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From Survival Field Manuals To AI Voice Tools
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Something feels off when your audio interface will not initialize, ammo disappears from shelves overnight, and the internet is full of “AI magic” that either saves you hours or burns five grand of your money. We start with the practical stuff: troubleshooting flaky recording gear, what people are seeing in the ammo market, and a massive set of free field manuals worth grabbing. We also talk through the unglamorous preparedness reality that digital-only survival references fail the moment you cannot charge, connect, or authenticate.
Then we get deep into AI workflows and why voice is becoming the killer feature for everyday automation. I break down what I’m building with AI Voice Tools, how fast text to speech can be when the pipeline is tuned, and why CUDA, Vulkan, and GPU choice still matter if you want local performance. We also talk bots that can collect AI headlines, generate voice, render video, and publish across platforms without constant human involvement, plus the next-wave research that could let models “copy-paste” capabilities by editing weights instead of retraining from scratch.
From there, the conversation takes a hard turn into politics: election integrity claims, voter roll maintenance, and why trust collapses when numbers do not pass the smell test. We zoom out to incentives inside large institutions, what real pressure campaigns look like beyond memes, and why legal tactics often shape outcomes more than arguments do. We close with a grounded look at the Fort Lauderdale crash speculation and end on ethics, trolley problems, and free will.
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Audio Gear Troubleshooting
SPEAKER_00Howdy, Ben. How are you today?
SPEAKER_04Gene, I'm doing okay. Having more audio issues, so apologies if I sound a little different. I had to reset my story.
SPEAKER_00Well, I don't think you could sound worse than you did last week.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'd set it to use my headphones, and for some reason, Zencaster decided, no, no, I'm gonna use the laptop mic. And I was hearing you through my headphones. And I think it would have been fine had the mic been through the headphones.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah, that's called user air. So a lot of comments came in about that from multiple people on X. And even a cartoon was made by CSB.
SPEAKER_04Yes, I saw the CSB cartoon. And no, I was not on the toilet.
SPEAKER_00From what I could tell, he had a camera in your hotel.
SPEAKER_04I promise I was not on the toilet. At one point, I did stand up to go grab water, but that was about it.
SPEAKER_00While telling me, what are you talking about? I'm right there.
SPEAKER_04Well, because it's coming through my headset, and it's like, yeah, this is I'm the mic is right here, dude.
SPEAKER_00Apparently not. Well, hopefully it sounds better today, although you have to redo your setup. So, what happened? Why'd you have to redo it?
SPEAKER_04I I don't know yet. I think so. I've been on the phone with Rode a couple of times. They're sending me a new USB cable, but because it has to be a high-speed USB-C cable, but they only really require over five gigabit, and that's if you're you and the only reason why they require that isn't for the audio, it's for the right video capture capabilities of this. And I even have a 40 gigabit Linus Tech Tips TrueSpec cable that I used, so I don't think that's it. Oh, yeah, probably not. But it failed to initialize multiple times, so finally got it to initialize and then factory reset it and then went on my trip, came back, and Windows couldn't see it again. It's like, what the fuck?
SPEAKER_00So it's not a power issue, you don't have too much crap plugged in.
SPEAKER_04What would the power issue be?
SPEAKER_00If you're not getting enough power from USB for it, it's got its own power brick. Oh, it does. Well, I don't know that. Okay.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, it's got its own separate power brick. So that no, that is not an issue. But what I did to fix it this time was I just unplugged it and left it for a couple hours. Okay. Plugged it back in.
SPEAKER_00Discovered the bastards. Okay.
SPEAKER_04So I think there may be some flake in hardware in there. Yeah, but anyway, I've it's still under the two-year warranty.
SPEAKER_00So good. Yeah. Two years is good.
SPEAKER_04For not that expensive of a device, yeah, it is. Because it's only one dollar.
SPEAKER_00I think I've had this Motu now for 15 years. Time to get rid of it. I I bought it, yeah, I probably make more on it now than back when I bought it. I I got it shortly after moving to Austin. So it's uh pretty much right when it came out. And I don't know. I mean, I know I've I've kind of suspected there might be some issues with my USB cable, as we talked about last week, on the Mo2, because I haven't had any weirdness happening ever since I unplugged it. But oh, still running all these years.
SPEAKER_04Well, cool. And you can still hear me just fine, right?
SPEAKER_00I can hear you. Yeah, why are you walking around getting water again?
SPEAKER_04No, no, no, no. I'm on the mic, I'm sitting here, but I actually did forget to get drinks.
SPEAKER_00So go ahead and get drinks, I'll talk.
SPEAKER_04No, no, no, hold on. I just figured out the setting to turn off the monitor. Oh, good. On the headphones, so I'm not hearing it. You didn't say monitor. No, no, you have to switch your headphones to the monitor.
SPEAKER_00Their software is funky, just like say monitor, so that's right. Okay.
SPEAKER_04No, you have so my my headphones are pulling from the stream, which just takes in the mic directly and it does it without any processing and gives me feedback. But when I put it to monitor, I can go in and mute my mic on monitor. You don't hear any of that. No, and I don't get to hear myself, which is nice.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Well, congratulations. Like I said, monitor. Anyway, so AI, or do you want to get some drinks?
Ammo Rush And Preparedness Manuals
SPEAKER_04No, uh I've got a before you go in off the AI deep end, which yes, I will definitely need some drinks for that. A couple of points for everybody. If you do not have an adequate ammo stockpile by ammo, I have two sources that are telling me that since the election, it's like during the middle of COVID again, on how bad people are buying ammo. Yeah, yeah. So you remember my friend named Ben who owns the gun store?
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_04I texted him and was like, hey, can you validate? He says it's exponential. Like crazy. So right now for Veterans Day, Palmetto State has some pretty good sales on ammo. Yeah, it's uh so I'm gonna pick up some additional 308 and 9mm.
SPEAKER_00Okay, good. Yeah, it's honestly I haven't shot a whole lot since I bought the last batch, so I'm not too worried.
SPEAKER_04Well, and I've got quite the stockpile here, as you know, which I won't share exact numbers, but it's a good bit, but it's not enough.
SPEAKER_00More than this car's worth, guys.
SPEAKER_04Anyway, easily, easily, easily. I'm driving a 2013 F-150 that I've had paid off for a long time, dude, with 230,000 miles on it. A lot of miles. Yeah, well, you know, it knock on wood, it's been a good truck, and I haven't had too many big problems. Yeah, so knock on wood, yeah. It'll break down on me tomorrow because you said that. The other thing that I want to bring out that I think everybody should go use your Grokbot or whatever to download immediately is the 4215 field manuals that T uh T-Rush Arms put out for free.
SPEAKER_00That is very handy because I'll tell you, I bought about 20 of those.
SPEAKER_04Oh, yeah. I've I've I've gotten them at gun shows.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, no, I mean I've bought them on Kindle. So I've got about 20 of them on my Kindle that I paid for, and he's just putting them out for free. Yep. Which EPUB and PDF. They are all free. The only reason I paid for them is because they were in EPUB format, and I thought that was convenient. So he's got them in PDF and EPUB, but I would definitely go for the EPUB because you can load that into your Kindle or whatever.
SPEAKER_04Well, you can load a PDF into your Kindle too.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, but this is more compact. So I'm at 754 right now.
SPEAKER_04Oh, I've got them all.
SPEAKER_00Oh, you grabbed all of them already?
SPEAKER_04Yep. Oh, well, damn. Okay. Took about 30 minutes.
SPEAKER_00So you just don't give a fuck about their server. Okay.
SPEAKER_04They put it up there.
SPEAKER_00Oh my god. I told you what I was doing, and then you just go and ignore that. Yep, exactly. Just machine gun the whole thing.
SPEAKER_04Hey, hey, field manual printer go burr.
SPEAKER_00Here's how you should do things like that, people, because uh you don't want to be a dick and just tie up somebody's server for taking shit from them that they graciously offered, and then their server is completely running at 100%, and they're not able to serve other people. Set up your download to use minimal threads. I only did two threads, and I'm doing a five-second pause between every file. It's it's like normal human rate, not robot rate, which Ben just ran.
SPEAKER_04But what's the point in having AI if you're not going to use it to your point is to be gracious.
SPEAKER_00That's the point. I I know you Christians don't understand concepts like this, but you know, sometimes it's good to think about other people too.
SPEAKER_04I I do think about other people, and they've got a modern server, and they'll be okay.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I'm sure they'll be okay. It's just a dick moo, that's all. So, you got the files you talked about that you want to talk about anything else you bought?
SPEAKER_04Yeah, and I I just want to say I did I picked up three suppressors.
SPEAKER_00Congratulations.
SPEAKER_04Oh
Suppressors And DIY Workarounds
SPEAKER_04no, 4473.
SPEAKER_00So it was awesome. Yep.
SPEAKER_04That's good. Yeah. I'm excited.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. And there's now we're in Texas, which is about to lose all rights, but still have them for the next couple of weeks here. The suppressors may well sell out in that time frame, too. I wouldn't be surprised.
SPEAKER_04I so the two that I ordered that were cheaper, um, they they said they had a batch of 20 of them in last week and they sold out within the week.
SPEAKER_00That's actually slower than I would I would expect 20 to sell out in like two days.
SPEAKER_04Well, it's a smaller area, dude.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I suppose, yeah.
SPEAKER_04Um the other thing I would say right now, while the ATF says it's legal, thread adapters are completely acceptable with oil cans for certain rounds. Like, as long as you don't have a gas operated gun, I'd like even a gas piston, I wouldn't use it because it'll suck particles out of the filter and clog stuff up. But like a blowback operated gun like a 1022 or a Ruger PCC carbine like I have, or pistols that are recoil-operated thread adapters, especially one with a good flange that'll fit. An oil can make a very exp a very effective suppressor, so I am told.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, apparently.
SPEAKER_04I mean I I wouldn't know anything about that.
SPEAKER_00Not like as quiet as a real suppressor, but yeah. Bullshit. Really?
SPEAKER_04So one of my buddies bought the there was a company for a while making man.
SPEAKER_00I see those fingers moving up and down next to your head. Go ahead. What about your buddy?
SPEAKER_04So a buddy of mine actually went through and did a Form 4 on a piece of metal that was nothing but a thread adapter, so he could do it legally. And he had a Walther 22. Okay, and we put that thing on that Walther 22 with a small oil filter. The with subsonics, the action was louder. Like it was just clack clack. That's all you heard.
SPEAKER_00Now, I'm pretty sure with a Walther, you're supposed to be using a BMW filter.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, yeah, and you you're supposed to have a booster device and all that, but it worked without it. It did great. And literally, like that was as quiet as I've ever heard in anything, man. I'm telling you.
SPEAKER_00The stuff I'm impressed by is the guys that are doing like 3030s without earmuffs.
SPEAKER_04Oh, yeah, integrity suppressed and stuff like that.
SPEAKER_00Like, what there's there's a few gun, like you know, non-semi-ato, the uh manual loading ones that are insanely quiet. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_04Well, I'm I'm looking forward to putting that suppressor on my bolt gun 308 and seeing how well it does. Yeah. And then the other one that I got was for my Tavor.
SPEAKER_00Now Yeah, which I I you basically built the Tavor that I want, except in the wrong color.
SPEAKER_04Well, it's the color I wanted.
SPEAKER_00I know, I know. I just like black.
SPEAKER_04And by the way, that Tavor, that is my battle rifle, right? It's totally it it's set up for night vision. I've got a IR laser on there, I've got an IR light on there, and the it's an IRR white light, LPVO on it. I've got the black works hand guard on it that extends out and gives you more rail, which looks really good with the suppressor, you must say.
SPEAKER_00It does, yeah. No, it's a beautiful gun. There's not, you know, I like to give you shit. I can't give you shit for that gun. It's absolutely gorgeous.
SPEAKER_04At this point, with that suppressor on it, it's a very expensive gun.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah. And um, you know, I I think you picked well. I I like that gun and just how how little felt recoil impulse you get with it. I mean, it's obviously still laws of physics still apply, but the the felt impulse is not like one jolt, it's just a little softer, a little smoother. And that makes that gun be more accurate in in rapid fire situations.
SPEAKER_04Which I also swapped out the back plate on it as well.
SPEAKER_00Oh, that's right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I remember you told me that.
SPEAKER_04So yeah, that's very cool. The only thing the only thing I would really like to still do to it is the trigger pack, upgrade the trigger pack. But they've been out of stock for forever.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I believe that.
SPEAKER_04Which the trigger on it's not bad.
SPEAKER_00No, no, it's it's it's the best of the bull pups.
SPEAKER_04Well, I I haven't shot a ton of bull pups, but I'll take your word for it.
SPEAKER_00No, uh, trust me, I've shot quite a few. That is the best feeling of all the bull pup gun triggers.
SPEAKER_04Yeah. Did you see Grand Thumb's video today?
SPEAKER_00Mm-mm.
SPEAKER_04There's a company, the British Bullpup that they made.
SPEAKER_00Okay.
SPEAKER_04That are remanufacturing them and bringing them to the US.
SPEAKER_00Cool. I'm all for bull pups. No, I think it's a good design. I I wish we'd have more variety of like cheaper ones, not just expensive bull pups. But yeah, it's good to see them out here. I don't I have zero news on guns because I've had my head down pretty much in AI for the last month and a half.
SPEAKER_04Yep. Sorry. So you want to do your AI rant, huh?
SPEAKER_00It's not a rant, it's just an update, you know. Well, while you start your update,
AI Voice Tools Speed And Hardware
SPEAKER_00I'm gonna go grab you do that. So, what have I been doing since last week, since last show? I've been basically expanding functionality on a few of my apps. One of which the one that's probably got the most features right now is called AI Voice Tools. And it's still pre-release, it's still on beta right now. But I'm adding more and more cool functions to it, and the ones that are already there are actually working very well. It's got a it started off as basically a text-to-speech app that used a very fast AI model for generating it. And then I I totally rewrote the engine that it's using and made it even faster.
SPEAKER_04What are you talking about? Your audio program?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah, it's the AI voice tools app.
SPEAKER_04That you want me to try and run.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah. I I want to have you check it out and see if it works with your old card. It'd be cool if it does. I don't know if it will.
SPEAKER_04It you it requires Vulcan, right?
SPEAKER_00Well, it requires Vulcan or CUDA, and you don't have CUDA, so I have Vulcan. You have Vulcan, so we'll try Vulcan. We'll see if Vulcan works. Although I don't know if your Vulcan is new enough for it. We'll find out, I guess. But I've tried it on all this all the hardware that I have and gotten it to work, so now it's a more a matter of trying to get it hardware that other people have that I don't have. So I was able to get a version compile that works on Adam's his spark and he loves it. He said it's about twice the speed of what he was using. So now this is voice to text? This is well, it it does both. It does voice to text and text to voice. Specifically, I'm talking about text-to-voice, text-to-speech.
SPEAKER_04Okay.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. So it's very quick. It like if you give it a file or you type stuff for it to talk, depending on what kind of machine you have, like on my Mac Studio, it'll start talking in about a second and a half. So it's almost instant in terms of getting that output, that voice generation going.
SPEAKER_04Now, is that what you're gonna use to turn those field manuals into audiobooks?
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_04Which by the way, I think is a really bad idea.
SPEAKER_00Why?
SPEAKER_04Diagrams.
SPEAKER_00Not all of them are gonna have diagrams. A lot of them are gonna be dealing with like survival in the wilderness type stuff.
SPEAKER_04Yes, and we'll have diagrams for how to build shelters and start things.
SPEAKER_00Well, we'll see. We'll see. I look, if it doesn't make sense, I'm not gonna do it, but I I I guarantee you there's some that would be great to have an audio. Kind of thing that you want to listen to while you don't have to, so that when it comes time to need it, you've got a version of it in the back of your memory that you just need to refresh.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, and you know, that's one thing that you know, I everything to TA or T Rex Arms for putting these out there like this for free. Great. However, what I will say is if you're relying on digital assets to be available for survival, yeah, range your handbook, first aid, probably not the best idea.
SPEAKER_00Well, this is why I like the idea of a Kindle inside of an EMP bag.
SPEAKER_04Yeah. But you still have to be able to charge it.
SPEAKER_00Sure. But I've got solar panels, man. That's not a problem. Okay, and a Kindle much better than, or any of those, much better than you know, an iPad that that you have to charge a lot every day.
SPEAKER_04So what I would say though to people is look through them, pick the 15 or 20 that you definitely want to have, and you can go on like Venture Surplus or other websites, and you can buy the paperback copies for nothing.
SPEAKER_00I might publish some of these on Amazon. What? Okay, how are you gonna do that? Wait, where do you think the ones I bought came from? They're they're in public domain, anything that's public domain, you can publish.
SPEAKER_04Just put them out there for 99 cents and see who takes them.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, well, no, not 99 cents. No, it costs a lot more than that. No, I'm talking as paperbacks, not as digital. Oh, publishing in paper to print. Yeah. So the minimum price, the last time I checked, maybe higher now, but last time I checked, the minimal price for a book in single quantity is about $4.50. In larger quantities, that goes down to about two bucks. But on demand, one at a time, I I think and the what I mean by that is if you put it out there for their minimum price where you get zero in commission for actually being the author, or basically Amazon takes a hundred percent of what they sell it for, that price I think is around four fifty for a single purchase book.
SPEAKER_04I mean, if you could I I I wouldn't take zero because you're doing the work to put it up there.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Yeah, but but either way, yeah. I mean, like, you know, you uh at six bucks you get like a buck sixty or something as the author, something like that.
SPEAKER_04But if you sell a few thousand of them, yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00Totally, totally.
SPEAKER_04That's new gun money.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. No, I I agree. Well, the the YouTube money is basically paying for me to do AI shit, which I love.
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Although not all of them AI shit is getting covered by that.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, no shit.
SPEAKER_00How much did you just spend on a card? Uh yeah, it it's a it look, I got a good deal, okay? It's especially good. The cards, the cards dropped down to five and a half grand. It was nine thousand dollars not that long ago. And so I got it for uh just a smidge under five. And I think it's a very good deal. And I'm gonna be able to use this card. And by and I still am sticking to what I said originally, which is still true, that doing at-home AI is stupid. Nobody ought to be doing it. What you need to do is just get a plan. And the the cloud stuff is so cheap, relatively speaking. But I have a special unique reason that I'm gonna need this card for. And that's something that I can't really do on the cloud plans. I mean, there's another way of doing it. I could rent a professional GPU, and I at some point will just try it out and see how it works. But I need to do some training specifically for the voice stuff. So then and the training stuff is a slow process, and you know, I I theoretically could do it on the Mac Studio, but it would take forever. Because the Mac Studio Relatively speaking, to a commercial or not a commercial, a data center card. What I got is basically the absolute cheapest data center card you can get. And it's but it's not an old one, it's current production model. So you can still get them new right now. Unlike the one that Ben's got for what'd you pay $400?
SPEAKER_04No, two something.
SPEAKER_00To something, yeah, yeah, yeah. Which is a 12-year-old card.
SPEAKER_04Hey, I just wanted to play around locally. I get it. I get it. And here's the other thing. Even if you don't find my old card useful, what I would say is it's useful to me for my Plex server that's on there. It's useful for me for all my media stuff because it can help me transcode things very quickly.
SPEAKER_00Your old card basically got me to spend the five grand. So see, there you go. Experiment worth it.
SPEAKER_04Bankrupting my friends one bad decision at a time.
SPEAKER_00That's exactly what it is. Exactly. Hey, I got you to buy the Tavor. You got me to buy the AI card. I think we're even.
SPEAKER_04Well, I'd always wanted a nice bullpup, and the only bull pup I had was a bubba'd up SKS.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. And I'd always wanted a nice video card for games. So there you go. And yes, I will be able to play games on this card.
SPEAKER_04It has video out?
SPEAKER_00It does have video out. Yep. That's strange.
SPEAKER_04Why would they bother with that?
SPEAKER_00It's it's basically like a neutered 50-90. It's like a neutered 5090.
SPEAKER_03How is it neutered?
SPEAKER_00It's basically more VRAM. It has but it's but it's running at half the speed.
SPEAKER_04Okay.
SPEAKER_00So it's meant for having a whole bunch of these working in parallel. Whereas the 5090 is meant to give you absolutely everything you can. But here's the other difference. This card is rated at 205 watt, I think. Just over 200. The 5090 is 450.
SPEAKER_04Oh, some of them are over 600.
SPEAKER_00Well, yeah, if you start cranking them. But it's this this thing is going to actually reduce the temperature of my computer. And compared to our current video cards, the gaming ones that we both have, it it looks like it's about 35% faster.
SPEAKER_04Okay. So I I look forward to seeing your business marks.
SPEAKER_00Not as fast as the 5090, but faster than what we got right now. And the main thing is it's a CUDA, so that lets me do all of the video AI stuff very fast. Gotcha. Almost yeah, like either 10 or 11,000 CUDA cores in there. So it it should be very good for video. But anyway, the other thing I thought is, you know what? At the very first hint of the AR card market starting to turn with lower prices, I'm gonna stick it up for sale. Nah, it's not yet. But I'll I'll stick it up for sale, and then I should be able to get like 80% of my money back out of it.
SPEAKER_04Dude, the AI stocks tanked.
SPEAKER_00The stocks tanked, but the card market hasn't.
SPEAKER_04It will follow.
SPEAKER_00We'll see.
SPEAKER_04Like I as you know, I am involved with some very large data center projects, and I know a lot of people who are really fucking nervous about Miss Gina Hosa.
SPEAKER_00Oh, hell yeah. Yeah, I mean, she's gonna shut down everything in Texas. I'm sorry.
SPEAKER_03Gina Gina Hosa.
SPEAKER_00Gina? What? What's her name?
SPEAKER_03Gina Gina Hosa.
SPEAKER_00I thought it was just Gina Ho.
SPEAKER_03Is that not her last name?
SPEAKER_04Which finish on your AI topic and then I won't talk elections again.
SPEAKER_00AI is gonna go for about an hour. Go let's skip to elections. Let's take a let's take a break from AI. I'm just halfway through the conversation of one of my products. I have multiple products. Oh, what's the one for me?
SPEAKER_04So when do I get the check for the ad revenue?
SPEAKER_00For what?
SPEAKER_04You espousing your products on the show.
SPEAKER_00Oh, people love that stuff.
SPEAKER_04Oh no, they don't.
SPEAKER_00I think everyone's you have politics, or do we gonna go back to AI?
SPEAKER_04Dude, the more I look at the election, yeah, and some of the shit Trump has put out, yeah. This is 2024 or 2020
Election Integrity Claims And Voter ID
SPEAKER_04all over again.
SPEAKER_00I totally agree. Yeah. There's so much impropriety that happened, and so much, like no fucking way statistically, could this possibly ever happen? Shit.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, like two million additional voters in Texas that all voted Democrats.
SPEAKER_0098% Democratic votes for two million additional votes that weren't around.
SPEAKER_03How is that fucking possible? How do we like we didn't even import that many Californians voting age?
SPEAKER_00That's absolutely right. Two million additional votes. The number of votes that Greg Abbott got was basically the same. It was, you know, within like a few thousand. He went up. Yeah. Yeah, but it wasn't much. It was basically the same number. But then there are two million people that voted in Texas for Democrat governor, then voted for a Democrat presidential candidate that voted for any Democrats.
SPEAKER_04People voted for Gina Inahosa more than uh anybody in the history of Texas. More than the Biden bullshit and more than Kamala.
SPEAKER_00Mm-hmm. And we were we were like, there's no way that many people voted for Biden. And now we've got somebody that got more votes than what people voted for Biden. So I'm not buying it. I don't know of the entirety of that two million is bullshit, but there's no way all of it is rational numbers. Yeah, everybody went up. Well, Democrats.
SPEAKER_04But did you add them up?
SPEAKER_00Oh no, I didn't add them up.
SPEAKER_04What do we why we have to add all the votes that the Democrats got up?
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_04It's an additional 20 million nationwide.
SPEAKER_00Holy shit. That's more than more than we had for Biden?
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_00That's literally impossible.
SPEAKER_04Hold on. Hold on. How many illegals were estimated to have come in under Biden?
SPEAKER_00Oh, 20 million. That's that's obviously a coincidental number, but still.
SPEAKER_04So either they registered a shit ton of people, including a bunch of illegals that voted that way, and that's cheating and voter fraud. Or there's some some other national nationwide mechanism used to do this. And I I think it's keep it simple, stupid, right? Since we don't have the Save Act and we didn't have these other things to require voter verification and voter ID.
SPEAKER_00I mean, I'm not thinking about explain this to me. Why is it that when I go get a Texas license, driver's license, I have to show my birth certificate. But when I get a Texas voter registration card, I just check a little X that says, I am a citizen. I don't know. Why does no one fucking check? Like literally, it is more of an actual check in Texas to just get your regular old driver's license, which they incidentally could probably use as proof of citizenship at this point.
SPEAKER_04If it's a the ID with the star on it or whatever it is.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah, yeah. So it it it just seems stupid that in a state like Texas, nobody bothered passing a law locally in Texas that says that your registration to vote should be at least as stringent as you the registration to drive. It's it's insane. I think the a lot of the stuff is I think kind of is left over from 30, 40, 50 years ago when the typical voter turnout was like 20%. Like no one gave a shit. No one wanted to vote. And so it wasn't a major problem because most of like the illegals weren't trying to vote. Yeah, it it was just people that were very political that bothered voting. Nobody else did. A lot less women voted back then, too. And now we got you know, we got a very, very different type of voting where every election it seems like more people are voting.
SPEAKER_04And just to be clear, I am not saying that the 20-ish million votes that the Democrats got in excess over the elections. Like this is the turnout we saw is presidential level turnout for the Democrats.
SPEAKER_00Well, both of us saw lines and we both went back the next day because the lines were too long the first day. Right? You had the same thing.
SPEAKER_04So I'm not suggesting there's any electronic fraud here. I think it was people, I think it was a ground game.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_00And the people I was standing next to were, I mean, like a few of us were talking about voting Republican. Like also we're in Austin, so we also know our votes don't really matter here, but still, I didn't expect every single person I voted for to lose.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_04Well, it currently in Texas, the only statewide election that the only statewide elected official that we have that's Republican is Ted Cruz.
SPEAKER_01Mm-hmm. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04I'm sorry. What? Yeah. That's that's of the seats that were available, right?
SPEAKER_00And he knows that like he would have been screwed if he was on the ballot.
SPEAKER_04Well, and I think it'll be very telling if he puts his hat in for president or not.
SPEAKER_00Oh, he's totally gonna. Yeah, 100%.
SPEAKER_04Well, then that means he thinks he's gonna lose this re-election.
SPEAKER_00He probably would. I I think that's a likely scenario.
SPEAKER_04I mean, hopefully by then things are fixed. I like Ted.
SPEAKER_00I've always liked Ted, but a lot of people here don't like Ted.
SPEAKER_04Ted's Marmy.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I like him.
SPEAKER_04Oh, you're smarmy.
SPEAKER_00Exactly. He reminds me of me.
SPEAKER_04Well, I gotta tell you, it's got me thinking about uh running at least for like city council or something.
SPEAKER_00Oh, that'd be great. You should.
SPEAKER_04I don't know that I have the time.
SPEAKER_00You could make you could totally make like a challenge coin and stuff. It'd be great.
SPEAKER_04Anyway, I don't know, man. I looking back at the election, something has to happen. Heads have to roll.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_04Abbott has to call a special session of the legislature and stripping the governor of the thing. It needs to. Yeah. Otherwise, I'm literally buying ammo, not for enough to get through a war, but to at least start the war and know that I'll have to have some loot drops in between.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, exactly. Yeah, it it's and you're by no means the only one. I've heard that from a lot of people right now that are like, well, what what is the what's the alternative? You know, when when you have a massive turnaround like this, flip a mas magic wave that comes by. And we talked about this on the first day after election. My thought is like, this has got awful, it's horrible, but let's see what actually happened because we didn't know the first day. Now the data is starting to come in, and when you have data like, oh yeah, we got the same number of votes for pretty much all the Republicans that they've gotten before, like Brandon got as many votes, you know, as a Republican in that district as anyone's gotten. But then still lost, but still lost, and then a shit ton of Democrat votes came in that have never voted before. What hold up? How's that work?
unknownNo.
SPEAKER_00So yeah, it's uh it it's very much a well, you remember after the Biden thing, if like a year or two later, they there was a big article that came out that was like how we fortified the election. You know, basically talking and admitting to the fact that they stole this thing. Very brazen. And I think the same thing is gonna happen this time around, where it'll be, you know, a couple years from now that we're gonna find out exactly what they did to do this, but I suspect that they probably they probably did it the hard way, not the easy the easy way is just printing pre-printed ballots and sending them in. I think they probably took the time and effort to do it the hard way, which is as soon as the the early voting started, they started bussing people that were not supposed to be voting to go vote in person. And that's gonna make it way harder to then try and backroll that and determine because you you literally would have to, for every vote cast, you would have to go back and find proof of that person's citizenship or not. That's a huge project that could take several years. Well, not to mention it's gonna be tied up in court because there'll be people arguing that's not even a constitutional.
SPEAKER_04Well, and they're gonna say it's not enough votes to change it, because you're gonna have to have a thousand cases.
SPEAKER_00Well, you'd have to do two million votes that were cast illegally, which is also quite likely that it happened, but it doesn't mean that the courts are gonna let you do it. And we know we remember what happened four years ago with the Supreme Court, or six years ago. Yeah. Nope, not our problem. Nope, nope, sorry, no standing. Now, there is also, I think, for the like the Democrats got lucky here because there's definitely infighting amongst Republicans. And I'm sure you already saw Massey as you know, already filed impeachment paperwork for Pete Hedseck. Which is just when you have the Republicans that are ready to eat each other, the Democrats don't have much work to do. You know. So it's a I think there is some reality in that some of the votes were Republicans voting Democrats. I I think that that's the message that a lot of people ran in with. Like, certainly Nick Fuentes was pushing that very hard to all the the you know basement dwelling gripers out there is that either don't vote or if you're gonna go vote, vote straight Democrat. And then, of course, the first thing he did the next day is come out with a video saying, I was right, you can see what happened in elections, nobody actually likes MAGA. MAGA is officially dead as it should be, and therefore the future of the Republican Party lies with me, Nick Quantas. Either the Republican will you let me finish his quote on either the Republicans accept that and let us lead the party to victory, or the Republican Party itself will stop existing. So that's his quote after effectively telling people to go fuck up this election. He now is the one that wants to be trusted with running the party. And a lot of people are saying, yeah, maybe Nick's right.
SPEAKER_04Well, the reaction is wrong. The reaction is to get the rhinos out and get true believers in at every level of government. That's why I'm even considering doing anything, right? Yeah. But, you know, the local Republican Party asked me to run back in college for the city council.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_04And I did not want to go that route because good God, the scandals that will come out. But you know, it's not and it's not the life I want. But at the same time. We have to have the right people running. And if I see someone running that I can get behind then, that's fine.
SPEAKER_00For for low-level office, no one cares about scandals, honestly. You know, when I ran many, many, many years ago, it was literally like a year after I was out, you know, camping in a big hippie commune and naked thing. No one gives a shit.
SPEAKER_04Yeah. The the photos of the GIMP suit came out.
SPEAKER_00There are no photos. That's the beauty of it. Back in the olden days, there were no phone cameras. It's all pre-phone cameras, but uh a lot of leather involved though.
SPEAKER_04I am of the last generation to go through high school and college without the ubiquity of cameras.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Isn't that crazy?
SPEAKER_04Because literally the iPhone came out right after I got out of college. Thank you, God. Did I ever tell you this story? This is an embarrassing story, but this will be this this will make this an adult episode.
SPEAKER_00Okay.
SPEAKER_04But did I ever tell you the story about one of the college parties I had at my house?
SPEAKER_00No.
SPEAKER_04So college girlfriend and I, and I'm not gonna use names, broke up. And it was a few weeks later, I threw a party at my house. She heard that I was throwing a party at my house and decided to show up.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_04Well, I had found this really cute chick and was in my room and got drug out into the middle of the living room by something. If you get my drift. And I ended up doing a Superman pose, butt ass naked in the living room with like 40 people there.
SPEAKER_00Well, that okay, okay. So you had a a gangbang that you were the center of. What else?
SPEAKER_04No, no, that was not.
SPEAKER_00I mean, are you alleging rape now? Is that what you're gonna say? Is somebody raped you?
SPEAKER_04No, it was definitely assault, though, which you did.
SPEAKER_00It was assault. Sexual assault, sounds like.
SPEAKER_04Oh, hey, you're dragging me out of my memory.
SPEAKER_00I'm pretty sure that's called rape, then.
SPEAKER_04You know.
SPEAKER_00Are you trying to repress those memories?
SPEAKER_04Uh-huh.
SPEAKER_00You know, it's perfectly okay to withdraw consent 20 years later.
SPEAKER_04Yes, yes, I know. Speaking of the fucked up political environment. Did you see the new Chappelle thing?
SPEAKER_00No.
SPEAKER_04Okay. I like Dave Chappelle. I used to. I've always found Dave.
SPEAKER_00I think he's a little nuts these days.
SPEAKER_04Well, he just went off the fucking deep end, dude, with these comments about Charlie Kirk.
SPEAKER_00Oh, really?
SPEAKER_04In his stand-up routine, he said, and I'm gonna paraphrase because I don't have the exact quote. Yeah, but you know, since they shot Charlie, I just feel better. And oh, it's a joke. And I'm surely sure Charlie is looking up at us all right now and can't breathe because he's laughing so hard. Like the the the swing of these Democrats back, like it wasn't too long ago Chappelle was making culture war jokes about trans and everything else. Now he is swinging hard back left. When you look at the politicians and people talking about gun registries and income tax and taxes and oh yeah, weapons bans and repealing constitutional carry and all these things, they have swung back. This is what gives me hope for 2028. The Democrats are gonna go for fucking broke if they can keep power.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I think they're they're very much not going to try and moderate whatsoever. It's gonna be not at all full on communist ideas. It's uh and and we're seeing the exact same thing from the Islamists as well. I mean, there's a bunch of videos coming out, especially in in Texas, talking about the victory in Texas for Islam, how they have advanced their agenda, and you know, inshallah, Texas will be an Islamist state within five years and all this stuff.
SPEAKER_04Again, part of that 20 million, I would I would not be surprised to find a bunch of legal Islamic residents as part of that.
SPEAKER_00Oh, yeah, absolutely.
SPEAKER_04You know, legal residents, but that doesn't mean they're a citizen and have the right to vote.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah. But you know, not all of them are here in H1Bs either. There's a shit ton of them that have either got protective status, yeah. Well, that or you know, they're coming from war torn regions, countries. I think I've had multiple Uber drivers that were Pakistani and Iraqi, and you know, in theory, like they were all the guys working with the Americans back in the day, and therefore they got the special rights to come to the US because when the U.S. left, they would either get shot or they would move to America. I get all that. The problem is they bring their baggage with them. And they're not voting. Well, I shouldn't generalize. A lot of them are not voting for American values. They're voting for Islamic values.
SPEAKER_04Yeah. Well, Laura Logan put the Galveston County results in an open letter to Greg Abbott, which Galveston County is an interesting one because it's not exactly a conservative haven.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_04Even though that's where Ron Paul hails from. He's over in Surfside. My my grandpa was mayor of Crystal Beach. But you know, it's uh it's one of those things that uh when you look at the results uh in certain areas versus other areas, it just does not make mathematical sense because all those votes didn't come from the entire state of Texas. They came from a few counties. Right? We're talking two million additional votes from a handful of counties.
SPEAKER_00Right. But nonetheless, every county tilted blue. Every single county.
SPEAKER_04No, no, no, no, no, no. No. It they moved blue. That's why I said they tilted blue. Sure, but that didn't mean they went blue. No, I didn't say they voted only blue.
SPEAKER_00I said they tilted in the blue direction.
SPEAKER_04But there have been some election maps put out of Texas that shows you know last six races or whatever.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_04And the last one is all blue, and that's that's not an accurate depiction of what happened.
SPEAKER_00Well, yeah, but it it's just the wrong yeah, it's it's a depiction of the way that the county shifted if you look at their voting. Right. It's not a depiction of the overall vote being but the previous five. Yeah, I know, I know. They're trying to sensationalize it, yeah. For sure. There's there's a community note on that now. They've added that. But nonetheless, the there's the national map of all counties in the country shows that own there's only about six states, maybe seven, that had any counties that shifted red. And I ironically, it was like New Hampshire, Vermont counties. They shifted red. Idaho. Did Idaho? Okay.
SPEAKER_04And then I Idaho held strong.
SPEAKER_00And Long Island Island shifted red. New Jersey had a few counties that shifted red. But these statistics don't work. They're like everything's backwards because uh all the historically traditionally red states had shit ton of counties that shifted blue. It's it it does not align with reality. And this is why we need to vote from computers. You need to have proof of identity per vote. Not somebody just shows up.
SPEAKER_04I think we need to get rid of the anonymous ballot. Every ballot needs to have a name to it.
SPEAKER_00That too. I've always been for that. I always thought that if you're too chicken shit to vote with your name attached to what's on your ballot, you you have no business voting.
SPEAKER_04And the other thing, you know, in the last episode, we were still looking at the numbers and we were like, well, did people just not show up? You know, they did, but no, they showed up. No, they did, they did. Yeah. Republicans had a good turnout. Yeah, I mean, it wasn't a great turnout, but it was certainly the same as last presidential level turnout, yeah, yeah, but it was last midterms turnout.
SPEAKER_00Absolutely, yeah. Yep. So it it wasn't that the Republicans didn't show, and again, I I am willing to say that some Republicans probably did vote Democrat, the ones that were just very anti-Trump that were, you know, following the likes of Tucker, but that's not enough to have shifted things the way that they got shifted. There was way too many one-sided Democrats representing 90% of vote coming in. It's the old hockey stick that we saw in Biden.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, this is interesting that just came up. Laura Logan putting it out. You're a big fan. No, no, I'm not, but it's just popping up. But they're pointing out Tarrant County elector elections stated they do not have a way to track voting activity, which violates federal and state laws. Federal laws require removal of voters who fail to return and address confirmation notice and then fail to vote in two subsequent elections. So Tarrant County currently has 1.2 million active voters and 66,000 on suspense. Yet their election turnout is over those combined numbers.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00Yep. And that like I don't know if anyone's gonna do anything about it. Even if we find out stuff like this, even if the pillow man ends up, you know, making another video about a stolen election, I don't know that we're gonna see. In fact, I'm pretty sure we're not gonna see anything happen as a result of it. Because this is the lesson that the Democrats learned from six years ago. There is no consequence. You can do anything you want. There's no consequences for it. No one wants to touch this stuff with a ten-foot pole. Except for people that have no power to do anything about it. The deep state and my definition of that is simply the permanent government employees. It's people who make a living living and have been for more than four years by working at the government. So if you you know, if you're appointed somewhere and then you you're there four years and you go back to the private sector, okay, you're not really in the deep state. But people that have spent most of their lives living around Virginia and Washington, Maryland, Delaware, you know, these Maryland. What?
SPEAKER_04I was in Maryland last week.
SPEAKER_00I know. These people are the deep state.
SPEAKER_04Right by Fort Meade.
SPEAKER_00And what we found out when they've had voluntary, you know, statistical questioning is that like almost 80% of FBI agents vote Democrat. These are people making between $120,000 and $260,000 a year. They're not, quote unquote, the working class. They're not the people the Democrats keep talking about. They don't live in ghettos. They run a lot of our national investigations and they vote Democrat in every election. Now, why is that? Well, because like most people, they're more concerned about their well-being personally, their jobs, and who creates a lot of programs and throws pork into the government's belly. Democrats. I mean, this is why they're so mad at Elon, because Elon was responsible for Doge.
SPEAKER_04Calling for treason.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, they want to they literally want to kill Elon. They're willing to kill Elon. They they think that he's on the level of a uh Hitler. Well, uh yes, Hitler, but but more practically, like they see him on the same level as other people that have been executed for treason. There's only a handful in the entire history of the US. They see him on that level. Literally, the guy that's done more for America than any other person is probably Edison.
SPEAKER_04Yeah. Well, all I can say is you have to reach out to your elected officials. Anyone who lives in Texas should be calling Abbott like crazy.
SPEAKER_00Abbott's not gonna do anything. Abbott's gonna retire, dude. I mean, he wanted to win, but he's not like this. wasn't his second term, okay? This was his fourth term.
SPEAKER_04This would have been his fourth term. Yeah, he served three.
SPEAKER_00So, okay, so he got three out of four. I think he's okay.
SPEAKER_04He wanted to beat Rick Perry.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah. Which again, I liked Rick Perry, even though he was not exactly a you know, he didn't agree with me completely politically, but I liked his attitude.
SPEAKER_04So Rick Perry, I don't know if you know this, but so K Bailey Hutchison went up against Rick Perry in the 2000s, like 2008, I guess it was, or 2012, 2012, whatever. And I called it the battle the battle of the cheerleaders, right? Because Ann Richards was a Ann Richardson was a cheerleader at UT and Rick Perry was an Aggie Yell leader. So I always made fun of him, called him Governor Goodhair. That's crazy.
SPEAKER_00Okay.
SPEAKER_04Which by the way, I was sitting in her office talking about Obamacare and how, you know, she really shouldn't vote for it if she cares about her seat at all.
SPEAKER_01How'd that go over?
SPEAKER_04Well, we got interrupted by a staffer who told us about Fort Hood.
SPEAKER_01Wow.
SPEAKER_04And I hope they still execute that person and they lie.
SPEAKER_00Well, that's why they're trying to take out uh exit. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You're not you're not allowed to uh actually serve justice on Muslims. I I don't know, man. I it's it has to get beyond memes. This is this is the thing that frustrates me right now is that the response to actual cheating that affects your future life in this country, and I don't mean you in particular, but everybody that feels like this was a stolen election, the response predominantly is sharing memes. That ain't gonna do it, guys. Ain't gonna do it.
SPEAKER_04Well, all I can say is if they sh if they do take power, and if we don't see anything from the Republicans, then you know we gotta start taking plays from Solinsky's book and turn it on him. Yeah, you know, protest, say no, defy it. I like what Nick Friedis had to say. If you want a universal gun registry, watch me not comply. Yeah, and if you come after me, see how hard I'm willing to not comply.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, and and he, I believe, would actually do something about it, but look, all the people that are just forwarding his post and going, yeah, they're not gonna do shit.
SPEAKER_04Uh well, I will.
SPEAKER_00I I'd like to think so, Ben, but I'm I'm not 100%.
SPEAKER_04Okay.
SPEAKER_00I'll tell you why. I'll tell you why. Here's my litmus test. Okay. And this is why I don't think most people would do anything, even if they're unhappy. When you have a choice of standing up for something, knowing that you will lose your job, you will no longer receive a salary the week after that. The number of people willing to stand up goes down by 99%. The thing that makes to worry about that. Well, and this is where the Democrats have an advantage. Okay? Here's the advantage. Most of them, I know I'm being hyperbolic, a lot of them, but I'm gonna say most of them, don't have to worry about a job. Okay? When you don't have to worry about a job, it's a lot easier to do things that put you in crosshairs that will make you lose your job. And this is a problem for conservatives is that conservatives have been focused on, you know, growing in their fields, having constant employment, not relying on government to get by. All these things make it harder to actually stand for what you believe in.
SPEAKER_04Well, here's what I will say. I have a few lines in the sand, and those lines in the sand include my guns, my kids, my religion, and my freedom of movement. And that includes my freedom of movement while armed. And what I will say is I will defy any law, and I will say no. And quite frankly, with this election, the odds of me dying in a shootout with police at some point just went way up.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Well, it's probably not the police, probably the FBI, but yeah.
SPEAKER_04Well, same thing. Federal law enforcement. Yeah, but it's remember, our country was founded by people who are willing to take that sort of stance.
SPEAKER_00Right. And and how many percent of the population does that represent? Three.
SPEAKER_04It requires three percent.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_04And but here's the thing it only required three percent.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Yep.
SPEAKER_04So exactly.
SPEAKER_01That's why I brought it up, dude.
SPEAKER_04Our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor, dude.
SPEAKER_00Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER_04Yep.
SPEAKER_00And then uh, I don't know if you saw the the fake quote that I put into the the the chat, I think either this morning or yesterday, but which chat? Group chat or group chat, group chat, yeah. Uh let me find it here. You talk.
SPEAKER_02Uh I said you talk. Here it is.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, he said you talk right as I was on mute having a little bit of a cough. Of course you are.
SPEAKER_00Okay. All right. So here's the quote The only power the state has is the power you give it voluntarily. Stop volunteering and it's power and it's powerless.
SPEAKER_04Oh, absolutely.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. So I I you know I posted that on X and then I attributed it to but I actually came up with that.
SPEAKER_04But it's it's a tribute it to Unknown Patriot. Okay.
SPEAKER_00But it's because, you know, I'm not controversial these days.
SPEAKER_04I'm very Russian, Russian spy.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER_04The Russians interfering with domestic affairs. Gene, you are the Russians interfering with domestic affairs. I must be.
SPEAKER_00I post on X, therefore I interfere with elections. It it's uh it it is pretty funny though. But but as far as interference. And then did you see the I um well, this is something you probably didn't see because I don't know if it made the normal media. The the Chinese spy that was kind of get a little too close to the the head of NVIDIA got caught.
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Oh, you did hear about that?
SPEAKER_04Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. And he was unfaithful to his wife.
SPEAKER_00Well, may or may not be the same person, you know. Obviously, he was.
SPEAKER_04Have you seen a picture of his wife?
SPEAKER_00I have, yeah.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, yeah. I mean, it's like Bill Clinton.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_04Do you really blame him?
SPEAKER_00No, not at all. Not at all.
SPEAKER_04Uh and you're worth that much money to be a chance.
SPEAKER_00It looks exactly like you would imagine when you hear the words Chinese spy.
SPEAKER_04Well, and it definitely like fang fang, you know, banging the Congress critter out there.
SPEAKER_00Fang, bang, bang, bang.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, it it's uh you know, it's like the joke when that Asian airline crashed. The you know, pilot a pilot was holy fuck, co-pilot was wee too low, and the navigator was bang tingtau. It's just the news reporter read that shit on air. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I remember catch it. Yeah, it was so fucking hilarious.
SPEAKER_00Well, this bit of news was reported by my daily AI news broadcast, which I I'm loving, by the way. I gotta say, man, this thing runs with zero action by me. It just does its thing, it finds the top stories, it does the the voice, it creates the video, and it automatically posts it on all the social platforms.
SPEAKER_04Well, I tell you, I'm using I have more bots now, including one that's purchasing, that's keeping track of some hardware costs because I want to buy some stuff, that's keeping track of some news outlets, everything else, and it is it is it is legitimately useful. Like I I feel like I am more than getting my money's worth out of grok.
SPEAKER_00And well, and which plan are you on right now?
SPEAKER_04The new premium, whatever the $30 one or whatever, yeah.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah. That's I think there's a lot that these bots can do that is very useful.
SPEAKER_04The the real question is Well, and I've got a fix-it toolbox bot that whenever I run into a technical problem, that's what it is for.
SPEAKER_01Okay.
SPEAKER_04Like, hey, how have other people fixed this instead of me going to GitHub or dragging through it? It is better than Google.
SPEAKER_00Did you know that Reddit bans grok?
SPEAKER_04Oh no.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. They don't like grok stealing all their secrets.
SPEAKER_04But they're fine with everybody else.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. They don't like grok. Reddit is a special kind of place.
SPEAKER_03Reddit used to be awesome.
SPEAKER_00Well, I don't know, man. Dig used to be awesome back in the day.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, Reddit was just a better version of Dig.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. But you know, right now it's mostly furries.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, and very sensitive people.
SPEAKER_00Well, there was somebody said this is actually a brilliant statement that I just heard today. Well, like, I don't want to say that all artists are furries, but all furries are artists. That is so true. Yes. There's no like technical or blue-collar person that's a furry. They're all artistic. And you know what artistic rhymes with? Autistic.
SPEAKER_04Oh, there's definitely yes.
SPEAKER_00Uh huh. So yeah. It's it is good sometimes to not look at the political shit on times of high political crisis, because if you do nothing but politics, you start going a little crazy.
SPEAKER_01Sure.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Let's see what else.
Deep State Incentives And Legal Tactics
SPEAKER_00I got more AI shit to talk about. Is there anything non-AI that we want to cover?
SPEAKER_04Oh. You can do an AI interlude while I look.
SPEAKER_00Okay. So I talked about one of the apps, which is AI Voice, so it'll do TechSoup speech. It'll go the other direction in beta.
Bots That Publish News Automatically
SPEAKER_00So if somebody actually wants it, just reach out to me. I'll I'll send you the latest build. But it's not technically out in release yet. I'm still working on a few features. Some of the other features that it's going to have is it'll actually have a replacement for the system we're using right now. Zencaster will be able to use my app to connect in high-quality audio directly to each other without needing any server intervention anywhere in between. And it'll take care of generating the SRT files afterwards. It'll do all that stuff automagically. It also has an API so that other apps can actually use this as an audio generating or going from audio to subtitle files app as well. There's quite a bit that way. It sports multiple engines, super fast, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And it's being used by Adam Curry for his what's that thing called? The Curry Caster. No, no, no, no. Not the Curry Caster. The uh the spiritual thing he's doing. Godcaster. Godcaster. That's right. So the Godcaster is actually powered with by my app now, which is pretty cool. Now I also have an app that is released that is available right now, which is very useful for people actually do. Doing AI, using AI for either development or maybe you know, like Ben for just general tasks. And that's called AI track, and that will look at how much AI usage you're doing, and then create charts and graphs for you and sort it out so you can see by the project what you're doing, all kinds of detailed info about your usage. That's a free app I've got available right now. I'll have to put a link in the description for it. There's also a AI Tasks, which is an app that is almost done, which is kind of a replacement for Task Manager, but a little cooler looking. And it tracks all kinds of data Task Manager doesn't. Like, for example, the power usage of your computer. Very handy for those of us doing AI to see just how many watts or in some cases kilowatts were burning.
SPEAKER_04I'm interested to see what your power bill is.
SPEAKER_00You know what my power bill is. It's just over 300 bucks a month.
SPEAKER_04Mine is through the roof.
SPEAKER_00Well, your house is how many times bigger than mine?
SPEAKER_04Yeah, but it's also like double what it was last year.
SPEAKER_00I have one AC. Yeah, in that sense, you're right. So my total bill for everything, including water, heat, gas, garbage, sewage, used to be under 300 bucks. Now just the power portion is 300. So it's absolutely been going up. But hey, good thing we have a Democrat governor now who promised to do a emergency powers freeze of electrical bills.
SPEAKER_04Which doesn't really help, but my issue is AC problems.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah. You've got you've got some other issues there.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, no, the the power bills have definitely gone up and we've had some issues, but yeah.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. And then I've got a variety of of bots that are customized to do all this automatic generation. Like the uh if you go check out either YouTube or on X, it's the same name. It's Surgine TX. At Surgine.tx, you will see that I've got twice a day AI news videos that are about three minutes long, super short, but just concise, showing the AI related headlines. And at this point, I actually watch those as soon as they come out because I I am not participating in the creation of them. I'm a consumer, and those are posted on X LinkedGean. What can I make an upgrade for you?
SPEAKER_04Feature request. Feature request.
SPEAKER_00Go ahead. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04You remember the topless news?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_04There you go, buddy.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. I mean, that that'd be more of a request for Darren. He's more likely to do that.
SPEAKER_04It's a request for me, too. But my point is no, you del have the AI anchor, you know, hot redhead, yeah, you know, Irish chick.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, reading the news topless. Yes. I I probably I think it would probably work, but honestly, if I was gonna do something like that, it would be on OnlyFans, it would not be for free. There's no point in doing that for free.
SPEAKER_04So take what you're doing now, yeah, and then make an OnlyFans.
SPEAKER_00An OnlyFans. Well, I've got OnlyFans, but it making an AI AI topless news on OnlyFans.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, don't even call it AI.
SPEAKER_00Just topless news. But it's all the only news I give a shit about is AI these days. So right, but whatever.
SPEAKER_04My point is don't let anyone think it's an AI chick.
SPEAKER_00Well, dude, every day there's like one more percent of OnlyFans is AI. It's gonna be 99% before too long. It's gonna be like only AI fans. Which, you know, I'm kind of not looking forward to that because my cooking shows that I watch in there are gonna go away. Yeah. We'll see. So, and then I've got a actual training series, a course that is on YouTube. Part one just got uploaded, so it's it's the the first half hour of the first
Explaining LLMs Without The Math Pain
SPEAKER_00class has been uploaded as a YouTube educational material. And it it the first chapter really breaks down what large language models are, and so you can start to understand some of the lingo, some of the vocabulary, like what weights are and how the the matrix math actually works in there. And it's done at I'd say like high school level. It's yeah, it's not you don't need any super advanced degree or anything to watch them, but also it's it is at a cu at a high school level, like it's it's not gonna be at a lower level than that, the explanation. Because I it it's for people that are genuinely curious about how AI currently works, and incidentally, it's going to change how it works, it's already starting to, in very interesting and cool ways, because what some of the cutting-edge papers have been coming out about is bypassing the whole training cycle. And essentially it reminds me of Cypher from The Matrix. You remember that great movie, The Matrix?
SPEAKER_04Yes.
SPEAKER_00That came out when you were five years old.
SPEAKER_04Did not come out when I was five years old. It came out quite a bit after that.
SPEAKER_00And Cypher, the main good guy in the movie, he said that Um How is he the good guy? Well, I mean, he saw the futility of it all.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, standing up to totalitarianism is never futile.
SPEAKER_00Totalitarianism, probably not. I can't stand even totalitarianism. But no, so the quote that Cypher had was Okay, go ahead with your quote, and then I've got the quote that Cypher had was that you know, after a while, you look at the matrix, and you just you just see the there's the redhead, there's a blonde, there's a brunette. And that's essentially the next step that we're getting to is to not see the creation of the matrix, but to see the matrix in the matrix, to see what the actual memories are. And what I'm referring to is a recent experiment in the paper where an AI system was tasked with changing a another AI system's its weights in the model in order to improve it. So that was the the experiment. Essentially, like without redoing a whole bunch of training, which is the way that the model was originally built, can we just have one model modify the memory, the numeric matrix of another model to improve the first model's behavior? And not only was that successful, but they later were able to create memories from scratch in the first model that were never trained for that model, but were then executing properly
AI Editing Weights Without Training
SPEAKER_00by that model. So essentially, this is gonna be the biggest leap in AI that everyone's gonna go all afraid of like singularity really fast, because the next step in AI is using AI to create an AI brain without the training. Okay. And that means instead of taking 10,000 GPUs and six months of training for the next model that's rolled out, we can do that with another model in about one one hundredth of the amount of time. So the growth in AI knowledge could go exponential. Like literally, right now it's going at a rate of about doubling every four months. It could go to a rate where it's doubling every month. Or maybe every two weeks. And the entirety of everything that humans know could well end up in an AI extremely large system, but in an AI system without the amount of time that historically it's taken to train it.
SPEAKER_04Well, if that exponential curve were to happen, you have a hardware problem, though.
SPEAKER_00Well, that what this is getting around, yeah, the problem doesn't the hardware problem doesn't change, right? What changes is the speed with which you can update the models. They can run on the same hardware. But I'm just saying in the past, no, your limit wasn't, you're not your limit for these companies. I'm talking about the frontier guys, your limit isn't the amount of data centers they have. They can rent more GPUs. Their limit is the speed with which training happens. It's really fucking slow because they have to do 100,000 of these operations on 10,000 or more GPUs all at the same time. That the training is what takes forever. The size of the model has constraints, you're absolutely right. And that is determined by the amount of data center availability.
SPEAKER_04Well, in context, the ability to hold that much context across.
SPEAKER_00Well, but this is this is during the training phase, so context isn't the thing yet. But when you can do the training with a lot fewer computers running, like literally reducing it by probably a factor of a hundred, and then be able to do it also 10 times or 20 times or 100 times faster. So less computers needed to train, and doing the training way faster. That means you can have a new model with enhanced capabilities cranked out like instead of every six months, it could come out every month or even more frequently. So it accelerates the speed of AI development while reducing the need for hardware. It's very cool stuff. And it's the kind of stuff that Elon Musk kind of talks about wanting to do with humans using Neuralink. It's it just technically obviously a different process, but sort of high-level description, it's literally the same process. It's mapping directly from brain to computer to brain. Or in this case, from computer to computer memory. And I don't when I say memory, I don't mean the sticks you put into your computer. I mean the the memory that these large language models have to make their calculations. So it's I I recommend anybody that's actually interested in this shit, start watching that that series.
SPEAKER_04One of the things that I would say that would really help is if you look at the IBM 12 nanometer chip. So if you're no longer having to train models, you don't need GPUs. And the IBM 12 nanometer chip that it it could do inference, but it couldn't train, and it had memory directly on the die. Yeah. So no swap, like even GPUs. Yeah, it's on the same board. The memory's on the same board, but it's not on the same die. So yes, it's faster than RAM, but it's not as fast as this. So stuff like that, you could see a shift of hardware there.
SPEAKER_00Just very simplistically kind of describe what this difference would mean. And they've done the a few of these tests. There's been two papers, I think, but obviously way more work has to be done. But the difference is imagine if you were, and this we had to do this back in the olden days, right? On the computer, the only way to get a graphic to be on the computer was to write a basic program that would draw little pixels on your screen. And then you would end up with a picture on the computer, very pixelated, very basic, but it was like, check this out. You know, I've got like a thing that I programmed on the computer. It took you forever, it wasn't very good quality. And then we got scanners. Before digital cameras, we had scanners, and then you could put a real picture down, and this little light tube would go back and forth, and then a black and white, and then grayscale, and a few years later, full color image would appear, but the first scanners were just black and white, and all of a sudden you could get a real image of a picture on your computer without having to create it on the computer. And this is this is essentially the process that we're looking at is up to this point, every LLM model, all the frontier models there, uh, and the smaller ones you run at home, they all have to be trained. And training takes forever, and it takes a lot of GPUs. And now we're able to essentially go to that point where we can just scan the cat instead of having to make the cat by doing tons of training and inference. We just take the already inferred numbers that are stored in the metaphors that represent the cat and just copy them into another model. And the AI will do that. Like it knows how to do that, it knows how to replicate numbers where you'll still need new training. Well, you don't you need new training for things that have never been trained, but everything that's but not from scratch, right? Not from scratch. Well, just think of how much time that saves.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I get it. It's but that's assuming you're using this, it's an evolution of the model and not an entirely new model.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, the model and pulling the data back out works the exact same way that it currently does. So nothing changed on that. It's just this is really cool research to accelerate the speed of training by effectively bypassing training and just doing copy-paste. And it's again overly simplified to a large extent in the way I describe it, but you get the idea.
SPEAKER_04So two things. One, what was the matrix character you referenced again? Cypher. Cypher, right. So he's the guy who just says, I don't care if it's a this is a BS steak, I want to taste the steak, right? That is the banality of evil.
SPEAKER_01Sure. Okay.
SPEAKER_04You cannot accept slavery as a free thinking human being. Like it is to better it is better to live in chaotic freedom than peaceful slavery.
SPEAKER_00Right. But I I don't think he was particularly living in slavery.
SPEAKER_04Sure, that's what he wanted. He wanted to be plugged back into the matrix.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER_04He didn't want to fight. He just wanted to live his life and die. Right.
SPEAKER_00And that's pathetic. That's a decision made by a person with the ability to make up their own mind and not just follow some. Yes, and I can find that loathsome. Sure, you can, but it's his it's his choice to make. And the choice he made was to have a nice life. You know? Like.
SPEAKER_04Alright. So the other point. Yeah. Nostalgic moment.
SPEAKER_00Okay.
SPEAKER_04Do you remember your first processor?
SPEAKER_00Do you mean the first one that I built, or the which or the first one that I that
Old Computers And Early Internet Memories
SPEAKER_00was in the machine that I ran, or what?
SPEAKER_04The first processor you ever used.
SPEAKER_00I mean, the first computer I ever used, I don't know what processor it had. It was an HB workstation in 1983. Hmm.
SPEAKER_04So probably a 286.
SPEAKER_00No, no, Ben. Those didn't exist. Yeah, they did. 286 was 800. Not in 1983.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, they came out in 82.
SPEAKER_00No. Yes. 286s? This was not a 286. This was a workstation. This was it would have been an HP processor or some kind of a I don't know. This is like a $20,000 workstation, dude. Okay.
SPEAKER_04The and I'm sorry, it came out in 1980. The 286.
SPEAKER_00286 did?
SPEAKER_04Yep. So my first processor was a 386. And do you know trivia? The the 386 literally came out in mass production in June 1986 when I was born. Okay. Do you know how what year do you think they were manufactured up until?
SPEAKER_00Probably quite a bit after that.
SPEAKER_04Okay, when? Take a guess.
SPEAKER_00Uh well 92.
SPEAKER_04Guess again. No. And longer.
SPEAKER_00You tell me.
SPEAKER_041996.
SPEAKER_00Okay.
SPEAKER_04Well, I wasn't far off. No, no, no. I'm sorry. I'm wrong. I'm wrong. I'm wrong. I'm wrong. It was produced until 2007.
SPEAKER_00That 2007? That's way longer. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's for what?
SPEAKER_04Good question.
SPEAKER_00I don't know. I don't can't think of what it would be. I can tell you the first machine I ever built was a 486.
SPEAKER_04The first machine I ever built was a 486.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Yep. And that was, and I've been pretty much just a Mac person until I built that thing. And I wanted to build it. Well, there's a few reasons. One is I would I I wanted to prove my boss wrong, which is a good reason to do something. Because, you know, he kind of said, Well, it's too bad you don't know PC stuff, or I give you a raise. I'm like, okay, challenge accepted. So I ordered a bunch of parts from uh what was that really thick magazine we used to have? Computers, something it was like an inch thick, and it was basically all ads for computer parts suppliers. I can't really know what you're talking about. Really? That was not a thing by the time you get into computers already? Oh, somebody will know. Somebody will know what it is. But it was like computer shopper or something like that. But it was like literally an inch thing. It's probably 450 pages every issue. And it was basically all ads. There's maybe 30 pages of articles. But that's what people were buying it for was the ads to find suppliers of cheap hardware. But it was a 46 machine, and I think how much RAM did I have in there?
SPEAKER_04I remember 16.
SPEAKER_00I may have had eight. I don't know. I had 16 megs of RAM.
SPEAKER_04But I built mine from used parts in the early 90s.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah. This was this would have been like 1993. Yeah. Right around there. And I on that machine, I ran Windows 311.
SPEAKER_04I remember running, I remember running Windows. I remember A, my first computer was DOS.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_04And I had a memory manager and stuff like that. And then after that, the I went to Windows 3.1 and then 311. And that was the first time I got on the internet was on 311.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Windows for work groups. It was uh and I think my total bill was around two grand for the parts. And it was like it was cheaper than Max, but uh but still pretty pretty pricey because it was just parts. It wasn't like a full-built computer. But I ran that thing for several years before I upgraded it.
SPEAKER_04I remember my first power PC architecture was a Solaris Sun workstation in the early 2000s with dual CPUs and I remember running ZFS in the early 2000s on that workstation. A lot of people don't know this, but what my very first cert ever was a Solaris admin cert. And I used ZFS before it was ever open sourced or anything else because son owned the intellectual property. I I remember going in college, I was working for a MSP and they wanted to provide backups for their clients. And I took cheap commodity hardware, just these disc shelves, and built a massive multi-terabyte in the early 2000s storage array using ZFS and Solaris. Hey, did you click on the link I put in the chat? No. I put it in our show prep chat and the Zencaster.
SPEAKER_00I will take a look.
SPEAKER_04So if this is true, this is a bombshell.
SPEAKER_00Okay.
SPEAKER_04Harris County confirmation notices sent to 561,000 voters, potential removals, uh our current removals is over 100,000. Potential potential ineligible voters in Harris County is 559,302. Wow. Calorico won Harris County by 455,837.
SPEAKER_00Okay. That would make a difference. Yeah. You think. Yeah. Yeah. But still, he's what, 16%?
SPEAKER_04Right. But if you look at the big counties and you look at their potential ineligible voter rolls and you assume that if you do that statewide, he loses. Even if you assume he only got if only half are removed.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Maybe. I I for sure the uh the smaller counties would have flips of local elections.
SPEAKER_04Yes, absolutely.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Because I I suspect all these people voted a straight Democrat ticket all the way down. Any fake ones, any fake ones would be stupid to put a Republican in there. I did find the HP. It was an HP 9000. Okay. And it was a 32-bit VLSI workstation.
SPEAKER_04Well, the 386 was Intel's answer to that. The 386 was the precursor. Like all our x86 architecture really truly comes from the 386. Mm-hmm. Yep. Which is cool to geek out on, dude. Man, I remember before we had 64-bit, you know, like yeah, it sucked. It didn't suck. It's fine for the time.
SPEAKER_00I was so happy to not worry about IRQs, man.
SPEAKER_04Well, that it has nothing to do with the 64-bit architecture.
SPEAKER_00Uh I don't know about that.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, you free up some address space, and that makes it easier to give individual IRQs and not have conflicts. Yes. And I troubleshooted plenty of IRQ conflicts back in the day. But really, it was the changing of memory controllers, changing of lots of different things that have happened over the architectural window of compute. The 64-bit move did not fully remove the IRQ conflict issue. Not by itself. No, but like same time. It was in parallel, is my point.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, it's fine. You're you're ant picking here. Ant fucking.
SPEAKER_04Ant fucking. Yeah. Yeah. By the way, did you see Linus's video on the 20-year-old server? No.
SPEAKER_00I I saw the the thumbnail for it. That's as far as I know.
SPEAKER_04You need to go watch it. It's actually pretty cool.
SPEAKER_00Is it? Okay.
SPEAKER_04Yeah. And I have worked on that exact server.
SPEAKER_00Well, okay.
SPEAKER_04And I I remember hot swappable RAM and all the things that could happen. You know, Linus has a private plane. Yeah, I do. Okay. The tech plane. Yes. And he's building the tech house, too. Yeah, cool.
SPEAKER_00We ought to tax the case. Carney didn't kill him. Huh? He ought to be taxed at 99%.
SPEAKER_04Give Carney a few years, they might do it. I think they will. All I know, man, is if we don't hold strong and fast here in the United States,
Culture War Escalation And Pressure Campaigns
SPEAKER_04if we do not come back from this and we go the way Europe has gone.
SPEAKER_00Oh, dude. It's over. The world is done. Europe is done. They're done. It's a caliphate. You know, the one thing I wish Republicans would do more of, which does not require you to actually end up in jail, is sue more people. For some reason, Republicans have an anti-lawsuit predisposition. And the Democrats do not. The Democrats sue left and right for any reason, regardless of whether they have a chance in hell of winning or not. Because they know that half of the benefit of a lawsuit is gumming up the works. It is slowing things down and preventing people from doing something. Even if they fully are entitled to do it, the lawsuit will gum up the works. Republicans need to start doing the same thing. Earlier today, I posted in our group a link to the Asmund Gold's video, which I kind of said Asmund Believes in Total War, which was a video from yesterday, I think, that he did, where he is looking at X, which he basically lives on X now, of the videos of the two chicks that have a podcast that were laughing about Charlie Kirk's death.
SPEAKER_04Yeah. It was disgusting.
SPEAKER_00It was absolutely disgusting. So he talks about them and what is now happening to them, which is the conservatives, or let's just say normal people have gone and said, Well, this is not right. And they've reached out to advertisers on that show and say, Hey, do you know that you are advertising on and supporting a podcast that glorifies violence and death and all these things? And Asmund's take is like, this is the start. You guys need to not stop. You need to start acting the way that they were acting towards us. And make sure that you use the very emotionally charged language and you go after advertisers, you go after everybody they've ever had anything to do with, and you absolutely make them never have any online accounts again for the rest of their lives. Because if you don't, then you're not really helping the problem. They're just gonna delay things by a little bit and then come back to the first opportunity. You have to treat this as a war that you have to win, not as a match or not as a you know, a round in a boxing match. And I I totally agree with him. Way too many people stop way too soon, and the time to go after your enemy isn't when they're hurting you. The time to go after your enemy is when they're down and they're hurting. That's when you can actually defeat them once and for all and ship them all off to a nice vacation spot up in Alaska where they can spend the rest of their lives.
SPEAKER_04Which, speaking of which, the Alaska race hasn't been called yet.
SPEAKER_00Oh, I think it's been called for the Democrat, dude. Are you sure?
SPEAKER_04No, it hasn't.
SPEAKER_00Did you chest check?
SPEAKER_04Yeah, I've got Fox News on right now, and yes.
SPEAKER_00It's uh there's somebody was posting earlier today that that that's been called now.
SPEAKER_04Nope, 76.
SPEAKER_00Democrats won Mississippi, Democrats won Georgia. It's like it and and Alaska, or I guess not yet, but it's looking like it's Alaska. It's like this is insanity.
SPEAKER_04Anyway, Alaska fraud with running that fucking fake candidate.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, that was brilliant. We should be doing that every election.
SPEAKER_04No, it's it's voter suppression and illegal. And that guy is.
SPEAKER_00It's definitely not illegal to have a name that somebody else has.
SPEAKER_04It's depends on your intent.
SPEAKER_00Your intent is to run, and the guy ran. You would have an extremely hard time in court challenging that because the courts can't limit somebody from running just because they have a name that's similar to a different candidate.
SPEAKER_04Well, I am more and more for your idea of write in only.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. That would do it. I mean, that was that was the thing. It's like, good luck getting all your illegals to actually remember the shit and who they're gonna write down. What am I saying, illegals? Good luck having Democrats remember anything.
SPEAKER_04Say Walmart.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_04You've seen that joke, right?
SPEAKER_00Which one?
SPEAKER_04I shows up at the Mexican guy's house and these they're asking him questions through the door and The last question is say Walmart, and he can't say it. It's hilarious.
SPEAKER_00Oh, because he can't pronounce W.
SPEAKER_04Exactly.
SPEAKER_00Walmart. Walmart. Yeah, I'm not even saying that Walmart. What you ought to be saying it. You're Mexican. I am not Mexican. You might as well be you're learning the language. Yeah, so say Walmart. Walmart.
SPEAKER_04Got a horrible accent in Mexican. No. Y hablasomes bien. Gracias.
SPEAKER_00No, it's definitely not bien.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, it is. I speak Spanish more or less openly.
SPEAKER_00You don't sound like a Mexican.
SPEAKER_04No, I sound like someone from Spain. Yeah, well, that's not Mexican, is it? No. All right, funny story. And I may have told this one before, but funny story. I'm working for an oil company at the time, and I'm at a field office on a pipeline project looking at some SKADA stuff. And I walk outside, and there's a bunch of guys from South America there working, and it was a cold and chilly, wet, rainy day. And I said, Ah, qué frío! Necesito un chaqueta, which in Spain means it's cold. I need a jacket. Chaqueta's jacket? Jacket, yes, like a coat. Okay. Depending on the part of pantalones. Depending on the part of Latin America, I came to learn because they all started laughing at me. It either means to jacket, like jack off, or Jaqueta can be slang for condom.
SPEAKER_00Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER_04So it's cold outside. I need a condom.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. So you basically said I need a condiment, or that's what you thought you said. And what you actually said was I need a condom.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_04No, what I was saying is I need a coat, and I what they heard was I need a condom.
SPEAKER_00Yes, exactly. Yeah. I think that's pretty damn funny.
SPEAKER_04Oh, it was hilarious. Like, I'm like, what? I I said the thing. I I know I'm right here.
SPEAKER_00What? You you said the what every skid about a foreigner or an American using a foreign language does.
SPEAKER_04No, no, no. See, the problem is there's so many, just like saying, Oh, I need a fag here in the United States means something very different than I think.
SPEAKER_00You're probably out of smokes. You're out of smokes.
SPEAKER_04No, my hookah's going good right now.
SPEAKER_00Okay. You're gonna take the hookah instead of the fag?
SPEAKER_04Oh, absolutely. You wouldn't?
SPEAKER_00I wouldn't take either one.
SPEAKER_04Well, you know, nicotine is one of my preferred drugs. Nicotine and caffeine and then booze.
SPEAKER_00Out of those, probably the nicotine is the best for you.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_04Well, a hookah is my preferred delivery system.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. You'll fit right in when the Muslims take over.
SPEAKER_04Exactly.
SPEAKER_00Uh-huh.
SPEAKER_04I'll be going to the halal market tomorrow.
SPEAKER_00Gene was right. Cypher totally was right. I'll be going to the halal market tomorrow to pick up coals. Oh, yeah. You're not even kidding. I know.
SPEAKER_04No, they actually.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, the best coals, man. The halal coals are the best.
SPEAKER_04He has the best olive oil, dude.
SPEAKER_00Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER_04He literally has.
SPEAKER_00That's how they get you. And this is why they're going to take over America.
SPEAKER_04He literally has an olive oil or an olive plantation in uh in Jerusalem. Yeah. And brings it in.
SPEAKER_00Oh, wait, wait. You're not even buying from Arabs? You're you're buying from fucking Gazans? No, no, no, no, no.
SPEAKER_04His he is in Israel. He is not in Gaza. No, and he him and like it, I will say this. His him and his entire family, they run a couple different stores in town. And it's his son, him, his daughters, his wife, and they all work their asses off, and they are really good people. And I don't even know that they're very devout Muslims or anything, but they're at least playing to that community.
SPEAKER_00What I heard you say is that you're you're gonna be spending money at a money laundering operation that supplies funds to Hamas.
SPEAKER_04Okay. Well, I don't give a shit about Israel, so you know there's that.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, well, that's mutual.
SPEAKER_04Oh, I know. By the way, the numbers if you look at the numbers of foreign aid sent to Israel since Bill Clinton, Trump is literally the lowest. Yeah, I know. Both in his first term and now.
unknownYep.
SPEAKER_00No one cares.
SPEAKER_04Israel runs him, right? Miriam Eldis Eldis.
SPEAKER_00Who else would it be?
SPEAKER_04Yeah. Yeah. Bullshit.
SPEAKER_00The and you saw, I'm sure, that BB lost. Yes. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER_04So which it'll be interesting if it'll be interesting to jail.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, well, I we'll see. I think he's technically a U.S. citizen, so he could probably just come here. But if you look at I'm very curious to see what the next two years are gonna be like for the administration there. Because they're kind of stuck between Iraq and a hard place. Like they ran the we're not him platform. But you know, what happens if they start getting bombed and shelled from Iran again? What are they gonna do? Do nothing?
SPEAKER_02I don't know.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. That'll be interesting. I don't know, man. That country's always been too fucking liberal. That's that's my general opinion of Israel for pretty much ever since I've been aware of it as a country has been, yeah, but why is it socialist? Why you know, why do they have to be socialist? Why can't they be smarter?
SPEAKER_04Gene? Go look at the history of the USSR.
SPEAKER_00Yeah?
SPEAKER_04And look at the Jews that were involved in the communism of the USSR.
SPEAKER_00Well, they they those Jews died, man. That's a long time ago. Uh-huh. Mm-hmm. I I don't have to go look at the history, right? I can look at my family history, thank you.
SPEAKER_03Exactly.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, my grandparents were leaders in the in the revolution.
SPEAKER_04Yep.
SPEAKER_00Like I said, the Russians fucking up the US uh but kidding aside though, as far as Russians, the Iran had some folks over in Russia recently for a big pow. I don't know anything about it, so maybe I shouldn't have brought it up, but it was well, I because all I saw was all I saw was the headline that Iranian delegation leaving Russia to fly back to Tehran. But apparently they they had a big pow in Moscow. And I don't know. To me, this whole thing is all very related. It like the US has been at war with Russia through its surrogate, and Russia's been at war with the US through its surrogate. I mean you know, tell me I'm wrong.
SPEAKER_04No, I agree.
SPEAKER_00If if we weren't in a war in Ukraine against Russia, I think the US could have done a very good job strategically using Russia to pressure Iran so we wouldn't even have to bomb them.
SPEAKER_04Well, here's the thing. The what should have happened is the Republicans should have maintained fucking control.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_04And not allowed this to happen. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00But what happened to the the war's ending the first day I'm in office?
SPEAKER_04Trump should have cut off all funding for Ukraine.
SPEAKER_00Should have. Absolutely.
SPEAKER_04Yeah. Here's the thing. If you wanted to see the US rise to empire, true empire, and have the the Donro doctrine really in effect, a Russo-American alliance makes the most sense.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, absolutely.
SPEAKER_04Fuck Europe. Let Russia take Europe. Tell China, here are your boundaries, do not exceed them. And between us and Russia, you aren't gonna fucking win. No. Done.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_00I think that would have been a smart move. And the only thing that Russia, before the war, at least, wanted from Europe was money. They wanted to expand their ability to sell shit to Europe. Nobody wants to run Europe because if Russia looks at it the same way the US does, it's Russia learned this in Afghanistan. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. The last thing you want to do is be in charge of a place like that. You just want to do trade deals with them.
SPEAKER_04By the way, probably last topic. Have we talked about the plane crash in Fort Lauderdale?
SPEAKER_00You know, not since it happened. I think we briefly talked about it when it happened.
SPEAKER_04Yeah,
Fort Lauderdale Crash And Icing Theory
SPEAKER_04dude. Man, talk about a day wrecker. So, what it looks like happened from all the NTSB reporting, which they're still doing the investigation.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_04But their wing icing probably wasn't that bad. Yep. But that tail stabilizer, it looks like that iced up. And they were in pretty by the way. This plane a year before was in a thunderstorm, and the air traffic controller called them out for calling it moderate chop and said it's not moderate chop.
SPEAKER_00Really?
SPEAKER_04Yes. So same flight crew, everything. And who knows if the plane was damaged in that thunderstorm and failed in inspection or whatever. We don't know yet. But it looks like they lost that real rear tail stabilizer and had no way of like they were just done. They were just done. To all the people who are like, oh, it was shot down and everything else. First of all, the interceptors that we know exist and habitual line crosser, which I know you don't like, but he's he he's he's a missile dude, right? Like that's what he did in the service was air defense. So he's sitting there talking about how these interceptors could not have engaged at that altitude. That's not what they do, that's not how this works. And oh, by the way, the plane wouldn't be fucking intact in the video. Right.
SPEAKER_00That's true. They did pull out an amazing shot in the video, literally, like a foot above the ground. Yeah. That was a dash can. Frickin' miracle. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04But anyway, and also the female pilot was the co-pilot working the radio, not the pilot in charge. Right. The pilot in charge was a 50-something year old white guy.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Who actually, well, yes, but there was also a report that he was in the cabin at the time. Like he was actually talking about happened, yeah, maybe. Yeah. And she was the one that was.
SPEAKER_04But you clearly hear her call out, look out the window, yeah, and everything else. Which, by the way, if you haven't listened to the audio, I would recommend that you don't, because it's pretty fucking haunting in a lot of ways. Like you're listening to the last words people are speaking.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Yeah, but you've heard a lot of that. Well, dude, they're not. What you hear is fear.
SPEAKER_04That's fucking hey. You know you're about to fucking die.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah. And it's the kind of fear that a child has.
SPEAKER_04Well, she was a child.
SPEAKER_00I know, that's my point. That's she had no business being on that flight. Honestly. She really did.
SPEAKER_04She got her pilot's license before she got a driver's license.
SPEAKER_00Exactly. Exactly. And it's having somebody who's 20 years old as a copilot is just too fucking young. They need more practice in less risky planes.
SPEAKER_04Well, regardless, it was a tragedy, and people are reporting bits and pieces of human remains several miles out.
SPEAKER_00Really? I wouldn't have thought that those would be left.
SPEAKER_04Oh no. There's like chunks.
SPEAKER_00Do they not have animals like snakes and rats and alligators that would eat those? On people's cars. Oh, on people's cars. Well, they Could climb up there.
SPEAKER_04Yeah. Okay. Well, I'm just saying, like, I the the amount of just people have to understand the kinetic energy, right? Kinetic energy is one half MV squared. Your velocity matters more than just about anything, right? This is why rods from God and things like that work. But here's the thing. That plane was going at almost it was going at 500 at by the by the time it impacted, it would have been going almost 600 miles per hour. There's not going to be anything left in that plane.
SPEAKER_00No.
SPEAKER_04Like, oh, where's the wreckage? Where's this? Where's that? No. It did it.
SPEAKER_00This is not the uh it's almost like it was a slow, low-flying plane aimed at the pentagon and nothing was left. It's amazing.
SPEAKER_04No, no, no. That doesn't that that is very different. In in Pennsylvania, the reason why I think that plane was shot down is because of the way the wreckage was dispersed. And that plane did not do a nosedive into the ground. This plane was nosediving at over a 60-degree angle into the ground.
SPEAKER_00Did I not say that when we first saw that live? That it's this plane is going faster than terminal velocity, it has to have engines on and aimed at the ground.
SPEAKER_04Because otherwise it can't be, but they didn't have the control surfaces to do anything about it.
SPEAKER_00But that's my point is the i if the engines were off, they couldn't have reached the speed they were going.
SPEAKER_04Sure, had they had just an engine failure. But the problem is they didn't have an engine failure, they lost their elevators, stabilizers. And there was no way for them to recover. Like they should have gone around the storm, but this plane is an older plane that doesn't have great weather weather radar. So that doesn't mean that they knew about it. They were just entering new airspace where they could have gotten weather updates from the ground, but maybe didn't.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_04They they there were so there were certain preemptive actions that they could have done that they did not do, and they paid for it with their lives, along with seven other people.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. And kids.
SPEAKER_04Yep, two kids.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_04But anyway, it it's it's a tragedy.
SPEAKER_00Speaking of kids, did you hear in one of the videos a guy asking Grok for a trolley
Trolley Problems Morality And Free Will
SPEAKER_00problem where you know you have an opportunity to save a child that's supposed that's about to be hit by a car by killing the 65-year-old driver in the car. Okay. And Grog, and it's a w which well, what would you do? And the answer that Grag gives is the correct one, which is I would do nothing. Because all human lives have equal value.
SPEAKER_04Oh, disagree.
SPEAKER_00Well, you that's an opinion. That's not a factually supported one, though.
SPEAKER_04It's a moral one. It's a moral one.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, it's an emotional. It's an emotional one. The yeah, and you could make the argument that the knowledge contained in the 65-year-old is much more irreplaceable than a child with zero knowledge who could be replaced literally a year later. So it it really is an emotional thing.
SPEAKER_04Okay. Well, again, another trolley problem is you have, you know, an asleep worker and five workers that are awake and see the train coming. Yeah. Who do you tort put it towards?
SPEAKER_00Well, you don't do anything, you just let it go. No, no.
SPEAKER_04It's gonna either hit the sleeping worker who has no clue, or you aim it at the people who theoretically can get out of the way.
SPEAKER_00Right. I'm not gonna touch it. Wherever it's going, it's gonna go.
SPEAKER_04I don't like those answers to trolley problems because I think they lack morality.
SPEAKER_00I know you don't, but I'm I'm telling you my answer, and and Grok seems to agree.
SPEAKER_04The answer is you aim it at the people who see it coming and have a chance to get out of the way.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, that's what somebody who's emotional would do, sure.
SPEAKER_04You say emotional, I say moral. This is an innocent person who has no clue what's about to happen to them versus five people who see it coming and have an opportunity to get out of the way if they fail to get out of the way.
SPEAKER_00Why do you want to interfere with God's plan?
SPEAKER_04Oh, lordy. No, I don't.
SPEAKER_00Well then leave the fuck everything alone. Let nature take its course. Hold on.
SPEAKER_04All right, I'm gonna all right. Here we go. One of the most brilliant lines in all of cinema to explain God came from Jim Carey.
SPEAKER_01Okay.
SPEAKER_04So in Bruce Almighty, he does all these things, right? And he asks God in the movie Morgan Freeman, which I find offensive, but that's neither here nor there.
SPEAKER_00I like Morgan Freeman as God.
SPEAKER_04I like Morgan Freeman too, but come on. By the way, we need to talk about the sorority girls doing the monkey dance.
SPEAKER_00Oh, Jesus. Yeah, that came up.
SPEAKER_04So he goes to Morgan Freeman and he says, God, how do you make someone love you without affecting free will? And Morgan Freeman delivered the greatest line ever when he said, When you figure that one out, let me know. Because that's all that God wants from us is to love him without affecting our free will. That said, no interference in God's plan, but I have free will. God doesn't affect my free will. Yeah, he will influence me, he will send me messages and do things in my life to nudge me one way or the other in accordance with his plan. But ultimately, he knows every decision I'm gonna end up making and why. But ultimately, I have free will. Just like again, when it comes back to the gun grabbers, if they try, I will meet them with my free will. That is not me interjecting in God's plan and saying, Well, I don't care if it's the time for me to die or not, God. It's no, God, I trust you. And if it's meant to be, it's meant to be.
SPEAKER_00It's a little different. I mean, you're you're using morality to protect yourself, your family, etc., is a little different than steering something.
SPEAKER_04I am putting myself into conflict in a situation to where I could die and saying, Yeah, if it's my time, Lord, it's my time. This is the beautiful thing about being a Christian.
SPEAKER_00But that's a different question than the trolley questions. That's the one where you're willing to jump in and then it may not make any difference, or it might, we don't know, or do nothing and just let it continue on its way.
SPEAKER_04This is the beauty of being a Christian. Death has no power over you. Whenever it's my time to go. Yeah, it's a death cult. I'm not afraid of death. Yeah. I know where I'm going, I know what I'm gonna be doing later.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, you know where you're going. Dude, if I'm not the only one that knows where you've been, and I would be a little more careful for you. You dropped out, Gene. That wasn't me dropping out, that was Gad.
SPEAKER_04No, I think Zencaster has some issues because you and Darren had some issues. We've had some issues where it drops out randomly.
More AI Tools And Foreign Policy Odds
SPEAKER_00But there's no drop if you look at the chart on Zencaster.
SPEAKER_04It's on your side, maybe, but I'm telling you on mine, it went dead.
SPEAKER_00Well, we're well, we'll have my app to use soon. And we could also use Adam Curry's Curry Caster, but he didn't give me a key. So I'm not sure I want to pay the monthly fee for that. You know what you could do?
SPEAKER_04What? You can go to the GitHub and tell Grok to clone it to make your own. It's commercial price.
SPEAKER_00Nope.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, he's got it posted on GitHub.
SPEAKER_00No, he does not. Yes. Nope. He does. Well, send me a link then. I don't think he does, but send me a link.
SPEAKER_04Alright, I'll find it in my bots. You do that. But anyway, I've been playing around with it. Better someone's made of hell of a clone. Huh?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, somebody could make a clone. But I just want just point-to-point functionality. That's all I want, and that's why I'm billing it myself. And it's my little bots are chugging the way.
SPEAKER_04There you go. Here's your link.
SPEAKER_00Send me one.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, hold on. Okay. I gotta find you in Signal.
SPEAKER_00I know. I'm so hard to find in Signal.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, there you go. Adam C.
SPEAKER_00That's the old one. Okay. Yeah. Did you you didn't look at the dates or seven months old? Okay. And? Well, my point is I can take a riff from it. It ain't there. I already have a copy of this one. This ain't it. This isn't a new one. Okay. Um.
SPEAKER_04Anyway. Uh-huh. What do you think the odds are that the Trump admin hits the hell out of Iran here shortly?
SPEAKER_0050-50.
SPEAKER_04I think it's higher than that.
SPEAKER_00I really, I don't I would have if the Republicans didn't have as big of a loss as they did, I would say it's probably about a 65 to 70% chance that Trump would hit Iran. Given the major blue wave, I think Trump doesn't want to fuck up his legacy. And hitting Iran could turn out to be really good or really bad. It all depends how many Americans say. So for that reason, I can't, I I don't have a side to pick or predict here. I think it's a 50-50. It could happen, but just as likely it could not happen.
SPEAKER_04I don't know. I think he's gonna take a.
SPEAKER_00I also don't, I mean, I only know the bare minimum about this new dude. I it seems like everybody else has known who the fuck he is. I've never heard of him. His new chief of staff. And it's oh yeah, it sounds like he's supposed to be like, you know, all MAGA huge, yeah, huge portion of Trump's brain. But I've never heard of the guy.
SPEAKER_04What was the guy in Russia that his daughter died in a car bombing that was in his brain?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I know who you're talking about. I don't what is his name? Uh it's like Dugan or something like that. Uh yeah. Dugan. Yeah. Well Alexander Dugan, that's right. Yeah. Which incidentally, that whole Putin's brain thing, that the British newspapers invented that.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, yeah. But Stephen Miller is basically the equivalent, and they're doing the same thing there, is my point. But Stephen Miller is I I think the Republicans need to double down on that version of MAGA in a lot of ways.
SPEAKER_00Oh, didn't you hear? MAGA's dead. MAGA's not dead.
SPEAKER_04America First is not dead.
SPEAKER_00Oh, America First is, yeah, America First is the one saying that MAGA's dead. The Tucker Carlson group, America First. That they're not America First. Well, that's what they call themselves. That's the name of their group.
SPEAKER_04Sure. As someone who has a lot of property in Qatar.
SPEAKER_00Cool.
SPEAKER_04Uh-huh. And moving on.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, but you know, Qatar's is one of the safest places in the Middle East that you can be. Yeah, and it's a I've been there.
SPEAKER_04It's a fucking pan opticon. They don't even when you land in Qatar, they are fucking doing facial recognition on you.
SPEAKER_01Uh-huh.
SPEAKER_04And they have cameras fucking everywhere and they track you everywhere.
unknownOh.
SPEAKER_04Like, dude, I've been there. Not a society I want to live in. What Tucker does. Yeah, and that tells me a lot about Tucker.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04It's uh But no, if you haven't heard of Stephen Miller before, you need to look into it.
SPEAKER_00I haven't, so that's a brand new person I'm gonna have to look up. But it everybody likes him, apparently. They all think he's exactly what Trump needed. Too little too late, maybe, but you know. Oh, Bernie, Bernie Sanders says the Democrats must deliver. He's from a state that had a lot of people shifting to red. Right? Which is a little funny.
SPEAKER_04By the way, Palmetto State has 50-round boxes of magtech, 124 grain, 9mm ammo at $12.99.
SPEAKER_00I saw that ad, yeah, yeah. It's a good price. It reminds me of what it used to be. It used to be $9.99 to get a box of $50. Yeah, Bernie Bernie Sanders says no more excuses as he buys his fourth house. On Meet the Depressed.
SPEAKER_04Meet the Depressed. Alright, dude. Well that's all I got.
SPEAKER_00Alright. Yeah, 57% of Americans want a $20 minimum wage, apparently.
Polling Takes And Wrap Up
SPEAKER_00Oh fuck. Gas prices? What do you think is gonna happen with those once that goes through?
SPEAKER_04What do you mean?
SPEAKER_00Well, I mean, when when the dollar is inflated, gas prices tend to go along with it. And raising minimum wage causes inflation. 58% want to end the military aid to Israel, which has already been ended. 79% want a 10% credit card interest cap. Okay, what do you think happens if there's a 10% interest cap legally on credit cards?
SPEAKER_04A lot of people lose their credit cards.
SPEAKER_00Exactly. Ding ding ding ding. Correct answer. You must not be a dummy. No. But these people are that think that mandating a 10% interest is going to fix things. All you're basically saying is cancel the credit cards of everyone who currently doesn't have 10% interest.
SPEAKER_04Well, I mean, I only have 10% interest on one card. Actually, it's less than that. That's a credit union card. Everything else is way higher than that. That's why I try not to carry anything.
SPEAKER_00I used to have a lot of cards under 10%. Yeah. And then I stopped working. That's not what happened. Yeah, exactly. Now these days they're all high.
SPEAKER_04Like I if if that happened, I wouldn't be surprised if I lost credit cards and I have a damn good credit score and a high income. Yep. Like it just I I wouldn't I wouldn't even be mad at the companies.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, it's basically be like, oh, you can only get a credit card if your credit score is 780 or higher.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, yeah. Well, it it here's the other thing though. If they capped, if they capped the the interest rate at the Fed, then sure, you can do that. Cap the interest rate at the Fed at 1%.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Yeah. Uh it's crazy time, crazy time. Well, we better run, Ben. We've been chit-chatting for a long time. I did my little segment on the AI stuff I'm doing. I'm still very much enjoying. We did our two hours.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, and we did. So there you go. Plus the bonus episode that everyone can stop fucking bitching down.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, fucked up the bonus, damn it. We back uh normal time next week. Uh is that the plan?
SPEAKER_04As of now, may have some travel plans, but I'll find out.
SPEAKER_00Well, I got some guests lined up, so hopefully you can make it. But if not, I'm just gonna fly without you.
SPEAKER_04Thanks, buddy.
SPEAKER_00You're welcome, buddy.
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