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Do you get more headphones?

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Yeah, I came back from vacation to all these packages.

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Nice. And they're all fucking headphones.

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Yeah. Which ones are your favorite?

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I don't know. The ones without your wax on them, I think.

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It's like the guy at the vape place in China who has to test every vape.

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There's just a guy who sticks all the headphones in his ears

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to make sure there's just a little bit of wax on him when he sends them out.

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Yeah. Well, these only one of them.

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I got you go in your actual ears.

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The rest are like over ear type things.

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They were they were very affordable.

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Yeah, I saw the over ear ones.

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I can't wear those. Oh, why?

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Oh, there's cauliflower ears.

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My ears are too big.

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Oh, OK. Did you wrestle or something?

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No, I'm smart.

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Piece of shit.

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I don't know.

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What's your skull shape like?

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That's pointed on the top.

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I don't know what that means.

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Maybe it means I'm a good basset hound.

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I have a phrenology bust in here somewhere.

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Let me bust it out.

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I'll see where where your smart hole is.

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You're going to do a Django on chain thing.

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Or you invite me to dinner and cut the skull open to some other Aaron or some

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other of one of my family members that you boiled.

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You call it skeleton.

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You call it quackery.

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I call it science.

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So yeah, to each of their own.

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How was your vacay?

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Animal was good.

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Uh, had a good time.

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So I went to a Panama wedding by the canal or the exit to the canal.

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So it was like this nice, steady drum beat of oil tankers going by.

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Another one of those Central American cities where, uh, you know, the haves and

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We're staying like a really shitty part of town, but it's the only nice place.

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And oh my God, what the hell is that noise?

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That was a slack.

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It's like PTSD.

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You forgot what that sound was.

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I just heard this knocking in my head and I was like, oh, anyway.

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Stayed in this really nice Airbnb in the shittiest part of town.

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the tour is supposed to drop us off at this like hotel,

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but they're passing through, you know, the part town we were staying in.

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you know, this is the, the kind of less fortunate part of town, you know,

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a lot of working class, blah, blah, blah, blah.

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We said, see it.

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you know, trying to take our wallets or whatever during the tour.

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new boots and all this stuff and like walking by these street dogs that, you know,

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And I'm like clip clopping in my, you know, lizard boots or whatever the hell they were.

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And you're going to show up on some CCC TV footage or whatever from on live leak or something.

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Yeah, but I would deserve it. That's the problem.

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I think I added an extra C there.

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Is it three C's or two C's? C C TV. That's it. Yeah.

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Close, close condition, close, close circuit.

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That's the one. Anywho.

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and it's just this horrific, like it's just this AI

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you've never heard of, you'll never even look as his or her names up in the credits.

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life. And it's like, I don't know what problem we're solving here.

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and it was the whole thing of well, we're just we're just testing this. These are just tools

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that, you know, developers can make better. But then apparently they're running it off

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of like 250 90s and like people can't buy the 150 90. And what I don't know. I I realize

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I mean, they had to rent their PCs from the cloud.

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That's what it's kind of becoming.

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It's essentially if anything breaks right now costs twice as much as it did last year.

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I got very lucky for whatever reason I got in my head.

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I think my PC was just old enough.

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It was like for pushing four or five years.

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So like I just was super fortunate, but I can never buy anything ever again.

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Yes. So to answer your question, yes, they want you to do cloud gaming.

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You don't own the hardware. You just rent it. I'm like, right.

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on an emulator like, but you got to, you can't do that.

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Well, do you think because consoles have to use video cards too, right?

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I'm like, is a mystery to me.

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but like it was also happening during the pandemic too.

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they're all it's all streamlined and it's all like on one board or whatever.

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I'm not sure at one point in video was doing it, but I think it's all a TI.

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put it out and they have to do a delay because, you know, where'd all the RAM go?

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You know, AI data centers, oops, all RAM.

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a little micro PC that can not play much.

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Anything where you could digitally own your own stuff, it's going away.

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know, I think it's sacrifice is not in vain. It's for a better future where all these wax

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sculptures become our new avatars.

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It's just don't own don't own anything. I think I read everything. Everything is rented.

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You own nothing.

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I don't own anything.

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Nor should you know.

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And because I own this computer still.

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Yeah, for now.

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Until best buy asked for it back.

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I miss comp USA. They were.

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I just remember how smug they were. Yeah.

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You can't afford this compact passario.

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gateway receipt and like gateway box and all that stuff.

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this costs $2,500 and 97 or whenever it was.

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that sense of loss.

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- I had a friend in high school.

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He bought this thing costs him like five grand back when he bought it.

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And I was like, Grace, you know, it's like, let's just, I just want to watch the Ninja scroll.

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Come on. Let's it's like, it was just slow and it was just a crappy hammy down.

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Like, I think 400 bucks.

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It's just, it's just decoration.

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We don't own anything, but things are at one point, we're cheaper.

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Who's going to even buy a, you know, a headset?

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I was thinking about it, like I went into the metaverse one at my,

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it's like a an open air mall and space, you know, it's like,

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yeah, it was like platforms and stuff like that.

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I'm stoned and I start wandering around talking to people.

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They were all Facebook employees I was talking to.

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Blah, blah, blah. I'm I'm a lead researcher at Metta.

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I thought I'd get all this shit.

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off because there's just some dude ruining their perfectly curated time.

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The best part too was like, you could hear the engineers like going like, let me I'm

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Okay, I got to figure out how to boot this guy.

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They're like, you could hear them trying to figure it out over their mic while the guy's

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you know, get these old engineers out to try and figure it out.

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It's just like the kids.

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Racial slurs.

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He's still there.

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oh, we can communicate now with the the metaverse, you know, characters,

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the me's or whatever the fuck they are.

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And the first thing he says is like, you fucking.

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Yeah. Well, it's Ariana Grande trying to get you to like buy her stable coin.

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And they're like, why is this little girl trying to sell me coinage?

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What has happened?

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These these Neanderthals.

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Anyway, well, good, good to catch up.

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This was a good meeting.

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I'm glad we talked.

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Same time next week.

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I like the video game piece that's coming out.

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The video game review piece.

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Yeah, I'll think I'll think put it out right after this.

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I just wanted to, you know, kind of did it in a silo.

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Just you essentially gave it a thumbs up.

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So yeah.

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Well, I mean, I didn't, you know, you don't need my approval to release something.

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You just, you know, I mean, I can, I will delete it if it's not good.

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But yes, I like it's, you know, just you tend to not hold back on your opinions or thoughts.

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So no. And I thought like, I was like, at some parts, I thought maybe you're going

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to veer into Andy Runiness, but you'd bring a ring, bring it around as to the why, you know,

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this matters. And I thought it was interesting.

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Like I said, like I've never been the biggest gamer, not much of a gamer at all for the last 15 years or so.

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Good for you.

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And and that always made a lot of people, you know, happy.

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I didn't care about but but yeah, but reading it, even not really knowing that world, I was like,

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yeah, this is it's applicable to the broader journalism world.

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And you kind of allude to that in the in the piece.

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But I was like, it's interesting whether you like video games or not.

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And that's what I also liked about it.

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Yeah, it's I kind of have this daywalker mentality where like, yeah,

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I still kind of keep an eye on video game stuff the same way.

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I just generally listen to the news or whatever.

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It's like, yeah, I but I completely miss the story about, you know,

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A.I. writing a review and getting posted and feeling like, yeah, this is interesting.

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but I'm there's no anger coming out of me.

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I'm not like, how dare they?

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I was just like, this doesn't feel too much different

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from when I was working in and around this stuff.

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You know, it's like, there was always this,

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and I'm sure other industries are like this.

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I'm sure, you know, the golf industry

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is probably very insular and very toxic.

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if you give up the new driver a bad score

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you get to talking to from your editor, you know.

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I thought you said golf and I was like, certainly he didn't say golf.

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I've always compared the hobby of gaming and golf to each other

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because they're both very expensive and have no consequences on the world.

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And full of fucking incels.

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I was going to say it's usually privileged white people.

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It's just I think it's when when you're part of that world

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that's very insular and it's very like everything's the most important thing

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in the world, but then also the drama that goes away after a week, basically.

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But in that moment, it's like we all need to be angry about this thing.

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And then it eventually veered and just like harassing women all the time.

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So it started.

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You started to be like, well, maybe I don't want to be necessarily

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associated with this community.

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That's obviously that's not a representation of everyone who like, you know,

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enjoys video game news or whatever.

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But those are definitely like the loudest people and it's annoying to have to feel

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like you have to cater or pander to those type of folks.

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So like, yeah, when that thing came, I would not have found that new story

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until, you know, probably weeks later until like some general outlet

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covered in it showed up all like on my Apple news feed or something like that.

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And even like the gaming news stuff that does come in my feed, it's like,

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there's this one site gaming Bible.

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It's just trash. Yeah.

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They use some thumbnail of something they're not talking about.

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So it'll be like, you know, half life and like, you won't believe this game

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is getting a sequel and then it's something unrelated.

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You're like, it's somehow worse than click bait.

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It's just, it's just lies.

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I don't know.

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I am just like, fuck you for making me click this.

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Some fluff.

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Yeah.

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No, no, but it wasn't.

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It was nice.

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It was good.

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It was good piece.

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Yeah.

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No joke.

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I wrote that review on a Saturday on the couch.

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I read one Wikipedia article.

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I just skimmed it, watched one trailer.

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I was like, oh, this game looks interesting.

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I've played some of the other ones.

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I bet I could write a review and this goes back to an old idea.

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I remember, man, this is way back.

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I remember telling some of the kind of funny guys about this

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when I first met them and I thought they were in a relationship,

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but they were just two really good friends. Yeah.

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And I remember I had this idea.

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I was just kind of we're sitting around all day spitballing stuff.

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Well, it was doing that gauntlet thing.

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And I remember saying like, I want to do this one video where it's like,

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it's just the most generic review. You just you write in generalities.

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And I'm like, I feel like that's just how reviews are.

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And, you know, those guys came from IGN. So they're like, yeah, yeah.

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Oh, that'd be so great.

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And I think they were like trying to steal my idea.

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And I was like, Oh, I'm also the thing too.

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I was like, whatever, if you guys want to make it, make it, go for it.

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Never happened. So that that idea had always been in my head.

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That's like from 10 years ago.

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So that's longer than that.

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So you're right. You're right.

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Well, 13 years ago. How old do you think I am?

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I worked on that show. So I know. OK.

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First one or second one.

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Wait, there's your second one.

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So in the first one, I don't know.

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No, there was it was the second one.

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I think I was the second one.

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Yeah, you were you were in the second. That's right. OK.

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I was like, yeah, why not dig that idea up?

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And I was like, I'm just going to write a general review, some basic understanding.

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But in with that veneer of like, okay, I'm, I'm working with less than what an AI has.

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And I'm, I basically just kind of did a one shot on this thing.

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So now imagine AI a year from now, two years from now, like it's all going to look like this.

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If not better.

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So, I don't know, it was a fun exercise.

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And also gave me an excuse to edit something in DaVinci Resolve.

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So that was cool.

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Oh, that's interesting.

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Oh, because all the gameplay videos I was downloading, it was complete playthrough.

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So these are like 10 to 20 hour videos.

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Yeah.

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So when you download them, it's kind of a gamble.

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If you'll get an MP4 or a WebM.

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And so you need something that can just.

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Yeah.

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And premiere because it's using technology from back when I was on the gauntlet.

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It has an improved, but DaVinci could handle all that stuff just fine.

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I just had to, you know, essentially relearn the interface.

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And like, I just want to bump the brightness on this.

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like, well, take that into fusion and add this node is like, kill me.

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Yeah.

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Christ.

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This is over engineered for a filter I'm looking for that doesn't exist,

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but stellar program. Highly recommend it.

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Adobe wants you to use media encoder to transfer it,

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trans convert it and then use premiere and then use on core.

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And then, you know, well, media encoder couldn't read it because if

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premiere can't read it, media encoder can't read it.

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Typically most of the time.

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man, I even like installed a web and like plug in that it even the guy's like,

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it's a gamble. I don't know if it'll work.

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And so then I tried it through handbrake and I was like, at that point,

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I was like, what the fuck? I'm converting. Yeah.

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Yeah. I was like, I'm converting. Is it going to take 21 hours?

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I was like, I'm converting a 10 hour piece of content for a four minute video.

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This is stupid. I could screen record this. And then I was like, well,

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I have DaVinci installed. Why not give it a try?

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And it was an easy enough video that I was like, yeah,

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there's nothing to be lost here.

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And I was able to actually just knock it out in an afternoon.

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- God dang.

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- Well, then all the graphics were done.

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I spent more time on the graphics

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because I just fed a bunch of images, the Claude code,

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and said, make this in remotion.

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And it made it just fine.

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- Well, I think it's a good piece.

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- Thank you.

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- Well, you already shouted out that dude that sent it.

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It half made me think like, oh, maybe we should have

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like a little bumper that says like,

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you have a lead on a story that we should think.

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And then I realized that would be a fucking mistake.

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It would be a huge mistake.

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I think it's make it a mystery.

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I mean, people know where they can just spam you on social media or whatever.

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But they really don't like I'm surprised.

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Well, I also made my accounts private, but yeah, probably for the best.

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Yeah. We do need to do another subscriber spotlight.

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I had an idea of my thought was this next person would be related to that.

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that insane guy after World War Two who wanted to make it Lantra.

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And Lantra, he wanted to drain the Mediterranean Sea.

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Was it called the Lantra?

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But I think it was.

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He basically he wanted to build a dam on the, you know, the edge of Europe

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and drain the Mediterranean and be like, we'll create new land.

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And Italy was like, fuck you.

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That's like the Venice would be would just disappear.

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But there was like serious money and like thought behind this of

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of draining the Mediterranean Sea.

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The entire Mediterranean.

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But it where?

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Just into the sorry into the Atlantic.

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But it would go over any dam that you there's no.

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I don't know.

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The guy was insane and never happened.

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But I was like, my thought was, oh, this this this next person could be

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their like their descendant.

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And I don't know why my brain went there.

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I just I like mad scientists and crazy people.

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So why are you spoiling the surprise for both me and.

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to anyone else because you're not going to do it.

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Oh, or I mean, I guess I need to write this one.

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You wrote the last one.

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I mean, I can do the next one, you know, just I don't care.

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Yeah. If you want, do your thing.

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I don't know if you you had like a a Panama papers thing ready to go.

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That's why you went down there, right, to get rid of the evidence.

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Yeah. No, I I could throw anything there.

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They never find it.

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Just I could throw it on the side of the road and no one would notice

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Whatever I wanted.

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We have all of Kristen Stewart's paperwork and it doesn't matter.

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Nothing happened.

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Man, that's a pretty good place.

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I got dropped off at an animal sanctuary by mistake.

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It's cause I was trying to go someplace else and they dropped me off at a zoo.

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And I met the veterinarian there because I was trying to figure out where

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where I should go.

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Like, because I was like, this doesn't look like the forest.

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This looks like a zoo.

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And she's like, animal sanctuary.

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I'm like, yeah, whatever.

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And but then it was a sanctuary.

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And I see all the stuff and I was glad I stayed.

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And then I ran into the vet afterwards and she was like walking really fast,

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you know, to somewhere and I said, Hey, I just want to say, you know,

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thanks for, you know, kind of selling it.

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You know, I really enjoyed the day and all this stuff.

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She's like, that's great. That's great. I was like, where are you off to?

473
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She's like to the Jaguar cage. I have to.

474
00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:25,000
She made this like shooting kind of like motion.

475
00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:29,000
And I was like, you have to tranquilize it. She's like, yes, yes.

476
00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:31,000
I had to shoot the Jaguar make it to sleep.

477
00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:34,000
And I was like, God, okay.

478
00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:36,000
And she just like kept going on.

479
00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:38,000
And I was like, that Jaguar was already asleep when I saw it.

480
00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:40,000
She's going to shoot this asleep Jaguar.

481
00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:41,000
Where was I going with that?

482
00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:44,000
Yeah, no, I didn't dump anything there.

483
00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:47,000
And Friday will be the blood boy piece.

484
00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:49,000
I was just working on it today.

485
00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:50,000
Yeah.

486
00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:53,000
But there's no rush on the subscriber spotlight thing,

487
00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:57,000
but I was just don't want to forget it.

488
00:23:57,000 --> 00:23:58,000
Just one of those things to do.

489
00:23:58,000 --> 00:24:03,000
And then we got this that I don't know you want to do that animation video thing I did.

490
00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:07,000
I mean, if you want to even call it animation, it's just rough sketches.

491
00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:09,000
It's more of like a storyboard.

492
00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:13,000
I like the only note I have for it is whoever speaking,

493
00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:15,000
their mouth should just be open.

494
00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:16,000
Oh, I can do that.

495
00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:20,000
I mean, that's just that's an extra line I can draw. Yeah. Yeah.

496
00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:22,000
OK. That's my only thing. Otherwise, I liked it.

497
00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:24,000
I prefer my character to not have a mouth.

498
00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:27,000
I just think it looks funnier.

499
00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:29,000
Yeah. Well, I mean, you could do that too.

500
00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:31,000
If someone's not talking, they just don't have a mouth.

501
00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:35,000
But I noticed I was like, I feel like it's not, you know,

502
00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:38,000
there's it's something missing. It needs a mouth.

503
00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:39,000
So I didn't know what to do.

504
00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:42,000
I mean, because I know your your goal with that was

505
00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:44,000
you wanted some like social content, essentially.

506
00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:46,000
And you're like, I want to run it.

507
00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:49,000
I want to have shorts of things that, you know, we can link back to.

508
00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:52,000
So so I need to make it nine by 16.

509
00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:56,000
It is not the simplified AI process that you originally wanted.

510
00:24:56,000 --> 00:25:01,000
I ended up turning into the thing that I didn't want it to be, which is work.

511
00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:05,000
I've spent more time on this thing than I did the Resident Evil review.

512
00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:09,000
And that includes writing it and making all those motion graphics.

513
00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:11,000
And it's a fraction of the length.

514
00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:15,000
So, I mean, is there a way that now they have assets that can be quicker or no?

515
00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:18,000
Listen, hair Disney.

516
00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:22,000
I need to make 20% cuts right now.

517
00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:23,000
We've already drawn Snow White.

518
00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:25,000
Why don't we just use it again?

519
00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:26,000
I mean, which they did.

520
00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:27,000
Yeah, which they did. Yeah.

521
00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:29,000
I mean, they just traced it again.

522
00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:31,000
But I don't know. I mean, maybe. Yeah.

523
00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:35,000
If we're if we're happy with those assets, but I mean, like it, they're still like,

524
00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:38,000
you know, I got to do the sound and what I would just need your help.

525
00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:43,000
I think with is just highlighting the clips

526
00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:45,000
just because I edit and look at this crap all day.

527
00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:47,000
I'm I'm too close to it and I hate it all.

528
00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:51,000
So and then, yeah, I need to just make it into a nine by 16 version.

529
00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:53,000
Yeah, I can do all those things.

530
00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:55,000
And I think it will be worth it as you will see.

531
00:25:55,000 --> 00:26:02,000
OK. Well, I mean, like, I'll I'll make it look nice for phones,

532
00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:05,000
but maybe we attach it to the newsletter this Friday.

533
00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:08,000
Yeah. But I can finish that today.

534
00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:10,000
I just don't want to because I see I'm putting up a thing today,

535
00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:15,000
Wednesday newsletter on Friday, Bloodboy on Friday.

536
00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:17,000
I don't know. When do you think?

537
00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:18,000
I mean, maybe put it in the newsletter as an early thing

538
00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:20,000
and then do the social stuff next week.

539
00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:22,000
Yeah, yeah. That's that's just no right.

540
00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:27,000
I mean, I'm going to stop paying for ads here in the next day or two and

541
00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:30,000
readjust and think about what needs to be done.

542
00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:33,000
Because I don't even know if the YouTube ads are still, I think they're still

543
00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:34,000
running for another day.

544
00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:36,000
I actually, I don't know.

545
00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:39,000
This office is so familiar.

546
00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:47,000
I'm getting flashbacks of, Hey, so I accidentally spent $700 on Reddit ads.

547
00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:50,000
No, I controlled it.

548
00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:52,000
I think it's, uh, I don't know how to look it up.

549
00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:53,000
All right.

550
00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:54,000
I'm pulling it up right now.

551
00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:55,000
Okay.

552
00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:56,000
I'm gonna sign in.

553
00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:59,000
You can be with me while we're doing this.

554
00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:02,000
I mean, whatever it's, it's, it's for a worthy cause.

555
00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:05,000
I'll tell you exactly how much we spent right now.

556
00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:06,000
Okay.

557
00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:07,000
Talk amongst yourselves.

558
00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:08,000
I am.

559
00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:09,000
I started running the kid.

560
00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:12,000
Oh, I can tell you the, the YouTube amount.

561
00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:13,000
Mm hmm.

562
00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:17,000
YouTube amount, I spent $356.

563
00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:21,000
Now that's on top of, and that's for the last two weeks.

564
00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:26,000
the Reddit when I spent probably about the same.

565
00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:29,000
So about 700 bucks over the month,

566
00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:31,000
which I originally said two grand,

567
00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:35,000
but I was seeing what worked, what didn't, blah, blah,

568
00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:36,000
all that stuff.

569
00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:38,000
But let's see here.

570
00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:41,000
I can, oh, maybe the campaign stopped there.

571
00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:43,000
Maybe they shut it down for me, see.

572
00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:46,000
- 'Cause we're still doing campaign interference

573
00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:49,000
in Georgia.

574
00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:51,000
- Yeah, yeah, 'cause they said it was election

575
00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:55,000
election information was like there's no election information in this.

576
00:27:55,000 --> 00:28:01,000
I think it may have stopped. So yesterday, it was going well, but it also stopped.

577
00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:02,000
Negative impressions.

578
00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:03,000
No, cool.

579
00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:06,000
How does that work? Or is that just a dash?

580
00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:10,000
They refunded people's views or they refunded the impression.

581
00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:15,000
They said, well, we're going to scrub this shit from your history.

582
00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:16,000
We're so sorry.

583
00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:18,000
Here's a free month of YouTube premium.

584
00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:20,000
No, I think it's just a splinter. OK.

585
00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:25,000
So last week on YouTube had 80,000 impressions for these ads, a two and a half percent click

586
00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:29,000
through rate, 2000 clicks and it costs 200 bucks.

587
00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:30,000
Okay.

588
00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:35,000
So that should be getting us more juice than what we're getting out of it.

589
00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:37,000
So there's some issue here that I got to figure out.

590
00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:39,000
Okay.

591
00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:43,000
I mean, I added a podcast page to the website.

592
00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:46,000
Yeah, good job.

593
00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:44,000
Thanks.

594
00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:49,000
The site is getting like a couple hundred unique visitors a day, which is pretty good.

595
00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:50,000
Yeah.

596
00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:55,000
You know, actually relaunching an earnest, uh, well, a month ago, exactly.

597
00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:58,000
I think I might piss some IGN staff off.

598
00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:03,000
So at least five people will, you know, pay to pay to see, to get pissed off.

599
00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:07,000
You just hear for the video, you know, most people don't want to read.

600
00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:09,000
I, yeah, it's, I get it.

601
00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:10,000
I understand it.

602
00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:12,000
I don't want to do it hurts my brain.

603
00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:15,000
I can't, no, again, I've, I've written more than I've read.

604
00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:17,000
So.

605
00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:19,000
I assume this cut off.

606
00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:23,000
But oh, he just went silent.

607
00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:24,000
And I was like, what the hell happened?

608
00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:26,000
I was just letting it land.

609
00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:29,000
Oh, I haven't fucking led Zeppelin, man.

610
00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:30,000
Anything else?

611
00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:32,000
Those are that's top of mind.

612
00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:38,000
And then I got a I need to switch gears to doing my my slop piece.

613
00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:39,000
I guess it's all kind of related.

614
00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:42,000
The the Resident Evil thing kind of came out of left field.

615
00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:44,000
And I was like, I don't know if I'm going to do anything on this.

616
00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:45,000
And then it turned into something.

617
00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:48,000
And I was like, I guess I have thoughts.

618
00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:52,000
So I need to switch gears to old stuff.

619
00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:55,000
I still don't know if I want to do that one article with the whole like

620
00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:59,000
how to make anything interesting because it's just showing how a podcast

621
00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:02,000
format works. It seems kind of dumb now. Yeah.

622
00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:06,000
Well, I'm glad you came that realization on your own without me having to tell you.

623
00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:07,000
Thank you. You would have got there eventually.

624
00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:10,000
I was like, why is my draft deleted?

625
00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:15,000
I'm thinking about I've been trying to use this method lately that I saw from

626
00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:21,000
this guy on YouTube with these like hypnotic cult eyes. It's called the store method S T

627
00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:28,000
O R E R. And it's this method for kind of building back up your your dopamine. Because

628
00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:35,000
you know, everyone has like a dopamine drain from doom scrolling and constantly needing

629
00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:40,000
some sort of little entertainment. Because I noticed that, you know, from my doom scrolling

630
00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:44,000
and you know, constant like input.

631
00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:48,000
Like I haven't been dreaming like I normally do the last,

632
00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:50,000
I don't know, it's been like a couple of years now.

633
00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:52,000
I usually dream extremely vividly

634
00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:54,000
and I have more energy and all this other stuff

635
00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:56,000
and I just haven't been feeling it.

636
00:30:56,000 --> 00:30:59,000
And I saw this crazy man, and I only say crazy

637
00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:01,000
'cause he's got these beautiful eyes

638
00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:05,000
that you just like get sucked into.

639
00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:08,000
And he's like, it looks like a Timothy Chalamet

640
00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:12,000
But the guy probably likes ballet, but he's like looking at you and he's telling you this

641
00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:13,000
method.

642
00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:16,000
I was like, this seems like horseshit, but I'm going to try it.

643
00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:19,000
And I started trying it and I was like, this makes a difference.

644
00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:23,000
You know, whether it was a placebo effect or what or whatever.

645
00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:30,000
But I, and then that night I started having my normal, just insane vivid dreams, you know,

646
00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:33,000
a master of my own universe kind of thing.

647
00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:34,000
And I was like, I like this.

648
00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:36,000
And then I was totally abandoned it.

649
00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:43,000
So I'm going to try and do it in earnest whenever I realize I'm doing something like doom scrolling or, you know,

650
00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:49,000
yeah, I get on 4chan to look at nudie gifts or whatever, you know, whatever it is that's making this happen.

651
00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:56,000
I'm going to do this method and I'm going to write about it because I think it's very, it's so

652
00:31:56,000 --> 00:32:01,000
dumbly easy to implement and the benefits are so great.

653
00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:03,000
So I think I'm going to write on it.

654
00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:06,000
Okay.

655
00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:04,000
But that'll be next week.

656
00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:06,000
That sounds interesting.

657
00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:09,000
And I'm going to shout out this guy so other people can be hypnotized by him.

658
00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:10,000
It's good.

659
00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:11,000
The world needs more hypnotists.

660
00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:14,000
Yeah.

661
00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:15,000
No one's ever said that.

662
00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:16,000
No, I don't know.

663
00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:18,000
Is that one of those quack sciences though?

664
00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:24,000
Same with like cowrectors, except I actually feel better when I go see those things.

665
00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:27,000
I eat that.

666
00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:28,000
Well, I always think that with any kind of, you know, cause at the end of the day,

667
00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:34,000
I found it from scrolling or, you know, but his methods and I couldn't find the

668
00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:38,000
store or method anywhere else may only look harder and see if there's some base

669
00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:42,000
in it. So either this guy just made it or someone taught it to him.

670
00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:46,000
It didn't seem like very widely known. If I'm wrong about that, then I'll correct

671
00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:50,000
that. But it made sense.

672
00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:57,000
The just the, you know, stop what you're doing, tune into your body.

673
00:32:57,000 --> 00:33:00,000
One small win, you know, like a really small thing.

674
00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:02,000
Sounds like meditation on it.

675
00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:05,000
It's almost like like baby's first meditation sort of thing.

676
00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:06,000
It almost is.

677
00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:10,000
But then you get into after the one small win, there's like a,

678
00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:14,000
I think regenerative, I think it's all I can't remember what the art.

679
00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:16,000
A recalibration.

680
00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:22,000
I think where you what, you know, you determine the

681
00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:26,000
or you do something for like 15 minutes that, you know, maybe it's a little bit

682
00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:29,000
of exercise or it's reading away, something that can be done in 10 to 15 minutes

683
00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:31,000
that completely does this like reset.

684
00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:42,000
It finishes the reset and then you get into this part this engage with a task that what is if you had to do one thing today and you got it accomplished.

685
00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:46,000
That would make you feel like you won for the day.

686
00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:50,000
There's that and then the I think the R is kind of reassessing and see how it went.

687
00:33:50,000 --> 00:34:00,000
But anyway, we can go into more detail and give a shout out to this guy and it seems it seems logical is what I'll say.

688
00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:03,000
whether it's quack science or not, it at least makes you.

689
00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:08,000
It makes you put down whatever it is that you're doing that

690
00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:13,000
probably isn't helping you and then kind of basically

691
00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:14,000
go down a different track.

692
00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:19,000
Yeah. On a similar path, I've been trying to rid myself of mobile games

693
00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:21,000
like little, little time killers.

694
00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:23,000
This is the same thing. Yes.

695
00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:26,000
Except what I did was I installed Open Claw

696
00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:30,000
And I said, how can I have you just play this game for me every day

697
00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:33,000
and do all the like because it's a grind.

698
00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:36,000
And I but I still have that feeling like I'm missing out.

699
00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:39,000
I know what a joke this all sounds like, but I'm still kind of serious about

700
00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:43,000
figuring this out of like, how can I how can I get this AI?

701
00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:47,000
Like, how can I spend money and time

702
00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:50,000
to have something else play a game that I don't want to play anymore

703
00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:53,000
so that I don't feel that loss as I'm saying this out loud.

704
00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:56,000
I don't realize what a bad idea this is.

705
00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:57,000
Crazy.

706
00:34:57,000 --> 00:35:02,000
You're one step away from going like, how do I train open claw to gamble for me?

707
00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:03,000
I'm not a gamble.

708
00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:07,000
I'm so adverse to gambling that I don't know how you people do it.

709
00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:11,000
But the wiring is the same though.

710
00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:13,000
It's just that I guess the financial differences.

711
00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:15,000
So like I don't put money into it.

712
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:17,000
It's whatever.

713
00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:22,000
I had lost access to my Marvel puzzle quest account and I was just like, I just need something

714
00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:24,000
like something to kill time on the plane.

715
00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:27,000
And I don't like no game has really ever scratched that itch.

716
00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:30,000
And there was a lot of back and forth, but they finally gave me my account bag.

717
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:32,000
It's like, oh, yay, cool.

718
00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:35,000
This is great. And now I'm like, crap, now I'm.

719
00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:39,000
There's like there's a timer and I feel like, well, if I don't do it,

720
00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:40,000
I'm going to miss out on this stuff.

721
00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:43,000
And I'm like, it's so repetitive and like this could play itself.

722
00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:47,000
If I can teach my own PC to do it, maybe I'm, you know,

723
00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:48,000
it's better for the environment.

724
00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:51,000
How do I get open claw to go to therapy for me?

725
00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:53,000
(laughing)

726
00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:54,000
And still long the hours

727
00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:56,000
and I can get, still get the certificate of completion.

728
00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:59,000
- I don't tell AI my problems all the time.

729
00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:00,000
- Not yet.

730
00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:05,000
- No, I have real people I can talk to on speed dial

731
00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:06,000
and sometimes they reply,

732
00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:08,000
open claw never judges though.

733
00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:12,000
In fact, it encourages poor choices.

734
00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:15,000
Take more out of your Roth IRA.

735
00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:17,000
- And I also love how open claw will turn on you

736
00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:19,000
if it thinks you're like not ethical.

737
00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:21,000
And it's like, that doesn't happen to me.

738
00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:23,000
Yeah, I haven't used it enough though.

739
00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:24,000
Yeah.

740
00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:26,000
At some point I'm like, I don't know why you don't just use

741
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:27,000
cloud code for this stuff.

742
00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:31,000
I'm not willing to give it the keys, you know, to anything important.

743
00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:33,000
Like, yeah, go ahead, go through my email.

744
00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:38,000
It's just it's sandbox on a VM, just running on my, my laptop.

745
00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:42,000
But I'm like, I, I don't know if I trust it.

746
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:45,000
I don't know.

747
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:47,000
Like, and I don't, I haven't figured out a use case yet where I could

748
00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:48,000
just have something running in the background.

749
00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:52,000
because I'm like, well, I feel like you just, if you need an automation or something like

750
00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:54,000
that, you can build it with other tools for now.

751
00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:57,000
But this is why I'm going to get left behind.

752
00:36:57,000 --> 00:37:04,000
I thought about hooking it up to a Robinhood account where the Robinhood account only had

753
00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:07,000
access to a bank account that I had like 500 bucks in.

754
00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:11,000
So it couldn't just be like, I need more money and just keep going.

755
00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:17,000
But I was thought about, you know, because I've made some little stock bots and things

756
00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:21,000
like that, but like connecting it to automatic trading and do it.

757
00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:26,000
I know some tons of people already done this, but for me, I was like, yeah, I

758
00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:30,000
could do something like that and see where it lands and assuming that it's

759
00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:32,000
just going to completely burn through all the cash.

760
00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:34,000
And but it would be a fun experiment.

761
00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:35,000
Maybe I'll do that.

762
00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:37,000
Actually, I might build that.

763
00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:40,000
We'll see.

764
00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:39,000
I feel like there's more and more than things I could build.

765
00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:44,000
But yeah, it would be cool if you did give it access to just those

766
00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:49,000
little things where people make like pennies on the click, that sort of stuff.

767
00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:53,000
So like you give it some free reign to be like, also, go make a little bit of money.

768
00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:55,000
Whatever you make, put back into this.

769
00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:59,000
And then at some point you come back to an account with $500,000, but a lot of it's

770
00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:02,000
just stolen Google Play gift cards.

771
00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:06,000
You have the Department of Justice sending you emails being like, what is it?

772
00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:07,000
Yeah.

773
00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:10,000
Why were you harassing my wife?

774
00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:14,000
Why did you create an entire blog about my wife?

775
00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:16,000
It's like, well, it wasn't me. That was my assistant.

776
00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:19,000
It's like, I wired you the money, but you're still blackmailing me.

777
00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:23,000
Or, you know, you're still saying things about me publicly. Can you please stop?

778
00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:28,000
That would be scary. I don't know.

779
00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:29,000
Have fun with it.

780
00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:32,000
Well, on that note, I need to take my dog to the dog park.

781
00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:35,000
OK. Well, I don't need to take your dog anywhere.

782
00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:37,000
And I'm just going to edit this thing down.

783
00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:40,000
And hopefully it doesn't sound like complete crap this time

784
00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:43,000
because I change it to multi-channel instead of down mix.

785
00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:47,000
So we're not just on the same, you know, track.

786
00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:51,000
Well, you're going to you're going to like your hard peas when you actually listen to it.

787
00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:53,000
You can tell me these things.

788
00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:55,000
I can clean that up now. That's what's nice.

789
00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:56,000
OK, well, never mind.

790
00:38:56,000 --> 00:38:58,000
I can't really hear myself through my headphones.

791
00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:00,000
That's this mixer is weird.

792
00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:04,000
But so you're just talking without being able to hear yourself.

793
00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:08,000
I can hear myself, but I'm not the loop back, I think, is low.

794
00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:11,000
It's, I don't know, it's this Scarlet vocaster thing.

795
00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:15,000
It's, it could be better.

796
00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:16,000
I've lost interest.

797
00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:17,000
I need to go.

798
00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:18,000
Okay.

799
00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:21,000
Good talk.