155: Poncho Equity

Do I get it? So get it ready. Get your bow bows with buds. You got a big bowl. Everybody ready? The smoke up. You ready to light it up? Are you ready to inhale. Are you ready to bring it all the way down into your lungs? You can feel it in your toes. Are you all happy? We're gonna bring that right down. Your. We're. On your. Yeah. We're gonna bring this right down. Hello, everybody. Welcome to another edition of unrelenting. Yeah, we got rid of the theme music.

155 no, it's still in everybody's head, though. That's all right. That's where let's let's keep it there. Let's keep it everything. This whole podcast is just in your mind. If you're listening with your own body in mind, fuck these guys are in my head. Can you imagine if our voices were in somebody's head? 24 seven man. Yeah, I'm of course the only time somebody pays money. I'm always thinking that with these generous views. Yeah, I notice I get a drink.

I don't even notice. What? No, what I did with the last show. But I left the live tag in the RSS feed, but somehow deleted the, the bits where they could give us money, but nobody noticed that one person was like, hey, I was trying to trying to boost you, but I couldn't if you were talking. I had the headphones off. I was getting the drink. What were you drinking? Whiskey. Straight up. I was just mentioning that I somehow screwed up the RSS feed and took out the part where they could pay us.

Oh, okay. Nobody noticed. Yeah. Or would they? Like. Really? You didn't notice? No, not for this show. It's like this is the normal is 000 coming in, which is sad because even a little bit of satoshis like, a year or two ago would now be a lot better because the price keeps going up. Yeah. Where are we at then? Technically it's going up. Bitcoin going up. It's going up like a rocket. Like one of Elon's rockets into the stratosphere. Higher and higher and higher and higher until it crashes okay.

That's how we said this is it's like going to Vegas. This is exactly where are right now. To be fair, everybody has casinos in their towns. Now that everybody is gamble happy, we don't really. That's one thing. Austin doesn't have us casinos. You can just keep go gamble, get. And then you're like, hey, I'm riding the hot streak. But when do you decide? Nobody. Well, not nobody, but most of us human beings keep riding the hot streak until you're right back to where you started.

I keep looking at those numbers on the coin 9.7 and I keep thinking now is now the time is now the time to do 10% up over last month. Is it time to put it into gold. Is it time to put it into cash. All your bitcoins boy is this as high as it goes. Does it come down from here? The time to buy some rubles? Can we still buy Russian rubles? Can we buy rubles? No, not if you're in the US.

Not. Yeah. Another countries. Yeah. So, see, there's a service somewhere that allow me to invest big into the rubles. Yeah. Well, this is why I still don't have access to my rubles, because I use the service. You're just waiting. Waiting for it all to be okay. Bill O'Reilly, our colleague on his way to China and China. Yes. Like, what the hell, dude? And I want to. He must feel like being a close personal friend of Donald Trump's will keep him safe because he has a book coming out in September.

Which is, killing and I'm sorry that Chinese people kind of it's, it's not killing anymore. It's confronting because the last one was confronting the presidents, where they did a quick blurb on all of the president's this is confronting evil. And of course, the guy from China from back in the day, what's his name? The horrible leader, you know, not t though. At least that's good. If it was cheese, then I'd be like, you're in big trouble, lousy Donald or whatever.

One of the in the founder of China. Probably there was one of them Chinese guys on the bill's book, and I'm like, maybe they're going to be like, Mr. O'Reilly, remember, you take that off. Yeah, that's not a bad idea. Although I don't think his books are for sale in China, so maybe he's trying to get them to be the, the one of them that is because he talked about this, is the one he wrote about Donald Trump, and he says that is hugely popular in China.

Yes. I'm guessing most of his stuff is not available or it's heavily redacted. Kind of loves Trump. Yeah. And well, I mean, who doesn't? Let's be frank, the guy is hilarious and he is not afraid to pull a world leader and and be like, hey, genocide, what are you doing? Here's the video. What are you going to do about it? That was hilarious. But yeah, it it takes big balls, that's for damn sure. Did you can you do we have that video to play that video that we have queued up yesterday?

Do we have it set? Do we still have that? Did you find it? It's like it wasn't planned it all. Do we do? We could. Yes. We must kill all the white people. Oh, they are the supreme evil. Yeah. And then he says, well, you know, Mr. President, we have free speech in our country. There's a lot of crime. It's not just against the white, you know, we have lots of black people that also get killed. Yes. And they do know genocide and the black people know I'm just not the white. That's great.

I think this is Trump playing that for the chess again with the Democrats because he's like hey bring these migrants in. Yeah. And they love migrants if they're Democrats but not minorities in their their minority in their own country, they're being abused. Do we do it all of a sudden? The Democrats are like, oh no, no racist, racist, racist. Now keep it, keep all the migrants off the U.S, It's like, dude, he is making this so much fun.

Well, Aspen Gold, who is one of the premier political commentators now apparently he used to be a premier gamer. He how long does it take to make that jump? Well, it took watching the election. That's when it started for him, cuz I don't think he gave a shit before the election. And he was one of these pretty anti-Trump. And now and then when he started doing the election and then after Trump got elected, he's basically he watches everything that Trump's office puts out.

Oh my God, that's a lot of content. Well, he's on eight hours. They they could fill up his content. Yeah. But he's not gaming much. Well no. Because you just have Donald Trump saying things and releasing things. Exactly, exactly. So he was one of these guys that finally started paying attention and went, wait, this doesn't seem right. Well, no, he still would call himself a Democrat, they think or no. He's always called himself independent, which is about people that just don't. Yeah, yeah.

For people they're like, I don't want to take a side, man. I don't want to offend anybody. He keeps pointing at Trump while not admitting to actually liking Trump. And he's the guy that's currently, I think, going to be named responsible for shutting down Twitter because of all the, the pro, violent, anti-Jewish shit on there. And, basically he's he's he's had a number of bans over the years from Twitter for fairly innocuous things.

And he keeps pointing to literal calls for violence for the Palestinian terrorists out there that are on Twitter. Right. Not Twitter. I keep saying Twitter. I meant Twitch tweets. Yes, yes, yeah. Twitter is different to this now. Twitch is still Twitch, but it starts with a twitch, just like Twitter used to. Yeah, yeah. So that's where they can see that. And they haven't you got to be 12. Yeah, yeah I got I got some pills here. To me I feel so bad about Scott Adams, man.

I'm going to miss that guy by having he's dying. But we knew that. But I'm just saying, you know, that's where we stole the. Instead of simultaneous sip, we have our third simultaneous baking of pills during the show. Of course, only pills that your doctors would prescribe or that are available stoled that technically, I think we invented it. Maybe he had the simultaneous SIP and we just had a one man podcast. He literally cannot have he can't you. But he has people that are watching.

That's totally a different thing. And then what we have is an original creation here. He has Joe Biden, but cancer, which nobody want Biden but cancer, that's what he has the same cancer. Joe Biden has brain cancer, you mean. No, but Joe's got cancer. It's colon cancer. Brain cancer. You know what Joe does probably it's probably spread directly at Joe's brain. He didn't have one before he got elected. What do you want. And that's what you get.

But now he's got Adams is going to be dying this summer, so that's no good. That's all planned out pretty well. I mean, I guess, he talked about maybe wanting to do the. Hey, California, let us just drink the magic juice and go peacefully into the night, like, doing no treatment or anything, or. He's he's tried, I guess, and, nothing worked. And that. Oh, that's right. That's why I said we kind of knew this didn't make because I think he is. He's looked like he is,

a cancer treatment guy for about a year now. Yes. He definitely looked like he's been drawn and not not completely healthy. That's for sure. No. Yeah. That guy used to be funny. Dilbert, the Dilbert back in the 90s. Some of the Dilbert are still funny. He was one of the few out there that was still doing anti, you know, Democrat humor through the whole. Like he wasn't really doing Dilbert for probably 15 years. He set a company doing it for him. Why would you do them yourself?

Now you have AI, which means Dilbert is going to be there forever. Well, you keep saying that I just sent the video. I should have sent you as well to, some friends about AI that I have started. Or at least, the, what do they call it, OSC three or whatever the hell. With the oxygen three or. No. What do they call it for? What? I don't know, I them oh, I don't know. I mean, there's so many I mean, I know, anthropic just came out with Claude C4. It's the, the other one, the the open AI thing.

ChatGPT chat, GPT c3, c4. I don't know what the fuck like in the late. One of the latest ones is, for. Oh, dash. Hi, dash. There you go. Something. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, that that that's what they've used to the code. They've started putting in watermarks. They can see everything is generated by AI is marked. But doing that with the coding for the little video game. But I can see where they're going to try to do that.

Of course, it's always you just hear what I said at all that they will be watermarking. They are watermarking. Have been watermarking for a while. Yes, it's possible I haven't seen any some possible. It's actually been demonstrated and they are admitting to doing it right. That's fine because people take AI shit and then presents that as their own. Well, that's like coding. I don't know how you get by the AI. They own the watermark, the something that is code because you can see the code now.

You can put things if yes, that you can then edit, which means there will be an AI. Probably that'll be the rogue AI that will do nothing but strip the watermark from the goodie. They can allow you to rerelease. This is this is really going back. It's it's sad because it's harkening right back to the digital rights management of music and CDs and things that just don't work or that will not stand long enough to make a difference, because I think there's two arguments to be made.

I can see both sides, honestly. One is, does a guitar manufacturer get to own the music that you make with it? No, but they certainly get to brand the guitar. No, it's a tool. Right. So you're buying a tool, right? A guitar to make a product. Yeah. So Taylor Swift plays a Gibson guitar on a song. Gibson doesn't get money, right? Right. In fact, Gibson probably pays money right? Because there's like the player guitar that more people will buy.

And this will be good. Yeah. But, the other side of that argument is if you have a, computer program or I guess it doesn't even technically even have to be a computer program, but basically something where your artistic input is, you press a button and then it generates a random thing and then spits it out. Are you the artist of that? This is the question. Yeah. No, it's interesting because, one aspect, as you just said, the AI is a tool.

And it is a very specific prompt, usually a long string of words that got whatever art it is, whether it's a photograph, graphic, audio, text, it got it to generate that by putting in a very specific thing, which maybe could be interpreted as strumming a guitar chord and playing notes on the guitar. So I can see that aspect of it, which is you have to have the skill and you have to have the creativity.

It's just putting creativity into a completely different area when just focusing on where it's able to write the, text for you. Writing prose. I've noticed that one.

You can go in there and one of the, Microsoft guys that has a YouTube channel, I forget his name, but he's the old, so he's basically membros, but he's way more successful because he's got a YouTube channel, but he's also a developer, not a tester, and he's getting up to like, a million, subscribers now, these days, he's like, he's the guy that that wrote the task manager. Really interesting. He's the guy that originally they needed internally and he wrote it.

And then he said, you know, I bet you a lot of people would want to see this info. And they allowed him to make it publicly usable, and it ended up way being part of the official windows package. But yeah, that's his claim to fame. As he wrote the task bar manager for, I guess, windows 98 thinking or something like that. Well, he did a video yesterday testing different eyes running locally on everything from machines with little two gigabyte, in memory for the video card.

Nice. Having that Microsoft stack that just never work I know. Right? They think he had up to I think he had the, somebody lent him. I don't think he owned it, but somebody had given him the ability to access their Mac studio with the 512 gig of Ram in it to run the one. And he was testing all these things locally and talking to people and something like that about the AI. And it's for what it does to be able to run something like that locally is fairly impressive.

But his test was a very simple prompt. Write me a story. Now that is going to give you much crazier, non cohesive results from my testing on things. That's usually going to give you gibberish that isn't worthy of a fifth grader writing it. But yeah if you have other text. So if you take a story that's already written and you want to say add a few paragraphs to a chapter and it can read before and it can read after that, it will do a lot better.

And even better would be to do that in between existing text and then give it scene beats, which would be like, well, and then Gene says that's bullshit. And CSB sends a boost to Graham complaining about it being bullshit, and it will write like four paragraphs about those scene beat, and it does very good with that. Yeah, well, and I think what I think most of these AIS, that do text related things, what they're very good is washing out the pattern. So. Right.

Because people it's almost by default because if you take writing classes, they will teach you how to write in patterns. And so what we consider as people collectively humanity as what we consider good writing. And obviously there's extremes on both sides. But what we generally considered good art writing, and which is the same thing that taught in college writing classes, some even high school maybe, but for sure in college classes, that creates a certain standard or pattern

that the AI can then emulate. Yes. So if you say specifically write me something in the style of a, somebody that dropped out of high school in the eighth grade, you should get very different results than if you just don't put any prompt like that at all. And it just tell it to do something. It's going to do it in the preferred. What we would consider the proper way to write a story. Yeah. It's basic default. Now what I do, the paragraphs you describe unrelenting.

It's either right in the voice of P.T. Barnum, right in the voice of Donald Trump, right in the voice. The right in the voice. Richard Marchenko well, this is the other thing that I've figured out with, the latest ChatGPT is normally if you do one of these things like, hey, write me a story, you go and you throw that into your least favorite Grammarly or any of these other things that try to detect AI writing. It notices like, hey, yeah, like 80% of your writing is AI.

Now, once I put in a few thousand words of something that I had actually written myself and said, write me a story in this voice, in this, you know, same style. Hey, those things did not notice a AI writing. Really. So what it's looking for is those default generic patterns which people have pointed out everywhere. It's that extra the m dash is the most popular thing in. For whatever reason, the I love the m dash. And normal people do not use it anywhere near as much.

So if your are generating things for school, kids don't want your teacher to know get rid of them dashes, make them commas the same thing pretty much so. And then of course there's the let's intentionally misspell a few words or grammar just so it doesn't look like an AI. Spit it out, right? Right. But the watermarking stuff is fascinating because I was I was waiting for them to start doing that. How are they watermark? I mean, it's easy enough. They're pretty images, invisible characters.

Well, in the images, that's even easier to do because there's all sorts of ways to embed that images. It's you can literally put in a QR code that is not visible to a normal human. No, which a lot of people don't know that everything you print on a physical printer has a watermark. That is. Yeah, in your data, your printer. Yeah. So it can be tracked down your Social Security number. But they have it. Yeah. Which they probably do. You know I don't know how would you. Doesn't have yours. Come on.

How do you watermark something that is text. Because that would be very easy then to run through any kind of, you know, basic notepad plus plus, something that would strip anything extra. How are they doing it in text? Or is it impossible to do this with text? Well, you can certainly strip things, but there are plenty of characters for foreign languages, including some that are not visible when you're typing in Latin.

You know, our, our character system, that you can stick in there and sometimes they'll show up as little squares, like if you do a copy and paste, you see little squares, right? You're like, what's that? Got a of characters like, what the hell is that? Oh. That that's how they do it. It's that strip of also, the text is it's a waste of time. Images and video. Text it. Look, every law is subverted, okay? Everything that somebody tries to do, like copy protection, in software, you can get around.

But the percentage of people that get around is 1%. True. Because you have to what the 99 is what they're doing this for. Yeah. And two you have to know how to understand. They're, they're they're doing it for things like. So you submitted a legal brief and did you write this legal brief? Well, yes I did. You're fired. Are you going to jail? I wrote it for you. Oh, I love I mean, no agenda talked about it. The fact that a syndicated summer reading list that was totally I blocked.

Made it into all these papers. It was like. Yes. You want to read Stephen King's? And the boy cried wolf like there's no Stephen King book called. And the Bog Boy cried wolf. Wow. And the boy cried wolf even. Yeah. The thing I mean, I don't know if that's what it said. I just made that up as example, but it's okay. I mean, if really if you were smart, if you're the one programing the AI, you would have had to be like, well, buy the book from Gina.

If you live about the, selling business on business. Please go buy my book for poncho. How to write, how to lose money on free ponchos. That's the next in the series. You know, I still have the ponchos, right? I didn't lose anything, per se. I still have them. You have ponchos expire, okay? They didn't. They didn't like. I bought a bunch of eggs when the egg prices were high, and now I'm screwed because the egg prices are coming down and no one's buying my expensive eggs anymore.

And they're going to expire in a month. So these ponchos, I can literally sell for the rest of my life. I get buried in these damn punches. You probably. You got so much poncho equity, man. Ever after I'm dead. And it's fine to be like, what's going on? Why are you last cadaver after the nuclear blast happen? The ponchos. Maybe the only thing that survived. You know, the only real solace I have is that, after I'm dead, since the rest of the world, that doesn't matter. He's like, push the button.

Go ahead. Push the button. Come on. Do it, push it. Push the button. What makes you think I don't have a button sitting right in front of me here? I'm sure you do. I just don't think it's wired. What do you think it was? Reminds me. What of my do what? Doonesbury comics back in the day. Remember what you remember those with Oprah's penguin.

I mean, there was one where there were, like, the, I think it was some kids class that was visiting the nuclear power plant and of course, the penguin working at the power plant. And his, tax bubble was just, oh. Yeah, that's what I was going to be here, kids. Yeah. Oh. And then it all goes away. But there is too much insanity. It might be time. It could be ready for another. This world up. Another Noah's Ark situation. Yeah. Of of a variety of pipe work. Gotta do it. Yeah. Gotta do it.

I don't know if you gotta do it. If. But the I mean, speaking of religious things, the little town here where of Bethlehem Dalton. Very close. Dalton, Illinois. Where Pope Leo grew up. Yeah. The house that he lived in was already for sale. Was getting bids over the asking price. And it appears that the city is going to take the home using eminent domain. Yeah. That's bullshit I hate that to make it into some kind of whatever because.

Oh the Pope's from here. Who the White Sox already put up a mural at the ballpark in the section where he sat for the World Series. It's like, you know, trying to capitalize on the image of the Pope. I don't know if that's really what they had in mind. There's a very thin line between showing your respect and, trying to capitalize on the I mean, the white the White Sox don't win.

So I guess maybe I mean, yeah, everyone has, some sort of a business museum type thing that operates out of the hometown of the. I don't remember going to the Clinton house, the Clinton. This is a blow dryer. Used to live. I don't know what the hell they called the house. The Clintons used to live in. I remember going to that. Let's see. Now, that would be a fun thing to give you. This is very big. This is where Hillary slept. This is where Bill slept.

All right, dude, I pay your bucks to sleep in that bedroom. This is, two different sides of the house. A lot of. Yeah, a lot of walking, like coming and going. Yeah. For Hillary, both sides. Right. Exactly. It was a game. It was like who could do more. Who could get more, who could get more. And I'm okay with that. There's nothing wrong with that. It's, Bill and Hillary show people on the list that I have a problem. You know, sometimes people just need a good killing. We need a good reset.

I'm not saying anything bad about Hillary Clinton. No. She seems like a very fine, upstanding serial killer. That's all I'm going to say. I'm sure she never actually got her own hands dirty, though. Then, what are we going to do once everything's watermarked now? Is it going to be. See, if it was big watermark that would kill the eye. Whole concept. As for all the guys that have producing the, new porno, if there was a big eye logo on top of the titties, they would not like that.

I guess that's one way to, kill a, a new industry. So nobody's talking about the amount of power needed. Well, this is really going to do to all information on the internet, because isn't it now it was suspect before I. But isn't it, like, doubly suspect now.

It was written by a real person was written by newspapers are getting caught and I've said this I think I'm one of our last couple shows is we're living during the golden age of AI right now, much like we did during the golden age of YouTube before Google bought it. What is coming for? I like to think I predict this. You put it in the book. One legislation that limits law controls AI and how it can be distributed, which won't work.

I think what will happen is there will be legislation that places an actual criminal penalty on distributing AI generated works without disclosure of it being AI generated. I think that is coming, and that for the college kids that are trying to, you know, pretend they're writing shit, right, but it's going to be coming because it's going to start affecting business contracts and operations.

I think that there will be lawsuits or things that I created against businesses that said, that's not ours, and that's going to lead to this type of law. So, Mark my words may not be this year, may not be during Trump's presidency, but it is absolutely coming. Controls on AI content are coming. Number two is companies like Google that both have AI and a business that only exists based on content that is unique and interesting to watch.

I think what they're going to start seeing is as the percentage and to really a lot, but as the percentage of content on services like YouTube, which costs them money to operate, starts becoming over 50% AI generated, they're going to put the brakes on, because what they're going to realize is that much like with email, who nobody looks at anymore because it is 95% spam, no one that actually wants to communicate with you is going to send you an email.

The only emails that that people get are legally required emails or emails to accounts within their own companies from their own company. So their internal email you just you don't use email for actual communication anymore. You use other things like signal or text messaging. I mean, once you maybe make a contact, you do, but usually they're emails, probably only there for that first one I emailed you. We've been. Yeah, but I know you slash working together for three years now.

If somebody is listening to this show and they're like, hey, I really want to get a message to either me or you, it's not going to be email, but certainly not going to be signal because I ain't giving up my signal. I don't know what a signal is for actual people. I know that exactly. No, no, it's what it's going to be. Is a donation true? This is a booster. Great timing. Yeah, a big boost or a PayPal. I don't know if the boost work. Apparently not. So don't bother doing those.

But what's your five year $5,000? I really need you to contact me. That's right. That's exactly what we're looking for. This is the only way it works. That'll be the last show ever we are doing. This is. We finally made it. We did it. We. We can now we tell you these. Yeah. 5003 ways and we're good to go. That's what people think. People think 5000 satoshis. And you're. You're lit. You're fine, you're good. Oh, yeah. You're on fire. Yesterday was the date and time I forget what year it was.

I can look it up where the first real Bitcoin transaction happened, where the coder used Bitcoin to buy two pizzas, which it's like I just thought this again, seeing how the, the times have changed and got this in from a coin cards. Who wants you to spend your money. But this was in 2010, so only 15 years ago kids. Laszlo and yeah, he's I'm sure I'm butchering his name was a coder. He made a tasty bit of history. It says trading two pizzas for 10,000 Bitcoin. Yeah, that is now worth $1 billion.

15 years ago, two pizzas. If I just want to know, I want to follow up. I want to know if the guy that got the 10,000 bitcoins for the pizzas just put it on a hard drive last and then forgot about it, or what happened, because that's $1 billion now from the guy that gave him the two pizzas. Did you keep the bitcoin. How many bitcoin does this coder still have?

I'm assuming if you gave or have not kept it I mean anecdotally speaking in people I know most people that have had bitcoin early on either lost it like I did or spent it when it hit like $5,000, like, holy shit. Yeah, this is real money. I'm getting real money out of it before this thing crashes. Oh yeah. Can you imagine if you were that guy 15 years ago and the majority of people left? It currently holds Bitcoin at over $100,000. Bought it within the last five years.

I'm still pissed off I didn't spend the $4,000 to buy a bitcoin a couple of years ago. Yeah, well, and I know a guy, two years ago that, he's he's a not super tech type guy, but he's, you know, reasonably well, well-off. He makes 300,000 a year, he's got decent job, blah, blah, blah. He texted me out of the blue, says, hey, where can I buy bitcoins? And I'm thinking, all right, what do you really want to do? Who's scamming you? It's about want to get gambling. Yeah.

He's like, no, I just, we're talking about bitcoins at my church, and somebody said we should all own bitcoins. But when I go to this is him talking to church, who is. He's very Catholic. I know that makes him untrustworthy immediately. Right. But if you go to, what's the what's the most common place for buying Coinbase? Coinbase and Coinbase? So if he said this is him telling me. So I went to Coinbase and it won't let me buy a Bitcoin. It only lets me buy like $5,000 worth.

I'm like, oh you you just want to find the place that will let you spend more money immediately without waiting to see what kind of buying pattern is. Obviously Coinbase trying to prevent people from losing their livelihood, losing their homes that yeah yeah. And he's like yeah, yeah I just want to buy two coins. I need to find some place. Right. Buy a couple coins. You want Gene's house of Bitcoin.

Then I remember specifically looking at the price of bitcoin when we were having that conversation. I was about $48,000. And I was thinking, jeez, Jesus Christ, you want to put 100 grand into this scam, right? Okay. I mean, look, and I told him I get my rent, which is you get to buy it, never sell it, just buy it and hold on to it forever. Never sell it. And you know, my number is a million. So if Bitcoin actually wants it's only 99X away from it right now.

If Bitcoin ever goes nine x that's why I'm selling it. You know party big party. Hell no I'm going to keep it off. And I won't be doing this show anymore that's for sure I don't need this income. I'll be able to retire anyway. Okay. So I told them. Yeah, and they found a couple other places that sell it, and then he texted me back like, yep, yep, they let me go and buy a couple of coins directly. So now I'm thinking, man, I was afraid he's going to lose his money. And what a putz.

And literally within the year Bitcoin was up to like 80. And of course now it's a 110. And as of the time of doing the show. So it's yeah I mean, this guy that knows nothing about techie shit or Bitcoin until he talked about it in church and decided to spend some money out of it until he found a shady friend to help him by money in a couple of years. Yeah, three, like three years. He probably doubled his money. Jim took the 50,000 like, no, I bought the bitcoin for you.

Don't worry if you ever if you need it, I've got it. There was a movie that came out many years ago as a French film, which I'm sure makes it something. Everybody here listening saw, it was called, Oh, God, I can't remember the name, the movie, but it was essentially a cop buddy film cop buddy movie that is, made in France in the 1990s. If that helps tear it down at all. Oh, yeah. My, I'm a Francophile. You're never going to be able to just come up with it.

Most American movies, when I say, you know that one actor, you can kind of figure out who it is, this one ain't happening because I don't know the actors names. I just know it was a hilarious film because I laughed a lot. Oh, well, it must be. Are you sure it wasn't a horror movie? Because I laugh when I see a good horror movie. I laugh a lot. You know, this is a Fred show. So we. Tomato. Tomato. That did. No, there's no horror films in France. They're all comedies.

Yeah. This was instead was like subtitled. Kind of in French. No, I, I, I used to know French. Oh, okay. Yeah, in the 90s. I knew French in the 90s and expansion and I, I knew all kinds of things in the 80s. I don't anymore. I actually had a job in the 90s. Amazing. Well, yeah, that's a long one. And a white. It's all gone right. Job hair. Yeah. All of it. The only thing that seems to not help is the, you know, the puffy layer around my middle. Right. Well, see, that's going to live forever.

The ponchos. I'll cover it though. Hopefully. Hopefully. So it's a buddy movie. It's a buddy cop movie about a corrupt cop that has a partner that they, you know, they, they're basically their typical French corrupt cops. They, they get they, they're on the take. They kind of ignore minor crimes by the criminals that pay them to look the other way. And all of a sudden there you find them.

So it's the beginning of the movie in a situation where the police, the police, the, internal affairs are investigating them or not. No, they I shouldn't say this again, but they closed in on this. This police, corrupt police rank. And the guys are about to be captured, and they're like, well, you know, we're going to get caught, but maybe only one of us has to get caught. This one, the cops, and then the other ones, like, what do you mean? This is. Well, if you take a hit for both of us.

Oh, you. And, so essentially one of them shoots the other one in, like, the stomach to where it's a flesh wound kind of thing or whatever. It's not, you know, basically just to say that I caught him, I was on to him. He's the corrupt one. And, you know, I managed to win him. And here you go, guys. So one of the two basically gets a cover story, and I think they, they do, Rochambeau or something to pick which one it's going to be, but or or maybe not.

Maybe one of them convinces the other one to do it. But the point is, at the very beginning of the movie, you kind of lose one of the two cops. Yeah, but he's still alive. He was in the hospital. They rip you all, oh, UX. Directed by Godzilla. I don't believe so. I don't it doesn't ring a bell, but it's not to say that it couldn't be. If what I'm describing. Well, here a little bit more of it. And so the. I think it may be called my new partner. Yes. That's it. That's the translation.

There you go. My it came out in 1984. Oh, really? In the 80s I thought it was 19. The film centers on Rene, a moderately corrupt veteran Parisian policeman who teaches his naive by the book New partner, Francis The Art of Bending the rules and taking bribes. Yeah. This is what, perplexity I can tell you by pretty good. So apparently the I can work as a memory aid.

Yes. I put in French film 1990s buddy movie funny corrupt cop with a partner, one shoots the other to cover crime and they came out with it. Nice. Nice. I like it. This is way easier than trying to remember titles on Iraq, I know. Right, exactly. Now what? So what was the title? Because I did not remember the title. It lay less who repo UX repo, how to use it. I'm not to this rant. Yeah. Which at the English title would be my new partner.

I don't think that's actually what it translates as but okay. That's what it has. My new partner 1994, it says my partner but maybe but that's what the I says cool, cool. Yeah yeah yeah yeah. So that was the movie. Yeah I've seen it more than once. It is really funny. It's well done. But the reason I brought it up is I didn't get I didn't even get to the incident in the movie. That made me remember it before you found the movie, which is great.

One of the things that happens is this guy, this new partner, is totally straight laced, like he is by the book, totally not corrupt. He's the kind of guy that would give a bicyclist a ticket for not going in the correct lane as well. You should fuck those bicyclists, especially the recumbent ones. Yes. Right. So anyway, which you know what, I don't. I'll never coming back. Doesn't matter. Whatever I think of getting one, it would be cool. I you think you probably are going to eventually. Yes.

Ironically. So one of the things that happens is they he says, talk to his partner and going to the camera was his dog race or horse race, but it was it was some kind of animal race thing. He was like, yeah, you know, we're, he comes up with whatever reason for going there. So they end up going there. It's like, hey, I'm going to go put some money, you know, just an innocent bet. It's totally legal, you know, put some money on horse, blah, blah, blah.

Do you want to, do you want to go in with me and the other partners like, no, I don't think so. Oh, come on, it'll be fun. We kind of talks him into making bets. It's it's all right. Well, what horse? You want to make a bet on the other corrupt cop? You know, he's a actually into gambling, so he knows his horses or dogs or whatever or things he does. The other guy, clearly doesn't, so he just picks one. They said, why do you want to do that one? I really like the name.

Or I like the way his ears wiggle. You know, something stupid, something that has nothing to do with the performance of the animal. So the guy's like, here we go. So he goes back to make the bed. He makes his own bed. Then he thinks twice and he's like, guy's going to lose anyway. I'm just going to keep his money and tell him he lost. So he keeps his money. Does not make the bed for that.

And and then you see the actual race start, let's say it's a horse race because I can't remember if it was dogs or horses, but and then, you see, the horse is racing and then all sudden and the back starts pulling out the horse, the this the young guy bet on race and questions and the face of the older guy go from happy because his horse was winning. You progressively more worried. You're like, oh fuck.

Because not only does he lose if his horse doesn't win, but now he didn't make the bet for the other guy. And and so he will have to pay him. And it was a, you know, it was it was a bet that paid like 10 to 1 or something. Oh, yeah. Had to be a long shot. A long shot. Yeah. So it was a it was a well-played funny moment where you can see the guy going from happiness to fear to, like, totally scared shitless that he just fucked himself by being overly greedy.

Like he could have made the bet. Right. And then that would have been lost. No big deal. But he decided to pocket that money rat pocket. That man is going to lose it anyway. I might as well keep it. This dumb Catholic wants to spend 100,000 on bitcoin and man, I'll save him some zactly. It'll be great when it crashes and I can give him, you know, half his money back. Yeah, I like that. So that's what he does.

So in the end what ends up happening is the the guys, the guys force the the long, shot does not actually win it. Like, it trips right before the finish line or something. And, the correct horse that the older guy better. I think it wins. And so he, he ends up now being, you know, thankful for like, oh, thank God I have to pay money off the hook. Now. He has to show him that his loss is bad.

So he he looks on the ground and finds some of the bet stubs for that horse that somebody just threw in the ground after it lost and picks it up and then brings it back with them to the cop, and then takes it before he gives them back to them. He just, like, rips it and throws them on the ground. Oh yeah, I'm sorry about your bet. You know, it's so close. Your horse lost. But hey, don't worry about it. This is a it's all just total random walk. It happens. But I'll tell you what.

I'll. I'll buy you a beer. You know, because he just took his money from that bet. He's going to spend a little bit of that money back there. Okay? That's what made me remember the, the movie that was from the 80s. And you're absolutely right. I remember now it was from the 80s, because I remember watching it in the theater when I came out, and I remember watching it on videotape. You went to a French movie in a theater. Who are you

playing a cinema these days? Yes. And and multiple, different ways of communication. I've got this message. Please ask Gene to reconsider ban on bitcoin. Grab, rethink, and I'll resume sending 333 to unrelenting bad rationale. But nothing bad has had listeners so bigger about not reasonable. Why? He's not wrong about that, but it's just annoying and I like it. Look, we mentioned them for free last show. What the hell is he complaining about? Like he got a free mentioned last time.

We love CSB. He's so much fun. Well, I think you hate him. Technically, no, no. At that. We love CSB. Now, I remember you had a big, big major blow up with him and you told him to go fuck himself. Well, who doesn't tell CSB to go fuck yourself at least once a week? I thought you were going to say who does Darren not tell to go fuck themselves? Well, that's kind of true too. It's just part of the system. It's a self-cleaning system. It goes round and round and round.

Yeah, just the way it works sometimes. He was big on Bitcoin. I'm surprised CSB is not like a billionaire by now. You might be. That's true. Then you know how he gets to stay a billionaire by not throwing his money away on podcasts. Right. But not sending more than $3.33 to this show? Yeah, yeah, that would be the highest.

No, what we would have for today, I mean, and he's like, he's the he's making my point for me, I think, which is if you're going to donate to the show as an advertising expense, that is determined by the number of potential listeners that hear your message, that he's absolutely right. But this show doesn't do advertising. And I've said that from a long time ago.

And so the idea that someone wants to donate and use the rationale that but you don't have many listeners, therefore I'm not going to donate very much. Yes. What you're doing is something we don't want. We don't want advertising on the show. Now, I will say, and it's happened for this show in the past with our Australian buddy who donates $100. Is the show worth $100 that he's donated over a thousand total? Probably not, but it is to him because he did it right.

And that's the part that I want to differentiate here, Dale, from Downunder the trade deal. Dale, I have a horrible memory. That's why I couldn't remember. Your name is my memory is not what it used to be back in the back when I watched Frenchmen. Way back when today I. I still remember, though. See, when the memory was created, back when I had a memory. It's still there. It was strong. Yeah, but I've recreate it today. Like, I couldn't tell you what video game I played yesterday.

I have no idea. I did something I would like to. I go through all of the PayPal donations for today's show. Scott Gorman, $2.50. Thank you. Yeah. Anything under $3.33 should be anonymous. And that's all. We got a rule for that, that's all. But he said it in last show to. So if you're going to do it every show that is, that's worthy. And I feel like $2 every six months. Yeah. Yeah, that's a little different.

Did you like I know this show doesn't really get donations, so I really only have to use just the good old boys as my example for donations. But the more you can talk about your donations. Okay. Well, I'm just going to say the differentiating factor being that when people donate based not on the number of other people listening, but based on the enjoyment that they themselves get, that's what value for value is that Adam Curry has coined.

It is how much value do you derive out of this show and not how much value, because the way that can be, just put it the way you read it is deriving zero value out of this show himself personally, and he's only looking to derive value out of the number of people that visit his website, which is what ksbw that whatever lol for the law allows. Exactly.

So if he thinks the number of people going to that website based on the show is going to be small, and he wants to make a small donation, then what he's saying is I am buying the eyeballs or ear balls of your viewers and listeners for this amount of money, but I myself don't give a shit about your show. I don't really drive any enjoyment out of it, because if he did derive the enjoyment out of the show, then what he would be doing is donating regardless.

He could be the only viewer or listener, but if he's a viewer or listener that is enjoying the show and he would want to donate based on that enjoyment, and that's the difference. And that's why I just wanted to clarify. Advertising is something we do not do, and that is paying for us to say shit that is trying to get you to have people go there.

What we do, do what we do, do do do, do do is to have, people who enjoy the show, regardless of whoever else is listening, actually enjoy listening to the show and then selling the nation. And I think there is a point in time that that that happens to all shows where the only people that are potentially going to be sending in money are new listeners, because old listeners have already done that. Look, I'm totally guilty of that with no agenda.

So I've donated I think it's over 10,000, but I think 11 or $12,000. No agenda. But I haven't donated anything in the last two years. Does that mean I hate Adam? Does that mean I hate the show? Yes, yes it does. What it means is I just don't listen to the show very much anymore. Let's me I was you had a you had $1,000 donation ready to go and then JCD didn't respond to your wine request. Well, no, don't say that since he will now and then he'll expect this thousand dollars.

But JCD absolutely works on those quid pro quo. Come on. That what exactly. It's not value for value, it's quid pro quo. Hey, I respond to your text messages now. You owe me a thousand bucks. It is. It's it's a valuable service that he provides. Well, in what it used to be back when I was donating money. Like, how much is that? How much is a bottle of wine? That should be a percentage is a bottle of wine. Whatever you're buying, I think that bottle was about 250 bucks, so at least 20%.

I think you have to give to your Somalia helper on the other end. But I think I did actually give something like that to the Somali aid, just not like the last show as well. Darian Rundle just came in with $5.65. Thank you. That's at the end daily. And he says, hey, ask Jean to talk about what camera he used to use or whatever random photography story. So he wants to know more about your photography exploits, what you used to. I was a canon partner. So I use the exclusively canon gear.

I had pretty much every canon body other than the the One series, so I had the, all of the five series cameras. I think I had 3 or 4 of them. I don't I don't mean one after the other. I mean all at the same time. I had the six, I had the one they have. This was all back when it was still analog film, right? Or you going into the digital SLR? Digital. So in the analog film, the if I go back to the 80s, 90 days, I used contacts. I was a contact guy.

So contact cameras were my preference and Carl Zeiss lenses, and they were really expensive. They still are there, but they're not as good. And I say that with little Aster, they're still very good. They're just not as good as they used to be. The Carl Zeiss, the company. Zeiss obviously sounds German because it is German. Well, that's the glass. I think that what Apple still uses in their phones, or some of these phones that use their glass, that's like a big selling point still.

Yeah, it's a name. It's a it's only purely marketing at this point. But they they used to actually have a reputation for making very good lenses. And at some point I think that point happened somewhere in the 90s a Sony bought Zeiss. And so all the Sony digital cameras that were like the cheap Bose back in the day before they started their pro camera lines, all said Zeiss and the lenses. So they bought the company, but they bought it mainly to use for marketing and legacy.

And, I think they transitioned all the manufacturing to Japan, which is still better than China. So that's why they're still pretty damn good quality. They're no, they're just they're not as good as they were. If you ever find old Zeiss lenses like back from the 70s, 80s or night or early 90s, but for sure 70s, 80s, those were very high quality lenses.

The stuff that happened after Sony bought them definitely took a dive down hill, because they most of them were the name, but it's still, you know, it's still better than a lot of other stuff. So I switched when I went digital, I switched to canon, and I oh, dude, I had so many lenses. I have probably 25 to 30 lenses. Yeah. I forget which model canon I have, but that's what I did.

You know the few videos that I made for YouTube back in the day, a few years ago, I was using the, the dSLR, which was a lot nicer than using a, webcam, although I think the webcams have caught up. I think they've gotten much, much better. They're still never a substitute for a dSLR now, simply because the sensor size on all webcams is just tiny.

Like if somebody made a webcam that had a sensor that was the size of a dSLR sensor, to take on the webcam would be $500, which they should, though for professional YouTubers, there's a market for that. Now what that does, how does the size of the sensor make the image better? Well, you can make a very high resolution small sensor and they do that. And so you can have a lot of detail. What you don't have is any focal points. You don't have depth of field.

You don't have what the kids like to call, okay. Which is really bokeh in Japanese mispronunciation, because I was there when that term was created. And I said, yeah, yeah, that was in the names. Are you sure it wasn't the 80s? It could have been me. I think it was names. My time is compressed. Observing time compression. If you have a great the Tardis. Yeah, I know right.

Yes. Doctor who before only, it's a it it's something that, At the bigger year sensor, the narrower you can get depth of field. And what that does is it makes the person look sharp and the background both in front and behind. I guess the background would be behind the blurry and then the front ground, the foreground also be blurry. And that's the profession final sort of cinematic look that we all consider to be professional quality.

And the only way to do that is with a physically larger size sensor. Because, one of the properties, in fact, this is how aperture works on cameras as you shrink the size of the hold that the light passes through, you improve the focus at every distance.

So if you want to have everything in focus, including the stuff real close to you and the stuff that's far away, you want all of it to be in focus, then you have to dial the F-Stop to be pretty high, like an f 11 or higher, and then it'll look like, you know, it looked like most people's iPhone image where everything focus. Although lately iPhones have been doing a very good job digitally creating bouquet. Well that's it, that's the question for yeah.

So Tiger years and iPhones and a AI that you can take a crappy picture. Yeah. Feed it in and it will recreate. Well, yeah. I don't think that's true. I don't think it's possible to automatically do that. However, here's what I do agree with. I recently was at my niece's wedding where I think I took the best photo at the wedding, and this wedding she she is in the, fashion photography and show industry. Like, there were a lot of professional photographers at this event.

And, and there was, you know, New York kind of fashion Week style event. So you felt you end up your game, her wedding. So I think, in my humble opinion, I shot the best photo of the wedding that anybody shot at the wedding. And I did it with my iPhone. Let's see. That is crazy. And I didn't. And somebody said, oh, what filters use? I said, I didn't use a filter. I fucking did photography for three years. I know what to do to make a photo look the way I wanted to see.

I did this to push a filter button and I, I fully believe that was exactly the answer to I literally what I is. I fucking know what I'm doing. Because frankly, a lot of these pro photographers these days use filters, of course, to get it easier.

And I then I had to explain that, you see, back when I did photography, I was part of the Through the Lens community, which is a group dedicated to purists who didn't look at or who had posted images that they shot straight out of the camera with no manipulation with Photoshop or other evil products. Right? Well, yeah, the photo shot, the fucking camera. Then you're not a good photographer, Topaz. I mean, I all these things now. Our motto back then, the odd one stuff.

Now it's like you don't know if things are legitimately the first use of AI like that in photography. That was a very traumatic experience to those of us on the pro side was when Samsung. So people started noticing that if you take a picture of the moon like that, has the moon in it, right, and you can zoom in on the moon, even, you have an extremely beautiful, very detailed moon. And it's like, how the hell are they doing this? Because your normal camera doesn't have the resolution to capture.

Like, you know, I was using a 50 megapixel, imager for a full frame imager with a, 500 millimeter telephoto lens on it. The photography of the moon that gave the type of quality that a Samsung phone was doing, I was like, what is going on? Well, trickery. What it turned out to be was trickery because Samsung decided that wouldn't it be cool if the camera analyzed?

And when they saw that there was an moon in the shot, whether it was the main thing you were shooting or whether it was like a moon in part of a night shot or something, that they would take the date that the image was shot on, and the time and the location in which the the phone has all those GPS calculate them.

What the lighting on that moon was, that they take a static image that was pre shot with high resolution of the moon, apply the light effect on that moon from whatever they, and time location details you have I guess location doesn't matter as much. It's mostly just the date and time. So, you know, it was a quarter moon was a full moon.

Whatever. Right. And then use that prerecorded high resolution image of the moon and just shrink it down to match the size of what it saw in the image as being the moon. That's what they started doing without telling anybody. Well, that's what everybody's worried about now, what you could do on somebody's phone, see, on their phone because they're accessing it in ways that you don't know. And that is shitty. Hey, what you said is true, but it has absolutely nothing to do with what I just said.

No, no, I understand, I'm just saying this is what leads people to not trust. Are you that. I would think that Samsung would do that? I was outraged with the whole thing. We were walking around with signs outside of Samsung. You cannot lie to the people. The people cannot be lied to with a fake moon. How many people moon up? That is what I really wanted though, because that would have been the perfect way to do that. Actually, it's pretty funny, but. But it's a brilliant idea from a video.

Like if you're making a video game or something, or even not a video game, but some kind of software tool where you want to have a certain level of accuracy and it takes place in Chicago in 1967. On July 5th, and they actually went through the trouble of calculating July 5th. There was a, a new a new moon. So it was just barely a sliver of a moon. And in the game you would see or in whatever software you would see that like, that's cool.

For this, what I'm not for is selling a phone that tells people it's so high resolution that you can actually capture the details of the craters on the moon from your phone. Right? It's not capturing, it's recreating. Right. Well, this is I'm sure they're going to start moving into phones as well.

The technology that the, Topaz uses with their Topaz AI, which if you have smaller family photos or family photos that are, you know, a little bit yellowed or if you get crinkled, it can really clean them up. But what it's doing is rather than where if you were to take that photo and scan it and then just keep making it bigger and bigger and bigger, you're going to get all the pixel ization. It uses the AI to sharpen it up, which really leads to the question.

It may look a lot like the original, but is it really the original for what people want to use it for? It is. I think it's legitimate to say it's restored because we've had photo restoration services forever, and we've had even photo restoration software and that it's funny, you name them, because Topaz is always around.

They were kind of like the big quality guys compared to some of the others, but they were always around for probably 15 years, 20 years as a company that had software that lets you do high format, interpolated scaling. So that was their their first real big claim to fame. So if you were doing like poster size print and I worked with all this stuff. So if you were, you were making the ads that you see, it's shopping, okay. You used to see shopping malls. They probably don't exist anymore.

But you know, the ad, the like, the posters on the walls that are like a full wall, 20ft tall by 30ft wide. Oh, right. The image of a happy couple shopping for Christmas products or something. So when you have those giant blow ups, what you would do is you would first have to improve the resolution of the image. Right?

There's a whole different process in the analog days, but with digital you'd have to because your normal camera image, at least back in that day, we're probably talking like, you know, four megapixel would be super high resolution, right? Usually they'd be less that most cameras were like one megapixel back then. And so you're you'd have to take that image, blow it up.

And software like Topaz would actually, and there was there are two other companies that did back in the day, but topaz them take that file and then it would interpolate that image, but much better quality like it would look closer to the original but higher resolution than what Photoshop could do, right? Photoshop just are pixels. It was. Yeah, it like it could do a little bit.

Like you probably doubled the image size without too much trouble, but if you go eight x or 16 x it would start just looking like shit. Whereas the specialty software and one of the products I remember was using this all pre AI days, but it was using, the, the what am I thinking of. It's like the Mandelbrot set that was using. What is that the whole thing called for. What the for a scaling. Well not forget scaling. Just Mandelbrot is set for what's the general topic of that?

I guess I can ask the AI for that. Do I don't have to ask you though. Of course the AI knows all. Well, I shouldn't have to. Look, I have a couple of posters from, the late 90s from, Victoria's Secret store of Adriana Lima out there. Like, you have the 20 by 30ft ones. They're not quite 20 by 30, but it's, it's the whole height of a room, so it's probably like ten by four or something like that.

Yeah. It's again, that's a big blow up compared to a 20 by 30 or 20 to 36 by 24 images, which are your basic posters. Yeah. Well, the of the photo for a man was two by three that that's, 1500 sets at recumbent XGBoost. I like that. Okay. So the CSB, he came in. Did you see it? No. Here's 333 for you there. And put the link at CSB in the show notes and tell the Jew to fuck himself. Yo. CSB oh wow. War between you and CSB has rekindled just as CSB and I made up and are good friends.

Wow. He's such a racist. Probably the most racist person I know. And this is after yesterday. I mentioned him for free for a day. I give away his link for free. Yeah, horrible. I tell you, there's no pleasing and poetic, that's for sure. He's still mad. The, Pope's probably from the United States now, but they haven't had a Polish pope in years. No, not since John Paul two. Yeah. Who was they?

Also, not just a pope, because I have a rosary that was blessed by John Paul to look like he's not just a pope, though. He was canonized a saint. So, I mean, that's, Really. Yeah. Not surprising. He is, the one gift. I don't think he was a doodler. I'm not sure how the other guy's John Paul to. I wonder, I could sell the, we have, I've been there, I've been to the Vatican like, five times. Some nice artwork, but nice artwork.

Yeah, yeah, for photography and the, I've never met the Pope, but I've been close to the Pope number of times. I've been with the. The Pope was this back in John Paul days, but I think he was, probably about 100ft away. So he blessed you during a mass or out whenever visits outside the Vatican? I don't I never stick around for those too many people. Have you thought you might melt big? That you're. That a good Catholic boy? Yeah, I might mouth exactly during some alley pop today. Banana cream?

Not fan of banana flavored water. I don't know, it's a cream soda. Is it? Is it? That's what they say. I realized they ran out of my liquid death, so I need to buy more of those. Oh. You did? Oh. So I went with the alley pop, which also gives me prebiotics, botanicals, and plant fiber so I can be regular. That was almost the worst commercial that we gave CSB that lol. Well, so you hold on. You're drinking water to be regular?

No, I just grabbed this to drink because I needed something to take my pills and it just happens to be a soda that the wife likes, but there's prebiotics in it and there is fiber in it. So, you know, it's one of these again, pretend that you're healthy so we can charge $2 a can thing. We're in the wrong business, I'm telling you. Yeah. The the, health supplement business definitely does much better. But podcast business. What is with me? The war on taurine right now? Man, that is crazy.

What's going on there? Bunch of articles that are like, hey, if you have, blood cancer, if you have leukemia, taurine is going to make it worse. Have to be not saying it causes it, but if you have it that the taurine feeds the cancer cells where they realized in the leukemia, which may be a big breakthrough. I don't know that if they could block the absorption of the taurine, that they could actually get the leukemia into remission.

So I mean interesting medical stuff, but we all know how this stuff gets so convoluted very fast. We're finally seeing what the cover up was in the Biden administration with the mRNA shots. Oh wait myocarditis. Oh really. We just realize this now. Yeah. Like really that was be, broken at the time. This was all going out on. And no, we were remove what we weren't they were removing people from the social medias for even to suggest that. But I digress. Back to making posters really big.

It's nice to have this technology though, because I've made a few posters, so it's like you could just take a regular photograph and instead of printing it up and being like, well, that doesn't look as vibrant, that doesn't look as crisp. The software packages that do this are very nice, which is also for even making stuff like the no agenda artwork where I want to get yesterday. Thank you very much. The I is I want to create the stuff at like 1024 by 1024.

So you just throw it into Topaz, it makes it like 3000 by 3000 and boom, ready to go. Full, full, full dimensions. Resolutions. What you should have take all your old photos, make them like new. I think you're right. I think it does. As long as you understand that it's a restored image, not the original image. Something wrong with that? And I guess it is so much easier for people to do this themselves. Otherwise that would be a big business. I used to be a big business. Yeah.

You know, bring in your old photographs and people bring it like five photographs and you can charge like $500. I just don't think it's much of a business anymore. Well, I think a lot of this is because photograph used to be something special. Going back even, let's just say even right before the cell phone era, they used to be something special that were treasured, but now there are people with the cell phones who are taking, like, you know, 60 photos a minute.

And it's like, they mean nothing anymore. It's just like. And I predicted that as well. Well, I mean, I predict, like, I think not that anyone gives a shit. Yeah, 3% come true, which is a really good odds ratio. That was there was a, sports photographer dude, that the buddy mine that I work with back. And this would have been, mid 20s, mid to late 20s, probably like 2008, 7 or 8.

And I remember he was doing a sports dog thing and he was all gung ho about how the, the new cameras that were coming out were doing like, 15 frames a second. And it's like, this is almost getting to the point where, like, you're getting the high quality of a camera, but at the speed of a film, right, you know, is as slow as 24 frames, but potentially 30 frames. So it's, it's kind of blending him.

And but he was wanting it for was not not because he wanted to shoot video, but because he wanted to shoot really fast and for a long time so that he could always have that magic looking shot. Right. Just as the baseball touches the bat. Right. Which is awesome. Yeah. Which look very impressive. It's like catching the bullet going behind Trump's head. Exactly, exactly. You have to press the button a lot to get that.

Well you also have to hire the FBI to shoot it I guess if you're going to do that. But anyway, so he, he was going and I said, well, you know, it's coming and they're only going to keep getting better. We'll get up to a point where you're literally shooting photos at 60 frames a second someday. Right? You're shooting video. Yeah, you're basically shooting video. But not at the video resolutions.

Because back then I think ten ADP was the highest resolution video, which is certainly still not good enough for photography. No, it's good for video, but it wasn't great for it still basically. Two megapixel. Right. It's it's 1080 by 1920. So it's essentially two megapixel photos. But cameras that point were doing 20 megapixels or even 24 megapixel, so significantly higher quality. But a lot of it was what kind of storage you have. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. You're absolutely right.

And so the the issue with, with having just video cameras for photography was the resolution wasn't there. So if you could make a video camera that's shooting 80 video, it's probably good enough because 80 video is not eight megapixel 8-K videos. Actually, what is the resolution you video. So 4K is four by two eight. It would be eight by 4 to 32 megapixel, but each frame is 32 megapixel. An eight day video. That is good enough. And that is what is considered to be essentially high quality.

Like you can't see any more detail. Your eyeball retina. Well not yours. Yours is like one megapixel. I can get you down to four £0.30 once again. Yeah, yours is 640. By 480 works perfectly. But back when you were a brand new spanking 20 year old or so, you would have had about 24 to 32. Right? Okay. Resolution. Right. Is for eight K resolution.

Eight K is the brand name, but the actual amount of pixels in your eyeball, the the resolution, you know, you know what the term resolution well, actually means. It doesn't mean obviously number of pixels because in analog days we didn't have pixels resolution. But you really pay attention to them like the same way we do now.

Well, the resolution is the the ability to discern a line, a black line usually on the white sheet of paper next to a white space of the same thickness, and then another black line next to it. So it's, it's, it's alternating black, white, black, white, black white. So the resolution is the ability to resolve how many of those alternating lines per millimeter did you see. Before it just becomes a blur, a blurry gray.

Because when you have black lines next to white lines and you, you have them at too high a resolution, there's too many of them for the, lens. And they usually resolution mainly reflected referred to the lens quality. Because that's that was the weak spot. There wasn't even the film because the film was fairly large size. But ultimately, if the lenses are really good, then the film becomes the the weak spot because the grains on the film are effectively the pixels.

But anyway, how many of those alternating black white lines can you resolve as being independent and distinct versus just a blurry gray mess? And we've kind of adapted that term resolution to just mean number of pixels. That makes sense. I mean, you should be able to tell the difference between something that was completely analog in the photographic world over something that has been digital for that reason.

Well, and if you look at a lot of old TV shows like pre video recorded TV shows, like shows that were done at the film, film in the 80s and early 90s, it's amazing how good they look at 4K compared to shows that were done after that, because they were shot on video instead of, in like professional video. Right. But they weren't challenged. Because the film stuff that was shot on film was shot at film quality and, then brought down for TV like Seinfeld. Exactly, exactly.

Like you could watch Seinfeld in perfect 4K today. Hey, Hogan's Heroes even go back to the 60s. Yes, exactly. All those. Yeah, I stopped the series. But you're absolutely right. But if you have never seen Hogan's Heroes in the restored Blu ray, they took it from film and you'd swear The thing was filmed within the last five years? Yeah, because it looks better than a lot of the older stuff. Yeah, well, it's better than a lot of new stuff. And that's. That's a Blu ray, which is tape.

I bet you you could probably get it in 4K. That would look like it's 4K. Well, that's the beauty of it. They were they were generally shooting that stuff. 35 millimeter cameras. Because I guess cheaper stuff could have been shot in 16 millimeter. And then you have the upscaling, which is another thing that, Topaz has for video as well. I've played around with that. Now I have to do it on the Mac now, because on the windows machine I had, it was painfully slow. Yep, yep.

But you could take for ATP, you know, your old DVDs. I still have a super VHS of our wedding tape, which I swear was never watched since the wedding. Probably. If. Well, now I guess would be the time every time you watch a tape that old. Maybe the last time, because that plastic is brittle. Which is why you have to digitize it when you watch it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's it. That'll be the magic that upscale it to 4K. Yep. Because I want to see that to the detail.

I'm like, remember being young when your life was just laid out in front of you? I just remember being old man. I remember when it seemed like everything was at your feet and you had a whole life to live. Well, then you shouldn't be listening to the show, because this is not the show for you. You know, this is the angry. We're old. We're pissed, and we're not going to take it anymore. Show. But you got to keep up with the technology so you can take all of your old porn and make it new porn.

Is that what you guys? You know, I think that's what a lot of people do. They I it's not the whole point of AI is like porn. You can make porn, you can make porn, you can make deepfakes. Deepfakes. And what do you think of all these deepfake laws? It's like, how are you going to prove anything? There's two problems. Two main problems that I see with all the deepfake laws.

One, how do you prove who did what in two, I fully believe there will be a case that a 12 year old will make some porn of Sabrina Carpenter or Taylor Swift, or some girl in their class and get charged with a felony for, you know, pressing a button at his laptop. Hey, it's like it's insane because people can't handle their high. Yeah. The I think there are a lot of really bad laws relating to for Ography.

How do I describe it through and even I know not even that, but just relating to like it's a bullshit. I think they call them, something totally unrelated. Do they call them like, I care, or did you take me 12 to 18? No, I took it right in front of you. The what I'm referring to is, is the stupid laws relating to or having videos of your ex-girlfriends or ex-wives. Okay, foreign. That's what they call it. Revenge porn. And they're uploading that. Yeah, yeah. And here's the thing.

This is why the first thing you should do whenever you start getting to the point of being intimate with somebody outside of countries, have them sign. Yeah, you gotta have contracts, man. You can't live life for that kind. But be very careful if you're using AI to generate the contract. So yeah, that's true too. And this is why I think I revenge porn is going to become a lot more popular because no consent. No, you don't need to have a contract for that.

And so, it's a difficult issue because you've got emotions on the one side, like, well, I was only letting you record me and knowing that you were recording me and being totally okay with that because I liked you back then. Now I don't like you. And therefore I withdraw my right to have you be able to own that video footage. Right? You can't withdraw, right? That you've already given legally. That is true. However, not for previous things, right?

However, there are tons of female judges out there. Why did we let that happen? And all I know, right. And they're all trying to take Trump down. So true. It seems that way. It is. It's like if you're a female judge, your job now is not to uphold the law. It is to take down Trump. Anything he does, you have to put it in there, for or against. That's how it works. Yeah. Female prisons are going to get so crowded with judges, man. Can't wait.

And then we could make the women wear right white like red robes. That'd be even better. True. Didn't you just say, don't consent to it in the first place? If you don't want it to show up on the internet, it will end. And that's the thing is, technically, the person that presses the shutter button always owns the copyright.

Now, you can have obscenity laws that that maybe you're not allowed to display certain lewd content, but what they've done is come up with a whole new category of laws that takes the copyright away from the actual copyright holder. The person holding the phone as his dick is being sucked and putting that copyright, giving it to the person that is doing the work on the bottom. There. Now, if this is a person that never gave their consent in the first place, okay, that's reasonable, right?

Yeah, I think so. However, hidden cameras are a thing. Yeah, yeah, hidden cameras are a thing. And I think you have a stronger argument going after hidden cameras and, so that's why I've always had all the girls sign modeling contract, and the 15 cameras that are around are all very visible. Yeah, yeah. And even the ones that are hidden. So. So it's like either you do contracts or you talk about it, you make it obvious.

And the best thing and this is something they started doing in the porn industry many, many, many, many years ago is they start the video recording with, please tell us your name, pulled up your driver's license to prove that you're over 18 years old. And tell us why you're here, right? That's why all these porn video, like, pre shoots I've heard. Allegedly. I wouldn't know anything about that, of course, but I've heard research, I'm sure. You bet they all start off with that exact format.

Tell us your name. Yeah, it's their driver's license. How old are you? Say that for the camera and tell us why you're here. And then it's pretty hard to argue that you never gave consent when you just did that on film. Right before being gangbang, there was a, case of one group of guys that made films that got sued because they were telling the girls allegedly, that, oh, no, these will never show up in the United States.

This is just for the, a very specific, you know, Japanese market or wherever. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's that's that's a very typical kind of thing. Your dads will never see these. Don't worry. Yeah, yeah. The only out I am. But guess what kids. They lied. Have you. They didn't have to lie. It's just a stupid thing to believe. True. It's like it's just. Oh, no, no, this photo I take, it'll stay on my phone and never leave it. Oh, yeah. Even for anybody.

Whether you're, a kid in school going out of play for your boyfriend, girlfriend's like, hey, send me this kind of a pic. You should never assume that they're the only person that got to see it. They're not going to immediately share it with all the friends. The guy would be asking for you to send a photo of your intimate bits is because he's got his buddy standing next to him, and he wants to show you off, right?

Like literally the only reason the guy wants a naked photo of his girlfriend is to show you off so he can be like, oh, holy shit, man, she's really hot. You got lucky, right? Hey, baby. Yeah. That's the. Yeah. That's it. That's the only reason.

Now, guys, on the other hand, will be happy to send dick pics all day long and not give a shit who sees him except for the, like, high school kids who then find out it was a guy in Nigeria who tries to blackmail them and then they kill themselves, which is the craziest scheme. That is kind of weird. I mean, it's like one who cares? Real shit. Like, who cares that you did that I don't understand.

Yeah. For these people, for these kids, it's like if you, if you, if you haven't gone through that class yet, if somebody you don't know asked for a dick pic, you're probably going to be blackmailed. You should go through that so that you can decide whether or not you want to kill yourself or be off the internet. Maybe not send the dick pics if you're that invested. Yeah, exactly.

That's something, the great Bill O'Reilly was talking about with the stocks really went down, you know, with the, hey, we're going to put all these tariffs. He's like, if you are emotionally distraught, if stocks go up or down any given day, you really shouldn't be in the stock market. And like anything else is like if you are unable to handle the implications of whatever you're doing, living your life on the internet, you shouldn't be on the internet.

If guys, random girls do not send you nudes. I mean, why did we ever. Nobody's teaching the guys this, you know, if you're on Instagram, some hot, like, 18 year old college girl is not sending you nudes going, hey, send me yours. That's not real. Not real. Never going to happen. There's a very easy way to take care of all these things. Be like, yeah, I'll show you in person. And the best way to do it, it's a win win situation at that point. Yeah. And then you show up.

But it's, a couple of guys throw you in the van. Yeah, don't do it and like it. Very sketchy part of town. What part of town are you going to be in when somebody is going to be showing off their private bits? You model a pad you like, hey, where do you want to meet? Want to me? That, jeans house burned out. Oh, he's got a big snake bounce out. Oh, like some CO2. That's CO2. Yeah. CO2 is good for you. Makes you sleepy. Yeah, it's the highest. It explains why your pornos are always so, lackluster

about not talking about those. Oh, sorry about that. Sorry, I forgot that was the, That was that was somebody else. Did you like the latest graphic for our show art on episode 154 ear balls? Yeah, I thought that was great. It's, not my term. I'm just borrowing the term, but. Yeah. That's up. The graphic was great. Jim Harvey, wait.

A representation that just some what looks like Jean playing a video game while there's a really hot chick behind him with some other guy, I'm like, I'll be back in a while, Jean. Okay, honey. I'm playing Nerf herders. Yeah. I mean, it's funny because there's never a hot chick in the background or guys playing video games, so it's kind of a misnomer. But let's see here. What's what you're saying is once you're down the video game, all the hot chicks are long gone.

No, I think if you're down the hot chick hole, you just don't play video games. I love to play video games for, like, a good 13, 14 years. But then there was then you came. This is okay. So here's the story I want to know, because then a younger Jean came to a fork in the road. Pussy. No joystick. I told this story. I told the story. So now obviously I played video games when I was young and we all did. I kind of stopped playing video games when I started making good money.

In my 20s, which was dumb, because that was the point. You could have had the best hardware money could buy, and that sounded way dirtier than I meant to do. Yeah, yeah, exactly. So I, I was focusing on other things like making money, going out, partying every night and chicks and, there was no video games involved in any of that. That was in the mid 90s. And then, I bought the recumbent bike. I'm trying to remember, dude, that's like 30 years later now. That was the mid 90s.

And then there's really no video games until probably about the fourth year of marriage. Like the first four years of marriage, there was enough sex involved that that kind of kept my attention. Yeah. Checks by this year? Yeah, by the fourth, fifth, probably fifth year of marriage. There was new hardware. There was some cool video game titles, like Grand Theft Auto and things.

And, you know, I mean, like, if you're gonna spend time on one, you're not gonna spend time on the other, and it doesn't work the way that people think it works. The way it's funny is that there's a there's a hot chick that's just wanting to have sex with you and you're like, yeah, yeah, no. Later, I'm in the middle of a game. That's not how it works. The way it works is when there's a hot chick that wants to have sex with you.

There's no video game when there's no longer either a hot chick and a chick is no longer hot, or there is no sex because you're married, then you've got plenty of free time for other activities. And one of those activities is playing video games, pizza and video games. Yeah. So yeah. So I mid mid marriage I started playing video games and I got pretty fucking good at the point where when battlefield first came out, I think I mentioned this before too.

I was third ranked in the world in the lower. Yeah. How much of that pay? Never made it past the, third though. That has to hurt. Yeah, there were two. It was still there, and I was terrible. I was having a lot of, like, tilt to death ratios were off the roof. They were insane. You know, before I would die, I would take out 20 guys. You. You're taking 20 guys down. What were you doing your game before I died?

Damn. And then, you know, and then obviously, after I got divorced, there was no video games. Because who has time for video games? I thought maybe she just took. She's like, fuck you. I don't want it, but I'm taking your game. I'm taking your PC, taking all your money. Well, she didn't want the PC, but she, she would take the money for sure, but I always do. But but, you know, by that point in time, I was playing quite a bit of video games.

The PC, by the time divorce rolled around it, did you notice that you were divorced or did it take a few weeks to notice? Oh, hey, I noticed it because I felt the huge weight off my shoulders of paying for all of her stuff. Just do one more thing and you're like, where's where's dinner? Yeah, that's that. Probably year 6 or 7. Yeah, probably year seven dinner stuff.

Then I was like, you know, make it yourself. But, you know, once I was back in the hunting for a female time after post divorce, then. Yeah, I didn't play video games. Probably for another seven, eight years. Probably seven. Yeah, probably 7 or 8, maybe eight, probably eight years. I didn't play games. And then what got me back to the video game? Amazingly, was I was dating this 20 year old, chick that was a Twitch streamer.

Like, that's all she did for the for for work, if you will, with Twitch streaming. And so I dated her for a while, and, you know, she played video games all day long and was like, yeah, you know, I used to have a good busy. I don't have anything anymore. I after I got divorced, I, I kind of got rid of my gaming PC and I didn't have anything. So eventually I bought an Xbox because I had friends that wanted to play Xbox games.

So I did a little bit of that, but I would not consider that really gaming. But being with this 20 year old chick, it was like, you know, I got exposed to games again and there's some pretty damn good video games out there. And so I ended up buying a gaming laptop and that was my compromise. Like, okay, well, I'm not going to get a full on gaming PC, but I'll go buy a gaming laptop. And I played that for, on that for over a year before.

I just kind of felt like, man, I'm missing out on the really high end games because it doesn't have the the graphics juice, the powers to do them. So I, I ended up getting my first gaming PC and, in many years. And so the 20 year old was way gone at that point. The 20 year old lasted like, well, that particular 20 year old. The streamer check, I think that lasted about six months, six, seven months, that it was all downhill from there.

Yeah. And then I, I dated her friends for a while and it was like 26. So she's more mature. But that didn't go anywhere then I was you know, I was like, I started feeling like I'm, enjoying the video games more than I am enjoying these women. So you made that particular choice? I thought I was getting that, I but yeah, you kind of do. And, and believe me, there, there could well be women that I would choose well, over a video game. I just haven't run into any recently.

And I probably you less likely to playing video games. That's true. Ladies, if you're looking for love these days, man, the number of weddings that are happening between people that met in video games is also crazy right now. I mean, it's a ridiculous thing. That's definitely a thing right now. Like, come on down. The number of female gaming players every year keeps increasing it. It's still nowhere near 50. 50 does I realize there's some money in it. It's heading in the right direction.

Well, I think also video games, much like the term nerd, has become like, oh, that's nerd is a synonym for a guy who makes over 100 grand a year. Well, now probably 250, probably now. Yeah, it's probably 250. Exactly. That's a good point. I mean, that the way that salaries are right now, I think 200 minimum of 200 right now is the old 100. Used to be like, oh, make six figures that six figures hundred thousand dollars is like barely over entry level for a lot of jobs.

A lot of guys are in tech, are making over 250. You're absolutely right. Yeah. All you need is you know Amazon's making over 250. Like we just keep making more and more and more gizmos. But with 350 if they're making $3.50 an hour. Well that was a kid I know. Yeah. The first job I had was, selling chlorine tanks. I'll buy the full story job for a kid I know. Right. Well, this will never impact his vision at all. No. Or his lungs. I'm surprised I can still breathe. Exactly.

Nope. Never lead to any heart, lung, or eye problems. Ever. Then I went down to are working at both sides. Yes. The bookstore for a few years. Oh yes. Yes. Black mold. Perfect. Then, RadioShack. Circuit city. So radiation rays. Lots of radiation at, radio out. Yeah, they can sell you anything and more at Circuit City. You had all those devices running all the time around you. I was an audio, so it was fairly I wasn't near the TV is a little better.

Yeah, but if you're walking around, like, 100 TV sets all day long. I don't know, you don't get irradiated by something. Yeah, because back then, they weren't even led or they weren't. Weren't noobs. Babies. Yeah. Yeah, those kids were putting out something. It is it is wild and crazy stuff. So anyway, I just finish off my my video gaming chick thing is what really got me is covet.

Because during Covid, like most opportunities for going out to places where you may meet chicks and to just be around, humans disappeared. If you would all video game, all virtual. I was like, well, I really had the video games installed and I'm actually talking to people in video games are interacting in multiplayer games, which is kind of cool. And so yeah, it was a, it was one of those things that just like, yeah, you end up doing more and more of it.

But it wasn't until last year that I just started streaming myself that also saying, like, not even streaming, but just making videos. I'm streaming myself. I'm not well, I'm I'm hardly streaming. I'm mostly just making videos in the world. It's me. Dream. Let me tell you how to mine react out of the, play the Gorgon and, make your way to the other galaxies. And if I was monetized and I'd be making way more money than I am on the show, that's for sure. Well, you should be monetized. You get it?

I should be, but YouTube keeps having issues with foundation. Like we want to learn about seven, 7 or 8 months of issues so far. Like we don't like you. Russian Social security numbers don't count. Yes, you have Russian social security numbers, so we can't pay you. We do not pay in rubles. Damn YouTube people. They haven't totally the taking our show off I was would have sworn. I'm amazed. The unrelenting account that we have just ignored that anything they set.

Like we're taking this down like, fuck you, I don't care. Take whatever you want down. Never respond to anything. They just go on anything. I think they did, like, the first time. Like saying we remove these episodes because I never did it enough. What am I going to do about it? I'm like, we're a podcast. It's an RSS feed. We're not changing. If we don't want it, that's fine. It's only there that I see for the lulls and see how long you know last. That's true.

Nobody uses that to listen to podcasts. Nobody listens on, I think. Have they like, some kind of, like, cool little video footage generator thing running so that it actually had watchable video. People probably would watch it. Well, maybe we should get that I going out about it, but I like I'm not even meaning a I'm not just fine like, you know, copyright free girls on trampolines.

Yeah, sure. Yeah. Anything. You know, anything that we don't have to pay money for and just loop it, loop it in the background because who cares? There's got to be some public domain girls on trampolines. There was. And I think I downloaded that. I don't that's on one of the nav systems. A I'm trying to remember who it was. I'm thinking it was a car company, and there was a looping slow mo of Adriana Lima that was like 12 hours long. I was like, that would be fine.

Now we can use AI and just change Adriana Lima to somebody else, or just create a bunch of those, maybe, like, here you go. Brand new video. Not protect by any copyright. It, it all allegedly. Allegedly. Exactly. Yeah. It's just can't we just steal things from, like, Vlad, there has to be some some hot Russian chicks that we could just take their image like. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. That's true. Like you said, Russia could. What are you going to do to me? I'm in the United States. I'm at the like.

If you take that from Vlad, then then you're going to be, you know, investigated like Tim Pool as a Russian agent because, allegedly, his company had license to show to another company who that the other company then had a investment from a Russian citizen. It wasn't, it states, which proves that Vlad himself has been operating in temples. So, you know, that seems logical to me. Yeah. Seems very logical. I still don't watch him pool though.

I still don't time, I don't watch it much but I, I start to watch a lot of episodes and I watch about five minutes. And I switch because I do boring. Well now that he's like showing up are normal news that want to talk to him. It's like, isn't this kind of a blurring of, yeah, yeah. The world's on happy. Hum. Well, you hate that he's done well. I watched him when he was just starting to grow, and I subscribed to him for, like three years. They sent him a lot of rubles.

I sell him a lot of rubles over the years. And then he got accused of being a Russian agent, and I was like, okay, I'm going to stop due to his connection, obviously, with you and your, crime syndicate. Yeah. The, Texas clan. Yeah. Texas clan. Yeah. Like that. Mr.. Mr.. Bull. We see here some famous, some no longer in the Texas clan either that actually had a big blow up. Wow. Did you have to give you rogues back and everything like that?

Yeah. Yes. I had to give them back for not doing that for me. Now they the people that a lot of the people that I used to play the game with, from the Texas clan, started the Texas clan, though, so, yes, that's the alternative to the alternative. Yeah. So now there's the the House clan is I'm and I'm technically an affiliated member, but I don't generally play with them. But when they're short of people, I will get a text message saying, hey, do you want to jump on?

We need, we need a player while. So you're like the back up. Yeah. I'm like the what do you call those people? Some substitution? Yeah. I guess you're the some player. I'm the guy that's there in case the real player doesn't show for whatever reason. Then you're the guy with the ball gag in your mouth. No, no, wait, that's a different clan. Sorry. Yeah. That's, maybe what's happening in your neck of the woods. So which says that has clan here? I don't know what, what you have out there.

The Texas. You have the Texas clan. Little. That is, very nice clan. I was looking again at the, Amtrak 27 hours between Austin and Chirac. Not too bad. Horrible. Well, it's literally a three hour flight. Yeah, but why would I want to get on an airplane? I don't even have real ID. Oh my gosh. Yes. You do know I'm like fuck that shit. I ain't going for real ID what's that up to you. It's your driver's license up your state. Yeah, but we're not real ID. We had to go in person.

Not going to get the driver's license is. They say you're done. You're done driving. No, they keep giving the old ones. But you have to go in in person to get the real ID ones. They will keep renewing. And they've been renewing my driver's license. As long as, we've been doing the show, they just keep sending new ones like, hey, you're a good driver. You haven't killed anybody. Which is true, because all of the rollers here in Texas, every ten years, you need a new photograph. No, not this one.

Not this one. They don't have a photo of you with your googly eyes. No, not with the new screwed up. I know we're still going back before that. Well, I look like a fine, upstanding individual. Yeah, this goes through 2028, too. So, I mean, we still shocked by how much I've prayed over a decade when I went in, I think it was last year, I went in to get my license updated, and then the girl pulled up my, my, last photo and I was like, oh my gosh, can you give me a copy of that is amazing.

There were these guys segue into our sponsor from just for man. Yeah, exactly. You can go and gray. It's an easy way. It's, No, it was just. I thought I was going gray ten years ago. I always kind of thought I kind of have a great beard, but I compare that to what I look like now. It's like I'm not going great. I am white to the color of the beard, which is have. I'm white. So for you. Whoa. Yeah. You're whiter than CCV. I probably am.

We don't have a photo of Ksbw, but I'm pretty sure I'm Wiener, don't you? I thought we had photos. I thought the, the agency got them. Do you have them? Yeah. Not important enough. No, we'll save them. Okay. Data, do not release the photos. Top secret, secret squirrel. Rocky. Yeah. That was. Yeah, that was the sidekick. The secret squirrel. Wasn't that rock? No. Was it Rocky? No. That was the moose. He was boring. Secret squirrel. Moose wasn't squirrel, but that was, Rocky was.

The squirrel was looking for secret squirrel. Totally different. Cartoon. There was, But I don't what Morocco Mole was like his arch nemesis. I thought he had a, sidekick, too. I don't know, these are the kind of things we worry about here. Are you still taking drugs? We got to do a drug segment. No. Do I need more drugs? I don't know, do you need more? I'm out of drugs. I just want to make sure the the bingo card has drugs on. I am out of drugs. I haven't sold any Taylor Swift merchandise.

Okay? You have taken Swift and you haven't sold them drugs recently. We haven't ordered lunch yet. No, I haven't had a good pizza lately. I can tell you what I'm going to have for lunch because it's in the fridge. I did have a good, nice steak burrito the other day with extra hot sauce. And, man, I love hot sauce. Do you want to know what I'm going to? I'm from what's in the fridge. Yeah, this should be a new segue, but we need some AI music. Like what's in the fridge?

Well, usually not much other than tea. No, I've got, catfish. Are they live? No. They're cooked, they're battered. And battered up. They're fried. Somebody else did the work for you. Can you really reheat them to make them good? You put them in the air fryer. No, that's not going to be good. It's going to be cold catfish cold way. Fried breaded catfish now cold, cold. Wow. What a sad life. Yeah. And and shrimp. You should stream that. Great cry. That's right.

Oh, you gotta sucker the heads off the crawdads. We were talking about that last week. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I same place, I reordered. Same place. It's amazing. This is the place I talked about before, right off the highway. Right off the highway. Driving by many, many years, 15 years. Never stopped there until recently. And it's Holy shit. Is the food good? So I had some, I got basically about three days worth of catfish. How many pounds was that?

That was, six portions. Oh, of catfish, of fried catfish. It's like, comes with catfish. Fried catfish comes with some fried crawdads, battered, fried, and then comes with, side of okra. Yes. Good call. Fried okra. Whew. Very good. See? There you go. You're back to mind reading his job there. And that's exactly what I had. Right, okra, I have to admit, I only eat about half of that. I'm not a huge okra fan. No, I agree, there remains fried. I don't think I've ever had fried okra.

Oh, yeah? Yeah, you better fry everything. Here it. What's up? Texas? It's the way you see okra. And then. Hushpuppies. Oh, hushpuppies are the best. They overdo the hushpuppies. They probably give me like a pound of those. Well yeah. That's the whole five guys concept. But just fill the bag with fries. They'll feel like they got a ton of food for them. Little less money. Yeah. Yeah. Well it was actually it wasn't bad. It was about 55 bucks for literally six portions of this stuff.

Under $10 a meal in Austin is amazing. Yes, that is under ten bucks. You're quite right on that. Yeah, yeah. I mean, it's not really per meal, per se, because I. You add extra, two portions per day, but. Yeah, I mean, you can can't you can barely go out around here and get a fucking omelet for less than 16 bucks. That's true. And most places are like that. That's one where I see a good deal. Like on catfish. I take it. See if people have never eaten catfish, I have you.

Yeah. You've never really braising. Catfish has a bad reputation because it's a, you know, bottom dweller. And so it's kind of more smelly. But, if you when you make the catfish, you have to not just wash it, but actually let it sit in water for a few hours and it it or what, you water or something. I don't know, there's some. Yeah. It distinctive is it. So there's zero smell of the catfish at this point. But catfish filets are super tender. They're, they're very, very soft.

And they fall apart very easily once you bite into them. Unlike fish like tuna or salmon that are more you know, they like more meaty. They like, stick together until you kind of them. Whereas catfish just, you know, flakes right up. It's more like, I guess more like cod in that sense. You've had cod, I think so, yeah, but it's quite tasty. And, I mean, come on, fried anything is going to be tasty. Fried anything that's battered and deep fried because that's what adding the taste is.

The the batter and the frying to whatever the thing you're putting in there as they, you could do fried cheesesteak. They have that fried cheesesteak or fried cheesecake either. What man. Yeah. Yeah. I mean fried cheesesteak would be good too, but no. Cheesecake. Fried cheesecake. Oh, yeah. Back of the day. Loved. They were at the Mexican restaurants where they would do the deep fried ice cream. Ice cream? Yeah, fried ice cream. Oh, it's not deep fried dough, is it?

Because I thought it was ice cream that had, I guess it would have to be deep fried. You're right. Yeah. I'm damn well the ice cream, because that was the trick to it is the ice cream has to be. You can't freeze it at like 30 degrees or you have to freeze it at, like, super cold, so it can handle the 60s or whatever it takes for the outer thing to fry up without the ice cream inside becoming mush.

But a lot of times they didn't get it quite right, and the ice cream would still be so fucking hard that you would try to get into it and be like, nope. We had like a place like, I don't think it was called Castle Bananas, but it was something like that in Minnesota. It was like the one Mexican restaurant I remember from the 80s before really, Mexican food spread throughout the country. And we I was like, hey, we should get to that Mexican place, whatever it was called.

And it was like a whole experience where they had the walking guitar players, the like. Oh yeah. And they had the, they had the fried ice cream there. And you can get your taco salad super authentic Mexican. Well, I wanted to tell you I totally forgot. In the suburb that's like, ten, 15 minutes away. Champaign. No that's a little bit further Holland Park. Yeah. Poco de chao. Oh you got a phone you the other night.

Yeah. So send the gift card for like 800 or whatever I need for a good meal to go check out. So good. A child like you like it? Man, I almost did it. Even without the stick. It's very good if you want to have a zero carb meal, you could go there. You just like all meat. Just give me meat. I mean, more meat. Meat, meat. It's hard because they have one of the best cell bars of any restaurant, period. And the reason that's so good is because they want you to fill up on salad bars,

eat less meat, right? They're like, the meat's too expensive. We gotta give you a whole turkey. That's exactly. So it's like, oh, it's all you can eat, but eat the salad bar. Try it, see if you like it. And it's very good salad bar. You just have to limit yourself. And then they're a little cheesy. Breads are fucking incredible. Cheesy bread. Cheesy breads are awesome. Carb up times tab big time. But then, yeah, yeah, check it out for sure. I think we're done. Gotta go to Foco de Chao.

Yeah, yeah, we don't even have a, outro anymore. Don't need one. That's the thing. That's the beauty of podcast is that unlike television, we're not trying to bump or something else. I blame Darin O'Neill. Yeah. I'm happy we're. I always blame Darin O'Neill. That's what you and Jake are like. Very much alike in that way. We'd like to thank everybody for hanging out with us. Live in the troll run. Thanks for all the money that y'all didn't send. And. And a few you did.

The few you that there was a crash of the stream at one point. And I looked at, cotton gins, little thing and I think there was a actual drop on the stream or like getting dust problems that what was happening when I disconnected because it made Max freeze, which is something brand new. But I think that was because the live connection. I'll see if there's anything worthwhile in the, error reports from the program, but it made everything just freeze up.

But since there was a stream drop at the time, it wasn't just me locally having the thing freeze up. It seems like the the stream crashed causing could be the thing to freeze up. So we'll find that out. No, Dave and Adam today they're all off for the big weekend. Memorial day CSB was like, oh, you and you could talk for five hours. No, I still for the wife coming home for lunch. CSB she would be interrupting. Yeah. So I can't even have a good like girlfriend.

I mean wife comes home. That's no good. Yeah I guess yeah. If you try video games. Yes. The what I, I think they work pretty good at driving wives away. Yeah. The one I wrote. So it's even better. It's the planet rage dot show slash game, which is the new browser game that, I've been using with, yeah, Sunday is a clip show for. No, we just need some kind of a gimmick. Yeah, that's what we're working on, you guys with voices that are too low for normal people. Yeah, at the very good show.

Like clips of things they didn't create, from scratch. Yeah, that's not enough of a gimmick. You guys need more of a gimmick? Well, we are so much, like, no agenda that when they call it quits, I mean, we'll probably have to pay them a vague, you know, a certain percentage, but we can probably just slide right in to the, the knowledge on the slot. That's probably realistic. I think if you if you took over, I think they probably even just let you do it for they get 80.

You get 20 of Bryson. Exactly. Well and there would be a it would be a sliding scale like get all the big stuff. You get all the little stuff. You know, maybe then the next year we can go 70, 30 the year after that, maybe 5050. Yeah. As long as we're paying the boys, that's all that matters. It's that's that's the key thing. But also I don't I don't think you'd get the donations the way they do. Well, even they're not getting the donations the way they used to do.

We could talk about that again next. Nobody is getting donations. Oh, this is it. I put the, at least just for the satoshis. I put it into the I. And the trends are everything. Not just this show, not just every one of my shows really peaked towards the end of last year. And then all of a sudden it's it's bad. This is totally the elections. I gotta say that that is the key thing. That was the talking point of most shows I listen to. And all the shows I do was the elections.

Everything is focused on. Is Trump going to get in? Are they going to the Democrats are going to cheat. And I think that attracted a lot of people. You know, then the interest is not waned. Yeah, I think they and for every like I told the better on the last show he's like you, you didn't watch a single political video and you got nothing that like there's nothing that he brought up that I had heard of like, oh, and then this happened. What did you think of that?

It was like, I don't know, didn't know about it. And then he's like, you didn't watch the damn thing. I'm like, then you're absolutely right. I'm kind of sick of politics. I'm kind of not wanting to talk about politics. I said, why don't we talk about guns or something? Oh, yeah, I like guns. Yeah, I like guns. I we bought a new one in a while, but I still like guns. But I the politics thing, I do take a break, man. And everybody you can take a break this week and have a fun time Gene.

And I'll see you next Friday. Same unrelenting, same same unrelenting channel. Cheapskate motherfuckers. Actually, we probably won't go. Oh, yeah, because I'm telling 86 that 86 I'll be traveling. So yeah, next night shows a skip. We'll let you know when you can find us. CSB don't worry. Yeah. Later. We are clear. I can get. Yeah. So that's one thing I totally forgot to mention. So I'm traveling, next week for, like ten days, so I will for sure miss one show.

Possibly to you going up to the beautiful West, Washington area. Yeah, I'm going to see my dad up there. Oh. That's nice. I hope you don't get liberal attacked. Haven't been out in a couple of years. He's getting older and older, so. Yeah, better to do it when you can. I know how that goes. Directly. Exactly. And then, the other thing is going to mention the oh, it's my birthday this weekend, so I'm, I'm not going to do anything. Well. Happy birthday. Yeah. Thank you. Get yourself a video game.

It a hooker. She's like, wait, you want to play video? One of us is more work. Yeah. That's, So by hooker, you mean a woman that'll stand about six feet behind me, tapping her toe right with her arms folded and giving me a dirty look. That's what you mean by hooker? Okay. Yeah, I'll get one of them. It's the girlfriend experience. It is a total girlfriend experience. So you're going to play that all day? You like? Thank you. Yes. This is exactly what was looking for at all about my feelings.

You've got it that we're on this. This is great. Now, this is the post show contents. Always better than the actual show content, I know, I mean, the, it's still running, so I can just put it on the show. Yeah. That way. Oh, okay. Stopping the recorder now.