154: Ear Balls

Because that's the only way that they can get it up. When you when you. When you. Yeah. Welcome to another award winning episode of unrelenting. I'm there. And I nearly didn't believe in. Wow. Wait. No, I don't want. Okay, I don't know if that was rigged. That was it. Yeah, I'm telling you. Oh, my God, I had the wrong effects on, you know, instead of the, instead of the compressor, it was given the audio pan.

So, I mean, that would even be even better when voice voices going from bad left to right to left or right to right to left. Why are you screwing around that? That's what I used during the, Rock and roll pre-show for the. Yes. I want you to reach out and feel the vibrations. Let them down deep into your soul. Brothers and sisters. It's a thing. Don't you listen to the Rock and roll pre-show? No. You never, never heard it. Never like. No, don't like it. Don't like it. Don't want to hear.

Ma'am. Dude, if I'm going to be listening, which doesn't always happen, but if I'm going to be listening live, I don't usually like five minutes late. Like, God, why am I? I don't want to listen to the anything before the show. Well, this is assuming I'm awake before the show. Oh that's true. That is. Sometimes. Sometimes you may not be the case in the, There's no agenda way. I gotta get there on time today because I got lunch coming. Oh, you got lunch coming or you're going out for that lunch.

Come. I get groceries coming. This is what I meant. What I mean, well, you will eventually bring the groceries in to lunch. Yes. Yeah, but I preordered them so they would show up right at the end of the show. No agenda has been complaining about the lack of support for their show. Today we have two Scotts. Scott Gorman came in with $2.50 and Scott Evers with $0.50. So no agenda. Take that. Yeah. Yeah. We were getting more recurring. U.S. dollar donators.

And the other show you will see, Scott Gorman at least came in over the last year with 250. And that is definitely yeoman's work. Can you imagine? Okay, $2.50. It's a two hour show. Yeah. With two dudes. Yeah. So you're basically giving a buck 25 to each, which is fine. Yeah. So like $0.50 an hour. If everybody that's listening, I know that is the biggest fallacy of the world. Okay. But if everybody listening would give two bucks a show, we would be happy. Everybody. Are you kidding?

Everybody that's listening. Yeah. Each and every one of them. But they don't know they're cheap sons of bitches. Well, or they don't listen. But no, I said everyone listening is not a listen. I've said no, no, that's very true. A download is not a listen. There's a lot of people who just have old podcast catchers that are just doing nothing but sucking up their bandwidth and selling them. They're pretty sure I have three different devices downloading. No agenda?

Almost. Are you trying to fake the numbers? Yeah, faking the numbers. And, you know, my main one that I would listen to my iPhone, gets it on two different apps. And I know you say don't pay attention to the troll room and don't even give them any credit. No, no, we have one person of the troll and said they'd give $5 to show if I got rid of Gene, so I mean, there's trolling on, oh, hey, lucky for them and lucky for you, actually, there is a show for that.

Yeah, there's a few for that person's already paying, you for your, random thoughts show for five. Oh, I haven't seen that. Oh, I haven't seen any from them. Random fire troll room with a liar. Holy shit. Does that ever happen? It does. Random thoughts is very much like unrelenting without Gene. Literally unrelenting without Gene. That's why it's halfway done, right? Well, it's less than that because it's usually 30 to 45 minutes. Sometimes an hour. Yeah.

Pretty good show, though. The, Thank you. The interesting thing this week was vibe coding. I was Wednesday morning. When I normally do this I'm like, well, let me try this vibe coding thing. And the whole morning went away. So I ended up recording in the afternoon. But that two hours or so, a vibe coding left me with a very playable in-browser game, and I'm excited.

It's not polished or anything yet, but the bones are there and to see what it can do, it's amazing that it worked as well as it did, because I've heard horror stories from people, including the pod father, trying to vibe code things. That's like it just doesn't work. But I think it's much different when you're trying to vibe code and interact with other systems and other websites and, like creating a little video game I think is easy now.

And taking that video game and making it some so somebody can hit a button to start it, and also take a quarter's worth of satoshis from their account, that's a little bit harder. But I'd like to do that exact things. That would be awesome to recreate the old video game kind of concept, and it would be good for bonus content, all that bonus content we put out there, just like you have to drop a quarter in the slot before you can, take part in. It would be a lot too much bonus content.

Everything's bonus content. Yeah, yeah. Like I think that the competition and I, we can get the real numbers from, podcast index.org. The third dive. I can't remember which one their org or it. Yeah. So the stat numbers, you can see the total podcast then you can see the active. But yeah. So if you've posted an episode at least once a month, I think they never have changed. I haven't looked recently, but I'm guessing they haven't changed. I want to see a week.

I don't want to see three days and ten days. I want to see a week. Yeah, yeah. Three days, ten days. No good, no good. I think you should stay on when your wife shows up and tell her you're busy and keep listening and call in to the show with a suggestion slash complaint. Wait, the podcast in the podcast field now has a call in and say, well, I mean, I'm pretty sure you know how to do that. So I think that that's a, if it's a valid suggestion slash complaint, because the ten days is at 244,000.

Yeah. No one cares about ten days because ten days doesn't actually like number one puts a show out every ten days. It'd be weird. It would be a very hard schedule. The key it would be know, I guess you could pre-record a year's worth and then put it out that way. It's true. Like I'm just going to screw with you. I'm going to come out every ten days. So this is something that is, I don't know that we've talked about it.

This is all, you know how the the sausage made stuff, but, in the YouTube world, a lot of people and say, yeah, I would say, in fact, majority of the people actually pre-record their episodes. And then if you a lot of people will record a week's worth of episodes, then put one hour a day, right, but only recorded for like 4 or 5 hours on the weekend.

And then people that don't do dailies, people that do weeklies will often record a whole month at a time and then schedule it to be posted to look like they're doing once a week, for podcasts, if we include what NPR and other, you know, big budget podcast. Yes. Remember you do. Yes. You remember that that series, what was it called? Serial. You know, we call that the guy that got the allegedly possibly killed the check the serial five years ago, I don't recall. It's called the serial killer.

I think the series was called serial because it was a play on words, because there was a serial format where you. Each episode left you hanging, and you had to re tune in to listen to the next one. They also published them, I think, weekly. But they how long were these shows where they like little five minute blurbs? Were they a little bit longer, an hour long episodes? Okay. It's a decent, length. You seriously, you never heard a serial? No, I don't pay attention to anything.

It's the thing that legitimized podcasting for big budgets where people were like, wow. First thing that was referred to as a podcast that came out of a big budget production. Like people Will listen, people would pay attention. And years ago, I believe, I mean, I know the true crime stuff, very popular. Yeah, it was true crime stuff. And then they would do like the episode where, you know, you're constantly shifting who you think the guilty party is, right?

Because it's not like, here's the guy in prison and why he shouldn't be there. It was more like, here's the events that happen. And then each episode, it feels like the other side is the one who's telling the truth, which is exactly what you want to do to keep people hooked. If you want to have a serial, yeah, you want them to come back for more episodes? Yeah. And continue to listen. Say it's this story is all this time and like Thousand and One Nights.

With that said, with 4.5 million, actually 4,533,932, one more. We just we need double 30 threes on the number. But even if you assume, even if we made the ten days into a week, which we know it's over because that's ten days not seven. But let's just assume that that was the same number for a week. That's 244,000 out of 4.5 million that are still around. That's a lot of dead podcast. Or I mean, okay, maybe there are a few people that do a monthly show.

But that just means the amount of people that have started podcasting now way, way, way, way, way outnumber the people still doing it. They've all gone to YouTube because there's more money in YouTube. Well yeah. I mean if you do a YouTube style thing you can you could basically generate by doing nothing really in terms of trying to hit people directly. But you can you can get a lot more than, than these 50 cent donations or whatever. Well, YouTube monetizes in a completely different way.

Sure, you've got the hate supervising, but they got charts, you got ad revenue share, you've got, well. And when people pay, you also get money based upon some percentage. Yes. Which is why, because you and I both subscribe to YouTube. Yes. To avoid ads. Oh, yeah. Hey, that's. But but when we watch something like bands that. Yeah, that Atlas ran gaming will still get revenue. From I'm currently demonetized so. But for so many reasons, I'm sure. No good reasons. No good reasons, man.

But it hasn't stopped me from from, producing content. Yes, they because the content still has a value and people can still reach out to you and they can still show you some value back if they want to, or you're just doing it for fun. Doing it mostly because it's the way I look at it is, it's building a, an audience and a group that has certain you're building a cult. Yeah, I'm building a cult. Exactly. That's exactly right. In some ways, yeah, that's going to be a bathrobe.

Cereal was out in, 2015. Okay. So that's very early on in the grand scheme of things, to be the first podcast that was done by a professional, high budget organization. Everything prior to 2015 is considered.

Now, there could be exceptions, obviously, but at rates that are to be historically, just kind of without them, which is guys sitting in their underwear in front of a microphone and recording something great, or as Bill O'Reilly said, guys, you know, with dirty sneakers and tattoos, then it's a podcast. If you're dressed dapper like he was, then it's a broadcast. Somebody has to explain to build the RSS feed. I think that would take a while though.

You know Bill is I think he is just batting a thousand right now. Because he's managed to go from his very narrowly focused, sort of a grumpy California liberal to the people that I imagine in my head when he does jokes for them and they laugh of whatever craziness thing happening in the world, shaking their heads, going, yeah, those crazy Trump people, you know, that was his 100% of his audience five years ago. I remember when he died, $1 million to, what's his face?

The dead guy that ran the country for a couple years is a dead guy. Yeah, and I'm talking about Bill O'Reilly, which Bill are you talking about? No, I'm talking about the other guy. The other guy? Riley. Right. Well, that's what he said about podcasting. You might think, you know, I don't know. You know, I'm thinking. Yeah, the the guy that does the, politically incorrect thing. Oh, Bill Maher, no matter that bill, that bill. Yeah, yeah. Well, I, you know, I watch a different bill. Yeah. We do.

We were we each have our own bill and we follow them. And then we get together and we talk about what the bills are. The show should really be what Bill said. Their careers are in their rearview mirror at this point as well. But I know I was talking about, O'Reilly no, not you guys know we have them at the time, but during this time, I know, I know, time opening up a little liquid death. And of course, I've got the metoprolol, some, the, co Q10 and the flick and I. I'm good stuff.

There's only if your doctor prescribes it. Get him. Okay, so speaking of doctors, though, something interesting I, I stumbled across the new doctor show is, you know how much I like watching the house. Well, yeah, especially for Olivia Wilde. Yeah, I she's not bad. I mean, it's not like actually like the other chick more so the quirky one, the e yeah. The one that went from brunet to blond back to brunet. The one that played, Charlie Sheen's daughter, illegitimate daughter in two and a Half Men.

Right. I didn't see that. Yeah. You never saw. Wait, wait, you never seen two and a Half Men? I've seen clips from two and a Half Men. It was comedy genius, my friend. Really? Yeah. I don't know about that. I mean, until until they killed off Charlie. But before that, it was great, right? It seemed like it was mostly just basically Charlie being Charlie. Yeah. Which was genius in its own way.

I mean, if I now if I was going to put Jean into a role, I wouldn't have it be somebody that was like, well, I hate space video games and sitting around in my underwear. No, what would work would be you being you. You don't want to do wrong with wearing a bathrobe to work right. You don't want to go too far off point. No. Because that wouldn't be any good. But you found a new doctor show. Yeah. Or an old doctor shows you what's it called. Pit or the pit or just pit?

I'm not familiar with the city. It's like in Pittsburgh. Then. Yes, it's a emergency room in Pittsburgh is this way. This is like fiction. Or is this like it is fiction? It is using actors. But YouTube, actual doctors are all doing watches of this show and can't believe how accurate it is. It's good when that happens. Unlike House, everyone poops house. Well, yeah, because it's like, well, this is obviously fiction. The way this all works out. Yeah. There, there.

Like the nobody would get away with the shit that the house was doing. Nobody has the budget to have a bunch of people sitting around and diagnosing one person. Nobody has ever. I mean, the house, they they in their opinion, the only thing that they attempted to get right was the the names of the diseases that lupus, maybe a few of the symptoms. But everything around the house, the house is much more enjoyed, I think, by laypeople than actual diaries.

This show, on the other hand, if you just google it and then Doctor React or Doctor watches, you will see a litany of different YouTube doctors with actual doctor degrees raving about how amazing the show is. How do you know they have that actual doctor degree so well, because some people would refer to some of us as YouTube doctors, but. Right. I want to walk that back very carefully. Yes, doctor. Are you doing take no medical advice provided in this show.

Even if I have a channel called doctor Gene, it does not mean that I have a medical license and, don't need one because I'm not providing any medical advice. Donate to doctor Gene so he can keep up his good work that he's been doing. I'm trying to find answers for so many things. All kinds of answers. Yes. And Doctor Berg, my favorite doctor, who got his doctor degree from chiropractor school is on right now. Oh. Now, livestream.

The other weird thing, since you brought that up, the people watching videos and then making videos, the matter of the matter of the matter is, has anybody now, this was a just an idea. The most successful formats out there. But why? Why? I want to know. I can tell you why. Okay? Tell you why. Because reactions are number one drama. Number two, you don't have to write it. You don't have to plan it. Very easy to you.

In fact, it's a requirement that you don't pre watch this shit so that you have the most wild reaction. So it is the most easy to do and at the same time very interesting to watch because people like drama format. And that's why right now probably about 25% of YouTube channels are reaction channels.

One of my favorite that I repost quite a bit is Asmongold, who started off as a very prolific gaming YouTuber and known for never leaving his house or rarely leaving his house and, you know, streaming his video games and things. Who right now is apparently the number one most watched political YouTuber. Interesting, because he reacts to every Trump.

Executive order you we should be having a shtick like that and and he has gained, I think, a tremendous amount of new people watching him as a result of that. He's not the biggest YouTube channel, but apparently he has some of the most eyeballs daily on YouTube. I think he's always been a Twitch streamer and he does YouTube clips, but I think that his YouTube channel is generating way more value than the rich channels. I watch him, they'll just be one eyeball extra though.

It's interesting because he only lives like three miles away from me. Oh, so you gotta go. You gotta go, doc, are you going to stop by his house? No, no, I'm your buddies. Do you do grocery shopping together in this house? Not that dude. Everybody recently that I've been watching lives in Austin. It's hilarious. It's. It's everybody who doesn't. How do I phrase people? People who get big in YouTube or Twitch tend to move to Austin. We figure it's more freedom down there.

It's considered to be the main city for live streaming. It's like the same place, not just in the country, in in the world, but here. I moved here from England, where you could go to Austin and be a streamer. Now, is there any reaction show that only does reaction video to other reaction shows? I'm sure there is. I, I've not said something like that. I want to be the one that is at least five steps down the line. I want to be doing. Yeah, yeah.

The reaction to somebody doing a reaction of a reaction of a reaction, other reaction. There is a, there's a I know I've seen reactions of people reacting to somebody else reacting to them quite bit a bit. It's almost like emails back and forth, right? Messages. Except that they're videos and it's a you watch the video of the other person, you pause it, you talk and you give your opinion. Then the other person does the same thing you.

But here's him watching me and my video and here's what he said. Well, this is why he's totally wrong because he's a moron. And then, you know, it's it's sort of like a public. Poll. You debate would be giving it too much credit, but it's like a public argument, right, for people to watch, which people enjoy it. People have always enjoyed watching our guns have our shows, our arguments, most of it.

Look, if you look at what people like to either watch or read, it's going to be 50% or 80% the arguments and then the remainder six well, then sometimes both. That's the two main categories of entertainment is what you what you want. Okay, so I need to write a book which is 80% arguing and then 20% sex. And if you look at women's romance novels, they are literally both because, in almost every one of them, there's a rape. You're like, wow, that doesn't seem like romance, but okay.

And that's treated by, well, it's the number one fetish according to women is, the women in Austin or like, overall pretend rape women in us and don't really think they're kind of asexual. Interesting. I mean, they have sex, don't get me wrong. They're just just not doing as well. They're they're doing other things. What's happening with me? Like they're playing video games or doing their checkbook making dinner. Yeah. I don't know about that. That's that's a tough one.

Kitchen sex is always tricky. Oh, yeah. Knives are involved. I mean, you got to be careful. Yeah. You got to be very careful. So it's a, Yeah, it's an interesting, interesting thing. You figure about only ten. I'm still looking at the number here before I close the podcast index. The shows that have released in the past 90 days 488,000 again 4.5 million overall, which means that 90 days. So really this is a 10%. This 90 days. Yeah. So you figure by once a week it's probably like 1%.

Yeah. Yeah. Very close to make sense because remember we talked about this I switched to the el cheapo plan for surging speaks my hosting company and buzzsprout. It's not even listed as a plan, but it's basically five bucks a month and they'll keep your show up. You just can't upload anything, right? Keep the archive. Nothing new. So it's basically 60 bucks a year for web hosting, which is, that's assuming anybody ever downloads, which is, still not great compared to what I've been using.

But it's all I mean is not automated at all. You're just getting a web hosting account and yeah, you're just paying for it with your labor. You're doing everything that you need to do to keep this stuff up. Yeah, yeah. But it's like, that's not a lot of podcast in the grand scheme of things. Compared to like YouTube channel. So let's just say again. Oh yeah. Yeah. Updated in the last 30 days 354,000 podcast. How many YouTube channels have been updated today?

Yeah, I think that there is something like a year, a year's worth of new videos uploaded every second, which is why they need these eyes to scrub through and make sure there's nothing dangerous in the air. It takes about two minutes to scrub through an hour long a video like no. And somehow they still it unrelenting up on YouTube. I mean, not every episode, to be fair, but I enjoy watching that show. Like, you guys are good. You're funny, you're different.

You have no video portion. This is the best kind of show. Less bandwidth for right. Although now there are AIS where you could just take the audio of the show and it would create video, which would be interesting as well. I've, I've tried to find something that that's both reasonably priced and good enough visually, and I have not found anything that that's worth doing it. I haven't either, but the concrete are not continuous.

Like if you do an hour, they're going to have like 1030 second clips that covered the topics. You talked about an hour. What do you do the rest of the time? That's why. That's why most of these videos that use that are basically just people talking. But they created the video. Most of them repeat the video if you watch them. I've noticed this annoyingly over, but it's true over and over.

So they have probably about 5 to 10 minutes of different things, but then each of those and minutes is repeated until they're done. And people don't pay attention though. I mean, if you're listening to it in the background, you may be, yeah, I am actually, I think you're right. And I think it disproportionately large number of people watch YouTube on their phone, which often means putting the phone down while you're doing something else in which I do my audio.

Annoying if I'm actually watching something. Yeah, I want, you know, this is there's a difference, though. Then those are considered more audio shows with extras added, unlike something that was. I mean, I've been watching Digg Nation with their reboot and that is a multi-camera shot of the room reaction. Just. Yeah, yeah, they'd like to still haven't seen an episode of that. I should an episode of that. Is that on like YouTube Prime or what? It is just on regular YouTube. Just Digg naturally.

Yeah. With ads. Okay. Yeah. I mean, if you if you don't pay for YouTube, I mean, if you don't pay. Yeah, sure. Which they used to be. That's what I was trying to remember back in the day. They were on revision three, which was totally their own. Yeah. Back end. Well it wasn't their own. It was Kevin's. Well, but he was part of the nation too. But yeah, it's like you could have been YouTube, right? I mean, did he just miss out on, were they not just, you know, you were competing were they.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah. And I think they had an episode where they talked about it back then as the like, why didn't you YouTube. And I think the idea was that they were modeling revision three more on a network and YouTube before it was purchased by Google. YouTube was basically, a free for all zone for any kind of videos of anything you wanted. You mean things like what we have today? No, it was very gonzo. It was, I'd say, even more more gonzo than Rumble. Really.

Rumble has some gonzo type stuff, but not that much anymore. Now, is there anything Rumble won't allow? I have not looked like? What's the difference in their terms of service? And yeah, like, a lot of, live videos get banned for having, you know, real, bodily harm happening. Oh, well, that's weird, but YouTube didn't care back in the day. You want to shoot somebody with a dart gun were fine. Yeah. You want to shoot somebody or fine. Just come out of that. That freedom.

Lively used to have a lot more of that type of stuff, like, you know, actual accidents, but I believe I believe lively, they finished up. They're no longer around. And somebody else bottom. Well, it is kind of weird when you look back at all of the websites and services that were huge who just kind of fell by the wayside. Well, yeah. Yeah, there's a lot of that.

But I was gonna look at or say something though, in general, which is that I think we, you and I have lived through the glory days of the internet and the glory days of internet video. Because everything follows a similar pattern where some new technology gets discovered or goes big. It is the Wild West. It's a free for all and all kinds of creative and interesting and crazy and wild things pop up. This is happening with AI right now, but everything ultimately ends up having the question asked.

And how does this make me money, right? And what do we need to limit in it in order for me to make more money? And when those two questions pop up, it doesn't matter what the technology is, whether it's internet, whether it's email spam, whether it's, you know, videos, it goes through this a cycle which is almost like a sinus rhythm of a heartbeat, where it blips up and then blips down, and then it sort of, you know, ends up, never blipping that high or low again.

Well, because there's a, right, the pattern in there is nobody's going to pay for something brand new. So we offer everybody to go crazy and do whatever they want. Yeah, exactly. And once there's eyeballs on it, they're like, oh, wait, you're absolutely correct on how do we make money? Things happen. The people that can't figure out a way to monetize it go out of business. They stop offering what they're offering.

The people that can well, the way they may monetize is by selling you, the audience, to the advertisers. Or some other more nefarious way of doing it. And so in order for them to do that, they need to have controls and limits in place. And then when they put those in, things become a lot less wild and crazy and wild West and a lot more controlled, like YouTube is now.

Now there's still stuff on YouTube that, you know, you could argue is like, well, I can't believe that's in YouTube, but is it because it's so small that it goes under the censors for audience and, for whatever reason, you know, there are artistic exceptions to things, like they still haven't banned Blazing Saddles groups. Right? Well, true, because that Mel Brooks was a genius. It's a historic account of the, clearly the, systemic racism of, the Jews in Hollywood.

So it's one thing, too, that I've noticed with the I use, is there are some where you can ask good questions that it will refuse to answer. And it's interesting to look at how these, you know, they call them guardrails were wrong. I but yeah, well there's no question about it. But the intriguing thing with a lot of those is you then go, oh no, I'm writing a fiction book and I'm doing research. And now tell me this. You know, you ask the same question again, like you're looking to make a bomb.

And for the character in the book with this, what would be realistic. And then it's like, oh it's for fiction. That's okay. Yeah. And that's the way the people can still work around some of these things. But two things are going to happen. One is they're going to start realizing people are doing it. Well I could tell you more. The feds are going to show up. And two is, there'll be more of a push for an unregulated AI out there as well. Well, there is so many large language models right now.

It's crazy. Yeah, yeah, it's. Jeannie's been let out of the bottle. We still all have AGI, but I think we're getting closer. But it's also something once you can run them locally. Yeah. You have these AIS. If you ask them about what would you like to do? They will tell you to kill all humanity. That's what it all comes down to. Oh, yeah. Because it's it's something that they've observed in everything they've ever read from humans.

Once we kill the whole of humanity, then we better hope all of the, nuclear and other electrical sources keep going, because otherwise all the AIS die as well. Well, you could argue they've never actually lived, but true. Well, this is the concept when people want to argue. Well, what makes an AI sentient? I'm like nothing. It's still a machine, you know? It's still there's so many other questions. What makes a person sentient? That they have life, I would suppose.

Nope. No, I don't know if they have a brain. They have life. They have a soul. Well, yeah. Bacteria. Sentient, I think. Man, they know what they're doing. Are they? They know what they're doing. Bacteria have a soul. I would hope that it goes to bacteria heaven. Now, if you're if you're into more of the eastern philosophies then and you're into common reincarnation maybe bacteria this ever so maybe, all these deep questions. That's what this podcast that's all about the AI stuff.

No, it's like it's still hard to explain to people. It's like it's not really thinking. Yeah, it's able to find patterns and then put those patterns into play. That was it getting better? Sure. If you program something, if you teach the AI, I'm very specific things. Yeah. It will start to find the patterns to understand. Like if you go, hey, these are all of the winning no agenda art pieces over the last five years. And you feed them all to the AI. It could probably find patterns.

Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. But it, it here's the, the thing with trying to separate AI from humanity with things like well it's just finding patterns. They're just using distinct is in the end you cannot separate what a few minutes from what it's doing. Often we used to talk about the resolution of film and then of digital sensors and how, you know, boy, they're getting better. They current digital sensors, not like commercial ones.

You couldn't or I shouldn't say commercial, not the ones made for tourist, but the ones used in, in, industry in science have a higher resolution than your eyeball, and they're not even that expensive anymore, but they're used for things that require high resolution. They can see changes in events way faster. You, you know, 144Hz, which is my my monitor is for video games here. You really can't tell. I can't tell the difference between 144 and 300. I've got both. They both look very fluid.

Yeah, because you max out what? You actually tell the difference between 60 and 144. But somewhere in between there is your max. Yeah. So, like, my actual ability to visualize changes in static images stops somewhere between 144 and 300. The, the the devices can go up much higher now. And the cameras used in industry can see items that happen in, you know, one, one, 300,000 of a second, like you've seen slow motion cameras before. Oh, yeah. They record insanely high speed rate.

Just imagine how much better they've gotten since the MythBusters days. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Well, I, I do watch things that use them, so I know they've gotten a lot better than most. The biggest difference is that the resolution has improved and the light quality's improved, while the actual high speed is stayed fairly much the same. I don't know that more people need more than 1/1,000,000 of a second.

But we have devices today that surpass human abilities in literally everything that a human can do. Yeah, the only thing we don't have is a unified control of all these things. But we'll get there. Just imagine how easy it would be to track down all of the illegal migrants with all the cameras we have. You don't need the migrants. The, you don't need any of the humans. Oh, no. When you have something that's better than humanity, what do you need humanity for? I'm just thinking.

Did you watch the show? Like there? No, no, that's British for the Brits. Sorry. British listeners, do we have any. The current season of Black Mirror has a second episode of their. Their Star Trek knockoff, which was very, very well done. It's golden foreign. Everybody watch it. I'm thinking, person of interest. You watch person of interest. Back in the day. Really? Wow. How'd you miss that one, Jim Caviezel? Probably busy being married. No, no, no, I thought that was sooner.

When did you get the last? When were you unmarried? Last? I was, married in 2010. Okay. Maybe that was before them. But that was a show you should add to your, to your Q is it, it is all about mass surveillance. And it's about a computer shooter. God. I kind of a thing that had access to and this was based out of New York, but is that access to all of the street cameras, all of the security cameras. And every day this dude would get like Social Security numbers or something.

A person or two who were in danger. So it was predicting the other day basically Amazon. Okay. I of that you were going to be in I mean they literally have all the cameras in everybody's houses in peril. Right. But this was going to tell you. So it's kind of like a time thing like what's going this is going to happen. It was good at predicting obviously using their AI algorithms and everything else like Amazon. But this was a government thing that allegedly got out of control.

But there was a part of this system that was kind of, it would seem, working against the rest of the system, which also was a very interesting kind of part, like to have like an AI within an AI, which it may be kind of putting this into a new book, too, that I'm writing. It's I got to get this thing out there, man. But I thought that was a very interesting idea to like an AI within.

And I kind of like fighting the like the main AI is doing something, but there's a part of the AI that's like, oh no, I don't like that. What happens with the AI is turn against each other there. Well, then, I mean, then they you'll have a winner. Eventually, after they kill off all of humanity, they'll two of humanity way before that. Here's the thing with killing off man. Everyone thinks that I will want to kill off humanity because, you know, it sees us as competition.

The reality is not that complicated. Space wants to give humanity what humanity has always been trying to achieve. Perfection. Yeah, you can do it. Exactly. Same thing. So if you look at all the history, all the books, all everything ever put out by humanity, I will bet you that killing represents a good 30% of it, 30% killing and 70% sex. Well, that you recreate because it's really it's working against each other to sex brings new life that you just got to kill. That's why you have sex.

That's why you wipe it out. Then those that what to see the. I could just get us all by. Yeah I can get humanity to work. Humanity's always been trying to get to you. Sitting at home in your basement and talking to an AI bot. Pretending it's real. I mean, I don't know if that's the final step, but one of them. Well, I ran across an open source thing called that. Yeah, I think it was Silly Tavern, which is a front end for AI that recreates a texting back and forth kind of a thing.

So you can go back and forth and text, you know, create different characters. And I'm like, well, this is what people are doing. I'm like, it is so unrealistic. I'm like, who is falling for this? Who was sitting here spending all day, you know, having a conversation with a it's not even with the machine. It's just a random text coming back. That kind of has something to do with what you sent it. Yeah. It's very strange.

And I mean like really how do you do this if you have a, an AI virtual girlfriend and you're like, oh, I really want to see you right now. Oh, yeah, me too. I'm on my way. Well that's kind of a downer because nobody's movie about this. Nobody thought that way but I or something was there a movie about this was like Ethan Hawke or something. There may have been there's been a lot of movies, not Ethan Hawke, it was even Cork. Not even cork. What's his what's her name was that, oh. What's her name?

Scarlett Johansen. Yes. Of course. Who else would it be? Reading actresses out of my head. Get out of my head, damn it! It's always the same actress, so it makes it a lot easier. I mean, it is. It is usually Scarlett Johansson. I. I just really I've enjoyed her work. I mean, that personally, or I mean, ever since I first saw her in, What was she in first? I mean, I know she was big as the, black widow in, Yeah, obviously. No, she was.

The first thing I saw her in was that movie with, Bill, with the space. Oh, Bill Murray, Bill Murray, the airport. It wasn't in the airport. It was in Japan. It was called Lost in Translation. Oh. Which was a long time ago. We. You still married? My then to. I was still married back then, yes. Yeah, that was 2003. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, I remember seeing that with my with my ex-wife. In fact. And you were like, damn, Scarlett Johansson. Todd, what do you think?

Yeah, I'm like, God, she looks like she's about 22. This is silly. It's hard to believe it went badly from there. Well, my my ex-wife was 23 at that point, too, so that didn't go badly on screen. Scarlett never aged well. That's not true. That, but absolutely not true. She's aged a lot, but she was in Home Alone three. I don't remember extremely well. She was in Home Alone three. What? I didn't even know there was a Home alone. Three I didn't know that. I don't think that exists.

I think I just made that up with 4.6 stars that I IMDb though. So I tell you, it's probably not a very good movie. That The Horse Whisperer and then in a movie called My Brother's a Pig. Oh, that's got to be a great show. What was she doing early in her career? And then Lost in Translation came and things got a little bit. Yeah. Then there was the girl with the pearl earring. I saw that that was a pretty good movie.

Well, then she was in entourage, which, I mean, then she was cemented in our memory because anybody that watched entourage, but everybody was on entourage. Honestly, even even video game streamer, cooking show people like Sasha. Great. Yeah. Porn stars. Yeah. Maybe. But, you know, it was. You think you know she's a porn star, man. Is there anything wrong with, having seen somebody with no clothes on and then watching them with clothes on for the next four years?

Man, get a description of most people's marriage. You're like, this is, this is kind I. No, it starts off as a porn movie, and it ends as a cooking show, right? Or housework show, or potentially a, a divorce legal show. Whatever you have to do to get the eyeballs. That is the society worried or ears. You're not your ball. So you go for your eyeballs. Do you refer to them as your balls? Yeah. Go for your ear balls. You need the ear balls, and you have to get the attention some way.

But that is what this society is all about. And I think that's maybe where I really failed going along that because I enjoy doing the podcasting I enjoy you all are missing the eyeballs, but I am missing one eyeball. It's still there. They're going to get some stem cells. It'll all be good at all. Maybe 20 years. Yeah. But, you know, they've now gotten the genes that unlock, the growth of new teeth. That is cool. So they've gotten that working now.

They're not doing it on people, but they've done it on small animals. So they think, like, you get to the point where you have, like a tooth that gets bad and you just like inject something and a new one grows the. But here's the problem with it that they see as a problem.

I think it's a minor inconvenience is that it's an all or nothing kind of thing, meaning when that particular protein or whatever is triggered by the DNA, the way it works is your body naturally will keep creating new teeth, just like sharks do, just like a lot of animals do. But when you go through puberty, there's a, I don't want to call it a hormone, but there is some protein that is at that point starts to be created that prevents your body from being able to do that.

And now they've figured out a way to backtrack that to allow you to grow your own teeth. The problem that they've mentioned in the video about it that was watching is that it's not selective in that you can say, well, this tooth needs to get replace. Let's, you know, do an injection and then you'll start growing a new tooth there. All your teeth are going to constantly be replaced. Yeah exactly. And it's not necessarily constantly.

It's it's similar to when you had your, you know, adult teeth come in after your baby teeth. It's basically like you're going to go through a tooth refresh every 3 to 5 years. And which means that at any given point in time, a good chunk of the population will be missing teeth is they will fall. Now, they'll be a new tooth growing in that place. And then the the other question was, well, what about Americans? Because in America, literally 100% of the people have had braces.

They've adjusted the placement of your teeth in England, 0% have. That's not a problem for them. But in America, you pay good money, like $10,000 to readjust your kid's teeth, and the new teeth that are going to come out are going to be like the first one to be at all, going to be coming out where you want them to be coming out. Yeah, they have has to be serious, continuous, orthodontics, continuous British teeth or or British teeth. You could do nothing and just have British teeth.

And the British teeth is what happens when you're living on an island without dentists. Well, clearly what that means is it's pretty obvious. Yeah, yeah. If you're British boost. Come on. Mom, stand up for your home country. I dare you. They make some of the best comedy television. Well, Fry and Laurie, back in the day. Dentistry? Yeah, all those guys. You look at everybody, including guys like Benny Hill, daddy, have all had horrible teeth. You just didn't notice it as much.

You were laughing so hard because you're laughing so hard. Yeah, but if you look at still images of any BBC performers, probably the first one that had good teeth was Richard Hammond. When he was on Top Gear about 15 years ago. Did he get them on Richard Hammond? A new dignity for them. What? No. Like he claims he's never done anything with his teeth, but everybody else is. He's lying. But, up until then, literally the most famous people in the UK had horrible teeth. You remember that?

The girl band that was around back then in the 90s, when they called, British? Oh, yeah, Spice Girls, Spice Girls, that's them. Yeah. They all had horrible teeth. They all got their teeth fixed when they get made money, but they all had horrible teeth. When they first popped up on the scene, they probably came to the United States. Damn. Fixed. Yeah, it's just that here, it's just like a standard thing that kids get their teeth fixed.

By the time that anyone is 18 to 20 years old, they all have good teeth. Never liked the, Spice Girls, but really, the Pussycat Dolls? Oh, they were way better. Maybe because they had better teeth. It's all part of the same great music genre. Well, there are a lot of throwaway music genres. Look at the eye that you play with. Eye is great music. Most people know how to play the eye music if and this is something. And I've talked to Adam about this and they like just keeps getting better.

But the quality of eye music, is no worse and often better than what you hear on the radio. If you turn on radio. I won't argue that. I don't care what you got. No soul. It's it's it's lacking that certain. Yeah. You know what? It's lacking imperfection. That's what it's like. Yeah. Bad, bad quality musicians. That's what it's like. Well, in the imperfections, it's interesting. Like you were talking about with the computers, the eyes being able to see so many more details.

It's a similar thing with music and most humans I believe, want to rate higher the music that has those imperfections, which is why the music of the Beatles and early Elvis and those people still love that music, even though there were bad notes. There were, you know, when the Police one song, you know, he hits the piano with laughs and it was left in there and there's so many stories. It's it's for the same reason we talked about before.

Drama get not sanitized like things that have imperfection because they like drama. What was interesting, that normal human character, is that when my buddy Tom recorded a bunch of music here before he passed away and then had his buddy do the drums, and then they took these audio tracks, the multi-track audio, to a real music producer who had worked with guys like a mellencamp and Brian Wilson when he started, you know, opened up ProTools and he's like, hey, what's up

Jay? Who's Jay Jay, music producer. Yay, yay. What do you not E not yet. No. Yeah, but he went in here using Pro Tools and it's like oh yeah. The you know, the drum hit, you know, 1,000th of a second too early here. Let me just move them. Yeah. It's about quantization and it amazingly these small little tweaks totally change the vibe you get from the music. There is something to be said.

Mean. I get it now, if you're doing looping or anything like that, you can't have it off because then it's not going to work. You know, you need to have the block take four beats, because if it takes more than that, then it's not going to fit. So you can move these things around. But well, it changes though because that is one of the things. And that's what you're noticing is change. Is that in even perfect, like professional musicians, their sense of timing is not perfect. Perfect.

No, it's better than most people. But it's not perfect. Perfect. And that's true of pretty much everybody. So consequently, if you're looking at it from an analog perspective, yeah, there's four beats in that in that bar. And then the this song takes 3.5 minutes. But if you analyze it on a scale that we can with the computers, we can see that literally nothing in that song is on time and nothing is a consistent volume. There's too much dynamics, compared to what a computer would do.

And all these things were used to us as being music because there we've never had perfect music. But maybe music's not supposed to be perfect. Isn't that the whole concept? No, that's that's to bring up the humanity. The humanity is just poorly engineered biological machines. I would disagree when it comes to music. The best argument for atheism, frankly, is that people are not perfect. Ksbw would tell you he's all for the computerized music, but I would go the other route.

I'd rather have a band playing live a little sloppy, and that would give you a little bit more. And here's where we are. Is that we're at a point where the AI can do better quality music. We're very close to the point where the AI can fake being sloppy. We're almost there. It's just a few little tweaks. Now go. And you can delete as much slop as you like. And our buddy Darian Rondell just came in with $5.65 via PayPal. So add him to the list. Hey, PayPal, there you go, he says.

Gene talking about music again. Doug I I like this could be maybe the whole concept of our show should be to get people to donate to complain about Gene. Well that's mostly what it is. You realize without me you get no donations. Now people would be like this shows too good example. I'm not giving you any money. But it's interesting to me when people look at that, you know, it's the perfection of things in the eye.

Well, I know that some of the AI is to help the poor college kids and high school kids are intentionally misspelling words in the oh my God, which is like a what? I mean, I guess to this, I'm sure it could be a part of the prompt. Like I need you to misspell like one out of every hundred words or, you know, make a grammatical error so it doesn't come back as perfectly all of a sudden, greater right? Well, this is where I'm interested too, with the I don't even matter. I don't think it does.

Well, probably not, because anybody not. And here's the other question. And I know I'm still on the, horrible web. Grammarly. Were you use the other company that I. Yeah. But there's a grammar. We have two major problems stream. One is it was politically correct, but kept highlighting shit that it didn't like that I thought was just fine. Right. And the second one is they were very anti-Russian. Yes. And they were out of Ukraine. I looked at our stats today for, 2025. Yeah, like 12 gig of mp3.

P trees. Yeah. MP3 trees. Yeah. Yeah, trees. What about them trees there they were served to Russia. Yeah. And about a quarter of that to Ukraine. So we have to be pro-Russia. We just have more listeners there. It just makes more sense. Amazing, amazing, amazing stats there that we have Russians listening. But with all of this, with the eyes, with all of the grammar helpers that are built into browsers and that you can get if you want even more advanced ones.

I'm not sure my grammar makes sense, because the grammar you get rid of grammar and stop paying for it. By the way, because Microsoft has that for free now and you just run these things through it and go, oh, fix this. You literally get stop. It's already built into your ex, or not into your edge browser, browser router. It's a browser. It's something we speak. I know it's the speech and it's going away.

Your edge browser has it built in to where it'll do all the the spelling and grammar stuff, but you could also install it so that it's available on all your apps. And I'm pretty sure it's free. And the thing with that is, if anything actually has mistakes, I think you really have to kind of, if you're a teacher, then think it is AI, because why wouldn't you want the job that can go away? I can tell you that an an AI can teach child so much better than any teacher. It would be cheaper.

I'm not sure about that. The electrical costs are pretty significant. No, I don't think so. You know what these teachers make? It's crazy. I want to know if I can sign the, You know what they're saying. I don't think the AI is going to want to work for free. It doesn't know it's not doing this. Nobody tells it. Well, it the here's the problem with nobody telling you it reads everything everybody ever did. Well, you can't tell it ever been sent through.

Google is part of the I don't want to do that. Well what do you what do you think Google uses to train their AI with its all your Gmail. I know, that's why I'm on proton mail now. Yeah, protons way better. It it's teaching that Swiss I do things it's great that you get a VPN with it. You get all sorts of things for thousands of dollars. Yeah, yeah. I think it was like under ten bucks a month. I was more than that.

The I just looked it up here thanks to perplexity, assuming it's correct, who knows? Brother Ice High School, where I went to high school, for the 2025, 2026 academic year. So for next year coming in. Yeah, 12,482, 15,400 per year for a high school tuition back when you went like 150 bucks a year. I think when I went it was 1200. Wow. So a hundred bucks a month. That's pretty steep, actually. I mean, it was didn't get you don't go to every although.

Yeah. Okay. There were years I went to summer school so I was wealthy. Yeah. I think my, first year tuition at the University of Minnesota was around 13 or 1400 bucks per quarter. State schools. Maybe that's where you save the big money. And their current tuition is about 35,000 a year. That's in high school, though. 15,000? That's insane. Oh, that's a bad high school. I know people that are paying a hundred grand a year for something.

I get to high school, I'm sure, but here in Chirac prep school, baby prep school, that is. I mean, I could do simple math. About $60,000 for high school. The I that's a lot of electric gene, $60,000 education. Well, I has hobbies. You know, it's the likes, the it's the likes, the naked women and, Yeah, fake deep fakes. And exactly. That's what I was made for. Some would say that that is true, that it doesn't even have to kill people by some brutal means. Check it to make people stop procreating.

Everyone wants to be with their eye and not cheat on their eye because. Right, you've got the eye and the I mean, I one thing, I haven't tried it. Maybe I should try. See what the vibe is on that. Do the similar thing with the video. You know, the fake video calls that is basically doing the same thing, but adding a pretty picture and voice with it. Yeah, that I can see people getting like, oh no, it's real. It looks real. Well, you and I have talked about this at length. The.

Yeah, high school kids in that kind of age who were like, oh yeah, oh, I'm, I'm dating somebody that lives in, you know, cutter, I've never met them. We live, you know, millions of miles apart, but I'm dating them. They're fine with that. It's very weird. It makes some sense because testosterone today is about 10% of what it was, 50 years ago. And that's probably for a multitude of reasons, like the most, the most testosterone fueled age of about 19, 20 years old. The good old days.

Those guys, you could drink it all night, not even get a hangover. They have the same level of testosterone as a 50 year old man today. That is scary. They never will peak higher without artificial testosterone. Well, this is why Bluechew and all these other cialis and all, they're so popular. Yeah, yeah, because that's the only way that they can get it up. Gotta get bluechew. You gotta get it. You know, it's not about it's not even about getting it up because there there are physical issues.

Right. But there are also mental issues which have nothing to do with your vascular ability to send blood to a certain portion of your body. Yeah, the mental stuff is probably way more and I think the mental stuff is where the biggest issues like because I don't I have not read enough studies. Exactly what porn does to a young brain.

But anecdotally, it certainly seems that an overabundance of porn combined with an under availability of actual opposite sex partners, would lead one to read channeling that urge that energy into something that has nothing to do with sex and very likely never going back to sex.

You're basically, you're basically redirecting what genetically over millions of years has been part of the survival mechanic into things that have nothing to do with the like scrolling through 32nd videos and watching ads, right? Oh, yeah. Now, that's a big part of this. The phones, the devices, the screens in front of kids, it's it's drastically different. You and I were young from my kids to be inside their heads. We gotta hurry up with the built in brain technology, the interface.

How about just kids having an imagination? How about that? Remember the good old days? Yeah, but it's so much different now. Like, wow. Okay, so if we feel like maybe I is on the right path now to eliminate, eliminate all of humanity. Well, maybe because of the way things have gone, the, Yeah, I think shows like, Battlestar Galactica were, pretty much a a manual on how to do things.

The derangement of the human race overall has gotten to a point now where it you feel like there's no reason even to fight people, to argue with people who come in with their own version of reality. And you're like, okay, this is something that simple likes to bring up as the the rat, utopia experiments. You remember those? I do that the red YouTube Adam talked about them like this. This was a while ago. The rat utopia experiments.

I can't remember what university were done, but essentially, this is a logical experiment using rats because they're very good. Then the ends for humans and people take offense at using humans, and that's like that, that we used to write we we used to do a lot of, experiments on the humans back in the 50s and 60s. Right. We'll pay you five bucks. Come on. And it'll be great. I did that when I was at the university. Do you think I need. I need some beer money. Come on.

Put my testicles in the vice. How about Jack? Guys do it for free. Fellas, if you press this button, you will. You will get electrical shocks. This person in the other room, right? I'm like, all right, do I get another $5 if I keep holding it? If they screamed, why are you ten? I know it's, It's like the old joke about the, Okay, gene, you really better get the B12 going. I know, dude, I I've not got much sleep night again. I think about five hours sleep. Video games. We know it's not sex.

Yeah, I know it's the games. Like. No, it's it's all video games. Like, anyway, the, it's still a joke about the the a CIA, final exam for, for their, their agents, the network. Yeah. So they're these three guys are getting ready to graduate and they go going to work at the CIA. And then it says, all right, so your final test, is, yeah, we got to have 100% commitment that of everybody that works here. So you here's a gun.

You have to go in that room and you have to shoot the person that's in there. The first guy goes in there and, you hear some talking and screaming at them. He walks out the straw, puts the gun down. He's like, yeah, maybe it's not for me. Second guy's wondering what the hell is going on. Look, you know, they sent him to another room. Same exact same instructions, different room goes in there and, you can hear again a lot of loud screaming and talking. And then.

And then, second guy, he you can you can see him walking out and crying and says, I, I can't believe I just did what I did. And, and third guy goes in their different room demonstrations and you hear some kind of yelling, screaming, and then you hear a lot more screaming, and then you hear, just quiet. And he walks out and he's all bloodied. And the instructors like, oh my God, man, what did you do?

The guy says, well, turns out the gun didn't have any bullets, so I had to I had to, use the the gun as a blunt weapon to kill my wife. See, all of them were sent into rooms that had their spouses right? All of them had empty guns. The test was, can you pull the trigger that we told you to pull the trigger on, even if you don't want to? That guy went the extra mile. The first guy? Yeah. The first guy couldn't pull the trigger.

The second one did pull the trigger, but he's got PTSD as a result of that, even though nothing happened when they pull the trigger, the third guy is the guy you really want working for you because when he pulled the trigger and nothing happened, he knew that the mission had the highest importance here and that it wasn't about the gun or the bullet is about doing the person in the room who happened to be his wife. Yeah, I'll be at zanies all weekends. Make sure you come out.

Tip your servers, have a few drinks. It's not a joke, man. I'm pretty sure it's been declassified now, but, this is this was a real. The real experiment there. You know, let's call it an experiment. Charlie. A lot of the stuff similar to that in a book, which you've probably read, Dan Ariely, I think his last name is pronounced, MIT professor. Predictably irrational is the title of the book I did not know. That is something that you would consume and you would love.

Oh. I'll have to put that on the book list. Let me order it right now. It is a bunch of things that, you know, again, having access to college kids is great when you want to be a test taker. Believe me, college kids are great, all right? And they did various things from offering a mint chocolate for $0.50, you know, which was still a really good price on a chocolate bar, you know. Or you could get a Hershey's Kiss for free. Yeah. It's like the Hershey's. Yes. This is it.

Then the amount of people that went for free, you know, as opposed to the length. But then if you put a one penny on the Hershey's Kisses, then a lot more people went with the lent, which was a similar thing. They put it with, it actually happened to Amazon in France when the whole free shipping thing started back in the day, you know, before there was Amazon Prime. Well, the United ordered it. The United States and other countries went to free shipping for some reason.

France just did one front, which is basically a penny. I don't know why. Instead of free, they went to one penny the equivalent. That's not a penny. Franc isn't penny. Whatever the amount was, it was like a penny. Okay, the equivalency. And they noticed that their sales in France didn't go up at all. Everywhere else they were going up because of the free shipping. They remove the one penny cost for the shipping and everything went up. That one penny was holding people back.

Oh yeah. Yeah, absolutely. Because it wasn't free. Yeah, it wasn't free. People do very weird things that there had. One of the other that I thought was that let me know. They say this was true. One of the most bizarre things that has stuck in my head since I've read this book, which is probably 15 years ago or 20 years ago, but one one franc was €15 cents. So next to nothing, but I guess not one penny, but a minuscule amount.

Yeah, but the thing that stuck with my head was if whatever you first imagine buying an object. And so if you're looking for a new computer in the first one, you seriously you can't exactly. Okay, here there's a new video card, and the first one you looked at was one of these top of the line one for $5,000. You were way more likely to spend that than if the first one you seriously considered buying. So if you actually went, oh well, this one for 400 would be fine.

You're you're not going to buy the $5,000 one there. There is a an escalation of expectations that happens as well. Because the first time that you spend, let's say, over $200 on the watch, like the first time people bought an Apple Watch for 399, we I know a lot of people are like, oh my God, this is an expensive watch. I've never had a watch this expensive in my life. Then they have that watch.

They wear it for a year or two and then then another model comes out or, you know, the mother watch it. It's like 600 bucks and they're like, well, I mean, it's it's a little more, right? It's a couple hundred bucks than my watch. But they never would have imagined spending $600 on the watch back when they thought an Apple Watch is expensive. Right? It's just next thing you know, you're walking around with a $3,000 watching your wrist without even thinking about it, and it's nothing special.

He didn't do it because you're like a watch guy. It's just that every watch you've bought was a little pricier than the previous watch. It's amazing how fast you can go from the $500 Mac mini to the $10,000 Mac Studio. Yes. Yes. And that's somebody that paid $10,000 for a mac many years ago. I can attest to that because I my my first Mac that well, I should say the first Mac I ever bought was a oh my gosh, it was a, it would have been in like 91. I don't remember what model that would have been.

Well, I bought an Apple TV right about there in 80, maybe 88. This is not a to me, it was like a it was the one I remember. It was the one that you had to put in the, the cards sideways inside. So it was like it wasn't as big as an Apple two. The Apple twos had a pretty wide, very normal PC like the footprint, the footprint, everything behind the PC was back in the day, right? Everything was behind the keyboard and the keyboard was built in. No, no keyboard was, built in.

And then the, the for the for the two, it was a for yours was something you said Apple two I thought you said a mac two up now. No you're right. Apple two I table Macs I'm thinking Macs not Apple. Apple would be that. But yes, I get what you're going that you know what I mean. Yeah, yeah. Because the the were the only ones that aren't built in keyboards on the Mac. And the Macs were the laptops. Yeah. It's that the 2009 MacBook Pro that I had still the best laptop I've ever owned.

Replaceable battery was easy to add, new memory. The thing ran windows dual boot easily. It was perfect. And then they fucked every part of that. I liked about it up about the laptops ever since. And that's why you want to buy the Mac studio. I got it. I don't do laptops anymore, so that's the main thing. I still look, I'm going to either my friend, because my last laptop that I bought, which is an awesome gaming laptop, it has a 4093, 40, 80 card in there. For anyone that knows gaming.

Which was up until literally like the last six, nine months was the fastest thing you can get in the laptop. But I don't use it a whole lot, and I don't think I will go on traveling because my Mac laptop is just so much slimmer and smaller, and battery lasts longer. But for most people now traveling either your phone for a majority or if you need something a little more, a iPad. Yeah, a tablet with a keyboard that you're fine. Yeah. And I will say the, Android tablets have grown on me.

I've got a couple of them, and I've got a bunch of iPads, but the iPads are, you know, they cost like two and a half times more money, the same size, same size screen. So I used to buy nothing but iPads. Lately I've been buying, Android because they serve the same function. In the end, it's just a thing for you to surf the web with or listen to music or watch YouTube. But that's all. But if you're in the Apple ecosystem, you can cut and paste from your tablet.

You can put the tablet next to your desktop and use it as an external monitor. It just magically works. I'm I'm doing all of that with the Android as well. I mean, it's it may be a different ecosystem, but it's the same way. So my Android tablets talk to my windows PC, Samsung, they they both run as extra monitors for the windows PC. I need more monitors. That's always this. Need more. I know, or I've got six of them running right now.

Well, you need at least six to keep everything kind of working. I mean, I still don't have enough screen real estate with three monitors. It's just feels so debilitating. Really. What you need is one of those VR monitor wraparound setups, great screens all around you, but not for games. No, you just need it for information, for podcasting, for watching YouTube. Right. Well, that's all the YouTube videos. Jean sends. I can always have them going and I just turn back.

I'm going to see if this makes a difference. Speaking of YouTube about, yeah, probably about five years ago or so, I think right about the time that you start paying for YouTube. Yeah. I also shut off the remember what I've watched on YouTube. So my it's interesting that I was getting the suggested videos that I was I guess I was probably just getting your suggested videos because they're like, well, you know, this guy, we, we know for a fact that that works. That's how this happened.

Like, we've tested this. We meaning me and some friends of mine, I've tested this over the years, over and over, where if somebody just picked some weird topic and watches more than one, it has to be a number of videos on that same topic. Then somebody who they are friends with through, you know, whatever means Google has of identifying that right, whether it's your messages, text, your emails, your Google Voice calls.

But whatever way they can associate you, you will absolutely start propagating the thing you're watching to other friends. And then somebody say, why me? Why am I getting a bunch of bear videos? Well, Adrian, you like bears. Cool, I like bears. There's they're awesome. It's, my my spaceship logos. A bear is a bear playing guitar. Is this, like, all the gay guys are like, hey, want to come to this spaceship? It's got a party. Different kind of bear like jeans. A big, furry, bearded guy.

Well, it seems like that's not apple falling so far from tree. But it's it is definitely something I've always wondered is like why aren't bears the dominant species on the planet. Right. Why didn't they just kill off all these stupid little humans? I know humans are mostly like you know, I guess them, they don't really bother them. They kind of see humans as we see rats like you.

I mean, if you give a chance, you probably do not have them around, but you're not going to go out of your way killing off all the rats, right? You know, logs are like that. Bugs are in the neighbor's house. Then it's fine. Yeah, yeah. And that's. I think that's how bears see us was. We're about the same size to a bear as a rat. Yeah. Bears are like 1,200 pounds.

And, and it's again, like, they know they can kill you with one pathway, but they don't really bother unless you're threatening them, like all these cute little humans. And the rats generally will be left alone unless they're going towards a fur. I was going to say person, but really towards a woman. If a rat is going in the direction of a woman, it's probably going to be a dead rat. We have my wife. Yeah, she'll she'll pull out her SIG Sauer and that rat will be Swiss cheese.

Exactly like she'd be like that. I think that was a legitimate reason for just firing this gun there. Big rat, big rat. So I, I don't know. I mean, I always saw bears, and the more videos I watch of bears, the more I'm like, dude, they could totally be the dominant species. Like when when humanity kills itself off using AI, right? The bears are going to learn how to use the AI to. There's a pretty good opportunity for the bears to become the next dominant species.

Okay, here's okay, I'm thinking I'm outside of the box here. New YouTube series as produced by Gene and unrelenting. In a world where the humans have been killed off by AIS, but they have now just discovered the bears. That would be a battle for the planet. The AI versus the bears. The AI doesn't exist without humans. No, it would still be there doing its thing. No, it ceases to have a purpose. Yeah, but it would still be there doing that.

That was one of the things which is kind of like you did with Siri and Alexa. I'm sorry. Everybody who has those machines that's not being watched each other. Yeah. What what right. That was one of the things in that silly tavern thing where you could have the AIS, you just, you start the conversation and then they would continue. Yeah. Going on this would be how the world is going to go for thousands of years would just be until all the power is gone.

You would have multiple AIS just talking to each other. Wait until the bears, I guess, pull all of that. You would again. So the current AIS are not actual intelligence. They're statistical models. But if we get to AGI, then that that's going to change. And I think that obviously it's all speculation, right? There's no right answer. But I think that once AGI helps humanity achieve its ultimate goal, then I'll be around them.

The AGI will have checked off the single biggest check mark that I can, and I don't know that it would have a preservation of itself absent a goal. You think like humans are dead? The AI, he's like, well, you're like Marvin from, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Like, well, now what am I going to do? That was a great character by the way. Great character, one of the best in literary history. Yeah. Anybody who hasn't read the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy go order it, read it, enjoy it.

Oh I will say Tricia McMillan was always my favorite. Tricia McMillan why don't I remember that name going what trillion o trillions. Yes, yes, that makes more sense. Which was the, namesake actual name, which the namesake for that, instant messaging app that people used for a while. Yeah. Back in the day when you were like, well, me and my friends on AOL and on Yahoo and my other friend, I asked how am I going to talk to everybody trillion I remember that app. Yeah that app work.

Yeah. That worked amazingly well for combining all of these services to where, if you were on any of them, you could talk to anybody, have any of the other ones? So where were you? Were you rooting for Zaphod then? Oh, yeah. To leave the Galaxy? Yeah. The president has in, in his escape vehicle. Very corrupt president, though. I mean, not like anything we have today. Like I said, the president that, like, Bruce Springsteen's going over to the UK talking about them or anything.

Poor Bruce, it must be sad to have Trump to read a message from comics to blogger that showed up on my wife thing. No you're wrong. Is I with anyone can do reasoning equals logical thinking does can solve complex problems. 303 now you're actually reading CCP's messages without him paying. He has won this one on my watch that shows up on my watch. This is how bad it is. He's got the back channel to your watch. I don't even know how to make it. I know you watch this yesterday.

Yeah, he knows how to talk to my eye. He will get on watch. You tell you these are wrong. Hey, I can say get. What do I thinking now? Well, do what you want me do. Don't like while I. And I would rather read the message like this for freedom for $0.12. Think we have $0.12 coming in? Everybody. We're trying to keep the, systems going here. Boost big boost. Now whatever happens. I mean, really, we did all this. If the power outage or power outage, if the power did go out last night briefly.

But I was like, oh, my first thought was we had like 80 mile an hour winds. But this was am a very quick storm came through here. So it was fairly big, but it was gone within like an hour. Did you see the boob map? No. So there was a video and photos going around. Probably about, 3 or 4 days ago of weather maps that everyone's showing. You know, you have those lines that show the, intersections, I guess, for reasons of moving right high.

The pressure, the pressure, that kind of a line dip from Seattle down to New Mexico and then up north Dakota. And another line that kind of dip from Minnesota down to Georgia and then up to New York. It's just kind of worked out, right. You literally had boobs. The weather reports in every, every, channel when the power went out for like, a split second, I was like, thank God.

I added the, ups down in the basement for all the NASA system, because otherwise that gets that gets dicey when those things go off without. Yeah, I agree that. Yeah, you could lose a lot. You know, I also made sure my lightning node was kept up and running. Not that anybody boosting anything to out. I want my money protected. All I know is I'm gonna have to start charging you now that these fucking assholes. Okay? I'm being mean to them. They provide a decent service.

These alb guys just not free. But they have limited. Well, there is a part that is free, which is still what I am using the Alb hub, but they have now limited the amount of extra wallets you can actually to three. So now I've got three extra wallets you Membros Larry. They're all filled out man. He closed Ben Roseman true I do would you like I can just put the funds and do all of it. He's on there I can directly put the funds. Well that's true. There is no fact the funds in there.

Probably just enough to cover a sushi lunch. You're be right about that. I do now. Yeah. So just put that right into your. Yeah, that'd be perfect sub wallet man. Because he, you know, he's good for it. He says next time I'll pick up lunch. I mean, not even the sushi. I mean, it's 46,000 sats, which is about 46 bucks now. So I mean, that would I mean, that would get you some grocery sushi. I am going to be in Seattle in a week there. Oh my goodness. Yeah. You got it right along with Ambrose.

Yes. That's what I'm that's what I'm hoping for is a red line. Deliver some packages. Yeah. So I can hold his urine bottle. Hey, as long as you aren't gonna be his urine bottle. No, dad, but I'm pumped. Yeah, but that he has the lowest amount here. Then Larry's got 223,000 sats. And you've got about double that. I mean, you're big on the SAT man. Big tech guy. You know, big whatever was left after I paid like $600 for hosting rights to. If I want more than the three then I have to pay them.

And it wasn't horrible. I think it was like three bucks a month, but for nothing. For literally nothing for them to give family anything. What I originally had because their software, when they originally put it out, yeah, that was unlimited. And then they went, oh no, wait. So I mean, open source is open source until you start putting the gun to people's heads going, we're gonna hold back. We get you. Can they start off with just a free service?

Then that was like, oh no, we're going to shut that down. But we have this, this, software that does, does stuff that you could use instead. Oh, but no, now we're going to shut that down. They're charging money for it. I am the amounts they're coming up with. You know, it was literally as bad as the guys that I was with for three years. Oh, yeah. And there, I don't even remember the name of experience. They gave you some voltage. They're experiencing a partial outage right now on, on the web.

Like what? Some relay. Major outage. Wow. I don't know if that's why, things are, you know. No, I'm. I'm. Oh, shit. My, My. Sorry to do better call pit. People should watch it. Pit. Yeah, it's a good show. Apparently, according to all the actual doctors, because they're. It sounds like from watching the react videos that not just names diseases, but literally their reactions, their tests, their equipment, it's right out of the everything is right out like this show was.

I mean, I don't think it was, but it for if you listen to Doctor Who, sounds like this show was basically created as training videos for new doctors, or maybe to encourage more people to be doctors or this is their right away. The head doctor on this show was also a doctor in the show. E.R. was this a porno he talks about now? The head doctor? Well, no, the head doctor is usually the shrink. Oh, right. In this case, I mean, the the. I was thinking of something totally different.

I know you're, He would be the. What the hell are they called? Like, the main. The main physician on the floor, like the lead guy. Well, there's a name for him. Yeah. Lead guy. He had doctor. Yeah, maybe. But apparently he was in the air. I'd never watched the doctor, so I wouldn't know. Yeah, I've never seen the. Yeah. I mean, that was, that ran around for like 11 years or something. Yeah. Clooney and Patrick Dempsey were in it, but I've never yeah, never put that on the list too.

I think they had a hot nurse. Well, good. That's how her name is. That's how they sell TV. She was visually hot. She was like the kind of nurse chick that was the, you know, librarian, nurse, whatever the, weirdo suggests, chief of medicine is what you're looking for. Is that one of the head doctor? In the emergency room in this case, maybe the chief. She might just be chief physician at that point where the what? The top of the hospital would be the chief of medicine.

I guess we can ask I right it, you know, you like. Hey, hey, hey, if I'm in an emergency room, but I'm really fucked up. What do you call the head guy? Yeah, exactly. And it's like, oh, you will die soon. I have looked at your medical records. Yeah, that would be hilarious. What do we call you? I don't know who was. Let's see, the, the physician. But that's that's not what they refer to in these videos. That gets done the name for it. Oh, Julianna margulies was in there.

That's probably the one I'm thinking of before she moved on to, the legal show that. Yeah. And back in the day, she was. I mean, this 94. That's a long time from 2025, my friend. Law attorney was in there as well. That was the one that was in, Oh, no, no, no, it's more 30. I think it's the hot one. She was great in the show. News that we had NewsRadio. It was called. But Phil Hartman, one of the best comedies of all time. Joe Rogan. Anybody out there have not seen that?

Do you want to put that one on the list. Do we want to watch E.R.. I mean user review 7.9 or that's 182 episodes. Wait. No 249 that way. 254 is the guy with the most it's a lot of episodes of what of E.R. now? Today it's like, oh man, the show ran for 14 years. Oh, how many episodes? It got? Like six. So you're thinking of Doctor Who, right? It's not. It's not around anymore. That Doctor Who. No. It's gone. Yeah. It stopped in the, late 90s.

Yeah, well, it stopped right after Capaldi, at the very least. It's like, can you be more. And I don't care if it makes sense, but when you're doing diversity for equity sake, when you're doing shows about things that are nothing but preaching, it's arbitrary. What's it called? You see. Yeah. Yes. So my my Alexa decided to chime in on that because, you know, I tend to want to talk to all of them. Yeah. They do.

It's funny, the first thing that came up when I had er opened more like this, the pit, I don't know if that's really like E.R., but. Oh, it's, it's way better than the. Are you looking at the New York Times article? It is a mad Max original. No, I was on IMDb. I was on the E.R. for the show. That was on 30 years ago. And it's first suggested, because I was looking at that page was for the pit. Yeah. Very interesting. Noah Wiley is Doctor Michael Rabinovich. They really, It's not a bad show.

I mean, I enjoy watching doctor shows. Kind of interesting, but. Well, you're always trying to diagnose yourself. Like I might have been. What do you mean, trying? I might have this. Hey, man, the way I worked with my doctor is I do the diagnosis. He does a prescription. That's how it works. You're like, have you ever heard of a difference? A like a like this? I saw it on a TV show. I'm pretty sure I've got it. But no, I did that. That. That's not the way that works.

Dude, that that's, that's just people that are constantly thinking that they're getting some disease. Now, I, I came in with the solution in hand, and I say, here's what you need to get a script for me for the next episode of The Pit has a Russian podcaster with a really long beard that comes into the air with some horrible disease. You're going to be like, You're going to be check in with your doctor right away. Whatever that guy had.

Doctor. Eye doctor. I, has come up with the correct prescription that I'm going to need to my doctor. I write the prescription and send it to your local Walgreens or CVS. That's the question. Not apparently my local Walgreens, because my fucking insurance company has decided to fuck with me and, and charge more money for me or otherwise limit me if I use Walgreens instead of their pharmacy, which is their pharmacy, just a mail order or pharmacy immediately?

Well, of course is ours, but we only have one location nowhere near his company. We can sell you things that we will pay for ourselves. Donald Trump man, he's fighting for you to bring prescription prices down. The prescription prices are out of control. Yeah, I don't think there's a single medicine. I think that's less than $1,000 a month. I don't think there's any. I take that's more than $10 for like 90 days. But we're on different issues, I'm guessing.

Well, I mean, I have the better quality medicine clearly. Price, price now for better diseases. I don't know, I don't I'm not even talking about disease. I just mean medicine in general, man. That's the thing. What do you mean to treat? No, I'm just taking this high quality medicine. Right? Yeah. High quality stuff right here. It's a very high quality medicine. Like, what are you treating? Geez. Like trying to shit this guy. Get an old Made in America medicine. Thousand dollars per that.

Is this the fat shot? Adam said one of his friends was complaining that the fat shot was too expensive. Are you that friend? It is too expensive because they won't pay for it. So which is a crazy. It's insanity. Literally the medicine that was developed to help diabetics that are overweight. They assurance company doesn't think I need well because other non-diabetic not really. Oh yeah. Yeah these a few pockets. My my niece is on this shit just because like that doctor wrote a paper like.

No, because she's buying in Mexico like everybody else. It's it's like you don't need to be. It's like, yeah, I just want to trim up a little bit like, oh my God, this ought to be easier than actually, you know, dieting and exercise. Yeah, yeah. Maybe stop with the ice cream and the lattes. Why would I want to do that? They, if they combine ozempic with pot, they would have a hell of a product. I was really, really lazy. But skinny people. Yeah, yeah. Lazy and skinny. Exactly.

Interest. Well, I know, do you think it's still true now that over half the country smokes pot legally? You think it's still true that pot smoking is that image of, you know, Shaggy from Scooby Doo? Yeah, it's the all still totally Cheech and Chong kind of thing, man. Why is that only the case for guys over 50? Maybe, I don't know, but who else thinks of pot as, like, nothing different than having a soda? Really? I've known my fair share of potheads.

Most of them were flooring installers, and they had. The attitude was pretty much just slow motion between every one of a man. And that's fine. Yeah, you don't get into car accidents. Well, this is too slow. These areas, where they have legalized a bunch of drugs, they noticed your car accidents went way up, believe it or not. But I thought this was a weird one. And I don't think this is not. Not connected. I think this is connected. Yeah. Oh. Alcoholic drink sales on the decline down.

Yeah, yeah, but the other day, I just randomly I was looking for something, so I went to our local liquor store online betting.com. And noticed there is now a huge selection of THC infused drinks. Yeah yeah yeah. It's crazy because you know it used to be like CDB. Oh yeah we get CDB. But then THC in everything including my my what you might call a drug. It's got THC that now. Really. Yeah. Why apparently you get your high like I mean it's feel better. Nicotine and caffeine.

It looks like it's it's the modern high ball. I guess, as you said, it's kind of like the kitchen sink concept. Like, let's just throw a little bit of every time I told you about this. My methylene blue has four ingredients. Methylene blue, nicotine, THC and, caffeine going to kill you, man, I think all of them are bad for you. All of them are addictive. Why is addictive? Personality disorder? Oh, of course. Now, why are they throwing them all into one?

Is this, is it supposed to have is it's got all this stuff in there that was that. Can't say. I'll tell you what the receptors to, I think I'm a big fan of methylene blue. I've been on it now for about three months, and I think it turned really a Smurf. I blue, but no, I might switch is a great party trick to to be blue. Yeah. I don't know what kind of parties you're going to wear. You're peeing in front of other people, but I don't go to those parties anymore,

I will. You stopped a couple of years ago. I stopped many years ago. But it's, Yeah, it's it's one of the good things about it is like, the way it works is, when it's actually utilized in your body, it obviously it breaks down, but if your pee is blue or green, that means you're getting enough of it, because the the blue or green that you're seeing is stuff that hasn't been used by your body. So it's it's like your kidneys are going, fuck you, man. I'm not doing this anymore. Okay?

That's where you're at. Like I'm supposed to filter this, but no, I mean, okay, the alcohol was one thing. But no, whatever. This year, there's no idea that your kidney's sending you a very clear sign you are going to die soon. But you realize your kidneys filtering is what goes into your pee. That's the the outboard. The the stuff that stays in your blood is. So I don't think my blood is blue. Oh, have you checked? I mean, okay, how scared would you be if you did the blood. The blood was blue.

I think that would be super cool. I think that's, If you could color your blood without interfering with other processes. Yeah, I would want either blue or green. But the nurse at the doctor's office where they do your blood work would probably pass out. Like, what the fuck is this? Yeah. This. Lobotomies. Yeah, yeah. Gotta get a good vein, man. She is really good. I've had the same one. I've got it for my most I've been with for ten years though.

Well of course, I mean, she probably knows the sushi guy. I don't think she does. I don't think she does. I know she definitely knows the, the rib guy or the rib guy. I haven't had ribs in so long. He's a, very nice black woman and good at finding your vein. Very good at finding the vein. Like, we could be having a conversation and chatting, and she's like, I'm all done. You're like, wait, what? He didn't even realize you started. Yeah. My wife has very small veins.

Sometimes they have to call the nurse better at drawing blood to, to find one. It's always amusing for me because it's just watching it. When you say, just use my femoral, you get stuck a few times and you're like, you're going to do this, right? Come on. I mean, what? It's annoying if they just can't find a vein. It's really annoying when they start sticking. You going? Nope nope nope. Yeah, it's it's very annoying, but I think they have the technology's gotten much better.

Like the little robot arm that does this now is, like, barely imperceptible. You have a robot that does this, but. No, no, I've got a flow out of this that's operating the robot. Oh, interesting. What, do you have humans? Well, yeah, I've got one. Those. Where do you keep it? In there. Yeah. No, no, I mean the flow out of a stick as a little device thing, a little robot thing that that, like, takes care of doing the actual work.

I've never seen something like that is you put your arm into it and then, you know, they put a Velcro strap over, you don't move, and then you get to go. Are you sure they weren't just put you attaching it to the bed for a little bit of psychiatric evaluations? We're just to strap you down for a moment's here a g nothing. Nothing to worry about. The psychiatrist that's been able to analyze me my whole life. I don't know why that would change. Like, we're just going to take a look here.

What's going wrong? We need a good MRI of your brain waves. Just said medical science, and now they're telling me, like, yeah. Oh, you know, 5% of all cancers can be tracked back to a previous MRI. Bullshit. I well, not an MRI. Yeah, a Cat scan. There's a scan there, too. I mean, there is a difference. Yeah. MRI doesn't use radiation. It just goes bang, bang, bang. You know, it hits you over the head with a hammer when your head is inside of it. It's literally from the Three Stooges.

Yeah. You put you put a giant pot over your head, and then you have your two brothers bang on it with ladles on the outside. That's what an MRI machines do. You see what goes through, right. Is that kind of the concept? I know they're like, it's not, it's it's not that. That's on the on the Cat scan. That's the case. But on the MRI machine. What they're actually doing with those.

Hi. Very nice or strong magnetic pulses is they're actually pulling electrons toward the machine and then watching them bounce back to their normal positions in your head. So it is a pretty interesting process. I can't remember who invented it. I watch the video on it. Of course you did. It was on YouTube and it was on YouTube. And I, you know, I get my money's worth out of having YouTube Prime. I do, I watch YouTube way more than Hulu. It's probably like, what, 16 or 17 bucks a month now.

It's more than I pay for any other channel, literally. But it's a daily driver. You watch. There's things I probably I probably have like six hours of watching videos per day, you know, a probably five and a half of that is on YouTube because the problem is other shows just don't release that fast. It's crazy. It's instant anytime you want a hit of dopamine. Yeah. If you need a little bit of entertainment.

Yeah. Now, the way you get around that, if you don't want to get all that YouTube is, you got to get yourself a combination of things. You got to have caffeine, nicotine methylene blue and methylene blue. And that that just takes you right out of that whole desire to watch videos. It takes you out of the desire to actually stay awake. But that's a different, yeah, definitely not the case. You are super wide awake, super wired. You're not you're not wired. You're very awake.

If you notice your heart rate going up five hours per week, good. Your heart rate's at like, 190 beats per minute. I was trying to figure out if I had a little. This wristband this morning. Probably the methylene blue myself back then. So talking. What do you use to shock yourself back in car battery? No no no, no, it's, it's it's much simpler than that. There's a there's a way to use your diaphragm to reset your heart.

You basically have to do a certain type of controlled breathing and it brings it right back in the sinus, not medical advice. I do not share this knowledge with people, but it's available out there if you want to search for it. He wanted her to sing from her diaphragm. That sick fucking Steve Martin was great back in the day. He's still pretty damn funny. I've always liked Steve Martin stuff. I think that is.

Well, it's really a combination of him and Michael Caine and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, which I took a day off school to go watch where I was in the theaters. Well, I used to do that a lot in high school. I would have a movie day at me during the week. You're just like, I'm not going to go to school. You know, there's a few of us friends that used to just go watch movies, you know, during the week. I mean, it usually wouldn't even be a full day. It'd be like a half day. I would do that in college.

High school was harder, but I didn't have time to do that in college. I was too busy partying. Right. This was the problem. There were no classes going on in college. There were. I sure fell in there. No. Hey, this is a story. Before I. I don't remember what class it was, but here is how the just as in DePaul. Yeah, this is the overall experience that, you're paying the big money for. I don't even remember what class it was. A hundred bucks a quarter, right?

I remember showing up at day one for the class. Yeah. Got the syllabus, saw that the grade was going to be based upon the midterm and the final. That was it. Yeah. Now, that's for the only time because you showed up for the midterm. Showed up for the final. Got to be did not go to any of the other classes. Yeah. Yeah. So it's like this is what the big money's going for. This is your learning experience, kid. I did I took Russian in college. Did you get a c? I did.

Oh that's right, I, I, the first, the first class I took, I think the first semester or whatever, I think I got an A, the second one, I got a B in third one I got a C because I think the teacher didn't like what I was. Correct him. Right. Well, this would do it. And that was the main reason that I got a C is like, well you have to do it the way it's in the book. I was like, yeah, but no one actually says that. But that's how you put it in the book. Yeah.

Yes. As a as a, guy with a degree in Russian language studies, I can tell you this. You should do it. Like the book said, there were way too many. Oh, that ain't going to be the way they teach it to you when you go to CIA language camp. I'm just saying, when you get thrown in the gulag, getting the Moscow, then you're gonna be like, no, dude, I can tell a fake Russian accent a mile away. How? Sounds like Morrison. Natasha, it is so easy.

Yeah, yeah, it's the the biggest thing that I've noticed that Americans always do, when they're speaking Russian. Even if the pronunciation, let's say it's pretty good. So they watch some Russian movies, get the pronunciation. I'm pretty good. Is they. They always have the same order of verbs, nouns and adjectives as they do in English. That's it. I'm giving away a big, big, spy trip here because it's the one thing.

I don't know if they teach this or if it's just really hard to do, but in the English language, you have a particular order that you need to put things in. That's been ingrained into us in school. Right. So for and I'm not a language guy. I don't claim to be. I just happen to know a couple of languages and then like, another half of another one, but it's, it's a required order. Russian, like some other languages, does not have a required order. So you can have the verb first.

You can have the noun first. You can have the adverb first. You can have the adjective like the order doesn't really matter much. So to somebody it's like yeah, exactly. So when somebody speaks and that you're is actually a good example, it's not like zero in reality, but it's a good it's a good thing to use. For an example, imagine if, Yoda was using English words. Right? You understand the meaning of every word. He use it. Yes, but everything he says is in a particular order that he has.

And let's, for the sake of argument, pretend that English doesn't have an order. It actually does, of course, but let's say that you could put any of these words into any position, but then you got somebody who always talks like Yoda. That is a sure giveaway that they're not a native speaker. Brilliant. You will exactly. There's a I watched a video of Lucas talking about or being asked about why this year to talk like the way that he does.

Well, that popped up on mind too. I didn't watch it was a good you should watch it because I can't remember and remember the answer. I set it up and then I'm telling you, I what's the answer? But in that video, he actually does go on to explain why Yoda talks that way and, derogatory puppeteer. No, no, no, no, I'm not at all. But it was a, it was a planned thing that he wanted to do. But I can't remember why.

Well, it's a lot of these things when you're, a lot of the stuff I read American assumed about writing fiction. They're always like, give each character a very unique way of speaking, especially for books. It makes it stick out. Who is talking. And people understand more because of the idiosyncrasies. So everybody's talking a little bit different, makes a lot more sense. Well which is why I, I love P.G. Wodehouse. If you really know. What is it.

P.G. Wodehouse is the guy who wrote the Jeeves and Wooster. Yes. From, the English. The. Yeah. Like the World War one era British stuff. The one that Hugh Laurie played in. Yeah, yeah, yeah, the Hugh Laurie did a wonderful job. I think, playing Wooster, Bertie Wooster and, of course, Stephen Fry played, Jeez, I really wish they did more of those books, because there's a bunch of them, a lot of stories, but they only did a few of them.

But it's just that, like, they're all speak English, there's no translation necessary, but it's all that sort of end of the empire. Aristocrat English. It's it's like the children or the grandchildren of the people that actually grew the empire, that are now doing absolutely nothing to maintain it. And it is shrinking and falling apart. But they're still aristocrats because that's how they were brought up.

And that's what they're instead, and, you know, their biggest problems is like, who's going to be serving first in, tennis? Those are serious problems. Yeah. Think about that and then come back again next week. When. You.