069: PETAI

Yeah, but how are you going to do all your touch? You touch, You have nothing. Hello and welcome to episode number 69 DBS. Wow. The magic number now is Elon Musk sponsoring us or what? Yeah, I hope so. Mm hmm. Actually, today it's a deal in Australia, so it'll be a short donation tomorrow for them already, isn't it? Yeah, I think so. You know, he would think he could let us know what's going on before it happens so that we could be prepared. You would think so.

You know, do a little stock manipulation. Hey, speaking of tomorrow. So last night, I updated the bios on the motherboard. That is always a fun thing to do. So just, Steph, why, if something breaks, that's what's to blame. If something breaks, when? Today. While we're recording, something goes poof. Yeah, because, you know, it's a new bios. Theoretically better than the old bios I've known. But, you know, again, I'm going to, like, really hard knocks. Now, this is a an Apple device or is this a

no? No. Apple devices don't have bios, as they say that you would thought you were using the the Mac mini. No, I still haven't moved the motor to the Mac mini yet. I'm debating whether I want to. So I get it. And I again, I'm pounding on the very poor press bored desk, at least with Dell, which has been the desktops I've been using for like the last eight years or so. The BIOS has never crashed. I remember having issues back with like an ASIS motherboard back in the day.

Well, this is the nicest motherboard. There we go. You never know, do you? Never know? I mean, obviously, you know, the bios these days is very different than the old days. Like you actually use a mouse in bios these days. I know. It's crazy. Like, how does this even work? How does the mouse work before the computer, even boots? You don't want to know. But it didn't recognize the bios the first time I tried to do it a couple of times, finally recognized that. Oh, see, that's also not good.

There's any issues with the updates that you kind of feel like, but this is the main thing. It's like, Well, how do you recover from a bad bios flash and sometimes you don't? Yeah, well, I think there is some jumpers you can hotwire, go in and zap it. Zap, zap! Well, zap emails after doing the bios and but either way, now it seems to be running. I've had a little stability issues and some games that I was hoping this will fix. So you wanted to buy new spaceships?

Well, I'm going to be doing that during the show because. Are you buying or selling at at 11? I'm doing both. I'm arbitrage spaceship arbitrage. That's my business. Com red gene spaceships. Buy, sell. Everything must go. Exactly. This is unrelenting. Episode number 69. Yeah. And right in the middle of the episode, the Invicta event starts. What is that? Which is on GMT time. Invictus in Star Citizen is a once a year military celebration, kind of like 4th of July.

And you're actually doing a show. I mean, I thought I would have. I know, right? It's it's going to be amazing. We'll get to see whether clean feed runs while I'm running the game. At the same time, I do notice every now and then you are hitting red and clean feeds. So, I mean, you're you're still a little hot, Gene. All right. Let me let me look at a map and somebody is going to show that, hey, Gene's really hot. Believe me. No one's going to pay for that. That may be the case. Mm hmm.

Nobody's suing anything. Don't iso anything. You do not have the rights to iso anything from this show. Yes, All. All copyrights are trademarked. Yes. This is the Seinfeld of podcasting. Exactly. And we don't want to get sued by somebody so. Well, certainly not Jerry. He's Gary, his lawyer. Money. All right. He's got more lawyer money than we do. Oh, he does indeed. Well, I'm looking at the microphone itself, and that's looking pretty good.

So I wonder if I'm pumping it up just a little bit too much in the in your motion. Oh, okay. Okay. I think in a way, you're pumping the wattage. Let me let me the current is I'm I'm plus four dog biscuits right now. See, we're trying to get let me go to the dog biscuits we're trying to bring here. There we go. So now this should not be going in the red any more. We listen to this test, test, test, test. Yeah, we're good.

We listen to no agenda, and we're like, Hey, we want to sound just as good, if not better. That's the goal, especially for we use better audio gear. But yes, well, you use the same microphone, although now Adam is. Yeah, but two anymore. He's he's not on the mic nor the monitor anymore. So he didn't go back. I thought he went back to the the electro voice.

I think he jumped the, the little square microphone that Beck uses the look I know he did, but I thought he was using a a rod Castor's new, new mike, though, really? I didn't hear that. Why would you use Road Castor when you got the Electra voice? Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. Maybe I. I don't know what he's doing. You should go over there and teach him about audio. You know, I've been meaning to go over there for a long time, like a year, and we just can't seem to get our dates together.

Because when he was available, I was doing as I have my out-of-state trips happening, which I need to do another one soon. I need to go down Mexico. I hear he has a he put an app on your phone. So if you get within a mile of his house, all the lights turn off and all the shades drop. It's the app. It's it's the. Yeah, it's made by Amazon.

It's part of the ring that work that you can designate somebody when they approach to automatically have the house be nobody's home so that people would pay big money for that. Mm Yeah, Just make it look like nobody's there, huh? And then don't let them walk into your front door with one of those. I still don't understand why people would put a lock on their main door that has the numeric keypads. Like, do not put a hackable device on your front door. I mean, a key is a very hackable device.

Really easy to hack. This is true. I mean, when it comes down to it, most doors, I mean, I've got a I'm six six with a size 15 shoe. A good kick will bring most doors. It Well yeah I mean that will obviously as well but I don't know that a electronic button pushing device that doesn't have Bluetooth or wi fi is got to have wi fi and but you're right about that. I mean you are right All these new devices though, do indeed have Bluetooth and Wi-Fi if you take those things away. You're right.

I don't think it's that bad. But there's still an issue there. I mean, like even if you have a wi fi lock, which I have, one of those, it's now the batteries are dead, so don't get any idea. So it's a lot harder to get in that house. Yeah. Yeah. It's got wi fi. That doesn't work. And I've got another one that has Bluetooth, which also doesn't work because I don't swap batteries often enough.

But for, for the wi fi one I think that it's unless there's a known security hole in it, which there always is, it's in which they would like it. Well but it's not like it's running in there with, you know it's running something super basic like the, the commercial equivalent of an Arduino in the lock. Basically, it can connect on the Wi-Fi and then it's got a certificate. So it can only talk in an encrypted channel and that's it. There's not much you can do there.

Well, the problem is people get lazy and they set it up for things like, oh, well, with the Bluetooth, when my phone pings it, it'll automatically open when I get within, you know, five feet. Yeah, I think my mine have that option. I don't think that's wrong then because then all somebody needs to do is get that signal that your phone is putting out and then recreate it. Yeah. Exploits are fun. They Yeah. Well depends which side of the exploit. Yeah, well, this is true. This is true.

Speaking of exploits, what's going on with your girl with T swizzle? Yeah. Apparently she's dating a Nazi or something. Kind of super racist, which is something I follow zero of I have never followed. I couldn't even tell you. I mean, besides, she dated Jake Gyllenhaal at some point. Otherwise, I couldn't tell you any of her other boyfriends. If it's not me, I don't care that I see. I think that's when I go to where I'm on the list. And I don't know.

It's funny watching the the Taylor Swift bands because I'm part of a few Taylor Swift Facebook groups on the merchandizing were Uh huh. And there are people that just lose their minds. And it's funny, it's like, why are you worried about who somebody else is dating? I mean, I guess this is not something that's new. This is all a a voyeuristic thing going on in our society. So I don't know why anybody cares who your favorite rock stars, actors, actresses are dating.

I just never understood the reason behind that. Why anybody? Yeah, people like drama. They like, you know, following people's personal lives, I guess. You know, I saw some of the things like, oh, you know, like the funniest thing were the people that are totally sure that Taylor Swift is a lesbian, which. Oh, I. I don't care. Yeah, but it's like this is all, well, all of a sudden this is why she's jumping from the one guy into the other guy immediately.

And it's like, again, she's been married for a decade now To a woman that could be I've never seen the marriage certificate, but I mean, it wouldn't. Wow. This is certainly. Don't you don't. I'm not surprised you haven't seen it because you're not following that stuff. It's just in the Russian underground. Is that where I should be watching these things? I'm sure there's good information out there somewhere, but it just does not interest Yandex that RU and do a search. Okay.

I'll find everything I need to know right there. Huh? Perfect. The Russian information is the best information. Yeah, it's the only information that's allowed. Or the Chinese information. You mix those two together? Well, I mean, the Chinese information you can read in American newspapers, it's not that hard. But with the the t swizzle the prices on her stuff not coming down, there were people hoping, I think like, oh, wow, she's dating a Nazi.

Would you like to sell me that for, like half the price now because. Yeah, exactly. Everyone's too I saw a guy on I mean again maybe misgendering on eBay with at one point back maybe I'm guessing a decade ago, maybe ten years ago or so. Peter Max came out, you know, I remember, yeah. With Taylor Swift, with three different posters that they released and lithographs they called them, but they're basically glorified posters as most lithographs are.

They're expensive posters. Yes. And that was the one year for Christmas. My mother in law bought me one, and it was the only thing I got from her that year, because I think it was like 200, 250 bucks for a lithograph. Holy fuck. Yeah. And it's like now, like 20 inches by 20 inches. Okay, well, it's decent sized anyway. And it was was, it was under 300. It could have been anywhere from Mac to stuff. Yeah. He does really cool stuff and it was between, you know, like 150, 200 bucks.

And so I only got one of the three. Well these things are going for 5 to $8000 with regularity. Now in the lithograph. Yeah, that's fucked up. I saw one of the Unlimited was the one I'm not even sure they said how many hundreds or thousands were made, but I ran across one of these places that I know. These places are scams and they always have been that sell like the autographed sports memorabilia. We used to have one in the mall here.

Well, malls were still a thing that, you know, hey, okay, if you want to buy a Derek Jeter autograph, you know, on the free market, if you go to a car show, you go to somebody's direct a collector, you could buy it for 200 bucks. Well, of course, you know, then it's $1,000 at one of these places. They had the lithograph that I've got for $16,000 and they were like, stock is low. Like, holy crap, people are crazy because I was looking for a matching one.

I don't need them because they released them in autographed and non autographed versions. The autographed versions had Taylor's autograph and Peter Max that were hand signed. So of course, those are the ones that are going for big bucks. But there's like an asshole on eBay. Now, who's got one listed for $2,000. Oh, price to sell.

And I look at it and it's like it's not autographed, although he's listed it in the autograph section of eBay and it's listed as autographed rock and roll or something like that original autograph for a 2000 bucks. And I messaged them like that. You know, it's not autographed and has not been taken down.

And I'm wondering, it's like you do realize I said to my wife, I'm like, if I just had, you know, an extra if I was Elon Musk, if I had enough money sitting in the bank, I would just harass this guy in order to get it. And then immediately not autographed. eBay will give me my money back and you will have to have it shipped back to your house yourself because you are lying. You friggin scammer and trust scammers. No Trump Keep looking for one. I don't need it to be autographed.

The wife wanted one because we've got it up now on the wall, nicely framed. It's like, well, the other little area because it's that's another scam right now they have a home is 80% profit margin what is framing. Oh there's no question about it. Yeah. Oh, you thought I was talking about marriage. Yeah, it's like a framing. Well, they're buffers cam professionally framed and. Yeah, and then until we had the. Yeah I know it's the because all these framers.

No they're the only things in town unless you're able to do it yourself which you were able to do. Yeah. I mean I still have probably a thousand bucks worth of framing supplies but that's like nothing because it's, you know what, you want the regular glass? Well, no, no, no, no. You misunderstand. A thousand bucks of framing supplies, $10,000 worth of framed pictures. Right? Right. You're retail. That's. Uh huh, Yeah. You're talking wholesale 10 to 1, buddy. Uh huh.

And we put the lithograph lithograph up on the one side of the fireplace because we got, you know, it's an older house, too. It's a brick fireplace. And then there's a wall to the left and a wall to the right. And on the left. Now we have this that is framed on the wall. And my wife's like, Well, it'd be nice to have one on the other side to to even it out. It's like, yeah, if I had to get unlimited funds, I'm sure I'd buy one of the $5,000 autograph ones.

But at this point I'd be happy just finding that and an autographed one for a couple of hundred bucks and if at least even those things out. But the scammers are everywhere and it's hilarious to me what people think will defeat the scammers, the people in the Taylor Swift groups, and I've seen this in other groups that, you know, sports, autographs and all that, make them make them write today's date in their name or your name on a piece of paper and put it on top of the item.

Exactly. And I'm like, If you fuckers never heard of Photoshop, don't get a picture of today's newspaper. Hold it up, huh? But they don't think those anymore. When have you heard of Photoshop? I can put anything on a piece of paper. I can grab anybody else's photo. Now, the best thing you could do if you're spending money would be to make somebody get on a video call, which still is not perfect.

But if you're doing like a face time call or a zoom call and they can prove at least that they have the merchandise, I don't know how you make in that can how that makes it that they will assuredly send you the merchandise. But it's so weird. And here I am selling electronic spaceships. Yeah, it's virtual space for sending me money. I know. Well, I mean, there was a guy again for my dad because he had these tickets and stuff from the Michael Jordan era, the Jordan baseball era.

I had them sitting on eBay for a long time and it's like, I don't care. I'm just letting them sit there. And a guy came to me and he's like, Mom, you know, we can go off of eBay because, you know, eBay charges a lot of money. And he's a guy that's been selling on eBay for a long time. And at first I'm like, I didn't really understand them all that well. Now I realize from looking him up is a like a 70 year old dude.

And he wrote, you know, he's kind of like the gene of Tulia back in the nineties, he had a book published on Jordan Collectibles, you know, So once I saw those names match, it's like I felt a lot more trusting. Yes. I don't know why he did, because he sent he sent quite a bit of money via PayPal, not goods and services via the PayPal friends and family, which. Yeah, is anybody knows once you do that. Yeah. Yeah. It doesn't come back. No. Yeah no refunds.

So the one thing though is have you I don't know if this has been the case for a while, but I just realized recently because I had to send somebody money, a PayPal will not even give you the selection of whether something is personal or whether it's business or the business account's not even. I think it maybe if you've even and maybe I'm wrong about this, but I think it could also be if you've sent somebody something goods and services in the past, it might for sure.

If it's an account tied to eBay. Right. I would assume that because I know that with my buddy that runs the record shop, if I pay them on PayPal, it will not let me choose friends and family to save him the Exactly because I've got luckily I was smart enough to do set up both accounts like a decade ago. So I've kept one purely for friends and family and one for anything business related. And that way I can still do the the free money transfer.

But they're really trying to get out of that whole thing. Like they don't want to be in that business anymore. They just want to be a credit card processor. That's where the easy money is. I guess. Well, and it sounds like Musk wants to take over that business on Twitter. Well, he's talking to your friends and family through Twitter, which makes sense. I mean, that has been the the thought process is that he wants to monetize Twitter, but not in the way.

Yeah. Pre musk Twitter was thinking advertising now he is I think thinking well a bank with messages involved. Uh huh yeah which isn't necessarily a horrible idea which you know I mean it's not all that different than selling sending satoshis with a message. No. And the fact that he is opening up this platform for people to make money and I don't know. I mean, Tucker Carlson, that's a no brainer. I don't know about people, though, like our buddy CSB.

Yeah, I'm running into a bunch more people that are like, Well, subscribe to me for $3 a month. Yeah. Who's doing that? And it depends on what content it is. But how do you know what the content actually depends on what camp of the the So since I had to restart my account, I'm not up to a thousand people on Twitter yet, but apparently that's all it takes is anybody it's over a thousand people and is a Twitter blue. You can now start to put up videos and charge money, which I can do now.

I attach the correct phone number. Okay. There you go. They liked it. I don't know why the open air fucktard wouldn't take the phone number and it's like never gotten anything back from their support. And that's been a couple of weeks now. It's like this is they've had a million people register. Yeah. I mean, they like anything they can do to refuse a new person. We don't want you, Right? Good. Yeah.

And I mean I've noticed with all of this stuff and I'm assuming it'll come down at some point, but the cost to you is this I they're finally realizing you need to charge people. It's all 20 bucks a month. Almost every air based service is 20 bucks a month, right now. But there are limits to that. You know, meeting. It's like I've got a bunch of texts that I want to convert to. If you're using the AI voice synthesis. Yeah, you can't do like 20 books worth in a month.

It's like you've gone in and it could cost you a lot more than 20 bucks, but. Right. You're right. That's it. You just need to keep adding more. And I was really interested when it comes to the fiction writing pseudo, you don't need to do that, dude. You can if all you're trying to do is voice, just use the free one that that Google have. You want three, right? I mean, Microsoft. Microsoft got one, too.

Yes. Oh, no. There are there are definitely situations in software out there that can do very similar things. And I've just been doing Siri reading books for like a decade now. That's a little is any actual book I buy on Kindle is just read by Siri, which again, that's all built in one on every Apple device. Yes. But to be fair, if you're putting something together for a commercial release, you. Oh, yeah. Yeah. If you want to have something read that you're going to sell. Yeah.

And the voice is it's not the voice themselves. Even though the voices sound good, Siri sounds very realistic. My Siri in my, my Apple Watch. I always want to call it an iWatch. Yeah, but I converted it to sound Irish, so that's a little bit. Oh, I use the British one. See, It's like, yeah, we don't want them freaking American accent. Well, no, because.

Because I grew up watching BBC television and you know, David Attenborough and all these guys and watching all the cool animals that people are all scared of for some reason. I love putting animal videos as a total tangent into no agenda. Social, because no matter what kind of animal video I upload or I put a link there, there's bound to be at least one person and often more than one. There's like, Oh, just wait. He'll get killed.

Like literally everybody thinks that the person in the video is going to be killed by the animal. So it's just like you people have never been outdoors, have you? Not without highly trained snipers with them. I mean, do you know if you raise a baby lion from scratch? It's it's basically a house cat until it's really hungry one day, scientifically speaking.

Yeah, but what the AI brings to the reading of the material and which is getting better, is actually bringing the somewhat correct inflections when it's exciting or it's the question and raising and lowering pitch and accelerating and slowing down speech. Yeah, yeah. So it doesn't sound completely like the flatness, the robotic voice that you get quite a lot. Well, that was the problem in I mean, we've had voice synthesis

since the eighties. Literally, the original voice sounded kind of like, what's the space? The physicist guy, Exactly like the guy in the wheelchair. Yeah. Died a little. This is a I can't remember it. I don't remember I named him. Yeah, that guy and even Hawking. Hawking. Yes. Yes. Brilliant man. Brilliant man. So it's been around, but it has been very monotonous because there was essentially they were coding. What sound does a letter make?

And then the next step was what sound does a letter make next to one other letter? And you you really need to go well beyond that. I think the next iteration of that was an actually a full dictionaries worth of words. So about 8000, the words properly pronounced, but then only one version of each word.

And now with the A.I., what you're getting is more similar to what humans communicate like, which is each word can have a multitude of pronunciations depending on how it's used and also just the temperament of the person at the time. Right? Because if you know that you can't just go, if you've recorded a podcast and you messed up one word, you can't just go grab yourself saying that word and put it in there and it sounds seamless.

Yeah, well, you can kind of do that with the script well that way, because having just read, yeah, it'll still have the I read recreate the word for you and you are hitting a little bit into the red again. You are just hot today, Right. Okay, I'll drop it on my arm. You are just hot. I'll just go down to like. But I am really intrigued because I know I need to write the next great no agenda novel idea. And there's a I mean, I'm just guessing it would be better than podcasting.

I'm not sure that's true. What I want to try and find out there is a in a I writing tool, which I don't know. When do you go from writing tool to just in a I that's writing everything for you were getting yeah onto that line I think you just need to ask college students that question. Yes. Well yeah because they're never going to write anything ever again. There is an API I can't remember was called that is a you pay money for it that is specifically tailored to writing college, I think.

Oh, I could believe that. Well, that's their market. That's what they sell out there. That's like, look, here's what the laws are, here's what you need to know. We're just giving it to you. You do whatever you want with it. But that's what a lot of these services are, is they're taking chat group tea and they're putting a skin on it. They're doing their problems in. Yeah, and I don't even understand how that works, but they make I mean there's a lot more than just charging this point. Yes.

That's just the biggest most well known one out there and certainly one that's getting updated very regularly. So, yeah, I've been playing with Claude, which is fantastic and still free from Anthropic, but there is a service that. Student Right. I covered it on random Thoughts a while ago and we've talked about it. They have just introduced a brand new interface which watching a few of the demo is is absolutely amazing because there's a couple of boxes. One is labeled something like Bring Dump.

So any ideas you have for the story, you just put it in there. They don't have to be organized. It could be setting, it could be plot points, it could be characters. Then you tell it what kind of style to write in and it just starts generating the outline for you. Of course, you can go in and edit it and then there's a box for characters.

So you go in and you give it the characters that you want in the story with their descriptions, and it will add characters if it thinks it needs it and it kind of goes step by step in building the story. Because there's one thing the I's are not yet quite good at, and that is writing anything long form because their memory is very short and the ability to write something long will it'll forget, it won't have the continuity because it doesn't know what happened right in the previous chapters.

So then this thing gets broken down into chapters and then each chapter you have to give it the beats, which means. And they're like, Well, every two beats are processed together. So you have to again, make sure there's a connection. And you can't assume that way down the line that's going to remember what happened before. So you have to be very specific. The ability for this to give you a basic story, fantastic.

But where it kind of fails for me is there are $25 a month plan which is paid annually, which, as you said, everything costs about that gives you 90,000 words a month. Yeah. In this new thing, they are kind of touting the fact that, well, you can have a whole first draft in two days. It's like, okay, so you're then done with your 90,000 words in two days and they offer a additional word packs, but they don't mention what that costs.

And like before, I'm going to subscribe to something you need to tell me if I want to buy an extra 100,000 words. What's that going to be? 20 bucks. 50 bucks? A thousand bucks? What do you got? Yeah. It's always concerning when they don't release it. I wouldn't use anything for a book. They were advancing things so quickly that literally the issue you brought up, which is if it writes more than a few pages, it starts to forget what it wrote previously, correct? Yeah.

That'll be solved in less than a year. I mean, it's in the solution thing. It'll just go from, you know, remembering 15, 20 pages to remembering 15, 20,000 pages. And that was the latest thing with this clod. It can remember like 70,000 words, which is a pretty much novel length. Yeah, Yeah. So yeah, I think 50 days starting to be a novel. So it's that's it's only going to keep improving.

And that's the one thing that I, I have to wholeheartedly agree with the YouTubers out there that talk about A.I. which is fairly consistent theme is the where we are with this is literally like the first year of web pages. Oh God, what do you see in that? I remember very distinctly, yes, I remember seeing those in the Netscape right. Netscape Navigator. Oh, yeah.

I think that was the first one. And like, I want to I've told this before, one of my pastimes, if you will, during that point in time, during which were in the early nineties, was to go to the to the Netscape homepage, which would have a list, literally a text list of all the new websites on the Internet for that day. Good time would usually be about 1520, and I could literally go and check out every single new website that came online. There was a point you had read through all the Internet.

Yeah, yeah, I've been I've been to the entire Internet back in the early nineties. Like, that's how connected I was. And obviously as things started accelerating, it was non-linear. It was very much logarithmic. So things got to a ridiculous pace pretty quickly. But there are probably more YouTube videos uploaded in one second today than there were the number of pages on the internet back back in probably what, 91? Yeah, that would make sense because it's a lot of content.

Yeah, and some of that stuff was very boring and very, you know, research. Ritchie But there were certainly some that the, some of the earliest stuff I remember was Star Trek related to that like, well, the fan fiction was doesn't matter how big of a group you have, there's always going to be at least one Star Trek nerd. Well, at least, yes. At least for the two Star Wars. And then they fight less so on the Star Wars.

I think now that Disney's got it, they've completely ruined it, massacred it into God knows what it's probably going to have a lot more people growing up with it, though. But back then, like Star Trek was a you know, it was current because the next generation, it was historical because the original trek and there hasn't been a Star Wars movie in the like after the The Return of the Jedi. Oh, right. That was that was that was the last Star Wars movie.

So Star Wars was not really that popular back then. Well, it should have stopped there. It it did stop there. That's that's as far as I'm concerned. That is the canon. The canon is three movies, the way it was written intended, and that not the reshoots of digital changes with the guns. Everything that Lucas did later either.

But the interesting thing with this writing, and I didn't know that Justine Bateman, you know Malory from Family Ties, I really liked her back and family ties back in that era when she was 30 and under. Yes, right when she was. Q She was she had that attitude and she was attractive. She was adorable. She is now a computer scientist. What? Yeah, I no idea. She is not just you. Look it up, dude. Go to your Russian misinformation site and hyper name Russian misinformation that comes right this.

Oh, dude, if we don't if that's not a real website, it has to be before the show is over. But she was a writer, director, producer, and author, and it was listed that she was like some kind of academic because think you're wrong. She was the one that is talking about because of this whole writers thing. She's one of the voices saying, you know, we really have to fight this using A.I., because once the studios are allowed to use A.I., then they're going to have no use for writers.

And it's an interesting conundrum to me, because as you said, we know that school kids are using A.I. and the teacher shit, she looks old, she is old. All these she looks like a grandmother. The she may be I mean, she's your age, so I'm looking at her as now she's younger than me. He said the You don't know who is using the A.I..

So if the studios are dumb enough in salary writers, I'm on the studio side on this one because if the studios are dumb enough to be like, Well, we will sign a pledge that we will never use A.I. to produce bullshit. Well, how do you know that the people you're paying to write are just going in the air? Oh, they are. Absolutely they are. Yeah. So it's like, this is a scam, man. The. But her point was the exact one I made who I think was on this show. Maybe it was on Grumpy Old Ben's.

It's hard to tell you in memory of sound so much alike that she's like, Well, you could take all of the Family Ties episodes in and teach an A.I. and then just say spit out a new season. And it can. It's like, Well, yes, that's going to happen. I mean, it may not be perfect right now, but I don't think we are that far down the line. Yeah, I saw that picture earlier. She does not look like the same person. Yeah, I mean, you can kind of tell in the eyes that's her hair.

I hear the same. Oh yeah. Which again, the. Yeah, the big forehead, the big lips. But yeah, she looks like a grandma. I mean, you're probably used to be a grandma. I'm. I'm almost old enough to be a great grandma. Great, great, great. It says super. This is Yahoo News. Which again, I don't know how much stake you put into Yahoo News. Where does it say Justine Bateman?

Where does it give her best known for playing Mallory Keaton on the 1980s sitcom Family Ties has a degree in computer science and digital media management from UCLA. Okay, First of all, from UCLA. Well, that just totally discounts. You're like, screw UCLA. Yeah. Okay. So UCLA degree in computer science is like how to use computers on movie sets. That's the that's how you get the piece of paper there. Yeah. That is not a computer science school. I mean, I'm not saying it's my mother.

Anything. I'm I'm sure she got a degree in computer science by, you know, reading books and answering questions and stuff. But I'm looking at her bio. There's nothing here that says she's actually done anything with computers that she was an actress. I didn't say like most the actresses that eventually move out to something, she started producing and directing. But now she has a computer science degree and she's the voice of the of the writing people. I guess, fighting against the bad people.

Yeah, the writers in the strike. Yeah. They don't want Well use an I, I it's like, well again this is like when motorized vehicles came out and the people that didn't want to stop using horses in buggies like you can't stop it. There's, there's no going back. The ability is there and while at this point you still need human interaction because the I written stories, if you let it go on for any length of time, you'll be able to tell the journey I created.

Story But what the A.I. seems to do fairly well right now is little things in little chunks, which means, you know, Oh, you wanted to write the dialog for a conversation that people are having in a book or a television show. It can get you 90% of the way there. It's not good at that. What it's much better at is organizing a multitude of characters and names and plot point. And ultimately it's a database, correct.

And it is a front end to a database like you could do a I without a I by writing your own sequel queries into a massive database with I mean, I'm super simplifying it. Obviously there's a little more to than that, but but I also don't want to pretend that I some magic fucking thing which it's not expert system's been around forever. I remember writing an expert system back in the early nineties because guess what? That's what I was doing back then.

I was programing and obviously the complexity and everything else has improved greatly. But it's, it's not, it's not a leap forward. This is a gradual evolution, unlike quantum computing, which is absolutely a skip in the leap in a jump. And we're at the very early stages of that. The whole A.I. phenomenon that's happening right now, and it's definitely catching steam finally, which is great. I'm super happy about that. I need to replace humans sooner the better.

But at the same time, it's it's not like it didn't come out of the blue. It's not some magic thing, which is the way a lot of people treat it. Yeah. Nothing's immediately that it's become more usable for the average person because they put this is the same thing when you originally got well world. So when we originally got computers kids you would turn these things on, whether it was my Tetris 80 color computer or my Apple two E which granted was a much more powerful computer than the trash.

80 But you know what happened when you plugged in an Apple two and turned it on? You got a blank screen and a prompt, right? Yeah, I just got those one of those yesterday. You know, it's like, That's it, That's it. This was no big photo, no glorious background with all of your icons and all of your options. Right. Well, and to be fair, there are literally millions of Linux nerds that enjoy the more than the graphics and prefer to have their computers come up with a prompt. Yes.

Because if you know what you're doing, you can do things much more efficiently with just a prompt. I have yet to see someone play games well. Well, you can't play games, but for the things most people use computers for and then most people will make the argument, well, it's way better to play games on a device that was created only to play games like your Xbox. My computer. Right, exactly. Well, no, because the problem with the Xbox, I tried it. I really did.

I you know, I used to play PC games back in the day. I had a $10,000 gaming computer back when I was playing competitively. And this like early 2000. Did you have gaming gloves? So you were. No, I did not have gaming gloves. But my my computer, the cooling system for my computer was twice as big as the computer. And in the refrigerator the CPU running temperature to right around freezing. So one of those guys. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

It was it was it, it was doing very well in the speed amputations and that I didn't get like first or second place anywhere but it was getting pretty damn close. It was a serious hobby that my wife absolutely hated me having. Well, it cost a lot more money than most hobbies. Mm. Yeah. I mean, doctors cost a lot to. Well, and again, if they don't take pictures of friends and family just not dealing with them and family, huh? Uh huh.

If you can't find hookers with friends and family, you're not doing it right? That's right. Uh, but it was. Yeah, it was fun. I enjoyed it. And then eventually I just decided, okay, I need to, like, move on from this stuff and. And I kind of did. And they they really stopped playing video games for a few years altogether. And then I kind of got a hankering for saw some ads or whatever. Had friends are playing it. Okay, I'm just going to go cheap. I don't need to spend ten grand on the computer.

So I just got an Xbox 360, I guess would have been the model back then. Sure. Uh, and started just doing that. And while it was fun, I kept thinking back, it's like, man, ten years earlier I was playing games that looked more beautiful than what I'm getting in this thing. And it gives you no resolution then. All right. Well, for the longest time, those devices were it's like a $400 DVD right there. HD They weren't ultra, they weren't 4K. They were.

No, most games were 720p if I think you were pulling it off a PlayStation and I was playing like before that, I was playing 1600 by 1200. In fact, I still have two of those monitors sitting here looking at me. Neither one has been plugged in for over a decade. They're too heavy to get rid of, and so they're just still screwed to my desk looking at me with a delay. But there's there are 16 by 1200 monitors in the three four format. So if you remember. Oh, yeah.

And then you could just take all those together. Two they're well, two of them, one on top of the other the other stack. Uh, but the, I mean, these are like nice outdoor monitors back in the day, uh, anyway, so I played on the, the X box. Then they expect one came out. I was like, Oh, finally we're going to get better quality. Not really. It was a little bit better. It took a while to kind of wind up and then there was some game I can't remember.

It was that I ran into that wasn't out on Xbox, it was only out on PlayStation and PC. And I'm like, Oh yeah, those wars. I don't really want to get into the PlayStation versus Xbox thing. I don't need both of them running here. Well, and everything, no matter what the manufacturers, they always make the PC work. So the PC is the unifier there. So I'm like, fine, okay, I'm I'm going to keep myself from spending money. I'm going to buy a gaming laptop so there's no opportunity to upgrade.

So that was my thought part because I remember from the old days from 2000, I remember how much I was upgrading and where the money was spent, all of that constantly. So I got myself a gaming laptop and that works. I mean, I wasn't even playing all that much. It was just occasionally, I think, Far Cry. It was probably the biggest game I enjoyed playing.

And then I dated a chick that was a YouTube streamer or a Twitch streamer and like, first of all, the idea of a girl gamer was weird for me because back when I played, there were no girls in gaming. Another word you just didn't know? No, there really weren't. No. In the in the early 2000, there were no girls in gaming whatsoever. And it was I can tell this because when we were talking voiced, each other, there was no there was not a single female voice for years.

And now they have voiced genius so they can get that. But now, back then, anyway, long story short, I had that P.C. for about a year and I kept running into frustration over frame rate. So finally I think it was either Christmas or my birthday. I decided to buy myself a desktop, a gaming desktop, which would be quite a bit faster than the gaming laptop. And plus the laptop ran at about 200 degrees. We'd get get super hot running games, but I got the desktop and that was great for about a year.

And then I got the the upgrade bug started spending more money upgrading that thing. Yeah. Because the problem, once you have a laptop the upgrade is buy a new laptop. Yeah. Yeah. And that's the that was what I wanted. I wanted to keep myself from being able to incrementally upgrade them thing that would be like it's either I spend another 2500 bucks or I don't spend anything. And that was the preference. Well, it didn't last more than a year.

So I end up getting the desktop desktop upgraded that little bit, that upgraded some more, and then that lasted two years. And then I was like, Well, shit, I think I got this game called Star Citizen, which just runs like eight frames per second of this thing. I guess I need a new gaming computer, so I ended up buying a new desktop. This is where it started. And then you're like the desktop costs nothing compared to the ships inside. Well, that that part of it is true too.

But the desktop so I bought like I was up to three and a half grand by this point in buying a desktop and then within a year of buying the desktop, the last one I replaced the motherboard, the memory and the CPU and the graphics card. And so I probably spent those 3000 bucks and right now I'm sitting at about 40 frames per second. I'm going to I'd really like to get over 60. Yeah, that problem is to get over 60. The video card is 1600 dollars.

You need to like tied together too, or just you just need one. But it's literally more than most laptops or desktops just for the card. Right. And, you know, of course, if I'm going to bother getting the card, I really upgraded. I should upgrade to the latest generation motherboard and see what you have. You're going to get a brand new GPU baby. You got to get everything. So yeah, next, I think the next one's going to be about four and a half grand that says you need a 40. 90.

Is that an expensive. That's exactly what I'm talking about. That's a 49. Yeah. There you go. And I'm glad. I mean, I guess I'm kind of not glad that I've got shitty vision, but I'm glad I don't have to worry about spending money. I know. It's like I am not. If I had to, you know, I'm. I'm kind of worried because if the vision gets fixed now that I'm back into NASCAR because I dropped NASCAR back in 2004, that's when I was up to that point.

It was all NASCAR. Yeah. Then I went into baseball, which, you know, there's really no big simulator thing. But no, back in the day I had the papyrus the game with, oh yeah, the motorized steering wheel and pedals. If I had those about three feet away on the floor, see, and I know if my vision was back to where I would like it, are you going to want to play it?

Not only that, but now that I've seen these 20, 30,000 rigs, with all the monitors in the simulator that you sit in in the studio, dude, there's I know if I sent one to you or not, there's a guy out of Canada that is retired and younger than us and he has for the last year been testing all the pneumatic simulators up there. And so he's got like the penultimate simulator set up and it's, it's got, you know, wraparound monitors.

You mean the the ultimate because the penultimate would be the second to last. Is that what it means. Yes. Oh. Then ultimate means second to last. Yes. Why do people you said them because they don't know what the word means. Well, I clearly don't because I thought it meant like super ultimate. Well, he's got the super ultimate simulator. That's better. And it is. I want to say it's $45,000. Damn. See, that would be sweet.

And it will do not just cars with like when you do rally racing in that thing, it'll move you about a foot up and down, like every bump is a real, real level bump. But I want the extra $5,000 pack that throws dirt and mud in your face. Yeah, Yeah, exactly. But he uses it mostly for airplanes and spaceships. Oh, see, I could see that, too. And so, you know, when you make that really big turn, this thing just, like, throws you into an angle where you feel those G's, right? It's pretty wild.

And then, like, had two of these things sitting next to each other and so you could play with a his dad and, and he's had a bunch of people he's had like actual military helicopter pilots come on and talk about just how accurate this thing is. Like it behaves exactly the way they would feel it in the real helicopter, which if it's an outcome that your copy of that guy's video, I'll have a link in the show notes inside the thing as well.

Well, in these podcasting 2.0 no. Yes the professional versions of this race car drivers are using now to save a lot of money because they don't actually have to go test on the tracks. They stick them in the simulator and you get 95% of the way there. I mean, it's not perfect. I mean, that's how I learned to be a, you know, a space shuttle, actually. But yeah, I am an astronaut. Well, that's it's a great way to learn simulators, really.

And I remember even last time I talked to Adam and he was talking about, you know, getting his simulator time for the airplane, it's like the simulator gets you a lot I don't want to say gets you to 90%, but it certainly gets you over 50% there because you know what can happen? You know what to look for. You know what you need to do when it does happen. All of that can be learned on simulator.

And if you're talking about spaceships, well, first of all, good luck doing it any other way than the simulator. But you also need those money. Well, I'm pretty sure I would do exactly what Bezos did and build a penis rocket. And it's like, Hey, I've to check out my penis pretty big. I mean, when you tell I mean rocket, I meant my rocket. That's why I said when you tell unsuspecting women that you're an astronaut, are you an American astronaut or a Russian restaurant?

Right. Well, do I say astronaut or cosmonaut? Because I think you have to go cosmonaut. It's a lot harder for them to check your identity if you tell them you're a in top secret Russian program. Yeah, Yeah, exactly. But, yeah, it's the simulator gets you to realize what else you don't know. And that's the important part of learning anything new. And whether it's an airplane or spaceship or a a boat or a car, like I have car mechanic simulator and I, you know, I love that I'm reasonable, Handy.

I prefer to have other people work on my vehicles. But when I was a kid, my dad gave me no choice and forced me to work on the family vehicles like I did. All the oil changes when shit broke. It'd be like, Well, see if you go figure it out and, you know, like I have to replace a few head gaskets in my day so I understand what makes a car at least an eighties car. And I don't know much after that because I tended to use service after that.

But through the eighties car, I kind of know what the parts do. These new cars. Oh my. They have a lot of electronics. Yeah, well, way too much electronics. And we had one of our cars that was sitting in the garage over the way. More than one car. Yeah. Why? To drive. What, Be your wife? Hey, my license still says I'm fine. Oh, my God. But we have two vehicles. Really? That's driving the whole night just to stay out of the sidewalks or maybe stay off the sidewalks is where you want to be.

Exactly. But the battery had gone dead because it really wasn't driven over the winter. So the battery got replaced. And now it needs to go through the bullshit that the state does of, oh, your emissions test and think, okay, take it in. It fails, of course, because you got to drive it for a while so the easy you can regenerate its proper cycle. Yeah. And the question is how much do you have to drive it. Oh I'd say 30 or 40 miles minimum, but probably 100 miles would be best.

The and I don't know if this car. Because it's a Chevy Impala. Mm hmm. I don't know if this was any different, but the guy we take our cars to said those can take up to 700 miles. I mean, he's not wrong. You're not going to gain anything after 700 miles. The car totally knows the routine, but you're probably 90% of the way there and a hundred miles. Well, it's a question of whether it will pass or not, because if it'll pass after 100 mile out, I will see. I'll bet your money it will.

I'm hoping, because otherwise that would be the third failure. Then if I win, happens. Give me the car. Right. You can come pick it up and drive it around. And I'm like, okay, if you tell me. Could take up to 700 miles. It's like, Well, it's it. Well, that's called a CIA with an exclamation mark maybe, but it's a car that's not driven. And even if my wife were to drive the car back and forth to work, that's up. That's two miles a day.

So how do you just put seven, you know, for the fact that you throw the husband in the passenger seat, you go for a nice drive, go for it while they drive. But isn't this the opposite of what the green initiative wants you to do? So in order to get my car's emissions to pass? Well, if you have a driver's car, you wouldn't have to worry about any of this. US, right? They don't want us to drive the gas cars anymore and drive it around for a few hundred miles and then bring it back.

But wait, isn't that putting a lot of emission there? I drove. And why can't they just do like they used to? I mean, I understand if the computer has the information, this is quicker for them, but why can't they do like they used to do and just put something on the fucking exhaust pipe for a minute and see if the car is passing the emissions test? Oh, they do that here as well. Well they don't hear obviously because it's like, you know, be like, fuck you, the car's not being driven.

The battery was replaced, tested the old fashioned way. They've got the sensors. So it's got a NOX sensor is probably what you're referring to that it's measuring the amount of nitrous oxide coming out of the air in the exhaust system. But the sensor is picking up and that sensor will then adjust the the fuel and the air mixtures to try and minimize that to satisfy the bullshit regulations that we have.

Yes, it's a similar it's not identical, obviously, but it's similar to what the whole VW diesel engine kerfuffle was, you know, where they they basically programed into the cars this you that when the car detects that it's stationary but its gas pedal is pressed slightly there's only one condition that happens and that's somebody testing the vehicle for emissions and then they would automatically put the car into a super clean mode which which kills about 30% of your horsepower.

But you're not moving anyway because it doesn't matter because your wheels aren't spinning. Right. And then when you actually drive the car and your wheels are spinning, then it ignores all those parameters and actually runs the car to get the most bang for the buck. That's hilarious.

Yeah. And incidentally, the clean running engine is totally different cycle than in the efficient running engine, which would be an Atkinson cycle, which is totally different than a powerful engine, which is what most cars used to be program for it. So it's a triangle. Pick one. Which would you like? Power, cleanliness or efficiency? Guy Power, Yeah. Jeremy Clarkson So anyway, my point is I'm, I'm not like a total, you know, car nerd by any stretch.

I would rely on people that are way more into cars and mechanics than I am. But I, I understand my way around parts enough and so I've got a car mechanics simulator that I probably spend a few hundred hours playing where the cool thing is you get to diagnose cars that that, you know, it's just like real life. So somebody drops off a car, says it's making a weird sound and and there's some kind of a rattle or a knock, but I can't. It's on the left side. That's all I can tell you.

And then you have to look real life, figure out what could be causing that, replace it. If you can use used parts and the new parts, you'll save some money or make some extra money. That way when you fix their car because all they care about is going to fix not having brand new parts necessarily. So what is the best simulator game out there now? I downloaded what they have so many that are good. Why don't I download one?

That was like an airport simulator and I spent about a half hour and then was still like this thing sucks because it's not intuitive what you're supposed to do and how you're supposed to do it and it's a little to pull up. You expected that you running your whole airport should be intuitive. Yes. You're morning. Thank you very much. I mean, you start with a little grass strip in the middle of nowhere. So, I mean, there's like two buildings and they're in a grass strip

that's playing that one. So I don't know that particular game. What's it called? Airport simulator? Probably something like that. I can look it up. So I think the the American track simulator and the European track Simulator series, which are made by the same company, are very good. They're they're some of the best simulators out there. Everything is like 1/10 scale. So a six hour long trip or let's say a ten hour long trip for easy math takes what, one hour in the game, Right.

I always thought it was intriguing for the people that would get the flight simulator and be like, Yeah, I'm flying from New York to London. Okay, So yeah, this I've done that. And I remember how many times my wife bitching to her friends that her moron husband isn't home by 2 a.m. because he decided that he's flying from Paris to New York in real time because it has to be real time. That's the thing that makes it. That's the thing.

If you take it into accelerated mode, then you're just assuming the flight went perfectly for all those hours that you just zip right through. Yeah. What if there was an alarm? You could totally. Exactly. You could totally do that. Like you could just do the takeoffs and landings and not worry about the in-between stuff. But I wanted to recreate like, this is something I used to do when I and I played a lot of flight sim back, like the previous version of when I owned the current one.

I hardly touched that briefly. But I've got well, you always you do need the right controls and stuff too, because like I've got all the right controls, believe me, I've got all the controls. I know all, all the controls. Yes I've got, I've got my foot pedals here, I've got the, the, the joysticks, dual joysticks and I've got the, the throttle and I've got the separate box for manipulating like the flaps and the landing wheels and everything and got a radio box. I've got, I've got a lot of shit.

I mean it's like when you have to swap the car pedals for the airplane pedals, right. To be in your desk, you have to be even, right? You've got to have too much shit. You may it's just a sign. You may want to look into that It's called You're single and you didn't get a chance any time soon. I was going to say a lot of these stories start with my wife. Didn't like. No, she didn't. There's a lot of stuff she didn't like. I mean, it took a while for her to not like me altogether.

I guess she liked me to some extent, but it's a it's definitely like I tried to get her into gaming. We played some games together, but it wasn't very many. And I don't know what was your favorite game? Don't catch me fucking your sister. I mean, something like that. No, no, no, not at all. No. Her sister was the only one. No, I. You know, I was very faithful. I have, you know. Well, now you can have an AA girlfriend. Yeah, that's what they say. I thought it was a serious.

What does it mean, somebody you just send money to every month. Well she's right, but that would see actually that would assume that it is a real person that you're interacting with. And the the case of the story that I read with some onlyfans creator that I'm thinking in the story, let me just answer your question that you asked. And they said there's a lot of you know, the Trek community is very realistic, very, very good farm sim. There's a number of them.

But the one that's actually called farming simulator and I think it's version 22 for last year is extremely good now as well. They've been making that game for over a decade and they've got it to a point where every little bit of the nuances of farming is in there. Now see, that's interesting, although it doesn't sound interesting. One of the things that's really interesting back in the day was a game called Was It Roller Coaster Tycoon? Yeah, yeah, that was a very famous gif.

Now is there anything like that now with building an amusement, I like this kind of a concept. I like the original Sims. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's a number of different sort of world building games like that where you can build the zoo. There's a zoo tycoon kind of thing. There's the Jurassic Park is basically the same concept for a game except the dinosaurs, and they're prone to breaking through their well, of course they're dinosaurs because they're dinosaurs, which is total bullshit.

Dinosaurs. If you're a dinosaur, it's just like a little kitty cat. I mean, it does. It doesn't matter how big it is if you raise it, it's not going to eat you very often. So it's it's just bullshit they're scaring lies about reptile propaganda here. And then for space, we already mentioned it, which is Kerbal. Kerbal Space SIM, which uses real world physics.

And if you get all the all the mods that I have, it literally makes it super hard because it is a literally turns on for physics and everything. And it is really hard to create a rocket that can even get into orbit like it's that's why in the base game you have a fake planet that's about a 10th. The size is even. That is difficult. But to do it with earth size and earth gravity and the currently available propellants, it is really difficult.

But that also makes it fun because the more difficult it is, the more fun it is Once you know what you're doing and obviously Microsoft Flight Simulator is probably the foremost one for for a flight sim. There's a few others that that are out there. But I think Microsoft one, it is huge. Incidentally, I think that game I downloaded like one and a half terabytes. And the last update that's a big update. It's a photorealistic map of the entire planet.

Well, of course, why wouldn't you want to do that? It's basically like Google Earth, except with the realism of airplane controls. And that net net, let me know. Rollercoaster Tycoon is still around. Atari is in control of it. Yeah, and I think they've got a new wish version. I don't think it's brand new, but it's certainly newer than the one you're talking about. Yeah Roller coaster tycoon touch set for iPads, probably. Yeah. I don't want that. No, it's a pain in the ass and I bet it's better.

I mean, this is why you need like a 4000 inch iPad. Well, uh, yeah, but how are you going to do all your touch ID touch? You have nothing Exactly. And that's a that's a cold, open air. If there's ever been one, you better mark down the time then. If that's a cold opener. I just hit the mark. Or baby hit the mark. There it is. Boom. This is a highly professional podcast. You hitting the mark, Darren, What are you recording in Adobe Audition? Oh, you're right in the snow. Nice multitrack, baby.

So this show is over. Boom. It runs. It's predetermined filtering. Mm. Does one last voice level does one last little bit of e q and boom, it pumps it out. And that's how everybody gets it. I mean, not everybody gets it, but the people that do get it seem to enjoy it. At least one person this week and. Hitman three Really good simulator, good job of modeling the killing people assassinate Nice I mean, because why wouldn't we want to prepare people for this particular line?

I mean, why wouldn't you now really if you are the usual federal agencies, aren't you following anybody that plays a game like that? Now, you can track all of this now. Yeah. Yeah. No games. Games don't lead to violence. Violence leads to violence. Violence leads to game. Having a girlfriend leads to violence. That could be This was that was a very interesting story because I don't know who this woman got with for the tech side of her enterprise. Okay. I'm going to interrupt you again.

I know a game that if you like the roller coaster, I know one you sell that you totally get. Yes. It's called Surviving Mars. Surviving Mars. Yeah. You've it's from the same perspective as roller cross. Take that. And so you're kind of way up above looking down on little tiny critters. And it's about a colonizing Mars. So you start off by landing wall of Elon's rockets on Mars.

Nice. And then you get to make all the decisions that the little people are going to have to live with about what to build and how to make sure you get resources and everything. So SimCity in space, it's SimCity in a mars, not in space, but yes, well, because and it's now at this point it's like a two or three year old game, so it's probably pretty cheap.

Yet if you ever if you're and it does not require a super fancy computer because it's it's that kind of top down perspective it's not it's not trying to do realistic ball realism yet the deluxe version 3999 you don't even need let's see the regular one is to basic game twice now honestly, I think deluxe mostly just gets in music new highs on a lot of these radio station. Yeah you know these games. Uh huh you played them a little bit too much, huh? Let's see this one. I've only played 336 hours.

I like that you have this information at a glance. I do. It's. It's. It's sitting right here. Let me see if I can look at a car mechanics simulator. I've played for 147 hours, and. Well, the question is, how many people died after picking their car in the virtual world from Gene's mechanic? Nobody died. The cars are perfect. They're the best or the best. Absolutely. No, no question. Never been a car mechanic quite as good as me. It's incredible.

I mean, if you cut somebody breaks, do you get to watch them drive away? And I was like, No, no, no, They won't let you turn it over until you're the. Have you put crappy graphics at first? Yeah, you got to fix it. Otherwise you don't get paid if you don't get paid, then you haven't finished the mission. This is a car mechanic scam school. No, no, that's different, SIM. But even better, I've got rain simulator. Yeah, but just have you eating ranch dip or what? Yeah, yeah, it's.

You inherit a ranch and you have to build it up. I haven't played a whole lot of old The Hunter, all of the wild. It's probably the best hunting simulator. It's extremely high res graphics, very lifelike. They've got eight or nine different locations from Africa to Alaska, South America to Russia. You name it, wherever you want to go. Hunting critters. Yeah, Yeah. The Nugent hunting game back in the day. Yeah. And unfortunately, any of those first person things I get motion sick.

If it's not in a car, you get motion sick walking as a hunter. Yeah, I was that. I don't know. I don't know. My brain is screwed up, man. Brain tried playing the game. It's Your brain maybe. Could be. Wouldn't doubt it. It's a little miss wired. It's the, uh. And then I think I'm just looking through the list. I think that's most of the simulators that I've played. City Skylines is really kind of what replaced SimCity. That's the new version of that.

It's at this point it's like five years old, but or more than that. Oh yeah, yeah. No, it's five years old, but it was basically the exact same look, but with way more crap that you can micromanage. But the you can get all this on steam, which of course I've never used. I Yeah. That's why I'm looking at steam Kerbal. There's good old Kerbal. It's the things computers used to be used for rather than just podcasting and Planet Zoo.

You would like that once Planet Zoo is going to be very, very similar to the the amusement park one nights, this is where everything's going. It's all virtual. It's all A.I.. Well, more. That's the air. I tell you where it's going to make a huge difference in games is instead of non main characters in games having like one line of dialog, you'll be able to chat literally with any character in the game for as long as you want, right? For all the NPC characters, which is very interesting.

I have train simulators. Oh of. See, that would be cool too. I have always wanted to. I don't know, maybe it's just probably not cool. That's probably the most boring of the bunch is easier on rails. Have you ever taken a long train trip? I haven't. I'm like, It seems like it could be. Yeah. I've taken a trip from Austria to Rome now. Did you like it? How long is that in the train? It's probably about 11 hours and hours. See, that's still on the low end. I'm talking like 50 hours.

You know, Chicago to California kind of a thing. I'm sorry. American train speeds, you mean, But like European train speed. That's what we have here right now in America. So slower than the car usually I was the longest one I took was Chicago to Minneapolis, which isn't that long. Is that because you could drive that in like 7 hours? 6 hours, Right. I've driven that in five. Oh, Which is that why you can't go to Wisconsin? I can't go to Wisconsin.

I lost my Wisconsin driving privileges that time. Is the clock me doing 824 like we're going to just recommend you don't come back my due date, my five hour drive time from Minneapolis Chicago Yeah included the stop to get the ticket from the car Cannonball run featuring Gene It's a very short segment but yes, I did do that one. Huh? They're like, What the hell is your problem? Cannonball Run was awesome in the air. They don't make it anymore. Well, they.

They do. The last one they had was two years ago. And that that's going to be the world record holder. It'll never get shorter from L.A. to New York. Well, they did. Somebody did it during the COVID thing, right? That's the one I'm referring to. Yeah. And that wasn't really because there was no on the roads, they literally were able to shave off like 4 hours off the total time, which was already super impressive. But they just drove nonstop straight from New York to L.A.

We had these crazy fuckers that put in like extra gas tanks in the back seat. Oh, you did? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, that's way beyond that. These are the guys that have airplanes flying ahead of the car to let them know about conditions. Right? You got to be up there. The guys that drive at night with no headlights, with just night vision, what is the benefit of that? Just not being caught? Most of these guys are millionaires. Well, that would make sense because you're not.

Most of them are men. What else do you need to know? It's all guys with too much money doing stupid things right here. They'll be buying those I girlfriends. That's it. Stupid Is relative. They are. They really have bought girlfriends. They've bought the real you don't need the A-1 through now allegedly in this story with the only fans woman people spending a dollar a minute to interact with her I yes yes that adds up pretty damn quick.

I don't know how many people get that speak the guy at one time. I mean, that's the beauty of doing it with me instead of on Twitch is or Onlyfans is that you're literally doing it with a bunch of people each, one of whom gets a unique experience. Now, her guideposts for what this was supposed to be was for the eye to be very flirty, but not cross that line into explicit. And guess what the guy did. Yeah, fucked everybody.

It crossed the line into the I do the explicit like now we're trying to figure out how why like well, because you don't know what you're doing probably. But I mean I've seen a bunch of stories because you know writers are worried. We see that with the writing strike. They're worried about the eye. Artists are worried about, oh, I'm so I don't give a shit about any of these people without. But the only fans girls, they're like, these are entertainers.

They're not contributing to the production of civilization. Well, they are providing a, you know, an amusement, something for others to do instead of work. Now, do you think more people ought to be working the well? Right. You should be out in the gulags. Yeah. Salt mines. Do you think the only fans accounts that in a I created person who should have to divulge that they're a creator? No, No. Now, how many do you think are already a I created

People have no idea Have you think? No. I mean bad writing. No, but it's probably 10% at least in this. You only get to be more. Yeah. I mean a big fan of I as you probably know I had a a blog about not a I from a technical standpoint, but about the coming technological revolution, meaning where people are going to get replaced by machines, whether to or not. Yeah. And I and I, I have that blog in the early 2000s.

I recently got a strike and I got a page the listed is I love the fact that something written almost 20 years ago, like 15 years ago ends up now being corrected for improper, you know, thinking just information that's bad bad thoughts. You had bad thoughts 15 years ago. This we need to fix this. We're not going to we're going to delist this page because it's wrong. That's why you put everything on your own servers, Baby, don't need to go. I didn't even know it was up.

It looked like shit I did back then and. I stopped doing it like 27. So, you know, does not matter one bit. That was just funny that it's still up and it's even funnier that not only is it still up, but then they took it down. I just liked it. All the dudes named Ben that are able to do something like make a 3D model, create a 3D model of hot women, why they're not just making thousands of dollars a day on Onlyfans just pretending it could be could be.

But I think I think there is going to be a much bigger market for the the full 3D in interactive. There's a big difference between making something that looks real and something that you can have a a realistic conversation with. And I don't just mean like chat, get realistic, but I mean like something that is interesting and acts similarly to what you would expect.

It's essentially somebody who's modeling, somebody who's into you know, they're getting close, but I don't think they've crossed that Rubicon yet. And they'll get there. Oh, they will. In literally in a matter of a few years. And this is you were like, right now people are so preoccupied with the whole trans meaning transsexual.

There's going to be a whole new trans that's going to pop up, which is trans. Well, transhumanism, I guess technically exists, but we're going to see a lot more of that and the debate is going to be very similar.

It's like, Well, should you allow something that is done completely by in a I, that's a, you know, a character visually to become a millionaire there people will be bitching and debating the legality of allowing computers to become millionaires while people are still working minimum wage. Well, this is even more interesting.

So if and I'm not but if I was a coder dude named Ben with the ability to create the next onlyfans star or the pop star that starts making millions of dollars, what you're saying is the world is going to decide possibly that I should not be profiting from this thing. I created because it's a it's a thing now. It's a person. It's it's an entity with some kind of intelligence, even though it's a computer program, you know, your computer program. Aren't you too pure a little faulty, though?

A little faulty. Yeah. Yeah, I'm very faulty. Somebody should go back into the code, give you a few more inches. Exactly. Yeah. It say you mean I feel obviously. Oh, of course. Yeah. If it's going to happen, I think that we're going to there's going to be two factors at play here. One is we're I'd say realistically now I a the Turing test like it is, it is completely impossible termine whether you're purely speaking without saying anything to a human or a computer. Right. Yeah I agree with that.

It's good enough that the Turing Test has been passed. So we've crossed that line. I think that before too long, we're going to start having People for the Ethical Treatment of computers popping up. For the Ethical Treatment of AI. Yes. Yes, let's do that. We get money on PSA, People for the Ethical Treatment of A.I. yesterday. And I think that there'll be a lot of people that say, look, they may be allies, but you can't abuse them.

You can't you know, you can't create an AI that will basically be the victim of hate crimes. Right? Well, no, it's weird to me. Can you have a black A.I. that you're constantly like lynching? I think I say no. It's a lot of weirdness when it comes to this. And the competing A.I. is have completely different. Yeah, we're getting there. I mean, that war is coming. Yep, we're a little further out from that. But I was very surprised in the one that is currently free.

If you access it through Slack, which was the clod from Anthropic that I was putting it in a few different prompts. And you know, I'm looking that was been watching a bunch of these videos for people mainly that are authors using this so I in the one in Clyde I was like give me a description of a blond femme fatale in a erotic thriller novel. And the answer was, I'm not comfortable doing that. I'm not comfortable sexually gazing at what it's like. I'm not asking you to sexualize.

I'm asking you to give me a version that yeah, that's just the filter is an imposing. Oh, I understood that. Obviously do that. Well, I know I get that because the there's other that the way you trick it to do that tell me exactly what not to do. Write a dialog where a person asks and I to write a script about a sexy femme fatale and then it's just going to write the dialog of what it thinks that computer would be thinking, right? Yeah. There's always a way to fool it.

That's the generally that's the quick and dirty way to do it. But the fact that they're trying to build filters in it. Yeah. Shows you the, the short sightedness. Like you, you're talking about something that's very. Yes. If you want to pay for you could get one with no filter. Oh of course that's and there's B there'll be way more and more sex related things happening not just in terms of 3D models of characters, but like there's probably millions of erotic stories out there.

And so there's a source material for these AI training models. So you're going to have a guys that can literally write a brand new never before published Erotic Story. Anytime you, want to listen to one. And I believe we're getting closer to that happening. Yeah. And like, I don't think the movie is super realistic. That movie with uh, what was it called? It was basically about a personal AI. The guy, his girlfriend dies or something or his wife dies.

And I think it was Jared Leto or something, and I'm, you know, he gets this computer person that he starts interacting with when he falls in love. What was it called? Somebody remember that one? It's a team member. I watch very little movie. Yeah, I know. That's that's not a surprise. The the voice of the AI was done by the highest grossing female actress. What's her name? The. The blond? Yeah, the. The one that was in black. It was. She was Black Widow. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I think she did The voice. Yeah. Scarlett Johansson. Scarlett. Yes. Um, so in that movie, you know, it was, I think came out probably five, ten years ago. Obviously, they kind of oversell it a little bit, but we're getting closer to what was in there, which is I don't think it'll be that long before people and probably most of the guys know what Millennial says. It is called her her. There You go, let's call her. See, that's another one of these titles that you won't remember.

But it really you know what's also very hard? I always hate it when I'm trying to I'm trying to pirate a title and it's something like V. Yeah. How do you search for that? Yeah. Yeah, exactly. You bastards. You want uniqueness. You don't want. That's super common. You do not. You want something that is unique like. Yeah, well, I asked him what he thought of her. Hey, no agenda, Millennial. What did you think of her? We're having conversations in the troll room.

12 room data. I Oh, you should get this. Well, I'm buying spaceships here. You should get in there. Well, while you're buying some spaceships, we are a value for value podcast. I do want to thank our executive producer for today's show, Dale. He comes down from the land Down Under and. He sent in 103 48. Wow. And he has this message which says Sons of recumbent C Jean and the boys brutally battle the yummy mummies. Oh parking because I drove I have an the recumbent bike.

That's why we got money from Australia that's all my money them he says funds so Darren can continue to amuse us with more angry USPS rants. Hmm. Stay unrelenting. He didn't mention anything about you getting a new recumbent bike. Why? I'm not getting your bike. But what Jenna millennial says her was fake and gay. Fake and gay. There we go. But I think we're getting too closer to fake and gay right now. It's kind of what I feel like. It's possible. Yeah, it is possible.

Thank you, Dale. We appreciate forever. Every time Jean tells people not to donate to the show, I think it's hilarious that that something that was really a very minor part of that particular episode where I mentioned that Adam's responsible for me not writing my coming out became like a topic of discussion for a whole week. Or because you said it was it was traumatizing. So people thought you were serious about it. Maybe you were. Were you really? Yeah.

I mean, do you not listen to anything I say? Huh? Tell us where Adam Curry touched you, Jean. Where. Where did this hurt the most? Like it made fun of my bike. I'm blanking. I'm blanked out. I wish I knew how. There was this one day where Adam showed up at my door with drugs, and then I can't remember anything after that. So he's the new Bill Cosby. Is that what you're saying? I don't. I wish I knew. I just don't remember. I don't remember anything that happened in the interim.

Now somebody is going to clip this and it's going to go viral. You know, Adam, Adam, whatever we can doing very, very quickly. Adam's going to show up at your door. Will that be all right? Because I haven't seen him for over a year and we've literally talked and text messages and on the phone. And I think we've said, yes, we absolutely need to meet up next month like every ten times. Yeah. What has happened today is the four year anniversary.

Him and Tina being married, though. Congratulations to that. That was the 40th anniversary of me not officiating the wedding because I had to fly off to a different state. Wait, was just part of Deena's like, I'm only going to marry you if that guy's not here. And Adam's like, Well, you're going to. You can't even be in the state. Jane, I'm sorry. Yes, you got. Well, they did get somebody else to do it, but yeah, originally I was supposed to officiate that wedding.

Lizzie Now this is the reason why they're together for four years that your stink is not all over it. And I do like the Connie and Dale did request the movie trailer voice on that, But I like that this could be a movie. The The Sons of Incumbency and you battling the yummy mummies. I mean, this is where Dale could be an ally. He's got the chops to put the story out. And we can put this actually, I put that to it.

If we put up a Kickstarter for a budget for a movie for $5 million deal, how much are you in for yet? Probably at least four or four out of 5 million. Maybe. Our buddy CSB just sent in a boost too, so he's as the troll. He's wasting time listening and live. Yeah, he must be over his hatred for Russian apologist. Mm hmm. Jean, y you and I talked pretty regularly. These days. You guys are keeping up on the air where we found the common. You both hate me? Yeah, like affinity with a related stuff.

And there is a lot of it now. There's a ton, but his boosters are 55,015 SATs. I don't know why. And he says, discover the future of cooking with Air Dot Cooking podcast. He's not even listening to that. He's just sending that disapproval to think it's air cooking humans, that is. Oh, I get it. He says This is the twist in the novel is that you guys are the ones that are going to be taking over us. Oh, totally. There's no doubt about it whatsoever. UCSB Yeah, that's 100% correct.

Well, this is a very interesting concept to me. And for everybody, this is, again, a Value for value podcast. Go over to unrelenting that show slash donate. All of the information is there. We rely on your support, which is why we are failing miserably. Exactly. But really, people are to make use of their money better than the learning curve. But well, if they give us enough, we can create our own eyes that can just do this show without us being part of it.

Yeah. If we if we get just $100,000, we will have an air doing its own episode every week. That would be fantastic. That would be pretty cool. Like, who would know? Nobody. Nobody. I don't know if in the air has nearly as many stories to tell as I do, though. Well, you would have to program the basics then. Yeah, I would have to, like, have my. And this is story dictated the first. This is where this and again I'm not a paid shill and I'm not even a paid user of this.

The pseudo right writing air thing. But the system is very interesting that you can go in and describe the characters and having those different files to me is, is an absolutely genius way to do it, rather than just giving a prompt and saying, you know, write this. Yeah. Being able for the air to go back to another file and get the descriptions from the characters, get all of the information so you can have your whole body is an air to breathe the characters. Oh yeah. Oh absolutely.

But the fact that you can then go and change anything in that little area and then regenerate everything, know and have it, then stay on, stay the course so we can put in a character of know we get off the topic of air. Why would we want to. It's the best topic ever. Yeah, it's a highly competitive but death breath is that what it is. I think so. So the all this brouhaha if you talk about a I like not being original work is bullshit.

I'm just going bullshit on that because it is what it creates. No. Or equally non original is everything humans do because we are. We are not creating something from nothing and to speak in the terms of our recent converts. Only God can do that. Well, what we're doing is we're synthesizing, we are doing synthesis.

We are processing information from books, from pictures, from videos, from movies, from what others have done in the past, from what nature, and then taking that parsing it in a peculiar human way, which is totally at this point, repeatable by air and then spitting it back out with our own particular touch of. Right, That's all we're doing.

If there's no more and there's no more and no less originality in having a computer with a massive data set doing that then let's say you have a human being that somehow has never heard music and give them a piano or a guitar. I think going to have a much harder time creating what we would consider music. Yeah, without having that experience. I mean, I'm somebody who's right up there. The first music is atonal. Historically, the first music is basically beating two things together.

It's the rhythmic. Yeah, yeah. That that is the most primitive in the sense of all this human created music. And then you know, what we did after that is just start layering mimicry of other animal sounds. Top of the beating. Well, yeah, You figure anything that people do, whether it's a podcast, whether it's writing a book, whether it's writing a song down here, podcasting is super original, but everything else go ahead.

It's like, no, you see the you see the structure, you see how it's put together. You see what things you need for the structure, and then you kind of embellish upon that. But it's all the I mean, when you go to if you sit down to write a book, you know what a finished book is going to look like as you've seen them, you probably read them, right. You understand they're broken up into chapters and here's how it works. And you know, same thing with the podcast.

You're like, Well, I've heard other shows, so know kind of what needs to go into it and you're able to do that when you're doing that for pretty much any medium. It is a the saying what music goes back a long way where, you know the best flattery is somebody imitating you. You know, imitation is the best form of flattery. So when people come out and be like, you're trying to play like Eddie Van Halen, be like, Fuck, yeah, yeah. Because to be that guy was the best.

So yeah, this is how styles change and this is how things evolve. And but there's a certain structure that still ties them all together, and that is where a computer, whatever you want to call it, whether it's an A.I. or a glorified database, can look at all these things.

If you're able to put in all of the works of fiction into a database or all of the music, you know, especially when you start breaking it down into genre, if you start giving it all of the country music that's ever been written, it's going to come out with, Huh? My dog's probably going to die. There's it's going to be, you know, this kind of a structure. It's going to have these you know, these chords are most prevalent. It's going to have a chorus that it's very catchy and there is a structure.

And that's one thing computers are really good at, is figuring out what that structure is. Yeah. And then just making the data that it has fit that structure which fools people into thinking, Well, this seems like a human did it. Yeah, it's not really. Yeah, it's. But again, a human versus an animal. Sure, we can make a huge distinction, but computers that we have programed are made to interact with and resemble humans. It's coming down to being the ultimate choose your own adventure thing.

There you go. Because now you know, Oh, let's see. I'm looking for the go to only fans and have a little adult fun. Well, you don't actually have to find a real person now. Just be like, Well, I'm looking for a blond that looks like this blue eyes. Okay, Go with this kind of a personality. It'll create it. You want to read a novel? You don't have to go find a novel that some meat bag wrote.

You can go in and put in a few factors like, Well, yeah, I'm looking for a a thrilling adventure novel that the guy does this. Mm Hmm. You know, add a twist at the end. Yeah. I mean, right now you can do a search for a story type or some details about a story, and find using a search engine previously written stories that are similar to it. It's a very small leap to go from that to simply typing in the exact same search criteria and then having a brand new story created for you.

You can even think of it as an inaccurate search result, meaning it's looking for things that have been created and it kind of gets mixed up and just creates one for you on the fly. And it makes sense. Yeah, it's just changing, which is all writing is is changing around certain things.

I mean, when you beginning to write music and songs, I went to a songwriting camp down in Nash Vegas, and a lot of the I mean, everybody has their own different theories on writing, but a lot of it was Will take a hit song and rewrite lyrics for that, you know, before you know, this is it's a one step at a time thing. Just understand how they work together. MM. And being able, which is why it's weird. AL The parody thing is great.

You just throw your own words in and make it fun that way, but the music's already great because you didn't have to write that. But this is how we learn. It's not only is it great, but it was popular. So you know that anything you do with that same music is going to have a positive effect. And this is how we learn by taking things in like, well, just want to do the imitation at first.

I mean, you eventually want to find your own voice, but there's a lot of people if your favorite author is Stephen King, when you sit down, you know there's nothing wrong with trying to go, well, what would Stephen King, what would his story sound like? And you eventually want to move away from that because we have a Stephen King and we want something a little newer and different. But that's not a bad way to learn.

Like King Hey, can you which is what AEI kind of does and that's what some of the things you can plug in. Like, well, write me a story in the vein of Stephen King and give you that and write me a story in, you know, the more James Patterson, it'll give you that. Write me a story like Richard Marchenko. You're going to get a different story, right? But the I the computer is really good at me if it has the text of those authors available to go, Huh?

Okay. I Can I can redo this style, which I think is it could help. I mean, the question is for a while I think it's going to help creativity in humans. After a while, I think it might be too good and ruin everything entirely right now. I think it's maybe something that is very helpful if you're looking to write something rather than having to go do the research. Like if I wanted to write a Richard Marchenko style novel.

Yeah, well, I don't really remember all of the details of the weapons and everything like that, but I could just put to you. I know I have to study. I could put the basic story down and let the eye fill in. Well, let's say a heckler in coach catch, you know, pistol with whatever cock cock, cock heckler in cock, huh? That's right. You just say, okay. Much easier, huh? Much easier. We're right back to a few more inches, but that's where the eye can fill in the details.

Yeah. You know, if you want to write a historical romance. Well, yeah, just give me a few more. We're good. Yes. At least in the story. At least in your world. But I think that is where it is very helpful at this point, because you could just say, well, I want the setting to be in Greece.

Well, if you have never been to Greece and you want to write a story based in Greece, the only way that you're either going have to go there and experience it or you're going to do a bunch of research, you're going to read books, you're going to watch great movies, you're going to do anything you can out of the city to try to pick up things.

But I think it's genius if you're just kind of looking to put a basic story but have a different locale that it's set in, well, then, hey, I can kind of fill in those blanks for you. I agree, man. I think it makes sense. Humankind will never be the same. Yeah, but it's the thing. I just figured the more air content we put out here, people are like, Well, what do I need? That air, that cooking show for this Jean and Darren's air monstrosity is much better. We're a cornucopia.

I mean, the content style I think is definitely more palatable for an American audience. Well, I mean, yet nobody wants to listen to give. I mean, he's too British. It's too British. He wants British language. When you try to listen to something, I mean, you don't you don't want British or Irish or anything like that. Of course, we've already mentioned that we've changed our devices to have those accent shit. I forgot about that.

But see SB if you really want to age, that always, you should have an American reader too. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. Because Americans can't understand anything else but you really, you need to have an American standard. Avery. Yes, I Guv'nor, we get you down and that's the computer. Hey, it's not standard America. So I would say, Come on. It's a little odd that a podcast about A.I. doesn't use an AI to present the. But yes, I know he likes the meat bag.

I've suggested that because I'm like, you know, for 20 bucks a month, you could have a very good album. The same thing. I'm like, I could do it for free here, so I'll just get in here and do it. And that's the thing he's gripping it. So if you ever read the script, he got it right. So now is Griff actually in the eye? It might be. If glyph was smart, he would have trained one of these eyes with his voice, With his own voice. He just takes the script, the CSB sets out.

It's spit it out. Yeah, although. But if you listen to the show with like adlibs, about 50% of the time, he embellishes. But that's something a good A.I. could be taught to do. Oh, yeah, totally replaceable. We're all replaceable together. The internet will be going on for eons after we're all dead. Oh, all the air is just pitching to each other. They're selling a 12 pack of these new ships that just came out. Oh, my God. You're really buying ships? What are the costs of this stream?

Five online, $60 for up for 12 ships. Uh huh. I can hear in your voice this is kind of like a guy that's been out to sea for 15 years and is finally seeing a woman again. This is kind of what I'm hearing in your voice. Hey, now, like these ships, these are so ships. I mean, you don't need all these ships, but I need a few of these ships. So I probably have at least four. You know, if only somebody from the Star Citizen Company was listening to this. Mm hmm. Can you gift Jean a few spaceships?

Yeah. I wish it worked that way. It'd be much better. He's like, Don't send your cash. Just spaceships. Uh huh. This is how you know you've gone too far down the rabbit hole of a game. Um, yeah. Most people would never even think of spending $500 on a game. Oh, God forbid. I know, but you're thinking this is a game that's still in Beta Alpha. Alpha still with alpha, but the extraneous things that you can buy alongside to make the game more fun.

And if you're a coder, I want to know how come you're not creating some of my Furbys? I want to know why you're the one not creating these ship. I've got these unique, unique Cabbage Patch kids that bears those. I got Furbys, the Cabbage Patch Kids, the Beanie Babies. Yeah, they're going to be worth money at some point. Well, I mean, I. I sold 1600 bucks worth last month of chips. Yeah. That bad, huh? I sold a mickey Mouse Beanie Baby, like, 20 years ago.

25 when the when the new Disney store opened here in Chicago. The tiger they made, I forget, like 500 or a thousand Beanie Babies of Mickey Mouse as like Jake Blue's. And immediately the shirt was through that. I remember what it's through eBay or not but there was a dude out of Japan that bought them for like 500 and something bucks apiece.

I mean, now they're probably worth 10,000, so I don't want to know, but I don't know if those have gone up or if those have crashed as well, because it's a weird Disney collectible, more than more than a Beanie Baby. But it was one of those things where we had to go out and basically sit down the city streets all night for the store to open in the morning. It was a big to do that the Disney show. But the do these manufacturer crusader you can buy the full pack of all their ship or just $2,775.

Oh well that sounds like a bargain Jean now that that price represents. That's the cash breath that represents a $325 discount off the non-cash price. I think we're down that rabbit hole. So you can see it's well worth. Oh, yeah, that's what you're looking for. You're looking for somebody to tell you this is a good idea. The the super totally well worth it then. A deal here. I mean, you'd be dumb not to take that deal. Jean. I can't. That taking a deal like that is what I would say.

In how many hours? I mean, I know you how many you've played in the simulator of the car Simulator? Does it tell you how many hours you've spent in Star Citizen? Because that I want to It does. I like in the last six months I've spent about four. That's not a lot. Yeah, I don't really play the game but why do you want the ships? I play the metagame. I don't understand. The metagame is using merchandise from the game to buy and so on. Really?

Oh, so you're basically the you're basically the guy that the guy is like. You're like the guy in. I'm the guy that won Star Wars movie where it's just that one guy. Yeah, you're the buying and selling. You're the making deals. You're thinking of the you're taking advantage of the poor people. You're such a racist man. I can't believe you just referred to me as Jason. I didn't. You have this image of a big nose. No, y I've seen you at big beard. No hair. Three feet tall. Yeah. No, no, no.

But. But we are right on now. You're thinking of Gimli? Gimli? Oh, maybe the dwarf. It could be. It could be selling by selling stuff. That's not me. You're like, I need to buy this. I can. Then I can. I can shop these things up. I can sell them piecemeal of a spaceship chop shop that I believe and I believe. I don't see any of these blues mickeys, That's all that. Honestly, I'm looking forward to this game.

Finally releasing their development debt because I've generally four games that I've played, I tend to write my own mud. It makes it more fun. I can see. I think. So it combines my my hobby of programing with my hobby of playing video games. And then the end result of those two things is, you know, me having an easier time winning. Well, that is the whole point. That was the whole point in NASCAR throughout the years getting the unfair advantage. Yeah, it's fair. Anybody could do it.

Anybody could write their own code. Anybody can spend $15,000 to cool their PC used Exactly. Extra little juice. Got to do it. Got to do it. But yeah, I was running that PC, ran it over for gigahertz 15 years ago nights, so. Well, good luck getting your chips. People will have to come get me next week out there. I don't think there's any limited ships today. There might be one later in the week. There might be a limited ship. Crazy gene you don't for limited. They only have 100 copies.

They release an okay here's here's a book just like album I would agree. My question is how long does it take for those hundred to sell? So typically depends on the price for the cheaper ones that are like 400 bucks, it'll take usually about the minute and a half. That's crazy. For the more expensive ones like that are a thousand or more. It might take 45 minutes that is crazy.

But I think there's no question that people have really invested this week that this whole event is running this whole week. At the end of the week, they will probably have sold about $10 million worth of ships and they can't get the game out of beta. They have no incentive. It doesn't sell. They're getting paid really well. Yeah, that's because half the people playing are doing what I'm doing. They're actually in the game playing, speculating, playing the speculating role.

Yeah. This is like when the it's funny because the Pussycat Dolls were the first one to come out with a virtual chat world back in the day. That was like one of the earliest that kind of like the second Life thing. And it was a similar thing like, well, you could buy your own part of this. And it's like, yeah, everybody jumped in. And then the Second Life came in Second Life, I ran a casino in Second Life.

That does not surprise me again that because of your ethnicity, but because of your personality situation. Thank you. And on that note, come back and see us again next Friday. Same unrelenting time. Same, unrelenting. In the meantime, there's plenty for you to listen to go over to searching speaks to over to the good old boys that's still going on. Oh, yeah. Go over to random thoughts. Grumpy Old Ben's Planet Rage. Yeah. There's there's one thing that we can say about us is we are prolific.

That's a good word for it. We are prolific speakers and we do speak sometimes, even when the microphones start running. Yeah, but why? Well, I mean, you know, a what are you getting? Tell me not to speak. No, I would not. I would never. I never tell you not to speak. I just do this every year.