066: Real Me

Overcompensating much. Hello and welcome to episode number 66 of Unrelenting April 21st to Friday. We're ready to get your weekend on. I am Darren O'Neil across this big virtual desk, sir. Jean, never truly, ever. These are you. The destroyer of rockets. How are you? Destroyer Rockets, please. You're Elon offered you a seat on that rocket. You were very smart not to take that. Exactly. Exactly. That's a great time. I was death basically observing the latest launch, and I had a good time.

I like the news coverage that says it destroyed itself or whatever word verbiage they used mid-flight. It's like, well, I don't don't really know if it was mid-flight. I guess it was during flight. What's the proper terminology there? Because that mean it got up high enough, It didn't blow up on the launch pad. They were very happy about that. And I would still say early flight. Yes. I wouldn't be like it was, you know, mid-flight to me.

Sounds like if you say an airline falls out of the sky mid-flight, that's, you know, a long time into the journey. Yeah. Yeah. It's not mid-flight by any stretch. It's certainly not by distance, but it's not even by time. Because had everything gone according to schedule, right about the time that that it was control nodes detonated, it would have been when it separated and the the first stage would have landed in quotes, it would have landed in the water. So it's still a crash landing.

You mean I. Almost wet myself when I heard the the stage that the part that was separating had 33 engines on it. Yeah. Yeah. Like, Wait a minute. Really. Are you a picture? I thought I sent you a photo that. I don't know. I didn't count them a Yeah. Pretty shocked you. How could you not count the engines of the rocket? You're not a rocket nerd, though. Not as much as you 33 though. It's like. Huh? 33 engines. Yeah. We've been taught that's a number you want to look at.

Yeah. Ironically, that that generally means cancel operation. And while this did very quickly. Yeah, but the rocket was named 24 seven and it was flown on for 20. Yeah. I mean really, I don't know if that's a great idea. All the people working in mission Control might have been a little high. Yeah, well, Ilan would be the first of those two. True. So he wouldn't even notice? No, no, he. He purposefully delayed the launch for 420. That rocket with one toke over the line. Mm. And that exploded.

Yep. Took a giant puff. It did. Yeah. That's kind of what it looked like. And then it went all kitty whomp is up there. So that's kind of did a little bit. Yeah. Yeah. It kind of. Oh man. Well you're. Out. You're sending in with the Freebird song attached to it. Like, watch this, man. It's things up just like Dark Side of the Moon does with the wall. You could just sink up to Freebird and boom. Yeah, just played right up. See, that's something I could see.

You are doing too. Well. To troll the Long Island. Yeah, see, he's everybody's worst nightmare because you and I enjoy trolling people. You may be a little bit more. Maybe a little too much, huh? But we only have a certain amount of resources because we don't have billions of dollars at our disposal rate. Amazingly, I know we should.

Yuan, though, does have the billions of dollars and then uses those to troll people like Stephen King, which I thought was funny because he was bitching that he wasn't going to pay for the blue checkmark on Twitter. Yeah. So when the The Great Awakening came and all of the blue checkmarks started disappearing yesterday, he still had his and he posted Twitter. He's like, my Twitter account says that I paid for Twitter blue. I don't. It also says they have my phone number.

They don't. Owe. Anyone. Musk is just like, thank you. I mean, you're welcome. Now, Mr. Heath what you're welcome numbers day like Yeah, I did that I gave you your little blue checkmark for free because you're a little whiny bitch, and that still doesn't make people happy, which I find to be hilarious. Well, he shouldn't have. I agree. But. And they don't want to pay the How is it that the richest people in the world are the ones bitching about the AI? Exactly.

Well, it's because of the fact that the blue checkmark was changed to go from. We verified this person is real end of status because you just couldn't get a blue checkmark if you were some schmuck like me. But that's not how it started off the blue checkmark third off exactly the way Elon student right now, which is this is a verified person. We have checked their driver's license against their account. They're not being impersonated.

And the only reason that people of status started getting them is because they kept being impersonated. So they were bitching or their agents were bitching, right. About the fact how come there's all these accounts that say Stephen King making him look like an idiot, We need something on his account to make him look like he's the real thing, right? He can make himself look like an idiot. Had nothing to do with giving him out or status. It was.

They were supposed to give them out to anybody that paid for him originally or requested him, right? Well, it's. Because there was no money involved. And then. Well overrun. That was kind of. Well, that's right. That's the thing is that they decided that it was going to change into a status thing instead of a verification thing.

But like, if somebody is getting a, you know, getting to accounts that were similar, even if they're not a famous person, if you go back to their original policies, then you're supposed to be able to put a request and say, this is the real me. The real me. Yeah. The only thing they didn't have was they they weren't saying they would do it for anybody. It was a case by case basis. Right. And then more people wanted it. Then Iran decided this would be a great way to make money.

And then the people already had it were mad that they would have to pay $8 a month. Yeah. Oh, my God. 800 bucks a year. And I think it's well worth it. I haven't done it yet cause I would have to give them my real phone number, which I haven't done yet. I giving my phone number that I got rid of. Well see, that's a very smart. Oh, you know what? You're right, dude. Yeah, I do have this phone that my wife just abandoned to get a new one.

And so I do have a number that's going to be canceled very soon. That would be they need to start using that to sign up for everything and be like, no, it's a real number key and everything. I'm But now if they allow you and I think they do to post longer form content and everything like that, well then it's a bargain. Your form and video. Yeah. And I need to start playing with video more. I haven't really done much with video, but I. Yeah, both are no Twitter unless I mean.

Drummer video doesn't have to be video should be able to just put a full podcast up in there as a video file. Well, I have been spending more time in front of the YouTube screen because that's what usually takes my whole mind off the fact that I'm riding on the bike in the house and there are videos that are nothing more than somebody. I saw one where a dude was explaining what has happened to Fuddruckers the the burger chain that pops up in my feed.

And I'm like, well, like, scary. I actually watch the video. Really? Wow, that's weird. So here's what happened. This is actually part of the the algo it actually because we sent messages back and forth right through email. Well and we've we've connected through the unrelenting channel. Yes that as well. So now it has established like a spider web, a connection between us saying, oh, these people know each other.

And like, this was something that I kind of figured out a long time ago with my a real good friend that I probably message on a daily basis with is that he kept getting videos that I've seen and I kept getting videos that he's seen usually within a day. And so what they're doing in the algo or part of the tweaking of the YouTube algos is if a friend of yours, somebody that they've established they know there's an established connection with, has watched an entire video rather than a little bit.

And once you close the right but if they watched it start to finish, there's a high likelihood that that will pop up in your recommended videos because they think you're going to watch it start to finish them. And they're absolutely correct because not only do people share interest typically, but it gives you something to talk about. And so you're more likely to to have that in the future as well. So you're going to have more shared recommendations like that right now.

I'll bet you on this this friend of mine, and he's not a podcast gaming he so I'm not referring to his name, not because I'm trying to slate him, but because he's not public. Also as a security clearance, but we probably get like 70% identical recommendations right now. Nice. There's very little variance and a lot of them are funny. It's things like, you know, he's got a machine shop he owns. And so I started getting recommendations for machine shop videos. You're like, Wow, this seems weird.

And they're actually kind of cool. I mean, I started watching them, but I've never had an interest in machining or seeing CS router stuff, you know? But I now I'm probably on the list not just because of him, but because I watched enough of those videos that it's kind of interesting stuff. Yeah, I've got a buddy that has one of those machines. He's like, if you if you can come up with something you want to sell, let me know what he's become. Oh, he's looking for things to make with it.

Yeah. Gun. But you can do guns. I was thinking more. Something easier to sell on Amazon, like a record weight or something like that. But wait. Yeah, yeah. In flip of a gun. That's even better. Which is. That's a great idea that you had there. Thank you. I'm going to get those made up and we'll have them on. Gun record rates. Yes. Or you can make one. That's a silencer, silencer, silencer, shape, record weight. It's a dual purpose. It can go on. And then. Then, then, then, then, then. And then.

No, not at all. You don't want to be doing that as to be single purpose. Of course we want like a solvent trap. You do not want to get the federal government upset. The ATF is not your friend. Now, remember, I'm trying to remember which day I watched that video. So whether I watched it and it then it. Was probably it was before my trip to Basic. So it would have been like last weekend or maybe Monday. Okay, Then you saw it first. Okay. But it popped up in my feed. Yeah.

And I'm like, Oh, you remember Fuddruckers? I guess they're gone out of Illinois. I went looked at their locations after that. But the main thing was while I'm watching this, there's a bunch of these channels that the person narrating never appears onscreen. MM All they use is stock footage. Completely. To make the videos, and they're getting tens of thousands, if not more. Yeah, some of them are million. Yeah. In the views. And I'm like where And I and.

I'll even tell you about that about half roughly of those what you describe are using an air voice. Which would make sense. And most people can't tell. I can tell now because I hear the exact same voice and channels that are totally unrelated. Yes. Like why is this? This is so I always put a comment in there. Oh, yet another Chinese channel using in American they a voice mail because it's like very overdue. Right. It's and I've got the software that puts it all together.

It literally will find the the the stock clips based on the text. Now, is there a service is this a paid service to get these video clips to use that all of this stuff they're pulling from, is there like it is a massive clearinghouse where I can go in. Exactly. Yes, that's exactly right. If you type in, well, you can do it manually, type in what you're looking for will find you the right clips. It was in a, you know, part of the packages you have license from.

And then the the the automated one will just do it automatically. Oh well that's interesting too because you're punching in the text in order for the video because I'm thinking this would be beyond the fact that it's an AI voice. And a lot of the people that, as you said, making the videos are Chinese or India or something where they're like, they don't want their voice on. The press like they they mostly speak Polish or something. I don't know.

It may be, but what I'm thinking is now creating one of these videos. Mm hmm. It is child's play to translate to a different language and then use an Absolutely. The software does it automatically. And then publish it on that same video. You can if it's if there's a reasonable market, you can publish it on the Chinese version of YouTube. The Spanish version. That's genius. Yep. Totally get all the software for it. Too lazy to use it. Well, dude, let's use it.

There's way more money in that than podcasting. Well, how about you do a test sample and you figure it out whether it make money. And if it does, then I'll go. Then you'll jump in once the money's flowing in, then you'll. You'll dip your toe in. Yeah. Is my ideal version of doing this is actually to hire somebody in the Philippines to make these for me. Wouldn't make more sense. Yeah. And then then just collect the money.

Find somebody on Fiverr who doesn't realize that they can make a lot more money doing this for themselves. That means I'm paying you 50 bucks an hour. Like I don't do that. Those videos are making. 13. 50 bucks an hour. That sounds reasonable where. The videos are that making 100 bucks per. Minute. Well, that's your way over. I mean, realistically, if a video gets 100,000 views, you've made a buck. Yes. Yes. It's all a qualitative thing. It's absolutely.

So you really you start making money a few years in. You have to build the audience. You have to make sure the topics are not age dependent. And I will say. Things like the history of are great because they're really changed. Yeah, they're evergreens. The Daily news stuff gets lost very quickly because nobody cares. Things are changing so quick. So I nobody listens to shows like this. Well, we are funded today thanks to. Are we funded? Wow. Thanks to a couple of donations.

Amazing that I was surprised. Otherwise I was like, you know what, Gene? It's time to just end the show. Nobody cares. But a couple people saved the show today. Wow. Somebody actually saved the show. That's amazing. That's well, we're putting the blame on them. That's basically all we're doing is shifting the blame for the show. But watch. I mean, I was just going to, you know, call you and talk to you about the the whole basic thing. I didn't realize we're going to get recorded.

And nobody paid attention to the little flipper device in your hand that you pushed. Right. As that rocket blew up. In a satisfying. Yeah, I can imagine. I mean, how many how many seconds did it take between you pushing the button and actually hearing the explosion from the from far, far away? Well, you know, it basically travels at almost the speed of light. Yes. Yeah. And the rocket was at that point, it was at 39 and a half kilometers up.

And was that high enough to deploy the thing that needed to be deployed first? Yes. Good, good. And and by thing you mean the both of or, you. Know, the things that had to be deployed. The things from the actual staged, Right. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. I see. Yeah. So I mean measure accomplished get you right mission. Well that's Ilan so that right there he said mission accomplished. Well everybody was freaking out that people in the control center were cheering as it exploded.

Like, well, it was just a I mean, there were no people on this. Let's understand. All right. Well, that's true. That's true. It could have been now could have been one of those things that could have finally been Jeffrey Epstein. They were trying to try to get him out. Jeffrey. Yeah, Yeah. You never know. Yeah, well, in like in the history of all rockets, they did have a dog on board, but that's just normal. Everybody knows that. I thought it was usually monkeys, but they're just dogs.

And they start with dogs. Then they go to monkey. Just to see if they survive. Well, I'm not sure even if that's really a question, Do you pretty much know they're not going to survive? True at some point? Yeah. Uh huh. Is you're going up? It's a hell of a journey. It's a hell of a thing. I will say that for its part though, it looks like it would have been a very comfortable ride. It did not have a particularly high G load. I think it maxed out at just over two GS, which is very comfortable.

It's basically what they would feel in a Tesla car. Yeah. Two G is nothing. Nothing. Yeah. I think they said last year at the Martinsville race in NASCAR at the end most people have seen the video of Ross Chastain that rode the wall and pulled the video game move. Yeah, I think they said that hit 11 G. No. Yeah, no kidding. They said, yeah. 11 G They didn't know what? 11 G I'm telling you. Yeah, I'm I'm telling you that physically impossible at that slow speed.

Expended He has ten G that car got to 11. Mm Yeah. Yeah. If you want to write a wall all you need is 2G 3G. You just hit it, it'll hold you. It will hold you at 3G at two G, it's going to be very tenuous but at three 3G it'll, it'll stick to the wall. I don't know. Physics. Very basic. Just basic math. Basic math. Yeah. How many g years does it take to G? Well, the G's 9.8 meters per second. Per second. So really simple math. Pretty simple math. Yeah.

I could do that in my head. Yeah, but anyway, so it would have been a comfortable ride. Um, d as far as what worked an awful lot worked way more work than didn't work on this launch, which given that it's the first time the thing's been up in the air with all the engines running. Well, most of the engines running, that's a huge accomplishment. Well, that's why they were cheering. Yeah, because, you know, when they had previous flights, like parts of the ship had gone up and even landed.

But the like the the upper stage that landed, you know, that has six engines. The and it was really only using three of them when they did the original test. The booster that went up and landed was only using either three or five engines. I can remember roughed up my head, but they didn't even have all the rest of them. And so this is the first time that we had the first stage with 33 engines that were all running.

Well, again, most very early on, they lost two engines, I think, from the debris that was created when they turned it on. And is this the point of having so many engines is that you can have a few that fail and you're like, now problem? Yeah, it's two things. One is it's easier to make smaller engines and big engines in them. And they. Add up. Yeah, they add up very linearly. So there's no downside really to having a lot of small engines versus one big engine.

So there is that upside for having a lot of engines. The other thing is if there's a failure, would you rather have one out of three engines fail or one out of four or one, two, two, or would you rather have like three out of 30? That would make sense. It's like airplanes, even though the largest airplanes, if one of the engines fails, the one can still limp it back to a landing. Well, it can do that. But beyond that, look at the airplane landing gear. They don't have like one wheel. No.

Per thing. They have like eight. If you're going to blow some tires on that landing. And what you need to have enough tires to still roll to the gate. And you've been following this a lot more than I. So what is Elon's goal with this whole rocket plan, this whole what's his end game? Is this to get more of his satellites in orbit? Is this to rent these things out so other people can get things up in the air? Yeah, it's. I mean, that's part of it. There's a lot of them.

So the initial driver for Building Starship, which used to be called Airplane B Airplane. They have Jefferson Airplane went to Starship and then just Starship and then it's like the fan. It's it was going to Mars, right? That's the end goal. And goal is we need to build a rocket capable of bringing human life to Mars and not just humans that are going to die there, but like all the crap that the humans need in order to survive on Mars. Like potatoes. Right? You have a rocket full of potatoes?

Yeah, Rocket. Small potatoes and a rocket full of Irish people. And you're good to go. Not racist at all. But what do Irish people hate? Potatoes. This is something I'm not aware of. That they love the potato and the whiskey. Yeah, exactly. And you can make potato whiskey called vodka on Mars. What? God. Oh, well, you would have to, because if you were on Mars, you need to drink. You're not getting really good internet connection there, so. Well, no, you are.

Because before people even arrive, there will be a StarLink constellation around Mars. Oh, what's the airlines like? Okay, he's taking care of that. Yeah. This was originally why StarLink was created. Was to be the StarLink version of Round Earth is the test for the StarLink around Mars. And then you could link other starlings from different planets. And. And StarLink. Yeah, exactly. The StarLink is called StarLink because it is a link in the stars that make perfect sense. It's that.

Otherwise, why wouldn't you call it like EarthLink? Because that's already taken. EarthLink? Yeah. There was a ISP called EarthLink. Oh, well, whatever. I mean. They're gone, I think. Long gone. Yeah. They probably could have bought the name all. Their dial up modems from back in the day. And. And the StarLink constellations will talk to each other through lasers, the speed of light. So even latency will be very low. You could have the. Latency will be the speed of light.

You'll be able to game with your friends on Mars. Kids Well, I mean, it's still it's Mars is even for late. I can't remember how much off top of my head, but it's a bit of track. Come on. You say all this math is easy to do. Just get it right on in there. Well, it's not. It's not the math part. It's the remembering the distance to Mars. I thought you were planning this trip. You would know. You're like, this is. Oh, no. God, no. This is going to be a while before this happens.

Probably after I'm dead. No, Now, don't you know, within eight years we're going to be immortal, So it's okay? Uh, yeah. You may be an immortal. I'm not planning on going down that road. No, you're like. I have gladly anticipate dating the great beyond. Yeah. Oh, yeah, absolutely. Yeah. It's immortality. Sounds better than it is. And I think it's something that I think young people are a lot more interested in. Right?

Because they haven't gotten to the point where they wake up every day going this again. If right. Yeah, you're living well, especially when you get up and you're at home every day and doing the same thing. It really starts to feel like Groundhog Movie. There could be that would make sense, but there's a limited amount of time for anything is incentive to get stuff done. When there's no incentive

for what you think, the people are lazy and procrastinate. Now you're like, I, I got I got a million years. That's no problem. I just lay here for a millennia. Well, but would you even notice? Probably not, because you'll be immortal. It's like nothing will even seem like it makes sense. Time, math means nothing. You don't go. The bright side is you won't have to listen to your podcast at 1.25 speed because you will have all the time in the world.

You'll be slowing them sons of bitches down to fill the days. Although the world. Since you were asked. Yeah, looked it up. So the the delay in communication between Mars and Earth at the speed of light is between five and 18 minutes, depending on where the line of research. Yeah, in real time. So there you go. I mean, gaming with the latency of 5 minutes would not be super enjoyable unless you're playing a board game. How about voice calls? Well, they're more voice messages than calls, Right?

There was just. Did you watch? I don't remember if I finished it or not. There was a series with Hugh Laurie in it. Oh, that he is playing the captain of a spaceship where things go quickly. He's an actor playing the captain. Okay. Yeah. So you've seen this this series. I forget. I'm just guessing. I forget what it's called. But yeah, you saw that. Good. And that was one of the whole bits was the video calls is the latency is like 5 minutes. Yeah. Does not work.

Although then the whole thing went through, there was an A.I. that was guessing what was going to be said next. So this is horrible, right? Well, the whole premise of the show is absurd technology. Yes. And I'm like, I don't know if I liked it or not. It had humorous moments, but it's one of those things that goes so far out there now, which I think you have to in order for people to accept that this is just being done to be that far out there.

I think it was a bunch of actors that had no projects and somebody just decided, Hey, you know what, be funny. What if we were like on a cruise ship that was stranded around Mars and it would take us like three years to get back home? That'd be hilarious. Should we should do that. And then every little mistake takes them further and further off course about. Well. I'm glad that Hugh Laurie gets to play both an American and the British actor. Oh, I know he's genius at the British accent.

I don't know. It's amazing how well he's learned the British accent that, Oh. We there are so many people that still would not believe that dude's British after watching House by now. And that that's a good testament to his learning the American accent because he's my my favorite show that he was in still has to be this is back going 20 years probably at least it was a Jeeves in Worcester. Jeeves and Wooster. Yeah, I know. He was in Hue and Laurie.

I don't know, was this another variety kind of thing? Another comedy? No. No, no. Jeez. And Worcester is a it's a it's a series of novels of books written by P.G. Wodehouse, who's a British book writer that wrote about the writer. Yeah, he's he's the author, I guess.

But he wrote books about the British upper class at the turn of the century of the Last previous century, so that the it takes place in like the 1923, you know, Great Depression and in 1990, 91, 92, that time frame, they did a series where it was Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry that played Jeeves and Wooster. And I think that those were absolutely perfect roles for the two of them.

So Worcester is the rich, upper class, single British, you know, rich dude, Bertie Wooster, whose days are filled with going to soirees and gentlemen's clubs and then Jeeves is his impeccable butler. Well, of course. I mean, a butler has to be named Jeeves, right? Well, that's where the that comes from. Is that book. Yes. 1990 to 1993, only 23 episodes. You could watch it the weekend. Yeah, that's that's called Four Seasons and BBC Stan. Maybe I thought it could have been eight. Yeah, they do.

Or don't do a whole lot of episodes preceding, but I watched it on PBS back then, back in the nineties because BBC broadcast a lot of BBC stuff and it was hilarious. I really enjoyed it. I read the book just like a year previous to watching the series, so that really made it really cool. Now, how did it relate to the book? Was it one of those things where you'd say this television series was better, the book was better?

Well, the books I mean, there are multiple books on it's longer, but the books are basically stories about this rich dude and his butler. And of all the the hilarity that it suits and I think the TV show did a great job of portraying what was in the books, you know, like one of the I think one of the seasons and the TV show and there was one series in the books is about how Bertie goes to New York.

Well, back then, going to New York meant getting on the Queen Mary and then, you know, taking a two and a half week long cruise just to come over the US. Can't believe it's not available for streaming right now. That series, isn't it? Maybe on BBC or something. That says nowhere. Well, according to the website I normally use, just watch dot com which is a hell of a resource. How the the theft website. I don't know this is just watch dot com they will tell you.

Well. If a series or movie is on any of the streaming series and if it's free or whether you know a lot of the stuff's on Apple TV or Amazon for a price they'll tell you what it is this isn't available anywhere at all. And yes they said. The best music in it to. The theft site looks like it hasn't been posted in the nineties. It looks like 2018 and there's nobody seething right now. So yeah, and unfortunately I have the whole series through on my Mass, which died a few years ago.

Well, don't you have it on DVD or Blu ray or something. Well, no, that's why I have the means. So I get rid of all that crap. Then. Then the nest dies and you're like, Oh, that's white. My annoying. Yeah, I went through and fact all of my audio CDs we may have talked about that. It's Yeah, yeah we talked about it which. Is why it's been backed up because the amount of time it takes to FLAC off like 3000 CDs is a long time. I do that back in the day. That would have been right around 2000.

I did that. The hardcover book Jeeves in Worcester, $43 at Amazon. Whoa, whoa. What is that, a hardcover book? It's also the collected radio dramas. Oh, yes. Which looks like that's available on Audible. And it looks like maybe series one is on prime video. I thought the other side said it. You see? What's that all about? Me? No, no. I do not want to run Google while. What's it, White Vine? What is that? That's what they want you to have on your system to run all the DRM stuff.

Oh, right. That's the DRM thing. Yeah, you can. You can store it. There's no problem with it. It says This video is currently unavailable to watch in my location. See this? Oh, maybe that would be. Oh, yeah, you're right. What this may turn into is me just running my Roku through the the VPN to the UK and the BBC will be like, Hey, come and watch this now I want to see it. And I think I live in a time where I should be able to find any remote series from 2030 years ago.

The only thing that was ever published. Yeah. And find it and watch it. But we'll see. I mean, there are other places to search. Like, what's it beat, dig? There's a lot beautiful sites that you can search for the torrents. And I lost a lot of my bookmarks, which is probably good. I've been using Brave for a long, long time, and it seemed like brave finally got to the point to where it was all screwed up. Yeah, I say. That's why I switched the the Microsoft one. What the hell is it called? Edge.

Edge. Everything is much better after a complete new reinstall. I mean, I notice like it was I was still doing the thing where when you downloaded a file, it was showing up at the bottom of the interface, like the old and chrome. Mm hmm. Now, it doesn't do it. It's all completely different. And I just didn't even think of I should back up my history or bookmarks. But I remember 99% of the stuff that I need anyway. Sure. If you don't remember it, I kind of figured maybe you don't need it.

Well, that's the way I started to feel about all the crap disappearing off by now. You're right. It's like I wasn't. You know, I have to go through mine because there's a lot of series that I have on there that I know I'm probably never going to watch. Yeah, Although I'm a hoarder. I just downloaded the Four Seasons of Sea Hunt with white bridge bridges. Oh, my God. No, That wasn't even good when it came out. I don't know.

I kind of remember watching it as a kid, so, like, Well, I'll download it, I'll take a look. But there is a lot of stuff ominous that I've watched. Yeah, yeah. I watched almost everything that I lost. I've seen once some things, maybe twice, but. But I've never. And this is what made it not as bad. Losing it is. I never literally in about six years that I had the dance running ever went back to rewatch them. No. You watch the stuff and then you go on the and.

The only reason I saved that on now is like, Oh, I really enjoyed this. I should keep a copy on the net. Yeah. And for the things that I've rewatched, they've been the series like Seinfeld and Friends, which I can find online to download at any time. You can find that pretty easily. Not Even to download, you just watch them pretty easily. But like I think HBO is got every single episode posted now. I'm Betty Dig.

They're showing the Jeeves in Worcester is a bunch of Torrance, but they're all between five and seven years old. So I'm guessing probably I don't. Think it's been remade. No, I'm just saying this was when they were posted. Oh, when they were first. Yeah. Yeah. So here's one that Jeeves and Worcester remastered 15 gig from two months ago that might exist. That might be the whole series, the. DVD wrap, it looks like. Oh, well, I know I'll be hitting that magnet link after after the show.

I need to start rooting things So my, you. Know, my nan's even has a built in torrent searcher. Well, that's nice. It's got a torrent app and includes the search capability. So you don't you could be a total Luddite and still connect up and get stuff off point. But I still need to set it up so that I've got a machine that does nothing but torrents that that can always be on the nav.

So I don't have to go back and forth because when we do the shows I like to jump off, although I don't know if that helps anymore. I was on a Chicago server. Oh, you got 100 gigabit now or something else. Yeah. Yeah. Well that's it. I was on Nordvpn, a Chicago based server yesterday and did a speed test and got over 1200 Mbps down through Nord where my, you know, I could get 14 to 15 now direct without Nord. But it's like damn, that's crazy. Speeds over a gig. Yeah, over a gig is pretty awesome.

And then that's what you need the VPN for so you don't get the DMCA letters allegedly. I would never really do this. I'm just talking about this for educational and entertainment purposes. There was always there's always an exception to the downloading legality thing, which is you have always been allowed to download a copy of something that you have a license to hold. Right? They certainly can't go after you if you own a DVD of something for downloading it because you're like, Well, I own it.

I got it scratched up. I'm just regaining what I bought now. This is why they went away from owning material to renting material, because now you never own it. Now I am amazed just on that same kind of a topic. I saw an article the other day that it's like three months away or something. Netflix is shutting down their DVD mailing operations. I'm like, They're still doing that. I'm surprised I know who's still on the DVD. Anybody out there?

If you are, I want to know if you're still doing the DVD by mail thing through Netflix. Well, you better order some DVDs by mail of shit you can't find online real quick. Why not? And here's the thing. I'm wondering, are they going to make everybody return those last two years? Because they I mean, I'm guessing maybe they're selling them all off. I don't know. That's an interesting. I think they destroy them. Maybe. For licensing. Because all of that.

How many times have some of those things been rented? You want to talk about discs that didn't play well, some of the ones from Netflix back in the day, but it's like, that's hard to believe that's where Netflix started. Now you almost forget that that was a thing. Of course, before that it was the horrible thing that you had to leave the house and go to Blockbuster or your local video store and try to find something. Netflix is like, No, no, we could do this better.

That'll never catch on the right, said Blockbuster. Well, it did. Well, here's the thing. How much money had the post office made? And I know they gave Netflix a really good deal, but yeah, there was a lot of money now. Yeah. So that going away, just like everything else, the post office is in. And what are they people use now? I've never used one, but I think they've been around for decades now. These little red boxes.

Yeah. Basically vending machines where popular DVDs the selection is five discs. Usually outside of a grocery. Store. It's outside of a gas station or something. And but it I guess there are still people out there that have the DVD thing. They don't have a single one. I mean, I've still got DVD players. I haven't used one. Item in. A long time because I don't throw anything away. So there's that I still have. I don't even know if it works in my rack where my main TV is here.

I mean, I've got my Roku, I've got my Raspberry Pi that's running Kodi, and that is. That for. The raspberry Pi running Kodi. Uh huh. Because it streams anything from the nest in the basement. So that's why I watch all the TV. Roku not stream anything from the nan's in basement. Why not. The Roku? Finally, can they finally added the ability. To have down there forever? It's not a great way. It's clunky. Yeah, so Kodi works a lot better.

It remembers exactly what you've watched, which is also good. It shows you a little checkmark next to, the things that if you go back after a while, like, Oh, where was I in that series? It will show you. That's I mean, there's things that and really a Raspberry Pi is cheap enough that it just seems to work a little bit better. But that's where we watch 19.

We don't have a cable subscription anymore, but in that same area where those little devices are with another router in there, in another network switch, because that's where a lot of things branch off from there to the rest of the house is a old DVD player slash VHS recorder combo. Yeah, I know. So you can't possibly work.

I know you could take your VHS tapes and convert them to digital, which, you know, these are the things that I've been saying for probably way more years than I want to admit, because our wedding video is still on VHS and hasn't been looked at since the time we got married in 19 Drive. Yeah. So it's a we should probably digitize that if you ever want to see. Exactly the same. Except like a few pounds left, huh. But I do really. Have thick glasses back then. Or that I had glasses. Yeah.

I mean that was pounds less. I was, I was on Vicodin at the time because I was in a car accident the day before the wedding that should have been assigned saying had. Puffy cheeks. That's maybe wavy, but it would be interesting. Now that there are the eye problem, which who's the company that puts this out there? They have a thing for both videos and for photos that seems to work really well.

Topaz is the company. Yeah. And it will up sample your video and it will understand, you know through their eye this is what the the system's doing. It's looking for people. So that way when it ups samples, it tries to even everything out and not look all pixelated. Yeah, interesting. Okay. So these are the things I'm guessing this is what you use every now and then on those and those various sites where you can find television shows. I found things like Dark Angel, the series with Jessica Alba.

Yeah, you and Michael Weatherly. I mean, we can't forget he was in that that was one of. The back of them. Was one of the better sci shows back in the day. Yeah, it wasn't all that sci fi, but it was noir. And it was Jessica Alba in very tight outfits all the time. Yeah. And she was hot back then. Yeah. I mean, she's not bad now, but she was hot back then. Yeah. Yeah. And I've run into these now where it's like, Oh upscaled. And then hang on, it looks really good.

And I'm assuming this is the kind of software that is doing it. It takes it in. I've also run it across a couple of old DVDs, and it does take out the the scan line. So if you notice the old fashioned DVDs, every picture is only half the picture, right? So this fixes that. It does a lot of really cool stuff.

And with the the one that for the photos we took my wife had a small photograph of her grandfather black and white you know from the war back in the day scan that thing in and it looked okay Photoshop color corrected made it look better ran it through this a I and it just cleaned everything. I mean, it was just amazing the quality. These things can pull out.

So what you can maybe bring some of these older videos, I mean, I don't know if it's really worth doing that on the wedding video or anything, but if you have old videos that are worthy of saving for whatever reason, the technology is getting there, that can actually make them better because people don't. I mean, the youngsters today don't realize what four AP looked like and then what that was considered good.

I know. We had Brady P and then the shitty stuff was for the AI and the really shitty stuff that was basically broadcast TV was 240. And the VHS resolution was not good. Yeah, VHS was 240 though. That was 240. That's when the the VHS plus or the what was it called? The hi fi Super VHS. Right. Right. That that finally brought it up to like 480. Right. That was that was 400 at and a maximum because it was all analog. So you didn't have to have the digital numbering schemes.

But the the typical TV broadcast as broadcast in the US was 240 the postage stamp a pixel. And that's basically what the VHS and well, the VHS was even less than that because the VHS never looked as good as when you were watching something live. So it was using some if. You bought a videotape for a hundred bucks and it had a movie and like Jaws, you would see on VHS, something that was comparable to what you can receive off the air. Gotcha. If you recorded it yourself, then if.

You saw it was never as good a quality because it was all analog. I mean, that's the thing is with analog, every recording degrades, including the first recording. Now, what do you think of when we talked about the insanity? I don't like record album. Well, I understand that. But now the other insane thing is people are buying vintage VHS tapes that are. Just fucking insane. That for big bucks. For they're so fucking insane.

Our our buddy over on YouTube, who I've been watching for a decade maybe now. Marquez Brownlee That does all the tech reviews. Yeah. He just bought at auction and I found one that was still sealed in a box and paid $40,000 for it. Boy, oh, boy, I wish I would have done that. I know. Bought it or saved your iPhones when you. Saved it instead of throwing it away. Yeah. Now, if you had one still sealed in a box. Yeah, they're going. This was cheaper. There were crazy.

There were people that recently paid 50 or 60,000 at different auctions. It was, well, how much was it? I want to say I paid 500 bucks for that phone. When it was new. Yeah. Yeah. So today. When it came out. You had 91, which means if you would have taken that phone, kept it sealed in the box, never used it. Yeah. Today you could have sold it easily for. $40,000. Yeah. Yeah. And what he did with this was it wasn't like he was buying this.

Mm. Based on the fact that while these are going to continue going up so in five years, ten years I can sell it for 100. He made a video or he opened the box and looked at everything inside. He's like, I know I'm killing the value I don't care. Yeah, well, he's a very rich dude. Oh, I know. Well, he started I think his family started all right. But his YouTube channel is one that's making beaucoup bucks. I don't know. He was like the. Original. Boy. Can I use this word or not?

He was the token black dude doing tech reviews on YouTube like he's the O.G.. Well, he was the original black guy doing tech reviews. And he said. Literally, What I just said. But he was started when he was like ten or 12 years old. He was very young when he started. Don't know if I remember him being that young, but he was definitely a teenager. Yeah, he was. It was amazing that he was doing these videos and then that it grew into.

I know you have the little thing you can look up approximately what the YouTube channels are worth. Yeah, yeah. I bet you the MKB HD one is worth. Yeah, he's got a bunch of channels. That's the thing that all do when they get big enough is they get a bunch of channel. And then you keep all of that content and then. Split it. Yeah, because you get more and more stuff. More, more stuff, more money. You get more money. More money, more problems. Yeah, exactly. Bye

bye. Having multiple channels than you do. As of April 20, 23, he has, according to Wikipedia, 19.4 million subscribers across all channels and 3.61 billion total video views. Yep. Yeah, that's a lot of subscribers right there. Yes, He started YouTube in 2008. He was born in 93. So 15. 15. Yeah, that's both. That's about right. Because he and you know, I remember when he was definitely still a teenager so that sounds about right. And has I mean, he does very he's always done good videos.

But he was there for you. He was the first one that went into I don't remember the brand, but there was somebody the Red cam, he was the first one that was using cameras that cost like more than a car, you know, Great. It's like, is that a little overkill for YouTube, baby? But he was making so much money that he kept trying to push things into. Yeah. The red video equipment that he just kept pushing the quality and stuff and does a very good job breaking the stuff down.

And he's not a fanboy because even there's somebody that uses Apple products. Yeah. He will bash Apple in a in a heartbeat if he does. Oh yeah, they're doing it. He's probably one of the few people on YouTube that if he says something, Apple goes, Oh shit, we better fix that. Yeah, you're probably right. I think there's a lot of a lot of people that the that Apple pays attention to that have huge followings like that. Yes I mean not us. Apple does not care what we say. Well of course that.

Although you use their products, you just leave him in the box for a year or two before you set him up. I do. I mean, hey, maybe I should've left that Mac Mini in the box for 30 years and be worth $40,000. Or more. Or more. I get gear and I've got it up and running within moments of getting it into the house. Yeah. What's. What's the point that I don't. I don't know. I have a new monitor though. Oh, would you buy. I finally got tired of the the 24 inch. A good.

So I now and although again I'm like I really wish I had an old I do but okay the old LEDs are so far out there in price right now but this Dell, it's a Dell. I know everything on my system that was Dell and I feel dirty, but it was a Dell 32 inch. They always have overpriced monitors though. Well 32 inch 4K for 350 bucks. Okay. So it wasn't a bad price. And again, I mean, I'm starting from a point of really crappy eyesight, so it doesn't have to be it doesn't have to be perfect.

But the amount of screen real estate that's in here's the sad thing. After using it for like a day, it's like, this doesn't seem much bigger than what I had. It's. Yeah, you should get bigger. I know. It feels like about the same. It's like. I guess it is, but it's not that much bigger. I don't know where you get something that's not tiny. And what I really need, I think, is like a 43 or maybe a 52 where it just keeps going in 43. I'll tell you, a 43 is a perfect size. Which do I have?

A 47? Right. I got one better than Yeah. With overcompensating much. Less just a little bit too. You should see the this as a mind. Baby but that I think the 43 is the biggest reasonable monitor to put on a desk. Oh, yeah. If it's bigger than that, it really should be hanging behind your desk. Yes, well, you need to have some workers who keep it manageable. Yeah, The 47 that I've got and I've got one of these gaming monitors that's like high refresh rate and shit, which is they're pretty good.

I've kind of actually gotten used to. It's down, stuck. I'm going to have to keep buying only high refresh rate monitor right. You don't want to go backwards. Yeah because on my Mac I've got a what is this this is a 43 inch Samsung and that thing's really nice. That's it's not high refresh rate but it's it's really crisp. It's an old but I here's the problem with a lot of these have really nice colors if you're looking at a photograph but there's a downside to a lens. Yes.

And the downside is they burn in. So if you leave something out there, you will like this, like the old. CRT is. Really. You have to have a screen saver. You have to keep changing what's on the monitor. Otherwise you're going to get burn in ghosting. Because every pixel is lit. So yeah. That's interesting. Every pixels lit and they have a tendency to get stuck if you keep them on all the time. So it is not that bad. It's really going bad.

That's why all that's great on the watch, it's great on the phone cause everything is always changing on their right. The only thing that might get burned in the watch is the the hour markers and who gives a shit. And it's nice to have the actual total blackness on the watch, wear the monitor when the monitor's lit, when there's other things going on. Do these, these gaming monitors have insanely high contrast with LCD? I like the contrast. It's like 1000000 to 1 or something.

I mean, it's just like black of black. It's it's pretty much the same black as you get on all of the the differences, the color saturation is a little bit more muted, which is honestly what I'm used to over the last 40 years. So. Right. And that's kind of what I'm looking at. And it's like, but you get used to it. I'm noticing things in programs, which is interesting. I'm noticing like lines in Adobe Audition that I've never seen before. THE Oh yeah, yeah.

Because you can differentiate the subtle changes. Yeah, Yeah. So it's very weird. I mean, it's nice, but now Gray looks shitty to me, so I probably have to go through other things like. Mic. And calibrate it a little more. Right. Ready to bring the gamma down by like a quarter? Yeah, you can usually do that visually pretty easily. I've got one of those monitor calibration tools back when I used to do a lot of Archer. Oh yeah, you have that.

You have to have that for photographs if you're brown Yeah. Yeah. So you, you actually cause that, that has effectively a little tiny camera that, that you put on top of your monitor and then it'll go through and look at what each color on your monitor is and then provides you with the offset of all the colors in order for them to be correct. Right.

And accurate compared to what your print product is going to be, because you're always trying to match your screen to what the final print product is going to end up being. That's what people are paying for. That's what you give a shit about, Right? What it looks like on the screen. This matters much so, but the closer your screen is to the finished product, the better you can edit and make decisions on your edit and they'll be eventually printed.

And I was doing large format, so my stuff was going to be like 20 by 40 inches. There's like 60 by 40 inches. So You know, any mistakes, anything that's off is going to get magnified that much. So it was important to be calibrated, but god damn, I haven't plugged that thing in years. May not work. I was thinking about getting one. I'm like, I don't need that. I mean, I've got four or five monitors in the house. I'm like, Well, you could every one of them. They're all different.

Yes, they're all different. Bedros was talking about that and grumpy old bands, and his wife was annoyed because all of his monitors, the colors were off and she's like, Doesn't that bother you? And he's like, I'm fucking colorblind. Do you not understand that? Oh, yeah, he is. I forgot the three. We talked about that. Yeah, like I don't see it. So there, if you want to fix it, you go fix it. I don't care. By the way, he's not just colorblind.

He's fucking colorblind. Oh, yes. I mean, you don't want to. If there's an extra level up, an extra level up on the car. It's the level beyond like, Oh, I'm sorry. It's more to the level of like, Yeah, you really have no clue what a color is. You know. You really need to live in life and black and white. The oddity, which I think is. That more like purple and white. Maybe. You know, the weird thing is when you're moving things from one monitor to the next. Now, yeah, not. Only save. The color.

Well, this is it's making the adjustment, which there is so much more resolution on the 4K monitor that Windows must be doing this, which is kind of annoying, which is they're making it about the same size that it was on the other monitor, I guess, which makes sense. But this can also really Cluj things up pretty quick if you're moving them from one monitor to the next. Well, and this is why what I do is I always look for a pixel density and a monitor and I match those.

So that way when you move should the monitor, your monitor doesn't change. So that would make sense. But now I can tell like in the clean feed window, the bottom of the thing is black. When I move it over to this main monitor, it is very much gray. Mm. But I think that could just be that the, the two side monitors are much darker than this one. So it will Oh, it's not even darker. They just have a different gamma profile. Yes. So it'll take a little more dialing in.

You always think you're going too far with something and then you go back and do that. Still, it is a little more there's always a point that needs to be made. And the reality is for the monitors, I just want them to look good. It doesn't you know, the exact color replication is not a big deal for me, you know, because even for the video that I would do, it's like it's close enough where it's not you're not going to make a small little change that's going to it's going to be so far off.

But it's nice to have the extra real estate value. Now I need to start playing with things where you can have a couple of things on the monitor that'll snap to it. So yeah, to make better use of all of this space, you know, like space, the final frontier where Ellen's rocket tried to go. The three almost out there, like right. Until you and your. I'll be back down there in about four months. That's when Ellen's going up again. Now, you didn't get the up close look, the rocket. I mean, that was.

I know. I'm so bummed about that. Dude. That was totally me being stupid. So the. The official story is that I assumed and you know, what happens when you have. You make an ass out of you. Exactly. And even me and the what? What I. What I assumed was that since they were ready to launch the rocket morning and then it was canceled because that for whatever reason they had delays, that they had closed off that section of the road that's next to the rocket, that basically the road to space.

And I just made that assumption because it seemed reasonable at the time. And then while we're watching the launch, the photographer that was standing next to me was telling me that Space X was open until midnight the night before the launch because there were so many people and they wanted to have everybody come and look at it. I'm like, Son of a bitch. I have tons of opportunity to drive down there and actually go right up to the rocket and look at it because they were open.

They were just being like, Where's Jeanne? They're well, they were I mean, you know, they would drink beer just like the whole place was trashed. Afterwards. They figured we're going to launch a rocket anyway. Here's what make of. Yeah, we wouldn't. Have burned all the trash from the rocket plumes anyway, so it doesn't really matter. It's one way to get rid of your trash. I know, right? And he just incinerated. And it's all totally kosher because you're launching a rocket ship.

But yeah, I was bummed out. So I will. I will definitely do that for the next one. I'll come out a few days early and then make a plan to go down and actually go to the little side to the launch facility and look at the rocket, because apparently you can get to within, you know, like a hundred feet of it. Well, that's pretty cool. How tall is that thing? So the rocket, the space rocket is it is 355 feet. They believe. That's impressive. 35 stories.

It is about four times the height of the Statue of Liberty. Well, the Statue of Liberty can't fly in this space or cannot. Or cannot protect it. Yeah, we don't have it. So it's about two and a half times taller than the space shuttle was. That's pretty wild. Yeah. So if you put the space shuttle on the nose of the external tank the way it was supposed to be done in the original draft, which is that it would have survived, first of all,

every one of the explosions that they have. But if you would have put it on there, this is still taller damage. It's about, what, probably 15 to 20% taller than me, a Saturn five that did the original hoax moon landing. What you're saying is Elon's rocket is massive. Yeah. And it's about a hundred times bigger than Jeff Bell. Jeff Bezos? Yeah. This rocket Bezos is having a been exploding yet so. Well, they've been exploding. We just haven't seen the videos of the explosion. That could be true.

They don't see they explode. They're on the ground. They don't explode them in the air. Well, that's probably the smarter way to go. No, it's the dumber way to go because you're not getting all the measurements that way by exploring them in in the air. They're in the environment they're supposed to be in. I'm a definitely a believer in Musk's methodology here for testing.

And this is all kidding aside, I think you gain so much more valuable information by sending something that isn't finished yet into space, or at least attempting to, and then measuring everything along the way until something stops working versus just testing each component locked into a, you know, a amount separate from the actual ship on the earth and then getting everything to not explode on earth like that still leaves a lot of doubt when you can start sending up

your starships and these test runs and they actually make it all the way through the mainland. That's a pretty good confirmation. And we saw an example of that difference between what Musk is doing and what traditional rocket companies are doing in the the test of the Boeing capsule that is supposed to be providing half the flight to the International Space Station versus what Space X did with their Dragon capsule.

They the contract for both of those was at the same time and they were both proceeding roughly the same schedule. And, you know, Musk finished well, SpaceX finished their capsule a little bit earlier than Boeing did, but they were fairly close together, except that the Space X test worked and the capsule was validated. But the Boeing won in its first flight experience, I think it was 134 anomalies. That's a lot. It's an awful lot.

It's they each one had to get specs and validated before they allowed next flight, which took several years. So now Boeing still hasn't had a single flight on their capsule although soon supposed to do. Meanwhile, Space X has been the only one delivering stuff to the space to ISIS now for several years.

So I think that this method that they're using, it might be a little more expensive to keep actually building things and then trying to have them fly, but they get so much more data at the same time. And that would make sense. The data and the data is good. Yeah. It's the same thing he's doing with with the cars, with Teslas, like every Tesla that's out there is recording data for the automatic driving. Even if automatic driving is not turned down.

So the entire time you're driving a Tesla, the computer in your car is predicting what it would do. And comparing it to what you're doing. Elon In building a database. Elon knows all well enough. He knows all, but he definitely wants to go home to Mars this year. I like that. I didn't know that's where Elon originated from. I thought he was from South Africa. Yeah, Johannesburg, Mars, I think he's originally from. Right. Well, you would know. I mean, because you've got all the clearance.

I'm just a humble podcaster. Hey, wait. When did you become humble? Always been humble, but just right on my business card. I thought that was completely legitimate business, man. What did you and my other. Well, that's my other business card now. It's completely humble business, man. I tell you what. I don't know. But as I said, we do have some donations today. Maybe we should talk about those before. Like the last. Yeah, before we wrap up, before the last 3 minutes of the show.

Uh huh. Which we have a tendency to do. We do. I mean, I know a lot of people will be surprised to know that we are a value for value show. Unrelenting show doesn't mean we ever hit it. This is true. Hit it. This is absolutely true. But, Dale, from down under the beautiful land of Australia comes in today with $103.48. Wow. Well, I know that may be the biggest. If not, it's in the ballpark. Yeah, he's. Well, that's way to coming having dinner with us in Chicago.

I mean, of course you're not going to pay for his airplane. Flight, obviously not. Australia because I mean that you would have to raise that a little bit. Yeah. Would be like ten grand for the ticket. But he included a note that says unrelentingly unrelenting down under that says daily take 250 milliliters. That's Small, right? Milliliters. Yeah. Of beetroot juice for the blood pressure. Mm hmm. 250 grams or more of the pineapple. The bromelain. Yeah, we talked about that.

For the digestive health, especially in high meat diets. I mean, yeah, Yesterday your eyeballs. Yeah I know. And the had a little delmonico's steak yesterday. Delicious. Mm hmm. Pineapple in with lemon blend instead of sweetener. Yeah. The sweeteners are bad. Yeah. And we've learned that where the and the lemons. Not bad without the sweetener. But if you. Know it's really not it.

Because when you grind everything up like that you just you don't taste is as harsh a in acid as you do if you just ordered juice out of it. Right. And I mean for a while I was doing the Truvio packs, but that's the crap in there. That's along with the stevia leaf, the. You know. The bad. So I got away from that, but a little raw honey, I would guess, mixed in with the lemon if you need to cut it. But you're right. I don't think you do. Molasses. That to the rind. It does have a tendency to.

The right I will tell you it is derived is bittersweet. As is doing this show. Yeah yeah but it really is it has to like if you chew a little bit of lemon rain and you could spit it out, you know, if swallowed. But what you'll notice is it's a little bitter immediately. But as you chew it, there's a sweetness through it. As you get down. Yeah. As it starts. Emulsifying. And what happens in the blender. Well, you accelerate the process a lot.

This is true because you are emulsifying the hell out of it. Or you're. Yeah, you're also shredding it. So. But thank you, Dale. From down under it is appreciated. Everybody that supports unrelenting and our buddy Josh Mandel coming in with $19.94 as long overdue donation for unrelenting nights. Thank you. I mean, it's good to know that people now. That we're getting paid, we might actually have to have the show every week now instead of every other week. We've been trying to keep that one up.

I mean, we we record all of our shows on one long weekend and then release them throughout the year. A lot of people don't know. I know. I mean, in reality, by the time you're hearing this, I haven't spoken to Jean and probably six months. Yeah, it's for sure. The way we like to do it that way keeps everything fresh, keeps every well. It keeps it easy for us because then we just have like a, you know, one one long weekend. Every six months we get to actually talk to each other.

Yeah. And then go out. What do we think is going to happen? I mean, that's the hardest part than releasing the stuff. Now, this is kind of inside baseball, but we we actually record about a third more shows than you guys hear because we record some segments with both opinions being opposite and. Then we pick the one that fits the best for the current narrative. Right? Well, that's how you have to do it. So that's when you know, when the right trigger comes up, you throw that in.

The reality is the world's not that hard to predict at this point. Not at all. Our buddy Darian Rundell comes in with, I think, my favorite donation of the day, $5.65. Well, I mean, the donations are awesome. Thank you. The comment was my favorite. It says Dude, Jean has to stop pretending he knows about audio. Huh. You sound great on any Mike Jean. Sounds bad on every mike. Oh, okay. Well, that sounds like an opinion there, buddy. You just don't like my voice. It has nothing to do with audio.

I keep trying to make it sound better. I do. I keep trying to tweak it. I get in there, I play with the filters, he says. By the way, I have all the mics you've mentioned. Sam seven is best for my voice, but not all I've used in seven seven on probably 30 to 50 albums. So he's a he's a professional. Not a professional speaker. He's a professional musician. Maybe could be musicians know what they're doing. They know the sound.

So I tell you, if if he produces talk radio that I would take advice from somebody that's an actual talk radio producer. I'd be like, Yes, sir, I will tune it this way. You always sound a little bit underwater. That's what I always try to do, get boosted a little bit. That's called my nose. I know it's the air frequencies that you try to get. Where it where it doesn't sound like we're both on completely different microphones with, which is the hardest part.

I of doing anything where you're trying to make. Irony as we were. I'm the exact same way prone for a long time, but we don't sound like it now. And we're very close because I'm on the. Yeah. Ari 20 and you're on the. Ari 320. Yeah, we both got the big foam ball on them. Yeah. Because it helps with the. Plosives and mostly it looks cool. But it's the plosives for me. Yeah. I don't like the plus. I don't plosives much. I don't either.

But that's one of the things that annoys me the most, especially with there's a lot of people with the seven B's on YouTube. Yeah. That pop every. There's way too many people with that. Some seven BS on YouTube that have no business running in and so at some some B. Because they don't know how to use a microphone. Because they should be they should be using a USB yeti. Probably get it a little further away. They should probably be using a shotgun microphone just out of frame.

Yeah. And you know what? I've actually I've got a new mike coming. Our new mike is I, I saw a video where it had extremely good results. It's a is the brand. It was a shit I can't remember the brand of but. One you just ordered. It might have been a Sennheiser. Yeah, I think it was a Sennheiser. Yeah. It's a livelier but it's a it's an expensive, livelier Mike. Well yeah, it cheap. LAVs are really good. No one sound wise. To the thing, is it really.

It's not even an expensive one. I would say it's mid-priced. 300 bucks. Well, that's more expensive than aims for a less. High end level. There is 1800 dollars. They're more expensive than like most. Mike. If you look at the ones that are actually used in professional production. Yes, well, they're black and. You've got good sound. Yeah. Yeah. There or, you know, somebody doing a, a real interview. Mike Not like a podcast interview.

They are insanely expensive, but this one got rated really well. And what I really liked about it as a feature is that it is completely isolated. So it, it does not have the issue that some level players have where the cable from the mike acts as an antenna and you get you get extraneous frequencies that reverberate letting you know you're picking up. Yeah, you don't want to pick up RF interference with. That kind of stuff Adam always has with his life switch, right?

The dimmers. You don't want that. Well, the there's a big difference between a lab that you plug directly in and one that is wireless, too. Yeah. Yeah. Although the new generation of wireless labs are incredibly good sounding, and it's not wireless labs, but the little wireless packs for the lab, Right, is the way you should do it, is you take the 1800 dollars lab. You put it into an 1800 dollar broadcast box. Yeah, exactly. And then there's another 1800 receiver. Oh, no, that's 20 $900.

And by the time it's all done. Four channels on it, you do it? Yeah. If you want to build a professional studio, you start with $100,000 and then you end with about ten bucks left over for lunch. But everything looks good on camera. Then. Well, it looks good, but more importantly, it sounds good because everybody knows the the the secret to having really good video is to have really good audio. This is true. This true. The audio makes it do this.

What I'm saying about seeing this launch in person versus what you know, you can get a much better view watching YouTube channels because they've got these huge Zoom cameras. Right. But what you're not getting is the insane sound. Well, yeah, Elon Punched his bass right into your face. It was it was crazy. And it and it's so hard to describe because it's not the loudness that you really feel or it's not the loudness that you're hearing.

It's not like going to a rock concert where everything's just cranked up really loud. It's the subsonic frequency. Yes, It's literally subsonic that are vibrating your whole body. At that level. They're vibrating the ground. They are there. Exactly. It's like not easy to vibrate the ground. You literally feel the rocket launching. And and it's hard to describe, but I think it really is like frequencies from zero to about ten hertz, like, shit, your ears don't pick up.

But you absolutely know they're there. Yes, you can feel them. Yeah. I mean, normally they're there because then you also have the very loud sound that your ears can hear, right? Yeah. And, you know, I was probably a mile away. I mean, it was I was a good, safe distance and I was across the bay basically from the from the launch along with 10,000 of other crazy rocket people that all showed up. I thought there might be, like 500 to 1000 people there. There's 10,000 people there.

Really? Now, where were they? Mainly science nerds. Were they looking for a ride home? They were. This is surprising to me. They were mainly people our age. So 100? Yeah. Ish People that are a hundred ish mostly. So the youngsters are an interest and very few. There were some, but not many of the millennials and the Zoomers they're. The youngsters don't care about the science, I guess. Nope. They just they have a phone already. They don't really need anything. Else, Right?

That's all we need. Everything we need is on the phone. I think all progress has stopped with the phone. I can watch. You are obviously tick tock. That is the scourge of humanity along with the other social media networks. I don't think they're all that different. Yeah. I mean, I don't care what China's doing to wiggers this fucking tick tock shit. It's got to stop. I know. Well, this is why we have a whole generation whose brains are basically mush. That, by the way, Chris.

I have to say, I have some amazing food. While I was down there. What would you have? I have a whole blackened red snapper. Oh, was at the photo. You said I sent you the photo of that look, let's say. Yeah, like a little. You know, it looked at us, right, Joe? It was so good. It just like the flesh was just falling off the fish and that it was a fully intact fish. So super good. Then I had some blackened tuna, which was exactly the way I like it, which is cold inside Now.

You like your tuna, like you like your whip. I like my tula raw, just like I like my steak. Very, very good. Had an awesome burgers. I mean, pretty much every food type that I had down there. But I was trying to eat more seafood than normal, and this trip was exceptional. It was very, very, very tasty. This is the off season for South Padre. So there there's a lot of places that are open and you don't really have to wait for anything. Well, that's even better. Yeah, I'd say so. Nobody went down.

There's a downside to having the off season there, and that is there was about one cop for every ten vehicles on the route. Did you get stopped for speeding? Is this. The. You never get stopped for speeding but my radar detector was picking up three, sometimes four different radar signatures at the same time. Well, they're just looking for your business, that's all. They're just trying to be helpful, I guess.

They are looking for they are trying to take that donation money right back up your pocket. And of course, the the speed limit is like 35 for the whole island. Are they one of those things that changes? They have a button they can push that lowers it to 25 while you're driving already. Yeah, it was like I did have some cops pass me because I was driving slow, I guess, when you waved. Nice. Yeah. How you doing?

It's well, now that I'm legal, as far as having a license plate and everything, that's. I'm fine driving around. The still say Russian embassy. Yeah. Immune from all of your laws. I didn't have a Russian embassy plate. I do have a souvenir plate, though. I have a from a long time ago in a country far, far away. I have an CIA license. Oh, now, that's nice. That can get you. That can get there. Will get you shit here.

But back in the day when you were in Central America, it did get you certain privileges. That is cool. Our buddy Johnny Hipwell also came in with the 333 donation. I know we were were in the donation. $333. It's amazing. I know you put the decimal point over a couple and it's $3.33. Don't greatly appreciate these like everlasting pastors. Want to talk about a cold opener. Yeah, I thought that was a good cold opener.

And the last episode and then we got a couple of booster grams and I've got to figure out a better way to monitor these because now the system that I went to doesn't really show you what show they come in for. So when you got 8000 different shows, it's harder to figure out. Yeah, you need a better system there because you shouldn't need to put them all in the same frickin. Y can get different get accounts, but that would seem like a pain. Although I could do that. Why?

I mean, if you're going to, you get it, I'll be. Which I've played around with, but I haven't committed to a multiple. That's the way to go. Yeah. I mean, there's no cost True because for me, like I'm paying 20 bucks a month for a wall. Yes. Sucker. So getting multiple wall, it's kind of defeats the purpose. But coming in with a 3333 Satoshis, our buddy comic strip blogger. Hello. Yes, I am not offended by imitating my voice in the slightest. The funny. I'm a defendant on his behalf.

Goddammit, you're really offended for your friend CSB. What I do the impression I try to bring it up to a level that is worthy of the legend. Well, it sounds just like him. I mean, that's the problem. This is why I'm offended that you're doing it. It's too close. It's way too close. Yes. It could be. And then listening live here is a boost from our Davis 87 boosted 8000. Satoshi says, thank you for your courage. How much would I have to boost to get Dara now on video? A lot.

Oh, you can there knows been on video. Yeah. We have a very relaxing YouTube channel. Yeah, very populated. There's still like two subscribers there. Yeah, I know. We've talked about there's way more people on the YouTubes than on the on the cameras. Just not watching us. True. But we keep playing. The thing about YouTube we just make up for what I Matt Yeah.

What I figured out about YouTube is that if you want to build an audience, unfortunately because that's not my favorite topic, but you pretty much have to do a gossip show. You have to do a show that looks at all the drama happening. Yeah, that's. That is what gets new people coming to your channel. Now you can also do like, you know, puppy videos and shit like that. Yeah, but it's harder to pivot from puppy videos into what we talked about, which is show about nothing in quasi positive.

Wait, can we just get video? I mean, my sister is a puppy now. That's just a few weeks. All right. Just take video of that. Yeah. And then we can just talk. We could do all we have to do. Is the video of the puppy. Have a puppy. Put some cartoon music behind the puppy in the video, and then have some Japanese girls laughing. And that again ensued. Guaranteed you will end up getting a bunch of likes and views. It's all about the Japanese girls laughing though. Oh yeah, yeah.

You got to have that because that's that's like the the element that makes people want to forward it to somebody else. If it's just a puppy, they'll watch it. No girls cute. If there's like Japanese girls laughter behind it. But oh, you got to watch this. It adds a ton to the watch ability factor. Yeah, for better or worse. The same booster came in shortly after there was another 8000 hour. DAVIES 87 question for sure, Jean. How many more documents will you release over social media?

As always, thank you for your courage and thank you for continuing to provide information, entertainment. I look forward to unrelenting. It is this you specify the types of documents are just general documents, I guess. Just general documents. I mean, I mean, I probably release at least three or four. They for ever since we've been doing the podcast, the. Surging documents.

Dozens of them there. Now, the thing is, I mostly release stuff on no agenda social and occasionally some things on Twitter, but not nearly as many. And the beauty of knowledge and the social is that there's a limit as to how long everything stays there. So it's kind of like the same thing that I do with signal. I have my signal to destroy. Yes. Yeah. 30 day destruction. So no gender. Social is actually 70. So if you missed something that was seven days old, it's gone at least from there.

Now, if somebody else keeps their shit much longer on a dear friend Federated Server and they have a feed to your stuff, they can certainly archive all that on their end for much longer. But no agenda, social and is I mean it may actually be not exactly seven days but this is from talking to Adam and the fact that more people, myself included, have been uploading videos directly to it. Yeah. Which that is showing their Yeah.

Their space and they have to keep shrinking duration that they host stuff and keep it on their and I think it was right around the week, maybe eight days, something like that is sort of down to. Well I know a lot of people that listen to us are on no agenda social if you are Erin has just been asking about going to the value for value model and and expanding it, I'm like, no, no, no, don't expand. Yes. Go to value for value.

Yeah. Before you sees like I can go to an off site, but it's going to cost a lot more. It's like make sure the value for value that your nest egg lets you pay for like a year of what you want to do before you make that switch. Yeah, exactly. Well, there's two things. One is I think he's still paying for the damn thing out of pocket. Yes. Which I've been telling him for years, which is people want to give him money. Yeah, well. I mean I do. I would if more. Willing to give them money.

Yes. I was it was a lot more willing before Joe Biden took to give him more money. But I wouldn't give him money. Right. So that's something that, you know, people are going they might as well. That's why I would say don't bother giving to the show. But if you do some money, don't ask for it back because I'm keeping it as well. Yeah, I have a Taylor Swift album to buy tomorrow record show that maybe. Exactly. And I'm not going to wait. I probably have a couple to buy as well.

I'll find out when I get your text. Right. Well, it's if you ever do have a local record store right nearby because that be the. What's that. Record store vinyl record. I don't know what that is. In Austin you probably have a lot. I know we probably do have never set. Foot in one unfortunately in my area. Yeah, there is one in Joliet. Which. Joliet. Well, that's a famous town. Yeah, I know. It's right by. The Rialto Theater here in. In beautiful Joliet.

Yeah, but it's going to be, like 40 degrees tomorrow as a highway, like 47. It's going to be. I'm like, I don't want to go wait in line. I'm arresting me 90 here. I'm already watching the prices on eBay, and there's already some of them that are down to about the $90 range. And I mean, I think the face value because of the two record set, I think the face value from what I can tell is somewhere between 50 and 60.

So I would much rather pay somebody 20 bucks extra to not have to leave the house and wait in line in the cold and. What they're not doing online, they're doing a physical relief. Well. This is how the Record Store Day is supposed to work, but there's a lot of people that somehow are already selling all this stuff on eBay, whether it's Taylor Swift or others.

These are things that come out for this special day, which are supposed to bring people into their local record shops because they're the ones that need the boost and. Yeah, you know who my local record shop is? Amazon. Yeah. Like that's not exactly an independent little shop. I hate to say it, but I think they kind of are here because when they bought Whole Foods, they moved a lot of their facilities here and most of my Amazon orders aren't filled. Next day they're fulfilled. Same day.

Oh yeah, a lot of them are now. It's amazing how quick. I think the other day my mom's like, Oh, my dad wasn't feeling good, so we didn't go to the doctor and they buy the I promised vitamins through the eye doctor for some reason. Yeah, I ordered that Amazon at four in the afternoon. By six it was at their door. It was amazing. It's totally amazing. And that wasn't like I paid extra for rushed delivery. Yeah, exactly. It's all built in. They just charge the suppliers for that.

The thing with the record store Day was originally supposed to get people to go to their local record stores and to get product in the hands of the true fans, whatever that may be. But now it has turned into a flipping game where the big releases and I've got I think there were like three Taylor Swift releases in the past that I have that are probably worth one.

You know, again, you probably bought them for 30 to 50 bucks and they're worth now somewhere in the 500 to 1000 range because there were only about 5000 to 10000 of them. Each release picked it up. So this is where you have to understand supply and demand, which is also why I'm not that worried about this Taylor Swift release, because looking at the numbers at our local shop, a guy that I've been following for a long time, his shop always shows how many of each release he's getting.

And while some of them like if you want the Yes album that's coming out, he's only getting two. If you want the U2 album, think they're getting like ten. And that's I don't think I've ever seen one of these places get more than ten of any given release. It weird if I was running a record shop, what I would do is I would take that list of like soon showing up albums and this was before my orders for everybody. Well, this is again, that's not the the way Record Store Day works.

They don't take preorders. It's worse. Come record days, stupid. I agree. Well, it's lost what it was supposed to. Do. And the interesting thing like is said never seen more than ten I don't believe this guy's getting 35 of the Taylor Swift another. So how many of those can you get? You can only buy one if you come a Oh. Well, can you just preorder like all of them. What about like on eBay? You could just keep going and buying as many as you want

because they're not going to, you know. No. There are stores that abide by the record store Day rules, which, you know, everybody can only buy one. Whenever. There's another local shop that had 55 of the Taylor Swift ones coming in. So it's like but again, our local shops, the closest one is like a half hour drive and it's like, that's not convenient, that's stupid. Beyond the gym, we. Used to have a service here. I don't know. I mean, they don't really do that anymore.

They used to there was called a favor and right now all favor is, is food delivery service. But when they first popped up, they were like, did you ever want to get something somewhere and didn't want to do it yourself? Right. And I remember my use of favor that somewhat unique was I happened to Ukrainian prostitutes. I happened to have gone to a a wine and painting class on a date opening and. Oh yeah, I know those things. You know those things. It's like, is the excuse to drink outside a bar.

Where they can charge you way too much for a stupid little piece of canvas and paints. Yeah. And, you know, it was, I don't know, my my female friend wanted to do that. Whatever. So we get there and, you know, I'm not. Plus buy the, the wine they've got this election but then they've got plastic cleared cups to drink from. I'm you got to be fucking kidding me. So I pulled out my phone.

I, I put an order into favor to pick up a couple of wine glasses like actual glass ones and then bring them to the flat you like. And they did that. Oh, that's. I could just imagine this. Like, you know who I am? I am, sir. And I will not drink out of plastic cups. I mean, if you're going to have royalty coming to your class, for fuck's sake. Really? So you're not. Have a red solo cup. Come on. Yeah, Well, clear so of up, but still, it's just retarded.

So I. I was definitely depending on which side of the argument you're on, either a complete prick or like, holy shit, this guy is really cool. It could be both. I mean, I can't know which side most people stand on, but yeah, I, you know, within about 20 minutes I had actual glass glasses for my, myself and my chick that was there with well. Because when somebody walks into like a restaurant or something, they have to be like, I've got got a package here for Jim.

Yeah. Yeah. I mean because they don't know who you are. So there you go. Right? Right. But it was very cool. I mean, that was a perfect use of favor to just go and buy some glassware. Now, this one, like I had him go to some super fancy crystal shop either. I mean, I think they went to where they end up going to Wal-Mart. I mean, it's just a. Blow to one pure one important. That's about like Wal-Mart.

Yeah, they don't exist anymore. But it was you know, they'd have a little more reflection in the Wal-Mart. But either way, it was like if I was running that class, I would have been so embarrassed that I don't provide actual glassware and somebody had to get their own. I hope they learned their lesson, because I hope. They learn that. Well, they I don't think they went out of business. I think eventually because of COVID. But a Jeff. Wine glass is only a few bucks.

Yes, it was probably ten bucks a glass and like a $10 fee to get it. And see, you could added this on to the price and pick your name engraved on it. I was running that class. I would have just gone to IKEA and bought $5 wine glasses. Would have been better than plastic cups. I'm but that's kind of the. Way I better for the environment because you know I'm all about that. Oh yeah, I know that's your passion more than anything. And then get this, you don't want to have to wash the ship, right?

So you just give you tell people and then the class, this is your complimentary souvenir. That you think you're going to home or were you're the asshole that that just them away. Like I threw them away personally I had to finish the complete the the like. Yes. It's like you're so bad that you're not providing glassware that I have to get disposable glassware. Drink your the ugly Russian American look.

You know, there are restaurants, Russian restaurants that have a on their menus, a price charge per type of glassware that you want to break. We are like the Greeks. They love doing that. Do they? Yeah, yeah, yeah. What's up? And you go so crazy. I mean, the little drink in. You want to break something, You want to see the. Fireplace before it's for a smashing work? Yes. I suppose. Yeah. One of our fireplaces in the house I grew up and didn't, like. Never had any fire ever.

A lot of broken glass, though. A lot of broken glass. So it was next to the dinner table? Yeah, The whole favorite thing. That's how I look at eBay now, which is I just. I'll buy it there. I'll pay an extra percentage. Yeah, I wasn't charging a. Lot, and I won't have to leave the house. Yeah, might as well. And most of the things are just because there's a whole bunch of record stores, then they put their whatever doesn't sell, they'll put it up just for the regular price anyway.

So all you're paying is shipping at that point. Yeah. And there's a lot of record stores out there so there's a pretty good chance. And I'm also wondering how low the Taylor Swift ones will go, because I know there's going to be a ton of fucking idiots who don't know. The difference between the previous releases had about 10,000 pressings and this one, I think they 110,000 worldwide. All your shit.

So I think there's going to be a lot of people buying these to flip and they're going to put them up and they're not going to sell and they're going to end up getting to the point. I remember going to the Springsteen concert in 1985 here at Soldier Field where the scalpers bought up so many tickets. It was hilarious the day of the show walking up, because it was a general admission show, too, which makes it very hard to sell tickets.

But walking up, there were people with handfuls of tickets trying to sell them for like five bucks apiece and couldn't sell them. You know, I remember when I experienced that, like jumping all over the place here, but. Well, that's unrelenting. I had I had some extra tickets for a I don't know, somebody canceled something. So I had some tickets to concert and was some kind of a gypsy music thing I can't remember. And so I figured I would just, like, sell them when I got there.

And so I get there and there's maybe three or four different scalpers standing there trying to sell tickets for it. So I go up to one of them. I'm like, Hey, I got a few extra tickets. How much would you give them from? Just add the ones you're selling and they completely lowball me. I mean, tickets were like 50 bucks. They said, I'll give you five bucks, right? Like five bucks.

You're charging people 75? Yes. But you give me five bucks and that total prick, the second scalper I talked to, same kind of deal. I'm like, This is stupid. Why would you want to do that? Just give me, you know, give me their money. Give me like 35, you know, half of what you're charging. Like, No, I might not get that. Yeah, So they don't do that. I'm like, okay, I'll just you them. Yeah. So you became a scalper. So I became a scalpers.

And it seems to me come up, I see somebody talking to the scam like half his price, half also for half a spray saying they're going. To get shaved. Whatever, or you're going. They were so fucking mad, dude. Oh, my God. Like, you're fucking with me. I'm like, Dude, you're. You're the one that got me an asshole. I gave you a chance to buy this. I don't care if you buy it for 35 or somebody else buy for 35, but I'm not selling it for five bucks. That's when the cops show up and arrest.

And I have like ten tickets for that for some reason. So I was there for a while selling these things. And then the last ticket was even better. A guy was driving a scalper. I come up to him like, Hey, you want a free ticket? It's like, What do you mean? You go, there's like a ticket first. Oh, the look in the scalper space was priceless because he knows he's going to get stuck with unsold tickets. Yeah. And if he would have just played fairly with you, all. You had to do is buy mine for half.

That's why I like going to the White Sox games when we would go on the train because that we weren't using our parking pass, obviously, which the parking there was maybe 2025 bucks at the time. Yeah. And there was always some enterprising young fellas running around that would just buy them in a heartbeat for five bucks. It's like, Well, I was never going to use it, so I'd rather let you sell it to you for five. They're going to go sell them for ten. Somebody can save ten bucks on parking.

It just works. But you got to be fair. That's it? Yeah. When you got something that you know is worth 100 bucks, they're like, Give you $3. Yeah, exactly. You're like, at that point, you're like, Oh. Yeah, yeah. It's crazy. Yeah. Especially when, you know, it's very time sensitive. Only got an hour or so to sell them. So I got today I got offered tickets to go to the Rogan Club. Oh nice. You going. Know what. And that's a hell of a story.

Well, I just have no interest in watching some of these comedians. Yeah, the comedy is not pretty right now, although his comics are not Wolk. So that's a plus. I mean, I guess I don't know anyway, but but I just no fucking interest in being in a crowd and standing in line and. Well, see, that's it. Due to drink minimum and all this crap that I just I'm too adult for that shit. I don't need to deal with any of it. I don't need it too old, whatever you want to call it.

But the point is ornery. Been there, done that. My youth never need to do it again. Yeah, like standing in line to buy records. I'll Just pay somebody. Yeah, just pay the money. And, like, the way that they do their whole thing of being is that they never shipped tickets. They. They are digital. Now. All the dead. No, their tickets are all a bull call. So they recommend you get their half hour before the show to stand in lines. Pick up your ticket.

Oh, see, there's that standing in line thing again. That's that's the part I'm not going to do. And then you know then they say if you get there more than 30 minutes after the show restarted, then you're think it's already been sold, though. You're like, Don't you know who I am? And said, I am Jean. And and it's so the because Rogan's a comedian himself and he's been bitching about tickets scalpers for a while for like 20 years. The policy of this club is that there are no scalper.

You can't buy a ticket. Go. All right. This is why they try doing this with concerts as well But it gets very hard forcing people to pick things up at will call and then making them go right inside. Basically not allowing you the time to to sell these tickets to anybody. And so what he's what they're doing is you're the name on the and your ID on your photo ID on. Your credit. Card show has to be the exact same as was used to order tickets when you order them online.

So the only person that is allowed inside is a person whose name on their driver's license matches the name that was used when ordering ticket, which means it's impossible to go. Does not sound like freedom. You can't walk in with a ticket. You have to walk in with a ticket that has a name on it that matches your names, driver's license. Or checking set out. If you buy a ticket for somebody. Does everybody's name have to go on? These are you can.

You have to know who is going when you order the tickets real name? Yes. So if you're. Going to this place with The Godfather, you. Random dates. Adam Curry on the ticket. Otherwise if you otherwise you're not going to. And then if somebody cancels your date, then you can't find another date to go. You have to find a date with the same name that was actually in there. There was an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm. With that exact scenario is Larry's black buddy.

His girlfriend broke up with them and he had a cruise around the world already ordered air travel. This has been this way for a long time. And so he had to find he two months to find another girl with the exact same name to take on this group. And then, you know, he found like three of them with the same name. And and then he had to figure out which one he's going to take with them. This does sound like something, oddly enough, that could happen in your life.

It it well, a lot of things from Larry David have that to my life. I don't know. It's kind of weird that way. Yeah, it's you know, I mean, significant like cruise around the world is about $25,000. That's just not a small chunk of change now. So you're going to want to try and find a replacement girlfriend with the same name. Luckily you have go from there was. To have had a fairly. Common name. I was going to say you want girlfriends with common names that? Yeah, it was like Mary something.

Mary Smith would be great. And you can, you could sell that thing off easily. Yeah. Yeah. Something like that. Or Mary O'Toole is probably a billion of those just in Ireland alone. Sounds about right. Yeah. So, uh, that. Yeah, that's a possible thing. You could find somebody to give you a Joe Rogan ticket, too.

But no, I just, you know, I tell them, Look, first of all, I appreciate that you're willing to give free tickets, but keep in mind that the club does not allow you to give up your tickets to somebody else. Yeah, the whole. Well, call only thing is a pain. The ass. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, it's. It's bullshit. I think if they want to do it that way, they could do it. But without. Without doing the.

You know, without doing the whole vocal thing, all they need to do is just sell the tickets as a purely digital thing that is tied your phone. Yes. Which a lot do now as well. Do they? Okay. Well, you go. Because then you can't transfer them. So I don't know. Yeah. Although I don't know what happens if you screenshot the because they're usually QR codes. If you screenshot those and can you sell them. And I don't know although.

That's the thing is it would seem like this could have been done years ago by Ticketmaster. All they have to do is require that you use the Ticketmaster app on your phone, not a screenshot. So when you're coming up and there's a barcode, you you have to launch the app and then show them the barcode if there's just the barcode on your screen. So they close that out, relaunch the app. If we want to see this.

Exactly what if they if you see somebody launching the app and then scanning the barcode, there's no doubt that's a legit ticket. So I can tell you, once we realized here at the White Sox games that when they started doing the thing where you could print up your own tickets. Yeah it didn't take a genius to figure out that you could change things on the. Exactly. Paper ticket you were get a print out. So it was not hard to get into the club level or any place like that.

Yeah. You could just go and change that because the folks there, they didn't even scan barcodes. No, no, they don't know. They know we were doing the same thing with airline tickets. Nice. It's getting back. In day. To do that. Know that. Yeah. Now you can't really do that. But yeah back in the day when the airlines started letting you print the ticket at home, it didn't take long to realize that. Wait a minute. If you can print the ticket at home, you can modify anything on the ticket. Huh?

I'm going to upgrade. All of an upgrade. I might as well right now. I mean, think. Well, let them worry about. Well, who's got the actual first class seat? Well, because then you can play stupid. Like, I don't know, I just printed out. You act like a Luddite. Like I don't know what's going on in them. Yeah. And then I figured out that the scanners didn't even need to scan the barcode on the paper ticket. They don't do it on a screen. Now, all airlines actually do it that way anyway.

But back then, they weren't telling you to just stick your screen in front of the scanner. They assumed it wouldn't work, in fact. And so that remember, we're talking about the iPhone one. Everything stays together, right? Using that iPhone one, which had the best in the category at the time. I could actually put that in a scanner that it was expecting to scan a barcode from paper and it would scan just fine off the phone.

So I would show up at the airport without even a paper ticket and, you know, not print one there and just use my phone. And I remember a couple of the TSA folks or whatever, and they weren't even TSA. This is pre 911 guys. This is like back when air travel used to be fun and and luxurious and stuff. Back when we had real silverware and we had real meals on plane. And the stewardesses were hot. And the stewardess were not. No, I missed that part last.

Todd stewardess I remember was from like 1979. And you were in the eighties. They started getting fat. That's when society as a whole began careening downhill. Well, what happened here? I tell you exactly what happened. The stewardesses that were hot in the seventies never quit their job. That's true. That's true, too. Union And they have a union. Exactly. They have a union.

So the airlines like Pan Pan Am used to have a policy that unions are not essentially we only give you this job for a four year contract and it's renewed every four years. And we can not renew for April. And then you see the Pan Am television show where a young Margot Robbie plays a flight attendant. You're like, No, no, that's just. Not that's exactly what they used to look like. Down. For Margot. Robbie We missed out. I Oh, dude, I remember flying Pan Am some 47 upper deck in the 79.

It was so nice. You had first of all, you can see because the smoke from everyone's smoking was that thick. Uh, everyone's sitting around bar shooting down, drinks, smoking, puffing the away. It was. It was the epitome of comfort and class. Well, we recommend people. Not smoke. Doherty to donate to unrelenting dog show so we can live the opulent life. What again? Not happening with the humble pie after this point. Yeah, that's what you say. I don't believe it.

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