March 10, 2026

Howdy. Y'all.

How's it going?

Oh, just good.

Just just good. I've.

I've been told this is a challenge.

Anytime anyone asks you how you're doing, you can't say good.

Tonga fuck themselves.

Okay, just what are you supposed to say?

I don't know, I'll just pick a different adjective.

Was that person coming down from nicotine

withdrawals inadvertently from the weekend?

So what, you were just vaping or they're just passing out patches?

No, I don't am vape.

I usually once a week I'll have a cigar.

This weekend I had like three.

You know, I was doing stuff and I was not paying attention.

Whatever.

And I'm going through it right now as far as you know.

Mean it's kind of like,

an alcoholic thing where I won't have a scar during the week.

I save it for the weekends, but.

But now I'm Tuesday in, and.

Yeah, I'm just like that.

They just hate the world.

But, I mean, good, you know?

Well, one of my therapist told me that, No, I don't think they're going through

nicotine withdrawal, and they just asked me, how does that make me feel?

And I said, yeah, good.

And they said, don't use good anymore or I'll beat you again.

No, you shouldn't because good.

You're you're

putting as much effort into the answer as the person put into the question.

And it's both people are in the wrong in that case.

So I am finding as I'm getting older, the conversation

switches to the weather much faster than it used to.

I always that was always my baseline of how I know this conversation is over,

or it's just the ultimate sign of small talk of like, it's warm today.

Yeah, it's like.

It's like, what the what the hell else are you going to talk about?

Oh, I just I get it, I immediately get out of that as soon as I know.

It's just it's it's happening just more often I'm noticing of just.

Hey, how are you doing? Warm today. Right?

Like, no, I don't want to do this.

Of course it's warm sometimes it's warm, sometimes it's cold. Yes.

I don't know. It's cold.

You put on a sweater my feet or wear Uggs.

Whatever.

It happened to me in an elevator about a week ago.

And I literally said yeah.

And then I turned away from the person and it was just me

and another person in the elevator. I turned away from them.

Face the wall.

Oh. Probably the right solution, I think.

I don't know,

but yeah, it's

it's happening more of like, oh, I you know, I just came back from Florida

and they're like, what was the weather like? Like, what do you care?

Who cares? You're not going.

And even if you go at all, I don't know.

They had a free snap.

Does that change your your traveling plans I don't know I'm being too pessimistic.

I'm I'm only one day will end today, so I think I'll.

I'll manage.

Oh, I forgot that you've coming off of that sickness.

Yeah I got, I got Florida sick.

So what, other than herpes?

Well, I took the Covid test yesterday, but it did expire in 2025.

I found it under my sink yesterday.

I just I felt like a drug fiend.

Like looking for Covid test them.

I, I it feels like Covid, but it's not quite that.

And like, maybe it's a different strain and came back negative.

So whatever. So yeah maybe it's the measles or whatever.

Bubonic plague or whatever's coming back.

You know, this year.

I don't know whatever.

Our forefathers fought so hard to not die of

I have now, but now I'm on the mend.

It's, I probably just sound nasally because it's all.

It's all up in me,

and I've just been popping, It's kind of warm outside, isn't it?

Yeah.

Well, fuck you.

I'm turning in this elevator now.

But yeah, with that said, I'm behind on on work related things.

I got I got through that giant I list you gave me, over the weekend.

So the site upgrades.

Yeah, I I've learned so many things about metadata and,

backlinks and all this other,

slang that kids used in the 90s.

So it's kind of nice when it's not for an enormous company

and there's no pressure and just breaking things.

But yeah, I well, I did the thing too, which is,

you know, the, the mindset of like, why would I pay

someone $4,000 to build a fence when I can do it worse for $6,000?

Right.

I did that with this whole,

metadata thing because stupid us

didn't realize every time we were making a post on this ghost platform,

there's a sidebar click out of like, hey, fill out your metadata.

This is what goes out to Google.

They make it very easy for you. We're just so lazy.

Yeah, yeah.

So rather than me going through the, I don't know, eight,

nine articles on our website, I started a instance of N8

and which is, you know,

like Zapier or Mac or any of these, it's this all if this, then that thing.

But it's a free one that I use.

And I started off just like real basic just hey,

go through go through our site.

This is entirely in the back end.

It's not going to spam anything.

It's just like, just read the page,

put in the proper metadata and he's going there and make it simple.

Ended up spending like eight hours on this thing.

Yeah, yeah, it would have taken me, I don't know, one hour to do all of it,

but instead I spent all day building a thing, pulling my hair out.

But it works now.

So the idea is that in the future,

all the metadata stuff will just be automatically taken care of.

But when would you say you got this done?

Yesterday.

Wasn't yesterday or Saturday.

What?

The whole.

The whole weekend's been a blur to me. It's okay.

Yeah.

I've been having a lot of, like, DayQuil and like, just these medically induced

nightmares of, like,

being stuck on a spaceship, going to, a distant planet that went the wrong way.

Based on.

Yeah, like Swedish, or Norwegian, like sci fi movie I watched and,

bits of Lord of the rings just kind of thrown in there

and versus like, what did they actually do work wise?

So it's all been kind of a blur.

But whatever that day,

I guess we can go through the chat logs and see when we we did it.

But it was that day.

Whenever you're asking me to do stuff before I started dying.

Okay.

Yeah, well, I only ask because I think

we should test the sign up process again

because I am curious with we're getting a lot of traffic to the site

and the sign ups are not reflecting

that, like, just statistically,

the, the number of people visiting is, is

has been increasing by a lot.

And it's really strange that there's not even.

Yeah.

You know, any kind of anything, if that makes sense.

Yeah.

I mean I'm seeing it tick up a little bit, but also at the same time too,

like subscribing to a newsletter to a website is like, that's a commitment,

right?

You know, that's a relationship you're asking someone to.

But with this many unique visitors,

statistically someone should accidentally sign up.

Yeah. Which is, like all the other people.

Put put your mind, put your mind in.

And that of a person who's never heard of you.

Never heard of me, never even heard of anything that we we talk about.

Why would they subscribe to this website?

Like we don't give them really a reason for a random pass or buyer to sub, right?

Well, I mean,

to get rid of the pop up window.

I mean.

It's like we're building the foundation, we're building the scaffolding,

all that stuff.

So it's like, hey,

we want to start putting out more regular stories, funny bits, all that videos.

And it's like, yeah, subscribe.

This is a

this is what we choose to do instead of YouTube or any other social media.

Like it's I mean, other than getting, the, the potential of a free

CD key, once a week.

Yeah. Maybe we should hit on that more.

I'm going.

To run. Out.

I mean, I still get new ones every week, sometimes twice a week.

So I don't know. Yeah, I,

I just, I don't want to become like, a giveaway site, you know,

like, subscribe for our newsletter for a chance to win a piece for.

A kind of gateway computer.

At this point.

Yeah.

As long as there's a turbo button and it looks like a cow, I'm in.

well, that's good site stuff then.

the ads.

I think that we're, I don't know, I need to look at our ad thing.

I got served an ad today.

I need to share with you the ad I was served.

I'm going to send it over I was quite confused

as to why I was targeted for this ad.

I was reading this.

First of all, I was reading this news article.

This horrendous crime

that was committed against this, this woman, she was murdered low.

And then the middle of this article, I get this

ad from eBay and I just sent it to you.

Is that a rock penis? What is this?

I what I what the image is, is, is, you know,

it's an eBay ad, like, you know, of postings.

It's just two different postings. The one on the right is

obviously a

hood release cable for a 1970 Carmen Ghia convertible.

We all know that the thing on the left looks like a rock penis.

And actually,

I thought it was Jimi Hendrix's penis because I remember reading this article

about this lady who had mauled all the rockstars penises way back when.

I was like, what the fuck is that?

I click on the thing

and let me send you this image.

I click on the ad and this is the listing on eBay.

Okay?

It's an Indian artifact.

It says.

Okay, like for 150 or like

we're talking Nepal, like.

It could be motorcycles for all I know.

I don't know this, but for $150, you get this.

Very obviously a penis shaped out of ancient rock.

Yeah.

Now my question to myself was

why would I be shown these two ads next to one another?

And the only thing I can think of

is that there's some sort of cookie on my phone

that's analyzing all the pictures, and it knows that I'm looking for car

parts and and whatever else.

So Rockdale does rock dildos.

Or maybe because they know you have an overbearing father

that looks through your history, so you just

you can just say, no, it was rock architecture, father.

It was an Indian artifact. It wasn't.

I wasn't using this to get off.

I wish my father cared enough to care about my, search history.

But alas, he's going. To sell you for a goat.

There is none of that.

This, all this is, say,

is our ads could be better.

We already did.

The big milkers. I don't know what we do.

It was getting a high clip.

Well, we haven't done that on YouTube.

That potential, marketing

advisor that approached us that I still need to message back.

I think that's the first thing we're going to get him on is to be like,

you have this picture of Adam and I with fake breasts.

Do something with it, and that'll be the challenge.

Okay.

Yeah, I I'm I guess I'm not in a creative

Indian artifact headspace right now

to to come up with any new creative in that regard.

But I am with you. I'm what I would like to do.

What I don't want to do is just run our stuff through an

AI program and have it just kick out, a clip and be like, here you go.

Here's your like, that's just that's a short that you put out for free and go,

you know, you don't put money behind that necessarily like I

and I'm saying this, I'm going to regret saying it.

We need to create something new original different that we want to make

something like like an original ad or just just something, anything.

But that requires time and effort and things that we don't exactly

have at the moment, maybe have.

You must be high on NyQuil.

It's, and I can feel it.

And I also had some coffee, so it's like it's a weird upper and a downer.

It's weird.

I'm reaching some level of nirvana.

It's pretty cool.

I mean, I, you know, I agree with you.

The, the video aspect of it, it's it's hard enough getting out

all the kind of written pieces while doing other work, but the,

you know, may the blood Boy thing will be the first, another release.

That'll be nice.

I mean, you know, in the grand scheme of things, it's been three weeks

since we kind of launched this thing, so relaunched it rather.

So there's,

It's not awful place to be, but.

I mean, yeah, we're also. This is the marathon.

We are on the treadmill. We can never get off.

So now now here's where we live and it's going to get it's going to be way

more of these Thursday nights of like, oh, crap, we haven't put the newsletter

together yet.

Oh, no.

Oh, Aaron's going out of town.

What the hell do I do?

I don't oh yeah.

That reminds me, I got to put together

the newsletter tomorrow because I'm going out of town.

That's actually something I'm going to do.

I'm going to just make a template because we're basically using a template

at this point,

that we just keep and we just always right click and say duplicate, make that.

So it just makes our life a little easier.

Yeah.

When do you want to put out the subscriber spotlight?

Oh, I think either tomorrow or Thursday.

Let's do Thursday or.

No, let's see the subscriber tomorrow.

I'm going to put my two articles and video up on Thursday.

Whoa, cowboy.

Using up a lot of articles that you could be saving and releasing later.

No, I mean, they're related.

I, I had already done the self-hosting thing.

It's mostly down.

I just made, and a couple changes on it right now,

the to build a music server thing.

It's like a companion piece.

It just it would have made the one article too long.

So I'm like, this is just a bonus extra.

And then I, you know, I made that video on a day, so it was easy.

It's fine.

And here you are like, how are we going to make all these videos?

And you're making that horseshit in a day?

It's all possible.

Well, it.

Is, it is possible.

And you just got to kill yourself.

I'm going to

with, like, a DayQuil,

honey coated DayQuil.

The, What I want to start next is the slop video.

The whole.

Like, I've been making slop for years, but then that turned into,

a rabbit hole of like, okay, can I buy the machinima?

IP. We'll set up the.

Do you.

I mean, you as much as you want to say the slop video that you're talking about.

Yeah. What

I said as much as you as you can talk about it.

That slop video and the machinima thing.

Are you not going to talk about it?

I can we can edit this I don't.

Well that's what I'm saying. It does.

So I'm saying.

Nothing's coming out of it.

I mean like I, I, I just asked and I bought hey,

Paramount's about to buy Warner Brothers.

Warner Brothers, Time Warner Digital, whatever owns the machinima IP.

It's I looked into it that the like the the URLs locked down

you can never buy it goes through some other company

and I just I thought it would be funny because it's like I don't want anything

to do with it.

It's it's this like stupid, you know,

like, I, I bought my old company who cares?

Like it was.

It's a bad name. It was a bad website.

It was a bad YouTube channel.

Everything was bad.

Warner Brothers bought it. They were sad.

They bought it.

I lost money because I bought my stock when I left the company.

And then when they actually sold it, the stock was worth less.

Yeah.

So I was like, damn,

it's all it's just a joke to me.

Either way, the the slop thing is just

and it's almost becoming more

of a like a deep dive into language

because everything is slop now, right?

Our food is slop.

If a video looks a little, I it's now slop.

Even if it's not, it's just this blanket term is losing all meaning.

It's it's like the,

the vernacular of saying we're cooked and oh, he's been cooking and it's like,

those are two very different meaning things.

And they're very close to each other and often used incorrectly.

On small parts of the internet.

Either way.

It's it's just doing that reflection of this crap

I used to make on an Xbox was absolutely slop.

It was like it was a fast way to turn stuff around.

That wasn't very good.

So it's it's coming to terms with my own lack of creativity.

That's it. Really?

Yeah. Yeah.

You could argue that the original thought of something

is the art, and then all the derivative stuff is the slop.

I mean, that's not the most, you know, profound statement ever.

But anyone can make Pixar level animation now in a in 10s.

But when Pixar was first doing it, obviously it's beautiful

and now it it's it can be a great story

and it can be like as perfect of a Pixar I created thing as possible.

And then people label it as slop.

Let to your point, like they're just calling it slop.

Just because it was made quickly as opposed to painstakingly.

Yeah, I mean,

it kind of comes down to two of like, what's my personal definition of slut?

Because like, I see a lot of AI stuff.

It's just it's everywhere.

You can't not see it.

And I see the positives and I see the negatives.

For me,

slop was how can I automate this stuff to come out of

like daily affirmations that are it's like there's no human involved.

You know?

It's just this, it's a slop machine.

It's just it's derivative crap.

It's just it's copies of copies, which in my personal opinion,

that's most of YouTube.

It's just copies of copies, right?

It's people are talking the same way.

Reviews slop. Yeah.

I mean, it's it.

I'm going, I guess kind of a my Andy Rooney thing here.

But like, that's also like Hollywood in a nutshell. It's

let's make more Avengers

movies, let's make more sequels, more spinoffs.

It's it is all just it's

copies of copies of copies and it's losing that originality.

It's losing that thing that made it special in the first place.

But people don't seem to care. So

again, it it's there's something more to say.

And it all, you know, comes back to me making a halo.

Characters had bob up and down.

You know, hey, I want to spend time working on that

this week and just, I don't know, because I remember

when in my when I was working at machinima,

when I saw the documentary Waking

Sleeping Beauty, which is about the Disney artists

in that golden era when they made like Little Mermaid and Lion King and all that,

it was like those there's like 4 or 5 perfect movies.

And I remember just feeling so bad about my life of like,

or you watch like the the making of Pixar, like the how they formed as a company.

You're like, these are really smart, creative people.

The fuck am I doing with my life?

It's like

it made me want to aspire to be bigger and better, but also it just

it really made me feel down on myself.

Well, they say that when you see something like,

I mean, it could be in any form, but say, like

creatively in this instance, you see something creatively

that makes you go, oh, I could how I could, I cannot do that.

But then it pushes you to, to try and do something.

Then that is you growing.

And that's great art.

Yeah, I think this is an exception.

But you know, in general they say that to where,

you know, there's there's two paths you can go down, you can go down

the path of like, well, I give up and then you actually do give up or you

go down the path of like, I gotta, I gotta do, I gotta up my game.

Yeah.

And, I mean, that's another thing I, I that was sort of an extra piece

I added to the, the self-hosting article is like talking about

pretty much how I, I've come to terms with the way I use

AI, which a lot of times it's just for my own personal stuff.

I'm not looking to get rich or make.

I'm using air quotes here.

But Art, you know, I think that's that's where the whole thing kind of falls apart,

where people look at this up and go, look at the art.

Amazing lead and make that you, you typed in a box and it made a thing.

If you're you're just doing a personal project or you're,

you know, you're making a family calendar and you're using

you're making eye images of your pets, and it's good enough for you

in your little world that you don't have to go, like, sell it on Etsy.

I can see an argument for

just like if you're just using it for your own personal stuff, that's fine.

It's not great.

It's might be a little crappy.

But at the same time, too, I think the average person

is not going to know how to use Photoshop or draw.

I can't draw But no one uses it for their own.

But like the whole point is people are all racing to not

when the inevitable event happens and no one has a job anymore.

People are racing towards saving

as much of their acorns as they can before that happens.

And some people's approaches, I got to start an Instagram

where it is, it's purely the Clinton deposition,

and it's it's Bill Clinton who he's like crying over old photos that are

that are bringing back wistful memories of Epstein Island and all this stuff.

That is how I'm going to make $500,000 and and get my little nest

egg before I'm fired from my social media manager job or whatever it is.

Yeah, yeah. So I, you know. Yeah. No, no.

No, I it's such a minefield to even like

think about or talk about because it's just like everyone's affected

and it's just sort of here and it's that thing of

I don't know if you've, you've read

what's his name? Kurzweil.

The guy who's written about all the, like, the singularity stuff.

Or maybe it was that one or some other whatever related book, but I remember that

the thing that stuck with me was, we're not evolving fast enough.

We're just reacting.

I feel that's very true.

technology is picked up and is moving so quickly.

We don't have time to evolve with it.

We're just we're just trying to figure it out as it's thrown at us

and we're just these insane apes freaking out and being like it.

It makes pictures of Jubilee.

Now what do I do?

It's kind of warm outside today.

Know the, That's good.

Yeah. I mean, yeah, yeah.

And cut to us just reacting to all this, I,

it's just a new way to occupy our minds from the real horrors going on.

But I don't know, I, I can't,

I got gotta

and this is, this is the nicotine withdrawal happening again.

I'm getting another hot flash, but I've got to figure out a way

to better organize my time because it kind of came

to, I think, a really like a had this weekend

where I just I had I said enough is enough because I know

I know that I waste a lot of time

in general, but I never quantify it.

I will look at the AI stuff,

you know, on Instagram for 30 minutes.

And I think that's like not that much time.

And and who knows what it adds up to this weekend.

It was irrefutable how much time I wasted because first

I watched the Hillary Clinton deposition, in its entirety.

Posted by by PBS.

It was over.

It's 4.5 hours long of her answering questions,

and I started watching it.

And then for some reason, I couldn't stop watching it.

It's not even that interesting.

And I watched the whole thing,

and I was like, I cannot believe I wasted 4.5 hours of my fucking life.

And then I saw next to it Bill Clinton's was recommended.

So then I clicked on that one, and I watched that entire one,

and it was 4.5 hour, nine hours of Clinton testimony.

I watched this weekend a full workday,

just Clinton testimony.

And I

it's like when you when you get to that last bottle

and you drink your last drop of liquor and you say, I've had my last,

I've had my last drink, I've had my last whatever that was.

I'm definitely Clinton deposition, but

I can't I can't watch any of the shit anymore.

I can't watch the I stuff online.

I, I've got to make a serious change in my life.

It's a yes. Get rid of your phone.

I don't know what to do about.

I said get cable, but that's not a solution.

No. Anyway.

Again, this is just this.

This is nicotine withdrawals that are.

Fucking. Killing me.

Yeah, no, you're saying a bunch of crazy stuff

that you're not going to, you know, really go through with.

But I appreciate the

I like being here with you at rock bottom.

You want to make the change.

I get what you're saying,

but what the hell else are you going to do?

This, this this another thing to this this cluley.

Did you see this?

Cluley CEO dude, that you're a cluley the.

Yeah. The it's a note taking app now, right.

But it I don't it's it's run by a bunch of people

who look like they spiked women's drinks and clubs.

Those kind of people look like it.

Not saying that they do. Right.

But very possible they could be

this motherfucker, the CEO.

I his name was Roy Lee.

He admits to lying about the revenue

they were bringing in last year for an article.

Like when they were talking about this, they're bringing in all this cash

and there's they're building up all this hype on social media and stuff.

He's like, oh, yeah, I misspoke because I didn't think I was talking

to like a real person.

It was it was like someone from

who was interviewing them just a big rag interviewed them

and they and, and you just.

Lied.

Straight up lied.

Yeah. TechCrunch.

I mean, that's you kind of.

That's that's where we're at, though.

Now it's just

my my version of reality is different than yours. So.

And if whatever I lied, it's just a prank, bro.

Like, get over it.

I don't know, I don't like it.

But I'm pissed off.

I mean, I hate to be nihilistic about this whole thing, but it's like,

what can you do?

What can you do?

Other than just,

I guess, hope the justice system catches up to.

Eat the rich?

That's what I.

How how can you eat the rich when

there's so many layers between us and them?

I guess other than just start our own club where we say you can't

hang out with us anymore.

I got a

I think I have a cigar around here somewhere.

And don't go back to the oh,

is it like a placebo one or, a vape cigar.

Where he just bumps like.

This?

There are 30 cc's of nicotine into you.

I have this

this kind of wrench.

That kind of looks like a cigar. Okay.

If you're interested in just putting something in your mouth,

there's no in for sale.

For more than $50.

96.2% positive feedback.

I need to I need to message this.

The marketing guy that that,

talk to us.

I know I've been meaning to do that, but I'm really going to do it today.

And I'm going to ask him what the hell

his plan is, because I think there's some disconnect there.

And I'm basically going to say, this is what we need.

I am not good at working YouTube ads.

It's just a mystery to me because the ads we posted were all flagged

as election ads for whatever reason.

And so they're like, we're limiting the targeting you can do,

because election ads can only be, you know, targeted towards,

men or women a certain age and a certain location or something.

And it's like.

Maybe because it's just full of AI and misinformation.

That's what I thought, too. But but it didn't give it.

I appealed it and it didn't give a good reason.

So I have no idea.

So anyway, I'm going to get this guy looking at that

and see why we're being accused of election interference.

And then hopefully that'll help us with some of this.

Just sign up. Thanks.

Yeah.

Quick question.

Did you get are you using the new headphones I got?

You know, I'm using my own headphones.

I don't even know where the ones are. Oh, here they are.

Yeah, well, you got, humming.

So what?

Yeah.

Like, it's almost like Christmas every week.

You should be getting a new pair of headphones.

I believe, until April.

But I literally have a bag of headphones right here.

Yes, but. But you said.

Yeah, more will come because you keep losing them.

But at this point,

you're sending me so many, I could use them once and throw them away.

Yes. That's so as a company, we're, we're we're striving

for sustainability and making the world a better place.

I'm going to just keep buying stuff from Amazon

sending it to you and you throw it away into the garbage.

And then we make more AI, content and and ads and just.

Sucking up the water out of a small village so

we can make, David Lee Roth say funny things.

Actually.

I may have fixed.

A. Flaw in our entire, business model.

I think I make it on seed dance now and do some things.

Yeah. Still haven't been able to get that.

That working so weird.

I'm like, I, you know, I do this stuff for, you know,

I have to do some video stuff here and there for projects, but

there's a

guy who I talked to who's he's redoing the entire John Wick trailer with

Michael, Sarah as the protagonist, and he's just he's

just character swapping and he's doing all through see, dance.

I'm like, I'm behind on this stuff.

I can't keep up. And I'm, I don't know.

Well, I, I, NPR had some thing about the amount of energy

that it takes for, you know, different, generations

and the way they were equating it to was the time spent running a microwave.

And for a five second I video, roughly,

they calculated it to be running a microwave for one hour.

Is that for one five second video, is.

That good or bad?

What?

Overcooked anything in a microwave for an hour?

I feel like that would be overkill.

If you have 1000 watt microwave

and you ran it for an hour, the B

I think if it's not a one kilowatt hour that you've spent

and whatever, you get charged, what's the charge?

That's the kilowatt hours. Is this. Worth of electricity.

One kilowatt hour. Thousand.

To USD.

I should look at my light bill.

No, that's not right.

One kilowatt hour. Talk amongst yourselves.

Okay.

I think it's roughly $0.18.

$0.18 a generator.

I mean,

the money thing

means nothing, because that's

that's just a made up thing we created.

So it's like there's no real, like, intrinsic value.

It's more of like. She tell that to your mortgage company.

You know.

Every month I, you know, this is just made up.

This is, this is this entire paradigm, man.

It's just made up like cool.

You're sitting there taping up your front entrance.

we don't need money.

It's the same as rocks. You're in fucking California.

You could keep living in your house if you didn't pay for it.

They say that.

But then I feel like if would, I'd put out too much or I'd be like, I'll leave.

Yeah, sorry.

Yeah. You would.

You can have the house back.

there's the whole argument to like how much water uses a here.

There's one guy saying it's actually not that

much, and there's other people saying, well, it's more than it should be.

And then then the argument comes up like, well, what about beef?

And like, I can't do this again.

You know, like, shouldn't what, we supposed to all

be eating impossible meat because it, it would have got rid of

climate change entirely because we, we breed way too much cattle.

And the amount of water that I can save by, taking, you know,

a shorter shower just pales in comparison to what they used to make almonds.

So I try to recycle, but is it helping there I know.

Well no there's a, there's a piece of cheese on that box.

We can't recycle this.

You're you're useless. Go away.

I tried eating impossible meat for a while, but I can't.

I can't digest pea protein. So just it just,

Man, it's

just brutal when it when the the bomb comes.

Yeah. I mean, that's that's I don't know.

I don't know if that's our future, but beef keeps getting more expensive.

I can't just people walking around just shitting themselves

wearing their spacesuits because there's no atmosphere.

That's always the thing where

that future that's promised to us is never as good as we had hope.

So you see the movie like Contagion or Outbreak and like,

this crazy virus just destroys the planet.

And then we get Covid and it's like, there's a there's a speed bump.

It killed a lot of people, but it's not as dramatic as the movie sells it.

So yeah, it's it's that thing where, like,

we're going to be able to download our brains into a computer.

You're stuck as a, you know, toddler.

That's the most we could do it.

And you actually die quicker inside the computer.

And it's it doesn't really do much.

I don't know, they cloned like a fly's brain into a computer today, so.

Well, I saw a petri dish of brain playing doom the other day.

That's the.

One. Yeah. That's happening.

And then they got again.

I'm just reading the headlines of what they show me

so I it might I should investigate more.

But I'm again it's just it's like the thing of every week

there's a new cure for cancer, but it doesn't really result in anything

as epic, though.

And Well, it's a beautiful day outside,

and I should probably be, heading that way starting this week.

What are you putting out?

Well, I'm putting out the the subscriber highlight.

Okay, so I didn't actually write that.

That was you mimicking I because it felt like I.

I mean, there's some AI in it, but also it's not completely done yet

because there's some there's some texture I'm going to add to make it

a little more, have something to say and maybe call to action.

So I'm going to add that there and the

the blood piece make the problem is, is shortly I'm out by tomorrow afternoon.

So short weeks. Otherwise I would have the other things.

Just because the weather's so nice out today.

Yes, but.

And also tonight, I'm going to play pickleball for the first time.

And I think I'm going to do a special report on that

that'll come out either next week or the week after.

So it's what, I believe people are dying for.

It's the most requested thing, from small countries in between.

I have some theories on pickleball, which we will see whether they are

firmed or, we're, maybe I could be, you know, I'm going in with an open mind,

open mind, open,

open relationship, open everything, you know, into pickleball

just to see what comes out of it and who comes out of it.

Okay.

So I really don't want to go tonight.

I'll be honest.

I was fucking drunk when I agreed to.

I wasn't drunk, I had a few beers, and my buddy, he's

just got out of a long term relationship and he's looking to meet people.

And his thought was, well, pickleball, a pickleball league.

That'll be the way. And I was like, God dang.

He's like, do you want to be my pickleball partner?

And I assume he means just for tonight.

We'll we'll see what happens with that.

But anyway, that's a very, extremely special report that I'm doing,

and I feel like I have to this I have to find some cigar

and then go out in the garage before this happens.

Otherwise I'm going to I'm going to be like,

who was the

tennis player that would yell at everyone?

Andre Agassi.

No. Archer Agassi, Serena Williams.

Yeah, it was Serena Williams.

I don't know, I think I would yell.

Now I want to say Roger Federer, but I don't think that's right.

It's, he's from the 80s. It doesn't matter.

No one knows.

I don't know, but either way, I'm gonna yell at someone tonight, okay?

And it'll probably be a couple in, in some sort of swinging situation.

And so I'll probably get some some Audi keys

thrown at me. But.

Park this.

Wait for me back at the condo.

Tennis player yell.

They all know that's their thing.

No, it's like fencers.

They all they just they have that that scream about them.

It's it's fantastic.

And and Google I so useless now I Google in general.

Just anything is so bad.

It's so useless now that yeah 80s

yelling 80s is what I need to put in there.

I and then it's also it's doing the thing to.

Where John McEnroe.

At damn it.

All good.

The conversation is now enriched for you saying those two words,

putting them together and shouting them Thank you for your service.

He was fined $7,500 for shouting at an umpire.

They call them empires.

Yeah.

Well, that's what the Google I mean.

And for yelling it will.

Gaslight you into telling you like it's always had umpires.

So I know, I know it.

It was telling me some trying to print something on the new 3D printer.

And I was saying like, yeah,

I have a clog in this, this really small nozzle that I'm using,

they're like, no, you don't that that doesn't exist.

That, whatever printer you put in there is not real.

And I had to send a link to, like, the store page and like, here it is.

And they're like, so it does exist.

Oh, my God, do you. Like.

it's not only search, you now have to argue with search

in order to get the thing that you want.

Just some sort of answer and it's just like, oh man.

Well the worse

I mean, there's the the other end of it too,

is where you can make it second guess something.

It is very right about like where you go, like, you know, I just don't think

I haven't heard of that. I haven't. It's like you're right.

Maybe I shouldn't have spoke from such a place of authority.

Let me find some and then I'll go find some,

like Newsmax article or something and be like,

you know, it's just the worst fucking thing.

Yeah. Well, I was like the kid rock cruising.

I was like, hey, just.

I need a picture of this, like, fake movie poster kids, kids careers.

It's based on the kid rock reasons, like, I cannot make a face of a known figure.

And I said, I didn't tell you to use a known figure.

I just said, like, kid Rock has a cruise.

I just need a fake movie poster that looks like it's from it's based on his cruise.

You're the one.

So now I'm like, now I'm getting.

I mean, like, you're the crazy one.

You wanted Chris Rock in the photo and does that thing we're just does

dot dot dot.

And it goes, here's your photo. Fuck yeah.

I'm tired of I'm wasting too many microwave hours or arguing with you.

I can be I could be drinking so much water right now.

But I'm trying to go through your request anyway.

These are all the thoughts I'll be going through the fly and, the brain

when it thinks it's playing doom, but it's blowing our brains out. Yes.

I mean, what do you do when the robot dog attacks you?

Right? Like,

hit it with a microwave.

Like, what do you do?

I don't know.

call whatever Japanese manufacturer created. It.

And then Hey, why don't we go watch Black Mirror,

see if it makes it make me feel better about the future?

I'm going to go on a drive and try and get out these the the ten glyphs.

I like restless legs right now too.

From it it's the worse.

I'm so uncomfortable like right now I hope it's coming through that.

How uncomfortable and jittery I am.

It's not different from most of the conversations we have.

If that makes you feel better or worse.

Actually, it does make me feel better.

Well I'm going to schedule some stuff.

Let's let's get your thing up on Wednesday.

We'll get my stuff up on Thursday and then we can work on the newsletter

today ish. Yes. All right.

that should be good for just a weekly stuff.

I'll get this thing up some Murray actually. Maybe you're right.

Like, as were being consistent with releasing all this

because I'm having fun writing all this stuff

and doing these, like, actual interviews with people and all that, like,

maybe just think naturally, especially as they're get maybe just more

traffic and subscribers and the builds like that, some visual aspect.

I start I reached out to one of the writers of that Batman Dark Tomorrow game.

No response.

Yeah.

You got to keep trying.

That's what I found.

No, I don't do well.

I get such anxiety just sending the email.

So I'm like well if they, if they didn't they want to talk, they want to talk.

It's fine.

I got a rejection email from the Voyager crew

that, you know, I, I pitched them like, hey, you know, I'm doing this piece.

I'd really like to come and and just kind of, you know,

hang out with the crew that's been responsible for the

the furthest manmade object in the universe, you know, piloting it.

And, I'd like to talk to all these people.

I know they're kind of, you know, it's an older team.

It's a small team.

Not a lot of resources.

But I can come there and, I think a few weeks went by and then they responded.

They're like, Aaron, we really appreciate your enthusiasm for all this.

But due to some, you know, significant demands

on the current mission, we can't do that or something like that.

And I was like, you guys are fucking doing anything.

That thing does like two things.

It, you know, measures the temperature of its legs and,

and takes a blurry picture of, blackness every now and then and then it transports

that two kilobytes of data, 8

billion light years to, you know, Earth to where some guy uses

he probably uses Claude now to figure out how to give it commands.

Anyway, I didn't say all that in the message, but I,

I said something along the lines of, I think that I could find a way.

In there.

Conspiracy going on there

where you're going to find out that they all died years ago.

And if you uncover the fact that they've passed,

they can't keep cashing their Social Security checks.

And, yeah, NASA is going to be out $4,200 a month.

So, they don't want you coming in.

It's like this.

those Japanese, families who they keep collecting their,

you know, their 100 plus year old

grandmas, whatever, pension check.

And then they're like, wait, this person's 155 years old.

We should go check in on them.

And then they find this dust with around a newspaper

from the 1970s, and they go. Oh.

that makes me sad, because I was hoping we get something.

That's the only issue with all this.

Trying to do anything.

I don't know how journalists get people to respond to them.

They usually have.

They have legitimacy usually.

And that's why people respond to them.

Yeah, I figure they don't.

Yeah, well, I'm sending it from my null void email,

which most likely goes to spam.

I would hope it looks more professional, but yeah, either it goes to spam

or they go, oh, I can check out your website.

Nope, I would, I talk to you Kind of find that

the response I said, hey, Sandy, I'm a filmmaker.

And writers had a deep fascination with the Voyager mission

and the people behind it for a long, long time.

The next couple months, I'm putting out a short

fictional satire about the remaining Voyager

engineers demanding a long overdue raise and new breakroom refrigerator,

and holding the two Voyager spacecraft hostage in order to get it.

The story made me realize

how much I want to talk to the real people shepherding the mission.

I was wondering if you and JPL this, Johnson, Propulsion Laboratory

you got here.

Jet Propulsion Lab would be open to me talking to whoever on the Voyager

team is up for it.

And their day to day about their feelings on the mission, about my confidence

and using ChatGPT

to give Fortran and assembly language commands to the furthest

manmade objects in outer space.

This would be a educational piece separate from my aforementioned satire

that would cover the Voyager mission.

Okay, now that I read this, I.

Yeah, I think I see why you.

You showed your cards too early.

They don't care about the satire thing you wrote.

No, you should have.

They would have cared

if I had been like, I want to highlight the seven septuagenarians

you have using Morse code to communicate with Voyager.

I'm sorry, I,

I don't know if I would have given you

the same insight, but like, from their perspective,

they don't give a shit about your fans.

No, I know they don't.

And I've I've booked tons of these interviews in the past and I know better.

Yeah, I think I was just being like, cautious but loquacious when I said it.

I don't know you're going to.

Yeah, I you're two plucky I'm sorry.

Yeah, yeah.

And you coming and being like

I mean the first red flag is saying like I'm going to whatever you said

aspiring filmmaker.

Like, I own a camera.

Whatever you said. Like. No, I didn't say aspiring.

I said, I said, I am okay, not aspiring.

But then they I'm a.

Long past aspiring writer.

Like, let's see what sci fi movies this guy's made.

Oh no no no no.

Yeah.

That's right.

He doesn't care about space the way we care about space.

He cares about space in a fake way.

Space is a punch line to him.

Damn it.

I'm gonna message him again from a different email.

Yeah. Fan space dot blogspot, dot net.

No, Doug Kelsey's legit.

Hi. I'm an investment.

Entrepreneur.

I have a few irons in the fire, one of which is related to space.

Let's do lunch.

There we go.

I'd like to do a branding opportunity with Voyager.

I think the dream synergy, synergistic opportunities.

Yeah, yeah. This is. It. Yeah.

All right. Yeah, I'll send it from his email.

Okay. This is gone too long, but yes.

Use for still paying for the Doug Kelsey email.

Technically.

So you can use it. Okay.

I think that will be very funny.

I'm gonna get some sun.

It's tickling me.

And I will say to you, I reread the subscriber thing again

last night and I laughed out loud again.

the part at the 97% factually correct

or whatever it is, the, confidence rating.

I actually had a dream last night.

A weird dream that the the real member that were highlighting in it got super

pissed off that we did it and was like, this is not what I thought would happen.

And I don't remember how the dream ended, but.

Well, thank you for the time

in dealing with my sickness and I, I hope, I hope we can talk soon.

What am I are we breaking up?

What am I doing? Yeah, I.

Don't know, man. You're you're way too high.

Not high enough.

I'm coming down.

It's all the fog is kicking it. My.

The sinuses move the sinuses.

Pain move from the right nasal to the left one.

So now it's that weird kind of six stroke face you get where,

your one eye is closing and your one nostril doesn't work.

Sick.

It's not sick.

It's cooked.

I'm cooking over here.

Don't make me talk about the weather again, I gotta go, okay?

It's a nice day out. I'm going to go outside. All right.

Bye bye.