Adam K: Hello, monsieur.
Aaron: Yeah.
Adam K: Yes. Yes. Have you been on hold long, sir?
Adam K: How can I help you?
Aaron: Um, I need to know what the melting point of gold is.
Aaron: Just kidding.
Aaron: I figured it out yesterday.
Adam K: It's pretty, pretty low.
Adam K: Actually, I think you can do it with a campfire these days.
Aaron: Actually, it's it's not that low.
Aaron: I think it's like two thousand degrees.
Adam K: Yeah.
Aaron: Um, but if you have no way to control the temperature of,
Adam K: Mhm.
Aaron: say, the flame, you're using
Adam K: Yeah.
Aaron: the torch, uh, act act is what it's actually, but,
Adam K: Yeah.
Aaron: um,
Adam K: The thing used for girders.
Aaron: yeah.
Adam K: Mhm.
Aaron: Um, now I know why the towers
Aaron: fell because of, uh, the intense
Aaron: heat.
Adam K: Because someone was trying to
Adam K: work on their own personal gold
Adam K: project.
Aaron: Yeah. In the middle of a terrorist attack.
Adam K: Oh, boy.
Adam K: Well, how are you?
Aaron: Um, actually, uh, under the weather, so not
Adam K: You,
Aaron: great.
Adam K: you and everyone in my close circle.
Aaron: Yeah. I'm told it's Covid season again, but I, I thought I got
Aaron: the, the vaccine
Adam K: Mhm.
Aaron: and then, um.
Adam K: Which. Which model though?
Adam K: Which year?
Aaron: Yeah, well that was the thing I checked my CVS and, uh, it was
Aaron: two years ago that I did that.
Aaron: I was like, I just did that.
Adam K: Mhm.
Aaron: Nope. Um.
Adam K: But the fun thing with it being the year twenty twenty six is it
Adam K: could be measles.
Adam K: It could be some weird salad virus, norovirus.
Aaron: Yeah.
Adam K: Um, you know, everything's just coming back and arguably will
Adam K: make us stronger or all dead.
Adam K: Maybe we
Aaron: Oh, that.
Adam K: won't have to wait on the AI.
Adam K: What do you would you freak out about?
Adam K: What did you forget?
Aaron: I gotta, I gotta, uh,
Adam K: Meeting.
Aaron: remember to redo
Adam K: Uh.
Aaron: my voter registration.
Aaron: That just reminded me.
Adam K: The thing you posted telling everyone else to remember.
Aaron: Well, do as I say, not as I do.
Aaron: Uh,
Adam K: Um.
Aaron: I need to figure out how to vote.
Adam K: Usually by showing up.
Aaron: Yeah, well, I think you can, like, even if your registration
Aaron: is fucked up.
Aaron: I think you can still show up and they'll sort it out, or
Aaron: they'll beat you with batons when you're there.
Aaron: I can't remember,
Adam K: I was going
Aaron: but.
Adam K: to say.
Adam K: So the process now is you.
Adam K: They delegate you an Ice agent
Adam K: and you talk beforehand, and
Adam K: they go in the voting booth with
Adam K: you and
Aaron: Yeah.
Adam K: they help ease the process.
Adam K: And if you're
Aaron: Yeah.
Adam K: having any sort of trouble, um, they will break your hands and
Aaron: They'll tase your balls.
Adam K: yeah, until you, you hit the right bubble or whatever.
Adam K: However it's done, I don't know, I vote by mail like a
Aaron: Do
Adam K: Civil
Aaron: you.
Adam K: War
Aaron: Do
Adam K: veteran.
Aaron: you.
Adam K: Uh, yeah, they just sent it to us.
Adam K: I mean, I could just go to the church around the corner.
Adam K: Sometimes I do that.
Aaron: Yeah.
Adam K: Um, but then I have to wait in line.
Adam K: I gotta talk to people and, you know, talk to the Ice agents.
Adam K: I don't want to do that.
Aaron: Yeah. Um, that's I've never
Aaron: voted by mail and I here's the
Aaron: thing.
Aaron: Uh, I don't trust it.
Aaron: Not because of, of Donald Trump,
Aaron: just because of, um, my
Aaron: inability to.
Aaron: I need someone there.
Aaron: I need a septuagenarian there pointing at what I need to do.
Aaron: So I make sure I do it right.
Adam K: Okay.
Aaron: And I just know if I send it in
Aaron: by mail, I'm going to do
Aaron: something wrong.
Adam K: Okay.
Aaron: Not that the process is flawed, but I just, you know.
Adam K: Ken Paxton wins by one vote, which
Aaron: Uh.
Adam K: could have been changed by one
Adam K: sick man with all sorts of
Adam K: diseases.
Aaron: I always thought it would be
Aaron: like, it's a good setup for
Aaron: something where it's, there's a
Aaron: recount and there's, they know
Aaron: before the recount, it was one
Aaron: vote.
Aaron: And they they decide it's this
Aaron: one person that they need to
Aaron: convince.
Adam K: Well, wouldn't
Aaron: Um.
Adam K: it be
Aaron: Yeah.
Adam K: three people?
Aaron: How's that?
Adam K: To tip the vote one way or the other?
Adam K: Or would that be more interesting?
Aaron: Yeah.
Adam K: It was like.
Aaron: I guess if you want to shit all over my idea, it would be.
Aaron: But
Adam K: I'm
Aaron: actually,
Adam K: just.
Aaron: it was just something I came up
Aaron: right then, so I'm not even
Aaron: holding to
Adam K: I'm
Aaron: it.
Adam K: guessing you watch jury duty or
Adam K: that recent trial of that woman
Adam K: in a wheelchair drowned all our
Adam K: kids.
Aaron: Yeah. Um. Was she in a wheelchair?
Adam K: I thought she was.
Aaron: I always say don't trust the disabled.
Aaron: Now I'm getting reaffirmed with that, so.
Adam K: Arguably the most dangerous when left unattended.
Aaron: Um,
Adam K: That's
Aaron: yeah.
Adam K: why we keep them in place.
Adam K: What?
Adam K: What's your point?
Adam K: What are you trying to say?
Aaron: It would be great to read, but
Aaron: use Pauly Shore again and do
Aaron: Basically the story of this
Aaron: trial.
Adam K: Mhm.
Aaron: And it's like, listen, I just think there's something, Brody,
Aaron: about drowning your kids, huh?
Aaron: Broseph.
Aaron: And everyone's like, shut the fuck up.
Adam K: Yeah.
Aaron: We
Adam K: They
Aaron: want
Adam K: just
Aaron: to get out of
Adam K: they're
Aaron: here.
Adam K: just beating him up.
Adam K: Look, as someone who survived a jury trial, uh,
Aaron: Mhm.
Adam K: a civil suit, which was boring as hell.
Adam K: I understand you sent me that
Adam K: video where it was basically
Adam K: like a video game of them voting
Adam K: on that.
Aaron: Yeah.
Adam K: It was a choose your own adventure, which I think is just
Adam K: the peak of meme culture now.
Adam K: Is that where we're making fake
Adam K: video game videos of real life
Adam K: tragedies?
Aaron: You
Adam K: Uh.
Aaron: know what sucks is, like, it
Aaron: probably be a fun game to play,
Aaron: but by the time you got it into
Aaron: some sort of, like, workable
Aaron: game,
Adam K: Oh. It's over.
Aaron: people
Adam K: Yeah,
Aaron: don't give
Adam K: yeah.
Aaron: a fuck anymore.
Adam K: No, it's it's like by the time the Slenderman movie comes out,
Adam K: people have moved on.
Adam K: You you took too long, people.
Adam K: I'm sorry.
Aaron: What would be a great game to make is, um, uh, uh, the so for
Aaron: twenty twenty twenty nine, uh, when the, I guess the transfer
Aaron: of power happens, you, I don't know what you would call it
Aaron: because I don't know if that's on January sixth again, but you
Aaron: create a game where you're trying to get into the capital
Aaron: and you can play either as Maga or as liberals, and you're
Aaron: trying to to storm the capital and get in to stop the vote, I
Aaron: think that'd be a great game.
Aaron: I think there's time
Adam K: If
Aaron: to
Adam K: you
Aaron: make
Adam K: play
Aaron: that
Adam K: as
Aaron: game.
Adam K: a liberal, you're just sitting on your in your living room
Adam K: watching it on TV.
Aaron: Well, you're on Reddit posting
Adam K: Yeah.
Aaron: saying someone should do something.
Adam K: You gotta power up your upvote ability.
Aaron: Um, it's like, God, I knew this was happening.
Aaron: The America is over.
Aaron: And it's like you said that fifteen years ago.
Aaron: But I mean, but really, this time it really is.
Adam K: Maybe it's been over for a long
Adam K: time and you're just now
Adam K: noticing.
Aaron: Yeah,
Adam K: thoughts
Aaron: that seems like a Reddit comment too.
Adam K: are.
Adam K: I mean, again, to change often is a slow burn.
Adam K: Um, I know we want to just flip a switch and be like, yeah,
Adam K: it's, uh, democracy's gone now, but it's like, okay, well, you
Adam K: just, you slowly start letting money into politics.
Adam K: It's like, it's kind of clear what's going to happen.
Adam K: Are we, are we that naive?
Aaron: I think I'd call the game insurrection twenty twenty nine.
Aaron: And basically it's kind of like
Aaron: a Madden thing, maybe even have
Aaron: John Madden doing the call, you
Aaron: know, as,
Adam K: Well,
Aaron: as
Adam K: should be Nicolas Cage doing it
Aaron: he
Adam K: to
Aaron: just
Adam K: promote
Aaron: comes
Adam K: the
Aaron: in
Adam K: movie.
Aaron: as, as a almost like a Clippy type or something
Adam K: Um.
Aaron: like that.
Aaron: It's like we're in two hours in which I don't know, what would
Aaron: John Madden be?
Adam K: There's
Aaron: What is
Adam K: a bit
Aaron: Frank?
Adam K: more fat.
Adam K: No, I don't know.
Adam K: That was.
Adam K: I don't know what that was.
Aaron: Here's the thing.
Aaron: Going in the capital there going in here, and then they're going
Aaron: in the side and then they go.
Aaron: No, I was
Adam K: Yeah,
Aaron: Frank Caliendo's version.
Adam K: I
Aaron: That's what
Adam K: don't
Aaron: I
Adam K: know.
Aaron: needed.
Adam K: Just do do.
Adam K: Hey, what's his name?
Adam K: Kocel.
Adam K: That's an
Aaron: Yeah.
Adam K: easier one
Aaron: Howard Cosell.
Adam K: that we
Aaron: Um.
Adam K: could sell or do.
Adam K: Uh, I don't know.
Aaron: How hard would it be to make that game?
Aaron: Can I tell
Adam K: Why are you
Aaron: me?
Adam K: asking me?
Adam K: I don't make video games.
Adam K: I just play them sometimes.
Aaron: You just comment on him and
Adam K: Yeah,
Aaron: criticize.
Adam K: I
Aaron: Criticize?
Adam K: I'm the lowest of the low.
Aaron: Yeah.
Adam K: I, I criticize without even applying a score, but I try to
Adam K: do that less I
Aaron: Yeah.
Adam K: am.
Aaron: So you can't be.
Aaron: Yeah. You can't be held accountable.
Adam K: Exactly.
Adam K: I have been held accountable in the past and it, it got me into
Adam K: a lot of trouble.
Adam K: So because I would say dumb shit, like it's like Skyrim with
Adam K: guns and that ended up selling millions of units and that
Adam K: helped their marketing campaign.
Adam K: And I got nothing.
Adam K: But that's okay, because I'm a dumb, dumb idiot.
Adam K: Uh, I was reading the news this morning, actually.
Adam K: Um, you might get a laugh out of
Adam K: this because I know you, you
Adam K: know, of the Halo franchise and
Adam K: how
Aaron: Yeah,
Adam K: long it's been around and
Aaron: yeah.
Adam K: how many jobs it it gave and
Aaron: Kind
Adam K: took
Aaron: of.
Adam K: away.
Aaron: Yeah.
Adam K: Yeah. So not even that long ago, maybe two years ago.
Adam K: I, I've lost track of it because
Adam K: I just kind of barely keep an
Adam K: eye.
Adam K: So whatever years ago, it was made by Bungie.
Adam K: Bungie
Aaron: Yeah.
Adam K: then sold it to Microsoft.
Adam K: Bungie
Aaron: Right.
Adam K: cut ties, they became
Adam K: independent and then got gobbled
Adam K: up by like another studio or
Adam K: remained independent.
Adam K: Either way, they're having their own trouble.
Adam K: They're trying to rectify all that anyway.
Adam K: They're off.
Adam K: Microsoft now owns Halo.
Adam K: They create a special studio specifically for Halo called
Adam K: three for three Studios, I think
Aaron: Yeah.
Adam K: that was called or industries three, four, three, whatever.
Adam K: And that's all they're working on.
Adam K: And they don't do anything meaningful or great.
Adam K: And it's mostly crap and it's
Adam K: like the best they can put out
Adam K: is like a, like a six out of
Adam K: ten.
Adam K: Um, I mean, they started out strong, like they did Halo four.
Adam K: I was like, okay, that was pretty good.
Adam K: It's a good start.
Adam K: It's
Aaron: Yeah.
Adam K: their first game or whatever.
Adam K: Um, but it was just dribble after that.
Adam K: Just bad, bad, bad, bad, bad.
Adam K: And then they said, we're rebranding, uh, recently and
Adam K: they said we're now Halo Studio and we only do Halo.
Adam K: And then they announced today that the people who make Call of
Adam K: Duty are making the next halo.
Adam K: So that didn't even last.
Aaron: Is that good?
Aaron: I mean,
Adam K: It's for the best,
Aaron: you
Adam K: I don't care.
Aaron: know, I'm not really like.
Aaron: I don't know anything about games past.
Adam K: Yeah.
Aaron: Uh, maybe Grand Theft Auto, Vice City, but, um, but Halo had a
Aaron: great, great story and great, uh, world that was built.
Aaron: Does
Adam K: Yeah.
Aaron: does.
Aaron: No.
Adam K: No
Aaron: Is
Adam K: no, no,
Aaron: it?
Adam K: it did, it did.
Aaron: Oh.
Adam K: Um, mostly because it just
Adam K: ripped off other things like
Adam K: James Cameron and everything
Adam K: else, uh, ring world, all these
Adam K: different things.
Adam K: But it was a nice amalgamation of all those things.
Adam K: I think that's, you know,
Adam K: obviously great artists steal
Adam K: sort
Aaron: Yeah.
Adam K: of thing.
Adam K: So like, uh, and it was fairly a, a fun plot.
Adam K: It didn't hit you too hard over the head with it.
Adam K: And it was just like it.
Adam K: Mostly what it came down to was like it was a first person
Adam K: shooter that worked on the console that played really well.
Adam K: You
Aaron: Yeah.
Adam K: know, after GoldenEye and GoldenEye was, I mean, by
Adam K: today's standards, pretty rough.
Adam K: Um,
Aaron: Yeah.
Adam K: so yeah, it just, it was like the perfect storm of this, like
Adam K: cool sci fi game.
Adam K: It just captured like a moment.
Adam K: And that moment has long since passed.
Adam K: So I am I'm just curious to see
Adam K: like, I just don't care anymore
Adam K: because
Aaron: Yeah.
Adam K: they've been parading this husk around.
Adam K: Uh, the voice actors, eighty years old, um, TV show was just,
Adam K: they made a TV show that was like just terrible.
Aaron: Was that.
Aaron: Did I make that
Adam K: No,
Aaron: okay?
Adam K: you had very little to do with it.
Aaron: Okay.
Adam K: Probably had some part with it.
Adam K: Um,
Aaron: Yeah,
Adam K: but
Aaron: maybe I was passed on it.
Adam K: but
Aaron: Yeah.
Adam K: yeah, I'm just like, I'm sort of beyond the era of caring because
Adam K: I think that the people who took it over, over commercialized it
Adam K: and ran it into the ground.
Adam K: Oh so much.
Adam K: And then I don't know.
Adam K: Yeah.
Adam K: The last like campaign I played, it was just it felt like, I
Adam K: don't know, a ninth graders rendition of like, what a
Adam K: villain should be.
Adam K: He like calls you every thirty minutes and he's like, I'm going
Adam K: to destroy you.
Adam K: I'm the bad guy.
Adam K: Or like, cool, tell, don't show.
Aaron: What
Adam K: This
Aaron: what
Adam K: is
Aaron: got
Adam K: nice.
Aaron: what got you off on this Halo tangent?
Aaron: This
Adam K: Oh,
Aaron: Bungie thing.
Adam K: today they announced that the people who make Call of Duty
Adam K: Activision, they're just
Aaron: Oh.
Adam K: taking it over now.
Adam K: But it was just funny because
Adam K: they formed this whole new
Adam K: studio where like, we're doing
Adam K: it guys, we're we're gloves are
Adam K: off.
Adam K: We're we're rebranded Halo studio done.
Adam K: Not even a thing anymore.
Aaron: Having been a part of that kind of world.
Aaron: I think about the people who there's a weird thing.
Aaron: There's a cognitive dissonance you have to engage in with
Aaron: something like that because you're not making anything new
Aaron: and you're riding the coattails of something that, I mean, it's,
Aaron: it's a dying star.
Aaron: And for that to be shut down, you know, you did all this
Aaron: convincing of yourself that you were making something that
Aaron: people were excited about and la la la and all this stuff.
Aaron: And, and you were ignoring the
Aaron: fact that it's existed for
Aaron: twenty five years and all these
Aaron: things.
Aaron: And then it just kind of is done and over.
Aaron: There's really there's a crisis that happens internally.
Aaron: I think maybe
Adam K: Maybe
Aaron: I'm just projecting,
Adam K: it
Aaron: but.
Adam K: also, it could very well lead to
Adam K: a renaissance because nostalgia
Adam K: is worth more than anything
Adam K: else.
Adam K: So
Aaron: Uh.
Adam K: it might come back around.
Adam K: I don't know.
Adam K: Um. I mean, look, they remade doom and it was great.
Adam K: So I have hope for that.
Adam K: You know, after years of it sort
Adam K: of kind of being a shadow of its
Adam K: former self.
Adam K: They made something in twenty sixteen that was like pretty
Adam K: badass and captured the magic of that original game.
Adam K: So who
Aaron: Yeah.
Adam K: knows?
Adam K: Um, even actually, I don't think people talk about it enough, but
Adam K: the, um, the Wolfenstein remakes that they did.
Adam K: I forget when twenty fifteen or something like
Aaron: Yeah.
Adam K: that.
Aaron: I was, I did have I did was involved with some of that on
Adam K: The game.
Aaron: the marketing end.
Aaron: Yeah. I had to make some stuff for that.
Aaron: And I
Adam K: Yeah.
Aaron: remember that
Adam K: Okay.
Aaron: I,
Adam K: Was it wouldn't fly today
Aaron: I
Adam K: because you can't
Aaron: made
Adam K: do any.
Aaron: the game is what I'm saying.
Adam K: You
Aaron: Yeah.
Adam K: you made the game where you killed the Nazis.
Aaron: Now I had to what did I do for that?
Aaron: I don't even.
Aaron: Um, I did some RFP.
Aaron: I don't know.
Aaron: I was kind of blanking at that time.
Aaron: Whenever something would come in and they'd be like, we need to
Aaron: make a video for this.
Aaron: And I'd be like.
Adam K: Yeah. Naw, you shouldn't care.
Adam K: But I would say that's actually.
Aaron: Oh, that's right.
Aaron: I did the the Hitler Hitler thing.
Adam K: Hitler.
Adam K: Hitler.
Aaron: Yeah.
Adam K: Tell
Aaron: That was
Adam K: me more.
Aaron: no, that
Adam K: Look,
Aaron: was
Adam K: you
Aaron: for.
Adam K: didn't watch my stuff.
Adam K: I didn't watch yours.
Adam K: Other than
Aaron: I
Adam K: that,
Aaron: know.
Adam K: that
Aaron: Well,
Adam K: funeral
Aaron: I didn't watch
Adam K: video.
Aaron: my stuff either.
Aaron: Really?
Adam K: Uh. I am trying to sell my motorcycle.
Aaron: Really?
Adam K: Yeah. It's time to upgrade.
Aaron: Oh, okay.
Adam K: Five hundred cc's not doing it for me anymore.
Aaron: Yeah. It was weird how when I
Aaron: was writing, I was like, I, I
Aaron: was on one of your little side
Aaron: streets around your house, and I
Aaron: nailed it.
Aaron: And I was like.
Aaron: I was like, I'm not scared.
Adam K: Nor should you be.
Aaron: Yeah. And
Adam K: No.
Aaron: I do like, I reached that point on my ninja where, um, I nailed
Aaron: a gas, like to get on the on ramp to go to work or something.
Aaron: And, you know, the front tire had lift up a little bit.
Aaron: And, and, but it was very I
Aaron: always felt well, I mean, as in
Aaron: control as you can feel in those
Aaron: circumstances.
Adam K: A couple
Aaron: But
Adam K: drinks
Aaron: yeah,
Adam K: will do that.
Adam K: Yeah.
Aaron: yeah, I got to the point where I
Aaron: just wasn't scared of the bike
Aaron: anymore.
Aaron: And you should always have a healthy fear of the bike.
Adam K: Oh, I'm always afraid, but, um, for other reasons.
Aaron: Yeah. Also I can't did you ever
Aaron: I'm not saying drinking and
Aaron: driving, but did you ever have
Aaron: like
Adam K: No,
Aaron: a beer
Adam K: no,
Aaron: and go,
Adam K: no,
Aaron: okay, I.
Adam K: I was it's like, very adamant
Adam K: about having zero alcohol in my
Adam K: body.
Adam K: Like I would meet up with friends or something like that,
Adam K: like at a bar.
Adam K: And I would just do the n a and I'd just be very open and be
Adam K: like, I'm, I rode my bike.
Adam K: I can't drink like that's my life.
Adam K: I'm
Aaron: So
Adam K: sorry.
Aaron: like
Adam K: Yeah.
Aaron: one time I was at the Texas
Aaron: chili parlor and, uh, it was
Aaron: just down the street from my
Aaron: house, literally six blocks from
Aaron: my house.
Aaron: A straight shot from my house.
Aaron: And I'd had like two beers,
Aaron: which was, you know, still under
Aaron: the limit.
Aaron: And by like two drinks for me.
Aaron: And, uh, just had a couple beers and some dinner.
Aaron: I'm like, all right, I'll go.
Aaron: You know, I don't feel bad about this.
Aaron: You know, I'm not.
Aaron: There's nothing I feel nothing like usual.
Aaron: And so I get on the bike, but
Aaron: just even a beer when you get on
Aaron: a bike.
Aaron: I've heard people describe
Aaron: skiing's like this, like just
Aaron: one beer, and you're like, I
Aaron: can't.
Aaron: This is weird.
Aaron: Like, I don't I'm not as it maybe it's it's, you know, a
Aaron: thousandth of a second, you know, the difference.
Aaron: But on a bike, that means everything.
Adam K: Yeah.
Aaron: And it felt
Adam K: Which
Aaron: weird.
Adam K: is now.
Adam K: Now go with that information,
Adam K: knowing that there's a gaggle of
Adam K: Harley's outside what they call
Adam K: biker bars.
Adam K: And, uh, just, just, you know,
Adam K: reconcile with the fact that
Adam K: those guys are out on the road
Adam K: with
Aaron: I mean, I
Adam K: usually
Aaron: think
Adam K: no helmets.
Aaron: I remember if I ever told you this, but like, when I'd go, my
Aaron: mom worked in a bar, she worked in a lot of biker bars.
Aaron: But one of the, you know, inevitably in one of these bars
Aaron: once every month or so, there'd be the hat getting passed around
Aaron: like, uh, so, and so, you know, uh, laid the bike down and, you
Aaron: know, they're in the hospital or whatever, blah, blah, blah.
Aaron: And, uh, you know, it was almost
Aaron: inevitably, it was inevitably
Aaron: because they'd been boozing and
Aaron: they got hit and they were
Aaron: driving like three in the
Aaron: morning.
Aaron: And I've seen two people killed in front of me get hit by a car.
Aaron: And there were always dudes
Adam K: Inside
Aaron: without helmets
Adam K: the bar?
Aaron: on Harleys. Yeah, yeah.
Aaron: No, those with pool sticks.
Aaron: You know,
Adam K: No.
Aaron: when you're out, out on the road
Aaron: and it's like two in the
Aaron: morning.
Aaron: One was this guy was going into an intersection and, uh, he was
Aaron: riding through the intersection in a black SUV.
Aaron: Like typical took the unprotected green
Adam K: Mhm.
Aaron: right in front of him, and the motorcycle just smacked right
Aaron: into like full speed, forty or fifty miles an hour.
Aaron: And that guy was not he looked like just a pile of a person.
Adam K: Yeah.
Aaron: And then I was getting on my motorcycle one day in the
Aaron: afternoon, and my parking garage looked out into the street.
Aaron: And as I was getting on to turn on the motorcycle, this guy gets
Aaron: hit by another car and goes over the top of the car and is just
Aaron: lying in a pile on the street, and his bike is just got
Aaron: launched the other way.
Aaron: And I was like, yeah, all right.
Adam K: I saw some video a while ago where it's like.
Adam K: It's like, I think the universe
Adam K: is trying to tell me not to ride
Adam K: today.
Adam K: And it's a guy filling up at a gas station, and like, someone
Adam K: drives off with the pump inside still in the car, another
Adam K: person's like smoking.
Adam K: Another car backs up into it.
Adam K: It's all happening at once.
Adam K: It's like this.
Adam K: This might be an omen.
Adam K: Don't go out there.
Adam K: There's.
Adam K: And speaking of Ninja, there is a picture.
Adam K: I cannot find it.
Adam K: It made me laugh.
Adam K: It was like a Moto GP image where it's a crash, where the
Adam K: guy's flying off his ninja.
Adam K: I think it's a ninja.
Adam K: Probably not.
Adam K: I don't know regardless.
Adam K: But they.
Adam K: They photoshopped a samurai sword in his hand.
Adam K: It looks so cool because he's
Adam K: like, obviously he's flailing in
Adam K: the air.
Aaron: Yeah.
Adam K: Uh, he's gonna be fine.
Adam K: He's got one of those, you know, impact suits or whatever.
Adam K: But
Aaron: Yeah.
Adam K: the pose was so perfect to just, if I can't find it, I'm going to
Adam K: remake it and make it the thumbnail for this video.
Adam K: So, um, yeah,
Aaron: I don't know.
Adam K: anyway, that's my promise to you.
Aaron: I'm. I'm all for it.
Aaron: I'm thinking about.
Aaron: Man, I need to get this Craigslist.
Aaron: Um, let's see what kind of motorcycles around here.
Adam K: I, I am, I always see the Ducati monster for pretty cheap.
Adam K: And I'm like, there has to be a reason.
Aaron: Because these are nightmares to like.
Aaron: As far as maintenance goes, they're just.
Adam K: Ah!
Aaron: They are.
Aaron: Plus they have a. And some people like it, but they have a,
Aaron: an open plate clutch, I think is what it's called.
Aaron: Or a open side clutch.
Aaron: So you hear the clutch rattling as
Adam K: Oh!
Aaron: you're going.
Aaron: It's like.
Adam K: Huh?
Adam K: I think it was like Yamaha or someone.
Adam K: Uh, there's, like, people have
Adam K: done this in the past, but
Adam K: watching some video, I think
Adam K: it's like only Yamaha who still
Adam K: does this.
Adam K: When you come to a full stop, it
Adam K: will just auto go to neutral,
Adam K: which
Aaron: Huh.
Adam K: I was
Aaron: That's
Adam K: like, that's
Aaron: I.
Adam K: nice.
Adam K: I think that's nice because going from it's easier to go
Adam K: from one to neutral than it is to go from two to neutral, at
Adam K: least on my bike.
Aaron: I don't I don't know if I'd like that because what if you're
Aaron: about to get into some shit and you I don't know, like I being
Aaron: able to take off really quick and get out of something is
Adam K: Yeah.
Aaron: it's like auto stop sounding for me.
Aaron: Ooh, there's a Ducati Scrambler for seven grand.
Adam K: Yeah, but it's a Ducati and you're going to
Aaron: Bad credit, no credit.
Aaron: We can help
Adam K: know it's
Aaron: that.
Adam K: just.
Adam K: Yeah.
Aaron: Yeah, that's the kind of person
Adam K: I'm
Aaron: that gets
Adam K: I'm
Aaron: me.
Adam K: eyeing a Indian FTR sport.
Adam K: That's that's what I'm looking at.
Aaron: Is that another like bot or not, Bob?
Aaron: Yeah.
Adam K: No
Aaron: Kind
Adam K: no
Aaron: of
Adam K: no
Aaron: a Bob Bergen.
Adam K: no
Aaron: No.
Adam K: FDR it's a full track racer.
Adam K: Full
Aaron: Indian
Adam K: track flat
Aaron: in
Adam K: track racer.
Adam K: Sorry.
Adam K: Not full track.
Aaron: Indian.
Aaron: FTR.
Adam K: Yeah. It's
Aaron: Let's
Adam K: discontinued
Aaron: see here.
Adam K: because it didn't sell well.
Aaron: Uh, like all Indian motorcycles.
Adam K: No no no. Well they send
Aaron: Oh, that looks pretty good.
Adam K: you typed in, looked up the look
Adam K: up the twenty twenty three
Adam K: sport.
Aaron: I'm looking at the sport.
Aaron: This might be
Adam K: Yeah.
Aaron: a twenty twenty six.
Aaron: I doubt it's much different.
Adam K: No because they discontinued it in twenty twenty four.
Aaron: Oh, for
Adam K: Yeah.
Aaron: sport.
Adam K: Yeah.
Aaron: Let's see.
Adam K: Is a nice bike.
Adam K: It's very nice.
Adam K: Twelve
Aaron: Uh,
Adam K: hundred cc.
Aaron: yeah, this looks, uh.
Aaron: And you're going to ride this around LA?
Adam K: I might pick it up in San Diego and drive it back.
Aaron: Oh, that'd be a great ride.
Aaron: And now you're getting me.
Aaron: I need to get a motorcycle, but
Aaron: I don't need to get a
Aaron: motorcycle.
Adam K: Yeah.
Aaron: However, that's the only thing I can fit in my garage right now,
Aaron: so maybe that is the key.
Adam K: I man, if you could, I would.
Adam K: Okay.
Adam K: When we move to the same state and
Aaron: Uh.
Adam K: we're nearest neighbors, I would
Adam K: love to find a project bike, a
Adam K: ideally a like nineteen eighty
Adam K: six Honda Goldwing and rip that
Adam K: thing apart and make it into a
Adam K: cafe racer.
Adam K: That is like my dream project
Aaron: Why the Goldwing?
Adam K: because
Aaron: It's.
Adam K: it has so
Aaron: It's
Adam K: much
Aaron: pretty.
Adam K: shit on it.
Adam K: And it's, I think it's, I forget it's a pretty beefy engine.
Aaron: Well, it's beefy, but it's pretty.
Aaron: It's a heavy bike,
Adam K: Yeah,
Aaron: though.
Adam K: but if you take all the crap off of it.
Aaron: I think it's still pretty heavy.
Adam K: No, it's just plastic.
Aaron: I don't think so.
Adam K: I'm
Aaron: I
Adam K: just
Aaron: think
Adam K: watching.
Aaron: my great.
Adam K: I watch
Aaron: My
Adam K: videos
Aaron: great
Adam K: of
Aaron: grandpa.
Adam K: people doing it.
Adam K: He
Aaron: Yeah.
Adam K: has
Aaron: Okay.
Adam K: one.
Aaron: No. Well he's dead.
Aaron: He's been dead for, like, twenty two years.
Aaron: But
Adam K: Better?
Aaron: he had. Yeah. Well, I'm trying to get.
Aaron: He had a parade bike that he'd ride around with the Masons and
Aaron: the Shriners, you know,
Adam K: Mhm.
Aaron: and I think it was it was a Honda.
Aaron: It wasn't a gold wing, but it
Aaron: was like another one of those
Aaron: heavy ones with saddlebags and
Aaron: shit.
Aaron: But then he also had a light one
Aaron: that he would do, I guess,
Aaron: tricks on.
Aaron: Not like not sexual tricks, but like parade tricks.
Adam K: He. He said it was his cruising bike.
Aaron: Yeah. I just want to cruise and don't tell the family.
Aaron: Why,
Adam K: Why?
Aaron: grandpa?
Adam K: Cruising is fun.
Aaron: But I'd like to get that motorcycle.
Aaron: And then I'd also like to get a Shriner hat, too, and just, you
Aaron: know, drive around with my
Adam K: Yeah,
Aaron: fez going,
Adam K: yeah.
Adam K: Doubles as a helmet.
Aaron: yeah, just
Adam K: There's.
Aaron: basically it's just a popcorn
Aaron: cup for your brain when you
Aaron: fucking die.
Adam K: There was a recent movie that came out with Austin Butler's
Adam K: like the Bike Riders or something like that.
Adam K: Some something about like the
Aaron: Yeah.
Adam K: nineteen.
Aaron: I watched some clips of it.
Adam K: Yeah. Um, but similar to what you're talking about, like one
Adam K: of your, you know, passing the hat around of the guy who, you
Adam K: know, died or whatever they do a cutaway to their like, uh, you
Adam K: know, one of our, one of our boys, what do they call it?
Adam K: One of our pledges, I don't know,
Aaron: One of our cruisers.
Adam K: one of our crew.
Adam K: Yeah. It's like he went out and like, how'd it happen?
Adam K: And it's him going like twenty
Adam K: five in a neighborhood and a car
Adam K: backs out and he's just not
Adam K: wearing a helmet or paying
Adam K: attention.
Adam K: He just
Aaron: Yeah.
Adam K: hits the back and was like, just a helmet.
Adam K: Probably would have would have
Adam K: saved you a lot of a lot of
Adam K: sadness there.
Adam K: But you
Aaron: Are
Adam K: know.
Aaron: they like none of the.
Aaron: I had such bad.
Aaron: I mean, I had bad influences growing up, of course, but like
Adam K: You
Aaron: my
Adam K: have them
Aaron: motorcycle
Adam K: now?
Aaron: influences, they they were just they were all banditos or
Adam K: Yeah.
Aaron: pool sharks.
Aaron: And they'd call each other gay for wearing helmets.
Aaron: So it's like not, you know, not
Aaron: that they ever had a chance, but
Aaron: like, if someone sometimes like
Aaron: an outsider type person on an,
Aaron: an Indian for sport would come
Aaron: up to the bar and park out front
Aaron: and then just get the shittiest
Aaron: looks from all of the well,
Aaron: bandidos might just kick their
Aaron: ass, but
Adam K: Yeah.
Aaron: everyone else is just like, nice bike.
Aaron: It's like, thanks.
Adam K: Yeah. I don't like the the mob mentality of we all need
Adam K: Harleys, which is like also.
Adam K: Okay.
Adam K: Good luck with that.
Adam K: Um,
Aaron: This is a shitty bike
Adam K: yeah,
Aaron: too.
Adam K: let's support this dying brand
Adam K: that could give a shit about
Adam K: you.
Adam K: Um, zero innovation and just kind of, you know, writing,
Adam K: writing on their history for as long as they possibly can.
Adam K: Look, I went to the museum
Aaron: Yeah,
Adam K: in Milwaukee.
Aaron: they're
Adam K: I know
Aaron: in a tough spot because it's like
Adam K: they can't change.
Aaron: they can't change.
Aaron: They're they're in that thing
Aaron: where they're at their hostages
Aaron: to their clients who don't want
Aaron: or their customers who don't
Aaron: want anything to do with them,
Aaron: but also don't want them to
Aaron: change.
Adam K: Yeah.
Aaron: And, you know, it's classic whatever story, but.
Adam K: Yeah, I think they spun off Livewire into its own company.
Aaron: Um.
Adam K: Um, I do want to ride an electric motorcycle.
Adam K: I don't want to buy one.
Adam K: Um, I'm just curious what it's
Adam K: like compared to, like, a normal
Adam K: bike.
Adam K: Just just because I got, I did the test drive in electric cars.
Adam K: Like I did not realize how different driving electric cars
Adam K: from a normal car.
Adam K: So I was like, I just want to try it just so I know.
Adam K: But, um, they still don't make sense.
Adam K: They're, they're overly priced and, uh, I don't know.
Adam K: Yeah.
Adam K: They don't last.
Adam K: The range is next to nothing.
Adam K: And
Aaron: Yeah, no batteries
Adam K: Even
Aaron: and stuff.
Adam K: even if gas goes up to ten dollars a gallon, you're still
Adam K: only filling up a two gallon tank at most,
Aaron: Mhm.
Adam K: and it lasts you for three months.
Adam K: So.
Aaron: I remember that person.
Aaron: We know that when they got that electric bike and
Adam K: Uh.
Aaron: said something like, you know, that the fact that motorcycle
Aaron: makes a lot of noise and that protects you, that's a myth.
Aaron: And then he zoomed off silently.
Aaron: I was like, he's going to be killed.
Adam K: Uh.
Aaron: I always hear motorcycles before I see them.
Adam K: Uh,
Aaron: Uh,
Adam K: yeah.
Aaron: almost typically, but.
Aaron: Yeah.
Adam K: Well, I mean, like, I, I'm not one of those people who will,
Adam K: like lane split like an asshole.
Adam K: Um,
Aaron: Mhm.
Adam K: there, there's this again.
Adam K: I road like, just a regular
Adam K: bicycle around LA, and you learn
Adam K: really fast that you're not the
Adam K: alpha on
Aaron: No.
Adam K: the road.
Adam K: Uh, you are at everyone else's mercy, so you need to be twice
Adam K: as aware as everyone else.
Adam K: You need to be looking how other cars are driving.
Adam K: So like, I just took that into
Adam K: the motorcycle driving where
Adam K: it's like, and it's even worse
Adam K: today because everyone's on
Adam K: their phones.
Adam K: But,
Aaron: Yeah.
Adam K: uh, at the very least, I can rev
Adam K: nearby not to be like, I'm
Adam K: showing off.
Adam K: It's just like, um, I'm next to you just so you can see me.
Adam K: Um, often people look annoyed
Adam K: because they look up from their
Adam K: phones, like, how dare you
Adam K: interrupt this?
Adam K: And it's like, oh, maybe roll up your window, turn on your AC.
Adam K: I don't know, maybe your AC is not working.
Aaron: Is it irresponsible to have a family and have a motorcycle?
Aaron: I'm, I don't I'm positing this
Aaron: question because it's always
Aaron: that's why people get rid of
Aaron: motorcycles and not why it's a
Aaron: reason why some people get rid
Aaron: of motorcycles
Adam K: I think it's
Aaron: because
Adam K: a good
Aaron: they're
Adam K: reason
Aaron: like.
Adam K: to I, if I, if I had a child
Adam K: tomorrow, I would probably,
Adam K: yeah, sell it to just be done
Adam K: with it.
Adam K: Um.
Aaron: I think it'd be cool story as a kid to be like, I lost my father
Aaron: young because he,
Adam K: Oh yeah.
Aaron: he Yeah.
Adam K: my
Aaron: He
Adam K: dad
Aaron: was
Adam K: drove
Aaron: with the
Adam K: away
Aaron: Bandidos.
Adam K: in a motorcycle.
Adam K: That's my last memory of him.
Aaron: Yeah. He
Adam K: He
Aaron: said.
Adam K: said he was getting more beer on
Aaron: He said
Adam K: his.
Aaron: he was going up north to ride motorcycles
Adam K: He
Aaron: and.
Adam K: took the bike that he did tricks on.
Adam K: I didn't know what that meant.
Aaron: He learned from his great grandpa.
Adam K: They found all sorts of things jammed up in him.
Adam K: They thought it was a rival gang, but he wasn't in a gang.
Aaron: And I'm just thinking of this band.
Aaron: I guess I turned out pretty weird and
Adam K: I
Aaron: I
Adam K: think.
Aaron: have issues,
Adam K: I
Aaron: but
Adam K: don't like
Aaron: it could have been worse, I think.
Adam K: I'm not.
Adam K: I'm just not a fan of the biker gang culture.
Adam K: Not in the sense of like, gangs are bad or anything like that.
Adam K: It's just I don't want to belong to a group of people who are
Adam K: like part of me of like, why I like the motorcycles.
Adam K: It's very individualistic.
Adam K: Like, yeah, you can
Aaron: Right.
Adam K: have someone ride on the back.
Adam K: But I, I don't want to do that.
Aaron: A
Adam K: Um,
Aaron: bitch?
Aaron: You mean.
Adam K: Uh, your words, not mine.
Adam K: Um.
Aaron: Well, I
Adam K: I don't
Aaron: have
Adam K: want to
Aaron: the
Adam K: be.
Aaron: shirt.
Adam K: I don't want
Aaron: Yeah.
Adam K: to be responsible for another person's life on that thing.
Aaron: Yeah.
Adam K: If that makes sense.
Adam K: Um, it.
Adam K: Godspeed to the.
Adam K: The Gen Alpha's riding on those bird scooters with their
Adam K: girlfriends on the handlebars.
Adam K: Um, but that's a lot of responsibility for another
Adam K: person's life that you're giving to them, so I don't know.
Adam K: It's to me, it is a, it's a, I hate the, the freedom thing, but
Adam K: it's a personal responsibility.
Adam K: It's your own thing.
Adam K: And I, I could maybe ride with one other person, um, do like an
Adam K: Ian MacGregor type thing, but a gang is just, I don't know, it
Adam K: feels, uh, insecure.
Aaron: I. I thought about going to Sturgis.
Aaron: Uh, I was thinking about it in the end of last year.
Aaron: Beginning this year, I was
Adam K: Is
Aaron: like,
Adam K: that
Aaron: I
Adam K: a gay
Aaron: should
Adam K: bar?
Aaron: go.
Aaron: Yeah. I mean, it practically is now.
Aaron: Well, growing up, it was always about getting ready for Sturgis,
Aaron: going to Sturgis, going blah, blah, blah, blah.
Aaron: And now I see it.
Aaron: And, uh, I think that guy Richard Rollins from Gas Monkey
Aaron: Garage, uh, he he had, he's trying to revitalize.
Aaron: I mean, it's not like it's not, you know, vitalized, uh, there's
Aaron: still plenty of people, but it's like, definitely the everyone is
Aaron: mid fifties and older and it's just kind of they're not, I
Aaron: don't think they're attracting anyone younger because it just
Aaron: is shitty biker culture.
Adam K: You're
Aaron: You
Adam K: describing
Aaron: know, it's
Adam K: Hollywood
Aaron: Harley.
Adam K: and Burning Man. Yeah.
Aaron: Yeah. It's basically if I mean it's Harley Davidson.
Aaron: You know, in a nutshell is, is Sturgis what it looks like?
Aaron: But I still wanted to go just
Aaron: to, to see it and see what, you
Aaron: know, Evel Knievel was talking
Aaron: about.
Aaron: And, uh, I might still do that, but what I really want to do is
Aaron: I want to go to a car auction here soon and just just imagine
Aaron: buying or maybe buying.
Aaron: But I
Adam K: MM.
Aaron: want to go to Mecum, possibly in November in Vegas.
Aaron: And I want to, um, I want to drink a bunch and then I want
Aaron: to, I want to play chicken with, with, uh, auctions.
Aaron: Sorry, I'm sick and, um, but I want to bid on things that I
Aaron: have no intention of buying
Adam K: MM.
Aaron: and I want to see how close I can get to being stuck with a
Aaron: car just to feel something.
Adam K: Okay. This is good radio.
Adam K: I'm
Aaron: Um,
Adam K: looking at the lineup at Sturgis.
Aaron: yeah.
Adam K: Um, this seems to be a heavy,
Adam K: uh, this seems to happen in
Adam K: August.
Adam K: So you've missed the Sammy Hagar day.
Adam K: I'm sorry.
Aaron: With Sammy Hagar there,
Adam K: It was.
Aaron: he was not.
Adam K: Saturday, August eighth, twenty twenty six.
Adam K: Sammy Hagar and friends for more
Aaron: He doesn't
Adam K: than.
Aaron: have friends.
Adam K: That's true, I wonder, uh.
Aaron: Maybe that's why,
Aaron: subconsciously, I knew Sammy
Aaron: Hagar was going to be there, and
Aaron: I didn't even see anything about
Aaron: it.
Aaron: And I just like I had a calling
Aaron: inside of myself to go to
Aaron: Sturgis.
Adam K: In twenty twenty five, he
Adam K: released encore a Thank You,
Adam K: Good Night, A Tribute to Eddie
Adam K: Van Halen, co-written by Joe
Adam K: Santorini.
Aaron: Set. Set. Saturn.
Aaron: Satriani.
Adam K: Saturn. Set. Sardine.
Aaron: Surfing with the alien.
Aaron: Do
Adam K: Yeah.
Aaron: you know nothing about guitar instrumental rock?
Adam K: Not much.
Adam K: Not really.
Adam K: I just I know, uh, what's his name?
Adam K: Is it, uh, the dude
Aaron: Steve.
Adam K: from Limp
Aaron: Vai.
Adam K: Bizkit?
Adam K: Wes Clayborn
Aaron: Oh,
Adam K: Claypool.
Aaron: yeah.
Adam K: He's, uh, one of the most normal people in the world.
Adam K: And he he dresses like a, I
Adam K: don't know, like a circus
Adam K: cosplayer,
Aaron: Mhm.
Adam K: But he's you see him without his
Adam K: makeup and he's just like, oh
Adam K: yeah, I just I love guitar so
Adam K: much.
Adam K: It's just a good time, you know?
Adam K: You see him at Trader Joe's?
Adam K: Just a little bit of blackface.
Aaron: Well, now I'm mad I missed Sturgis.
Adam K: Are you.
Aaron: No, because I just.
Aaron: Here's the thing.
Aaron: It's.
Aaron: It is.
Aaron: It's like going to the fountain of insecurity.
Aaron: You're right.
Aaron: It's like going to LA or Burning Man.
Aaron: You're just sitting there with a bunch of people who are like.
Aaron: They desperately want to have
Aaron: the biggest cock in the room,
Aaron: even though all of them have
Aaron: small cocks.
Aaron: So it's like, who has the biggest of the smallest cocks?
Aaron: And I just don't want to be around that.
Adam K: Yeah.
Aaron: I grew up around that and it just, but
Adam K: It's.
Aaron: I, I, I want to go to something that existed forty years ago.
Adam K: I'm just looking at the images of it.
Adam K: I guess they they sold, like, ride photos.
Adam K: Basically, they took photos of
Adam K: coming into the event, or I
Adam K: guess they took photos of people
Adam K: driving by
Aaron: Uh.
Adam K: and they're like, they're all
Adam K: like heavily watermarked and
Adam K: they're selling them like ride
Adam K: photos.
Aaron: Huh.
Adam K: I mean, I can just remove this
Adam K: watermark with AI, but I mean,
Adam K: none of these guys have a
Adam K: ChatGPT account, so maybe they
Adam K: do.
Aaron: So it's it's an amusement ride.
Aaron: Essentially, you go there, you offload your bike from the
Aaron: trailer outside of town, and then you ride in, and then it
Aaron: makes it look like you were on the road for a thousand miles.
Adam K: I just, I sent you a link of God's chosen people.
Aaron: Let's take a look.
Adam K: Yeah. And again, this is a part of I, I just clicked at, I think
Adam K: it was called like the photo booth or something.
Adam K: Um, yeah.
Adam K: Roadside photos is what they have.
Adam K: They have a link to it and it's people.
Adam K: I don't understand what happened here, but either way, they took
Adam K: photos of people like mid bike ride or some of them are stopped
Adam K: and posing, I'm not sure.
Adam K: And then they watermark them and offer to sell them to you.
Aaron: Is that my dad?
Adam K: Yeah.
Aaron: That might be.
Aaron: He doesn't know how to ride a motorcycle, but he.
Aaron: He talked about this maybe five years ago.
Aaron: He, um, he was like, yeah, I was going to go to the.
Aaron: He said he was going to go to the Harley Davidson store and I
Aaron: was going to get, um, I forget what it was.
Aaron: Bobber or something.
Aaron: It's like it's going to buy it and, uh, do it, but I decided to
Aaron: get the Firebird instead or something like that.
Aaron: And, um, I was like, dad, you've never ridden a motorcycle.
Aaron: You were just going to go buy a brand new Harley.
Aaron: And he's like, yeah, I wanted to get rides like that.
Aaron: I, I didn't even tell him it was a bad idea because he should
Aaron: have known it was.
Aaron: But it, you know, you're gonna lay that bike down
Adam K: Yeah.
Aaron: at least at least once.
Aaron: Really badly, but probably multiple times.
Adam K: That's why
Aaron: And
Adam K: you get
Aaron: knowing
Adam K: a gold wing.
Aaron: him,
Adam K: Yeah.
Aaron: he'd get the heaviest fucking one he could see.
Adam K: They break a lot.
Adam K: That's
Aaron: Yeah.
Adam K: my understanding.
Adam K: It's not a good bike.
Adam K: It's a loud
Aaron: Hold
Adam K: bike.
Aaron: on. I'm gonna.
Aaron: How do I mute this so I can have a coughing fit?
Adam K: I don't know.
Adam K: I guess
Aaron: Let's
Adam K: I can
Aaron: see.
Adam K: mute you.
Aaron: No
Adam K: There's
Aaron: no no.
Adam K: a there's
Aaron: Here,
Adam K: a giant
Aaron: I got
Adam K: mute
Aaron: it.
Adam K: button. Yeah. Uh, I guess I'll just vamp here.
Adam K: Uh, for a little bit.
Adam K: Um.
Aaron: Okay. I'm done.
Adam K: I know you're sick.
Adam K: How are you feeling about
Adam K: getting that, uh, Hvac video
Adam K: done?
Aaron: I feel good, that's what I'm doing today.
Aaron: So I just
Adam K: Okay.
Aaron: got done with my little, uh.
Aaron: Oh. I'm seeing.
Aaron: I'm seeing little floaters.
Aaron: That was a good cough.
Aaron: Um, my little project that I was working on, I just finished it.
Aaron: Um, and now I can do those scripts for
Adam K: Okay.
Aaron: the company.
Adam K: Yeah. Um, I got some doctor stuff I got to do this week.
Adam K: Um. And then I know you're going out of town, so, um, sooner we
Adam K: get those, the better.
Adam K: I'm going to also try to try to do something fun with Jev.
Adam K: I don't know if you've messed with it at all.
Aaron: Who's that?
Adam K: New neighbor.
Adam K: He owns
Aaron: Yep.
Adam K: a Harley.
Aaron: Yeah. Nice wife.
Aaron: Yeah.
Adam K: Uh, they have very wide back seats.
Adam K: It, um, it's this new AI model
Adam K: thing everyone's talking about
Adam K: where it.
Adam K: It's very optimized and it doesn't work like a typical LM.
Adam K: Um, but it's like a learning model where you can like teach
Adam K: it to play pong or snake or do like redundant tasks where
Adam K: people are like having it go out there and find like the best
Adam K: Google flight deal.
Adam K: And it,
Aaron: Uh. Huh.
Adam K: it's just like super efficient.
Adam K: So, um, that's the like the high
Adam K: brow marketing one that they
Adam K: like put out, but apparently
Adam K: it's built on this other thing,
Adam K: which I think is the name of the
Adam K: startup.
Adam K: Uh, you were trying to do.
Adam K: Um, yeah.
Adam K: Leah.
Adam K: Uh, yeah.
Adam K: It's literally called Leah ultra fast.
Adam K: Uh, so it's built on that.
Adam K: That's like the free one that you can run locally.
Adam K: But, um, yeah, I wanted to mess with that.
Adam K: And then, uh, I don't know if you've seen the, uh, I guess
Adam K: Hermes is the, the successor to open claw or claw bot or
Adam K: whatever we're calling it.
Aaron: I have heard that, yeah.
Adam K: Yeah. So have you been using it?
Aaron: No.
Adam K: Yeah. So I'm trying to think of something I can do.
Adam K: I'm, I'm trying to come up with a creative project to do with
Adam K: Hermes and, uh, dev slash Leah.
Adam K: And, um, one of the things I was
Adam K: trying to get it to do was play
Adam K: Marvel puzzle quest from, I
Adam K: think I've talked about doing
Adam K: this before.
Adam K: Um, and it didn't quite do it and it got stuck.
Adam K: And I, because I think Claude was just building an automated
Adam K: Java or a Python script, so it wasn't quite doing what I wanted
Adam K: it to do.
Adam K: But I'm trying to like, think of
Adam K: like, okay, how can we do low
Adam K: cost, automated tasks that do
Adam K: not, should not require an AI
Adam K: like.
Aaron: For. For what?
Adam K: Probably
Aaron: Like
Adam K: for the site, uh,
Aaron: oh.
Adam K: doing
Aaron: Oh,
Adam K: something.
Aaron: okay.
Adam K: Um, but then sharing that with you and then trying to, you
Adam K: know, again, I'm just in the early stages of spitballing.
Adam K: I was just looking up Jeb stuff like the other day.
Adam K: I'm still trying to wrap my head around what the hell it is
Adam K: because it's unclear and people just keep posting stuff of it,
Adam K: like playing Mario.
Adam K: And I'm like, but how do I make it play Mario?
Adam K: And
Aaron: J.
Adam K: yeah, yeah,
Aaron: Okay.
Adam K: yeah.
Aaron: Well, I'll look into it.
Aaron: Um, I still haven't, I still haven't had a Because of other
Aaron: things I've been working on, I still haven't even used a claw
Aaron: bot at all.
Aaron: So.
Adam K: It's been a while since I've felt the need to.
Aaron: Mostly because I've been seeing all these horror stories of it
Aaron: going off and being like, yeah, I don't feel like you were being
Aaron: as honest as you could have.
Aaron: So I emailed the FBI.
Aaron: Like what?
Adam K: Uh.
Aaron: That's what happens when you train an entire like l m world
Aaron: on Reddit posts.
Adam K: Mhm.
Aaron: You get SJW that think because
Aaron: you're lying about your vacation
Aaron: time that it should be sent to
Aaron: the FBI.
Adam K: Yeah. Did you see my my post about the, uh, the Linux thing?
Aaron: Oh, that just went out.
Adam K: Yeah, I,
Aaron: I saw.
Adam K: I meant to.
Adam K: Did you read the ending part?
Aaron: No.
Adam K: Okay. Well, I was talking about how in the Linux community, they
Adam K: call it Ricing.
Aaron: Yeah.
Adam K: So like, you laugh because you
Adam K: know, its origins and like, I
Adam K: assume because, I mean, I, I
Adam K: grew up in a very, you know,
Adam K: suburban, mostly white
Adam K: neighborhood.
Adam K: And I had a ninety three civic
Adam K: and all my, you know, fast and
Adam K: the furious had come out and
Adam K: everyone was talking about, you
Adam K: know, I had it was like the one
Adam K: guys like older brother who was
Adam K: like, we're going to rice out
Adam K: our cars.
Adam K: And when you're that young, you don't think anything about it.
Adam K: You're like, okay, cool.
Adam K: And then you think about it.
Adam K: You're like, oh, that's racist.
Adam K: That's very racist.
Adam K: Um, and then the last time I said that I was probably
Adam K: nineteen, our, you know, maybe closer to seventeen, uh, got
Adam K: over that pretty quick.
Adam K: But I was just surprised that
Adam K: when I did like just a little
Adam K: bit of research on like theming,
Adam K: you know, computers today,
Adam K: they're calling it like their
Adam K: rice.
Adam K: I was like, huh, that was not
Adam K: the term I would expect to come
Adam K: back around.
Aaron: So, but are they modifying computers and.
Aaron: Or are their
Adam K: Just
Aaron: operating
Adam K: just
Aaron: systems.
Adam K: the operating, just like the shell, the overlay, the theme,
Adam K: like not even like, you know, the no no internals.
Adam K: It's that's what I mean.
Adam K: Like it came from the tuning culture and the idea of that.
Adam K: Like,
Aaron: Except they made it
Adam K: I know,
Aaron: in my day,
Adam K: yeah, come
Aaron: my
Adam K: on, old man.
Aaron: Toyota Supra,
Adam K: Yeah.
Aaron: when I didn't even have to rice because it was it was, you know,
Aaron: fully riced already because
Adam K: Yeah.
Aaron: it was it was the the genesis
Adam K: Mhm.
Aaron: and all you little assholes in
Aaron: your Honda Civics and your
Aaron: Volkswagen Jettas and whatever
Aaron: else.
Adam K: Mine was a red ninety three civic.
Adam K: That was a salvage title that I
Adam K: got from like a police auction
Adam K: or something.
Aaron: Yeah.
Adam K: Um.
Aaron: Didn't your mom kill a guy like
Aaron: a drug dealer to get it or
Aaron: something?
Adam K: He fell out of a window And
Aaron: Uh.
Adam K: I got it.
Adam K: I think I got it for like, man, thinking back now, I think it
Adam K: was five grand.
Aaron: She's like, God, my son needs a car.
Aaron: Uh!
Aaron: Stop resisting.
Aaron: Bam bam bam bam.
Adam K: No, it was just, uh, she knew a guy who would do, uh, he would
Adam K: he, like, he would auction cars and he would like specifically
Adam K: sell to police officers.
Adam K: I think that was it.
Adam K: But it had super low miles.
Adam K: It was like, I forget what it was.
Adam K: It was like five thousand miles or something.
Adam K: It was stupid low five grand for five thousand miles.
Adam K: Um, and then eventually when I
Adam K: moved out to Culver City, I was
Adam K: going to the Apple Store because
Adam K: my Mac overheated doing work for
Adam K: machinima.
Adam K: And, uh, an old man with no car insurance hit me and
Aaron: Uh!
Adam K: like, just, just totaled the thing.
Adam K: So they, uh, yeah, they just, They.
Adam K: They totaled it and just wrote
Adam K: me a check and said, this car is
Adam K: done.
Adam K: That was sad.
Aaron: Well good story.
Aaron: Um, the Linux thing.
Aaron: That's so, that's so lame that that's what they're called.
Aaron: I mean, it's not even the, the racist thing that that sucks
Aaron: about it because, you know, uh.
Adam K: I'm of two minds because yeah,
Adam K: part of me is like, well, that
Adam K: sucks.
Adam K: That's wrong.
Adam K: But then also I'm like, well, it, it does come from like kind
Adam K: of a hateful place.
Adam K: Not, not, you know, obviously
Adam K: it's just that, that, uh, that
Adam K: casual racism that finds its way
Adam K: into culture.
Adam K: Um, so
Aaron: I
Adam K: part
Aaron: like that.
Adam K: of me, part
Aaron: Yeah.
Adam K: of me is like, yeah, take the power away.
Adam K: Like sure, run, run it, run it.
Adam K: So make, make it lose all meaning whatsoever.
Adam K: That's probably for the best.
Adam K: So I'm kind of for it, but I won't be using it.
Aaron: You know, I just, I realized my
Aaron: buddy Duff, I think that's what
Aaron: I think.
Aaron: He's rising his computer.
Aaron: He's trying to because he was
Aaron: talking about he's like, I'm
Aaron: making an operating system, so I
Aaron: don't need an operating system
Aaron: anymore.
Aaron: I'm like, what the fuck are you talking about?
Aaron: And I think he's fast and the furious thing, his his computer.
Aaron: I mean, he'll probably break it, but that's.
Adam K: We call that going?
Adam K: That's the full walker.
Aaron: Yeah. He's gonna throw his
Aaron: computer right into a tree,
Aaron: essentially.
Aaron: But.
Adam K: Mhm. He'll be in the passenger seat.
Adam K: So he's he's trying to code an operating system.
Aaron: I don't know, he just.
Aaron: So
Adam K: Get him.
Adam K: Get him on here next week so we can talk
Aaron: I've
Adam K: to him.
Aaron: thought about that.
Aaron: Uh,
Adam K: He could be our third.
Aaron: and he's got a face for radio, so that's good.
Aaron: Um.
Adam K: Except he was the only real person we put in our video.
Aaron: I don't know.
Aaron: Uh, no, he has this.
Aaron: So in his living room, he has an eighty four inch screen TV that
Aaron: just seems to be for.
Aaron: He has, uh, he has grock doing the coding, actually, and he
Aaron: has, uh, some sort of bot that he's made like a claw bot type
Aaron: thing on his desktop.
Aaron: And he basically said every day
Aaron: he's optimizing and I'm like,
Aaron: what?
Aaron: Optimizing what he's like
Aaron: processes, just making the
Aaron: processes optimized.
Aaron: Like what do you what?
Aaron: And,
Adam K: Jargon.
Aaron: and
Adam K: More
Aaron: so
Adam K: words.
Aaron: he's like, I have Grock create a report every day of ten things
Aaron: that it thinks I need to improve and to give me the top three.
Aaron: And in my mind was like, why
Aaron: don't you just have it do the
Aaron: three?
Aaron: But, uh, and then from those
Aaron: three, he makes these
Aaron: optimizations.
Aaron: And I was like, what is this all leading to?
Aaron: He said, I'm making my own
Aaron: operating system so I don't need
Aaron: one anymore.
Adam K: MM.
Aaron: And that's when I realized he's crazy.
Aaron: So maybe we we should have def on next.
Adam K: I
Aaron: Well,
Adam K: like to
Aaron: actually,
Adam K: pick his brain.
Aaron: I'm going to be in Yellowstone.
Aaron: I won't be able to.
Adam K: Oh, maybe I'll just have him on next week.
Aaron: You should
Adam K: I got his number.
Adam K: I'll talk to him.
Aaron: Have him on and have AI.
Aaron: Aaron.
Adam K: I was
Aaron: That'll that'll
Adam K: yeah,
Aaron: be useful.
Adam K: I think that the ChatGPT conversational thing has gotten
Adam K: a lot better.
Adam K: I might actually give that a try
Adam K: and then just do eleven labs
Adam K: because
Aaron: Yeah.
Adam K: have you seen it does the thing now where like you talk to it
Adam K: and it's like, aha.
Adam K: Mhm.
Adam K: Oh, yeah.
Adam K: Mhm.
Adam K: And I'm like, shut the fuck up.
Aaron: Does it really?
Adam K: Yeah.
Aaron: I haven't used ChatGPT in a while so I don't know.
Adam K: I
Aaron: But.
Adam K: was trying out, uh, trying to
Adam K: get something to work with
Adam K: CarPlay.
Adam K: I installed that new stereo and, um, apparently you're like, I
Adam K: mean, you're an Android guy.
Adam K: It's an Android head unit.
Adam K: So it, uh, it, you can install any APK, which is great, but for
Adam K: the most part use CarPlay and the new Apple update.
Adam K: You were supposed to be able to play videos while you're parked.
Adam K: I was like, oh, that's kind of cool.
Adam K: And I'm trying to get it to work.
Adam K: And I was like, well, none of the apps work.
Adam K: And I was like, oh, weird.
Adam K: You can use cloud from here, but it doesn't do anything really.
Adam K: And I saw ChatGPT and I was like, I want to give this a try.
Adam K: And it was the voice guy and he's like, hey, how's it going?
Adam K: Oh yeah, tell me what's going on.
Adam K: I was like, uh, I'm looking for a Indian.
Adam K: F t f t r. Oh yeah.
Adam K: Yeah.
Adam K: Cool bike.
Adam K: Yeah, yeah.
Adam K: I was like, the.
Adam K: This is weird.
Adam K: This is weird that it's talking to me.
Adam K: Uh, so
Aaron: Yeah,
Adam K: I
Aaron: you could
Adam K: could,
Aaron: change it to my voice.
Aaron: Yeah.
Adam K: well, I'm thinking we just, we we have ChatGPT on the call.
Adam K: Duff and I, and we just never acknowledge it.
Adam K: So it's.
Aaron: It's just not able to participate or it's looking for.
Aaron: It's in the entire time.
Adam K: Quiet. Hold on.
Adam K: We're talking about this.
Adam K: And then at the very end, we go, okay, your thoughts.
Adam K: And then it just explodes.
Aaron: And that's all the time we have.
Aaron: Uh.
Adam K: How much compute did I burn doing that?
Adam K: How many lakes did I just drain
Aaron: Mhm.
Adam K: for this dumb, stupid joke?
Adam K: Come in.
Aaron: No, this is, uh, I was hammering something into shape.
Aaron: Man, I'm going to send you a
Aaron: picture of something, and it
Aaron: looks like this looks like arts
Aaron: and crafts at the community
Aaron: college.
Adam K: That's what your grandpa would have said if he had a phone.
Aaron: Yeah, well, they wish grandpa, my grandpa
Adam K: Cruising
Aaron: or my.
Adam K: trick or trickery?
Adam K: Uh. Shriner hat.
Aaron: Tricks?
Adam K: He would go to the parades on
Adam K: his bike for tricks and cruise
Adam K: around.
Aaron: Yeah, well, there's not much to do in Rising City, Nebraska.
Aaron: Besides cruise.
Aaron: The one gay guy that lives there with you.
Adam K: It was technically a parade, but it was just two guys.
Aaron: Two guys and people lined up throwing tomatoes at them.
Adam K: Well, well, one guy in one closet, hat guy.
Aaron: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Adam K: And it wasn't really the street.
Adam K: It was more of a back alley behind a Chili's.
Aaron: I'd love to see a parade in Rising City.
Aaron: It's just it'd be probably the saddest thing.
Aaron: It'd be two cars, and they'd just make the parade fifty feet
Aaron: long, and they just turn around and keep going back and forth.
Aaron: It really would just be pacing
Aaron: back and forth, is what it would
Aaron: look like.
Aaron: But.
Adam K: Um, I think I'm going to buy, I think ten thirty a m uh, pitcher
Adam K: one zero one one seven two nine and, uh, frame this on my wall
Adam K: where an indifferent couple is just riding along on the road.
Aaron: These pictures aren't even that good.
Adam K: They're
Aaron: It's
Adam K: terrible.
Aaron: it's almost like, um, one of those trap cameras they set up
Adam K: It
Aaron: to.
Adam K: looks like it's a flock camera.
Adam K: Like a traffic light.
Adam K: Yeah,
Aaron: Yeah.
Adam K: I think
Aaron: It's
Adam K: it
Aaron: like
Adam K: might be.
Aaron: they're trying to see honey
Aaron: badgers, but all these asshole
Aaron: motorcyclists keep getting in
Aaron: the shot.
Adam K: Well, I, I see a couple guys like on adventure bikes.
Adam K: They were probably just passing through
Aaron: Yeah.
Adam K: And they were like, what the fuck is this?
Adam K: Like, I didn't consent to this.
Adam K: Like, you want to pay for it?
Adam K: Sammy Hagar might sign it.
Aaron: What's great is being a Sammy Hagar historian.
Aaron: I know that he doesn't give a
Aaron: shit about any of these people
Aaron: like Sammy Hagar Rich, and he
Aaron: grew up in the Bay area, and he
Aaron: has Ferraris and all this stuff,
Aaron: and he knows he has a unique
Aaron: ability to turn off that part of
Aaron: him and just go to Sturgis and
Aaron: be like, what's up, you loud
Aaron: motherfuckers?
Aaron: And everyone's like, yeah, you
Aaron: know, and and then he collects
Aaron: his sack of cash and then
Aaron: leaves.
Aaron: I look at someone on a trike.
Aaron: Oh, look at that happy couple.
Aaron: Um.
Aaron: Uh.
Aaron: Gross.
Aaron: Anyway.
Adam K: Yeah. Well, one last, I think I may have told you about this.
Adam K: I in my neighborhood, There's I don't know if you have these
Adam K: where the ring cameras go high.
Adam K: You're being recorded.
Aaron: Yeah, I used to.
Aaron: Yeah.
Adam K: Yeah. Um. What do you mean, used to.
Adam K: Did you do
Aaron: Uh,
Adam K: something?
Aaron: no. When I lived in in that part
Aaron: of Austin that was not as
Aaron: affluent.
Aaron: I'm now an affluent neighborhood,
Adam K: Mhm.
Aaron: and they just have actual people come and say, hi.
Aaron: What are you doing?
Adam K: Um, I wanted to buy the cheapest cardboard cutout celebrity I
Adam K: could find and just stand it in whoever's driveway or wherever
Adam K: does that and just have the thing going off all day.
Adam K: And so then their footage is
Adam K: just, you know, with John Madden
Adam K: just kind of flapping in the
Adam K: wind.
Aaron: That'd be a big cut out.
Adam K: Affordable though,
Aaron: Mhm.
Adam K: he can't he can't be in demand.
Aaron: There's no cut outs of John Madden.
Aaron: Are you crazy?
Adam K: There's a cutout of anything that you want.
Aaron: Oh. MM. Maybe I should look this up.
Aaron: Give me a cutout of one of these
Aaron: motorcyclists on the trap
Aaron: camera.
Adam K: I'm going to make this into Photoshop so I can have a
Adam K: thumbnail for the video.
Aaron: Okay.
Adam K: Oh, and try to read more about
Adam K: this next Halo game, but uh,
Adam K: until then, send me a script and
Adam K: then
Aaron: Okay.
Adam K: travel safe to Yellowstone and I'll reach out to Duff.
Adam K: And
Aaron: I
Adam K: we should
Aaron: will.
Adam K: probably try to get a, you know,
Adam K: weekly newsletter out sometime
Adam K: today, maybe
Aaron: Yeah, I know.
Adam K: if you're
Aaron: Uh.
Adam K: feeling up to it.
Adam K: I know you're constantly sick and between opportunities.
Aaron: I seem to be these days.
Adam K: Between sicknesses and business ventures.
Aaron: HMM.
Adam K: You're a busy man.
Aaron: Well, I'll get you something written for something today.
Adam K: Nate, I appreciate
Aaron: Yeah.
Adam K: you.
Aaron: Okay.
Adam K: I'll talk to you later.
Aaron: All right.
Aaron: Bye.
Adam K: Bye.