I saturate my pipes, all of them. Hello and welcome to episode number 91 of unrelenting, where if you can't hear Jean, that's just a feature. Nothing to worry about. Yeah, it's a feature, not a bug. Exactly. You got to remember to turn all the buttons on, not throw your water bottles at the microphone. A little bit of compression, a little bit of magic sauce.
I mean, I was going to complain that we had zero donations in zero support for the show, but like, literally right before the show started, and it's anonymous. So although it's CSB because it's his message. So if he came in with his 10,000 satoshis, that's where we're at for the full show.
So I mean, we're just going to keep the Satoshis open if people want to interact today, this is the only way we're going to generate some funds like, Hey, if you got something to say, although I think we're going to set ZBZ as maybe the minimum of that 10,000 satoshis and up. If yeah, if it's under 10,000, then maybe, you know, we're not we don't have to read it. If it's under 10,000. That's right.
But the the thing is, with the compression and audio, in a lot of people, it's a harder subject to understand than most people probably give it credit for. Because while the simple definition of compression is like, well, you're making the softest, quietest, louder and you're making the louder quieter to kind of give you a more static range to work through. There are other ways to go about that because compression does change the way somebody's voice or an instrumentation would sound.
And there's a bunch of other plug ins now that you can use things like they call them, like a vocal writer, where if you're playing while somebody is talking with the fader on your mixer, you're bringing the volume up and down. So if Jean starts talking louder, I just bring the volume down a little bit than if he's talking softer. You bring it up manually. That's not compressing the voice rate. That's shifting. And there are plug ins that will that will try to do that now.
So, yeah, and I think that's that's typically what a normalizing will do versus a compressor And it's all these things like well what sound do you want? Obviously the more you do the talk radio which is over compressed. Yeah. But, but remember they have a technical reason for doing that because they have limited bandwidth. Right. They got to pump it out under the AM band. Where we have full, beautiful bandwidth, we have CD quality if we wanted to.
But it's interesting because it's the same thing with photographs where a lot of times now photos people rather have a little bit of film grain to it. There's very which is insane. There's expensive plug ins that are like, Well, let's recreate. Okay, let's, let's dirty shit up because it looks more natural, I guess, that people are used to rather than they want it doesn't it looks like StarLink.
It does because there was that when HDTV first hit, you remember the biggest complaints were like, Yeah, it looks too real. It looks there's too much detail. We don't like it. Or people saying it looks too plastic, it doesn't look real. It looks more like a video game. Yeah, it's like it's it's the uncanny valley kind of feeling. Except for actual video. Yes. Yeah. And I think that same thing.
Well, what didn't help the those TVs and this is probably not first generation, but like second generation HD is where everybody started introducing out to motion enhancement. So they took 24 frames and 30 frames and bumped them to 60. Yes. And in theory, it's like, my gosh, look at that. Everything is super smooth. But boy, total uncanny valley. Well, again, because everybody was used to and that was the film.
The one thing I learned when the computer age rolled around in any kind of video editing was that in the United States, our television was 29.9, something very close to 30 frames a second. Yep. Where in .97, I believe in the UK is what, 24 they go with like Yeah, more of like a film standard. Well it but it's really 25 so yeah it comes more from their electricity being 50 hertz and that would make sense. But there is a different vibe to it.
When you watch it, you're like, Well, this seems a little weird. It takes it. Yeah, it goes to it. And you remember the old Max, the black and white original, like backlots and stuff. Those things were running at 50 hertz, I believe either 50 or 55, I can't remember. But they seemed so much more crisp than PCs, which typically ran in 30. And that was the arms race into who can get to the raising that raising the frame rates, everything. And technically all of it's better.
But you're like, that doesn't look right. Yeah. Well, what's amazing is that we can watch film movies and 24 frames and not be bothered. That's crazy because we can clearly perceive the difference between, you know, 24 and 60 and even above. And it's one thing I never really thought about until I started doing my own usage of it. But you can totally tell the difference between 60 and 120 or even 144, like having a gaming gear that goes up a lot higher.
You would think, Well, you know, humans can't tell the difference. Being 60 frames is 120. Yes, you can. Well, on the lower frames, the brains just filling everything in which it's a beautiful thing. Yeah. It's like, well I understand what's going on. It shows as very smooth movement. Never once going to the movies. As a kid, you were like, Well, wow, this doesn't look right. Right? You don't think, Wow, this is so janky.
Now you're like, Well, no, this things, man, I'm doing better out of my cell phone. I was just I thought, why I always give out all the all the props which you could do on your phone now waiting 20 frames on the iPhone way better. But people prefer for some reason, not always, but for certain things. It seems like, well, this is more natural that 24 frames a second for movies, they don't want the realism. And that was the funniest thing, was all the local news.
When high def came out, people all of a sudden were like, Wow, we can see you. Your makeup jobs are not working anyway. The people have bad skin. It's amazing how many people have shitty skin, That's reality. Yeah. Now they've managed to start hiring better looking women in porn, though. Well, you have to. You have to, because of the technical limitations. Although, does ESB isn't there an A.I. that could just take care of all this already? Yeah. Get the skin fixed. Exactly. Now there as well.
But there's also we're we're very much at a point right now where the AI means no women need to the point this is true or news or anything that needs to be a woman in front of a camera or a guy. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I was just referring to things that people actually watch now, things that exist and that nobody watches, right? Yeah, like YouTube channels of guys that were like, Hey, are you doing maybe nobody's tuning in for that, especially with that sound. Yes. No, no, they don't like that.
Well, I thought they liked the. What's that guy? You know, the black dude with the really low voice, You know, the one I'm talking about? Barry White, salty black balls. Okay, Well, no, that would be Isaac Hayes. Although he was awesome. Well, who else? As Barry White. He as the. All right, Very well. But yes, Yes. I mean, so Isaac Hayes was basically the fun. Barry White until he became that fun because they made fun of his religion. Right. And then it all went to hell.
And then he died or he died or anything. So I thought Isaac Hayes was power. I mean, it's not. He will be now, if you forget how we talked about him, you know what that means. The power of unrelenting is if we talk about them, they die. Yep. Sure. Seems to be that we pay. Hey, we look very. You know, we're not planning anything about that. Well, we got him to end. Matthew Perry. We got Luke Perry and Matthew Perry. Yeah, well, we got some comedians in the past.
I remember we talked about and we talked about a couple long after they were dead, but one of them but there's some that we talked about. And then the weekly death. Hey, well, who says death isn't funny? Well, it is. It has to be. It's inevitable. It's the era. It's the impending finish of our journey. I mean, technically, we'd be batting a thousand if you wait long enough. Exactly. Ever. Sooner or later, everybody's going to die, including us.
So that will be the funniest show with. No, not. Not us. Not us. So but everybody is like, no, I am. I am eating a lemon a day, I'm eating garlic. I'm going to live forever. Garlic, lemon every day. That's right. You still doing the garlic thing? I am, yeah. That way Adam and Tina will be able to smell you coming down into Hill Country. Yeah, I'm. I just washed out for vampires, that's all. I'll tell you what, man.
I think given what I've watched and I mean, I'm what, like videos and stuff about the properties of garlic. It's pretty amazing plant Yes. Well there's a lot of natural things that people just over the years we tested it. Somebody watched everything. Kill them near everything. Yeah. You want this? It's going to be good. It'll make you healthier. Although, I guess, you know, there's a lot of garlic used in Italy. And we know they had a a hard time with this latest flu.
At least that seems to be original. Although afterwards I think the United States did way worse in the couple of years after that major first push. Well, I don't think they had a problem doing worse with the flu. I think the issue they had was that their airline industry kept importing people from Asia. They're constantly resupplying a new a new supply of it could be they did have a lot of old people in Italy that for some reason their people live a lot longer.
Probably they're happier in Italy than here. they bitch a lot. Well, that's good. You let it out. It's like it's like the onions. You see the Italian president or whatever her title is that she in the I, I guess they weren't married, so she didn't get divorced, but she ended up dumping her boyfriend. No. Was it big news or something? Asian. Yeah. Yeah. Apparently there was a video of him asking some other politician to have a threesome because they do that a lot.
Really? Wow. I mean, according to him. And, yeah, she didn't like that. So she ended up. And they've been together for like a decade. Ended up dumping him. I mean, usually that couldn't end a relationship if you're not into the I mean, they're Italians, of course they do threesomes. I mean, if you'd like to confirm or deny that if you're Italian listening, make sure you send us a booster. Graham from Italy. From. Well, it has to be from Italy. Yeah. Italian Satoshis We will.
American Italians don't count. No, I mean, that's because you're American by that name. But yeah, that's the thing. Now, with of all sexualities, American is with social media, though everything is now out in the open. Yeah, well, it just goes to show that this this generation of European female leaders all like to have fun.
They like the down the what was the weather the Finnish or the Swedish or one of the Norwegian was the the prime minister or whatever she was it was like dancing up a storm and. Right. I know who you're talking. I don't really remember where I'm from. There have been quite a few stories like this. Yeah. And the other thing that seems to be pervasive lately are female teachers sleeping with male students who are like 14 or 15. But that's been around for a long time.
I remember, you know, hoping for that when I was a student. I know you're like, Wait a minute, this is not. Yeah, I mean, that's the equivalent of Penthouse Forum when you're a kid. When you're a male kid, at least you're like, No, no, that's good. I want that. I don't know about the female kids, probably. But you know what? I think it's the same shit. It's like it's just. It's worse when a male teacher does it with the young female
societally. But. But it's. I think for the girls and the boys, the students in that scenario, they're the ones trying to get it on.
And I don't think it's the teachers forcing themselves on the kids because when you actually read beyond the headline and they start describing what happened, it always ends up being a teacher that essentially didn't push back when they should have pushed back and said, this is inappropriate when you're going from getting the apple from the student to getting your kids from the student to you getting between the sheets with the student, hey, it's a small line right there. It's a direct line.
Hey, how about this? Avoid the apples overall, is what you're saying. Don't even start there. Yeah, absolutely. It kid gives you a gift. You say no, take this back. No, Think be an asshole. I mean, that's what's what every other teacher does. Yes. Yeah. Don't play into the impressionable youth, you know, because they they will be, they will be attracted to somebody that gives them attention, that has power. Everybody's attracted to power in that sense.
And when they're youth, when they're student age, they don't have any responsibilities, which means the attraction is 100% getting there. Their actions, when you get older, the only thing that really changes, you still have that attraction factor, but you start having responsibilities and they modulate the attraction. So, you know, instead of going, Man, that chick with the needle sticking out of her arm, I'm sure it's not really going.
Yeah, but that'll create other issues that I don't want to deal with. Yeah, you don't want crazy heroin chick, but they are hot. They are not, you know the you have a you have a very quick burn. I always like the heroin guys. The heroin is. Well there's a show title that was like the hair dries. Yeah. Yeah it's, it is. I was watching Helena Bonham Carter getting interviewed yesterday and she's always been a great hair.
And I checked by just naturally you mean and not by Well she's always casting for that role. I mean I don't think she does heroin, but she seems to have played a lot of those roles where, you know, like the perfect example of that is her as the girlfriend in Fight Club. Ah, yes. Brad Pitt, The other guy. Yeah, Brad Pitt and Brad Pitt, right? Pretty much. He said Norton hit it. Right. Ed Norton, if if Brad Pitt could star alongside himself, he would.
Well, he kind of did that with the in that movie where he played the the I keep thinking bouncer, but it wasn't bouncer. He was a stunt man with Leo. Leo Laporte He was in a movie. Leonardo DiCaprio that. Leo Right. yeah. Is friends, Is Leo different? Leo Do you and Leo hang out a lot? Well, we have the same taste while we're old women. Hey, hey, hey, hey. The I thought it was very, very weird that it was 60 Minutes in Australia.
This popped up in my newsfeed, did a ten minute quasi hit piece on Elvis Presley, and this was like, Ooh, very recently. And the whole thing was like, pedophile Elvis. And it's like, really? This is this is where you're going to go with that. And they just totally ignored Jerry Lee Lewis. I mean, kind of who married was third, what, 13 year old cousin? I think it was 13 year old relative. Yeah. Which and it was like his third wife, which was also very, very weird.
Jerry had Jerry Lee Lewis had wives, like most people have glasses of iced tea. But the Elvis thing, everybody knows if you know anything about Elvis, that he met Priscilla when she was 14, But they went through that. There were other 14 year old girls that, you know, they would spend the night with. And they're interviewing these women. And all of them pretty much tell the same story, that he was just a big kid. You know, he never really grew up. He wasn't comfortable around a lot of people.
And every one of them was very. And the monkey. Well, that was Michael Jackson. sorry. Same person. They were very clear that there was never any sexual activity t with Elvis at that age, that he just enjoyed their company, which. Okay, that's what Macaulay Culkin said anyway. Right. Well, he was petting the monkey. I mean, you can make a bunch of different cases, but it's the the pedophile thing.
Like, I also just have a very big problem considering 14 or 15 year old girls as children in the same category that we consider a two year old girl. A child. Absolutely. And you look at the different times again, you and I did not grow up in the fourth year in those.
And we neither one of us ever matured, you know, But there was this is what these women also said to pretty much every one of them and that that was, you know, back at the time, nobody really considered the age difference as being anything. It was quite common. And the fact that you can go back and do a hit piece now based upon the and it's not even morality as we see the morality of today, but is there any morality today?
No, no. But based upon this, it's the the standards to some extent, because they definitely seem to formulating. But it's the idea that you can judge anybody in all of history by modern standards. Right. And it's it's just stupidity. Yes. Because you are not taking into account the world at that point. Yeah, it's it's an infantile behavior is what it is. It's literally people that are too stupid to know better.
And the fact that they had, you know, allegedly, I'm guessing they did their homework and these women actually did know Elvis and they had the relationships with them. I'm assuming that's the case. The fact that every one of them said that, well, there was nothing sexual. The fact that you're still pushing like he had a proclivity for young girls. Yeah, well, again, but America has always been a leaning towards Puritanism and I think But isn't that one left wants to blow up right now.
Yeah. Yeah, they do. And so there there are some some things that the left in theory is, you know, doing better. Right. Because I would think there's this media would be like, hell yeah, Elvis like 14 year old. Yeah yeah. Well here's the thing the irony of it rate if Elvis liked 14 year old girls in order to convince them to become 14 year old boys, that would be perfectly fine. Right? But the fact that he didn't try and convince them to become 14 year old boys shows a certain problem.
that's right. It was Elvis's toxic masculinity for wanting girls to be girls. Yeah, Yeah, exactly. You could happen here. Here's the thing you can't argue with, because it's just it's a a natural fact. The there's nothing magic about number 18 in terms of years old. Of course not. And in many countries in Europe and and outside of Europe, the the age of consent is not 18. And we've made fun of the fact that in the Vatican that it's 12 or used to be they've actually changed it.
But it was 12 for literally a thousand years. They were they were holding themselves to the highest standard possible and saying, don't diddle anybody under 12. We have to have a barman. You got to have a bar. And, you know, they they had to compromise. They would have preferred nine, but they went with 12.
But the there is no number here that needs to be said other than by people agreeing on something arbitrary because nature has that number which is girls can't have children until they have their period, which historically happens between 12 and 14 now in the United States. Now that's happening younger even because of all the hormones in the water. But if you don't have an artificially water infant treated with hormones, it's usually between 12 and 14, certainly with some exceptions.
So does it make sense for anybody to have sex with somebody that's younger than that? No, no, that's unnatural. And that's without having any kind of morals or ethics put into it. That just purely from a mechanical standpoint is that it is unnatural to have sex with somebody that is incapable of sex. It'd be the same thing with, you know, trying to have sex with boys that have never experienced a wet dream. Right. They're not sexually mature yet.
So having sex with sexually immature people is just objectively wrong without invoking any kind of a morality into it. Right. And to show I mean, this is the one of the great things about the Internet, all the information is here. You've got countries like Nigeria where it's 11, the age of makes sense. Yeah, but Japan 13 kind of surprising. Not really. Have you not seen Japanese cartoons? I guess they're all the all frickin adult cartoons are about schoolgirls.
China, 14, Brazil, 14, Germany, 14. Italy 14. Columbia 14. Hungary. Yeah. I mean, these are honestly, these are more accurate than 18 in the United States. You know, you can get into an argument about, well, what about mental maturation? Who cares if their bodies work? They're just not capable of making good decisions. Well, I totally agree. Never be able to have sex in America, ever. Exactly. This is why American children live at home until they're 35. Mental immaturity.
This is why the the Wander Franco case, the guy that plays well played for the Tampa Bay Rays superstar, 21 years old still, I believe.
And the thing came out during the like mid-season, accusations that he was having sex, having a relationship with an underage girl in the Dominican, where there's a very strict 18 to the point of there is no Romeo and Juliet law because for a guy that's 21, I'm like, well, if this was happening, especially when he was 19, 20, even at 21, if you're talking like 16 and 21, I can see that as am a very legitimate thing. Again, as you said, attracted to power.
Well, everybody knew by the time this kid was 16, he was a millionaire going to the Major leagues. But this was the case in the Dominican Republic. If you were a boy that was 18 years old today on your birthday and your girlfriend's birthday's the day after, but you screwed her on your birthday when she was still 17, you're going to jail, dude. Which again, this is where a lot of the laws are. Like, you got to have some kind of commonsense bit added to it.
Yeah, but when you see all these countries where the age of consent is still in California, just drop it to 14. I don't know. I mean, I know there are states that are under 18. I think Illinois is still at 17. Then I think California was 18 and Indiana was like, yeah, they dropped that. Then remember, in the last few years, there's something that basically said you can have sex with anybody who's within like a five year range of you, your farm animals.
Well, I mean, let's not talk about people in politics, but I mean, this is a bizarre subject, which is why it's popped up on a bunch of different shows that I've done. Because when you talk about a story and everybody like the Russell Brand thing, no, she was 16 and it's like, well, that's legal there. Yeah, Yeah, that is legal. I mean, really going down this list even more.
France 15 when 15, as we all know, women lie and somebody who's 15 saying, I'm 18 when I mean I mean, I check a driver's license, but most people don't check driver's licenses. You have to at this point. Yeah. And you have to have a copy of it. That way, if it goes bad, you're like, well, this is what she showed me. Yep. Denmark 15. And I saw the other day, Denmark number one right now in binge drinking. So there could have that was the happiest country in the world.
Wasn't that where we're told maybe it's because they could have sex at 15 and they binge drink? Yeah. The 15 year olds are binge drinking. You're having a good time in Denmark. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I just think that this is a of our current attitudes are hanging over leftover or whatever you want to call it, from the general puritanism that's pervasive in the US and it's, it's something that comes from a good intention but doesn't consider a lot of other factors.
Well, and in the case of going after Elvis for something that happened in the fifties sixties and 70 seconds, it was, I will admit, a little bit creepy that even when he was reaching towards 40, there was another like 14 year old girl that he was hanging out with. Yeah, but, you know, yeah, that's creepy. I mean, it's it's a he's a famous dude who is on drugs constantly. You true You don't do you expect it? Don't I mean I'm not saying it's not like creepy. It is creepy, but expected.
I guess that's what I'm trying to say. It's like it's an expected thing. So why would you go and be shocked about it? Yeah, and I know we've mentioned it before. I mean, if you were to go back into the 1980s turns does drugs, what a surprise. Those eighties hair bands, man. Do you know they were getting more under age pussy than they didn't care what the age was. No right now in South Korea it's 20 the age of consent now.
There you go. Yeah. Yeah. We're we probably have politicians pushing for that here. Vatican City is up to 18. Yeah, they changed that. But it used to be 12. Bahrain, the highest at 21. You know, I don't know why they even have the age of consent because you can't have sex until you're married there. Well, see if that makes more sense. I guess. And you? Although. Okay, wait a minute. It's 21. So what about all those, you know, arranged marriages at 16?
Well, you're married and you can't have sex yet. You have to wait. You have to wait. Five. my God. Imagine if everyone had to wait five years to have sex after marriage. Man, your wife better be able to cook. I don't think there'd be any marriages longer than six years. And those Australians, their age of consent still at 16, which is where the Americans start there maybe again, I don't know, different parts of Australia, but for going after Elvis for like in those younger girls, I don't know.
That seems, seems you still got something going on over there. Australia. What's going on Dale. Yeah well I, I think Australian girls are, they grow up quick. Well yeah. By 16 they can kill you in 414 different ways. You're thinking of the snakes, the Rottweilers. They're out in the bush, They're this. Yeah. You don't, you don't want to mess with Australian girls. It's like country girls in the United States. You don't want to mess with a young girl like that.
Grew up in the, you know, around desert somewhere. Yeah. Not not in the big city, not like Austin, where everybody is soft. Where you are. Yeah, softer, easier. Somewhere they can pull out a rifle and blow your nads off at 50 yards. You know that You do not want to mess with those girls. Well, you know, a girl in uniform looks at. Well, this is true. So you're willing to take that chance. Jane sees a hot policewoman and he's like, Can you tase me, baby?
Yeah. Yeah. No, I remember I dated a chick that worked for the FDA, and I was like, What are you for one uniform? What is the FDA uniform? How hot can that possibly be? it's like a cop uniform for the FDA. They're just like inspecting food. Why are they doing exactly? They carry around a billy club. It's about handcuffs. That was just after work, though. I'm guessing they. Yeah, after work. No, they there they have effectively a police force.
They're you know, they can shut down the grocery store if they want to. Well, that's a lot of power, man. That's an amazing amount of power in my brain. I'm like, me. That's right, baby. Can you close down my grocery store so I can go in and shop unencumbered? That's I work for the FDA. I mean, Gene is looking for you. Well, it was time. I was a a a young, clean shaven lad, a hip auditor. So it was great. Like we could threaten anybody.
It wouldn't that pretty much just be for things that were online? I mean, what would know, though, were HIPA medical. right. But wouldn't that be I guess you're right. You wouldn't be there. This is how I got awesome medical service for, like 20 years, threatening people By the first time you talk to the doctor or whoever you know in the medical office. And then the question of like, yeah, what what do you do for work? I'm a habit auditor. Boy, did they stiffen up.
They just start acting like they just grabbed it. Graduated medical school. What drugs would you like? Mr. To have? Dooley Have pretty much what services may we provide for you? It's you like to take a nurse home for the weekend. Okay. That that's. Now you're getting into more of my fantasies and reality. But, hey, you can. Well, this is why you need to write that book. You could just depend on files. That's true. I do need to do that. Yeah, the. The. It's very subtle, too.
It's funny because, you know, that would be literally the last of what I would say is like, I'm a hip auditor, but that would have lasting effects the way that the doctor would interact with me, assuming they never checked your credentials, although you had them this time. I have. You can look them up. I was the hip auditor I certified and everything. You want to keep my information very secure? Yeah, Yeah. Let's just go ahead and take a look at how you store and handle information.
Joey Yeah, well, that was when all of these things for me, really kind of was was interesting. Were the doctors. When the internet became a thing, routers became a thing I remember the one day just sitting outside of a previous doctor that I had office and being able to access their computer systems. Yeah. Because, you know, they didn't realize this whole wi fi thing might go out of the building and you realize what kind of work has to be done for this kind of stuff to be kept secure in it.
I always cringe because it still happens. These nurses in the doctor's offices come in with a laptop. It's like, you know, you could just wire up every room That way. Nobody with the device in or near the building can access your network. Now, I'm hoping here you have strong protection on the the wi fi, but we know wi fi protection up until recently anyway has not been all that good. Yeah, and I think right now there's devices, hardware devices available.
They can pretty much do two and three anyway. Fire. It's the beauty of it. Yeah. It's, it's an annoyance. It is what it is. I recently changed my wife, I had passwords for the first time in like a decade. Why? Cause I just to potentially plug up a potential hole that the that may have existed because I was recording just two good old boys in the show. You do what I do. Named bad name Ben that show. Exactly.
And literally like an hour and 10 minutes into the show, you know, I kept talking as usual, but he's typing at me like I can't hear you. The connection went down and then and I check my Internet in general, and it wasn't working. There was no Internet. So that would make sense. No interest. That means no show that that was annoying. And it took me a whole day to get that isolated and and it really turned out to be some kind of issue between my wireless router and my actual Internet.
It's not a modem, but let's just call it a modem. Straight government. Tap it. Yeah, it it was like my at best my speed was running at like 30 megs and that's and I'm, I'm supposed to have a gig. Well right now we have a round trip latency of between 40 and 50 milliseconds which is pretty good. Yeah. It's not horrible. Not horrible. No. I mean I've had way worse on that. I mean usually that's going into California or Seattle or. Yeah. Parts unknown.
We got on, got to have a nice fat pipe between here in Chinatown and Yeah. So I was thinking of upgrading my pipe too, because Google just keep sending me junk like every week about page yet on Google Internet. And I really kind of, I don't want to because I don't want I'm spying in everything Well that if you run a VPN and everything I'll know that those things a little bit but not but I'm going to say their pricing is pretty damn good they've got right now.
So I'm on a gig right now through AT&T and the gig and Google's about the same price, but Google's got two gigs for like 105 bucks. Is this asynchronous? This is a fiber synchronous the gig up gig down there to gigs up to gig down nice And then they've got five gigs for 145 bucks and you're like, What do you need that pipe for? I'm like, I need that. And this will make my video gaming way better. Yeah, and I don't need it for the speed I needed for the ping. And that's the interesting thing.
I know there's something that Infinity is doing. I'm guessing maybe other cable networks as well, that they are kind of shifting their focus and it may be extended. He doing this to be first in the market because as you're talking about the speed race, a lot of people have one to multiple gigs down if you want to pay for it. Yeah. And infinity from what I was reading was like, well, that's great, but if you have the biggest pipe but high latency, then you're not getting the best.
If you're a video gamer or doing video conferencing and all of that. So they were kind of focusing on the latency aspect of it.
I don't know how or what they can do, but there are low latency tests going on with certain people and it'll be interesting to see if they can, if they can increase that because it's funny, you'd notice that every now and then on a no agenda, they were just talking about Zelinski zooming in to wherever he was talking to the U.N., I think it was like, you know, there was almost no latency. Yeah. So, yeah, this is something you have to. He's not in Ukraine. That's why.
Right. He's in the next room. Yeah. And it's green screen studio. Exactly. So it's like know you pay attention to these things. Yeah. And latency is a combination of a whole bunch of things. Some of them are delays due to equipment processing packets. Some of them are due to length of wire or, you know, converting between fiber and back to copper and back to fiber and all these things.
But there's a certainly an element of latency that you get from the the speed of the connection itself and also from the congestion of the connection. And anybody can do this test is start doing a continuous ping to something and then do a speed test at the same time or just download, in your case, a new movie. Right.
And you will see that your your speed of pings, your latency will increase significantly as the pipe gets more and more congested because now there's actually a delay that's that's stemming from packets having to wait those ping packets which are tiny, having to wait until those large data transfers that is your movie download are coming through as well. So they have to fit in between those and that increases the latency. So.