032: Polka Party

Oh, dude, babes love polka Hello and welcome to episode number 32 of Unrelenting for Friday June 24th 2022 I'm Darren O'Neill I'm coming to you live from just outside of Chicago where you know the things keep getting better and better and better. Oh no wait no Gene they keep getting worse. What's what's happening now? The usual stuff people killing each other. They're making weird changes to the security protocols for the summer festivals.

Which just means, you know, something fun is going to happen. So what do you mean by there's always cops around in summer festivals. But there's cops around, but they're, like, changing where you enter these things. Yeah. Yeah, there's some very strange stuff going on, but that's OK. It's Chicago. Bad stuff. Always is going to happen. It's a really good chance you'll get shot on an expressway. So it's a good thing you're not in Chicago. I know. Just outside.

I mean, I'm right outside of Cook County, so I'm happy that's as close as you want to be to Chicago. And. You don't want to be closer and you're on a new microphone. Everybody could probably already tell because. Oh, I'm. Sure people can tell. Yeah. So this is not the permanent new mike. This is a test. We're just doing everyone off here, seeing how good and or bad it actually is. This is like having you call in on a cell phone from 1990. It's not that bad. It is. It is that bad.

I'm an audio snob though. I will give you a I will give you that. I mean it could be tweaked I'm sure. I mean you have all the DFP in the world, you can adjust all the frequencies, dial it in. Yeah. I mean I can. I I mean I don't know now. I mean. I mean give me, give me 5 minutes, I'll tweak it up. I'll make it sound like, oh, I'm here. Let me add some sirens sound while I'm at it. Oh, do are we in surround yet on the unrelenting.

So I used to be, you know, I did surround sound for my podcast back in 2007, eight, seven, nine and people hated it. We have to have the special headphones and all that. But now because you can there's Adobe, does Adobe let you this, you can place a track anywhere around your head. So you are mixing it and 5.1. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And was it moving during the show like you were pacing around? No, no, it wasn't moving, but I had every voice coming from a slightly different place.

Oh yeah. That would freak people out. So it's basically simulated, you know, like you're sitting in front of a sofa with people sitting out and talking. That's kind of weird. That I know. It's what you would hear in real life. It's like your sound doesn't come from one spot when you're listening to multiple people. Oh, that's absolutely true. But even with music, I mean, it's hard to do this well. And when it's done well, I really appreciate it.

When they do the multi channel mixes where, you know, it's great, especially if there's something where there's like an orchestra and strings or something on the set. You're sitting there and all the music's just happening in front of you. And then all of a sudden the orchestra comes in and it's coming from behind. It's like, I see that kind of stuff can work really well and it really immerses you. We want to immerse you in the audio that is unrelenting actually.

That would be a fun little fuck you think the listeners. Which is. To have one of the voices coming from behind you. Yes, and then people keep wanting to turn their heads. What do like we were. The call was coming from inside of the house, coming to be great. It'd be great. But I mean, obviously. You know, we're doing a true crime, but I guess we could get away with it. Well, we should. I mean, people say. We're doing a true crime protest I don't. Know. People seem to listen to those.

They do and I've never listened to one. Now, is this how do these things work? What is the format? I mean, I've heard you. Come up with a crime you're going to commit and then you committed. No, I think you're supposed to look at a previously committed crime, although I like your. Well, really? So how does this play? I think a crime because that would seem to be a really bad thing. That was the whole point of the true crime. But I guess if they're telling you what they're going to do in real.

Life, that wouldn't you get caught? Isn't that kind of antithetical? Then you have your podcast alibi. Oh, that you write. Why would I do that? I'm not that dumb. That that's not me. That's somebody that's a copycat. But if all these crimes are called copycat frames. I'm just telling people how to do something allegedly in a very non real way. I'm just suggesting. Things with the more realistic. Policy now you break it up like it's a cell phone, too. Am I really? Yeah, that was weird.

That was weird. What did it sound like? Just like there was sounded than there was in that little bit of a dingy noise. But we'll be testing some. But I wish I would have had I found the the isotope plugins in. Which I remember those seem. To do a really good job right off the bat, which I wish I would have had before our last episode. Because you were also on the the other Mike, and for a while you were in the kitchen. There was a lot of reverb. Yeah, I was in the kitchen.

The isotope things have some settings for, you know, rather than just removal. What's up for kitchen removal? Yes, kind of. Because they have a noise reduction that is only for that is all, you know, the algo is for removing noise. Around. Voices around speaking. So it tries to separate the speech from everything else and then of course remove the noise that isn't the speech and it does a really good job. And the D reverb seemed to do a really good job.

And the coolest thing is and there's most of these plug ins allow you to do it but you can make it so you're only hearing what it's removing. And that's just to make sure your. That is cool. Yeah. You know, it's the band drew over on the of Andrew Says podcast, which is a great show and he does all the reviews podcast on YouTube he is really a as a lot of people are averse to the sound of the little clicks that your mouth couldn't come if you don't have enough hydration.

Right. That's the. And yet somebody said to him in audio of only he's like the guy who like put some peanut butter in his mouth and then just, oh. My God. And then talk and then sent the audio that was only the clicks. And wow, you could tell he was physically hurting and had to take the headphones off because it was freaking about so much. That's not. What I'm like. These are the kind of things we need as podcasts and you don't even think about it.

90% of the time, there's little changes you can make, little filters you can run that will make your show sound better. Which one of those will not be the where the is this was this a blue brand headset? Mm hmm. Yeah. These things cost a lot of money, and they don't always do a great job. The microphones aren't great. The headphones. I got the plan. Our. Yeah, those are nice. Yeah, but this I'm not really sold. The problem is always the microphone. Yeah, the headphone.

Headphone quality is generally decent. Although, you know, again, my, my normal headset that I wear when recording is the big reference case. So in the ones which I think are the best headsets out there, but also not made any more just. What than they will be very hard to find. Oh, that would be. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I think somebody yeah, somebody definitely bought big but that quality also went down toilet.

And just as we're speaking, the Supreme Court has released their ruling overturning Roe versus Wade. Get ready for some violence. Oh, nice. Well, the first thing well, that's a good thing. They released the ruling on the the guns before that. Yeah, I know, I know. And people are freaking the the way we can talk about the gun one. First off, that. Fox. News stop playing videos every time I open up one of your pages. I know. I hate that. Right.

And here's the thing, because the way I run the browser not to track every damn thing. Even if you turn it off and say, never play it again because you're not allowing it to track you, it just keeps playing. That why do they keep calling these abortion rights? Clearly, these are not rights. They've just been decided. Not to me. It. Well, this is it. This is it. And the as you said, this is the gun ruling yesterday in this today. I mean, I'm only 50 years old.

I mean, you're 180. Whatever has there ever been a time where the Supreme Court has made more noise, if you will, than with these two rulings in two days? I don't remember anything ever being a big deal about. Well, the Supreme Court's overturning something ever. Before that's a good question. I'm trying to think back what we did have. Right. And it's like I just I can't remember anything if there was I mean, of course, if you're in the. Brown versus Board of Education. Which was what.

The integrated schools. OK, now when was that was that turned over to allow for integration or was that. Well, it wasn't turned over, but it was it was the Supreme Court ruled that that was in the fifties. Well, see, that's I mean, I understand there have been some big rulings, but both of them. Well, and this one is a Supreme Court reversing itself on the guns.

I guess it's not really reversing itself, but it was a really big shot across the bow, if you will pardon the pun, with the gun rights because we know that the left is going more and more for all of the rights for all gun ownership. So this from a Supreme Court level coming down was huge because we talked about Chicago right outside of where I am here. Very, very severe gun laws. For a long time, you weren't even allowed to have a pistol in the city of Chicago.

I don't know what the exact current law is, but I remember growing up like within the last even within the last ten or 15 years, somebody that, you know, guy was in this house. Somebody broke in and he shot him and they charged him because you weren't supposed to have a gun. And this kind of stuff is absolutely insane, I think, because I think the founders were clear. I think the meaning behind the right to bear arms is fairly clear.

So this was really a big shot against all of these cities and states that think they can go well, no, we can say, no, you can't have a gun. It's like, no, you can still. And the left went nuts yesterday. But the reality is in New York, it's not like all of a sudden getting a gun is easy. Hmm. This is a minor thing. When it comes down to it. They're still having you jump. And I had no idea that the New York is even worse than Chicago, it seems, as far as how long it takes to get the permit.

I know we have that here, which is you have to go through the state police. If you want to be able to buy a gun. I have to apply for a firearm owner ID through the state police. So they do their background check on you and I mean, the bullshit is even after you go through this whole thing with the state police and whatever investigation they're doing to determine whether or not you can have the card to be able to go buy the gun.

If you want to go buy a gun, you still have a waiting period, which is a little bizarre. It's like, well, why? It's like, yeah, I. Just kind of I don't understand why people live in places like that. I really don't. Yeah, I know. I mean, I was born here, so I mean, it's just a question of the inertia. That's not. Really an answer to the question, but. Yeah, no, I know it's the inertia. It's a pain to move all your stuff. Inertia. There you go. That sense, the lack of inertia, is it. Why is it?

You know, I don't know, but yeah, this was a huge ruling in one way, and just that it was sending a message to the reality of what it does to New York. The the loopholes on the left are making it sound like it's going to be easier for criminals to get guns in New York all of a sudden. And the reality is, criminals were never using the legal method of getting a gun. And that's exactly it.

That's exactly it. Yeah. So I don't quite understand that it's the a lot of this is also the conceal carry laws, which is kind of at the heart of what was going on here. And it's still the. Same. In Illinois. Just because I have my foid card from the state and they did their background check and I'm able to go to a gun shop and buy a gun. I can't carry that legally outside of the house concealed on my person. You have to then go get another mother permit, another permit.

And this one requires you to take classes, prove you know what you're doing. And, you know, I'm on one side of that. There is a side of my brain that's very. I. Understand the reasoning behind that. But on the other side of that, I understand this is a hurdle that you're just trying to make it harder for people to qualify to be able. To. Use the right that they were born with. Exactly. This has nothing to do with any actual you know, preventative measures.

This has to do with controlling the population. Yes, it is absolutely not a preventative measure at all because criminals don't get their guns from most of the time from the local gun shop because once you have a record, they're not giving you a gun.

You know, once you have a felony on your record, once you have a criminal, you know, charge, you're not getting the gun so I don't know where they think this is really changing anything except taking the guns out of the hands of the people who are law abiding citizens, which, you know, that's a great idea because the police can help you. And I get it. The police don't like more guns on the street, but the reality is they don't respond quick. Enough. Well, police are not meant to prevent crime.

They're meant to. Do the paperwork after. Yeah, exactly. They're they're they're there to follow up. You've gotten a little quieter. There is. You you can't you can't be moving away from the mic because I. Know the mic is attached to my head. Whatever they hear. Yeah. No, the only thing I do is I turn off, sir. Interesting. So I killed that. So well, we'll always adjusted the mics. Yeah, well, you know, I mean, I'm just saying, give you a little, little bit of homework to do. Yeah, you just.

Well, you run out nice little nice filter, and it all works out. I ain't going to keep fucking with the sound the whole time. And that's fine, because I'll sound great as always. And you'll sound like you are but the the Supreme Court ruling, I really don't understand the insanity around this either, because it all just goes back to the states. So what the left is basically saying is we're mad that any state might come up with a different law that we don't like.

Well, then it's like, get move. Yeah. Well, remember, the right is about letting people do what they want, even if you disagree with them. And the left is all about making people do what they want. It is a forcing mentality that you are going to believe what we want you to believe. Be racist. You're not being sexist. Don't be a Nazi. Not only are you going to not do anything to keep us from doing X, Y, and Z, you're going to have to say you support X, Y, and Z. Mm hmm.

It's a really dangerous kind of a concept yeah. Now that that want to know who's doing their jeans audio today? Ukraine. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Ukraine's doing that. Yeah, he's coming to us live from Moscow today. I think delays pretty good, though. We're not getting too much delay there. I know. We'll Moscow. You can get with the satellites, man. Very late really. Hard, you know. Thanks to Iwan. Yeah. Thanks to you. On Tom Rad Musk. Thank you for your service.

But this is an interesting time when bad. So the the delay on the satellite it's only about 39 milliseconds. That is perfect. Yeah, that is perfect. We can communicate well. And probably do video of this thing. Yeah, I would think so. I would think so. But the Supreme Court making way in a way that I don't remember ever really happening, especially with the 12 punch.

And even row row was I think by most people at least what I remember when I was taking college classes on the topic and I've been in college multiple times in my life. In a college or just taking classes. Um, no, I mean, you know, I just like taking. Yeah. What I understand. Yeah, nothing. You just walked through the building. Oh, no, no. A paying for classes. Paying for classes, if that's what you're getting.

Yes. Yeah, that RO was considered bad law, even by people that agreed with the outcome I mean, it wasn't law. It was bad, it was judicial. What's the phrase? Political activism? Yeah. Way over. It was basically taking something that there wasn't a wall around and creating a whole law. And the reality, again, is this is in a lot of people reacting to this like it's, oh, my God, abortion's illegal. All of a sudden, it's like, no, no, it really doesn't change anything.

Is here in Texas totally no. I mean, that's not what you've got going down there. Oh, yeah. Except for, you know, cases where there's a Tim kind of negative effect then the creating the, the, the pregnancy that. Is the law in Texas right now is all abortions are legal except in extreme measures. I believe. So let me check. Is there a place that, you know, there will be a website soon to go because abortion tourism is about to be a thing um.

Yeah. We can, we can book your trip to go see the nice sites out in the beautiful Chicago and get an abortion while staying on the Magnificent Mile. I love the fact that all these protesters with the hands off our bodies they're there. I mean, you look at the photos. I'm sorry, I'm going to be a little sexist here, but these are women. Nobody wants to get pregnant. OK, George Carlin, that was a joke that he was making. Like, what, 30 years ago? Well, he was right then and he's right now.

Yeah, I think he's wrong. I mean, it's a long you know, a lot of the lefty protest, you know, you're not as a straight American male looking for an attractive woman. You're not going to lefty protests. I mean, the percentage is just not high. It's definitely up there. Well, you're not really going to the right protest either, because. Oh, no, they're all married. No, I'm just saying you're not going to either one. Or. You're just hanging out on Tinder early grinder if you want.

I mean, I don't want to. I don't want to dwell on gender at all. Right. Whatever you doing, I don't care. Yeah. Because the law that was passed last year basically got rid of abortions and. But it's really the only thing it's doing is making it slightly more inconvenient for you to get an abortion. And here's why. I'm not even going to say that it's going to be more expensive because let's just say Texas makes abortion completely illegal. And 99.8% of the cases.

Last year, Texas passed a trigger law that would go into effect. 30 days after Supreme Court reverses Roe right. Now, here in Illinois, in California, in New York, abortions are always going to be, hey, come on, Ed, we'll give you an abortion. For free. And I'm guessing a lot of these states are going to somehow make it. So if you have to come from Texas to Chicago to get an abortion, we'll cover your travel costs. Don't worry no, that's fine by me. I don't mind people getting abortions.

But that's like you can't even say it's going. To they don't do it here. Right? Well, that's not going to make this big of a difference for people I. Doubt it's going to change the law. Yeah, no. It's not, because there's this is there's multiple options. And I don't see the whole country going conservative any time soon, especially California. Or the whole country is conservative, except for your state, California and New York. Well, the big cities are where the the liberals.

Well, the big cities outside of Texas, but even in Texas, the big cities are more liberal. Yeah, well, I mean, you look at Austin, I mean, you guys are more liberal. They're not a big city. Dude. Austin's like 27 in the city size. Oh, 27th. It's still pretty far on the list. I mean, it's not one to three, but no. Where do they stop becoming a big city at what number? Top ten. At the top ten once it's there after the new year. The earthquake in Houston, they're both big cities.

They're big all you got two steers and queers down there. Boy, I'll just say it. Uh huh. That was the great Gutty and Full Metal Jacket, wasn't it, then? Yeah. God rest his soul. Well, he's dead. Yeah. Yeah. A few years ago. No way. Yeah, I don't know. What's it. You learn something new every day here. Because I've seen videos of him just recently. Well, he. Seems like he was last forever. Jean, I can watch videos of Elvis. He died in 1977, I think. Now he died 77. He's still around yeah.

Elvis Presley. Or Jenny. Elvis. Erin Presley. No. Yeah. Gutty Johnny definitely passed away. Roy, what's his name? Emory. Charlie Emory. Yeah. Look it up. I mean, you've got a computer. I mean, I guess you have a headset. You probably have a computer. I haven't hooked the computer up yet. Though. So you're talking into the headset. Which is plugged into. The is the hub. Which is plugged into this is a good people are like, how is he doing this? I'm telling you, this is a good travel solution.

You don't need anything. Hourly passed away April 15th of 2018 so. That's just barely dead. Four years Jean I know in your timeline the timeline four. Years is like three days man. You have a Russian vampire this is time moves slowly. Mm were you born in Transylvania by any chance? Pennsylvania. No vote. I got to suck your blood. The yes. Which is there's plenty of blood on the streets of New York, which a beaver. It's going to be even. Greater now.

That people can get concealed carry permits there's going to be way more violence because the people that actually go through the process of getting the legal gun and then legally getting the concealed carry and going through the here, I think it is 24 hours or something of classes. I think it's 212 hour days. So you have to go through like 24 hours of class to get the concealed carry. Oh, concealed carry.

OK, now to get that, I mean, those are the people that are really just going out to commit the crimes, the ones that are going through all of those steps that are a pain in the ass and expensive. They're the ones that are going out and committing crimes according to the left. But missing motherfuckers on the left are the ones that don't want to put the criminals in jail. Who actually use a gun to commit a crime. Hmm. Surprising. I know in our society is a polite society.

Seabrook Yeah. Like here we have a constitutional carry, so you don't need Jack shit to walk around with a gun. Yeah, that I would appreciate. Mm. That I would appreciate. And you can carry you doesn't have to be concealed either in Texas or, like, put it on your hip, man. Well, it's always been legal to have it open in Texas. Well, I shouldn't say always, but it's been legal for quite a while to have it open. But then a couple of years back, they passed a constitutional concealed as well.

It again, what only makes sense to me is punish the people that use the tool in a way that is against the law. Yeah, well, and this is where the whole red flag thing is so difficult because the idea of pre-crime is a bad thing, obviously. But the reason for the red flag laws is touching on something that many of us have been saying for decades. Which is it's not the gun. It's the person who happens to be crazy. Right? The person who has the gun. It's well, it's not the person who has a gun.

It's like like mass shootings are not committed by sane people. They're committed by people who have mental illnesses and generally are on medication for those mental illnesses. Oh, yeah. So the illness or the medication, you can debate that. You can figure out the statistics. And I certainly think it's leaning towards the medication, but it is not somebody that is perfectly well has never had any psychological issues that ends up going out there and committing a shooting spree.

Right. Now, I think most people agree that if somebody has a mental illness and they are being medicated for that with a drug that can alter their brain, then maybe they shouldn't have a gun. Yes. And I've also warned about this to friends mostly for decades as well, is that if you are one of these modern new agey type parents that thinks that their kid ought to be on medication, you are making a decision on their behalf for them to never own a gun.

Well, you know, all of their friends are on the ADHD medication, so it helps with the SAT scores and it helps them stay focused. And who the hell says you have to be focused? I don't know. Not me. Now I'm the lack of focus. And I also I would say I'm going to call bullshit on that in general because these same kids, before they get on the SSRI pills, can play video games with 100% intensity for 8 hours a day.

So maybe, maybe it's not that they have mental issues, maybe it's that the education system sucks. Oh yeah. I fully agree with that. And I am a, a product of that particular system. And as a kid school was so, so boring. Right? You had to do fun stuff like at lunch turn all the desks around and move the teacher's desk to the opposite side of the room. I left when she walked in, she had a heart attack. That was the fun part of school. To get the head to pull some pranks.

I mean, this is before Internet, obviously. Yeah. Yeah. We had to do our own fun, silly videos in our heads. Well, the beautiful thing was there was no video to show who did it, because otherwise you'd be like, Let's put the zip line. Yeah, don't. If you're going to, if you're going to do those things, you don't want them to be on video. But I remember that all through school.

And, you know, I was smart enough that through, you know, even up through high school, you didn't really have to do much to pass, you know, and that is a really bad things. It's like, oh, well, you're just not showing interest. It's like, well, it's boring. I mean, it's literally even trying to force myself to pay attention. I couldn't do it.

But once the whole computer thing hit, oh, I would, I would sit there for 12 hours and try to figure out how to code whatever and my color computer how to do whatever. When the internet came out, like, well, how do we we, how do we make this website work? How do we create this? How do we code this and this? This to me is the proof that the issue is not with the a problem psychologically or chemically in the brain.

The problem is that you're presenting somebody with menial, boring tasks that they don't want to do instead of challenging them with something interesting like. Programing, right? Because that was literally flipping a switch. It was like, Oh, wow, this I could you know? And then when I picked up a guitar, it's like, Oh, I would sit there. Is this hard? Is that was it? Especially beginning with guitars trying to work up the finger strings and figure out the chords and all that.

It's like I was committed to doing that no matter how hard it was. So it wasn't even like, Well, he just doesn't like a challenge. It's like, no. That's so that's interesting because I totally gave that up. I tried learning guitar twice in my life. Well, maybe like at Gene, so. And both times I was like, I think the first time I spent about a month and the second time was probably two weeks. Well, there you go. I mean, it was just like, this is not working well.

So you could have you could have been ready for easy top with the beard. I know, right? You could. Instead, I was much easier with a, you know, one of these fancy modern instruments called a accordion. OK, Weird Al. So that I played for many years and I think they finally got rid of my accordion like before I moved to Austin. And I really want to. Know how accordion rest of my life. Yeah, I. Want to know, were you ever able to pick up babies by playing the accordion?

Oh, dude, babe, I love polka. Wow. OK, there's the there's the opening line for the show. They called intro. Yeah. Got to be babes. Love poker. I mean, I can't say it's wrong. I cannot say it's wrong. But yeah, you live in Seattle, you live outside of Chicago, but you've been to Chicago where there are polka events happening. There are a large bit of Polish and Irish and everything here in Chicago.

And I've always really loved growing up, definitely loved the Polish food and then kind of got into it with the. You know, the Irish because there's no Irish food. Right. Well, that's well, there's a few things. It's Irish drink. That's it. And it was either the beer, which I will say I'm not a big beer drinker. I almost never drink beer. When I do, I drink Guinness or or the other. The what? The I'm blanking on the name of the other stout that comes out of Ireland.

But I mean, I went to the whiskey. I definitely appreciate more a good Irish whiskey, and that was my drink. But there were some things like there's these what do they call them? Pasties that they make in Ireland, which is kind of like a big like it's it's kind of like Polish food in the way that it's a outer outer crust with all the stuff inside and kind of baked into it. And so it's like a shepherd's pie, but small. Yeah, well, the shepherd's pie is good as long as you're using lamb.

If you're using ground beef. I just have to say it's not a shepherd's pie. If you're using it. Shepherd's pie is pretty good. I enjoy shepherd's pie. The Irish version has about 50% fat and gristle in it, but it still tastes pretty good. I think it was Murphy Stout was the other one that was big. Oh, yeah. Murphy. That's what I did when I, when I did my one trip to Ireland. And they won't let you back. Is that it? For the first? No, they probably would I enjoyed Ireland.

There was fun, but I was there for two weeks and drove all around the whole country except for Northern Ireland. Didn't go to the the captured part of it. But that was, I mean the, the British part eating right. Which, you know, they still occupy burns. Yes. Oh, yeah. Yeah, they all do. Belfast is really interesting for me. Yeah. How do you go through you get in, they take you know, you can take a little tour through there and see all of the beautiful murals

that are painted around. And it's a it's really kind of a interesting thing because it's a religious war that's going on in Ireland. That's really what it's about. It's more it's more that it's the right versus the the Irish. It's the Catholic versus the Protestant. I don't know. I don't think the Irish are like assholes to Catholics. Are they? Yes. A Box D, that's exactly it. That's Protestants. I mean. I don't know. I mean. It's at all all and certainly I. Don't I don't know.

I mean, I didn't get that impression, but the I think that while one side is Protestant, the other side is Catholic, I suspect still that the had had that territory been ceded back to Ireland, I don't think anyone would have had a problem with having all those Protestant churches there. Oh, probably not. You're right. So I think it's kind of convenient to say that, well, one side is one religion. The other side's a different religion, even though they're the same religion.

But I think it's more to do with the occupation force. Which would make sense. Give Ireland back to the Irish. Yeah, I'm totally favor that. Been saying that for many years. Rightfully so. Yeah. Give Ukraine back to Russia. Well, there you go. That's Oh that. Come from got to go cough or crank bug. Yes. Frank podcast. Greg but yes that's. The way it works.

Yeah it's a a box the Irish potato pancakes I want box want this and I want to know this because we used to have a couple of really nice Irish pubs out here in the southern suburbs of Chicago where they're as we said, a lot of Irish people and the one was magnificent. The owner of. The the police department's used to live. Right, exactly. But the one that was out here for a few years, they spent so much money even bringing in the whole bar, the bar back all of the booths and stuff from Ireland.

I mean, it was awesome. OK, I have a theory about this. Yes, yes, yes. I think there's a whole economy of fake old Irish bars being created in Ireland for sale to other countries because I've literally been you. Well, I, I guess I haven't been that many countries, but I've been to enough countries and every single place I've gone from Costa Rica to, you know, I don't know, pick another to Hong Kong.

In fact, I've been to an Irish bar that is very proud of the fact that they have an actual Irish bar back that came from Ireland, from a bar that used to exist 200 years ago. It's a big business. I guess it's. I I'm telling you, they're manufacturing the shit in real time. Is it somebody in Ireland? I hope they're making a lot of money. Oh, I think they are. And and also the Greeks are making the shit ton of money on shipping the stuff. Oh, yeah. So is the Greeks. That are shipping it.

Well, and that's it. The shipping is the problem right now. And I was just talking about that with my wife this morning because she works for a flooring company here. Yeah, she's like last year or so to get a container sent from overseas. And the owner of the place, she, you know, that she works for is Greek. So they get stuff out of Greek and, you know, Greece, parsley and all that. Yeah. And the container, which used to be 4000 I think is now like 12 or 14,000.

And she's like, you do realize what's going on here that they're trying to make it so you can't keep importing this stuff because it's not green making stuff in Ireland or Greece or anywhere in Europe and shipping it to the United States that's not what the greenies like. That's bad. It takes a lot of fossil fuel to move those things. Yeah, well, what the Greeks like is what Bill Yates likes let's reduce the population by 95%. Well, then you would have to buy a lot less stuff.

Yeah. And you, you know, the serfs can just sort of live the way they used to back when, you know, when the ruling elites ruled people with an iron fist, not a velvet glove. We're just going to nudge you. I remember watching Glenn Beck. I don't even remember how many years I'm really bad with knowing how many years ago something. How white was his fair? Not. Not as white as it is now. He wasn't all full, Colonel Sanders, yet. He really is pushing the Colonel Sanders mean.

I know. I know, but it works for him. It does. But it was when Cass Sunstein was whatever position for it must have been Obama. And it's like it's all just about nudging you. It's all about just moving that needle. They're not going to make it illegal, but it's going to be either really inconvenient like it is to get a concealed carry permit or it's going to be really expensive like, you know, fossil fuels. Now to put it into your tank the. Absolutely right.

Yeah. And I had a friend from California just texted me the other day. He's like, man of these feel phrases. Don't drop back from seven bucks. I don't know how the hell we're going to survive. You have to. You're going to get $18. I've been predicting 18. Baxter fuel prices in California. For years, which means going to happen. You're not going to be able to do it.

Well, you're not to be able to survive, which is, again, this is another inconvenience which my wife worked 45 minutes from home, which is getting very hard to to manage with the gas prices. And you have a suburban. No, no, we have two old cars, man. We haven't purchased a car in the last new car I had was a 96 Camaro. And oh my. God, I know it was a great car, but the two cars we have right now we're not. The one I was thinking, but OK, they were both.

The, both the cars that my wife's grandparents owned. So we have a Buick and a Chevy Impala. And the Impala is like from 2004 or something. Just not a big one. No, it's not. It was the newer boxes of ELTs. I remember. The. Helicopter. Was so fucked up that Brad I remember with the old Chevy Impala used to look like. Yeah, the cop cars, the big ass boats, that were almost the size of a delta. 88. £8,000, maybe. Yeah. More lethal. The bullet and the gas mileage of those things, man.

You got 77, seven miles to the gallon. If you were going downhill with the wind to your back, you got seven miles a gallon. But those are what we I mean, I don't I will never understand the folks that spend a lot of money, and I know some that like every year or two where they're trading in their car for a new one or. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. Oh, you're one of those, OK? I don't get it. I don't get. It's called like like buying things that are new.

I didn't think, oh, so it's like cars and women, they all have to be new. Yeah. I get it. I get it. But with cars, I don't I don't understand it now. Well well, to be fair now, I probably haven't bought a car for the longest time in my life. Because I got rid of my little electric one. So now the only one that I've got is my Jeep Grand Cherokee Diesel. Who a diesel. Yeah. And I bought it specifically because I figured the diesel would last forever.

I generally had a couple of cars, and so I have usually, like, a fun little car that they have like a. Your normal car and then your toy. And so, yeah. And so the the Grand Cherokee was purchased to be a ten year car. I'm coming up on that. That's a 2014. So I've got two more years. That would be a ten year old car. Now, what will a new car give you that that one.

Now I understand when the car gets to a certain age in mileage, it is more expensive to try to maintain and fix and you know if the new vehicles are. Diesels are more expensive in general but yeah. You know, but that's it. If it's not you know, you have to have a reason to to move to that vehicle. I remember when they were pushing these new high efficiency panels and they're like, well, you'll save $500 a year in gas. And I'm like, Yeah, but I've spent 40 subsidy by the car.

So it's going to take a long time for me to make that up there. Cover it. I really like this car. There's only a couple things wrong with it, but the biggest difference between the current model year where they updated it a little bit and the 2014 that I've got is the display in the middle is bigger and it's does more stuff. Does the car drive itself. More so than mine? Like mine will make noise that you if you go out of your lane the current model year will keep you in the lane.

See now that still freaks me out a little bit. I mean I guess convenient for when you you know watching a video or something. Which you're not supposed to do while driving right. Yeah that's there's laws. Well what's really. Sad watch TV while driving or text. Texting too. Yeah. No, it's. True. Well, that makes no sense at all. I mean, it's not the whole point of like you're driving in the. Device, right? That's why they're mobile phones. Otherwise, I would just wait till I got home.

I mean, they're not called home phones, are they? No. No. Hey, I don't understand, man. This is the law. What do you think? I watch all my YouTube videos? Exactly. While you're driving a hundred miles an hour down the expressway in Austin. So if you see, you see a jeep covered with Jeanne behind the wheel. You may want to you may want to hit the ground, too. Out of the way. Yeah, you may want to get off the road mm hmm. But don't worry.

There's there's alarms inside of his car that are telling him he's going off the. Yeah. Yeah, it'll make noise. Actually, the car will brake and stop itself if somebody is in front of it. That I don't notice. Oh, that's interesting, too. That's back from 2014. Now, I did get their top line model back, but it was a they've got more bells and whistles. The current generation car, you can order a infrared display on it so you can see it in the dark as you're driving around watching TV. You see.

That's nice. Now have there ever had any statistics come out and if these new cars with all of these bells and whistles and features are actually lessening the amount of accidents on the street, or are they doing anything or making it worse or they. Are reducing the amount of small accidents. Yes big ones going way up like yeah you're to.

They're about same. Yeah. But the the the sort of you know, you're looking left and you should be looking right because somebody is in front of you and stuff those are been reduced. I've had this happen more than once in my car where, you know, I'm pushing the accelerator and the car like. It's just no. Noise and stops itself, though. Oh, shit. There's somebody in front of me. I didn't even notice. You're not a good driver, are you? I'm a very good driver. G needs the musk assist. Huh?

I've looked at it. I my problem with Tesla cars and I love Elon Musk, obviously, but my problem with Tesla cars is they're too minimalist. You want more bling? I like the interior in my Grand Cherokee. I adore the interior. And like most of my friends, honestly, most of my friends have Tesla, and it's just too Spartan in their that. It is first world problems. I mean, I don't know about that. The next time you're out and about, you run into Elon.

I mean, you live in the same neighborhood you could say where? No, I live in the very different there. There were Elon lives. I cannot afford to live, believe me. Well, they even let you into the area where he lives. Yeah. Yeah. Well, yeah, Joe Rogan's not that far from there. Yeah, no. And then JP Sears just bought a new ranch, so I'm going to go check out where that is. See what there is to see.

Yeah, well, if you watch his latest video, you can see he's on the ranch now instead of in the city. Everybody's leaving Austin. Everybody is leaving Austin. So he sees about 45 miles out of the city. Not super far, but away, though. Well, you can't afford to commute. That's why everybody wants to just stay at home now. Work at home? Yeah, that's what everybody's doing. Work at home. If ever leave your house. You know, I. Live in the city. You're much safer from the culverts.

That's probably true. You're safer from everything yeah. Yeah, I can see that. Hey, did you see that Nike is leaving Russia? Oh, no, not Nike. I the whole guy, the like. Who cares? Yeah, really? Who gives a shit? But this is the virtue signaling that goes on because the amount of business from their global empire that Russia was to Nike was 1% or under. So it's like, right exactly. Nobody wears Nike's in Russia. So why even announce it? It's all Adidas, right? You got to be the Adidas.

Yeah. You know, is there a Russian version of these? There is. It's called Adidas. OK, look, that's exactly it. All right, if you want to be Russian, cool. Pick up some Adidas sweatsuits. I'm hop. And pop down the street. But I mean, I do like the people already pointing out that due to just the horrendous things going on, Nike is leaving Russia, but their shoes are still being made. The sweatshops of China by slaves. Yeah, of their children. Yeah. Yeah.

Nothing to see here. Yeah, nothing at all. It is really interesting what people virtue signal where you got that kind of stuff going on. You're like, yeah, you might want to look at that. Maybe maybe it's it's true. Well, I tell you, the new McDonald's is pretty good. The new McDonald's, which is the old McDonald's. Well, see, you're out there on the streets and you've tried this. It's just. This kid. You like tastes just like the old. Stuff. Nothing's better. Really. Yeah. They've upped the.

Is there actual meat being used to the burgers now? Well, I wouldn't go that far, OK? I mean, let's, you know, let's be realistic here, but the thing that's annoying, though, is the like. Now there's people waiting. Yeah, well, can't you. Just the novelty factor. The frequent buyers club that just slide right. Through. And I think the thing it's funny is that they're there. Their colors seem to be more like, what a burger now. Interesting. Yeah. It was just a quick little upgrade, though.

They didn't want to spend a lot of money. When somebody leaves you a whole string of restaurants you could just go into and take over, that's that's. You're saving a lot of money. If you let McDonald's come build you your restaurant and then just take it over. It's a pretty good deal because they didn't really there is nothing wrong with the restaurant. Though. There is. In fact, they you know, they left with even supplies in the Frigerator right there. Probably still a bunch of food yeah.

They closed on Friday and the other place was open on Saturday morning. It was almost like it was the same people working there, too, I bet. Yeah. But no, we virtue signal McDonald's is out of Russia because Russia is bad. The people of Russia are horrible, obviously. Well. Obviously I mean, I really want to know, at. Least that's what the Polish say. You know what's interesting to me? What would happen? Let's just say Vladimir Putin boom, dead today. Mm hmm.

Do we all love Russia all of a sudden because we've been told this is all one guy, this is the problem. So if somebody else boom, Putin dead, somebody else takes over today in, OK, not only do they take over today, they pull all the troops out of Ukraine. Now, do we love Russia again? Do we let them back in this McDonald's like shit? We want to restaurants back to Nike, like, oh, we want to sell sneakers there again. Netflix. Now you can watch our crappy shitty programing again.

What happens? I don't understand. No, of course. You don't think so. We've always been at war with theory. I mean, Russia. In one form or another. Yeah. Mm hmm. Who is next in line after Putin? Nobody see Brooklyn because that you would be dead. Yeah, that's the that is an issue. And it's a bigger issue. I mean, if there was anybody with any brain cells at all in the State Department, they would be running these simulations. Because the last thing you want is a Russia with a leader.

You're right. There is not going to be a U.S. installed government that Russia like some of these other countries. Right. It's not like as a way. To come out is somebody it's going to be very nationalistic and unlike Putin, may actually be a fan of the USSR. That might come out and not be totally horrible for the U.S. either. Well, no. I mean, it's somebody that's going to get much harder line than what Putin is. You are listening to Soviet talk here. I'm unwilling to take it. Uh huh.

Who will take over for Putin? What will happen when McDonald's be back? Will Netflix cave? We need to know, comrade Gene. We need to. Know. Stay tuned for the next episode. Of the to find out of the. Putin power our. For our mike. What is that wrong? Oh, my God. That is so ridiculous. Have you ever watched the power over. Know what is the power our. It's a Christian show. That is to be. Was that was a Tammy Faye Baker and. Came out yeah. So I don't know I never have. Oh, it was hilarious.

It could be. Yeah I used to watch it that's pretty funny. Sitting around imbibing or you discover. They have this like so have you seen this HBO or I think it's HBO show about the the fake Christian family of of televangelist types. Now there's a show called. I don't know. I see nothing unless I accidentally download. It really downloaded. It. I had to get my little spy back. So going to prison for this.

From from infinity because here's the thing. Mm. Because I'm an Infinity Internet customer, I can have. A 40. Three. I tell you a count on the peacock plus which is their streaming service. Wow. Which peacock. I mean I did. Both. Yeah. Kind of. Except for the fact that NASCAR for half of their season is run with NBC and USA, both of which are on Peacock plus when the races are on, I don't need a cable subscription in order to watch the races. But here's the thing.

I went in and it's like, you're eligible for a free, free, free peacock plus account. So I sign up for a peacock plus account. I connected to my expanded thing as they tell you to. Do. It. It's like you're not eligible. I'm like, What do you mean I'm not eligible? I had to take the box from them. A free box for them to give me a free account on the peacock plus. So I had to take their version of a Roku. And which.

I don't really care I mean, I had an extra slot on my receiver, so now I have since I don't have an actual cable box, my receiver now switches between the new expanded box. Mm hmm. A Raspberry Pi, which is running code so I can watch anything on my local drives. Mm. And a Roku, that's my television outlet. But I needed to take their box in order to get the. But yeah, yeah. Now, once you've had their box, you still log into their account with other.

Yes. Boxes. Yes. Which they don't even need it plugged in. You just need it all right. Yeah. Just needed to order. So stupid, huh? I'm guessing this is just another way. Like magazines that used to give you, which is less a deal now because nobody's reading magazines. But when you would get these free offers or for years I was getting Sports Illustrated and a few other ones for, like, $2 a year. If so, they could tell the advertisers. No, no. Yeah, we've got.

18 billion subscribers. Hmm. It's. It's all a scam. As John see, the four act would say scam. So I found the show I was referring to. It's called the Righteous Gemstones. The Righteous Gemstones. That sounds kind of gay. It is. It's got Danny McBride in it. Oh, well, he's funny is. So this show is it's funny ish. It has funny moments, but it's written by clearly Hollywood had left the transsexual black gay lesbians. Becoming all television shows today.

I guess they are. Yes. Yes. But like they they go, you know, the concept of like, hey, let's make a TV show about a TV evangelist and their excessive lifestyles and how rich they are. Sounds like it might be a funny idea. And then they go and they crank up the knob not even to a level and they crank it up to 99 and they go way past the funny into the OK, well, now this is just ridiculous. You know, it is. But is it good ridiculous slapstick or is that like, no, that worthwhile?

That's why I mean, there's funny moments. It's it's worth watching a couple episodes, just so you know what it is. But I, I had a hard time getting through the first season because it's not it's they go way past funny into the you made these caricatures so damn unrealistic that they're not like there's no emotional tie in at all. See what they're talking about. Like you need the emotional tion.

Yeah. Anybody that actually understands script writing will tell you this or any kind of writing, any kind of story writing. If you create a character that is so foreign that people can't relate to it, and this includes like robot characters and stuff and science fiction, if you create that character as a completely unrelatable, then you've missed the mark you're aliens, you're robots, all those critters. They have to have human connections.

They have to be something that you can connect with because of the way they think, the way they act, the way that you act with them. You have to anthropomorphize things in order to feel any kind of tie in and give a shit about the character when you're reading or watching something about it. And these guys have managed to take actual human characters and bring them right to the brink of not giving a shit. Which is an interesting concept. You should go watch it.

I mean, it's amazing to me how invested people can get in certain characters. And you saw this in a lot of like Harry Potter and all this stuff, and it's like. Oh my God, it's ridiculous. Yeah, kill them off all. My God, I could. Kill all of them off. That would be better. You like it's a story. They're not really dead. Dating this chick that was really into Harry Potter and this was how old. Was she? Was eight. Nine, 20, 20. 20 and three. Potter, OK. Oh, big into Harry Potter.

And she couldn't believe that I'd never read Harry Potter. Well, you told her that you were 106 by that point. Didn't really was pretty. I think she got that and so we were taking that road trip out to the wineries and she thought, this is a good time for her to read Harry Potter to me out loud. Wow. Have you read Harry Potter? I have not. This book makes no fucking sense. I have not read Harry Potter. It is. It is basically a parody, in my humble opinion. It's like it's not a parody.

It's not fair. It is taking a lot of the sort of Hobbit esque kind of stories about, you know, magical things and and creatures that are not human. And then combining them with what, relatively few actual Brits went through. But everybody has this notion of how cool it is, which is a public school experience, which is, you know, rich kids getting sent off to boarding school by their parents. At Magic. The. Well, but of course, it's magic because only 5% of the population goes there.

It has to be magic. Because nobody else is allowed because everybody else is muggle. Ooh, that's not I mean. You know that it's. Yeah, I mean, I think muggle just means basically a commoner. So she basically she ruined their goddamn trip by doing this. Wait, what was she reading? A book and you didn't? It's it's an hour and a half long drive. She must've been really hot as the guest. She used to. See the age does not necessarily was. 20 with the cups. Really hot. But I'll. Go along with that.

My wife swore by the Harry Potter audio books. But the series. That you gave 20 know. The one that she experienced, though, were all of the books read by Stephen Fry. And he's pretty good. Yeah. So I mean, that maybe saved it. I would have to try that if I was going to try to get into that with me. Since the stories are kind of gay to begin with. So have somebody good in the you know Stephen Fry is gay but he's a hell of an actor and. He's not really a hell of an actor. He's funny.

He's actually a very intelligent guy. Yeah, he's very smart, is funny. He has a very good sense of humor, but his acting range is pretty slim. Yeah, but he's funny, which I guess is really what. I basically get away with playing a butler. If Brian Lawry I know I pull this episode up. Yeah. And he's always the butler. The and so many people don't realize that Hugh Laurie is British. And that's funny. Due to the which was a good. Accent that good in American I'd never watched a doctor or who.

You never watched house OK you give me shit for not seeing some of this stuff that I haven't seen house. I you shit for not seeing stuff that is like fringe you give me shit for not seeing stuff that was mass market. House was actually good mass market. You should try house I think you would like maybe I will. I am. And next time I get covered or something, I'll just sit and watch house. Well, that's. Like every three months in Austin, isn't it?

I have only had it once. Has rs, you know, or you can have it right now. I might. That's probably why I sound weird. Good. Beats not the headset dude. Not adjusting sets. That's great. Do not. It's probably the cove. It could be. Could be. It's not the beautiful RV 320 sounds at least two days. Exactly. So and the plan is and I'll give you a, I mean hopefully you won't notice any difference audio wise, but the plan is to hook up my new Mac mini.

I just bought a a big old 40 inch volunteer for the Mac mini so I've got that. You have a really small CPU and a really big monitor. Uh huh. Uh huh. And once that's set up then I'll plug the multi into that, move the mic to the other side of the room and then I get my chaise lounge set up and I will have a professional podcasters. Max It. Sounds like a podcasting. Dream. Yeah, I think it'd be pretty good. I like it. I like it. But we should know. Don't tell anybody when the changes are made.

No, no, no. I'm not going to tell anybody. So we'll see if anybody notices so we'll keep it, keep it under your hats, run out there and. We'll just run it through a few different filters. Nobody will know. Anything. So I was listening to this last episode of. Grumpy Old Old. Guys. Yeah. And you wanted to I know you want to come on as a guest to talk about quantum computing or are we going to have to hear about that today? So we're going to talk about quantum computing. Woo!

I know there was a lot of quantum questions about the quantum ness. Yeah. And I was like, laughing when that segment was going through. And of course, neither one of you bastards had your phones on because I texted both of you to actually. Why were you at my phone during a show? Well, I do know what you mean. The bat signal. We need like an emergency signal during a show. You know what? We can of course, I was banned after I. Had the whole room. On there.

He could have gone into A.C., but you did. I know, because I'm banned in there, but OK. I'll sort of let you know. I monitor Booster Grams, which I mean, we're open for Booster Grams right now. I couldn't figure out how to do it. My old man brain would not calculate how to do Booster Grams, but the. Booster Gram messages come in via. Applications. Let you do this. Let's start here with the basics. What the hell? Can they even send the booster gram?

OK, well, first let me say I get the booster grams with the system that I'm using. Intel grams. So if you were to send a telegram message that was up on the screen because that's where the booster grams come in. But you can do this in Curio Caster. Yeah, what? What what is the. No, I mean, that doesn't tell people wanting to do best a gram because they're not going to use Telegram. No, I'm asking what software can't podcast.

Right. But I'm just telling you, if you needed to get a hold of me during a show, all a gram. Telegram. Would make sense because a booster can just came in. Might quantum Russian. Now I know. A thousand SATs from C Brooklyn, but. I was mostly trying to get a hold of the other guy. But OK. The the Beamer and. Yeah, the Beamer. But said the booster gram. You could do that in pod verse. You could do that in curio caster. You could do that in fountain.

I had pod verse and I couldn't figure out how to do it. I had pod verse and I tried this on the desktop and the first time I tried to boost anything, one, I was dumb because I tried to boost 100,000 SATs over to Adam and Dave. That's dumb. And 88,000 SATs wed, but I'm not sure if they got it. So we'll find out, I guess later today, maybe when they're on because I asked Adam and he's like, That's a pod verse thing or whatever. And then I asked Dave. And. He never got back to me.

Like, I'm just curious. I'm like, they went somewhere. Yeah. Whether you did or whether you didn't, I don't care. You should always start small and do like, test. Yes. And then I test it to myself and it worked. And it was like something like because it's through pod verse they want you to attach this as far as on a desktop. They want you to attach it to another wallet, which I got the B wallet, which is one that there's a browser add on, which it looks interesting.

I was trying to figure out I can't anybody know with Albee what percentage they take because you can use Albee just like you can use the tosses that stream, right? Albee will give you a lightning address that you can put on your podcast feeds that will get the lightning directly to you. And I don't see anything about a C, I'm assuming there's one, but it seems like a good a good way to go. Net Dad comes in with 3333 sets I love unrecognizable with Jeff and David though.

Exactly. It's a great show. Those guys do. But there are plenty ways that you can do the booster grams. But it's. Still. In the infancy. Sorry. Anything other than pod verse do this is added. Pod verse curio caster fountain. You can do it through breeze, but Breeze doesn't have the ability to do a live boost to Graham.

But for most of these systems, if you open up Breeze and open up the last show because if you know like a show's live but they also are on breeze, you can just go into a previous show and Booster Gram and it's still get a booster gram. So and then how do you get the message or how do you put it in there? It's different for everyone on Pod versus online. It was really easy. There was just a little box with Breeze. You have to push something different or hold it for a second to get it to open

up. Hmm. I read that says that it looks like your half of the of the booster grams arrow rings, so maybe you're a node is not up and online. Yeah, my nose off line right now. Is Node is offline. So now how long does that sit in? Wait to go in. Until I go reset it. They the company that hosts my node had a fuck up and had a bug with not with the node, but with my payment and. That's right, you pay for this, so it should be up. I do.

And it an arrow with draw and I started getting notices saying your node has no available funds and will be paused until you're paid. In like the last week you should have like 11,600 sets waiting for us. To contact it. And, and, and sure enough they found the bug and they said Yep, you're all good to go. Just so I guess I just need to reboot the node ok. I can do this right now. Hold on. Dean is rebooting is no, this is inside baseball. This is podcasting.

2.0. If you don't know what we're talking about, you can go find a list of apps. I'm surprised you didn't know this. You can find a list of apps that will do this. Add new podcast apps dot com or nood and you podcast abcnews.com really? Yes. Both will take you to. The same place. I've interviewed most of the people that wrote the podcast. The need the podcasting to point out apps. Then you should know. Feature did not exist when I did my interviews about a year ago.

It is an interesting feature which basically will put it more on the the level of YouTube with the insta chat things coming up, which is all this is. And you can do different things and you can route them through the chat rooms, through discord and all that where so if somebody sends a boost, it automatically will show up without you having to do anything. It'll just show up in the chat room if you set it up that way. Again, very much like a YouTube comment. OK, I'm rebooting the node right now.

Yeah, you're running a little hardware thing now, right? So I have to order up a new pie to do that. I'm not doing it yet. I did not receive any of the booster grams certain up in from yesterday. Those never came through. And I noticed that there are two different grumpy old bands which was kind of odd, but they're going by the the number and podcast index.

There are two on podcast index because of for some reason a different feed was on there using index dot, which if you use WordPress, this is the worst thing about the using WordPress overall is the feed will exist at whatever you set it to in the case. You know, for this it could be unrelenting dot show slash RSS, you know, dot RSS and a valid feed will also be unrelenting. That show slash index dot slash, you know, whatever.

There's there's multiple things just because of the way WordPress does linking that just makes it a pain in the ass. Yeah we didn't get a 50 millions that boost no agenda millennial but I will say. Into that what is that five bucks. 50 million would be a lot I mean sure nothing almost got us like a million for the rock and roll pre-show the other day.

Oh we have a booster gram for unrelenting 1500 and 33 sat comic strip blogger says tell Gene to go fuck himself and he has blood on his hands as cock sucker of Putin. Also oh. Also visit my blog CSB dot lol I will look. Forward to visiting your old house in Poland. This is it's my house. I love I love that CSB just goes all out and rips you and then gets the plug in for his website. That is the. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. No, no, no. Like pure marketing, my friend.

Now we're not doing, like, pure marketing. All right, so my nodes up. Should I be seeing something. I don't know how long it takes for the stuff to filter back in, but we have been. Telling. That's true. Yeah. I guess if it's if it's queued up or whatever. Now, your booster grams, depending how your node will then deal with the booster gram, that I'm not sure how different systems do that with.

Yeah, but with the stream, I mean, that's why some of these I was thinking of testing out splitting to Albi and then just leaving like a little bit going to these Satoshi Stream bot, which would that only be kind of for the booster grams and. Hmm. Douches set a booster gram saying CSB. Thank you. So there's a few people having a chat now through the booster grams. Well, hey, that's not a bad way to use that's the truth.

They're not worth a whole lot these days, so you might as well use them for conversation. I know the Bitcoin is going slightly back in the right direction, but it's going to take a while. Let's see what we currently have. Oh, I noticed that the Cardano is still sitting right about. $1,000. Just under 21,000 now. Yes. Which is going down. Dude, it's not going up. It's up 2.6% today. Yeah, maybe today it might be, but. That's a theory. Opens up 8.71 today.

You know, it's always interesting to me are these ones that just come out of nowhere, like there is a crypto called Muse. Mm m USC which what is this thing here? It's an a theory. Um, token serves as the governance token of an f t 20 dot io to tokenize empty threes, make them tradable well this crypto is up 119% today which again this is where if you're good at. This tokenized as MP three that sounds interesting. Yeah. Well this is kind of where the interesting stuff is.

By the way what the hell is is commenter blogger listening. He loves listening to you he hate listens. To. This like I would hate listen to like Rachel Maddow or something like that. He wants to hear how such crazy things. We've got to be able to figure out a way to add a to add the ability to podcasting to point zero to block certain IP addresses from downloading the B MP three files. That is not equitable comrade. No, that's pretty equitable.

We will not block anyone. Copy. There's got to be a block tag under part asking to point. Out IP addresses to. Block people. Comrade VPNs. I am in Russia right now, but I look like I am in Ireland haha. Is that how you download all that illegal content that you stream publicly? Well, you certainly do not downloaded from your own IP address. Oh I bullied Russia bully. Steve just sent a brand new booster gram to test your node a thousand SATs so you should see 500 SATs coming in live a live.

OK, let me let me open a thing here if. It will tell you now you may not get the boost a gram. I don't know how you get the messages with your node. I mean, you're paying for the node. So I would think that would be a way for them to get the message. As a booster grant. Oh, you get them on the other service. I get it through telegram. Right. Because the that's a good question. I may not be able to see it even if it does come through.

Satoshi Start stream and they're the ones that forward the messages to Telegram and it could do it through like a Discord channel and stuff like that as well. Yeah, I don't, I guess I don't give a shit anymore, but I, I had an aversion to services like that. So she stream thing because they take money out when you, when you pull money up. Right. Is the only time they take the money out. They do take for this. But that I'd rather pay

a flat fee and not have anything taken out percentage rates. Too. But again, this comes down to which one's more as far as fund wise once you're doing a certain amount of money that yes, it probably makes sense to pay a flat fee as long if you're paying, you know, even if it's 30 bucks a month. Yeah, if you're paying less than that in for the one that's really where I was and I do like the idea of going direct because it seems like this thing will be sticking around for a while.

You're, well, you're actually making real money with this stuff too. I loved when the guy from karaoke asked her and I don't know what time period it was, but he showed how many stats came in through his app. So how many sets went to the different shows in number one? Of course, podcasting, 2.0, which will be live on the No Agenda stream today. After us with Adam Curry and Dave Jones, they were number one, but number two was the rock and roll preshow.

Number three was no agenda number four unrelenting. So people are boosted. Man, we're on the list. We're in the top five. I mean, I'm like I've got like five shows in the top yeah. Your shows probably outpace Adam. All of them together. It's probably pretty close. I know people like to do the stats to curry in the Keeper and. Yeah, but satirizing the rock and roll pre-show was the best thing we ever did. It's a lot of fun. Mm. Oh, do you have staff? No. No, I am. We ever did.

It's the it's the royal. We. It's me and everybody on the trail. Remind everybody that is sending the stats. It's me and everybody. I just. Oh, we were playing with fire man. Requesting the songs, just having fun. Getting money for music. That, you know, it's for the entertainment. So adding into it is it's all just donating to the shows, to the great stuff running on the stream, to unrelenting, to the rock and roll show. You get enough sets to cover the legal to.

The random thought show to grumpy old bands. Today was a to this week was a four podcast week not including the pre shows. Yeah so is this is this going to be a regular thing with Ryan. Yeah I'm there's going to be another one next Wednesday. I mean how regular it will be. Well regular is once a week so sounds like it OK. At least it will be for the first this next week as well. All right yet. People seem to. Like it that I have a way for people to provide feedback so.

We can send you a clean feed link. You can tell us though know we got off track here a little bit did give us the primer on the quantum computing. Oh no. Yeah. So we're filing computing. I mean, there is this part Ryan is completely correct about there's so much fun and bullshit there. Like it's people will use Quantum and then throw anything else in there to talk about it.

But in its most simplest form, when I started playing around with Quantum and incidentally, anybody that that can program to any extent can play around with quantum computing, IBM has a online tool that lets you write code and it'll be processed in batches by it's quantum computer. So you can literally for free the pain thing play around and test quantum computing. But in a nutshell, it is a way to do much faster statistical results than traditional regular processors do.

So you're basically getting what would be a whole bunch of sequential steps all done in a single parallel step with quantum computing, which is why it's generally associated with cryptography or breaking encryption schemes. Right, because something that would take, you know, a hundred years at current computing pace can take one day with quantum computing. Right. Well, that's the main thing because in order to break a crypto key, it is true. So you have a a key, a password.

I mean, it's the same thing as breaking a password. You don't know if that password is one character or a hundred characters or whatever so to brute force that, I remember brute force stuff way back when, when you could use things like John the Ripper, Jack the Ripper, there are a few other because back in the day, if you could get into a server, most often you could find the password list. But it was hash, so you didn't have the actual password in plain plaintext.

It was hash, but you could grab that list and then run it against one of these brute force attacks and basically what that's doing is trying every combination of numbers and letters, which is why it's really important for security to be able to throw in things like odd characters and stuff like that to make it even way more complex. But it would just have to go through and try every last thing.

Now the crypto stuff is the same kind of thing, and right now it's like, well, at the speed of computers, that would take a million years to break, right? If you could come up with a computer that could break it in a day, well, the bitcoin's useless. Well, not only that, but you know, there are computers that specialize in certain tasks, not even quantum computers, regular computers. So we we've when when Bitcoin came out, you were just using regular CPU's to do Bitcoin mining. Right? Yeah.

Not horribly efficient. Right. And then I don't know if it was the graphics card companies or just people started figuring somebody figured out that you could do the calculations much faster. What is manufactured to do graphical processing? So you started instead of CPU's being utilized for that.

And if you wanted to go really fast, if you had a big mining Bitcoin mining operation and let's say back like 67 years ago, you would actually be using a PV to you as a programable something, something, something I forget the acronym for it, but it's essentially a a a processor that is a I don't want to call it a virtual process, but it's essentially a programable processor that you can be build on a chip, that you're creating the gates for the processor by programing this thing.

And then it'll actually get them at hardware speeds. So there are many ways to accelerate the tasks associated with doing Bitcoin mining, and that's true of cryptography and other fields as well. So it's really it's a question of finding the right tool for the job shocker. Right. But that's the, the way that you increase speed, not just the same, you don't want to hit the nail with a regular hammer faster, which is what a normal CPU does.

When you increase the speed of the CPU, you want to change your tool from a hammer to a pneumatic hammer. Which then doesn't have to go very fast, but it has much faster ability to nail. Right. Way more efficient. Yeah. For that particular. But you try using a pneumatic hammer to pull out a nail. That's not going to work nearly as well as a hammer. You got to have the right tool for the job. That's what comes down to it.

And with the crypto, I mean, that's why it's kind of an interesting thing to watch now with the people that were doing it at home, which I mine the theory, um, for a few months, and I was like, that's not really that really worth it at because I think it was pulling in like 40 or 50 bucks maybe after the electric was paid for, you know, which isn't bad. I mean, I guess it's a, it's free money. But yeah, I never got that good. Mine was when I tried it.

It was at a point in time where my electrical cost was higher. Well, our electric is fairly cheap. I have to see if this has gone up thanks to Uncle Joe but at the time, with the electric cost and Etherium was in the 2800 range, which I think it's down to like 1200 again, you see that drop makes it a lot harder to, to pull a profit.

And Etherium is also the people, a lot of people, I guess are pissed off because the theory I'm is in the process of converting over, which I have no idea how this works is my brain just can't comprehend. But they're taking Etherium and they're converting it to a proof of stake rather than me. Yeah. So it'll be a lot less electricity, but mining is going to be gone yeah. And there's, there's yeah. I've heard people arguing against proof of stake.

I mean, I get the concept kind of but it does make the mining know more. Yeah. And people want free money. So. Yeah, it if you want to read about quantum computing, ignore anything that is a publication. Or anything.

That says directly to IBM or there's a number of other computing power can be number of other quantum computing companies out there go to their websites where they're, they're much better they're explaining how the quantum computers are utilized because everything written by journalists is yeah. Fluff. You know how much of this is reality that's already being tested and how much of this is still theoretical. The issue in quantum computing is just the size of the cube.

It's number cubits they can process. So they are as they grow though the size, they'll be able to process a lot more data at the same time, which will make these things more useful. But it's it's effectively, I guess this is the other way to explain it is it's kind of like a parallel computer that processes a bunch of stuff at the same time. But not everything is can be in fact processed at the same time.

So it's, it's only useful for certain problems, ones where this type of sort of statistical solutions can be done. And quantum computing still takes. A lot of no more. Just go ask immature buyer. Well, he had a nice little graphic that he made for it that I included in the show notes for Grumpy Old Benz Hmm. But it's interesting.

I mean, I enjoy following that kind of stuff to see where computers are going because again, I come from a having a very 80 color computer hooked up to the world by a 300 board acoustic coupler modem where you actually take the phone and put the handset in the modem in order to get your bits and bytes around. So you're old, man. I know you're like an old man. The fact that we're at the point that we're at right now is quite amazing.

Even just watching this virtual mixing board of the screen as we're doing the show is amazing for trying to comprehend something like this, being able to be done 20, 30 years ago. No. So the quantum computing, I'm sure will change the world, but you know, it still does require electricity doesn't it? Oh, God, the recording is way more electricity because it has to be super cold.

Yeah. In fact, I was working on a project with a space company that involved putting a quantum computer in space, and one of the benefits of that was ultimate cooling. Yeah, well, space doesn't cooled the way you think it cools because you can't just stick something cold in space or sorry, something hot in space and wait for it to cool off you actually have to have radiators. Because the lack of an atmosphere doesn't dissipate. It's a great. Insulator.

The lack of an incident of an atmosphere is awesome. Insulation so you actually have to have a means of translating that that feed into infrared radiation that then broadcasts out. To then we heat the earth after the sun blows up with quantum computers. I don't think we have to worry about the sun blowing up any time soon. That's going to happen. We have a greater chance of having our life destroyed by a rogue asteroid than we do of the the the sun blowing up. What about nuclear weapons?

Nuclear. So sun is going to be, what, two, two and a half billion years before it goes supernova. So it's going to be a long ways off. You know, forward to it. Let me tell you. I give it about six months. Nice. Yeah. So enjoy yourself while you can ignore all of the things going on in the economy. Just spend, spend. Rack up some debt. I'm totally on board with that. All kidding aside, I think right now people ought to be draining their reserves because.

They're trying to take it from you. That's the point, right? There's not going to be a need for that saying. OK, like. You will own nothing and you will be happy to be alive. But the people that still have will be able to have something will be the ones in control, won't they? Will they not be the ones with the cards, the. Ones living in the bunkers? Yeah. Yeah, kind of. You know. Totally. Interesting. Now in the bunker. And then Musk is building a bunker for himself from Mars.

He wants to get the hell out of here, man. He wants. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, he's leaving. He's not sticking around. You know what's up? I don't know. Yeah, I'll be going down to book a chick for the test flight. Really? Yeah. Going down. Is it going to hang out with Elon? I'm not going to be on the rocket. Oh, well, people were putting some money together to make it. That people would pay to have me go on the rocket. Fuck with probably pay for the whole trip. Be like, yes.

And you could broadcast while you're going up that you might that come back down. That could be your fault, but it's. Definitely going to come back down. That's just not going to land, that's all. Oh, so you'll be fine on the plan for it. Is the crash in the water you? Yeah, that's the, that's the part of the flight that's less fun. Just off the coast of Hawaii. Really? Mm hmm. I think not worried that they might hit Hawaii. Well, no, it's got to be close enough that they can throw it to Hawaii.

Oh, I gotcha. So it's just there a splash landing and then a recovery? Yeah, it was going to be California, but nobody really wants to be in California. That could be why he bought the new headset. See, Brooklyn for the. For the flight. For the flight? Yeah, exactly. This is just configuring it right now. Major G, the ground control are you ready? You know. I always thought that that song said Major Tongue, not Major Tom. Well, because he has horrible diction, and so I was like, major tongue.

What? This is very seventies. This is some kind of psychedelic stuff. Could be major tongue to ground control. Mm. Hey, the women like the men. I'm like, this is a song about Turn on you. This, isn't it? Yeah. Gene Simmons theme song. Mm hmm. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. To ground control. Major tongue. I like it. We are a Value for value podcast. I know you hate the donation segments. But I don't hate the donation segments. I just think they're a waste of time.

We have just two people to thank, so it won't be a lot of time. Oh, perfect, perfect. And to be fair, I need to. I need to double check. Although he did come in with a nice big. Boost. As well for unrelenting. Or was it? No, I think less for Grumpy Old Benz. Mm hmm. Sir Shaun of the Allegheny Valley, who's been coming in, he started his monthly after we started doing the show, but it's still coming in under grumpy old bands.

So that's getting confusing now that if Grumpy Old Benzes wants to get a snack. So for those of you who are still donating to Grumpy Old Beds, if you want to donate to unrelenting, either change that or just let me know. I mean, I could do the accounting but I just would need to double check. But Sir Shaun with his $25 monthly, we appreciate. You may have just no idea that that money is getting stuck from down still. You never know you never know. But it coming. Out of you listening anymore.

Via PayPal. No, he listens. He hangs out in the troll room. Not during the show as much as was during the pre-show, but it also your buddy, Sir Joshua, who we know you were going to be hanging out with, comes in with 25 bucks. Yeah. Waiting for him to buy a microphone so that we can have him as a guest. Well, you have extras now. Get him what he says. Donation from Sir Joshua, the historian, keeper of the historical record. Brian College Station, Texas. Yeah, take a drink.

Yeah. I thank you for your courage. And he says so he's three. Is a very he's a big fan. 70 threes. What does 70 threes mean? That 70 threes is a ham radio like hey there. Gotcha. I'm not a hammer I need to dashes. We found that out recently. But we know that the ham radio folks will save the world. But we appreciate your courage, sir. Joshua answers Sean for supporting the unrelenting podcast for all of the rest of you douchebags. No, that's a no agenda thing.

What are you if you don't, you're an oligarch. If you get to the thousand dollar level or whatever that was, what are you if it. Was a yeah, I guess it was it was an in rubles but equivalent to $1,000. Correct. So like 500 rubles. So if you've never donated, I don't know what that quite makes you in Russian. Well, I know that he just had a birthday, so I'm going to wish him a happy birthday. Very happy birthday. So he just had a kid not too long ago.

So all the years after this year, you're not you like they're going to fly by. You're going to be way too busy with the kid. The fun is just beginning. Mm hmm. Get a microphone. That way you could podcast my kid. And when you know when Darren's not around, maybe I'll need a co-host, and I could have you. Kevin. Yeah, I'm always around, though. No, you missed the show. Somebody that is has not donated. See, Brooklyn suggests they just be called a Ukrainian. Oh. Oh,

yeah. Don't be a Ukrainian. Donate now to. A. Unrelenting, unrelenting diet show, Slash. Now you're going to get the hate mail from. I do see, as B always sends me hate mail, and it's stuff. I'm like, it's comedy. Cause I understand. You may not understand. No, I think you see me fully. Yeah. He's also playing a character of this crazy Polack who lives and. In the good guy. Mm hmm. I like CSB. He brings an interesting perspective on the world.

I've liked his character ever since I first heard him talk way back. Yeah, the Adam Curry's a daily source. Called Daily Sir Scott. Yeah, exactly. It's like, oh, my God, is this real? You never know. You never know what's real. You never know what's a bit. As far as we know, CSB is Elon Musk. You don't know. He could be. I know. That would. That would. Surprise you, wouldn't it? And or CSB, is that within. The realm of possibility.

Because of the because of the time and he goes back to the daily source code, it would be harder but it's like otherwise I'm like CSB could be a you know a hot 23 year old Ukrainian model. You don't know. Yeah I know I did say I've dated several but Ukrainian 23 you know 22 year olds. Don't read because 23 is just too damn old. Getting there. Just too damn old. Did you see the story. Actually I've dated a 19 year old Ukrainian.

And how old were you at the time because then we'll be getting more hate mail. I'm not even going to see. If there is a story and I don't understand that. She's a waitress and a buddy of mine is like, oh my God, she's so hot. I doubt it. I should, I should ask her out or something. I'm like. You just yeah. Man, you should. And then he was a chicken shit. He didn't ask her out. So I'm like, OK, I'll ask her out for you. So I end up talking to her, and next thing I know, we're going out.

The next thing you know, you're not introducing her to your bill. I'm like, I don't even know who was sitting at a table with that guy. Random, total, random. Dude. Yeah, we did. No idea. We had never saw before. No prank lunch date. Prank lunch date. I say exactly the exact. Well, you got to have the balls to go and talk to somebody. If you think they're hot or anybody. I mean, this is it. This is the. Thing that goes for men or women. Well, it's anything.

I mean, it's that for relationships, but for there's the same thing could be said for going after the job you want and putting yourself out there doing a podcast. A lot of people are like, terrified. That's true. And I have applied for jobs at Tesla now three times, and I keep getting shut down. Well, you know, the restraining order for me, Lod is probably a red flag for the for the Tesla employment. After. The what it's finally expired.

That could. Well, that's good. At least that's a good sign. No, they found the other guy. Oh. But, you know, there's a lot to the the concept of faking it until you make it that is works in a whole lot of different areas where I. Think that most people do because like I've hired a whole bunch of people lately and like dozens and sometimes I'm a little surprised at what people don't actually know how to do. Oh, there's no doubt. And I was like, how do you wait a minute for the job?

And the resume you have? And like, how do you not understand this? What was the most egregious thing? You're like, how do you not know this? Well, I mean, there I don't know about most egregious, but generally they're going to be things involving the specific type of job that the person was hired for. So if they're hired for a I don't know, a Facebook expert for marketing and then there's shit that I know that they didn't know, like that should never be the case.

I don't know shit about Facebook. I've just been around long enough, I guess. But it does happen with some regularity that people seem to have missing insights that I would expect them to have given the jobs they held in the past. Well, this was the beauty of being a web designer in the early days of the web because this was before and I know a lot of people hate the concept, but Squarespace and those kind of sites do a really good job for a majority of sites. And most people.

If they just want to take a little time, could learn how to do. It. It's super easy. I and I have done a couple of sites that way just because I was too lazy to do anything real. Well, you want it quick and you want to know that it's going to work across all the different devices and you're not going to have to do updates all the time. I was doing Drupal sites a lot back in the day and it was like the amount of time that was involved that in updating with every new security problem came out.

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Was not worth it. But are we sponsored by cyberspace today? Is that we? No, I wish we were, but you know. We can be. It's really not that hard to get a Squarespace sponsorship. You just ask and then you go, Hey, well go to Squarespace dot com slash unrelenting show or whatever I'm. Saying up right now for their program. Not a bad idea.

I mean I, I use their product, I like their product and they're running a restaurant site for a friend, which is absolutely a fantastic site for that because it just this is the one thing that literally snapped my mind and said, OK, this has to be the way to go in Drupal when I wanted to create a menu for a restaurant, I mean, it wasn't hard. You could create the content type. You could just do lunch, dinner and then have content types like within breakfast, you could have this, this and this.

But then for every item you had to create a new entry. So it was kind of like doing a database so you had to do an entry for every item. So if you wanted to change the pricing, you had to go in and you could pull it all up on one page. But you know, to change things was a pain in the ass. Hmm. The thing that is built into Squarespace that I love, if you have a restaurant, is the ability for it to take a text file and convert that to what you see on the screen.

It's just a text file that's formatted correctly. So you have the name of the dish and you can either have the price come right after the name of the dish on the same line, or you go the name of the dish description if there is one, and the next line and then price and the next line and it just automatically does it formatted on the fly. It's like this.

If it makes it easy for the people that run the restaurant to update their menu, they don't have to do anything but change a text file and cut and paste it. It's pretty good. Unfortunately, it takes five days for the affiliate accounts to get approved. So I don't have a code yet. We'll have a code by next time. Nice. It is a it's a good product. Now, the the weird product that I saw story on here, the Amazon Alexa hmm. This goes right down the line of what this script does.

And I don't understand why they're just pushing this for dead people because that seems very weird. Dead people. Yes. This a story in the New York Post. Alexa, call Grandma missing your deceased loved ones not to fear. Amazon's multifaceted air assistant may soon be here to help with a cutting edge new feature that will reportedly allow you to speak to the dead. Well, no, we know. This has to be shipped me. That's got to be an April 1st story. No, it's not. They don't. Buy it.

You know, they're saying with less than a minute of audio, they can mimic the voice. But we know what things like the script is doing. This is I mean, I'm not saying it's going to be perfect. But it's like this. I don't even understand why you're pushing this towards use it for your dead relatives. I mean, people that are fucked in the head, they could do that. But why wouldn't you? I mean, maybe I want Taylor Swift to be the voice of my little air machine. Just take a little audio.

You have to start paying Taylor Swift, not pirating all her music like you do now. She can come over any time and records the messages for me. I will open the door and be like, Come on in. Oh, ha. But why would you push this for the dead person angle? Why wouldn't you push this for you can have your Amazon Alexa sound like anybody, whether it's a family member, friend, favorite podcaster. I mean, maybe you want to hear Adam Curry's voice coming out of that little box all the time.

Why would you push this for you can hear dead people on your Amazon device. That's just weird. Yeah. That is creepy. That is one of those things that should have never become a product. How did somebody not say this is too creepy? The dead part? Yeah. I don't know. Walt. Well, you know, you could do it with any voice. I like the ability to change the voice to something you find more pleasing. I would just never push this Donald Trump, that seat, and I know he can.

Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. So you're saying that we can go back to the old daily source code episodes yes. And that would just be voice. You could, too, Alexa. If you have that on. Alexa yell at, you. Know, agenda, millennial is asking for a Larry Brightener version. See, now that people with the ladies especially will be like, oh, I want to hear Larry. I like to hear that buttery low voice that Larry's got going out yeah. You want to sing that song, too, while you're at.

Which one. Salty black ball? No, I don't know. I mean, I know the song from South Park, but that's what's his name. You can only sing it if you have that low voice. You've got to get down low. If it's a yes from the. Chef itself. No, that that wasn't Barry. Manilow kind of thing. No, it's not Barry Manilow. Who the guy that did the chef and South Park was. Obviously it's not Barry Manilow. It's not Barry Manilow. He's he's white and he's gay. And this guy who is neither white nor gay.

Doesn't he sing the songs that that make the world singing or something? But see, he didn't write that song. That was my buddy Bruce Johnston from The Beach Boys. Right. But he sang it, though. He did? Yeah. So, yeah. Barry. Barry, what's the other? Barry? The BlackBerry. The BlackBerry. What's the BlackBerry? I'm thinking. Oh, my God. Barry White. Barry White. Right. But that wasn't the let's see. I'm very disappointed in the the control room today. The BlackBerry. Ah, the Barry White.

The fact that they are not giving me who's the. The who's the guy? The one. Yeah, yeah. You're right. Isaac Hayes. Right? That. That. Oh, yeah. Thank you. Disease. You didn't like their treatment of Scientology. I believe. I could see that. That's why he quit. But he's got the voice. I love that real download. Now, what was he like, a bodyguard or what was he? Was he a bodyguard? The Isaac Hayes and I think singer. Is he really? Yeah, he was the one that did Shaft. I never heard him.

You never heard the theme from Shaft? No, I heard the theme from Shaft, that sort of this guy. Oh, come on, man. Yeah, it's infrasonic for you. I guess you can't. You can't hear the. Yeah. Isaac Hayes, man. Hayes became a bitch. Says net net 100% why he quit and yeah it's weird things happened in the world, but maybe you want Isaac Hayes to be the voice of your Amazon device.

I mean, I get the idea this is a great feature and Amazon could probably make a ton of money just switching on the ability for you to enter some audio clips to change the voice of the device because I think a lot of people would pay for that. Yeah. But if they're just going to start offering it for free, I just it's very weird to me that they're pushing it towards, hey, you got some audio from a dead relative. Put it here. Well, here I can tell you why. It's because dead relatives can't see it.

Oh, that's true. But only you have to you have to click a little box that says the person whose audio I provided is dead. Yeah. I cannot sue Amazon and you really have to read the the terms of service here, too, because I'm wondering, once you teach this to use a voice can Amazon just grab it like, hey, well, that sounds really good. Yeah, we're going. To use that voice. Probably. It's weird if you work for Amazon, I don't know. How it's going to work just from a couple of minutes.

I think it'll take a lot more net that. I would agree. I think it takes more, although I know this technology is moving further and further in that direction. It's going to take less and less data for it to be able to grab a facsimile. You know what's going on. I know that for this script, the program I was using before that, I had me read two pages of text. And now it's getting less ambitious. Boost CSP looking like a better cohost for Gene. I would agree I would pay to listen to Gene and CSB.

I've invited him multiple times. That would be a fantastic conversation. He refuses to use his actual voice, and that's the whole point in having him on is his actual voice. Yeah, not not a cock voice. You got to have your real voice. CSB, we want to hear you we can add some reverb. Nobody'll know it's you. Peter. We can record, you can raise, you can you can wear a face painting mechanism, right? Just just this guy has your own voice. I mean.

I mean, if you talk in a different voice, nobody's going to know it's you. That's the beauty of it. Big diagram we just do a put on like that with an English accent that nobody else know to you. I right. I mean, that's that was that was. So bad, though. But see that it's harder to know what you if it is the accent's got to be bad for it to be good. It's a I think, anyway, I don't know. But that's, you know, that's pretty much it.

We want CSB, we want him on the show, but he won't release his voice. No. And then I don't know if you told them. I've told them like we'd love to have you on as a guest, but dude, you got it. You got to actually use a human, not a computer generated voice. Got to be real. Yeah. Tell us about quantum computing. Tell us about Evil Vlad. Tell us about.

Evil Lab. What's going on in the world of I am because that is I mean, we laugh, but the people in control of the artificial intelligence, they're going to be the ones rule of the world, man. Putin, Taylor, swear. As official intelligence, except for artificial intelligence, there's just. Going to be a new A.I., Taylor Swift, and she'll live forever. It'll be great. Oh, my God. Yes. Let's let's create some flat assed, I hope. There you. See, somebody sent a picture that this. Was a fake.

That was a very good fake. I like the way that they completely rounded her ass as though there's something there. There is something there. And not much. I mean, she's not in the the gene age range anymore either. She will be no old. Hey. Yeah, I believe, you know, if I'm not mistaken, and I December 13th of this year. Mm hmm. 33. Yeah. Taylor Swift. Yeah. Old woman 33 is the magic number. Um, ding, ding. Ding, ding. Oh, speaking of that, the next episode of Unrelenting for Living Sick do.

No way. It's fine, but she's ultra live. When you get older, you get more conservative but I was just gonna say that episode, next episode of Unrelenting is episode number 33 for everybody. That's the Ukrainian and never has donated episode 33 is often a good time for people in this audience to sit down. Those three SAT donations going to the. Whole now 33 sets I mean you want three certain nubbin showed us how to do it the other day when he said a 333,333 set boost.

Yeah that's I wonder if people realize that that they're sending out these big chunks of of bitcoin because it's worthless now and they realize that they actually paid three times that amount for that money events. When you got it depends when you convert. Well I think most people bought into 60. A dixer now but because he does it via PayPal as well so he knows what he's good now some people might not.

I mean it's just it's like it's probably going to keep going down for a while before it goes back up here but still this is not the time to be sending bitcoin guys. This is a time to be sending a currency that is worthless like the US dollar. Don't said rubles that. You can't afford to you can't afford. Two rubles are becoming more and more valuable all the time.

I don't know if you've heard the other news coming out of the the big financial meeting they have here in St Petersburg is you've got the new BRICS currency is coming out, which. Is an illegal currency. Yes. You know what, BRICS, sir? No. So BRICS are the the five countries that that have a alliance together. So not Legos. Not Legos, no. It's Brazil, India, China, South Africa and Russia. Hence BRICS. And BRICS. Except you. And you didn't give the names of the right order.

It's an acronym, right? This an acronym and the. Yeah, they're releasing the new the new universal currency to allow countries to get off the U.S. dollar. Well, that is going to hurt but if you want to be just to let you know. Yeah. In set language, if you want to become an instant oligarch today, 4.8 million sets of 4,800,000 stats will get you to oligarch status. A boost right now. I'm just saying. I'm waiting for the right. What are you waiting for exactly?

We're waiting for the 4.8 million set boost to come through maybe. Maybe episode number 33. It is the magic number. Well, maybe. But either way, BRICS yeah. Because the US likes to talk about is isolated from the rest of the world. But the BRICS alliance represents 14 time zones, represents roughly half of the world's oil supply. We have run down those countries again. Yeah. So just there in order of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. That's huge. I mean, Brazil.

Population Brazil represent. 40. Percent of the world's population. Guess what this is really breaking down to is like all the bullshit in the United States, which is all kind of split 5050 yeah, the world's going to do and this is going to be horrible for us. Yeah, well for everybody, but especially for us as us Americans. This is bad for us. This is yeah. This is if half the world goes yeah, fuck the US dollar not good. Yeah. Not good. So get rid of your U.S. dollars.

And Horde as Jim did or those rubles. Yeah, well, yeah, you can't really make money at home anymore. Not much, but you could certainly hold them. Well, you'll have something to spend. In the US. You can't buy them. It's illegal. There's no means to buy them anymore. Because you know horrible can't because. Can't even get Nike's in Russia. Can't get Nike's. Russia can't get rubles in the US. Yeah. That doesn't sound like America. That doesn't sound like freedom dream.

This sounds like the lack of freedom. It does kind of sound a little bit like that. Did you see Biden's no tard no. Oh, my God. This leaked that he accidentally turned the notecard around and was holding this. Yeah. You know, so the people taking pictures could then read it, and it was like, you enter the room, you take your seat. You and you are. We're both capitalized. Mm. These people come in, you do this. It was this like, oh, my God, this is.

This is very scary that Biden barely has the comprehension skills at this point. As a as a stop. Really? That's pretty bad, man. Yes. That's worse than just bullet points for him. To talk about. Yes, that I could almost understand. But the you take your seat where you and your work capitalize on the note card to the president the for what he's supposed to do it's like, was he supposed to take somebody else's seat? I mean, what is I don't know what's going on.

And it really worries me that Joe is so far gone down the line that, you know, dementia, Alzheimer's, whatever it may be, that this is the level that they have to deal with him in the in the background. And because of the fact that he chose his vice president, not upon qualifications, but only on the fact that she was a woman with the right color woman. Yeah, she's not really well, I guess she is black, but she's certainly not what the American blacks consider black.

So if Biden goes, you get President Cabal which is no good, no bueno. And I mean, we almost need here. For. Things to somehow even themselves out would be to first get rid of Kamala, get her to resign, get a decent vice president, Ed, and then Joe could use health issues to say he's resigning. Um, but I don't see that happening, so good luck with that. So what you're saying is Kamala Harris will be in that group.

I'm thinking that at some point we're going to see President Kamala, and it will probably be after the next election because let's be honest, if things go the way it looks like it may and I know you don't buy it yet, that you're going to see a pretty decent and substantial Republican taking of the House and Senate. If let's just say if it does happen that the Republicans take the House and Senate, I see Biden just pulling the ripcord because what can he do for two years? Right.

He might as well leave her with a lame president. Right. Because you're not going be able to do anything. So he may as well go enjoy his last year or two and leave her in charge. I mean, because I mean, he is declining. I mean, there are 82 year olds that you see that you're like, wow. Like Richard Petty saw him when he was at the the race last weekend as the grand marshal. I mean, granted, he just said, driver, start your engines.

I did a little interview but that dude's 84 and he could run laps around Joe by a Tom. Petty died waiting. To Richard Petty but Tom Petty also died way too young. Yeah. If I were to saw Tom Petty this weekend at a race it would have been a really cool it would have been a. Great race for yeah I'd. Have been doing drugs right along with. Yeah, yeah. Excuse me. You got anything else. What else do you want? I mean, I don't know.

I never know what your timing because you're technically a working man. I am. Absolutely. You're working right now as we speak. I have to work because some of us, you know, we don't get government handouts. I don't get any, but I wish I should. I mean, I won't. Be referring to you, but, OK. I wish I was getting some government handouts. Yeah. How about them? Joe Biden? Government help. At least the free phone. How about a free Biden phone? I mean, where's required?

There should be handouts for people providing entertainment. There should be a podcasters bill that just if you do a podcast, you get 10,000 a year. If you do five podcasts, well, then you get 50,000 a year. Boom, that's. But who exactly would pay for that? You get we can't even get that many facts. Let me just say here, who would pay for that? Anybody with a real job. The government would take money from and give it to podcasters.

Well, you just wait till the Biden does an executive order to forgive all college debt he's got. He wants to and that is will bullshit. Totally do that. And you know who's going to be that'll put the final nail and the collapse of the economy because the banks will have to write that off which means that there'll be a lot of a lot of financial institutions going out of business. Well do this really pisses off are the students that actually paid their own damn bills. Back like me.

Yeah back in the day I had to pay off $1,000. And where's the retroactivity? I mean, ok, you can say you can't go back ten, 20, 30 years, but what about the kids that just paid off their loans like this year and you're like all of a sudden, oh no, we're going to give them all. Here's the, the smart ass answer that there aren't any. No, because right now 48% as of something I saw in the video recently of college debt is in default too. They're not paying already. They're not paying at all like.

48% almost half of college debt is not being paid at all because. We don't teach responsibility anymore. If you commit a crime you get away with it. If you're even if you're caught, we don't prosecute because. Oh, you're. The guy that's doing an illegal radio show. Yes. Right now, we are broadcasting live across the world yeah. Well, this is a legal radio show. I'm talking about the other one. You do? I mean, people get hit in the head with a brick and they don't prosecute it.

Why would anybody care about what I'm doing? I'm just having fun. Well, are you a black lesbian? I identify as what? There's your answer right there. I identify as one right there. That's it. Because? Because you're a male. You identifying as anything other than that is called cultural appropriation. Oh, geez. You don't want to do that. When a you know, a different white man identifies as a female lesbian. That's called trans. It gets very confusing. Yeah, I will. I've said this for a while.

It's like, how is trans not cultural appropriation? It is. It has to be. Now. They don't allow it over in the motherland. Do they. Know God? Them you have a 12% income tax? No. You are listening to the Soviet report. Comrade Gene. You're enjoying that music way too much. Good bad to put under. I think. It is. I think just playing the whole show. It gives you the right to it, right? It gives you the right vibe. People just don't even realize that. We're not on YouTube and we can't get canceled.

I guess you might as well buy it. And I think it's a public domain thing as well. I mean, I don't think this is. Like did the US make everything Russian public domain? That was that. Oh. I'm surprised that hasn't happened. You're right. About that. They have of Russian. That's free. You have no rights. Yes. The way it works, it is the way it works.

That's why you listening to us, I guess to find out how things work, to understand the insanity, to hopefully get something interesting out of the conversation. I'm no Some of the comedy might go right over some heads, but we're just trying to have fun. Mature directly at somebody had to write. Sometimes you got to be careful. You have to learn how to duck. This is a comedy show. I don't know if people realize that. If they don't read that, do you really want to tell them if they.

Don't get more sense or less said people realize this is a comedy show. I don't know. I mean, yeah, we talk about stuff, but it's there's a lot to why. If you want to listen to that comedy version of me talking go to a staging speak. There's a lot of satire here. Going to listen to Darren that listen to his pre show. There's a lot of snarkiness. There is a lot of sarcasm. So sarcasm don't know what you're talking about.

Exactly. Exactly. But we hope you're enjoying and if you do come back next week, and on Friday we do. This regardless of whether the recorder's running or not. So it's kind of like up to you whether you want to participate. But we enjoy this anyway. Join in the fun and we'll keep doing it. Yeah. Since I'm sat most keep going. Just keep going with it. With the music or with the sax. Oh.