129: Pierced Perplexity

Just rip that bird to shreds. :) Yep. Another episode of unrelenting. What's it? 149 now in the can. It's gone. Thank you, everybody. Thanks for showing up. We'll be back next week. All right, everybody. Whew. I mean, you all knew it was, two hours early today, right? It's a very, very quick show. Well, you thought it was a different day, so that's also up. I guess we're very lucky you're not, in slumber mode.

Well, there's a thing called the alarm that takes me out of that. Well, that's the back of the new alarm, but I was wondering why the hell it's taking me out of it. Because it's not. Probably until I looked and saw that it was Friday. You like? It's Thursday, not Friday. You missed a whole day. It's the beauty of it, man. You seem a little hot to them to bring it down, and. Well, I mean, besides that, how's the Starbucks doing today? We're not sponsored by Starbucks anymore.

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Like, watching like unrelenting like this? But start calling the police and you're like, what do you what does it does give me keywords. They don't know what I think. They would be confused given the people that typically work at Starbucks. Though this is true. They've gotten weirder. They were always a little weird. They've gotten weirder. Is that possible? The different color hair that you didn't even know was possible?

Piercings where it's like they used to be just sort of culty, but then they kind of became just like, can't get work elsewhere, right? Because it's like you have a piercing that's like, did you want to pierce yourself there? I mean, it seems like you kind of missed whatever you want to. Like, hey, slim, to me, the whole lip piercing, I don't get it because the nose thing, okay, it, you know, you want to pretend like you're a bull. I get it right.

Or you want somebody that you're able to grab you and then guide you around. Exactly. Clearly, that's the only reason people do nose pierce. But the lip piercing. Well, who's filling your drinks or what? The the thing in the ear that you just for the really big hole in the ear. That's a little weird. You know, I see that's so awesome and awesome that it's. It's really. I guess I'm used to it. I'm not fazed by any more. But what I really dislike is when otherwise attractive women.

Oh, decide to pierce their upper ear. You're like, all the way around. What's the deal with that? I don't, I, I don't understand the fascination with body mutilation because that's what it is. Oh, I agree, but that even goes into tattoos and I'm fine. I don't care what you do. If you like tattoos, it is all just a little bit strange. That one. Yeah. I mean, I'm, I'm okay with people having tattoos. Just means I'm going to pay you at least five bucks an hour less than somebody else. That. Right.

But that's your choice. Yeah. This is what my mom said. Every, you know, because she's a big Judge Judy watcher. And she's like, every time somebody with, like, tattoos up and down the arms and necks, you know, there's one thing when you have tattoos that could be covered by a shirt, because then you could pretend and they don't exist.

But when they're like, on your face and on your neck, she's like, you know, people aren't gonna hire you for, as you just said, you're going to get paid less because of that decision that you made. You know, Joe Rogan could have made some money if he didn't have all those damn tattoos. So he's making it himself. That's the beauty of it. You can still do that and that. Really? I don't subscribe to them. Well, I mean, what if he didn't have tattoos?

Said all that sweet, sweet Russian money to the pool man? Yes. Right. Yeah. We broke that story last week. The Russian money coming directly from Gina. Yeah. By the way, I'm Darren O'Neill. He is delivering. If we are unrelenting it. I just don't understand if it's a if it's a gullibility thing or if people are genuinely that stupid, you know, four years ago. Well, actually, more like eight years ago, the, the Russian money was right, roughly $8,000 spent on some Facebook ads. Right.

Which got them back. Yeah. And that apparently flipped the election. The Trump. Right. Right. If we believe that, then Trump is going to have a complete shut out. Nobody's going to vote a single vote for him, Tamara, because this time round, it was a ginormous $10 million that was spent to licensed already existing products. Wow. I mean, I can't imagine how the vote isn't flipped by that, right?

But it makes zero sense because unless you can prove that you changed the things they say, you changed their opinion, you actually had them, saying your propaganda, repeating it. The, you know, you're giving them scripts, but this is a great way. It's very cheap. I wouldn't doubt at some point this all gets tracked right back to the Biden campaign or the Harris people, because it's a great way to try to take the bite out of the Tim pools in the Dave Rubin.

You put that questioning shade on them like, oh, wait, they're just being paid to say what they say. They can't be telling the truth. And, yeah. Gottingen says people are gullible and stupid. And I tried to watch CNN last night at 10 p.m. central because O'Reilly's got his new book out, and he said he was going to be on CNN. And I just figured that could be fun to watch. And he was giving them credit for actually having them.

I don't know if they did or not, because the woman who show it is, I don't even remember her name. Probably 30 year old black woman didn't mention at the top of the show. She's great. We'll be talking long and powerful, right? We'll be talking to Bill. Oh, no, didn't say anything like that. And they went in. And then the first 15 minutes, it was all Trump like Trump like Trump like Trump lied. Trump lie, Trump lied, Trump lied. Trump lied about this. People eating pets in Ohio.

It's like that's we have video. We have literal video of somebody eating a pet. But you know, he lies. But this is where the problem is with the way the news is. Believe your own stinking lying eyes. I understand videos can be manipulated, photos can be manipulated and all that, but the reports that are coming out from the boots on the ground and media is picking it up. Not just the crazy. It's not just on TikTok.

Yeah, so the media was picking it up, but I understand she's probably not a journalist. I mean, most people on CNN aren't. You and I are not journalist. We give our opinion. That's the show. So I'm sure she's opinion based. Because if you're news based now, you do not say Donald Trump continued to lie about people eating pets. You say Donald Trump says, you know that this is what's going on. But we have not been able to confirm that you do not go see a lie.

Donald Trump continues to repeat lies right. It's like this is where they're throwing in the lie, lie, lie, lie, lie. After the debate really annoyed Megan Kelly, which I thought was funny. The CNN dude look like a total irony. Yeah, I kind of. I mean, she's not a Trump fan, but she is now. I guess, came out with the video of the guy on CNN who was doing the fact checking live during the debate.

And by his count, Donald Trump lied 33 times, which I thought was just too good for the no agenda crowd. You know that's pressers and the Kamala Harris. Did you see this. Do you. Not many times he said Kamala Harris lied Sarah once. Let me think what what did they find. There was something stupid. It was something like a technicality. Kind of like, well, she said this, but, you know, it was really this. So that was technically incorrect.

It's like, Now there are reports and I don't know how, how good this the report is, but there are claims that there is impending very shortly. So, I mean, we'll know if this is a hoax or not within a day or two. The, ABC whistleblower, which will show that the Harris campaign was indeed provided with the questions. And I understand this is all conspiracy right now. This has not been proven, but if true.

And the other part of it was the Harris campaign was told, allegedly again, that Trump would be fact checked, but she would not. If this is, if there's a paper trail that can be proven on this, ABC no longer has any credibility whatsoever. Not that they do at this point. I guess. Yeah, I don't think they ever did. But, I, I think, I think people were surprised. I think, very few people expected Kamala to actually do better than Trump, but she did. Well, she seemed coherent.

Now, Tulsi Gabbard said, no, I don't know if she has inside information. She probably does that. Kamala was going through drastic, massive acting training, which would make sense

because this is what you would do to somebody like Kamala Harris, who up until this point, her public persona, which I'm assuming is the real Kamala, is somebody asked you a very serious question like, well, what do you think about all these minors being raped as they're trafficked across the border? And she'd come back with, so I don't know if they had to give her shock treatment or something, but she needed the acting lessons. Other people, of course, are, going in the route that she had.

I mean, it is a beautiful thing that the earrings looked very similar to headphone type earrings, but they were not the same. So, although now again, I guess if you have the CIA behind you, they could have made these for you. Yeah, well, that should. The thing is, you don't need frickin earrings to be able to have audio in your ears. No way. Easier to put something in the air that. Yeah, yeah, that is, I think, funny.

It's something people noticed and jumped on right away because, including, incidentally, I don't know if you read the, the, statement from the company that makes the earrings. Yes. I laughed out loud. It was great. It's such a troll. And they were so like, oh, we are going to get so much press on this. Oh hell yeah. They're like, oh, it's so lucky they exactly. I mean, I wouldn't doubt if they were the ones watching going, oh shit, oh shit. Was like an Irish, oh my god.

Exactly. But, it's not like somebody that has literally government level funding available to them and is in a controlled environment where there could be a transmitter literally five feet away, would have a problem having an in ear. It would even, frankly, bidirectional, but certainly one directional in their device that they could listen on that fits inside the ear canal like that is completely realistic. The viable technology right now. And I would be shocked if she didn't have it.

And frankly, I think it's kind of stupid that Trump didn't. Well, the reality is, she didn't say anything. That leads me to believe she need to be fed information. I think she just memorized it. Was constantly saying, don't laugh, don't laugh, don't yeah, don't laugh, don't laugh, don't. That I believe they're shocking you. You know, I mean that's it. They're like, yeah.

In fact, this is actually a good idea for, funny little thing to stick on X is just say, the, you know, pick the name of the organization, which one you want to credit for. It just received, audio from a, you know, a security guard there. Well, they just somebody just received, a clip of the audio that was played, and cameras, ears during the event, blah, blah, blah, and just say it's whistleblower and be very serious about it.

And the audio is just literally don't laugh, don't laugh, don't laughed, don't fucking laugh, don't laugh, don't laugh, don't fucking let don't laugh. Let me. Well you can't you can't vary it dude. Because then the person is going to said fuck this out. It has to be when unless you've done this, hypnosis. Because I have jeans like I got the tapes. You to be shocked how many people's ears I in him back.

I remember back in the 80s when it was a big thing because I was working at a bookstore and they had those tapes like, stop snoring, stopped smoking, started. It was like, it's subliminal messaging in the audio. That's right. Now you don't think this is being used today? Do. Why was that technology working out? That'd be the other thing to play is like, you know, a clip of Kamala speaking of that, the subliminal audio real.

Well, if you wanna fall asleep quickly, you can certainly get a clip of her talking. Yeah, that was not a good debate for either one. Nobody came out. Brighton is a country. It is. It is said that this is what it's down to. I mean, I the fact I think Donald Trump had evidence behind the they're eating pets thing, but I don't think this is a place you really wanted to go. I don't think this is, real important.

I don't know, I, I think I think it achieved the goal, which is just to get people that maybe haven't heard about it going, what the hell? What the hell was he talking about? And then googling it. True. Because the good news is that you will absolutely get results.

Yes. Yeah. And the more this is shown that it is not only quite possible, but probable, then all of the people that were saying Donald Trump was lying, just like the pro-life group came out and said, well, the fact checking of Donald Trump was the lie

when he said that babies were allowed to be born. And then just die. You know, I like this was happening, especially in Minnesota, where Tim Walz is from. And it's interesting. And of course, I just googled, you know, pets eaten in Ohio first is a New York Times, the story behind their eating pets next Snopes. No evidence of the other, but Asian immigrants are eating ducks, geese or pets. No evidence. And you know, you know what? Snopes is, right? Because it's like no evidence. It's not exist.

And you keep reading and reading and there's like, that is like the person who claimed ownership of the cats that were eaten in Ohio. Right? And therefore they were not pets. False statement is false. Yeah. That's how Snopes operates. This is why the fact that even Snopes has debunked the real fine people lie that Kamala and Joe keep repeating and others. Then I'll give it a week. They'll have to backtrack on the whole eaten pets thing.

Oh man, I just think Donald Trump should have been ready for the obvious ones. He could have saved himself so much time. I mean, I don't think any politician has ever done this, but why not make the video, the actual video, then add all of the context after it, but put it up on Rumble, put it up on YouTube, and when this comes up in the debate, you go, okay everybody, I'm not going to waste my time. Just go to real fine people. Dot com all the information that's there to prove they're lying.

And then he has two minutes to talk about whatever he wants. In this article about the the fake that's being eaten live while the non pets they are still it really doesn't. That's it literally says it's blaming the town. Since there were not enough workers, many young working age people from Springfield have descended into addiction. So they're saying the whole town is basically one big drug, drug addicted slum. And therefore the Haitians came to save the day and work their.

Well, that is the numbers on this were amazing to me that it's a town. If I remember right, about 50 to 60,000 people, and 15,000 Haitians have showed up. That's not like 15,000 Haitians showing up in Chicago or New York. This is, you know, a third quarter of your population. It's like that is beyond what any area can handle. Like you don't have housing for that. You don't have resources for that. Well sure they do. They they got plenty of money.

Oh yeah. Yeah. That's actually they're like well where do we go. Where do they have the money. Fair to be fair, I will say that if you, if you look at this from a little longer perspective and a non-U.S. focused lens, it this does seem a little bit like the, the stories of certain English peasants shooting deer for food in the king's woods, meaning what the hell's wrong with shooting geese and ducks and things? Now, cat's not probably the tastiest animal, but they certainly eat them in Haiti.

You can Google that yourself, right? It's a thing. It happens. It's not a eat them in China. Yeah, different cultures do different things. So the concept that like oh, this could never happen or would never happen, it's like, well why would you say that? I mean, how can you even make that case? And I think it was something I don't know if it was a politician from that Ohio area for was just a constituent, but with like one of the biggest problems are these people do not understand

local laws. It's like, well why would they. Yeah, they just walked in the door. Nobody gives you a pamphlet, I guess, when you're coming in. Like they also don't speak English. Right. They speak French to Haiti. So it's like, what are we supposed to eat? I don't know, look, there's some keys to me. I'm sure in Haiti, if a goose flies into your yard, it's more like, have you seen the price of food in a grocery store? Well, that to, Where do you get the money, right?

I mean, you know, I buy rabbits for my pet, and, I'm sure a lot of people coming in from other countries would be scratching their head during. Why are you why are you paying for something that literally reproduces automatically and instantly, like every ten weeks? You okay? So I'm just saying there's probably rabbits ten feet away from you. Yeah. Go up your backyard. Yeah. Really? Well, you could just breed them. Why not?

That a little too gory, even for you to have to go out and buy the rabbit and, you know, and there is a very specific thing there, which is the rabbits that my snake eats are award winning. Oh, well, I wouldn't expect anything unless they're literally raised to be show animals. A lot of people don't know this,

but Jeeves, that caviar guy, same one as the rabbit guy. If you want some, it's not the same guy. Like, would you like I do? I do have a rabbit guy, and he used to deliver two, but, not not anymore. So I have to drive out there and pick them up myself. A little lazy rabbit guy. No delivery. Yeah, I know, right? Geez, what's a good rabbit going for these days? 25 bucks. Whoa. Right. I mean, I could go and get a rotisserie chicken for, like, 639 less than that. Yeah, yeah.

I know if I could just talk my snake into eating rotisserie chicken easy way cheaper like dude this is way better at this I don't know I like I can either rotisserie chicken in front of him and he doesn't act like he's hungry at all. Just looks at you like a he's like yeah, that's you know, that's gonna take like a year of your life for it. But it's so good. It is. Tell me about it. Although I will say I'll take I'll think fried chicken over roast chicken.

It is just there's something magical about fried chicken then about the crispy skin. Is that the. Yeah, it's like all the carbs, all the fat and all the protein. All at once. Once in all, all three food groups fat, protein and carbs. Yeah, it is really good. I've had fried chicken twice this week, which explains why I don't know what the hell deals. Maybe he just slept through a whole day. Was it a fried chicken coma? Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. That that could have certainly happened.

But I had half a barbecue chicken the other day from the place here. That's the, You know, it's a barbecue kind of beef place. And they do great barbecue chicken, man. What do they do with the chicken? I don't even I think they, I know they finish it off on the grill. I don't know exactly. And it's slathered in barbecue sauce, so. Yeah, that's okay. Okay. You know, that's bad for you because that's all your sugar. Because otherwise, you know, chicken pretty good.

And you can take out a good barbecue sauce. Actually doesn't have sugar, but it has molasses. Oh, yeah. Which is still in the sugar, which is certainly plenty of carbs. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But, using actual sugar is kind of cheating. Yeah. I don't think they use actual sugar. I just meant it converts into the. Oh, yeah. Sugars. Yeah. And somehow they just cook it just right. And it's cut up just right where at the end there's really not much left.

Like with the I hate cutting up the rotisserie chicken I mean they're delicious. Yeah. But it's a real pain in the ass if you cut them up. I need better knife skills. Should I just pick them up and eat them? Is like I season with my with my hands. Yeah. Just rip it apart. Yeah, yeah. Because the meat should be soft enough to fall off the bone. Just rip that bird to shreds. Yes. Your fingernails. It's like, what's the difference between these, Nothing.

There's really. Well, it's a taste difference. I've never been a big fan of ducks or geese. I don't think I've. I've eaten both. I've eaten plenty. Both. But, they tend to be fatty. Or the chicken. And I actually like the, the fat content of a chicken. And to me, it just tastes like it's just right. But some people, my ex-wife used to love, duck. She'd always get duck. A little Peking duck. No, not Peking like, just throw stick. Just regular. Just like it just it just like chicken.

Just duck, duck, duck, duck. It's just going to be a little fattier meat. But, you know, they're all birds. They're all dinosaurs. They all taste pretty much the same, like reptiles. They're all there for the eating. That's what the Haitians say. Yeah. It's, you know, nature's bounty. They're just state. They're just following God's word. Well, this is true. I mean, again, this is how people survive. And then you walk into a country like the United States.

Yeah. If you came from China or Haiti, like you said, where it seems cat eating is not all that rare of a thing. Yeah. You see a nice cat, you're like, oh, well. And I'm pretty sure both of my grandmother's eight cats. Yeah, well, that explains it all. Yeah. Jane the cat guy. Because, they both survived. The, World War two, during the, the, what he called the, I get the B12 in here.

When the Nazis surrounded Saint Petersburg, siege the siege of Saint Petersburg, where nothing was coming into the city for, like, 12 months. And, everybody had run out of food long time ago. So the only food you're going to eat was going to be probably somebody's pet. And they were delicious. Well, they were better than starvation, I'll tell you that much. That's true. Well, this is how you get into cannibalism. Then you're like, oh, well, I think that's the next step, right?

This is well, you just wait till that's going out in Ohio. Yeah. When we start getting more reports of cannibalism, I can't even say cannibalism. You know that things are not going well. No. This is episode 129 of unrelenting. I think I said 149 I was just skipping ahead. One yeah, you said one 6969 dudes. And after our I mean, our bounty overflow is on the last episode where net Net came in after the show with 100 satoshis. We're still we're still trying to figure out how to spend that.

See us before this show with 33, 33 and said, happy 13th. Yeah, this Friday the 13th. That's why you. I was gonna mention that. Yeah, except I thought it was still Thursday. Yeah, right. You like tomorrow's Friday the 13th man? Like. No, no. Today. People might be eating patterns, eating out of elevators. They're. Yeah. You don't want to get stuck or you think it's a, like, tower of terror thing where the thing is going to snap and you're going to go hurtling towards the ground?

Well, that's always the, you know, the fear with elevators, right? Is no idea who built that thing to the ground. I mean, you hope you know, that they were built by a professional company and put in all of these safety measures and that we're not there's they have brakes. I mean, that's the one thing they're all supposed to have, but there's plenty of stories of them not having brakes or the brakes didn't engage because it couldn't access the internet. Exactly what we had last spring.

Windows 7. Right. We lost our internet connection. So the elevator did not stop. Yeah. When it was hurtling towards the ground. It's it's rebooting right now. It'll be back up in just a minute. It's a beautiful thing. And then you'll stop. And I've never really felt any apprehension. Oh you don't like elevators. Well, now that we talked about it, now the building size. Size does matter. Because if it's a three, five, even ten story building, not all that concerning.

Now, I remember having these thoughts with being in the Sears Tower or the Hancock centered in Chicago, where you're going up to the, you know, 95th floor and you're like, oh, buddy, that's a long way. Dropping from there would be way more serious if all of these security measures failed because they might on a Friday the 13th. So, you know, just as I was about to close

this, Snopes story, oh, boy, you're finding new things. And I saw a picture of, Robert F Kennedy Jr eating a dog. Right. We've heard that, but it wasn't the dog, right? It was some kind of other animal. Well, it's an unknown, allegedly. Possibly a dog, not a dog. So they can't corroborate. Oh, it was barbecued. Which everything better is everything barbecued is better? Yeah. Here's the official statement. Snopes takes no position.

I'm the claim that Kennedy intended to represent sort of those friends of him eating a dog. Well, you see, so left that goes nothing. I mean, anything. There's there's apparently much better evidence for, Kennedy eating a dog than for any Haitians eating a dog, I guess. Yeah. Or cat. What did he took a picture. The Haitians aren't taking pictures, right? They're not doing selfies of themselves eating pets. Yes. Sandy is apparently. And he, here works for Trump. And that means Trump is a liar.

Of course, Trump lies about everything. Oh, he has to learn. And I don't know if he's capable of doing it to stay on point. He did well. Most people will agree he won like the first 30 minutes of that debate. But then started going off the rails. Yeah, I don't know if anything changes. I if anything, the polling that is probably companies that have been accurate in the past five, ten years are not showing a Kamala bump. If anything, they're showing Trump going up slightly.

So the concept is like, oh no, she wiped the floor with them. Not really true because she didn't say anything. I mean, I can't even understand. She was so ingrained. And you know what? This does kind of add some credence. And again, conspiracy theory. But the fact is she was so ready to just give the answers that. When Trump would bring up anything she would just not even acknowledge. Yep. It's like well I don't have an answer for that because I didn't didn't prepare for that.

Although I'm sure if she had the questions she knew they were going to ask her. And let me get your opinion on this, because if you're the vice president and the softball question comes your way, that's like, is the country better off than they were four years ago? How do you not answer? Yes. I mean that's an easy one. You just say yes. You know due to the Biden and Harris blah blah blah. Then you go on your whole spiel. But she didn't even answer yes to that.

Yeah. So you probably won't even get to. Yeah. Wasn't even paying attention to the questions. Yeah. So I would say this was definitely a win for Biden because, the it once again is more proof that you don't actually need to be elected to be able to control people in the government. True. Barack is still that earpiece. He's got the thing going up. He does have the thing going on. It makes sense when she pulls out the Barack Obama style of speaking.

It's just because he's feeding her the words right there. Weird. She can't help it. Literally. You know, it's like if somebody is, like, deeply southern in feeding you the words. And she's used to having a black man feed her. You like, hey, Willie Brown, do those. Do you ever found that little video clip of her with Willie Brown at a party? And somebody is like, are you his daughter? Yeah, yeah, it was great. And she was, much better looking back then. I will say that.

Yeah. Well, you have that, expiration kind of looked like that one of those, you know, Cosby kid looking tapes. That's how she got her way to the top. There's no doubt about it. No doubt about it. Yeah, I liked the, it was interesting. I don't know if it was the same firehouse or not. A 911, obviously. Biden, Harris and Trump were going to various places, and it seemed there was a video with one. And again, I questioned everything.

I'm not somebody, if I see it of the TikToks or the acts or wherever, I'm still not going to believe it because I know what's going on. You I all the time. Right. Which everybody should, because then you would understand that you should question everything. But there was a video that showed walking into the firehouse and that was a huge, you know, obviously big building. So I don't know if it was a firehouse or if the where this was taking place.

But Kamala and Joe walked through the big doors and there's a bunch of people you could see sitting there and it's like crickets. It's like, you know, Uncle Joe and crazy Aunt Kamala that nobody really likes in the family. But they come to the gatherings and when they walk in, nobody wants to be the first one to even say hello. They walk in and it's like crickets. And then they showed the video of Trump walking into the same location and people go nuts. And I'm like, what?

I thought that was beautiful, if true. But I also enjoyed fully the Joe Biden interaction with the older firefighter. Yeah this was played anti Biden all sorts of ways. And it's like that's bullshit. It was a fun little interaction. And if Joe Biden had been like this his whole presidency I might have actually liked him a bit. Even though I think his policies suck. Because the guy's wearing a Trump hat and Biden's giving them crap for it.

And Biden pulls out the presidential hat and he's like, hey, I'll give you my hat. And the guy's like, oh, you old fart. And he's like, well you autograph it for me. And Biden's like sure. And the guy's like, oh, do you even know your own name? And Biden's like, no, I'm slow. I mean it was hilarious. It was a great bit. And it was, you know, again, this is hilarious. So Snopes, since I'm still stuck on that website, you know, I've seen this this claim is true. Biden did wear a Trump hat.

However, he was not tricked into wearing your hat. Right? And he put it on specifically to suggest that no hard feelings and the country should unify. Yeah, he's a great man. He put it out over the other hat. I thought the people now the people on the right, are probably like, he forgot he was even wearing another hat. Man. But it was hilarious because you're like, well, he's like, I'm gonna trade you. You got to give me your Trump hat in.

The guy's like, put it on! And he's like, no. And then they got him to put it on. And, the guy's like, do you want me to sign that hat? And Biden's like, hell no. I mean, it was hilarious. It was hilarious. It was a fun interaction. This is what politics used to be when we were growing up. You didn't agree with the people on the other side, but there were civil conversations.

And in this case, the fact, you know, that Biden didn't go, off on the guy for calling him an old fart and making fun of it, was because the guy was old, too. I mean, not quite as old as Biden. But it was something that I think played out well, just like the other day when Bill de Blasio ran into Scott Libido, who is the artist who, you know, gets him to do a little selfie thing and that's like this guy, real New York City. And he's like, okay, have a good night.

And walks away where there are ways you could have taken this in a much is great. I watch him every day. He does brighten the day up, doesn't he? We bring his call. It is time to plan. Just oh you do? Oh, yeah. These are such, such a ranger. Yeah. Well, yeah. Well, this is why it's like, this is our spirit animal. Yeah. He's not afraid to get in people's face. In the painting he did of Kamala eating the bald eagle. Goes really well with this new migrants eating cats in Paris. Yeah, yeah.

So this whole thing is all coming together. It is all coming together. Yeah. I, I find it fascinating that a guy that that talks like Scott is now a Democrat because he's from New York. Yeah. He sounds he's the most stereotypical sounding guy out there. Well, he sounds very much like a younger Sinatra. The voice, the manner of speaking, of course, Sinatra from Hoboken, new Jersey. So. Jersey. Yeah. No. Right. In that same bit there. The mob part of New York. Yeah. Right.

Hey, you know that just cross the river. Just want to say there were different types of crime there, but a lot less innocent people getting, gunned down. They went. I went on a date with a chick from Hoboken once. He just once. Yeah. Just once she was. You met the family, and they're like, hey, you do anything? We don't land then. And then when I picked her up in Hoboken, I was like, yeah, this ain't gonna happen. It was like you just had to make that checkbox like, oh, you live here?

Yeah. No, no, this isn't going to go with somebody. Girls, when you have a boat guy, you got a caviar guy. You're not going to. Back when I was working in New York. Yeah. Did we talk about what you were doing, man? Or is that, In about five years, I highly classified information. You don't want to know. If we tell you, we'd have to kill you or something like that, but, Yeah, Scott brings the things that everybody on the right seems to be thinking. He will actually say them. And you see him?

What's going on? The man talks with his arms like, I know it's nobody's business. Fixing the audio is a trip with his stuff because he's all over the place walking around. But New York just passed a reparations bill. I mean, they're doing so well right now. Thank God they're adding this on top of that. Yeah. And we know Kamala's way for it, even though she's it's amazing. ABC tried to well, they didn't really try to they just mentioned the softball like well you've said this and that.

You said this. You've said this that you said this, you've said this, then you said this. Why I've never changed my mind that anything. And they just like, okay. Like what a joke. The whole thing. She's always wanted to close the border don't you know. Right. She wants to build the wall quickly. Yeah. And I bet you she'll to have a new policy tomorrow or today. No tax on overtime pay. Yeah. Pretty sure we breath brand new. And this is where Trump could have done better.

He did not stick with the straightforward pointing out of, policy rather than it's Larry. He was reacting way too much. Yes. You know, and that's what threw him off the game. Yeah. And yeah, because I think he was just used to, dealing with Biden. We're like reacting to Biden, I think actually works because nobody understands what the hell is going on there. Yeah, but, by default you sound better. Yeah, yeah. I was like, Well, I don't know. What do you say?

I don't understand what he said, so I wish I could respond. I have no idea what he just said. Like, that works. But even though you might get cackling and stupidity coming out of a Kamala, it's not the same end result because people, like, try to explain it. Well, if I mean, what she's trying to say is that we should keep sending money to Ukraine, because if we don't, then millions of people are going to be dead. But you can't. You can't do that with Joe.

It's he just nobody knows what the hell is going on there. But with Kamala, you can kind of you can shoehorn what she said into something that you actually mean to say. So I think his tactics should have been different. He should have, basically just ignored her the entire time and talked about things that he wants to do. And that would have been better. Yeah. The interaction did not do him any favors. No. And he never even put her on the defensive.

O'Reilly's that if this was me, when the minute the migrant crime thing came up, he's like, Trump should have looked at the camera and say, you know, before I even talked about that, I just want to apologize on behalf of the United States. To Lincoln, Riley's parents for what happened to her. I think it was a horrible thing, and I apologize, and I would really hope my opponent would do the same. Yeah. And then if you don't, you look like an asshole. And that's been.

You have to learn how to play. And I think Trump knows this. We've known this for years.

It's like it's not logic, it is not facts. It is emotion that is going to sway people. Yeah. And you need to be able to get the emotion on your side and acting like the victim, which is what Trump has been doing, again, with all of the grievances. And he really should stop talking about previous elections beyond saying what I want are fair elections that everybody can feel confident in. I don't want people casting votes who are not legally allowed to do so. And that's all you have to say.

Yeah. And then you get her saying he is promised to be a dictator. They want to elected to they one. They will he will shut down all future elections. He set himself right. If they say a lot of things specifically that he said that he never said. Well, and he has a habit of saying very nebulous things that could be taken in a lot of different ways, to which is not to help him. No. Well, he has to learn to be a little bit more at some point. He's not going to learn shit.

He's got these diseases almost. Well, you need somebody in his ear that can keep them a little bit more on. Yeah. Well, and that company said they're going to come out with a set of earrings for him. They're like, this is great. We're glad people are using these. I'm sure they are. Yeah. Yeah that's it. Trump needs anybody to feed him more words. Yeah it's I honestly I think I think this is one mistake that they made on there.

The General Harris campaign was they should have leaned into the whole she's going to look up information by just having her pull out her phone during during the event and just look things up or, you know, have a, text messaging conversation that you can just read off that would appeal to people under 30 and completely turn them off. Trump, because she actually acts the way that they do. Right? Look, she's informed she's got her phone because.

Yeah, because you look at I'm like, what the hell kind of moron is going to be trying to argue without looking up information on Wikipedia? Right? Right. How else do you get your information? I mean, it's right there. It's either in Wikipedia or it's a lie or it's on Snopes. Yeah, they'll tell you. She'll tell you to go look at Wikipedia. And there is a brand new, beta release of ChatGPT for, oh, it's now 401.

CSB was very jealous that we in the United States have access to it and he doesn't know really. So there must be something. Really good in here or it hasn't yet cleared the regulators in the EU. I am going to be curious to find out today. I will use it for doing the chapters for today's unrelenting and see if it can get the times right. This is something. For whatever reason, most of these large language models cannot match the time in the transcript. But I can tell you why. Why?

Because they they count on their fingers, right? They have way too many figures. Exactly. That's the problem with the AI. They should be using their phone. Yep. It's like it's a very weird thing because you would think mathematically, although as, what was pointed out, no agenda a few shows ago, for a while, all of the large language models failed on the question, how many hours are there in strawberry. So it's an interesting thing how to see how the things are.

But the other one that I've seen where they fail is in adding up percentages to 100 without explicitly saying 100 because 200 you mean. Well, we kind of take it for granted that if you're mentioning percent, it means per 100, right? So if you're listing off a bunch of percentages of something, the total should always add up to 100. Yes. The AI, not so much, because you ask it.

Can you tell me in percent the breakdown of blah blah blah, and it will come up with things that are 110%, 118%, 92% total. Well, that's true. So if you if you add all the percentages up that it tells you in these breakdowns, they almost never add up to 100. And I think that's because the AI, the model that it was taught on was news reports. Yes. Which never quite math, which never add up to 100.

Well, that's interesting because the strawberry thing, the question would normally be how many hours because there are two hours in a row. That's interesting. So, you know, it's very why at the end, of course. But they're forgetting that first one because the question is not usually how many total hours are in the word. It's like, well, is there, you know, berry berry pie or berry. So that's why it's like, well there's why is there two hours.

It's damn good question. Yeah. I don't know who came up with three, three hours. Right. Well yeah. Well if you continue straws or the right berry with there's two in a row. And that's why I can see where the confusion would be, because otherwise you'd be like, well, just take the word and then count the letters. It's very simple to do. Yeah. Why has it called a strawberry anyway if it's not made out of straws, is it. No. Drink.

It tastes like straw. Nope. Newt, it has no straw that it turns into when you dry it. Like what the. What's the analogy? To look up the etymology of strawberry. Hello everybody. Should we ask ChatGPT for 011? Yeah, yeah, do it. Ksbw will be so jealous. Like you doubted. And you got the chat I don't have. Oh, no, I need it. I'm sure you just have to get a VPN and that would all be good. It's the oh one preview. I tell you not. That sounds better than the clickety clack of the keyboard.

Yes, yes, of course it'll be, it'll all be so in middle in English, which is where it comes from. Strew means rare. So it's a rare berry. Don't seem so rare anymore. Okay. Oh our word strewn is from the same root as in things that are strewn all over the place. Yeah. Yes. This is it. The word strawberry originally it took it a little longer now and it tells you this is interesting. The chat GPT oh one preview quote

thought for 13 seconds at the quote. That's longer than I did. Yes. Well for everything the word strawberry originates from the Old English terms. The writer bridge a combination of the real meaning straw and meaning berry, the inclusion of straw. The name has been a subject to debate, with several theories attempting to explain its origin.

One theory suggests farmers use straw to mulch around the strawberry plants to straw, help keep the berries clean, prevent weed growth, and protect the the fruits from rot by keeping them off the damp soil. However, this practice became common after the name was already in use, so it may not be the original reason to strewn berries. Another explanation is the word evolved from strewn berry because the plants rather spread or strewn the berries across the ground. Yeah, that would make more sense.

Definitely. Yeah. Which is what the actual meaning is not, made up on by ChatGPT, but a folktale mentioned that children would thread strawberries onto straws or grass stems to sell them in markets as straws of berries. Yeah, that's not true. It says the exact origin remains uncertain how. Wait, we have all of this little on the diet. How is everything still uncertain? Well, it may be uncertain to it. It's uncertain to what I mean.

We do have this thing from about the 1500s that allowed knowledge to be preserved. Paper? Yeah, books. And, we can actually trace through history where the term comes from. So. Yeah, I think Struan is the correct, relative word here. So there the berries are strewn. But that makes sense, I guess. Yeah. Because there, there's there are different relatives. What we call strawberries in the US is not actually strawberries. Right. Wait, now my strawberries. Strawberries?

Yeah. There's a similar family. Like, it's from the same family, but it's slightly different Berry in Europe, which is, of course, where the term strawberry came from, which is quite a bit smaller and tastier. I will say. And it just grows in these little bushes, but, not bushes. Like, I don't know. What are you in calm? They're like maybe six, six inches tall. They're not very big. Ryan member says strawberry gatekeeping as a show title.

Now interesting because I just ask ChatGPT who is Ryan Membros. And it says as of my knowledge, cut off. So this one is not accessing the web, I suppose then because there's a knowledge cut off Ryan Primroses and there was October 2023. Is its knowledge cut off at this model. Yeah. Ryan Memories is a podcaster and technology enthusiast known for co-hosting the podcast Grumpy Old Bands alongside Darren O'Neil.

The show discusses technology, media, privacy, and societal issues, often providing critical and humorous insights into current events and digital trends. Grumpy Old Bands is a part of the No Agenda stream, which is associated with the No Agenda podcast hosted by Adam Curry and John C Dvorak. Ryan Rose is recognized for his candid opinions on topics like software development, cybersecurity, and the impact of technology on society.

His background includes experience in programing and I.T, which he brings into his discussions of the podcast. It is. The show has garnered a the following among listeners who appreciate in-depth and unfiltered conversations about tech and its intersection with everything that sounds like an ad written by you. I wish it was, but this is even better. Yeah, I know enthusiast and nobody has ever said never was an enthusiast.

Well, I think enthusiast is the word that you would use if you don't mean expert. Okay. That's one. Well, he's he's excited about it. I get you know, you can give him a pat on the head. You're like, thank you. Now, where the grumpy old beds is going to reboot every day, and then people will be surprised. Although it'll be it'll probably be a Friday show, though, because that's his day off now. So I have to work double time on Friday. Oh, no. Okay, now here's even better.

Ryan, if he uses, like I was listening. Yeah, he's about to smile widely. I asked who is Jean left to live. As of my knowledge cutoff there is no widely recognized public figure or notable individual named Jim. That's absolutely correct. It's possible he's a priceless first tool, a professional. The first thing I covered is the mainstream media. For someone who has gained prominence after my last update.

You know, now believe me, it costs a pretty penny to be able to pull my name out of all searches. I see USB with 1818 I received a one yesterday evening. Woo! All ChatGPT plus paying subscribers have it globally. Quora which means fuck we know that now. We know that now. And I think, I think I said this now, I'm not sure because I didn't hear a, a pew there from CSB and I think I thank God I'm so sick of those views. If I'm correct, only 10,000 and above will.

Yeah. Make it make noise. Yeah. This is the first time I'm testing it. So I'm not 100% sure. Yeah, but that sounds about right. So how'd you get ChatGPT not to know who you were? This sounds like very shadowy three letter agency kind of stuff. You know, things can be done. Yeah, they can be done. You could threaten people. You can pay them off. Yeah. So why is my computer telling me it's about the research? Well, because now it needs to update.

Do you have your data wipe guys on speed dial like data like. Yeah. With. Yeah. What do you mean the cleaner. Right. Yes, I have the cleaner on my leave. Yes. Oh, that sounds very rad. What was his last name in the blacklist? Read the character on that. No, that James Spader played and, Reddington read reading down there. That was a good show for, like, two seasons that are just totally lost me. It had a great concept.

We need better writing out there which is why I'm writing the optimal no agenda style novel. Oh you're talking about it. I wasn't going to bring anything because I figured it was still all secret.

Secret? I mean we're not going to give away all the good stuff now. Looks like it's time. It's time to pipe this thing out. My buddy Andrew Joneses piped out a few books, and Adam talks about those, and he just said, well, I give Adam talking about you. Mark. Got it? No, no, I just want the book sales. I just want to see what we can sell on Amazon. I want to see if I can outdo the your books. So, see how that works? But I thought the prolog shouldn't be hard.

Fiction outsells nonfiction about 20 to 1. 5 million to 1. Yeah, officially 20 to 1. You know, it took a few hours just to do 2500 words. I'm like, but really, what do you need for a novel like 80,000 somewhere in that what you will this will be advisable too. But it's like I don't want to use ChatGPT because that would be cheating.

Although I will say that was really my first thought when I when I read that when you sent it to me, I was like, oh, you're you're getting better at, writing using ChatGPT, And I was disappointed when you told me you didn't know, but it was I mean, I think it seemed fairly professional for a first draft. Kind of threw where the interesting thing of having ChatGPT it was a script, though I was not prepared for it to be a script. What do you mean, a script? It was just a prolog. It was a first.

It was two people talking. It's a script. No, there was more. There was the, well, more than two people. But you know what I mean. It's mostly dialog. Well, you do have a lot of do. I mean, I think I come from the, Kevin Smith world where I like to tell the story through the dialog of the characters. But a filmmaker. Yes. Yeah. Which is good, too, because if they could make a film, I mean, if the book sells, that's great. If somebody goes, hey, we should really make it.

If Disney came to me, it's like, we should really make this into a movie. I'd be like, oh fuck, I love Disney. I'm the best company in the world. Make me my movie, make me millions of dollars. But yeah, it's funny. I've taken so many writing classes and I don't write fiction. Well you should. I've taken hundreds of hours worth of writing classes, and it was the story compelling. That's the only question you read through that. Was it like, would this grab you?

Would it pull you in? Would it make you want to read more? I think if you didn't mention Marchenko, it probably would have been better, but I would have provided better feedback that way because I was just starting to think about like, okay, how does this compare and contrast? Right. Which is not as good, but which I would rather have just you said, hey, read this, tell me what you think. It's a, you know, give less, details next time. Less is more. Now the one nice thing.

Yeah. Because you get more of, like, first take an opinion instead of a comparison. An opinion. Because part of this is a military thing. And the beautiful thing with ChatGPT was typing in. What type of rifle would the Navy Seals have been using in this year? And it spits that information out. Otherwise that would have taken a lot longer to find the information. Yeah. Now you're assuming ChatGPT was correct and that would still need to be checked. But exactly.

Because frankly the type of rifle that Navy Seal that ChatGPT thinks Navy Seals were using could be totally different than what Dick Marchenko actually wrote about using. Right? Which would be because one of the benefits that you do have in Special forces is a much greater selection of personalized equipment. Yes, you can use what you are comfortable with. Yeah, but that's what he always had his h k man. You never heard him say he had a six hour. I don't believe. Yeah, exactly.

Yeah. And he was one of very few people that was an enthusiast of the h k pistols. Very like sales wise they did horribly though. One bar in Park Hook. It's a very large. Yeah. I think he owns to Mark 23, if I remember correctly. Which I always thought it was very cool looking. I don't own one. But it's, it's a very large gun, like, it's in in a lot of ways, it's kind of old school because your, it's not as efficient as, like, a Glock or some of the newer plastic pistols.

It weighs more. It's physically larger. It comes standard with a, silencer screw mounted on the front. Well, of course, I mean, sometimes you don't want to be heard. Yeah, yeah, but, that was certainly one of the weapons that was available, through, Well, in fact, they had a contract for U.S. military special forces equipment at the time, so.

Yeah, but, you know, in a lot of ways, it's kind of like, like the, James Bond, Walter PPK because that is not a standard sidearm of anybody in the British Army. Which is why it's unique. Yeah. His choice and and, interesting thing, you know, that was not the original gun that James Bond used. The original gun was actually a Beretta in, What was the caliber? You mean in one of the first movies or the books in the book?

In in the first book, and the gun changed to a Walter due to a friend of, What's the space get wrote it, saying you're. This is a ridiculous gun for him to be using. This is woman's gun. Yeah, to be using something larger. But if you want something still concealable, then you know it. Try a Walther PVC. Yeah. It's, Ian Fleming. So, Ian originally, have James Bond using a Brett I can't name I can't remember the caliber, but it was like it was like a 32, which is like a Brett 32.

Yeah. And that's what he told them. Yeah. He should have it. Yeah. Why didn't he. CSB another 1818 said the preview is limited to reasoning improvements. So if you switch to Flora and ask who is Jean? You'll get the answer. Cool, right? I know, but this was the funny part

is that it knows membros but it didn't know Jim. Yeah, as it should be, Gene's wiping his identity from the internet as we speak. That's what he does during the show, while ordering lunch, while ordering lunch and looking at Snopes. Yes, I loved the way that whether it was claw or chat, whatever, I used to do the paragraph for the last episode that said you had a killer hack at getting free guacamole. It's like, have the delivery driver drop it.

Yeah, so there are things that really a hack, but GPP doesn't really others dead yet. What doesn't stand anything? It's just it's just fake language. Yeah, it's it's the same thing as the images that it creates. It's just a bunch of elements thrown together that, that approximate what it read. It's sort of like somebody discussing politics based on the New York Times headlines. Well, yeah, because it's not going to be accurate. Right.

You could be like, write me a children's story about a little Pomeranian dog named CSB. And it will just throw that right out there for you. But yeah. But then again this dog is this. It all depends what the country you're from. Yeah. And I think this is where you start falling apart in trying to use ChatGPT is by asking questions that clearly would not be answered anywhere that you would have read.

And then the, what they call dreaming or delusions or whatever, start where it just comes up with random shit. Yeah. The hallucinations. Hallucinations, that's the word. Yeah, yeah. This came up with a story called CSB. The Curious Pomeranian. And of course it did. Once upon a time, in the cozy little town called Positively God. You're going to read the whole damn thing. They're about the whole thing. They're listing fluffy Pomeranian dog named CSB, CSB wasn't just any dog.

He was the most curious and adventurous pup in all of Boswell, with his golden fur that shimmered like sunshine and a tiny bell on his collar that jingled with every step. CSB was loved by everyone. I mean this. To be fair, that sounds right. The bell. To be fair, you throw some artwork that a another ChatGPT type thing can put together. You've got a children's book because this is more than good enough to be a children's book.

Oh yeah. Yeah. And then maybe we'll have the the chat GPT read in Kamala Harris's voice. That would be the greatest. Yeah, I saw James Earl Jones did leave his voice to Disney. The yeah using is Darth Vader. And that just pisses me off. That does. Yeah. Well, you know, what do you expect? I'm sure that he didn't just leave it. I'm sure he sold it right. And I understand, it's like, okay, what's the downside for him? He's going to be dead. But it's a but. Yeah, right. Just your word.

Tom Hanks sold his voice to. Yes. I don't I mean, it's not a bad idea because they can still get paid for it. Still got money, even in war, as soon as movies start actually using fully synthetic actors. Right. There's nobody that that needs to get paid ever again. Well, that was my concept is if everybody that is an actor, actress, voice actor today licenses and sells away their image and voice, we never need real live meat bags to do the acting anymore.

After there, you have this whole new solo. This is this is was literally the plotline of a 1981 movie called looker. Look, I don't remember the name. Yeah, it's a it was a great movie. I remember it like I watched it yesterday. Did you watch it yesterday? I didn't watch it in 1981, but it wasn't kick it in quite yet. Well, I didn't need B12 back in 1981. You probably did. No really didn't. You should have taken it that you'd be really good, though.

Maybe. Maybe. But it was a, movie about, Hollywood doing digital scans of actors and models and, being able to utilize them. And in, computer generated movies. And then all of a sudden, these people started dying of bizarre circumstances. Oh. And that sets up the plotline for a detective. And what came of it and what came of it all? That's the question. Now, I'm not going to spoil it. No spoilers for movies released in 1981 here. Yeah, you can watch them kind of go and watch them.

Hey, you may not have seen it yet, so I'm just going to give you like another year or ten. The older movies that you better, there's no doubt about that. I mean, I get the Darth Vader thing. He was never in the suit anyway, which a lot of people I think they're still confused about. Even though Darth Vader was like eight feet tall, he would have been a lot chubbier, too.

Yeah, which I mean would have been funny when it comes down to it, that's Vader with a short, chubby dude like, you got the force. You don't need to be in good shape. If you got the force. But he has a very probably true, unique voice and it will just seem weird if, you know, ten years from now, another Star Wars comes out and it's still using his voice. It's I mean, one I guess it's an old beige and it's nice.

His family probably gets paid for it and all of that. But it is still a little bit weird. But as these things, as we said, it's going to be interesting when you can just license things to a batch. It's a lot cheaper to license dead guy voice than it is to hire somebody else to come in. And this also says the technologies at the place where it's ready for the you need to pay somebody to license their voice. So that's the thing is, I think you don't need to pay them.

Well, because it's not really protected at this point. Correct. Well, the thing is, we've never had any any copyrights and voices. Right. Because voice, there are people that sound a lot like other people. Exactly. And it's never been illegal to be a voice impersonator and make money, even as a impersonator and or be a comedian like Rich little, right? Back in 1981, Sammy Davis Junior was great with the voices. Yeah, well, I've select people.

Yeah, but it's it's a fairly new thing that somebody would actually demand that, they receive money for something that sounds like them. Like me, like Scarlett Johansson. It's it's really not their voice. Right? Which is why the whole thing with ChatGPT and they immediately back down. I'm guessing for fear of backlash from the public. But when Scarlett Johansson's like, well, they asked me if I would do this and I said no. And then they came out with something that sounded like my voice.

In chat, GPT whatever it is, open. I came back with, well, we hired a voice actress who just happens to sound a lot like her, so. Exactly. So now they paid somebody else to license that voice to them, who is fully entitled to copy the voice of a famous person. Right. And all we're doing is we're using the digital copy of that person that you. Now, you just have to be able to prove that the person actually exists, and you're not just taking you know, your voice, right?

No, no, I saw the guy that sound just like Jean. Yeah, yeah. And I think that is that is a nice little trick, because I think the only argument somebody could possibly have in going after their voice being used for, computer generation is in saying, well, all you did was provide recordings of my voice, train it. So it is my voice, and I own my voice.

But this is this is this is the hack, to use that vernacular, is to simply hire somebody who is good at imitating voices, to read something in that person's voice that is sufficient enough to generate a voice print. It's actually not that much. When I did it, when my voice was synthesized, I think it took about 12 pages. Now they can do it from about two pages. Oh, yeah. Well, there's some of them there. Like you could do under a minute of audio, and it can get you close.

Yeah, but for two pages worth of text, it'll. And it has to be a mix of the right words. So you want to you want to have at least three examples of every type of sound that a person is going to make in the English language, which they've figured out how to do in as few pages as possible now, which I guess we're lucky that it's not as harsh as some of the other languages out there where it's harder to copy. I would assume a lot of that. That's a that's a good question.

I wonder how English rates compared to other languages like Mandarin, you know, is it, do you think that would be hard? Right? What do you think that would be hard. It just seems like there is a different sound palate that kind of expands. And it's one of those languages kind of, like Polish, where our body can be every time we say something, it's like, no, no, you're saying it in the much more formal way where that's not the way people speak.

There seems to be a lot more of that kind of a thing going on as well. Meaning that, you know, there's you're saying sort of, instead of curve. Right. Totally different meaning. Real from the live pig never went out. I went to I did it using Google about this, this whole fucking thing man. Nothing ever works. Yeah, yeah you should you should just drop the whole podcasting thing and start being a writer. I should it would probably pay better. Oh, I'm sure it would pay better. Yeah. Yeah.

Because. Right. You know, writers are just raking in right now. Bill O'Reilly is man. He sold 75,000 copies of his book in like, the first two days. But did he, though? He says he did. I mean, unless he's lying. Don't think he did the first one. Yeah, hundred and 50,000. I mean, he is the number one selling nonfiction author in the world. That's definitely not true. It is the way that these people calculate book sales. And it's the same way that's always been done is not really book sales.

These numbers are book orders from bookstores. And the way that that works is they will order a certain number of books, which you can count as sales numbers, but those books aren't actually paid for yet. Until somebody buys them. And I don't know what happens to the paperbacks. Maybe. Yeah. Any time people don't buy books, they they don't. They're never even returned. They are literally marked as destroyed, which just means they have some deformation that prevents them from being sold as new.

And then they all end up on Amazon in the used book section. Because the hardcover ones, there's tons. Yeah, yeah, I mean that usually people don't buy paperback, but there are tons of books that you can buy that are brand new, essentially, effectively. They've never been read by anybody. They've never been opened. They're but there is some type of deformation on the cover that, or maybe the entire back cover is missing. So I'll usually leave the front and then chop the back off.

Well, the way they used to get the money back with the paperbacks was you rip off the front cover and return that. That's how you got credit. And then of course, the book stores swore that those were all going to be destroyed. But I've got boxes of oh books without the covers from working at a bookstore. Any time. The, you know, book you wanted to read went bye bye. You ripped off the front cover. I'd like. Thank you very much. Still. Still very readable.

Make turns out with even without the front. Amazing. Yeah. They don't care about being readable. Just care about being not sold as new. Yes. That's it. So that way, you know, they can get their money or they're not making the bookstore. You can sell them used, you can sell them, abuse, whatever it is. It's a beautiful thing. So. Yeah. So yeah, he may have had that many book preorders from stores, but I highly doubt that many people will be reading Bill Riley.

Well, he gives a lot of books away with everybody that, pays for his yearly video service. Everybody gets a everybody gets a book. Yeah, yeah, there you go. And those are all counted as orders because they allocate one penny from your yearly subscription fees towards books. And now he can legitimately say, we sold 100,000 books day one. Well, no you didn't.

You just shipping out free books to a bunch of people, but you've allocated a penny from the bill that those people pay anyway, to watch you jibber jabber. ChatGPT won't even mention Bill, but they will put in Michelle Obama, who is like Bill O'Reilly. We don't know who those triathletes he is. Not in our system. No, no. It's like that. The whole book thing is a scam in general.

And I know a lot of New York Times best sellers like, I probably know people that are responsible for well over 200 books on new times best seller list. And, they will if you talk to them candidly. All agree that it's all a scam. Well, it pays well, but not what it pays horribly. I mean, if you're paying about $0.03 a book. Oh, that is just sad, isn't it? So you do much better if you just, self-publish on Amazon, because then you can get a couple bucks apiece. Yep, yep, that's about right.

But I get about a couple of bucks apiece from each book and you're like, yes, I can go out and call my caviar guy. Yeah, right. Given that I am the single biggest order of my books makes a $2 for profit, this seems like no fun at all. No, not at all.

Because it costs me more than two bucks to order them, so I. I think I probably distributed out several thousand of these books, which, incidentally, is also extremely typical because most people that write books, will want to get a few thousand of them to hand out. It's just like maybe less true nonfiction or in, fiction. But for nonfiction, like what I've done, you always want to have, in fact, I usually keep 2 or 3 in the car all the time. Well, just in case you of run into a fan.

Yeah, or you're just trying to talk your way out of, like, paying for part of a garage because you don't have any cash, and you're like, well, I'll tell you what. How about I give you my book? It's worth $25. Like, oh, is it good? And you're like, no, but that's not really the point, is it? I yes. It is good. It is very good. According to a ChatGPT, Bill O'Reilly has sold over 19 million copies of his books worldwide. Which isn't bad.

I mean, I guess even if you only make, you know, $0.25 a piece, that's, it's still decent money. Yeah, but I don't I mean, if he makes it $0.25 a book, I'd be shocked. What is the top author making at this point? Would that be probably that Harry Potter check. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I mean, well, because not just the books, all of the licensing for the movie and for all the toys and for all the accessories, man. Yeah, I think she's way ahead of the, everybody else.

And she won't bow down to the trans ideology. So God bless her. But, like, you know, she is a liberal. Yeah, well, that's, she's a liberal. That's not entirely insane. I don't mind liberals. Well, okay, let's just remember what you mean by insane. There's one topic with which she disagrees with the liberal left. And that is feminism. She's a feminist, and she doesn't like men pretending to be women. Well, that's a good thing, I guess. All I mean, completely does not make her a conservative.

According to closely resembling the traditional published authors make a dollar to $3 per hardcover and $0.50 to a dollar per paperback sold. That's very high, you know, to get, now the Kindle Publishing self publishers can earn 70% royalties. That's interesting. After the price of the book. Yeah. Between 299 and 9 99 or 35% royalties for the e-books priced outside that range. You know, for print on demand, you can make 3 to 5 per paperback copy out of book, priced around 12 or 15 bucks.

Know this would be beautiful if I could. You write that novel? You price the book at 15 bucks, you make $5 apiece. You really only need to sell, you know, a thousand, 2000. Make it worth its while. Yeah, but it is damn hard to sell that thousand. We need the. We need the marketing. That's it. We need to get that. We need marketing. So if you if you tie in some characters into this book from the nerds in the universe, you got a license at first, right?

So once you license that, you know, you just have a character. You just have to do it. Really intelligent people do is you make the character somebody that the people will know who they are, but you're not using their exact right or likeness. And then, but if you license that, then they'll promote it. If you don't license it, they won't promote it. True. CSB wants to know what about the problem of AI sucking up all of our fresh water and electricity? Is that really a problem?

CSP well, I mean, anything doesn't stand. That is something that definitely has a lot of people talking. Is that the whole AI thing? Second, maybe only to the whole cryptocurrency thing, right, is a waste of energy. This is sucking up a lot of energy. It's amazing that we're going through the Green New Deal scam. We're going through the global warming scam. We're going through the climate change scam.

At the same time, we're going through the crypto revolution and the AI revolutions, as you just said, which both of which are taking up massive amounts of resources. How are these even allowed to be legal, or do you think that's the end game for governments to get to be like, well, you can't do crypto, you can't do AI because, oh, I think the individuals are the issue here. It's the corporations that are doing it, as in, so a lot or at once is the real problem.

How many books do you say Riley sold 90 million. Okay. Because the total number of books published in the US was 788 million. Well, this is worldwide. The his killing Jesus. Oh, so he mostly sells books in Russia? Yeah, a lot in Russia. I mean, the killing Jesus. I forget how many languages that was it? It was printed in China, I believe. Believe it or not, it'll be there. They were they were proof of that because they do like to be anti-religious.

So it's very interesting that this is 19 million worldwide, but that is still pretty impressive for the. Okay, that's that's a funny number on top of phony numbers. No one gives a shit about worldwide sales. That means literally nothing. Well, the off the only sales of matter. Okay, I tracked sales of the U.S., so if I know it doesn't to the author. Because if he makes $0.50 a book in the US, he makes half a penny internationally.

So if Vlad called you up and I'm like, I need 10,000 books, you're like, that's not even real. If Vlad calls you up, then you know it's not real. Yes. If, though he's got you on speed dial, I thought, I mean, I know you've got a caviar guy, but Vlad needs a guy. You're. You're Vlad's guy for something. I don't know what, but you're Vlad's guy for something. Be doing a podcast for lats. Guy for something. You are doing a podcast? Exactly. This is it. Your beer?

Promoting Russian propaganda right here. I ain't getting paid for that. Sure you do. Say that. You say you're not getting paid. How do I know what's coming through? The, kibbles and bits line there from Moscow. You're the one in charge of sending me PayPal. And I know I'm not getting paid. Give it. Vlad would pay through me. It'd be like, oh, your treat. Oh, he would totally pay through you, you stupid American. Do not let him know when that. Do you buy him? I would Boris and Natasha talk.

That's more what we should be, enforcing that. Yeah. No. But both, no. CSB, if you would just, like, take it all of those. Yeah. There. It might have been over 10,000. We could have heard of. This thing would make noise, but otherwise it's nice down. Nice silent silence is golden. Yeah, I kind of prefer silence on podcasts. Thank you. This is. Yeah. Hey, that was Todd. The line from Todd Snyder's song about the, the music scene when he says, silence music's original alternative.

I was like, that's that's absolutely genius. That is pretty good. Like, this is, sometimes it's even better to silence. And some people play the silence better than others. I mean, went back does it. We don't because we talked too much. But when you hear some of these people delivering, although when the silence gets to the point where you're looking like, wait to my internet, go down, then it's too long. Yeah, I there is normal speech certainly has some silence in that.

Which is why I always use software it to remove it. But, some people just go overboard with silence. And I kind of usually refer to that as preacher talk. Yeah. Which is waiting for a reaction maybe. Yeah. Well. Or you're like, waiting for someone to. Oh, okay. He's not saying anything. So that last thing must have actually been important. Just to try and sort of manipulate conversation and, it works. Sometimes it means.

All right, but it also is overused by some people, and it gets to the point of being annoying. Well, because they're told will never speak first or never. You'll never be the one they want. Sometimes you have to seek to get the upper hand. Never speak first. Yeah, okay. You know, I don't know about that, but Rose says that, I kind of. You want to call in or something because you're sure talking a lot for a guy that isn't doing a podcast. I know, he says.

I kind of prefer silence to listening to this podcast, too, but here he is listening to this podcast. What's up with that? Please send some money with that. Yes, said the post, you're literally sending, you know, messages from him for free where everybody else has to pay for him. Where's your note? Roses. A note back up. You don't see, dude name. Been sending little messages in the middle of the show there. Well, he could, you know, so he'd have to pay for them.

And he knows to have to pay for them. He's like, oh, yeah. Dude, what? Let me. No, no, no, I have to go. I've just good old boys. Well he he'd send them to you, not me. Obviously. Everybody liked what I was like. Oh if you're on x if you're following me and you're a real person and you want to follow back because I just ignore that. I don't pay any attention. And I think most of all, for a long time, most of them were bots.

Yeah. So, like, if you're a real person and you're really reading this and you would like me to follow, let me know. If you're a bot, just follow. Sajid. Did you get any new followers from that? I figured might boost you up a little. Yeah. Got a handful? Yep. Nice. Yeah. This is marketing all bots, though. They're also. This is nice that the bots are like, oh wait, that's me. Yeah, I'm the bad. I should be doing this. And did you like the album artwork?

I mean, we kind of took yours and added a little bit to it. Yeah, that girl's jumping on trampolines. We're going to see if that works for a, marketing standpoint. Oh, it always works for marketing. Yeah. This is the beauty of Amber. The thumbnail has to have nothing whatsoever to do with the actual content. That's the rule. That's the best part about the show. There's a guy that I watch that that's a gamer YouTuber guy who's doing, like 100 plus hour marathon stream right now.

And, because he's doing this big long live stream, he's actually creating the videos that he's going to post as different episodes on the live stream. So it feels like half the time that I tune into him

feels like a lesson in video editing, because he's literally just sitting there editing yesterday's video while livestreaming while live streaming. Yes, yes, people think it's like, so what? We reject GPT on the show? Yeah. Yeah. And this you know how editing works. It's like, oh, let me tweak that. Let me play it back, see how it's on. No. Little too much. Let me back off of that change. This little bit turned to me.

And then I watched them work on his thumbnail for about 25 minutes, like just, you know, in Photoshop, like tweaking colors slightly. I mean, this is a little oversaturated. Let me just bring that back just a tad on that layer. Let me now go to this layer and then make the blues a little more bluer. I don't like this. Let me change that a little bit. I was like literally for half an hour.

It was compelling television. It sounds like, well, it's playing in the background while I'm doing other shit, but still, it's a it's one of those things that. Most people don't realize how much work it is making the tiniest little minutia. This is what I realized when I tried doing the whole gaming streamer thing years ago. Is that and I made a video about it, which basically said for me to make a half hour 4K video of playing video game is roughly eight hours worth of work, which is insane.

And that's not a good ratio, because you need about a year to two years of daily videos in order to get a sufficient, following built up. Oh, yeah. This is why the no edit method is very popular. Now there's a lot of people who don't understand that their show has to get better before they're in the no edit zone. For professionals like you and I or Adam Curry and John Dvorak, the show is ready.

I still run it through another filter to take out all the weird little noises of that, but I know it's not necessary. Most people would never even know the difference. Yeah, yeah. If we then I've gotten a lot more used to that. A lot more casual. In fact, I'm I'm no longer removing the link down here in the. I'm or the dead air. I'm, I'm leaving everything in at this point because. Well, for two reasons. One, I think I've been a little more desensitized to that stuff myself.

So I don't care as much. But two is over the last probably three years, and having software that tracks all the and arms. Right. Being self-conscious of it. I've gotten to a point where I, I do a lot fewer of those. I use those words less. You can break yourself from that. There's no question about it. Yeah, yeah. And it's certainly a nice crutch to have software that can just simply remove all that stuff.

But it is not a requirement that what people don't get is you're way better to have the awkward silence, because that is a lot easier to trim down. Yeah, especially when people talk in when you do something like, I mean, and then you start talking like, well, how do you cut that? Did you went right into the it wasn't separated the, the filler word. And then what you're saying is like all connected.

So I don't know how good and I can handle things like that where if yes, editing becomes more tricky, then, leaving the silence is better. The one thing that I noticed when doing editing early on with grumpy old bands was memory is like a lot of people. Quite often when collecting your thoughts repeats the same word over and over. And I see this all the time. People on TV, professionals that have been doing it for 20 years, they do the same thing.

They repeat the words because they're thinking about what they want to say. And then rather than my my other co-host Ben and Ben and Ben is notorious for that. And you're like, it's editing that we I'm sure does not notice if he doesn't ever edit his own shit. But as somebody that edits the are used to at least edit those shows. Yeah, there's a lot of that, that there are tons of words which are repeated. I do it occasionally. Everybody does it.

Sometimes, but I, I have found that, Ben does that a lot, and I. You don't really notice it when you're speaking to him because it's all very natural flowing. Right. But you certainly notice it when you have software that shows it to you. Memories assuring me every word he says is gold. I'm sure. Well, send some of that gold our way because we're not going to keep reading shit you're sending without some stats attached. These are the troll room, troll room, dot io.

But that doesn't mean you can bypass the SATs during the show. Why don't you get to the troll? You should be there. Been perma banned by the guy you're talking about. Literally perma banned off there. We will open it right back up for Gene. Keep talking for a little bit. I need to go pick up a package. I'll be right back. Okay. Now, the only question is going to be which guy has provided this package to Gene. Any guesses? Is it the, caviar guy dropping something off at the door?

He may be posing. That's true. He may just be like, I really had too much of that caffeinated Starbucks espresso shots in the can. I just have to go and relieve that? Or could just be the rabbit guy, though. He doesn't deliver anymore. It could be the sushi guy. Could be the guacamole guy, could be the iced tea guy. There's a lot of guys in Gene's life. Have you noticed that? Not a lot of women. Lot of guys, though. You never hear that it's a pointy chick that provides the caviar.

Nope. So he's a guy, so he's a shadowy figure. Most of them deliver, though I can understand that. This reminds me, though, to. We also need to check with Gene to find out if anything ever happened with the full length mirror that was delivered to his. All. I want to know if he ever opened up the box to make sure that there was a mirror in there, and if that ever found a nice, I'm always falling over as he's coming back into the podcasting area.

Man. Okay, that looks painful on the camera. Oh, really? Yeah. No, that's all right. Which guy was at the door? So, this is my insulin guy. Oh, well, he may be the most important guy of all. Yeah, normally I would just leave a package sitting there, but since this is a refrigerated package, it gets warm in Texas a little bit. Let me ask you this. What happened to the full length mirror that you were trying to get rid of? Did you ever verify it was a mirror? It's still a box.

It's still sitting there. Yeah, well, I can't open it. I'm telling you. What. If this is like a, priceless painting that was just shipped in a mirror box, and that. That was a good story, wouldn't it? This would be the best story ever that you like. Give it to goodwill, and somebody finds it and you're like, oh, shit. That was sitting in my foyer for like three years. Yeah. I never knew, never knew.

I ordered a frame the other day that came in damage because the Amazon delivery driver and I didn't order from Amazon, which I find this interesting as well. Yeah. The company is using Amazon to deliver, even when you ordered directly from their website. Yeah, they're using Amazon Logistics, which is like, this is, really I mean, I knew that Amazon providing their own delivery was gonna hurt, upset. And the other folks at the time, I mean, lesser.

So but Fedex and DHL that were still doing some deliveries in the post office, deliveries. Now this they're actually taking business away, which is a beautiful thing. But somehow this was a box. The frame was say to a little over 20 something and maybe like 22 by 22 with a plexiglass. And it was the box was closed with staples, and somehow the box came open and at some point and delivery, the thing must have like slid out. And when it slid out, the staple went across the plexiglass.

So of course I was like, I going to need new plexiglass. I just got some dry. It's nice though. What can you use that for as a snack? Like it? It increases the CO2 level of the house. It's perfect. Oh, that that. Well, this is, that was like a dead head in the, that box you just sent me. What did that? Did that? Oh, wait. Sorry. Sorry. One wrong. No, that's still a completely different image. Yeah. But this was probably else's image and that we've ordered from them before.

It seems like a decent company art to frames. We are not sponsored by them or anything, but they seem to do good work and what annoyed me though was their customer service. They're in I think California or something, of course. Now, of course. And when I went to this look, they have their phone number on their website, which is good. It's like at the top of the website. Boom. So if you need something, you call up and I call up and it's like you are first in line.

Minute, two minutes, three minutes, you are first in line, then and then finally went to leave a message. But I realized I was calling outside of their normal business hours. So one, your phone system should immediately just say we are currently not open, so somebody forgot to set it or the timer, whatever it was didn't kick in. Maybe daylight savings. Confused? I don't know. So that was annoying. So the next morning I went into a chat and they asked for the information.

They asked for a soda, which I already had because I knew they were going to ask a photo. And at the end of all of this, they're like, well, email this information and this, this and this two CSS at our two frames. I'm like, wait, what? I'm here for? Why isn't there just a page that says, if you need this, then email us. Why am I going to the chat and providing you with any information whatsoever ever? If you're then going to send me because they want to discourage you from

something, anything? I think so, yeah. Which then it took like two days before the email to confirm. It's like, well, this should have all been done immediately. This was all, this is just crap we're framing here. But was like, if this was for, you know, like my nephew, they do. We just had the baby shower for them. It's like, if this was for a gift, I'd be really annoyed that you're not like, sure, we'll send you this replacement out immediately.

It's like I'm giving you the photos, giving you the information. It's like, what kind of question could there still be? Yeah. The member says Amazon drivers do not give a fuck about your packages. This is this is directly from money that was on delivery driver. Yep. That is no question about it. This is why my liquid desk got damaged. Along with the with the frame. They also didn't have the matting in there, so they were going to send me shit anyway.

I can only imagine the cost of shipping a 20 inch or whatever it is with at least 20 20 inch by, you know, 20 inch matting that still has to be shipped Latin in a big expensive think the hell are you getting framed? Just a lithograph. Of what? Taylor Swift? Of course. Yep. Gotta have another one. Hey, she's maybe a crazy liberal, but she's still hot. Never been. Definitely isn't in her fucking 30s. I know, I mean, she's really. The cutoff is coming. I mean, 35 is next year.

You you you must have a shitty memory because you actually used to work with actual hot women. And I think you've forgotten what that looks like. There was some more than others. I mean, there was, are you you mostly work with the ugly playmates? Yeah. Well, I mean, I'm not going to use that word. That's a wrong to to say that, but there were some that were more attractive. The airbrush type of playmates, right?

There were some that were a lot more plain, though, the one that does I don't know if she's still out of Austin, but she lived in Austin. Her name was Echo Letter Johnson. Oh, she was freaking hot. I think she was doing, like, real estate or something out in Austin. So maybe you ran into her when you were trying to. Probably. Yeah, probably two of the as well. For now, of course. You're like, you got to be, hell, got to be close to our age. So, I mean, there you go.

Yeah. She's like, that's just way too old. I love, I saw some comment recently of, a photograph of, Jennifer Lopez. J.Lo is or there's a lot of different Jennifer's. There's J.Lo. Yeah, the J.Lo one. And, somebody commented, it's like, boy, that, I bet Ben, what's his face? Affleck well, that's not J.Lo. That's right. Jennifer Aniston not not oh, this is the first real. Oh, yeah, you're right, you're right.

I was thinking Jennifer Gardner, but no, you're. Yeah, yeah. Garner. Yeah. Different one. But, but they both were flat, right? Was which. Yeah. Yeah, I an asshole. He, he probably misses this. I'm like, miss a 50 year old bitch. No, I think so. Wow. Yeah. That's hard. So it's, It is crazy.

The the the completely unrealistic impression that people have not just of themselves but of other people that may have been hot 30 years ago is insane how anybody thinks that a 50 year old woman is hot is beyond me. You're like, it's just way out, man. No way. It's just objectively impossible. It is real, literal impossibility. You're like, you're ignoring the DNA. You're ignoring. Yeah, exactly. Like you can pretend that your wife is hot because you'd be in trouble if you didn't like I get it.

I understand that you got a lie, but somewhere deep down, every man has to realize that they're lying, even while they're doing it. If they think that a 50 year old woman is hot because it ain't true. And if the case, it's. It's like if there's one woman left on Earth. Yeah. She's hot. Okay. Given that there are literally billions of people on Earth, over half of which are women, that's objectively an impossibility.

Because if you think she's hot, all you gotta look is look at the women that are younger than her and statistically, a higher percentage of them will be hotter. Gene at sir gene.com. We. Well, there's nothing magic here that's not insulting. It's just reality. It's just we are programed whether it's by God or nature. You take your pick to be attracted to somebody that is at the peak of their reproduction which ages. It is a 22 year old woman, 22 genes, only 22 to 35.

There's that 35. Are you fucking crazy? 25 or 20? This is why you only need three year relationships. Yeah. So then repeat. Rinse and repeat. Yeah. I mean, I was gonna think you were going to tell me that, you know, Elvis Presley and Jerry Lee Lewis had it, right? Go with 14. Jerry Lee Lewis was also related when he was like third cousins or second cousins.

Something that yeah, our first cousin and it was like her his like third marriage or something to which also I didn't know this until way more recently. I was thinking, you know, every time I had heard that story, I was assuming, you know, that they were both young. And, you know, I knew he was older, but that this was, you know, his first it was like this was his third marriage, to his second cousin, who was like 14 years old. Goodness gracious, great balls of fire. It did.

But the boy could talk about himself at that point. I thank you for that. Yeah, the boy could tickle the ivories. This is why would people was entertaining. Although I don't consider that type of, piano playing to be particularly skillful. It's, a mood setter. I just I just don't like that. The honky tonk or not, I think it's the, What's the word I'm looking for? What do you love? The 12 kick in. I took you already. Do you like. Like Professor Lock? Boogie woogie?

I don't like boogie woogie, but Professor Longhair is a little bit more of that. And he's the guy that kind of created that whole New Orleans. Sound. But it's a similar piano kind of play. Yeah, it's basically just tuning the piano. Well, somebody's got to do it. It's, But I also just to not single out piano. I also don't like guitar with distortion. I don't understand why it exists. So, you know, in the heavy, everything sounds at all.

Everything sounds so much better when you play it on the acoustic guitar. There was a, I think she's British on Rick Beato channel yesterday or whatever. And then with the last couple of days, it's a young artist. Her name is weird. It's a like three name thing. I guess she's big on the internet, but she did a couple of songs, and definitely they show she has a basis in much more of the Sinatra type crooning songs and like the show tunes from like a Rodgers and Hammerstein thing from way back.

But she had a couple of original songs. It was just her playing a piano and singing, and it's like, wow, that is so nice to hear right? That is so nice not to have the over produced. And I've said that even, you know, even today, the latest album, it's like, yeah, there's 48 songs, but I can't tell one from the other. Yeah. You know, can't tell one from the other. That is where things start to fall down. But the reason I'm a Taylor Swift fan is I was fully in the country music when she broke.

I wasn't even listening to, like, any rock or anything else. It was all country. And the older stuff I still say is better, which happens to so many years when she, she had that interview where she was talking about a song and says too many notes, you gotta have less notes. You only need three chords in the truth, man. That is all y'all need. That's true, because you keep in mind that when that's all you need, you're definitely missing talent. No, this is what you're eking out the most.

There are some very simplistic songs that can hit home, but not me. I guess it depends what you're looking for musically. They're not that complex at all, but sometimes the most. You know, if you're talking about, like what Mark Knopfler does, very simple tones. It's just the way that they're played, you know, it's not a, you know, it's a very simple guitar. You'd probably like Mark Knopfler if you don't listen to him, he can play.

It's not overly distorted, but you can write a very simple song, which is what country music is all kind of based on. Hank Williams stuff is not complex. You're not using a lot of minor chords. You're not throwing in a lot of variations. Yeah, it's because it's not really music. It's just poetry with some background. But isn't that what music is? What do you call okay, where do you use it from? Yeah. Music is something that a person without training can't do. That's music.

Okay. So you're only like you have to go to like, Juilliard and be trained to be able to sit down and perform real music. Anything, if you are not professionally trained, if it has lyrics, not really music.

Okay. So that and what's your favorite, Russian classical? I mean, there is a lot to be said for Russian classical music. Certainly, from the 20th century, earlier. But, no, I, I if I'm listening to something that I want to be inspired by, I'm usually going to put on Bach, Bach. Yeah. Because it's very mathematical. It's it's not frickin easy. I've tried and, you know, this is if it's too hard for you to play, then it's good. Yeah. Yeah, that's that's right there. That's the standard.

The three chords I can do. That's not a problem. So that's not real music. We were watching something the other day and somebody mentioned Bach and I did the, Bach and my wife's like, okay, radar, I'm like, that was such a great episode of Mash when they were trying to see, like, the girl that like, yeah, your wife needs to record herself saying that and send me some of these audio files so I can put them on the, it's on my ISO stream deck and then hit them at appropriate places. It works.

It all works out. I'm sure to when he wants to definitely impress the girl that likes the classical music, I'll tell you, as somebody who looks through all the music that is coming out. Which is a lot, this is where I get my music. There's a site, you know, you just go through and I don't search, I just go every day, once a day. There's usually like 15 new pages, you know, probably ten, 15 per page. But. And if you're painting music every day they're not new today.

But overall everything which and I will say, any woman that is holding, you know, any last some of the hottest women are the ones in the classical music, but they're all like violinists or pianists. But, you know, it's like you always know if it's a hotter chick, see, if it's a Russian or an Asian, that the music's going to be great. I don't know why. Yeah, I, I think yeah, I don't know why either, because those really don't have anything to do with it.

So did you ever watch the TV show that was on for, I think, two seasons about the, classical orchestra? I can't remember. It was called, but it was it was a reality show or. No, no, no, no, no, it was a it was a, fully scripted show, but it was a story line of this young musician who I think she did go to Juilliard or something, but they always go to Juilliard. I know. Right.

But she's in New York and, you know, just barely making ends meet and trying to get into an orchestra and, and just playing all these little side gigs to pay the money. And then, I think she's a clarinetist. And then she was just getting no getting, hired by an orchestra, one of the New York orchestras that, is a, a very good position, and it's just kind of following her. And then there's a whole, you know, love interest, storyline and all this stuff happening.

But the setting for the TV show was, an orchestra. And what was it called? I can't remember the name of it. I think it was on Showtime or something.

Maybe either Showtime or some act. One of them too, I do. That was pretty good. I do not recall the music was good. Now here's the interesting thing. I it's just, it's going and going and going. I typed in to ChatGPT. Yeah. Scripted show about orchestra. Yeah. And it created a show for me. Oh nice. It's like titled the Symphony of Life genre musical drama. Oh my God. That just came in with 4 or 5, six, seven.

When I need music to help me focus and get crap done, I have a John Williams channel I have curated. Well, he has the a lot of good. There you go. Yeah. And I was going to mention that is that if you if you are tired of the standards meaning like you're tired of listening to, Beethoven, Mozart and Bach on public radio, really some of the best classical music, in my opinion, ever created, is created as movie scores. Oh, yeah, tons of movies.

And there's there's actually not that many composers that are doing it because you'll see the same names popping up over and over in Hollywood movies. Well, they're probably cheap, but yeah, I don't think so, man. I mean, like some of the I've actually bought some, some, music. That it's crazy. Like, they don't sell their music, they only license it to movies.

So they've got a whole collection of pre created music and prerecorded music and you're like, where does this that isn't sold anywhere until some movie licenses its use. And then it's part of the soundtrack to that movie. And there's a, there's a guy that I found years ago that the literally like he's one of the very well paid, composers in Hollywood. And then I he's got samples like little 32nd clips of his stuff, but you can't buy the damn the full piece. It's so frustrating.

You're like, I will hear this sounds great. I want to hear this. And it's like, no, no, nothing is available. It's only licensed. And we're talking like, you know, hundreds of thousands dollars, if not millions. See, we got to get my book written so we can turn it into a movie so you can hear the music. Oh, yeah. I would love to do that, man. I'll be great.

Drew Scott said John Williams keeps the energy up, although he did say I have to remove some of the Star Wars stuff as there was way too much in there. And besides Star Wars bites lol. Well, besides the first three, I mean, there were three. There were only three. Exactly. Well, and I posted an X. There's something where I can't remember what I was replying to, but something says Star Wars. Isn't that that, episodic, TV show about strong, powerful women? Sure.

That's Star Wars, right? Yeah, that's exactly what it is. That's right. That. What else? What it is, that's all. Most people, unless they're our age and saw the originals, and you saw Princess Leia as Jabba the Hutt slave. Oh, I saw that. Yeah. Somewhere in that man, I saw the, the, what do they call the recordings back on the movie set, real behind the scenes of that scene, the outtakes,

the though, not the outtakes, the behind the scenes that was filmed by somebody who's relative, that was in, you know, observing the movie being made. And, yeah, there was a, pa that Leia's chain a few times to the point where she was, pretty pissed off about it, let it go into fisticuffs. It was pretty funny because, you know, like for the scene. And the job was supposed to be, you know, keeping her on there on her leash. Right. Which, of course, job is not real. Job was not real.

So somebody's got to do it. And this kid clearly was going to have some fun with this naked, Carrie Fisher and, started yanking out of her ink and her chain. Back in the day, we'd have had a lot of fun with a pretty naked Carrie Fisher. Dude, you could still have some fun with the naked Carrie Fisher if, as long as she looks the way she did back then. Dean, she's dead. Yeah. You.