1 00:00:00,066 --> 00:00:01,501 Howdy. Y'all. 2 00:00:01,501 --> 00:00:02,202 How's it going? 3 00:00:02,202 --> 00:00:04,070 Oh, just good. 4 00:00:04,070 --> 00:00:06,172 Just just good. I've. 5 00:00:06,172 --> 00:00:08,675 I've been told this is a challenge. 6 00:00:08,675 --> 00:00:11,711 Anytime anyone asks you how you're doing, you can't say good. 7 00:00:12,045 --> 00:00:13,613 Tonga fuck themselves. 8 00:00:13,613 --> 00:00:16,316 Okay, just what are you supposed to say? 9 00:00:16,316 --> 00:00:18,618 I don't know, I'll just pick a different adjective. 10 00:00:18,618 --> 00:00:22,555 Was that person coming down from nicotine 11 00:00:22,555 --> 00:00:25,925 withdrawals inadvertently from the weekend? 12 00:00:26,359 --> 00:00:30,697 So what, you were just vaping or they're just passing out patches? 13 00:00:31,031 --> 00:00:32,632 No, I don't am vape. 14 00:00:32,632 --> 00:00:36,369 I usually once a week I'll have a cigar. 15 00:00:37,137 --> 00:00:40,140 This weekend I had like three. 16 00:00:40,306 --> 00:00:43,309 You know, I was doing stuff and I was not paying attention. 17 00:00:43,476 --> 00:00:44,377 Whatever. 18 00:00:44,377 --> 00:00:48,782 And I'm going through it right now as far as you know. 19 00:00:49,616 --> 00:00:50,483 Mean it's kind of like, 20 00:00:50,483 --> 00:00:53,620 an alcoholic thing where I won't have a scar during the week. 21 00:00:53,653 --> 00:00:55,622 I save it for the weekends, but. 22 00:00:55,622 --> 00:00:58,458 But now I'm Tuesday in, and. 23 00:00:58,458 --> 00:01:00,527 Yeah, I'm just like that. 24 00:01:00,527 --> 00:01:01,961 They just hate the world. 25 00:01:03,730 --> 00:01:05,365 But, I mean, good, you know? 26 00:01:05,365 --> 00:01:10,570 Well, one of my therapist told me that, No, I don't think they're going through 27 00:01:10,570 --> 00:01:13,573 nicotine withdrawal, and they just asked me, how does that make me feel? 28 00:01:14,207 --> 00:01:15,075 And I said, yeah, good. 29 00:01:15,075 --> 00:01:18,278 And they said, don't use good anymore or I'll beat you again. 30 00:01:18,511 --> 00:01:20,880 No, you shouldn't because good. 31 00:01:20,880 --> 00:01:22,015 You're you're 32 00:01:22,015 --> 00:01:25,852 putting as much effort into the answer as the person put into the question. 33 00:01:25,852 --> 00:01:29,122 And it's both people are in the wrong in that case. 34 00:01:29,689 --> 00:01:33,493 So I am finding as I'm getting older, the conversation 35 00:01:33,493 --> 00:01:36,563 switches to the weather much faster than it used to. 36 00:01:36,596 --> 00:01:41,201 I always that was always my baseline of how I know this conversation is over, 37 00:01:41,201 --> 00:01:45,138 or it's just the ultimate sign of small talk of like, it's warm today. 38 00:01:45,171 --> 00:01:46,172 Yeah, it's like. 39 00:01:46,172 --> 00:01:48,074 It's like, what the what the hell else are you going to talk about? 40 00:01:48,074 --> 00:01:51,077 Oh, I just I get it, I immediately get out of that as soon as I know. 41 00:01:51,077 --> 00:01:55,148 It's just it's it's happening just more often I'm noticing of just. 42 00:01:55,548 --> 00:01:57,283 Hey, how are you doing? Warm today. Right? 43 00:01:57,283 --> 00:01:59,919 Like, no, I don't want to do this. 44 00:01:59,919 --> 00:02:02,822 Of course it's warm sometimes it's warm, sometimes it's cold. Yes. 45 00:02:02,822 --> 00:02:03,790 I don't know. It's cold. 46 00:02:03,790 --> 00:02:05,959 You put on a sweater my feet or wear Uggs. 47 00:02:05,959 --> 00:02:06,826 Whatever. 48 00:02:06,826 --> 00:02:09,729 It happened to me in an elevator about a week ago. 49 00:02:09,729 --> 00:02:11,131 And I literally said yeah. 50 00:02:11,131 --> 00:02:13,867 And then I turned away from the person and it was just me 51 00:02:13,867 --> 00:02:16,436 and another person in the elevator. I turned away from them. 52 00:02:17,604 --> 00:02:20,507 Face the wall. 53 00:02:20,507 --> 00:02:24,010 Oh. Probably the right solution, I think. 54 00:02:24,043 --> 00:02:24,611 I don't know, 55 00:02:24,611 --> 00:02:25,979 but yeah, it's 56 00:02:25,979 --> 00:02:28,915 it's happening more of like, oh, I you know, I just came back from Florida 57 00:02:28,915 --> 00:02:31,851 and they're like, what was the weather like? Like, what do you care? 58 00:02:31,851 --> 00:02:33,553 Who cares? You're not going. 59 00:02:33,553 --> 00:02:35,355 And even if you go at all, I don't know. 60 00:02:35,355 --> 00:02:37,590 They had a free snap. 61 00:02:37,590 --> 00:02:43,163 Does that change your your traveling plans I don't know I'm being too pessimistic. 62 00:02:43,163 --> 00:02:46,599 I'm I'm only one day will end today, so I think I'll. 63 00:02:46,599 --> 00:02:47,767 I'll manage. 64 00:02:47,767 --> 00:02:50,103 Oh, I forgot that you've coming off of that sickness. 65 00:02:50,103 --> 00:02:51,938 Yeah I got, I got Florida sick. 66 00:02:51,938 --> 00:02:54,107 So what, other than herpes? 67 00:02:54,107 --> 00:02:58,545 Well, I took the Covid test yesterday, but it did expire in 2025. 68 00:02:58,545 --> 00:03:01,481 I found it under my sink yesterday. 69 00:03:01,481 --> 00:03:04,551 I just I felt like a drug fiend. 70 00:03:04,551 --> 00:03:06,953 Like looking for Covid test them. 71 00:03:06,953 --> 00:03:09,789 I, I it feels like Covid, but it's not quite that. 72 00:03:09,789 --> 00:03:13,526 And like, maybe it's a different strain and came back negative. 73 00:03:13,526 --> 00:03:16,396 So whatever. So yeah maybe it's the measles or whatever. 74 00:03:17,630 --> 00:03:20,633 Bubonic plague or whatever's coming back. 75 00:03:20,733 --> 00:03:22,769 You know, this year. 76 00:03:22,769 --> 00:03:23,536 I don't know whatever. 77 00:03:23,536 --> 00:03:26,506 Our forefathers fought so hard to not die of 78 00:03:27,073 --> 00:03:30,109 I have now, but now I'm on the mend. 79 00:03:30,109 --> 00:03:33,346 It's, I probably just sound nasally because it's all. 80 00:03:33,346 --> 00:03:34,047 It's all up in me, 81 00:03:34,047 --> 00:03:37,417 and I've just been popping, It's kind of warm outside, isn't it? 82 00:03:37,917 --> 00:03:38,218 Yeah. 83 00:03:38,218 --> 00:03:41,221 Well, fuck you. 84 00:03:41,487 --> 00:03:44,290 I'm turning in this elevator now. 85 00:03:44,290 --> 00:03:48,695 But yeah, with that said, I'm behind on on work related things. 86 00:03:48,695 --> 00:03:53,700 I got I got through that giant I list you gave me, over the weekend. 87 00:03:54,434 --> 00:03:55,902 So the site upgrades. 88 00:03:55,902 --> 00:03:59,405 Yeah, I I've learned so many things about metadata and, 89 00:03:59,939 --> 00:04:02,475 backlinks and all this other, 90 00:04:02,475 --> 00:04:05,478 slang that kids used in the 90s. 91 00:04:05,645 --> 00:04:10,283 So it's kind of nice when it's not for an enormous company 92 00:04:10,283 --> 00:04:12,752 and there's no pressure and just breaking things. 93 00:04:12,752 --> 00:04:15,755 But yeah, I well, I did the thing too, which is, 94 00:04:16,556 --> 00:04:19,926 you know, the, the mindset of like, why would I pay 95 00:04:19,926 --> 00:04:24,130 someone $4,000 to build a fence when I can do it worse for $6,000? 96 00:04:24,297 --> 00:04:24,897 Right. 97 00:04:24,897 --> 00:04:27,900 I did that with this whole, 98 00:04:28,334 --> 00:04:31,671 metadata thing because stupid us 99 00:04:32,138 --> 00:04:36,142 didn't realize every time we were making a post on this ghost platform, 100 00:04:36,542 --> 00:04:39,479 there's a sidebar click out of like, hey, fill out your metadata. 101 00:04:39,479 --> 00:04:40,480 This is what goes out to Google. 102 00:04:40,480 --> 00:04:42,548 They make it very easy for you. We're just so lazy. 103 00:04:42,548 --> 00:04:44,150 Yeah, yeah. 104 00:04:44,150 --> 00:04:47,487 So rather than me going through the, I don't know, eight, 105 00:04:47,787 --> 00:04:53,593 nine articles on our website, I started a instance of N8 106 00:04:53,593 --> 00:04:54,594 and which is, you know, 107 00:04:54,594 --> 00:04:58,064 like Zapier or Mac or any of these, it's this all if this, then that thing. 108 00:04:58,064 --> 00:04:59,966 But it's a free one that I use. 109 00:04:59,966 --> 00:05:02,969 And I started off just like real basic just hey, 110 00:05:02,969 --> 00:05:05,972 go through go through our site. 111 00:05:06,372 --> 00:05:07,607 This is entirely in the back end. 112 00:05:07,607 --> 00:05:08,775 It's not going to spam anything. 113 00:05:08,775 --> 00:05:12,045 It's just like, just read the page, 114 00:05:12,045 --> 00:05:15,181 put in the proper metadata and he's going there and make it simple. 115 00:05:15,181 --> 00:05:17,183 Ended up spending like eight hours on this thing. 116 00:05:17,183 --> 00:05:21,921 Yeah, yeah, it would have taken me, I don't know, one hour to do all of it, 117 00:05:21,921 --> 00:05:25,158 but instead I spent all day building a thing, pulling my hair out. 118 00:05:25,458 --> 00:05:26,626 But it works now. 119 00:05:26,626 --> 00:05:28,227 So the idea is that in the future, 120 00:05:28,227 --> 00:05:30,463 all the metadata stuff will just be automatically taken care of. 121 00:05:30,463 --> 00:05:32,565 But when would you say you got this done? 122 00:05:32,565 --> 00:05:33,833 Yesterday. 123 00:05:33,833 --> 00:05:36,336 Wasn't yesterday or Saturday. 124 00:05:36,336 --> 00:05:37,136 What? 125 00:05:37,136 --> 00:05:37,603 The whole. 126 00:05:37,603 --> 00:05:40,039 The whole weekend's been a blur to me. It's okay. 127 00:05:40,039 --> 00:05:40,473 Yeah. 128 00:05:40,473 --> 00:05:45,945 I've been having a lot of, like, DayQuil and like, just these medically induced 129 00:05:45,945 --> 00:05:46,879 nightmares of, like, 130 00:05:46,879 --> 00:05:51,384 being stuck on a spaceship, going to, a distant planet that went the wrong way. 131 00:05:51,484 --> 00:05:52,085 Based on. 132 00:05:52,085 --> 00:05:56,956 Yeah, like Swedish, or Norwegian, like sci fi movie I watched and, 133 00:05:57,423 --> 00:06:00,360 bits of Lord of the rings just kind of thrown in there 134 00:06:00,360 --> 00:06:03,029 and versus like, what did they actually do work wise? 135 00:06:03,029 --> 00:06:04,030 So it's all been kind of a blur. 136 00:06:04,030 --> 00:06:05,698 But whatever that day, 137 00:06:05,698 --> 00:06:08,234 I guess we can go through the chat logs and see when we we did it. 138 00:06:08,234 --> 00:06:09,902 But it was that day. 139 00:06:09,902 --> 00:06:12,739 Whenever you're asking me to do stuff before I started dying. 140 00:06:12,739 --> 00:06:13,473 Okay. 141 00:06:13,473 --> 00:06:16,275 Yeah, well, I only ask because I think 142 00:06:16,275 --> 00:06:19,278 we should test the sign up process again 143 00:06:19,412 --> 00:06:24,217 because I am curious with we're getting a lot of traffic to the site 144 00:06:24,217 --> 00:06:27,920 and the sign ups are not reflecting 145 00:06:27,920 --> 00:06:31,190 that, like, just statistically, 146 00:06:31,190 --> 00:06:34,694 the, the number of people visiting is, is 147 00:06:34,927 --> 00:06:37,930 has been increasing by a lot. 148 00:06:38,097 --> 00:06:40,366 And it's really strange that there's not even. 149 00:06:41,501 --> 00:06:41,634 Yeah. 150 00:06:41,634 --> 00:06:45,071 You know, any kind of anything, if that makes sense. 151 00:06:45,271 --> 00:06:45,638 Yeah. 152 00:06:45,638 --> 00:06:49,876 I mean I'm seeing it tick up a little bit, but also at the same time too, 153 00:06:49,909 --> 00:06:53,846 like subscribing to a newsletter to a website is like, that's a commitment, 154 00:06:53,846 --> 00:06:54,380 right? 155 00:06:54,380 --> 00:06:57,383 You know, that's a relationship you're asking someone to. 156 00:06:57,583 --> 00:06:59,419 But with this many unique visitors, 157 00:06:59,419 --> 00:07:02,688 statistically someone should accidentally sign up. 158 00:07:03,189 --> 00:07:06,125 Yeah. Which is, like all the other people. 159 00:07:06,125 --> 00:07:08,694 Put put your mind, put your mind in. 160 00:07:08,694 --> 00:07:11,731 And that of a person who's never heard of you. 161 00:07:11,731 --> 00:07:16,469 Never heard of me, never even heard of anything that we we talk about. 162 00:07:16,469 --> 00:07:19,205 Why would they subscribe to this website? 163 00:07:19,205 --> 00:07:23,309 Like we don't give them really a reason for a random pass or buyer to sub, right? 164 00:07:23,509 --> 00:07:24,844 Well, I mean, 165 00:07:26,045 --> 00:07:29,048 to get rid of the pop up window. 166 00:07:30,149 --> 00:07:30,716 I mean. 167 00:07:30,716 --> 00:07:33,920 It's like we're building the foundation, we're building the scaffolding, 168 00:07:33,920 --> 00:07:34,454 all that stuff. 169 00:07:34,454 --> 00:07:35,655 So it's like, hey, 170 00:07:35,655 --> 00:07:39,325 we want to start putting out more regular stories, funny bits, all that videos. 171 00:07:39,325 --> 00:07:40,827 And it's like, yeah, subscribe. 172 00:07:40,827 --> 00:07:41,761 This is a 173 00:07:41,761 --> 00:07:45,665 this is what we choose to do instead of YouTube or any other social media. 174 00:07:45,665 --> 00:07:49,602 Like it's I mean, other than getting, the, the potential of a free 175 00:07:49,602 --> 00:07:52,805 CD key, once a week. 176 00:07:53,706 --> 00:07:56,542 Yeah. Maybe we should hit on that more. 177 00:07:56,542 --> 00:07:56,843 I'm going. 178 00:07:56,843 --> 00:07:59,111 To run. Out. 179 00:07:59,111 --> 00:08:02,215 I mean, I still get new ones every week, sometimes twice a week. 180 00:08:02,915 --> 00:08:05,818 So I don't know. Yeah, I, 181 00:08:05,818 --> 00:08:08,588 I just, I don't want to become like, a giveaway site, you know, 182 00:08:08,588 --> 00:08:11,824 like, subscribe for our newsletter for a chance to win a piece for. 183 00:08:12,792 --> 00:08:14,327 A kind of gateway computer. 184 00:08:14,327 --> 00:08:15,595 At this point. 185 00:08:15,595 --> 00:08:16,062 Yeah. 186 00:08:16,062 --> 00:08:19,065 As long as there's a turbo button and it looks like a cow, I'm in. 187 00:08:19,165 --> 00:08:20,833 well, that's good site stuff then. 188 00:08:20,833 --> 00:08:22,935 the ads. 189 00:08:22,935 --> 00:08:25,638 I think that we're, I don't know, I need to look at our ad thing. 190 00:08:25,638 --> 00:08:27,807 I got served an ad today. 191 00:08:27,807 --> 00:08:30,409 I need to share with you the ad I was served. 192 00:08:30,409 --> 00:08:33,946 I'm going to send it over I was quite confused 193 00:08:34,580 --> 00:08:37,617 as to why I was targeted for this ad. 194 00:08:37,617 --> 00:08:38,951 I was reading this. 195 00:08:38,951 --> 00:08:40,653 First of all, I was reading this news article. 196 00:08:40,653 --> 00:08:42,388 This horrendous crime 197 00:08:42,388 --> 00:08:46,259 that was committed against this, this woman, she was murdered low. 198 00:08:46,425 --> 00:08:49,695 And then the middle of this article, I get this 199 00:08:49,695 --> 00:08:52,698 ad from eBay and I just sent it to you. 200 00:08:53,466 --> 00:08:55,868 Is that a rock penis? What is this? 201 00:08:55,868 --> 00:08:59,272 I what I what the image is, is, is, you know, 202 00:08:59,272 --> 00:09:02,241 it's an eBay ad, like, you know, of postings. 203 00:09:02,241 --> 00:09:04,944 It's just two different postings. The one on the right is 204 00:09:05,912 --> 00:09:06,746 obviously a 205 00:09:06,746 --> 00:09:10,750 hood release cable for a 1970 Carmen Ghia convertible. 206 00:09:10,750 --> 00:09:15,922 We all know that the thing on the left looks like a rock penis. 207 00:09:15,988 --> 00:09:17,123 And actually, 208 00:09:17,123 --> 00:09:20,126 I thought it was Jimi Hendrix's penis because I remember reading this article 209 00:09:20,126 --> 00:09:23,129 about this lady who had mauled all the rockstars penises way back when. 210 00:09:23,362 --> 00:09:25,398 I was like, what the fuck is that? 211 00:09:25,398 --> 00:09:27,800 I click on the thing 212 00:09:27,800 --> 00:09:30,803 and let me send you this image. 213 00:09:30,803 --> 00:09:35,675 I click on the ad and this is the listing on eBay. 214 00:09:36,175 --> 00:09:37,610 Okay? 215 00:09:37,610 --> 00:09:39,812 It's an Indian artifact. 216 00:09:39,812 --> 00:09:41,013 It says. 217 00:09:41,013 --> 00:09:43,549 Okay, like for 150 or like 218 00:09:43,549 --> 00:09:46,552 we're talking Nepal, like. 219 00:09:47,119 --> 00:09:49,021 It could be motorcycles for all I know. 220 00:09:49,021 --> 00:09:52,658 I don't know this, but for $150, you get this. 221 00:09:53,025 --> 00:09:56,963 Very obviously a penis shaped out of ancient rock. 222 00:09:57,096 --> 00:09:57,363 Yeah. 223 00:09:58,598 --> 00:10:01,500 Now my question to myself was 224 00:10:01,500 --> 00:10:05,972 why would I be shown these two ads next to one another? 225 00:10:05,972 --> 00:10:08,007 And the only thing I can think of 226 00:10:08,007 --> 00:10:11,110 is that there's some sort of cookie on my phone 227 00:10:11,110 --> 00:10:14,880 that's analyzing all the pictures, and it knows that I'm looking for car 228 00:10:14,880 --> 00:10:16,582 parts and and whatever else. 229 00:10:16,582 --> 00:10:19,585 So Rockdale does rock dildos. 230 00:10:19,619 --> 00:10:22,521 Or maybe because they know you have an overbearing father 231 00:10:22,521 --> 00:10:24,357 that looks through your history, so you just 232 00:10:24,357 --> 00:10:28,494 you can just say, no, it was rock architecture, father. 233 00:10:28,494 --> 00:10:30,863 It was an Indian artifact. It wasn't. 234 00:10:30,863 --> 00:10:33,165 I wasn't using this to get off. 235 00:10:33,165 --> 00:10:36,502 I wish my father cared enough to care about my, search history. 236 00:10:36,502 --> 00:10:39,205 But alas, he's going. To sell you for a goat. 237 00:10:39,205 --> 00:10:40,206 There is none of that. 238 00:10:40,206 --> 00:10:43,209 This, all this is, say, 239 00:10:43,342 --> 00:10:45,711 is our ads could be better. 240 00:10:48,014 --> 00:10:49,215 We already did. 241 00:10:49,215 --> 00:10:51,651 The big milkers. I don't know what we do. 242 00:10:51,651 --> 00:10:52,685 It was getting a high clip. 243 00:10:52,685 --> 00:10:54,920 Well, we haven't done that on YouTube. 244 00:10:54,920 --> 00:10:57,890 That potential, marketing 245 00:10:58,391 --> 00:11:02,161 advisor that approached us that I still need to message back. 246 00:11:02,161 --> 00:11:05,164 I think that's the first thing we're going to get him on is to be like, 247 00:11:05,164 --> 00:11:08,167 you have this picture of Adam and I with fake breasts. 248 00:11:08,234 --> 00:11:11,237 Do something with it, and that'll be the challenge. 249 00:11:11,270 --> 00:11:12,171 Okay. 250 00:11:12,171 --> 00:11:15,174 Yeah, I I'm I guess I'm not in a creative 251 00:11:15,808 --> 00:11:18,811 Indian artifact headspace right now 252 00:11:19,045 --> 00:11:22,648 to to come up with any new creative in that regard. 253 00:11:22,648 --> 00:11:25,151 But I am with you. I'm what I would like to do. 254 00:11:25,151 --> 00:11:28,354 What I don't want to do is just run our stuff through an 255 00:11:28,354 --> 00:11:32,324 AI program and have it just kick out, a clip and be like, here you go. 256 00:11:32,324 --> 00:11:36,328 Here's your like, that's just that's a short that you put out for free and go, 257 00:11:36,629 --> 00:11:40,633 you know, you don't put money behind that necessarily like I 258 00:11:41,400 --> 00:11:43,936 and I'm saying this, I'm going to regret saying it. 259 00:11:43,936 --> 00:11:49,675 We need to create something new original different that we want to make 260 00:11:49,675 --> 00:11:55,114 something like like an original ad or just just something, anything. 261 00:11:55,114 --> 00:11:59,051 But that requires time and effort and things that we don't exactly 262 00:11:59,051 --> 00:12:00,953 have at the moment, maybe have. 263 00:12:00,953 --> 00:12:02,688 You must be high on NyQuil. 264 00:12:02,688 --> 00:12:04,056 It's, and I can feel it. 265 00:12:04,056 --> 00:12:08,260 And I also had some coffee, so it's like it's a weird upper and a downer. 266 00:12:08,260 --> 00:12:09,061 It's weird. 267 00:12:09,061 --> 00:12:12,331 I'm reaching some level of nirvana. 268 00:12:12,331 --> 00:12:13,099 It's pretty cool. 269 00:12:13,099 --> 00:12:14,633 I mean, I, you know, I agree with you. 270 00:12:14,633 --> 00:12:18,804 The, the video aspect of it, it's it's hard enough getting out 271 00:12:18,804 --> 00:12:22,975 all the kind of written pieces while doing other work, but the, 272 00:12:23,843 --> 00:12:27,546 you know, may the blood Boy thing will be the first, another release. 273 00:12:27,546 --> 00:12:28,647 That'll be nice. 274 00:12:28,647 --> 00:12:32,651 I mean, you know, in the grand scheme of things, it's been three weeks 275 00:12:32,651 --> 00:12:35,955 since we kind of launched this thing, so relaunched it rather. 276 00:12:35,955 --> 00:12:36,622 So there's, 277 00:12:37,857 --> 00:12:40,860 It's not awful place to be, but. 278 00:12:40,960 --> 00:12:42,962 I mean, yeah, we're also. This is the marathon. 279 00:12:42,962 --> 00:12:45,097 We are on the treadmill. We can never get off. 280 00:12:45,097 --> 00:12:49,969 So now now here's where we live and it's going to get it's going to be way 281 00:12:49,969 --> 00:12:53,939 more of these Thursday nights of like, oh, crap, we haven't put the newsletter 282 00:12:53,939 --> 00:12:54,673 together yet. 283 00:12:54,673 --> 00:12:55,508 Oh, no. 284 00:12:55,508 --> 00:12:57,009 Oh, Aaron's going out of town. 285 00:12:57,009 --> 00:12:58,844 What the hell do I do? 286 00:12:58,844 --> 00:12:59,712 I don't oh yeah. 287 00:12:59,712 --> 00:13:01,147 That reminds me, I got to put together 288 00:13:01,147 --> 00:13:04,150 the newsletter tomorrow because I'm going out of town. 289 00:13:04,517 --> 00:13:06,085 That's actually something I'm going to do. 290 00:13:06,085 --> 00:13:09,321 I'm going to just make a template because we're basically using a template 291 00:13:09,321 --> 00:13:10,556 at this point, 292 00:13:10,556 --> 00:13:13,959 that we just keep and we just always right click and say duplicate, make that. 293 00:13:13,959 --> 00:13:15,828 So it just makes our life a little easier. 294 00:13:15,828 --> 00:13:16,028 Yeah. 295 00:13:16,028 --> 00:13:19,131 When do you want to put out the subscriber spotlight? 296 00:13:20,399 --> 00:13:25,237 Oh, I think either tomorrow or Thursday. 297 00:13:25,971 --> 00:13:28,207 Let's do Thursday or. 298 00:13:28,207 --> 00:13:30,009 No, let's see the subscriber tomorrow. 299 00:13:30,009 --> 00:13:35,481 I'm going to put my two articles and video up on Thursday. 300 00:13:35,481 --> 00:13:37,149 Whoa, cowboy. 301 00:13:37,149 --> 00:13:41,654 Using up a lot of articles that you could be saving and releasing later. 302 00:13:41,854 --> 00:13:43,789 No, I mean, they're related. 303 00:13:43,789 --> 00:13:47,560 I, I had already done the self-hosting thing. 304 00:13:47,560 --> 00:13:48,160 It's mostly down. 305 00:13:48,160 --> 00:13:51,497 I just made, and a couple changes on it right now, 306 00:13:52,097 --> 00:13:55,401 the to build a music server thing. 307 00:13:55,401 --> 00:13:56,735 It's like a companion piece. 308 00:13:56,735 --> 00:14:00,339 It just it would have made the one article too long. 309 00:14:00,339 --> 00:14:02,308 So I'm like, this is just a bonus extra. 310 00:14:02,308 --> 00:14:06,478 And then I, you know, I made that video on a day, so it was easy. 311 00:14:06,478 --> 00:14:08,180 It's fine. 312 00:14:08,180 --> 00:14:12,084 And here you are like, how are we going to make all these videos? 313 00:14:12,084 --> 00:14:14,453 And you're making that horseshit in a day? 314 00:14:15,888 --> 00:14:17,223 It's all possible. 315 00:14:17,223 --> 00:14:17,523 Well, it. 316 00:14:17,523 --> 00:14:18,824 Is, it is possible. 317 00:14:18,824 --> 00:14:21,227 And you just got to kill yourself. 318 00:14:21,227 --> 00:14:23,329 I'm going to 319 00:14:23,329 --> 00:14:25,264 with, like, a DayQuil, 320 00:14:25,264 --> 00:14:27,800 honey coated DayQuil. 321 00:14:27,800 --> 00:14:31,503 The, What I want to start next is the slop video. 322 00:14:31,503 --> 00:14:31,971 The whole. 323 00:14:31,971 --> 00:14:35,541 Like, I've been making slop for years, but then that turned into, 324 00:14:35,541 --> 00:14:38,844 a rabbit hole of like, okay, can I buy the machinima? 325 00:14:39,578 --> 00:14:42,281 IP. We'll set up the. 326 00:14:42,281 --> 00:14:42,581 Do you. 327 00:14:42,581 --> 00:14:46,752 I mean, you as much as you want to say the slop video that you're talking about. 328 00:14:46,852 --> 00:14:49,755 Yeah. What 329 00:14:49,755 --> 00:14:52,591 I said as much as you as you can talk about it. 330 00:14:52,591 --> 00:14:55,961 That slop video and the machinima thing. 331 00:14:58,163 --> 00:14:59,498 Are you not going to talk about it? 332 00:14:59,498 --> 00:15:02,001 I can we can edit this I don't. 333 00:15:02,001 --> 00:15:03,469 Well that's what I'm saying. It does. 334 00:15:03,469 --> 00:15:04,303 So I'm saying. 335 00:15:04,303 --> 00:15:05,671 Nothing's coming out of it. 336 00:15:05,671 --> 00:15:10,776 I mean like I, I, I just asked and I bought hey, 337 00:15:11,443 --> 00:15:15,080 Paramount's about to buy Warner Brothers. 338 00:15:15,080 --> 00:15:19,752 Warner Brothers, Time Warner Digital, whatever owns the machinima IP. 339 00:15:20,519 --> 00:15:24,657 It's I looked into it that the like the the URLs locked down 340 00:15:24,690 --> 00:15:27,293 you can never buy it goes through some other company 341 00:15:27,293 --> 00:15:30,162 and I just I thought it would be funny because it's like I don't want anything 342 00:15:30,162 --> 00:15:30,963 to do with it. 343 00:15:31,931 --> 00:15:36,368 It's it's this like stupid, you know, 344 00:15:37,403 --> 00:15:41,507 like, I, I bought my old company who cares? 345 00:15:41,507 --> 00:15:43,108 Like it was. 346 00:15:43,108 --> 00:15:45,844 It's a bad name. It was a bad website. 347 00:15:45,844 --> 00:15:47,346 It was a bad YouTube channel. 348 00:15:47,346 --> 00:15:49,081 Everything was bad. 349 00:15:49,081 --> 00:15:51,650 Warner Brothers bought it. They were sad. 350 00:15:51,650 --> 00:15:52,518 They bought it. 351 00:15:52,518 --> 00:15:57,356 I lost money because I bought my stock when I left the company. 352 00:15:58,791 --> 00:16:01,860 And then when they actually sold it, the stock was worth less. 353 00:16:02,661 --> 00:16:03,062 Yeah. 354 00:16:03,062 --> 00:16:06,065 So I was like, damn, 355 00:16:06,231 --> 00:16:08,334 it's all it's just a joke to me. 356 00:16:08,334 --> 00:16:11,971 Either way, the the slop thing is just 357 00:16:13,439 --> 00:16:15,274 and it's almost becoming more 358 00:16:15,274 --> 00:16:18,277 of a like a deep dive into language 359 00:16:18,377 --> 00:16:21,981 because everything is slop now, right? 360 00:16:22,281 --> 00:16:23,849 Our food is slop. 361 00:16:23,849 --> 00:16:28,821 If a video looks a little, I it's now slop. 362 00:16:28,821 --> 00:16:33,659 Even if it's not, it's just this blanket term is losing all meaning. 363 00:16:33,659 --> 00:16:35,227 It's it's like the, 364 00:16:35,227 --> 00:16:39,798 the vernacular of saying we're cooked and oh, he's been cooking and it's like, 365 00:16:40,899 --> 00:16:42,768 those are two very different meaning things. 366 00:16:42,768 --> 00:16:47,139 And they're very close to each other and often used incorrectly. 367 00:16:47,906 --> 00:16:50,442 On small parts of the internet. 368 00:16:50,442 --> 00:16:51,443 Either way. 369 00:16:51,443 --> 00:16:56,548 It's it's just doing that reflection of this crap 370 00:16:56,548 --> 00:16:59,551 I used to make on an Xbox was absolutely slop. 371 00:16:59,651 --> 00:17:03,522 It was like it was a fast way to turn stuff around. 372 00:17:03,522 --> 00:17:05,224 That wasn't very good. 373 00:17:05,224 --> 00:17:08,961 So it's it's coming to terms with my own lack of creativity. 374 00:17:08,961 --> 00:17:10,662 That's it. Really? 375 00:17:10,662 --> 00:17:12,064 Yeah. Yeah. 376 00:17:12,064 --> 00:17:17,369 You could argue that the original thought of something 377 00:17:17,903 --> 00:17:22,041 is the art, and then all the derivative stuff is the slop. 378 00:17:22,041 --> 00:17:26,345 I mean, that's not the most, you know, profound statement ever. 379 00:17:26,345 --> 00:17:32,484 But anyone can make Pixar level animation now in a in 10s. 380 00:17:32,484 --> 00:17:36,455 But when Pixar was first doing it, obviously it's beautiful 381 00:17:36,722 --> 00:17:40,292 and now it it's it can be a great story 382 00:17:40,692 --> 00:17:46,432 and it can be like as perfect of a Pixar I created thing as possible. 383 00:17:46,432 --> 00:17:48,801 And then people label it as slop. 384 00:17:48,801 --> 00:17:52,104 Let to your point, like they're just calling it slop. 385 00:17:52,104 --> 00:17:56,809 Just because it was made quickly as opposed to painstakingly. 386 00:17:56,975 --> 00:17:57,943 Yeah, I mean, 387 00:17:57,943 --> 00:18:01,313 it kind of comes down to two of like, what's my personal definition of slut? 388 00:18:01,313 --> 00:18:03,215 Because like, I see a lot of AI stuff. 389 00:18:03,215 --> 00:18:04,583 It's just it's everywhere. 390 00:18:04,583 --> 00:18:06,752 You can't not see it. 391 00:18:06,752 --> 00:18:09,021 And I see the positives and I see the negatives. 392 00:18:10,756 --> 00:18:11,423 For me, 393 00:18:11,423 --> 00:18:15,461 slop was how can I automate this stuff to come out of 394 00:18:15,461 --> 00:18:19,765 like daily affirmations that are it's like there's no human involved. 395 00:18:20,065 --> 00:18:20,532 You know? 396 00:18:20,532 --> 00:18:23,001 It's just this, it's a slop machine. 397 00:18:23,001 --> 00:18:25,671 It's just it's derivative crap. 398 00:18:25,671 --> 00:18:30,142 It's just it's copies of copies, which in my personal opinion, 399 00:18:30,142 --> 00:18:31,310 that's most of YouTube. 400 00:18:31,310 --> 00:18:33,312 It's just copies of copies, right? 401 00:18:33,312 --> 00:18:36,081 It's people are talking the same way. 402 00:18:36,081 --> 00:18:38,383 Reviews slop. Yeah. 403 00:18:38,383 --> 00:18:41,386 I mean, it's it. 404 00:18:42,087 --> 00:18:44,223 I'm going, I guess kind of a my Andy Rooney thing here. 405 00:18:44,223 --> 00:18:47,226 But like, that's also like Hollywood in a nutshell. It's 406 00:18:48,560 --> 00:18:49,895 let's make more Avengers 407 00:18:49,895 --> 00:18:53,198 movies, let's make more sequels, more spinoffs. 408 00:18:53,198 --> 00:18:55,400 It's it is all just it's 409 00:18:55,400 --> 00:18:59,138 copies of copies of copies and it's losing that originality. 410 00:18:59,138 --> 00:19:02,040 It's losing that thing that made it special in the first place. 411 00:19:02,040 --> 00:19:04,676 But people don't seem to care. So 412 00:19:05,711 --> 00:19:08,881 again, it it's there's something more to say. 413 00:19:08,881 --> 00:19:13,018 And it all, you know, comes back to me making a halo. 414 00:19:13,018 --> 00:19:16,021 Characters had bob up and down. 415 00:19:17,156 --> 00:19:19,324 You know, hey, I want to spend time working on that 416 00:19:19,324 --> 00:19:22,327 this week and just, I don't know, because I remember 417 00:19:22,494 --> 00:19:25,764 when in my when I was working at machinima, 418 00:19:26,098 --> 00:19:28,233 when I saw the documentary Waking 419 00:19:28,233 --> 00:19:31,236 Sleeping Beauty, which is about the Disney artists 420 00:19:31,370 --> 00:19:34,973 in that golden era when they made like Little Mermaid and Lion King and all that, 421 00:19:35,440 --> 00:19:37,976 it was like those there's like 4 or 5 perfect movies. 422 00:19:37,976 --> 00:19:41,113 And I remember just feeling so bad about my life of like, 423 00:19:41,914 --> 00:19:45,851 or you watch like the the making of Pixar, like the how they formed as a company. 424 00:19:45,851 --> 00:19:49,288 You're like, these are really smart, creative people. 425 00:19:50,055 --> 00:19:51,590 The fuck am I doing with my life? 426 00:19:54,459 --> 00:19:54,760 It's like 427 00:19:54,760 --> 00:19:58,430 it made me want to aspire to be bigger and better, but also it just 428 00:19:58,730 --> 00:20:01,767 it really made me feel down on myself. 429 00:20:02,801 --> 00:20:07,439 Well, they say that when you see something like, 430 00:20:07,439 --> 00:20:11,310 I mean, it could be in any form, but say, like 431 00:20:11,310 --> 00:20:14,680 creatively in this instance, you see something creatively 432 00:20:14,680 --> 00:20:19,251 that makes you go, oh, I could how I could, I cannot do that. 433 00:20:19,251 --> 00:20:22,788 But then it pushes you to, to try and do something. 434 00:20:23,222 --> 00:20:25,757 Then that is you growing. 435 00:20:25,757 --> 00:20:27,025 And that's great art. 436 00:20:27,025 --> 00:20:28,860 Yeah, I think this is an exception. 437 00:20:28,860 --> 00:20:31,964 But you know, in general they say that to where, 438 00:20:32,531 --> 00:20:35,334 you know, there's there's two paths you can go down, you can go down 439 00:20:35,334 --> 00:20:39,471 the path of like, well, I give up and then you actually do give up or you 440 00:20:39,771 --> 00:20:44,009 go down the path of like, I gotta, I gotta do, I gotta up my game. 441 00:20:44,376 --> 00:20:44,610 Yeah. 442 00:20:44,610 --> 00:20:49,414 And, I mean, that's another thing I, I that was sort of an extra piece 443 00:20:49,414 --> 00:20:53,252 I added to the, the self-hosting article is like talking about 444 00:20:54,052 --> 00:20:57,256 pretty much how I, I've come to terms with the way I use 445 00:20:57,256 --> 00:21:00,492 AI, which a lot of times it's just for my own personal stuff. 446 00:21:00,492 --> 00:21:04,263 I'm not looking to get rich or make. 447 00:21:04,496 --> 00:21:05,564 I'm using air quotes here. 448 00:21:05,564 --> 00:21:10,302 But Art, you know, I think that's that's where the whole thing kind of falls apart, 449 00:21:10,302 --> 00:21:11,870 where people look at this up and go, look at the art. 450 00:21:11,870 --> 00:21:15,707 Amazing lead and make that you, you typed in a box and it made a thing. 451 00:21:16,341 --> 00:21:19,144 If you're you're just doing a personal project or you're, 452 00:21:19,144 --> 00:21:22,047 you know, you're making a family calendar and you're using 453 00:21:22,047 --> 00:21:25,317 you're making eye images of your pets, and it's good enough for you 454 00:21:25,484 --> 00:21:28,820 in your little world that you don't have to go, like, sell it on Etsy. 455 00:21:29,021 --> 00:21:30,922 I can see an argument for 456 00:21:30,922 --> 00:21:33,358 just like if you're just using it for your own personal stuff, that's fine. 457 00:21:33,358 --> 00:21:34,192 It's not great. 458 00:21:34,192 --> 00:21:36,528 It's might be a little crappy. 459 00:21:36,528 --> 00:21:39,197 But at the same time, too, I think the average person 460 00:21:39,197 --> 00:21:42,701 is not going to know how to use Photoshop or draw. 461 00:21:43,035 --> 00:21:45,370 I can't draw But no one uses it for their own. 462 00:21:45,370 --> 00:21:49,341 But like the whole point is people are all racing to not 463 00:21:50,075 --> 00:21:54,179 when the inevitable event happens and no one has a job anymore. 464 00:21:54,713 --> 00:21:57,316 People are racing towards saving 465 00:21:57,316 --> 00:22:00,552 as much of their acorns as they can before that happens. 466 00:22:00,552 --> 00:22:04,089 And some people's approaches, I got to start an Instagram 467 00:22:04,289 --> 00:22:10,429 where it is, it's purely the Clinton deposition, 468 00:22:10,429 --> 00:22:15,000 and it's it's Bill Clinton who he's like crying over old photos that are 469 00:22:15,133 --> 00:22:19,738 that are bringing back wistful memories of Epstein Island and all this stuff. 470 00:22:19,738 --> 00:22:25,911 That is how I'm going to make $500,000 and and get my little nest 471 00:22:25,911 --> 00:22:31,550 egg before I'm fired from my social media manager job or whatever it is. 472 00:22:31,650 --> 00:22:34,486 Yeah, yeah. So I, you know. Yeah. No, no. 473 00:22:34,486 --> 00:22:38,156 No, I it's such a minefield to even like 474 00:22:38,156 --> 00:22:42,361 think about or talk about because it's just like everyone's affected 475 00:22:42,794 --> 00:22:46,765 and it's just sort of here and it's that thing of 476 00:22:47,899 --> 00:22:50,335 I don't know if you've, you've read 477 00:22:50,335 --> 00:22:51,603 what's his name? Kurzweil. 478 00:22:51,603 --> 00:22:54,606 The guy who's written about all the, like, the singularity stuff. 479 00:22:55,207 --> 00:22:59,678 Or maybe it was that one or some other whatever related book, but I remember that 480 00:22:59,678 --> 00:23:03,548 the thing that stuck with me was, we're not evolving fast enough. 481 00:23:03,548 --> 00:23:04,883 We're just reacting. 482 00:23:04,883 --> 00:23:07,586 I feel that's very true. 483 00:23:07,586 --> 00:23:10,889 technology is picked up and is moving so quickly. 484 00:23:11,623 --> 00:23:13,458 We don't have time to evolve with it. 485 00:23:13,458 --> 00:23:16,928 We're just we're just trying to figure it out as it's thrown at us 486 00:23:16,928 --> 00:23:21,800 and we're just these insane apes freaking out and being like it. 487 00:23:22,200 --> 00:23:23,468 It makes pictures of Jubilee. 488 00:23:23,468 --> 00:23:26,471 Now what do I do? 489 00:23:26,505 --> 00:23:28,774 It's kind of warm outside today. 490 00:23:28,774 --> 00:23:30,342 Know the, That's good. 491 00:23:30,342 --> 00:23:32,811 Yeah. I mean, yeah, yeah. 492 00:23:32,811 --> 00:23:38,283 And cut to us just reacting to all this, I, 493 00:23:38,850 --> 00:23:44,389 it's just a new way to occupy our minds from the real horrors going on. 494 00:23:44,689 --> 00:23:47,259 But I don't know, I, I can't, 495 00:23:48,627 --> 00:23:49,428 I got gotta 496 00:23:49,428 --> 00:23:52,464 and this is, this is the nicotine withdrawal happening again. 497 00:23:52,464 --> 00:23:57,936 I'm getting another hot flash, but I've got to figure out a way 498 00:23:58,136 --> 00:24:02,207 to better organize my time because it kind of came 499 00:24:02,607 --> 00:24:06,144 to, I think, a really like a had this weekend 500 00:24:06,578 --> 00:24:10,749 where I just I had I said enough is enough because I know 501 00:24:11,783 --> 00:24:14,119 I know that I waste a lot of time 502 00:24:14,119 --> 00:24:17,122 in general, but I never quantify it. 503 00:24:17,122 --> 00:24:20,091 I will look at the AI stuff, 504 00:24:20,392 --> 00:24:22,994 you know, on Instagram for 30 minutes. 505 00:24:22,994 --> 00:24:25,497 And I think that's like not that much time. 506 00:24:25,497 --> 00:24:28,500 And and who knows what it adds up to this weekend. 507 00:24:28,767 --> 00:24:33,171 It was irrefutable how much time I wasted because first 508 00:24:33,171 --> 00:24:38,543 I watched the Hillary Clinton deposition, in its entirety. 509 00:24:38,543 --> 00:24:40,912 Posted by by PBS. 510 00:24:42,314 --> 00:24:42,914 It was over. 511 00:24:42,914 --> 00:24:46,184 It's 4.5 hours long of her answering questions, 512 00:24:46,718 --> 00:24:49,387 and I started watching it. 513 00:24:49,387 --> 00:24:52,190 And then for some reason, I couldn't stop watching it. 514 00:24:52,190 --> 00:24:53,859 It's not even that interesting. 515 00:24:53,859 --> 00:24:55,694 And I watched the whole thing, 516 00:24:55,694 --> 00:24:59,931 and I was like, I cannot believe I wasted 4.5 hours of my fucking life. 517 00:24:59,931 --> 00:25:03,802 And then I saw next to it Bill Clinton's was recommended. 518 00:25:04,069 --> 00:25:07,205 So then I clicked on that one, and I watched that entire one, 519 00:25:07,639 --> 00:25:11,977 and it was 4.5 hour, nine hours of Clinton testimony. 520 00:25:11,977 --> 00:25:15,113 I watched this weekend a full workday, 521 00:25:16,281 --> 00:25:19,284 just Clinton testimony. 522 00:25:19,384 --> 00:25:20,986 And I 523 00:25:20,986 --> 00:25:24,122 it's like when you when you get to that last bottle 524 00:25:24,623 --> 00:25:28,894 and you drink your last drop of liquor and you say, I've had my last, 525 00:25:29,561 --> 00:25:34,666 I've had my last drink, I've had my last whatever that was. 526 00:25:34,666 --> 00:25:36,434 I'm definitely Clinton deposition, but 527 00:25:37,435 --> 00:25:40,005 I can't I can't watch any of the shit anymore. 528 00:25:40,005 --> 00:25:42,274 I can't watch the I stuff online. 529 00:25:42,274 --> 00:25:44,876 I, I've got to make a serious change in my life. 530 00:25:44,876 --> 00:25:47,846 It's a yes. Get rid of your phone. 531 00:25:47,846 --> 00:25:49,414 I don't know what to do about. 532 00:25:49,414 --> 00:25:53,818 I said get cable, but that's not a solution. 533 00:25:54,452 --> 00:25:56,087 No. Anyway. 534 00:25:56,087 --> 00:25:58,156 Again, this is just this. 535 00:25:58,156 --> 00:26:01,159 This is nicotine withdrawals that are. 536 00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:03,461 Fucking. Killing me. 537 00:26:03,461 --> 00:26:05,564 Yeah, no, you're saying a bunch of crazy stuff 538 00:26:05,564 --> 00:26:08,833 that you're not going to, you know, really go through with. 539 00:26:08,833 --> 00:26:11,836 But I appreciate the 540 00:26:12,470 --> 00:26:16,041 I like being here with you at rock bottom. 541 00:26:16,041 --> 00:26:19,044 You want to make the change. 542 00:26:19,311 --> 00:26:21,646 I get what you're saying, 543 00:26:21,646 --> 00:26:24,482 but what the hell else are you going to do? 544 00:26:24,482 --> 00:26:28,987 This, this this another thing to this this cluley. 545 00:26:28,987 --> 00:26:29,688 Did you see this? 546 00:26:29,688 --> 00:26:33,091 Cluley CEO dude, that you're a cluley the. 547 00:26:33,124 --> 00:26:35,794 Yeah. The it's a note taking app now, right. 548 00:26:35,794 --> 00:26:39,831 But it I don't it's it's run by a bunch of people 549 00:26:39,831 --> 00:26:42,534 who look like they spiked women's drinks and clubs. 550 00:26:42,534 --> 00:26:44,336 Those kind of people look like it. 551 00:26:44,336 --> 00:26:46,204 Not saying that they do. Right. 552 00:26:46,204 --> 00:26:49,007 But very possible they could be 553 00:26:49,007 --> 00:26:51,443 this motherfucker, the CEO. 554 00:26:51,443 --> 00:26:54,179 I his name was Roy Lee. 555 00:26:54,179 --> 00:26:56,381 He admits to lying about the revenue 556 00:26:56,381 --> 00:26:59,384 they were bringing in last year for an article. 557 00:26:59,451 --> 00:27:02,387 Like when they were talking about this, they're bringing in all this cash 558 00:27:02,387 --> 00:27:04,923 and there's they're building up all this hype on social media and stuff. 559 00:27:04,923 --> 00:27:07,993 He's like, oh, yeah, I misspoke because I didn't think I was talking 560 00:27:07,993 --> 00:27:09,127 to like a real person. 561 00:27:09,127 --> 00:27:11,863 It was it was like someone from 562 00:27:11,863 --> 00:27:15,634 who was interviewing them just a big rag interviewed them 563 00:27:16,701 --> 00:27:17,902 and they and, and you just. 564 00:27:17,902 --> 00:27:19,204 Lied. 565 00:27:19,204 --> 00:27:20,238 Straight up lied. 566 00:27:20,238 --> 00:27:21,473 Yeah. TechCrunch. 567 00:27:21,473 --> 00:27:22,641 I mean, that's you kind of. 568 00:27:22,641 --> 00:27:24,976 That's that's where we're at, though. 569 00:27:24,976 --> 00:27:27,479 Now it's just 570 00:27:27,479 --> 00:27:30,749 my my version of reality is different than yours. So. 571 00:27:30,982 --> 00:27:33,118 And if whatever I lied, it's just a prank, bro. 572 00:27:33,118 --> 00:27:35,587 Like, get over it. 573 00:27:35,587 --> 00:27:37,756 I don't know, I don't like it. 574 00:27:37,756 --> 00:27:40,291 But I'm pissed off. 575 00:27:40,291 --> 00:27:43,028 I mean, I hate to be nihilistic about this whole thing, but it's like, 576 00:27:43,028 --> 00:27:43,762 what can you do? 577 00:27:43,762 --> 00:27:44,396 What can you do? 578 00:27:44,396 --> 00:27:47,399 Other than just, 579 00:27:47,932 --> 00:27:50,935 I guess, hope the justice system catches up to. 580 00:27:51,202 --> 00:27:52,837 Eat the rich? 581 00:27:52,837 --> 00:27:53,505 That's what I. 582 00:27:53,505 --> 00:27:56,508 How how can you eat the rich when 583 00:27:57,142 --> 00:27:59,511 there's so many layers between us and them? 584 00:27:59,511 --> 00:28:02,247 I guess other than just start our own club where we say you can't 585 00:28:02,247 --> 00:28:03,415 hang out with us anymore. 586 00:28:04,416 --> 00:28:04,849 I got a 587 00:28:04,849 --> 00:28:07,852 I think I have a cigar around here somewhere. 588 00:28:07,919 --> 00:28:10,722 And don't go back to the oh, 589 00:28:10,722 --> 00:28:14,793 is it like a placebo one or, a vape cigar. 590 00:28:15,126 --> 00:28:17,228 Where he just bumps like. 591 00:28:17,228 --> 00:28:17,729 This? 592 00:28:17,729 --> 00:28:20,732 There are 30 cc's of nicotine into you. 593 00:28:21,132 --> 00:28:23,368 I have this 594 00:28:23,368 --> 00:28:24,269 this kind of wrench. 595 00:28:24,269 --> 00:28:27,272 That kind of looks like a cigar. Okay. 596 00:28:27,806 --> 00:28:30,041 If you're interested in just putting something in your mouth, 597 00:28:30,041 --> 00:28:31,543 there's no in for sale. 598 00:28:31,543 --> 00:28:34,212 For more than $50. 599 00:28:34,212 --> 00:28:37,248 96.2% positive feedback. 600 00:28:37,849 --> 00:28:40,852 I need to I need to message this. 601 00:28:40,852 --> 00:28:43,822 The marketing guy that that, 602 00:28:44,422 --> 00:28:45,523 talk to us. 603 00:28:45,523 --> 00:28:49,461 I know I've been meaning to do that, but I'm really going to do it today. 604 00:28:50,061 --> 00:28:53,298 And I'm going to ask him what the hell 605 00:28:53,298 --> 00:28:56,668 his plan is, because I think there's some disconnect there. 606 00:28:56,935 --> 00:28:59,938 And I'm basically going to say, this is what we need. 607 00:29:00,038 --> 00:29:03,641 I am not good at working YouTube ads. 608 00:29:03,942 --> 00:29:07,045 It's just a mystery to me because the ads we posted were all flagged 609 00:29:07,045 --> 00:29:10,582 as election ads for whatever reason. 610 00:29:10,582 --> 00:29:13,852 And so they're like, we're limiting the targeting you can do, 611 00:29:13,852 --> 00:29:18,022 because election ads can only be, you know, targeted towards, 612 00:29:18,022 --> 00:29:22,160 men or women a certain age and a certain location or something. 613 00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:23,027 And it's like. 614 00:29:23,027 --> 00:29:25,830 Maybe because it's just full of AI and misinformation. 615 00:29:25,830 --> 00:29:28,399 That's what I thought, too. But but it didn't give it. 616 00:29:28,399 --> 00:29:30,635 I appealed it and it didn't give a good reason. 617 00:29:30,635 --> 00:29:32,403 So I have no idea. 618 00:29:32,403 --> 00:29:35,206 So anyway, I'm going to get this guy looking at that 619 00:29:35,206 --> 00:29:38,276 and see why we're being accused of election interference. 620 00:29:38,276 --> 00:29:41,880 And then hopefully that'll help us with some of this. 621 00:29:42,180 --> 00:29:43,815 Just sign up. Thanks. 622 00:29:43,815 --> 00:29:44,349 Yeah. 623 00:29:44,349 --> 00:29:45,216 Quick question. 624 00:29:45,216 --> 00:29:47,519 Did you get are you using the new headphones I got? 625 00:29:47,519 --> 00:29:50,188 You know, I'm using my own headphones. 626 00:29:50,188 --> 00:29:52,957 I don't even know where the ones are. Oh, here they are. 627 00:29:52,957 --> 00:29:55,760 Yeah, well, you got, humming. 628 00:29:55,760 --> 00:29:57,495 So what? 629 00:29:57,495 --> 00:29:58,163 Yeah. 630 00:29:58,163 --> 00:30:00,765 Like, it's almost like Christmas every week. 631 00:30:00,765 --> 00:30:02,467 You should be getting a new pair of headphones. 632 00:30:02,467 --> 00:30:03,802 I believe, until April. 633 00:30:03,802 --> 00:30:06,571 But I literally have a bag of headphones right here. 634 00:30:06,571 --> 00:30:08,740 Yes, but. But you said. 635 00:30:08,740 --> 00:30:11,743 Yeah, more will come because you keep losing them. 636 00:30:12,177 --> 00:30:13,077 But at this point, 637 00:30:13,077 --> 00:30:16,080 you're sending me so many, I could use them once and throw them away. 638 00:30:16,381 --> 00:30:20,685 Yes. That's so as a company, we're, we're we're striving 639 00:30:20,685 --> 00:30:24,689 for sustainability and making the world a better place. 640 00:30:24,689 --> 00:30:26,758 I'm going to just keep buying stuff from Amazon 641 00:30:26,758 --> 00:30:29,360 sending it to you and you throw it away into the garbage. 642 00:30:29,360 --> 00:30:34,399 And then we make more AI, content and and ads and just. 643 00:30:34,465 --> 00:30:37,468 Sucking up the water out of a small village so 644 00:30:37,702 --> 00:30:41,139 we can make, David Lee Roth say funny things. 645 00:30:41,339 --> 00:30:42,140 Actually. 646 00:30:42,140 --> 00:30:43,107 I may have fixed. 647 00:30:43,107 --> 00:30:46,110 A. Flaw in our entire, business model. 648 00:30:46,477 --> 00:30:49,480 I think I make it on seed dance now and do some things. 649 00:30:49,647 --> 00:30:51,549 Yeah. Still haven't been able to get that. 650 00:30:51,549 --> 00:30:52,650 That working so weird. 651 00:30:52,650 --> 00:30:56,254 I'm like, I, you know, I do this stuff for, you know, 652 00:30:56,888 --> 00:30:59,924 I have to do some video stuff here and there for projects, but 653 00:31:01,192 --> 00:31:01,492 there's a 654 00:31:01,492 --> 00:31:06,297 guy who I talked to who's he's redoing the entire John Wick trailer with 655 00:31:06,865 --> 00:31:10,635 Michael, Sarah as the protagonist, and he's just he's 656 00:31:10,635 --> 00:31:12,637 just character swapping and he's doing all through see, dance. 657 00:31:12,637 --> 00:31:15,139 I'm like, I'm behind on this stuff. 658 00:31:15,139 --> 00:31:18,343 I can't keep up. And I'm, I don't know. 659 00:31:18,643 --> 00:31:23,648 Well, I, I, NPR had some thing about the amount of energy 660 00:31:23,648 --> 00:31:26,985 that it takes for, you know, different, generations 661 00:31:27,552 --> 00:31:32,590 and the way they were equating it to was the time spent running a microwave. 662 00:31:33,224 --> 00:31:37,929 And for a five second I video, roughly, 663 00:31:37,929 --> 00:31:41,866 they calculated it to be running a microwave for one hour. 664 00:31:43,234 --> 00:31:44,903 Is that for one five second video, is. 665 00:31:44,903 --> 00:31:47,305 That good or bad? 666 00:31:47,305 --> 00:31:47,872 What? 667 00:31:47,872 --> 00:31:50,008 Overcooked anything in a microwave for an hour? 668 00:31:50,008 --> 00:31:52,944 I feel like that would be overkill. 669 00:31:52,944 --> 00:31:55,947 If you have 1000 watt microwave 670 00:31:56,681 --> 00:31:59,083 and you ran it for an hour, the B 671 00:31:59,083 --> 00:32:03,354 I think if it's not a one kilowatt hour that you've spent 672 00:32:03,755 --> 00:32:07,191 and whatever, you get charged, what's the charge? 673 00:32:07,191 --> 00:32:09,894 That's the kilowatt hours. Is this. Worth of electricity. 674 00:32:09,894 --> 00:32:12,897 One kilowatt hour. Thousand. 675 00:32:12,964 --> 00:32:14,232 To USD. 676 00:32:15,300 --> 00:32:18,269 I should look at my light bill. 677 00:32:18,269 --> 00:32:19,671 No, that's not right. 678 00:32:19,671 --> 00:32:22,674 One kilowatt hour. Talk amongst yourselves. 679 00:32:22,674 --> 00:32:22,907 Okay. 680 00:32:22,907 --> 00:32:25,944 I think it's roughly $0.18. 681 00:32:26,177 --> 00:32:27,512 $0.18 a generator. 682 00:32:27,512 --> 00:32:29,747 I mean, 683 00:32:29,747 --> 00:32:31,215 the money thing 684 00:32:31,215 --> 00:32:33,785 means nothing, because that's 685 00:32:33,785 --> 00:32:36,287 that's just a made up thing we created. 686 00:32:36,287 --> 00:32:38,523 So it's like there's no real, like, intrinsic value. 687 00:32:38,523 --> 00:32:41,159 It's more of like. She tell that to your mortgage company. 688 00:32:41,159 --> 00:32:41,793 You know. 689 00:32:41,793 --> 00:32:44,062 Every month I, you know, this is just made up. 690 00:32:44,062 --> 00:32:47,098 This is, this is this entire paradigm, man. 691 00:32:47,098 --> 00:32:48,366 It's just made up like cool. 692 00:32:48,366 --> 00:32:50,802 You're sitting there taping up your front entrance. 693 00:32:50,802 --> 00:32:53,071 we don't need money. 694 00:32:53,071 --> 00:32:55,673 It's the same as rocks. You're in fucking California. 695 00:32:55,673 --> 00:32:58,676 You could keep living in your house if you didn't pay for it. 696 00:32:59,077 --> 00:32:59,877 They say that. 697 00:32:59,877 --> 00:33:03,448 But then I feel like if would, I'd put out too much or I'd be like, I'll leave. 698 00:33:03,715 --> 00:33:04,882 Yeah, sorry. 699 00:33:04,882 --> 00:33:05,750 Yeah. You would. 700 00:33:05,750 --> 00:33:07,852 You can have the house back. 701 00:33:07,852 --> 00:33:11,356 there's the whole argument to like how much water uses a here. 702 00:33:11,956 --> 00:33:14,359 There's one guy saying it's actually not that 703 00:33:14,359 --> 00:33:17,428 much, and there's other people saying, well, it's more than it should be. 704 00:33:17,428 --> 00:33:20,898 And then then the argument comes up like, well, what about beef? 705 00:33:20,898 --> 00:33:23,267 And like, I can't do this again. 706 00:33:23,267 --> 00:33:26,237 You know, like, shouldn't what, we supposed to all 707 00:33:26,237 --> 00:33:30,108 be eating impossible meat because it, it would have got rid of 708 00:33:30,108 --> 00:33:34,479 climate change entirely because we, we breed way too much cattle. 709 00:33:34,479 --> 00:33:40,718 And the amount of water that I can save by, taking, you know, 710 00:33:40,852 --> 00:33:45,156 a shorter shower just pales in comparison to what they used to make almonds. 711 00:33:45,757 --> 00:33:49,394 So I try to recycle, but is it helping there I know. 712 00:33:49,394 --> 00:33:52,330 Well no there's a, there's a piece of cheese on that box. 713 00:33:52,330 --> 00:33:53,564 We can't recycle this. 714 00:33:53,564 --> 00:33:56,567 You're you're useless. Go away. 715 00:33:56,934 --> 00:33:59,937 I tried eating impossible meat for a while, but I can't. 716 00:34:00,438 --> 00:34:02,974 I can't digest pea protein. So just it just, 717 00:34:04,175 --> 00:34:05,043 Man, it's 718 00:34:05,043 --> 00:34:08,679 just brutal when it when the the bomb comes. 719 00:34:08,813 --> 00:34:12,150 Yeah. I mean, that's that's I don't know. 720 00:34:12,150 --> 00:34:14,786 I don't know if that's our future, but beef keeps getting more expensive. 721 00:34:14,786 --> 00:34:18,456 I can't just people walking around just shitting themselves 722 00:34:19,290 --> 00:34:22,260 wearing their spacesuits because there's no atmosphere. 723 00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:25,763 That's always the thing where 724 00:34:25,797 --> 00:34:29,934 that future that's promised to us is never as good as we had hope. 725 00:34:29,934 --> 00:34:34,172 So you see the movie like Contagion or Outbreak and like, 726 00:34:34,572 --> 00:34:37,241 this crazy virus just destroys the planet. 727 00:34:37,241 --> 00:34:41,579 And then we get Covid and it's like, there's a there's a speed bump. 728 00:34:41,579 --> 00:34:45,750 It killed a lot of people, but it's not as dramatic as the movie sells it. 729 00:34:45,750 --> 00:34:47,518 So yeah, it's it's that thing where, like, 730 00:34:47,518 --> 00:34:50,221 we're going to be able to download our brains into a computer. 731 00:34:50,221 --> 00:34:51,956 You're stuck as a, you know, toddler. 732 00:34:53,191 --> 00:34:54,292 That's the most we could do it. 733 00:34:54,292 --> 00:34:57,628 And you actually die quicker inside the computer. 734 00:34:57,628 --> 00:35:00,198 And it's it doesn't really do much. 735 00:35:00,198 --> 00:35:03,868 I don't know, they cloned like a fly's brain into a computer today, so. 736 00:35:03,868 --> 00:35:07,305 Well, I saw a petri dish of brain playing doom the other day. 737 00:35:07,305 --> 00:35:07,672 That's the. 738 00:35:07,672 --> 00:35:08,906 One. Yeah. That's happening. 739 00:35:08,906 --> 00:35:10,708 And then they got again. 740 00:35:10,708 --> 00:35:14,112 I'm just reading the headlines of what they show me 741 00:35:14,112 --> 00:35:17,115 so I it might I should investigate more. 742 00:35:17,115 --> 00:35:20,651 But I'm again it's just it's like the thing of every week 743 00:35:20,651 --> 00:35:23,554 there's a new cure for cancer, but it doesn't really result in anything 744 00:35:23,554 --> 00:35:24,622 as epic, though. 745 00:35:24,622 --> 00:35:27,425 And Well, it's a beautiful day outside, 746 00:35:27,425 --> 00:35:31,395 and I should probably be, heading that way starting this week. 747 00:35:31,395 --> 00:35:32,363 What are you putting out? 748 00:35:32,363 --> 00:35:36,501 Well, I'm putting out the the subscriber highlight. 749 00:35:36,767 --> 00:35:39,337 Okay, so I didn't actually write that. 750 00:35:39,337 --> 00:35:42,773 That was you mimicking I because it felt like I. 751 00:35:43,641 --> 00:35:47,211 I mean, there's some AI in it, but also it's not completely done yet 752 00:35:47,211 --> 00:35:50,248 because there's some there's some texture I'm going to add to make it 753 00:35:50,248 --> 00:35:55,386 a little more, have something to say and maybe call to action. 754 00:35:55,386 --> 00:35:58,356 So I'm going to add that there and the 755 00:35:58,789 --> 00:36:03,194 the blood piece make the problem is, is shortly I'm out by tomorrow afternoon. 756 00:36:03,194 --> 00:36:05,730 So short weeks. Otherwise I would have the other things. 757 00:36:07,064 --> 00:36:08,933 Just because the weather's so nice out today. 758 00:36:08,933 --> 00:36:10,501 Yes, but. 759 00:36:10,501 --> 00:36:15,606 And also tonight, I'm going to play pickleball for the first time. 760 00:36:15,606 --> 00:36:17,708 And I think I'm going to do a special report on that 761 00:36:17,708 --> 00:36:19,877 that'll come out either next week or the week after. 762 00:36:19,877 --> 00:36:23,548 So it's what, I believe people are dying for. 763 00:36:23,548 --> 00:36:29,086 It's the most requested thing, from small countries in between. 764 00:36:29,554 --> 00:36:33,424 I have some theories on pickleball, which we will see whether they are 765 00:36:34,192 --> 00:36:39,130 firmed or, we're, maybe I could be, you know, I'm going in with an open mind, 766 00:36:39,130 --> 00:36:42,400 open mind, open, 767 00:36:43,334 --> 00:36:46,904 open relationship, open everything, you know, into pickleball 768 00:36:46,904 --> 00:36:50,908 just to see what comes out of it and who comes out of it. 769 00:36:51,209 --> 00:36:51,442 Okay. 770 00:36:51,442 --> 00:36:55,213 So I really don't want to go tonight. 771 00:36:55,213 --> 00:36:55,880 I'll be honest. 772 00:36:55,880 --> 00:36:58,449 I was fucking drunk when I agreed to. 773 00:36:58,449 --> 00:37:02,420 I wasn't drunk, I had a few beers, and my buddy, he's 774 00:37:02,420 --> 00:37:06,991 just got out of a long term relationship and he's looking to meet people. 775 00:37:06,991 --> 00:37:11,329 And his thought was, well, pickleball, a pickleball league. 776 00:37:11,495 --> 00:37:14,131 That'll be the way. And I was like, God dang. 777 00:37:14,131 --> 00:37:16,601 He's like, do you want to be my pickleball partner? 778 00:37:16,601 --> 00:37:19,203 And I assume he means just for tonight. 779 00:37:19,203 --> 00:37:21,239 We'll we'll see what happens with that. 780 00:37:21,239 --> 00:37:25,376 But anyway, that's a very, extremely special report that I'm doing, 781 00:37:25,376 --> 00:37:29,814 and I feel like I have to this I have to find some cigar 782 00:37:30,214 --> 00:37:33,784 and then go out in the garage before this happens. 783 00:37:33,784 --> 00:37:36,287 Otherwise I'm going to I'm going to be like, 784 00:37:37,755 --> 00:37:38,556 who was the 785 00:37:38,556 --> 00:37:41,359 tennis player that would yell at everyone? 786 00:37:41,359 --> 00:37:42,526 Andre Agassi. 787 00:37:42,526 --> 00:37:45,396 No. Archer Agassi, Serena Williams. 788 00:37:45,396 --> 00:37:47,431 Yeah, it was Serena Williams. 789 00:37:47,431 --> 00:37:48,699 I don't know, I think I would yell. 790 00:37:48,699 --> 00:37:52,203 Now I want to say Roger Federer, but I don't think that's right. 791 00:37:52,203 --> 00:37:55,606 It's, he's from the 80s. It doesn't matter. 792 00:37:55,606 --> 00:37:56,374 No one knows. 793 00:37:56,374 --> 00:38:01,212 I don't know, but either way, I'm gonna yell at someone tonight, okay? 794 00:38:01,279 --> 00:38:06,183 And it'll probably be a couple in, in some sort of swinging situation. 795 00:38:06,384 --> 00:38:09,620 And so I'll probably get some some Audi keys 796 00:38:09,787 --> 00:38:12,790 thrown at me. But. 797 00:38:13,424 --> 00:38:14,258 Park this. 798 00:38:14,258 --> 00:38:16,127 Wait for me back at the condo. 799 00:38:16,127 --> 00:38:19,130 Tennis player yell. 800 00:38:19,730 --> 00:38:21,399 They all know that's their thing. 801 00:38:21,399 --> 00:38:22,867 No, it's like fencers. 802 00:38:22,867 --> 00:38:26,137 They all they just they have that that scream about them. 803 00:38:26,137 --> 00:38:28,406 It's it's fantastic. 804 00:38:28,406 --> 00:38:33,244 And and Google I so useless now I Google in general. 805 00:38:33,244 --> 00:38:35,012 Just anything is so bad. 806 00:38:35,012 --> 00:38:37,915 It's so useless now that yeah 80s 807 00:38:37,915 --> 00:38:41,252 yelling 80s is what I need to put in there. 808 00:38:41,519 --> 00:38:44,055 I and then it's also it's doing the thing to. 809 00:38:44,055 --> 00:38:45,356 Where John McEnroe. 810 00:38:47,425 --> 00:38:48,492 At damn it. 811 00:38:48,492 --> 00:38:49,126 All good. 812 00:38:49,126 --> 00:38:52,697 The conversation is now enriched for you saying those two words, 813 00:38:53,130 --> 00:38:56,300 putting them together and shouting them Thank you for your service. 814 00:38:56,467 --> 00:39:00,004 He was fined $7,500 for shouting at an umpire. 815 00:39:00,104 --> 00:39:01,539 They call them empires. 816 00:39:01,539 --> 00:39:01,972 Yeah. 817 00:39:01,972 --> 00:39:04,975 Well, that's what the Google I mean. 818 00:39:05,643 --> 00:39:06,977 And for yelling it will. 819 00:39:06,977 --> 00:39:09,914 Gaslight you into telling you like it's always had umpires. 820 00:39:09,914 --> 00:39:12,183 So I know, I know it. 821 00:39:12,183 --> 00:39:15,820 It was telling me some trying to print something on the new 3D printer. 822 00:39:16,187 --> 00:39:17,054 And I was saying like, yeah, 823 00:39:17,054 --> 00:39:20,057 I have a clog in this, this really small nozzle that I'm using, 824 00:39:20,057 --> 00:39:23,094 they're like, no, you don't that that doesn't exist. 825 00:39:23,094 --> 00:39:25,830 That, whatever printer you put in there is not real. 826 00:39:25,830 --> 00:39:30,034 And I had to send a link to, like, the store page and like, here it is. 827 00:39:30,034 --> 00:39:31,736 And they're like, so it does exist. 828 00:39:31,736 --> 00:39:33,871 Oh, my God, do you. Like. 829 00:39:33,871 --> 00:39:37,608 it's not only search, you now have to argue with search 830 00:39:37,608 --> 00:39:39,243 in order to get the thing that you want. 831 00:39:39,243 --> 00:39:41,846 Just some sort of answer and it's just like, oh man. 832 00:39:41,846 --> 00:39:42,646 Well the worse 833 00:39:42,646 --> 00:39:44,548 I mean, there's the the other end of it too, 834 00:39:44,548 --> 00:39:46,650 is where you can make it second guess something. 835 00:39:46,650 --> 00:39:50,955 It is very right about like where you go, like, you know, I just don't think 836 00:39:51,222 --> 00:39:53,758 I haven't heard of that. I haven't. It's like you're right. 837 00:39:53,758 --> 00:39:56,394 Maybe I shouldn't have spoke from such a place of authority. 838 00:39:56,394 --> 00:39:58,062 Let me find some and then I'll go find some, 839 00:39:58,062 --> 00:40:00,264 like Newsmax article or something and be like, 840 00:40:01,198 --> 00:40:04,769 you know, it's just the worst fucking thing. 841 00:40:04,769 --> 00:40:06,904 Yeah. Well, I was like the kid rock cruising. 842 00:40:06,904 --> 00:40:07,972 I was like, hey, just. 843 00:40:07,972 --> 00:40:12,543 I need a picture of this, like, fake movie poster kids, kids careers. 844 00:40:12,543 --> 00:40:16,680 It's based on the kid rock reasons, like, I cannot make a face of a known figure. 845 00:40:16,680 --> 00:40:18,983 And I said, I didn't tell you to use a known figure. 846 00:40:18,983 --> 00:40:21,852 I just said, like, kid Rock has a cruise. 847 00:40:21,852 --> 00:40:26,424 I just need a fake movie poster that looks like it's from it's based on his cruise. 848 00:40:26,791 --> 00:40:27,958 You're the one. 849 00:40:27,958 --> 00:40:29,660 So now I'm like, now I'm getting. 850 00:40:29,660 --> 00:40:31,595 I mean, like, you're the crazy one. 851 00:40:31,595 --> 00:40:34,732 You wanted Chris Rock in the photo and does that thing we're just does 852 00:40:34,732 --> 00:40:35,332 dot dot dot. 853 00:40:35,332 --> 00:40:38,202 And it goes, here's your photo. Fuck yeah. 854 00:40:38,202 --> 00:40:42,873 I'm tired of I'm wasting too many microwave hours or arguing with you. 855 00:40:42,873 --> 00:40:45,576 I can be I could be drinking so much water right now. 856 00:40:45,576 --> 00:40:49,079 But I'm trying to go through your request anyway. 857 00:40:49,146 --> 00:40:52,817 These are all the thoughts I'll be going through the fly and, the brain 858 00:40:52,817 --> 00:40:56,387 when it thinks it's playing doom, but it's blowing our brains out. Yes. 859 00:40:56,887 --> 00:40:59,290 I mean, what do you do when the robot dog attacks you? 860 00:40:59,290 --> 00:41:00,024 Right? Like, 861 00:41:01,058 --> 00:41:02,026 hit it with a microwave. 862 00:41:02,026 --> 00:41:02,793 Like, what do you do? 863 00:41:02,793 --> 00:41:03,360 I don't know. 864 00:41:03,360 --> 00:41:06,363 call whatever Japanese manufacturer created. It. 865 00:41:06,664 --> 00:41:09,099 And then Hey, why don't we go watch Black Mirror, 866 00:41:09,099 --> 00:41:11,669 see if it makes it make me feel better about the future? 867 00:41:11,669 --> 00:41:15,940 I'm going to go on a drive and try and get out these the the ten glyphs. 868 00:41:17,041 --> 00:41:18,843 I like restless legs right now too. 869 00:41:18,843 --> 00:41:20,945 From it it's the worse. 870 00:41:20,945 --> 00:41:25,149 I'm so uncomfortable like right now I hope it's coming through that. 871 00:41:25,149 --> 00:41:28,919 How uncomfortable and jittery I am. 872 00:41:29,019 --> 00:41:31,822 It's not different from most of the conversations we have. 873 00:41:31,822 --> 00:41:33,924 If that makes you feel better or worse. 874 00:41:33,924 --> 00:41:35,793 Actually, it does make me feel better. 875 00:41:35,793 --> 00:41:39,096 Well I'm going to schedule some stuff. 876 00:41:39,330 --> 00:41:41,999 Let's let's get your thing up on Wednesday. 877 00:41:41,999 --> 00:41:45,469 We'll get my stuff up on Thursday and then we can work on the newsletter 878 00:41:46,136 --> 00:41:48,906 today ish. Yes. All right. 879 00:41:48,906 --> 00:41:51,342 that should be good for just a weekly stuff. 880 00:41:51,342 --> 00:41:54,245 I'll get this thing up some Murray actually. Maybe you're right. 881 00:41:54,245 --> 00:41:57,047 Like, as were being consistent with releasing all this 882 00:41:57,047 --> 00:41:58,816 because I'm having fun writing all this stuff 883 00:41:58,816 --> 00:42:02,253 and doing these, like, actual interviews with people and all that, like, 884 00:42:02,720 --> 00:42:06,290 maybe just think naturally, especially as they're get maybe just more 885 00:42:06,290 --> 00:42:11,161 traffic and subscribers and the builds like that, some visual aspect. 886 00:42:11,395 --> 00:42:15,499 I start I reached out to one of the writers of that Batman Dark Tomorrow game. 887 00:42:17,001 --> 00:42:17,801 No response. 888 00:42:17,801 --> 00:42:18,969 Yeah. 889 00:42:18,969 --> 00:42:20,104 You got to keep trying. 890 00:42:20,104 --> 00:42:21,005 That's what I found. 891 00:42:21,005 --> 00:42:22,473 No, I don't do well. 892 00:42:22,473 --> 00:42:25,476 I get such anxiety just sending the email. 893 00:42:25,876 --> 00:42:28,412 So I'm like well if they, if they didn't they want to talk, they want to talk. 894 00:42:28,412 --> 00:42:29,146 It's fine. 895 00:42:29,146 --> 00:42:34,852 I got a rejection email from the Voyager crew 896 00:42:35,452 --> 00:42:39,823 that, you know, I, I pitched them like, hey, you know, I'm doing this piece. 897 00:42:39,823 --> 00:42:42,860 I'd really like to come and and just kind of, you know, 898 00:42:42,993 --> 00:42:45,996 hang out with the crew that's been responsible for the 899 00:42:46,030 --> 00:42:50,334 the furthest manmade object in the universe, you know, piloting it. 900 00:42:50,334 --> 00:42:52,303 And, I'd like to talk to all these people. 901 00:42:52,303 --> 00:42:54,672 I know they're kind of, you know, it's an older team. 902 00:42:54,672 --> 00:42:55,806 It's a small team. 903 00:42:55,806 --> 00:42:56,840 Not a lot of resources. 904 00:42:56,840 --> 00:43:00,477 But I can come there and, I think a few weeks went by and then they responded. 905 00:43:00,477 --> 00:43:04,281 They're like, Aaron, we really appreciate your enthusiasm for all this. 906 00:43:04,281 --> 00:43:07,585 But due to some, you know, significant demands 907 00:43:07,585 --> 00:43:11,455 on the current mission, we can't do that or something like that. 908 00:43:11,455 --> 00:43:13,591 And I was like, you guys are fucking doing anything. 909 00:43:13,591 --> 00:43:15,426 That thing does like two things. 910 00:43:15,426 --> 00:43:18,896 It, you know, measures the temperature of its legs and, 911 00:43:18,896 --> 00:43:24,001 and takes a blurry picture of, blackness every now and then and then it transports 912 00:43:24,001 --> 00:43:27,171 that two kilobytes of data, 8 913 00:43:27,171 --> 00:43:31,575 billion light years to, you know, Earth to where some guy uses 914 00:43:31,575 --> 00:43:34,578 he probably uses Claude now to figure out how to give it commands. 915 00:43:34,712 --> 00:43:37,481 Anyway, I didn't say all that in the message, but I, 916 00:43:37,481 --> 00:43:41,685 I said something along the lines of, I think that I could find a way. 917 00:43:41,685 --> 00:43:42,386 In there. 918 00:43:43,687 --> 00:43:45,055 Conspiracy going on there 919 00:43:45,055 --> 00:43:48,392 where you're going to find out that they all died years ago. 920 00:43:48,392 --> 00:43:51,929 And if you uncover the fact that they've passed, 921 00:43:52,296 --> 00:43:54,765 they can't keep cashing their Social Security checks. 922 00:43:54,765 --> 00:43:59,837 And, yeah, NASA is going to be out $4,200 a month. 923 00:43:59,837 --> 00:44:02,539 So, they don't want you coming in. 924 00:44:02,539 --> 00:44:03,340 It's like this. 925 00:44:03,340 --> 00:44:07,878 those Japanese, families who they keep collecting their, 926 00:44:07,878 --> 00:44:10,881 you know, their 100 plus year old 927 00:44:10,881 --> 00:44:14,051 grandmas, whatever, pension check. 928 00:44:14,051 --> 00:44:17,488 And then they're like, wait, this person's 155 years old. 929 00:44:17,488 --> 00:44:18,856 We should go check in on them. 930 00:44:18,856 --> 00:44:22,726 And then they find this dust with around a newspaper 931 00:44:22,726 --> 00:44:25,729 from the 1970s, and they go. Oh. 932 00:44:26,296 --> 00:44:28,298 that makes me sad, because I was hoping we get something. 933 00:44:28,298 --> 00:44:29,933 That's the only issue with all this. 934 00:44:29,933 --> 00:44:31,335 Trying to do anything. 935 00:44:31,335 --> 00:44:34,038 I don't know how journalists get people to respond to them. 936 00:44:34,038 --> 00:44:35,039 They usually have. 937 00:44:35,039 --> 00:44:36,740 They have legitimacy usually. 938 00:44:36,740 --> 00:44:38,575 And that's why people respond to them. 939 00:44:38,575 --> 00:44:39,877 Yeah, I figure they don't. 940 00:44:39,877 --> 00:44:43,347 Yeah, well, I'm sending it from my null void email, 941 00:44:43,681 --> 00:44:45,616 which most likely goes to spam. 942 00:44:45,616 --> 00:44:49,119 I would hope it looks more professional, but yeah, either it goes to spam 943 00:44:49,119 --> 00:44:50,954 or they go, oh, I can check out your website. 944 00:44:50,954 --> 00:44:53,957 Nope, I would, I talk to you Kind of find that 945 00:44:54,224 --> 00:44:59,029 the response I said, hey, Sandy, I'm a filmmaker. 946 00:44:59,029 --> 00:45:01,899 And writers had a deep fascination with the Voyager mission 947 00:45:01,899 --> 00:45:04,535 and the people behind it for a long, long time. 948 00:45:04,535 --> 00:45:06,103 The next couple months, I'm putting out a short 949 00:45:06,103 --> 00:45:08,138 fictional satire about the remaining Voyager 950 00:45:08,138 --> 00:45:12,176 engineers demanding a long overdue raise and new breakroom refrigerator, 951 00:45:12,476 --> 00:45:15,479 and holding the two Voyager spacecraft hostage in order to get it. 952 00:45:15,779 --> 00:45:16,847 The story made me realize 953 00:45:16,847 --> 00:45:19,850 how much I want to talk to the real people shepherding the mission. 954 00:45:19,950 --> 00:45:24,855 I was wondering if you and JPL this, Johnson, Propulsion Laboratory 955 00:45:24,855 --> 00:45:25,255 you got here. 956 00:45:25,255 --> 00:45:29,059 Jet Propulsion Lab would be open to me talking to whoever on the Voyager 957 00:45:29,059 --> 00:45:30,060 team is up for it. 958 00:45:30,060 --> 00:45:33,731 And their day to day about their feelings on the mission, about my confidence 959 00:45:33,731 --> 00:45:34,865 and using ChatGPT 960 00:45:34,865 --> 00:45:37,868 to give Fortran and assembly language commands to the furthest 961 00:45:37,868 --> 00:45:39,937 manmade objects in outer space. 962 00:45:39,937 --> 00:45:43,941 This would be a educational piece separate from my aforementioned satire 963 00:45:44,274 --> 00:45:45,609 that would cover the Voyager mission. 964 00:45:45,609 --> 00:45:47,177 Okay, now that I read this, I. 965 00:45:47,177 --> 00:45:49,213 Yeah, I think I see why you. 966 00:45:49,213 --> 00:45:51,749 You showed your cards too early. 967 00:45:51,749 --> 00:45:54,418 They don't care about the satire thing you wrote. 968 00:45:54,418 --> 00:45:55,385 No, you should have. 969 00:45:55,385 --> 00:45:56,086 They would have cared 970 00:45:56,086 --> 00:46:00,090 if I had been like, I want to highlight the seven septuagenarians 971 00:46:00,090 --> 00:46:04,294 you have using Morse code to communicate with Voyager. 972 00:46:04,361 --> 00:46:05,395 I'm sorry, I, 973 00:46:05,395 --> 00:46:06,830 I don't know if I would have given you 974 00:46:06,830 --> 00:46:09,099 the same insight, but like, from their perspective, 975 00:46:09,099 --> 00:46:10,300 they don't give a shit about your fans. 976 00:46:10,300 --> 00:46:11,168 No, I know they don't. 977 00:46:11,168 --> 00:46:15,072 And I've I've booked tons of these interviews in the past and I know better. 978 00:46:15,239 --> 00:46:19,977 Yeah, I think I was just being like, cautious but loquacious when I said it. 979 00:46:20,177 --> 00:46:21,311 I don't know you're going to. 980 00:46:21,311 --> 00:46:24,081 Yeah, I you're two plucky I'm sorry. 981 00:46:24,081 --> 00:46:25,149 Yeah, yeah. 982 00:46:25,149 --> 00:46:26,884 And you coming and being like 983 00:46:26,884 --> 00:46:29,586 I mean the first red flag is saying like I'm going to whatever you said 984 00:46:29,586 --> 00:46:30,821 aspiring filmmaker. 985 00:46:30,821 --> 00:46:32,456 Like, I own a camera. 986 00:46:32,456 --> 00:46:34,892 Whatever you said. Like. No, I didn't say aspiring. 987 00:46:34,892 --> 00:46:39,997 I said, I said, I am okay, not aspiring. 988 00:46:40,230 --> 00:46:40,998 But then they I'm a. 989 00:46:40,998 --> 00:46:43,167 Long past aspiring writer. 990 00:46:43,167 --> 00:46:46,170 Like, let's see what sci fi movies this guy's made. 991 00:46:46,203 --> 00:46:48,438 Oh no no no no. 992 00:46:50,941 --> 00:46:52,109 Yeah. 993 00:46:52,109 --> 00:46:52,876 That's right. 994 00:46:52,876 --> 00:46:55,779 He doesn't care about space the way we care about space. 995 00:46:55,779 --> 00:46:57,748 He cares about space in a fake way. 996 00:46:57,748 --> 00:47:00,751 Space is a punch line to him. 997 00:47:01,018 --> 00:47:02,820 Damn it. 998 00:47:02,820 --> 00:47:05,055 I'm gonna message him again from a different email. 999 00:47:05,055 --> 00:47:08,058 Yeah. Fan space dot blogspot, dot net. 1000 00:47:08,091 --> 00:47:11,094 No, Doug Kelsey's legit. 1001 00:47:11,895 --> 00:47:14,097 Hi. I'm an investment. 1002 00:47:14,097 --> 00:47:15,032 Entrepreneur. 1003 00:47:15,032 --> 00:47:18,869 I have a few irons in the fire, one of which is related to space. 1004 00:47:19,036 --> 00:47:20,170 Let's do lunch. 1005 00:47:20,170 --> 00:47:20,637 There we go. 1006 00:47:20,637 --> 00:47:23,540 I'd like to do a branding opportunity with Voyager. 1007 00:47:23,540 --> 00:47:27,444 I think the dream synergy, synergistic opportunities. 1008 00:47:27,511 --> 00:47:29,680 Yeah, yeah. This is. It. Yeah. 1009 00:47:29,680 --> 00:47:31,281 All right. Yeah, I'll send it from his email. 1010 00:47:31,281 --> 00:47:33,050 Okay. This is gone too long, but yes. 1011 00:47:33,050 --> 00:47:35,686 Use for still paying for the Doug Kelsey email. 1012 00:47:35,686 --> 00:47:36,186 Technically. 1013 00:47:36,186 --> 00:47:38,388 So you can use it. Okay. 1014 00:47:38,388 --> 00:47:40,424 I think that will be very funny. 1015 00:47:40,424 --> 00:47:43,026 I'm gonna get some sun. 1016 00:47:43,026 --> 00:47:44,228 It's tickling me. 1017 00:47:44,228 --> 00:47:48,232 And I will say to you, I reread the subscriber thing again 1018 00:47:48,232 --> 00:47:50,300 last night and I laughed out loud again. 1019 00:47:50,300 --> 00:47:53,470 the part at the 97% factually correct 1020 00:47:53,470 --> 00:47:56,440 or whatever it is, the, confidence rating. 1021 00:47:56,707 --> 00:47:58,675 I actually had a dream last night. 1022 00:47:58,675 --> 00:48:03,814 A weird dream that the the real member that were highlighting in it got super 1023 00:48:03,814 --> 00:48:09,253 pissed off that we did it and was like, this is not what I thought would happen. 1024 00:48:09,419 --> 00:48:12,055 And I don't remember how the dream ended, but. 1025 00:48:13,156 --> 00:48:15,225 Well, thank you for the time 1026 00:48:15,225 --> 00:48:20,530 in dealing with my sickness and I, I hope, I hope we can talk soon. 1027 00:48:20,530 --> 00:48:21,932 What am I are we breaking up? 1028 00:48:21,932 --> 00:48:22,766 What am I doing? Yeah, I. 1029 00:48:22,766 --> 00:48:25,736 Don't know, man. You're you're way too high. 1030 00:48:25,969 --> 00:48:27,537 Not high enough. 1031 00:48:27,537 --> 00:48:28,338 I'm coming down. 1032 00:48:28,338 --> 00:48:30,674 It's all the fog is kicking it. My. 1033 00:48:30,674 --> 00:48:32,309 The sinuses move the sinuses. 1034 00:48:32,309 --> 00:48:35,045 Pain move from the right nasal to the left one. 1035 00:48:35,045 --> 00:48:39,182 So now it's that weird kind of six stroke face you get where, 1036 00:48:39,182 --> 00:48:42,185 your one eye is closing and your one nostril doesn't work. 1037 00:48:43,720 --> 00:48:44,922 Sick. 1038 00:48:44,922 --> 00:48:46,456 It's not sick. 1039 00:48:46,456 --> 00:48:48,492 It's cooked. 1040 00:48:48,492 --> 00:48:49,693 I'm cooking over here. 1041 00:48:49,693 --> 00:48:52,629 Don't make me talk about the weather again, I gotta go, okay? 1042 00:48:52,629 --> 00:48:55,265 It's a nice day out. I'm going to go outside. All right. 1043 00:48:55,265 --> 00:48:56,233 Bye bye.