067: Pre-Doomed

There are better parts of my body to lick than baths. Hello and welcome to the already cursed episode number 67 of Unrelenting April 28, 2023. Gene, my computers are trying to kill me. Yeah, well, you know, for a while there, it looked like the show about nothing is going to be a show with nothing. It is. It's almost a show with nothing. I also just turned on our microphones on the stream, so while I was connected to the. Sound.

They weren't hearing, it's one of those days everything is going wrong. I got a blue screen going on. Our RSS feed disappeared from our blueberry china. Yeah, I think it is. China is asshole. They're after us. They're trying to get us. To the asshole. I don't know what's going on, but everything that could possibly go wrong. Computer today. Yeah. Wow. So I'm going to have to go back in there, which is why there was no lit thing out. People be like, Why aren't you telling us you lit Well,

because that all fucking crashed and burned. And unfortunately podcasting 2.0 is still not at the point to where you don't have to go hack shit to make it work. And then you go And this is the first time that I've ever gone in to edit in WordPress because you can go in and you can edit the scripts for any of the plug ins or anything like that. You have the ability to do that right in the WordPress interface.

This is the first time I ever went in in order to change something, I got an error and the end result was the whole file was wiped out. Never before, nor I would say, Oh, we can't update. Okay, that's great. I can't update, but the file is still there. This is this is no bueno. It's decentralization. C Brooklyn says, well, that doesn't work. We need centralization. We need stabilization. We need apps that just work. We need things that work without having to hand edit them.

That's when you're at the point where things can actually go along and work. Well, I guess so, yeah. We don't have an RSS feed. I was chipmunks on the stream and then I blue screen went like, Hey, what's the problem? It's one of those days. One of those days, but I got my Taylor Swift vinyl. That's really all that matters. Yeah, that's all that matters. Actually, is that man. Have you not talked about needles and records enough on your other shows? Do you want to talk about it here?

It was only on one that was just on a random thoughts. The group, you. Know, it was the whole damn episode, too. It's a great show. Random R&B thoughts that come to play. I'm a subscriber. Well, you should be. I mean, I subscribe to Searching Speaks as well, but I mean, listening to it gets to be harder. I don't care if you listen if you subscribe to just the good old voice. Yeah, I think I do. Okay, good.

This is I mean, I need to figure out a way to bring that into my exercise regimen, which that's one thing I will say with the Apple Watch, you know, and the wanting to get healthy thing that helps with the arrhythmia and that where everything when doing the research on the arrhythmias, it's like, well, not getting enough exercise, not getting enough exercise, not getting enough exercise shows up everywhere. Yeah. So I'm like, okay, that's that's incentive.

And whatever I'm doing seems to be working. But with the recumbent bike and we've got the two different little you see, you could do the recumbent one or you can sit normally. We've got two different exercise bikes, but the normal exercise bike, you sit on it like a normal bike. And for guys that's just not comfortable. Not comfortable. The nuts get a little squished. I don't know how the fact I rode bikes all through childhood. I know not died or had major problems in the color area. Uh huh.

Because exactly. To the recumbent bike. Okay. That's at least doable. And the recumbent bike. It is perfect for putting a extra 42 inch TV that we had just riding on the bike. And you know, it's much better than the a bike, though. A lot of the rowing machine. Oh, a rowing machine. It's a full body exercise. It gets you just as much use out of your legs as the bike, but you're also using your arms and it's a smooth enough motion that you can totally watch TV while you're doing it.

Yeah, Yeah. Because you don't want to be so herky jerky where things are. Yeah, where you're not steady. Well, what I need to do is figure out a way to have some kind of visual component to go along with the podcast. So this is one place that I will say video does. Well. Video killed the radio stir, Right. But this is where the video does well, because I want something to look at it seems weird to just be staring off into nothing. I know many of you. Tried closing your eyes.

I've done that before. Like I'm doing an exercise where I'm not going to fall over. I only have just. Closed my eyes right. You don't want to you don't want to close your eyes while running around a track with other people. Although I have walked quite a long distance with my eyes closed in the past. Well, you have to prepare for that. Yeah. It's what I was doing. Jedi training. How did that work out for you? Pretty good. Pretty good.

You know, as usual, I just got bored eventually and quit before finishing. But, you know, you. Turn to the dark, so it was. Worthwhile. That makes sense. No, I said, did. They didn't offer enough. There is a new reality show in the UK. No, I haven't seen any of this. I just ran across it while looking for things to download.

But the description and then reading the IMDB page about it I thought was fascinating because they take some like B-list celebrities and they put them in a home for one week. But the home is pitch black and they have to live in utter darkness for a week. Mm hmm. And that is a sensory deprivation thing that causes all sorts of hilarity. And then this is a comic comedy show. It kind of kind of terror and comedy mix.

But I thought the most interesting thing was one of the contestants, one of the participants is in a blind comedian. Oh, wow. No, it's like this dude's having a good time. He gets better. Yes. Yeah. You don't need, I guess. Yeah. Fuck you guys. This is how I do it. All the time. Uh huh. So I thought that was kind of interesting. But after losing vision in one, I don't want to watch anything about people that are blind I don't really like. It's freaks me out. Uh, so I've also done a blind dinner.

Yeah, I've heard about those. Yeah, so I've done that. And you're like, What am I eating? Uh, it was not a big deal. Honestly, I. Not that I want to be blind. They certainly don't, but it's. I don't find it all that difficult to do things with my eyes closed. Well, it's not that you can't do them. It's the being forced to do them.

The most interesting thing I remember reading, I think it was a woman that was on drugs and took her own eyes out when she was in the height of the delirium that she had. And it was like one of the hardest things to do was learn how to make eggs again. And I'm like, Well, yeah, how would you do that? It's a very much for me watching what's going on in the pan. I mean, I know you could just be like what you time at, but it's like you can't easily, like, reach down and feel the eggs or How do.

You want to make the eggs? What method are you thinking of? Well, there are plenty of them. I mean, I guess if you're doing. All this, you're going to make boiled eggs. There's nothing there at all. Point is. Easy. Now, if you're talking to fried egg, you're talking over easy. You know, for me, I do the scrambled where I am constantly moving them around so they don't really get any. You could do that blindfolded. That's not a big deal. Did you? Constantly moving. So that's not.

That you're going to feel with your hand as the eggs start to get less runny and more firm. Yeah. And the pans a thousand degrees and you're just like, let's touch them. It'd be good. Why would you touch the eggs? Just them. When I do that, I typically will use kitchen chopsticks. So the longer chopsticks rather than a western utensil. Well, you are just elevated to that point. When chopsticks provide much better feel for your hands of hot surfaces.

I mean, there are just so many different things that you don't even think about that have the visual component. I mean, for the last 15 minutes during this podcast of having my eyes closed, well. You sleep through it. So I mean, that's I do. That makes perfect sense. It's all a big dream and I just kind of talk through it. Is that how it works? And you just like this is all this is all just just so my voice is the voice of your subconscious, is that it?

Well, your voice is a voice in place of capture. This is it. You know, it's hard to keep track of how many there are at this point, right? There's a lot. I got to keep track of those. You know, I was happy. I got my Taylor Swift vinyl. I got like four copies. I think I might have a fifth copy come in. So, I mean. You've. Got to be able to have a backlog just in case they go up in value.

I mean, I'm still pissed and I don't I don't think there was even a a limit put out on how many I could buy when, you know, the one orange vinyl came out on NYC the retailer for her reputation album, I'm like, Oh, well, I'll just order one of those it'll be nice to have. And now they're selling for like a thousand or 1501. Man, I really wish I would have bought like 20 of those. Yeah. So, yeah, you're, you're definitely it's better than shit as I was on the spaceship.

Yeah, but the spaceships are virtual spaceships. Maybe virtual, but I've sold a couple thousand bucks worth now. Which is crazy. I'll give you that. Which is. Awesome. Like, this isn't real, but you will pay me real money. I'm making a good 40, 45% markup on them. Well, that's it for today. If you want to buy a spaceship from Sir Jean, you just go on to his lot. Searching spaceships over and Austin, He'll let you get the tires a little bit. You get some surplus from Elon?

Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Got some Elon surplus going on there. Yeah. Yeah. There's. There's a lot of Elon surplus going on. All spaceships must have 33 engines. 33 engines. They're there. Strootman not. You can't make this stuff up just like Joe Biden doesn't even remember. He was in Ireland two weeks ago. Well, he's you know, he's Irish, though. I think he was drinking a little heavily. We think that's how you think it's drunk. Not to mention at this point for Joe.

But his I don't know if there's a difference, but is did they say something about how his family's not Irish because they're not all alcoholics? Maybe he does make. Up. It. It's like, you know, if you made that same Joe kind of a joke about other ethnicities, then you're a horrible racist. But no, screw the Irish. That's the way people feel. I'm telling you, the Irish are the ones that need reparations. From who?

Everybody Irish? Yes. Well, we'll start there and then we'll work our way down the line. I mean, let's remember, that's why the Irish started getting the hell out of Ireland because of the British rule. But then they got to the United States and they were treated like crap. So, man, we need to go after everybody. You know, sometimes the common element when people are bitch about stuff too much is them. You think it is the the one line that I took out of Justified, which was a great series.

Did you watch Justified? When I. Have that. Though. Oh, you have to watch it. Yes. I've heard people tell me that's pretty good. Yeah, it is a fantastic series. Raylan Givens, what a great character played by Timothy Olyphant. I like all of them. He's been pretty good in a lot of things.

And the story from Elmore Lemmer, Leonard's son was that he was doing a signing somewhere, you know, because he writes books when he was alive, was doing a book signing, and the guy just came up to him and said, Hey, can you sign this book for me? You know, my name's Raylan Givens. And he looked at you just like, okay, now that's a name for a character. And that's where the character in the whole the whole series and that's where Justified came from.

But Raylan, the marshal, Raylan Givens, had a prisoner, a young black man that was in this car with him, handcuffed next to him. And the guy was just complaining about assholes. And Raylan Givens looked at him and he said, Son, if you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you're running into assholes all day, you're the hassle. I'm like, You know what? That has so much truth to it. He must be Irish. Probably. Probably. There was a lot of truth to that.

It's like, Well, he had never heard it really put quite so eloquently. If you're complaining, you know, if you complain a little bit, okay, maybe something bad happened to if you're complaining all damn day, you know, you're probably you're probably the asshole, which is why everybody knows you come to unrelenting. Because of the assholes, right? Hmm. I thought that was obvious. Well, I think I'm still trying to figure out why people come to you.

Unrelenting. But is that. There's something there. You're like, why do people listen to this show? I don't quite understand it. Some episodes, it's all medical advice. Start with the advice given. In a lot of episodes, it's all bitching about audio with no audio advice given. In podcasting 2.0 when you can, when you can't get your RSS up, all sorts of interesting issues. That's why you think they have a pill for that. They do that just pop a few fleck inside there. The pro lol. It all works.

I wash it down with coffee and everything's fantastic coffee. You're definitely not supposed to wash them down with coffee. I'm glad the cardiologist said he didn't have a problem with the coffee. What the hell can a cardiologist do? You have the. Guy that I like? I don't know. It literally says that on the can of coffee. It says not recommended by 99 or 100. Cardiologist, if you have heart problems. Well, it seems that that's not the issue. I mean, that's it. It's over the land.

And I'm know the. Character tweak on South Park. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. He drinks coffee a lot. A lot of coffee. Did you know Beavis and Butthead is back? I watched a couple episodes. I don't know what. The. Sample there. I don't know anything, but I've noticed YouTube clips popping up. Oh, they're hilarious. They are hilarious. They're just as good. You know, I thought maybe the original ones because I was just young, stupid kid kind of age. But. Now they're just as funny.

Now you know, that's interesting you say that because I tell they have the opposite reaction. I'm like, Man, I can't believe I used to laugh at this stuff. Really? I see. I just haven't matured. I guess you're the same kid. Yeah. Nothing has changed. Yeah, I mean, it's the same humor. And I was just like, uh, I prefer South. Park, but I think there are more people like Beavis and Butthead now than there were then, I think. Oh, yeah, yeah. They were like a little minority.

Like everybody knew some kid that was like that in their school. Yeah. Now you're like, Oh yeah, I love. The Metallica t shirt. Like, that was an instant identifier and it's still. The I mean, that's what I love about the reboot, that it's still the Metallica t shirt that's not We didn't update Beavis and Butthead did. You know it's not wearing a five finger death punch shirt or something Now it's know or a Taylor Swift, which would be funny too.

But it's you know, it's still the Metallica shirt and it still works. You probably still buy those, right? Metallica shirts? Hell yeah. Yeah. So like five bucks probably at your local Meyer or. Yeah. Well, I think they were always right around five bucks that way. You don't expect them to last a long time. Yeah. It Beavis he's been wearing his for a long time. Really got more than one would. I would hope so. It's like a barn extended thing. Except he had a whole closet full of suits.

Beavis just has a whole closet full of Metallica T-shirts. Yeah. I like it. So what's been going on in your neck of the woods? I mean, that's like. Oh, let's see what's been going on. Um, nothing too exciting. You know, I came back from Space X after being before last. I mean, has the impression fade now because I know you were pretty depressed about that. Was I was then depressed. What are you talking about? You were like, Oh, man. Elon's rocket.

It didn't make it. I don't know what I'm going to do. Oh, my God. Whatever. That was like, It's okay. Exactly what it was supposed to do. It went up, it got the payload out and then appeared to explode. The wind wing. Elon promised, They say the big taper and wink wink. What's more exciting. Than blowing up the biggest rocket in the world? People are complaining today because and I haven't verified this, but the word is, if you're not logged into Twitter now, you can't search on Twitter.

So, I mean, people are up in arms. Oh, good. I know. I can make it for blue. Checkmarks only can search. They should do it. Yeah. Everybody's like, go on Napster. And I'm like, Fuck this. Why do I need another god damn fucking social media? Now that's No, I was off Twitter once and it happens again. I'm just not replacing it. I don't need more than one. That's not really. Social is funny. Right? This is when I want to deal with a social media. I just want one.

Now, there may be others out there that if I get a lot of mates sending shit out to while I send it to my main one, I'm okay with that. But as far as paying attention to interacting with one, that's all you fucking want is one. I don't want more, I don't need more. This all well, this is better. This is the new thing. Now fucking Jack. Dorsey's coming up with another social media too. It's like. You know, I guess his name could be thrown out if I don't. He probably never had one.

Oh, I'm sure he did. You think. Yo yo. Is the old one. When he sold? Well, he wasn't the owner, but he sold his stake long time ago. He went to invest money, everything. But yeah, there was definitely a point at which when the investment came in and it had leverage that he would have taken something like that. Well, now he doesn't have that because he's out trying to start his little new side too much, Way too much. So it's called like Taliban. Twitter is probably man beard. Yeah, maybe.

I don't know how long he's well, he had always had beard envy of you. I think that's why he started the beard. He ran into. So little hair on his face. It was one of those Fu Manchu pathetic looking things. And then he he kept not not shaving. You're like, You can do better. Now there's I think it's interesting just the massive just under not understanding the lack of understanding I guess is the term I'm looking for from the people that make laws who are trying.

And I get it trying to make it illegal for kids under 18 without their parents permission to use the Internet. But to do that. There's no way. Yeah, well, what. Either that's like passing a law that says you can't talk on the phone before you read. Kind of. The Internet is literally the same thing. It's free speech.

But what they don't understand is when they're like, well, if they're under the age of 18, they'll have to have their parents log in with their license and create an account for them. It's like, Well, you do realize what this means is that everybody using social media in your jurisdiction now has to identify themselves with a government I.D. and that is the lack of. Oh, that'd be awesome. What do you think?

So yeah, it's sick and tired of all these anonymous accounts that just yap, yap, yap at them, do their bullshit, their jobs and work at the DMV. Probably. I'm like, Fuck off, dude. You know, if you can't put your name to it, then I don't want to hear your opinion. Now, that would be a very good filter to have on something like Twitter, which is if you're not there. It's called the Blue Filter. It exists. Well, it's getting there. It is getting there.

But when you're trying to make a law there and you don't understand, it's like the law is, of course, or the children. Well, yeah, but you're going to inconvenience every damn adult because of the law to protect the children instead of, you know, holding their fucking parents responsible. How about that? That would be even better. Just hold. Yeah, that. Would be special. It'd be better that way.

The parents are always at fault in an adversary, you know, It's high time we start talking about licensing parents. I think so. And that way, if your kid does something wrong on the Internet, the parent gets penalized. And. Then you're like, Well. But in the penalty box. Then maybe they will pay a little more attention. And give me screwed up on line there. He's going to be in prison for about 30 days. I don't know if you do, but you know what?

Yeah, I mean, that would be great because that would definitely have the parents engaged on what the children are doing. You want to you want to avoid going to prison. How about you teach your kids? Yes. Because otherwise you're going to have to show me if the parent wants to avoid prison or penalty, you have to show me that your child made enough money to get a device and pay for an account to get online. Because if you gave them the device and the access, you're at fault. Oh, yeah.

I mean, it's the same damn thing. And rightfully so. The parents of whatever one of these kids that went out and shot a bunch of people and it's like the parents gave them the gun. The parents are being held responsible. So why, why not here? Yeah, exactly. Well, parents are responsible ultimately, like. Like somebody is responsible. And if you can't make the under 18 kid responsible, then the parent's got to be responsible. Well, that was the problem, as I'm sure we've talked about here.

I've talked about it with the fabulous Ryan Bumrah's over and grumpy old Ben's of the carjacking issue here in Chicago. When the authorities came out and said, yeah, we've made a decision that anybody under the age of 18, we are never going to charge you as an adult for a carjacking offense. Well, do you know what effect that had been? Yeah, it probably had more kids carjacked.

Yes. Yes. Because if you're like, hey, if you're under the age of 18 and you go do this, we aren't going to have a massive penalty for you. You're like, Oh, well, that sounds like fun. Mm. You know, it's funny cause all the people that pass laws like this live in gated communities. Well, and they have their own security force and they. Have a chauffeur. And a bulletproof limo. Yeah. Well, they don't don't go to those areas where the. They don't go to those areas. Exactly.

Even if they represent those. Are you. Yeah, I. It's no, it's ultimately at some point, you know, maybe you just got a black out and just realize that before anything really changes, the city is going to burn. This is it. It has to reach that point. Yeah. And the country I think may be heading that way, which is unfortunate, but. Oh, yeah, yeah. But where do you go? I've had that conversation with people. Well. I mean, that depends on your skills with other languages, I guess.

Well, one another language would be very help ish. For one. The Spanish would be, although I don't know, even if you could speak Spanish, I wouldn't go to Mexico at this point. I wouldn't go. You could totally go to Mexico. There's a lot of rich people doing good right now. Well, I guess there are just a lot of areas you have to avoid because it is a lawless wasteland at this point. Oh, no, no, no. It's no more lawless wasteland than Mexico, than Ukraine's winning. Well. Well, that's true.

It's fucking propaganda. And I know this because I just talked yesterday to a guy that's building a whole community out there. You have to reach Americans running a mexican drug cartel. No, no, no, no, no. I haven't talked to those guys in years. But you lost touch. Yeah. Yeah, you could say that. I'll some someday. I'll tell you my. My story with the cartels. But it's Mexico. What you don't want to do is be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Well, that's just.

That's just true in Chicago as it is. Mexico. Yeah. And, you know, definitely armed, just like Chicago. What Mexico allows you to do, though, is things that you don't readily available in the United States like not just have gated communities, but have gated communities with armed guards and have better security than you're able to have in the United States. Well, that makes sense. It's more the Wild West. It's more of the Wild West.

It's not as wild as some other countries that speak Spanish, but it's definitely more wild. I'm sure you've seen the videos from Brazil where they legalize the self-defense with any means of people getting carjacked. I have not. But really, you. Should you should definitely go do a YouTube search. It's a whole bunch of, you know, look around, find out videos, which would be where some somebody will, you know, pull over next to a car on a motorcycle and try and carjack them.

And then get a bullet cheeseburger. Then immediately get run over by a truck and not stand up afterwards, you know, I mean, yeah, well. For years what I have seen were the videos of the more metropolitan areas of Brazil where it's not uncommon to if you watch a video, just a random street, you're going to see multiple people driving by on bicycles with big, big guns just hanging. Yeah. Yeah. And it's not because they're going to the range. You know? Well, in a manner of speaking.

Oh, yeah. I guess it's a different kind. Although, I mean, there is something to be said for getting to that point where if you're going to decide to commit that kind of crime, that what you really want as a society. Well, as a society, you want very little crime. But if you're going to have that kind of crime, you want the people that are the victims to be well prepared to take care of the people themselves. Mm hmm. That's what you really need.

And then the crime level will start, you know, start going down. I mean, one, if you have like in Chicago, if you actually have a bunch of cops that were able to do their job in the DEA that would then prosecute the criminals and you would be able to keep most of the criminals off the street to keep the crime level down. That's one way to go. To one solution. Go ahead. Well, the. Other way to go is everybody's got their own gun.

So when somebody comes to your car and wants to carjack you, I always go way back to that scene in Miami Vice, where where Tubbs is sitting in his car. He's got his shotgun on his lap underneath a newspaper because he's there doing a stakeout and like a little punk comes up to him with the little handgun, like, get out of the car, man. He just raises the newspaper up and it's like, Oh, wrong car. Yeah.

Your car got to go. Yeah. And that's always been the argument from the, you know, pick your gun lobby here is that the police will always come and investigate a crime. They don't prevent crime and they don't stop crimes in the middle of a crime happening rarely. The only people that can do that are the participants in the involuntary involuntary participants in the crime make sense. They're the only ones that are capable of stopping that.

And the best way for them to stop it is to be as armed or better than the perpetrators of the crime. Yeah, the odds of you getting mugged in a cop, seeing it while it's happening and stopping it. Not very good. Not good. Nonetheless, the cops doing the right. Well, that's a different story. Which does happen. Yeah, well, that was the whole not the whole concept, but that whole kind of vibe is what made another series great. And that was The Shield with with Watson. Never watched that.

You never watch The Shield? Oh, come on. Or just apparently you like a lot more cop drama than I do. I guess I do. Yeah, it is drama. Comedy. I don't even know. The The Shield is very much a gritty drama. Yeah. See, I have real life YouTube videos for that. Well, see, No, that's just depressing. Well, at least if you could think that it was fictionalized, you could sit back and. And not be paranoid all the time that the world is crumbling down. No, fiction is just reality for lazy people.

Well, okay. Yeah, that makes sense. Yeah. I need to write more fiction. I've been watching while on the. Or just going experience more life. No, no, that's not safe. That is not safe at all. Okay, so you've been talking for a while here. That's a couple things. First of all, I have a I know, but it's been kind of monotonous. It's a little bit I used to have a recumbent bike and Adam made fun of me for having that to no end. Why? Because you wanted. Like, Oh, how's your wheelchair.

Wheeled? It's like. It doesn't move. No, it does. No, it's a real recumbent. Oh, you have to. Go out and drive around. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. I will. I will give you, even though I understand the concept then does look kind of funny. Yeah. It's way more comfortable. I would agree. But it looks funny. Uh, yeah, it may look funny, but you. Need to do is pimp it out. What, like flat. And I on it. I totally. I totally picked it up nice.

And the problem is, because he made fun of me and he looked here, I, I blame him for not writing that. But that's why you're out of shape. Adam Curry's absolutely. The reason I'm out of shape 100%. Completely qualified. I'm sorry. It is. Because if I've been traumatized by Adam Curry there, I said it because he made fun of my coming bike. In fact, I ended up having to sell my recumbent bike because I just couldn't stand looking at it. Wow. Yeah, it's totally Adam's fall there.

So I will say recovering bike. Definitely a lot more comfy way overpriced. It was four and a half thousand dollars. Whoa. Okay, so you don't know I make fun of you for that part of it. Yeah, well, a good bike is going to be that much anyway, but this was a pretty good. It was folding and it was made in Australia and shipped out here. So that, I'm sure add a little bit to the car. I didn't know the Australians were big on the recumbent bikes. They are. Yeah. Yeah. It was a recumbent bike.

It was a all-terrain recumbent by. A Oh well that's kind. Of cool for the outback. Right. Yeah. I mean it wasn't something that you just had to keep on the pavement. No, no, I mean you, it's easier to ride on the pavement than it is in dirt, but you could write it off pavement as well. Yeah, for sure. So that's one thing. The other thing I was going to mention is my co-host, the other show.

And good for your voice. Yeah. Uh, he, he has a solution, and he's apparently been pushing it for 20 years, so for fixing the crime issue, which is to get rid of all these, either that, that that should not exist, it should not be up to a government official to determine whether or not a crime gets punished. Everything should go through grand juries. That makes sense.

Because then it's a random group of people that decides whether this was an honest mistake or whether this was intentional crime or even unintentional crime. This one the interesting thing with what we're seeing in our society today is George Soros in there are other people, I'm sure, throwing money at this, but this guy has thrown millions of dollars into getting does. Oh, billions. That would intentionally decide. Yeah. Not to prosecute crimes committed by a certain demographic. Absolutely.

And to allow crimes for. Oh, yeah. Who is a real life Nazi that has been influencing us local domestic policy. And it's one of those things where you go back to if anybody has read the book or probably more likely watched the musical or movie ladies, you know, the whole thing was over a stolen loaf of bread. This is where we're back to. Yeah. And then if you watch France. Lately they have well, they're burning because we're going to raise your taxes. They're stealing bread, you know.

24 months and everything goes crazy. But it's a very slippery slope. It's waiting for the French style revolution to happen in France. Be nice. Start cutting off their heads. You mean? Uh huh. It would be an interesting thing to. Tell you if a politician in France get their head chapter, it would send a very strong message to the rest of the West. Isn't it a really horrifying first domino, though, when you start going? No, no, no, not at all.

I mean, when they start saying, oh, well, you know, you only stole from the grocery store because you're poor, that's okay. All right. That is a very dangerous start in a nation that is built upon laws. It's it's stupidity that ends up saying things like that because the net result of that of the government not enforcing laws to, punish thievery and whatnot is the store decides that it's not worth being in Chicago and shuts down. Right. Welcome to food deserts. Yeah. And food deserts are coming.

They're they're existed in some places, but they're going to be a lot more because a lot more companies. Wal-Mart not being the least of them, which is something that a lot of these neighborhoods rely on, are shutting down, taking the head and leaving areas completely uncovered. Walmart, Target. So, you know, what's going to happen when the Walmart shut down is they're going to start carjacking Amazon drivers and then Amazon is going to start putting a map of where we deliver.

And it's not going to be the whole country. Well, they're already attacking postal employees in Chicago, so this is already happening. Yeah, but you're right. It's going to be not just a food desert. It's going to be a desert desert because it'll have no services. Right? I don't think you're wrong. I think that will end up happening with Amazon. You know, until they can have their armed drones delivering packages. Right.

But even still, you know, somebody can get an armed drone that you don't even need a shotgun. You just, you know, throw something bigger than that. It'll make it fall down. That's it. Where the employees don't want to go into those areas because they're too dangerous. Mm hmm. Yeah. It is going to be bad. And I feel bad for the people in those areas. But this most era xenophobia is in control of your cities. Exactly.

And most dystopian future movies show areas like that that are outside of any sort of control by the police. And they're also outside of any kind of services being provided. Because the cops don't want to go there. I mean, we've had it I'm sure this is in other major metropolitan areas as well. But in Chicago, there have been issues with EMTs getting shot, with firemen getting shot. It's like it gets to the point if there's a fire or. If there's a city that has no guns. It's a miracle, isn't it?

It's it. Absolutely. It's I don't even know how it happens. It must be divine intervention. It's like, yeah, I. Don't I just don't understand the mentality. And I was going to say logic, but there's zero logic there. But I don't understand the mentality of somebody deciding that the way to fight gun crime is to eliminate the guns from the victims. Yes. Not from the people that commit the crimes. Well, you can't that's literally impossible.

So you're your options are not fucked around with gun laws or to fuck around with gun laws that will only affect future victims. I guess the third option, which no one obviously is doing, is to actually make it easier for the victims to get guns and maybe provide some free training. Why Think the horrifying part is these folks believe that there's some magic wand that will make the guns disappear even from the criminals. And that do they do they really believe that? I think some do.

I think some do, because they're like, well, no, We were told that the only reason there are guns in Chicago and the current mayor has said this was because of lax gun laws in Indiana. Yeah, but that's why. Hidden. That's why the UK is having a rash of fully automatic gun violence happening there because they've literally banned all guns in the country years ago. Make sense.

So the people that have access to guns now have decided that, well, Chip, anything is illegal, you might as well useful, too. Yeah. How many millions of guns exist in the world right now? And what are you going to do to make those disappear? That would be the question that's never answered. Well, half of them exist in this country. Half of all the guns in the world are here. Let's remember, we're also the country that said we're having a war on drugs. We're going to stop it from coming in.

That's right. That we're still waiting. Yeah. Yeah. Stop it from coming in. Yeah. Now, the war on drugs has created a great Mexican cartels after it created the great Colombian cartels. The war on drugs has done an awful lot for the for the world in terms of creating violence. Well, they're great for violence and end for capitalism. Well, they are at that. I mean, the city of Miami would look nothing like it does without all that money Drew in. You want to go to Miami and relax?

So you like what's going on? I do like Miami. I've found every time I've been to Miami, I've been pretty relaxed. But this is the mentality and I just think the folks at the high end, they know exactly what they're doing. They know that what you're doing is on arming the people that would use the weapons for legal reasons. You know. And they have to realize that you cannot just by the definition of it, remove the weapons from the criminals who well, they're criminals.

So by the very definition, they're the ones that break the laws. So making a law that will only affect people that break the law in the first place is insanity. Yeah. You can't remove guns from criminals using law. The only way you can do it is by going outside the law and being a judge. Red tape and not following the rules yourself. Then you can remove guns from criminal. But I like Ben's idea because the days are a big issue. You should have.

And I don't know if you even need it would be definitely in the style of a grand jury, but there would be an easy enough way to be able to poll, be able to bring people in, you know, focus group style. And that's your day to day. Yeah, well, the reason you knew that grand jury and grand is that it doesn't have a D on them. It's a grand jury. It is to prevent people from simply inventing crimes to somebody they dislike to get them in trouble.

Because if everybody's charged by the victim and then they're going to be prosecuted in court, you're going to have a rash of people that are just inventing crimes to get back at their neighbor. All that that goes on already. Some middle party. And that's what either grand jury or a you know, what we have right now with the prosecutor is that part of what they do is they look at, was this actually a crime? Is there enough here to bring it to trial or no one?

A lot of times there was obviously a crime. But the new woke way to go about it, I guess, is. But was there a good excuse for the crime? Mm hmm. Can I understood. It to be a bad law? I mean, that's the other benefit of having grand juries versus the A's is to not enforce bad laws. Like, for example, how much of a crime it is for somebody to not be wearing a seatbelt? And who is it affecting. Whether windshield wave. For the city is to get 160 bucks out of you.

Which is also important because, again, they need to make their money. No need to make their money. And it's one of those things where, okay, speeding is a crime. Now, if you have your kid who got shot in the back seat and you're rushing to the meeting. Makes more sense to me than seatbelt. Well. But I know because you do have a much greater chance to do harm to somebody else.

Well, even if your chance of doing harm is the same, that same accident at a greater speed will result in more severe injuries. Well, here in Chicago, we had a 17 year old and a 14 year old steal an SUV. I don't know which one was behind the wheel and they hit another car killing a six month old. And in Chicago, that just gets you a ticket. They are not being charged with anything else. Well, good thing it wasn't a real person getting killed. Just a six month old.

I mean, that's barely an abortion. Uh huh. Well, that's I think this is how the fucking. Chanel clinic, speaking of abortions and, you know, I think people yes, we were. And people probably have figured this out about me anyway, but I mostly have not really about this topic. It's I always figured it was a chick issue, but I will have to say that logically speaking, it makes more sense to argue against abortion and for it. I've just never had a strong opinion.

But I just found out recently in the last few days, I don't know if you know this, you know, how many abortions legally were performed, and this is how we know they were performed because they're records from if somebody got billed for doing them, how many abortions were performed and how many children have been aborted that otherwise not been aborted since the beginning of Roe v Wade until the end of Roe v Wade?

I do not know, although I heard a number that was within like the first three months after the Supreme Court kicked this back that said there was like already 60,000 children alive. That wouldn't be. Hmm. Yeah. So any idea during that time frame just. How many during the whole of Roe v Wade? Yeah. So about 30 years. It has to be 40 years. I probably getting Well, I think there was an uptick, so it probably wasn't quite a million a year, but it's probably close to that.

62 million. Whoa. Okay. 2 million a year. 60. Yeah. 62 million abortions in that time period. And there are, what, 330 people, 330 million people living here. 33 with. Yeah, I know. Figure out that number then you have to add in the people that are undocumented, but. Mm hmm. So at about probably, what, 370 million people living in America right now in 62 million abortions, that's about one for every five. Yeah, that's a lot.

Which also explains why the other side is so damn passionate about not banning abortion, but. Killing babies. Because they've all had a bunch of them. They love killing babies. Well, it's an answer. Well, it's an answer when there are other easier answers, which is the thing that I don't get. Yeah. It's like there are certainly many ways to not get pregnant. There are no there's plenty. I mean.

Not to get I'm sure there's plenty of Virgin birth happening, but I don't know how many of those are getting converted. It's like, okay, so for the it's like, well, if you don't want to have children, go get your tubes tied. Mm. That's a simple operation. All you got to do it once. Yeah. Well it's not a simple operation, but you only get to do it. You only got to do it once. Or how about this? You know, don't have sex with a guy

that you're not going to want to raise a kid with. No. Come on, Jim. Why do you want to be that killjoy? I'm just saying, you know, I mean, I can give you playing reasons to not do that, but it I think that if your concern is about not wanting to have a kid, there are a lot of things you can do. Yeah, that's that's obviously the most extreme one. But, well, you could warp the minds of the youngsters so they throw. Their. Transgender and then have a surgery which. Do that to.

You know, that utilizes them useless for procreating moving forward. And that's that's a good point. I mean so how many years is it going to take? It is going to be 20 years or 50 years down the road. The people are going to look back with horror. And this this practice of sterilizing crazy people that went out in the 2020s. Well, now they think everybody's crazy.

Well, maybe, but I mean, the idea that people that have gender dysphoria, which is a mental illness in which has a valid procedure for that happened, best to sterilize those people. Yeah. Yeah. That's the standard. Medically acceptable, you know, solution is Stu It used to be I thought that things like sterilization or, you know, other barbaric practices were frowned upon and. No, no, this is the medically recommended process for dealing with a person with mental illness.

A first step. Let's sterilize them. Then we'll figure out what else we need to do. Well, you don't want that mental illness to spread. Yes, that and you know, as somebody that that is a eugenicist, I certainly see the benefit in doing that. I'm just surprised the rest of the country is going along with it. You're like, oh, you're finally catching on. Yeah. I mean, I don't I've never had a problem with people taking themselves out of the gene pool. Threw out of the gene pool.

Oh, I see what you did there. Uh huh, uh huh. You limit who gets in that ball down. That's right. I watch the Darwin Awards every year. I'm all for that. But we're I have a bit of an issue as we're doing this to the children, not the parents. And I suspect for a lot of these cases, the parents are the ones that actually want to be special by having a kid that is mentally ill and are engaging in the course of behavior to get their kids to be mentally ill and then sterilized.

It was like, wait a minute, shouldn't the parents be the ones getting sterilized and punish? You're not the kid. You would think. Now, here there's also leads me into something I read yesterday. We had to have a licensing for parents ban. Latest CDC data. How does this fit into this? The latest CDC data for kids that are high school age of 14 to 18? Do you know how many what percentage said they were heterosexual? What do you think that number is at in heterosexual? Yes, I'd say 60%. 75.5.

Yeah. Which is a it's an all time low. Yeah. I think you phrased that whole thing backwards. The way you have typically heard that phrase in the media is the percentage of children who don't identify as heterosexual has grown to 30% now. Well, in this case, it would be 24 and a half. But based on the CDC numbers, although. Yeah. 12.1% bisexual. And in some cities like San Francisco, I think it's 75% that identify as them. And that. Is hetero. That is a big part of the question.

So 12.1% by 3.2%, gay or lesbian, 3.0 3.9% other, whatever that means. Yeah. And those that said they caution their sexuality 5.2%, shouldn't. That question be like 40%. At that earlier. If I can, to draw in your bringing shit out is like yeah, what am I supposed to do. I mean, well, yeah, well you're like, right. I don't know how to do. Yeah, there's a question of how to do it. That's, that's maybe a bigger question.

But I remember there was a whole movie industry built on teenage movies making fun of kids, just figuring this shit out. Right? But most of, like, like, you know. Hey, hey, man, it's just like an apple pie, right? American pie. Mm. With What's your name? Shauna. No, Shannon. What's your name? Shannon. What's your name? Name? Yeah, she was hot back at the time. Shannon I never really thought she was all that hard. I like her. Oh, the redhead. I mean, the one that you keep talking about.

That was un pen and tell her. Show? Yeah, yeah, yeah. The one that one time went to Bandcamp. Alyson Hannigan. Yeah. You like. To sing thing for her. You like the quirky little redhead? I get that. Yeah. That's really Irish. So what does this do? Why you ruining it? She's a Hannigan with red hair. What do you mean? She's not actually Irish by name. And look. She's Jewish. So she's like, Why are you Roman? I'm a Hannigan. Your roommate. You know your roots. Yeah, I'm always. I liked her.

I like from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, where she was. You know, that total, like, nerd high school chick who became increasingly more powerful with her magic spells. And I know. And then going to surprise you. And then became a lesbian. I have never seen an episode of Buffy. Should I be? Wow. I cannot believe you haven't see an episode of Buffy, Man. You should definitely watch that. The added to your list. How how could you possibly, as a middle aged white man, not seen Buffy

the Vampire Slayer? Don't know. Is there something I should be doing? I mean, the original Buffy the Vampire Slayer with what's his name? Paul. You know. What's his name? Yeah, you know, what's his name that came out when we were kids? I was in the eighties. Yeah, it was a movie in the eighties. They made a TV show about it in the late nineties, you. Know, with the blond girl as Buffy. Yeah, With the Sarah Sarah Michelle Gellar. Yes. Yeah. The blond girl. That's.

Yeah, yeah. Obviously Sarah Michelle Gellar. Yeah, the blond girl was her. But I always like the redhead in there. So I've got to add Buffy to the list. And what do you say? Yeah, Buffy, you will actually enjoy Buffy because Buffy is like a cartoon in the sense that it seems like it's just kind of a kids show about high school. But it's not. But it's got so much double entendre and clearly adult topics thrown in by the writers.

There are like if you watch a cartoon and you're like, Holy shit, I never picked that up when I was a kid, Right? Right. Shannon Elizabeth, That was the. Shana Thank you. Did you grow? MM Yeah, but I really thought she was all I have. Now at that one point. And then she, by the time she was in that 70 show, we had started losing it already. Mm. But Alyson Hannigan I've been that, that's my like as I'm falling asleep now I'm back to watching how I met your mother. Yeah. Yeah, she was.

Matthew's just played this, like, demure looking, but totally naughty. We had kindergarten wife. Yeah. Yeah. Who was the most mean out of all those characters? When you really look at it was definitely the most perverse out of all those girls. Completely. 100%. Yeah. And played it off so well. I mean, yeah, that's the whole bit. Yeah, that's been her bit her entire acting career. And it's so fun though. It just works. We were losing out on this.

Now as we get to more and more of the writing just being horrible shit. Yeah. Not engaging. But no, no, it's not. And I blame the phones for that because the whole new generation of writers that's coming up learn to write by by smarts. Right. That's all they got is texting. Although one party can't use an emoji, how can you write a script? What part of this. Or the other way around. Is the YouTube factor though, where you and I are a little different?

Cause I know you watch YouTube a lot, but you still engage in longform content with regularity. Well, most of the YouTube I watch is long form, correct, But I watch a little bit occasionally. Like you talked about falling asleep. That's when I watched the YouTube shorts, the one minute long videos.

But generally, if I'm watching something, it's like long form interview for 3 hours or a opinion piece or a actually watch the equivalent of C-SPAN quite a bit on YouTube, which just, you know, videos of politicians. But I think lot of people have gotten used to the little 5 to 7 minute show. And maybe that's also like we have to write a, what, a 30 minute episode. Granted after commercials. It's like 20 minutes. But for them, it seems like, wow, that's really long.

How do I come up with that complex of a plot for a 20 minute show? I agree.

Yeah. But when it comes to the OC kids questioning their sexuality and you said I think that 75% in San Francisco and I think you're correct when you notice that those numbers and I believe I mean, I don't know if you were making a joke or not, but I believe those numbers do are out there where in these large metropolitan areas, all of a sudden those numbers are spiking and you're like, well, here now you're getting, I think, proof of the nature and nurture thing

that if left alone to their own devices, kids would not come up with that. But I think in the areas where you have, but. I think there's a little bit of both. So I think remember, left to their own devices, we have the classic story of Lord of the Flies. Which was a great story.

I think that in a pure anarchist situation where people bought no laws apply because they don't exist, because you're more concerned about survival, I think that there would be a lot fewer people giving a shit about being concerned about their sexuality, but there would certainly be people that are just as crazy as they are in modern society that would come up with things that don't make a whole lot of sense.

I think that's probably true, but I think in the areas where you have a much higher percentage of teachers that you would kind of see on the libs of Tick tock. Yeah, which is all teachers these days, It's. You know what, It seems that way. I don't want to say that because I'm sure there are a lot of still normal conservative teachers out there in. I don't think so. Rural area in, rural areas and not I. Don't think there are. You don't think. So? A lot of these videos are coming from Kansas.

They're coming from Kentucky. They're coming from places you wouldn't expect. That blue haired 25 year olds would be the teachers, but they are so teachers. Let us know if you're out there. We want to know. Because of the good ones retired. If this is how bad it's getting, then yeah. Yeah. I've been saying for decades, take your damn kids out of your damn schools. Except in the jeans house. He will teach them everything they need to know. I will teach them firearms safety. That's about it.

That's all you got? That's all. I got it. Whiskey tasting. It's. It's a little. Bit. Yeah, I'm. I'm a little too small here. Who doesn't drink, so I'm not horribly useless. They're useful in that regard either. Just think of the money you're saving. I am saving money. I won't tell you that. That's for sure. And I think I will probably do. I may switch from just completely not drinking to maybe drinking a couple of times a year on holidays or something. Oh, you're going to you're.

Going to knock that seal off or you're going to go back? I may I don't know. I haven't decided yet. But I tell you, there's a few bottles of very expensive, very rare stuff that I own that I hate the thought of. Never drinking. I have a whole bar of Irish whiskey, and I feel the same way because. Yeah, but I'm talking about good, sir. No, I got good. This is the good Irish whiskey, man. Yeah, but I mean, good stuff. I mean, this is better. This is better than anything you've got.

The Irish is the way to go. No, no, no, no. I'm trying to remember the name of the series. Oh, because you mentioned Lord of the Flies. This was. Yeah. A quick little aid episode. Lord of. War. No, no, this was just a something that this just came out. It was all it was out of Australia.

I don't even remember where I found this, but it was a bunch of Australian chicks in the movie that basically recreates a, you know, a sci fi kind of thing where they go to their high schools, take their ten year high school reunion. Okay? And the school that they went to, obviously an all girls school up on a hill and then the world pretty much goes nuts. I mean, the whole world crumbles away. So it kind of this is a great way to represent it.

But then basically the school is on its own little island and everything. All the power is out, everything's out. But this is a whole Lord of the Flies kind of a thing. And they did it. I mean, you could sit there and go, This is a more adult all chick rather than young boys. Yeah. Lord of the Flies. But it was done really well and now I can't remember what the name of it was, but I'll find it because it was it was worthy of checking out.

If it's an all chick version of Lord of the Flies, then there must have been a laundry act as their clothes keep coming up. At least in my version of this. It's a you're writing a whole different See, that's the erotic version of the show. No, that's the normal one. You're like, This is how it all works. I mean, yeah, of course. I have a ten year anniversary and an all girls school. Oh, look, look, There's something dissolving our clothes. We quick get out before burns our skin.

You're, like, bound. And I. Think that's. I can. See. I don't think it was set in the seventies, so. No. Wait, Come on. The porn music never really updated, did it? I mean, it's still the same. There is no porn music anymore. So that when when porn had music, that was the music, Yes. Ah, but these days there's no music. And porn porn is typically done in a, you know, a bedroom with a bunch of green screens. Now, I wonder why. I mean, there's so much music out there to use for free.

I mean, why aren't they using this? Because people are paying to listen to the noises, not to the music. Oh, it's like some amazing. Ah, what is that somewhere? Yeah. Oh, my God, that. Arthur, don't do that. Those just disgusting sounding. I don't understand the appeal there with, the tongue thing, because it's gross. It's just there's no two ways about it. It's just got gross sound. And one of my favorite YouTubers or Twitchers. I guess she's done on YouTube.

Well, it's going YouTube do, but mostly on Twitch. But through them, the chick that's really famous. Yeah. What the fuck is her name? The chick that's really famous. Everybody knows the. Chick that everybody knows that is making like 20 million a year of the shit and only fans. And then she's on Twitch and she's making it on there, but m m rhythm Ethel Merman whatever. It c Brooklyn saying I can't even tell it's m more. American family.

Yeah. Amira So and I do think that she's a reasonably attractive she, she has a good curves to her body, inappropriate places. And I love the fact that she owns the gas stations here in Texas, like she's investing her money into real world things that will way outlast her personal beauty. Dude, you just said gas stations. Don't you know we're not going to have gas cars in, like three years? Well, in Texas, we will. In California we won't because you won't have a car in California.

But in Texas, you still have plenty of cars because we pump the shit on the ground here. So what are they going? Oh, yeah, Yeah. So she has on Twitch, though Not on only fans, but on Twitch. She doesn't as a matter thing where she is, got one of those really expensive by neural microphones which this is not what these fucking things were intended for. The head by neural microphones replicate the ears. Right.

So that when you record nature sounds or whatever, you're picking up not a fake stereo sound done by an engineer in the studio, you know, shifting things left and right. But you would pick up exactly what your ears would hear if they were in that location because the microphones are the same distance apart as your ears. And they're pointed out and there's even the external, you know, ear shape that is made out of latex. Right.

To create the same kind of sound bouncing that you would naturally hear. So it's sort of a device thousand dollar one that's like looks like a head kind of. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I thought they were too. I guess they're even more than that. But anyway, they're super expensive and the what they use them for. What she used for in a bunch of these pictures is literally licking those ear microphones with her tongue and then having that sound coming out.

I was like, Oh my God, I'm disgusted at the concept first and foremost. Then secondly, I'm disgusted by the sound the way it sounds, which is gross. I've never like my ears licked in actual real world sex. That's not a thing you should be focusing on. There are better parts of my body to lick than baths. And then thirdly, I keep thinking about the cost of the fucking microphones and how it's completely being misused.

You know, it's like somebody you pick any professional piece of tech and then use it for completely not intended purposes. I would have the same emotional response of like, Well, this is fucked up. You're like, Take this thing to a cathedral and record the acoustics for the love of Grand Canyon. Whatever you know, don't don't record like literally what you're doing there with your tongue. You could be recording on a $19 USB mike and it would sound exactly the same.

But it wouldn't have the same look. Oh, but I found these series and it was an Amazon Prime series. That's probably where I found it. So it was a cult. Classic of oh seven. Then I'll have to watch that. It was interesting. And how little closed they end up with it then. You know, there's there's always too much for you. But yeah, I'm probably. I found the thing to be not completely woke which is hard to find these days.

Maybe Australia's not completely woke and although I think they are, so is a government. Maybe as a people they're not. Oh shit. I just got a message from Adam. He got five gig fiber now. Yes, both ways. Fuck that damn man. I need to move up in the country. I'm stuck here in the city. I mean, that's like, almost, you know, you could upload, download, do all your videos, YouTube. What's the. I've never run into issues with one gig and having five just makes me want it more.

I know you're like, I don't really use one gig. Fiber and be. Right, but if I could get five gig. Yeah. Now the five gig going up would great, because my upload is only like 40 megabits per second. Yeah, well, no, a gig upload is crucial, but honestly, I mean, five gigs, you could almost do real time backups of your computer to data center rather than your own house. We have the data center had the you. Could get rid of a NAS and you're fast enough at five gigs.

Well, you wouldn't technically your storage would, you know like literally no local storage. You could just run remote storage for everything. If you had a especially if that was a data center in your day like here, if the data center wasn't. Yeah. If you didn't have to go across the entire country. Right. Although you know, it's safer maybe to do it in Switzerland or Sweden, whichever way. Yeah. But last year you. Could definitely with that kind of speed, you literally don't need local storage.

Well, this is it. When you see these things like Backblaze and these other backup systems. Yeah. Which I used to use all the time. And what they usually do now, if you have a much larger than most were, it's going to take too long to download. They'll actually send you a drive with all of your information on it, which of course is going to take an extra day at least if you get overnight shipping. And can cost money. Yes. In this case it's like, damn, how much?

Yeah. Like, well, I guess that makes sense. So it's what is the five gig speed is what five gig per? How long how long would it take you to download five. Well so a55. Well I'll tell you one gig we're having is 125 megabytes per second, so this would be five times that. So it would be what, 762? It's 700 some 768 megabytes per second. So. Right. Yeah. Because you have a little overhead.

Yeah. Yeah. So it's not like eight gigabit let's say ten gig, ten gig speed gets you a realistic one gigabyte per second. That's great with including overhead. So a terabyte is a thousand. So it would take you 1000 seconds to download a turbo. Yeah. And an hour is 3200 seconds. So it would take it would take you 20 minutes to download a terabyte. That's nice. And you know, most people are running like I've got eight terabytes of my PC's, so that's 20 minutes times eight.

So that's about two and a half hours. But it's nice. It's awesome. I notice there is a because I'm looking at the main drive and of course the main drive in my machine because it's an. Immense is the tech show by the way people in case you didn't realize that it is. It's way better tech show than that Grumpy old Ben show on Wednesday. That's not even the tech show. It's that will it's politics. It's tech. It's a fashion advice Whatever we get into.

But I didn't realize there is now a PCI express, you know device that you can plug into there that would allow you to plug in two MTU drives and you could hot swap them while the device was on it. I was like, That's a damn good idea. Uh oh, yeah. They're not going to be the best, though. So neat, right? It's not going to be able to.

That's on your motherboard is running directly into your PCI chip, which is why it gets the super fast speed M2 is that are running off of something other than PCI or signifier gently slower. Well this is an easy slot. So it would be Yeah, yeah. Yeah it'd be it's it's good but I would want to check the specs and then the other thing is anything it's hot swappable there is a speed tradeoff there for that. You know like it's got to be using buffering to prevent data loss.

So there's always going to be some performance issues there versus devices that are not hot swappable but are permanently fixed. They're going to be full speed. Well, the card would remain in, obviously, but the M2 and they said you had to have a certain something in your bios for it to work. I'm to remember who made this thing. I just thought it was a really cool idea because it makes your computer a little easier to upgrade with faster. Well, send me a link to it. I'll check it out.

The beautiful thing, why you got to do the hot swap? You know, I've got I've got like USB three doodads like that, but I don't have a PCI one. Then I probably need one of the devices. I'm looking like, well I'd like do because they're dirt cheap right now if you're looking for new drives. But I would probably need one of the I mean, you could do it without it, but one of the little docking stations that could just clone one drive to the other.

Mm. That would be nice as well, because that's what you need if you're replacing a drive, that's kind of what you need to do. You need to clone it, then put it into the machine. You don't want to just why would you. Want. To why would I want to start fresh and install the operating system in all my programs again? Well, first of all, that's not a bad thing to do at least once a year. Dude hate doing that. I go ten years between that don't want to do.

That's why your computer was having issues with that. You know, that's exactly why I. Know it's because I hit the wrong thing. Mm hmm. It's bad idea when I try to reinstall about every two years. But I used to do it every year. You're always amazed by how much quicker your computer is right after we install. It's all just because you keep adding the porn. I really don't. It's all those government secrets. Yeah. Yeah, That's why it slows down. Exactly. Yeah. Vlad, he's doing it.

He's reading it now. I forget who did it, and I'm mad because I just saw that the other day and, like, whether it's good. No, it's. It's an interesting concept. You're going to send me that link. Or what if I could find it? I don't remember how it was like an M to. Do you know where you were looking at Amazon. That goes into a was that some it was on some tech site. So what you want to find out is a PCI express card that will let you do M2. Yeah. So maybe I'll just change out your motherboard.

That would be one way to do it. But then I think that's a bigger. So I try to do that every couple of years. Well, I would just buy a new machine. I tried to do a couple of years. Which seems to be the the way to go. I mean, you can put them on an expansion card. Obviously, it looks like you can do that. This is a one that's a hot swappable one. But I mean, I guess they're dirt cheap, like 18 bucks for a card that you can put in that would give you that would give you two of the two drives.

I would not trust that to be very fast, though. That seems awfully cheap. They should be at least on eBay. This is made by imagine the company is M HQ. RH. I mean, what's the what's says not quality about MH QJ? RH It sounds like it. Sounds like somebody stole some coffee on the keyboard, but. It sounds like the place I got my honchos from. Uh huh, uh huh, exactly. You got to be careful. You don't know what You don't know where those shows have been. Uh, have you sold out of China?

China, China, China? No, I'm still going through them. Still probably have half of them into my garage. Well, you should autographed them. People will donate power. Yeah, that will make a difference. Yeah. They want a third gene autograph poncho. Mm hmm. People will go gaga for that. No, but if you haven't bought a poncho, you probably should. I mean, the link has been in the show notes for. Yeah, which is. It's good. Perfect. It's in there. I've been there. Yeah. So I need to.

I should probably log in and check how many Amazon's got left. I'm trying not to go to where they sell out now. I'm trying to be more proactive and ship them about before the previous ones out. Otherwise they're like, Well, this must be discontinued. Let's lower the price. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. No, they don't do that. But if you do run out, obviously they're not going to promote you or you think is they're not going to sell.

Should the total sold apparently that would be it's annoyance actually with Amazon not just from a seller standpoint but from a buyer standpoint. I remember I used to be able to and now this probably 12, 15 years ago when Amazon Prime was still very young, I used to be able to find a product that was out of stock and then click on purchase through back order or something to that effect.

Eventually, I want to commit to buying that damn product as soon as it's available and then getting it shipped since they haven't stuck like in a lot of instances, I'm okay with that. What I don't want to do is have to go check Amazon every single day to see if the product is back in stock. I just want to hit a button on there that says when it's back in stock, just go ahead and put the order through. But now they don't know that coming back. Is that it?

They know. They just don't let you do that. There is no button that says I want to buy back orders. So when new product comes out that sold out everywhere, there is no mechanism to say yes. Just send me whenever it becomes available. Just send me one. You literally have no options to buy at that point, and if you want to buy it, then it's up to you to log in every day or every week, whatever, and then just manually check. Is it available now? It's available now and that's just stupid.

It shouldn't have to go through that. It should just be able to let you do a back or purchase. The product that was looking at was the AC that. You get a certain length. Oh, you want to link. I mean, you want to you just you want me to just feed you the. I was going to comment about it. Just send me a link through a signal. Welcome to signal. I was either going to say, Oh, this is great. This. Yeah, this would totally work or No, this is total shit because of blah blah. Blah blah blah blah blah.

It sucks do not go with it because that blah blah blah. Let's see, what are my speeds here? Oh, it's not even on solid Amazon. Well that's shit. I don't know if it is or not. I just found it on AC that 64 per second. It says depending on the high RV speed. What's drive speeds? Uh, nobody fucking look at their websites and maybe the. Speed is is usually double of what a drive speed is. It's up to 64 G beeps, but it says it's d RV speed instead of drive it's drive speed. They're speed.

Yeah. That's important. I love nothing. Makes me have more confidence in a company than their documentation. Having misspellings in that. Did you hear it? Says Dude, get a Dell? I do. I have a Dell Computer and I have three Dell monitors in front of me. Oh. Yeah. Dell has a computer for people that don't understand computers. Exactly that to me don't understand computers at all. Man. It's just out there. I have no idea. I used to enjoy building them myself. I used to love going.

It was always the latest ACS motherboard, and I always bought the latest ACS motherboard with way more features that I was ever going to use. But then I would go in and play with and speed them up a little bit more than they were supposed to be. Overclock them. Although I never got into the craziness of spending you way more money than I should on coolers or anything, or for the liquid cooling to try to run the CPU's at extreme speeds because it's like, I just don't need that.

I just don't get that. But I would buy the Asus motherboards and I would buy I mean, back in the day when you would have to get a sound card, it would always get the best creative sound card that give the best quality sound. And then you had. Video cards for people to play video games. Yeah, even though I never fucking played video games, I would buy two high end video cards and I would tie them together back in the day when that was the thing to do. You know, you didn't. Play video games.

Why would you do that? I okay. I played like NASCAR. I did play a few video. Okay. Well, it was overkill for what I needed really. It was definitely. Oh, this doesn't look too bad. But my only concern here is just was going to be with drive speed so it says is compatible with ti. I think they're Yeah it's it's it's I don't think it does the latest generation or even the previous generation. Of the misuse.

Of the empty used is it doesn't do them too well but maybe it does do or do they they they for X thing that they're referring to is the PCI speed that the M2 speed. Yeah. It does do the four x PCI which is good but I don't think that, that I mean it's it is different than the nvme X4 or the new. What's the new one. I don't think it's X8 but whatever it is. And I guess some motherboards won't separate the PCI express into different devices where some will.

You need it to do that especially if you want the two drive version because otherwise you know it's not going to work. But it could be interesting. Way to add some really fast storage to a machine. Yeah, I mean this would be pretty damn quick. You likely will be faster than a USB three, although who knows by how much. True. I just keep plugging drives in, man. I got way too many drives. Yeah, well, you don't need them if you had five gigs. I know. If I had five gig both ways.

I mean, right now I've got my main drive. What you show on is 934 gig with That's not enough. The data drive that was included with this machine was only two terabytes, which I should probably just pull that out because I just got my read. It took like two months for Western Digital to send me a replacement drive of my NASCAR drive that went bad. I mean, I had already bought another six terabyte drive and through that in the NAS.

But now I have an idea and I should just leave this here until the next six terabyte drive dies. Yep, exactly. But then I. Got I've got mine set up on two drive failures now, so it's should be good to go. That I got my drobo connected, which is way more terabytes and you need to know about. Yeah, that's where all your music chairs. And I've got a nine terabyte external drive Western Digital. Oh that's just asking to fill. I know. Which is why I don't put anything that is.

Yeah. I keep that one empty. That's the best, that's the best way. Just if there are larger now they're up to like 24 terabytes. I know that's not. No. And they've got another three terabytes. I just, I have not had a spindly drive in my computer for seven, eight years. I only had us as these. And if you don't hoard music or video, you can do that. Well, that's what the NAS was for the. But I've got to drive that. I think this is a solid state drive 300 gig which I only have Monero on.

So when I like connect this like once a month to see if anybody donated with Monaro, that's about all that's being used for more than another three terabyte download drive. That that right now I've got three two terabytes of these in the computer. You need. I always need more I mean you always need more storage and you always need more speed upload and download. Well the next one is going to get expensive because I'm I've only got three slots, so three m2.

So I'm going to need to replace one of those two terabyte ones with like a four or eight terabyte. Yeah. I really should just bite the bullet now with the Mac. For me I'm thinking Mac Mini with the M two chip like the Mac Mini Pro I think they call it with the M2 chip with. Enough to run three monitors would be fantastic. Yep. What is the difference then. I mean, I know it's faster and all this other, but is the.

So you don't need the them to the you don't need the pro version for what you're doing. Well the studio is the next version up. I think you need the pro Oh yeah. You don't need the studio. That's right. You're right. Yeah. The studio is the one you don't need. It's like it looks nice. It's just. It's like a double stack. It's more. Yeah, it's. If you were doing video editing, then you would get the studio. Would be like, This is what I need. Although I now that you see how big like the 4K stuff

is, it's like, damn video. Yeah. And you do that is one thing on the the Mac. I think the Mac Mini is actually a very cost effective Apple product like you get a lot for the money. Yeah. And it seems like it's way faster than Windows devices cost. Oh yeah. Twice as much as I do. It is even my M1 that I finally got installed a few months ago. Even that thing's super fast. I know the one you took a year to get out of the packaging.

Almost. I think I had it in the box sitting there for, like, nine months, but it's because I was too busy tweaking the PC. I finally got to a point where the PC tweaking was done. You got to talk to. Easy tweak the Mac. And then the blue screens anyway. Well, no, because you just reinstall everything once a year and there you go. But I dig the 32 inch monitor. I'm getting it dialed in more. So I'm not like, annoyed by the color and the. Yeah, I think you still went a little small.

You should gotten a little bigger. Well, I'm thinking about this because I'm like, well, this will be fine. I could throw the 32 on the computer on the next desk over, which is the wife's computer, which she hardly uses anyway. But when I decide to do that, the 32 is going to go there.

And what's going to go here is like a 48 or whatever the 52, whatever they make, that would cover the same amount of screen real estate as my three monitors do now And then I would basically just break them up in the same way. But using software rather than unique monitors. I'm looking at their website. I don't even think you need the pro, you just need the regular cheap mac mini. Don't do it. I need to, I need to edit audio. I need the speed. I got the.

Regular the regular Mac mini for 600 bucks is at least four times faster than your PC is right now. With that one. Is that the one with the multiple Thunderbird Thunder board Thunder Bolt or two? It can run three monitors. That's what I need to do. I need three or I need a big ass monitor either way. Yeah, that would be a better way to go. But yeah. And everybody just needs to donate more so we can have that. Oh, I'm sure. Yeah. But you get enough donations for that.

Although they're there so them cheap, you could get a 43 inch 4K monitor for like 400 bucks. No, no. Yeah. This one was 350 for a 32. And what I want to also put on that list old because I want the big bad. Black don't want it. Why wouldn't I know it burns And you said. Burns and. Burns it. But now I had to go through and redo and I think I mentioned that the last time have to go and redo all the wallpaper to fit the 4K screen now. Oh, for fuck's sake.

And I just so far it's all just Taylor Swift, so I'm happy. That's fine. Oh, for fuck's sake. We do. Yeah. There's. There's nothing I'm looking at right now. The only thing I would do is I would get the cheapest one with the most memory or the three the most hard disk that you can afford. Yeah, that's the one thing I that makes me cringe with Apple. It's like you're fucking me over. I'm the things that should be an easy upgrade. But no, they want.

The other option you want to give is ten gig Ethernet. Well of course. Because you're might as well prep for the eventuality of increased speed. Well I'm already in the this was just a small step but you're. Well on to the. Five. Yeah. Yeah. Mm hmm. Which is fine for what I'm doing right now, but yeah, the ten would be and that's so many people complain like all this 2.5 sucks. They should have jumped right to ten. And it's like, Well, I agree.

I did. Yeah. But it's hard to find a router because you don't have a router that has ten gig capability on it yet. You can get them pretty cheap though. You get them under hundred bucks. Oh, I don't know about that because this one was more than 200 and it was 2.5 with the Wang plan. A buddy of mine, just one full ten gig and he sent me his list of stuff there. I think the router was like 199. And I get it.

I'm at the point where I should just be building my own fucking routers anyway with a little, you know, build it into a little like nook. But yeah. Good. Steve Kipman You should make your own, huh? Because really, that's the main thing. Then just add on an access point. Yeah. Yeah. But I digress. We are a value for value show, believe it or not. I know I heard the game. I don't know if using that phrase is working for our benefit here. I don't think it is. But I don't either.

If you listen to Grumpy Old Ben, you already heard this bit because we had a real paper, we had a dude and I'm pretty sure I'm not misgendering send in a money order for 200 bucks. Postal money order. Oh, which is the way you want to go when you to stay anonymous and going by the name. And it was on the outside of the envelope with no address just to city what me worry which I think is a great name. What me worry.

Hmm. And he came in and the note says Darren O'Neil, Colon placing my bets and then bets is crossed out. And it says donations. And this is all, of course, typed. The can have the handwriting. You might be able to track him down. He says 50 bucks on the angry face. 50 bucks. I'm the red King even though he doesn't want it. So I think that's you. Yeah. And 100 bucks on the one I Jack, I'm like, I should take offense, but thanks for the hundred bucks. I hope that's an accurate description. Yes.

And maybe until this year, if we get some stem cells or whatever shot into the eye, maybe we can get back. To being. The two. I Jack, we're on that. I just. I called some friends in California up through there up to yesterday. Wish you a happy birthday. And one of the first questions that popped up in the conversations. So have you started doing stem cells? Yep. Yes, that is like no. It's like, I don't know. The great connect connecting with our doctor in Mexico.

That's where everything goes with you. We're going to connect you with a doctor in Mexico. That's because I have friends that that are in a different strata than me. Yes. We'll set you up with the doctor in Mexico. It's Either they really want to help you and have you live forever or they're trying to kill you. Are you are you getting enough to dream from now? I'm not really. Sure. I noticed the supplies getting more. They're like, they're sending you cases of it. It's a tasty flavor.

Uh huh. Hmm. A board should be that impartial to the taste of metal. Really? So you're one of the kids that was like, sucking on pennies as a kid? Uh, no, no. I was thinking more iron than copper, but. I see now what Me worry. You're sucking on copper coins as a kid. That means you have some type of a bacterial infection. Probably. I wasn't. I was just making a joke. Okay, But it's. I can diagnose that as a non doctor. Of the non do like, here's here's the real question.

Do you like the flavor and sensation when you take a nine volt battery and touch your tongue? Absolutely. Yes. It is a very weird taste that comes along with that. Mm. Mm hmm. Haven't done that in a long time. Go ahead, kids. Try that. Yeah. If you injured. Yourself, if you have braces, that's the best time to do. It. If you end up in the hospital or something. Do not blame me. Just make sure you put something slightly rubbery soft between your your upper and lower teeth.

But go ahead and try it. It's fun. Practice safe. Nine volt battery licking. Uh huh. What me worry says Now make that new ASIS router hum. Thanks for some great entertainment slash info so thank you. Won't be worry. So I'm guessing is this was for grumpy old bands because the money order said it was for unrelenting grumpy old Ben's and random thoughts. But says 50 for you the Red King, 50 for the fabulous Ryan Beemer as the angry ace in 100.

For me, that has to make the donation to this show 8333 but it's not a half and half split. So he's making me do accounting and all that, which I love. Why don't you just do a $100 the this show and then just take the difference out of your. And then take the other on take the other hundreds. Still get the money. And this makes for easier math and. Then forget grumpy old Ben's entirely that's not a bad idea. Yeah, exactly. That just more. Time. That was kind of my thought.

The math is way easier at that point. Just purely for math reasons. Yes. Yeah. So thank you. So let me so. The Mac mini with one terabyte and ten gig ethernet is still only going to be a thousand bucks. Which when it comes down to it the. Hell of a deal. Now I would actually bump that to 16 gigs around to that adds 200 more.

The interesting thing when the M1 came out were the people doing the test, because for anybody that's coming from a Windows environment who I've had in my desktop, the previous one and this 164 gigs of RAM, so when you see like 8 to 16, you're like, Oh yeah, but the tests were like, It doesn't matter. It's irrelevant the way Macs handle memory.

Exactly, Exactly. The Macs are incredibly good with memory management, but the PC sucks and it just throws everything into RAM and then you, regardless of whether it's neat or not. So it's a weird thing. So you have to make those mean. Yeah, I've generally gotten 16 gigs and all my Macs and that has been plenty to run everything from Photoshop to video editing software. You look in like how much RAM is being used and that's not even not even tested. It's it's like 70%.

It's well within the range. And I'm trying to remember how much I had on my $10,000 Mac Pro. Uh, I know those have been like the most doorstops, the historical layers. I had 32 gigs on that one, I think. And it seemed like a lot. And I was like more than any PC had a at the time. Well, let me think. That was, that was now seven years ago. I think something like up. Our buddy server truck driver also came in with 565 monthly donation because loves that he's unrelenting.

Yeah if you want to support the show unrelenting that. It's a perfect show for driving track. It is. It is because. We do cover all the topics we. Me everything you need to know in one shot. But and we're not such a good show that we take your mind off road. Right? This is true. We don't want that. Because then. No. You would have accidents that. This show is driving safe. It's trucker proof.

I've seen a bunch of mac experts, you know, because they have to keep creating content on these Mac centric websites that most people seem to think at this point the Mac Pro is irrelevant. There's not even a. Reason I would agree. I would agree. Except to have something that you could say. The thing all decked out goes for like 20 grand. Yeah, yeah. But what we're seeing with the performance on the M2 Mac mini is crazy. The M2 studio is crazy. You don't really need.

No. And like, I got a a MacBook Air M2, though as soon as the M2 version of that came out, I bought one of those. And you actually started using it. It did sit in a box for. No, I used it on my trip to space X. I Oh. So yeah, this is the ultimate space companion. Uh huh. And I able to run my rocket simulation software on there perfectly fine. Did your rocket explode too, at the same time?

No, I had I did that when I got back home I retweet my Kerbal profile for the rocket and in fact it exploded in almost the same spot. And every launch. I have at least two missing engines. Really? I mean, they're like at least two engines die every single launch. Well, so the the simulation software totally predicts this. It knows what's going on. And I haven't figured out how to prevent how to prevent failing a minimum of two engines dying. I'd like I don't know.

I'm still trying to figure that out. Well, maybe that's just the way of the world. It's just too much thrust. It's too much thrust all close to the ground. And that stress which causes the engines to. Yeah, go out so many engines, man. The 33 engines there. 33 is the magic number. But it's it's amazing how well burble simulates real world.

Now I've got it fully decked out with all the the real world mods in there so you know if you just buy Kerbal you could play it as a game but you can download all the mods and turn it into a real world simulator. So that's what Elon should do. So he knows what he's. Well, he. Does, He does. He's talked about Kerbal. Then you don't even need the real. Why even shoot the real ones up? Well, I mean the proof of the fireworks, right? You got to watch the fireworks. And then to get those Russian.

So one thing I heard in lights, apparently now I was in in South Padre, right across the bay and, apparently six miles up the coast. People got debris raining on them. Really? Yeah. That's interesting. So apparently when the rocket was detonated, the debris was in fine enough size. It was small enough that the winds took another six miles and it ended up landing on the coast of Texas, about six miles north of there, which now it's actually more than six. I think it was like 15 or something.

How what were the biggest pieces? I don't know. But some people said they got damage on their cars. Well, of course, because Eli needs to buy a Tesla. Uh huh, Free Tesla. You free Tesla for you. And you and you. If you can prove space debris damage, the car. There is your car. But yeah, at the very least, people said that there was just sort of a gray dusting that covered everything outdoors. That can't be healthy. That's not unhealthy. It maybe I mean, if those particles.

Steel, it's just metal. Just metal that you can inhale into your lungs. Yeah. Which is you're you use your iron in your blood, your matrix that it metals, you're literally made of that stuff. So it's not a big deal. So your theory is if you'd not heard of the Man of Steel, this will just make you stronger. Yeah. Have you not heard of Iron Man? Yes. I've been okay. Ozzy told me about that years ago. Did he? Was he the first one?

The Black Sabbath has had so many singers, it's hard to remember which. Well, it's a it's actually a comic book, but. Okay. Well, the really there's a comic book by that name, too. Next, he'll tell me there's a movie by that name. Nope, No movies. I'm sure they'll make one. Your world is different than everybody else's, Gene. That's why it's always fun to talk to you. It's always a little bit of a different perspective. And we apologize just about nothing.

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Italian beef, Chicago, Italian beef. It's, you know, especially if you dip it, you could throw that right into a blender and make that into a milkshake. So while the mouth is healing. That might not be a bad idea. I've drunk meat before. I mean, honestly, this is this is. It's what stew is. What do you think? Stew is? Your drinking. It's for those kind of observations. That's what you come to unrelenting for. We hope you join us again next week, Friday at 10 a.m. Central.

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