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159: Lego After Dark

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Gemini 2.5 Pro says: “Alright, you wanna know what went down in this goddamn episode of Unrelenting? Buckle up, buttercup, ’cause Darren and Gene ripped through more sacred cows than a SEAL team on a rampage! We’re talking Bruce Springsteen’s unreleased crap, Elon Musk’s weather control, and the damn absurdity of Tesla taxis for rich …

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Wrinkly Mouths and Bruce Springsteen's Secret Albums

Like your mouth is becoming wrinkly. And. When? You. Pay! There's. Jean. He's awake. He's got his d aunt's rent. You got your hair. He got your T. You got your x, y, z. Master of war. Master of war. This is listening to some Bob Dylan. Master of war. Before I listen to the new seven albums of Bruce Springsteen that came out this week. Jesus Christ, as I decide if I want to purchase and vinyl or not, you don't.

Bruce's Prolific Unreleased Crap & Experimental Genres

I have for them everything else, because everything else he released on two box set. So I have those. And now this is just showing the prolific nature. Most people have a few songs, you know, and the that didn't get released. This guy had seven full albums. Jesus. So I guess this is what happens when you have enough money. It's like it would be us doing like 30 shows and going, yeah, they weren't really good enough. Let's not release those.

Well, that's literally what I was going to ask is like, you do realize and he considers these to be his worst crap. Yeah, that they weren't something that was releasable, which is because the more interesting thing is allegedly one is kind of a country album. One is kind of a, you know, delving more into hip hop. So there's things that he was trying. That maybe just weren't of the hip hop but definitely be worth it. It would be hilarious. I think you know how commercial lives get.

Chirac's Heatwave & Elon Musk's Weather Control

Yeah. Commercially viable. It may be. Yeah. I don't know man. It's a beautiful hot week here in Chirac, man. I was on the bike yesterday. And of course, the bikes on the upstairs at the house. And even with the AC cranking, it's like, this is just too hot. Oh, yeah. I mean, we have a heat index of, like, 107. I think it was yesterday. That's insanity that that's, that's an average day for 20 degrees higher than it is here. Yeah. Well, that's you get it.

You get it pretty bad there in the Austin area every now and then. Well, we generally get it over 100 by this time of year. But it's actually this is a weird year, man. It was raining way longer. Like a month longer than normal, which I, I like the rain because everything's green. Well, that's a rarity. Exactly. Usually everything's brown and then, now it's been, you know, under 100, the Donald Trump fix the weather. How did he do it? Well, somebody did it.

Elon the on this is all these rockets now so you know yeah he's got he's got the I know the I sure those were rockets exploding. No they were weather changing little micro particles Dylan was sending up into the atmosphere. Exactly. I hear all the conspiracy shows are hot. So if we start out with like, Elon Musk is changing the weather.

Tesla Taxis: Austin's Exclusive Ride & Tech Bro Dilemma

So I tempted to take, Elon's new taxi. Oh, right there in Austin. That's right. You've got the Elon Express, we got the, the Tesla taxi. And you weren't able you weren't cool enough to qualify. Yeah, that's exactly correct. That's like my preorder. And the Tesla truck is not sufficient enough to get me access to the taxi. No, you have to buy 3 or 4. So wait, you have to own a Tesla? Wait. You have to own one of the cars.

So another one of his cars will come pick you up while you leave the car that you own at home. Well you are is the best is fact Donald Trump met Elon Musk. He's got you by me. I think a Tesla finally just to be able to use a taxi. He's just so you buy the Tesla you never drive it. You put it in your garage. But this is the perfect city for it because this city is filled with Tesla garages that are never driven. This is the same thing.

You know, we've we've got Facebook, we've got Google, we've got Apple, we've got all these companies that have a ton of 20 something guys making 300 grand a year. They have no idea what to do with their money. They all are told to buy a Tesla. They all own Teslas every single one. They none of them drive. Well, this is why they movers. This is okay. This is the push for the self-driving cars. It's for all the guys who've never learned how to drive, who are afraid, like, oh no, I don't know.

That seems so. That seems so scary out there on the road. There we go. Just we'll drive for you. Yeah. Exactly. So this is a perfect deal for the, the, the this initial test that's rolled out had so many people interested sign up that they literally stopped sign ups before running out of Tesla owners. And it's a the Waymo is the one that runs it in LA. Yeah. We got tons of Waymo's here. Everyone bitched about them. Now they run in totally different systems, I guess.

Jaguar Dreams, Miami Vice, and John Hammer's Chops

And that's the argument, which is the Waymo's are allegedly safer than the Teslas. It's, just the Teslas, all with cameras. Well, this is what you're worried about. Nobody want. If it was a nice car, people might steal them. Although, I don't know, how could you be getting out of a vehicle? I would prefer it to be nice. No. The most used Jaguars. But they've figured out a way to make the Jaguars look. Get off.

You just want to look like your dad Johnson rolling up in your best Miami Vice looking vehicle. Well yeah they should have seen vehicles that would be even better. Yeah it's a it should play the theme from Miami. It should be like well it should be like Disney World which it's just a big box. But they have things. Remember you wrote the theme to Miami based John Hammer, John Hammer, John Hammer, John John Hammer. Yeah I got some chops man. Yeah. He did a lot of music back then. Yeah.

That's a couple of his albums. Well I know what the Miami Vice theme is longer than a minute or whatever it was on TV. It, it does ramble a bit though. I'll give him that. It's great, but it's set that tone. It does represent the 80s. Oh yeah. You were around in the 80s. You hear that theme? You're like, yeah, I was there.

Invisible Touch vs. Peter Gabriel: A Generational Battle

I was there, I watched it, stereo, TV being bored, man. All the best people on the show. I mean, Ted Nugent did an appearance. Phil Collins I mean, yeah, I remember Phil Collins on there. There were some very interesting guest spots on Miami Vice. Yeah. Hey, look at that guy, man. He got more pussy than us. So, I mean, I'm not going to complain, even though he's five foot three involved. The guy is like, yeah, I had a good life.

There's a reason why you getting more video that, they ever did was, the the Muppet one. Oh, the Land of Confusion thing. Yeah, yeah. And the confusion. Yeah. You remember that? Yeah. It was one hell of a song. Man. Is a great Muppet thing. I mean, everything is relative because you and I hit right at the age where it was invisible touch for Genesis was the album that was huge when we were in high school. Everybody else that's a little bit older, they're like, we don't like that.

We like the Peter Gabriel more artsy kind of a thing. They like Gabriel too. But the, the thing that's different I think about us in particular is that we, we've really got all of the Aries and a little bit of the 70s, whereas guys that were like five years older, they got all of the heat, all of the 70s, and they were already looking for work in the 80s.

Questionable 80s Fashion & Neon Sneaker Dreams

Yeah. And who wanted to do that? They were just coked up. Yeah. We got to enjoy all of the 80s. That's true. Some great television, some great music, some questionable fashions. Was it fashion's always questionable, dude. Yeah, I've been in a period in time where it hasn't been. Oh. What were they? The is cavalry jeans. Why do I remember that? I mean, it's I don't know, some of the colors were great. Oh, yeah. Well, feel like I've never been able to find sneakers in the colors

that I had back then. You wish you just had a bunch of. They'd be worth money. They're neon, man. Pure neon. You'd be taking them to the bank now. God yeah I just got some Brooks walking shoes man.

Brooks vs. Nike: The Ultimate Shoe Comfort Test

They are like walking on air. Fuck Nike fuck Reebok. These are the way to go. Yeah they are just there's like oh my like almost nothing. My niece's husband is an ad exec or Adidas. Oh. Well, that's that explains the 46 tracksuits in your closet and three shoes and tracksuits, baby. Feel like how many different colors you want?

Tracksuit Chic: Dinner Attire & Standing Out

You're like, oh, I mean, you get all of of. Yeah. We could mix and match. You mix and match the top. Oh, yeah. Well, I mean, obviously I'd been wearing the tracksuits for a long time, but, he thought it was hilarious. He actually took photos of me, when I went to a dinner thing in, I think I sent you one of the photos, in a tracksuit. Sort of. Nice dinner. Everybody else is wearing suits. Yeah, yeah, everyone's wearing like, suits, and I'm wearing, red tracksuit.

Well, hey, at least you stood out. You'd think that. But, the the theme of the restaurant was all red. Oh. Wondering what's at the idea.

Will Smith's Autograph Snub: A Baller Move

Just in case. Just in case a hit went down. You're like that to me. Nobody's to see me, man. Yeah. What's his face? There was an actor that was sitting next to us there. You know what's his face, man? I was like, the guy that was in, played a fat dude recently. The whale, William Fraser. Oh, nice. Yeah. So he was there. That was your brush with fame? He's not really famous. And he said, hey, dude, you got a red tracksuit? This guy? Yeah, exactly. He said, I wish I would read that.

This is hilarious. There's a little video I saw recently when these TikTok things that was breaking. Funny, funny, funny. And it was literally a couple seconds. The guy wearing a tracksuit, walking somewhere backstage where Will Smith is walking the other direction. And as they're passing each other, this guy drops a folded piece of paper. But, you know, not like making it look like it's not intentional. Right? Very like it fell out of his pocket or something. Right.

And then walks, then Will Smith notices it, then bends down, picks it up and calls out to the guy. Guy stops, turns around, and without any pause, walks back to Will Smith, takes his pen, and then writes a puts a signature on the piece of paper that Will Smith this whole length and turns around and keeps walking. Now that's some kid. One of my signature from my autograph. Apparently it's a baller move right there. Totally like completely not recognizing Wilson for that.

And then the expression on Will Smith face where he's looking like

Taking Your Pills & Real Housewives on a Plane

the guy looks at the paper, looks at the guy. Yeah. And then he's clearly doesn't know what to do. He's never been in this situation. Not only has he not been recognized, but he assumed that that he was supposed to know who this guy is, who he would want you to see, the YouTuber, it was like, what the fuck just happened? That's a great bit, but I could see where you could actually pull that off. Oh yeah, because I mostly don't know who people are.

I could sit on the airplane next, somebody have no clue who that person is unless it was Elon Musk. Is this attire enough? Well, no, I'm referring to. Oh, yeah. Yeah, it's that time. It's that. That time to take your pills. Take your supplements. Healthy. The B12, the. I did that before the show. I was referring to the the chick that I flew to Mexico with, but. Yeah. No, I was aware the the real house wife married a football player. I forget her name, too.

Before we got on, on the plane, there were people, mostly girls, like younger ones, walking up to her to get her autograph for whatever reason.

AI: The Internet's New Lie Detector (or Creator)

And the baller move is always, hey, should I know who you are? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I literally said that. That's very backhanded. The shit. I know who you are. And like, all these people, that you like, famous or something. It seem that the, the real line you should have dropped there was you look at her and you go, I know you're not a porn star. You never know these days I want this. These days it's all I am. It's all I all the time.

And if we mention I, we get way more boost from, that three letter dude. So, I mean, it's good. I was like, this was the first time this week because I got, over the, the tensor art side. They did all you really cheap. It's our two year anniversary, so I finally sprung. I told you that with the. Because they wouldn't take the credit card because it was a. Well, you can do the Laura training, which is a fairly simple, you basically take like you want to use high quality photos.

Otherwise that was my mistake.

Laura Training: High-Quality Photos and AI Image Creation

There was some mixture because I was like, well, do you want to put things that have other, angles in that? But even with less than optimal pictures and like no money, I mean this took maybe an hour or so and they put out a Laura. So any person that you have 1015 photos of somebody especially if they're, you know, a few different angles, you can create a thing that the AI will just create images of them over and over and over and over.

So you can't believe any fucking thing you see on the internet. Now.

The Internet: A Realm of Lies and Gaslighting

Nothing. Or you shouldn't have ever believed anything you see on the internet. That's what the internet's invented for is to lie, was to gaslight, to fuck your mind. People say, I like to awaken your mind. The fact that nothing is real. People say, I fucking like to swear a lot. I don't get it.

Swearing, Random Thoughts, and AI Experimentation

That's why you go to random thoughts. There's no swearing. If you want the swearing version, that's where you go. Except there was none this week because I was just bored. It was hot on Wednesday and I really didn't have anything to say, and I was playing around with all sorts of different, AI stuff that never got around.

Mac Studio vs. Bitcoin: The Refurbished Site Dilemma

Yeah. So are you any closer to buying a mac studio? We talked about that on my other show. They are good old boys and stuff. Okay. Two things. One, all of a sudden, all of the ones with the 128 gigs of Ram are not on the refurbished site. Which is okay because it kept me from buying anything.

Apple Card Shenanigans and Unsolicited Promotions

Now that bitcoin keeps going, the higher bitcoin goes up. But that's when I'm starting to think, let's trade some of this in. Oh yeah. The other thing is and I maybe will call today up, maybe ask you for the content aspect of this, the whole thing that I went through with Apple Card and Goldman Sachs, and I don't want one because I'm going to buy with the crypto. Right. Well, they sent me another fucking email. Oh, get $300 back if you get a card and spend $1,500, well, that's probably worth it.

And I know that they're going to tell me I'm not a new customer anymore because I've already had a card, even though I only had a card long enough to do it. Fuck you. It's only who they send it to, so it has to be attached.

Crypto Payments & The Itch for a New Machine

That's where they get you, man. It's like, fuck you. But I thought it would just be fun content to be like, well, if you know that my email address already had a fucking Apple Card, why are you sending me a fucking promotion to then tell me that I can't fucking get the promotion because I've already got an Apple Card. That's dumb. Oh, well, you know what? You should.

You should probably just still do it and try it out because, you know, once you get the card, just call him up and say, hey, I'm out to make a $5,000 purchase. I just want to make sure that there's not some gotchas that give me the 300 bucks, right? And then cancel the card and cancel the card on the phone. Because here's what they might do is if you threaten to cancel it once it's open, that's a different department. They might do an override,

but try that the last time and they were not going to budge. No. Even though it was like one day late because the approval didn't go through, although I applied on the date where the promotion was good. I mean, it was fucking ridiculous.

The Bitcoin Boom & Linux Machines

Yeah. That's bullshit. In the more I think about it, I'm like, well, why do I really want to, you know, the 0%? It's harder to pay them if you, you know, turning crypto into gift cards to buy something easy, turning crypto into something that you can pay for a credit card bill. You gotta go through a different, yeah, a different step. And that adds a little more to the to the pain aspect of it, which I could see that.

I guess the good part about this is I'm starting to get the, the itch to get a another big fucking honking machine with a big Nvidia card and, and maybe just go is up. I mean, percent they're going us up about 20% today. Yeah. Because here's the thing. I don't have to run blindly. Not upside down. I think I'm above where I bought it at now. The beauty would be the Mac mini is fine for everything that I do. Normally for the AI stuff, I can have a Linux machine under the desk.

Qnap Woes and the 2.5 Gig Internet

That's true, that is true. And then never even downstairs. True, true. I had to deal with today when we were having VNC into it. We were having breakfast at 8 a.m. and I hear dee dee Dee in the basement. I'm like, what the fuck? One of the the cue nap attachments. Oh, became the oh no, it's blah blah blah, whatever.

Qnap Firmware Update and External Enclosure Troubles

It disconnected. And then they tried to rebuild it. And I think what the problem was, cuz it's been up for like 145 days. Which isn't bad for a mouse. And yeah, when I wanted to play around with the 2.5 gig internet we talked about that. So that's how far back that goes with the dongle. I got a little cheap USB three hub with three ports. One of those is the dongle and the other was this, external enclosure that had a problem.

So I'm guessing the dongle is the issue because it's not plugged directly into the Q nap. So once the Q nap, there was a firmware update. So once I updated that and then unplugged the USB cord and plugged it back in for the external link enclosure, then it all pop back up and is working.

Hard Drive Upgrades and Data Hoarding

So nothing actually died. Which is good. That's good because it was the newer one which has four eight gig eight terabyte drives rather. Yeah, the other two have four terabyte drives. I'm like, okay, I should probably start buying bigger drives for all of them and upgrading them and updating them that way. The only one like that, I'm right, everybody else is moving to solid state. I know, but I have so much fucking data, man. That's all you don't need.

Yeah, well, yeah, but it's music that I've collected. Dude, you don't have 32TB of music. No. Well, there's video too.

High-Res Audio vs. MP3: A Battle of Ears

I mean, there's it's mostly video. The music would be great, I guess. Just get another couple of backup. All I need is two Nazis. I've got a little over 100,000 songs that I actually bought with real money and didn't pirate. And I had over 3500 CDs that I bought and vinyl. Yeah. And they're all, a 120 gig stick. Let's kid, you go to MP3. What sucks balls, man, I go flac in high res, baby. Don't you go high res. I go mp3 because that's all you can hear.

Donation Shout-Outs & Poncho Dreams

No high res baby. My ears are better. My eyes suck up, my ears can hear. My ears the where it's at. Yeah. Since we have so few let me just mention that speedy bubble. Thank you for coming in before the show with one, 2345 SATs. That's real money. That's like over 12 bucks today. Right. And 12345. And he says like 14. But I would donate $50 if either a Ukrainian supermodel or better yet, bam, rose dressed as one would deliver a poncho. Now if you're in the Seattle area, we could make that happen.

If you're not, it would all depend on the who's listening right now though. So I mean maybe it depends.

Supermodels, Bimboes, and Love Connections

The members would have to dress as like a supermodel. Yeah. Supermodel I mean and well same thing. I didn't say, you didn't say female supermodel though. I mean, you said this to the boys. Maybe he just said yes. Yes, yes, but I have to assume that unless another donation comes in, right? Of at least that or a higher denomination to, otherwise it doesn't override. There's a very. Yeah, that's true. It's got to be higher.

But I think you're right because he just says Ukrainian supermodel or bimbos that the reason the supermodel wouldn't be a male anyway. So yeah, I think you're right. He swings outside and Pembro says, give me the 50 and we can talk. So maybe is into dressing like the Ukraine soup. Wow. We might have a, love connection happening there. Look at that. Might be Gene. I'll even throw in a free poncho to make that happen. That's how I feel. And I can put it up on the porn side. Hell, yeah.

We'd have to get video. I mean, that's the only reason to do it. Yeah, there's no reason to do it without the video. This is unrelenting. This is what you come here for.

PayPal Donations and the Unrelenting Show

That was it. That was the one boost. I don't think anything came in via PayPal. I'll look. Okay, but usually, that's kind of like. No, nothing. Nothing. We had one, McGuinty, payment sale the two days ago. That's usually what happens with. I don't want to be like, sorry, but I feel we have payment failed. Scott Gorman, of course. I'm sorry. Scott. He's know every show. $2.50. But that's it. Scott Gorman wants ten bucks a month and speedy bubble.

Yeah. Which is broken up in a perfect way, because every show you get your name mentioned. Until we get to the point, I guess there is a it's it's actually, inverse. What's the phrase?

Donation Strategy: More Money, Less Mentions

It's, it's the opposite of no agendas way of doing it because, there if you, if you donate too little, they just don't mention you. And if you don't need more, you get mentioned upfront. So we've got the inverse rate. It's like, hey, you want to get mentioned more, donate less, right. Just donate $2 like every 15 minutes.

Elon's Rockets and Testing Limits

We'll just keep saying until until we can't until we take off like a rocket ship. Like one of Elon's rockets. Except we'd be the ones like, right on the launch pad. That just low. Well, it was it was supposed to be. I mean, it's this is how they test, man. They over pressure, right?

Well, it's like a, race car driver when you go to a new track like they did in Mexico City a couple of weeks ago, part of the going out and practicing was to take the corners, see how fast you can go, and you don't really know what the limit is until you pass it.

Grumman's Exploding Missile Booster & Tesla Safety

Yeah. So there you go. Yeah. And then Grumman just did a test of their missile booster they watched which also blew up. It was not supposed to. Well that's that's a little less exciting for them. Well I think it's very exciting for them because now they have to figure out why something that wasn't supposed to actually blow up rocket boosters is some of the safest things out there until they explode. Yeah, just like Teslas.

I mean, they yes, but that's that's the thing is, they're, they're they're safer than other rocket motors historically, unless they explode. But you don't know they're going to explode until they, Well, I'm trying to say is they explode extremely rarely, but they they will occasionally and then blow up a spaceship little on their way.

Space Shuttle Explosions and Spending Balances

And you're like, well, there's only only two that could zap it in space. Shuttles get blown up. That's pretty good. Not if you were riding in one of them. Well, that would have sucked. It was just looking. And of course, now they're saying that based on all the forensic evidence of debris appears that every one of them would have survived the explosion and then died when it hit the water. Oh, that would be the worst.

Just looking at why am I spending balances down on the, Why you what's down my spending balance on my lightning node. The, the channel to the pod. He he's down. Is there something going on in the pod? Father's channel is down. He must be maxed out.

Lightning Node Channels and Crypto Troubles

Everybody else is up. That one's down. I'm sure it'll come back. Otherwise you just close the channels and you move on him. And then the, the don't close if you're using the service that you see. Right. Which I was scared about that from the one I it is close a channel and it just worked. So I was happy about that because you're always wondering like is it just going to die.

Yeah. Well, and I thought the whole beauty of the Lightning Network is a timeout so that when you do a force close, it gives it the other side like 48 hours to confirm. And if there's no confirmation, then it just gives you your money back. Right. Except my channel stayed open for two months because you wanted to keep reopening channels.

Force-Closing Channels and Lost Sats

That was your choice. You said it initially, right? That the reason that, I called them up and bitched about this was I had channels that I force closed that never force closed. So their solution was, oh, well, you need to turn this switch on and then reboot. I followed the instructions. I followed their instructions, which did closed the channel, which the great is momentarily. I saw my money back in the account and literally seconds later it opened up. Like for new channels. Yeah, that was.

Which probably would have been fine had I intended to keep using the service. Right. You had not, though, because what they did is they added, like since I first signed up, they apparently had added this feature because people were confused about, well, how do I open channels? What do I do that I don't open channels? And it was a, a feature that was by default after this update and, you know, it just didn't exist before for me. And so it started opening channels.

So I started forced closing channels, and it was reopened brand new immediately whac-a-mole. And somehow in that process, 100,000 SATs or was even more might have been more. But whatever it was, it was I think it was somewhere around 200 bucks. Just got lost without it, but went somewhere. Somebody got it, just not me. And at the end of the over a million sets that I got, so donations coming in for surgery and speaks predominantly, of that million SATs, I think I transferred like 150,000 to you.

Work Slow & Trump's Big, Beautiful Bill

And the rest was spent either lost or spent on paying for the service. That's not it's a good way to turn a million into 100,000. Right. And then I stole that. So, I mean, don't worry. Very. And run on that. You know, I know this way. I don't have to think about it. You just came in with $3.93 via PayPal and said, work slow right now, but wanted to send something. Well thank you. And hopefully work picks up for everybody. Yeah. Hopefully. I mean the economy seems to be pumping.

We've gotten rid of that I ran problem that we didn't talk about on the last show. Yeah. Which wasn't really a problem for us. But yeah the Supreme Court is just checking off all of Donald Trump's wish list overall.

Trump's Bill: Dead or Alive?

Except that, as of yesterday, at least, it appears that Trump's big, beautiful bill is dead. But it's big and it's beautiful. That's a bill. Yeah. And the the the Senate parliamentarian, which is the person responsible for checking against the rules of the body, does that. The Senate is not allowed to vote on that, given the expenditures in the bill, because all of a sudden they're worried about spending money? No, they're just worried about rules.

And the rules would be that a bill like this one requires a, a two thirds majority, not a simple majority. And they certainly don't have two thirds of the votes of the Senate. They barely have 50% of the Senate with JD Vance. But we need the big, beautiful bill now. Looks like it ain't happening.

AI's Take on Trump's Legislation

Let us ask the AI what is happening with the big beautiful Bill. How do you think it's going though? You don't think it? Well, it knows everything. See if like, this could put it into context. If it knows what you're talking about. It's doing some research. Trump's one big, beautiful bill is currently making its way through Congress and appears likely to pass, despite facing significant criticisms and controversy. Current status.

Well, let's see here MAGA agenda push through being using reconciliation procedures which would prevent Senate filibusters and restrict amendments during a white House event on Thursday, Trump appeared confident about the prospects of time speaking there. It's already been approved, calling it one of the most significant pieces of legislation in our nation's history. The legislation is a paradox in American politics.

While it may be unloved and a mess, it will likely still pass due to how power operates in the current political system. Republicans are using this as an opportunity to solidify Trump's legacy. Guess we'll find that out. Yeah I mean obviously they're going to come to some kind of a compromise on this thing. But.

Well it seems like what this is, is Donald Trump rolling the dice that if he gets this passed, it will have a short term effect of making everything better where the Republicans will then garner, I'm guessing, more seats in the midterm, which will allow them to continue pushing through more and more things.

Budgeting, Midterms, and Socialist Surges

I think this is a temporary thing, so I'm not that worried because when it comes to budgeting stuff, you could make a new budget pretty much any time you want to. So what's in here. It does not necessarily get written in stone but the Republicans really need to get it passed because the Democrats are faltering to an extent right now, including what's going on in New York where they're like, yo, no, no, give us the openly socialist guy.

Ranked Choice Voting: Advantages and Confusion

That's good. Yeah yeah yeah yeah. Like, what about the usually the socialist Muslim dude there? They use ranked choice voting for the primary. Does that mean they use the ranked choice voting also for the main election come I might, because if they do, I'm not opposed to ranked choice voting, frankly. But what does that give the Republican a big advantage? Because in New York it looks like right now there's going to be three Democrats fighting each other, right?

Come November. And one Republican. Using the ranked choice voting, wouldn't that possibly give the Republicans an advantage or would it just be because, you know the Democrats are going to vote between those three. Now what happens if the Republican gets the most the highest percentage of votes because you don't necessarily win them because you need a majority. So then they see how many people put him in second. I mean, I'm still confused. I don't explain this whole thing.

When it first came out, and the grumpy old thinks Alaska uses ranked choice voting too. And it's very confusing to figure out, like, well, who's putting this to, you know, who's getting the advantage using that type of system, especially in a case where it seems like people are really is happy about that.

Libertarian Strategies in Ranked Choice Voting

Are minority parties, right. Which would be the Republicans in this case. Well, okay. Well yeah. Yeah. But libertarians generally were happy with ranked choice voting when it was used because it allows people to essentially rank the guy that agrees with their, you know, their what would you call their, views? Well, not just view, but like their ideals. Right. So you could put the the guy that you in an ideal world, this would be the person I would like to have in that office first.

Right. Like a libertarian guy. And then put the guy you think is most likely to win, that's doing a good and do the least harm. Second, so what you know is the Republican votes that will come in. In New York, only 22% of Democrats voted in the primary as well, because it was a sweltering hundred degrees. Yeah, but the Republican voters are going to put their guy number one in, most likely the Socialist number four after Adam. So there's there's two two ways to think about it. Right.

It depends on what you think the other side's going to do.

Splitting Votes and Interesting Elections

Because one of the strategies isn't to put the least offensive guy second, but to put the most offensive guy second, meaning you've got let's say you have an actual socialist communist, you've got a Democrat, you've got a Republican and you got a libertarian. So one of the strategies for the libertarian first, the communist second, and then, you know, whatever order for the other two people, because you're assuming the commie is not going to get enough votes to really run. Yeah, exactly.

Which kind of separates, because what you want to do is you want to prop up your, your ideal vote, your number one position, and then, average or minimize all the other three.

So if, if you vote for the Republican or let's say you vote for the libertarian as your top slot, knowing that he's not going to get enough votes ultimately, because there's just not enough people that are going to put libertarian in, but you may still end up getting him to win if you can manage to split the votes of the other three candidates by propping up votes that the other side is going to not want to have in there, because they don't think that person can win.

So it creates for some much more interesting, late runners in the elections. And I that's why I say I'm not against the system at all. I don't think it's necessarily a better system, but it it sure as hell provides for a more interesting elections. And I believe that's what used in Germany.

Ranked Choice Voting: Global Adoption and Political Impact

It's used in Israel was used in a bunch of countries. Well, it keeps people tuned in to the news. Well, like that. Well, yeah, the news would should like that for sure. The parties, the major two parties really dislike this approach. Well, yeah, because they know the fractures in their power. Exactly, exactly. They just want you to have an A or B, and they want to know exactly who's going to vote for what based on past voting records.

Let's see here Alaska does use it for state congressional and presidential main. Hawaii is it for special elections okay. 47 cities use it. New York City. Oh yeah yeah yeah obviously Portland Oregon of course. Yeah I think California or at least San Francisco does Australia is used it called preferential voting for a century to elect state and federal representatives.

Australian Politicians and Lego Masters

And look how horrible their politicians are. I don't we don't hear much about the Australian politicians. I mean, I know they locked everybody up during Covid. Oh yeah. Yeah, but they have the best Lego Masters show. The Australian version by far the best Lego Masters show is. Are you going to watch any of them you can skip pretty much in the United States, especially since they're getting rid of a will.

Lego Masters: Diversity and Controversy

Our net next year and going with it with some, black dude. Yeah. Who has nothing to do with Lego. What's, what's his name? He was married society, right? Oh, must be why I have to be more diverse. And this year's contestants, this season's contestants on the American Lego Masters are like an LGBTQ list of. It's like you have no, it's fine, but I understand people may go. Yeah, I'll just go watch the Australian one.

Well, the Australian parliament, like the UK one does, occasionally get into a little fisticuffs. Well, that could be fun. And I do not bill Lego just to be clear to those in Control room one because my ex's wife is into that. She does she like they keeps her busy. Just sit there and spend hours putting the Legos together.

Lego Instructions and Glorified Models

For me and maybe as a kid, you know, I had some Lego sets, but now the trying to look at the instructions and with directions. Yeah, that's the whole point of Lego, right? Anything you want, right? I know, not anymore. I've had this argument with my wife multiple times with, you know, back in the day, you just had your big bucket of Legos.

Lego: From Creative Play to Model Building

Yeah. And you would make your whatever, whether it was a car, whether it was a little house, whether whatever it was, you were building all this stuff out of the same pieces. Yeah. Now these are glorified models. They're basically three dimensional, junk jigsaws. Right. What they really are, they're not really a puzzle because they give you the instructions on how to build it, but they could be a puzzle if you didn't use the direction. Sure. You lose the instructions.

Well, they're online, so it's great. You'll never lose them. And I will give people credit. Now here's a fun way to make money and I want we've tsb. Are you out there, buddy? I want to figure out a way. I don't think anybody's done this yet because you. There are, sites, including one that is owned by Lego called Brick Link or something like that, where you can sell instructions of your own.

AI-Generated Lego Instructions: A Money-Making Scheme

In, most people will try to build things out of an existing set. So you go buy a, you know, the Disney Cinderella Castle set. And figure out what you can build with that. Then you sell. That's the key word. Sell the directions. If people want to build that mom easy right now there should be an AI that's doing nothing but figuring out what you can build more out of those pieces and making you money by being able to sell those instructions.

Duplo for Toddlers and the Pain of Lego Building

Yes, I do understand why you would. I mean, I guess it's for women or something, because who else would build something using instructions? I don't know, in Brooklyn said I need Duplo, which are like the Legos, but like five times bigger for toddlers. I'm like that. That would be better for me. It's easier to find the pieces, but I can't, I really can't. Yeah. I've try.

I mean, I built one of the little sets that came free with one of them while she was building the other one, and it's like, it's just such a pain trying to look at and and see the pieces and see the direct, you know, you can't do it by feel. It's very hard to do.

Lego's New Plant & Copyright Issues

And they all have Braille on them. Dude, they should be like that for the instructions. Where does it go? And they I'll just say Lego Lego making lots of money. They're building a plant though here in the United States. They're building a plant. They're Swedish company. They are from Denmark. Well, Denmark and Billund, they're from, but they are building, I think it's on the East coast somewhere. Virginia. Same company used to build the German submarines. Right.

But it was hard, though, because the water kept getting them, because the pieces don't really aren't watertight. You get for a little things. It was like 100,000 square foot warehouse in another blob manufacturing plant that they're building here in the United States. So they obviously saw the tariff thing coming where they're like, we don't want to spend it.

Lego's Business Strategy and the Disney Experience

It's way easier to spend a few billion dollars making stuff here. It's easier to make should the cost less than a penny and sell it for hundreds of dollars. Yeah, yeah. That way we don't have to pay those tariffs on it. But that'll be interesting to see when that opens up. But, yeah, I don't play the Lego, but it keeps the wife busy, so it's great. Yeah it's good.

But then I come on CSB you put in the you know, you should just be able to take the existing instructions too because that shows you all the pieces. Just scan those in and then build new things. I always thought this is how Lego should get by any of the problems with copyright or trademark, like, oh, you want to build a classic baseball stadium? We'll just have somebody, a third party, sell the instructions and have a link to all the pieces at Lego. Like, well, here's what you need.

Yeah. They should like is there's nothing there's nothing in the. I remember the Lego piece a couple of years ago when, we had, company outing in, Florida in Disneyland, but that was ruled out somebody. But it was ruled out somebody. Rude. Out. Yeah. You're rude to out somebody. You said you had a company outing like you took somebody. Oh. Oh, you're making a joke out of them. I'm sorry. You gotta understand the concept behind the show. Yeah, at least I don't fall asleep.

Yeah, during the show, you know. Great. That's great. That's a good old boys do good old boys.

Good Old Boys and the Disney World Lego Store

Where sometimes one good old boy just needs a little work. Sleep in the middle of the show. Yeah, I know it happens all the time. You should check it out. Anyway, apparently there's a Lego store at Disney World. Yes, there is. And and so we we got together, grab dinner out there, and then we were walking back to the cars, and we passed this Lego store. And like, everybody under 40 couldn't not going there. We have downtown. Well that's downtown Disney.

It was the big like, dragon out front or something. Yeah. There's some kind of thing in there. And, and the other dude that was over 40 and I standing outside were like, yeah, we'll just wait for you here. You didn't want to look for some millennium chicks.

Lego After Dark and Miami Vice Nostalgia

Not there. No. Like, hey, baby, I'll buy you some Lego. It was late at night, too. Is like 9 p.m.. Well, that's the best time to read. Chicks at the liquor store. The lights go down. Yeah, it was crazy. Lego after dark down. Oh, yeah, I didn't I didn't get the whole thing, but I, I think yeah, I think I played with Legos when I was a little kid, but maybe up till about ten years old or so. Yeah. And then you found that Miami Vice. Exactly. So damn straight.

There was no there were no Miami Vice Legos. Oh, no, that's true, because it's probably, again, a trademark issue, a little, a little Don Johnson and dressed in the white linen, a little a little white Ferrari, Lego, a little, little pet alligator. They do have the elegant.

Pet Alligators and Unconventional Companions

Isn't that one of them perfect? Do they? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Little pet alligator on the boat would have been perfect. That's right. Yeah. They really should have picked a different pet for him. I mean, the fact that that was the most horrible system on a boat does not allow you to have a pet alligator. It's just that simple. No, you would think he'd be able to just get out of the room. There's nothing wrong with having a pet alligator.

I've seen guys swimming with them in their swimming pool all the time. Yeah, we call a variety what we call them. Right? Exactly. Oh, no, no, no, they're pets differently. They. In fact, there's. Do they watch that? Has a, I guess it's a nature preserve or something. You would call it a place with animals. Sure. And it's one of the things they offer is swimming with, alligators. Man, I could imagine the paperwork you have to sign before doing that, and you get in there.

Reptile Pets and Relationship Legacies

This, you know, alligator kind of swim by, and you, you basically, you wait until he comes to you before you pet him. You don't reach out, but he's super friendly until he's not. You know, they say that. But the thing is, you know, reptiles. And I've had reptiles for probably 25 years as pets. And how long have you been, weightless? 15. Wow. Okay, so the wife put up. Wife was the one that got me into this. I had no reptiles until then. Interesting. And then you bought into it.

You were like, man, I'm. That's what I'm taking from this relationship into it. She didn't want them when we got divorced. You're like what am I going to do with them. You didn't flush them down the toilet. I mean somebody else. I'm not going to get rid of them. They're pets like that. Mere sitting it.

The Unclaimed Mirror and 90s Movie Tropes

They lived over the years go outlive you. Yeah. Hell, yeah. They're going to be in that house for a few years before anybody realized they inherited. Yeah, that's the way it's set up as the mirror in the front door. Is that still there in the box? The big mirror nobody has come for mirror still in the box. Yes. This is the longest do with it running. You can't destroy it. It's bad luck. And you still haven't looked at it to know if it's actually a mirror.

Or somebody sent a Picasso in just to make it look like a, in a mirror. What do you think this is, a Hollywood movie from the 90s? Yes, yes. Yeah. That is been sitting with a Picasso rack for you in a box for 20 years. No idea. Thinks it's a mirror that he doesn't want. Yeah. Oh just. Yep yep yep. Sounds like one of those, made for TV movies. And like castaway. Oh with Tom Hanks. That wasn't a bad movie. You remember that that he saved one box and then delivered it. And then the movie

Castaway's Twist Ending and Relationship Timelines

like there was you know important to him as a Fedex guy to not open every single box that showed up on the other shore. Yeah. Yeah. And of course what it had was like I can't remember. It was either like a satellite phone or, like a something that basically could have gotten him off the island. It's all those nice little twist that make his story memorable. Well. And it seemed like very, You okay? Him? I think I drank my iced tea in the wrong hole here in my throat.

It seemed like the chick that received the package was flirting for him at the very end of the movie, so maybe it everything worked out in the end. Could be because remember the his actual girlfriend, like, moved on within a year when he thought he was dead, so. But really, how long would you wait if he thought your wife was your girlfriend was lost at sea or something like that? I mean, would you really wait longer than a year before you like, yeah. Life happens. I mean, it kind of depends.

Funeral Dates and Zombie Apocalypse Concerns

It's, I think, I guess if you consider that person to be replaceable easily, then. Yeah. You don't have to wait long. Things like three weeks into it. If it's just a physical relationship, you don't have to wait more than one day. I mean, I've joked with my wife on multiple occasions, like, so it's okay if I bring a date to your, funeral. I mean, there's that. Yeah, it's a twosome now, that's about right. It's okay. I mean, you're not coming back.

Yeah. I mean, what do you want me to wait around for? Hopefully. Right? Right. Yeah. If you do come back, then that's all the zombie movies these days. You got a real problem then, Real problem. If they come back. Hey, did did see Brooklyn send more money? I did, it looks like, I got an email. From. What? Me? Look at this other page. Oh, yeah. Well, you know, I should have really shut off the, the audio warning, which you didn't hear, but I got very loud in my ears.

John. See the vortex saying donuts are tasty?

Donation Acknowledgments and Podcasting Milestones

Oh, nice. That was Seabrook that he sent 5000. That wasn't speedy bubble. So yeah okay. But thank you C Brooklyn. For supporting the most unreal renting show on the internet. When you think about shows unrelenting. We are a podcast. This is show what 181 5122 159 that's what I meant. Yeah. No agenda. Just had 1776. I'm like, oh my God. There's a lot of shows, like there's a lot of shows. So congrats to them for being very patriotic.

They do two shows a year, so it's really not that much two shows a week. Yeah, that's what I meant for three year, two weeks per show per year. A lot of people don't know half the shows are. I know they just have.

AI's Capabilities and Watermarking Debates

And I put the show together. Does their voice even sure it's half. It's all of them. That said, never they they've stopped doing shows years ago and it's hilarious that they set the eye up to trash I and say how it can't do all the things it's doing. The first thing you would do if you're using it, I of course true. You want to push everybody in the other direction. I'm like, you don't know what I can do.

No, the gig can't tell you who wrote with an eye while you said they're going to start doing the implanting the watermarks, but that's only if you're using it off the shelf and planting watermarks for years. Now, if you're using an off the shelf one for something like, you know, the chat GPT, then.

Scaramanga's AI Videos and Interview Aspirations

Yeah. And up Scaramanga I just responded to the school girl holding up the sign with unrelenting with a whole video of another one. The guy does some great videos, man. He does great videos. I agree, I, I want to actually interview them and I don't know if we want to do that together. Maybe I'll do one more episode on 13 speakers or something, but I'd love to have them kind of go through the processes, because most people use AI for really just like 10s stupid shit that has no story.

AI's Creative Potential and Bond Villain Women

Like, oh, check this out. I just made this, you know, whereas what he's been doing is making some very beautiful retro looking videos. Yeah. And combining a whole bunch of clips that kind of are shots in a, their scenes in a story, you know, in the film. Well, he likes James Bond obviously out there. And all of these look like bond villain women who come from that time period.

This one, I mean, I guess the I got it a little wrong because she appears to be eating the napkins that, oh, she's caring, but, otherwise she's walking in a very fetching manner. But these eyes that you can roll on your own. Yeah. Way less chance that you're going to have watermarks or anything like that because it's all open source.

Mind-Blowing AI Capabilities and Mac Machines

Yeah. And the stuff that they can do at this point is already mindblowing as far as I get. You know, as far as like, hey, swapping faces automatically as far as adhering to prompts, as far as creating a world that most people, unless you really sat there and studied the image, wouldn't find massive flaws with it to take you out of the it looks realistic, kind of a vibe.

And of course, that's why even with the most top end of the Apple machines again, they don't really hit it out of the park with the image generation quite yet. Yeah, I think that's the fun. I told Scaramanga we should do a podcast just on AI because obviously he knows the video and, you know, kind of put it all together.

AI Production Company and NVIDIA Graphics Cards

It's like having I help you write a little screenplay, put it together in the video, use 11 labs to do the voices. Be a lot of fun. It's where the whole over the entertainment industry is going. Yeah, yeah. Now let's do it. Dude, that'd be up for that. Like, let's create these things, put them out there. We can have a whole production company. Well, I don't know about that. Scaramanga and I are the brains behind it. And you are the, the bankroll.

I mean, you will start out with 250,000, I think, in expenses. And Wesker. Amanda needs more than you need for expenses. He's still trying to get somebody else to pay for your next Mac. Yeah. Oh, I want the, the I. What I want is now, one of the self-built, I'm guessing where you can put in a couple of those top of the line AI Nvidia cards, maybe two, three, four of them together. Yeah. And I think those cards are, what, about eight grand?

Yeah. You grand PC. Yeah. So if you could do to four of those, that would be like 32 grand on that. You know, the model I mean probably think 40 or 50,000 for the computer. Yeah. But you know, I mean, we will be rendering things quicker than you can online. Yeah. It's where you just imagine the amount is great. Imagine the amount of content that you could produce for YouTube that you could put out there and just rake in the money.

AI for Podcasts: From Audio to Video

Well, and I'm still I still am looking for and I've had, you know, one of my clients is a big AI guy, just does a ton of stuff with AI, and that's telling him, you know, I'd love to find a solution where online, it'll just take our podcast. And by listening to the podcast, it'll transcribe it. It'll create imagery on screen that matches what we're talking about. And effectively transform an audio into a video. Yes. And do it for cheap.

Well, I don't even care if it does it for cheap if it is you. I mean, at this point I would expect to pay something to get decent quality. I'm eventually I'm guessing it would get to, but I think I don't think it needs to cost a whole lot because, all you need is clips.

Visualizing Podcasts: The Dream AI Tool

It's not like you need, like, if you want to make a full movie that have the same looking characters, that's a lot more work. All we need is something that shows something on the screen related to the topic we're talking about. So if we're talking about AI, it should show generic AI imagery.

If we're talking about, congressional, you know, bills, just some generic vague views of congresspeople, you know, just something that visually isn't completely separate because we can also put out a video of a podcast like the one we're doing with just, you know, me playing a video game in the background, you know, any random video, we could just put Skyrim on the cheesecake going in the background?

Well, no, because then people aren't paying attention to do we care if they're watching, if they're paying what we do, if they want to send money? Yeah, but no, but this isn't about men donating. This is about YouTube views. Yeah. That's true. Yeah, it's getting views. So something that would automatically put together a video based on audio, I think would be a very useful tool that a ton of podcasters would immediately start using.

AI Video Tools: Jojo Gay and Avatars

According to perplexity. Yes. Several AI tools exist that could automatically add video tracks to audio only podcasts. I've tried one of them and it it did a pretty piss poor job. I mean, it did technically work, but it had large sections where there was nothing. There was one called they're recommending Jojo Gay. I'm not seeing that one. Okay. It appears to be one of the most advanced options currently available.

It can take your podcast audio automatically, create a complex video podcast with animated avatars and customizable scenes. It handles everything from processing your audio dialog to syncing it with visuals requiring no manual editing or timing adjustments. It can even re perform speaker diarization separating different speakers automatically. Yeah, well, that's not that hard. It's jogged AI. Let's see. Everybody at home following along.

Just open it up in your browser and see if it's a real thing or if the AI made it up. Transform your ideas into stunning AI avatar videos. Perfect for social media video ads and more. Yeah. Well I don't think you understand how long we want to Yeah.

Jojog.ai: Avatar Videos and Flash Sales

When they think of video they're thinking of one minute and the intro, it looks like it's 50 bucks a month for the pro plan. And I don't know if it's doing anything more than creating the avatars which I guess is kind of okay as well if we just have two avatars like not a great app. That's boring. Well, it may be boring, but it's what 95% of podcasts are right now. It's boring, but this doesn't look like it necessarily adds, anything beyond the avatars.

Although I could be wrong, they have a flash sale going on right now. Isn't it amazing how many of these actually go to missing? How you just get so lucky to hit a flash sale just when you're looking to buy something?

Unlimited Video Creation and Podcast Segmentation

Yeah, unlimited video creation for $36 a month. Generate up to 480 motions. Whatever that means. Could be used for video shorts, avatar. Image to video, text to video. Ten custom video avatars videos up to 15 minutes. Dream. Which is okay, I guess. Ooh. I mean, it's funny that they give you unlimited video, so you just have to break your podcast up into 15 minute segments and then, yeah, just edit them all together. You can create video in batches, which makes it way easier.

So yeah, I don't know. It would be I would be intrigued even at that for the unlimited video creation. Check it out. So I know we'll see. And how that, Let's oh, wait, that's per year. So per month. Oh, it's $69 for a month.

The Cost of AI Video and Custom Plans

That's how they get you. Oh, yeah. So everybody better donate. Donate big. But the reality is it would probably make you more than that in YouTube advertisements in the match duration per video for any of their plans. Looks like it's 15 until you go to a custom plan. So there's nothing that's longer than that. Yeah. And it's just, you know, custom avatar audio to video, which, I mean, it's this takes you part of the way there. I think there's like one more service that's needed.

Okay. So we have an avatar of you, an avatar of me for the other part of the screen.

Dory AI: Photos, Videos, and Background Music

While those two are minimized and you want something else that's like, yeah, I don't think I don't see anything in here that it can create. Well, there's a thing called Chop Test, which creates videos based on that podcast. But again, it's just it creates two talking heads. It's it's basically going to be people who are not us on screen talking with our voice. I don't think that's useful.

What I'm referring to is something that creates videos using the topics of our conversation as the, the feed for what's in the video. And then, of course, the Dory AI is a dory ai.com, or a dory that, hey, you can buy you can transform text into engaging video, create stunning videos. In this I am seeing maps and other things, so this may be closer to what we're looking for in Dory ai.com. When video matters, they choose a dory. Sure they do all your video needs in one place.

Lifelike voiceovers, perfect timing with audio captions. Media asset library get access to 100 million high quality photos, videos, background music and more.

Dory AI Pricing and Video Limitations

We'll see. That kind of makes sense. If they have 100 million photos, we start saying something like, hey, the Colosseum in Rome, and then boom, motherfucker, there's the Coliseum in Rome right there on the screen. Yeah, that's what we need. That is what we need. What's their pricing? Let's see if there's a flash sale. Oh, no. Sorry. There. Premium content is 45 a month. You save 20% if you go yearly. 40 video downloads. Okay, wait.

20 video creations a month, 40 video downloads, maximum five minute video. Oh, that's no good. That is no good for the $199 plan. You get a maximum ten minute video and 60 video creations. Shop cast that does the, podcast videos that.

Manual Editing vs. AI Automation for Podcasts

Well, that's only 997 the month I was that. Oh, man, we're going to need a few more donations before we can do that. Do two clips of a week for that. You know, I think it's probably easier just to do this shit manually, which is pick like a different image for every ten minutes of the show. You know what? To be fair, I bet you we could use Perplexity or ChatGPT. Give it our transcript. Yeah, well, that's what I was going to match the videos and do it, man. Exactly, exactly.

Because the, we have basically from the transcript, you have chapters anyway, right? The chapter is a change in topic. Correct. So all you got to do is just take the list of topics and you know, the duration of each chapter

Sentence-by-Sentence Video Creation and Trademark Concerns

and say, create a video this long on this topic. Now that's, that's that's sort of the barebones version. The more interesting version would be to do it sentence by sentence. The where literally within that chapter topic, whatever we're discussing, it actually creates. That would be a lot of editing, but that's why you would want to do it manually. You don't do it with AI, right?

I mean, can you imagine just going like Adriana Lima, Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson, and then boom, boom, boom, boom, boom? They're all just pop it up when you say it. Yeah, except the ones that are trademarked them, copyrighted everybody's trademark for it's fair use because we're discussing them and we are critiquing their style. Everything's fair use when it's fair use, you know, they're they're more lawsuits happening right now on fair use, or against fair use than ever.

Music Production with AI: Sonos and Stems

We have the music, baby. You're a big player in the Sono market. I hear you can now stretch these things. You can make different sections. You could redo certain sections. I want to play around with it. What's your best song? What have you come out with? Where can we hear it. Was it online. Is this up to YouTube.

Releasing AI Albums and Creating New Artists

Because this I would think could be a way to make money on YouTube as well. My, my goal was always just to start releasing albums. So I haven't really, I put a couple of them on you know, it's just a kind of demo, but I've not released a four album. We need to create a new artist. We can have Scaramanga do the photos. Yeah, there you go. Do a little promo video. Well, they are all sung by a female, so. Well, of course that's the way to go. Yeah. Yep. Much more soothing.

Like sitting around listening that Sheryl Crow doesn't make you want to blow your fucking brains out. I might, but, hey, if people listen, that's the main thing.

AI Music: Separating Stems and Organic Touches

That is the main thing. And the fact that I saw the other thing with sudo. Have you played with the fact that they will give you the individual instrumentation? It sounds like, so you can separate the stems. So does that mean you get drums on one track? You can get vocal. You could really do some professional tweaking. Yeah. And something turning it into a real multi-track, editing suite. Yeah. Well then you can extract it to something like, Logic Pro and even make it sound better.

Yeah, maybe add a little bit of organic for people like me who can strum an acoustic guitar. You be like, boom. You want to add some, like, acoustic guitar to your eye track those little things. I think we'll start fooling people more and more if there's actually a human touch in there, if there's a little bit more of an organic, not needed, but okay. Oh, but it is because perfection is the problem. Now. Perfection is not the problem. People expecting that, mediocrity is the problem.

Well, that's what they're getting now when you hear all this stuff.

Pop Music Lyrics and Songwriter Royalties

Yeah, I prefer perfection. Thank you. The people that are listening to pop music today are wondering what the fuck happened. Beato did a video the other day, and he's good. He's like, oh, I saw people, like, talking about the lyrics of a Sabrina Carpenter song. What did she mean by this? And he's like, you fucking idiots. All these songs are written by the same, like three people. They write them for Sabrina Carpenter, Taylor Swift, Beyonce going down the list.

And there was there's like a handful of songwriters that appear on most of these tracks, and a lot of people don't understand the, having your name as one of the songwriters on a hit. It will make you more money than being the singer. Which is why if you're writing a country song, you know, it's a very shitty system.

Songwriter Credits and Streaming Royalties

I mean, there's pop now that does a lot more of this, where if you if you might have a great song, Gene and I may have written the best pop song in the history of pop songs. Yeah. Taylor Swift could be like, wow, I love that song. I'll record it if you put my name on the songwriters list, because now that pie is going to be split three ways.

Or maybe you put my me and my whoever producer on this song, you know, songwriters and yeah, you're happy that the song is getting cut and you know, it's going to make a lot of money. But the artist whose name is on as a songwriter quite often didn't really do anything. That was a big part of the music back. Executive producer they didn't do anything with their names on it because there's more money being made. Every time you stream a song, the songwriters get money.

It's just like every time a song does it first and nobody gets it. I mean, we're talking like Spotify, and I don't think I've had an audience bigger than 300 people, which means the amount of royalties that have been lost so far, like $3.95 is that's like, oh, that's definitely not how much you'd have to pay for a license.

Spotify Royalties and New Artist Opportunities

No, but there's no audience. Now, if I was dreaming to a million people this year, then you might have an issue. But you hear these artists that are like, yep, I had, 500,000 plays on Spotify, and I got my check for $2. Yeah. Which, by the way, you can put music that you've done Encino up on Spotify, and we need to be new artist, man. Yeah, I have friends that are I've done already. I've got a lot of lyrics that I need, music for a lot of them. I'm some decent. I would probably be great.

I'm always good. Yeah. So, you know, make sure that part of it it's super easy. Then like, hey, I can tell you about. Can you can you, give it the melody?

AI Music: Melody Imposition and MIDI Connection

Can you kind of do anything like that, or is that still all 100% of what they generate? You can impose person. Now if you upload, say a simple demo guitar, piano and vocal. Yeah. You can change it into any style though. That's interesting. Yeah. I got to play with that. Yeah, it should we.

Yeah. If it if you can record like a short just, you know, so simple one note piano kind of thing and then take that and convert it into any style because all it is, is just here's the piece that's currently missing. I think that they've got to add at some point it's just a Midi connection. Like if I've already recorded shit back over the last 20 years of Midi, right?

AI Ponchos and Business Partner Adventures

And you got your keyboard, be able to send it a Midi file and say, here, this, and then have it convert the Midi into actual orchestration. See, Brooklyn says we need AI ponchos with the 3333 I agree. How do we make AI virtual ponchos? You? The virtual ponchos might sell, but they cost more than the real ones, said the party on Ksby wants to talk about the Lego idea. He smells money in the air. Yeah, he. Oh, there you go.

You get yourself a business partner is going to hate you within six months. That's good. What this is like you have a lawyer. I just need some paperwork, I, I do, I do it. I spent all day the deposition yesterday. I got lawyers up the lawsuit.

AI Music and Legal Implications

Well, that's one way to have them come. That is one way to have lawyers in multiple states right now with the fact that most music is being created artificially without usually any, you know, it's all in the computer. So let me I do it does not really feel that much different. Yeah. Than when the human does it. Yeah. It's that. Okay. Thank you. That that he is 33, 33. And he wants to know if poncho at left. I will play Taylor Swift's hit by. Will it be available by Christmas 2025?

It might be for what? Now for poncho with left lefty. That's what he calls us as a.

Taylor Swift Reimagined and Frank Sinatra Rap

Yeah, yeah. Will there be a release of Taylor Swift's hits available? No, absolutely not. By Christmas 2025, we could reimagine them. Imagine reimagining so you you can do things that'll end you jail in jail by yourself. There is nothing we do better. That reason. Be great. Shake it off. Yeah, but go after. There are people that do a, they there's a guy that I've. I think I've got the whole album where he, he took like rap songs and then re orchestrated them.

He unwrapped a sort of Frank Sinatra style lounge songs.

Unwrapped Songs and AI for Entertainment

So with, you know, with the, the brass band and stuff in the background. Hey, sipping our gin and juice. Yeah, yeah. Laid back my, my brain, the money in my mind I should look who that look up could that is done. Send you a link so you can go pirated. It's, It's pretty good. There's a lot of good music out there and a lot of bad music. There's tons of bad music. But this is what makes it funny, is that you can take music that you wouldn't necessarily listen to, ever.

And then when it's real orchestrated, it actually sounds good. You like, I don't like rap, but I kind of like the lyrics of Sinatra can sing rap. And I think this is where we're going.

Friends: Jennifer Aniston and Bra-Free TV

I've said this before, like, do you enjoy a television show? Do you really like friends? But you don't think, Courteney Cox is all that attractive? Well, put Scarlett Johansson in the role. Yeah, exactly. There's I mean, honestly, friends only had one attractive woman in Jennifer Aniston. Are you always. Seriously, you go out with them, it's Phoebe Buffay. What? Lisa? Lisa Cook is up to Kudrow. Yeah. No. Aniston was the only hot chick in there. Everybody else was just very big.

And I appreciate her standing up and never wearing a bra. That's funny. It's kind of what made friends. The show that it became was that it? That I think so I never watched it. You never saw it? I mean, like, none of it. You

The Bear: A Chef's Journey in Chicago

know, I've only seen clips. I've never watched it. When it was running, it seemed stupid. And are you watching the Bear? That's finally up into season three. I've been watching that. Have you seen any of the Bear yet? No. The bear is great. What is it? It's on, Hulu. It is Jeremy Alan White who played the clip in shameless. Do you see the U.S. version of shameless? No. Oh, dude. Like the first five seasons or so and it went like 11. It was way too Irish looking.

Shameless is one of the best television shows. You will. If it was one of those shows that broke every rule that was wrong in a right way. If you know, it was, something I think you'd like, but the bear is the guy from there who plays a highly trained chef that comes back after his brother, Awesome self, and takes over his Italian beef sandwich shop in Chicago.

YouTuber Suicide and Online Bullying

In that. Yeah. Sounds like it's right up your alley. You would love it. That's good. That's good writing. Okay. The father watches it. That's why all the if you're here you know chef that's all from, the bear or Doors. You know there's some just little lines though. Both of those are way from before the bear. But I know, but that's what made it popular with everybody right now. Watching the bear, I think, speaking of offing themselves, some sad news here.

A a YouTuber slash animal rescue chick that I watched for years now just committed suicide, so that was annoying, I would say. Yeah.

McKayla Rains: Cyberbullying and Fox Rescue

So I, I can't remember her actual name, but which is. But that's how you when you care enough to remember her actual name. I think she had a mole on her left side. Never really used it, but no, she was the, she had save a fox. So it was a fox. Rescue facility in Minnesota, and, I I'll bet you I've been watching videos that not like every video she posts, but plenty of videos for probably 3 or 4 years.

You know, and they kept growing the facility and buying more property there had a ton of factors there. But you watch enough of that kind of show where they rescue foxes. You realize foxes are just dogs. Oh yeah, they're just small dogs. That's all they are. They're small dogs that make a much better sound. They they kind of happen to have a, a yippy laughter that they make noise. So when you rub their bellies, that sounds like they're laughing. And they're also foxes that have longer nails.

They can actually climb trees or the dogs, rather, the foxes are dogs that that can climb trees because A they're smaller

Foxes as Pets and the Yippy Laughter

and b they're apparently their nails are better so they can hang, when they're up a tree. So they can, they can dig a hole just like a dog, but they can also climb a tree, not straight up and down vertically, but they they definitely will run up a tree to get away from something. So I don't understand where there's just more pet foxes because they're, they're about the right size for a, you know, a pet dog. They're not as small as a shitzu or a Chihuahua by any stretch.

But, you know, I guess they're about the size of a,

Foxes That Climb Trees and Pet Ownership

a regular dog. They're like a couple feet long. Well, I'm sorry, that is so. Anyway, so this chick apparently has been getting bullied online, which is a very generic term that could mean any number of things. Right? We had Tom Thompson says McKayla Rains is your name okay. There you go. That's right. And, yeah. So that's very sad because, I don't know what's going to happen with all the facts. It's not a tournament decodes. Well, yeah.

This whole concept, when I'm looking at the news years of cyberbullying, it's like, I don't know. Hey, to me, this says there's a much bigger problem mentally with somebody. Yeah, yeah.

Online Bullying and Mental Health

Just like what there was, situation this past week. It made national news at a White Sox game. The second baseman, Kendall Martin, I think his name is for the answer, said no. Almost. He was out there, I guess, at bat, and some fan yelled something. And of course they won't tell you what. There's like 5000 fucking articles. Nobody will say what the fan allegedly yelled. Some 22 year old kid yelled at them and he was visibly shaken.

And by the end of that inning, he was back out in the field, a pitching change. He was crying, then went back into the dugout and was crying. They kicked the fan out, banned them for life from Major League Baseball, which maybe is good because Major League Baseball can suck my dick.

MLB Player's Trauma and Fan Conduct

But it was allegedly that the guy said something about the guy's mother, who died in a car wreck seven years ago, now a 22 year old at a ball game, I'm guessing doesn't know the guy's mother died in a car wreck. And it was it your mama joke? And that was it. You know, like, oh, I got a text from your mama last night, or I did your mama, whatever it is. Like this is enough to ban somebody from the fucking sport for Major League Baseball for their life. Kim, they can be anybody they want.

I know, but it's like you shouldn't really have any fans baseball anymore. I mean, trash talking is a part of sports. Always has been. Yeah, always will be. And that's why it's, I think, vitally important to know what exactly was said. Because if this was just a, you know, oh, your mama was good last night, well, then that's a whole every story you read. Well, he yelled derogatory things about his dead mother. Now, you know what?

If the guy actually knew his mother was dead and was like, hi, I'm glad your mother fucking died in a car wreck.

Trash Talk in Sports: A Fading Tradition

Then maybe that would rise to a level of being a total dick, but I doubt it. I doubt that's what happened. Who would know these kind of things? And it just it kind of hurt me. It's like, this is all fucking ridiculous. People need to take some responsibility for themselves randomly on YouTube because maybe you were watching them, which I know you weren't. I got a thing that popped up about Larry Bird, French Lick Zone, French Lick, Indiana's own Larry Bird.

As far as being one of the greatest trash talkers in NBA history, you're hearing from people like Magic and Patrick Ewing and Jordan that, you know, Larry Bird, who looked like the unassuming white guy. He was vicious, he was vicious. And there was a couple of the guys that it was funny that he used this more than once, but, you know, it was Charles Barkley and there was one or some other guy. He was like Larry Bird during a game was like,

Baseball Fans and Derogatory Comments

you know, that's just fucking disrespectful. He's like, what's disrespectful? You got a white guy guarding me. That's just fucking disrespectful, said Larry Bird. But it's like this is part of the game. The whole get in your mind. I mean, I've read stories. There's a difference between people you're playing with doing that and and people that are sitting and watching you doing that. I am I'm kind of on the side of the baseball stadium on this. Well, it depends what the comment was.

I mean, because otherwise it's like then if the fans, can't take part in that all, then there's no reason to show up. And I would agree. Well, it's the fans that only go to a game in order to yell at that. People should not show up to the game to yell one thing, 1 to 7. It was probably took them, kick them out. Well then they won't have any fans. That's where they belong.

Major League Baseball's Decline and Trevor Bauer

Zero have more fans because fans like that you give you knowing to everybody. That's not because this is the thing. I get it. If you are being vile, I get it. If you're using profane language, which you'll never hear on this fucking show, I get that because you're trying to keep a family friendly. I got to ask now, were you the fan? No. I wish is you sound like you kind of are. No, I haven't.

I went to one baseball game like the last seven years, and that was to see the Boston Red Sox mascot when it was here. Did you yell out loud? I may have won, I, but clearly you can't see one as well as me, though. No, that was not.

UPS Package Rerouting and Email Address Woes

Although I will say there was one game on an afternoon at, White Sox Stadium, probably ten, 15 years ago. Now, when my mom and I used to go to all the day games because I, you know, God was a web guy. Could take any time off that I wanted to work out of the house. And they had season tickets. My parents did. And my dad, of course, worked like, hey, we got day games, why waste them?

We were at a day game against the Cleveland Indians, and there was a guy named Johnny Peralta who spelled his name J, h o and NY, who was a, you know, Latino player. There was four Latino dudes sitting behind us who were maybe in their late 20s, early 30s, who rode Peralta every time he came up to the plate. Hey, Johnny, your mama didn't know how to spell, you know? Hey, G. I mean, just it was it was brutal. It's hilarious. I mean, there was nothing that was mean. It was just funny.

In today's world, all these guys would be banned from the baseball from the stadium because, yeah, they yelled something. It's like, well, fuck Major League Baseball. And I want to know what was said. I'm tired of this shit. Where fucking 10,000 outlets report on a story and refused to give you details,

Email Address Chaos and Irish Incidents

and then make some kind of moral judgment based upon it. It's like, fuck you, give me the details, give me the facts. Otherwise it's fucking worthless. I'm sure you could find that out. I try, I mean, I've looked it's not online. I'm been less the dude that actually yelled it out, will come out. And of course, people want to kill them then, because some of the contents were like, the guy should be killed then.

And then the manager was yelling at the dude, swearing at him, of course, and all of a sudden you hear some woman go, oh, it's okay. And people and acts are like, oh, well, she should be fucking kicked out too. Banned. Like people are fucking out of their minds, man. Look at the private sport, man. Worry about your own cyber life, right? Do anything. It's. You're allowed to do things when you go there. Yeah. You have the right not to go, not to spend your money.

If they want you to go, they want you to spend your money. I mean, this is all a part of the game. I mean, probably not anymore. The trash talking between players. You read books like Jim Bolton's Ball for the Bob Joker's book. I mean, there was some hilarious interaction. Saved the trash talking for Little League Baseball is Little League. Now that's the problem. That is the problem like that. What they did to Trevor Bauer because I'm fucking skank was like, oh no, he abused me.

Self-Worth, Internet Validation, and Childhood Trauma

And then she lost in court. Two years later, he's still not back in the major leagues. It's like, fuck Major League Baseball. I hope they fucking crash. And burn and nobody even knows. Baseball is a fucking sport in a hundred years. That's what they deserve. Okay? Do we move on like in this one up, everybody. What do you got? I don't know, that's why I'm tired of that topic. I just want move on. I did get another, pop up from UPS yesterday that my package was in route for this.

Again, for the guy in England, Northern Ireland. So, I mean, again, I'm going to fuck with it because stop using my email address. Oh, nice. Nice. I know you have more stuff for him. I though, I mean, okay, maybe I'll why don't you send him like a dildo? Because they cost me money, but, Yeah, but it'd be funny if you could talk about it, and I guess I could you.

I know you want me to send them, like, a little note, which I could be like, just stop using my email address and I'll stop fucking with your packages,

Attractive Redheads, Tattoos, and Unresolved Issues

okay, dude. And how do you not realize yet that it's the email address that is causing you all this grief that somebody is getting these and rerouting your packages? So is the difference that he's got your email that I use or something? I don't know, because I don't know if I knew what his actual email address was. I would email him, and I know one of them, which I think was a different guy. There was a he was like Darren O'Neal, like 64 or something like that. At gmail.com.

So I but again, I don't know how these companies don't tell him. Oh, well, your package has been rerouted. Well, I didn't ask for that. Yes you did. Oh stop it. And again, if it was one guy it would be kind of funny. The fact that, I mean, I have to go back to my Gmail just for fun. I'm pretty sure there was one in Canada, there was one in New Zealand, and there were two in Ireland that have done this that have used my email address. Maybe the guy's blind and he's got a hard time typing.

I know I do, so I'm really annoys me when extra messages come in. Like I don't want that. I'm like, yeah, always put that out. Another show.

Psychopathic Viewpoints and Social Media Harassment

It's like anybody in Ireland, Northern Ireland that I'd love for. Something interesting to show. Please stop doing this right. Or if if there's even anybody out there, let me know. I'll give you the guys address and you can just go, like, go knock on his door and be like, hey, I was listening to this podcast. I know that guy who is fucking with your, fucking what's your stuff?

But the you know, the thing is, the guy making a baseball player cry or in your case, the save a fox lady, it's like there is a problem with parenting it. Okay? The guy's mom died, obviously, when he was young. Yeah, yeah, but there's a real problem when people will put their self-worth

YouTube Success and Online Harassment

into what people say on the internet. I certainly agree with that. But also a couple of things. Normal people aren't going to start a fucking save an animal foundation, okay? No. Like that's for people with normal activity to begin with. That's somebody who has low self-worth, because you cannot have a high self-worth and do something that is going to focus on helping others. This this is my theory.

So this, you know, you could argue with it, but the idea is that every one of these groups and, or people that, you know, started these groups that tries to rescue something, rescue children, rescue pets, rescue you, name it. These are all people that have some kind of a dark

Fox Rescue Facilities and Online Trolls

early childhood secret. They were abused. They were beat up. They they acted or something happened to them. And so their outlet is quite often has nothing to do with kids, but it has to do with saving something else, you know, saving some fish from going. You think these are all related is a standard normal personality type. Just kind of shrugs and goes, yeah, that kind of sucks and then moves on, right? I got the other thing. When you got a personal trauma issue in your past, you can't move on.

This is your redemption arc. This is how you you know, work your way out of this thing that happened to you that you couldn't control is by saving somebody else. And I've seen this firsthand, and I've seen it plenty of times online as well. The second thing about her is she was a, an attractive chick. She was a redhead, but she had tattoos. And that's another sign, like, not like 1 or 2 little tattoos that you got when you were drunk.

Bot Armies and Online Comments

Like a lot of tattoos. But the personality completely didn't match the tattoos. She's not some, you know, hardcore biker chick into metal music. She's this very kind of sweet talking, the kind of chick that you would expect to not have any tattoos, the kind of chick that would rescue some furry animal. And, so that, again, was an indicator of childhood trauma and unresolved issues. And, so this was I when I heard that she committed suicide.

I was certainly sad because I enjoy the channel and there won't be any more content, but that this is the viewpoint of it's well, it's a psychopathic viewpoint. Okay. She also, like, I was not surprised that it happened. I was disappointed that that had happened. And yeah, I mean, this is happening more and more. And yes, I think a lot of this is from deep seated things, that opening yourself up to social media, where

Reddit: A Bullying Ground and Famous People

tons of people and for some of these, you know, it's not like it's 1 or 2 people. There's hundreds, thousands, maybe tens of thousands of people taking part. And it's sport and they're like, oh, they know what they're doing. Yeah. And it's, you know, they see it as part of a game like, well, this is I think how you have to treat it, which is why I think it was smart for no agenda to not have a chat room, but a troll.

And yeah, when people say things that are just trying to throw you off your game or they're mean, it's like you throw something mean back and you go on, you don't sit there and go, oh, wait, you don't like me, why don't you like me? Yeah. But again, this is a person with that predilection already. And then getting the notoriety through a YouTube channel. I don't know how many subs there were on that channel, but I would suspect it'd be over a million. Probably.

Which means you're making a decent amount of money, which also pisses people off. There's one thing that is success will get people on your case. Oh yeah. Yeah, because they started so their original facility was in Minnesota,

Relentless Online Bullying and Suicide

which makes sense because you got foxes live in that type of environment. They opened up a second facility in Florida, which didn't make any sense to me because, no, that's more foxes living there. No, no, no, because if they there's gators in the area because of gators. Yes. Maybe it's. Yeah. You should have a Save a Gator facility in Florida now to save a fox. The race. But you know the videos are cute. Like the fox staying with the foxes.

They're running around and she's feeding them and they're licking her face and stuff. It's like it's wholesome, G-rated YouTube kind of stuff. And so what? What then drives somebody to try and take this person down and get them to commit suicide? Like that also is some kind of deep rooted trauma that would cause that. Yeah. So somebody sets off a bot army which does nothing but harass somebody, and you don't know if they're real people or not.

And, you know, looking at online comments is never going to be a good thing,

Girlfriend's Texting and Legal Consequences

you know, and for people again that want and some of these YouTubers, you can tell they love it. They're the ones that will go through and respond to so many of the content of the comments that it's like, but that also means you are really basing a lot of your life based upon what people think, who you've never met, that you don't know, that you don't even know they're real. Yeah, well, they're real, but yeah, the going to the the whole accusations about I mean, it's just bullshit.

It's, they do they exist. Certainly. But mostly we're propping up shitty product. That's mostly what they're used for. A lot of actual normal people that post stuff that somebody doesn't like are very often referred to as bots, but that's just not reality. I mean, a lot of people don't know that, but you're about a lot of people call me about like, how could you? Yeah, like a Putin. But of course, there's a lot of YouTube videos about the YouTuber.

I guess there was a subreddit that was nothing but bullying her. It's like every sub Reddit is about bullying the whole damn thing. The whole damn site is nothing but people

Ice Cream Preferences and Sweet Potato Fries

plotting ways to take down somebody famous. Reddit should just be burned as far as I'm concerned. But if you were this person, why would you look at a subreddit that you know hates you because somebody told you, oh, you got to check this out. No, no you don't. Yeah, yeah. You don't want to unders. You don't want to see what's there. There is never anything good on Reddit period.

The whole site is Reddit is basically like for Fortran, for retarded people, for people that don't know how to get on the dark web. Yeah. I mean, like Fortran actually has an autistic people on it. These are just stupid people that are on Reddit, but they're stupid people that are on the left side of the, the The Krueger effect graph. These are people who think they know way more than they actually know. According to an article, she had 2.4 million followers on you.

That's pretty good. Yeah, yeah, 44 million is, you know, in the fact that it was relentless online bullying.

Sweet Potato Fries: Ketchup vs. Mayonnaise

It's like oh they spread false rumors of being the sensitive person. She was a deeply affected there. But you know it's bullshit. Or you know and again when you see things like her husband saying she tried for years to push through the pain but this time it was too much. We'll stop doing the fucking videos that get off the internet. If the for years you would make money man. Well she doesn't have to be on the internet. Yeah. I mean, she could just be in the videos, right?

Well, I think the problem is the reading the messages, not being in the videos. Right. Well, that's what I mean. Stay off the internet. Don't read the responses to anything. Yeah, like do what you'd like to do. Yeah. But yeah, it's crazy. Although it's also crazy that we had the stories, year or two ago with the girlfriend that was then charged I think convicted. When the boyfriend sent her, it was like 100 texts.

Ketchup as a Vegetable and MSG Concerns

You know, I'm going to kill myself to kill myself. And for a hundred she said no no no no no. Don't you have a lot to live for. Don't kill yourself. Don't kill your friends like you're fine, right? 101. That's the text. Fine. He does it and then she's going to jail. That's all. That's bullshit. Yeah, that's total bullshit. It's fucking ridiculous. Yeah, that is retarded.

But to lighten up the mood, and I can answer this though. CSB thousand sad 15 as a flavor of Ben and Jerry's ice cream is most tasty. Not he doesn't drink better. He doesn't eat Ben and Jerry. If you listen to the show, you would know only Haagen-Dazs. Haagen-Dazs. That is true. Know it's usually coffee, I think. Coffee? And how do you not know that? Ksby? Listen closer. Take less than most of the staff. Take less naps during the show. Go to the transcript. But you know, here.

Here's the fucking thing. CSB if you would put the transcripts into a chat GPT

Pomegranate Tea and Natural Flavors

you could just ask, what is Jean's favorite ice cream? The answer to that would obviously be in there. Yeah, we talked about it more than once. It is true. I don't have any coffee ice cream. Well, kind of disappointed. It's a mint ice cream. The other day, just because the restaurant we went to down the street here was like free dessert. Monday. Like, do you want some? Like, not really come out the cooler or what? I'm thinking it's like that's the only reason.

And it was the it wasn't like 100 degrees on Monday as well. But I'm like, oh, a little mint ice cream sounds okay. After a, club sandwich and some sweet potato fries. I love me some sweet potato fries. I love sweet potato fries. It's one of the things I really enjoyed when I moved down here. Meaning the South is the ability to almost, at any restaurant have a choice of sweet potato instead of regular fries. You're like, why wouldn't you have that? They are a lower price.

Better they taste better. Better.

Astringent Mouthfeel and Black Cherry Concentrate

They're better for you. Yeah, they have more vitamins and things. You don't get that. Just pure carbs. Right? Right. They're tasty. Yeah. Although the wife was using ketchup bottle, but I'm like, I don't know if I can use one that's like, that's fine. On regular fries. Yeah, yeah. With sweet potato fries. No, I don't think you need anything. I mean, I don't know if you were going to do some kind of dip with sweet potato fries was if you didn't have, like, you know, a cinnamon, some mayonnaise.

Absolutely. Yeah. Just regular mayo. Yeah. Maybe with a little chipotle pepper or something. Yeah. You can do chipotle male too. Yeah, but something that just adds a little fat. Yeah. One bit. That's missing from them. True. That would be good. But ketchup just seemed wrong with that. It doesn't. It is wrong. Wouldn't taste good. Yeah. And contrary to what the, the school systems think, ketchup is not a vegetable. No, that even if you drink it.

Mouthfeel and Red Wine Comparisons

It's mostly sugar. Yeah. Well that most things are. Yeah. When you look at the bottle of things it's like high fructose corn sirup before anything else. Exactly. That's a good point. It's not even sugar. It's the high fructose corn sirup version of sugar. Yeah I always have to read those labels because there's some MSG hiding in there. Yeah, when it works at all. That was used as a bug killer for many years. It's healthier for you than the ingredients that are, put into ketchup.

Yeah, like it's tasty. I just had my pomegranate tea again. Let's see what's in here. The number one ingredient is black tea, of course, which is broken down into water. Black tea, extract. Okay. Black tea extract. Little sugar. Regular sugar. Pomegranate juice concentrate. Lemon juice concentrate. Natural flavors. I hate the natural flavors. Bullshit. Too much fruit concentrate. Yeah, that's the other sweetener that that's getting more popular is the third one allegedly more healthy.

Tom Seaver Wine and A-Fib Allegations

But who knows? Yeah, I don't. This is the palm antioxidant super tea. I'm a granite lemonade. Oh yeah. And pomegranate itself is fairly sweet, but I like the it's more like cherry juice with a little more attitude. Well, certainly the tartness. I don't know about that, but it's, it's like it's a more astringent, you know, like when you drink something astringent, it kind of gives you a feel in your mouth of kind of like your mouth is becoming wrinkly. Hey, what's that in your mouth?

Yeah, you know what I mean, right? You know what astringent taste like? Wrinkly. I've also ever had anything with the mouth mouthfeel of astringent. I don't know if I've ever gone for a wrinkly mouth. Have you ever had, black cherry concentrate that you've drank? Maybe. I mean, I think I've had a black cherry drink. I don't know, cherries have that kind of a tartness. It's a tartness. It's bad. It's lemonade. I mean, lemonade is a little different because that's just purely acidic. This is more,

Recumbent Bike Workouts and Apple Watch Motivation

it's a slightly different mouthfeel. Welcome. Tannin, relenting. Mouthfeel is. Yeah, yeah. If there's a better description of that, what kind of mouthfeel do you like? Let us know. We'll just go over to, like pages on X, which is surging and Darren on the albarino at Ireland. Yes. There are two L's at the end. Surprise. Yeah. It's it's a tartness with a slight sour kick is what I was describing. It is. Yeah. Well can't remember the 80s worth nothing.

I think that they may find the taste of astringent similar to red wine. Very. Okay. Red wine. I haven't thought of that. Yeah, like the mouthfeel of red wine. Yeah. Like that. But yeah, you know what I'm talking about. Like, it's different than just acidic. It doesn't have to be acidic. It could be, but it doesn't have to be. But it's still a little sour. Just. It could be, but it just turns your mouth kind of like hard to describe the mouthfeel because it's not sweet or sour or salty.

It's it's different. But it, it it's noticeable. Like you can recognize like if you have some nerds candy with that, do it for you

YouTube as a Workout Savior and TV Upgrades

nerds candy. Just sour look, whatever. You know, whatever you're into. It's hard to describe, obviously, but taste figured out by now. Yeah, yeah, but it's almost kind of numbs your mouth. Yes. Of course, the astringent nature comes from tannins. Which wine contains this from? Yeah. Doctor named. It is true. I mean, I've drank a little red wine in my day, but only GT's made by Tom Seaver. His own hands. Although you there won't be anymore because, well, he's dead too. That stuff's good.

Nice cab. Have. But only only on special occasions at my parents house when she opens up a bottle, my mom's got a bunch of Tom Seaver wine. But for me I like alcohol though with the you know with the A-fib allegedly. Although again, you know, once I took those antibiotics after the last, the last time only lasted a couple of days and then the antibiotics boom.

Done. And I've been back on the bike and I have to do it again today, but doing 45 minutes to an hour every day but Sunday, getting getting good. Yeah. I mean it was like the there was like an attitude to the Apple Watch. Like, hey, I've been doing a lot of exercise this week. Really. Like was some kind of surprise. You know, I'm like, they've told you that. Yeah. I'm like, what?

XREAL Air 2 Pro Glasses: 3D and Wide Mode

What's that all about? We've noticed. Keep it up. The mothership knows. Yeah, exactly. It's like Tim Cook. It's like, oh, he's generating more electricity for what he did. Right. Can you hook up the, recumbent bike back to the mothership so we can use. Yeah. What you got going? That's why it makes so much noise of generating plutonium for us to use. Yeah, yeah, it is. I will credit YouTube as being the savior for doing exercise.

Okay. Because I sit other recumbent bike and I'm probably going to have to get the TV replaced. It was my mom's cousin. It was more of like a grandmother to my wife and I, when she passed away, we took her 40 inch TV, I think it is, and put it right in front of the recumbent bike, but it's starting to get some lines through it safely. So the panel's going. But having that 40 inch screen in front of the recumbent bike with YouTube on it,

Driving with XREAL Glasses and Virtual Screens

it totally takes your mind off the fact that you're riding the bike. Yeah. You know you go bike I can learn about it. I boom I can see what's going on here. Boom. Just open up the new video. There's a video. So many videos. One, one new thing I got is, I got the new X real one r pro glasses now. Whoa. I've not heard of these. Yeah, this came out. I mean, I've had the their old model for a long time, for years. But this is a new model which adds a bunch of new features.

It's basically like 3D glasses, but without the giant thing in front of your face. They just look like, Ray-Ban sunglasses. Those are kind of fancy $600 or the real one pro. Is that what you Rob? Yeah, for preorder right now. Well, you got it early. Yeah, I preordered and, they're really nice. They. I mean, their old set is really nice too, but they added some more functionality. Like, now you can they've got a mode.

XREAL Glasses: Nerd Status and Future Trends

The word the the screen you're looking at basically hovers in one place. So as you move your head around the image, remain stationary so that it looks like it's just, you know, floating in one spot, which also means they've now added a extra wide mode which can display like if you're watching a wide format movie, for example, while you're driving the Tesla down the street. Yeah, exactly. While you're driving, but not really driving, you're just sitting in your Tesla.

But you can watch it in this extra wide mode where, it basically is creating this virtual wide screen, and then you can turn your head slightly to the left or right to get the very edge of that screen. So it's more like being in the movie theater and sitting closer to the screen to where if you just look at the center of the screen, you're not really seeing the two sides of the screen. You are such a nerd.

Sunglasses, Blinking Lights, and Facial Recognition

What does this have to do with this? Is this is something that everyone's going to have soon? I'm not sure about that because we heard that about ten years ago. And some of these things, I guess society is going to, allow this because less and less people are wearing glasses here off, man. Here's it's dumb deal. Here's something else I've noticed less and less people are wearing glasses now. Everybody has contacts or Lasik. Yeah, yeah, it's very rare to see anybody, especially younger folk.

I agree wearing glasses. So nothing is going to be more obvious, although I guess sunglasses would be the one. Yeah, they still don't have some contact lenses as far as I know. No, but somebody wearing sunglasses you could get away with. But otherwise you're going to look out of place wearing glasses. Oh, no, these look like Ray-Bans. You're never out of place looking like that until people see the big blinking light. Recording, recording? Light recording.

There's no blinking light, so they even have their page for the product. There's a video with Linus picture on it, so that tells you everything you need to know.

XREAL Features: Stabilized Video and 3D Gaming

Yeah, Linus approved. It looks like the glasses are. Why is it a Jimmy Fallon's face? It looks like the glasses are on. The proof is like eight inches in front of them now. Where? It's not like they're sitting on your nose. It's like they're further in front. Do these, like, sit way further front? They don't. They. They sit a little bit further, but not much since they work. Right. Well, the video is stabilized. It covers the one place, they also let you do the full 3D mode.

So I if like if I plug them into my laptop, I can, play video games in full 3D. Well, that's a nice feature. I can see that's what they're mainly for now for going out the Bouton. They know they're totally for going out in the boat. They can also place the video like in that corner of your vision so that you're seeing everything normal plus a little video.

So if anybody runs into Jean at a meetup or a party, it's very possible he's watching a television show while he's talking to you, an optional camera

Meetups, Parties, and Augmented Reality

that snaps into the nose bridge so that the glasses can watch everybody as well. Well, this is good that you're putting this back to the mothership. Well, this was, you know, in sci fi before. Yeah. The concept that you're at a party and all of a sudden somebody's walking up to you, the, it's got a little square around their heads. Right? That's a boop. And I'm curious right now for people like me, right? I mean, that's great for people I can't remember names. It identifies the person like you.

For me, I cannot remember a name. And all of a sudden, Jean's like, hey, how are the wife? And, the three kids, man, they must be keeping you busy, little Jimmy. Jenny and, Oh, Daria. Yeah. So I'll pop it right up on the screen. And you hope the AI is not lying to you at the screen? Yeah. It's hallucinating. No, but people just think you're drunk. Yeah. Oh. They work. They were cool. And they they have, led shutters in the front so you can change the house, see through different lenses.

Oh, well, that's fancy. When I chill and watch a movie, you can make the skirt the front of the glasses totally black so that nothing, no light is coming in to interrupt your movie watching. If you're playing something else on them. Right. You want to look through the lenses? You could do that during that. No. No darkness at all. Yeah, well, let's see if they still work a year from now on.

XREAL Glasses: LED Shutters and Movie Watching

My last set of spheres. Oh, nice to work. In fact, I need to get rid of those. I need to sell those on eBay or right now, sell them right here, right now. Who needs a pair? Good. Yeah. Yeah, I think they're currently selling for 299 online, so I probably sell them for 200 bucks. What brand were they real? The, What? I'm sorry. What model number? It's the air U pros. I believe the air two pro right now selling online for 299. You don't give me a good deal. 150 right now. Half off.

I give you half. I get 200 bucks from on eBay. Yeah, but then people go, hey, I didn't get my they didn't get, give me my money back. EBay. I'll send you. You never stand anything without a signature required. Yeah, but that doesn't mean they're not going to open it up and say no. They just sent me a pair of regular Ray-Bans. Well, I like them. They. Anything they want. People. I think eBay suck, gene. Yeah, yeah. And that that might only be the baseball card ones.

Probably that not baseball fans. Horrible. And, next week, Friday is the 4th of July, so I won't be around. I don't know what's up. Okay. It's a holiday for everybody. Enjoy that. That will be back again the week after.

Selling XREAL Glasses and eBay Woes

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