April 20, 2026

So I had to go into the audio input again and press apply.

And it was already the device was right

and I had to reselect it.

How was your meeting?

Pretty funny.

This lady, you know, super nice.

She had her list of questions to ask me and and instead of really like listening

to the first question, I just kind of went on a rant about everything.

And then when I was done, she was like,

you know, I've noticed this to hear.

And then she started talking about all this stuff.

And yeah, it was actually pretty funny.

She was really nice. And I was like, yeah, and that's it.

She's like, well,

I was very much like an office space type thing where it's like, you are just.

She's like, what?

What would it take for you to come back here?

And I was like,

I think some people here would have to tell me

that everything had drastically changed.

And she's like, yeah, yeah, it's pretty.

It's pretty systemic.

It's like, who do you work for?

Yeah, that's.

That sounds like the first HR person to actually be

in the the employees side of the court.

I know it wasn't like a oh that's interesting.

Interesting. You know, it wasn't like that.

It was like a it was like constant apologizing and reaffirming

with her own experiences.

So, you know, whatever, whatever.

That's that's the time we live in.

Well, anyway, good to be back.

Good to be here.

Good to be back in a on American soil.

Where did you.

I, I really can't remember where you went.

Went to Cozumel and then.

As. A cruise. As a cruise.

And then this little this little private island in the Bahamas, nowhere

near, little Saint James.

So I looked on a map just to make sure they're, like, 18 hours apart.

Well, on the island isn't near it, so that's true.

That's.

Besides, it looks just, I think I don't think anyone's there right now.

Or maybe someone bought it and they just haven't done anything with it yet.

I don't know, I mean, it's as they say, it's free real estate

with some really gaudy architecture and, like, mattresses on the floor.

Just it's not free.

It was at a discount. Really? Yeah, yeah.

Then there was a whole Joe Rogan thing where he was like,

yeah, I looked at the island because it was discounted.

To the list of things

you don't say in a public forum, like, yeah, I don't,

I don't know, I guess Nine Inch Nails recorded in the the Sharon Tate house.

There's something to be said about bad taste.

Yeah, but they didn't record on Little Saint James.

And I think that's the difference.

It's that should be the final Van Halen album.

Yeah. Or they finally get back together.

Well, Eddie Van Halen is dead now, but, AI, we can bring him.

We can bring it back like Val Kilmer. Like his

his. I think his his daughter.

She's one of the little reported things, I think, in the news.

And I don't know how they miss us, but Sammy Hagar had to have known Jeffrey

Epstein and the fact that it wasn't international coverage

kind of shows you where everyone's priorities are at.

I don't know, I think the Panama Papers

are making a comeback, hopefully something like that.

And I'm papers.

It's all related now.

Well, I was just thinking about that.

Like, that's just a wealth of content.

All these people do these, you know, murder mystery podcasts

and all these other things where it's like, you just

you have so much information like Panama Papers, you could just do

you have unlimited content, essentially, but you'd probably get blown up in a car.

So, I.

Don't know, maybe I should look, I could because with Jack GB, Tina,

it was just like this trove of information, right?

And when it was released,

how many years ago now, seven years ago or eight years, I forget what it is.

May 2019, but you could put it into ChatGPT.

Now, while you might get flagged just because they'd, like lease

my address to someone, but.

Well, I had my I was doing a research thing actually on Jeffrey Epstein.

It was this like conspiracy podcast thing.

And I was I was just putting a dock together.

And this was like early ChatGPT days where you could feed it

like you can build your own bot.

So I built the Jeffrey Epstein bot

where I just I fed it all these books and all these reports and all this stuff.

And I kept asking questions like, I'm like,

I'm just doing research on this thing.

And I kept scolding me like.

Like I. Had a file. Bad.

Yeah. Like, stop digging into this. Like, why are you looking into this?

And then eventually just banned my account.

Oh, really?

Yeah, I got my my first ChatGPT account was completely banned because I was,

I was simply doing research for research purposes.

And they said that's you're getting you flying a little too close to the sun

there. Icarus. So, yeah, I got burned.

You're going to find too many of our investors.

I was using just what everyone else has.

It was just publicly available information.

But like you were talking about using AI,

probably in arguably the one way or I would think everyone's okay

with, which is feed it a lot of information and quickly sort it,

you know, instead of replace all VFX artists in the world.

Yeah.

Maybe not or yeah, replace the guy drawing furries on DeviantArt.

Maybe, maybe we don't need it for that.

Just let me know how much I owe on my taxes, which is probably a bad idea to.

Yeah, I, I didn't.

Well, I, I owed a bunch from

I realized I owed a bunch from my last year's

trade on the tariffs, and I totally forgot that I owed all those taxes.

Well, you can go through the portal now and get your money back.

You never will see it.

But what are you talking about?

They because they they ruled that the tariffs were unconstitutional.

They owe the American public $165 billion.

So there's some website

that's supposed to go up today and you can like apply for a refund.

What do you think? What do you think I'm talking about?

You think I'm talking about tariff money that was taken from me

from me selling items in some store I don't have.

What are you talking about?

Well, I mean, we paid.

We were charged more as consumers like things that we normally by were,

you know, went up in price because of unconstitutional tariffs.

So we are owed money back.

It's going to be pennies on the dollar.

But you know, it adds up.

Well that won't matter to me because I, I made a

a substantial windfall

from the tariff, a tariff trade I made last year

almost the exact same time with the China

like will they won't they thing.

What is this. Like a poly market bet or.

Does Robinhood.

So Robin Robinhood's my fun money right.

But so what do you mean you made like so you made money from the tariffs?

I made money from.

Okay.

April 2nd Trump says you know there's tariffs on everybody,

blah blah, blah blah. It was Liberation Day or whatever.

I think it was April 2nd and markets fucking tanked.

Okay.

And I was like, you know I remember in 2019

and 2020 in 2018 that he would do this with the

with Chinese tariffs again and the markets would just whipsaw.

And I was like, I bet that, you know, everyone thinks

this is going to be a downturn.

I'm going to get into a three week.

I bought call

calls three weeks with a strike price that was way out of the money.

I know all this stuff, you know,

betting that Trump was going to

there was not a word for it at the time, but that he was going to

flip on his decision and get rid of the tariffs

and, you know, or halt them or delay them or whatever.

Well, sure he did.

And that that investment that I made went up.

4,200% or something, 4,500%.

And and then people started getting wind of it and they started

calling it Taco, you know, they started calling the Trump always chickens out.

They called it taco trades.

And now it's way well known that he does it.

Yet still people are profiting from it like I did last week.

Yeah.

Again I saw the like the Newsweek article or whatever of like over $1

billion was made based on like the news from the Iran war.

How is this happening?

It's like, well, I guess you could.

Well, that wasn't it wasn't $1 billion made.

It was $1 billion in, in you could say bets.

But I mean, it was through energy markets.

They were betting on all to go down there

buying puts on all or shorting oil rather.

And they did it like, I don't know, 47 minutes before

there was some announcement.

And so then yeah, there's,

there's just an obscene amount of insider trading money being made right now.

It's fucking it's beyond criminal.

It's demonic.

And I just want a little piece of it.

So that's what I've been doing.

S been working out for me.

I'm sure I'll have to justify it to my grandkids when they go.

Grandpa, these gold plates are nice, but how did you get them?

And I know. Well, it was a dark time.

Teach us what?

Alimony is.

Filled with riches.

Yeah.

Why is your wife younger than me,

anyway?

Well, good on you. Did you listen to that?

I know you didn't buy saying that Wall Street thing about the.

Whatever it is the tradesman is like.

I'm going to listen to it because I know I've read the stories about Ford

trying to lure people with big salaries to get them to do these things.

And people are like, no, right.

Well, they talk a lot about the fixed pricing thing, which is just like,

it's obscene.

Basically this idea of like,

they tell you the amount of hours it's going to take to fix something.

And if you go over that's on you like, this just sounds like a hellscape.

Well, that's what that's how standard repair shops work like.

Not you know, it's not just dealers or manufacturers or whatever

the case is like, if you go to Firestone to get your timing

belt replaced, they have a book that says this takes eight shop hours.

And really, you're supposed to get it done at four and Bill for eight.

And if you're doing it at eight, then you're not going to be

lasting there very long.

And if you do it over eight, you're definitely fired.

But let's say, yeah, you have a set.

Our formula of how long something should take.

And it's not like I get you do get paid by the hour,

but you're also they are very definable metrics.

It's really weird.

Of all the places you think there wouldn't be like

the best metrics like automotive dealerships

and and repair places and manufacturers, they have they have it locked down.

They've had a lock down for like 70 years,

like when

Chrysler was doing K cars and stuff in the 80s.

Like they would be like, you know, if we could just remove this little bit

of plastic here, we can save a penny on every car and over 5 million

cars, that will be five, you know, $50,000, whatever it is.

You know.

Jeep was like, let's just take the brakes out.

Yeah.

Jeep is like, what if there weren't any gaskets?

And they're like, oh, I like that.

What if the car just rolled over certain celebrities when they park their cars?

That'd be great.

What if we built little explosive

devices that we could set off remotely at, at certain intervals,

to where you'd have to take the car to the dealership?

It's like explosive bolts, just.

But you just put them on the suspension.

I had an idea. What if you.

I was noticing all the Waymo's around here don't have tags

like they don't have DMV tags, you know, because it's a, you know, whatever.

Taxi, essentially.

So they don't need it. Really? Yeah.

I don't know how that works.

I was just just something I noticed, but I was like, what if you.

What if you

made your car, you made it look like Doc Brown's Delorean.

You know, you put all those spinning things on it, all that stuff.

Put a bucket with a mirror that gets floated by the wind.

Right. Well. And then. Yeah.

And then you, you do some magician trick in there.

So it looks like no one's driving the car.

Yeah.

You never get pulled over

because they're like, well, that's just one of those self-driving cars.

And then you never have to pay for tags.

I mean, you go to jail for 25 years if you get caught.

But,

think of the cool car you have that has a bunch of

Mac pros on top of it.

The old ones. Yeah, yeah.

Because cars.

I'm watching an auction right now as we talk.

That's a 63 Porsche. 356.

It's got an hour and a half left, and.

It's the most American thing for someone to do is to quit a job in the morning

and then start looking at an auction of a classic car at the same time.

It's a pretty rough project, though,

but with my welding skills, I think I could make it into something.

Yeah. So you think you're you're just.

You're.

How much more do you have left in the car?

McGwire gets done.

Yeah, I was going to say so you're ready to move on.

In it yesterday.

It was great.

It's it's it's just I built something that's not practical.

I think.

I think you knew that I think I knew that was happening.

Realize just like it's just a little rocket

and you have to be going fast or like,

at high RPM for anything to work, you know, like, if it's under 3000

RPMs, the car, like, can kind of get little chugging and it's like, you know,

not backfire or anything, but like close little pops and stuff.

And it's like you have to be on it.

And before you say, oh, it's not tuned, right?

Well, no, it's tuned right.

It's just it's like a hot camshaft and all this stuff and it's just it.

And I was reading other people with kind of similar setups and they're like,

oh yeah, yeah.

But that's just part of the charm.

I'm like, God damn it. Like that's.

I have no regrets.

But it is like, I'll take you out in it and you'll be like,

well, this is a it's a little violent.

I'd be like, yeah, it is, but it's it's enjoyable.

Push my head down into your lap.

Yeah. Just muscle memory. Yeah.

Come on.

Adina. No, it's Adam. Whatever.

You look just like the one from the the Applebee's.

So whatever.

Let me show you my two for 20.

So what I did this weekend, instead of driving a cool car, I think.

I don't know if you saw.

I put in that newsletter that game. Mina.

Yes. So it's this broken asset flip.

I don't know if you're familiar with asset flips, but like, you

and I messed around a little bit with it.

Remember that Unreal Engine

when we, like, cloned you and like, we're making your mouth move all weird.

And it didn't.

Call me a huge tits and like, a diaper or something like that.

I don't remember. Probably.

It's basically it's these tools that anyone has access to.

And so I think it's just some like

someone based in the Philippines or Indonesia or something like that,

and they're just they're turning this crap out and they're putting it out.

And so I was playing through it and I had like sort of

a weird existential crisis with it,

and it was just reminded me a lot of the Divine Comedy.

And so I was listening to Dante's Inferno on my walk, and I was like,

I think I'm going to write about my experience,

like I'm just journaling it and I'm trying to write it in this, like,

really up my own ass

prose of just like, not really

using like, arts and vowels or anything like that, like the way it was.

I mean, it's transcribed from Italian or Roman.

I don't know what you say, what it was back then.

Popish. Was it Latin?

I don't know.

Maybe I don't, I forget the timing.

I'm also, it's weird

going through it because last time I read, it was in high school, and I'm like,

I don't remember it being this floaty, this, this, like, Old Testament,

but I'm guessing they gave us not quite the cliff notes version.

They just they just gave us sort of the dumbed

down 10th grade version.

And I was like,

I remember being not the I remember not being as like beautifully written.

I remember just being like, yeah.

Then he went to hell and I saw some some pope there and he sucks.

And then I saw the devil.

And that might have just been your high school brain, though.

Just like translating it to that.

Like you can read beautiful prose, but it just it gets into your teenage

brain is just like, fuck it going to hell, Lola.

Well then I just see the the whale tail in front of me, you know,

just as it was in the late 90s, early 2000.

A girl showed me her vagina tattoo in junior high.

No, this is my junior year high school chemistry class.

It was like eight in the morning.

And it was this girl named Shannon.

And she.

She's like, Erin, you want to see something cool?

And I was like, yeah, sure, I'm barely awake.

And she just pulls down her front skirt with no underwear

and shows me this tattoo. And I was like, oh my God.

And then my science teacher was like, what is it?

And I was like, you got to see this.

She's like, what? And the girl was like.

No, no, no, no, no.

Like she's.

You're gonna get my boyfriend fired.

I was like, Shannon has something to show you.

And then.

And then there's like this five minute exchange of like, what is it, Shannon?

It's like, it's nothing. It's like, well, it's obviously something.

If Erin thinks that you should, you know, like that thing.

And then finally she dropped it.

But. Wow.

What was that? Were you talking about?

Oh, just. I'm.

I'm almost done writing it, but basically, that's what I'm doing this week.

I'm working on this thing.

It's just going to be a video.

I don't think I have much to write about,

but it's it's sounding funny as I'm reading it out loud.

So I'm just going to toss that together and that will get me reignited

to edit your Blood Boy video that I know you didn't work on at all while I was at.

We don't know that. Yes, I do.

Wow. How'd you know that?

You just told me. Oh, yeah. You're smart.

I don't know, it's it's it's that thing too.

When people are, they get, like, this Nostradamus

type credit applied to them when they're like, you know,

a movie gets announced or something and someone says,

yep, that's going to be a shit show.

And then movie comes out and it sucks.

Like they're like, wow, that guy was right.

It's like, well, it's a 5050. Really?

Yeah. On that.

So yeah, with that situation, it was yes or no.

And just knowing you and knowing your.

Priorities. It's your video.

But go ahead.

In my defense.

Well let me think now I'll think of something.

The new Claude is much too slow to give you an answer right away.

You got to go down to 4.6. Not the new.

There's something I'm working on on cloud to show it to you later, but please.

Yeah.

Well, between quitting things

and making windfalls, I just couldn't find the time.

Also, I didn't think our newsletter was going.

It was kind of depressing, and I still don't know what happened, but.

I don't either.

I mean, I talked to the guy and he just said it's a AWS thing, so I don't know.

It seems like a cop out.

But yeah, he hasn't said solar flare yet, so that's good.

Are you familiar with the volcano Krakatoa?

Well.

The Artemis mission really bumbled things this week, so.

Sorry.

Yeah, I, but I yeah, I don't I'll work on it

now that I have a lot more free time, but also.

Well, no, I'm gonna work.

Well, I mean, work on it today,

but I'm going to try to knock this this video out today.

Get it up, you know, later this week, and then I'm just going to

I'm just going to get back to work on Blood Boy.

Yeah, I'm doing another Carnegie story.

But I'm also I think this week I'm going to do a review of I got Recommended.

YouTube is really pushing its short drama series to me.

For some reason.

I think my age is still set to 65 years old.

And what did.

I say? You were like 75.

Well, they said my listening age was 78 years old.

Yeah.

And I'm.

Like, which I was like, what I was listening to, to trip hop and stuff.

And they're like, yeah, that was 40 years ago.

Massive attack, still huge.

I think I saw them at Coachella.

You did.

Like Bjork first came out in the mid 80s.

So, you know.

I had never seen Iggy Pop live until last night.

I didn't realize how bad his scoliosis was.

Yeah, he's like he leans like ten inches.

And I like as you see the photos of him, he's always posing weird and doing stuff.

And he's 78 now, and I, as soon as we changed the channel, we saw him.

He was in the crowd like, I think he tried a body, sir, for something.

And it looked like he had fallen off the stage

because he needed six people to help him back up.

Yeah, you know, he's all s curve.

And I was just like, what happened?

Are you okay, Iggy?

And googling and like, oh, no, he just had scoliosis his entire life.

And that's just how he looks.

And he's he's 78.

And that's just kind of what the body looks like.

Just he looks like a question mark wrapped in leather.

Yeah. Yes.

That is that is the the perfect description.

And then he had the I forget the guy's name plucked up.

It's like the guitarist and the A's was there.

And I think it was the basis from Interpol.

So he had this kind of like cool.

Star band I. Would say band.

Yeah. I mean known entities. Yeah.

But I don't know, just just for me it was just like, well, good for their

they're probably excited for this because he's going to be dead soon. So.

Or not I don't know.

He seemed to know all his songs.

So yeah I mean he's he's weirdly kind of I mean for a guy

that was on heroin for a long time, like he's does pretty well.

I mean, you know, it looks like he's melting. Yes.

But he's not like the biggest thing about with mortality is like

being overweight, you know, and that's why Keith Richards is still alive.

It's because he's just not, like, just a fat slob.

You know.

I always felt like the British genes is also a huge, like, knock against you.

Just. Yeah.

You just see, like like even, like, you know, Hugh Laurie

or any of these British actors, like, after a certain age,

you just see the inbreeding kick in and you're like, oh, oh, yeah.

Even like the the royal princes were not safe from it.

No no no no. Yeah.

As rich as they are, they can only do so much.

Yeah. So

But yeah.

So anyway, old man, I'm gonna.

I've been recommended these YouTube short drama series.

So I was going to watch an entire season of one and do a

nice review on it, I think, but I don't know.

I haven't decided yet.

I don't know if I have the five minutes to watch an entire season

of something, but.

I tried to get through the new avatar

on my flight and I think I got through.

It's just wild because it's a 3.5 hour movie.

Yeah.

And at one point I looked up and it it just it looks like a Lisa Frank

folder cover.

I was like, what is this movie?

And oddly, I was oddly enjoying it because it's it's essentially the

I read online, they're like, it's just the same movie again.

They're just refining it. This is the right one.

Is that the third one? Yeah. Third one.

And it's that thing too.

Or like I have a, a distant memory of these movies

and it's like, I just remember making a lot of money

and just it's FernGully Blue People, and then I don't.

And the second time as like, a laugh, you know, it's like, let's go for the left.

And then now in the third one is not funny anymore,

but I'm still watching it for some reason.

And it's just this weird thing I can't look away from.

I have no like, fandom towards. I don't really care.

It's just like, well, it's out there and it's James Cameron and I'll take a look.

But it's just it's so weird.

I can't, I don't know what to

name it, but this is the last time I'll talk about it, I promise.

Talk about avatar.

Maybe there's also no.

Well, it might be

because it might be canceling that they're not making enough billions.

That's the they're like,

they cost a billion to make and they only make 2 billion back.

And that's when you just that's all happening

and all this weird betting.

And there's something like the amount of money being poured

into the, into Iran, like throwing out all these weird stats of like,

yeah, that could fund like, children eating for the next 47.

30 avatar movies.

Exactly. All that stuff. And, you know.

Meanwhile, the astronauts are watching the Earth

fade behind the moon and just being like, do we have to go back?

Can we just stay on here? Can we.

Live on knots?

Don't like the earth?

Well, maybe they should move out of it.

Maybe they need less pronouns.

I don't know, a little too much variety on that.

That deepfake of a of a mission.

Yeah.

I whenever I get into those conversations about the moon shit,

like I just recently got into it with some.

Friends of family

and I go, okay, the moon mission, the moon landing was fake. So.

But then what about the one later that year?

What about an on Apollo 12?

They faked that one too.

And then Apollo 14 the next year we're in 71 and then Apollo 15.

They faked it, and then Apollo 16 and 17.

They faked it.

So from 1969 through 1972, they faked

however many missions of that six or something like that, which one was fake?

Were all of them faked? And they just kept going.

Like what?

You're wasting so many brain cells in so many calories.

I argument.

Normally I wouldn't do that, but I had to justify to

a different set of people why I didn't want to meet with this person anymore.

So I had to do it in front of them, and I had to walk through this

like I had to make them watch and walk through the start of Apollo

11 to the finish and break it down by each stage of the mission to make this person

feel bad, and then to show them why I don't want to talk to them anymore.

But it's again, you're getting in the mud and it doesn't matter

how much you try to change your mind, you're still getting dirty.

You know.

It wasn't.

That was. The thing I'm trying to tell you is

I wasn't trying to change that person's mind.

I was trying to show other people why I didn't want to hang out

with this person anymore by shaming them in public.

Okay, you can just say uncle, whoever

or I don't know who you're mentioning, but I assume it's an uncle with a red hat.

But no, no, no, no, it's not.

It's a it's a girl with no hat who's in her early 30s, maybe.

Yeah. Yeah.

And normally I don't, you know, I don't want to get in the mud,

but sometimes I have to justify why I'm not getting in the mud and.

Yeah. Yeah. So I took the extra time. It's.

It is weird to think that it is infinitely more hard

to make a fake video of all that stuff than it is to strap a bunch of guys

into a metal container and fire them up into the air with math.

No, I mean, they're both extremely hard, but one was

they didn't have the I mean, they couldn't have done it very well at the time

as to like, you know, when you look at through a mindset of like,

you know, modern modern filmmaking, whatever, blah, blah,

like, yeah, Stanley Kubrick could have done this.

And it's like, no, it just doesn't know it can't work like that.

Plus, China and Russia had spies waiting for that kind of shit,

and if they had gotten wind of anything like that, they would have definitely

like uncover it at the time.

But if they, you know, they confirmed it since then with their own,

you know, imagery in their own satellites and la la la la, whatever.

I'm not going to get into this again

because I just finished shaming someone the other day, so.

Well, I

weirdly enough, I'm pretty

sure I watch an entirely AI generated video last night.

I just, you know, I tried to watch something before bed.

Usually it's about space and the horrors of it, and this was.

The horrors. What did you say?

There's no horrors in space.

Horse? Yeah, the space horse there. The.

The ladies of the Infinite Knight. The.

It was again, I'm pretty sure it's completely like some Google tool

or something, but it was about the worst deaths in space,

and they didn't seem so bad as mostly just, you know, people dying on reentry.

Yeah, the thumbnail.

Sold on the knots and stuff.

Yeah.

And I don't think anything's more sad than any of the animals they sent up that,

you know, they were like, well, they're going to die.

Yeah, that's probably the more sad ones.

But a lot of it was just ultimately all they all boiled down to,

we got to hit this deadline because it's an anniversary

or we've delayed too many times, and it's just one of the saddest excuses

to shove someone into a capsule and go, get up there.

I don't care if the O-rings froze the night before you got to get up there.

I was just.

About to say challenger wasn't even like just because of the publicity and the

and the lack of wanting to be the one to make the call of.

We canceled it.

So like, that.

Was one that was that the one of the hole in the wing or that's.

The that's Columbia. Columbia.

Yeah. Sorry.

They both start with see it turns out that did more space shuttles

blow up then come back. No.

There's like there's 6 or 7 shuttles I can't remember.

Yeah.

There's endeavor Columbia, challenger,

discovery, Atlantis

and and Luxor.

Sleepy. I can't remember the other one, but yeah.

Maybe there's only six,

but yeah, the Columbia, it's it's wing.

One of its tiles got damaged on lift off.

They also knew that that would be an issue.

But they decided to roll the dice.

Yeah. And then yeah. Challenger. But

yeah I know I think Endeavor.

Enterprise enterprise is the other one.

But it wasn't space worthy.

It was just for glide testing.

Yeah.

And hurts. Stick.

I thought the budget shuttle was the worst one, but.

The one they wanted OJ to pilot.

But then things got hairy in the early 90s.

Go to space, OJ.

You got it.

Next time you're out here.

I think they might be done with it.

The endeavor or whichever one they they landed here in LA is there.

They're putting it upright so.

Well yeah.

Because they, they shuttled it to like near downtown LA.

And it's just sitting like in a museum,

you know, like it's like it's like it's landed.

Yeah.

But they added a building that that goes vertical so that

you could see it as it would be like, as if it was taking off.

It's also next to some building that George Lucas pumped like $1 billion into.

I think it's also supposed to be done this year, but.

And that one's vertical as well.

It's more like oblong and rounded, and it's.

Got a beard to show you where the curves of the, of the building are.

It ironically looks like something from avatar, which he had nothing to do with.

Or he did, I don't know.

They're all Spielberg, right?

All them.

They're all working on the same shitty things.

They're all producing the same things and making billions off of them.

Meanwhile, I'm

here talking to you, wasting my Robinhood time.

You'd rather you'd rather be in Hollywood, rubbing shoulders

with people waiting for their names to be called off the Epstein list.

Yeah. Yeah.

It's it's it's just like the DMV, and they just

it's filled with billionaires, and they just

they read down the list and they call you up.

Flood the zone.

Can't can't catch them all.

It's just 2008 all over again.

No one's going to be held accountable.

Panama Papers, Epstein file.

It just doesn't matter.

Nothing.

It's just, look, if the game Mena has taught me anything,

we're just in a simulation and we cannot escape.

I should really read that article you put in there.

That's it. Sounds good.

What's article?

The. Whatever you just said. The Marina

Panama Papers came out in 2016.

That's really how long. It's been. No way.

I thought it was like 2021.

I thought it was 2019.

But they published from April 2016.

Maybe I'm.

The last time we recorded and I was clicking around too much.

Looking at houses on Zillow, I couldn't really edit out

the mouse clicking, so I refused to like, look at anything while we're talking now.

So I'm just I'm just staring at a blank screen.

Well, that's for the best. It is.

It keeps me more focused instead of like, oh, what's going on in the news

right now?

Which again, being on a cruise was so nice

not hearing about anything.

It was just.

Yeah, but then you're on a, you're on a cruise though.

You can go out in the desert and all this.

The bidding is heating up on this car.

Well I'm not going to get it now.

I'm sorry.

It went up. So.

Yeah, just to tell you where we're at, it was $4,800 for a Porsche. 350.

So it kind of tells you the kind of condition it was in.

I look at it and I go, oh, I could replace that.

I can weld that, I can body hammer that a la.

And so I was like, if it go,

if it doesn't go up I will bid on it like 5000 is my cap.

And then someone bid 5100 and then 50, 200.

And then someone just did 7000.

And it's got an hour left and it'll go up to 14 or 15, I'm guessing.

Now just bring a trailer. Idiots.

I need to write my Bring a Trailer piece

about the toxic culture in the comment section.

Okay.

Write for the everyman. Yeah.

That's what that's. What you do.

You know, in the hypercar listings, when people are asking about the stickers

on the underside of the trunk, isn't that foolish?

Again, I have nothing to look at

but a blank screen, but I still found myself going anywhere else.

I want to talk about Savatage again.

Yeah, well.

They're all avatar producers that are commenting in these sections, maybe.

Or look again, they're all it's like you said, they're at the DMV.

They're just waiting there, biting their time, seeing if they have to,

you know, answer for their misdeeds.

Unless you're the, you know, the Prince of Wales doesn't really matter.

Spoiler.

You know is the answer.

And I hate spoilers.

The other thing, do you want to send that email

that we talked about on Friday to the car guy?

I have it, a draft of it.

I'm going to send it to you first. Okay. Yeah.

That was really the only other thing that I think we needed to to knock out.

And then, I don't know, pretty much got our week set out.

Yeah.

I'm going to just dedicate my time to Blood Boy

after I finish my, my, my personal project.

Yeah.

You know, do I? That's how you do it.

One for me, one for you.

Well, because you're not on it.

No, I well. You won't.

It's just hard for me to edit these days.

I know it's not it's not easy for you, but.

And to be honest, I, it was just in the back of my mind

for various reasons

that are not, are not any good excuse.

And I should have worked on it.

What was the YouTube video.

You looked up of me, of people saying, like,

I changed my last name or something because I can see, oh, the shared history.

There's just some guy who

I think he was a fan and he's got like a,

a channel that, I don't know, he tries to talk to,

to people who used to work there and, and I don't know, get in

like not in any negative way.

I think he purposely says that he doesn't engage in any of the negativity.

It's all like a nice nostalgia kind of tour thing, which,

you know how much I love nostalgia and but yeah.

So anyway, recommended this video.

For some reason, when I was looking at, I was trying to look up an image

for me or you for nano banana, I think it was.

Oh yeah, it was for the it's for the newsletter

image I think, or something.

Some image.

Anyway, it brought up an entire video and when I clicked on it

to get the image, it brought up the video and I was like, oh shit.

And then it just it just started in this part where it was talking about Adam.

Adam Kovac is not working in Wyoming.

I've been asked about this a lot, but.

Well, I.

Just was related to that, okay?

I was like, I was just so confused by that.

Yeah. And he.

And it's a pretty short, but he just basically said something like,

yeah, I think it's for a project that they're, they're working on.

And no, he's not, you know in Wyoming doing this, but it's for something.

We'll see where the project goes and a lot.

And that was it.

The interview didn't go well. So yeah.

I. Mean it wasn't. Yeah.

Well I mean that's kind of what you have to do to get a job these days, right?

Like you, you can't just submit a resume.

It's just going to go onto a giant pile.

So what you got to do is just like, put yourself out there

and maybe start acting like you already work at the place,

and then you submit that and then just kind of hope for a paycheck.

Wait, you go, you show up at a job.

Well, you you make a video, you insert yourself into the newscast

and be like, I already work here. Yeah.

You just distort their reality.

That's that's you.

Gaslighting them with a with a video that.

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you. Always worked here. Yeah.

I mean, I don't know I call it steady fed steadfastness.

Steadman. Steadman.

Yeah I'm Steadman.

This Steadman would be doing nothing.

Yeah. He'd try and keep his low profile as possible.

But that would that would be the easier way of doing this I don't know.

I mean I'm a vying entrepreneur and maybe I do do the news here.

You don't know that I don't.

The best I ever saw of someone

trying to get a job with wacky hijinks

was my dad's friend, David.

His name is David Martin, and my dad had interviewed for a job in Dallas with.

I think there are these like,

I think they're these famous radio guys called like, get me the Vin or something

where like, people give their Vin numbers and they take it on air calls

and they're like, I'd give you this for this because of this reason.

And it's just it's like car talk.

It's for people who don't care about cars to just be entertained.

Anyway, my dad had some gig lined up with them,

and then something else came through to where he was like,

I'm going to have to decline it.

Well, he tells his buddy

David about this and David goes, well, hell, I want that job.

And my dad's like, no, you're not qualified.

And also, no, he's like, where's the office?

He's like, no, do not show him. Do not show up there.

Do not tell them, you know, he's like, I would never show up somewhere and say,

I know you cut to the guy that day he drove to Dallas from Austin,

shows up the office and goes, y'all know Brian Marky.

You interviewed him?

Well, I'm his best friend and here's why you should hire me.

And they and he got hired.

It was like I was like,

what the fuck is, first of all, a lot of questions.

How shitty is this company to do that?

How unqualified is my dad for them to just, well, you know him.

Okay, fine. Good enough.

That's honestly what it mostly takes, I think, to get any job these days.

Just really, it's who you know.

And even just by mentioning their name, that's how you get a job.

But this was, what, 20 years ago?

I think it was like four years ago or something

pretty recent

to where I heard it.

And I was like, okay, well, you know, it's still crazy, I guess.

Yeah. Jesus. Well.

What was the the addendum to that is this guy David ended up doing the job,

and because he was unqualified for it and didn't know how to do it,

they had to fire him after like two months.

They're like.

And it was basically that Kramer episode of showing up the company

where they're like, you know, based on your output,

it looks like you don't know what you're doing.

And you did.

He's like, well, I just thought I would learn on the job.

He's a good guy.

Sounds like it.

Used to be sent me when I was a little baby. So.

Yeah, and that explains a lot.

Yeah. On that note.

All right, well, let's get to it and we'll reconnect soon.

Okay. I'll talk to you later.

I'll talk to you later. Bye.