111: There Goes The Boom

But you're going to have to kill that bitch. You get. In your. Hello, and welcome to episode number 111 111 of unrelenting. April 12th, 2024. It's a big show, gene. Episode 111. Yes. Numerology. It's a magic episode number. Yeah. And the, the donations are. They're showing what a great number it is.

So I would like to go through it as we normally wait, I'd like to go through those because there's kind of a debate now on which is going to be the number one executive producer slot and the booster grams are open. But right now we have Keith Shoemaker, who came in via PayPal with $1.11 for episode number 111. But after fees, that's $0.59. Okay. Why? Stephen Bear's our buddy came in with a boost of 1111, again in honor of channel 111.

I'm guessing that's like a satchel of Richards, which in real money for fun coupons is $0.78. And he says we're all going to die. Or I guess not. and then we have what you're saying is, we didn't get any donations. Okay. But we had certain oldest who came in with 30 satoshis, which literally is throwing his $0.02 in. That's it. When we used to get $100 donations. Yeah. Hey, where are you? Dale? We look like. Damn, this is like, show 111. People usually like, ooh, that's a good number.

Yeah, it means something. I mean, we appreciate you, everybody, for listening. I think we we need to broaden their reach. Do you think, I mean, that's a grand total today. Yeah. 89 out of ten, 20, 34, like $1.40 a buck 40. About a buck 50. Yeah, a buck city divided by two. Buck city by value by two. Just because the bits are going up every minute. You're. This is true. So that's a buck 50. We can talk about that momentarily as well. Setting up my own like the gold.

Well I will say that you know, it's not really fair to, to downgrade people's donations due to fees, because they could have also donated zero. I know what I'm just saying, though. We normally go by who's going to get first? I think we have no executive producer. Then we at some point say you have to do at least ten bucks. Otherwise no. Everybody's tired. Yeah, everybody gets a trophy. And we appreciate the people that listen giving us their time.

I understand dynamics, but man this show could use a donation or two from time to time from somebody that's not Dale in Australia. Oh, and the next number is not as cool. So this would have been the one to do it in. All right. 112 why do sharks have, nostrils? Is this some kind of Steven right bit? I don't know. No, I, I'm genuinely asking because I, I just saw a statue of, shark and I had nostrils, and I was like, well, that guy's never seen a shark. Fish don't have nostrils.

That's stupid that you look at them breathe underwater. Then I looked up a photo. I'm like, shit, they do have nostrils. Do they come up to breathe? Are they? I don't see I'm not, I'm not. They don't come up to breathe. It's a strange because there are some, you know, animals. But to see that it's it's a fish critter. And if you look at its face, the fish critter, it's definitely a fish brain. But if you look at his face, he totally has nostrils.

He has two symmetrical holes in front of his eyes right about the front of his, you know, face above his mouth, which would be referred to his usually nostrils. Yeah. Picturing every fish, every shark I've ever seen, you know, like jaws. I think they do. Yeah. They do. What do they eat? Well, now I'm curious. I want to know, like, does that whole go all the way through into their mouth? Do they smell through it? Oh, see, that could be.

It's this is like what I saw in the middle of of shows and things could be like a filtering system, you know, it could be like those little devices. Amazon has one now, of course, I was just looking a Scott Adams has 8500 people listening to him on the X we have we have six. But I mean we're we're catching this great him we're catching up. Scott should be worried. But maybe it's something like these little devices that I'm sure other people sell it. I just saw the Amazon ones.

They always want to try to sell it. To me, that does nothing but pull the air in and then tell you the quality of your air currently. So maybe that's the sharks are doing something where that the water comes in their body process is like, oh, there's something over in this direction. There's something over, you know, I don't know, I'm not a marine biologist. Well, I just looked it up. Holy shit. They do have nostrils and they do smell underwater. They smell. Yeah, yeah.

So apparently those holes lead to the same exact thing we have for smelling air. Except they smell water. That's cool. That is interesting. So clearly we're related. Clearly unrelenting is a show about shark, about biology? Yes, yes. Biology. Mostly what we talk about, we talk about, food. We talk about totality. Oh my goodness, the photos of you and the pod. Father Adam Curry just went wild. I love that.

Yeah. For those of us that have no subscribers, that's referred to as, going, viral, three people looked at like, were those real gods? That was the biggest question, even from my buddy Larry was like, obviously they were real giants. Real. Or is Jesus that just like he's playing with some there's like, not, no, they were real. Well, those are yeah. I mean, what. Well, you got to have guns that match your outfit, man. That's the stormtrooper God with the stormtrooper outfit.

By Stormtrooper, I mean the Star Wars variety. You mean the color white? What, are you, racist now? Yes. Well, white is bad. White? Is that what you want to be a very surprised you chose white as your color. Not a big surprise when you're in the Texas Klan. But I'm still very disappointed that there was a big guy with a big white outfit. I was just. I was glad you didn't have the cap on at the time. Okay, so, Adam, when I walked into the house, he was calming his dog TV down, and.

Oh, because the dog could tell evil. And it's like, Russian coming in. So this is the dog thinks you're you're a polar bear. I'm like, oh, okay, I guess, but what what other polar bears is dog seen for reference purposes? Well, probably what you think that I'm a polar bear nature channel, probably on TV. You know, dogs can see TVs now that they're LEDs and where they go, that's true. They can see.

Yeah, they have something to watch though, because, well, actually, dogs, you've always been able to watch TV with cats who couldn't watch TV. Was that it? Cats have a higher refresh rate on their eyeballs. Like that just seems like nothing to me on that. Yeah, because remember the way they old school TVs worked, with their phosphorus is that they, they had an electron beam scanning across the monitor at 30 frames per second. Basically.

And, lighting up that, that turning on and off, essentially lighting up dots as they're scanning across the our slow ass brains with slow refresh rate interpret it as a full picture. Yeah. Which is they call it interlaced too, because you only got half the picture with each scan, which was even weirder. Like, it even says that the even lines have the odd lines. Exactly. It's not just half like the top half or bottom half. It was every other line was scanned.

And again, the reason they did that was because they they couldn't make the TVs. When they first standardized on that standard, they later they could, but they couldn't make the TVs move the beam faster to be able to draw the entire thing in 1/60 of a second. So instead they had to do every other line, because that way at least it gives partial information to our brain. But yeah, imagine that. You know, Yuma, you were a kid once, I'm sure, way back.

Yeah. And you, when you were a kid, you didn't think twice about the fact that you're watching movement on your TV set, like there's actual moving images on there, and, and in reality, there was no moving image on there. All you had is a, a bunch of dots drawn top to bottom, left to right, every other line right.

Very quickly at least. Yeah. For the the time if there's something about those old tubes which is still awesome, which is why video game players love the the CRT is that nostalgia as well. I know zero video game players. They love them. But okay, well for the the people I let me rephrase the people that liked the games that were around in the 80s that were in the arcade, there's something about a CRT that just gives you that good 80s vibe. But I always wondered. I never looked it up. Why?

Because if I'm not mistaken, the standard in the UK gave them a flat 24 frames a second. That's what they always ran, even on their television. Is that correct? Yeah. 25 yeah, because they have 50Hz electricity. We have 60Hz electricity. Okay. But why was the refresh rate then. Because you said 30, which is very close. But it was really 29.997. Why was it because it takes because it actually takes some time to reset from the bottom right to the top left.

okay. So that they had to make it equal. Okay. Makes sense. I never looked it up. It's always like when you go in, when you're editing, like those old videos now, and it's like, it's like, what do you do in the 90s, right? Why? Like, why not just get it to 30? But now that makes sense. You had to give a little bit of time for the thing to do its thing. Yeah. And it's not being moved. Obviously. It's through magnetic, ways, but for magnetism. But that still takes time.

oh. Gene's alarm telling him to do the show is going off. That's not what it was. just need to silence my phone. oh. mouse go calling, not red Jean. Exactly. Like every time I pick up the phone and speak in Russian. Adam just thought I was talking to Moscow. Were you or are you just phone randomly? Yeah. Nobody on the other end. Yeah, exactly. I was taking the whole damn thing, I think.

Well, just walking around a large crowd of Texans in your, in your very un Russian look tracksuit, speaking in Russian and every, every third or fourth word, you should have had something in there, like death, die, American. Now. Yeah. Wait, you're thinking I was running in Taliban uniform, but same thing, isn't there? This is the way they look. The Russians are probably looked at as more of a threat right now. Oh of course. Yeah. No. We're definitely.

Yeah. Well, shit, dude, we're importing ISIS to Ukraine. So, yeah, obviously you guys are bad dudes, but I was the totality. Was it everything you expected and more? Well, that's what I remember from last year. I'm sure everything got dark. And you forgot the glasses, man. We heard all about them. I know, forget the glasses. Jean brought the God's jeep, brought the night vision. Jean. Bob brought everything you needed except. Except for the glasses. Yeah. That's true.

Yeah. And I, I, like, totally had them just sitting on the table waiting to get put in the bag to go along with everything else. And it's, it's sad that the glasses you need, like, once every eight, ten years, you forgot. Yeah. You kept them that long. I mean, I don't feel bad for the people that bought them on eBay or Amazon or like, oh no, they didn't work. Like really do not trust third parties.

You're with your vision people. No. Let somebody said the, one of the biggest searches I was like eyes hurt after eclipse. I searched really, for the fuck with looking at sun without any protection. That's just stupid. There's a lot of dumb people out there. yeah. Yeah, I actually did, technically, and my dad did that when he was a kid because one of his eyes was damaged. Yeah, it's easy to do. Just dumb. It's really not. I've managed to go my whole life without looking in the sun.

Boy, I don't even want to be outside when something like that is going on. Don't want to be tempted. I just don't want to be outside. Period. Well, this is true too. This is true too. I like it a nice cool it's soon going to be air conditioning weather. Oh dude, it was perfect. Fricking weather here for, I had a friend. actually, that was two friends that flew in to watch the eclipse. And then you left it just left the other I left? Yes, and then I left it. Okay. You guys are on your own.

We're going to just watch the eclipse. No food. Nothing in the house is like 99% CO2. They just slept through the whole damn thing. The snake was, like, coming in on them. Just like the snake. Like. Yeah, snake was just loose from the in the house is walking around. Do people have to pay for this experience? If you put this on Airbnb, what do you call it. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. Do you with snake. Yes. Airbnb with snake. High CO2 snake Paradise. Yeah I call it Jurassic Park.

That's why I call it Jesus. Like park would be better. although it really should be Cretaceous Park, but. Yeah. Anyway, the, the trip was fun. It was well worth it. Obviously, the the main point of going out there was hanging out with, Tina wasn't just watching the clips, which didn't last long. so we looked at Amal, talked a lot and, caught up. It's been a while since we've, met up in person. Oh, I left my iPad at their house, so. Well, at least you've left something behind now.

Yeah. Was was this the iPad that had been completely, tricked out to be the ultimate spy device? Exactly like. Oh, she left his iPad. Oh, but it's nice. He said we could use it. Everything's being transmitted. Do we? Can we get the live feed right now so we can hear what's going on in that room at the, at the curry residence? Do you have that? Well, I mean, I don't have it connected to the multi. You I you should have you should have texted me that first.

Sorry, I didn't I didn't know I didn't know this, plan of, Sparrow was, was complete. Well, either way, they're they're getting rid of it, so, I should get it later today. They're going to drop it off the smart enough. They're like, we do not want this in our house. She left behind. Sure, it was accidental. I certainly left this battery pack in your house. Just, leave it alone. how many Raspberry Pi's did you plan to the house before you were able to get out?

Pi's could put those things in the vents. All sorts of fun. Adam has plenty of Raspberry Pi's in this house already. Yeah, I just got a brand new one to run. An umbrella node, and now I'm questioning the sanity of that. Yeah, yeah. So he also has. So since we're talking Bitcoin he has a couple of these bitcoin miner boxes. Oh yeah. The big deal. Things that are trying to fight the coin. Yeah the compound.

And I was like I was you know he tells me about this I'm thinking it is something the size of a Raspberry Pi or something, something fairly miniature. Then, we'll walk out to his garage and there's this big honking, like, literally full size PC. Not even the rack. Like a full size gaming PC sized box, except the entire back. His fans that just. Well, yeah, there's a lot of video cards in that son of a bitch, I bet. well, they're all A6, so they're not even the video cards. There's.

They're way faster than video cards to hold that A6 specifically set up to do Bitcoin mining. So yeah. And he's like yeah, it's it generates more than the cost of electricity. So it's a net positive. It's not going to make you rich, but you're not going to go pro. You're definitely not going to go rich. you're the electric company is making the greatest percentage of money, not you, but it is, at least not a net negative. Yeah. Winter, his garage is toasty warm. It is toasty warm. Exactly.

And, if the bitcoin price goes higher, then you make more and more because the cost of electricity doesn't go up. That's a fixed amount. So. Well, it's not entirely true, but it's going up probably less than the bitcoin. Yeah. No you're absolutely right. Because right now like in the spring when I'm not running air conditioning, in past years when I've looked at it I my electrical costs have probably been around 120 630 bucks. I just looked at it a few weeks ago and it was 220 bucks.

Yeah. Thanks. Biden. Yeah. So electricity is about doubled. water is doubled in price. Yeah. In Austin. Yeah. Water. Not that bad here yet, but gas and electric are well, water was always fairly cheap, but, you know, water to your house is the water I'm talking about, not. What do you buy at the grocery store?

but yeah, the cost of water is definitely doubled. So, Yes, 13 years ago, whatever it was when I moved here, my combined bill for everything electricity, water, sewage, garbage, all those four came out to about $300. and right now it's closer to $500. It adds up quick, especially when you look at your grocery bills. Do. Well, I'm not even clean. No, I mean, 500 bucks just for the services. And you got obviously the house payment, then you got taxes. You.

And then you start on things that are optional, like groceries. Yeah. You got gotta pay those taxes kids. Next I think. Yeah. Yeah, I think probably I don't I think minimum wage needs to be like 80,000 a year to cover this. Right. Then everything's going to go up exponentially. Oh, we have to prevent them from being able to do that. Right. Because then they're gonna be like, oh, no, you're just you were screwing us. I am starting to see the benefits of communism now because everything's

getting more expensive. I'm like, hold up. Well, we should we should be getting that. Not that the evil corporations right? Evil people just, you know, back in my youth, there, there was the whole lot of evil corporations, maybe IBM, but, I'm kind of thinking most corporations these days are evil. Most every last one of them, I mean, all the big ones. The problem is, the government has no idea how to handle the problems that they're having.

Most people don't understand that the minimum wage was put into place to keep the black folk from having jobs, keeping them out of the workforce. It's like, this is so ridiculous at this point when you see all these politicians continuing, well, we need to keep moving the minimum wage up, keep moving the minimum wage up.

This means that you will need more and more skills to be able to get a job, because for somebody to be able to afford to hire you at whatever the dollar amount is, you need to actually do something that can make them more than that. Right? Right, right. And sweeping the floor and dropping fries into a bin. Not going to do that. Oh, really? Now, believe it or not. And we've already had White Castle I think was the first. But there are others who have followed.

There are robotic solutions for all people when it comes to fast food restaurants. I think Japan started that whole craze. They may have, but here in the United States, White Castle was the first one that had a completely robotic kitchen that didn't even need a human. In the kitchen. Somebody ordered a burger. Damn, it knew how to make the burgers, fries, whatever. It was all computerized robot. Robot of size. Is that a word? Robot to sized? Sure.

And when you get to the point where customers can also just click on their phones or on a touchscreen to place the order, you don't need any meat bags. The stuff is all just automated. Great. Well and frankly I would prefer it that way as a customer anyway. More yeah. More accuracy, less putting fingers into somebody's food or other things because we've seen this their we've all seen the stories, kids. We know what you guys that work at McDonald's are doing. Yeah, it's not just McDonald's.

I though the generalization, but I don't mind a fully automated fast food joint. Make sense? Fully automated. Anything makes sense. Yes. Which means less jobs for people who then will all be on the less people in the world. So it all adds up. Well, that's the whole thought by the lot of this stuff. Isn't it? Yeah. So let me ask you a philosophical question here. is that really a problem or a bad thing if people just have fewer kids because they're having less sex?

is it a bad thing because more for anybody. I mean, there's a there seems to be within and frankly, a lot of my friends, but like in general, they're sort of those this fear like, oh, that, you know, they want to depopulate the world around this and, and also having a negative kind of, I guess, outlook on the millennial and Zoomers not not getting married, not having kids.

And I think that there's certainly a somewhat selfish argument to be made for, hey, we need more workforce replenishing things so they can pay more taxes so I can get my Social Security. But aside from that, if you just ignore the Social Security aspect and you say like just in general, was America with 100 million fewer people, a horrible place, was it a war that would have been probably in the 1950s?

No. But the reality now seems to be in order to pay down the debt, we're going to need more meat back. Right. Paying taxes. That's. Yeah. But that's, that's, I'm kind of on the other side of that argument. I mean, like, that's super selfish, like the idea that you want others to procreate so that they can pay taxes is horrible. Yeah, but it's reality.

And frankly, we have, we know this from looking at different populations, like in less developed countries, whether it's, in Africa or if you look at, South America historically, when there was a much higher child mortality rate, when kids didn't survive to full age. of adulthood, people tend to have a lot more kids. They had eight or 9 or 10 kids because you want to have you want to be producing enough, knowing that a certain percentage of them won't survive all the way through.

Right. You know, there's a lot of. Yeah, exactly. And when there's a lot of manual labor also required for things like farming, people tended to have large families. So I think this is a self-correcting system which basically, given a need for more people, tends to incentivize humans to produce more kids without any government involvement. This just happens within the family unit and the exact opposite.

I think that's happening right now where people are not having kids because there's not a reason to have kids. Well, and so for decades now, the at least on television entertainment, the trope. Things are so bad I can't even imagine bringing a child into this world. Yeah. And I totally understand that concept. I mean that's but that was the commies pushing that for you man. Well the commies didn't have a whole lot of kids either and still don't. So are the Chinese pushing it on themselves too?

I think they're, in China reversing that whole concept. They are because they're but they're doing it for explicitly the tax reasons, like they're doing the math and they're like new generation coming down the pike is too small. I don't want the government doing either of those things. I don't want them controlling population in a downward or upward direction. That is none of their fucking business, frankly. But I also think that there's this this sort of panic.

Or maybe that's too harsh a word to use. Panic. Maybe this this kind of, fear of, oh, no, the population is becoming smaller because the kids aren't having more than one or, you know, a, let's just say a lower number of average children than our generation did. I'm not sure that there's any reason for that sentiment or that fear. I don't know that that's a bad thing. It's like somehow because, you know, guys like Charles Schwab have said, oh, the population, the world is way too big.

It should be smaller, like almost because of the person saying this, it becomes bad. And so you don't want things that are bad and not having kids is bad. Well, I don't know. Is it really though? Or is that much like climate a natural thing that happens in a self-correcting system that, when there's not as much of a need for replacement kids? People tend to not feel like they want to have as many kids.

And if a natural disaster hits, there's a a recorded uptick in the amount of sex people are having that results in children. This is this has been happening for many, many years, and I just feel like all governments should stay out of this shit. And also, frankly, the the conservative side needs to stop reacting to things because of who said it. Just because Charles Schwab says that, you know, we need to have fewer kids, doesn't make that in and of itself bad.

No. Well, both sides do the same thing. If somebody on the other side said, it's got to be wrong. Yeah. Which is why you can confuse people so easily. And I'm not even understanding why this hasn't occurred to so many people to be able to manipulate even further. Because I've said for a while, if the Republican were smart, then I think Trump is finally get this you and issues like abortion, you have to give enough to where the fear factor is gone, right?

Because otherwise the other side's running on nothing. But they want to stop this. They want to stop this, they want to stop this. All you gotta do is say no, we don't. We just want to do X, Y, and Z. Then that they don't have that anymore. Yeah. And and from a purely selfish standpoint, why don't we actually kind of want people that have bad politics to not reproduce. Yes. Okay. I mean it's just common sense that you would have.

Well, as with anything, you would have a better pool to work with if you are getting the highest quality examples of that. yeah, sure. That goes right down the genetics route. But we've been dealing with this for decades. As I said, if you really want to have some fun, do research. the start of the minimum wage thing, look at the quotes is why the this was, what's his name? Woodrow Wilson in his era, his, cabinet members. See why that was put into place. You will be amazed.

But right now, the thing is, this is all being done for a fake narrative. For the false narrative? oh. The planet can't sustain the amount of people that were being produced. So this is why we need to cut back on this. Because people are bad. People are ruining the planet. It is just simply not so. It's an absurd thing to even think, yes, for various reasons. But what if we are the planet, right? You're existing on the planet. You are part of it. Part of the eco system.

We've seen areas that have had certain animals and humans are animals overrun the land and then nature points. If we go to Mars, you could make an argument that humans are bad for Mars, I suppose, but it's pretty hard to make the argument humans are bad for the Earth, given that we've evolved here. Yes. And the oh well, the technology that we've created is quickly killing the planet. It is terrifying to me.

as some of the clips that were featured yesterday on No Agendas show, where the government is working on things like, well, if we could do this and see the clouds, we can we could reflect more of the heat back out of the atmosphere. The fact that they're actively trying to work on changing the climate is hilarious to me, from a group of people that tells us that humans are affecting the climate. This is bad. Yeah, they're trying to create man made climate changes. Yes. Yeah, exactly.

And because they're they can't believe that humans aren't causing what is currently happening, but they refuse. Also, as pointed out of no agenda they use like the last hundred years of records. But they don't go back further. The records go back further. They show you it's been hotter and colder, even back to the average temperature of the Earth is like 5.2°C higher. So the average temperature is actually like ten degrees Fahrenheit warmer. It's unbelievable.

We're still in an ice age recovery point in the, in the timeline of temperatures on the planet. So we're just recovering from an ice age is where we are, and they want to stop it. Right? Well, this is like we've decided that this is the temperature that we want to keep it at. Now, if you want to talk about, do you know that if the, sorry to continue on, the same idea that if if the polar ice cap melts, that the Sahara becomes a jungle, it becomes livable?

Oh my goodness, it becomes a jungle. Yeah. It becomes basically trees grow, their things can live there. The reason the Sahara, which is accounts for most of northern Africa, exists that as a desert is because, too much of our moisture is locked up as frozen ice. So the case could be fairly easily made that it might be better if we let this happen. It is absolutely better. That's why I'm trying to increase carbon dioxide. I'm doing my best. Are you? Hey, I'm breathing out every day.

Good. You keep breathing out, man. But that's that's stuff you stop breathing in. The delusions of grandeur that these folks have, that they can come up with a way to control the atmosphere, to control the temperature of the globe. I mean, again, they can't figure out what the weather's going to be in two hours, but they can tell you, which is always kind of funny. That's why they hold. No, it's not the same thing. It's like.

But it is. Yeah. How many times did al Gore tell us back 20 years ago that all the water is going to rise and it's going to take over New York and the water in the streets of Miami? Yes. There is that fish on the streets of Miami. And anybody seen that happen yet? Because I haven't, they had to ignore the fact that this has been a cyclical thing going on for thousands of years.

It's a it's a sickness because it's either these people are that stupid or they are willingly a part of something for what had, I guess, would be the question of why. Well, we have to get people to stop. Why get rid of the technology? Well, nobody really wants to get rid of the technology.

That's I think with the ceiling they're going to hit here when you realize, well, this whole global warming thing, you know, would really help global warming, everybody throwing their cell phones out and not using them ever again. Because I would like to know I mean I haven't seen this I'm sure some of these done. I'll be careful. A lot of these politicians don't actually know how cell phone works. They they have a systems for that. This is true.

But I want to know how much electricity is used to strictly keep the cell phones operating, being charged the electricity needed for the towers. All this I would bet you it's a decent amount of power just for that, I think. I think you're right. I think it is a decent amount of power, but also they're super efficient, which is amazing. So you can, you know, run a cell phone for a whole day after you're charging it for 20 minutes.

Yeah. But still, imagine the utopia we'd have if there was none of that, if we had no cell phones. Yeah. Kids would play outside. It'd be amazing. I mean, these radio waves that are now blanketing the earth, that we say they are having an effect. I mean, I'm assuming once TV and radio started that's what all of our global warming problems started this. I mean it seems, seems clear to me that radio waves are, are the problem. So all cell phones have to be taken care of.

Get rid of those we can't have. Why should I ban all communication methods that involve electricity? Yes, yes, that would save the planet. I think the planet would appreciate that. Give people a book and the camera could see them at it. Yeah. You want a you want to talk to somebody. Go outside. Yeah. Go find them. Which was a much better solution when it comes down to it, when you didn't have the ability to just hop on a computer and talk to anybody in the world, I love that we do that. Yes.

And I think the technology is fabulous, but it opens up your world so much in a way that I don't think most people can handle. Because back 100 years ago, if you didn't read about it in your local newspaper, it didn't exist. Nobody had televisions. Well, that's true. And your world, all you cared about was your friends, your family and the people that were in your town. Yeah, that was a lot of people never lost their own town.

Yeah. and it was a much better experience because now people that watch television 24 over seven, you know, they watch the doom cycle on news. It's like, oh my God, the world's crumbling. And it will probably is. But ignorance would have been way better if you were living out in the middle of Wyoming. Man, you didn't care if there were riots on the streets of Chicago, LA and New York simultaneously. It didn't affect you.

But now if it happens, everybody all around the country are glued to their devices like oh wow. Let's talk about that. I that it's weird really. Yeah. Yeah. Talk connects like we're doing. Exactly exactly. But it's where the, the you know the television's been around over 100 years. That's right about that isn't it. The 1914 was the, first demonstration of a television system. When was it first actually, that was called Tell Arista. Oh. Marconi. Right. Made the tubes.

no, that would be radio Bob Marshall. Right. Gerald Lowe demonstrated the first TV in London. and then, like, quickly started working for the military, though. I can't believe that. yeah. The patent for it was in 1917. Old improved apparatus for the electrical transmission of optical images. When was the first television station on the air in a major city? That would be question.

Yeah, that's, the, did you get a sense without technology, you would just have to sit around and fuck all day, which, you know, population control again. We are so distracted. Like hunting. You want to do it? No, no, I'm I'm scrolling on, Twitter right now. Okay. Too busy. I gotta catch up on my socials. I can't do that. Man's social media. Since 1927, Bell Labs demonstrated television transmissions from Washington to New York. so I would guess of the 1930s, probably 1930s, probably.

Yeah. So about we're about hit that 100 year mark. And think about how much things have changed in that 100 years. It is almost crazy. You know, I can't even imagine what is going to be by that same speed, going back 100 years to now with what we have now, I can't even imagine what the change between now and 100 years from now will be. Are we eventually going to hit that mark where it's like, yeah, things have they've pretty much got to where okay.

First, first broadcast television station, in was in Berlin in 1935. Oh. Well, then yeah. So yet another decade. And this is they were showing examples of this for like 20 years before it actually went mainstream. Like, we could do this, we could do this. And people like, why would anybody want that? Yeah, it's a fad. Nobody really wants to sit and watch a little box of a moving image. No, it's too small because that the TVs weren't exactly the 42 90 inch Bohemia.

You know, a little a little rounded corner. The little projector thing. Yes. no. Says nothing about Farnsworth in this hot TV talk to Farnsworth. Who was Farnsworth? Yeah. Is this something I should know about the history of television? Probably. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know whole lot about it. I'm just reading their Wikipedia is. We're talking to the fact that you're now surrounded by computer screens that you could put a picture on of yourself using a little.

This is why I don't need to go outside, because I have full 360 degree surround, radiation going in here. Well, what we should do is just. Instead of having walls in our homes, just make them out of television panels and so it could look like you are anywhere. I always thought that would be awesome, but I know people are starting to do this now. Oh, yeah. Farnsworth comes up a whole bunch in here. I just didn't read him. He's the inventor of the scanner. he was at, RCA, I guess.

Yeah, but there was a whole bunch of people working before him and, doing demos of this stuff as well. And when did radio first hit me? I think that was in Egypt, around 2206 B.C.. That would make sense. Yeah, that was the first, demonstrated use of radio waves. The first antenna was on the pyramid. That's why I was built, man. Yeah, they had to get the antennas up higher because this line of sight, you have to be able to cover everything. Yeah. And now.

And it had to be that big because it was operating the resonant frequency of the planet. Now, anybody can buy a microphone, plug into the internet and talk to the world. Hello world podcast. Yeah. Hello, world. Thanks to Adam Curry, we can now talk in your ear holes both long. Thanks, Marconi and Adam Curry right on the same level. The two. Yeah. Yes. There's two men responsible for for us being able to talk. There's a meme in there somewhere. Well, yeah.

Adam got the Marconi award, Danny, I think so. I could have sworn one year that he mentioned that he got the Marconi award. Well, you did, and if he didn't, he should, because radio is important. I mean, I guess, and his contribution to radio is is priceless. And I can't understand why so many people gravitate towards the YouTube, towards the video that anybody that does a YouTube channel. Yeah. This part of the radio star. That's right.

Yeah. Well, you know, I'm just guessing, but I'm putting a, I think an educated guess. You're like 50 times more likely to be successful with a YouTube channel. That would be an audio only. And if you measure success by the dollar, then yes. Yes, being able to monetize would be or to get an audience even because they come together. If you have an audience, you can monetize it. And if you measure a success by the number of impressions, I think the written word is actually going to win that one.

Probably it's more people will read some words than we'll hear them or watch them, which is why every web page wants you to click, click, click, click, click. So they could put an ad that'll make them 1/1,000,000 of a penny every time you click it. So I, you have to have a combined effort text. I don't know why no one has run this ad campaign.

I've thought of this for a while is to having that campaign with ads that basically say we will reduce the amount of money we spend on advertising, by, I don't know, $20, whatever it is, doesn't matter by some amount. If you click on this ad help kill advertising. But yeah, helped you exactly see that that's a much better slogan than mine. But basically the idea being that by going to the site and buying something, you're ensuring we don't have to run as many ads.

And if every company did that, there would be very few at all we got to do is just, you know, start spending money. Well, most companies will look at the cost of two things. One, getting a new client slash customer and two, retaining that client slash customer. Right. Yeah. Which is why I get literally daily emails from some of these gum companies. But once you bought, they're like, hey, this guy bought a lot of guns. We need to have this guy buy more guns because we know he likes guns.

He's he's one of them gun like ours. Once you're on a list, man. And it's amazing when it comes to, politicians and, any charity really what you give to a charity? Oh, my God, you have to go through hoops to get off their mailing list. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's totally true. Like, I get it because they know you support the cause for whatever reason.

Yeah, and maybe you'll do it some more while the same thing we do, I guess with podcasting, like, hey, if given before, maybe you'll give a little bit more. And as I was doing my taxes and I know this is not financial advice on this show. No no no I was amazed that yet again I remember doing the paperwork last year. no. 1099 from PayPal. So this just leads to a whole lot more questions, which probably I don't want to have my podcast, but yeah, let's not record those questions.

Show me. Yeah. I just was very amused. I was like what's going on here? And I think I figured it out is that with PayPal, they look at goods and services as something totally different than what we do. I think you're analyzing it. I think the dollar amounts have not hit the, the volume level for them to start poking their noses in whenever, because a lot of people, when they do the donations, they do it as a friends and family thing rather than they. Right?

Although I don't know if I'm trying stuff when you click the donate button, it doesn't, but then there are others that send it in direct. Yeah. So I like just just like not, you know, having to pay sales tax if you buy something on eBay used to be a thing right now anymore no longer a thing. All this will change. And I think it's the days are numbered before, even if you all you do is you get money from your parents. Right? On PayPal. It's going to come in as a 1099.

It's like, oh no, you get paid for that. You get paid for doing no work and it's still payment and it's still taxable. Well, that's what we're dealing with as well. My dad had a couple of the Michael Jordan cards. We had talked about that auction them through a large auction house. But they didn't have any. Maybe they should have. Although again, it was not in the tens of thousands, even though it was just a few grand. Yeah. They didn't have the option to split that.

So the check gets written to me and then I write a check for a half to them. It's like you have to keep the paperwork because they're going to, they're going to report that one. Yep, yep. Always keep paperwork, kids. That's the one bit of advice we could get. Yeah. We don't provide advice at all. And sometimes not having paperwork is better than having paperwork. I can't prove a goddamn thing. Have a tax guy or gal that knows what they're doing. Yeah. Not us.

No, we don't even take physical advice from us. Do not take mental advice. We don't take our own advice. Frankly. Do not take nutritional advice from us. No. Did you have a good dinner when you saw Adam? Then hope you picked up the tab. Yeah. no, I mean, the dinner was good, but no, I didn't pick up the tab, because Tina cooked. Oh, well, that's even better. Yeah. So she is, full on carnivore diet. that is a fairly popular thing right now.

I've heard a few people talking about meat and carnivore diet. Oh. Permanent though. Wow. That's, I know a lot of society had that, like, lead down to that. Go back to. Right. Right, right. Yeah. So I had a very nice, steak. You're like, what? No salad and, and a baked potato. Yeah. But I mean, like, you know, a lot of times if you go and somebody cooks a meal at home, the size of their portions are not going to be restaurant size, they're going to be like, smaller.

Well, because she's on the cash, more diet. This was a huge mistake, man. I was very, very happy to, chat about them. And those the bigger the steak is, the harder it is to cook it at home and get it right. Well, I Adam grilled it, so it was really good. He's a grill. So when I say Tina cooked, I mean you mean Adam grill the baked potato. But Adam. Adam Grill is sick. Yeah, they're not easy to do. It is not easy with a big honkin bit of meat. Because you have to understand the weight.

I mean, you know, mine was rare, so it's really not that hard to cook. Was it still quivering? Was it like blue or was it medium rare or you were rare? Totally rare guy yeah, I'm usually a blue sick guy. But now this was more just, just regular rare. Yeah. I like a nice medium rare, I don't like the texture where it's too non cooked. I like it a little firmer. It depends on the kind of meat because, well, fillet, you can get away with a lot more.

I like my fillet to be cold on the inside. but, you know, grilled on the outside. But other cuts of meat do require a little more cooking just because they're not as tender when they're raw. Right? They're little fattier, and you definitely want the fat to start breaking down. You don't want to, like, bite into a hard do you serve? of that? Yeah. Chewing on fat is not a pleasurable taste. For some reason, though, even though fat makes food tastes better when it's in solid form, it's just not.

It's just doesn't taste good. But when it gets to the point to where it's almost disintegrating. Yeah. That's delightful. Yeah, yeah. And then had, a very traditional, you know, eggs and bacon in the morning. Well, that's nice as well. Yeah. I made a BLT the other day. That was so damn good. It's been years since I've made a BLT. Really? Yeah. I don't know, because we normally don't buy just the plain head of lettuce. You don't normally buy the tomatoes? I guess we should.

every time we went out to the little, Greek restaurant here, the wife always gets a BLT. I'm like, I can do better. So some nice toasted sour dough bread. This was based off, something that, I saw, I think Adam Sandler. This was his favorite sandwich. A little bit of mayo. Then you do the BLT with a fried egg. Which I never thought about doing the fried egg. But you're referring to that movie where he plays the chef and his, Aussie kaiseki like, hires a illegal alien to clean his house.

Baby. And then his kids and the illegal aliens kids are all friends and stuff, and and his wife is all being a bitch to the illegal alien. And then eventually he ends up dumping his wife and then falling in love with the illegal alien. That movie. I don't remember that particular one. Is it still a BLT? Ask Brooklyn I yeah, it was a bounty. Yeah, because you're just adding things to it. Yeah, I think there's, you know, which we added for the one time I made it's a BLT with an E in the end.

Right. And then it was little cheddar cheese. So a little C. And that if you want you can add some turkey to it. It just keeps getting bigger though which is the problem I have seen in Turkey BLT is for sale. Yes man that's the thing I've seen. You know the whole thing with there's a BLT made with added turkey and then there is a BLT made with turkey bacon, which is also that's different. Yeah, it's it's different.

But I think the whole point of a BLT is it's basically a poor people sandwich because the ingredients are super cheap. Welcome to the podcast podcasting. That earns you a dollar for every two hours of work split by two people. Yeah, exactly. We should just go over mine. You should probably pay me at some point this year that. No. Cause that I'm probably going to have to send you a 1099. This year. I know those were different. Nine this last year. The rules were still based upon the old ID rules.

This year I think the number is $600, but I'll be very curious to know if that again is $600. How that is separated out sounds right. Yeah. Although technically, can't people like donate $15,000 to somebody else every year? I think there's something again, don't take tax advice from us, but there is some kind of rule about a cap of donations.

So as long as you label things donations, then yeah, because there is at one point back when, a one of my great grandfathers passed away right beforehand, he said, six grand to yourself or my sister, because that was the limit at the point that you could get it right. And that number may have gone up or down since that. But there is a number that you can give somebody every year, right, without it being taxable. And. Yeah. So I'm pretty sure nobody's gifting us that number.

Yep. No. And that made me shy with the fact that it's labeled as a donation. And it's not a subscription. It's not. You're getting the podcast because you're paying. Exactly. Which I didn't even think about that fact of the value for value method that you may be finding a tax loophole, but again, we are not professionals. Ask your tax people. Ask a professional.

But there may be something with that since it is, down as a donation that if that is considered gift rather than purchase, which would make sense to a certain amount. But again, we are not tax professionals. And if the IRS is listening, I'm sure they want their cut of everything they do. And I just looked it up for 2024. Is $18,000 of that you could gift. Yeah. Oh, so okay, when should I expect a check from Eugene? From $17,999?

Yes. That's that's since I get that amount from you, I'll be sure to send you to send it right back. Then they kind of offset themselves. Well, yes, but they max out our gifting, so now we'll have to pay tax on anything above that. Now is that per person or is that total of gifting you can do? Now can I send everybody I know $18,000. Everybody's starting to raise their hands in the troll room, or is that a total that you can give per year? Each gift each.

So it's incoming. Basically not outgoing. So you can take up to $18,000 in gifts. Right? Got it. yeah. I don't think we've hit that mark. I any close anywhere near close to that mark? Sadly, the, lightning node, though I did get set up. I will say that the Raspberry Pi five fast little box. Dig it. Installing. what? I mean, that's a relative term. Fast. Fast doing what? well, mining Bitcoin, you know that mining Bitcoin.

But for running a Bitcoin node, which I've got set up and the lightning node is set up, although the documentation of this stuff, I can see why it drives people nuts because they're not. Yeah. That was my issue with it when I set one up back three years ago and then said, this is bullshit now, so just pay somebody to do it. And that's why I'm doing right. And which is what you did that, which is what I did, by God, without like $1,000 over the years.

And then everybody starts going, hey man, run! You have done run your own node. Then. Yeah. So but okay, Adam has an interesting thing I asked him, I asked him what his thoughts were, having, like, a a wallet, like a physical. What? Like a, you know, a USB stick? Yes. Got one of those. And he said you don't really need that. if you run your own node. And he said that here's, here's the best thing. You literally don't need a physical device at all.

You you can simply just remember the 24 words to get into that device and then shut that device off, or get rid of it altogether, because you can recover using those words. And effectively those words work even in the absence of the device, because they're meant to recover a dead device. Right? So you just make your device dead, and then there is literally no device, and you just have a wand in your head and said, well, wait, hold on.

But isn't like if you if you kill your wand doesn't mean you can't put any money in it says no because the the address of the wallet is still active on the internet, on the blockchain, right? Even if it physically doesn't exist, you just can't remove the funds from can't remove anything, but they can add funds. So this is like an incoming wallet that nope, that doesn't actually exist other than the 24 word recovery phrase.

While the wallet exists because it's all on the blockchain, you just don't have the blockchain. Is the wall right? That's the part that I was confused about. So essentially, yeah, you don't really need because all that stake does is it has to log in into the wallet that that's all it it really is. Correct. And so you access so the, the the full blockchain is the wallet.

But you don't you need a key to get at your funds i.e. to make changes to the blockchain, which is why the whole blockchain now is about 800GB. Yeah. He said it was pretty small. I think it was 260 gigs. No, I just downloaded. I mean, you could do there is something you can run if you don't want to sync the whole blockchain.

You could do just the most recent X amount of transactions because there's a lot of dead space, a lot of wallets that aren't being accessed, I would guess, that are either buried in a landfill in the. You probably. yeah, it's it's probably, a compressed version or something, but but when you get down to that, not that big dude I'm looking at right now. It's 550GB. When you get. Well, that's a lot bigger than 200. And that, well, it's less than 800. It was moving in that direction.

Or at least that's where it's taking out the the hard drive in the node that was set up. the lightning node, the opening of channels is what's going to keep 99.9% of the people from ever wanting to run a lightning bolt disappeared. What's that? Would you say that? What did you say? What did you say? I said, use the spirit. I lost you for about 10s. Oh. oh. They got the. The last I heard was the opening of channels, and you disappeared.

Yeah. The opening of channels is what's going to make 99.9% of the people that run a lightning node, right? That's penance. Well, one, there's no like. Well, who should you connect to? And now there's a lot of these larger channels. with the minimum that you need to open the channel to them, 2 million satoshis, which is about 5000 bucks. which means most people are not going to be like, well, let me just throw $3,000 in here so I can take my lightning payments, right? Right.

And that's even more complicated than that, because when you first have money in your town, like it's on the wrong side. Correct. So you actually need to send all your money off to somebody else in order to take money of that, in order for you to be able to receive money, which like I get the the way it's designed, wired has to do that because it's meant for paying, not for receiving, but for people like podcasters.

It makes it it adds an extra level of complexity to like, how does this shit work? And why don't we just use PayPal and said, yes, oh, I mean totally. And but somebody should make is a one button solution that just says podcaster wallet setup fee $10. Yeah, that'll be has done. Oh they charge them but no they're free until you if you want to hold more funds and stuff. And they are coming up with paid plans. but that's basically what they've done is.

But because I'll be doesn't that's totally not what they've done because they all have. There's one wallet there that has a way to separate it through a database. They use who's funds, who has how much in funds. But when you actually look at what you're sending it to, it's not like they're creating a lot for you. They're using their wallet with a designator that it's meant for you. Right. Which you could do on your own as well.

You could break it down to the, for lightning, which is available for just to get one very easy to install things on the umbrella OS. It's one click, it installs, and you could do that. So if you wanted to set it up for your family and your friends who don't know what they're doing, same thing. You can get them an address. Well, keep talking about, bro, I've got the groceries that just showed up while Gene's grocery delivery. I can only imagine how many bottles of iced tea there are.

It'll be interesting to find out, but the umbrella OS, as I said, very simple to install. They're selling their own hardware box now, which, if it was available immediately, would have probably gone to that.

But they were 4 to 6 weeks behind and I'm like, no, no, I want to set this up now, the nice thing about the, hardware, even though you're paying a little bit of a premium, it's very much like a Raspberry Pi, although the specs are a little bit better, and it had a two terabyte MD drive or M2 drive that was built right in with it was a nice little one stop shop, one little nice package where with the Raspberry Pi five, I'm still plugging in an external SSD via USB, which works just fine.

So what the Raspberry Pi of course easy to put together. Came with the nice little SD card, went in, put the umbrella OS on the SD card, connected the USB hard drive, turned it on and it just worked. So that part of it spectacular good. Especially with how things, used to be in the past. It just worked. And now with so are we lost our mixed connection to the no agenda stream, which means the No agenda stream must have crashed.

We're still on though, but everything just worked right out of the box. You can install your bitcoin node and wait for it to sync. You can install the lightning node, wait for that to sync. There are other pieces of software on there if you want to use. If you want to run your own cloud for all sorts of various things, it's all a little app store and it's a one click thing to install it, which is a beauty. And that part of it works really well.

But the problem comes in when you want to set up the Lightning Network and nothing tells you once that's installed and you see the lightning wallet and you can do you can request you put an invoice in, it's going to fail. And all it says is add channels. And when you click the add channels they just give you like well put the address here and doesn't explain any part of what the channels do, how they work, what the liquidity of those channels means. It just kind of leaves you hanging.

And once you start doing the research on it, the vast majority of the articles I was finding out that were back from 2021, which I would think are maybe a little bit outdated. The concepts are outdated, but the concept of liquidity, again, like, oh, we want 2000 Satoshis. Well, 2000 Satoshis today, I'm sorry, 2 million is about 1500 bucks. This a year ago, the 2 million satoshis was then about what, three, 400 bucks?

So it is a much bigger change in how much money you need to have in the system or your lightning node to function. And kind of what you need to do is fund the wallet, open up the channel.

But when you open up a channel that is only an outgoing channel now, there are ways to let people know what the address of your channel is so they can open some incoming channels to you, but without that, it's strictly an outgoing channel and basically what they recommend is, well, I hope you have something you want to buy.

If you have enough SATs where you want to turn that into an Amazon gift card and send it, a million SATs will do that, because then you will have the incoming liquidity because you have sent the satoshis out. But it is not an easy system. So it's not for the faint of heart, no doubt about it. And I guess the mighty no agenda stream is being less than mighty today. That's still down. I guess I'll see if I can stretch. I can, spin some plates and reboot it.

But it died yesterday as well during the Rock and roll pre-show. So there's something wrong with the interwebs, kids. It's not a good thing. But as you can see, this is where having the fail over to acts we're still alive on X, even though the mighty No agenda stream has, has done the thing. You want to know how many bottles of tea Jean has? Do you want to know how many states? What is the best thing? I mean, I'm assuming there's lox, there's a caviar.

What do you think the weirdest thing is going to be in Jean's grocery delivery. That's the question. We ssh in here, and then we go. No agenda stream. I guess it would help if I spelled that right and then reboot and see if the magic actually happens here. I hear Jean, what was in the grocery order to the neighbors. Bring it on. Was there something good? Was it loaded with bacon? How many pounds of bacon? Jean? Oh, I hear is that was here? I think that was the bacon.

And I wonder why is the stream old die. There we go. I believe we're back now on the mighty no agenda stream. Somebody let cotton gin slash void zero slash sabemos. No something bad is going on in Denmark yet again. If Jean has to put all of his groceries away. Yes, this is really captivating. Radio stream died again. Attention, attention, attention. That was the stream. Mr.. Was it the pod, father? Was he trying to get on? What's going on? Who knows? I don't know what Gene's doing.

He went to go get his groceries like 45 minutes ago. And I'm back there. What's going on? The stream totally crashed. Oh, no. And it might have been. It might have been your buddy Adam. What happened? Oh, he just said I heard they were having issues, so I tried to connect, and it worked. I went in to, to the back end and rebooted the stream. It seems like it had a hard crash. A hard to crash? and it happened yesterday during the pre-show as well. So there's a gremlin in there somewhere.

But we got good folk. We got cotton gin, we got sabemos, we got void zero. It's just a matter of time till that goes away. It's all going just right out the door. But this is like Nance you missed a lot of good talk about me setting up the the lightning node. And I'm sure I have the ability to ask folks like Adam and Dave and Sir Spencer and the people that I know who have already set up nodes to open channels to me. So it will make that easier.

But for most people, right out of the box, that is going to be a hurdle, and it is one that will make you want to blow your brains out because you're like, I don't get it. Why isn't it working? What do I have to do? How do I get a channel open? And then I have to send satoshis with what I want, but I don't want to send satoshis. I want to get Satoshis right. So I know it's still in the early days.

I like it, but as of right now, it still seems like the thing to do would be use, Unless you're really into pain using a service like Alby and just emptying your wallet. Yeah, yeah, every week or whatever you need. I was going to say. Well, now that people have had a sample of, random thoughts, a Random Thoughts is a delightful show. Random thoughts.com.

I had the story of the guy that got shot by the Chicago police that everybody, the headlines are going around like mad that the police unloaded like 91 shots at the guy. They kill him. The black people I know, even though the cop that this kid. I say kid because I'm old and he's 26. But the cop that he shot was black, you know, that was the mayor of Chicago.

And one of his rare lucid moments made the comment that either one of these guys, the kid that was shot or the cop could have both been one of his students, the cop, he said if the bullet was a couple of inches in another direction, we're talking about another dead black guy. So if the, quote from the sister of the deceased guy I thought said everything you need to know about what's going on in cities like Chicago right now, which was oh, he was a really good kid.

Paraphrasing was a much longer thing. But even if he did shoot, he didn't deserve to be murdered. It's like, well, one the minute you shoot at somebody else, them shooting back is not murder. Dumb don't matter how many shots it is, that's not murder. If you shoot at somebody first and they shoot back. In this case, I thought the oddity was normally in.

I would think if you have a cop, you know, pull over somebody, it's a normal squad car that you can tell there's the police and it's got two people inside. Usually in Chicago, you're never going with one guy, you know, maybe small towns. You got one cop in the car and that's it. Chicago. You got to. This case was an SUV unmarked with five plainclothes tactical officers pulling this kid over. Which means there was something more to it than the original statement of he wasn't wearing a seatbelt.

Yeah, I found that to be bullshit. I can get to that right away. I'm like, yeah, usually police are to blame in these things. but this clearly has some exigent circumstances around it. Yes. Five cops. And then this is the other thing. If you start shooting at 1 or 2 cops, well, yeah. Then they're going to unload 10 or 20 rounds at you when you open fire at five cops who are coming at you from five different directions while you're in an SUV, that doesn't necessarily say it was excessive.

And when you shoot first, what do you mean when you don't shoot? I like that video with the Acorn Cop. You know the one I'm talking about? The Acorn cop? Yeah, the cop that heard an acorn in a car, though, and then immediately started yelling, shots fired, shots fired, and started shooting. No, I have not seen this because they caught you telling that. Oh, well, that there's a lot of videos of. Well, yeah, like but it was a huge meme like two months ago.

Well, see, I was I was totally taking a fast from memes two months ago. I mean, the reality is I don't pay attention to memes at all. I am with Adam Curry. Memes are garbage. We got to get enough hate mail for that one. Yeah, and what are you eating? I mean, obviously something was so good in the grocery bag. You have to bring it. Bring that into the show. well, I sit here and it's not. It's not that good. It's just store sushi. Oh, well, store sushi. I mean, you have to eat that right away.

Or if you let that sit for five minutes. Gone. Spoiled. and I, I am drinking. Are you worried about it? Sitting outside for five minutes? Right. You have to catch it quick. But I'm drinking liquid death seven line. We've never had this stuff. No, it is a sparkling water drink, but it's much more flavorful. That's, So it kind of gives you death. Liquid death? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. You know, kind of a. Well, the beauty is it's just got a little bit of agave that they use for sweeteners.

So the 19.2oz can, which is a huge can, has 20 calories in it. and there's no artificial sweeteners. None of that bad stuff. And I just think it's a cool name for a product, which I will say, the marketing kind of worked like, well, what are you drinking? Liquid tested? Sounds like it needs a little out the alcohol in there. Right?

Well, what they originally did, I think they started just with a non flavored version, which I was like what non flavored water for like two bucks though I think it'll work and then flavored. But you throw a little flavoring in you're like oh and you make the cans 19oz rather than like 16oz. Then that'll do it. It cost the I bought it at Amazon. Did I think it was like 15 bucks for an eight pack. So two bucks. Hell yeah. Right around there.

Don't do bad against like, it's not something that I would drink 50 of a day, but it's nice to have an alternative to just drinking, the water out of the fridge or the tea? The iced tea? Yeah, I do like the way your refrigerator just dispenses iced tea. That would be awesome. Did you work out a system? Awesome. I totally want that.

Somebody worked out that system where you just put, you know, maybe you got to change the teabags every few days, but the fridge just dispenses the iced tea right out of the be easy. All you got to do is start manufacturing refrigerator water filters that have tea in them. Yeah, that would make sense. I just had to refresh my water filter, replace that the other day. You'll notice when the water starts slowing down a little bit. I never use mine, so I never have to worry about that.

Cotton gin says Amazon. Workers everywhere hate people who drink liquid death. Well, only the ones that order it through them, just like because they're getting a lot of it at once. Well, it's eight cans, but I ordered two eight can packs. Yeah, that was in one of the Amazon envelopes. One of the plastic kind of envelopes was really, oh my God. I was like, this is new. It's like, I can imagine that wasn't the easiest thing to carry rather than being in a box. Wow. But the, you know, I can see.

Yeah, somebody has memories when it's like when people start, shipping really heavy stuff on a daily basis at Amazon. Yeah. Oh, okay. I got well, I first saw this in our grocery store when I was doing my online shopping because I do my online shopping. And then they didn't have it that right after they didn't have it, they added to my just for you get like $2 off per case. So I'm like, the next time I ordered it and they didn't have it again, I'm like, screw you.

The wife picks him up at the other grocery store here, which was like the same price as what Amazon was. I'm like, well, why not just order an Amazon that don't have to go out? They'll deliver it right to your door, right? God just says it's not just the delivery driver. I'm sure it's the people that have to handle it all the way through. So I'll try to buy my liquid death more through a local store. So hold up. So me ordering water through Amazon, they don't like either.

probably. I guess because it's too heavy. It's bulky. they sound like little snowflakes who maybe should just sure do that. The robots are coming to take over exactly which they will. I'm sure at some point, the robots will take over everything. The human robot delivering liquid death. That's great. I promise you, I will give him a thumbs up helicopter on the marketing. And not just being a tasty beverage. That is not 100% healthy, but I would say like 90% healthy body healthy at all.

Dude, it's got sugar. It's got agave and sugar. It's four grams of sugar and 19oz. So four grams of sugar compared to what's in a normal can of Coke like 20, 36, 30. Yeah. So this is four in a can the size of like two Cokes. And it tastes good, which is always the hard part when you're trying to do a flavored beverage that tastes sweet, not use the artificial sweeteners. They did it somehow. I mean, I guess it's more that it's a citrus based. Well, what else is it? Half check the ingredients.

It is. see? Yeah, the can is one of the weird one. So it's a little bit harder to read, but there are only a few on here. Let's see. Manufactured for liquid death in California, we donate a portion of the profits from every canned sold to help with kill plastic pollution. Yeah, because it's only in metal cans. Ingredient carbonated water. That makes sense. Yeah. Agave nectar? Yeah. Citric acid. Yep. Natural flavor. Which then it breaks that down. Lime in orange. And that's it.

Okay. So it's fairly easy to use all ingredients list that's for sure. They had none of the which just like well how long does it last. Does it have an expiration. Should we be worried that the last forever. It's gonna break down? God just says, get off your lazy ass and go to the store. No, no. Yeah. Why should he man? Why did I come in? Why would I want to do that? There's people that will take care of this for me. That's why Amazon has it. They want to deliver it to me. They.

And they want me to subscribe and save. They will give me a discount. The more I annoy the people in the chain, it will give me money off. That's how much they hate their employees. well, the employees are just unnecessary. You and I tried to buy it locally. If it would have been available locally, then I would have purchased it that way. But, you know the convenience. It's hard to be my dad. You would love my dad. Cotton gin, because he really can't get to the store.

And my mom, you know, she's in their 80s, so really, they don't want to be carrying the heavy stuff. he used to order for packs of. I think it was the hint water. Like the hint water, the pineapple, which it to be. There's really been. They say it's a hint of taste. They really mean that. There's not a lot of taste to it. But these things would be delivered like four packages of the hint water, which have 12 in each, four of those like every two weeks.

So I'm sure the Amazon driver loved them every now and again. Mean 20l of iced tea delivered every every trip. That's a grocery delivery, right? That's not, that's not the, ordering is from Amazon but from Amazon. I get 50 pound baked dirt. Well, I'm glad cotton gin doesn't have a problem with the old folk because it's too heavy. And my mom was, like, all upset. I guess she somewhere about does anybody have any good hacks or tricks or tips?

But my mom's wedding ring sometime yesterday, the main stone popped out. Oh 99 9.9% sure it's in their house, but how do you find something that small if it got into, you know, carpeting? I have a way. Yeah. If you burn the house down, the diamond won't be left. Technically true. In the ashes, you will find, like, now you got insurance and I'm sure you paid way more insurance on what it was, because it was not even a full carat.

And, when you look at the price of diamonds, they're actually down right now, which is I don't know if that should be surprising with gold as an all time high, diamonds are down. I think it may be because of how easy it is now to make the synthetic diamonds that the price of the diamonds have cut down. So, yeah, the, the diamonds, they'll they'll be there somewhere if you burn the house down. I get it. Otherwise, I don't know.

I'm like, insurance, but, you know, it's not the same thing to replace it, but there are worse things. Or how about vacuuming? This is true. Washing through your vacuum. bag. You got the vacuum. Especially if you have one with the. I've got one of the, you know, the vacuums with the. She, Does she do dishes at all? Yeah, she said she even looked in, which I'm like, make sure they're off because they have a garbage disposal like that. I think probably in there. Yeah. You know, she reached in.

Didn't feel it in there. You know, it's like you never know if you hit it. It could have loosened it. They could have come off any time. Any time. Exactly. So it could be anywhere in the house. But yeah, I guess the doing the vacuuming is. So she's one of those women that wears that thing all the time. Doesn't take her rings off at home pretty much. Yeah. And it's worked for 62 years. But. Well, it just goes to show you eventually it's going to get you right.

Yeah. I mean, little tiny prongs holding a rock is not super long term, you know. No, it's eventually going to loosen up or something's going to happen. That's why most people either get, their gram copies me. Right. So I can just not care about it if they lose it, or just take their rings off when they get home. Yeah. Before the, disconnect.

I was saying that I'm like, maybe it is because it's so easy to make the synthetic diamonds now, that's why the price of diamonds has come down, where gold and silver are up right. That and we got more, more kids working in the mines. True. Because they don't want diamonds. Kids today don't want physical things. Which is also the oddity for everybody who has, you know, collectible markets from things like the Beanie Babies and baseball cards or vinyl records or whatever it is.

They're getting to a whole new type of person that's just like, nope, we want to be, we want to own nothing and be happy. Which sounds very much like hobby and yeah thing, but hey, how about that OJ Simpson guy Yeah. OJ finally got older. Yeah, the guy made news. The guy knew how to run the, I like the one meme, which I don't normally like the memes. And it was just somebody posting. Oh, yeah.

You know, all the news is reporting that cancer killed OJ, but they're still looking for the real killer. Like nice. Oh I get it. Yeah. They've been waiting for that one for a while. Yeah. And there was of course a meme of the Bronco that was elongated to be the hearse. oh. I have not seen that one. That's pretty good. It's what OJ is going to be known for, the slow speed pursuit. A lot of people believe his covering for his kid. Yeah. It's impossible.

Killed his mom? Yeah. It's impossible to know. but it's one of those things that will go down in history, I think the lesson learned here, or should have been learned, but hadn't been, is if you're a black man and you make a few bucks, do not marry a white woman. It's going to go horribly wrong. You know what's going to happen? You're going to have to kill that bitch. Wow. Okay, now I thought we had an ISO already, but that that was a beautiful ISO, Yeah. You're like an ISO machine.

I am an ISO machine. I'm a meme generator all day long. So how was the, grocery store sushi? I mean, it's it's decent. It's not like sushi. Sushi. It's like, is it a specialty store? I'm assuming this is like a local little, chain or something. No, because they'll be doing grocery store. No, he should be. This grocery store. Sushi. Interesting. Yeah. They have a little sushi shop with a few, Mexican making sushi. Them in every store. Now that's hilarious. They have.

They have the guy here at our local store that I could walk to the closest grocery store to us, but it's a Japanese guy because they're not dumb. The last thing you want to do is have your sushi guy not be Japanese, because then you'd be like, well, that's not authentic. We're racist. Here we have our Japanese making our sushi. You're not Japanese. Do not touch that sushi. Yeah, exactly. Well, that was California a few years ago.

They were running the two women out of town who opened up a Mexican restaurant. But neither one was Mexican. That was like, oh, my God, you're horrible. People were like, no, they're culturally appropriating restaurants. Yeah. Culture. You have no business serving food of not your ancestors. Which is really hard. And absolutely okay. If you like the food enough to open a restaurant around that, you're probably going to do it fairly well. Yeah. yeah. that's true.

Although I will say racism is not limited to black people. Oh, of course, of racist Asians. Oh, well, yeah, there's racist everything. no question about it. Yeah. And a lot of this comes from millennial, people having problems with each other. I'm not going to change that overnight. No. Should you. And making them all try to move in next door to each other in the EU or the United States doesn't work. does not work. They're not all going to go Kumbaya. no. Oh, look at the clips.

We're all friends now. That's not going to happen. Never is. No. Never is. Let's see if Comcast will let us finish off the show. The first time we got a big it is I don't recall the last time that you had issues like this. No, a full joint. There have been, hardware issues on both our ends, but not a networking issue in the middle of a show. It just went down. I looked over at the modem and it's like, oh, that turned a different color.

Looked over at the alternate monitor that shows the other machine that's on the troll room. And it's like, disconnect, disconnect, disconnect. It's like, Holy cow. Everything's disconnected. I was about to try to get on the cell phone that I love, and I get why it works this way, but is it stays connected to the home Wi-Fi obviously because that's not what that is not what is going down with as long as it's connected to the home Wi-Fi.

If I go into something like signal and try to message you, you think that you go over the home Wi-Fi. It it can't. It's not smart enough to know the cell phone that that network is now unavailable and use the mobile network. So I think you have to go in and turn the Wi-Fi off to do that. And I was in the process of doing that when all of a sudden, because I already ran a thing to Google, which is usually what I do when something goes down, like, let's see when it's coming back up.

just do a quick ping Google. And then there it was, coming back up as I was trying to, to message you to say, hey, I guess the show's over, man. Somebody got in the middle. Hey. Yeah. It's, in the middle being, your, cable company. Yeah. Bastards. I need a backup to the backup. I need to get a booking for that. I was so jealous visiting Adam when I saw how fast his internet was. Yeah, the dude's got bandwidth both ways. Five gigs, bidirectional. Let's see.

I would move into a neighborhood or state just for that reason. because then you'd never leave the house anyway. it's like, this is awesome. The bandwidth, what you can do. And of course, it all depends on how much the ISP cares about if you're running servers or anything like that, because with that kind of a connection, hell, you could run a pretty nice server farm. That's a lot of bandwidth. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely.

I think they're contractually you're still limited in what you can run back there and you may not even have a static IP address. That's the other thing. But five gigs is five gigs, man. Yeah. When you are six you should be doing video, man. Get that no agenda show on video for. Well I don't know okay. I don't know if you want me to say this I'm can say it anyway. He does have a camera right in front of the podcasting right there. So, he could be doing video.

I have seen him at various YouTube programs. So we're where he has the camera. That's enough bandwidth that you could do. Eight is that camera is stuck with bubble gum up to his monitor. Well, that's one way to keep it out of there. At least that's what it looked like to me. Look like bubble gum or something. He's literally on top of them, like on the front of the monitor, not sitting like most cameras sit on the on the rim right above the monitor.

It was literally in front of the upper middle of the monitor. So it was I was like, dude, what the hell? What's going on here? It was. I was like, read itself like a cell phone. And he's like, well, I'm used to it. Okay, cool. It's like a cell phone with a notch. There's now just a part of the screen. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Without the notch part. Yeah. Interest. Exactly. I'd tell you it's a, He's still such a minimalist. He doesn't really. He doesn't think he's a minimalist, but he really is.

Like, there is very little in that podcast studio that he wouldn't use on a, on a regular basis. Like, there's nothing extra. It's just the, he's got desk right in the middle. He's got some Vikings on that thing behind him in front of him. he's got, Mike from and by the way, he's using there are E3 20 cases. Anybody's wondering which Mike he's on right now. That's the one he's on. It's a beautiful microphone. It's a great mike. So I'm on right now. I mean, the Ari 20 is still better.

You know, I mean you have the pipes that I do when you have the low frequencies. You need the Ari 20. If the 320 was truly better, you wouldn't be using any kind of audio tweaking, which you do. So it's it's you can't say that. Oh, that mic is better if you have to tweak that here I do no tweaking to my audio is coming directly the way the Ari 320 picks it up with no bumps or bruises. Yeah, but I eke the hell out of you, man. Yeah, exactly.

And frankly, you know, that means something's wrong in your end. I'm trying to make you sound good, Jane. That's all. Hey, I sound good. Anybody that spoken to me knows that. And the microphone would sound better if I took the big fumble off. Well, that I. I won't argue with that. That's probably true. That's one of the reasons why you need the EQ, because this is what we have straight out of the box. This is Ari 20 action. Yeah. And this is our E3 20 action. Yeah. This is Ari 20 though.

Which one do you think is better at all though? It's still going through. No, actually it's only got a noise gate right now. Then if you're listening, you got the, all the dynamics. Yeah. There's a little compressor if you're listening on XM. By the way, this is what Darren sounds like when we actually talk in person, by the way. Right. This is it, right? This is. Yeah. This is all you get. This is all you have right here.

And then you just go one, two, three and then you turn that, you get that, you get this, and then you're like, wow, man. Magic voice. Look at that. Wow. Yeah. It's almost like you. You were born to be a broadcaster. Well, you just have to know how to use the the gear. And now it's it's so bright. I need to I'm need to put the foam ball back on. That's right. You just for the foam ball. Yeah. Because. Yeah. If you don't then it's like, well you sound like you're underwater.

And you have to just get it dialed right on in. And I think this sounds pretty good. Now for Am radio I don't know that would matter. No. For Am radio because you kind of sound like that. Even if you record like this you're going to sound like that I mean radio, which is why when we do and I've thought about getting larger file sizes, although I don't think it really matters because there's some people that are putting their podcasts out now that bandwidth is so powerful. As we said, five.

Some people five gig up and down that the 128, the 96 to 128 standard for voice. We could probably bounce it up even a notch from that, because I do record everything quite a bit brighter, because I know that once you convert it to MP3, yeah, you lose a little bit. It kills that. So the end result is, I think the MP3 sounds the way I wanted to, but well, you can also, just switch to variable rate MP3. You know, back in the day that was problematic. I don't think that's a problem these days.

Now, all the podcast, programs should be able to handle that. I'm not sure with things like playing at multiple speeds, I would guess it's not a problem anymore. But now we could try it. You could do this one that way, and then we'll see if it works to record. Yeah. Let one of them out as a variable, one of them as a constant. Because that was the other big thing. Like it's got to be a constant bit rate. Yeah. And honestly 64kHz for voice is basically

it. No it's a better than that FM quality Am radio is 16 two hertz. Wow. That's pretty I'm sorry 16 kilobits over 16 can be three file sounds like Am radio, 64 sounds like broadcast, and anything over 64 is like live. What 28 should be like CD quality? Well, remember 128 is simply 260 4K stereo channels. Yeah. And a lot of people are like, what's a CD? Yeah, well CDs weren't that CD. Well again, it depends. Right. Because CDs, uncompressed audio.

So it's a lot more data, but it's still just 22kHz. I know it's I sorry, 44kHz. 44.1. that is yes. And then 48 is the high res 48 was not CDs. Those CDs were 44, 48 was that if you had that tape, you could do 48. Then when you got into the Blu ray audio and that you're using, what did Blu ray? I Blu ray had analog, laser based audio. That was well, that was the laser disc, right? The Blu ray went to digital audio. Damn it. You're right. You're absolutely right. Yeah. Yes, that is correct.

I was thinking of the Laserdisc that had the analog audio digital, the analog laser audio that was to Bob. And I want to know how many people out there actually had a Laserdisc player. I did, and a couple of pioneer were back in the day, and they were the size like 12in. They were the size of like record albums. They were absolutely. And they were double sided and people. That's right, they were. Because you'd have to flip it halfway through the movie. That was the annoying part.

now, mine didn't have the other floppy thing. I think the later, laser disc players actually have a, like a laser on rotates. Yeah, laser rotated or whatever. Yeah. It was a lot easier to have a laser on both sides that they actually flip the disc. Right, right. But if a great if the door would have open and the disc would have flown into the air and come back down, flipped around and sucked back in.

Yeah. Like flipping a pancake. Yeah. And then, I remember being in the office and had, it was vertical. So you actually slide the disc in sideways. Oh, I remember them making CD players. Like, I don't remember the laser disc. Yeah, yeah, yeah, they had lasers just playing like that. Cotton. They had the laser disc in high school. They had a whole physics lecture on the laser. This. That would have been interesting back in the day.

Yep. Yeah. It was revolutionary technology that now people like if it ain't streaming, I love it. Yeah, quality means well. And that's the thing. It's with five gigs. Dude, you you can download a, 4K video quality movie for streaming in probably the first minute of the movie. The bandwidth helps. I mean, I remember when Netflix started doing the streaming, having arguments with people because the quality then was not great. No, no, but I was under the impression that people cared about that.

Even somebody with crappy eyes like me. I mean, it wasn't as bad then. They had two of them, right? But I was like, well, this will never take off. People are still gonna buy the movies they really love because they're going to want the best quality. That's like turns out people don't care about quality. Let me guess. You're the guy that had Betamax. My dad had a Betamax one. And, of course we got our first Betamax. I think it was 1977, 78. Holy shit. Really early. yeah. He won.

It was a, you know, he was always a carpet rep, and he was always a damn good salesperson. Yeah, we got to the point where they would have for the one sales contest. Always. Oh, my gosh, it's the Chicago region here. The Chicago Floor Covering Association. They used to give an award to the number one sales person every year. And he won it so many years in a row, they stopped which I think is great. But that's where we got the Betamax from.

And I remember I wish his dad is still have it, although once it's opened and all that we had a copy of Blazing Saddles from like 77 or 78, I they max the, the pre, politically correct one winner. Yeah. There's like this is back in the day I mean one having a Betamax movie of anything. Yeah is a little bit older. I'm sure there's some Zoomers that would pay thousands of dollars for that. Even open in the condition that it's in, be like you got. That's even better. You got Blazing Saddles, man.

I remember watching that on the TV like, oh, this is different, I guess. Oddly enough, I just downloaded allegedly that movie a couple of weeks ago, and like, I need to see that again. It's been way too long since I've seen the Mel Brooks genius that is Blazing Saddles. But yeah, we haven't. Yeah, Betamax like 77. That was a big deal when the Hi-Fi Betamax came out, but the timer on the first made the match we had, it was a Sony, of course, was one of the clocks that was physical.

So as the minutes changed, it flipped, you know, literally. Oh, yeah. Yeah, it had the dial thing in there. It wasn't digital. It was and then you actually had to turn the knob on the side if you wanted to set it to start recording, which of course, yeah, I think the original Betamax had like an hour on the tape, even at the slower speed.

and the quality was not great, but I remember it was huge when they came out with the stereo Betamax, and I probably still have a bunch of old concerts that were broadcast in Chicago that I recorded on a stereo Betamax, because you could record for two hours plus, and you didn't have to flip a tape, and the sound quality was better than anything you were going to get on an audio cassette. Yep. Like, damn, it was good technology. Yeah, they had some good stuff back then.

When did you get up that much? You have one. We we did not have a Betamax. We had VHS and then my dad got the first two. They came out. He got the super VHS. Oh, yes. in the early 80s. That did make a big difference on the quality of the picture. It it made a huge difference predominantly on the the long play modes. Yes. So a little bit of improvement on the two hours per videotape mode, but a lot of improvement on the 4 hour or 6 hour per day mode.

And of course, you know, my dad used six hours for everything, right? Because you yeah. You don't you can't waste that money. You can't spend more. That's why you can see he had he bought a, a portable, VHS deck that you could use then with a camera because all this shit was too big to fit in the camera. Right. So you have to carry, like, this little briefcase with you that had the recorder and it was running off batteries, and then that plugged into the camera, and.

But because of that, he had two VHS recorders, which means that he was renting movies and doing what you're doing and making the copies. Well, that would be six hours back then they didn't have every tape, had three movies. They were. Well then they and that was DRM stuff. Yeah. They just started doing that. And then because the recorder that he used for playback was older, it didn't have any DRM crap. So it works. So you didn't even need one of the little boxes. The DVR.

it just fed out a nice signal that you could recorded to the other. And yes, that was the good old days when you would be able to, to just connect two machines with the RCA cables, press play on one record on the other. It just worked. And but it killed me. Would you got, like, 3 or 4 generations away? What the hell's going on? Gene, are you okay? with all that noise with my boom arm, is that all this will be filtered out by this free, software. Nobody will even know what we're talking about.

My my boom just disintegrated. Just. There goes the boom. Yeah, there's a there's a show title that goes to boom instead of here Comes the Boom. Wasn't that the song? Here come the Boom, there goes the boom. Even though, well let it just the the joint fell apart, man. Wow. The boom joint. This is bed. That episode filled with the lights. But you know what though? If we're going to have shit happening. Bass I'll be on one show. Happened on one show? Yeah, right.

This is, So I'm holding it with my arm now. Well, it's not filtered out. Live submersed. But if you listen to this, the recorded version of it, that's when the magic happens. And all of the filters take out all the bad stuff. This is exactly the show. And the mouth just fell over. This is exactly the show that our three the supporters for a combined dollar money. This is exactly this show that you were deserving today. Yeah. You got you got the show you deserve.

You got your money's worth. Let me tell you. yeah. That's true. This was absolutely. I just found the hex key to screw this up for the other. It was live while we're recording. Was it under the Mo two, by any chance? Is it? No, the month two. I put the bottle back up. The mother should be fine, but, yeah, the, Is this working? I can't tell if this is working or not. Is it working? Is this thing, It's just turning. I don't think it's actually. The screw is screwing.

It's not the screw broke. Really? It may have, because I. It's turning. I may need to order a new boom arm tap. Damn it. CSP says today's show is unlistenable. That sounds about right. That's because there's no relation for him. That's why it's on. Listenable. well, he's refusing to. Because of something you're doing again. But I will read from CSB. Unrelenting pod is totally unlistenable. Live again. Interruption on and a stream. Fuck that. This is crappy user experience with long pauses.

Yeah, crappy user pauses. This is, the theme for unrelenting. That is hour. A new tagline, though I think a crappy user experience with long pause experience. Yeah. Welcome to unrelenting. Good tagline, ma'am, I like it. CSB he comes up with the stuff just like a, I would say he is an I. A lot of people at him don't know that I would you know he he's just building upon himself though. this is what happens when I run amuck. We get a bunch of csvs. Yes. Have you gotten that?

I used your I buzz you boom. I'm back in functioning. No, I'm kind of. Screw it right now. Well, I hear you have a lot of problems trying to screw things I do, which is why you don't have any kids. welcome to the unlistenable podcast. Says sir row spot. Damn, that's a great name. Yes, I'm digging that name. We could we could just move right on into that. Welcome to unlistenable. Yep. You should see if that's available. Yeah, it's a good idea right there. Great name, the great name.

It would be better than Angry Tech News. You could just add that right in here. Kidding. Not even close. Hello. Jason Lee, Buckeye extraordinaire, guru of grumpy old bands. You are listening to unrelenting. Where today? Maybe we should have just relented is kind of what I'm saying. This is not screwing back in, man. This is. I think this arm's had it. You need a okay, so you need a brand new boom arm. The road ones are fairly nice. I've been using a road one for a while. Is that what you're.

I mean, it's a pretty basic. I have a road. I have a all in band. Drew. Man, that guy's got some high end arms. Oh, Adam's got some fricking high end arms. Yeah. That's good. Well, again, I know it will. They will never break, but they cost like 50 times what. Oh yeah. Yeah I think they're, they're like $450 for the cheap one. Yeah. They look beautiful. So when you're on camera. Yeah. Yeah. I am totally ordering you armed. This thing is busted. See, this is what you get for getting a knockoff.

What? You. What did you get? It's a rogue knockoff. Oh, so it's just like a cheap Chinese. it looks just like the road, but it was cheaper. Gotcha. Now I know why I invited those from aura. Oh, yeah, that's. Which is what, the, thing that's holding my mic right now. It's worked perfectly for the, for the shock mount for the RC three 2020 slash mine is a five find brand arm. Oh, well, that is super fancy. I see those at the, the Amazon. The only question I have for you, Jean, is it.

Would you consider that arm to be, If I find it's not for fine anymore? It's pretty. it's pretty for for broken. Yeah. I'm happy for you. It's all broken.