070: Floating Goals

Yeah, it's called fucking racism. Yeah. Hello and welcome to episode number 77 zero of Unrelenting Friday, May 26, 2023 Memorial Day Weekend. Are you ready for the big holiday dream? Yeah, I prefer some big D, but sure, some big D. Well, it all depends. Everybody's got a different taste. That's what's fine. That's what's dandy. I'm here. And indeed, how are things, Darren? You are never Julia of the famous Russian. Never. Truly, I was. I was just arguing with CSB.

I'm making him take down all of his Dilbert posts Now I no agenda social because I. I informed him that it's illegal to repost other people's copyrighted materials. I know that. Wow. I mean, I. I then need to explain to him that all memes are also illegal when it comes down to the letter of the law means if somebody is going to prison for me and I was so recently in New York, I did not see that. Yeah. Yeah I think they were some Hillary means and the guy got a one year jail sentence.

Well, you see, this is a different thing. This isn't because he pissed off Hollywood. This was because Hillary Assassination Group was like, Well, you could be dead. Or maybe we'll slap on the wrist. Yeah. I mean, if you're using a an image of somebody without their permission, they can sue you and the president of the United States.

It's a very interesting thing that didn't Adam Sue a some Dutch magazine for using an image of his that he shot himself on a plane going back about a decade was just the oddity of photographs, is that the photographer owns the copyright for the photograph, but they do not own the likeness. So if you're a photographer and you happen to catch Taylor Swift walking down the street, you can't then take that photo and put it on merchandise because that's a different thing.

Oh, you could totally do that. As long as she's walking on the street and not inside her house. That's not true. That using a likeness of somebody not okay. I mean, you can try that if you want. And you can say all day long that you own the photograph, but you can't use it for merchandizing. I don't know. There's a case on this.

Just recently there was a case in in fact, Illinois, where communist Illinois, where a guy, a rapper had a an alarm system that had cameras all in this house, which was should in Illinois. Yes. And and, of course, the SWAT team totally invaded this house with no warrant and ended up walking around and eating his food and things like that. Well, when you get hungry, when you're on a raid, do I? I can see that and dance and, you know, within easy reach distance there.

And so what he did is he made a music video that featured the police activities. And then he also sold merchandise from that music video. But so it's his original music. It's his images of the police. And then, of course, people are supporting him by buying that stuff. Well, that would make and the police department sued him for unauthorized use of of their likenesses. He went to court and he won. The police lost.

What's again, probably something if you have a global brand, I mean, if the public will recognize you, it's probably a little different because I'm sure there's something and I don't know exactly do do. Well, I can tell you what you can't do is imply endorsement, right? You can't be like this is official Taylor Swift merchandise.

What you can say is, for example, is that, you know, some celebrity is why they even that's I was going to say you can say they hate your brand, but you can't really do that. Is that still implying something? But yeah, it's a different kind of endorsement. Like what would I benefit if this person hated me? Yes. Taylor Swift hates Bud Light. Yes. There you go. Yeah. Now you have it. Can't imply it, but you can certainly be an image that you you own the image.

It's just like if you do a painting of Taylor Swift, you can sell that painting. Yeah. In that pay dollars that I agree. If it's an individual thing, there's a lot of oddities to it because the whole industry of paparazzi is built on the idea that you can sell images of famous people. Yes. But you don't see those images on coffee mugs or all sorts of other kinds of merchandise. And I'm assuming there's a reason for that because those people probably have their likeness trademarked.

And I'm not even sure how you can do that, because now with a I world, we can make a slight change to any photograph and be like, Well, that's not the original photograph anymore. So that's that's this is something unique. This is a brand new creation that I've got, which I mean, not to go down this rabbit hole too far because I have not played with it at all.

But since we've been talking about the I stuff, Photoshop, the new beta version, which I have not downloaded, but when you and I no longer am subscribed. So yeah, you just go on to. Mm hmm. But the new feature that they're pimping when you load up Photoshop now they're suggesting, hey, download the beta and they show a photograph of just some rocks, you know, by an ocean or whatever it is.

And they're like, Well, now with a I and they show selecting an area of the photograph, you know, where there's a rock and they, you know, it's like generative. I and they type in lighthouse and a lighthouse appears. It's like, whoa, this is going to be ingrained into Photoshop. Yeah. So Photoshop app is really Photoshop at this point. Oh yeah. Well it always okay. Not always. Whenever know I started it was to make your photographs look better to tweak that.

Yes. Yes. The the tools that it has now for removing things from photographs, some of the stuff it does is absolutely excellent. This is just bizarre to me that it will go through there because they also have a service which this would no doubt increase people paying for their service for stock photographs where you could be like, Oh, no, I want this in my photo just in you just type in what you want and it magically appears so.

Oh yeah, we got, you know, a bunch of, like, Taylor Swift standing in my wedding. Exactly. Now, she could probably make a lot of money on that. Tom Hanks said he signed off on his images, like, I'm going to be starring in movies long after I'm dead. And that just seems so weird to me. Yeah, you might as well that right? Because, I mean, you're going to be dead at some points. You may as well take the money now and enjoy it, because here's the thing.

After you're dead, they're going to do it anyway. Do you think Marilyn Monroe signed off? She's showing up as an alien things. I mean, that's not been as advanced as they're getting to now. But this is already been done, you know, using somebody like this. But it's yeah, it's so the big thing is I just looked it up is the landmark which allows you to sue for any word, name, terms, similar combination thereof. That's likely to cause confusion. Right. And and all these things.

And in different states, each state has their own laws relating to this. But the basic idea, according to AA, is state by state laws dictate how a person's name like this can be used for commercial purposes without their consent. And it's predominantly protecting the of yes. Well, there's obviously something that strips a lot of those rights away from people that are in politics because, you know, Donald Trump didn't sign off on half the merchandise.

That was when I was at the the Trump rally, walking through the hucksters tents, the hugs. I like that. That's I think that's what they're called, Right. I mean, the kind that sell the t shirts at one washing. You will like the T-shirt go where it dissolves. It's the kind of stuff where the prices are $45 as you're walking into the event and $18 as you're walking out of the event, if not less. Yeah. Yeah. Or don't want to take 345 for a dollar. Come on. Yes. I didn't buy them thing, but

yes. And as I've been told, apparently both of us don't know English. We, we misuse words. Well, this is true. But you see words we've learned from the left are constantly evolving. And that's better. That's a good point. I guess so in the constantly evolving definition of penultimate probably doesn't mean what we think it means, but according to the dictionary, neither one of us was right. Right. It soon it'll change. I was right. It's the second to the last.

It's. Yes. Except that's not what you said. No, it is. It's the one before the last. No, it is. But it's not what you said in the episode. Really. What did I say here? So it's. It's the one before it was the one or the third before the Christmas. I think you said it was the fifth before the last. Oh, yeah. That was exactly. That would make a lot of sense. They have a term for that. I, I just thought it was like the best, but apparently I was totally right.

And really and yet people are amazed that I've been meeting them, Right. I'm like, Dude, that meant that I'm wrong all the time. It just happens very infrequently, right? So it doesn't seem like you've ever heard that before, but I wouldn't really would not even have sent my little red light radar alert up when you said it. If I do not, if I have not, if I was not watching reviews of all the audio gear and microphones that the great band Drew Scott does.

So he talks about the the one from the worst, the what when he does a microphone review, he almost always will show you a comparison. Well, let you hear a comparison, but you can see the microphone. But he demonstrated like five, six, ten different microphones and he goes down the line like, well, here's this one, here's this one. And now the penultimate. And he uses that for the one before the final. Otherwise it wouldn't. Most people don't use that word. So I think.

Andrew Scott for my literacy acumen when it comes to the word penultimate, and I think I'm like, Oh, okay, so when you said it, I'm like, No, no, no, that's wrong. I know that. Yeah. And I call you and make the show better, right? Yeah, exactly. So plus, people have to realize we, we record the show at like 4 a.m., right? So yeah, the, you know, the brain activity's barely there.

And I can tell you, because I do some writing when I throw those things into something like Grammarly, they're like, Well, you're better than 99% of the people that use this service. So for me, hey, I should look up his videos because he'd done a test of shotgun microphones. Yes. Oh, he is cool. He doesn't do a ton. That's not his main thing. But he has started getting into some of the shotguns as well. Yeah, well, because the YouTubers love the shotguns. Oh, totally do.

If you can't see a mike in frame, that's awesome. But I like seeing the mic, so I'm weird like that. You're really. You go, I know. Which is why it's like I shouldn't do video, but if you can get a good microphone like six inches away right outside of the camera, you can get good sound. You can, but I don't know, man. It's not the same, though. Yeah. I mean, they're usually have to treat your room. Well, what about all the guys that are using shotguns to film movies and TV shows?

Well, a lot of that is not in an area that is small and reverberant. Well, yeah, but you can. Well, okay, fair enough. But if the area is small and reverberant, you can fix that. Well, there are things that I use to take that out of audio. Some of the filters are better than others. Yeah, I mean, getting sound, observing material. Well, yes, that also helps.

I mean, that's why I noticed immediately when I started doing the podcast from the Office that I'm in now, because this room is only like 12 by ten or so, and you can hear a lot more of the reverb in this room than when I was doing it downstairs, podcasting in the basement, which is a much larger area. And maybe the drop ceilings help a little bit because I think that's a slightly absorbent material. Both rooms have carpet. So that's, you know, drop ceilings in the basement. Yeah. Oh, wow.

And the amount of reverb in the basement was a lot less. And I think that's because I was in the middle of a room and it was a much larger room because there's still no treatments or anything on the walls. It's still an overall a big square. But well, the biggest thing that that creates the reverberate motion that we typically think of is the corners. Yeah. So if you can just treat the corners themselves, you'll get rid of 90% of it. You want to soften everything.

Yeah. I mean it's, it's literally putting a pillow in each corner. Now if you want to buy one the, it's basically a more square squared off frame pillow but effectively it's a pillow. Right. And if it's, if you can get rid of those base strips or you put in the base straps that get rid of the base bouncing off the corners, that's the majority of what you really hear, what the mic picks up. The higher frequencies don't bounce around nearly as much. And you know, that's why there's a book.

Shelves are really good for this because even though they look like it's a nice big flat surface, they're not because all the books are slightly off. So things don't on paper is actually soft ish stuff. It and it won't bounce back. I mean, that's you're kind of just trying to break up like you wouldn't radar hitting an airplane. They're trying to go stealth. You want to kind of have it dissipate. Yeah, in different ways.

But this is why I've gone to using dynamic microphones, which help because they they take a lot to drive them. You have to sit right up on it, which a lot of people don't like. Yeah, but I one like the sound of that overall in two it helps with the reverb and I used to drive me nuts until maybe this has just gotten way worse. And it probably has with like the COVID era.

But watching things from the NASCAR pre-race show that's in the studio, watch, seeing a variety of news coverage and things like that, you're hearing a lot of really crappy audio in professional settings now. Yep. So it's like I'm still doing better than that. So I try not to be totally insane and like, I have to get rid of every little bit of that because then you kind of sound a little to NPR, like when it's which is the best. I do like that.

It's my favorite kind of audio where it's like the whole rest of the world when you have your earbuds in. Yeah. Or the whole rest of the world disappears and you can't hear any little reverberations or anything in the room. But it does. It's a kind of I remember somebody I think Adam might have been talking about, like those NPR booths, our million dollar booth. Like there are maybe 100,000, but they're super expensive. They're they're better than most commercial radio station.

Probably a commercial recording studios. I mean, that's you go in and everything just dies and you can build these things. And I thought about it and I'm like, okay, I don't want to be that crazy, but there's a company, what do they call these things? Like the little echo, the whisper booth or something? There's a company that basically has kits in different sizes.

Yeah, that you can create your own little rooms, and it's got the sound absorbing foam all the way around, you know, maybe a little window if you want to see somebody outside of the control desk. But I think that would be a little weird to be in a very small cocoon type thing when recording. I need depends how smart it I've got one of those portable kits that I bought and then I've never used that. That's no surprise. I know, right?

That folds up into, you know, kind of a flat ish thing and then unfolded. It's about an 18 by 18 by 18 cube where you put the microphone inside of it towards the back. And then it's your you know, it's basically just in front of your head and your chest. Yeah, I've got one of those, too. It's like it's very weird because you're like talking into a desert because I have to be looking at a screen most of the time if I'm doing a show.

I mean, I get not really this show, I guess, but it's it's weird when you're just looking at nothing but the mic itself and you can't see a damn thing other than that. Yes. And that, again, is to just try to break down the reverberations. And there's much better ways to do that. A lot of people buy those things and they think, you know, I'm living on a ground floor in Manhattan apartment and that's going to block the outer sound. It's not know how those things are all just about reverb.

Yeah, Yeah. And ultimately, I think that's like you mentioned by using the name Mike, it's the biggest effect because if I remember correctly, the the sound volume level is the increased by a factor of an exponent. It's like the square of distance. So if you get half the distance, so you get twice as close to your mike, the sound is like four times louder in the mike. I think I, you know, check on this guy. I don't remember, but I believe that's what it was.

So by getting really up close within an inch of the mic itself, you are significantly louder than any outside sounds. And therefore all those sounds are just below the the threshold of the microphone. Well, and then you add in a noise. Gabe Yeah, when you're quiet, it closes. It's like, oh, if it's, if it's under a certain amount of volume, it's just not going to come through anyway. Well, I don't even know if you need a noise gate below.

I mean, I barely hear any difference whether it's on or not. Like there's a very slight buzz and basically the fans on the computer, but it damn fans wanting to be cool. Yeah, there's not much other noise. And then what I ended up having to do, if you remember when you kept complaining about my microphone and then Adam when I interviewed him. So, yeah, you got, you got some ground loop issues. I'm like, What? You didn't believe me? But when The Godfather tells you, you jump, right? Right.

So, you know, when when a blind guy in a deaf guy tell me something then I got to take them with it. Right? If if they both agree, it might be something wrong. Yeah. And, and my solution, thankfully, worked great for that, which is to put one of those there. There are eight traps around the microphone table. Ryan memories is bullshit. Jean has no fans. Oh, that's harsh, man. Hardy I can't believe he's actually listening. That's amazing.

He's listening live and in the troll room available to troll radio. Yeah. So did you. Did you create some more fans by pissing off this, Vito? I don't know. Maybe it's possible. He always wants to complain about things. Well, he's very black and white. I know, but he didn't realize that he was doing the same thing. It's always the pot kettle situation, John, and it's the Internet. I don't know if people understand that. Every little bit that you post do something like Twitter or Instagram.

If you don't own that photo, you can't just take a photo from somewhere else and be like, Hey, look at this. That's technically illegal. That's all I do. I know you. You're a lawbreaker. But to be fair, you're in Moscow where they've said Western laws don't make any thing to us. No means nothing. Yeah, and see, this is how that I get a direct message from CSB saying so. Really, what country are you currently in? I told him I was in the internet spreading rumors. Man.

You're spreading rumors? Yeah. I'm in international waters. I take everything and I bounce it through, you know, an oil rig somewhere in the Gulf, somewhere way out to the only way to do it, the only way to be safe. You got to be on the road. You got to be just having fun. Well, this is like back in the day where I had a satellite phone through. You can't be tracked where you can be tracked, but, well, you could be tracked.

But the thing with satellite phones is the at least the old school ones is there is no G.P.S. data going through those lines. Now, the current generations all have that. But back in the day, if you're making that phone call, the the only thing that they would know is that you which side of the planet you're a that's a not easy to track based on that. No. And I wanted to know I had a YouTube video pop up and I'm like, this is weird because it's not like something I would ever watch.

Or I want to know if you had watched this video because I want to see if this theory was correct that I forget we're getting the same recommendation right? Because the last time I was like, Oh, I saw this weird thing and you're like, Oh, I watched that a week ago. Did you see a couple of guys doing a walk through of a $250 million penthouse apartment in New York? No. Okay. It was fabulous.

Let me tell you. Yeah. If I had an extra $250 million laying around, but honestly, if I had that much money, New York would be the last place I would spend it. I mean, really? Because why would you want to be in New York? No, you. And I mean, the only thing would be this place. It even had like a thousand.

It was a huge outdoor terrace with like big 12 foot, because you have to have the the glass around it because otherwise people would die because it was like 120 something storeys above the ground. And they're like, it's totally quiet, which would be really bizarre to be in New York and just be outside and be like, You can hear nothing. Or was this one of those then buildings? It wasn't super thin. It was central Park Tower or something like that.

Yeah, I think on the south side or the north side, they've got the really skinny buildings where what I mean by skinny is there. They look bizarre. Yes. Because they're they're basically one apartment per level. Right. And so the cool thing is, you know, they're basically all suites. But the the height of the building versus the outside dimensions just seems like that thing should follow.

Yeah. You're like, this doesn't when the wind blows and they show this on the top of this building, they have a huge machine that is kind of like a shock absorber. I was not even aware of this technology to help stabilize the building when you know, you have high winds or anything like that, that it kind of counteracts any of the forces on the building. And I'm like, that seems like a really good idea when you're up 140 storeys or whatever this thing was not that tall, is it?

I don't think we have buildings up, though. Yeah, no this was the penthouse was at the in that 120 is. I thought maybe it was three levels within the penthouse. I thought it got up to 130 storeys above. It was a very tall building in New York. It was, you building in New York is 104 floors. This was it Central Park something? Or what if it's all a residential building? But it was looking down on it.

They call it the billionaire's row because there was another one of those and it was a skinnier building next to it and it looked like nothing compared to this thing. Yeah, there's nothing here. Over 100. You don't think there's any buildings in New York? Central Park Tower 94th? Either that or they said stories over. Maybe the floors and stories are different. 75 million are town apartments. Uh, you see, the building rises 1550 feet with 98 above ground stories and three basement stories.

Yeah, 5050 feet is 98 stories. Well, they said they were on the 120 something floors, so that's. You got me. Somebody heard something wrong. I'm looking at the building itself, but they lied. Uh huh, Yeah. I didn't think. Then we have anything up, though. I mean, it is 1500 square feet. Those are 1500 feet. Does that. It's half a kilometer. Basically. Let's see, there is a listing for it. Yeah. In case anybody's looking for a look. No, I've got one for 75 million here.

I don't know where you're getting 200 million. 200? You just making up numbers? It is the Central Park Tower, Penthouse 217 West 57th Street, New York, 10019. It has 23 rooms, seven bedrooms, eight bathrooms, three half baths. It has 17,545 square feet. Your monthly taxes are $4,000. High square feet, 17,005 45. Oh, that's bigger than the one I'm looking at. This one's only 12,000 square feet. The 275 million. Your charges to live in the building are 29,000 and your monthly taxes are 40,000.

Now, have you seen a picture of this building? How can you call this not skinny? This is absolutely the skinny building. Well, I've seen skinnier. This is this looks like a normal high rise to me. It looked like one of the the ultra skinny ones. Really? Yeah. But it's a fairly impressive looking. They claim that this is the tallest residential penthouse or resident may have been tallest, highest residence in the country, which is possible. I mean, I don't know.

I don't normally follow these things. Yeah, I mean, it's interesting. It's the kind of stuff that you see in in TV shows like Billions, Right? Well, that was immediately I'm like, well, this would just be a great setting for so many different things. I mean, not if I had to pay for it, but for things that you could base on. That's exactly what I thought. Like a television series. It's neat, but it's so not worth the money. Well, no, of course not, because you're paying for the cost.

Small country for that money. Yes. You know, 27 foot ceilings when you get to something that high is, oh, let's got an indoor swimming pool. Well, see, that changes that for you, right? You're like, okay, maybe it's worth it. Your mortgage. So everybody out there, if you're looking for this and you need to be able to afford 1.4 million a month for your mortgage at a 6.9% interest rate with a 20% down payment, it does say Central Park Tower store. It says ten. So I should just tower.

Yeah, it is 131 stories it says it's not though I but I don't that's what it says isn't a story usually like ten feet. Wasn't that what a story used to be like or am I wrong? And it was built so 131 stories. This was built in 2019 and it's skinny, but it's not the skinniest building. It's an interesting marvel of it's pretty skinny. If anybody lives in one of these buildings, let us know. Yeah, that. Listen to this. Yeah. Good luck. That would be great, wouldn't it? Yeah, we'd like to.

We'll just come and do a show from there. That would be fun. As long as you can fly us out there with a private plane and we don't have to deal with the TSA. That would be perfect. I don't know how you get. I don't see anything. Is that 134th? I can send you the link to the listing for the home that says exactly that. I think they're probably doing kind of what you suggested, which is saying, well, if a typical building would be ten feet per floor, then our building is 154. Right?

That's where you would come out. That's not how fucking floor a floor has a button on the elevator unless it's the 13th floor. And sometimes that doesn't. Then it's bullshit too. I don't understand that. This out of all the floors, there's going to be at least 8% of the population. That isn't stupid enough to be the. What's the word? Superstitious. That's the word. Exactly. Superstitious. They're just regular stitches. And they would be just fine living there. Yeah, we're all eustatius people.

And I love that. You know, you're paying a mortgage of 1.5 million a month and they still list things like, Oh, the building has a doorman. Yeah, well, I fucking hope so. I hope it had a little more than that. I would hope you have your own doorman. Yes, exactly. Exactly. I mean, you even had your own private elevator for the three levels in your building, in your little. Right. So are those are they calling those three level six floors? Probably.

You can go up 14, maybe 15 floors in your own building, your own damn condo. Keep going up. Yeah. 131 stories. That is such bullshit. No, that is not true. I think you should buy the thing and then tell us how you can get it renamed to different levels. Or they're just considering. And I can understand this. Maybe you've got some of the base levels that you've got 20, 30 foot ceilings

like, well, that's only one technically, that's one level. Mm. But I don't know that how you get to the total, I don't really care. It was kind of impressive though. I mean it wasn't as impressive as that. And the other thing, I don't, I don't know how these things are connected, but did you two popped out a documents three on the, the original stealth plane from back in the sixties. It was what the SA 71 and that thing. Oh my God. That was an impressive piece of engineering for the sixties.

Yeah, everything's a lot less impressive these days. It seems that way. Like, why is that? I thought I was going to fix everything. All right, well, what kills humanity? Okay, here we go. It is a 98 storey building, that of which the top floor is numbered 136. Why? Or how or where is this information? I don't. That's because they don't just skip the 13th floor. Apparently they skip every 13. No, it is a 98th floor building with 36 stories.

So what do you mean every 13 like is 20 something like that? No, I just made that part up. That's not that's not what it actually says on Wikipedia. But it does say that it's 90 a minute stories of which the top is numbered. 136. Do you like why? That's called marketing, man. That's marketing. Because not only not only is it the tallest building that you can have an apartment an even taller than Trump Plaza, I might add. Well, that means Trump's going to have to get bigger.

I know, right? Go big or go home. But it also has a higher floor number than the Burj Khalifa. So this live on 136th floor. Take that everybody else. But we can put a different number sticker on here. Yeah, yeah. We're going to call this one one little flop. Maybe they just have some very floors that early, like five inches high. Well, I remember watching a movie about that. Uh, you remember the Being John Malkovich? Yes. Oh, we had that. We were in the seven a half floor or whatever it was.

All right with Cusack in it. Yeah. That was a great movie. It was a kooky movie, was trippy. Yeah, very trippy. Where everybody acts with just a total straight face. Like everything that seems bizarre in the characters in the movie. Just take it for what it is like. Nothing's out of place. Nope. Like you have a floor between two floors. That's half right. Uh huh. That's how you that's written 31 stories, apparently. Uh huh. You're listening to the Seinfeld of podcasts.

Unrelenting that show. That's right. Now, technically speaking, you're saying we're not allowed to use Seinfeld to advertise. So I would never say that. I'm just saying it's a it's a comparison as as we've been told by others, I have referred to this show as the Seinfeld of both. Yeah. Yeah. It's been called the greatest Show. Somebody is never heard. That's right. The podcast about nothing emanating live from Mother Russia or from a oil rig, an underwater apartment in New York.

Yes, Yes. I'm 3136 or I want to do the show from out on the open terrace at that level. That would be. Yeah, that would be awesome. Apparently, it's quiet. Yes. Which is the environment you need for a podcast or gardening. Maybe we could like, what do you call that when you go down from a line from a helicopter? There's a particular word for that. But you can do that. Just drop in. That would be awesome. Totally. Have you ever jumped out of an airplane? You know, I never have.

And I hope that, too. I'm with you on that one. I thought you'd be like, Well, I hope I have some time. That would be fun. Like, No, no, I actually have. I mean, somebody bought me one of those. They tried to throw you out of a plane. Mm hmm. Yeah. Yeah. No, they bought. That was a So I got two interesting wedding gifts. Hopefully it wasn't from your wife and best man. Here we are. Right? Exactly. We. I did. You know, we have one more.

One for as for a for jumping out of an airplane, and the other one was for a class and free diving without oxygen. Yeah. Somebody was trying to kill you. And I keep thinking it's like, why do people keep giving me gifts? I'm not going to use cause they're not cheap. Like, these were expensive things that people bought. Yeah. Oh, yeah. There. No, that's not those experiences. Yeah. And they weren't just like, suggest jeans are hard, they were actual gift cards in their face.

And I'm like, Right, what the fuck are you thinking? You repel down when you repel down from a helicopter on the line. That's what you do. Repel. Yeah. We're not the best in English. That's what we've learned. But yeah, why would you? So what do you call it? I didn't remember what it was called. Oh, but telling you what I think. Yeah. You should notice that there's a pattern there when people are like, We want to throw Jean out of a plane.

We want to take them down without oxygen into the deep water. Yeah. Which, I mean, I think both of those things are really cool. Just not for me, you know, like, I would rather do things where I might not die. Then again, eating a plate of barbecued ribs could kill you. So I could totally do that. Then. It kind of has long term been killing me, right? Well, that was. Yeah, Those ribs sure sound good. Yeah, That was Kevin Smith when he had his Widowmaker, and he's like, I've been.

I've been eating healthier, and the guy's like, the doctors, like, now this was probably started with that, you know, Twinkie, your first day that five years old. This is not this is not something that happens overnight or clears up overnight. Yeah, well, Kevin Smith lost a lot of weight. Yeah. Mm. Yeah. And then he had a break with reality. Wound up in the Hutt for a while. I didn't hear about that. Yeah, that was recent. And I know that's that.

Seems like I'm taking it lightly, and I don't mean to. It's just the way we used to control area. What was that? I think it's the area. Oh it's interesting at the very least. Yeah. I mean he's always kind of been more cookie, you know, and he's, well, he's always been a great storyteller, but he went in his and he didn't start at least which is good for him probably he didn't start until his adult life in his thirties, I think when he started doing the weed and he does it lots

so well. Yeah. Because to me to know what kind of effect that has on having a break from reality. Hmm. Because there are folks that can handle it. I mean, there's Willie Nelson who I mean, nobody, apparently. We never causes any issues is what I keep hearing from people. Like, it's literally has no effect on anyone, apparently. Right. Except for the people that it does. Well, and I'm not one of them.

I mean, that is scientifically tested, this affect affecting me and which is why you can't treat everybody the same. And you can't be like because you're able to do it because Willie Nelson's been able to have a 90 year life as a very productive musician and smoked a lot of weed just because there are certain people that can handle something. Does it mean that for somebody else it won't be detrimental? So the way it where you're you're wrong about Kevin Smith. But what do you mean wrong?

I mean, he was he started smoking pot at 24. Okay. But he was in his late teens. He was now in his thirties. So 24 we will take that. I was just guesstimating. I see. Maybe I just feel like I'm way older. So wouldn't you try to make him not seem as well as maybe? Well, he is literally our age, you know that, right?

Yeah. Yeah. So he's more smoke in the wiki for half his life and he when he released the thing and I, I watched it he, he talked about how he had trauma as a kid because when he was like nine years old, some older kid made him put his mouth on some, like nine year old girl's private parts and the girl had to put her mouth out his private parts and he caused that trauma. You know that That's the asshole in me. I mean, back when we were that age. That ain't called trauma, boy.

No, you know, that's called games. Kids play when he didn't have cell phones. So we're happy kids have cell phones now. Well, at least now they can video it. A cell phone is literally a pacifier. And his whole talk and this is where he lost me, was that his therapist or whoever told him that all trauma is trauma. There are no degrees.

And I'm like, bullshit you're not going to tell me because somebody put their mouth on your Johnson when you were nine is the same as somebody that's been in a war zone watching bodies literally blow up in front of them. You're not going to tell me that's the same amount. Okay. I can explain this a little bit.

So if you don't think of what the trauma is, I think what he's referring to is the chemical processes that take place in your brain when you're exposed to high levels of stress that that chemical process is going to be the same. That would make sense. So let's say you experience the two traumas that you just mentioned and then you have amnesia.

You would still show signs of somebody who had been traumatized at some point, regardless of whether that was due to war or sucking some guy's dick now wasn't even a guy, which was the intriguing thing. It was a girl for him. So this is that that's not really called trauma them that I didn't want to be that guy because that in your head you're a hateful mofo.

How could you say that his trauma wasn't and I think this is one of the problems we're dealing with as a society now is that we're pushing all this stuff. Whoa! Oh, no. You were traumatized. You're apparently his daughter is 23 right now. Yeah. Harlequin. Yeah. And we get a little bit of a horse face thing going on now, but I know. Oh, it's got good lips. Gene adds them to Leo dot com. Or is it a gene that com if people want to email.

Oh yes it's, it's Gene. It's sir Gene back then but I just don't buy. Okay. The chemical process may be similar but I don't believe that there's no difference in intensity. It may be so there is there might be, but they could be reversed for different people. Some people might get a much bigger bang out of war and the other people would get a much bigger bang out of sex. It's a weird thing, the human condition.

I mean, if you've been growing up with a cell phone watching porn since you were five years old, I don't think that would be traumatic, particularly to you know, have sex as a kid. Yeah. Now, this, I would think, has to be having a huge effect on everybody that's been growing up in these generations, which we did not. We missed it by just a little bit, missed it by that much. And I'm glad I do. Yeah, I kind of am, too. Exactly. Like porn was hard to get when we were kids.

You actually had to go in to a store, you know, you had to buy a magazine. Mm. Yeah. Or just flip through the Sears catalog. Well, I guess that was your the low end. But then it was. That's where the Victoria's Secret store catalog. Yeah. And then the Victoria's Secret catalog. Exactly. You know, this was at what could you get. I think I think most most of guys that I knew in high school were getting a subscription to the Victoria's Secret catalog. Yeah, you just, you know, it's free.

You just have to pay this free and it's delivered to your door. Your parents might be like, Oh, this is why you always check the mail when you get home from school before your parents get home. Right? You want to get whatever you can out, huh? Yeah. It's like, Oh, I don't know. I must have sent some wrong person. It looked like none of our names are in the same. Right? It's just like Harry Palms is the name Billy the Cat. Oh, is that the one that used okay? Yeah. Yeah. Variety.

You had to use a key to keep a wide variety going, but it was always, you know, easy for me, because once I hit 16, once I was able to drive, I was already like, foot, whatever. So it was never hard to just walk into a bookstore or a gas station and, you know, get a Playboy or whatever, because. Yeah, cause nobody check should back them. No. Why would they? You look like you're old enough. You want some smokes to go with that? Nobody again, Nobody want.

I guess maybe that was the start of nobody wanting any conflict. It was just like, All right, what do I care? What am I going to ask? You know? But it was definitely a different concept where if you could have just say, I remember being like, whatever it was, maybe 1213 when the over the air scrambled signal started and you can kind of see something if you tried to tune it in just right. That was the good old days. Like we always had HBO T Not us.

No, it was later, a little later, when Cable had found a picture of Harley Quinn wearing Harley Quinn up. And you're like, Yes, please. Uh, not really. It's not a bad outfit. I mean, yeah, I guess you did the cuter, the girl. The better, though. Yeah, definitely. I mean, I think the the penultimate is what's her name? Bird. The current chick. The Fed. Ultimate Australian chick. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I loved Margot Robbie from the moment I saw her and that was in, I'm remembering correctly, this very short lived television series called Pan Am, where she played a really hot stewardess that was not the first thing she was, and it's the first thing I remember seeing. Okay. All right. I'm sure she was. I mean, oh, she was in things in Australia like a soap opera or something. There, but I had probably still cycles through here wallpaper on my multiple desktops of her in the Pan Am thing.

And it's, it's like, wow, remember if was flying because I don't remember flying ever being like that. But I'm like, I missed out on that. I was born way too late. That would have been way better I remember flying like that. The Don Draper Well, you're like 106, the apricot. That's my birthday. Wow. Really? One was your birthday yesterday. Really? Yeah. Well, I talked to. Yes, she even told me Happy birthday. Well, I forgot it was my birthday. You forgot it was your birthday.

Were you just trying to forget it? Just say Steve. Yeah, I just kind of. Yeah. You get old nephew. You just don't remember things. I mean, I didn't even hear them mention you on no agenda. No, I forgot the money. You know what? Your buddy, You have to donate just to get a mention. Everybody has to do it. I know. Which is why I have never been mentioned for my birthday. Got no agenda either. I'm like, no, no, I'm. I. It seems it seems bad to do that on your own behest. Does it? It seems a little.

Do you make restaurant reservations on your own behalf? Well, now, why would I make reservations? That means I would go out, I think. Did you order food online in your own behalf? Yes. But that's only, you know, wait for your wife to do it. No, I understand you're a traditionalist and you expect your wife to be doing these things for you. But I just, you know, I guess I'm a more modern male. I think it's fine to do some of these things on your own.

I cannot remember the last time my wife made a meal. And I'm not saying that just to be like, I can't remember, but it literally I can't remember. Is she any good at it? No. Okay. Well, then you're not missing. You know, this is exactly why I agree with that concept, because I think ultimately you should marry a woman that knows how to cook. If you give a shit about that kind of thing. If you don't, that's fine. But there's no point in somebody cooking poorly for you.

Yes. When I can actually cook myself quite well. Exactly. Now I had the misfortune of both being a relatively decent cook myself and marrying somebody that was a good cook. So we had a lot of food. Now I'm looking at the IMDB page for Margot Robbie, and she was only listed in five things before Pan Am, and I doubt you saw any of them really. One was something called I See You. Yeah, one was the Elephant Princess. Two episodes. Yeah. Vigilante Review with Miles Barlow and City Homicide.

Um, so Pan Am was Pan Am was two years Where? Wolf of Wall Street. Really? Yeah. Okay. Well, I didn't see Pan Am until after the Wolf of Wall Street, so I guess there you go. See, I'm wrong again. See? Wow. So she was. She was that was her first role in the US. Pan Am. I think so. I mean, it's the first one I remember seeing and was like, wow, she's hot. Yeah, No, she definitely saw it. I mean, The Wolf of Wall Street, just that one scene

that's pretty hot. Yeah. Yeah. And the fact that everybody knows the scene in the movie and now the people that haven't are like, oh, maybe I should add that to the queue. Yeah, everybody should. The Wolf of Wall Street is a great movie. It was had it had, I think, a very, very good cast all around. Oh, you like little Leo, You know, Jonah Hill? I don't know. Hollywood is big. Jonah Hill and Leo. Matthew McConaughey, he Kyle Chandler. Matthew McConaughey. He is just straight up on drugs.

The entire movie was in that Matthew McConaughey overall. Yeah. I mean, I mean, like what he does, it may well have been scripted, but it looks absolutely unscripted. It looks like a guy is just like, yeah, what are we doing here? Let's see before the camera rolls, let's just fuck around a little bit. Uh huh. Who? If you haven't seen the movie, you will know exactly what I'm talking about when you see it. If you have seen it, you already know what I'm talking about.

The scene with Matthew McConaughey in there. Yeah. I didn't even remember Rob Reiner being in it, but I try to block him out, I think is my don't think that's a real person and Jon Favreau in it even though he's a scumbag. I like him. Yeah. Yeah. Oh no. I like Jon Favreau. He's a good guy. Going back to Swingers, baby. That is. That's right. That is one of the greatest movies ever made. Fight me. If you don't believe that one. I completely agree.

And that movie I remember watching in the theater when it first came out. I used to watch I used to watch a lot of movies in the theater. I went to a, you know, one of those kind of uptown hip theaters. Back in the day, I watched the Rocky Horror Picture Show. Back when that came out, I watched a bunch of movies right when they first came out at that same theater. But anyway, yeah, when that movie, I was watching their movies, Holy shit, they were literally making a movie about my life.

Yeah. 1996. Wow. How long ago now? 1926? Yes. Oh, my God. Very close to 1926. Yes, baby. Vegas. Vegas. Yeah, that's right. Now, it was it was a great movie. Jon Favreau both wrote it and starred in it. It was great. Vince Vaughn That was his first big thing at a writer. And he like his scene at the end of the movie where he's sitting in the diner with a bunch of stamps on his wrists, and then he sees this male kind of like making goo goo eyes and oh, yeah, yeah, he's imagining it.

It's all for him. That's right. Biting through it. Oh, yeah. You're a dirty baby. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then he sees the woman pick up a baby cradle that she was making goo goo eyes at. Oh, that looks classy. 20 times. Does that happen to you, Gene? Be honest. Oh, my God. Way too many. Did you like This was written about my life. It really was. And. And I was doing swing dancing at the time, so it was definitely. Oh, yeah. The music. Yeah, the music is good.

But it was a it was a crazy time in American history, man. We have there's even a scene where they almost get they do a like gunfight with with nothing like dang thing going on. I will say a young Heather Graham, very, very cute. Oh, yes. That was I think that was the first movie I saw her and she was like, Holy shit, this chick is I've always been a huge fan of hers. I've always been very sad that she never made it big in Hollywood because she really is.

She's just had that all-American prettiness about her. Yeah, a little quirky. She was a bit, but. But holy shit. Drop dead gorgeous. Much, much in the same way as Margot Robbie. Where, like, I don't think there's a movement that she can make that doesn't look sexy. She was good in Roller girl. Well, Roller girl, but also because I just saw recently rewatched Scrubs, it's like, Oh yeah, she was in scrubs. Mm. Not enough. But yeah, she was not in that from anything.

But yeah, she was great as roller girl in was that movie you just look at. She has a lot, she's still working and does a lot of work just like you said. Never really made it big. No, no. And yeah, she used to be absolutely just prettiest girl you ever seen. But everybody you have to see. And she doesn't look bad. I'm pretty sure she's vegetarian. She does? Yeah. Yeah. For women. Women. If they want to remain attractive looking, you should not eat meat. Well, men should only eat meat.

So it's. It's a fair division of labor. But I. I may have to pull that. It's what I should only eat meat. I it's true. Yeah, maybe. But, uh, but yeah, women.

I mean it's, it's more fun to be hanging out with chicks that are meat eaters, but consists only if you look at somebody that looks super attractive and you go and dig it, dig into it, you'll realize they're vegetarian because the you eating meat, eating the, the proteins in the meat accelerates visible aging of the skin and the the subdermal tissues. And the Reverend Dr. Phifer agrees with you that Heather Graham was flat out a knockout in Boogie Nights. Yeah, Boogie Nights. That was the.

Yeah, it was a straw girl and Boogie Nights. That was a great movie to all the best stuff was made long before the 2000 clock hit. In a lot of ways. I mean, really, we've been in an era of remakes for a good 15, 20 years now. Oh, yeah. It's like there's no new ideas. No new ideas. I don't understand why there's even a writers strike when there's nothing written in Hollywood. I know there are so many different ways to go.

I mean, the problem is that everybody feels like every story's already been told, and that's pretty much true. But you just got to change it around a little. That's it. Yeah. And and then stuff like Game of Thrones comes out and you're like, Holy shit, that's a new story or Harry Potter play. How many times do you have to remake Camelot? Because that's what Hollywood would do if these things didn't exist. Well, because good writers will always come up or good.

II, for that matter, will always come up with creative, original ideas that no one's ever done. You look at music, it's all been done. You look at fiction. It's all been done. Mm hmm. They're using the same words. Oh, I was watching a documentary about Dick Dale, the great guitar player. I was going to send it to you, but I fell asleep. I literally asleep, fell asleep watching this while listening to some sweet sounds of California surf rock.

Well, three towns of misery, Lou. That is a great tune. And like, they were deconstructing it. And what was interesting is that he had a background in Middle Eastern percussion, did not know that. Yeah. So apparently he's of Middle Eastern ancestry and he did not know that uncle or somebody had taught him how to play a Jim Beck as a kid, which is a middle Eastern, really more of a Egyptian drum. So, yeah, it was pretty interesting.

And you really get that sort of rhythmic style when you when you start listening to his music, knowing that. And then in the interviews he was actually talking about, you know, verbally using the same terminology that I learned. Well, I learned that instrument, except he's referring to the strumming his guitar. And he also what I didn't realize is, you know, he played wrong handed. You mean he played left handed but without paying? Is that. Yes. What you could. Yes. Wrong.

He played a right handed guitar, left handed with the strings upside down or. Yes, that's weird. Yes. That's how he learned. That's how he learned. He took a normal guitar like, wait, this isn't I don't I guess if you're playing by ear, that would you can learn just about anything. Yeah. And he was a tester for Fender so like all their models that were coming out during that era, he would get the betas of to beat the crap out of because apparently he was a very hard player.

Well, because he'd play in that rhythmic. Oh yeah. And he, he'd used heavier gauge strings, so they were thicker strings pulled tighter. And that makes it like ten times harder to play. Yeah, Yeah, exactly. But it also puts a lot of stress on the neck of the guitar, right? Yeah. And every other composer. Son of a bitch right off.

He said that he broke a lot of their guitars, but they literally used him for, like, the Stratocaster and all these famous guitars that came out back then to be the first guy that ever played them. That that was their tester. So fascinating stuff. I mean, this is the kind of shit I watch as I'm trying to fall asleep the way you you shouldn't be watching things that are engaging your brain when you're trying to fall asleep. Your brain's like, This is interesting. I want to watch this.

My brain's always engaged. You can't shut it off, dude. I had a dream this morning. People are going to either laugh or think I'm crazy here, but I played one of those in my dream. Yes, The subject matter of the dream was me coming to a large Fortune 500 tape company for a three piece suit. Well, to be suit wearing to run a large project. And I mean, it's how many other people dream Dreams involve project management. Nobody's saying nobody. It literally actually was the dream this morning.

So, yeah, it's a little muddy. You're like, Is that your subconscious being like, I want to go back to work? Well, I have been working a lot more lately. Maybe it's your subconscious saying you're working too much. I don't think so. I think it's just that it's just that's the thing I particularly enjoy that happened to me in my dream. The trio room all agrees. You're just overall crazy for a variety of reasons. Well, I'm not going to argue it, but you should get into the troll room.

It's the place to be. I wish I could. I've been perma banned from there so that's not a I'm a persona non grata. I am not allowed to be in trouble. Now. There was probably a good reason for it. I don't believe there could have been a good reason for a perma banner, but I'm such a fine individual. Such as yourself? Yeah. I mean, frankly, I'm kind of shocked that the people that are allowed to promote Ban even have rights to begin with. It may be just the IP range in Moscow has been blocked.

So you should maybe try a VPN. I'll try a VPN. I'm pretty sure it's the actual name that's been banned. Well, that could be too. I'm not about to change my name. Maybe somebody else grabbed that. Maybe. Which is funny because I was on the troll room before the person that blocked me. Yes, I was one of the original people in the jury room because I had been spending a lot of time with the guy that created it. Okay. Do you want to know how crazy our friend comic strip blogger is

now? He says that because I said that all memes are legal. He says Wrong memes don't have copyright. Sign CSB. You are so far out of the loop, my friend. Where do you think the pictures come from for the memes? You don't have to have a copyright sign to make them copyright. Everybody making the meme. Every time you go to your favorite movie and you grab a still shot out of it and then repost it with some word you added, That's illegal. Well, it's not if it's transformative.

No, it is. It's illegal. You can't know that if it's transformative. Nope. Not true. You mean. Nope. Not transformative. Only can do is take somebody's photograph, add some words and go. This is transformative. You will not win that case in court and you know it. If you take somebody's photograph, all beams are illegal. Yeah, that's nice. I'm going to agree with CSB on this. That's true. Statement? No, not at all. I would say plenty of memes are illegal. Most, but no way.

What I say all means are illegal. There are plenty of memes I've seen somebody else's paragraph. So much work that was put into changing somebody so much to make the meme having a few words to it. No, it's not a meme. It's not just a photo with a few words. That's what like. That's a 9% of them are that. That's a very lazy meme. Well of course, but it's a joke within say 99% of all memes are illegal. Don't say all memes are illegal. 99.9% of memes are illegal. There you go.

So all the ones you're posting see SB they're illegal. The meme police are going to come for you. I like the Dalek sound. Oh yeah, it's a I love the damned exterminate exterminate. We will rise again. I'm not very good at making that sound, actually, that's what I know. Yeah, it's a very raspy sound. Yeah, there's no there's a bit of the without a doubt. They ran that through a bit of distortion. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Little overdrive. I do remember Doctor Who.

That was so much fun before they moved into the doctor Who can be a woman now, too. No, she can't. Right, Exactly. No, no. That damn character. This is where Hollywood is really fucking up. Is that to make a new character? Yeah. Yeah, exactly that. Yeah. Doctor, at who? Right. Well, you doctor another you can make another time traveling series. It's like the doctor who doesn't own the concept. You memorable. Hmm. Well, they could get sued for stealing Doctor Who has cancer.

They think time travel. Time travel was invented by Doctor Who, and that was the device they travel. It just happens to be a British police call box that got an issue that was just sitting in the BBC lot. Right. They thought we told her we need a spaceship. We'll use This is the place where we're going to change that, though. Don't worry, we'll fix it in post 70 years later. No, never got around to it, even though there aren't any on the streets anymore. You know, nobody.

That's why it should be really strange when it shows up. Like, what's this? It's like now you actually have to explain what is a police bike? Uh huh. It's a bell. Is it's what it was originally for. Like just a phone to call the police, right? Yeah, literally little phone booth. And the phone just only went to the po po. Yep. And back in the day that was important because people didn't have cell phones. Mhm.

So if you're on the street and somebody was going to beat you over the head with a tire iron, if you could run to a police car. And the only reason that they exist in England is because of all the rapists running around. Well yeah, those Brits are not good people. No, no. You want to watch out for them. Absolutely. More time travel. You remember that Rowan Atkinson actually in one of his skits, one of his TV things. Did a female doctor who. No, I do not remember that.

Oh, you need to find that clip on YouTube. Just I'm sure if you search for Rowan Atkinson. Doctor Who WOMAN you'll get the clip because that was like literally ten, 15 years ago. He kind of predicted this would happen. Is that the doctor reincarnated as a chick? And I bet you hilarity ensued in his version. Yeah, it's much better. Much better than the reality. Much, much better than the one that the BBC actually did. Well I mean, really, Doctor?

Who's the woman? James Bond. A woman, You know, black woman. What else do we need? Because they can't. That just shows you how again, how bad Hollywood is. Because rather than go and boleyn's a woman, I mean a black woman, rather than say, hey, you know what, people seem to like James Bond.

Why don't we the mermaids, the black woman, why don't we make a female character that's similar to James Bond and start that series and then we'll have two series that people will love both No, you can't have that. No, you can't. You you take something and then you rape it and massacre it by switching up the protagonist. That's what you do according to Hollywood. And you know, only gay people should play gay people. Yes, but not only straight people should play straight. Right.

It's funny when that comes around and not only white people should play white people. Oh, of course not. That would be horrible. But only black should play black people. Yeah, because the roles are very specific about these things. Yeah, it's called fucking racism. It's the shit that Martin Luther King Jr you know, campaigned against. Yes. Is determining everything by race. It is literally the left going back to their roots of the KKK instead of treating people by the content of their character.

No, it's all based upon how much pigmentation just happens to be your skin. So it's all about how you were born. That's all that matters. It is insanity. They also want to abort all the black babies. Well, that was the goal of Planned Parenthood, which is amazing. Yeah, the big low. The goal of the Democrat Party. Yeah.

It seems to be, because if you look at the statistics, over half the abortions performed by current Planned Parenthood are of black babies, even though the percentage of black population is 14%. I mean, it's it's right. But 50% of abortions are black. And that's that's the thing that they're going to have to hang their hat on. That's the thing they want to use as the main election divider for the next election is bring back abortions to the whole country.

Yes. And let's not forget, the other big thing they want to talk about is gun violence, but only when it's a bunch of white kids at a school that die. It's never. Let's talk about the gun violence in Chicago that happens every week where a lot of black people are getting killed or the fact that every school shooting, without exception, includes a crazy person who is chemicals and drugs. Yeah, for their craziness. Let's not mention that at all. I don't want to mention, Oh, it's clearly the gun.

It's not the fact that this is a crazy person that ought to be in an asylum, but these are the same fucking that won't admit that their children shouldn't be on the internet. If you're going to tell me that the only way to solve the gun problem is to make all guns in the country disappear, then the only way to solve the mental issues that youngsters are having right now is to get rid of the Internet for everybody.

But nobody wants to talk about that because, oh, that's but that's a different bunch of big companies right there now. Don't want to talk about that. We Don't want to talk about how just debilitating having access to all of this stuff is. Like we talked about, we didn't have access to porn. 24 seven We were growing up. No, I can only imagine how detrimental that would be for one totally fucking up a kid's perception of what reality is like. Because, you know, I haven't seen a lot of porn.

I've seen enough to know that doesn't really seem like reality. We know what the end result here. This is. This is not mysterious at all. The the concept of sex for pleasure has already had a huge effect. And part of the effect of that is all the abortions going on. But Right. No other reasonable way to keep that from happening. The reason that sex feels good is because it's a very bizarre thing that has to happen between. Two people.

And so whether you want to call it God or nature or, you know, whatever other terminology you want to use, if sex didn't feel good, then people would not have propagated and the next generation would have been born. So almost by necessity, sex has to be the thing that feels better than anything else, because that's the thing that motivates the propagation of the species by ensuring that there is a next generation.

And what we're seeing in the entirety of the civilized world and maybe that's an old fashioned term, civilized world, but basically in Europe, in the United States, in Russia, in, you know, places with let's put it this way in places where refrigeration and sewage exists, the birthrate is on a steep decline. Fewer and fewer people are having children. The only places that that don't have that trend are places that still in many ways lack modern conveniences.

Well, and I haven't really looked into this, but from what I've heard, the younger generations are not dating as much, which is just another very weird oddity. Oh, it's beyond that dating right now. The last stats that I as I watch some of these YouTube channels that focus on the stuff, blast stats, I saw that in the United States, over half of all males under the age of 26 are virgins, half under the age of 26. Yeah, that's a damn big population. What's going on now?

It's not true for girls because all the girls are fucking the same guy. Who is this guy in one? I mean, it sounds like I'm being facetious, but it's actually statistically true. It's not the same guy, but it's a very small group of men. So effectively, for the men that fall into a certain demographic of one of them having physical attributes combined with financial attributes, those men are have more women than men in previous generations have ever had.

Because and again, this is no surprise, women are biologically driven to find somebody that's a mate that can ensure the welfare and survival and even beyond survival, you know, advancement of their offspring of the next generation. So this is this is really using the biology drivers that exist in all women's brains.

And you combine that with ready birth methods, you combine that with a society that doesn't place any value having couples pair off and the end up exactly where we are, which is incidentally, this is not the first time it's happened in history for a large percentage of history during the. Oh really? Probably from the the fall of Rome until the Renaissance, this was the norm that there would be men that are born and die, having never had any relation to three women.

Because back then the only way you're going to have sex with a woman is if you get married to a woman. And women typically would always try to marry men that were a status above themselves for the obvious logical reason we call those men podcasters. Well, no podcasters. Ironically, I think more podcasters had sex because the average age of a podcaster, I think right now is pushing 60. Okay, that's fair enough. Fair enough. And is it is it's okay to be a couple in today's society.

But you know what it's not okay to be is a cis couple. And you know what Everything besides us this couple has in common, they can't procreate Exactly. Exactly. Come on, people. Now, you had a bunch of old dudes like me that are also dating younger women, and then. Well, try to anyway. There's a good, good point. Good point. Trying to write sometimes does sometimes that.

But there's a a very definite strong pressure on the generation of the teens and 20 somethings that is basically telling them the only sex you're ever going to get is pornography. Forget about any other kind of sex. It's not going to happen. Well, then there is something to be then said for that generation, which is like, I'm taking care of business on my own. What do I need the hassle of? And and this is the thing is what we will end up with is the the wave returning from feminism.

So far, feminism in a lot of ways caused this wave. And we're we're I think, crossing the peak of the wave to now where it's going to swing back or wash back or maybe the pendulum is a better referent than a wave. But essentially what happens when a lot of men don't up getting married? Well, they have way more income to spend on themselves. Yeah, because things like space ship, even when two people were Adidas suits ish.

Exactly. For the suits. So the suits are going to get more and more popular, I think. But you think about it like, what if you never got married and you were just a a man in his twenties and thirties without the need to spend money to attract and support a young family, you definitely have more income. You have more of that disposable income. Uh huh. They're more disposable.

And what we're going to end up with is a situation where men will end up owning houses where women will not minimal end up having savings accounts, where women will that which as they get older, will still make the younger women interested in them because. Yeah. Oh yeah, absolutely. I mean it's a self-correcting system as and when it comes down to it because what will happen is women wanted equality, but they also want to be the one that always gets the kid when there's a divorce.

And so what happens when there is no marriage? Well, there's no divorce. There's no marriage. There's no alimony or child support. When there's no marriage. Well, there could be child support, but there's no alimony. Well, there well, there could be child support, but not if if they're going to a a fertility clinic. Right. You have a kid. Oh, yeah. That if you just pick it out a little pile.

And I think this is the thing that's happening right now is that by women effectively at age bracket, rejecting the men that are, you know, more average, let's say, that are not athletes or rich or whatever. I think that the net effect is going to be that those men end up focusing the energy that they would have focused on wooing a woman and then growing a young family.

Oh, there's a energy's going to end up getting focused on other things for the man himself, and that will make the man be better off and more attractive as he older. Why? Want to know? And then you're like, if you're in your early twenties now and you're a real horndog, are you getting more than you could even want? Because half dear brethren are like, I'm going to sit home and spank it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The guys that are, that are of that minority.

So, you know, physical attributes or height, you know, muscular, low, low fat mass yada, yada, yada. And ideally in a good job where you're making decent money. I'm a they say they have a600 commitment pressure because there there is so much opportunity there that literally nothing a girl could say would get you to actually commit to her. And that's why we're seeing a lot more relationships now.

And this, again, coming from watching these YouTube videos where the girls are starting to accept the fact that there's always going to be side girls. It we're we're getting more into a culture of harems, which is exactly what you've been waiting for. No, I think a harems are actually a lot of work, like one at a time is absolutely fine.

I think that the Mormons have a correct, which is you you effectively have many wives, but the wives are not really, you know, like there's that they need to keep themselves. Oh, as well they should. Well, usually not the case in a normal marriage. It is a strange world. It really is the sociological experiment called the Western world right now, which is, I think if not failing, it is certainly having a lot of detrimental effect for the people that are living in that experiment, it or not.

And I totally I think that China also fits into that quite bit is China's embrace a lot of Western mentality. So I'm really looking at like South America and Africa as the two exceptions. Well, you've already talked about the overprescription of drugs and that being a prevalent thing with the mass shooters, the over prevalence of medicating our children for things like OCD and whatever their whatever, you know, they're claiming that these kids have.

You know, when I was a kid, I couldn't sit still for more than 5 minutes. Now, today, they would think you should be on Ritalin or something with how much do you think that plays into the. I don't really want a relationship because I'm I'm doped up the drugs have any effect. Yeah I mean I think the drugs do have some effects and I think like Ritalin probably makes a lot more okay with not having sex. And it's like, well, why are we prescribing this?

Well, because, you know, we have climate change is the best thing for climate changes to kill off as many humans as we can. Yeah. Yeah. And that's so Now, is that a side benefit or is that the main goal? I think it may be the main goal, yeah, because I still have not seen any real evidence that climate change man made climate change is happening. I have never seen any evidence to disprove that. What the earth is going through right now is not the same thing it's gone through for millennia.

When it goes through the hot and then cold spells. Yeah. So think there's there's always two questions relating to the first one is the, the pivot off of the maybe there's three but the pivot off of global warming to just simply climate change because climate change is very different from global warming. If we're changing the climate in both directions, then who gives a shit if we're changing the climate? Right? Right. Well, then they could use everything.

Oh, yeah now it's getting colder. That's climate change. All manmade. It's all manmade. Exactly. It's raining in climate change. It's too dry. Climate change. So the first question, which I don't believe has been settled, some people, of course, I think, blame people with it, say, well, no, that's a bit incontrovertible science degrees. Those people are idiots. But the first question is, is there such thing as man made climate change?

Because if you look at in the in the micro scale of has there been a change in the climate of this one mile area where we just built a new factory that's spewing out all kinds gases? Probably. Probably. Right. But can you extrapolate that to a manmade climate change across the entirety of the globe? No, I don't think so. Again, we have a butterfly effect here that a small change in Japan could have a bigger impact on the climate in Texas than Texas itself doing something.

So climate is basically the average of weather. It's it's what happens over the long term in a particular area. That's the climate. So man having effect on short term changes in weather potentially, does that automatically translate into changes in long term climbing? Probably not. It may. I'm not saying that possibility doesn't exist, but absolutely there's been nothing that can be demonstrated as a a long term change to a climate of a particular area. No. One. That's it.

The second question, the theory. Yeah. The next question is, even if there is and we let's say we accept that first premise that there is such a thing as manmade climate change. The second question is, and so what? So is that for the better? Is that for the worse? And do we need to do anything it and the reality is the earth is still about ten degrees cooler than the median temperature of the earth for a large chunk, not the entirety of its existence, but a large chunk of the doesn't.

The measurable portion which goes back hundreds of millions of years, not billions of years that the Earth itself is, but that is a million years. We are still in a in a global ice age right now. Well, but that's the hilarity that nobody ever even allows for the possibility that what effect man is having on the climate might be good enough actually never to be heard that. Well, maybe this is a good thing.

Yeah. Yeah. It's the same people that go to the to Whole Foods to buy their greenhouse grown hydroponic tomatoes are clamoring about how we shouldn't we shouldn't be allowed to change the climate. What do you think Greenhouses. Yeah. That's horrible. Why do you eat food grown in the greenhouse? This is better. Well, why do all of these people, if they get an illness, if they get cancer, they want treatments. Why? Why not let nature just take its course?

That's what you're telling me is the way to go. Yeah, exactly. But nobody wants to put that correlation together. This assumption that humans are creating climate change, which has not been proven. And then furthermore, that the only possible climate change is negative. What if humans are creating climate change? But it's positive? Yes, it is what I would say. If there is a climate change and if it's for warmth, then what we're doing is helping to bring the planet back to where it ought to be.

Before the previous Ice Age started, which we're still in. Yes, there have been drastically different climates throughout the millennia, and people just didn't live where it was the most harsh. You know, that may happen again. It's all happening before and it's all going to happen again. Our lives are just so short. We're like, Wow, we're fucking ants is what it comes down to. We're like ants worried about the fact that temperature inside the and house with a mound feels a little warm this week.

Yeah. You got to worry about the anthill. It's like, dude, winter is coming. And this is again everybody ignores that there is no separation between countries. This is the same thing when they all try to push these Internet laws where it's like you can't. It's when you then point to countries like, well, we have 300 million or so general losing in the United States. Well, India's got what, five times that now China's got five times that.

And they both are going, yeah, we're not doing any of these things. So I think they've got more than five times don't they. Maybe. And the question would then be, well, why we worried about it when we are nothing but a small country compared to those? And if they're not going to stop polluting, well, then what good is us? You know, it's like, well, we'll feel better about it. Yeah, but you're also going to go broke. You're not going to have food.

People are going to die in poverty because you've destroyed the economy. But wow, at least think you're helping the planet. Yeah, it's insanity. Again, this is all things that are being done to intentionally bring the way people live down to a level and someone's making money on it. Oh, yeah. There's always someone making money on Al Gore. Let's look at Gates. Al Gore's made a lot of money being a climate alarmist. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Biggest piece of crap around that guy.

Yeah, well, Bill Gates pretty much the next biggest threat to. Yeah, but he made his money before the climate alarm. Well, he didn't make as many before a climate, but he's also been to a leader a lot. Yeah. There's amazing some of these some of these records nobody wants to talk about. That's why you come to Unrelenting, where the real information is released. Not really, but sounded good. Well, it's where the real information is talked about.

Yeah. Which you guys have an O for conversation and unscripted conversation. Unscripted. That should have been usually unscripted, huh? Who needs scripts now? We don't need your script. I don't understand people that use scripts for podcast that seems crazy to me. Yeah, we don't need the baggage. The whole point of a podcast is to record a conversation between two people. At least two, maybe more. Yeah, maybe one person. Which The radio. I mean, it's kind of funny because it's.

I vaguely recall that your favorite person there, CSP, who at some point saying that a podcast isn't a real podcast if there isn't two people on it, right only, which of course, then he has a podcast with one person and anything without a C on it could be used and isn't copyrighted. That's CCP's world. So I don't even understand it. Yeah, that that's completely true.

At least here in the US, the, the seed simply means it's a registered copyright, but there's a, an actual copyright that is created at the time of the original creation of any artwork or any art piece would be music, could be video to be still, whatever it is, could be anything. You cannot use other people's stuff. Somebody on the TROLL room's like or in the no agenda. Social memes are fair use. No, they're not. Nothing about them says their fair use.

Show me a court case that said memes are fair use. It has to be transformative enough. That's that's the piece everybody always gets wrong is transformative isn't taking something that has the meaning that you want and then adding words to it that doesn't transform it. Transformative would be something that completely changes the meaning.

So if you have a picture of Adolf Hitler, for example, and you put Biden's face on them and then it's not even that complicated, but then the words you add doesn't change it at all. Yeah, no, if you just put that not that much, that doesn't transform too much.

But you put something that would be the opposite of what said or implied and then you say, you know, but you know, something very pro-Israel, for example, in that image with Hitler like that clearly would be a transformation of the original piece. You're using something that was never intended that cannot be ever be confused for actually coming out of his mouth to to create a new work.

But if you talk because in the Andy Warhol the state was just sued for a painting he did of a photograph that he used a photograph of Prince to create one of his works and the original photographer sued the estate and won because they didn't have the right to do it. And it's I mean, granted, I think that may be getting a bit too far, but this concept of what is and what isn't covered, most people have no idea what it is and different. How the hell did that case that they lose their case?

That seems like a slam dunk. I don't know. But it happened. So again, it depends on, I guess, what jurisdiction you're under, what the that makes no sense because you can use a photograph to create an original painting. That's not a problem.

Now, if it's if they actually maybe use the photograph as if it's a collage, if there's like an actual, you know, if the photo is slapped onto the canvas as part of a painting, maybe But I can't imagine how if you create an original painting while you're looking at a photograph, how that would ever be covered. And it did. This was it went to the Supreme Court. Well, what's the case? Let's see if this requires looking up this this is very bizarre.

If it's true, Andy Warhol estate loses US Supreme Court Copyright Fight over Prints Paintings. This is from The Guardian. Andy Warhol Estate lost its US Supreme Court copyright fight with the celebrity photographer Lynn Goldsmith on Thursday as the justices faulted the famed pop artist. His use of her photo of the singer Prince in a silkscreen series depicting The charismatic rock star. The justices. Okay, okay. I'm looking at the picture. Yeah, I could see I could see how this is.

This is not a painting. This is a a poster sized photograph that's sovereign. Yeah, that's not a painting. It's more transformative than any meme I've ever seen. I'll do it. Well, no, no, and I'll tell you why. No, Because the original photograph contained an image of Prince looking directly at the camera. This also contains that exact same scene. It doesn't transform the image. Well, nobody transforms the image. It seems they 99.9% are just putting words on it. So. Right.

But the words could transform because if what was coming out of Prince's mouth is I love record labels, then it would be totally transformative. No, the words are meaningless. No, they're not the words are meaningless. You're so wrong. I am so right. I'm always right. Oh, it's so. It's all that matters.

In the ruling issued by the court's majority, Justice Kagan wrote, is that Warhol and the publisher entered into a licensing transaction similar to one Goldsmith might have done because the artist had such a commercial purpose. All the creativity in the world could not save him. And declining to acknowledge the importance of transformative copying the court today and for the first time turns its back on how creativity works, Kagan said.

Sotomayor wrote the dissent, saying Kagan misses the forest for that. For a tree, it's like the single minded focus on the value of copying ignores the value of original works. So it's an interesting case. Yeah, I what he did basically is a Photoshop filter. He took a photograph, ran it through a Photoshop problem, welcome to it and sold it. Welcome to Beams. What do you think they're using? Yeah, and we have our Instagram.

We put a whole different filter out It it yeah it's you're, you're you're missing the forest from the trees here. Okay. They're. Yeah, these are two different things. Well, everything's different in its own way. Mm. But this is where the Ryan Bremer says just give copyrights for five years, you wouldn't have this problem if. What was, if, if all copyrights only lasted five years. Oh, I agree. I'm a big fan of just shortening the duration of the both trademarks and copyrights.

I mean, honestly, I think you need to actively be utilizing something. Well, I mean, what's your guess on what if you're going by the technical aspect of the law in the United States? You know, it's different everywhere. What percentage of content on the Internet do you think is copyright infringing?

I'm guessing if you take away the people making their own YouTube videos and even a lot of them are grabbing images because a lot of these where people just talk and then they they talk about a subject and then pull in videos or photographs from somewhere else. Maybe maybe you don't even take YouTube out of this. But I'm betting it's most likely still a majority of the content of the Internet. One way, shape or form is infringing upon somebody's copyright.

I mean, it depends if you mean of people posting material that's not theirs. That's the vast majority of the Internet. Yeah, well, there you go that's copyright infringement. But. But is posting somebody else's material really copyright infringement? Yes. Because to the letter of the law. Yeah. There's an argument to be made that says that. How is that different from showing a piece of art in the Louvre? The Louvre? Yeah. So if you if you're. I want some Louvre blinds.

How is it legal for museums to show art to a multitude of people without paying the artist every time a person like by their art? Well, maybe they should. Maybe we have the knowledge now to know how many people looked at a piece of art. Do you? Totally. You can have a camera. They're looking at people's eyeballs and counting those numbers. And the museum needs to send the check based on how popular the artwork is. There it is. Maybe that's what you do.

And that's, I think, how you license art through most of the clearinghouses these days think it's all so. But in this in this instance, I can see why Warhol last year because he basically he he bought all the racing things in image and then misused rights. Yes. I mean, I agree there. I understand that side of the case, but I also understand that when this was done, we didn't have Photoshop filters where every idiot with a computer could press one button and make the same thing happen.

So it was more transformative back in the day. Yeah, because of the process that he had to use. And I do think that ooh, I do think I don't like. That's a no agenda. No do think I do think that the justices today are looking at as well. This is not that transformative because anybody can do this but it was done 30 years ago or whatever it was. Yeah. Where it was little more work to take that image if it was.

But like I remember back and this was in in 84, but I remember in like 1992 I did a similar thing with and thought, Leo, where I took an existing image and then etched it onto a copper plate by hand, and then the copper plate to be printed to make a multitude of prints out of it. Let me ask you this. Just looking at this prints the photograph next to the Andy Warhol work. If he changes the location of the eyes, if he makes it so, he's looking to the side now. Yeah, Totally different or Totally.

Yeah. You know, which is interesting. Which was one of my questions right when we started today. It's like, well, how much do you have to change something to? Yeah. Do you make it that transformative work? So I think the argument here is essentially saying changing the color of the image is not sufficient to remove copyright, right? Well, that's all they're doing here is stripping the color and making it a monotone. Yeah. Yeah. As being fossilized. That's what the technical term for that is.

The that's an interesting case. It's reducing it to a small number of colors which flattens the look at it. The fact that it had. We know how confusing the copyright laws are because this was the Supreme Court. This made it to the Supreme Court and they heard the case, which should tell us every only because of the subject matter. Well, I think maybe not. It's the subject matter. Probably irrelevant. The fact that it's in between the estate of Andy Warhol, a famous artist, and because it.

Yeah, that's what I mean. Oh, subject matter of the case. The subject of the image. Yes, yes, yes, I agree. If this was some schmuck that just the two people sitting in each other that no one's ever heard of, this would not get to the Supreme Court. But it rose. It rose to the Supreme Court. And you can't go no higher than that. You cannot go no higher than that. But you can go no God, that you can go. You can go no higher than that.

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Yes I haven't mentioned that you had you did your fill your whole virtual graduate some spaceships got some spaceships in my virtual garage and right now as I mentioned on my other podcast, the the game star Citizen is having their free play event where anybody can sign up, plug in and download some spaceships for free to fly around them. Are you trying to bring more people into the cult?

So if anyone's interested, make sure that you use my link, which will be in the show notes for this episode to get your free test of a spaceship. Gene wants you to join a cult. It's not a cult, it's a video game. There's a difference. Okay, Now that that may be the opener. That is a pretty good opener. Actually. There've been a few good ISOs for today. Yeah. You never go to the trouble of actually doing work to isolate them, though. No, I do. I always do meet them. That's where I go when I grab.

There's always something at the beginning of each show. What do you mean? I don't isolate about what you're, Like, Oh, that's a good iso. So can I ask next steps So they can you play that? I certainly created last week. I mean I'm only going to pick one of them and put it at the beginning of the show. So you're not really doing a service, you're just doing a clean opener. Yeah, it's an opener. Yeah, it's a what?

What is that called a just a little tease that there was a lot more technical term for a little fluffing, like a fluffy thing or something. Yeah. Cold, open little teaser. They'll fluff another. I never understood why they call it the cold open. Is it cold, baby? Just it's like a cold re that just jumped right in There's context Yes that's I thought it was like the cold read meaning that it's the first time it's been done cold open I think is just something. Here we go.

Here's the more terminology that neither one of us really has a good, clear definition of. We are going to argue time in what it is. Goddammit. All I know is you're wrong. I'm not sure what it is. All I know is you're wrong. It's like, what is? Okay, tell You what? Let's find out. If Claude knows this. Claude knows all the discount, I guess from Anthropic.

A cold open in a film or television script is a film or television script writing technique where an opening scene does not begin with the main title sequence. Instead, it jumps right to the story before the credits is called A Cold Open because it starts without an establishing shot or context to warm up the audience. Okay, that makes sense since the pre credits shot is called the Cold Opener, let's try to get some interest. I guess.

So that would that would be very similar to what you would do in the podcast by putting a a teaser thing in the front. And it looks like your buddy sent about a buck 4848 Satoshis and he just wants to say happy birthday to Gene, my buddy. Yeah, CSB said, Oh, he's not my okay, okay, he's my buddy. I've just been your buddy. You have disavowed him. It's changed. We went we're changing around from when the show started and that is pretty funny.

Yeah. He was the persona non grata when the show started. From my side. Yeah, it's just switched over now. I am done with you. He want you to visit WW dot air dot Cooking for the best podcast in the universe. Oh, I see. I think wow, you're still running his ads. I think he may be infringing on no agenda though saying it's the best podcast in the universe that is not that is not good CSB you do not want to infringe upon another show is tagline. Hmm. I don't know if they've copyright it though.

We do it. I'll trademark that right. I don't think they come on. You know, Adam Curry and John C of. Do you think they've trademarked or copyrighted anything? No, I said, well, actually, no, they did. They did. I think the no agenda show is actually trademarked now. Well, that's because everybody wanted to use it. Megan Kelly now is like her little thing that pops up on her YouTube videos like No Agenda. And I'm like, Oh, she's got a little crush on Adam. That's new.

I think there's like, no agenda. No something on her show, too. I know. Yeah, I know. What was he recently? I was listening to the last No Agenda, little bit of it and the Adam was talking about some place that was very professional that did his make up and shit. But the Glenn Beck I think he was talking about, Oh, is that where he was I wasn't even sure where he was at, but I mean, I was trying to listen to no agenda, too, but my phone was ringing. Somebody was calling me.

You, you know, trying to interrupt. And I'm probably Department of Copyrights, probably like Jay, and I'm trying to make a sandwich here. I just did a two hour show. Oh. Oh, That person was going to be like, Goddammit, Huh? I'm like, Why is this? Why is my phone ringing? I didn't know. Signal. Anybody can have my signal. I don't want to be bothered. I mean, I'm just so glad it's not I don't attach anything to the watch because that would drive me nuts.

My wife hasn't turned her shoes off yet, so like, if her mom texter the watch beeps and I'm like, that's just really fucking annoying my watch just like braces. Me Well, either way. I don't like the announcement on the watch. I mean, I guess it would be interesting if you had something very important that you had to make sure if somebody message you, you could get the you could get it. But I just think that is so invasive. It seems way, way, way more I think it's more handy up on the phone.

The idea of a just glancing at your watch and seeing whether you need to bother looking at the phone or not, It's very funny, but I only want the watch to monitor stuff. I don't really want it to be popping up things. I'm even getting really annoyed by the Hey, you've your goal for today. You could turn that off. I know, I know. I go through all but certain mine off because the girls thing is stupid because you never hit the goals. Then it's like, No, no, I do, I do.

Well, my current watch, which I think is a better watch your Garmin. My Garmin watch. It has a floating goal, which is great. So your goal is based on the average of your last seven days. So it will adjust based upon what you've done and it keeps trying to push you to do a little bit more. Does it ever get to the point where it's like, No, no, you're killing that you don't run? So let's say you did.

You were walking around your 10,000 steps or whatever, you know, Monday and then Tuesday you're traveling and you put in like 6000, but you weren't going to walk any more than that because you got enough walking there airports. And then the next day you're basically sitting on your ass with a client all day long.

This is a hypothetical, not something I've actually done last week, but then by the by the time seven days rolls around again to say, okay, so average that it looks like about 4000 steps per day for the week. So then the goal for next Monday would actually be 4500 steps instead of that. So it's a much more achievable goal based on the previous week and it doesn't do it once a week. It does this on a floating schedule.

So you're just literally, you know, every day your goal is slightly different based on what the previous week was like. And I like that because I think it's a good way, because it's not like, oh, last week you average 2000 steps a day, do 10,000 today, right? Well, no, it's the same thing. It's like you want it to be achievable. Otherwise we'll go off. I can't do it. Why would I do anything? Right? Right. Because, I mean, they don't know about you, but, like, if.

If I haven't been doing 10,000 steps for quite a while, that's a significant chunk of time and energy to get into. Yeah. If you've been doing it every day, then you kind of already planned for it. You know how long it takes and you may even be able to do it a little faster pace so you can get the same number of steps put in less.

So having that floating goal I think works well and I have noticed it is the more you do something, obviously when you first start, you know, something like riding the bikes after a half hour, you're like, okay, I'm ready to be done now. It's like you hit the hour mark and. It's like I could go more. Yeah, yeah. I remember years ago when I started losing weight at the There's a Lake that was I think it was about three miles to walk all the way around it that I used to go.

Walked around this lake pretty regularly. Like that was my, you know, getting the steps and thing or whatever. And it's it's a known distance and it's pretty it's outdoors right there. Yeah. Stuff like that. And I used to walk around the lake and then I would, when I started doing the weight loss thing, I would like jog for maybe a quarter mile or something, and then I would go back to walking and then then winter and this was Minnesota.

So you don't really go walking around the lake in the winter because you're going to slip and fall. Until now, you just put your ice skates out and you go, right, Yeah, yeah. You could ice skate around, you walk around it. And so I remember the following spring it like when I love or let's say, 90% of the ice was melted, very little left. I thought, okay, it was time to start walking around the lake again.

And amazingly, I jogged around the entire lake because I'd been doing, you know, exercises and lose more weight over the winter. That coming back to this same exact path all of a sudden was much easier. You needed more of a challenge. You wanted to go faster, you wanted to go longer. Well, no, it was just less work to do What seems to be more work. Yes. No, that's the beauty of it. That's when you start seeing the results and you're like, okay, I have you have you bought a rowing machine?

You know, you should. I should, Yeah. I guess that would kind of take the place of the live reduces all the stress on, the joints that you get with the jogging. Should I be smoking joints while riding the bike? I mean, you're not though. So what is your first problem? There you go. And it reduces the pressure on your ass. Well, I just, you know, don't have any just problem with. Yeah, you stand. You stand when you ready the way.

No, I don't. Okay. But it's a nice it's a you know, nice large chair. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's true. You got a recumbent bike now? A Oh, no. Yeah. We have the other kind. And I was like, Fuck that shit. Because after like 30 minutes it is. Yeah, serious pain from the pain. Yeah. Literally a pain in the ass. Yes. Yeah. Literally. It's what Unrelenting is known for. Yeah. Usually they'll throw people. So yeah, it's, I don't know.

I just think that the rowing machines, if you want to know what the hell I'm talking about, watch of cards. I saw the first season. The Yeah, in the first season the main character Frank, that's his exercise he does is he has a rowing machine. The great Kevin Spacey, the great Kevin Spacey, great actor. Well, we will be back next week on Friday for another edition of the Unrelenting podcast. Join us live.

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