077: Grocery Store Sushi

Chicken, fried chicken Elmo. And welcome to episode number 77 of Unrelenting. It seems like it's been a while since I've talked to a gene. Is that true? It seems that way. But has it? I think I don't know where it is now. Everything. It's time is a very funny thing. Lunch time. So. Yeah. Can I point to something? You just played the theme. You can point to her, which was. It's an audition cast. I know, but that was. That was very solidly in the yellow.

The entirety of the theme. Yeah. And you're not even touching. You're not supposed to be touching yellow and you're not supposed to be quieter than the theme music. I thought this was supposed to be a red podcast. Well, it's pretty yellow. It's a china turn down. I need to turn down mics a little bit. Then maybe. Maybe it's the way it was. I mean, I'm sure you run this thread a leveler that. Exactly right.

Even the last show that I wasn't on except for the opening, I had to I had to level it, put the magic in. I started you into your normal gene slot on the and all of the processing and I slotted membros in the minds of Membro sounded better. Maybe that's why. Yes. Yes. Well, I've told you that before. You you tend to make yourself sound the best in all your. Yes. For some reason, because that is one of the benefits of being a producer. Right? Exactly. It's the way it works.

Exactly. Yeah. That's why I always wonder. It's like, man, that sounds so different than your podcast. The one the one I produced. You do sound a little lifeless on a lot of them. The microphone and that microphone is a very hot mic, so you should be sounding my you must have the big foam furry thing on again. But I always have the big foam for anything. And no, you took it off once. It was like wow. Rotation.

Yes. Yes, I did take it off once, but I generally have it on here because the foam free thing is how I know I'm in the right position on the mic. That would make sense if occasionally my nose touches the very thing I'm the right distance from the mic, right? It's the perfect amount. You want to get that proximity effect? Yeah. And I hear people saying, Yeah, I'm about three inches from my camera. You crazy?

Do like it's waiting somewhere between three quarters of an inch and enjoy it depends on the microphone. But yes for the course of course dynamics you want to be a little bit closer and I've learned with this r e 20 which is a lot better than the 320 plosives rejection, that I can do it without the foam ball. I just have to make sure a time like a 45 degree angle, because if you talk right in that microphone, you're going to pop. Yep, yep. But that's the beauty of these things.

They're all a little bit different. They are. So what video games have you been playing in? What's been going on? We'll get to video games when I get a microphone thing. Did you see that the the the FM seven B was on sale. That's a rarity. I don't know if it still is. It was selling for under $200. No new venue brand new and new under $200. The apparently that microphone the retail price it was 199 when it came out and it got so popular that the price went up by over $100.

Well, they may be celebrating it. A little bit of Mike envy watching our buddy band, new show, new. Well, why why would you do that to yourself? I don't know, because he has every mike known and that's his whole show. That's like saying, oh, I have a little car on the air. I was watching Jay Leno's garage. Right. Exactly What? But they sent him the SM seven. B was celebrating. I think it's their 50th year, which would make sense. Oh, maybe that's why they have the cheaper price it possible.

They put out a it was not for sale to anybody, but they put out a limited edition with, you know, the only thing they changed were the badges and the stuff on it. But they put out a special 50th anniversary edition and only sent it to people. It is not for sale. So I'm like, Dude, that's cool. Oh, shit. You know what? I'll bet you that's what it was. I bet you they dropped the price to the original release price. And when if you can grab one while they're in stock and I didn't and I should have.

They're a damn good microphone. I didn't think about it. I thought this would be like a permanent price change. But now I'm. I'm going to look it up right now. I'm going to go to New Egg and see if they're still going for the briefly. They are a quality, dynamic microphone. They are. I've never liked the way they look, though, I have to say. Well, they're I don't like the cord coming out of the side of a microphone. It is an oddity there, but it takes up less room.

So if you're doing something on camera, I can see where people like it over the r e series from electro voice, which are the one that if you have any time you see. I loved watching anything from the olden days about radio. It's like that's almost always the microphone. It was the microphone they used in Frazier as the set dressing. Or maybe they really used it for the for those spoken parts because it has a very unique sound to it.

The SM seven B is a very dark microphone, but once you start E cueing things, as we've talked about, the E cueing makes a ton of difference. So the prices on the SM seven B right now range from 243 on the high end to 117 on the low end really for new that or that's yeah that's bizarre. You sure it's the SM seven B microphone you're looking at some seven B go to new I think now buy as many as you can or get price matching from the companies that do it right.

It usually it's like oh was this a mistake because on the Amazon they're still 400 bucks. Yes, I thought so. New way. I love Newegg. They used to be my go to when I was building my own computers. Yeah. Before Amazon was a big thing like 20 years ago plus. And you had great selection shipping back then too. They did great pricing. They had financing. So if you bought it through their credit card, you know, it was 0% for 12 months. If you put enough on it.

And that's how I built all my machines back in the day. But haven't they kind of turned into a third party scammy site now? Are they still. No. I mean, they're more like Amazon in the sense that they sell their own products, but they also carry a bunch of small independent products like Amazon, like Walmart. I mean, this is why you're allowed to sell your ponchos on Amazon, right? Exactly. So like anybody, you really just send us something. We'll put it up.

Yeah. And I have to say that they take damn near half, man. So me selling ponchos on Amazon is really more like me being a wholesaler to Amazon. Who's selling the poncho? Well, that's nice of you. I know, right? That's nice of me to take up most of the cost of production and then give it to Amazon to make them profit in living. Amazon make all that money. How is it? Yeah, I'm looking at this.

Sure. As some seven B dynamic microphone new for one 1791 but it's shipped and sold from K tech lab which leads me to believe that you might not get exactly as sure as some seven B Well, you may or you may not, but it definitely looks like it, right? Yeah. Okay. There's I think what needs to happen is Bander and his daughter when these. Oh yeah. And do it side by side because if it sounds the same I don't give a shit where they stole from

it. Because you know how stuff happens in China is they, it's, it's the same factory with a different label and they, they can afford to sell it for cheap because it's basically manufactured in the off hours by the factory themselves directly. It does ship from Hong Kong. That is not a surprise. And this break down, that's not a surprise for that price point at all. I'm getting a little bit you know, band drew an order one of these and then now and then pair the electronics on them.

He's got enough he's got enough money coming in to show that he can afford to pay 120 bucks to order one. Yeah, he bought one of those. No human 30 $700 microphones. Did he buy matter? Did he get it for free. No, he bought that. I bought that and that's is it's great because that's the microphone he uses in every video just as a comparison between the prop.

Clearly he's actually using a you know probably level or Mike the recorder himself and then he's using that as a prop though because the people would be like, that sounds like crap. And there's grade level ears. They're not cheap but you get them off the model layers then. Yeah, they're not quite going to match the 30 $700. No human. I mean they re more than good. What does that mean that that's such a elitist thing to say.

They're not going to have the sound quality, that open air feeling that night. You're a voice, Your voice. You're going to be able to understand it. The professionals don't use nine months for talking. No, it's a singing and they use incrimination. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Norman does that make it talking? Mike Far as I know. So we're going back into the 1900s. We're getting a talking to talking. Mike. That's right.

But if you look at the the highest level leaders there, which you can easily spend 500 to 1000 bucks on the lonely or maybe in your great lab. Yeah. If you all the TV people on the news, reporters, etc., they're using livelier in usually a for they using the overhead mikes which are also really expensive. But you can tell when O'Reilly's in it's different house when his main place he uses a lav and then the other one he uses a boom. And the room obviously is not treated enough.

And you can tell immediately do the other way around. I would think when you're traveling and use a laugh and at home you can set up a boom. So you're you're not as you know, you're not plugged in, you don't have a wiring from you. I think he's more of a tech Luddite. So I don't know if he knows how to get the audio from a lab than into him, because I think he has a producer who then edits the shows and puts them together, not he's not doing that. I can guarantee you that much, I'm sure.

Yeah. This seemed to be more like the kind of guy that would yell at somebody and have them do stuff, but do it live. And the kind of guy who would do it himself. Fuck it. We'll do it live. Come on. That sounds just like him. They like Bill. He's got the attitude. I know you do. He's old, he's ornery, and he just don't care. Yes, yes, that's true. But this is interesting. Somebody if anybody has ordered any of these, if we can't get band or do I want to know if this is really A Sure.

Some seven B or if it comes in and it's like a s u r he says I'm 70. He'll be able to know this is a little different somewhere in it. Exactly. But then the other one, free shipping from China. 183 Does Newegg have any of these that are from that are from the United States? And and they do but I think they're 300 bucks. Yeah, that would make sense. I mean I guess true.

But I mean look there's is the only part that I to me makes this I mean obviously I'm a little suspicious of anything from China.

But here's the part that makes me wonder if these are actually identical is back in the day in the film of days of cameras though eighties nineties there was a substantial price difference between gray market and U.S. cameras like they're coming from China and canon cameras, etc. so you could buy one here in the US for 1800 dollars for the body or you could get the exact same thing that was break market coming from Japan that China is with Japan and you would get it for 11 1200.

I mean it was like easily a 30% difference in price point and their only real difference between them was in the it the one that came for cheaper had instructions in Japanese and the warranty for Japan, the one that you bought in the US and instructions in English and the warranty for the earth. Well it costs a lot of money to translate those instructions. Obviously that's because they knew back then that you could you could sell stuff to Americans. They would pay a lot more money.

Well, before the Internet, it was a lot harder to get things from other countries as well. Yes. Yes. Like you couldn't just get stuff directly from China or Japan. You have to have importers and they all got to make money. Now you just go to AliExpress and go, Give me that. You can buy 100 of them for the same price as one and then sell the rest of your friends or on Amazon. Exactly. You can put them with your ponchos.

I mean, the replacement windscreens for the SM seven B from the United States are over 30 bucks now. I believe it. I Newegg you can get a whole microphone for that in China. Yeah. The reality is John talked about how he's got a microphone that has a Chinese capsule or he bought a Chinese. Yeah and it sounds just as good as something from I can't remember which Mike you was comparing. He had a few like three or four years ago.

He's been using the Heil PR 40 with the old fashioned and I use these when I first started podcasting the the gooseneck popped filters know, oh my God those things are a pain in the ass if they move and you can always that's the problem I know agendas you can hear it when that then hits the show hits the capsule because the thing's going to do that. And there is a specialty pop filter that they make which would fit on our microphones as well. But they're made for the PR 40.

If you've ever watched Leo Laporte shows he uses them, they kind of clip on to it and then it's a permanent little pop filter. So it's a similar thing. It's the ring with the fabric, but it's made to attach to the microphone. So once it's on, it's not moving. It attaches directly to the microphone. So I put one of the link to one of those up and it was like a $60 one. It was not a cheap one. I'm like, Oh, can I recommend one of these? And JCT is like, I'm not made of money.

Michael Steele went from Leo then, yeah, he could have better just go into Leo's place. Just unhook the one. Let me. Let me take a look at one of these. Well, I just ordered one, so at least I'll be able to plug it in here if vendor doesn't. And $117 Mike. Yeah, Yeah. This will be an interesting comparison. Yeah. I mean, how bad could it be? Do you have an actual RSM seven B as well? I do not know. C I do. If we can we can just test them directly.

Well go ahead. New order on them. I don't want to order one. I know it's going to be a s u r e not an s h you, Ari. It's a going to be sure love you. Long time microphone. They might be. But again, I have experience and getting deeper if they're coming directly from the manufacturing place. And the reality is I'm a mike nerd and I like the good microphones.

I know I can get more than good enough quality out of like a $100 microphone to do a podcast with e cueing and processing and everything else. When there's a every now and then Andrew comes across a microphone that's like 30 or 40 bucks and it's like, Yeah, that sounds fine, dude. That sounds more for more than good enough for those people to get into podcasting.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I, I enjoy watching occasion videos of direct comparisons of things that are either cameras, you know, like the, you know, uh, what you call a strip of things. The cameras on your monitor, the, the web webcams. That's the world of cameras. And your mom, You know, I like not real cameras, but like cameras for shooting you in front of a green screen constantly.

And the reality is now the cameras that come inside of the better, webcams and in cell phones are way better than what was commercially use for things like 20 years ago. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Although still the one thing you don't get with any of them and I have that way. So I wouldn't say I've done a bender here, but I ordered way too many webcams when I started doing the show with video on your guest. How many webcams do you need? Yeah, you need one, but I kept wanting to find the best one.

Now, did you ever try the brio from Logitech? I got the real sitting right next to me. It's not like I think it's not very good. It's a decent one. Or from compared to like the 1920s. And what's better than the best one of all of them that I've tried? I have the brio, I've got the, the one from stream that guys, I've got three different Logitech models and, and I've got a couple of no name brands that the, you know, we're just being pushed on me on Amazon so I thought I would try them.

But the best one is still the Logitech the original 4K that Logitech came out with. We're like, we're on about four years ago and it still has the best quality of all. I thought the brio was the first. What's the model number on the. I'll tell you I'm, I need to log into it. We got some nerd talk right here on Unrelenting. Where's Ned coming in. We were telling you were asking me about video games. It's the A 10,000 satoshi. It is a brio. Yeah, Yeah, it is a brio.

But they have a new brio model, and that's the one that's sitting on my desk right now. It's not very good. Yeah, I have the first brio, and I was, like, blown away by how good that was compared to the 920 years before that. So you've got the 4K. Yeah. Net now the 10,000 Satoshi says I love whatever this show is called with Surgeon and Duro Meter. Oh, exactly. Yeah, that's exactly right.

We thank you for listening live When we do the shows early in the mornings on Fridays or Mondays or Thursdays or whatever day they happen to be digital just bought somebody we do they buy there are we don't they are always buying somebody they they do but they bought somebody. Oh they bought the competitor to Extremetech. Oh that's interesting. I don't recall the name of the company but I'm sure you've seen them any time on Amazon you go, Was it the shadows, the stream deck, right?

Yeah, Elgato stream deck. And then there's always like whenever you're shopping for stream decks, there's always a another thingy there. Another company's probably the, the similar functionality wise, but it's the one that has three dials on each side of them. Talk about what you think. Yeah. Yeah, maybe. I think the bottom loopback. Yes. Yeah. There you go.

So they're going full on head to head in a competition with Elgato here, which, you know, they've been around a lot longer than Elgato, but Logitech started its life as a video game controller and mouse company. Oh yeah. Let me. I'm what the mouse that I had that lasted like eight years was a Logitech. Mm hmm. I'll bet you I still have Logitech mice that still work that are over a decade old. Yeah, the one I was going to try to replace the battery and I totally balked at.

So I just bought a new one, which was just as good and cost as much as the battery. Probably says Logitech also just bought Yeti. That's true as well they that was Yeah that was a previous acquisition for him and that was a big one because that I actually used, I bought the in fact we did a test a while ago and you didn't like it I don't think. But I set up a Logitech headset that has you using a Yeti microphone technology. Yeah, that was a DSP.

I mean, it wasn't great sounding, but I think it was still better than any other headset Mike I've ever tried. There was one I wanted to try was very there was a professional one who put it out. Maybe, maybe it was Halo has one that they aimed towards like professional sports casting and that kind of a thing. Okay. Which maybe is worth trying because the Halo microphones are great as well. The the Logitech headset and I've got three of them here that I bought.

I don't know why, but for reason the one was done by two. But they, they're very reasonably priced. I think I want to say they're around 100 and 5060 bucks, which is maybe like a $30 premium over competing brands. But they, they have DSP in them, which is very cool. But they can also like the microphone unplugged. So you could plug in a level ear mic into that headset like a high end level here and then have the that high end level you're going through the DSP. It's nice to have choices.

I mean, originally when I start doing the podcasting, I was using a cheap headset and you think, well, this would be more convenient because I can move around and I can turn my head and I don't have to worry about it. But then it turned out like that sounds like crap. So yeah, that makes really do. And then I've got, you know, I should have Andrew buy this one too. I need to reach out to Ben. Where is he? Hang out. He has a discord. He. You can get him into the comments on the YouTubes. He also.

Is he at bay, Andrew? On the social channels? Yeah. He on no agenda. Social. Okay, I'll send them a direct message because I have a mike that I've been buying for people, which is the best sounding cheap Mike that I found, which is, well, I don't have to go on Amazon. Look how you don't me. Okay, So it's some, you know, generic brand bullshit, but it's been available for about three years and I've been buying them for about three years.

And when I say buying them when I play video games with people, it's usually in discord. And if I don't like the they're the sound of discord. If they're hard to understand, I just say, give me your address. I'll send you a micro. I'll wait. So if I want like a really good microphone, I just need to be like, Oh, who do I want to review or do I want you? Do you sound so much better? Oh, so, Oh, yeah, keep that. That's a good setting. I don't know why you haven't been using that the whole time.

I'm digging that. It's the way everybody wants it from now on. I mean, honestly, that's the way that when I hear your other show, that's the way it sounds. It's like the teacher from the peanut series when I went weren't wah, wah, wah, wah, wah. Are the clips clear when Larry and I play the clips? Can you do The clips are fine. It's the voices, though, that. Yeah, that's what I was going to say is that's your Larry voice now did you enjoy doing a two hour show with Ben Rose?

You know, doing a two hour show with memories is like doing a two hour show alone. There's not a single thing we disagree on. Wow, that's interesting. You're like the same guy. Well, I wouldn't say that you have the same mind. I mean, I'm quasi employed. Oh, yeah. He needs it and he needs a gig. So if anybody needs a programmer or anything, reach out to her. Mostly like a like, ideally somebody that needs a complainer. You need the be a great job. He could fix you. You could do right.

Just so somebody hey, here's here's the pitch then Do you have too many yes men in your life you need Ryan Ben Rhodes. Do you need a no man People care. Ryan will disagree with you for no apparent reason. Exactly. But he wasn't disagreeing with you. That's weird that. No, you guys have, like, a bromance going. It was funny because we.

We got, you know, what is your thing was accusing people of of getting a room and having a bromance is something cool to get in your life right now because that seems to be on top of mind for, you know, just this just call it the way I see it. That's all. That's what I mean. There's you keep seeing gay relationships everywhere. Probably because that's what's in the media today. Uh huh, Yeah. Go. Whoa. Finally to come. No, just like, what's. What's this everywhere, man? I can't get away from it.

Not even on that. Even unrelenting with. With Ben Rose in the gene I like to do in the new title for the show, too, by the way, I was like, Well, you know, if you're going to me to post it, it's like, well, I mean, I need an opening. Uh huh. I'm like, I wondered which one was going better. Wait, I'm not the I'm not the sidekick to sidekicks. Carry a show. Bomb, bomb, bomb.

Yeah, that's like I said, I threw him into my channel, and you went to the normal channels, so you got the normal gene processing, and he got the full Drano. So that, yeah, maybe could be helpful. He might be asking for the fold there. And though and they say you never know like give me that like that. Make it sound good. Like it sound good.

But as we all learned the they're the net neds and the C as BS and the dale from down under the people that are supporting the show, there's a lot less of them. So you know, when people complain that the shows aren't happening, it's like other stuff is going on in the world and that's where they and watch updated Oh really? Now will it do extra things? It's giving me a lot more detailed information about my heart rate variability. Is that good? Is your heart rate continuing to beat?

I mean, it's still beating. So that's as far as I know, that's a good thing. And that is it's usually a plus. Yeah. Is there a heartbeat? Yes. Oh, good. Either. Hi. I see you're alive this morning, Jean. Thank you for updating your watch. Exactly. Well, update that thought we were the dumb podcasters watch who weren't making thousands of dollars. I mean, no agenda again this week. Had somebody come in with a show number. Donations. It was like 15, whatever it was.

It's like, yeah, that takes us a while to reach that one donation. We're the dummies that do shows live on a schedule, which is the biggest pain in the ass. And if we weren't live on a schedule, you and I could, like, take a one afternoon and pump out three shows and release some over three weeks and nobody would ever know that it was done over three weeks, given the topics that we cover. Absolutely right. So which would be a lot smarter then to be like, Oh, we could just take a few weeks off.

Nobody will even know. Yeah, well, I remember the name of it or I don't remember the name of the dude, but the first podcaster to break $1,000,000, you know, that was many years ago at this point. But that was one of his advice things or I guess when he described how he does his podcast is he says take one day a week to record everything and then he would record enough content for the whole week.

And one day it was a full day, 8 hours of recording, and then the next day everything would be edited and chopped up and the ads placed in and then they don't have content that would last them seven days from now. It's a beautiful way, like he was working all week, but each pass was just a different day, right? Yeah, there is a lot of preparation. Membros the first question he asked me during Grumpy Old Ben's on Wednesday, I heard there's no preparation at all for Unrelenting.

I'm like, Well, why would there be? What do you mean preparation? He was surprised. He was definitely surprised that, yeah, like you guys don't put together topics. Well, how do you know what you're going to do? What you want to write? Yeah, that would take us in a completely different direction. Like, Yeah, yeah. Like, well, what are we doing a show about tech or something, Right? Well, no, because those are all failing except for the one the done by the guy that left Leo is.

I'm still in complete disbelief that Tom Merritt and Sarah Lane can pull in like 50,000 a month on their Patreon for their crappy little show. That is that is shockingly surprising. It is because it's not a good show if it was a good show, I'd be like, okay, well, they had the audience. Either one of them are experts or anything. No, they're just Leo psychics. And they told the hell during a podcast. What was that all about? That right? Sounds a lot like one of these things we've heard recently.

But there was a guy on YouTube, I'm blaming you. Well, and riding the bike and trying to get healthier, which is leading me to a lot more YouTube time. Yeah. And rather than just following because I've been having so much more YouTube time rather than just going through the people that I subscribed to. I've been going more through the Hey, we recommend this. Yeah, yeah. And there was a guy who claims to have sold an Amazon publishing business for like a million bucks and now he's rebuilding one.

It's a big money and doing crappy books on Amazon. And I'm not saying your books are crappy, but I know you've sold books. Is there really? I'm going to ship over 100 books like this. We can like I mean, I ran a promotion or somebody ran a promotion for me that gave people free books. I think they'll actually fulfill it. Well, free for who? Who's paying for these books? I'm paying for them. See, that's. That's a bet. It's going to cost me about a thousand bucks. Well, thank you.

Send out some free books to our listeners. And, well, I would love to. If our listeners were in that business, they could afford to hire me. I would be happy to send them a free book. That's part of the plan. I get it. As far as I know, none of the people know the demographic of this podcast are people that hire me or have jobs. So, I mean, there's there's that well, I wouldn't say 100% of them don't have jobs. I would just say my co-host generally don't have jobs about this.

I know that this is my job, which is sad, but I'm sure this guy was showing. And, you know, you think about all these different types of books and the one that really a never that wants to do a romance novel. Well, while I talk about this, you figure out how you want to answer this question from Heather. What does Sir Jim do? I mean that it's a good question, but he was showing this guy on YouTube, was showing a bunch of and he had ways to pull up how much each title was selling.

I'm sure there are services that do this kind of a thing. Yeah. And these were adult coloring books. Oh, my God. And there was big money in these things. I know, but it's like there was big money in these things. And I'm like, What? How disgusting. I know.

How hard would this be at this point to go into, especially now with I know when you when you say don't coloring book, you're talking about like anime manga MP look in Japanese girls not in years, not even in color yourself not even I mean it's and they're aimed towards an adult market but they are not adult in the 18 and over way they're they can read things like entry kid you know day of the Dead was one of them you know so these kind of they're like a

this is the fucking problem with millennials they don't grow up right They literally don't grow up. They're still mentally teenagers. So here are ways for you. I know it's not all millennials. It's just a damn good chunk of them to go buy a coloring book. And I'm like, Well, how hard could this be to create some air art? Now, according to my watch, you're getting my blood pressure up. Good. I see. I need a watch That can do the blood pressure as well. That's still the harder one to get, huh?

Is there a watch? Now? We don't want to go down that rabbit hole quite yet, but I want to know if there's one that's accurate. It's our show. Apparently, unless there's health issue, problem talk, It's anybody like this is anybody. It's a standard component of our show is health problems that barely we keep what's what because we'd like to stay alive. That's part of the gig.

The only thing I would say that's the relatively new that I learned from watching how somebody is that if you're taking vitamin D, you should always be vitamin K and vitamin B12 at the same time. That's why they all come in one little package. Now they the don't they have three different bottles for each of those. I mean you, well you have three different bottles for each weight that you have a lot of bottles on them. That's not what I meant. You know I do Each one is in a separate bottle.

The decay two though I have in the same one now. Yeah. Which is handy. I don't trust the whole take a single pill multivitamin. There's no way that works because I probably have about 30 different vitamins I take every day At this point. It's got multiple natural. I mean, I guess that the they all come in different but you know, different my entire countertop of my bathroom is nothing but pills, though, like 4000 different bottles.

What you need is an automated system that just all the pills come down, you open your mouth and then you can order that Amazon has pillpack, which lets you select what all you want. And we have one in one day a little baggies, which isn't a bad idea. I mean, it just I don't want to over like pay more than them stuff is worth, you know? I mean, I just want to know how many pounds of pills you're taking a day now. Oh, it's. It's a pound. Come on. How many handfuls? Maybe two handfuls.

It's a few handfuls. Like, what, five times a day? Or just for the whole day? The whole day. I guess that's not too bad. I mean, it's. It's not 40. I'm exaggerating, but it's probably realistically about 20. And I don't know what made the difference. But after taking the taurine like 3 to 4 grams a day, the arrhythmias have disappeared. So, I mean, it could also it is it is definitely utilized in the information of muscle cells.

So but back to the coloring books I'm like yes creating air at this point is any idiot can do it pretty much and then know CSB is well he's like I'm the guy creating it. Pay me and you strip out I mean there's some very easy little filters you can add to Photoshop that basically take any image and give you coloring book page.

So I mean, it looks for the lines you know in the in the image are different colors and then it creates those lines like how how how hard could it be to come up with some of these things and then just pump these things out on Amazon and make way more money than we are podcasting? Why don't we have a publishing empire here? Yes, why indeed. I Right. That's my question. And now I can basically write books for you.

We should just be pumping out the, you know, no agenda, unrelentingly novels, just pumping them out, man. It's the thing. Yeah. And it was interesting. This guy showed how you can use A.I. for writing and he's like, you know, it shouldn't replace you. Which is good, because if the air is replacing you, then there's no point in using it. But there are I think one was like originality. A.I.

There were a few different websites you could go and you can put text into it and it would tell you it's gas and whether it was created by A.I. or not. And when you use something from like a chat, GPT direct, if you cut and paste it, this thing is going to be like 97, 98% A.I.. He's like, So what you want to do is like, here's another service that goes sentence by sentence and re words. Those sentences, you know, riff phrases, those things make sense.

And using the proverbs of grammarly, he's like, well, if you just use the pro version of Grammarly and say, you know, accept all of their suggestions, then don't do that though Grammarly is weaker than hell. I cancel my subscription to them who is a good upright person to I'll tell you who I use. There's a it's the exact same thing from a different company. Let me look it up. And how did Grammarly get woke? And just looking at your training company.

Oh, I didn't know that. Yeah. So they will correct your stuff to not say he and him. They'll say them automatically. You're like, Fuck that. Yeah, that's exactly what I say. But these, this thing is. Oh, drum roll, please don't start with drumroll. Oh, it's called pro writing aid. That's a great name. I've heard. I've actually heard of that, but it's like it seems like, again, like the cheap Chinese knockoff, because we need to get more expensive than Grammarly. Well, what does it do?

It's a pro writing aid. What we should call it pro writing aid. Oh, well, that makes sense. It's. Yeah, it's. I think it's like 140 bucks or something. Like it. Not bad. It's about what Grammarly Pro is. I think that was 120. Yeah. Now if you take this AI generated and you put it through one of those, yeah. The end result is, oh, it doesn't seem like a text anymore, which is hilarious because it's double aid. It's double. Yeah. That's, that's the thing. You're exactly right.

This thing also has a plagiarism check. Yes. As Grammarly did. Oh, okay. I didn't realize Grammarly have that. Which is good if you're using the stuff that you let a I create because you don't really know where this stuff comes from. Mhm. And it's interesting to me because we know that it's taking a bunch of different things and recombining them.

And I was playing around with one of these was instead of stable diffusion, it was like unstable diffusion which was one of the forks because stable diffusion went all, No, no you can't do anything that maybe shows some titties. Oh no. And this was a, an offshoot of that and they give you like 45 free images a day to mess around with and sometimes the quality absolutely sucks, but on other times the quality is great for things that you want to give it a little bit more leeway.

West If you don't have to be extremely specific, but it is very interesting to me that you can type in go like, you know, Taylor Swift, whatever, and it will give you what looks like a photograph that I couldn't tell isn't real, which leads you down that deep going into the next presidential election. I know there was some of these that have already come out like, oh, Donald Trump on January 6th in the middle of the riot.

It's like these kind of images are going to be so easy to create at this point. It is. You cannot believe anything you see. I don't know why you would ever need a bunch of different types of artists at this point now, because you can just type. So I'll tell you what you can't believe anymore is you can't believe any video or photo evidence in court. Exactly. Because now it's all fake passport list, which ruins a lot of stuff. I mean, you can even go, hey, look, you have to rely on eyewitnesses.

Witnesses now only. Exactly. Which is very interesting, because for years we've had the hey, look, here's our security camera footage. Well, fuck, you can't believe that now. Well, okay, there is that exception. The security cameras have at least the good ones. Or I should say not the cameras themselves, but the video recorders, the security they have TimeCode and authenticity or authentication. I don't know how to describe it.

Basically, there is a way that they ensure that if you modify anything, then it doesn't. It's. Oh, well, that would be interesting. If it's basically creating a hash frame by frame, effectively that's what it's doing. It's like a running hash frame to frame the frame. So if any one frame is modified or taken out, then the rest of the hash fails.

So the hash would have to be so, you know, basically stored somewhere else because otherwise the people that are trying to create the new well, I mean, you could recreate the hash if you know the algorithm, which you don't. That would be true. That would be true. So and I think all of them at this point do it because it's if I remember, this first came up in my system for my cameras back like seven years ago, eight years ago, because you're like, well, how do you know this is real now?

Yeah, It's like, well, I have my bedroom cam running. I need to make sure that the timecode is exactly correct. And what are you recording in your bedroom? MGM Any interactions with somebody could see me? Oh, well, see, Okay, Yeah, it's the Patrick Kane thing is he. He is a superstar that was on the Blackhawks back in the day. Yeah. And he had a woman claim that he did things to her in his home and he was like, Here's my whole security system. Here's what happened.

And they're like, Oh, okay. Case dismissed. If you need to protect yourself. But this is interesting because I've seen some threads on this which I understand following threads on the internet. Always bad, but this was more interesting because it was an artist kind of community and they were talking about the things like what Adobe can do now in the with the generative Phil, because you can very easily go in and change the location where somebody is. You can change the clothing they're wearing.

This episode brought to you by Adobe, brought to you by Adobe Man. And the problem with that would be, well, how do you know when a photograph or an image that you're looking at that's not really a photograph when an image you're looking at online has been altered? Yeah. And there were some people that were like, well, they should put in some kind of watermarks so you could trace it back. And people are like, Fuck you. You know what that would?

Again, this is the answer to everything. We have this. I mean, there's acts of data that when you take a photo with a camera that's in there, that which has a it includes also a checked them. So you, you do have back in the day there was a large debate. And when I think back in the day, I mean, like 15 years ago, there's a lot of back in the day and this one's 15 years ago.

But when digital cameras got to the level where professionals were using them, not just the hobbyists, meaning they were, we started getting 20 megapixel plus cameras. There was a lot of us myself in the group that were photography purist. And so we we were, you know, talking about how really most photography that is coming out isn't photography. It's it's collages, it's compositions.

It's taking something that came out of a camera, combining it with other things that came out a different day in time, and then coming up with what might be a very pretty image. Right? But it certainly is not the image that the artist saw while they were looking for the one. And so we started a group called Through the Lens, which required that you only post things directly that came out of a camera.

And one of the ways to ensure that is through that and look at the hash on the active, but make sure that the file hadn't been modified since the camera originally created it. Well, and that's the interesting point. Now where there is just finished, I thought there is a particular art of photography which is mostly going away and being replaced with Photoshop. And then Photoshop has been around forever.

But Photoshop used to simply do things like allow you to change, contrast, change the gamma of an image, change the the depth of an image going from 24 to 16 bit or whatever It wasn't. You could do things that were purely artistic in Photoshop, but you can also do fairly minimal changes. Later, Adobe released the product that was separate specifically for doing those things called Lightroom in, and Lightroom for the most part is tweaks to photos not complete composition changes. Right.

But right now you're hard pressed to find an image which wasn't substantially modified in Photoshop or a similar program. On almost any website, there are very few images utilized that came directly out of a camera, and that's one of the things. It's always fun to get compliments on is to see somebody. How the hell did you get that in your camera? It's like, Well, sometimes it takes a long time.

Like I remember being in the location in in Phenix to get a particular shot of a moon, a full moon between two palm trees on top of a mountain. To do that, I had to be at that location on a particular day of the year at a particular time. And so I went there for several days and I spent one day scouting and planning where I'm going to set up the camera and everything else because the shifting of the moon would be just by a few degrees from that.

And then the next day I actually came out to do the set of photos like that. Should takes actual work, but you could have just done it in Photoshop. Yes, it's like 13 seconds. I copy. And pasting and moving. Yeah, exactly. So that's the difference between art, that art person and they both they look the same, that they look exactly the same. It's like, do you want the Mona Lisa? Do you want a poster of the Mona Lisa? Whichever one's cheaper, please.

Yeah, I'll take the original would be nice, but there is a whole new skill set. I mean. Well, that is. Maybe there's not, but It's that. Well, and now you just say, Hey, I generate me an image of a moon and a full moon between two, uh, palm trees on top of a mountain based on this location in Arizona. And boom, it just spit it out. Yeah, of course. The moon has four fingers. Well, it has not figured out hands yet. The. No, no, but it's.

I think I've said for a long time it's not nothing I haven't figured out hand. It's a this is the standard a detection mechanism that is built into all the generative AI systems out there is that it's not allowed to do hands correctly. But here's the thing. It will it will do them correctly, just not all the time. And here's the interesting thing. So playing around with the unstable diffusion, I haven't tried mid journey yet. I mean, I need to they don't need to be fun. Yeah.

So I have to actually pay and do that. I need to cancel it. You see. There you go. Or just give me your log in so I can create a bunch of images and then, and then you can see the, the interesting thing about talking about how to get the proper shot in that is I was watching a YouTube again yesterday and there were a couple of creators that went in with Marquez Brownlee who is like the biggest tech guy. The Yeah which I like watching that. He's kind of like a not particularly big black dude.

Yeah, well, he is like, almost like they think he's six foot something. I mean, he's a big guy. It's super skinny. He is skinny. Yeah, he is skinny. I like the way he came out with the shoe brand, and I'm like, That's a pretty cool idea. Really? Yeah. Oh, I didn't know what it was, but I watched this stuff for many years because he seems to. I don't know how, but he. He was like one of the first guys to get invited. Tesla for free test drives.

He's always been getting shit Like he's one of those guys who get the apple goggles before they release, right Like this. And the list, he's like the tech guy. He's been doing the tech reviews since he was 13. This is all. Maybe that's what it was. Maybe that's the notoriety originally had was he was a kid and now he has a studio in New York. That is I think he said the rent was 30,000 a month. Oh, shit.

Yeah, well, it's New York, so it's probably about the same size a studio somewhere else for three grand a month, possibly. But he was talking about there are so many tech reviewers out there that people can go get the information pretty much based on those. And sure, yeah, you could go get the information anywhere. So how do we make things different? And now he's got one room that's only an overhead camera set up and they've got like 50 different things that you can put down.

So if you want to look like a marble table, it's that if you want to look like a wood table with that. But the most he had an older robotic system that he had now replaced. So there's basically a camera on a robotic arm. So if you are watching one of his videos and it looks like the camera is flying around, then all of a sudden gets right to the right spot and stops. Mm hmm. This is a $250,000 robot. Yeah. You know, there's a Kickstarter for a robot arm going on right now.

Interesting A buddy of mine sent it to me because I love Robot Arms. Always have. And that's what they do. It's like we have to have a whole room for this. And it's like it's obviously wasn't worth the quarter million dollars. He's like, But if you want to stay ahead of the curve and get shots, he's like, I want people watching the videos going, How the fuck did he get that shot?

He can also do it with a drone for a lot less money, not with the accuracy and the quickness that the robot arm can do indoors. It's a beautiful thing and you like indoors. It's overkill. Yeah, but it's not going to go down, make the real quick changes and the camera is going to be exactly where you want. I mean, you could do some really cool stuff with drones, but $250,000 like that is the level of money that's being put into it. It's unnecessary. You could make it for a lot deeper than that.

But the reason it's $250,000 is because that robot is moving a £5 camera, but it's made to move £500 parts. It's it's hydraulic. And if it is meant for much heavier weights than the what a camera weigh, I'm sure. Yeah. Could you do it. Yes. You could use the same robot both for building a car and holding up a camera. Well, it's not exactly that. It's on the same technology. It isn't one of those actual. This is a company that are doing these things for for this kind of work.

But the reality is just the way they're making their own robots, they're I'm sure they're outsourcing those do existing robotic. Oh yeah. Well they got they bought again they bought this from somebody for a quarter million bucks. But it's like how far this kid starting at 13 years old with a little webcam, you know, doing a YouTube channel. It's like a new grown it into I don't even want to know how many millions they're making a year content.

He puts out because I think he's got like very pervasive though he has multiple channels that he's all the time. He comes up all the time. And my recommendation, well, he has always been at the forefront. Now that you're watching YouTube like me, I don't know if I'd say this show is kind of turned into YouTube review now. Oh, maybe that's our maybe that's our shtick. It's a we still have to do a video show if we want to make any more money. Yeah, Yeah. You see that? And you do? Yeah.

Look at this guy. Yeah, it's cool. Yeah. Why are you doing an Leo Laporte impression? I quit trying to do PBS. Was that Leo and Solid Leo is. Wow. I never really maybe really liked it but the clip from Leo showed the other day it is bad. There's Leo sitting surrounded by four monitors. I know he had that started like during COVID, right? They did. And that's it. That's like nobody wants to show up to his house anymore.

I think he has to have a studio or is it come over to his home and he shows up in a bathrobe? Well, he used to have a studio, but I think his ex-wife think that the reality is you don't need a studio anymore. But he still has it. But it does look very strange. I would rather just have the clothes shot on Leo and then cut to the people remote. Yeah. Yeah. There's no reason to have the monitor heads. Yes, I know it is. Dystopian is what it looks like, huh? I don't like it. I don't like the vibe.

I don't think I've watched a this week in tech though, since John C Dvorak was the last episode he was on, which has been a few years now. Oh, it's been like a decade. Yeah, he was on one. He went, they, he got him in with the bottle of a drink, was like really expensive Hennessy or something. J.C. It was what? Maybe they had a major disagreement about it. That may have been. I don't know, the like.

Leo basically said anyone doesn't take a shot and go fuck themselves and I'll never be on my myself. Could be. I didn't follow it closely enough to know, but the Leo show used to be good way, way, way back in the day. But then again, I can tell you what I think the issue is, is Leo is a talent and he became the producer and CEO and he's not particularly good at either one of those things. He's a radio guy. Well, he's radio or video. He's a talent.

He's a guy that show up, do his stuff, be given up, and then go home. And I think about the show. It was a $3,000 bottle of cognac that got jacked and the win was that blitzed? It was. And it was. They had a fun time drinking it, I can tell you that. Oh, they drank it on the show. Yeah. He's I would have expected Leo third. Leo. I would expect the DVD to take it on the bottle and run. Yeah, that's what I would have done. I'm like, okay, thanks. I'll take this and sell it. See you later.

And he should have grabbed one of those pop filters while he was there. Yeah, I really. I need to warn Pierre. Hi. On my phone? Yeah, he's using the PR 40, which is the microphone I started with after I had a cheap condenser microphone, which did a decent job. But the condenser, that was when I had the down in the basement, which is now a carpet list that I was sitting at the table where my mixing board and everything was because that was all just falling at the table with the big thing.

And Little Luca is at. It's a good track, actually. It's a great track. You know, that's the track that created MP three really? Yeah. What makes sense? It has the the history from from Hofmann there of their process for inventing or creating the MP three format.

They actually mentioned that Steiner was the test song so that that's the song that they used while creating the impression formats to test for errors in true What's a good song to do that because it's not a and I listened to the hell out of that song when they first came out. I've got all of them. They get stuff from her old stuff. I don't know if there's any new stuff, but I still have. They've got some bootlegs in my in my CDs, in my car, like back in the nineties.

Wow, you sound like such a boomer in my CDs in my gas powered car in the 1930 years ago, The car I was driving had a disc changer in it and I always. Disc 210, Disc 100 disc which you have in the car. I have an aching this Oh that's that was big money at the time. Yeah it was big money. It was probably bigger than the car. No, it wasn't bigger. Like that. And that was like 2000 buck.

But I remember sitting there like the middle of the basement with my headphones on and hearing this and I'm like, Where the hell is that coming from? The ground loop? No, no, it was my like, it was the refrigerator in the other corner of the basement that the. Oh, wow. The condenser was picking up like down. Oh, this is why I knew I had to get to dynamic microphones real quick.

Yeah, because you don't want to pick up the refrigerator at the other side of the room, and there's not even a big refrigerator, you know, just want them little ones. But it was make it more than enough noise. But the oh, the PR forces are nice. Mike. Is it. Yeah. I never had one. I got my, my big monitor for finally plugged into the Mac defined big. I mean, this is your main monitor. You mean the bought a 43 inch C I've only got the 4k. What was this.

I told you when I got this like a 36 or something. Yeah. I have monitor envy. Now I know that was a lot of talk going on. No agenda social. You and CSB were talking hot CPU talk like this. Here is your CV account. There is your CPU hotter than mine. Oh, it is. My CV is running in over 300. Nice. Well, you've got the M2, he has the M1 and now he wants the M three because. Well we both want them three. So what the when you get the M three, can you just send your M2 over to me.

And that way, you know, it's funny you say that because I actually had a BMW, M2 or C, but I would rather have the apple M2 right now because otherwise the BMW, I'd probably crashed the. That was a very fun car. I had a lot of fun with it, actually. I didn't have as much fun with that car is like back then I only put on four and a half thousand miles in two years on it until it wound up in the junkyard. Are you sold it? No, as a lease. I had a two year lease.

I was like, I thought this was going to be a story of. I took an off ramp at 90 miles an hour there. No craziness, no, that's stopped. That is. I did not drive it enough. So it was a $30,000 two year lease. That gives you some context of how sad I am right now. Yeah. You wish you had it back. I mean, I don't know that I here's the thing. If you get a Beamer, you really should leave it and not buy it because the cost of maintenance and repair and those things is really high.

And so as long as it's under warranty, which is three years, you're okay. But you really don't want to have a BMW that's older than three years old because the price of the car depreciates very fast. But the cost of getting anything done, the car, any kind of fixes is really high. So you can pretty soon you're going to end up with a vehicle that costs more defects than the heap. So that little, little bit of advice, but buying a BMW or not buying Lisa instead of buy it.

But you know, I don't know why did a two year instead of a three year? I was just kind of stupid, I guess, but I ended up doing a two year lease on that car and well, I didn't really enjoy it, you know, I drove it down to the coast, to the basics. I drove it. I would do to what the hell is that place called Sonoma, Arizona. Uh, got it out in the desert is Sonoma, Sonora, which was California, right? It's not like wine, right? It's a place in Arizona. Like Sedona, is it Sedona?

Sedona? That's right. Drove it out to Sedona, did a nice road trip. I get pulled over twice or having windows there too dark. And they weren't like, I'm a drug dealer. Come on. Yeah, I am from Russia. Now I've got have had a remedy. Add ceramic window coating, which is really cool. Is it for the bullets to bounce right off of. Yeah, exactly. It's good stuff so that light comes out but you can't the end. Which is what you want in the car. Yeah, I think so. So I really enjoyed the car.

I wish I would have enjoyed it. More on the road though, unfortunately. But yeah, that thing was so there's another reason that I tend to didn't and the keeping it longer along aside from the cost of maintenance and because that is this thing was such a gas hog this thing drank gasoline like it was going out of style. You have not had a 1977 delta 88. I have had a 1979 Delta 88. Thank you very much. Very close that's drove that car. Now all the gas usage with way less performance.

Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. Mine was a station wagon, by the way. Oh, that's even better. Yeah. Yeah. If you want to be picking up chicks left and right in the 79, it was red Woody. It was a red and Woody, 1979, Delta 80. I didn't even know they made those in a Woody style. Oh, hell, yeah, absolutely. Look it up. That was a great car. I mean, that car was very functional. I enjoyed the hell out of that car. That was fully loaded. Power. Everything is great.

But anyway, getting back to the Beemer, the so the other issue was I averaged 11 miles to the gallon. Damn Nice. And, and when it was in their track mode, it was getting about six miles to the gallon. So I was the tank, man. How many miles could you go to person car? Dude, it's. It's literally a little tiny thing that was getting such shitty mileage

That's a little some people would say, Well, that's because you had LEDs. But well, what, you don't buy a car like that and then not drive it aggressively. So our notes are sweet, man. The the oldsmobiles with the wood paneling on this. I do. That's awesome. Yeah. Did you know I would have never had the regular time? I just had the regular. Yeah, I think you had two door coupe so that, you know, it wasn't even four door. Oh you have the coupe. Really? Wow.

Yeah. So I had the big old wagon and it had the rear tailgate opened up both ways so you could lower it like a truck, a hatch, or you could open it sideways. You were doing some stargazing out of the back of that baby. That was pretty cool. But. But actually, if you are looking up and you look like there was an old or a Buick, um, but what was the model? It was a, it was 1976. So before the Delta it was a 76 Buick Electra maybe, or something like that.

The station wagon, it was very roundy and it had a rear tail, gave that power lowered into the body of the car but didn't open it, didn't like fold. It went basically up and down. It went into the car when it was open. That thing was crazy. Oh, yeah, yeah. I'm looking at the back of one of those here. I remember those. Yeah. It was unlike a track. This is all like lost technology that we've never regained. I know. It's like, what the hell happened to cars? Yeah, we have power.

Fricking everything. Power, trunks, power, everything. It was like magic. Yeah, we. We got three miles to the gallon, but it was magic. Oh, if we were lucky, I think I was probably doing around ten, 11 miles to the gallon. The Delta 88, for sure. But it was great. You'd go and you'd fill up with gas back then, and when it was like a dollar a gallon was like no big phone. The microphone from the beginning of the episode that I shipped out a bunch of them here, brand I bought a bunch of these.

We're circling back and we are kind of circling back different. Yeah, it's it's brand is the five fine metal condenser recording microphone how badger just did a fine review Yeah he did one and they like a $40 dynamic and he's like well I wouldn't you know wouldn't put it at the top of the list. It sounds better than it deserves to. Yeah. Yeah. I would say that's the case. So it was the cheapest.

Mike That sounds decent that I could afford to just ship out people and some people would say, Well, that's a hell of an asshole move that you literally make other people change the microphone they use so that your ears feel better. I totally do that to you. If I, if I could. And I thought I could take you. If you want to buy me a better mike, go for it. I'll take it. Let me set your DVR for you up on it. Let me get you out of jail.

PR 40, Man, I don't think it'll sound better, but you're more than welcome to someone. That was fine. Fine. Makes a lot of microphones. Mm hmm. I like the idea of jail, and I certainly like their gold microphone. That would be the one I would get. But I've never really been anybody other than people like Leo or John that really like them. Well, I think they sound in the same category. I don't see that huge of a difference.

The the microphone you have, the 320 is definitely a little bit hotter, a little bit more airy. But as far as the RC 20, the high PR 40 and the. Sure. 77b man, you can throw a blanket over those. They all sound almost exactly the same. Mm hmm. So it really depends which one you like the looks of. And I will say the RC 20 for me anyway, is the best with the plosives and room rejection for other noises that you don't want. But there are ways around that.

I mean, with the with the PR 40, I always get the big foam ball on it, which is why I should 20 I had and I had another 20 before I got the 320 but I sold mine on eBay along with the but is still a few of my human equipment. Human. Yeah. Which I use like Hello Nyman, You took a bath on that one? Uh, not that much. I maybe lost 150 buck. Could be worse when you were going to sell it to me for, like, you aren't even, like, a hundred bucks, so a lot more than that.

I was going to lose a lot more than that. Well, if I sold you. But you didn't want it. Now it's really I. I have way too many microphones. You can only use one at a time, so. Well, that's not true. I guess you're right. I could. I could hook up plenty to the MOTU. So the RC 20 is now selling for 50. Well worth it. Yeah. I don't know about that. I mean, at that point I'd rather probably get the they have some stuff on me. Hey, but it doesn't have the right look.

You think it looks too stubby where the RV does some some of the be just looks stupid. I mean having wires come out of the side of the microphone and not having a standard plug and have it. I will say one of the best things that electro voice did was put the RC 20 out in black rather than, Yeah, the grayish green that they've had for decades. Yeah, the one that looks basically like any kind of radio cabinets from the 1860s. Yeah. All that metallic green color, which was nice.

I mean it has a certain nostalgia to it, but it's an industrial looking like I want. It is good. You could beat somebody with it. They are heavy duty microphones. Yep. But the three twenties that was always black. And I've got mine mounted to a black colored stand. So it worked well like shock mount going there. Mm. Yeah. And I don't know why more people don't buy these. My shock mounts all have cables inside the jack. The inside of the note shock. My what am I saying?

My stand. My what do you call these? The boom arm, the boom arm the. Yeah. It's the lamp style arm with the springs, but it has the wiring inside, which makes it look like cleaner. Like here comes the boom. I don't know why people don't use more arms that have inner arm wiring. And it Because if something goes wrong, then. But it's like that. You just use the external. You know, if something goes wrong with the mic cable, go run it.

Well, if it's built poorly, I've heard of some of the cheaper boom arms that have the microphones there. I'm sorry, the microphone cable inside. Mm. You bend it around enough, the cable gets twisted and maybe broken and then, I mean, again, if it was built right, that should never happen. But yeah, it looks like Hale's gone black. Now. Do they have a black pierce I-40? Oh, okay. They're probably like, Oh, wait, got to catch up. Or maybe. Maybe electro voice was catching up to them.

Like everybody wants the black matte finish microphone. Maybe for those YouTube channels they want to look good. The Yeah, it is amazing. I guarantee you there have been more SMG sounds purchased by YouTubers than by actual audio people 100% and it drives me crazy. There was a photoshop guy that when he was doing the main part of the video, it was obvious that he was speaking directly into the microphone.

But for like his opening shot, you could see the XM seven B and it was like two feet away from him and it sounded like crap. It's like, Dude, you can't use that microphone and be two feet away from it and think it's going to sound good. Welcome to Mike Time We should spend. You have like the website or just YouTube channel. He has a YouTube channel. He also has band Drew Scott NBC.com, I believe is his main website. We keep saying we should do a show together about mikes.

Yeah. And, and bantering around about podcasting or something. Yes it is band Drew Scott Scotty t dot com. You can find all of bad news from the band Drew says podcast the podcast it's microphone reviews. And he also does things like when he's testing some of the microphones, he will read open source books and that kind of thing and, and release those his audio books, get some cool content. Yeah, I'm looking at one of his videos here. Memo says.

Instead, you guys just do regular shows about band Drew Well see that's part of the joy of these. You keep bringing up so you know he has the microphone guys when we get a fact about him. There was I think it was new because it was on YouTube that it was Seinfeld with Michael Richards going to get coffee. And I was like, Oh, this is like our show. Yeah, how dare they? And they went out and they're just they wherever they were.

And they're like, just walking down the street and people are kind of like looking at them. I don't know, I might have like an aneurysm if I'm like, is that Seinfeld and Kramer, you know, walking down the street? Really? Why would you have that you like? It's a little weird. You would not be like a fat, bald guy walking like that's what How is that weird that you and I to you walking down the street? What if you lose enough weight? No, thanks. That would be good. How's that going?

It's actually I haven't been on a scale, but the pants are definitely more roomier. Well, at least at the waist, because they stress could be a skill. It's denim. And. Well, I bought a new set of weights. It's The daily exercise that I love, getting free shipping from Amazon. And I'm very heavy things. No, that specifically things that are just their only purpose is to be heavy. Right? They're weights and then they're like, You deliver that for free. Yeah. I'm like, how?

How the shipping on that has got to be about half the price. Well, we had that when we moved. It's because this was Amazon not in its infancy, but we moved into this house in, I think it was 2009, so 14 years ago or so and we ordered a color sink for the one bathroom and we ordered it in black and UPS delivered it for Amazon because Amazon didn't have their own folks then. Yeah. And we realized immediately it was the white or biscuit, not the black color.

So they had to send ups back to pick that up and send another sink out. It's like there's, no doubt you lost money on shipping. Not only lost money on shipping, it's like you probably lost big money overall because that can't be cheap for UPS because these things weigh like, what, 50, £60? I mean, it's crazy, but that's it. You got to go. He's doing the videos and now the audio stuff now. Well, he does a weekly podcast which covers social media.

That's kind of what the man Drew says thing covers. He also answers microphone questions that but it's basically the news he is anything about what's going on on the social media platforms, the podcast channel, all microphones all the time. But then he's got a channel about which not a lot of content but he does it. He has a watch channel, he has a music channel that he plays and does covers and stuff like that because he was in a band back in the day.

So yeah, he collects watches. Yeah. Oh wow, that's crazy. You collect watches do No, but now you might. I don't know. I've got watches that I don't wear but I don't collect. What. Because these are the old fashion watches that didn't have the little computer chip in them that didn't tell you what your blood pressure was. The old fashioned kind. I got rid of all my expensive watches when I get their worth. Well, see, there you go.

Now, by getting rid of them, do you mean that the ex-wife had them or, you know. No, no, I sold them. You're like, I need money for food in China. But also it was just like, you know, she gave me the watches, so I kind of like it was a good idea to get rid of them. I didn't want those painful memories. Don't. Yeah, I just that them. Like, I got sick of having to adjust my watches. Like, as good as Rolexes. It is not the time. The same way that a cheap electronic watch keeps time, is it?

Right? Because it's not about keeping time. It's about, Hey, look, Jean has a Rolex, huh? Yeah. I mean. I mean, really, I didn't have the solid gold one. I just had the regular one and the like. I could see if you've got the the full solid gold one because you're basically wearing a bracelet that has a watch in it. True Is the gold on the bracelets worth more than the, the mechanism. But I don't know. I thought it was cool.

I think it's like one of those things where, you know, if it makes you feel like you feel a certain landmark or whatever in your career, when you're wearing a Rolex, you're like, I am fancy, I have a Rolex, but I also missed my court. Well, there's something to be said. It's not a big deal. The first time we had a and it was for my parents, an electronic wall clock, because otherwise, if the power went out, you know, you had to go back and reset it.

And of course, savings time, the first one that just used the radio signals that the thing rebooted itself and it had the right time was like, Oh, that's so much better. Oh Yeah, dude. So I have a citizen watch that. Use the radio signal for adjusting itself. This watch was freaking awesome. It was a a citizen they bought in Japan and a trip you can buy citizens. Yeah, absolutely. In Japan you can now you are okay humans laws are. Hey, hey, hey, hey. We don't we don't refer to them as human.

We referred to them as watches. Oh, okay. But yeah, this thing was awesome. So I was one of the first watches that use the radio signal that is no longer there. Apparently, Obama shut it down. Really? So we no longer have a signal to set our watches to. But yeah, I got this thing back in the nineties and I think it was like 38 or 99. They can't remember probably 98. So this is what like 25 years ago and it's a solar watch. So it still runs.

It had to get shipped back once because they had a, a bug in there for 2010. For some reason, 2010 reset like I guess nobody expected in 1999 to have a watch run past 2010, the calendar would have messed up. So I hit the ship and back. They re, uh, fix the firmware on it and yeah, so far as I know, it still runs. I mean, it's sitting in a lighted area, so it's still moving. It's just there's no more signal for it synchronized.

But it was really cool because that watch before people had iPhones before any of that crap when I traveled, this watch would automatically adjust the time zone because it was smart enough to know where you were, including flying to Japan, the US, Japan. I can't remember if Europe or not. Probably not, but it would automatically adjust the time zone so it was really cool. Watch. I, I liked it a lot. Um, but it also didn't have a, I mean was, it was an analog watch with digital features.

Interesting to me how quickly we become dependent not not really dependent, but so used to something I had not worn a watch in probably 15 or 20 years when I got this Apple Watch less than a year ago. Mm hmm. It is utterly amazing to me when I put the thing on to charge, which is under an hour each day. Mm. How many times I'm looking at my wrist like, Oh, what time is it? What's the temperature, What's going on? It's like it's not there. It's like, oh my God, I'm totally beat.

This is literally why I have two of them. We save one for each wrist so that no, I just swap them out. So I would take one watch off the charger, put it on, but the other one on the charger. And that way I always had a watch and I never had to go watch left with an Apple Watch, but the prices started going up. So I couldn't really continue having two of those. But in perpetuity they're finally coming down now, which is the way they should. Yeah, well, that's good.

I still have one love, but of course, now, like most of my friends that are Apple, people have gotten the new Apple one. The what is it the pro or the Well there's like the all the bigger version right the ultra Yeah that's like so damn the face is so thick I'm like I have a big wrist it's like I don't want that I don't know man that the the watch I'm wearing makes all the apple watches look tiny. Hey now you got watch envy. No I don't have And the other people might though.

I've got that diamond which is a computer. I think they're thicker and bigger than the Apple Watch, but it can do your blood pressure now that we were going to get back to you. I was being facetious. That's close, though. I know they're close with this stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah And I don't even know how they're going to do it because I know they have sensors that will do this now that still need to be like reset or recalibrated weekly.

They're saying it's not going to be long before they don't need that part. I'll tell you the thing that the Apple Watch can actually do with the help of the the phone is talk to a continuous blood sugar monitoring system. And I don't have one of those, but I've I've looked at them in the past and a buddy of mine just got signed up for having one of those.

So I'm more seriously thinking of buying one of those things which literally is plugged into you, you know, like a needle with a little radio transmitter and it sends continuous blood information to your phone, which then can be show on your watch. I've seen these things advertised, which is, yeah, life saving for people that. If your sugar drops quick, you get a Yeah, yeah. If it tells you or whatever.

But I honestly the way that I know one of my triggers going down is I start yawning and closing my eyes. So during this podcast, every show you're like, I mean, usually now, but immediately after the podcast, yeah usually. So like when you were talking to Ben Rose on the last show where you like, I was eating, I was actively eating while I was talking, them did not notice. I didn't listen. You think I have time to listen to it too fast? You don't even listen to my shows.

What was I supposed to do? I could read the transcript and then I could produce a show without listening to it. You just check it into an automatic filter and then just upload it like an air baby. Oh, my God. I mean, you told me to look for some point where everybody took a P break, but I knew did not. I did not find any longer. I noticed. Yes. And what I did do was went through the normal effects over a second of silence, cut it down to seven.

Yeah. So you got rid of the part that would have indicated where that part with it. Did you see that was all the editing that needed to be done remembering after how you as an audio editor, Amaro said it was disturbing and distracting that you were eating during the show. Yeah, I'm sure he thought that, but he didn't say anything. Of course, he's just he's as he said, I was too professional to call about. That's exactly what he said. You guys are the same person. You say exactly the same things.

Pretty much. So nobody really noticed that I was he I mentioned that I was eating sushi while we were doing the. Oh, sushi, too. Wow. That's like the ultimate douche bag or email. What? I love sushi. When he talked about. Okay, to be fair, as I've mentioned before, I've never had so I can't really say one way or the other. You've never had sushi? I never have, no. I mean, you are in Chicago, so we have sushi, but.

Well, there is the grocery store that's walking distance from here has a guy that I'm sure he's not real good, but he shows up like every Monday and it's like Sushi Monday. And they have, like, the little standard they do the fresh, fresh sushi. And I've just never. Well, do me a favor and don't let that be your first sushi. Great. You don't want. Sushi, Random dollar, nice fancy sushi restaurant. You're not going to die. But it's just taste wise.

You deserve to have that first experience be something that you'll go, Oh, this is really good, right? Because otherwise you ever go back to never have it. Yeah. If you only have grocery store sushi. And believe me, there are times when you just want grab something quick and then you'll get some grocery store sushi. But don't don't do that the first time you have it. Last week on Saturday, a nice 33 ounce Delmonico's steak. That's a pretty big thing. It is.

I was surprised it was a like 33 ounces. Obviously, that's what I got to get. It's an old steakhouse that is close to my parents. It's been there since 19 1922. It was so it's been there for over 100 years now. We were surprised they made it because they totally shut down for like two years during COVID and then came back and. The place won. The place was packed. So people are spending a lot of money on food, no doubt about that.

But we went out with my parents because was their 62nd anniversary, which is that's a lot of years. You realize you were 62 years old. No, I'm only 53. What did they do the first decade? Well, there's my older sister. And then they were probably were thinking, we don't want any more of these, but simply, you know how it goes. But it was a good steak and people were like, damn, I was out in the middle of out in the middle of the suburbs.

People are spending 100 bucks a piece to go eat, which I mean, in Austin is like, what, a Coke and a hotdog. That's 15 bucks easy. Well, if you want to want a cheap hotdog. Yeah, that was Costco at Costco. It's like two bucks for the hot dog. And then back to the soda. And then I finally had to go get a haircut, which was the first time I've had a haircut. Like a year. I mean, I was looking like a hippie man. I was envisioning you looking like the hippie.

Yeah The hair's finally short, which is better. But I won. I mean, I guess I'm a procrastinator that I don't think there's any question about that. And I don't like talking to people that I don't know. So the whole I need a new barber are Sharon. So that makes total sense, right? And I well, I drove myself to the barber that was great. And then went and got a nice big steak burrito because why wouldn't you?

But it's like I start just reading all of the reviews and it's very hard to find a old school barber. Oh, yeah, Yeah. Which is what I was going to for years. Like the the guy that cut my hair was probably doing it since I just out of high school and I was really in need of a haircut by January of this year. And that's what I showed up and it's like, Oh, they're gone, closed up. And so I'm like, okay, now where do I want to go?

And everybody was they're out like beauty salons or they want to be cutesy about it. Yeah. So I finally found a barber and I'm like, Go get. At least I called up. I'm like, You guys do walk into the appointment. Only I'm like, Well, okay, I guess I can't complain about that because they were ready the minute I walked in. Yeah, but at least I found a barber. That was a big thing. Like the first haircut in, like a year wow. I feel like £10 lighter, man.

Which is a hell of a lot better when you're riding the bike, when you don't have the ponytail, the hair just all soaked in sweat. Yeah, I. I've been telling my own hair for many years. Yeah, that razor, man. Yeah. Work great saves. You see how much money you save right there on haircut? If I save enough money to, like, buy random Chinese microphones. Yeah, I guess. Yeah, it's really easy. But the last barber haircut I have was in Kansas City. Probably, I don't know, four, four or five years ago.

And it was because I was walking around there and I haven't grass a a barber shop that looked look like traditional barber shop. I like the method do straight edge razor. And they're like, Yep, we have like perfect. So I had them shave my head. Did you leave bleeding or they were good at what they did? No, they were good. They were good. Sir Ben Rose says really hard to find people that do straight edge because it takes skill and it's dangerous if it's really dangerous.

But there is that desperate for blood Memories says for your first sushi, Just go with Jean. Excellent sushi and somebody else pays. Yeah, it sounds perfect to me. Yes. Yes. We went to this sushi place when I was up there, and we met up for lunch. Now, if we could mix sushi with, like, a good steak place, and at least if the sushi is not good, you just. Well, the a lot of the sushi places have really good steak. Is Japanese little tempura action. Oh, I mean, they can do tempura as well.

It's not really a steak, but tempura just means country fried. Everything should be country fried. Yeah. So If you want to do like them for a steak, you could do that. But that's basically ordering a chicken fried steak. Or can you get a double chicken chicken fried steak or fried steak? Chicken fried. The one the other only one that's double, which is funny sounding is chicken fried chicken. Yes. You know, it's kind of like. Well, why why do you say chicken fried?

You just say fried chicken. Yes. Is it's different chicken fried chicken. But even chicken fried steak sounds funny. If you think about it. Yes. Do you like. Wait, is there chicken in this? No. Yeah, but it's chicken. But you fried up like a chicken, so you. That makes more sense. Yeah. It's like it's steak prepared in a chicken fried manner, which there is a a plate. My favorite place for that is actually not here in Austin. They don't really have a good place for that here.

It's in Dallas and Houston, too. I think they. Have there's a restaurant called Babe's. Oh, well, that sounds like a Hooters or something. It does sound like it, but it's not. Babe's is a homestyle country kitchen style restaurant. And what that means is that, like inside the restaurant is a bunch of picnic tables. And so you sit on these tables along with some random people. So it's all family style. It's very family style. And then they bring your salad, some best frickin salad, too.

It's literally like a lettuce chopped lettuce salad, but with vinegar and sugar. Wait, wait, wait. So you have the vinegar. You're adding sugar to a salad. It's well, it's sweet vinegar. It's like that's the sauce is a sweet, sweet vinegar sauce. And and the salad, it's surprisingly tasty. Nothing makes the salad healthier than adding it to sugar. I know, right? A cup of white sugar helps everything taste better.

And. And then all the all the extras are family style, the baking, you know, plate of of okra, a plate of, green beans, you know, plate of coleslaw, plate of whatever, mashed potatoes, all that stuff. And then you can get different things like chicken fried chicken or chicken fried steak or I think there's a couple other entrees, but not a whole lot. But it is very tasty, very good. They think they're cream corn's really good. And I always enjoy, like when I have visitors coming.

When I lived in Dallas, they would always take them to that place. It's like. And it's not like an actual old restaurant. It's a chain, obviously. So they all brand new buildings. But they're all made to look like they've been around for a hundred years. Give it a little bit of an extra style to it. Well, I don't know if style with the right word vibe. Yeah. Um, it's a vibe is a good word. Yeah. I'll go with Vibe Berkeley Now, have you ordered your lunch for today?

Have you ordered your groceries? No. Do you want me to or. No, I get groceries yesterday, so I'm not getting any more. I actually did a test of protein bars, so I ordered like seven different protein bars yesterday, which were the favorites. I've tried a few recently, and they're very hit and miss and some of them taste like cold food. Yep. Yep. Totally hit miss. Ironically, the one that I like, the taste of the mouth, they're they're all chocolate flavored.

So I for better comparison direct comparison, I guess. But the one that I like the most ironically has the least carbs in it. Well, that's perfect. It only has like 170 calories from carbs. What? Because some you look at and you're like, well, this is not healthy at. All Yeah, no, but it's got like 300 calories from fat and like another 100 from protein. What was the winning brand? Which one? Well, that's what you want me to look it up? I don't remember enough that my. I thought you. What?

I thought you'd have a whole box sitting right in front of the kitchen. It's sitting all the way in the kitchen down. I'm not in the kitchen doing this. Three gardening, obviously not this time. Only with what? I only with Beverly. Never record in the kitchen. It would be pretty bad in there. Be like, Yeah, you get the little bit of an echo. I can get the look up the brand here online.

I think it was the power crunch Pro triple chocolate, high protein bar power crunch that the name of the the brand. Yeah. Power crunch is a company name. I will send you a link presently so you can look at it if. You give a shit. Yeah. I've got all. They've got those at our local grocery store. You can get peanut butter fudge. You can get choco mint. I gave you a Lincoln fudge triple chocolate. Triple chocolate. It tastes, I think, better than all the other ones.

It has no sugar alcohol, which means it's not going upset your stomach. It ain't cheap. Couple of bucks. The bar. What are you paying for? The five count? Uh, seven, seven, eight, 709 here in our hamlet. Uh, is that a I think it's a four. Count it five. Countless. You guys are only getting four. We're getting four. Yes. Wait, wait. You're getting four, four, 790. Yeah, we're getting five, four, 709. I should just be sending these out to get them back them up. Should that be.

Yeah. That's the power crunch, bro. It's. No, it's not the regular branch, the proprietary. Oh, wait, there's a power crunch, bro. This is power crunch. Triple chocolate. Yeah. No, this is a this is a power crunch pro. Oh, well, I want to be pro. Get the pro version of the chocolate protein bar here. This is what happens when somebody puts out a good product. They're like, Well, what do we do now? Hey, let's add pro. Yeah, yeah. The word pro lets you reduce the and increase the price. Uh huh.

People will go crazy. Wait of your product. Let's see here. Just looking at the one had, which was what, a chew out, an eight ounce a piece ride to answer them. Same exact thing. Yep. And this one is let's see, power crunch, triple chocolate. How you do it, everybody? We're doing some grocery shopping here. This one has I don't know if it sits on the front of the box. I see 13 grams of protein, which two ounces. 20 grams of protein. Wow. What? See, that's even better.

They are ounces that they're. That is the pro advantage right there. PROVENGE gives you 20 ounces of protein, only 14 carbs and 22 grams of fat when it tastes good. I mean, that's the biggest thing right there is it is the best. It's interesting because it has most fat and the least carbs of all different protein bars. I'm trying. So and the reason I'm trying the protein bars is I ordered a new set of weights, which I mentioned earlier. Yeah. What were those?

Now, you know, if I'm lifting weights, that's an excuse. The broken burst, like you have to lift them like more than once. One lift every month to be like I thought it was a lift per bike was not how it works. It might be one by one, but one lift one by one lift. I got a bulk up, man. That's right. Got to build these muscles going. Have you been watching gym cast Woo Temple? Well, I didn't. Even if you don't mention him, I don't even know he exists.

You know, he's pretty big on the recommendations on YouTube. I'm surprised you haven't been recommended him. I do not get his recommendations and I had subscribed to him for a while and then was like, no, can't not interested guest host for about a week. Oh were you on were you guest hosting. Yeah. And you missed it. That would have been awesome. I'll go look for it on YouTube. Was it's had he's had your buddy Seamus on as a guest so I've never seen Shamus I don't know who he is.

Shameless is very pro island. Well I mean you should grow island. Uh huh. And he's very famous and he's like one of those Catholic and he's the guy that does the freedom tunes, if you've seen those have not ever seen freedom tunes. Nothing. No. Oh, they're very cute. Little witty cartoons. They're they're kind of like, no, no agenda cartoons. It's a other topic. I haven't seen them, I believe. Yeah. So Freedom Tunes definitely worth subscribing to, but Seamus is quite the character.

He's the the president of the company or the owner or the the cartoonist, if you will. I'm not just the president of the company. Yeah, I'm a custodian, too. He was running the death and they have some good, good guest including just I think yesterday or the day before and that sure, they had the little Indian guy running for president. Ramaswamy. Yeah, the the little Indian guy running for president. And there were Swami, I think that's his name, something like that. Good guy.

I like that com I like this stuff. I think I'm going to write him and he probably is better than most. Yeah. No he's definitely the right thing and getting excited about screwing up weird Indian names, which is funny. If the I kind of wish he actually could get elected. I don't think he can get elected, but I wish he could because the stuff that he's saying is very much in line with what all of us collectively in the knowledge and the family have been saying.

And do you think he can't get elected strictly because of his ethnicity or what? Well, first of all, he's young, too black in his late, late. That is a check mark, although we've heard. Oh, we don't want he's a white guy anymore. Oh, I definitely don't want any more old white guys or old women or any women. So that's a sexist thing there. But okay, yeah, that's that sexist one. Wanting to have a better country is sexist these days.

You Don't think any women would be capable of running the country. No. Okay. It's not a it's not a qualification. The woman has to go for it. But he is he's definitely saying good stuff, like shutting down the FBI, shutting down the IRS, of shutting down all these agencies that you don't need. Well, these agencies that appear to have been completely corrupted. Mm. Which is one thing you can have a, a debate on whether or not you think the IRS is needed.

I mean, the FBI was surely needed at one point. And I think a non-corrupt FBI might be reasonably right. But I still think a problem with all these agencies is they become selfs serving their primary mission is the continuation of the agency's mission, like their existence is the main reason they exist. It has nothing to do with solving a problem.

This is why the Department of Homeland Security and the TSA that was created in wake of the now we all know, fake attack on the United States, that that was an excuse for creating these massive monstrosities of government agencies. They they will never go away because they are too big to fail and they're too big. And having a lot of people working on the mission of preserving that agency from ever going away, They're really just they're leeches. That's what they are.

They're it's like those Remora fish that attach themselves the sharks. And so they don't have to swim is the shark does all the swimming and then the shark fills something, right? People are like, that's what you have. We're right next door. We could just go and eat off of that. People that think that's what you're doing on the show, I forget who it was.

Was it our our David, Somebody that came up with the ultimate bird when you're like, we're not doing a show because Darren is back, is our captain. He's like, yeah, from Kerry in the show. Yeah, from carrying the show. They get off and listen to the show. So I don't give a shit about healthcare. That was the greatest line that I've seen.

Just pop right back out like, damn I mean, it's, it is marginally funny, but not the but clearly the person does not listen because Membros and I both agree that when we do our shows with you, you definitely are the co-host because oh sure, we speak for a good 80% of the time and you speak about 20% of them. Is that how it goes? So how's the caring happen exactly when you're down, when you're not actually talking? I thought it was the other way around. I need to pull those stats.

No, no, it's not the other way around. You're getting out on your solo show. You might do one for the doctor. Who else would be? Maybe I'm not even sure about that one, frankly, but just the voices in my head are the two shows that have been most nine. I'm No, we're talking way more. Well, see you both like to interrupt, so I'm surprised you do your thing. It's just a matter of that. We have more important things to say. More important? Yes. Vital things.

Yeah. What are you going to chime in with? You're like, I got. I bought some. I got to replace. Yes. Yay. Right now it's it's got the the whatever they put in there for like three weeks to, you know, the boys. That was not that was not an invitation actually. Talk about your truth.

Yeah. Was it to get great And then they they have to get the permanent crowd back on there and the guy's like, well you should probably that the and didn't just is like, oh, you may want to send a letter, call the other dentist and see if they'll pay out because the insurance companies like nope we just paid on a root. It's like, well yeah but it's the same one. Yeah. No you should assume that's the only way it works. I have insurance. They'll pay with the amount of time that it.

Yeah, you're probably right. It should at least go to a small claims and be like, Hey, you charge me for this. It didn't done right. Yeah. I mean, really. Oh, you probably signed something when you were filling out paperwork for the dentist that says you want to probably that's like, oh, if we totally fuck up, you know, don't don't worry about our fault. Yeah, you always got to be looking those things. Yeah. Not that they really matter because you can make the case that.

Well, they handed this to me 30 seconds before treatment and said Sign here. But hey, yeah, I get it. It's a weird world, man. Yeah. And I mean, I don't know if I was a dentist, I would want to insure my my work either, because, like, there's definitely stuff they could miss. Yes. Although in this case, it was kind of a comedy of errors where the crown was oversize.

The bite was wrong because I kept biting my cheek and they tried to shave down the tooth above it, which is going to need a root canal now because all of a sudden it's supersensitive to cold, which it never was before. So yeah, I think the female dentist, I don't want a female dentist anymore. You don't want a female president? I don't want a female. That is because I went in and got more problems than what I originally wanted. My best dentist ever was a female. You got lucky, man.

This was awesome. I'll tell you why. She worked as a dental hygiene for about eight years and then went to dental school, and so she knew the what all the hygienists are doing and what the dentists are doing well, and what they're doing poorly when by the time she went to dental school. Yeah, I remember most dentists just go to the dentist, go out of college, right? They have zero experience. And then who's going to tell a dentist at their office that they're doing something wrong?

Nobody, until they have the bodies start piling up. Yeah, exactly. Until the lawsuit started happening. But This is why I think it's it's good to see somebody that had already worked in the profession, but. Or in the industry, rather, but not in the profession. So I was really happy with her. She did a whole bunch of rounds for me. I just had like crawling up my whole mouth. You're like, I don't even need a But even though you're pretty good. Yeah. So that's literally what we did.

We just proactively put on a bunch of rounds. You're like, You're pretty. Can you put some more crowns in, please? She had the most soothing music playing in their. It was great. Yeah. Nice little massage for the four. That would be nice. That's an interesting dental. Your dental office not have a massage therapist. No, I think I think you know, champagne either they get they give us something else. I will say this is a nice suburban dental office.

During the massage campaign, my root canal redo at the end of Daddy's, I heard no less than three Taylor Swift songs. So I was like, Oh, this is great. This is perfect. You probably heard them on your own. Have probably. That's actually playing. I was just hearing this. Yeah, yeah. Go to your heart. Your brain is like, This is the worst pain I've ever felt. My mind has to be flown out of here. It wasn't. That's it. When the guy does it mean he is magic?

This dude, Doctor Sonny, who's an Indian and didn't as great guy. Oh, nice. Also a distracted Clearly probably. But I was like, hey, you know, I told the last time that we had the A-fib kind of things. We're like, I'll give you this without the you know, without the epinephrine, because that's what causes what you do. The the no, it came kind of a thing, right? He's like, and it's going to be a short thing.

And when he does these root canals, they're done in like 35, 40 minutes, like, damn, you know what you're doing? I only had one and it didn't end well. Now, see, that's like, I don't want another one of those. Well, it wasn't her fault though. The, the by the time she did the canal, she, he realized the tooth had a crack in it. Then he got issues. So that's just going to get infected. So, you know, that got yanked out of that. You just put a fake one in Adam Curry.

Curry's taking his new teeth soon, I hear, Dude, this has been like I, I'm definitely like, I'm long overdue for visit. Every time I do, I feel like coming out. I'm like, when you guys made me, but I don't. I'm not even ask or wait for an invitation. As soon as he gets this decent, I'm just going to drive out there. Is this the this million dollar mouth I got to see in person is the amount of work and man hours that he's described as this begging. Yes, it's a procedure.

It's not a quick little Somebody didn't just buy a car. Somebody bought a new house and a nice house with a fully stocked wine cellar. If this cost less than $80,000, I'll be shocked. Nice. But he found that the problems that he was having, he didn't even realize were affected by the teeth. So that is a cautionary tale to everybody. It's like, go to the dentist, get checked out, find a dentist. That's good. Obviously And it's hard to do that. The only really good way is through word of mouth.

Yes, because the reviews online all like, yeah, they do cannot believe reviews online. Absolutely agree with you on that. And it's always interesting to see when a place like the dentist that I had the issue with they had great reviews and it was a practice that was purchased from the original guy, the original dentist who retired. And so I just missed him by like a few months, it seems.

And what I've noticed is that up until that point, there wasn't a whole lot of reviews, which I would expect from a dentist out in the Chicago suburbs. Not a lot of, you know, new people coming in. There's not a lot of reason to be doing dental reviews. I love how you still pretend to live in Chicago when it's convenient and then you always swear that you don't live in Chicago. Outside Chicago, something gets mentioned, not even in the same county, but exactly.

You know, there's not a lot of it's not a Chicago with them. No, it's not. It's in the Chicago suburbs. You can not really know. It is. It's a suburb. You could look it up the what happened once I had the issues and then went back to look because I did not leave a negative review, but a few other people left negative reviews for them. All of a sudden a plethora of good reviews start showing up. I'm like, Wait a minute, this seems a little weird that. Yeah, they bought those, huh?

You know, or they asked every customer that came in for a cleaning, which. Okay, any idiot. Sorry, that's rude to everybody that does their job well. But for the people that are doing the teeth cleanings, they are not going to fuck up your mouth. No. So the whole thing like, Oh, they did great. They did. It's like no. If you just look at the reviews on when they had to do something a little bit tougher, like a root canal, then you'll start seeing the issue.

But it's that, which is why we've talked about that with the Amazon reviews where there's more than one item in a Yeah. Page for a review. It's like you got to really look carefully.

If everybody that's happy is like, Oh yeah, great teeth cleaning, you know, it's like, well, then you want to think twice about the surgical capabilities perhaps of and you find this with electronics on Amazon a lot I've seen for like TV sets, you'll have people complaining about something or they're talking about how awesome something is. And then for some of them they'll happen to mention that. Yeah, and this is the worst 22 inch TV I've ever had.

Well, I'm looking at a page for a 47 inch beauty. Why is this review for 22 inch popping up? Because Amazon lets them put multiple products. Yep. On one page. In a lot of the times the products aren't even related. Right. Which I kind of understand. If you're replacing one year's TV with another, maybe they let you use the same page or section. I would agree because it doesn't mean the qualities the same. Right, right. But somebody will go get a thousand.

We missed the cursory sale that was happening, but we I have a brand new one sitting here that we haven't even started using yet because of the recall. Right. But So you missed the sale? Yeah. Was there Why would I need more? What was going on? What was this like? The I think the sorry race factor was on sale. I do not have one of those. Yeah, I know. That's what I'm saying. Do I need one? Yeah, I Don't cook a lot of rice, but I could.

Well, if you started making sushi with that, well I would rather make fried rice, but that sounds a lot less healthy. Well, fried rice. Don't leave the rice. I know, Which is all. I mean, if I had one, I'd love fried rice. You know how to make it. Yeah, I do. I mean, I don't, but I know how to make it. I do not make it. But I've seen I've watched videos on YouTube of professionals making the right this your video on YouTube. Nice and easy. I've got a lock.

I mean just throw the stuff then boom, bang, bang. Yeah. So it needs the old right the first ingredient. If you want the good soy sauce, you don't want the crap you want like the there's some kind of special soy sauce you want. There's. But otherwise, you know, you throw your meat in, you throw your onion in and wish I had a good Chinese place.

Celery here. Yes, Charlotte. There was when I was working at RadioShack back in the day down in Chicago was actually Chicago, like 66 than, Pulaski in Chicago. There was a Chinese restaurant right next door and the food was so damn good and they tried to kill me, but it was just because they kept upping the the heat level. That was back when my stomach was a little bit better, you know, back in in the year twenties when you were indestructible. And I'd go in there, they yeah, I remember.

I remember those days they made the best hot and sour soup and I used to go and be like, Oh, hot and sour soup. You know how hot My extra hot. They're like, extra hot. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was. Let me tell you a bad. You were sweating immediately. It was so good. Impress them with how your ability of eating hotness when you don't get hot or triple hot or extra hot, you get high hot Thai hot. You tell them how hot you on if it's high Hot. Are Thai hot? Yeah, Thai hot. Are you sure?

Right? Yes. There's a wave. You don't look you don't look dark enough to eat that. Now that that gets you the really hot stuff. Yeah, it's. It's really good. And I love Asian spice. I, I can't eat Mexican spices, but I love Asian spices. They are delicious. And I've had those where, you know, you're sitting in the restaurant and you can see a few of the employees like peeking out to look to see if we're dying. Yeah. Which today I probably would.

But then, no, you no need to work up that tolerance again. I don't. Yeah, I guess. I don't know. I think that the eating really spicy foods is really good for you. It's a young man's game, though. I don't know what you're saying that I don't think you've got a basis for it, though. I need to try it again and see if my, you know, innards blow out. They will. Well, they may blow up it, but they have an escape hole to blow out of. This is true. That's right. There's a whole system in place.

Yeah, exactly. It'll. It'll clean you right out. It's good for you. In fact, it's like getting the super clean super jets going through there. Yeah, It's like your body going through a whole detox just with the the hot it is. And I hate the word detox because it's mostly bullshit that people use that word incorrectly. But what definitely happens when you eat spicy food, which is a toxin, which is why your body's gone. Oh, it's not really a toxin.

It really isn't. It's. It's a stimulant, is what it is. It's the nerve. But the reaction that you get as a result of that with your your sweating and, your pores are just opening up and dumping a lot of fluid out of there. And your, you know, your heart beating faster. And it's it's a very, very good cleansing kind of thing can be done any time. Like it doesn't require any special equipment. It's just a bunch of weight lifting to get the same effect.

No exercise sitting in a sauna, no, it's it's like you could literally take it with you. And and it it can't just be something hard. It's got to be like something hard. And gingery and, you know, or have I like Asian spices. It's like it's a mix of things. So you might have mint and lemongrass and ginger and curry and it's just like, you know, and turmeric and it's like turns on everything in your mouth and in your stomach.

And unfortunately, if you get really good spicy stuff, it'll turn around in your ass as well. Well, tell us what turns out in your mouth and we will be back for another edition of Unrelenting next week, same unrelenting time, same unrelenting channel your you like that we in there on now turns on your half. Yeah. It was beautiful. Yeah. I mean, this is podcasting. Excellent stream. Podcasting. Excellent. Yeah. Nobody else terms their podcast on the hour the way we do.