123: Broken Connections

Where's my money and what? My money back. And with my money back. When? You. When you. Hello, and welcome to episode number 123. Yeah. One, two, three for you, numerology freak. You'll be coming in big with the donations, won't you? No they won't. Crickets chirping. Crickets. Except for Weenie Wawa. He came in with his 1080 monthly. And that's it. Wow. The Wawa man. Nice. This is all for the Wawa.

I once again, I understand why people use up pseudonyms when donating to this show and others really cause all the nations to get on. Just the good old boys of actual names. Do they? Are they real names like, Phil McCracken? Yes, exactly. But just like that, I was looking at you because I like now having this, ChatGPT thing that Ksbw got me addicted to now, because I used to go through. And if you have ever downloaded the PayPal spreadsheet, it's a pain in the ass.

Especially if you use that in my PayPal for everything. So my card, you know, that, you know, purchases are on there. Anything coming in. You know, all of the shows are on there and, said it the latest quarterly does. It's been about three months or so since I sent June any money or Rose any money or Larry any money. so I punch this in here and I asked it with each podcast made, and then I went and did it manually to double check. And sure enough, it was right.

Wow. But damn, this makes things a lot easier, And I think I can now also do that go through and but all of the data and then we can find out like who's reached a certain amount or whatever. Well, it's funny how your ChatGPT partner seems to be getting the most donations. Yes. Right. The, CSP, if any of that, I'm telling you. And I mean, over the last quarter, unrelenting. beat random thoughts by ten bucks, but otherwise came in behind grumpy old Ben's Planet rage and the Rock and roll pre-show.

And I was telling somebody about the rock and roll pre-show, and they were very excited. And I said, you know, I'm not sure that that's the actual podcast with time. That's a pseudo podcast, because it is exactly somebody. Okay. Yeah. So he can't because he was like, so how do I subscribe to it? I'm like, I don't know if you can.

I mean, I have had archives and I need to post another one, but and it was, so he was saying that of all the people that he's listening to on podcasts, not just people with me, that this Chicago guy has the best sounding voice and he's just a little bit behind Rush Limbaugh as far as he's concerned for voice. See, in rush had it and he made a lot of money with it. He did. And I said, well, I'm not going to tell Darren that. I said, like, I need a gig on WLS for 30 million a year.

Yeah, yeah, for or or 30,000, whichever they decide to do. Yes. Yeah. Well, we could start somewhere and work our way up. Honestly, 30,000 might be, might be a pay raise. Well, considering the, for this last three months. Unrelenting. Pulled in, what, 97 and 32? And let's remember, 100 plus was Dale from down Under. So, yeah, exactly this. Of course, only PayPal, not including those massive amounts of boost that have come in from CSB and the like. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Through the whole lightning thing. Although Gene doesn't think that. Speaking of which, there's, CSB with his 3333 saying call and encouraging everybody to go to that CSB that l o l maybe I have the, easy entry, the echo a little too much on that one. It's the other little bit. It's got like the pews that will never stop. It's just like pew, pew pew pew pew, but yeah. So that doesn't include the great, amount of crypto coming in, but it shows that, it's really not a full time job.

It's really not even a part time job. It's not even washing windows on the street corner when people go driving by. It's definitely not that, because those guys I've seen a few reports, including by John Stossel and they those guys, yeah, they make 50 to 100 grand a year. Damn, we're in the wrong line of work. Well, when you're in the business of during people's windows, they came like, no, no, just don't do it here. I'll give you a double if you don't clean it.

Yeah. So I had, that's our dream to get another message from the good folks at the shitty company voltage. Oh, they still, trying to get you clean while they build me for another year. So I sent them a message like, okay, we've had this ticket open for two months. How about you credit me this month's payment? Because, you know, I've wasted, like, the last year's worth of payments with you guys. And the response is, oh, we may have fixed your problem. Take a look and reboot your server.

we may, but what about my credit? We may have. I like the we may have fixed the. Oh, no. I mean, you know, they're poking sticks and things. They might have hit the right server in the ass or something. I don't know, you know, when you're, like, in the hospital in the doctor's, like, I think we did the right surgery on you. I think it'll be fine. Oh, I don't even know if it's quite that far. It's more like. I think we may have found the doctor might be right. We. We may have been able to find.

So far, no one knows why this thing that you're describing and taking screenshots off is happening. We may have found somebody that says, oh, maybe, maybe this is this. So let's see if yeah, let's see if he can figure it out. He might have figured it out. They might not you, but you have to stick around longer and pay us for a few more months in order to find out. This is this is the last month that's. I'm. I'm done. I'm canceling it in the next week. Regardless. it's, It's a little insane.

It's crazy. My buddy Tom Tom ski on the trailer and points out that the Rock and roll pre-show can be subscribed to, but all you get is the live show, so you will get the, notification when live, but then there is no show that is posted to that RSS. He got to be you got to be quick. You got to be live. Still selling seven pending channels and live. Really? Oh yeah. Yet? don't send Jean any more satoshis. At least this show doesn't. This one sends them all to your. Get Alby. Yeah, yeah. They get.

I'll be seeing. Well, I haven't logged in there in long time, so I hope that works. Yeah. Make sure that if you get over a certain amount, they start just not taking anymore because they don't want to tell you she's right. It makes perfect sense. I know they have just released a dashboard. I know it's going to be coming out for the device that I've got, and others I'm sure I see the kurwa from four minutes ago who? Yeah, that's rocking and rolling right there.

That is making you a professional podcaster. Yeah. And the last one was 14 days before that because we skipped last week. That's right. Yeah I had a dentist appointment. Because the Crown finally sell the, you know the temporary one that I knew was going to have to get taken care of.

But this has set into motion now a because I ended up calling the old dentist because the concept I thought was once we get into this year, new year, new dental insurance, you know, everything rotates, you know, it resets. And the guy, the dentist is like, well, they won't do another crown. Wait for the same tooth for five years after the last one. Because I mean even if I mean I'm like well well it's supposed to last at least. oh yeah.

Well most crowns will last you well over five years if they're done correctly. Yeah. And I'm like well but what do I do. Because this one was obviously so horribly done. you could see the dentist. That's the other thing you can do, you know. Well, this is where I have gone after speaking to him and have the conversations that I had with the and the didn't test when I had the re reroute canal. So I called up this place.

The woman called me back, I gave her the information and she's like well we're a corporate office. So basically she has to send this into her upper ups and see. But my dentist said he had another patient of theirs and they didn't fight all that hard to give them a partial or full refund for the work done. And the interesting thing I found out is the horrible female dentist that I had. Yeah, no longer with the place.

Well, you know, you you only get 70% of the dentists and that one, so that's bad. And you have like I explained it and I'm like, look, you know, this is not something I would normally do because, you know, the chick pointed out like, well, you know, you sign something saying, well, you understand that sometimes root canals are not blah, blah, blah, and you might need a blah, blah, blah. And I'm like, well, yeah, but the Crown wasn't done correctly. It was too large. I was biting my cheek.

I was in there. I'm like, you have the records. I lost track of how many times I went back in there for them to try to fix that issue, and then I pulled out the whole. And I also, well, I probably can't prove it didn't show you the timing. On having a heart arrhythmia for eight fucking months, which I am now completely sure your dentist caused. So, you know, do you really want to go to small claims court? I don't know, yeah. Oh, it's not small claims. That's big claims court that point. Yeah.

Yeah. Exactly. Because that was the magic man. After I told my dentist when I went in the other day last Friday, I'm like, dude, you're still my hero. Because, you know, you stop. You may want to contact your medical insurance and relay this information to them and say, by the way, I think my heart arrhythmia was caused by this according to blah, blah, blah, because they will absolutely go after your dentist and recover thousands and tens of thousands of dollars that they paid out for doctors.

Yeah, they want their money because I bet. Oh yeah, it'll cost that that guy. And you may want to tell your dentist that should they not decide to refund your payments right on this tooth. Right. You'll you'll be forced to talk to your insurance company and provide them all the information they need to go after them for harder with me related issues and let them figure it out.

Let's remember, and I can tell you, if anybody in that company talks to anybody whatsoever with a, a, a legal license with, somebody it's a lawyer there. They will absolutely tell them it's not worth fucking around with. Just pay them. No. And let's, remember, there was a E.R. visit in there, so you know what that would cost. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Like, I'm going this week to get a, real, like a Cat scan, CT scan, whatever the hell they're doing. we said the nuclear scans.

Yeah, the nuclear scan. Yeah. Whatever it is. The point is, I wasn't even thinking about it. You told me. Oh, yeah? Yeah. This is going to suck. So great. Thank you. I wasn't worried whatsoever about this because I. The last, CT scan thing I have was a whole body one, and it was very pleasant. That was calm. There was nothing. Yeah, it was just expensive. But there's nothing to this one there. Like. Oh, and by the way, so the your office co-pay is $750, and, you'll be there for four hours.

I'm like, what? well, yeah, for four hours. That sounds very expensive. At $5,000 an hour. Well, yeah. Yeah, but if it's the same thing that I had done. Well, this was the beauty of having a good hospital with good doctors out here. I had that done when I went in for the gallbladder issue because it was, you know, kind of a chest pain thing, heartburn that wasn't going away.

and the cardiologist came up and he was like, well, you know, if it was a heart issue, we'd be seeing this, this and this, you know, pretty much I would guarantee you it's this. He's like, but if you want to stress test, we can do one. And I'm like, well, I'm here. Why not? Yeah. And you walked into that one. It was the nuclear stress test which they go through, as anybody knows, it's ever had the MRI type thing where they want to see some things. Will they?

I forget if they injected me or if you. Yeah. It had to be it wasn't something that you would drink. So you were injected with the nuclear dye. You know, they put you through the Cat scan light machine. It wasn't fully enclosed, but they take the pictures of your heart beating and then they're like, oh, now get up on a treadmill and run really fast as much as you can until you're exhausted. Then we'll do that other thing again. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's a cool. I mean, it's a fun day for you.

I mean, you're going in just having some fun. Yeah. What are you doing? This, what do I do there? Wednesday or something like that? Whew. All right. We can't wait for a full report on that. Oh, yeah? Yeah, exactly. Like. All right. Gene had a doctor appointment and he never came out. They do have that happen. So I've got $665 according to this, in pending channels, which now is and these are incidentally, channels. I didn't open these channels. Voltage opened on my behalf. Yes.

The magically opening channels. Yeah. The magically opening channels did. They now can't figure out how to close. And what were the fees to open these channels? I don't know, I'm I'm not horribly concerned about the fees because I'm going to lose 665 bucks on this. It's just all gone. It's gone, it's gone. It's it's. And plus, you know, 25 bucks a month for the privilege of losing that money. Well, of course, because they have to help you lose the money. Damn. Yeah. Worst company ever.

It's certainly not created. You judge people. It's not created for one person doing it. Well it's not. It's also apparently has nobody in it that understands how their software works. Well, that's of course. Well yeah, they want to be able to charge you for it though. But they don't have to explain how it works. Yeah, yeah. It's, It's fucked up. Yeah. Hello. Now, you can do all this with get Alby. That's their whole thing that they're moving towards.

I'm guessing because of the legal issues. Those other companies. Yeah, but this thing also worked when I first signed up three years ago. You know, I, I, I don't trust any of this shit. I'll tell you this, this whole concept of having other people hosting wallets is bullshit. Yeah. That's why they're moving away from it. Yeah. Although they still need to, I think. And Alby may have done it with their new system, and theirs was a little bit cheaper because I think they were charging.

If you wanted. They're providing all the software so you could do this on your own, and it'll work on devices like the umbrella it looks like. I don't think that's out yet or you can have them hosted for you very voltage like. And they were going to charge 20,000 Satoshis a month, which I think is around 15, 16 bucks now. So it's in the ballpark of what you were paying.

But then I guess they can I mean, I can have a, a virtual server spooled up and running for less than this, but you should open up Jane's Crypto. I think I'm paying. what are they charging me? 12 bucks a month for a virtual server running American Truck Simulator?

Well, of course, that's what you would have your, virtual server running, I'm just surprised you don't have the full bore simulator done where you have to, like, step up into the cab like you have a truck built into your house in the house? Yeah. You know where you truck? In the house. Right in the yard instead of the front windshield. They're all just, you know, the LCD screens and, Yeah, you got the whole hydraulics. So when you start the truck up, you more.

Yeah. Oh, I got a pretty good subwoofer. That should be pretty awesome, man. Yeah, yeah, I keep meaning to get a sub. I haven't had a sub in years, and I don't know how much I need it, because my JBL speakers that are hooked up to the main system where the TV is, they each, you know, they have 12 inch woofers themselves. and there's a decent amount of bass to it. And I don't know because again it's they used to shake a hell of a lot more in the townhouse.

We had it in there because we were on the second floor. So you're on a, you know, wooden subfloor where it's, it's all on the ground level here. So it's on a concrete slab. So I don't know if we get as much, but you should have a lot more actual bouncing of sound on the concrete slab. That's true. I mean, there's carpet over it, though. Yeah, but still, it's still that sub carpet. Yeah. So the carpet doesn't really do much for his sub frequencies. Well that's the beautiful thing.

The sub you could just throw in a corner. You don't even have to care where it is directional. It'll just shake everything up man. But I've got my my, give me computer sub probably about seven feet away behind me, but, you know, there's no difference. It sounds like it's coming right from front of me. It's the beauty of your ears being tricked. Ryan, the desk, the fabulous Ryan member says he's recently become addicted to an extremely realistic version of Delivery van simulator.

Oh, really? Yeah. Oh, that's pretty cool. Now, if he. This would be the sickness. If there was such a game. And then he played it when he came home. Yeah, it's like that. Yeah. That's what I'm envisioning. Of course I'm doing honestly. American tricks. we lovingly call as, shitty driver simulator because, a lot of the AI drivers in the game, the NPCs say I want to die. They they attempt to drive like shit, man. It's like you're a truck and then hit their brakes.

I mean, it's just like, oh, come on, what the hell? Let's just add an extra added level of realism to the game, right? That's exactly what it is. Yeah. I'm always curious if people don't understand the physics behind large semi truck with trailer loaded, the with the amount of stopping power it has as opposed to your car in front of it? Yeah, yeah. Yeah. I mean they do have pretty good brakes.

but it's, you know, that there is physics that you have to consider, though not it's always best to get in front of a truck when you're both accelerating is a truck can't accelerate as fast as you anyway. So you create more room between you do not get in front of a truck when it's slowing down. No, no, that's not when you want to dive into that lane near the driving tips with Jean right here on unrelenting episode 123 I mean, this would be a show again numerology number.

Yeah. Exact people be coming out like woo 123. Yeah, yeah I mean the before this is before the sequential thing is going to happen again. That won't be until one, two three, four. Well sure okay. So we already had 111. We missed that one. Didn't get diddly squat. We had 100 I think we got something I mean Dale from Down Under came in for one of those. Yeah. Yeah. But, Yeah. People don't care about magic numbers. Come see Brooklyn 112. Seems to.

I mean, he said this is one of the most underrated shows on the planet. Yeah I agree with that. And it's underrated is just too good a voice. That's a good show to that. Still on you. And the dude named Ben named Ben. I wish I had more time. I had a 3.5 hour episode the other day. Well, that's where people are like, whoa, whoa whoa whoa. They want you to be pithy. What's going on? But we we had a very nice debate. That was kind of fun.

So we apparently brought up a topic that was can traversal the two of us, like five minutes before wrapping the show up. Something something that you really just disagreed on. What was it? Yeah. so it was this you you got to turn that that reverb down, man. That's just annoying as hell. That's a C. Brooklyn with his one, two, three, four. Satoshi's the most underrated show in the universe. It says underrated. yeah. So, no, we had a disagreement about I think it was this.

I said something that he didn't like, which was that, that this idea, this, this cute little saying that I may not agree with you, but I'll defend to the death. You're right to say it, is very childish. It's absurd. It's bullshit. Because agreeing to defend people whose primary goal is to replace your form of government with socialism, right, is stupid. And, And so I was very much on the side that, like, I don't care what people say.

And so I'm what I consider myself a free speech absolutist, meaning I really don't give a shit who says what. However, freedom of speech does not equal to freedom from repercussions or correct whether they're karmic or whether they're intentional. So if somebody says something and I don't like what they're saying, I may choose to not do business with the company they work for, for example, or send a letter to that company saying that I'm not going to do business because they hire these people.

And, because I, you know, I've been, supporting, libs of TikToks campaign to, make employers aware of people that say Trump should have been shot. Next time, don't miss things like that. Right. Well, this is something when you say it like that. Well, go and find out what that actually means to you.

Well, because you have of you flap your lips well, but if you walk up, you know, if you're caught on a, a wire talking to a hitman or a, FBI agent posing as a hitman, and you say, I want you to whack x, y, z. Well, you're going to jail for what you said. If if you're a conservative, if you're a liberal. Yeah. Going to jail. But yes, completely free. You're going to jail. We can't enforce that because we don't control the government at any stage.

However, what we do control is our ability to spend money individually. Everybody has control. And so consequently, when somebody is flapping their lips about how next time don't miss and they work for Home Depot, I am absolutely within my rights to tell Home Depot that I'm no longer going to be shopping in the Home Depot because they keep employing people like this, right?

And miraculously, within 24 hours, Home Depot replies back with, oh, we no longer employ people like this because I think that's a win. I'll take that as a win, dude. Then Ben thinks that that's just doing cancel culture, which we shouldn't be doing because that's what the bad guys do. See, I disagree when you have gone past the bar of calling for violence, you're asking for violence. It's not. You're having a political debate.

If somebody wants to have that political debate all day long and say they think Trump sucks and his policies suck and everything, that's fine. The minute you go, well, I think you should kill him. Yeah, well, let's going one step too far knowing you're in a time and place in the universe where there are not those who are going to go. Well, I could do that. Yeah. This 20 year old kid, man, I don't know what happened in this guy's life that you were willing to.

He was willing to just die to do that. I mean, it's insane, but it's like, this is some kind of the best theory I heard on this. I can't remember who said it. Honestly, at this point. There's been so many, but the best one I heard is that he basically got reached out to by somebody that was, working for probably the FBI, but somebody in the government, and said, you know, hey, you're, you're you're good. smart, exceptionally good looking kid.

And we'd love to have you join our agency once you get a little older. But we do have this program right now for, you know, I or college kids, where you can interact with our folks and we'll, we'll have you learn some things in the process. And, he was all excited and interested in doing stuff like this. I don't know if it's a he or she. I don't remember if they released any details on that, but whatever that person is.

And and so they said, okay, so, you know, we've got a, we've got, Candidate Trump events happening and, we would we are running through some, some tests to make sure that we have really good coverage, as we always do for presidential candidates, even if we think they're evil, to prevent any kind of, attack on him. And if you want to participate and help the, let's say, FBI for the sake of argument, but I can't remember what the actual agency he said was.

But, you know, you can come out and, we may have you play a role in our, prep, and, like, you can pretend to be somebody in there and then, you know, this this would explain all the milling around and being at the event early and flying a drone and not getting kicked out, like all of that is explained by this kind of, description that essentially he was invited to be there and was acting as though he's a invited, you know, person in this event.

because his role was to simulate pretend to be a shooter. He had a fake gun with no ammo and incapable of firing. And his job was to, you know, basically get up on the roof and then, use one of the cell phones that he had on him to communicate to these guys, what he could see. Or the response was, you know, basically, he's a patsy.

He's obviously a patsy not capable of of doing the kind of shots, even though this was not a particularly long distances, a hundred yards, but certainly not capable of on his own, doing all the things that he's alleged to have done with nobody stopping him. So I think this is probably, in my opinion, the the most likely scenario, this is what's going on on the internet, up. Here's a there's a few things that I never understood. He had a van there. Correct. Yeah. And he also had a bike there.

Yes. The bike in the van or in the U.P.. Well, again, this theory says he was there two days in a row, so he'd basically been unquote working with these either Secret Service or FBI or one of the other agencies in there who forms a vehicle. It's like, well, which did you take here? And if you got close enough to that, why did you have. But it was very weird like why. Why a bike and a van I understand having a van. Hell I even understand just having a bike.

Yeah. Either that or he thought that the van because that was the one that was loaded up with explosives, sieves or alleged explosives I don't know. Well do you think he drove a van? Come on. It was any kid that's 20 years old. Drive a van that maybe. I don't know where the van came from. There you go. And, Oh, well, you can rent plates. You can't even rent a van at 20. No, you can't. Exactly right. You'd have to own a van. And it wasn't his parents van. So how did he own the van?

I know that a 20 year old buys a van. Well, back in the day, dude. Oh, I'm not talking about 70s, right? Maybe I love my fans, right? Jeez, gene had a love. This van's a rack and don't coming knocking, baby. right. back when vans were cool and they had velvet plush interiors and shag carpet, I still think it's way more likely this kid just snapped.

But what I don't like, yeah, is the media coverage and although I will give it to whatever agent it was speaking before the House committee, but there's a lot of talk about. Oh, no, he was using encrypted apps gene. That's like okay. So you mean like signal. What you, what I use on a daily basis. And three there's a bunch of these are down the line telegram. And this is like well we don't know.

And the whatever the agent was he said you know what this kid's background I don't really believe that he was hired by anybody. Like, you know, I ran whatever he's like. I just don't buy that for a minute. But we don't know because of these bad encrypted apps. Yeah, yeah, I just I mean, it's what is a total misunderstanding because, again, we have a world, we don't have a country. So if the United States says, well, all encrypted apps are illegal, well, this is like banning TikTok.

You can't do it. Yeah. And you can still send encrypted messages. No, no, there used to be a day when encrypted that apps couldn't be exported out of the US, right? Right. Not the other way around, because they were afraid that people would use our encryption against us. Yeah, exactly. In the rest of the world, because we're the only ones that knew how to encrypt. Apparently. But now it's like this whole thing, like, it's weird to be using an encrypted whatever from, you know, Switzerland.

That's proton mails out of Switzerland, right? I mean, yeah. Did you see that? ProtonMail just came out with a VPN. They have, yeah, that was a new thing that got. But they signed up for it. well, of course you did like your Adobe account. Yeah, yeah, keep on using that use. I actually use the proton stuff. The only thing he uses, the American truck simulator, I. Well, I do use that, and I think that's based out of Germany, but they added like, file, storage and that kind of stuff too.

Now proton right. Yeah. They've got proton drive, proton mail, proton. And this was this new thing. I was like oh really? It's I think it might be like a PayPal competitor thing. Or maybe it's a Satoshi thing, you see Brooklyn proton wallet. So yeah. What kind. Yeah. No, no, no, I've used that proton wallet is here for your passwords. Oh, gotcha. Right. Proton. Let's see what comes up.

While you're looking for that I will say, comic strip blogger came in with another 33, 33 and said, always remember the three P's of Polish podcasting passion, perseverance and Bragi. If you have those seeking them Polish sure to succeed. Yeah. Speaking that Polish stuff, I watched the video for the, the Miss Poland competition or whatever. Right. Again. Pretty good. The Polish women are hot. I'll tell you what they are, is there's a very high percentage of them that are natural blonds.

Yeah. Welcome to Poland. Yeah. Because, you know, Hitler destroyed all the ones that weren't so Hungarian women are hot. that some I mean, some of them look like witches, but don't forget the Swedish bikini team. Swedish chicks are really hot. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah, it is proton. What? No. You're right. So what the hell is there? Their password storage thing called. I thought that was called proton. What? Maybe that's called something else, but. Yeah, proton. What?

So just started doing easier way to transact Bitcoin. There you go. So I'll be able to lose 650 bucks or something. 25 bucks a month. So I can pay 25 bucks a month. The proton said way easier. Yeah yeah yeah yeah. And I think I already signed up. Just get your own node, man. Get an umbrella. It's fine. Buy yourself a Raspberry Pi. But if you program them thing, I'll get it. But I'm just so not gonna be ready to do that. I don't need to, I really don't. It's almost.

And if anybody wants to be invited to proton wallet, which is a limited thing right now I have five invites left. So do let us know by sending us a nice donation. The top five donations that asked for one will get one. yeah. There. And I'll take care of that. I have to try one of those too. Okay. We're going to for four last. I'm sending one to Darren right now. You're like, what's this proton? I mean, I don't have a paid account. I have a, you know, a little free account.

So I'm guessing I need a paid account to get the, invites. you know, I probably should proton I probably should get a paid account with them for email, and, Yeah, I think it's well worth that. But this is because it. Is it kind of in the. Well, I don't even know if it has to be the one, but I think it's an all in one because I only pay one thing for the VPN. the, email, which incidentally, all my gene apps or gene.com because right there proton. Yeah. All right. I just sent you your invite.

Thank you. The fear that they're trying to spread, though with this. Oh, he's using encrypted encrypted phone. I'm like, everybody's using an encrypted. So now if you have an iPhone if you have an Android phone, pretty sure anything out of the box now. Yeah. Has encryption on it. Yeah. And the concept that using these messaging apps is bad. like, you got to be careful. It's insane. Plus they. Well, he's got he's got two phones. Yeah. My wife has two for two.

I've got two for everybody I know has two phones. I do two actually. I don't even know why because I don't hardly use one, two physical phones and about 26 different phone numbers. So. My thought was like, you might be trying drugs out of the, amateur operator. That's all I can say. Like, you just get the Sims, you put them all on one phone, man. Yeah. And then if you get the right service, they'll actually change your eSIM every month. Well that's gotta pay extra for that.

Well yeah I'm not saying you don't pay for this shit. I'm saying if you want to be a little more secure, you know, hold on to your phone number. But you see where the media goes with this stuff. And it's like they try to spread the fear about these things. Like, oh, yeah, it's all it's all Iran, ese. Russian shit. Of course. It's like one of these things that one of these services that he was using was for gamers and it's like, oh, gee, a 20 year old guy, girlfriend list.

Dude, I'm sure he didn't play video games at all. Exactly. So come on. This pants I mean again though it's just one the media either is completely incompetent which is possible or they're pushing the narrative on, you know, agenda over the last episode talked about as did Bill O'Reilly this week. The fact that the Democrat talking point was weird, weird weird weird. The word weird. Yes. Well, it's nice that they finally caught up. That meme was floating around. It's like three days ago.

Like we could wait. We could, we can hop on this. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. The weird thing is pretty weird. I will say that it is very weird because they all at the exact same time they're saying, yeah, that Vance guy's kind of weird and weird. Weird and weird. And I love the Muslims.

In response to that, an X to quotes of Kamala or the media or whoever, are all the images of the crazily dressed up, you know, trans child book greeting our people and the parade that we just said, not to mention half of Biden's administration men wearing dresses, right. Or dog masks. Right. And, yeah, yeah, yeah. JD Vance is so weird with his wife and two kids. so weird. And his religion. Oh, how dare he? Yeah, yeah.

I mean, it's insane that, like, how could you possibly even consider a vice president that weird? How could you not be mutilating your children's genitals? I just don't even understand. I mean, I'll bet you I'll bet JD Vance doesn't even subscribe to Netflix. He's got other things going on. He may be a torrent or, you never know. He might be one of that. Yeah, yeah, he might be a doctor. I'm sure he is. so it is crazy. And now I'm.

I am a little surprised they're not picking on the fact that his wife is Indian. Well, it's hard to go that route for the Dems who want to point race, race, race when it comes to anybody that says anything bad about Kamala Harris. And this is not a surprise for those of us that were around when Barack Obama was elected and he was elected in a landslide, it wasn't close.

Yeah, I fake slide. Yes. Well, either way, you know, it's like all of a sudden we became a racist country 15 seconds after that guy took office. Yeah, pretty much because everybody that that disagreed with one of his policies, they to debate policy. Right. It was your racist. Yeah. That's all it is. And that's what they're going to do. What about black people? Because we got ourselves a black president.

And Donald Trump, I think, made an interesting point that Kamala Harris went through her life describing herself as Indian. Yeah. Up until the point where she went, oh, for politics, I could say I'm black now, Kamala. That's a traditional black name. I have no idea what it's traditional of at all. Why don't you look at it? Let's see. Oh, yeah. Yeah, look it up a little bit. It's an Indian name. Grab my gift. Have you ever heard the name Kamala before? Kamala Harris? Yeah, absolutely.

You had. Yeah. I had never heard it. Okay. You don't go to an Indian restaurant. Well, that would be true. I should, because I like the food. It has its origins in the Sanskrit language, where it means lotus or pale red. So, I mean, I guess that lotus podcast that, they do on the, you know, the those people, the lotus eaters. Yeah. I guess they're very big into Kamala. Yeah. Commonly used in India and amongst people of Indian descent in Hindu mythology.

Kamala is another name for the goddess Lakshmi. Oh, Lakshmi, who is associated with wealth, fortune and prosperity. Will not if you put this bitch in the office. Let me tell you. Although she's made a pretty good fortune for herself. Yeah, but you. You had to use a lot of. Yeah. Anyway, so. Yeah, she she's about as black as Barack Obama. Oh, I like that.

the you're right, the lotus flower which Kamala represents is a significant symbol in various Asian cultures of purity, enlightenment and rebirth. Yep. Yeah. When I think Kamala, I don't think purity or enlightenment. And it's not rebirth. They want to stop birth. Yeah. That's true. Yeah. But yeah. And we know that her mother's side. Yeah. Is Indian. Yeah. I don't know exactly what her father's side is but it's her father's side would be slave owning Jamaican.

So that's inconvenient for her as well. they don't seem to care. No. Well, because the main thing, she's black never got to act, right. Right. That's all you need. Because this is why in this, to not understand that that is the most racist thing in the world, which is to go, well, you know, this whole population of black people who live in the United States, well, they're going to vote for her not based upon anything beyond the color of her skin. It's like, well, that's totally racist.

But how do you not get that so far. And Trump walk it into the black journalist convention. Like what I give him a lot of credit for doing that. And it's like well you know where's the other people with. No. How do they come talk to you. It's like what makes this guy so bad? Like, have the conversation and the oh, well, he lies about everything. Well, but show me where he lies.

It always goes back to that with folks like this, which is why I try to avoid things like saying, well, Joe Biden lies about everything because, you know, people that you can pull out things out of his speech, like things like, hi, I'm Joe Biden. Well, see, that's the truth. So when you say he lies about everything, well, that's the truth. So you have to be very careful about what you say. And you know how you phrase things. But when they when people go to that, he lies about everything.

I always ask for examples and they never are able to give any examples, which is fun. They just believe it though. They believe Donald Trump lies about everything. Well here's 20 things I can show you that he said that were provably true. So now what. Well that's not what I mean. Well what do you mean. Yeah. Well her, her, her own father, in talking about his genealogy, recounted that, they are descendants from Hamilton Brown, an Irishman who is one of the largest slave owners in Jamaica.

It's inconvenient to the show. You have to pay reparations to herself or what? It's funny because, no, she obviously doesn't. But, the British government paid 11 million in reparations to freed slaves. I don't think this is recent. This is like a while ago. as part of a settlement which included her descendants. Real interesting. So apparently they're all paid up. So all the epochs out there that, you know, asking for reparations. Hey, the British government already paid y'all.

And I don't understand how every one of the polls that I saw before Joey dropped out. Showed Kamala Harris with a lower approval rating than even he had. Oh, no. She has got the lowest approval rating of any VP including people like Dan Quayle. But now we're to believe that all of a sudden she's thrown into the president slot. Oh she's going to win too.

I don't I don't quite understand the the reality here, except they're going to try to push you on the fact again that everybody just hates Trump. Well, then a lot of people do. Let's be fair. Well, yeah, they tried to kill him. Yes, they did like the. Well, that doesn't show you that, you might be on the wrong side. And I'm with you on the whole, you know, people that start spewing things like, well, they hope they don't miss next time. It's like, well.

But then you point to the people on the right that are like, hey don't kill babies. And you're like, oh they're horrible people. They are so horrible and they are so violent. Not wanting to kill babies while then they spew off that they want somebody to be assassinated. The bit that I think is always real problematic for the left on that is somebody on the street and the man on the street interviews, or woman on street in this case the last.

So you know you pro abortion they're pro life and they're like oh no that's woman's man's body woman's right to choose blah blah blah. Like, well, what about the babies right. Oh yeah. Yeah. A baby's not a no, right? Not a person. No rights, not a person, not a person at all. All right. And, if if, pregnant woman gets into a car accident and loses the fetus, why is that person charged with manslaughter or even murder if they were drinking? And I just wonder.

Well, I mean, if it's just, like, an unnecessary piece of appendage that the woman loses, well, why should there be a charge at all? Right. Why? I mean, it's inconsequential, right? It's like it's just stuff your body throws away. And that's technically it's true. In both cases, even if the kids born, eventually your body spits it out. So I do want to quickly. How is there possibly a charge of manslaughter on that unless you consider the preborn fetus a human being?

I do want to point out I just got a text from Infiniti saying they are working on a problem in my area, which make me into an interruption of, it happened yesterday, and then it went down for like five minutes, so, Oh, perfect. So we'll see if I do. So. Damn. We know we can pretend that it's infinity. That is the reason I got right. I was I was shocked when I saw that yesterday. And then all of a sudden the. Do you have any, any encrypted applications on your phone that I, we should know about?

Probably plenty of them. I mean, I've got signal on the phone. I've got telegram on the phone. I don't know if I still have talks on this phone. I don't use it anymore. I've got telegram and Signal, and probably a VPN or two. Of course. You got, I've never put, mullvad on here. I've just pretty much use the, NordVPN on the phone. But I use both on the desktop. Then you could do the split channeling and all the fun stuff like that as well. Did it back to Kamala Harris's ancestors gets in better.

Not only was he a famous plantation owner in Jamaica, he had apparently traveled back to London to fight the abolition of slavery. Well, of course he was making good business. now, if this was here's the thing. I don't think in my reality town called Brownstown that he owned in my reality, this would mean nothing, because it's that far in the past. But this is the sickness that the liberals would do if this was Donald Trump's ancestor.

Yeah, and I hate the word about ism, but if it was, oh, look, he came from a horrible lie. And it's like, well, you got to play the same. Get the going down in the mud is not something that, you know, you can ignore for long. And once it starts working for the other side, once the mudslinging works, then you almost have to jump in. if you want to be competitive, you know? Yeah, it's it is nutty. I even have a photo of his plantation. This is great, but.

And what happened in the, the stock market today, Jason Lee pointing out that, some things are taking a dive today. Oh, yeah? Yeah. Japan's market took a serious dive that I think they went down, 6.5% across the board, which is pretty big. Yeah. Here we're about down between 2 and 3% and all the Big East. It's a lot of money disappearing into nothing. Yeah. Well Tesla's still up for worrying about it. That's all you're happy about. Just keep buying Tesla.

if this is why people come to the unrelenting show for not medical advice. Not, investing advice. Well, we don't provide any of those things. No, no, is were horrible at all of those. Well, we may know a thing or two, but, you know, this is not a medically sanctioned podcast, dude. More Kamala, more word salad. She still can't speak. This is not they knew this was coming.

I'm guessing they've been working with her, but if she still has, no ability to speak coherently now, she's going to be destroyed in the debate. I don't think they're going to have to be. They have to without, you know, they have to have debates now. They got to. Then I can do it. and she I don't think she memorizes anything because all her answers seem to be just made up on the spot. So you got somebody that can't memorize. That's in politics. You kind of have to ask why?

Because nobody in their right mind would spend any time or effort or money on pushing forward a a forget presidential candidate, any politician that can't memorize things because that's what you do. You go through all the talking points, you get them to memorize what their answers are so they don't look like morons when they have to be in front of, the press. And in this case, I. I've never seen her. It's worse than just like she can't talk.

I've never seen her provide a memorized answer to anything either. True. It's always off the cuff and usually stupid sounding. Yeah, it seems like you're wherever she starts. Somehow she ends behind where she started. like we're talking about the passage of time. I think it's vital to talk about the passage of time. Because time passing is vital to the time passing. In our time for our time passage, I think it's very important to be vital. like that's what you get it.

People look at her like, why? How is Kamala Harris even born in the United States? I thought she had a Jamaican dad and the Canadian mom. I think she was born here but then grew up in Canada. I mean, this is a melting pot and that is great, but it just seems very convenient if she had. But I have no idea what Kamala Harris before four years ago was really doing in her life.

But if she was portraying herself as mainly Indian then you ask well why are you now all of a sudden going well no, no I'm black and I don't hear her really saying she's Indian. I mean it's like it's not like she's pushing that. She's a proud to race, you know, it's like she really kind of wants to try to just do what I mean. I guess saying that she's black gets her more votes than saying she's black in India. Obviously no one gives a shit about Indians. Yeah, right. Right.

Plus they're basically whites in terms of making money because they're all in it. Well, that was what the judge, Joe Brown pointed out too, was that she's from the Aryan. you know, she's an Aryan whatever. Indian. It's like, well, that sounds very hilarious. I don't know about that. She's from South India or her family is anyway. Yeah. I was just listening to Judge Joe Brown and he wouldn't steer me wrong, would he? yeah, I guess she was born in Oakland, California.

Yeah. No crime there at all right now. in Oakland. That's where she presided as the prosecutor. Born in Brownstown, which is their ancestral home in Jamaica. And, her mom was born in Madras in India. See, the interesting thing with JD Vance having an Indian wife is it's little harder to pull the you hate Indians card. It was like when they said Trump hated Jews. And you're like, I think, yeah, but he's got Jewish kids, right?

So I don't quite understand how you, but it's like they don't think about these things, which is why I still think, you know, unless you think there's still the possibility that there's going to be a, you know, another group in. I still think the best thing to do if you're having this, you know, debate, like you were having a good dude named bad name.

But if you're having a political debate with one of your friends and you know they're going to pull the whole will, you just know, like about like, because she's black, you start out your argument with a shade black. Well, I mean, yeah, let's forget about that part even. Hey, man, I have black friends. I'm going I'm going to go have barbecue with my black friend today even. Dude I love barbecue. And watermelon.

And the guy whose Twitter name is always difficult for white people to say never agree. Yeah, exactly. That guy and I are having we're going to go for ribs today because I always thought that was kind of funny. That whole racist thing. It's like, I don't know, all the stuff that they say that the black Americans, let's hope they have fresh watermelon ribs, watermelon, fried chicken, all of that. I'm like, dude, I would eat that every day. I do eat that every day.

This is why you're going to the cardiologist. I know that's the problem there. Like Gene, a few more greens mixed in with the, with the ribs might not be a bad idea. But, then I fried chicken yesterday and I'm getting ribs today. The, the, I'm more black than Kamala Harris this year. I've said it is probably true. This is probably true.

The the way I would start though with people if you're having that debate would be, you know, I really wish the Democrats would have been able to get Michelle Obama to run because she is just so intelligent. you know, that most qualified person for president. Exactly. But you say that, Oprah, you say that and then go into your Kamala thing. They can't go there. You just racist. You're like, no, no, I just said Michelle Obama would have been a great choice.

Oh yeah. Yeah, that will short circuit people. I think that is easy enough to short circuit most of the people that will go after you for that in your daily lives. And so you just racist, you say, I really think Michelle Obama would have been a great choice. I think I'm not lying about that. If I had to choose between Michelle Obama as a candidate and Kamala Harris, then I know which one would be a better candidate from every side.

Whether you're a we like the politics or not, a much better candidate because she can speak coherently. She is obviously intelligent. I've heard she's smarter than Barack from somebody that knows both of them. So that's really no, no, a friend that my. But usually your sources bill. No, I mean, I told you the guy that we used to go to ball games with all the time was the first guy that hired Barack Obama when he came to Illinois. He's known them for years, used to watch a basketball game.

Oh, so he knows big Mike? Yeah, he knows everybody in the family. Yeah. And he can assure you that that was never big Mike. But I know a lot of people like that one. Are we sure about this person? Yes. Yeah I don't know, man. He's a straight shooter, man. how straight is he? If he was hanging out with Barry and Big Mike. It's all politics, baby. I mean, straight, straight does a relative term in that sense. I know you're not wavering at all.

Unless you saying watermelon that there's some full proof, that's all. Sure there is. But there's also photo proof of her as a child in Chicago. Oh, yeah? Yeah. What? No, no, no. see, I don't think big Mike is a dude. No, I think big Mike is a is one of the earliest female to male trends that went wrong. Was. I like all of these theories that you are, but it's not even the theory, but because, no, I, I think it's ridiculous to say that that's a guy. That's not a guy.

It's a woman who is taking steroids. We are not providing medical advice. We are not medical professionals and unrelenting, as you know, for pure entertainment purposes. I like the disclaimers there. Yeah, yeah. Steroids is something you can only obtain with Doctor prescription. Yeah. Remember what roid rage was? The worst thing that can happen to the teenagers that were, you know, in the wrestling or. Yeah. Wait, never get the, did the don't do roid speech by the gym coach, right.

I'm sure I mean, I yeah, I mean, I remember that back from, what I would have been seventh or eighth grade. Seventh grade maybe. And nobody was warning you about cutting your, genitals off at the time? No, they were telling you. Hey, man, you droids. Yeah, you probably have the best physique and be the strongest guy and everybody else's ass, but your balls are going to shrink to the size of Grape-Nuts, right? It's not going to be a pretty thing. you don't wants to do it. Unrelenting.

Well, this is we are the most like a talk radio show on the airwaves. Yeah. Where the, over the topics can change early and often. Well that's how we do it. It's how we do it right here. As long as the Xfinity doesn't take us down. Yeah, yeah. Extended broadcast. Yeah. Do you have. Oh see that okay. You're starting to break up. Inbound stream not present. Which means the the internet's probably going to die. Now, we may still be we still connected to the mighty no agenda stream.

this is great. This is perfect timing. Perfect timing, isn't it? It's like it's going back and forth. Now you're in. I'm going. Inbound stream, present and not present. The I see in the troll world. I'm saying we just went down. Oh, and there we go. There we go. Kamala DV Harris very selecting a back we we had dropped. So, for those listening out there we didn't drop. No I did go Comcast at least they were nice two days in a row.

They're like warned you we are going to turn your internet off at some point. You know at least it was quick. So I'm guessing they're swapping gear out or something because otherwise it could be hours rather than they pull it out. You know, I'm guessing like there's bad network cards or something and they're, they're they're upgrading something. This is possible as well because I know they've been promising the, much faster upload speeds.

So, I mean, I got the one point whatever down, I'd like one point whatever up. That'd be nice. Yeah, exactly. It's oh, it's not symmetric, right. No, no, no, it's way slower than now than that. Unfortunately. You see a mic says you know near my broadcast. Am I still on. Of the live, live live I tell you. No not yet I guess when we push this here again the people on the live stream are missing out on all the excitement. And, there we are, back on the mighty no agenda stream.

Now. We just broke through. Wow. This was it was hard. I mean people are trying to the man is trying to keep us down. Yeah. We had to reroute the whole internet. The Xfinity is really getting us man. So we need the, we need the boost. And I was just saying that, you know, you've got to be sitting there behind your, golden extended microphone. Yes. I should get a I want to get this thing got dipped or buy another one and get it dipped at my buddy's, company that does all of the plating, the 300.

Yeah. Well, I you know what? I probably should do it with the, the 320 instead of the 20. Or I could just buy another 20. I wonder what I would have to do to prepare it for the dipping. Would I need to, like, straight? Cheap? Yeah. Well, what you need to do is take the case off and dip the case. Yeah. So, yeah, you can't you can't dip what's inside the, microphone. No, that that won't work to all the sound would be more like really rude. You have a zero sound because gold conducts electricity.

Really? Well. Whew. That would just blow everything right out of the water. That would just be, in turn, plug it in. It's like the okay, well, that was a nice, nice microphone that does nothing. That was one hell of a show, but it looks good. That's all. You needed to see it to look good. Yeah, but you could probably take the screen off and get that dip the top portion of the microphone. I am sure that the the microphone that I rush bow use is in the, in the hands of his wife.

But I would like to know I mean, we see these things come up for auction like guitars from, you know, Jimi Hendrix. Well what which do you remember which Mike you had? It was a lot of, you know, it was a, electro voice. I'm pretty sure it was an early 20 before that was when they were the green ones. Which is probably why, or whatever you call that color, it's an off green, grayish green. But it was an RV one a that was then totally gold it out. You got you have me curious now.

I have to go look it up. Sure enough, that's exactly what it is. LS rush bow? Yeah, I mean, it's it doesn't even look all like gold. Honestly, it kind of looks more bronze, but with talent on loan from God. Yeah, yeah, I love that. That's a very cute little thing. He had. yeah. Boy, oh, boy, that looks very pretty. Yes. Doesn't it? I'm going to send it. Yeah. I mean, I'm not buying it, Mike, for you don't get me wrong. Oh, dude, you're going to send me one of the gold up, and it's like, I know.

Yeah. Let me. Good. let me pull one out of stock for you. I've seen a few people that have similar ones to it, but it's like if you had the honor that, This thing looks frickin amazing. Yes. Yeah, it does. Right. If you had that microphone and you had the provenance on that, it was the one that El Rumbo used. What does that microphone sell for? the open market, I would think. Well, it's use or probably a little discount that was made like 150 bucks, tops. I mean, it's a used microphone.

Yeah, I would think so. Yeah. I mean, the last RS3 20 Adam bought for me, I think he paid me about 300 bucks for. Yeah. It's a beautiful mic. I should pull the 320 with it is. Yeah. I mean it looks the same as the Rs 20, but it's, This one's golden. That'd be nice. This down. Maybe that is a full mic dip. Not just a top portion that I was thinking of. Unscrewing and dipping. Oh, no. You need to do the whole case and put it. Yeah, that's top to bottom. Gold dipped.

Nice man. And I think I think other until the pictures started coming out once people just start him saying the gold nib microphone was just right. You know he's just saying it. Yeah. He's saying it because of it's the mic that that has a smooth voice on it. You know it's the golden mic. But no, it's actually, dipped in gold. EIB Radio Network. Yeah. Excellence in broadcasting. But I think the guy had an audience.

And the interesting thing and again, maybe I'm just, you know, remembering things in a different way, but I don't think he ever went in the Me route. I mean, he made a lot of fun of the liberals. I mean, sure, you have the Femen Nazis and you had the, you know, some of the little jingles like Baroque, which, Wow, fantastic. Yeah, jingles were awesome, but those were often created by listeners. Now, that says Electric's model 309A on the side of the stand is that the stand model? probably.

Yeah, that's really big lettering for something to have its model of right on the smack and inside of it. Yeah, I've got mine, which is the the cheap Chinese knockoff, which is made by Oreilles, which is a are aui and in every bit as good as the legit one. I think I have a legit one somewhere as well because I bought and then of course you do the 20 and I bought the 320 and I've got the hi all. And then I've got the S.M. seven B. Yep yep yep.

And the only thing that was subpar on the shock mount was the bands. And then I found there's a company that makes these, like, heavy duty band replacements for the Shock Mountain. It is awesome because the regular bands are these things. Yeah. The first time I put a microphone in the bands like Bottomed Out Through Metal was hitting metal like Too heavy. I don't understand why you would even use that thing. I have mine mounted directly to the mic. a lot of people do.

I like having that little extra bit of protection so I could move. Although the family lost Ernie and did we? But I'm here. I hear you. Although it says inbound stream not present. Are we going down again? We going down again. Watching the modem as we broadcast live. One, two, three. Inbound stream. Not, we have lost clean seed. We have lost clean feed. Goes back to pause this recording. This is definitely one of those days. Kids. And once again, we are back from it. I'm feeling Comcast today.

Let me tell you. We are not live. We're finishing this not live. because the pod father and Dave Jones are doing that podcasting 2.0 show over on the Mighty No Agenda stream. And since our connection keeps dropping, it's not really fair to be like, you can't use it, but we we want it to keep going up and down, up and down. And I have been playing more with the, I think, you know, so CSB will never hear this because we're not live.

Right. And it's interesting the ChatGPT their latest version has a big problem doing chapters correctly and putting it at the correct time, which is very weird because the text in the transcript exists right below. Or if you do it in a comma separated, you know, spreadsheet right next to it. So the information is there. But for whatever reason, ChatGPT for can't handle this. Now I have an open router account as well. So you have access to other things besides the ChatGPT from all sorts.

If you want to use Claude from anthropic or whatever. And it's just you pay by use and they accept crypto, so it's great. You can just give them ten bucks in crypto and that could last you a few months. and I went in with the same thing I said at the transcript. And, I think I was doing random thoughts the other day, and I fed the transcript it and gave it to Meadows Llama, the latest free, totally free. You don't have to pay anything. did a perfect job. Oh. Oh, good. That's good.

Like. Damn. So it's better I. I just don't get why it's confused by the time. Because it will give me, like, chapters either that end halfway into the show or go twice as long as the show. And I'm like, what is confusing about the time codes to this machine? That's interesting. Yeah. The, it I don't like dealing with like, I used to do all this shit when I was younger. I just don't want to do it anymore. So I use, buzzsprout. Which I have now.

Oh, I, I should mention this, so I've been having some issues with the script, so I think I'm going to be off the script, and off everything, because now Buzzsprout is going to do everything. Well, they have offered new features for doing things like automated chapters. Right. So that's. Yeah. So that's I've turned all that shit on. We're getting decent donations coming in that are going directly to pay for this. through buzzsprout.

So they're managing all donations, they're managing all this crap. And, all I need to do is just upload an audio file and that's it. At this point, and they take care of processing the sound, the audio, sweetening the sound, they, they haven't put. They still can't make you sound like Rush Limbaugh, can they? that would take a miracle. Not, not just sweetening right through, but they they're doing the chapters. They're doing the titles based on the content of the show. Right.

although I generally don't take their suggestions and just stick with the standard numbering scheme, they're doing the transcript itself. Obviously, there's one thing that I don't like the, the, there in the way they do it, which is they just have. Speaker one and speaker two and you can't tell them the name of. Speaker one and you can't give them the names. Yeah, that's the only drawback to that.

And I've mentioned that to them that, you know, you guys really should just ask for what these names are and not just column speaker one and two. But I'm sure it's I mean, they're doing the same shit, right? They're just partnering with an API of some other, AI company that's actually doing the processing. And that AI API probably doesn't have, names as part of the API. So they're not doing they've hey, I'm sure it'll come along eventually because enough people have probably requested it.

But for the time being, it means that, I can save the 25 bucks a month on the script. And that's one thing I've never liked about this script is it's not a purchase. Software or a model. It's a rented software model. And so I've been using it for now, three years, you know, do the math. So it's like 250 bucks a year or whatever. Yeah. It adds up. Yeah. Adds up. So I've probably spent close to 250 bucks on it.

Well, I like using the AI generated chapters because one is a pain in the ass to do chapters. And two, I don't know if anybody really cares about chapters. I've yet to have one personally. One person. Yes, right beyond CSB complain that there wasn't chapters even with the AI ones. I've never had anybody complain like wow, the chapters were off or the chapters didn't make sense.

Yeah, well, when I started doing Searching Speaks and this is all fairly brand new stuff yet at the time, and I was interviewing people that were making, you know, podcasting apps, that was that whole early series of interviews. you know, I was doing hand picked locations for chapters with hand picked images at every location for each chapter. Right.

And, you know, it was easily taking me twice as long to do the, podcast, even though I was the only one talking because I'd have to record the thing that I go and process it, and it get rid of all the dead air spaces, which, just, buzzsprout will do that one I matically, and then get rid of, well, the one thing Buzzsprout doesn't do, but I just I don't think it's as big a deal, honestly, at this point is the odds and ums, because watching the, just the good old boys and I just didn't.

I'm watching the just the good old boys. We have drastically reduced the number of ads and ums in the podcast just from doing it longer. Right? And knowing because I send them a screenshot of like, here's how many we have or something. So became a game you like, I hear, right? Who's winning or losing? And so we still have plenty.

But I think the last one that I did on this script had about 400 in 2 hours between the two of us, so about 200 each for two hours, so about 100 per hour, which sounds like a lot, but it really isn't, because when we started it was a thousand, right. This is like we're way down, man. It was literally a thousand. you know, and professionals do. This is where I gave my start giving myself a lot more leeway. Like you said, my buddy Bill O'Reilly, a great source.

When I started listening to him more, were doing things off the cuff. There are plenty of, and it happens. And that's not a horrible thing. But here's what I worry about one. Removing them entirely. Yeah, the software has to be really good, otherwise it might cut things out

that you wanted there. Yeah. And what would really be nice, I suppose, would be if the AI gets to a point where the learning is what is natural, and if you're doing it excessively, that it removes a third of, I don't want just the really broad stroke of killing them all or leaving them all. But have you have you played with the script? The AI problem with it is that they broke in about a year and a half ago to where, the PC, everything takes fricking forever.

Like you drag drag new files onto it to edit it. It takes four minutes before you get your mouse back. It's just like frozen states for about four minutes. Like no bueno on the Mac. No delays. Works great. I don't want to use it on the Mac. I want to use it on the PC and it doesn't work on the PC. And, frankly, there were no alternatives. Now there are alternatives. So. But it's not anything that you can automate.

The reason I start doing different and I don't know how long it will continue, but different artwork, even for this each episode, it's because the AI, he can punch something into it and it's there. Yep. You know, I I'm sure that will be included as well with Buzzsprout if it's not already like, oh, you want something? My album art for the show. Cool. Yeah, yeah. And they've got more.

And honestly, the direction that they took, they started off as being an audio editing thing, but most of the new features they've added in the last year have been video related. So they're really pushing the whole editing video on the internet. And if you're doing video, I could see paying 25 bucks a month, but for purely audio, it I don't know. Well, for all SEO, it should be fairly easy to get decent sound.

Yeah. One know how to talk into your microphone and to know the software like the one that I use. And I highly recommend the plugin which is called clear from a super tone. I think it is. Yeah. They just came out with the thing that I've been playing around with, which is a real AI. So because they're all into the AI stuff, a voice creator.

So think that it's basically doing the AI thing of recognizing what you're saying, but keeping so it's not going from your voice to text and then translating, because then it would all be very monotone. Right? But it is recreating what you're saying in a completely new voice. It's not just shifting the pitch. And this is the kind of stuff for people like you like to go out and play the video games and stuff and play magical characters and all this magical characters, please.

Or if you just wanted to do this, finally, you know what? If this works correctly in CSV, you'll never hear this either because it's not live. But this could be the kind of software that he could then go on to a podcast because it just instantaneously changes your voice to a different voice. You know, it's not just doing it too, it's doing a little processing that can be undone.

you know, it is creating a whole new voice, which I think is kind of cool for people that don't want their voice attached to something. More you can go into a, you know, chat room or whatever and be like, well this way my boss ain't going to know who I am. So nobody's going to libs of Tik-Tok me. Yeah. You know, there are nice, uses for this stuff, but you can throw on that. The same company is the one that makes the thing where it's like it's a the easiest audio interface you can have.

There are three knobs. Virtual, of course. and the one is just for the main voice, which I never touch. And then there's one for reverb and there's one for any ambient noise. You just turn the ambient noise and reverb down to zero, and normally that will give you the perfect, you know, NPR type sound that we get here. Now, if you are in an area where there's a lot of background noise, you may need to at least keep some of the background noise. Otherwise it may cut things out that you want.

But otherwise it just gives you that vocal booth sound for 100 bucks, which is way cheaper than building a vocal booth. Let me tell you. Yeah. And, and that's the thing is I think the technology now has gotten to a point where most people don't need to buy a green screen, and the AI is smart enough to figure out what what to do to remove their background. Yes. Although I hate those guys who don't rightly has a man, because you can always tell that their computer is not quite up to snuff.

Yeah, yeah. For doing the background swap. And you're like, that looks worse than whatever is behind you. Yeah, and it depends on what software are using to do that. Obviously the free shit's pretty crappy, but, a lot of it is very good at figuring out because it's actually using AI not to. The old way of doing it, as anything doesn't move gets removed. So just as well, if the person's alive, so they're moving a little bit. All right. Time. So that's the the differentiator.

Anything that it's a camera that's not moving. Clearly in the background. that kind of works but not completely. But but the, the newer software actually uses AI to figure out what's the human in the image and then isolates the human. That way, everything else, I mean, any Photoshop on this has gotten way better as well. Now that there's a button in Photoshop that's a select object, you know, silly. So it's like it's way better than while you have to go and mask this whole thing. Yeah, yeah.

And I don't know if you've played with the iPhone lately, but literally in the photos app, right. On the iPhone, it used to be like, if you click and hold your finger on the picture, it just selects the whole picture and you can, you know, copy and paste to somebody or something. Now, if you're happened to not just click on the picture, but on the person's face, it just selects the person. It automatically pulls out the person out of any photo just to extract them right out.

Just extract it right out. And you can you can then copy and pull that to anything you want. So I mean it's and does a very good job. and I if given the how quickly does it I'm going to assume it actually does it on the phone and not in the server and then sends that back to the phone. Oh go. Yeah. Because all a lot of that stuff was the phone or the computers in the phone are frankly more powerful in a lot of people's laptops. Well, yeah. Because now they're throwing those AI chips in.

Yeah, exactly. Yeah. This thing's got multiple AI course in there. You're like, oh, no problem with that at all. It's never going to be used against you. Yep. It all is. But what can you do not have the phone I guess. I mean yeah, but most people are not willing to give that up. And I know I've said it a billion times, but I've gotten crap from people a bunch.

They're like, how do you have one of those Amazon devices or one of those Google, you know, whatever Google calls, they're same version of that. like, how do you have that? They're they're listening to everything you say. And usually when they're saying this, their phone is in their hand or sitting two feet in front of them. It's like it's the same damn thing. It's a microphone. And your words are all going back to the mothership. If it is set to do such.

I know it's hard to believe, but most people are like, oh no, those other devices are bad. But you know, the phones, they're fine. We don't think those are the to be at all. But come on, we're so used to having these things now. Did most people even find their way if they're going someplace even fairly close to home at this point? Because a lot of people just put on the Waze. Yeah. They're like, well, here's where I'm going. And then it just yeah, that's true. I think you're right.

I think a lot of people could not find their their way home to where where am I, I don't know, the machines are not telling me. Turn left, turn right. it's kind of sad that we are so reliant on the stuff. Yeah, yeah. And for communication, you know, that the internet went down. Now, what? I know I'd say pick up the landline, but most people don't have the landline. That even mine is on the internet. So if the internet goes down, the old fashioned landline goes down.

But at least we still had the cell towers, because I could get a message to Gene. And the weirdest thing was, that's what I hit send on that, that my modem went red. I looked over at the screen on my right and the message popped up there and I'm like, well, how the heck is that working? And I look back to the modem and it was like popping back into different colors. I'm like, that was just weird. I would assume red means it's down for a while.

Yeah, I would think so because the old modems used to be young. You'd be red whatever state it was, then it was off line, and then for it to come back online was like a two minute process of blinking lights and maybe that's better. Now, I don't know. We should do a speed test, see what we're at now. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Do it. Well, I mean, we're not gonna interfere with, that with our streaming streams off. Yeah, yeah, I want to know when they're going to the, better upload speeds, man.

That's all I want. Better upload speed. Cause I'm still limited, I think, to, like, 34. we're checking the download speeds right now with 960 and eight, 81, eight, 93 to get decent, decent speed. Yeah, I've seen that. Well, this is on the Xfinity one. I've seen others go higher. 934 because technically we have like 1200 is the allotted. Yeah. Although I also understand that they've been having issues in the area. So who knows what's going on. still at 40, just hitting 40mbps. Up. Really.

That's. And that's what you've always had. Yeah. Which unfortunately makes it hard for, for people that are like, well no, no, it's easy. Just upload videos like you all big like 4K videos are. Yeah, exactly. It's bad. I think for a while I was uploading the audio that we did in video format to X. Oh, to put it back to the. Yeah. And he, he stopped doing that after like four episodes. It's taking two lines. This is not fun. No. It's way too long. Yeah. And for what.

To what end I mean that's the other. Although here's the weird thing. The although I guess it's, regulating itself here. This is the Comcast, the business speeds. And that's telling me my download speeds. Let's see, 18, 37mbps. I don't think that's, I don't I mean that would be pretty, pretty cool. So two megs two gigs rather. Yeah. Could be. Which I guess they may have because we're out the higher. I wonder if they did jump that thing. Yeah. If they bumped into two gigs. That's cool.

I mean, I've been I, I'm still sitting on one gig bi directional, which I think is planning for what I do. I've got ads coming in all the time to try and get me to move to the 3 or 5 gig speeds, which are way more expensive, right? That way they're slightly they're, not even proportionately, like it's cheaper to get five gigs than five times as much as I'm paying for one gig. So I think five gigs is double the price. Just imagine how much fun you could have playing those trucking games.

But five gigs is faster than my home network thing. Oh well, that's my whole network is two and a half gigs. Top speed. That's what I do. I just upgraded to the two and a half gig, the main machine. And the only things that are two and a half gigs that I know of are the main machine, which I had to put a new card in. And the modem and the router which has a two and a half in and two and a half out. Yeah I know it would be nice to have ten gig but that would take a lot of rewiring.

Yeah. Yeah. yeah I don't know man. It's and do you really need it. That's the other ten gig I think is useful if you're doing video editing and you're moving large files off the house and back and forth all the time. Yeah, that would be the only time that be useful for anything other than video files. It's not. There's no point. No, it's only for editing. Because if you want to watch the video files, the one gig is fine. If you're streaming from a NAS to a device.

Did a an HD video, no 4K video, forget HD, a 4K video is 25 to 35 megs. Yeah, megs megs. You could run for, like, a gig. no, you could run 40. That's a lot. 40 and a one gig line and same time. So it's really watching and it's not a problem when you're editing them. You're watching. You're working in raw video formats like, you know, whereas something I can't remember what they're called anymore, but, Apple rest, whatever it is.

So those files are huge because they're not compressed down to the final output. Real, progress. That's what it was. But, when you're dealing with just consuming video, then you can have a lot of streams, even just one on one. All right. Finally cancel. Just canceled the script while we're running. He now. Jesus. And it was 30 bucks a month, so I'm actually. I mean, that's $360 a year for three years. It's over a thousand bucks I pay these. Yeah, I don't think that was quite worth what?

The amount of money I've spent on podcast support services over the time of right, barely getting anything out of podcasts. And the main thing that they were offering you was the Texas speech stuff. Yeah. Which is now handled by somebody else. So yeah. And well, that's something when once Adobe started throwing that in, which is a year or two ago, I think if I'm remembering right description I've been like, we are we need to bring this down a little bit. Yeah. They need to compete better.

But they instead what they did is they went into competing more by adding all the video stuff, which I guess makes sense because people Adobe does all the video stuff. Great. Yeah. So I don't get it now. I, I didn't go there be because there's still one company left that has a traditional software licensing model, which is you buy the damn thing and you own it, which is DaVinci.

So I bought DaVinci about a year and a half ago, and DaVinci is as powerful, if not more so, than Adobe for video editing. it's used by a lot of professionals and it's a buy it once kind of thing, right? Which is nice, but I'm still paying for Adobe even though I haven't installed it. And it's been seven months now, and I think the Adobe, if you can get it for 50% off what they charge. By the way, I sent you a coupon tickets on that for the 40.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, 46,058 stuff. 40. But I think I'm getting to that point where I'm going to cancel Adobe with having never installed it and just been paying for it now. Right. So I just, I thought I would need it and I it's like a half off. It's probably worth it. No, it's not worth it because I don't need it. I need to watch for the because they, they do put them on sale every now and then, probably around up Black Friday. It's that's literally when I bought the last two years.

I bought it on Black Friday. So you can buy it. See what I can buy. You can't because you don't have a unless you get a if you have a student email address. Yeah. Well then you can just buy the 12 months at a time. Yeah. Which is nice, but yeah. Which you know, I, I had the one of those for something else years ago because I, well, the mistake I made is I let my alumni address lapse from the university. Yeah. Don't do that.

If you don't, if you don't use it, eventually they're like, yeah, this person's dead. We're going to delete his account. Or maybe they heard from your cardiologist. Did you know when I was in college, I had the best email ever, y'all. And my email was no chairman at your man that edu. I think he told me that once before, you could just get all sorts of people from outside the university to think that it's you're like the chancellor or. yeah, yeah.

Because I was actually the chairman and services committee, which is when I requested they can be created, which is the group that, I think it's the way most colleges at the University of Minnesota, it was the the group that was the go parallel to the student government in that student government pretended to be government. We were actually the ones responsible for taking student fees and deciding which organizations, actually get a piece of that.

So when I was a, I don't know if it was I was probably a sophomore in college. I was the chair of the Student Services Committee, which had a budget, an annual budget of $12 million. How much went into your, your, video game fund? So the the notable thing that I've always been proud of. And even when I ran for actual political office, I mentioned, is that I was the only chairman since, a hundred years previous at the University of Minnesota to lower the student service fees in real dollars.

So my inflation in 100 years. Real. So every other group, every other year, the fees went up. And what I did is I kept the fees exactly what they were the previous year, which once you consider inflation means that it was actually slightly cheaper. So, I, I'm very proud of that. Accomplishments. I fought a lot of battles. I had a lot of people crying. I'm not kidding. Because, you know, they didn't get their way. yeah. Because I, you know, I'm a political animal in certain ways.

I mean, I've heard that other show you're on, one dude named Ben named, and he don't get his way. He's like, he cries at all times. The, Adobe Student Edition at Best Buy right now is $20 a month. 240 for the year. Which 20 bucks a month is kind of my sweet spot, so I'm paying 25. It's not a whole lot different now. Yeah, well, for normal isn't the what's the price now? 50 bucks. Is it 50? Maybe it's 60. I thought it was 50, but maybe it's 60. Yeah. It's like, damn, that's a little too much.

the 20 bucks, it's like okay, I mean, I use the edition right now. Well nothing additions. Yeah. And that was kind of my whole thing. It's like, well, for half price, I'd be willing to do it, but you can only get the half price deal and Black Friday. But using the Premier, I use that to get my transcripts done. Then I throw them into ChatGPT. Yeah. Now llama be like create me some chapters. and it throws it out in Json format. It's not even like you have to do the work to go put it in there.

So and that's the thing that I think the, the, the various AI things are very good at is formatting. Yes. But which is why it's beautiful to be able to put that PayPal, spreadsheet in. I know I'm giving the open AI all of my information. Don't care on that. And like, well tell me, tell me what do I owe Jean. It's way, way easier than doing everything by hand. Now I can just go set it up and be like, what do I need to pay these other folk.

Yeah. And it'll pretty well you can pay, us we'll take care of getting it to Jean about that. That'll be the next thing. So I'm paying with tax $32 a month to Adobe. I just found out I did have to pay tax on the 20 bucks a month, so that's true. So it must be because tax is more than $2. So it's got to be like yeah maybe it is 25 plus $7 tax. That seems like a lot. Maybe it's 29 plus $3 tax or something. I don't know the tax I like that maybe. I also didn't like the, there was a story on CNN.

Yeah, the markets are still down about two. But the Wall Street banner that says but, CNN had a thing about how unfair it was for Zelle not to pay people back that were scammed out of their money. And I'm like, well, this is real. This is fucking reality. If you're walking down the street, they know nobody carries cash anymore. But if somebody walking down the street sells you a pencil and tells you it's a magical gold bar, yeah. And you give them 100 bucks and they walk away.

You don't get that money back. No. The fact that they think that the banks should be covering people that, you know, is here, quote, even if they're you were tricked or persuaded into authorizing a payment for a good or service someone said they're going to provide. But that didn't fulfill it. This would be considered scam. Zelle says, because you authorized the payment, you may not be able to get your money back.

Well, that's reality, because here's the thing there are so many stupid fucking people in the world as much as I don't like, but they. But here's the thing Zelle doesn't have the leverage that credit card companies do. But this is what I don't understand. So credit card companies can enforce things like, well, I was scammed out of it, so I want my money back and I'll pay you your money back. Because here's the threat.

On the flip side, is the company that's getting paid by the credit card company has reserves with the credit card, with a bank that issued it, the ability to do the, the payment transactions, every day, if you want to set up an account to you to allow people to use credit cards to pay you if it's tiny, like a stripe service, right, then you just pay fees.

But if anything, if it's anything that's of any significance, like if you're an actual business, not an individual, and you're getting more than once in a blue moon transactions, you're going to need to open up a merchant account. Merchant accounts are easy to open, but merchant accounts, aside from fees, also have a thing called reserve, which means they decide based on the risk profile of your business, how much money they're going to hold of yours, and for how long.

And for a business that's like selling software online, right? I know this because I've dealt with a number of these. They think it's a scam. yeah. Like a normal, totally legit business making software or selling software online. like we had in one company there. They held 20% of all the money that comes in for six months. So you sell your product for 100 bucks, they take out their 4 or 5% on top of that. So there's 95 left. then they take out $20 to put it into the reserve account.

So you get, payment from that transaction for $75. But this is just totally nanny state for the person to person payments. Yeah. Why do people feel like, well, people will give you your money back? Yeah, but why do people feel like it's the service that's responsible when the person knowingly sent the money? I don't understand why. Well, I mean, there is a couple of things. First of all, it's not necessarily knowingly.

I think we discussed this back probably a year and a half ago ish, where I had discovered that there was like, well, the number of transactions. Yeah, it was genuine fraud, right? Somebody clearly stole the card out of my mailbox. Right. That was fraud. Yeah. But now if I was like, Gene, I'm going to give you, some magical beans. Just send me $10 million. And you sent me the money, and then you're like, oh, but I didn't get my beans. Give me my 10 million.

It's like they can't get it back from the original person. So they're like, well, well, they can. They I don't know if they can though. They, they may not be able to, but likely they can because in in your Zelle agreement, when you Zelle you do agree to the fact that erroneous transactions will be scooped back out. Erroneous. Yes. But if somebody agrees, it probably doesn't say erroneous.

It probably says transactions that we determined to have been in error, but these are in an error because they knew they were sending. Oh, they were. Well, no not necessarily I mean, they're in error. The other person says they're in error. I could send you a transaction right now and say, oh, I meant send this other buddy that I know with the same name, and I'd be there. Thank you for the cash. You'd be like that. You ain't getting this shit back.

Yeah, but they still pull it out of your account. It's no different than I don't know if you've ever had this happen when you get a mysterious deposit in your bank. Yeah. You never turned those crazy amount of money to ten grand, right thing. Right? And you're like free money, but not really, because, you know, they're getting a notice. It may take a day, it may take an hour, or it may take a week, but. Right. They will notice and they will sweep it out.

And if you were stupid enough to spend any of that money, you'll be in the negative. And they will assess fees for being in the negative at that point. So the reason I know this bill is bad though, is that was sponsored by Maxine Waters, Richard Blumenthal. Oh, yeah, Elizabeth Warren, it's horrible. Exactly. It's probably horrible because they want to protect customers who were defrauded. It's like, no, if somebody is defrauded, then that's their own damn problem.

Again, this is like buying a pair of speakers out of some. Actually, I'm not surprised at the list of sponsors because these are all probably people that fell for scams. Probably, like with my money and my money back and with my money back, it's one of the funniest, YouTube channels that I've watched. is, these guys that specifically go after scammers and most scammers are in India.

I mean, that's the other thing that's like there's a whole huge amount of businesses in India that they're hiring people on. Their whole goal is to scam Americans out of money. And, they'll call up and say, answer this is yeah, John Smith calling with, Amazon. And then it looks like you were charged twice for a transaction. So we'd like to refund your money. Can you, help me walk through and getting that refund? You. Yes, of course I want some old person. They're like, oh, yeah.

Now that's thanks for call, you know? And, Yes, sir. First thing we need you to do is, we we stole some financial information. Yeah. And, and then, basically we're going to send you a link, and it'll just ask for your name and a few things, and then we'll be able to get that money sent them of course. What they're sending you is a link to install a screen sharing software so they can see and what you're typing in for your bank account, all that stuff. Right.

So they can access it all very quickly. Exactly. So these scams happen all the freaking time. And I totally understand how, you know, essentially, retirees working in government would want to sponsor a bill to prevent retirees from getting scammed. I'm not against that. I don't think that's a bad thing. I don't think it's the fault of the banks.

I think maybe there need to be, you know, better controls on just how many things you need to the hoops you need to jump through in order to send somebody money that you've never dealt with before. Right. Oh, I agree with that. You have to be smarter about it. Yeah. Because just now. Right. I mean, I've done this right now. You could just punch in, somebody's, email or phone number into Zelle and then some the thousand bucks right away, and it's not going to do anything.

Now you try and send them ten grand, it'll tell you account is too new, and you have to wait until they either time passes, which is most likely, or they do some kind of actual validation, which is less likely, and then the account will be able to have more money sent in it. But I had this happen recently with a client where they, they had changed banks. So their standard method of paying me got changed and that was it.

They AVR that they were normally sending and, no cash came with and no way to go. What were they rushing to change banks and. Well yeah because the US keeps blocking Russian banks. Right. So they change banks. And I said, well, just use Zelle because it's there's no fees. Do you guys or me because normally, you know, doing an international transfer costs a lot of money. So I'm like, just see. So, so they, they tried Zelle, and Zelle came back with two new account can only $7,000.

You're like, can you send me some lightning to my voltage account? Yeah, exactly. I'm like, well, I have voltage lightning, which is great. Just send it to that. I'm sure I'll be able to take money out of there easily. Yeah, no problem at all. so, yeah, bottom line is, it is a real concern. Like, I can't remember the number, but it's in I think it's in the over $100 million a year is scammed from American retirees.

Yeah. Believe it, it's a pretty high number and enough to support whole industries in India. Well, yeah, because if you can get one person, which is also why they're always looking for the payment methods that allow you to separate the payment from. So that's why the cards are so popular, like go get me a gift card or. Yes, that's what the, scammers are emulating here. this is kind of a boring podcast. Sorry, dude. It's like Jesus falling asleep. Yeah, yeah.

it's that there's, that's what the the scammers always try to do is get you to drive down and pick up a card because they're like, oh, it looks like we did a double credit to you. Oh my God, I'm going to get fired. If, this is such a horrible mistake, is there any way that you can send me the other half of the transaction back that I just mistakenly sent you? They always make it seem like they gave you money that you weren't entitled to. Right.

And then these gullible people, which, you know, a little bit more of, like what's mine is mine attitude would help here, but they're like, oh, you poor, poor person, let me help you out and send you the the money that you accidentally credit me. And then they have you drive down to the, the local Piggly Wiggly drugstore gas station and pick up on it and even on those machines now, where you can punch in real money and get a fake plastic card. It literally says, be careful of scams.

If somebody asked you to use this machine, probably a scam, right? Like you would only use this if you're sending it to somebody you know, not some random stranger that asks you to use a machine, especially if they called you from a foreign country. Well, they always say they're from Kansas. You know?

Right. Of course. Yeah, because they're the John Anderson from I know this is John Anderson calling you from Kansas, you know, and that's, totally not racist because that's exactly what they sound like. Yeah. You.