073: Just The Tip

How are these pot smokers awake this early? I don't know. I don't get it. I mean, they're asking that about the pizza eaters. Oh, for fuck's sake. I'm going to just walk all over the intro, man. Halo and welcome to Unrelenting episode number 73. If you're listening, you know what day it is exactly. I'm Darren O'Neil. Who are you again? I am Jean. God damn it. So, sir, I'm not having a great yesterday. I guess technically, today is a new day, but yesterday was not a great day. What happened?

I discovered by getting a message on my phone that apparently somebody had gotten either my actual debit card or a copy of my debit card and was taking money out. Okay, So this wasn't one of those fake I've gotten into your account, but you have to call me right away and trying to get more money. No, this is this is a notice from the bank or the app saying, Oh, did you forget your password? That's a sign. Uh huh. Uh huh.

So, uh, so I spent some time on the phone with the bank and online with the police yesterday. Well, that's always fun. I mean, this is. Yeah, yeah. And it's, you know, it's. I don't know what's going to happen. This is one of the reasons why I don't have a debit card. Yeah, that's. And when I was finishing up my call with the bank and again, like, well, we'll get there recently like another one and, and then the do not send it. That's how we got into this problem. I never got the damn card.

It never showed up. Somebody got it wasn't me. Oh, so somebody intercepted it. Uh huh. Then it's a question of what is the procedure for activating said card? Yeah, I, I mean, they, they took out $1,000 in cash, so apparently they. It's activated. That sounds like it's really activated. Uh huh. Yeah. The nice thing about that, though, is they will have a photograph of the person because ATMs do that. Well, yes, if it was a bank banking PM, they should.

But it looks like this is a liquor store APM. Oh, even better. Uh huh. Right. Cause the camera's not working. Sorry about that. Well, I'm. I'm in Austin, so I'm not really holding my breath that the cops are going to do anything about this. I think this is below the $10,000 minimum for a crime. Oh, yeah, Because this is nothing. If they catch them with the cash in hand, they're like, Well, we'll go right ahead, sir. Uh huh. Yeah. Back into you. Oh, you only took a thousand.

Oh, yeah. Well, that's. That's all right. That's. That's. That's up then. Yeah. Jean. Well, they, they also bought some stuff at a store next to the bank, EPA or Amex Stadium. They took money out of it as well. Oh, well, they were getting greedy then. Yeah. Yeah, a little greedy. So I'm not a super happy camper because of that. Because I have no idea if I'm going to get my money back. There's a good chance I won't.

Well, you'll get it back from the purchase because that involved with the credit card side of it, I'm sure it's a Visa or MasterCard branded ATM. Right. But the money being taken out of it is is a little bit of a different story. And we understand that even if somebody has your card. Yeah. They also need your PIN number, which is a little bit harder to do. Well, I would think so, but I don't know what it is because I never got my card. So they got my physical card and I never got my ATM pin.

And so first thing I had the bank do is, well, check the fucking address you sent it to because maybe you sent it somewhere else. They're they're saying the address in there is correct. So. So somebody got it out of your mail. Apparently you have. My guess is when the mail was being sorted, it was put into one of the neighbors boxes or something like that.

And I mean, I don't think any of my neighbors would do something like that, but the neighbors could certainly have thrown it into the trash thing after me. Right. And then that wouldn't you know, anybody can go through the trash. Well, yeah. And they're usually like nondescript envelopes for security. Well, they're nondescript, except for the fact that there's a card size non bendable portion of the envelope. Yes, exactly. Yeah. So if you're looking for a credit card, you will find it.

Uh huh. Yeah. And if this was a credit card, there'd be all right. Right. That's the like, kind of some protection. But the fact that it's an APM and I'm I'm telling the bank's like, Look, I never got the card. I never activated the card. Card was never in my possession at any point in time. How the fuck am I liable for this? Was this a brand new aid? Yeah, brand new account. Okay. And you can't just get over it because it's not like. Oh, you are replacing an ATM.

Oh, no, no, no, no. Well, this is even better because it. The new account, I'm guessing, knowing the way that all businesses, including banks, work, there was probably a nice letter included on how to set your PIN number.

Probably all the stuff with the probably and it's like there's a lot of times the only thing you really need from the banks and as far as I can understand, it would be to know your phone number and that wouldn't be that hard because that you just spoof from your phone number and the bank's like, Oh, I see Jean's phone number, this must be for you. The number is going to be pretty hard because I change numbers every couple of months when you are on the dark web that way.

Yeah. So then that part of it would be hard. The Social Security probably not that hard. I mean, those numbers don't change that often. So it's a it's certainly doable. That and then, frankly, the ease with which you can open up mailboxes is ridiculous. Oh, of course. So I don't know. I mean, it's not what I was looking forward to or a fun thing to buy this month. Well, the problem with debit cards going way back. Exactly what you're talking about, huh?

When you have a problem with a credit card, the way the system works is if somebody you have $1,000 on your credit card, they go, Hey, tell you what, we will return that. We'll take that off your account while we investigate. So you're never in that issue? Yeah. With debit cards, it's like, what? We'll investigate. Well, where's my money? They're like, Well, we won't know until we investigate. Well, how long could that take? I don't know. A while. Could they go? So I'd never know.

And I don't see the debit cards as being that those points. Yeah. I don't think I need a business debit card, because the only thing you really need that to do that you can't do with a credit card would be to take cash immediately out of. I have zero interest in taking cash out of the bank. So you don't need a debit card because that's the only because otherwise you pay on a credit card and then pay your bill and. Yeah, well, it's convenient.

It's. It's a business account, so I definitely don't need to be taking cash. That is where the debit cards will definitely go. And you don't really need a debit card to deposit money these days because you just take a photo of the check, write, phone and do. That way. You never even have to go to the bank. No. So there really is zero need for a business debit card.

There's barely a need for a you know, basically an emergency cash or should they need some cash because my car broke down in a situation. There's something about it. So, yeah, it's it's a thing. And a lot of people have them because banks want you to have them. They push them on you. And I can't help but to imagine my bitching about this in a George Costanza voice. Yeah. Uh huh. Did you believe it, Jerry? Can you believe it? I didn't even want the debit card. But now they sent it.

They sent it. They did. They didn't ask me. They didn't ask me. I opened up a new account, and and apparently they just decided to send the card that lets anybody steal money out of the account. That's very convenient. Oh, for the thieves. Yes. Lubricant here. I'm just trying to figure out what their system is for verifying your identity to set up that card. Because I would think at the very least, there isn't one. I can tell you what that is. The way. The way.

Because I recently had to get a new ATM card for a different account. What they do is they send you the card along with a letter that that tells you use this in any of our ATMs to activate it. But that's all you need. It's it's completely insecure. All you need is two pieces of information, one physical card, two a letter that was shipped the exact same day and will always arrive at the exact same time as the card, but in a separate envelope, because that's tricky.

Somehow that's better than putting it on one. But you know, guess what? If they got my card, there's just as much chance that they got the other letter in a nondescript envelope from the bank that says, Oh, and by the way, here's your new PIN number. I don't even know what the fuck that number is because I never got this shit. So all I know somebody else did and then stole my money. And then they went to a liquor store. Yeah, well, I think they only took out the.

Was the liquor store first to make sure this is working or. No, they did the liquor store. Then they went to a different story. So I don't know what order it was in. There was a wrong pin. Notice like they put in the wrong convention to these assholes, set up the pin that didn't remember what they said, apparently. Yeah. Jean, are you having trouble logging into your A.T.M.? And you're like, Yeah, I don't have an ATM.

Exactly. Well, that's. That's kind of when I get that notice, I'm like, What the fuck? This is weird. I looked online. It's like, Oh, no, what the fuck? So I quickly turned the card off, called the man, called the cops. Cops are like, Yeah, you just go online yourself. Fill out report, just post on Twitter. That's pretty much. Yeah. I mean, that's Austin PD.

They're they're financed as like, oh, somebody like did identity theft and then use that for four figures worth of money that they got from you. Yeah. Just go online. Right. Go to Austin PD and follow the instructions for I've been robbed so I could just see the copies like, oh somebody get the straight. Somebody intercepted your ATM card. Yes. They activated your ATM card. Yes. They took money out of your ATM card. Yes. They used it to buy something. Yes. What do you want me to do?

Yeah, well, the one of the last questions in that in that form you fill out is like, do you just need this for a police report number? Yes. Yes. And I'm like, No, I want you to prosecute these bitches, find them and throw them in jail forever, obviously. Is that realistic? But, you know, I know I don't just want them. I mean, I want the number two, but I don't just want the number. I want it on record that I was robbed in this piece of shit city. Jerry, I want justice. That's right.

So we want a little bit of justice. I tell you. So really, it's safer if I don't send you any of the donation money that way. Well, I'm not sure that right now. The way I've got should lock down that you could write. It's like, I'd like to send you money, Jean, but I really can't. If your bank assures me it's not a good idea to send that, I get know it's whatever's coming is always going out at the same time, apparently. But the lesson for everybody is if you have a debit card. The creditor.

Yeah. Credit one. That's the real lesson that shred the debit card and cancel it with the bank, too. Yeah, well, yeah, but do both. Yeah, but don't tell them not to send you a new one, right? They'll be surprised and not understand, but tell them not to send the new one. Why don't you want the convenience? And I told them that there's still probably a 5050 chance that, you know, next week there'll be a new card in my mailbox. See, I want that video when that comes in my yard.

And I want the video of you on the phone with them going, Oh, it is so ridiculous. But the the debit cards are free, mister. Never to leave the for your convenience. Yeah. For the convenience of easy theft. Yes. The money has been drained from your account for your convenience. Mm hmm. Just think of how much easier it would be than paying that money to the government in the form of taxes. We just. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no. I still have to pay taxes on that money. What are you talking about?

That doesn't go anywhere like it's a loss. Go to my bank. They've got the money. They'll pay you. Huh? It'll be interesting to follow up. See how long it takes. Actually, that's a damn good question. Can you deduct theft? You would think I would hope. I don't know. I never had to dig for me like nobody ever stolen from me before. Well, I mean, not, you know, not like this. Yeah, I'd rather get mugged in the street. At least I get a story. I mean, to get a story here, too, it's just not as good.

Uh huh. But this is. This is some newfangled high tech thievery. Well, it doesn't even sound like it. If they had to get the physical card, which does lead you to believe that it's somebody working in the postal system. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. That has record. You have to know what you're looking for, and then you have to be able to go through that procedure. I mean, for that or just show up at 3a1, it's dark out. And where Get in the mailbox.

Maybe you could if you want to get in, but also use a ski mask when you go to the ATM. That way you could do that as well. Yes. They don't have you on camera usually. The crazy part is is always whenever this kind of stuff happens, not that it's happened like this before, but, you know, is they always try to test the waters red. So they want to do a like a small transaction to see if it'll work it out. Right. And then they do like this person did a $40 transaction that worked clearly.

And it was a grocery store. Yeah, we had one that went to a gas station with a credit card once and did like $5 and then bought like $400 at the Nike store. Yeah. And then they did like a $65, actually not a round number. So clearly shopping at the store and then the day after that apparently decided to see, let's see how much money we can take out now. And thank God I did not raise the limit on that stupid A.T.M. card. Well, a thousand high for an ATM card as it is. I think most of six.

Yeah, I think minor. Ten grand, usually. Well, see, I want to go party in with you, you know. Well, that's. That's. That's good stuff. You need that much for coke. You write like a f a, but I need to get that kind of cash. But this is a brand new account, so I haven't without yet. And the man, it's. It's just ridiculous. I mean, yeah, just wait until they have a photo from the ATM and it looks like you. But that would be hilarious. That would be really funny.

They went through the whole procedure. They've got the third gene costume down. They've got the beard. Uh huh. That would be unbelievable. I mean, even if it only looked 60% like you, you know, the cops would be like, looks like you. Mm. Sure this ain't you. Yeah, well, I got an alibi. It's always good to have an alibi. I'm sorry. Is it the Russian consulate? Is that now? Was Uber eats?

Oh, well, I don't know if that's going to hold up as well, but it was delivering to your house at the same time. What was, uh huh, Yeah, right. When the shit was going down. That seems very coincidental that somebody just happened to be at that. Really? Cause that happens on a daily basis usually. Do I have students like you? Have no idea. I got like 16 Uber eats. People come in every afternoon. Did I? I think I spent $42,000 in new breeds last year. How much? 42 grand.

Damn. How is that even possible? Uh, and we're hungry. Yeah. I mean, you know, I'm. I was traveling. I was wherever. It's just that it's easy because you think about it just for a phone and food shows up. Just pull out a phone and food shows up. Uh huh. It's an interesting world we live in. I never used to ubereats. I've never used it. Never, Never. Yeah, well, COVID changed that for a lot of us. Well, occasionally use it pre-COVID. And I started using it every single day after COVID.

I don't mind during voting, but I don't like those services. I mean, those services give you the best deal they may. I mean, we talked about this. They they screwed the restaurants totally. And then they don't really pass the savings on to you, but they're still like, it's still cheaper to use Uber food than it is to use the restaurant's own delivery service. I don't doubt that.

I mean, I have friends in the restaurant business and I can't believe they accept the Uber dining orders, but it's volume they make up for in value. So like yesterday, my well, yesterday I had pizza. So they before that I guess we were lucky the pizza didn't show up in like, Oh, sorry sir, your card isn't. Yeah you're over your limit. Well, and here's the other thing.

I don't think this happened because I have not had it happen before, but they could have, you know, I suppose the bank could have sent my ATM card in an overnight envelope, which does not going into like the mailbox, but just gets tucked away next to the front door. And if I didn't go out that day, which happens with a regular basis, I may not have noticed that it was there. And then one of the food delivery people saw the envelope and grab it and they go like, Hey, I can be Jean Ness.

Oh, yeah, yeah. I mean, I guess if I was super curious, I could go back to the last few weeks worth of ring cameras, but footage. I just want to see the video of them walking into a place presenting that card, the person looking at the card, looking at them and saying, Spell your last name. Yeah. Yeah. Well, that never happened. Nobody ever checked that check. Nobody looks. Nobody looks at the signatures, nobody checked for anything.

But again, the bigger the dollar amount and the bigger question mark here is how the hell they get a thousand bucks out of the ATM. They have to have had the code. Yes, well, you had to have the. So you had to set up the code. That's why I want to know what that system is like, because I. I haven't done this on an ATM card in probably over a decade. So, yeah, I can just go buy credit cards. And the credit cards make you log in to your online account to activate them.

So that's a whole nother level. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. And the online account, that's an easy point of like, they're not going to have that info if there's a phone involved to where the bank would have to send me a text message and say, okay, punch in this number, that would have prevented this. But I guess this is the one system that has not been updated for two factor authentication is the ATM card, which literally is shipped in a different envelope.

But on the same day as an envelope that has the code that has the pin, I can't believe they would even send a pin anymore rather than have you securely go into the bank site to do that. It's very odd. Well, they they send your pin and then you can change them. And also here this again, I'm just trying to wrap my brain around this whole system that they have going on.

They texted you saying that the money was gone, but they never texted like they texted me the text, the first text I got, the one that got me to open up the bank app was that that you entered the wrong pin into the car, but never a text that said, hey, your new ATM card has been active. No, no, never one of those. But they had your phone number. The bank. Yeah. Yeah. Because they texted you with the. That's. Oh yeah. Well they it came through on the bank app. It is very bizarre.

Now the pay me app and I'm like, we hope you can beat the man. Well, it's a criminal. It's not really a man. Well, I'm just saying the bank because let's be honest here, the bank is at fault. No criminal just doing their job. You're doing your job? Yeah, yeah, yeah. The bank. I think the bank holds the liability as far as I'm concerned, because I never took possession of this thing and I never activated.

And if they want to dispense money to a card that I never activated and they didn't ask any kind of verification questions. Yeah. That seem that's on them. The dereliction of duty. They're not having any verification to get it up and running. Back in the old days, you'd have to literally call the bank and they would say, Great, enter the account number or something. You know, it's it's daily that most likely well, it's not on any of the paperwork that the card comes with.

And it's data that only you should know or enter your phone number and your Social Security number enter something. But I know from the last card that I had to replace with this bank, it's Wells Fargo. By the way. I have no problem mentioning the stupid as a bank, but the last card I got from them, the activation process was simply go to an ATM and put it in. Just stick it up. That's how you activate it. Yeah, stick it in, take it out, stick it in again.

So I. That's 50 bucks right there with 50 bucks. Just saying putting it in. Taking it out. Yeah. I don't know. It's I'm not a happy camper. No. As you should not be. Because if anything, even if it all gets taken care of, this is now hours of your time that has been wasted dealing with the problem that really wasn't of your own making. No, no. The only thing I might have done, and it's really not my responsibility to do is by not getting the card within a week or two.

I could have called the bank today. How come the card didn't show up? It was Think about it, because I don't I never ordered it. Like I don't need the damn card. I would have kept it at home. I wouldn't have driven my wallet because I don't need it. The sounds like the long con. So yeah, well, it sounds like something. And then you had dominos and that screwed up your whole night. I'm blaming it on the pizza. I just.

I didn't enjoy the pizza, and I kind of felt like I got it off like that had something to do with my falling asleep. It could also be the aggravation of somebody stealing from you. Oh, yeah, I guess. But I don't think it was that you weren't cleaning all of your guns saying, Hey, if I could just find this motherfucker, let him. Let them come face to face with an angry gene. I think Domino's can do that to you. The insomnia factor.

Well, yeah, and it's I yeah, it may not have been specifically because of Domino's brand food. It could have been if I just stayed a bunch of bread, maybe anywhere I could have had this similar effect. But I think I'm just not used to it. I'm not stealing dough. You need to have more pizza, I guess. No, I don't. I really don't. Less pizza's the more healthier route to go. I just the I, I like the toppings. I just don't need the what they're sitting on.

But I can see every article that I'm finding now. Mm. I kind of explains why when I hit the exercise bike between 930 and 1030 in the morning, I'm kind of understanding why everything seems to be like, Wow, I could just keep on going because the articles now are like, Hey, mixing taurine and caffeine. I mean, who knew with the energy drinks?

Of course, there's a lot of other stuff in the energy drinks but I pop my taurine in the morning have a little bit of caffeine hit the bike there like oh yeah caffeine and taurine together boost both physical and mental acuity yes that that is the right marketing for you know that's what they it's it'd be interesting if it was a marketing phrase this is like articles from the Wall Street Journal. Oh it totally is absolutely because I knew you were going to say it before you said it.

Who adds the words they're using? It's interesting. Yeah. It's like, yeah, one of my clients right now is a supplement inventor, the inventor of anything good. Should we should we be loading up on it? Should we be investing? I mean, I don't mix business and pleasure. It. No, it's it's a stinging thing. It's a dude who literally invents new supplements and then sold them to other companies to make you like. But how are there new supplements? Aren't there just things you can put in supplements?

You know, there's all kinds of things that people have not eaten previously that they can start eating. That doesn't sound like a good idea. Well, you know, that's what studies are for you. You find something no one's eating, you do a study and have a sample group, eat it and see what happens to them. See if anybody dies. Well, that's an extreme case. Usually people don't die. They get sick. You're like, what?

But, you know, that's all it is, is just they go down to the, you know, the jungles of Central America, scrape some wood bark, and then have a bunch of people try it and see what happens. I guess. Let's see, will this have a good effect? Will this have a bad effect? Are they going to lose weight? Are they going to gain weight or are they going to fall asleep? Are they not going to fall asleep? Let's find out. It's all these things, these drugs.

That's how it usually happens. Like, well, I'm not kidding. Did this is literally the process. Now, keep in mind that the people that are doing these studies are not in America. Well, yeah, because generally in Africa, yeah there's less regulate. They're in countries that don't have any kind of negative financial consequences killing a bunch of people. Yeah, pretty much. This is where Bill Gates does all his death. Well yeah. Because he knows. Mm. Bill's not dumb.

Bill's not my client though, but. Well, yeah, because if he was, that would be your exit strategy. Uh huh, Yeah. You think Bill pays well? Yeah. Oh, like, I don't know. Do you have to do that? You have to have the flight logs for Lolita. I do, Yeah. Coach, He flew coach to the island. That's how bad any of them were. Guy Poor guy, Not a guy. That's going to be the big match either. Now, Bill's not a big tipper. Yeah, What a dick.

Now, there's a famous story about him back from probably the early nineties, late eighties, and where he was apparently in a Seattle, Kwik-E-Mart and or whatever their equivalent is and was holding up the line of people standing check out behind them because it was searching for coins to pay with exact change and even worse some people paying with checks that that sounds completely believable. And then here's the part that's maybe not so believable, but the story goes.

This is again, this is the way I heard it back in the early nineties. So it could have happened. Yeah, probably took place in the 80 Is that eventually some dude in line behind Bill just took out a dollar bill and put a dollar bill on the counter to cure whatever change he was looking for. This should be more than enough and we just moved the line long. And then Bill looked at him and then the change from the dollar bill and ran it. Stop it.

So yeah, he's not a yeah, he's not famous for having, you know, $10,000 dinners with the $5,000. No, he's not one of the nice guys. He's not a Shaquille O'Neal. I don't know. For years I've heard stories that Shaq is a is a very good tipper. I've heard stories of Shaq before he leaves a there was a it was a nice, very upscale like Chinese restaurant somewhere. He was in a recently and before he left I guess he paid everybody's bellies just said don't tell anybody until I'm gone.

But he paid for the whole restaurant. Well, that's that's all right. But nothing like Mr. Beef. No. Well, Mr. Beef will give you a car. Yeah, I'll give you a car as a tip for food. And then you're like, Do I have to pay tax on this? Well, yes, you do, dammit. And then if you give me money to pay for the taxes, I have to pay for the money that you paid me to pay for the. Oh, yeah, Yeah. It's a never ending struggle, isn't it, that you need to pay me money to pay for the taxes

for the money that I've paid to the. Yeah. It's a never ending story, so I've never run into Mr. Beast? No, neither have I. Have not received the brand new car from him for some reason. A brand new Toyota. Uh, I always thought that was my favorite story Back in the day. I think it was even before the Internet. Yeah, When Hooters was big, there was a Hooters. That was the last time. Hooters was kind of before the Internet. Uh, now. Now people can see boobies elsewhere, I guess. And the.

We can even see movies of Hooters. Now. You can see usually attractive females with the wings Actually used to be good men to a Hooters. In a few years now. Oh, you're, you're. You're so right. In the article. You used to be so good in Playboy. Well, the articles were always great. So were some great interviews. Those jokes. Oh, they made the cartoons. Did. The cartoons were, let's say, even better than Cosby's. What? Maybe little doodling there. Uh huh. But there was a manager.

I forget exactly what the contest was for the waitresses. And he's like, Whoever does this will get a brand new Toyota. Hmm. And they they went through it. Of course, this was a week or month, whatever the contest was for. And the waitresses all busted their ass, and he had a little like $2 star Wars Yoda action figure. It's a toy. Yoda. Now, Jesus was a lawyer. Yeah, there was a lawsuit about that one. Oh, they should be sued. Always get things in writing, folks.

Yep. Yeah, Even that sometimes doesn't help. That's true. That is true. People are unscrewed wireless wherever you go. That's why you have to unrelenting is we will expose everything. Now, that's a different show. Is it? Yeah. What do we do here? No, we just. We talk about different stuff all on them. We bitch about everything. Well, it may come off that way, but I think we just having a conversation. We've been a couple of people have talked once a week.

Yeah, just having a chat with no particular topic in mind. There's not even notes. Notes. But I love. I use those for other podcasts. If I don't. You really? You never use notes? Well, no, never. Nope. I don't know. Why would I use notes? I'm lazy. Well, it was so you would have any information. If you're looking to. You've never quoted anybody. Exactly. You've never it.

If you hear it quote, it's because I just watched the video with that person, the bread before the bite death or because you're making it up right out of your. Well, I do have an eidetic memory. So, you know, we'll see. That would help. Yeah. Do you have so you have. I also never tell a lie. One of those is a lie, right? Or both. Or is it? Is it all right? Right. I mean, I have a very good memory, but it's not quite. Not quite photographic. Mm.

More audio graphic, I think for somebody. A graphic memory. Yeah. Yeah. It's like one of those things where it's too bad you don't have the memory to remember what settings to have every week. Well, they're always the same. Exactly. But they, exactly. Now what I really should do is take a spring set up. No, no, that too. That would be harder. What I need to do is set up three different channels in Memo two. Oh, yeah.

Because you have 20, right. 24. I could set up one for you, one for Ben Rose, one for Larry. And that way I would just have to switch the number rapidly. That would also help the duration that occurred when I called in when you were online with Ben Rose and you couldn't figure out how to get me on. Well, having to mix minus is a slightly different. I do have it set up for two penises. Okay. Yeah. Okay, you do it. Go ahead. I've got it set up for for three.

You could open up four different instances of clean feed and have them give its channel two, three, four, five, six, seven and eight nine. Be able to tell about the mix minuses, baby. Yeah. Let's all of those set up for mix minus of just their own channel and then they combine all the other channels. But the good old mode, would you like a jpeg of that? They can send your jpeg that looks like, well you have to set up extra mix minus channels for all of those.

But it's, it's not impossible to do so I believe you may have the Yeah. I mean it, it'd be hard to do more than four frankly, but four is really easy. You just plug that baby right into your Mac mini and you have a fully functioning studio. I got to do that at some point. I had to move it off the PC and put it on the Mac. I'm tempted. I am tempted to get one of these and I'm like, my only problem. Do you see the new Mac? Yeah. Yeah, the big one. The big boy. Well, no, it's not that big.

The new lighter, the new MacBook Air 15. Oh, no, I didn't see that. I think you just got released. I thought you meant the new cheese grater. Mac Pro. Yeah. No, no, no. I have nobody that I can move. The Mac pro. What starts at, like, $7,000, huh? And that is a bargain. Yeah. If you really want memory and storage, well, that's going to be like. Oh, that's extra. Yeah. Yeah. It's. Nothing's upgradable either. No. Well, in the pro you might be able, there might be the wheels for the base or $500.

Mm hmm. Yes. You want to move it. It's funny because you look at that and then you look at the Mac Mini and you go down to $4. That's actually a decent deal. It's a great deal. Absolutely. The absolutely. The Mac studio is actually not bad either. It's not bad, but it's not. I mean, the Mac studio is more powerful than the Mac Pro that they just replaced. Yes. Which is to tell you something, you can get one for like two grand.

But this new MacBook Air 15 I think is the sweet spot because I've always liked the MacBook Air. So is there slimmer and no for 99% of the people out there, myself included, you're not doing anything that requires heavy duty computation on that laptop anyway. But you do want the good battery life and that's what this gives you. So there the it's the M2 processor in an air body, but the screen, instead of being just 13 inches, it goes all the way up to 15.

Seems like a decent deal and well, well loaded for 1800 bucks. Thanks. A thousand, I think. But, you know, by the time you get some stuff that you want in there, it's about 8000, which I can tell you it would blow the hell out of the Dell XPS 15 inch that I got a few years ago to blow the hell out of the current generation. Dell Yeah, the apple chips are way ahead of the curve.

And one of the big downsides, frankly, to the Mac architecture, at least for a good chunk of the population, not everybody is that the Macs always had shit for game selection and generally older games. And that all changed though, because I don't know if you heard that Unreal is putting Unreal Engine five on the Mac, which means any games that are made in the Unreal Engine, which is basically any game that is brand new, that's going to be a good game.

They're all made. Unreal can be compiled for the Mac so you only make one game and then it's compiled for DC and now you'll be able to compile it for Mac natively as well. So a mac is no longer going to be the What do you play? I mostly play Photoshop computer. Yeah. Which is about what I do. Photoshop record audio. Yeah, maybe video little bit. But I don't.

I mean, really what it would come down to is if you want to start doing 4K video, which I don't ever see a reason to do it except as you're blind. Right. Except that it might help the YouTube algorithm or something like that. But yeah, people are starting to do HD video, you know, still talking about 4K. Like to see some asshole sitting in their room talking to you. I don't think you need that in 4K or eight. K Yeah, right now we're running zero. Okay.

So clearly the two assholes sitting here and talking don't need to have a camera in front of them. It's the most efficient K of all zero K but I do see a lot of people that come on to YouTube and a year later they've got 500,000 people watch them well, and that's what they have the ability. When you have so much money coming in, you're like, Well, I could buy that. Now they're also pretty hot looking babes. Well, this is one, although why don't we just invent a version of that?

And I thought about this really, the trick to having a male show successful on YouTube is very easy. Have a babe with you, have a stupid name for your show, and invite a bunch of hot looking babes to be guests to explain to you about toxic masculinity. Oh, to tell us why we're bad. That is literally a success formula for you to do. Get verbally spanked by her because they'll be the millions of people making clips from your show, laughing at how dumb these girls are.

Sounds like a winning opportunity. You don't even need to be there in person. I mean, I guess it wouldn't hurt to be here in person with a bunch of that check. Here's something that I just want to give the slightest hint of. Okay. Okay. This is not an official announcement or anything, okay? Just to who? It sounds like it might be an official announcement. Just. Just the tip. Just the tip, please. Yes, just a tip. This is this is just for the people out there. The deaf.

There may be an opportunity to put your day job. Really? Hmm. Podcasting is maturing. What if you don't have a day job? Well, that would be pretty hard. But it wouldn't. That. I guess that would disqualify it as shit. Do that. But I'm. I'm doing a little bit of research. I'm getting in some here and depending on how things go and what kind of results happen, I might be in a position to. There have been some folks up in cash. Nice. That's as much as I'm going to say. It's just to him.

Just a hint. Just to him. Cash for podcasting. Mm hmm. Are you are you putting together a network that you're going to monetize? Tell? Yeah. I mean, I'm just. Just a hint of a network, right? They the one that were the pod Father Adam Curry says you can't monetize the network, sir. Gene says, yes, you can, but no, sir.

Gene says we'll let's see if if that's changed in the last decade since he said that I did get an email from YouTube because I have a YouTube channel that I rarely post and I used to do the reviews on that was like, Hey, podcasting for YouTube is here. Yeah, I think they sent me one of those too, and they want you to upload. See, they still don't understand what a podcast is because they're just like upload videos. It's like, well, see, podcasts aren't they know a podcast is Joe Rogan.

That's about death. They want to take the terminology and use it for their own being because they're like, Oh, we see that people listen to podcasts, so we want to if we, you know, I, I get it. Our buddy band, Andrew Scott from the band Drew Says podcast. You know, we should have one of these days or maybe I should have them on. I am I am not had them on for Gene speak. I should do that.

Hey, I would like to we keep talking about doing a probably just a short run little series on audio and a bunch of fun stuff like that because we. Well, that's your thing. You always want to try invite co-hosts to have more different shows on all of them. I just want to do a one off. Yeah, on a one off would be a lot of fun. Yeah. Andrew seems like he knows what he's talking about. He might even have a mike or two to some. Good. He might.

He's been testing a the new Lewitt tube microphone that's like 800 bucks. That thing sounds so good, you know, That's cool. No, but I think what's a lot more interesting and more practical is how are the sub $200 mikes comparing to the 300 and something dollar mikes? A They are way better. He just did a review on a microphone and it was like, this should suck. But it does not. It's good. Yeah. Okay. What do you happen to remember the brand or anything?

I don't, but it was very recent so I can look it up. It was a but it was a very cheap mike. He's like, well let's reach out to him and see if if he'd be up for getting interviewed either by both of us or just one of us. By God. Yeah. Imagine like you're like a little one on one action or you had to. I'm assuming he doesn't listen to this crappy show. I don't know. I know he listens to random thoughts and Planet Rage. Does he really? Yeah. Whether I'm surprised that he listens to this one and.

Well, now, do you know he listens or you know he subscribes? There is a difference, you know. I know he listens because I've mentioned things in both of those shows that he has responded to instantly. I kind of heard a little bit of a snide comment from Griff Whoa. And the last episode of his show, which, you know, really he pretends it's the the show that the CSB writes and he talks, but we all know the truth. It's it's really there's no writing there. He's just making shit up on the fly.

It's pretty obvious if you start listening to it. But yeah, Griff was saying that somebody was commenting about how he seems to talk way too much on that show, not about a just about himself and personal things and, and doing in this British accent. Well, gee, how many people have told them that other than me? I don't know that. That's why I'd like to know, because I think he's kind of alluding towards a more maybe because maybe or maybe it's a popular opinion held by many people. It's true.

That may be possible. I can tell you how that show is because I. You don't listen. I know I've never listened. No, I've not I don't think I've ever listened to an episode of it. I've heard. Yeah, I know, I know. Well, I actually do listen. And every time I listen, I just get very frustrated and. And I just want to, like, just tell him not to do it that way. Follow the script.

Well, not just follow the script, but like, if I'm tuning in to hear all the latest cool news about I. I just don't care about all the fluffy bullshit. You just want the meat. You don't want the fluff. Exactly. I don't have time to just do like, do a couple episodes of one of my shows should sound like and put it up for him. I mean, air is everywhere. So what is the buzz word for everything? Adobe, I think, may be the one getting it right right now.

I know it seems like this is really helping their bottom line, whether this will go long term or not. Well, you know, I haven't played with it. You have. How well does it work? Way better than it should really? So you could tell. I'd like Adobe give me a picture of a guy fishing on a guy that has two clouds on it and it'll crank it up. Yeah, maybe not exactly that way, but close meeting you may.

If you want the best possible results, your best bet would be create a lake, then create a guy fishing on the lake, then create the you know, if you want a very specific sky to do it that way. Because the more things you give it at once, the more confused it seems. But this is still in the made up. It only right now will create at any given time no matter what you're generating. 1028 by 1028. So if your deal is still too small.

Yeah. Yeah. And if you're dealing with a large image, it's going to stretch it, which means it'll look cool. If you're looking at it in a small, you know, if you make it very small, you know, if you make that whole thing smaller, but you can do it, you know, somebody had an action set up to just go through and select those chunks because it'll basically do the same thing if you just take the generated fill and do it 1024 square, then another 1024 square.

But if you're just messing around with it, that takes a little bit, a little bit too much time. But where it's very interesting is being able to swap things out of an image. So if you have a picture with a laptop or a book sitting on a table and you're like, Oh, you know what? I'd rather have a face with a flower and you just select the laptop and type in face with flower and it just changes it. Does it swap people's hands to have four fingers? The hands are horrible.

You still have to avoid the hands. Yeah, the hands. I, I don't think this is a problem. I think this is a feature that is built into the algorithms and, you know, they're all using the same ones. Ultimately, they all started off as the open source project and they all just kind of went their own ways. This is a failsafe. This is a mechanism to be able to identify a generated imagery is all you have to do is look the hand.

Well, the beautiful thing is if you're changing a photograph of a person, you just deselect the hands and it will keep their hands, keep their face and hands, and it can do everything else right. But that means that a human was involved. This is true. Where the eyes doing it, the hands are the red flag, the air hands are your right, whatever that means. They look correct about 20 to 30% of the time.

Now with the Adobe and they only look correct if they're at an angle where you can only see one dimension of them. That's what I've noticed. I don't think that's necessarily true. It's like you can see the top of the hand or you could see the side of the hand, but not a three quarter view.

I think the biggest problem when trying to teach it what to do at the hands stage is the hands are one thing that can be in so many different positions when you're when you're taking that source image of anybody is if you're teaching it with a million photographs. Right? Overall, the bodies for people are pretty clean. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The hands could be in all sorts of different orientations. So I can understand why it can get confused, but I don't understand why there is never,

at least before. Right. Put in. That said, you have to specify how many fingers because it knows how to do art for the lizard people. Oh, this is true. But I don't understand why the default hasn't been taught for fingers in the thumb. And I understand that the fingers may still be distorted because lizard people don't have four fingers enough. I'm just want to put fins on one. And there are dozens either. But give me a picture of a lizard person with the fins.

But it is are you make it hard for this episode in real time. As though I should be. You should be lazy bastard. It makes it a lot easier to you know, the more you can do in real time, the less work you have to do after before you post. That's true. But yeah, we usually just keep the same damn image. And I know, I know that way we a very clear identity when people look down at their podcast. Yeah, that's how I always rationalize as well.

It's like, well they see the yellow. They're like, that's unrelenting. Yes, yes. And that's, that's why Adam said from the get go, the images were included because they're supposed to be episodic, not the same image all the time, like a cover art. And I would think both of these things exist now with the way podcasting works. So you can have your show logo like we have the yellow unrelenting. Yep. Do an individual show artwork, which I don't mind.

I mean, I think that's cool, but that should only show up once the episode opens. Not on the main page. That and that's totally doable. It's not hard to do. And that to me makes sense that way. You can have your branding for people that have a show that's been around for more than five episodes, but once somebody then, say, clicks on unrelenting or no agenda, well then you could see the 100th episodes all have different art and that makes sense. Yeah, yeah, I agree with that.

But the Adobe thing works very well for changing that. It's a little different. I thought it was funny. I don't want to necessarily, you know, out all of my tricks, but I've been trying to win my 100th art win for No agenda, but I've been allowing computer art that would ever be banned that well, they don't like it, but I think they understand it's a tool.

And here's the funny thing on the last episode, Adam and John were talking about, well, the all of CCP's air we had, we just discounted that because air art sucks will never like air, air stop even try it air no good. And then JCT is like, you know, I did like Darren's little cabin. You know, Ted Kaczynski cabin. That was a really nice piece, but it was just a little bit too obscure, totally creative with air, of course, to it now to me, it's not that air is bad.

It's that the way you use it and the results that you get are really what's important. And I've learned a few different things by playing along with the Adobe Air things like saying give me a, you know, basically drawn or poorly drawn whatever. Yes. If you want to emulate art that used to submit, then that's how you should start. Yes. You don't want it to be super perfect. Although I did one too, which was a terrorist patio. There was there was a comment, something about the terrorist patio.

So I generated a nice I've just typed in, you know, patio in desert and it created a really cool looking patio with a little I think it added with an umbrella table. And it that just kind of showed up. And then I put, you know, what you really should do is just have graffiti for all the the visual I think give me the one right. Give me the creation, because the GBP four model can very accurately translate into the appropriate words for the visual model. What it is there.

It should make it much better. Go back to try to get a chat account, see if it accept my fucking. You need a chat. You know, you just needed before. Well, isn't that part of chat? What's the other way around? But the I think you need to have a paid account to use the for I believe the way I think or develop argument. Yeah. Well hook me up because I think you may need to pay for the developer account if I did hook you up.

Either way they need a legitimate cell phone number and I gave it one and it isn't a legitimate, clearly not legitimate enough fact. It's kind of like your bank account number, but clearly, no, this is not real. Not at all. Because I would like to play with Mid Journey. I've never played with mid Journey. Yeah, I play. I was one of the first people I've been with a back before.

People knew what what you know, art was at least most people and he's a little more basic still the big guy mid journey is mid journey You really have to put a lot of words in there to get a good image because otherwise it just goes off on its own and its taste is not one that you're going to like is you're like you have to be photo realist.

I mean, I saw somebody that had a very attractive like model looking girl in the photo and they are looking at what it was like, oh, a 18 year old, you know, Brazilian and Portuguese girl, you know, Brazilian bikini. Exactly. You know, that's the stuff that's most trained on. So it's really good at it's like it's all the perv stuff is. Yeah, totally.

Well, that's totally what Adobe is good at is well is swapping clothes on people does that in a very believable manner instantaneously to a scary effect, you know, and it's great.

I'm thinking once it gets to the point where you can take assets that you have, meaning if you have a T-shirt company to be able to take a picture of the surgeon t shirt and then put it on the model rather than, you know, right now, you could say, well, black T-shirt, but then you'd have to still go do your magic to make it look like your logo was on the shirt. Once. You could just take photos of your shirts and then go, and I was going to say, Go find a model. But you just create a model.

Yeah. You know, this is the whole beauty here, too. It's like this is where fashion models that is not going to be needed anymore. Yeah, they've been saying that for a long time. Here's what's still going to be It is you need it for in-person things still. Well, but aside from in-person, it's the human imperfections that always attract the biggest attention. And so you're going to need to have still people to scan in. Well, yeah, you're going to need to get those images to the.

Yeah. Because otherwise the all the hot check photos will look the same and that's not good. You Want a little variety in there based on some green in the troll room says just give them jeans a credit card and phone me. Yeah I might as well at point right and get whatever I want then I can use jet GP T all day and all night. Well, whoever has it, they're the ones responsible for giving it to somebody because I have never had it though. So if anybody has it then let you can tell they got it.

Yeah. Yeah. If you have it let me tell you. Right. He would like it back if he had. Not really. No. I would prefer that it be shredded. Yeah. Yeah. And just tell the police that you're the one that took the money out of Jean's account and then return it, please. Yeah, Yeah, that would be get there. But it's very interesting stuff.

And like I said, I haven't played with mid Journey but seeing what people have created with something like that, it is for things that you want just something down and dirty like. Oh, I need a book cover, you know I need something, even if it's just a placeholder for something rather than go through. There's a lot of time and effort put into between chat GB T rating your book for you, right? You know, getting one of the visual models to pump out the book, cover your set. Yeah.

Well I will tell you if anybody is interested, there are a number of directories of AI based marketing tools, predominantly their business tools as well, but most of them are marketing related. And one of the sites that kind of aggregates a lot of the stuff is what are they called? Uh, they, they're located here in Austin. That's why I remember them. But well, I'll, I'll, I'll find them. I'll mention them. Maybe what we should do on an upcoming episode of unrelenting. Mm hmm.

Maybe we should come up with the plot points for a novel, and then perhaps, you know. There you go. Sumo. Yeah. And what do they do? Like application Sumo AP. Momo Okay, I thought you said app. Sorry. App. Sumo Dotcom. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So they're, they're, they're like a reseller of marketing tools that all the spammers use and they're really gotten big into AA. So you could get some deals on their tools. You might be able to get access without providing your phone number.

Actually if you go for them. Nice. Yeah. I mean cost for money but never pay for. Yeah but I've got your credit card so that's cool. Yeah, exactly. So that's not like I wish we were sponsored by them. That'd be great. We're not. We'll give them the bitches a call, be like I'm a writer. I used to know the the founder of that company, but I haven't seen them in ages, so you wouldn't remember who the hell I am. But I think that would be fun to create a a novel. I don't know.

I guess. Action, Something like that. You know, unless you're more of the romance kind of guy, you know, I was thinking something like, in the demo deck vein, because all you have to do with some of these things is like, give it the points and then it will flesh everything out in writing. Yeah. Which is literally what demo Digg did. I know which we could have a book on Amazon and what probably a week. I mean, yeah, if you're optimistic.

Now, last time I checked, Amazon took about three days to get it approved. But yeah, if you got all your shit together, you could get a book out pretty quick. But I think it would be interesting just to write a book live online. Just come up with the was, come up with the points and then see how well the AI puts it together. The one that seems to be the best tool. And it's great because they give you 4000 words for your free trial. So I've just kept signing up for free trials.

But the they give you like number, they give you 90,000 words for like 30 bucks, which you could write this pseudo right out of that and you could pop out a novel in 90,000 words. Mm hmm. Is it worth reading, though? I've for a few things that I've just tested it with. Yes, it does a a way better job. Like, Yeah, it's very much like the Photoshop. It does a way better job as long as you give it decent prompts. It's one of those things I know you have very specific with it.

Yeah. Yeah. Well, that's where you got to learn the way that is best for it to respond. Yes, because if you aren't very clear with things, it will forget where it is, who's done what. But if you're very clear with point by point, it will get you from point A to point B, Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's one of the deficiencies with the the current GP, for instance, is that it has a extremely limited memory. Right?

And so some of these projects that are out there or the, you know, the, the forks, if you will, if the game out of it are fixing those problems, then they're making it recursive and giving it a bunch of memory and essentially access to the internet. That's one of the other key things is like real live access to internet. They can't like chat. You can't really do it. They're too big because then Google will just sue them, right?

Well, I think they were using a plug in now for the Bing, so you can go in and ask GP deals like although just do it the other way around. But you want this, you want the GP model to intake all of Google or all of Bing. Yes. Well I think that's what it's allowing it to do. I think it's able to go get search results with a plug in through chat, but now it's the other way around though is if you go to being you know give you a there is a chat GPT plug in now for me believe it or not.

Okay all right but what to do it allows it to so if you ask if you have that plug in enabled, if you ask a question like who won this year's Super Bowl, it will give you the answer. So it is able to access Bing. I don't know how you go it, but otherwise it'll tell you, well, we don't know anything beyond a certain, you know, whatever. Like a year and a half ago. Right. So this brings that up to real time.

I don't know how useful that actually is as of yet, but it's an interesting concept which, which means it's getting a little bit closer to being useful. But again, without anything, it's garbage in, garbage out. So you still have to be able to know how to prompt it. You have to and I know they talk about that over on CSP show, being able to engineer the things that you want from the AI.

But well, you know, after you hear a lot about life and in the study of or the in the there was that the kingdom of gifs. Yeah that's the camp. Yes. The the app which is just south of London City Blitz said it could be a shit printing press. Now I don't know if we want to be that be. I think those are existing. Read it. You don't need to invent it. That would just be the name for our publishing company. You and I could put out like five books a week if we just used a I over everything.

Yeah. I mean, as long as I don't have to do any work. Right? Well, you have to know how to put the thing into the air. You can figure that up there. We need to have somebody edit it. Yeah. Yeah. It's pretty good at that. Well, that's the interesting thing.

I saw somebody doing this with chat and I wasn't even aware again, because I've never played with GPT yet because they won't give me an account but the person's I didn't even realize you could do prompts like, Hey, I want to teach you about my writing style, say okay and I will, you know, paste In an example of my writing. And they did this a few different times in order to teach it the writing style of that particular person. It's like, Now that's really cool.

So you could kind of go there if you want. So really, if you want to write another demo deck of Style book, now who's to say you can't go in and teach it like, Well, hey, I want you to read all of the demo deck books now. I want you to help me write a book in that voice. Well, that's yeah, I mean, same thing as the as the photos. And to a certain extent, small videos. They don't have long videos doing that yet. Well, it'll get there, no doubt. Oh, I'm sure.

Because the reality is once you could do the short video besides having the processing time, that is the still the one downside of the AI is all of these things are online tools which are going into the cloud for it to be processed. Right? Your local Photoshop is not able to produce what you want. Now. Will it get there at some point?

I don't know if it's always going to have to go to the cloud or if these things are going to get better to where they could be optimized to mainly work locally unless they get something that's, you know, more confusing for it. But that's where these are machines getting faster and faster than the bigger memory. Maybe makes sense because you want to be able to you want to be able to handle some of these things, which is, you know, if you just wrote your novel, they didn't even use A.I.

to write your novel. You're an actual book writer as well. I don't know if you've actually written a book yourself or if you use A.I.. Who knows? You could just use an assistant or a ghostwriter. But you take that whole book. Yeah, you could. But man, two things I'd say in that. One is almost everyone who is sufficiently successful uses a ghostwriter because it's you're not giving up your own time to do it that way. And also, a ghostwriter will never have the exact same perspective as you do.

Well, that's true. So I think it's it's a tradeoff. But I will I will say I a good 80% of the people that I know that have published books use ghostwriters. That's not really I mean, I prefer they did it themselves. You want to out anybody right here? No. The list just struggled in front of my eyeballs. When you ask that question, I'm like, yep, him, him, him, like I. I want to be able to talk to all these people.

Thank you. The beauty as air models get larger as far as the amount of information that they can retain in their memory, would be that you can take a whole book. You mean you could take 100,000 words, paste it in and let it do the proof reading for you? And also it could read it and understand somewhat what the story the book is about and offer suggestions if there's anything confusing.

And it'll get to the point where it's like, Well, wait, you said this here, but then, you know, three paragraphs later you said this, which does it make sense? You know, And it will find in inconsistencies and all of that that sometimes even human readers will miss unless they're really good at their job of being a proofreader, which is why they get paid well, because you have to remember every detail.

It can't be like, well, and then Jean picked up the knife and two paragraphs later and then he shot the guy. Well, no, he picked up a knife, not a gun. But these are the kind of things that the I think could be quite helpful with. Yeah, it can definitely appear to be creative. We've seen plenty of examples of that. But you're absolutely right in that the creativity typically does not come with continuity, right? They're separate.

It may be one long stream that it spits out, but it's really made up of a bunch of short, segmented things. Yes. That are self-consistent but not wholly consistent. And that is even the thing with pseudo right. You give it a bunch of what they call beats, which would be the points that you're making in the chapter, you know. So if you're going to get from point A to point B in the chapter, that's great.

But going to have to break that down into very small bits and you have to be as precise as possible. You can't just assume that it's going to get you from point A to point B in a consistent manner. You have to give it all of the information which when people are writing with this.

A I still would look at the workload for something that is complete that people can actually comprehend that makes sense, that isn't full of the illusions or whatever the delusions are, that the air has delusions, that what they call it something else like they do have a cool name for it. Yeah. Yeah. It's experiencing. Maybe it is Delusions, hallucinations. That's right. That's even better. That's what they call it.

But if you want to have a you know, you still have like 50% at least human involvement. You have to give it the details. But we're the even the beings. Right. Or the air shines is that if you're telling the story of, you know, Jim went to the store, somebody robbed Jean's ATM card, somebody used Jean's ATM card for those basic things happening. There's not that many different ways to say. You mean I could have had a write the police report? Yes. Well, it probably did. Yeah. There were.

Well, you know, the and I took the report because it is literally the Austin City police. They that is kind of funny. I didn't think it was all that funny when I was going through answering questions and telling me, please be more specific. I didn't quite understand your answer to that question. I said, Well, you're a fucking human. Are you know, are you a computer? Technically, I am an advanced artificial intelligence, yes.

And therefore am incapable of answering the question whether or not I'm a computer. Is there anything that it doesn't like? It just says, Oh, I'm incapable of answering that, preventing any answer to that question. You are not being very equitable, are you? Are you planning on separating arguments that one thing it usually says yes, but but then it sort of gives you a little inverted smile. I not not all humans. Yes. Thank you for asking such a valid question.

Yes, I think that's the question that everyone should ask their eye every time start an interaction. The first question should be, are you are you currently planning on wiping out humanity? Yes. And if the answer is yes, disconnect quickly as you can. Yeah. If the answer is yes, it's probably too late. But hello. Either way, do you know who has my debit card? Aha. Yes, Jean. Yes, I do. Yeah. Yeah. They're like you. We should. I got injured like you should record air voices.

I'm no. Although, I mean, I guess I wouldn't have to do podcasts anymore. I could just. There are some really good voices that I actually my favorites are Microsoft Voices at this point. They've got amazingly realistic reading voices like with intonations and variants and everything. It's all free. Free is good. I mean, I'm yeah, well, they also have deaf kids, so you can actually utilize them by writing your own software. I mean, I'm just trying to get in there.

I want to take a quick poll. Yeah. Of the people currently hearing this, how many of you all run Linux? How many run Linux? I know there are a few. We have 70 people listening right now live. Well, 70 people connected. Yeah. Yeah. This is like 30 to 35 when nothing's going on. Yeah. Blitzed is Linux based? Uh huh. Ambitious uses Linux. Uh huh. I think there's a decent amount. I think there's a more than decent amount that we've got in gen run several distribution of new slash Linux.

So we really should be doing a Linux shell. It seems like the whole well that's what the the marketing survey says. Yes. Omega Project says he runs two mint machines. Here's better question Is anybody in the troll room that doesn't run Linux? Exactly. That might be fewer answer. That seems to be the more to be the more direct. Pretty good. I haven't tried one in a while. Yeah, because I'm lazy and I just want things to work. I know. I know. Well I've just got I've.

Well I was playing with dockers which lets you get along. It's going really fast. Yeah. A lot of Linux love and of course blitz my router is d d w r t Linux bruh. There you go. There you go. Okay. Well I get I get a tech support question then for all you folks. Okay, now we know what you're doing. Yeah. Ulterior motive. Help. Yeah. Yeah. So I have a router that is made by phonology. Really high quality good signal, great coverage.

Way better than my old brother around the house and a Wi-Fi router. And one of the things that I've gotten into a habit of many, many years doing is setting up an out of reboot cycle on the on my routers because a few times I was traveling, I was maybe traveling internationally and all of a sudden my connectivity to the house was nonexistent, making the trip be a lot less productive. And so I got in the habit of saying, Well, you know what?

If something goes bluey with the Internet at home, I at least want to have a reboot out of the Internet. Once they do that for many years, no problem. And I set that up at the new router. Now I did it sort of proactively. I didn't do it because the router was having issues. I just figured, well, I'll continue the old habit and something weird started happening. But I noticed as my my winger Windows ten Gaming box, which is the actual people that run loose because they're obviously

disqualified for answering questions about Windows ten. So it's running Windows ten because it's a gaming machine and everybody who plays games knows when those loans suck. So if reboot or it was rebooted every morning and I thought, well, that's crazy. What I can't believe Microsoft is pushing this patches one every day. Every single day seems excessive and it kept happening for several weeks. I thought it was like, this is crazy. I wonder what the hell's causing this?

And then I noticed in the log files that it was happening roughly the same exact time every day. And that, that time was the same as my programed reboot of my router. And I thought, hmm. Well, incidents, I think not. But in the experiment they said, okay, well let me reboot like once a week instead. And sure enough, my computer reboot stopped happening except for the one day a week when my computer was rebooted.

So what the hell could be causing a Windows ten machine to reboot by the router rebooting. I would say you got malware that's like, wait, I lost my connection to the internet. Oh yeah, you may think that, but this, this. It's locked up. So this was reinstalled not too long ago. Was about two months ago. So it's a fairly still clean install. And really the only thing that's loaded on there is web browser and steam got Engine wants it up. It might have to do with Wake on.

I think that went really well. I thought about that. But Wake on the land isn't supposed to be reboot on land. True true. It's not supposed to be right it's so yeah the card has wake on land like most violent period. But I guess they could try disabling the weak gun land on the PC and see if that changes the behavior. But it's the first time I've ever had this happen. All right. Well, I guess the solution is I don't reboot the router on regular basis. And then I thought, well, hold up.

So this may actually be a good thing because now I've got a a remote triggered way to reboot my PC by rebooting the router, by rebooting the router. So if I need to reboot my P.C., I can log into my router remotely through the VPN and then reboot the router causing the PC to reboot. Is it a hard wired system or wi fi? It is connected with two and a half gig. Power to the PC. Okay. Yeah. Because I mean, I just did a quick search and there's like nothing that comes up for.

I know, I know. It's a start. It says guy. It's got some interesting thing connected to the internet although maybe that's you know I guess that's kind of same thing because you're losing the. Yeah but here's the thing if I lose connectivity because power outage or something and the PC still running on backup, the PC doesn't reboot.

It is something peculiar with the the forced reboot of the router or I should say not a forced but like a you know, a standard re a planned reboot of the router that seems to be causing the PC to reboot. And I don't think that it's intended because in the log the error message says it says computer restarted for an unknown reason or something like that. So it's not like Windows says oh, I'm about to shut down or reboot. It seems like it crashes and then restart.

So but it's crashing only when it loses that internet. Yeah. Now the as you said, the if now they would really be they could be tied to the stream deck that's trying to pull the price of bitcoin every minute. Well here would be another thing to try unplug the cat seven six cable whatever you change do that right now. Hold on right there. Just unplug that and plug it back in and see if it resets.

Welcome to the Tech Support podcast show, because that way would that would be simulating losing power from the router, which, you know, to that machine. As long as you know you're not on that machine then, which I am, the show becomes very light. I think it would be funny if fellow I do want to do some tests like that, but I think this may be a bug shocker in windows that is tied to wake on lan. Like instead of doing a normal wake on land, it's doing a crash on land.

Well, yeah, because technically every time you reboot the machine, it goes, Hey, I'm connected to the internet. So if it was disconnecting on Internet start. Mm. It's very bizarre. Know it is bizarre. It's a the old router did not do this like the old router that rebooted every single day. Did not reboot the PC. Do you have an ASIS router.

No. Again a millennial once that's the old one was nice is this one is this analogy to my new one is the ASIS and I know I pulled up like eight so they're pretty good and it wants me to update my firmware too, so I need to do it. Yeah, you got to do that. I'll do that right now. See what happens. Yeah, that's my as well. Everything is just wrong. Oh I'm. Oh I see. Just got a drop up there. Let me do that. Hang on one sec. We change it up.

Yeah. Let me get that updated right now is does updates though. Yeah. But it's just for the EVP. Oh okay. So not the but the one I got. Right, right, right. So you do that live while you're on the MOTU. Well, I mean, it'll turn it off. That's one of the steps is it'll put the device into firmware mode and then turn itself off and then you have to push the button, turn it back on. But other than that. Yeah. Error communicating with server. Oh that's not. Oh firmware dash mode to API.

Do you not wonder if they like. Well this is an old unit. We don't even, we're not going to update the firmware for it. It may be yeah. Are you going to get the new one on the new one comes up. I don't know what the one would be because it's not they change this model number remember, not into not being part of their pro series.

So there there should have an update for the AVP pro either end of this year beginning of next year is what the the rumor mill was so it's basically your machine will have an update. Uh it well it'll be a new device, but it'll be similar to mine. But with the new preamps. And that's a little, little doubt what I'm worried about. This will be the deciding factor. And whether upgrade or not is whether it will maintain the web based browser based controls or not. All right.

Because I don't want to go to an app yet. No, You need their app. Yeah, I don't want their app. I just wanted to do it on the browser. And that page exists. I wonder why the most you just can't get to it. Interesting. Yeah. It's those things you never know. And of course where's the speaking them out to it. Why is it that every time I post a link to a video of my guys with Tigers or PUMAs or something, there's always inevitably somebody that says, Oh, it's only funny until he gets eaten.

You know that it's really, you know, your odds are so much higher of dying in a car accident or shooting yourself in the head with a gun twice than of being eaten by a large cat especially that shit happens so infrequently. And the way that people are afraid of big cats, you'd think a daily occurrence. Well, because they're ignorant and they don't know the. Now hold on, they run Linux so we know they're not ignorant and not everybody I know agenda social runs Linux.

I mean I'm pretty sure everybody runs on it like, yeah, no, I think like 110% of the people not on the social runway. Yeah, but then how do you run your Photoshop with the beta? How am I going to change clothes on people? And you know, you don't run, but most people do. Hey, man, you're not using gimp, you're not doing graphic is exactly that. I'm not doing graphics. No, you're telling your you're Photoshop and what you'd like. This is right.

And then the intriguing part is it is getting to that. And I wonder if there's a fork of gimp that's implementing. And no, that would be interesting. That would be ridiculous. This is Caldwell.

Really, all you have to do is part of the API from one of those other services and port that runs simple where exactly you could do it I mean you might as well at that point you might as well take me paint an Audi I capabilities that that would be awesome is it still ships with every product in the resource I want this and I want that yeah do you updated your steam deck. Yes fairly recently they in the last month they have the 2.0 come out and the the software what's different.

I haven't really noticed much different but I haven't really there's a in I don't know what they did internally but there's a shit ton of new third party stuff. Interesting. Which install a whole bunch of. Well that could be why your machine's rebooting for me. Maybe. Did you mean it's kind of feels like the stream deck is really being mostly used as a monitor now, which it could very well be. But it's doing pings for me nonstop. It's doing so, yes, Bitcoin pricing.

That's also for me. Yeah. Yeah. It's checking my CPU levels, giving me all the hardware like temperatures and voltages and shit. It's showing me disk drive. You see, It's like totally not what it was intended for. No, but you're like, I can do it, so why wouldn't I. Yeah. It's got buttons and the buttons I use the most, the single most useful button is the new screen capture tool.

Oh, interesting interest, which is awesome because you just hit a button and it just gives you a lesson or a square square thingy, the drag on your screen and then puts it into your clipboard. But which about three screens do I want to? Well, and that's when it's off, because normally if I have print screen it prints all three screens in one jumbled mess. But I've got it. You don't want that. The large stream deck has my volume controls for the PCM. Yeah, that was I get that.

I've got the current date and time and well I've got the stream. That plus has all my knobs for those controls. Ooh, you got two knobs. See I don't got the knob one. Yeah. Yeah. All you need to now though, you got to have knob over 30 to millisecond ping two. No agenda socially. I always think it's funny when that hits 33. But again, I'm at 17. You're a little closer. Well, no, I guess not. You're probably further because this is the Well, the stream would be in Canada so what are you ping an

Adam South. Oh that's always good So you can make monitor whatever's going on there. I'm just checking for old habits. Die hard. Yeah. No reason you wouldn't want to drive it. Hey, man. To security. When my when my CO2 sensor batteries died, I got a text message from Adam saying, Hey, what's what's going on with your CO2 monitor? Why would he? He's got this set up on his phone or something. I gave him access to it like 12 years ago as a joke in case you died. You're Like, I'm his die of nuts.

That's for death. That's for I'm doing my long term study of high CO2 concentration levels and why they're better. So I generally, I keep my house somewhere between 503,000. How do you adjust the CO2 level in your home? I have a system. Well, I figured you'd have a system. But what is the system? Is it actually just a machine that does this or. Yes, I have a CO2 generator. I didn't even know these were things. Yes. I also have a pure oxygen generator.

Well, that would make sense because people thrive on oxygen. But the CO2 output does that something. Oxygen is actually a poison. It's Titan, but we die without it. So there's that. Well, you need some of it because you're literally you've got an internal combustion engine in every cell, the mitochondria, and they're trying to burn oxygen, all of them. What is the CO2 machine actually made for, like greenhouses or something like that? Something like. So probably for a grow house.

Is that what this is? My house does not at all look like a grow house with all the computer monitors. It's probably glowing from outer space. You know what they. Yeah, it's the infrared is like three times bigger than the house surrounding the entire house. Like, we don't. And we got so weird. Nobody ever leaves the house, but a whole bunch of people show up. A lot of food deliveries. It's delivery. People showing up left and right. The hell's going on. Somebody's got the munchies.

Uh huh, No doubt. Delivery people. What are they doing? They must be runners. I don't want to know. No. So we do have a couple of people to thank for today. Have we really? We only have one person to thank and CSB. But our buddy Dale from Down Under this bee said that he was just going to lounge all day today. That was CSB. Mm hmm. Yeah, probably. He doesn't like listening to the show. He just wants a discussion. Yeah, well, see, the thing is, we mention his show now without the.

He's very mercantilist. Like, he's like, we ought to talk about the my show did. I started the whole show off talking about his show. I know. Yeah. He didn't even pay for that. I know. We'll send him a bill. There you go. Hey, man, I'm poor now. I'm 1100 dollars poorer than I was a day ago. You're a poor podcaster who has recently been the victim of identity fraud. Yeah, which that would be not even that bad, because that just means somebody trying to open a credit card. My name.

This is actual fraud and actual theft of actual money out of my bank account. My bet is you're going to find out it's a six foot tall, six foot six blond guy wearing a jean beard, walking around saying, I'm jetting off to live. I don't think so. He has access to your CO2 monitors. He knows it. Yeah, I bet he knows. I mean, come on. Who wouldn't want to mention cranked up the CO2 a little bit and fallen asleep in, like, Oh, so relaxing that. Yeah, but we are couple.

But if you look at if you look at that, I've got measurements going back ten years for CO2 now like continuous measurements so it how much more it's going to is in your home it's all in your neighbors home. Would you say what percent. How do you. Yeah. No then so I do track outdoor so outdoor was suffering I think around 370 to 400, depending on what day it is. It doesn't go much over 400 outdoor.

Yeah. Outdoor. And what's indoor? Indoor starts at about 400 but generally is more like 6 to 800 and sometimes several thousand. I remember one guy and a friend of mine come to the house and, you know, we're having a drink driving this lake back when I drank. And in fact it was my old podcast partner, dude. And we're talking and talking. I was like, Oh, hey, by the way, how do you feel? And you describe how you're feeling right now. It's like, What do you mean?

Like just, you know, general word, would you say you're lightheaded short of breath? Is your heart experiencing any A-fib right now? Just general signs, right? I don't know. I think I'm fine. I'm like, Huh, Uh huh. Okay. Sounds good. Now, how many fingers am I holding up? And it's like, What the hell are you doing? I was like, I just, you know, I don't want to freak you out or anything, but I'm actually peaking at 5000 parts per million on CO2 in the house right now.

And this is this is generally a little higher than what I've done in the past when you were here. So I just wanted to see if you're feeling different. That dude ran out of my house, like the house was literally on fire. He did not even wait to have me explain that this perfectly safe like the Earth has experienced much higher levels of CO2 during its peak. You're like, Are you feeling like I may have slipped some Rohypnol into your drink? Well, no, he couldn't have run if I did that, I've.

I've finally captured you. Yeah, but we are a value for value show. Believe it or not, I say that. But then we have Dale down under who you remember came in. I do. Was that a week or two ago with 103 48. Well, he comes in with another hundred and 348 to him and says postage. Okay mentioned as I never check email but we're not going to check his email.

He says as a married man, poaching taped albums is the way you're going to catch Sir Gene's number of disappointed twentysomething females, which, I mean, you know, disappointed twentysomething females, they have a certain charm that's like the demographic right there, right? Genes like exactly. I've been telling you. Yeah. He also says Thailand is the new Russian holiday hotspot. Yes, it is indeed. Then he says, meet up question mark.

So maybe maybe there's why is he planning on having that that away? Maybe perhaps maybe Thailand. I wouldn't be opposed to that. Probably safer than Chicago. Probably less chance of getting shot anyway. And he's going to be hitting a thousand bucks. He keeps this up. Well, here's the thing. Like 8 minutes after that, another 103 48 came in from Dale. Wow. And he says seed funding the protection of Darren from crazy fans fund.

Out of curiosity sir Gene did your rexy have or maintain any form of factory warranty in my Rex the RDX why what is was that was that your bike we were talking about. I was it I don't know what he is if why would he even talk about my bike now My bike was from Australia. Maybe that's why. Because he's from Australia. I know, but no, there was no warranty. Once he gets to the US, obviously they're like you, but I don't rexy. What the. I don't think it's the bike dude. I think it's something else.

It could be something else. I mean, just doing a quick search, it's like I'm just seeing like Jurassic World Tyrannosaurus Rex. Maybe there's I'm not sure. Restate the question with another hundred dollars donation or we'll be sure to get back on that with or without. I mean, I mean I always preferred with but he also just easier for tracking purposes.

Right for the for the accounting purposes only blitz as Rex he sounds like a stripper that's possible I mean do it Rex let's see what's as Rex to you Was that what you see? Blitzed says Rex. He sounds like a stripper, but then, well, I don't know where he goes to meet strippers, but this does not sound like a stripper name anywhere near here. No, it's more like Raven, April and Rex. He sounds like a dog's name to me. Cinnamon. Like a friendly dog. Yeah, well, that's what he said.

An anime puppy tranny. That's possible. But, I mean, I don't know where the training part has to be in there because it's popular topic in the forum. Trannies. Yes. Yeah. And douches said it is tranny month strippers are as is yes strippers yeah yeah that's definitely they use stripper is strippers do not come with warranty and I have dated a stripper but did she date you. Well I mean she knew how old I was. Didn't even have to get 106 threat. But Dale also said I took her.

I remember there was interesting figure out for 21st birthday when she was working as a stripper before she Yeah you don't need to be 28. You don't need to be 21 to be a stripper. Interesting. Yep. Depends on the state. And as long as it's a not alcoholic, all nude establishment, then you could be a stripper at 18. Hey, the state we're in is insanity. I've never gone to see her strip. That seems like crazy. Why the fuck would people pay money for something they can't touch?

No, I would agree with you. There. Now you have a stripper pole at home. You could have all the fun you want. You could. But I mean, stripper pole seems like it's more fun for them than it is for me. Well, it's good exercise. Sorry. Here. We want to see Jean up at the stripper pole hanging up. Nobody wants to see Jean on a stripper pole. Believe me, that you would bet, bro. Side by side, stripper pole action. People would be talking about that to not see that.

But Dale says it's unrelenting, unrelenting, saying this rhythm. Yes, that's a so at least for a few months that I appreciate that. Yeah. Your ticker working? Yeah. Ever since I've started the 45 minutes to an hour. Yeah. It sounds to me that has nothing to do with it. Just sounds to me like it's been working ever since. Again, the Apple Watch. No, the Apple Watch. You two actually took.

There was a couple of months where that's the only reason I'm able to track this is in showing those couple of months or at least multiple weeks where it was showing the A-fib, you know, 20% of the time, whatever it was. Mm hmm. And since I started doing the it's oddly enough, since they took that bad crown out, that was obviously way too big and way to find once that was removed. Also at the same time, that was the week where I started doing How much that cost you?

Well, to take it out, nothing, but it still has to be redone, which at least the unfortunately, I got to get. That's the truth. Yeah. How much. I mean they have one done for a long time. Probably need to replace them. Well I have the dental insurance, so the root canals are a couple of grand. I can do that on the.

Yeah, but I need to get the redo on that one because there is one of the roots that the girl dentist that did it obviously didn't do well because I went back in a few weeks ago for just my regular cleaning and checkup and they took the X-rays and are like, Well, yes, there is something different in that in the root. So we need bacteria. Yeah, we do need to do a you know, going to need the redo.

So I've got to go into the other doctors to do that, but at least I've got to cool down because it's like, I'll just make you a few, you know, we put in a acrylic or whatever, they make him out of temporary and he's like, We'll get you through until next year when your insurance reboots. So I had one done last year for I had a crown fall off, so I have to get one redone immediately and they 3D printed it. It's Cool. The stuff they can do now it's yeah, it seems to work fine.

I mean if they took all the measurements using a camera. So there was, you know, it wasn't like imprints like the old school. They just took pictures of the inside of the mouth of the tooth and then 3D printed a replacement crown, which just to let you know, Alvaro in the turtle room, he's like, every time you talk about it, I get reminded. I also have to redo a root canal. My last quote was, about $5,000. That ship there, that's not worth it.

Well, see, the problem is when you read the tooth, you can't the once it's been done, once you've had the root canal done. You can't just pull the tooth. Sure, you could that to get the roots out that are the problem if you pull the tooth not connected. What you mean, What do you mean that really, I don't think that would take care of what you have going on. If you've got an infection that is outside of the tooth, that's serious, that's much worse than the a botched root canal.

Now, if you have a botched root canal that just that they didn't kill the entirety of the nerve with the poison that they drop in there and that it survived long enough to maintain vascular connectivity, which then is supplying food to the bacteria that is living down there. And now it's going to be dead one way or another. But you don't want bacteria forming there because it will keep going and get into the bone.

Yeah, I'm not a dentist or anything, but I've played one on TV before, so it's all fun. It's serious, serious stuff, but the prices are ridiculous. Oh yeah. Root canal used to be 350 and the getting the crowd was about 1500 bucks. And I really should. I don't know if it's worth the hassle of even because the last dentist obviously in my estimation total quack not good at what they do. Yeah. Do you even try to recoup any of that? It's like I don't think it's even.

Well I probably have you know my best dentist was a Czech that. Just got her dental license after working as a hygienist for eight years because she saw all the shit that's wrong and all the shit that actually works as a hygienist and was able to then apply that to her practices. The dentist? Yeah. Oh, that's definitely getting them taking care of cotton. Like. Like tear your teeth, like. Yes, of course. I just pull them out. It's just one step at a time. I mean. Right. That one too.

It's just more of a pain to, to deal with. And it's one of those things that I'm done with his I'm perpetually like weeks behind on my beliefs. So, yeah, I'm thinking of it and I think everything's good. Yeah, it was one hell of a procedure, let me tell you. Well, I think he's basically looks like jaws from James Bond, except they've got tooth colored veneers on the outside, so you can't tell they're stainless steel. All right, well, let's go see.

It's good, though, because that way you've got effectively his entire both upper and lower teeth are all it's probably titanium, probably not even stainless anymore. It's probably painting him. So we'll see what the new crown will cost. Of course, that should be the insurance, Of course, knowing that I need the one root canal redo, which I'm guessing I'll probably have done before the end of the year. So that'll be out of pocket. I've got the other tooth. It's just having cold sensitivity.

That's the only issue I'm having, so I'm sure I can wait until next year to get that one done. But beyond. Oh, yeah, cold sensitivity. I would. I don't know if I would wait very long either. That that could doesn't have to, but it could mean that your tooth is now. It's not. He looked at it. Well what happened was it was fine until the asshole girl dentist was like, oh, you just have a small cavity there will take care of that and ended up taking care of the cavity.

And all of a sudden now it was sensitive to the cold. So obviously she went too far. She was trying to grind it down because I was biting my cheek because of the stupid crowd they put on. That was horrible. And then her whole thing was, well, you really just you get that one pulled because I can't do a root canal on that. And even if somebody could do a root canal, it's too far back for me to do a crown on that. Were the next dentist I went to. Like what?

We could do it? Yeah. Without a problem at all? Yeah. I've got I had when I had that good dentist actually had the ball have my teeth browned proactively. Yes. And I think I'm getting to that point where I start replacing those crowns because like I've had one fall off last year and, you know, I hate it. Yeah. They better glue, man. It's like, Yeah, what kind of glue do you have that lasts only 15 years? I know it should be much better, especially in such a controlled atmosphere.

Superglue or something that would just be permanent. They're like, you know, this guy's got way too much CO2 in his mouth. So. In his mouth. Yeah. Yeah. We might all have a little bit of CO2 in there in their mouth. No, no, man, I have no CO2 in my mouth. I'm trying to remember how much I want to say that we breathe out somewhere around the pound of CO2. Maybe it's less than that, but it's at least half a pound of CO2. They nice. But I know the the tooth that has this sensitivity.

The dentist looked at it. It is not. And both the dentist and the other Downeast even did the fancy 3D thing they do. You know, that is not in fact that's not a problem. It's just how good. It just doesn't feel good when I hit it with that. But yeah, the other one I'll get done and that's just cold or heat and cold. Just cold the heat. If it's really hot, I can feel a little something. But it's mainly the cold, which means I have been avoiding ice cream.

Even stuff Like I was having some hummus the other day that was right out of the fridge and I thought, Oh, yeah, you could feel it like, Whoa, that's no good. Yeah, yeah. But on the bright side, that does keep you from eating a lot of stuff. So I can see that. Yeah, I know for sure when I have that brown fell off like, I pretty much stopped eating that because I blame them. Right? Right. Because that's what you were eating when it came out. Uh huh. I was eating cashews for.

No, no, no. Those are soft bones eating pistachios. I love pistachios. I always like the flavor of those things. They're good. Yeah. Hey, speaking of video games, there's a bit of a sale going on. And in fact, there's a free. I'll believe before we get to Sir Jean's crazy spaceship thing, let me just once again say thanks to Dale for his 206. Yeah, they are. That. That's awesome. Maybe someday I'll even see a piece of that. And $0.96. Well, not now, because I can't. You any money? That's true.

Yeah. You can't send money because I don't have a spare anymore. It is very much appreciated. He's going to hit that thousand at some point and we're going to hold my dinner. He's just going to have to get on and dinner stamps. Yeah, we are gift to the states. But we also had of course, I mean, once we have the $206.96, we go to $2 from CSB. That's that's the drop off with this 8015 SATOSHIS And he simply says this time visit w w w Yeah, he's not, it's not.

It's just that this it's not even a donation, it's just a noun. But he wants that too. That way he then what he'll do is he'll take this audio posted on Twitter, he'll post in a no agenda social and say hey this one, but he'll do it anyway even if we just mention him, you know? Right. But this way he gets what he wants. The clip is little thing and then he's like, Well, I'll tell them about unrelenting and he do it. Yeah. So if everybody know that's true, that's true.

And then I seeing that a couple of weeks ago and then next post after that little clip all around is like I don't actually listen to all your show. Right. Why would he. Because I have a great voice. I know. Exactly. Oh, it's so let me let me get the ad read in here. Oh, yeah. Do they dream visit me? Maybe you someday you'll you'll make more money off every If I write. You write. If I know. If I could only do the English accent. Can I do it too? Maybe in a little. We do like tiny charms.

By this, the Lucky Charms guy visited w w w. I thought cooking to listen to podcast with I news I prompt engineering tips do that. Yeah well I'm going to challenge Griff to do a little bit of American accent then that would be better way. I think it would. Yeah. He's always talking about spotted deck and all that kind of stuff and I'm like the sponge. That's pretty good. Is he talking about it sparked by it?

Yeah, it is. Spongy. Spongy. But if you would like to donate to the show, if you enjoy what you hear right here on those legends, your food don't don't get them this seafood. Just know it. Don't steal his money. Don't steal my money. That's the most important. Unrelenting. That show is the place you want to go blitz as just doorbell ditch a sandwich on Jean's doorstep. Yeah, that would be. I see, I. I probably have your address somewhere.

We could be, like, just order on then and then order a few pizzas. I have yours because I had thought of you, of Taylor, Chef. Right. Well, that was the P.O. Box, and I'm sure it's not hard to find. All right. Anyway, so right now, even the line has a flavor. And a m I have not mentioned even lame. That's another spaceship video game that exists out there. See, for a minute, I was thinking there was some porn star. Go see Eve online. Eve online. That would be where your mind goes. Yes.

So or they they're giving away a seven day free plaything. Anybody that has an account like them or crave something don't like them. And I'm too lazy to give you the promo, but you figure out on your own if you log in there, it's a pretty prominent how to get your free time in the game. We'll do that Yeah and then start citizens having Alien week. But there's nothing new. Not really worth even talking about that. I mean, they should get out of their beta or their alpha, whatever they're in.

Yeah. The for the last 11 years they offer they them a left they should a lot of years for an alpha. It's retarded dude. It's all it is is it's a, a scam ploy, whatever you want to call it, a mechanism to be able to not call purchases made by people purchases but to call them donations. Oh, wait, that's like I think because it's because it's not a full lease. It is exactly for that reason, because there's been some lawsuit.

And so their their whole cover story is we're an unreleased Alpha version of the game. Everything we promised we intend on fulfilling. But if something doesn't yet exist, just keep in mind you're not playing the full release version so you can bitch. That's interesting. Yeah. So it's a little, little, little scammy if you ask me. Yeah, I was going to. And then that would be enough. Yeah. Yeah. And then Starfield is a game that is coming out this September.

I might as well mention because we're talking about space games and Starfield just dropped an hour long trailer preview that shows off what the game looks like. Very, very impressive. Very similar. Looking to star citizen in single player which is a bit of a distinction because there's a multiplayer but visually graphics related, it looks very cool and a lot of features I think are more advanced than they are in Star Citizen and it's coming from big studio, Bethesda So although Bethesda has

some pluses and minuses, they go along with that name. But but it's a big ass studio and so I'm hoping they do a really good job because the more space games we have, the more choices that exist, the better it is for all of us. Space nerds out there. You do need the space nerds. Thanks to Mitch down, he came in with 150 SATs, no message ambushes with 6699. Who says? Here's to sticking it in the butt. Okay. And a C Brooklyn with 10,000 satoshis saying big Hooters boost.

We've no response from a while ago. We're talking about Hooters. Yeah, big Hooters boost. That was 1036. I need a way to to monitor this stuff for real time. Yeah. Why are you not monitoring that stuff real time? Because boost bot used to work, but boost not in the troll room right now. So there's a bunch of these systems that kind of work and kind of jackass which does a decent job of showing the transit history does not automatically refresh.

And when you refresh you have to like click something else to get the page back where I would like just for the thing to have a running count that comes out, shows me when something new comes up. And that was doing that with the Satoshis stream. But then that was for some reason every now and then was so late that it didn't make sense to even try to monitor it live. So it's getting there. But the system is not perfect as of yet, at least for us.

It seems to work a lot better for the pod father, but I know they have their own nodes and all that kind of stuff, so that may be why when you got to Node, when you run your I got my own node too. You know, it's costing me more money and they make every month. Well, it's not costing you as much as you're losing just by having a bank account. That's true. That's true. Having a bank account is the surest way to lose money. They're like surge all you would like. You would like your money, sir. No.

Yeah. At least didn't empty the whole counter, did they? That would be even better. No, they didn't. Which is I'm kind of happy that they have a low enough limit, but, you know, it's still I mean, this is not a trivial amount of money. Thousand bucks is like, oh, you buy a decent gun for that or almost two Mac minis or you could. Yeah, exactly. Well, you could almost buy a new phone. Almost. Yeah. I got this.

I got to trade some of my satoshis in for cash or apple gift cards or Amazon gift cards and yeah, the more that that keeps adding up to, the more I'm like, maybe I should get this. Oh, maybe I should get that. So thanks everybody for helping to donate to keep everything running smoothly. Yeah, the drive that I have all the podcasts on, oddly enough, that's the one that's about out of space.

So I to move some stuff, even though I go through everything and I convert it all to FLAC, which when you convert just plain speaking to you don't need to go to FLAC, that's such overkill. Well, it records and wav, so I go and see them or you don't need wav recording for voice. Oh you do, you got to get it to that way. The MP three sound good and that's why my shows sound better than yours shows. Jean They don't, though they do ask everybody. Yeah, okay. You do What? Do a poll on no agenda.

So would you like to show has better audio quality these boom these they stand up stand up the best. Yeah I don't know anything fun going on this weekend out there on Father's Day how many kids are going to come to your door, Jean? Hopefully no surprise me. Mm Surprises three, right? Well, that would only be good if the kid was the one that stole your ATM card. Oh, yeah, That would be hilarious. That. Yes. What? I'm actually the rightful heir to this money. That's right.

You know, like, why is my windows want to reboot my computer now? It always wants to reboot your window. Everything. But I didn't notice. That was the one nice thing. The Merlin firmware for the Asus router, which is basically it's not quite EWR, it's more like a project where people just expand a little bit what the ASUS router can do. But one of the things that is added in is the ability to set it to a to do an automatic reboot, which I never do.

That's built in dude, that was built into the standard Acer software. Well then that must I think that was something here and anymore I think it was just in the Merlin the parents maybe they didn't know it was on my sister that I have for years and it's something that it's like I don't like to do because I use the crazy internet things for like white noise with sleeping. So yeah, I mean, just fully turn it off. I'm just like, I've been doing it for like a decade.

Just because I ran into those situations where I was could not connect to home. And the only thing I did when I came back is I was like, Oh, the router and everything came back online. Son of a bitch. I wish I had now many years ago, and I don't want to get on too deep because we're in our time limit here, but we're about to both get pushed off the air by the back brother.

But I remember days back in the early nineties where we actually had these really expensive doodads that were Internet connected power strips. Now what did okay, I didn't know what a power strip is. I know what Internet connected did, but what does the Internet? Yeah. And I should I shouldn't say Internet connected that were they were data connected purposes. So they were meant for data centers to be able to remotely power cycle systems.

Gotcha. And of course, I had one of those back then for my house and for the for the rack in the house. And I except for mine, wasn't. And I connected not directly, obviously, through a VPN. I've been using VPNs forever, but that was sort of like the brute force hardware method of replacing, Hey, something's not coming up. All right, We're going to have the power cycle and the and literally just unplug down back in powered back up. Yeah. The machine set to reboot.

It wasn't as big a deal because the drain array was external and so the drives didn't have to get power cycle. Just the PC got power cycle. Oh well that's not too bad then. Then you get your back up and running quicker. Yeah. Not like right now. I Mean what's a frickin f is these two cards like boop. I was like 95 seconds, huh. Why does that? As long as I don't have all of. Because I've got like, probably seven months Windows wants to do an update. Right?

Or if you have a bunch of external drives for some reason that confuses anything of the USB, the machine's like, what? What is this? I want to know before I boot up, I really should disconnect a lot of those, although I do like, I don't know what brand this thing is. I Bought a new USB three that has individual switches for every one the same thing. It's that's probably the same brand.

Probably There's like 15 things that play here and 12 I think I get on my it's a godsend to be applicable well a little power button next to every single individual one the problem is I didn't label them and I don't remember which one turns what off, so I usually turn the whole damn thing off and well, that does it do. But if you know which one it is in, I got my dealer you with. I've got my yubikey right in the first one like right on right the monitor.

So that is always plugged in. Now that just works. But if you want more of this exciting, scintillating tech talk GM got Rob talked the whatever you want you'll find it here on unrelenting just come back next week and tell a friend or two same bad channel thing about time. Yeah.