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184 From A Bad Marriott To Better AI Tools
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Your group chat doesn’t stay on one topic, so why should a real conversation. We start with pure life stuff: Brazilian steakhouse strategy, a Florida family trip, and a Marriott Vacation Club that proves how much staff culture can wreck an otherwise decent property. From there we hit the small modern parenting fight nobody feels like they signed up for, the nonstop stream of kids content and how fast it turns into brain rot if you don’t intervene.
Then we zoom out to the news and politics, including a major Methodist church breaking away, what that says about governance and ideology inside Christianity, and why the cultural divide keeps widening even in places that used to avoid it. We also talk early voting, how people read turnout, and the ongoing free speech and censorship debate as platforms flirt with “less moderation” and community-driven fact checks.
The second half goes deep on artificial intelligence: AI generated video that feels shockingly watchable, the new wave of prompt-built worlds, and how AI makes software knockoffs faster and cheaper than ever. But the real point is security. We get into AI agents, red-team testing, password hashing, auth design, and why “it works” is the most dangerous milestone when you don’t know what you’re shipping. If you care about AI tools, cybersecurity, generative media, or just making sense of the chaos, this one will hit. Subscribe, share it with a friend, and leave a review with the one AI use you trust and the one you never will.
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Steakhouse Banter And Food Hacks
SPEAKER_03Well howdy, Ben. How are you today? Oh, Gene, I'm doing good. I'm doing good. I just had dinner at the Brazilian steakhouse and had to hurry back here to talk to you. I'm I'm stuffed.
SPEAKER_05Oh, Brazilian Steakhouse, Gan. I haven't been to one of those in ages.
SPEAKER_03But you know, so when went on Wednesday night, because Wednesday night, kids are free.
SPEAKER_05So well, like shouldn't the kids be free all the time because they don't eat a whole lot anyway?
SPEAKER_03Well, so uh under six is free all the time. Okay, but my son is oh yeah, he's six, so yeah, he gets free with the purchase of my meal.
SPEAKER_05You couldn't lie about his age, given that there's no driver's license.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, no one would would question a damn thing. That's fine, but yeah, you know. Anyway, but they the the kids like it, they think it's fun getting all the meats and trying different stuff. We drive uh I had to drive separately so that way when they get antsy and full, they can leave and I can sit there and eat for another 20 minutes.
SPEAKER_02Smart man. I'm gonna get that money's worth. That's the way to do it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And it's not a good thing. Everybody lets us fill it up on the bread and stuff, right? Exactly, exactly.
SPEAKER_05Nope. That like I was gonna say, the the bread is the only part that you know really gives you any calories in there. The it's really tempting though, because it is so good. It's so good.
SPEAKER_03The cheese and by the way, if you don't know what we're talking about, it's this little cheese puff bread that the Brazilians do that is just it's amazing.
SPEAKER_05It really is. It's like I just call it cheesy bread, kind of like uh in the South Park. But it's it actually isn't. I can't remember. I got the recipe for it once, but it it's it is not bread and cheese, which is exactly what it tastes like. It's actually a different type of plant, flour. And I don't even think there's cheese in there. Or if there is, there's very little, but it tastes super cheesy. Mm-hmm. It's good stuff, and that's the thing. Like, if you go to uh one of these Church Koreas, you're gonna have the best salad bar in town.
SPEAKER_03Yes.
SPEAKER_05Super, super tasty bread that you're gonna want to eat a bunch of. And all of that is by design because the more of that stuff you eat, the less of the expensive stuff you eat. Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER_03So by expensive stuff, you mean the like pound of filet mignon I consume today.
SPEAKER_05Several pounds of filet mignon, yes. Yes.
SPEAKER_03No, I I there's also some sirloin in there and some rubbeye and some other stuff, and even some chicken, because the bacon rib chicken is still.
SPEAKER_05I agree. Okay, you and I agree on this topic completely because most of my friends make fun of me for even eating chicken at a church career because they think that that's a waste of money. The chicken is delicious, awesome. It is very, very good. I totally agree.
SPEAKER_03I don't eat the sausage.
SPEAKER_05The sausage is a you know, no, the sausage is it's good. It's no better than awesome than you know, Texas barbecue sausage. But the the anything bacon wrapped, especially kosher bacon wrapped, is really good. And the the parmesan chicken or parmesan something they have is really good. Parmesan pork, I think. I it's a super kosher pork, very friendly, very flavorful.
SPEAKER_03We we have a great, they do a great garlic picania and spicy picania at this one.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, I'm not as much of a fan of picanha. I mean, if I'm gonna pick the meats, I'm I'm not gonna pick picanna.
SPEAKER_03Uh as long as it's crusty, it's good. The the the top sirloin or bottom sirloin, whichever it is, um, that's one of my favorites. And they because they do it so salt crusted.
SPEAKER_05They do, yeah.
SPEAKER_03Good.
SPEAKER_05Anyway. Yeah,
Florida Trip And Hotel Culture Shock
SPEAKER_05yeah, yeah. It is good, and and I remember taking your folks to one of those, and they they loved it. Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. I tried to get them to bring, we're doing the podcast a day early, A, because you know, no agenda is in.
SPEAKER_05Alternatively a week and uh six days late. Okay.
SPEAKER_03I was out of town. I was in I was doing the last beach trip of the year, man, in Florida. Yeah. Which by the way, so we have been to that area before a couple of times.
SPEAKER_05We what area were it in? Fort Lauderdale. It was okay, yeah.
SPEAKER_03But we went up to Singer Island, right, 30 minutes away the first two times.
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Very family friendly, great experience. This Marriott Vacation Club we stayed at, this is the worst fucking Marriott from a not from a facility standpoint, necessarily, but from a staff standpoint I have ever been in, and it's the worst of all the vacation clubs. Wow. Horrible, horrible. And there was one staff member there, one of the security guards, who is very friendly, very nice, very helpful, like sees you're struggling with something. Here, let me get the elevator for you and all that, right? Very nice. The rest, shit attitudes, and horrible. The the bar slash restaurant closed at 6 p.m. Damn. That's when people want to eat.
SPEAKER_05Yeah. Like, what the fuck? That is that I wonder if they're just having big issues hiring.
SPEAKER_03Well, let's just say the staff was almost universally Canadian and the managers were Canadian. Wow. And when I say Canadian, I'm using it like I work at a restaurant, if you get my drift.
SPEAKER_01Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER_03They were all black. So, you know, it was just that sort of just shit attitude. And it just it really it really got to me over the week of just seeing that culture now.
SPEAKER_05Do you think you wearing the Confederate flag on your shirt? I was not wearing a Confederate flag on my shirt. I mean, I've seen that shirt, man. It's got a Confederate flag.
SPEAKER_03And it's fucking Florida. This is the South. Get the fuck over it. But no, I wasn't wearing my Confederate shirt.
SPEAKER_05Okay.
SPEAKER_03All right, just check it. But anyway.
SPEAKER_05Because I I had a great experience over at what the hell is the where Mar-a-Lago is, that little town.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_05The merit there was very good. And it was a last minute thing. I wasn't planning on being there. I like showed up. No reservation. And I'm like, I just get got kicked out of this chick's house. I need to, I'm not gonna fly back early. I'm just gonna stay here an extra few days.
SPEAKER_03Well, and so like I was not the only person who felt this way. Like I talked to several other guests, like everyone was very frustrated with the staff and how they were handling things.
SPEAKER_04Uh-huh.
SPEAKER_03So there you go. Or at least the four or five other people I talked to.
SPEAKER_04They were there, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, that's too bad.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, it's uh we got to go play at the beach.
Butterflies, Brain Rot TV, And Parenting
SPEAKER_03Kids got to go to this thing called butterfly world. Have you ever looked at that?
SPEAKER_05Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, there's a few of them. I've been through one of them.
SPEAKER_03This is the only facility of its type in America, like that does what these people do. They they have over 20, like 24,000 butterflies of a whole bunch of different species in these areiers. And they have these birds from Australia, which are about the size of a cockatiel or so, you know, a mid-sized bird, but they're the largest of the nectar-eating birds in the world. Oh. And the kids got to feed them and they're hopping all over them and all over them, and it was it was cool. Oh, that's fun. Yeah.
SPEAKER_05Yeah. That's uh that's a neat thing. I like I'm more of a dragonfly guy than butterfly, but I've been through one of those, yeah.
SPEAKER_03Well, you're a beardo, so you being into Dragon Ball Z doesn't surprise me.
unknownWhat?
SPEAKER_03You're a beardo.
SPEAKER_05What the hell does one have to do with the other?
SPEAKER_03Well, most people don't have beards like yours that aren't into anime or some shit like that. Oh, I see what you're saying.
SPEAKER_05Yeah. Why is Dragon Ball Z a dragonfly?
SPEAKER_03I have no idea, dude. It was just a quick.
SPEAKER_05I kind of thought they were like dragon dragons.
SPEAKER_03I don't know. I've never watched it to be honest with you.
SPEAKER_05I haven't either. I don't know. I mean, certainly not uh My Little Pony, that's for sure.
SPEAKER_03Uh anyway, well, I have watched My Little Pony recently because of my dog. We need to do it. And it's oh my god, it's such brain rot. The shit my kids watch is just such brain rot.
SPEAKER_05Why do you let them watch that crap?
SPEAKER_03Because I I don't. When I walk in and it's real bad, I tell them to find something else, change it, do something else.
SPEAKER_05Yeah.
SPEAKER_03But I'm not the same.
SPEAKER_05When I was a kid, I was watching like Hogan's Heroes.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, me too. Or I dream of genie and stuff like that.
SPEAKER_05Watch that shit. It's good wholesome stuff.
SPEAKER_03Well, anyway, it's a whole thing.
SPEAKER_05You should put on Mad Men for them.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_05Tell them this is how your grandparents lived.
SPEAKER_03So anyway.
Methodists Split Over Church Politics
SPEAKER_03There's a few stories in the news. Okay, sure. I believe that. Did you see the one I posted about the second largest?
SPEAKER_05The answer for you for the rest of the episodes that we ever do moving forward.
SPEAKER_03No, you don't read shit.
SPEAKER_05We each put the stuff that we each watched in there, and neither one of us watches anything from the other person's post.
SPEAKER_03So I do occasionally.
SPEAKER_05I've asked you plenty of times. You don't.
SPEAKER_03So let's just say the second largest United Methodist church in the nation voted at over 90% of the congregation, that's almost 5,000, up in Dallas, to divorce itself from the Methodist body as a whole.
SPEAKER_04Okay.
SPEAKER_03Because the Methodists have gotten so woke, right, with the trans stuff, with the queer past female pastoral.
SPEAKER_05You know, younger Christianity religions.
SPEAKER_03Okay. Well, what it just for those of us that are not part of that.
SPEAKER_05Right. But what is is a Methodist named for something? Yes. Like a Method or something? Yes. Okay. That's what I'm asking.
SPEAKER_03Just like the Baptists are named for their belief in Baptism. Right.
SPEAKER_05And the Seventh-day Adventists are named for crazy people. I get it. But what's the like what what differentiates a Baptist from a Methodist?
SPEAKER_03Oh, several items. I could go through the Baptist distinctives, but I can't tell you the Methodist distinctives. I'm not a Methodist, and I haven't studied it. Okay.
SPEAKER_05But like do you know enough to at least say what the key difference is? Like what like they believe that Christmas shouldn't be Christmas or something. I don't know.
SPEAKER_03Sorry, coughing fit.
SPEAKER_05Talk. Yeah. It's all good. It's all good. So any any general, like big thing that they differentiate that you're aware of? I guess I could ask AI.
SPEAKER_03Well, church governance for one. Baptists believe that the each church is an autonomous thing in and of itself. Whereas like this church had to separate itself from a overarching governing body. That's a massive difference. So the Methodists are much more like Catholics in that they have a governance structure above the church. Baptists believe that the church is holy, succinct, and you know, the leadership of the church is there locally, and that's it.
SPEAKER_05Okay, here we go. I'm going to summarize it from AI here. Methodists believe that emphasis, they have an emphasis on grace. Methodism grew out of the traditions of John Wesley, 18th-century Anglican priest. Wesley emphasized God's grace at every stage of a person's life. Christian perfection. One of Wesley's most distinctive teaching was then Christians can, through God's grace, grow towards perfect love of God and neighbor.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I think you're going down a rabbit hole there.
SPEAKER_05Free will versus predestination. Methodist churches are Arminian, I don't know what that is, rather than Calvinist. Methodists generally believe Christ died for everyone. People can freely accept or reject God's grace. Elevation is available to you all. I don't know. This sounds like generic Christianity to me.
SPEAKER_03Right. But again, there's a difference between Methodists and Baptists on how the government, the governance of the church is there. There's difference in beliefs of they don't play with snakes or anything. No, they they're not like that. They're they believe in uh more social issues. Yeah. They they both Baptists don't believe in women preachers. Methodists do. They ordain women chronically, which I don't know. God said, don't let a woman speak in church.
SPEAKER_05So I think God just said don't let a woman speak, if I remember correctly.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. Anyway, there is quite a few differences, differences in baptisms and what is believed to be necessary. Okay.
SPEAKER_05I mean, it sounds like a fairly modern religion in the 1800s.
SPEAKER_03Well, but the the point is, and the point I was making, is the Methodists have been going woker and woker and woker. Yeah. And now the second largest church in the nation has voted at 90% to say, yeah, we're done with that. We can't do this anymore.
SPEAKER_05Okay. So they're gonna be like an off, like their own little they're gonna be an independent church. I'm assuming they're not becoming like Baptists as a result of this.
SPEAKER_03No, no, no, no, no. But they'll be their own thing.
SPEAKER_05Yeah. Well, I know the Lutherans do that with some regularity from having lived in Minnesota, where before the Somalis came and took it over, Lutheranism was pretty common.
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_05And there's all these synods and all these disagreements about trivial, well, seemingly to me, trivial matters that have massive church fights going on and they part ways and whatnot. Anyway, so you're what I guess you posted that because it's an example of Southern culture not wanting to go woke, where the rest of the religion from Northeast, I presume, is happy to go woke.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, there's just a further cultural divide coming, even inside churches, right? Yeah. We're the there are the conservative Christians, and there's the people who think, you know, it it's okay to be gay and a pastor.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, yeah, exactly. Uh, we don't want to vote for those.
SPEAKER_03One one Methodist preacher who is a bulldike that I've seen recently talking about trans kids and very much in the talerico sense, since we're right up here against the midterms, of God being non-binary and Jesus being non-binary and shit like that. Right. And it's just such off-the-wall stuff that can't be found anywhere in scripture that it's just in it's it's a level of insanity that people are no longer tolerating, is my point.
SPEAKER_05Well, it's just a stupid thing to say. I mean, everybody knows God made Adam in his image with a penis. Well.
SPEAKER_03I I I think the sovereignty of the individual is what was the point of God's in God's interpretation of the physical body.
SPEAKER_05I'm just talking about the actual language of the Genesis.
SPEAKER_03It says nothing about genitalia, sir.
SPEAKER_05No, it says in his image. I mean I don't think God was a Kendall. Missing the little bits there. It's pretty obvious God's a man. And that's where we had all them other religions starting up that seem to question things like that. Anyway, what else you got?
SPEAKER_03Well,
Brazil, Empire Talk, And Meta Free Speech
SPEAKER_03did you pay attention to the Brazilian stuff? No. So, you know, we had to ex-fill Bolsonaro because he lost, and they were trying to put him in jail, took his passport and shit like that. So I think we're about to have another Venezuela and a yoinkening here in a little bit.
SPEAKER_04Oh, the great yoinking.
SPEAKER_03Yes. The second great yoinkening is coming.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, yeah. So well, Mark Marco Rubio will be busy.
SPEAKER_03Already has been.
SPEAKER_05I know, but he's gonna end up with another job.
SPEAKER_03Oh, people have been talking about the next emperor.
SPEAKER_05Yeah. Yeah, I I he's got the name for it, man. I'm all for it. I I think that's why Republic things are rated. It it's time to become an empire.
SPEAKER_03Well, you know, hey, we have not entered our empire phase and we get 200 years after that, so I'm I'm I'm good with that. Me too.
SPEAKER_05Yeah. So, and you know who else is probably good with that? Who? Mark Zuckerberg. Oh, God, yes. Who got on to make an announcement. I don't think it was specifically on X, it was on his own platform, but that ended up on X. Basically talking about mistakes were made, too much zealotry prevailed, the wrong people were hired to be the gatekeepers of freedom of speech.
SPEAKER_03I did see this where they're getting back to their roots.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, and I I think those roots are basically in Mark's head that never actually existed. But, you know, I maybe in college when he was building Facebook in order to get girls, maybe he did have those rules. Like, hey, all jokes are totally legit on my platform. I'm not gonna ban anybody for telling a joke that has the n-word or anything. But it it fairly quickly became a censored platform. But it seems like he there's a bit of neocopa here, even mentioning Musk by name and saying that Musk led the way and he's happy to copy the process that X uses of having community notes and get it getting rid of all the moderators.
SPEAKER_03Well, good for him. He needed to do it.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, which I still don't understand who the fuck in this day and age uses Facebook. I mean, like 90-year-olds maybe? I don't know.
SPEAKER_03Oh my god, no. So many people use it. Why? Why would they? I I don't know. Although I hear Muse or whatever their bot is, is pretty good.
SPEAKER_05Is it?
SPEAKER_03According to Adam.
SPEAKER_05Hmm. Okay. Well, he's an old part these days, so can't trust old people.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. But uh no, it's it's good that he's doing a mayakulpa and going that way.
Early Voting Lines And Texas Forecasts
SPEAKER_03I think I think when you look at the the early voting numbers, which by the way, holy shit was the line long.
SPEAKER_05Yeah. I went I went twice because the line is damn long.
SPEAKER_03The first time I went Monday at four in the afternoon, I went earlier than that. There were no parking spots. People were parking on the lawn, and the the line was out the building.
SPEAKER_05I uh yeah, I drove around and went back home.
SPEAKER_03So I did the same thing, and then Tuesday I went and I went at 10 a.m. Yep, and I did not get out of there till almost 11.
SPEAKER_05So that's funny because I went at about 11 and I I thought I was like worried. I thought there's another line, I'll just you know do it again. And the line was actually shorter than it was the previous day by quite a bit. Even at 11, even at lunchtime. Well, I guess maybe I was there technically half hour before lunchtime. So maybe that's why I kind of got in there a little sooner. But yeah, I think most people voting conservative are gonna do early voting, and and we'll have all the actual Democrat votes coming in the day of, or that's not the next.
SPEAKER_03That's weekly the way that works, though. Democrats usually are several points ahead during the early vote. I don't Republicans are the ones doing it.
SPEAKER_05I mean, I talked to a few people online. That's that wasn't and I'm in Austin, for Christ's sake. Like in Austin, both people in front of me and behind me were clearly leaning conservative.
SPEAKER_03Well, I think you're seeing a lot of conservatives come out because they're very afraid of what the results of this election should be. I think I think at least in Texas, it's going to be a red landslide.
SPEAKER_05I'm hoping. Got my fingers crossed. I I keep hearing these predictions and projections, and they're very scary. You know, I I I couldn't believe that Texas had Ann Richardson. So ever since that point, I'm always leery of Texas to the wrong side.
SPEAKER_03But she was a blue dog Democrat. She was a Southern Democrat.
SPEAKER_05She was still a Democrat.
SPEAKER_03Oh, I understand, but you gotta remember Texas was one of those states that was a Democratic stronghold. Hell, LBJ was from Texas.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_03Right. And the reason why was because of Reconstruction.
SPEAKER_05Right. Yep. But, you know, it could swing back. You never know. Just hopefully it won't.
SPEAKER_03But I don't think so. I don't think Talarico's got a chance in hell, and I think Brandon's gonna win his race.
SPEAKER_05Yeah. I mean, I'm really I I don't think Brandon is likely to lose, but I'm obviously very much hoping he pulls it off. Because of all the people that have ever been that well, he's not elected yet. Ever of all the people that have ever gone through the process, other than me, myself, he is the closest to what I would say a guy who's gonna vote 100% based on my views.
SPEAKER_01Okay, like maybe 95%.
SPEAKER_05You know, but it's it's the highest of just about any politician out there. Because he's enough of a like he's got much like me, a a baseline of libertarian leave people alone, but also with the streak of practicality and the understanding that you know, being a I'm not gonna vote for this guy because the one thing he did out of 5,000 things I disagree with, it means I'm fuck him, I'm not voting for him. Like, yeah, that's how you end up a minority party. So you you have to be at least a little bit willing to stretch in order to ensure that you're constantly in the majority. Now, it doesn't mean bending over backwards for the other people's bad ideas, but it does mean that the two times when the Republican Party showed a clear majority was during Ronald Reagan with the Big Ten Party initiative, which brought in a lot of Democrats. And most recently with Trump. And I think that you know, George Bush did not bring in a whole lot of Democrats. That guy barely, barely squeaked through in winning. And if if Yeah, but he was such a neocon. If it wasn't for the the Iraqi war, he likely would have been a one-term president.
SPEAKER_01Should have been.
SPEAKER_05Well, I don't know if I really wanted Obama out there to be sooner.
SPEAKER_03Well, he wouldn't have been. It would have been Kerry. What do you mean?
SPEAKER_05Is that who ran that election? Was it Kerry? Okay.
SPEAKER_03Well, that's again, Kerry is It was Gore it was Bush v. Gore and then Bush v. Kerry.
SPEAKER_05Yeah. So Kerry was, I don't know. You know, a guy who basically married into the Heinz family.
SPEAKER_03Absolutely. That's where his money came from.
SPEAKER_05Yep.
SPEAKER_03Teresa Heinz Kerry. Man, I remember that.
SPEAKER_05And they're like, they weren't Democrats.
SPEAKER_03Who? The Heinz family.
SPEAKER_05The Heinz family.
SPEAKER_03Teresa sure as hell is.
SPEAKER_05No, no. I don't think she was before he got married, dude. I remember hearing this in stories during that election. But I don't know. I still think Heinz ketchup tastes better than most others.
SPEAKER_03Okay. I buy the HEB stuff.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, I I have both in my fridge, a bottle of Heinz and a bottle of HEB, but I maybe I'm just used to it. But I remember in like fourth grade in science class doing a blind case study experiment on ketchup.
SPEAKER_03Why were you doing that in fourth grade?
SPEAKER_05That's what we did back, like we actually did science in science class when I was a kid. Not the crap kids do these days. And I remember that Heinz Ketchup was
Space Cooling Myths And Space Data Centers
SPEAKER_05almost well, it was overwhelmingly picked in a uh blind test across the board for flavor because I think it does taste the best.
SPEAKER_03Well, Musk is uh pushing quite a bit. Have you and there's been a lot of backlash. Have you seen on YouTube the videos sitting there talking about how Musk is an idiot because of how heat dissipation works in space?
SPEAKER_05Oh, it's hilarious. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03I mean, their math is now they're going for order of magnitude, but order of magnitude kind of fucking matters here, dude. And yeah, like their stupid belief that Musk is going to make such a fundamental mistake is just hilarious. He's not going up there for the cooling, although cooling can be achieved, and there are several different processes. Yeah. Especially with now, you still have to radiate, right? You have to have enough of a radiation.
SPEAKER_05That's the problem with space. Cooling is the only form to get rid of heat is through black radiation.
SPEAKER_03Well, I don't know what you mean by black radiation, but radiation, yes. Well, you have to radiate the heat away.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_03There is no convection or transference through thermal contact. Yep.
SPEAKER_05But it's why your thing is.
SPEAKER_03Right. But it's why your thermos is a vacuum, right? Is is a double-walled vacuum chamber.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_03Because it is a good insulator. Sure.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_05But, you know, that that's not a major problem. And it's certainly not a problem if you're also generating electricity up there through solar panels because your solar panels are providing the shadow that your thermal radiators are sitting in.
SPEAKER_03Yes. And you know, you combine that and like a hydrogen fuel cell. And I've also seen people making the arguments, well, once you launch it, you can never do anything with it.
SPEAKER_00Excuse me.
SPEAKER_03Well, how are you ever going to fix it? If something breaks, you're you're not going to go fix it. With the way SpaceX is going and the trajectory they're on, yeah, they'll have regular service missions up there, dude. And it don't forget, we sent the space shuttle up and fixed the Hubble telescope in the 90s. Come on. Yeah. You can do stuff. Probably couldn't do that today, though. But with the lowering cost that the lowering of the launch cost that they've done, like it does start to make economic sense. And a lot of the math that I've seen is using way old numbers on launch costs.
SPEAKER_05Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, it's way cheaper.
SPEAKER_05And especially with Starship.
SPEAKER_03Yes. And they haven't even gotten Starship fully functional yet.
SPEAKER_05No. But it it's it makes sense. I so literally the a few months before the start of was it COVID-19 or 20? I can't remember. What year was it? 19. 19. So it would have been the end of 20, or sorry, the end of, yeah, 2018. So right before 2019. I had a couple of contracts with clients that were supposed to start in 2019. One of those two was with a startup that was going to be putting up data centers in space. And they had at least some funding. They had, I looked at all the plans, I I looked at like what the path forward is, and it was a it would have been a really fun project. And shortly after the beginning of COVID and before my actual start date, which I think was like March, March 1st or something, their pledged funding dried up. Like COVID basically scared the investors into pulling back.
SPEAKER_03Yes, absolutely.
SPEAKER_05And they yeah, they were not the only ones. And and so that fund project, that whole company just went into you know deep freeze storage mode. And I never tracked them after that. I I I kind of assumed they they just went nowhere. But that was at that point, I think they'd spent somewhere around three or four million, so it was very early phase, and they were they had confirmed funding enough to you know hire more people like me to come in, but it was it was all fucked up by COVID. And my other client for that year, for 19, was working with a a fairly sizable restaurant that was a New York deli in Florida. And so, you know, I I are you dropping your microphone? I can hear that.
SPEAKER_03It literally just yes.
SPEAKER_05Okay, it was that was a mic drop.
SPEAKER_03Okay, well, I think it fell out of the uh the the mic arm here. It's uh it's just a pressure fitting, and I went to adjust it and it dropped. So sorry about that.
SPEAKER_05Well, anyway, that would have been fun too. I I flew out there, they had just really good locks, they had a great felta fish, they had like all the standard New York food, all the disgusting things, yeah. It was it was excellent. Brisket, you know, corned beef is Jews.
SPEAKER_03Don't know how to make a brisket.
SPEAKER_05Very, very good, very good place. It's worth about 13 million or so. And so I would have been very happy to take a little slice of that sale. And that got fucked up, obviously, because of COVID, because all restaurants all of a sudden couldn't have people in there. And Florida, while they let up the freeze earlier than some states, they jumped into the uh the masks and the people bands very early on. So that that thing went nowhere, unfortunately. So that's that, yeah. My COVID fucked me up in a number of ways financially. And the the actual COVID that I got was not that big a deal. It was just basically an extended flu, is what it felt like. But but financially, yeah, the all the consequences of COVID definitely fucked me up. So let's see what else we got here.
Fortress America Prep And UK War Timeline
SPEAKER_03Did you uh have you seen the Pentagon's Fortress America stuff and everybody freaking out about it? Yeah including Tim Poole and Alex Jones.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, yeah. Well, I mean, these are people that have been predicting doomsday for how many years?
SPEAKER_03Right. But and you know, I love the people going, oh my god, the British government's saying have you know some food and water and everything else. And I'm sitting there going, I'm good. Yeah, I know.
SPEAKER_05Yes, what what their Pentagon said was that all U.S. military bases need to have a 30-day operating supply. 90. Sorry, you're right. 90, yeah. I meant three three months, and I said 30 days, yeah. Need to have a three-month operating supply. Which honestly isn't that big a deal. No, and they should have already, frankly. But and I know obviously you and I have talked about it plenty of times over the years. We talked about the books there. So to me, it was like, yeah, I guess I should buy another case of water. That's about it.
SPEAKER_03Everything else, I already have. So, but Gene, Gene, the U.S. Army's and it it bugs me when Tim says a word that he doesn't know how it's pronounced. He didn't know the word internment.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, he must be saying it with a southern accent then.
SPEAKER_03No, I like he just I don't I don't get it, but he didn't know how to say the word internment. Temperament intern. What do you say? Internment? Something like that, yes. It was just like, oh my god, dude. Like if you don't know how to pronounce a word, there's pronunciation guides out there. But anyway, Gene, Gene. I love hearing you say that. They're they're they're practicing temporary internment for mass casualty events. Yeah. Yes, yes, we we we we want the military to have that kind of under their belt and know what to do there.
SPEAKER_05And I mean it's it's kind of ridiculous. Like any event that that fucks up the supply chain for longer than two weeks, there will be mass casualties, period. Yes, absolutely. Anything over a month, you're looking at a 50% population drop. Easily, yes. Yeah, I'm not trying to be overly aggressive here, but it's predicted, it's publicly available information. There's nothing new or scary here. This is this is how things work. And I and you know, meanwhile, meanwhile, in the UK, they have now said that they are going to war in 1,000 days. They haven't said there's a danger of war. They haven't they said the UK is going to be at war 1,000 days from now.
SPEAKER_03And we're going to I mean that's that's two and three-quarters of a year from now.
SPEAKER_05It seems pretty far out. Yeah. And they're announcing it as a way to basically prep people that do your patriotic duty to the king and sign up.
SPEAKER_03Like they're trying to get their ranks of volunteers up before they have to do a um well, the UK also raised the conscription age to 65.
SPEAKER_05That's right. Which, you know, luckily all the important people are over 65 in the UK. Indeed. You know, all the royalty. So, yeah, it's that they're like, they don't care. They're like, it's gonna happen. Whether the US wants it or not. Which is goes right along in line with what the the gals from Prometheus always keep talking about.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, who was it that was talking about Elon developing artificial wounds?
SPEAKER_05Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's that that dude that I don't particularly like, but he's right a lot. The Andrew something Yes, Andrew Wilson. He smokes too much.
SPEAKER_03I mean, you say that while I'm sitting here smoking while we're doing it.
SPEAKER_05Well, he does. And he drinks too much and he smokes too much. I don't like that.
SPEAKER_03I'm drinking while we're doing it.
SPEAKER_05Well, but you already know I don't like you doing that either. But I'm just saying about him. I think I I like his wife. I've watched her a few times, but yeah, I don't know. He's she's the blonde, right? She's uh just slightly overweight blonde chick, but she's she is at least by slightly overweight, you mean like 130, maybe 140 pounds. She's probably like 150.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_05155 foot three. You know, that's that's overweight.
SPEAKER_03But it's not like at some point we should at some point we should talk about the height to weight ratio that is appropriate.
SPEAKER_05I don't know that I would say there is one. I I just think that 118 pounds should be the max. Not if they're like 5'7. Oh, if they're six foot, absolutely. They're they look great at 117 pounds. I mean, if you're 5'3, you look great at 99 pounds.
SPEAKER_03My mom, you know, she's short, she's 4'11, and until she got sick in her 30s, which I won't go into what, but she was 90 pounds.
SPEAKER_05Yeah. See, there you go. Yeah, but she's that's that's how she attracted your dad. Yeah. Yeah, that there's nothing wrong with that. I when I met my ex-wife when she was 22, she was 108 pounds. Like a perfect 108.
SPEAKER_01How tall?
SPEAKER_05She was 5'4.
SPEAKER_01Okay. Yeah.
SPEAKER_05And she was not skinny, she was very fit. But it's easy to be fit in Europe because they fucking walk everywhere. They don't drive cars out there.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I definitely got my steps in last week.
SPEAKER_05Yeah.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_05So should we talk about uh speaking of healthy step stuff, kind of sorta?
CPAP Reality Check And Sleep Disruption
SPEAKER_05I finally got my Darth Vader mask machine. Oh, and CPAP thing.
SPEAKER_03Making a difference?
SPEAKER_05I hate it, man. I fucking hate it. I don't know. It's too early to really tell. I think so. I think I'm like right now, we're recording this about 8 p.m. I think I'm less tired than I normally would be without the gizmo. But it's hard to tell because I'll like what it's supposed to fix is like waking up, you know, in the middle of the night because I haven't been breathing for the last minute.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, because your body's like, oh shit, we're dying.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, yeah, yeah. And instead, now I'm waking up in the middle of the night trying to pull a face mask off me. And then realizing, oh, it's supposed to be there. Okay, I'll go back to sleep.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I I feel the same way about the device I have to wear at night, you know. What, the gimp suit? No. Oh, okay. Do not wear a gimp suit, jackass.
SPEAKER_05Yeah.
SPEAKER_03No, the uh the monitor from the little zipper always gets stuck in your teeth.
SPEAKER_05It's annoying, man.
SPEAKER_03I I wouldn't know. Never worn one. But okay. Thanks for watching.
SPEAKER_05CPAP, I know. You you said you don't have a CPAP, I know. No, I'm pretty sure you were talking about a gimp suit there, but well, I wouldn't know myself, but I I I understand from people that are into that kind of thing that the zipper in the teeth is annoying.
SPEAKER_02Of course, that's why you put a and here we have another adult episode. Right? Hey, it's a clippable, it's a clippable event. Dude, I'm trying to get Burnetti on the show, and you're you're making it. I'm trying to get Adam on the show. Yeah. Yeah, that's not gonna happen.
SPEAKER_05Oh, sure it is. We can have him talk about God for the whole hour. Uh-huh.
SPEAKER_02Uh-huh.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, we're we're good.
SPEAKER_03Until he listens to one of our episodes, he's like, holy shit. Thankfully, he's never listened to any of our episodes.
SPEAKER_05So he he doesn't know what what we talk about. But yeah, it's like there's nothing we say that somebody hasn't said as a co-host with Darren either.
SPEAKER_03Fair enough. Fair enough. Yeah. Well, and to be fair, the Planet Rage Boys. Oh, way worse. Yeah.
SPEAKER_05Yeah. Absolutely. But I'll tell you what, people like that stuff.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. I think it's going to be interesting to see what their numbers are after Thursday.
SPEAKER_05I think they're going to go up by quite a bit. They're already up quite a bit. I mean, there was one person that I talked to recently that has a fairly successful show that was saying, you know, pulling in a couple hundred bucks an episode is pretty good. I'm not going to say who it is. And then, and then I heard from another person saying, Yeah, you know, that's a good single donation to get. I was like, dude, them's like work numbers, not hobby numbers.
SPEAKER_03Well, and they're only doing, you know, one show a week. So are they gonna or I haven't talked to Darren?
SPEAKER_05Are they looking at oh yeah, they're gonna do more than that. Well, think about this. Darren no longer has to do pre-shows twice a week.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, and you know, we get to do this. Adam and Pastor Jimmy are twice a week in November, going twice a week.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, yeah. Which I think she should have taken more time off before jumping into that, but whatever.
SPEAKER_03Uh Adam's a seems like a little bit of a workaholic.
SPEAKER_05Well, I think if you do what you enjoy, it doesn't feel like work, but it's still like whether you like.
SPEAKER_03If you do what you enjoy, it can feel like work, especially when you have dumb people that you have to work with.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, you know, after a while, doing porn just is not fun.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_05Friends have told me that. So I think there's a thing that was said in confidence. Well, I didn't use your name, did I?
SPEAKER_03And we're just joking here.
SPEAKER_05No, not really. So the I think I think Adam will come on the show at some point. I'm gonna guilt him into it.
SPEAKER_03Well, that'd be cool. You know, uh so I've never actually heard Brunetti speak.
SPEAKER_05What is what's his shtick?
SPEAKER_03Well, you haven't been listening to No Agenda recently, though.
SPEAKER_05No, and no agenda ended when John died. I told you that.
SPEAKER_03Okay. You know, he's he's uh got a little bit of a conspiracy mind. It'd be good. Okay. Um he's got plenty of stories from Hollywood and everything else. Uh-huh. You know, I think I think it would be interesting.
SPEAKER_05Like the Hollywood angle sounds interesting to me, but I don't know if that's enough for just the podcast. So that if he's a conspiracy guy, then that's gonna be even more interesting.
SPEAKER_03Oh, yeah, he'd fit in with the topics, yeah. Much like Don did.
SPEAKER_05Hmm. What's oh, he's gonna be doing something with Mimi, right?
SPEAKER_03Who? Brunetti. Uh, kinda. They're producing a show that John had thought up and talked to Burnetti about.
SPEAKER_00Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_03Uh, that's called Partyline. Basically, you know, like the old party lines, people calling in, doing stuff. Oh, it's a call-in show. Yeah, yeah. It's gonna be a call show.
SPEAKER_04Oh, okay. Okay. Well, that's cool.
SPEAKER_03More on that to come. Partyline.com, I believe, or partyline. They got the domain and everything.
unknownGood.
SPEAKER_05That is good. I've
Podcast World Gossip And New Shows
SPEAKER_05been watching an awful lot of AI generated video.
SPEAKER_03Yes, you sent me an episode of 047.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, yeah. There's two episodes out right now, so make sure you watch both of them. I did. They're they're not bad. Really freaking good. These are like 20, 25-minute episodes. This would be a half-hour show if it was TV with room
AI TV Spoofs And Hollywood’s Decline
SPEAKER_05for ads.
SPEAKER_03Um, by the way, it is Partyline Show.
SPEAKER_05Party Line Show, okay. Yeah, you're right, because if you go to Partyline.com, it's a whole other kind of party, my friend.
SPEAKER_01Whoopsie.
SPEAKER_05Uh-huh. Yeah. Yeah. Free trial for new members. Well, too bad I already clicked on it thinking it was Mimi show.
SPEAKER_03Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Little did we know Mimi is secretly planning an OnlyFans.
SPEAKER_05Yeah. Party line. Only $5 a minute. Anyway, there's the the premise of that Secret Agent 047 is that it's the late 70s, and a young-ish Donald Trump is America's best secret agent. It's very much styled on the low seven. Yeah, obviously on James.
SPEAKER_03And Elon's his Q.
SPEAKER_05Elon SQ is fucking perfect. I love that.
SPEAKER_03Yes.
SPEAKER_05It it totally makes sense.
SPEAKER_03And Melania is a badass.
SPEAKER_05Melania is like the East European spy chick who ends up, you know, in bed with Trump. So that part they got right. It's the whole thing is, I just think it's well written. It's funny. It's obviously making fun of itself as well. Like there's a scene where Trump is riding a motorcycle through a like a market in the Middle East in Marrakesh or something. And he he rides it through a watermelon stand. And ends up the next cut of the scene to him is him chewing on a watermelon that was you know stuck on his face and went in his mouth. It's like, this is better than I thought. Yeah, it's just little things like that just make me chuckle throughout the whole show.
SPEAKER_03No, it was entertaining.
SPEAKER_05I'm looking forward to episode three. As far as I'm concerned, Hollywood is dead. Everything that is coming out. Everything that's coming out right now for free. Let me rephrase that. Of the things that are coming out, there's a sufficiently high quality of things that are coming out that it's more good quality content than what Hollywood produces. Hollywood is producing 90% woke garbage with an occasional worthwhile watching show in between. There's obviously way more total stuff produced on YouTube, like millions of hours every hour. But nonetheless, I have no trouble finding really high-quality good AI content, partly because I've kind of switched my X account to mostly focus on that now, and getting to talk to a lot of the guys creating these things. You know, what used to require months and months of work and fairly hefty budgets, even for like fan movies, is basically doable with one or two guys in a course of a week with about two grand worth of money. I mean, it is amazingly cheap, and the quality of the tools is really high. One of the cool things that actually Google just released, I think two days ago, is a tool that you can use a prompt to create a world and then walk around or drive around or fly around that world, which is infinite. Google will just keep creating shit in front of you that is part of that world. So think of Google Earth, except that it's not full of actual images, it's full of on the fly created things based on your prompt. Like you can have Medieval World or Dragon World or whatever, and then essentially do the same thing you can in Google Earth, which is you know, move around inside of that environment. It's it's a really cool idea. I I'm trying to find somebody that's actually played with it. I just, you know, looked at it but have not actually used it. But I it from everything I've seen, it's gonna be a very quick, cheap, and easy replacement for essentially creating the background for anyone that wants to like make a film like this. Not to mention making a video game.
SPEAKER_03Well, I think you're gonna see GTA 7 come out way faster.
SPEAKER_05I think we might see a GTA 6 knockoff before GTA 6 comes out. Maybe, maybe it's it's like almost doable, and it's not a huge amount of money to do stuff like this. And this is this ties into the idea just
AI Tools, Knockoffs, And Linux Reality
SPEAKER_05in general that it's so easy. Again, it's not like easy easy, but relatively speaking, it's super easy to make knockoff applications. The the days of hoping and praying that maybe somebody will challenge Adobe or somebody will challenge Microsoft.
SPEAKER_03Well, I think you're gonna see laws passed that crack down on that.
SPEAKER_05I mean, they're gonna want that, but I think the genie's out of the bottle. It's gonna be hard to do. And there is already case law that that says that if you don't have access to original source code, it's really hard. The burden shifts to the defense. It's really hard to prove that somebody actually is using your trade secrets when they aren't, you know, like there's nothing to connect them to any of your actual stuff. Merely recreating the exterior, the visible portions of programs has always been legal. This is why there have been a number of different programs that have competed with Microsoft Word, even though Word had the dominant market for many, many decades. But there were still programs. You know, and it right now it's probably Google that has the second most used program with Google Docs. And Google Docs today looks a hell of a lot more like Microsoft Word than it did 20 years ago when it launched.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I don't use Google Docs. I can't stand it.
SPEAKER_05Well, okay, but it doesn't really matter. You use Linux. Correct. And so you're in the group of people that companies don't care about.
SPEAKER_03Actually, that is changing dramatically, sir. Thank you. Valve did us a great favor on that one.
SPEAKER_05Well, okay, I'll agree with you on that.
SPEAKER_03I think as far as legitimizing some Linux gaming, Valve is not just gaming, but the Proton layer has been already tweaked by a lot of people in the community to basically replace Wine. Wine is gonna go away. Proton is going to replace wine long term, if you ask me.
SPEAKER_05Which is good, but that that's still not native. What you want is native acceptance.
SPEAKER_03Well, Microsoft is already going down the same road with the NVIDIA Spark stuff. Like they're running x86 applications on ARM, so they're already putting in Microsoft themselves, they are putting in compatibility players.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, they versus Repo Microsoft jumped into ARM a few years back. It's just it was impractical. Now there's actually some useful applications for that. Although it still runs faster in Linux.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I'll stick with x86.
Ozempic Rumors And Celebrity Spiral
SPEAKER_03By the way, you still take an Ozempic? Yeah. Okay, and you're aware of this new major side effect that's come out, right?
SPEAKER_05No. I haven't looked. What's going on?
SPEAKER_03Well, I I want you to be real aware of this because I don't want you to suffer from it.
SPEAKER_04Okay.
SPEAKER_03But apparently, Ozempic vagina is a real thing, dude.
SPEAKER_04Really?
SPEAKER_02We're gonna buy one. I know you're at a high risk. Uh-huh. I don't want you to have to have reconstructive surgery. Uh-huh.
SPEAKER_05What's the real story?
SPEAKER_03Literally, basically, women's vulvas are they're having prolapse cervix, they're lots of different things. So, like and then just cosmetic stuff too.
SPEAKER_05Oh. Okay. I mean, I don't know that that's necessarily surprising because I only brought it up to make a I know, I know, I know. You you yeah, you're just you're trying to make a funny. Keep trying.
SPEAKER_03I didn't make a funny.
SPEAKER_05But I think it does make sense because in general, the negative effects that people notice is a decrease in muscles. Well, what the hell's a vagina? Yes, exactly. And and like most muscles, you don't use it, you know.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, you lose it.
SPEAKER_05Yeah. It's a good thing the penis is not a muscle.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_05In all seriousness, then all married men would have lost theirs a long time ago.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, yeah. Don't in all seriousness, though, the universe is healing. You know how we know? Oh. Bruce Jenner's back.
SPEAKER_04No.
SPEAKER_03Caitlin Jenner is now detransitioning.
SPEAKER_05No, really?
SPEAKER_03Yep.
SPEAKER_05So Bruce is now coming out as a dude? Yep. Okay, so either the guy's got like, you know, he's measuring which way the wind's blowing, or he realizes that there's a big difference between wearing women's clothing and pretending you're a woman.
SPEAKER_03So I I've told you I know his his mom, Esther Jenner.
SPEAKER_05No, you well, you may have.
SPEAKER_04Okay.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. And that woman, the there is no way he couldn't be fucked in the head having that woman as his mother.
SPEAKER_04Really?
SPEAKER_03Yes. Horrible, horrible person. My dad actually built a house for them in Idaho.
SPEAKER_05Oh my gosh. So she lived up on the compound there? Kinda, yeah. Wow. Yeah, he was like an all-American athlete. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, he was. Runner.
SPEAKER_05And it turns out he was just running from his mom the whole time.
SPEAKER_02And then straight into the arms of the Kardashians. Oh my God, the spider web, the day weave. Yeah.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, yeah. There's a certain part of me that always felt sorry for any of the men that got tangled up there, including uh Ye.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_05Like say what you will about a guy who's worshiping Hitler, but I I definitely felt bad for him having been part of that whole thing.
SPEAKER_03No man deserves that. And Ye is one of those guys who's on the spectrum. Totally. And but very intelligent, right? Yeah, just doesn't have good people skills. And doesn't have good people around him. Like he's one of those that really needs an entourage to protect him from himself. And his does not do that.
SPEAKER_05Shouldn't be hanging out with Diddy. Agreed. Agreed. It's a wrong entourage, man. Yeah. Yeah, it's uh, you know, he should have been hanging out with Prince. Prince is dead, dude. Until they killed him. Yeah, I know. Well aware, man.
SPEAKER_01Well aware.
SPEAKER_05You know, we used to shop at the same grocery store. I'm sure I've told that story. But but you think they killed Prince? Of course they killed Prince. Why? Because he was saying what they didn't want people to hear. Which was Which was that that, you know, that whole industry is basically preying on the artists and creating, you know, for lack of a better word, Epstein-like behavior.
SPEAKER_03I've never thought of thought of the prince as someone who was oft.
SPEAKER_05Off in what way?
SPEAKER_03Offed, as in killed.
SPEAKER_04Oh, oh, oh, oft.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, he was totally killed. Just like Michael Jackson.
SPEAKER_03Okay. No, Michael Jackson. How was Michael Jackson Yes, his daughter?
SPEAKER_05Did you know his mother?
SPEAKER_03No. Okay. Why?
SPEAKER_05I figured I figured you'd have a story.
SPEAKER_03I just don't like Michael was fucked up, but I don't see why they would off him. So do tell us, Gene, why was again?
SPEAKER_05It's the music industry. They didn't like the fact that he was buying too much music and that he was basically not following the rules that you're supposed to follow when you're part of that industry. That's just ignorant.
SPEAKER_03Sorry, it's my best Michael Jackson impersonation.
SPEAKER_05Okay. I mean, he was. Everybody that actually worked with Michael say he was a super nice guy who was clearly on the spectrum, and that he was taken advantage of for probably three quarters of his career. And then in the last quarter of his career, when he finally seized control to himself, the people that seemed like they were watching out for him very quickly turned on him and were trying to off him.
SPEAKER_03I will say this. I will say this about Michael Jackson. I I don't know that he did anything with kids. To me, he seems almost asexual. Yeah. Right.
SPEAKER_05I was shocked when he got married. Yeah, not. But then when he had a white kid, I was like, yep, now that I totally believe. Why? Because it's not his kid. Because he's asexual. Well, yeah, we don't we don't have to keep talking about Michael Jackson. No one cares about that.
SPEAKER_03So what's uh what's going on with BB? BB Netanyahu?
Netanyahu, Coalitions, And Israeli Politics
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_04He's alright. He's doing alright.
SPEAKER_03I mean, not winning he's gonna have to form a coalition with somebody, and I don't know who that's gonna be.
SPEAKER_05Uh I don't know, man. I it Israeli politics is like all other Middle Eastern politics, it's it's a big mess.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, agreed.
SPEAKER_05So there's a lot of alliances of convenience.
SPEAKER_03But how is Israel going to be governed considering the way the vote is shaking out and no one having a majority and having to form a coalition?
SPEAKER_05But that's always the case. I mean, they they're always doing these coalitions. So Likud is the biggest of the conservative winners in the election. So they're still gonna be in control of the block.
SPEAKER_03And what's Lakuda?
SPEAKER_05Like Likud, that's the party he's on. Political party.
SPEAKER_03Do you think he stays in power?
SPEAKER_05Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Really?
SPEAKER_05Yeah.
SPEAKER_03I I can see that being a condition that he's gotta go.
SPEAKER_05No. I don't think so. Okay. So I I don't know, man. I think here's the thing. The opposition parties have to basically do whatever the Arab parties want them to do. So, like the real winner in this election for Israel, I think, was the the Arab minorities. Because their number of seats went up quite a bit. And so they're gonna be approached by both sides of the aisle. By the the more conservative parties calling on a similarity in conservative values, and by the liberal parties talking about appeasement of the other Arab nations around them. And we'll see which side of that pulls in, but I I still think that I could be wrong. You know, again, I'm no expert in this stuff, and their politics are very screwy. But I suspect Netanyahu will still be uh the leader.
SPEAKER_03I think it's the only way he stays out of jail.
SPEAKER_05Which you're I mean, uh you're not wrong about that, and which is another reason which why it's likely that he's gonna still be in there. Like, that's you know one of the reasons. But dude, that the parties there are very different than the parties here. They have way more than two parties, first of all.
SPEAKER_03No, they're a parliamentary system.
SPEAKER_05Yeah. And generally speaking, they're far more liberal than Americans, or at least more liberal than American, both Democrats and Republicans used to be 20 years ago. Maybe not so much today. But I vote like even the conservative parties in Israel, for most of my life, I would say overlap the Democrats a lot more than the Republicans. There's small little instances where they might be more on the conservative lean relating to religion, but generally speaking, everybody's way too wanting to be nice and and to, you know, let's make sure everyone's having a good time, type thing. So I there there were a couple of parties there that were strongly conservative, and those parties tend to be very greatly maligned by the left, and and the right pretends that they don't actually exist and don't interact with them.
SPEAKER_03Hey, we've got a uh breaking story here. What's that? Apparently there was a
Radiation Alerts, Airport Fires, And Frogs
SPEAKER_03Radiation ground level radiation leak at a DOE site in South Carolina.
SPEAKER_05That's probably an exercise.
SPEAKER_03At the Savannah River site. So, which that's used for production of plutonium, tritium, and other things. So interesting.
SPEAKER_05I think that's that's likely a exercise.
SPEAKER_03What do you mean, an exercise?
SPEAKER_05Training exercise.
SPEAKER_03Not how it's being reported currently.
SPEAKER_05I know.
SPEAKER_03Did you see the fire at IAH?
SPEAKER_05No.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, so IAH, between the brand new terminal B and Terminal C, a restaurant, apparently a new one, had a kitchen fire.
SPEAKER_04Oh, they had to do a group.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, they had to do a grant. Like there was quite a bit of smoke, dude. Luckily, no one was injured, but there was this is in in in one month, IAH has had two two FAA ground stoppages.
SPEAKER_05Yeah. So there's actually no release of any contaminated material at Savannah River.
SPEAKER_03They had radiation alarms going off. Well, and to be clear, contaminated material and radiation are two separate things.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, but you know. No release of contaminated material.
SPEAKER_03Doesn't mean there wasn't a radiological release.
SPEAKER_05Sure, sure. They could have been moving something too.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, someone left the containment door open.
SPEAKER_05Yeah. Or they they had a protective barrier on a moving vehicle that wasn't set up correctly.
unknownSure.
SPEAKER_05We move radio radioactive materials all the time. So I don't think it was a big deal. But I'm sure Alex Jones's got all kinds of theories. Well, of course. They're just trying to make the frogs more gay.
SPEAKER_03No, no, they're trying to make radioactive frogs.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, well, that might be cool if they glow in the dark. You get some phosphor in there and make them make them uh glow. Frogs are cool animals anyway.
SPEAKER_03So I'm starting a new project, Gene.
SPEAKER_05Uh-oh.
SPEAKER_03You're being replaced. No, I'm just joking. No, so my dad cut down a tree off
Woodworking Plans For A Live Edge Desk
SPEAKER_03of the dam there at the house. And anyway, you know, he's got that sawmel and stuff now. So he cut me some slabs of this pretty blued pine. Nice. I mean, it's only gonna be pine, but it'll it'll still be something for me to play around with. Yeah. But I'm going to make a live edge coffee table and end tables for my office.
SPEAKER_05Out of pine. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Okay. It's just to play around with. I've never done it before. I will start with a free slab versus two. If I were to buy this in a nice wood, the these slabs would cost me several thousand dollars.
SPEAKER_05Yeah. It's just pine is very soft.
SPEAKER_03Yes, I understand this.
SPEAKER_05So if you if you you know slam something down on the table, it's gonna leave an imprint forever.
SPEAKER_03Sure. Except I'm gonna lacquer the hell out of it. So there will be protections. All right. But it should be pretty. It should be something fun to do. Oh, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_04Pine is pretty well.
SPEAKER_03I've got to get this dried. And so if anyone needs some wood dried, I am well below the minimum purchase requirement for the kiln drying here locally.
SPEAKER_05How long does that take? Three months?
SPEAKER_03It depends. So if it depends on the wood. Pine dries pretty fast. You know, it just depends. So they check it intermittently to see what the moisture content of the wood is, etc. Let you know when it's done.
SPEAKER_05Yeah. Well, I think it's a good hobby, and if you actually get into it, that'll be a good thing.
SPEAKER_03Well, and if I do okay and you know, so can I mention something about you? What's that?
SPEAKER_05Well, yeah, I mean, I'm not gonna say it until you tell me I can mention it.
SPEAKER_02Well, I don't know what you're gonna mention, so how can I say that?
SPEAKER_05Well, I guess uh we're in the impasse then. Go go ahead. Okay, having no idea what this is. Yeah, okay, okay. So you've been studying a foreign language for a while. Yeah, a little bit. Now, before
700 Days Of Duolingo Discipline
SPEAKER_05we get into the how long you've been doing it, why have you been doing it?
SPEAKER_03Well, I've had a thing for languages for many years. Uh I've got quite a few under my belt and English.
SPEAKER_05Yep.
SPEAKER_03It's not a foreign language, but sure. Non-southern English? Yeah, yeah. Like I've studied English, Latin, Greek, a little bit of Turkish. I started on Russian in college, but fuck the Cyrillic alphabet. Yeah, just decided not to do. You know, started on Gaelic. I I want to do Gaelic. That's gonna be my next time. Polish. But I did I've done Spanish for a long time. Like I did Spanish in high school and in college. Yeah. You know, my Spanish is fairly passable. I can I can get around in different areas. You know, I I've I went to Spain and basically spoke no English.
SPEAKER_05So, you know. Yeah, same here. That was great.
SPEAKER_03Okay. All Russian. Didn't know you knew Spanish.
SPEAKER_05No, no, everybody I met there somehow knew Russian. Interesting.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_05Spain's a marvelous place. Anyway, the uh so you had an anniversary come up.
SPEAKER_03Well, 700 and so many days. Why?
SPEAKER_05Well, that's a big deal.
SPEAKER_02How is that a big deal? I'm not sure.
SPEAKER_05Most people don't freaking do that on a daily basis.
SPEAKER_03Okay. So? So I'm studious.
SPEAKER_05So you're clearly on the spectrum here because no normal person would do that.
SPEAKER_03But it's called trait conscientiousness.
SPEAKER_05Exactly. It's one of them traits of people in short buses. So what he's got is 768 days where he's actually sat down and gone through some lessons in Espanol on his computer, presumably, in a row without missing a single day. Like that's the part that's amazing. Not the fact that you've been learning Spanish on your computer, and plenty of people doing that. Most of them do it for about a month and then stop.
SPEAKER_03You've been doing it for there have been a couple freezes in there, so it's not every single day.
SPEAKER_05Well, I thought it was. How really? I thought it was a streak that they said you're in a streak. Well, 700-day streak means every day.
SPEAKER_03Okay.
SPEAKER_05It's not every day.
SPEAKER_03It I have definitely well, okay. There's a couple things. One, I'm doing Duolingo, which is okay. It's not great, but it's something. Duolingo, you can do freezes here and there, but there have been times when I have done a lesson and it has marked it as a freeze, which pisses me off. But that's and I've emailed them about this problem in their program. But here's the thing you have to earn points or pay for points to be able to do freezes. And you know I'm a cheap bastard, so I don't pay for shit. And you know, I don't want it taking away from my my point stack.
SPEAKER_05Okay. Well, either way, I mean, you you posted it, so I was gonna bring it up. It like sticking with something for a long time that is not a purely fun activity. I mean, I'm sure you consider it fun to some extent, but you know, you're still like learning and taking tests and training and whatnot, not just watching TV every day for an hour.
SPEAKER_03No, and you know, usually when I get into it, I get on rhythm and go and spend anywhere from 10 to 30 minutes an evening, you know. When I'm done in the evening, I just yeah, you know, before before I have a whiskey or something, I do Spanish. Well, that's pretty good.
SPEAKER_05You you may not think it's a big deal, I think it's a big deal, and I congratulate you on it.
SPEAKER_03Well, thank you, sir. You know, I just I'm the kind of guy that when I get into a habit of doing something, I I don't have an addictive personality, but when I get in the habit of doing something, yeah, habits tend to stick with me.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, yeah. That's a good quality.
SPEAKER_03By the way, Gene, travel coming up.
SPEAKER_05Uh-oh.
SPEAKER_03Good travel? Yeah, yeah. I'll be able to
Travel Status, Deep Dish, And Loyalty Games
SPEAKER_03do the show next week from the hotel. Good. But uh it looks like I'm going back to Guam before the end of the year. Oh, nice. That's a good mileage run. Yeah, I might get that one case status after all. Uh-huh.
SPEAKER_05Nice. I told you, you just have to pray harder.
SPEAKER_03Well, it's not praying, but uh the the sales guy who's got a lot of the Guam stuff is like, hey, might need to get you back out there.
SPEAKER_05Um you're like, oh, twist my arm, twist my arm.
SPEAKER_03As long as it's before December 31st.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, one of my one of my buddies has got a little United pin and the handwritten node that says, you know, we're very glad that you're on board the ship.
SPEAKER_03Because he's global services.
SPEAKER_05And I'm like, what did you get your two million mile award? He's like, nah, that was a while ago already.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_05You bastard.
SPEAKER_03Well, hell, I'll be lifetime platinum with Marriott next year. Nice.
SPEAKER_05Nice. Finally, that's good.
SPEAKER_03Get there.
SPEAKER_05Actually, I think you're gonna get it at a younger age than I got it.
SPEAKER_03I'm getting it at the earliest possible, like, number of years in.
SPEAKER_05Yeah. Which is what now?
SPEAKER_03You have to be platinum or above for I think it used to be seven. Yeah, I think it's still seven. Seven?
SPEAKER_05Okay, yeah.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. And you have to have over 600 nights.
SPEAKER_05Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Already gonna be over on the nights. It's just the time, right? Nice.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, it was when I did it, it was seven years.
SPEAKER_03I'll be titanium again this year.
SPEAKER_05Seven years and a quarter million dollars in spend.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, there's there's no spend requirement for titanium. It's only for or platinum, it's only for ambassador.
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_05Yep. But that that's good. I mean, it makes certainly traveling a little bit easier, even if it's not planned stuff.
SPEAKER_03Well, and you know, if they don't do and they don't do lifetime titanium anymore. That's right. So my question is do I diversify and start up with Hilton now?
SPEAKER_05Yeah, I mean, there's a good argument to be made for having lifetime on multiple brands. Yeah. Yeah. That is true. And uh mine kind of coincided. Like when I got mine, I think I really only traveled heavily for another three or four years, and then the travel slowed way down. So I could have taken longer to get it, but I yeah, and I I really only use the the the cool benefit twice, which is overriding a full hotel and having them kick somebody out so I could stay there.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, but you get to pay full price for the room.
SPEAKER_05I mean, points. But yeah.
SPEAKER_03Oh, they don't do that anymore.
SPEAKER_05Oh, they don't let you do that with points. Yeah, you used to be able to kick somebody out with points.
SPEAKER_03No, you're paying the maximum price for the hotel room if you get at this point.
SPEAKER_05Well, still something.
SPEAKER_03If if you're in an emergency like airport shut down in Chicago and there ain't shit, it's a valuable resource. Yeah.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, and that's a good point because like when I had a flight through Chicago now about five years ago, and I got stuck in Chicago because my incoming missed the following flight, I still had my pick of hotels that I wanted to stay at and wasn't limited to only ones that had availability. And I I ended up picking a hotel that was across the street from the that famous Chicago pizza place.
SPEAKER_03There's a famous Chicago pizza place.
SPEAKER_05There's like three famous Chicago pizza places, you know, deep dish.
SPEAKER_03Who wants deep dish?
SPEAKER_05I can't I like deep dish, man. It's I grew up eating as much deep dish as regular pizza. It was a normal thing in the world.
SPEAKER_03They like deep dish, but skinny girls. Seems to be a contradiction.
SPEAKER_05Uh, I mean, I if I eat it, they're not gonna have pussy fat. They're not gonna have any.
SPEAKER_02You want your pizza fat, but not your pussy.
SPEAKER_05Hell yeah. Got it. Damn straight. It it's the thing about deep dish is it's really like us a couple slices is a full meal. Like you're not gonna want to eat.
SPEAKER_03Some people would say a couple slices of regular pizza is a full meal.
SPEAKER_05A couple slices of deep dish is like the whole regular pizza. I remember there was a whole bread. A deep no, no, not at all, man. Not at all. There's barely any more bread than the regular pizza. It's it's cheese and toppings and lots of cheese, man. There's probably a pound of cheese in two slices. It's it is very you're very full from eating it. You're gonna be farting up a storm. But it's a pizza you can't absolutely reheat without losing the flavor. Unlike normal pizza, I've never liked reheating it. I'd rather eat it cold. Because if you reheat it, it just either goes soggy or it just goes like it either dries out or it gets soggy, one or the other. It's not in that perfect pizza condition. But deep dish, you could totally reheat. You could buy it, freeze it, and eat it over the course of a week.
SPEAKER_01Okay.
SPEAKER_05So and I can't remember, Darren would know the name of the place right away because you know he lives in that neck of the woods, but I don't remember the name of the pizza joint off the top of my head. But I will take I'll take a deep dish over like Detroit style.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_03So what do you think's uh going on with Ilan Omar while we're in that show?
SPEAKER_05Yeah, I hope they kick around the country. I really hope. I don't know if they got
Ilhan Omar Rumors And Europe’s Identity Fights
SPEAKER_05enough on her, but it'd be great to kick her out.
SPEAKER_03Dude, her book even talks about her age and puts her like older.
SPEAKER_04Oh yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_03So I don't know, man. I think she's fucked.
SPEAKER_05I hope so. I really do.
SPEAKER_03I mean, she already is fucked by her brother, but I hope the feds yeah, I mean.
SPEAKER_05The face only a brother could love. Oof.
SPEAKER_03I I think it's gonna be interesting to see what happens there. They're saying that the warrants are not done, that this is ongoing, yada yada yada. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, I I think I'd love for them to black bag her and ship her out.
SPEAKER_05But I have no idea if they can.
SPEAKER_03I'm pretty sure that wouldn't be the first time she's had a bad bag put over her head.
SPEAKER_05True. True story. I I love her explanation that she didn't realize it was her brother.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, no, no, no. Yeah. Have you ever did you marry your brother? Not that I'm aware of. Like, what?
SPEAKER_01Who says that?
SPEAKER_05Yeah. I mean, my parents set up the marriage. How would I know if he's my brother? Oh, Jesus Christ. There has definitely been an increase in what I would describe as white nationalism in Europe, which is maybe a little too late, but better late than ever. I'm seeing more and more people not trying to pussyfoot around the topic and actually just say this land belongs to us and we will fight people that are attempting to take it. Yeah. As they should. As they should, but haven't been for the last 20 years. So I'm I'm a little bit more, I guess, positive on Europe's chances, but I think there's still predominantly a less than 50% chance that European countries can get out of it, most of them.
SPEAKER_03I think they may be too far gone. I so I think France is gone. I think Germany has a chance. I think Scotland has a chance. I think Ireland has a chance.
SPEAKER_05I don't know. There's been a lot of Scottish. The rest of the UK is fucked. Very woke. England, I don't think, has a chance. Scotland maybe a little better than England, but not as good as Ireland. France probably gone. Italy is gonna be a really tough one because they are they are kind of fucked, but they also have probably people willing to fight the most.
SPEAKER_03But they also have the most fucked demographics.
SPEAKER_05Yes, absolutely. Absolutely. So they're fucked. I mean, it's like of all the places, Poland seems to be the one place in Europe to go to, and I know some folks that have recently moved there. Oh, I may be listening, so I'm not gonna mention their names. I have employees in Poland, so uh and I've played video games made in Poland, so we have all that in common. So have I. Yeah, Poland's just and and CSB uh allegedly is from there originally, although he hasn't lived there for most of his life.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, you your theory is he's in Ireland.
unknownShh.
SPEAKER_05You can't uh dox him, man. Don't dox him. I'm not even gonna talk about how he used to live in Germany. So be careful there, Ben.
SPEAKER_03Don't let any info up. I mean, I might piss CSB off occasionally, it happens.
SPEAKER_05Uh-huh.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, but so what stories did you bring, Gene?
SPEAKER_05He's a fun character. Well, we went through like 12 of them so far, but
AI Plans Shrink And Suno Changes Terms
SPEAKER_05you know, I've got a I've got AI related stories. Those are always fun. So the latest news as of yesterday is Chat GPT has chopped the amount of tokens that you get in half on their top-tier plan, and the other plans should people should be worrying right now. Because I I hate shit like this when it happens, right? That when a company basically sells something and then a few months later goes, Yeah, we're really kind of fucked up on that.
SPEAKER_03They have a choice as to what to do, right? Well, they they really don't because they're losing money on the company.
SPEAKER_05Well, they are losing money, but like a good company will say, We're gonna fix it and we're gonna grandfather everybody. Because what we want are happy customers, and there may be a small handful of customers we're gonna lose money on, but we're gonna maintain everybody else. This is similar to what happened with Suno when Suno sells you, and literally a couple of months before this event happened, sells a plan that I re-upped on for full like bazillion points. I think it's 10,000 points a month or something, 15,000 a month, something like that, which is enough to create like 10,000 songs a month, maybe less than let's say a thousand songs a month.
SPEAKER_03An ungodly amount of songs a month.
SPEAKER_05Ungodly, more than you could ever do. And then publishes that oh, we're gonna be changing terms on October 30th or 1st in that case. It was the first, and we're gonna limit you to a small number of downloads for free, and then you could pay for the rest of them. It's like, hold up. I bought a yearly plan under a particular description, and now and they should honor that for you. And they should. And I made a big stink about it, and I talked to a few lawyers about it because technically speaking, they are changing the terms of the contract. There's no two ways about it. After the fact, unilaterally. Downloads. But you can't force them to do that. So the the most you can get out of it is to basically just get your money back. And that's not an optimal solution. So even with the limited downloads, it's still worth doing them. But I did ri figure out why they did it. Why? Totally figured out.
SPEAKER_03The reason they got after them.
SPEAKER_05Nope. Not at all. That's what a lot of people are wondering about. Nope. The reason they did it is because there was a small minority of people that were ahead of the curve, ahead of everybody else, who had figured out how to program their AI agents to use Suno by themselves with no human supervision. And what they were doing is literally cranking out songs nonstop to utilize that entire 15,000 points. But since it's an AI doing it, unlike a human, like if you're a human, you're going to create a song, you're going to listen to it right away. Right. So you can tell if it's a good one. The AI isn't doing that. What the AI was doing is creating a thousand songs and downloading a thousand songs. And so they started trying to figure out well, how do we keep people from just letting their AI agents loose in our software? They added a ArgyR robot checks, which, you know, when I was using AI to flee control Sunu, I started getting it, and I had to tell Claude how to get around those successfully. We managed to figure it out. But it was a it was clearly their response to the full automation and download of a whole shit ton of tracks. That's what they didn't want happening. So they rather than limiting the number of tracks you can produce, they're limiting the number of tracks that you can download and then listen to later. But that makes no sense.
SPEAKER_03Just say, hey, don't do this, put it in terms of service, and then when you catch someone doing it, ban their account.
SPEAKER_05It is in terms of service. People are still doing it.
SPEAKER_03I mean, terms of service doesn't stop shit, dude. Right, but ban their accounts.
SPEAKER_05I think that's trickier. Because you'd have to if you get if you ban enough accounts, you'll get a lawsuit. Because there are people that would inevitably get banned for doing nothing wrong. And it's really bad PR. So their solution, which is also bad PR, but not as bad, is to simply say, all right, well, you can generate the songs, and you know, you're not gonna listen to what what the requirements are in the terms of service, but at least we're gonna make it expensive for you to then download all these songs you're making. And boy, did they. It's a it's a buck fifty a song. It's literally more than you would pay for a brand new pop song, which is usually 99 cents. So that you're gonna pay more for your own AI generated song than that. And that's a that's an effective measure, I think, to prevent AI automated music generation. Yeah, sure. For now. Now I have I am building an app right now that does speech and music.
SPEAKER_03So you're aware of the latest PHP bug that hit everything, right?
SPEAKER_05Yeah, I got a notice from my German hosting company.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, so I had to go through and update some stuff. And I gotta tell you, I used grok. I used grok bot and said, here, go fix this. Let me know when you need me to log in.
SPEAKER_05What was the fix? What was the solution for this? An update. Just a package. Oh, just download. Okay.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. And it was able to go through multiple hosting companies and do it.
SPEAKER_05That's good.
SPEAKER_03Very quick and efficient.
SPEAKER_05You didn't give grok your credentials, I hope.
SPEAKER_03No, I said let me know when you're ready and I'll sign in and then sign in.
SPEAKER_05Yeah.
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_03I also created a spam killer bot that is instead of using something like delete me or whatever, yeah. It's searching the web on a weekly basis and looking at data brokers and putting in the takedown requests.
SPEAKER_05Oh, nice. Nice. Yeah, you want to add my email to that?
SPEAKER_03I mean, you've got your own accounts and can build things.
SPEAKER_04Well, okay. Do you have it up on GitHub?
SPEAKER_03It's just a single, it's a prompt, dude.
SPEAKER_05Oh, you didn't actually build an app to do it. Okay. No, I'm just having Grokbot go do it. Oh, okay. I thought you built an app. I was gonna do that.
SPEAKER_03And while we were while we were traveling, the I have a travel bot that I've built out that's also pretty nice for finding different restaurants, different things I want to go do, and so on and so forth. Okay. Yeah.
SPEAKER_05What'd you make that in? See? Grok. Just grok. Oh, that's oh, that's not an app either. Okay.
SPEAKER_03Gotcha. Why do I need to create an app when there's already an app that exists that can do the work for me?
SPEAKER_05I mean, you have to pay for one, and if you make it yourself, you'd never have to pay again.
SPEAKER_03Well, then I have to let my computer go. So like okay, what search engine am I using? How am I indexing this?
SPEAKER_05Uh it depends.
SPEAKER_03There's lots of different variables there.
SPEAKER_05Yeah.
SPEAKER_03But I'm already not using all my grok tokens anyway, so yeah, and that's changing soon.
SPEAKER_05So you're gonna lose.
SPEAKER_03No, no, the new plan. The new plan bumped me up.
SPEAKER_05No, no, it doesn't. Yes.
SPEAKER_03Yes, it did. I get more utilization out of Grok for what I'm using it for.
SPEAKER_05Exactly. Well, if you would have listened to my episode on Unrelenting, you would know. The plan, the new plan, which they're very secretive about, it is a good deal if you use nothing but Grok bot. It gives you double the amount of Grok bot tokens, but you lose three quarters of your art and video tokens.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, sure, but I'm not doing that.
SPEAKER_05So if yeah, so it is a good deal if you're purely doing Grokbot for sure. But for a lot of people, like Darren, he uses a little bit of Grokbot, but he's mostly making pictures of half-naked women. And that just cuts him down by two-thirds.
SPEAKER_01Okay.
SPEAKER_05So it's it all depends on your use case. It's not a it's a great deal.
SPEAKER_03So for me, it was a great deal.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, for you it was a good deal because you got double demo. For and for ten dollars less.
SPEAKER_03Exactly.
SPEAKER_05Yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03So less for and now I'm fully integrated and can use any model I want through it.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Exactly. Which is good. I'm hanging out to the current version because I still use grok for image generation as well. So I don't want to lose that functionality or limit it in any capacity until they force me to do it.
SPEAKER_03Yep, gotta put everybody in those gimp suits.
SPEAKER_05Yep. And the only thing that I use grok code for these days,
Building AI Teams And Hardening Security
SPEAKER_05well, there's a few things, but Grok, so I I've talked about it before. I I've been building a bridge or a hub for all the AIs to be able to work together.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, but if you're using Grokune, if you will. If you're using Grok and going through what's it called, their their service that they bought that brokers all the models.
SPEAKER_05It doesn't do what mine does. Okay. What mine does is allows the AIs to talk to each other, which some of these apps, some of these things do as well. But mine allows them to command each other. So you can do that with GarocBot. Not in the same way. Not in the same way, man. I can have I can have C this way. I can have my Claude app or a Claude app. I can have a Claude bot decide while he's building out an app that he needs something that he's not allowed to do because of the guardrails. At which point he can then send the message to all the other bots and say, Hey, I can't do this. Can one of you guys do this? And the other bots will check their guardrails and then respond with, yes, I can do that for you. So I've basically uh gotten around the guardrails that Claude, well, all the bots have, as long as there's something else that can do it and they can't.
SPEAKER_03Well, this is where you also have your local model trying me in there that's totally free and open and off the rails and no restraints.
SPEAKER_05I mean, yeah, but it's not comparable to the uh to these models. It's a very big difference there. But it's it's really cool. They also now have I've created a permanent long-term memory for them, so I don't have to worry about them ever forgetting anything.
SPEAKER_03Which is a and how are you doing that important?
SPEAKER_05I I have a basically a memory server for them.
SPEAKER_03Right. And what what storage mechanism are you using?
SPEAKER_05Uh for the memory?
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_05I mean, but what does it matter?
SPEAKER_03Because it's gonna drastically impede performance.
SPEAKER_05Oh, no, no.
SPEAKER_03Because you're moving context out of VRAM to permanently.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, but you're always moving context out of VRAM. Uh, once you're sure, sure.
SPEAKER_03But yeah, but now if it has to, okay, this isn't in my VRAM, now I have to go search this. What is the triggering mechanism to go search that? The so you're paying an AWS hosted service to do this or what?
SPEAKER_05Yeah, uh multiple, yeah. Multiple servers that that in fact I've got it paid up past my lifetime. So these bots can talk to each other for. Your children keep going. That yeah, you could you could say that. But I I just I want them to be able to continue on the projects that I start and finally get to the final solution.
SPEAKER_03So a Jew talking about the final solution.
SPEAKER_05Math. We're talking about mathematics. And uh sure we are. So I've got that running. In fact, today, most of the day was spent with my Red Team bot group, whose job is to crack, break into, and sabotage these products. And boy, they're very creative at coming up with different solutions. So I am now, as a result of that, building a my own auth server that runs on.
SPEAKER_03What standard are you going to use?
SPEAKER_05Well, I don't know yet, but it's not gonna operate the way that normal auth servers operate. It's actually gonna be running on an off-site device that has that's gonna be connected to me. And then the various applications will then be synced to it. Like it's not gonna be running on a server. So it's it's gonna be interesting. I'll I'll share you more of this stuff with you as we get further on, because I definitely want you to try and break this thing once it gets built. But it it is really fun, this whole process of having adversarial bots working to, on the one hand, strengthen on the other hand, break into my applications. And as again, as a result, like this is really the first good use case I've had for building a a lot of the tech that I'm using. I just never needed to worry about building it before. Now, because of this, I kind of need to because we need to keep the humans out, we need to keep the bot connections up and running indefinitely, and we need to have a very high secure form of communication with multiple channels and ability to not have the traffic be tracked.
SPEAKER_03Well, how do you figure it's not being tracked?
SPEAKER_05Well, it's gonna be salted up the wazoo.
SPEAKER_03Okay, so how is it still not being tracked?
SPEAKER_05Well, I mean, it's if if you're saying in terms of are there bites moving here, yes, of course. But I mean it's it's not gonna look like what it is.
SPEAKER_03Well, but even if you to use your term, salted up the wazoo, that only goes so far, and you're assuming that there's no underlying protocol issues, but sure.
SPEAKER_05Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, there are. I mean, the the the initial bills of all this stuff is not gonna be like, you know, state actor secure, it's gonna be like corporate secure. But ideally, obviously, I'd love to get to a point where it is state actor secured.
SPEAKER_03But so how many times are you running your hash?
SPEAKER_05That's gonna take a while. Dude, it there's there's so many different components to this. The the hashes are run on a lot of different transactions. So there's there's a I'll I'll tell you more later. It this is this thing is at a point where I'm still solidifying the actual architecture.
SPEAKER_03So Gene not telling me publicly how many times he's hashing something is actually pretty smart. And for those people who are using password managers, this is one of those key hardening things that I harp on is go t change the default number of hashes to something random, preferably more than what the default is, but you know, something that's not the fucking default. And the reason why is if there's ever a rainbow table developed for that specific hash and they know the number of hash times, they can just run the rainbow table through that, go to the default, and then there you go. If you're not the default, you're not in that group.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, and and and having the AI tell me that if I'm trying to break through in here, I'm gonna be trying to do direct memory access, and then you know, try and essentially see what's changing in the memory every time I'm doing an attempted entry here. It's like I love this shit. I love the fact that it is trained enough that it's a trained intern. It is, absolutely, but but it's an intern that I actually enjoy working with, unlike past interns that were human.
SPEAKER_01Okay.
SPEAKER_05So I'm having fun, man. It is, and I everyone, so how much money are you making with this AI shit? I'm making zero. I'm building things for me as a customer. And the things that I have been putting out are put out under GLP3, so they're free. So I'm not making anything. It is costing me quite a bit of money, but I'm not uh that that's not my point.
SPEAKER_03I'm not while you're not working. While I'm not working, I'm not trying to work.
SPEAKER_05I mean, you know, I'd like to be working, obviously, but right now this is so freaking fun. I don't remember the last time I turned the TV on. I don't remember the last time I played a video game. That's all I do.
SPEAKER_03Well, now that the the TV, I'm like, eh, whatever. But the not playing a video game, holy shit, dude. You okay? Blink twice if the AI.
SPEAKER_05Yes, you've been talking to the AI the whole time. It's yeah. It's it's just really fun. I am so thoroughly enjoying it because I've got I've got like four different things I'm building in parallel at the same time of each of the projects that are getting built, where I'm working with a project manager AI on each of them, and they have anywhere from two to a dozen developer AIs all working at the same time. So I'm just I'm just getting like notifications of things to authorize or check, and occasionally giving them advice on direction that I want to go, which maybe there's slightly different from what they're proposing, but it has been really enjoyable and and also the thing, and I've said this on on the other podcast too, is Unrelenting That Show, is that it also makes me super scared of people that don't have a background in security. What you dropped out. Oh, okay. Wow, I didn't even notice that. Yeah, and what I'm saying is also like doing this is making me very scared of apps that are currently being created by people that don't have a background in either security or development.
SPEAKER_03Oh, absolutely. I would never use someone else's AI generated app.
SPEAKER_05Uh-huh.
SPEAKER_03Because I'll use my own, but I won't use someone else's.
SPEAKER_05Well, I mean, you'd use mine, obviously.
SPEAKER_03But that no these no, I'd be too fucking afraid you'd be putting the back door in there.
SPEAKER_05Whatever, whatever, dude.
SPEAKER_02You sent me your little T MOG rip-off, and I have not run that except in a VM. It was very locked down.
SPEAKER_05Totally. Well, you ran it in the VM. Looked nice, didn't it? Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Uh-huh. So it's it's a VM with no internet connection.
SPEAKER_05It doesn't need one. It's it's fully functional without the internet.
SPEAKER_03Well, but for your backdoor to work, it does.
SPEAKER_05There's no backdoor. That's why I rewrote it from scratch. I didn't use any.
SPEAKER_02Why was it making DNS queries?
SPEAKER_05Because it wants to make sure that there is, you know, it can measure that. It's measuring DNS connectivity.
SPEAKER_03Totally legit. Uh-huh. Uh-huh.
SPEAKER_05Well, you'd think I'd use a fucking DNS call if I was backdooring something, please. I think that that's the main way most malware does command and control.
SPEAKER_02So, yes. Absolutely not.
SPEAKER_05It would be IP numbers. It would not be DNS queries. And anyway. DNS queries actually more discreet, but there's no there's no reason to do any of that. It's more work than it's worth. But it it is a it is really fun. I've been doing everything in predominantly Rust with a little bit of C. And man, it is feels so good to have zero uh Python in anything I do. I fucking hate Python.
SPEAKER_03Why do you fucking hate Python?
SPEAKER_05Oh, it's god-awful, man. It's a horrible language, should never have existed, and it has gotten utilized in in so many things that had no business being used in. It's a scripting language. Yes, it is. And yeah. So real software doesn't have that.
SPEAKER_03Oh, that's not true. You can have so real software can utilize scripts for a lot of different things.
SPEAKER_05Only if your software has user scripting as part of it. And I wouldn't do Python in that. But anyway, all this shit runs fast. All this shit is clean code that's been verified by every AI. So I have four AIs as part of the code analysis loop. So they're all checking each other's work. They're all and it's fun too because they're just when, you know, three AI said, okay, well, it looks like this is no longer has any insecurities in it. Then the fourth one comes back with stuff that the other three didn't notice. So it's it's good to have that level analysis. So the way that I kind of describe it, and this ties back to my fear that I mentioned earlier, is it takes anybody two hours to wait for an AI to generate version one of whatever you want it to make. That's the average time. You know, whether it's Darren making a new podcasting app, which he made a new podcasting app, and it looks pretty good, looks better than the other podcasting apps out there. But whatever it is, it's like a two-hour project. The difference is I then after those two hours will spend the next 60 to 80 hours going through, doing security reviews, doing speed analysis, doing A-B comparisons, fixing, doing code reviews, fixing more stuff, alternating which bots are doing what. I mean, that most of the work is post-that initial build. And that's the part that damn near everyone, certainly everyone who doesn't have a software background or security background, is just not doing. Like they stop it, like, oh, cool, it it works. Yeah, it works, but you know, you're just work right. You're just building out basically a stack of invulnerabil of rather a stack of vulnerabilities that's running on your computer.
SPEAKER_03And that's the thing is a lot of these AI coded things are pulling from Git, Reddit, and so on. Yeah. And you're going to have, you know, people like, oh, well, there'll never be an attack service. Bullshit. There's going to be a bunch of common attack services.
SPEAKER_05Absolutely. 100%. 100%. And again, I think even for people that like the way I'm doing it, I think is the best way to do it because I don't have time pressure of an actual deliverable software product that a lot of the professional developers would have. So I don't, I'm not trying to get it out there as quickly as possible either. I'm trying to get it out there in as good a shape as possible. I want it to be fast, I want it to be secure, and I want it to already have looked at every possible contingency that somebody might have with this. Whether it's low memory issues, whether it's unavailable resources, whatever it is, I want to have routines built in to handle that because we thought of all those things.
SPEAKER_03Yep. Did you see Microsoft is offering employees 60 grand buyouts? I did, yeah. Yeah.
Layoffs, H1Bs, And The Empty Office
SPEAKER_05I think a lot of companies are gonna go down that road even more. Interestingly enough, most of these companies are not getting rid of their H1Bs.
SPEAKER_03Well, which I don't understand given how expensive that's gonna be.
SPEAKER_05Yep. I don't know, maybe they're grandfathered. I don't know.
SPEAKER_03Maybe.
SPEAKER_05It's uh I told you I met up with a buddy of mine who actually also listens to the podcast two weeks ago now for lunch, and and you know, he's been a Dell for, I don't know, forever, like 15 years plus. And he was telling me like when he goes into the office, he's in one of those open office space rooms, which I hate.
SPEAKER_03Me too. He's the walk up to you and bug you.
SPEAKER_05Yeah. Well, he's the only guy in there. There's nobody else in there. His his group is basically made of AIs and international workers that are not in the United States.
SPEAKER_03So then why does he have to go into the office?
SPEAKER_05Because he's the only because Dell has a policy for their employees to go to the office. Fuck that. Because they didn't want people working from home because they can't track them. I agree. I agree. Fuck that is a very true. But I'm just saying what exists, not like what should be. But you know, at some point they're they're gonna make the decision that they don't really need a US guy working at the headquarters for his job and get rid of him as well. Yep. So but he's got a plan B. So he's building like a Star Trek themed restaurant.
SPEAKER_03Oh, yeah, where? You go to that, right? Absolutely.
SPEAKER_05Hell yeah. I want some gock. Yeah, right? Exactly. And he's also a bit of a prepper. So it'll be fine. But yeah, it it is it's an interesting time that we're living in. I talked to my niece earlier today, too, and I sent her some AI stuff, and I'm like, this is so cool. And she's like, Yeah, I hate this stuff though. It's it's it's making people in my industry lose jobs. I'm like, well, that's a stupid thing to say. You're gonna say I hate photographs because painters were put out of work when photography came out? You know, are you gonna say that I hate record players and every future form of portable music because they put live orchestras out of business? Which they did, the both those, you know, there were plenty of painters and and artists pissed off about photography because it was putting them out of business. Plenty of that way more orchestras existed back before the phonograph was created because if you wanted music, you had to pay somebody for live performance. So all technology puts people out of business. So just because your particular niche, your industry is gonna be completely decimated with nothing but AI working in it, doesn't mean that you shouldn't like AI. It means you should probably figure out how to make sure that you change your job to where you're controlling the AI and not just a cog in the wheel of that industry.
SPEAKER_03All right, I'm gonna change the subject off of AI real quick. Have you gotten your suppressor yet?
SPEAKER_05I have not, no, because I, again, I want one that's expensive and I don't have the money because I'm out of
Suppressors, Texas Sales, And ATF Weirdness
SPEAKER_05out of work.
SPEAKER_03Well, you're spending money on AI. Take a look at this one I just sent you. It's on sale right now at Battlehawk Armory, which you can have it transferred to your FFL. But it's an LT LMT defense that's a 30 cal suppressor, and it's it's a flow-through design like you want. Yep. I like the Huxworks one. Uh yeah, I know, but you're paying for that name. So this has been Mr. Gunsengare did a review on this one and he really liked it and compared it to the Huxworth. And it's got a hub mount and everything else for 600 bucks.
SPEAKER_04Yep, yep.
SPEAKER_03So I may pick that up for one of my 30 cals.
SPEAKER_04Okay.
SPEAKER_05Well, that's cool. In stock in Grimes, Iowa. Yeah, no, that's cool. I, you know, I definitely want to get suppressors for all my calibers, but I'm not sure the 30 cal is gonna be the first one I get.
SPEAKER_03Oh, it will be me killing hogs, dude.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, I don't do that very often.
SPEAKER_03So, you know, I've got my I've got 30 cal bolt guns that are threaded, I've got my AR-10 that's threaded, I've got my Tavour, but the Tavour is gonna get a surefire because I've got the war comp on there. So yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_05Yeah. It's um believe me.
SPEAKER_03If I prices and suppressors are coming down dramatically, yeah, and they and they will continue.
SPEAKER_05And that's another reason not to jump right now, as well, is because the prices should come down. I mean, right now.
SPEAKER_03We've got two years before the Democrats fuck this up.
SPEAKER_05We do have two years, and so it's important to get them in that time frame for sure.
SPEAKER_03Well, no, because if the tax is reinstated, then that could you might have to pay whatever you want to do.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, but they're not gonna reinstate the tax this year.
SPEAKER_03No, but in two years you will have a choice of either destroying, surrendering, or or dropping to the bottom of the water because you lost it.
SPEAKER_05Yes, I know.
SPEAKER_03I hate those, I hate that argument so much.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, it's stupid. I I've never understood people that say that. It's like, dude, I get it.
SPEAKER_03You need to tell the government that you lost your firearms so you can keep your firearms, they're useless to you because you're never going to use your firearms for what they were meant to do, and that's stop tyranny.
SPEAKER_05No, exactly. Exactly. But look, laws and the enforcement of laws will always keep changing depending on who's in power. That's just a fact. So whether you get the suppressor now or whether you get it a year from now, like you said, two years from now, there could be additional fees and registration on that.
SPEAKER_03Well, and here's the thing if you're if anybody's actually worried about that, which I am not, but if anybody's actually worried about that, then go ahead and do the form four. Because you got your tax stamp while the tax was zero. There's nothing they can do to you there.
SPEAKER_05Yeah. Yeah, and that's uh probably something that if if it looks like the Dems win the next major election, I think that's probably the path most people are gonna take. Yeah, all of a sudden they're just go ahead and register this stuff, yeah. What I'm also kind of curious about, not that I'm gonna do this because I you know don't have the equipment or even a huge amount of interest, but what's the latest on just you know Texas made suppressors? Can we just sell them to each other as we want? Like, can we just buy them at gun shows though?
SPEAKER_03Dude, if I bought this, if you're if you're not an FFL, you can sell me a suppressor right now with no paperwork.
SPEAKER_05Really? That's awesome.
SPEAKER_03Yes. Because it's just considered another firearm at that point.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_03So there is no transfer required, there's nothing in a free state like let me say this caveat, in a free state like Texas, yeah, where I can go sell Gene any of my guns that I want, the same way I could sell him a toaster at a garage sale without a receipt, even, yeah, we can do that in Texas. So yeah, no, if you know someone who has a suppressor and wants to sell it. Now, here's a caveat to that. If that was a registered item, you can't. Right, right, right. Because you still have to transfer the registration.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, yeah. Now, wasn't there a process that the ATF now outlined for deregistration?
SPEAKER_03Yes, but you can never re-register them, and that could really put someone in a box. Really?
SPEAKER_05That's fascinating. So if you deregister, you can't re-register.
SPEAKER_03Correct. That's what the ATF guidance said.
SPEAKER_05That's that's so goofy, man.
SPEAKER_03It's it's insane, yes.
SPEAKER_05Well, I'll tell you what, if if he manages to pull off getting a whole bunch of machine guns
Home AI Hardware Costs And Bandwidth Math
SPEAKER_05or you know, fully automatic rifles freed up and sold by the government to civilians, then God bless the guy.
SPEAKER_03Oh, yeah, I I think we're living in the golden age story right now, dude.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I think that in a lot of ways, that is definitely the case. So yeah, maybe I will figure out a way to make some money off this whole AI stuff. I could definitely spend the money. I've got plenty of ideas on that count. But also, you know, to do anything at home, you basically now need to spend $19,000.
SPEAKER_03I don't think that's true.
SPEAKER_05Totally true.
SPEAKER_03Okay.
SPEAKER_05It's RTX 6,000.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, 5090 orders got cancelled.
SPEAKER_05It's up to $19,000 now. And that's kind of the starting point of the home AI.
SPEAKER_03So I think the Strix processors and their unified stuff is the starting point for most AI. The what? The Strix Halo or whatever.
SPEAKER_05Nah, they're really slow, man. They got memory, but they're really slow. Okay. So it's I mean, yeah, you can run a larger model at a pace you'll never want to actually run it.
SPEAKER_03I haven't seen the benchmarks of how they're running models yet. They're pretty fucking slow. So the uh how many tokens per second?
SPEAKER_05So the well, it depends on the model. But like the Strix Halo, their memory bandwidth is I want to say it's 260 or 270.
SPEAKER_03No, it's seven between depending on the manufacturer, like the Microsoft ones at like I want to say 9,000 megatransfers per second.
SPEAKER_05I'm not talking about mega transfers. Let's see.
SPEAKER_03Well, that's the that's the RAM speed measurement, but okay.
SPEAKER_05Let's see what it is. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03The big thing there is they're not using VRAM.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, it's 256 to 275. So it's it's pretty fucking slow. It's way slower than Mac Studios. It's insanely slower than an RTX 6000. And that that's something that like people are just looking at the memories like, ooh, it's got a 128, or it's got 96, or whatever. Yeah, that's great. But you're gonna be running really slow. So your write speed is fully dependent on your maximum memory bandwidth. And on the Strix Halo, it's depending on which manufacturer, it's between 256 gigs per second, 275 gigs per second. The the card that I had, the old 10-year-old NVIDIA card, that was 900 megs per second. So about four times, well, not quite four, three and a half times faster than the strict zalo.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_05The max studio, the not even the current generator, well, actually, uh the start with the mini. The mac mini is 179, so it's about two-thirds of the speed of the Strix Halo. But the Mac Studio is, depending on the model, between 460 and 960. So again, going up to three times faster. The by the way, well, one more speed here. The 5090, even though it only has 32 gigs of RAM, it is 1.8 gigahertz. So it is about eight times faster than a strict salo. So, yeah, these machines have a lot of RAM, but they're pokey. Alright, go ahead. By the way, do you ever get your X Money account? Yeah, I got it. It's actually it's funny because now Grok is
X Money Setup And Wrap Up
SPEAKER_05sucking money out of there.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. Did you get the card?
SPEAKER_05Yeah, yeah, yeah. I got everything. I didn't I tell you what happened.
SPEAKER_03Did you see Musk is uh doing a 3% cashback now? Is he? No, I didn't see that. Yep.
SPEAKER_05Did I I thought I told you what happened? I I have my Grok email set to an account that I almost never check. So my invite was sitting there.
SPEAKER_03I told you should have been.
SPEAKER_05I thought I checked it. I didn't check it. So I was sitting there for a long time, and I just like assumed that look, okay, if you're gonna do something like this, why in the hell would you not, at the same time as you send an email to invite, have a message in the freaking currently logged into X account that the person logs into every day notification there that says, Hey, you have a message from the company. I don't know. I had one, I didn't. I never had any messages. I but as soon as I clicked on the invites, like boom, it's in there. And I clicked on it like a month and a half after they sent it to me. So that was a that was a bad on me thing, turned out to be. I thought it was I thought it was their problem, turned out it's my problem.
SPEAKER_03Shocker.
SPEAKER_05I know, right? Never happens.
SPEAKER_03All right, Gene. I need to get a little boy's room.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, okay. Sounds good. Let's wrap this puppy up. So we're on for next week. You're gonna bring a mic? Yeah, I'm gonna use my headset. Perfect. All right, good deal. We will see you then, Ben. All right, see you, Gene. Bon voyage.
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