120: Gene Loses Memory

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Hey ho! Let's go. It's episode 120 of unrelenting. I am Darren O'Neill. He is jetting off to live and the world is much safer now that Joe Biden is completely coherent. grumble grumble grumble. Moreover, tomorrow I you know, I missed about the frigging impersonation. Yeah, I missed, like the first 20 minutes or so. and I guess that was you missed some waking up. I know, it's like I thought he was horrible and then I start to glimpse immediately after I. News Nation.

Which was the broadcast for, News Nation was helmed by Chris Jesse. yeah. And he even as the Democrat he is, it's like, no, Joe has to go. Yeah. Cuomo has been kind of, losing favor with the Democrats lately. Anybody that can watch this in the CNN poll, the most scary thing is the CNN poll still had 33% of the people. Ding ding ding. That said, Joe Biden won. I'm like, where the fuck is totally wrong? He didn't fall over. If that's it, that's winning for Joe.

And I said that to my wife, who never is. I was going to make a totally racist comment about people in movie theaters. she never talks back to the television. Every time Joe opened his mouth. Oh my fucking I can't this guy. Oh yeah. This is the leader of the free world. It's like well no he's not really. We know that. Definitely not. Yeah. He doesn't have you see her catch the clip of Gavin Newsom. No. But he was leaving a watch party. Oh yeah. Oh yeah.

This is the one where they said, oh no, it's Joe, no doubt. He's he's our guy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Paraphrase. He had the biggest fucking smile on his face. He just he looked like he just won the lottery. he's like no, Joe's our guy. We're going to support him all the way. He, you know, you you can't be a Democrat without lying. So. Right then he's like, gotta go. Got a really important meeting, That's about it. Yeah, I got I got to fly out to Washington, but I'll talk to you guys soon.

Joey is our boy. Yeah, I'm getting fired to Washington to support our candidate. Now, I didn't mean Cuomo's point was we have two guys, one that is incapacitated and one that is a bad human being. And I don't really believe that about Trump, that he is a destructed. You know, it's something that would, hurt the country. I think he may be exactly what the country needs.

I understand his personality foibles, but I think Donald Trump was telling the truth when he said if Biden wasn't as bad as he has been, I would just have retired on a beach somewhere. Yeah, they probably were. Just like, that's what Biden used for getting back into the race last time, right? Exactly. Because that's what old men always say. oh. You know, I would have retired, but because of the other guy, this guy so bad, I had to come back. Hey, speaking of old man, you taking your vitamins?

Yeah. Why? Which ones? So I was watching a thing. It reminded me to reorder some, so I wanted to make sure you got yours on him. You got to. You want to take a nice big old dose of vitamin D3? Yeah. You know, I took 5000 yesterday. I was normally taking 1500. I'm going to probably, alternate that one. No, no, no, no, you should do at least 10,000 a day. Yeah, yeah I read about that when the don't. No no no no don't give up.

But there was three research that said high super high doses of vitamin D. That's that's super high. That's for what. Because you know how much one hour of sunlight generates.

Do you know what the last time I was outside for an hour, it was. But you know what? Humans are supposed to be in sunlight for at least an hour a day. No, but what does that bring in, a 22,000? Whew. Yeah, that's 22,000 for being sunlight. If you tell me you're not in sunlight like some other people I know, and you're not doing at least 10,000 supplementation, you're an idiot. That should not provide medical advice. No, of course not. And it was down a little bit on the last blood test.

So yeah, I need to I need to get a little. I usually, cycle between 10 and 15,000 a day, which works out nicely with my CO2 levels, I find. Oh yeah, but that's because you have your body's going, where's the oxygen? Where's the oxygen? It's up. Maybe up here by the ceiling, but when you're doing, 10 to 15,000 a year of, of body, you also want to make sure you're also taking magnesium. And I do it twice a day. Yeah, yeah, magnesium is very good.

You're taking T1 and T2, K2 probably being more important than K1. The K2I think is that what comes with the vitamin D or is it K1. Well if you bought it that way I mean you could get combo packs of all that stuff for sure. That's what I have for the day with the K1. I don't mind okay. But yeah, the K probably eight K2 then. yeah. So it's, it's important that you do that because when vitamin D is increased then you're more prone for, calcium deposits. Then the magnesium counteracts that.

You don't want the calcium deposits because that's when they are the result. You want calcium to be nice and liquidy slowly. You want it to be floating around, not like accumulating in one chunk. Yes, because that can lead to death. Yeah. So yeah. Exactly. Not medical advice. Not a not at not a medical advice at all. But yeah. Avoid the death. The death is the bad. Yeah, yeah. There were times during that debate I was thinking Joey was just going to go when he was breathing heavy.

He was at one point his eyes were like, super open. His eyes were like looking at ghosts or something, you know? But what I said, what does this a gun? Potassium. Don't forget potassium. Oh, you have to do potassium. Yeah, I usually do that with a banana or two a day.

But I also have to supplement. So they now it's, it's in the diet. but me, the do remember the Jim Carrey movie mask. That was Joey's face yesterday. Yeah. It was. Yeah. Good. Yeah. If, if you mean his face is totally disconnected from his skull then yes I would agree. It's where it looked like it was not a good look. And I mean the best line was one that came early and I saw it right after in the clip. And I love the way Donald Trump delivered it because it was it mean it wasn't sarcastic.

It was very matter of factly when they went to him and he said, I don't know what you just said at the end there. And I don't think he does. He's there. Yeah, yeah, that was that. That's literally what everybody was thinking, right? Because that that was a long ass run on sentence two. Disconnected 3 or 4 different topics. And when people put two and two together in their head, if they can't I know a lot can't, that this guy is the one allegedly running the country.

Yeah. I don't understand why Barack wasn't there helping him. I mean, he's the one actually running the country. And I also want to point out the story. And again, I understand new stories can be off with their factual, capabilities. but they said there were 21 advisers with Biden the week before leading up to this getting him ready. Oh 41 people. And this was the best they could do. Yeah, yeah, that's concerning.

Now you remember, everybody was surprised four years ago at his debates with Trump when he was very spry and all of a sudden seemed like he had lost 5 to 10 years off his age at that point. And, that didn't happen this time. I'm wondering if the call is coming from inside the house. I'm wondering if his people, rather than, jacking Joe up. I wonder if they tracked him down. I don't think so. just didn't get anything. No, I think they gave him so I could see, like, he stayed awake for the entire.

And that. That's a miracle in itself. Real. And I'm not even kidding about that. I'm not trying to be funny because that it was a fairly late, time wise, debate. Also true. And it wasn't. I mean, I think they used to be at 7 p.m., didn't they? that's as I remember them, because it was late. They start at eight and it was like at 930 or something. Yeah. I think it started at eight central. I, I didn't really I thought it was 30. Okay. It was nine eastern, nine eastern. And that's where they are.

I mean Joey's normal. I mean I guess if he's ever at the white House, well, don't forget CNN had a one, one hour delay on their broadcast during the event. They did not just in case they well, they felt like it. Well, the interesting thing was this was the debate format that Joey's people specific. Oh yeah. West it all up in the the best case scenario for them right. The network they wanted it gave them no audience. It gave everything except Joey wanted to sit down. They got what they wanted.

And this seems to have been the worst thing possible for Joey, because as part of this, and I don't know why anybody I mean, I get it because both of these candidates have a tendency to say things that aren't 100% true. They exaggerate both and without the instant fact checking. And this was the only way I think this could have been done fairly.

And I think CNN, because they've lost a lot of money recently, a lot of viewers were worried that they were going to look like the bully and keep Fact-Checking Trump and then be cheerleading for Biden. So CNN, I think, pulled this off magnificently. As much as I hate to say it, I think they did a very good job.

Actually, I was surprised at how good a job they had because the only the only bit that was very clearly, cheerleading for Biden was that they would interrupt the Biden when he started rambling to keep him from rambling, remember? And so they would that they would move on. Yeah. it was like, well, we're good at it's where you, you know, they figured out some way to wrap it up for him, rather than just letting him keep mumbling about a variety of topics that are not connected to anything.

Yeah, I like what he's just got that, like it was good, you know, the bumbling and then. But you still have another 40s. Mr. president, do you have anything else you'd like to add? Although that happened once or twice to Trump to where the two was quick. Yeah, it was, I do like the no audience. I think audience is a waste time. I also like the non interrupting format, which is that they're not allowed to interrupt. They have to wait until the questions asked.

That's more of a standard debate format anyway. Yes. for real debates. And it may Trump seem way more presidential. Yes. Yeah. Rather than I think it was good for Trump. Yeah. Now I want to know, did you notice how many times Joey touched his ear. And this is going to lead, of course, to speculation. that he was wearing and it absolutely was. there's no way he wasn't because the only alternative would have been a teleprompter, right?

Because his answers were mumble, mumble, mumble and then say like two sentences perfectly. like that he, you know, allegedly knows something about this topic and then back to either mumbling or saying absolute fabricated lies. when he said that the, the Border Patrol union endorsed him, right. For the police. And then the tweet came out literally two minutes later saying the Border Patrol agent has never and will never endorse Biden.

That's like, oh, okay. Yeah. there's plenty of those to go around. There are a lot of accusations about Trump. There was certainly the, well, you're the guy who liked all those Nazis in the parade four years ago. You know, like stuff that's completely been and I thought disproven. Right. And I thought Trump handled that fairly well because he said to the moderators, like, you've already done this, your network. Most people already have.

You know, anybody that wants to look that one up, it's obvious being especially look up the Michael Rapaport video who was, totally anti anti-Trump, very vocal about it. And there's a great video of him admitting, I realize the news media and Democrats were lying to me about that statement.

And here's the Rapaport it's kind of been like a canary in the coal mine for, lefty Hollywood thinking, because he clearly not too bright a guy. and I think he genuinely believed everything that he heard or read. Oh, yeah. And then, you know, he had to be full of, hate and vitriol for Trump as a result of what he read and heard about him. And then slowly, all of that started unwinding as he started realizing, hold on, the media is lying about Israel, right? And what else are they lying about?

And he's coming to grips with the fact that all this shit that he was very impassioned about was predominantly lies, and going so far as to say, I still don't like him, but I might have to vote for Trump in. The intriguing thing is, how many points do you think Trump gained strictly on Hamas going in and attacking Israel and the fallout of that is that's been huge.

It's funny. Yeah, I, I think so, because really the it's it's kind of ironic because the Democrats historically were the biggest recipients of Israeli and not just Israeli, but just, you know, Jewish, support money. Yeah. United States, most Jews are Democrats, or at least the Jews that are political tend to be Democrats.

There's plenty of Jews that just, you know, live their lives and run their businesses, work in their law firms or doctor's offices or whatever, and never really get too heavily into politics. But the Jews that are political and vocal about it tend to be Democrats. so it's a it was interesting because the Democrats quickly went to their default position of, well, we support the little guy. Therefore, Hamas. And then within a matter of one week they were like, oh shit.

I mean, we support Israel, but also Israel needs to stop hurting the little guy, right? And they're like bouncing back and forth between the we like Jews and we like Hamas. And ultimately, you know, blood's thicker than water. You're not going to get people donating money to you when you're supporting somebody that killed the friend of a friend of a friend of theirs. Right. They're terrorist doesn't work that way. Even if they weren't, it doesn't even matter. Like the Ukraine thing, right?

Nobody's a terrorist in Ukraine. I think there are quite a few, but. Okay. Well, yeah, that's right. The media is not portraying them. They're not. It's a war. I think the Ukraine is a is a real war. There's not terrorism going on. There's certainly some bombing of civilians, which is normal in the war because there are two states and they have armies that happen. So they they use American bombs to bomb people, sunbathing on the beach.

And the Americans are, the Russians are using their bombs to, you know, bomb NATO centers. Did you find it interesting that Joey took offense to the amount of money that Trump said was going over there? And then justified it by saying, when I said, we're not sending money, we're sending weapons. Well, and that's that's actually true. I know for the most difference when it comes to the hit that it's having. yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like we're still paying for these weapons, right?

Oh we are, but, okay, so here's the subtlety. And I talked about this, I think, with Ben last week is that we're making the weapons. Yes. It's where does the money actually go? They're that stay in the United States. And for the most part it is staying in the United States. All we're doing is we're insuring some very good years for the military industrial complex because they're at full production. They're maxed out right now. And so that's a good thing for them.

It is, to some extent, helping the U.S. economy. you know, weapons manufacturers, tend to employ more people here, because there's regulations against actually utilizing, out of country contractors for a lot of these things. So it's not a horrible thing. And I'm also one of the people that's argued that the thing that got us out of the Great Depression was World War Two. Well, yeah, it was good for Bill. Yeah, it was making money and businesses growing. Exactly, exactly.

It's like when the government becomes a very large consumer of U.S. products. You don't want to have that be happening in the long run. That's the recipe for disaster. But in the short run, having the government spend money with private businesses is good for the economy. Doing things like the Hoover Dam project and all these big project like the highways that were built in the 1940s.

these are all things that help get the economy because they employ people, employed people have more money to spend. They, utilize business products that are made by U.S. companies. So these are all things that are actually good for the economy. The problem is, you can't have it be happening long term, because companies

that have the government as a, teat to suck on. And a good example of this is all the aerospace companies, they stop innovating because the government isn't really looking for competition. It it's looking for repeatability. You're looking for the same product over and over and over and over. And so these companies just charge more money for basically putting out the exact same thing over and over and over. Well, yeah, they get rich and then they're finished. They don't care.

Well, they get used to it to. So they need to have zero, zero reason to innovate to make other products that aren't as profitable as the several that the government's buying. Because you can make the best damn cookies in the world. If the government starts buying a million of them a day, you start cutting back and they're not that good anymore. But they're still buying a million a day, and then you start cutting back any more of the ingredients.

So they still keep buying a million a day and you're like, this is awesome. Yeah, exactly. It's it's great for the Sacklers. if you want. So that being the difference. But we're certainly not spending 100% of the money in the U.S.. We're still shipping probably somewhere around 30% of the money allocated to Ukraine.

We're actually shipping as funds that are available to Ukraine to spend, because that's what's driving the kickback machine, all these U.S. politicians, and maybe I shouldn't say all, but plenty of U.S. politicians are getting kickback deals from Ukraine, and so that's got to be paid for somehow as well. That's paid for with actual money transfers going there.

And then instead of money being spent on things like humanitarian purposes, it's being siphoned off to make a lot of people very rich, meaning the Ukrainian oligarchs and some people someone's rich. And that would be the US politicians that are funneling the money. They're and, you know, it's, I'm not saying somebody is actually getting a wire transfer into their bank account. God, no, no, they're being a lot more creative and semi legitimate and legal about it.

They have all their kids working there, right? Totally. Fine. well, clearly, because no one has ever gotten in trouble for having a kid work at Burisma. No. If you want to support unreal. Where's our kickbacks? Where our our, Rocket? Yeah. I think our, It must be that our nodes are down or something. I don't know, all your node is down. that was two hours of fun yesterday. Jean's like, where's my money? Where's my. No. What happened? And yeah, I just told Darren I.

I fucked around with this long enough by myself. Yeah. I'll split the money with you if you want to help fucking around with this. Well, that was getting a voltage account was your first mistake. Thank you. Adam. Corey, they get back to you. Just. You know, I can't. I can't blame them too much. I mean, at the time, that was literally one of the very few options that allowed you to set up a, an account that would do lightning. Now, the. No, they haven't gotten back to me.

You kidding? That process is usually a week. The question would be, can you get to your does anybody have a voltage account? Maybe somebody listening to here I doubt it, but maybe. But if they do and if they know if there's a way how to access your node, which everybody's got their own node, their own address, if you can access that via, ssh, you go in and initiate commands that aren't available in the apps that they give you. So yeah, I mean like, yeah, you're getting into the weeds here.

The bottom line is I try to open a channel, which is only people that know this node stuff are going to know about it. Open a channel. About six months ago, it turns out I thought I was a couple months. Turns out six months ago. And like every channel, the first step is it sends all the info, propagates it via Bitcoin to fund the channel. And during that time, the channel shows a spending and usually that takes about a day, sometimes a few hours, and then it comes back as an open channel.

Well, this has been stuck in pending for six months. If I click on the transaction, the funding transaction for the channel, it shows that it's in there, it's funded, it's been, checked some day or whatever the phrase is by over 20,000 people over that amount of time. So it's part of the blockchain. The funding of that channel is part of the blockchain. However, until that channel sends back a reply saying, yes, I'm funded, I got, you know, I it's confirmation. It's whatever it says.

But the bottom line is it's waiting on a confirmation. One would think there would be a timeout period. Yeah, but apparently not because it's been waiting on the confirmation for six months, which means I've got like 700 bucks sitting in this channel. It's tied up and can't be touched until the confirmation comes in, at which point then I can use the channel to send that money somewhere else, or I can close the channel and reclaim that money.

And in this limbo state that I've been in for six months, I can't do either. Right? Well, because in the voltage interface, there is no way to force close or do anything with the channel that's pending. So yeah, you can force close an open channel, but you can't force close a pending channel. And the data we found by doing the search online was like, oh, you just go into the do the command line. That's like a the voltage give you the command line or.

Hell no, you know, that would be too easy, you know, or you should have something like, hey, if you need something done, click here. We've got monkeys working that can do it for you. It's it's not. Well in the, the that I would highly doubt they can do because they're not supposed to have access to any of this stuff. Yeah. Everything's encrypted. So so there as we found out, there's multiple layers of passwords, some of which you can't change. Right. Which is even more fun.

A password that you can't change is the ultimate in issue I know. Right. It's great. And it says when you open up a new channel, make sure you select and write down your password because you can't change it. But and then if somebody else figures it out by by, you've got to just yeah.

Because you can't change it right. so you have to close it. I mean, technically, technically, if somebody gets that channel password, they, they can't really do anything other than close your channel, which would give the money back to you. So it's not like a horrible thing. And you'd be winning. But yeah, I don't know about that, but. Well, I would be, because right now I'm in limbo and anything's better than limbo.

But you also sent a Bitcoin transaction out that never got there, that never got there. And I suspect that that's sitting as a pending outgoing transaction waiting on a channel to be opened. You know, it's possible that, could be that is possible. While I think it's fairly likely of course, TSB would bother us with a 3333 boost saying go to dot singularity dot express thanks to USB. Yeah. What's that? It is, his new website with all. Oh, he's got a new one.

Yeah. his doodling now and see if you can help us with the, the voltage thing that. No, I asked him already. I asked him before I asked you the force. Oh, gee. Really? You got ask USB before you go to me. What kind of podcast friend are you? G exactly? I'm a podcast friend. Yeah. No, he declined. So I had to bother you CSP like I just. I do not want your money though. I do not want your a policy. No, no, we love you know he said he he we've I'm not gonna say what he said but anyway.

But that has to be the answer is voltage. Yes. You either give you the ability to to shut down a pending channel. Yeah. To do the behind the scenes. Go do this. I'm babbling or you can't be the first person that this has happened. I know, I can't imagine it, but I put the ticket in both on their support system and then their discord, and we'll see who replies first. Discord is the most useless thing in the history of useless. No, I disagree with you on that.

Discord is utilized by a shit ton of people and pretty much any gaming company. It depends on the community. I have a question. You got to use discord now. If there's a big user base that knows what they're doing, it's great. When the 99% of the people in the discord server are asking questions and nobody's answering, let's help them. Yeah, yeah, a lot of that's helpful. That's true. But that agree with you on that. But there might be, you know, people asking a question every five minutes

and they only answer him once. They that could be a dude. But the intriguing thing would be if the bitcoin going out had to go over the Lightning Network, my boss would always be like when you funded, when I set up my node right on my own hardware, right? I had two bitcoin. There's a Bitcoin wallet that I had to send the money to before. It would then see that too.

The lightning wallet is the lightning, so it's like you would think that going out and I would do this thing three years ago, but I think I had a similar thing. I have to actually use my my account over it. What you would call it's the guys you buy Bitcoin base Coinbase. I had to use that to then send money to the bitcoin address of this node, and then filter it to and then from that node then has Bitcoin which it can use to create the channels on the lightning network.

So it's technically at least I thought it was storing everything as Bitcoin and it was using that to fund the actual channels. On the lightning side, maybe it was always stored as SATs on the lightning side.

After you funded initially, I have no idea, but either way, it sure seems like it's a very likely explanation that the reason that the outgoing Bitcoin transaction is happening as well is because there are zero active channels right now, and you know, the one that's using a lot of money out of that account is a pending open channel. So if that channel was either open then presumably transactions would go through or of that channel was canceled.

And I can then get those SATs back to use to open another channel to somebody this time around, probably somebody that I would trust more over. The the umbrella thing actually works really well as of now. I mean, this is yeah, keep talking buddy. I know he didn't want to not going to be knocking on wood while you're doing this. Yeah. And CSB knows the magic. The way to get the messages right to us. That is to send us a boost to Graham.

We go to podcasting 2.0 is new podcast apps.com to find out more. He says don't be offended Darren. I just know absolutely nothing about lightning nodes so I could not help you and I wasn't offended. TSB this is oh, I can't believe you're offended this much. I mean, you're such an offensive person. This is all theater of the mind. We are performers here. We are entertainers in the guise of Sammy Davis Jr. I mean, I am a great entertainer.

I can tap dance, I can sing, I'm more in guise of Dean Martin myself. Our dean was the best. I mean, Sinatra was cool, but Dean Martin was. Dean was super cool. Yeah, yeah yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. Like Dean Martin didn't have to work at it. Right? Well, I'm sure he did, but that's what it appeared that Dean was kind of like. Yeah, I don't really care that I'm cool where Sinatra tried harder, you know? Oh, yeah.

Yeah, Sinatra had to try real hard, but Dean just kind of, like, walks into the room and goes, hey, pally. And then that was it. You'd want to be Dean's buddy. You want to sit there, have a few beers. That's not true. Wanting to be his buddy for sure. Well he. Yeah because I mean he was a lot of fun

until he was calling the cops of his own parties. I mean, there's great stories. Hey, man, a lot of people have done that. Really? Try that. That's great. Oh, yeah. If you know the cops well enough, like, if you do me a favor, then how else you supposed to get your guests out? guests refused to leave. Got this big party going. You know, I want it over. And I don't want to be the dick that kicks people out. So you guys help me out. I'll buy you dinner.

Yeah, buy a Ferrari. Whatever. They. They enjoyed it. They don't even need to get Brad, man. They enjoy busting parties. Come on. Well, it is fun. I mean, it's a better part of the job. And going to a domestic disturbance. Oh, yeah. For sure. Did you hear? Says all your bitcoin belong to us. Yeah, that's kind of it. Yeah I know that's definitely the way it feels.

Yeah. And as you pointed out yesterday, every program, every app, every website you go to that deals with the Lightning Network is like, yeah, this is all very experimental at all. Your money may disappear, like, don't put more than $50 into this as all of us have nodes with thousands of dollars sitting. exactly like, no, this seems totally right. It is. It is what? I mean, there's a couple of things that are said here.

One of the things that's sad is over the course of three years, I've actually spent more money paying for the node than the amount of money that's come in. And donations. That's one set. what's your total donations coming in? You know, like in SATs? I, I think it was, I never hit 2 million SATs. It was like 1.5, 1.6 million sats, something like that. Well, that's nothing, man. I know I noticed, what program it was in, it was in the what? Because there's a bunch of these other programs.

Okay, well, so that's the first part. The second part is. Okay, had I actually still had access to those SATs, then I could take them out. It'd be like, well, I guess I broke, even though that sucks. No, it's worse than that. All the SATs that I put in there are tied up, and I never got any of I'm out of there to actually utilize for anything. So other than a few other people that I sent SATs to, but, they're stuck in limbo. potentially lost forever. Yeah, but somebody's got them, right?

They're out there. No, nobody's got them. That's my point, is that limbo is limbo. That means nobody's got them. Yeah, somebody's got to have them. No. Gotta be. They don't know they're in between. Not how it works. They're they're in transit. They're in transit for six months because it's lightning. It's supposed to be fast, right? Fast is lightning. Isn't that the. That's exactly what it's supposed to be. Oh, it's not like slow like Bitcoin. That might take an hour to trade.

Now this isn't lightning. It's instant. Now I look this until it doesn't work. And, and Saturn which is another one of these apps that connects to Alby. And I just I was dumbfounded by this that my top contributor in this goes I think over multiple shows but a lot with the rock and roll pre-show. Neil Jones the clip custodian Has sent me 1,743,608 Satoshi. So Neil alone. Yeah it's a total what I get in three years of surging speeds. Yeah, exactly.

That's not to be fair, Neil also gets a slice from every no agenda show ever produced. I know, and he's awesome for supporting us, which means he's getting those SATs for free. Well, and he's just for to satoshis for nothing. And your chicks for free. That I mean, they're not for nothing. He does actually a job. So he's getting paid money for doing the work. So I guess that in that regard they're not free. But he doesn't have to go and buy them like by converting US dollars to them.

Yeah. The value for value system works. And I will point out buddy comic strip blogger as well. I mean, I might make him stop donating on here, but, yeah, you probably. Well, he's under two different names. The first one is his full name, comic strip blogger 796,150 Satoshis Jesus Grace. And then he's on here under CSB as well, which is the lower amount because he mainly goes by comic strip blogger. But CSB was on here too, with a decent amount of, of satoshis.

Here it is, with another 112,000 Satoshi. So right now you're about 900,000 satoshis you can hit that million mark. CSB get a coffee mug. What do you want, buddy? Are you sending out coffee mugs for a million? I have you for, really for the rock and roll pre-show. And we have some made up for a planet rage. I mean, if anybody wants an unrelenting one, I can make them. So if you want to, you know, donate to the show. but certain other and also it was under two different names on here.

one was 1.5 million and one was 582,000. So there was somebody that actually beat out Neil Jones, the clip custodian. now see, podcasting 2.0 works for some shows and for, when you steal music, it works great. It works awesome when you entertain people. Oh, and I will point out, I mean, since we don't have any. Hold on. Are you saying we don't entertain people? I think we do. And I got in the mail. That might not come through because I will run through. You came through all right.

I know, but it might not because I'm the final reason for it. Yeah, yeah, but this came through and a very suspicious looking envelope that was, return addressed. let's go. Brandon, which is a great name. Nice. I will give them that. they just said northwest of Canada with a zip code on here. Yeah, it was a money order, which I took it to the post office, and the girl just looked at me like. Yeah, she like, really? You can't. I'm like, where do I take this? You know, your bank?

It's like, well, wait, I thought the whole idea of postal money orders was to make this nice and easy. Yeah, people buy them at the post office, and then you can go and cash them in at the post office. I'm not sure they're allowed to not cash them. I that's kind of what I thought. But it's like, you know, arguing with the government employees. Yeah, yeah. You get enough of that from your way. I know who else now that she works for the government, I'm like, oh, that's where I've learned.

Like, if you really want to piss off government employees to send for your requests, you can't bury that with requests. Yeah, there's very little, if any, money for you. And you could just make them miserable. Yeah, well, it's just photocopying fees if I remember it. And. Yeah, but they have to pull up everything. It's great.

But, the note that came through with this said for the hardest working man in podcasting and the major factotum who keeps it, I'll go and take a C-Note note for yourself and your overhead, the, the money order was for 200. Oh, wow. And he said split. The other side note amongst the online talent, grumpy Basie and Rusedski. So I think you're Rusedski. I'm not. I mean, I could be grumpy too, like I could take two out of the three. Yeah. yeah. I'm still working on how to do the the basic bit.

Yeah. Well you have to, you have this, you have the big bottom it, you got to bring the big by the big bottom up. Yeah. You got to get that working together. Send your goddamn big bottom that I promised you that I still haven't sent you. You got to get that big boss. But you can. Well, no, you got to get it working. I just need to send it to you. Be like, what's worry about getting that working? Come on, a fax. Give me. Get me some working gear. My gear doesn't work.

It was, Yeah. I mean, I like my batteries. It's probably a power supply that you have to replace for 100 bucks, and then you'll have a $1,000 rig, which, sadly, was inside the unit. Not what it's like. What? This is one of the few, right, that didn't have a wall award. It's like, yeah, yeah, this this is a, rack mount. So it had enough space in it for 18 inch unit. Giggity.

And it had enough space in it for a power supply. So. Well, that's beauty because I got two that are full rack sitting right here on the desk, which is my apex, big bottom, but it's the 204, so it's not a full channel strip. It is just yeah, the Auralic sign this thing it has. The cool thing about it is there's the analog in and then the digital processing post. post preamp that has an analog preamp and the digital all the way through after that.

So it's a, it's an I thought at the time at least as back like six, seven years, that was the best combination because they the alternative in channel strips was a full analog all the way through. Right. Which is nice. And then you have to plug it into like a multi or something. Correct. In which this you don't have to do that with because it's all digital and you can actually just run a digital line to the mod to nice. And you know, that way it's it's already sampled in the effects unit.

And then comes into the mode to as pure digital. Well, I have my electro voice, E20 steering out to the. You're back to the 20. You keep swapping. It's been out normally using the 20. I thought you had the 320 for a while. No, rarely I haven't. I think I've ever used it on the show. I can try it. Oh you've talked about it. You've talked about it. I've talked about the A7 seven B I've tried.

Yeah. You did that on the show and you know, the mic that, CSB has been recommending lately is the, the USB version of the, SM seven B. Yeah, there were a couple of different versions. Drew didn't like the latest one, I think, because really the USB in the first version, the USB sounded better than the XLR because it's got double X, things, you know, outputs.

It's got both where the new one is, like the USB doesn't sound as good as the XLR, so they change thing in this thing because this one's called the plus. So you think it's better not. Depends what you want to use it for I suppose. Yeah. But I go into the cloudlifter because you got to have a cloudlifter on your RG 20 or your SM seven B at least it helps which then feeds into the symmetric 528 E processor which came out of a small radio station somewhere. And I bought it on eBay.

But this is what was recommended by the guy that owns WC kg here. He's like, oh yeah, we've used these. They're great. And I bought it and it was definitely a step up from the DB 286, which is still a nice candlestick line. But this thing was when it was new I think was a thousand, 1200 bucks something like that. Now you can pick them up for a couple hundred bucks on eBay because as you said, everybody going digital. Oh yeah. But the nice thing is it's got the of course the amplifier.

So you got that, you got your preamp, you got your de-esser, which I don't use. It's got your compressor and then it's got your EQ, but each one of those channels you can punch in in between though. So I go to the end and then I punch in to the ASX

200 for with the big bottom, bring it back into the apex. And then that goes into from the apex into the somatic tracks, and that goes back into the mode two. And that's the magic. Yeah, except all that crap is analog. Do you have any analogs? Good man. That's the way radio always was. Why do you want to want to be a quality dude? Radio is audio tape quality. It's not even CD. yeah. I have no idea what you're talking about. Radio sounds really good. I only, does it nice and warm.

By the way, this is what Darren actually sounds like. Guys, before he has to tweak his voice. Well, no, that's, that's the over modulated this is. Oh, sure. Let's pretend that's what over modular sounds like. Yes, this is what it sounds like without the, apex. Just the just getting rid of the aural exciter there with a stuffy nose right there that just turning off the aural exciter and big bottom. The difference that that thing makes is amazing. This is with it off. This is with it on.

It's just like magic. Yes. And you start talking like this right away. I think you have to use that. If you turn off the EQ overall, well then yes. yeah. Okay. I, I'm looking at that, effects box. I'm going to make a note to find a final Amazon box of a proxy, the correct size. Just put it in so it doesn't get wrecked in the mail. Right. And then I'll ship it out there. Wait, wait. This. Jean, we are the Seinfeld of podcasts, right? Yeah. Do you not remember? So you just you take that.

It's a perfectly working unit, right? Jean, before you. I know it is. That's why I. Why would I be shipping in non-working unit to you? That makes no sense. I'll make sure I'll get the the full amount of the insurance. Yes. Get the full insurance and the insurance. The maxed out insurance on it? Yes. Nobody has ever thought of this scam ever are no brand new. I don't know any friends that this 20 years ago with laptops, there's really no, I mean, I do still like the.

I mean, if your laptop has a broken screen, it must have broken it during shipment, right? I think so, yeah. You probably didn't drop that during a rage of, video game playing. well, no, I mean, you probably stepped on it. I mean, everybody knows the, you know, the Best Buy return, which is anything that breaks after six months to a year and you feel like it should still be under warranty or like they still sell it. Oh, yeah. Cool. You buy it, you buy it, you return it now. Amazon won't do that.

electronics because they actually track serial numbers. See they're smart. Then smarter. But it all depends on how closely they look real. Well, well, they're smart, but then they shipped the wrong damn product to you. Well, this is. Yeah. That. Well, and, according to Mimi Dvorak, this one, I hadn't heard that some of the Amazon warehouses now have a cockroach problem. So open up your boxes outside. Like, really? She opened up a box and a little cockroach ran out. Now that's that's not good.

I don't know if that's that big a deal. Honestly, we have to. Where you size of Buicks here in Texas. Well, the right side, man. They're native. They're like native cockroaches. They speak Spanish and everything. Wow. The garages. Yeah. This is your. Yeah. If you have Mexican bats and, Spanish cockroaches living here, you are on our land, gringo. No, they're happy to share the land because that's where they get the food from, is from you. You go out jeans bag.

You know, some people have a you can have critters that are annoying. I didn't know we had a little bit of a fruit fly issue. Did you have a lot of fruit? I had one thing of bananas. That's enough. Well, apparently they live in those because, I all of a sudden my entire house is full of fruit flies. Really? Well, how many are we talking? Like one or. I want a hundred hundreds. Yeah, they moved in with all their friends and relatives. Is they open the front door, they're like, come on in.

It's like Joe Biden. And then, well, I think they started having babies, you know, born in this country, right? Bananas. Well, they are all the hands got bananas or thrown away pretty quickly. Here's the problem. When you throw a banana out that's been brown and clearly has, fruit flies that live in the surrounding area, that's a problem because I did that. And, you know, apparently fruit flies eat bananas.

And so when the bananas are in the trash, the fruit flies have a ready supply of food that probably tastes and smells even better because it's now rotting. Well, yeah. Enjoy that stuff. Yeah. The more the banana goes down that road the year it gets. Yeah, exactly. And they, they kind of like that. And so they're sitting there and breathing in my trash. Now I didn't realize this was happening. And then I went on my trip that I was down on, Seattle.

And when I came home, always empty, I thought, oh, I forgot to throw the trash out before I went on my trip, but probably a little stinky. So I went and opened up the cupboard where I keep trash. And when I opened the trash bin, the top of the trash bin was. It was it like all kinds of hear it before you even hit the there's no buzzing, but no, there's all kinds of little grubs crawling on it. Wow. Like a hundred grubs.

Like the whole damn thing was covered with little the you know, they're miniature because they're fruit flies. They're not as big as normal fly grubs, but little, little wormy things. Right? That's what they. Their first stage of reproduction is, is, they're little grubs. They're too small to fish with. I used to fish with the regular grubs, but, they're definitely not pleasant to look at or think about. Each one's going to turn into a fruit fly.

So I took the whole damn thing out, put it outside in the heat. I figured the heat would probably kill them because they're not used to this weather. and then, sure enough, after, 24 hours of my garbage cans sitting outside, it was totally clean. I don't know if it was the birds that came and ate the grubs, which I would kind of expect. There. They're like, they if they just dried out because the heat or what the hell happened?

But, I was able to bring the trashcan back in and it was that point, totally clean. You have learned a vital lesson, dude, I did. Don't leave the garbage. Yeah, don't leave garbage sitting out when you're traveling. If you have one fruit fly, take all your garbage immediately out of the house because it will find where your garbage sits. Lie there and start laying eggs. And then I did the the oldest fashioned thing that you can possibly do, which is I bought fly paper. Oh, that's old school.

Super old school. And I hung two places in my house where I saw the fruit flies. I hung the fly paper thinking that, like, this has got to be the only way they catch those stupid things, because they're not. They're too fast to really, like, swipe and kill, you know? I mean, yeah, and they're they're annoying, because they like to buzz around where there's CO2 is high, which is in your house, right? Yeah. And so, the fly paper works miraculously.

Well, it's, I've now I've got, in fact, I don't think I need anymore. I can now throw it away because the house is free of fruit flies once more. But, I'll bet you one strip probably has about 30 or 40 fruit flies stuck to it, and the other one probably 20. Interesting. from the Washington. If you've never seen modern fly paper, it comes in the little tube. Kind of reminiscent of the cases that we have back in film camera. They right about that size.

And then you just pull on the top and it's like wound in just like film was back in the old days. And they stick it out somewhere. Yeah. And you just, it comes with a little loop on top, but you both use to pull it out and hang it from something because it's super sticky. Oh, it is, is just paper with very gooey glue on both sides. So anything that lands on there of sufficiently small size is now got its feet stuck to it.

We do have a, fruit fly expert, Billy Bones, from a Walk Through the Mine podcast. Who said slide paper works great for fruit flies, but not for regular flies. Oh, really? They don't land on it or they just are too strong to stick to it. The flies are like, this is not sticky enough for me. Yeah, well, it definitely works for food.

Flies for sure. The Washington Examiner reporting it a landmark decision the Supreme Court has ruled in favor of January 6th defendant, former Pennsylvania police officer Joseph Fisher, significantly affecting the Justice Department's approach to prosecuting those involved in the January 6th Capitol riot. A63 decision. Yeah, well, there's also there was a so I mean, this is a very good it's actually a legal case, but there's also a, new bill introduced. All right.

I don't even know if it's a bill. Technically, I think it's just a vote. I don't think they need a bill for it done in the House to invalidate the legitimacy of the January 6th commission of the House. Yeah. Which was which is where? Which is a joke, which is of where a lot of the charges stemmed from. So the committee found all these things that they didn't like, and then people got charged by actual prosecutors for violating those things.

Well, now the the House is run by Republicans or mostly rhinos, frankly. And, it's a, You know, it's something that I guess they can invalidate a previous committee

and call it null and void and therefore actually take away or and let's put it this way, they're going to parade to create a path for people that have been charged with January 6th. Shit. Yes. To be able to appeal based on this change, because kind of like if the cops had no reason to search you and they found something that then you can't count what they found, right? Because they shouldn't have found it.

I think in a similar fashion here, the, without the January 6th committee, hearings creating these pseudo charges that a lot of people will be able to get their sentences reversed, on appeal. Yeah. More than 60 pled guilty. So this will be interesting for, for those. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I don't know if that. How does that work? If you plead guilty to something that turns out to have been a fake charge, right. Do you still have to serve out your time?

Maybe. Maybe not. I think this goes right down the line of what Donald Trump has been saying all along, which is these are all, forgive the pun, trumped up charges. They are trumped up. Right? And this is where he also came out strong in the debate, I believe. And you could see the confusion on Joey's face. I was glad there was a split screen at the time when Trump was like, you know, all of this is just making my numbers go up, making the donations coming in, go up in.

I mean, Biden didn't know how to process that. Yep. And there's no question that anybody can pretend that this isn't political. And you saw exactly why. Because other people are doing it. And also Joe Biden. Oh, convicted felon. And that's why I loved with Trump's like, oh, you're such a convict. You remember to use that lying convicted felon. He also used illegal immigrant though, so that was interesting. Joey. Not on the right, side of your party there. Yeah, yeah, but the whole.

Oh, you're a felon. And I did think it was interesting. You could tell he was coached, trying to be the tough Joe Biden. Because a couple of times, like, I can't believe you as it's like. But it's like he couldn't even spit out the words. It's like, Joey, as much as I hate what this guy has done to the country, at some point it becomes elder abuse. Whether, yeah, people are saying that I don't give a shit. I don't see anything wrong with abusing elders. Oh wow. There's an opener.

There is an opener. Oh, shit. I thought that was going to be the final line of the show. I guess I'm two minutes late. This is the dude. It's only 11. Oh, I'm an hour and two minutes late or early or something, I don't know. Well, whatever. Anyway, you need some stronger tea. I don't know what you got going. I, I not drink that much of it, though. The truth. I do need some stronger tea. I was up really late, too. I didn't get a whole lot of sleep, but it was.

Well, you were really annoyed by the whole, lightning thing. I was. There for the ride by lightning. And then, I was, I was annoyed at myself for losing some memory. I mean, I probably have a computer, or. Actually, I know it's the irony of it. Right? So I couldn't find a couple of computer memory sticks that I swore I had and bought and paid for, like two weeks ago. And I couldn't find the goddamn things that to reorder.

Wait, so you all, you know, you ordered up because there's got to be a deadline. Oh, yeah, there's a record of mirroring. Absolutely. You remember receiving them? I'm pretty sure they showed up. Yeah. As this you just before my trip. It was just before my trip, and I can't. I lost memory. It's a genuinely lost memory. I know. Loses memory. Yeah, exactly. It's very true. So yeah. So I was like, eventually I'm like, well, I may end up finding him at some point, but I need him right now.

I'm gonna have to bite the bullet and just reorder. Well, yeah. You got a big honkin machine there. I mean, you got, So that's not cheap memory. I'm guessing either. Or. Was this first? No. Besides your gaming rig? No, it's it's it's for a gaming laptop because, I saw, I've been, I've been trying to. I've weed myself off the Lego guy on YouTube, and I've gone back to watching Linus and.

Oh, yeah? Yeah, you got some funny stuff, man. But he was in, was it Hong Kong? It had to be where he just went into a and there was like a whole mall full of tech stores. Oh, yeah, I don't we have this. I've been there like. That's awesome. Yeah. And he just goes up and tells the guy he wants the best thing that he could build for 5000 the market, right? Yeah, yeah. And he wanted to see how honest the guy was going to be because he act like a Rube, although the guy had to know him right?

I mean, I don't know, man. Isn't that business, do you not? I mean, I don't think you watch. How many international computer shows do you watch? True. Not a lot. Yeah, but he is one of the, like, top what? Probably the biggest tech show. Oh he's the biggest picture in tech. Is he bigger YouTube. Is he bigger than Marquez? I know, but he it's a different show. It's a different show. Marquez is not a tech guy. Marquez is a box opener. And, I say that with that, with all the love. And I enjoy it.

Yes, I enjoy watching Marquez, and I think he's got pretty good opinions. I tend to agree with them. He's a reviewer, but really for the last decade he's done nothing but open boxes, product reviews, right? I mean, that's barely product reviews. They're like prerelease promo pseudo advertising for the company with a little bit of review. I've I've seen him rip some products, but you're right. Not only yes, totally read products, but his reviews, they contain no technical details at all.

You know, at least what about the product? You're going to know what his opinion about the product is. You're not going to learn about the product. I agree, but, you know, he's one of the few people that Barack Obama sat down and talked to. I mean, there's some big people that if Marquez says, hey, you want to be on my channel? Like, oh, sure. Oh, dude, he gets everything before. Like he gets the Tesla Cybertruck a day before everybody else. He should. He's way better than us. yeah.

I'm still waiting for my goddamn email to show up saying mine's ready. And, at this point, I'm obviously not getting it. It's it's a pretty crappy product that you buy the. Elon, come on down. Your truck is ready. It is my buddy Elon and I, you know, I still like the way it looks, but just watching all the people that are actually bottom, everyone's either trying to get rid of theirs or they're clearly trying to put on a brave face about it.

It's like, well, right, I'm sure it'll get better over time. Yeah, I'm sure there'll be a firmware update and everything will be exactly. It'll be a firmware update for the truck. That'll be great. Nothing to worry about. And the way Elon stock it. Sounds like the trucks will stop talking to iPhones if he has his way. Oh, there's a rift built example. He doesn't trust Apple's new AI in the phone. You know, there's a lot of that going around. But it's not just Apple.

I mean this is being built now. Similar things in the Android for just being added to windows machines. the more I've watched Rob Braxton lately as well, it's like run Linux, run Linux, run Linux. Oh yeah. Rob is is a guy that has a face for radio. I know, yeah, but but he has been on for a long time. I mean, I've watched him for years and he does get into the weeds and he does get into. Oh yeah, Rob. Rob does know tech. yeah. He could tell you what parts of the hardware.

He's a retired, basically a retired somewhat successful tech company owner. So he made some money. He made enough money to stop working for the rest of his life, which is what the dream is for all of us. And I don't know if he lives on it, but he he used to be on his boat all the time. Now that would be too, that I could just picture. I think he's got a house as well. I can picture Jean on a yacht somewhere in the Mediterranean.

Yeah, yeah. Totally. Right. Yeah. So I used to think that's what I was going to do. but, you know, then reality set in, but, no, I, I grew up sailing, my dad had a sailboat, multiple sailboats. So I, I've been sailing since I was, like 12 years old, but, you realize boats cost a little more money than, well, and I, you know, I had my own boat experience here about what, six years ago? 78? Well, let's see, I sold it five years ago, so I must have bought it seven years ago.

And it was a great two years. Yeah, it was for the sales people. Yeah, it was awesome. Two years because I bought the boat. So I got, And I've always liked fishing, so I got a, fishing boat to go down to the Gulf to catch some fish. And so it was the Central Council boat. the first month of the life expanded, the dealer having all the electronics put in. So I had, like, dual fish finders with different frequencies of sonar around there, had different motors. I had, automated controls.

You could drive this boat from your iPhone like back seven years ago. it was a pretty fun boat. But there are two problems with it.

one, I had it industrial, like I had my photo studio, my my podcast studio slash photo studio background, which was in an industrial building with a 14ft garage door. The boat was 14.5ft. Oh. That is you're like, how do I make the door? It was so fucking annoying because my plan was that it would fit through there and I could store it down there. Yeah, because it's not cheap. That's one thing I learned.

my buddy here, his dad, passed away a few years ago and left him a boat, and they had a slip down on Lake Michigan, which, if you want to talk about expensive like it is insane what these places get. Oh, it's pretty pricey, but it also like you're stuck on that one by the water. My whole point is this thing was decent size, but it was trailer bill, and so I didn't have to have a slip on the Gulf that I would only drive down like once a month and use. I could use it here in Austin.

I could take it somewhere else. it's actually part of the reason I ended up buying my my, sport ute was a diesel engine, so it had more torque for towing sea bass that you could have just let the air out of the trailer tires. It wasn't enough. That was the first thing I tried. That's an old, old formula. It wasn't enough. I ended up having to disassemble the roof on the boat, which was a pain in the ass. That's something you want to do on a regular basis? For sure.

And of course, the next model year, they came out with a folding roof. The bastard. Oh, of course you missed it by that much money. Iowa was the first order for that boat in Austin, so I got the first year model. But anyway, long story short, I sold it two years later to the same dealer. Had him basically, consign it so it's somebody else. And I got exactly half my money back. We did. Good. That that's good for selling a boat. Well, I was happy at least.

I mean, I was I was very happy that they I bought it because it took nine months from when I ordered it until it actually showed up. So you figured I was very happy two years later when I sold it? Yeah. Well, for days, I don't want to have to think about it to pay for that boat. What was the, You know, how much I believe. How many hundreds. I lost about 30,000 of them. Yeah. So that goes for two years, like. Oh, so. But a little over a thousand a month to have it.

I hope you were on that boat a lot. I used it five times. Well, that the math is way easier than 30,005 trips. It was in 6000 trips, not including gasoline. And the fact that I was paying 1500 bucks for my, studio for the boat was stored. Yeah. If you weren't sailing and nailing it was great. Out of Lima on the boat, you did not get your money's worth. I did definitely did not get my money's worth. It seemed great. And concept.

I'll tell you what was a much better deal was, I also had a jet ski at the time, which. Yeah, those are super cheap. Well, here's the problem. Jet ski takes like five minutes to hook up behind your car and go off. You could put it around for a couple of hours, drive back, you wash it down in the course of about ten minutes. It's just so much less work. So consequently, when I wasn't trying to go with friends, it was just me going out. I never took the damn boat. I always took the jet ski.

And so that was, I think, like, I probably would have used the boat more had I gotten rid of the jet ski before buying the boat. But I had both. Yeah, the costs incurred with both jet ski is not a big deal. Jet ski other. Well, when I bought it, it was about ten grand. I think there are 15 now, thereabouts. And, I used it a lot. I got my definitely got my money's worth in the jet ski. I had probably gone out at least twice a week for most of the year.

Well, that is quite a bit, maybe like 40 weeks, 40 weeks a year, twice a week. So about 80 times a year. But you're not crossing the Atlantic in a jet ski. No, no no no, the jet ski. Yeah. You see us here in Austin. I mean, that was kind of the differentiator between the boat and the jet skis, the boats. The intention there was always to go fishing in the Gulf. Could also use it here locally to go fishing. But it was meant for, you know, near shore fishing.

it wasn't like a flat bottom or anything, but it was a, a center console, so you could go catch to an outlet if you wanted to. You could catch any of the smaller fish. It's to you're not going to go for, like, a shark or something crazy big on it, or like the super sized tunas they have out in the, in over by the, goddamn. What's it called? Cabo. Well, you know, because you lost your memory. I did lose a memory.

Cabo is where I've gone fishing in Cabo a lot of times for, really nice fish, both tuna and, sailfish, marlin, all kinds of stuff. The, fishing is very good in Cabo. I probably wouldn't take the boat there, but for the golf, those perfect. And, Yeah. So long story short, just get a jetski.

Don't get a boat. Less money. Double the fun. Well, you can only pick up one chick at a time, though. On a jetski. Yeah, that's. Yeah, that is that is very true. One chick at a time. But she's right up against you the whole time. You want to go party out of a jet ski, bring your friends. No. No. No. So why you put more memory in the laptop? You gotta get that in your go bag. Ready that. Oh, it sits in your laptop. Oh, brother, why didn't you buy it? Why?

I understand why you probably didn't buy it with more memory. Because it would about five times more to get it from the fact. Exactly why? it's exactly right. Did you get it from Mega over? Did they go over my whole laptop story? Last time I thought, oh, I don't remember it was that you get a new. Or maybe it was on the other show you do than one show I know. Right. So I was, going on my trip, which was two weeks ago. And before the trip, I was kind of didn't have your license, right?

I was kind of hemming and hawing and trying to decide to bring my gaming laptop or not, because it's really kind of old and I don't really want to drag this big behemoth. Laptops are a lot like women. They only last so long. You're saying I'm pretty much. And so I made the mistake of looking at new laptops. Oh, yeah. And then I found one that could efficiently work. Well, what? I mean, you fell in love. I did not fall in love.

But I realized that, this was better than what I have, but, it definitely is. It was, it's, down 13th generation i7 in a 4080 graphics card for people that are into video games. Don't know what that means. Well, the 4080 that's is at the top now. 4090 is a top that it's not quite at top. What brand did you go with this time? gigabyte. Oh, nice. This is the same brand I had last time. I just I've always liked those guys, so I got mine.

I ordered it, get my laptop powered up, install software, noticed two of the keys on the keyboard. Don't light up properly now. Right out of the box. That's a that's a ointment. that's why I said that might. Son of a bitch. Because, remember, I got this thing two days before my trip, so I'm like, well, this sucks. Let's see if I can. I mean, I won't have time to, like, return it and get a new one replacement. So I quickly went and bought another one.

exact same thing overnight just so I could get it before on my trip. And I'll deal with the refund later and just make it a refund instead of our exchange. So now you have two laptops, so new new one shows up. But wait, and I'm looking at the box. I'm like, this box is too small. The the last one had a bigger box. I opened up the box. Same manufacturer, different model, same size or a different size even. No different size. So this one was 17 inch. The one that showed up was a 14 inch.

Oh, that's not good. So I didn't even open the box. I just saw that on the box. And then I'm like, son of a bitch to call up Amazon. I'm like, okay guys, what the fuck? The first one's got broken bits. The second one is literally the wrong model. So I've now got two laptops sitting out on my credit card that, neither one of them is going to work. They're both refunds. It's not a happy camper. Amazon's going to be like, I do not sell anymore to this guy.

Well, and Amazon was already like, yeah. Why? You know, you got you're ordering and refunding everything you order now you're, you're fucking it all up. Yeah. And so I had to I sent them photos and I think that kind of made some headway when I talked to the manager out there. And then right after that I, I opened up my browser because I still had the page sitting on that laptop, and it's like. Refurb version of that laptop. Now for sale, 500 bucks cheaper.

So it's it's basically it's $2,000 laptop. So it was like 500 bucks off of that sale. And, but it's only going to ship in like 25 days, so it's like no good. I was like, whoa, wait a minute. This is weird. So hold up. I see turning these and a refurb isn't going to be available, but it's for sale right now. So right about the time that they're going to get mine and then turn around refurbished it. So I'm like, oh, son of a bitch, I'm so this refurb, which of course I ordered is cheaper.

Did you make I'm like, I'm probably getting my own website. You should have made note of the serial number out there, right? Exactly. Which is fine, because that's what you wanted and you get. I mean, that's what I did. So yeah, I wish it worked right. I wish the keyboard worked. So I thought, well, that's just really weird. So I was like, okay, well, let's see here because I,

I waited, like longer than I should have probably before packaging and shipping off the laptop. Just you want to see if they were going to be able to send the other one before. And then meanwhile, I'm getting emails saying, oh, your laptop is delayed a little bit. No. I'm like, oh, dude, this is this is way. I mean, you gotta admire the just-in-time mentality of selling a product as soon as somebody starts a refund process on it, there is nothing that really notices the guy returning.

It's the one, by the same way. But, this is a great gig. it's a great gig. It's right. So I'm like, oh, man, this is hilarious. So finally I send mine out two days after they ship, my laptop is like, hey, good news, your laptop showing up tomorrow? I'm like, all right, all right, let's see here. so it would have been like that, but it's hilarious if two keys didn't work. But, as I found out after opening it, it actually was a different machine because the keyboard did work.

And, from what I could tell. I mean, maybe, return unit, but clearly it was returned for not a reason that something wasn't working. It was returning to somebody didn't want it because, everything works. It is totally clean. There is nothing that was different than it from the unit that I had, except it was $500 cheaper. Oh, yeah. And I think a lot of people have an aversion to it. And, you know, if the amount isn't enough, I get it. But when you start getting into $500, it's $500, right?

At that point where that's sufficiently enough for me to say, okay, I would have taken it even if it had the two keys. frankly, all they had to do was just say, hey, what if we give you a partial refund and keep it right? I would have said, yes, sir. Let's do that. That's easier for me. I'll live with the non-slip keyboard. two keys, one for savings.

I mean, the beauty of this is anybody that knows how to use Photoshop can now make it look like two keys are lit up, even if it works right and be like Amazon, give me a discount. Don't don't do it. Yeah, I guess that's the danger is they would sooner just get you, you know you can't lie. That's the other problem. People like they do. They do. Yeah. There's a lot of them.

I mean it's like when I sent them, two photos, one of which shows the keyboard with the two keys not lit up, and then the other one, and they weren't like, you know, they they were the command key and one of the function keys. So they kind of jump right out at you if you had like the escape key or something didn't work, you can even make an argument saying, oh yeah, that's on purpose, right? But these were clearly random keys that didn't have the backlighting working. so yeah.

So now I've got three laptops. I still haven't been getting the money for the first two yet. And now you need more memory. And now I need more memory for the for this thing. But that memory showed up this morning so I can put it in again. Now. It'll show up. Don't worry about it. No I did, that's what I'm saying. It showed up. That's. That's why I'm awake. Is there? The phone call from Amazon woke me up. What do they call you with them deliver in there?

Well, they they couldn't figure out how to get into the gate. Oh, well, you're in a gated community. Yeah. the guards were annoying. they weren't letting them in Amazon when I heard. Are you guys with you guys a new company? When did you start? I guess. What do you do? Is that to a driver, be like, what? Know is that now? What do you got? What do you do? All do what do you sell? Everything. everything. I'm. I'm drinking some liquid death right now that came from Amazon. Liquid death.

I've heard of that stuff. I have never tried it good at my local grocery store. Never seems to have it in stock. It gives me a, a soda pop feel, in a 19 ounce can that has 20 calories. So compared, it's pretty damn good. Ratio. And is it? What kind of sweetener are they using in there? This one is a no artificial sweeteners. They're using. just the agave plant I think. So it's what the they make of it is not that sweet. It uses agave nectar.

That's it. Yeah. And this is well, this is the aspartame. No, no aspartame. you can look them up. Very few ingredients. Sparkly. Yeah. It's fizzy. Fizzy water. Yeah. The the problem was fizzy is it's acidic. Yeah. It'll rot your teeth out if you let it. It'll rot your teeth out and your guts and everything else in between. So I like I like the flatness of tea. I agree, but for a nice little change up compared to a mountain dew or an RC, which I like, which is like 180 calories for it.

12oz. Yeah, but you could drink a Diet Mountain Dew. Oh, I hate the diet stuff. The I think it's Diet Mountain Dew is the best of the diet tasting ones awful aftertaste. It has the least of that of any diet drink. If you've ever had a Diet Mountain Dew, I'd say check it out because of all the different varieties of things diet versions, they're all worse. But what you do is the closest to normal Mountain Dew. As far as taste. This is, good information.

Yeah. I'm surprised you never tried that, but I have an aversion to diet sodas. I can't remember, I maybe drank a diet soda when I was, like, 20. That whether that were right, I mean, it's there. Most of them are pretty crappy.

But I do think that the the Mountain Dew is the closest in diet format to what the normal one tastes like, and some of the sweeteners have gotten better, but that is the like the trivia package, which I used for a couple of years in my tea until I realized that the stuff they used to bulk up the sweetener, is basically poison. Well, sure, but the truth is pretty good. Yeah it is. It's awesome. But it's poison. so I try to avoid it. Not usually in massive quantities.

Yeah, we've talked about versatile. Yes. with you, between you write out, it will clean you out. So it's good for that. And it also used to be, all through the up until about the 1980s really. But all through the 50s, it was used as, but poison. Never like. Wow. It's a sweet. If you have a, like an ant control issue, they would, they would come and spray that little white powder and it would kill all the ants. And then somebody realized you could eat it. so you can eat anything.

I mean, you could. The other thing about it is the is it's really good for your teeth, apparently, because just like the ants, it kills the bacteria that cause cavities. Oh, yeah. You could just use a little bit of Listerine every day. That doesn't kill them all, though. The, the thing that's interesting here is, it uses the same method, right? So it tastes sweet to bacteria and to the ants and other bugs, but it contains no calories that they can process.

And so they actually starve to death while eating it and thinking they should be full. The same thing with the bacteria. Oh, another said, so people recommend just taking a little like a spoonful over the top and then mixing it with like a, an ounce of coconut oil and then switching that like Listerine,

kill everything in your mouth. But it's but you can literally swallow it if you want. Like, you can spit it out, but it also swallow it because it doesn't. It's not going to do anything bad to you. Add a just a teaspoon of earth at all. It's not going to clean you out. Kinky Friedman dead at 79 man. Yeah. Sad day man. we keep talking about people. we I think we talked about Chinchilla about six months ago. They ain't making Jews like Jesus anymore. That's certainly not now.

That's a song that Twinkie had. By the way, if people have not heard of him, he's a few times. He's a legend. Yeah. He, ran for, governor of Texas years ago. Is a, Texas legend like you mentioned. Yeah. I mean, he used the N-word in that song about Jesus. I mean, that he did. People bury it back when everybody used to use that word like that. Well, I know he's not. Never got canceled. Nobody. Kinky, baby. you see, I met him. I've got a box of his cigars. Nice. so.

So you were kind of a honorary Texas Jew boy. I was kind of honorary Texas Jew. Yeah. So his band was kinky Friedman. Texas Dubois. because if you're walking into that show and not realizing you're in for a fun night, I don't know how you would have missed that. Yeah, well, and this was maybe seven years ago, so it was a while, but, yeah, it went to show. Ended up talking to him afterwards and hanging out for a little bit, but, he's a little guy, man. You see? Showed me very funny, though.

yeah. Yeah. unlike me, it's funny. Or was funny. Yeah, well, he still is. He will live for was in audio recordings and video. Yeah, yeah, yeah. and I think a pretty good songwriter. I don't as far as a musician, I'd say he was pretty average, but as far as a song was pretty good. Yeah. He knew how to put the words together and to get a reaction and to make people laugh. Not an easy thing to do.

No. And back in the late 70s, when he was kind of at his peak, he hung out with a lot of the other guys here, like Willie Nelson and, you know, it's the Austin scene, right? Yeah. He was not on MTV or C Brooklyn. He was a, he was an outlaw. He was in that jam. I wouldn't really say country music, but that's as close as it was folk. Yeah. So country rock, country rock, I guess would be the. Yeah. it it it's straddling all of those rock, folk and country. It's same shit Bob Dylan was doing.

Right, but with more humor. That was a Minnesota Jew boy, right? So it's a completely different, you know.

And then, to be fair, we have Steve Goodman, the Chicago Jew boy. That was one of the greatest songwriters that we have ever seen. you know, Jews run, the national industry. Yeah, yeah, a lot of people, it's like when you hear the you never call me by my name, you know, the David Allen Coe song, or you hear City of New Orleans, you know, Arlo Guthrie. You're like, oh, wow, these guys are so authentic. No little Jewish kid from Chicago wrote this man.

Next thing I'm gonna be talking about Neil Diamond. Neil. Oh, song song blue creeper out my window. You know, what I see from Neil is. Isn't he a New Englander, I think. Is he? Yeah, I think so. I mean, I think we, I know he has that big connection to the Boston Red Sox, and I do believe he is a New Englander where they sing, you know that song Sweet Caroline every. Yeah, yeah. He was born in New York City. So close. New York City is a new York Jew boy. Yeah. You wrote some big songs?

Yeah. Paul Anka and singers. I think maybe it doesn't. I don't think he's Jewish. We don't know if he's part of the tribe or not. A lot of Jewish songwriters. Let me look it up on your PDF. So you have you give a special connection together. It's a subscription plan that you have to get in to. And I know we were so desperate. CSB if you're still listening, when we were trying to figure out Gene's problem with voltage, I started asking ChatGPT and it wasn't all that helpful.

The point is Syrian. Okay. Totally different. Yeah. He is dad's from Syria. His mom's from Lebanon. Also wrote some damn good songs up my way. Top of the list, no question about it. So he's he's, he's like, Danny. no. Of the guy's name, little Danny, what's his name there again? What? What was his name for memory. The guy. I do need more memory. The guy who started the children's hospitals. Oh, Danny Thomas. Thomas. They didn't. They then? No. Damn. Dedicate Danny Thomas. Danny Kaye was Jewish.

Danny Thomas was also from Syria. Alexa, reorder memory set up. no, ill do it because there's a reason not to do it. So, you know, I hear my talking in the other room. Have no idea what it's saying, but I. I have a daughter that he's a recently, so. Yeah, anytime you say reorder, believe me. It's good to hear you. Did you say reorder? Yeah. It is. Still talking about what that was saying. Oh, Alexa, stop. She's reordering. Order your products for the last one. That's right.

We are not aware of what you want, so we will just do this. Exactly. We'll send you each fake order, fake order, fake order. but we have this recording. If you say Alexa, reorder. Right. But no, that was I was on the podcast. but yes, yes, that was, listening to a podcast. It let the you know, the oddity, of course, will be the show, obviously. Amazon Alexa, did you submit the podcast? Yes. So if people actually you can say, Alexa, play unrelenting. Yeah, I just Alexa play unrelenting.

And that will indicate that if you search for our names on Amazon, we show up like real live authors. And, yeah, that's cool. And so get stuff you can listen to unrelenting directly through your Alexa device. And then somebody will be playing this on their Alexa device, and then the device will then reorder things because it heard the commands and it gets very confusing.

very confusing, which is why I've never ordered anything, even though they try this like, well, if you order it through, the Alexa will give you money off. There's different pricing. Yeah. If you voice order, it's different pricing. The problem is that you don't know if that different pricing is higher or lower. Right. And it could be either you're rolling the dice. It's so crazy that they have different pricing depending on the how you order.

It's different pricing if it's from the phone, different pricing from my computer, different pricing from a voice device. And I it's not kind of get why they did this, but I was surprised when they finally cut off the price matching. Yeah. Because, I mean, I've gone through this before with Amazon. And again, this is it's a game of chicken because if you buy it especially I look at your laptop, you know, you got a $2,000 laptop.

You buy this and two days later the thing hasn't even showed up at your house. Yeah. They dropped the price to 1500. Oh, yeah? Yeah. Well, you go into a chat with them or call them and ask for a price match. They'll tell you they won't do it right. And you're like, but I can just immediately return this and rebuy it. Yeah. Well you can, but you'd really rather I don't understand the reason why that would be preferable to the less. So many people are so lazy.

I think that's mainly what it is because it's an inconvenience. To do that. You got to drive to a UPS store. But yeah, and speaking of, I just saw that the current price on that laptop that I ordered for two grand is now 1700 bucks. See, it's amazing, isn't it? Now, I made my discounted one. It's no longer a $500 discount. It's now $300. It's going to be another refurb on a gig of five. I'm just going to keep buying these until the price is is under a grand.

I think I'm going to keep you like having a reset that's been refurbished already. That would be good. Yeah, exactly. Well, theoretically the refurb is actually have a better warranty coverage because they give you 90 days to return them instead of 30 days. Interesting, right? You know, for most things, you know, it's not a I don't know, I think thing with hard drives, I still would be a little luck. There's no hard drives in a laptop.

I mean, even if it's a, solid state, there's only so much you said. There's, Well, I understand, but you still kind of feel like there's only so many read write cycles that if somebody did something weird with it for a month or two and then returned it. Yeah. I mean, the biggest thing is going to be battery, which these days are not replaceable computers. They used to be replaceable battery. Now they're not. Yeah. The good old days.

Now the good news is I crack this thing open already in anticipation of putting the memory in there. You put all you voided so many warranties already, it's. But again, it doesn't matter because it's, We forgot it, but, it looks like the battery is actually very easy to take out of there. So it's not what would be termed the consumer, replaceable. But it's certainly a service center replaceable item. And, well, you could probably do it if you're not.

I have more screwdrivers sitting on my desk than most service centers right now, because I kept losing my screwdriver boxes there with the memory. So I just I think you might be around to something because, I'm looking now. I've got five different micro screwdriver kits all sitting within five feet of me right now. If you had cats or dogs, I think they were taking them and fucking with you. But the snakes, I don't think, care enough to sneak into their room stealthily.

Take care. Yeah, they they're not. yeah. I don't have any pets that like to, like, steal things at all. you might want to get one that way. It's a good excuse where things go missing. I would if I didn't have snakes. I mean, now that I'm traveling way less than I used to, I probably would get a cat. I've always wanted a serval, but I think I would actually, at this point, I wouldn't get a serval. I would probably get a, what do you call those things?

yeah. Ocelot, I don't I see I'm not up on what different cat breeds are. Yeah, I vote I do like the ocelot. They're smaller than serval, but they're so pretty with the snake. Eat them. Yes. Yeah. They're literally with the snake with it. Like that's about the right size. You got a little like about exactly the right size. It's this snake. The native food for the snake species that I have here are monkeys.

Okay. So and it's it's actually kind of fun watching hunting monkeys because they're quite intelligent. What they do is they chase the monkey up a tree and the monkey is, is, I guess, not smart enough to realize the snake to climb a tree. Well, a lot of snakes can't. This one can. and so it actually climbs the tree at about, three feet per second, and it'll chase a monkey all the way out to the top of the tree and then onto a branch until the branch breaks.

The monkey falls down the ground and then breaks something. hopefully it's head so it doesn't feel anything, but probably not. And then the snake climbs back down off the tree and then eats the monkey.

Seems like a violent system. It it can't run away at that point. Right. So the fact that this snakes method isn't necessarily even suffocation, like it'll do that still before it eats it. It doesn't want it moving around its stomach. Yeah, that would be very inconvenient for us. That would be annoying. Yeah. But the the typical method of, of showing like these is actually chase them up a tree and make them fall off, which is pretty ingenious.

Yeah. Well, that they've learned that throughout their DNA and just know like, oh, and back when this was a much smaller snake and back when I used to be a photographer and I had all my, like, backdrops and I, a lot of photo stands and things like that. It used to love to climb up onto the green screen stand that was about eight feet in the air. Wow. Nice practicing. And it was just it would just sit there on the pole that holds up the green screen real, and then just chill.

You know, like half the snake on one side have to snake back and forth, back and forth and the other side. So it looked very cute when I was sitting up there, but it was too damn high up for me to grab down there. So I was always annoyed when I climbed up there because, it's a bit of a, you know, it's a bit of an issue trying to get them back down. I have to use a ladder, climb, climb up there and bring him down. but he's gotten obviously way too big to do that.

you know, a couple times he's decided to climb up when he was taking a bath, to climb up and to the shower curtain rod, which obviously the shower curtain. I know that he did that because, yeah, there's only so much. Wait. I hear a clanging sound, and I walk into the bathroom and the shower curtain rise on the floor and the snakes looking up at me like, why didn't do that? Shower curtain dreads not made to hold up over 100 pounds. No no no he doesn't know that now. Now he does.

Well I know he doesn't see someone once they get. In with you I mean we set up a camera and then you got a viral video right there. Yes. The problem is he's done like, twice in three years. So it's like, wait, most of the time he behaves himself and just takes a bath and then climbs up onto the, the counter where the sink is and then falls asleep up there, as one would do. Well, I think it's a little higher up. He doesn't like sitting on the ground, likes to be a little higher up.

So he climbs up on there. Plus he's got a mirror so he can look at himself in the mirror. Do well, that's even nighttime. He's got to be able to primp. Yeah, as we all do. But let me go right now and share the man with the snake. Or is he got his own. No, he's got his own bathroom. Is there. Snakes often do real ones. Yeah. He's got his, he's got a bedroom in the bathroom. Well I understand the bedroom because otherwise, he might try to kill you with your sleep. You know, you're my dad.

The only people that say that the obviously the snake knows. Like I'm way too big to eat. So he's he has no intention of telling me he has broken a rib once, accidentally. But that was totally by accident. Says you.

Well, yeah. If you wanted to do it, you would have done a lot more than one. Like, I'm going to get you. I'm just playing. Oh, yeah. I was carrying him from one location to another on my shoulders, and he was kind of wrapping himself around me, holding the. And then as he saw his house, and then he decided to go before I was ready for him to go, he kind of fell out of my arms, which of course, well, what do you do if you have no arms or legs? So you grabbed by the tail.

So he grabbed on to me to keep himself from falling on the ground. The problem was he was wrapped around my ribs. So he's watching you in your sleep? He's coming? Yeah. You and my dad. I swear to God. It's like you guys grew up on some weird ass TV show or something to think like that. Like I can't lose to money. No snake will keep all the minute on the monkeys. And I was epic enough for the snake to think I'm able to be prey, that there's a problem.

Dude, I told you, you can't get that shit, right? Yeah, no, I didn't. Did I bitch about that last show? I went to my. You trying to get some pick? Yeah, yeah, I went to my can get my physical down everything and. Well, I'm not a zombie. I'm. I'm one of the other ones. I can't remember which one off top of my head, but it's like it's from the same company and it's the same kind of shit. It's just not as well. No. This is. I'm back. But, And the best ones actually.

Month zero, that's the one that really works. Well, yeah, that sounds like a Disney ride. I know right now I'm, you know. Yeah. but it's, like they're all unavailable. It is crazy. They're literally unavailable. The drug stores don't have them in stock, and my neighbor is a drug dealer, so I talk to him. Well, I'm like a drug dealer or an illegal drug dealer. Exactly. So I talk to him as, like, dude, what's the deal with these things? Because I can't seem to be able to get it.

He's like, dude, people are coming in with prescriptions and they're just paying cash and they're just buying all of them up. Like they're not dealing with insurance, they're not doing it. They're just walking in and paying cash. I'm like, son of a bitch. That's a thing. You're like, why are and I in the my general business? Well, I mean I know why, but it's the the shit costs very little to manufacture. it's it's a formulation of some glue tied.

Like, you could buy that for horses for about 50, 50 bucks, but I'm not saying anyone would do that. So advice. Not medical advice and certainly not, you know, using the products on humans is illegal that are made for animal use. But it's same shit. It's an older out to it, same chemical compound. It is. And so like compounders can make this stuff. if you have a practicing doctor, let's say in Mexico, for example, they can get stuff done very cheap.

But you find on zoom, maybe using whatever country could be soon could be the thing. Yeah. But it's it's not the prescription is not the issue. Like I, I've got a prescription from my actual doctor. it's the getting it that is hard. Even with the prescription. Even as a frickin diabetic, which is what this medicine was originally trained for. For weight loss. Oh, you. They wanted for fatties. Now, have you not watch South Park? You should watch stuff.

I just downloaded that. There was, there was the. He made this movie. You just recorded it on your DVR is. Right? Right. That's what I meant. Exactly. The latest movie. but I did see the one where it was the, the poop trans plant. Was that the one? no, that was the fecal transplant one. that was, South Park. They hit it out of the park. There's always, always a park. Yeah. So does, see Brooklyn 112 came in with 2222 says. Thanks for the consistency. Hey. Thank you.

The show is very consistent whether it's good or try. Not true. I mean we're different every time, but we are consistent. We do like to say only you could make it go pupu boost the show. That's how you interact with us. Your host here, the. Well, preferably you just send money in PayPal. That way I'll get a piece of it. But. Yeah, well, you know, g well, you had a note at one point. I don't know that you have out. Yeah, we. Now you have an alibi. So you get half of the album. You have the album.

I, I haven't figured out how to use yet, but getting money in the LP account. Yeah, well, I was getting money in this account too, and so it was all tied up and know where it's land. And remember, all only let you have like, a million satoshis before they get there. Five years that letting that come through. So, that's why I had to get my own note. It kept filling up. That was like, damn. Oh, for the first world problems, they're like, damn, I need to get my own.

My notes filling up with all these people paying for my legal music, I got to I buy a lot of hard drives to store all my music. and the nice thing is, now most of the stuff goes right to the note I have for Broadway music, television and movies. What do you think the three NAS devices are for? It's not like I do anything else. One. No, none. Sorry. I mean, why would you anybody have that as a physical or downloadable thing?

Well, yeah, but I mean, they, they're putting people that are collectors. True, true. The thing with downloading well with, you know, porn websites is they're very ethereal. Or ethereal? Ethereal. There a shit disappears. That's what I'm trying to say. Yeah. Oh, man. Where's that thing? Which the chick did the thing? Yeah. With that one chick that I liked. Yeah, yeah. Gone. No. Where does that Jennifer Lawrence private stuff that was leaked. Oh, the fat burning baby. That was not.

Yeah. Where's all that? It's all gone. It's all on The pirate Bay or wherever. They took it off of there. They they they got a deal. Like with the, They made a deal to take it down. Yeah, yeah. All these porn websites, you know, they're all bribery, all we really have. Oh, yeah. You want. You should gone. We can probably arrange that for free. Let's see. For the, for the bingo card. We're closing in on the. And I have to just say I, Taylor Swift, order lunch, and, the mister.

Yeah, I did a show we did miss a lot. That's all right. Yeah. We'll have, only 1 or 2 winners instead of everybody. Now, did you like the chapters for the last episode? I think the, ChatGPT is getting better once I can get it to understand the timing, the time codes in the transcripts, which is an oddity. And I'm still not sure why that's the case. It's kind of like it has a drift or something that it you know, it can process the text, but it's not necessarily processing it.

Yeah. So the time at the same time. So I shit is now built into the script. Yeah. I saw they wanted they sent me something like your free program is changing.

So there it's got it'll do chapters that'll automatically it'll do a summary automatically. The problem is it'll do the chapters, but you still have to separately import them into, your hosting service, which I use buzzsprout, which I like. Buzzsprout. but it's not seamless. So it creates the Json file, though. no it doesn't. Okay, well, that's a disappointment. Yeah, yeah it should. I agree, it should. If it was created in Json, it'd be even easier. It creates text file.

So you have to do a little bit of fiddling around with it to import it. So it's it's doable. But it's, it's a little bit of a pain in the ass. But we'll do the leading zeros. Well that's nice. That's built in. That's just a checkbox. I was surprised a little.

Maybe it is just too much processing power because you know that ChatGPT because I see the the transcript and it could, you know, do that if I have fed it audio files of songs and it was able to extract lyrics, but it still refuses to do a transcript of a podcast file, it doesn't watch it. Maybe it's just too much processing power to take all that audio and convert it to a transcript. So that's I think it's another processing power issue. I think it's just a limit on the buffer size could be.

So I still have to put that through Adobe then send that to ChatGPT. And once you know I have to ask, you know, I figure the easiest thing to do is ask it simple questions like how long is this episode? And if it spits out the wrong number right off the bat, try again, because there's something that, well, you're doing way more with ChatGPT than I am. I'll use it if it's built in, but I otherwise I don't go out of my way to use it.

Well, if you can figure out the right prompt engineering, if you can figure out the right words to add to what you need to make it automated. So I could say, yeah, but it's still it's not, still not I made it. If you had to do that automated, it would be just going through an API. When you push a button, well you can get it to that point if you know what you're doing.

There's the one, book writing software that I've been playing around with, and they have their basic prompts, but you can then work from there. Meaning, this is like with the podcast, it's a very similar where you can go in and change it to meet your needs. Yeah, it does, you know, give you different things. If you tell it with the chapters, you know, hey, any little topic change, give me that.

You can get 5000 chapters for an episode or, you know, telling it to make sure they're, you know, 50 and that the titles that they give you at that. It's just the way being able to feed it where you write, you'd like to do a checkbox where you could set it up and say, okay, you have a podcast. Well, do you want the chapters to be very descriptive, or do you want them to be funny, or do you want them to be more clickbaity?

And then depending upon that, the prompt that it would feed through to get it done obviously would change a little bit, but it is still way faster. And you're right, it's not one click. But if you want to do chapters for an episode like this, the ten 15 minutes A takes to get it done in ChatGPT and that exported way easier than looking through a transcript or way

easier than having to listen to the episode and do it manually. And the results are pretty good. But yeah, I don't know if anybody actually. Besides CSB uses the chapters though, nobody does. So it's kind of just there to beef it up. It's kind of like the oh shit, they put in with the. Yeah, just to bulk it up a little bit, because that way it feels like a bigger product because it's got this right.

So I mean, I sit there, I enjoy being able to provide the transcripts and the chapters and whatever else they're used to, you know, because the work level's way down and it could just be done well for you. Your level of work level down is still more than what I'm like. So I'm happy to use the built in shit. You're just a lazy bastard, Jean. Pretty much. So if it's built into either my host or my, editing software with the script. And this will make people spend more money.

This is something that could change the game for these podcast. Host these programs that do nothing but podcasting, offering this thing where it is one click, it'll give you what you need. The hosting service will do that. They'll do a summary and chapters, but it's like another 20 bucks a month. You're like, no, the ChatGPT is a full price is 20 bucks a month. Why would I pay that? To add something that.

Yeah, you know, ChatGPT for a lot of people, they don't want to have to think about it, but I don't know, it's, I just having it in the script is built in now without any extra money is good. Although it's been now six months that I've been paying for Adobe, and I still haven't installed it yet. Well, at least you got your money's worth. I always feel like that's the case because it's cheap.

But you know, what's going to happen is I'm going to run out of the year at the cheap price, and they're going to say, oh, it's time to raise your price. And I'll be like, fuck you. And I will have never used it the whole time. Just looking here at the chapters from the last episode, we have carbon dioxide levels and calmness. creating influencers, Gary Vaynerchuk, Hollywood power dynamics and AI influencers.

Real people versus fake people and advertising virtual girlfriends and AI models, marriage dynamics and influence. Well, that was all you, the importance of money in relationships. Also, Gene, virtual spaceships and expensive hobbies is chapter ten. That is definitely, definitely that. High end simulators and realism, helicopter safety and emergency. Oh, here's a great one. Blind racecar driver inclusivity. Yeah yeah yeah. Do it.

Idiocracy and societal regression that I mean, basically what you're telling me is the AI ignores you the entire episode and just writes down what I said seem. So although they've got stem cell treatments and medical advances. listener donations and community support. That part's yours. Yeah, donations. Definitely yours. Technological and privacy concerns. And then closing. Yes. Every time you bring up taxman, that's the puts that in there. It's like.

We know what you mean. We know what you're saying. Yes. Batsman. That equals privacy concerns. And the beauty is it's all just done for you in a matter of moments. And this is where a lot of this downfall of our current, society is. We're so happy to be generating useless content because now computers can do it for us, that we're ramping up our generation of useless content more and more every year. But useless content is useless. But the beauty here is you're not generating useless content.

You're taking our already human useless content of the show and adding to it by. Yeah, I agree, I don't think our show is useless. First of all, it's entertainment. Oh yeah, I agree, but in the grand scheme of things though, derivative content is useless content, but it helps people find the content they want by what does. In the case of chapters, I think it does, because if somebody you think that okay.

And there anybody listening either live or on the recording, if you actually use the chapter to find something like if you scan the what the chapter said, and then for that section, let us know, see if you don't include any money. Right. I know CSB uses chapters to find it and yes, no agenda millennial. I'm talking about putting in the transcript from the show, but in the I created all of those chapters with the time, made it into a Json and boom, it's just there for people to see.

Yeah. So it's a beautiful thing. It's creating the chapters for us could do that and it can do it fairly well. It can parse content. I'm not thinking, you know, it's going to come up with great content, but it can take what you give it and then re format it. And it's also pretty good at spelling. It's better than I have a spelling. That's true. And it comes up every now and then with that's not good at picking titles. You have to be very clear.

Like I want something funny, but just like 2 or 3 words. and then you need it to give you like, got a friend that just sent me some photos and is promising to send me this full video where he's a speaking in front of 6000 people on AI right now. Oh, very nice. Is he an AI? Is he? He jumped into it with both feet really early on. And it's all. It's all about, like getting stuff done by AI, you know, instead of humans. Which I get it.

That's a lot of the think you can train anything that is repeatable. Yeah. You know this I understand AI is going to be way more helpful than a phone tree when you. I'm just waiting. Yeah, I'm just waiting for Google in Gmail to have a button that, you know, maybe in the preference or maybe on each email that said, would you like us to rephrase your email before sending it? That's like, you got me not even going to see it. You're just going to check the box boxes says, yes, please.

So that's kind of scary. And it's going to, you know, all mail will be computer generated that point and, and it'll be read by computers because of who has time to read email. Right. Especially when it's long and slowly written. It'll be so you have time as to look at a summary. Yeah. And I'll give you the summary here. Your top three emails today I covered that on the last random thoughts. Google and solid ones are adding in the AI right to Gmail.

You know people are going to be like, we'll give them a great I don't have to read emails anymore. Yeah, and you know who's adding up? This is how crazy it is. So I recently updated the the driver for my, Logitech mouse. Part of the driver for the Logitech mouse has included ChatGPT, but. So now when you press a button on the mouse, it pops up a little box that has pre-configured, chat GPT request thingies. What do you call them after? Yeah, it has pre-populated prompts prompting for a prompt.

yeah. It's like adding, what would you like output here? Then it'll set it right. The chat GPT and like that's part of the mouse driver. Now how far are we falling. How far? Oh that's no wonder this whole country is going to hell in a handbasket. Yeah, I you you.