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180 Speedrunning And Spying Tech
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A cheap TV, a goofy fishing game, and an AI that rewrites code in under two hours sound like three unrelated stories. They’re not. We follow the same thread through all of them: incentives shape behavior, and the hidden costs show up later, whether that cost is privacy, quality, or resilience.
We start with a ridiculous little Steam fishing game that turns into a crash course on speedrunning culture. Watching streamers struggle for hours while a world-record run finishes in minutes forces a real question: when does “smart play” become exploiting broken mechanics, and why do we sometimes prefer watching someone else do the thing we were about to buy?
Then we pivot into economics and tech reality. We talk through the Texas Stock Exchange narrative and why big companies might move listings to reduce legal exposure, not just to chase vibes. That leads into workforce incentives, productivity differences we’ve seen firsthand across countries, and the uncomfortable debate around hiring, offshoring, and what AI means for developer jobs.
Finally, we land on the privacy and security angle that ties everything together: smart TVs and the modern ad business, what reporting suggests about tracking, and why “smart” home devices can quietly become part of your threat model. If you care about AI coding, software engineering, smart TV privacy, cybersecurity, and the real cost of convenience, you’ll find plenty to argue with us about.
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Accents, Banter, And Catching Up
SPEAKER_03Audi Ben, how are you today? Oh, Gene, I'm doing alright. Getting ready to have a call with Scotland tomorrow morning. Oh, fun times. Gonna get your accent on? No. No. I'm good with the Texas accent thing.
SPEAKER_04Oh, okay, okay. Well, you you know, you're Scotch.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, but I've never lived in Scotland.
SPEAKER_04Yeah. Well, see, now why would I have the accent? If you were actually Scottish, you'd know that I just insulted you by calling you Scotch.
SPEAKER_03Dude, I'm genetically Scotch Irish. I don't know what to tell you. I know nothing more than that.
SPEAKER_04Scottish Irish.
SPEAKER_03Scotch Irish, yeah.
SPEAKER_04Scott Scotch is is considered derogatory. Scottish is the proper name.
unknownOkay.
SPEAKER_00Just saying. You might want to know these things so you don't insult somebody.
SPEAKER_04So I told you before we started, I kind of a little unplugged this last week because I've been heads down into doing vibe coding.
SPEAKER_03Yes, hopefully you've gone heads up and looked at some of the content at least.
SPEAKER_04Nope. Luckily for you, I haven't. Ah, fuck. Except for all the pictures of girls with big boobs that you've been sending. I've seen those. Yeah, your Twitter and my Twitter, very, very different. Well. And I I kind of set you right up there. I'm surprised you didn't come in with a zinger about not having gay guys on your Twitter.
SPEAKER_03Exactly. I don't, you know. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04So you have the gay couple on your Twitter? No, I don't have the gay couple on my Twitter. I don't even have them on Twitter. Ambiguously gay presenting couple, you mean? Dude, they have six kids. They have six kids.
SPEAKER_03Oh, okay. He still gets pegged. They've talked about that one of the. Apparently, we're going straight to an adult episode.
SPEAKER_04No, they talked about that in one of the episodes. That that while he does have permission to find other women, she does not peg him, in fact.
The Viral Fishing Game Rabbit Hole
SPEAKER_00Uh-huh.
SPEAKER_03Uh-huh. So I'm not saying they haven't been in threesomes, but uh so did you uh did you watch the Asmond Gold thing I sent you?
SPEAKER_04I did. I I did watch it, yes. Was that not entertaining as hell? Yeah, and I I'm glad I watched it because the alternative would have been if you would have said nothing, I probably would have bought the game and downloaded it.
SPEAKER_03I'm surprised you're not after watching it.
SPEAKER_04No, I don't have to, because I've watched it now. So I don't I don't have to get at the game anymore. I've now watched somebody doing all the shit that I would have done in there. Okay. So you've you've saved me from having to play. Is that what it is? Eight bucks? Yeah, you've saved me eight dollars apparently. But it it is a cute game. I it's gotta be vibe coded. There's no way somebody did that for real. Well, regardless. It looks way too cheesy.
SPEAKER_03But it's it's also they added some interesting play dynamics in there.
SPEAKER_04I mean, it's not realistic at all, but you know, some of the gameplay you don't pull out a horse from the sea? Really?
SPEAKER_03Well, if you do, it's generally not in that good of a shape or alive.
SPEAKER_04But well, it looked pretty dead in there, too. The horse had no animations. But I like the the motif of instead of giving things to mission givers, you throw it at their mouth.
SPEAKER_03That's that is definitely what was the name of the game? How to fish or learn to fish, how to fish.
SPEAKER_04It's available on Steam. Something about fishing. It's how to fish. Yeah, how to fish.
SPEAKER_03And then I sent you back. And normally, just so everybody knows, normally I do not watch Asmund Golds playing game streams. But I was like, what the is this? And started, and hilarity ensued. It was very funny. So it was entertaining.
SPEAKER_04So then I watched somebody doing a speedrun of it, which took about half an hour to do start to finish. Because Asmund didn't even finish it, and he was spent like four hours on it. And then this morning I watched a world record speedrun of it. You want to guess how long that was?
SPEAKER_0320 minutes.
SPEAKER_0417 minutes. Yeah. So I I've done some speedruns in games for certain aspects of them. I've never done a start-to-finish game speedrun. Because I find that that's not fun.
SPEAKER_03The only start-to-finish speedrun I have ever done was as a kid with Mario.
SPEAKER_04Hmm. Okay. Does Mario have an end? I don't even know. Yes. I never I never played that. I was out of I was.
SPEAKER_03Dude, I beat all three of the Mario games.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, I would I was into girls at that point in my life, so I wasn't playing Mario.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I was, you know. Eight.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_03You know.
SPEAKER_04Here's little Ben playing a video game. Exactly. So I think the closest that I've come is Donkey Kong. But Donkey Kong has an insane number of levels. So as a kid, when I used to play that, I would feel good about like clearing the first three levels and getting to the repeat ones, not knowing how many of them keep repeating after that. But you know, there was whole things.
SPEAKER_03Ever? Not really.
SPEAKER_04You're familiar with the name.
SPEAKER_03Occasionally in an arcade or something, but no. Never really never really played it.
SPEAKER_04Well, that's what started the whole Mario Brothers thing.
SPEAKER_03So I'm aware. Okay.
SPEAKER_04All right. Just checking there. But I I saw a movie probably 15 years ago called King of Kong, which was a hilarious movie. It's not a porno, like quick laughing.
SPEAKER_03No, that would be King of Dong.
SPEAKER_04Uh-huh. But it was a hilarious movie because it was basically a documentary about the world Donkey Kong competition. And it had. And to the chagrin of his wife. And I think he kept it in the garage. And then he just kind of liked it since he was a kid. And so he wanted to see how well he could play. And then you have other characters that, you know, part of the whole like world championships of arcade games group. And one of whom just screams villain at you. He's this guy with like long hair wearing what looks like basically professional race wrestling uniforms. Like you know, the kind of shit that guys would never wear, like shiny, glitzy stuff. He was a a showman, let's put it that way. And he held the record to this Donkey Kong. And then this guy, the the other, the protagonist, as it were, submitted his gameplay. And you could see like there's a conspiracy brewing to where all these guys know each other and they they're trying to find nitpicky things to not recognize his top score. And then, you know, they they first I think accepted it, then rejected it, and then he ends up having to go to the competition in person to play there so that they can validate his score. And then I mean it's a whole two-hour documentary. It's worth seeing, I don't want to give away the ending or anything, but it it's that is probably the the most recent that I saw anybody playing Donkey Kong, and I discovered this whole like culture of speedrunning whole games.
Speedrunning Tricks And Cheating Debates
SPEAKER_04Which is not fun. I'm sure it has been, but it like elements of a game, I totally understand. If you want to do a speedrun to see how quickly you can clear out a few levels, but like clearing out the entire game and mostly if I if you watch these videos, there are some interesting ones. I'll definitely I don't have any interest in doing it, but I will watch the videos that some of these are showing how people have found crazy workarounds to like skip huge sections of the games to get past them just to get to the next one. Like there there are speedruns of Cyberpunk out there. If you want to watch somebody can do that whole game in like half an hour. I I think it took me 180 hours and I felt like I didn't see everything. So I I just I don't know. Speedrunning, not my thing. But it's it's there. And for this game, getting back to the original topic, it was about I think 17 or 18 minutes that the guy did it from start to finish. Using some crazy, clearly cheaty techniques, including like But you'd almost have to because you'd you know Well, I I'll tell you, like you one of the things, and we'll move on, is he figured out that when you're going in the boat to the next island, which takes a long time, right? Yeah, you can appreciate that. He he had memorized where the halfway mark was the new island, because there's a slight irregularity in the waves there. And as soon as he got to the got over the halfway mark, he killed himself because now you respawn on the new island. That's smart, right? I mean, they're all smart, but they're all like just I don't know, cheaty. That's it's I had an episode about uh hey, hey, hey. You're not trying you if you're if you're not cheating, you're trying. Yeah, that's true, that's true. But I I had an episode on my gaming channel about things in my current game that I kind of just pose the question, like, is this cheating or not? And it's very interesting because the results are all over the map. I listed about six or seven different things that some people would consider cheating, others don't. And I kind of I consider mostly just preferences, some of them are poor preferences, some are better preferences, because it's a single player game, so it's not like you're cheating.
SPEAKER_03No, it's not a single player game.
SPEAKER_04No, I'm talking about the game I play. Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_03But yeah, this game fishing game is a co-op game.
SPEAKER_04It could be a co-op game. Like all the people that I watched play it were playing it solo because none of these people have friends. But theoretically speaking, you and I could both get into that game, and then like I could pull the fish out, and you could be ready there with a knife to start stabbing him.
SPEAKER_03Yep.
SPEAKER_04Just like real life. You remember that one time when I was holding that guy down and he had the knife?
SPEAKER_03Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. Oh, right, right. I mean, there are times when fishing that you have to, you know, kill a fish that with a machine gonna use a gun. Not a machine gun, but usually like a 22.
SPEAKER_04I've never used a 22 to kill a fish.
SPEAKER_03Oh, well, then you haven't caught a big enough fish.
SPEAKER_04I don't know, dude. I I caught a 180-pound uh Marlin. Okay. We did not use a gun to kill him. But you probably used a club at least. Yeah, hell yeah. Used a baseball bat. But it wasn't like multiple stabbies or anything. You just gotta know hit him right. Where to hit. Yeah. And then you can literally see the color change on
Texas Stock Exchange And Corporate Moves
SPEAKER_04the fish.
SPEAKER_03Speaking of cheaty stuff, it sure seems like Texas is playing all the right cheat codes right now.
SPEAKER_04Which which ones specifically are you talking about?
SPEAKER_03I'm talking about multiple Fortune 500 companies delisting from New York stock exchanges to be listed on the New Texas Stock Exchange.
SPEAKER_04I think for a long time, Texas courts have had a history of being much more pro company than New York State courts. Yep. So this is a perfect opportunity for all these companies to have zero footprint in New York. It's gonna benefit them tremendously in any kind of lawsuits.
SPEAKER_03So like Sunco, Sunco Corp, and USA Compra Compression, which are all energy companies, are have announced that they're moving. So that's almost that's almost a hundred billion in capex for the new stock exchange. Yeah, that's uh significant. It is. It is. And I I I assume that it won't be too long till like Chevron, that's co-headquartered here, does something similar. So if you end up with even just one super major making the move, then it's over. That is a legitimate stock market.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, it's this this one that you rattled off. It's the single largest transfer of listing value from New York to Texas. Energy transfer, Senko, USA Compression Partners, LP. 100 billion in market capitalization moving. Yeah, that's what it just says. That's huge. Just the start.
SPEAKER_03They just opened. They just opened, and in less than a month, you have a hundred billion in market cap move. Fuck, dude. You know the New York Stock Exchange is like, oh, yeah. Yeah, they're they're fucked.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, I think it's gonna be uh it'll take a little bit of time. You know, a lot of the local companies that have either moved their full operations here or just their headquarters from from like Oracle, and Apple has their second largest location here. Obviously, Elon Musk has moved or in the process of moving all his companies to Texas. Most of them, yes. All these companies are gonna want to be here in the Texas exchange. Now, why do you say that? Again, because it it's a it's it's about benefits, and the benefits to being out of New York for it means you don't have to deal with New York courts. New York courts tend to be historically, especially when it's I think it's the Southern District of New York, they tend to be extremely anti corporate. So they they will have these really weird one-off cases of you know somebody suing a company for something that's super rare to happen, and then they'll they'll have it go through trial, the and then they'll because it is in New York, they'll get a jury that that just doesn't like corporations. And so they're happy to just convict companies with you know billion-dollar penalties and all kinds of stuff. Where other states, depending on the state, would be a lot more neutral. But you notice that a lot of these suits happen in New York. And so anything a company can do to change its nexus out of New York is going to be a positive thing for that company. And it's not just gonna be, you know, being on this exchange, but being on the Texas Exchange is one of those things that that a company can do along with others to ensure that they're located in friendly territories. And Texas has for a long time, especially I think it's the Eastern District of Texas, and been well known for very pro-corporate rulings.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, there are a lot of corporations incorporated literally with Lufkin addresses for that very reason. Exactly.
SPEAKER_04So it's a good for Texas.
H1B Fallout And Work Culture Comparisons
SPEAKER_04Now we just need to make sure we don't let Cherie in, that's all.
SPEAKER_03Well, the the good news, the good news is that not necessarily the the Muslims, but the Indians are like the Dallas, so Dallas is facing a dramatic real estate bubble issue because literally a lot of these H1B visa holders that now their spouses can't work and everything else are they're leaving. They're just abandoning the houses and abandoning the cars and letting everything get repoed. Like they they are just walking away. Like the foreclosure rate in DFW is going through the roof.
SPEAKER_04Really? Well, I I lived in the DFW when that was happening last time. In the the when did I move there? I think 2009. So there's a lot of foreclosures going on back then. So yeah, I I I'm all for this. I I have for a very long time been of the opinion that you don't start handing out jobs in American companies to foreigners until you literally are have run out of actual qualified people. And we know for a fact that's nowhere near the case. There are tons of people that have qualifications for jobs in the US that are competing directly with H1Bs, even though there should not be any competition for that. The H 1Bs should not even be considered if they're qualified people. But you know, companies lie. They say, Yeah, we we had the job posted for two weeks. We didn't have a single qualified candidate.
SPEAKER_03All the Americans we interviewed. You know, headed in the bum fuck back page of some newspaper.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, but even if they don't, they literally will have the interviews with people that are clearly qualified, and then they'll lie about it and say, well, well, you know, none of those people really had good qualifications, so we're gonna we're gonna have to go outside the US and then hire somebody. And and for some companies it's H1Bs, for other companies, it's you know, an international workforce. Like they just hire people in other countries because it's cheaper, even though they're clearly gonna have a much worse performance than Americans. And this I know from having worked when I was working for a British telecom or multinational, like I was managing people all over the world. I got to deal with what it means to have employees in the UK, employees in Australia, employees in Germany, employees in a bunch of European countries. And the bottom line is there was not a single country's workforce that had as high a productivity as my American employees.
SPEAKER_03Well, and that's the thing, is you know everybody talks about Americans' bill rates being so expensive and everything. Like I that's something that I come up with all the time. Well, it it's it's not just that, it's that we also do more in a single hour than our European counterparts dramatically. So there's a work ethic difference, right?
SPEAKER_04Like we live to work, other countries work to live.
SPEAKER_03Correct. And that's fine, they don't have a problem with that. But it's also the culture. Like my boss is having to take two weeks off right now because he can't go into the next fiscal year without taking his annual leave because he lives in the UK.
SPEAKER_04Oh, yeah, that sucks.
SPEAKER_03And that's like he has to do that.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then there's other costs, like in Germany. I remember the big thing is if somebody's with you hire somebody and you keep them over one year, they're basically there for life.
SPEAKER_03Like you cannot get rid of them. Well, you can, but you have to continue to pay their salary till they find another job.
SPEAKER_04Yes, yeah. Or or you have to uh that and that's it, like if you shut down the what you can't do is replace them unless you can point to something that they were negligent about or had a you know, like in the US, you could just sort of shuffle things around and say, Yeah, we're paying this guy too much money. Let's restaff that with somebody cheaper. Now I you have to
AI Coding Skills That Still Matter
SPEAKER_04be careful not say somebody younger, because that is illegal, but it's cheaper, sure. Like you realize, you know, developers shouldn't make as much money anymore because now AIs do all the work. So we're gonna eliminate these $190,000 developer jobs and bring in a hundred thousand dollar developer jobs.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I think that that's disingenuous because I think you need to know how to develop and you have to know you have to be able to challenge the AI to get a good product.
SPEAKER_04Dude, I literally just had this conversation with an Amazon guy. Explaining to him uh, yeah, I don't think it's gonna get me a job, though, because after explaining that. But you know, it's saying, look, there you have to have three skills when you're using AI for development. And could it speed things up? Sure. However, you need to be good at uh doing the prompting. That has nothing to do with development. That is a skill that needs to get learned by anyone that's going to be using AI. Some people are always gonna be better than others, and and usually people with better vocabularies are gonna do better at that skill. Then you need to have the skill of good software engineering or architecture, depending on your level, because even if you're using AI for development, you still need to know how to put the program. Into a being set up the way that is efficient and that is going to result in good storage practices, yada yada yada. You can't just leave that shit up to the AI because if you do, then it may be a program that works, but it's going to be slow because it's doing things in a way that isn't properly architected.
SPEAKER_03It's not optimized. It's not optimized. It's copying and pasting and cluing code together to make something work, but it's not optimized by any stretch.
SPEAKER_04And remember, like we always talk about that any answer you get back from AI statistically is likely coming from a Reddit post. Reddit posts are the number one source of answers of all the AI platforms because that data was always freely available and not copyrighted. And that was the first data every AI learned on. Well, much like that, what you're getting when you're using AI for development is GitHub. And as I'm sure you know, there's plenty of things that we download from GitHub that are shareware freeware programs, but you don't have commercial software on GitHub. That'd be insane. You would never share that source code. And so the the training on all these development systems on AI were based on freely available source code, which does not necessarily mean best practices by any stretch. And so the third thing you have to know how to do is you have to understand enough software engineering without AI to know how to debug software, because simply having you having your AI and telling it, oh, here, you know, go through and find bugs and eliminate them, isn't going to actually find bugs. You have to understand what it is that qualifies as a bug, then tell the AI, hey, this is a bug, come up with some creative ways of fixing this. And then you have to have enough skill set to understand of the different methods the AI proposes to fix that bug, which one is actually going to fix it, and which one's just going to patch things and create a Kluge on top of it. The skill set still needs to get learned. And I think we're okay for now because most of the people using AI for coding, they were developing it over the last decade or so. But what about five years from now? What about 10 years from now when literally the people that are in charge of developing new software have never actually written a line of code themselves? That's scary to me. That is just scary to me.
SPEAKER_03I don't think we'll ever be there.
SPEAKER_04Oh, I guarantee you, because what we're gonna have is we're gonna shift our classes and colleges from software engineering to AI engineering. It's like how to use the AI to generate code is gonna be the main thing you learn. And that'll work until the models collapse. Well, the models, I don't know if they're necessarily gonna collapse, but they're sure as fuck aren't gonna be advancing because there's nobody to copy. You have to, you know, what what we may end up with is that there will start to become like these research institutions whose job is to create good quality code so that AIs can then copy it. Like I could see that. So you could be either a professor at college or you could work on the research side, but you're not researching physics or something. Your research stuff is optimizing good quality code so that you can train AI with what you actually did. And that that's gonna be a very specialty kind of job. Where right now, you know, you you kind of assume that your average person coming out with a software engineering degree out of college is gonna have certain basic understandings of coding efficiencies and best practices and you know the inner workings of database systems and how to how to deal with doing sprints and all these things that go along with programming, that really with AI, those skills are gonna drop off if people don't maintain them.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. Well, I don't know. Claude Code has, you know, done quite a bit. Oh, yeah. And grok's not that bad. And a lot of the local models are pretty good.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, grok is definitely worse than Claude, but Claude is way worse than ChatGPT-6. ChatGPT 6 really stepped it up big time with code. We just, for the company I'm involved with with the AI shit, we just used Claude 6 to recode the entire platform and see what it did, and everything it did was positive. And it took about an hour and a half to recode everything, which is crazy amount of short time.
SPEAKER_00Oh, cool. It is cool. It's cool, cool beans. Did you watch the president's speech last night?
Trump Speech Reactions And Deficit Ideas
SPEAKER_04I I heard something about Telurico being you know, being a ass muncher or something.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, he went off. It it's it's a great Trump speech. I would encourage anybody to listen to it. It it it Trump was in his best form. He was cussing, he was nice on. Like he he was the everyman, good jokes, great timing, just going through. One of the best comedians out there right now. Oh, it he he's fantastic, dude. Um he did promise that if the Republicans win the House and the Senate, that he wants to do a dividend payment of five grand to every adult.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, I heard that. I I think I'm on the other side of that. I think that's that's a stupid thing to do when we have such a huge deficit.
SPEAKER_03Well the question is, will we have a deficit? And this goes to the whole economic deficit forever. There's no we cannot get rid of our deficit. I I can solve the deficit in with one law.
SPEAKER_04What's that?
SPEAKER_03If the Congress passes budgets that run deficits two years in a row, no one who voted for those budgets is allowed to run for Congress again.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, but all you're gonna have is a bunch, and and I fully support that, but I'm afraid all you're gonna have is a bunch of new people that are rising in the party but gonna do the exact same thing.
SPEAKER_03Maybe. But anyway, or you could send them to jail, you know. So there's that. You could go more extreme. But regard regardless, I'm not sure how I feel about it. There is the Keynesian economic view that that would add liquidity to the market, increase the speed of money, yada yada yada. You and I are not Keynesian in the Keynesian economic branch, but there is that out.
SPEAKER_04We're in the the Austrian school. Absolutely. Yep.
SPEAKER_00That reminds me, I would tell you the story of back when I was in college meeting up with
A Surprise Meal With Milton Friedman
SPEAKER_00what's his name? Friedman. Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_04Did I tell you that? I can't remember. Oh, okay. So I I as a freshman, I went to a lecture that Minton Friedman was giving. And I stayed after the lecture to talk to him and ask him some questions and stuff. And ended up well, not leaving, basically. He talked to me, and I was hanging around there while he was talking to other people, and in the end, I was like the last guy standing there with him, and he said, Hey, do you know like a good place to eat around here? And I said, you know what? There's a kosher deli just uh a few blocks down that I think you would enjoy. And so he and I ended up going to this kosher deli. And I basically, you know, had kind of a I wouldn't really call it dinner, but it was a meal. Yeah, I had a meal for sure, one-on-one with Milton Friedman, which I thought was, you know, that was kind of neat when it happened, but not until many years later did I realize that I completely blew the opportunity to ask significant questions that I could remember rather.
SPEAKER_03You cut out for a second. I did, really? Yeah, you went flat. You blew the opportunity flat line. Well, I must have, yeah.
SPEAKER_04I blew the opportunity to ask him some, you know, actually interesting or significant questions. I think we were mostly just talking about food.
SPEAKER_03So, you know, it's like, god damn it. You know, I I got to meet Stephen Hawking.
SPEAKER_04Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_03Now, by the time I got you ask him any interesting questions. No, because by the time I got to meet him, he was far enough gone that he really couldn't. It took him a very long time to generate an answer, right? So questions were incredibly limited. But yeah, the AP physics at AM, he gave a lecture to us and got to meet him.
SPEAKER_04AP physics at AM? Yeah, isn't AP in high school?
SPEAKER_03Well, honors program, whatever you want to call it.
SPEAKER_04Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, the honors program physics group got to meet him. Gotcha.
SPEAKER_04So he came, he came down there, I suppose.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He came to AM's campus. Yeah, for a football game or no, no, no, no. For the lecture. You know, we've got the cyclotron and stuff like that.
SPEAKER_04Oh, right. That's right. You do, yeah.
SPEAKER_03Speaking
College Football Notes And Coach Quotes
SPEAKER_03of, we're playing the Sun Devils this weekend.
SPEAKER_04I don't even know who that's from. Arizona State. Arizona Sunday. Oh.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. It's gonna be an interesting game because they're a pretty loaded team. Are they? So I'm excited. I'm so fired up for the.
SPEAKER_04And what time's the game on Sunday?
SPEAKER_03It's not on Sunday.
SPEAKER_04What time's the game on not Sunday?
SPEAKER_00Oh. You don't you're looking it up? I'm looking. I'm looking.
SPEAKER_03So it's uh 11 a.m.
SPEAKER_00kickoff time. Okay. So it's gonna be hot. Yeah. That is gonna be hot. Well, I wish your team luck. Okay.
SPEAKER_04I don't know. Are they any better than last year when they lost to my team?
SPEAKER_00Yes, we are better. Okay, good.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, last last year we were watching the Yeah, don't remind me.
SPEAKER_03A M Texas game. Yes.
SPEAKER_04And I I was I was there to root for your team. And they lose, they lose to our uh Texas State here.
SPEAKER_03Well, U T, thank you. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00Or as I like to call them, T U. Mm-hmm. Alright, well, what else going on?
SPEAKER_04What else did I miss during my heads-down programming stuff?
SPEAKER_03More of women being absolutely deplorable.
SPEAKER_04Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I didn't
Culture War Segment And Dark Headlines
SPEAKER_04know.
SPEAKER_03This woman, did you see the woman who had a gender reveal party? I didn't see it, but I I scrolled past that X. So she literally has a gender reveal party. Her friends are there and then takes an abortion pill right after the reveal.
SPEAKER_04Don't you have to take that like within a week or something?
SPEAKER_03No, no, no. That's like you're thinking of like plan B, which is what does she take? She's taking an abortion pill that basically forces a miscarriage. Jesus. That's dark. It's incredibly dark.
SPEAKER_00So how old was the kid?
SPEAKER_03She was a few months along.
SPEAKER_04Okay, so they can they can tell the sex that early now?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, yeah. I mean, you can do blood test and know the sex really early. But you know, I was expecting when she popped the balloon for it to be a boy, but it wasn't. It was a girl. So, like, no matter what she was gonna do. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_04Jesus.
SPEAKER_03And it's not even China? No. This is this is a clearly a woman of African descent. Wow. That's that's dark, man. That's very dark. Like, why have that party? Why if you like why what is fucking wrong with you that you would do this? Yeah, that's just fucked up. And she made a point of pointing out that she was taking the fucking abortion pill.
SPEAKER_04I mean, crazy people do all kinds of shit, but it it's again, I'm gonna say something I've said before because it's still true. The only silver lighting out of the death of these three children is that more men are starting to be able to do that.
SPEAKER_03We will never have a woman president.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, well, hopefully we'll we'll actually have enough votes to get rid of the 19th. I think a lot of people are realizing women cannot be trusted with the future of the country. If they can't be trusted with the future of their kids, they sure as fuck can be trusted with the future of everybody else's kids. Agreed. Because that that is fucked up. And this is where feminism led us to. Is it led us to literally not just tribalism, but like primitivism. This is like behaviors that were punishable by excommunication from the tribe a hundred thousand years ago. Or if you prefer six thousand years ago. But either way.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, you're gonna die. But this is why women follow trends. Like this is the whatever is socially acceptable, the majority of women are going to dictate to. And the reason why because they don't want to be they they can't take it, because a man can go out on his own and be okay and more likely to find another tribe of men. A woman, especially in prehistoric times, is incredibly vulnerable. So yeah.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, absolutely. Not not just vulnerable, but also disposable in the sense because the the utility of the woman is in creating more tribe members. And if that woman kills a tribe member instead of creating more.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. On this note, you know, I saw this as a meme and I put it in our chat, but I've verified the numbers with Grok and some others. Women have killed about three billion babies since 1980. Yeah, the men have killed and this counts. This counts murder, this counts manslaughter, this counts, I think it even counted suicide, male suicides. And abortion. But it it it counts everything. And it's billion one billion people have died from all the wars mur estimated, obviously. Wars, murders, etc.
SPEAKER_04Absolutely.
SPEAKER_03Caused by men. And the argument I heard was, well, men are complicit in the abortions. That's not a right statistics. It's like, okay. No, they're not. Let's say, let's say, let's say one one-fourth of the 3 billion is male pressure or whatever. One, the woman is still complicit, right? But let's let's take it. There's still the numbers don't work out here any which way. Also, when you look at our our birth shortfall here in the United States, it exactly mirrors the number of abortions we've had in the United States this last year.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, it's it's well, remember that abortionism was pushed through by Margaret Sanger, yes, whose goal a eugenicist. Well, and don't use eugenicist as negative, that's that's a positive thing. But because but she was a specifically a very racist eugenicist. Like her goal in promoting abortion, quote unquote, rights was to reduce the non-white population. Clinics were set up for black people, not for white people to have abortions. And it's it's a little little secret that Democrats like to hide when they praise Margaret Sanger as this visionary of feminism that you know established women's right to own their own bodies, and the completely neglecting the fact that she was in the KKK.
SPEAKER_03She was literally a uh well, in the 1920s, 1930s KKK, because let's distinguish right the KKK of the Reconstruction period that was founded by Nathan Bedford Forrest is a very different thing. He was going after carpet baggers and scallywags. Yeah. The racialist movement that it turned into in the 1920s and 1930s, very different thing. Yeah, yeah. You you could and just to remind everybody, Nathan Bedford Forrest, he had six of his slaves that volunteered to fight alongside him. Oh, yeah. Mostly. Hold on. He asked for volunteers, and he said, at the end of this war, any man who will volunteer to fight for me will be free. Because in victory, I will free you, in defeat you will be freed. After Gettysburg, he turned to those men and said, Men, you are free. Go home. Do whatever you need to do because our cause is surely lost. They stayed with him.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. Okay.
SPEAKER_04Yeah. Well, and in fact, there were it's almost the opposite to where a lot of the the black plantation slaves started realizing that northern freedom basically means they're gonna be beggars in the streets. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Sharecroppers at best.
SPEAKER_04Well, yeah. I mean, uh who's gonna pay you as a sharecropper when they go bankrupt themselves? That's the thing. It's like your future is basically going north and begging for money on the street. And it's not like people up north were sitting there with their hands out waiting for to hire black people for any jobs. That was a time when the Irish couldn't get any work because they were seen as a little too dark for their own good.
SPEAKER_03So I I just think that And let's not forget Lincoln's plan was to send them back to Africa.
SPEAKER_04Oh, yeah. Yeah, well that that was done once before by Monroe, so why not?
SPEAKER_00Let's just repeat it.
SPEAKER_04So this the more you read in old newspapers and accounts of the like the first recordings or the I should say the last recordings that we were early recordings, audio recordings, but they were some of the last first generation slaves that we had that were still alive when the recordings started becoming a thing. And you listen to those stories, and it it was been completely misrepresented because the the people that were slaves were living better than people who were not slaves in northern cities. They this you know, looking at a handful of incidences where there was abuse of slaves, and then painting the entire South with that brush, it it's amazing the North was able to accomplish.
SPEAKER_03Uncle Tom's cabin is utter horseshit. Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah. You you like my family had a small number of slaves. Of course he did. But here's the thing: you have to draw a distinction between the average plantation owner and the planter class. The planter class owned the vast, vast, vast, vast majority. They were the ones that had slave runners and everything else. Like my family worked the fields with them. And it's the equivalent of a mom and pop farmer buying a hundred thousand dollar combine and then going and taking a sledgehammer to it. You're not gonna do it.
unknownNo.
SPEAKER_04No, it it it's crazy. And that that's the thing is it's the history of the United States was absolutely rewritten after the Civil War.
SPEAKER_03Absolutely. And the reason why the Civil War could occur is because racial conflict simply basically did not exist in the South before the Civil War. Because had the North been able to foment a slave rebellion, which was what Lincoln tried to do with the Emancipation Proclamation, you know, all it would have taken is them rising up and torches for the men to go back home. But that didn't happen. And you have to ask yourself, why didn't it happen?
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, and I think it's pretty obvious when, again, when we look at the the actual old history, that sure, I'm sure you had some instances of the sort of Jenko Django unchained type stuff happening. But it sure as hell wasn't happening in the entirety of the South.
SPEAKER_03But it certainly wasn't the majority.
SPEAKER_04Oh, no. Small isolated cases and look. That shit happens today with jobs. There are companies that treat their employees like shit. Most companies don't. Most companies treat their employees pretty well. But you're always hearing about these edge cases because that's what makes the news. That's what was making the news 150 years ago, too. So it's it's edge case stuff. And the real issue was the difference in the economics and industrialization between the South and the North. And the fact that the North wanted to push their agenda on the South. And if you look at like slavery, I think was a convenient excuse. That's the way I would kind of describe the the way the North was acting towards the South with the actual war. Because the South didn't declare war in the North. The North declared war in the South.
SPEAKER_03Well, and here's the thing the force bill that was that, right, that Lincoln had passed, Congress didn't have a legally passed. Yeah, that was it right. So if you consider the states to be in rebellion and you don't have a quorum for Congress, how like there's an illogic here, right?
SPEAKER_04Yeah, like if you have uh any committee and you let's say you got 12 members on the committee, and then you need a quorum of at least seven to do business, and then only six of them show up, and they're all six are pissed off at the people who didn't show up, you can't just kick out the six that didn't show up, or the seven that didn't show up, right? Yeah, like the the people that don't have a quorum just because they're mad can't ignore a quorum and say, well, if those guys don't want to show up, we're gonna kick them off the committee and then we won't need a quorum. It's a chicken and egg thing. You can't do that without the quorum in the first place.
SPEAKER_03Right.
SPEAKER_04So it was it was one of many illegal moves done by the North.
SPEAKER_00So it what else on this topic? I don't know how we got on this topic.
SPEAKER_03So there's a lot of stuff on Lindsay Clancy, but feminism, right? But to give a break to that
Brand Collapses And GTA Team Talk
SPEAKER_03Getwoke Grow Broke, Nike, dude, what the hell? Getting delisted.
SPEAKER_04That's awesome.
SPEAKER_03Yep, yep. Like how the mighty the Nike fucking Nike goes full woke DI bullshit and in a in what a year, year and a half, getting delisted from the stock market. Yeah, it's gonna be a fucking penny stock.
SPEAKER_04It is, it is. The thing is, the the history of Nike really is a it's not what people think it is. It the company literally was started by a guy that was a runner out of what's the school down in California there? Berkeley. No, no, no. The uh the other one, the uh the one with the good uh programs.
SPEAKER_03UCal. No. Stanford. Stanford.
SPEAKER_04So he was a Stanford student. No, and the only reason I know is because I watched a commencement that he did at Stanford when no buddy of mine was going there. But uh the guy's last name's Knight, I don't remember his first name.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, he ruined a waffle iron to create a shoe pattern.
SPEAKER_04He basically didn't like the fact that shoes were so expensive from Adidas. And so he he thought, you know, we've got other cheap stuff coming in from Japan. Why don't we get cheap shoes from Japan? And so he ended up going, I think it was with either somebody that was one of his teachers or somebody related to the college. They ended up going on a business trip to Japan where he had gone to a bunch of factories and tried to explain to him, you know, like how cheap could you make a knockoff of these Adidas shoes, basically. And he found one that was gonna be able to do it for about a tenth the price, and that's how Nike started, is essentially it was a a cheap shoe manufacturing thing under the guise of like, you know, we can't afford these more expensive European running shoes, so let's just start making shoes in Japan. And eventually that ended up switching to China. But this is not this is like more of a Walmart type story, like this is somebody that started off trying to make a cheap product, not somebody that was becoming an iconic US brand that is now done, but it's an iconic brand mostly because it was doing deals with athletes who were iconic. Like if Nike didn't do all the deals with athletes that were at the absolute top of their game, they they probably would still be a fairly cheap brand. Somebody that just bought at Walmart and not at any other stores. And it's not like I mean, I don't think that Adidas is particularly expensive. Now I do have 18 Adidas tracksuits, so maybe I'm a little biased on this case, but um see, I never even really liked Adidas or any of those other brands.
SPEAKER_03I was a K-Swiss guy in high school.
SPEAKER_04Okay. Now was Converse still a shoe when you were younger?
SPEAKER_03No, no, no, no, no. It's come back. Yeah. Like stepdaughter does Converse and stuff like that. I never had Converse. I had Converse as a kid. Yeah, that's the 70s and then it died off, and then the late 90s, early 2000s, it started coming back. But that was post you know me being really influenciable.
SPEAKER_04So yeah, it's I'm not surprised the decisions that make. And I you know what the latest thing that could very well end up being a huge loser because of Go Woko Broken DEI.
SPEAKER_03What's that? Tell me, Gene.
SPEAKER_04I'm I'm gonna tell you because uh it's Rockstar, the the company that's making uh oh, yeah, the games. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, that's that's because there was an image that I think sums it up very well that Asmund Gold was looking at, which was a like a group photo of the team working on Graft Grand Theft Auto 5, uh which came out like 12 years ago, 15 years ago, something like that now. And it was as expected, basically 95% nerdy guys, and about five percent chicks that were doing the art department. So the picture of the team working on Graft Theft Auto 6, there there are three guys. Everybody else is a woman, and a lot of those women nose rings and weird colored hair. Shocker! That is that is the team working on what is the next. Do you know what the budget for that game is, by the way? No, two billion dollars. Jesus Christ. Well, you gotta pay these women, you know, they expect more money than men. You do know that the average salary for a woman now is higher than for a man. That was published recently. The women not only have higher college attendance rates, higher graduation rates, but they now actually make more money at the same job than men.
SPEAKER_03You know what's a really sad statistic?
SPEAKER_04What's that?
SPEAKER_0365% of all African American women that have a college degree. Do you know who they're employed by?
SPEAKER_04Walmart.
SPEAKER_03Government jobs.
SPEAKER_04Oh, governments. Oh, yeah, that's even worse. That's not a surprise, because again, DEI, because they they have a preferential hiring policies that it's amazing that that's legal, right? How can preferential hiring policies be legal in any context? It's it should all be meritocracy. What have you done and can you do it for me? That's how hiring should be operating. But unfortunately, it started with HR when HR departments started getting filled with women. And because HR was filled with women, all kinds of rules started coming out that were very pro-female and coming out of HR. And then next thing you know, it's like, well, you can't promote him, he's a man. You have to promote the next five women for equity's sake. And that's how we get to where we are. I'm telling you, dude, this is. But like I completely see that if we don't take care of feminism as white Americans, Islam will do it for us. Except that we're gonna be, you know, praying five times a day. I won't be. Well, I will be, but still. Survival instincts. Damn straight. My people have not outsurvived everybody else for no reason.
SPEAKER_03Or said differently, they haven't been kicked out of everywhere else for no reason. You got it. Yeah, well, it's better to be kicked out than buried, right?
SPEAKER_04Indeed. But I'm hoping my you know, my friendly Christian brothers and sisters will take up some arms and go take care of things.
SPEAKER_03Well, I I I hope so.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, there is So there's a lot of a lot of 9-11 memorials going on.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, I I can't can't wait for that to see what Mandami does to disgrace 9-11.
SPEAKER_03Well, you saw the police commissioner tell him to stay away.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, well, we'll see.
SPEAKER_03I mean AM, every year that we play a game anywhere close to 9-11, it's the red, white, and blue out. So based off of the deck that you're on, so what level you're supposed to wear red, white, or blue. Oh, nice. And yeah, it's something that we've done since 2002.
SPEAKER_04But uh just be a normal thing in most colleges.
SPEAKER_03It should be, but it takes a school like AM to do it. Yeah. Anyway, no, the Mandami thing is I I I'm glad to see that there's public pushback against him on this.
SPEAKER_04Yeah. That's that's sad. The there's a video that just came out as well about one of these investigative journalist types going and recording all the shit happening around the Muslim center in New York City, there. You know, it's basically the same shit as Minnesota except to the next level, because it's New York. So New York has a huge amount of Muslim police officers now.
SPEAKER_03And foreign police officers.
SPEAKER_04Yes, yeah, yeah. They like barely speaking English police officers.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, like not citizens. Yeah. Like maybe a green card holder.
SPEAKER_04I don't know. I'm not they didn't dig into that. All I could see is the accents were very thick, and a shit ton of them were Muslim. So these police officers, they they get breaks five times a day. And the other thing that's annoying there is other than just that you're paying somebody for a lot less productive time than a non-Muslim, is they are extremely selective in enforcing the law. So when there's a known Muslim vehicle, for example, parked on the road or on a double parked in New York, which happens all the time, there's there's no actions taken against them. When it's not a Muslim vehicle, it's towed. And, you know, this is obviously at the lowest, most basic level, and you can well imagine how selective enforcement goes beyond that. It it's a it's an insane amount of of essentially bringing in sharia into Western society. And then the idiots that elected Mandami and and have enabled all this to happen are gonna be the victims as well, but they're too stupid to know. It's I've always said that you know, let people die of their own stupidity. Like, I don't want to have to interfere and help somebody who doesn't want to help themselves. I'm not my brother's keeper. However, unfortunately, there are plenty of other people that help stupidity, and that's why we keep having more and more examples of stupidity happening. Is because these people aren't allowed to learn the way Darwin is trying to get them to learn. And which, you know, it brings me to m to the meme review uh that uh our buddy Brandon. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Boy, did you see what CNN is trying to do to him?
SPEAKER_04Oh, they're yeah, they're trying to paint him, paint him as this like KKK white supremacist dude. The guy's Mexican. What the fuck, man? How how can he be a white supremacist when he's barely white?
SPEAKER_00I mean he's not white, but okay.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, I mean uh it's that's what I mean, is he's not. He's barely white. He's he's fairly Mexican. So but he's not as Mexican as like Nick Fuentes is. That guy's 100% Mexican. This guy is part Mexican, but still. It's it's like it's it's the same thing that happened with the Proud Boys when they started calling them white supremacists, where like 35% of the Proud Boys are Latino and 20% are black. Like the whites are a minority among the Proud Boys, literally. And all the TV channels were calling the Proud Boys white supremacists.
SPEAKER_03Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_04Well, you remember that, or is that before your time?
SPEAKER_03I don't know. I guess it may have been before my time.
SPEAKER_04Okay, well, you've heard the the name though before, right? Proud Boys? Proud Boys, yeah.
SPEAKER_03Of course I know who the Proud Boys are. Yeah, but I don't remember that exact set of events.
SPEAKER_04Well, they like then when they were in marching in in Charlotte or whatever.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, like I remember that.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, yeah, yes. Well, they were being called white supremacists. And it's like, how is this group white supremacists when they're barely white? Well, they're founded by a Hispanic guy. Well, yeah, and a uh Canadian guy.
SPEAKER_03Yes.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, sure. Well, I mean it's true. Because they were founded by a Hispanic guy. One of the two founders. But still, it's like throwing these labels around, I think, is it's also really deflated the values of the labels. Because what does white supremacist even mean when you're when you're saying that and you're looking at images of like Mexican-looking gay? You know, like what what the fuck, man? It's it it just becomes less and not just less believable, but less important. It's the same thing that happened to the word Nazi. Like Nazi literally means nothing anymore. It just means anybody who's not Antifa. That's literally.
SPEAKER_03It means anyone who disagrees with the American left.
SPEAKER_04I don't even think it's you have to disagree. I think it's like if you're not one of us, you're a Nazi. I think that's the attitude. Like, even if you have no opinion, you're apolitical, you're still a Nazi.
SPEAKER_03Right, because you're not doing enough.
SPEAKER_04Because you're not, yeah, because you're not on our side, and that's sufficient to paint you as a Nazi. So it yeah. It's insane. And again, this is all feminism, man, because that this is like men acting like women, and that only happens with feminism. And it doesn't happen in Islam. Again, going back to this, the the problem here is that Islam has solutions for all these problems. You just have to start praying to a false god, that's all.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I'm not gonna do that. Well um.
SPEAKER_04What else? We we got some really good topics here today. For me not watching any news, it's actually going pretty well.
SPEAKER_03We talked about the Dallas market, we talked about Nike. Yeah, we sure did. I mean, we can go on the Ram flood.
SPEAKER_04Here's something totally unrelated to politics.
SPEAKER_03Huh?
SPEAKER_04Ram flood. So you
DDR6 From China And RAM Prices
SPEAKER_04didn't watch the videos I posted, apparently, either. Well, you didn't watch mine. Well, I you I was busy. You you're not busy, you got plenty of time.
SPEAKER_03I know I know all about the free time. No, all right. When you said ram flood, now I know what you mean.
SPEAKER_04Okay.
SPEAKER_03Yes, absolutely. The market is about to get flooded, which is a good sign.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, which I think it's a bit of an overstatement to call it a flood. It's obviously marketing for video, but it is true that this video points out something that is occurring, which should affect RAM prices across the board, which is that China has now in its factories started producing the latest generation of DDR6 chips, which you know, generally we don't buy chips from China. We're buying chips from Taiwan, Korea, you know, places like that. Japan. Or when I say chips, I mean whole RAM sticks and SSD drives. I don't mean chips independently, obviously. But you don't mean the independent yeah. I don't mean potato chips either. But what I do mean is that China having a native production of memory chips that is of a high enough level that can power Chinese data centers that are doing AI means that it is no longer buying chips from the West. And the Chinese not buying chips from the West means that those chips are already in the pipeline to be produced, but won't have a customer, which means that the prices for memory and for SSDs should start dropping as availability starts to catch up and eventually overtake the demand. The or supply rather. I don't know if I'm saying it correctly. The supply is increasing and it always has been, and now we've reduced the demand by taking China out of the buyer equation because they're now going to be self-sufficient for memory chips. And I'm sure they'd like to actually start selling them to the West as well. But the first batch of these apparently is a Lexar and like what is it, 7600 memory or 7700, something like that. And apparently good stuff. So natively produced in China for the Chinese market. So it's basically high-end memory in China right now, is under the Lexar brand. So that's a very good sign because it eases the demand for literally the rest of the world. Because China buys a lot of that stuff. If they don't make it, they still have to buy it. So until they start making it themselves. And uh with memory, it looks like they're now making it themselves. Well, good for them. Well, it's good for us.
SPEAKER_03I think I think I think we're a few years away from chip prices in general bottoming out if Elon actually builds the tariff app. Sure. That's I people do not under it is 10x global production in a single facility.
SPEAKER_04That'll be cool. That'll be very cool. I wonder if I could see it from my house. I hope not. Well, it's gonna be the the biggest single building on earth, isn't it?
SPEAKER_03Yep. Yep, yep. I don't think you can see it from your house, though, due to the curvature of the earth.
SPEAKER_04Well, isn't it earth really curved? I don't know. We'll find out. Yes. I guess we'll find out when he builds it. Oh my god. And it'll depend on how tall it is, right? That's the other issue. If it's a hundred stories tall, I might still see it. Yeah, it's not gonna be a hundred stories tall. Well, we never know. Sorry for yawning. Yeah, you're clearly very interested in doing the podcast.
SPEAKER_03I woke up at four this morning, dude. I went. I've been having problems.
SPEAKER_04So yeah, well, these kind of problems.
SPEAKER_03No. Thank you. So Turkey got their hand smacked.
SPEAKER_04What happened
Sanctions, Backchannels, And A Vodka Detour
SPEAKER_04there?
SPEAKER_03Well, a British bank was funneling funds to Iran. It was part of the Iranian.
SPEAKER_04Oh, shocker. Shocker.
SPEAKER_03And guess what? We shut that shit down. Didn't. Scott Besson on the D down low is doing his job.
SPEAKER_01Uh-huh.
SPEAKER_03And yeah. So we're smacking allies.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, what are we threatened to not sell them planes again like we do every time? No, we sanctioned the bank.
SPEAKER_03The bank no longer exists essentially.
SPEAKER_04Oh, that's that's a better approach, yeah.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, no, the the bank is totally defunct at this point. Interesting. Yeah, so what's it's a pretty good threat to our our quote unquote allies.
SPEAKER_04Dude, Turkey's been a you know fence sitter ally forever.
SPEAKER_03That's fine. But if you're Great Britain, you gotta think that the Americans will do it to you too.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, if you're smart. Well, we should. I mean, what's the latest from our gal in the field there? Prometheus.
SPEAKER_03Oh, I don't even remember what that video was about.
SPEAKER_04Okay.
SPEAKER_03But I I think she was talking about oh, the Russian Ukraine stuff and the trip over there, which I sent you a video in the other chats asking you to do some translation checking. Yeah, I could do that.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, it it's we do seem to be having a back channel with Russia right now.
SPEAKER_03Wickkoff and Kushner went to the Kremlin and stayed at the Kremlin until late, late at night. Yeah. And then went to Ukraine and had a meeting.
SPEAKER_04I mean, obviously, that's why they stayed late.
SPEAKER_03Okay.
SPEAKER_04Well, good vodka. You can't get it here. What is good vodka? Good vodka. You shouldn't be able to tell you're even drinking alcohol. That's how good it is. Okay. Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER_03And like you can get good vodka here.
SPEAKER_04You can't. You really can't.
SPEAKER_03Sure.
SPEAKER_04I still have some because I had a supply.
SPEAKER_03You know, my my my favorite vodka, but I don't do vodka and anything but mixed drinks. I'm not gonna sit there and sip vodka. But my favorite vodka for like mixed drinks and just being a decent vodka that's not super expensive, is Austrian and it's monopolova, but it is a potato-based vodka. Okay. Versus like fucking gray goose is grain-based.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, grain goose is not vodka, first of all.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, the French don't know how to French will.
SPEAKER_04Absolutely. So the best affordable vodka is Jewel of Russia, and uh that is the stuff that I was drinking since about how much is that a handle? How much is that a handle? I mean, I guess now it's I'm looking at online, now it's about 200 bucks a bottle. But I will tell you, when I was buying it for how what volume? 750 standard volume.
SPEAKER_03That's not a handle. A handle is 1.5.
SPEAKER_041.5 liters?
SPEAKER_03Yes. No, no, no, no. And the reason why it's called a handle is because the bottle usually has a handle on it.
SPEAKER_04So I was buying Jewel of Russia for like 45 bucks a bottle before the sanctions. So obviously the price is affected by sanctions. It shouldn't cost that much. It should be about a 40 to 60 dollar bottle of vodka. And it is super clean, super good. And it's barely, barely below what is the best Russian vodka, which is beluga.
SPEAKER_03What makes it so good?
SPEAKER_04It's just super, super clear, super clean.
SPEAKER_03It's just very you ought to taste some of my dad's stuff that he does.
SPEAKER_04I I can't, for one, but even if I can. No, not I don't drink, dude. I don't Right, but you could taste. No. That's see, that goes against the definition of drinking. If you're tasting, you're drinking.
SPEAKER_03I mean, but if you taste it, you know, and you could do like a wine tasting, you can spit it in the bucket. Uh-huh. You know, what's wrong with that?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, no. I don't I don't need to, I don't drink. But anyway.
SPEAKER_04The and then now it looks like there is cheap ass beluga's so apparently beluga is either licensed its name or other people are starting to make knockoff beluga vodka. But beluga used to be back in the day, like for their top of the line vodka was about I think uh I want to say around $4.50 a bottle, right around there.
SPEAKER_03That's way too much for a bottle of alcohol.
SPEAKER_04I mean it's not as much as I pay for you used to pay for a bottle of scotch. Scotch is more expensive.
SPEAKER_03That's way too much to pay for even the like I don't know, man. I'm just I don't spend that much money on fucking anything.
SPEAKER_04I know. I mean, yeah, you're right. You don't but it doesn't mean that's that stuff's not good. It's just it's uh it's a logarithmic scale, right? So the difference between something that's fifty bucks and a hundred bucks is not double quality. The difference is like maybe one or two percent better quality. And the difference between something that's a hundred bucks and three hundred bucks, once again, is not double or triple quality. It's maybe half a percent better quality. So you're paying incrementally more for progressively less difference.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, diminishing returns.
SPEAKER_04But ultimately, there is one that is the best. Right?
SPEAKER_03So I guess and I think it's pretty subjective.
SPEAKER_04It is absolutely subjective, and that's why you have people that literally make their living doing nothing but rating these things.
SPEAKER_03So I'm gonna censor a quote, but I want to get your opinion of it. The reason why I think I can get it done is because I'll be the guy who comes in and doesn't care about the opinions of other people who don't know as much as I do. Because I'm going to do what I think is right every single day and put everything I have into it. What I think I can make us the what I think I can that I think I can make us successful. Do everything. Read the like the whole sentence, last sentence. The reason why I think I can get it done is because I'll be the guy who comes in and doesn't care about the opinions of people who don't know as much as I do. Because I am going to do what I think is right every single day and put everything I have into what I think can make us successful.
SPEAKER_04The only thing I would change is the first line there. Instead of saying I think, I would say I know.
SPEAKER_03Right. But what do you think of that quote?
SPEAKER_04I mean, it sounds good to me. I like it.
SPEAKER_03What about it? I think it's a hell of a worldview quote, man. Oh, you're tooting your horn there. Okay. No, this is not me.
SPEAKER_00Okay. That's Mike Elko. Who is he? He's the head football coach at Texas AM.
SPEAKER_04Well, I think the quote would be a little stronger if he said I know instead of I think, but other than that, I think it's pretty good.
SPEAKER_03Well, he was asked by a reporter in a press conference, why do you think you can get this done here?
SPEAKER_04Yeah. Which i i like I know the reporter was a man. Because women don't ask think questions. They they would say, What do you feel is your chance of winning this year? Yeah, no, it it's I mean, it's a you asked me what I think of the quote, I told you what I think of the quote. I think it's a good quote. I would just change the first word there to be I know instead of I think. Makes it more powerful. Sure. What did you think of my last uh song that I did?
SPEAKER_03What was your last song?
SPEAKER_04That I sent you like two days ago? When did you send it? Two days ago when you asked me, Did you send it? And I said, here, I'll send it again. And then you still haven't listened to it. Okay. Well, I think it's pretty damn funny. Where did you send it? Our our chat thing.
SPEAKER_03Group or just between you and me or showing that?
SPEAKER_04Just you and me, or I don't know. Maybe I imagined it. But either way, I meant to send it to you. That's the important part. I'm scrolling and I'm not finding. You still haven't listened to it, have you? I don't think you've sent it to me. Well, I intended to, so that's good enough. Oh it's um I how did I not send it to you? Is the real question.
SPEAKER_03By the way, I called it on the Lindsey Clancy case. What's that? Oh, as far as jury one male holdout, yeah.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, no, you're right about that.
SPEAKER_03That was but that I initially thought it was way too much, you had way too much faith in humanity. I yes.
SPEAKER_04Yes, I think you're right. I I was surprised that they let a guy on that jury, frankly.
SPEAKER_03There were three of them.
SPEAKER_04Well, they let one guy and two guy two male presenting people. Good point.
SPEAKER_03Yes, one one guy with balls.
SPEAKER_04Uh-huh. Yes.
SPEAKER_03Uh-huh. Exactly. So, see here, I was looking for a an actual my latest song. Yeah, I just realized what happened. There's no link.
SPEAKER_04That's the problem. That's exactly what the problem is. God damn it. Why is it not frickin' linking? That's that well, that's something to be tracked down from Signal. Because uh frickin' Signal isn't forwarded properly.
SPEAKER_00Anyway, I'll um I'll get it sent out to you one way or another.
SPEAKER_04What else am I missing this week from being kind of?
SPEAKER_03Well, I can't listen to that while we're talking because it's not a good thing. Well, you can listen while I'm talking. I couldn't hear you.
SPEAKER_04Oh, that's alright. Uh you're not gonna miss anything. Well there's truth there, right?
SPEAKER_03Your jeans talking, you're not missing anything. No, yeah. So the Lindsey Clancy stuff, the women going off, and there's it. I I hope this is a litmus test for a very long time for men. It really needs to be.
SPEAKER_04And it's bringing to a head the fact that women do kill children way more often. The the gay presenting couple, as you like to say, did a video on this just the other day where they they dug into statistics about the number, and so this excludes abortion. So this is not like women killing kids because of abortion. They they looked at the numbers of both deaths of children and who was responsible in that case, and they looked at cases of abuse of children, and specifically at children five and under. So these are like kids that can't do anything to fight back, right? They're completely 100% dependent on their parents.
SPEAKER_03Well, but they're going through postpartum gene. Women's take it.
SPEAKER_04Women have killed three times as many children of that age group as men. That's shocking to me that there are so many women out there killing children. Because we don't hear about it. This is not a thing that anyone ever talks about. Is that we, you know, there's there's one school shooting. Oh my god, it's an epidemic, we have to ban all guns. And meanwhile, you have women killing three times as many children under five as men, and it's not mentioned on the news at all. We we have to start banning women, is what we have to do. They're not to be trusted with children. Thank God for robots. Because I'll tell you what, if I ever have kids, highly unlikely at this stage in my life, but if I ever do, man, still technically, physically possible if you get a woman, dude, and maybe even after. But I would not fucking trust a woman to take care of them. That's what robots are for. A robot will love Well, you could always do a surrogate. Oh, I've always thought of that. I like, even when I was married, I was like, you know, I'd like to pick somebody that that is more my taste in women to have my kid. Even if I'm not married to her, just to have the kid, you know.
SPEAKER_03But why were you so your wife wasn't your taste? I don't understand.
SPEAKER_04No, my wife was great. She was no longer in her early 20s, though. I want my kid to be born by somebody under 25. Somebody who's very healthy, has beautiful blue eyes like me.
SPEAKER_03Well, you really want your kid to be born to a virgin, right? Because of all the evidence now that the gen that previous pregnancies have issues. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It wouldn't hurt, but cross barriers.
SPEAKER_04But but yeah, I mean, certainly you have to be selective with that. And I I don't think like the standard for a girlfriend is way lower than the standard for the mother of my kids, which is probably why I don't have kids.
SPEAKER_00Okay.
SPEAKER_03So but a wife isn't a girlfriend.
SPEAKER_04Well, I mean, the like the wife is definitely not a girlfriend, and the standard for wife is higher because that it that financially obligates me. So it's gotta be somebody that I'm I can be much better friends with my wife than somebody who's just a girlfriend. But honestly, both of those are lower standards than my male friends, and certainly lower standards than I would have for a surrogate. Well, okay then. Well, I think that's a not an uncommon view. I think talking to most of my married friends, that's kind of their view now. It wasn't when they got married, but it sure is now.
SPEAKER_03Well, I think that that you should just have a higher standard for your wife.
SPEAKER_04Well, I mean, I guess once we're allowed to marry robots, maybe that'll be a thing.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, but you just gotta have the oxolotl tanks to go along with them.
SPEAKER_04It's a so go ahead. No, I we can get we can get into creepy territory here really fast. Because I'm not against eugenics, I'm against abortions.
SPEAKER_03Well, you know, I yes, you know, it it as soon as we have an oxaloto Here's the thing. Women think the they can have a future without men. I think the way things are going to progress, yeah, it's gonna be the other way around.
SPEAKER_04Yeah. Absolutely. Absolutely. Men realize that they're not getting from women what women used to provide to previous generations, and uh, we're literally on the verge of humanoid robots.
SPEAKER_03It's gonna go fast, you know the verge of a you know, something that you can program to be exactly how you want them to be.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, like stuff from Black Mirror or you know, Twilight Zone or any science fiction, really. And this is by the way, I asked you the other day if you'd been watching Foundation. And you said no. And I think you should because it's I think you'll enjoy it. It definitely deviates from the books, but it's well written.
SPEAKER_03My only complaint about it should start fucking with my Asimov favorites, and we got a problem.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, it's it's not really. I mean, it it they don't they don't go in the wrong direction. It's not like what you want to call it, like this last Troy movie or whatever it is, Odysseus. But there is definitely more of that than I would like. There, there are a little too many non-white people in the in the universe. You know what I mean? It's kind of like like, hmm, why is this planet look like everybody came from Mexico? You know, stuff like that. But the stories are good, the the writing's good, the tech is good, the visuals are good, the characters, like my favorite characters are I think the sort of main protagonists who are the Emperor Empire. Well, you've read the books, you know, you know who Empire is. So I think they're done really well. All three of the actors do a just a bang up job playing that character. Young, you know, normal life, like 40-year-old and then old. And but they didn't make a change from the books. I I mean there's a lot of changes, but it's still worth watching. But anyway, the reason I brought it up is because one of the main characters that is a very minor character in the books is a major character in the TV show who is the last sentient robot.
SPEAKER_00Okay.
SPEAKER_04So it's a the chick that plays the robot is really like they picked somebody really good for that. She's got one of those sort of nondescript European accents. And she's a blue-eyed blonde chick. And as all robots should be. Hey, no, no, no.
SPEAKER_03We gotta have some redheads in there.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, well. Yeah, if you wanna if you wanna program some bugs and errors in there first and have them like electrocute you in the middle of sex, then yeah, then you have some redhead robots in there for sure.
SPEAKER_03Hey, you know what?
SPEAKER_04It's worth it. I know what you're gonna say.
SPEAKER_03It's worth it.
SPEAKER_04I hear you, I hear you. I I've often been tempted by the the red hair myself there, and it it always ends up being very fiery in the end.
SPEAKER_03My goodness, one redheaded girl I dated in high school. She was a preacher's daughter. Oh, it's the worst kind. So wild, you know.
SPEAKER_04Like, yeah, you know, they don't feel pain. That's the other thing about redheads. Yeah. Yeah. I don't think that's true. It is totally true. I don't think that's true. I've been with a lot of redheads, they do not feel pain, man. They're this is a well-known thing. If you look at like if you Google redheads and dental pain, you'll you'll see redheads complaining about how like none of the the pain-reducing drugs work, but that that is the flip side of the fact that they feel a decreased pain. Pain sensors are very different in redheads. You know, it really it makes total sense. They're really a different species. They're human, but they're not us.
SPEAKER_03Are you saying redheads have no souls?
SPEAKER_04No, I don't think anyone's got a soul. I'm an atheist. But as far as pain receptors, they're absolutely different in redheads. No two ways about it. But they are phones, they're more photosensitive, though. So they don't feel physical pain, but they feel more luminous pain.
SPEAKER_03So it's I don't even know what luminous pain means.
SPEAKER_04Well, if you turn on ultraviolet light, it'll be mildly annoying to you, and it'll be like screaming and yelling for a redhead. Not that I've done this, but it's I've read papers about it. I've read papers that were published by Germans. Anyway, hey man, even sadists have feelings. What else we got?
SPEAKER_03The LGTV stuff. We want to talk about Gamer Nexus and what they did.
SPEAKER_04Oh my god, yes. The LG, not LGBT, LG Television is what you meant to say.
SPEAKER_03Yes,
LG Smart TVs And Home Surveillance Ads
SPEAKER_03I said LG T.
SPEAKER_04I heard LGBTQ plus I.
SPEAKER_03I said LGTVs. That is a very unfortunate collision. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04Domain collision. Well, it's such a dumb name, too, because you know, if you turn on one of their TVs, it said life's good. That's not their name. That's not the fucking company. Lucky the Lucky Gold Star is the name of the company. But anyway, yeah, this story broke, which was I think quite enlightening to a lot of people.
SPEAKER_03Well, it's something that if you've been listening to Alex Jones, he was tracking when they first did the patent. Did he? I didn't know. Yeah, Alex Jones was talking about this years ago when the patent first came out. For listening. Yes, and the ads and how to do it.
SPEAKER_04So basically, LG TVs are super cheap, as are most T V brands. No, they are.
SPEAKER_03No, LG is not a cheap brand. No, it's L.
SPEAKER_04No, it's not a cheap brand, but the price of televisions is one of the few things that has Countered inflation. Like the same-size TV today is cheaper than that TV was two or three years ago. Most other things right now are more expensive than two or three years ago. Televisions have not been going with inflation. They've not been holding same. They've actually been dropping in price, which means that in real dollars, they're dropping even more. So I don't mean cheap as in quality. I mean they're they're cheaper because they are supplementing the money that the television would have made from just being sold to you with money the television makes for its entire lifespan listening in on your conversations and then selling that data. It's like Adam Curry always says if you are not paying for a product, then you are the product. And I probably butchered that a little bit, but you know what I mean. Effectively, with these televisions, the reason that you can buy a 50-inch TV for 350 bucks is because that television's gonna make another $500 on you from having its microphone or more, having its microphones on, cameras on, and anytime you watch anything, taking screenshots of what's on your TV, man, there's gotta be a lot of porn in there, and then analyzing those screenshots to determine the content that you're consuming. All of that done in the name of selling that data to advertisers who will then better target you.
SPEAKER_03And I'm sure Well, we're we're just gonna have to go back to dumb monitors. Yeah, that's the only answer. I've always looked never connected. Exactly. Have a computer connected to it, you know. Don't give it a path out.
SPEAKER_04They're my this you could see this. Like the monitor of the same size. I've got a 47-inch monitor monitor on my computer. This monitor was 850 bucks. At the same exact time, I could have bought a 47-inch TV set for 250 bucks.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, but there's some refresh rate differences in the monitor. The monitor is 144, the TV's 120. Yeah. The so the interesting thing is, and what I'm gonna tie into this is how long until LG starts pulling an Apple? So you've seen Apple's new folding phone, right? And there is no selfie bump, right? There's no punch hole because they've got they've got the camera behind the screen.
SPEAKER_04Androids have had it for two years now, so it's kind of late to the party.
SPEAKER_03How long until there's literally a camera pointed at you, is my point.
SPEAKER_04Oh, there's always a crime pointed at you. Maybe in your house, not in mine. My house, there's 14. Excessive mud? No, they're all going to a storage device for security purposes. Offsite in Switzerland.
SPEAKER_03Okay, Jeffrey.
SPEAKER_04Hey man. There's I don't I don't know of anybody that was in Switzerland that had anything to do with Jeffrey. You know what?
SPEAKER_03Both Jews just saying cameras all over your houses. Uh-huh.
SPEAKER_04Yeah. Likes them young. I don't know, man.
SPEAKER_03I think Tina's quote on you was he likes young skin.
SPEAKER_04That's literally what she said, yeah.
SPEAKER_03Anyway.
SPEAKER_04But who doesn't?
SPEAKER_03I mean, I'm just But it anyway, this whole LG thing, Gamer Nexus did a great job.
SPEAKER_04Do you remember the number of TVs he said that were affected? That's some crazy high number.
SPEAKER_03200 and some odd million.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, like an insanely high number. 200 million TVs. And that's basically since I think like 10 years ago, 12 years ago, something like that.
SPEAKER_03And they were talking about the corporate use of these in the boardroom and everything else. Yes. Doctors offices. So if you but there is a difference between the commercial brand, which is more expensive, and the consumer brand. But how many law offices doctors' offices install on cheap? Yes, exactly. 100%.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, that's that's a real problem. That's a definitely a problem. The the slimy, sleazy guy that they were showing in that video that is in charge of their advertising division. Who's been banned by the FCC? Literally, like a criminal found to be in criminally negligent and banned is the guy running that division. But I guess, you know, in my experience working with marketing types, there's an awful lot of sleaze that that's involved in that. It's not not to be unexpected. But I don't care. Like I honestly think that what should happen is a bill out of Congress, a bipartisan bill, give them a nice option or not nice opportunity to do a bipartisan bill. First of all, let's get one done for the fucking flock cameras. And then secondly, let's do one for intrusive technology in the home bill. They always have to come up with some acronym that sounds funny. But but a bill that basically says you can't have any of this spying tech in the house. You can't just simply put a a 30-page form that the user has to click to sign. Oh, it was more than that. They they had to click through. It was like decline it. It was a positive affirmative decline. Yeah, that's bullshit too. But either way, I just think that that just does not belong in the house. And if you want that, if you want to sell a TV, like I think the way Amazon does it is good. You can buy a Kindle or you can buy a Kindle with advertising or cheaper. Yeah. The normal Kindle price is the one without ads. But if you want to save money and you're willing to get their ads, you can save like 20%. Like that's the way these things should be sold. The normal TV does not have intrusive technology. But if you want to save 20%, or maybe 50 even, we've got one that is blatantly, obviously, and explicitly going to be spying on you in order for you to get that cost savings. Like, I have no problem with that, but the way it's done right now is just it's super sleazy. It should not be happening. It just shouldn't. I don't you like you should first of all never accept very high-end microscopes. Never accept the terms of your television. That's the first advice I would give. Like it's stupid. It doesn't need terms.
SPEAKER_03What I thought was funny is their lawyers telling them they can't legally accept terms of service while inebriated. Right, right. That was hilarious.
SPEAKER_04That was funny. That was that was cute. Gamers Nexus has really like stepped up their game because they're spending some money together. That means they're making some money. Because for a long time, Gamers Nexus was basically like three dudes, one of which never cut his hair, talking about motherboards and inside jokes about chip processor numbers. Like it was it was the most nerdy of all the nerdy shows about nerdom. Well, you I am the nerdiest. Their show made Linus seem like he's mainstream.
SPEAKER_02Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_04Well, he is. Well, he kind of is. But they like Gamers Next has always had this reputation for being boring, monotonous, and their news segments were filled with things you didn't care about. Because they they would. They would be talking about you know, some motherboards that represent 1% of all motherboards being incompatible with 1% of the chips, and they think it's the greatest thing since sliced bread. They do a lot of detailed analytics, though. Very, very detailed. Like way, yeah, and fucking is a good way to phrase it. Yeah. What's that German website that used to do that shit but stopped? I I don't know. I I find going to German websites dangerous. And fucking German website with ant fucking, what was that called? No, it was like something reporting.
SPEAKER_03Shoving it up as your ethere, dude. Like you cannot Google German and the word fucking and come up with something that isn't just like, holy shit, what am I watching?
SPEAKER_04Yeah, that's probably true. Germans have a peculiar taste in certain matters.
unknownYou think.
SPEAKER_00Well, but so do Japanese, so you know, take your poison. Oh.
SPEAKER_03Well, I I I'll take the fake tentacles over what the Germans do.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, I guess.
SPEAKER_03It's what the hell is you know you've been watching henta.
SPEAKER_04Henta?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, yeah. Hentai? No, hentai.
SPEAKER_04No, I I don't know what henta is. I know what hentai is. I don't know what henta is.
SPEAKER_03It's a live action one that's of very high production quality.
SPEAKER_04I've never seen it. No. I it's another thing I need to Google, huh?
SPEAKER_03Uh new thing. All right, so go from gaming and programming to I now have tennis elbow. Uh Jesus.
SPEAKER_04Yeah. Don't need that. It's it's I think technically it's golf. Is it golf elbow or table? Yeah, I think it's golf elbow is what it's called. Well, whatever, a wrist spray.
SPEAKER_03Come on.
SPEAKER_04Tennis elbow is uh slightly different. It's the inside versus the outside tendon. So it's the shape that you with tennis, you're you're doing the inside tendon, I think.
SPEAKER_03So talking about nerdy nerdum that no one gives a crap about.
SPEAKER_04Fine. Fine. Oh. God damn, what is that website? You know, this is the one time I wish. I really don't know, and I wish I'm very afraid to Google it. I wish this was one of the few things where I kind of wish we had livestream to ask people, because that is one thing that Darren's very good at doing when we record on my other podcast, Unrelenting.
SPEAKER_03Is that it's uh you have the studio audience.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, it's kinda like, alright, what are we what are we trying to remember, guys? And then there's always somebody that manages to chime in with the the correct uh phrase. So Ars Technica is the British one. What the hell is the German one? This is really getting me pissed off that I can't remember it. Because they like they were they were the popular website that did all the Your Spiegel? No, that's the magazine. It's a website that did testing of all the like techie shit, like motherboards. Okay, it's like John's Review or something like that.
SPEAKER_03Tom's hardware.
SPEAKER_04Tom's Hardware. That's what there you go. See you know it.
SPEAKER_03That's not a German site.
SPEAKER_00I don't think so. Tom's Hardware made by Thomas Papst Grundin. But where is he located? Let's see, location.
SPEAKER_04Tom's Hardware, Houston, Texas. That's not right. That that's not it must be a different site. Oh, here we go, here we go, here we go. I found it. See, I'm right. I'm always right. Don't ever argue with me. Tom's Hardware, an online publication owned by Future PLC focused on technology, founded in 1996 by Thomas Pabst. Tom's Hardware, founded by Thomas Pabst, and was followed by several foreign language versions, including Italian, French, Finnish, and Russian. The initial test labs for the site were in Germany.
unknownOkay.
SPEAKER_04Much of Tom's hardware testing now occurs in New York and a facility in Ogden, Utah. So originally a German dude had a lab doing testing. Cool.
SPEAKER_03But that's not where it is now. Oh, it's now it's in Houston, yeah. Um, by the way, we may have a programming interruption next week. Okay. I'm going to Virginia.
SPEAKER_04Oh, one of those secret trips you can't talk about. Got it.
SPEAKER_03No, it's it's a it's a customer-facing trip. Exactly. And we know who your customer is. So I'm going to I'm talking about going to Norfolk here now, not anywhere else. Oh, okay. The Navy. Got it.
SPEAKER_04Uh well, no, but where all the actual anti-hacking shit happens.
SPEAKER_03Anyway, going to Norfolk and then I'll be in Houston with another client. So I'm at like 6 30 on Monday morning.
SPEAKER_04You know, you you've got these fancy uh headphones now. Maybe you can find some time if if you're not too tired while you're on your trip to squeeze it in. But otherwise, we'll skip a week.
SPEAKER_03Or we can do it on the weekend, you know.
SPEAKER_04Or or that, yeah. Yeah. But you've been you do you not want to brag about your headset?
SPEAKER_03I I think I've already talked to you.
SPEAKER_04I know, but you're you're still bragging to me about it. The least you should do is dude, they work really well.
SPEAKER_03The these uh Liberty 5 Pro Max, like you can make an Apple naming scheme they have. Right, right.
SPEAKER_04Pro Max, oh yeah.
SPEAKER_03You you can make a call in a Norsy room, and the AI noise gating that it's doing is fantastic.
SPEAKER_04It's very good. I will attest to that because you were apparently vacuuming or something. I didn't hear it.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, yeah. And it's not like I when I talk, the noise gate drops and you hear all the background noise. It's literally doing the filtering for just the voice.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, it's doing processing. It's it's kind of like the you know, the the headphones that remove airplane noise. Mm-hmm. So kind of like that. So I think they're perfectly capable of just running a show, in my opinion.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I think it might get rid of my other mic. I don't know.
SPEAKER_04Yeah. Well, try before you get rid of it, try. Let's do a recording with them. But Nah I have faith. They're that's the trouble with you religious people. Uh-huh. And of course, I'm a man of no faith, so much much more sane. But yeah, I think, well, we'll play it by ear. If you if you don't feel too tired one of those days or maybe on the weekend or something, we'll we'll record it then. Not that people care when we record. I think they the the ones that enjoy it enjoy the content, but whether it's a Thursday, Friday, or Saturday edition, I don't think.
SPEAKER_03Oh, and half the time, even when we will record on Thursday, you don't release till Monday.
SPEAKER_04Uh-uh. I don't want to compete with all the other podcasts, you see. So sometimes I I I strategically plan a planned delay for these things.
SPEAKER_00Sometimes I just forget. That's how it that's how it works.
SPEAKER_04And I don't know if did I did we talk about the AI shit already or not?
Vibe Coding, Modding, And Data Nerds
SPEAKER_04So I've been doing kind of doing a deep dive, learning the whole vibe coding thing. Which is interesting because I I've I haven't programmed commercially for many, many decades. I started off my life as a developer and then kind of moved on from there. But I still have been about every two or three years writing software for myself, and by software I mean game mods. So I play video games, and quite often the I find there's something I'd like to do that's not currently in the game. At which point then I can just create a mod for the game.
SPEAKER_03Do you remember Gary's mod?
SPEAKER_04Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_03That was dude. I had a buddy that worked on that. Yeah. That was a that was a really cool thing back in the day.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, Steam is they they were very pro modding, they still are very pro modding community. In fact, my my current mod for this game, X4, that I'm playing, is now up on Steam as well. But it's not a mod anybody would I mean the average person would never use it. It's a the function of the mod is to create a log file with a bunch of data about your fleet of spaceships. So it's it's it's a mod for data nerds.
SPEAKER_00Okay.
SPEAKER_04Because then you can import that data and start doing modeling. And and I I found myself having an audience that includes quite a few data nerds on my YouTube. And so this is right up there.
SPEAKER_03That's a fun, that's a fun group.
SPEAKER_04When I when I make a post and I say this is a bunch of Sheltons.
SPEAKER_03Yes, yes, exactly. And I make a you know, you know something that bugs me about that character? Sheldon? That he's gay? Yeah. No, no, no, he's not gay. Well, whatever, but it doesn't portray a gay anyway. He's supposed to be from Galveston, Texas.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, he actually is from Galveston, that's where he was born.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, but like I'm from that area, right? I'm from the peninsula, and it's just like there's so many little things about Galveston that they get wrong in the story arc of that show that just oh yeah, they do, trust me.
SPEAKER_00I don't know, man. You know the reason why he's from Galveston. Okay, why?
SPEAKER_04Because that's where the actor's from.
SPEAKER_00They thought it'd be easier to use his sort of childhood as the character's childhood. So he also has a BS and M M S M A PhD and S C D. So what do you have?
SPEAKER_04What do you have?
SPEAKER_00What do you mean? What do I have?
SPEAKER_04I'm just listed off his degrees. Yeah, I don't have any degrees. Well, there you go.
SPEAKER_03I quit. Yeah, I know, much like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates and other Elon Musk. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04Yes. All the all the greats. All the greats quit college.
SPEAKER_00Facebook guy. So yeah.
SPEAKER_04But again, I just brought it up because the the reason that the character is from there is because that's where Okay, but anyway, you were saying data nerds in your audience and on the tangent. Well, it's just interesting because I I you know what I post spreadsheets pretty regularly. And I have some videos that are nothing but spreadsheets. And I I kind of started just labeling this stuff as like, okay, guys, this is for data nerds only. So if this is not interesting, just skip to the next video. And then I get a bunch of comments of people saying, Yeah, this is great. Did I bet you that the demographics of my audience is 0.3% women?
SPEAKER_03And I will bet money that those are trans.
SPEAKER_04Could be right. Could be right.
SPEAKER_03You present it to your data nerd audience and prove me wrong.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, 0.3%. Yeah, it is identify as women. That's probably 0.3% higher than this show's audience.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, you know what? We need to figure out how to we need to figure out how to do AI masking and get on uh on YouTube.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, and I I think that's getting closer and closer to where it can be done live.
Putting The Show On YouTube Safely
SPEAKER_03Well, we don't have to have it done live.
SPEAKER_04Well, I mean, doing it in post isn't all that difficult because all you really need to do is just attach. And I I've said this to Darren as well. Like, the super easy way to put the podcast up on YouTube is just to have a couple of you know, amorphous blobs or or squares or any kind of shapes that just fuck that.
SPEAKER_03I want the how-to-fish avatars.
SPEAKER_04You want the how-to-fish guys? Okay. I mean, I don't think that's all that hard to do. Probably could do that with vibe coding. It's just make a program that has two avatars, and when it when it hears noise from one, it makes the mouth flappy move on one of them. And it yeah, you heard the way that the avatars talk in that program, right? So we could do the same thing. I watched the video. Okay, well, just check it. But I think that's that's certainly. The amazing thing to me is like Darren's been posting unrelenting on YouTube now for three and a half years. Not a single episode has gotten banned.
SPEAKER_00Okay, interesting.
SPEAKER_04No sense to me whatsoever. Because a lot of the topics we talk about are no no less adult than this show. Maybe a little bit, but not a whole lot less adult. And yet not a single episode they've had any issues with. So I think YouTube's algorithms on when they actually start based off of size. Yeah, I think it is. And it may be dynamic that you know, today the minimum size is 30,000 subscribers, tomorrow it might be 10,000. But there clearly seems to be a minimum, like we're not even gonna bother checking what the outliers do because we don't give a shit kind of attitude. So it it only because you've I'm sure seen some of the videos I've been posting where you know there's a lot of guys right now that are talking about Europe and the problems they're having that are getting demonetized on YouTube, like permanently demonetized. Like the Nux, Nuxenor, he's demonetized permanently now. He can't make any money on YouTube.
SPEAKER_02Shocker.
SPEAKER_04Uh I know, right? Like he's a cartoon character and they they demonetize him. Jake, the guy with the white makeup, who's a conservative dude from Ireland, who was basically taken out of the airport when he came back from the US and said that you know they understand that he's a racist and they might arrest him.
SPEAKER_03Did did we talk about Milo last time?
SPEAKER_04Yeah, we talked about okay. I'm pretty sure we did.
SPEAKER_03Because that that's fucking hilarious. Oh, it is funny as all that.
SPEAKER_04I've never liked that guy. I he's way too gay. And I never believed any of this bullshit that he was laying about like, you know, seeing the light and no longer being gay. Literally, somebody asked him after this event happened, you know, well, what are you gonna miss about America? And he says, Well, my husband. Okay, yeah, I'm sure he I'm sure he's like a born-again Catholic now, and and you know, not having man sex. It's just retarded. And I've never liked him back in the old days when he was campaigning for Trump, because he always kept referring to Trump as daddy Trump. Like Trump doesn't pulled into your gay fantasies.
SPEAKER_03He clearly wanted to that.
SPEAKER_04Obviously. Obviously. But it's just there are plenty of gays that don't shove it in front of your nose that are conservative. He was never one of them. He was always a grifter that was going after wherever he could get the biggest, you know, the the biggest splash that he could make. And and then him bringing, he was the guy that brought.
SPEAKER_03You know, calling someone a grifter when you literally did a podcast called Griftcast. I'm just gonna say.
SPEAKER_04That was my invention, by the way. That was that was 100% created by me to help a buddy make some money, and then he stepped me in the back. Which is usually what happens.
SPEAKER_03But Well, I mean, to anyone who's willing to be a grifter, sure.
SPEAKER_04Well, I but it was You reap what you sow, created a path to financial freedom for him. Which he somehow decided was all his doing.
SPEAKER_00So, whatever. But it's not to mention I donated a bunch of money into him as well.
SPEAKER_04The thing that Milo was doing was again, it was just like rubbing his homosexuality into everybody's faces, and then watching the reaction as people on the right seemed to do nothing about it because he was you know, one of us one of us. It's like there's a point where your actions actually they they negatively affect your speech. Like there's a point at which you have to w see what somebody's doing, not just what they're saying. And in that, and and frankly, even what he was saying was pretty disgusting. Like, you know, daddy Trump. But he was the guy that brought Ye to the White House. Like the only reason that Ye ended up having to.
SPEAKER_03And Timcast.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, yeah. Timcast is well, but I mean, I don't really care about that, but but that's the only reason that Trump got associated at all with Ye and Nick Fuentes, his other gay protege. So he brought gay Nick, the Mexican. Since when is Nick gay? He's always dude. Really? Seriously, like if he the most gay presenting guy out there. You're asking me. No, that's your guy. No, no, no, no, no. My guy is way less gay presenting than Nick. Nick allegedly has never had sex with a woman, but we've seen literally hundreds of photos of him with guys. He's he went on a date with a cat boy that we have video of. Okay. Literally video of him on a date. It's just AI. No, it's not. This is all pre-AI. This is from like five, six, six.
SPEAKER_03By the way, hey, we need to remember Charlie Kirk.
SPEAKER_04Yeah. That's coming up, right? When eight I uh today. Oh shit. I thought it was a few days from one no, is the night was the 10th. Holy shit. So he got to miss 9-11 as well. That sucks. Yeah. He would have enjoyed that. That sucks. What? I'm sure he was looking forward to all the American, you know, stuff happening in 9-11. I guess. It's a memorial holiday, man.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. So anyway, no, but one year, man. That's crazy.
SPEAKER_04Do you remember? I can't remember if I called you or if you called me, but it was definitely an off non-regular day for recording, and we're like, I can't believe this shit happened. We gotta do an episode.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I think it was me calling you because you know, I had met him at an event here at Texas AM. And, you know, it's just real weird because it's not like I knew the guy or anything.
SPEAKER_04But we all felt like we knew the guy because we were watching him on a daily basis.
SPEAKER_03And it's not, it's that, and then it's just someone I have met has been politically assassinated.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_03I still just a strange feeling.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, no, I uh that's true. And then you got Clinton, who I met, who's still alive.
SPEAKER_03I've I've met Clinton.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, there you go.
SPEAKER_03I'm I met Clinton, I met Papa Bush, baby Bush. Papa Bush.
SPEAKER_04When'd you meet Papa Bush? He's way too old.
SPEAKER_03His library is at Texas A. Oh, okay, okay. Gotcha. Yeah. I met Carter. Really? Wow. Yeah. The only two living presidents that I have not met is Obama and Obama and Trump.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, although we went to that Trump network.
SPEAKER_03Right, but I've spoken with Biden when he was a senator lobbying Congress. So yeah.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, that's wild. So we're the I mean, if we we can go through the amount of political people I've met in my life, but you know, it's No, I'm I would think they would all prefer to not have you say anything about meeting you or them.
SPEAKER_03Sitting in Kay Bailey Hutchison's office when she got the when an intern walked in and interrupted our meeting and told her about Fort Hood.
SPEAKER_04Oh wow.
SPEAKER_03Uh the evil bitch showed.
SPEAKER_00I'll just put it that way. Mm-hmm. Wow. Yeah. Anyway, man.
SPEAKER_04And there's there's rumblings out there right now that I've been seeing in the
Cyber Threat Rumors And Grid Weak Points
SPEAKER_04the dark web. Let's just call it that. Talking about Twitter. No, not that one. That's a different dark. Talking about some planned event that uh apparently Iran is organizing right now for the US.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, good luck. Well, I mean I wouldn't say that.
SPEAKER_04But hopefully there won't be anything, but I know that there's definitely a lot of a lot of talk going on around that topic.
SPEAKER_03Look, they're gonna try, and you know, like the water facilities that got hit. It could it could have been Iran, but quite frankly, it could have been any script kitty. We've already addressed that. But here's the thing our critical infrastructure, it depends on the sector, but they're very there's a variety of different levels of maturity when it comes to cybersecurity. This is what I do for a living, this is my job. And I will say that some sectors are better than others. I will say ironically, some of like the super majors and everything are some of the worst, even though they've got some of the most money because they stop their program at the plant firewall, and whatever's going on inside the plant is the engineers problem. So could someone do something? Yeah, but it will be localized or regionalized, and it may be a hundred pockets across the United States, but it'll be in pockets. I do not think so. Actually, here's an interesting thing. Do you know the single point that was most likely to affect the Texas grid? What's that? From a hacking standpoint, nest thermostats.
SPEAKER_04Oh, yeah, that makes total sense.
SPEAKER_03Hot day, grid stressed, hack into nest, turn them all down to 50.
SPEAKER_04And then mine's already at 50.
SPEAKER_03But you get my point.
SPEAKER_00Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER_03And that isn't even considered critical infrastructure. Well, yeah.
SPEAKER_04No, I I I totally agree. The problem too lies in there being too much consolidation. Like if you have 20 different brands, it's a lot harder to get them all to work in unison.
unknownCorrect.
SPEAKER_04But when you have something that is as ubiquitous as a nest. And I remember Adam Curry talking about this back when he lived in downtown in Austin. Like they couldn't opt out of it in their condo.
SPEAKER_00Like everybody had to have a nest.
SPEAKER_04And wouldn't surprise me if somebody discovers there's that nests were used for that people triangulation, you know, where they use Wi-Fi signals and then actually observe those through the signals to see where people are. That is happening somewhere recently. I was watching a sh something on YouTube about the fact that a lot of apartment buildings in Austin because a lot of them are high t high tech, they have measures in place through a number of devices to observe how many people are in a unit. And if you have more than the number of people that are in your application that are routinely in the unit, then they will automatically start charging you for an additional person. And they're saying that they don't have any cameras or anything. This is all just like data they they can gather from smart devices. Probably LG TV sets, is my guess. Oh, we we observed five distinct voice profiles. So what do you think? Has Telarico got no chance of winning then?
SPEAKER_03Well, Trump's
Smart Apartments And Political Wrap-Up
SPEAKER_03speech was pretty good on hitting Telarico. I think Trump and Elon have dumped enough money into Kim Paxon's campaign that I think he's gonna be alright. And I just maybe, you know, you are having faith in humanity with the Lindsay Clinton's thing. Maybe I'm having faith in humanity and Texans right now, but I just cannot see that little queer boy getting elected to Congress.
SPEAKER_04That would be a sad day for Texas.
SPEAKER_03And when I say that, it's he he he went through seminary, but is not a Christian. He means when asked when asked well when asked when asked what he loves most in the world, he answers trans kids.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, trans kids, because that's what they teach you in Catholic seminaries to love kids.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. And he also banned meat on his campaign at some point in time. Like Texas can't be a good thing.
SPEAKER_04Well, that's the phrase that's so anti-Trump fucking Trump was really good about is that he he he just likes to ban meat. No, what did he say? Not beat meat. He said his he loved beating meat. Like his whole thing was about beating meat, just over and over, just beating meat, nonstop. And then he decided that he likes meat. So now he's gonna put meat in his mouth all day long. I mean, it's just like Jesus, Trump.
SPEAKER_01Exactly.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, just getting meat coming out of his mouth now. He just can't get enough meat. And he's got a smile on his face. So it's not like he doesn't understand what he's saying.
SPEAKER_03Oh, Trey do exactly what he's saying, yeah. Like people who sit there and say that Trump has Alzheimer's and this and duh da-da-da-da. If he does, it's the funniest fucking invocation of it ever.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hey, what do you know about Project Watershed? Project what? Watershed. Nothing. Okay, we'll talk about it after. All right, well, we're good. We got two hours, so Ben, I will talk to you next week. Maybe. Or not. Well, yeah, it depends on if you're a slacker or not, I guess.
SPEAKER_03Dude, I'm gonna be I I have two 6 a.m. flights. All right, okay. Two 6 a.m. flights. We're done.
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