055: Man Of The People

I have no idea if my thing is working or not. Hello and welcome to episode number 55 of Unrelenting January six, 2023. I'm Darren O'Neil, coming to you live from a bunker deep in the heart of middle America just outside of Iraq. I don't even know where New Year's is. Jean. I think we're past New Year or something. Are we? Depends which one are we talking and then which Christmas is true. When is Chinese New Year? You should know all the New Year's dates. Yeah. Chinese New Year, January 22nd.

It is surging. The only man who gets all of his information directly from chat. That would be Adam Green. The answers are right there. I guess it's all the people. And it's not just Adam. There are so many people that are like anything. I was like, Let me put it into this. Let me put it into this. I've got a friend that's a very successful multimillionaire type. Both, I guess he's a consultant and this adviser consultant. He he is using GPT to write ad copy. Really? Mm hmm. And it gets it.

How far? I mean, not I'm guessing not 100%. Oh, here's what he does. He he has to do like three or four different versions. And then he'll look through them and copy and paste bits from each together to come up with his final product. He says it saves him at least 50% of the time. I believe that because there is a few different things that this kind of technology, I think would be able to do fairly well. And when you look at things in a very small box like advertising copy. Mm hmm.

We all know there's not a lot of difference between the ads for all the products out there. Right. They're all trying to push your button. There's all the little keywords. There's all the you know, it's got to be quick. It's got to make you emotional. Mm hmm. And it's interesting that that our chat overlords, if you can figure this one out. Mm hmm. I think. Yeah, I think we can.

With the AI doing amazingly beautiful art, there's a composed music now that's freely available because, you know, you can create it super fast and easy. There's no reason to. Oh, that's. Copyrighted. Is there? And I'm guessing there has to be, but I haven't run across that yet. Yeah. And I items. That are out there.

So can you go that would see this would be perfect especially for podcasters to be able to go and be like give me a theme song that something you know, and give it like three or four. Down standard like The Dukes of Hazzard, but not. Really. Right. Sounds like The Dukes of Hazzard dream, but I won't get sued for it. Uh huh. Uh huh. Exactly. Yeah, That's us out there down. I mean, for an experimental phase, right?

And so people that are rating the software wanting to have people tinker with it and for feedback and I heard Adam's feedback yesterday where he was basically saying, it's all bullshit. That's what it does is simply get bits and pieces from something else. Well, that's true because it's a it's a general AI system. It's not it's not doing magic here. What it's doing is it's looking at statistics with a bit of randomness based on what it knows.

So if you ask it about a topic that is very broad or that there's a lot of information on, I should say, it's going to give you a pretty damn good results if you get niching with it and say, I'm looking at podcasting 2.0, give me the best ad copy or something. Right. Well, it's not going to do nearly as good a job because the amount of information that it has access to on that topic is very limited. And so you're asking it to do something that it doesn't have much knowledge about.

Well, we've learned this with the video Deepfakes for one, which there are systems out there now where you can go and just give one static photograph and it does a pretty good job of overlaying that on another person's body. But if you give it 10,000 photographs, it's a way better job. So the more information it has, the better it's going to do. And the interesting thing is, if you ask for something in text form, like explain something to me.

Sure. It's going to grab content that it's finding online, and that's pretty easy. As you said, if it's a small niche thing, yeah, you're going to be able to tell where exactly it's taking the information from. But if you go give me music. Music has always been borrowed. I mean, that's humans have been doing it, which is, Huh? I'm going to take this blues riff and I'm going to make it a little different for you. You remember that the four chord song that before?

Well, all you need is three chords. And the truth. Is that a name of something. That's like the country music, that is like a slogan going way back. All you need to make country music are three chords and the truth. So this is a song from Axis of Awesome. You've got to have heard it. Let me let me see if I'm going to start it. Tell me if you can hear it up. You're going to play something that'll get us immediately kicked off of YouTube if you want to hear that. No. I cannot.

But we've come through your audio route. It's used. You don't hear that, though. What the hell, man? You don't know how to route audio. I do know how to write audio and oh, I know what I did wrong. And that wants to know if your voice is getting deeper. Now see if we get G's in 5 minutes of it all. Yeah, exactly. This is the secret to a deeper sounding voice for Jean. Is the length of time between when Jean wakes up and when he does recording. Yes.

If you catch him at the end of the day, he's like Mickey Mouse. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I finish like this. Usually right around there. Do you know how much sleep he's got? And that's how you can tell. Yeah, it works. It works Awesome. But music. Yes. I mean, music is a different beast than being able to write somebody's term. Paper is a little different than music because music is ripe for taking various things and kind of mixing them together. MM Yes. So all these systems work.

Oh, give me a, a loop. That's all these loop parts and that's why music sounds so much the same now. Similar. Very similar. Yeah. Because they're using the same drums they're using. I mean it's funny because there's a I forget what the name of the Scream is that was recorded back in the 1950s, which is. Being. Used in like everything now from all the Star Wars. Really. Okay. And it's because it became like a thing.

And there was one guy that worked in the industry that thought it was funny and then other people started using it as well. So there's if you do a Google or YouTube search for Scream, you'll find it. If you do the right search, I don't need you check, it will tell you what to search for. But it's interesting when you go in, you hear it's like it's the exact same scream from movies from now until now. Yeah. That's funny. Okay, one more test. Testing. All right. Did you hear that?

I heard, like, something rustling. I did not hear. It was people clapping. I did not hear people clapping. No, no, But you heard something rustling. I heard some kind of noise. I don't understand that. You do that. This is audio routing 1 to 1. Don't you have a mode, too? Yes. That may be the problem. The multiple may be the problem. No, you're literally the only. Yeah, this doesn't work for. Okay, let's try again. That idea.

You hear that? Yeah. Okay. I'm going to play just a little bit when I'm going in trouble. Don't worry about it. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. I'm Jordan. I'm Lee, And I'm. We are the axis of awesome. And I'm Benny Hill. We've been a comedy rock band for close to 40 years now. And all that time we've never had a hit just here. But you guys know why? Well, because we never wrote a four chord song. What's that? What's it called? Somebody. All the greatest hits from the past 40 years.

Just use four chords. Same for chords for every song is dead simple to write. A pop hit just for. Yeah, these four hit one, two, three, four chords. So let me get this straight, Chicken Little. What you are what you're trying to say is you can you can take those four chords, repeat them, and pump out every pop song ever. Is that what you're saying? Yeah. Fuck off. Yeah. Fuck off, Chicken Little. Just listen.

This is going to sound really great after all the processing, but that is a really great After all the processing and your vocal channel. I'll send you a link. You can swap that up. I'm not swapping stick up, doing audio editing for this do. Work, man. Do work. It's hilarious. So yeah, that is. Don't Stop Believin by Journey. Yeah. Because there's only, what, seven major chords? Anyway? Brilliant. My Love is Pure. I saw her name out of that. I'm sure it's just two songs that are similar to her.

Every young three gonna be Forever Young. Even better with an acoustic. And that Say No more, no more. It can not wait. I'm yours. This is the way you left me. Now pretend. You're not. No, no, no. Go be no happy ending. Is you Amazing. Means it. It may in fact. And now one fucking. Way We know how music works. We're going to tonight anyway. You give the idea it's. I will send you the link to at least put into the fricking link into the show notes.

Well, there are only so many major chords, you know. Yeah, but this song covers about 300 different pop songs that have all been top hits. Or because people that write pop music are not exactly Beethoven. There's no reason to go beyond there's there's the patterns that for most songs it's like, Well, if it's a G, then you're going to go to a C and then a D, and then G C. I mean, it's it's quite interesting, the whole blues concept as well, which is the patterns just end up repeating.

And this is why we have big musical productions, because if everything was just played on an acoustic guitar, you're like, It all sounds exactly the same. You got to have that melody, you got to bring that out. And that's the difference, is that the melodies are what's different, but they're being laid upon the same structure and the same repeating chords over and over again. Yeah, for pop music, that classical, correct.

Because again, they found a pattern that people seem to like and they're like, Let's do that. Which is why it makes it so easy for a guy to do this, because humans have been doing it for years. Like, well, we'll just we'll just copy on that. It will change the melody a little bit and it'll work well. It's a it's definitely a works, right? So why, why fuck with it. Yes, There's that pop music. Well, this is how most pop music went to shit.

This is why Nashville, this is where country when country went pop had killed country because country was mainly not about the music. It was mainly about the stories. But then they over glosses that all the music sounds exactly alike. And the stories kind of sound like two. But it's not dying. And the your white girlfriend leaving you, the wife leaving you and that. And then she won't clean your pomegranate for you and a tour. Dude, that's like the biggest thing that I miss right there.

You just call it out. Egypt, Pomegranate. Pomegranate. It's cleaned. And that is not a euphemism for those wondering. No, it's not even in a double entendre thing. It's, you know, pomegranates when you buy them yourself, they're they're a lot of work. And one myself. Oh, there you go. And my ex-wife used to actually, you know, take the the seed, the bits you eat out of them and put them on a plate. For me and lovingly serve them to you. I don't even care about that.

I was just she she was willing to do it. I've never met any anybody else, male or female, that was willing to do that. That's the scene. There's the bar if you want to be jeans, one and only. Yeah, it's probably not a bad bar to use because it'll never happen. So yeah. You're like, I never want to get involved with that again. I hear you. Well, it's it's a yeah, it's definitely a, a funny little piece of trivia, but I challenge anyone to time how long it takes to clean a whole pomegranate.

It is. I'm going to guess last time I did it myself. Probably like 30 minutes for something that's a little bigger than an apple. Net net calling you out saying YouTube cleaning a pomegranate. It's not that hard. It is. You know what he's talking about. Second, about the water method. I've used the water method. It is slow, man. If you want to get all the seeds out, you want to get everything out cleanly without mashing and getting, getting the juices flowing out, even using the water method.

It is a fact that it's hard, right? Anybody can do it. You could teach a kid or a monkey to do it. The the issue is how long it takes. It takes way longer than something of that size and the benefit that it provides. Should they? That's all I'm saying. See, I'm like, just buy a banana. It's really easy to get that ready to eat. Well, the hell's that he's doing? You've got a microphone again. Yeah. Now that's not good. Is there an earthquake in Moscow? Is they're shelling. This one seems.

To be under under some shelling outside the wasn't. I wasn't expecting that. I think they're starting to I think my nose suppression is killing the air raid sirens here. But you have to be careful with those there. Reverberations are affecting the mic from. I believe it. I do believe it. It's a war zone. The whole country's a war zone. We can't even get a Speaker of the House elected. I mean, come on. Oh, I think it's so awesome.

It's a it's a clown show, which just goes further to prove the whole thing is just a clown show. Yeah. The Republicans are not united. That there is. Well. I don't blame or not. Because the majority of the Republican Party are rhinos at this point, literally the majority and the few people that actually elected to be Republicans are saying, fuck this. And the conservative bastion. Is. Trying to cause trouble, as they should. Yeah, good for.

Them because they want their points to be addressed, which makes sense. But this is the main difference right now. And it's I think it's a good thing that the Republicans aren't in lockstep. It's the fact that nobody seems to care that the Democrats are when it doesn't matter what they're voting on. There is time for discussion and and what's his name? There's no dissent. Right? Right. Cinema's not even a Democrat anymore. I mean, cinema is basically I mean, she's libertarian for the most part.

And I think the fact that she is the least liked of all the sexual minorities, I think that's working against her and with the Democrat Party as all. Could be and mentioned, the one Democrats. Know what it is. But like, I don't know if you've heard this, but apparently the bisexuals are the ones that every other type of LGBTQ T plus plus exclamation mark, question mark, hashtag that all of those people really hate. Because they're like, You're not real, man. You're not hardcore.

Yeah, it's like, pick one your one God. Date, you're wishy washy. Why would you need to pick one that? I mean, why? Just because their whole concept is let us be who we are. Unless we don't like who you are. That it's let us be who we are and fuck you. Yes. But if you do something. Yeah, that's like we don't. Yeah, it falls apart. Really quick when it really does.

And I was watching a Blair White video last night and, you know, she's talking about how because she has always objected to any kind of trans activities around minors that she is like the most hated transsexual out there. Well, this does seem to be what the fringe. Far. Left wants is trans for children. And to me, you will never be able to sell that logic to any right thinking person, to any person who has any kind of logic left. Even the most liberal person should be able to go.

Kids brains are mush. Mm. And they have no idea what they want or don't want. And the tragedy is going to be we're already seeing it. And granted the news coverage on this is the ultra conservative part, so it's hard to put a real number on this, but we are seeing a decent amount of stories of people who have transitioned who said, Oh fuck, this didn't work, this made things worse. I want to go back. Mm hmm. Mm hmm. And that's what nobody wants to talk about. How don't you talk about that?

Any time you need to have an operation for something that's like, Well, here is what needs to be done. And here are the possible bad things that could happen. Yeah, there's an interview. Who did the interview? I remember. You know the guy? Well, no, I was. Oh, what's Jordan Peterson? His latest video or within the last few days, anyway. That they want to send him to a concentration camp to be reprogramed. Yeah. Not that video, though. They do want to do that.

But no, he had on his I don't know, for lack of a better term video podcast, he had an interview with a 18 year old girl who transitioned to a male at 14 and then transitioned back at six or 17. And you know, it can affect her over. You don't say. Mm hmm. Yeah. All we Cole is her name and I think this came out well, it says Holy shit. Episode 319. Wow. The guy pumps out content, man. He does all this stuff.

But this is the kind of stuff that's not being talked about, and this is the vital stuff that should be talked about. Mm hmm. Because I know there's some people on the far right who are like, Well, no, the transitioning that you're. You are what you are. You should never be allowed to do that. But this is here's that.

Here's my thought on that is I think that kids have while imaginations I mean I still remember I was a kid and it's really easy to you know, kind of amuse yourself as a kid by playing with objects that had nothing to do with what you're imagining in the air, you know? Right. Pick up rock. Become yeah, sticks, become guns, rocks become spaceships. It's all kinds of, you know, little frogs become people.

Oh, I can only imagine you had a lot of rock spaceships, and they were a lot cheaper, too, than the one they were cheaper. You know, back when I was a kid, you had to be careful about picking up rocks because there were mines that were still active underneath a lot of those rock. Well, that wouldn't be fun. No, no, no. I mean, I avoided getting anything blown off, but yeah, I spent summers and they're basically a minefield. With your parents trying to get rid of you.

Is that where they put you in? I know it's a summer job clearing mines. Oh, there you go. For $0.15 an hour. Yeah, when I was six or seven. That's where the work ethic comes from. And the fearlessness. Yes, the fearlessness for sure. I'm not sure about the work ethic, but yeah, So you can pretend the stick is a stick to make sure that, you know, you touch what's in front of you

and not blow your foot off. And you can pretend that rock is not a mine just so you don't completely not walk around it. So anyway, what's going on in your world? And we haven't talked for like two weeks because you were you keep showing no signs. I don't know what's going on. And I it's always last minute to I swear to God, it's like I wake up, I get up, walk over to sit down from the microphone.

And Darren sent an email at like some ungodly hour saying, Oh, by the way, I'm going to be getting my heart replaced. They can't do show. The 18 hours before the show. I mean, I know you sleep a long time, but that's that's getting a little ridiculous. It is the winter. My people hibernate. I don't think you understand. Winter in Texas is a little different than here in Chicago. Right. Understand? When I went to sleep and got up just now. I see. That's true. That was. Yesterday.

Probably right around one day. Right around this time. Oh, literally about 1 p.m.. Well, you need your beauty rest. There's no way once you get to your age, there's really no amount of sleep. That's enough. So I was, well, just dealing with you. And I still sleep way less than my pet. Well, see, that's good. Yeah. The pet could be growing in the house, getting taken care of business while you just sit there in your state. But he's been sleeping for four days straight.

Yeah. That means it's almost time. We can see. Well, I keep. I keep waiting for him to actually get up and move and do something. And then because I'm going to, I don't. But I learned a time ago you don't want to feed snakes when they're asleep. Because they're asleep. Yeah. Because the rabbit goes to waste. Because you put it in there, then they don't notice it for a whole day and then you get to throw it away because now they they're not going to eat it because rotten.

Seems like first world problems. But really, I mean, most people that have pets, things actually live in Asia. I did not know that. Hmm. Yeah. That's a very common pet in Burma. In Vietnam. Mm. And in Moscow, Philippines. But in. In Kiev. In Moscow. In Kiev. I don't think there's a whole lot of things that you I know they ate all of these zoo animals in the second month after the start of the operation. I will. A giraffe is tasty. Never had one, but, you know, I could see that.

But it's all legs. Yeah, well, that's true. I thought I mean. The really big, really big. I don't think the neck would be all that tasty. No. Now maybe that big purple tongue would be, though. Who knows? You know, some people really enjoyed tongue. I've never been to eating tongue. Not let say it so Lengua is it in there in Blanco? Spanish. Yeah. Mm hmm. Nice little touch. They would be milk. Yes. Little corn. Let's see. A little heavy. Coffee with little milk? Yes.

Now, just the usual fun stuff going on here. Had an A-fib spell that lasted like a week, which not fun. Well, you're. Old. I know. Expect that. I know. Either getting better health. The the the usual stuff. You know, it's like, you know, you need to eat better with the holidays. That never happens. But, you know hey I also have. This They fix it that they give you something. I'm just took a little more of one of the drugs that was already on and that one in the metro for some reason.

It's one of those words that I never want to be able to say, Right. I think it's better. Metoprolol. Oh, metoprolol. Yeah. Mm hmm. Which So you've had some issues in the past, then? Yes. Mm. Yes. Long before COVID or the vaccines. Right. I know everybody wants to jump to like. No, no, I had the. Vaccine in check. Yeah, the J and J one though. Okay. You took the non. Non marinated. Not as evil one, you know. Correct. But that was. Yeah. You took the one didn't actually do anything right.

Which is fine because I'm still alive. Yeah. Placebo baby. All the way. If you're going to take one. That's the one I have. It is. Yeah. But when I was seven I was diagnosed with an arrhythmia. And this is kind of reminded me of that because, well, when you're in AFib and this is how this spell started here again was overnight, and it lasted, you know, like 12 hours or something like that, non stop, but otherwise it goes back into sinus rhythm. And then every now and then it'll pop out.

Or, you know. 30 seconds or a minute and it'll keep doing that. And of course if you go in and you get an EKG done in between, it's like, No, no, everything's fine. You're right. And that's what I had when I was seven and I was on medication until I was like 15 or 16. And then it kind of seemed to resolve itself.

And then it I don't know if this is the same issue at all, but a similar issue, no doubt, started popping back up later and I had no idea until I got with the cardiologist that I have now. And his specialty is the, you know, electrical rhythm. Of the heart. That is like the taller you are, the more likely you are to have this. Yeah. I had a friend of mine that had that. And I think his final resolution was losing about £65 of weight. And I fix it. It certainly helps.

Yeah. I don't think it made him shorter though, that. It didn't make him shorter. But again, you're more susceptible to it. Which beating thing else. It's like you have to then do everything that you can to mitigate all of the other factors. You get a watch that's capable of telling you this, right? No, not yet. What the hell, man? Should I get an apple of it? We've talked about this. Like, is it is it worth it? Do I really want to know? Yeah.

Yeah, because I'll tell you and I'll say, Would you like us to dial 911 for you? Would you like to would you like to live today or would not? Please press one button here? Exactly. Okay, maybe. Yeah. Just. What is that? Send me your address. I'll send you in that board while. You are much too kind. I've got an extra one. So what do you have extra of? Uh, I know, right? Yeah. I don't need it because it's like, with all this stuff, it's like, I don't want all of the bells and whistles.

I just want the basic. Yeah. No, I'll happily send you one. That's a good cause. Like, that means that you're not going to be missing as many podcasts. I'm all for. It. You're just trying to make it so I don't die because you need somebody to edit the show. Well, like I said, if the next time you don't show up, I'm still doing them. So I'll just pull somebody else on. You should. Oh I mean the other day on Wednesday.

Yeah. That of 11 show that, you know, so on the show Ben Rhodes was having trouble connecting and with I'm like and then I'm like on the stream and I'm like, okay, Ben Rhodes is having trouble. I just want to make sure it's not clean feet. I'm like, Who's available? And within like 30 seconds, Blueberry from the Rare Encounter show and the No. One that I keep putting him in rare encounter. I don't know why. Sorry. Blueberry behind the screams. And no, a gentle millennial from the Memo podcast.

Within like 30 seconds I had them links. They were on. We were talking, people were loving the content. So I was listening. Avondale Them. Yes, that's right. That Ben Rhodes came on and it ruined it for everybody. Kind of. Yeah, Yeah, that's true. But yeah, I can always try and reach out to him as long as he's awake and the cats are fed. Know you have to have the cats fed. Huh? And well, and, and if he has a cell phone turn down, which usually he does that this is true. Too busy.

I had mine I hadn't even blocked I hadn't done the star 78 or Uma how to turn off the ringer. So it rang when you called. I'm like, Oh, and I held it up to the I think people could hear it. They held it up to the microphone. The Speaker On that, I could hear it. That's all that counts. Exactly. This is the way we do these shows live. And don't realize that I'm just doing this podcast just for me. Yes. That's all You do see my knowledge.

I mean, you know, it's it if somebody is listening in, I don't mind. I mean, people have been listening in on my phone conversations my whole life. Well, with your phone, you got to Moscow. Yeah, well, I don't care. But for the most part, I just did myself. For the fun piece of it. Hmm. So how long do you think it's going to take to get a topic? We started on to get a speaker. I would think we're going to have one.

I know this is going to be shocking, but I think we're going to have one probably today. Oh, you think? All right. I do, too. I think that it's gotten to the point to where they have to know there's only so long you can go with this, because I didn't realize that none of the new members could be sworn in. That is. Correct. But that's I think that's an advantage for the Republicans also.

Well, because more people got elected this election that were Republicans that were replacing Democrats and you can't swear in new people, but the terms of the old people expired. So the only people that are seeing and this is the only. People left are the people that are between terms. So let me let me remind you this. The ones that are reelected now. Who is able to vote. And the only current members on the new speaker?

Yes, that would be only the the currently elected folks, the ones not the brand new ones. Okay. So the people coming in since they haven't been sworn in yet. All right. But there are more Republicans now because the only people that are still there because everybody in the House, because. Of the same Democrats already whose terms have ended. Right. And Well, the House, no matter what, everybody's on the same schedule. It's every two years.

Well, yeah, but the difference just being that if you're reelected the near term hasn't, correct. Yeah. But since so many more Democrats were booted, that definitely. I mean they still have a majority, I think, either way. So whether they have new people coming in, they'll have a majority or whether they delay it, they still have a majority. So I think either way it works. And the interesting thing is where most of the country has no idea what's going on. Yeah, the.

Speaker of the House seems to have a lot of power because let's remember, this has been Nancy Pelosi for the last how many years? 25. It seems like a long it seems longer than that. But Nancy, you can say what you want about her. She wielded a lot of power and I don't know, pretty. Good for an old brother. Now, when it comes down to it, when you look at the pecking order or the politicians in the United States, okay, the president has the most power.

I understand it's all within a certain amount of checks and balances. But after the president. Mm hmm. It's certainly not the vice president. And I don't even think that is the the Senate majority leader. It's like I think it is kind of the speaker of the House because that. Yeah, totally. Also in line for the presidency. I think the longest serving speaker of the House was Tip O'Neill. Yes. A good relative of mine where you had Uncle Vlad. I had Uncle Tip. Yeah. Uh huh, Yeah, he was.

I think the Democrats held the speakership for like 30 years. And that was back when you could actually get stuff done. If from Kennedy down to, uh, what's his face? The peanut farmer Jimmy Carter. Carter Yeah. So that that long stint ended on further and the Republicans actually got the House. So there's something to be said that this is a bigger deal, I think, than most people are giving it credit for. And who is going to be speaker who is going to. Have that power?

It's a trade off, right, Because you're if you're the speaker, you're not on any committees. When a lot of people don't realize the speaker doesn't actually have to be a member of the House of Representatives either. I do. Too. Yeah. I don't think it's happened in forever that that's been the case.

I mean, technically, if you've got a close majority, like enough of a majority to pick the speaker, but not well, you want to be careful and not remove any of your members from doing actual work, then you do want to bring in an outside speaker that's going to be friendly to you, because then you're going to get somebody who's not removing one of your ranks, right? That's why everybody's like, I get Trump. Trump will be the speaker. Like, I think it would be hilarious.

I don't think he would do it now. I don't either, because he's got enough issues to deal with right now. I mean, at this point, he's not going to, but I think he's going to bow out of presidency. Oh, I believe that to be this. Yeah, that seems to be the current thought. Is that the he's realizing that this he the one to die in the middle of the campaign is the question.

Well they're not going to stop going after him and the question is no I it's hilarious that they're still trying to pin the January 6th thing on him even though there seems to be more than enough evidence. I mean, just to I mean, there's no question that a lot of the people that committed the acts that they're they've been arresting people for. Mm. Or Trump supporters. No question about that. But that doesn't make him responsible for that.

I mean, it's absolutely insane to be like, well, because they were your supporters, we're going to go. And now that's not that's not logical. Now, if he had come out and said and there was this whole plan and he said stormed the Capitol, then I see maybe they could go after him for something. But that wasn't the case. It seems that there is a paper trail of him saying in the days leading up to that, I think there might be some problems. I'm going to give you ten.

And there's also evidence of Nancy Pelosi denying the request. Yes. For additional security. So it's like so. Why. Why is that the case? It's like you have to ask yourself, why didn't Nancy Pelosi go? Well, no, the optics aren't good. It's like, well, do you want the optics or do you want safety? You know, do you want the police actually. Waving people into the building? That was. Well, once it was breached. Yeah. Mm hmm.

I mean, I know there was a whole lot of conspiracy theories leading up to it, but it's like I saw enough people pounding on windows and doors and breaking them. This wasn't like, well, the police just opened it and waved everybody in before there was violence. But there got to a point, you know, there was a breach point. And once people were coming in, well, what do you do? You know, and that's the question, because I just covered this on random thoughts this week, which was the Capitol Police.

The Union leader this week is still saying, yeah, we're no more prepared today than we were two years ago. Mm hmm. And that is these that's the scary part about this. It's like, wait, no. Though plan has been contrived since then, in case. Well, I think the problem here, obviously, is that the it was a very poorly organized insurrection. It was because it wasn't really organized. Yeah. Yeah. Had it had been better organized, we might have a better country than they what's possible.

This certainly was not an armed insurrection and takeover of the government. Yeah, this seems to be a bunch of loons who decided they were going to. To make a statement. And I think a lot of it is because they were watching the television for, what, a year? Year and a half before that with nightly Black Lives Matter riots where nobody was ever arrested. Nobody ever arrested? No, there was no there's a mostly peaceful. Yeah. And they well, if they can do it we can do.

Yeah. And I still believe there there has been evidence shown that there were agent provocateurs, There were people there. Were. People in that crowd that were there. Did they literally found the same photos of the same people there that were at the Maidan? Well, this is it that you get the. Impression of protesters employed by the US government. And then people follow them. It's very easy to get people to follow. It's not easy to be the first guy, you know, that takes some balls.

That takes some I'm going to go out on a limb, but it's a lot easier to be the one to walk in the door after the other people breached it. Yeah. And in any situation, when you're dealing with a police presence, protecting anything, whether it's a you know, even a concert you know, you see at most concerts, there's like one guy at the front of the stage for each aisle of the venue that you're at. Mm hmm. Well, if everybody decides to go in, rushed the stage, those guys cannot stop them.

And at some point, if the crowd decides they're going, those guys just step aside and go, all right, because there's nothing they can do. And that's exactly what the police did at the Capitol, I believe, because otherwise, what was the alternative way to go after things is like, Are you going to start using deadly force now? What are you going to do? Yeah, well, and I do think that there was the other element that played into this is because only one person was actually killed.

It doesn't paint the government as the bad guy. It's had more people been killed. This would be a lot closer to the the student protests up in your neck of the woods. I mean, back in the sixties here in Chicago. Yeah, exactly. Well, that's where it was very clear at the time. Mayor Daley was like, shoot to kill, man. Yeah. Yeah, take him down. And that's exactly why they didn't. I believe once it was breached at the Capitol.

If you imagine that the exact same scenario happened and like 60, 70 Americans were just shot and killed, the outrage, I think, would be greater at that point. And People being mad at the government not allowing like they wouldn't have the opportunity to make the lives of these thousand people miserable and put them all in prison. This is this was calculated. They wanted to make sure that they didn't screw up and therefore the do not shoot orders were in place. Right.

And so because normally, you know, what are we hear every time there's an actual crazy person going into the White House it's absolutely should kill. Oh, yeah. And we've seen that multiple times when one person. Mm hmm. So this time around, I think that this was pre calculated. They talked about a possible scenario Nancy was in. I'd turn. Around the National. Guard were. Yeah. And those discussions were this would be great for us to take down Trump. Yes. Let it happen.

But make sure you lock the doors to actually secure places. Right. Make sure, you know, AOC was in fear of her life and hiding in the bathroom the whole time. Oh, well, that was that was four buildings away. Yeah, that was some great just absolutely great theater from AOC on there. And some white man was knocking on the door and she knew she thought he would kill her because he was the police like white. This here's an easy thing.

Just give all of the members of Congress their own weapon, teach them how to use it. Yeah, no, they were trying to prevent members of Congress from carrying weapons, which so ridiculous. I would agree. It's like if everybody was armed. The debate would be a lot more civil. Yes. And it's a lot harder for a bad actor to come in if everybody in Congress has their own nine Mm. Sitting on their. Shoulder. Yeah. The only problem with that is I just I don't fucking trust these people with guns.

I don't trust anybody with guns. But I don't, they don't them with the government obviously either, but at least they can't break as much with the government, with the guns. They could do some serious harm. Well, yeah, you know, but you have to make sure without knowing somebody, I don't trust them with a gun. I mean, I trust me with a gun. As I've said, it's like I've got three, four pistol. Hold on, hold on. That's not. That's totally not the case. Have you never been to a gun range?

There's a bunch of strangers with guns around you. That's true. I mean, there's a certain amount of trust just to walk into a gun range. There's. That is absolutely true. But. You know, this does when you look at the events leading up to it with Trump and his chief of staff, Kash Patel, has gone on the record saying this, that we requested the troops and a lot of people still, the media included. What's his the guy that used to be a sportscaster, the real blowhard asshole dude that's on MSNBC.

No idea. Ever. But people know who I'm talking about that. You know, even he came out again just very recently saying, well, no, this is a lie. That's you know, the president was the only one that could have authorized those troops. He doesn't need anybody else. It's like, no, that's not the case. No. That is not the case. The president can't just go, hey, I'm sending the National Guard into Washington, D.C. It needs it's a double prong system. It's like the request, Keith.

OLBERMANN. Yes. Thank you. And that. Uber douche. Blowhard. Yes. It's like but you needed that request. So the president actually was out in front of this because he didn't wait for a request from Pelosi or the mayor of DC or whatever her name is. But he was like, here, I'm going to give you what do you want? You want 10,000, You want 20,000. And they're like, No, no, we just need 300 for traffic detail and only 150. You'll be on duty at any given time. Mm hmm.

Otherwise, what you would have had would have been armed. I'm guessing National Guard troops standing around the Capitol with a fence. Yeah. And nobody was going to be breaching that, which. Literally happened the week after. Right. Immediately after. Yeah. Yeah. So you ask yourself, why did Nancy Pelosi not want that? And I can't come up with anything because, you know, there's two answers to that, which the first is, well, they're morons and they're incompetent.

But I don't believe that's the case with Nancy Pelosi. Mm hmm. She is way too seasoned and way too power hungry. She knew exactly what she was doing. You are hitting it right on the head where they're like, this would be great to use against Trump because they just probably figured what was going to happen with them. They're like, These idiots are probably going to try and go inside, which is great.

So we want to kind of pretend like we don't want them to do that, but really we want as many in there as possible that we can point the finger at Trump causing this. And two years later, and then. We can impeach him again posthumously. And two years later, they still don't have a plan to deal with this. So if somebody really wants to have an insurrection at the Capitol, I don't know. Well, you know, it's like, okay, so what if what if like 5000 people show up with guns at the Capitol?

You're getting in because they're like, we have we haven't we don't have a plan, which is insane when you think about it, when how few people can cause what kind of damage. This is kind of like 911 where it's like, well, what ten people overall caused caused a whole ton of problems? You're kind of getting the same thing here because they're not ready for it. They're not prepared for it. It's like, how do you not know? Well, I don't I don't I don't agree with that.

I think they are prepared for it. I think that it was specifically that the word was given to stand down and that and effectively let people I mean, the worst thing that happened was a couple of windows got broken and a couple of doors were forced open. That was it. And somebody sat at Nancy's desk. It's not Nancy's desk. It's the people's. Desk. Wow. Wow. That hit her that hit home in.

But it did have the intended effect it would look like since people are still trying to pin it on Donald Trump, they're very afraid of him. And I'm not even sure. Well, if things go on correctly, this will become the Boston Tea Party. You know, the guys that did the Boston Tea Party were all too true. But it reverberated. It sure did. And it's one thing after another. And I think, you know, things simmer down a little bit with this midterm election.

You didn't have the same kind of oh, no, the elections weren't fair. They were trying to it's great because the place is. Talking about they were totally not fair. Well, they're not paying attention to the races in there. But nobody saying what I'm saying. What are you talking about? But the public is not. Well, these have the public, just like with the House of Representatives, not paying attention, not understanding how many people that lit up my.

Prediction for the House of Representatives that I think that they're going to and doing something that will make them look like who they truly are, which is they're going to do a deal with Democrats. Which would be a really bad. Idea. Mitch is basically going to say, like these 20 Republicans, fuck them, we're not going to do anything with them. None of them will be sitting on any committees at all. They're going to become irrelevant.

So we're going to do a deal with the Democrats and it'll be just like it actually is, or in reality, which is instead of pretending to be Republicans, the RINOs and Democrats who are all buddy buddy anyway, we'll just do a deal and say, Great, give us give us like 20 Democrats that will pick me and I will give you half the committee seats. Have the committee not seats, but committee chair positions. I can't. They just reelect Nancy. Uh huh.

And and I think that would be I mean, it'd be bad in some sense, obviously, but it'd be good because more people need to see that who they vote for are rhinos. And I talked about this incidentally. I did a solo episode of a rare solo episode of Surgeon Speaks History. Well, they're the best when they're so low. Yeah, some people say that. So other people from Portland always say it's not a real podcast, as if there's only 1%.

But in that episode I talked about the fact that rhinos are worse than Democrats because what a rhino is doing is actually occupying a seat in a district which would choose to vote Republican. But instead they're getting a Democrat in in the sheepskin of a Republican. Right. Which is the most and I've said this for years, this is the way you really screw with politics is if you have somebody that is a tried and true conservative, say, from the start, well, start running for public office,

but act very liberal up until the point you win the presidency. Yep. That go all conservative like this is I can't believe nobody's this because the game is fantastic. You could get a that way you could actually get a conservative voted in Illinois or California. You could get them voted in lie and then once they get in just gotten out sorry. Well I think that only works in one direction, which is you can lie to the Republicans. You can't live the Democrats. They're too good at it.

No, their machine is who picks the candidates and they pick only candidates that have earned their way into running. Or they have a committee that goes out and looks for fresh young candidates among baristas and then grooms them for six months before. Yeah. And then grooms them for six months before actually putting them out on the ballot. Just prove it. You're watching a video of AOC. You're going to have to be a little more specific. Which phase of the video where she first was found?

I don't believe so. Now. Oh yeah, that video exists. Essentially, they had an outreach group that was looking to find six young, good looking people that could be running as Democrats. And then they interviewed like 160 people. They got down to there six. And that was the video I saw with all six of them. And AOC was one of the six. And then AOC was the first one in that group that they placed in a district that had availability.

And it was it was really like a reality TV show, like there was coaching and grooming and and then not that kind of grooming. Right? Right. Like they're doing her for the office. Well, yeah. And it's all just nobody's being killed here, baby. The it's very Manchurian candidate again. It's like nothing is. Absolutely. Absolutely. And that's the thing.

This is what guys like Soros have been doing for years and years and years, is using these private nonprofit groups that effectively he controls these to do what sounds like, if you read the description, you know, trying to educate America about politics or some bullshit and what they're doing is literally, you know, Manchurian Candidate, like they're they're finding the right candidates. Incidentally, this is exactly how Zelinsky ended up in office. And I know I've talked about this before.

I'm sure other people have heard of it, but maybe not everybody knows. Well, he was an actor. Yeah, he was literally an actor and not like a great actor by any stretch. And the color of my skin, I think, is the the billionaire that originally was part of the movement that overthrew the legitimate government of Ukraine. And cahoots with the United States had a lot of interest in red states. He's a Ukrainian oligarch, essentially, and so after the break up of the Soviet Union.

So one of the guys that got rich right away because he was stealing and selling state what used to be state owned property, which became private property. And a lot of these oligarchs took advantage of it. That's that's all it is in Russia and Ukraine and eastern Europe in general is that the guys that became billionaires very quickly did it because they were both brazen enough sparring and fast enough to take advantage of what was effectively unclaimed stuff.

So there's, you know, like if you were running a factory, all of a sudden you became the owner of that factory. And if you were in the military, I know I've seen a few of these stories and you you had been responsible for an airbase, right? Well, yeah. So that's one of the first things that happened. They started selling off all their equipment so you could buy Russian helicopters for $200,000. Okay. How many did you pick up? Yeah, I wish. Now that was the. That's what's coming up.

That's true. Right? Yeah. Viktor, you definitely made good money doing that back then. But there is. It was some great deals to be had. Elon Musk, Uh, picked up a couple of rockets, but then the deal ended up falling through, and he said, Screw this, I'm going to make my own. But anyway, the point being from this guy actually realized that he himself wasn't very popular because people don't like billionaires to get to be billionaires by being crooks.

And he said that, you know, what he needed was somebody that was a sellable to the populace, sellable to the people that could just do his bidding. I mean, if you're if you can't get elected, you might as well have somebody who you're fully in control of get elected. Right. Which is that's probably why Trump is seen as being so dangerous, is because he can't be bought by you. Can't be bright.

He's he's already got money and so what this guy did is he his media company created a TV show and he did a big hiring thing and found the perfect actor to play the president in this TV show. And it was called The Man of the People. And in that TV show, you have, I believe he was a teacher. I can't remember if he was a history teacher or some kind of teacher in school.

And all over the course of two seasons, he ends up getting into politics because, you know, he's like, he has to be he can't not do it for the good of the country and then becomes massively popular with the population and he ends up ultimately winning the presidency of the country. So that's that's a TV show. It's it was a two years worth of script.

And it and immediately after the conclusion of that TV show, it just so coincided that there was elections coming up and that Zelensky was magically on the ballot, having never had a single political office, ever. He was on the ballot for president, and amazingly, he won the presidency. Now, I'm not saying there's election tampering in Ukraine, I'm just saying it's the exact same people running the Ukraine elections as around the US elections. And so consequently, he ends up being the president.

Wow, look at that. A guy that was groomed again, not in that sense, but very much so groomed for the part specifically by a billionaire who himself could never be elected. Right. George Soros would never be able to win any political race. No. But he can own a whole bunch of politicians. Oh, yeah. He can pull the strings. I dare you. That's and he does it. And incidentally, no, you know, both both have a Nazi past. So when you know. You never know why you got to pay attention. And we live in

the era where it is, so that's enough. No. It's not. Because we're living in the era where it's so hard to get accurate information. It is so easy for things to be covered up. When I was doing the research recently on Trump asking for the National Guard troops, go try and find that information.

It's amazing because with the keywords that I was using, everything that was coming up was something that was within the last year, rather than going back however many years to show that it's like it is so easy cover up things from the past to change our history without even realizing it. People talk about the Mandela effect. Well, that's your brain. Yeah. Yeah. It's like, Oh, I thought something was a little bit different.

Well, with search engines, it's even easier to make it seem like the past was different than it is because people go and look like, Well, let me check. There was, you know, the question about what Britney Spears wore in the Hit Me Baby one more Time video. Did she wear a plaid skirt? And most people will say yes. Then you go back and watch the video. And it was just a plain black skirt. It was like black skirt. You know, the thing is, Britney thought there was a plaid skirt. Yes.

And she was the one in the video. Which is amazing. This is why. That makes me wonder whether she actually did wear a plaid skirt and then they changed that in post. To that is also possible. I mean, it was a little harder back then, but now it would be an easy thing to do. And would there were there two versions of that video, the original one, and then the updated one? It's also possible that she did a, you know, a whole part of it with the plaid skirt as well.

That didn't make the cut. We know. That. Exactly. You know, do multiple things and stitch them together. Right. But this is a very important thing when you're trying to go like this latest thing. And I don't doubt that it happened. But this bullshit that California has going on where they're like, hey, well, we're temporarily going to suspend the the amount of time that you can use the statute of limitations. And this woman came out that said Steven Tyler

did whatever to her when she was 16 or 17. Mm. You can't trust anybody's brain to give you details on something that happened years ago. Yeah. I mean, look at the Amber heard who exactly. Well, I mean, there was there's a certain amount of lying that you're. A literal psychopath. Uh huh. Well, and there are people that are psychopaths. I mean, like that. What they're saying that's like, I think. An actual psychologist said that under oath.

You know, people believe it because that's the way they remember it, but it doesn't mean it's accurate. But that's part of being a psychopath. Is that to just. Yeah. Yeah. It's so you have to believe with the exact or even stronger conviction things that you yourself contrived than things that you saw with your eyes.

It it's also it's also a very much a a skill or I don't know if you call it a skill, but it's also super useful in Hollywood if you're an actor, like the best actors are super believable because they do method acting and method acting is effectively the exact same thing that happens when you're a psychopath, which is you're believing a fake reality with full with the same conviction that you are actual reality. Or you become that character. It's not necessarily. Yeah, character. Yeah, exactly.

Exactly. So it's there's quite a few good actors that have utilized that technique very effectively. And then it's, you know. Well, then it could probably help you beat the polygraph, too, because, oh. Dude. It all comes back to Seinfeld, the episode of Seinfeld, which is one thing that I start going through again. So when I'm feeling a little under the weather, so what I'm laying there with the air. Rewatching our show. Right, trying to relax. Seinfeld is one of those shows I go back to.

And the line with George, when Jerry was going to go take a lie detector about whether he watched some soap opera, and George says, Hey, Jerry, don't forget, it's not a lie If you believe it's true. That's true. This is how you beat the lie detector test, if you believe what you're saying. Exactly. And that and I can totally say that's the case first, first hand. How many people have you had on the polygraph? People? Have you waterboarded? I clearly zero.

What are you talking Literally? Clearly zero. Clearly, obviously zero. But I've actually done what you just described, which is sell a lie when I was polygraphed by the FBI now and. Prove that it could be done or you. Absolutely did prove that it could be done and disappoint the actual polygraph. Okay. Yeah, nice. But it's true. Technology is not is actually all they're measuring is your body response.

And your body response is affected by your brain's belief in what you're telling is true, false. So when you know you're saying something that's false, that's when your body starts acting twitchy. I mean, even if you know that all you have to do is remain completely calm, there's nothing you can do and they know you're lying. It's going to set that off. Your heart rate's going to be a little different. Your brain can. Learn techniques to make the polygraph relevant.

Which again, all you have to do is know what they're looking for and how to override that. Yeah, you have. Well, it's really the only one thing you need to override, which is your brain. You don't have to worry about doing anything else. You just need to override what your brain's doing. And and you have to learn how to compartmentalize. That's the other technique that a lot of a lot of people in the foreign services have to learn is how to be really good at compartmentalization.

So well, the how to beat a polygraph be a part of the angry Russian prep or course that's going. Up or I don't think that's useful for prepping at all. But there are tons of books that. That's what you're prepping for. Yeah. If you're prepping to go through a polygraph, I think you've got another problem. It's a different kind of prepping. Just like this psychopath that killed the people in Idaho. Mm mm. That story is.

I mean, it's not interesting, but there's a lot I think people can learn from this, including the guy seemingly thought he was smarter than everybody else in the room, but he still took his cell phone with them when he did a lot of this stuff, which I don't even understand how absolutely stupid you would have to be to do that, because they're like, Well, we're pinging.

And this is also something that people should realize when it comes to the cell phones that everybody carries around with them on a daily basis. That's like if you're ever going to have a cell phone that you want, don't want to be traceable, it's super easy. All you got to do is buy a cell phone in another country. It with cash. Would be even better. It doesn't matter. But. Well, not with a U.S. credit card, obviously. Yes, right. Yes. With cash, Sure.

But, you know, in a in a way that isn't tracked back to you. But if you do that, just about all of them will work in the U.S. And it's just going to show up as a, you know, foreign number and also. Still be tracked. But that's hard to put. You can track it, but good luck tracking it to anybody specific. What you can't do in the U.S. anymore is you can't buy a throwaway phone without providing your driver's license. Really? See, there's no more just buying with cash.

For like 20 years. Yeah. Damn. Well, so be the rest away when you need wi fi then. But there are ways to. Take a smart phone device and make calls over wi fi. Now, if you're using an A, something that isn't a major carrier. Is not going to work because if you can make calls with an iPhone or whatever, phone over wi fi. Yes, but you need to have an account. And that account isn't going to be anonymous. Well, then how come they can't catch half these assholes with the ID tag stuff?

What do you mean with? These things that they're slipping out of people's vehicles and into the devices and stuff that there's been a lot of these where they're like, well, this happened to somebody, but there's no report that they've ever caught whoever's account that that eye tag was originally registered to, which I never understood. What you're saying because you have to register. That title like you would a phone with the phone.

I mean kind of you're supposed to, but I actually read the articles on the how to insert your own information in their lives. It's really not that hard to do, but you could use it for that. The fact that this guy from Idaho, they're like, well, we tracked his cell phone and it was near that house like 11 times before the murders. And then he was back there the next morning. It's like, oh, my God, you're a moron. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, he literally did what every TV show shows the bad guy doing.

Yeah, It's going back to the scene of the crime. Yeah, he first scoped it out a few times, then he did the crime. Then he went back to the scene. The crime is like my dad. Well, and we're also seeing that when you're committing a murder at three in the morning in area, that's not, you know, maybe downtown Chicago or New York, there's like one car driving by that gets caught on a surveillance camera. Mm. It's like this.

You can't go anywhere now without being traced or tracked because you can't get in and out of an area without being on a camera. Yeah, for the most part, although I don't know. I don't know about small towns, but. I would be, I would think it would be easier in a small town. But all it takes is one ring doorbell on the street that catches you driving by. Right? That's true. You know, it's it's it's What. Is it for? For preventing crimes. It's great for everybody's privacy.

It kind of sucks. Well, it's kind of what it's for, so it makes sense. But yeah, there's just. I don't know. But remember, the thing that I always say is the the only thing you ever hear about criminals is about criminals that aren't very good at their job. Oh, there's no question. They got caught. But you don't hear stories about are the criminals to get away. And this guy was not very good. No, you. Don't carry your cell phone with you when you're stalking somebody.

I mean, this is again, where people that I don't think realize how much information that they're leaving behind just by taking their cell phone with you. You don't have to make a call from the area. You don't have to text from the area. If your phone goes into an area, talks to the tower now, and that is all. That even if it's turned off, they've they've demonstrated that. Everything's locked. Everything's locked.

So when you're like somebody gets murdered while you take their cell phone records and you trace that back, you know, a week or two and go, Hey, show me anybody that was around them a lot. It's that easy at this point, you know, And the fact that he left DNA at the scene, which also very strange because it seems he dropped a knife sheath that left his DNA on it. Otherwise, I don't know what else they had.

And it appears that the only way they tracked him was that a relative like CSB sent in his information, sent him the DNA to one of these services, and that's how they tracked it down to who he was, because one of his relatives was in a genealogy database. Hmm. Wow. Huh? Yeah. I don't know. I mean, I don't know why we're talking about how to improve being your criminal skills on this show all of a sudden. But that was the way that what the show is about how to become the best criminal possible.

Uh huh, No, it's. In the news. Come on. I guess. Let's see what else we got. Uh. We're going to have a cease fire over Orthodox Christmas in Ukraine. Are we. Like that? Putin ordered a baby, Uncle. Uncle Vlad, he ordered. Well, you know, the Ukrainians aren't going to dump their dads like. They're horrible people that. Well, that's not their Christmas. That that should be a T-shirt. This ain't my Christmas. Yeah, that's right. I had my Christmas. My wife tried to kill me by not closing the door.

I know I've bitched about this in every other show, but. Yeah, I guess so. Give me the cause. All I heard was it Get down to 35 degrees. Yeah, well, we have in the right where I'm sitting for. Your holiday here. No. Yeah, it's not. It'll. It'll jolt you right up. And it was cold. I'm telling. It was like under I think it was below zero Fahrenheit then the wind chill and all that and the winds were whip out. Oh. Yeah, it's true, man. It was freezing. I mean. How cold zero Fahrenheit is this?

Yes, it was what we had here. Look at the look at us. Like mythical. Weather. I know. I mean, when you walk outside, it's, oh, my God, this is not. How we. Normally when we get a little bit of snow, I like going out there. It's kind of fun to go out, you know, bundle up, go out with the snow blower. But that's when it's, you know, like 20, 25 degrees is zero Fahrenheit. There's a whole new it's hard to. Watch out for snow blowers. Do we have to talk. About you want to have your leg chewed up?

See, we've got the the new snow blowers. I think we bitched about this before. They're just the big rubber. It'll just slap you really hard. Well, what's his face, Jeremy? Red Arrow guy. Yeah. Yeah. The quick eye or shut eye or whatever. The fact is. You got to be careful with those machines. But my parents had a snow blower when I was growing up that had the big metal blade that kind of like. Oh, yeah, same here. I love that thing. I know your branches.

It'll do all kinds of shit, Huh? Oh, wait, was that us? Yeah, I guess so. It could have been a snow blower, too. Yeah, well, these new thing. Great. It's like you hit something, you know, you hit a rock, and it basically, like snaps the thing in half. It's like, No, I want the power. Yeah, Power. Ha ha ha. Yeah, I had a while. My parents had a it tracked snow blower. Nice. That thing was awesome, man, because I'm like, wheels like it.

It's not going to, like, pivot and go change the angle of the auger. If it gets into something, it's the tracks made sure it goes in a straight scraping the ground right where it was and it had three years. Three forward gears, one reverse gear and yeah, it was all metal, man. That thing will chew through branches and everything. That's what you want, But great. So we've got like almost no snow. So no chance to get the blower out yet. I'm sure we'll get some. Has just hasn't happened yet.

But it was it was subzero We got home, went to the wife's family for Christmas Eve, had a nice evening, got home and I was sleeping down here in the recliner. And as one does. Yeah well, it's, you know, we need to get a new mattress when we bought a new one very recently. But the guy that we bought it from was a friend of the family and ran a place. And he said this was a good mattress and it's garbage and I'd come way. But he was one of the first people to die of COVID.

I mean, you can't really complain at this point. Well, he got his just deserts. You now, right? That's sad. But I've been sleeping on a recliner because it's like it's it's more comfortable. I'll tell you what, I, I, I hate to make app for this, but surprisingly, after about a decade now, I still think I really like my mattress and it's all is is I got one of the the memory Tempur-Pedic. So that's it just like a memory foam kind of deal rather than. Just the memory foam the brand Tempur-Pedic.

Now is it is their springs and then like memory foam on top. Is it all memory foam? No, it's all memory foam. And it's different different density of memory foam throughout the mattress parts. You get a little bit of give maybe at the top. And the thing that I love is it has super dense foam on the edges. So you don't have that, like squishing the edge and then falling off the fact. That's what this thing has to. It's horrible. It's horrible. Yeah. Here's the thing.

Everybody sells. Memory foam stuff. And they're very different. By anything other than quality brands. Yeah, they all suck. If they if they're not made by a quality brand. You don't think so? Yeah. Yeah. Don't buy the el cheapo. This was a, I think, 3800 bucks when I bought it. But ten years. Exactly. So 3800 bucks, if it would have lasted three years would be shitty. But over ten years it's like $380 a year. Who gives a shit that's like a baby? I don't. I don't like.

I probably will replace the mattress the next time I move. That's an easy time to do it. And it, you know, it's been over. I think it's on 11th year now because I bought it right when I moved here. So remember the first time Adam came over? You had a whole slumber party, You and Adam? Yeah. Yeah, totally. He walks in each. Other. Basically a computer set up with all kinds of monitors and, you know, multiple computers set up, and.

And then every other room in the house is completely empty with no. Furniture, no snake yet? No, no. Well, no, I had the snake. I had the snake. I moved with the snake. But yeah, you had a computer, a mattress and a snake, and you were ready to rock. I didn't have a mattress. I was sleeping on an air mattress. That I used. Yeah, because I didn't bring the mattress from Dallas. So that if I had. So I knew that within the first couple of weeks I need to go out and buy a mattress for this place.

And I had the mattress just sitting on the floor for probably a good two years until I finally got that. Now, with most beds, you don't need like the box spring and all. That, right? Right. But eventually I got all that stuff just to raise it up a little bit, make it a little higher off the ground, because it seemed. Like this was in a meth house or something like.

Yeah, yeah, pretty much. Well, that's yeah, he, he thought that was hilarious that the like it looks like a normal house from the inside, but from the inside it, it does not look like the house because it's just looks like it's set up as a land use kind of thing. Like at your computer. I have plenty of the computers. Yeah. They all got moved here and I still have most of the monitors.

I need to get rid of some some of that used in years I've got right now where I'm sitting, I'm literally have monitors, 180 degrees around me. Nice. Well, that's where I've always had the three. And I mean these things are so old. It's a main one is a 24, which I know is small and then 219 is one on either side. Mm hmm. Yeah. And I've got a 43 inch in front of me. See? That's all that's.

Oh, I had a couple of. 20 sevens on the sides and then I have two more, 24 is on one side and another 47 on the other side. We need. Pictures. Of that. So five monitors I've sent you pictures you've seen. It's a big. Big, big monitors. But that was Christmas Eve. So they're I find that anything more than 43 inches and you can't see the whole thing with your eyes all at once. Well, I only have one, so I mean. I guess that's why I need only half the monitor. Because I can only see half that.

That's complete bullshit. Even one eye sees exactly the same thing is for them to pick a now and then pick. Really Got a pet peeve? Sure. Of Jean's pet peeve. There are so many people, especially in gaming, that are all getting these extra wide monitors like you've seen them. They're super, really skinny. Yes. And why? Yes. Well, I saw one the other day that you can actually take it from the state where it's flat and bend. The thing in which I thought was wild.

Oh, that's kind of cool. I haven't seen that. But anyway, they're getting the super wide monitors. They're idiots because all they're doing and I've tried to explain this, people never seem to get this is your effectively buying only the middle portion of a large monitor. And that is stupid because you're losing the top and bottom of the image to do that. These two, they're basically taking a large monitor and taking like the middle third. Yeah, Yeah, exactly. And then chopping off.

It's not quite a third. They're probably half. So they're chopping off 25% on the bottom and 25% on top. And they're like, Oh, look at the my impressive monitor. It's like a 32 by 12 ratio or 32 by nine or whatever bullshit it is. It's like, Dude, that is ridiculous. Not only that, it is also completely me. It like it makes no logical sense. Your eyeball sees in a spherical pattern like.

Monitors ideally should be round if you want to have the monitor that actually provides data to the entirety of eyeball. That monitor should be round, not stretched out in a thin slice. What are you, a frickin snake that has a slit for an eyeball maybe? No, There are a lot of lizard people. Around that really mean these gamers that are not lizard people.

The lizard people are that much better quality of person. So it's just it's a pet peeve for me because it just shows the idiocracy that is we're living among where people think that making something smaller somehow is making it bigger. And they I think the reason for it is because obviously the marketing for all these monitors, they all look at all the extra space on the sides that you have that you wouldn't have with a normal monitor, Right. Well, that may have been true.

Where is it if the actual pixel counts were higher in those directions? But they're not because. Looking but wrote the marketing. I bet you it didn't because it's not very good marketing if you. Look at like what I've here because at 24 with two nine teams up the side is basically a long. Skinny. Monitor. And I would like to go further higher because that's where the space is.

Exactly. And so what I have is I've got my 43 and I've got the 220 fours, but the 20 fours are up and down, not left to right. So they're landscape or no, that's where a portrait. Portrait mode. Yes. Portrait mode. Which means they're actually useful because they can show full two pages on top of each other. Which is nice. If you look at the CDF, you can have the whole page of the screen. Yeah. Where it's not small, where it's not resized. Exactly. We all need bigger monitors.

But that was Christmas Eve for me, sleeping on the theater chair and we bought one of these Vornado things. I don't remember exactly when we bought this. You know, it's a little space heater. I just wanted to try one out to see if anything better than the Dyson. And this definitely heats up a little better than the Dyson. This all came when I realized that it costs like a buck in $0.35 or something an hour to run the furnace an hour, and it costs like $0.18 an hour to run a space heater.

Of course, the area we're in is a nice wide open because there's just a railing between the kitchen and this, you know, the main room downstairs. So it's it's very hard to keep heat in the room. It's not an enclosed space. So It's still low. If you point that at the theater seats and turn it on, it'll stay warm in that little area. But I woke up and it was like three in the morning. I'm like, it feels colder than normal here. And I mean, I like to get it cold at night.

I'll turn you know, we have the automated thermostat, so I have it go down into you know, there have been times I've set it as low as like 58 degrees at night because it's good sleep. And whether you got a couple of blankets, you're good. But I'm like, this seems a little colder then than it should be. And I woke up, I grabbed my cell phone and I didn't want to wake the wife up. And I turned on the flashlight and I went to go check the thermostat. That was the first thing I thought of.

And the minute I was like three stairs up, going up to the next level, I'm like well, it's way warmer here already. And I looked at the thermostat and it's cranking, it's on whatever it was on. And the furnace appears to be working. And I go back down and as I'm walking towards the office where I'm doing the show right now from, I feel a cold breeze and I look up and I see that the door connecting the garage to the house, you know, going from the garage into the house wide open.

Oh my God. And where the garage door was closed, it's still not exactly airtight and it was. Not insulated probably. I don't know, the garages and insulated at all. And the wind was whipping, I guess, enough to where the door was mostly shut. So we went to bed, the door was shut. And I got pushed up in. More. Yeah, you got a nice gust of wind. It opened the door. The garage you had against the wind. Through the garage. This is how it was Jesus lizard.

Like even with the garage door closed because the garage door at the main large garage door isn't exactly airtight was enough air. The wind was whipping enough that night. Down. To where it blew the door open, I guess, into the house. And I like that. And I'm like, What the hell? And went back and of course, turned on the the space heater, which wasn't out at that point too. I'm like, I need warm it up a little bit.

And this has a temperature gauge in there which is normally showing, you know, when it's cold, maybe it's showing like anywhere between 65 or something like that down on the floor, 35 degrees is what popped up. I was like this this the wonder. It felt cold. I'd say I would have noticed that way before that point. Yeah, well, I was like, Hey, man, it's below 60. This is not right. It's like, Well, you're sleeping, you're under your blanket. I would wake up a drop below 60.

You're getting you're like, this is this is something out of the ordinary. Well, because you know, it would you know, you're ingrained now in your DNA to know if it gets that cold, your snake is in trouble. Mm hmm. So, yeah, exactly that that would be a major problem for the snake. But for for me, it was just, you know, this was the fun know going through.

I wasn't in a huge A-fib pit, but, you know, was getting was that would also maybe explain because when you got the A-fib you're usually pretty lethargic as you're not getting your full circulation. I was just pretty convinced my wife was trying to kill me. But that's another. Story, probably more accurate. Tony Yeah. Open up the door.

I'm like, I'm glad it was like 4000 degrees below zero, because otherwise, you know, if you were just at the right kind of, you know, chilly, you never know what kind of vermin might be setting things that are, you know, playing around in the garage, wanting to get in, you know, or anybody really, that just wanted to walk right into the house. If you can get you have to get through the garage door, but you don't want to usually open the door to your home when it's zero out Fahrenheit.

No, the freezing. That it was the coldest it's been in a long time. The only bright side was that we didn't get the snow that we're supposed to get right as this cold front was coming in. And originally they were like, Yeah, you're going to get like 8 to 12 inches. And we got maybe one. Yeah, I don't know why people live up there, frankly. It's, Hey, you were crazy. You were living up in the Minneapolis. Area and then they moved and I guess it was wise. You were like, Come, it's nice.

You get the different seasons, you get to experience warm, you get to. I think there's only one. Yeah, it's great when you're a kid. It's fun to have all four seasons. It is stupid and and horrible when you're an adult. I don't want to drive in anything other than season. You just wanted to be nice. Well, I mean, if you get rid of all the Californians out of California, I would love to live in California. We only have the weather's beautiful. Oh, it's gorgeous weather.

It said 70 degrees every single day. There's no winters. There's no summers. It's just spring every day. It was definitely nice to see that the car actually started because that was kind of like, whoa, this is not good. Why would you need to go. To the wife's family's home for Christmas Eve. Five, though? I figured it'd be nicer if it didn't start than you got. She's not to go, baby. It's like that. Kick. Hey, Sorry. Thing doesn't start. No problem. No problem. That would have been that way.

I sent you a link to the Tempur-Pedic optics thing. I might have to pick one of those up. I'm telling you, dude, once you figure out that this, like this will last you a decade or more, the cost factor is a lot more justifiable. Yeah, And people throw more money away in video games. Like buying spaceships in virtual worlds. You know, that's how we used to. That's how we were taught to sell everything back, working at RadioShack or Circuit City.

One of those is break it down, break it down to this. You know, like, well, this'll last year, five years and at five years this is only $0.20 a day. Isn't it worth it to you to the best audio quality you can for what you said today. Yeah. You're just not going to get a RadioShack. But yeah. Well not towards the end for. A while in the early days, RadioShack had some nice gear. They did. I have minimus seven and minimum 77 speakers think those were the best RadioShack ones at the time.

I believe. They did go downhill pretty quick before they. Yeah. Before they went out of business. This would be in the eighties. Yeah. Back in the heyday. Mm hmm. Is that when you had an Apple two you were hacking? I never had an apple two, man. I've always had a link to. You went right to metal. Well, Macintosh was how much the two we that was a few years. Still. The three came out in the late seventies. Maybe the one the Mac came out in 85.

That would make sense because I think I got the Toohey back in like 82 or 83 somewhere. Mm hmm. Yeah. Because when the Mac was out, the the two C came out. I still remember playing Castle Wolfenstein on a monochrome monitor that was that was high tech at the time. Yeah, super high tech. Well, of course, so did I, because Macs were all black and white. Macs didn't have color at all. Not when they came out. Interest? Nope. The Mac two was the first one that arrived with color.

And I want to say that was like 87. That's about right. Maybe even the 88 is 87 or 88. Might have been 87, because I think that's what I was using high school and I was no junior year, it would be 87 and I'm pretty sure that's what they had. They had just gotten into the Mac period. LAB Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Apple gave mass of massive discounts to educational institutions back then. And it was great because I had already done

a whole class on basic when I was like 12 or 13. Mm. So I just basically got an A in our high school computer cause that was me and another guy and the, the Christian brother that was the teacher was just like, yeah, go learn Pascal or something, give us a few books and we just got to play around on the matter. That's good. Pascal was awesome. I love Pascal. Back in the day. Yeah, that's the best language, man. The the other thing is, I was such a nerd, believe it or not.

Oh, everybody's like. No, I can't believe that. I was the only kid in high school that brought the laptop. School? Well, I mean, nobody had never seen because this was 1977. Very expensive. Yes. It didn't exist. Yet. It was it was literally a room sized laptop. You had to bring the whole mainframe in. Yeah. Well, you're assuming that I actually went to school, you know, in my teens.

True, True. But I there was there were certainly computers in the school, but I was literally the only student with a laptop in the eighties. Nice. Yeah. Yeah. I remember going to one of the local high schools when I was in junior high for a computer class, and that's where I learned the basic. And it was a, you know, just a basic UNIX system, kind of surprising that the high school had it at that time.

But learning all of that kind of stuff and getting to play around all of that was kind of where all of the all of the shenanigans started. Oh, yeah. But it was fun because nobody else was really even understand it at the time. I have to. I didn't read enough to myself, so I'm glad I remembered. I have to bring this up with you because you're going to love it. I am a You are. Remember I told you about the steam? That plus. Yes, the the the string. That was not the one on.

The stream deck. Plus with the nails. Yeah. It's like all all it's basically seems like an audio interface. Right. It does. So here's the really cool part. So it you know, it's not it's just a controller, but here's the really cool part. What I didn't realize is until I read some forms is that by buying that device, you get a license for their audio mixer. And what does that do? And what that does is it obvious creates the need for a mode to. Oh, really?

Because it creates a software based virtual mixer that you can have as many channels as like, and they all show up as independent channels on the computer. So this lets you route things any which way you want. Yep. MM. And you use the little knobs to control it. Buttons and knobs. You love yourself. Some knobs. Some knobs. The idea how come people aren't talking about this that. Because it's not one of their selling points about it. This is like a Oh and by the way.

Oh yeah, it gives you a full mixer. So what you're saying is for people that are using this for podcasting, this would give them everything they need for one. Hundred and 60 bucks. It would combine your mixing board with your I mean, your mixing board. The what is what. It's made for is streamers. Right? So same exact needs as podcasters, right. You want to combine a bunch of different audio sources.

And and so what you can do is like if for now using the streaming example so you've got your mike on one channel, you've got discord for your buddies mikes and another channel you've got your video game and the third channel and you've got your background music and the fourth, and you could do all the mixing live. That's awesome. For free. Well, free after you buy the product. Right after you buy. But that's still compared to the cost of a professional MOTU, which are like 600 plus.

Yeah, well, if you still get them at all these days. You still have to have an audio interface. You're probably still adding that to an audio interface. You're 300 000. Okay. I don't know that you do because every computer comes with an audio interface and the only reason we bought separate ones was because we have the fancy mikes. That's true. It's the Excel, our mikes that need.

To be in the price. So what you want to look up if you want more info and this is the elgato wavelength and it's the same software that they sell when you buy their audio interface, they do sell an audio interface. You'd like to buy one, but yeah, you could just create however many channels you want and you can control in those channels. How much goes to your headphones? Separate levels even for each channel and how much of it goes to to broadcast.

And yet you still can't figure out how to get the channel to go through when I'm. Not using it. So, you know, it's I've played around with it. I'm not using it everything like nothing's through it right now. You're just pure mode to action. Mm. Yeah. And our buddy Bunbury went to where you may have heard that on Wednesday when we were live on the stream was he by one. Well he has the same MO two that I have, he found what used right before it was impossible to.

Define the regulations to him, but. He was able to integrate that into the thing that The Godfather Adam Curry's using now, the road broadcaster. He was able to do that. He was able to figure out how to use the inputs and outputs that he can send things then from the PCs. So from the PC through the bow to, but then have it controllable on the road.

Broadcaster So you have the physical, you're basically going along way to get the mode to into a physical object that you can use the physical sliders and faders if you want. Oh, okay, sure. I mean it's cool. It's for proof of concept. I thought it was awesome. Yes. I mean, if you're buying the other box, which is more expensive than the you are about the same price, I guess. Why would you want to use both of them? I would agree. I don't like.

Also the MOTU is in my opinion, superior quality product with I agree. Lower noise levels. In a lower footprint. Yeah. Much lower footprint. But but again, let me just finish the wavelength conversation here so you can create all these channels and you can use audio effects and you have the standard. You know, effects that you need like an IQ and noise gate, but also it'll literally use any standard the VST type, I guess Adobe compatible effects. Oh, it'll use any of the plugins.

Any of the BSD plugins. So you can go and get yourself literally strip. You can build yourself a mode to using this thing and have physical knobs. If that's like for controlling it. That's pretty cool because having the VST, those the plugins, there are some fantastic. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Well more and more probably fantastic for people that actually use them for music than for podcasts even. There's a few that I run most of the podcast through.

After we do the show live, I do run filters on the stuff before the end result goes out. And one of those is a mouse because no matter what we're all doing, no. I never dig it out. What are you talking about? So it takes care of that. There I run a plosives remover because your microphone is more susceptible to them, but I find myself getting excited as well. Even with the RS 20, which is very good. Yeah. With the blows of rejection with a big foam ball on it.

Yeah. There are still certain times where I just hit it just right and it annoys me to have the plosives. There's nothing worse to me than hearing plosives in an audio file. That's like the biggest sin that's like that. There's no excuse for mainly because it's very easy to remove it and post as well. But then I usually run a light DSP. They're not the most people that neither myself, I don't believe or most people I talk to. You don't have a real problem with the symbol.

It's yeah, I don't I don't think that's really an issue these days. No. So it's very light with that. But it's mainly the plosives and the mouth d click and there are some very cool one is I think from our ex I forget the company name that makes these, but it's a a voice d noise which basically means it's looking at that channel and anything that the little algorithm believes is not a voice. It cuts down on any extraneous noise. Which is nice.

And, and this can use all of those and they have, they also have their own AI based GP controlled noise removal. Even better using the you Yeah. Or I it's that both you and I. It is doing it live baby. Yeah. The noise now live. Yeah. They, they recommend they d gate or a real gate. So those are the ones that the real gate the one that they would probably load and that has full controls of the noise gate.

And that's all you need is your basic noise gate compressor and you have a much better sound. Yeah. But it also has a low pass and high pass built in as well. And you can do a wet, dry mix on the home filter. I love a good wet dry. I bet you do. I mean, you're still not going to get my radio voice, but. Oh, you might. You can see now that's where the air is going to come in. Uh huh. It's a lot of people think you're using it. I just to lower your voice now.

Yeah, Yeah. People do thing that I've tried a few of these audio plug ins just for fun. They just don't sound. Oh, well, this is something you learn with the audio plug ins from a lot of trial and error. And I've also heard this from professionals like Van Drew Scott, who does the podcasting channel on YouTube. When you look at a lot of these audio plug ins, the one thing you want to know is less is better.

You want to put like the very least amount of processing you can add with any of the noise reduction, anything where you're trying to remove something you want to air on the fact of don't accidentally take part of the real signal and a lot of people get a little too heavy handed and that it sounds like you're underwater and it doesn't sound natural at all. Right. You're better having a little room reverb come through than sounding like you're in a tunnel of a cell phone.

Let's see how much this shit is. Uh, what's different between commercial license and discounted? It's a good question. Oh, if you're. If you're making more than $20,000 a year in gross revenues. Oh, well, you're making that in a week. I'm searching. Speaks not from the podcast. I'm not. Yeah, here we go. If you're an individual using it only for personal use, 60 bucks buys me the whole package. Otherwise it's like 700 bucks. Not bad.

Still not bad either way. Yeah. So that was the full set of these Reaper plug ins. Those are pretty good. I've tried those before. You're selling this. I might have to get one. I'm telling you, dude, that's natural. I actually got rid of my my stream deck classic would be the way to term it. So I only have the the. Big one. 88 button one and the brand new one. I've got the 48 and the other one is what, three, six, nine, 18. Yeah. That one.

And then I got really using has fewer buttons but mostly the free IDs get all the buttons I ever need and Well yeah. Because you could just scroll through pages too. So Yeah exactly. I got to look. They keep adding more and more functionality which love and they now let you just upload a JPEG file for an image, which is great because they used to make you go through stupid website, degrade the pictures. Oh the great the background for the keys. Yeah yeah. Not that. That easy.

Although now you could just do it direct. And it's great because you can edit it very easy at a glance. No you're hitting the right buttons. Mm. Now check that out. I'm digging it man. It's and I like on the dials I have on my left mouse dial, I have the, the full app mixer. So this is not using their mixer, this dance. There's three different mixers. Going into the windows mixer.

It's the windows mixer so I can push the button down and that switches between the applications that are currently running. And then then if I turn the dial, it'll make that particular louder, quieter nights. Well, I've got that as well, just directly in the old ones without the buttons. Yeah, you have to go. Well, they just let you do the same exact thing but using dials now as well. Awesome. That is. Okay, you have to check it out now.

And now I don't use it this way, but the screen is touch actually. So you can also just use your finger on the touch screen. Or you can move it one way or the other. Wow. If you don't want the noise of the turning of the dial, I Yeah. I hate noisy knobs, man. They're not noisy, but, you know, they're not like, I'm sure there's some noise. There's definitely a little bit of clicky noise, but if you wanted to, you could also just use the touchscreen. Very cool. It's a good product.

I mean, to 60 is not cheap. It's half the price or not too, but it's a it's a good quality product. I think they make screen decks. Most of their stuff is made well. Yes. Yeah. The elgato stuff that I've had seems very well including this. Yeah, even the screen. That's what I've got. The little green screen that pops up from that looks like big old fashioned movie screen kind of projector thing. You just pull it up and it stands by itself.

It's great. Yep. So I got what I think is probably the best green screen concept. Not saying that certainly the company had built mine is the best, but the big. Oval one that goes on your Chair. Ah. Huh. It is a self stretching, so it has a hoop, a plastic hoop around the outside of it and theoretically you can compress it down to a very small size for travel, which I don't bother ever folding it because I only use it here at the office. But, but it literally just slides on your chair back.

And so it has a green screen that is literally right behind your chair at all times. So don't spin in your chair. Well, yes, yes. I mean, if you start spinning too much, then you're going to lose the green screen effect for sure. But it also means that if you do have multiple cameras, you can pivot the chair towards the camera, that you want to make sure it's got full green screen. I like the full green screen action, my friend.

And I like the stretch green screen more than the the one on the like projector tripod, because when it's stretched in every direction, it gets a very even green all the way through because even a little bit of a a fold or a little crinkle which shows up. Yeah yeah it kind of makes it well, it makes it more difficult to tune because you need to tune your green screen filter. Oh, you got to tune your green screens. Because it's not it's going to look crappy by default. Too, in a green screen.

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Uh, when we're like. Yeah, I got a message from Adam yesterday, said, Hey, is your lightning. No, don't do that. I can't send you money. He was trying to send you money. Yeah, I know, right? Just tell him to send it to me. I'll make sure you get it okay. That might be a better way. And I said, I don't know. I don't usually look at it. So I went. Everything looked fine. I rebooted it just in case. And then. Then he was like, You have liquidity channels that are balanced on my fucking side now.

I don't use this shit. It's just sitting there. It's a waste of money. Frankly, I pay more for running in Node than I've ever had come in. You. That's why I just. Every month. Yeah, every single month I was losing money and. I should turn this into I'm going to turn this into an Amazon card. You know what? I'm going to turn this into an Amazon gift card in order. Mm hmm. The elgato thing, because I've got over 2 million stats here, so it's like 306 million sets. Yeah, 360 bucks and satellite.

Yet I could turn that into an Amazon gift card. How do you do that? There's a website that allows you to do that for like 1%. So, you know, if you want 300 bucks, you'll pay them like 305 bucks or something. And I gotcha. It converts it for you, which is great. That's convenient. Yeah. That way, if they're anonymous sets and you get a gift card. Exactly. Yeah, it works out. Yeah. That's a good, good use of it. But, yeah, I don't know, man.

I have no idea if my thing is working or not, if you want to. Okay, now. Very nice. So one of my things. Idea my working. No fricking no clue. Could explain why you want a girlfriend in a while. Surging speeds and turn on the the set streaming thing. That would be a good test because if I see something showing up like today or tomorrow that I'll know it's working. I'll think if I don't see anything shows up.

Yeah, I don't care what number of says hey, I like with the volume of episodes, meaning the number of downloads that I have, unless people just go crazy and start putting their stats at like 10,000 per minute or something. Per second, it's. Just not going to make a difference at all. So yeah. It's like opening up your faucet for a drip.

Yeah. Yeah. Now when you have a show that's got massive audience and you're getting literally hundreds of thousands of downloads, I could see that drip adding up. Yeah. And this is again, this is why I tell people, like, donations are totally optional because it's all about the numbers game.

So you can, you can have and I see this all the time on YouTube, people that literally have like 100 subscribers spend just as much time telling people to go on their Patreon and, you know, help them out as people that have a million subscriber. Yeah, here's the trick up into the point. You have the million subscribers. The best thing to do is say, you know, hey, instead of sending me five bucks, tell your friends that you like the show. And exactly.

That you're going to get a lot more out of that in the long. Run. That's exactly what I say. And sir, Speaks is like the best thing you can do is just write a review because the more reviews a podcast has, the more chances are that it's going to be one of those random recommend podcasts. And do you translate yours into Russian still. So there's the Russian version. No, no, I know that. That would be a good show. I listen, I do separate podcasts in Russian. You know, I believe that.

What's that would? Cause that the angry Russian prepper. Which one is in Russia? Yes, that's the. The news from the Americas. You bet. Would be good. Yeah, it would be pretty good though. You could build a nice audience there. I just you know, in the fact that Russia actually seems to be in a better economic state, you might get more donations. Probably with Russia. Yes. The stats coming in converted from rubles might actually add up to. The Putin economy.

Whatever you do, every time I see a video of a Russian COSCO or, gosh, a grocery store or anything like that, I'm just blown away how much fuller the shelves are than they are here in Texas. Yeah, we're still every week doing the grocery shopping. There is multiple items out of stock. Oh, at least I'd say it feels like 10%, but it's probably closer like three or 4%. Yup. That's probably I don't think it's really ten,

but it sure feels like about a 10th of the products are just out stock. Yes, and it's different ones every time. But the clearly their supply lines are having issues. Oh, there's no question. Yeah Like we never fully recovered from COVID. Got a stock up. And I don't know if it's because they don't want to spend the money to get more ahead time or what. But the idea of there being perpetual shortages in American stores is just such an anathema.

We're we're the ones that are supposed to never have shortages. Right. And it's the other countries in the world that you should be finding shortages and and. It gets into a third world country. They totally are. This is what they want. That's the goal. Yeah, I think so. That's why you tune in to us, because we tell you the truth, man. We do. And by the way, for anybody that remembers that I made 100% profit buying rubles, I'm starting to look at the on the Chinese currency.

Oh, so not that not providing any kind of financial advice or anything, but when is a dip in the yuan? Yours truly is probably going to pick some up because that's it's going to go up a lot more in dollars. Our watch for the dip in the yuan and then come back next week and listen here to another episode of Unrelenting. If Jean shows up for that one the way. No, don't comment on that. Come on. You guys getting some drink here? I thought we were done. I know.

I was hoping you would have a pithy comment, though. Oh, I'm sorry. Yeah, it's not a lie if you believe it's true.