October 19 2026

Gelo.

Hi. How goes today?

Well, I was just reading

about the recent developments in the O.J.

Simpson case.

What's up?

What's going on?

Judge recently, I guess.

On on.

Hidden on, I don't know, unsealed.

That's the word.

Unsealed.

Some testimony and evidence from the case there.

Apparently, this guy,

was interviewed by

the police and everything was a

a drug runner, a mafioso felon who is a friend of al calling

who gave credible testimony that he was the accomplice to O.J.

Simpson.

And this guy, his name's Joey Ippolito,

and he apparently his his brother hid the knife.

All sorts of things.

I'm just sending you a picture of this.

Joey.

Ippolito, I want you to tell me who he looks like.

So what? Yours.

All right.

Interesting.

Yeah.

Does he look like who?

Who does he look like?

You can whisper it to me.

It's almost like an amalgamation of a few people.

It's almost like someone you would know who were thinking of.

But your memory of them.

Like in a dream.

Yeah. Yeah.

Very dangerous man.

So. But. Yeah.

So what you're saying is O.J.

didn't do it all himself.

But that's what he said in his 2007 book.

If I Did it, he said, I couldn't have possibly done it by myself.

Interesting.

He wrote about an accomplice, and, apparently this is

the guy he was talking about.

And that's a real interesting.

What if. Yeah,

but here's the thing is, is the, I guess the state

the prosecution had rested already by the time

this was brought to their attention, and they didn't want to pursue this,

I guess, line of evidence and and, discovery.

So they just let it go.

Yeah.

Well dang it, I think this might upset people that,

there was no justice that day.

Yeah.

Well, you know, this Joey Ippolito died.

15 years ago or 20, almost 20 years ago.

OJ is dead.

Yeah, nor McDonald's dead.

Norm McDonald is dead.

That's the real travesty in all of this.

I wish he just would have lived another 100 years doing O.J.

jokes, but.

Yeah, instead.

No, he was.

He was banned from television and just to be ripped off

by disciples of Joe Rogan.

I wish Norm MacDonald could have had this

Joey Ippolito on his Norm MacDonald podcast.

Just and just just talk to him

and never bring up the murders.

Just as like an interesting man who happened to know Al Cowlings.

And they just talk about sports the entire podcast.

I would have paid really good money for an audio book of

if I did it, as read by Nora MacDonald.

He's trying to just hold back his laughter for most of it.

Well, bits of commentary.

Side too.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Now when you,

when someone says I couldn't have done it alone,

I think, I think he might have had some help.

Norm was formative

in my young, young childhood.

That was my introduction to SNL.

Was the 90s Weekend Update.

Norm MacDonald and I would watch those on

VHS tapes on repeat, and it was always

just the best time, and everything else since then has just paled in comparison.

Norm MacDonald I always think about he had a bunch of great tidbits,

but he always said the perfect joke has the same.

The ending is the same as the beginning.

And the example was,

it was there was an SNL Weekend Update joke where he said.

Lyle Lovett and Julia

Roberts are getting divorced this week.

When Roberts was asked why the separation was happening,

she said, He's Lyle Lovett and I'm Julia Roberts.

It's just so, so stupid and so smart.

Yeah. It's great.

And 90% of it is delivery.

Yeah.

And the absurdity and almost the wholesomeness, like,

even when he was doing that, what's his name?

The I forget the the other Weekend Update guy who is before him.

Kevin Nealon.

Before him, maybe after Dennis Miller.

Yeah.

And he's talking about, you know, being

proud of your gay son.

Pulling out a photo of him.

Oh, when they're on the Dennis Miller live show.

Yeah. Yeah.

That wasn't on SNL.

Should have been.

He's like, how can you be proud of of of having a gay son?

It's not like something they, they worked at.

They just want more that way.

You know, it's not like they went to school or anything.

It's like, hey, you're showing off pictures.

You're you're your son.

You're like, oh, look, I say, he's a, the head of his class there.

And he, and he's a,

you know, a great athlete and, and, here's a picture of him sucking cock.

Yeah.

We're proud of our gay son.

Very good.

It was.

He was the best. Forever. The best.

Well, how do you feel about Tesla's flying car?

I just I just I feel stupid.

I just feel everyone is dumber.

Do you.

I had that feeling, too.

Like listening to people talk about it.

Watch people react to it. All this other stuff.

And my I am I.

I'm the crazy one, right?

I'm the one being like,

no one's going to drive.

This is not real.

It's shouting in a packed room and no one is hearing you.

Yeah, well, I, I've just I've just

I look at it and I,

my reaction is okay, well I'm sure it'll come out

along with the previous Roadster that they announced like ten years ago.

I just don't I don't know how you look at something like that

and not feel humiliated

because the person showing it to you obviously thinks you're dumb

and has no respect for you.

How do you.

Yeah.

How do you even engage with it?

You know the story, with the visuals, with everything,

and not feel it's almost a

ra***g.

You know, it's like, this is this person has does not think you are an intelligent

being, has no respect for you, couldn't care less and knows that it can.

He can show you this and you will lap it up like I just.

I'm going to go with gaslighting, but you use your words the way you want to.

I like my words.

To ask Claude to edit this episode and bleep all your mean words.

Oh, I just, I mean the visual.

Like, I want to see a commercial

where the guy is in his own head, he's stuck in traffic.

He's like, I'm just going to fly over this.

He does a bunch of backflips and then, you know, goes off a cliff,

just like just slowly falls into the ocean.

And he can't open the car because it's in, like, panic mode or whatever.

I want to see when it launches up.

And that first burst from a correction like little booster, that high pressure

sigh hits someone in the ears and blows out their eardrums immediately

on the street, just like just blood pouring out of everyone's ears.

Yeah.

And then it can only do about 3 or 4 moves before the tank runs out.

So it's in the middle of a spin, and then it just drops like a fucking rock.

Have you seen the the concept cars?

I mean, they don't call them concept cars, but the UAE

has their, like electric car.

I've seen the ones

like an airplane or something or a a a bottle.

They look like Mars rovers.

Let me see.

I think it's the Saudi Arabia.

I mean, when they're not getting attacked by Houthis.

Oh, the exo bot.

Have you seen this thing?

No, it's.

I guess maybe they do have cars, but

there are these there.

It's like that.

And then years ago, they showed this

car at a car show, and they're like, it's inspired by avatar.

And you drive it by, like, putting your hand in this goo

or this, like, membrane thing, and you just.

Oh, wait, was it the one that they showed they showed someone,

a president or someone and it was like an orb?

Is that what I'm thinking of?

No. Forget who made.

I think it was Mercedes.

But it, the, the, it was the.

Yeah it was a Mercedes.

It's called the vision a VTR for avatar.

Because a guess.

There's a tie in with James Cameron probably.

And again it's like this is never coming out and

it just, it looks like it kind of looks like an orb I guess.

Yeah.

It's like big weird round wheels and,

they look bulbous and they have like, lights coming out of them.

I'm looking at right now, this actually looks like

a Mercedes concept car from the 70s a little bit.

Not not the same, but I mean, it's a similar kind of gold wing wedge shape.

From this, I forget what that Mercedes

car was, but they didn't put it in production either.

It's just it's funny that they're like it's inspired by the Navy,

the cat like people and has a giant Mercedes logo in the middle.

It's just it's interesting.

And it's the big logo in the front and then a logo on the hood

because God knows you need that.

But anyway, this, this other one, I mean, maybe the Saudi Arabia one will happen.

The line never happened, so who knows.

But this is just maybe cars are easier at some point.

I don't know, but I'm saying this to you.

Either way, when I see all these things, I go, okay, neat,

that will never come out or a version of it will come out.

Even when Tesla debuted the semi trucks,

which I guess are actually happening, They've been working on that for a while.

I mean, Volvo and all of them have been like,

that's actually people don't follow that as much.

Like a buddy of mine was old Duff.

He was working on that stuff for a scan.

Yeah, back in the day.

And they had it like 10 or 15 years ago.

They're like, this is coming out.

And apparently it is. It's it's a

it's an interesting command though, right?

Because the batteries are so heavy

for a vehicle that's supposed to haul things.

Yeah.

So when two thirds of your weight is the vehicle itself,

it kind of it's a it's pretty self-defeating at that point.

This exabyte car looks like it was already in an accident.

It looks like a video game car.

It looks like it it drove underneath a semi.

I still think it looks I mean, it's it's basically a reverse Cybertruck,

but I still like it more than the Cybertruck.

Who is that guy?

There was a guy that, had the front part of his brain

collapsed or something, and he's just, like,

entirely a forehead that goes back.

This is what that car looks like.

The I think actually in there, like, release video that's on their concept

board.

It's there's a, there's a Cybertruck and it says make different.

He's driving it with his head pressed against the windshield.

Actually maybe he was the concept artist.

Regardless I see all those things and my logical brain goes

okay this is not coming out a version down the line.

Maybe like that sweet ass Hyundai.

I forget what it's called. Vision.

It's like that.

I forget what it's like

a hydrogen sports car, but it looks like it's from the 80s and it's awesome.

And I'm like, that's never coming out.

Maybe a version in some way, shape or form or something like that.

But then I guess every time Tesla does show something

other than the most recent Roadster, it does eventually come out.

It's just once it's doing backflips, and it requires

a giant nitrogen tank behind your head like none of this.

Not that it's practical matters, I guess, but it's like

no one's going to be able to use this and that's that.

I just, I don't know.

What it would probably be.

And the Chinese have this sort of the Chinese have a, a car that can jump.

I think it might be an EV too, but it can like, launch itself up a few inches.

You know, and hop I don't remember why it does this,

but it does this I could see first.

Yeah.

Tesla won't deliver on any of this bullshit

because it doesn't make any sense.

But it'll have like a limited

PSI tank that you can charge up that lets you hop or do something.

You know, it's like a stupid little Tesla quirk thing, like,

you know, I forget what some of the things you could do in the,

the s the you could make it fart or whatever, I, you know,

that kind of thing, but, like, it'll launch up a few inches or,

or shoot itself forward a few inches and that'll be it.

Yeah.

And then you have to recharge, fill up that tank with compressed air to,

you know, ten 000 psi or whatever, and have it on your balls.

Do you just do that at like a Home Depot or something, or do you go to like a

tire filling station?

I don't know if any.

If so, I have a really, really good compressor.

I don't know if I could,

if it has the ability or the power to compress to that psi.

I think it could do it to 200 or 500.

But like you're talking about crazy pressure

and I don't even know if it was just if it was compressed,

I assume it was compressed air shooting out of that car.

And not like an actual thruster type thing.

But no, it was supposedly they were

they were very conscious about the environment.

Well, building this thruster, according to the video I skimmed because.

It was shooting boiled Palestinian blood out of the thruster or something.

I'm sure.

To open the glove box.

You still have to go through, like a cumbersome menu, though.

Why? Why make that easy?

I don't know, I did test drive a car this weekend.

It's the first first electric car I actually liked.

Oh, I have to sneeze.

All right.

Tell me more.

This great car.

You're that allergic to to anything

that doesn't have a combustion engine in it?

Well, we'll get back to your test drive.

I was I drove around the car, Maggie, a bunch this weekend.

Like, a lot.

I was asking around, and as I did

this, like, big pool up a hill, like, really

hauling ass, I heard this.

Boom.

And I was like, what the fuck was that?

Michael Winslow?

So, yeah,

did my little song and I looked under the or popped the deck lid in the back,

and it was just a bolt that come off of coil pack,

and it had gotten down on the crankshaft pulley stayed there

a made the crankshaft pulley, like, even smoother

because it spun around the bolt, and then it shut the bolt back up

into the compartment. It was just it was just sitting there.

I was like, oh, that's that's cool.

And then I looked and all the other little tin

screws were missing because they had vibrated out too.

And I was like, what the fuck happened back here?

And, my quality control people,

I got to get them to either fire them or get them more money.

I want to I want to be a fly on that wall where you're just yelling at a mirror.

Yeah, but anyway.

Yeah. So, you test drove an electric car.

I did it was the Polestar for they are.

I, I didn't think I was going to get one, but basically

they're like half off right now.

Polestar.

Yeah.

You can get a used 2026 Polestar four

for about half of what it sells for

for like a dual motor long range version. Why?

Because they're not allowed to sell them in the US anymore.

Oh, yeah.

That got revoked. What?

Yeah.

Well, so the cars made in Busan, South Korea.

But the software, I guess calls home.

It calls China and Russia a lot.

Yeah. And I was talking to the guy at the dealership.

I'm like, yeah, that should be a pretty easy fix, right?

He's like, you would think I'm like, okay, well,

as long as they're half off right now.

Well, but every time there's a fucking trade war, your car won't start.

To potentially.

But with the reverse anything

GitHub repo,

I can probably just, you know, open source, the whole thing.

That would be pretty cool if, if you could do.

I mean, I imagine you there's got to be a way to get into it.

I would imagine easier than ever

because was it most cars have what is it, the ODB.

Obd2.

Obd2 that you plug in or whatever.

And it's like the car is just it's a giant cell phone.

So I am imagine jailbreaking it or doing something would

not be too.

I wouldn't do it because, you know, you're talking

somehow your car was still running with bolts rattling around in the engine.

I, I know electric car is a lot more finicky.

And if you, if you tap a curb funny, the thing might not start. So.

Yeah, it'd be awful to break something that you're making payments on for another

four years

or fun, I don't know, five?

No. But no, I'm.

I'm seriously considering it just because it's about time for a a second vehicle.

The only thing I know about Polestar is when I was

when I was doing the brand work for ferry, and they were about to, like,

go public with the company and start having people be able to rent the cars.

But they didn't have cars yet, so they sent the CEO out

with a credit card to go to go buy two pole stars.

And he's like, all right we bought our pole stars.

And like the entire company is, is these two cars

like we've been working on this like brand stuff of

like this is going to this is going to be Austin for.

No. The launch is going to be Austin LA, New York, San Francisco.

It's like the normal Dixie.

This was like Turo or

for like just renting electric cars or something like that. No.

Supposed to be leasing.

It was supposed to make leasing an electric car as easy as opening an app

and getting it the same day kind of thing, and there was no

there was going to be no obligation to the lease.

You could break it at any time and some other nonsense or whatever.

And it was supposed to be more affordable.

It was like 5 or 600 bucks a month or something.

I don't know, just all the shit.

And, and it was founded by

a fairy Porsche's grandson.

Who?

It was interesting.

He wanted to, like, basically show his family that he could do something and,

that something was buying two cars on a credit card after promising, like,

all these cities, that you were going to have this

basically like a dealership, you know, and it was going to like, you could just

go, you could do it all from your phone, the leasing,

and then take an Uber to the or maybe they pick you up.

Am I?

It was something crazy.

And then they take you to this

like almost like a Carvana type storage like showroom thing.

And then you just drive off in your Polestar.

And obviously it worked out

and all my shares are worth a lot.

Well,

I might be getting the second one, so who knows.

The great thing about that company, and I think

the statute of limitations are done now, but they,

I think they accidentally paid me a bunch of money after the fact,

but they didn't have any records and they didn't.

They didn't know, like, what they were doing anyway.

So I get this random email that's like, Aaron.

We may have sent you money, but we're not sure.

And I was like, yeah, you sent me money.

And they're like, okay, was that money we're supposed to send you?

And I was like, yeah, think so.

And they're like, okay.

Like it

wasn't even like they didn't know if they were supposed to send it.

Honestly, I didn't know if I was supposed to get it, but I just kept it.

And that's the way that went.

I just assumed

they wanted you to hold the bag of money.

They wanted a

some sort of paper trail for the FBI.

And when they caught ferry, Porsche's grandson, he's like,

no, this was not mine.

This is not my company.

This is you know, he gives him my WhatsApp because that's how we talked.

He'd message me at like three in the morning with ideas for,

I don't know, the next VW beetle he was making essentially.

And, no, but really like, there was this

he messaged like 2 or 3 in the morning because he was in on,

he was in a spa in like Austria or something getting a hand job.

And he messaged me and he's like, he wanted to show me the concepts

for the new car that his car company was designing,

and he sent it to me, and it was just a modern Volkswagen Beetle.

And he's like, this is gonna it's a.

Modular car.

It's the future. And all this stuff, blah, blah.

I'm like, man, this the blood runs

thick in this family as far as design goes.

But yeah,

that's a good time.

Was it was it the best of time is that that's when you had your three laptops

and you're in three meetings at once, right?

That's correct. Okay. That was a good time. Anyway.

Just to say this is really a I've only

driven two electric cars in my life.

One is a Rivian, one's a Polestar four.

Maybe there was a way to fix this.

But like they even warned me before I got in the review.

They're like, it's different.

It drives different because, you know,

like the regenerative braking is pretty aggressive on some of these cars.

Yeah.

And it was really aggressive.

And I was getting carsick and.

Like really hard brakes.

Really hard brakes.

And I was like, I'm used to just letting off,

you know, the throttle and letting like I coast a lot.

That's and that's how I've been I was taught to drive is.

Are in life.

You don't. Well, yeah.

I mean you go with the ocean.

Because I mean, you're, you know, when you're on the freeway, see

a lot of people either gassing or braking like, well, if I'm not getting.

People with their heads up their asses.

Like they're on their phones.

In between lanes. But yeah, I get it. Yeah.

Samsung braking.

No, I'm sure people in Texas drive so much better.

They're just. Yeah,

absolutely. You're right.

Best drivers in the country.

I think people are just bad drivers in general regardless.

We were driving the review.

I was like, I don't like this. It doesn't feel good.

It's a nice car, it's cool and all that stuff.

But for it's like an $80,000 car and it's like, I'm not.

That's just I was told they were affordable.

That is not affordable.

We test drive the pulsar. It drives like a car.

That's what

I liked is it has the regenerative braking.

We can turn it off.

So when you let your foot off the gas, it just coasts.

It's lovely.

It feels like a car. It feels like a vehicle.

It feels like what?

I don't know, it felt just overall the car felt nice.

The only the weird quirk, the weirdest quirk.

And you're going to hate this.

There's no back window.

So there's a camera in the back

that connects to the rear view mirror.

And that's how you see out the back.

I'm getting on bring a trailer right now.

So right now you can get

there's a 1990 Ferrari 348 for sale.

It's three days left.

It's got it's 35 grand right now.

And you might be asking yourself, why is only 35 grand with three days left?

Well, it's technically a non running project.

However, what we could do is.

So it's an engine out, it's probably a belt service it needs.

So you get this car I think about another 8 or 10 grand into it

and then you'd have a perfectly working let me see how many miles are on it.

38,000 miles. It's got air conditioning.

It's that it's got the coveted Nakamichi stereo.

And more importantly, you could have your dignity,

as opposed to whatever the hell you were talking about. The.

What is it? It's a camera for.

It's a camera car.

Yeah, yeah. This is the thing, though. It

it actually looks like a car from the future.

That's what I like about it.

It's got the nice Swedish design and, like, I'm not like you.

I don't have the love for

motor oil and grime and all those things.

I. I do enjoy the manual nature of a fun car to drive.

The problem is, driving in LA is normally not fun.

You don't drive on the right.

I drive on the roads that are given to me and most of them are pretty beaten up.

We drive ten minutes west and you're out.

You're like in the canyons.

I drive ten minutes west and I'm on my way to be stuck

in traffic for another hour to get to where I'm trying to go to.

Yeah.

So you it may sound if you drive at 4 a.m., it's great.

It's pretty freaking empty.

But if you need ever I went I wouldn't had a

I had to go drive up to Santa Clarita, that is

I think 30 miles north of me went on Friday

because that was the only time I could leave, finish work,

couldn't leave until about 5:00, two hours to get up there.

Yeah. So yeah that's LA.

And now you want to do this

in a, in a car with with no rear visibility.

It has rear visibility.

It's covered in like 11 cameras.

And it will always work.

Yeah. Yeah

I don't know I'm,

I haven't made any final decisions yet.

I took the guy's card and he seemed pretty sad that,

they're not gonna be able to sell pole stars anymore.

How much does this pole star cost.

Believe 36 K.

Oh, really? Yeah.

So with current.

Interest rates,

you would be paying 500 bucks a month or 600 bucks a month or something.

So 500.

It's about what I was paying to lease a volt in 2017.

Another car that you loved.

Yeah, man, what a suppository on wheels that was.

It was.

It was fine.

It was fine.

It worked most of the time.

It worked for me because my work was only the office, you know, fun house.

Office was only, I don't know, like ten minutes away, something like that.

And so.

And I could charge at the office

until everyone else got a plug in hybrid or an electric car.

And I couldn't charge my car anymore because apparently

the idea was too cool to pass up on.

But either way, it's like I, I would almost never use gas unless I need it to.

So like it worked for most of the time.

And then in the pandemic a bunch of rats ate the edit the wiring

and it was like a $3,000 fix, which insurance covered, thankfully. But

yeah, don't don't leave your car.

To be fair, Chevy.

Shouldn't have used Gouda insulation for that car.

That was a oversight.

Yes, but it was affordable.

Very, very affordable.

Anyway, all that to say,

I'm not completely against the idea of going electric.

I'm not.

I'm not some Neanderthal.

I just, the options are just I.

Okay, I guess the pole star is a, you know.

It's also not a Tesla.

So that's that's a big plus.

That's the thing.

It's like it's not that's what's good.

It's not a Tesla and all that.

But, yeah, I just it, it hasn't been till recently.

In the last few years there's been anything good electric.

And then it's, it's,

I mean, I don't really have a, a place to charge it

and also I just, I can't get over the fact of like,

I don't know if it's like this with what is like this with Polestar.

Someone else is controlling your vehicle and I hate that.

But they're not. It's they don't speak my language.

So it's okay.

That's even worse.

Because when you're pleading with them, you know, you're like, don't shoot.

Don't shoot. Yeah. That's.

Yeah.

They don't it doesn't. Know yet. And yet.

There's just something not I don't it's.

I. Also does it have a does it have a

a camera inside facing you

like judging whether you're awake or sober and all that.

Yeah it does have one of those. I did.

But I was watching a bunch of videos over the weekend.

You can turn it off, but.

Every time you get in the car.

No, it's a one time thing.

It basically says, hey, if you're looking tired,

it'll say, you should pull over.

But that's it.

But and it is constantly connected to a, like a cell tower.

So your points are noted.

I'd rather take my car with its vomiting bolts out.

I know you would, because at least you had a hand in it.

And again, like, I don't know, I, I didn't

I like new technology.

I, I like things that are not Teslas.

It's more of a well, let's just,

you know, try this for 5 to 6 years and see how it goes.

Yeah.

I don't mean to be a stick in the mud. And I'll probably.

No, no. Get it.

I will.

When I pick you up from LAX you're going to

you're going to be like, oh wait a minute.

What a nice car.

And then you're going to do something mean to it.

Yeah.

And I'll enjoy when we have to stop off to charge on the way back to your house.

Only got to stop twice.

And look, it's a half hour at the most.

One thing I do like is that they're finding out

the batteries are lasting longer than they thought and all that.

It's not the five year doomsday scenario that they were saying.

That was honestly part of it.

That did make me start to look at them more realistically.

And also the fact that

they don't retain their value at all.

And so if you get a used one, it's very much in your favor that that guy

who's trying to buy those pulsar twos, those cars cost $16,000 now.

Yeah.

With like 10,000 miles on them.

If only they had held out as a company.

Just held out for their moment.

I do.

I just I feel like I'm, I'm crazy.

I was having dinner with my family and I was talking about like,

because they were like, oh,

you used to love Teslas. And I'm like, I like

I was always interested in the idea of the electric car.

And when we walked out of the restaurant, there were 3 or 4 cars parked in

front of us, three of which were Teslas, and they all look the same.

And part of my bigger issue is that we've talked about this before.

They're just sexless mannequins.

There's no personality to it.

There's they just they look like things.

What? What about the Porsche Taycan?

I've heard good things, but with the direction

I'm looking to take my life, I don't see myself driving a Porsche.

Asshole.

I'm sorry.

You want to talk about depreciation?

I mean, this is.

This is where it's at.

I knew a guy who sold his.

It's like a 1986.

It was a it was a Porsche you would have liked.

That's all I know. It was.

It was classic. It was fast.

It was cool.

And he sold it to help fund his documentary that I was helping him make.

Yeah.

And then he immediately turned around and bought another, newer porch.

Yeah, yeah, he bought a career in nine over 11.

Because he couldn't be stopped. No.

And he went.

He took me going 90 through a school zone one day.

Yeah.

Well, as that classic saying goes, the difference

between a Porsche owner and a Porsche on the porcupine

is that the porcupine, the pricks are on the outside. But.

But you get a Porsche.

Takes a long time to get there. But I like the sentence.

Yeah I know.

Well, I was looking at these Porsche as I was saying the joke, but look,

you get a 2022 take on in

some sort of red with 25,000 miles.

It's $58,000.

That.

Great.

Check out this game I'm sending you. So

I haven't done

I'm still on impressed list.

Like forgot you're making the game. I'm not making this.

This is not me making this.

Oh, but this does it.

It's called slam tank.

This to me, looks like I might have to rescind

my my wonder burg game of the year choice.

Because if this game does come out by the end of the year, I think it.

This will 100% be my game of the year.

But it's a fighting game.

But you're a tank, but you don't move like a tank.

You spin around a lot and.

It looks like you, you.

It's like someone with a peg leg.

Yeah, that's like turning around on their peg leg.

It's just.

It's so insane.

The thing drifts and spins and

it it looks like someone made, like, a devil may cry

type fighting game or something,

but they just switched the character model out with a tank, right?

So I immediately found the company who's making it, and I was like,

please add me to your list.

I'd love to do a review on this game, whether I'll actually do one or not.

Who knows?

They actually got back to me and they're like, oh, by the way,

demos coming out, you should play. I was like, okay. Am I?

Because this looks like a game built by people with ADHD.

For people with ADHD, it.

Is exactly what I want in life.

Yeah.

It's pretty damn cool.

Slam, Tik slam. And it's a great name.

Yeah. It's a great name.

There was a game that came a long time ago called Dive Kick

because they only had two buttons dive and kick.

Yeah, I remember that one.

Yeah. Slam went on to long.

Like a misogynist describing his overweight girlfriend,

like, yeah, that's my slam tank.

Instead of like, saddle bags or something like that.

Yeah, or slam piece.

My slam tank.

Slam poetry.

I'm. This is fun.

Yes, I'm.

I'm just all about this.

So I'm. I'm probably gonna

potentially make another video this week if I've got time.

But if anything, I'll, I'll do a little write up on this, because.

God, this looks amazing.

Duff sent me a game that I might be reviewing as press release, too.

It's called Hood Warfare two.

Oh yeah, I almost bought that.

That's on my wish list. Duff sent it to me.

Rival gangs fight for control of Chicago.

Pick a side, customize your weapons and fight other players across.

Right.

It's probably just GoPro strapped on real people's heads.

No, it's it's like a rip off of Call of Duty.

But all the maps are like, in, like, the suburbs

or like, in, like, like gang Town.

Yeah. I'm looking at the thing.

I might have to play this.

If it's only, like five bucks.

I'll play that with you.

I'm also looking at these screenshots of Slam Tank.

There's this one screenshot where it

it looks like graphics cards are exploding out of something that it killed.

Yeah. And there's, like, a motherboard in there.

I don't know, this looks great.

I'm so. Okay.

So that can we can play against each other and we play this hood warfare

two against each other.

I don't know if we can play Sam Slam tank together.

I think this is a single player sort of thing.

I'm sorry, but I will buy, Hooded Hood War.

Was it called.

Hood Warfare two?

I don't I don't mean to be too observant here,

but it looks like you can't play as a white person.

You can only play as a person of color.

And I think that might not be the best.

I think it makes. Makes you.

Yeah.

Also, yeah, it's Hood Warfare two.

I never played warfare one.

Yeah I don't know if that.

Is like they should have some white people on meth running around or something.

But they did make a hood warfare back in 2023.

But look it's a $6 game.

Yeah I I'm all about this when the next PlayStation is going to cost like $1,400.

Yeah.

Like you can probably play this thing on a your phone, but.

This game looks pretty awesome.

It looks great.

It's it's Call of Duty.

Basically if the only level was Nuke Town,

that probably doesn't mean anything to you, but.

A Chicago neighborhood.

It's a map from Call of Duty Black Ops,

which is like a Cold War thing, and it was like a nuclear test town.

And so it was like the smallest map ever, though

it was basically two houses in a mock street,

and you just ran at each, like people would rack up 80 kills a match

or whatever, because it was just so insane.

But it it's popular for that reason.

But this looks like that without, you know, the excuse of.

Like, the Meatpacking District is what you're playing like those kind of levels.

Basically.

This looks fucking okay.

Oh yeah.

Because, yeah, kill confirmed is called chain snatch.

You kill someone and you take their jewelry.

Oh, you should take their shoes, too.

That's a good idea. Yeah. Maybe I'll.

Maybe I'll make suggestions for Hood Warfare three.

It's got idea. We can do the marketing for it.

It does look like it needs help.

Whatever.

Eastern European nation who's made this?

I that's what I'm saying.

Like, it's all the characters.

From what I'm saying, it's only black people.

And I could see someone in Slovakia being like, this is a Chicago.

This is.

What do you mean? Like.

This is what these people look like? Yeah.

I'm looking at trap.

Star Games is an anonymous indie game development studio known for creating

the hood, where for multiplayer first person shooter franchise.

So I have never heard of an anonymous game developer.

I mean, if it's

Eastern European then no, but they usually claim, don't they?

They go like, this is a, you know, a Polish game or.

They are on.

I've never heard of this website.

Game game analytic news game game a lot of news I don't know whatever.

It's estimated that the game has made $2.7 million.

What? Yeah.

Good for them.

We make a game.

What would you make a game about?

I'd make a.

I'd make some game, I don't know.

Immediately.

Well, there's like a like I was talking to you the other day about the hitman.

What?

I was talking yesterday about it like an old school

hitman that you have to.

He's like a Scottish hitman.

He's basically like the lead singer.

AC, DC, essentially Brian Johnson, but he is retired.

But they're they're going to build a data center in his village in Scotland.

So the residents say, you gotta do something, McManus.

You know, whatever his name is.

And so he comes out of retirement to go kill like tech bros.

But the thing is, he's so, like, old school that he's easily

able to infiltrate these, like, tech conferences and stuff

because they're looking for all this high tech,

like they're looking for drones and stuff.

And a drone to him is just like a woman that just goes on and on and on.

He doesn't even know what a drone is.

So he's using like old fashioned

like TNT and wired strangle people and all sorts of stuff like that.

And you're basically you're you're tasked with going and finding the Zuckerberg's

and Bezos's and Altman's and stuff like that as,

like a 75 year old retired hit man with a Scottish accent

who who gets tired easily and is constantly chain smoking.

Like, that's the kind of game I'd like to build.

Okay. I mean, I think I've told you this before.

Maybe this is maybe the time I make.

I finally make my Duke Nukem game.

We've talked about it before, but yeah, now, now

that Claude can decompile everything, maybe I.

We finally do that instead of your thing.

You talking just gave me a separate idea.

That I tuned out a little bit, but because, I mean, like,

I, I mean, it sounds more like a movie than a game, but.

You think people wouldn't play a game like that where.

It's a very. That's very complicated.

I think you need if you and I were to make a game,

I feel like it would have to be.

I don't know, like, it it

it have to be an asset flip.

What does that mean basically to talk.

If you use any engine like go dot or unreal

they have the they have asset stores. So

instead of you saying like I want to make a magical world,

oh great, someone already made a bunch of cabins

and chanties and, a fantasy

like world that I can just with assets that I can just drop into my game.

Yeah.

So they call these, there's a lot of games.

It's going to get a lot worse because unreal is free.

You can just download it, use it.

Unless your game makes over $1 million, knowing

that you don't have to pay any fees on it, which is like very it's a great way

to incentivize people to work with it.

It's kind of a bloated engine at this point,

but there are like billions of assets that you can download import.

And so a lot of these people make what they call asset flips,

which kind of hood warfare kind of looks like.

Yeah, a little bit.

They just.

Took a GTA four type thing or something.

I don't know I mean it's it's very Call of Duty ask.

But like I very much doubt any of those assets are custom.

They might be or maybe tweaked a little bit

but most likely found on some store paid 5000 bucks, whatever assets.

And but like anything you would want typically reload animations, fighting

animations, caustic effects on water

like you can all by those all a cart.

So we would have to do that.

So you basically when the game you're talking about though is like mechanically

so complicated because you're talking about basically making hit man.

Yeah.

And there's so many ifs and what's in this than that going on.

And you have to figure out the game logic of what is this character

doing here and this.

And like there's so many things that can go wrong there.

Yeah.

So but maybe Claude could do it I don't know.

I mean I've done I've made a pretty complicated app with

it took me 2 or 3 months, but it was a lot of a lot of logic, things

that were quite complicated, I don't know, I mean, also you

it might you might need to convince it

to, to go around some ethical things when you're telling it

to kill its creator.

I think if it knows it's a video game, it's probably fine.

I don't know, I think, well, I mean, asset flipping sounds

really the thing with the games.

Like if if the hook is good and the writing is good,

people will forgive the asset.

Engine recycling, I think. Right. Oh, 100%.

And then I think at that point to

what you do is you create a proof of concept.

Yeah.

So you create this thing,

you put it out on here or you do a demo on steam, whatever.

Get people to play it.

You get some actual talented people to look at it and go, oh, that's cool.

And you raise some money around it

and then you pay actual developers and make a real video game.

Yeah.

So that could be a service to the community.

But what about those, like three guys who made the World War One game?

I don't know what you're talking about.

What? Verdun?

No. No.

It's called over the top.

With Sylvester Stallone. No,

no, this game is.

I played it at dusk the other day.

It is.

I'm trying to find the actual.

Okay. I'm here.

I want to say it was made by, like, three people or seven people.

Flying squirrel entertainment.

But, I mean,

they've got a publisher.

So that's also important because you got to get self-publishing is really hard.

You can do it.

But what do you mean?

They have a publisher?

Publishing? Yeah.

G. G.

Yeah.

This looks like they just made this publishing for themselves.

Potentially.

Why would they do that?

It's like you have an LLC or something.

So this was made by three guys or.

I don't. Don't call me on.

It's less than ten. Hold on. Over the top.

It's still eight more than what we have.

Don't ruin it right now.

I'm the wiki.

Okay?

Yeah, well.

Just moe down.

Germans looks fun.

I mean, it was pretty fun.

How many

developers?

I guess that wouldn't be the right term, but for for people.

Interesting for people made this very.

You should see the game. It's very.

I'm looking at it right now. It looks cool

and they're okay.

So they're doing early access.

They have like a content roadmap I see.

How Over the Top sold 200,000 copies

in just two weeks with a four person dev team. Two.

Yeah, yeah.

So you naysayer,

What if we made a World War one Dark Souls game?

People will buy a souls like, no matter what.

Dark souls.

I want to say.

It's a video game I played 20 years ago.

Is it? Is the vampire man.

Close enough?

It's like dark fantasy type thing, but

it's a certain type of gameplay style that people just cannot get enough of.

You slap anything on there.

Oh, maybe your murderer game we do with souls like,

it's just it's a really punishing, unforgiving

gameplay style, but it's like, highly rewarding if the gameplay is tight.

Okay, I just I just want to write clever lines

for the hitman and have him doing fun missions.

So this what we could absolutely do

is a visual novel.

Those are easy.

Why is your dog barking?

He's dreaming.

He's dreaming of other conversations.

Oh. Oh, you.

Well, we should end this because I got to jump onto another call. But

we should potentially.

I think

maybe because we can do it also.

Did you mess with that distill thing yet?

I have not, I'm sorry.

No. It's okay.

I'm just saying it's so I might.

This might be the one and only time I believe anything in a show notes

or anything like that.

But, this thing distill.

I don't exactly understand how it works,

but, you know, like the caveman thing with prompts.

Yeah.

So it's like that word.

It just it really dumbs down your prompts

and it uses Jeb a bunch, which is that, like,

whatever the I forget what it is.

We're cursive learning or something like that.

But basically the thing is a token saver.

So, I don't know.

I'm working on a project right now and has like a million

content million

token limit or something like that, or context window.

I'm barely over 200,000, and it's been running

about 8 to 9 hours a day for three days.

This seems like an API that can connect to clod or something.

Or it's there's a GitHub there.

You install it via the terminal, and then you just run the command to still,

and then you connect your cloud account or whatever or whatever

you want to use, and then it just sips credits

and then all the great thing is

so you have your main model and then your worker model.

So I'm using fable as like my main one and then opus as my worker,

because opus is also really good with the tokens.

So and I have a working prototype.

It's not great.

I won't show you yet, but the thing is pretty cool.

Like. Yeah, it's just there.

I'm. I'm making something I've always wanted,

and I don't know if I'll share it with the world,

but I'll share it with you, because why the hell not?

And I'll share it with the world.

Thank you, I appreciate that.

Maybe get my Twitter account back. Yeah.

I think we can.

I think it's possible they didn't.

They did not delete a thing.

Everything is still there.

Okay, well, you can help me walk through it.

Yeah.

I mean, I did

some research on it and it says it doesn't look like your accounts been hacked.

It's just sitting there.

Okay, well, I thought someone is using your name right now, so.

Again, I, I gave you all the login stuff. So

you have it all and it should go to, like, your phone number and all that stuff.

So okay.

Just throwing it out there for whoever wants to hack us.

Yeah.

Any Mr.

Robots out there?

Yeah.

All right.

Well, to be continued.

Well.

Yeah, I want to make a game now.

Me too, I do, but I don't.

We need to get two other, nice Polish people to do it for us.

I know some, so we'll see.

I do too.

Okay. Well, we'll chat later.

Cool, man.

Thanks for being part of my Blood Boy video.

Yeah. Five by.