062: Pot Of Gold

Yeah. Why don't you go suck balls? Because you're an idiot. Ello. And welcome to episode number 62 of Unrelenting for Friday, March 12, 2023, where we're all using different mikes today. Are we now? Yeah, well, I'm used to the Sure, I'm seven B, which maybe I used on the last year. I'm Darren O'Neil. He is surging. And today I tried because the one thing I don't like about these.

Sure. Sam seven B is that with the normal small windscreen, I get plosives, everybody fucking gets plosives and it drives me nuts. When I watch the professional shows or the professional podcast that use this microphone in, it's positive, almost impulsive. It's like, you know, the. Only reason people are using this microphone is because they're arrogant about using this. Mike Like people that literally know nothing about audio but they have money.

Yes. Are buying the F some seven B. And it looks better than a lot of them. Mike It's a little less intrusive than the microphones, more compact. Yes, it is interesting. But I will say you have us based using this for me. We got a little less bass. Maybe I need to boost that bass up a little bit, which you never know. It's a different sounding microphone a little bit.

And I believe that you're right that the the RC 20 has a little bit more to the bass, but because I hate the plosives, I put the big mofo on there which is probably similar. To that was too funny is. Did you go with the big mofo. I am running on. Yeah I'm running the AKG perception 200 microphone with the big mofo in there. See, it's the big mofo that makes the problem with the BQ because now, I mean, I've done this before, but this is without the IQ on this microphone.

That is horrible. That is God awful. I know this is no excuse to bring that high end back. Uh huh. So you need. The cue to bring the high end. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. This is why for people that don't know anything about audio, they buy one of these microphones and it's either they if it's the Sure they put the little windscreen on the little microphone cover and they get plosives up the ying yang or they put this thing on and it sounds like they're underwater. Do you funny, funny.

How is my sound coming across? It sounds a little bit. This is not a good way to explain it. I guess it sounds a little cheaper than you're used to. It doesn't sound as I have a quality sound. Yeah, I can see that. I could totally see that. Although this Mike weighs literally twice as much as their B20. Now is this just they're filling it with lead to make it seem like a more impressive microphone But. I bought this microphone in 1994. And why did you dust this thing off today?

Because it was the handiest one that I had when well, there's a combination of things. So I reinstalled my windows last Wednesday, I guess days ago because, well, a few things happened, one of which was I was running out of space for my storage, but I need to add another device, another SSD did that, and then the computers started sort of randomly crashing. So I'm like, I'm up and then I couldn't boot any anymore. Well, let's see, that is a problem.

So that kind of forces you to reinstall Windows. So I did that and the reason I was late today was because good old patch for the mode two that I forgot to install until this morning. And would use the same screen. Yeah, a blue screen for about four reboots until I had to turn off the mode to run the computer, changed the registry settings, then turn on the do and hopefully now it'll be fine. But it seems that about every third reinstall. I found it interesting.

I can get away with twice just loading the patch as is. Everything worked fine and do it again. Everything worked fine. Do it again. Oh, blue. Screens. Well, it's like it changes something in windows. And if windows changes the rate and the rate doesn't match what MOTU is expecting, that all things go bad. It's definitely doing something. But right now we're talking about on the MOTU, everything's fine in there.

But when I was doing the whole Windows reinstall, I had accidentally cranked the the input volume on the multi Mac and all of a sudden I heard what sounds like ground loop issues like ground loop noise. You blew your MOTU up. No, I didn't blow it up. I just cranked up the, the input on it to Mac. And then without talking, I'm just listening to basically the dead air. All right. Because of basically getting as loud as you can on the signal chain. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly.

And with no compression or anything else running and, and I heard brown noise and this is something Adam mentioned when I interviewed him like oh yeah, you get a little bit of background repair. It's not bad, but you get to them. I'm like, You got to be kidding me. I get here. Well, he's got super years. Old now, especially because. Well, yeah, yeah. Batty before now he's got super. Yeah. The dental procedure was like cotton was taken out of his ears, which is bizarre.

Well, it makes sense that you're just kind of hooked up to your ears. Well, and that is that does it. When you have dental infections that does intertwine with your. Sinuses, all that crap drain. Yeah. I mean, I can only imagine. Yeah. Because I said I had the one and I have to go back next week on Tuesday for them to finish up the canal redo where there was one little bit of infection and he was just like oh yeah, there's, there's a lot of that.

And there's like, it only imagine what kind of sludge came out. Oh, yeah, right. It's got to be like ounces of sludge. At a clean that thing up, which is why they injected. Know they don't just put a little bit of mercury in there right inside the hole to kill off the bacteria because stuff like that would totally do it. And they kill off the host. But mostly the bacteria. Right? Well, but it might also kill off the host. Well, slowly.

But the bacteria would like you wouldn't get infections, at least like immediately. You'd be good. A little bit of mercury is okay. Look, it's not like I haven't drank thermometers before, okay? It's Mercury does not insta kill you. Contrary to what modern kids like. You did this on purpose. Was this to prove a point. For a kid? Of course you do shit like this because it's fun to play with. But it's a liquid metal.

So you break off the thermometers, you play with it in your hands, you wipe your face and your nose, and then you get well. You got to try to see what it. Okay, I want to see a show of hands in the drill room. Who else has ever done that? But he's drunk, Mercury. I mean, anybody that grew up in the woods running around trying to avoid getting exploded by mine. I don't think that's ever happened to anybody. Mm. No man happened to me. Well, you. Turned out just fine. Right?

There's been no brain damage at all that anybody can prove. No. You're thinking of LED. This is Mercury. Mercury's way different. So the thing to avoid with mercury is the vapor in that the liquid. Interesting. That's when it's the most dangerous. Yeah, well, that's poison. You net net says he's did that. So I guess you're not alone die. You did. This is like if you're of a certain age. Yeah. Probably played with mercury and you probably got some in your mouth. I never did.

That was one problem I don't have. You probably grew up upper middle class and stuff like that. So sorry for that. I didn't have to eat mercury for dinner. Yeah, well, we did that then. I don't know. Anyway, so I've got. I think I got everything running and after I heard the ground noise, I'm like, Oh shit, something's fucked up here. And then so I put on my closest mike that was sitting to here, which happens to be this one. The perception 200 and it sounds fine.

I mean, it doesn't sound like you said, I do agree with you that it sounds cheaper right there. 320. It's not as full. Bodied. It's not. And I've got nothing going on with like it's I'm running pretty much flat with No he do I have right now just because I haven't messed around with them and I'm probably not going keep around here but it doesn't have the ground loop problem because this thing runs and we got the. USB. Now 43 volts of. You need the phantom power.

Bands of power, that sort of stuff. Yeah. So there's no ground loop when you have a condenser type microphone that uses phantom power. Yeah. Mm hmm. But if you don't, then you have the ground loop. Yeah. So I have ordered some. They're. They're there. I guess the little blockers. I ordered like a 48 pack of these little fuckers. So I should have them for the rest of my life in a variety of sizes. So I'm going to be putting these I think every cable that comes in and out of the motive.

And that does anything. Yeah, well, it should. I mean, that's. That's. But therefore I think it's probably the power cable. But I'm, I've got enough of these to put it on all the cable. Well because the, the the microphone you normally use the electric voice 320 is so hot you don't need a cloud lifter or something. Nothing. But you throw that into which I use for everything. And that does engage the 48 volts of magic. So maybe that's why I keep everything clean.

Well, I don't I like I don't think I had that problem when I bought the mic originally, but there's a lot more shit running in the house now that like all the time, all the different Spidey devices. You have any. Dimmers? I have no dimmers. I purposefully because I had that issue with dimmers back like in, in 2000. So I've purposely never added a dimmer to the House.

But you know there's like the story device that was plugged in and God only knows what kind of interference they're creating in the power lines. I know I should be getting my replacement air fryer tomorrow. I think you get together. I think tomorrow. So it took a while, but it but we do have a tracking number. So at least we. I. Believe they sent it, right? Yeah. Both before I thought otherwise.

This is kind of a scam and I know both my mother in law and my mother have one of these two We bought them after we had ours and everybody's like, Oh, that's great. So we bought. Them. Mm hmm. Mm hmm. And both of them like, Oh, no, You can't see the serial number in the picture. Please. For every one of them, including mine, there was allegedly a problem. So I think this is also another way for them to try to keep the amount of people that are getting these replacements as low as they can.

Well, if they had to cut the cord and then they can't see the serial number, you're kind of screwed. Yeah. Well, and also, as I pointed out, if you know how to use Photoshop, you don't really have to cut the cord. Right? Right. Which was the best big. It's like I'm still using it. Like, why? Are you afraid? No, I've been using it for like four years. If it hasn't blown up yet, what's the I, you know? Yeah. What are the odds? I think I'm going to cancel my Adobe. But you don't use it much.

I really use it like once a month. And I use it for everything. Yeah. It uses for everything. You get your money's worth. But I was on the discounted plan and now they jacked the price of 60 bucks a month. Wow. That. Wait, so 50 bucks now. I'm like this. I don't really need it, so don't wait. So 720 bucks a year just to have the Adobe suite? Yeah. Yeah. Which is crazy, because once a month is it? That's all I'm doing.

And I know, I mean, I think they still allow you to buy, like, one program for maybe 30. Yeah, but it's still, I mean that's like 350 bucks a year. For one program. So I just downloaded DaVinci Resolve for my video editing. Well, there are a lot of choices for video editing. Yeah. Which I heard a lot of good stuff about. And it's got the free, the right price point free for noncommercial usage.

And, you know, I mean, for what I do with audio, which is not a whole lot, I'm mostly using this script for doing it, all that stuff. So I really don't use. Right, Because the script gets you your transcripts. It does, but it also has a sweetener in it. So it'll, it'll do the leveling like you have two different people on this level. It has that kind of stuff built in and, and the transcript obviously.

And then, you know, the only big question there is Photoshop, which just all that really means is I need to get my Mac mini set up finally that I got like a year ago. Yeah, they're so much better now. The new Mac minis are better. Yeah. And I've got one. I just. I don't know. You don't even have the M two ones now you have an M1. I have them one. Yeah. I mean. The M2 is around, you can get rid of the M1. But I haven't plugged in them. Well yeah. So that's why you want to go right to the M2.

Well I've got an empty laptop. You are the ultimate Apple customer, and you're like, I haven't even seen the old one and the new one's already out. And now I. But I do have them to a laptop, Mac But that's not plugged in either. Well, see, there you go. That may be a problem. Lots of power in those little things there. Well, yes.

And I have the competitors already purchased long time ago for those, which is affinity something, affinity pain or some shit like that, which is basically a Photoshop knockoff. Whatever works. You know, Adobe is just easy for me. I am lucky enough to have a friend that can get me the discounted rate for being a educator. Well, and that's the thing. Like I was fine paying 20 bucks a month, right? Is what, 260 bucks a year or whatever. Yeah. Which is about what I paid I think for the whole year.

And I mean, I want you can go buy a card at Best Buy. Unfortunately, you can't buy them from Amazon anywhere. Best Buy is the only one who will actually still send you one of these cards with the redeeming code that you need. And I was like 250 bucks or something for the year, which I'm like, okay, again, that brings it to like 20 bucks that I'm willing to pay 60. You would be like, It's not worth it. I would pirate it again.

Yeah, and I would I would even pay 260 bucks as a one time payment for a year of Adobe product. I'd be okay doing that. I don't want to pay 60 bucks a month or 700 bucks a year is I just I don't make any money with these products. This is this is crazy money right now. If you're actually making money or like no big deal. Oh, yeah. Yeah, of course.

I mean, there's like, there's plenty of products that I use that help me make money that are ridiculously priced that I wouldn't have unless I was making money with them. Like the but the thing called the there's a, a website that basically lets people schedule meetings with you. Oh right. And then they can pay directly there as well, right.

Well they can I mean I don't use that person there, but basically it allows anybody, not just people that have access to your calendar, but it essentially is a calendar access tool and schedule thing that's kind of limited. But yet currently that's the only calendar. So it really all it does is you send the link to your stuff to people or your link to people, and then it shows them when you're available to schedule a call or meaning or whatever.

And it's a very simple thing that is already built into Google. If you send somebody like if they have access to your calendar, then they can book their own meaning. But this would be for every just any random person that doesn't track their calendar. People that want a little gym action. They charge like 18 bucks a month for that functionality.

So it's like 200 bucks a year for something that all it does is check your existing calendar and then sticks up a website to show people when you're available. I mean that like, that's it's basically the kind of project app you would build in your second class. All right. Development in college. And yet here they are making money.

At it. 200 bucks a year. Yeah, but again, as much as I bitch about it and I have big money with me, I pay it because it simplifies the task of booking people and, you know, clients, people with pay me money so that we don't have to have this back and forth. Well, I'm available Thursday at like 3 p.m.. Does that work for you now? That does work for me. What do you have next week? Like it simplifies that whole process. So I can stay up to date with what's available. Right?

Well, it's tied to your calendar, so it's whatever is in your calendar. So as long as you put your own events in your own calendar, then you're good to go. So I could either pay 200 bucks a year for that app or pay $45,000 a year for personal assistant to accomplish the same task. Well, then that was the sexual harassment problem. Myself that I've never had a single spectrograph, but now I'm really good with. By the way, how dare you assume that a personal assistant would be female?

Okay. What percentage of the audience thinks Jean would hire a male personal assistant vote now? I've never hired a male personal assistant. Fair enough, but thank you. But how dare you assume that? How dare we make assumptions based upon facts of the previous 50 years? Yeah, well, I've had lots of personal assistants over the years, and I. So my disclosure agreements. Yeah, I mean, that's normal. That's a standard thing. Everybody does that. That's not me at all by any means.

Especially if you're Tiger Woods. Sometimes you just have to trick the woman to leave the house so you can change the locks. What it was was like. So I'm. Not familiar with. It. There's a woman trying to sue Tiger Woods that was an ex-girlfriend, and she wants to vacate the nondisclosure agreement because something like she said, he tricked her into leaving the house. And when she left the house, he changed the locks. It was a great story. Tiger Woods has led a very fun life, it sounds like.

Sounds like he's got a few money issues there, like these. He's probably going to be paying well, he is paying out for a lot of people right now. I mean. Yeah, but I think he's right up there with Jordan. I think he actually became a billionaire through all of his deals. Really? Holy shit for him. I didn't realize he was making that much playing golf. Well, it's not just the playing golf. It was everybody wanted to sell your tiger shirts and your Tiger clubs and your tiger golf.

Your like these like. Tiger condoms, probably. I don't know. He's gotten he's got a whole bunch of aspects he can go down. I guess that's true. Mm. It's all about finding that magical exit strategy. I was surprised. He has a lot of money. You're probably like, you may not be tech enough. Know he is, but there's a, there's a YouTube channel called Linus Tech. Oh yeah. I subscribe to him. You do? Okay. You know, like he's. A very nerdy looking guy. Super nerdy, forever dorky.

Been around for a long time. I mean, he still looks like he's young, even though he's not that young. I know. I mean, if you. If I had to guess, I'd be like. He's easily in his early thirties. Yeah, that's what he looked like for sure. Like he's barely out of his 20, but I think he's actually in his late 33 now. But you know, he's worth it now. 68 million. Damn. Audrina Chrome. That channel has 15 million subscribers and it's done extremely well. That's his main channel.

He's also got like five other channels that they do stuff on. So he's got a nice little empire there and he's starting to get sexual harassment claims going against them now. We'll see, right? Yep. Once you have enough money. Yeah. It's a guaranteed work. Right. Like, well. Oh wait, we can. He said something this is all. This stuff's got to stop, man. The world is going crazy. Yep, I agree. There's no that's the lawyers. Because the lawyers essentially aren't going to do anything pro bono.

It's even pro bono. It's like they're not going to do anything based on percentage of what you get if you win, if that number is too low, if the potential number is too low for a either settlement amount or if they win in court amount, no one's going to take the case. But if if they're suing somebody really rich, well, now they just try the woodwork and there's plenty of them ready to get going and think, okay. That is why success is under attack. Well, it is. It is.

It also, I think, sort of explains the Clinton deathless. Oh, well, yet there's so many different ways people have died. But he's going to sue the Clintons. Will they take care of it ahead of time? I love the Clintons. I would never sue the Clintons. Oh, I do, too. I know Hillary is my favorite. I would vote for her in a heartbeat. Well, I wouldn't go that far, but but it's amazing how many people have asked themselves that were affiliated with the Clintons for years.

I mean, and they want to do it so badly at times. They put three or four bullets in their head. Right. I mean, just make sure they commit suicide properly. Yes. But like literally people that that had perfect life, you know? Well, our kids, family, everything, they just they just are so depressed that they commit suicide by double tapping them. So it'll happen. Part of jumping off of a hot tub into the middle of a building. Jumping off a hot tub with an electrical line attached to your neck.

But with the cover. Yeah. Mm hmm. Nothing to worry about. No, no. You somehow fall into a hot tub and then pull the cover on over yourself. Exactly. Then can't get out. It happens all the time. It's a it's a real danger. These attempts to. Avoid all things that could have hot. Dead, private cars, planes, I mean, all super dangerous things that people tend to die as a result of. Got to be careful. This world is seriously out to get. Yep.

They are. Yeah. Yeah. Especially if you are friends with Clinton. Well, yeah, but I know, I know somebody that knows Hillary, so I mean. And he's still alive now. Yeah. Oh, well, you know, I would treat him as though he wasn't right. It could happen at any time. Yeah. You never. Know. You might just disappear in a strange Tesla accident. No, You went right into Lake Michigan. It was weird. Yeah, it just. Just kind of drove itself. Bryan There.

That is one of the things that is a little dystopian me about Teslas. And now it's not just Tesla's other there's other self-driving cars on the road now, but just the idea that in theory you can take over the car any time, but in practice, like you don't know if they're going to be able to turn off the gas pedals, then, you know, you push the brake, nothing happens kind of thing, right? It's I don't know, man. It's one of those things.

And, you know, I drove an electric car, but mine was more of a golf cart than the car. I had the Fiat 500 A.D.. Those were kind of fun, weren't they? I love that car, man. I was so sad to get rid of it. And I got rid of it because they closed their dealership network and you don't really want to own an electric car that nobody can serve it, right? Because when it breaks, then it breaks. Into a disposable item. Right? It was like my drobo when the power supply went bad until you it was.

Just like your Drobo Yes. You can get that part replaced. It's like it's a brick. It is a brick, Yeah. And so unfortunately, when they think about it, they do have a new version of it in Europe, which actually is really nice, but they've more than doubled the range on it and they increased the the horsepower by putting some bigger motors and a bigger battery in that thing. But it's still the same size. And that's what I loved about it is it's for living right next to downtown.

The way I do it means that I could have like parked in any parking space and not worried about, like, not being able to open the doors or somebody digging me because the car was like two thirds the size of a parking space where it's very, very easy to get in and out. Yeah, good luck with that and the Irish roads and been happy at. Well that's what it's made for right. Yeah. So like on the Irish roads it would. Yeah. You probably wouldn't even bump mirrors.

Right. What fun is that. Well it carries thin enough. It's like a bicycle with a shell on it. Yeah. But it was very comfortable. People always prized that how comfy the interior was because while it technically or practically speaking, it was a two seater. And and so if you treat it as a two seater, the two front seats have plenty of room and plenty of leg room because you could slide them all the way back to where they touch the back seat. Yes. Oh yeah.

So I had a 96 Camaro for years and people like, how can you fit in that? It's like you ever see how far back the seats go? Yeah. I have. You taking out the any of the new Camaro's, the current gen No. Are they fine? Are they better? So here's the problem that I ran into. I got a convertible rental and a rental is the only convertible I have and I really, for whatever God knows why reason better than I wanted the convertible. You could have the wind flow through your hair. Yeah, yeah.

That's at the top of the window. Was at my level. The windshield. You mean in front of it? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Uh huh. Now, do the seats not go down? Don't go any lower. Now, see, that's bad, because it was for me, that was, it was lean back. Yeah. They had to literally be at a 45 degree angle like I'm driving while I'm, you know, sitting on the chaise lounge. Right. That's Dale Earnhardt used to drive, though. So that's kind of what I did of the Camaro.

He was very much reclined, which was it seems like a very comfortable way to go. No, I don't like that. I prefer that my eyes are in the middle of the windshield. Matt, you wanted my. Well, come on. Do you want to see what's coming? What fun is that? Yeah, crazy. But that will be, you know, again, I have not been driving much because of the vision issues. Yeah, yeah.

But with that said, I went to, you know, beyond having the other party issues I went to see my retinal guy was my six month checkup. Erectile guy. Retinal. No. Yes. Right. I don't have a, I don't need a rental guy yet. Thank goodness everybody. Hey buddy recommend a good ask doctor. I don't know. They didn't they schedule you for that because they always start charging at 50 for that. I did have the colonoscopy. Yes. There you go. So I did that. I was all clean and green with that one.

They're starting them earlier now because they. Sure, it's supposed to be green. Is that figure of speech. Mm. But I went to see the retinal guy and where these normally just, you know, they always check out both eyes which the left eye

is the one that still has enough vision for me, you know, read the whole room. Mm. Although there's lots of floaters and that kind of stuff in the right eye is the one that pretty much got screwed up after five different retinal detachment surgeries where, you know, the first four, they couldn't get it to stick. And now. The problem. Yeah. What we have had in that I can see a little bit of light. So I mean, if you take your hand and wave it furiously in front of me, I'll see the movement.

But I probably couldn't tell you much else. It turns out. Your head. That I believe starting next year, the doctor, you know, he's looking at that eye and he's like, well, you know, because it still has the oil that they put it into. They put a silicone oil in the eye to preserve the retina. Normally that would come out, except it doesn't hurt anything. So the fact that there was no vision there, it was like, we really don't need to do it.

It's not going to really do much except for all of this time. Now, I guess it is starting to scar the cornea a little bit, which I mean, you can get a corneal transplant if you have to do that. That's at least a possibility. Probably not fun. Mm hmm. But he's like, there's some gene therapy studies. So I'm like, I get enough gene therapy every week on Friday. That was Bumrah's is joke. I didn't even think of It is like, did you tell me you had had enough gene therapy?

Like, Yes, I'm paying for gene therapy trials starting, I think you said the next year, although you know how these things are. Yeah. That they're you know, they're filing the paperwork now. Well, that's it works great. I've got a friend that does all that gene stuff, Mexico and they're like way ahead of the curve on how they do all the legal stuff. Yes. And it's amazing how well that the work and their they figured out how to not use like aborted fetuses now. Which is good.

Yeah I think so I think they're figured out how to use cells out of your own body but your body has apparently a whole shitload of stem cells that are dormant. And they find those whatever they're doing. And they just I guess they never turn on or something, but they're still in there. But they've figured out a way to suck that stuff out, drum externally, and then, you know, inject them back into various parts of your body.

A lot of people have had them in shoulder's like getting their shoulders that have had 20, 30 years worth of not not back to normal. You know, we we've all had sort of shoulder issues at one point in my life usually. And people are just saying the miraculous how like they're they all of a sudden remember what their shoulder used to be like, meaning full motion and no pain. Right. For the first time in 20, 30, 40 years. Which is great.

Yeah. Now it does require that you have injections of 20 year old blood every week. But other than that part of it, it seems to be miraculous. Yeah, and that's the point here, which is our issue is that the retina was so scarred that that's why no light is coming through. And I think everybody that's ever had their eyes dilated and the doctor puts that light in your eye and it's like you could barely stand it. Now, when they do it to that eye, it's like I can barely see the light.

So, I mean, that's how badly the retina is scarred. He's like, But this new treatment, they're having really good success with whatever into the retina and regrow in the retina or whatever. I don't know if it's regrowing or we know what it's revitalizing, what it's doing. Know what the problem is with the retina. So I was going to interrupt you and say, you know, that sounds like almost exactly the issues by that, which is with if surgery to fix the thing that actually makes it worse.

And I don't know if he's had five, but he's had at least three, and it's just gotten progressively worse with time. But it it seems to me like like the the hard to replicate part, the part that's probably not fixable. Uh, is the actual light sensitive cells on the back of the eyeball. Right where the everything in the front of the eyeball ought to be, I would think, manufacturable. Oh yeah. They jacked new lenses in, I mean when you get the cataracts out. But.

You know they the lens all that stuff is fairly easy. It is that. Now. That little bit of your human flesh that converts the light rays and turns them into what your brain puts it, you know what you see literally that is I guess the tough part because it has to be done right. And it's an interesting thing because it's like you've never heard of any like retinal replacements. Most things in your body, I mean, including hearts.

As people know, you can get a heart transplant, you can get lung transplants. You know, I've. Never heard of that with retinas. And it may just the the eyeballs are so, you know, they're just so intricate. You know. Well, it's they are first of all, the optic nerve is a very short nerve that goes directly into your brain. So you're you're really what you're seeing with the actual cells are just extensions of your brain. And I need more brain is debatable.

But you've got all the brain you need for a while. You're right. Otherwise everybody else would just look really dumb next to me. That's right. Exactly. I mean, look at the size of that noggin. I know, right? The last thing you need is more brain. But what I need is do to regenerate or get rid of the scarring to where that can that that can be rejuvenated. Yeah. So what caused this is a stirring. I mean, I don't want to turn this whole damn episode into a medical show. Like. Like it usually is.

Well, sometimes it's a cooking show. True. And, well, it's the. Same kind of. Thing because it's a music show with. The retinal detachment. So what they normally do is laser the retina back, which it's basically spot welds, for lack of a better term, the retina back to the back of the eye. And because I went through so many surgeries and so many lasers that what was left by the time the guy that.

You just did, I mean, is it usually like people that have concussions, sports like football, that have the detached retina? That is one of the ways you can get a detached retina. For me, it started with a small. Hole. In the retina and then progressed. It was always a warning from the eye doctor that I've gone to for years and years because my eyes are very elongated by. And when you look at normally, you know, they're they're more oval kind of minds, more like a football.

It's more stretched out. So I guess like. Family Guy. Right. And I guess. You. Harder to you know, also harder to do this because by the time I found the right surgeon, the right guy to do it, it was maybe a little too late that, you know, he was even ordering different tools. He's like, because your eyes are so big, I need something that's a little longer than normal to do what he needed to do. That did not a good warning thing. No. And what they what he finally did, Wolf. Yes.

I need bigger tools to poke around in your eye and what he finally put in was a scleral buckle, I believe they call it, which. Is. Basically taking an O-ring and. Yep. And sewing that to your. So the retina stays up. One to fourth eye shape a little more around there. Now, by the time that was all done, there was not a lot of vision there. But now if it's possible to bring that retina back to life, I don't know what kind of vision to expect, but it'd be nice to have a little vision out of that.

Think it would be purple. That would be awesome. Yeah. Live in the Purple Haze. But that would be okay, because if you had some vision out of it, then it would be maybe Purple. Haze. You know, more fun. Well, there was a purple haze for more. It was probably well over a year. That was what that I was producing. It was a purple, you know, static kind of if you remember the static from the old TVs. It's a purple version of that which I never could understand.

And there were, you know, all sorts of different great light shows and stuff going on where it would get like a circle and then it would expand. And I guess this is all you get your brain going, huh? I used to getting a signal on this channel. Exactly. It's your brain slapping the eyeball on the side. The head? Yes. Which is. Work. Work? Yes. Which is one of the beautiful things, too.

It's like, well, this also gives me hope that with this kind of therapy, the brain's like, Hey, just give me something. I'll figure it out. They do have artificial retina. They're not very good, and they're basically from blind people, like actual blind people that you. Right. Well, you get in there. Yes. But it's is super low rez. I mean we're talking like 128 by 128 pixels right there. You just get something.

You get it more than just is an on or off you get a a rough general shape of things that have very high contrast. That's about it. Which is still life changing. For it is because it basically allows people know like they turn the light on or off or is is there a you know, are they sitting in front of the computer monitor or their chair turned around facing something else? Right.

I don't know why you would be sitting in front of computer, but I guess you could have a Braille monitor thing or something? I don't know. Well, I remember a story not long ago and it was like some chick went nuts and took out her own eyes. F pretty bad. You know, I don't know if I. I don't remember. Was drug induced. Whatever it was, it would make sense if it were. But one of the things that, you know, she talked about was it was really hard even trying to learn how to cook eggs again.

And I'm like, How would you do that without seeing them? I could tell you that you can. Okay, so we're going have a challenge, Gene in a blindfold. Eggs. Five different ways. One of the things that I used to do back that when I was doing more training is I used to go for walk blindfolded. Whoa. Yeah. Like where I walk around the lake. How many times did you fall in? Never felt you have to learn to use the force. Yeah. Did you hear of one?

Yeah, I heard a variant of only one that the or the one that. Well, that would. Yeah. Because that would. Be there you have you can stimulate your other senses. Do you do a certain amount of compensation like your you know, echolocation working for you. They can you can see what other people are walking towards do without actually having your eyes open. Interesting. It's yeah. You have to be more careful. I will say that. But you're not going to drive. I've done that a number of times.

Like I've walked around the two and a half mile loop without having my eyes open and all. That is kind of impressive. Mm hmm. I mean, does the beard help with direction? And often I don't turn lights on, you know, in the kitchen and all that. They just fine. Okay. Why? Why, why would anybody do this? You know, I mean, there's a certain amount of laziness involved, but also, I've I've always been a big fan of maximizing the the use of all your sensory organ. I guess that would do it.

Yeah. Yeah. It's a I don't know. It's just a fun little exercise that you never know when you become blind of the possibility. Yeah, I've had that thought a few times, especially after this. All of this, it's like, okay, what would happen if you go the next. Or the same thing with, you know, put like shooting earplugs in that, that have 32 decibel reduction and then just wear them the entire day. And you know, while you go grocery shopping, do everything else and you basically.

Are you would miss all the 80 guys playing over the P.A.. Well, you would hear, you know, that's about all you hear. And if you can name the tune, just getting that information. You know, you listed a way to. See, well, that's 146 beats per minute. I got that out of it. Let's see, what could that be? I'm sure there's a Secord, a Gordon and ACORN in there somewhere. Probably a D and it'll resolve. Don't worry. Yeah. D minor. Okay, let's see. What do we get now?

It's a it's about a million different tunes. Well, you know, maybe other people like having done these exercises that kind of assume that everybody knows how to do that. So it was at least a good bit of news like, wait, there's there's hope on the horizon. There is. Yeah. I think stem cell slash DNA related treatments, DNA therapies are they're definitely available. Does the border and they're slowly available here. Yeah I don't know about Europe.

I you know, I don't want to make that assumption because I think Europe's kind of falling through the dark ages at this point. They're going back in time and early on. May no longer be available in Europe. Yeah, they've been the four at the forefront of a lot of this stuff, but I guess I can see they're also falling into their own political quagmire. Boy, are they They have a you know, one of the things that amazes me is how lockstep Europe is with American policy doing the weird. It is amazing.

Like I never thought you could get this many countries that have their own elect government to be in complete agreement about cutting themselves off at the knees. Well, yeah, because it's for climate change, it's work or it's for you, it's for a good cause. It's because Russia is evil. It's because of climate. Change or other causes. It's no. They're willing to do it.

That's the amazing part, because when the US went in to invade Iraq, there was life support, you know, like moderately at the onset and then fairly quickly dwindled to where it was just the UK and the US, which is what enabled us to call it a international operation against their IS because the UK didn't drop out but everybody else kind of dropped out and now like they have sanctions imposed against themselves, I mean, well they think it's against Russia, but it's really against Europe.

They've had their pipelines blown up by the US and yet they're still sticking with this whole like, we'll do anything and take well, we'll keep sending a tank a month to Ukraine for as long as they want them. It's amazing. It is amazing what people will do to lessen their life lesson, their comfort lesson. Well, their wallet, especially in order for which is weird because I would think we're in a now in a time where people don't give a crap about their neighbor. I mean, the whole concept

that people are like, we're worried about the common good. Mm. I don't believe that 99% of the time that most people are like, Oh, I'm going to make a decision that's not good for my family, but it's good for the people next door. Yeah, I don't buy. That. I don't believe by that as the overall way a human being. Well, think because for centuries it's in our DNA to worry about ourselves at all costs. Self-preservation.

It it is. But I mean, this is a hard topic talked about because you get a lot of people that don't really understand it. They're giving you flack, but. You get flack. I can't believe that. I'm outright eugenic. But I did talk about it on my last interview that I did, which is up on both YouTube and through Speak to a guy. That was the account and a very interesting interview.

If you haven't listened to it personally, like I'm talking to you now, the idea I would recommend it because I think you and Barrett do. Recommend it to the audience as well. Or just to. Me, maybe not too much, but definitely for you there. And I would recommend that. No, it's fascinating interview. He was a Border Patrol agent. He's been a writer most recently. Then a lot of interesting jobs. But then in the middle of all that, the he became a felon and served a four year prison term.

That'll change your perspective. Yeah, maybe. But it's it's fascinating hearing about stuff that most of us just never had experience. But I mean, look, we've all played a few games in the bedroom with handcuffs now, but it's totally different than being locked up for four years. Really. I would think. Your your sexcapades are a little different than doing hard time in a real prison. Uh huh. Uh huh. I Mean, if those two things are different, I'm wondering what you're doing

in the bedroom. One, I mean, there are probably that. Have to have probably. They would probably be things that would actually get you put into the prison. So maybe that preparation. Uh huh, Uh huh. So he did what? Oh, yeah. If you years. Uh huh. This is where the sexual harassment comes in. It's there. But it's again, it's interesting. Oh, he's also like a massive action figure collector. Which of course, he would do while in prison.

Well, he he had been doing it way before prison, and he's doing it after prison, But he has a in the video. If you watch the YouTube video version, that's where you can really see behind him. He's collected all of the real dolls. It is like, yeah, now these are the you know, these are the little figurines. Yes. Yeah. So it's these, like g.I. Joes or Star. Yeah. All this kind of crap. I don't understand that. I mean, I, I guess they played with the the Star Wars ones when I was a kid or whatever.

But it's not that. Some are worth a ton of money. I mean they're. They're all sitting in the original packaging. That's what makes them a collector. Yeah. A crazy man. Once he takes them out of the package and plays with them, that he's a crazy. Crazy man. Exactly. But he's got like four rooms of his house full of these that maybe. Maybe he is a crazed man, even if he doesn't play with them. It all depends. They're all going up in value. Yes. Well, that's. It. Yep. So you could say he's crazy.

But he's saving in something other than US dollars that. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, my dad collects all sorts of baseball stuff. There's also did really good with, with dogecoin. We have you get in early on this stuff. Babe. Apparently he got in early and then he sold it when it was actually worth something. And then he paid off the south. That's a pretty good deal. So no house payment? Yeah, that that is a pretty good deal. I mean, people collect all sorts of. I mean, I've got the vinyl.

I like to collect vinyl. Yeah. It's your one step left. Crazy right there as far as I'm concerned. But yeah, because. I can just throw it out and enjoy the music. You're like, But you could just do that by clicking on this thing on your computer. Why would I want to listen to something that literally damages the the stores every time you play it? Because that way you could buy more. And if you have I mean I will agree with you. Like laserdisc made way more. Oh, I agree.

And I think we talked about that once there is a turntable that uses a laser to read the vinyl, which. Is like, I'm all for that. That's crazy. Cool. Well, and if you remember laser disc had analog audio. Yes. Which was then converted into digital. No, no, it wasn't. I mean. Well, okay. It kind of was. Yeah. Because it wasn't like if a needle was going on, that would have been even cooler. But but they didn't record audio on the disc by turning into ones and zeros. The video was done that way.

The video was digital, but the audio was actually it was an analog sensor that they had. So it was literally done just like a record, except with a laser and much finer grooves in there. But they were measuring the the reflective angle of the laser for the audio track. And a lot of people were buying laser discs not to get the video, but to get the best quality soundtrack from Star Wars and John. Paul McCartney and Wings Rock show on laserdisc. You wanted that audio?

Yeah. Yeah. Because that was considered to be the to a pinnacle of audio because it had it didn't have the objection that everybody had. The CD was like that. It sounds like crap, those ones and zeros. But I think it's bullshit. But fine, whatever. But this way you can get the best of both worlds. It all depends upon the machine that is converting that digital analog. And there were some CD players that suck and there's some CD player.

I think most of it is Snake Rock because there are still some CD players that you're like, I think Macintosh one that's like $10,000 and you're like, Yeah, no, because I could put it into a $30 drive in my computer and have it read it 14 different times to make sure there no error, you know, and. And, and stay with them if you do it for me. Yes. Well save it as FLAC. I don't like going into the MP three. I like I know I'm just giving a shit like the full but have the FLAC in there.

With a with a proper turntable that's set up. Well you should be able to get a thousand plays out of a record. Now if you're using a Crosley suitcase thing you bought for 59 bucks, you like two or three plays. Forget your records.

Dead. Yeah. Well, my problem with the the record player, though, is that you first have to pour concrete that you're going to put the thing on and and the fact that your your table sitting in that time period where the player weighs about £800 didn't help matters either. Well, you're absolutely right. Because what I had a turntable before I got married in my bedroom in the upper level. Yeah. Walking across the floor, you could hear it.

Luckily, where my turntable is now, it is on the lower level, which is a concrete slab. So I don't have that problem. Yeah, but that. Is kind of what you need. That you don't have. Yes. Or or you buy for like 500 bucks. These things they sell to isolate the, you know, the turntable. You set your turntable on top of this and it magically absorbs all of that. Right. And that does work in And now the other problem with turntable is you can't play them without gravity.

Well. How often are you without Gravity? Totally do that with CDs. True. Which is why I. Like to practice non gravity behaviors. But my time off, you know. There was recently a. Chord with people learn how to move around. Well, because. You're going to be shot into space. You go to the Russian space station. Is that what's going on here? There's no official Russian space station. I don't know what you're talking about.

Sorry, I did wheel out at that part out, but there was I think it was a Kickstarter for a new turntable that was trying to be fancy and hold. The. Record horizontally, like up, you know what I'm saying? Yeah. And it's at a record cleaner like that. Well, you know what? The cleaner, maybe. But with the player, it's like, again, you're relying upon an a normal turntable, the right amount of weight to give the stylus needle what it needs going around the record.

When you're doing that in that position, you don't have gravity. No, you got to use the spring. So and that you're going to end up screwing something up. I just don't see that as being the best way to do it. Yeah. But it looks cool, man. Yeah. You know, I think there are some expensive brands that have record players that were sideways, if I remember correctly. Like banging all of them while locked. Did it with banging also. Definitely did it with the CD player.

They had the triple disk player back in the eighties. I remember that. Yeah. I had an Akio six disk player and my dad's still pissed off that his Sony was like a two or 300 big carousel thing. Yeah, finally gave up. I have a pioneer that had a whole like 200 TD storage. I had the IQ of five disc Rotary, which let you change four of the disks was played one. Oh yeah. You have that? Yeah. It was. They were up to six by then, I believe they. Five of mine had five.

And then let's see, I did have one other one other than the Sony. I can't remember. Sony was 100 or 200 but. It basically just kept them in a square block and it just sucked out of the to play it right. It was like a big jukebox. Yeah. I think I did get a 200 something. It wasn't a Sony, though. It might have been a oh, I can't remember what it was. No, I think okay. I had a pioneer one that had 100 and then I eventually got a Sony 200. That's what it was.

I think maybe it's the Sony that he has and I think it's just the belt on this thing. But I'm like, nobody. And he's like, Well, you can't you buy these anymore? I'm like. No, no. Why would you want to just convert them damnedest therapy and be done with? Because they don't know how to do that. That's the problem. When you're old, you don't know. There's probably a service for that. You can look it up on Google like, how do I see these? Oh, I could do it for him.

But then it's like, Well, how do I get it? How do I do this? I don't know. I've tried that in the past, hooking up something to their TV where it's like, you hear, here's I gave you like 8000 movies. You could watch whatever you want, that's fine. But then adding more to it is a pain in the ass. And although now it's easier with with high speed internet because you could just make sure it's outside accessible and then just, yeah, transfer whatever I want over to it.

But I think I talked to back when I lost my mind as well. I have to drive today and I've been and I didn't know if I lost my entire movie collection, which I have kind of built up over a or so. And while it sucks to do that, to lose that, I have to admit that I've watched maybe two movies in a decade, right? I'm not going to watch this because it really is new stuff around.

There's always something and I went through that with my CD collection and I went through the process is why it's way more backed up that anything that I've downloaded, there's like every CD that I rep personally, it's like, that was a time suck. So it felt like that was work. So I. Don't want to lose that. Stuff. No, my I did that back in the early 2000. I kind of started writing on a wall, so I just ripped all my CDs at 320 because I still want to be able to play them in the car.

Then the car wouldn't play in a black or some other format faster. So getting my stuff and so I ripped everything, get rid of these, and then I've got at least three different places where all of that backed up, including one of them being at my body. So so that way I like hopefully that should never get lost. But but that entire collection of I want to say around two and a half thousand CDs or so that I have it all fits on a single speaker. That's crazy. Which is stuck in my car.

So my car literally has everything I've ever bought over my lifetime. What are the SD cards up to now? Are they up to like a terabyte? Well, this is the 256. That's like that entire collection of two and a half thousand CDs is it's on one single. Well, that's true because it's an MP three FLAC makes it a lot larger. Yeah, Black would be probably quite a bit bigger, but I think there are there are over a gig now.

I believe that is pretty impressive when you think about how much you can put on there, because this was the conversation I had with the wife. Every time a new phone like they we have, the Samsung is our main drivers and it lets you put in an extra SD card if you need one. I want an SD card. Why? Well, I want the space. Like you're never going to fill it up. You might. I mean, you could if you never deleted anything and put a lot of video on there, like. I have no, no, no audio on my phone.

If the if you really are your photos, I have 175 gig worth of stuff on my phone. 175 gig worth of photos. What are you taking pictures of? I don't know. I mean, it's all the photos the phones ever taken. Which is also the problem that maybe something we don't have. Well, I have out of their 33 gig, our app, I have three three gigs worth of I have. This is why I can never switch to Android even though I have an Android phone is because I think my I've purchased over

ten grand worth of app life iPhone. Wow. Oh and so I walking away from that shit I mean. I think grand total and I own an apple while I still have one but that was my first phone was one of the first. iPhones and. Now I've got Android and Apple and I think grand total, my whole life spent on apps. And I will even include the Hey, you take the survey for Google and they'll give you a money I'll even include that is the real money I had to pay probably 20 to $30 in my life.

I do. Apps. Am I the only thing I really remember buying is what's it Aqua Mail one of these apps on? Yeah Aqua man which is great on I. Don't know what that. Is on the android it's a great mail app okay to you know get all of your IMAP accounts that you may have going on it'll combine them all well worth paying for the. Upgrade on the iPhone.

I know which this the Android doesn't and the what do you there was one of these changers you can change what's on your your the main way your Android phone works like you know it's never going to get no because I'm not remember and what this stuff is called although it's just because I rarely use the phone Oh that was weird. I just lost the connection to my to the troll room computers that lose this. We're still going with everything. Crash and burn. That is weird.

I think we crashed and burned. I still see Gene. Okay, that was weird. You disconnected my friend. Yeah, I just. Not only did I disconnect, but I think it was like my router that reset or something because I lost the connection to my remote desktop where I have the whole room running. Yeah, and. That's in the basement. I don't think X50 ever crashed out, but it was like everything else on my network from this computer crashed out. That is very weird. Of course I dropped the stream. Let me see.

Are we back on the stream? It says it's playing game music, so probably that. Let me. Game music. Well. I don't know what memories got going on that machine. Who knows? Who knows? But it will. It should be reconnecting. Then I'll have to look at exactly what we're back on the stream. I think. Yeah. Now tell people that wasn't my fault. That was on you. Yeah. This is one of the few times it was not Gene's fault. Now, am I connected or not?

Because it says it looks like it's yellow and yellow's not really how it's radical. I want. There is like something screwed up with. Are you out of bandwidth or something or. No, I mean, that should not be the case. It said we were back for a second, like. An hour and I'm back. You know. I wonder if I got probably have to set the no agenda stream. I bet you that crashing in the middle of a show. Or something. That it does not like it.

It does not like when something just disconnects out of the blue. So, I mean, we can continue on the conversation as I as I do this. I'll let it out the silence. But okay, so I've got 17 gigs of podcasts on my iPhone seven. I'm only. 17 gigs. Damn, that's a lot of love behind. And I. Well, yeah. Okay. How far are you with the like, how far do we have to go back to, to be, to be active, to be up to date. Are you on what episode, how many months back are you behind. I'm like no agenda.

I'm so I'm not that far back. I think I'm one episode behind and no gender, but there might be like six or seven episodes that I skipped when I was busy. These just were like, I don't I can catch up. Well, at some point you just don't bother catching up. That's when it comes down to. Or you can listen at 18 times speed, but that is I always. Think times to be. Yeah, yeah it's I mean I might even be behind on our show for that matter. No, that can't be. How would that all right.

I know I've got three episodes. I'm behind in the third grade and the keeper know there's a handful of shows that might be will be like I'm like taking about 15 episodes behind and Tulsi Gabbard, spot death. How was her show? Uh, you know, it's not any different than her videos, which is why I'm behind, is that you get the same stuff Watching you do well. See, that's the difference. Some people think those are podcasts and some don't. But they're not really it to me and I don't.

And I'm I actually have a different opinion on this, but whatever, To me, what makes a podcast? The podcast is the fact that you can download it locally. And so by definition and right. The RSS feed. Well, I think that's the way he leans on is the RSS feed. I don't care if it's an Irish feed because to me what, what separate podcasts was that whenever you plugged in your old iPod, it would synchronize all the new shit and put it on your iPod for later listening.

So if you up until about a year ago, you couldn't really do that on YouTube. You couldn't synchronize you, you would have to have a live connection. But right now you don't have a choice. Well, you kind of have a choice, but the default is when you open up the YouTube app on an iPad or an iPhone, it will automatically download all the episodes of the shit you subscribe to. So it's really they've turned YouTube into a podcast machine. Well, they're trying to yeah, they're trying to.

And so that way, once it's downloaded, you don't need the network connection. You could be on a plane watching stuff, watching YouTube videos, you could be just in the bad coverage or you could be downloading only on Wi-Fi and then being able to watch this stuff when you're off, you know, driving around or whatever. So there there's a there's a very, very much a merging happening, I think, with what YouTube is trying to do.

They're also trying to kill off what's that app that everybody hates, The Chinese one. Oh, yeah. Tick tock. Tick, tick, tick, tock, tick tock. Because, man, are they going out of their way to try and promote everybody to do short video like they're. Well, there's a few things. First of all, you know how in the YouTube land, if you if you use somebody else's music or somebody else's video, you can get a strike on you and then you could potentially lose your channel and blah, blah, blah.

Well, yeah. Or they just demonetized your videos. Yeah, exactly. Well, for sure they don't do any of that. Do it or any copy anything you want in there and your short videos get to go. So they're like, Hey, you could do anything you want. This is the Wild West if Yeah. And I think their take is that it is limited to one minute and therefore it's always very. How much copyright infringement can you do in 60 seconds. Well technically a lot if you have people that hold the copyright.

But if you have YouTube, none makes sense. So just putting some of those out that are clearly other people's videos, we'll see how that goes. Nice And welcome back, trolls. That was not Gene's fault. That was a network problem on my machine this time. Yeah. And obviously it screams so bad I had to go in and reboot the stream. Yeah, well, it might have bought the the troll room to reset the whole thing through. This Booth everybody. And then him back. In when.

It came back up and said, Now playing angry tech news. But we are not angry tech news so I fix that. In good yeah that pic that damn shirt off of there. I'm telling you, you never know what weird things are going to happen. Funny how the default the default thing to play on that whole network seems to be angry. Text is it's. Weird. It's on over and over and over again. Yeah that's like that's what that that's all it is. Unless there's something else of that.

Like between every show it's angry that it was this angry tech news. It's angry tones and it keeps getting angrier. I don't get it. You know, when I interviewed Adam, he was very surprised that I wasn't streaming on the No Gen network. And I said, well, you know, I've asked for for like the instructions on how to get on there and do that. And it was too complicated here. And nobody seems to know. Nobody provides me these instructions. It's just like all my requests are ignored.

Not only that, I can't even ask the no agenda for all room because I'm perma banned from there. Which is the low level. I guess has only been. Used once. No. Yeah. And I said, Look, I think I might. And of course he thought he'd be funny and then replied back with like, Oh, so you know what, you better watch it then I might ban perma ban you from the no agenda social as well. Okay. Now I'm like, Oh, thanks. Is there a donation amount for Adam? But hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.

You would like to succeed Perma Ban from no agenda social just said. They give them perma bans. I lifted my bans on a whole bunch of people, including your favorite posh brother or what? Now we can. Doctrine. We can be friends that, yes, Elmo says, Oh, well, that was great. That was that was our Oscar the Grouch. That was no tough almost. Yes, I d Yeah, that's such a not a voice that should be coming out of your mouth. Am I giving to 30 feet?

There's definitely not a voice that should be saying any of that stuff. So anyway, so yeah, we're, we're back to communicating, but then some of the people that I am, I'm banned as part of this whole ban. It's funny because they all seem to be polished, but I don't know how that happened, but a couple of them instantly started throwing insults up there. Oh, because you unblock. So now they're like, I'm got time. I opened the window and they're throwing eggs in. I did. I did.

One of the guys have to even get a new account just to be able to go and circumvent me. Blocking. Yeah. And, but I think, I think I'm okay with that guy. I kind of broke them and he seemed to have calmed down a little bit. But I sent him a free poncho. It's no, I'm definitely not doing that.

Freedom three Nothing. Man. And but then one of the guys who I actually have on, on my podcast and like he was super fan number one in Poland of my show and then when the whole Ukraine situation happened, like he just went insane. Oh, he turned oh. No, he just went literally insane and like, medically diagnosable. Oh, that's my diagnosis. Anyway. So are you a medical doctor? You know, I play one on the podcast, so I think that qualifies me efficiently for remote diagnostics, so I know it.

Then it was literally like just nonstop insults being thrown. And I'm like, Okay, you go back to being a rebound. The gummy again. Oh, great band. That's that's why it banned people initially looting this be was that they went from just having different opinions about topic which were they people do it no agenda so to start throwing insults around and calling me names, doing this stuff like, Dude, I'm not in fucking high school, okay? I don't I don't need to listen to this crap.

Well, becomes a waste of time. That's exactly it. Like, my time is much more valuable. You may not think it is, but it is actually much more valuable than that. I Just don't need to deal with that crap. So disagreements that are interesting. I've had plenty conversations with people that have other opinions that I disagree with and they're not like, That's not a troll and that's not something that burnable that just somebody who's drawing.

But when they start telling me to go fuck my stuff and all this other stuff, I'm like, yeah, I don't I don't need to waste my time on the time wasters. I have no problem banning when it's somebody that you give them 14 different reasons why what they just said was incorrect. And then they go, Yeah, you can't refute my point. I'm like. Well, that's not even that bad. It's not even refute your point. It's like, Yeah, why don't you go suck balls? Because you're an idiot. Okay, That's one step.

All right. Yes, that's good. And then I finally have the ban. Post the whole domain. I've been close plenty of time, but I've never actually pulled the trigger because I know that there are people that actually were subscribers or followers on that domain of my town that I don't understand why they're on that instance. The post is a mastodon instance that is basically full of Nazis and. While they're not real enough, these obviously they're. They just like Nazis. Like in the movie Brothers.

The now they're larping that is they're they're basement dwellers who are incels that that means they don't have sex for anyone that doesn't know what it implies. Involuntary celibate so they're all married for. Yeah they, they might as well be, but it doesn't matter.

They're, they're literally basement dwellers whose only real past time and none of their pastimes include being out in fun like their only pastime is to be contrarian, which literally means going out and just saying whatever is the opposite with no consistency of what somebody else thinks. And they all have their little groups. And Post is an instance of Mastodon that seems to be a conflagration of these folks. And so they all hang out and then chuckle about wasting time. Other people.

And like I said, unfortunately there's also a few people that I have no problem talking through that for God only knows what reason have their accounts on that instance. But I finally have put that to it. Is it because generally the reply to anything is the Jews. The Jews, the Jews? And. And if it's not the Jews, then it's the N word. And if it's not the N word, then it's like just non-sequiturs about how stupid you know, people are.

If it is the kind of conversation that if you can call it conversation at all, that you would expect not even in high school, but rather in junior high school, where back in back in my day, everybody would have said, you know, that's gay for literally anything. Yes. Or you're a fag. Oh, you're a fag. And then neither of those meant anything sexually. No idea. No, it was just what you said. If you wanted to piss the other person off literally, that was the goal.

The goal was to say something that makes the other person get mad. Well, right. Which is exactly on that point. These guys do, right. And that's the point that I've made when a lot of people end up getting accused of being a racist. Maybe they are. But, you know, if you're having an argument with somebody that may be of a certain skin complexion, you pull that word out and it's going to piss him off more than anything else.

And you know a lot of people will pull that out just because they want to piss the other person off. And the thing that you have to be very careful about that kind of stuff. Right? You mean like Latino? Right? Exactly. I thought. But yeah. So again, if you're going to go against my brother brethren, the Irish, you'd be like, Hey, they're potato farmer or you. MC Oh, what an insult. Potato farmer, you know, God. Or you marry you, you're a MC. Like, Oh, okay, yeah, yeah.

Make something of a tall leprechaun. You are. It's all over town. Where's my gold? I don't. I'm still look, my. Point man. Right here is like. Well, yeah. Buy gold, hold a dollar. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So what else began talking about? Oh, so I've now kind of mostly transitioned to doing interviews. Oh, you finally transitioned. Well, that was good. I did. I felt fully transitioned to doing interviews with video.

So now I'm starting to build up a a library of not just audio but video interviews, which is good, by the way. I don't know how we're only in episode 60 something because searching speak does on 110. Well, you do those at 2.5 speed. I don't really know that those know those are actually good though. Those are at one of the quarter. I think we should I mean if we only do one show every three weeks, we'll catch up.

I think that's kind of the issue because we weren't doing like one show a week. But lately it's feels like it's once a month. I'm hoping this is getting to be behind me at this point. So we'll see. Because, I mean, there's only so many ways you're trying to die. I know a lot of the time, but now they're like, Oh, we might be able to fix your eye in a year. It's like, what can the heart hold out? That would be great. I'm like that, Yeah.

I don't want that to go down in the wrong direction. No. Have you thought about getting a spare one? I maybe I could use a few. I know. I mean, it's like you should talk to your cardiologist about this to say like my eyeball situation. They're telling me like it's a year away and we just sort of are hard right now for when this one goes. The again, the interesting thing being that I stopped taking the Staten last weekend Wednesday. Only with you on that as a totally not a real doctor.

I fully agree that you should stop taking Staten. Cleared up within 48 hours. Yeah. I didn't take the the other heart rhythm pill yesterday which would would have been two doses missed and I was having a few palpitations this morning. So I'm like, okay, maybe I should continue taking that one for now. Yeah. I don't know how. Long that time. You know, whatever this, you know, what the staten is, how long that stays in your blood that may affect things. And I'm thinking a lot of this. In a week.

So that would make sense. So you probably want to give a little more time here before going in, changing more things with my body chemistry at the same time. Yeah. One step at a time. But over this last week, things have been very stable, which is something I can't remember. A week where it's been stable over like the last five months.

So yeah, well, cholesterol gets a bad rap because cholesterol is absolutely necessary for the preparation of an awful lot of your your what do we call those things? The chemicals that control your body's response. Like like you, you know, all the kind of what's the what's the term from. Your body is a machine in your heart Is something off. Right. Turning off the production of cholesterol is what you're doing. And the cholesterol is a precursor.

It is utilized in the production of things like adrenaline, cortisol. But what one of those called I'm not finding the word. I don't know. It's the chemicals in your body that control how your body operates. That's what what is manufactured from cholesterol and when typically when they refer to cholesterol, it's cholesterol that's in your arteries that might be breathing in clog. Right. But it's really calcium, not the cholesterol that is the problem.

Cholesterol in of itself is actually it's kind of it's like a Jell-O. It's kind of gooey. The problem. Is that you. Have calcification of the cholesterol deposit. And when that happens, that turns into a more of a hard substance. Right. So the blood can't get through those veins. Yeah, exactly. And what I learned when I looked at the my full body scan was that that isn't on the inside of the arteries. It's in it's between the arterial wall and the outside muscles and organs and stuff.

So it's actually depositing the straw and then that cholesterol calcifying. But there's a still there arterial wall between the blood flowing through the artery and that stuff there because the thought would be like, well, can't you just do like a Roto-Rooter on there and just stick something in there? And that's why I wouldn't. Stents in for people. With a stent doesn't clean it. The stuff enlarges the diameter. Right. Just opens it up and it.

Basically takes the pipe and makes the pipe fatter to compensate for the. Reduction in the pipe. But it doesn't remove the gunk and that's why I'm like, well, this is bullshit. What the hell's medicine been doing for the last hundred years? You're like, I don't get. High on this. You get a high pressure jet wash just to take all the sludge. Well. What they really need is something that removes the calcium from, those calcified cholesterol deposits.

It allows the the once you remove the calcium, then the extra cholesterol should be a lot softer and be able to just dissipate normal body movement and stuff that that's the issue. So it's a complicated question. Obviously, I'm super simplifying it, but it's it's fascinating to actually see this shit in your own body with the technology that's available and then hear the doctor say, Yeah, we can't really do that. Like, well, we can replace those.

Yeah, we could replace those arteries for you if you'd like. And it's like, well it's not really an ideal solution. That would be nice to just get rid of the part that we don't want. Right? And not have to throw away the parts that work just fine. That like we got to cut you open and put some new arteries in here. Yeah. Yeah. And I'm like that. That's not a it's not a good solution. I don't like that one bit. And the problem is you need calcium for a lot of things, not just your bones.

Your bones obviously use calcium. So you can't just, like, stop eating calcium and I'll just pull it out of my cholesterol deposit. I mean, it may, but it also pull it out of everything else too. But calcium is also used for brain functions, also used for small amount of materialization, like there's a lot of uses of calcium in your body. It's using the ATP process, I think.

So it's not something that you ought to be willy nilly turning off now is that they'll have a lot of other negative effects. And I have read hundreds, if not over a thousand different reviews, what people say about their experiences with statins at all. I mean, I didn't read them all word for word, but I skim them. Yeah. And the amount side effects. Oh, my goodness. Oh, they're horrible. I do understand why my cardiologist thinks I'm nuts and doesn't believe that stopping the stat did anything.

I get it because see what the percentage of people who have the problem is. Yeah. But when you kind of consider this, it's like, okay, there was one study that said it was like .91 percent. That's like, but that means it's almost one out of 100. And it's like, I'm just thinking what I go to. When I used to go to the ballpark, you know, even a bad White Sox crowd, thousand people, that means 200 people in that crowd would be having that.

It's like it's not like a one in a billion kind of a thing. No. And I know it's still just and and though I always want to say antidote, but I know it's incidental evidence. That. Within 212 48 hours stopping the drug, the massive heart rate. What do you think statistics is made out of? Right. It's a lot of headed total evidence. That's what it is. It's just a bunch of collected anecdotes. And so, again, we'll see how this all goes.

I mean, the bottom line is I feel really good now, which is which is a plus. I don't like being on the inside because it seems like that's a bad drug to be on. It's a harsh one. But you know, one step at a time. I guess I do need to let this process work out a little bit. I forgot. I mean, what? I was the guy that was like, no, I'm stopping the stat. And even though he's like, No, don't do that. But now he's not going to believe it was stopping the stat that help.

Yeah, which may just be an I need a new doctor if that could mean. Yeah. It's like you know I've decided changed my routine by getting a different doctor. Yeah. That's the beauty of being in America, baby. You could do that. But some of these side effects and there was one. It's funny, I. I made the joke before my wife could.

Yeah, because a vast majority of the people complaining of the heart racing and palpitations with the Staten women don't this like I must just have a really big vagina man because I, I have this issue. But there was one woman that was like, you know, I went into the the you know, and just like with me, nobody in the E.R. was like, you know, this could be your Staten. They check what you're on. And just like the. One thing to give non-medical advice is there. Because we aren't doctors.

But one thing I mean, let me connect you with a guy. You got a guy. I got a guy and he is an expert in high tech medicine, so he's not cheap. But you'll pay the cost just to keep me alive, to keep doing shows die. I kind of think it might be easier for me to do it without you. But at least cheaper. Although I got to figure out how to get on the stream. Right. You see? There we go. This is where the the worth comes in.

It's right. But but there are a lot of a lot of what they call their peptide, but a lot of peptides out there that are not approved for human use. And a lot of these peptide, when injected into the appropriate areas of the body, will fix a lot of issues that people are having when their body isn't producing efficient amount of the stuff that makes sense. So they're, they're closer to like for example, you know, I've been a diabetic forever, so I do insulin.

Injectable insulin is a peptide, but it's a naturally produced substance in your body that is used to regulate some form of bodily function. In this in case of insulin, it is the the absorption sugars, sugar molecules

through cell wall. So that's why if you're a type one diabetic, but people that are born that don't insulin, they have to get injections just to live, because without insulin you're literally doesn't matter how much you eat your your cells in your body just can't absorb the sugar that's in your blood with type two, which is usually fat dude diabetic or a fat woman I guess. Yeah. Don't be gender specific. I know I was I shouldn't gender but it's it's related, but it's slightly different.

It's just not that your body doesn't produce insulin. It's that your body produces the standard amount of insulin, but you have so many fat cells that you don't have sufficient amount of insulin in order for all the sugar to be absorbed your nonfat. So I'm super oversimplifying guys. So I, I'm sure there's people trying to break me right now, but there are also like 180 different peptides out there which are these sort of I don't know what to call them really.

They're enzymes, they're they're things that are produced within the body. They're not drugs. That's cool. Thing about peptide medicine is it's not they're not dry, it's just like externally increasing a chemical that your body produces slightly. With a little difference can go a long. Way. It could like look at testosterone, right.

Which is what they're using in trans patients right now that that whips you from being a male or a female or the other way around, at least as far as, you know, men growing breasts or a women can't grow penis. I'm sure. They're trying to work. Out. Some of them would love to do that. Yeah, they're trying to fix that. But the point is that there are things. So the difference is a medicine that you pay is introducing a substance that affects a particular chemical process from happening.

So in this case, the statin prevents certain enzymes from being created or released out of the liver and thereby it's reducing the amount of available cholesterol through your body that that is a a chemical function. Right. What what most medicines do is they've figured out a way to change the chemistry of your body through some form of foreign agent and that not the Russian kind and is.

Yeah and whereas peptides which are most people have never heard of or they have they haven't really like they don't realize that yeah, they are mostly available right now. So the way this works and this is totally not an ad because we can't do medical ads, it's illegal. This is just me describing the process so I want to be super clear on that. So there's no lawsuit. The way it works is a lot of these peptides, I think over 100 of them right now are available for study.

So if you are a medical practitioner that is conducting a study on a particular peptide, you can probably legitimately order it from companies that I know if they're synthesizing it out of their aggregating it, but whatever they're doing, they're selling the damn thing. So somehow they get them. I'm going to guess they're synthesizing them. But whatever it is, they're creating and selling the variety of these peptides.

And so if you happen to be participating in the study for this particular type of peptides and and there's a lot of peptides that control various functions of the human body, including the, the absorption of, of sugars for energy, including the, the speed of your metabolism. Um, like all these things are controlled by peptides within your body normally.

So if you, if you find the peptide or let's say your doctor find the peptide that would be helpful to you, and that same then you become a part of a study and let's just for the sake of argument, say your study of one person, but you're still a part of a study, you're.

Still a. Study, you can get these peptides through, your doctor can get these peptides prescribed over you, even though not FDA approved and they haven't been available for human consumption because that's the conclusion is that if it's part of a study, then they can still do it. And I personally know people that have had some very positive results in writing these things, They're not super cheap. They're not super expensive either, though.

They're on par, I guess I would say with with what a a premium medicine cost. But they're not like crazy. Make sense medical science. But also insurance doesn't cover any of this stuff. It's all experimental, right? It's like you realize. Insurance will never pay for you to be part of a study. No, but, you know. That's the flipside. Your mileage may vary and there's doctors who just don't understand what.

And probably 100 years from now, all these peptides will be part of normal medicine and will be able to be prescribed by a doctor. But they're literally just getting into this part. And I'll tell you, the biggest reason for this is because they all of these peptides being naturally produced in your body are exempt from, from a patent. So if you can't patent that, there's not a whole lot of reason for medical companies manufacture. It's not going to make them $1,000,000,000.

It well, it can't because basically you can only make generic versions of it don't cost a whole lot and with no incentive to do that, there's not a whole lot of money being spent on that for medical companies, which is why peptides haven't already become more of a standard way of treating

illness. But to me it's kind of like the way I would describe it is if we use car as a metaphor, if you have a if you've got different fluids in the car that do different things like your windshield washer fluid, you don't want to get inside the engine because you need oil inside the engine for lubrication. Right. And the mercury one in your mouth. Yeah, arguable. But, but yeah. So there are different different substances that you need for different actions within your car.

And a lot of the solution with with drugs is to basically say hey oh, looks like, looks like your car is not putting out enough horsepower. And the real reason could be because the spark plugs like are getting worn off. You don't get a good spark every time it's doing some weird back burning. So surgery would be like getting a timing belt replaced.

But most drugs are is like taking that and then putting nitrous oxide into the engine to fix the problem with bad timing in a in a engine that's not putting enough horsepower. Yeah, it'll get you back to where the horsepower rating was on the car when it was new. But it's also not really good for the engine. No, it's going to wear that sucker out. What would be better is to do something that is conducive to the health of the engine, not just the immediate effect of it.

And of course, this is why doctors do say the same thing to all of us, which is, oh, you really have to lose some weight. Right? Is that what affect most of the problem? Oh, and I understand. That's why as much as I. Will regrow, I mean, all kinds of things like. That would be nice. As much as I want to be pissed off about this whole situation, it's like I get it when the side effects are maybe a half a percent or even 1% that the doctors his default is. No, that's not what's causing it.

I get it of that. You know, I get it. As I've mentioned a lot before. I can have a nice big peanut butter sandwich and I'm okay. It's going to kill somebody else, you know? So this is when people are like, you know. I forgot about that. Some people candy peanut butter, right? So, I mean, you could say drugs are bad, but it's like, no, it's a percentage game and the doctors are playing the percentages. And if I'm the one asshole who happens to have the side effect, that's a one in 100 or less.

I understand why they might not believe it, but it's like that You still have work with me and go one step at a time to figure this stuff out. Yeah. But that was again, the one woman I found who was like. She went in to the E.R. and she described watching her heart rate on the monitor like watching something a five year old would scribble. And I'm like, That's pretty much exactly what was happening to me. And nobody even said this could possibly be the stat.

And I guess she was lucky because for people that have side effects, you are so fucking lucky if it happens within a day, a week or two weeks of starting a medication. For me, the stuff was so minor it it was really enough time. Although I realized what had changed. It wasn't like a light switch going on. And that makes it even worse for a lot of these folks who had the side effects. She was only on the stat for like a week or so.

So immediately like, well, I just started this and then stopped taking it and it went away again. Baby. Totally Unrelated, but most likely no. And there were enough people that complained about it. And my wife. This the only reason I stopped taking the stat the day I did, which was last week on Thursday. That's when I started skipping the doses. Yep.

The wife on Thursday was just having a conversation with a coworker who mentioned that she had been on a statin and like a day and she was getting a racing heart and had to stop. And I'm like, Well, there you go, There you go. You got to know if we do have a few people to thank for today's show, okay, Even though we haven't been around for a while. Yeah, I think these are monthly. Our buddies are truck driver with 560 keeping the shiny side up Kevin Seifert with $5. We appreciate that.

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After you get a donation for stuff you did before I came out and another one to pick me up. Yeah. Although I don't know if he realizes he should be donating to Adam to kick you off because he's the one. You don't have any power to do that. He might actually be going for the Sir Gene Defense Fund in case they try to kick you off the agenda. Social. Huh? That would be big bidness. Yeah, that would be, if you want to. If I get kicked off the virgin social, the number of posts would be cut in half.

You know how much money that would save them in server time. You know that's that's obviously I'm kind of bitches about that is that how much people are uploading and I'm barely half of that. It is a serious thing when you realize how much it's one thing when it was just Twitter back in the old days where it was just the text part that was nothing. Once you're like, Hey, upload video and photo and all that. Everybody wants to see a meme image these days. Yeah. That'll certainly add up.

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Although the other day Adam went into his, his bit at that point of the show with, with just the right cadence I guess, and energy in his voice where I have to pull this quote out. Dvorak said, Hey, you sounded like O'Neal there. I'm like, That's. See, now that's a call out right there. That is like the ultimate compliment. And on that theme show, his comment to me was like, well, if he's listening to one and a half speed, he had to do it when the halftime segment. Right.

Like no no is I'm donating per hour of content and the hour goes by faster So why why were they failing? When you're asking for donations, the multiple always goes in your favor. Yeah, forget about that as well. And this is again, this is the the hilarious ness of John Fedora is if you give him money the way I just sent 200 and something dollars. Right. That guarantees he's going to put you down. He's just going to tell you that you did something wrong.

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