Just Two Good Old Boys
We never mean any harm!
Just Two Good Old Boys
179 A White House Arcade Meets Water System Security
Use Left/Right to seek, Home/End to jump to start or end. Hold shift to jump forward or backward.
A browser pins the CPU, a photoreal shooter makes us rethink what “graphics” even means, and then we stumble into something we did not expect to be discussing on a government domain: Arcade.gov. That whiplash sets the tone. We talk through what’s actually happening with GPUs, DLSS hype, and why the demo footage you see online often comes from absurd hardware setups that don’t match real-world PCs. If you care about PC building, SSD pricing, and the chip shortage cycle, we share a grounded way to think about timing, optimization, and when waiting can save you a lot of money.
Then we shift into policy and incentives: Trump accounts, election procedure headlines, and a longer argument around the H1B visa program and spouse work authorization. Love it or hate it, the system shapes company behavior, and we connect that to a painfully real outsourcing story where costs balloon, accountability disappears, and proprietary source code becomes leverage. If you run a business, manage a tech team, or buy outsourced development, this part is a blunt checklist of what can go wrong and how to reduce the blast radius.
We wrap with cybersecurity and privacy in plain language: Iran cyber threat headlines versus the reality of exposed systems, default passwords, Shodan, and why water utilities and other critical infrastructure need basic security controls before they need buzzwords. We also get into why biometric data breaches are different, plus a detour into NIL money and college football’s accelerating move toward an NFL-style pipeline. Subscribe, share this with a friend who loves tech and current events, and leave a review with the moment where you laughed, cringed, or learned something useful.
Want to hear old episodes? All subscribers have access to the full back catalog of episodes and specials! Just Two Good Old Boys (Just Two Good Old Boys +)
Communicate with us directly on x.com by joining the Good Old Boys community! https://x.com/i/communities/1887018898605641825
Can't donate?
Listen to Amy Clare Smith Music
Check out Gene's other podcasts -
podcast.sirgene.com and unrelenting.show
Read Ben's blog and see product links at namedben.com
Travel Talk And Parking Pain
SPEAKER_02Howdy Ben, how are you today? I'm doing all right, Gene. Oh, that's good. It's been a long week. I was up in DFW meeting with one of our more interesting clients for several days.
SPEAKER_01So that's not that's not far of a road trip. Did you drive or fly?
SPEAKER_02I flew.
SPEAKER_01Okay.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I'm I'm just like it's just it's just long enough that you know it's like three and a half hour drive. No, from your house, really? Yep. It's it's three and a half hours from here. Depending on traffic, it's a three and a half hour drive. Wow. And so and if I drive my truck, first of all, especially going downtown. No, no, no. But drive driving my truck, I usually get about 13 to 15. Yeah. But finding a place to park downtown is just a nightmare. Yeah, I'm gonna find a surface lot and all that. So I just Uber it. Yeah well, I fly and then I grab a rental car. So well, hold up. If you grab a rental car, what the hell's the difference? It's still hard to find parking in downtown. No, no, no, because the car my uh garages exist. My truck just doesn't fit. Oh okay, okay. Your truck's big. Got it, got it. Yeah, okay. So anyway. Do you have an eight-foot bed? I couldn't, I don't remember. I have a seven or six and a half or a seven. Yeah. The problem is the height. All the old garages in downtown. I see. Okay. When I worked in downtown Dallas, you know, at EFH and all that, it it was always a nightmare to find parking.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, you that's when I lived in in the in Dallas, I bought a little Fiat convertible just for that purpose.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Well.
Chrome Tabs And CPU Meltdowns
SPEAKER_02Anyway, my CPU. I just noticed my CPU is pegged. Uh oh. Do you know what it was? I mean, I guess you like that kind of thing, but what fucking Chrome, dude. I fucking hate these Chromium browsers. I hate them. Well, don't run Chrome, run Edge. That's a Chromium browser. It has the same memory leak and CPU problem when you have a bunch of tabs open. Whatever. So I literally my CPU was at 100%. I closed Chrome. It's at 6%. Do you know how many tabs I have open right now in Firefox? I wouldn't even venture to guess. Over 300. And I'm not using jack shit. Not really something to be proud of, but okay.
SPEAKER_01Why? It's it's it's massive lack of organization if you have 300 open tabs.
SPEAKER_02No, it's a massive amount of organization. Groups, articles, studying, but anyway, I was up there and expanded our scope pretty good with this new data center client that's building out a shit ton of power. So good.
SPEAKER_01Well, you keep expanding. Maybe you'll need somebody like me to actually work for your company. Anyway.
Body Cam Realism And DLSS Hype
SPEAKER_01Anyway. What have you been up to, Gene? Uh well, I fell asleep playing video games, so I had a productive day. Which game? Uh X4. I'm still making training videos for that thing. What? Not body cam? I did play body cam. Dude, here's the the harsh lesson of life, which I first learned when I turned 30. When you're 30, you don't play like a teenager. When you're 40, you play even less like a teenager. When you're 50, you you're in a whole different league. So the thing with body cam, this is not a game where I can grab a nice sniper rifle and kind of camp out and wait for headshots. This is a game that is CQB. Is it as pretty as it looks in the mic renders? God, I I actually recorded a video to send you, but my mic was turned off and I was talking the whole time. And when I realized the mic was off on the recording, I was like, well, that's stupid. You're not gonna get the beautiful experience of me explaining everything as I'm walking around. It is an absolutely gorgeous game. It is photorealistic. There, there is no like Cyberpunk looks beautiful. This looks like you're walking through a photograph.
SPEAKER_02Well, have you seen the DLS 5 stuff that they've been putting out?
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Been watching a lot of those videos. That was nuts. I I do have a uh 4080 in my laptop, so I should be able to actually use that once they optimize it.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I think you're gonna have to wait a generation or two before you really have enough horsepower. No, no, no, no. They're talking about cutting your frame rate by half.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, but they they said there are plenty of games that run at like 300 frames on that thing. They say that they will fully support the fourth series of processes. So all the 4000s somethings should be able to utilize it. I think starting with the 4060 is the slowest one. 4060, 7080, 90, all of those will be able to do it. But right now it's not optimized, and so the videos that you're seeing, most of those are recorded with dual 59 or 5090s.
SPEAKER_02What do you mean? For the running two of them.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, the DLS5 demos are are recorded running dual 5090 GPUs in each machine. Because you're effectively cutting your frame rate, like you said, by half or less. And so they're they're actually running dual 5090. So that's uh basically an $8,000 to $10,000 rig. Yeah, at minimum. Uh-huh. Uh-huh.
SPEAKER_02Because the 5090s, depending on the card, I've seen some of them as high as almost six grand.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. Which is just insane. And again, I I've told the story before. I seeing the water-cooled 5090 selling for 2300 bucks, and I was like, if I wait one more year, I'll get it for less than two grand, so I'm gonna wait. That's a sucker. Yep. I mean, at this point, my frickin' my the card I took out, my 6950 that I replaced with the one that you got, it's probably worth more now than what I paid for the for the new card that we got.
Discovering Arcade.gov Live
SPEAKER_02Hey, while we're talking about video games, go to arc arcade.gov. Okay. Let's take a look.
SPEAKER_01Is there some funny memey stuff going on there? Just go to arcade.gov. Okay.
SPEAKER_02I love this White House and our president.
SPEAKER_01Hang on. Are you? No, that's gov. Right, right, right. Okay, I'm there. Oh, hey, there's video games here. Yup. Well, wait a minute. Fly the bald eagle down the national mall? Yep. Is that like Yeah.
SPEAKER_02And then there's a protect the border from uh the incoming horde, which is Patricia Mike.
SPEAKER_01It's like that game that I used to love with the flying callets. What are those things? And then border patrol along the Rio Grande. Oh my god, this is fucking awesome.
SPEAKER_02I'm start the school lunch to make America healthy again.
SPEAKER_01Fill your kids' Trump accounts. This is great. I'm just gonna play this the whole time we're doing the podcast. No, no, no. Flappy Bird is an awesome game. I mean, I mean, Flappy Bald Eagle. I'm just gonna keep doing this. This is great. Isn't this hilarious? This is this is what our president's doing now. I mean, dude, this is totally what I voted for. Right, absolutely. Some summer interns project. It it does have kind of Elon Musk written all over it, though. Yeah.
Trump Accounts And Free Money
SPEAKER_02So you asked me a question while we're talking about Trump. What did you sign up for? Where I got $250 from Michael and Susan Dell. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And actually it's $500, one for each kid. Oh, yeah, yeah. So you gotta be a Mormon and have a whole bunch of kids to get more money, I guess. That was deposited in every Trump account in the country. What's that got to do with it? They just their philanthropy. They donated money. No way. Yes.
SPEAKER_01So they're just giving every every young kid free money?
SPEAKER_02That has a Trump account, they gave them 250 bucks.
SPEAKER_01Wow. Well, this might set off a chain reaction. Yes, it may.
SPEAKER_02That's the You might get rich through your kids, you little bastard. No, it's not gonna be that much, but with what I contribute and what other people are. Plenty of billionaires out there.
SPEAKER_01If every billionaire gave a kid 250 bucks, kids are gonna have a loaded account.
SPEAKER_02Yep. Especially over time with interests. No, the Trump accounts are a huge win. Anyone who's denying their kids that opportunity is insane because they can cash it out when they turn 18 or they can keep it till they're 60. Yeah, and they can take it all out at once or not, but it's post-tax money going in. That's awesome. So it's like a Roth IRA.
SPEAKER_01Right, right. That's awesome. It really is. It's smart. God damn it, I hit the ground again. Yeah. That's that is.
SPEAKER_02We really are playing the fucking game, Mark.
SPEAKER_01Well, yeah. I mean, I come on, like it takes a whole brain to do a podcast. I can be reading articles and playing a game and talking to you at the same time. That's usually what I'm doing.
SPEAKER_02Anyway, I just think it's pretty natural. Trump arcade. That's great. Yeah. And then uh the post office has confirmed that the protocols for the election are in writing.
SPEAKER_01Yep. Good. No fake ballots allowed.
SPEAKER_02Hey, man, I think that's a pretty big deal, actually, for this midterm.
SPEAKER_01I agree, man. That the Democrats are starting to worry, I think. They should be. I agree.
SPEAKER_02I agree. Like, there's no way in hell. And it's possible, but I just don't believe Texas is gonna go for Talarico with everything coming out.
SPEAKER_01They better not, man. Otherwise, we might have to move. Holy shit, they have a pirated Tetris version. Yeah. And they've got a snake. How do you turn the things in here?
SPEAKER_04I don't know.
SPEAKER_01Oh, there we go. I figured out how to turn them. Yeah, this is awesome. Like, I can't imagine doing a podcast without playing Tetris at the same time on our national presidential website. Yeah. This is exactly what I was imagining. Oh my god. Well, we do have some stuff that we covered that we should probably at some point talk about.
SPEAKER_02Okay.
SPEAKER_01Like
Supreme Court Size Politics
SPEAKER_01what? Let me well, I'm gonna lose this Tetris match if I have to look it up. God damn it, Ben. Like that we had a constitutional amendment that got shot down by the Democrats for locking the Supreme Court to the uh current nine members. Yeah. That I don't I actually didn't even hear about that, so that must have not been particularly anticipated to do anything.
SPEAKER_02No, but it's just making a point that the Democrats are going to pack the court.
SPEAKER_01Oh, well, I think that they at this point, I think they think that that's their only option that they can do.
H1B Spouses And Work Permits
SPEAKER_02So it doesn't really So did you see the story about the H1Bs?
SPEAKER_01What was the story? Don't ask me, just start talking about this stuff and I'll jump in if I read it. Okay, the H4EADs. H1B spouse.
SPEAKER_02I did see the story about spouses. So it looks like they're gonna kill 600 that plus thousand work authorizations. Which is good. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Because we never voted for that shit. Exactly. So there's no point in allowing them. Yeah, I think, you know, when I was hiring H1Bs many, many years ago and talking about how it's a bad idea, there was no like nobody nobody was coming in with a spouse. Guys were showing up solo. Like there was no expectation of a spouse showing up. So this must be a more recent phenomenon where somebody was bitching enough about well, what if why why can't I bring my wife, you know? My wife. And uh go ahead. Well, it it this this is uh clearly something that hopefully will make people think about just putting a permanent damper on the whole H1B thing altogether. Because I I think it's a scam. We don't need any H1Bs, we really don't.
SPEAKER_02Since January of 24, for the first time since the 1930s, the foreign-born population dropped. Really? We are now negative 2.9 million foreign born. Yeah, fucking foreigners. Fuck them. Under Biden, the reported foreign born grew 8.3.
SPEAKER_01Wow. Well, that's not surprising given the uh the encouragements that they were getting. I mean, that's the thing is you gotta you you have to accept the fact that if the conditions are such that it's encouraged, people will show up. Look at what's happening in Europe. They're not they're not you know showing up because it's a hard life in Europe for them. They're showing up because they're staying in the fucking hotels with room service as soon as they get off the boat and go to the local register here. If you're a what do they call them? What's what's the politically correct name they're using for them in Europe? You know, political migrants or whatever the fuck, asylum seeker, some whatever bullshit. Military age men should not be able to be that. Period. End of story. It's it it's insanity. But yeah, the whole H1B thing, I it's there there's certainly plenty of people here in Texas, and in fact, the reason that Texas is so damn Muslim right now is just because of H1Bs. Because and I when I lived in Dallas, dude, you couldn't throw a stick without hitting a Pakistani.
SPEAKER_02Oh, or an Indian, yeah.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah, yeah. HCL man. Most of those uh companies have gotten to a point where they they've got Pakistanis or Indians either as CEO or if not CEO, then certainly in other C-level positions. Well, again, there's nothing even my company. Well, there you go. There's nothing inherently wrong with having somebody that's of a different nationality in a position like that. The problem is that we have people in the US capable of doing all those jobs. And what we've done is created this artificial system where we actually preference foreigners over local people, and originally that started under the guise of we can save 30% on salary, but right now it's it's total bullshit.
SPEAKER_02You can't anymore with the hundred thousand dollar uh fee, and then the the spouse is not being able to work.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, we're we're getting to a better level, but even even just using foreigners overseas, just outsourcing, not not even importing
Outsourcing Gone Wrong Lessons
SPEAKER_01them here. I can't remember if I told the story, so if I have stop me. But I remember this one company where I came in that was you know, like they were they had they had good sales numbers, but their expenses just kept going up and up and up. So I came in there as the CEO and started digging through and trying to understand where they're spending all their money and what's going on, and they had a few outsourced developers in in like Burma. No, it was like Burma. It was like they originally were hired when they were living in Australia as students. They they were getting like their master's degrees in computer science or something, and they were super cheap. I mean, we're talking like I think they were company was paying uh both of them somewhere around $20,000 a year, and then they ended up leaving Australia, presumably because their visas expired, uh, went back home to Burma, or maybe it was Nepal, but it was one of those countries. And then, you know, proceeded to continue working as developers. And I remember that I started getting a little suspicious of what all they're doing because they the the CEO wasn't even sure how many people are working in our you know Burmese office. I'm like, you have an office in Burma? It's like, yeah, we pay for an office for them to work out of. And you know, we got our two guys that have been with us for a long time, they're kind of managing it, and I think they have a couple of people there that are doing some work. So I started calling up to find out more info about these guys. And and the first thing I I found out when I did the research is that the cost of living there is roughly five thousand dollars a year is the average salary in the country, right? So it's it's very low-tech agrarian with a couple of you know cities that have internet. Uh, but it's like everything is super cheap. You you can have a full-time maid in your house for like less than five grand a month or a month. Five grand a year. For less than five grand a year, you have full-time made. And so I started calling this. I remember calling and asking for one of the two guys, and the receptionist there with a British accent says, I can let him know that you called, but I'm not sure when he's gonna be in the office because he's got his poll lesson right now. So we're paying these guys $75,000 apiece by that point. $75,000 a year, which you could absolutely hire a person in the U.S. to do that job. Now it's gonna be a junior person, but these guys were junior people initially, and then just kind of you know grew into their positions. They hadn't they don't have any experience working for other companies. They were hired when they were in college. And can you imagine what a $75,000 salary in a country where the average salary of the population is five grand gets you? Well, it gets you poll lessons. It's it gets you. I looked up the address where one of these guys was living.
SPEAKER_02A lot of hookers and blows.
SPEAKER_01Do you want to guess the size of the house? 10,000 square feet. At least. At least 10,000 square feet. Maybe, maybe 15. I mean, it was not a house, it was a mansion with two different garages. And a like a big ass, it you know, it was like a C-shaped house where you got a left side garage and you got a like a south garage, a north garage. You got a on a huge piece of land with a circle driveway in in the front. I mean, they were living a high life. I don't think either one of these guys was doing jack shit in terms of actual work at this point. I think they effectively were the ones that were 100% outsourcing to the local population to do those jobs, and then keeping like 90% of the money that they were being paid. And then with the lifestyle costs of living there, living like kings. And then, of course, and this is should totally be expected for these types of folks, uh, then I find out that they're not exclusively working for us, even though they're getting paid full-time money. Like the expectation is these are two of our guys working full-time, and they have a couple of people that are helping them, and then we're also paying for rental for the office for them, which again five grand a year, average salary, we're paying like eighteen hundred dollars a month for their office. What do you think their office looks like? Uh-huh. Uh-huh. So it's it's just it was insanity. And and then after that point, I was like, okay, do we have a copy of all the source code? Because if we don't, that's that's mission number one. Get all the source code because those guys will absolutely they know that they've been ripping the company off for years, they know what they've been doing, and they're gonna try and blackmail the guy. And that's exactly what ended up happening is that they basically you know they wouldn't provide source code. They're like, well, no, it's ours. It's like, no, it's not yours. We've been literally paying you for six years to work on this stuff. Uh, you don't own any of this stuff. That's that wasn't the position they took. Because again, what they know, what are you gonna do? The worst thing you can do. Is just stop paying them. But you're not going to extradite them, you're not going to sue them, you're not going to do anything in that country. So don't use outsource labor unless it's somebody that you can literally walk away from in 10 minutes. You need somebody physically answering calls and you want to hire somebody in the Philippines and pay them, you know, $350 an hour. Okay. Yeah, you could do that. Just make sure that they're basically running on a remote session on a computer that's running here. And that if you need to get rid of them, you can literally just shut off access and say you're done as of right now and walk away and nothing changes. Somebody else can pick it up immediately. Don't do anything where you actually have proprietary data or anything that would be hard to replace. And frankly, the the way I would treat the H1Bs wouldn't be too dissimilar from that. Because the H1Bs, that's the other thing is, you know, you're paying crazy money to have them here. They start looking for another company that'll sponsor them where they can jump to immediately.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, but H1Bs are also effectively wage slaves in a lot of ways. And the reason why is because they have to have another company sponsor them or they have to leave.
SPEAKER_01But the problem is both in Austin and in San Francisco, almost every company sponsors H1Bs. Like this process is a standard thing that they've already got set up with a whole bunch of employees doing that. So it's not hard for Joe Schmoe, working as an H1B at Dell, to drive down three miles, go to Apple and say, hey, what do you guys have that I can do? I'm an H1B, I'm gonna need sponsorship, but you know, here's my resume. It like all these kinds then drive down to downtown and do the same thing at Google. This is not a new thing, and unfortunately, all these companies abuse this process, and it is not any cheaper. When I when I had a lot of H1Bs that I was using them because I mean it was a Mareprize, is where I was working, and they they basically had a deal, they had a mandate to use them. I would have never hired them. But those H1Bs back, this would have been in 2009, 2008, 2009 time frame, they were we were our cost for them was already 75,000 a year. And these are for basically SOC operators, so guys sitting in a security operations center. Which is not something you want to necessarily outsource. Uh god, no. I made the arguments. I was not, you know, I was overruled.
SPEAKER_02So the socks that I have had affiliations with, whether that was at the energy company I worked with, that was all U.S. persons in-house. And then, you know, working to build several SOCs, both there, and then at a former employer building out an OT sock. You know, we had multiple locations around the world. So, you know, it was our employees. They just happened to be in the US, Greece, and Singapore. So you had a follow-the-sun model with what I'm doing with the company I'm at now, and what we're trying to do is we're gonna have multiple options. We're gonna have full US persons, US based, and we're gonna have, you know, we've got our fusion center in Poland, we've got other places, we've got a Singapore division. So we can do that. And being an international company, one of the things that we also have to realize is data sovereignty laws are now a thing. Yep. And you have to have, if you want an international audience, you have to have an international presence. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Yep, that's that's true. And the the way that a lot of companies get around the whole hiring H1Bs thing is they simply sign a contract with an H1B aggregator.
SPEAKER_02Yes, like H like HCL.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, and there's a bunch of them, but essentially, as far as the company is concerned, well, we don't have any H1Bs. We're you know, we outsource a number of jobs to a company that is multinational.
SPEAKER_02So they have Americans, they're HLC is literally an Indian company.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, most of them are, yeah. What was the other ones? There's a couple other big Indian ones that do that. I'm blanking out on their names, though, but they were very well known. They they have tons of people both in India and in the US, but they were essentially picking up these like large outsourced contracts to do work in the US, but everybody knew it was a wink-wink nudge-nudge. We're just using them for H1Bs, like they handle them, and then they they they scoop 30% of whatever we're paying per person off the top, and then they're just sending in people from, and I'm sure they're you know, they're they're advertising these as well-paid US jobs where you work there for six months, then you can bring your spouse, and then she can start working. Like, they know how this shit works. They're gonna promote this in other countries to maximize and whatever scamminess they can pull off in the US. And it's not illegal scamminess, it's just a very poorly set up system that thank God that Trump is finally doing something about. But if it were up to me, I would just shut the whole damn thing down, say, hey, everyone who's got an H1B right now, you have a one-year window that is ticking down. Companies, you have one year to find an American for that job. If you can't find them, guess you're gonna have that job be open. And all the H1Bs, you have a one year to plan your trip back. Done. We are done. Is that this is one of the absolutely worst things you can do to a country's most educated workforce is to have them compete either financially or due to contracts. It's it's like a close competition. Like literally, companies are not gonna be even looking at hiring people that are qualified that are in America because they have relationships, international relationships, with these companies that are gonna fill the jobs with H1Bs. It's not even it's not even a cost savings thing anymore, it's just like convenience. And most companies decision makers absolutely are anti-American. There's I've I've seen it so many times firsthand. These people are all globalists. They they think they live in the global world, not in the US. Yeah, well, that's the way they they look at it. Because, hey, my department's overseas, I've got all these people, I don't care where they reside, none of this matters. I don't care where they're living, where they're working, who they're a citizen of, what kind of laws they have to abide by, what country they're spying for under this guise. None of that matters. We'll just, you know, as long as I'm I'm able to fill all these roles immediately without actually having to go and do any interviews myself. They've outsourced management up to the level where they're not even doing interviews. It's it's very sad. It's a very sad thing. And I also guarantee that I'd be working right now if it wasn't for H1Vs. Maybe. Oh, I 100%. 100% guarantee.
SPEAKER_02If you spent as much time in a week possible.
SPEAKER_01I spend an hour a week.
SPEAKER_02That's plenty to find a job. I've never needed to spend more than an hour a week. You'd be fine.
SPEAKER_01Well, you might as well just tell me if you spent as as much time not eating as you do eating, then you would be losing weight. I mean, come on, dude. That's the ridiculous thing to say.
Ship Rust Panic And The Trump Arch
SPEAKER_02Have you seen the pictures of the Abraham Lincoln and everybody losing their shit over the rust?
SPEAKER_01Yes. It's that's normal. That's not a it is completely normal.
SPEAKER_02Like salt water. You have to paint the boat at least, usually once every few years.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, it's it's once a year is the the normal schedule for the US Navy.
SPEAKER_02Well, I'm sure for them, but I'm talking about commercial vessels. Oh, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_01Commercial vessels. It's normal. Like they're built for that. And the thing you gotta remember is once you get a layer of oxidization on there, that rust, it's not like it's going deep and penetrating. Like the rust actually surface. Yeah, it's surface rust. And look, if you in fact, it's it's actually worse if you have some paint and it gets under the paint into pockets. That could be worse. But if it's just surface rust where you have raw steel in contact with seawater, your fastest rusting is gonna happen in the in like the first month. After that, it's gonna start slowing down.
SPEAKER_02But people just losing their shit. Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, they think the ship is like, you know, like it would have been sinking any day now.
SPEAKER_02By the way, we need to say a quick prayer for all the lady boys in Thailand.
SPEAKER_01They're busy right now making good money. I don't know why they need a prayer, man. They're they're super busy making money.
SPEAKER_02Because they're not gonna be able to walk.
SPEAKER_01They're gonna be walking bowed-legged just like all the all the seamen.
SPEAKER_00Oh my goodness.
SPEAKER_01They're taking advantage of them right now. Hey, uh, did you see it? Free market, man. I have nothing against it.
SPEAKER_02Did you see the Doug Bergam announced that the arch is officially going to be breaking ground? No.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Where's this? Where's this happening? DC. So in Arlington, yeah. Oh, the Trump Arch. I mean the great triumph arch, yeah. Mm-hmm. The Trumpian Arch.
SPEAKER_02Well, you know, this idea of having an arch where they're putting it goes back like 125 years.
SPEAKER_01I vaguely recall seeing something about that years and years and years ago, yeah. Yeah, because I mean, we've had well, we people after World War II and even going all the way back to Rome, obviously, have built arches to commemorate victories. Of course, yeah. Yeah. Well, usually not losses in the war, usually victories. So, yeah, that's awesome. That's uh Trump is definitely making some lasting impacts on DC. To the anguish of the Democrats.
SPEAKER_02It's so good.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. We should we should maybe look at putting up some arches for some Confederate generals while we're at it.
SPEAKER_02Well, there are Confederate monuments at Arlington. Arlington holds Union and Confederate soldiers. There you go. And after the Civil War, the veterans, the VA, the Veterans Administration, uh considered uh Confederate soldiers United States veterans. Yep.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Which which is a weird thing if you think about it, where you're like both sides are veterans, but okay.
SPEAKER_02Well. It's the only logical position from the North standpoint. They said we were one country. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The South didn't feel that way.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, that they would have to admit that the they were on the wrong side of the war, even if they won, if they didn't do what they did. That's a good point.
SPEAKER_02So if the number of foreign-born keeps dropping at the rates that it has been, we'll
Foreign-Born Numbers And US Industry
SPEAKER_02be down from a high of 53 million, or I'm sorry, 58 million down to less than 30 million by January of 29.
SPEAKER_00Wow.
SPEAKER_02That's awesome. Yeah. On the job front. On the job front, the gigafactory area over there near you. Yep. They just bought another partial of land twice as big across the road. Damn. Wow. Elon's making some investments, man. Yeah, he is. Yeah. And that does not like everybody's talking about a market crash, market crash, this, that, and the other. I don't think so. I think I believe in the dollar milkshake theory. We're just gonna suck it all back to here, and we're gonna be the last economy in the world to crash.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I I think there will be some adjustments. I don't think it's gonna be like all smooth sailing from now till eternity. Yes. But yeah, generally speaking, we're in best shape to absorb to absorb any kind of adjustments that are happening.
SPEAKER_02Well, and here's the thing like this Terrafab, if he actually produces literally 10 times in a vertically integrated factory, 10 times the world's current output of all chips.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01My what chip shortage? Pretty cool. Well, okay, so we're talking about chip shortage.
Chip Shortage Forecast And SSD Prices
SPEAKER_01Let's jump on that real quick, too. Then so I was watching a video where the guy was analyzing the I can't remember the acronym, but it's something like the Chip Producers Association report on something. So it's basically a very niche industry reporting for people that are doing physical chip manufacturing. And what that prediction was saying that while the supplies are still very tight in 2026, looking at the investments and increases in production capabilities of the member companies, it looks like we're going to cross equilibrium point, meaning that the number of orders is going to be the same as the number of available chip production in mid-2027. Which means if you can manage to not buy anything like memory, like SSDs, if you can hold off a year, the prices will start dropping. And usually when they drop, they start dropping aggressively. So I was I had an SSD that looked like it went bad, turned out to be a bad cable, but I I texted Ben. I'm like, hey, what the well actually I texted you saying what what do you use for recovery? And you weren't very helpful, but I was very helpful. Yeah, you gave me some Linux product thing.
SPEAKER_02Yes, the right tool for the right job.
SPEAKER_01Uh yes.
SPEAKER_02And but it wasn't even a dead drive, dude. You had a bad status cable.
SPEAKER_01It wasn't, it was a bad cable, yeah. So I I ended up well, I I I went before I realized it that that's that was the problem. I ended up going and pricing some stuff, and it turned out there was a four terabyte M2 SSD that was on sale on Amazon time. Like 600 bucks. Yeah, it was it. I thought it was even 499. So I thought it was 500. But either way, it was on sale for like 200 bucks off uh for like SAR. It wasn't too bad, it was a one previous generation, so it maxed out at about seven megs or seven gigs uh per second transfer rates. The current generations do double that, about 14, 15. And I looked at the prices, and now that one is fairly new, so it came out after the price increase, but uh the one that I have is made by the Western Digital, and I looked at how much I bought it for, which was like $249 for four terabytes 18 months ago. And right now it's selling for $699. Damn it. And I'd say mid-next year, you'd probably be able to pick that up for about $350. And probably by the end of next year, by Christmas time of next year, probably back down to $250.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. Because by the way, it's worth reminding everybody that the Iranians had claimed to sink the Lincoln.
SPEAKER_01Hmm. Yeah, it's it's I g I guess if you're listening to the Iranians, they there's all kinds of things they say.
SPEAKER_02I'm just saying.
SPEAKER_01It's like it's such a cultural thing to just lie there. Like every word that comes out of their mouth is a lie.
SPEAKER_02It's uh no, I agree. Hardware should hopefully start to come down.
SPEAKER_01And if something like the Terrafab comes online, even if it doesn't come online, it's it's just the fact that it's being built. It means that companies are going to want to hedge their bets a little bit and not put in massive orders right now. They're gonna be like, well, I'll do half that order right now, and then I'll assume I'll do the other half on Terrafab. Yeah. Right? So it'll ease tension, which is gonna be a key thing. And I think this the memory that's gonna be the last to drop in price is DDR6 stuff. Because that's still cutting edge memories. Yeah, yeah. But and with error correction and stuff, you know, like stuff genuinely for data centers.
SPEAKER_02All right.
True Crime Verdict And Culture Flashpoints
SPEAKER_02So, do you want to talk about the Lindsay, whatever her name is, case or some football controversies?
SPEAKER_01Well, we could do either. The only two other things I've got here. Well, I got a few things, more than two, but I I want to talk a little bit about Abdul El Sayed, but uh we can talk about Lindsay first. All right.
SPEAKER_02So as of today, they are still a hung jury. Yep. But they have refused to remove the apparent one juror that's holding this up. Yeah, yeah, the pink cat lady. Whoever this is, you know, I I know I don't think it's I don't I think you think it's uh a quit that's holding this up or a the other way around.
SPEAKER_01Oh, oh, I see what you're saying. So you're thinking that like they're all willing to just say, nah, she's crazy. So let's be holding out. Remember, there's nine women. You're right. Uh yeah, that's a very good point. So there you're probably you're probably statistically correct here that it's probably the one guy trying to hold out for guilty, and everybody else is like, who cares? Just killed three kids. What's the big deal? Ugh.
SPEAKER_02It's look, no matter what, she shouldn't go home ever again.
SPEAKER_01Oh, I don't I don't think there's any chance. I think the two places that she's gonna go from where she's at right now is either prison for the rest of her life or a mental asylum for at least 20 years.
SPEAKER_02Needs to be for the rest of her life.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah. But remember, they don't, they're not like once you put them in an asylum, it's really up to the doctors to say if and when they are no longer in need of the care that the asylum provides if they're like if they they've now gotten the capability to be self what's the phrase? You know, they can take care of themselves. Of their own recognition. Yeah. So it's not it's not quite like a prison. This is why they're fighting so hard to put her in prison, is because prison's prison, but an asylum, you guys, you might get lucky and have some female doctor that totally agrees with her a year from now say, yeah, you know, she's she's kind of gotten better. She was feeling she was bad, she was sick, and she's no longer sick, and she's capable of taking care of herself, and so we're gonna let her go. That's the real danger with the asylums. Now, if you look at all the all the sort of asylum horror stories from the 1920s, 30s, and 40s, it was all about the opposite where the asylums never wanted to release anybody.
SPEAKER_02But the the biggest problem we had with asylums is a lot of them conducted research.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, but that's because those weren't really people. They were just sort of NPCs.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_01I mean, if you're gonna do it, would you rather do it in a population that is working and being, you know, doing something positive uh for themselves in society, or a population of people that are just drugged out because they're crazy? I'm not saying whether you should or shouldn't do the research. I'm saying if you're gonna do it, who would you do it on?
SPEAKER_02So willing participants that knowingly enter into an ethical agreement. So the blacks. Sounds like you're saying.
SPEAKER_01Well, it sounded like that's what I heard. Okay. I mean, we go.
SPEAKER_02I think like what happened at Tuskegee was horrible.
SPEAKER_01Right, right. But you know, giving people syphilis just to see what happens. I mean and purposefully leaving it untreated. Well, that's how you see what happens. Yeah. If you're gonna treat it, it's not really a test.
SPEAKER_02So anyway, now Lindsay Clant, like men are leaving their girlfriends, and girlfriends are leaving men just as much. That yeah, you know what? Way to dodge a bullet.
SPEAKER_01I know, that's the way I look at it. It's like, dude, if your girlfriend left because she didn't like that your opinion was maybe you shouldn't kill kids. You dodged a bullet because you know she probably would have wanted to do that at some point. Yeah. And the the other silver lining, I was I was gonna say the other great thing, but it's not great, it's just the silver lining of this whole incident. Is people are really more seriously starting to realize what I've been saying for the last 30 years. The 19th was a mistake, and it's a mistake that needs to be fixed if we want to have America become great again. America cannot be great the way it was great without getting rid of the 19th. Women are inherently incapable of serving in the role of a voter. It's just genetics. If a woman has so much testosterone flowing through her that she could be a good voter, you know, she's not really a woman at that point.
SPEAKER_02Well, in a lot of Brittany grinds. A lot of a lot of the funny memes that I have seen are well, if so don't tell a man he can't grape because of testosterone, right? And you can murder because of your stuff.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Yeah. Or anything. I mean, it's just like if you're if if you're willing to accept a 36-month post-birth abortion as an okay thing, which is effectively what they're doing, then yeah, I mean, I don't I don't see a problem with like literally every case of rape should just be thrown out of the courts at that point. Yeah. It's it's it's just retarded. It is completely retarded. And the real issue here from that I see isn't even so much that some one woman out of 300 million people is crazy and did this. It's the reaction of literally millions of women to what she thought. Yeah. It's a it's a sick, mentally deranged reaction to an event that nobody in their right mind would ever consider to be an okay thing. You saw what Nick Friedas posted.
SPEAKER_02Did not, no, I didn't see today. So he pointed out because someone was saying men commit more murders than women. And he goes, Yeah, because your murders are labeled as healthcare. Nice. And it the statistics from last year were just astound astonishing. It was like a few hundred thousand committed, you know, by men in the last whatever period, and it was millions.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, it was literally like every woman had two abortions last year. Yeah. It it is absolutely uh of the appropriate age and appropriate hair color. But it it is we are in those final years of Rome, and if we do nothing, it'll end much like Rome ended.
SPEAKER_02If we didn't have those abortions, we would have a great birth rate. Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. And here's the fucked up thing the vast, vast, vast majority of them are black. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I'm that that's accounting for the as a percentage of the population, right? In absolute numbers.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, more white than a percentage, absolutely, yeah. Yeah, it's but your point about the birth rate is a very, very valid one because you can't argue that abortion isn't one of the absolutely major contributors to the decline in the population growth.
SPEAKER_02But it's not in Europe. When you look at the abortion laws and statistics in Europe, it is a very different picture. Americans are America has been killing itself for a long time.
SPEAKER_01It has to I I think the stats I saw in one of the programs was that since abortions started becoming more popular as a form of birth control, so like since the 1960s, basically, there have been more children killed than the current population of America. So over 300 million abortions have been performed in those like 60, 70 year periods. It's it's sad.
SPEAKER_02And and here's the thing. How can you call this a Christian country? I I don't. I wish it was, but it's not. Here's the thing I I I my position on abortion has evolved over the years. Earlier in life, I would have told you, nope, life begins at conception, it is done. Anything else is murder. What I will say now, I still believe life begins at conception. I think it is morally reprehensible to choose, especially if it was a product of consensual sex. It is utterly despicable to choose selfishness over that child's life. However, I will say that I do not believe the government should force anyone to live for anyone else. And I cannot use the force of government to stop you from making that decision.
SPEAKER_01No, I I agree with that. I just think we ought to be putting abortionists in prison. And it ought to be morally unthinkable. Well, it if it's morally unthinkable, then the people that do it need to be in prison, not be working as doctors making six figures. Yes. Right? I mean other things that are morally reprehensible and we don't we don't allow people to make money off of.
SPEAKER_02On a little tangent, there's a Joe Rogan meme that started of a quote.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_02What Donald Trump should do after leaving office is run for governor of California and just take it over and fix it. Fuck California. That's no, it would be fucking hilarious. Can you imagine if Trump was governor of California? Yeah, San Francisco would probably melt the fuck down.
SPEAKER_01The problem with California is Californians. It is not the the governor. It's never been the governor. It's been the fact that in California, the Democrats represent a vast majority of the population. It's not the complete majority, right? There's still about 35% Republicans living there. God knows why. And I keep telling friends like Jesse, why the fuck are you still there? You need to move to Texas. But it's it's it's a state, much like Washington state, incidentally, that has an overwhelming percentage of its population believe in socialism, believe in all the lies that the left spreads, believe that they're living on stolen land, believe all this complete bullshit that you know women are women just because they say so. This is not the governor saying this shit. It's the population of the state, the majority of the population of the state saying this. And that doesn't limit it to the like poorly educated percentage of the population. The majority of people in tech say this. The majority of people that are starting companies in California that are multi-multi-millionaires think the same thing. You look at the guys that have moved out of California, like Musk, they definitely changed their opinions. They were very staunch liberals 20 years ago. You look at them 20 years ago, they were absolutely the ones making fun of conservatives and what conservatives are doing. So it's the problem with California is Californians, and I I've always said that the best thing that can happen, and I would never actually you know encourage anyone to do this, of course, but the best thing that could happen to California would be a tectonic plates moving.
SPEAKER_02Well, if we had a different Pacific coastline, you know, hey.
SPEAKER_01Um yeah, that'd be great. If Arizona was our Pacific coastline, it'd be much better. Yeah, exactly.
Michigan Candidate Deep Dive
SPEAKER_01So there's a video that came out, and I think this is mostly still making the rounds on X, and I hope it gets picked up by more mainstream media as well. There's a guy named James Radley that did a very in-depth look at this guy in Michigan, Abdul El-Said, and that he is like next level beyond Mandami. He's an absolutely product of the Muslim Brotherhood. Both of his parents heavily involved in the Muslim Brotherhood. He's got attendance at their events, he's got financial support coming from Egypt from Muslim Brotherhood. He's got like it's it's a enough information in that guy's video that should clearly disqualify this guy from running and get should you know trigger something. Like, you can't deport him because he was born here, unfortunately. But you know, anchor babies, this is the problem with anchor babies, is they you have people that want to destroy America and its way of life coming to America in order to have a child, who then they indoctrinate. Oh, yeah, I guess that would include Hassan as well. Yep, but we've got a bunch of these people here now that you know there's they're U.S. native-born citizens.
SPEAKER_02Well, yeah, I've got a problem with that.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. But I don't think citizenship should be tied to where you're physically born, it should be tied to how you think.
SPEAKER_02And if you don't think like an American if your parents were American citizens, that's it.
SPEAKER_01What makes a difference is what is in the brain of that person, not what piece of land they were born on. America it wasn't built by people that were born in the other side of the Atlantic from Europe where their relatives came from, it was built by people that had a shared common values and a view of what they wanted in a country which didn't exist in Europe. And that's what they built. And now having people show up here from the Middle East, from Indonesia, from China, from all these different places in the world, where their view of what they want in America is basically like a Tajikistan. You know, they they want a Turkmenistan in America, they want to have their own completely separate the Trump straight in the Middle East. Yeah, maybe that's where we're gonna end up having to move out there because this this country is getting filled up with people that that want the opposite.
SPEAKER_02Well, the good news is I don't think Talerico or Al Saeed is gonna have a shot in hell of winning.
SPEAKER_01But I hope not. Yeah. But I don't know, man. I you know what I didn't think that Joe Biden had a shot in hell of winning. I thought that was a complete shoe in election. It was pretty obvious. Trump did a great job. I mean, not as good as he was, as we would hope on certain fronts, but he did certainly a job that should have gotten him re-elected. And and after he beat Hillary to have him lose to Biden, come on. And yet, look what happened. So I'm not saying I don't discount the fact that Democrats will 100% cheat. I expect that to happen. I expect it to happen in Texas, I expect it to happen in Michigan, I expect it to happen everywhere. There will be cheating happening. Brazen cheating. Enough cheating that even if half of them get caught cheating, there's enough cheating going on by the other half to still take the election. So we have to be vigilant on this shit.
SPEAKER_02Yes, and we have to vote.
SPEAKER_01And we have to sign up to actually be uh monitors at polling places, not just vote.
Election Cheating Fears And Volunteering
SPEAKER_01It I don't think it's enough to vote in this coming election. I think it's it's gonna have to be well, not this one. I mean the one that's two and a half years from now. That one is going to be one that the Democrats absolutely will see as their last shot at regaining majority. And they will do whatever it takes. And this has always been a difference, right, between the left and the right in how they've acted. The left has always had an attitude of whatever it takes. The ends justify the means. It's more important that we win because we are better people than those crazies on the right. That's always been their attitude. On the right, the attitude has never been win at all costs. It's always been let's do things fairly. It has pissed me off an immense number of times throughout my life when I watch Republicans win and then proceed to demonstrate how honorable and fair they are by handing out leadership positions to Democrats that were elected. Like you fucking morons. You're literally digging your own graves. Why, oh, why would you do this?
SPEAKER_02Well, but you did see the ballot proposition here in Texas, right?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm just saying over the last like 40 years of me watching this shit, I've seen it so many times where there's like Newt Gingrich's, you know, when he shut down uh the government. Like when you get to a point where it's obvious that the majority of American people are supporting you, do not try and be generous to the losers. Like that's the time to fortify and solidify your position and make sure that the other team never has a chance to win again. And the Republicans just fumble it every fucking time. It's just frustrating. I think it's changing, Gene. I'd love to see that. Well, the we will see this midterm. We will, yeah. And let's let's see what happens. Because my my prognosis for midterm has improved. I think there's a higher chance of Republicans maintaining control. If they could only figure out what to do with control in the Senate, that'd be awesome too. They don't know what the fuck to do with it. But initially I was I was a little concerned because it does it did look like the Democrats were gonna make quite a bit of headway. Now I'm not so sure the Democrats are gonna be able to do that. Okay.
SPEAKER_02Well, I I think I think the majority could actually expand. Like I really do. But you know, I I I just have a real hard time believing taler ego's numbers are what they are. So I don't know. We'll see. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Well, we should we should certainly do what we can assuming they are correct. And then when we realize they're wrong, then we can, you know, do a high five. But you you can't just assume, oh, it'll be alright. Those numbers are obviously inflated, he's never gonna get those votes, and then watch with mouth agape as he gets those numbers. Mm-hmm. Oh, yeah, I told you I'm voting for Bernie Sanders now, right? No. Oh yeah. Oh, I'm pretty sure I sent you that. For what?
Surveillance State Worries With AI
SPEAKER_01So Bernie Sanders has a quote from him that just came out. Mm-hmm. Do we want to live in an America where AI companies like Flock can work with the government to track our every movement? You want to live in an America where our privacy rights and civil liberties enshrined in the Constitution are traded away so that oligarchs can collect more information and increase their profits even more. I mean When was that said, though? That was last week. Okay. Obviously I'm not voting for him, but I'm just saying, you know, it's nice when the clock that's broken comes around to the right time. Yeah, and he continues. The answer must be no, we cannot allow America to become a surveillance state where a handful of these oligarchs profit by giving the government the power to track our every movement. Now he's very big on using the word profit, which I don't like. Uh I mean, I like the word profit. I don't like him using the word profit with negative connotations. But the core message is just because they're private companies doesn't mean that they that they ought to be allowed with no control whatsoever to do what we don't want the government to do, which is track our every movement and lose all privacy simply because they're private companies who happen to then sell their data to the government.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01So I would so I would assume you agree with that sentiment as well. I do.
SPEAKER_02So Iran has threatened to strike the US homeland with cyber attacks
Iran Cyber Threats And Water Systems
SPEAKER_02and Fox News and everybody or Twitter paid it over this. And they're citing the seven states and the hundred-plus water systems that were hit recently, to which people can go to namedvin.com and read my thoughts on this. Yep. Because this is literally what I do for a living and helped some of none of our clients that we manage, but clients we've worked for in the past fix shit. Yeah. Not and not again, not cyber clients, but like engineering clients. But the fact of the matter is, even if those attacks were Iranian in nature, dude sitting in his mom's basement could have done it. These were exposed systems with default passwords. It's all the shit I've been harping for 20 goddamn years on in this space. And okay, sorry, water sector, I know you're poor because rate cases and all that, but there is a minimum level of investment. And if you can't use the technology in a secure, safe way, then go back to manual operations. Oh, but we don't want to have to do okay, then this is a bare minimum entry. Like you have to do the table stakes thing. If your PLC has a default password and shows up on Shodan in 2026, it's not the Iranians' fault for hacking you. It's a miracle that a teenager hasn't already fucked with you.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. And should be expected. Yeah, and I I've actually said that exact same thing on my other podcast, Unrelenting, where I've kind of quoted you and said, this is exactly the shit that you work with, and these are not like some super penetrators coming and fucking with American Infects. Super penetrators. It's not the BBC of attacks. It's not, yes. That would be the that would have been the phrase to use, which I would have thought of it. Um because these are low-hanging fruits that frankly could be done by scriptys going to DEF CAN.
SPEAKER_02Yes.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_02And it's a miracle that it hasn't happened.
SPEAKER_01Right. Right. It's purely through just obfuscation. Like there's so many targets out there that some of them haven't been hit because there's so many targets.
SPEAKER_02Speaking of which, I talked to one of our internal water teams today on cyber and what to do. Yeah. And I got a lot of really good engagement from them, and it's uh it's good.
SPEAKER_01Okay, so football. You hold on. You posted a picture of the uh uniform for Space Force.
SPEAKER_02Oh, yeah, yeah. That's a suggested uniform.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, that's not the real uniform, but but the only thing they're missing is an iron cross. Otherwise, it looks very designed by Armani. Yeah, well, yes. I mean, they're the Evil was done by the Google Boss. Yeah, the Hugo Boss did the this looks very Hugo Boss like. I mean, it's just like perfect stitching, the buttons are. You figured you'd get a kick out of that. Oh, I love this. I've always liked Hugo Boss shit, man. Back when I used to have to wear a suit and tie, uh, Hugo Boss was great. Yeah. You're not conflicted about that, as a no, no, dude. I drove a Mercedes. What do you want to say? Well, at least it wasn't a BMW. Well, I had one of those two. That was later. Yeah. No, it's uh there's a there's a song that yeah, what's her name? Some one of the female Jewish comedians did, Sarah Silverman, about Jews driving German cars, which was pretty funny. But yeah, it it's you have to be able to separate the style and quality and and craftsmanship from the intended uses of those things. Yeah, I I have a an actual SS, what do you call it, uh dagger. I have an SS dagger, that's pretty cool. Don't ever go to Germany. And no, and well, not with that, no. And I bought a collection of little what do you call those little pins? Like little little pins.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, like a lapel pin.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, like there the guy had in like a secret drawer, because he didn't want to show. People, God knows why. But he had a collection of like half Soviet and half Nazi pins. And I was like, how much do you want for that? I'll take it. That's a cool. That's that shit's not made anymore. Neither one is. Like, that's collector's items. Yeah, yeah. And I've always had the opinion.
SPEAKER_02I have a Japanese Arasaka. My dad has the gun. It's a Japanese Arasaka. Yeah. And I have the bayonet for it. There you go. And my grandpa, unfortunately, had it reboard to no, he had it rebored to 303 M Field. No. And it's it's a war trophy that he had from Korea.
SPEAKER_01Well, and that's my point is that banning symbols of quote unquote, you know, bad people, evil, whatever, enemies, whatever you want to call it. That that, first of all, I think is stupid. But beyond that just being stupid, then passing laws to prevent people from having war trough trophies, that's insane. Every war in the history of warfare, one of the things you get if you're still alive at the end of the war and your side wins is war trophies. Like some guys bring women back, but you know, if for other guys it's not a woman, it's like it's like a dagger or it's a it's a gun.
SPEAKER_02It's a skull decorate uh of your enemy decorated in trench art.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_02Adam's got a skull? Yeah, the war skulls. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That the Marines brought back from the Pacific.
SPEAKER_01There's a video on that they watched. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02It's crazy.
SPEAKER_01But like that's they're not the only ones that did that, man. That's there's a lot of groups around the world that did stuff like that. So I think war trophies are perfectly appropriate. There's there's nothing weird or bad about having them.
SPEAKER_02Our soldiers from doing that now.
SPEAKER_01Well, yes, there's a lot of things that our soldiers. I think it'd be. I don't know, man. I it's it's hard to say. I because I would if I would have joined the service, it would have been the Navy anyway.
SPEAKER_02But it it I always knew you were gay. Yeah, it has nothing to do with being gay.
SPEAKER_01No, they like they like to do it in the Navy, tip the butt. Uh-huh. No, the Navy, I mean, look, if you if you like playing golf, then you join the Air Force. But the Navy is basically like, hey, you want to live on a cruise ship for like four years. At least that's what they told me. It's like living on a cruise ship for four years seeing the world.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, sure.
SPEAKER_01And the cruise ship is a little rusty, you might be the guy that goes down and paints it. But you're still living on a cruise ship. And you're stopping in, you know, fascinating locations like Bangkok or Fouquet.
SPEAKER_02So I with my ASFAB scores, when I looked at it, I was going to do either Air Force or Nuke Engineering.
SPEAKER_01Well, nuke engineering would have been good. Because I like I always thought submarines would be cool. Oh, okay. Yeah, I I would have no problem being a submariner. I'm not at all, I don't have any claustrophobic shit at all. I have no issues with small confined spaces. Nor do I. I'm not claustrophobic. I I I could literally be a hermit, dude. Yeah. Like I think most most men kind of can. It's our little secret that women don't seem to realize that most men are perfectly adequate living in in the Hermitages. That is true.
SPEAKER_02Oh my god. The meme war between the US and Canada has been hilarious. Oh yeah. Yeah, yeah. Lake America naming yes, Lake America, and then the current one I just saw was Don Tario. Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_01And you know, Canadian geese are now Donald Ducks. Now that that one is hilarious. That just I think is very funny. Canadian geese should really not be called Canadian geese because they spend most of their time flying over America between Mexico and Canada.
SPEAKER_02Like, why are they Canadian? W what I think is hilarious is that Mark Carney literally said he would not proceed with trade talks until this meme war stopped.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, wait till the White House posts a video game about bombing Canada. Exactly. It's just insanity. Yeah, and again, Canada's been getting a free ride for so many years, man.
SPEAKER_02Well, and here's the thing. Yes, it will affect shutting down trade between the US and Canada will affect us. But it'll affect Canada a hell of a lot more.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_02And the provinces that are worth a damn will probably freely join us.
SPEAKER_01Can you imagine if the US like shut down its border for 30 days with Canada? Oh, they would be bankrupt. They would be bankrupt in literally 30 days. They would have zero money, they would have runs on banks, they would have starvation in the streets. 80% of their GDP comes from trade with America. Probably 95. Yeah. Yep. It is not a country that has any call to be acting the way that they're acting, as though they're some kind of sovereign nation with an equivalent ability to negotiate trade. They just need to say yes, thank you.
SPEAKER_02Well and be down with it. I think Trump should just take Mark Carney at his word when he said Canada is at war with the United States. Yeah. Well, let's we start with the city. He ought to go to Congress. He ought to go to Congress and say a declaration of war exists but a state of war exists between us and Canada as per the Canadian Prime Minister. Uh-huh. Yep. Just do it. Yeah. I'm not expecting it to pass, but can you imagine the oh shit moment Carney would have?
SPEAKER_01Yeah. I think I think Canada with that point would be calling the UK for help. What are they gonna do? They've got one ship in their navy. They can't sail. They'll they'll load up their ship full of English food to ship over to their province of Canada. It's it is such a fucking joke. I mean, I I don't We absolutely need to help and get all the and it's not just Alberta, but help any of the provinces that want to join and just get it done and you know, not care about any kind of oh well the rest of the world's gonna look negatively on the whatever, fuck the rest of the world.
SPEAKER_02So I don't know man. I just think it it would take us 30 minutes. If that, yeah, yeah, I agree. You know, it it has been the longest it is the longest undefended border in the world. We've been at peace with Canada for so long. Yeah, but I'm still pissed about 1812.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, and you know French Canadian War or the no, the what is it, the Indian, French Indian War? Is that what it was? What was it? No, 1812. The War of 1812.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, what about it? The British came down from Canada and burned the fucking White House.
SPEAKER_01Oh, right, right, right. Yeah, I see when you say the War in 1812, I'm thinking about the British going to Crimea and then burning down my grandpa's house. That was the War of 1812. You know, Southern Russia. Yeah, it's uh I don't know what the hell Canada's thinking. I mean, they're a bankrupt country anyway. Like they literally, they're to the point where they're encouraging their population to commit suicide so that they can save the uh government services that they're providing to people.
SPEAKER_02I I saw one study that it was the leading cause of death in Canada.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I think it officially is. The leading cause of death is suicide. No, assisted suicide. Sure, sure. But they are polite people, so of course they're gonna assist, right?
SPEAKER_02I mean, you expect that from people. But you know what? They don't know how to make a declarative sentence. Like the when I went to Canada as a teenager over in British Columbia because of the drinking age difference, I was astonished because they really did say A at the end of every fucking sentence. It's like, do you people know how to make a statement? Anyway. So speaking of making a statement, yeah. LSU's suing the SEC, the SEC's suing LSU, there's a whole bunch of teams
NIL Money And NFL To College
SPEAKER_02trying to pull some bullshit. And I want to get your opinion of this. Okay. I'm an expert in this field. I know you're not really a football fan or anything like that.
SPEAKER_01I did make fun of LSU just literally a couple days ago. About what? Oh, it was a video of some dude in an LSU hat acting like a coon ass. Pretty much. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. And people who aren't from the South are gonna go, what did he just say?
SPEAKER_01But um you know what I was talking about.
SPEAKER_02Dude, I grew up around kunasses. I'm allowed to say it. My aunt will wear that badge proudly that she is a Cajun and a kunway. So Lane Kiffin, the head new head coach at LSU, has decided to pull this move to the NCAA the NCAA, right? Where there have been some lawsuits back and forth because they changed some of the eligibility rules and did things. For the player's trying huh? Player level eligibility. Correct. Where they're they've extended this eligibility to five years and done this, but it didn't count towards this back class, right? This was the cutoff. Well, you had a bunch of players too saying, well, had we known that was going to be the rule, then we would have stayed. Right? We wouldn't have declared for the NFL draft. And they got a judge to agree with them that yes, you should have a extra year of eligibility. So Lane Kiffin, he's not the only school doing it, but he's the face of it, is trying to bring NFL players who want to get a waiver and come back to play back in college. How fucked up is that? That seems fucked up. Why would you want to do that though? Like from his standpoint. Because the NFL, because they're some of the best players, right? They've gone to the NFL. So if he can get NFL level talent back on the team, even for a year here or there, it's likely that they're gonna do better than a freshman, right? Well, yeah, and with the expensive with the NIL money, with the NIL money that these schools now have, they pay better than the NFL from the value of play.
SPEAKER_01They're bringing a tremendous amount of money into the school.
SPEAKER_02But if you're a four or five-star recruit, yeah, you are making more money than you will make your your first year in the NFL. God damn, that is crazy.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Yeah, it's uh so what was the question? What's the actual question you wanted to ask? What do you feel about it?
SPEAKER_02Like, because to me, to me, INL is sl we're we're we've done so many rule changes and so many things that it's it's really becoming uh NFL farm league, right? Yeah, and which I'm I'm kinda okay with, but at the same and I think the players ought to be okay. But uh I think we need to get INL money out of it, and what it needs to be is have collective bargaining rights or whatever, but you know, if if your star recruit is this, this is what you can get paid, this, that, and the other, and take the big money out of it. Because right now schools are buying players. And you know, okay, but what what's that what that has done is it has destroyed the dynasty era. You will never have an Alabama again. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because AM can pay for players too. We've got some pretty damn bad pockets. It's doing the same thing that the draft did in the NFL. Sure. It flattened it out.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. But isn't like a bad thing, though?
SPEAKER_02In the SEC this year and the Big Ten, I think you're gonna see a lot of teams that would be considered historically bad records because the middle of the pack is that good. Yeah. So you're gonna see a lot of eight and three teams and stuff like that.
SPEAKER_01But again, is that a bad thing? Because if you're looking at it from the the standpoint of a the school itself or the members of the league, right, they are going to be better off when it's a different school every year that has just the absolute killer team. Yeah, you don't want the same school for a decade to have the best team. That's not good for the league. Unless you're Alabama fan. Yeah, but it's not good for the league itself. So I think that from their standpoint, I totally get it. This makes total sense to me. You know, it's hard to argue with more money for the kids. That how are the what are they gonna say? No.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. Bringing back the NFL players, though, I think that's a hard line.
SPEAKER_01That's tough.
SPEAKER_02That's a tough one because once you go pro, you can't claim to be an NFL.
SPEAKER_01I mean, there was there was a point where you couldn't be a pro and then be in the Olympics. You remember that? Because Olympics were for amateur athletes. Yes, but you also realize that these amateur athletes have spent the vast majority of their time and literally millions of dollars of training to be there. So, really, why create this artificial line of non-professional athlete? It's like, no, and when we when we change that to have the all-star teams, the for hockey, for basketball, like we win more, yes. I mean, Jesus Christ, dude, beyond winning more. It's like no amount of stairways. I mean, we beat Canada at hockey. Yeah, exactly. Beat Russia, beat Canada. There's no amount of stairways.
SPEAKER_02It's your one fucking sport, man. It's your one fucking sport.
SPEAKER_01Uh-huh. Well, you know, I remember the sport I enjoy the most on the Winter Olympics is a sport that very few countries actually participate in. Curling.
SPEAKER_02Curling the dumbest sport imaginable.
SPEAKER_01Curling is probably the most refined, difficult sport in the Winter Olympics. It it's a sport of finesse, it's it's a sport of strategy, and it's a team. So it's the Louge where each person does a different job. Yeah, the Luge. I mean, yeah, you got some teamwork involved there, but I like watching Skelton more than Louge anyway.
SPEAKER_02I mean, haven't you seen Jamaica running or whatever it is? The movie? John Candy movie about the Jamaican Luge team. Yeah, that's the hilarious. Yeah. A movie that could not be made today.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, whatever.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. It's not really racist. I mean, I know people laughed at that back in in the past. Now they just get uptight. Uh so I sent you a few more different uniform ideas that people have posted on that thread, which I think is pretty funny.
SPEAKER_02You send it to no reporters, but yes.
SPEAKER_01Oh, I did, didn't I? God damn it. Okay, well, whatever. So people are gonna be like, what is the context? What the heck is this? Why are you sending this shit? I'd better copy the original one too, then. Yeah, it it's uh I don't know, man. I I think that there's a on this topic, let's just wrap it up. I I think that there's a there's a point of practicality that that I think you're right. You kind of hit when you start actually swapping people between the NFL and the NA NAW what's the league again? National NA what what's the college league called? National College Athletics. Yeah, that probably should not be happening. But it's understandable that since they fucked up with the way they did it, why they would get sued as well. Like I get it. It's you know, it's America. We can all sue somebody.
SPEAKER_02What else we got? Oh man. That basketball chick's kind of like America's sweetheart right now. Oh, she's so hot, man.
SPEAKER_01I watch she can afford a boob job. I watch, she doesn't need a boob job. I watch videos of her on a daily basis.
SPEAKER_02She she would be like perfect. Certain AI kinds of videos.
SPEAKER_01No, actual videos of her. Uh-oh. She is He's got a camera. That's right. No, uh Sophie is really very cute. She's very she's got the right kind of personality. You know, she's got like a She's got a good fuck you attitude. She does absolutely. It's kind of tomboyish, but yet very flirty. And she Did you see the video where she's like taking a photo with her mom and and her aunt or something, and she like slaps their boobs?
SPEAKER_02No. Yeah, it's hilarious.
SPEAKER_01It's hilarious. You know, trying to get an expression in the photo from them that's gonna be funny. Right. Yeah. She's just like she doesn't have a censorship button. And I think that's hilarious.
SPEAKER_02Much like us.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, but except she can actually make a three-point shot, unlike us.
SPEAKER_02Speak for yourself. Oh, whatever, whatever. Don't even pretend. I have a basketball goal in my driveway. Yeah, that's that's it was put in by the previous owner. Exactly.
SPEAKER_01That's what I would expect.
SPEAKER_02So no, the previous owner of this house was actually a basketball coach at AM. Was he? Yeah. Yeah. So I've only got two more topics. Right. Gun related. And apologies that this week is a little short. I've got some video game stuff we can talk about.
SPEAKER_01We already talked video games. I got more. Well, then do that, and I'll close us with some actual topics so we can keep people listening to the end. Okay. Well, first of all, also thanks to the people that are donating money to us. The the people change, which is I find
Podcast Support And Going Video
SPEAKER_01interesting, and it's totally normal. Like when somebody signs up, they can go for a couple of months. They can go for I think our oldest pro supporter is like two and a half years. Yep. Which is pretty cool. But again, like we've never made enough money to actually spend any of it. It all goes 100% to just paying for the podcast hosting stuff.
SPEAKER_02Well, and there are months where I still have to pay. Exactly. Exactly.
SPEAKER_01Well, again, thanks for donating. You're one of those people, Ben. And you're welcome, so I had a bit of a I guess not an anniversary, but a bit of an event. So, you know, you're aware that I I make videos for video games. And I just crossed over the 5,000 subscriber mark on that channel. So that's a pretty cool thing. I I feel like the the rate of growth is not slowing down either. So hopefully that's you ought to send some of your viewers here. Yeah, there's a reason I don't do that. Uh chicken shit. Exactly. Happy to have a PG-rated, if not a totally G-rated channel that is totally separate from this kind of stuff that we talk about on here. Especially some of the shows we've had.
SPEAKER_02Hey, those are some of our topics. They actually are.
SPEAKER_01I know that's the irony, right? Is like when the show is labeled uh not safe for work, all of a sudden the listenership picks up. By like a third. I know. That's funny. People seem to like it more. But I'll just say, remember that the best way to promote podcasts, because they don't have any built-in mechanisms. This is the downside of podcasting. The best way to promote them is just let other people that you think would enjoy listening to it tell them about it. Tell them, hey, have you heard this podcast? Maybe you should sign up and then see what you think.
SPEAKER_02Because well, and if you think we have a particularly good or funny episode, send them the link to that episode. Yeah, yeah, that's a good point.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Do that. We're gonna have more recipes coming from Ben, obviously. And I'm still looking at the tech required for us to start doing our podcasts on YouTube as well. I think we're getting closer. Let's do rumble. Whatever, it doesn't matter. The the point is that the way I want to do it, which I think is what you and I talked about as well. Certainly the Darren wants to do is all with anime characters. You know, just find like like a some kind of a fox girl or something avatar and then do the show that way.
SPEAKER_02I've got the cartoon anime character already designed by Grok. There you go. I just need to have the overlay. Okay. But you know, we've gotten some good feedback. You know, like I think Will from Houston may be one that's responsible for those bumps when he finds a funny episode because he always messages us in the fan mail. And I gotta tell you guys, getting the fan mail and y'all showing us some appreciation and demanding some recipes and stuff like that, it it warms the cockles of my heart.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Maybe even the subcockle area if you get the Dennis Larry reference.
SPEAKER_01It's uh it is nice. I get that on a like hourly basis with the videos on YouTube. Like, I can't go more than an hour without some comments popping up.
SPEAKER_02And if we were on video right now, you would see a certain motion.
SPEAKER_01Well, uh yeah, you'd see some some kind of motion of some anime avatars for sure. But I I think it's a it's something I I think we're gonna do. It's just a question of when, right? Because it it's we've got the cameras to do it. The piece that we don't have right now, and I haven't really spent the enough time figuring out, is the piece between just having some static images of things we like. And incidentally, uh my avatar, I've already thought this through as well and come up with what it's gonna look like. It's basically gonna be it's it's not identical to, right? But it's gonna be very similar to the guy that trains the main character in Kill Bill, the the long, the long ass bearded dude. Yeah. So that's what mine's gonna look like. Typically, like what fits perfect within the anime genre. Uh, and I and apparently you have to make them anime looking to be promoted through the algorithm. If they're just like random American cartoons, they're not gonna get promoted. So that's fine. I'm I'm fine with that anime style. I I used to watch anime when I was young. Don't really watch it these days, but back in the olden days. Hey, I've got a notebook. Can you write your name in it? I can. Do you do you know how to write the cursive?
SPEAKER_02Not well.
SPEAKER_01Okay.
SPEAKER_02That's kind of what I figured. Dude, my handwriting's atrocious.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Well, combine that with spelling. Exactly. It's a foreign language at that point.
SPEAKER_02I type for a living and have had spell check my entire life and I'm dyslexic. What do you fucking want from me?
SPEAKER_01Exactly. I I mostly talk these days. Like if I'm writing something, it's usually dictated first.
SPEAKER_00Do you like dictation? I like dictating. You like dictating, yeah?
SPEAKER_01I kind of figured you would. How's that dictate? Oh god. Okay. How many dick jokes can we create in one episode? Right? Exactly.
SPEAKER_02Why are you really on it? We are you know what? When we hit what what what's our episode count? What are we at right now? 200-ish, something. No, 179. Yeah, we're getting close to 200. So 179. So on our 200th episode, we literally ought to write some jokes and see how many of them we can slip in.
SPEAKER_01I'm not big on writing things. I'm I'm much better at just improving.
SPEAKER_02Okay, well, whatever. That's not the point.
SPEAKER_01But we ought to keep a count. Yeah, or rather have other people keep counts for us. But anyway, so that's one thing. Another thing I want to mention relating to video games is I got a free copy of a new game that just came out called Body Cam, which is insanely realistic looking.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I I bought it. Oh, you did buy it. Okay, cool, cool.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, we I'm happy to play with you, but I'm just saying my initial experience, like, I had a great You got your ass kicked. Yeah. I had a great time walking around and looking at like what they did and how well it's modeled and the guns and everything. It's like this is really great. And then you start your first battle and you're like, okay, I'm gonna start running thwack, I'm dead. God damn it. Yeah, because it takes you know, once you memorize the map, you know where the spawns are, like you start realizing how to make the other team's life miserable. And when you're the guy on the team whose life is being made miserable, it's uh it's it's it's not super fun at that point. I'll just say that.
SPEAKER_02Well, you know, I think I think Counter Strike and Body Cam or whatever ought to have they oughta have age brackets.
SPEAKER_01Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I I would be up for that. Yeah, have like a seniors league. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah. Like golf. Yeah, totally. I I think you'd have people cheating and you know, pretending that they're old, but you you asked them to write their name in cursive to determine how old they are. Mm-hmm. It's like, no, no, that's not old enough. That's fake. Mm-hmm. Something like that. But what else? I was gonna mention something was hardware.
SPEAKER_02I'm trying to think of what Well, when you're done, I've got three gun topics I want to talk about.
SPEAKER_01Well, go ahead and talk about the next topic. I'm I'm gonna just see if I can find what other game thing I had.
SPEAKER_02So we still haven't figured out exactly what was taken, but the ATF got hacked. Oh, yeah, yeah, I saw that.
ATF Breach Biometrics And X ID
SPEAKER_02And some reports have said it was NFA registry stuff. Some reports have said it was 4470s. Yeah. Which is A, enough information to steal your identity. Yeah. But B, you know, NFA, it's what you have, where it is stored, and your fucking fingerprints. Yeah. Yeah, it's more if the reason why that should not exist.
SPEAKER_01Right, right. Yeah, it's this has always been an argument I've made in in security in general, is that we should not be using biometric for anything but the absolute most, you know, highest level required logging in. And the the reason for that is because a biometric is it's you know, using something are it's exactly. That's the that's the fancy word for it. I was gonna use a more cheap word for it, but you're absolutely right. It's immutable. You can't swap it out, you can't change it. Once it's out there, it's out there, period. And the you can make an argument say, well, it's just you know, you we're we're storing the hashtags based on the particular type of analysis that we're doing. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Sure. But in the end, if you have a copy of the original, you can just simply figure out what they're using for an algorithm to come up with the right hashtag. And once that original is out in somebody else's hands, you're literally have to, I mean, there there needs to be a declaration of like you cannot use my biometric anymore because it's been published, like it's no longer valid. So any place that I would have to use biometric can no longer be using biometric for that. And that's a real problem. And so I don't think any private company should ever require biometric information from you. This is something I didn't like. Oh, this is one thing I forgot to mention. That I didn't that's let's relate let me finish this thing. So uh this is related to X, right? So X wants to see a photo of you next to your driver's license. I don't like that. Like it if I don't need to provide that and get a credit card with a hundred thousand dollar limit, I don't see why X needs to see that just for me to make a post.
SPEAKER_02You know, I never had to do that except for get I sent them a picture of my driver's license for the bank account, which is a know your customer law thing. Well, it's a bad law, it shouldn't be a thing. I agree. We should have more anonymity in our society, not less.
SPEAKER_01It's not a like I'm okay with having other things, just not biometric stuff in there. But also, where I was leading with that is I figured out why I never got the X card invite thing. It's because I wasn't I didn't ever do that for X. Well, I didn't do it either. Well, you had to have if you had a blue check mark. I didn't have a blue check mark until I got the bank account. Hold up. They sent you a fucking invite without you even having a blue check mark? Correct. Jesus Christ. Well, that's that's just total bullshit. Because I'm sitting here paying for a blue check mark at the expensive level, and they never sent me. And then I what I really got the grock bot yet?
SPEAKER_02What? Have you gotten the grock bot yet?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, it's already fully used up, but it's it's all done. Like I've used all my credits for it already.
SPEAKER_02I I just installed it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_01No, I I had a copy. What'd you use it on? I had a copying my music off of Suno.
SPEAKER_02Oh, that's what Darren did.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, when he told me he was doing it, I'm like, oh, I need to do that too. Except I had more music than him, so mine actually ran out of credits. And I wasn't about to start paying the $500 a month thing.
SPEAKER_02So $500 a month?
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Yeah, they've got higher level plans now. Well, you know, if you're making money with it, that's fine.
SPEAKER_02But so anyway, when I realized that they still didn't have my my my in So when you're setting it up and it says what would you uh what will you be working on most? Yeah, what did you choose?
SPEAKER_01I said I want you to download songs from Suno. Is that something you're doing? No, no, no.
SPEAKER_02It's not that's not how this works. It's got like engineering design.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, it doesn't it doesn't matter. That that thing's irrelevant. It's you you're just gonna click on a new agent button and tell it what you want to do.
SPEAKER_02Okay. So then why have this interface?
SPEAKER_01Because they want to do a they want to do a marketing survey of you. Nothing it's more about But none of this is what I would want to to work on. Yeah, I know. So you just do something random, or you could type something in. I think you could just type something in right away. You could type in I want to hack the pentagon. I I I would highly recommend not doing that. But it might be able to. So I discovered some things about the bot. The way the bot operates is in a virtual machine on their side, right? So everything it does, it
Grok Agents And Local AI Rigs
SPEAKER_01does from its data center, not you.
unknownOkay.
SPEAKER_02Uh that machine No, you can turn on hardware acceleration. That machine has You can turn on local hardware acceleration.
SPEAKER_01That's fine, but that's not what it's doing. That machine has 128 gigs of disk drive space. So you can use it, use that space as you will. And then it it can communicate, assuming you give it rights, between your machine and it. So it can it can open up ports to get direct communication going between you. So there's quite a bit it can do, but they really don't give you very many credits for free. They really want to just have you kind of try it and then it'll you know, you're gonna want to pay for a subscription at that point. If you're using it for work. Or for anything that isn't, you know, anything that's making you money, basically. But the idea of setting up multiple agents that all talk to each other but are still running as independent agents is pretty cool. That's the way that we're we're doing it with the app that I'm a partner in as well. So you're kind of creating extra loops to test things as well along the way, and then you've got like a manager that's kind of tracking what all the other bots are doing and making sure that they're using their time efficiently.
SPEAKER_02Well, it'll be interesting to play with, especially if I create a MCP to my local AI stuff.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Yeah, if you do that, let me know how well it worked. I have not tried that. So I have, I still have not gotten the machine with my AI card up and running yet. So why not? Because I was waiting for the stupid fan adapter, which you know What did I tell you? It got delayed by a week, man. I was supposed to have it a week later. What did I tell you? It was I was supposed to have it sooner. It got delayed. That's obviously 3D printed. Some asshole just took a long time printing it, that's all. Yep. But that's right. But I got a fancy fan for it, so I'm looking forward to checking out, see how quiet it is. Uh, it's the first one I've ever bought like this. So the the fan blades have what look like feather tips on the back of the blades. Have you seen these?
SPEAKER_02No.
SPEAKER_01So it's kind of like what really like high-end spoilers have. They're they're little micro grooves that are supposed to disrupt the airflow in order to not have a laminar flow going. Because laminar flow has a single pitch that it creates. And by doing this, yeah, by doing this, you're basically creating a bunch of like gray tones. And the net result of this is this fan is supposed to be quite a few decibels quieter than other fans that don't have this technology. So it's a it's it should be a quieter fan, which once I stick it in there, I'm gonna find out. And then the other question I'm gonna have once I actually put it together is do I leave my video card in? Like, do I have physical room to have both cards in there or not? I hopefully I can, because that card is a 1080. So that machine had the uh the first generation NVIDIA card in it. And I don't think it can do any AI or anything, but it at least it's a nice video card.
SPEAKER_02Well, but it could be context for you or whatever. How much VRAM does it have?
SPEAKER_01I don't remember. I think it's eight. Eight or twelve. Something like that.
SPEAKER_02Yep, so with the with the what I'm doing. Yeah. Hold on. Typing something into my grockpot.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, that's fine.
SPEAKER_02So what I'm doing is I'm reserving some system RAM for context, and then basically using the card for the models, unless it's a smaller model, and then I'll use the VRAM. Yeah. But you can pool cards, you can have multiple cards with what I'm doing, and you can literally assign a card for context and a card for the model. I gotcha. So that would be eight gigs worth of context, which is quite a bit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So just something to consider if you can fit them both in. But I don't know what you're gonna run from an operating system standpoint.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, and I don't I don't know that it matters a whole lot. Um it probably ended up with Linux, but it I don't know. It's got Windows on it right now. It matters.
SPEAKER_00Linux.
SPEAKER_01But I I I'd like to get it at least working under Windows, just make sure everything's operating and and then but you can't do a lot of the advanced stuff in Windows. Well, you can do the formacing. You can do the thing that I want to do in it. I'm not doing Bible study in it. So the the thing that's the easy one. Uh-huh. The thing that I'm gonna do is run Min Max. And Min Max runs on any of those platforms. They've got a Windows, a Mac, and a Linux version of it. Why are you gonna run Min Max first? Min Max does everything I need it to do. It has an extremely good audio application so you can do what Suno's doing, but locally. Uh-huh. And it's very good at creating short clips and video clips. So their latest version of it has a function that nothing else that fits in the small space has, which is the ability to to essentially memorize a character and then reuse that character in multiple videos. There's a name for it. I don't remember the official name for that term, but it's it's most of the smaller size, aka cheap or free video generation does not have that ability. They basically need you to keep redescribing with lots of words the thing that you're doing. Minmax's latest version works the same way as like the the you know higher, more expensive commercial uh video generation tools out there that allow you to create a whole character that then separately from what he's doing or or where she is can be placed in different environments and made to do different things. So it's it's like really truly having a reusable avatar that you can do. So for that reason, and and the guy that we interviewed that one day, he he says very good things about Min Max. So that's why I'm gonna go with that first. And who knows, something better might come along later. But right now, it it's with the size of my card, they have two versions, one optimized for 64 and one optimized for 32.
SPEAKER_02There you go. Yeah. So and I have always said You definitely if you go because you only have 32 gigs of VRAM, right? So you're definitely gonna want that other card for context. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Alright, well, we'll do that. Hopefully it fits. But if if this does everything the way that I'm seeing it on their little tutorials and you know website.
SPEAKER_02Well, you better get the model from Hugging Face before Nvidia shuts it down.
SPEAKER_01Well, I mean, I don't it's like an all-in-one download that I already have. I got everything. Okay. But but if it works well, then I'll just get another one of these cards and we'll bump it to 64 bags. I'm not opposed to getting better quality cards at home. I just need to make sure that they can actually do what you're wanting to do in a reasonable time for that. Exactly. Because the other transactional costs here is like, and unfortunately, if you do the numbers, uh the card that I got, and certainly the one that you got, is cheap enough that it is kind of like disposable, right? It's not exactly like you could spend 700 bucks in one year on buying tokens very easily, and then use those tokens at the end of the year, you got nothing left. But if you're gonna be looking at buying a card like the newer NVIDIA cards, where they're you're gonna be spending six to ten grand for one card, you better make sure that that that that card is gonna be capable of doing the stuff that you want to do. Yeah, because it's gonna be like five, six years worth of token expenses that you're gonna need to drop on one card immediately.
SPEAKER_02Well, but that's why this these last few generations of cards, you know, it it's it's really good that this is we're seeing these data centers do a hardware refresh, and these are a few generations back. But these are cards that were designed for compute when RAM was cheap. Exactly.
SPEAKER_01Exactly.
SPEAKER_02Is it the fastest? No, no, but remember the big portion of the AI problem is having enough RAM to load the model into. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, and that's the biggest issue, and that's why you have both NVIDIA and ATI or AMD coming out with their their new micro architectures where the uh like the Spark, and I forget the model of the other one, where they're they are using shared map shared memory just like a Mac. So they're coming in 128 is your minimum configuration, and you can go up from there. The problem is because it's shared memory, it's still nowhere near as fast as the video card memory. It's it's and this is the thing that I think Darren's been running into. So he got his you know six thousand dollar Mac studio.
SPEAKER_02Right, but he's still only running DDR5.
SPEAKER_01Well, yeah, it it's not just only my old card is DDR5. Exactly. Not just running DR5, because more to it than just the speed of the RAM, it's also the the bandwidth of the the chips to the card. So how how how much RAM can you move? And this is the irony is if you look at the memory transfer rates of the card that I got, the the V100, it is 96 gigs per second. Nice. Modern high-end graphic cards for video games have 80 gigs. There's only one card that's faster right now that you can buy, and that's the 5090. Every other current generation video card is slower than my nine-year-old AI card. Yep. That's the difference. And people made fun of me. I never made fun of you. I don't know what you're talking about. I was talking about how you're like a total iconoclast and you're like leading the chart, like way ahead of everybody. I was praising Ben left and right, and somehow this turns into people were making fun of me. I have no idea what you're talking about. This is this is always a good plan to do this stuff locally. Now, and and then of course you have Adam Curry, who's spent some big money on this stuff. So I don't know if I I'm not even sure of the model that he ended up getting, but he's got one of the the new generation ones.
SPEAKER_00I think he's got uh uh maybe a 4090.
SPEAKER_01No, no, no. I mean he's got he's got like one of the sparks. I just don't know if it's 128 or 250.
SPEAKER_02He may have just gotten it. I thought you were talking about CPU.
SPEAKER_01Somebody gave him Yeah, no, this is a recent thing. Okay. So definitely can do some large models in that thing.
SPEAKER_02I I just think they had him still don't have guidance on suppressors.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, good point. Like
Suppressor Guidance And FRT Drama
SPEAKER_01basically the companies that were part of the lawsuit are making their own guidance saying we were part of the lawsuit, we won, we're gonna act like we won. And we're not gonna we're not gonna do it the old way. We're just gonna treat them just like any normal gun purchase. The ATF, the only thing that's come out of the ATF is just in an interview, the head of the ATF, I forget his name, said that we will respect the the decision of the courts. That's about the extent of it. And said we are working on guidance, but we don't have it ready yet.
SPEAKER_02Well, and he said it was more important for us to get it right than fast, which I think is the exact right answer.
SPEAKER_01Well, I don't know about that because I think that having no guidance right now is allowing a lot of people to do things that may end up biting them in the ass.
SPEAKER_02Or it may be that it's just another set of lawsuits, but we'll see.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, it could be, but I don't know. I don't know that that's necessarily a good thing. The other thing that seems to not be good relating to ATF is that they've there have been some documents uncovered to where they seem to be acting in support of lawsuits, of private lawsuits that Rare Breed is doing with their FRTs. Yes, which they have no business, like this is not any business of the ATFs. They this is private patent-related lawsuits. What was part of the settlement agreement?
SPEAKER_02So rare breed didn't win the case, the ATF settled with them.
SPEAKER_01Oh, I see, I see what you're saying.
SPEAKER_02And part of the settlement agreement was you will enforce your patents.
SPEAKER_01Right. So they're actually actively acting in those lawsuits that rare breed is pulling out as a you know pro-rare breed, whatever you want to call it. Like they're they're on that side. Third party. Yeah, which is bullshit. The the government has no business doing that. I don't care who settled it, it's a bullshit settlement. I don't most people at this point will never buy a rare breed because rare breed is a litigious bastard. And then they're they're preventing people from innovating and creating other similar but not identical systems as well. Like the super safety, which is just a better FRT type device all around, which they sued Hoffman for, and you know, he couldn't financially fight him, so he effectively had to settle with them to where he cannot make the super safety anymore. So he put it out in public domain, so anybody can make it now. But I mean it doesn't help him financially. Yeah, even though he created a better device.
SPEAKER_02On this topic, I bought an FRT gene. Oh good, congratulations, finally. Actually, I'm a beta tester for an FRT gene.
SPEAKER_01Oh, you fucker. You got it for free? No. Oh, okay. You still have to pay.
SPEAKER_02All right. I I paid $30 for for 10 of these little 3D print 10. So the guy who invented this drop-in, and I'll send you a picture of it, but if you go to 3D Tactical, he's got some of these for various guns, but it's literally a one-piece 3D printed thing that slides in the FCM on the SIG P320 to make it a forced reset trigger.
unknownOkay.
SPEAKER_02And the reason why he sends 10 is because it's a beta product, and you depending on your grip and other things, you may have to, you know, file it down and sand and do to get it to fit right. But yeah, it is a little 3D printed FRT. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01And it still requires a real FRT type pull, so your finger is pulling twice. Correct.
SPEAKER_02It it is a forced reset. That's good. All it is is a little piece that literally goes on the back of the trigger mechanism so that when the bolt slides, it forces forward. It forces the trigger forward. Yeah. Like it just is a little L bracket to stick up so that it catches. So I I had a very And I'm sure it'll wear and I'm sure it won't last. But it but again, he sent me 10 of them. Quite a bit. And I'm just gonna screw with it and see what I can do. And if I if I get it working and I go, oh man, this is awesome. Yeah, and someone comes out with a metal version of this or something else, I'll buy it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, that makes sense.
SPEAKER_02But if if I don't like it, I don't use it.
SPEAKER_0130 bucks is such a no-brainer. Yeah. I totally agree. Yeah, there's I used to have a really cool gun called the Calico 900. That's not a cool gun. It it's like the coolest of guns. I think it was in quite a few space fiction movies.
SPEAKER_02Sure, as a crappy prop.
SPEAKER_01Okay. Well, I mean, all craps.
SPEAKER_02The helical magazine was an aggressive except it didn't work.
SPEAKER_01It worked fine. I had one of these things. Wait, don't tell me how it worked. I had one. It worked fine. Both the 50-round and the 100-round mags worked. And the the I'll tell you the biggest that there were two downsides to that gun. First was the weight. A hundred rounds and the magazine was metal inside. It was just plastic outside, but it was metal inside, were substantially heavy. And and I had the version without the stock. It was the pistol version. And so you're holding a fairly significant weight that is not center balanced in that gap. That was one of the downsides. The other downside that it had was it tended to run in full auto mode. Which without you know, the appropriate paperwork was not kosher. So I eventually sold it to a buddy of mine so I wouldn't have to deal with it. But the number of times where I would be out at the range shooting that gun, would be like, you know, bang, bang, bang, br. It was it was not something that I would ever trust or somebody else to be able to shoot and control. Because it was unexpected when it would happen.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_01But I thought this would be. On that gun, I I did figure out exactly how to what I would need to modify to control that.
SPEAKER_02Because it was very easy to take apart. Now, Gene, that sounds like an intent to manufacture.
SPEAKER_01No, there's no intent to manufacture because I was incapable of manufacturing. I didn't have any tools. But as a mental exercise, I figured out exactly what was required for it to just be running in full auto mode all the time. And it and it was it was essentially it so there's only two things you can do. You can either add material or subtract material to make that kind of change, right? So for that particular gun, it was actually adding a little bit of a material, which is why I think it ended up going into full auto mode randomly at times, is just from fouling on the gun that that would kick in. It had fairly loose tolerances, so it would get pretty dirty inside, but it wasn't built to be run with loose tolerances the way like an AK is. Once they shot it a few times at the range, they're like, great, let's start selling these things. And it was supposed to be a competitor to the MP5. That was the intended purpose for it. They were hoping to get a lot of military and police department sales on this thing. Yeah, how'd that work out? It didn't, it didn't because they had too many issues with it. But I I think it's a still a really cool gun. It was a definitely a revolutionary concept when it was built. If I would have had the the rifle version, the uh stock on it, I think it would have been more comfortable to shoot as well. The pistol was just kind of overdoing it a little bit.
SPEAKER_02Well, and that's but see, that's one of the things that I one of the things that makes me want to do this to my SIG is because my SIG is in a braced pistol configuration, right? Yeah. And it's it's a nice little fold. It's you know, it's not the flux rater chassis. I've got a different one. Oh, you do okay. Similar kind of.
SPEAKER_01Oh, you have the flux raider.
SPEAKER_02No, I didn't do the flux raider. I did the fucking whatever industries one because I like the stock. Well, the the brace, rather. Let me rephrase. Sure. I like the brace better because it can fold either direction than a couple other things. So I ended up going this way and I so it's already ported. I've already got a ported barrel on it, it's already set up for a little, you know, PD PDW style gun. And it would just be so cool to have a force reset trigger on that. Yeah. Because I've already got a vertical magazine holder up front. You know, like it would be really controllable, and it would be just the slant magazine holder can't be purely vertical.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, it's a 20-degree angle. This is so retarded, though.
SPEAKER_02Well, be and just so people know, it can't be vertical because if you put a vertical grip, it's no longer a pistol. It would be in any other weapon. And just the stupidest definition.
SPEAKER_01What I've seen as the the most brazen, like, we're on this side of the law version of that. Now you can buy a 29 degree one. Like it or no, it's not, it's it's it's literally three degrees from vertical. So what is that? 90 or 80, 87 degree. Someone's selling an 87 degree grip. I'm like, really? I I would not want, I don't want this to be a question. I want it to be obvious that it's fully compliant. Like 90 or 87 degrees is just too close for comfort, as far as I'm concerned. But I, you know, I there's another gun that just got an FRT, which is really making me making me realize I need to fucking get a job or something and start making money again. Because if I can pick up a vector and a P90 both with FRTs, fuck dude. I mean, that's the shit I play in video games. My ammo budget now. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I I would probably clear out my garage ammo in a couple of outings with those types of guns. But the reason I say the vector is because the vector is also available in my favorite caliber, 45. And having an FRT vector shooting 45, I mean, you might as well be writing one big long check the whole time you're you got that gun in your hands. Because you're gonna be spitting out, you know, $70 per magazine. But man, some things are working. It's such a cool gun. I've always really liked the vector. It's another gun that just it's unique.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, it's very weight balance and everything is on that gun, it's it's made for dampening fire.
SPEAKER_01It it like that gun with a suppressor up front, an FRT installed.
SPEAKER_02I you should go look at no reporters. Look at what? No reporters.
SPEAKER_01No reporters? Why? What's going on? You just showed okay. I said, Oh, that's hot. Okay, I think we're done. So we uh we finished the podcast. I'll see you next week, Ben. See you, Gene.
People on this episode
Podcasts we love
Check out these other fine podcasts recommended by us, not an algorithm.
Unrelenting
Gene Naftulyev & Darren O'Neill