I really need to start taking vitamin B, then they. Can help me with. Hello and welcome to episode number 112 of UN relenting. It's the Seinfeld of podcast. No. rights reserved. I am Darren O'Neal. He is surging, living with and up. Perfect. Did I get that right? Finally. I've been. Yes. Yep. We pronounce it correctly. Finally. We have been, looking through a lot of different things. The last show, remember, we had some network issues. We did. It turns out the umbrella boxes are evil.
and I have never run into a device, you know, especially a Raspberry Pi, you know? Okay, it's not like it's some big ass machine. That has the ability to just crash your entire home network. so I mean, there's that if you want to run the bitcoin nodes and lightning nodes yourself, these are the kind of things you have to deal with. Get an Intel, the one. And it was interesting because it wasn't just umbral, it was the race blitz.
There's a couple different projects which allow people to run with the node at home. Right. So it's everybody that wants to run a lightning node on a Raspberry Pi because the hardware is relatively cheap. And they had the issue with that as well. Somebody said they fix the problem by putting the device behind a network switch. So I bought a $25 TP link, managed, switch. And then I put that behind another switch, and then that connects to the router where it was connected directly to the router.
Well, it was already the switch was already down in the basement. So this is how I run this janky system. I got a bunch of NAS systems in the basement. So I have a direct one line only. I mean, I really should run multiple. I get it. That's how you warm up the basement? Yes, exactly. In the winter, it keeps the basement nice and toasty. so I run the, cat6 cable down from the router directly into the basement. Okay, so you're doing two and a half gigs. You. Well, yes.
I mean, the ability is there to do it. Most of the things that I have down there are just gigabit. So, overall it's kind of gigabit, which is why you don't want to. I notice things like lag when looking at the directory in my music mass drives because there's like a million things. It's a huge thing. So it doesn't open up instantaneously, which is kind of a pain, but it's fine for when I want to stream ten ATP video from the basement. It's fine. When I want to stream music, it's fine.
But I run that one wired cable, which was already going into a switch, which has the four NAS devices plugged into that switch. Well, I now just plugged in another switch to that switch, so hopefully the switch to the switch to the router will fix the issues and we won't crash today or moving beyond. Or I just turn off the umbral device and throw it into the fire. but these are the things people never talk about bitcoins on there. Yeah, I have no bitcoins on there yet.
All I have is the bitcoin node sync and I have the lightning node installed, but I have not yet opened any channels. So right now just watching that, that's how it crashed too. It wasn't anything extra beyond having the bitcoin constantly updating the blockchain. And it's really not a lot of bandwidth. So I don't know if it was just just behaving. It's maybe a configuration issue and maybe a, some kind of networking bug in the firmware.
Yeah. And they did, of course, when I went to plug it back in, which was only two days after I unplugged it, once I realized what it was ordered the switch. And the minute I plug the, Berlin, it's like, oh, there's an update to the software. Like, of course there is no, my PC wants to restart. Let me open. I've never opened up an can on the air here.
I want to see. Yeah. If, if this which is some beautiful liquid death severed limb, I want to know if the, the filters are going to take this out when, we, we get the final show. Well, I could barely hear the noise. Yeah, I just heard a quickie. So that was it. I, I guess I should have put it right in front of the microphone because, you know, directional at all. But, it's the way the, no agenda does it?
You're here if during the show now constantly you're hearing somebody open up a can hopping that chance. It's a sound effect, dude. It's just a button. The button like it. Oh well, that would be a lot easier. But then I wouldn't get to quench my thirst with the liquid death. Well, you should be drinking. I see, said I will be moving more in the iced tea. But see, when you do the iced tea, it's the caffeine.
And then if I start pounding the caffeine early in the show, then I got a rose during the show. No, no, you can get fairly low caffeine, I see. You know, it depends on what it's made of. You get green. I see there's no caffeine at all in there. I mean, I guess you could also just get a, a urinal, 2 to 1 of them little things like you have in that when you're in the hospital and they just give you like, oh, he right into here, boy. Yeah, I hear enough about that.
With people playing video games I don't need to hear on this show why there are people here. I mean, one, okay, there were women that were so serious about the Taylor Swift concert that they were don't turn off your computer to go in and they wouldn't have to leave their seats. So video gamers have so they don't have to get up. Oh, are you kidding? First of all, video gamers are men with bright, which makes it a little easier. But, well, at least you could point to something there.
Are there guys that seem like they're constantly saying, hey, let's take a bio break? and then there are guys that never say that. Let's like bio break. Interesting. Why? Why have you not stopped talking on this discord channel for eight hours? Maybe it's a wireless. Maybe it's a wireless headset. Yeah, yeah. No, it it totally is. I think for some people it's a wireless headset. But you know, they're still.
Yeah, the, the words, they go take a leak right when you can hear that there's the other sound effect of the of the anything. No no no. They're very good at isolating the noise from that. You want to really get it up in the mix. yeah. And I remember I second one they did a couple of days ago and I'm like, we're still chatting. It's like an hour later and you said you were gonna take off and, you know, use the restroom. He's like, oh, yeah, no, I'm good. I did nothing to worry.
Yeah, well, we were talking don't worry about I mean, I mean, I guess it was hopefully just one Z's. I mean, otherwise you never know. Well, you never know, I guess, but, Yeah, I mean, look, if I couldn't tell, I guess. What difference does it make? Why did you tell me afterwards? That's the question. Yeah, well, because I, because I was trying to be, you know, conscientious after an hour of still talking and say, oh, yeah. Yeah. You're trying to leave. Sorry. Right.
You were trying to go pee and he's like, no, no, like that. Either that or you talk so much that there was of like a three minute point where you just were saying stuff that, yeah, nobody was listening. There are plenty that never happened to me. Do you think probably. I don't remember. I did it a few times that I caught up, and then he got up. Oh, you caught him. He got shy about it because there's nothing worse with the podcast, really? Like. Okay, so what do you think? another silence.
All right. Right, right. Like, oh, that's very good. Especially when they're normally not right. Quiet at all. Right. That's how you know. All right, I just rebooted. I'm good. You know, your windows machine rebooting. I know it's I love having doing the podcast on a different machine I was following. Still, the Lego guy in Canada, who has bought a warehouse to build a studio in. So it's like we are way in the wrong fucking jobs because we can't afford to go build a warehouse to play podcaster.
And with the mighty, we're backing. What are you talking about? Well, I did that years ago. Yeah, I have the awesome podcast studio. Yeah, I went broke. Exactly. It didn't quite work out totally. Well, did that because I was shelling out, like, three grand a month for studio rental. Yeah, well, this guy bought the place, which is even worse. So shelling out even more than three grand a month. Yeah.
And, the, people on his channel, I guess, talked him into buying a mac because he wants to do 4K video now, which I know you love. I don't think the channel deserves more than 1080p, but that's just me. I mean, you ought to be doing eight k video, right? This is the thing. If you if you. Yeah, if you're not at a K right now you're already behind the ball. You kind of.
And they convince them to get a mac and it lasted like less than two days before he returned it because I don't know he's an idiot. Yeah I know, I don't know how to use the Mac. And then he went and bought some other gaming machine. And he was really impressed that when he hit render, he could hear the fans, come on, I'm like, asshole, don't you get what the Mac? It's quiet for a reason. Yeah, and it was a he bought the Mac. The Mac mini Pro, which I was like frail for a whole new one.
Right. Well, I've been going back and forth because, I mean, one, I don't do video rendering, but what if I want to? That's what everybody does with computer. This is how you spend way too much money because it's always. But what if I want to? I mean, the big secret is today, literally any machine of $1,000 can do 4K video rendering. Yeah, it's not a problem.
Just depending on the Mac selling point is they can do four or 8 or 16 depending on which machine you get of real time continuous 4K rendering. At the same time. Yes. And the studio has two totally, independent graphics cards, whatever you want to call them. And the way Apple does it, which does cut your rendering time down to half because they do scale. So it's like, yeah, if you're doing 4K video, the Mac mini is fine and it will do the job about real time.
So maybe a minute per minute of video. Oh, it's faster than that is it? Well, the studio would be twice as fast as whatever the yeah, I the even my old Mac mini, that is you remember I bought and sat in the box for years, right? The entire one. No, not the entire one or the the M1. Oh, right. The first one. yeah. Is there on to what, M3 though? Well, yeah. So they're talking M4, which also makes me never want to buy one one.
Yeah, yeah, even that one will do, video rendering about at the same speed. It's really not eating faster or slower than the, the gaming PC that I've got, which is a, you know, purpose built $3,000 PC. Right. Well, because the Macs are kind of tweaked for doing video rendering. yeah. It's like it is for the people doing YouTube channels. It's a big segment of their buying market. Yeah. the question from nobody, how can one not know how to use a mac? Well, that's the question, isn't it?
It's not that different than windows when it comes to I mean, there's different. Sure. Yeah. I guess he couldn't find the windows button on the keyboard, so he gave up. Right? I don't know how to do this. It's like, I don't know, I would have it because then when he bought this other machine and then he was like, well, I have to take the other one back first.
I would have taken the same video files that you shot for your 20 minute 4K, and then rendered them side by side to see which one is going to do better. Yeah. And then if you're using Adobe software on both machines, you know, user interface is identical, right? He was using a DaVinci but also the same. Oh yeah. Same thing. Identical. Yeah I that's honestly that's what I have as well. I really need to cancel my Adobe subscription. It's now middle of April.
I haven't used once this year, but you got a great deal on it. I got a great deal that I haven't used once. Yeah, that's not good. today's show, I get a great deal every year, and I cancel it every year right there. Like I got it. That's going to be awesome. I try this year, I haven't used it at all.
I mean, of course, if I do dip my toe back in the Mac world, I don't know if I would stick with the Adobe Audition or go because I really liked using Logic Pro X back ten years ago when my buddy Tom recorded all the music here. Yeah, and that was beautiful. Software just worked with the, plugging everything in through the, the physical mixer, which was, a lot of fun. But we'll see. which software? I mean, the one thing I love about the Mac form factor is it is very small, it is very quiet.
and probably works a little bit more. Well, and honestly, that's one of the difference between the mini and the, the, the studio is the mini doesn't have a fan to it. Well, it's, there's none at all in that one. It's a I don't believe so. No, I know they got big sinks in it. Cotton gins using an M1 MacBook Pro right now. And I thought about it for a brief minute. Then I remembered reading something because woot had one of the M1 studio ultras, which would have sold for like four grand.
I think it's them two Citi Ultra. I don't think they made an M1 studio, so no, it was because the M2 is the current one. There wasn't M1, but the problem was, I think it was very short lived because the scaling did not work properly. So you didn't get that boost if you were doing video rendering. So woot had those $4,000 machines for like 24 or something the other day and I'm like, oh, that's a good deal. And I'm like, wait, I heard something about these. The M1 ultra, which is also confusing.
It's it's bad enough that you've got, you know what, the M1, M2, M3, I get that, but when it's well, it's the M1 or the M1 Max or the M1 ultra or the M1, whatever, it's all those little variations out. That was two years ago. The M1 ultra came out. Yeah, I thought it was the M2. I guess the M1. So that one you have to beware of getting a really good deal on, because otherwise the difference between a the low end M2 studio and the year, you know, oh, you know, don't have to be the ultra m3.
The M3 Pro and the M3 max now. Yes. Which they don't have, which is like why aren't you updating all of your machines at the same time? Why don't you have the studios with M3 as yet? they're like, well, they might not ever do M3 with the studio. They might go to right to M4. insane tangent test sees no reason to upgrade to M2 or M3. Well, to give Apple more money. Cottage cheese the two and a half times faster, which again, this is where you have to put everything into some kind of context.
As you said, hey, I'm taking my $2,000 1500 gaming rig, whatever it is, and my $500 Mac mini is just as fast doing the video rendering. Yeah. So it's a it's a three and a half year old $3,000 gaming rig. Yeah, I'm coming up to do to get that replaced. It's about every three years for me. I find I'm like, I need a new one. I'm I'm down to four years. I used to do it every year, but at this point I'm like once every four years is enough because he can't right now. I just priced it out.
It's gonna cost me 3500 bucks minimum. Well, yeah, because you want to have the ultimate gaming rig. Yeah, well, that's what I have. Every four years, I. I buy whatever is at the top of the line. At that point in time, I. And, I got one of them actually get one for three grand last time. Can't, can't do it this time. It'll be closer to four. Well, this is the I'll show the lies that we tell ourselves up. You know, if I buy if I buy that $4,000 machine, then I could go five, six years between.
Yeah. I'm not telling myself that. Still, two, three years later, you're like, I need something. I need something new. Yeah. Today shouldn't be fair. There's really only one game that would see a benefit in doing that. That's the one that's still in alpha. Yeah. That'd be the one star citizen. it's such a frustrating game as I really hit my head against the wall with it yesterday. Does it play on the a mac mini?
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I mean, I probably don't plan on being around here in, 20, 70. So somebody else will have to take over the, show. Yes. The 22nd century is looking like it's right around the corner. It's gonna be here before, you know it. Kids, prepare to prepare. He says. Comrades, after the events of the last show, the coveted unrelenting podcast helmet award goes to sir Gene of the Texas clan. Okay. Yeah, that's just the way that sound. I love the I know That Helmet award. Yeah, the Podcast Helmet award.
tragedy struck. He says I had to do some real work. when the boss walks in with a cup of tea. How you like it? Something's up. For the record, I like my tea. How? I like my women white and weak. Y'all, Dell's doing a whole different show. I love this, I know, I know, it's great, he said, speaking of, it was Black History Month while everyone was talking today. Well, your album did come out today, which I thought was the reason why the big donation from, is to this release party day.
Oh yeah, of course, that's right. Taylor as, delighted about half of her fan base and pissed half of her fan base off, which I always love because she released the album. You know, this they would normally do at midnight. I remember back in the day, the only thing I recall going to a record store do we have to explain to people what record stores are they old enough, for Bruce Springsteen's live album?
When it came out in like 1988, that's the only thing I ever remember going to a record store at midnight, because for the big releases that it was like, hey, you got a you we want to sell it to you first. And went for that one. Now it just. Yeah. Amazon deliver it to you. It's fine. But two hours after the new digital version of the album was released I don't know, it's actually double that. So what do you mean double that?
The vinyl and the CDs that were released at midnight were like 16, 17 songs. the new digital version released two hours afterwards. 31 songs. Oh. Holy shit. so she's outsourcing China now or what? Probably this is, one it's a lot of music. I don't I don't see a middle aged white woman doing 31 songs. It's a lot for one release. we're, you know, used to the people like Bruce Springsteen. It. Yeah, that'd be like a new TV show coming out with 24 episodes.
The season will more be like 24 episodes a week is kind of what it seems like instead of eight. Yeah, well, we have to. Yeah, we have to pull it back. The workload is way too much. But my original thought was like, I don't care because I just buy them to flip them and the prices still go up and that's fine. But for the people who care about such things, like, well, I want to be able to listen to it. It's like, well, you sold me for a week just pretending you're a fan.
You're actually just, mercantile. The, The music is good. It's good background music. It's still. I wouldn't put it as, if you were to ask me who my favorite all time artists are. Taylor would probably deacon around 10th. I'm thinking it's like Crosby, stills, Nash without young, though. They sucked without young, man. I mean, I would still rather listen to overall and have listened to overall more Sinatra and Dean Martin I still love There you Go, that stuff.
I love Springsteen, especially the early pre 1984 stuff, Tom petty, Dire Straits, Mark Knopfler. His whole catalog is fantastic. See, the thing is I don't liked a lot of pop music, so when I want to listen to it, I still prefer a female voice. And overall there's not many out there that I listen to. Yeah. When you're in the mood to hear about girl problems right. I'm not listening to Jewel or or nobody's listening to a Sheryl Crow because she's complaining, though she can't make any money.
Well, Sheryl Crow is like 65, I know. I don't even know who she is anymore. She released her latest album, like, two weeks ago. It's the first time it didn't even hit the Billboard 200. So that's got to be a sad day for somebody that was also to come out and complain with, I can't make any money. It's like I, I told that to my buddy Larry. Clearly sexist, right? Obviously I don't let to my buddy Larry over on the planet rage. And he's like, didn't she sell like 20 million records?
It's like, yeah, you you did not put your money in the right place if you're broke at this point. because you made a lot of it. Most people in a bunch of movies Sue. What she. Yeah, I mean, I know she was in a she did a bunch of TV shows, too. Yeah. So she did her thing. She should have made her money. There's going to come a point. Even in the career of a Taylor Swift, who is the super money making machine now in 20 years, I wouldn't expect her to be making any money.
Right? It's just the way it goes now. There are rare artists like Springsteen because of the touring shows. Still makes a ton of money. Yeah, fuck those guys. There's a, article I saw, some dude, I think it was John Mellencamp. We are winning with this audience. Yes. Hey, how about I play less for you guys now? Because. Fuck you. Yes. You like that, Well, how about I do ten songs? Fewer from from the show. So you get to hear less. What a dick, man. Well, I guess he was spouting Biden stuff.
And this is where. Yeah, he was funny, but does he not realize that those people will have legitimate cause to get their money back? Yes. Well, yeah. Especially when you say I'm cutting the show short. Yeah, yeah. It's like, oh, congratulations, John. you're now upside down because the show costs more than the money it made because people got refunds. You have to understand that most likely half your audience thinks different politically than you do.
Whether you're Ted Nugent or whether you're John Mellencamp. Either way. Yeah. And most of these quote unquote creative types are absolutely clueless about politics to begin with, regardless of which side they're on. Right. Somebody told them something saying, yeah, like opening your trap and talking about a topic that literally everybody sitting in front of you knows more than you about. Probably not the best move. Certainly mofo.
In the troll room troll room, DiDio says, quote, I don't like pop music, says the Taytay fan, but that's like the only pop music I listen to. I mean, I don't listen to Olivia Rodrigo, I don't listen to how do you even know these names? I don't know who that is because I go to the target site looking for vinyl, and I run across it every day. I may or may not look at every album that's been released, so I can either acquire or not acquire it by some digital download means.
I literally I don't listen to any. I mean, you can go to my last page, it's Ozone Ball and you can see I listen to a lot of Taylor Swift, but I listen to nothing else in the pop realm. So it's an oddity. And it's only because she started as a country artist when I was listening to country. Otherwise I probably wouldn't even listen to Taylor Swift. Yeah, but a lot of people start as country airs. But what is country now? This is the other thing I don't know. That is way weird for me.
Again, while going through every release when they come out, there are plenty that are listed as like alt country. So I click on it and I take a sample of it and it's like this is not country at all. I think country is just like Christian rock. Maybe at this point, like we really don't have any way to put a genre on it. We have to call it something. Yeah. My like the country I like this the tier in my beer country, you know. Yeah. Well, that's, Hank Williams, junior.
And then I really enjoyed these. Disappeared for a while now, which was Hank Williams the third, which is, Junior's kid who did different sets. And an average show of his was broke down into three parts. The first part, very hillbilly country, very acoustic. Then he went into more of a mosh of that and metal. And then the last bit was death metal. Pure death metal. This is the harshest stuff you can imagine. that was a lot of fun. But the country that he did was fantastic, man.
It was. Or the other stuff was decent as well. But the country that was the kind of country that I liked, the stuff that had led to full attitude, a lot of really bad words. Taylor using a lot of bad words in this album, which it just doesn't seem to work for her for some reason. Maybe it's just the cause he's, middle aged white woman. Yeah, that's probably it. That is probably it. But a lot of the fans were upset then because they're like, wait, you sold me half a fucking album.
This thing that you had me buy this CD, this vital that you had me buy is only half the fucking songs. And now I have to go pay again. If I want a digital, you know, to pay for the digital download, that's like. It's not when they offer the full album, they may never. But it's like, why would you do that? It's just dumb, dumb marketing to be like, everything you just bought was only half of what there is. Yeah. that would be like, hey everybody, you have to pay for the show.
And then halfway through the show, like, oh, if you want to hear the end of the show, you now have to pay again. It's horrible, but that's marketing in, 2024, I suppose. I, I don't see that as horrible at all. I'm still on the sales line. I like my t like I like my women white week week. Yeah, exactly. We don't have a, We go. There's a way to contact Dale, so you can't complain to him.
Sorry. He says both the U.S. and UK have repair and reset agreements with the LNT shipbuilding yard near Jimmy Cagney and I India, two UK ships currently and one UK ship soon. I believe both have several through the last year. Can't maintain them. Stuart can't build them. Well, maybe this is something to do. I mean, I know there's a lot of talk about, the hitting of the bridge when it came to the, those big ships, the barge, yeah. Like, how did that happen?
He says, what's the deal with the new Russian heavy lift rocket, sir? Gene, how many tonnes of caviar and blood diamonds can you get to the moon dacha? Yeah, exactly. That's, hilarious question. Actually. Because, Of course, that's exactly what you would have in the moon if you're an oligarch. Is a dacha. Well, and you have to bring your caviar. But we all know you've got at least one caviar guy and probably a backup caviar guy, just in case. The first caviar guy. Something happens.
Yeah, you're actually exactly right on that. I do have two caviar guys, but I don't buy caviar very often. That's fucking expensive shit, man. Well, yeah. Yeah, isn't that the point? Does anybody really like caviar, or is it just. Well, it's expensive, so we have. It tastes really good, dude. Like it really like back. But it didn't used to be all that expensive. A lot with your sushi on Mondays. No, but before sushi, I mean, the caviar says you can get those caviar dreams.
Jean did not get a bottle of formula. He was. He was little Richie Rich. They had him in his golden little highchair. Yeah. Here, little Jean, have some caviar. Yeah. I never have a high chair. Where did you say? On the floor or. no, the regular chair, man. He's like, I am big enough. The beard. The beard was already started to. Exactly. The beard started when I was a little kid sitting and eating caviar with a spoon, Dale says.
With winter and long, cold nights approaching down here, I'm wondering when the senpai surging body pillow was hitting the merch store. What do you want? This. This is the thing. Do people want to sleep with the representation of Sir Jim? Oh my God. And then this s that brings the question of the beard back as well. Is it a just. Is it something that is etched onto the body pillow, or do we actually need to add hair on the outside of the body to us,
that's a horror movie. Yes, we have a we did a merch store though. You have a good point there, Dale. We need store. You know, they do have those like full length body pillow things with the pictures of people on them. In Japan, it's a thing they do. It's it's a little bizarre. I mean, I get the long pillow because sometimes, you know, especially if you're sleeping on your side or something, it's it's cozy to have something right next to you. Yeah. It keeps you from flopping around.
I would guess. Yeah. Yeah. like, if you ever slept aboard a yacht. Where the. Well, of course, when you have a caviar guy, that's a fuck you. That's a big helicoptered in while you're out on the seas. where they have a seabird. So kind of like you have a. I guess I would sort of describe it as a halfway mix between a bed and, hammock. Makes you, like, keeps you from rolling around when the boat is jostling left and right. How many people out there have slept on a yacht? Let us know.
Everybody slept in that? Yeah. I do not have. I don't know. Where's yours? where is yours currently? parked where they call a berth. Whatever. where is the surging yacht? We can all go down, have a party. Yeah. So jeans are there? Yeah. 16 was on the other people's yet? That's just way cheaper. Way to go. Okay. No question. I learned his lesson by buying a boat. Yeah, well, you think you're right because you think it cost a lot of money to keep up with the latest, video game machine, dude.
Yeah, exactly. Gotta keep up with the happiest two days of me. I don't think about. They bought it. They're sold it. It's always that way. It is. And the second number was a lot less than the first. It was half the second number. It was half of the first number. And how what kind of our time period between the two of three years. Wow. so you bought that thing new, I'm guessing, right? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Because to see if you were to bought it used, you would have probably kept most of the value but that you're buying problems. Yeah. Exactly. That was a hardly used, center console fishing boat. They all says station. If I was fishing tuna, you got a lot of fish with that? yeah. Zero. So it was well worth that. I spend more time at the dealer getting electronics installed to try to find the fish. Anything else? Yeah, yeah, I had, I had radar, multiple sonar.
Yeah. Multiple, sonar for fish fighting. I had a deep sea. Once that goes down to 1000ft underwater. Yep. This is the way this technology buoy you. But this is this was on the boat. Boat? Yeah, exactly. It was a jet boat. So it had, no, prop sitting in the water. So, I mean, this thing had, like, all kinds of electronics in it that and yeah, I, I actually I went out fishing twice. I think I went boating other times, but I went fishing specifically twice. Never caught a damn thing.
One time I left the keys to the boat on the boat and it drifted away. That's that sucked. where I parked my boat. And here's the best part. Like, that wouldn't even matter because it had remote control so I could control it from my iPhone. Oh, that's even better. It's like a good drone. Oh, yeah. It was totally like a drone. But I had not even turned on the keys on the boat to enable it, so you can't get it happen.
So that was just the keys were just sitting in the boat as I went back to like, my car and came back and saw my oh, I forgot to tie it up. Goddammit, this is the true rich guy video game. You walk into Gene's house, there's a bunch of screens up, and you're like, what are you playing these? Like, yacht simulator? Yeah, I have that. But you're real yacht. You're controlled. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, right. Exactly. it's, No, it's. I like sailing, man. I always enjoyed sailing. Like, I grew up sailing.
What was the name of the boat? Boating was, I didn't. I'm not a boat name person. I don't name animals or boats. We have to, but it has to have a name, doesn't it? Like, legally either. Well, everybody has a name, but I know legally it has a number. it was like, 0X56B or something. Just rolls right off the tongue. All right. Was it fun? It's I think you I think you only really have to name a, oceangoing vessel. I don't think you name stuff that's smaller.
You didn't name it, like, caviar dreams or anything like that. Okay, now that's a wild guess. I do have a spaceship named Caviar Dreams. Really? Yeah. Wow. I am in your head, man. It's, Yeah. It's, for anyone that's a video game person in Star Citizen. It is the 890 jump, which is a luxury super. Yet. And mine happens to be called Caviar Dreams. Now, your actual boat, did it fly under the American flag? The Russian flag? the pirate flag. the Cypriot flag. Whatever.
Whatever works, I guess. Wherever you are. Yeah. Cypriot Dale says stay unrelenting, mofos, and know you, Dale. Our friends stay unrelenting. And thank you for being the only person to support the show. At least we know somebody listens. That's a long ass message, sweetie. I didn't fit all that into a a 256 character limit on PayPal. He, sent an email. It's this new technology that I'm not aware of that speedy bubble came in with 10,000 satoshis and says, Based on your is it still a belt?
This guy should I wanted to share a menu item from a local restaurant then belt a sandwich, bacon, eggs, lettuce, tomato and ham. The belt. That much. Yeah. add your choice of bread though. so it's a BLT plus cheese and ham. Yes. And egg. egg. We're saying that in of the sandwich bell.
I mean, it's like a fried egg or chopped egg or a fried egg, which is what I put on the BLT that I made for, which is what I made was just like, it's a BLT with an extra fried egg and some cheese with the fried egg dribble out. Yes, they got very messy, but it was delicious. Yeah, I'm not a fan of messy foods. Now you can cook. It just right so that the yolk was not liquid anymore. Yeah. Then wouldn't taste as good. It's got to be a little liquidy.
Yeah. No, I would, I would probably take that whole thing and just like, wrap it up in a pita bread. Well, that makes it less messy. That could be your bread tortilla. 30th idea. I like a good idea. Or a pita. Yeah. I'm problem. I, you know, honestly, I prefer neither. I would take a crap over both, but the, What do you say? What do you say? I'll take a crap over both. That completely sounds like. Yeah. You know, people love to correct me, but they're actually wrong. They're corrupt. Right?
They are. Crap. Yeah. You got to be very careful. But that's how you would pronounce it in France. Say there's a thin line between prepping crap. It's you can pronounce it crap and you're still cloaked in crepe. Crepe is a, purely American Incorrect pronunciation. Interesting. Just got a. You feel free to Google it on. in a French language site, that has voice, pronunciations. And what you'll hear, it's not the word crap, but it sounds closer to the word crap than Craig, than grape.
There were great places when I was a kid who called the magic pan, and then they disappeared. Yeah, I remember Magic Pan. That's some decent stuff. you know, the other. The other name for that is, is Swedish Pancake. yes. Yeah. Not Dutch. Dutch pancakes are like an inch and a half thick, full of air. They're like inflated pancake. You're like, screw the Dutch, man. They're. They're baked pancakes. But Swedish pancakes are super thin strips.
Dairy and Rundell just came in with $5.65 via PayPal, and said the boat stories were good. So thank you, sir. We got. We got lots of boats. They're not stories. This is history. It's the history of surgeon's boat collection. I know, I know, I'll tell you what I, I got way more use out of my jet ski than my boat. What's more fun takes less fuel, less maintenance. Or not? Yeah, that's maintenance for sure. Less fuel for sure. I mean, arguable boats are fun to.
But the thing about the jet ski, this is where it comes down to. It's the maintenance. And I don't mean, like, changing oil. I mean, like you go out and jet ski, all you gotta do is just sprayed down with a water hose and then plug it in so that washes out the, the, insides with the water hose. And that whole process takes like 15 minutes when you get home with the boat, it's like an hour worth of crap you got to do after you're done using it for a full day. Yeah. You're like, I had my fun.
Now I don't want to do work. Yeah, I did the last thing and honestly, instead of ever getting about the one of the best things I ever did was I was part of a boat club. So a boat club, if people haven't been on this is, it's a great idea. It's basically, a group or an organization that or a company. Are you a time sharing a boat? Is this. Yeah, a boat time timeshare. Yeah, yeah. You just you you're buying into the group, and then the group owns boats.
The idea being that you don't need a boat 24 over seven. You don't even need a boat for eight hours. Well, it all depends on how you're trying to expel yourself from the country. You may, in fact, need a boat. Well, yeah. Yeah, maybe. But it's a it's a good way to get into boating without spending a boatload of money. Get it? Wow. This. I'm sure I'll tell you. I think it's more expensive now, but when I did, it is pretty damn reasonable. I was, I think it's two and a half grand to get in.
And then it was 350 bucks a month. And then I could sign up on the website to, like I was there. Take boat lady out on the water anytime I wanted to. Yeah. So they're basically in for our blacks. and, you know, if nobody wants it, you take it for a whole day or a cheap hotel room, three little four hour nap. yeah. Yeah, exactly. And. And the beauty is, you show up at the dock and there's a boat sitting there, filled up perfectly, working, ready for you to take off.
Yeah, you get aboard. Bring your crap aboard your. It's around for a while, right? The guy throws you the keys, says have fun. Yeah, exactly. You come back and you say, hey, it was making a weird noise, and you give them the keys back, and you leave, and you go home, and you don't think about it. You don't care, and it just magically gets taken care of. So that was a great deal that I enjoyed.
But you know something he kept saying, oh, but, you know, if you had your own boat, nobody else could use it, right? You know, so you know, it's clean. You know what that defiled, which I was the one who had to clean drugs, right? Oh, it kind of, it worked against me, so I li, endorsed boat clubs. it'd be a good way to employ a staff of people to keep the thing maintained. Sure. If you've got your own staff as well as a boat, it's kind of like having your own book club.
But, I'll give you the example. So for 350 a month, I had access to boats that were readily available anytime I wanted to. A slip for a boat that you have yourself is more than 350 bucks a month. Oh no question. So for literally the cost of a slip or less, you actually get not just the slip, but you get the boat and you don't even need a slip because it gets pulled up to the main dock anytime you're ready for it. So it was a heck of a deal.
The only thing you got to pay, other than that per month is, for the fuel, obviously, because for the insurance that was wind up, though. No, that's including the 350 when The Godfather posted. I'm, social media, you know, a guy in his rented plane. I watched that Seinfeld episode of you taking the insurance. Yeah. No, you always declined the insurance scam. The insurance is a scam. I've gotta beat the hell out of this machine. The. That's a plane. That's a lot harder to do, though.
Adam's enjoying renting planes. I talked about that, as a, you know, you you got plans to get a new one because, you know, he used to have a plane. They're very, like boats. Very expensive to own it. Well, yeah. And he's like, nope, not at all. This is way more convenience. I just call up Tom when I hear it and it's sitting there ready for me, and he just pays hourly for it.
So it's, I guess he's realized that it's better to just rip shit like that again, unless you're using it with a regularity, right? Yeah. And, yeah, they've flown out to. I think Nashville was their longest flight that I had. flew. Otherwise they've been flying to Dallas. They've been flying all over Texas to Brooklyn. 112 says boats are not for podcasters. Well, that's not truth. You could build a whole studio on a boat. I probably could, yeah, you could be floating around the Gulf.
You could be floating around the ocean while broadcasting. You know, I I'm half tempted. I'm not super tempted, but I'm somewhat tempted to pick up one of those mikes that everybody seems to be using on YouTube. the, like the road, clip on Mike. Oh, the beam I'm sorry thing. Yeah. That you just clip to yourself because if you're shooting YouTube videos, then that's kind of the make a choice that everyone seems to use.
Yeah, look stupid, but I guess the audio quality looks bad, but it sounds good. I mean, it sounds very good. So I'm thinking, like, you can walk around that thing is that things only like 200 bucks. Yeah, it's wireless and it's wireless. So you could you could even have it on and do a podcast while you take a leak. Yeah, that's way better than the people that just use their phone for the audio. Oh, hold it like ten feet away. You know, that's like dude, you it sucks.
The microphone cord tucked into the bottom of the phone. That's always funny. to me at least the sound quality might be a little better. But if you're not, if you're talking into that, what? Sound quality is really good. But I'm. I'm very curious. Yeah, we should get bands to get one for free because he seems to be able to do that kind of stuff. Yeah. Be like, I want to test it out. Yeah. Free microphone. It doesn't have to be free. But you know what I mean. Like road makes it.
And DJI they both have models that look almost identical. They're wireless. They're all digital. They're high tech. They're rechargeable. And I think they're right around the $200 price mark. So they're not like crazy expensive. They're not a cheap mic by any stretch, but they're so much more portable than these are E3 21. Yeah. You can't really can't imagine with one of those.
Like if that Mike sounds, let's say with an 80% of the quality you get with 320, which I think it does based some videos I've seen with the proper I think for people that know what they're doing and how to EQ at the right filters to run it through. Yeah, that's where the magic is coming from on a lot of this. Well, certainly for you it is. Yes. Where you have the filter that's able to understand the difference.
Now, it doesn't work for everybody, because some time I've run into when trying to clean up some clips, if the voice frequencies are too close to the noise frequencies, sure there's issues, but as long as that's not the case, it's able to do a really good job. But that's but that's the whole benefit of having a lavalier mic, which is basically what those are with, it's a lavalier with a fuzzy bar on it. We like the fuzzies. Yeah, it's I think they're referred to as dead cats in the industry.
They look great when they're sitting there right on your shirt. Yeah, yeah. And no one seems to give a shit like no one. These things, they're just kind of dangling right next to your neck, usually on the shirt. And if you're not walking around, you don't need that. You could mike your. You don't. But I'm just thinking from like a travel standpoint because that's, you know, like there's I'm not going to be bringing a 320 and a mo to, any kind of road trips while you're.
Well. No, you should when you're walking around. You should be holding that microphone. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They have that plugged into, oh. That's the other thing you see on YouTube videos. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Okay. Glad you brought it up. As people will, instead of just clipping into their shirt, they'll hold it in their hands and use it for doing interviews. It's like, that's not what it's made for, but it's a, it's a literally a fuzzy rodents that you're holding up thanks to somebody's mouth.
Yeah. What do you think about that But I do applaud people that go the extra mile to get better audio because there's nothing worse than a YouTube video recorded from the camera or the phone, whatever is recording the video from like five feet away. Yeah. In a very crowded environment that there's a lot of boomy echo. Yeah. Because the video from the phone looks great. Yes. Which is the crazy part about it. because the technology just it's the way it works.
It's like the photos of the clips kind of prove that because there are some unbelievably good photos people made. I made some as well, but I saw a lot of photos from other people. Something, and everybody's just sharing them on their iPhones. I was like, this is amazing quality. And then if you need a telescope anymore, all right. This is, the technology is now in the palm of your hands, for better or for worse. It really is.
And I'm sure that if you pixel peep, obviously still like a pro quality lens and camera is going to give you better quality, but as somebody had spent over 20 years with a camera in my hand, this this is, probably more like 30 years, actually, but the the quality of the iPhone is sufficiently high that you can get some great looking, high quality artistic shots, especially now the iPhone has a, high resolution, low compression mode as well.
So you're getting like 48 megapixel images out of that thing. Well, we've talked about the filters like the on one. They have a brand new denoise where you can take some old, you know, photographs that were low light that otherwise you got sucked because it was too noisy. Yep. And it does the magic, you know, just like filtering out the sound. Yeah. Which is why professionals at all these things should be getting worried. Professional photographers, it's like, what's the reason why have that?
Yeah. And that's changed drastically. I think a lot of people have, that used to do wedding photography, have lost their jobs because, people are realizing that the difference between a $5,000 wedding photo package and just telling your guests, feel free to take as many photos with your phone as you can. Yes. And if it's not, grind it if you don't mind it being public and most people don't. Yeah, yeah. Oh, use this hashtag on Instagram. And exactly. And it is.
Well people are these days are into self-promotion for the most part. And yeah you may not have you know, those perfect shots, but you're going to have a lot more shots and you're going to have a lot more candid shots, which are really the coolest parts of getting wedding shots is the candid ones, not the stage. Stand here. Move a little bit to your left. Okay? Now tilt your head up, tilted a little bit to the right. Right. Hold on. Here we go. Three. Two. One.
Good. Let's do another one, man. Okay. Do I sound like I've done this before? Yeah. The best shots are of the groom and the bridesmaid coming out of the closet after, though those are the kind of candid shots you with. Exactly. Those. Those are great shots for. So we kind of gloss it over a little bit, but we some we started talking about the, a topic that was close to the new TV show that just came out on Amazon. Yes. Which is. Yes. I'm blanking out here. What the hell?
I was just thinking about it. It's, B12 gene. Yes, yes. Well, what is B12? Right. Exactly. Let's B12 know what the facts are called? I was just watching a bunch of videos. and I finished watching clips. Are there any. Stay hydrated. Gene, you should know what it is. You're a TV person. Are they? Amazon? There's a new show. Yeah, it's about, it's about. It's a video game show. It's, fallout. That's what it is. Fallout. So, did you watch it? Probably not.
No, I have not even heard of it on your list. I mean, I'm just catching up on episodes, so, Oh, yeah. Episodes was good. Yeah. She's gone. She's got lesbian now in the show. Yeah. Good. Because you got to the lesbian. Yes yes yes yes yes. That's a good part of it. Is this. Yeah. Hilarious. It is. So it's it is on Hollywood keeps pushing the envelope into a direction where you think it would go, but that is Hollywood. That's how it works.
That's it's that shows as close to documentary as it can get. Fallout based on one of the greatest video games of all time. It's, Yeah. And she, she went lesbian through her career, but wouldn't most people for the right amount of. Yeah. I mean, I suppose to what is fallout actually about? Oh, it's a video game. There's that actually it's, it's more like four different video games over the course of 20 years.
but this show they set in the video game universe, it's not following the storyline of the video game. It's following its own storyline. But in the universe of the video game and, they did a very good job, I thought, I do think I was doing Visit vaults 33 now, so there's, Yeah, exactly. What is vault 33? The main character is involved 33. So I'll give you a very high level synopsis. This is this show has a alternate timeline from normal Earth.
although they don't talk about timelines, I'm just kind of playing to my own words. to where essentially they diverged in that the microprocessor was never invented. And so the, the show takes place actually in the future compared to us. But the music, the fashions, the attitudes are all from the 1950s. You had me a Walton, Walton Goggins. I mean, that's, he's usually pretty good. He. Yeah, he's one of the main characters.
he's kind of a bit part actor, though, but in this one, he's actually one of the main characters. So he was, rated justified. Oh, was he in that? I didn't realize that. Oh, yeah. You got if you have me, if you've not watched justified. I still gotta watch that. I see you will enjoy. Yeah, I probably will. But he plays a cowboy and so the show is very retro. All you would love all the music. All the music in the show is from the 50s and 60s. So right up your alley.
And, in, 2077, there is a, nuclear war that happens where the United States and most of the world is, completely bombed out with nuclear weapons. Yeah, that's the one thing we're not going to take all that time to get there.
Haha. But before all that happens, there's a company called Vault Tech that that has been, hired by the U.S government to build a bunch of vaults all over the U.S that each vault will hold up to a thousand people, and the vaults are basically multi-level, huge underground bunkers. So that they're, they're they're almost like miniature city. Well, probably not quite a city, but certainly like a,
a village underground. And. And they, all the technology and the, the, the way the all the furniture, all everything is very retro. 1950s. But they have, like, robotics and, they have some things that are quite high tech as well. they're, they're growing food underground there. And they even have these huge auditoriums with, projectors, basically showing a sky and the skyline to make it look like you're on the ground, to make it look like you're like you're outside. Yeah. That's wild.
And the main character of this particular TV show, starts, where she is living in one of these vaults. She's the daughter of the current, main dude, whatever you want to call it. The guy who kind of runs the place and, and the the story takes place 200 years after the nuclear devastation. And her father gets abducted. And so she decides to set out into the the, nuclear wasteland to go find him. So that's that's the journey that she's, throughout the show. That's the quest. That's the quest.
And that's what's the hero's journey. And along the way, she meets all kinds of characters, good and bad and all kinds of weird, crazy shit happens. and there are obviously plenty of people that did not make it into the vaults that nonetheless, stayed on the surface and managed not to die. And then so there there are current people living on the surface, but they're all kind of, mad Max ish. But the people in the vaults are like, they preserve this little, this little society there.
Yeah. Microcosm of 1950s looking and talking and thinking people. It says action adventure, which I get, but it says animation also. What is, is there, like, some kind of I think the, you know, there's some animation in this thing. It's just it's based upon a video game, I would guess. Maybe. Yeah. That's what. Yeah, yeah, that's what Amazon has an action adventure animation for fallout. yeah. Really. Which I don't get. Yeah. I'm not sure how that fallout would be animated.
There's literally no animation that. Well, I do have Amazon Prime, so I could watch this. So yeah, you can watch it for free. It's only eight episodes like all the new shows these days, right? We don't have time to do more than eight episodes. No, no. Season one and I posted on X, which I know you don't follow me, but I want X every day. Like, where's G-Man? Why isn't he post good stuff? I posted a link to one of the fake TV commercials that the show has.
And it it is hilarious because the TV commercial is that actor dude that you like, Walton Goggins? That guy? Yeah, and that's not a name that rolls off your tongue, man. I'm sorry. No, And he is doing a TV commercial for the vaults as they're starting to get sold. So they're being built and sold. And, so he's, like, smoking nonstop in the ad, you know, it's hilarious. Oh, and it's a black and white. Black and white is there? TV hasn't gotten to color yet. Wait. No color. That's not realistic.
Well, the show's in color, but the TV in the show is not in color. Oh. Very confusing. Yeah. So I posted that yesterday. You can just scroll down my xyz. I'll do that right when I can't. You do right down. Well well wait scrolling down your X's I was just saying oh that my is live 41 views in Texas an unrelenting we like unrelenting it's an unrelenting show. That's it 41 people's is all we've had. Click on something, listen for two seconds and then leave. Sir. Is deeply sorry.
Can you train a lizard, Ben? And can this debate Israel? Wait. The whole country was debating betting this. yes, yes, you should check that out at some point later as well. Behind every strong, independent woman, there's a child support check. There's been going for the over the female, listener. Yes. The female vote right there. just saying things. People think, that what was I looking for here again? I forget we have so much stuff that you posted the.
It was a black and white commercial from the show. It should be real close to the stuff you mentioned. Valve vault advert fallout 20 while 21 £0.60. Man, that's a lot of P that's that's pretty good. P they have back in the day and now it's We'll get it. Turn that volume down. Galaxy news Vault tech presents God. Cooper. Howard. Walton Goggins doing a very, Twilight Zone appearance. Exactly. It has total Twilight Zone vibes. So if you want to see the add the go look through my act.
And by the way, follow me on. That's. I need to remember to keep mentioning that to get more people. I'm just I'm happy I finally got over my, threshold there to monetize on like, oh, well, you got 290 people following you. I got a lot more than that. That what it said. what did I miss here, sir? Oh, I'm sorry. 290 following 542 followers. Yeah, I'm following 290 people. Unlucky Irish chick is a verified follower of yours. whose pronouns are you retarded? Leave me alone.
This sounds like pretty good. yeah. A lot of, a lot of people following you that aren't following me. This. We have a completely different, different audience. Yeah. Which is good to bring those two together for unrelenting. And that's really. That's why I retweeted the fact that we're on live now that, you know, any good thing fallout sets up a season two fallout in Vegas says Karma King. Yes, next season will take place in Vegas, which is also setting in the video game itself. Interesting.
Just for students to watch. It's pretty cool. Yeah, yeah. For people that have never played a video game, it you don't need to have played the video game. There's nothing that like I said, it's not a recreation. The video game, it's just in the universe of the video game. So you can literally come into it knowing nothing about the video game and still very much enjoy the TV show.
The girl who plays the main character, does a great job, which is, you know, very beneficial because she's a pivotal character in it, and she just has that kind of, goody two shoes kind of attitude, which is what everybody in that vault has. Like, they don't swear. They're very polite to each other. Everyone's got a smile on their face all the time. So she's completely unprepared for the the real world of post-apocalypse surface level, as all children are today. Totally unprepared. Yeah, yeah.
Well, and my child, I mean, she's not an actual child. There's actually sex in the show, but, there's actual sex, is it? Well, I mean, it talked about it's not actually performed in front of the camera, but it's definitely talked about it is TV-Ma though. So there must be some salty language somewhere. Other salty language. And there's like, you know, monsters and stuff, but it's, there's a lot of violence.
as you would expect in the post-apocalyptic mad Max future, we should have a jingle for this segment. Like Gene describes a television show. We I do that regularly. I know, which is why we need to see what Gene describes a television show. Okay. All right. It'd be great. but I think you'll enjoy it. And I think a lot of people will enjoy it. And this is literally like the opposite.
in terms of the actors and the writers and what they thought of the story and the video game, like, everybody is very like, we have to stick true to the, you know, the style and the, the, the canon material, canon has to be followed compared to, like, what Disney's putting out all, like, crap where they basically just shit over everything that that's been done in the past, whether it's Star Wars or whether it's, Sleeping Beauty. Like, they just shit all over everything.
There's no shooting going on in this show. Breaking gene, breaking a booster. Gram 3333 from comic strip blogger fallout TV show sucks. Oh, only episode four is interesting because organ harvesting robot is in it. No robots and no AI. Another seven episodes. By the way. Follow me on X slaves three letter three fucking letter CSB yeah, he's completely wrong about the show. well, you guys all talk about it. Not at CSB and 13 talks, except CSB does like his voice being on the air.
And me, Darren O'Neil, D.a.r.e. and oh yeah, I love CSB. He's CSB is clearly the easiest thing to spell on X. I think sir Gene talks is pretty straightforward. Yours is tricky man. Yeah. Because Darren can be spelled multiple ways and O'Neill can. O'Neill can be spelled multiple ways. Yeah. And not only can, but there are people that are on X that have the wrong spellings of your name. Yeah. Bastards. Yeah. people are like, this ain't the guy I'm looking for.
In fact, I'm not even sure that's the correct spelling of your name, but it's the only one you could get on X. It's the reverse Jedi mind trick thing. Yeah. I've only been one of the last three days. I've been watching television from Daniels land Down Under. the, Lego Masters. Australia is, So. Oh, my God, the wife digs Lego. And, it's as far as all the Lego masters. She buys all your food for your watch. Well, I, I order it the she has to pick it up. That's part of it. You saw that cartoon.
That's CSB. That's right. Yeah. Yeah. CSB is always hating. I don't understand why you so mean is the biggest hater who does money. So that's why we've been watching Lego Masters Australia. It's way better than the one in America. The one in America. They've got like a two people from Lego, like a chair and a guy that are like, they're experts. And then it has, what's his name? that is the M.C.. Oh. The comedian.
Why am I, like, see, we're both getting way too old to do live shows because we're live shows. I know we can't remember anything. We're at least one guy who's I can picture his face, have no idea what he's called. Exactly. That's the guy. The one that you're like, this is the guy you don't want to have to see in that show. He's the guy, right? He's the one. Oh, he is. Yeah, he's the guy, right? What? I don't want Lego Masters UK, IMDb. Screw you. I need, Lego man. America.
Yeah. America, America. Wherever did you better. Except is not. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So we keep having this will sort of his name. bill. Well, what's no Bill Rogers? And how come it's like was. Here's the funny thing on IMDb. Yeah. Oh, yeah. It's okay. It was on top of it. I did see it. Will Arnett is the AMC. Oh, Arnett. Yeah, Lego Masters Australia. It's a dude named,