142: Banana Shoe Gun Hat

I do everything to hide. When? You wear, you. Hello and welcome to episode 142 of unrelenting. Marie, roll out of bed and turn on the microphones. I'm Darren O'Neill. He's g nephew live. And you can't even try to smell it. Don't even try. Don't even. You do not want to try. You do not want to know. Do not even type it into a search engine. You will then be on a yellow not list.

Man. Exactly. It's nobody. List the ones you don't want to be on. And it seems like such a different world since we last did a show, what, six years ago? Yeah, I'd say so. But you know what? Three weeks in Trump time does feel like six years. People are like, oh, no, he's so disorganized, I don't know, I think these mofos hit the ground running and they're doing exactly. Oh, God. Yeah. This is amazing what they said they were going to do. It's like, wow.

Executive order after executive order after executive order, like, oh, no, we're going to sue you. And it's like, well, they knew you were going to sue them. Part of the system is part of the plan. And you're not going to win them all. What the heck. Right. For Donald Trump at least he can point to and go see I tried. Then you put the pressure on the people in Congress for the things that the executive orders get pushed back. I'm telling you, dude, that that that shit works.

And, I got a pleasant reminder of that, when I saw yesterday that my local senator Critter, Conyers was going to be he, he had announced he's going to vote for, what's your name?

Tulsi Gabbard, that one. Trump's got juice. Time for a little B. He really, really did my b 12. I used to office right across the the hall from him and, you know, I like Tulsi, so I called last week, call his office, talk to the boys down there and said, guys, this is, you got it. You got to vote for Tulsi. This is a deal breaker. If you don't, you're going to basically be voting against your constituents because that's that's what they voted for.

So unless he's ready to retire, I'd say, he'd make sure he votes for her because he was not going to vote for her. That was the the original thing is he flipped his vote. And then to yesterday, I see that he has announced that he is voting for her. I'm like, good, good. I'm glad my call made a difference. Well, you have to remind them that you're there to do the will of the people that put you there. Right now.

There are times where you're like, well, if you can make a better case, make your better case, otherwise you better do that or you're not going to be elected the next time around. Yeah, that's the system anyway. But usually people don't pay attention. Now with Donald Trump, they're paying attention. Well, my point of this isn't about Donald Trump. It's the fact that there's 100 people. No, there's a thousand people, if not 10,000 people complaining each other in an echo chamber.

And there's for every 10,000 people complaining. There's one person who actually contacts the politician, pretty much. My recommendation is contact your damn politicians people. Are you thinking that most people don't even think it matters? Which is why they just go on? I think I'm being generous with 10,000. I might be 100,000 to 1. And it's like, well, they think this is how the system works. They still don't understand that you have a line of command, if you will.

Well, the politicians, their offices at least know this number that I just said. Now I'm, I'm stabbing at what the ratio is based on just sort of gut feel. But they know what the actual ratio is like. They know because they're both paying attention to the media, to the, social media. I mean, and they're paying attention to, like, what are they getting calls for?

And so they can tell you that every person who calls on a particular issue represents a block of X. Many people that think that way, they and they know that. And so the question for them is, well, do we get 1 or 2 calls or do we get 50 or 100 calls? Right. If the calls are nonstop then it's a little different. It's yeah. And and certainly I guarantee you I'm not the only one. They called on that issue and told them virtually the same thing.

I also posted the number on X so people can do likewise. Call your local Congress critter. That's step number one. Then go complain before you're going to go complain on social media. Well, but it's so easy to complain on social media and they're there and people do it for likes.

Yeah. And there there are groups out there like I saw post, there was a recent, email I got from Gatherers of America, which had an easy to fill out form, which was actually complaining to Trump saying, hey, Trump, one of your campaign promises was you were going to start rolling back Biden era, gun restrictions week one. Well, it's been over a week now. What the fuck? Trump. Yeah. What are you doing? Exactly. Clearly not what you were voting them to do. You got to do it quicker.

Yep. It's like it's on the list. So yeah. Posted a link to that form. All you gotta do is fill out click send. And I'm actually generates an email that gets sent to the white House. And then you're out there and so you're out and then you're on the list. Exactly, exactly. But pretty pretty much all those people are on the list anyway. Oh yeah. True. You were all on the J six list, as one of those freedom loving, scary people that the people on the far left do not like. Yep.

You think this is finally going to start more of a centralist time in America with this?

The pendulum finally starting to swing the other way? Or is it just going to go quickly to the far right now? I think it'll it'll take a long year. It's, you know, well, like I said before, it's a 40 year point, 2.8 year round trip. So we're now you probably, we're we're probably about two years into it. So. So we got another 18 years to go until we hit the middle point. Yeah. That will just be hitting our prime 18 years from now. But speak for yourself here for the year long past.

You're on that downward spiral. And if I'm lucky, I won't get to see much of that gene getting barely get out of bed before 12 now. Of course. He's up playing video games until 435 in the morning. Well, that's true too. Yeah. Speaking of, oh, a little cherry obituary, you know, isn't that like overpriced water? You drink some kind of, But it's like a soda. But it's not a soda. It's way better than sweet. It is, a little sweet and a little tart.

And the whole can, which is one of them oversize cans, has 20 calories, and there are no aspartame or anything like that. And I think that's a weird number because that's like super low calorie or sweet stuff, but like, really high calorie for diet stuff. It is in a gravy sweetened. So it is oh, that's what it is. Okay. You know, allegedly I mean people are like, oh, agave is going to kill you. Yeah. But it's totally going to kill you. It's the one of the worst sugars out there.

But well, when you compare that to aspartame and all of the fake sweeteners, I still think the agave would be a slight step above. And I only have one of these a day if that. Mainly just for the show. So I can have a little something. So is it just like sweeter tasting than the Lacroix or something. Yeah. Let's just have a Lacroix. Yeah I like to Lacroix as well. This is just a little bit of a, as you said, a sweeter taste. The the CEO of Lacroix.

Whoa. Yeah. Many years ago, like, back before they got big. And when you could have been a billionaire, then. Yeah, apparently I failed the, scientist. Well, not. Okay. Anybody that surprised by that raise your hand. Nobody. The, Yeah, the son of the owner really like me. But the, the one of the last things they had me do is do a, a like this. And that was the last of that.

And there are no right or wrong answers in these things. Allegedly. So apparently, one of the mistakes that I made, which worked against me is I answered every single question. That was the problem. They don't expect people to, you know, it's a time thing is that. Yeah. Yeah. So they expect your doctor to get through the whole thing. Well yeah I guess apparently after I did some research about it, the idea is it's meant to have too many questions for you to answer.

So it forces you to pick priorities well. And it also forces you to kind of have that internal struggle on a couple things. One, which questions to answer and two, like how forthcoming do you want to be? Yeah. So you're walking down the road. It's a hot day for a tortoise and it's back in the middle of the road. You know, it's like, what does that have to do with Lacroix water, right. Seems like I'm going to have some turtle soup. That's what I'm going to do. Yeah, something like that.

It's it just, I generally like testing. It's like test. I've always taken a bunch of them. You will. You see, this is also probably where you have a problem there. Like, they're not expecting some people that like the test that are like, oh, yeah, psych test. Let's do it. Come on. Yeah. I've had friends that are psychologists that just, like, gave them to me for fun. But the truth is just very cheap, you know, while eventually I got let out. But anyway, so the, Yeah, it was it was pretty close.

I think you would have been an interesting game. Well, they certainly have gotten big. Yes they have. Yeah. They were nowhere near they were like a little regional company back then. It's a 90s. Well it's a combination. People again they think it's healthier and I don't know exactly. What is or what is not beyond avoiding the artificial sweeteners and all of these preservatives. That's the other thing.

And everything you get the potassium benzoate, it and the, you know, things that are put in there to, to preserve it. And these are things that, you know, you know, even though they'll be like, well, in the quantities that we studied, it appears to be safe. That's all. Bullshit. There's a reason why, RFK Jr is correct.

The health issue is big and it is tied, I believe, to what people consume more than anything else because you go back and it's something we've been watching, 1883, which I haven't seen Yellowstone yet, but we started in chronological order. Which of this is the the earliest course I watch that during Covid and I mean, 1883. This is just great cinematography. I mean, one very well done. Yeah, I agree, very surprised that Tim McGraw and Faith Hill are so good.

Little House on the Prairie, meets, really dark stuff reality show, right? Yes. Made some very dark stuff. But you realize it's like, well, I don't know who those people are, but.

Okay. In the who, the Faith Hill and Tim McGraw. Yeah, that's the, the lead, husband and wife, you know, with the blond daughter, but they're only there's. Yeah, mostly looking at daughter race, but the parents huge country stars. And I guess the daughter didn't know when she started filming either. Don't know either. Obviously, we're the same age. Well, Tim McGraw and Faith Hill were both huge country stars. I mean, I vaguely recall the names. I couldn't pull them out of a lineup.

Yeah. Taylor Swift wrote that song was one of her first big things. Was the song called Tim McGraw? Oh, yeah. And I would know that way. You you're a huge Taylor Swift. Them. Yeah, obviously your KGB training did not go that far down the rabbit hole, but the concept being this is the late 1800s and then the reality of the world. That was not that long ago. No, I've I've literally been down that road and it's like what they were eating then were fresh food and meat.

Well nothing was I mean there well it was seasonal, but it was not on the stuff that okay, the chemicals that we're eating now were not in the food.

So there's a reason we're eating. The chemicals we're eating now is because they're preventing people dying from botulism, which they did a lot back then. Just because a lot of foods were canned as a means of preservation. Yeah, in like, cans. And. Well, that's one aspect is let the other one is that canning is not 100% foolproof. And if you have a, victim area that makes its way before you seal the can, right, it just grows.

Or if you don't warm the water up to a high enough temperature, well, you got a great environment that has no oxygen. And unfortunately, the bacteria that like oxygen free environments are the nastiest us. And that was a big part of the show too, was like the people all getting sick, like they didn't boil their water. They don't know. Yep. Okay, I understand we've made some great steps forward, but overall there were still people killing their dinner.

You know, killing a deer, having the meat, not going to the grocery store and getting to something that has been processed and put into a package and frozen. They have no refrigeration there. Well, I mean, they didn't in the cities, they didn't on that show. So it's not on the trail. Completely different concept. And you have to wonder. Yeah. What the combined results are of all of these things, of all of these chemicals that sure, in very small amounts probably don't really hurt you.

But if you're eating massive amounts of them every day, then maybe not so good. And it's still simple to go and do a grocery store. It's like, well, we can still walk into a store and buy a potato or a sweet potato. You know, the ingredients are in those one either potato, sweet potato, mostly genetically modified. Well, some of them may be genetically modified, some depending upon the tomato lizer, if you like. I routinely plant potatoes.

You know, because they're really good at creating carbon dioxide in here. So, you know, you plant the potatoes in the house? Yeah. Yeah, in the house. How many rooms have potatoes growing in them right now? I have a potato room. That's one word. I mean, I have a computer room. I have a things like that. That's the potato room and a frigerator room. That better room, Yeah. And, it's a fairly small percentage of store bought potatoes that can actually grow.

It's, it's nowhere near 100% interesting. Yeah. And, very similar thing with carrots. Most carrots that if you buy them and then you, you plant them do not actually grow. Do you have a carrot room. They just rot. No I don't, because, I don't like carrots. Oh. Okay. Then that space is not the problem. It was just a dislike of carrots. I just don't like them. Yeah, I mean, I'll eat them occasionally, but, like, I just had some carrots the other day I made stew. Sorry.

I had some, I made some, I don't know, I guess it's just like meat stew. BlackBerry. Billy Bones inquires. If you live in a house, a bunker, or a compound. Well, it depends on who you are. Right. To the FBI, I guess they mean you can only see so much. Most of the, property is underground now. I always wanted to live like one of those silos. Man, I always thought that would be the coolest thing. Yeah, I love those. Those are super cool people. We're talking about the, the what?

The silo home with all the, decommissioned, usually nuclear missile silos in middle America. They're like, what are we going to do with all this space? Well, people buy them and they make houses out of them. Very cool houses. Yeah. And for those, like me who like a constant temperature of between, like 60 and 65, it is the greatest thing ever. Because even when it's 100 degrees outside and that's just a silo. Oh, yeah, that's a nice cool. And you're down there.

So in case there's a nuclear blast, I mean, you're good for a few months. Have you been to the house in the Rock? No, I have not. Yeah. You know what it is. Yes. I have seen videos. Oh, it's a tourist trap. Out in Wisconsin. I guess kind of a little bit west of Wisconsin Dells, I believe. But it house on the Rock was basically. Well, now it's a museum, but you can walk through that is huge. It's way bigger than you'd think it is.

But it was like a guy who decided that he really liked the view from the edge of the river. And basically these is fairly typical. Sandstone formations that, you end up with sort of spires of sandstone where the water sort of washed away some of the sandstone in the middle, and you just have these sort of fingers sticking out of the ground. And by sticking out, I mean like several hundred feet. And they're fairly common in Wisconsin. Wisconsin used to be underwater.

If you know, if, you know, if you think the Earth is older than 6000 years old at least. Right. And so, the sandstone there is very, very old. And it is hard enough to be able to support itself, for many, many feet sticking up, but soft enough that if you take a knife to it, you can actually start whacking away at it. And like, I've been in, in Sandstone Cave, I had a cave that fell in and like, cave. Then I guess that would be the term, many, many years ago, back in the 90s.

And it caved in about two days after I was in there, which was like, oh, it's kind of like being on one of those airlines right around, one of them. But yeah. You remember when the bridge fell in Minnesota? Oh, yeah. That was big news. Big. That was two hours after I drove over it. Oh, well, you weren't, that was my daily commute bridge, and it was just very unsafe. What they were doing, it was they were doing construction crews did something they weren't supposed to. It was overloaded then.

Yeah. You always wonder about. Yeah. They closed off one of the lanes of for construction. And it was three lanes each way. So it was a fairly big bridge. But I think when the bridge was designed, the town of maximum supporting limit, you know, per lane. And when they closed off one of the lanes, they effectively squeezed traffic because it was stop and go traffic on the bridge. Yeah. Which is what it felt. People were going three miles an hour, so you couldn't really get away from it.

And, yeah, because it had that many cars per foot and all squeezed to the left side of it or the right side of it, whatever it was, it ended up doing really well. And now too, with all of these vehicles that way, more and more and more because of the batteries. I can't believe this hasn't happened more yet. Yeah, well that was pre battery but yeah I know think about it now with the yeah everything that was based on. Well it depends on what it was built. Right.

So the the cars in the 70s were very heavy because they couldn't build them any lighter and people didn't really give a shit. We had love my 1978 Delta 88. I have a no no, I had a 79 to 72. I yeah, it was like a right, kind of a cherry red color with wood paneling, baby. And you can put your foot down on the floor. That would go, a little more pop. Now. I think it does remember what it had on there. I think it had a 400 cubic inch in there. That's the V8.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, if they were all V8 specs sucked down the gas, it was driving a V6 way. Kidding me. Yeah, he got a citation. Jesus. Yeah, man. My sister in 1986 bought a red Camaro with a V6, and it was like, oh, why did you want that look? But none of the speed. Yeah, exactly. So in the 80s, cars became way lighter because of the gas crunch of the late 70s.

And so all these big, heavy American vehicle names got redesigned and shrunk down to a pathetically tiny size, like the, I think Ducati was one of the last cars to get killed off like that, but it was in like 85 or something.

But all of these vehicles just went from weighing 6,000 pounds to weighing like 4,000 pounds in one decade. And, and then of course, in the late 80s, early 90s, we had plastic advancements. So we had cars like the Saturn come out and they weren't the only one, but they were the one that was really pushing the whole light vehicle, plastic body parts instead of metal body parts. Steel. Well, you could build a kit car that made it look like Sonny Crockett's Ferrari for just pennies on the dollar.

Yeah, exactly. And I had a 1.9l engine who I talked about. You may as well have the Fred Flintstone feet out the bottom and let you give it a little extra. I had one of those. That was my first brand new purchase car was a, Saturn. Absolutely. Top of the line. Well, for the Saturn Coupe, man, that meant there was a seat belt in it, and it had a automatic seat belt, a motorized seat belt? No, it had a sunroof, leather seats. It was all gold trim. It was, white car with gold trim. Shocker.

I now would imagine every spaceship I own is gold with white tremor, white with gold trim. It explains all of the, tracksuits to what the track suits and just manages. Oh, it match? Yeah, it's just the car. Yeah, the track suits, white shoes. I had a fun time in that car, man. That was the car that I lost my Wisconsin driver's privilege. Then how fast were you going to, I was going off the state 138. No less than it was. I think it was about 125. In a 60.

Nice. So I was I was every time I drove to Chicago, I tried to beat my old speed record. Well, of course, like you're thinking it's Cannonball Run, you're Burt Reynolds, you're really more Dom Day-Lewis, but you're rocking the rules.

Are you off runs these days? I am not back then, but yeah, so I apparently the police in Wisconsin don't appreciate it when you're faster than their helicopter. Did you say I was defending my lane? No, I didn't know, but he took them about eight miles to catch me, which is hilarious. What? 20? Doesn't seem like that. It's not that, dude. So the speed limit that I drive here in Texas is 90. The speed limit right there.

A since it's 55. And I remember I drove, this is back a few years, probably like eight years ago, I think seven years ago, I drove my, BMW out to California, and it was a, there was a stretch in Arizona where there was about six of us. We never dipped below 100, and we were usually running you right around 135 or about, oh, 50, 60 miles. Nothing out there. I don't know. I don't know who the other cars were, but there's a supra.

There was, a bunch of people that clearly wanted to drive faster than 55. Yeah, it's been known to happen. Yeah. And the cool thing is, I mean, it has no actual basis in legality, but the way that the human brain operates is like, well, if I get into a group of people that are all breaking the speed limit, I'm okay, right? Because they're not gonna be able to catch all of us. Right?

That's the the circle is the default, brain activity that happens. So. And I think that's true of literally every person in that group, they're all thinking, well, I don't want to be the only one that's going super fast, but if I can go fast with a whole bunch of other people, then we're all good. I was just keeping up with the flow of traffic. That's all I was doing. Officer. Yeah, and I will say the fastest that I had ever actually driven myself was 150. Yeah, 155 miles an hour.

And that was in Germany and Audubon. So that doesn't even count in the US. No. Kenny Wallace, act, NASCAR driver, was just in Germany and posted a video. He had rented a Mercedes and it had a chip on it that at 200km an hour, it just would not go any faster. That said, I know because there was a lot of extra speed that could have been in that cup 200. Yeah, I mean, 20km an hour is about 139. Yeah. So you could have more. You could have had more.

I mean, the fastest I believe I ever drove was just a little over 100. And that was coming from a Sheboygan, Wisconsin back into oh Wisconsin speeding dangerous territory into the Chicago area. I got to go pick up some a bass or two. I was working at the carpet store. Yeah. And the, the, the VPI bass is based out of Schubert bass. I thought you said Babe's bass. Well you know I should have been picking it up for me, but better Wisconsin babes. Yeah. She only fit one of them in the car.

Hey they look I'm a Chevy. I'm telling you. And I got to work that day before I could even walk into the building. Yeah, the guy was like, oh, we need you to go pick up some bass. I'm like, where? I'm in there, like Sheboygan, not like where? Where's Sheboygan? They threw me the keys for his brand. It was his brand new Lincoln Town car. Now, isn't that where they make Schlitz? Maybe. Could be me. They got to do something in Sheboygan. You got to have booze.

So I filled up the trunk and just start coming home and night. You know, your foot just keeps going down in the town. Cars. I mean, you know, you don't even feel like at 100, you kind of feel like you're doing 50. And I just remember passing another town car that had a bunch of like 70 year old people who just looked horrified as I went by them. Do you have the cap transmission and the cap engine on that car then? I wish that would have been nice. It just floated its way all right on down.

So at least I don't. I didn't get the, the Wisconsin band. Yeah, for going though. There was one trip that I did in the mid 90s where a buddy in my actually my business partner and I do we, we rented a a Cadillac Deville and then drove up to Chicago, and that was the best. We're driving through South Chicago while he's driving. I'm in the best seat. We're driving through South Chicago. Yeah. He was in the roaring, very nervously glaring, looking around.

And and he's like, dude, all I see is teeth and eyeballs. So he was completely racist. This is in the pre racist days. This is when we didn't see color. You see this? We used to live in this great society back in the 90s where no one gave a shit if you were black, whiter in between. No. They were stuck in a row. You would steal your car. It didn't matter what color. Well, they they were going to do it not because we were white, but because it was a nice car. Exactly.

And so that because we were trying to there was some bar he was trying to find and I was like, dude, just drive to our hotel. Who gives a shit? We'll find it later. And, he wanted to find it on the way into the city. I was like, no, come on. But it was, Yeah. It was, say, one of many, many trips I had to Chicago like the back in the day, meaning the 90s. I used to go to Chicago all the time and increasingly faster speeds. Well, yeah, you had to break your record.

Well, you had to. Yeah. How many times were you playing the Miami Vice theme on the, stereo system? I think that was stuck in the CD player. Phil Collins, young family for yesterday. Can you believe that? Yeah. He's been looking like he's old for, like, 45 years. Yeah. No hard living. But Phil was the guy back in the day. He was huge when we were in high school. Junior high? Yeah. Phil Collins was the rock n roll star. That made all of us regular guys feel better. I don't know man.

I was never into his style music. I don't like his voice. Kind of whiny. No. That is kind of what a lot of music is now. Yeah exactly. I always thought he wrote a good pop song. I think he's a good writer, pretty good drummer. He is a good drummer. And, I certainly enjoyed him. And was the band he was in. Genesis is one Genesis. I like Genesis, I like, did you like his genesis on Miami Vice? Mike Rutherford no, the other one in, Genesis. That would be,

Mike Rutherford. Right. Well, really? No. Was it more than one, guitar player? I thought there were still guitar. Maybe there was a bass. There's got to be a bass guy. Get to get the bass right in your face. Yeah, I don't know. I thought Genesis was pretty good. Phil Collins. I never liked his voice. I don't have anything against him. Any of them. You know, like, did you like his appearance? He did play some kind of, like, smarmy criminal type in Miami Vice.

I really do have to put that back out to the list to watch the I should, too. Is it on, is it on the one of the free services? Hopefully. Like, Amazon? I mean, I mean, I hear these free services called, torrent site one. Oh, I've never heard of those. No. There. I don't believe they have them here in Texas. No. Well, they're outlawed like the porn sites. That's right. Exactly. And you can't access. We live in God's country here. We don't need them.

No, that's not, you know, do no know that. Okay. Have you watched? I heard the The Godfather talking about it, and we binged last week. Land, man, have you seen land, man? No. Oh. Good show. What's that about? It is the Texas oil fields, Billy Bob Thornton. I saw a clip from it, which was hilarious, where he's telling the government to get off his land. The, deals with, the cartels. He deals with, you know, all sorts.

Anything that they could be involved in the oil business down there in South Texas. And there's a female lawyer who comes in who's like the, you know, the Barracuda, but she's working for the same company, but they're not getting along. Yeah. And he tells her these are all tension. I know that he wants to meet her out by one of the, the rigs, and she's like, oh, why not in a public place? Whatever he's like, because you need to. You know what she was negotiating a deal.

He's like, you need to know how these things work. And she's like, well, just to let you know, I'm licensed to concealed carry in this state. And he's like, honey, everybody's license to concealed carry in this day. He's like, yeah, I mean, that's it's technically not true, but it is sort of true because we have an open carry. So yeah, he's like, you know why everybody, smiles and waves at you when you're driving because everybody's armed. Like that's true.

And I remember the Adam Curry saying that when he was on with Leo. I think that was the time Leo got some off. Yeah. Yeah yeah exactly. It was the same concept like yeah. Everybody smiles and waves and Texas guns not only criminals have guns but here, let me pull mine out here. Leo. Ma'am, that is wild. Yeah. Speaking of anarchy, I just had a friend of mine, send me a hello video from Adam's ex-wife. Nice. Yeah, like one of the ads that. And I don't see any streaming service with Miami Vice.

That's interesting. Oh. Looks like maybe it says streams three. Prime. Oh, no, it says it's not available for free on Prime Video. Or maybe it is. Let's see here because one of them I saw that said it was leaving. Soon I was go to if you're looking to see it was, what NBC originally. Just watch.com is the site I normally go to to figure out where you can find things streaming. They're pretty good at what? You know, easily. So let's see, is it on Amazon Prime right now. So Apple has it.

But you got to pay for it. Do I have to pay a tear them. And it looks like it's, Prime Video is also per episode of per season. You have to buy it on yeah. Blu ray. Such a classic series. How dare they? I know, how dare they charge money for this? This is insane. I hear you can download it. Or you could probably buy. Okay, here's the other question. Do you have a valid machine that plays like Blu-ray discs and stuff?

Now you have to, because you're a gamer right now, or you don't have a machine that you're like, oh, it's isn't that weird how quickly this happened? Well, that used to be the Xbox, but I got rid of that. So no, it is amazing how quickly it changed from everybody having the players to like, nope, don't have any more because you could buy the complete series on Blu ray and Amazon for 50 bucks, which is not bad, but complete series. Really. Five seasons is not bad. No, it's cheaper than renting.

It is to, stream it. I mean, that's it's 15 bucks per season to stream it. It's like, screw that, buy the Blu ray and just rip it yourself for cheaper. And that's SD. Yeah, for the streaming. I'm like, oh, they don't have HD. I guess it wasn't recorded in HD. It was, it was in, well, it was widescreen, right? Yeah. Doesn't make it high definition. No, I guess the, 84. Yeah. That's that that's pretty high def days. It all depends what the original. I would have to look up. Here's a real question.

Yes. There were there were five. That's correct. And John says he has three Blu ray players within reach. And the Miami Vice was recorded on The Hoarder ain't True, but it was recorded on film. Like a lot of these, Seinfeld is the same way it was recorded on film. So when they made the Blu rays, they were actually a higher definition than you would have originally got it. Yeah. No. On the old TV.

I still have an old PlayStation sitting around, so that'll still play the old discs and I that's one of the reasons why the Dell machine is still sitting here underneath the Mac mini, because well you can put a disc in and rip it. I did finally get the little $1,815, network things where I do have a DVD on the Mac mini. I forgot about that. But there you go. Yeah, it's just not plugged in because I never use it.

And so the at least this, I guess the, I just plug this in last night, so I guess the network cable is working fine through the, through the port, because that's what I'm on right now. Okay. And then I bought one for my cue nap. And then when I'm at my two external drives on the cue nap, were in the to the, USB three slots on the old NAS. So I had to order another little $10 dongle so I can plug multiple, you know, little home. I want to see you plugging in the 2.5 gig card into the NAS.

Speeds anything up a little bit. Just curious, trying to get a little bit more of a pipe from the. We have two rooms with a ton of computers. One the office that I'm sitting in right now into the basement that has multiple three NAS systems, another desktop that's sitting down there, and a bunch of external drives plugged into all of them. So that's the, the superhighway of information going between the, the two rooms. And I just went from a one gig line now to 2.5.

So it's like, that should give me more. Allegedly. Oh, so Miami Vice is on sale right now for 199 episode normally. 299, episode one. That's a lot. Two bucks an episode. This is what, 20? These are the olden days where there was like 25, 26 episodes a year, right? Yeah, I would imagine them. Okay. We should do a watch party. Miami Vice. We should do a watch party. Yeah, yeah, 199 per episode to buy, or 499 to rent one plus. Oh, that's a movie. The movie made me right.

Oh, yeah. You don't want that? Yeah. No, no. Screw those guys. No good, no good. Screw those guys, man. You do not want. Well, you know, when, So, one of our listeners, dude named been named Ben doing a bad name. Ben. He's on the show. He's currently he. It's on. That's the show that's actually on every week. Yeah. He is. That's off on most of the week. So, I mean, it's I mean, it may be on, but the hosts aren't that good. It's not what the ratings say anyway. The ratings he.

Yeah. Yeah. We just got approved for advertising. Wow. Yeah. Wow. We got ratings. Now you've been approved for advertising. So right now remember I was with. Now I can see they can kick these fuckers off the stream. I didn't know what he's doing to begin with. Hoping to do that. They're doing advertising for men's play. I think I actually likes that show more than he likes. The show we're on right now. Probably. Anyway, what it was again to the, 111 episodes of Miami Vice.

If you have to pay two bucks a piece, it's not hard to do the math. No, no. So we've been kind of giving each other TV shows to watch. And if he gave me, Babylon five. So I watched five seasons of that play. How long did it take you to watch five seasons of Babylon five? Yes, two months. Okay. Which is a pretty good show. It's one that I never watched because I, you know, I had a life. I would get laid getting laid back. Then the.

I've never seen it either. That. Would you recommend Babylon five? You know, now that you're not getting laid. Probably not a bad show to watch. You had to pick between the two. I mean, pretty much pretty much. And Ben was just, like, too young to get laid back then. So he was watching it. It's it's basically a more harsher, less, utopian Star Trek. Interesting. So it's got a lot more battles, a lot more fighting. And, the good guys aren't necessarily what you think they are.

And they don't always win. So, yeah, it's worth watching. I enjoyed it. I think the first four seasons were better than the last one, but to see how it goes, they kind of run last season's always kind of like, they really need to make that. Maybe not. It's got an overall rating of 8.4 out of ten on IMDb, which is pretty damn high for it. It is. It is very high.

Yeah, it also 111 episodes, just like Miami Vice 100 back when they used to make the same number of episodes for every show, they're like, we got it, we're done. We've done 111 for five seasons. Yeah, now we can get into because it was what, 100 plus was the syndication, right? That was always the magic number. Yeah, yeah. And they got I think they had four movies that were made after they make it to 100 episodes. So yeah, I thought it was good.

It has, a one of the things Ben was very, very excited about it because I think it was one of the first shows do this, or at least an early show, is to have storylines that that didn't just go start to finish in one episode, right, but actually continue on for the whole year for that longer than a year, to stuff that happened last year

actually plays into what's happening today, which is the the ultimate catnip for people that like to binge, because you get to the end of one episode and it's like, oh, you got one more one, right? Got to do another one. 24 was the first show like that for me, which was, genius in the fact that it's like you could literally watch that was getting late. See, now this is a show that you need to go back and up. Okay. So that's your recommendation.

Go back and watch 24 and 24 episodes of the first season. Yes. Okay. It is. And let's, mean once we and I think we watched the first season like all of the plebs because it was a huge show. Yeah. But once the first season was over, the next season, we made the point to wait until the whole thing goes beyond that by the DVD and watch it at, in basically a weekend, because it's, I mean, that's how you do it 24 hours.

Yeah. Like, of course it's not really 24 hours because it's only 48 minutes commercial. So you it's it's less time. Yeah. But the I've gotten really bad at watching TV shows. I'm at a point right now that even if I'm watching something brand new that I've never seen, if they decided to have a little too much suspense and really stretch out a scene, I just hit the fast forward button. I'm going to fix that. Didn't. For me.

This is the tick tock watcher. And you know, it's it really is. It's horrible, man. And I recognize it in myself. And I never used to ever used to do this. But you know, sure, I would fast forward through commercials if there were anywhere I would fast forward if something I'm rewatching and then it's like, oh yeah, this is a boring speech. Such and such game. Like, I don't need to watch that right now. I'm at a point where I like.

Yesterday I was watching severance, the third episode, which is a great show, by the way, and it's done. What is it on an Apple TV severance? Adam Scott from. Yeah, psychological kind of, thriller ish kind of thing. And, I'm watching there's there's a scene, in episode three where I can't remember what happens, but it's like he's that's not him, but somebody else is like, yeah, sitting in the car and trying to make a decision. I'm like, okay, I get it, I get it. Fast forward.

Where does the car go? There we go. Okay, now, after watching, it's I just, it's you know what it is? It's watching YouTube videos is what it is. It's I, I do that for YouTube. Oh, yeah. All the time. Like, it's like boring. Fast forward. Oh I know, and that's usually why I have to unsubscribe from certain channels because there have been a few where I'm like, okay, I'm looking for some information on one was the AI and how well it writes fiction and all this kind of stuff.

Yeah. And then I ran across a guy who's putting out a bunch of content and it's like, dude, you suck. You never get to the point. It's like, just. I want the nuggets. You know what? I, I get those comments. You know, I get to the nuggets, man. Get to the good stuff. Stop. So mining my YouTube videos are generally an hour long.

And, there's routinely a subset of people that seems to reply with, make sure other videos you took an hour to basically say something you could have said in one sentence, you like, yeah, but then I wouldn't have had this many commercial breaks. And, yeah, I don't even care about those. I minimized those, but the, the number of people that say thank you for actually having content that doesn't assume that we know everything. Oh. All my videos are one cut, meaning I don't chop them off.

I, I show people the full experience. I do the training videos basically get the full gene. Yeah, you get the full you. So you watch from start to finish without any magic, you know, like if you're watching a video and you see them like, making the dough, but it only takes about two minutes to make the dough and then, then they make the pizza out of that, and then they put it in the oven.

Then they take out of a pizza immediately out of the oven that's fully cooked. That looks perfect. I don't do that. So with me, you watch me make the dough and then you watch me talk as the dough rises for about three hours. It's real. And then you watch me actually make the pizza dough, which am. I am actually pretty good at making pizzas. I can throw dough in the air and everything and, and then, you know, we're going to sit and wait until it's done and I'll show you what it looks like.

So there's no cut. It's continuous. And people really appreciate that. Or at least most people that watch my videos really appreciate the fact that, I'm not going to cut something out, which a lot of other videos would, which if you're following the video, that's where you usually get tripped up, isn't the bit that's cut out. Yeah. Well, how'd you go for me to be? You just magically went from one to the other. But what did you actually do? No, I've done enough looking for information.

And it's usually something you do with the know. How do you fix something in your computer? And it's usually we'll just go to here and do this, and it's like, yeah, but where is there? How do you find there? You know, it's just like, we'll go to this control panel. It's like, okay, asshole. If I knew how to get to that control panel, the answer would be obvious, right? Right. And then you got to go search on Reddit board to figure out, oh, she hit, Windows or Windows icon. On your keyboard.

That'll pop up your registry where you can now type this. And to allow that control panel to be visible. Oh, well, thanks for never mentioning that. Yes. Instead of just go to this control panel. But it's hidden. But you have to do the, special, dance to get it to pop up. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I did a series of three hour long videos, the user interface, really dangerous, in this, big. This is. People are coming in, they want it. It's huge. Because no one's ever done that. Ever. In ten years.

Because why? Literally because. And the game company does not tell you what all the little icons mean on your screen. Yeah, well that's it. They just assume you'll figure it out people. And so the granularity that is they do. And it's amazing because I didn't I wasn't getting to do three hours of UI talk when I started it just I didn't realize when I started I thought it was maybe an hour at most. Right. But I didn't.

But I'm literally going through one at a time, every single thing that's on the screen. And then when I got to an hour in, I was about a third done. I was like, Holy shit, this is gonna be a so right. Yeah, guys, I guess we're going to have to, but the the right side of the screen will be next week. Yeah. Like that's what when I did the review and the breakdown of the, DB2 80 6SM on Amazon slash YouTube 87 on those and people.

I mean, again, it's you assume that people know what the different buttons are and what they do and how they're going to work. And the people that were like, wow, thanks. I, you know, because I go through and say, well, here's what it does. And you went, yeah, you would turn the knob and go, well, here's to you hear that? What that's doing is okay, you turn it this way, you hear what that's doing,

you know, and it's an easier way to learn than to look at a, you know, an instruction manual which isn't giving you any examples. And people like, well, I didn't know what that means. Everybody just assumes like, you know, just like, I can't understand Dvorak and Curry. Give me crap. Yesterday because I'm the last song. Listen, what what do they give you crap about?

The last song I played was Phil Collins In the Air Tonight because it was his after he did, and I'm like, wow, you know what a, you know, great song. I remember when there was more, you know. Or do you remember when there was actually dynamic range in music. And like Dave works like he doesn't know what that means. What do you mean dynamic range. It's like oh he know. How does he not know. The range is that would be my question.

Like it's not compressed to shit would be the easiest way to ironically it's people doing what you're doing with your voice that ruined that. Right. Well, this is, the voice is a little bit different than music. Yes. Of course. Let the excuses all play. This is how the radio guys like to sound bad. You got to keep that right at this level, that talk radio sound. Because otherwise you could have some very quiet part up. Really louder than. It's all great.

Well, if you listen to NPR like me, then you'd hear all the quiet. Yes, it's very quiet. They have a very well-treated room and they talk and they, they they have the best equipment of any studios. It's amazing. You remember Adam talked about it and. Yeah, they're using their fine. Yeah. They're just they're using exactly. They're all there's like a shit ton of these mics in the studio. They're all five grand.

They're using absolute top of the line equipment for everything and all the killing pads. I've, I've read I was talking last week to a guy, in discord, that, you know, in gaming and turns out he's a video production guy and, and and so, of course, I had to say what, what, Mike, you on what preamp for using, you know, the usual nerd talk that was boring all the actual gamers because, like, who gives a shit? And he was on the Neumann mic. That was like sleep.

You know, I got one of them somewhere and, but I like my 320 sound better. And why is everybody jump down to the, what's the other mic I'm thinking of the, sure. ASM seven. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Why is everybody is not. Oh, it's probably because Joe Rogan, you know, just got to talk. The usual should talk that we usually do. But it was kind of neat actually hearing somebody at a normal mic and a video game.

Hey, I just went to RB 20 because I figured if it was good enough for Rush Limbaugh, it was probably good enough for everybody else. Well, and that's a false statement, because Rush Limbaugh's lungs and voicebox are not everybody's lines. No spikes. No, that is true. And, you know, his might have to be gold plated because nicotine doesn't stick to gold. Oh, well, that would do it. And it kept it nice and clean. Sure. In that one, more than one dipped in the gold.

And of course, it's the microphone. You see everywhere. I mean, you could tell especially I have no idea why they only started making the satin black version of the microphone recently, because that microphone was just disgusting looking to a lot of people. It was industrial. It was it was gunmetal color and it stood out, which I guess is good, but that if you ever watch Frazier, that's the microphone sitting on the desk. And I believe they were actually recording his radio.

Yeah. Lots of that because you can tell the voice is different for those segments. Right. Which is interesting than it would be when he was in any of the other scenes. While I got the the black one, just because the 320 by default came in black. Yeah, the shiny black, which is also why they had to make the 20. I've got the matte black, I've got matte black in the. So that's the RG 20 them. Now it's 320. They make it 320 is matte now too I don't know man.

They did when I bought it. I'm looking at right now. It is definitely not shiny because my read 320 is more of a shiny black. Yeah. Well more shiny maybe. Maybe to the 20. You could tell. Maybe. Maybe it is not matte black then, but it's certainly a lot madder than my other black mike here. Good old black Mike. He's another great host on just too little black. My black my exactly my other black Mike guy. Awesome. Yeah. So I, I don't know it's you know, I told the story before,

the reason I got this Mike was because many years ago. So again, probably like 20 years ago, at this point, a long time ago, long time ago, I happened to be on the board of directors with another dude that happened to be the general manager of the Patriot radio station. And, if people least do listen to conservative Am talk radio back in the day, the Patriot in Texas was where Alex Jones was. And so I asked him, hey, can I get a tour of your radio station?

And he said, yeah, no one ever asks. So, I got a tour of the radio station, and the one thing that I noticed is that every booth had an RV 20 in it, and I never seen this mic in music shops. And I was like, what's that? So he told me, lecture voice, are you 20? And so I'm like, okay, I'm going to go buy me one. And and then I didn't buy one for a while for whatever reason. And then by the time I got to buying one, I, I watch somebody is review and they have the RV 20 and the RV 320 side by side.

I was like, man, the RV 20 just sounds hollow and not very nice. And I'm the RV 320 sounds a lot crisper. Yeah, it is. And so I'm like, well, fuck, I'll just get that done. And I got it. And I've been using ever since. The RV 20 is a little more of a heavy weight. It takes a little bit more to drive it, which isn't necessarily a good thing for most people because you need some very clean preamp edge. It has a better plosive rejection. But if you're going to throw the big really rising.

Yeah but slightly different. The insides are slightly different. They look alike. They're the exact which I'm guessing was just cheaper. It be like cheaper into the same. Yeah. Into the same body. But there's nothing wrong with that. It's a nice metal body with all of them. You're doing an EQ at the end anyway. Yeah, yeah for sure. So plus there's a major deficiency. Then it's just sound. Your basic sound with no cueing out of the 20 is completely flat. Yeah, it does not sound good.

It's made to be cued. Where the 320. Probably you're still going to get a much better sound if you cue it, but yeah, less work out of the box if you don't like it. It doesn't sound as bad as the 20.

That's why when people talk about all of these different microphones and there are four main dynamics still as I see them, which are the two from electro voice, the 20 and 320, there is the sure some seven B, there is the high L P, r 40, and between those I pretty much get them all to sound exactly the same. Once you tweak, you know you can switch microphones on like, oh wait, I know that's a little

I need a little more bass and one or a little more high end in the other, but you just turn a knob and it's there. Yeah. And once you've done the EQ, anybody that says they can tell the difference between one microphone and the other, it's like, not true. Now, if you're listening without EQ healing, probably because they do have different out of the box sounds, but they all work. They all work really well. Well, some of them. You don't need a club monster for it. That's the other issue.

But I love the Cloudlifter man. It gives me the lift that the cloud could only give. Yeah, you get so used to it. I mean, even when I plug in my Rs 320, it goes into the cloudlifter. I just have to turn the gain on the main thing down a lot, a lot, but it's still. Well, I'm I'm contemplating buying another mic here. Oh, Dean Byers. Mike. Yeah, yeah I been trying to get them to do it, but he's been hesitating, so I might have to do it. I want to get the, the USB, X series from road.

And the reason I want to get that is because that has a DSP built into the USB might. And so you can have a gate and you can have a compressor. And more importantly, since the road owns, the A6 stuff now the apex stuff, exactly where I was going. Get my read there. That means that Mike has built in big bottom and, oral exciter, using the DSP, and it's built into the mic now, which means that in my USB that you're, it. No, it's it's called the X 100. I believe, or XM 100 or XLR 100.

It's a it's got an X in there. But it's, It's, you know, maybe just a smidge smaller than their R3 20 or 20, but it's still fairly large. Mike. The differences instead of, you know, having to have a separate, small tube or something else on there, you just have a USB cable. Well, yeah. That's it. Well, specially if you're taking this on the road.

Yeah. Which is why I was trying to get them to buy it, because he's traveling a lot more than I am, and it would be a nice mic to have sitting in the hotel room. Yeah. Dude. Name that name. Bed. Why aren't you doing it? Pull the trigger, my friend. I know he's been so busy with his gun stuff, though. He keeps sending me photos of guns. I don't know why I like you. Is there a militia? Do I have to join? Is there a, You know, should I?

He's really gotten into the whole, GW thing, which is personal defense weapon, which, really is what people are calling sort of kitted out guns that look more like an energy. So, you know, and like, do you remember, what do we see? It looks like. Right? Yeah. Basically like halfway between the pistol and a, very compact rifle.

And so it has a shoulder stock or none of these, of course, have stocks. They have, braces. Subtle difference there. But, the idea is you take a regular pistol and then you buy all the parts to make it bigger and heavier and have a embrace. And but you end up with something that looks more like an Uzi, but it's its guts are still the pistol, which was also nine millimeter. So, you know, really was pistol caliber. It all works out is the Xdm 100 for more. That's the mike. Yeah, yeah.

I mean, it would make CSB happy because oh it's USB c yes. You want your USB three C yes, yes for sure. And and I think it's hard to find things that are not USBc anymore. Frankly, everyone's shifted over. It has a professional pop filter, shock mount and headphone extension cable included. Yeah. But road stuff sounds pretty good. So it's it's the same basic setup that you would get on the, the RODECaster. Yeah. So it looks like it's about the same size as the R3 20. Right.

It's I think it's a smidge smaller, but not by much. Yep. But there's led lights inside of it, so bingo. LED lights up. Yeah, yeah. And so I'm less concerned about what it looks like. More about what it sounds like, obviously. But if if the big bottom of the oil exciter worked the way that they do in the old apex year that I used to have, and that the DSP is nice and clean, which I think no one's really complaining about the rodecaster DSP. It'd be the same DSP.

Then this thing might be the one that might to start recommending to people who don't need to do more than one mic for a podcast. Yes, it uses the road to unify mixing software. Yep. Which is what includes all of the, all of the processing. Which is very similar in that the, at least what I'm looking at here, and their software looks a very similar to what you get in our Mo two boxes, which is you get your wheel mixers, you can adjust everything.

Yeah I think the multiroom one is a lot more extensive and more complicated to learn. This looks a little cleaner, a little easier to learn for people, but it has the essential functions. The, the mode to has every channel, one page for everything. This has the more compartmentalized. I've got the software reloading in here. And their software also lets you it creates virtual chat. So their software essentially does what the software that you're running on the Mac does. Which software?

The where you can around, what's it called? Where you want to just move everything. The, the third party thing about. Yeah. Will I use loopback for, rogue on me, but yeah, they've got a bunch of different software, so it basically does it lets you it creates a virtual mixer in your computer that then you can assign different applications to different channels in the mixer and move it all around. It's like magic. I guess. And then your voice sounds like a radio. God,

yeah. Yeah. So that so that mic has that built in. That's the most compact solution. The other devices that rode has is they also have of course, the, you know, the big boxes, the big box, the. Yeah, the RODECaster two I believe broadcaster Pro two. The their current top line one, which I think is a thousand bucks right now. We got one for video now too. Crazy. Yes. And that the video one is the other one. I was thinking of getting up to the red dress box. Woohoo!

Well, there's this two video ones. That's the expensive one. They also have a cheaper one. But they're, they're, clearly expanding that product offering because they've tapped into the, the market that Streamlabs is in the market that, you know, a lot of companies are in that cater to the streamers. And I think that, they've realized that the musician market is shrinking because of AI music. But the podcaster slash streamer slash YouTuber market is growing.

So that's what they're starting to make more products for. That would make sense. I still don't understand why anybody wants a rodecaster pro over a mode two way I. Yeah, well, marketing is rodecaster actually markets this product to podcasters. Well it might you killed it with their last edition a lot of the functionality as far as having multiple mics minuses. Yeah. Yeah yeah I mean otherwise it's like that was everything it could do in one box without the physical controls.

And I don't know why your average podcaster wants the physical controls because it should be. Everything is. Yeah, yeah. Well, I and I again, I think the answer to that is because they look at other guys doing podcasts and they see them using the broadcasters. And I'm curious, using a rootkit, I know it's like why it's a smaller box in the mode to it was better and they did everything you needed this except for the, you know, you have a couple little luck, but this thing does more.

It actually does what it does more. It is more flexible. It has 20 plus channels of audio.

The but the RODECaster is designed for a specific task. The RODECaster has mix mixes automatically created. Right. So like in the mod two, you have you have to figure out how to make mix minuses. Yeah. So that like the mode two is the, you know, it's it's the ten speed and the, the rodecaster is the, what they call those with.

No, it's that, the automatic transmission thing, you know, they have those spikes that basically the the faster you're pedaling, the higher it automatically goes in the gear. I forget what they're called, but they're they're easier to use, but they're not as flexible. So I think for a lot of people it's a combination of marketing. And and it does have all the features that you would probably use as a podcaster in the road caster. I just don't want something taking up that much desk space.

Right? I like mine just to be hidden. It's underneath my I have the large stream deck. Well, here's, right to the left. On my desk here is a small monitor, which is on the monitor stand is the large stream deck out of the way, and underneath the monitor is the mode two. So it's like it doesn't even exist. It's just there rarely ever have to touch it. Nothing to worry about. Yeah, I never touched mine. It's like it just works. It just does what it's supposed to do.

Whether you're plugging it into a mac or a windows machine. I found it just works. Yep. And, we don't send this dude named Ben's. The only one that I've ever known who's had to send his in for repair. Interesting. What did he do? It was. Have something to do with the guns? No. Yeah, right. There was an accident. I don't know what happened. My guess is it was during a lightning storm, but something got blown on it. And so he hit the ship back.

Yeah, but they fix it, so he's good to get blown until, you know.

Yeah. And and then they were when he was talking to them about repair stuff he asked them like when is your next set of devices coming out? And they said not until 2025. So this year Motors supposed to release new theories. Well, I want to know again if they'll bring back. They screwed the interface on the one that I have because I had the one we both have the one that is. Yeah.

Controlled over a web browser. Yep. And they screwed that and went to their own software, the Mk5 ultralight, which I understand why they would do that. Yeah, which I do. I didn't buy an Mk five ultralight. This one seems to, to work just fine, but we do have a few people to thank for today's show, and I want to get these read because I think I've got a migraine starting, so. Oh, it may get more fun to try to read. Okay, go for it. Go along here.

Our buddy Speedy Bubble came in with three one, two three, four five boost, which is like a little over 12 bucks now. So, I mean, that's putting him at like 36 bucks plus for the episode. That's that's huge for, unrelenting. Well, he probably was assuming it would be spread over several episodes, but, you know, they all came in relatively.

Oh. Did they? Yeah. The first one says, I haven't listened to this episode yet and don't know what it's about, but I've always wanted a Hellfire missile installed on my Jeep, so I'm boosting based on the title alone. There you go. So for anybody that says titles don't matter, obviously they do. Thank you. Yeah. Speedy bobble, his second one says I know I'm a little behind, but I just heard you talking about community and Babylon five.

Hey, dude named Ben got the way better deal out of that trade. Yeah, I'm a sci fi nut. And I thought Babylon five was crap. Yes, yes. And I remember he said the same thing. It's a similar thing to Ben. And Ben was all like, well, you're a moron because Ben. Ben really liked Babylon five, and he. But he's enjoying community. He's on season two of community right now, and I think he's definitely into it to watch the rest of them.

The special effects were done on Commodore Amigas with new tech video toasters. If you're out of that, I say true. Yeah. Oh my God, this. Okay, now I want to see just for that alone. I want to see, Hey, man, Amigas were cutting edge back then. Yeah, the video toaster. I remember that, too. I never had one. It was ten grand. The video toaster. One time I was ten grand, but I remember them. After a while, you could pick them up for about 5000, but they were both pro quality video, devices.

Which, you know, the normal Amiga was very good at graphics, which I think is why the Video Toaster was on the Amiga, but it was slow and it wasn't really made to do video like fancy video shit. It was just a graphic screen on the computer. And I always liked the migas, but I was a mac guy, so it was kind of like the Amigas had color before the Mac had color, and you were jealous. Like that was very jealous of their color.

But eventually when the Mac guy color was kind of like, okay, game over, game setting match, it always used gear. If you can find a lot of the professional stuff, which is how I got the channel strip, I use white from a radio station. He was like, oh, we're going all digital. We want to get rid of all the analog stuff, while the analog stuff rocks. Some of it look for good deals, he said. I was an Amiga fanatic at the time and still found it unwatchable. Bad community. However, was amazing.

So good luck! Yes, thank you speedy bubble again. And lastly Speedy Bubble. Another 123, four five would says, sir, Gene said there are no good Russian handguns, but the method ROF is really a work of art. The caliber isn't the best nine by 18, but the gun design is glorious. He seems to be a bigger fan than I am. I don't know, the. The Makarov is a, It's a very compact gun. And it does use a smaller nine millimeter cartridge, but, it's I don't know.

I never really thought I was particularly, like, good. Is that right? I, I would honestly pick, a Walther PPK over that, which probably is making him mad, though, hearing this. This is how many, pistols are currently in the pistol room. I mean, I'm sure you have a pistol room right next to the potato room. No, no, no, no, that's definitely not true. What do you think? I live in the mansion. There's something. No, no, no. Yeah, of course I have. My my pistols are spread one to a room.

No room has more than one. My bedroom might have two. Just in case. Three out. Just because. Just mostly out of laziness. Because my actual defense gun in my bedroom is a shotgun. I see you're like, I don't want to have to go more than two steps. Well, same reason I have iPads all through the house. How many iPads do you own? Four. Okay, all. And the most recent, do you trade them in, like every year, or are they just the ones to know that I'd be crazy expensive?

No, it's just like they keep working after the new model comes out, right? Well, you just you end up with more every year. I still have the original iPad Pro, and it's still fine for what I do. My kitchen iPad, I still have one of those as well. It's like, it's not like I use it and go, wow, this sucks.

It's like they do die eventually. I've had now two iPads that have died and for me, the death is always the same. It is screen dead lamination really. The screen starts to separate from the body of the device and that's how you know when it's done. Yeah, that's that's usually the beginning of the end. And then it does not last much more than that. And I think the reason for that d lamination is when the battery finally dies, it starts physically expanding in size.

It's pushing the and it's pushing apart the screen and the rest of the iPad. That makes sense. And I've had two of them do that now. So I you know, it's not a it's not a one off kind of scenario. And but I also have so I have four iPads, I have I have two Android tablets. I will of course, Samsung ones. Those are. No, both Lenovo I actually like the little number ones.

I've always wanted to try one of the Android ones, but now, yeah, now that I got the Mac mini, it was always like, man, why am I using a m Apple tablet when I use a windows machine on an Android phone? Now that's all changed. Yeah, you're on iPhone XR. No, no, I still use the Android software mainly, but I have I have a secondary iPhone. Yeah, which was a freebie. And I then have the of course, the tablet. Now that everything is all in the Apple ecosystem.

And I will say, yeah, you'll get an iPhone next time. The, you know, I don't know, you know, if it's a great convenience. And it's weird because you have to have the Wi-Fi on, on your computer. So obviously it's using the Wi-Fi antenna in the Mac mini. But when I, you know, click the little button and put, you know, you want to wake your computer up when wearing the iWatch, it just unlocks magically. Yeah. And so on a mac, it's like you have to have Wi-Fi on. It's like, why?

Why not something like near-field? I don't know why the Wi-Fi has to. Because I'm always like, what was that leaking something? Was it trying to do more? It's weird when you have multiple active network. Or maybe that's just me being old school. Like, I don't like having, you know, Wi-Fi and wired at the same Wi-Fi. If it was just Bluetooth needed to be on no Wi-Fi. Yeah. If I was confused, I'm like, why does I turn like, third Wi-Fi off? I'm like, I got wired. Why do I need Wi-Fi for?

Well, another nice thing is that they they do have a lot of little conveniences like you can actually work on the Mac mini, and then when you turn on your iPad and open the browser, it'll the browser will be at whatever you were looking on the Mac at. Yes. Which is very weird and a privacy issue for anybody that's like, I don't want all this to share. You don't have to turn that. Yeah, you could turn it off. But I, you know, as a guy with multiple devices just for me, I kind of like that.

In fact, one of the things I've always complained about is that signal only lets you have five devices tied to your car. Those bastards. You just see now they're going to let you sync the old messages with new iterations, which I'm not sure I'm a big fan. I don't like that. I'm not a fan of that either.

I think they made the right decision initially, saying when you add a device, you don't get the old messages right, because this would also be a huge privacy concern of somebody convinces it that it's you. Yeah, yeah. Or somebody is holding a gun to your head hearing you log in. It's like, look, it's not me. It's not my fault. Just want more than anything old, right? It's the fucking assholes at signal, man. That's all. That signal. Yeah. So breathe.

Still, I still think we made the right decision with signal. I think there was, I've been on it for about a decade now, and all the other apps that people were pushing at the time of falling off the wayside. Well, what do you think about all of this, the Apple intelligence in that? I'm seeing things from Rob Brackman and others, rob us of Rob. Rob has lost all credibility as far as I'm concerned because his he's full of shit, his concept.

And it makes sense because Microsoft just tried to push what was it called, the thing that was going to take the screenshots like every call. Yeah. You know that. Yes. The second brain that we're going to steal everything from. Yes. Right. But now there is a certain amount of logic that says if these computer companies have the ability to do this and are doing this well, then signal could be the most secure thing in the world.

But it's on my screen and I'm reading it, so then it's really not secure at all. If the mothership, is able to capture that. And, you know, his whole thing was you noticed there was a big issue with the government saying, well, we need to break, two factor authentication. We need to break all this encryption. We need to break all of this. And all of a sudden crickets. So it's like, well, what is the reason? Because they've done it. And these things, you know.

Well, now if you're opening up signal on your Apple M4 device, it's now going well. We can just send this right to the mothership. So the question is how do you know whether or not that is happening. And I don't know I mean again it would be I think for Apple or anybody else, you're taking a huge risk if you do that. Because the minute people feel like you are totally screwing their privacy, they stop using your product. In some people, not everybody for sure. Of course, not everybody.

There are some that are still in the yeah, I don't have anything to hide category. They're usually the ones that wind up in Gitmo. So you're not worried about the Apple and terms everything I read Apple intelligence I think is good. We've kind of like just come from what I think Siri. More like ChatGPT. Yeah exactly. What a from what I've seen it's the move in the right direction. It is taking the AI bullshit out of the cloud and actually having it run in your pocket.

Which is better because the less the phone has to communicate with the cloud, the better, right? And that was always an issue. The deep freeze thing. The what? The deep sea thing. It's like I think, all right, everybody that thinks you're giving up a lot of data by using TikTok. Yeah, the kind of shit people type into these AIS. Way more intrusive and not meant for public consumption, where I make like I don't make videos.

But if I was to make a TikTok video, I would know that it's being public on TikTok. When I go to ChatGPT and be like, I'm really feeling depressed. What should I do? Well, then what do I do? You're not expecting this to be public? Yeah, yeah. So that kind of information, I can see where the concept that a mothership is going to be monitoring everything. Your computer, I know ChatGPT the OpenAI. I just came out with something called control or something like that.

Like the one that came out from anthropic with Claude being able to use your computer. It's the same thing, and it's one genius in a way, but two also, when you look at the privacy issues, there's a lot to consider. You know, it's great for certain things, meaning that you can set it up for a year, a few different use cases, you know, in my case, it could be automated, something like what I do for this show, which is the audio gets recorded.

Well, I can now take the AI and say, well then, okay, once it's recorded, convert it to this type of audio, send it here to get the transcript done, you know, then send the transcript here. Or you could just use one frickin service the way I do and have it all just done. But you could do these kind of things on your own. I'm just using this as an example. Yeah, yeah, but you can do this and have it all automated.

Now, again, for somebody like me, they're like, oh what? You're there is limited edition merchandise being dropped by your favorite artist. You got to get the latest tech. Well, you can now teach the thing. Well look at this website every minute. If something says autographed, purchase it. You know, it's just everything is going to be automated, which is I guess, both good and bad. It's, I mean, a great convenience.

I wouldn't want an AI to, you know, be doing heart surgery on somebody, but, you know, I think for some very basic stuff there, you can kind of just, I mean, the, you know, other oddities are the people showing things like you can go into most of these higher end, whatever that may mean. I mean, and say, create Tetris in Python. Yeah, yeah, it could do that. And it just writes the game and it's like, and then you can play it. It's very weird when you see that there.

There's another thing, I don't know if you've seen this video, this is kind of tying into what you're talking about. Games. There's a guy that did a video showing how to use real time video AI to enhance the way a video game looks, so that essentially like, you know, you've got a fire in a video game that kind of looks like a fire, but it's a little cartoony, right?

So then he uses this video process thing, real time AI filter on that fire, and then the fire starts looking exactly like a real fire.

And he did this with, I think he also ran it on cyberpunk to make the people look like real photorealistic people like the characters in the game. They're already are modeled, using 3D. So they're all their movements are very accurate. Right. But their facial, you know, like, their, their actual skin and stuff just looks a little off. And so using the AI, it makes them look like those hot AI chicks that, you know, they can self generate. Right. And by doing this with fire and he's like.

The irony here is that it takes less processing power to offload the realism. Look to AI, which if video games start incorporating the AI as part of a essentially their filter, right? You're basically going to have a very basic looking game that the AI magic. Exactly. So that's so his his kind of, you know, ultimate version of that as your game looks like, what's what's that game with all the blocked looking people and everything that they like? Very well, yeah.

If your game could look like Minecraft as it's written and then using AI real time filtering to make that look photorealistic, realistically real life, and I think that's just what they're doing in the newer video cards as well. They've got it built in where you're seeing all of a sudden these huge jumps in frame rate, but it's because it's using AI. Exactly. That's exactly what it is. They are like the latest Nvidia cards. The 5090 just came out.

I'm very tempted to order this thing, but I'm I'm so it's it's 2500 bucks. Yeah. Do it get two. Fucking bits. See what it is. More than most PCs costs. It's more than my laptop costs. With a fricking 4080. So it is very pricey, but there's also no point in getting anything cheaper than that, because all the reviewers are doing all the lower end 5000 series cards. They're like, the 5080 is total shit, the 5070 total shit.

The only one worth getting from that series is the 5090, which is to, you know, it's two grand list, but you can't buy it list. You're going to pay at least two and a half grand for it. I remember the good old days playing the NASCAR from papyrus, where I bought a two high end video cards, and then you, like, attached them. There were a couple different technologies. I don't remember what those were called crossfire.

And, something else, right, is it's like you put it, you connected them together and it was like, wow, this is the biggest, baddest thing now. Yeah, they do it every other frame.

Nobody seems to be doing that anymore. Well, no, because they've combined it all in one card stock. Plus, your computer can't really run more than one card because the card draws 400W of power. A lot of power, like more than the entire computer used to. Yeah. I mean, I know there is software to where I can download the whole like deep sky and run it locally on the Mac. So it's like, these are fun things to, yeah, yeah. And they're like, there's a guy doing a video that they did.

They're like using the deep sea. The software they train their own model on the set of Mac mini, ultras or whatever they are, whatever the top end is, the pro, and they had, like, five of these or six of them, 5 or 6 of them that were all working on that concurrently together. And they were able to get a train. So it was it's like not a cheap it's still ten grand, but it's still only ten grand compared to 100 grand worth of PC gear. Right? Oh, this was the biggest thing with deep sink.

And you knew from day one, it was propaganda or at the very least misleading when they're like, oh, it only cost 5 million. It's like we had to do the last round of training. And all of a sudden everybody went, oh my God. It only took 5 million sell selling video, selling video. I knew I should've bought the dip. I knew I should have bought the. Oh you didn't dip. No. Yeah. Yeah.

Once I tell you where the big dip is going to be, as soon as China actually starts posturing and a move to Taiwan and there's going to be a big ass Nvidia dip like half price. That's why you want to pick it up. I don't know. It depends. Do you think China's going to take Taiwan or not? I honestly if they take Taiwan they'll take the Nvidia in is like maybe we shouldn't be here anymore. Well they've had years to move to Texas. Yeah. And they have a facility here.

But they're still greatly predominantly in Taiwan. It'll be fun to watch. We've got a new Samsung Foundry that's being built right now as well, just north of Austin. Maybe you should be the CEO of Samsung. Yeah, I thought about it. I would probably need to learn Korean first. Yes, that would built out of the list. But I mean, you could buy it. Yeah, I mean I like the food. Oh hell yeah I do, yeah I do, I like the Asian girls, things like that. I got no problem whatsoever.

Free hello books.com came in with 565. Oh thanks, dude. He said here's an old school boost. Gene, bring back the just too good old boys theme song. The new one sucks. You know, it's funny. I think he sent a similar message to Ben and I. And what we did is we put out the old theme song as an episode, as a classic. And it's also I also put it up, I think, on YouTube. So it's just available now. Someone wants to snag it. Yeah. I mean, if you like that one, that's great.

A few people have mentioned they they're just very used to it. So they kind of know how to get the new one is way better in terms of description, like the, the, the new one was made by taking the, the copy like the text from all our episodes and dumping it into AI and having it provide a synthesis of what our show is about, really. So the I wrote the lyrics, the I did you just write the lyrics based on, you know what I told it?

It wrote the lyrics based on the actual contents of 100 shows. So it's basically 200 hours worth of text speech that went into the AI to come up with the lyrics and the end result you were happy with. I was very happy with it because it covered so many different things with them. I were just sitting there laughing, remembering which episode we talked about that and see, now this is something the pod father would tell you. AI is no good. Bad father tends to poo poo every. I think I send him.

It doesn't matter how good or bad it is. His comment is like it has no soul. Well, I don't believe in souls, so joke's on you, you know, for little jingles and stuff like that. I think it's kind of hilarious. Like, I think we're where we're going to see AI versus, human written songs and human performance songs is in the exact same ratio that we see paintings compared to photographs. AI is just photography. The interesting thing to me would be how well AI writes music.

Meaning, if you have it, generate something, but most people can tell em if the whole product, including the music, was generated by AI. But what if you just look at the AI, right? I would love somebody to do a study. Have the AI work with it, have it pump out a few songs and play it. Yeah. Yes. And then have a human perform the song. I guarantee you 100%. No one would suspect it's a generally no, of course, it's just be a question of if there were reality songs.

Humans are worse at writing music than I. That's just reality. And because some people that are really good at it, some people are an exception. And that's my point, is AI knows how to emulate all the good ones, but the vast majority are very good, right? And there are patterns. If you if you're writing a country song, there are patterns. If you're writing a rock song, there are patterns. Oh yeah yeah, yeah. There it that and I, I love the country music that AI generates. It is exactly.

Now we may quibble on which are this it sounds like, but it is very much the shit that I was listening through back when I was listening to country music. That's what I got it generating. And I like that. It sounds like that. What are we listening to back in the day? Some George Strait? Yeah. Oh my ex's live in Texas. Yep. George Ross, Randy Travis, George Strait I mean, it's basically late 80s country. Yeah. Before Garth or Robin Garth was coming out. Yeah. Right. When he was coming out. Yeah.

And he'll tell you George Strait's the King.

Yeah, well, and some people will say that, I mean, there's a lot of kings in country music. Well that's true. Hum. Williams jr yeah. Well. Hank Junior. Yeah, yeah. Both ciphers. Yeah. So. And I like King Senior more than I like Hank Junior. So then I like Hank the Third better than all of them. Yeah. Really? Yeah. Okay. I like the death metal, Hank the third, though. I mean, it's, And and the country is so very, very country. There's nothing pop about it, which is what I like.

But that's, an acquired taste for some, I mean he uses some very, very, you know, dark language at times. And yeah a lot of people don't like that. They want a happy happy country country. Yep yep. But I free hello books.com. Thank you. And he says Darren keep rockin. So Jean he hates your theme song if you keep rockin Scott Gorman came in with $5. He says the enemy's gate is down from Scott of Oxfordshire, UK.

I attempted to use the friends and family option to avoid the PayPal surcharge, but this would add 23% to my payment. Oh shit. Is there any way to donate without PayPal? Yeah, direct bank transfer. If you provide the bank details. All the best, Scott. Well, there is the crypto route, and, I believe we have, we can provide you with, What's it that. No, not Venmo. What's the. Maybe it is. What's the one direct to the bank? I mean, honestly, I don't I don't know that there is a better option.

You could do crypto for sure. Like, the problem is it's a multi-step process where everybody also charges something. Yeah. I don't know if there's like, no, it's like I think the issue here is he's getting surcharged not because it's friends and family, but because it's translating from pounds to dollars. Zelle. That's the one I'm thinking of. Oh yeah. Yeah. Which I think is the US only fuckers. Yeah. That's what he was going to say. It's all when he makes acts of bank.

Exactly. That. I guarantee you that X will have better rates than PayPal and everybody else, because he wants to win that battle. And I think that he is definitely moving in that direction. And you saw that they've separated out grok to separate out now. Oh yeah. There's a separate, URL. I mean, it's bounce Euro you can I saw you were you weren't different on your limiting the amount of grok ness you could do. I was pissed off about that because they don't tell you.

It's not that I'm pissed off that there is a limit in general. I'm pissed off that it's not mentioned anywhere in the terms. When you buy something, if it has a limit, that limit needs to be mentioned. Well, sir, you hit the limit and. Yeah, and that's what happened is I hit the limit. It's like, oh we can't do anymore. Great. So, you know, I wrote on the Instagram to him and they replied back with there is a limit. And they still didn't say how much it is because they don't know.

I think the limit is variable. I think the limit is kind of like we have x amount of processing and if it's a lightly used day, your limit is going to be much higher than if it's a heavily used day for generating shit where your limit will be much lower, like they're not committing to a minimum amount of usage that you're guaranteed every single day.

That's the problem I have with it. It's not that there is a limit, it's that the limit is variable and undefined, and they don't listed in their terms of service, right. They can do what the hell's the point of terms of service if you're not going to list things like limits? Well, they can do what? I don't see it any longer. But ChatGPT originally showed you while you have X amount more. Yeah. Queries you can make within the next four hours.

And it changed depending upon I'm guessing how busy their software was. Well, and that's what I like on you know, so I, you see, you know, quite a bit I'm making songs all time. I still haven't published an album, but I've got probably two albums worth of music now publishing an album with. Yeah, I you get ten free and you, you're paying, I'm guessing. No, I'm, I'm absolutely commercial account. So I own all the rights to everything. Damn, man, we got to get some.

We gotta get some jingles in that commercial account. They show me how many credits I have, and it's tens of thousands. But every time I generate music, it reduces the credits by a little bit. Now, the Eddie of the things you posted gotten any traction? Or is it that AI music people know it's AI and they just don't care? Like if you post this on oh sure. Yeah. So none of my stuff got in traction, but I see regular ads like daily.

I see ads for music done by people now, you may not be getting those ads on X, but I, I'd say a third of my X ads that I get popping up and I only see ads and it's, it's still so stupid that they did two tiers of this. But you know, I I'm on the you paid but you didn't pay us enough tier. Don't you love that? Thank you for your payment. Yeah. Thank you for being a customer. Here's a man. Could only give us more. Yeah. Would you like to get rid of all the ads?

Not just some of the ads that we have a super ad free tier for that, right? It's like saying, hey, thank you, Speedy Bubble for being a full member of this. Buy that. But it's kind of the same shit that, YouTube did, frankly, when they, you know, they used to have one tier where you get rid of all your ads and then they they both jacked the price up and created two tiers where, well, the first tier gives you access to three cartoons or some shit they don't need.

And that costs what the old YouTube used to cost. But if you want an ad free experience that we used to have, well, that's $14 a month now. Well, yeah, the people at Netflix, they were going the other way, which is adding company but and, and and what not just them. Prime did that right the last time I think for 2025 Prime at the price it used to be now has advertising and if you. Oh did you want. No ads. Oh well gee that's that's for another 50 bucks a year right.

That extra extra surcharge that you have not yet paid.

Yeah. Yeah. And it, it literally is just taking an existing product, putting ads into it and then saying, would you like to get rid of the ads? Yes. It's going to cost more than that. Ned wants to know, is sir Gene making truck driving tunes? No virtual truck driving tunes? No, no. I can tell you what their most of music is. It's actually Civil War music from, the Russians. Yes. The U.S Civil War. No, no, it's like, it's we will invite Ukraine until those bastards give up.

Yeah. There's no such thing. So we will we'll have probably. I hate to commit to a particular time, because I was originally getting to a point where I have enough for one disc, but I think it will be a probably two discs worth of, Civil War music that I'm disc. But, you're still talking in discs. We're going to print discs, man, because I hate vinyl. So we're going to do a limited run of CDs. Who you can actually print those in your home for vinyl is a little harder to,

Oh, no, no, I'm getting these printed. Printed. If you're going to sell them on Amazon with the Pound Joe's. Hell yeah. The you get a free package with every CD purchase. That's a great idea. Oh, God. No, it's it's a great Civil War song. I had a whole box of ponchos ready to hand out to my neighbors. When we had the cold spell here, did you know we had a cold spell? Were you paying attention?

No, I wasn't, I mean, I know Adam said there was some coolness, but, like, we had a major, temperature dip for about three days now. Luckily, every one of those days, during the day, it warmed up to above freezing. But we have three days where it dip below freezing for part of the. And so if the power went off and thankfully it didn't. And it's funny too because I texted Adam, I'm like, all right, I got I ran and bought the last tank of propane from Home Depot that they had for my generator.

And he's like, you realize now, now that you got a generator, you're not actually going to ever lose power. Power. Just like with my, sump pump. It's like once you get the battery backup. Yeah, the problem disappears. It's karma is totally like that. And so I have two generators now in the house. I got a gasoline one and the propane one, and, power didn't go out once. Yeah, we've considered that.

I mean, originally we considered buying the, whole home natural gas generator, which was, I think, like 10,000 at the time. I think they're closer to 20 now. Yeah, and I think that's what they got at his house. And it's nice, but you really have to have a problem with the power going out regularly to make that. Yeah. Seem like an idea that was the asshole. Now, on YouTube, there was a guy and I'm sure he thought he was being helpful that did a video like, wow, this will save you.

This $5 part will keep your house warm if the power goes out. Now one my furnace already. I don't know why, but it's not hardwired. It is just plugged into an outlet, which is basically what this little $5 part would allow you to do. And it's like, that's great, but you still need a battery backup or a generator. So the $5 part's not good for your phone. Yeah. What is that, $5 supposed to do? The $5 part?

If you have a furnace that is direct connected to the power, which will show you how to, it would let you add a pigtail to it that you kind of plug it into itself in. That way, if the power goes out, you could unplug it from itself and plug it into a generator or something else. But I'm like, well, the $5 part A doing fucking shit to keep your house warm. It's like, so that was just a very, you know, the scammy title. All right.

The title should have been here's how you can plug into a generator if the power goes out with the $5. Something like, I know he can't be any fucking way to do that. Yeah, well, and like, you could also buy a I think it's more than $5, but you could buy parts because I know Ben did this and my dad did this, that basically plugs into your, your, fuze box. And then you can switch from the power main right to an incoming, to 20 line from your generator, which would make sense as well.

So yeah, at least I think it's I would assume it's 220 because it would be melting wires if it was just 110. In the higher the voltage, the less heat you're going to generate with the wire. So this we've never run into I'm not bothered to do that because honestly, I just, you know, I just need to keep my fridges running and one heater for the snakes. And that's a lot easier to do than wiring up the whole house. Well, arguably, no, because your house is already wired.

So if you add this part to your less expensive box, it is definitely it's less. Yeah, lots of, less of a thing. You need to get installed and you can probably do it yourself, or you can hire somebody to do it. Electricians are like 300 bucks an hour right now. I don't know why everyone isn't just going into electrician school. That's a good plus. It's a higher wage than developers. Oh yeah. I mean, you might die if you do something wrong. That's a slight difference in the, But it's a very.

You might die if you're sitting and, you know, not paying attention to your Tesla driving. If you're a developer, too. This is also true. Yeah. So my problem is every electrician I've ever used has no longer become an electrician. By the time I need them again, they just.

They're off, and, they all seem to change. Yeah. Pretty much. Yeah. They all just retire within two years. Made enough money, got to go home. See? See, Brooklyn came in with a 500 Satoshi boost. He says this episode sounds more like Planet Rage. Well, that's a compliment. Well, I don't think my voice has gone down the pitch at all. What the hell is he talking about? Well, I think was probably the topic and we don't have a single clip, so no, you are absolutely wrong. Fire rage is a clip show.

True, it is just like no agenda with anger management issues. Yeah, and lower pitch a a frothy mix with streaming. And then of course, because he's an inconvenient bastard, CSB waits until the show starts to send it a boost because otherwise he's like, I said, the show hasn't run for two weeks. I would do exactly the same thing he did. But it's not just this show. He does it with every show. Like doesn't know how.

When you're going to take a day off, who the hell would everybody should be paying attention? Like during the shows for his $3? Come on, dude, 3015 SATs. That's nice. But do you think fucking speedy bubble one, two, three, 4 or 5 three time CSB. You're not giving enough. You could give more. Do you not value the show? And we know the answer to that. Sign ups says the I think yeah. Look CSB has a different strategy when I've given money. Well it's the agenda.

Other shows I tend to do it infrequently, but with larger amounts. Right. Where he's a spin off, I don't think. Yeah, he's like an every show kind of guy. I, when I, when I was giving money to dungeon, I don't think there was a single time where I. It was less than 200 bucks. Yes. He be $200 a show. That's where you need to be. Yeah. Howdy, comrade Jean and leprechaun. Darren, please tell your audience to go to YouTube and search for my channel titled turn Red. That's racist.

I can't believe he would use that racist word. It is titled Ksby Music Labs and subscribe to this channel. Yeah, he's. Yeah, I'm music like you. I'm subscribed man. I like this channel. I like the one about the video was really kind of what sold it about getting my steps, getting my steps, a walking, walking, walking. And I'm getting my step though. Yeah, he's getting down and dirty with that music that he's putting out there. Yeah, yeah. See I see that music. Well yeah that's right.

Go to YouTube right now. CSB Music Labs, YouTube, CSB Music Labs. Yeah, yeah. He's also CSB X and he's got CSB as well for his artwork stuff. So he's got all kinds of CSB industries. The quality of the music may be questionable. That's definitely true. It's all I music, although it's getting better. I went did one the other day in the studio and noticed that was up to version four. These things are like they come out with new versions like every day or is very good.

I am getting some, what do they call it?

Dreams or whatever. I what's the phrase? There's a word for it. When I was just inventing shelves. Sedating. Yeah, hallucinations. I'm definitely getting some of those of my songs where it just starts using. I can send you a sample of that, just so you see what I'm talking about. But eBay is basically just word salad. Word salad, that of words don't actually go together. And you're like, sound genius. But they sound about right. You know what I mean? Yeah. So it's like, oh, banana potato gone.

Yeah. But probably not potato. It's like banana stew gone. That. But you know I love banana game shoe gun. That's that's great. The song ever. Yeah. Exactly right. That should be that should be the new title of the the music coming out of the show title. The episode. This banana gun that you had. Yeah. That's it. But now we got you happy. Like, what's that all about? Yeah. You have to tune in to find out. It's at the very end. Exactly. We get in trouble. Somebody saying stream is hiccuping.

We getting drops I don't know. No it's Darren guys. It's not the stream because I'm hearing them in direct connection as well. So Darren was having some audio hiccups. Interesting because you've been fully there so I have not. Yeah I know the issue. I wonder if it's might could be this new, network card that's plugged into the USB. Maybe it's not as good. Maybe you're downloading too much playing even though it's supposedly faster at 2.5. Yeah. Then just when? 2.52. I don't know if you do.

Well, you don't catch our show and I do with him, but, yeah, he just converted his whole house 2.5 just to good old boys. I told them what the hell bin. I mean, Darren and I have been at 2.5 already before that. What's up with that? You know, you consider yourself a dude named bad? No. You're behind. You're way behind, man. And we're like, amateur dude's name been. You're a professional dude named Ben. I know, I, I just added two of the, 2.5, switches, and that's about, the massive amount

because the only other things that run are my old windows machine. Now, and now that I've got the dongle yesterday, the Mac mini does come in once I plug in the other dongle downstairs. Will then one of the, allegedly Qnap, systems. Well, the network attached storage, it'll run up to two five. Really? Well, if you plug it into the USB again, it's to you. Oh, I haven't thought of that. That's a I wonder if mine will do that. I've got the Synology because it's got USB ports.

But then we've thought about plugging in. Yeah you can plug it I go in there damn faster, maybe faster. Get that would be bandwith because I was that was one of my annoying depressing thoughts is like okay so my my both my Mac and PC are in two five and my internet switched on to five, but my actual NAS isn't. So I've been thinking of God. I really hate the idea of having to buy a new fucking now, right?

Just to get out of the two points. Well, I would, if I do spend the money, I'm going to go to ten gig right away because, you know, it's we're all going to be running ten gig probably in two years anyway. Yeah, I would like to go shorthand. I mean, I've got a one that's mainly for movies, which is the old Western digital one with four discs in it. There's one that is, comic books and old things that have been sitting around, and then that work, which is four discs, and then you're not to happen.

You're not going to make a mistake like you did this time that I told you not to make in and not order ten gig for 100 bucks on your Mac? No, of course not. Okay, good. The Qnap has two external enclosures, so that technically has four discs in the main unit, then four on the side and four on the other side. So there's 12 of them.

I really just need to get a one box that can handle like 16, 26 drive, something like that, or just not because the drive capacity is so much bigger now than it used to be. That was true. So it's your biggest drive in there you got right now. The biggest one is a I think four twelves. Or 12 terabyte drives. Yeah. Wow. No my my biggest is four terabytes. Yeah. And I've got how many. I got here. 13 of those. That's like the smaller outside, man. You need bigger. You need bigger. You need better.

I don't, because when it crashed, when I lost all the movies, it's being used at about 10% capacity right now. So do you want to download Miami Vice legally? Completely? Of course. Yeah. If I could. Hey, by the way, I did tell you, I think, but I didn't mention on the show I took your idea of downloading YouTube right to the LP. Yeah. So I actually went and wrote a script around that.

So it's now just a button in my browser that automatically grabs the highest resolution version of the movie and downloads it. How do you make it a button? I wrote a script. Oh yeah. She like, created your own damn plugin. Yep, yep. Very nice. But it uses that thing, that command line thing to actually do the work. It's just I have it doing it automagically. Well, that would make sense because I still just have to highlight the URL and then hit services. And yeah, I don't do any of that.

I don't even have to select the damn movie. It's just I hit one button on the on the browser and it just grabs whatever is the movie with the highest resolution? It's the convenience factor. It's hard to beat it. Pretty cool. I, I'm digging it. I would never use it. Of course, it's purely a theoretical concept because, those videos are copyrighted. But of course, I mean, this thing would never do anything illegal.

No, I don't, and I was wrong, actually. I've got eight, eight terabyte drives in that and four four terabyte drives. So that's in full force. Yeah. 884 fours. So basically what I want to just start doing is swapping drives for eight eights. That's 64TB. And then four fours is another 16. So you got what 70 80TB. Yeah. And that one there are two other NAS systems down there Jesus Christ. Well this I'm also using now for my, time machine. Back up. Very convenient.

Then once I do blow this thing up, it'll just be, although I won't say that you may want to look at using an offsite backup. I know, there's a company that I used to use that I don't anymore. Is it backwards? Yeah, backwards. Those guys are really good. I've always, always been a fan. They do great work. They're the cheapest for what they do. But they. When I was using the Mac for photography stuff, I always liked having a offsite backup.

And, anything that is plugged into that computer, no matter how big it is right now, I think it's back. That work? Yeah. Yeah, which was very good because, you know, I had I had one of those, well, what you do is you take the one machine that you want to mirror everything to. Yeah. And back that up and. Right. Yeah. So all everything that has an external raid systems on it. Yep. Yeah. Plug it all into one machine and. God, there you go. I got 8000TB. Exactly. And it's the same price place.

It's like, fuck you. Oh, no. No, they they did it. They backed everything up. They had one of those terrible things that had a bunch of drives. Yeah, I've still got my robots running right here. I haven't run mine in years, so I'm going to guess that the drives are dead. Just totally new drives in it, man. I still like software. Even though the company went by. By. Yeah, it's too bad they went by like, I never liked the company because they were always overpriced for what they did.

Yes, I bought this one used once they were going away. Oh, okay. Well, I bought a new and it was like a thousand bucks, but, there was no other alternative because my drove. Oh, the reason I got it is because it was FireWire or Thunderbolt rather. Well, and nobody else made those Thunderbolt, raid Mac them, right. There probably are these days, but I don't know I it I honestly if I was to replace the raid I would just go with that SSD raid.

There's there's two manufacturers that make them though. Oh those babies up so fast. So much money though. They they're going to be expensive. Yeah, that's the problem because you want to slap in a terabyte sticks at the very end there. Yeah. So everybody just boost boost right now. That's a lot. It the the eight terabyte ones are not cheap right now. They're I think they're about 700 bucks apiece. That's even more than having a wife. And that really. Yeah. Do you you.