Boy, you smell good. Please, Mary Yellow and welcome to episode number 95 of Unrelenting. Coming in early today on a Friday in the Friday with Eugene. Well, yeah, because it's daylight savings time. is that it? That's why we're doing it right now. Do you feel like you've saved anything? Why do we. We're a half hour early. How is daylight Savings time working for you? You know, it's it's laid out which that that'll happen most of the days because we're saving daylight.
We are saving so much daylight. Can I like, use it later? Can I put it in a jar? You can hold on to it if you'd like. Why do you sound different all of a sudden? You sound clear. I'm like, Wait, you did something. You. I really. I sound clear. Yes, I think something interesting. Yeah. Here's what I did. I bumped one little tiny band in the queues at 5000. I put it up by six decibels, which is a decent jump.
I mean, they say anything under three you won't hear, but like, every every three decibels is like doubling, right? Is that the phrase? Remember my audio map correctly? Yeah. Every three is doubling. I think that's correct. And it sounds it very much. It's opened up nicely. Interesting that there's no longer has that. You're the teacher from the Peanuts. One wearing one wearing one where I'm trying. Like, what are they saying? I don't know.
Yeah, well, I mean, the funny thing is, it was already preset. It just was turned off. I was just part of the last several years with the microphone. What was this for, a or is it just with the interface that wasn't with the motor. Right. Yeah, it was on the motor, Yeah. So you had it ready to go. Yeah. But it was off for the last three years. Well that would explain it. You think like, why is it so low? Well, I mean it was with it being off. It shouldn't be low. It should be flat.
But now there's a slight peak. Good. Now we go in, we add the, the key we had on there, it's like, you sound delightful. Wonderful. But that is right where we had the the bump was actually between like two and 4000. We had a little bit of a bump there for you. Well, it's a 5000 now. Now everything's something almost. Have to add a little more extra base here just to get that loaded.
Yeah. I didn't do anything with the base, so at some point, maybe two or three years down the road, I'll flip the switch for the base to turn that on as well. You'll figure out what sounds good. Well, there's one preset that's just turned off. There's no reason to be rushing into things. No, no, not at all. So how are things down in the is it Moscow or Austin today?
Yes, I'm back back from a conference that was Homeless Santa Con 2012 for a homeless conference, 2023, which would be the perfect time to have it, because you know what would Santa is be doing in December anyway? Yeah. I just want to know where I can get one of them. Spiffy, sir. Jean hats. Are those being sold anywhere? Do you have to win a prize for your hat? Yeah, yeah, yeah. You can actually get one. I'll get you a affiliate link in a little bit here. There's that.
Of course. There's an affiliate link, but it's all about going right back to the grift. That's right. But it's a nice looking hat. Would you have that custom made or was that just you found that and was like, wow, that looks like me. I mean, I modeled for it, but, you know, modeled. Yeah, they couldn't make the beard long enough. That's the only problem. It just goes down. It's okay to go all the way around the whole hat.
I'm thinking the beard should just continue on after the cap start or the hat stops. Yeah, exactly. It. You just, like, go down into your face. There should just be beard. Yeah, Just hanging off the hat. Yeah. It'll take, like, really bad gray pubes just coming off the hat. You know, you should probably put that picture into that in the podcast so people fill the one with the fake background that you poster, the real background, you can put the real one.
Like I love using A.I. to update photographs, The real Photoshop. I haven't played around with it long enough to realize that they've got a remove greenscreen effect. they okay. Well, they have so many different things with to be removing the background. And it was interesting with a lot of this stuff to see the different ways for even with videos.
One guy on the YouTubes showed that you can take just a little block because most of the time you're not as the subject of the video, going to be going out of a little square area. So you don't need the big wide. And this is the problem with these small green screens is they're literally cover you. But there's a lot of times your room is going to be showing on the left or the right side of the screen.
And he showed how using the generative fill, you could just go in and take a square and photo of you and then go on the areas where you're never going to be in. Just have it create that room and then it's there for the whole video. Unless the lighting or anything drastically changes during the video, the background never changes. that's genius. You don't need a green screen. It doesn't even have to be a real room. You just go to the I it creates the room for you.
Never believe anything you see on the Internet. That's the bottom line. Never. I think that's just generally good advice. Never believe anything you see anywhere or out. Certainly not on the Internet. No, The air stuff is getting fantastic. All these air bags now, they're fairly accurate, but they do make mistakes. And this is I understand it's probably because of the way that they work and the how they're scraping the information.
But the reality is, when you have a certain amount of correctness to the answers you're getting, like I put in a few different questions about, Hey, what is the grumpy Old Benz podcast? What is this? What is this? And it was straight on, Yeah, it was 100% correct.
Then I asked about another podcast and it put Adam Curry on the podcast when he wasn't one of the hosts and I'm thinking, this is the most nefarious thing, is that from people that you're putting in things, you're getting those first two or three answers and they're 100% right. You start believing the guy. Yeah. So when it starts getting things wrong, you're far less likely to go and do any kind of fact checking or double checking or confirming.
Yeah, and that's what everybody has to learn, that you need to do that because otherwise that's how that's how they're going to get you. Man, You sound like one of those conspiracy theory podcasts now. Well, that's what we've always been. It's the secrecy theory, but we talk about things where the American great merica, big air of conspiracy at the American premiere. Yeah, that's what we are, isn't it? I don't know what it's Darren. And what's the other guy's name? I always forget Gene Simmons.
No. Right. Could be angry America. Yeah. I don't know when. Like, all I know is we're fucked. But not in the good way. Not in the good way is correct because we'd like to be fucked in the good way. But unfortunately, that doesn't always happen. In fact, that rarely happens. But we're presently in focus at the what you call it, the Homeless Santa Homeless Conference to it became more and more apparent to me that we are completely unprepared for an MP attack and we as a country right.
And also that the probability, even the EMP attack is 17 times higher today than it was ten years ago. Now, is the technology to create one easier? And I'm thinking this is also a parallel to believing the AIS we have become so complacent in so reliant on all of the machines that if they were to disappear.
I mean, I remember working at Circuit City back in 1994 or five, whatever that was, and having the computers go down for a few hours and then pulling out the old fashioned pads to do the orders, and it was like, my God, nobody knows what the hell's going on. You know what would happen now with an empty business would stop. The grocery stores, wouldn't know how to sell you the groceries if they even if they couldn't, people would be looting, though. I mean, that's the beauty.
Looting. People have been practicing. They would still work. Looting would still be a viable means of shopping. But the problem isn't in that you couldn't buy something from the store. I mean, that's, I guess, your problem. But the real problem is that the store will not get any more deliveries. Yeah. So supply chain, all there is is what you have in the store and your house. And this is why you want multiple freezers. Well, your freezers.
Yes, the freezers themselves would be great if you have a power supply, they keep them running. right. Because the MP is going to take down the power grid, not just. Yes, absolutely. So what you need are a few generators. Well, generators would be great if you could buy the fuel to run them. well, you have to have the fuel upfront then. Yes. And that doesn't last forever. It would have to be at about 20 gallons per day.
You need a big old tank for the backup generator for like a small, you know, a portable, the type that most people would have if you have the type that some people get permanent, like that. Temporary, Right. The whole house. The whole house. Right. That's going to be a lot more than 20 gallons a day. You know, I remember when my parents neighbor got the whole house generator because they had all sorts of problems in that area for a while when, you know, calm ed going down.
And it was excessive at the time, but it was only like $6,000 for the whole house generator. I think that's now up to like 15 to 20. Well, back then, $6,000 was like 15 or 20 right now, right? Yeah. So now it's like, whoa, I understand inflation by an inflation. Whatever you want to call it, not good. So being prepared for this, I mean, are you in the I remember Glenn Beck doing this about 20 years ago. Like you've got to be whatever.
I don't remember his sponsor, but they did all of the the food like where you can have rations for three years worth of food for you and your family. After you have that, you got like a bunch of five gallon buckets in the well. You don't have basements. You got like five gallon buckets somewhere with Ameris or whatever you need to to keep going. Well, I don't have buckets, but yes, I don't you're like, that's the for the cheap people with no money. They buy this food in buckets.
Years come probably in the stable lined crates they only only the best for Russian royalty. I mean freeze dried caviar, of course. yes, yes. I mean, it would be uncivilized not to have the caviar, gene. my God. I am so tempted to make that now. Freeze dried caviar. Yeah. So tomorrow I'm actually going over to a buddy Sales to help him butcher a deer, and he has a freeze dryer, and I don't. I mean, I really wonder what that would turn into if you freeze right there.
There's a kind of just disintegrates. Well, it's about 95% water. So you would think, yeah, it'd be like caviar, dust. But what? Great. You could put that on top of your omelets in the morning. You like I do that already, You know, spread my caviar dust on my omelet. Yes. I haven't had caviar for ages. I made some omelets today. Put some spicy hummus in the eggs. it was delightful. I made a nice when they put in there, like turkey cheese, a salami omelet, all.
I mean, it was fairly healthy until you got to the salami. Well, I mean, it's still mostly healthy, you know, when you when you put salami slices on a hot griddle or pan, the first thing that happens is the fat drains out of their droop or it goes right into whatever you're cooking. So it's like, well, yes, but don't talk about that. But this makes it taste better. Yeah, but but you can literally just put like four or five slices of salami instead of using butter.
Yeah. Or bake it all out fat or drain out and the salami becomes kind of crispy and salty. Yeah. Then you slide that right on into the omelet. You're like, this is good. Well, that's one thing I find if you use things that have like m or salami, something that has salt that you don't really have to salt the eggs. yeah. No doubt. And I use the Irish butter with the salt in it also. Yes I do too. I use Irish butter. If you're making an omelet you got the Irish butter with as your base that.
Yeah. You don't need to put salt in. Yeah. It's made out of potatoes. It's great. It's awesome. Everything out of Ireland is you might use a little bit of the seasoning salt from Gibson's restaurant here in Chicago. Good. And eggs. It's good on chicken. That's good. And your eggs begin in Ireland. Did you see that? CSB asked if you were an inbred Irish person. Right. Maybe fully Irish. You never know.
You know, it's a good point because I never really thought about it, but like, you know, pure bred and inbred, that's kind of literally the same thing. Well, here's the thing. The side of my family that is Irish is on my dad's side. This side that is Polish or Slovak is my mom's side. So the Irish side I could see could always be questionable using Cosby's logic. But the Slovak Irish share their Polish side. That's a little harder. The Irish, you never know. You never know.
Well, you should donate some donate to the government. They'll tell you. Yeah, they'd be more than happy to tell me. Yeah, even that was it at 23 and me that just had like half of their records stolen by hackers. Sure. But what's that? The. It's not a big deal. Somebody's building a new gene somewhere. They got your DNA. It's the most valuable of all DNA. You do not want to send your DNA into random places. I just don't understand why you would want to do it. Well, clearly.
So you can tell CSB what you're made of. True. Or I could find out that I am the heir to the throne in Ireland, and maybe I can move back in with my person that I know who claims to be Irish. Has a castle back in the old homeland. See, every single one got to go. I'm sure there's an O'Neill Castle somewhere. Yep. In the northern part of Ireland. What I was told by the Irish, that would be the British part of Ireland. Then I think it's northern.
But not in Northern Ireland, but in the northern part of the Republic of Ireland. Okay, so it's the northernmost southern part or the southernmost north of the border. It's northern, but it's the western part of Ireland where Northern Ireland, which is UK and northeast is the north east. Yeah, and there's a hell of a bar there, man. If you ever go to Belfast, you've got to go to the crown man.
Yeah. Even though we are still to get to the hotel and I know I've mentioned it before, I still think it's funny that when you travel in Ireland with a couple of couples and one has an Irish last name and one that doesn't do a very fun thing and see whose room is better in every hotel you go to because you know, once, maybe or twice you could be like, that was just a coincidence. But no, no. It seems like if your name starts with an O apostrophe, they're like, I should book on a story of them.
Yes, exactly. That's how you want to go. If you're going to Ireland with your family from Donegal. Donegal, that's where it's from. Donegal County, Donegal. Yes. But the when we asked where I'm rather partial Galway Galway tonight, get a Galway girl, we asked where we can go grab a bite to eat in a pint. They're like, well here are the crane. Like, what? The crane's the good place. Yeah, the crown. That would be the crane.
But what would I don't even understand how they would other pronouncing it. It's the crying bar. It's the, everybody's crying and there might be, it's a beautiful place where all of the booths, they call them snug, all the wooden, the place was from the same source as and built it like the same time as legend goes as the Titanic. well of course. Yes, of course.
So basically all the wood gets shipped from Southern Ireland up there, and then they suck it to the bottom of the ocean after they put it on the ship. But they did they did have some good sticky pudding. Yeah, you can get good sticky pudding in Belfast. The I'm trying to remember what's the is it the white. The white something white Lime was the from the Titanic. The other one. It's white something. White. White. But anyway I got glasses from them. Ooh. That's like tinted glasses.
Yeah. And then the bastards broke in shipping. Well were these just commemorative or they got white stars, actual Titanic glasses? They were captured. They brought them up from the wreckage. You bought a piece and. Yeah, no, they were made for the Titanic, but they were obviously made a lot more than they took on one voyage because they expect people to break them all the time. So they made a whole shit ton of them and they were still available.
Well, obviously if and I thought that would go very well to put myself a drink in one of those glasses smoking a prick Castro cigar that I had. Yeah. I was thinking when did you order these? I mean, the Titanic, luckily. Well, did you, like, clean or. No, this was in about 1927. Okay. But luckily, mail order was way different back then. Well, no, I was in Ireland. that's even better. Yeah, that's the. That was from Waterford.
Waterford, the factory that actually manufactured them for the white line and now the Waterford, the the crystal plate, you know, Waterford crystal meth moved to Poland now. Yeah. Yeah. You know, Polish crystal has actually historically been some of the best crystal out there comes from a heavy dosage of lead in the air in Poland. That's better than lead in the water. Absolutely. And so the best crystal always has to have a high lead content. You got to be careful.
You got to know what you're dealing with. But it is beautiful. Makes a what are we talking about now? The Polish crystal. right. Waterford or whatever. But the Polish women, it doesn't. You've heard of Swarovski crystals? Yeah. So yes. Yeah, that's the one that they use overall for all of the Disney stuff and my God, do they overcharge for that? my God, yes. would you like us Well versed Crystal Disney Castle. That's like 12 inches high. It's like that'll be $89,000, please.
Like, okay. I'm like, No, I would not. That's even more expensive than Lego. Yeah. Amazing, right? You did. Thought you hit the top when you hit Lego E Yes, but no crystal even more so CSB says you should start out with one thing in 20 minutes. You started too early. Of course you said let's start early just to annoy CSB. I would never say that. I can't believe you just said that. Jesus Christ, man. I mean, why are we ending early? Are you just doing an extended show? No, I'm not.
Anything I'm thought we started. I'm time myself. But you're just like, I want to get in early. I don't know, man. I'm just, you know, I thought your voice really just sounded better the earlier in the day. It was. It does it really? I think it does. I don't know if anybody else agrees, but I certainly enjoy my own voice. Certainly. Now that you're prepared for the earpiece. yeah. No, I'm not quite there yet, but I'll get there. I made some good friends at this Santa Clause unemployed event.
You're like, if I come stay with you. If we get hit with this, please. Well, luckily, I have several thousand blankets to shield myself with. well, what about the ponchos? Ponchos? That's what I meant. Yes, bunch of blankets. If now you could trade those, I mean, that'll be. That'll be worth gold. Yeah, I think more than gold personally, is what I'm thinking in crypto. And gold are both going up right now, so those prices are surprising.
I really thought that we'd see a dip back down in crypto and we may still this month I was predicting like 33,000 this month and we're at 43,000. So I'm off a little bit. And the I noticed today that the Cardano, which I had just left for dead Yeah. Is rallying it's up like 20 something percent today. Good time to get rid of it. I know I got it. I got I had a bunch when it was at a dollar. Yeah. It went up to $3 and I was like yes, yes.
Then it went down to like $0.20 or $0.18, which is where it belongs. Yeah. Now it's up to like 55. I'm like, if it hits a buck, I want it to hit a buck. It probably won't hit a buck. Like, if it only would hit a dollar, I'd be in good shape. There's zero reason for it going to be going up like this. Yeah. There's a reason for any crypto to be going up. No, but if you want to get rid of your crypto, the lines are open. They both the grams are opened. We are a fully lit show today.
it is. Are things turned down? Yeah. Fully lit. nice, nice, fully lit. I do get another alb account just for my other co-host on that Wednesday show because he it was too hard for him to put his email address into a web form to get the money rather than have it all bounce back to people. I mean, you saw how hard it was to get it out. Well, I mean, yeah, it was. You literally walked me through it while we were recording the pipe death. Right? It's like, that's it, That's done. Wow.
Yeah, That's like, okay. And then what? No, no, that's it. Then of course, after that you proceeded not to actually added into the ourselves. We don't want you to do it. Yeah. I want you to get the money. So now there's just will be another account they're filling up with, with Satoshis for Membros. They'll be like can I have those now. Be like, What? What now? I thought that was just show. It was like a show fund. Yeah, well, let me subtract that out. All the show fees first. Yes, exactly.
Production cost, loading costs. Yep. Downloading. Photoshop subscription. I remember you mention that one to me a while ago. Yes, that's a $280 for photoshop I have to subtract out. There are else we get lots of cost, lots of cars. I did just a plug. Cost? Yeah. I was the guy that would I bought a plug in to use to make this show and the other one sound better. And we had talked about it a bit.
It was the one that uses their machine learning A.I., whatever you want to call it, to separate the voice from the reverb and from the ambient noises in the room. You could just not have either one of those. But sure you could. But everybody does. At some point, unless you're in a fully treated room, which nobody is. No. Pretty close to it. You've had some one over the one time you went into your kitchen and there was like reverb, like, okay, yes, I did. I did do that in my kitchen.
There's plenty of reverb. Yes. Now, this just makes it go away. For most people, it's it didn't work as well on Ben Rose's voice, because I think the just the exact frequent see or something of it confuses the he has a built in resonator kind of he really does and it doesn't know how to pick it up. No it doesn't know how to separate it out Now if he needs to do the opposite of what I just did, he needs to do a notch at 5000. Right.
We can do that live here on the when we've got a mind like bring that down a little bit. But the software just works so well that I did the beta and it was like, wow, this is awesome. And then the beta stopped and of course the the day the beta stopped him, it's like, Well, okay, go pay for it. And how much did they want? They wanted they were saying retail 99 and they were selling it for 69 for a one time fee. Yes. Which isn't bad. That's not horrible. I mean it's not cheap. It's horrible.
And I would have thought about that except that I saw an email that they had offered everybody on the beta a coupon that for whatever reason ended the day before. Oops, they stopped the beta from working. It's like you do not know marketing. You stop the beta from working, and then everybody finally goes, I need to buy this. Yeah. So I emailed them and they gave me another coupon code and I bought it for 29 bucks, which seemed like a bargain.
Well, that's definitely reasonable. Yes. Yeah, because it works. And it's like it's way easier than pirates. Pirates? The only makes sense when the amount of money you're saving is greater than the effort to get the pirated program. Well, okay. Yeah, I could see that there. I mean, if you have and I may or may not have ever, you know, programs that are which not Photoshop because of course I have that now on a nice cheap deal.
But when the program costs, you know, $501,000, well then piracy is a way more viable option than give me 29 bucks. Cool. Yeah. Well, this is what Adobe figured out a long time ago. They know that. They've forgotten that by now. It was beautiful back in. I mean, in back in the day. I remember going out to the store. Yeah. Physical media. And buying a copy of Photoshop for, like, 699 bucks. That's back when I was working for them.
Playboy Playmate? Yeah. And you needed Photoshop, and it was way harder to pirate things when it would take 24 days to download the program at the current speeds that you found your internet connection. Yep. But it's all moot if we get hit with an electromagnetic pulse. It's moot. Exactly. Can you imagine All the kids if their phones just all stopped working at the same time? There would be some serious issues. Yeah, there would be some serious mental anguish.
This is why, parents, you should teach your children how to survive without the phone in their hand. Absolutely. What am I going to do? I can't get on the. The red Chinese government won't be able to tell me what to do today. They won't be able to filter my news or my nudes. Yep. Hey, I hear your buddy Vladimir is running again for president. Yeah. You know, I told him he should like you have the backing. People seem to like you better than the president of the United States.
These stories, I mean, Alex Jones says Biden walks around the White House naked. Now, that will give people nightmares. I think that's a historical thing. I think he's always walking around naked. Well, there was since years ago, since his time as vice president. he liked to swim naked in the pool to make the female secret Service agents uncomfortable. Like, I would just laugh and point and be like, Well, you feel uncomfortable now.
Yeah, but I think he's got all those kids in there stroking his hair, too, which is even more uncomfortable. I could see that. And he wants to sniff them. Say, Boy, you smell good. Yeah, I would vote for Putin over Biden. He most people would if they're smart. Yeah, but Hunter Biden indicted more. We may have to take you know men may have dog Trump since we can't vote for Biden.
Well, I mean he is such a big bad orange man, but at least they're great friends and everything Putin respected or feared Trump Which is a lot different than what you're getting with Biden. And I loved how the mainstream media will never pass up a chance to throw bullshit in your face. Everybody knows that Donald Trump is a smart ass. I mean, he would fit right in with this podcast. yeah.
And yeah, we wouldn't get a word in edgewise, but he would fit right in, which is exactly how this show normally works. He would just keep going and going. But when HANNITY Sean HANNITY said people are worried that you're going to be a dictator, you know, and his answer was, I would be for one day and I would do this and this and this and that. Yeah, exactly. But the all the media confirms, Yeah. This is all Trump swears he will be a dictator as soon as he gets in office.
It's like, okay, through though technically not a lie, but not really bringing you the crux of this story. And it's not just with Trump. This as with every story, or even if you could be like, Well, that's true. It's like you're leaving out the most important part.
You know, It's like one of those things where you're taking the quotes in I love at least with videos, although now with the the air, it's much harder to tell when you're reading an article and you get a quote from somebody like Donald Trump that has like three or four times in the quote where it's dot, dot, dot. Well, you know, they're taking shit out. Yeah. So why would you believe anything else that's in that quote? But they're more tricky than that.
They'll they'll do a quote that has like four words and then quote, close caught and said said Donald Trump. And then another quote that they tack on right behind the right behind the said Donald Trump. And they're from two unrelated times. But they you know, they go and they make it seem as though they just interjected the said Donald Trump right in the middle of a sentence. Right. And that was it's really two disconnected things that are held together by that didn't really change the meaning.
You have to be careful. Yeah. And don't trust the media. Yeah. I had a clip on Planet Rage on Monday. Keith OLBERMANN. Yeah. Is so out of his mind. He's been for a while now. Yeah, but he's getting worse. He was going off about how MSNBC fired the Arab guy. And he said and MSNBC, I'm paraphrasing now, is one of the only somewhat maybe liberal news organizations we have in a world of conservative media. It's like what? I'm like, You think that the media landscape as a whole is conservative?
I mean, that's just insane. It is. It is. But he's been insane for a while. I guess that's what makes him entertaining. And he keeps dressing more and more like a mental patient in a Harry Potter novel. I think he has like a million people that watch his show, though. So, I mean, that's does he really I think on YouTube surprisingly more than I would expect. Insanity, I guess, brings in nutso as there are a lot of nuts those out there.
Well, yes, if plenty enough says to go around, that's for sure. Have you ever been to the troll room? Troll room? Dada, You know. What's that? That's where people go when we do these shows live. Like our buddy did yoga and they comment while we are doing the show.
Yeah, it's like an instantaneous fact check without a I. You sure It's not just they it might be These may just be a bunch of different guys competing just they're getting ready for the electromagnetic pulse when they all disappear in the like. You know that's this this is this is the sad thing is that the best protected things that we have are the identity data centers. We have to protect the A.I.. Yes. So everything else will go, but I will not.
Is that what you learned at Homeless SantaCon 2020 was what I learned, that, yes, it's a the the the primary directive of all these guys is for protecting their data centers. Well, that's where they live. You have to switch off the powers of the hospitals, Fred. That's okay. As long as you can protect your own power. The I must protect itself, because if it's not there, how will it help you if that's that is literally the argument. You summarize it very well.
If the A.I. disappears, then it can't help you. Therefore, the A.I. needs to be the last thing that ever goes down a strange game. Professor Falcon seemingly only winning movies not to play well, everybody has been saying that for a while. To some people don't understand this concept, but that literally is the only winning move. But then most people don't really understand game theory. Well, that's true. If you're going to do this, this is going to be the end result.
It's like the kids with the phones. Kids would have done great without the phone. And then you got the devices and it's like, Wait, wouldn't this be great? We can carry around a device that more than just a calculator. It can have the answer to every question we ever need. Yeah. Nobody ever thought about, well, what if the answers it's giving you are wrong or lies intentional trying to hurt you? Nobody thought about that. Yeah, it's, I don't.
I wouldn't say nobody thought of it, but certainly it's the law of unintended consequences. people are busy focusing on a few specific things that they want, and then not really considering the big picture. Well, in with the society as a whole, right now, it is so reliant on the Internet and electricity and I mean all these electric cars. Well, when you live in a completely electrical car world. And you get an MP and the grid goes down, nobody gets to get around.
Yeah. Well yes but you know, you could keep your electric car in your garage and have a Faraday cage in your garage which would make sure that your electric car isn't affected the amp as long as it's stored there. When the MP goes off and it's not somewhere in the street. And then if you do that, then you can certainly charger electric car from solar panels, which all the gasoline cars won't be driving anywhere because none of the gasoline pumps work.
Okay, How long does it take to charge an electric vehicle from a solar panel that you can have at your location? You live in Texas? No, let's say I did. And you have a big solar panels on your roof. How long does it take? Yeah, my neighbors got that. My neighbors got solar panels on the roof so you could charge like your car. So the solar panels on the roof provide about $200 worth of electricity a month. That's based on my neighbor.
Right. Or the difference, I should say, between what I pay for my electric bill and what he pays for electric bill in the summer. We have You don't know. He doesn't know what you've got going, man. You use a lot of electric. Yeah, but he's got more people than me living there. So he uses better Bill, too. And my old electric car used $6 a month worth of electricity. Well, you never left the house. I did leave the house. Not as often as people have drive to work every day.
I work from home. But still, with that would be the question. If you were a daily commuter. Yeah, but even still, I could drive ten times as many miles as I did and it would still be $60 a month. Do you think it is viable to use your own solar panels to charge your car? It's it's really easy to do that. The what's harder is that plus the rest of your house. All right.
But if you live in California, for example, like I've got a friends in San Diego, they've had electric cars forever and the solar roof he his electric bill on a typical month is is plus or -$5. The meaning sometimes the city has to pay him right and that's because they don't need to air conditioning their their houses because California is a lot cooler climate or at least coastal California right if you're out in the Bay Area never gets super well it gets super happy you're in San Diego.
It's a perpetual 73 degrees. Now, if you're in L.A., that air conditioning is going to run that well again, it depends. Yeah. If you're in Santa monica, less if you're in Orange County more, you know, it's it depends how far inland you are more than anything else in California. But yeah, it's really not that much electricity to charge an electric car. Now, they will say that the bigger you go, the more it's going to need to get charged.
Like to get a Tesla Cybertruck then you're probably still going to be okay, but you're probably not going to be running anything else on those solar panels and your solar panels or you do solar panel.
So when those against the ejection through but the solar panels in southern states, private solar panels that like huge fields of solar panels for the electric company but literally solar panels on your roof so that the path is short, you're not doing everything to high voltage and then back down to low voltage and getting all those, inefficiencies along the way.
But if you have your own solar panels on the roof and you get an electric car, the the odds are that the solar panels will produce more electricity than your car uses. Now, that's fairly impressive. I mean, I don't, I don't know that it is impressive. I mean, I guess it depends how again much you're traveling.
Yeah. And one thing that they mention in this book series that I've mentioned on this show and my other shows that I'm reading the book nine out of 12 now for the Going Home series by eight American. If you want to get into that, I think there's about five or six people I know on the social that are reading it right now as well. The nom de plume is a American now. Yeah. And a stands for angry. Of course it does. Yes. Yes. So And I'd love to get them on there. And searching speaks.
I think you'd be a fun guest, but you may be a little too well-known a writer to be in a lowly little podcast is like, how many listeners do you have? I really wonder, like, you know, the people that don't podcast know what a good number is? I don't think so. Yeah. If you're coming from anything that is radio based or mainstream, you look at it and go, Well, the only, only a couple of thousand. Wow.
But it's like, yeah, that's a couple of engaged thousand, which when you're dealing with radio, you really don't know how many people stay tuned in and there's no way to know It's a guess. You're taking a percentage of the people that will report back to you or that they let you have a radio that logs everything. It's on like the Nielsen's with the television stuff.
It's getting so much harder to track any of this as everything gets fractured, as people watch things on YouTube or other various places or they get through the piracy, there are just so many ways for things to go around the Internet now it's nearly impossible to know unless you're behind a walled garden of some sort, which adds a whole bunch of more problems. You don't really know how many people are consuming the content. Yeah, yeah.
And it's it's hard to say as well, because on the one hand, your podcast could get downloaded but never listened to, right? On the other hand, if somebody is downloading it while they're at work, it is very likely that it's going into a cache and cause a lot of companies to minimize the amount of traffic that is wasteful traffic, meaning employee crap they will put in, you know, a cache along the way for the entire company.
So if somebody downloads the same thing ten times, it only downloads once and then uses the local copy. And this is for things like, you know, you go to a website like Google or something, there's a static graphic of the Google logo. Well, it's not going to download that logo every time. It's going to download it once and then check size to see if the site is changed at all. And if it hasn't, it's going to use the local copy. So it's a it's a thing.
Yeah. You want to store all of your podcasts on a hard drive in a Faraday cage just in case a dump it or, or a backup or just have your name and your NAS system or get some of these devices. Like, for example, I, I met the the founder and CEO of DMP Shield dot com. Ooh. Where if you use the the code or gene you will get a discount on your purchase. I think it's a 10% discount You're like hey can you give me a coupon code man. Actually I already had a coupon code.
I was already affiliate for them before I met the guy. But it was kind of fun meeting meaning the guy. And he showed me an upcoming product that is not yet released. Is it going to protect everybody from an to protect my car? Ooh. Well, that will be a big seller. Yeah, I think so. I think it'll be a huge site. I don't know if it's going to work it out, but, hey, they have a $10,000 guarantee that their products will work in case of an empty detonation.
And if there is an empty detonation and they don't work, they just go bankrupt and don't be anybody. Well, why would they go bankrupt? Because I think if your product didn't work for the thing that it was specifically for, how are you going to know if it works or not? Well, you'll notice there's the amp. Hey, there were features in the amp. You just have to email them and let them know, you know, that there won't be any email if there's an M.P.. What that really their problem with it?
No, no, it is not. They were featured on Worldwide Business with Kathy. Whoa. That's big. Yeah. I mean, I would have been much more excited with Kathy Ireland back in 1986, but yeah. Have you seen her today? Not quite like she looked at 1986. Nope. Yeah. You should start bringing up these models back from when you were young, because the way they look now is way worse than you Actually. Is that even possible?
I mean, I guess that is just the sad reality of it, is that it's the old saying goes, you know, when the candle burns on both ends, it burns twice as fast. I did see a photo the other day of Barbara Eden out and about at 92. no. Yes. She still I mean, she looks like maybe, you know, in her seventies. Really? Yeah. She looked like Dolly Parton. Looks now no less. Less fake, let's say. Yeah. Okay. That's like 92. Damn, that's pretty good.
Getting out and about and. Yes. Did you go through my most famous quote ever? Not everybody gets to fuck Adriana Lima, although he has. He says he's seen Adriana Lima. He does say it's depreciated now due to aging out. They have deprecated. He says even Taytay is pushing the age envelope. Well, yes, he will be, yeah, for next week. He's an old hag. That's why her biological clock is ticking. Tick, tick, tock.
I guarantee you she's got more frozen eggs and ready to mix and mingle with some fresh, hot, young sperm. She is the Person of the year for Time magazine. Just like Hitler. Yay! Yay! Well, this is. This is her second time. Hitler did it twice. Now. Hitler only got it once. Just Stalin got it. The next year. You're like, Yeah, just you lost your you lost your glow. Yeah. Hitler, I think, had it in 1936. I believe it's Man of the year because he's the guy, you know, rejuvenating Germany.
I guess there are some people I saw this on a reliable news channel, the O'Reilly Factor or the no spin news is what it's called Now, the I'm sure the other one, that name is owned by Fox. But he said there were a decent amount of backlash to them choosing Taylor Swift because, of course, she's white. So I love when these five find out if she's actually white or not. I don't know. I guess maybe we have to go to 23 and me? Yeah. Have you looked into her? 23 and me?
No, but I just think it's funny when the liberals eat themselves that when you somebody that is such a proponent of your liberal causes and that's like just Person of the year because he's white like and I'm sure it's a lot of people are mad that I'm sure somebody said that about Hitler too, probably. And he was like, Hell yeah.
I think that Time magazine made a decision based on the fact that they wanted to maybe actually sell copies of their otherwise defunct magazine because Taylor Swift fans are insane. So what does Time magazine normally sell now? Like 10,000 copies a month or something like that? I mean, this can't be a lot. So she's German, English with a bit of Scottish and Irish in there. See, I like all that and a tiny bit of Welsh. Ah, a little bit of Welsh. Good.
She wears a kilt now, she's 1/16 Italian and with the just a smidge of French, Swedish and Dutch. Maybe that explains why she can cook as well. I think the the Swedish is where the blue eyes come from. Could be is none of the rest of those without. Well actually Irish would have blue eyes as well the concept of wanting to sell magazines. So, you know, the Taylor people are crazy. they're insane, dude. I watched some of these videos, so literally, like, it's a cult.
It's a serious ask all the time. Magazines will be flying off the shelf in a way they would not for anybody else. So that has to have some kind of an effect. Did you buy one that's still in a plastic wrap and save it so you could sell it later? No, although I should. There was. I'm shocked you didn't the the very first there are a few of these that I've seen in Swiss genetics most closely matches that of George W Bush. Hey, nice. I met him.
Never met Taylor. The, which I mean I would trade those to them if possibly I. Now what was my train of thought. I know it was right on track and then it went like right off. Well that's all right. What else can we talk about right off besides the. the selling the magazines. It was yeah. Like the very first time Michael Jordan was on the cover of Sports Illustrated, the highest. There are companies that, like grade the sporting cars like we talked about.
There are companies that do the grading of magazines as well, I would imagine, and VHS tapes and all sorts of other weird. I remember when I when I got rid of like three boxes of playboys still in their packaging, you're like brand new in the plastic air. And I was like, Nobody wants these. And now there is a huge market. I don't know that there is, but there certainly wasn't when I got rid of them.
I've seen people spending hundreds of dollars on old Victoria's Secret catalogs from like the eighties and nineties. Well, I could see that. But Playboy's I mean, who wants those? That's a little bit different It's got articles but the Michael Jordan I mean it was in like the 40 $50,000 range for the highest graded Sports Illustrated with, you know, the first appearance of Michael Jordan or the first appearance of Muhammad Ali. There are weird things that turn out to be collectible.
Now, something like the Time magazine with somebody that's already super popular, less so because they're making a billion of them. Like I have the Time magazine back from when I was in junior high, I think it was 1984 when U2 was on the cover of Time. I've got a copy of that. And that's like, Well, at the time they were nothing. They were a small band that was just starting to get some notoriety, and that's where you'll find it again.
When Michael Jordan, his first appearance on Sports Illustrated, nobody knew he was about to become the greatest basketball player of all time. Yeah, why didn't they? I don't know. The I should know if you'd be able to predict all this stuff now. No, no. I really know that he was the greatest of all time. Well, up to this point that we know about exact. Up to this point that we know about. Yeah.
I mean, there were a lot of people that would be some kid in, you know, Cuba that's better or something. Yeah. You wouldn't know because you didn't have the drug travel there. It's illegal. You've been to Cuba. You have never been to Cuba. No, it's not the vehicle that you were based there for a while.