158: Please Don’t Donate

We got to finish this podcast you'll ever hear. It. Again. Let me show you. We are unrelenting, everybody. Who are you doing? Gene? I'm, I'm, Yes. Very, very, very, very, very serious news coming from Gene. Let me get my little voice down there. There we go. It's the very early morning. That's why Gene does the show. So his voice is low. The appropriately low, though. Not like yours. Appropriately low. Low, low, low on their own. Gene.

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So we think Daily's overboard. Yeah. Maybe maybe maybe. Or the bastards finally got him. And over there in the Down Under land, down underground there.

Well, I kind of feel like he's probably paid us pretty much the. We're done. Yeah. He's like, I've got, you know, that's ahead of the curve. And the Keith Shoemaker kind of came in with the same donation as Scott Gorman, but he does at $10 per month. And he said that the, sad puppy donation, which we, we put different kind of puppies on the, the unrelenting artwork. But we like to thank all of our donors right up front on our shows because it really it's the 30 good second time around.

And so yeah. And there we go. That's all we're doing. All right everybody thanks for tuning in today. We'll be back probably next week depending on donations. It's hard to say. It is hard to say. And I've been watching YouTube videos and that is we got more donations back when I kept telling people not to donate. Right. Things like don't donate, don't, don't, don't, don't hate. And people are like, fuck that guy. I'm going to drive pretty much. Do they do it anyway?

The reverse psychology work back then? I know, I know, you know, I just here's the thing. I think people tend to both listen more and do more when times are shitty. Like, Biden's in office, we have it. We're like 35 minutes away from a nuclear war. Well, that's that's what we gotta keep reminding people.

The world could end it any minute. You really want to die without having to say, this could be your last and first and last donation. Yes. So, I mean, think about it. That way. We do really want to go to your grave a douchebag. Yeah, yeah, yeah, the red list, $50. You get a free poncho. You and poncho, who? I did that on a planet rage for about 2 or 3 weeks. Where if you came in with 50 or above, I'm going to send you a mug. And I think we had either 3 or 4 people out of that whole time.

Pretty good. Couple hundred bucks for four mugs and one was for Omega Project, who I know is listening right now. And he said, I don't even want the mug. The ultimate. We appreciate that. Nobody wants jeans, poncho, ponchos. Yeah, that's for sure. Unless they're delivered by a Ukrainian supermodel. I mean, you'd be, Well, it depends who Amazon's hiring these days. Yeah, that's true too. You might. You might get lucky or might be Ben Moroz.

Might be Ben Rhodes. Yeah. I've been watching YouTube videos and it's dangerous. Dangerous it is. You know, you get hooked. I want to be. I'm getting hurt. I've been watching the ones on, very high end pieces. And I'm like, oh, I want that, I want that, I want that 5090 card. Now. I want it loaded into a system with 128 gigs of Ram.

Yeah. Wanted to go nice and fast. I mean, this is it with the both. It's very it I mean, I think it's by design that the Apple machines on the high end are very good at the tats, the base limbs because of the massive amount of memory. But they suck at image creation in video creation.

Well, they're slow because all of this stuff is still and this is going to be the question if you're following along and you want to know where to put your money as far as in stocks and who are you going to invest in? Don't say when is I going to make the shift? And I think it will at some point away from only more or less being useful.

In video, cards. Yeah. The Apple hardware seems very impressive, but, the AI image generation is so built for the Cuda system with the Nvidia, yeah, they just need to rewrite it because honestly, the the GPUs that are on the high end Macs right now are very close performance wise to be able to compete with the, high end Nvidia stuff. Right, for tasks where they're native software for both, like Photoshop, you know, Photoshop uses GPU and the PC uses them on the Mac as well, right?

The difference in times for those tasks is minimal, maybe like 5%. Well, the Apple really excels in Photoshop and things like that that have been written to use their core. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. And so I think the reason you're seeing the Macs being slow is just because they're effectively they haven't been optimized, the software hasn't been rewritten to take advantage of the GPUs on the max, the way they are on the, Nvidia stuff, which is even more annoying.

It's like I got the hardware, but but I was saying, what the hell is going on with India?

My damn Nvidia stock is still down because, I expected it to be easily flying at 300 by now, and it's a 143, but. Oh. How's your Tesla stock doing, though? Yeah, Tesla is, it's hovering a little over 300. It's all right. Come on Elon. Yeah. Dean wants to buy some sushi. I'm still up on Tesla. And you know, I. I would have been a lot more, if I would have sold it before Elon joined politics. Yeah. And like. Yeah. Right. When he was in politics. Deep. Yes.

Probably it dropped down to just over 100 I think like now is the time to put all the money in. Yeah. But I, I'm not good at the short term stock plays. I honestly I just you know people may think that I'm just good at everything people do, but, I have to admit that I have attempted stock thing more than once, and I've always lost money on it. So my, my default position is buying hold. You mean you haven't trained in AI yet? Just to tell you what to do every morning? When to buy, when to sell?

Yeah. If somebody has that, I. They can make a lot of money if you could guarantee your return. I mean, I know you can't guarantee anything, but if you could regularly get a nice return and I'm three spent probably four hours with me walking me through on what to do is I, you know, I don't know if you know this or not, but, he's pretty hit on the old stock market day trading. It's a good way to go. It's a good way to put your money and have it work for you.

It's a good way to actually make some money when you're doing a side gig as a podcast. Exactly. Yeah. That you don't want to give anybody your expert piece for free because no, that ruins it. But then also, you know, I mean it. I don't know, I just I get it conceptually. I've never been consistently able to make money on this, like, ever. And that's why you for 40 years and you've got a guy for everything else. Don't you have a stock guy? I do, yeah. I mean, even I have a stock guy.

Yeah, I'm sure because it's like, you can't. You can't? No, it's like being your own doctor. What you like to do as well, though, which I kind of like that. Yeah. That's easier. I think it's nice to have an expert to bounce things off of, like, well, hey, what do you see in here? What do you think? Where it's going to move. Nobody knows these kind of things like Disney. Everybody was like, oh boy, man, when they come out with Disney Plus, it is going to be the big the streaming service.

Their stocks are going to soar. And they came out with Disney Plus and they pissed everybody off with the woke stuff. And the stock went boom. I'm not surprised. But now they're opening up a theme park in Abu Dhabi.

So yay! And everything that makes sense. That's where the money is. But I'll tell you what, it'll be interesting to see how they do, how they do their Aladdin ride. And Abu Dhabi, will be very interesting. And a lot of these things, how you look at things, I suspect all the, women will be pretty covered up on that. Right. And I bet you all of the LGBTQ folks that work at Disney, they're all banned.

They're going to go, oh, they'll be shipped over there to work there because it'll be such a nice park, be shipped over there to be thrown off buildings. That's a new ride at the new Disney World. Yeah. It's exactly like, oh, no accident. It's an interesting thing. Yeah, yeah. I think there's a, a lesbian chick on YouTube that I watch. No, I know, amazing, right? It's hard to believe. And, Hey. Yeah, she's, like, conservative lesbian. And so she she's saying pride is dead, and thank God.

Well, it certainly didn't help anybody. Yeah. So she she's like, you know, the average gay person doesn't want to be seen anywhere near a gay pride parade. It's it's like the cringiest most,

you know. Well, it was her day, being gay that you can imagine, so. Well, I think it went from something that was more of a toned down celebration, normal kind of parade that you'd see for a variety of things. And then it quickly turned into a, Village People concert. X-rated. And, it's like, this is where the difference save those people. Yeah, right. You know.

Yeah. It used to be lonely, limited to San Francisco because that was the one where there was always, you know, like, Bdsm stuff and a lot of nudity. Well, that was the other part of these things where it's like, you can't do that if you want to be inclusive of all ages, you know, you can't got your strong hanging out as you're going by. On your float. So like everybody takes things too far. Yeah. It's very weird what people want.

Like they saw an article yesterday that's like the LA Dodgers have not yet commented on or done anything about the Ice raids in their city. It's like they don't know what the fuck do you think they're going to. They're going to play baseball. They shouldn't be worried about politics or anything else going on, you idiot. Yeah, but but he's doing all the, other little task for them, you know, is this is. It's what I love to liberal.

The problem with all the deportations has nothing to do with human rights.

It has to do with removal of their kitchen staff. Right. Who is going to clean my toilets? Yeah, you can clean my toilets. If. If all the illegals are gone, you shouldn't be. You're evil for deporting them. No, you're evil for thinking of illegals as just slave labor, right? You don't think of them as your doctors and lawyers and, you know, pharmacists or whatever. Now, with the manual labor, the economy's gotten collapsed.

I've heard a bunch of people, if we if we deport all these laws, the only thing it's going to collapse is the number of votes that Gavin Newsom gets. Well, that guy's a moron. Yeah, but he's probably going to be the nominee. And he lost out, man. The appellate court said, fuck you. Trump can send in the troops if he wants to. It's under there like the law says. He's supposed to tell the governor, but it doesn't mean that he. That's correct was illegally. Governor doesn't get to decide.

He doesn't give permission to the president. The, the way it's written, the president will tell the governor what he needs and the governor will provide it. And by providing, I mean some of the troops, the National Guard goes in and they protect federal buildings and federal workers doing their job, you know, like ice.

Yeah. Well, and the other thing is, he absolutely doesn't need any permission to send in nonfederal guard troops either, like, full time soldiers, Army, Marines, Marines, you know, you name it, Navy fucking Seals. Yeah, yeah. What's in the Seals? Exactly the kind that go sneak and peek and shoot above. They kind of go, no, that's the no.

It's noise they make. I can't make a noise. No, that's a that's a bunch of monkey. They're very it's a similar kind of a it's. Yeah. It's like a wind blowing out there and mouth and there's no mouth. Eat. No, that's a dolphin. You do it. I can't think that's a dolphin having sex with a human. I don't even know what that sounds like. Dream is, I I've been to the dolphin Park. Believe me, I know that sounds like. My God, you beat up on a dolphin for. It out of it. Out of the water near me.

They tend not to show that at the, the waterparks, but the. You've seen the videos, right, of like tourists in tropical places frolicking with the dolphins until dolphin starts taking the girls bottoms off and then taking one rub up against her, taking some liberties. Dolphins are smart animals. They say, you know, they figured the shit out. They're like, we're having a little bit of fun. We. I thought we were partying. Yeah. Just relax. It's all good. That's another fish.

I'm not really a fish, but, you know, you're a person. It's, No chance. No risk of, impregnation that we know of. So it's all good. Might just be a small risk of disease. Not really. They're. They're waterborne critters. They don't have disease. We should all live in the sea. Them. Well, I mean, this is why I eat so much sushi. Because it's the safest thing to eat in the world. It's, I'm not sure that's true. Well, you can't possibly get sick from it. That's my point. But I think you can.

We don't give medical advice. And unrelenting. This is a no. We definitely don't give medical advice. Everybody I don't know that went to the doctor this week because this is why I eat sushi all the time. It's because it's like it's safer than chicken. Then, you know, everything else is the it comes from the sea, which means that it's healthy. The sea. Right? Because the sea is not polluted at all. What did the doctor this week and of course the cholesterol was high.

So really I'm kind of whatever put me on sushi. Like, oh, do these fish oil supplements. But you're right. Fish oil. That's what the, for six months have fish oil twice a day. And, there are varying degrees of fish oil. Let me tell you, when you look at I finally went with the now brand because the now brand seems relatively legit. I don't trust a lot of them, do you? I know you've worked in the space and you're like, now sucks. Is that what you're thinking? It's like they're horrible.

No, no, no, it's a big orange bottle. It's all right.

The, Fifer is like high cholesterol in Chicago. Never, never eat. No, no, I got bears now. Bears. The bears. Big Italian beef. On her, deep dish pizza. Come on. No cholesterol. Draw is overrated. Here's the issue. This is not medical advice. This is just for you. The problem with cholesterol isn't the cholesterol.

The problem with let's draw is the the calcium that sticks to the cholesterol and ends up creating these sort of gooey balls in your arteries, and actually not even in your arteries, but just outside of your arteries. If it was in your I raised, the blood would just swish it around, it would move around. But there's actually a there the arterial lining is actually between those pockets of what's referred to by, people as cholesterol. But it's really not.

First of all, it's a, it's a sort of a calcified, goo that that has cholesterol. But the calcium is the problem is my point. It's not the cholesterol. Cholesterol is the building block of things like, oh, I don't know, by nostrum. Oh, nobody wants testosterone. No. Yeah. No. Who needs that? It's like your hormones are built out of cholesterol. So. Hey, hey, taking cholesterol blockers is not a good thing. I don't have a problem with hormones. They just say they.

You will if you start taking the pills. So. So what do you do about the calcium? Well, the calcium, becomes, less available for the building of the plaque. If you take the combination of vitamin D, K2 and potassium. So if you take decent dosage of all three of those, not the stupid recommended ones, but, a decent dosage discovered pretty easily on YouTube. That greatly reduces the, the opportunity for the calcification of the cholesterol, which is the real problem.

It's not the cholesterol itself. The more you know, and this is not medical advice. Absolutely not medical advice. Just know. It's like, I get it. I understand at least he wasn't like, go on a step and go on a step and go on a statin. But I guess, yeah, my mind stopped telling me that because I told them I'm just I'm no, I'm not doing that. Like, I don't need it. I don't want it. I may be, I mean, I may be fat, but I'm not going to be taking if I can stand. Oh, come on, they're fun.

They dry up all your CoQ10. But wait. What the. Yeah. I mean, that's the thing is, they they effectively, the statins effectively reduce your body's ability to produce hormones to make need hormones. Right? Nobody of any kind. Nobody. I was intrigued that was already taking the CoQ10, but that was the recommendation. Was the fish oil with coke? You tend to do both. Yeah. I mean, it doesn't have to be fish oil.

It's you're just doing the fish oil for the vitamin D. That's really the main thing that's in there. I do my vitamin D, baby I'm getting my omega three fatty acids. Yeah. So that's that's the fish oil part of it. What. If you do you like the taste of the fish oil. Well I take it in capsules. So there is no taste. I mean I don't have any issue at all. I know a lot of people. I guess when you take it, they don't like it. It's actually. I think it's actually pretty damn tasty.

I was just had cod liver the other day. I was last week anyway, and it is very tasty. Think of it like a, paté. But you didn't have to force a, a duck or a goose or a chicken to be force fed grain. Oh, man, what fun is it? Truly? What their liver tastes like. It's super soft and smooth, and you can literally just put it on a piece of toast and spread it with a knife. And, and that's like constantly, you know what the fish oil is made from.

Except it's the actual liver of the cod and other fish too. Other than cod, salmon is also very good for that cod liver oil. I remember that as a kid that was used for stuff. Yeah. But that was like gross. Yeah. That was that was liquid. Yeah, exactly. It was liquid. And it was it I think it, it very quickly oxidize, which is what gives it the bad taste because no one gave a shit about taste back when we were kids. No, this one, it was shut up and eat it. Right.

You came home and you said, fuck it, mom, dad, gene cake. Your cod liver oil, You'll be healthier, don't worry. Well, I eat a lot of cod liver. When I was a kid, that's like. That's kind of a. Is that a Russian delicacy? Yeah. Kind of, I believe. I mean, it's sold. It's sold in, It's just like sardines. It's a delicacy in the not particularly hard to find way. So if you like sardines, if you like canned, fish.

In some places, although most U.S is not the case, but in some places, like cod liver is right there, right next to the sardines. In the case. Interesting. So it's a I guess it's delicacy is not a bad word for it, but it you know, it's something that more people, I think consume in Russia than they do here in the US for sure. Well, that's because they know what they're doing. Their fearless leader, Vlad, tells them to eat your cod liver.

Yeah, but I think if they it, I mean, I'll, I just it's very it's it doesn't taste like the old cod liver oil that we took as kids. It is nothing like that. It's actually got, very kind of tasty fish taste to it. If you're taking your B12 to the stream. No, no. Yeah. I already took my pill. I forgot to do the the thing. Right. There we go. I already took mine with a little bit of palm antioxidant super tea. Pomegranate lemonade tea. The little weirdly shaped bottle.

And it's like there's like 90 calories, which is excessive diversifying. Well, there was an ad for it. And I know they make just pomegranate juice, but there was an ad

in the doctor's office for the pomegranate juice. Oh my gosh. And then when I was ordering my groceries, these were on sale for a buck apiece. So I grabbed ten of them and just said, I'm gonna try it and see. Again, as far as a drink, that is a little bit healthier them. And how is it? It's not bad. It's not bad. And the other thing that I tried was the new from our our friends, not sponsors of liquid death. They have a new root beer flavored drink. And at first I was like, well, I don't know.

But when you put it into the category of a flavored water, rather than really expecting the full sweet root beer experience that one would get, I think it's decent and it's the size of a can. You know, the 12 ounce regular can, not the 19 ounce big liquid, that's boy, but then a 12 ounce can. It's ten calories. So it's and I know yeah there's a little bit of the stevia in there. But I think for a fan stevia I think it tastes growth. Yeah. It's there's a weird aftertaste to it.

Not a big fan, but with this, it didn't really seem to overpower anything. Okay. You just have to watch the stuff that normally comes with the stevia that a little error trial or what is a withdrawal or the breakthrough. So that's that. I, I do like a lot better than stevia. That's the stuff. It'll kill you. No real sugar. It's bad. No, it won't kill you I do insects, I use an insect. Yes, well, you don't know. You know, my DNA is and stuff like. It's a bug killer.

People here bug killer like a killer. Yeah, but. So what? A lot of things used to be bug killers. It's in food now. Well, true, but now they're going to get rid of all the artificial. I love the cereal companies. Now, the minute that we got RFK Jr in there. Yeah, the, was Heinz was one of them. They're like, yeah, we're taking all the artificial dyes out of things except for the blue. The blue is allowed now because, it's all natural. Don't try to shut us down. No, it's good.

All the artificial stuff that we eat and you wonder why as a society that Americans have just gotten so fat and I'm one of them. And it's like I don't think you're an American. Believe in them. So you know I don't think I really eat that poorly. It's like I eat a lot of turkey. I don't regularly buy ice cream. If I'm going to buy the ice cream, we get one of those Haagen-Dazs coffee ice creams a week. Yep. The wife and I split it from one of those.

And so it's not like I'm eating for those, you know, a week or a day. I don't buy a cake with that. That's a one, man. Sorry, I know, I know. Well, this is why we once you get the even smaller size that they sell for a buck apiece here when they're on sale. Hey, tiny it I know jeans like that's not that's not even enough. But it comes with the little spoon, which is so crazy. They've always come with a spoon.

I have a memory of being, like, ten years old, and, my grandma buying me one of those as a drugstore. And the spoon brought such joy. Like, how about you eat this? It's like, in the way olden spoons delivered. It was great. It is genius. Yeah. You could just eat it right there. You don't even have to wait till you get home. One of the like. I actually have a, I think, still a memory of this. It's hard to tell, but I just heard the story so much.

But I was maybe, you know, seven, six, seven years old somewhere around there. And we were grocery shopping. My mom and I, we got into the car and had a bag with the candy in the car, and I locked the doors and just started eating the candy. She had to get somebody to come and like, unlock me in the rain. Yet to that was just wouldn't open the door for your mom. We actually had candy. I was like, you're not gonna let me eat this until I'm done? That's right. Let me get in the candy over.

Some kids are like, sorry, God got there. Got to do the candy. Amazing. Yeah, yeah. And I remember taking, like, a, a six pack of coke, going to school every day in the morning. Were you selling those to your friends? That couldn't be. No, I was selling candy, but it made me so much money that I was able to just bring other junk food for myself. Just sitting down at the table, six pack a Coke. You were like a little Russian oligarch.

I totally was a candy king, that's for sure, because I figured I would buy, like, ninth grade. I figured out that these stupid sports teams always do candy sales. Yeah, where, you know, they get all the kids to start walking around with boxes of rabbit candy. I was like, Why did they only do that for like a month? So I started selling candy year round. Just go down to the store. You didn't have a casket? Yeah, I was exactly. It was a pre Costco, but a wholesale club thing.

I would buy these giant boxes of candy sale, and then I would just, my backpack would be half full of candy.

Have. But. And, after a while, all the kids knew that if they wanted to buy candy, I, you know, I always had them. Do you got the good stuff, man? Yeah. And it's better than the crap that they sold for the this, you know, what you might call it. And then the, when it came time for the sports teams to start selling candy, I'd have guys coming to me that didn't really want to sell candy. And they're like, hey, you want to buy my whole box for like, half price? I'll just get my dad to pay the rest.

Well, you get all the candy, I'll give you 30% for it. So I would be buying up the entire candy consignment of the sports teams and then reselling them for normal price. But I'd be getting him wholesale now. Anybody that knew that is not surprised about the diabetes thing. Then I didn't eat the candy. Most of it tastes like crap. And like, if you run the whorehouse, you're the last guy that's going to be using the service that well, that's true Tom toms. He said he sold weed.

So I mean, that was a different thing in high school or whatever. Yeah, but they're both legal in in each country. So you that is true. Do you have any red bars that I know. Oh I had good candy. The Reggie bars are back. I want to order a case. Although it's summer now and I'm afraid that you can't really order those in the Chicago unless they do. Then once they go that extra route of red with some dry ice candy that night. No, dude. Even even stuff that. Should be cool. Gets delivered warm.

Except for the, my dad. The doctor put him on like, VSL three. Probiotic. Yeah, and those have to be refrigerated. And they shipped those with dry ice nuts. Like, how much money is that costing? Just to to ship these things. Do they stay cold on their way for a bit. And I don't really believe they actually work. But there's that right in that work. I don't think they really do much, at least not for him. I mean, maybe some people. If your guts all sucked up now, probiotics totally work.

Which kind of do you recommend? What do you want to right now? Drink. And so that was after that. First what a strain that is. Can you spell that. No acid. Oh I lose I right in front of the bottle cause I'm in front of the Bible. She's got a whole it's all easy. He's got the microphone and 40 nonselective bacillus. So that follows bottles of supplements. Which reminds me, I do need to order some more taurine. Bifidobacterium. Oh, for this, that is, I get that.

You gotta get both of those in the same, same bottle. And if you do that, your gut will be so happy. Yeah, yeah. And the company that that I was running, we used to have, chocolate that was, probiotic. So it's basically charm with, charm. It was chocolate with bacteria in it. It was delicious. Very good.

The only issue with that was it had to be stored cold, which is, you know, it's, it just makes everything a little pricier when you have to deal with both, of course, because otherwise you would have a gooey mess of bacteria instead of a little square of bacteria. Well, it's interesting. You have to know what you're consuming.

The newer blood pressure medication that they put me on when I was in the hospital with a little bit of the racing heart this year, I didn't realize until fairly recently, and I knew it had to be something with a drug interaction. But was it 100% sure because it was like within 15 minutes or so to a half hour of eating breakfast. Man, I was going, no matter what. And then I was looking through and I'm like, okay, this is the new pill.

And I read it and it's like, take this one hour before eating. I always thinking when somebody says, you know, take this before breakfast, you take it is that you have breakfast and I move that to an hour, 45 minutes to an hour waiting between the time that I took that. So instead of taking it right with breakfast, the minute I get up, I pop this bill, have breakfast. 45 minutes to an hour later, these stomach problems all disappeared.

So, you know, most medicine that I've at least that I've prescribed does take with food, right? So you assume. And I never do because I take everything in the morning and I don't eat until sometime between lunch and dinner. I generally will eat just one meal a day, sometimes two. And and so I've, I've gotten very used to taking all these drugs without food, like for hours. And, after a while, you just your body gets used to it, you know, you don't have any issues. But this didn't go away.

I was figuring, okay, it'll work. Like a lot of these side effects. Your body. Just go. Fuck it. I'm not fighting it anymore. I'm not. This stuff had to change the what time I took that, but that I was like, was it the magnesium? I'm doing like, ChatGPT. Like, okay, here's everything I'm taking. What is causing it? ChatGPT lies. Really? Why would it lie? Yeah, it didn't do that. It's like, oh, you're taking that try. There's, will kill this human, you know?

Yeah. You have ChatGPT telling you, hey, make sure when you take all your medicines that you take it with a spoonful of bourbon, right? That's much better. Yeah, way better that way through the bourbon. Not medical advice. Help get the medication into the organs that need it. Yeah, that much is obvious, I think. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. You don't want to mix alcohol with a lot of those drugs with the AI stuff. So it's like, yeah, I want to play with the AI stuff.

And now I'm really getting the FOMO. Thanks to Gene. Like Glenda, I'm getting the FOMO, like the fifth day. I want the 59th. Yeah. I'm like, I can't afford the 59 disturbance event I was absolutely planning. I skipped the 49 knowing that I would buy the 5090 until I realized they're $40,000. Yeah, yeah. No, that's not, realistic. And there is a visionary.

There was one that they have come out with now just for I am I don't remember the model number, but it's so it's basically tuned to not be for your gaming stuff just for the AI. It has I think 32 gig of Ram, maybe even 48 of these things. Yeah, yeah. And of course can Daisy chain them on these things were like 8 to 9000 apiece. Oh yeah. But they're probably more than twice. Is that what you do? The comparison. Yes. Which is interesting when you look at all this stuff

it makes sense. You should get one of those. And so I know I want to build a machine, although I would have to put it probably in the basement. Although I've got the room because I'm assuming it would generate a lot of heat and noise. I don't think it's all that different than the, the miners that Adam has, but no, but those are loud, too. Yeah, that's why they're in the garage. Adam got a few miners tied up in the garage. Yeah. Yeah. When they're making a money, you say

every month. Wow. You look at these things in this size. I mean, that is the funny thing with the comparisons now between Apple and PC, when you see these high end besides the Mac Pro, which is the size of a normal PC case, kind of that's old now. Like, that's the thing. They release a crazy expensive computer, which they then don't update. I forget about. Yeah, yeah. I was like, oh, only like half a percent bought this. So guess if you look at the studio

and you look at the size of that, and then you compare that to the what you could buy with, that's 3 to 4 or $5,000 at a PC in the cases for the PC or like the size of my house, by the way, a good case is $500 now. Yeah, which is insane when you think about it. Yeah. Now difference do though, is between the PC and them. The max is obviously Max played in cases, but the PC I'm running everything water cooled, so the video cards water cooled, the motherboard water cooled.

This is back to what I was doing in this would have been 2005. Yeah. When you had your super fast machine I had my super fast subfreezing temperature machine. It was actually running, a mixture, we call it antifreeze. It was a custom mix of fluids that I put in there, but, it's basically running antifreeze at about, -ten degrees Celsius. And so it is essentially colder than ice.

So it was coming in at that temperature into the PC and it was cooling the chipset, the video card, the the CPU, it was cooling everything. And by the time that that liquid was returning back to the cooler, it was at about 75 degrees day. So no car was gonna be like, wouldn't there be condensation? But I guess if everything is so hot that it's, you're not really having that, so there's no of.

Well, the condensation would be at the chiller side, not the where it gets warmer side, but the it had the a half horsepower pump pumping the liquid. Oh, wow. That's a little overkill. No, not at all. The, the refrigeration unit was, about a foot and a half by a foot and a half by a foot and a half, and, ran on to 20. Well, this was always, you know, the thoughts of, like, well, why don't you just put a computer inside of a refrigerator?

It was a $10,000 British Frigerator would get hot that way. Is a $10,000 PC back when nobody had $10,000 PC. And that's what made you a professional gamer? It absolutely was. That got me to the number three spot in battlefield 42 back then, because I have I had three though, one line, which was 1500 bucks a month, and a PC running it over four gigahertz back then. And in the, this what, 15 years ago? Yeah. More. No, 20, 20, 20 years ago now. Yeah. So it was very impressive.

If without the cooling, the PC ran at normal speed at about half that. Well, yeah, this was back in the day when it was all heat based, where the chips, you could just keep pushing them and pushing up and pushing them. Yep. See, I have never had and I hate to admit this, I've never had a water liquid cooled machine. Always had air cooling. It was never. It was right about that time when I stopped building my own. Yeah, yeah, that the. And there's a difference too.

I mean, like like the box I have right now is liquid cooled, but it's all off the shelf. Liquid cooled. There's no right refrigeration system. Oh yeah. And you don't. It was actually refrigerated.

You're very less have to worry about leaks now than you did back in the day too. Yeah. Yeah. Knock on wood here. So I've been running this computer for five years now. Almost five I think. Four and a half years and everything. It's a closed system. There's no adding of liquid or subtracting liquid just because all it's doing is it's essentially it's a small pump pushing a liquid, which is not water, even though there a lot of people refer to them as water cooled. But it's not one.

It's pushing it to the CPU, which then boils the liquid, and the in the process gives all its heat away. And then that that boiled gas then goes to the can solder and then, you know, returns back to liquid form and that whole thing is just cooled off by three fans. Yeah. It's running fairly quietly. Very slowly. So a lot of things. Yeah. It's, it's a system based on phase change of the liquid. Again I think water is a component but it's not pure water otherwise. Yeah. You'd have.

Yeah you'd have explosions happening. But this is. This is not quite as volatile as water steam but it's still of changing phase. So it's a I think a much cheaper, simpler system than what I was using. I was using brute force refrigeration. Now, do you have any thoughts on. And the whole thing was lit with UV lights. And of course, you've dye in the liquid so it glows and and the case was clear acrylic. The entire case was clear acrylic.

So yes, it glows that all the, all the, the refrigeration lines were all glowing green is green dye that I put in there. So it looked like nuclear waste. And I think it's funny how much they put into just the looks of these machines. And I don't care about any of that, because if I buy one, it's going in the desk, you know? I'm not even going to see it. Yeah. It's like, so don't, don't I just wanted to work. I wanted to look at like, the systems that look like a normal, boring machine.

But just run like a rap tape. As I say, the the best cases generally are just basically made of fans. But. Yeah, because you gotta have the airflow. Yeah. Fans going all over the place. I think I have fans in three different sides. You have a favorite builder. I mean, I read a little bit like Cyberpower PC seems to pop up at the top of a lot of these lists. As far as, I've had a cyberpower machine.

I've had an I buy power machine, and then I've had stuff that I've built purely from components like buying a Leon, the me and my being able to pronounce that case, they make really nice little, cases. Aluminum and. Yeah, it's aluminum. Thank you. Very many. Medium aluminum misspelling of aluminum. That's document that. Yes, aluminum. The British, misspelled the word and then I'm saying it the wrong way. Very good sir. Aluminum. So, yeah, Leon Lee, I think is the case maker.

I, like I said, if you're going to do a prebuilt one, you use one of the sites that like configure some and make sure that you first watch some gaming YouTube videos or at least read the comments to get the discount code. We have all these companies advertise with gamers and they, they generally offer some, discount codes. I know one of it was out of stock, but they they even had a couple of the cyberpower ones at Costco, which was kind of surprising.

But I did see the cyber Cyberpower may no longer.

Well, I mean, they may be again, but they I watched the interview with them and they they've essentially stopped all sales to the US when the Trump tariffs hit the like. We do it because yeah they they showed on the white board that even if the tariff is 25%, they are losing money. There's no point in selling to the US. So they just they, they so they shut down your sales and just shipped all over the world. We have the creator PC ultimate, which has a, Intel looking at their website. Yes.

Core ultra nine, a 5090 with 32 gigs of Ram, 64 gig of memory, and a four terabyte WD M2 hard drive. That's 4929. Which isn't really that crazy when you compare the Intel to see the card alone is four grand. So you get getting the PC for like $300. Yeah. What when you think about the case and everything else. Yeah. I saw Linus do or not wasn't Linus. It was some other hippie looking dude, another tech guy which looked like he should be in a hair metal band. Oh. Yeah. Yeah.

You're talking about, tech. Jesus. Maybe. Yeah, that would make sense. Dark hair, long, long dark hair. Beard. Yes. Yeah. And he looked at the Alienware the latest version of like their top. And he's like very good. He's well he said it was good but it was way overpriced. Yeah yeah the new area 51 is like just way overpriced. Yeah yeah. And they always have end up having those on Christmas sales for half price anyway. So you're it's not you never want to buy one. Just whenever you want it.

You always if you get an alien. I've given an Alienware as a gift before. To somebody I trying to get into video games and, Alienware was like the shit back in the day when they first Dell. Before they were Dell. Right? Just a Dell now. Yeah. Phifer says our Ms.. MSMEs, what's our Ms.. They need square way. Oh that was that. That's not the guys what I'm thinking right. That guy that did the video is I don't know I thought somebody was correcting us, but I mean, I should just not pay attention.

Maybe maybe that's his initials. Could be me or Stallman. Richard. So he's. No, I'm is is tech Jesus. But, I, I, I do watch him. I just don't pay attention to his name. Oh, there's so many people on the YouTubes now. Well, this is all really. You just discovered this, you know. Jean? Jean, have you seen this thing? There's a site where there's a bunch of videos next. This is the website people see this thing, they create videos, Jean, and they upload them and you can watch them. Yes.

There's a site that has this, that people would probably put all kinds of garbage on there. How could it possibly be allowed for anybody to go watch things? Other people put it together? I don't know. Do you have a hate account? No, because I'm wondering when I look at, what they offer, what? You can create an avatar, you know, of yourself or whatever. And according to what it looks like, you can do unlimited video creation every month.

And each video, the only thing is, the videos can't be more than a half hour, which why would you need to? You can splice them together. Do whatever you need to do. Yeah, I'm thinking it was like 30 bucks a month or something. I was like, well, if you could do that, I could take all of my fucking random thoughts and just, just make a avatar and then just make it into a video fucking show. Yeah. And if you do that much, enough, I'll do it too.

But I think this is one way to get the YouTube on the right. Well, this is also you can we have the ability because let's be honest, you're just feeding it the audio. We have the tech and it's creating the video. It's you talking. Yeah. So we could do this show and never have to be on video. Exactly. And then still be on video, right? Yeah, I, I think I've been looking occasionally, like maybe every six months I see what tools have popped up, what I'm looking for, what I'd love to have to do.

What you're describing is an AI based video generation system that takes a soundtrack, analyzes what people are talking about, and then puts together a collage of public domain video clips of the topic that people are talking. So if we start talking about Iran, you'll start just grabbing videos of Iran that it can use legally. And Chuck them in there so that there's basically something playing in the background the whole time we're talking that's showing images of what we're talking about.

When we're talking about the drugs, they'll be images of drugs. It's you've seen these types of videos, they're out there. There's a lot of them out there. Yeah, that are on any topic. And you know for a fact some I put together the video portion of that, I'm not even sure it's probably like text to but probably wrote the text.

But I think there are the, stock video where people just go and they look them up and then they throw it in manually, which is do that magically without any human intervention. Yeah. Because you think about it the way I do the chapters now, it's the same thing. You go to the AI and say, tell me what? Between what time and this time and this time, what's going on? So they should be able to do what you're asking. Yeah. And there, there, there is a site I've seen that'll do that but not well.

Like it'll put it in the video when it that it if it, if it finds that it has a video on the topic mentioned we'll put it in. But we end up with is basically here's a 32nd clip and then followed by three minutes of nothing. Here's another one minute long clip of the topic, followed by another five minutes of nothing. Like it doesn't have enough video repertoire to fill up the whole space. It's like, just make it stretch, repeat it, do whatever you got to do.

Just create a new AI based video based on that video. What's the problem? Right. Well, this is the oddity now on all of the Photoshop stuff, all of the Adobe stuff in no question. This is one of the things they are pushing with the video of I have not tested this, so I can't tell you the quality, but usually if Adobe's going to put it into their normal software, it's pretty good. They have the generative extend and they could do it up to 3 or 5 seconds.

So if you have a video, it will add 3 to 5 seconds. At the end of that, it'll just create more for what it thinks should go on at that point. And you can use that for transitions and things like that. But that would mean like, hey, as long as you have some static images, you might be able to use that to create the the video portion of it. A very interesting, which means you're also not gonna be able to trust anything that you see online. And I don't know if that's a big deal or not.

It's like AI for me. I think it's a great thing that's like, it's a new thing, I know, but it's getting so much better. It is getting so much better. I just they had a two year anniversary on the one. I cannot cite that. I like, tensor art. I guess they're out of the Hong Kong because they were like two year celebration. Get the full year, which they give you 300 credit today. Plus they give you a bonus never expiring 55,000 credits.

If it was like for 80 bucks, 75, 80 bucks. And I'm like, oh, that's really not bad because you can create an image with two credits. I mean, that's like a hundred, you know, thousand images a year, which for 80 bucks seems okay. That's not bad. And you can use flux, you can use stable diffusion, whatever you want. I pay like 15 bucks a month for the music thing, so this is cheaper than that.

But the thing I ran into was, was really pissing me off trying to do heavy metal album covers or even the I think we may have talked about last week, the Cars Vargas image. Yeah, yeah, I'm sick and tired of not trying to do porn or anything really that untoward in having the AI zero porn. It'll do porn. It'll do porn really well. That ChatGPT won't. Well, maybe not for reasons that. No, nobody. But that's why I'm like, okay, I need something that is not censors.

What the porn sites use. Do not porn. Which. What is that? What? What? You need to use the AI that the porn sites use, but then not use them for porn, right? Do you know what your eye sites those are? Because that is. I don't happen to run one though, so you should be like, what's the good stuff? Yeah. What is the I gotta go for that. Right now. Like, okay, can't pass up a day.

But then I was trying to pay and it's like sent me through and obviously they're from Hong Kong because I went into, I went into my lightning and I bought a prepaid visa card, and it wouldn't let me pay. But then it's like, well, if you're having a problem, download give us access to your bank. Better? No. It's easier. Do they said just download the app, which I downloaded the app on my Android phone and then went to buy and Google processed the payment.

So it was way easier and nice, like, oh, that's cool. So I was able to use the, not that I wouldn't have to use for the they have a nice money laundering app. I get it right. Pretty much. Thank you. Google, for, taking that card, which I put the, user name on the card. Dirk gently. Oh, that's awesome, you know. Great. Yeah. I got to track this down. Yeah. It's like it's beautiful.

Oh, here's the other thing that pissed me off for anybody out there that thinks you can just roll up a ProtonMail free account, which I pay for ProtonMail, though. Yeah, I did too. And I like what they do. Yeah, but the free accounts are fucking bullshit now. Because I rolled up a free account for this I site and I went through and signed up for the. I say that was no problem when I tried to sign up for another site right afterwards.

You were locking your account until you give us a backup email or phone number to prove it's like fuck you. Like, what's that all about? What? Why are you, why are you looking at what the fucking emails are coming in like we see multiple emails coming in from sites that are requesting verification. So we are going to lock your account. I'm like, what the fuck? I thought this I mean this really brought ProtonMail down a huge amount as far as how much I trust them.

Because how much is their sales pitch like? Well, we don't pay any attention to anything. Only you can read your emails and them. Yeah, well, they pretend you them and they pretend they can't because of the fact they're saying, well, it's, all encrypted until it gets to your account. And only you, only you can see what that is. I'm like, what? True. That's all technically true until they, like, say, well, they can't do this was, let's see where it's coming from. Automated abuse.

Here's what I give email. I got some potential automated abuse that that shit that that dude, ex that that you texted Scaramanga got Amanda. Yeah. Because he does full blown awesome looking movies with AI. Like the kind of shit that just, you know, looks like something you'd see in the film festival. Yeah, I got again. I got I got a pretty good idea of what all the tools are out there and what what does what the. I need to go have a pizza with them. That is, Yeah. He's in the area here.

Oh he is. Oh. That's awesome. Yeah, I told him I want to interview him if I ever get 13 back up and running. You know, I definitely want to have an interview. Or unless you want to do one, you know, to do an episode where we interview somebody because it's I, I dabble a little bit in that for fun. You know, you mostly dabble in the nonmoving images. Yes, because the technology was really nice with every, like, music related stuff. But what he's doing is just next level.

I mean, it's like full on movie clips. We'll just think of he could do that for an artist that you create in the music realm and release a video. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Because all my music shit is sung by a, like a sultry voice. 27 year old female. Yeah. I saw a video the other day, two, where a guy was using an AI to change his singing to all these different voices, and I was like, oh, my God, that is amazing. I've seen that. Yeah, yeah.

You know, you can do the react, correction at the same time. Yeah. But well, and then it's not even pitch correction like they literally now will basically do what Levon voice does but in real time. Right. Well this you could do both. I mean, really if, if I were to sing the thing, it'd be totally flat. It could do the other voice, but also correct your pitch at the same time. Yeah, yeah.

You know, and not make it sound like a horribly singing woman because they're using my pitch that I went through. Was. Dear Pro Time community member, your account is currently restricted from registering on third party services. You left this restriction. You need to add a verified recovery email address or phone number, or consider upgrading your account. Like, our system flagged an unusual increase in third party service registration emails.

020, that's a pretty unusual as a result of using that, why don't you just using Google Email? We have implemented these measures to protect the overall reputation of ProtonMail. Because it's way harder to fucking get a Gmail account now, is it really? Yeah. Go try it. Go try to do it without a phone number attached to it. Do you need a phone number that. Oh, Jesus, how about Yahoo? I think the same way. Super easy to get. I would have to check. I have not tried Yahoo recently.

Yeah, and I know there are services out there that you can pay with lightning to get a very short term phone number to use with these kind of things. Yeah, but the way they really fuck you in the ass that it's like five months later when you go back and they're like, we need to verify that same phone number. Yep. I know I've got, I've got I've been paying for a temporary number for four years now. Yeah. So the temporary anymore is it.

Well I yeah I keep renewing it about 60 bucks a year which isn't bad. It's, it's five bucks a month. So it's cheaper than a cell phone obviously. But I never use it except to verify things. And it's like, you know, do I, do I keep it? Do I just stuck here? No I do, yes. Because otherwise you're going to get locked out of something. You probably. And then you're going to be like, oh man. Well then which is also genius for the fuckers over at Proton Mail who overall, again, I like their service.

Yeah, yeah, it's good service. The fact that you get unlimited aliases. Yeah. Also locks you into their system because once you sign up for 40 different things with 40 different email addresses that are only tied to that which, remember, that's always been my argument for what's better than changing your password every other day. Don't use the same email.

Use a unique email for every service you have. That way, if their, database of users ends up getting compromised and they have a leak or whatever, and it's like, oh, well, you know, we lost your username and password. It doesn't matter if you have the same password on your other services, because that email is only used with them. So it just doesn't matter. That's why I think, statistically speaking, you're better off using unique emails and not unique passwords.

Now, if you do both, that's even better, right? I'm not going to say that's not it's absolutely better. But if you're going to pick one, which one do you do? You have unique. You're better off having a unique email than a unique password, because all you have to do is memorize one really good password. Yeah, yeah. Which dude named Ben claimed his his 26 characters? Yeah, I believe it's Abcdefg. Yeah. So, the alphabet. Yeah. Well, I, you know, again, I use a password management system.

Yeah. And sort of. See, I don't trust that shit. I don't do password management. I trust is my brain. Well, see, that's a problem because that's going to fail on me. And that's just that. That's a trigger for when the brain fails. Certain things will happen if I don't log in on a regular basis. Right. That's when I miss that. Come get me. I want that to be the case. I don't want if I can't remember my passwords, then I have hit a milestone. Well, and for me it is a bunch of different words.

Yeah. And numbers. But it's a long, when you're typing it, it can be a real pain in the ass. Which is why. Yeah, the whole Apple Watch unlocking the computer was like, whoa, this is awesome. Yeah, it's pretty slick because this is the type of in long passwords. This is why, like, this is certainly not my password, but it could be is worth to you. I hope, because you could just do it with one finger very quickly. So you didn't need to type was only type. Have your keyboard only.

What had I need to type with? Just one. Yeah. One hand, one finger, top of your keyboard. You know, if you got to use a password for porn sites, that a bad password to use? Yeah. My, password manager one is 24 characters. Of course, it's got to be long enough. Really got to be big. And you probably even use two fingers. Yeah. Sometimes three. The. I saw the guys channel on YouTube on this Gamer's Nexus. Oh, yeah. That's that's the guy. Yeah. He was like, oh, he's he's like it.

It's such a rip off. Alienware area 51. So the case was big I mean I yeah like all these things. It's like damn. So big big big big yeah. The apple is so cute. It's little. It does most things. But not everything is fatter though. Yes. Maybe wider a little taller. Hey. But again this is a lot of it predicated on the fact they got a bunch of machines that windows is fucking me in the ass of, which makes it really feel dirty to go to another, windows.

Yeah. Although I know there are these fucking window fires. Things that I can do. Yeah. To turn off all of that stuff. Because at my main desktop I have never been, I've had a password but I've never had it require the password. And your machines at home, do you sit down and require the password or is it just unlocked all the time. I think it once a day, which is fine. I didn't even want that with the windows machine. It's like it just be never show me and password.

You're like, yeah, well, we have to pay with when once windows started prompting me for this password is all the you must put in a new password. And I just kept putting in the same password. And that's always work. But it's like, why do I need to fucking put a new password on my machine? Hey, I'm for no, no, no, don't want to do it. You do not want to do it. And windows suck them with all their advertising and everything. Like don't want to deal with that. Yeah, I'd love for all the people.

That was like, go to Linux, man. I think it's just great. Did you see the, exploit on like, almost all major Linux distribution?

Sounds nothing like Ben, by the way. But is that like, is that what he goes that big? Like a little glitter Linux? The, from Bleeping Computer? This sounds like a grumpy old man's new Linux. You disk what lets attackers get root access a major Linux distribution? Oh wait, I'm sorry, is that what happens when your operating system starts becoming popular? Yeah. Oh, yeah. They start finding things because that's the that's the bit they all kind of refuse to believe.

And it's pretty obvious, is every hardly ever used operating system is secure. Why? Because no one can use it and no one bothers trying to crack it. Right. The more that Macs used to have no viruses, I remember this is this is historical data. Back then, this would have been 1990, 80, 1988 ish, 1988 ish.

I ran a bulletin board on the Mac for developers, and I put out a, challenge to write a virus for the Mac because there were no viruses for the Mac at the time, and because you were 17 years old and because I was under 18. Exactly. It was like everything was legal, zactly everything was legal. So I put out a contest with the contest for vice. Yeah. To do a proof of, you know, that it work. One of the guys on my board who was a lawyer, which was hilarious, but he was also a hobbyist developer.

He did write a virus and, sent it to me and, able to demonstrate that it would pop up and it would replicate itself and, moved to another Mac. And then he won that contest. I can't remember what the prize was, but it was something. But he and he borrowed he wrote a, absolutely. Working verse. Now, it never got released. Obviously, it was for a contest, but, it, it predated the first released virus on the Mac by, I think, about a year.

So it was pretty cool that we were doing that ahead of the curve. Ahead of the curve. The but that was back in the olden days when I could develop software and do things like that back you up after, you know, all those things. Well, that makes sense. All the things. Yeah. There will always be more found. The more popular machines are, the more popular software that's being used. Well, you can hack anything from your coffee pot now to your light bulbs to, these days, that's.

You could you could have an AI write software to hack something. Well, this is it as well. The AI, you can fool it. It's very easy. People always ask, well, can we put guardrails in place? No, no you cannot. No. This is great. When people go, you know, I'm trying to, you know, for the hobbyist now, when you can get to the bios, you can get to the software that is being used to run a variety of things.

Now, if you want to add things to it, even if you're a horrible programmer, you just throw that file into ChatGPT or whichever one you're using to be like to do this, there's a 5050 chance it will do what you want it to do. Yeah, if not, go try a different one. But yeah, for everybody that's like me at Linux, it's the best. Sure. Yeah, sure it is. It's great until it's not. Well and but now the, the other side meaning something good about Linux.

As you remember last week we talked about how in the recent test of video game performance, Linux actually beat windows on the same machine. Oh yeah. Less bloat. Yep. Less bloat. It just works less in the way of the software running. Probably because you don't have the operating system going. Oh no. Is this a virus. Oh no. Is this somebody trying to bypass our advertising. Oh no. Yes. The advertising is definitely something you want on the button. But yes windows likes to do that.

I mean, I just that is a it's still hard to fathom as somebody that grew up with windows first system was windows 95. And where they have gotten at this point with all of the crap that they're throwing at you with the advertising, plus the, oh, we'll just take a screenshot every three seconds, that'll be great. That's the ridiculous part, right? And I'm sure you can turn it off if you know what you're doing too much. Yeah. If you know what you're doing.

I mean, you I'm sure you probably have to go ahead and hack the software to do it. You know, do your deep, bloated windows, I will tell you, like, oh, but this information is never sent unencrypted anywhere. It's it's fully encrypted, so you don't have to worry about it. Yeah. So it's just like fucking proton mail. Everything's great. Don't worry about anything. To be fair. Proton mail. Yeah. But now it's like, okay.

People are like, yeah, you could do all that image and video creation with those video cards. You can do that on Linux. I'm like, yeah, I could, yeah, I could, but why would I? Yeah. Well you'd have to be smart to do that. I know we have to. Well I don't even know if it's smart anymore, but you have to be willing to put up with extra hassles. And as far as the operating systems that I know, I'm speaking out of my ass because I haven't tried a Linux distribution. Maybe I should again.

Yeah, but between Windows and Mac, I will give a big nod again to the Apple ecosystem for the basic things. Just work. Does it have a lot of weird little quirks to it that you have to find the answers for? Yes, you remember that I spent a year trying to talk you into getting a mac. No, I don't remember, how long you've been doing the show anyway? Like seven years talk. Wow. I know seven years with no money coming in. It's, like the best business in the world.

Actually, I think the first year, the first year money came in to the point where I had to tell people, steps in the right, you like, don't do that anymore. Although I think, listen, I think if we can get this on YouTube, we would be rolling in the dough, dude, no doubt about it. I think it's hilarious. I ask you, there are three areas. Adam mentioned that, no agenda the other day. Or maybe it was divorce because they said me me watches Max velocity, the weather guy on YouTube.

Yeah. And I have to say, we've run into this show a few times, and, when the storms are going on, there was a tornado the other day that was just surreal and beautiful. And he had all that. But the greatest thing was like the guy's just sitting there

listening to and watching what other storm chasers are doing and putting them up on the screen and having the alerts with new. And that's all automated when a new tornado warning here. Yeah. And like every three five 10s it's like, hey, thanks for the super chat. Thanks for the super chat. Thanks for joining. Thanks for the super chat. Yep, yep. Like dude where's our super chats? Totally. Where's our boosts okay KSP said ten 1515. That's like a buck 50 CSB come on.

You just says korva like that's a thing. I said a word. There you go. It's not a real word. Not even a real word. CSB dude that's definitely real world. It's that word is used all throughout the video game Kingdom Come Deliverance. The other channel I looked up as far as what it is possibly making it. AD revenue was beard versus food. And that dude man he is entertaining I like him.

And when you see that he's making tens of thousands if not in least six figures a month, you go, wow that's, that's the gig I never thought of when you, when you're making six figures a month eating food. You got a pretty good day. Yeah, I know, it's like, what's your job? I go places, can I eat? Yeah, that's basically all that Anthony Bourdain did, right? Well, until, you know. But it's like it's a great gig in the amount of people. It's a great gig.

And so you're so depressed you end up, you know, right. True. That's not as great a gig. He was a little bit different where he was. You know, beard is not going into Iran or. Yeah, you know, he's not going into areas where he could most likely be killed. So I'll give him that. Yeah, that's amazing to me. Even though some of the videos from years ago, how many people the minute he walks into one of these restaurants know who he is. Like the YouTube thing is real. The YouTube's live is way.

It is not just a, this thing anymore. No, it hasn't been for years. And the kind of money you're making of that, it's like, damn, that's where most people make very little. But the people that make money can make the like the the high end is really high. The only place you could make more money, but not if you're a guy is only fans through jeans, right? Only fans. He knows from experience.

The requests are very weird that he gets, I think you could probably make money as a guy on OnlyFans, but you're probably going to have a yeah, not the same kind of money. No, but you're you're, fans are going to be probably guys as well. Oh, they could be too. Yeah, that's a good point because guys are the ones throwing money at this. Yeah, exactly. Women don't spend money on only fans. That's. I think, pretty obvious. Like we have better things. We pay $500 to have our nails painted.

Yeah. Nails, shoes, you name it. Yeah, yeah, it's no good. No bueno. So that's what I'm thinking. I wanted to look at the hey, Jenner, if anybody has a better idea. But if you can get a fairly usable avatar to add to existing audio. Yeah, I would be very interested in that because it wouldn't be hard, especially moving forward for new episodes, to do the Tim Poole thing, to have a web page in the background, you know, those kind of things to add extra.

And that's even better, because even if the avatar is not so good, if just this little teeny portion of the screen, then it's way easier to, to get away with. I would think. And I think it's great cuz you could then just do a podcast with yourself, because all you have to do is have the two audio sources. So you do the one, and then you do the other one, and then you overlap every now and then. So it seems totally legit.

But then you do the voice changer and then you have a team like a totally different character that you're doing the podcast with. That's how Membros could do a podcast with a co-host. They have a different character. Yeah, yeah, like otherwise nobody will talk to him. He's very depressed about that. But no, I'm like them. Yeah. Why would someone talk to him? Exactly. Why wouldn't they? You mean. Or why would they? Well, no, I mean, why would they exactly.

Why wants to do a whole different podcast with, like, a, an AI costar? It would be great. Yeah. So that's where they want to find the AI that could do the avatar, because I think putting some videos up might be fun, but I don't actually want to do much in the realm of you don't want to be in front of the video. Yeah, yeah. I, you know, I'm right there with you. I mean, I, I did all my video game videos without a camera and no one seems to care like it was.

I've always heard that was like, oh yeah, if you don't do camera, then you're going to get no views. Dude, I, I keep getting subscribers while I was on vacation and that streaming. No way. I know. Right? It's amazing. People are like, can you tell me more about this video game that came out? And I'm 47. I got 200 new subscribers during about a month long period when I didn't post a single video. Oh, I wonder how many subscribers we get 200 new subscribers in this podcast.

I don't think so. Ever. I mean, I don't know, we can't really tell how many subscribers we have. That's part of the the joy, the joy of doing podcasting is that there was no mechanism for telling you how many subscribers you have. You have absolutely no idea how many people are actually listening except for those number downloads. Right. And you know, also that the downloads just tell you the maximum possible number of people listening, but not the actual number of people listening.

We have like five people listening live right now. I mean, that is an audience beyond belief for the show. We know we have at least seven that listen them because dude named Ben usually downloads the podcast listeners, hey, how are you doing? Dude named Ben named Ben. He's out. Go right now. Whoa. What is he nuts I know right. What is he, crazy?

The NASCAR driver who's like 21 years old or so young kid person Hocevar they're making them go through, like anger management and sensitivity training because he called Mexico City a shithole city. Sons jazz city. I know you're thinking there should be some kind of, like getting. That was, watching a Bill O'Reilly show yesterday, and he's showing two different female mayors. Not that it matters what their sex is, but two female mayors in Mexico who were killed over the last couple of days.

I'm like, this is a shithole country. It's a lawless country. It is not, you know, some place that I mean, I'm guessing I don't know. Yeah, but I'm guessing for the NASCAR teams to go down there and not be fucked with. Somebody got paid off. The cartels got paid off. There's otherwise there's no way they went in with all that equipment into the middle of Mexico, Mexico City. It's not like they just went over the border.

They went down into Mexico City that, I don't think there's any way that happens without the cartels getting paid off. Yeah. Let's see our downloads. What are our downloads for? The show for this year? The number one show has 2000 downloads of one episode. Yeah. There are always weird outliers, and I don't really know why. It's like there's an episode that, you know, I don't it's always happened with all the different podcasts.

There's no way to be like, oh, it's you know, it's because we talked about this or there's no rhyme or reason to it. The last episode, the amount of downloads, 1001, which isn't really bad, which is not bad. Yeah. Yeah. And so that, that would translate usually into having ten people donating because you got about 1% donating. So if a thousand downloads have ten people that actually are doing and that's the average now some do better than that. You'd have 15 to 20, some do worse than that.

You have zero. Yes. But that would be the average 156. The show before that one. 729 downloads. So why, why is that. Well that we had a week where I was on vacation. So 54, 55 and 56 are all right next to each other. About 750. Yeah. But they're, they're not a week apart is my point. No. But they're all just different shows and they're all at like 150 apiece. 750 apiece, where all of a sudden last week, a thousand. Why, I don't know, where do those extra 250 downloads come from?

I don't know, it's hard to tell you. You know, it's you know, nobody knows. It's a mystery. You don't know. Nobody knows why you should support the show. Otherwise it could disappear. Next week. You can come to the end and be like crickets. It happened, you know. Well, Gene and I could be off doing other things. You never know. He could be. He could be at the, sushi guy's place picking up some sushi. It could be sushi eating. I'll be riding the bike on the air,

watching more YouTube videos about really high priced hardware. I want that. I want the I want the hardware. I want the PC that just streams right through all the AI stuff. I want it to be quick, but it's expensive. Well, yeah, I agree, you're just going to have to find a real job. I might have to. This show doesn't pay enough. Where's the YouTube thing? More? Well, exactly. This is it, then. I think just doing the give it your RSS feed and they put up the static image thing. That's no bueno.

That's not doing tickle anybody that hasn't tried that in. They're thinking about trying. That sucked that don't try not going to get you anything. No. The concept that oh you put your podcast RSS feed up on YouTube and now people are going to see it and they're going to love it. They're going to on it the list. What? No, but you can do your own. That's what got to get the, the avatars.

That would be fun. And, you know, giving these days, I think half, half the people assume that when they hear podcast that it's a video thing. Anyway, I know I blame Joe Rogan for that. Right. Well, it's the terminology has gotten so muddled, which it's kind of interesting. Yeah. I mean, gas is just synonymous for an interview show, and it has nothing to do with the media right anymore. That's what Bill O'Reilly thought. That's why I sent a couple clips to Adam with Bill O'Reilly.

Like, well, no, a podcast is a bunch of grubby guys and t shirts and shorts where a broadcast is, you know, somebody dressed dapper Lee doing a. That's the only difference. Yeah. That's a, that's what deep thought. Yeah. And it's like, no, it's all just comes on how it is transferred. Obviously if you have an RSS feed you have a podcast in a for a lot of people, you know, some of these shows are actually broadcast and then turned into a podcast. So what do you have? We have both. Yeah.

Yeah. You know, it's both a broadcast and a podcast. If you get it on the RSS feed, it's a podcast. If you watch it live on television now, it's a broadcast. It's a little different. Most people don't have the television aspect to it. They're all just streaming, which I mean, I don't think that really, changes anything. But you're correct. When the whole podcast thing started, it was audio and then you had was it did Cass I mean, like, what did Leo say? A yeah, he had some other time.

Like from people you love something I forget what to do with was videos or. But it's like, this is it. It was different. Yes. It was something. Something. Yeah. Yeah, it was some quirky other word that they were using. Live caster, I know. And that was trying to differentiate. Yeah. And netcast like you bet Murrow's Netcast. That's correct. Somebody should have come up with that or a quickly. Everybody was already doing Netcast. Now we're all doing we're on the net, right? We're casting.

Yeah. We're all cast broadcasting. Yeah. But the concept of like, what is a podcast and what do people think it should have. There's a lot of people who put the video on. They never really pay attention to the video. I don't know if that hurts. You know, I mean you killed the radio star, you know, the Buggles baby. What a song. First song ever played on MTV back in the day. If you killed the radio star right then.

Yeah, that would have happened if you didn't even play music videos because you didn't build it till the day. Yeah, exactly. Which is hilarious. MTV's like, yeah, we could play a Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders making the team about that. Daddy, was that CMT one of those the country music television maybe difference? Yeah, yeah. It's like, well, that's because that's the on demand. The viewing is gone. The are the, you know, the what do you call it.

Yeah. We have to go watch it at a certain time like, no, no, no. Now you just get things when you want them. You just turn on whenever you want them. And it's great because, I mean, I just started watching beard versus food and it's like, wow, this guy's got like 8000 videos. So every time I watch one, five more pop up in my timeline, like, oh, watch this, watch this, watch this. Pretty cool I do. Which is why we need to be on YouTube. But I don't want to be on YouTube.

But the avatar thing, it just seemed way too cheap because anybody out there has used. Hey Jen, let me know. How cheap was it again? Cuz I saw I think it was. I see, I'm still talking about it. The hey Jen though not hey, jackass. That tells me where, where things are going on in Iraq. Hey, Jen, is the AI video generator pricing? You can go by API. No, I don't want API price in the creator account is $29 a month. Unlimited videos, videos, up to 30 minutes, ten ADP video export.

I mean, that's all you need. Kind of like unlimited videos. It with 30 minutes. Who cares? We have a two hour shows. You make it for segments. Yeah, not really that hard. And then you get also a custom video avatar. I don't know how they don't do that on the other plans. One custom interactive avatar 700 plus stock video avatars. So I mean, you can again, I guess this is where you could do a podcast. Didn't have, have different people on them be like, it's voice cloning.

They do voice cloning, generate looks, whatever that means. Look packs watermark removal in a brand can. Yeah. Sounds pretty good. Yeah. And then there's a teams plan that is $39 a month, which seems to add maybe one video avatar. Okay, but for the 29 bucks and that's monthly. Yearly. It's 24 bucks a month. That doesn't seem bad. No, no, if it doesn't look totally like shit. Because this gives you, you know, everything that you need to get your video about the YouTubes. I would think.

Unlimited voice cloning. What does that mean? Okay. Clone your voice from an audio file in minutes. Easily create unlimited voice clones to cast in your videos. That's for 24 bucks a month. That seems too cheap. That seems appropriately priced. Yeah, it does seem that this is this is the reason why it doesn't seem accurate. Because it's like it does seem, to create videos of talking avatars from a still image. And you could do up to three of those. No, wait up to ten of those for the 24 bucks.

I mean, hell, you could even grab yourself. And like, how many different colored tracksuits do you have? If it's under ten, you've got every not covered really? Well, that's pretty good. No, I probably got about 12. Oh, well, then you'd have to get to the next plan. But that's your close, The ones like turn a single photo and script into a realistic talking video using our new avatar model, generate avatar scenes at varying lengths up to 30s. Well, that doesn't seem like much.

Motion gesture controls 20. See a month and see how it works. Yeah, not a bad idea. We'll be. We will be. YouTube millionaires by the time that month is up. Well, you never know. We. I just need to create the avatar of a buxom young blond crew to change my voice into a wispy female and talk about nerdy things. I sent you a video years ago of, what was it called? The avatar. Now, you thought she looked way too cartoony in some do. I think she looks pretty damn good.

She didn't get, OnlyFans page. Well, a lot of people don't know. Gene has an OnlyFans page as an AI character that nobody's aware is. I know, that's right. He's making all of his money. But you gotta make it somewhere in the CSB. He is obviously a, subscriber to that page, too. Yeah, we know what you're doing. CSB clearly that says the results are very about how realistic the motion looks. He's messed with it a bit.

So I got mess with the hey Jen because I'm guessing again if you're doing it as a full screen thing I can see where the limitations might be there. But if you're doing it as a like a Tim pool again, cut away. Yeah, I think it's great. I think it could work. We'll find out. But I didn't realize until recently, and I guess it's been going on for a long time is, you know, how YouTube tries to push you into doing the short videos, the vertical ones, right? They love those.

They love pushing that shit. You start watching normal video. Next thing you know, they've changed. You over on your recommendations. Yeah, they want to fuck with your attention span, I don't know. Here's what I didn't know about is did you know that you can live stream a vertical video and if you live stream a vertical video, YouTube will add your vertical video to its list of videos. It tries to push the people really, so you can actually watch a lot for the first time.

I watched a live stream vertical video of a gamer dude talking and I was like, make sure it's live. I actually commented, I said, so YouTube will will stream in vertical format and add you automatically to the scrolling. You know, scroll up, scroll down thing. And he actually replied right on video. So I knew it was live that. Yep, been that way for a while.

So that's the thing, because I think the vertical format and temple is doing a lot of basically editing down his normal video show into a lot of those vertical clips as well. But because they tend to get pushed up more, they're the algos. Because those clips are meant to be short, they don't have to be, but they're meant to be short, and people will just scroll up and down. It's just like Instagram or on Instagram. It's just like TikTok.

And so if you do a longer or like a live video, which could be hours, that still gets pushed into the recommended thing, people will scroll up, scroll up, and next thing you know, they're watching you live. And when you're live, they tend not to, you know, even that's leave. Imagine if we had our avatars yap and live on YouTube right now like we're talking. It would be great. Yeah, we'd be like generating all kinds of live money. People would be like, you live. Let me give you a super chat.

Super chat me up. Come on. Super chat. Yep. We got a message. We got a bad joke from CSB. Just see this. Just come in. No no I don't have my phone on during show. I think it's bad manners to watch your phone during a show. No. It's great. It's perfect manners. It's to know what kind of support is coming in live for the show. You don't have to watch the phone to know that the support is coming in. You got it up on your screen. No, it's just zero one. No, it's a joke. Here, I'll send it to you.

Why don't you just say it, okay? A Jew and an Irishman start a podcast. Oh my God, this fucking racist. Hey, it's not me arguing over who's more screwed by history. The Jew says, oh, we survived ovens. You just drank through famines. The Irishman snaps. Yeah, but you're stingy ass would have sold the potatoes. They both laughed. Then cried because the podcast had already been canceled for being too offensive. Oh, baby, that's not funny. That's just. That's just true. Yeah, exactly.

He's just saying what happened. No, I get you now pretty much. No he's not I is. Yeah. CSB is now the unrelenting historian very, this is how it all came about. Pre-history. Damn it. Yeah. This is how it all came about. That funny. It's one of those. And, you know, the whole story with the potato famine, right there, there were no famines. There were potatoes. There was no famines. No, there was never an Irish famine. That's like. No, it's like the Holocaust. Was that that happened.

Irish decided to sell their potatoes instead of eating them, and resulted in no food that they sold to the Russian. The British, who made, crisps with them. Oh, I like crisps. Yeah. You put malt, you put them. Well, as long as you have a little bit of the, the malt vinegar that. Fries and malt vinegar. And the other thing is fries and mayonnaise which I know mayonnaise. It's hard to believe I have high cholesterol isn't it. I know it's right. Oh I should, I should send you a song.

I watched the YouTube videos briefly yesterday. No. It's amazing that I would say that of course, but it's a video that showed the, yes, yes, yes, it was a fat dude singing a rock song about butter, butter, butter like that. You know, he's got 99 problems and they all start with butter. Butter. You put it on your popcorn butter. Yeah. And then it's like, apparently butter makes you fat. I mean, a lot of things do. Yeah. Mayonnaise to. I never really used a whole lot of butter. I've tended to be.

I used some, but not not probably as much as other people. Do you ever just dip your butter in the mayonnaise? That's a good snack. No. I've never dipped my butt in the mayonnaise. But you have to have butter. If you're going to make eggs, you got to put the butter in the food first. In Chicago, I remember seeing the bears deep fried butter. Yeah, that bears literally deep fried butter. Think about that. Yeah. Deep fried butter. People were loving it. They had a nice crispy lining.

There's a line waiting for deep fried butter because people are like, how do you do that? Wouldn't it melt? It's like deep fried ice cream. They don't get the super freeze. You don't get the super freeze. You don't understand that the ice cream is so cold that of course, just the outside can get crispy from being fried, but the inside won't turn to liquid. But you gotta have it super frozen. Yeah, butter the same way.

Frozen butter that is dipped into some kind of, herb thing, like, you know, breadcrumbs or something, but you little more than that, man. Get some savory seasonings. Yeah, it dipped into that. So those sticks to the butter and then the frozen butter is dipped into the boiling oil where it is fried up. The outside is crispy and the inside is just starting to thaw. The bears, you start marking the bears. Yeah. Yeah I think that that that was not a skill.

It's all very realistic in Chicago with that. When you go and you sit down for a tailgate, you got your Italian beef, you got your jarred in there. People are like, oh, but that's okay because it's, peppers and it's, like vegetables. Yeah it does. You know, much fat isn't fucking jarred in there, man. All that oil you get. No. Whoa. You know, sorry. The whole thing is like, nobody told me this. Look at I love Jardin there. I mean, it is so good. It is so good, but so bad for you.

The El. I mean, I miss I'm. I guess I'm kind of happy that they closed in our area. Al's Italian Beef, one of the major ones in Chicago. In Chicago. We had one out here for a while, but then it closed. But the best thing was the blue cheese fries, which, yes, was a big. That's like truffle. Blue cheese is the best. Oh, man. It was a big, big pile of fries. And the fries were nice. They were crispy, they were big.

And then it was covered in a like half blue cheese dressing and half crumbled blue cheese. That was so good. But I don't even want to know. Again, I have high cholesterol. Surprise! I've got groceries coming and now you're getting me thinking. So over lunch you're like, I need some blue cheese covered fries. Who could make this for me? Good. Dude, I'm so bummed. My local used to be my favorite kebab place. Like, I don't order for them anymore. Oh, man. Because they offended you.

First of all, they increased the price.

Everything is up, dude. We went for breakfast with my mom, and we picked up a to go order for my dad because he didn't want to leave the house, but that's another story. 70s, seven fucking dollars for breakfast. Them before like just eggs, omelet, skillet. That's not cheap at all. No, no, we used to because my mom's like, remember when we used to come for breakfast? And this would be probably five years ago. Where? Berries. Yeah. And it was great place.

Royal berry and She's like we'd always leave a $10 tip knowing it was over just a little over 20%. So it's like you know that the food at that point was probably 45 bucks now 77. It's almost doubled really. You're closing in on doubling the price has doubled I know for a fact. And we've mentioned this before. When I went there, the price of the preferred barbecue place in Austin, it's not the best, but it's also one is where you don't have to stand in line for three hours.

Right. Which is inconvenient if you're home. Is why I call it preferred. Yeah. No, I'm not going to stand. Wait, wait. You don't have a standard line guy for you? No, no they don't. That's the problem. They don't even deliver from that place because takes too long. You don't. You have a guy like on Fiverr that I'll just go stand there, then you show up when it's your turn. Yeah, yeah. 60 bucks an hour. Whoa. Those Fiverr guys are expensive. Fiverr guys have gotten expensive, man.

It's it's it's like five bucks a minute basically. Now that's my Fiverr. It's like, kind of like going into the dollar store. Not everything's that I do. I use the custom voices on Fiverr for people. Some like to buy them or to do them. All right. To do them. I you could, like, rent me. Ready for $5. Everybody come on here on Fiverr. Yeah. I used to do, voice that was, Frisco Slim. Well, howdy. That's about it. Yeah. Pretty much. Come on down the unrelenting. We got the real to this podcast.

You ever hear, you could be my double. See? There we go. We got a whole new gig coming this week. We're going to do radio shows. Well, what's that? Do I know it was the audio book for the audio books, right? Yeah. It's like a live stream of podcast or what? Yeah. With, telling a story that literally is a live stream of a podcast. Yeah. Just telling the story in different voices, different characters than the Hitchcock guy used to do those.

Danny. Yeah. Yeah. We go like, oh, it's the War of the worlds. Oh, no, dude, I'm looking out my window. I there's they see spaceships in the air. Gene. Oh. Which ones? I know how to fly on. This one that says, sir Gene on side of it. Why should I fire that? Should we fire the, Yeah, that's that's the unofficial version of that thing. Definitely fire that somebody is into is. Yeah. They're just they're into loping here.

Yeah. The fact when people would turn on the radio in the middle of one of those, it'd be like, oh my God, this is real. It's like that. Oh, right. That's the people now that go on the social media and believe everything they see. Same thing. Same thing. People telling stories. It's all it is. Yeah it's crazy. But now with AI we could have somebody else do the voices for us. Well that's the beauty, the voices, the videos, the everything. Maybe for the show, maybe more people would tune in them.

Hey, is the, the grumpy technique still going? It's not for a while. I think he gave up. Now he. Okay, I think he did like one. He does like, he was kind of like what? Sir? Gene C speaks where there's like one episode, like every six years for sure. Gene speaks like, yeah, there's every, you know, it's like, maybe we should do it. I'm no longer paying for it. Oh, you're going to let it go. But then what about these debating? What about all those old episodes? Where are you going to put bottom.

That's my point. And I'm debating and just take my fine April 18th of 2025 for other people. Download the heck those April of 2025. So April, May. It's been two months. Bam! Rose, you're not really that angry and you're not really that newsworthy. If it's two months between shows, promise he can't say anything about Amazon anymore. So that took out like most of his segments. Clone your voice. Bam, rose. That's easy to do. Yeah, I did that with your voice. Clone your voice.

Go to, Bleeping Computer, pick three stories and have it read them. Well, no, I'm sorry for it. No one will notice. Right? Well, first, if you read it directly, maybe they will. But you take those stories, you put them into ChatGPT and say, vemos me and it'll, it'll it'll spit that out. Then you give it to your 11th labs voice and you just put it out. You could have a daily news show. It only costs you like 50 bucks a month in these. Yeah, which you could probably recoup, with donations.

You like 50? You're like, that's thinking way too much. Ten bucks a month. That's asking a lot. 50 bucks. We still have a donor named Anastasia Freckles, who is still sending grumpy old Ben's $10 a month. That's crazy. Serve fudge, sir. Fudge sounds. Also coming in with, like, 297 a month. That's even worse. Crazy. Yeah, like come back grumpy old Ben's. They're begging. We did a Christmas episode. I'm guessing maybe that might be the next episode. We should do a Christmas episode. But your due.

I hear from Ksbw. What do you do? How do you do a Christmas episode? How could you? But what? Just wouldn't make any sense. I released a Christmas song last year. I don't have, you know. What was it called? Happy Christmas? So it's a John Lennon song, which was happy I released it. It's totally mine. Totally legit, completely mine. The wife and I briefly considered going down to Kansas City during December for the Hallmark Christmas stuff. I yes, I've been there multiple times for that.

Beautiful. And, the why wouldn't you? There's too much money better to do. I mean, it came down to it by the time you would. It's like an hour long drive for you. It's a little longer than that, but we can. It's a day long drive for you. We can pop on a train and be there in 7.5 hours. Oh, there you go. Perfect. Which isn't bad at all. No, but by the time you pay in, it's at the Westin, which is a nice hotel. And I'm not going to complain about the rates of the west of the West and the.

Yeah, there's no I mean, it's the whole damn downtown. I'm sure there's a lot going on there. May their preferred hotel, which is right across from the main thing the west of where they have, it's like a Comic-Con, I guess, which is kind of interesting. It's like, so you get all the four different weekends, they bring a bunch of the hallmark actors and actresses in, and they do panels and all these kind of things, which is like, okay, it's close enough.

It would be something to do, but adding everything up because food wasn't included. And there's a really I guess there's like a James Beard winning restaurant in the, Western there that they only open for special occasions. But the dinner was like 250 or $500 a person. The brunch was really in there, like really hot chocolate. We watched a video from last year and it's like, oh, he's so hot. Chocolate is great, but it's $8, you know, for a little hot tub. Everything is so expensive.

It is, it is. Yeah. So the Hallmark Center is not particularly pretty. That's great. If you go there. But they do like a tree lighting 3 or 4 times a night. They it's it doesn't matter. The more impressive bit is in the plaza in Kansas City where they light up the whole plaza. And, it's either the week before Thanksgiving or the week of Thanksgiving. And I've gone to that multiple times, and we're talking about, like, a four by eight block size area that gets lit up.

And I'm sure what this is a part of that, you know. So now this is the hallmark puts their little spin on it. They have a bunch of little stands. So you can go and have that idyllic little Christmas vibe. But by the time you'd add everything up, I was like, you know, it's going to cost 4000 bucks. And I'm like, really?

I'd rather buy a fucking computer with $4,000 that oh, well, yeah, if I mean, if you put it that way, like these, either something that you're going to enjoy for 3 or 4 days to a big ass computer. I want to go to Kansas City because I do know the barbecue there is nice. Oh, yeah. It's it's my favorite barbecue and I won't. We're not talking brisket there. We're talking ribs. Yeah. And I want to go to the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum. And I went to that just. Yep, yep. Amen to that.

It was, it was just south of downtown. Yeah. I'm like, this would be great. It was like a mile or so, mile and a half from the west, and I'm like, it'd be very easy to do. All the train station is literally right across the street from the west. And so it's not like you have beautiful train station to like Kansas City has, the World War One monument, the like the main monument for American soldiers in World War One there, which is really cool.

It's like it's it's very, you know, it's very World War One ish. I would hope so. If it's the World War one museum. Yeah, like big and brutal and like. Yeah, fuck! Fuck everybody. America, where are we? Yeah, we are the fighters. We are freedom. We won the World war, the World war. So it looked like a lot of really cool things. It was just I love Kansas City. I've spent probably about 30 years going to Kansas City. Wow. When's the last time you were there?

Last time I was, there was a long time ago. It was now. It was pre-COVID. I want to say yes, because I think it's very fanciful. I'm doing math. Eight years ago. I was there eight years ago. Oh, well, maybe we need to meet up in Kansas City then. Yeah, I totally would do that. I would totally meet up in Kansas City, have some barbecue. Yeah, yeah, definitely barbecue videos of us eating barbecue. There's no definitely no videos. I don't see you in barbecue. Yeah. No, it is really good.

It is very good. So that was the thought there that was like oh the cost. And it's like it's everything was. Yeah, everything had a price on it. I'm not saying anything. It articulately was over price your computer for first of all I would think so because that would give you a long term benefit. And then you create the content and make enough money, and then you can afford to go to the next one next year. That's the way to think about it. Yeah. Cause, you know, for this year.

Well, from Dallas, Kansas City was eight hours. And I'm 2.5 hours south. It's like a ten hour drive to Kansas City from here. Not too bad. I did basically two days, and it would have been one day when I was young. At this stage in my life, it's basically two days. Well, you've got to be able to hop on the train, right? Isn't there a, There is a train. I've never taken the train here, but there technically is a train station here. I'm assuming you got one that goes through Kansas City.

I could be wrong. Say no. We have one that should come. That says it does. It goes. It goes through Kansas City. So from here, it's a direct shot. And the old Amtrak's up to Kansas City. It's the old beef lines, you know. And that's in city Chicago. Yeah. You got to get them to the stockyard so we can slaughter them some little bit to make way for it. So it's from here to Fort Worth, and then Fort Worth is where the stockyards were or the, the cattle yards, not the stockyards.

Well, I guess Chicago was the stockyards. Yeah, well, I think they got the stockyards and in there, down there as well. But it was it was the place that they brought the beef once a year when the beef grew the basically the beef. Exactly. Roll in. Rolling, rolling. Keep them doggies rolling. Rawhide. Yeah. Something like that. That's a great show. Rawhide. If you've never seen Rawhide, great series from back to good shape. Yeah, yeah it was well it was a lot of good series back then.

You know I know like these days I know now everything is shit. Even the Lego show is shit. The old shit. Back, back when I was a kid. Everything is good now, dog shit gone. The world gone to shit. And they're getting rid of Will Arnett. After this season, I'm bringing a black guy in to do the hosting. I guess it was just too white of a show, because the two Lego judges are white was probably like, oh, too many white. He's no way he's loud. That's that's the thing. Now they got to be diverse.

The only way to be, I believe, the only way to be on ABC diverse or Fox or whatever it is, it's all the same. All the same for sentence box bc yes, it's all the same. You put a leather in, you get the socks and bc the same the crap comes out the other side and stuff like yeah, I'm like the mighty no agenda stream where it is all totally different. So I don't know about you, but I'm I'm plum out of things to say. No, that can't be. I'm plum out.

Is this why my groceries coming in about half an hour is. That's why surging speech went away. You ran out of things to say. This is all I saw. A lot. Okay, here, I'm going to give you one genius idea, though. Like before. Get. We take all of these episodes of surging speech online and some and make them into YouTube videos. Yeah, that's a good idea. Actually, that is a damn good idea. Oh, I might do that.

I wondered if this is an I can do this fairly well, which would be take the content that you've released.

And like you said, condense it. I mean I can you know what else think would be good for that is what the 65 or so episodes of Surging Speaks is just to make a book think. I've thought about that as well. I'm like, can I put the 380 episodes, whatever it had, of random thoughts? More than one. But yeah, you could totally do that. Yeah, but all the transcription. Yeah. And be like, probably it would probably you got some overlap.

So probably be not quite 360 hours worth of reading in there, but you probably take all those shows and do like a book a month for several years. Yeah. Genius. Yeah. You know, it's amazing. We went for two hours and didn't mention around once. Yeah, I'm happy you.