140: B12 And Bullshit

Now I have really good equipment. Yes, I have you. That's right. Nobody knows what Gene does. He's off doing Gene things. It's time to start the show. So we start the show. Man, getting tea is not an excuse. Here on the mighty No Agenda stream. I'm Darren O'Neill. When he gets here. He indeed will be joining. Never do live. Try to spell that in your sleep. This is episode 140 140 of unrelenting. It is the Seinfeld of Podcasts podcast version. We do these shows live.

You want to be in the trial room. You can get there by going to No Agenda. That stream, that is where you will find Tom. Tom Scott and Gian Alvaro, no beret, and of course a host of others. Oh, and here's Jean. We've already started the show. Jean, you were late. Where's our music director? They've been played. It's. Well, it's been done. I was like, yeah, he'll be here. They'll be here soon. He's starting them early here. No, right on time.

Now, I just turned, 11 p.m. right now, 11 p.m. on Moscow time. I forgot what, 10 a.m.. I mean, there's a few. There was a few seconds drift between Moscow time and the rest of the world. The speed of light. I know it's very weird when you start to know all of these things, I know. Okay, now, let me look at my levels here, too. There's always levels changing. And I realized, that the Mac mini is not invincible.

I was streaming along on Macs, and then I opened up Adobe Audition and everything just stopped on mix, and I had to. Oh, yeah? Yeah. Like what? Audition? Well, you should have known that, because addition fucks with the audio driver. You will everyth all audio does. I've done it before. Although it depends on the I guess. What if you started first, you can leave it running. So that's it. That's the trick is to get an audition open before you open up the other stuff.

Yeah. And then it just magically works. I'm like, oh man, what's it doing that for? But I get it. Yep. I mean, windows is not, innocent in having audio issues, so I oh, God, no. It's one of those things where, you know, if you have to and and it wasn't the under windows that would usually be to be fair to the, the cult of Mac and Windows, it would usually then throw you a blue screen of death, which would turn everything off.

You'd have to reboot the whole machine and then go through that whole hassle. Well, it's I think for regardless of platform, if you don't fuck with it for five minutes before you start the show, they're both going to be fine. Be like, they got to get it, got to get all settled in. Happy New Year, are you? Yeah, audio is the thing I have the most issues usually with when I'm doing YouTube. It is the bane of the existence of, not the video. It's the audio content creation.

Yeah, yeah I did now start finally kind of setting up my workflow better where I am streaming at ten ADP but I'm recording at 4K and I'm recording four channels at the same time of audio, so I can separate the game sounds from the music, from the microphone, from other people in post. It's all very fancy. Well, it, it it's all to be able to fix things that happened right.

Because I you do a two channel mix sound live and then you listen to it and you realize that like one of the sounds was ten times louder than you thought it was, and somebody else's mic was way quiet. You're screwed. Well, that was the early days of podcasting. Yeah, well, one voice was really loud. Yep. And the other one was like, I have like, it's like somebody normalized an error and other people just don't know how to.

I can feel like then they came out and then it was the free program, the equal. It was just called like The Equalizer or something like that or something like that. Yeah, I remember that. Yeah. The level later was like, Holy shit, but you couldn't have your theme music on it because that would get all fucked up. Yeah. But if you just took the audio of everybody speaking and put that into the level laying there, it was a free thing.

It just magically spit out, you know, it added your compression, it added the magic sauce to make everybody sound like they were about the same volume level. Well, and then it was certainly better than the nothing, but it was, nowhere near what it would sound like if you actually recorded a multi-track and did it professionally. No, it was a very basic interaction. That's what we got, man. Now we got multi-channel, we have noise reduction. We have Desus because people get really uptight with the

I don't, I don't I never had a problem with this is I don't understand why. Yes. There's really nothing I, I always turn it off on my actual physical and they, they exist long before the computer ones. They exist. Oh yeah. Yeah. Physical channel scripts do. And I never had a problem. People that had really loose lips when they had lists all the time. Yes. The semblance was physically. And then when you take that away, it sounds like Howard Stern. Right.

That's what that's what you add the magic source. That's how you get the Howard Stern voice. He really sounds like a squeaky little chipmunk. Yes. Yeah, well, he certainly he acts like a squeaky little chipmunk. He looks like what? Dude? So there's all it all worked for. Good on Howard. Did you have a good. Do you did you actually do what you wanted to do, which was know exactly what the cartoon that my other co-host, Ben Poster did? Dude named Ben named Ben. Did CSB do that?

I think it was a CSB cartoon. I don't think so. I think it was somebody else's cartoon. But, the and I'm sure this is the correct this was. Yes.

But it didn't look like his style of cartoon. But the he was saying it was it's like 1159 1159 gaming, 12:00 gaming with one hand and holding up a sparkler with the other. 1201 gaming with two hands, right back in, professional game. I mean, you gotta realize a lot of the people that I'm playing with had already celebrated New Years because they're in Europe or Australia, right? And they're all ahead of us. You know, we're kind of slow when it comes to this kind of thing.

Well, there's so many different time zones. That was the problem when we did a live yeah, we're on the hours ago was way too many time zones and trying to get like everybody like, okay, well it's okay, I'm done. I mean, if you're on the East Coast, you're like, yeah, California's not doing this for three hours. Well, most people just say, Fuck California. And, you know, get rid of California. Yeah, pretty much don't really need that. But I think, yeah, we'll trade California for, Canada.

How's that? That works. Yeah. So those Canadians in the cattle trade, China, you can have, California. We'll take Canada. It is going to be the 51st state, isn't it? Sounds like it sounds like they're progressing in that direction. And, they're going to call for a vote of not. And they're going to put Wayne Gretzky, Jared. Yeah. Wayne Gretzky, which is which is hilarious. And he's going to give it up to Donald Trump. Yep, yep. Exactly. It's all going to happen, kids.

Yeah, I mean, the the U.S. is going to be basically run by the UFC in Canada will be run by the Hockey League. So what else would be better? Yeah. You know, hockey is one of the better sports. Still. It is the best sport in my opinion. You know right next to curling. Well I mean you like all female nude curling. The best. I like regular curling. I will have to say that when I said that, I, you know, I have a running gag where, like, I think curling is the best sport. And. And Ben said, yeah.

What about, women's volleyball? Like sand volleyball. Right. Beach volleyball. I'm like, oh, shit. Okay. That's that's right. That's an actual sport. That's not just a video game, is that. Yeah, they do that. They actually play that in real life. Right? Okay. Okay. So that's the winter sports curling. I mean they came up with the Lingerie Football League for a while, remember? I mean they did not last long though did it. No. Because women are like I don't want to get injured.

No. Well who does? Men. Nobody. Everybody I don't know. Depends how much money they pay you, I suppose. Well, yeah, it's not even the money, dude. It's the bitches. It's the holes. Right. That's if you talk to the football players. That's what money gets you. That's the reason a whole lot of football players, raking in the big bucks and then investing them and saying single? No, they all find wives. Yeah. The wives find them pretty quick that's for sure. Yeah. So there's like a radar.

Oh yeah. Yeah. For money. Nobody is looking for podcasters. Jean. That is the safest place to be if you're looking to avoid a relationship podcast okay. But that that's because podcasters are literally every person in the country right now. I think the number of podcasts in the United States top 380 million, well overall, but they also a lot of them only last like three minutes. Yeah, there's a lot of one episode podcasts out there, but everyone's doing a podcast.

I don't know a single person who isn't doing a podcast right now. I literally don't know of anyone who's not doing a podcast. There's a lot of them in the troll room. I don't really know them. Total podcasts in the podcast index right now 4,383,219. But the ones that have been updated in the last three months falls to 468,000. Okay, so that's a skewed figure anyway, right? I'm not saying it's not a correct figure. It's a correct figure of the ones that are in the index.

But you don't have to be in the index to know. But probably 99% of them are. What makes you think that? Because it's the only way that people get out of high, have more podcasts that it is. But most of those are also attached to an RSS feed, which would be right for Podcast Index. I think most of them would be represented. I mean, at least somewhere, well, who's got to put them in there? Who's going to put them in there?

Do you think these are done by hand? No. They're little magical elves that find RSS feeds and they add them to all these lists. But where do they find them on the internet. On the internet. Okay. That's the thing that we used to do the show. But when you go to just saying that, I everybody I meet random people in the grocery store that I don't go to who are all podcasters like everyone talks about the podcast, it is Austin. See that's why. Okay, well, what do you like guys that are YouTubers?

They're still calling themselves podcaster and that's only a bone of contention to a very few people, are they? Actually, that's a good question. So people that only do YouTube podcasts and call themselves podcasters are those being added to the, if they have an RSS feed? That is where YouTube having the RSS feed? I don't believe so, although that you realize what they're the general vocabulary. When people say podcast, it doesn't mean diddly squat about indexes or RSS feeds.

What it means is I talked into a microphone and often with a camera in my face, which a lot of people would say is a now a torso rather than a. I don't know why it's any different when you add video or if you're main thing has video, and there's only some sets of that, like The Joe Rogan Show, I consider to be a video showing that you offer audio only, but you have the video. So I guess it depends on how you look at it.

Joe Rogan always had an actual podcast that was, you know, registered with Apple, and then, the Almighty, they set up a camera while Apple was in charge. But yeah. So I think they kind of star, for most people, but they set up a camera to record a video of the podcast and then put that up on YouTube. So the show really, I think started off and certainly in, in his mind, and it has progressed because of the fact the technology now has. Maybe it was different. I think of it as a video show.

Well, I think, but I always thought it would be a never never to his podcast. When I was a podcast podcast, I don't I never subscribe to the audio only of Joe Rogan. I was only watched it on YouTube. So to me it was always a video show. But I understand that the way they started it was just a podcast and I always watch the video of Twit back before when it was good. Haven't seen it in years, but it was considered in that time.

That's true, a video show, but I think if there's when the there's a difference in having one crappy webcam that you're just adding a video feed to with the audio, which is still king to like what Rogan has now, which is multi-camera switching and all the so the, the production. Me I gotta, I gotta say something about Twit my

the episode of twit and I remember, I know I was never religiously watching twit I, but I would occasionally watch twit. But the last episode of Twit I ever watched, which was probably like seven years ago, or somewhere around that territory maybe six years ago, was a camera pointed at four monitors, right on which there were four guys on their laptops. I was dubious thing in the world. Yeah, I thought that we membros and I talked about that.

I believe it was on the, the special Christmas edition of Grumpy Old Bands that I think that's where they really started losing their way, which was bringing in remote guests. But doing the stupid fucking thing of putting the monitors around the desk. That was. Yeah, there was no reason to do that. No, I mean, it just looks retarded. It is retarded. It it looks like something out of Futurama, right? Like a spoof of a, show. Yeah. Like if, like. Oh, yeah.

The people are so stupid. In the future, this is what they do. Oh, look, a show that does that. But they put the be like, we put a monitor to have somebody like you don't need that. You have the ability to just talk to put a little wheels on the monitor stand and a little motor in there so you can actually move these little monitors back and forth as people just kind of shift in their chairs and move around. Well, they did that didn't even annoy people more.

Remember in community they yes yes yes yes yes with the oh you know who's got, Ben's next show he's going to start watching his community. Wait. Took me a year to get them to do that. Dude named Ben named Ben has never seen he's never seen community. And he's like, oh, I don't know. I, why would I oh, I'm like, guess it's like one of the best shows ever created. It is a classic television comedy in all the right ways, and it's right up his alley, too.

I don't know why he had never seen it, but our trade was I would watch Babylon five, which I never saw, and then he would watch community. Whoa whoa whoa, cotton gin and no beret. Bullshit. They've never seen it and have never heard of it. What are they, Americans? He is. I'm starting to question that wrong. Oh, wow. I mean, it was one of the first shows that was, saved. It was. I'm obsessed. See? How could you not seen it? Well, it was NBC. And then they were.

Yeah. Then they dumped it. Yeah, they were saved, though. In the final year because subway came out and they, like, opened up a subway sandwich shop. Yeah. The show I mean, it was hilarious. It was hilarious. Yep. Okay. Cotton Jones at least heard of it. He's just never seen it. And they're cotton gins. Equally amazed that you have never seen Babylon five. Well, they expect you should really start subscribing to just the good old boys. Oh, just saying that isn't the best part in there.

Exactly. That's how I feel about all of your podcast. They are, except if you've listened to them. I wish I had more time, I need more time. The Babylon explanation is very simple. I was in my 20s when that show came out, and I was busy making money and chasing women. I mean, did you ever catch any or you just chase? I did, I caught quite a few, thank you. But, yeah, I had other priorities than watching science fiction television, which I did in my youth.

And I'm back to doing it my old age for, like, the circle of life. That's the circle of life, man. Right? That out with things like watching sci fi in the end, with watching sci fi, right. Video games and sci fi video games is really just an extension of of, involvement in the genre, whether you're watching movies or television or playing video games, all of it is just triggering imagination on a specific topic.

So the guys at play, Call of Duty, you know, like their entire lives, you gotta wonder about because how how frustrated are you with your life and your work? But you have to just nonstop be killing people all the time. It's a stress reliever, I guess. I don't know, it is a stress reliever and I think it's a good stress reliever and I, I completely disagree with people. I say that video games cause violence.

I think video games reduce violence because it's an outlet for people that might otherwise engage in actual violence. To be able to do it in video games, it's same way that, you know, porn is a stress reliever for people that might otherwise blow up for somebody to, yeah, like their wives who don't really want to have sex with their husbands. I mean, why would they?

Well, there I don't know the answer to that question, but, they sure seem not to, because, I'm at that age where everyone of my friends bitches about that topic. Dude named boring men, except for the ones that are divorced who are getting plenty. Well, once you're on your second or third wife, everything is good. That's how that works, I think so, I don't know, man. You know the old saying, fool me once, shame on don't not doing it, but you're not going to fool me again. That's the bottom line.

It's exactly the way they say a dude named bad name bad. I'm quoting Bush right now. He is ready for a wild ride. He'll be quoting out bad, and, I think so. I think he's going to enjoy community. I think he will forever. I bet I didn't, I'm curious, which character did you most empathize with or feel like represented things you would do or say? Yeah, it was a combination, which was the beauty of that whole show.

I think, you know, it was, I mean, we're getting closer and closer to saying Chevy Chase and all. I was waiting for that one. It's like, you know, when I first to watch the show, it's like, yeah, everybody wants to be Jeff Winger. Now you're like, nope, nope. We're all, well, Clark, that's, Just the way it goes. It's that circle of life yet again, you know? And he got a bad rap. Like people were saying he was horrible to work with on that show.

And he may have been, but also, so was his character. So how do you know if it was just really good acting, right? Or if Chevy Chase is actually an asshole, which people have been saying since he was on Saturday Night Live, could be method acting. You don't know. He was stuck in that chair, right? You're stuck in the character. You hear there is very different things too. You hear about Bill Murray. He's either the coolest guy that anybody's ever met. Oh, that's all I ever heard.

Every now and then you hear he was an asshole. But I've never heard anybody say that he's an asshole. Same thing with Keanu Reeves. I've never heard anybody say Keanu Reeves was an asshole. No, he seems to go out of his way to have people say nice things about him, which is good. Yeah. Somebody made the video of him being in a New York subway, looking very unassuming, and then instantly standing up, you know, offering some chick a seat was like something out of a movie

is no one actually does it. It's like, what the hell, man? Why? Why would you do that? The Canadian, they're all very polite. Well, that's what they'd like you to thank you. No, no, don't worry about us. No, we're very we're. I mean, look at what's going on with Jordan Peterson up there. They're sending him to a reeducation camp run by Chinese. Well, I mean, you'd have to horse like. Yeah, they apparently they couldn't find a Canadian citizen to do this reeducation.

They had to go and bring in an H-1b for that. Oh, you know, I don't we don't do waterboarding. He did you bring in can you bring in somebody else? We don't know. No. Very good. No. Yeah. And Jordan's saying he's gonna live stream it. So I'm looking forward to it. Waterboarding that little little. Does he realize that he's going to be flying not to Canadian land, but to regular land. Yeah, that'll be like welcome to Guantanamo Bay. So. Or east or west or whatever it may be.

Yeah, that would be east, but. Yeah, exactly. And, no bracelet. That's why he didn't watch community. A Chevy Chase was NATO. So there could be some of that. Number. It looks like Chevy Chase. What does he really. I mean, that would be a good look if you want to go out and, pick a babes. No. Yeah, I think, I think Chevy Chase, his character on Saturday Night Live that he created and then continued on in movies like Fletch. Don't forget spies like us. Oh, get your the. Yeah. Vacation movies.

The vacation movies. I think that was the first one was great. The actually European one was pretty damn funny, too. Yeah, yeah, they were. They were funny or correct. Clark Bridges called. But again, even the character in Spies Like Us, I mean, he basically plays an asshole and everything. He's good at it. So is it is it just that he's leaned in to the character, or is it the casting? Knew that he could do an asshole, but couldn't do not an asshole.

And to be fair, in vacation his less of an asshole, but his you know, he's still got his tendencies when you're driving the big old true cruiser and it's, the little red sports car holiday road. And then Christie Brinkley comes driving up next to you. Every time I watch, it was like, how do you jump out of the, you get out of the, cruiser? How do you get out of the mobile home and jump into the red Corvette or whatever it was, Ferrari or something like that. There's something red.

That's all. You really. Geez. Like I wasn't looking at the car. Not really. Nope. Was not looking at the car. Christie Brinkley hot before Billy Joel defiled her. I will say that, his wife in that movie was pretty hot to. I mean, she was definitely more of a mom type, but she was like a hot mom. Now, you know what Gene's looking for, ladies and I need to take the. Yeah. Yeah, right. So he's he's looking for a hot mom type. Let's see. A little coffee and metoprolol. Come. You got your B12?

Oh, oh, I forgot. There you go. There you go. B12, metoprolol, coffee. You had everybody do what you gotta do. It's, Scott Adams has the simultaneous sip here on unrelenting. We all pop drugs and drug supplements. At the same time, it's a community thing. It was a community thing. The good thing really there was not any single character. The biggest question was always the, Britta or what was her name in the show and the and or or both at the same time.

That would be optimal obviously to get a very good. Yeah, yeah, yeah. To be able to give you the proper answer, you kind of would need both at the same rate. There was like every chick in college. She's got a cause that she's working. And that's a very, you know, hands. Why. But she's so damn into this obscure cause that is just like running her life. And then occasionally you get a little glimmer of like, oh, it'd be it'd be great to date her.

And then the rest of the time it's like, just shut the fuck up. And, and, not regressing to any memories or anything. No, doesn't sound like it doesn't sound like you have any actual experience in this. None. Zero. Yeah. No, no no, no. And, you know, and he was, the other type and just hot, well, I mean, like, the hot chick who is caring was, kind of a late bloomer. Kind of sweet, right? Wasn't aware of how hot she was. Like, once she got contact lenses, it's like. Whoa, Annie, you look hot.

But back in high school, when she was wearing those ginormous glasses and, you know, was walking around with a backpack while she was, a senior. Yeah. No. Billy Balls in the troll room. He does a podcast. A walk through the mind. He said there's a place down the road here that offers B12 shots for ten bucks. I mean, do you mean like a pharmacy? Yeah, yeah, there's a there's a coffee shop in us. And then a buddy of mine. So he's go to that. I always get a B12 shot.

And when I go there I mean like, wait, it's just like a B12 shot that you drank or somebody actually is going to jab you and give you a B12 shot. Oh no, no, you jabbed, you in a like, random. It's just like a guy. He's just sitting there outside, outside of his, chick with nose rings and lots of tattoos. What are you talking about? Like you ought to be 12 shot man. Ten bucks. Like, how do you know it's B12? How do you. You could also trusting you can also get a hemp shot. Interesting.

It's a weird world that we live in. Yeah. I prefer to get all my drugs the old fashioned way. I just buy them the. Well you have to pay for at least an Amazon. Well yeah. I just like to take them in the pill form. That would be much easier. Yeah. I mean like gift shots would be more effective. This is tricky in pill form. I mean there's stories that people are coming out now saying hey I saw Joe Biden like mumbling like a incoherent child.

And then they gave him some pills and all of a sudden he was bald. Popped up. Yeah, because that's a surprise to anybody at this point. I mean, come on, we all saw that going up. That's the only way you go from totally incoherent to fine, especially when it's like, well, the later in the day it gets the worse. Joey gets he would be kind of a great character though in Well you realize he's still the president of the America. It can't be. That doesn't sound right.

Did we get rid of him four months ago? What the hell, man? I know. Let's check out this. Wait. This can't be. I mean, now we're coming up to Obama's last term and people are releasing. This was on no agenda. And I've seen a couple of other, acts, and it's mainly black women making videos. Tomorrow is coming back. Everybody. Oh it's happening. Oh my goodness. You're not going to believe. Oh yeah. Cabo is going to be the president. I'm like what kind of delusional world is this.

And why is this being the only game really for me is do the people believe what they're saying. Or is this just a put on if I can't figure it out? And that's annoying. Because no cam I was not coming back people. I don't know if this is just to try to cause more violence. I mean one, it sounds a lot like election denial when you're like oh no they caught this was you. Now we see this whole election was cheated. It's like wait, wait wait wait. So now and who can take this seriously?

And it's like, if people on the left are taking it seriously, it's like, wait, wait, wait, you haven't figured out this is all a big fucking scam. It's all a big joke because you're the people that were like, oh no, we can never believe that. The elections might not be completely honest and fair. Now they're like, oh yeah, you're going to see mad where they uncovered how they cheated. Like wait, but you told us elections can't be cheated up. It was the most fair thing ever.

But the Republicans keep cheating all the time anyway. Don't they all keep cheating. But not as far as Democrats are concerned. It's like you have to define cheating. So I left the post your comment on somebody video says mixer for people who know what they want, you should stay on the PC and wait, what does that exactly mean? Exactly what it says. Then I put a little winky face in there. Oh, what winky face? People are morons and don't understand what humor is. And then what is super?

Yeah, exactly. And then. And then somebody else post. Of all the dumb comments here, this one wins the prize. Oh, wait. So I got I got a prize for this. I was like, where's the prize? What are you getting? I know it seems like what does it mean my prize ma'am. Doing my prize. Doing it again. It's a typical video of one of these PC people talking about how I almost switch to a mac, but then I realize they suck like that. Okay, well, you know what? You really should stay on the PC, dumb ass.

It depends on what you mean by dumb ass. I know it depends what you mean by, He couldn't figure out the keyboard placement here. Why? They didn't have a windows key, so it's obviously bad. Well, I do have a new keyboard now without the windows key because it was driving me nuts. But I know, but here's the thing. You prove my point. If you want it. It's how easy your brain rewires itself. I spent what was it to other people's brains?

They're a little different than others, I'm sure, and some never rewire themselves, and they just keep pounding their head into the wall like, I don't know what I'm doing. So the fact that I had to use the windows key as the command key, which is what Apple causes, it calls it, but it was two over, which incidentally, is what it was before the windows key was ever on the keyboard. You remember that, right? And yeah, this is the original layout for keyboards,

but I got so used to doing the spacebar and then the key two over to the left to open up things. Now that I got the correct keyboard, I'm like, oh fucking hell, I got it. But now I keep it. Oh, it's harder now. It's like because I was used to that and going to doing that one. So it's like it's going to take a couple of weeks. I just have to like be funny, like slow down and actually look down for a second and go, oh, I need this one.

Well, and I get it because you remember I bought a new keyboard not that long ago and it's still a PC with a PC keyboard. Same keys, but the new keyboard dimensions are different because you know the keys are the same distance apart. The, the keyboard is a, no bezel keyboard, yes. But on the front, the it's tiny on the desk in comparison, because the edge of the keyboard is literally at the very edge of like your Ctrl key, your enter key, your escape key.

You know, it's, it's a very small square underneath. Whereas the old keyboard was the, was it the K 950? No, it was the Kane name something. It was the big ass keyboard from Logitech. The biggest gaming keyboard, which is what they call it. It's these look, a big ass keyboard. It's giant. Yeah. It was almost twice the footprint. Well, that's why I got one that pretty much matched. I got a keychron that pretty much matched the keyboard I was using, including the same gateron blue switches.

I like the blue switches. You like the blues? Really? Yeah. You're not a fan of the greens or the cherries? You know, I've never tried. The cherry picker is probably the most common of the gaming keyboards. The blue has just that nice feel to it and the nice sound. They all have different sounds and feels. Yeah. So it just kind of is like what you get used to, I suppose. I'm a total convert to the, the magnetic switches at this point. I was divorced.

That's the Magic Keyboard that the things don't even have to connect. No. Up to try one of those at one point. This one, of course, I, I leave it plugged into the USB just to annoy you. Maybe it works without it at all, but I just, you know, I do the same thing. That's like in doing me, it's like, but that's wireless, but you're not using it. I know you have three different things and you can just you can swap the buttons out for Windows or Mac if you want to do that.

They came with the extra keys. So if you want to convert it from the windows to the Mac, you can actually do that with the keys itself. Yeah, it's not as light of a backlighting. There's the other one that I have, but it's fine, I don't think, because again, you really shouldn't have to look down at the keyboard for, you know, except oh, I where am I placing my hand maybe when you're doing that. But even that it's not really a big deal, and it seems to work fairly well.

The thing that's going to take me a little while to get longer adjusted to is the trackpad, and I think it's because of the three monitors use the mouse, I do. I keep going back to the mouse. I want the still. I want to keep the trackpad. I did, order another of the, the hubs or whatever you want to call it, bigger, and I think I might get rid of the one that I've got. So I still have until the end of January.

Okay. Because I ordered one, which with a two terabyte SSD drive, which will fit inside of the new one. Yeah, it's about the same cost. The only thing it doesn't have, it's a few less ports than the one that I bought for like 270 bucks. And it doesn't have easy to buy the internet, right? Well, it was the 2.5 Ethernet that kind of sold me out. And I'm like, I just got one of those for like 30 bucks. Yeah. So I mean, I can add that dongle if I want to do it.

And I'll have two extra terabytes of of fast that honestly, the only mistake you made in ordering your computer is not getting a ten gigabit for 100 bucks. That's a well worth an upgrade. Maybe, but it would have taken weeks longer and I wouldn't have been able to get it through Amazon, which the buying it through Amazon, although I guess it turned out, really didn't make that much of a you don't have an Apple guy. No. I wish I could have an Apple guy.

I suppose because I was just like, well, let's see, this is going to be that dreaded foot, you know, dipping your toe into the, the eco system because the really the concept was if this all works out, then in a year or less, I give you a different one, right? Give the wife this one and be like, here you go. No more windows machines in the house because fuck them. Windows 11. No. Yeah. Windows 11 no is right. I'm still not upgraded. I only have one machine running up. Like, don't want to do it.

And it's like at that point they're going to force you to do it well. And that's why I have one machine, because the laptop I bought this year came with it, did not get it. And yes, it's the gestures that I need to work on with the oh you want to use that? Yeah. Yeah, you can do that. And a lot of that like oh boom. Just do something that all the screens you're looking for pop up boom do something else. It's like magic. Yeah. That's three fingers up.

All the screens pop up, three fingers up, three fingers down. Yeah, you do get used to it, but I just have all that stuff programed on most buttons. Well, that's why you have a mouse with, like, not a mouse. I have a trackpad. Trackpad buttons. You got 8000. So you have a track on the trackpad. Goddamn, I would take that jean. Take another B12 Jean. Yeah, I think I need one. It's easy. Relax. It's okay. It's it's. You're doing. I test with with the ball. What do you call these now?

The, inside track ball traps. Yeah. So you gotta have a ball. Yeah, you have to have your ball. I did this, because a friend of mine really liked track balls, and he was hemming and hawing about buying one. I'm like, Jesus Christ, it's only 60 bucks. Just buy the damn thing, I buy one. Try it. Yeah. So I bought one, and I kind of liked it. So it's still plugged into my Mac. He's like, whatever works for you. Yeah, well, I just got tired of charging the trackpads, you know, because it's wireless.

So pull up the mouse. And I've noticed that it's not like the olden days. The old Logitech mouse that I had. Oh, it worked forever. The new ones, I mean, it feels the same, but yes, it doesn't last as long. And I do have to really watch now because I don't have the I'm sure I can find the software, but I don't have the software on the Mac, so it about it, but it doesn't pop up like your batteries are about to die. Oh, right, right, right.

So it was the first time in the longest time I'm like, oh shit, why does the mouse stop working? I'm like, oh, but then you plug it in and it works. While it's charging, it works fine if it's plugged in. The the other thing with the, mouse is, the software should enable some more button functionality to like. You can program special functions on the buttons. That like special functions. Yeah. The button it does that.

I tell you, ever since I got back to doing the videos, I'm really appreciating my, my contour shuttle express. Contour shuttle express. Which is what it's, it it's, input device used for video editing that lets you go frame by frame or high speed by turning a dial. I'm sure you've seen them. Like every editing editing bay has one of these things. And exactly what kind of video are you editing my YouTube videos? What do you edit those? Yeah. What do you think?

I guess I edit them, I have to do 3D titles and stuff. I have to, like, stop. So was it like the beginning of Star Wars? But we're totally like, of course. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Instead of da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da. Like totally different it totally different. Exact. It's I so it's all different. No. Yeah. There's stuff you need to edit and put in.

I mean, first of all, I make my thumbnails in in DaVinci in the video editing software I just drew his has realized make zero difference. The video. Then we know why his revenues are down. Don't be he did that is it makes a huge difference. No, not for his. It makes his enormous difference. Not for his, topics. I my guess is there could be difference between, the different topics on there and what people are looking for. But he's done extensive testing.

There have been studies done on this by people with hundreds of millions of subscribers. I mean, you to people who are trying to get you to spend more money on YouTube. No, no. People that are on YouTube making money off of YouTube have done this. Oh, what about what about the how do you scam it? Me okay, let's talk about that because I don't think it's a scam. The honey scam is everywhere. It is. Everyone seems to be talking and one dude puts up a fucking video about it.

And then everybody has talk about it, especially all the people who had done the ads for honey Marquez. Yeah. Oh, God. Marquez is like, shit, you got to do control on this thing. We're fucked. Yeah. So here's the thing. I'll give a brief synopsis of what honey is and what they did, and then we can delve into it. Unless you want to do that. No. Go ahead. So, honey, it was an extension that came out a few years back. Whose? It. Incidentally, it wasn't the first one to do this either.

It was just the most promoted. And I don't know if it was bought by PayPal or if it was started by PayPal, but either way, PayPal owns it right now. But the point of honey is, hey, load this extension up and any purchase that you make online, we will check against our database for known discount codes for it. And so let's say you go you to buy pizza from Domino's and you're the domino, his website.

And you go to the checkout page, you click the extension or maybe even does it automatically, just by looking at what you're in, what page you're looking at, and it'll pop up and say, hey, honey, found three coupons that work at Domino's. Here are three codes you can try, and each one has different savings. Now, sometimes those codes wouldn't work. Sometimes those codes would work. But I'd say it was probably about 5050. Toss up whether it would find some discount or not.

And sometimes it would surprise you by finding, you know, discounts that were, embarrassingly good. Well, you're right, that was it was it was working, which is how it grew. It does work. Yeah. Yeah, it was it was absolutely working. And so people start getting used to this idea that, hey, anytime I buy anything, now on Amazon, it's a little different because they don't have coupon codes for Amazon.

What they do is they check against other stores like, say, Walmart and say, oh, well, this TV, you can buy the exact same model at Walmart for $15 less. Click here to go to the Walmart website. And it will just pop open the Walmart website. So you think, well, this sounds great and it is great. The problem that this mentioned in this video and again, I can see who it's a problem for and it's not a problem for the consumer. Correct.

Is that when they do these searches or when they click here to apply coupon code, they change the cookie to indicate honey as the affiliate for the sale, which means they're getting a commission from your purchase, which again, as a consumer, what do I give a shit who gets affiliate commission? I don't care, I got a discount. So if anyone should get a commission probably should be them.

Not the, you know, the, it depends I think zactly what's being done because in this case, it sounds like if you're Marquez Brownlee, who's got a bill. Well, that's that's where I was. That's what I was getting to, is that the actual people that are all pissed off about this, ironically, are the people that used to do ads for honey and already got paid by honey, frankly. And so they got real money, like hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars from honey to do ads for honey.

But now they're butthurt at the fact that. Hold up. I have an affiliate code on the Marquez Brown for you to buy a fancy Android watch that I just tested right, and get $10 off

and and my discount code is Marquez Brown. But if you've clicked on honey and it says, hey, we can save you 20 bucks, then it sale. You don't use the Marquez Brown code anymore. You use the honey code, right? Using them so he doesn't get the commission from advertise using a product. Well, that's that's normal. That's called the world we live in. That's reality. If you see an ad the target does that has Pepsi in the ad, but then you go to Walmart and you buy Pepsi. It's target.

Like, are they entitled to then go after you or Pepsi and say, hold on, hold on. You first saw the commercial for Pepsi on one of our ads. Therefore you have to buy it from us. You can't buy it in a different store. It is a slightly different only in the fact that you understand what you're doing. If you go to a different store, the case being made here would be hey, people are using coupon code unrelenting. They think they're helping the podcast they're listening to and they're not.

That's really the only yeah, no one thinks that that's, that's a red herring, but it's also bullshit. It's also if you're like, hey, and this is the way it's set up, okay? Unrelenting is going to save you $9.99 on this widget. And then honey goes, yeah, but we could save you $10. You'd prefer that, wouldn't you? And the people will sell you out for a penny, and they've got the deal with the person you're buying from. They're getting a better rate and whatever. And so this is how the whole.

There's absolutely nothing nefarious here. What it does point to is the fact that none of these people that are promoting the product read the fine, print it of them. You have to understand how coupon codes work. And when you add a browser add on, there's going to do a middle man job. It's like, well, what do you think it's do? I mean the hilarity is it is, you know, again, if you send somebody with your affiliate link to any other place, assuming that honey has an affiliate account with them.

Yeah. Well, of course they're going to hijack that now if they're not telling people. Yeah, it's not hijacking. That's the thing. It's it's kind of is all of hijacking is to you. You've also said it's okay. What kind of like would you know? It's not an emotional word because you're being a man in the middle. There's no hijacking. There's no middle there. No, that's that's absolutely a false analogy. There is no man in the middle, but they're either clicking on the honey app in the middle.

No, I don't know. You're either clicking on honey or you're not clicking on honey. Ooh. Billy Bones wants a unrelenting browser add on. Can you write that damn rose? That would be nice. We need an unrelenting browser add on that just gives us money every time they do a crypto. Yeah, every time they. Yeah, go to their PayPal account.

It just gives us some, that's the way, but I think there is a day that would be a middle man if every time somebody goes to their PayPal and yes, you steal some of their money, that would be a man in the middle of it. Absolutely. It would be, very popular, like molasses with these apps that people you agreed of the terms and conditions, nobody reads them. Yeah. So I don't know if you could really go, you know, I'm with you on the fact that as long as it existed in the terms and conditions.

Yeah, there's not much you could do because I'm the asshole. Do you remember that? Probably still going on. One of my favorite eBay scams. And I don't even think it's a scam. Yeah, you did it. You're right, a sniper. Well, that right, I wrote the sniper. But my favorite thing is, you know, the new hot whatever comes out, you know, the new whatever is selling for tons of money on eBay and somebody puts up, well, okay, I've got the Tickle Me Elmo empty box. Yeah, yeah.

And then somebody buys the box for the price of what it would be with the item in it. And they're like, wait, they always sent me the box. It's like, yeah, but you go back and read the ad. Yeah, that's what this is for. The box. The only. Yeah, yeah. I have no fucking sympathy for the people that fall for that, who don't read what they're fucking buying. Yeah. So I mean, there's a little bit of that to this and this.

The hunting thing is hilarious in the fact that the people that push people to get the honey, yeah, they're the ones that are all pissed about it. Now, I know they're the ones that are losing the money because they're losing the referral cash. The main the main point of the honey is it is that it's for the end user. Okay? It's not for advertisers, not for YouTube, it's not for, influencers. It is for the end user to look for the cheapest deal.

And your trade with them is we will get you the best coupon codes and the cheapest pricing if you let us be the referrer. That's the trade. There's nothing illegal about it. There's nothing nefarious about it. What they're saying is, if you allow us to be the referral when you go to a site, then we will give you coupon codes that you otherwise may not be able to find on your own. May you might be able to find them, but it's not easy. It's easy. You click one button and it's easy.

There have been multiple, granted, some having better success than others. Something totally scammy. Retail me not is one of the oldest that's been around forever. Now with I think it's going to get a lot easier to find the coupon codes and have a, maybe you want to have do or do you want to just trade out because this costs nothing to the consumer. Like if you agree to just have them be your affiliate code, they will find you the best deals. How's that? How's that at all?

Any of YouTubes or any of these influencers business? This is a relationship between you as the end user and the software company PayPal. Yeah, but I gave them a coupon code and all of a sudden this one didn't give me my money. Yeah, that's because they didn't buy it using yours. They bought it using somebody else's that they have an actual relationship. Because guess what? I never signed the goddamn thing with Marquez. No. What? You brown saying that I'm going to buy shit directly from him?

Fuck that. No, it isn't interesting. I did agree to terms of service with Honeywell, and I actually didn't. I never installed honey, but I use a product that's essentially the same thing. But it's from Chase, the credit card company. Yeah. I mean, I love Chase shopping or something. It's always like, well, why is all of these things always seemed a little bit scammy to me?

Yeah, because they're looking at a part of what they're doing is even if they don't give you, as you said, about 50% of the time, maybe more, there is no coupon code. Yeah, but you're giving them access to everything you're buying. So you are their data. They have now. They know everything you're looking to buy, everything you're absolutely. Yeah. Yeah, that is a part of this. But to get an idea. But that's not illegal. No, it's absolutely not.

You're giving all your data to Google by having them host your email through Gmail. The literally are reading every single one of your emails. Why? Because they want to know what topics you're talking about in emails, because they want to give you ads of those things. This all comes down to it seems that the company is taking maybe at the very worst advantage of influencers who are probably trying to take advantage of people in the first place.

So it's I think this is a big brouhaha about nothing. A lot of people are, making videos about it because they never read the fucking fine print, and they already got paid whatever. And I'll bet. And here's the funny part. I guarantee you, as part of their contract with honey, there are terms in there saying that there will be no lawsuits between us and that everything will be mediated. And, any information about the mediation is going to be, non disclosed to any third parties.

And any one of these guys are talking about it right now is probably, breaking their contract with honey as we speak. So a lot of them, it's not even having a contract because Marquez broadly talks about them. I think it was four years ago. So if there was any kind of got paid for that, he absolutely got paid for it. No, it's not over again. You have your you know, you talk about it, boom. You do what you want. And this this is where it's also very.

And somebody who is a professional Amazon reviewer. Yeah. I can let you know that there by reading the reviews of the products. I was always interested in the products that I got to review. That totally sucked. Yeah. Were horrible that you would go in and you would read the other reviews that the people getting it for free. It was obvious that like 95% of them did not open the product. They were probably just selling them without even opening the box, you know, for pennies on the dollar.

That was the scam. And they would leave a five star review off. And it wasn't even about the product.

That which was hilarious. But in this case, this shows you the danger of somebody like Marquez Brownlee, who, you know, anybody on YouTube that's got a million plus a huge audience that I think he's got like 20 million. It's huge. And you get somebody that's like, hey, I want you to promote our product. And yeah, what he did was the very least that that's what, you know, you would I would do you go, I installed it, I used it a couple of times. It worked. It seemed legit.

And you were willing to throw your weight behind it, even though you knew nothing about it. So even forget whether it is actually a scam or not. You didn't have any proof that these people weren't full of shit in the first place. Well, people. Well. So then of course, another point that everyone seems to be forgetting here is that this is not some little fly by night company that you can like Sue for being bad. This is one of the largest banks in the country that you're fucking with.

You don't think they're going to have good lawyers? The course you don't think that you will lose to a perplexity? I. The company was founded in 2012 by two guys in Los Angeles. Yeah, small round of personal investment and support from family members. They struggle to attract investors because nobody thought a desktop browser extension was worth anything. Which is this? Is it still desktop only, or is this I think you think on mobile, or maybe it is still just desktop?

Only either way, they by March of 2014 had acquired 900,000 organic users. Which was pretty good for March of 2014, I suppose. They had a seed round of 1.8 million. By January 2018, they had raised a total of 40.8 million adventure backing. This was a fucking app. 40 million and the blowing my mind. But here's the thing if this is correct and if it's not, somebody let me know. PayPal acquired the company. What do you think they acquired this company for a billion, 4 billion in cash in 2020?

Yeah, it's pretty obvious that that approach is worth a lot of money. 4 billion in cash. Yep. For a in what your browser add on four year to I. Yeah five years ago January 2020 okay. So all the big ads came after them after the acquisition. Yes the PayPal bro serious money paying for browser add on 40,000,000,000 million, $2 trillion 4 billion. You know, I was it's, I think it's worth it. With for with for $4 billion interest. You cheated with it.

Yeah. Because the company made over $1 billion in one year. Yeah, I'd say 4 billion is a good price for it. Would that be something that would interest you? $4 billion in cash when they say it was out? Yeah. They say it was a $4 billion that in rubles. In cash. I'm like, I just wanted to know how the PayPal guys show up with 4 billion in cash. Like the phrase in cash simply means it's not over time. It's a single payment. That's all. In cash means no in cash, and that means it's in cash money.

No, it's not what it means for you. Otherwise they would just say they they paid you. No, because there's three ways to acquire a company. You can pay in cash. You can do a stock trade or you can do a payments over time. So it's essentially a loan. And so double cash means they got money immediately. But it was definitely not in cash. Let me keep my delusions. Remember pal guy investors that put in 40 million. You remember the investors that put in 40 million. They got a good payout.

They they got at least 40 of maybe 400 million. They got a decent deal. Yeah. Yeah. Just for people to have defined coupon codes for big markets. Bam. By the big market. And they were the brand leader in that market. So. Well a lot of people buy a lot of stuff. I think there's a lot of brouhaha over nothing. I think that it's a neat video. It's kind of like the, you know, there's there's videos like that made all the time back on network television in the 80s and 90s.

Well, I think it's cracked, but the only going to do it, we're going to uncover this scam. And then okay, so it's something that most people didn't know, but yet all the people signed the contract agreeing to it. Okay, I'm starting a scam. Well, and getting people behind your cause when they're like, so wait, PayPal screwed me. No, no, they screwed me. But, well, fuck you. I don't care that PayPal screwed you pretty much. Yeah, PayPal did not. Honey.

Wasn't screwing the people who they actually had terms of service with. They weren't screwing the end users that were installing this to save money. If there's any argument about them screwing somebody legally, it is the the people that expected viewers of their videos to use their coupon code. Well, first of all, that's always optional. I couldn't watch a video of a review of a microphone by Van Drew and then just go to Amazon, buy the mic. I don't have to use this link.

Nothing says I have to use this link. I have no contract with him. It doesn't exist. So consequently, I think most people understand this is how the business works. This is why it's always very most of the people will tell you upfront. Otherwise you can tell by the make sure you spell it right when you go put the coupon code in.

Yeah, because if the coupon code isn't correct and they're not getting paid, that's how yeah, the business knows which is the easiest way for a business to do fairly cheap advertising. Yeah, I just did get a podcaster to talk about it. We could talk about, I, I sent you a page, I sent you, I think a page or a link or forwarded you an email or something.

Of all the promos that I'm getting now, right from people that want to pay me on my tiny little YouTube gaming channel to talk about their video games and what they're offering is like 2500 bucks. 3000 bucks. If you were to say. Right, I mean, this isn't just buying time. It's kind of you could make up to zero, but it's not big numbers. It's like if you get 100 people buying their game, then you get $2,000, right? But it's one of those things where they lose nothing.

This is why these like Casper mattresses and other things were huge. Because if we go out and say, hey, you said coupon code unrelenting and nobody does. Exactly. They haven't paid anything. We've still given them a commercial. I still have a coupon code for, for the MP shield. Device that you hook up to your car so that when the nukes come, it's like, runs what you should. You need that on your Cybertruck. I met the CEO. I met the CEO of the company.

I still have a coupon code to have even been sold. No, I haven't gotten a dime. So this is unless, of course, people are using. Honey, you got to get that coupon code. Yeah. The coupon code unrelenting gets you life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness by Bruce. Yeah. Oh, easy. Gene gets you. Yeah, I remember the discount code. Gets you, like, some discount if you buy an EMP shield. I don't remember if was 5% or 10% or something like that.

We so quickly went down the membros rabbit hole of coffee, the Monsanto, the, Well, we got a bunch of coffee sent to us from Madame Slimy because I was complaining about not having any gigawatt coffee, which is a no agenda sponsor. Dude. No, I mean, they say they're not a sponsor, of course, but they do send in $200 every show and they have something.

One of the cheapest advertising things you can do is exactly what they're doing, which is promoting a product on a show that doesn't allow advertising. Exactly. It's like PBS. Yeah, we have the same thing though. Well, you he compared us to PBS. Oh, yeah. You're, you're you're so banned off the network now. But it's it is it's. Yeah. We did it when I had the, my buddy created the metal wallet and we did the Kickstarter. I was donating every week during the Kickstarter.

Adam was reading that every week during the Kickstarter, we had, 60 people that bought the wallet with the no agenda as a code. So we know how many people that listen to no agenda, how many wallets were actually sold. Right? But I got the coffee and it was full being that I had a little electric grinder. You need a burger. That's that's what Pembro said. But that's because Rose lives in a coffee city and you clearly don't pay know.

So the wife got me a burger grinder, and now we're like, I take it we are now pulled out and this was we took it from my mom's house. Would you stop using it? Hey, Mr. Coffee, that's probably 15 years old. We're going to burn with that. But it still works. But it's like for the first time ever, making a, pot of coffee at a time rather than the evil little K-Cups. And the quality is way better, I'll give you that.

But it was cheaper to boy oh boy, you should try doing it the way coffee's meant to be drank by having an espresso machine. I had one for a short period of time, like when we first got married. That would keep you wide awake. Well, sure. I guess you could also drink decaf. But why would you drink coffee? A decaf is kind of like the dry January where I just got the big ad from Benny's Beverage depot. The huge alcoholic purveyors here in Illinois.

All of the nonalcoholic alcohols, like, can you fuck it out of your mind like it's we have nonalcoholic beer, we have nonalcoholic wine, we have nonalcoholic mixed drinks and cans for Dry January. It's like, fuck you. Yeah. Well I mean, I don't know, I don't drink anymore. Well, you don't drink any less either. No, I did drink way less. I drink quite a bit. Still bad. Like, take my wife, please. I know it's. Yeah, exactly. I don't drink anymore. I don't drink any glass of glass.

It's like just the same. Yeah, exactly. So that was it. We got the burr grinder now. And now we're buying coffees and full beans, which the Michigan sherry. That was the one K-Cup that is like cracked milk from, the local grocery major. Those nice Dutch people. They have Frederick's brand, Michigan cherry K-Cups. And I thought that was like, really, really the aroma coming off that is just amazing with the K-Cup. Oh, when you grind the beans. Oh, yeah. Oh, I'm so good.

I don't mean I don't know how they get the cherry flavor in there. It's probably cancer cause the original. It is so delightful. Yeah, the yeah I mean fresh coffee. Well, it's freshly ground. Smells very nice, I think. Yeah. It's beautiful. And the grinder is working just the way it should. So the burr grinder, I mean that you can tell it's like. Oh yeah. The other one didn't really get anywhere near a consistent grind where this is like, oh, it's all pretty much the exactly the same.

Yeah. No. So we learn slowly here, I mean, finally 55 years old and a couple of months finally learned how to make coffee. Well, it's about time. What can I say? We are a value for value. Show that we do have a few people to thank. I mean, this is a whole new year. No freaking ads, goddamn it, for unrelenting. It is a whole. We should. We should advertise for honey or something. At least I know I did just add a page last this episode. Brought to you by honey. Unrelenting.com/donate.

Finally exists. Oh, fancy. And it is with PayPal. So if you hate PayPal, it's the way to go. Still. Well, I hear a little bird told me there might be some other options for donating before too long. There might be. And I also wanted to point out that when I went to do this in WordPress, I mean, I was just going the old fashioned way and doing the email, the HTML bits that PayPal gives you for their buttons.

But I noticed built into WordPress is if you have a stripe account, you can also take donations directly through stripe through. Yeah. From credit cards. Yeah. So we can I mean, I guess if people really hate PayPal and I don't want PayPal in their buttons, it annoyed me because I had to make two. I didn't have to make two buttons, but I wanted to make two buttons because with unrelenting that show, I wanted to give you all of the offers and an unrelenting that show slash donate.

Now we have a button. The first one is for a one time weekly or monthly donation. In this, I used your, pretty much what you're doing over on just two good old boys is allows for a $3, $5, $10 or whatever you want. Yeah. And with the other one, it lets you do a more sustaining, more substantial, I should say, one time a month or yearly subscription and just let you put whatever amount you want to put in. Yeah. Put that yearly $150 subscription in there. And then, people forget about it.

That's the way to do it. Now. You don't even have to listen to them. Okay, though Tomtom seems like to button it is better to much us. Better than it gives you way more choices to do the exact same thing. But yeah, it only allowed for one time and then two other ones. And they had weekly, monthly or yearly. It's like, well, how hard would it have been to just do it all in one? Yeah. You know, why couldn't we just do that? But okay, PayPal, I get it.

If people want the stripe, well, you might be able to go ahead and add that. But that's like the again this is like more bank accounts. This is the one thing that I loved about the whole lightning concept is that at the point of payment, it could easily split between two accounts.

I would love something. And we had talked about this. I would love something from PayPal, from stripe, from Venmo, from anybody that we could set up a donation page and then say, process this by sending half to this address and half to this address. So Jim gets his bit, I get my bit. I don't have to take in funds and then do taxes, then send Gina W-2 or whatever the form is. You know, it's, it would be much easier to have an account that can kind of do that split for you.

The splits was great with lightning. It might be the best thing about it. But that said, we do have a few people to thank for today's show. I mean, it is 2025. It's a whole new thing. It is Jake on the TV. I've heard that name before. He came in with 50 bucks. Wow. And he says, no Bill O'Reilly talk, no Star Citizen talk, no donations, no coincidences. Mary. That's true. Yeah. I think we have to talk about Star Citizen in order to get donations.

Is it means you think some more Bill O'Reilly and stars? That's what it sounds like. More Bill O'Reilly, more stars. Isn't the way you read it. That's what it sounds like. The cave. So we have to definitely add that to the bingo card and everything else. Yeah, O'Reilly's been off for like two weeks. I mean, because he's old and, and Star Citizen sucks, so. So we got to get into your in the new game now. Jeans totally the old game. The game. It's been around longer.

Do you think you can celebrate its 40th anniversary. You see that is something with staying power. Yep. Good game. Jay says Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas to you. Thank you ma'am for supporting. I've been getting a lot of Merry New Year's lately. Well I mean maybe people are looking to get married I mean Merry New Year happy Christmas. And we were planning and doing a show last week, but my mom had a doctor's appointment.

So the way I was, I think I'm doing a show. I. You were not planning on doing one pretty much from the get go. I said that, but then I'm like, okay, I'm going to be home anyway. But then it was like, no, she got a diverticulitis flare up, and it sounds like you're blaming your mom for something. Exactly right. How dare you get diverticulitis? Yeah, it was right before Christmas, which is the worst time, because it's.

And she was four days before Christmas that this all because she got on the antibiotics and they're like, well, we'd like you to do three days of a liquid diet, then slowly start bringing solid foods back in. And that's the worst thing you get here, like three, four days before Christmas. What are you like we're making the big tenderloin diet. So you just have to drink alcohol the whole time. I think you know where you put the, you put the beef tenderloin in a blender.

Why do you just call it an Irish diet. Yes I it gets a little bit. Well, you just put the Irish whiskey right into the, into the broth right at the mouth. It just just happens. Bypass the prophet goes in the mouth and fixes everything. Just boom. Yeah, yeah. Get some lamb soaked in Irish whiskey. Oh, my God, that's the way you do it. But some of the worst on the planet, man, the Irish food is delightful. As long as you have the Irish whiskey. Herbal is.

I mean, the Irish oats are great, and I mentioned that a thousand times already. It was the Hotel Europa in Belfast, at the buffet where they had the Irish and I pulled up. That's that Irish, that's English, they know. Well, it was in Northern Ireland, but that's English. But this was the first place I had ever seen Irish whiskey out. I'm the buffet with the oatmeal, so you can pour a little bit of Irish whiskey on top of the oatmeal. Wow. They have a bottle of, that's creative Bushmills.

Yeah. So you put a little bit of a brown sugar, then put a little bit of Bushmills on it. Just the way. It's the way you start your day. According to the history, the Hotel Europa was the most bombed hotel in Europe for like, decades. Because of the very. Yeah, I get it. Yeah. It was not a safe place to be. No. Well, I, I haven't been to Ireland in what seems like forever. Ireland was my last bachelor trip back before I got married. And then you actually came back and got married. I know, right?

Ireland? Well, yeah, it's very pretty. It's it's extremely green. It it kind of looks like, Well, I was going to say it looks like an Emerald isle, which I guess, which is what they, you know, they call it the Emerald Isle. No, I know, that's right. Some phasing. Yeah. It's hilly. It looks like a little bit like New Zealand, actually. Yeah, but a lot of small roads. A lot of points. Yeah. The roads were something else. Yeah, yeah.

Like a European size car, which in America would be called a subcompact. You could barely fit two of them side by side with their mirrors, kissing each other as they drive past each other. Forgive me if you have anything larger, dude. I mean, we told you we took the. And I think the insurance when we were there. Yeah, because we were traveling. There were four of us together, and we were going pretty much around the island from Dublin, up through Northern Ireland, up through the west coast.

And they gave us we had asked for like an SUV, which they texted, they gave us, which was a it was which is bigger. The Land Rover or Range Rover, whichever is bigger is the one we got. Okay. And when they were like, do you want the insurance on the vehicle? The vehicle. Yeah, that was so once they pointed out that the the retail cost of the vehicle was like €115,000. No. Yeah. We'll take the insurance. Thank you very much. And yeah we did I don't know. That's obviously a Land Rover.

Now the Range Rover. Yeah. So you had a a car that was way too big for the road. Very luxurious. Yes. Yeah. In the town I'm Luke. Luke. Yep. Those are the little mirrors of the car to drive. Exactly the classic like the. Yeah, yeah, the mirrors there are made to bounce off other things in that break. Most American mirrors would just break off that scenario, right? They're not really meant to be bent by being hit with a baseball bat, right? Oh, we're in Ireland. They are in over.

And then going under when the roads barely big enough, wide enough for one vehicle, and then the trucks coming the other way, you're like, oh yeah, you're you're fucked. Yeah. No good, no good. But a lot. It was fun though, but I, I had a more reasonable I think I had a, Skoda or something or a, maybe it was a Fiat, I don't remember, but it was a fairly small European car. And of course, it's right hand drive. Oh, yeah. Which you have and, and a manual transmission.

So I was shifting with my left hand, driving with my right hand. Don't forget the roundabouts. Oh yeah. Yeah. Roundabouts everywhere instead of stop signs or traffic lights. Stupidest idea. So people expect everything down. They're supposed to be more efficient. And it's such a crock of shit. They're not more efficient that that's empirically proven. You would think they would have to be deadlier. I think what the the here's the thing.

Like we as American expect that if we're going somewhere, we're going to go in mostly a straight line. I think in Europe or certainly in Ireland, they're they're not too concerned with going around the roundabout 3 or 4 times to get to where they need to go. And then like for us it's like, okay, we got to get on and then skip an exit and then get off right away. So stay in this lane. Oh, you can't shut that lanes. Anything. Okay.

You got to move over to the left then get a jump right back to the right. I think they just kind of go straight, get on, go around the roundabout as long as it takes until they hit their exit. Probably.

It's the goofiest thing, man I don't. And they're getting more popular. There's some in Austin because you know Austin has to be all European. Yeah, not American is. We're barely, barely Texas here. Right. Soon. Yeah. Mexico I well, that might get better then. They're going to run a cartel. Mexico. Well, the thing is, with Mexico, it's maybe I gotta. I need to go to Mexico soon. You gotta pick up a package deal. Maybe maybe maybe not. Maybe. Let's see. There might be.

There might be some, some foreign currencies to buy that need to happen. But either way, you know, I from from listening to Ben, the other show, the, supposedly Trump is going to take over northern Mexico and Canada and Canada, but I think people have heard about Canada and Panama and Greenland. But Ben thinks it's also going to be a good chunk of Mexico. He says he's going to declare all the Mexican cartels as terrorist organizations. Right.

And they effectively do the same thing we did in Iraq by just going over the border. We're going to invade the Mexican border, in order to stamp out the terrorism in Mexico and territory. This is something that, close personal friend of Trump, Bill O'Reilly, has been saying, not that we're going to have roots on the ground, but the drones, he's like, we know where the people are. We know where the cartel members live because they're not hiding in Mexico. He's like sovereign territory.

He's a sovereign territory. He can't just go and do a military action there. They can and they do. But this is the problem. I mean, I guess problem depending on what side you're on. But if you do say if you classify them as a terrorist organization, do you think you got the okay to go in and get Al-Qaeda and all the countries that you went in and got them? No. They use this as carte blanche to go in blow. And that's what this is what will end up happening.

I believe if they do that, the drones go in, they blow the fuck out of all of the cartel people. And then the leaders of Mexico go, oh, and publicly they'll go, we can't believe this happened. And privately they'll be like, thank you for getting rid of those people that were taking, you know, our country basically hostage because the politicians don't run Mexico kids. The cartels run Mexico. So it would be better for everybody if that were to happen.

It just depends on the deal Trump is going to make with the new leader of Mexico. Maybe she'll find a, you know, a way to be like, yeah, well, that would make a lot more sense. I don't know, unless she's, cartel adjacent. I think it would behoove her as well to get rid of them. Yeah. With that said, we do have we need. Wow. Wow. Who came in with ten bucks. He comes in with ten bucks a month man. So thank you wheelie Wawa. Darian Rundell came in with 565.

He said he's on a doctor's ordered near carnivore diet and then says bacon which is the most beautiful thing with the doctor's like you can only eat meat. You're like bacon. And so is that meat. Yes it is. Woo. And Kevin Seyfert with his $5 a month. You want to get out a monthly donation. If you want the show to stick around. Unrelenting that show slash donate click one of those buttons. Do it today. Yeah. Test the buttons. Make sure they work.

Tell us if they don't or do and then get through the whole process. That would be the best. We gotta test the whole process. We need at least like, $1,100 yearly donations just to make sure that that we need to test it. Yeah, make sure it works right for science of course. But we never had the donate up on unrelenting cause we thought we to go with low. Remember that mazing. Yeah. We were going to use locals. Yeah I think we still have to link the locals to this.

We probably need to kill them. Probably get them. Remove that. Yeah. Yeah. And locals I think is not a bad way to go for people that have popular podcast. Yes. Well that's not us obviously. No, that's definitely not. We get like five people listening, you know, I mean, I may need some B12 because we Gene and I did a great show about a week ago. I mean it was I yeah, I thought, I thought it was one of our better shows. That's true.

And at the end of the conversation, Gene said, don't forget to bring this up. So I talked about this on the show. Yeah. And I was like going to talk about I have no idea what it was. Damn it. I know you said there was something very important. Did I remind you of it? Yeah. Well, that's why I talk about my meat. Is I knew I was, you know, like, I clearly knew I was going to forget what it was, but I can't think of it. We need some B12, something. We need a lot of B12. And I've been playing.

We've always said this show is just basically allowing other people to listen in on our phone call and, you know, we had a phone call a few days ago that we did that turned out not to be recorded. And, but it was literally this the exact same thing we're doing right now. We talked a lot about I is me, I think. So I don't remember. We talked a lot about funding of, shows. I'm sure that topic is pretty universal, like comes up pretty regularly.

All podcasters are like, well, what we need to do is how do we Mrs. Y monetize. We need video. We need video gene because people need to see our pretty face. You taught me it didn't matter what was on the video feed. It could be a little bug jumping around. Oh you were recording it okay. I should have been I mean yeah, yeah. Really? Shocker that you didn't. I recorded, brain.

I do think that people that do pure voice podcast, but then slap on the video that just even has waveforms on it, you know, basically just some squiggly stuff happening on the screen while they're there. Podcast is playing. I think that still does better than just your audio.

It would make sense because then there's something on the screen and people are like, oh, I can just yeah, I mean zone. Now, generally people listen to podcasts as a secondary activity anyway while you're driving or while you're doing whatever. So and but a lot of people use YouTube the exact same way. Two of them flip out on a channel and then actually be doing something, whether it's cooking in the kitchen, you get the iPad with with YouTube running, which is why I do it.

Did you know the guy? I think he was in Texas. They got pulled over doing 100 miles an hour and says he was distracted because he was playing a video game while driving. Let's see, driving a Tesla, I don't know what I mean. That would be okay in the Tesla at least. You like the cars driving yourself with nothing to worry about. Yeah, exactly. If you're in a manual transmission car, that might be a little more of an issue. It's a little trickier. It takes a lot more work.

Are you playing need for speed? What, you mean? Yes, exactly. While you're driving? Yeah. It's the ultimate in meta. You're driving the city and need for speed that you are actually driving right with your vehicle. That'd be pretty wild. In the last 30 days, 325,000 podcasts have been published. So of those shows, so not everybody has a podcast. Well, everybody is on a podcast. I still stick to that. I think that some people may be guests on podcasts.

They're not necessarily writing their own, but they but also you, you know, at some point almost everyone has started a podcast, whether even if they just made one episode. So the thing how many what you need to look at is how many podcasts, how many unique podcasts, episodes came out, and then compare that to next month and remove the exact same podcast. So basically, I mean, brand new podcasts. Are there every month. That's why I don't show that, which I would like. Also.

Yeah. The podcast index.org listing, it goes from three days to ten days. I want to see seven days because for most people, if you do it weekly. Yeah. When there's 171,000 every ten days, that leads me to believe there's probably like 120,000. Yeah, some of them are multi. Yep. You're getting right in that ten days you're doubling ice. Yeah. So it's like I'd be curious. Some people do biweekly shows. Yeah I just try. You would do ten days. It should be seven days 14 days 28 days. Yes.

I don't do that either. It's temporary thinking man. What are they thinking I don't know, we could ask them on the next show though, which would be Dave and Adam. Do podcasting 2.0 right here. Oh yeah. We should do it. Well, too bad they don't listen to the end of this show. Otherwise we could just ask them at the end of the show, like, how does this work? Why does this work? Can we do a different filter to see this for me? Why is it ten days?

Ten days doesn't seem like it's it's the correct metric given weekly podcast. Right. Because nobody's like, hey, we're going to release an unrelenting every ten days everybody. Nobody. No confusing. That would be oh my god, every ten days. Let's do that. Yeah. But that it shows you how many okay. 4.4 million have been started when you have 100 when you have 325. Let's just even say there are some podcasts which are once a month. What percentage does that leave the 325.

So it's like what 10% of all podcast started are around. Still, about 90% of podcasts in the index are no longer being updated. That. Yep. Because every 90 days. I mean, that's even a better metric. I guess the last 90 days, 468,000 and again, there's 4.4 million. So that's very close to about 10%. So 90% of the podcasts of the index are not updating in within the 90 day frame. So it's a big number a lot of people start.

But do you you should have a, should have like a health meter, you know, like when you go in you're downloading a torrent illegally, maybe. Or they show you the health, the like, how many seeds and how many what we need to know. Like how many are still how many are still kicking around. Unrelenting is in fact unrelenting wind up in the face of all of this adverse adverse. Sorry. Yeah. We are still producing shows regular early on.

Well except when they're, we're not but we do I mean we do at least like 48 shows a year, which for most you know, we take. Yeah. And we're what year are we having. 2 or 3. Three. I think it's got to be three because this is episode 140 okay. So I mean it's got to be in my house our third year I think. So, yeah. So for sure third year because we did like 20 episodes of the other show. Yeah, like 8000 of that other show. Well, nobody thousand, but, those episodes have all been buried.

We should add those to the only fans. But nobody listens to old episodes. That's the I don't, and I assume nobody does. But I'm always surprised the people talking about. Oh, I went back and listened to the old, you know, in fact, I can look at my stats. There are for unrelenting or not in a rant for, for, you know, boys, because I don't have to set run around and there are old episodes are still being downloaded. You just do good old boys.

Well, people listen, but did you what did you think of the new theme music that we did for that show? Now listen to the latest ones that you said. Can I play those? When people do it? Well, it's updated. So all the shit, all the episodes now have the new theme music. How do you magically do that? Is this something that it's it's part of a feature of Buzzsprout. So if you change your theme, it updates it automatically. That seems. Yep, wrong on so many levels. You're rewriting history, are you?

God, this is why we're not hearing about honey in The Good Old Boys. Was it just edited out by the magic of the I? They have a of powerful. Yeah. Let me just tell you that is it's named, CSB. They have a powerful I there was something what was I looking at? Oh, my God, it sucks getting old. And you're like, I was looking at something and I. And I spaced out and I can't remember. You feel yourself turning into Homer Simpson? There's that. Oh, yeah. Kind of. I kind of do.

There was something and I was laughing hysterically about because the name, the, the skew for the product was CSB one oh, that's too funny. I know. And I was like, whoa, whoa, whoa whoa whoa. I'd be like, that's what the product might that be? I don't remember, it's like, what were you what were we supposed to talk about? Gene on the show? It was very important, probably B-12. Right? Make it take enough B12. Yeah. We need to start doing, like, little, voice notes and stuff for, like.

Okay, make sure we talk about that. We can play those on the show. Well, nothing's preventing us from just leaving little notes to ourselves on their phones and then looking at the phone. Oh, yeah. We weren't getting to talk about this. Frankly, a lot of shows do something that is just a shared Google doc, and then they have a new page per show. Or maybe just keep one page running and scroll down to the bottom of it to see what.

Or maybe you do it up top, but point being put, show notes and before the show during the week. And that way you've got a list of what all you can talk about. And I remember one of those, it was the it was the cheapest button coffee maker, the button CSB one speed brew select coffee maker. Oh that's funny. So you are a coffee maker? CSB congratulations. They should send you one for free. Yeah. Because they do that not well they're on sale for 7999 right now I'm Buncombe use coupon code

unrelenting to find is the maker coffee maker manufacturer. Yes. But man they're allegedly I mean they're in the all of like they've been around forever. Yeah. There have been and I think they're all based in America and all that kind of lubes. Sorry. China but yeah I mean they probably make them in China. And then the other place in America a country of origin of course China. Yeah. But I've heard that name forever. And they're the ones that they make for home.

They kind of like the current K-Cup machines. They keep a 70 ounce stainless steel bit of water and stainless steel where the water sits, and it keeps it hot all the time, so it doesn't have to heat up when you want it. That's why I have with my with my hot water dispenser for tea. Because you gotta have it, man. You're you're spending energy to keep that convenience of being able to press a button. But it's Japanese. And so it's it's like the real hot water for tea.

The rise in beamers doubles as a coffee maker. Did you know that he's making coffee right now? I would not be surprised, given the city he lives in. We got to get the coffee going, man. Yeah, I don't know how anybody would ever get any work done in Seattle if it wasn't for coffee. I don't know. Like what? I'm surprised they're not the most efficient people in the world because they got to be so jacked up on caffeine. Dude, it's like it's cloudy and

like, it's never sunny there. It's. It's a depressing city, frankly. Did you see the city? So did I do any work to Apple with them? Like I have questions. And Apple didn't answer my question yet, which was my, you sent the question to Apple on that? Yes. Was the little, you know, notifications that they want to give you on your Macs? Well, I got my weekly report available and it said last week you averaged 151 hours and 55 minutes of screen time per day on this device.

And I'm like, Apple, I've got questions why that seems excessive to me. I don't know, man. It just feels like that's a lot. And nobody's like, well, now we understand how you get so many podcasts up a week, right? Yeah. No I didn't 51 hours a day. Now everybody thinks you're doing them live. But the little secret is you're actually recording on one one day and you just play them another live. Right.

And soon I've got the AI that is learned, the voice that can just do it and boom, Jim and I are both out of beat somewhere. Right? Your voice on my array. And it wasn't real. I mean, it didn't sound right. It wasn't. It was not. Everybody could have sworn it was you. Okay, then I want to do a test on the next show I want you to make. It doesn't even have to be long set. I stopped paying for it, so I'm not going to be. Oh. My voices. Oh, but you need to. I want to know.

Well, you can pay for it yourself and make your own voice. Like the music thing. Here's the other thing. I want to know, folks, as a yeah, music's pretty good. As a longtime songwriter who hasn't written a song in a while, but I've got a bunch. I've got hundreds of songs that I'm sure you do in your head. No, they're on, most of them have been poorly recorded with a, back in the day. And sadly, it sounds better than some of, like, the bootlegs and stuff that I hear.

Now, remember the old plastic little boom microphones that came with like a desktop back 20 years ago? Yeah, they used to use that to record and have decent recordings off of that for a lot of them. Now I have really good equipment, but what I would like with this, I it's like, I don't need you to fucking write a melody. I don't need you to fucking write the words.

I want you to be able to take a really lo fi recording of a person strumming a guitar and singing the song, and convert that into a polished, finished product.

Okay. I'm sure that exists. That would be the I mean, especially for songwriters, demo makers back in the day, you know, you needed the four track that you needed to go pay somebody to do the demo. Yeah, yeah, I had to ask him for a track of value to I still have it sitting somewhere in the closet. I don't I got rid of it. I never get rid of anything. I know that's kind of the problem. I have probably video.

I mean, I have so much computer gear that if I would have sold the minute I was done with it. But now it's like the prices go down and down and down. But if you need like vintage, you know, GPUs and CPU's like I got a man there in the basement somewhere vintage vintage. Well that should be more money now though I wish I would have saved my like Apple two rather than oh, I think I got like 500 bucks when I sold the thing off. Now let's. Pretty good with all of the, with all of the disks and all.

I mean, I'm also selling the Tierra Sata color computer. Can you only imagine? Because half of us will not have almost everything for the trash. HD color computer was stored on cassette tape. Yeah. Can you even imagine how poorly that would go today? Like those tapes do not hold up extremely well. Yeah. You'd be surprised, though. Yeah. Remember, the density of storage was very low, and.

Yeah, that's that stuff like the reason that we can still talk to Voyager, the probe is because it was made in the 70s. Oh, let's remember as in saying off to more modern equipment, that is that is the most grumpy old Benz. Number one was recorded on one of those microphones. You see, those things are still good and they still sound decent. They've never sounded dude, they sound decent, but I would like to, What? I want to switch to one right now.

Let's see what a difference you think I have. What? I mean, that would be great if I. Yes, I do think you let me know I have one somewhere, but, like, let me switch on the microphone. We just plug it right in here. And to be fair with the processing that I do probably sound exactly the same. You know the difference. You know, it's like I'm sure you would notice a different which one are you on? Are you on the, I love the RB 20. I can't get on the R 20, I know I did it. Same thing.

Yeah. You got the three point to the 320 F I like it. And I've got the big ball of foam on the end so I can get right up on it. Yep. Exactly in the distance. That you should be far enough from your mic is the thickness of the foam on these microphones. Yes, yes. Oh, that's not so much. Well that's because these microphones also have like six inches, in length on the, the other one there. Yeah. Well, the.

Sure FM seven be the thing that drives me nuts. There is one kids, let me just tell you, if you have a SR 77 B, everyone has one of those now and you like to talk close to the mic like I do. Bye. I don't think they come with it but you can buy a bigger windscreen. Yeah. To go on those that will do the same thing that I've got going here with the RB 20, and it keeps you far enough away. And it brings the plosives down to a minimum.

The pure 77 B with people that don't know how to fucking use the microphone, including really professional allegedly people like Joe Rogan and Tim Poole and all these other motherfuckers keep popping the P's right into the fucking microphone. It's like, stop. I know there's the other thing. If you would just process the fucking audio after correctly, you could get rid of those. Well, none of those people have sound engineers.

They have buddies that work for them, but they make enough money where they should have a sound engineer, like somebody that actually learned about sound engineering and knows how to do it. Yeah. And because I know about as much as all these guys buddies about sound engineering, I would never call myself a sound engineer. But, you know, probably more of the people that are producing those shows. Possibly. It's again, there are very simple plug ins like oh plosive remover.

Hey, you know, maybe you should try that. And I understand you don't want to over process things, but if you are hitting the plosives and it will happen with that is it's such a minor little windscreen that comes with the SM7B, it's barely enough fabric to cover the metal like you need a little bit more. And that okay, maybe you have to EQ it a little. I get it, it's a dark microphone. But do the work. You got a pump up the the preamp on it. It's. Oh yeah. It's just too much work.

I have no idea why that is. The mic that became popular for streamers like that makes no freakin sense to me. It's a finicky mic to use. I mean, I understand why it became it's because Joe Rogan right? Everybody just saw the videos and they're like, oh, well, if he's using it, that's what I should buy. How much are they at $380? Okay. Give me five. Right. Have a nice look I'll give them that.

They're a simplistic look compared to like, what I've got, which is, you know, if you go and watch NewsRadio in those old shows, radio stations, that's what I have. It's a big fucking spider. What are you, the, shock mode, right? I mean, with the big, you know, maybe the shock mounts for them. That's the other thing is the the re series of mikes. The 20, the 320. They don't need shock mounts. There you do. They gotta be suspended in that cradle of shock in this not at all.

It's gotta be. It's the only way to get the best sound. It's. That's why your voice doesn't sound. They literally print on the box. One of the benefits is that they are internally shock. No, that's the SM seven B that does that. No. Yeah that's way it is. That's the internal shock. Because you can't put the SM seven B into a shock mount because it's all in one. One piece. Maybe it's all in one piece. It's not just an individual microphone.

You got the, you know, the way it is with the, stand adapter and everything attached right into the, into the microphone and the some stupid. It's just got a stupid adapter that. I mean, the whole mic is just a pain in the butt. It sounds good. If you go through all the hoops and you jump. Sure, it sounds good, but it is not a mic I would ever recommend to anybody other than an actual sound engineer that wants to set things up. They're only it. Just don't buy it. Y'all don't need it.

Yeah. Really don't. But I don't mind it. It's a myth that that only professionals are going to benefit from. Nobody else is going to benefit from that. But I bought most of my microphones because, well, the first one was sorry, everybody, because of Leo Laporte, I got the I'll hire PR 40 or she did and it's still a decent microphone. I stand behind it. They're based out of Illinois Lehigh. All folk seem nice and it is a quality microphone Nazi ish to me.

Hey I'll everybody sing I'll then that was because of Glenn back. I saw him using the sure some seven b. I saw him using the RB 20. I saw him using the oh, what's the one? This never occurred to you that he just has a mic fetish? He might and I think I do. And Andrew did. He does have a mic. He absolutely talked about it. Like he just likes getting a whole bunch of mic. They're awesome. I mean every mic has a slightly different sound. Now that is the wrong way to do it.

People do it the way I did it, which is buy one in the store. That or what? You go to the store and you say, I would like to buy a, a mic for, voice overs, like where you limit your mic selection and then you go through and you actually record yourself on five or 6 or 10 mics, and then you listen to which one you like the sound of the most. Which one had the, the least, of the explosives. Which one were you the most consistent volume wise, that you weren't going back and forth in volume?

And when you say that one was going to a store, easy. I get well, you could you could do this virtually. You could totally do this virtually. You find a YouTube channel where they analyze mics specifically for voiceovers, not for recording. You know, a musician saying, yes, I'm Andrew's channel.

And then a good channel like that will have a comparison where they're recording the exact same thing with multiple mics and then playing it back without any filtering, so you can hear what each mic adds or subtracts from that sound. And then when you get to that place, you're like, good, I'm done now. You mean you may end up doing this several times? Because your ability to spend money changes over over time? Maybe the best way to become a podcaster. Yeah. How to make $1 million in podcasting.

Start with a billion. And I still have all the mics that I bought. Oh, yeah, I do too. I'm stirring up my old AKG, which was, $220 mic, which is about as expensive as I was ever going to spend on the mic when I bought it, except for the noise, man. And I'm like, oh, sell it to me, team, sell it to me cheap. And then somebody actually offered you real money. They did offer me real money, and then they backed out of it. Oh, you still have the Neumann I do, yeah, I will send it to me. Better rate.

Redman said his method was easier. He said, I need a new mic. And Darren told me what you want to buy. Right? But that's how you end up. 320 yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, which is which is the right Mike. I mean, he didn't lie to you, but your odds of him lying were about 50,

50, so you could have gotten stuck with another 20. Instead, I bought my luckily three Guarneri 320, the R3 20 I bought April of 2018. The 20th December of 2020. So I had about the 324, about a year and a half. Well, that AKG mic I thought sounded great until I realized that I didn't, but that might weighs like 3 pounds. We have no idea why, because there's stuff in it, man. There's all kinds of stuff in there, apparently, that I didn't realize that they don't put another mic.

And then I try and I like the way it sounded. I really it would have been, it would probably work if I ever moved the podcasting studio back into the basement, because the basement is carpeted. There are things on the walls where I sit to do the podcasting. The table is a little bit more in the middle of the room, so that does not have a as much anywhere near as much of a reverb issue as this office has. Yeah, but is the, the microphone that back pad?

No, that one hanging from the ceiling when Adam went in. The white one. Yeah. What, what who made that? I'm not, like, totally blanking bander I need help. I it's the, b12. I need a, I don't think man should listen to this. No, that wife, he'd be like, I don't have time to listen to that. I sent you a picture that AKG. Mike, you can send me one for a Christmas late Christmas gift. You don't want it. Sending a few Newman's over Halo nine moments, you know, and knowing when that was, that was.

Well, I don't know if I was disappointed necessarily, but I certainly didn't feel like it made me sound any better, which I was expecting as soon as I plugged in. And normally I would start sounding like Howard Stern, because the professional right, like this would be this is all like I was like, wait a minute, this is bullshit. I don't sound like Howard Stern in this thing. Yeah, but that looks like the, the one I started with, which was a condenser from Maxell. Was it?

And it's like $100, something like that. You speak into the side and you're like, oh, yeah, the other that was, that was great for doing podcasting until one day I was like, what the fuck is the buzzing in the line? I'm like, I'm plugging things in. I'm unplugging things. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The little fridge, like 45ft away. Yeah, yeah, yeah I would doing that up, but like, holy shit. Yeah. That's why condenser microphones aren't good. If you just want to pick up, you gotta be a place.

Yeah, yeah. You got to be isolated for sure. That is a big part of it. You have to be isolated if you want a microphone that isn't totally forgiving. If you want something, you don't want the microphone. A lot to do with what the condenser is have. You don't really need for what we're doing now because it has a much larger range of volume before distortion kicks in. Right.

So if you're in a band that's good and you got a lot of style loud sounds on stage, tapping that mic will be, very good for that big difference between podcasting and rock and roller. Yeah, a little bit. Yeah for sure. So I don't know, I just think that, and the way that I found the, the Ari's was I had met a guy through some organization we were in that was the GM of a radio station in Dallas, the, the Patriot. Okay. Well, he's got it out of the Patriot right here in Dallas.

Everybody now, these 3.5, I don't think they were name 3.5. But yeah, there was the Patriot in Dallas. And so it was all the conservative talk shows around there. And so I said, hey, let's grab lunch. And then, you know, you give me a tour of the station afterwards. And so we did that. I went down to the radio station, and it was the first time I ever really looked at what a radio station looks like.

And, it's a nondescript, small building, and instead of cubicles, it has tiny little booths and a whole bunch of them and, you know, some some booths. And then, you got glass on one side of the booth and you got the sound deadening materials on the other sides. And every single one of them had an RV 20 in it. And I was like, what does that make? I've never seen that thing. And then so he told me, oh, yeah, this is pretty typical. Most radio stations use these.

I was like, Holy shit, that's got to be it. That's the mic that's made for people talking. Well, I mean, for men talking at least. Right. And, well, why would you ever want women to talk? Well, that's a different question. I was, I meant the characteristics of the pitch of a male voice. But sure, we can go there as well. Yeah, it was just. It was a joke. Ladies and women, listen to the show. No, no. Well, I, I shared with you my YouTube demographic because they know that for sure, right?

Yes. What percent women 14.04. I have one woman and, 1800 guys listening, or watching my YouTube channel. Oh, wow. Yeah, that's, that's pretty good. See, I realize the magic of the vocal process there was the symmetric 528 vocal processor. And that was because of, the dude that runs AKG here. I'm like, hey, what would be, what would you use. He's like, oh you can find these things. Yeah. You know, because everybody's pulling out the analog gear and putting it digital. Yep, yep.

And these things originally sold for like 1200 bucks. I picked one up for like 100 bucks, and it works beautifully. So if you're a podcaster and you can find one of those on eBay,

the 528 e symmetric s y metrics does a fine job. That's where all the magic happens. Although I did add them into that chain. The big bottom. But the big bottom is just a little thing. This is this is with the big bottom and the oral exciter. This is without the big bottom. An oral exciter. Yeah. Just a little tiny little difference there. Yeah. Yeah. It's not huge. But it did adds to that beauty. It's like it it gets you right in the vibe. Yeah. It goes from amp to F exactly.

It brings that extra bit of excitement right to the. Just think of how good my voice actually is because I'm not using one of those, you know, and I have that second channel I need to figure out. Although I would have to run wires about six feet across the desk, but I'm pretty sure with the remote to I can I can still jack you through the other channel of the oral exciter and big box. I don't think you need to, but you could. Yeah. Will you still have the channel strip with that?

That is, I, I keep forgetting to send you that. I really promise you that. Like, we gotta get the power. We gotta figure out the power. I'm Gary, I guarantee you that is the only part of it that is broken is the power supply. That. So I'm sure that's my place. And that is a that was the last product they ever made before they got sold to road. Oh I did not know. So. So that's why I wrote it. I'm involved in it. Yeah. Yeah. They, they, they got bored by road.

And so this is the, this was their $1,100, channel strip that has digital and analog in it. So it has both digital processing and that log processing. And they. Shit. This one thing I don't remember if, whether it had a tube amp or a non two bam. I'm gonna say probably not a tube. Bam. No. But it was some easily to open it up and get to the tube. Yeah yeah yeah, yeah. And then this thing because I would have had a cool looking glow if it had a two bam. But it didn't have a glow.

But the amps that it used were some fancy super low noise amps, which is what you want. You don't want high noise, right. But but again, this is all shit that's more important for speaking than it is for music. Because we use, like, noise to overpower all that. Yeah, totally. Noise doesn't matter as much. You could have the noisiest vocal mic in the world, and you're not going to hear it over the metal infused guitars right? Right. So we don't remember what you were going to talk about the show?

Nobody. Not one boost during the show today. Now. Good, good. That's the way we like it. Not a single boost thanks to Eric Peep, though he did get the centering, the helipad. So now I can choose the show so you don't have to worry about getting, like, pupusas from other shows while you're like, yes, that's annoying. Yes. Well, okay. Wanted to know how to get a pew pew for your show. It's always annoying. It's really annoying when it's for a different.

Oh, somebody just money to do a different show. All right. Yeah, yeah. All right. Thanks for the interruption. Yeah, exactly. Just go to just two good old boys.com. Subscribe and go to unrelenting dot show slash donate now and click one of those buttons. Hey there and go to Random Thoughts and, subscribe to that. Of course not. Have a co-host. It's the other way. It's not a real podcast. According to CSB, if there's only one person that's there. Well, the authority has spoken.

Apparently the other way too. If you want to, go the long route of, supporting unrelenting, you could send equal donations in to surging speaks and random thoughts because that it then in split exactly in the right way. Oh that's true. Yeah, yeah. Ellen. Ellen, figure out this problem, I mean, there are so many fucking podcasts now, I bet you a lot of these things. Everybody has a podcast.

I'm telling you right now, all of these things disintegrate when it's like, there's like, 4 or 5 people on the show. Oh, hey, Joey, why are you the one getting the fucking money? I want the fuck I don't, Joey, why are you getting the fucking money? This is where it all breaks down. Like everybody thinks there's going to be millions of dollars to spend. Well, yeah, there there really isn't.

No. Although you got a few hundred thousand sat sitting here on my node and I'm like, I could, I can pull the, I can pull the note out. Notice I could pull it right on out. The, was from, our buddy Srini, said, the metaverse, which I know you don't exist anymore. It's like, no, Jean does not exist on the set of words. If you want to go to a place where Jean does not exist. Oh, there's lots of those. Now with your buddy, listening to my Slavic half bro, Darren and a Jew. Wow. That's.

Did you say it's not racist at all or anything, but. Okay. Go ahead. It was pretty. Says when Darren mentioned on Grumpy Old bands that he's going to keep all the satoshis he's received from Jean. I said to myself, here we go again, Americans keeping Russian money and not returning it. Yeah, that's typical. I bet that money goes to pay off that Mac mini in that docking station. At least it's not being used to fund a war. That was the beauty of it. And, like, not just sitting here.

I mean, technically you have that get album. I have, I have apparently, rubles in reserves sitting in your bank, and you can but see, here's the thing with the get LP account that you have, you can actually spend that. You can still transfer that by logging into that, you know, having it in the your get LP browser. Yeah. As long as you can see that it's like that exists. I'm not sure if you're like, hey, I really want a boost to show, you can do that.

If you want to make that into gift cards, you have control of that. Now, what I've learned is if I just go in and delete the gene account on my node, all of those satoshis just go into my account. I mean, melt into you. That just melts into my account. So, I mean, if there's an accident gene and somebody's like, oh, I deleted the gene account though. Yeah, yeah. Do not want to do that. Do not. What happened?

Luckily we didn't get any more sets coming in, so no, no nothing for you to calculate the split on that one. Well I actually separated a much I was somebody do a test boost. I want to make sure it comes in. But with that, sadly, we are running, dude, after the show's over. We'll do it after the show because we are on a hard out. And coming up next, if you're listening live on the stream, you'll get Adam Curry and Dave Jones podcast. And oh, and don't forget to ask Dave Jones ten days.

What's that all about? The name of yeah, me and you.