082: Swapping Heads

The reason I stopped playing hockey was my mom got tired of me coming home with a bloody nose when Halo. And welcome to episode number 82 of Unrelenting August 25th, 2023. I am Darren O'Neil, coming to you live from a bunker deep in the heart of middle America where audio gremlins ain't going to get us. Gene. They are not going to get us. They try hard, man. They do just what happened. Speaking of new gear. Yes, speaking game. I didn't really get new gear and that rebooted.

Yeah, that's that's never happened to me as of yet. Which I should knock on every thing I want to say. I've probably had the motive for about five years now, and I say probably once a year I come in with my computer fully rebooted and the two turned off, and when I turn them all to I'm, it says, Oh, cool. I'm a new device with all new brand new settings. Now doesn't happen consistently, but about once a year it kind of does All the saved, like all the saved settings are in there in the motor.

Okay. In them all to need to show your computer what channels to use. Yeah. Yeah, that makes sense. Now, do you turn your mode to off? Because I used to naively and then just never turn it off. I always leave it on. That's why it's always a surprise if it's ever off. Right? It's like, Wait, what's going on here? The only problem is you can't turn off and mode. You Come on. There should have been something in the firmware to be able to turn the light off on that whole front panel.

So I just cover it with a post-it note. Do you sleep next to your mum too? No, but it's still an option if there's light for because I don't even like looking down when it's on it. Can you catch it out of the corner of your eye? I'd rather not have the, the light on, but I guess I could turn it around. Somebody mentioned that it could because I don't. It's not like you fiddle with the buttons on this thing.

You can also just put a post-it note permanently in front of it and not tear with it, because you're not looking at it when you're fiddling around. Right. You're looking at the software. You could just put a little box, make it, you know, part of the monitor because it's my monitor. Stand for a monitor. I have a 19 inch oh, that just sits right on top of it. Works perfectly. So I have two 919 inch monitors. That one's on the left with the two under it.

On the right, I have the big bottom and all exciter at the same height. There is no. But the monitors, even those these these were old crappy Dell 19 inch monitors. They have height adjustment so they look like the same height.

Yeah, that was one thing Dell always did they I notice what they I shouldn't say always but that is one thing that I remember back from many years ago that differentiated Dell monitors from other monitor brands is Dell's have had adjustments yes which is very nice especially if you're doing stuff like this because it's like I want to put something under this one is something under that one. And if they're not the same height, it would drive me nuts.

Yeah, I don't think I'm OCD, but I maybe because that would drive me nuts. I think you're the OCD that every gen extra is, which is not clinically definable, but definitely still there because our parents actually made us do shit. I just want this in a certain way. Come on in a certain way. And that would make sense. But you're sounding good. I mean, I've got you run it through the IQ, so which it should have been, because that was the last show as well. We're now. Right.

We're now live cueing you, which is nice. And I saw the people on the stream and I've even added a little compressor on this side. Oh, it's nice. You know, I don't know why you need to do all that crap, frankly. I mean, the IQ fine, But the compressor, it's like I've got that on my side. It's never going to go into the red. It's going to go right up against that. It's not about going into the red because sometimes you trail off a little bit

and this just keeps you. So I think that should be fixed now as well because I reduced the the decibel amount for the the cut off how you were tweaking. Yeah well not much, just a little bit. I know this was back when I had the other mic hooked up when I plugged in the pre or the not very right. You maybe real the sure are sure the digital gets as real as every other one. Yeah. I'm taking it. Okay. I've got your clean I've got you without any extra added.

So let's see let's see if you can tell that I sound different. I mean the cues obviously going to make a difference. That's right. No two ways about it. But as far as compression, I don't know that I really need that. Oh, there are LED covers. You can just get to put over things. I've got can you buy one? Can you spend money? That's great. That's a great idea. Omega Project. Thank you. I didn't know those things even exist, but yeah, I would use a post-it note myself. But what do I know?

This isn't just like a little LED light. This is a screen that's like four inches by three inches or whatever this thing is. It's an inch by two and a half. Okay, See, that's. I always think things are bigger, Jean. Yeah, that's what she said. Oh, man. I tell you, this is unrelenting. The show that people say is kind of like the Seinfeld of podcasting. You never know what. Yeah, I've heard people say that. But what was your overall take on that microphone? Was it you believe it was real?

Yeah, I like it. I like the I think it's honestly, I kind of felt like it was cleaner than the re3t, but I like what the re3 20 does to the sound of my voice. And that's the most interesting thing I think people can pick up from watching band. Drew's podcast, it's YouTube channel is every microphone has a coloration to it. Every microphone sounds a little bit different, so you're not necessarily looking for. And that's the same thing with headphones.

Most people I like headphones that are more studio monitor standard, which very flat, doesn't accentuate the bass, doesn't accentuate the high end. But most people, they think they sound like crap. And that's totally true. I use reference to some of the ones back when they were still made in Austria and I it's weird for me to put on the headphones that aren't flat because everything just sounds different. Yes, it's kind of like when you push that like fake surround button, right? Oh yeah.

And video games or whatever on a computer screen. It's like turn on fake surround. Totally does something. Yeah, we're pretending it's going to make it sound better, but no, maybe not. Well, it's different. Honestly, I'd probably leave it on that most of the time, but still, it's a you know, that it's not what was recorded. It's an interpretation of what was recorded.

Whereas when you're using reference headphones, you're getting as close as possible to what was recorded or what's coming out of the mic. Right. Not sweetened at all right for Sweeten, just the way that you want it sweetened. But thanks to the club because not the headphones just came in with a 1111 one so 11111 Satoshi boost which makes him our top donor so far for this show. Yeah. Wow. What does that translate into? Five bucks? About three. Because CSB came in with this 8015. Hmm.

When again, Private comrades, he likes the Russian. Please recommend it. Don't say that. He'll they'll be offended. Right. Don't say the Russia thing. Please recommend w w w that c us be loyal to your listeners. And I look that up. The 8015 was $2.08. So. Okay. Yeah. So see for the clips you post and you can run, we've made a grand total combined of $5 for this show. $5.50 just that we should do like a a telethon. Come on. Who wants to come in. We can do we have tote bags?

We're going to stay here on the air until we make at least 100 bucks. Might take two days. If you come in with a donation of 500,000 satoshis or more, you will get a free G never to leave our show. So if you can come in with that, that would be great. I see you're giving my shit away as usual. Okay. Yeah, well, I don't have any shit to get away. Get your stuff. We got it. We got a poncho. We've got it. You can probably even get you a book on podcasting that was written in 1986.

So it's a little bit out. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. 1996. Come out, man. Come on, man. It was close. I knew it was right in there somewhere. Yeah, you know, sure. I wrote the book before Adam created by guessing, but so what? Once again. But yeah, the answer is you. What you're saying is, if it were not for that book, Adam would have never done podcast thing. Well, the book just wasn't very popular until podcasting came along because podcasting didn't exist, right?

So people looked at it like, what? What is this? What is this podcasting thing you wrote a book about? So are you taking credit now for the birth of podcasting yourself? Is that where we're. No, I was waiting for it to be invented. So the book itself. Ah, I gotcha. Mm hmm. Net net boost, 300 SATs as what is 300? Get me that. Get you. How do you fuck you. Net net. That's sort of 300 Satoshi boost gets you, but he likes it. It seems like I know where this is going. Yeah. Okay, well, there we go.

We love net. Net. He's in the city of de fucking Troy. Oh, is that where he's from? Yeah, He's a brave man to be a. Yeah, we're stupid, man. They're both. Well, I mean, he hasn't gotten shot yet. I'm assuming he's well-armed. Are you sure he isn't getting shot? Yeah. Have you got a just to. Just to confirm or how many times have you gotten the shot with me? Maybe a better question that is about that is a better question in Detroit. And again, you're in Iraq, so I should ask you that, too.

Yeah, I know the number. You pretend to be in Iraq. You're just outside of Iraq, a thousand miles outside of those other thousand. But it's not one or two. I got right outside of Cook County. What Chicago's in. I'm in Will County right over the border into Weld County. To me, kind of sounds like not really Iraq. Yeah. Then the net net came in with a sack of seven. So seven, seven, seven, seven. That plus three, three, three. I think that beats CSB. So CSB goes to the bottom of the leaderboard.

Yeah, CSB, the bottom where you go, the clip custodian on top. This is going to be a tough battle today for the boy. The unrelenting given our our our topics for the show. I figured I'd bring up the fact that I don't know if you watched that because I don't know if you subscribed to my field or not, but I posted a video about the early days of Poland. I did not see that are Yeah, yeah.

That's you know, I figured both you and CSB might be interested in that and talks about how the the olden raiders of that area were terrorizing everybody else around them, including the Vikings. Well, there was a lot of different things going on in the world. Yeah. Before you could even mention the media even mentions Pomerania. Oh well, he loves the Pomeranian. Mm hmm. Before we get into that, the Omega Project, man coming in with 20 to 22, too.

So he goes right to the top of the board, says you can now afford almost to buy one of those LED covers. So thank o Oh, almost exactly. But let's just let's just say you can probably afford a post-it note. Bullet said I just said Nazi. The all girls must be seething. Did I say Nazi? Can you say Nazi on a podcast? I mean, why would you not be able to say that? I don't know the all goes unless you're posting it on YouTube, in which case, No, you have to.

That you can't even mention Nazis. No, no, no. Speaking of mentioning things. Yes. And feel free to keep interrupting as money comes in. And thank you all my project. Yeah. Thanks, everybody. So did you watch Jordan Peterson or anything about Jordan Peterson?

Recently, the the Canadian court had sided with the college of Psychologists up there or psychiatrist, whichever one he is, and basically said that, yes, Jordan Peterson, while he has freedom of speech granted by the Canadian Constitution, the if he wants to be a member of a professional organization like the College of Psychologists, then he will have certain restrictions on his speech that they deem to be correct while sort to be a part of their little group. You have.

Yeah, this is kind of like the Republicans. Will you sign a pledge? Yeah. I mean, I don't understand the point of for all that thing, whatever. But but the the idea being I mean, I understand how their thought process went because if you have, for example, a private company that is in the business of, let's say something gun related, let's make it very divisive right?

And then you're out there on social media being a complete anti gunner and talking about how horrible the government industry is and how guns ought to be banned while working for that company. I could see how you may be told, stop doing that or you're going to get fired. Right? Right. Because it's completely against what your paycheck is pushing. Yeah. Yeah. Like you're actively working against your employer. That's generally considered a firable offense forever.

In this particular case, he's not working for the College of Psychiatrists. They just happen to be the body that grants the paperwork that allows him to call himself a psychologist. They're not the only body that does that. And in fact, as it turns out, it's not the Canadian Psychologist College, it's the Ontario College psychologists. So it's one of the provinces of Canadian land up north. They're the top part of America.

And so this group probably has a total population of like 20 million people or something that that would be represented by them. So it's a it's a tiny piddly little thing, but they're making a big deal about it. And the amazing part here, and it was quite interesting seeing just how animated and emotional he got while discussing it.

But yeah, the court agreed with them and said, Yeah, they, you know, if they don't like you're representing psychologists by talking about how kids shouldn't be castrated, right. Well then you shouldn't be saying that kids shouldn't be castrated because they don't want you to. If you want to remain a psychologist or a psychiatrist, whichever one he is. And that makes perfect sense. Does it? I think so. In the insanity that is the new world. But it comes down to that.

What group do you want to be a part of? Right. You know, and then the question is, does your accreditation that you need for your professional livelihood come from these people? And is there an alternative? Because we saw with the COVID stuff, there is no more science. If you shut down people that are a part of these groups that are like, Wait, I look at this data differently and here is what my if you shut all that down, then they're no longer in science.

No, you're not allowed to do research on that particular topic because the topic has been settled and everybody sees that's not science with another 3333 saying, I don't want to be bottom. Well, that is beautiful. Yes. All right. So somebody else needs to send more money. That takes years to be back to the that we need a live leaderboard kind of thing. Go. And during the show we do This is our new thing. This would be great. I think we got to start doing video, apparently. Yes. And have a list.

All we have on the video, we don't even need us. Maybe just a couple of pictures of us, but we just need a a leaderboard. Right? The running total is a live update. And this is totally is Exactly. That is a great idea. Is it Omega project? So CSB is my favorite bottom, but I think that's completely different. These people are here all week. Come tip your podcast. I know, right? Damn, the troll room is always on fire. Troll worm, Daddy-O. It's where you want to be. When we do these shows live.

When do we do them? On Fridays, Friday. Morgan's like, forever, like 10 a.m. central. We're both on that central Time, The Beautiful. We're both on that map waking up to early time. I know. It's like, Wait, you want to do a 6 a.m. show? I would be like, No, no. I always like the morning guy, you know, Jonathan Brad Meyer that was here in Chicago. It's like, I know I couldn't do the 5 a.m. thing starting your show. That's early.

You get used and I'm sure you get used to it, You know, he goes to sleep early. Well, that's it. I don't know if it would be weird because you'd be like, Well, I'm going to bed at seven or 6:00 at night and because you have to get up so early. But it depends on which probably more like is like 8:00 or 9:00, probably 9:00 at night if you're a heavy sleeper or not, you know, how many hours do you like to get 1215 a day? Is that what you're up to? Huh? Yeah, I'm lucky to get six.

Really? See, I need at least 7 to 8. I used to. You know, I think it's. It's one of those things that I think has changed over time is as I've gotten older, I just don't sleep as much. Even when there's no alarm going off, you're like, I'm just up now. If I get up for any reason after sleeping 6 hours, I'm probably not falling back asleep. So that's like the worst time to have to get up to pee is like after sleeping for 6 hours because then it's the new nap. No, no, I do not.

I know CSB does on a daily basis. So this is do a little siesta. Yeah. Yeah. The I never, never used to nap like ever. And then like once I was up, I was up until I was dark out and I found myself for the last few years during COVID.

But I think is what I really notice is even if I get up at like 9 a.m. or something, particularly early, probably right around 330, 4:00, goes to go yawning and just take a little nap, sleep for about an hour, hour and a half week, back up and B, wait till midnight, then play video games until four in the morning. Well, I try not to do until four. I didn't play until 3 a.m. last night. See, I could tell. Yeah, I know. Can you. He can hear it in the voice every time.

Really. Yeah, right. I use the voice while I'm playing. I mean, I'm playing with other people, so I'm talking to him. We could just tell exactly how much sleep you've gotten that's that high or low of your voice. That's why you have to eat cue to get you right in the sweet spot. Yeah, well, and this is. This is actually people probably don't know this, but why a record? Oh, my part.

Guess, including when I was doing my solo one in the morning is because I like the sound of my voice in the morning. So does does that give you a little extra boost if you take a nap for like an hour and a half? Do you get does that. No, no, no. It's I think what it is. I'm just going off of theoretically here.

This is not anything I've researched, but I suspect that the vocal cords not only are not being used while you're sleeping at night, so they're more relaxed, which means they're not as tied to get a lower pitch. But also, like gravity has an effect. So when you're when you're horizontal, I think your voice box changes shape slightly. And then over the course of the next several hours after waking up and being vertical, it starts to change shape again for the rest of the day.

So I suspect if you were to sleep standing up or sitting down, let's see, which is easier to imagine that there probably wouldn't be much difference in in vocal. So that would make sense over the last. It makes sense, but I have no idea if it's true. It's just something that seems like it probably is the case. I have average 7 hours and 37 minutes of sleep over the last seven days. Oh, you know, that's a good point. I could probably look that up too.

That should be in the health that we have. The data. Yeah. Yeah. All kinds of data to. Hmm. Apparently I snore 95 decibels. That useful data. That's pretty loud, man. I don't know. 95 decibels. Yeah, that's getting like, jet plane sounding, isn't it? I mean, just like. Well, I say, if you're going to do something, you should do it. Well, you should. Yeah, you should. 90. So him, where is the average? I'm seeing the last name so I go for week or it was just right in the main health was it really.

And there's and then you can you can still every time sleep 5 hours 37 minutes. Oh that's not enough. Well who says that's true I suppose. Now here's for the week. For the month. 5 hours, 3 to 5 hours, 46 minutes. The the sound of a subway train at 200 feet away. Yeah. 95 decibels. Yeah, that sounds about right. I think that's what most people that have been in the same room with me say. Yeah, they're like, which is why nobody wants to sleep in the same room.

Well, I mean, luckily you don't need to. You get enough bedrooms, a vacuum cleaner, 75 decibels right level at which sustained exposure may result in hearing loss 80 to 90. Well, that explains my hearing loss. See, there we go. It's. I'm so damn loud. When is Gene being exposed to all of this loud noise? I know there's no airplanes nearby, but no motorcycles. It just me. Just you sleeping now? Can you put earplugs while you're sleeping to save you from your own scaring?

If I put on the earplugs, I sleep like a baby, which is nice. Hmm. Yeah, it's. I did one of those sleep study things because they were trying to get me on the apathy machine. Oh, right. Yeah. They want to put the mass. They want to put everybody on the empathy machine. Get me get you in to be their Vader instead of. Don't they know you have no apathy? I know. I keep telling them.

So did that thing that was annoying because you get all these wires coming off of you all all night long and they're like, Oh yeah, yeah, no, you totally need to get one. I was like, Well, I don't think I do, but all right, so what will we get? What's available like, Oh, I'll get you the machine for about a thousand bucks. I'm like, okay, and how much does insurance cover? Well, insurance will cover anything over $800. Meaning $200, right? You're. Yeah, you just you have to pay up to that point.

It's like, Jesus Christ, what it's like. But yeah, don't worry about we can rent the machine and that will save you money. And how much is renting going to be? So I can rent one for 80 bucks a month. Oh, well, after we're holed up, so I'm basically paying for a machine after a year and insurance has no part of it at that point. Could you get it from Rent-A-Center Rent to own? Can I? Yeah, exactly.

And I'm like, well, this is so anyway, I was looking at them, but the one that I liked was like 1800 bucks and so I never ended up getting it. So I'm like, and it's just I don't think I really need one of these things, but whatever. And then I ended up getting a, a sensor for the bed that measures all kinds of stuff. It measures well, it measures my snoring and yeah, it measures how many microphone do they need to do this? How often.

Oh, it's like they get a whole ton of mikes in there and it measures the snoring, it measures how often they roll over it measures what part of the bed. I'm actually learning it's a whole ton of measurements that it provides, which is pretty cool. I always like I like measuring stuff, like I've always been a I'm sure there's a technical term for somebody that likes measuring things, but insane. Oh, yeah, nerd. That's it. Yes. You want all the data. You want that? All the data. Exactly.

Because that way you feel like you can do something about it. Yeah, I. I guess. Or at least just knowing is the whole battle. Yeah. I mean, at least that gives you what you need to work on or not even work on. But just knowing is enough. Like, and like, if you knew exactly the date and time that you'd be dead, would you really need to re and do anything about it? Because now it's all predictable, right? You know exactly what it's going to be unless you feel like you can do something about it.

Now if you got. Yeah, but you why delude yourself? Well, if your apple device was like you are going to die in five years and then you started exercising for an hour a day and it's like you are now going to die in 12 years, would you. No, no, no. That's not the way it works in reality. The way it works is now you're going to die in two years or else you will be hit by a truck in two years, Right? Because now you're jogging, which you never used to do,

and now you're apt to be crossing the road more. Huh? That's the problem. That's the way it works. I only exercise in the house because I know I'd be the one getting hit by a truck. I ain't leaving the house no, but it seems very unsafe out there. Uh huh. I just want to sit here, turn right the disturbed. But yes. Uh huh. I've got an old, like I said, 40 inch TV, which I may have to replace because there's lines that are starting to form on it.

So I guess the panel must be going, but it's only in front of the bike and it's only for YouTube, so I don't really care that much. Mm. But I just keep delving into more things on YouTube and yeah, welcome to my world. I know the more I look into all of this I stuff, the more it's like, Well, this seems like a good way to scam people. A lot of money is what it really kind of seems to be. Yeah, but you can only see us be a scammer now. Is that what you're doing?

No, but he should be rich because he should have, like, a thousand. He's giving you money every week. I'd say probably is. It's possible. Yeah, but he could have, like a whole influencer farm, that is all. Just not real people. All I that no problem whatsoever. Just create whatever you want. You really can't trust anything you see on Instagram or TikTok or any of those. You have no business looking at either one of those two. Okay. Only fans with your favorite.

You can't trust only fans. Yeah. Yeah. You can trust a few things on there, but not much. You know what you're going to get. Yeah, and I've always preferred the stuff on there anyway. Well it's it's beautiful. You just, you just create it and it's there. Yeah, well, I sent you. I had an arm a couple of months back, I think. Links to three different virtual checks, and they look pretty damn good.

Well, there are different levels of virtual, as we've talked about, where some are actual people behind the scenes. Yeah, these are more cartoony, virtual, but yeah, but not like Japanese cartoony like not anime, right? Like not anime, like high quality video game, cartoony looking versus looking. You're like very close. Like the what cry. People in Japan are one of those like, bright but not, not like photorealistic where you can't tell.

They're definitely you can definitely tell their computer done. But the cool thing is that they're done in real time. So it's real time rendering so that people are interacting with them in real time and I think that's what makes it cooler, is that you're not just watching playback or a video game or something. You're actually interacting with somebody that looks like a video game but is talking to you and moving around and doing stuff.

The kind of stuff I get from Jean in my signal account in the middle of the night. I like pictures of anime girls with this is what guys like today We are doomed. This is what they're into. And it's like, yeah, it's it's weird. I don't under. There are some things that I will just clarify what you mean by that. What I sent you was literally like anime cat girl images, which seem to be the most popular thing right now for young men.

Which makes no fucking sense to me because it's like it it's not just like a more beautiful version of Woman. It is a anime chick that's half cat, right? Which is with a tail on the ears and it's obviously drawn. So that's the other thing. Like your it's your turn on is somebody drew something. Yeah exactly. Yeah And I don't understand that either and I, I know I'm, I'm in a minority here because I've always preferred the most realistic looking video games.

Like, I want stuff in there to literally get to the point where you can't tell that it is a video game because it looks like life. And there's been one one group of video games that have kept on moving in that direction. And those are typically the first person shooter games. They tend to get more and more and more realistic. Right. Although there's some cartoon ones there as well.

But a lot of other video games, if you just look at Steam and you look at what's on sale, like 90% of the crap that's on sale looks as shitty as video games did when Nintendo first came out in the late nineties. I mean, it's just like, what the hell this is? This is what people want to play stuff that that looks low rez or like eight bit. You've got to be crazy, you know, I like that for people that grew up on it because it's a nostalgia thing.

But beyond that with yeah, you want the if you go back, I had as a kid in in television, which was one of the weirdest video consoles ever because it had a numeric keypad. Hmm. And a little disk at the bottom and then a couple of buttons on the side. That was the controller. So it was one of the weirder controllers. But then you had overlays that would go over.

So every game that you would get and the first game I remember getting on the television and I'm lucky I didn't turn into a gambling addict because it was horse racing. Oh, and it was like really cool. It was like a while ago because it would do like ten and then get bad and it gave you like some very basic data and then kind of thing. I thought it was kind of a cool thing, but I think if you go back to that was the second generation.

The first was the Atari 20, what's it, 2426 under what was the Atari number? And I'm building a 2600. And then there was a was it a 5200, I think maybe the upgraded version kind of thing. Well, the classic Atari three, it wasn't 28, it was 20. I can't remember. See, there's numbers and it's very confusing. It is number 2600. Yeah, that was the original I think was the 2600. Now they just came out with something that will play those old cartridges that as a bunch of games.

I think inside there's been a bunch of the emulators that have come out right. But baseball playing the baseball game in that original Atari where there were like stick figures that as you move the joystick, all eight players on the screen moved in the same way at the same time. We've come a long way from that, but I think 4200 was the newer one broke. But I understand going back for a nostalgia thing to kind of be like, Oh, that's kind of cool, but it's just shit man.

But this one, they became too realistic. It took something out of it that frightened some aspects of it. Didn't feel like playing a game anymore. There were a few of these video games that first, was it dark something or other that like one of these first games that I remember, it was a disc based. It was in the. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was a it was done by a guy who ended up at Disney. It was yeah, it was like a night simulator thing. Yes. And it was way you did it.

It was basically an interactive cartoon. Yes. And you did something on the screen and then it was like you had no control over the next thing that happened for the next 5 minutes. And it was this sucks. It wasn't that bad. It there wasn't 5 minutes. The video game was priced more extensively because it required more hardware. But essentially what they did is they created a choose your own adventure thing, right? Oh, that was called cartoon doubt.

And effectively your actions simply picked the next cartoon segment that it would play and they were all stored on laserdisc. So it wasn't there's nothing being rendered on the fly, but because it was a cartoon and it was on their laserdisc, it was super high quality. Unlike all the video games in the eighties, the clip custodian on it, Dragonslayer Dragonslayer. That's right. Yeah. I think that we the guy though, is Dirk Lutz. Yeah, it may be here. 1983, an interactive LaserDisc video game.

Yeah. Developed by Advanced Microcomputer Systems and published by Cinema Products in 1983. Animatronics. That's right. Yeah. Dirk. The daring is a knight attempting to rescue Princess Daphne from the Evil Dragons Ninja. Boy, that sounds like a Donkey Kong knockoff, but okay. Yes, you're absolutely correct. And that was Blitzen was the first one on that one as well. Saying a Don Bluth name. Bluth. Yes. That's the guy that ended up at Disney. Yes. Ex Disney animator.

It looks like maybe he was an ex Disney animator at the time, so maybe he went from Disney to this. Oh, okay. Maybe I thought he went to Disney, but maybe it was the other way around. He figured a way that I can go make money on my own. Hmm. That would play that game. I was not particularly good at it because it cost $0.50. Instead a record to play. Well, you're like, Fuck that. So yeah, usually because I like, I can go play.

What do they usually play back then? They think, well, 1983 was like you'd think about the other one for sure. I get that I don't play a lot. Yeah, I was a big fan of Pacman, but a quarter would last a lot longer. Asteroids was a little earlier. Yeah. What was the one where you're. You're like a spaceship flying and shooting stuff. Oh, Z. It's hard to do. Zack's on. Zack's on. Yeah. Loved Zack side, man.

That was a great game that did just enough 3-D kind of imagery to where you had to try to fly up and down. Did not get your your spaceship zap. So yeah, I played those video games way back in the day. Totally. And this was so different. It was interesting because it was so different. And if if some of us are still playing space games, you are. Yeah. This now they've done this, but rather than have it have to be a laser disc, like you said, which was more of a choose your own adventure.

Now you have the ability to interact with these characters and we have the combination of things now, which is we have two large language models that are I will I will give it. It's better than the original Eliza from way back in the day. Oh my God, it's way by now. But that we had that back then as well. Just kind of want to point out these things have origins going way back into the early eighties.

But now not only can you speak and, you know, have a conversation, you combine the text processing ability with the visual that it can take a realistic looking person and put it on the screen in front of you. And it can also synthesize the voice that doesn't end it. Also, you talk to it like it's doing voice recognition. So now I don't know if I sent you the video or not.

There's a guy that did a video on this exact topic, so he was in this this game that uses A.I. for it and speaks to literally were every NPC walking down the street is hooked up to a to a language model so you can interact and have a conversation with them on any topic. And so he decided to go out and he's going to tell all these NPCs that they're actually in the video game and they have no free will.

And it was really cool to watch as the NPCs are arguing with them and saying that, No, no, I'm not, you know, I'm this is reality. What are you talking about, You know, or saying, Well, sure, some people think we live in the video game, but obviously that's bullshit. It's a simulation. You're you're literally watching a video game character telling you this. So it kind of, you know, it maybe a little too close for comfort. Well, it is.

And there was an interview article with Stephen King, and they were asking him about the AI writing and he's like, I don't think it is at the point yet. He's like, It's something that at a glance looks good. But if you really look into the details, it's not quite there yet. He's like, But I'm not going to be naive enough to tell you that it's never going to get there. And it's interesting. He's like, it's a creativity thing. He's like, I don't think there is creativity without being sentient.

He's like, But people are now trying to push that these machines are said. And so he's like, Who the fuck knows? Well, first of all, that's bullshit. There's no creativity without being sent to you. And you can't prove that. And it depends on how you define it. When you look at the artwork that all of these air generators are throwing out, there are some images that human beings looking at are like, wow, that's that's impressive. That is inspiring. It's like the machine not have meant to be.

But what is creativity? Do you have to mean to be creative, to be creative? No, I don't. I agree. What is photography? But taking images that already exist but noticing them and then capturing them to share with other people? Yes. And framing them in such a way. Yeah. But like they exist. If your eyeball happens to walk by there, you'll see it just like, Wow, that would look good on my wall. Let me snap a picture. Pretty much. That's great wallpaper. Let me just get that.

That's pretty much what photographers do. Yeah, that's what I always used to say. People, I think a lot of people didn't like me seeing it, but I always believed that to be true. Is that when I when I actually made money and sold photos that I worried mostly did, it's fine art stuff. So it's basically this beautiful outdoor vistas or interesting, unusual indoor stuff. But I always sold large format stuff, so it's like 30 by 60 now. But we just said, Look, it's so expensive wallpaper, right?

And that's something must people the technology is getting way better now. But 20 years ago, if you wanted to, if you even were in the right place, you know, you're in the most beautiful place in the world. You've got a camera that you can afford. You take a picture. Blowing that up to 30 by 60 was probably not going to look good. Yeah, I. I know when I used to shoot film because, I've been, you know, shooting photos for my whole life.

Pretty much. My dad was a photographer, but it was a I think the biggest I would typically go would be an eight by ten. And then if you get much bigger than that, you go to like, you know, like a 16 by 12. The if you start seeing the graininess of the film. Right. And that's even if you're shooting like Kodachrome 64, which is a really good film, you're going to still start to see green.

Remember people have this nostalgic view of film, but realistically, digital today is way higher quality than film ever was. And bordering on and bordering either side. Like you could literally say, it's better than our eyeballs. Right now, a lot of cameras shoot as good as our eyeballs, and there's a few cameras that shoot better than our eyeballs. And I'm not talking about the lenses. I'm talking about just purely from a sensor standpoint, Right?

They're more pixels than what our retinas can see. Yeah. And the interesting thing there is you can see for what people liked and for whatever reason, I mean that I get it. It's nostalgia thing again. They like the things like the Polaroid pictures because they have that the worst. Well, of course. But you knew what it was when you saw or you, you know, you had the light leak at the one edge. Exactly.

But people now recreate that because it gives a certain vibe of a certain time and place, which is why. Yeah, for me, it's like very strange when you take some of those old photos and can now make them better. And the interesting thing and I think this is one of the reasons the AI stuff is getting so good so fast, is the ability now to upscale. I mean, if you're still doing it, it's incredible. Yeah, the stuff do like Topaz. We did have some good algorithms in the past.

They've typically been expensive and not part of Photoshop right. They were sharp, was always kind of lacking, but there were always some good algorithms for doing posters, for really cranking stuff up and keeping the lines. Lines instead of big square pixels. But what we have right now is like next level where we can zoom in and keep zooming. I remember this actually is a very long time ago. This would have been 1990.

I was at the the Nobel Conference and the topic fractals, and this is where I get to meet Bonjour, Mandelbrot and a bunch of other guys that were really in that field. Mathematicians and it was one of the speakers was talking about a fractal compression algorithm for photography to where or for images but for images to where the the images describe mathematically through fractals making its size, you know, irrelevant. There will be the phrase any size you could zoom in to where you want to.

And it was it was a brand new idea at the time because typically, you know, most images were pretty damn small. And with 253 colors, we're just getting into 16 bit color back then. But it was it was fascinating to hear about this new, new way of really taking an image, translating into a mathematical formula and then really using that to recreate the image. And it it was not things were not perfect like it the you have to sort of take shortcuts when you're describing the image that way.

But the image you if you were okay with what the end result after the transformation, then that transformative image would be scalable to any size. But now I think we're at the point where you can literally take any image and blow it up to almost any size, and it just keeps looking amazing. And this is where the I mean, I don't know exactly what it's doing, but there is some of these products, like Topaz has a couple different ones. They have AI at the end.

The interesting thing is and Topaz has been in this sorry to interrupt you, but Topaz has been making specifically enlargement and enhancement filters for probably 20 years. Yeah. Which you're probably making more money than Adobe on for this stuff because they're good. They are good. And the clip custodian also put a link to the Wikipedia page for the Mandelbrot set for people who really want to. Yeah. To geek out because I'm looking at the mathematics involved in this

and it's like the AI that would make my brain hurt. Hmm. But these things that you can run these upscale hours, the ones that has and there are other companies that have them, the interesting thing is they're now looking at the image. It's not just taking the pixels and making them larger. It's looking at the image. It's telling you where the faces are. It's giving you control over if you want to bring back.

Because if you have a very small photo of a person and you blow that up, the details and things like the eyes in that just aren't going to be there in that source image, but they kind of make it up, you know, they add it into it, they add these little details that make it look more realistic. Now it may not be 100% realistic, but what they're adding to it, as you said, once you start blowing these things up, looks very realistic. And the whole, you know, skin tones and all of that, it's amazing.

And I'm looking at the image generators and all of this like the stable diffusion that's like, well, for most people you're creating an image that's 512 by 512, which by today's standards you're like, well, that's not the postage stamp, right? But then you run it through some of these filters and it's like, wait, wait, now it's at a usable size. Well, and also, if you've installed your own version of the software, you can control the size a lot more.

Yeah. So I really like that you need the video, you need a big, you see video card to get bigger or a couple. I share the link with you if you want to post that to the thing. So that's a video from the conference I was talking about. So people think I make it up well, don't you? Well, no, it's all true. Every word that comes out of my mouth, every word is so much. You move it. This was a conference I was at where I met and Middlebrook photos are it. Doesn't you in this video?

Will you be in here? Can you. I might be with jeans in the back. Dark hat, sunglasses, Long beard, Long beard. Right. The beard gives them away. Everybody else completely clean shaven. There's one guy with a beard. That's Jean. Exactly. But that kind of technology lets you do some amazing stuff. Now, some of this air stuff I think is just creepy. Like the things where you can take a photograph and it will animate it. So you're taking a still image. Oh, I love those.

Those are awesome. I think it's really cool, but it's very creepy if somebody is doing that to you. Now we have a photo of your grandparents or something, and that's all it's not. That's really cool. I totally disagree. I love that stuff. I think it's creepy. I think it's the technology is fantastic, but it is a little bit creepy and it all just goes down to something I've been saying for years, which is you can no longer believe a damn thing on the Internet. You really can't.

I don't think you should have ever but true. True. But you have to. Even more and more so, yeah. Jean is the guy wearing the turban. That net? Yes. And that video most likely. Well, we cannot confirm nor deny that. But for me to do the stable diffusion at home, I, I would need a few video cards. And the video cards are like 2000 apiece. So I need to raise some funds. I need to raise. Yeah. Money. They cheap, that's for sure. No, I mean, and then you look at it.

I was surprised, although I'm assuming they will get there as far as all of these stable diffusion stuff, which is one of these image generators. Hmm. Pretty much needs the Nvidia graphics cards to work well in the Apple. They haven't caught up yet. Apple is not a you would think that all of these M2 pro and chips so far not really good for A.I.. Well they are good but somebody needs to write some software that's the problem is that the software is not there. Right.

It can be, but you need the you need the software to work with the hardware. Yeah. And this is something I think I already mentioned a few weeks back, but I thought it was pretty cool. Is that both both the Unreal Engine and the what's the other engine. Get them at the combine in one of those. No, no, no. It's not the CryEngine. It'll come to me but the one that Kerbal uses that engine as well as the Unreal engine.

Both the companies have said that they are bringing their engines natively to run on the m-series as a processor. So that is very cool. It means that not only are a lot more games going to come out for for Mac because they're all it's going to be is just a compile option. Compile for PC, compile for Linux, compile for Mac. That would be nice.

But to take full advantage of the CPU means that you may have games that run better on the Mac than they do on other platforms because the that CPU is fairly unique compared to, you know, Intel AMD CPU that most of the PCs are running on. So I'm looking forward to it. It'll they just both companies just announced it like in the last three months, probably.

So we probably won't see anything until next year, but by next year we should start seeing some stuff coming out of the Mac and, and I'm looking forward to seeing like just what kind of frame rates we end up getting. Yeah, for the stuff people think it's amazing that you can do text to image. They're a text of video now. So yeah, yeah. And it's just even interesting watching some of these.

There was one guy very smart to do this the music in the thing you see the little thing flash the like made with whatever a music generator and it's like, yeah, everything's just there now. You need a music bed for your podcast or your what video? You now could just go and create it. You don't need to find somebody. You don't need to pay him, I mean. Right. And unity, sorry, Unity is the other game engine that I was thinking too, all of this needs to get caught up.

So I was like, that was like, maybe I need to go to the Mac because I don't want to go to Windows 11. And it keeps telling me I should go to Windows 11, like every week. It tells you, Yeah, it's like, just stop. I mean, whatever. Windows ten, whenever they stop doing these security updates, that's when I'll have to go to Windows 11. And I think that's still a year or two or three. Well, I think I talked to your other co-host about that topic not too long ago, dude named Bam Dude.

Then bam. Exactly. And can see I think he's still running like Windows seven or something, Right. Because he only goes to the command line. I don't think he's whatever his preferred system. Yeah. Yeah. He was on the black and white screen because you know color blind is the. Oh yeah, that makes sense actually. Now what you said, it just wants to, you know, it's good to have colorblind testers because then they're able to find things that are tiny.

Only a small percentage of the population will see. Yes. Well, that's when you're all these things have these graphical interfaces where something may just blend in or not. You know, you have to because everybody assumes, well, what you're seeing is what I'm seeing. And I even as a kid, I remember having that thought like, well, how do I know that what everybody else sees as green is really green. Everybody's world could be totally different looking and you would never know.

But it doesn't matter. No, it doesn't. No, but it's a it's a mind fuck, really. When you're like Google now everybody sees something completely different. Well, but but also it doesn't matter. I mean, because. But we're all in this relation, Gene. What you just. Exactly. First of all, you are if you, if you're in simulation, then everybody sees the same thing. First of all, the custodian said unity before you brought it up. I just was not watching the program. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So, you know, you should get the troll room. Gene. I wish I could. I was perma man, and I'm not allowed in there ever. It'll be click here. Okay, I'll click here. Okay, you're now that's not how it works. You're run perma bad. You don't know the half of it. Yeah. Oh is it. You wouldn't do named Bam. Was that the problem that he probably banned you now. Oh you remember, me.

But from talking to Adam he said, you know, I don't need people bitching about these problems, so just make it permanent, right? He's like, Just stay with it, Gene. We're going to keep you out from now on. Yeah, Yeah, I think you instigated it. I mean, he prolonged it. Yeah. He's like Gene. I mean, you know what you did? You know what you did? You can go through the process if you want to try to have it removed. But I did. It didn't work. So I'm forever, man.

You know, it's the bad father said my decisions final. No, Gene, you can not play with the rest of the children. Well, I mean, he didn't phrase it like that. I uses. You're clearly way too far advanced along for all these morons that are in there. That's why we call it troll room. And, you know, it used to be called the the idiot room. But yeah, you know, it is what it is. So I gave it a shot and it didn't, didn't get unbanned. So it is what it is.

It happens, it's technology Gene we're moving forward ad rates that people just can't imagine. You realize you're saying that about RC but yes. No I'm not. I was, I was segueing into something else. That's not the way it sounded. IAC was like, Hey, man, it's technology, man. See, Gene can't handle the troll room. Well, that's true in the room. Can't handle gene therapy more. It's been a long day. It's. It's Gene's been handled. You know what I'm saying? That. That. Oh, whoa. Well, do you?

And then Go ahead. Do you watch any of the Gordon Ramsay shows? I have occasionally, but not on purpose. I find them to be interesting. It's at least entertaining, Dick, man, He's a good chef, But he's such a dick for no reason. He's a dick, Right? But I like that. I like that in his personality, I find it entertaining in the same way as I'm, you know, if it was me standing in front of him, then I wouldn't find it entertaining. But I think it is somewhat entertaining.

And he doesn't he looks like a cartoon character. He's got a giant head. I know. Which is why he's, I guess, made so much money and why he does TV's so much in the one mean he did a show and it started in the UK where he's like, Oh, I'm looking for the next big UK food star. I think that was even the title. They did two years of that and then they brought it to the United States.

But it was, it was funny because he has people like doing challenges and he shows up at these locations and he like jumps out of helicopters and he comes in and out of planes is all very much done to be like pump up his ego, which I get. But it's hilarious. You know what? He comes in with a helicopter that jumps out of the helicopter into the ocean and then swims in to give them the challenge. I mean, I will applaud him for the creativity of this kind of stuff.

But the one of my favorite was one episode I saw where they were there talking to his kids and the the host said, you know, do you like the way your dad cooks? And the kid's like, He's all right. You're like, What? Good. Like, Yeah, that sounds about right. Net net. I'm trying. As the son of a chef, a lot of chefs are huge dicks is because it's that kind of a job, though. I think it's kind of like rock star, you know?

It doesn't matter how popular you are as a rock star, whether you got five fans, it's it's definitely higher than the rock star. Rock stars are at lower place in society than the chef. Well, chefs will actually bring you something that you enjoy more than the music if it's and more importantly, they'll bring you something that's useful. Unlike rock stars. Oh, music can be good for the soul, though. Gene, come on, don't be such a hater. It's entertainment.

I've. We've had this conversation. Entertainment. Music has been my first thing. Yeah, like food. Food is also kind of entertainment because. So you could just eat a, you know, ration from. Oh, I know what I'm good at. I forgot to do this. I was going to do it last night before the show today and I thought it was so slow. No, I was going to take a photo and then posted to you because we talked about it. I finally got some Soylent Green. Oh, well, how much did you get? A six pack?

I got one bottle. I just got one bottle. Well, that's not cheap, so I just got it. One bottle. You can't. You can't have too much, man. It's a lot of protein. It is. They they have clearly decided to deviate from the original and tongue in cheek name. So when they first came out, it was an extremely generic bottle with very generic just the word Soylent on it. And then nothing else was on the front except maybe the like the the volume of the bottle.

You're like, you're missing out on the whole concept of the product. And there's a little bit of stuff on the back. And I thought, well, this is kind of kind of neat because they're playing up the whole like, Oh, you need to drink and stuff, right? Good for you. Right?

It's so but yeah, but now it's like clearly they're trying to not pretend to be related to the movie and it's it's got all kinds of branding crapola on it and it's mint flavored instead of green, you know, it's like, okay, all right, I get it. I get it. But it's still it is Soylent Green. Ooh, it's people. But yeah, they that's what they say. But it does say it's vegetarian, so. Oh well then how can it be people or how can it I don't know me this boosting 5010 says what's up nerds?

Well, if you haven't been listening to the show, it's a lot of nerdy calling nerd. Yeah, he's a fun guy. And now, you know, nerd talk. Why are you calling him a mushroom? Exactly. It's his name. I don't know. He's just. He's a fun guy. Mm hmm. The winner of the US version of Gordon Ramsay show was the one I kind of predicted, because usually it doesn't matter who the person is or what the challenges are. They know the product that they think maybe can make him the most money.

Exactly right. Because these aren't chefs. These are people like the one girl was from the Chicago area that was Vietnamese but has like a Vietnamese coffee company. Yeah. And they're looking for an investment. And it was 250,000, which I'm like, you're putting your you're putting yourself through this for a quarter of a million and today's totally not worth it. I know genes like I can I get a quarter million but can I put people through the stupid human tricks? That would be great.

But the guy, that person was a product and I want to know what you think of this because I still can't wrap my brain around it that there was a technology and he was using it mainly at this point for energy drinks. But it is comes in a cup that is devoid of water. They're calling it a 3D printed energy drink. And you know, the big selling point was, well, here's a stack of cops and that fits on one little table. Here's the equivalent of the energy drink in cans.

And of course, it takes up a ton of room and a ton of weight and all of this for shipping. So the concept is, well, you know, I could do a lot of things. We can do mouthwash, we could do this. Anything that they can do, water, if you will, that would be called dehydration. Dehydration. Right. What we're trying to confuse the idiots. Remember, you can't say big words like that. They won't get it. But that's this whole concept.

And I'm like, the technology is great, but is it something that people will use because, one, it's already useless in any area where you don't have widely accessible drinking water that's not going to kill you. Okay. So you're telling me he basically has a drink powder, but it comes in the shape of a tim. It comes in a they look like plastic cups, but they said these were actually biodegradable things. But the real plastic ones.

So it's not even a powder, but the bottom is like a solid of some sort and gel something like that, that you add the water a minute later, you can drink the energy drink. So it is literally just a a big red cup with a powder in the bottle kind of. But it's a solid. So it's not a powder. But I'm thinking, wouldn't it be better because it's the same damn thing? I mean, it is compressed, the powder turns solid, which is I'm like, this is what I do daily.

When I go on the bike, I grab one of those nun tablets and you, you add. Yeah, I don't trust that shit. I think they put way too much crap in there that just doesn't belong in the human body. Well, that one seemed okay and what I had read. But maybe I'm wrong. I don't know what's in there.

You know, it looks like you're getting a little potassium and sodium in that, but it's the concept is you're getting a Gatorade style drink in your own water bottle, adding your own water to this, which, by the way, Gatorade sells Gatorade powder. Well, I understand that. But this is a similar thing. This is a hydrating drink, which is what Gatorade is being sold as.

But it's giving you a little tablet rather than, you know, coming in at I don't understand the cup part of it, like there's somebody going to grab a cup and then just go out on their day and have that cup and add water in it at some point. Yeah. Just dip into the lake. Right.

You know, it just seems like I don't understand if you have like chlorine on the bottom of that, that might be useful where you could take right water and be like, well, this you can add a little bit of when I die in my dream, you know, in that way you could take drinking water. And that way, if the drinking water is a little bit off, you won't get sick. It'll kill the bacteria or whatever. Exactly.

But this was whole like, well, we can take these products and, you know, it'll be great because you won't have to ship the water in again. Using the energy drink was just one example. He's like, we can do we got that sounds lame. That's what I thought. I'm like, I just don't think you're going to change people's behavior is know from grabbing a can that already has the water in there that you just open it up and it's ready to go exact right to well, I'm going to take this little cup

and I'm going to add water. And most people like things cold. So it's like, well, if you're tap water is not cold enough, most people want to grab this shit out of the fridge. Yeah. So I just didn't understand. I'm like, Am I missing something? Because I don't understand. Even though I thought the technology was really cool, like, Hey, you know, I can take it and I don't even know with carbonated beverages or anything like that.

But let's just say, you know, lemonade or something like that, that's not carbonated. And I could just put a little water in and then make it carbonated with the powder. That's not a problem, you know? So, I mean, I don't understand still why I would want that. I understand why the companies might because the companies would be like, well, we don't have to ship water any more, so we're going to save big time. If Coca-Cola could sell their drinks without water, they'd be all in on that.

They do sell their drink through that water. Would do they have like a sirup, They sell sirup. Every restaurant you go into, you can't just leave. You can't just go buy that at this. You can go to Costco. You could buy a gallon of Coke sirup that Coca-Cola had. No, you cannot. I mean, they have they know the soda streams. People are out there and some of these things exist.

No, you can buy Coke by Pepsi, but not the same thing is just like, okay, it's a it's a you just put a little water into the cup and it's done. All right? I don't even care about the cup. You can't have like a little tablet that you just drop in and you buy large volumes of it. But yeah, you absolutely buy coke sirup. It's like, why aren't they doing that then? Because people don't want I mean, they want Coca-Cola.

I mean, if they can really charge you a lot of money, well, why are they still shipping the stuff with the water in it? Because you can just go after, you know, lenience because people don't want mixing shit. They want stuff that's already premixed. And that is close. I kept coming down to it's the convenience. People are not going to change their behavior no matter how cool it is. It's $97 for two and a half gallon bag of coke, sir. Well, that's true, but that's still in a sirup. I understand.

That's a little different. Now, if you could get that into a solid. Oh, that would be interesting. That's called spilled and dried sirup. Well, that if you could rehydrate, that would be great business Takes a little, but that would be. Yeah, I mean, it's sirup because that way it mixes very quickly and tastes consistently. But you could certainly dry out the sirup and totally dehydrated and that's the whole thing.

You know what this just seemed to me to be so much gobbledygook is one, I'm not a scientist, but I think I understand a lot of this stuff better than most. And when the whole push was were 3-D printing drinks like, well, no, you're not. You're not stupid. Yeah. Doesn't it? And it doesn't make sense a bit. Meta says it's called Pop Rocks. Oh, I love pop rocks. Back in the day, did you have. Yeah, those were cool.

You know, you put them in your mouth, but it's like, Oh, and then somebody allegedly the the what you call your teeth. Well, well, yeah. One it could crack your teeth, but the conspiracy theories were, you know, if you swallowed the pop. Right. And then nothing but coke, your stomach explodes. Yeah, I know, but that wasn't kids. You were like, Wow, Really? We didn't have the fucking Internet back then.

Well, if you swallowed, like, a whole stick of Mentos and then poured coke in there, then you're in trouble. Yeah, that's. That could be bad. But we didn't have to go ask questions to when we were kids. No, we just had, like, neighbor kids to do stuff. Right. Your put your tongue on that frozen pole. Yeah, exactly. That's what Minnesotans would do, I tell you. Hey, pal, you go out in the hockey pond, shoot them. Yeah. The number of times that, like, my face froze to death is that.

Were people slamming you on the ice a lot? Is that the. Well, it. Yeah. Yeah. If you're the goalie, you tend to put your face like lot to the ceiling. That was going to be my guess as you playing hockey as a as a young growing up hockey in Minnesota I would have guessed goalie or or the bruiser the defensemen. The guy that like to get into fights. Yep. Our fights were good. I don't a lot of it I That's hard to believe that they usually start as a verbal altercation by any chance.

You know anything. I just couldn't handle it anymore. Know? You wouldn't know anything about that? Nothing. Nothing at all? No, of course not. Huh? No, of course. That it's. It's not all like you see, It was never my fault. Exactly. But of course, nobody would believe that anything was your fault. No, no. And this is true story that. The reason I stopped playing hockey was my mom got tired of me coming home with a bloody nose. Really? She's like, You're done. You're not doing this anymore.

But I think, like, it's part of the game. It's the way it's supposed to be. Yes. There's a there's a reason why when you fight, they only go sit out for 2 minutes and come back. Exactly. That's it. Or if you're really a bad fight. 5 minutes, right? If you got blood, you got 5 minutes. Because that's really the way to teach kids right and wrong was okay, go sit down for 5 minutes. Then you go back in. It's not all like it is on YouTube. I love the videos on YouTube.

When hockey players are miked up and there was one, I don't remember which one I could probably find. That would be a really sure. That would be something for the clip custodian. See how good he is. I remember seeing one and I don't remember how old the video was, so I can't really tell you when it was from, but was right before face off. The two players get next to each other and the one guy is like, How are you doing? Good. And he's like, You want to go? Yeah, okay, good luck to you.

And then the whistle blows and they they fight. But it was like, Good luck to you. And it wasn't said like, I'm going to beat your ass. Good luck to you. It was a very polite like, Well, Jim, good luck to you. Let's go. You want to fight? Okay, let's do it. It's like this is just part of their job. Like they're, you know, this is what we do AS Yeah, we have to do the fighting thing. And I wish you luck, but that's not like it was in the youth hockey, I'm guessing. Uh, no, exactly.

I was like, jeans. Like, I want to kick your ass. They're like, just the way we like to imagine it anyway. Yeah, Yeah. And the other memory I have of that is like falling, on my back and ice out and having the wind completely knocked out of me. You know, you can't breathe, right? You ever have that experience? Yes. Yeah, so few times. So yeah. You know, it's a lot easier to get into that situation when you're on skates. And if somebody you know clotheslined you, right?

And then if it's up and you find something funny, if somebody wants to kick your ass, it's a really good time. When you're over at the other one, you can't be breathing like maybe a chop to your windpipe would get the breath coming back. Yeah, Yeah. Maybe Hockey is not for the faint of heart. Although it's a good sport though. I like hockey. Hockey and biathlon. Those are good sports. Those are the two you participate in or the ones you like to watch? Well, both.

I mean, these are ones that when I was young, when I was a kid participated in and I like to watch, I may have to go back into the hockey mode. Net net played hockey. Of course, Detroit is a Redwings fan, no doubt. There you go. But the Blackhawks got the number one pick, the guy that's supposed to be like the next Gretzky. So he may be fun to watch another one of these like 18 year old kids that they're putting the weight of the world on. Like, well, you're going to be the next Gretzky.

It's like that is so horrible to do to again. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. No pressure whatsoever. NHL miked up fights. I wonder if that was in here the got in through with that. Yeah just look that up on the youtubes. They're good stuff. I would watch during the show but that would probably not be good good content if you watch the Olympics in 80. I did. My dad and my sister went Oh, did they went like both of them. They did. My sister was big into ice, not ice dancing the way they skated. Yes.

They figure skating. Yeah. Mhm. So they went for that and Nice. I do have a ticket stub sitting right here in this room from one of course Do USA USSR game. Probably worth $1,000. There they are. It is one of the holy grails of ticket stubs. It's interesting, they're actually more of unused ones around because so many people did not go to that game. Really. It was thought it was just was the United States was going to get its ass kicked.

There was no interest, right? Yeah. So It was just kind of like they total surprise. The place at the opening was almost empty. Now, by the end, the place starts filling up and a lot these tickets weren't new, so I'm not sure. I'm sure the doors just kind of got open and people were hearing like, Oh my God, the United States are going to beat the Russians, those horrible Russkies, the mirror. Yeah, well, it was it would be very, very surprising. Yes.

Because the Russians won the previous decade. Yes. And they were by far at the time this was before for anybody that's been watching the Olympics more recently, where they use professional players, I don't know. Does hockey still do that? Because basketball did where they went and that was like, okay, fine, that's the Olympic basketball became a joke the minute the United States could put Michael Jordan, Larry Bird and Magic Johnson on the map. Yeah, it's like, all right, but you know what?

Think that that was a silly rule. The whole like amateurs athletes is bullshit because all it meant was people who weren't making much off of their athletics. But these people were literally dedicated. Anyone that's in the Olympics has dedicated their entire life in that sport. And I don't care what anti-poverty up at that point, because you couldn't give money and it's like, hold up.

So what we're saying is anyone that's dedicated their life to the sport be in as long as they don't make money off of it, that's retarded. And it was beyond that because now like that gymnast Olivia Dunn is making millions on her social media. I think that would have also been a fighter. Yeah, yeah, whatever. Wherever she's making the money, she's making a lot of money. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And it's like, why? I mean, again, you know, new gymnastics is very big in Japan.

I did not know. Nude or new nude. Okay? I did not know that. Mm hmm. And she's like, Well, I understand why. I mean, unless it's sumo wrestlers doing the sumo wrestlers are basically nude. Is that what you said was a they have a tire inner tube tied around them, but they're basically naked. Yeah. The good stuff I want to get all in on that. Really? Now, is that some exciting technology? All excited. This is something. Is this something I can interest you in?

How much would you need to get into this sumo wrestler? Would you like to know more? Yes. Just dial 1888. I watched that movie again. I watched. So, uh, Starship Troopers, was it called the That is a movie. I don't know if that's the one you watch. Yeah, that's the one I watch. Yeah. That the. It's such a great movie, man. It is so underrated. It's, it's got the hokey bits in it, but just the right amount of Hulk genius in that movie because the underlying message is just so get

on. I like movies that have a little bit of a comedic edge. I don't like anything that's too straightforward dark. Hmm. Mm hmm. You might have a little comic, especially when you're doing the sci fi thing. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. You know, Star Wars. I think, again, I probably just glorifying it because that was the movie for our childhood, because I was seven when Star Wars came out. Right.

I remember seeing that if I if I remember correctly, I saw Star Wars in or maybe it was Rocky was one of those in French Lick, Indiana, as a child home of Larry Bird. Yeah. Who was on those Olympic basketball teams the that dream team I think we talked about it that the jerseys were the mailman, Karl Malone. His wife picked them all up. I mean, I guess they were just all thrown on the floor. I don't know what was going to happen to those jerseys. So he saved them.

He had them up in his damn auto dealer. They were all just auctioned off. And when Especially the Jordan for millions. Oh, yeah, totally millions of dollars, which I don't understand that either. I mean, what's the attraction in owning a piece of somebody else's clothing? It is putting it to a party bath water. Well, right, Well, the bath water you've bought it for how many onlyfans girls you have bath water from everybody in bath water. It is a stupid thing.

You you've got a whole display in the garage I think with all of course in Austin it would quickly dry out. So yeah, you would have to be hermetically sealed. That is just so stupid. But that's one of the big things in these sports collectibles. Now when it comes to uniforms, is trying to photo match because you could sit there and look at a uniform and the uniforms say Michael Jordan wore four years with the bulls. They didn't change much from year to year.

And to be able to say, well, he wore this uniform on this day when he did this, that's a big deal. Now, if there's a way to prove that the particular uniform was worn and it was for an event that was, you know, that this lame man, I don't understand it, Like I understand some souvenirs, like if you catch a baseball right, which I did once, I've never managed to be in that position. But but if you do that, that's cool. And that because that was a ball from that game.

But because that was a ball from that game that you caught. Right. It's a memory for you. It's a memory that you're a part of. Right. You're not buying a fucking ticket stub or a shirt that somebody wore that you've never met and they had nothing to do with. Oh, and there is a difference. When we were in Cleveland, I think it was back when I was 16 or my cousin Randy came with us. We were Randy, Sure, good old Randy.

And we were sitting down by the White Sox dugout and as Carlton Fisk was walking off the field, he gave Randy the bat that he was using. It's like now that that's kind of cool. That is a memory, because how often does that happen? Never. Yeah, never. So but you're right. That is a completely different thing. Then I'm going to go buy a game, use Carlton Fisk bat, which I can. Yeah, but it's devoid of that memory now.

It's because that people put a monetary value on it where if you have Michael Jordan's, you know, sneakers or jerseys or whatever. Yeah, then it's big money. But why is it big money? That is that is one for the ages. I guess people feel the need to collect stuff. And I made no bones about the fact that I like listening to Taylor Swift's music. I don't understand people spending thousands of dollars on the limited edition vinyl. No, I don't get it.

Unless you're doing it purely to resell later, right where it's like, which I feel that I have my at face value. One of the things that I had and I say have because I haven't seen it in probably over a decade so I'm going to assume it's last is I had a a towel that was signed by Douglas Adams. Oh, thanks for all the fish. Yeah. And so I had him autograph that in 1989 and you know, I thought it was kind of neat. But one of the autographs said you're the first person ever to bring it all.

That seems nearly impossible. You know, that's what I thought. I'm like, You've got to be kidding me. Was he really? Was he, like, bullshitting you? Like, I see these, like, 14 of these every day? No, no. But I think a lot of the people in line to get autographs were looking at me very jealously.

You know, you haven't thought to bring a towel and you do have to have the right kind of towel because they're not overall, if it's too fluffy, it's not going to be easy to take a marker and read my signature. It was definitely not the towel that was in the book that I brought. I brought a tennis towel was that would be better. It's nice, it's small and it's not going to be useful, not too fuzzy, not too know, it's not too fuzzy or thick, but it is. And, you know, it had McEnroe on it.

But other than that, it was perfect. Douglas Adams was a genius. He was a great writer, and it's very sad that he died young in life. More books would have been forthcoming. Well, now, see, I could try to recreate that style, but it would never work. Totally. Could you? Would Could you think it would be think his style is so slapstick that maybe that's not slapstick? I think it's different enough that I actually could do it. There's not a whole lot of subtlety. I still have somewhere.

It may even be sealed. The A video game. Oh, yeah. The Tex-Mex. The. The what? Starship. Titanic. Right. That was that. He came out with. There was that one. He was, Yeah. There was a video game called Starship Titanic, I believe that. I know there was an actual Hitchhiker's video game. Really? I don't think I had that one. Yeah Got the book very early into computers, and he had purchased the first Macintosh in the UK.

Really? Like he bought in the U.S. and then brought it back before they were for sale in the U.K. And they're like, What is this? What is this crazy theory? Yeah, he wrote some of his books, like I think he wrote The Dirk Gently series on his Mac The Starship Titanic is an adventure game developed by the Digital Village, published Simon and Schuster Interactive, released in April of 1998 for Microsoft Windows in March 1999 for the Apple Macintosh.

And I know that if you had anything to do with it, you could see here, written and designed by Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy creator Douglas Adams, there might have been an amendment that took two years to develop. Yeah, yeah. In order to achieve Adams goal of being able to converse with characters in the game, his company developed a language processor, dessert processor or bakery.

They had to interpret players input and give an appropriate response and recorded over 16 hours of character dialog. Mm hmm. Now I want to play shit. No, wait a minute. Dialog. So this thing actually talks to you? It's not text based. I guess if it's as it were, I thought it was if The Hitchhiker's Guide was definitely text based. Yeah, this was. Well, this was more current. You figured 99. I mean, it was not there. That's like 15 years later. Yeah. I mean, I remember those games.

One of my favorite games still goes back to the Apple two era when Castle Wolfenstein or Steam, however you like to say, it was still 2D. Oh yeah, that I loved. I don't like the first person shooters because they can make me nauseous, but because you have no eyeballs. I know. Even before, when I had to eyeballs the motion. It's very weird that I have never been able to play a game. Have you ever tried 3D like back when you had that? Is it good work? Yeah, but not playing a game. So I mean that.

Wow, if I had my first experience with that was in, I want to say 1994, I had 3D and it was wild because there was a handful of games that worked with 3D. See, back in 1994, I was doing multiple websites for Playboy playmates and they just didn't have time for I didn't have time for video games. Joke's on you. I was ahead of the curve. Yeah, you were so. So I never got any kind of vertigo or anything else. But a number of friends that I like showed this do and let them try it.

Did not like the being in the 3D immersive world. There was a video game where you flew in a little spaceship. Surprise, surprise, right? That's where you got hooked. I mean, I've been playing spaceships games since I was born anyway. But the this was really cool because. It was the first game that I ever played. Did that did that have all six directions of movement? So it had all all six very calm. What do you mean, directions of movement? They can go up, down, left, right from back.

Yeah. Yeah, that. So it was, it was different from everything else because we were still mostly in the, in a 2D, even if it was 3D, it was still kind of 2D ish world back then. And this thing let you go anywhere in any direction there. Since there was space, there was no bottom or top, so you could, you know, what was your below, you could become in front of you or at the side of you and you could spin around and fly. And definitely that was the game that kind of made people go a little woozy.

But I don't know, it was it was cool. It was. I'm pretty sure you had to have a voodoo card in order to play this. Maybe. And there's a link. You can still play Starship Titanic online. Yeah. Looks like it's six bucks. Yeah. Oh, that's. Yeah, dude, that's like, way. That's not what I was thinking. I thought it was like a text based game. This looks like an actual video game. Yeah, but for whatever reason, I can driving games because I did the NASCAR.

It doesn't matter if you're using the view in the car, out of the car, all that had the wheel, the whole big. You know, not a full extra place people have now the simulation setups didn't have one of those. You just had the wheel where you had to strap it onto the desk and hope it didn't pull the whole desk apart. Wouldn't. Yeah. When you're. Jack. Tired of that wheel. Totally, dude. I know. I know.

You can't have your monitor be attached to the desk If you're playing a video game like I know it's not good. Not good at all. But for those I didn't have a problem with. So I like playing those games back in the day. The drive driving games, no problem. But the minute I tried to play something like Grand Theft Auto, which I thought would be a lot of fun, just get nauseous, can't do it.

And I don't know, people were like, Well, if you just maybe do it for like an hour or two, then maybe or you'll chop your body into, you know, accepting it or whatnot. But it was so bad that it was it's not like the nauseous ness goes away either. The second you stop playing the game, it like it lasts for like a half hour or hours. So it's not I think you needed to play for 100 hours to get through.

Probably just be like tell your body because there's something that some people have it, some don't. From the research that I remember, which is your eyes are seeing movement. So your eyes telling you that your body is moving and your inner ear is going. Nope. Yeah. And those to tell you, you would really hate the stuff I play with. I have a Toby I tracker here. Interesting. In a number of games that I play, I including the space ones. It measures two things.

It measures what you're looking at and it measures your head position and those are independent of each other. But if I glanced to the left of my computer monitor, then the game changes the focus of what the character's looking like to the left. That's weird. So for example, if I'm doing American trucks, Jim, I'm driving around as I was a few days ago, all over Texas doing delivery runs. All I need to do to look around is to look around. That is that is next level stuff.

It's well, it's been around for a long time. It's just it it's getting better. I don't like 3D glasses because I don't want a contraption strapped to my head. Yeah, that's weird. The irony in this is that the 3D glasses I had in 1993, maybe 94, they were literally the same weight as sunglasses because they were all they were were LCD shutters. Right. That the one on one off. Yeah. One on one off.

So the way you used to work with CRT monitors is it would alternate frames for your left eye and then your right eye and then your eye than your right eye. And then the shutters in the glasses were timed with the monitor to turn to flip flop each frame. So you're playing at 60 frames per second. What you're getting is 30 frames per second, effectively in your eyeballs, but instead. Video How many people listening do you think are going? What's a CRT monitor? I know, right?

Well, probably nobody, because the audience for this show is our age. We're all old now. I think there are some youngins like in us, which isn't saying much. Name one. I know a gentle millennial. You think he's younger enough? Yeah, I think he's actually in his thirties. So I think millennials are heading 40 now. Now we need just reach out to us here on unrelenting or no agenda social or the program.

Make a donation that is in the form of your age in the number of days old your the number of days. I don't know if I want that we need a better mathematical formula, like take your year. A year. Nobody's going to do they have to break it down by count. Take your age and multiply it by 365. It's not hard math, right? We'll take your age and then multiply and then multiply that by a factor of at least fuck's sake, you got to make it. CRT monitors did help keep the room warm in the winter.

Really? Yeah. So the total plasma is Well that the the LC all even the even LCD. Yeah. They still keep the room warm. Not as much as CRT is, but they stored checking away with the electricity there. The DROBO does because I have five drives in it that are not cool drives. So that just kind of throws off a bunch of heat here too. Well, and the video card absolutely does. That thing alone chews up over 200 watt. I need one of them $2,000 video cards so I can make artwork.

Yeah. Artwork which you're not allowed to use for no agenda. No, no. They, they jkt is he is not really caring he said as long as the artworks good he doesn't care. I know he still doesn't like it, but there may be a switching of the Mm. And again it just has to be good enough so they don't know it's a what do you say. I don't like artwork. That means I don't like something that looks very specifically like it was created by an AI.

It doesn't mean that you don't want I mean, it's in this stuff getting so much better so quickly that there's no putting that genie back in the bottle. And I have no idea why, you know, somebody whatever. And the last one that I won, I took a pack of Duracell batteries and I removed the Duracell branding and changed it to no agenda. Yeah, I saw that when I was like, Man, I wonder if he did that with They know. Well, that's still hard to do.

I in text is still not that friendly with other but it'll get there to where you can just type in you know battery pack style or has great AI text. What does Google. I have not played with the Google AI but when you can get to that point where you could just go into an AI and adding the text is child's, it's well, I need a clean unbranded package of batteries. Well, you can pretty easily. I didn't do that in this case because I just grabbed a nice Duracell cell, which Jake hates Duracell.

So that almost kept that art from being winning, even though I took Duracell off and changed it to no agenda. But I digress. Going into an air generator and being like pack of batteries non branded, well then you can go whatever brand out. But just imagine when you get to that point where you could be like, Well, give me a package of a thousand batteries, but they all have this logo on it. Well, that's right way quicker to do than having do it by hand, obviously.

And this is where all of the I can only imagine how many people on Fiverr are just selling, you know, that these parties. Yeah, absolutely. Those are going to be the first folks to do that. What if like, Well yeah, you're coming out with a new book, you need a book cover you see. Well yeah we'll do, I'll do you five generations of the, you know, five iterations but that'll cost you a 50 bucks. You know, they're just going to do the tip. Okay. Uh huh.

For people that don't understand how this stuff works. Oh, you need music for a project. Okay, tell me what you'd like. And they take the exact description the asshole gives them, goes it to an air music generator, types that description it cuts and paste, most likely. And then what? Spit out like, Hey, do you like this? Oh, yeah, that's exactly it. Oh, great. You're done. Did you know that the current version of Microsoft Edge,

the browser, can actually do a artwork generation built in? No. In what part? It's it's built into the browser or a literally part of the browser. Now, where do you go with the browser? How do you get it to do the art? It's the right side panel in the settings. No, it's the right side panel will do. There is okay, we got I see my big thing of the top that I see notifications account control. Yeah it's it's called image creator shopping outlook.

You got to you got to go to the sidebar and then go to image creator by using it. The product I do have edge, so I'm looking at edge. Okay. All right. I don't see a is there an icon for this or something I see customize. How do I get it to show it doesn't have the current version? Of course, I'm always up to date, baby.

I mean, I'm not so sure you are always up to date is the don't sound like got that stuff on the right side there in that little thing on the right I've got yeah I've got a little sidebar and it's got a little Let's see here let me move this. So can see a little better here. I've got a I got the bing on the top.

Is it Bing. Because then I've got a belt, then I've got a magnifying glass that I've got a tag for shopping, then I've got some little basket for something or other tools it says is it and tools. Then we got games. You are you want to click on the little plus thing in the bottom. Yeah. For customize. Yep. That's the one. Gotcha. Let's see that we got WhatsApp, Instagram, Spotify, Facebook, Messenger, More Hulu. Do we want to show more? We got eBay, Yahoo, Walmart.

Yeah. Something on here is there there's designer is edit a preview it's what the what the called it's called image generator now it just says designer here but let's see image creator three you have to when you click on a little plus in your list of apps it should say image creator. I don't have that. But way at the bottom I have a slider that you can turn things on and off. I'll send you a link. Let's see. Yeah I'll show me a photo of That would be good. All right. There's a photo right there.

Let's see the on and off thing here. Image creator. Image, creator. You know, it doesn't say that in mind. It just says designer. That's why I asked if you had the latest version. It updated yesterday. Well, I usually have them. How does it update it. Shouldn't it just do this automatically? Come on. Microsoft? Well, it does. Have you rebooted lately? Why would I reboot? You don't want to do that. Why? What does rebooting have to do with updating a program? Well, you know, whatever.

What does it even tell me what version where this used to be so easy to find like the about the A boot. You want to boot? Do you want a boot? Yes. It was Canadian for about. Do you want the answer? Yes. So let's do an image of batteries without any loading branding and let's see what it'll do to the about Microsoft Edge. Okay, let's see what I'm creating. I am free. I'm on version. Let's see here. 116 .0.1938.54. It says I am up to date. Where do you see the version number?

What I went into about about where is the boot? Oh, a net that says you have to sign in the edge. Wait, what do you mean, sign? You're not signed in. User sign in. What do you mean, sign in? How do you not? You've got to sign into edge with your Microsoft 365 subscriptions. Microsoft threw away that and I don't have a microsoft account. Oh, thank you. This is insane Dougherty. What are you a co-host or what? Yeah, I don't do that. I don't sign up for things.

I don't have a microsoft account, but there is a generate image. So, okay, I can see this. Let's see. So we have a guy with a beard playing video games. It'll probably give me something good for that. Oh, yeah. And then it's like, sign in. No, no, I'm not going to sign in with my email phone or Skype. Yeah, just give me your phone. That's all they want from you, right? They want to try to be who they want to track every last bit of it, which was what Instagram was trying to do.

I had a throwaway account and it was like because there was no phone number, because I don't. Telephone numbers do these things. And it was like, you're we you have to verify a phone number. So my God, jeez. So I went through. I think your guy with beard is ready. Oh, there you go. It Looks just like you up and out of shape. 35 with 35 years ago maybe. Right. That's a young surgeon right there, huh?

But I got the message that I needed a phone number, so I did a quick search, like, you know, free set match that could be used with Instagram and unbeliever whibley. One of those free things where you just, you know, can they show you on the Web what's coming through to those phone numbers? Hmm. I used that in Instagram, was like, okay. And then it popped up. You need to send us a selfie with this written on it.

Yeah. And the driver's license in your left hand, right, and your signature and your mother's maiden name and your right hand. It was just a selfie with the account name. Your first name, and like a six digit number that they gave. Yeah. It's funny. I had to do a, a proof of identity thing recently. And one of those website registries, something like that. And yeah, it was a government website and that's the worst. It just would not work.

Like it didn't like my stuff because you take photo of your driver's license and all kinds of other stuff and the alternative, like if it's not working, is you have to do a conference call and prove who you are. Right? So I ended up having to do that, but their software was screwing up. Everything was sideways. It was it was just a crazy ass. It's like is a crappy experience. Well, for people that are curious, I decided to create an image in a guy holding up a piece of paper.

Now, the handwriting part is the only hard part about this because you can't easily do that in an AI. And it's very hard to do that with a font because anybody looking closely could see that that every letter is going to be. Yeah, the same. Right. So I wrote what they wanted on a piece of paper. I took a photograph of that. I superimposed it on the I image of the person holding up the piece of paper and they bought it. Hmm. I was like, That's fantastic. Like what?

Great technology You think you have to be like, We're going to prove you're a real person. No, you're not. You're not going to prove who I am. Well, the A.I. has a hard time doing that. Well, it took days. So it's also interesting. I don't know if this a real person had to look at it, but it becomes very like, What do you get? And I guess you could. But I thought would be a great test because everybody's like, No, no, man.

There's tools. People can know. If it's an A.I. generated image, they'll know they find it will not. They do. They will not, not always know. There's some really great A.I. tools to find the right and you can fool them. As I found out by, taking your text ID, running it through grammarly or pro writing aid and just going with every suggestion they give you a takes here. Hey, this is 90%. I no doubt this the word 90% sure it's A.I. too. Oh, it's 4% sure it's A.I. like.

So you take the A.I., you convert it with A.I., and then the third A.I. that's trying to figure out if it's. He's like, I don't know, it's great. You just keep double dipping or triple dipping, whatever it may be. In this case, might as well. The technology is a beautiful thing, though. Yeah, because here's the way I see it. There's going. You how do you see it going? Movies and things in the future?

Like, okay, you're like, well, you know, I really like Star Wars, but, you know, Carrie Fisher just isn't hot enough for me, which she was. Yeah, but at the back, especially in the, you know, Jabba scene. Oh, my God. You mean the bikini. Yeah, that, that. So that was. Was that. That was it. Return of the Jedi. That was the Empire Strikes Back, right? Yeah, I believe so. That was Return of the Jedi. Yeah. Yeah, That was the pleasure gathering thing. You a pleasure palace.

So that for me would have been when I was 13, it was like, Yeah. Princess Leia. Mm. Uh huh, I, I'm going to later. Hey, they just assumed, though, that you weren't into the whole Carrie Fisher. Look, you can now go ahead and but you can now go in and be like Well, you type a guy in there instead. Yeah, I guess it now. Okay, some people might want that, but I'm thinking you can have Margot Robbie or your favorite Scarlett Johansson. And then, boom, you could go to Enhances.

And I have the body for that. You could. Well, I don't care what her body looks like, just swapping heads. Screen show title. Just swapping head swapping heads. There you go. That sounds not gay at all. Those are maybe a little, but is it wrong? Maybe a little, maybe a little. Is that wrong? I mean, they've been doing that in in porn forever. That. Uh huh, like you get celebrity porn of anybody. Well, right. Because you can take any video and change the face of it.

Yeah, but this is where you're going, where the technology will be there for full length movie just to be like, take this actor out, put this one in. But this is where I've been saying for a while, and I really hope is where we end up is just getting rid of actors. I don't want actors just we don't need them. We don't need people in the profession of entertainment. What we want about musicians, same thing now. They write the music, but they don't.

They don't form. Hey, I can write much better music. Do you think I can write a soulful song that I'm not sure. Ray Kurzweil demonstrated that 30 years ago. I don't buy it. Well, show me. And they have created song that can get your eyes moist or your crotch either. Watch your. Sure. There's one right now that's very popular about the the rich man the author Richman It was that guy was real. That guy's real Yeah. Think yeah the red guy? Yeah. Oh, yeah. You're blue. All right. Mm hmm.

I saw a video of 420 something by the air for 20 something old black dudes doing a 20 reaction video on that. Yeah, I posted, like, a bunch of those 20 black dudes doing reaction videos. Videos? I didn't see that. But my following you. You probably know. I bet you have your muted That may be why. Oh but gene post way too much. Oh well that's an easy fix. Let me ban you. Okay. Yeah. Perma ban. Can you block me from seeing your Instagram account or your whatever you got show?

It could be your You mean my no agenda social account, right? No. Is that where you post? I thought it was on Twitter or X or Twitter and I post like twice a day on Twitter and I post like twice in the hour. No agenda social. Well, I'll I'll start looking for the No agenda social ones. And I've been missing them. No, you probably not even follow me on. So let me unfollow you real quick. I'm pretty sure I am. Well, how do you miss like 30 post today?

I don't really look at no agenda social enough. Oh, my God. What? Because it's all mediums, man. It's all memes. I still. That's another thing I will never understand is memes. Hmm. I don't get memes. Uh, I mean, I understand what they're supposed to be. I'm following you. I'm no longer following you. Oh, dude, perfect. No, no, I can't take that. I need. I need everybody to follow me. And no agenda. Social. I need to have more gay. Darren wants fewer people following him because he has no time.

So let's just go ahead and make his more or. Yeah, more. That's what I needed to get enough. I need more. What do I have now? Do I have more than you? Oh, you've always had more than me. No. What is called opener? Well, we have 3.1 million. Woo. Well, that's pretty good. And let's see what I have. I've got 2.1. That's pretty good. Well, you don't even have your surname in there, sir. Gene, You're just ginning. That's. No, I'm. I'm sorry, Gene. What are you talking about?

Yeah, but it's just getting engine and I mean. Oh, the, the, the actual log and then what. Let's. Yes. Yeah. That's cause that's because when I joined there was nobody else on and I was like, this is lame as base. No, it's true. Like Adam invited me right after whoever is running it set it up. It's like, Oh, during this thing, I'm like, okay. And I get in and it's literally like five people in here. I'm like, okay, well, I'll never log in here.

And then a year later I log in and there's like a thousand people. And then I have asked about changing that and the response was, Yeah, all you got to do is just create a new account. And I, you know, I'm like, there's no way to change the username. That's correct. Of course there is. It's a volunteer effort. Yeah. And he is busy. Yeah. And I forget his name after that. Actually Aaron actually runs this thing. He is your post. Yeah. You've got a lot of posts.

These are all you got to do is just go in into the database and change one field. But I get it. Yeah, he's busy. Let's see who is. You have a two hour interview with Fair and Balanced. Who's that? That was a reporter away from Russia today. Yeah. Oh, that's good stuff. How come I was, like, months and months ago? That's, like, the last thing I see. I'm near here. It's like March. Why is that the last? Oh, it's pinned. That's why I need to. Until unpin that. Because I'm like, Wait, what's new?

This isn't new. Now let me jump in there. But then there's another pen. Do you can do more than one pin post? Because then the next one's in December. Yeah, you could do as many as well. You're like, begging people for subs. That's not good. No, it is good because I had to. I had restarted my Twitter, so I needed subs. No, that was for your YouTube gaming channel. Oh yeah. Yeah. Well, that I always need more subs for in lieu of money. You having trading, That's for money.

Why don't I just on that. And then it's like, do you want to leave YouTube. Why I clicked on the gym, go to my YouTube channel and it was like, do you want to have one of the club cartoons pin the thing here? Or do you have. There was a good one. Yeah, he likes the stuff. But wait, there's a YouTube redirect. What? Your YouTube redirect doesn't work because it just takes me to a page. It says, Are you sure you want to leave YouTube? Oh, well, that's fine.

Let me unpin all these pin confirmed channels subscription. Okay, let me subscribe here. Oh, let's. There you go. There you go. I'm subscribed. I don't actually post anything on there. I just want more subs. Well, that doesn't make sense. Well, why? It's hard to get subs when you don't personally think you've got 214 subscribers. That's the wrong channel. Don't you have the right link? No, My other channels get 900 subs. Oh, well my channels only got 577. This is vital information.

Uh huh, Used to be. Darren O'Neil reviews, but you know now. Yeah, now they've reviewed the review game suck, so I'd like to change that to him. But I digress because it's not really bothered. Product reviews. I guess I should redo the, the headline and everything else. There was somebody reading, somebody complimenting me, saying I don't look a day over 335. Yeah, we did. You unfollow me That's rude. I told you because you're bitching about me having too many posts. No, but that does it.

I can still hear me reducing me still following you, but you muted me. Don't mute anybody. No, you said you did. I do not understand this concept of this show. I'll put you in now and then one month. Time out. Oh, okay. Well, make sure you set a you set a timer? Yeah. Cheers. We set a timer, please. I mean, you realize I can still see your post unless you block me a black. Yeah, you did? Yeah. It doesn't say blocked, And you probably have to refresh the browser for.

Oh, well, that likes to reboot the whole thing. That'll make more sense. Let me read. Help me, Let me plug the way. Let me block all my co-hosts while I'm out of here. Let's see. It makes the whole fuck you and fuck you, makes the whole day go by a lot faster, a lot less things to about. All right so see as be sent some money. It looks like a buck. Yes, I like that. It's actually showing how much it was back to each of us. That was the whole show we did. I know we don't need a donation segment.

We did it throughout the show as the booster Grams came in. We appreciate the people that show up and to the show live. It is a whole lot of fun. It's the Seinfeld of podcasting. But if you want to help support the show Unrelenting Diet Show, go subscribe wherever. You get your subscriptions from Apple Podcasts, iPod verse, whatever, where if they let you leave a review review of the show, why the reviews are in needed?

Yeah, there's way we're going to get people outside of no gender social without reviews. So why tell people the show's good? That's what you want to do? Yeah. Nobody cares if you're telling the truth. They'll totally enjoy it. That's all you need to do. And if you can support the show financially so I can buy some LED covers and those kind of things or or that $2,000 video card that I have right now. I thought Jean would have sent me one or two of those.

You've sent all of your other co-hosts like Extravagant Gift zero. But that's true. No, right about that. I'm Probably done more shows with you than anybody else, too. We're probably 200, but I think that's probably true because I don't think I did over 100 with it mostly when I sent them a mac mini C So for the hundredth show, that should be a big blowout. You know, send me a Tesla because I can't drive all that well.

So a self-driving car would be nice going to that Russian oligarch money you got just sitting there. Yeah. The problem is it's all locked up. I can't get out. Yeah, and you don't want to be flying around in a Wagner plane, That's for damn sure. I know. I know. Now, I had a a do I know that that just flew out to Moscow and I was like, Dude, careful. That's getting close to the action. Yeah, You don't want to do that unless you're talking about the action you get right here. I'm unrelenting.

That's right. That was so. That was such an excitable thing. We sent it off on a little better note. Or is this a wrap up or are we done? Is this it? We're open pass time, man. Oh, I was reading reading while we're here and stuff. Oh. Did foundation restart for the season two going now? I don't I don't know. Yeah. Find out. I need to find out. Tune in. I like that show. Come back will be here whether you want us to be or not. Really? Yeah. We're.