV down there has to change their tires between 8000 to 10,000 miles. That is not insignificant. No, it's not. There's another guy who has a Mercedes who has to change his about 7000 miles. It's about 1500 bucks for a set. Look, from what I remember from insurance when I was in the US and getting auto insurance, you could get a special rate if you drove less than 12,000 miles a year, which I did because I didn't go very far in my car.
It was a very short commute for my wife's work. I worked from home. We went to my mom's house in Norge County and that was about it. So I drove less than 12,000 miles a year and that was very, very, very little compared to most Americans and most Californians for sure. I'd have to buy new tires every year if I have. Every year. Yeah. And I barely drove. Bullshit. Yeah, they're saying it's because of the added weight of the batteries and the power, the extra power that EVs have.
Wow, there is a model for a tire that's built specifically for EVs right now. There is a business model. They're working on it. Oh, yeah, they're working on it. So, yeah, it's very interesting. And by the way, I used to have that. There's an even lower one now. I think it's under 5,000 miles a year. I drive about 900 miles a year. And so I get this super duper rate, which is great because I can't drive anywhere. My commute is 0.3 miles to my office and back. That's it. Right.
So, it's just the only thing on the way. So, you're done. I actually park in my lot and walk to Whole Foods because it's safer to actually do it that way than it is to drive in the Whole Foods parking lot in the morning. Yeah. But it's nice though. I am equidistant, depending on my budget constraints. To the left of me, I've got Trader Joe's. To the right of me, I have Whole Foods and I am smack dab in the center. So, I just look at my wallet and say, oh, I do not have Whole Foods money today.
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Media Candy. Brian, I watched the new Kevin Hart vehicle lift on Netflix. Is it a documentary about his shoes? That would have been a hell of a lot more interesting. This movie is for people. It would have been the greatest movie ever made if you've never ever seen another movie. It was so fucking bad. Have you ever seen a movie before? Maybe suggest. Lift, starting Kevin Hart. It was so horrible.
We made it about, we actually made it two thirds of the way through because we're just like, it can't be this bad. There were missing something. It just can't be. Where's the turn? Where's the twist? Where's the rub? Where's the other shoe? Anything? No. No. It's just really that bad. It's not even a popcorn movie. It's not one of those ones where you can just sit back like a mission impossible movie.
Where you at least have to figure something out or whatever. This is a heist movie that has no redeeming qualities whatsoever. I mean, I'm serious. I'm gobsmacked by how horrible this fucking movie was. Skip that one. The next though is Death in Other Details. It's a new series on Hulu starring Mandy Patinkin. Who I love him? Love, love, love. It kind of throws you off. He has a British accent in this. It's very strange.
But it is great. It is absolutely great. It's kind of like White Lotus meets... What is it? The one with Daniel Craig where he's the detective. Knives out. That's out. Yeah. And Glass onion. Yeah, Glass onion. Yeah, yeah. That series. It's that meets White Lotus. Phenomenal so far. Phenomenal. It's only four episodes in. It's a slow release. Perfect time. It's a weekend. Go get caught up. I love it. Absolutely. Love it.
My wife and I finished watching the brother's son last night. There was eight episodes averaging about an hour. Fantastic. It was a wonderful series. We finished it. My wife and I looked at each other and went. It's stunningly great. Fantastic. Ended perfectly. No need for any more. The credits were running. We went and we were cleaning up like the wine glasses and the cheese that we were having. No, I know. Credits and there's a scene. Yep. Leaving it open for a sequel. Of course.
And then we looked at each other and went. All right. I'm in. I'm in. Sure. We're in. Why not? It was that good. I highly recommended Jason. I think you would love it. So you should definitely watch this when you get a chance. I watched the first first 20 minutes of the first episode. And I'm definitely in. I figured I figured this is right up your alley. And it's got it all. It's got it's got the you know the violence and the action and the humor.
And then there's the whole all the cultural stuff, which is phenomenal. It's just great. Yeah. No, I'm definitely looking forward to getting back into it. And it took a side trip though. Old show called ultraviolet. It started Jack Dahan port in Idris, Elba in Philip Quest. Never heard of Philip Quest. Philip Quest played Javair in the original run of Les Mis in Australia. He was fantastic. Yeah, I flew over there for that.
Yeah, me too. Several times. He's my favorite Javair. That's why I know that. Okay. Which most people don't have. I guess. Probably true. That's not a very popular of Listicle on Buzzfeed. I got to say. No, but it's I bet I bet. I bet Bittner has one. Of all the people that's Bittner probably has one. Anyway, it's a it's a cut. It's a vampire show. Okay. It's a very strange vampire show. But it's got like Jack Dahan port in Idris, Elba before they were anybody really.
It's one of those BBC series. So it's six parter. Very short. So you're telling me Philip Quest was the big star of the show. At that point, I think he was actually I think he was. He was the draw. But I think I think actually I think Jack Dahan port was what was the sitcom that they did that he was in that we loved. Oh, God. We used to talking on it. We used to talk about all the time on the show coupling. Oh, okay. Yeah, I did enjoy coupling.
Yeah, but ultraviolet. It's good. It's on free. V. So there's a couple ads in there. But highly recommended. It's a good slow fun vampire watch. We've been doing the show for so long now that the TV shows that we talked about when we started the show are now like ancient history. I know. I know it's got to scary. Crazy. Speaking of ancient history returning, John Stewart is returning to the daily show as a host. Only one day. Don't we know how I feel about this.
We'll see. Yeah, after his last run after his last show. Yeah. So he's back after a year long search for Trevor Noah's replacement. The longtime host and Noah predecessor has agreed to return on Monday nights through the 2024 election. So yeah, he will be hosting only on Monday with a team of correspondence. Basically taking the seat for the rest of the week.
I don't know who needed this more. John Stewart or or comedy central because they both needed it because John Stewart obviously struck out pretty big. Over at Apple with his very depressing show and you know, this has been a mess trying to replace Trevor Noah for comedy central. And if they don't get some they needed this otherwise the show was going to die basically. Yeah, because it was the whole big kerfuffle with the son Minaj.
Yeah, because he was just a liar. Yeah, that's the word. That's a word. I was going to say exaggerator. Exaggerator is fine for comedy, but then they're straight up lying. So yeah, so a little problem there. It's just too bad because I like him. I don't care if he's lying. It's comedy. He's telling a story. Whatever. I know. I think it's a bit too. Yeah, too. I guess we're being old man here. There we are. Anyway, it's just a nasty jokes. Fagum. Let him throw.
Yeah, I guess we can put him on Star Trek Discovery. Whatever. So I'm looking forward to it because you know, we're up again for another. It's basically a rerun. So rerun years. So why not have a rerun hose? Let's get him back. We always said we missed him during the Trump years. So we got to get a second go. Yeah, and I hope he keeps it light. Ish, you know, don't don't go apple on me. Please.
Speaking of Apple, Apple just dropped a mysterious trailer for its latest sci-fi series constellation. I don't know what's going on over there at Apple, but they are approving sci-fi left, right and center. And I am here for it, even if it's shit. Well, you must be because foundation is shit. Foundation is shit, but the silo was fantastic. Oh, yeah, the other ones are pretty good. Like not great, but good. Like at least somebody's funding this stuff.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Monarch was okay. Yeah, I actually really I enjoyed Monarch. I didn't need that many of the creatures. So it was fine for me. I liked it a lot. I finished that as well. I forgot to even put that. It was so memorable. I forgot to put it in the show notes, but I didn't join. Okay, well, you were asking if what's his name was coming back from the first episode, John Goodman, and he did come back for a little bit at the end there.
But you can, I mean, if you can't tell exactly if you can't write season two script from watching season one, you're an idiot. Look, we're also old enough now that we've seen all this stuff before we can write almost any script for any of these shows at this point. Yeah, yeah, my roommate hates me for that. Like I'll watch three minutes of a mystery, and I'm like, oh, that person did it and here's why. And then she's like, no, that's stupid.
And then as the show goes on, it's like everything I just said unfold. And she said, you man, shut up. What are your theories? I watched the trailer for this. It looks really good. It's an astronaut played by Numi Repace, who I like a lot returns to earth. Weird stuff starts to happen. It's going to be like mystery sci-fi. So looks good. I'll give it a shot. Okay. Any ape has killed ape action in there. It sounds like the plot for planted the apes. I didn't see any apes. It might be more ghosts.
All right. I know. Or aliens hiding somehow. I don't know. We'll find out. We'll find out. We'll find out. We'll also find out about masters of the air, which is finally launched. Not taken forever for this one. I was while we were getting ready to watch the last episode of the brother's son last night. I pulled out my phone because my wife was getting something. I opened up like Instagram or something like that. And I got the, I got an ad from Apple TV.
It's like 11 minutes until the premiere of masters of the air. Like, okay. Wow. Thanks. The brothers fans were are looking forward to this. Yeah. Well, I wasn't until I watched the trailer. Right. Then I'm not. I'm not really looking forward to it that much. What I am looking forward to is watching it on the 75 inch TV with my with my AirPods in. I think that is going to be an experience. That's going to be fantastic.
Yeah. But I mean, I'm sure the production values are just going to be through the roof on it. I'm looking forward to watching it. Yeah. It's the story that I care about because the thing about band of brothers has had everything because they just come off making a live in private Ryan. So they had all the skills to do with that exact type of show. I think this is just going to be a lot of CG. And, you know, obviously going to be CG.
Then I could be flying out a bunch of, you know, flying out of the water. I'll be blowing up planes. Yeah. Exactly. Exactly. Netflix. They want more money. Again. This is, they're getting to the tipping point now where it is going to be easier to pirate again. Yeah. That's their, they're, they're, they're right on that inflection point right now. Yeah. I mean, I think it's, I think it's 80% they want more growth than they want to drive up their stock price.
And I think it's 20% they're figuring out that the ad model doesn't really work very well. No, the ad model is working better than anything. The ad model makes more per user than paid subscriptions do. Oh, what the hell are they doing that? That's why they're squeezing people out to, to use the ad models. They're, they're cutting off the cheapest ad models coming up in Canada. In Canada, in the UK initially and they're going to start squeezing everybody else to higher paid ad models.
Right. Kind of like Amazon. So basically what we're going to end up with is fucking cable TV again with ads. Yeah. We're going to go straight back to we're paying for it and we're getting ads. Yep. This has all happened before. This will all happen again. Maybe we'll get a new reboot of battle start. Oh, yeah, they're working on that too. Are they really? Yeah. Oh, no. Yeah, it's in development apparently. Hopefully a new team. Hopefully an ending. Yes, here's hopefully a plan.
Hopefully you're real fucking plan this time. Abs and do doubts. Brian, one of my favorite apps has updated this week and I am very, very happy. Screens has updated to version five, which I think is at first I thought, why? Screens worked so good as it was. Why do you need to update it? Well, because the new version is that much better. It is actually really, really good. So I don't know if you've done like dove into that one, but it's it's prettier. That's for sure.
I just don't know if it's worth the effort because I really use it just to get into my mom's computer or something's wrong. So that not I get into my mom's computer and upgrade her version and then. Yeah, whatever. Yeah. If you had the previous version, I think they the upgrade cost was like 25, 90, 90 year. Right. I think is 50% off. You can do a full buyout for 75 bucks. If you just want to own it flat out and not have to do a subscription.
If it's going to go for a couple of years, which is what I did before, but it turns out the time frame is about the same. You end up paying about the same. So it is an app that I use. I literally use it daily because I've got one, two, five machines that are always in contact and doing stuff on. You know what's been more valuable to me for fixing my mom's stuff is it's not her computer. Usually it's the internet and because I set her up with the hero and I can control her hero from my phone.
I can reboot her hero. That is all 90% of the problems. Oh, that's good. Yeah, that's good. Yeah, look into that one. Yeah, it's fantastic. It's like my internet's not working. I don't know what's wrong. I'm going to go into hero reboot. Okay, give it five minutes mom. Nice. Nice. Yeah, I've got euros everywhere. So I should give that a shot. At least get some for my dad because I think that'd be the only place I ever need it. Actually, no, I have a brother for that.
He fixes all the internet problems. I don't need an hero. I'm fine. I do want to talk about one more set app app this week. One of my new favorites. It's called paste. Have you ever seen this one? Nope. This is kind of a clipboard manager. Okay. Everything that you copy basically goes in place. Everything that you copy basically goes into your paste bin with paste. But the end so you can retrieve anything. It's like, oh, I copied that and I just, oh, I copied over something. Oh crap. What was I?
So you just basically pull up the little panel. There's everything that you've ever copied. So you can go back and pull it up and drag it back in. You can also set it to auto turn to plain text. The sounds to me like a poor man's a password manager. Well, that might not be, yeah, might not be good for that. Great for that. But it works for, it works across all the machines too. So you can sync across. Right. So it's a really easy way instead of copying on one machine.
Pacing it in notepad opening notepad on the other machine. Just copied on one then open paste on the other and boom. It's there. You know what maybe it's just me, but this supposed ability to be able to copy something on your laptop and then maybe able to paste it on your iPhone. And never fucking works for me ever. Well, you have to have a certain set of skills turned on. I think I have all those skills turned. I have gone into the documentation on this and it's still never fucking works.
Oh, works great for me. Great. Well, that's good for you. Well, then what you need to do is go get paste because there is an iOS part to it too. So you can get that with setup. If you get set up, you get paste on all your machines and the iOS version. So you have to pay for something I already supposedly have Jason. Well, you don't. Either way, this is part of the setup bundle. And it's I've been like I said, every week I've been going through trying to find fun stuff.
And this one actually is really handy because it did like I said, it does sync with iCloud, which you've already got. So it's just a you toggle it on and it's on all your machines. So very fun stuff. There you go. Tesla is reportedly building a compact crossover codenamed redwood. This is definitely something they need. I'm not surprised by this at all. So they need something kind of in the middle and cheaper for people to get behind it all.
Of course, now that we know how much it's going to cost you in tires. I'm still not so sure about this. No, no, Brian, the tires are made of redwood. That's what they're going to do. It's called the Flintstone. Yeah. So yeah, we'll see about this. They haven't we don't know when it's coming. We don't know what the exact price is going to be supposedly 2025, but this is Elon's so probably 2030 at this point with the way he works. But yeah, good for them. It's what they need.
The Apple car apparently still exists and could debut in 2028. Okay. What they've done is I guess the internal plan was they wanted to be fully autonomous and they backed away from that and now they're going to do like somewhere. A car. Yes, they're going to do a fucking car, which is all we ever wanted in the first place. I didn't want to know autonomous car. I just want an Apple car. Yeah. Why do you want an Apple? Nobody wants an Apple car. I think it'd be cool. I will see.
It's because $400,000. Look, they're ski goggles just cost five or four grand. Or fuck sake. You want an entire car? Jesus. Well, you know what the car is going to be? It's going to be the goggles with a bird scooter. Oh, my God. And no charging port. At least you will not pay for the tires. That's the library. I need to take a break and kind of go back to something sci-fi that I've been enjoying and is somewhat familiar. So I went back to the Peter Cowderon series.
He's the author, if you remember, that is written 20-some odd books. All about first contact. It's an interesting concept that he went with. And they're all different explorations of the different ways the first contact could take place. Most of them I've really enjoyed. There's actually really only been one that I didn't like. This one was not the greatest. It's called the artifact. You know, he's also exploring different styles as you would if you got this sort of thing.
And this is the Indiana Jones action adventure hot girl with burly guy. And they're completely different to people at first, but forced together in this extraordinary circumstances. They come to appreciate and fall in love. Oh, isn't that special? Yeah, the actual alien aspect of it wasn't so great. So not the best one, but still I like his writing. I like the concept and I've liked most of the books. So I'm not going to hold this one against him. All right.
I have an up and coming title that I wanted to talk about called Slow Predactivity by Cal Newport. I'm a Cal Newport fan. Sometimes his podcast drives me nuts, but most of the time I find it very useful. And I'm a big fan of deep work and deep thinking about work and long blocks of uninterrupted time, which are really hard to come by. What they they are. I don't remember if it came from him, but it's certainly part of that world. The 90, 90 minute, 20 minute thing. No, that's not him.
I mean, he's about blocking off long blocks of time, but 90, 20 sounds more like kind of like almost Pomodoro ish, which is usually 45, 15, 45 on 15 off. But now his stuff is a little more a little deeper than that. And, but if you pre order now, you get a bunch of goodies, including like a half hour tree to son on like an, like a kind of a warm up on what the book is going to be about. I just knew his podcast you already know basically what the book is going to be about.
But my favorite book I think that he ever wrote was so good. They can't ignore you, which is a fantastic book about just becoming a rock star. Just get really fucking good at your job. And then can we go back a second here? Yeah. If you pre order the book, which means that you're going to get the book, you get a 30 minute short version of the book telling you what the book is going to be. Kind of. That's against some other stuff in there. It's actually really good. I watched it.
It was pretty good. Okay. No, it's it's you've already bought the book at that point. It's a sales pitch for the book that you're buying. No, it's extra stuff. It's extra stuff. Okay. No, it's it's it's look. Get it if you want. Don't if you don't. I don't know. Shit. I got it because I'm a fan. Okay. That's all. I'm just trying to pimp my boy. Cal here. Man, no, no, it's fine. I just found it. Curious extra. That's all. Bustin yours. I'm busting his. Look, man, he's a computer science guy.
That's not hard. The dark side. Ha. With Dave. Welcome to the dark side with Dave with podcast super host Dave Bittner. Dave is the host of the cyberware podcast for all your cyber security news. The co host of hacking humans with Joe Kerrigan discussing how humans are mean. The co host of caveat with Ben Yellen because people are nosy. And the host of control loop because industrial machines have feelings to. Hi, Dave. Hello. How are you doing today? I'm doing okay.
I have a. I have something I want to rant about a little. By all means, the floor is you. Let me let me delete all the security information. Yeah. I mean, I don't know how long this is going to go, but this. Okay. This is. This is observational and something I'm curious about. So, you know, most of my professional career, I work. I was self employed, had my own company, had my own little office and all that kind of stuff. Right. And there were years when I worked at home.
But as of late, as you all know, with my employment here at the cyberware, I work in an office building. It's a. It's a four story office building. He had a nice little suburban area. There's probably half a dozen of these four story office buildings around. So it's very nice. New, I'd say relatively upscale as these things go. So there's this issue with the men's room that I'm curious about. And I'm wondering what you, you're all take on it is. I have noticed. I have established.
I have observed. I have tracked. I have recorded. That for whatever reason, the men all throughout our building, no matter what floor they're on, come to our floor to use the men's room. Now, here's my guess. My guess is that because half of our floor is taken up by data tribe, which is the startup incubator that we're part of. The other half is a women's health clinic.
Okay, so what I'm guessing is that folks and the other floors have figured out that our men's room has less traffic than some of the men's rooms on their floors. And so I don't begrudge them that they want to come to user men's room where there is less traffic and they can take their time and do all, you know, and take care of all of their their restroom business. However, in doing this, they've made my restroom busier than it otherwise would be. Now you have to go up to their floor. Exactly.
So this, this makes me wonder, is this just a guy thing like do do? And because I think Joe Carrigan was telling me that I was sharing this with him a while back and he was saying that one of the first things you do when you join a new organization or for him, like it's a campus, you know, at Johns Hopkins. Is it you figure out where you're going to go to poop, right? Yes. Because it can't be too close to where you know that hold, you know, don't foul the nest and all that kind of thing.
So, but I'm wondering is this is this a guy thing like do girls care about this the way men do? I don't know. I don't know the answer to that. I could certainly ask, but. And I was curious if you guys had any thoughts on my am I being unreasonable here? No, I think that you poop on the floor that you're on that that's unless your your your company is multi floor in which case you have a manza of opportunity. But it should be the the ones assigned to your company is where is where you poop.
Yeah, Adam Corolla, who I used to listen to, he used to do morning radio and Los Angeles. And this is before he became kind of right being Maca freak is always right now become easily into that pretty heavily. But he used to be pretty funny and pretty middle of the road. Yeah, he had a poop theory, especially when he started running his own business. He got really upset at all of his employees for coming to the office and pooping. He's like, you are an adult now.
You should have a schedule with your poop. And if you cannot take care of your business and assert your schedule so that you poop before you come into work, well, we tied you. You are a poor example of a human being. What are you doing pooping at work? Sort out your shit. Literally. Okay. So that that's his take on this. So nobody should be pooping at work. Now, obviously, you know, you the accidents will happen.
You might have, you know, ate a bit spicier than normal the night before and you don't add much control over that. So occasionally it will happen. But people who poop regularly at work, there might be something wrong. Well, you know, I actually thought about making us some signs that said, please poop on your own floor. But that doesn't sound right. That sounds completely wrong. Yeah, completely. Yeah, you need to please poop on the toilets on your own floor. I think you need to add that.
So right. Right. So I've been trying to think of is there is there a way to make our restroom less attractive to other people? I thought about, you know, chocolate sauce on an handle. I'll put it out of order sign on the door except for when I need to use it. Right. I could do that. Yeah, I can think about just filling the whole place making it. Right. I put a lock on the door on one of the stalls. Right. I put a very conspicuous security video camera looking down at one of the stalls.
I've thought about many of these things. But, you know, I think is I don't want to be a jerk. Assign this as we're water conscious if it's yellow, let it mellow. That'll probably stop a lot of people from going in. Or abandon hope all you who enter. And tell no tales. Right. Right. It's been X number of days since we found a dead body in this restroom. Yeah. I have seen. It was a funny years ago.
There was a funny gag somebody did where they got a pair of like mannequin legs and and like clip them to the toilet seat. So from outside, it looked like there was a pair of feet there. And then they put like an endless loop recording of just the most symphonic bodily sounds. And it was simply a magic that just played nonstop.
And it kept the bathroom cleared because everyone was either too embarrassed or didn't want to be there for the aftermath of whatever poor thing this person was suffering through. That seems a bit elaborate. But, you know, it strikes me as as we're talking about this that when we were talking about shaving. Incessantly, I made a joke about soon showering and shitting. And here we are. Here we are. Yeah. Well, I don't even know if it's fair for this to be something that that bothers me.
And maybe this is just that I'm getting to be, you know, a grumpy old man. I don't know. I guess I need you know what? I just need an executive washroom. I need an executive washroom. Yes, you do. Right. You need your own. Oh, so let me add. Let me just add a little wrinkle to this. So there are four floors on our building. The fourth floor is an executive washroom. They have a key pass, you know, little electronic keys. So only the executives of the company up there can use that washroom.
How silly to do that in a building full of cyber security enthusiasts who could probably crack that code. You need to do this a little social engineering name that has crossed my mind as well. I could just hang out in there, you know, whatever they come in just like, hey, how's it going? Oh, look, it's it's the code is P O O P. Okay. Right. Right. Anyway, it's a silly thing, but it does it doesn't annoy me.
So I'm curious of any of our listeners have have dealt with this or have come up with an effective way. You know, the more subversive the better of, you know, solving this particular problem. Or if it's even a problem elsewhere, I don't know. I don't know. I don't again, I don't have a whole lot of experience in offices. So this is all kind of new to me and I don't like it.
Yeah, can't help there much because I've been work from home for a very long time in my office experiences with this are very small. And even now when I go into the office, I'm generally only there for a few hours. So it never comes up. Well, it comes up in my office and unfortunately there are four men's rooms on the in the building that I'm in.
Not a large building, but the management of this building, nipped that in the bud because the keys that they give you only work on the one that's closest to your office. See, there you go. Yeah, problem is now that they're doing construction on my floor and they gave the key to my bathroom, which was generally a private bathroom for the most part to about 20 day workers who come in. And I swear to God have dead raccoon for dinner every night. Right. They just wreck the place. Oh my God.
It is it is. It is. Unlovely. It's the rest of the building and they wreck the restroom. Exactly. Okay, something a little less. A little less fecal. Just got a logical. Yes, a little less. A little logical. Even though it is kind of a shit show. Google photos. Dave, you got me into Google photos because of their their facial recognition over time. Yes, feature, which was I think it's phenomenal. It's a phenomenal feature.
Yes. But the problem I have with it is there was a some change up with my credit cards because of some Facebook shenanigans that someone did and Google could not charge my card for my extra storage. So they just said, hey, you're over your over budget and you have 60 days to either pay us a bunch of money or get your shit gone. Well, so my Google photos account is tied to my Google organization account. So it wasn't just like I can't cancel my Google photos account.
And I didn't want to give them any more money because I'm taking this opportunity to give them less money because there's such jerks and can't figure things out. So I go to Google photos and I need to delete my photos in Google photos. There is no way that you can easily select all and delete your photos and Google photos really three hours. It took me of selecting selecting selecting selecting delete moved to trash select select.
I found that you can the most you can generally get is about 5,000 images by clicking one then holding shift and scrolling scroll scroll select some more scroll scroll scroll scroll select some more moved to trash. If you do any more than that, then it just has an aneurysm. And since I have a couple hundred thousand photos, it took a while. So yeah, that was my my Google photos story for the day.
You know, select all delete or delete all photos or you know, just close this portion of my account, please. Yeah, that was nice, but it is Google and we know that they don't care about end users. So I guess we're stuck with it. So did you have to go through any process of getting your photos off of there or was Google photos just a backup? They were backup. Okay. I couldn't even take it. It would probably take longer to go figure that out.
Then I have to deal with you know API tokens and all the great limits and all that other crap. Did I right? Then he got a right code and I don't know how to do that anymore. So there's a I did think I did the caveman way. Next, next, right, next, next, next, next, right. This is why I have kids. This just this kind of task is why I have kids. You want to eat? All right. Here's the deal. Go delete all the photos, kiddo.
Yeah. I mean, I suppose in some ways it's a good thing that it's not easy to delete all of your photos. But you would think that you know, they could be a happy medium here where there could be several screens of do you really mean it? Are you sure? Are you? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's a pain. Hey, but I did just get a prepaid virtual card from a Google settlement for the Google Referr header privacy litigation suit for $7.70. No, I just got that as well. All right. Good. It's not a scam.
Or it's a big scam. Go away out. I've been dealing with scams all old mornings. This guy tried to scam one of the people that were managing into doing a live stream. They were going to pay $5,000 for it. And we even did we got through two Zoom calls with the person and then my roommate this morning woke up because this doesn't smell right. And then I went back and I'm like, oh, God, she's right. Totally was totally as a scam.
Trying to figure out what the scam is because they were trying to pay us. And give you can we'll pay you through Venmo, PayPal or bank transfer. You know, and but part of the process was it was a Facebook live set up and they wanted their technician to work with our talent to like be able to post from their Facebook page. So I'm guessing it was it was a plan to gain access to their Facebook page and steal it. I see.
That's what I that's all I can think of because I'm like, you're going to vend Mo me the money. Okay, then then pull a scam where you pull it back later somehow, you know, right. Right. I'm going to pay us from somebody else's fucked up account. I don't know how that would work, but either way the whole thing just stank. And I can I completely missed it completely like went over my head and I'm just like I'm getting. I don't know. I'm getting sloppy.
I just expect kids nowadays to not have any any you know care about business paperwork or things like that because they got they're making millions of dollars. It's just there. I just five grand. Come on our show. And I'm like in my roommates like you know, they never asked for a W nine. I'm like, huh? Anybody that's going to give you $5,000 is going to ask for a W nine. I'm like, okay, then I went and checked. I'm like, yeah, she was right. Totally right.
So did you just cut off contact with them? Yeah, this just happened before the show this morning that we figured it out. So I reached out to the person who they were impersonating whose organization they were impersonating. But I also have their zoom meeting ID that they use multiple times. So they have a zoom account that is going to be tied to them. So I might end up giving that to the authorities to go have fun with.
Yeah. Wow. But there was there was technically at this point, there's no crime committed. So I don't know if anybody's going to do anything, but either way to clever scam. Except I guess he gets fraud if they're pretending to be someone they're not. That's true. But the guy said he was in the guy when we did the zoom call. He said he was in Johannesburg. Sounded very German to me, but we couldn't really see out the window where he was. So who knows, could probably be anywhere.
Yeah. You know, nowadays these kids, these kids glad it played out well. It's frustrating as it is. You didn't, you know, oh, I'm going to be eating crore for a record. I'm going to be eating crore for weeks because my roommate is going to just, because I'm the one that's supposed to catch it like this. I'm the security guy. Yeah, she got it like damn it got through. So we got, we got a note here from Elaine to you, Dave. Hi guys, happy new year.
I have just listened to your last episode for 2023 and despite being a vegetarian, damn, did Dave make that roast sound good? Though I don't eat it, I have no control cooking. I have no trouble cooking meat for others, but I don't cook roasts. I think that is something that I'm going to have to try in 2024. Cheers and thanks for the show. Yeah, let me just say the holiday roast was also delicious.
And I've been talking to more people from our generation and it turns out that we're absolutely correct. That we did not know how bad our parents' cooking of meat was until now. Yeah, it seems to be a pretty universal thing. These overdrive roasts. That required gravy to save them at all. Twisted shorts wrote in again to one of your queries, Dave. One hour shows with laugh tracks. Eight is enough also on ABC in the late 70s. Yeah, that's right. That's a good one. Thank you, twisted shorts.
All right, so we got two now. Yeah, any more out there? Also ABC. I wonder who was eight is enough because that love boat was an air and spelling show. Right? Yeah. So it was eight is enough a spelling show too. I wonder if that was like his thing. I don't know because there weren't that many hour long comedies. That's the thing. That's what makes it so unusual. Yeah, definitely. That's a good catch. Okay. All right. Now you got me thinking about it again. Well, thank you. All right.
And Aiden writes in for Dave security cameras. It's the Dave show. I was surprised. No one mentioned the issue with you. He's saying the data never leaves your house. Then sending thumbnail pictures of your camera for notification, which is of course taking the pictures off your network. And they send a link to anchor finally comes clean about its U.F. Security cameras on the verge. Yeah. I mean, I guess that's. Yeah. Not a deal breaker. No, but I get what this person is saying that.
I mean, I think what U.F. is saying about the data not leaving your house is that they're storing it locally on the hub like the video footage and all that stuff is being stored locally on the hub rather than in their own cloud service provider. Unless you pay them extra to be on their cloud. Right. So I think that's the point they're making. But yes, if you want to get picture notifications on the app, there's no other way to do it. Right. So I don't know.
And they're saying that they are that they are now all encrypted. I am having an issue with one of my U.F. The U.F. cameras where I'm unable to live stream from it at the moment. It's kind of weird because I can still get stats from it like it tells me when it's batteries charging and things like that but it's not streaming video back to the base. The problem is because it's completely wireless.
That thing has been dead forever, but it still has a light on it, so I'm like it's good enough Right, I mean, that's the that's the thing you want it to be in a place where people can't mess with it Which means it's hard for you to mess with it exactly and exactly I've seen people say like I've looked up this problem that I'm having and they're like
Oh, yeah, just reset it. It'll be fine. Oh, great. I'll just reset it. Let me go get my ladder You just need a really long step Yeah, that's not a it's not a crazy idea actually So but overall still pleased with the ufee system might it's been pretty good so far and it's been fun
So I like that all right Well another camera system is in the news ring and We've talked on the show many many times about rings giving access to the local lawn lawn enforcement agencies very very Very very gladly like here have some more footage sir And kind constable with you please take our camera footage. I will apparently they're they're turning that off and
It's come it comes quite a little bit of a surprise and it's like why are you doing that? Oh, maybe it's all the negative press maybe Maybe I don't know Dave do you have any insight into this one? No, I mean, I don't have any like behind the scenes insider anything. I'm just a surprise to everyone else because Just bring doesn't strike me or anybody who keeps an eye on these things as being the kind of company who we just
Air is about we expect to be horrible. Yeah, right right I bet they got sued I my guess is either they got sued or they see they're trying to get ahead of something that's coming down the pike So there's some kind of regulation or legislation You know the FTC has just been taking all kinds of closer looks at companies when it comes to their privacy and their AI stuff You know good old senator widen is Doing the things that he does of asking the questions about these sorts of things so
Maybe they've they've just decided this is the time to try to get in front of this, but I mean it's good good for them I I think the sort of thing should require a warrant. So yeah for them definitely All right, well some good news from the security front. Oh shocker. I know right and we had been talking about Just a few shows ago about the one good feature that Android phones had over iPhones which was stolen device protection and that was coming in a beta and it's now out
officially in the wild so If you download iOS 17.3 and iPad OS 17.3 you can switch on stolen phone protection which basically just means you can lock them out of the system by forcing face idea touch ID Access if somebody manages to steal your phone and it works even if they have your passcode
They will not be able to get to get in there. So good for Apple from putting this out. I enable it. Yeah, immediately So I did as well and it's about fricking time now there's no excuse that fucking Android Yeah, yeah, it's a good feature and like I said, I've got it enabled do I do either of you have the Enhanced security functions enabled on your iOS device now I haven't either I haven't even played with it
But I've seen stories of folks who have who said that it really doesn't seem to there doesn't seem to be much of a downside to it But you know looking at my own Security needs I don't really see a compelling reason to turn it on but yeah same here I mean it's when is my phone not on me to begin with like it's just it's so just constantly with me 24 7 Which is a problem in and of itself that I should probably address but you know Different show Right at least different seconds That's right
Yeah, this is good. I think I might turn that on if I travel the enhanced but since I don't travel no need But for around that around the normal day to day I don't do anything where my phone is literally not glued to me So it's I'll just keep keep the normal normal stuff with it of course with the new stolen device protection Yeah, smart feature glad they finally yeah, I'll do it so
All right, that's it for this week. Okay. I gotta go get my $7.70 sense from Google now Put some Police's barrier tape on Crimes tape across the door of the men's room here with a gap It's just big enough for me to crawl on my hands and knees through it and lock the lock it from inside so See you next time guys So Brian you were bitchin last week about patreon's new mail system
Mm-hmm well in my normal email system. I got an email from patreon now This this made me want to throw something through the wall at the head of the the entire C-suite at patreon Yeah, yeah, look we've been complaining about them for a while there a bunch of fucking mornings
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Thank you the patreon team fuck you patreon team. There's my concern in my question and my comment all in one Cancel you cancel somebody's membership because you fuck up yep what fucking world is that logical what world is that in any way I don't know why that became the next step. I don't understand that at all like okay Ding us for a couple of bucks for things that were charged incorrectly, but why would you cancel them?
Fix it don't ding us eat it that you fucked up. Yes, they should actually technically eat it. Yes, that's yeah That's how you do customer service. This is not how you do customer service. Well, I guess we're gonna leave Nope, that would be too much effort too much effort although I have found a couple companies that can move us with Keeping our recurring systems in place because everything's done through stripe
So there may be an option here in the future. Okay, I wouldn't mind cuz patreon just doesn't they add nothing of value And it's just problem after problem now yeah The only reason we're sticking around is because we don't have to pay the patreon fees that everybody else has to pay last like nowadays Yep, because we're grandfathered in and at some point they're gonna they're gonna say you know what we've identified a problem with your grandfather in
Subscription. Yeah, we're not getting paid. That's the problem. Yep And all right sin for fuck sake patreon sends me an email your subscription to GOG was charged the wrong currency by our system for my convenience They canceled the subscription well, I'm back
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No reviews. No reviews. I got a couple sad notes here today Dave Mills the creator of NTP Which everybody on the internet uses because it's it's basically the time protocol that keeps all servers everywhere in sync His time apparently was up Many I've written many at PHP conversion program using NTP Yeah, yeah, he's one of those guys that one of those unsung guys that basically is you know the plumbers of the internet That we all use today that I think don't get enough credit
Oh, they're completely forgotten about except for us old folk. Yeah, I actually met the the guy who invented the S.M.T.P. protocol back in the day and Me and my girlfriend were just geeking out. We're like you wrote S.M. T.P. That is so cool He's like you guys are weird We're like, but you wrote S.M. T.P. That is neat. The weird thing is you were both correct. Yeah, it was cool and you were weird
Yeah, pretty much pretty much. Let's spice it up a bit. Unfortunately porn star Jesse Jane has died at age of 43 From an overdose another sad when Moussumi max also dead at 45 45 Jesse Jane and Moussumi are people that cross my path back in the old days. So in my in my former careers So I was very sad to hear that they were way too young and I am so sick of people dying from fentanyl You have no idea. Yeah, I don't know why people keep taking it
Could be that it's addictive maybe well. There's that yeah, yeah No, since I since I started my my alcohol recovery in the the places that I end up hanging out at the recovery centers and things like that over the past year I think I know about 30 people that have died from it, which is really heartbreaking really heartbreaking. Yeah, so
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