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Episode: 3372
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Title: HPR3372: 2020-2021 New Years Eve Show Episode 8
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr3372/hpr3372.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-24 22:18:40
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This is Hacker Public Radio Episode 3372-4 Tuesday, 6th July 2021.
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Today's show is entitled, HPR 2020-2021 New Year's Eve Show Episode 8.
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It is hosted by Honki Magoo and is about 99 minutes long and carries an explicit flag.
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The summary is, the HPR community stops by for a chat.
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This episode of HPR is brought to you by An Honesthost.com.
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Get 15% discount on all shared hosting with the offer code HPR15.
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That's HPR15.
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Better web hosting that's Honest and Fair at An Honesthost.com.
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What if a deer fell into my smoker?
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What if a deer jumped out of its skin and jumped into my smoker?
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That would be a neat trick and I'd never see it.
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I've switched over to Moomla.
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Moomla? I like Moomla.
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It's now my go-to on Android devices.
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It is or is not?
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It is my go-to.
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I do still have plumble installed,
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but when I'm on Android anymore, I'm using Moomla.
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That's when my push to talk switched over to
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I need to set it back up again.
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I understand, you know, poaching,
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hunting out of season.
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It's illegal for a reason,
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but there was a time when I was a kid when, you know,
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my family didn't have any money and sometimes
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it was the only way to eat.
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Probably the problem is going to be behind.
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You mean those, I can't say the word on here.
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People that bag a deer and all they take
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is the head and leave the rest there.
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That's a poster.
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That's trophy hunting.
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Now, that far north, do you guys,
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do you get pheasant and quail?
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There's a lot of pheasant and quail.
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Okay, pheasant's good to eat in any way.
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We get parchurch.
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Parchurch?
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I don't think I've done parchurch.
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Like a fake pheasant.
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Do you go fishing?
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No, I filled out all the necessary legal paperwork.
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Uh-huh.
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You probably don't do your own hunting
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then either you pick up the meat in trade.
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Well, no, because we used, um,
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sometimes we'd be able to get a hog or, you know,
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um, or even with a deer a lot of times what we would do is we'd go to our local butcher
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and be like, hey, clean this up for us and you're going to have half of it.
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Yeah.
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No, no, no.
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Do that most get the where they need it.
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Well, when I say clean it up, I also mean you'd make a sausage as well.
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Usually we do our own smoking because we had a smoker.
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Yeah, it's been a while since I had grits.
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I'm not sure about red eye gravy, though.
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What's it made from?
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Salt?
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Salted pork, uh, your shoulder.
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Red eye gravy.
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The gravy is made from the drippings of pan-fried country ham mixed with black coffee.
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Okay, that does sound sound good.
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Very good.
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Very not healthy.
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You just think baking some coffee.
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You have me at coffee.
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I make a lot of it.
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Well, why are you just doing it in front of your salad?
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So are you interested?
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Sorry, I had to talk to my son for a minute.
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What's up?
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I said, are you in Texas?
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How many Texas, yeah?
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Do I?
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I'm here to eat.
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Uh, yeah, I guess it's kind of everywhere.
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So you don't eat much of it?
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Um, I've had to start cutting back on red meat.
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My cholesterol started shooting up.
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Then honestly, I've never been a fan of barbecue sauce.
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Don't tell the rest of Texas that.
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They'll ban me.
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Oh, Barbie.
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Oh no, there's plenty of barbecue sauce.
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I don't do barbecue.
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Yeah, I'm not a fan.
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I do like barbecue sauce on this, about it.
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Yes, I could do some barbecue chicken,
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but I'd be careful with the salt, too.
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Chicken is in the grill.
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Rub it down with mayonnaise.
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What did you say?
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Manage.
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That's disgusting.
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Not what you grill it.
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Oh no, you said mayonnaise, and that's disgusting.
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No, no, mayonnaise.
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Manage.
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Manage that, you know, that egg and oil.
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That absolutely disgusting thing.
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Yes, don't eat it.
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Plain.
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I'm saying, you're all checked, grill it,
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and salt, and pepper, garlic powder, whatever else you want in it.
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Ah, okay.
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Create a second skin, yummy.
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Ah, mm.
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Where's the habaneros and the jalapenos and the mango?
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No citrus.
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No citrus.
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Why no citrus?
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You don't want to eat citrus, don't you?
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Ah, I love it.
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My number's in here.
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That's from a movie with Denzel Washington.
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No.
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Uh-uh-uh.
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It actually is.
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Jurassic Park.
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Yeah, that's a Jurassic Park.
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It's not Denzel Washington.
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Mm.
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It's not Denzel Washington that's set it.
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It's also from a Denzel Washington movie, though.
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Trying to remember.
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Swooy.
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Maybe Demolition Man.
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Denzel Washington was not in Demolition Man.
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There was Wesley Snipes.
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Right, that was what.
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That sounds like something.
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Virtuosity.
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And it was actually the antagonist that did the uh-uh-uh.
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I thought of that, too.
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Russell Crowe.
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Russell Crowe, as said 6.7.
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What year did that come in?
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Um, 1995.
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Ah, it's the park was first.
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You're probably right.
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Oh, you haven't slept yet?
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Um, I've been having trouble sleeping lately.
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It does not sound like it.
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It's not.
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Unless you really want me to talk about apnea.
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Oh, one of the guys is like, hmm.
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Yeah, the surgery doesn't work for everybody, so.
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It depends on what's causing your apnea.
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If it's a deviated septum, then yeah.
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But it can also be completely mental.
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And your head do.
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Just in your head.
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You quit breathing because, yeah.
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But I think I've had three hours of sleep
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in the last almost 36 hours.
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I don't know.
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There's something in time to do this.
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Yeah.
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And I don't know if it's just that, um,
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I need my pressure adjusted or what?
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Or if my machine is getting old and dying.
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Well, it's the latter.
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Maybe I might be able to go in and fix it.
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But I would never know that if I could get the pressure settings
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to what they're supposed to be.
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So how do those, um, hold on one second.
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Yes, that's how they work.
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Um, they work in the same way as, um,
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it's like they're blowing at your face the whole time.
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But what they're doing is changing the pressure,
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much like a hyperbaric chamber,
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which is why full face masks work.
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So I have to wear a full face mask at work anytime.
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There's two athletes.
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Morton C, um, do you also have apnea?
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No, I have narcolepsy,
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but they tried giving me a CPAP.
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And it mess, it messed up my nighttime breathing.
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Yeah, yeah.
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If it's, if there's too much pressure
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or too little pressure,
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then it will cause more problems than it solves.
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And if you have narcolepsy as opposed to apnea,
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then it's just going to be a problem at four sleep studies.
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And the doctor wouldn't even, uh,
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she was just waiting until I, uh, uh,
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hit close to the minimum for possible sleep apnea
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to give me a machine.
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Yeah, that's dumb.
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The fourth, the fourth time I had the sleep study, um,
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two of the texts told me, uh, they said,
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you have sleep apnea.
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That's what it is.
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And that's why you had narcolepsy?
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They told me that I had narcolepsy.
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And I was like, no, I don't.
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And I went home after the sleep study and looked it up.
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And I was like, oh, my God, I have narcolepsy.
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I told my friends at, and they were like, yeah, duh.
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They brought up things like me falling asleep
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between a voivod and death angel at a concert
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when we were in high school,
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standing in the pit.
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Yeah.
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Well, I'll be honest and apnea can cause things like that
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because you don't get any sleep.
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And then eventually you go to sleep
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whether you like it or not.
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Hang on.
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I had them to the boy band and death angel.
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Boy, Vod, Canadian thrash metal from up there in Quebec.
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Ah, right.
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That name.
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I heard different.
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My favorite and ever top bot.
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But you don't like sabaton?
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Who?
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Tabaton?
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Or region death metal?
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I'm sure it's fine.
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But probably, uh,
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Voivod, Black Sabbath, um, anything
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by John Zorm.
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They might be giants, Richard cheese.
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For some of my favorites.
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I've been listening to some off-the-wall stuff lately.
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So I gotta look it up.
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Um, backstreet voice.
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We're in.
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Babic.
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Eric, July.
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Beaty Pablo.
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Some kill switch engaged.
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Definitely not all of their stuff.
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But that cover that they did of Holy Diver.
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That's awesome.
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Megadeth.
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Yeah, I have to like Megadeth.
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Is that band with the whiny little, uh,
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Yes, I do.
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Some flow rider.
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There's an all female,
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I think Norwegian band.
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Swedish band called Hell Songs.
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Um, and they do folk covers of metal.
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It's awesome.
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My kids told me they hated rush.
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I almost disowned them.
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The guy that produced the rush albums
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is the couple of the Voivod albums.
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They're in the soul.
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And they, they have a very rush yield to them.
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Honestly with rush,
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that's still hard to tell how it sounds
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because they change their sounds so much.
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All that remains is pretty good.
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What about El Nino?
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I don't know that one.
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How about Nick Rogablicon?
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Yes, they have a fantastic.
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Yeah, or Guar.
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I am probably the biggest Guar and you will ever meet.
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I have no Dan Walker.
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We'll give you a run for you.
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No, he won't.
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I've probably seen him over a hundred times.
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In the mid 80s played in Columbus.
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Almost weekly for a while.
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How about Kru Shadow?
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I think so.
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The one of those bands that has gone
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through so many changes,
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you kind of have to be a bit more specific.
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The first and second iterations of Kru Shadow
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were really good.
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But I'm a sucker for a girl with a violin,
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playing metal.
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What about Archen?
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Don't know.
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How about Diveinels?
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Apocalypse.
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Sounds familiar?
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The early guys of the cellos, Metallica.
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Ah, okay.
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I have listened to some of their stuff.
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Black violin, Lindsay Sterling.
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I don't think I've heard.
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You haven't heard Lindsay Sterling?
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You should go look up Lindsay Sterling shadows,
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like right now.
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Yeah, I'm playing YouTube.
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YouTube is exciting as that is.
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I do use some,
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I was using some YouTube DM.
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I had some really interesting
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automated scripts set up in Cron.
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Grab some specific YouTube videos
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when YouTube got rid of the built-in RSS features.
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Yeah, there is.
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I think it's very a little bit deeper
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and you have to do a bit more to find it.
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But it was easier for me just to set up the script.
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Not to actually.
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Mm-hmm.
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Yes, Ed.
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YouTube, DL, and you know,
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automatically remembers what videos you've already downloaded.
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So you have it checked every day to see
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if there's anything new
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and it automatically grabs it.
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Lustra,
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either buckchairing,
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hot action cop.
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No one.
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But you don't like hot action cop?
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You don't like buckchair?
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You do not.
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Why?
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I don't know.
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Six rubs.
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How about lustra?
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They're all right.
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But nerd.
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How about insane poetry?
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Insane poetry?
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I'm not sure on that one.
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Let's just say let's change up the genre a bit
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and go with Chris Cross.
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Yeah, but I think music.
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They haven't been able to make music in like 30 years.
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So I've never made music.
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I mean, one's dead now.
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Didn't I know?
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When did he die?
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Skrillex?
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My life with a thrill kill cult.
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Don't know that one either.
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They're amazing.
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Do you remember the movie The Crow?
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Bagley.
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There was a band playing in the club.
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That was a thrill kill cult.
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What was the band that was playing in the lone rangers?
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Not Ozzy.
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The other band.
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I'm going to watch in that movie again.
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Now that I've mentioned it,
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airheads.
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It wasn't the lone rangers.
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It was airheads.
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Yeah, lone rangers were in the band in the airheads.
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Yeah.
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That was a good soundtrack.
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Yeah.
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How's he going, honky?
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It's going.
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The movie was 1994.
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What airheads was?
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Yeah.
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Yep.
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Gonna have to watch it again.
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Motorhead and Primus.
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Prom.
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White zombies.
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White zombie.
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Yeah, white zombie.
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Is anybody a Reagan youth fan?
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Don't think I'm part of them.
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Really?
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They were the people that made the song degenerated.
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Oh, okay.
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How about Death?
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Not the metal band.
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The Proto-punk band.
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From the seven?
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Yes.
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Yeah.
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Not too bad.
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What about Cannes?
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What was it, Cannes?
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Cannes.
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C-A-N.
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Nope.
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Don't know him.
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Okay, so what's everybody's favorite book?
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Don't say data structures and algorithms.
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What'd you say?
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Sorry.
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I thought I heard one of my kids crying.
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What's everybody's favorite book?
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Anything by Scott Siggler.
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Siggler?
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What's Siggler, right?
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Scott Siggler.
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You don't know?
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Scott Siggler.
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Actually, I think I do.
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He wrote the space football book, right?
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G-F-L.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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But there's so many books he's written,
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and they all intertwine the same universe.
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I think I've read parts of two of his series.
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But I read the G-F-L stuff, and I'm trying to remember.
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Nope.
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I think there's been four or five G-F-L books
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and four novellas.
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That story arc is still not done.
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There's a...
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Yeah, books will be coming out.
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Will it still come out in 2020?
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There's Mt. Fitzroy and Earth Corps,
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or two nocturnal.
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There's the one about the genetically modified animals
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and the upper pendants of Michigan and sister.
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The infected trilogy,
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infected contagion and pandemic,
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which is so good and poignant to what's going on now.
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Daniel Suarez.
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I have not written.
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Dude, you really need to.
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I mean, what is it?
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Freedom and...
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Or Damon and Freedom are really good.
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But he also...
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There's another book, Change Agent.
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That's really awesome.
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And Kill Decision,
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which I think was more of a short story.
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And then I'll always be a Salvatore fan.
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What, last month was a good...
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No, November was a good month for books.
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I mean, the new Alex Veris book came out.
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It's, um,
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but, uh, Ready Player Two
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and Brandon Sanderson's Rhythm of War.
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A really good book.
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A really good series.
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Stormlight Archive.
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I have to go and prepare things for guests.
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Uh, it was good talking to you.
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Happy New Year.
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Oh, it's a good, uh...
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Player, uh, we're on zoom.
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Um, let me check.
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Nope.
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There's a jabic cast.
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Yeah.
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Let me see if it went to...
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Expand.
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Nope, nothing recent in spam.
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Well, um...
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That's jabic at mincast.org.
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You could send it to...
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Mincast at mincast.org and I should get that too.
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It's not Gmail back.
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I don't know.
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No, it's Gmail back.
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Uh, Mordancy, have you read John Scalsy?
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Who?
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John Scalsy.
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No.
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Give him a try.
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Uh, which book was it Old Man's War?
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I think there's four books in that series.
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But really the first two are good and the other two.
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Okay.
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All right, I think I might try this whole sleep thing again.
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Get an hour or two or something.
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I'll talk to you guys later.
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All right.
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All right.
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Yeah, it's good getting to talk to you again, Mordancy.
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We should talk.
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We should talk more.
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Yeah.
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Well, you know where to find me.
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Twice a week.
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Well, once a week.
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I do.
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I think I'll try and sleep.
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You can try and get on, uh, the lug cast too.
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Actually, that'll be tonight.
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Eight o'clock.
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Uh, what time zone are you in?
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Eastern.
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It's 10 o'clock right now.
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I'd be logging in at eight o'clock,
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so you'd be logging in at nine o'clock.
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Jordan, I haven't slept.
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Make me maths.
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Honky, what time do you log in for, uh, the lug cast this evening?
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I'll look it up when I wake up.
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All right.
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Later.
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Happy new year.
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Happy new year.
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Goodbye, everyone.
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So it looks like we've got a few new people this year,
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so at one point, I looked like it was about 20 people in the chat.
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Can you do that?
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Not sure if my voice going through real either.
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No, this, uh, can you hear me now?
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Yes.
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I can.
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Yep.
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I had taken disconnect my mic to record a HB show.
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How'd you do?
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It looks like we had about 20 people in here in the evening.
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Yesterday?
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That's right.
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We are still today because I went to bed five o'clock
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and then slept for six hours and
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came back again.
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You glad to ever come out last night?
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Don't believe so now.
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It's too bad.
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I look forward to hearing them.
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Yeah, exactly.
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You had a little bit of life coming in, so let's just say like that.
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Know that.
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It's nice to hear nightways yesterday.
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Indeed.
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So shall one to be quiet for a while.
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Maybe get busy with those own business, I think.
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Yeah.
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I need to just go and have a quick chat with my wife
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once I can tell if I can.
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Kevin, why have you left us?
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So there's a stream working still.
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So Kevin's just disconnected the stream.
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It's now 1600 UTC.
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Hello.
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Is anybody still here?
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I see faces in the room.
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I do not hear voices.
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This is Moss Bliss.
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I haven't talked to any of you people all year except a few I lost.
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Hello.
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I'm just talking to myself.
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Can you talk?
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Just talking to hear someone say something.
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They kind of have to wait a while.
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Yeah, I just woke up and thought I'd give everyone my
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nice deep morning voice.
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You're listening to cool sounds brought to you by Moss.
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Late night radio is the best.
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I did radio.
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Don't think too many annoying ads.
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Yeah.
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Crazy idea.
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It is foggy.
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On the morning rainy here in western eastern Tennessee.
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It's dark and cold here, frosty in the Netherlands.
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Holland to be specific.
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Ah, the Holland part of the Netherlands.
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It's all lowlands anyhow.
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Exactly.
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Oh man, haven't got to my morning cough.
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I have I scare people around here with COVID and all because of
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I have some granulomas in my upper lungs and they're totally benign
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and they don't get disease but overnight they collect
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book and I have to cough it out.
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Yeah, like my body says that's that shouldn't be here.
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And so it surrounds it with flim so that can get it out of the system.
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It doesn't get out of the system.
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I have to get flim out of the system.
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Isn't that lovely to wake up the morning with?
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Yes.
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Better open in.
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Yeah, well, it's all in.
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I just have to.
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I have been in my life a pipe and cigar smoker but not a cigarette smoker
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and with pipe and cigar you don't inhale but some of it gets in anyhow.
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Yeah, it doesn't get in deep but that's probably what causes the granulomas.
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Yeah, and why they're just at the upper lobes with my lungs.
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Not fortunately.
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benign granulomas.
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So do you have any plans for the new year?
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Today there's nothing you can't do anything and it's rainy and foggy anyhow and
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people keep telling you not to go out at all because of COVID and
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so I'm just going to sit here and do nothing.
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I just checked in to see if they've here was still on the air and they still are.
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Yeah, well Kevin twist the stream but I'm leaving the recording going here.
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I see I'm partnering about here and the old it all we can probably.
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So cause my surprise we're in lockdown so I'm not going to be doing enough.
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Really?
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Yeah, I tried to get all my podcasts caught up by the end of the year.
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I failed to get the most recent broadcast but I can forgive myself because I was on it.
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I already know what was on that show.
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And then I also woke up to find a brand new one from Big Aussie Prepper.
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Our friend Hobstar.
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Not for a minute.
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Hobstar designed the new Mintcast logo.
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He's a big Aussie Prepper.
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He's a six foot five Aussie lives in the Victoria state of Australia and he just started.
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Well this was episode 13 which is rather auspicious to start the new year with.
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You twist Kineco phobia, I can freak out over that one.
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And he basically has decided that he's going to start being a Prepper which in America we'd
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call a survivalist.
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You know, be ready for whatever happens how to make bug out bags, how to do enough canning
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to stay alive for a year if you had to stuff like that.
|
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And it's a very informative podcast and he's not fanatic about it anyway.
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And it's very much.
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That is dangerous obviously.
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Yeah, it's very much.
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I'm just learning how to do this and I just, I like to share the process with you.
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And he's a cool guy.
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And so I've been checking up on it.
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They're rather short.
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Do you still create some commons in anyway?
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I would believe so.
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I get it on my I use podcast adact and I just get it there.
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I don't know if he's got a feed burner feed.
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No, I mean, does he release it under a creative commons license?
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Or does he not put any license on which means it's full copyright?
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And it's actually illegal for you to download in the first place.
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Oh, really?
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It's really pedantic.
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Yeah.
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He didn't know that.
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I will talk to Hob and let him know.
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Well, let me go open up the website.
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He also has a YouTube channel.
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He's starting to do some videos on the stuff that's harder to talk about.
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See, I don't know.
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I usually just talk to him in the mid-cast telegram.
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Big Aussie Preparon.
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Yeah, Red Circle.
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Can I link there into a notebook?
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Yeah, let me get this open and that open.
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And here is.
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I'm sure if he knew the problem, he would address it.
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And I will make sure he knows the problem.
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And maybe he has it dressed up.
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And here is the YouTube channel.
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Cause it is.
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And this is going to anybody else who's listening.
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If you've got a creative commons show,
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we will, on HPR, happily syndicate one episode of that.
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So the people knows your show exists.
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And you get to send an audience.
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As you did wonderfully, or just our Hopper Digest,
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and we have over 1900 downloads of our HPR episode.
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And 8,000 of all 18 of our episodes through our normal channels.
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Fantastic.
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But we also have got the free culture podcast website.
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Currently at the moment, some technical issues, but we're working on that.
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And there we're going to use that as like an umbrella for people
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together or free culture podcast on any topic.
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So long as their release under a creative commons license.
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And then we promote them at shows and stuff.
|
|
Whenever that's happy day arrives again.
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Okay, apparently I do not currently have an open conversation with HOD on telegram.
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So I'll just have to contact him on that cast.
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No worries.
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Matt Hobbs,
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I'm a decent type of speed, but I pound this keyboard to death.
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Yeah, I didn't notice that.
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I was going to say anything because as soon as you do,
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then you have a four-hour conversation about the type of keyboard there are.
|
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Well, it's a fellow's microban.
|
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No, this is not Jerry Blues.
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|
Jerry Blues?
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|
Fast forward to all those guys.
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I am going to mute this thing and keep typing.
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Oh, well, you said something about having a channel for I'm not awake enough to remember what
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it was you said.
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You said it's currently not working well.
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Yeah, I'm hoping you had a sister website basically where we release creative commons podcast.
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|
And then last year, for example, in the post-em and ad camp, we give out leaflets of various
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|
different podcasts to people so that they could go there and then from there promote creative
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|
commons podcast, regardless of the genre.
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|
Maybe you're not into Linux, you're an event with your partner or whatever that you are,
|
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into metal music or your R into science fiction comedy or D&D games or stuff,
|
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then look down the list and find another creative commons podcast that you're into.
|
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So it's been frustrating because some of the shows you want to promote, but if we promoted
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all the shows, then we would just be a syndicated channel like Hacker Media was intended to be.
|
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So this is a way to kind of promote the other type of shows within, well,
|
|
and we also make sure people tidy up their feed so creative commons is listed there.
|
|
Right, yeah.
|
|
It also gives people avenues for playing music or content that they don't need to license,
|
|
so you don't need to get a broadcast license if you go to shop or something.
|
|
Check that with your local jurisdiction.
|
|
Well, I would assume that Tony knows all this stuff and Dithroppers is definitely creative comments.
|
|
Cool.
|
|
After all, you did release our first show, so.
|
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Yeah, while we checked the license to make sure everything was hunky-dory.
|
|
Yeah, Tony does dots the eyes and crosses the teeth on our site.
|
|
Let's see.
|
|
Indeed he does.
|
|
Yeah, we added a new member to our team with our last episode.
|
|
I don't know if you listened to our show.
|
|
I do, I do, but I have a list list of a backlog with all things going on at the moment.
|
|
Yeah, I can't, I cut off a bunch of shows that I'd noticed I wasn't that excited about listening to
|
|
just so that I could say I listened to everything on my list
|
|
at the New Year's, and I didn't quite make it the most recent episode of Midcast did not get
|
|
listened to yet, but that was released in the old year.
|
|
Anyhow, let's see.
|
|
Where would I look to see whether it's creative commons coming on here?
|
|
I'm on my own website and I don't know.
|
|
Copyright.
|
|
This work has licensed under a creative commons attribution.
|
|
I've been on commercial 4.0 international license.
|
|
Yay!
|
|
And we look in the RSS feed.
|
|
There's a special license tag in the title, and if that says creative commons then we're good to go.
|
|
Well, last time I did stats, we were at 8,000 total downloads through archive,
|
|
and it was over 1900 just towards one episode HPR.
|
|
So almost we're getting close to 10,000 total downloads.
|
|
Very good.
|
|
And three of our last four episodes of exceeding 600 downloads each.
|
|
Here we go, check archive.
|
|
I'm proud.
|
|
Oh, today is the day I usually do check archive.
|
|
Good.
|
|
See?
|
|
That gives me something to do today.
|
|
That updates the stats on both Midcast and Distroso,
|
|
and of course they want me to give the money and I would love to, but I don't have any.
|
|
Yeah, that isn't right.
|
|
Here we go.
|
|
The sample episode of DistroHopper's Digest is at 1,960 downloads.
|
|
Very good.
|
|
And our other best episode is at 637 downloads.
|
|
Oh well.
|
|
I'm still talking to people that have never heard, well, last night when I was on this podcast,
|
|
a lot of people said they've never heard of us.
|
|
Shame on them.
|
|
Eggs, such a thing.
|
|
At this point, we, oh, yeah, when we started this, we were expecting to maybe have 100 people
|
|
listening to us.
|
|
And our lowest episode is our first episode at 336.
|
|
But when you figure our first episode also has that 1970 downloads from you guys,
|
|
we can't say that.
|
|
Yeah.
|
|
We only got four episodes now that are under 400.
|
|
Out of we got 18 episodes out now, yeah, 18 episodes.
|
|
We got one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight more that are under 500.
|
|
But I think it's it's nice that it's growing.
|
|
Do you do you have it?
|
|
Do the older shows increase over time as well?
|
|
A little bit.
|
|
Just just a hair, you know, when someone discovers our show, they want to they usually go back and
|
|
pick up all the other shows because obviously our topic is not one that goes out of date that fast.
|
|
We find our on HPR, there's about 50%
|
|
within the first two weeks or so, first month, 50% of the hits come and then subsequently
|
|
any show can expect to double that listenership over time.
|
|
Well, let's see.
|
|
For a long tale.
|
|
Well, I think it's a midcast we've been, oh, Gali, our averages are coming up actually.
|
|
We were averaging about 3300 episodes, I think we're starting to average about 3600 episodes.
|
|
You can see in terms of most recently released stuff, 346 is at 3698, 346.5 is 3525, 347.3589.
|
|
But then 347.5 is 3245, 348 is 3145, 348.5 is 2837, 349 is 2593, 349.5 is 2345,
|
|
350 is 1889, 355 is 1456 and 351 has not registered a download yet, that archive is a little slow on that.
|
|
I know that there have been downloads because I've got it.
|
|
But it's really interesting, you can see over a just four episode period how the downloads are
|
|
coming in. And like I said, 345.5 and 346 are over 3646.5 and 347 are 3500 and then it drops a 32,
|
|
31, 28, 25, 23, 18, 14. So we do not get instant access to our show.
|
|
And you have done archive.org? Yes, a fantastic service people who are feeling generous at this
|
|
time of year to do worse than contribute to archive.org. I totally agree and I have mentioned it on
|
|
show a few times. But yeah, I can just go there and get my stats. I don't know how they collect
|
|
their stats and they all do seem to be a weaker two behind. But I get all the stats, yeah.
|
|
They are very conservative in their in the amount of numbers that they're producing. So they
|
|
what they do is they have a page on this, which I read, and they calculate the numbers the same
|
|
way that I did, which was for any given 24 hour period, they will look at the number of downloads
|
|
per IP address per show. So if you are behind a firewall and you know a school or something and
|
|
1500 people downloaded, that's still only counted as one episode as one download in that 24 hour
|
|
period. But if those 1500 people download different versions of the show, then you'll guess
|
|
the different versions of the show. So that is completely contrary to how other websites will do it.
|
|
I also do it based on the number of hits that exceed three seconds. So if it's viewed for more
|
|
than three seconds, then let's consider the unique hit. Also, if, for example, an IP address with
|
|
a session, polls as a restart that's considered a unique hit. So the numbers on internet archive
|
|
will be very conservative. You would need to multiply them by 10 if you're comparing them with
|
|
some other server, commercial services. I also came up with a website on who has hosted
|
|
Mintcast, how many episodes. Basically, I went back and looked at all the show notes to say,
|
|
okay, who's on this episode and marked them down. Very good.
|
|
The current staff is just about, well, Leo and Joe have been on every show since we took over.
|
|
And that's been 58 episodes. And one of the co-hosts that we replaced Isaac was only on 61 episodes.
|
|
We have already surpassed, I have not, but Leo and Joe have already surpassed the original
|
|
host, Charles Holstead. All right. He only had 51 episodes, but we got a long way to go to
|
|
beat Rob Hawkins out of, out of 351 episodes, Rob Hawkins was on 245 of. Wow. That's dedication.
|
|
Indeed. Very much. So it takes a lot of time. So I can see how he got tired of doing it. Yeah.
|
|
For sure. He stuck around to get us all trained in. So we get at least to a bad podcast and
|
|
he came back several episodes later. He got talked into hanging around doing nothing and
|
|
we shanghai didn't do an episode. So he's got, he's the gold standard in midcast 245.
|
|
And he's got such a good voice. All right. Now Leo and Joe have 58 episodes. I've got 49 and Tony
|
|
has 45. Something you'll want to do on HPR. Let's go back and support multiple holes on a particular show.
|
|
Quite a lot of shows have been contributed by several people. But we don't support that
|
|
yet, but we'll eventually. Well, all right. We managed to get through 2021. I 2020, I'm not sure how
|
|
it was. It was a very mixed up year for me. I'm sure it was for everybody.
|
|
Dale just said he wanted to get on. It's on. I'm here with
|
|
Dale Miracle said I wanted to get on the HPR. Mumble last night, but fell asleep.
|
|
I was saying something. I'm sure I don't remember. It's still early. I haven't had my copy yet.
|
|
Go have your coffee. I haven't put my coffee in a new coffee all day and I'll get a headache again.
|
|
Well, I drink gallons of coffee, so.
|
|
Chateau would be proud. Well, I am picky about my coffee. I don't like coffee that picks me up and
|
|
carries me across the room. I'd rather have one that I pick up and carry across the room.
|
|
The flavor is more important than the strength. I only drink MJB, which is not what it used to be,
|
|
but when I was a kid, they only sold MJB to the West Coast of the US. Their advertising slogan was
|
|
there's only enough for the West. Now it's being produced out of Virginia.
|
|
So that's clear. But I can get it on Amazon now, so I'm happy.
|
|
I'm going to go and pull some shows, I think. Can you do this for a moment?
|
|
All right. I will go copy. I'll be here listening.
|
|
All right, Ken. Nice talking to you.
|
|
Oh, happy new year and all the best wishes to you and yours.
|
|
Oh, yeah, I was about to give you a run down on my new year. You don't want to know.
|
|
Go do what you're doing.
|
|
I'll be back in the minutes and you can tell me all about this.
|
|
But there I took a little extra time to make some breakfast.
|
|
Excellent. Excellent.
|
|
Not what most people would call a good breakfast, but what the heck?
|
|
A microwave beat pot pie, you bet.
|
|
Well, I take it. The day old did not follow my prompting and come in here because I don't see him.
|
|
Anyhow, I'm sure everybody has a story about 2020.
|
|
In my case, I started the year with a decent job, although they'd fired my,
|
|
that they'd move my good manager to a different store.
|
|
And then April 15th, I crashed my car on the job.
|
|
And instead of putting me on workers' comp, they laid me off and blamed COVID,
|
|
which has pluses and minuses.
|
|
Workers' comp has been really bad at following through on my health care,
|
|
but I also should have been getting workers' comp payments instead of an employment.
|
|
I ran out of my unemployment, but during that time, I was getting that COVID money that the US
|
|
was doing for a brief period of time. And because of that COVID money, which was,
|
|
well, after taxes, I was getting something like $660 a week, that's probably more than double
|
|
the most I've ever made. So since we got it for as long as we did, I probably had my best year
|
|
financially. I was able to climb out of 95% of my debt. I got set up such that even though I
|
|
haven't really worked much since then, I also haven't gone broke yet. That's good.
|
|
I think we're starting to drift back into a little bit of debt that we left ourselves as a leeway.
|
|
But I got a job as a substitute teacher in the local school district, and then they started
|
|
clothing in schools due to COVID. So I have a job that I don't have work. That's not good.
|
|
No, not good at all. Obviously, they weren't going to train me to do remote teaching since
|
|
they didn't have time to train their regular teaching.
|
|
So it's been very much a up and down thing. I have not had the security of knowing where my next
|
|
money is coming from, but I did have the ability to get out of a lot of debt. I got a job with
|
|
Census Bureau, and I could have continued working it, but I never got paid. And we found out that
|
|
it was my fault that they wanted direct deposit done. I'd given them the routing number of one
|
|
of my credit unions and the account number of another one. So it was going nowhere. It took three
|
|
months for me to get paid. I only worked short three weeks, and still it was over a thousand dollars,
|
|
which was nice, but I was going week after week after week where's my money.
|
|
So that was not a fun period. At least she goes with a million.
|
|
I did get it in the end. I did not get what a lot of people that work for Trump get, which is
|
|
you should have just did it for the experience. Put it on your resume.
|
|
Yes, I did get paid. I just don't know what to say. We just yesterday
|
|
got our new $600 per person COVID check. So we took care of a few things that needed to be done,
|
|
and hopefully we will be able to survive through January and maybe in the February,
|
|
but I still do not have a paycheck, although I currently have two jobs. In the past, I had done some
|
|
work with the homeless in Asheville, and I had actually been moderately successful at it,
|
|
except for not paying myself for doing it. And I got sort of famous for that in a small way,
|
|
and I've got a friend that keeps trying to get businesses started that if the business is
|
|
successful, it will help some group of homeless people stop being homeless, start having a real
|
|
job, things like that. And the current episode of that appears that it has a chance of actually
|
|
working. So he's paying you a little bit now, and then to get going, he's got a website up,
|
|
AWA here, I'll put it here. And he has me listed as the founder, as if I'm making gobs of money,
|
|
and basically, when he has worked for me to do, he's paying me 20 bucks an hour to do it,
|
|
which is good pay. But I've done four hours work just last week, you know. It's $80 more than I
|
|
would have had, but if it takes off, I'm actually more people would have. I hope I will have some say
|
|
on how those people are treated as employees. We have committed to paying them a living wage,
|
|
as we can afford to hire someone, they will be getting paid also the 20 bucks an hour.
|
|
Most handicapped people, most homeless people get paid day labor rates, which were usually
|
|
like eight bucks an hour. And it's as horrible how they get used. And so we're trying to fix that.
|
|
I have no idea if it work. I have comments. I have comments. But I'm keeping them to myself.
|
|
Well, I work with this guy a few times over the last 10 years, and some people have gotten some
|
|
benefit out of working with him. Occasionally, that's been me, but not as much as other people.
|
|
This time I've gotten a fair benefit out of it. I've had to do some work. I've had to wait for him
|
|
to ask me to do some work, but I don't know. I don't know. I fail to see how it would hire all
|
|
the people he says it's going to hire, but I would love to be wrong. And I would love to get paid.
|
|
So what are the comments you're keeping yourself? Don't hold back. I want to hear it.
|
|
Yeah.
|
|
I'm not going to say that. Yeah, about treating people fairly and stuff, but I'm
|
|
going to benefit that sort of thing, relying on the state. But that brings up all sorts of
|
|
politics that I don't have the time or the ability or in fact, they I'm not naive enough to believe
|
|
that it is under the law, in which we live.
|
|
The benefits from that are firmly in Western Europe are a direct result of the fact that there
|
|
was a Soviet block on the other side, and people were going, well, they have free social housing.
|
|
Oh, we better get free social housing. They have workers like, oh, we have workers like to too,
|
|
as well. But now that that's collapsed, a lot of people have been looking towards they have more
|
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Trump style. And I think that might not be desirable in my mind. I am not a Marxist per se.
|
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I do appreciate how the views of Rosa Luxembourg, who was someone that kept getting in Marxist
|
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face and correcting his math, but still remained along the same lines. He didn't think Marx was
|
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wrong. He just thought he was incorrect. You see the difference, you know, your math is off, but
|
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your concepts are good. I'm not familiar. Feel free to do a HGR episode on her. I'll be very
|
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interesting, but I will say that there are there are grades. It's not just left to right. It's
|
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not just communism, socialism, capitalism, it's a doughnut. I think what Sweden has is pretty much
|
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what I think the US should have, but it has been pointed out that Sweden is not managing this much
|
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land or this many people. While we are not China or India, there is nobody else as big as we are.
|
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And you can see what China has to do to manage their people, and that's not good.
|
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And India has turned into a racist monopoly now too, with Modi being anti-Islamic and anti-everything
|
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that isn't a white Indian. You learn too much from the English.
|
|
Just give me one second. I need to check with my wife again. She's on call and
|
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need to make sure she's doing okay. One second.
|
|
Yeah, I'm back. She's responsible for several care homes where they're handicapped or,
|
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what's politically correct word, people who need a lot of care. And she's on call over the
|
|
new year, and it's notes because you've got all the new year stuff. And in addition to that,
|
|
there's lots of units shut down because of COVID, or one half of them was open, and the other
|
|
half shut down. So after four days, she's need to make sure she's eating okay.
|
|
Yeah, I had been working as a caregiver in the past, and I got railroaded out.
|
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Basically, the client I was watching burned himself. I couldn't get hold of the nurse.
|
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I couldn't take him to the hospital on my own authority. And they basically made it look like
|
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I hadn't tried to contact the nurse, and the fact that I got him to the hospital.
|
|
The biggest problem was I am a fast typist. I took copious notes on what was going on,
|
|
and since they are not used to fast typists, they were sure all he was doing was sitting down
|
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writing notes and not taking care of my client. And so they basically said I was not responsible for
|
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his care and wrote me up as a class 1 neglect, where I was taking care of him the best of my ability.
|
|
So that's when I started driving Uber, and then I moved from there into driving for
|
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O'Reilly Auto Parts, and then I crashed my car in April and lost that job.
|
|
So it has been in a whole lot of different things, including radio.
|
|
Curiosity is just put in Reve, call me telecom.eu 1900.
|
|
Put in the link on what is about.
|
|
Well, I wouldn't know anything about telecoming me, telecoming me.
|
|
This thing is flooding my network board. I've got nothing open. It almost looks like a
|
|
D-DOS, and literally the only things that I've got open is a couple of small websites,
|
|
and a mumble. That's it. But this thing is like thousands of packets a second almost.
|
|
Coming into you. Or leaving you.
|
|
Sorry about that. Which direction was it going?
|
|
Let me have a look now. It's coming in.
|
|
Never heard of it.
|
|
Could be a tour exit north. Are you running tour?
|
|
Yes, I am. That might actually be it. But yes, this is so much traffic.
|
|
This seems a bit distracted. I'm pulsating some shows.
|
|
Yeah, no worries. I think you're right. So I'm not distressed now anymore.
|
|
So where are you best?
|
|
I'm in South Africa.
|
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Yeah, I'm part.
|
|
What part of South Africa?
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Africa.
|
|
Oh, sorry.
|
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20. Or Pretoria.
|
|
Okay. Cool.
|
|
That's in the how-toing problem.
|
|
Yeah, Metcast has a regular listener,
|
|
call-bondener, who I think is in Johannesburg. I'm not positive.
|
|
Yeah, I think the sort of security research thing is getting quite big around the IT crowd
|
|
at this time. So I've been busy with it for a couple of years, but I think it really is picking
|
|
up rice.
|
|
Well, it is now afternoon here in beautiful Eastern Tennessee, 1239.
|
|
It is foggy and raining.
|
|
How far is that from Boca Chica?
|
|
From where?
|
|
Boca Chica in the state of Texas.
|
|
Okay, I'm not familiar with the name of the town, but Texas is quite a distance from Tennessee.
|
|
This is a bigger country than anyone can think of.
|
|
Yeah, it is big.
|
|
Yeah, was it 350 million people?
|
|
Yeah, that's quite substantial.
|
|
Well, not only that, but it's the fourth largest country in the world by area.
|
|
Although it's just not a small backwater or other troop adult.
|
|
No, it isn't.
|
|
No, it isn't.
|
|
Yeah, we've got some decent spice.
|
|
It's a bit of a contentious topic at the moment because certain extremists want to
|
|
basically take away land from everybody and redistribute it and all those lovely things.
|
|
But yeah, so just out of interest, like Boca Chica is basically where Elon Musk is doing his
|
|
is in eighth and is in ninth the whole spaceship program.
|
|
Let's see here.
|
|
See, I can't really answer because Texas itself is about the same size as South Africa.
|
|
Jeez, like, okay.
|
|
Right, yeah, that creates a little bit of perspective.
|
|
Here we go.
|
|
Elon Musk confirms that he has moved to Texas,
|
|
looking at homes near Lake Austin.
|
|
So that's East Texas.
|
|
It's actually the sanest part of Texas.
|
|
The main University of Texas is where most of the Liberals will have been Texas.
|
|
That's Austin.
|
|
Okay.
|
|
I actually thought like the whole of the South of America is fairly sane.
|
|
No, the whole of the South America is fairly insane and believes everything that comes out
|
|
of the words of Donald Trump.
|
|
Yeah, see, that also doesn't work.
|
|
What we need to do is get rid of any form of extreme extremism.
|
|
So be that left or right and everybody just use common sense.
|
|
I think we can pull that off, man.
|
|
Well, see the fallacy of your argument as there is no commonality to sense.
|
|
You can't use common sense if there isn't a common sense.
|
|
Yes, okay.
|
|
Now understand that, but if we rely on logic and not ideologies,
|
|
then I think we already one step in the right direction.
|
|
Yeah, I believe that any ideology, any pure ideology is impractical.
|
|
And we'll leave some facets of society out.
|
|
We have to have some level of compromises to meet the needs of more of who most people.
|
|
I don't think there's any way to meet the needs of all people.
|
|
Yeah, I think, you know, specifically on this forum,
|
|
no, we should probably not pick sides, but things like 58 genders
|
|
doesn't quite sit well with me.
|
|
You know, things like that, that's the extreme sides and we need to get rid of that sort of thing.
|
|
Well, I'm more inclusive than most.
|
|
I am an old person who had never really felt comfortable in who and what I was,
|
|
that there wasn't a better alternative, so I just stayed to do and what I was.
|
|
But if people do find out what they are comfortable being, I'm happy for them.
|
|
For me, the problem is just when they force me to change my science.
|
|
Forcing anyone to change.
|
|
Well, I don't know.
|
|
Science has been employed badly on both sides.
|
|
Oh boy, I'm starting to sound like Trump.
|
|
Oh, it's a good people on those sides.
|
|
Guys, just give me 15 minutes.
|
|
My daughter just saved a little bird.
|
|
So I just need to find some space to try and rescue this thing.
|
|
Just give me 15 minutes. I'll be back now.
|
|
Okay, my mouse is just locked up. I wonder why they're at unlocked.
|
|
And you should open up a new room and see what's going on.
|
|
Here, a stacer here, boy.
|
|
That was strange.
|
|
I went to clear my cache in a stacer and instead closed stacer.
|
|
I would never have that happen before.
|
|
All right, now I'm working.
|
|
Hint of salt.
|
|
I don't think I'm ever going to use Bluetooth on this.
|
|
Grandma, and you know, I have boundaries.
|
|
You cannot come in here.
|
|
There are certain rooms I don't let my cats in.
|
|
Hmm, so I'm going to move to Geeks with guns.
|
|
Hi!
|
|
Oh, I have been crashing my CPU.
|
|
That's where I've got open as HPR and a few tabs of Firefox.
|
|
I'm on a force generation i3 with 16 gigs of RAM.
|
|
And apparently I'm taxing my CPU by viewing on HPR.
|
|
I haven't ever noticed that while doing Mintcast.
|
|
How many of you cozy using?
|
|
Apparently all of them.
|
|
Haha, they're taking...
|
|
The Core 4 has been getting overused the most followed by Core 1 and Core is 2 and 3 less so.
|
|
But there have been some 100% on Core 3.
|
|
I'm looking at my waves on stacer right now.
|
|
But I don't know why, average is aren't that bad, that boy.
|
|
I could take a look at mine, but it's a 32-mini.
|
|
Yeah.
|
|
I do have a more powerful machine I'm not using.
|
|
It's a second generation dual glean.
|
|
But it uses a lot more power.
|
|
This is a little bitty mini box.
|
|
I wonder what the calculations are then.
|
|
I don't know because like I say, I've got Firefox open and I'm not actually in it.
|
|
I've got four tabs open.
|
|
I haven't even signed into any of them.
|
|
I just opened it up to look something up.
|
|
So I now close that one.
|
|
Let me go back and look at the stacer.
|
|
I would wonder what else Firefox is running in the background.
|
|
Well, I'm still tasking my processors.
|
|
So it's got to be a mumble.
|
|
Because I have my file manager open and not doing anything with it.
|
|
I've got stacer open and that takes hardly any memory at all.
|
|
And I'm still overpeeking 100% on all processors at one time or another.
|
|
I'll have to look at that next time on Mintcast because they've been talking about some of my
|
|
audio dropping out and that might have been part of it.
|
|
Might have to open the fuzzy 400 again.
|
|
I've got room in here.
|
|
Well, I probably should find something better to do although it probably isn't anything better to do.
|
|
In terms of news, I don't even bother watching the US news reports anymore.
|
|
I've got one commentator I listened to as a next day podcast.
|
|
She's probably way off on the left.
|
|
But I watch Canadian news,
|
|
CBC, the National, which I get the next day via YouTube.
|
|
I figure they're more concerned with the US than anyone but the US.
|
|
And they're much less likely to take one side or another on the subject.
|
|
But just report what's going on.
|
|
It has managed to keep my panic levels down.
|
|
But it's also been fun because they panic over their COVID levels.
|
|
And their COVID levels are like one tenth of what the US's are.
|
|
It shows you how a government deals with a crisis when healthcare is part of your budget.
|
|
Where it is not in the US.
|
|
Oh, well, just let people get sick and die.
|
|
It doesn't matter.
|
|
They can go bankrupt.
|
|
They do it all the time.
|
|
It's easy.
|
|
People tend to take that for granted in the UK.
|
|
Just to healthcare, point of delivery or point of what do they say?
|
|
When you rock up, when you say I'm poorly, they just look after you.
|
|
Yeah.
|
|
Well, the US, we really don't have options.
|
|
You go to the emergency room, you're treated like a third-class citizen
|
|
and build several thousands of dollars, which you haven't made in the last three months.
|
|
So basically all you can do is file bankruptcy or just ignore the bill.
|
|
Yeah, I don't know.
|
|
When I was thinking of moving out of the country, I did check.
|
|
One of the first things I checked was I know I was surprised by how many countries do
|
|
give free healthcare at least at the point of access, you know.
|
|
Well, at this point, the US is the only first world nation that does not.
|
|
I'm not sure we're still a first world nation.
|
|
We seem to have economic policies more in line with India and Brazil than with UK and Sweden.
|
|
It does seem like it's not that far away.
|
|
I mean, any countries never too far away from collapsing really,
|
|
considering the state of economic fantasy.
|
|
But I think the American infrastructure was like roads and bridges as far as the impression
|
|
reaching here was they were kind of falling over.
|
|
Yes and no, it varies from the region to region.
|
|
Some of it is the federal government's fault.
|
|
Some of it is the individual state's fault.
|
|
Some of it's even more local than that.
|
|
But in general, our roads are not bad.
|
|
But you don't know what bridges about to fall down because they're managing to overperform
|
|
what their design specs are.
|
|
Okay, and that is less of an issue than what people will do when things get a bit hairy.
|
|
And you've had a look at that recently, haven't you?
|
|
I'd worry a little bit about the UK if people did become dissatisfied how soon they would start
|
|
ignoring other people.
|
|
Well, the UK is a pretty small country as countries go.
|
|
So they might pull together a little bit more.
|
|
But they've always considered themselves more than one country,
|
|
and they might pull in separate directions like Scotland.
|
|
Scotland really wants to succeed in rejoining the EU because they were happy in the EU.
|
|
I was thinking more on the person to person level,
|
|
like how people will retreat into their houses and not help people around them.
|
|
You know, and to what extent that might happen.
|
|
Well, as someone who at least has the title of running a corporation
|
|
to employ homeless people, I hope that we would do better than that.
|
|
I'm just wondering, like you said, they are pulling in different directions.
|
|
If you look at Brexit alone, wow.
|
|
But is it not maybe the time to offer these external countries that belong to them
|
|
in the payments like Scotland?
|
|
Well, why can't they not have independence and rejoin the EU and just be Scotland?
|
|
I wonder how Northern Ireland voted on Brexit because they are the ones
|
|
hurting the worst because they had opened borders with Ireland
|
|
and it got over the troubles and everything.
|
|
And now the EU is requiring them to close those borders again.
|
|
They're refining the North of Ireland and it's over now Brexit that bit's done.
|
|
Scotland wanted independence before that and they probably would have got it
|
|
if it hadn't been for the activities of Westminster.
|
|
They probably will become independent soon.
|
|
I want to say probably, I mean, I wouldn't be surprised.
|
|
I wouldn't be surprised if they stay together.
|
|
There's issue with nuclear submarines and things and the fact that we could see it
|
|
or it would appear that obviously the English government, Westminster,
|
|
they won't allow it to happen if they can stop it.
|
|
I mean, they look at what they've done in the rest of the world.
|
|
You think, you know, maybe a hundred years ago,
|
|
they're a machine gunning people in their own country, you know.
|
|
It's just power, you know, it'd be interesting.
|
|
I actually think the biggest problem is overpopulation.
|
|
Earth was not meant for seven, eight or nine billion people.
|
|
It's like when you stick a whole bunch of people into a small room,
|
|
tensions are going to rise.
|
|
There's just nothing we can do about it.
|
|
I've seen enough statistics to say otherwise that we definitely have the capacity to produce
|
|
for the people that we have.
|
|
We have the capacity to distribute, but we don't do it.
|
|
We have the capacity to coordinate and cooperate and we don't do it.
|
|
And that is why we have a problem.
|
|
I agree.
|
|
I think the problem is because when in doing that, there's no profit.
|
|
And the world is built on profit.
|
|
If there's no profit, why would I do it?
|
|
Well, it's human fraud.
|
|
We need to change the view point of capitalism.
|
|
The profit is the only thing to be working for.
|
|
There are places where, you know, where capitalism isn't so much the main
|
|
paradigm, mental paradigm.
|
|
So there is hope.
|
|
There were, I mean, there were gift economists before they were destroyed by capitalism,
|
|
right?
|
|
Like the potlatches and things.
|
|
Yeah.
|
|
And for sure, we've got twice as much food as the humans need.
|
|
It's just we feed half of it to animals, don't we?
|
|
And we throw a third of it out of her spoilage
|
|
because we don't know how to distribute it properly.
|
|
Or we don't distribute it properly.
|
|
We do know how.
|
|
There's just no profit in it, like you said.
|
|
Yeah. And the idea of what people regard as profit
|
|
and what they regard is a good time and what they, you know,
|
|
how they feel about work and reward and scarcity and all of that.
|
|
Well, I believe it was an Native American elder who said that one day,
|
|
white man will wake up and find out that you can't eat money.
|
|
Oh, that is so true.
|
|
Yeah.
|
|
And when so many people start walking, like displaced people,
|
|
I think there were already 60 million displaced people in Africa were there last year
|
|
or something.
|
|
Maybe that was.
|
|
And so, imagine when people are moving away, is it?
|
|
I think they're moving away from the coasts and away from the desertified areas
|
|
and then into this.
|
|
I think it wasn't as Bangladesh is one of the most densely populated
|
|
and close to the water.
|
|
And the other countries were building, it's any small,
|
|
building a wall around that already, weren't they?
|
|
Because so many people would clearly be moving soon.
|
|
Yeah, like Bangladesh.
|
|
Put up a barrier and just let it slide.
|
|
Oh, my.
|
|
What do all these fortals be?
|
|
This traffic that I noticed from this pony thing seems to be a SIP protocol attack.
|
|
I'm just going to kill everything door and see if I can move this station
|
|
into a different direction.
|
|
Well, I'm going to go do something else, even though I don't have it something else to do.
|
|
It has been a pleasure talking with you.
|
|
Ken, I don't know if we've talked before.
|
|
We probably did last year a little bit.
|
|
I'm sure you'll find something to do.
|
|
I mean, I'm not singing.
|
|
Well, I don't do enough of that.
|
|
I don't do that for myself.
|
|
I have to have an audience to sing.
|
|
I get you.
|
|
I should sing more.
|
|
I used to sing a card.
|
|
I should sing more.
|
|
You can sing to us.
|
|
I did last night.
|
|
I hope that was recorded.
|
|
It was almost there again.
|
|
No, it was not recorded.
|
|
I give freely.
|
|
No, I mean, I think it was all recorded.
|
|
I wonder if it's being clipped out and stuck somewhere.
|
|
Well, I didn't exactly play the song straight through either.
|
|
I played the first verse and then decided I'd forgotten to actually
|
|
say what the song was about.
|
|
And so I stopped and explained the song and then went down and finished the song.
|
|
They were great lyrics.
|
|
My oldest friend in the world wrote that one.
|
|
And I think it better than he does.
|
|
Even without teeth.
|
|
Enjoy your evening then.
|
|
Have a good, I need to get my legs stretched.
|
|
You know, I need to sit down and stretch my body because it's seizing up.
|
|
Okay, I think Hockey Magu was keeping recordings of all that.
|
|
All right, I will talk to you some day.
|
|
I think it was, what was it called?
|
|
Dallas on the moon.
|
|
First woman on the moon, yes.
|
|
I do have other recordings of it out there.
|
|
I think I've got a recording of it on my YouTube channel, which is Zypa, Z-A-I-V-A-L-A.
|
|
Excellent.
|
|
Excellent.
|
|
Can you maybe pass the link to that?
|
|
Oh, maybe so?
|
|
I did.
|
|
Turn it.
|
|
Thanks a million.
|
|
Let's see.
|
|
Let's see.
|
|
Do I have, I don't see that I have first woman on the moon here.
|
|
I've got some other songs.
|
|
No, anything, it's
|
|
entertain us.
|
|
I think at this point it's about only me and you, everybody else is an idol.
|
|
Well, here is my channel.
|
|
Let me see.
|
|
I might have it on my wife's channel or it might, for that matter, be on Lemmings channel.
|
|
Yes, okay.
|
|
Opening that point.
|
|
Yes, on Lemmings channel.
|
|
There we go.
|
|
And we do this.
|
|
Come on.
|
|
There we go.
|
|
There is first woman on the moon, performed by me
|
|
January 2017 in Atlanta.
|
|
I did mess up the last chorus, but
|
|
Violet was good enough to get the idea.
|
|
That's weird.
|
|
I feel everything tore to try and get rid of this SIP attack.
|
|
And now YouTube doesn't like me.
|
|
It wants me to do all the funny weird
|
|
verification stuff.
|
|
Lemmings, lemmings, lemmings, try and see what I can do.
|
|
Yeah, I haven't been on YouTube for a while because they kept asking me to verify.
|
|
And then because, you know, they didn't like where I was coming from, they just
|
|
made me, they said, oh, you have to change all your details and I just didn't go back.
|
|
Yeah, so at the moment I'm selecting fire items.
|
|
Okay, guys, I'm taking off. Enjoy.
|
|
Good night.
|
|
Just go well, have a good evening or day or whatever it is that time that it.
|
|
Well, I realize it's a low bar, but make 2021 be a better year than 2020.
|
|
I definitely will be.
|
|
I mean, we've learned a shitload in 2020 and be adapted and
|
|
proved what the humans put it can do.
|
|
So yeah, I think we're going to ace this one.
|
|
Okay.
|
|
Yeah.
|
|
Arthur, I thought you'd give it up.
|
|
Just lost my connection for a minute.
|
|
What have you got?
|
|
DSL, Kettle, Fiber, Telegraph, AT&T DSL.
|
|
Yeah, Telegraph, sure.
|
|
Switch virtual desktops and I think it cut out my connection.
|
|
You had all the audio book recommendations sometime back.
|
|
Yeah, it was for me, wasn't it?
|
|
Or I'm a mistaken.
|
|
Now that was Taj and somebody else.
|
|
They did the audio book club.
|
|
No, no, on Tills or on you random back in the day or Colonel Panic like years ago.
|
|
How I was around at that time.
|
|
No.
|
|
The battery ran out of my daughter's bluetooth headset so she took my
|
|
now I'm listening and earbuds with a big lung cable that's dangling over my monitor.
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I'm just going to check the audio on some of the shows back in a second.
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There.
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That's three, three, ten bolstered.
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So what's the sip attack?
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Curiosity.
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Sorry, what was the question?
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Curiosity mentioned he was having some trouble with a sip attack and he went off to deal with it a while ago
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and I just wondered if it was just him or a general.
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Yeah, he had a...
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He didn't know what it was.
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Turned out to be a tour browser running on the background.
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Okay.
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He was dedocating himself.
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Only Moss was struggling with his processor.
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Oh, okay.
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At about the same time and I can't tell because I'm running boink and stuff.
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You running what?
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Boink, number crunching for diseases.
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That kind of stuff.
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Like set you at home for diseases.
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Yeah.
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Okay, what am I doing?
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Okay, call storage process.
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And I'm back.
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Eeks.
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Eeks.
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Simpsons fan, are you?
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Yeah, I used to be back in the day but no, that I don't have time.
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I used to watch up to about season 20 and then sort of fizzled out and lost interest.
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Been a long time since I watched some Simpsons but I did get tempted to...
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Someone told me about what's the drunken scientist guy and his side guy.
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Rick and Morty.
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Rick and Morty, it absolutely bring us all out because it's not too much to consume.
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It's like seven episodes every two years so it's easy to consume.
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I agree.
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I agree.
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But you have to be able to laugh at the whole concept of melism.
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I got a smattering of nihilism here and there in myself.
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I'm generally pretty optimistic.
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No, I think you can...
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If you can laugh at the jokes at least then you're definitely going to enjoy it.
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There's some really dark episodes that really do it WTF.
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But you know, for the most part it's actually just good humour.
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Yeah, I've had some proper laughs.
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It's good to get a laugh once in a while.
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Even if that laugh stems from the dark side of comedy.
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Well, that was what made me feel uneasy about the symptoms back in the day, the symptoms.
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The symptoms were even falling down a cliff and it was breaking.
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I mean, he was always breaking himself, but he's breaking his arms and stuff.
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And it was maybe even tame in comparison with Tom and Jerry.
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But there's just...
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I recognised how disturbed it was.
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Oh, and something that had me on the floor in bits and I couldn't get up.
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It was laughing so much.
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It was Bart Simpson.
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It was a time...
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I think it was under a maple.
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And they were dancing round, sort of weaving him up with his own intestines or something.
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They had chopped his arms off.
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It was just so sick.
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Clarke, I shouldn't have been...
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It shouldn't have been funny.
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And it hurt.
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And I felt guilty.
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Okay.
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Yeah, and I feel guilty.
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There's a very solid line between comedy and reality.
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And I think that is something that is actually highlighted with Rick and Morty.
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It's just literally so out there that the realism disappears from it.
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There's a...
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Yeah, and I like the psychology there as well, actually.
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It's entertaining.
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You know, not knowing trivial.
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You know, not trivial.
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You've watched it.
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One of spoons.
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You've actually watched it there.
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Yeah, I'm not seeing them all.
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I only watch it for free.
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Oh no, my friend sent me some...
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I don't know where it ripped those from.
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But generally, I watch it on YouTube years later.
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So I haven't seen them more recent ones.
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And I don't have Netflix.
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I can't be bothered.
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I generally don't watch cartoons.
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But yeah, I do go looking for that once in a while.
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When I'm just super bored with everything.
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Yeah, I've cancelled Netflix after the whole cutie thing.
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I mean,
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Talpone is just one of my...
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It's actually one of my active targets where my gray ad comes on.
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And I will not feel guilty breaking the law,
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attacking people, hosting and supporting Talpone.
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So I cancelled Netflix.
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But there's a South African
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streaming service called Showmax.
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And at least they've got the Recon Maudi series there on there as well.
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Right, I got a friend who was doing some active
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fight against child abuse.
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Something to do with Operation Death Eaters.
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He was forever getting, trying to figure out how to do proper,
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nevermind, to a security that's terrible.
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Because you can get yourself in trouble.
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Yeah, the thing is if you just stay anonymous,
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the search engine.
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So if you know the dark web, this is search engine called Not Evil.
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That is probably when you're new to the dark web.
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It's probably the first search engine that you will come across.
|
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And at the time, I was collecting combo lists
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in order for my security usage.
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So the idea is to have a combo list
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of usenames and passwords, like a couple of terabytes in size,
|
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then disconnect the username and the password from each other
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by keeping them in separate tables
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and sorting them alphabetically so that you can't even go by
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number of rows and get the password.
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And just searching for combo list
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on that Not Evil Search Engine.
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It was flooded with child porn.
|
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So that Not Evil Search Engine
|
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did get onto my radar as a possible target in the future.
|
|
Right, I'm just not, I just guess I'm so paranoid about
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or not paranoid.
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I recognize my limits when it comes to signal analysis, you know.
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So one of the things that I do is when you do something like that,
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firstly, regardless of how good you think your sick ops
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or you never execute from home.
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So and not even in your town or city or whatever.
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You go take a travel, you leave yourself in a home,
|
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you get on to an anonymous network
|
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and from an anonymous operating system or a brand new VM
|
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and that's where you take it from.
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Yeah, I'm not taking chances and that's why I haven't done anything yet.
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There's still a crap load of research that needs to be done.
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Yeah, exactly.
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You just got to assume that you that I would assume that I don't know what's on my
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on that wire and who else is and who else isn't and how.
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Like I just don't need to anyway if I try and think it through to be
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yeah, I don't know.
|
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I'll be sweeping up broken glass under a hedge somewhere.
|
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Yeah, I think I won't even use any of my existing hardware.
|
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So I would go and buy a Raspberry Pi 4 and just use that as my PC
|
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and after everything is done, you just go and blow it up with 220 volts or whatever.
|
|
I don't know what to say.
|
|
After going through, think my train of thought going to signal in,
|
|
what is it, data integrity or where you the reason you have your encryption
|
|
and you're checking that the signal that you sent is the signal that you receive
|
|
is because that's really important, important in industry if you're either medical,
|
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remote control or airplanes flying.
|
|
That's always necessary.
|
|
But then for me to be thinking there are so many positive things that need to be done
|
|
in the world that there are so many messages that you want everybody to hear
|
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rather than hiding stuff.
|
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But yeah, I know you can't, sometimes you can't retreat.
|
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There's nowhere else to go and you're in that concrete room.
|
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Yeah, I think that concrete room for me is the things that's happening to children.
|
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I mean, I agree.
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No, I agree.
|
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I shot through the roof.
|
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South Africa's seen such a hike or hike, sorry, of, you know, problems.
|
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There was an attempted kidnapping 200 meters from my house at a crash where my
|
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children used to go a couple of years ago and I need to stand up to that.
|
|
It's just like this fired burning inside you to say that, listen, I might have the skills to
|
|
do something. It might not be, you know, flattening it all of it, but do something and spread
|
|
the word and let others do a little bit as well and eventually because child porn used to be
|
|
fairly available on the open internet as well. And with the rise of tour, everything has moved
|
|
there and it seems like law enforcement, they keep on taking the drug dealers and whatever,
|
|
but they're letting child porn be and I just didn't get that.
|
|
Somebody needs to stand up.
|
|
Yeah, child abuse is like how you get people looking out for other people's
|
|
kids, like how you need to really, I don't know, the community that needs to exist.
|
|
I mean, in order to flush that out to the greatest extent, it's not a small issue, is it?
|
|
No, not at all. I've been planning this for a year already and I'm not even close to starting to
|
|
commit. I think actually what is needed is not one man. I think underground community needs to
|
|
rise up and it needs to be a team effort of a couple of hundred of people with a certain
|
|
state of skills to sort tackling these issues.
|
|
Yeah, my first idea is just you want to stop the abuse before it happens, don't you?
|
|
I mean, good enough to, I recognize when you can't, that if people are sharing
|
|
new material between each other, then you're quite close to the end of the trail there and you can
|
|
fair enough, you can hunt those things, those transactions down and maybe that is a better way
|
|
to catch people. You know, you've got bigger chances, right? It's a numbers game.
|
|
Certainly for a small resource. Yeah, no, no, no, what's the word? I see the logic.
|
|
Yeah, but now the thing that gets me down, I mean, I've browsed all over
|
|
door and all the hidden places and there's these random chats where actual parents swap pictures
|
|
of their own children between each other and that just makes me one of them, sorry about the
|
|
language. It breaks me that a parent, somebody that brought somebody into this world,
|
|
sought to protect that child actually is actively involved in destroying them.
|
|
Without reducing the focus or the recognition that it's a horrible thing to abuse,
|
|
any human, there's a lot of abuse that goes on in the world and I wonder, I guess,
|
|
okay, even within veganism, for example, they discuss, you know, after you've tried to do no harm,
|
|
when they start trying to stop the actual harm that's being done and I don't know, it's such
|
|
and all of the interventions you might make in the, I'm not trying to change the subject at all,
|
|
I'm just thinking when I find myself absorbed in an activity, then I do wonder,
|
|
I try to check myself to see if I'm not missing a greater effect that I could have.
|
|
From some other angle, even on the same subject.
|
|
Yes, I think you're talking about the bigger picture, so there's always, always, a bigger picture,
|
|
but I think we're sitting at what, 8.0 billion people on earth and everybody's got their own
|
|
frame of reality and if individuals, good individuals, choose their battles and dedicate to certain
|
|
things, then we can actually start to make a change. So me being a meat eater, I'm not going to be
|
|
involved in the animal activism, although I do find it atrocious what some of these
|
|
obituas are doing, but this is not where my bad, I personally go and I buy from a free range
|
|
place where I've actually seen the abattoir and I know that death is instant and all that,
|
|
yada, yada, yada, I've had this conversation before, but that is not my battle. So I choose to
|
|
select where I get my proteins from, I know it's humane and I know it's free range and all that,
|
|
but for me, something that gets my adrenaline going a little bit more than animal rights is
|
|
child rights, being a dad of two, so I think every person needs to pick his own battle.
|
|
For sure there are billions of humans as well, but if you examine that you can catch perpetrators
|
|
and maybe you'll catch ten or even a hundred or a whole 500 people who are actually transacting
|
|
images, but to stop the, even the idea of abusing another creature or one's own
|
|
children across the population, I wonder what would be necessary, what's the best way to reduce
|
|
anybody even wanting to do that? Not for you know, to not think that it's okay, so the example
|
|
of people eating meat is that they'll jump through hoops to justify this horrific thing,
|
|
they would never themselves do to an animal, not personally, or most people wouldn't,
|
|
but they'll pay someone else to do it, or they will allow it to happen because it's, you know,
|
|
it's not, so what is it that makes a, because clearly the people who won't do it,
|
|
something happens in their mind that they wouldn't even dream of
|
|
persuading someone else to kill an animal for them, so another person who maybe wouldn't abuse
|
|
their own children, they wouldn't know, the point is what makes a person consider that their action
|
|
is, has impact on another person, how do you, would you reduce more the actual perpetration,
|
|
that's what I'm getting at, rather than the the transaction after the fact?
|
|
Okay, so I think, um,
|
|
time to take this conversation, just one little up, and no judgment at all, I just would like to know,
|
|
are you a vegan or not? Yeah, I am, but the, I mean, it's funny, it's the use of the word,
|
|
like it's a tricky word, when I, when I stopped eating animals, it was because I didn't want to
|
|
have any other animal harmed or be, be killed, you know, and then I later on, or you start
|
|
identifying with this veganism thing, and it's about not buying leather shoes and all of that,
|
|
but yeah, the answer is, I don't want animals to suffer, I don't want to kill other mammals, certainly,
|
|
I mean, I don't need to take it to the end of the degree, but if, if, if, if just people laid off
|
|
the mammals, that would make a big difference. Okay, so, but I'm not trying to change the subject,
|
|
I'm not trying to change the subject, I'm not trying to change the subject, I'm not trying to change the subject,
|
|
how the abuse happens in humans to each other, I, that, that's my, I wasn't trying to change the
|
|
subject at all, just, you know, just catching current traders and then stopping it from happening
|
|
is all. I think we're actually still on subject, it's just from another angle, and at this point,
|
|
you might actually ban me or block me or whatever, but person, okay, I live in South Africa, and we grew
|
|
up pretty much as hunters, most of us. However, the drive for not hurting animals is still there,
|
|
it's always about the most humane kills. So now, if you think about animals in a mass abattoir
|
|
in one of these, you know, 10,000 cattle, um, of the raunches on, in, in the U.S., um, and how those
|
|
animals are treated, walking among their own feces and things like that, I'm not comfortable with that,
|
|
but if you have something like a kuru or, you know, some sort of antelope, living his life in nature,
|
|
the way the garden tendered, and you manage to kill him, you mainly, which is, you never take a
|
|
shot when you know that there's any chance of a risk of any suffering, it always has to be an
|
|
instant kill. And I know it doesn't always work out that way, especially if you watch some of the
|
|
YouTube hunting channels and things like that, but that drive is always there not to cause any
|
|
distress or panic or things like that. And I know this is subject that we're going to differ on
|
|
like one hundred, one hundred and eighty degrees, um, I think the sentiment behind it
|
|
still stays the same and might actually still be relevant. I wouldn't spend too much time trying
|
|
to stop the very rare hunters that think like that because the majority of suffering is caused by
|
|
humans who are just paying someone else to abuse animals for them. So it's not, you know,
|
|
and I'm familiar with the mental territory, and like I wasn't vegetarian vegan till I was 20
|
|
years old, so I've been immersed in that mindset, and that's the relevant thing in this
|
|
in investigation into why people do things and how to, what it is that changes in a person's mind
|
|
for them to alter their behavior or for them to not consider to abuse another creature or to,
|
|
you know, abuse a child or a human, whether that's self-control or, you know, what, how you
|
|
work weave that into society to stop it from happening in the first place.
|
|
You know what? I can give you the answer to that. It's profit. It's money. That is the driver behind
|
|
all of it. If you think about, you know, we, we as hunters, we, we try and do things as ethical as
|
|
possible, but if you look at a, a ranch with 10,000 cattle and the abattoir that needs to kill them,
|
|
they need volumes. They need volumes of meat to go out to the consumers. And at that point,
|
|
money is more important than the suffering of the animal because they're in a business. They're
|
|
in a business of making money from animals. So the animal rights just blows out the door.
|
|
I think like little 99% of South Africans are so connected to nature. I mean, it's one of the
|
|
most beautiful countries in the world where nature is concerned. We've got this vast diversity of
|
|
plants and animals, and we've all been raised by respecting it at almost any cost.
|
|
And I think that is the difference. It's when you bring capitalism or, and I'm not against capitalism,
|
|
but when you bring the sort of money making into the lives of animals, then the rights of the
|
|
animals goes out the door because money is involved. Do you think the profit is driving a child abuse?
|
|
Oh, absolutely. Those guys are literally making billions. They're making billions. The guys
|
|
in control. So if you look at the whole Epstein thing and what's that that woman with a black
|
|
head, they get stupid. Yeah, there's plenty of prostitution in the world. There's no doubt.
|
|
Yeah, there's prostitution and forced prostitution as well. So even way a woman of legal age
|
|
is still forced into certain activities. And that is just as wrong as the whole child abuse thing.
|
|
And again, I think it boils down to where I choose my battles. Yeah, it's something that
|
|
breaks down. It breaks down. It's very deeply with me. Yeah, good work. I've got no, you know, good work.
|
|
So yeah, I think let's talk about something a little bit less dark in the bracing.
|
|
Yeah, technically, I'd be happy to, I don't mind sharing technical knowledge if I had any.
|
|
You into oscilloscopes? I've got one. I still need to figure out hard works. I know one function
|
|
when I bolt amplifiers, which is a hobby of mine. So I bolt my preamps using vacuum valves
|
|
or tubes. And then I use my the bolt power amps based on the NAPT 250 design that's been
|
|
published a couple of times. And then when you're setting the bias, that's actually the only thing
|
|
that I use oscilloscope for. So I saw just to make sure that the bias is exactly that. Yeah, a really
|
|
nice tutorial at this scope that someone was showing. And they had an allergic analyzer as well.
|
|
I think that's what it was actually. So they'd hooked up on an allergic analyzer to this signal.
|
|
And not only did it after it zoomed in, you know, you're familiar with the scope and you consume
|
|
and stop that thing from wiggling around and look at a specific part of the signal. And this
|
|
logic analyzer, you know, you could zoom in on one of the thousand repetitions of the bit of
|
|
information that was sent. And not only did it show that, but it translated the signal on the
|
|
screen, you know, it was digital thing into the instructions that each of the logic signals were
|
|
coding for. It's really such good technology now that you can just read it off the screen without
|
|
even cross-referencing to a table or anything. Yeah, I draw the interesting, but what I would still
|
|
hope to see one day is where you could get analog data as a stream from oscilloscope so that I
|
|
can run my own Python scripts and things against it to try and analyze what's going on. But my
|
|
oscilloscope, yes, like I think it's from like 92, 91 there, but it's still a CRT that displays.
|
|
That I've only used a dual trace like CRTs, but the digital ones now they're available.
|
|
And you can certainly play with a software already because you can get open source software.
|
|
And there's some open source hardware as well, but some of those go some more, you know,
|
|
it might be $4,000 or something.
|
|
Yeah, now for me it's, that stuff is fascinating. I actually need to spend more time with it,
|
|
and I wasted my entire December with some other projects. But yeah, I think I'm definitely going
|
|
to take it out. Unfortunately, I sold my signal generator because I was strapped for cash,
|
|
but yeah, I mean, I just need to spend more time with this stuff.
|
|
I think there's a lot to do. For me, it literally has a lot to do with it.
|
|
Go ahead. Sorry, yeah. So for me, that scope has literally one function. So I got a second hand
|
|
from a technical college for probably, if I do quick conversions, maybe $40, $50 there about.
|
|
And it included the scope and the signal generator that was literally from the 50s.
|
|
But I sold the signal generator and just held on to the scope.
|
|
You already said about getting 100 people, and yeah, you don't need to do everything yourself,
|
|
do you? You can hire time on a scope if ever you needed to analyse the signal to that level.
|
|
And you've got experts in different areas. And I guess if you came up with data to be analysed,
|
|
to break open some abuse ring, then people would help you with that. And you can always just publish
|
|
stuff, can't you? Yeah, exactly. And I think publishing data specifically like that might actually
|
|
go on as some extra support. It's nearly my bad time now, so I'm going to disconnect. Have a good
|
|
evening. Go well. Enjoy your evening. It's 9 o'clock, so I think I'm going to stick around for
|
|
another hour and mess around and yeah, see you around. Cheerio.
|
|
I do not think at 8 p.m. GMT, this channel should be this quiet. Just testing audio, thanks.
|
|
Hello. I think I left myself connected to mumble on that, so I was trying to figure out if this
|
|
is working. Yep, sounds good. I think they've finally quit at about 8 o'clock central time.
|
|
Ah. I'm just going through a tutorial on next cloud for the pie. Oh, yeah. I didn't need to
|
|
go one second, sorry. Like I said, I don't know. Earlier, I think I just need to set up
|
|
next cloud when I send a new to work on. This is my goal, and I had a little bit of time, so I just
|
|
wanted to kind of work it out. Yeah, sounds fun. Yeah, there's no rush. Here, we'll check out
|
|
my acetone. No, I mean, I've heard of it, and I saw the links. I just haven't looked at it yet.
|
|
I like, I know what it is, what kind of I'm assuming it's more than I thought it was now.
|
|
More than what would I? Like, I didn't realize it was a self-hosted thing.
|
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Not necessarily self-hosted, depending on where you get on.
|
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Yeah, but I didn't know it was something you could even do. I just thought it was like one central
|
|
thing, because I didn't really look into it. I just turned to it a few years ago. I wanted
|
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to start being a thing. I'm still awake. No, I'm calling it.
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