¶ Blame Canada - A Strong Opening
Blame Camilla. Yeah, it's pretty gay. Yeah. Let me show you. Breaking.
¶ Boots on the Ground or Underwear Watching RT?
You are joining. Unrelenting. 147. Already in progress. I'm Darren O'Neill. You never throw your boots on the ground. At least that is. What? No agenda said. Boots on the ground. Yeah. You're there, you're there. Russian boots on the ground. Although he also said you were in your underwear. Watching RT was basically. Well, yeah, your boots on the ground bent and that may not be wrong.
And then they went on to say in these, like, you won't find this kind of analysis in any other podcast, I'm like, hey, I accept Jesus for a podcast.
¶ Gene's Show vs. The Mainstream Narrative
Where you might true story. You might get a little more in-depth information on the Gene show. Jay-Z. Just like nobody listens to that. Well, he's right. The, the Russian stuff. Very interesting news today is that the Trump and Vlad have talked. And everything is going in the direction that was expected. Is there anything that we're missing on the mainstream coverage or what is your take.
¶ Trump, Putin, and the Ceasefire Dilemma
I don't know, I haven't been watching mainstream coverage so I don't know it's there, I can tell you that the listening to Putin ians interview about this, the first thing he said is that Trump is doing a great job. The greatest. And then after that, he said that in principle, Russia definitely wants to have a ceasefire. But then he went on to explain why, why that ceasefire right now makes little sense.
¶ The Ukrainian Conflict - Strategic Realities
And, the reason being that there are two different cauldrons that are ready to collapse with something like 80,000 Ukrainian soldiers that will end up being prisoners of war and that, the last time. Well, there's a few things there. One of them is that if they do a cease fire right now, that ceasefire, as was presented to him, does not stop, does not hold the supplying of weaponry and ammunition and volunteer troops from Europe or the US.
So essentially it's a 30 day of we won't shoot bullets, but we're just going to reinforce and resupply, right? Which is what happened the last time, like, oh no. And that kind of goes back to the last time that there was a longer ceasefire. It actually came out from an interview with Angela merkel, who in the interview said that the strategy all along for Europe, for the ceasefire
¶ The Ceasefire That Only Helps One Side
being the guarantors of the ceasefire, was to give Ukraine enough time to be able to receive all the ammunition and weaponry from Europe before Russia attacked. Right. So it's basically like Ukraine's your little brother, he punches you and then runs away and calls for a ceasefire. Right, right. And you are picking up rocks. So. Right. Right. And while not not just picking up rocks, but, well, while having other friends go around collecting rocks and bringing them to him.
True. Yeah. So, he's not as keen on this. You know, he likes the idea in principle, but it's like that. It can't be a 30 day. Russia, don't shoot while we resupply Ukraine. That's no interest in that, because Russia doesn't need a 30 day pause in order to resupply. No, I mean, they've got. And they're the country to do the three years of Russia losing. That's been reported over here by countless people being interviewed. All these, you know, former generals and everybody else. Oh, yeah.
Russia is on the brink of, losing their they're out of food.
¶ Angela Merkel’s 'Strategic' Ceasefire Confession
They're out of troops, they're out of men. They're out of bullets. They're they're bringing up. They're out of everything. Harry. There's. Yeah, they're exactly. It's like they're they're sort of people. They have to bring in people from North Korea. The funny thing about the North Koreans is there was one video which was of them training in Russia, and that's it. There's there's never been a single video from Ukraine showing, oh, look at these Korean. We found something really interesting.
Zero zero actual video proof from anybody of any country showing that North Koreans are getting killed or captured. Right. And that is, except for I think Zelensky did say that they killed all the North Koreans in one day. Well, that was something that, my buddy Larry asked over on, Planet Rage. Oh, yeah. And Larry sent me a nice gift basket for my guess. Right? He sent me a nice gift basket for my our wedding anniversary yesterday. That's nice to him.
You got to catch up. You know, Gene, where's Gene's big basket? Was probably a virtual spaceship, and I just missed it. But he's like, I named the space station after your wife. That should be. Oh, well, that is a beauty full, grateful thing to do. Yeah, but he was like, where's all the video of this? He's like, hey, I lived through, you know, seeing the earlier wars and you always saw, news coverage of body bags, and we're not seeing it.
The Godfather, Adam Curry responded back with the only place he had seen it was on telegram. You know, you're not seeing it on the mainstream media. The problem with telegram, right. You can't be saying, well there's pretty good stuff on telegram. Right. But the problem telegraph a telegram is nothing is authenticated and mostly can't be. And so you have a mix of story videos, Lebanon videos,
¶ Ukraine’s Little Brother Tactics
Iraq videos with Americans attacking and it's all thrown in together. And they're both sides use the same damn videos. And so it's it's on their side. Right. You literally will have a video from, you know, the the 2000s of views occupying a city. In Iraq being shown as Russians killing Ukrainians and then on a different channel, Ukrainians killing Russians. I like it's Americans killing me to live stream. You know, the Iraqis in the Middle East. But it's all presented as proof, right?
Which means you can go afterwards. My theory is you can't believe anything you see, hear or see. You know, I know the only thing you have to believe is if you have a security clearance for any of these countries and have access to raw satellite data and, there's a few YouTube
¶ The Myth of Russia’s Imminent Collapse
channels out there that are showing satellite data that's been cleansed, but at least that is how we know what the actual front is doing. But we're not seeing body bags anywhere. No. And this is because it would appear that the left, even though they've been anti-war for my whole lifetime, it seems all of a sudden, like this World war pro, you know, production of war equipment, pro drafting people, party ever existed. Gotta keep it going. Gotta keep it going. Can't just give Ukraine away.
It's like, well, what price are you willing to pay? Well any price. Well, we'll we'll fight till the last Ukrainian is was said. That would be is what the left is saying right now. Well, it doesn't matter, because apparently it's not the Ukrainians that we care about. It's the minerals underneath. Now, it's only funny because the Saddam thing. Yeah. Which is what we break down the Iraqi war to that, the Saddam thing. Everybody said, well, what are we going in to get oil.
We're only going in to get the oil. No. Turns out that's exactly what it was. Yeah. Stuff for what said we're going to the Ukraine to get the minerals. How do we mean? No, no, no. But also, you know, we had we had to, fight to prevent Russia from fighting the, biological weapons factories. Oh, right.
¶ The Elusive North Korean Soldiers in Ukraine
Because those weren't all in Ukraine to begin with. Well, and as we as we did find out, if you watch some of the people that are really trying to screw with Fousey, his name was all over that as well. I mean, Fauci and I've been calling him Mengele for years, though. Because he kind of looks like Mengele, frankly. But, it's, it's obvious that he was the guy in charge of the U.S. illegal biological weapons program, which is why he got a lifetime pardon for all war crimes ever committed.
Yeah, but is the pardon actually good? If it was auto penned? Apparently, yes. It's that with the legal experts are saying. Yeah, yeah, they're say that auto pen usage goes back to Nixon. It does, but not on vital documents and not at the percentage that we're seeing. It's not like Joe Biden used the auto pen on 20, 30, 40% of the documents. One of the things I read no use them on all documents except for one. Right.
All that is really is an argument for the auto pen saying effectively that was his signature was it. Why did he use it. Not use it on his. I'm withdrawing from the race. Very weird I think, because that was done
¶ The Media’s Body Bag Problem
by, again held to his head and a piece of paper in front of him. You know, the interesting thing would be people have done it would be, Joe would be the one holding the gun. I think that, you know, Joe kind of wanted to be president, so I'm not sure if you would be the one. I mean, we had the House speaker, John Stick, and more like, it was Mike holding the gun. Maybe the, Speaker Johnson saying, I asked him why he did this, and he said, I did, and he swore he that he didn't. Yeah, yeah.
But unfortunately, you know, we have Biden in such a state at this point. That there is zero way to know what his mental state was, if he knew any of this then. So it's like I guess you just have we don't we really don't. But you know they if, if you do the if you Google or you know I it oh you gotta I into the I will tell you it's absolutely fine. And in fact every president including Trump is news out of him.
And I'm fine with the you mention is that Trump had used that opinion once, but because he is in love. Precisely. Yeah. Because he knows there's value in his signature and it'll be worth money some day. Somebody will sell it, and he might actually want to quickly peruse this document he's signing, unlike Joey, who's like, oh, he's got a yeah, I don't know if he does that. He's got a guy that he says, well, what what do we have today? Yeah. And the guy tells him what it is.
And then he goes, oh, what do you think that's I'm pretty good. I'm pretty good. Me yeah. Okay. Let me say that that's that's a typical Trump. Executive order media event. He's got a daily podcast show. Let's face it. I mean, I hear he is, getting rid of Daylight Savings time and turning it into Donald J. Time. Well, if we got Donald J. Time, we have 24 hours in a day. What's that be on? Which would be perfect. I would love that, because that's more my natural style. Make time for being awake.
¶ Is the Left Suddenly Pro-War?
I'm mostly asleep during that time, but. Yeah, but you're usually just playing your video games. We are flipping through the YouTubes the other day and you were live, and I turned it on and Kim was like, is this really what he spends his time doing? I'm like, oh yeah, oh, Did you see the 2000 subscribers I have? No, I didn't see them. I thought those were all, Iranian bots. Doesn't matter. No, that if they're watching the ads, maybe we don't care who's watching them. Just give me more ads.
Hey, man, I'm climbing up there. I'm. I'm, And then I get to, get to a million before too long. Here. That's what Bill O'Reilly is trying to be, is a million by, Easter. And he's on his way. Oh, really? He's under a million. Yeah. Just under I mean, although he only started doing YouTube. What kind of video games do you play in? The best kind. I'm sure he watches a little clips from a show and then does a few extra things on there.
Yeah, I think the minute he realized the kind of money you could make coming in if you have a million subscribers is, Yeah, it makes it worth it if you have an existing, thing is not for politics. Politics is a very low payout, I guess, because the ad is, Yeah. Because no one wants to be attached to any political position.
¶ The Real Reason Behind the Ukraine War?
You must think it brings people into as other things. Probably people buy more bullets for him. It's an upsell mechanism with anything, I think. Yeah. His latest book is still currently six months after it was released on the New York Times bestseller list. And I think that's why, you know, people people mentioned that like, it means something. I know two different guys whose jobs is to do that, to put people. But authors on the New York Times list and it literally is it's $20,000.
You're like, I got it. Like you're like, it's you take shows. It's honestly it means nothing, and it's just the cost. And it's usually for a real book. It's a publishing company that pays it, not the author. Obviously, for. But there have been people that have self-published that would have gotten on that list as well, just by paying the money, because it's true, I guess, a way for people to be like, oh, this is what I should be reading because I'm a lemming. Well, a lot of people used to be.
I think a lot of these things are all going away is like, Gen X is the last generation that gives a shit about things like New York Times lists. Nobody younger than Gen X gives a shit about that. But it's it was a way to sort of not have to keep track of what the smart people are doing and just follow along. Oh, this book doesn't mean that the New York Times must be good. I'll pick that up. I'll read that. Well, yeah, because walking into a bookstore can be quite daunting.
Like most bookstores used to have a, like a 10% discount for 18 times bestselling books. Right? Well, this is also true because they figured they'd be pushing more of those. Yeah, yeah. And it's a self-fulfilling prophecy because in theory, the New York Times bestselling list is only based, the number of books that a bookstore orders.
¶ Fauci, Bioweapons, and Shady Deals
So if you sell out of a book, you ordered more, that increases your book count reading for New York Times less. Well, yeah, because there's no magic thing that tracks how many each book store is selling. But it's not like it's a long time ago. Like probably 20 years ago. 25 years ago, they officially still count that number. It's like, how many books did the were ordered by a store, right?
However, the the little dirty little secret that I know because I said, like I said, I know people that literally are in this business is that you can pay to have the book ordered and no physical books actually ever shipped or delivered. And that number still counts. Interesting. So effectively, it's a totally gamification of the system. What you're doing is you're you're, putting in phony baloney orders with real money. It's reverse money laundering is what it is. You're putting in real money.
I'm telling you, them, don't worry about shipping the books. We don't really need the books to. The books are now like you're saying, they're paid for their virtual grammar. That's what Hillary Clinton gets on the New York Times best selling list.
¶ Biden’s Auto-Pen Scandal
Oh, yeah, there's no doubt about that. She has tremendous number of books that are sold to bookstores. She herself gets a multimillion dollar advance from the publishing company for the number of actual books that were purchased of hers would never get around the New York Times bestseller list. But it doesn't matter, because it's just about the money and the friend family billionaires. But again, because people buy what they see is on the top list. So, I mean, I guess that's the advertising.
Music is the same way. Now, if you're Taylor Swift and you've got $1 billion and your latest album really isn't popping, you're like, well, I think I'll order 500,000 of them. Exactly. I want to put a caveat or an asterisk on that. Is this is true for any nonfiction book? For fiction books, it is absolutely cutthroat. And you have to have a book that's actually selling really well because the the money involved is about ten times higher in fiction books than nonfiction.
So you can spend 20, 25 grand for a nonfiction book to move it up the charts, but it's going to take you
¶ Trump’s Love for a Real Signature
100 grand to a million to do that with a fiction book, because it's a larger audience. A lot of people actually enjoy buying fiction books. Yeah, yeah, they want the escapism. They don't want to learn. Yeah. So why they don't turn into the show? Because they learned something. My, my first book was number two on Amazon for one day. Whoa. Yeah. That's selling author Jean Neff. Julia.
But then you see the problem with, for you selling books online, people are like, n a f I know nobody can spell it. V y b, right. Oh, the Q is silent. It's not in there. I to find that, that's why the perfect, pen name would be John Doe. Except there's probably John. There was a hell of a pen name. And and and nothing prevents you from doing that because you can have you, in fact, you know, book titles are not trademarked, people, right?
¶ YouTube’s Political Ad Revenue Problem
Titles are not. You can you can change your name to Mark Twain and, you know, have your pen name be Mark Twain published books and they're Mark Twain and called your book b, b for their Tales of Huckleberry Finn and it's perfectly legal now. It's a very weird thing in the because there's a some of the, I think like in acting, don't you have to have some kind of variant? I don't think you can have the exact same name, which is why some people use their middle initial.
There's. So there's some registration. I don't know if it's just in Hollywood or if it's like, if they're actors. Well, it's probably just Hollywood. But in Hollywood, you be a I don't know what the official term is, but if you're an official actor, like, you're not a, you know, background actor, maybe it's to be in a union, maybe that's what it is. But I remember reading about this that you have to have a name that is unique, and not the same as any other previous actor with your name.
So a lot of people do have to change names. Like, there's a, there's a guy named Michael Jackson in there and there. Right. Yeah, something like that. You would be using. Like, if I go on to, you know, Amazon and I do a search for individuals, and then there's somebody else with the same name writing books in the same vein. That's like, how would you know which is which?
¶ The New York Times Bestseller List Scam
Right? Or like Adam Curry, you know, in basketball. Right. Well, you know, big black guy instead of big white dirty Adam Curry. Same difference. Oh yeah. They're that's why Adam have changed his name. You know I didn't know that his name was originally Steven. Yeah yeah Adams originally Steven then. And then he had to become Adam because of Steven Curry's that basketball player. You're upset about the whole, sitting in your underwear watching our teeth thing, aren't you know that?
Because it's true. It's like. But it's interesting because if people would all. I mean, one, you can look at the massive change in the way things are covered just within the endless world in the, between the left and the right. It would be really interesting. I mean, I don't understand Russian, but I would assume that the Russian coverage is way different. Yeah. And people though, you know, again, you have to understand what propaganda is that you're being.
It's it was somebody had a quote from, The Daily Show guy Jon Stewart that was talking about the news media. I forget if it was the BBC, something he's like, well, you understand, it's just, government media. So it's all just, you know, propaganda. We couldn't we wouldn't he would never, you know, have that in the United States. Oh yes. The the ridiculous quotes from John Lee. Yeah. We believe too much in freedom of press. Right.
It's like you think what we have now is a free press that is giving you actual facts rather than propaganda. I mean, come on, the problem is, it's true. The BBC, too, is it's self-fulfilling prophecy. When you when you censor what the press can do, the only people willing to work at the press believe the information that is identical to censorship. Right. And so after a while, you don't need to censor the press. They self-censor because of their ideology.
And that's what we have in this country is we have a, a sort of a self, censoring press due to their ideological, beliefs, which will always skew stories in a direction that maybe some people believe that there's some, you know, big entity pushing them to do. But I don't think that's actually the case. And, and yeah, I back when I was in college, I was involved with the, university paper. I was the, well, what the hell is my panel
¶ Fiction vs. Nonfiction - The Cutthroat Book Industry
with their board? As chairman of the board, I was the, the head of the paper, basically. And, like, the editor reported to me, you know, that the editor in chief. Well, he wasn't if he had somebody that he had to report to, the marketing director reported to me. So I was the guy that make sure that the that the school paper actually still is able to function. Practically. I'm still doing that same job just for other people. But did you call it the daily gene editing?
Yes, the University of Minnesota Daily. Gene, we're renaming the paper under Under My control. We're going to make the paper great again. The daily gene all video is, you you're back in the day. The daily gene was a pretty good paper. No. No, not so much. Probably these days, all video game and sex worker ads. I get no sex worker ant man. You may get those because you're pirating software. I don't get the pirating. Never. No. That were illegal. Yeah. Well yeah I read on a mac.
I don't think so. And. It's impossible. Yeah. I'm sure you've never looked into it. Although the torrent sites are dropping like flies lately. Are they. Yeah. Is the pirate Bay stop? Yes. Which also makes me believe that it's some kind of a honeypot at this point. It's always been a honeypot. You know, it's very interesting to see what's called their pirate Bay. Hello? Hello. Come on, come on in. And then nobody really wants more, honey. Polly, can you get them the the Pirate Bay?
That's a great name. Jeff. Where's over here, boys? It's a great, totally illegal. The site is definitely not one what it once was, but there were a few. The what? RA B.G. was a big one for a long time. That shut down about a year ago. And everybody kind of moved over to torrent Galaxy, which was big for the last few years, and that was the the oddity was that it was bought by somebody else.
That's like, well, how do you sell a I mean, I can understand this is all of these shady underworld dark web kind of a thing. But somebody else bought it and basically just ran it right into the ground. And it's been down more than up now. But it's interesting because it's like how do you make money.
¶ Gene’s Brief Moment as a Bestselling Author
Because people stealing shit overall are not the kind that are going to pay. That was like the last ditch effort on top. Galaxy was the big Here are our crypto addresses. Please help some money. Yeah. You know, but it's like okay, but you're you're asking people who are refusing to pay $5 for a piece of software to set the money. Right now, it's like, I don't think that's going to work. And again, that conversation was about it before.
When it comes to piracy, for me, it would be price your stuff reasonably. And I know a lot of people might argue that, well, I can't afford to give the software away for 10 or 20 bucks, but if you did, I don't think people would waste their time trying to find a pirated copy. Understanding the implications of what that could do to your system, especially a windows machine, that's that's the oddity of Mac piracy. There's very little chance for you to get any kind of malware on a mac.
Yeah. Almost done. So the whole piracy thing is not it seems like the community that is there allegedly is one that is just trying to help other people and to provide things, not to add a crypto miner or a, right. You know, something bad to your machine. That's right. I think a lot of people, back in the day, a lot of people really saw it as a ideological stance, more than a money saving stance. Right? Like, screw the man. Well, might even screw the man.
But the idea being that everything should be open source, right? Because if somebody doesn't choose to be open source, well, we're not going to bother respecting their copyright because the best software is always the open source stuff. Yeah, don't even start. I had to use Gimp the other day. What do you mean, had to, I needed something quick to make, YouTube thumbnail. And I needed something that was better than Microsoft Paint. Well, okay. Yeah, Gimp is better than mine.
I was doing the editing while I was live streaming, so
¶ Why Titles and Pen Names Matter
I couldn't have anything that would suck a lot of resources out of my computer, so I had to use something quick and dirty. So I used Gimp, but it was like like Gimp. Today in 2025, feels like it's less, less of a software product than Photoshop in 1995. So like Photoshop 2 or 3, like Photoshop two? Yeah, the early years. It's it is clunky. Isn't even the right word. It's just disjointed.
It's like you have 20 different people that all wrote their own little piece, with zero interest in trying to make it work with the other people's pieces. Well, that's what a lot of it is. I mean, exactly, I know, I know, I know, that's why I'm not complaining, but it's just clunky. It's a pill you're taking today. Antibiotics, along with the, CoQ10. Are you pro?
LOL. Yeah. Can I give you some medical advice? No. I'm sorry that what this show does, so, I started I think I mentioned this two weeks ago. I ordered some of this stuff called Strobe Blue, Tarot Blue or True Blue Trotro tarot. It's strobe blue, tanzanite Texas. And, so this stuff has caffeine, nicotine. What's this other thing? Hemp extract and methylene blue. Hence the blue part. Yeah. And, as, as, as much as these ingredients are not particularly healthy.
Yeah. I mean, you don't think of them as supplemental type ingredients, like. Wait a minute. Like, all three of these are addictive. The the thing I have to say, just from personal usage and that not a medical recommendation is it definitely cuts through the fog. You know, that brain fog you get occasionally. Yeah, because you've got stimulants popping right in nicotine. Caffeine. Yeah. And, CTB and it so the methylene blue. Well, I didn't realize this.
You know, the methylene blue is actually a mild antibiotic.
¶ Hollywood Name Rules vs. Book Publishing
I was unaware. Yeah, it's used in treatment, intravenously, to prevent, bacterial infections. So now that would be good stuff for me. This good stuff. That's what I'm saying. So, yeah, I mean, I don't I think the other ingredients are probably more responsible for the mind clearing, but the methylene blue from the more I've been reading there, really.
I mean, let's let's be frank, more watching videos about it, the more I'm starting to think that Kennedy is trying to fuck things up for us because his latest thing is he wants to get rid of all food coloring. Well, what do you think methylene blue is? Well, a lot of the food colorings aren't good, but it all depends what you're using for a food coloring. So there are some that the, the, stuff they use now mainly for red is like, insect bugs.
Right. That have been, yeah. Authorized, fully nutrient and nutrient full, which, to be fair, at least they're natural and organic. They're natural. They're little bugs. Now, if you're using something for food coloring that is not natural, then that's, it's a little bit of a different story. So the way I use the whole methylene blue, I'm thinking of deal. And, so far, I like it. You know, I keep doing it is expensive shit, though.
Well, everything is like the, like the quite a bit more than the other supplements, I think, because, you know, I mean, I take like 35 pounds a day, you know, like, let's try them all, throw them all in. Let's see what happens. Oh, you're supposed to do them all. Yeah, right. All at the same time. Yeah. I mean, it's really a meal replacement because it's like 15 pounds of pills. Well, it's probably a half a pound of pills for sure. Gene puts them in all these pills in a big bowl, adds
a little bit of milk, eat some like cereal, like. Ooh. And then the whole bowl is blue. Now it's. Well, yeah, because that's the bread. And that's like a Lucky Charms kind of a thing. You know, this is the only problem is it clears the bowl blue. Oh okay. Well that was it's actually dying that it literally impregnates ceramic. Yeah. Just imagine what it's doing. Permanent coloring. Imagine what it's doing to your insides.
Well, it's not doing anything to your insides because it's catalyzed fairly quickly. RFP process that and that the color becomes white.
¶ Adam Curry vs. The Other Adam Curry
But yeah, it's been a, interesting week. Last week, wound up in the hospital with some, racing heart, which again, came with the the extra heart beats. Right. Which the last time an antibiotic cleared it up. But no, you know, nobody in the hospital wanted to, try to comprehend that. So I called my doctor's office, had a phone visit with the nurse practitioner, described everything that was going on. So she gave me the amoxicillin. And with something else, they added into there.
And while I do the caffeine feel like that, I had a, I like I probably have a sinus infection again. Yeah. Yeah. I just didn't really realize it because the last time, it wasn't until the sinus infection was so bad that the tooth was sensitive to cold. And yeah sure enough, the minute I start taking the antibiotics all of a sudden all this mucus start draining. I'm like interesting. Well that had to be somewhere amazing. And the packs have once again stopped. So yeah.
And that was the antibiotic started that last Friday and felt, you know, one here and there. But that's kind of normal. But it's I felt it, last Monday and over the weekend and Monday, especially before, Planet Rage and then it went away and then Tuesday, you know, going into Tuesday night, Monday night into Tuesday night. And then the wife went to work on Tuesday and like within a half hour of her going to work, I'm like, you know, I kind of feel and it feel funny.
So I went and did the whole watch thing with the EKG and it's like, oh, heart rate 150. I'm like, okay, that's not normal. No, it's not being stationary. No. So I called the cardiologist office. I'm like, you know, I don't you know, I don't have, you know, problems breathing. I don't have any chest pain. But the heart is racing at this point, you know, what should I do? And they're like, well, we could see you in the office at, like, 1:00.
They're like, Then they went and go check with one of the doctors. I'm like, why don't you just go into the E.R.? So I went into the E.R. and I mean, I guess the nice thing about having your cardiologist in the hospital is that he actually met me in the E.R., so there was, and then when we got home, there was a news article. The wife found that some device he invented that they just started implanting in people, mainly for, like, older folk.
¶ Propaganda Wars - Who Do You Trust?
Yeah, but it seemed like it's kind of like a, you know, if your heart stops kind of thing that it, like, kicks in. You kind of have to fib all the way, all the time. Like to try to keep your, But that's interesting. I think they used to be called pacemakers. This is not a something that is running all the time, though. Like a pacemaker. So I have to do a little more research into that because I was kind of intrigued. But, he's like, I, you plug yourself into USB every night, right?
Probably recharge yourself. You like I have to forgive to, you know, happens again. You know, getting ablation that usually helps. Like but I don't know if the ablation necessarily helps. In the last time, the last cardiologist was like, well, you're not really in AFib. It's just the packs that are hitting over and over and over again, which is causing that. I mean, there's so I was going to mention to you, I don't think we talked about it. I have this this thing called cardio.
Have you heard of it? No, the cardia is a little portable device that lets you do a six lead cardiogram. So it's just like what you're doing on the watch with more, but more. Exactly. Yeah. So it's like the watch, but more and, it's very compact. Carry it with you. And then it's kind of neat seeing the whole, you know, like, six, six the lines instead of just one for your cardiogram,
which gives a much better indicator to the medical professionals. And now I don't do this, but they also have a service where you can also subscribe and, and some things, you take a 30 gram, send it to them and then they're, doctors will analyze it and get back to you and tell you if you need to go to the emergency room. Now, do you have to, like, do all the little stickies all over your chest? Nope, nope, nope, not at all. You just have to keep pressure on it. Interesting. So check it out.
It starts with a k cardia with a k cardia with of course it was a different name. Of course I wish we were sponsored. We're not. This just happens to be something that I have. Could you just imagine if we were sponsored by Health? Okay. It's really it's not hard to do. All we'd need to do is have about 100,000 subscribers and we can get those medical device placement. And we I've seen these with the little leads that you tie, let you touch. Yeah, that makes sense. That makes sense.
And that way you get a little better idea of what is it.
¶ Censorship and the Ideological Press
And Bluetooth talks to your phones. The app is on your phone and I hate the, for the EKGs. And I swear to God. Yeah. When I got in there, when I went to the room, there were like three different times that they did EKGs and they all wanted to add their own little pads by the time I was getting out of there. So I got a big hairy chest, man, let me tell you, there's a nice little cotton gel pulling off like 15 of those sticky, oh, god damn. Those are just like, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
You might have a hairy chest. They have to shave me to put those on. See? That's it. There's got to come in like. No, sir. We got to, I'm like, you know what? The next time, if I have, like, five minutes before I have to go to the E.R. or wait for the ambulance, pull it out. The your wife's like, hurry up. You're like, hey, I'm honey, I'm shaving. That's a shaving, right? Yes. Because otherwise this is not going to be fun. Yeah. It is not going to be fun.
So that was, that was that the heart rate went back into, normal sinus rhythm on. It's on my heart. Not the rate. The heart. Yeah. Because otherwise they're like, well, we're going to keep you overnight. Yeah. And if you're still in A-fib in the morning and they're like, we'll put the thing down your throat, no good. And I guess this is the new thing.
Now they have like my, my dad had this not that long ago where they went down to look, they basically do a, you know, kind of like a little MRI from the inside to look at the heart. And they're like, well, now they have the thing where they can go down there like one we want to look in, make sure there's no blood clots in the heart, but they can do the, electrical reboot of the heart from that device. Now, that doesn't sound good. I know it doesn't sound like any fun whatsoever.
Like we're going to stick something down your throat and then shock your heart. How you feel about that? Yeah. Sounds like it doesn't connect to your heart, right? I don't know exactly how they do it. They do not understand but that will probably don't quite put it down your throat. They probably put it in the artery going up to your head. Anything's possible. Anything is possible. I've watched enough house episodes to know everything. All these procedures. Yeah. That I could tell.
The wife was getting a little, like, not agitated, but she had her surgery scheduled for Thursday into Friday.
¶ Gene’s University Newspaper Days
And then she had staying overnight because there were some complications with that. And, now my it's very strange for everybody, my father in law, although he has cancer, so he's in and out of the air all the time. And now my sister in law, who is, you know, getting to be about 60 or so, she needs her gallbladder out, didn't was having pain and not going into the doctor. It's like always going to the doctor because they took her into the ER yesterday and are doing the surgery today.
So that tells you how bad the gallbladder is. It's never like next day surgery with gallbladder. It's like, oh we'll schedule you for like 4 or 5 weeks no problem. And my nephew's wife, who is 29, also having the gallbladder out next week, like a lot of people are getting sliced and diced around me. I don't know what it is. Getting old is what it is like. You tell you that right now, I yeah, I'm at work. It's like, I guess it's better than the alternative. Yeah. Are you are you taking it right?
M k is she taking her vitamin K is better question. Yeah, I believe so. Yeah okay. Make sure she is. Yeah they have a lot of k yeah a lot of fun. So yeah the wife will be getting another surgery in about three months. So yeah. But then after that everything should be good later. It was because of her diverticulitis that they didn't realize it was as bad as, it was. I guess this happens in about, 1% of the cases or less.
It was actually starting to the colon was starting to attach itself to the organs near it. Oh my God. And the surgeons, like, you know, if this would have ruptured, you know, if you survive, that's always it's good words like, well, if you were to survive that, that you might have a bad series, like, you need to get this taken care of. So I guess it's really good. She was having the other surgery that they found out that it's the,
diverticulitis is nothing to play around with. No. And if you if you watch House, it's probably either going to be lupus or, it's never luck with audiences. Yeah, right. It's always got to be lupus. Got to be something good. So at least you know overall everything seems to be moving in the right direction for now. Everybody's like why do you not do an unrelenting. Okay. Well nobody asked actually why we didn't do unrelenting
¶ Piracy, Torrents, and the Death of The Pirate Bay
I mean gin shows up when we're live net med shows up Omega project cipher. Sometimes I don't think anyone knows though. Nobody did know. We could just, like, Skip for five, six months. Nobody asked. Man, I have to actually post people proactively and said, we're not going to be on like, what do you mean? Usually you would think that there would be somebody posting saying, hey, you're going to be on only nobody asks. He's always more like the day after, hey, were you guys not, right.
Where are you to show no, the cotton gin wants to go for live right now. It's like, no, we it's a prerecorded show. Yeah. We just. Yeah, we know exactly when you're going to ask questions. So we just add that in. It adds the obvious. Obviously this is the time period in the show when we answer questions. So. Right. Yes we are. We are in fact not life. Correct. And there were some people since the last show that support of the show. So this is amazing. Or maybe, maybe we should do not no shows.
We should do more. No episodes right before we skip shows. The money comes in. They're like, thank you for making my podcast listening easier. But not doing the show. It all guys gave us back to our space. Yes, exactly. The gift of time. Especially when the daylight savings time was hitting. It's like we. Yeah, I thought we were done with that. This is bullshit. That's why we need Donald J. Trump time. He needs to make time.
Great again and rename it like the Gulf of Mexico is the Gulf of America. We need to just have the time. Renamed for Donald J. In the Gulf of America is the Gulf of America. That's true, but we need Wawa. I came in with ten bucks via PayPal. I think that's monthly, so thank you. Weenie Wawa. Yes. 1080. Scott Gorman came in with ten bucks. That's monthly. I believe. Keith. Cipher. It's five bucks. I believe that's monthly as well. See, everybody jump out a monthly. Come on.
That's the key. Yeah. Keith Shoemaker 393. That magic number and covered the PayPal tax for you, so thank you. Nice. I used to know a guy named Keith Shoemaker. He was always the guy that was trying to, like, sleep on people's floors. When we go to, follow the one country artist. So that was working for you. That was going to see. And he he was like, I just need I, I, I made it to the show. Just need a place to stay. Different guy though.
I looked him up and, the, Army pulled up here via helipad, of course. 3989 Satoshis, which is about three bucks, I believe, right now.
¶ Software Pricing vs. Piracy Ethics
Comic strip blogger, he says, hey, you know, how did you and Irish guy, how far does yo CSB have fun, you two? CSB yeah, have fun to like. It's a Polish guy, an Irish guy and a Russian guy. I'll walk into a bar. Well, we know him. Well, actually, I was going to say out of that group, we don't know who's going out. Drincuz. That's true. Yeah. I haven't really had a drink in a long time. To get that heart rhythm thing. We don't even, frankly, we don't even know who's going to eat more potatoes.
Well, that would be CSB, obviously. I don't know, man. The Irish know how to put away potatoes. I mean, if you make them. I did have a sweet potato yesterday. Does that count? Yeah. Those are good for your heart. I know that's like, hey, so good. They are very good. I love data fries. Yeah. We can get those a lot of places instead of regular fries here. You can make them yourself too, but you could also get them as fries and have restaurants here.
These sweet potato fries just, you know, cut those up, put them into an air fryer. But just the full sweet potato. It's so easy. It just makes sweet potatoes super easy to do because you just dump a bunch of sugar on it. No I don't even do that. It tastes so good even without the cinnamon I mean with the cinnamon and sugar. Yeah, it tastes better. Yeah. Cinnamon sugar baby. But even without it, I just a little bit of Irish butter maybe.
But you throw the sweet potato in an air fryer 400 degrees for like 45 minutes. The skin gets nice and crispy. The inside, it's nice and soft. Oh, it's beautiful. It's one of the few things that is it's good. Yeah. Pseudo healthy or actually healthy and doesn't taste like crap. Yeah. Now what's the difference between the sweet potato on the em? I think they're in the same family. I don't know exactly if there's a different species of the similar kind of if it's not just a different name.
Yeah, I don't think they're that different if they are into the exact same thing. I need to buy one plant that you like. That's the what? You got the whole tato room, right I do, yeah. Genes. Potato. You should put photos up of that on the metaverse. Oh hell no. I don't want anyone running over here when we have the big, the big, nuclear war happening there like we need. Yeah, I get my potato plants. These are mine. You're like, I'm only going to be able to live for, like, three weeks on these.
You better be wearing that.
¶ GIMP vs. Photoshop - The Eternal Struggle
You have the nuclear bunker, though, don't you know I don't have a nuclear reactor? You just start. It should start hitting the ground. That would be all I've been wanting. So, dude named Ben named Ben sends me videos of these giant, super expensive bunkers being put in. The people are doing the multi-room bunkers that that you need a golf cart to drive around. Oh, yeah.
They're well, they're like pretty, they just dig the big hole that in, like, schlock them into your backyard, dig insanely big holes. Yeah, it's like a swimming pool sized hole. And they they lower it in there, and then the the cheap ones are square. The good ones are actually round, because they're more apt to survive. Interesting. Oh, yeah. It's a stronger, concept, I guess. Yeah. It it doesn't have a weak spot.
Now, M's, according to perplexity, belong to the Dio's scoria genus native to Africa and Asia, and are edible tubers. They are and about the sweet there they are belong to the hypermobile genus, and they're native to Central and South America and are root tubers from both root tubers. Well, what about regular potatoes? Well, one's a root tuber. And the yams, they say are, edible tubers. So I don't know why one's the same tuber and one's edible to different people.
Wrote the article to look up regular potatoes, tubers, tubers? Yeah. Look up the regular potatoes. Now see vitamin C? Sweet potatoes are higher than yams and higher in beta carotene as well. Sweet potatoes. Now for copper. Yams have more and potassium more than double in a yam than a sweet potato. Really? That's what it says if you believe perplexity. Now what kind I would I believe, for I just want a baking potato, a red potato.
What do we got comparing to just, you know, potatoes come from the new world as well. The new world order. No, the here they come from here. Really new world. Yeah. They didn't exist in Europe compared to a normal spud. Let's see what that gives me. Yeah. You're looking for the Solanum tuber. Them, burrows them. We didn't know we'd have spud dog today.
¶ The Benefits of Methylene Blue
And unrelenting everybody. Well, they may not have known that. If you had it on your bingo card, you win today. If you had him, if he had Spud talk. The regular potato is stolen. You? Yeah. Us. Yeah, that's the one. They come from the South America Andes region. You want them to grow some? Very. They didn't exist in Europe. They don't. First got to Europe in the 1500s and quickly were adopted by the Irish, the Polish and the Russian. Well yeah. You got to make potato pancakes and vodka.
Wake up. Yeah. I mean, I think that's what Adam Curry forgot. Gene sitting in his underwear watching RT, swigging vodka. I haven't had a drink in years, dude. Yeah, I didn't say you were swallowing. You could be like Bill Clinton. I I'm just swigging. I'm just swigging the vodka. Yeah. Although that you could probably still get a little buzz from because it probably just goes, well, they're poisonous. What's poisonous?
Potatoes. Regular potatoes. Yeah. Poisonous. Yeah. They have the tax and so on in which believe is a, it's an alkaloid poison. But why would you ever want to eat it? Well, that's why you don't eat the plant. That's the poisonous part. You only eat the, the root. Oh, yes. The tubers. It says, among yams, potatoes, sweet potatoes and regular potatoes. Regular potatoes have the highest potential for toxicity. They contain that glycol. Oh. Keloids. That good such as swollen in and. Yeah. In cecconi.
Yeah. These are big words kids. You don't want them in green sprouted or improperly stored, but the, the symptoms, the selenium is a production of, effects such as cardiac arrhythmia. Well, that's not good. No nightmares. Like doing the show over and over and over for headaches, vomiting, diarrhea and eczema. Oh, well, that's no good. And they'll kill your thyroid. Do not want. But other than that, they're very delicious. It is a sweet. Potatoes are what you want, and they last forever.
Man, I had one that we made last night that was like sitting on a chair
¶ Kennedy’s War on Food Coloring
that I forgot about in the dining room because, like, there was a window, they had a bunch of food and it's like, I'll just throw it over here. And I'm like, oh, it's fine. It's great. A dose of 3mg/kg body weight can be fatal. Oh, that's by potato. Yeah, yeah. Can, death may occur as rapidly as two minutes. Oh that's not I mean, that is like you're really going to regret having that potato skin. And there's also a correlation with birth defects. Yeah. No worries about that at this point.
Not those are often used to poison livestock. Really. The more you know, if you want to help support the show, to find other great information like this, you go to unrelenting. That show. I thought you were going to say you go to Wikipedia. You could take that show, slash donate to help this show continue going on and go to Wikipedia. Or you can go to help laxity or ChatGPT. They all kind of give you the same lines, does it just yet. You can't. GPT creativity lies, little boy.
Don't you believe ChatGPT? No, you don't cock up, Jane. Do you believe that you don't believe ChatGPT? Come on in. I've got a soda. That's that's, I'm genuinely too close for comfort. Little dude. It's the Herbert the Pervert show. Maybe this is what I should be doing on YouTube. You should do it. If you could do that voice on YouTube with some really janky cartoons. Well, you could take other people's cartoons and just do the voice. And that's totally considered a parody, right?
Yeah, well, not even just parody, but a a very it's part of the, exceptions. The seven exceptions to copyright law is, if you substantially change the, you know, through a reuse of something, substantially changes the final product, that would be changing it. So you could take like a, I don't know, say Disney mouse cartoon or something. Well, now you could use Steamboat Mickey. He's in the Oh boy. He fell in. I'm talking about like the leader mouse.
True. And then just use that voice, boys and girls.
¶ Darren’s Hospital Adventure
And they can't do anything about it. I mean, they could absolutely do something about it, but you'd. The law would be on your side. Hi, everybody. It's me. No, no, you can't you can't do both the voice and the visual at the same time. So that would be. That's connected. Yeah. Yeah. You gotta gotta bring it into a totally different voice. Yeah, that makes sense. Now, if you did, that voice was like, Star Wars movie video. That would be okay.
What if I take, the, Tim Poole's video Darth Vader talk like that? What if I made Tim Poole sound like Mickey Mouse? I think that would be too close to the original. You can still be confused. Yeah, yeah. We don't know what Timmy's doing. Temple's being accused of being a right winger. Left and right now it's hilarious. Well, now that the Russian money from you stopped, he's probably really hurting. Well, he had to lay off a bunch of people. He's like, oh, no jeans, $4,000.
A show donation stopped. Yeah. That's it. I, I'm no longer a member of temple at this point because, you know, ladies and gentlemen, Gene is out of the pool. I'm out of out of the gym pool into the gene pool. Right. Said, don't send your master hottie. That's it. Did you did you did a show called the Gene pool. Then you could be like, don't send your money to Tim Pool. Send it to Gene pool. That's right. All he does is listen to our team for you. That tells you what they're saying.
I don't listen to. I was on the phone yesterday to a person in the, actual country yesterday that my news from the horse's mouth. Now, it seems that, the United States now is this deal. If it goes through and it seems like it may, once the United States has people in Ukraine playing find the lithium or whatever they're doing, does this make it much more complicated for Russia to try to do anything in Ukraine?
Meaning it just turns out, from what I'm understanding, like all these areas that are contested, and that just happens to be where all the good minerals are. So if you have American companies or whoever is going to go in there, you know, and then Vlad decides that he wants to bomb it.
¶ Heart Monitors and EKG Horror Stories
Is this then akin to provoking a war with the United States? I mean, that's why, you know, I think the concept was. Yeah, I think that's kind of the intent, you know, so we put Americans on the ground. They're not they're not going to be military because that would be aggressive. It's I don't know if anybody, after thinking about this would be too thin on the exploration of minerals in Ukraine, Because you're effectively cannon fodder.
The only question would be, I mean, you want yes, you are cannon fodder, but would the United States? Because really, the only reaction could then be World War three. Yeah, pretty much. So it's like, is it really a good idea to put, American boots on the ground, even, you know, nonmilitary? Well, if it's for Europe, because then they don't have to put their boots on the ground.
We a Europe very rarely wants to defend their own territory or to send their own soldiers or their own money, for that matter. Europe mostly likes to talk as though these countries are all in the periods of time that they have in their history books of greatness. Like every European country, he had his moment at some point in history. And they all want to talk today as though they're still in that period.
So they have devolved themselves by joining completely and embraced communism to an extent that at this point is challenging the old USSR. I mean, the the level of government controls in these countries, UK included, even though it's not part of the EU, is astounding, like the putting people in prison for saying something online. Oh yeah, that is actually common sense there. It's it's all the shit out of 1984.
Except it's not like, oh yeah, like the old Soviet Union, except no, 1984 was written about the future of Britain. And it's exactly what's happening right now. Yes. Oh, what do you what are you doing outside this, the other side of the street? Some of the abortion clinic. Oh. You're praying. Oh, that's illegal. That's illegal? Yeah. What? What do you think this is, a Christian country, right? What are you talking about?
¶ Shaving Advice for ER Trips
It's insane. Yeah. If you mention the fact that, there's a disproportionate rape committed by people who practice Islam. Oh, you can't be saying that. That's a prison sentence. But how dare you point out the actual facts of what's going on exactly? These are all punishable. And, And it's not just Britain. I mean, we hear about a Britain because it's English language, but it's also happening in other European countries as well.
Now France has gone the other way to where they're basically fully just giving the Islamists everything that they want. I think this is payback for Algiers and the the French control of North Africa. And now we're going to have the North African control of France. It's not going to be good. Now, Italy seems to be, at least for the moment, kind of pushing back on this, but I don't trust that check.
But this is also why mass murder Ridley immigration by people who have completely different ways of life and values is not a good thing. Now I leave. I agree we can see this in the United States alone. That people congregate with the people that are like them when you met Michigan. Yeah. But I mean like you to a big Mormon community nobody cares because most of the people are born. It works. They like, they leave. Everybody alone really leaves them alone. They live their life.
We live our lives. Yeah. The minute you decide you want to move into the middle of a mormon town and open up a bar. Well, then you're just asking for, you can open the bar. Yes, I am make a lot of money there. Was that by the Mormons. Oh. Except for the bad Mormons. Except for the bad Mormons. Exactly. They may really drink. You never know. Yeah, well, they probably do. Yeah, yeah.
I remember one time I had lunch with a mormon fellow, who was probably in his late 50s, early 60s, young and, were ordering a food and, and then I got some iced tea and, and he said the it tastes pretty good. I'm like, yeah, yeah, I drink it all the time. Ever since I miss Texas, pretty much. Yeah. I'll have on those two.
¶ Medical Tech Innovations and The Future
I didn't think anything about it. And then he mentioned at the end of lunch they, I was the first time I ever have tea. Really. So yeah, I grew up there. Mormon wouldn't be the first time probably. First time with a male Mormon. Whoa. She goes both ways for iced tea. Yeah. Now it's, you don't think about this stuff, but, yeah, some people have a lot of dietary restrictions, Mormons included. And, you know, you just kind of take it for granted.
Then you don't really notice it until you have it pointed out, and then you're like, oh, interesting. It is a different, culture, no question. Yeah. And I looked it up by yesterday after they talked about it. I have no agenda. It seems that they were, incorrect about the autism levels. They were talking about Mennonites, which is. Yeah. The Mennonites are an offshoot of the Amish. They are less restrictive. Some Mennonites have phones and cars and all that.
Yeah. So they're the coming more towards modern society. But there was a study that was done on the Amish, who are even more restrictive that you would figure would have, you know, none of the vaccinations. Right. And the amount of autism in children was the same for the Amish. No, it was the same for the Amish as the American. So no, it's a fake study. Now, there have been numerous studies done that.
I've seen that show that the occurrence of, of autism in the Amish population is roughly what it was in the US population in the 1970s. And our current occurrence of autism is like eight times higher right now. Let's see. Let's. Adam. Adam was correct. You're wrong, sir. Wrong. Hey, bring the team and bring the receipts as the kids say. Next topic and I hate that. I hate the bring the receipts and I hate the. Oh, we're spilling some tea. It's like, what the fuck does that mean?
I don't know what that means. That means, like, dishing the dirt. Now spilling the tea. It's like, fuck you. That's dumb. I don't understand where that comes from. I don't either, but that is bring the Receipts is a, It's a dumb way of saying it,
¶ Family Health Woes
but at least I understand where what they mean. Yes. You know, they're just sitting term receipts to mean evidence. And I don't understand why. It's hard to say. Bring your some evidence and of you have to bring the receipts. But I don't get it. I don't understand why people just can't see damn kids these days with their damn language and no meaning. Things. Use the words that we already have. We already have the words. We had them way before you were born. They still exist.
You just never learn them. We gotta make up new ways to say things here on unrelenting. I think the real, the real cause of stupidity in America was the the use of texting, the old school phones that had the T9. You know what I mean? Where you had to, like, if to type a letter, you had to push the ball right, 302. Right. You had to really want to send that fucking message because that created all the crazy abbreviations that currently still exist in texting culture.
Well, now the you know, you don't need to anymore because nine out of ten times they just hit the record button, say the words and then it types them for them anyway. Yeah. What I like that I like the 62 year old. But you also notice when you're typing in the words, they're now auto filling. And for the wrong words. Yeah, yeah, quite often the wrong words, but it still makes for a faster I'm trying to type charisma. It keeps correcting it to it's like, yeah, it's not a word.
It's not a fucking word. You got the ribs? You got the ribs. What's the charisma of 18 on the mic? Video game theory. What the hell's this bullshit? What is. So it's just our ICC. Yeah. And it's like, what is the ribs, man? It's internet slang for charisma or flirtation skills. Yeah, yeah. They no longer use normal words. They use abbreviations for everything. And there's zero reason for it. There was a reason back in the T9 phone days. There's no reason for today. And yet it persists.
And we've been dumbing down the culture immeasurably. You guys can't spell. They can't do math and they don't have a vocabulary. And they're afraid to speak to people face to face, and they generalize like crazy. Yeah, you that is that's winning charisma.
¶ The Unrelenting Fanbase Mystery
Someone who is effortlessly smooth and successful at flirting. Or do you got eloquence, losing charisma. Someone who is bad at flirting or has no game? Wait, I thought it was rude to like, be mean to somebody. So if you say they got. Is it rude to be mean to only people younger than you? Oh, I see, I got unspoken risk. That's when someone can attract others without even saying a word. Yep. Yeah. So basically, a deaf mute makes sense. Yep. Unspoken result. Dude, I got there.
Might even be a better show title. You. And you know, that's who has that reading thing. So. Yeah, you just spell out the words kids use the big words they don't know. Oh, that's true. They've never read books. Well, that's because they're dangerous. You know, they say bad words and books. You should burn those instead. We want to be able to.
Well, you saw the article, I think, in the multiple since our last show, which was, Amazon, as we have talked about years ago with the George Orwell stuff, where they were pulling things from the Kindles, all of a sudden Amazon was changing their terms of service. And no longer will you be able to download, right, the books they bought. You bought books. They're no longer yours. Sorry. We're going to burn them.
You bought them, but you can't download them and have them away from your Amazon connected to the internet. I think that's bad. But also it completely does not affect me because I never reread anything. Well, it doesn't affect me because I never bought a book on Amazon. Well, there you go. So it just isn't what it was, you know? And it's like, well, you know why? Because they're all available online. And you know what? They can remain on my hard drive where nobody can get them.
I will have the books kids, when Amazon takes them away or changes them. You're you're like the, the old man in, Logan's Run. Sure. But I think this is Logan's Run to be able to, was in the Harrison Ford. Logan's run came out. Was that Harrison Ford in that Logan's Run? It wasn't. Harrison Ford was in Logan's Run. It was, the that the guy. The guy. The guy with the guy. White guy. You know, the blond guy. The guy with the guy. Kurt Russell is Kurt Russell blond?
I don't know, this is carpet match the drapes.
¶ Spud Talk - The Great Potato Debate
These are the questions. Who is in Logan's Run? There you go. Asking verbally. Same characters. Hi. If I might. Yeah. Let's get caught. Make noise. Okay. By Jenny Agar. There's also Francis seven, portrayed by Richard Jordan and the computer that runs the city. Voiced by Laureline. Yeah, the guy with the face. Like from 1976. Okay, so it told me the date as well, which was the important thing. I was like, so 76 that came out. I was six. Well, you saw it, didn't you?
I think so you never saw Logan's Run. Is this one of the movies you've never seen that you absolutely have to see? I don't think I have to see many of any. I mean, that is, before you die, which could be any day now. Could be you just take them all on the device. Yeah, it's Logan's Run on your list. So it's a classic dystopian movie about a future society that has a ritual, where people go to what they call it. They effectively, they kill off their senior citizens.
But not really senior citizens, because it happens on your 30th birthday. So it's a society of youthful people. And, it's it's a little bit like Blade Runner, but without the androids. And Logan is basically one of these enforcer guys that, his job is to catch the runners that try to run away instead of being part of the ritual where they go to the other place that would make the drive to get out.
Yeah. And so he ends up getting framed and being running himself from the authorities and as part of his adventure of running away from there, they see in this other, girl woman, I mean, they're all young for me, but they discover this old man they've never seen an old man in their entire lives, right? Nobody ever gets that old. This this was Peter Ustinov in looking like he's about 70 and, living outside of the city in.
And of course, it's it has a little bit of a vibe of planet of the apes as well. Yeah. The last Hollywood movie I saw was,
¶ The Dark Side of Regular Potatoes
A Song Is Born, as we, talked about by Adam Curry. The, podcasting 2.0 show daddy came back from 1948. It did last movie. So it was from 1948. Yes. Yeah. I mean, it wasn't in 1948, but yeah, the 1948 Virginia mayo, Danny Kaye with, some great music, including, cameos and some appearances by Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong, Tommy Dorsey, Lionel Hampton. I mean, it was I've seen it. It's a good movie. It's a little romp. It was fun, man. I had never seen that.
And the only thing that I thought was when they hit the scene in the nightclub at first, Virginia male wearing the outfit that you're like, that would work for today. Still. Was not a conservative outfit. The 1948 I can only imagine speaking of outfits. So. So, Logan's Run won an Oscar, I believe, for assuming that's customary, Mr. Murray, I don't. What's the word? Consumerism, I don't know, it's whatever the fancy word for costumes is. They had some of the best costumes of any wardrobe.
Probably. Yeah, but that's costumes of any movie. Trust me when I say watch the movie. You'll see what I mean. And those guys are showing what you could do. Or you could just Google Logan's Run outfits and you'll see what I mean. Would you believe metalhead thinks that the, songs I'm talking about were show tunes? I'm like, this was the birth of jazz. And, and bebop and and those kind of things. Do you think, Benny Goodman and Louis Armstrong are show tunes?
Interesting. It's Ed, I think that I understand why he would say that. Let's put it that way. I don't think that's technically what they are, but I totally understand why you say, because a lot of show tunes kind of arose in that era of style. That's true. Like if you think of, Raimi's. No, no, I was thinking of the trombone salesman guy. What was it called, the Music Man? Yes. Yes. Yeah. Same same style music, but still tunes. I think what he's trying to imply is it's gay, fake and gay.
Yeah. Well, definitely gay. Tell that to Benny Goodman.
¶ The Suspiciously Long-Lasting Sweet Potato
That dude could play a clarinet. Come on. Clarinet sounds like a gay instrument to me. Can you remember a time that's just wild? Would you think that the the musical icons, you know, were trombone and clarinet players? Wow. Come on. It was always the drummers that. Well, yeah, because the drummers, man, they kept the. Yeah. Gene Krupa. Yeah. Gene Krupa was any Russian or Polish? No, I don't think so. But, and of course, when I want to know where. Well, tell me more about Gene Krupa.
Gene says he plays bass and clarinet, so, I mean, obviously Gene Krupa, born in Chicago in 1909. I do not know this, but talking about jazz music. Man, how do you not know this? I mean, I just type everything into ChatGPT. That's the problem. You're like one of them whippersnapper kids. I'm like, ChatGPT tell me what I need to know. I got worries. Yeah, yeah. You know, like my my turn into. Oh, come on, help me jet GPT.
So now just imagine the world where we're going to have the chat GPT constantly just talking in your ear. Rather. You mean like my phone currently does through its Bluetooth headset? Yeah. Right now I mean, now if you're walking down the street, they if you have your eye on is it like, oh yeah, it's picking up all the sounds and talking to them. Is it like but does it use like the G.P.S.. And it's like, oh, Gene, I know you like barbecue. There's a great barbecue joint on the next block.
You should go check it out. You could enable that. Yeah, that's an the bubble thing. It's crazy. But again, we all know that I do not think. And that's still something that most people misconstrue. They don't have to think the whole point of it. As far as I'm concerned, there's an AI, it's simply an always on search filter for all the knowledge that's encapsulated in human, well, theoretically human history, but realistically written history TV shows of the 20th century.
Well, I asked it for a, because after no agenda drops, I usually post, you know, something on Twitter and, this time for yesterday's show, I'm like, oh, I was in, ChatGPT.
¶ Bunkers, Prepping, and Nuclear Survival
Yeah. And I'm like, give me a carnival barker style to, you know. Announcer. To get people to listen to this, get my work to there's no agenda show called Bedtime Hygiene, and it gave me step right up, step right up, ladies and gentlemen. And those of you still deciding, do not miss this spectacle. Live from Gitmo nations. Okay, so it knows Gitmo, and I didn't see that anything about no agenda. Didn't give it any URLs.
It might just be the latest episode of No Agenda titled Bedtime Hygiene will scrub your mind cleaner than a tinfoil hat after a fluoride rinse. Are you waking up properly? Are you sleeping on the lies they sell you? Adam and John are here with the only deconstruction strong enough to disinfect your brain from the propaganda lurking in your nightly news cycle. Big Pharma wants you sedated. The media wants you hypnotized.
The elites want you tucked in at night so they can fleece you while you snore. But fear not, my fellow knights and dames. No agenda delivers a no holds barred breakdown of the world's insanity, wrapped in hilarity and insights, sharper than a carbon steel blade. We did this for a cover image. I just did this for a Twitter post exposed when Adam reposted. So I had some text, you know, rather than just having quote, you know, read, rip, tweet. I gotta find this. This is fascinating stuff.
Don't sleep on this one. It says, tune in now before the M5 app drowns it out with white noise. No jingles, no sponsors, no agenda except the truth value for value. Baby, you know the drill. Download Bedtime hygiene now because clean minds sleep better. And this was a very simple prompt. Just like give me a carnival barker selling the latest episode of No Agenda and it gave with along with. If you find it on that with all of the, social media, little emojis with that. I mean, it's hilarious.
Cotton gin said it was too long. Well, of course it was too long. I like the matching suits their here. Just sent me a picture of Vlad along with us. That's supposed to be Zelensky. And their matching blue Adidas suits. Is that what they're going to do to get these negotiations? We're going to we're going to all wear the same color suit just so everybody feels better. Exactly. But I saw your ad for your show. The last one to get the most for the unrelenting would be the one.
¶ The Political Games Behind Ukraine’s Resources
Do you like that? Because it was. That's the reply, though. It's not a post right? Yeah, right. Okay, let me look at the replies I was looking at post. It would be a word relenting. Step right up, lazy and terms. This is what it created, including the emojis. What? What's what? The stupid emojis. Jesus, those are horrible I know, but that's what this is. I'm telling you, I just thought it was hilarious that this is what the I came up with. Wow. That is, over the top, I would say.
Oh, yeah. Would you not say I would want. It was like, wait too long, but two it understood enough about no agenda to throw the knights and dames bidding at New Adam and John at New, you know, no jingles, no sponsors, no agenda. A new value for value and a through all of those things in that, you know, again, I understand what it's doing and it's looking for, I guess what people have written about no agenda in the past, you know, if you actually ask it for, you know, very specific.
They, you know, these, latest AI models that allegedly I. Oh, it has the thinking. It's like it doesn't have deep thinking or deep reasoning. I mean, it may try to, as Adam Curry points out, more parlor tricks, right? To give you what you want.
But it all depends on what you want out of the I. I do believe that, no agenda is also correct in the fact that I scraping things off the internet, whether it's images or text or video, is going to get more and more polluted with its own hallucinatory crap, because the more you see of lying. Yeah, that is already I created. Yeah, I've sent Adam some hallucinations that I've gotten I to do. Yeah. Go on.
That stuff you said there, like the five hour audio when you just put two eyes talking to each other? No, I didn't, I didn't do that. Yeah. Model collapse. That's a good word for it. Usually my back it up. Yeah. Back in our day. Cotton gin. That was just when, you know, the coked up supermodel didn't eat for four days, and then that was model collapse.
¶ Europe’s Fantasy of Military Relevance
But we have a hot babe holding up a sign that says support unrelenting. I mean, you think more people would you can boost right now if you're listening to the show. I mean CSB did. So I mean if CSB is going to out boost you, you really kind of have to feel like, less of a man or woman, really. She can't come in with at least 4000 sat. Is that kind of the going that right. Well he came in with 39, 89.
So I mean, I think if you have to beat CSB, you want to get, 4000 or so, it looks like the, Bitcoin is moving up slightly again today. I noticed, the get the get be once again updated itself. I don't have the, that's showing up here but what is bitcoin out right now? I don't have the thing running. The I don't have the I just see what's in my account so I know if it's going up or down, but I can look 84 795. So just short of 85,000.
Gotcha. But I had to do that the other day off to ask Adam to open up some more channels on the inbound to my node, because I keep filling it up, man. And there's nothing worse than filling it up, because then I'm like, I should I gotta move satoshis off. So I took all of Larry SATs and moved them over to Bitcoin again. I'm like, I should just take all the gene sats and put them into something more better, like Dogecoin or something. But. So is time.
You are the only one that's trying to push that crap. I only bought Shiba. I've never bought Doge. I just, I just figured that was a $50 gamble and at one point see I was dumb because at one point it was up. My 50 bucks went up to about 150, 175. Now it's back down to 74. But I just fully expected that to go instantaneously to zero. And it didn't. I guess I should just pull. I mean, it's already a win. I mean, I made 50% on it as of right now. I should just put it into a real coin again.
That's all the game though. Yep, yep. That's true. But so what do you do? I don't know what we should ask people like, what should we do? Crypto. We should do a show with, you know, all the donations do a split the pot. Is that gambling? Technically, I think so. Like, come on then. If you don't, if you send us some SATs, we're going to give somebody half the value of all the SATs.
¶ The Orwellian Nightmare - Free Speech in Europe
We get. We're going to do half the value. Well, he is to half. So if you get if you bring in 100,000 SATs, you're like, somebody is going to get 50,000 SATs. Boom. It's, it's we want you just need to know what made it all that. Well or just ask for PayPal. Will I hear hey, baby, in my ear? That means, just saying. Hey, baby tells me we have a boost. There you go. But you're lucky you don't hear it. So, I know I'm. I'm definitely like that.
Like, you can be here and just say, hey, baby, cotton gin, 4001. Taking up that gantlet. He did not want to be lesser than CSB. He thank you. Cotton gin. He's the guy that does the iso bad over in the, no agenda. Troll worm, all sorts of fun little scripts that he writes can get you right there in The troubled. When Adam Curry tells you how many people are listening, it's cotton gin. The troll count. Right now we have 65 people. Wow. What happened? Got gin. We dropped off.
Although it was, one particular, looks like Dolores dropped off like a stone. We went from 81 people to, like, 65 in like, two minutes. No, I want you. I just want you to. Okay. Can you play it? Download. That'll take off the download. No, it's the download. Diddly squeak. Play around a signal, but then nobody will hear it. Oh, no. Yeah. You want to download it like this is. Oh I, me just put it on my desktop and then I'll put it in the rack here because this is going there.
Is this more AI goodness that you've been working on getting better. And this is interesting because I've noticed more and more artists that are popping up on the usual sites that you can tell are not real. Ladies, ginseng souls on the fence don't turn away live from Gitmo nation. It's the reckoning day. Big time hygiene on the air tonight. The ice shine clean. Get the tinfoil bright. Are you waking right or dreaming? There lies
¶ Mormon Iced Tea Scandal
the new cycle. Spin with a sedative. Oh. Yeah. Adam and John, hook it down. Deconstruct in the noise from this clown show town. Big spin me a spell I pull the strings while you're dreaming so well. Don't sleep, don't. Yeah. Music pollution. No doubt about it. You just put that post right. That was. It's the I. Well, yeah, I did it in the last five minutes while we were talking, but the, the key thing here is it you can finally have some music that you can legally play.
Yeah. Well, you this is for all the kids I own the copyright on, you know, all the shows that do all this with all the AI stuff. They're like, no, no, no, and learned from my songs. So it's illegal. Yeah. You're never going to prove any of that. You know what I'm already gotten copyright stroke break stroke on YouTube. You've had copyright strokes from from AI music. And this is one thing I'm not a fan of is this like they don't know what to do.
And so right now at least you're able to submit AI music to YouTube for, immediate detection. And then if anybody you know plays anything, it sounds like you, they're going to get struck with the like. So it's, they do. And I feel like this is a very dangerous precedent, but right now they're allowing it. The only, you know, obviously, downside is you got to pay money for every song you submit. But you could you could still do it right now.
And, you know, them get they get do a, takedown on Taylor Swift's videos for using, something that sounds like you sounds too much like, Now the voices that they're using for the singers have gotten much better. Yeah, they are improving. Yeah, they're not exactly, fantastic. But they're more than passable. I mean, there's something that I've noticed watching a bunch of the hallmark movies, which we understand what level hallmark movies are.
There is a lot of music that sounds a lot like Taylor Swift in style
¶ Amish, Vaccinations, and Autism Debates
and voice, but, you know, it's not. The AI is going to be the way to fill that hole. So if you have a low budget production and you're like, wow, man, I love a song that sounds like Taylor Swift for my credits, you're just going to punch that into the AI, and that's going to give you one that's close to that super cheap.
That's the beauty of it, because I like in the past I've had to, well, I mean, I didn't order, I approved the orders, but basically order songs written that sounded like somebody particular style, like we're doing a corporate media event and we want to have music that sounds like John Mellencamp, but with our corporate words, that kind of thing. Right. And those typically cost about 5 to 10 grand to have somebody right and then do a one performance of it. So you've got a recorded version.
And then if you really want to, you know, use a lot, you'll probably hire a, a band to perform it and do a better version than the guy who actually wrote it, but he was always somewhere between 5 and $10,000 for a custom tune like that. Well, now why bother? You just have I do it. We. Everything's like bumpers coming in and out of your show. Yeah, yeah.
I mean, you realize, I mean, the quality maybe matters at some point, but not everybody is, Rush Limbaugh, where every time I hear that pretenders song, man, you gotta think a rush. Yeah, yeah. So it's just having something that is a recognizable hook, right? Exactly. That's all that matters. That's right. Me a 22nd little talk about how bad the, I sounds. And by people, I mean Adam Curry, but. Oh, well, I mean, he has multiple times.
And my point is that, the these aren't written for audio file. The these rank, frankly, like most music, let's face it, are written for somebody who is only half or quarter paying attention while they're doing other things and probably has had some alcohol already. Well, you're telling me that the the fake Joan
¶ Darren Calls Out Adam Curry’s Claims
Jett music sounds so much worse than the real Joan Jett? Well, you're the only guy out there listening to Joan Jett without being inebriated and grinding, with some chick at a dance and barely hearing the music, mostly just hearing the bass. Yeah. Joan Jett screams, like on tour with Billy Idol. I know, that's why I mentioned that. Yes, Billy Idol and she's not looking great. No, he's Billy Idol, actually. Like, surprisingly good for his buff. Like, he never used to look great back in the 80s.
He was out of heroin. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. So heroin works. Apparently. Now he's not on heroin, and he's buff and he's like, no, he was. His, autobiography was fantastic. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And it was pretty clear that he realized there's no way in hell he should be alive. So he's, making full use of the advantage of still being around, which is nice. Nice to see. Yeah, but, yeah, I mean, if the music's in the background, I mean, you're like, okay, just got the added him.
Nobody's really paying any attention to what it says. You're just kind of, you know, it's there. You're not paying attention. Nobody really knows. Nobody really cares. But yeah, the reality is the voices. And this is why I was surprised. You know what? I knew something was wrong with Jake. These ISOs, and they. Adam finally figured it out yesterday that three months have gone by. So, Jake. Three months. That is what, like, there is it shows month.
So about 2024, 25 shows where all of his ISOs have been generated by AI. And it's funny because Adam was like, wow, these audio clips always sound so crisp and clear. How do you get to clear audio clips? They're fake. It's hilarious. They're all AI and they're saying the things and yeah, I'm like, wow, they're always saying things like, well, now that was a show. You know, something that really worked as an end of show ice. So it's like, how does Jake do it?
It's like it's all AI that he was creating. And comic strip blogger just came in with 1229. He says I just napped. Oh I guess you gotta, you gotta up yours. That got Jan 1229 from CSB. He wants to be top dog, top Pomeranian. This particular tough Pomeranian show.
¶ The Evolution of Texting Culture
But that just shows you that the especially the female voices. And the. Oh I didn't even catch that they were I would jcd isos. I was just thinking they all sound like they're the same one. So like what podcast would this be. Where does this come from. But if you need a female voice just saying things then this is the way to do it. Normally when we, did the intro for Planet Rage, I had our buddy John Fletcher do the music and the screaming of Planet Rage because he screams better than anybody.
But then, rather than at the beginning of the show, like, we did with them, I was like, I do here with like, oh, here you're the unrelenting Darren and Jean. Rather than doing that bit, we had Dame Jennifer do the old Larry Blinder and Darren O'Neill. Here are your host, you know, so that way we don't have to do that. But we had to go find, you know, an actual human person with a good voice to record it for us now. No need. That's all I you just go punch it. Right.
It is all I. But also having a third person who's not on the show introduce the people on the show is so retro. I know nobody does that anymore. It's like the Tonight Show. Yeah, well, even before we before them name the war is on. Cotton gin comes in with 1776. The American boost once again putting Ksbw in his rearview mirror. What is that, like a buck? Probably just about little over 1776. Yeah. It's a war though Jean. We are. It's just like a trade war.
Yeah. Yeah. So can we talk a little bit about politics. Probably. Yeah. I mean I guess we have a good 20 minutes left. We should probably use them for first. So you know the double down because they're idiots. But that aside. But they double down. They the 17. Oh, yeah. Right now is exactly a dollar city that. Oh that's good Dollar City. So they, they basically said oh, oh you thought Trudeau was bad, right.
Oh, the glass until the United States is like, okay, we'll just stop doing any business with you whatsoever. And you will all die in Canada. Well, we're not going to do that. But what we will do is bankrupt the hell out of them, which is hilarious
¶ Why T9 Predictive Text Dumbed Us Down
because their economy is like 90% reliant on the US. And if I remember correctly, and this from a while ago, but it's probably still true, is that over 90% of the Canadian population is within 50 miles of the US border. Yeah. They're not you know, it's kind of like the population who live in cities that are much further away. Yeah. Toronto, the, you know, the one you're right over the border. Yeah. Of the United States are where their largest cities are.
So what you're saying is it's kind of like the Ukraine, we only really need to push our borders up north. Yeah. Well look I'm not going to make you reread it because Barry read it on the other podcast. I do. But I posted when they elected that guy, I immediately posted that because you remember the one of the first lines that came out was he had suggested that and the needs to get nukes from France. And so the US will take it seriously.
And I said, you know, it is absolutely crossing a red line to have Canada have nuclear weapons. This is something the United States will not and cannot stand for. Well, yeah, bringing them to Ukraine. What do you think's kind of such a threat of nuclear weapons within, 50 miles of the border of the United States is totally unacceptable. And Trump should immediately start a special military operation to denounce.
If I can do that, who presents real, genuine Nazis, with their highest honors and awards in Canada. And to ensure that there are never nuclear weapons in Canada, and that Canada never joins NATO. I thought it was hilarious when I wrote it, but now it's like the Babylon Bee as you're predicting what's gonna happen. I know, and at the time you wrote it, we have the A-Team theme going out of the background. Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob Bob. No, I had the South Park blame Canada. Bob. Oh, that's even better.
Blame Canada now that show too. It's right there in that. Yeah. That's definitely something. That's a hell of a show too. Yeah. It's pretty gay. So the the point is they're doubling down. They went all in. Trump has basically said any further tariffs by Canada in retaliation to U.S. tariffs will be met by a doubling of U.S. tariffs. Now with U.S. tariffs in place, it's going to be painful for Canada.
¶ The Art of Subverting Copyright Law
They're going to suffer. But they're not going to completely go to Canada with a doubling of U.S. tariffs, meaning, we're going to have 50 to 100% tariffs on automated products. Canada's done. There is literally nothing they can do at that level because over half their over half their trade is with America. And if over half their trade doubles in price, right, they will literally have to be paying us to take their products off of them. Well, this is something that they will have zero profit.
They're already losing. Money is not understanding the United States. This is you have, you know, the mom and pop coffee shop in the town and then the big bad Starbucks or whoever moves in. Yeah. And right off the bat, what they do is they start selling their products for, you know, half price. Why not? Because they're making money, but because they can't they have enough power to be able to take the hit for six months or whatever it takes to put the other place out of business.
Yeah. I don't think Canada really understands what they're dealing with. When you have Donald Trump for another three and a half years, like this is not going to go away anytime soon. He is not the kind of guy that's going to blink. So you're only causing more pain to your own constituency. Maybe Canada needs yet another election. Oh, I mean, this is this is the other issues. Like what is the word election mean in Canada? Actually, I don't know.
More punches thrown, 1033 stats from Ksbw or says Canada will join EU. Problem solved. And wow he is he is punching back in cotton gin and this is a battle royale. Yeah Canada joining the European Union. Are they going to have a really long bridge USB maybe the bridge to Canada where they do a tunnel, like a big tunnel could be from Canada to just go and do it through a badger that you go into a tunnel.
There off the, the islands and then like north eastern Canada, and then you just show up in, Ireland. So just a really long tunnel.
¶ Tim Pool’s Right-Wing Crisis
Well, I think from Nova Scotia, it's just a hop, skip and a jump in that maybe although Elon can automated vehicles, they could be like speeding, a thousand mile an hour vehicles, I don't know. I'll tell you one thing about X that I've sort of changed my usage is I used to basically just try and quote everything, whether it's a video and I'm sending out there or whether I, you know, saw something and posted on X, I would just do a re, you know, every tweet, quote thing, whatever it's called.
Reacts. I was like, it's all sucked up ever since they moved it from Twitter because they never gave us a name for what they did. Not really. So so that never resulted in any kind of real engagement. I've noticed. And I did that for like two years. And recently I instead of doing that, I'm like, screw that. I'm just going to start focusing on replying to people. So somebody post something, I just reply to it. I don't repost it for all the people that are following me to see it.
I just reply to it in the chain and that results in way more people who are not know. Again, the people who don't follow me actually seeing my replies, which are always hilarious, you know, because I try to kind of, be sarcastic on Twitter. Oh, you. I know, that's shocking. Yeah, it is, it's shocking. Big surprise.
So, so I think that's kind of been my, I guess, revision of my strategy for a better one is to not bother just posting more stuff for people that they would show up on their timelines if they're following me and focus more on just replying to things other people have posted. And that's actually, I think, generating more people following me who don't even know with no agenda is what's, you know, agenda. You see, you're one of them. I only go to I think that's com no agenda.
That would be the company that keeps you employed. Oh yes. Well but not really. Well more than that. Did you know digg.com is rebooting? I did not, I used to be a big fan of Digg in their first couple of years, and then they kind of waned after that. But do we need Digg back? Is that a thing? I don't know what they're going to actually do, but, Kevin Rose bought it back and he's working with the guy
¶ Russian Influence and the Gene Pool
really from Reddit that Reddit got rid of, like one of the lead programmers of the original rant, because that's all it was. It's basically Reddit without having to register, you know? And the Reddit guy said they were really afraid. I forget, it was like if they were going to do like subcategories or something, like, we were afraid Digg was going to do this before we did this.
That Digg would have been, yeah, they figured that Digg would have won the war because at one point that was the big thing to dig versus Reddit. Reddit one out. But Digg gave up. I feel Digg just kind of they they went from their core mission of just letting people vote, things that out of rise to the top and started doing more advertising placements and like topics no one gave a shit about. We're still making it on there. It was no longer hey, let things drift up naturally to something.
If it's if it's interesting to everybody, you know. So maybe this new version, they'll, they'll redo it to be more like the old Digg. Maybe they figured out the way to do it now. I mean, you've got people that know what they're doing this. It's just a very interesting to me that it's the Reddit guys, along with Kevin Rose, that they know it's going to at least be in droves. Yeah. So fucking lucky on that. Oh yeah. It was amazing because he was not some great financial genius. No dark developer.
Yeah, exactly. He was basically just a computer nerd with no college education. And, he, well, he was doing some shit that Brian Brushwood ended up doing eventually. Just like crazy shit. Right? And then when he got bought out by Google, and not only did he get a huge, like millions in stock when they bought his company, the, you know, a large portion of that was in Google stock memory correctly. But then he, he basically got the job of picking the companies that Google gets to invest in, right?
The venture capital. Yeah. And essentially in a Google, you know, funded venture capital. And then he was put out of that action. Right. He doesn't even need to put it like he was getting a piece of all the deals that he picked. And so he became a like 100 millionaire or whatever the term is for a guy
¶ War, Minerals, and World War III Triggers
with over 100 million literally in a crazy short amount of time. But he looks old now. He is. His hair's white, his beard is white, he looks like he's in his 50s and he isn't. He was always younger than me. Yeah. The, the oh, there's a project asking if they're bringing back the nation. They've already done 11 episodes. It's back. Find it on YouTube or your favorite podcast. Yeah. And it was.
It was always the the show of like, okay, I get I get Kevin Rose, but his buddy Alex Albrecht, Alex Albrecht who seem to have you know, I like I liked his take on a lot of things, but he was this pretend Hollywood actor guy. Like he never actually had any real parts. He was the guy in that one commercial. You're getting the Dell dude. Okay, okay. Yeah, he was one of the screensavers. Briefly, according to Kevin, on one of the latest episodes, he was basically just a buddy who was nobody. Yeah.
And he was he would drink beer with Kevin. That would be about it. And I guess what his claim to fame was that he bought Bitcoin early and held it. So I guess that's why he's financially secure at this point is that, he was one of the few that actually put money in early. Hey man, we all bought bitcoin early. Some of us just lost it, right? He didn't. He kept it and kept his old computer around, apparently.
Probably the rest of us threw him away, got a copy of that hard drive and then the hard drive and the hard drives. And I do want to say the final punch, I believe, has just been thrown in this war. Cotton gin coming in with 17,769 Satoshis. That's $15 worth of SATs. Wow. Holy shit. Big player, he says. Hey, that CSB, CSB can't afford that. This is this is like America versus Europe now. Hey, cotton jr, did you notice the, album art from the last episode of unrelenting?
If not, I think you'll like it. There was a little Easter egg in there. It's as if predicting exactly what was going to happen. I thought it was a good piece of art to let what the, the computer monitor with the with our likenesses on it. It's a beautiful piece of art. If you haven't seen it, you should that you'll take a look at it. But, yeah, dig is back.
¶ Europe’s Weak Military Posture
They just did a live show out of, South by Southwest. And, that's when they announced that they had gotten the digg.com domain back. So there's big things to come. Yeah. Okay. I wonder how much they paid for that. Probably not a ton. It was worth a lot recently I reached out with a few years ago. I don't think it was worth that much now. It had pretty much fallen into a state of nobody using it, didn't it?
In the concept that people were actually going to vote, you were going to see how many people voted it up. It's like very Reddit like, but in a way, it was just news stories and things like that. Very bizarre, but it's good. It's good to have them back. And you're right, Albrecht doesn't look that much older. Kevin looks, quite a bit older. And he's one of these guys that, like you, I think he's really into all of the the health stuff. He's always trying to put things.
The two of us are super healthy. Exactly. I mean, you, me, you you try all the health stuff. I didn't say it was working, I do. No, he I do subscribe to Kevin's health newsletter. Yes, there are Digg things to come. And, Kevin Rose said when he was having a surgery not that long ago, or I don't know how long ago it was to me, maybe where he, his house burned down in the fire that was said. What? Yeah, he was one of the homes that burned one of the trillionaire homes.
Wow. Which is putting him through a whole different, you know, Zen view of life that, you know. Yeah. I mean, it's a tough thing. I mean, I get it, losing all your shit's not easy. But he said you realize what's important. Yes. Oh, I was, yeah. You. Your priorities, I'm sure, change in an instant. Yeah. You start wanting to have a cement house. But when he was having surgery and he saw. Right, the cement house would be great in that area that, they were using the.
The ologist was using the stuff that I killed, Michael Jackson. Yeah. And he's like, hey, can you, you know, can you just push it slowly. Because normally they just boom. And you're right, you know your count back to ten and you're out. He's like you know the guy did and he's like you know it just was a wild euphoric feeling. Like yeah that's because that's how people get hooked on it. So the next time I really doubt this. That's the kind of strange guy that Kevin Rose is.
Can you imagine being in
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with the anesthesiologist and you're like do you push it slow. I just want I want to enjoy this. Come on. Well yes I can because the, the SC ologist that's the anesthesiologist for a guy like Kevin Rose is also the same guy that does every other billionaire. Right, drew. He's like with hand and then like, hey, I'll just push that. And then you, can you spike that with some ketamine, let's say a zero to your bill. Nothing to worry about. Nothing.
You don't have to have a zero. He'll take care of that for you. Just add it right time the bell. It's part of the service. Yeah, yeah, we are the pod father's looking to. You know, there's going to be a podcasting 2.0 after us today. They're doing it today. Okay, nice. This show is live. Adam. Do not fear. Gene is still in his underwear. Watching Artie getting ready for a big report. I'm getting my news on the ground. I'm not watching it. He's getting calls from Vladimir during the show.
It's crazy. Right? Just to see what's going on. You predict by our next show that this will all be settled. Or do you think that, is Russia going to play hardball enough that this is going to take a long time? Are you expecting a very quick and easy, solution here? It's going to take a while. The end result will be is what what is the sticking point for Russia at this point?
Well, there's two of them I think one is this any kind of a truce as to also include a stoppage of the supplying of Ukraine? That would make sense. It makes no sense to do a truce where the other side just reaffirms and gets more equipment and people. Now, does Russia just have a good view of the United States going in to do work in Ukraine? Is that kind of like, hey, hey, as long as these folks are here, everybody is going to, do what they say. That said, they were going no worse than the US.
The US is at the whim of the current administration, and that changes every four years. Well, but you have at least three most at most. The only thing that Russia can get out of this is three years. Do you think Trump's going to give a Vlad a cut of these a mineral rights? Is that part of the deal? Like, hey, don't stop going in. And we'll, it could just be as simple as buying your fuel again. Okay. So there's two issues here.
One is, first of all, the majority of the useful minerals are actually on the Russian side of the front. Oops. So this whole Ukraine mineral, you know, Zelensky's talking about the Ukrainian military as though Ukraine has the same footprint that it did five years ago or actually before 2014, because he's also including Crimea in there. None of that is Ukraine and will never be Ukraine. That that the people in those regions have voted to be part of Russia. So that is Russia. That's not Ukraine.
So how much does Ukraine that is in the current borders have some for sure, but not as much as they think they do, and probably not as much as Americans think they do. And there is zero chance of pushing Russia back because that, I mean, it's part of Russia. It's, that it's the same thing as Crimea. They had elections.
The elections, returns were overwhelmingly in support of becoming part of Russia, because if you remember the history and we talked about this at the very start of the war three years ago, it's amazing. We've been doing the show that long. And I did a big, long, slick granite that what happened was that the reason Russia got involved was because those eastern provinces worked in constantly being, bombarded by the Ukrainian military.
There was a huge civil war going on effectively there because they refused to accept the rigged election that happened that, that that was part of the Hillary color revolutions, during the Obama years. And so the western parts of Ukraine were happy with that results of that revolution. The further east you went in train, the less people liked it, because they, they were closer to Russia, not just geographically, but mentally as well.
So bottom line is, I think they'll come up with a solution here, but I don't think it's going to be next week. When I think we're.
