031: Listen To Granite

So I'm in the Texas clan you. Hello and welcome to episode number 30. One of unrelenting the most unrelenting podcast in the universe. I am Darren O'Neill and I'm coming to you live from Chicago, where it's finally under triple digits. I'm feeling a lot better. Well, to be fair, Gene, I'd never leave the house, so it was hotter. It gets outside. Yeah, well, do. You give a shit what the weather is? You're never out of the house. The hotter it gets outside the colder it gets in here.

So I was getting a little chilly because you have to keep going up. For what? I mean, I'm assuming the reason is it's the it's the most extreme or less least served area of the House, which is where they put the thermostat, because, I mean, we don't have one of those fancy new homes that have like multiple thermostats that can do. Boy, you're missing out because my thermostat decided to raise the temperature to 84 during the week.

Wait, was this because of the government or was this just because of a glitch? Now, that was the city of Austin. Wow. The Austin you have that control now already where it's like. Yeah they because when I went into the thermostat when I first I noticed it seemed a little warm. Yeah. And then a. Lot warmer. The thermostat and it was set to 84 degrees and I'm like what the fuck 84. It's a little too hot you think.

Yeah. And so I went in the app and it said, you're participating in an energy reduction event. Did you want to be friends? Wait, did you have to opt in for this? Yeah. Yeah. So with this there's nothing that they get better like various. It's just stupid. So basically about a year ago they had a thing which is you would you like $100? All you got to do, I'm yeah, exactly. All you got to do is give us access to your thermostat.

Does. Yeah. We just want to know what people's temperatures are set to for domestic right. We're never going to I'm like. OK, well that's cool. I'll take 100 bucks here. I'll let you see what kind of an energy whore I am. Yeah. By the way, I am in a I'm in the kitchen, which is mostly granite. And. Hardwood. Well, you can see, you know, carpet go in here. And so, yeah, you're you get a little more reverb out of me than normal. A walking surging during a podcast. This is interesting.

Mm. The most physical activity you'll get this month maybe. We'll see. But this concept of, oh, let us control your thermostat now can you retake control from them? Yeah, I opted out this as I realized what the fuck is going on. Here's the thing. If they wanted to change the temperature by a couple degrees, right? I may not have even noticed what kind of brainiac decides to change the indoor temperature for a house with air conditioning to 84 degrees. Yeah, that seems like way hotter than that.

Asking for people to leave the program at that point. Without wanting to let you know that the right thing for the planet is for you to use less. Yeah, don't give a shit about that. But they just, like, somebody has to have at least one brain cell in there to realize that if we do this gradually, no one's going to notice. And if we do it abruptly to crazy f temperature, everyone's going to leave the program on by the way, I already got 100 bucks. So get somebody who's going to be at your door.

You need that hundred dollars back. Yeah, we need our money. For the for the temperature of the world. But, you know, best. Guys always have German accents. I've noticed that. Of course. Well, this is what it's going to, though, and this is why all of this stuff and I remember railing about it when they finally forced us to get the new meter here from the electric company. The smart meters are evil.

They're all like, Oh, no, this is just great, you know, because it's wireless, and it'll send us how much usage you've had. So we don't have to send the guy out. So it's more targeted, more efficient. They don't. Yeah. They tell me. Every day how much I'm killing the.

Planet. Yes. And you don't then understand they got that these smart meters could be like, well, you know, Gene, you're only going to get X amount of kilowatt hours per day, so you better start deciding on whether you want to use that electricity to wash your clothes or to light the house or to run your computer. And thankfully, they they think I have like 20 children here. So that's. Good. Well well they were trying to kill them that by bringing it to.

Yeah, well I've been reporting baby formula so I think the statistics from the store purchases are making their way across the board. So they're well aware that you have a sweatshop now in the basement. You have to protect them. It's like you're doing that or gross. Yeah. Yeah can you use baby formula for a growing weed? Is that a thing? I don't know. And you'd have to ask somebody that grocery. Because that would also explain the, the baby formula shortage way better than that.

We just weren't well. Back in the old days back, you know, in my day, if you got some bad coke, that, that might have some baby formula, dry milk powder in there. But, you know, I don't think people do that anymore, do they? I don't know. I know that there have been warnings going out for people not to pick up folded bills if you see them on the street or wherever, because they might contain the fat, though. Which. Yeah, I've thought of that.

Well, I had no idea the small amount, like five, six little grains of fat now are enough to kill you. So you might want to watch the money. First you go take it to the laundry. Why would you want to pick it up with, like, tongs or something? Well, that's just it. It's like there.

I guess there's a possibility that, you know, you pick this up and there's that powder on it and it gets on your hands and either it goes through your skin, which is a possibility, or, you know, maybe you, like, rub your eye or whatever. And the next thing you know what. If you're wearing a mask, that makes everything better. Well, you'd have to have the eye God, give the goggles off your eyes need to protect that. Mask to keep you alive. Everybody knows every. Hole has to be coming, though.

Yeah, every hole has to be covered with the mask. Oh, I see what you're saying. So if you're if you're person standing across you, isn't wearing a mask, then the hole goes right through your mouth. It's possible, right? And then that could kill them. But more importantly, it will kill you if they're not wearing a match. Exactly. Now, you finally figured it out. Yeah, that's it.

I mean, as long as we're down in this this area of insanity, the CDC just came out with very similar, you know, like they had with the COVID. They came out with some guidelines for monkeypox. And one of the guidelines for monkeypox, they're. This from an article on The Daily Mail. I'll just read it because it's entertaining, as the Daily Mail often is.

The CDC has issued bizarre guidance telling Americans infected with monkey pox to have sex by masturbating at least six feet away from their partner. Among other recommendations. You OK? So they're into voyeurism. OK. Right. There is a like they came out with I remember one of these very weird little infographic things that the CDC came out with for COVID, but this one has a bunch of little pictures and it's try virtual sex.

And then there's masturbate six feet apart, wash afterwards, avoid kissing and wear clothes. Now, I don't know how you can stay fully covered and have sex, but that's goes right to the mask idea where as long as you're covered. Clearly you're not a zoomer. They don't take their clothes off for sex. Really? Yeah. That seems weird. No, because you don't want to be gross. The most cases of monkeypox in California and New York, 60 and then Illinois with ten. So yes. Run that list. Where's.

Oh, there's Texas. Texas has one, it looks like. Yeah. Congratulations. We don't fuck our monkeys like you guys, apparently. Oh, wow. Gene Ed Gene dot com. What are you and the pro you fucking lobby or. What what does this go down to. Oh, my God this person doesn't want to fuck monkey. Well let's make sure everyone writes nasty letter to that. You're such a horrible, hateful person, Gene. Not wanting people to love their monkeys. Why is monkey fucking part of the rainbow now?

Is that what you're selling me? So spank your monkey and whatever your monkey wants her every button. Now, if I can quote the Beatles, everybody's got something to hide except for me and my monkey mm hmm. Yeah. I mean, Peter Gabriel wanted to shock the monkey. I mean, there's a lot of when you really think about it, rock and roll music wants you to do weird stuff with your monkey. So I don't. Rock and roll music was mostly made, and now. Really? Wow. I didn't know that. And they don't kill you.

Just a few little grains that. That's the one. I mean, I knew fentanyl all was bad, but there's tons of, like, what if you pick up a dollar bill that has some of this on there? It's like. What do you think Elvis was moving his hips around so much. He was ready to go, man. He was ready to go. And he finally he finally took them awhile, but he finally had a little too much. But no, system. Finally, he had a little bit too many drugs, which is a shuffle.

Enjoy Elvis's music he was the king for a reason. I mean, when you when the two people in pop music, rock music that are considered the king and then you look at Elvis, you look at Michael Jackson and you're like, oh, one's not like the other. Michael Jackson was the king of pop up. Yeah. A little different, though, but still a king. Yeah, much better. Way better, you think? Oh, absolutely. You want to beat it. Did Michael Jackson was way more talented than you kidding me?

I mean, he could dance oh. Elvis had a particular sound, but Elvis is trying to get laid. That was it. Rock roll. Baby. Wasn't even thinking of getting laid. He was thinking about monkeys. Right now. We're right back to that because he had his pet monkey bubbles. If he when you're popping bubbles, that's a that's wrong. Sorry. I apologize. That's that's how you get Monkey Park when you're popping bubbles. That's how that's how it starts, man. And of course, Michael had that effect, though.

So this is kind of an interesting episode. According to Adam. We are we are taking a little bow on this and bringing things together nobody ever thought were together. Well. Fear for a change. I'm actually on my feet instead of sitting down, which maybe I should get a standing desk when I do so. Maybe it can keep me going, keep me a little more energetic. Somebody told me to do that long time ago, and I disregarded everything he says apparently about podcasting. But I'm.

Guessing that would be the tall guy from. Tall Dude. Yeah, most tall guys not trustworthy. That's what I hear. That is what I hear. But that's what the normal hype community says anyway. But what is normal? I mean, for some people, 65 is normal with seven. No, I mean, that's normal for a small female. 57 before. I don't know. Yes. The average height of a man of the planet on the planet in the world is five foot six.

You know, and I could say that I was blessed with the the height, but I don't really know if it is a blessing because one tall guys do not live as Long River. Somebody pointing that out like you don't see a lot of these old basketball players. You don't see a lot of them at like seven or eight years old. It's like they're, you know, they're dropping. So I've got that to look forward to.

Yeah. Well, riding on an airplane, you know, it used to be OK back 20 years ago before all of these airplanes have gone the route. Oh, they're. Getting to start doing double decker seating now. Have you seen. That? No. How do you weight how do you double decker seating on an airplane? So imagine in the airplane where the seats are further apart from each other so you can stretch your legs in front of you. Well, that would be nice, right?

And then right above your legs is the next height of seats so your legs are between the seats and the floor. Interesting. So they're move those one row of seats up your leg. People's legs are above your head. That's how you can cram like one and a half times as many people into a plane that way. There's going to be some claustrophobic issues for people, though, I would guess. Well, maybe people shouldn't be flying if they're foster phobic or thought that.

Maybe they shouldn't be flying at all if they're over five foot two. Yeah. Well, no, five foot seven people are sitting in the first class. They're comfortable, right? Well, no, when you're five foot seven every see this kind of like first class. Yeah. You don't need the leg room. And that always. About the leg room. It's about the comfort. That always annoyed me getting on to Southwest flights when the front row was like two or three people that were like five foot between them.

And it's like, what the hell? Do you need a front row seat for? I'm like, I need some place to put my legs. That's why I don't feel bad. About maybe by the front row. Then you can't. With Southwest, it's all very nice. Maybe tall people shouldn't be flying. So Southwest. Maybe that's true that I'm not going to disagree with. You have to fly first class. Really? The only thing you should fly is a chartered plane where you can have all the leg room you want.

Yeah. No, when they work for you, you know what the height is on those planes. It's a lot less than a commercial care, huh? Yeah. So I call it nine across. It's nine. So I can stand just fine in there. I don't need to stay and just get me a nice, lazy boy or whatever they've got in those. And I'll be good. Lazy boy. Planes are bad. See, Brooklyn? No doubt about it. Yeah, they're much better. You know, this is true. And I have never taken a long train ride. I mean, I used to live.

In Chicago, and you've never done the chicago to L.A. No. You should stop doing them. You say that you've never done the Chicago to L.A.. I mean, that's the zephyr run, which is i go to Dvorak. It's actually to san francisco. It is right to do more stuff. Yes, it's like both. But if you want to go see Jesse, the hop hop, the Zephyr, and we've talked about it before. We're doing, like, a, you know, a meat loving, no agenda, real train, right?

And then you can you could literally do like meet up in 11 states without getting off. Well, people with after I don't know how long the train stays in each one of those states but the people might have long. Enough for a meet up. He's like, pop off, get in, say hello. And here's the great thing. It would be like, no. I don't mean stop, stop. I mean like while you're in that state on the train, that's the meet up in the. State before those people, you're like, yes, yeah.

Yeah. For the same people you could do a lot of meet ups that's true. And then here's the greatest thing. The ride from Chicago to San Francisco is about 50 to 53 hours. If I remember correctly. Oh my God, that's insane. Yeah, but that would be like that should. Be 50 to 53 to L.A.. You know, and that's the beauty of this is you could drink the whole way. And then when you stumble off the train, you just call Jesse for a ride. That's right. They can you come pick us up and he.

Could come pick you up and there's 28 year old Lexus. Dude, that's the only way to fly. Our cars are like about the same age because I'm not buying a new damn car. You're not getting me on one of these electric pieces of crap. That's why I don't have a smart meter telling my the thermostat what to do in the house. Yeah, what? The smart meters only charge the electric cars at night now, because they don't want to be using energy during the day.

That's very inconvenient if you work the graveyard shift. Well, sex for you. Yeah, yeah. But it was. It was nice, though. When it was so hot, I was worried, one, that our air conditioner was going to fry. That's always a risk. And because we. Do not have a backup air conditioner. Come on, ma'am. I do. Well, not a full house one, but that is what the.

When it was hot at the beginning of this summer for a few days, and we had the guy come out because what the problem turned out to be that there's obviously a slight leak somewhere in the refrigerator. So it had to be re zapped, you know, refilled. And it's been working fine since then. But we also got one of the LG and I forget how many BTUs it is, but, you know, like a $400 portable air conditioner that you vent out through the window. And that works great.

So throws all the heat out the window. Yeah. And the nice thing there is off the main system goes, which we had the blower in our furnace go a few years ago when it was about the same thing. You know, it was like the day, the three days in Chicago where it was going to be 100 for three days in a row. That's when the blower went out and it was just miserable. So having this where at the very least one room in the house could stay at a relatively cooler temperature.

Mm hmm. It's a nice backup to have. And I didn't know if the if were a tip here of saving money, because I think a lot of people are hurting right now. Thanks to Uncle Joe, thanks to gas prices. Thanks to all those. For a thanks to Uncle Putin. No, no, that's what Uncle Joe tells us. He's blaming it on. Glad Uncle Vlad is a benevolent fine old man.

But my wife picked this up at Home Depot and because Menards, another home improvement store, they were running their 11% off everything rebate that you know she's like oh no there's no a website you can just go and she got the 11% off through Home Depot so it's like well that's like 50 bucks off which wasn't a bad idea to use all of these realms you can to get to get some cash back on things try to save money. That is something more people are doing for sure.

But because all of a sudden all of that extraneous cash people had, they're like, Huh, I'm kind of, I'm kind of under cash now. I mean, I'm looking at my crypto and I'm going. To that's a great term. I'm under cash. I'm looking my cryptos have gone way down for a one K's way down. And I get it. You need to save money in any way you can and ride through this, and that's it. You got to look for bargains.

Call up, you know, if you haven't been, call up your cable company and be like, I want a better deal. I mean, do a little bit of research first to know what's out there. At the very least, the cable company will give you whatever that new promotion is. So if the plan you're on, you're paying like 200 bucks a month. Would some people pay for TV? Which I still don't get. I mean, I know maybe it's bundled with everything, you know, your TV and your phone and your Internet.

But if you see they're doing a thing right now, we're like, hey, new customers come in for this plan and it's only 7595. Will you call up nicely and ask for that? And you'll usually get it. You don't even have to threaten to quit anymore, which used to be the thing. Yeah, I remember you had a whole series of story about how you do that. And it works. Yeah, it's interesting.

And it's like, Hey, if you need to save the money, it's like something, you know, it's like it will take a little bit of time. And when things are good and you're not worried about every last dollar, you're like, Well, I really do. I want to spend 20 minutes doing that. When filling up your gas tank is 100 bucks, you're like, Yeah, I'll spend 10 minutes. You know, I notice that it seemed to be like over $100. No. Thanks, Uncle Joe. Yeah, thanks. Putin. Dude. No, it's the Putin.

Putin's going to save us getting. Well, what I read is that Putin is actually running the US is he? I thought that was only when Trump was in office. No, no, no. But, you know, I mean, thankfully, Biden is running Russia and it's having the. Best decade ever. They're winning all the military conflict there. The ruble is just going astronomically good. Now, you got way more buying power. They just reduce their interest rates by 10%.

I mean, it's like, holy shit, Biden, you're really doing a hell of a job. Invest in mother Russia. Might be the way you. Can't afford to anymore. I mean, I love that the woke McDonald's pulled out of Russia and it was just immediately taken over and they're still making the same food. They just put a different brand on it. It's like, how is how is this helping McDonald's? Unless they really weren't making any money, which I doubt. Oh, they were making lots of money. Are you kidding?

Because the only thing you're paying for for having McDonald's in Russia is you're paying McDonald's. And then, you know, they're not they're not shipping beef over from the US into Russia. Right. It's a the ultimate in having a franchise. Yeah. Yeah. It's it's a franchise where you you know, you're basically just buying the name. Which is fine. Throw it out front people like, hey, we know McDonald's. We know that McDonald's sold. What it what do they sell borscht in?

In Russia, you get a little borscht with your fries. I've never, never had borscht. And McDonald's in Russia. You maybe can now. Yeah, I've done it. You kind of doubt it. Nice yeah. But it's nice here. Now that the weather, they didn't have some. They did have some different food, but most of it is the same. Most of it was, you know, cheeseburgers. And you bring it back to the billy goat if you want a damn good cheeseburger with the worst possible location.

And I'll be honest, you could ever get Lower Wacker Drive in Chicago. You better the billy goat do we lose Gene? Does Bluetooth give out? This is headset not fully charged. He's still connected, but I don't think he's connected locally. Maybe the snake got him what do you think? Maybe the yogurt got him. Gene. I know Gene. Fucking Gene. Exactly right. See, Brooklyn genes using a headset today that Ned because his main computer crashed and he didn't have a backup SSD drive.

I guess I mean, really, what kind of a dude named Ben are you? If you don't have a backup SSD drive that your main drive isn't ready and mirrored and pop yet. Pop it in and you continue on. So he's on his laptop today, and he was using a headset, and then he was wandering the house, and now he has gone away. I'm wondering I'm wondering if the the power grid finally got them. They were well, you look a backup SSD, either net net or what's a HDD?

Well, that's fine as long as you have a backup, something or other. But I'm wondering if the power grid got Gene took him out, he may still be standing walking around talking because you know how it is. Just doesn't even know.

Although if the power goes out, you know, when they turn up your air conditioner, to 84 degrees, maybe they're like, you know what we're trying to tell you in a not so subtle ways that here in Austin, we don't really have enough power to fulfill all of our customer's needs. Ergo, we're gonna need to turn you off for a while. And that may be what happened right here because his head is gone, as Adam Curry likes to say.

And the Clean Feed interface there really is there's no head, there is only text. That means it wasn't a problem with the microphone or headset disconnecting. It is more likely a problem with their Internet or their power. They're in Austin, Texas, over the free land of the Tex-Mex food let's tax. Maybe we can get a bit. We can get an update. Maybe unrelenting has finally relented when is unrelenting live today? That's a really good question, sir. Nothing. It was live. It was live.

And and then the jeans, jeans power went out or his Internet went out or something. Certainly mobile dies is gone. I hardly noticed. Carry on. No, it's OK. It's still unrelenting. Sometimes you just have to relent. Jeanne says browser crashed relighting. Wow. See, he probably has a is a virus or something there. I would bet. And I'm wondering, does anybody in the Austin area?

I mean, if you're a dude named Bad, maybe you can help Gene out and you can get him some much needed tech support to help this old guy just reboot his machine and clean out all of the viruses. I mean, I would say the clean out all the porn, but you really don't want to come anywhere close to the porn that is most likely on Gene's machine. The tell Internet Explorer is end of life. Got to use something better. You're not wrong.

AM Douches. Internet Explorer it's hard to believe it was just a scant two years ago that that was a new thing. And then people were mad that Microsoft was intentionally forcing this on people by putting it out there machine when poor little Firefox couldn't get a foothold. Now there's a lot of better browsers out there.

I've been using Brave as my daily driver for a while now, and I have to say that I don't even mind the brave search engine, and I'm not really sure what they're using to pull all of their results in whether it's, you know, just borrowing time on one of the other search engines or whatever. But I was using the DuckDuckGo until they went all anti-Russia and all they were going to start doing, hey, look things back. But when. Think this thing.

When DuckDuckGo started censoring the Russian stories, I went to the Brave Search and it's been working really well. So you're back. I was just thinking if anybody in Austin could get some tech help for an elderly gentleman in a hot house, he needs a little help in a hot out in a hot house because, you know, the air conditioning was turned off by the cloud. So now if you would have died, could somebody have sued the the power company?

Because, you know, once they talked about this analogy yesterday, there's a certain temperature, they believe, where people just come in, die, spontaneously die. Oh, yeah. There's a temperature and boom, you might have hit it in that very warm house. Oh, that's totally the case. Yeah. I mean, I figure with Austin I remember the first year I moved here, it was 100 degrees for 100 days. Nice. And I think we had like five people die. Which is low for that kind of heat. But I was trying to.

It's because people can live here. They're used to the heat. I was checking, I. Was trying to figure out the math on running the portable conditioner down the because we have the main whole house unit and that's what normally runs. Now, when it gets really boy. This is going to be a hell of an interesting episode with a lot of donations for the next one. Let's talk about air conditioning some more.

It should be now when it gets to be, you know, 100 degrees, even with the air cranking, it's very cold downstairs because it's a split level house and we have a basement. But upstairs really hot because, you know, the air just can't permeate all that. He'd gone up into the upper levels. And I'm sure that the further away you get, the less air pressure you get pumping the stuff through now, my question is. It's not is it at all? I know

I am not an air conditioning technician and I don't understand since you're. Not. A no, but not running the portable AC, which I just vented it out the bathroom window in the in the master bedroom, in the master bath, and that sits right there in the doorway blowing nice cold air into the master bedroom. But I noticed that, you know, even leaving that thing on in the mid seventies, the whole upstairs was cooler, which makes sense.

But I was kind of like postulating like, well, is this making the main machine work less, which would actually then save money or is it costing money? I'm running too at the same time? Or is this helping out the main one, which I'm assuming uses more electricity? Hard to say with portable units, but I was trying to do that math and I really just didn't know. But either way, it was cool in the house, so that was nice. Huh? Well, it's it's such a fascinating topic, I have to say. But hey.

But you don't want the government to be changing by thermostat. Events. Is it is a third. It is the government. Well, that's right. And you didn't get a and you didn't get a check for $100 either, I bet. No, I didn't. I did not get a check for it. Yeah. The $100. And I would like to take my although we do cash in if I can use that pun. When Tom said which they do this each and every year they will give you rebates if you buy appliances that are Energy Star or whatever it's called now compliant.

And buy an appliance a year. Well, the interesting thing is air purifiers are out there and they will give you up to you. No way. Yes, they will. Give you $50 in air. That fire me. Yes. For up to two air purifiers a year. Now you can buy a diesel air purifier for like 79 bucks and the replacement filter on said air filter that's like 79 bucks is usually like 50 bucks.

So the reality here comment is funding the wastefulness of just buying air purifier, use it for your six months or a year and then just throw it out rather than getting a new filter because they're going to keep giving you $50 off every time you buy one. It doesn't sound like that's promoting Mother Earth at all. No, it does not, which is why I like doing it personally. That is nuts, man.

Yeah. So the cool thing about doing the spot guests in the kitchen is I can actually look at the fridge while I'm talking to you and find something yummy. I don't know if this is good for. Like, a lemon. You're talking on air conditioner? No, for a little bit. Air conditioning is no good talk, but you're telling us what's in your fridge is scintillating. This is what people tune in for. Thinking of making an omelet while we're doing the pork this year. I love omelets. Right?

So I made some, like, waves. French trying to be pretty. Good. Yeah. You know what you're doing? Rancher rent, check the animal. Well, you know, a little little eggs, a little cheddar cheese, a little salsa. Boom, little the nut cayenne pepper. One of the. One of those. Actually, not a bad combination. No. And it was a Chipotle powder. A little bit of that over the top. It's good stuff. I love cooking.

I've never tried making a roll in the old woods at the French chef in the French way, but I'm more of just a throw it in the pan and flip it. And if you don't flip it, then it's a frittata which still works really. Which still works in today's. And I'm flipped. I'm OK. Yeah. It's pretty much an omelet that isn't folded. That's mostly folded or flip folded. Almost, almost any fold. And that's how the juicy stuff's on the inside. But the outside is a little crusty it's a magical world.

This breakfast shouldn't. Really be crusty. But it depends. How you like. Yeah, I just oh. Sure, sure, sure, sure. I mean, at least you have your orders. They didn't turn your refrigerator and freezer off yet. The power company like. Well, I'm sure they tried. We really would rather you didn't use any power today. Mm we're having a shortage. Yeah. Hey, speaking of power, so when I was bitching about my heat being turned up to my other co host dude named Ben, named Ben,

who works in the power industry. Yes. He quickly looked up the power usage in Texas and said, why the hell are they turning you up to 84 when there's plenty of power on the grid? We're not sure at all, because that's that was the alleged reason for doing this was power conservation, right? Because they're running think. Know you well you don't want to just go down you'd rather proactively reduce usage not completely go over 100%. Right so you know the whole thing doesn't crash.

Yeah because that takes a while to restart. I think it was like an hour to 4 hours in fact the restart the power grid in Texas, I don't understand why all you have to do is flip the breaker just, you know, wherever that is for the whole state. Whatever you think, it's just as easy as going into the basement and flipping a switch, don't you? Well, I mean, this is my house. Don't understand what the big deal is.

So I think they're they're literally doing this purely for save the Mother Earth and not for actual risk of power excessiveness. I believe that. I think that's why a lot of this stuff is being done. Mm hmm. Especially in areas that have a highly leftist mentality for the people in charge. You can say anything like, oh, no, we need to we need to cut back. Nobody knows really why. I mean, as a consumer, you don't really know whether the power grids are about to go down or not.

You just know whether your air conditioning is running or not. Which is why the whole house generator thing is a great idea. Yeah. No, I think that people that can have a whole house generator definitely have an advantage. And I thought the really cool idea was that Ford truck. I think you can get it in the F-150 or the new electric one, the lightning, where you can power your whole house off the truck. Until you have to drive it away to refill it with gas mm hmm.

Well, that's still genius, but it'll buy you a couple of days. You know? Yeah, exactly. I think it's not like you have to fill up with gas every 4 hours, given the size of the gas tank. Now, it'll cost you a couple hundred bucks for a few days of power. There's way less efficient than getting it from the electrical company. But push comes to shove. You'll have power in your neighbor's volt. You'll be nice and cool you'll be enjoying yourself while frying up a big omelet. Nothing wrong with that.

Yeah, exactly. Be prepared. So it just also reminds me that you see the story about Germany cracking down on, quote, pro Russia reporters, a.k.a reporters. People saying things about Russia that they don't like. And this is. Yeah. So as Germany is getting ready to ship Panzers into Russia. Because you say they need the help yeah. Well, Germany's got a history of sending Panzers to Ukraine to fight Russia, so that's not really a new thing for them.

And apparently now if you report a story that portrays Russia in the good light, that's a two year sentence and present for you. Are they going to put the pokers? You know, why would the media why would the media have any kind of freedom to report what they see when they can get their talking points from the puppet masters of Germany being the US? Well, because the media lies about everything and they know they lie about everything. They know they're being paid to lie about everything.

Yeah. Just like they took your hundred. Dollars, they can go spend some time in jail. Well, you took that $100 just so, you know, the power company could control you. And then they just took the money to put out whatever they're told to put out. And that's all it really is, is that, you know, it's like, well, we're just doing our job, man. When, when the people that run the network say, this is what you need to say, then know that's what you get yeah.

We're just doing our job line has also a long history is. Saying that we were just doing what we were told. Why would you why would you say that's bad? Yeah. I don't care. The Germans are pretty compliant, but now it seems like they're not the only ones.

Well, because people are so stupid, the emotion of all of this, everything that has been a major topic of contention over the last couple of years, whether it was George Floyd, whether it was covered in all of the insanity that went around that with the vaccines and the masks and all of that whether it was anything to do with Trump, this is all the January 6th thing, all about emotion. None of it's about facts. None of it's about reality. It's about, oh, those people bad and we must stop them.

Even though, you know, they put on the show with the January six thing and it's like, well, what do you got where's the evidence? Then we don't have any of that. Oh, it's it would stay it's basically thank God for Nancy Pelosi. Single handedly stopping that insurrection. Oh, she says. It appeared that the whole government was going to topple and that the the the Southern rednecks are just trying to have civil war, too, happening.

Well, it's the same thing with the Trumpers who believe that there was so much, you know, so many shenanigans, so much illegal things going on around the elections. With the integrity of the elections, you still have to be able to prove it. Thinking is not enough. You need to get evidence. I mean, and that's something that people just don't do anymore. It's all just like, well, no, I believe it. So that's enough. And it's like, no, it's not. You actually have to get.

All the states for somebody to change their gender. It's to believe they are different gender then. Yeah, again. Exactly. That's part of the insanity, though. You could just say it that's fine. Isn't that enough? It should be enough. Hey, man, don't be a denier.

There was a poll that allegedly I forget who did the poll but it was 1200 journalists, and I don't know again where they went to get this information, how you poll just journalists because if it's online or something, people can lie whether they made, you know, whether they sent out e mails or whatever. But it was like 80 something percent of journalists said that we have a problem with fake news in this country. And it's like, you mean you use the stuff you do?

Or I mean, because I don't I don't look at anything going on on social media. You're not you. Has not news. You do not know the definition of fake news. What is the actual news? Anything they don't like. Is anything that's on the podcast or type by a person who is living in the basement. Oh, so they're above the fray. What they're doing is OK. But if you have a podcast. What they're doing is called news. What you're doing is called fake news. Now I get it. Now OK, good, good, good.

Because rather than have to get you reeducated. By questioning, how dare you? How dare you question. I don't. It's insanity. Really. It is insanity that. Yeah. So my question is this. Are we gotten to a point of no return because I'm certainly starting to feel that way. I've thought that a few times. And then things have come back, but not recently. Mm hmm. I don't know if there is a you know, is there a test? Is there a canary in the coal mine?

Is there something that once this happens, there really is no going back. I think there's always oh. I was I was watching a video yesterday. We'll note that YouTube. No doubt that I know YouTube. Right. Of these two British dudes that have a. But that's like video class, whatever. And I forget what they're called, but I'm sure everybody knows who I'm talking about. Oh, yeah. British guys. Those are the guys. Coast to coast or something. He's actually Russian or Ukrainian or something.

And the other guy looks like a typical British homosexual. So from that description, you know, with the glasses and everything, you guys should know exactly who I've got. But they have a pretty good show. And they had a lesbian then. And this is a New York lesbian who apparently has a podcast. And she. Was so rare. Worth talking about. I know, right?

This is talking about the insanity of the current Rainbow Coalition movement, where where she is being harassed for not being a proper LGBTQ alphabet person. And the guys is like, well, what? You know, what's why what's what are they saying? Well, if they. Well, because I don't want to suck a dick. This is a criteria for what. Yes. So apparently because transgender women, they're women.

The expectation is that if you're a lesbian, then and the transgender women are women and you like women, then you ought to be going out with transgender women. And because they have a penis instead of a clitoris. Well, yeah. To be sucking their penis as a lesbian. Well, we have a proper good lesbian should. Yeah, if you're going to. Can you imagine the insanity of where we've gotten to? It's so this lesbian is like, yeah, that's it. I'm done. I'm out of this whole bullshit.

I was like, I'm just a lesbian. Fuck all the other letters. Yeah, that is. Yeah, I'm. I'm with her right there. The insanity is that you're never far enough. The insanity is that these folks that are quite often in that group that say they want nothing more than just be allowed their way of life without people harassing them, without people belittling them are the same ones, you see, belittling anybody with religious beliefs.

So it's like once you do that, fuck off, you're you've lost any moral high ground you've lost any argument you could possibly have. The whole, oh, I just want to live the way I want to just. The opiate of the people. You know, this is the kind of stuff, though, that's absolutely insane.

It's like, well, you're obviously don't see the irony that, you know, if you have a religious sect that just wants to do what they want to do and they're not bothering you, but no, you've got to be little them because they don't believe what you do. It's like it's the same fucking thing. It really is. Yeah. It's well and the amount of people willing to go into physical violence in defense of equality, quote unquote, is insane as well.

And I was watching some more of these videos that this guy who is a college professor now does YouTube videos, does and he basically goes to college campuses and then takes a topic that is somewhat controversial. Which they all. Are today, and then asks for a pretty much effort. Like, you know, our well, I can't think you would get on. But he had a number.

And the vitriol that is on the self-righteous side of these college students who will tell you without asking you anything, will call you a cyst white male and how all the evils of the world are your fault and how you're in control of society. But they will shut you down and want to massacre you. Right. You know, for the good of for the good of. The good of society. Well, yeah, for the good of society. But really, the argument being it's for inclusiveness.

Like they want they're trying to promote inclusiveness and the best way to do that is to shut you up. Exactly. By excluding you. Mm hmm. Exclusion is the best form of inclusion. It really. Is. Don't you know that sharing is caring? The hate is love. Love is hate. Well, that that that is very true. Love is hate, actually. But yes. Now, douches boosts. Jeanne, that was beautiful. Thank you for the transgender lesbian cock sucker explanation. So am douches. Guy that I was.

Well, I'm glad you enjoyed it, if you know who I'm talking about. But the two British dudes, their they're called like. Two British. Guys. I was like, Trent. Are there only two British guys? That's not really a play on words. That all they are in the show is awesome. Which show. This show we have live booster grant. Is you must be you must be thinking of a different show to. Be listening to something else we should.

This is called you should ask him what he's listening to and then we can listen to that as well while we're doing this show we could. Pipe them in like the Russian music on the last show. We could just pipe it in. That is pretty, pretty awesome music though. Everybody can enjoy that. But this is the insanity of the world that we're living in is that these groups that are out there. And there was another story I think we talked about last week.

The group called Jane's Revenge that is a far left, very pro-abortion group that's now starting to firebomb places. There was one in New York Knicks, right? You know, the well, not the abortion clinics, but if you dare have like a clinic that that you know, is pro-life, that would give you the option that maybe, you know, adoptions, OK? I mean, you're not left enough that, you know, if you're one of these places that were like, OK, we could come in but yeah. So then they know.

I was just thinking, if you're not left enough, so if you're an abortion clinic that does abortions but also delivers babies or what. Does that do? Right. You also give the women the option that, you know, you could also go the you could still go the adoption route. You know, they're not just an abortion clinic, you know, so there's you know, they'll do it if that's what you want. But that's that's not enough. And that's what was. Viable you mean they don't just do it?

You know, as a matter of fact, just for everybody, OK, just for the audience that wanted to the British show with the Russian and the gay guy is called trigonometry. T r i g g e r o m e. That is pretty good. Try that is pretty good. Yeah. It's a good plan. The words and this particular episode is called Trans Ideology is the new homophobia.

Probably about right because if you don't bow down completely, you know, which is always what where this started really is where at least where I start noticing it was with the folks that were on the religious right that would be like, well, you know, our religion says that homosexuality is wrong, but we still embrace homosexuals. We just we you know, it's what hate the sin, love the sinner.

And we're attacked saying that hateful about that because it's like, well, no, you, dude, hey, you can't say that what we're doing is wrong. You know, it's like it's bullshit. It's all bullshit. Yeah, well, I don't give a shit what people do. Honestly, that's. No, I don't either. As long as it's not happening in my enjoyment, I don't have to see it if I don't have it. As long as, you know, as everybody is participating willingly, I really don't care. If do what you want to do.

In fact, I might want to watch. Depending on who is defending it. What is you might pay not to. Well, saying, you know, I've been known to watch a lesbian video or two, but. Anyway, you might pay not to watch if Gene was involved. Just saying. Well, then, then get off of my fans right. What's the opposite of only fans? Totally not fans. Only haters. Haters. Yes. Oh, that's it. OK, that was. Be a great that's a great let's only haters. Huh? That's true.

That's where you pay money to not watch somebody. I mean. Oh, I see. That's so funny. It might actually work. Yeah. I mean, yeah, right. That might be a real thing. People willing to do. Only trolls. Yeah, I know that already. It's a beautiful thing. Drove yeah. There's too much of that happening anyway. Yeah, but. So I heard you did a podcast with your old podcasting partner. Yeah, we talked about that last week. No. You sure? How'd that go? I'm pretty sure.

We did talk. I mean, you have so many yeah. So many co-hosts you don't even remember now. We did. You and I talked about that last week, but it was. No, we didn't. But OK, OK. I guarantee you, we go to the last unrelenting, which I can now provide. A transcript will not yet, but I did transcripts on a few shows yesterday. Yeah, I did the last three random thought shows. I did the Grumpy Old Benz reunion show. They wanted to see what a big file with multiple people talking would go to.

And they even recognized all that. The little cold open with Korean Divorce Act work different voice, although they didn't really differentiate those and they realized, Well. What are you using for the thing? What are you using for Do Adobe? It's built into Adobe. Though it's. Free with the Adobe. Suite of the Adobe as a company. What what is the company Adobe have built in the company?

Which the only weird thing is it's not built into the audio software, which is Adobe Audition, but it's built into Adobe Premiere. So all you have to do is open up premiere, drag in your audio file and click make transcript and it will. And then you can convert at transcript, which you can convert. You can take that transcript and just bring that out as just paragraph by paragraph text.

But then you can also just hit one more button and it will convert it to a subtitle file, which means when it goes into it's an SRT file, which when you open that right in the podcast apps that will allow it, the text scrolls on the app as it's being said on the audio. So it's really nice and it just damn well works.

Oh, I noticed it spells O'Neill differently, which is a little bit weird that either O'Neill or one time it was O'Neill, and it spells Darren differently each time, which is like you would think if you have a name built into your, you would keep it the same way. My right. Because if I see it the first time. Did. You just. Say, I'm pretty much ready to drop this script? Because the script. Over there still has the recording.

For like a year. Yeah. It's still having the recording problems, and apparently I'm the only one reporting those problems. So whatever. You're doing. With two. Things, we like 3 minutes. It's a monthly fee. It's not like it's a one time purchase. So you have this script. And the main reason I started using this script was because I was pretty good at doing the transcription. I also will do you know, the fake voice thing. Right? Where that would be the only thing though.

Have you ever used that in, in reality? Yes, well, that's a very good question because I've used it twice in a year, so not enough to justify it. And I could have just rerecorded it. Right, using the fake voice. Right. You could rerecorded because I'm. Sitting I'm the amount of time that it took me to train the voice to sound like me was significantly longer in duration. Than the amount of pixels that I had the voice do.

Now, the question for me would be for the fixes that you had to do did it sound realistic or did you go, oh, that didn't quite right. OK, yeah, it's on the find the because it, it gets the, the not just the pace or the tone, but it gets sort of the. You get your. Excitement level, correct? Right. Because otherwise that would. Be like, yeah, all that stuff is good. It would be hilarious. You got to be like. A pretty good job with it.

But I think really where the advantage of that would be is if you have a separate editor slash producer for a show and the talent is not available to re, you know, redo something. Right? And in that case, you could fix things without the person being available I get that. That's cool. They've also been predominantly working on video features for the last year rather than audio. There's not been a whole lot of change with audio, but they've added a whole bunch of stuff.

It's not working, I think it is that. I think I'm going to dump them. And I do have with Adobe, I was going to say Prescription. I have a subscription with Dolby, and the Adobe subscription is only five bucks a month more for the entire Adobe package than just the script. Yeah, and you get a lot more, so. Yeah, you get a lot more, especially at the discount rate. Why? That's what I have is the as the student and teacher rate. But somebody on no agenda social. I'm sorry, I forget who it was.

I was like, Oh, well, you know, Adobe is pro censorship. And I'm like, I've never seen this. Where are you getting this from? And they sent me just a link to another website that wasn't an article about this. That's like, I don't know, I did searching through a few different search engines for Adobe and censorship, and. Everybody is pro censorship. I guess. Can you literally use your computer, Google is pro censorship, so you can't have Android phones.

You can't use Google for maps or searches or anything. Apple is pro censorship. To get rid of all those bad Apple products. So get rid of all your Google products, all your Apple products. I mean, you better be running Linux and using only open source if you want to not be forbidden and even plenty of open source. Other people loving the guys that built software that no agenda socially is running out right are pro censorship everybody. Has messed it up.

People big time, really pro censorship, big time. So you're right. The guy's messaging me on a platform that's pro censorship. I thought that was created by pro censorship people. Yeah, damn. But I just I just want so it's yeah. I think right now this is a systemic issue. Unlike racism, this is an actual systemic issue is that we have way too many people that think censorship is a good thing.

Yes. Rather than let somebody say whatever crazy thing they want and then we tell them or you why they're wrong it's pretty easy. Yeah. I mean, you know, I was really impressed when, you know, it was like a 45 minute episode of Random Thoughts. I mean, it was only about 5 minutes for it to generate the transcript, which I didn't think was bad, and it was doing it locally because I was wondering if this was going to be a like a mother ship thing.

Like when all of the apple stuff started, when it was like, Oh, when you could ask the Syria question, it's like, well, you know, they were just taking the MVP three or whatever audio file it was sending that to Apple. And then they were doing the, the hard work of transcribing that on their end. My but you went to like 50% when I was working on the transcript.

So it's doing it locally, which is kind of cool and was maybe 20 minutes was for like a two hour plus episode of Grumpy Old Bands that was like 20 minutes to get a a pretty decent transcript. Wait w it's taken 20 minutes. That's crazy. That's a long time. For the 2 hours plus for it. To take the audio and then to transcribe that. I would have figured take like 5 minutes. Doing it locally. You probably have a slow computer. No this is. Less than a year old man well just got a year old.

From Walmart. It's got 64 gig of Ram. Let me see what is before here. You're right what the hell do you need. 64 giga ram. You don't play video games dude. I create audio content and video content. Oh yeah. Yeah. You know how much audio 64 giga ram sold. It's, it's it's a lot. You could hold a lot of amps. Yeah. Thousands of. Hours. But I like me the FLAC. What is. Even, even that doesn't matter. FLAC is 150 kilobits. I mean that's, that's still nothing. That's what this was.

And I was at nine, nine. I'm trying to remember what was in this thing. Hey, nine. Jesus Christ. What's the seriously you don't play games. No I don't. You need a machine like that for this. I like and you're, you're I nine machine took that long to process. 2 hours. Well, it's sorry, it's a core 710, 700 CPU running at 2.9 gigahertz. Oh OK. That's pretty slow. I need 99 that is what you're saying. So I can. No, you don't need a nine. I want it to be able to do the transcripts in like real time.

Well, no, that would be. Wait, let's still play faster than real time. I need everything can do real time transcripts. Yeah. That's not a problem. We wanted to do like 2 hours, like 13 seconds. Less and not do real time transcripts. Like, can you not just have it running while you're recording that episode and have a transcript. I don't believe so. For that dude, you can only drop an audio file into it to have a transcript. I believe so, yes.

Because it's again, that's in the video creation program. But that means they're closed, which means if Adobe figures out a way to make this even more useful to do. If Adobe realizes that there's at least one person who uses their software that makes it, you know, a podcast that would be useful for them to have. Yeah, well, I mean, this. Is so I talked speaking of this topic, I talked to Lancaster the other day. Oh, and I used to love using that kind of. Bitch to mouth.

I like to think it's there a lot. I've actually fully switched it for the other podcast for Sustained speaks. For recording. The amp. They meant the multiple tracks. You have no problem at all. With Drifting or anything, which means I may try it again. The only issue you have, the only downside, if you will, is that since you're not process saying the other track, it's just being recorded by them. You it works great. If everybody has gates on their own side, and I'll then process their own voice

to be whatever they want. It's like, right, because otherwise it's not. Going to work these good. Like this call we're on right now where I'm using a laptop instead of my normal rig and I'm using Cheapie well $200 headphones. So that's not going to be nearly as good for that purpose because you're going to need to either use their paid service to process or something

else. But. I don't know. I mean, given that both Ben and I have decent interfaces on our end, I think it's actually worked out pretty good. So I'm going to, I think dump dumped this script. It's had, it's run for about two years now and I haven't really used it much for the last half a year. With the audio recording just doing any processing or was that just a straight recording as well? This script, it is doing audio processing actually.

Yeah. So they have two different levels of audio processing that they do. They do they do some manually controlled processing, and then they also have a kind of a sweetening option which you can pick in. And the sweetening option does a little more. It's actually really good. It what it does is it, it, it does a post well it is actually a run after you hit stop. So it is post process, but an automatic post process where it'll go through it'll date, it'll compress, it'll expand.

It'll all excite with big. Eyes in it. It will not excite with Big Bottom, but it will do a great job of removing background noise and not just like gaining it, but actually interpolating it and removing it. So you don't even hear it when you're talking. Right, which the adobe. So that part of it is. Really good. Too. But again, all these things are great.

If you have a very basic hardware setup, like if you are reporting with just a little headphones that come with your phone or something, then using this script is kind of an all in one solution as long as your show doesn't run longer than 90 minutes because that's when it stops, then. They're like, We're done with. It and it has nothing to do with the memory, doesn't have anything to do with any of this stuff.

But they can come up with a way to fix and I have reinstall if they've blown away all the settings same. And the result, their best guess is it's the most useful. Oh, of course. And I'm like, guys, the multi is a professional product and no other software has this issue with it. Yeah, I do things with the too that would make them cry yeah. To pull in multiple audio source.

So unfortunately while I do think the product is a neat product and I found good use of it, it generates fairly accurate transcripts and it is great for a producer who is not on the show to edit the show because you can literally edited by typing in or deleting words or copying and pasting sentences to move them around, and it'll take care of removing all the audio. Now it has the, the so let me finish real quick.

But it also has the filtration of garbage words like, you know, duplicate words, it'll automatically remove duplicate words and stuff. So it does have a lot of features, but unfortunately I just am not using it because of its 90 minute limit. Well, the garbage words are huge because then caster clean feed none of those have anything like that. No. In order to fill out and edit. Processing the audio. Yeah, the caster has a processing, I believe they do the post processing

where the mix and. Level do post. It's not, it's a little on the expense side. You have to pay for it separately, which I don't think I did it once just to test it and it didn't sound as good as the post and the script to me. Not well it certainly didn't sound as good as what I pull out of the multi-track that I have because I have all the settings and it's, you know, it's set it and forget it for everybody's voice.

And there's, you know, when you're dealing with the same people all the time, it's easier. But I run that kind of filtering even through the post processing overall shows, which is if somebody is in a noisy environment, there are really good noise removing plug ins that are available that you said you can really tweak, which some of these noise removers that sounds like you're under water.

The good ones, you'll be able to tweak just the frequency range, where the noises coming from and it'll do a really good job, although the more I notice what is out there and doing air quotes, professional clips from pulling clips for shows from major news networks, you know, any major network stuff that you're hearing now like we're hearing from you today more than ever because you're on the headset and like you said in the kitchen, the reverb and that kind of stuff is common now

from professional outlets, which is really it's annoying. That's how we started before the show was that this week Bill O'Reilly, who I like to watch, I know some people hate him, but when he's in his ultra. You surely you're literally the only one. No, he's got a nice amount of he's on multiple radio stations, not like 100 radio stations carry this show every day by. So there's more than one or two.

But when he's in his alternate location, rather than having to leave my gun he's using a boom mic, no doubt, because you hear like you're sounding today is how he sounds when he's in the alternate location. I'm like, oh, yeah, yeah. You mean like great rain? Great. Oh, yes, fantastic and all.

I'm thinking that really I should email the dude because it's like, you need a $300 zoom recorder plug your lab into it, and then just send that audio to whoever is processing this for him because I know he's not, but it's like you can provide. Obviously. Right? He's a Luddite. There's no question about it when it comes to tech, but it's like it wouldn't be that hard to record yourself.

We using a lab plugged into a zoom little portable recorder and just send that file with and you'll have much better sounding audio. And it annoys me when the audio sucks. But as I say, I'm noticing this more and more from professional outlets that it's like the audio just does not sound good and people are willing to accept it. I don't know why because it annoys me, which I know. I think that some probably a dozen mixed in people who I've been annoyed by the way they sound.

Wait, is this if you listen, this is Gene, if you like a podcast and you like the content, but it sounds like crap, you're like, Yeah, I'm going to send you a mo to an electro voice. And I wasn't speaking of podcasts, I was speaking of people, but yeah. Oh, well, how do you know what what people you're talking about? Well, you know, people I'm talking to either for work or for people. I thought better when I'm. Playing video games or whatever it is.

It just people that are using mics when they sound like shit. I'm like, Dude, you sound like shit. What's your address? What do you send them? Because my microphone game is going to get horrible in the next few shows. Just to see what I get from Gene be like, Hi, Jean, how are you doing anything? It's the sound thing. Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. I see what you're saying. So you want to get some things in? You want some horrible, right? So I can send you a link.

It's it's a fairly reasonably priced mike that I found on Amazon through some testing that I actually does a good job of isolating the speaker. So they sound a lot less reverb and they, they don't sound like they're located two rooms away from the microphone like they do if they're using the built in mike on the computer. Yes. Yeah. No, no. Yet Snowball needs to do so. I don't think there's any real processing going on. You definitely don't want to get a yeti.

Mike must of sucked for the really expensive ones, but there they're they're good at focused pick up so you're mostly picking up the sound coming directly from the person and then their body is blocking the outside sounds with something very soft and flabby. Makes sense for the people you'd be sending them to. Yeah. What is there a brand on this? I mean I'm not sending them to like beach bodies. You know. You're not sending them to Maxim Hot Girls and is there a brand on the of this Mike?

You know. There is. I can't remember what it it does. It is always nice. I can. Send you. Like there was. A. Yeah, it is. And I can I'm happy to share. It's it's the best cheap mike I found and buy cheap. I mean like 50 bucks. Well that's exactly it. I mean there's a Samson that seems to be a lot of people like the Q over nine or Q United or something.

People complain though that it's very low in the game but there was a a company I think it was Elway X pro that made a dynamic microphone and I say made a dynamic microphone. I know the reality is they had somebody in China make a run of microphones and they sold these things like 39 bucks. And it was the first one when. J.C. began to do that or something. Maybe this was the first microphone.

That point that Ben Rose used on Rumble bands, it was the one that you used for his four episode podcast maps with Matt, and it sounded absolutely great. And after I recommended it to like three people, it's just stopped being made and it was like, this thing. Really went off is the case. And it was just a cheap little USB microphone, but it worked really well and it sounded really nice, which is why it had to die. I guess. Well, that would make some sense, but.

Yeah, I'm like, I would have said, just keep sending people in. Anybody that said I want to start podcasting and be like, Well, since you don't want to get the most people don't want to go have to buy an audio interface like the Mode two and hook that up and then buy and sell our microphone to buy all the other stuff. They just want to get started with the USB mike and that is the easier way to go. But it's hard to find something that sounds decent in the USB category.

Yeah, and this thing for the price point is very good. Last Christmas to my guys that I game with for my world of worship competitive team. I just told everybody, if you want the. Competitive team wizard. Well, you know, I'm a pro gamer. I mean, you knew that. I mean, way back in your youth. I mean, still, you're still you're still ranked. Well, I mean. Are you all the money? I am. You get I mean, famously. Yeah, but the Senior League. OK, I'm in the yes, I'm in the senior league.

We're doing mediocre. Really? That's the best way to. Phrase for our fun. We're we are having fun. We were mid tier generally in the competitive playing battles and then. What you're in the clan now to. Last place. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Just got back from a you know we had a big time meet up in Texas. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I can imagine that goes out a. Lot of right now there's a funny story about that too. So when making reservations for something you want to be very specific. That's exactly right.

So there was this was I was not at this particular event but apparently so I'm in the Texas clan and. There's there's an ISO right there. Right, right. Exactly. So so there was a few people that were in Dallas and they were going to meet up in a restaurant. And then when the first guys making reservations, see, you know, so you get a group like what name do you want to sell? Well, let's see.

People don't really necessarily know each other's names very well because we don't really, you know, use our real names when we talk to each other. But the Texas client. Sounds like a terrorist group already we don't talk to each other in voice. We don't really use real names uh huh, uh huh. So you can just imagine the eye rolling that was happening from the person getting the reservation down like the Texas clan for 3 p.m.. You'll notice there's. Somebody else at the back Xactly. There's some.

There was a group that was meeting up at the Battleship Texas in Houston there, and same kind of situation is that one of the guys that it was kind of an event for your world, the worships people and there's other people other than just this clan. There but all the guys like, hey, everybody in the Texas clan, let's meet up downstairs and say, hey, you got to you know, for the tourists out there that are not from around here yonder parts that's got to sound very retro.

If you want to be a little more specific what you're talking about a video. Yeah well, right, right. I mean, that's the thing is because they're so used to just referring to it as the Texas clan because there's you know, there's all kinds of different clans in the game and it clan is just another word like guild. Right. It's it's repurposing a word that had the real world meaning to something that specific a group of old dudes playing video games, which I mean. That's part of this group.

Yeah. Yeah. Would be surprised. But maybe you wouldn't but it's it really is a bunch of old dudes. I think the average age is probably about 65. Damn it's a little go. When I say. Seniors league, I really, I really mean seniors like. Yeah, yeah. I mean I'm not, I'm not one of the younger whippersnappers in their sixties but it's the whole group. I think our youngest guy is 40. Who's doing tech savvy. I don't know how to get it.

We have actually one of the guys is 79 is a tech support guy for the group. Nice. Mm hmm. Mm hmm. Yeah. He builds pieces for a living. Well, there you go. You know, in his spare time. Yeah. When he's not heading the clients. Yeah, yeah. Well, he's not well known. The guy who heading the client is actually, he, he does Renaissance fairs is a he's a big sci fi and fantasy guy. So he really enjoys the going out to the fairs. And he goes, I'm stuck. I have a leather mask. That I believe.

I have a leather master he made. Yeah, yeah. He's a leather worker. And I when I when the coop was full blown, I had him make me a kind of a. Black leather. Mask. Yeah. Kind of a Hannibal looking mask, but really nice looking. So it was, was it this leather inside and really dark on the outside, black. Bedazzled. It all was like your initials or anything. No, not at all. Bedazzled. But it didn't have little, little anchor symbols on it for, you know, our client.

That maybe going just one step too far and I've never been to a Renaissance fair. I don't see, you know, I like the I thought you were going to say and there have been two Klan meetings. That either I mean, I like the idea of the big turkey legs and wenches and beer. Yeah, those are great. But you know, both of. Those in fact. They you know, you start losing me though with the outside in the heat without air conditioning. So I whatever. Not a problem.

In fact, I need to check when the next run fair is going to be out here in Texas. We have three of them here because we have the population density sported. So there's a an Austin one, which is about 45 minutes out. There's a Houston one about 2 hours out, and there's a Dallas-Fort Worth one that's about two and a half hours. So how do I apply? I have a vision. Of them to go to. That's what I want to know. How do I be king?

Well, I mean, if you want to be king, you need to be able to hold your liquor first and foremost, because the kings mostly walking around drinking. Oh, well, that sounds perfect. Yeah. Mm hmm. Although I'm not really. I think the other part is there's a oh, well, forgive them. For just whiskey is were where I was. You're no king. You're not saying if you don't drink the mead. I'd rather drink the whiskey. The middle. Awesome. It may be. Well, you can't drink whiskey like you can drink mead.

Well, that's true. I mean, you can, but there's a. Lot for long. Right? There's a limited amount you can do. Yep. And yeah. Well, I told you, maybe I didn't tell you I got married at the Windsor. I did not know this which wife was this one? Three or seven. Yeah, exactly. One of them. Yeah. And it was it was quite fun. I thought it was quite enjoyable, you know, with the king and queen and everything. We were carted around by a guy playing cards throughout the events. Yeah. Now, part of the.

The parade, part of the parade and the event oh. So you have been part of a parade now? Yeah. And uh, yeah. So I was wearing a kilt that was fully carved out. But your wife wasn't. Not she was not wearing it, though. She was wearing a wedding dress, which was a period with the dress, though. That obviously she was into it because otherwise this would never happen. Oh, no, no, no, God, no. She was not into it at all. Just playing the whole time. Now, this is my wedding idea. That's not OK.

That's part's not a surprise. I thought that would be fun. So I made a decision. Well, I mean, you. Only get married 46 times. So anyway. What what woman wants to have the, you know, the arduous task of having to plan her wedding it's much easier to let the husband decide what's going to happen. What woman wants the arduous task of marrying Jean? That's the real question here. Well, you know, I mean. Hit me up. Gene. It's there. Gene, you want you look around, you're looking for number 16.

What else? Or. Oh, you're looking at a six year old. I have to produce volunteers occasionally. So if that's the thing you're interested in. Yeah. Now, there are certain criteria and parameters that I'm looking for it's nobody over 23. You say what's legal in Texas? I mean, are you looking for a 16? Is that eight? No, I don't want. To change diapers. Students you're 16. Between 18 and 23. That's Gene's sweet spot. Yeah. Or like, it's sweet, but.

Now you're just like, no, it's only like between 20 and 23. So it's going to be a very short marriage on the plus side. Well, I mean, you know, there's nothing wrong with 18 or 19 you know. I mean I can't really. Challenge you to find something wrong. If. Your memory goes back that far. That first Gene had searching that com. Oh, my memory works just fine. Everything else is breaking down, but my memory works just fine. Now get the. File. That's it.

But we do have a few people to thank for today's show, which is confusing to me and yeah. Which because normally. Jump right into that. Yeah, normally we don't, but it's mainly, I think, people in your area. So I usually panhandle thing or maybe something out there and they're feeling bad for you guys coming in with 50 bucks. Honestly, these are, these are mostly donations meant for slurred speech but since we don't take donations in certain states, I guess they're just donating

here instead. Oh well that might make sense. J coat achieving $50 I think he was down in your area so I don't know Jay or not so. Sounds and sounds like he is. Yeah if not you should buy him a a nice bottle of that scotch that you like so much Joshua. Oh my gosh that's like eight times more expensive than inflation. OK yeah. But I mean that's the way we thank the people for listening to this. Yeah. So Josh is a, a repeat donator. Yeah. 25 bucks today. To this yeah. And he did send a note.

And he, he even donates directly to my show as well. So you just like show up at your house and give you some cash bring you some. Booze and it feels like it. Yeah. Cause he's like, we talk probably every day now, bring. You some barbecued ribs, whatever it is. There you go. Josh, that's that's your next thing to do. Bring some barbecue up. So, yeah. Ribs are good. He says, unrelenting is my new drinking buddy. I download the show via podcast addicted.

Listen, after I get off of work off at 11 p.m. or midnight with an adult beverage. And he says I'm unrelenting now with my unrelenting listening strategy. That's a good strategy. I like that strategy. Josh I'm pretty good. Mark People should use that strategy. Like the more you drink, the less it matters what we say. And we appreciate it. And I oddly enough, the next donation also from me, Josh and we have Joshua and Josh so there's like something weird going on with the J names today.

We appreciate that. I'm guessing that means maybe you have a K name. It's the next episodes up for you. To come in next episode. Yes. But Josh Mandel coming in with. All the trends. Keep that in mind. One, two, three, four. And his note says. Nice. Four, unrelenting. Keep it all sincere. Gene hates donations, smiley face means this is only for my part of unrelenting and that. Oh, is that how that works? Well, it's taking my time. Therefore, it's not for me. You're for it.

Yeah, I don't I don't hate donations. I just don't like donation segments. Whether I'm listening or I'm recording. I just dislike them and the side people want to donate, and there's no donation segment. I'm all for that. And what was their policy when they hit? What is it a million rubles. They become a oligarch. Yes. You become an oligarch with all of the things related to such. Actually, it was less than 2 million rubles. That was expensive at this point.

A million rubles is almost $1,000,000, though. Yeah. Was not that. It was not. That is in the thousand dollar range. It was not that. It was. It was. Yes, whatever. But probably like ten rubles would be. Yes, you'll be fine. Brian. Home by next week. Ten rubles by couple. Weeks after that one ruble right in the price range. You never know.

And then there's monthly Brian Hall with 293 and I looked it up and this I believe was just my half of the dreamings that those seized over the last week was 163,000. So that's like 35 bucks for each of us, even right now with the, with a bitcoin going down, down, down. Yeah, but people are using this a little bit more I mean it's not a lot, but I should. Check that stuff. You know, when I used to beg for Satoshi when I first started doing Sturgeon. Well that was before anybody was.

Doing that stuff. Oh yes. I have a full string of $0.00 some donations coming in stasis right now. It's beautiful. What's your wallet? What's your wallet got right now though? It's got to be a decent amount. If you just 586. Yeah. It's got to be. Like from about the the past week or so if you're not dumping those things out. So yeah. OK, let me switch over into Satoshi mode. And sort of dollars mode because that's easier to read when they're small like that. Yeah.

So I have a whole string of 20 and 24 side donations and then I have to the nations that are 2375 today. So there you go. Those are boosts coming in. Then yesterday I have 3300 donations and a whole series of 62 set donations and then 114 side donation Chief Fucker and then the day before that I had holy shit. What happened here. Wait a minute. I didn't know since the day before yesterday I had a whole series of 15,000 set donations coming in. See, there you go. Some stuff comes in.

That was like one, two, three, four bytes so I was like 180,000 sacks, whatever that is. It's all boost gram and. I don't know what the, I don't know what the person was smoking, but you know, well, sir, Gene is also plugged into the SAP thing, so it doesn't necessarily mean it's coming from here. It could be coming from through GNC. And you get the and. Then the whole number, you get that messages donations. Do you get the messages or do you.

I don't I don't really look at them, but I'm sure they come in. Here, I'll be here sir. That was the last one. And I do not know. I do not I am looking at my software. I don't think I can see the messages. So no, I'm not getting them. There were a bunch that. If you want to set like if you're sending like real money, like more than 10,000, that's hit me up through email. It's easier just gene surgeon speak. I know Gene that surgeon dot com.

Somebody was listening to unrelenting on Monday and I got a string of 50 stats let's see 5678 like 89, ten, 11, 12, 13, 14. I mean like 30, 40, maybe 3550 set boom without messages. But somebody was using breeze and they were pounding, they were pounding out those booster grams. It just said derecho which probably means they just wanted those to go to me. But you know, half goes to you because that is how our system is set up. Yeah. Any millennial just came in here with a booster gram. 2001 sat.

Sir, Gene is a Russian stooge, but I don't know if that's Larry Moe Curly one of those what is do they have the three stooges in Russia or do they like they like me named is there are they different or is it still very mo mo, Larry and. Clearly don't they just don't have them just Liberty Bull is off line. That's interesting.

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This is scary that I guess this is finally going to court after two years. Are you familiar with the story of Lucas Gerhard, which was a college student in Michigan and his been on OK? He spent 83 days in jail before being transferred to house arrest, which he's been on since then. He's been unable to go to school, leave the house or use the Internet. This is all because he'd sent a Snapchat to a bunch of friends with a picture of an air 15.

And the message was, We find it here because I don't want to. I'm going to shoot all of you. All right. The message on it was because I wanted to make sure I get this perfectly so people understand what this was, quote, taken this bad boy up this order or you to make the snowflakes melt a and I mean snowflakes as in snow that along side or on top of in this case I think in a Snapchat message this sent out to a group of people has this guy doing time 83 days in jail. I don't get it for.

A terrorist that's insane. Yes this is. Insane. What is it what's the threat the threat in there. I could hear I know that's it that I'm. Confused where's the threat here. There is none but that's not stopping this kid from being under house arrest for two years and liberal Fucktard, Michigan wow. I mean, this should be a this should not be able to happen in the United States. It really should not, because this is absolute insanity.

He is facing 20 years in prison if convicted of making a terrorist threat but. What terrorist threat? That's literally no threat. And then the entire message and I sure as hell don't see anything terrorist in there. Well, if you listen to the one of the latest random thoughts, you know about the ten year old that was held for three weeks for you know messaging texting a friend a picture of a gun and saying excited about water day you know it's.

You mean. The Watergate? No, no. They were regular guns. But there was also time in between those two messages. But this don't never use fucking social media. That's what you get with this kind of stuff. It never said the picture of a gun over social media because this is the kind of stuff I mean, the hilarity is, is this bitch that turned him in has a picture on social media of herself holding a rifle. So I don't really understand why she's not in jail. That as well.

But anybody that is half way intelligent knows when you see a picture of a gun and you go, I bet you this is going to make those snowflakes melt. It means just because the guns they're not because the guns are being used. I think we all understand what the term snowflake is at this point. And you're right, there is absolutely zero that any rational person would see in this and of course, this student is like ultra conservative, has been harassed before. Yeah. I mean, they have snow in Michigan.

That they do, you know, melt those snowflakes. Yeah. Mhm. But I guess he's been harassed continuously at this school because he's conservative and people have put complaints in every time the police have responded, it was like it was unfounded. But because of that, you know, he's got a record because you know, the police have been called, it's like, yeah, because the fucking moron leftists assholes that are in the school with them don't like.

And I guess at one point he even went to do a class speech, whatever it was presentation where he wore a sheriff's like uniform because he does something with the local sheriff or whatnot and people were all triggered by that because he had a bag with them. And then of course the police were called and there was nothing in the bag. This guy's name, Kyle Rittenhouse? No, but it maybe could be. It's along those lines. His name is Lucas Gerhart. Ah, R.D.

And this was something I had not heard of in the fact that this kid's been under house arrest for two years. This is absolute insanity. And people, one thing. Yeah, they need to know about this and two, something has to be done. And all of this bullshit where it's like, Oh, dude, you texted a picture of a gun, you snapchat it, a picture of a gun. Now we're going to look at this as a terrorist threat. It's like, no, that's not what the language meant.

I betcha this is really going to make those snowflakes melt. It's like, we know what that means. Snowflake even seeing a gun would make them melt. You're not threatening to use the gun. Well, are you threatening somebody? I just heard you threatened somebody. Which part all of it. The part you just said. Show, baby. Something needs to be done. To bring it. Sounds like a threat, ma'am. You better be careful, man. Somebody might put you in prison. Protect the rights of people.

You might have something go on your permanent record. Yeah, because the probable cause affidavit, David from the 91st District Court noted Giffords, quote, extreme political views as being part of the reason his dorm room was searched. Although nothing illegal, was found in the search, it eventually led to his arrest. His extremist views were, this is dorm room. So this is a college student. What are you talking about? High school kid? No, college. They came in. So as a result, yes.

A male over 18 years of age. Yes. Who sent a photo of a gun yesterday? He legally owned. Is been sentenced for two years, house. Arrest for two years and. Will never own another gun again. Did 83 because now he's got a record. Yeah. Did 83 days in jail before the house arrest. Nelson, who lives in Michigan, says it is getting zero press in Michigan. So if you live in Michigan, he may want to tell a friend in. Michigan if you live in Michigan, don't live in Michigan that's the bottom line.

There's Bill Tim Tim Paul's been talking about this a lot among other people. But I know how much you like them. Poole. I do. Love Tim. I don't even know how he's talking about it. If Tim Poole was Bill O'Reilly and he did 40 minutes a day, four days a week, I would listen to everything. But I am I. Just have one of his channels where he does 4 minutes a day every day. No, but I'm a complete but I have a big two other channels. I have like an ADHD problem which is really affects me in music too.

Because if I get like one album from an artist I like, I'm searching for everything they've ever done. So there's bottom line people that you can't you can't simply be who you are and live in a state where the majority of the population is not like you. Correct. This we've gotten to that place now to where you physically need to be in proximity with people who think like you or you will be seen as an enemy. And that is that has absolutely been moving in that direction.

I think we're very much there at this point where it is not optional to move. It's not like, well, we always like Colorado because we like the mountains and the snow. It's like, yeah, well, too bad you're not allowed to live in Colorado unless you think like most of the people in Colorado and it's not just smoking pot, it's all the other liberal bullshit propaganda they like out there. Yeah. So think differently. They will see much of you people you have.

And this is honestly, this is more of what it used to be, right? We're actually returning back to what it was like shortly after the founding of this country, when the states were really small countries of their own. And we didn't have a huge federal government bureaucracy that was trying to standardize everything. So this is really federalism where each state has a population that may be in agreement with each other, but at full disagreement with the state just across the border.

So this is not a new concept, but it's something we haven't had to live through because things have been a lot more controlled by the federal government. But this is coming.

It's not like where you live has nothing to do with what kind of climate you like or what your preferences for you know, for the outdoor activities or anything else where you live is primarily or should be unless you want to get put in jail, a choice between people who believe the same things you do and people who see you as the enemy and do not at all pretend that it's otherwise.

Because that's exactly what it is when when you live in a liberal state and you yourself have more conservative thoughts you are absolutely seen as the enemy. Why would you want to put yourself in that position? Well, it's much more granular any college you want to go. Move to a a theocracy like Iran, if you're a homosexual. Boy, you probably wouldn't. But where did either servative. Moved to California if you're not an idiot. And where do conservative kids go to college in America?

That's a good question. They don't conservative kids don't go to college. College has no benefit whatsoever. Elon Musk has talked about this extensively, but he would actually rather hire somebody without a college degree than with a college degree. And this is the guy that is building the rockets. Take us to Mars. Yeah. Now, bitch. It's not about going to college. It's about gaining knowledge. And those two things, two completely unrelated. Has been covering this.

And they say, well, one crucial aspect of the case is the repressive campus atmosphere that resulted in Gerhart being profiled as a potential threat. This set the stage for a Snapchat post of the so-called assault rifle, allow them to use law enforcement to strike back against a conservative rabble rouser who campus officials wanted out of their hair. And it goes on.

But that's basically just echoing exactly what you said is don't live among them because you are going to be the enemy and they will attack and they will make your life hell. Absolutely. But I'm wishing this kid well because this is just unbelievable that this is happening in the United States, that you send a picture of a gun on a social media. Well, we are the USA now. The United States of America. There is more freedom in mother Russia. There is right now. There is guarantee.

How are we going to fix all these problems, Jim? Well, that goes back to a topic I brought up earlier. Which is have we gone beyond being able to fix it at this point? Is it just a matter of doing some clean up before the implosion. Stories like this make me think we're teetering on that edge, because most people with hearing this story who are going to be like that can't possibly be there's no threat there. What do you mean? This has been two years of the kid's life. It's insane.

Yeah. It is insane. No, he's literally a prisoner of the state of Michigan. Why would you want to voluntarily be in prison? Because that's what people that live there that don't espouse liberal views are. They're living in prison. It is insane. That's why you listen to this show, because we'll let you know about the insanity. What we used to do. I don't know that we do a whole lot anymore, honestly.

I listened to one of our earlier broadcasts, and we were a lot more topical, a lot more political and a lot more techie. And lately we're just talking about food and air conditioners and shit. No one gives a shit. About conditioning is tech when tech is turning it off let us know what you want to hear about booster grandmas and we'll talk about it, but do it before the show should be prepared. It would be, yes. Booster Gram before the show.

So we know what to talk about because otherwise we're going to talk about, you know, super fun topics like air conditioning repair. I mean, there's a lot of tech out there. There's a lot of politics out there. You know, I like the open ended format, but hey, if people want to hear us talk about certain stuff, well. It can still affect segment. Steer it still for us. You had mentioned this earlier, but I don't know if it was on their official recording. My my computer died two days ago.

Yes. We talked about that and disappeared. Now, did you. Well, that's nice. And it's I mean, the whole computer didn't die, but the boot SSD and the MW2 SSD and it's only a year old managed to die. Yeah. It's like your computer had Alzheimer's and boom, don't remember. Does this is not supposed to happen, eh? Yes. This is these have a limited lifespan. I'm well aware of that. But that is encountered in in well, five to ten years minimum. This thing is under a year old.

So definitely more of a defect duration and no warning signs. But usually they'll give you a warning like, oh, you're driving. Yeah, there's really no warning on this thing. It just didn't of sudden. And the the problem, of course, is while most of my data is in the cloud, so I don't really mind. Safeguard your servers in Moscow. The preference files to a lot of apps are going to get lost as a result of this because I have to reinstall Windows on a new SSD. Windows 11. Which I'm waiting on.

Incidentally, why not put them on those 11 windows some windows love and sex so that's a an issue. Amazingly, my my computer was still under warranty by about eight days. So I'm going to get a free replacement for this thing. Oh, well, that'll take a week plus. Well, they're just going to send you free drive and you still have the hassle. So yeah, at least. They're going to send me a drive after I ship them. The old one. I love. That. What size SSD was that? That's a terabyte.

Which I mean, those have gotten pretty cheap now, right? Oh, yeah. I don't think it's stolen. The one that I ordered to put in, which should be here today, that's got one on Amazon, that's two terabyte one. That one's one of the fast ones. Is it an M two? So regular old drive. Yeah, they're empty. Yeah. Yeah. Those really should. Do. No, they really shouldn't. There's no moving parts. There's nothing there. And this is the one that came pre-installed.

So there should be no issues with heat or any other issues because the guys that built the computer should have taken into account all the situation for it. So I don't know. I'm a little frustrated at it was a super. So I ordered some stuff directly so I don't have to wait. You know, once I get this replaced, I guess I'll have a spare one you know barista. What brand that the blew out. It was either an aviator. Or a. I guess probably either, you know.

Oh, it could be it was digital, but I can't I don't think it's a Western rather we're. Pretty sure the one in my Dell is a is a Samsung and the one terabyte Samsung is that 100 bucks now so these things have gotten way cheaper that is something I'd like to upgrade of this baby is to go with my 64 gig of Ram am that but the that's the hardest thing in order to now switch these things out.

Well not really you just have to connect another drive and mirror it but it's weird it's like it's not a drive it's just a little stick now. It's number six stick yeah yeah. But we hear about more so. Yeah so that's a tech thing. The other thing is I don't know if you saw because you know you're sure about this stuff but Apple announced their next MacBook Air, which now I don't think it's available yet. Should be available end of the month or next month.

Know there was pretty nasty things so we'll have the M to Chip, but I'm definitely ordering that. They still haven't announced a new the little one. The Mac many, many. Nope. They still want you to buy the studio which is available that. They do want you to buy studio. Yeah. Oh, is it really? That's funny. Yeah. So I've got the Mac, I get the M one Mac mini, which is still sitting in the box. I haven't set it up yet. Found it for like a month and a half.

We'll see if you would have had that set up that your system wouldn't have died. Yeah, because that the original plan is indeed to have that set up and move the multi to that and use the Mac as my audio. Yeah, because that stuff silent man. Yeah. Well, Silent and the Mac tends to just be better with audio and general. Audio just works. I mean if you want to route audio and all sorts of crazy places, you don't need a mode to a Mac will do it by itself. Yeah. Mm hmm.

We're windows not so like the audio that let's add two and two drives a western digital fail at work. So I mean these things, these things are not really interesting. Yeah, it's I really wonder why though. I mean, it's like if it fails right away, then it's always a defect in production. But why the hell would something fail, like, almost a year after the fact? That's the strange part for me. Yes. In that the Yes. Gene and CSB both like the Mac ecosystem.

So that's where there's Slovak blood that meets the two. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I. I'm totally on board with the Mac. I like the Mac there. Windows does certain things the Mac just doesn't. And it's just when you think of the fact that Windows was more popular. With Windows machines, where are you now? We're running them 24, seven. Do you turn them off at night or do you just let them run. No, no they're on 24. So see that's what I do.

But you keep seeing stuff and I'm thinking it's the same thing with the green folks like oh turn your computer off. It's better for it. It'll last. They don't have to because they, they're very good about reducing their energy when they're not in use. Like you don't have to shut them down, they'll just run with only one. One was. The CPU. Yeah. And it's just doing what needs to be done.

And then when your antivirus gets updated and your all these other updates that happen, it's much better than turning the thing out in the morning. And it's like, Oh wait, I need to download a bunch of stuff.

Well and the old now I don't know if this is even true anymore, but it used to be common sense is that turning power on and off stresses the power supply a lot more than just leaving idle time because it's that initial jolt of power when you flip a switch is when power supplies typically end up failing. They don't like fail when they're running, they fail when they're turned on, turning off it's not a big deal. It's a turning on that.

That quite often was the point at which a power supply would fail. Well, yeah, probably say supplies are better these days, but. If you had a lot of heart, especially with the mechanical hard drives, if you had a lot of those in the system, would you turn right? It was like, all right. It's a pretty big drain right off the get go.

Yeah, with the I mean, nowadays the video card's probably the biggest drain and then maybe the CPU after that because I think my video card sucks it out, like when it's fully engaged it's sucking down over 200 watt CPU is probably like 160 ish maybe or on their. Power cycle. And all the peripherals aren't very much. Yeah. Makes sense. Yeah. All the time. I don't. Know. I mean it's it's really, I just, I just want to get this computer back up and running. I also got some new dress tricks coming.

Hey now where is this to fly? Yep. Shit. I can only imagine. Yeah, correct. That is correct. I'm surprised they don't like like an IMAX screen. Well, I mean, I do have a 43 inch screen. Close their feet away from my eyeballs. Do you have a like. It's like that's probably a big enough screen. You could even see it. Maybe if you had your chair with, like, all of these controls and, like, the chair moves would. It's like somebody fires photons torpedoes and you get a hit.

Does your chair, like, rock and stuff, like you're in the game or not? Yeah, I've seen those accessories. There's a couple of them that you can get. You can also get full motion, but that's pretty pricey. We have a full podcast. Professional dream. Come on. Yeah, exactly. I'm a podcast professional. Back on the there was a. Donate money to the jean getting a full moving chair set up fund.

You know, that's way better because at one point during Grumpy Old Bands, there was a get them of a day drive going on, so. Oh, my God. So this is way better that these. Are stretched. Now. So you can combine the two, the moving chair with the day. No, you could just handle your business while you're flying your spaceships. I'm sure there are people that do. I'm sure there are people you see these occasionally you'll see people doing like 36 hour marathon, 48 hour marathon on Twitch.

Those are six. That's a lot of time to be in front of a camera because usually by about 18 hours, maybe even before then, maybe by 14 hours people's, you know, their brain starts to slow down and they start doing stupid things and not paying attention to what they're doing. Yeah, that's interesting. Yes. That could be entertaining for an audience. Not particularly good for the people though.

Well, no, I mean, this is also where your sudden adult death syndrome, you've heard this a decent amount over the years with, you know, a guy didn't leave a cyber cafe, play the game for 36 hours and drop dead. It's again, it's stress. That can happen like that. I think I've probably done 24 hours quite a bit. But doing more than that is. That was back in your younger days. No, that was Lester. You're not as young as you were last year, are you? Yeah, I'm pretty much the same age.

OK, now here's a bit controversial talk the wife and I were having this morning. Who would be more powerful? Darth Vader or the master from Doctor Who? Time Lord. Or. Well, with the depends on what you mean by powerful I right. C exactly. This is not an easy one, two, three. There's a lot of time. In the master. Didn't have the power to levitate objects with his mind. No. But but he could travel in time.

And he was very good at influencing people and he was just a generic bad guy, you know, like he had a a general agenda of malaise. And if you can go back in time, then you just go back to when your opponent was a kid. Let's just, you know, knock them off. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, that's a silly question. But if you want a way of out of feel free. It's one of these questions people are talking a big way. And I think that it's a silly question because that it's like saying.

Would you rather be. The. Master or Darth Vader? Which do you think a unicorn or Snow White? Which one of those is more purple? The White, obviously. So it's more purple. Wrong answer. Damn the unicorn. Wrong answers. These are both. Exactly. Neither and both. For a minute, I thought we were inside of a Big Bang Theory episode. Well, Sheldon was generally correct. Well, they wrote them that way. Not always, though. I had found them in the few mistake. Who surge gene catch and the mistakes.

You could do a podcast about that. See, there's topics everywhere. Did I do a podcast about fun with flags? Yes. I thought that was the best part of that show. I thought that was hilarious when he then brought in Amy Farrah Fowler, and it was just so yes. So, so not smooth that I'm thinking, hey, that's like unrelenting. Hi. Welcome to Unrelenting with Darren and Gene. I mean, well, if you had if you had CSB do the intro that's and I would it's not like. Oh, CSB. He won't lend his voice.

He'll only lend his words. He doesn't have a voice. I've heard his voice. Well, everyone's heard his voice. But, you know. But he has he has no voice. Stand up, CSB let your voice be heard. Yeah. Well, he has no voice because I banned them so far. But then he banned you. Rushdie Well, he can't ban me after I had banned him. You said it's like being in a double C probation. No, there's stuff that stays double secret probation. It's like. You're talking about. Super duper double secret probation.

Everybody knows about that. That's why you're out of the troll room right now. And no agenda stream dot com. Yeah, I was banned from the troll room. Right? Rightfully so. Control room for being banned. From, you know. Here. That was the reason given to being Jean. That's all you need for Banning. Yeah. Yeah. You were banned for being Jean. Like, all I know is only people that clearly have issues and need to go on prior trips. Whatever, banned somebody. So, you know, there you go.

And you got anything else for this particular episode of Unrelenting? I'm just think if there's anything else happening right now. In the world that Ryder and. Austin country is going to hell in a handbasket. No, wait, no, no. Joe Biden said people are saving more money and are more financially secure than they ever have been. While they are in Russia. Absolutely. That's the country. Right? He's talking about I'm the first. Country. Remember? I keep forgetting. I got it.

People don't understand when Joe Biden says things like that, he's referring to the country he's actually running. Yeah, that's true. That that gene was banned for trying to sell Russian crypto with a troll. That was the Russian crypto scam. What is what was your version of the Russian version of Bitcoin called like Putin coin? Was it or. Oh, this is fascinating. It's first time I'm hearing this is going. It would be. I'm just thinking this is great. I like this theory.

It's probably do it better than the normal cryptos czar. There's nothing like watching those values go down and down and down oh yeah. I mean. I guess people bought all these shit coins. Then what do you expect? But the real coin was going down more which was the most interesting thing. And it may just be because like Cardano and those are very low value coins, I mean, when you get down to like $0.47 there's really not much further to go.

But the percentages when I was watching this over the last week or two Bitcoin was quite often moving at a much higher percentage down than the other coins. But I think it's mainly because I think that's. Because it's got more, more volume moving, right? So well, there's more regular folks in Bitcoin than the other shit coins so I well. Here's one thing that that happened to you got to remember is now that PayPal allows you to sell bitcoins so you could put PayPal, Bitcoin into. PayPal.

And then you can use that as a source of funding instead of your bank account. Well, you have to have the current whatever the hell exchange rate that people has. Well, that means all these people that have been sitting on Bitcoin and are afraid that it's going to keep going down are now using Bitcoin as their funding source than PayPal, which means there's more there's way more people selling Bitcoin.

And by people, I mean the company PayPal is dumping a lot of Bitcoin now, which is reducing its value further. So the smart money is still on to to buy and hold on Bitcoin. Yeah, I'm about. Buy the dip. Buy the dip.

40% of my friends is is bitcoin and I did well by testing out I think I mentioned on the last show that I tested out Xpress VPN and was not really impressed so I went in because they have a 30 day money back guarantee I used crypto to purchase and I was wondering when I went and asked for the refund which was like two weeks in which was right in the middle of this crypto downturn.

I mean I think Bitcoin was down like 25% between the time I tried my first, you know, when I paid the bill, the thing that asked for a refund and they paid back in whatever was $100 at that given time. So I got more Bitcoin back, which I thought was cool. Obviously they're doing this cool and instantaneous thing, but I'm like, oh, so I actually, you know, made money by doing the 30 day free trial which you don't always get that, that lucky.

But I believe that the average person doesn't know what Cardano and algo and a theory is so they buy Bitcoin and that's why those people are more apt to pull out or I think people that are into the more fringe coins are more in the mindset like I am with Cardano like I'm just holding it because I think it's eventually going to get there. I wasn't planning on pulling it out. I wasn't looking for a total worthless. Yeah, possibly. But that's why you diversify between different coins.

It's going to Vegas, man. It's like going to Vegas when you go to Vegas, you don't get to be like, Oh, well, give me half of that back. Oh, let it ride. You put your bet down. And if it works, it works. If it doesn't and you go home with just because you had your entertainment value of watching where those values were going up and down, which is, you know, I guess kind of fun for some people. OK, I mean, I wouldn't be able to do it with real money.

I mean, because there's these folks that I do not understand the mindset that when the these Bitcoin things when the fear of missing out hits, the kind of people that go in and they mortgage their house, they take every penny of their savings, I'm like, I'm going to put them all in. And then it crashes. They wonder why. All those people, if I remember right, went all in one Bitcoin hit a thousand did it pretty good. Oh, yeah. Those folks are doing fine now.

The folks that went all in when Bitcoin was at $69,000 and it's down to 1745 right now they didn't do so well. They did not do so well. I mean a lot of people thought 30 was kind of that that bother but it's like now that it's down to 20, it's going to be interesting to see what happens over the next few months.

The White House talking about doing stuff with crypto never good but I think if we see a change in the weather come the next election cycle, you may see another wave going up on this stuff itself. At some point there's a there is a proper time to get out. I don't know what it is. I I just don't see a big change dealing with the next election, that's all. Possibly not, but we'll find out soon. Well, you're months. Exactly. November, baby. You ready? You willing? You able?

You're going to take up arms and stand up. So you guys should vote if you're a listener as to what you think is going to happen in November. And if you think it's going to be a big red wave donate $1. Ellen does. And if you think it's going to be no big red wave, donate $10. That's not a fair because that you're skewing it right off the bat. I'm not. How's that skewing it? What you do different numbers.

You just changed the final number like if you think it's going to be a big red wave, you donate $10.33. If you don't think it's going to be a big red wave, you do $10.44 that way. You you don't see that. Makes no sense. Yet does. People will screw up their pennies. It'll come in. Wrong. OK, would you want to. Do the easy method if. You want to vote at all, need $100 cash to the P.O. Box marked as for random thoughts. Mm hmm. And that would be perfect. And I'll count your vote that way.

Are you still working class? Yeah. Just like the Democrats. You're trying to fortify this vote? Yeah. I mean, I'm trying. I am not anywhere near as good as the Democrat Ed stuff in the back. No need to learn a little bit from them for. So I'm trying. I am trying. I used to working today. It is this. What are those day? I mean, I don't know what your time schedule is. I don't want to over.

I am and I am not enjoying it because I'm used to having three screens that are 40 inches wide and instead I'm looking at a 13 inch screen. 11. Mm hmm. Yeah. One. I mean, I could hook up another monitor at that age too lazy. Well, see, there's there you go. Well, I wish you well at getting let the big machine back up and running. Get a ball. Thank you. I hope that'll happen today. The deliveries are scheduled for today. What size are you getting and from what brand? Two terabytes.

And it's the X or whatever. This is the new fast one that does seven megs for seven gigs per second. Damn nice until it crashes. Western Digital. Nice. That's the exact same one. That I already added the machine like six months ago. That slowed down. That one's been working well, so the one that died is the one that came from the manufacturer. Oh, I got just. You have the. I have two, two terabyte tubes in there. Yeah, the machine has three slots for empties.

Nice. Well, enjoy that storage and be ready. Tell us for the next week, we'll find out exactly what happened. Tune in to get well. I don't know if we will because if it doesn't work, that's work. So same time, same back channel we.